No homely intro, no birthdays, because no time.
One more of the 10,000 reasons it should be legal, you thundercunt.
When everything is racism, nothing is racism.
Sandy gets confused by choice.
Fiddle threatens to burst into flames:
No homely intro, no birthdays, because no time.
One more of the 10,000 reasons it should be legal, you thundercunt.
When everything is racism, nothing is racism.
Sandy gets confused by choice.
Fiddle threatens to burst into flames:
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485 responses to “Monday Morning Slapdash Links”
In a surprise to no-one. – well I for one am out of ideas about how to get the little bastards to elarn
*learn goddamnit
I liked the first version better.
E larnin’ is what you get here.
To make the analysis more manageable, the researchers limited it to data from eighth grade pupils in four European countries – Hungary, Lithuania, Romania and Slovenia – collected in 2003, 2007 and 2011. They chose these four countries because they all mandate maximum class sizes, which would help to make the statistical analysis more reliable. – Romanian has obviously the best education… the best
THE BEST
Well, you are definitely more fluent in English than I am in Romania.
or apparently English Romanian
At least she had an acceptable libertarian excuse.
“One more of the 10,000 reasons it should be legal, you thundercunt”
What’s a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?
/city morgue/.
“Here we have a student murdered by a 13-year-old, we have a common denominator: marijuana,” said Mullins, referring to the 18-year-old Majors and one of her alleged killers, 13-year-old Zyairr Davis, whom neighbors have said smokes weed. – no I believe the robbery and stabbing are the common denominator
Seriously, wtf
President of the Police Union, the lowest of the low. Has all the moral capacity of the black shit that grows under the inner lip of a public toilet.
“Sandy gets confused by choice” – and continues to treat access to healthcare and access to health insurance as having commutative properties.
Florida Woman. – I take it back. Marijuana is the common denominator.
Since sloopy isnt here to bring it up: Everton draw at ManU yesterday. They better keep Ferguson around through the FA Cup game. Keep searching for a new manager, but let him ride it out until he proves he cant do the job.
WTF? White Jews? Next thing you know they’ll be saying the micks and dagos are white!
a black student claimed he overheard
His name is Daquarius Eric Ciaremella
Sources familiar with the thinking of white Jewish girls reported her saying white racisty things.
Wait, wait, wait! Just last week the prez signed something or other that said Jews, too, were included in race (or something?) and therefore should get affirmative action or at least not be discriminated against.
I can’t keep up anymore. There are a lot of benefits (affirmative action) to being old.
Where’s my parking spot at Walmart? I demand justice.
In the employee lot. You are the new greeter.
Jews have been assimilated into the white devil. This confluence is that fortold in the book of Revelations.
Where’s Sammy Davis Jr. when we need him most?
When everything is racism, nothing is racism.
Friday’s protest was set off by allegedly “racist remarks” that a black student claimed he overheard a white Jewish girl make in a confidential meeting Tuesday with two white Jewish guidance counselors. – the evidence is unassailable really. Burn the school down.
“white Jewish girl”
Make up your mind!
Nobody needs 66 different kinds of comprehensive health insurance plans. We’re all exactly the same.
Well strangely the French lefties decided they do need 42 different types of retirement plans
Yeah. It’s too complicated!!!!! How is anyone supposed to choose. It’s like she’s a highly incompetent person who couldn’t make it in the real world.
So, entirely qualified for Congress.
“Until the demands are met, students are not to return to school,” the teacher — identified as science instructor Demetrius Green — exhorted the crowd of hundreds of teens.”
How much are the parents paying so the teacher can play Marxist revolutionary rather than teach?
He’s sciency
Public school so north of $24,000 per student only it’s laundered through the machine first.
Friday’s protest was set off by allegedly “racist remarks” that a black student claimed he overheard a white Jewish girl make in a confidential meeting Tuesday with two white Jewish guidance counselors.
The girl told The Post that she was only seeking support for her own college plan at the time. Disappointed that she was put on a waitlist at a top university, she and the counselors were reviewing Scattergrams, charts on admission data, showing that some students with less academic qualifications than hers were accepted, said the teen, whose name The Post is withholding. The counselors mentioned scholarship programs for minorities such as Posse and QuestBridge, she said.
“The context of my private conversation included my disapproval about the unfairness of students who were accepted to college without meeting the rigorous criteria that I and others worked so hard to achieve, because they might be athletes, afforded financial scholarships, and/or get seats based on affirmative action programs, as opposed to academic achievement as the first and only criteria,” the girl explained in a statement.
Don’t apply to any science programs, Shirley.
So kids are supposed to boycott until what? All white students are expelled? Cause I’ll tell you that if you what the rich teenagers getting into college is the most important thing that they have done, and they aren’t used to the stress. Schools put kids who have no perspective into this perceived competition. And then you throw in affirmative action and kids who are on the edge or think they are will start to get annoyed.
The end of Christmas break?
I saw it happening in HS thirty years ago – kid just below me got a free ride to Harvard for some reason… – and even then I had the good sense to keep my trap shut about it.
Hard lesson to learn but there it is.
We really do live in crazy times.
“People should get special consideration and not be held to consistent standards based on skin color” = Not Racist
“People should be treated equally regardless of skin color” = Racist
Hollywood Critics Association has named Kristen Stewart the Actress of the Decade – was this covered>
Utterly baffling. Even among young androgynous lesbians they had about 50 better options.
Clearly there was some Russian interference in that decision.
I demand a recount.
*Blank Stare* My reaction or her acting? You decide.
Heh.
…and obligatory:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f0/e6/ab/f0e6abaa4d48970edfcf4c9430bcde6a.jpg
She always plays a burn out. The blank stare is in character. Jack Nicholson always played an asshole. Marlon Brando always played a heavily mannered actor. Peter O’Toole always played a gay public school class Brit. etc etc.
Al Pacino always plays Al Pacino. Robin Williams (almost) always played Robin Williams.
Who?
The black student barged into the meeting and berated the girl and her counselors, causing a commotion.
Are you sure it wasn’t a RUCKUS?
And she’s the Asshole?
Thankfully it wasn’t some goings-on .
Sounds like Malarky.
“It has become abundantly clear, following recent events at Beacon High School, that Joe Biden, the anti-busing Democratic presidential candidate, is really saying “stop that you uppity negroes”, with his white supremacist dog whistle campaign slogan, “No Malarky”.”
– some article that may or may not exist at Vox/Mother Jones/The Guardian/etc
I’m sure it’s coming after Iowa.
A brouhaha?
she was instigatin’
It was a kerfuffle
They’re lucky it didn’t erupt into a full-on fracas.
Or a full-scale brouhaha.
Sounds like some shenanigans.
a hue and cry
Hijinks ensued.
Can black people be involved in a donnybrook?
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7796457/Tammy-Hembrow-shows-pert-derriere-skin-tight-athletic-wear-workout-video.html
or thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7796485/Elizabeth-Hurley-54-displays-incredible-figure-striped-bikini.html
Tammy Hembrow? More like Glutey Hambeast, amirite?
That’s some thiccness I can get behind
Wow, talk about a butterface. Hard No!
The lips?
I couldn’t rule her out, just go doggy.
Also, I think both are just shapely, they don’t rise to the level of thicc at all.
It’s like she’s a highly incompetent person who couldn’t make it in the real world.
Customer: What’s this? I ordered an old fashioned. Why did you put it in that kind of glass?
Bartender Barbie: It’s some kind of liquor, with an orange slice in it. It’s too hard to remember all those drink recipes. That’s all I know how to make. Don’t like it? Too bad. Where’s my tip?
The tip was already stolen at gunpoint before you even walked into the bar.
Making drinks wasn’t how she earned her tips.
Schools put kids who have no perspective into this perceived competition. And then you throw in affirmative action and kids who are on the edge or think they are will start to get annoyed.
Lessons were learned.
End of Year Merriment Advisory
I don’t get it
It’s a faux legal disclaimer for the song Jingle Bells that highlights the absurdity of America’s litigious nature.
