I’m fine with it.The late game was so disgusting I didn’t make it to halftime. And AB isn’t even in Boston yet. The Chiefs looked very good. The Browns completely let their fans down one more time. The Lions…well, that was hilarious. (Kudos to the Cards). The Ravens were dominant. So were the Vikings. The Bills staged a gutty comeback. The Iggles were too much for the Redskins (but Terry Mclaurin has got some wheels!). The Rams were good enough. So were the Chargers, Seahawks, Cowboys and Niners.
-Greg Schiano
On the college slate, LSU topped Texas, Clemson was too much for aTm, Ohio State blanked Cincinnati and TTUN managed to escape when Army made two bad decisions. Nebraska shit the bed. AND THE TENNESSEE VOLUNTEERS ARE OFFICIALLY A DUMPSTER FIRE. Which makes me happier than it should. Serena Williams did not win, thank God. Kudos to her for actually handling the loss with grace. Rafa Nadal did win and is just one Grand Slam victory behind Federer now all-time. Oh and as a side note, the Astros scored as many or more runs as ten NFL teams did points yesterday. And two of those teams won!
Leo Tolstoy was born on this day. so were: chicken-king Harland Sanders, commentator Jimmy “The Greek” Snyder, singer Otis Redding, former football player Joe Thiesmann, and actor Adam Sandler.
OK, now on to…the links!
I have a feeling that even this won’t hurt the lawsuit. I mean, they’ll just make up some phrase for it, wave it away as the patriarchy and the jury will figure he’s richer than her and should just pay anyhow. At least that’s the trend line we’re on.
Congratulations, Los Angeles. Nice job. Leprosy and typhus. What’s next, the LA River turning to blood and raining frogs?
Remember when the joke was that Chicago cops are above the law? May as well add Chicago public school teachers to that list.
Uh, what did these people expect to happen? Pretty sure there is a clause in your banking agreement that addresses this. Next time, read the fine print before doing this.
And Vladimir Putin’s party took a beating in elections this weekend.
That’s it. Except for this. And yes, I think the audio track being off adds to it.
Go have a great day, friends!
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483 responses to “Monday Morning Links”
Theft? That’s a bullshit overcharge. The bank made the error, and has grounds to call for repayment of erroniously deposited funds spent, but it was not theft.
It was theft when they removed it from their account.
I know it’s hard to believe, but it is entirely possible they took it to have been lawfully transferred into their account, and thus lacked the criminal intent required.
Restitution is appropriate, criminal charges are not.
A $100k shopping spree in 2 1/2 weeks?
They knew full well what the deal was.
Especially since this kind of story is in the news 3 or 4 times a year
This.
Lawfully deposited, sure. The bank processed a wire transfer incorrectly through a clerical error. That was legally transferred into their account. But it was also erroneously transferred in. They took money they should reasonably know was not intended for them.
I’ve actually had this happen. Although the money was intended for a different account of mine (the bank deposited it into one business entity of mine instead of another). I notified the bank and asked them if I should just transfer it myself from one entity to the other and they said no, they had to unravel the transaction and reinitiate it themselves. Moving the money myself, even if to another entity I own, means I’m acting as the rightful possessor of the money and is illegal since I know the money does not belong to that specific entity.
I’d imagine the same laws apply here.
That would have been you embezzling from your business, and not a comperable circumstance.
Except it’s pretty much the same as happened here, with the only difference that the intended recipient was a company I also owned.
The bank made the error, not me. I asked my banker if I could just transfer the money between entities I own. Also, one cannot embezzle from an LLC where he’s the sole member.
If you can steal money from your own account, I’m sure you can embezzle from a solitary LLC via some poorly written financial regulation.
That’s not how a single-owner LLC works. And these people weren’t stealing money from their own account. They were stealing money erroneously placed there by an intermediary. They aren’t stealing from the bank. They are stealing from the rightful owner. An owner the bank will have to make whole, by the way, and seek recovery from the people who stole it after their error.
Read your banking contract. Possessing it isn’t theft. Removing it when there is a reasonable expectation to know it was put there erroneously is theft.
Contract violations are civil, not criminal.
Or should be. The law is fucked up if you can go to jail for violating a contract.
Sue the hell out of their asses, absolutely. Criminal theft…nope.
https://statelaws.findlaw.com/pennsylvania-law/pennsylvania-theft-larceny-law.html
I dunno. On the face of it, it sounds criminal.
Yeah, this is like if you went to eat and the valet brought you somebody else’s Ferrari instead of your Ford and you drove off and said “welp, not my mistake. The rightful owner can fuck off because some intermediary with temporary possession made an error.”
It’s the old “find a wallet on the street scenario”. Most people have no scruples.
I once lost my wallet at a rather seedy grocery store. I ran up to the front desk, fearing the wallet – my ID, cash, credit and ATM cars, all lost. But nope – some honest soul brought it up to the manager – and nothing was missing.
And being in that “oh shit!” situation, I would do the same if I found a wallet or purse.
As an aside, the one thing I really really hate about the TSA kabuki theater is not having my wallet with me. I’m supposed to trust the TSA or the people around me not to do a little theft and “accidentally” take the wrong coat or bag on the other side of the x-ray machine.
That’s why you maintain positive control of your bag and don’t send it through the X-ray until you go through the metal detector.
The banking contract spells out the laws you are breaking when you remove money from an account that was put there erroneously.
As for what’s happened with the money, the bank is on the hook for the loss. They will have to cover it and sue these people for restitution. They can’t unravel the transactions, although they can probably put some form of mechanics lien on any titled items the people bought.
The people are going to face criminal charges for the law they broke. The contract violation will be handled in civil court.
The contract says the money isn’t yours. So if you try to keep it, it’s theft.
I agree, once the bank informed them of the error.
Contract violations are civil, not criminal.
Freight company drops a Maserati at your front door instead of your neighbor’s front door. Upon realizing that there was a Maserati delivered that you didn’t order, you crack open the box and take it for a joy ride. How is that anything but criminal? It’s not your Maserati, whether or not the freight company screwed up their delivery.
Yeah, I can see the “receiving stolen property” maybe — though I also think there’s a strong argument that a clerical error diverting virtual property is also not theft and therefore the property isn’t stolen to begin with — just misplaced. But definitely the bank is liable to make the proper party whole first and then look to recover from the receiving party. If I were the God Emperor for the day (after I fixed much more important things.. 😉 ) that would be a clear civil matter, not criminal.
Sure and if someone accidentally gave you the nuclear launch codes and you used them, you’re saying that doesn’t count as Crimes against Humanity?
/Really Bad Analogy
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/Nuclear launch codes for over 50 years.
So…. you’d be more of the “Blood for the Blood-God-Emperor” type, then?
I had the opposite happen to me.
Payroll company made a 1-off error and withdrew a few hundred thousand from my business account. Needless to say, I got in that morning and saw the account overdrawn by a fuckton.
Fixing it was painful, the bank waived fees when the payroll company was balking at paying them (they had already fixed issue even before I found it, so money had been restored and proper payroll taken out, but the rep was wishy-washy about paying the overdraft fees).
I never considered having the payroll company CEO jailed.
“the rep was wishy-washy about paying the overdraft fees”
Crucified upside down in a tidal pool.
Immediate loss of our business was the result
I never considered having the payroll company CEO jailed.
There’s a huge difference between negotiating who bears the financial consequences of the screw up and taking advantage of the screw up by going on a spending spree. If the payroll company’s CEO immediately spent the erroneously obtained money on upgrades to his office before the error could be corrected, he would be sitting in jail.
No sympathy here. They knew it wasn’t theirs. What dummies.
If I saw a deposit like that I would be on my way to the bank in five minutes to straighten it out.
Remember, not only did they spend money that was not theirs, they spent money that belonged to someone else. Someone is out 120K and cant make payroll.
Even if they hadn’t spent a dime, that someone would still have had the same size hole for the same span of time. The actions of the defendants have zero effect on the impact to the business whose funds were mislaid.
Just because the bank has insurance doesn’t mean that the damage didn’t happen.
Reminds me of a check my dad was expecting for $1,000 from a slow paying customer. The one he finally received was for $100,000. He tried calling the company several times to get it straightened out and they were non-responsive so he finally called and left a message with a secretary that he’d go ahead and cash the check, take his $1,000 and they could call him when they were ready to have him send the remaining $99,000 back. They couriered the correct check that afternoon and took back the check drafted in error.
I have customers with long standing credits on their accounts. As a matter of course, we do not apply those credits to new invoices until they tell us to because it fouls up their accounting. The credits show on their statements every month, yet some of them never apply them. This can go on for years.
The Dolphins need to go the ACC, and Clemson can take their place
Actually I do wonder what would happen if a college football team played an NFL team.
There was some speculation about this back in the 80s when the Buccaneers were at their derpiest and the Miami Hurricanes were clobbering everyone in their path. Basically the analysis came down to the fact that even the best college team has about a half-dozen players who are all-conference and one or two who are all-American in any given year. Even a bad NFL team has 30-40 players who were all-conference or better during their college careers.