Well, the first paragraph was about Jingle Bells.
What, you expect me to read something the whole way through before commenting?
Oh…
“It was the second time this year that a person has died in a port-a-potty outside M&T Bank Stadium in the cold, the Sun reported.”
:\
How else do they think that Lamar Jackson gets his magical powers?
Slapping reporters?
Welcome to the hundreds of new followers that have followed in the past 48 hours. A socialism which is economically radical and culturally conservative is the future of the Labour Party. New essays and analysis will be published over the next few weeks. Glad to have you with us.
https://twitter.com/blue_labour/status/1205866120256856073
It’s a floor polish AND a dessert topping!
I thought it was a euphemism for what you have to do when you get blue balled.
“A socialism which is economically radical and culturally conservative”
: Wide eyes:
So like a nationalist socialism?
That links may have been made by others so you may have something there
You don’t need to blue labor the point
Holy f&*(! It’s not a parody?!
They didn’t learn the most important lesson: twitter is not real life. Good luck with your hundreds of new followers.
‘Economically radical’….. via radical inorganic policies and social engineering.
That ribbon they keep using for regifting has to be rickety by now.
That’s why labor lost the last election. Not enough essays written. SHAME!
No, Labour lost because of the (((Jews))). OMG for once that actually may be true…
Where’s my parking spot at Walmart? I demand justice.
My local Walmart has special “Geezers Only” parking spots, right next to the ones for teh miltarys and Mommies-to-Be.
They only have normal handicapped spaces at mine, but there’s about 18,000 of them.
On the bright side, it’s never been easier to qualify as such.
Here in Colorado, all it takes is to have a doctor sign off; there are docs who will approve a handicapped parking application if you tell them “my feet hurt.”
Also, abuse of the hangers is common. Mrs. Animal has a handicapped parking tag; she has balance and chronic pain issues. I’ve confronted people over those spaces (I’m a real prick about abuse of those spaces) and have been told a couple of times in the last 20 years “Oh, that’s my Mom’s tag, but I’m in a hurry.”
This, unfortunately, is a problem for which there’s no good solution. People are just assholes, and there’s no policy cure for that.
I’m told that in Libertopia, you would just start shooting the offender with your machine guns and flamethrowers since it would be just like Mad Max.
In Libertopia the handicapped would all have been turned into pet food, so it’s a moot question.
I hear surplus T-55s are surprisingly cheap.
If I’m driving my mom’s car (with handicapped plates) without her, I will not park in handicapped spots.
Same here. Not even if she’s with me and will be waiting in the truck. It’s inconsiderate, unethical and dishonest.
Not to mention the social repercussions
“Oh, that’s my Mom’s tag, but I’m in a hurry.”
And again, for the able-bodied it is faster and easier to park in the acres of space in the back and then walk past all the congestion in the front.
I have IBS. When I was living in the Lower Mainland, BC Health made “handicapped” hangers available for people with IBS.
With IBS. Think about that for a minute.
And no, I didn’t get one.
When you gotta go, you gotta go, which reminds me, I have been to precisely one Walmart but it was in what seemed to be a pretty nice neighborhood and it was a very pleasant experience. I took a wicked dump in the bathroom.
Potty humor is the best.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xK90m9_Ni4
It’s faster and easier to just have your shit delivered.
Well yes, but I do still go to Lowes/Home Depot and the grocery store.
You don’t like having to spend half an hour tracking down the one employee who speaks English in the Walmart so you can find out that the water filters are in hardware (obviously)? Oh, and they only have returned boxes.
Picking up ‘just a few things’ from Walmart gave me PTSD.
“Mommies-to-Be.”
But once you’ve had that kid, you guys
Gotta walk it through the death trap that is a Walmart parking lot.
Do they have a special parking spot on a nice piece of level land for their customers who need to ride those mobility scooters? AKA Rascal Flats.
Thanks, Dad.
As an aside, the old and crippled parking should be further from the storefront when compared to pregnant ladies and families with small children parking spaces, it is only logical.
Is WalMart tacitly advocating a caste system or a system of social credit points?
Strange new respect.
30 House Democrats are pushing for Rep. Justin Amash to be an impeachment manager in Trump’s Senate trial.
What’s an impeachment manager?
Does he go and kick dirt at the chief justice when one of the witnesses gets thrown out?
Something like a prosecutor in court, which in this case is the Senate.
Impeachment manager:
What the Chief Justice means is that “Does this really rise to Impeachment Impeachment? or is it just another tax?”
Of course they are; they know it’s going to blow up in their faces, might as well get as much shit as possible on the guy who isn’t in the tribe. Amash is a chump if he takes this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F4qzPbcFiA
A socialism which is economically radical and culturally conservative is the future of the Labour Party.
Sweet, the TOTAL CONTROL party. Who wouldn’t want to join?
And yet you can bet 100% of their acolytes will believe absolutely that “authoritarian” only describes things they disagree with, not them at all.
What kind of society are we? How can we spend money on our military when there are homeless Native Americans without “culturally specific overnight shelter”?
Interesting that these Indian protesters aren’t setting up protests in the parking lots of the casinos.
Teepees?
Wigwam.
And then the therapist said, “you’re two tents!”
Racist caring White liberal: We’ve recreated Indian settlements just like they were in 1753 pre-white man Constitution! You like?!’
Native: Normal Native (too smart to fall into the perpetual victim trap): You retarded white man?’
RCWL: “I’m transgender motherfucker! CHECK YOUR PRIVILEGE.
Me:
We demand to be segregated in facilities provided by the government (i.e. govt facilities).
You think they would have learned their lesson about accepting blankets from white eyes.
A birch longhouse?
“A group of activists re-occupied the site early Saturday in protest ”
50 bucks says they’re not sleeping there.
Oh, they’re not even pretending. The honesty is refreshing.
“Until that happens, the group says its tepee and tent will remain in place. Members say they agreed with city and state officials that they wouldn’t occupy the encampment site for now, and would leave only the tepee and tent.”
Also, this:
“For now, the tepee and tent are cordoned off with fencing and “No Trespassing” signs. ”
No trespassing where we’re trespassing. We’re asking politely because we have no legal standing.
And don’t forget the endless lectures on how Indians had no concept of property rights and were swindled by White Eyes. So we’ve made some progress in bringing civilization to them.
So the Sioux and Chippewa were slaughtering each other just for sport? What about the slaves? How do they fit into this property-less narrative?
They certainly discovered property rights when it comes to emptying lakes of fish.
Christ man. Did you just refer to our Ojibwe brothers as Chippewa? That’s a beating up in my home town. (Sioux vs Dakota is almost as bad, but I didn’t grow up near their rez’s).
No matter what you call them, it is amazing how much those two tribes hate each other.
Oh yeah. I worked with both tribes.
No matter what you call them, it is amazing how much those two tribes hate each other.
Only since the White Man came to America and introduced hate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mille_Lacs_Band_of_Ojibwe
The same count last week found 12.
Were they “accidentally” counting people who were out past their bedtime?
Snowbirds. Only crazy people would be homeless in Mpls in the winter
Beacon High School.
What a mess.
Anyone got any imperial dirt on Finland specifically? This liberal is telling me it’s heaven on earth and shit
https://twitter.com/redpropagandist/status/1206423342070280192
this thread.
I know a guy who lived there. He says it was cold.
It will soon become tropical just you wait
Haven’t they oppressed the Laplanders?
Wait until you hear about this travesty of justice from wikipedia:
“in Finland, non-Sámi can herd reindeer.”
The horror.
Now do cats…
A bunch of prudes trying to hold the native Laplanders down? Keeping them from their traditional ways. Ain’t that always the case, blue noses trying to suppress Laplander dancing because they think it is dirty.
My neighbors are on assignment from Finland. The wife spends too much time in the tanning booth. It looks ridiculous.
Assignment for what? Cause you know Finland is right next door to those pesky rooshians…..
Logistics.
They’re from a small island off of Finland.
I know that the local Finns I grew up around did a lot of cross breeding with the natives so there is a decent amount of Finndians on the south side of the res. Turns out mixing a bunch of really tough war-like people with other people who can’t hold their liquor isn’t the best idea.
Turns out mixing a bunch of really tough war-like people with other people who can’t hold their liquor isn’t the best idea.
Indeed. That’s how you get the Irish.
Drinking, violence. Is this what we associate with the Irish?
Yes?
My bil is from Finland. Monster proggie. Still lives here, though…
Finland, Finland, Finland
Finland has it all
It’s drunk most of the time?
OMWC, thank you very much for today’s musical selection. Simply amazing.
“Our first nations people continue to suffer and are sleeping outside tonight,” the group said in a statement posted online.
Think of it as reclaiming your cultural heritage.
Senators ask credit agencies why they don’t report FBI data requests
I had a friend who had Experian as a client at work and I understand they are a bunch of mindless jerks who will be first against the wall when the revolution comes
They certainly are lackadaisical with people’s data.
The Chief Security Officer at the time of the data breach had an educational background in…. musical theory. You can’t make this stuff up.
Music theory and music majors tend to make good admins. I’m always
happy to see something like that on a resume when I’m hiring
system administrators.
Shouldn’t people who work for the government be providing oversight of the…. government?
“How dare you not report this thing that we just did to you!”
Good morning, Old Man, and thanks for taking one for the team!
‘Thundercunt’ is an underused insult – something I will attempt to address starting today.
Great musical link. Impressive as hell for anyone, much less a dude born blind and partially deaf! In reading about him, I came across this documentary. It looks quite good.
Make it a great day, my friends! I’m running on waaay too little sleep, so I’ve got that going for me.
I used it casually at Christmas last year, iirc, describing my oldest’s style of play in Mario Kart. It was a conversation stopper.
Whoa. Nicely done.
‘Thundercunt’ is an underused insult – something I will attempt to address starting today.
Whoa, hear that echo? You need to get a smaller thundercunt.
To us, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s spectacular illiberal stupidity is nakedly and painfully obvious, To others….not so much.
”
“Aldona Dye
@ADyeMusicology
11h11 hours ago
Missing the point, bud. She wants single-payer healthcare for everyone, not 66 convoluted options for her and expensive, inadequate options for us.
@SeamusLongbott1
amusLongbottom
@SeamusLongbott1
66 options is better than 1 option.
@syryquil
11h11 hours ago
Not if the 66 options are shit and the 1 option isn’t. False choice.”
I don’t think the last person knows what ‘false choice’ means.
We don’t need choice, just to make sure the one thing is great from the start. I think with a well selected committee this is doable.
Yep. A Cadillac plan for everyone. And only
billionairesmillionairesthousandaires will pay for it.And only
billionaires millionaires thousandairespeople with organs will pay for it.Look, fat: choice is a capitalist construct meant to scare your from socialism. Don’t worry though. In the socialist Paradise there is no choice.
fat as a concept was in fact created by white capitalists to oppress the wimminz.
That’s what they don’t understand because, like I said, illiterate dumbasses. The 66 choices will be present whether it’s a free market or single payer. it’s just that those 66 choices will be made by the bureaucracy and not YOU. All you do is offload that responsibility to fairy people you’ve never met.
AOC is advocating for the stripping of agency.
But know what? This past week-end I found out a buddy of mine admires Greta so….smh.
The 1 “option” most certainly is shit.
“For now, the tepee and tent are cordoned off with fencing and “No Trespassing” signs. ”
They should have thought of that a loooong time ago.
Reposting for his Holiness:
Minneapolis Declares Climate Emergency
It’s an emergency!! In winter. In Minneapolis.
If you have to freeze to save the planet, that is a sacrifice I am willing to make.
Thanks to loopholes in arcane United Nations accounting rules, greenhouse gas emissions in the EU from burning wood pellets imported from the U.S. aren’t counted against Paris commitments by either the US or the EU.
https://twitter.com/quieroserabuela/status/1206099065844334592
Maybe you can burn wood
You know, sometimes it’s better to not say anything at all. An observation like this just makes it obvious that the numbers are made up*. In the air, you can’t differentiate the source of emissions**. But there’s very little actual measurement going on, just “accounting”.
* = Much like the “Nutrition Facts” not that they’re all that meaningful anyway (your body is not a bomb calorimeter)
** = You can estimate the relative proportion of the sources based upon other factors, but CO2 is CO2
The only solution is to siphon off all the atmosphere and centrifuge it. We need accurate data.
*tips hat to Minneapolis*
I thought Ryback was as clueless a boy-mayor as any major metropolis could come up with. Frey has made me look back wistfully at the “mature” administration of Ryback.
I just figured that city was just going to use the Climate Emergency to get around those pesky Snow Removal Emergency regulations. No notice need be given, and you can declare all the streets off limits at one time now. Think of the money that will bring in.
“With Climate Change on the horizon Snow Removal Emergency has been suspended. Bonuses will be made to all city administrators in time for the holiday season”
/Office of the mayor/
Fellow’s first dive into the home grinder market brings with it some impressive new tech
https://twitter.com/sprudge/status/1206023076489682944
It doesn’t look like that little cup will hold much ground meat.
One cup, three meats
Bunn. Just buy a Bunn.
My neighbors are on assignment from Finland. The wife spends too much time in the tanning booth. It looks ridiculous.
In California? Why doesn’t she just go outside?
https://jalopnik.com/jeep-will-electrify-its-entire-lineup-by-2022-make-on-1840445517
And you thought Fiat made bad gas engines…
Lol. Bullshit.
Who are they trying to win?
1) it’s not going to happen
2) the ecofreaks already sniff their farts in the Tesla or leaf.
3) why the whole lineup? They have 3 or 4 suvs. Pick one to stuff some batteries in.
The answer is in this paragraph:
Jesus.
Right? You’d think I could close a fucking tag.
I can’t even remember how to get a link on here, so I stopped trying when I’m on my phone.
Elon really found the magic printing press, didn’t he?
I thought the CAFE penalties went to the EPA not the other automakers? Is the EPA doling out rewards to EV makers now?
I suppose it’s not direct.
I didn’t mean to split hairs. I was genuinely curious.
It’s a scam.
Tesla has been getting money from GM and FCA for greenhouse gas credits
Holy shit
Evil doesn’t seem a sufficient descriptor.
Lets take our brand that is known as a rugged off road vehicle and make sure it can’t be too far away from an electrical socket!
How many Jeeps are actually going off-road and doing rugged things?
I’m not saying they are, but that is the brand.
Does it matter?
The market clearly loves them. Forcing them to make vehicles that won’t sell for some regulatory bullshit is the issue.
I think so? People that are about that #jeeplife will still probably buy one in order to drive it to work, school, and the shops.
*Whoops, yes of course to the regulatory issue. But I think Jeep is acknowledging that they might be able to live with it because of how the end user actually uses their product.
Nope. They know they won’t sell. They won’t be abandoning their real cars, they just want to stop the protection money bleeding.
Take a brand that is known for being unique and declare “Now we will be just like everyone else!”
Square wheels, electric cars, carbon free energy sources. Dumbest fucking shit in history.
I guess my 4door, 4wd Wrangler with Offroad suspension will soon be worth a lot more than I paid for it new 12 years ago. Yeah, me.
1996 Jeep Cherokee Sport Straight Six was a heck of an engine.
“https://nypost.com/2019/12/15/german-railway-claims-greta-thunberg-lied-about-taking-first-class/”
Commies, always and everywhere the same. Con artists, thieves and liars. Greta is no different.
I remember what the UN commie in charge of passing out hovels and daily bowls of gruel was accused of molesting women and people started looking into him. Something something Khan or Khan something, I don’t remember his name. Turns out he flew around the globe constantly, stayed in the fanciest hotels and was paid some ridiculous sum of money. Even in his circles he was known for his extravagant lifestyle. Fuckin’ commies.