The only chance the college kids would have is with their superior numbers rotating in and out (an NFL team has 53 players, while a FBS team fields about double that for a home game) somehow wearing the pros down.
You see the disparity in size, strength, and athletic ability when an FCS program shows up at a big-time football school for a paycheck. Magnify that, and you’d see FBS vs NFL.
Yep. And there’s the pride factor. No NFL team would ever let themselves lose to college kids.
They wouldn’t need the eye of the tiger. This ridiculous thought experiment happens every so often, but even the worst NFL team has 10X the talent of the best college team. The college team would get murdered.
The NFL team would win 683-0.
I’ve long held a notion of premier college conferences with promotion and relegation
although that would have left Tennessee playing in the OVC for the past decade
“What’s a leppo?”
Somebody has seen the movie “Magnolia.”
When I think LA and apocalypse, I always think of this.
I think of that stupid movie with Seth Rogan and James Franco where the rapture occurs during a pretentious LA party and nobody notices because none of them are taken to heaven.
I like the part where Jonah Hills’ character gets possessed and tells Seth Rogan’s character he is gonna titty fuck him… It’s apt.
All those guys in that movie were pretty cool for letting the screen writers absolutely destroy them.
They were the screen writers, for the most part.
: bank error. Unless you’re expecting 120,000 wouldn’t you try correcting that? Sadly we’ve grown to think of corporations as bad and so screwing them at any chance is somehow justifiable.
“That money was in our account – it’s ours!”
“Finders, keepers!”
You misunderstand the concept of an account. The money you ‘have’ in your bank account belongs to the bank. The bank has a contractual relationship with you that they will return it or pay it out to your instructions, but once you deposit it they now own the money, and you hold an IOU. When a bank folds the money in ‘your’ account is distributed per bankruptcy rules (hint you are an unsecured creditor and get squat). This is why the FDIC etc were created.
The contract that obligated the bank to honor your instructions quite clearly spells out what your rights are and spending improperly credited funds can clearly become a criminal matter if you do so knowingly. The article clearly stated that both the account holders knew the money was not theirs and admitted as much.
You misunderstand snarking. The reason the remark is in quotation marks is that I’m attributing it to a fictionalized version of the people in the article.
Boy do I feel stupid. Last week at the liquor store, the cashier accidentally rang up the six pack of beer twice and missed the pricy bottle of scotch. I stupidly pointed out the mistake and ended up paying an extra $45. I didn’t realize I should have kept my mouth shut and screwed the merchant.
Is there a primer on naked capitalism I could read to learn how to do this right?
Here?
Ohhh… the *other* kind of….
LInx are bust!
Dangnabbit. Don’t know how I messed that up.
The only time I didn’t point out an error in ringing up my purchases was when the cahsier missed the second item on a buy one get one free sale and the difference would be $0 for all the effort to reopen the completed transaction.
I’ve done that sort of thing too – even walked back into the store and told the cashier they gave me too much change. It’s the nice thing to do and they would have caught shit from their employer for being short on the til.
^THIS^ – it isn’t a windfall to you, it’s a whuppin’ for the poor schlub behind the register.
As a teller ATV a bank I ended up $400 off one night. Don’t know where it went. No one ever came back with the money. People don’t realize it’s the kids making 10 bucks part time that will catch hell for it.
Oh, I am sure some people do but don’t give a shit, because they justify their shit by claiming they stuck it to the man.
“They write it off!”
“You don’t even know what a write-off is, do you?”
“You don’t even know what a write-off is, do you?”
“No, but they do!”
A former college roommate of mine used to say, “Steal from corporations, not people.”
He seriously thought that stealing from a corporation meant you weren’t hurting anyone.
I’ve had to grapple with that notion a lot when talking politics with “progressives”.
You can talk about moral principles till you’re blue in the face, but the only response you’ll ever get is “corporations aren’t people, maaaan!”
Back when I had a brick and mortar bank, I withdrew a pile of cash to buy a car. I got the money in 100 dollar bills.
I watched the teller count out the money, and then I checked it, everything looked OK. I turned away from the teller window and started putting the money into my wallet when I realized something was off.
There was an extra 100 dollar bill – two brand new bills stuck together.
I gave the extra money back.
“These new bills are sticky. Can I get that in used, nonsequential notes instead?”
Last week at the liquor store, the cashier accidentally rang up the six pack of beer twice and missed the pricy bottle of scotch.
I got an extra chalupa from taco bell this weekend. And surprisingly, everything else I ordered, to boot.
Morning, Sloopy.
Guess someone assumed all the “Bank error in your favor, collect $20” cards in Monopoly were legal precedent.
And honestly, I’m surprised Putin doesn’t control how the votes are counted. Thought he was more old school than that…
They figured keeping all but 20 of the opposition party off the ballot would be enough. Guess they were wrong.
Next time…only 10!
Am I wrong for assuming that Moscow City elections have as much to do with Russian politics as the San Fransisco City Board does with American politics?
No. I think you’re spot on. Even more apt is Washington DC mayoral politics.
You are in this case, based on what I’ve read. They took on a lot of national significance after a ton of coverage about the national government excluding a lot of people from getting on the ballot.
It was an important thing back in the Soviet Union days. Boris Yeltsin, one of my all-time favorite politicians, was First Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the Communist Party before going national.
LA River turning to blood and raining frogs
Homosexual frogs. It is LA, after all.
Damn, it’s early, but… [prissy opera applause]
Not homosexual. Trans.
Frogs transition from tadpoles to frogs. They are the original trans species.
The couple now face three felony charges of theft and receiving stolen property, court records show. They appeared in court last week and posted bail of $25,000 each. The Pennsylvania State Police could not immediately comment on the case to The Washington Post.
Did they pay by check?
*narrows gaze*
I pulled a “Take this Job and Shove It” at work Friday. First time I’ve ever done that since I was a teenager. Just threw down my stuff, and walked straight out the door. This is the first time I
haven’t worked since ’94 or ’95. Lemme tell you, it feels very fucking good. I’m going to take a break and not work until we move to Idaho in March.
So what drove you to leave?
Asshole boss. Just unbearable behavior.
Ahh.
Well, de-stress and enjoy the extended vacation.
Going to work for Tonio or Animal now, then?
Can I get a gaze over here?
*maintains narrowed gaze*
You are going to give yourself a serious headache doing that. You should take an aspirin.
Maybe an eye exam if he’s squinting so much.
I can’t. No NSAIDs for me. 🙁
*sighs *
I’m obviously not good at punning.
were you the first to respond to his/her managerial style or does this person have a history?
History. Well known
Geeze. What happened?
related: Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back
Just threw down my stuff, and walked straight out the door.
Since you are still here to tell us about it, I assume you didn’t work in a nitroglycerin factory?
Seriously, good on you for quitting. Life is too short to put up with a bullshit job. In my past, I’ve hung on at jobs that turned shitty for too long. I’ve learned that there is always somewhere else that would be happy to have you. Good luck with the next gig.
Thanks. You nailed the hung on too long thing.
Or did, but was really bad at the job.
I’ve actually done that twice to my own financial detriment but it is a glorious feeling! Just handed the tool I was working with to the asshole and walked away. Next stop, liquor store and a lot of soul-searching.
A guy named Elliot Nott in Chicago is convicted of filming people in the bathroom? What is this? A lame reboot of The Unflushables?
*continues narrowed gaze*
Nick Saban has a press conference after his silly game with New Mexico State and tells some giant lies.
We try to schedule the best teams we can schedule. You know, without ever doing home-and-home series with Power-Five schools or traveling very far.
Several Pac-12 teams tried and failed to get a series with Alabama. The only thing that came out of it was a game with USC in Texas.
I guess the press conference didn’t make it clear, maybe I’m just dumb but who is the official drink sponsor of Alabama football?
Keep the labels visible Nick!
By far the best Cure song. Fight me.
Fighting a Cure fan? Does that involve tickling?
Hair-pulling unless it’s really spiky.
“all this hair gel makes my hand sticky!”
Like this?
I don’t even fight them. I do grimy revenge shit like steal their make-up
Lots of slapping
I used to casually listen to the Cure in the 80s at parties and on the radio. Now I’m like “why didn’t I buy their albums and go to their concerts?”
Same reaction to early Metallica.
Killing an Arab?
Also, “drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip.” Tell me 10:15 doesn’t get stuck in your brain after hearing it.
There are several Cure songs that I love. This album didn’t get the greatest reviews but the first track is solid.
Underneath the Stars
Not even in my top 10.
*drops gloves*
The definitive Cure song.
Also a contender.
Both solid contenders.
Here is another.
Good one.
This just rolled around.
Looks like a Cure day today.
This one doesn’t make it into my rotation nearly enough.
Also, fuck off tulpa!
Fine you win the argument over tallest pigmy.
They should’ve officially hung it up after Disintegration. Perfect final album. Yes, I know they is primarily Robert Smith, but he should’ve done something under a new name.
After he defeated Mechastreisand what was left to do?
That was the funniest thing I’ve read in at least a week.