It’s actually a reasonable response to the shakedown.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
Most German trains have been run on electricity for decades. This decision was not made to appease the climate gods which hadn’t even revealed their demands yet. And let’s just ignore the fact that the country is digging up more coal now that nuclear is off the table.
What can you say in a Labour leadership election which you can say during sex?
https://twitter.com/GE0RGEWHOREWELL/status/1206246811863855104
Followed by: tories stop quoting this i dont like u
Lol
VA National Guard Issues Statement Over Calls To Enforce Gun Control
Sounds like you would expect.
Question of the day. Would you rather
Spend one week with Mia khalifa, where you get to smash every night.OR get free Chicken Nuggets for life?
https://twitter.com/LtCobraLad/status/1206228462102556674
What brand of chicken nuggets?
looks like McDonald’s in the tweet
Meh, that means I’d have to drive 15 miles to get the nuggets. I’ll take the porn star, to save the planet and all.
“Would you rather
Spend one week with Mia khalifa, where you get to smash every night.OR get free Chicken Nuggets for life?”
No.
Porn star. I have some wood to show her.
“It is as hard as a diamond, baby! How’s that for carbon sequestration!”
Which one is worse for your health?
Nuggets, duh.
What can you say in a Labour leadership election which you can say during sex?
“When I get through with you, you won’t shit right for a week”?
Best Christmas movie ever.
That’s how Nero started the Great London Fire.
The fix is in.
“Some of the things I’m hearing from [Graham and McConnell], looks like they plan to rig the trial,” Lofgren claimed. “That’s a serious problem for the country, but I think it’s a problem for Trump as well. President Trump is hoping to be exonerated. He will not be exonerated if everyone knows he rigged the trial.”
“If they’re not going to hear any evidence, if senators announce that they’ve already made up their minds, they don’t need to look at the facts, that doesn’t clear the president if he’s not convicted in the Senate. That’s just a political endeavor to protect a man who is guilty of abusing his power,” she added.
Especially after all that the Democrats did to make the proceedings in the house fair.
“We are going to impeach Trump even though we don’t have a crime or evidence of a crime. We are not going to accept an acquittal from the Senate and it is too dangerous for the American people to have the vote because they might re-elect Trump”
Welcome to the coup.
The Senate is the Upper House of the legislature. And unlike the Brits who have completely neutered the House of Lords, the United States retains its Upper House in full form. If they wanted to throw a fucking party instead of having the trial, that is their prerogative. The House initiates impeachment, and then hands it over to the Senate. The Senate is not subordinate to the House. Just as the Senate can choose to ignore an appointment rather than voting on it (implicitly denying their consent), they can choose to ignore an impeachment rather than voting on it (again, implicitly denying their consent). This is not complicated, and neither the House nor the permanent bureaucracy gets to subvert the Senate’s will.
Umm.. The sanctity of the Senate is only when it is in Democrat control.
?
Teddy Bears caused moral panic in 1907: people thought they’d stop little girls developing maternal instincts.
https://twitter.com/PessimistsArc/status/1202694338968506368
And on this note I am going home…
The real message is that political cartoons have always been terrible.
Millennials are the worst. (and I say that as a millennial.)
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez✔
@AOC
Replying to @AOC
Sometimes being a new member of the House feels like being in Hogwarts. There are lots of arcane parliamentary phrases (I jokingly call them “magic spells”) one can learn to speak on the floor or gain exceptions.
Deep knowledge of these rules is rare but can be powerful.
Gosh i hate Harry Potter. Or Rather i hate what it has become to mean to a generation.
Not even Star Wars nerds took it this far. Nor Trekkies.
She’s not wrong there. The way she presents her thought is dumb though.
“The arcane rules of the house of representatives that I couldn’t be fucked to actually learn like the other 435 members remind me of this children’s fantasy book that I still relate to even though I’m closing in on middle age”
Woah Woah woah. Stop a second here asshole. 29 is not closing in on Middle Age.
I’m still young, and spry. I can keep up with them younguns.
Huh. I thought she was older than that.
I always thought the whole “rapid decline after 30” thing was just a whinging old people complaint, but I’m only 3 years in and it’s already been a pretty hard slide.
It’s real, man, all too real. I found the main thing wasn’t that I was less capable so much as the recovery times increased. So I’d still stay out until 4:00 AM drinking and carousing, but it would pretty much wipe me out for two days. The other thing is that gains from exercise come slower, probably again because of recovery time. Oh, and the damage you’ve been blithely doing to your knees comes home to roost, so by 35 if you haven’t been practicing things like jumping you may be unpleasantly surprised when you try to hop off the boat onto the pier.
I guess it really hasn’t been anything major, just blinking “hey sport, you’re getting old” signs. I finally had to get glasses to pass the DMV eye exam (been borderline since I first got my license at 16). Had to get checked out by a proctologist (thankfully just a hemorrhoid – I have a family history of colorectal cancer). Went in for my first physical since my mid teens and found I had high cholesterol. Had a bout of what appears to have been idiopathic epididymitis (because you really just can’t ever have enough digital rectal exams).
I’ve definitely experienced the slow recovery and injury recurrence thing too. I’ve been lifting weights since I was 15, so once a year or so I’ll go too heavy or just get lazy with form and end up tweaking a muscle. It used to be a couple days of Advil and good to go. The last time I tweaked my back I ended up having to completely restructure my workouts around it and it took 3-4 months before I finally got back to 100%.
To me the thing that really sucks is that I didn’t really do much in the way of abusing my body when I was young. I thought I’d age a little more gracefully on account of that. If I knew then what I know now I’d have partied like a fucking rockstar every day of my 20s.
You can’t just go around making up words.
I hit the wall in my mid-40s. Now, I grew up obese but strong with lots of energy. This has served me well in terms of strength (especially leg strength).
Then I lost a bunch of weight in my 30s and could go forever. Gained it all back when I got pregnant, lost a bunch of it again.
DIYd like crazy.
I hit the wall when my girl parts decided they couldn’t take deadlifting a bunch of 2x4s anymore and then my rotator cuffs decided steroid shots that lasted 2-3 years were no longer sufficient.
I can no longer mud or sand walls for hours on end and the house broke me.
I believe my creaks and groans could be worked out but I do not have the mental or emotional strength to do it.
“Idiopathic” = “We don’t know what’s wrong with you. Go away.”
My PCP wasn’t a dick about it or anything. Just never tracked down any source of infection, which is the typical cause. Still had a couple rounds of prophylactic antibiotics until symptoms more or less went away. I’m uninsured and pay him in cash, so he’s mindful of spending too much of my money on diagnostics.
Oh I also forgot about the grey hair. Technically that started in my late 20s but it’s getting harder and harder to tweeze away the obvious stuff.
I’m actually doing pretty well so far, all things considered. I don’t look young, but when people find out I’m 41 they’re usually a little surprised that I’m not younger. But the grey is definitely coming in and the wrinkles are there now. I’m alright with it because I’m steering it towards rugged and distinguished, but, sadly, I’ve got my grandfather’s random hairs and for some reason I now have a hairy back, so there’s increased maintenance overhead these days.
To be fair, I’m not sure her voters would understand it otherwise.
Can you tweet in crayon?
True story . . .I quit my first job (a daycare) withe a resignation letter written in crayon.
A friend of mine quit his first job at a photo developer place by handing his manager a sheet of paper with the letter ‘R’ type in the middle, saying, “This is my letter of resignation.”
*narrows gaze*
We had a talk about this over the week end. One chap was telling stories of how millennials act in the office. They live on another planet where common office politics and etiquette are concerned. Execs are having a hard time with them because it’s not like it’s actually a good thing. They were just taught (or not in some cases) to just be juvenile, self-entitled and demanding. They literally don’t believe in the concept of ‘acquiring knowledge’ and just want to take their bosses job. They obsess over salary and talk openly about it. And so on. The out of left-field my buddy I mentioned earlier says millennials ‘take shit from no one’ and are ‘forcing change’.
We held our ground and said, ‘Nope.’
All that being said, they WILL be in positions of power and with it they will be making decisions.
This will get interesting.
All that being said, one thing I agree with millennials on is with the ‘boss-employee’ dynamic. I agree the stupid mind games bordering on bullying are unproductive or the idea of ‘publicly shaming’ someone ‘motivates’ someone or, as we see in sports, authority figures making decisions without explaining them to the person.
Be open, transparent and communicative.
Don’t be a prick like Mike Babcock.
Disclaimer: In my experience, the millennials have been fine for the most part. They do obsess over nyeh nyeh things but once ‘reality’ sets in, they can adjust; particularly if they come from ‘standard’ backgrounds. Most of them deep down know the lines. I did have the odd person who wouldn’t call in to tell us they weren’t coming in and still expect to have a job (this seems to happen quite a bit I’m hearing) but so far they do good work. But that’s just an anecdote. I now someone who has a completely different experience. Which always makes me wonder about how labour moves around and chooses a place to work.
Why do I attract the employees I do and another place attracts a different type of worker which leads to a different work culture?
I know my place is unique because I’m told this from a) delivery people b) inspectors c) community insiders and d) parents. All ‘social business’ signallers I call them.
My experience has been that they vary about along the lines you see in prior generations, adjusted for age. Which is to say that I suspect juvenile idiocy tends to weed itself out with age, one way or another. I meet a lot of stupid millenials who have unrealistic expectations of the world and how it ought to work, but, on the other hand, when I was that age I went to Alchemy at Nation every Thursday night where a guy named DJ Mohawk Adam would host events like “Goth Prom” and bald adult men in black jean shorts would play volleyball while listening to VNV Nation.
LOL sounds like my old Thursday nights – minus the volleyball.
Yeah man, it was one of those things where even at the time I knew it was weird. A warehouse full of Goth and Industrial types drinking rail liquor in the middle of S.E. DC on a weeknight. It was all demolished for Nats Park and the whole Anacostia Waterfront revival thing.
All that being said, one thing I agree with millennials on is with the ‘boss-employee’ dynamic.
One wonders if this is due to being on the employee side and will change once boss-level is reached. I doubt many people of any cohort like those things you listed in the following sentence, yet they persist.
I think it will. Like people who advocate for ‘more regulations for small business’ suddenly hate them once they….own a business.
There’s a SF episode in there somewhere about Nancy taking her aside and training her in the dark arts.
Can you imagine all that fake Latin being said with Nancy’s spitting lisp and Sandy’s uptalk and vocal fry?
So exactly like Harry Potter?
Best performance artist ever!
“Point of order” is a magic spell. “I refuse to yield” is a counter curse.
Making fun of retarded millennials is fun and all but let’s look at the murderers row of intellectual heavyweights that are our elders:
Maxine Waters
Bernie Sanders
GHW Bush
Bill Bennet
Tonto Warren
I could go on but then I’d kill myself
Bwahahahahahahahahaha!
BLM employees would rather quit than move to new headquarters in Colorado
Bye, thundercunts!
Critics of the move complain there is going to be a “brain drain” of experienced staffers. The relocation has become another struggle between bureaucratic policy priorities and the administration’s goals and visions.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Those rubes out there in flyover country wouldn’t know the difference between an assistant to the undersecretary and assistant undersecretary if there were standing there giving them a power point presentation!
Critics of the move complain there is going to be a “brain drain” of experienced staffers.
Sounds like this group could do with a refresher course on the meaning of “public service”.
I feel a ‘Tombstone’ quote coming on.
Brain drain. BLM.
Riiiiiight.
The cocktail parties are not as lavish
Horaayyy!
Repeat for every other department.
Not all to Grand Junction, obviously, pick a different location that make sense for each one.
Grand Junction is hardly the best spot for BLM. BLM should be in fucking Ely Nevada. That way they are right in the middle of all their fucking land, and maybe a bit more responsive to the people they are screwing around with.
Dept. of Energy to Houma, LA. Maybe we might see some action on royalty parity.
Hey, I happen to like Houma. Quiet, very nice people, fantastic food, lots of fishing and hunting, not too far from metropolitan areas. I would move there in a minute.
We need to move the seat of government back to Filthadelphia and then kick back and enjoy the attrition.
I was thinking Detroit needs a lot of bureaucrats too. And I would also only pay them in cash. No checks, not direct deposit. Then let the natives know about the cash payments.
inspiration has struck!
The seat of federal government should be moved say 5 to 10 years to the most depressed city (somewhat large I suppose) in America so they sweet benefits of federal spending can be bestowed upon said craptacular city.
You all are thinking too small. Guam is the ideal choice.
Don’t we still technically own the moon, since we put a flag on it?
Are you kidding? Putting Congress on the moon? have you ever read the moon is a harsh mistress? You think Swalwell got his panties wet over nuking gun owners, Wait till they have a Mass Driver
Well, it turns out building a permanent, air-impermeable bubble produces a *lot* of CO2 and we don’t want to ungreen the moon. So we sent them up with some surplus USGI canvas tents.
Santa Claus Accused Of Quid Pro Quo For Giving Children Gifts In Exchange For Good Behavior
No excerpts. It’s too good.
That was really good
“it’s easier to get a FISA warrant than to get a Costco membership.”
Well this should be fun: I once again have had a very shitty…but interesting…week. I apparently had a seizure in my sleep last Wednesday. I just got out of the hospital today about 7 hours ago.
My body works fine, which wasn’t true when it was first happening. But the thing that’s hitting me the hardest right now is the auditory hallucinations. I have meds all up in me, but I still get them, and they pretty much never stop. Usually its music that I’ve surprisingly (as a drummer who can’t play anything else) good and I wish I could notate them down and save them. Rarely, but sometimes, they are cover songs. Machines make noises and they stay in my head and keep repeating, often with different times and with different effects around them. Right now Lady is napping and I swear Indiana Jones is playing, so I also often hear voices and events. This time it’s distinct, but sometimes the people talking are purely invented characters.
I’m kind of impressed with how my brain can manufacture these things from scratch. I had a “dog” sitting around me begging me for food yesterday for about 20 minutes. Sometimes he would get angry and start to growl at me. I could hear his toenails against the floor and the jangle of the id’s dangling from his collar. He just kept going at it. I talked to him and told him No! frequently. I always know that it’s not real and I’m just making a joke about it, but I can easily see how this would lead someone like the UNABOMBER to take these illusions seriously and feel the need to take action against these things that don’t exist. If I could put up a barrier and have a test subject listen to these sounds somehow, they would believe it was a real dog or a real song or conversation or whatever.
They just sound that real. It takes mental strength to recognize that they aren’t and to keep on with life as best as one can. I bet I’m better at this than most people would possibly be. Sometimes at night I get panic attacks because the sounds are of desperation or attack or some other sort of violence. Right now it’s Indiana Jones playing in the other room: Sounds like Indy talking back and fighting the enemy, but the gun sounds I hear are the same as TIE fighter weapons. The music is classic John Williams Indy theme.
It’s very hard to have this all the time and start to question what is real and what is imagined. Again, I think I’m doing a good job with it, but I can see how it would break someone who wasn’t keeping their relative cool as well as I am right now. Spent six days in the hospital but I don’t think they really accomplished anything except give me meds that DO work to help me stay asleep. They did an EEG scan and found no brain trauma (other than the car hitting me incident—this stuff now is all happening on the other side of my brain, behind my left ear).
Sometimes the sounds are funny. I heard my dad burping more and more while laughing and watching TV last night, despite the fact that he was on the other side of the world and there was nothing to see. Only stuff to hear. I also sometimes hear people laughing or yelling, but really there’s nothing there. For some reason it’s just in my head and it won’t stop–in fact it always changes. If I’m anxious then the theme music does as well, just like in a movie. Taking a shower is usually accompanied by fun songs that play in my head. Then there is the dog or non-existent phone rings or machine sounds.