Canosa, who is suing Weinstein for unspecified damages, tried to keep the messages under wraps and blasted him for refusing to agree to her request.
“Weinstein and his counsel are trying to manipulate and misuse these emails out of context to taint the Jury pool by creating a false impression that there was a consensual sexual relationship when there was only a consensual business relationship,” Canosa lawyer Jeremy Hellman wrote in an Aug. 21 letter to the judge.
Juries are easily confused.
“He’s misleading you. My client had a consensual business relationship with her rapist, not a consensual sexual relationship with her business partner.”
Doesn’t sound very convincing to me.
Vladimir Putin’s party took a beating in elections this weekend.
I read that as too TO beating.
Coming soon, to a Moscow street near you!
Mornin’ Sloop! That is the only Cure song that I like and is also on my work rotation. Between you and Banjos choices this is getting uncanny, lately.
Saw the Tommy Boy Blu-Ray on sale for $5 at the grocery store and picked it up last week. Thought the kids would find it funny, and they did. I hadn’t seen it since it was out in theatres. Lord, not a good movie, but you know what I appreciated about it? It showed a real business in a good light.
In the movie, Tommy’s factory produces brake pads. We see the factory floor, with actual machinery that might be appropriate to the job, manned by skilled workers. They wear safety equipment (hard hats, goggles). There’s a receiving/delivery area with loading dock. We see how the plant needs a bank loan to buy new equipment, how management and workers work together, how important the sales team is, how a screw-up in one department can affect the whole enterprise. And nobody in the factory is a bad guy (the bad guys are from outside), now is the business itself evil just because it’s a business, as in all too many movies.
Plot-wise and character-wise, there was a lot to be desired, but as far as showing a real plausible business and how it might actually operate, I’m not sure I can remember a better movie. Ghostbusters isn’t bad of course, but I think Tommy Boy actually has a lot more detail about business operations. In that sense, the movie’s a breath of fresh air, even 24 years after release.
in Ghostbusters, the ghosts are the adversary. the EPA is the enemy.
There is more character development in Tommy Boy than just about any other movie in the past 10 years.
Yeah and it also has this scene – https://youtu.be/gH_8b9w9AHY
“not a good movie”
Blasphemy!
I don’t think leprosy and typhus are “medieval diseases”–they occurred frequently right up into the 19th century, right? Just because they’re not common since modern sanitations were introduced in large cities doesn’t mean they’re actually all that old.
Fun fact – Leprosy and Tuberculosis are among the oldest known human infectious ailments and have been with the species since the paleolithic.
*at least, if not since before we were technically “human”
This, more than likely.
Oh, I forgot. Other than other people s source of tuberculosis infection is infected cow’s milk. So likely it has been with us since we domesticated cattle.
Leprosy on the other hand lives in soil and we can be infected by critters that spend a lot of time digging or burrowing in soil……so, since forever.
Are you sure we didn’t give it to the cows?
TB isn’t terribly picky, it’ll take whatever lungs it can get.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTeul-axBac
However, I don’t take anyone seriously that doesn’t know how to pronounce “zoology” and related words.
I’ll take your word for it.
The trema is (was) there for a reason!
Typhus is still happening today in third world shitholes. Although it’s a bacterial infection, the actual disease vector is various lice, chiggers and fleas.
Typhoid fever is a different type of bacterial infection for which there is a vaccine.
. Serena Williams did not win, thank God. – And off course the Romanian press was full of articles about the Romanian-Canadian winner… although to be fair she did train a bit in Romania at 7 or 8 years old.
We’d be taking credit too if the roles were reversed. Did you see her Mom? That girl is as Romanian as the day is long.
Has there ever been a Canadians that won elsewhere?
The only two I can think of (I’m sure there are others) that caused a stir were Brett Hull and Alex Baumann. In both cases, people were upset for ‘abandoning’ Canada but I don’t blame them.
Hockey Canada basically told Brett Hull there’s no room for him and so rightfully joined Team USA when asked. Alex Baumann went to work for Australia swimming after Canada wouldn’t hire him – the country’y most decorated swimmer.
It’s like the mystery of why the Habs never hired Larry Robinson.
Anglo.
Don’t get me going on that.
That mom looks like someone who probably calls herself a “free spirit”.
She looked the part of the stereotypical commie guarding a room in an reeducation camp.
She actually resembles my late Mother, over-sized sunglasses and all. You’re not far off.
She’s s a finished product of Tennis Canada (which has been pouting all kinds of money into the system).
Her family arrived in Canada in 1994 but she’s born in Mississauga. I’m almost certain, though, she has an EU/Romanian passport.
Good for her. She’s mentally strong and acted humble in victory. Romanians should be proud.
Yeah look at Shapavalov and Auger-Aliassime too. Those two seem destined for greatness.
A win at a Major was all that was missing. Belief is now a reality.
The crowd was pulling for Williams even though she was her normal bitchy self. Between the multiple camera shots of Venus Williams sitting next to Anna Wintour and Meghan Markle, I was ready to kick my screen.
Same here. Don’t forget the racist Spike Lee.
Her sulking and body language was terrible.
And if ESPN could, they’d have a wake for her. Yuk.
ESPN kept announcing their upcoming news about who won as “Serena goes for history”
This while KNOWING the result already
This while KNOWING the result already
“Prepare alternate text for each possible result ahead of time? I don’t follow.”
The crowd was a massive collection of pretentious virtue-signaling assholes and some Canadians.
Seriously.
Spike Lee was there less because about tennis and more because she was black and about to tie a record.
Spike Lee is a cunte!
That sounds racist!
Stay strong, girl: Khloé Kardashian Says Tristan Thompson Tried to Kiss Her, Confronted Kanye on True’s Birthday
The best sportsball story from yesterday.
Agreed. That is a great story, but did ESPN or any other major media sports person cover it? Nope.
*crickets*
All that anyone heard.
This was noticed and appreciated.
Crickets on cricket?
Sounds about right.
*chirp* *chirp*
Man, Swiss’s eyes are going to seize up on him this morning.
Player of the match was STEVE SMITH!
STEVE SMITH RAPE WICKET, BAT, BALL AND BOWLER!
A sticky wicket?
Somewhere on the internet there has to be a quiz: “Cricket term or sex act?”
The Ashes have been all downhill since the Aussies got all pissy about fast leg theory.
“There are two teams out there. One is trying to play cricket and the other is not.”
I dont know the quote, but England was playing cricket. Australia was whining.
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*removes ROBC from nice guy list*
That must be a short list. I wager it fits on a post-it note.
Tell your fellow Aussies not to crowd the plate vs Bob Gibson.
(Look, I moved 30 years forward in my sportsball references!)
Test cricket is so incredibly boring compared to ODIs.
Drink a pint per wicket. That could be a few hours between pints or slamming 3 in short order.
But that would kill you during an ODI.
*collapses on fainting couch in MCC members’ room*
I am surprised you aren’t a 20-Twenty fan.
I got my Twenty and 20 backwards. That is just how stupid T20 is.
Test cricket is so incredibly boring compared to ODIs.
Or 20/20s
Local black lefty professor writes a column saying Trump isn’t racist (or at least not egregiously racist).
Unfortunately Trump is even worse than a racist because he is a naked capitalist. Capitalism is way worse than racism.
i can suffer principled leftists.
They are an endangered species.
Ice-picks through the heads will do that.
If done right an ice-pick lobotomy only renders the patient more docile, but does no permanent harm.
That’s how you make Useful Idiots?
But I thought that capitalism and imperialism were the other two pillars of white supremacy Nazi colonialism.
Not sure I understand. Why shouldn’t it be pointed out that black unemployment is at historic lows? Of course a politician is going to take credit for that as they’re wont to do for anything that can help them.
I think they’re legit happy about that stat. I could be wrong.
What sort of card carrying racist brags about that at a rally of deplorable nazis? Sort of like what sort of homophobe waves the rainbow flag at the RNC convention?
It’s almost like narrative blown.
It’s time to create a libertarian ecosystem that doesn’t welcome racists
Ross Douthat. Christe, what a cunte!
““longstanding libertarian habit of downplaying racism as a fact of life for minorities in the United States.””
This is wholely different from “racist flirtations”. Refusing to play identify politics and saying there are more important things is not racism. It’s bulshit like this that will create an inseperable divide in libertarians.
There is also a difference between downplaying, which is actively engaging in apologetics such as pushing the “happy little children” narrative, and refusal to spend time agonizing over the past or pushing narratives of eternal victimhood.
The problem arises when the discussion becomes how we should use government to correct racism.
^This
I would have said a rejection of identity politics is the strongest bond amongst the side-issues of the libertarian movement. Several people on this site irritate the shit out me, but I don’t think there’s a single racist in the bunch.
Outside the movement, though, there are tons of minorities who also are too busy with goals to entertain the politics of identity politics regarding race particularly. Most folks have a clan and hive up to some degree, but I see alignment in business and economics as the emerging and healthy way to identify allies.
Gayle King went a long way this morning to note that “most of the people I know” (that’s close to a quotation) were pulling for Serena, as is well and good, but why stop so short of finishing with “to take the record for majors . . . by an American” with which few could object. The cold truncation signals that the people she knows have other priorities and ways of looking at the world . . . otherwise why not finish her thought?
So I would number amongst those guilty of yearning to move on from racism as the center rallying cry of politics.
Several people on this site irritate the shit out me
I aim to please.
I figure 100 who are the meat of the commentariat, and I think I agree with a full half of them on almost everything. And I completely respect another 45 who are on the other side of the Big Issue. So, after all of that, I only have two people muted . . . because they’re annoying, childish, and predictable, not because I disagree with them.
Glibs are amazing.
Testing, testing, 1 2 3…..
made me laugh
reminds me of the coyote ugly joke and the follow-up: reverse coyote ugly
Tulpa?
I’m muted? Woohoo!
It strikes me that this is just another incidence of the “thick” libertarian cancer. They want to make libertarianism about more than just liberty. But, when that happens, those other, incidental, “libertarian” values just wind up displacing liberty as the central values. “Liberaltarianism” failed utterly. So, they just want to slip a more extreme version (“woke” libertarianism?) in under a new branding.
Yeah. I think this is right. I think Dave Smith had a fairly good “rebuttal” to JD Tuccile’s article. Its mixing up some conclusions (treat people fairly and as individuals) as starting principles.
STEVE SMITH HAVE GOOD REBUTTAL. TREAT ALL HIKERS THE SAME.
“For those “who must look to bills of sale and property lists to find our ancestors,” Blanks writes, “the look back is with much less yearning.””
But wouldn’t history have been better if slaves had had the opportunity to fully participate in the 19th century’s more free-wheeling capitalist economy? The idea’s not for a complete rewind. It’s to take the good things we seem to have left behind and apply them in the present day.
I’ll just state the obvious, you have a right to be a racist asshole. Simply holding a view, however ignorant, does not harm someone else. That said, I do not believe racism is prevalent among self-described libertarians.
War on Truth, cont’d
Friday night’s anti-CNN video is reminiscent of the 2017 meme showing Trump wrestling a CNN logo. Trump’s fans are praising him for A+ trolling, ignoring the clear risk of a president inciting violence against figures he has deemed enemies. And Trump’s critics are trying to make sure people see the seriousness of this situation.
Philly Inquirer columnist Will Bunch tweeted: “The Alabama stuff is bat-guano crazy but the scary part of his new video is showing CNN (logo) in a fiery lethal car crash at the end. He is openly urging violence against my sisters and brothers in journalism. He is a dangerous dictator who will get people killed. He already has.”
Just wait. Trump’s death squads will ram the barricades at CNN and the Washington Post and drag everybody off to concentration camps in the Nevada desert, where they will be forced to write nice things about him one thousand times.
Should have made it look like a mugging.
Brian Stelter continues to be the most reliable source for a bag of dicks on cable news. Next.
“He is a dangerous dictator”
Sure Brian. Take your meds.
If they really believed even half of the crazy shit they say about Trump, they would be too terrified to actually criticize him.
She persisted.
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) told an audience in at the Art of Living Foundation center in Los Angeles that she would continue campaigning even though she had not qualified for the next Democratic debate.
“Debate or no debate,” Gabbard vowed, the campaign would move on — “because we know that it is ‘We, the People’ who decide who gets to lead our country.” She cast the decision to cull the debate participants as an attempt by Washington elites to control the election.
Gabbard failed to qualify for the third Democratic Party presidential primary debate in Houston this week because while she had met the Democratic National Committee (DNC) threshold of 130,000 individual donors, she did not reach 2% in enough qualifying polls by August 29. Gabbard, returned to the campaign trail on Aug. 25 after two weeks of annual training with the U.S. Army National Guard.
The DNC kabuki theater where the rubes think their votes matter can be entertaining.
End-game. If they nominate a male for President they will need a woman, preferably one of color, as the VP nomination.
nominee
It’s Harris. It’s always been Harris.
I dunno. That woman is poison. If nominated too much attention will be paid to her past.
Yeah, by whom? Cause the usual dnc operatives with bylines will fall over each other trying to protect her.
V.P. is a safe bet.
Klobuchar, Midwest, Flyover country, no baggage since she has never done anything. Middle-of-the-road Demo, unattractive.
What’s not to like for a VP?
Nah. It’s Tulsi. It will suck when Biden wins, but a smoking hot Tulsi in the public eye would work for me.
How about a “Grand Bargain” on Guns? In exchange for Federal Government-Issued Photo and Fingerprint ID for every voter in America?
I’ll agree if you throw in national reciprocity and lift all restrictions on suppressors.
My offer – Repeal the NFA and ban local bans and license requirements, and we won’t add a clause mandating the purchase of firearms by all members of the militia (ie, every adult citizen)
national reciprocity + suppressors in exchange for background checks on private sales? not sure. depends on if it includes letting your friend take it shooting.
Never, not one more inch. Private background checks will lead to federal gun registries. Then they’ll start banning all semiautomatic firearms as the next Grand Bargain.
The Dems running for the nominee are already switching away from “assault rifle” language to semiautomatic.
Fine. Repeal the NFA, Ban state and local restrictions on firearms, close the ATF, mandate every member of the militia own and train with a weapon suitable for defence of the home and nation in case of invasion.
This. Not one inch.
Not one inch.
Something something STEVE SMITH.
But seriously, the only thing we should be talking about is repealing the numerous existing unconstitutional laws.
And national reciprocity= federal control and standards for concealed carry. Eventually, when Dems control the levers again, it would be used to squeeze states.
With some with holding of Obamacare money for non compliance
How to manage the breach?
Rights are inalienable and were never derived from the consent of the majority. But elections have consequences, and there are real threats. It’s one thing to spitball the give and take of politics or try to optimize a system for yourself in your lifetime, but talking away part of one’s rights in the process is another kettle of fish.
The big problem isn’t gun chat: it’s that most Americans don’t really believe in liberty; they believe in control by election and safety through bureaucracy. I’m not optimistic that will change. I’m optimistic that America stays on top, remains the most desirable place even after the national apparatus is turned into France, but I still mourn a coming day of centralization and control, when what you say, who you hire, and how you protect yourself are no longer your individual choice and right.
Vladimir Putin’s party took a beating in elections this weekend.
I’m sure it was due to Russian interference.
I have it on good authority that the majority of people who went into voting booths were Russian.
Dark world of virtual porn where perverted sex addicts pay thousands to satisfy ‘mummification’ fetishes
I’ve heard about chicks with Daddy Issues before. Never heard about these guys with Mummy Issues though.
[walks like an Egyptian]
Booboo!
What? I think you are just wrapped too tightly to enjoy good word play.
Damn you fucking phone, you’ve ruined a joke for the last fucking time. Fucking corrected the word when I pushed Post.
Yes, Yogi?
*narrows gaze*
There’s that naked capitalism again…
Why is an American cam girl getting paid in £?
How dare they! Local neighborhood associations in Minneapolis outraged that the city wants to attach strings to their funding.
In what effed up universe do NAs get anything other than a “letter of recognition” from the municipal government?
Forget it Tonio. It is Minneapolis Town.
Those springboards to higher office don’t finance themselves.
“It just needs love and care and attention and investment.”
So…just hand over some cash and don’t ask any questions?
^^^THIS^^^
Don, you mendacious twat.
“So, we have 8.9 percent in the Obama presidency and down by 2.5 percent in this presidency,” Lemon chimed in. “As you said, it is good news. It is a good trend. But it didn’t start under this President and the numbers actually declined much stronger under the former President.”
Lemon then asked his panel how black voters will be able to reconcile the solid unemployment numbers with Trump’s allegedly racist behavior. Panelist Joseph Pinion likened the solid economy under Trump to having someone spit in it your face and then hand over a napkin.
“I think the message is something that does not resonate with black communities and brown communities simply because of the rhetoric that has come out of the White House,” said Pinion. “And so, I think I said almost two years ago to the day on this program that if someone spits in your face and then hands you a napkin, you don’t get to say thank you.”
“As you say, if someone spits in your face and hands you a napkin, how…what is that supposed to…I don’t understand that argument,” Lemon responded. “Does that mean that the only part of your brain, or the only part of our being that matters is money? Rather than how someone treats you and what someone says about you?”
The panel agreed that President Trump should take no ownership of the great unemployment numbers for black Americans.
“Donald Trump had little to nothing to do with the drop in unemployment for African-Americans,” concluded Boykin. “No one can … no one who talks about this in the Republican Party can cite a single policy contributed by Donald Trump that is responsible for the drop in black unemployment. It’s all because of policies that … that started long ago. It wasn’t the tax cut or anything like that. Policies started long ago in the Obama administration when we started to see the drop. And the other thing is that Obama had the good sense not to go out and brag about it every time that there was a drop in unemployment because he knew that it’s still too high compared to the white unemployment rate.”
But what if someone spits in your face and then offers you a job?
What if your job is allowing people to spit in your face for cash?
“But it didn’t start under this President and the numbers actually declined much stronger under the former President”
It’s like when they say Obama decreased the deficit, because it went down every year, without mentioning that he started with the highest deficits ever.