This shit is pretty rough. I’m proud of myself for keeping together as well as I have. I bet most would have lost it by now in ways that we don’t want to talk about. I’m keeping it together and have only really fucked up a few times. I’m batting about .850 on this shit right now. Hopefully it goes away, but if it stays I’m going to have to continue to adjust and make something out of it.
Sorry about the long post. Indy is still fighting and the timpani roll just now signaled that the fight is over. My emotions control the timbre of the sounds I constantly hear. Wild. Stuff.
Thanks for listening. Y’all are the best.
The brain is the weirdest organ.
Wishing you relief from “interesting.”
The brain is the weirdest organ
That isn’t what SP said the first time you got her into the back of the van.
*Best of luck to you E. Get better.
HOLY MACKEREL! Evan, first of all I hope I speak for everyone here in that I truly value your existence and your presence here, and want you to heal quickly. Second, as much as your travails sadden me, I’m extremely fascinated by your auditory experience. Thank you for sharing.
You said better than I could. Double for me, Evan. Get back home
Thanks for the update Evan. Sounds like your going strong and doing your best.
The human brain continues to astound me.
Glad you’re mostly ok. Hopefully the doctors can figure it out and get rid of it. I hope it gets better, or at least let you have more control on the playlist.
Sorry man.
Almost but not quite like synesthesia. Very bizarre. Sounds like something out of a PKD story. Here’s hoping you make a full recovery.
Good luck, Evan. I can’t even imagine the challenge.
I bet writing is therapeutic.
Good luck.
And I thought my phantom smells were bad.
Good luck, Evan.
So this is one of those things where more wine is not my recommendation. Get brain well soon
Oof, our prayers and wishes are with you
I’m sorry to hear that. Hope you get better, and soon. I can’t imagine how frustrating that would be.
I’m kind of impressed with how my brain can manufacture these things from scratch. … They just sound that real.
While I’ve never experienced any hallucinations, this reminds me of dreaming. I’ve often thought about how interesting it is that dreams can feel so real, even when doing something that you’ve never done in real life. But then once I realized that, well, the brain knows what the brain is expecting, so it can meet the expectations flawlessly. Fictions look, sound, and smell real because our brain is just filtering back to itself what it categorizes as the “real” experience. That’s why an unseen monster in film or literature is often the scariest, because our own brains know what speaks to us most and says it.
My wife sneezed downstairs this morning and I woke up like someone had fired a shotgun next to my head, so I can’t even imagine what it’s like trying to sleep in your shoes right now, man. I have done a hell of a lot of acid, though, and it sounds like you’re doing a really good job sorting out the things that are actually happening while trying to have what fun you can with the things that aren’t. Hang in there man.
I can barely imagine what that must be like beyond reading your descriptions, but I am certain that I would not be as stoic and strong in dealing with it as you seem to be. I hope your situation improves.
Best wishes for good health.
Michigan’s Democrat Party chairwoman says to claim that the city of Detroit registers dead people to vote is a “direct attack on people of color.”
“This lawsuit is about making a clickbait headline,” said Christy Jenson. “To make voters have less confidence in what is happening in their communities, their clerk’s office. And it is really a direct attack on people of color.” [Emphasis added]
Jenson, the Michigan Democratic Party Executive Director, said the lawsuit does not allege any voter fraud. [Emphasis added]
…
“They try to purge the [voter] rolls where there are many people of color that vote,” she said. [Emphasis added]
PILF researchers discovered that a number of registered voters in Detroit had either “impossibly old” or “disqualifying young” date of births after analyzing voter data from the state of Michigan.
One case, for example, revealed that a registered Detroit voter listed their birth date as “1823,” which would make them 196 years old.
In addition to dead voters remaining on the voter rolls, PILF researchers allege that Detroit’s voter registration rate as of 2016 for the citizen voting-age population stands at 106 percent — indicating there more voters on the rolls than those who even live in the city.
The researchers said Detroit has about 4,788 registered voters who have been flagged as having potentially registered to vote twice or even three times. Another roughly 16,500 registered voters allegedly do not have dates when they actually registered to vote.
One man. One vote.
for eternity (and as a dem)
It was in the news a few months ago, but it was discovered that there were 200 odd dead people still on the voter rolls. When they investigated what happened they found out that the staffer whose job it was to file received death certificates and have names removed from the rolls had called in sick for 3 days, so those deaths were never removed.
:eyeroll:
Babylon Bee, right?
Where in the constitution does it say that the dead loose their right to vote?
Everything that challenges the Democratic Party establishment is racist. It’s better that every major city be governed by an uber-corrupt but demographically favorable cabal of falsely elected morally bankrupt “representatives” than that we ensure the people in those communities have their votes counted accurately.
Is the color of these people a kind of moldy green?
Aztec Mythology was whack
Holy fuck. Thats Brutal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW47FkThbio
So noble!
Facing a ‘Food Desert,’ Oklahoma City Wants Dollar Stores to Sell Fresh Food
https://www.wsj.com/articles/facing-a-food-desert-oklahoma-city-seeks-to-limit-dollar-stores-11576422000
Article is basically about Dollar General stores thriving in low income places. Politicians want to end this by using zoning ordinances to force them to devote 500 sq ft to selling fresh food in the name of food equality. They claim Dollar General drives grocery stores out of business.
And here comes the mask rip. Why do the Dems have such disdain for those struggling to make ends meet? Or maybe that’s just a side effect of their hatred for successful businesses turning a profit.
I live in a little pissant community of about 25,000 people and we’ve got 3 major full-service chain grocery stores and 4 dollar stores in a town that’s probably not 20 miles square. I’d be astonished if OKC with a population of 1.3 million can’t sustain fresh grocery stores because of Dollar General.
Even in Podunkville we have a Dollar Store, a full service grocery AND 2 liquor stores. Make the liquor stores sell fresh produce.
The liquor store already sells guns. Give them a break!
Any decent liquor store already sells lemons, limes, olives and pickled asparagus and onions. How much more produce do you need?
*OK, maybe celery for some bloody mary’s.
They also sell preserved potatoes, corn, barley, rye, and grapes. What more could you want?
How much produce and packaged meat/seafood (pretty much the lowest margin items at the grocer) do these dopes think they squeeze into 500 sq.ft. (disregarding the refrigerated space they will need to create in the back)? Dollar General is not a bodega.
Making them sell fresh is a good way to hobble them.
Will the scolds be understanding when the stores throw the produce away because IT DOESN’T FUCKING SELL?!?
Think how much healthier their dumpster diving homeless population will be when all that slightly wilted produce hits the alley.
There is some gov program (money paid to some non-profit) that came around my area to sell fresh produce, because the government calls the area a food desert. Every town they went to has a store that sells fresh produce.
When all the dollar stores shut down, these people won’t have access to any food, is that what these people really want?
I guess I just answered my own question.
I don’t think most of the do-gooders are trying to get rid of dollar stores just to deprive The Poorz.
I think they don’t kniw how The Poorz live and also don’t understand cause and effect.
At some point, they keep advocating for policies that hurt the poor and i have to start to believe that hurting the poor is their goal.
I can believe that people who crave power and get it have evil intentions and a clear goal of getting rid of undesirables.
I have a hard time believing that the drones and worker bees who underpin the psychopaths really believe they’re harming anyone, much less such defenseless people.
Uhhhh on further thought, I CAN beloeve that the zealot worker bees and drones don’t like The Poorz, either, but they believe they are their saviors.
If they get all these dollar stores to close, they can run even more adds about all of the kids that go hungry in America.
Although I still don’t understand how the poor are starving and we have an obesity crisis among the poor.
Cheap preprocessed food high in carbs AND fat.
Excess calorie consumption without the satiation.
Also, simething productive to do. I lazed around like a slug yesterday and ate my weight in funeral potatoes.