“The numbers improved in spite of Obama’s best efforts, and would have improved faster if he’d gotten out of the way.”
^
I seem to remember that was not the case. Black unemployment reached historic highs under Zero.
As soon as I read ‘Don you mendacious twat’ I knew it was going to be Lemon.
Ted cleans up his act.
[washes Jimbo’s mouth out with soap]
Justin Amash
@justinamash
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How about we end the war without inviting the Taliban to dinner on the week of 9/11?
The old “I want to end the war, but not with these optics” or “I want to end the war, but the timing isn’t right!”
Beltway Libertarians are virtually indistinguishable from neocons now
I thought he criticized Trump for failing to end the war yesterday.
Yes.
He’s played this game now several times. He was the first Republican in Congress to allege a super spooky Russian influence campaign that totally won Trump the election, but then a month later he told SFL that Trump was not a peace candidate, because he had increased tensions with Russia.
Amash is proof that TDS is real and it legitimately makes you retarded
Amash is proof that TDS is real and it legitimately makes you retarded
Well said. Well said.
::chuckles::
Bring the troops home.
The Taliban is not going to honor any agreements. Can we stop pretending that they will?
That’s a fair argument. Much better than the optics complaint
Bring troops home and nuke the fucking place from orbit.
Meh, just bring the troops home, and let them kill each other, with the warning that any attempts to attack US interests will be met with an overwhelming punitive expedition.
Bring the troops home. State publicly, “If the Taliban comes back, we can too.”
This would be more effective if we had left after 6 months the first time.
Who remembers “No nation-building”? I do.
Osama won. Our reaction to their attack has sped up our demise.
We keep dealing with the Taliban, russia, china and Iran as if any of those players act in good faith or can be trusted as far as we can spit. Good grief. the only thing we can be certain of is that they lie and will break any promises they make.
WSJ predictably calls for permanent occupation.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trumping-the-taliban-11567973992
I haven’t overlooked the bases in Europe and Korea. Those countries should be paying us for outsourcing their security. All costs plus a healthy profit margin. Otherwise shut em all down.
FFS, at least there’s a border to defend in Korea. We’re just an occupying power in Afghanistan.
Is Lockheed-Martin a major shareholder in the WSJ?
WHY THE FUCK DOES ANYONE GIVE TWO SHITS ABOUT SHITTY AFGHANISTAN
GTFO AND LET THEM ROT IN THE STONE AGE
Bingo. Still no explanation as to what we get out of being there or what goals we can attain or how or when.
The people pushing us to build a nation there….did they go to school? Did those schools have history classes? What the fuck were they doing during history class? Eating their own boogers probably. Fucking morons.
Because they (both Democrats and Republicans somehow) are claiming that our presence over there has completely ended terrorist threats to America. The logic goes that this is the backyard/breeding ground of terrorism and they are way too preoccupied with us to come over here.
I don’t buy that shit, but there is not way for me to disprove this either.
I don’t buy that shit, but there is not way for me to disprove this either.
*nods head* The old magic rock that keeps away tigers trick.
Yeah. It actually drives me nuts because I can’t be: “You know, I’ve looked at the data and I don’t think that’s true.” Because there’s no way for me to really fucking know.
One of the great benefits of all our foreign policy secrets is that no one can ever challenge them. The CIA and our perpetual overseas military ops are totes protecting us guys for a cost of trillions guys. Trust me. You’d all die if not for them.
Combine that with the CIA’s usual retort when challenged about how often their predictions have been wrong.
“Well you only read about our mistakes. Unfortunately we can’t tell you all about the millions of successes we’ve had”
Suuuuuuuuuure….
Fed, Trump, Krugabe et al understand the laws of economics waaaaay better’n you. Needs just one more little regulation.
We need more gun control, I like a bench rest myself, doesn’t make me perfect but good enough to fool a deer once a year (usually).
Lawyer Mum Opens Up About Life As A Part-Time Sex Worker
awshit – Edit Fairy pleeeeze?!
” She claims this is something she’s always wanted to do.”
She must have had a weird and unpleasant childhood.
CUCK
Further: STFU with this “people shouldn’t judge me” bullshit. You’re free to do what you like; you’re making money in voluntary transactions. But you can’t police people’s thoughts about what you’re doing. Even 150 years ago when prostitution was much more ubiquitous it was considered seedy. Either you can handle people’s perceptions, or you can’t.
Also: enough with this “sex work” horseshit. Just call it prostitution; it’s more descriptive and precise.
Meh, “sex worker” is useful (according to Maggie McNeill) to breaking down the “whorearchy,” wherein some sex workers (strippers, camgirls) are ok but others (escorts) aren’t.
There is a heirarchy. Some whores are just better than others.
Life is hierarchy. Manipulating language doesn’t change that.
That’s not what the whorearchy is. It’s saying that camgirls/peepshow workers/massage therapists/strippers are deserving of plying their trade without threat of jail, but escorts aren’t. Or that call girls are ok, but streetwalkers need to be extirpated.
My hubby has a small dick and I want a big one that is dripping pus!
She’s making me reconsider my no prostitutes policy. HAWT.
Hawt but 12/day x 3 weeks a year is a whole lot of cock going into that petry dish.
STD rates among pros are lower than among enthusiastic amateurs. Especially in NV brothels with DCs.
~250 dicks/outing. She must have a cast iron pussy.
Not really believing the 12x/day. Multiply that by the number of girls working, and divide by the size of the parking lot and the math doesn’t work out.
The only prostitutes I’ve ever heard of actually putting up numbers like that were the hotboxing ones in Honolulu during WWII.
Carpooling gangbangs?
And is every transaction full penetrative intercourse?
My kind of girl… I like to pound them till they beg for mercy.
I considered selling my weapons “back” to the government
So fucking much this…
the govt should’ve been disarmed and involuntarily committed decades ago.
Once again, climate warriors rescued from their ship trapped in polar ice.
They fell for the world’s biggest hoax.
Rescue the crews, leave the fanatics.
my guess is the crew wants to guarantee their ship’s recovery. but asked the CG to “rescue” the annoying ass climate warriors.
I assume they used solar powered electric helicopters for the rescue.
Let the polar bears, who are not extinct, sort it out.
Biblical vengeance
The family that owns Purdue Pharma, maker of Oxycontin, has rejected a demand that they give up $4.5 billion of their personal wealth to settle opioid claims against the company, according to state attorneys general negotiating with the company.
As a consequence, talks toward a national settlement with members of the Sackler family reached an impasse over the weekend, according to an email obtained by NPR.
Two attorneys general directly involved in the talks predicted in the email that the company will now file for bankruptcy “imminently.”
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Overdose deaths linked to prescription opioids have killed more than 218,000 Americans since the addiction crisis began in the late 1990s, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
State and local governments have filed more than 2,000 lawsuits claiming Purdue Pharma played a central role marketing opioid medications, while downplaying the risks.
Over two decades, opioid sales generated billions of dollars in profits for the company, making the Sacklers one of the richest families in the U.S.
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Pressure to reach a settlement is also intensifying because a federal opioid trial involving Purdue Pharma and more than 20 other drugmakers, distributors and pharmacy chains is set to begin next month in Cleveland.
While that legal process moves forward, state attorneys general have promised to continue pursuing the Sacklers personally to recoup profits the family received from opioid sales, even if Purdue Pharma seeks Chapter 11 protection.
“I won’t let them get away with their crimes,” Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro wrote Saturday on Twitter. “I will sue them personally, so that we can dig into their personal pocketbooks.”
Whip them, naked, to the chopping block, as the peasants pelt them with rotting vegetables and the occasional cobblestone.
“I won’t let them get away with their crimes”
I guess selling a product that has tremendous value to millions of people yet has the possibility to be misused is criminal now.
“How dare you alleviate pain and suffering!”
Actually their objection is to the fact that these people have money they want for themselves. These virtue signaling cunts don’t give a shit about other people being hurt or helped. It’s pure base jealousy/envy/greed and a belief that unless they have the cash nobody else should either.
*waves dismissively* Oh, that’s just standard, we don’t need to repeat it.
^This.
We’re still talking about sex workers now, right?
“I will sue them personally, so that we can dig into their personal pocketbooks.”
What else can you expect in Trump’s America.
“Personally”
So when you lose and the Judge orders you to cover the family’s legal fees, I assume Shapiro will cover those “personally”?
Absolute immunity Bitxhes
something private jet something to country with no extradition
You know, I would love to see Purdue and the other industry players tell the respective states, “Fine. We will no longer sell our products in your states. Oh, and by the way we’re going to run ads in all your major media markets explaining precisely why people in pain in your states are not allowed to get relief.”
^^^This.
“Sorry Mr. Jones; I know recovering from open heart surgery is painful, but here, take some Tylenol. If you need anything more than that, you’re just weak.”
You’d here about how they are the worst and calls for nationalizing them would begin in earnest.
I hope all of those AGs using their office to extort money for their own use suffer chronic untreatable pain.
?It’s just another Mammary Monday?
https://tinyurl.com/yyvnbmtg
This was in the sidebar. https://youtu.be/hS1-Prulcfk
WOA!
I guess better before than during.
Thank you for the best laugh I’ll have today.
Keeper
I thought you had to be German to be into that shit….
She’s just getting prepared so he can have the backdoor on the wedding night.
She’s gonna have to avoid the wedding cake in that case…
Princess Bride. I’d marry that!
Cooper’s Eye on the Left: No more toeing the Dem line
“I don’t know where I’m going,” he said, “but I know where I come from, and if I look at the political image of the Democratic Party over the last 50 years of my life since I was 5 and very little has changed for my community, then I have some questions, more than questions.
…
“You got a lot of conservative or centric libertarian-minded people that really care about other people,” Washington said, “but they are terrified to come out of the closet and say anything that’s not in line with the Democratic Party. I’m going to support the policy over the person.”
That poor, deluded, brainwashed man. He doesn’t know what’s best for him.
Time to invoke the Fugitive Slave Act.
Speaking of prostitution… I’ll ask you misanthropic miscreants the same question I asked a couple of nights ago:
If a whore gets pregnant, can she collect Workman’s Comp?
If I were a brothel owner, I’d make sure abortion was covered as part of her health plan. Otherwise, there are plenty of people out there with pregnancy fetishes, so she could probably rake it in.
Even whoresons deserve a chance.
*boycotts Q’s brothel*
Certainly do in the service.
1933 May Be Closer than We Think
“The dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe.”
“its growing penchant to ignore standing legal precedent”
Wow is that ever rich coming from a group of people whose explicit goal is to pack the court with Leftists eager to legislate from the bench and rewrite the Constitution.
Even more rich coming from the Russiagate crowd
You seem to miss the fact that when they do it, it is for a good cause. When their enemies do it, then it is evil.
Not even considering that you start that first paragraph with “Barack Obama” instead of ” Donald Trump” and it would be perfectly accurate.
But it’s okay when our side does it!
“His tools have been the executive order, the declaration of a national emergency and the extension of executive privilege.”
Sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
But enough about Barry.
Fucking amen.
Trump isn’t the one who declared that he will use his “pen and phone” do to whatever he wants without Congress.
Poor Kif! He’s all outta sighs.
Whaaa? I thought they loved FDR?
It’s very telling that they still idolize FDR despite him being the only president in modern history to institute an explicitly race-based internment of both naturalized immigrants and native-born citizens.
He has discovered the possibility of governing without legislative approval. His tools have been the executive order, the declaration of a national emergency and the extension of executive privilege.
OmmiGard! He’s got a bigger pen and phone than The Anointed One!
Alternative headline: Elderly Prude Still Won’t Put Out.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/aug/16/my-life-in-sex-the-widow-disappointed-by-online-dating
Did we not have this posted before? Some pointed out the old bitch wanted to fleece the old geezers for all it was worth and not put out.
I think I posted this – I scan The Guardian “Lifestyle” section for the Derp.
*goes to corner of shame*
Read the replies to this tweet. And then weep.
https://twitter.com/panthers/status/1170099076970504192?s=21
I hate these progressives more than I want to. But every time I start to hate them less, something like this happens and I’m back to white-hot rage.
Those kids are fucked.
Dammnn… both of my brothers went to University of Michigan. But before that worked at a local farm, or as baggers, or whatever. I opted out of going to U of M but put my time in doing dishwashing, warehouse and factory work. I even delivered papers at 2AM in the morning. All to make extra cash on the side to buy what I wanted, and for extra stuff I needed at college. I didn’t expect sugar government (or even mom and dad) to come in and give me money whenever I wanted it.
Do they think we should have to work for anything?
They do think WE should have to work, in order to pay for THEM to not have to work.
what does a lawn mower even cost for fucks sake.
Depends on the lawn mower. Ones for lawn service are easily a year or two of tuition at a state school.
Wow. I cut several of the neighborhood lawns for years when I was in school. Saved a lot of money that I eventually used for my first car.
fucking affirmative
* raked leaves
* set fence
* cleaned gutters
* hauled hay
feel sorry for anyone who didn’t
There was no hay grown where I grew up, and our neighbors drew income from welfare and the undocumented sale of mind-altering substances, with a good deal of violent dispute resolution on that secondary market. They never gave the impression of being open to transactions involving making their crack dens more photogenic.
Leftists feel entitled to other people’s money…
Envy/jealousy of what others that have worked hard have, and slothful attitude towards life, combine to make leftist dogma.
GIMME FREE SHITZ! I AM ENTITLED!
This is why why we can never have nice things. Unbelievable.
STEVE SMITH LOVE THEIR HASH TAG #KEEPPOUNDING
Fuck those people.
The video was adorable. Respectful, hard working and sincere kid.
He’s a winner. Nice job, mom.
ingrates
He deserves a full ride scholarship Sloopy. Only a child of privilege can’t see that.
From the sounds of it, University would only ruin his good character.
I love the remarks that reference his race.
Yes, black people shouldn’t lift a finger to improve their situation – they should just keep voting Democrat and wait for the good life to be handed to them. Go visit Chicago or Baltimore and ask the local black community how that’s been working out for them.
“Progressives” see black people as nothing more than chattel who should restrict themselves to Leftist opinions, vote as they’re told, and subsist only on what is given by massa (the government).
Holy shit. When I was in high school my buddies and I used to pray for snowy winters so we could stay home from school and make a quick $50 shoveling driveways. That kid, if he keeps that mentality, is going to go far. The commenters, on the other hand…
The scholarship tweets seem … coordinated. They all say the same thing.
What’s causing women to join the NoFap movement?
Since we have to ask these things now; is “she” abstaining from jacking her “female penis”?
No, she’s getting off from controlling other people.
STEVE SMITH GETS OFF WHILE CONTROLLING OTHER PEOPLE
If it’s a chick, should be NoFlap movement.
NoSchlick?
#NoRoastBeefDJ
No different from any new zealot ascetic.
Good morning Sloop, and a good morning as well to all of You People!
Welcome to the working week!
Well, except for Slammer, anyway…
4A? We don’t need no stinking 4A!
https://lidblog.com/obsidian-4-app/
A tone deaf and stupid move on the DOJ’s part, that’s for sure.
http://imgur.com/gallery/j01W1Wd
Call your urologist.
A very Monday sort of picture.
Who wants to get pissed off? Let me help you.
https://youtu.be/VfJ1yIQsoVw
You were right.
That was pretty bad.
You don’t say
The Democrats have reportedly amassed a huge 2020 trove of opposition research that will be used against President Donald Trump in key battlegrounds states.
According to Axios, the Democratic research team has gathered information from 7,000 lawsuits across nearly 50 states.
The information includes documentation about every time Trump told supporters at his 2016 campaign rallies that Mexico would pay for the wall.
A source told Axios that the data will likely find its way to local reporters, groups and Democrats in battleground states as Trump diverts funds from the military to pay for his border wall.
Democrats also have examples of what farmers and truckers say they feel about Trump’s tariffs and how the GOP tax law hurt truckers.
The information was gathered through local news articles and cable interviews with residents in states like Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan, Arizona, Colorado, Florida and Texas.
According to Axios, ‘thousands’ of Freedom of Information Act requests have been filed in order to obtain more information about Trump.
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Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez said during a meeting with Democratic strategists last week that Democrats want to ‘prosecute the case that he [Trump] is bad at his job and it is hurting people in real ways’, a source in attendance claimed.
The goal is to ‘make it about [Trump’s] performance as president, not his bigotry or awfulness’.
Oh, no. We’ll have to wait and see how that pays out.
Also- Altering the distortions in the incredibly distorted agriculture market has caused new distortions. What a shocker.
“awfulness”
It would be much easier to take these people seriously if they communicated like adults.
“The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns. That’s a sea change. They literally know nothing.”
-Ben Rhodes
Nothing made me happier than to watch that arrogant POS cry when Clinton lost.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtCs-kK2hQU
I wonder how much their “messaging consultant” got paid to come up with that phrasing.
Get out!
Deforestation and habitat destruction
A huge mechanical claw scoops up several ponderosa pine logs and feeds them into an industrial chipper. Thousands of wood chunks are then blasted into a large shipping container.
“It goes anywhere from one to four to three up to seven small ones can just kind of throw in that little jaws there,” explains Jeff Halbrook, a research associate with Northern Arizona University’s Ecological Restoration Institute. Today he’s overseeing what’s fondly known as the chip-and-ship pilot project about 20 minutes west of Flagstaff.
These trees being fed into the chipper were recently cut from the nearby Coconino National Forest. A crew of six has been working for days to pack the shipping containers as tightly as possible, stuffing each one with about 40,000 pounds of chipped wood. Then another machine hoists the container onto a nearby railcar. In about two weeks, nearly 60 containers will arrive at a port in South Korea.
“They primarily use these wood chips for production of energy. Moving away from the fossil-based energy operation in South Korea,” says Northern Arizona University forestry professor Han-Sup Han.