If I’m working and firing on all cylinders, food is the last thing on my mind till I get hangry and even then I don’t know I’m hungry.
It’s because the poor aren’t starving, of course.
The US death rate from malnutrition is 0.55 per 100,000. The majority of those are the result of anorexia. The majority of the rest are from neglect of people unable to feed themselves.
I think they don’t kniw how The Poorz live and also don’t understand cause and effect.
I think you hit the nail on the head. Especially the second part.
The 99¢ Only stores in SoCal have heaps of perfectly cromulent produce.
Fap fantasy
Yes, it’s a huge long shot that 20 Republican senators will vote to send Trump packing, especially given Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s statement last week saying there’s “no chance” that Trump will be removed. But as a former trial lawyer, I can tell you that jurors don’t always do as expected. And there’s always the possibility that more incriminating evidence is revealed about Trump between now and the start of the trial.
Even the most secure of US presidents would be unnerved at the prospect that their political demise is only 67 votes away. And while Trump has been called a lot of things, “secure” is not one of them. This is the same Trump who just days ago took to Twitter to despicably mock 16-year-old climate change activist Greta Thunberg, likely because she beat him out for the title of Time magazine’s “Person of the Year.”
Adding to Trump’s stress level are comments like the one made by former GOP Senator Jeff Flake, who recently declared that there would be “at least 35” Republican senators who would vote to remove Trump if ballots were kept secret. That number may be a bit high, but Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy stated a few weeks ago that he thinks there are at least five GOP senators already likely to vote with Democrats.
We’ve got him now. Soon we will be free of this odious tyrant.
And beat that drum the need for a secret ballot. Everybody hates Trump, but only the likelihood of getting slaughtered at the polls next time around keeps Republican Senators from voting their consciences. Because Senators are all true blue patriots, deep down inside. It’s the money what keeps them from being good.
And there’s always the possibility that more incriminating evidence is revealed about Trump between now and the start of the trial.
This would be perfect for a Men’s Wharehouse meme: “I can guarantee it” where the men’s warehouse guy is the CIA
I’m waiting for another of these “whistle blower” scandals to hit. Then the Senate Dems will try to simply add those charges to their general articles of impeachment (why not? it isn’t like those were based on concrete instances of abuse) and stampede Senate Repubs with the old “preponderance of evidence” argument.
Adding to Trump’s stress level are comments like the one made by former GOP Senator Jeff Flake, who recently declared that there would be “at least 35” Republican senators who would vote to remove Trump if ballots were kept secret.
Why should an Agents actions be hidden from his principals? Only a representative system where the Agents have decided that they are the principals does someone make this suggestion.
Well put
“former GOP Senator Jeff Flake”
“at least 35” Republican senators who would vote to remove Trump if ballots were kept secret
Can’t have your constituents knowing what you are up to.
Somehow I think that Flake is correct here.
A lot of them are still upset that their party held an actual primary election and are wondering how they can wrestle control away from voters, like the Democrats do.
At least 520 Congreesspersons would vote to open concentration camps and confiscate all property if ballots were kept secret.
And there’s always the possibility that more incriminating evidence is revealed about Trump between now and the start of the trial.
AFAIK, the House has the same investigatory powers as the Senate, and is charged with building the case for impeachment/removal. If they’ve missed any evidence, that only speaks to incompetence.
I don’t see the problem. Every American has an absolute right to privacy, especially from the government, which, in our country, is the people. Are members of Congress no longer Americans? Of course they are.
/immediately disbands NSA and FBI
Roy Clark nearly does the same.with his guitar.
Don’t leave these guys out!
For whatever reason, the other day I was thinking about Hee Haw (“Gloom, Despair, and Agony on Me”) and the country bumpkins on that show, and thought of Roy Clark and what an excellent musician he (and the others) were, all hidden behind “country bumpkin” because of the comedy. Comedy hides talent. (see: the brouhaha when Marisa Tomei won an Oscar for My Cousin Vinnie and all the Serious Actors screamed) I don’t know why.
Please to enjoy a 19 year old Bocephus, doing a fantastic arrangement of Big Midnight Special – https://youtu.be/ChzWmhI6Cy8
While I don’t care for Bocephu’s music that much, much less his daddy’s I can acknowledge his talent. That said, I will never believe that was live.
Kinda like this was “live.”
Not that lip syncing makes it any less of an accomplishment. They’re doing better than I can do and they could make a living doing what they loved, which is more than I can do.
Very little about Hee Haw was live. They pioneered non-linear production and changed the way episodic television is produced. They would shoot all of the recurring sequences for a season in about a week; a week of Gloom, Despair, a week of Br5-49, a week of Stringbean’s Letter From Home (G/d rest his sweet soul), etc.. These would then be edited into enough individual episodes to build a season.
Buck Owens and The Buckaroos, Along Came Jones – https://youtu.be/Au7010LztLE
Hee Haw is one of my favorite shows.
From the side bar:
One of my favorite tunes.
Anne Harris
Thank you for the old guy music. Let me introduce Anne Harris, whom I first heard on a kids’ show and have been a devoted follower every since.
Mornin’, Glibbies! Chiefs won yesterday, although why they were playing high schoolers, I don’t know. Not much to the win. Snow day for the tax deduction, but I am obliged to go out. My house didn’t burn down in the night, so either my office is warm or my (brand new) heater died without incident. (I go through about one of those things a winter.) Also, my little desk heater may be dying. I think I’ve had that 2 or 3 winters, not sure.
As a Vikings fan, I am confused today. Normally it is the Vikings who are the team that implodes and acts like they all have a side bet on who can generate the most turnovers.
And what is the deal with the crowd at that Chargers stadium? It looked like a sea of purple in the stands. Is it like that for all their home games?
Arrowhead filled up with purple (that never happens here, such an influx of opposing fans). A couple of the players were salty about it and chastised people for selling their tickets to opposing fans and allowing the stadium to be half purple.
I know a couple guys who basically pay for their season tickets to the Vikes by selling their Packer game tickets to the rubes from Wisconsin.
All their fans are in San Diego. Nobody in LA is a Chargers fan. Hell, the only reason the Rams have any fans there is because they played well last year. Having teams in LA is stupid, it has been proven time and again for the last 30 years.
^THIS^
My son had to sit through that rant/lecture yesterday. If nothing else, LA was the perfect boogeyman to scare other cities into building a new stadium.
What do you tell the rubes now? “Give us a billion or we’ll move to St. Louis!”?
Seconded.
It’s nuts that LA keeps getting football teams. LA is a basketball town for sure, but it doesn’t seem to be a football town based on the turnover.
Middle East Leaders Working On Peace Plan For America
Lol. That’s pretty good:)
British Progressives Horrified As Boris Johnson Removes Mask Revealing Self To Be Donald Trump
“We’re making the UK great again!”
“You should have seen the looks on their faces,” Trump said, laughing, later on. “I mean, it’s a really good gag. I had them going for decades.” Trump said he developed the idea of the Boris personality when he wanted to go slum it “among the people” abroad but didn’t want any press attention. “Sometimes you just wanna be one of the boys.” According to the ruler of both the United States and the United Kingdom, things “spiraled out of control” when he took on the Prime Minister job in July, but he wanted to keep the fun going as long as possible.
“It’s pretty fun over here. Lots of golf. The food is weird — even the McDonald’s doesn’t taste quite right — but it’s a nice change of pace from Washington.”
Political commentators weren’t sure what the implications were of this unprecedented development, but most agree the UK is now under American control, but it will kind of be one of those territories that aren’t fully part of America like Puerto Rico or California.
*sensible chuckle*
LOL
Hallmark says it will “reinstate” TV ads featuring same-sex couple after outcry
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hallmark-channel-same-sex-couple-ad-reinstate-commercials-after-outcry-2019-12-15/
I’m opposed to the ad because I seriously doubt they’re really lesbians. And even if they are, then they’re lipstick lesbians and that just the stuff of cis-male fantasy.