He’s hopeful the chip-and-ship project could support global efforts to move toward carbon neutrality and at the same time bypass the main roadblock to large-scale forest restoration in the region known as the “biomass bottleneck.”
“This material is so small and it has so low value, hauling this material to the market … economically is unfeasible. To be able to complete the restoration of the operation you need to move that out of the forest,” Han says.
The bottleneck is essentially not having homes for that lower-value, lower-quality wood.
Rich Van Demark, Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management
This debris is called biomass and burning it—at least small chunks like this—releases less carbon than traditional coal. The U.S. Forest Service wants to eventually thin a million acres of ponderosa pines vulnerable to wildfire in Arizona with its Four Forest Restoration Initiative.
But the agency can’t get there without first clearing all that cut-down debris from the forest floor. The bottleneck has caused significant setbacks and slow-downs for restoration initiative since it began several years ago.
Leaving aside the “carbon footprint” bullshit, this is one of the smartest things I have seen about forest management in a long time. Get that shit out of there.
Countdown to lawsuits calling to halt this destruction of pristine natural forest habitat…
A) this will end about as well as exporting raw logs
B) hoovering up forest debris and litter stands a good chance of the next “oops, we’re actually destroying natural systems”
This material is so small and it has so low value, hauling this material to the market … economically is unfeasible.
“But, we’re going to do it anyways. Because fossil fuel!”
I assume all of those trucks are electric, right? And charged only through green energy?
Oh, so Donald Trump was actually correct when he said that the California wildfires were made worse by bad forest management? Remember all the mainstream media articles that loudly denounced him for making such “irresponsible” statements and summarily dismissing the absurd notion that lots of deadfall timber and dry brush could contribute to the severity of wildfires?
I’ll sit here and wait for CNN & company to issue retractions. I’ve got all day.
Godot will be here any time now…
I played the title character in that production a number of times.
Easiest role in Theater.
And Vladimir Putin’s party took a beating in elections this weekend.
Lol. It was American interference that caused it.
YANKEES HACKED MUH LECKSHUN COMRADE!
If you believe that then I bet you also believe that the US and its European allies instigated a revolt to overthrow the democratically elected leader of Ukraine a few years back. Just because there is undeniable proof that this is true and European leaders have acknowledged as much, does not make it reality if it contradicts the narrative.
I was informed that Putin didn’t allow legitimate elections. The whole world is upside down.
White Americans’ Hold on Wealth Is Old, Deep, and Nearly Unshakeable
White families quickly recuperated financial losses after the Civil War, and then created a Jim Crow credit system to bring more white families into money.
“First, you legally segregate, and then you let the market do it for you.”
Segregation is definitely coming back into style. I occasionally listen to Sonnie Johnson on hate radio; she’s always got an interesting perspective and is hard to pin down on some issues. On her show yesterday, she seems to be indirectly supporting segregation.
Since it’s becoming super fashionable among progs, if cons jump on board maybe “separate but equal” will become the norm.
“They’re more comfortable among their own kind”
Apocalypse porn
Powerful hurricanes. Record-breaking heatwaves. Droughts that bring ruin to farmers. Raging forest fires. The mass die-off of the world’s coral reefs. Food scarcity.
To avoid a climate change apocalypse, carbon dioxide emissions need to fall by as much as 45% from 2010 levels by 2030, according to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Instead, utilities and energy companies are continuing to invest heavily in carbon-polluting natural gas. An exclusive analysis by USA TODAY finds that across the United States there are as many as 177 natural gas power plants currently planned, under construction or announced. There are close to 2,000 now in service.
All that natural gas is “a ticking time bomb for our planet,” says Michael Brune, president of the Sierra Club. “If we are to prevent runaway climate change, these new plants can’t be built.”
We’re all gonna die.
>>Record-breaking heatwaves. Droughts that bring ruin to farmers. Raging forest fires. The mass die-off of the world’s coral reefs. Food scarcity.
We call that a good day here in the Wasteland.
Huh, the coral reef canard again? That’s been dormant for a while.
Coral is remarkable at not being dead, and the “bleached” reefs were that way long before the so-called anthropogenic window.
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Now do the thousands of plants coming online in China.
What I find most amazing about this is that not…. one… of… those… fucking… things… is… happening!
Robert Spencer analyzed the growth of hurricane strength over the last 100 years. The top wind speed of hurricanes is about half a mile per hour faster than the ones one hundred years ago.
That’s right .5 mph.
They also track north by a few miles.
The severity of droughts is lower than it was in the 1930’s.
The coral reefs are not dying. Yes, some coral reefs are dying because of local changing conditions, but within a few years they rebound as new symbiots that have evolved to thrive in newer conditions colonize the reef.
The raging forest fires are absolutely not connected to the climate but connected to disastrous forest management policies in the U.S. or poor property rights in general in the rest of the world.
These people are fucking delusional. They are completely disconnected from reality.
They literally are choosing to believe the lies of others and to ignore the reality in front of their eyes.
It’s not funny. It’s terrifying.
I am not being hyperbolic when I say that I really think that the people freaking about the climate are so gullible that if the right person told them the right lies, they would strip me and my wife naked march us to the woods make us kneel at the edge of a huge pit and shoot us in the back of the heads. And they would assure themselves how terrible we were to force them to do this awful thing.
Also, forest fires are decreasing over time.
Even heat waves and cold waves aren’t increasing.
They forgot about the hole in the ozone and the acid rain that killed us all 25 years ago.
Even More Evidence That We’re Eating All Wrong
Once you realize that half of nutrition research is merely excuses for puritanical moralizing, especially by the nanny state, these inconsistencies make sense.
Decent article. I’ve been on a nutrition education kick lately and have listened to a couple podcasts with Dr. Cate Shanahan.
For an MD she is really an outspoken critic of nutrition “science” of the last 70 years or so. One of her consistent themes is to get the refined seed and vegetable oils out of your diet completely.
The more I learn, the more I am convinced it’s really getting rid of the shit is the most important part of diet reform. Whether or not you follow a particular diet, it seems like people get good results in a variety of ways. What interests me most is using diet to try to address chronic medical issues. Pretty cool stuff.
For those who are interested:
Part 1
Part 2
I really enjoyed Part 2, as she debunked a lot of BS that’s floating around the nutrition/fitness scene.
This seems to be the best advice. And I’m frankly somewhat skeptical of the “whole” foods stuff, although in most cases it definitely seems like cooking at home is a better option than eating out. Even that latter bit is really just some old traditions coming back again. Restaurant food used to be considered inferior to home-cooked meals because you didn’t know what you were eating and it was being cooked for you by strangers in a kitchen that was in God knows what kind of state.
The main thing that whole foods has going for it is that it takes into account that we have very incomplete knowledge of nutrition.
I’m not remotely conflicted about whole foods. But it’s more expensive – it just is. Think about the quality you buy for yourself – now imagine what you’d have to charge at a restaurant.
Besides, the market drives that. People want their cheap fats and sugars. Market responds accordingly.
That’s fine, but it ain’t optimal if you want maximum benefit from your food.
I tend to avoid refined grains and sugars that are in prepackaged foods, but if I’m eating sushi, or making a simple syrup, or a baguette, I’m going refined all the way. There are some things that don’t taste the same with unrefined equivalents. I’m sure there’s some benefit to a “whole food” diet, as I’m sure there are benefits to various other diets or eating strategies, but it seems like over time hedging your bet by eating a variety of things. Moderation seems to be a good strategy over time, assuming that you’re trying to balance other factors than nutrition such as affordability and ease.
If you avoid pre-made stuff and your only refined oil are from the examples you gave, the number of calories you get is relatively insignificant, right?
Whole foods, as far as I am concerned, are single ingredient foods you prepare yourself with good fats, etc.
At the end of the day, though, every experiment n=1. Every person has to find the right combination for them, their goals and their situation.
i like the nutrition/fitness discussions we have here, as I get a lot of ideas. Some work, some don’t. RIght now, I’m experimenting to try to knock down joint soreness and drop some more weight. In nine weeks or so, I will re-evaluate.
And your point of developing a sustainable lifestyle is spot on.
More or less. I stick to olive oil and butter for the most part. Rarely if I deep-fry something I’ll use peanut oil. I don’t eat much sugar, either. Pasta and bread feature pretty prominently, though, as does cheese. Meats, too, but my wife won’t eat anything other than bird, so there’s a lot of chicken and turkey if I don’t defect and roast a pork loin or something.
I was talking to a friend the other day who has been really working on nutrition, and he swears up and down that giving up white sugar cured him of joint soreness. He pretty much sticks to meats and vegetables, no grains for the most part, no sugars, no booze. He told me he went off the rails the other day and ate a bunch of ice cream out with some people at a dinner party type of thing and now he feels like he’s been hit by a truck. Stiff, sore joints, back hurts, the works.
I should add that he’s been doing competitive BJJ for a few years now and has kind of weaned himself off of weight training. He’s lost weight, mostly fat and a little muscle, but his endurance is just through the roof and barring the ice cream binge he has none of the aches and pains he had prior to cleaning up his diet and dropping weight. What’s interesting to me is that he was never fat by any stretch, but he had a lot of bulk from lifting.
Interesting and exactly what I was getting at. Something causes the inflammatory response, the trick is to isolate it.
I’m 52, so part of my challenge is the fucking clock, but I am trying to work on mobility/flexibility/endurance, too, not just regular powerlifting.
I have a honking big T bone in the fridge, waiting for me to grill it tonight for dinner.
I think I’m eating correctly.
WRONG!
The answer is ribeye!
I’ll post a pic tonight. I’m sure you’ll understand then.
The ribeyes in the case were sad looking.
Lol.
I enjoy pretty much every cut. Lunch today includes NY strip.
“Adam Sandler”
[citation needed]
I feel like crud. I have family who need help, but it’s logistically and financially impossible for me to do what would be required to help them. I’ve spent the past few weeks trying to figure out a way to make it work, but the math doesn’t add up. I can’t be in two places at once, and don’t have enough money to cover it.
Still feel like I’m letting people down.
Good people always get in these emotional binds.
Where are they? Will a lead on a job help?
They’re 80/81 and hospitalized. They’ll be moving states to get better direct care, but need someone to take over the management and maintenance of the land they lived on for nigh on fifty years. It’s just two and a half hours away from me.
Ugh. Sorry, man.
I assume this was the situation you wrote about last week?
Any encumbrances on the property? Could you simply assist in selling?
Ultimately, they’re probably going to donate it to the cemetary, because the one thing they want to avoid is having it sold to the developers who’ve been plopping down houses in the area. Since the land shares its two longest edges with the existing cemetary, it’s not exactly an odd choice.
Do they have heirs? Would they consider liquidating the property?
My parents are the same age and I’ve been trying to convince them to sell off some property while they can. They’ve got way more real estate than they need.
Technically I am one of many potential heirs. They don’t want the land sold to developers, but would consiter selling to family. I’m the only one who could potentially have aforded it, but the numbers don’t add up.
This is the one where there’s potential encroachment by a neighbor?
Have you run the cost of having the neighbor whacked?
Yes, and no.
Reliable hitmen are hard to come by, and usually charge more than the cost of a good fence.
You were talking about chainlink, but if it’s just marking/preventing entry, wouldn’t barbed wire work? Or does NYS forbid those? They are quite common in OK to show “this part of the woods is mine.” Often it’s just stapled to trees, so you wouldn’t necessarily need all that many T-posts.
I’d end up sued for the neighbor poking himself with the wire.
But that alone wasn’t the only cost that factored in. Buying the land, demo of the house, clearance of the overgrowth, maintaining the property until new construction is fiscally feasible, and keeping the neighbor from either encroaching or escalating to a neighbor war allplus the amount of available time to actually get out there and do any of it instead of scraping up funds to pay someone else… even if the fence were free I don’t think it would add up.
You really only need barbed wire if you are trying to control large livestock. I used plain wire when I was fencing a parcel outside Santa Fe. Didn’t spring for the goat-proof wire panels, because I didn’t really mind if the neighbor’s goats hung out on our property.
I don’t know the character of the neighbor, but the first thought that comes through my head is that they might just move the fence when I’m not there (as I’d need my day job desperately to cover these expenses.)
they might just move the fence
Pretty sure that would be a felony.
Still, not enough money is not enough money. Sounds like the property needs to be transferred to the cemetery (if that’s how they want it disposed of) as soon as they move out.
20 acres that I own jointly with my dad was being encroached on by the nearby fruit farmer. He clear cut a road that ended up being partially on our property.
The old man and I drove out there with two dozen metal stakes and spent the day hammering them on the property line. Some of them right in the middle of the new road. And then painted each upright end a brilliant dayglo orange.
After that – dad went and had a little talk with the farmer about property lines while I just leaned against the car and watched. When he is pissed off enough the old man can have all of the iciness of an old-school Mafasio boss.
Being a felony hasn’t stopped people in the past.
But that will be the cemetary’s issue to deal with.
I feel awful just typing that last line.
Pater Dean discovered a remote section of his ranch had the fence running out of line with the property line, probablay because it was nearly impossible to put the fence on the property line.
He and the neighbor just swapped the bits that were on the “wrong” side of the fence. Which is easier to do when you are looking at the ass end of 1,000 acres in the middle of nowhere.
I don’t think the barbed is that much more expensive than the smooth tensile wire. Can’t remember offhand though.
The property we bought has barbed wire wrapped around about 15 acres of woods to show our property line. I’m slowly working on replacing with field fencing topped with barbed wire (front 15 are already one). That’s turned into an expensive project, but damn neighbors can’t seem to stay the fuck out of my woods otherwise…. Tragedy of the Commons.
UCS, I agree neighbor control is important on a property like that. If you have qualms about it and can’t adequately protect your property, I would walk away. It’ll be a giant headache otherwise. My property sat vacant for 2 years before I moved it. The neighbors fished out the pond, spotlit my fields, and left deer carcasses rotting with just backstraps cut out. It took me years, field fencing with barbed wire, and more than one armed confrontation to convince everyone that my property was not theirs any longer.
Even if they leave this property to family, there’s no reason to believe it won’t be developed in a way they don’t like; markets will out, and the dead lose the reins sooner or later.
It sounds like they’ve got to get this property transferred with enforceable covenants. Since covenants often aren’t enforced, maybe it could be conveyed to a trust that is managed for their goals. All of that is going to take cash to arrange, so a thoughtful subdivision and divestment might allow some of the property to be developed in a way that least impacts that remaining in the trust. Maybe you could be trustee and all this could be arranged with a few powers of attorney and emails?
The trust could allow outdoor groups (eg: scouting, 4H) to use the area in accordance to their wishes. Problem is those groups usually “lease” space at $1 a century. Maybe some non-profit set-up could eliminate the tax obligations? Otherwise maybe seasonal hunting leases for cash flow?
It’s 1.37 acres. That decimal point is not an error. My family has always been poor.
You are not poor when you are surrounded by glibs.
I feel like a jerk when I complain about my neighbor’s dog running loose. There are serious problems in the world and an occasional dog is not one of them.
Sorry.
Thanks Yusef for the capacitor tip on the AC. It was a bad capacitor and I have AC once again for under $20.
A) this will end about as well as exporting raw logs
B) hoovering up forest debris and litter stands a good chance of the next “oops, we’re actually destroying natural systems”
At this point, something really needs to be done about the deadfall and scrubby fuel and standing dead. Controlled burns would be better for the forest, but they have an alarming tendency to become uncontrolled burns.
As Pater Dean would say before helping his rancher pals with controlled burns, “Its a controlled burn until someone strikes a match.”
So we’re going to use a flamethrower instead?
One of the ways they start controlled burns in inaccessible forests is by dropping what are basically ping pong balls full of napalm out of a helicopter.
At least, that’s what a forestry manager told us once. She seemed completely serious, so I believe her. And I want to do that so hard.
I seem to recall seeing video of that before. If I recall correctly the launcher is something between a paintball gun and a spud gun. Though it may have been a controlled burn from an airboat. I’m having conflicting recollections.
Canosa, who is suing Weinstein for unspecified damages, blasted him for refusing to agree to her request to keep the messages under wraps.
“Weinstein and his counsel are trying to manipulate and misuse these emails out of context to taint the Jury pool by creating a false impression that there was a consensual sexual relationship when there was only a consensual business relationship,” Canosa lawyer Jeremy Hellman wrote in an Aug. 21 letter to the judge.
Why would Weinstein agree to keep these messages, which should torpedo her suit, under wraps? I think the jury should see them and the jury be able to figure out whether or not there was a consensual sexual relationship.
When a non-hypothetical $120,000 intended for a business was accidentally transferred into their BB&T bank account because of a teller error, the couple splurged on a camper, a Chevy and a racecar, state trooper Aaron Brown told the Williamsport Sun-Gazette. Authorities say they also distributed $15,000 to friends who needed the money.
What type of racecar?
They are obviously racists.
a false impression that there was a consensual sexual relationship when there was only a consensual business relationship
I don’t know for sure. It kind of looks to me like the consensual business relationship was a consensual sexual relationship.
Aka “Don’t pretend you weren’t prostituting yourself for money and fame.”
I’m thinking there was only a consensual business relationship because there was sex.
Let’s face it: as far as we know, Weinstein delivered for the starlets he banged. Which makes it harder to say the sex wasn’t consensual, either.
Well, that’s the 800-pound gorilla in the room that nobody is all that interested in talking about. The casting couch is older than Hollywood itself. But, we’re not supposed to pay attention to the fact that some starlets willingly avail themselves of the opportunities it creates.
exactly
going back to Kansas was always an option
“Nebraska shit the bed.”
I was at this football game. It was glorious.
I heard that Lou Reed has leprosy.
Well that explains why I heard his ass fell off and there were drugs in it.
I hope he makes it until the end of the Browns season, so he can have some pallbearers.
What type of racecar?
A dirt modified, I’d guess.
Or one of those souped up go-karts that kids race. For the kind of money they took, you’d be hard pressed to afford anything else.