I’m surprised a) Hallmark made it at all, b) they caved the first time, and c) they caved the second time.
I’m surprised a) Hallmark made it at all,
Why? I’m guessing it follows the Hallmark tradition of a Love Triangle, but in this case you don’t even have to deal with pesky men.
With their demo of Hallmark Channel watchers, I would have thought they would just lie low and stay out of the fray.
Hallmark didn’t make the ad. Some wedding planning company did.
It sounds like the “outcry” amounted to a couple of assblasted celebrities on Twitter.
So, everybody who matters?
/corporate board and C-suite
This is the thing I don’t really get about modern business. We’re supposedly in a golden age of personalization and infinitely niche marketing. So you’ve got a company whose entire shtick is to pander to evangelical Christian middle America and they’re willing to piss off their core market segment in order to curry favor with people who aren’t their customers.
Probably because middle America has decided that $6 for a greeting card is a rip off. But there’s little price history on lesbian greeting cards so it’s an untapped, upscale market.
I have been anti-whatever occasion cards for a long time now. Spending $5 on a disposal item like that is maddening.
I don’t give cards and I hate receiving them. Throw it away or not? I know my mother carefully chooses them.
I wrap cash in clever ways. It’s a small thing that actually means quite a bit to my kids.
Buy red envelopes. It’s a traditional Chinese thing and there are 100s of styles almost all extremely inexpensive.
Publicly traded companies, I understand. Investors want returns.
The part I don’t understand as much is why this is happening with private companies. Hallmark and Chik-fil-A don’t need to pander to retirement funds wanting higher returns and less controversy.
The only thing I can figure is that they think this is how to adapt to changing market conditions. They’re losing slowly over time with their existing customer base and think (sometimes with justification) that a leftward shift means more revenue. But, I think, the short-term gains from such a strategy often don’t last.
That’s my reading of it too. In some cases I think it just reflects piss poor analysis on the part of institutional shareholders and management where they’re completely disconnected from their customers to the point that they start to misunderstand their own market. In the majority of cases I think it’s just groupthink among the financial class and a desire to shape society in their image regardless of the consequences to any particular company or business unit.
Publicly traded companies, I understand. Investors want returns.
Investors want returns. But, I’m not so sure a lot of senior managements really give a damn. I really do think a lot of government intervention has insulated boards and management from shareholder accountability. In that context, pleasing your investors isn’t really all that important. I think the “oh, we need a new market” line is a useful excuse. But, it’s mostly intended to justify a decision that they’d make anyway. And if you’re a Hallmark Channel honcho, what’s the bigger draw, being liked and admired by Jane Smith, the mother of three office manager in suburban Peoria, or being liked and admired by popular culture’s movers and shakers?
Well, it’s the strategy I think is followed by companies like Google and Netflix. It’s not, “Will this decision make our core customer group happy?” It’s, “Will this decision drive off a significant number of our customers?” How many people are going to stop going to Chik-Fil-A? If there’s a chance they can attract new customers or gain some other, intangible benefit that outweighs the very few if any existing customers they’ll lose, it makes sense to dip their toes in wokeness.
I’m not really convinced that is their line of thinking. The strategy only works you’re gaining more customer dollars than you’re losing. How many wokesters are going to tune in to the Hallmark Channel because they caved on the lesbian wedding? Very few. They’ll mostly continue commenting about how unforgivably white, unwoke, and bourgeois the whole channel is. How many wokesters decided they were going to start shaving with Gillette products because they went woke? Probably a lot fewer than the number of people who defected to Harry’s or Dollar Shave Club or safety razors. The quarterly return is really not what’s driving this. Hell, the Business Roundtable even declared that they’re willing to toss the investors under the bus.
We’ll see what happens after a few years of it. If Hallmark’s c-suite pulled me in on a conference call and asked me about it, I’d have recommended that they maybe hang back and let other companies lead the way on accepting and normalizing gay marriage; maybe stick with stuff that matches the themes of their programming and avoid telling their viewers how they should feel about social issues. But I can’t name another channel that airs similar programming. Where else would alienated viewers go? Would they just turn off the TV? Watch the same movies over and over again?
Those aren’t lesbians. These are lesbians. Get it together Hallmark.
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/KiQAAOSwtfhYpKa1/s-l400.jpg
Please enjoy this festive holiday music
Great literature has always been a source of inspiration for heavy metal bands.
J.R.R. Tolkien for Blind Guardian, H.P. Lovecraft for Cradle of Filth, The Holy Bible for Stryper and now The IKEA Catalog for Nanowar Of Steel.
heh
The Toot Fairy video is pretty great too.
I appreciate Heavy Metal in part because of its ability to tackle weighty social matters.
Best IKEA commercial ever:)
The Bee is on fire today.
https://babylonbee.com/news/dems-vow-not-to-repeat-labour-partys-mistake-of-not-going-far-enough-left
https://babylonbee.com/news/greta-makes-appearance-at-hong-kong-protest-to-lecture-freedom-fighters-on-their-carbon-footprints
“Time Magazine quickly gave the Hong Kong protesters “Villain of the Year” awards for not using green protest methods.”
Lol
JJ Abrams Reveals Whole Sequel Trilogy Was Just A Dream Rey Had While On Some Kind Of Island In Purgatory
Did Spud get in a fight with his HOA?
Uh oh.
As these things so often do.
One moment you’re arguing about trash cans and the next you’ve just annexed the Sudetenland.
#thatescalatedquickly
So he put a couch outside and loaded it with garbage instead…?
…but then…
I wonder if somebody’s mom or teacher got hold of the phone for the follow-up post. Because, if I’m being totally honest, the first post is kind of Exhibit A for the point the girl was trying to make *in private* before the other girl kicked the door in and started yelling at everyone.
I deserve it
You didn’t build that.
Yes, I totally believe that this is an accurate retelling of events. Yep. No embellishment whatsoever.
Also, every noose found on a college campus was put there by the local Klan chapter, which holds rallies and counts the entire white student body among its membership. Totally legitimate and believable.
Affirmative Action is actually a plot by the KKK to get more minorities on campus so they can harass them.
What’s especially shitty about this is that the girl copped to complaining that there were people like her who would miss out on scholarships that they were academically qualified to get because they would instead be given to people based on race. That is a legitimate and reasonable position to hold whether or not you agree with it. But, even the counselors were lecturing her about “privilege” and basically trying to shut her up for fear someone might hear her saying badthink. That’s bullshit. And frankly, the girl who came bustin’ in to yell at her is playing to the stereotype of the angry, ignorant, entitled urban black youth, right down to the threats of violence and the broken English.
She CLEARLY don’t know how we grew up cuz that bitch looking to be destroyed LITERALLY.
What do they teach at this school?
She’s a graduate of the school of hard knocks.
Teaching is imperialist. The faculty are there to listen and learn from the students’ learned experiences and personal narratives.
So I have created another Diplomacy game.
Glib Diplomats 2
invite code: SMITH
Just a reminder, while the game shows as starting in 7 days, the game actually starts when all 7 spots fill. 1 day per phase. Join if you want.
I lowered the reliability to 50%, so if you have ever played on the site and haven’t just abandoned games you should be able to join. If you have never played you may need to play a game against bots to be able to join. The bots will beat you, because they are evil and gang up.
There is one slot left.
hmmmmmm
SNL actually does something funny!
*has flashback*
10 weeks in jail. https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/ten-weeks-in-jail/n9460
A man is mugged every 11 seconds in NYC. Bonus: Yuri Andropov has bought the collective farm
https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/snl-news/2869189
What’s funny, is when I was watching the mugging sketch, I was thinking they should follow up with Charles Bronson.
Try not to be a cunte, it’s Chrtismas!
https://youtu.be/6U2XdkBkTTk
Home for Christmas.
https://youtu.be/6-QG-rFf4po
I remember corduroys. I don’t think I’ve worn them since early elementary school.
I’m wearing a pair right now. It snowed overnight and they seem to be acceptable under our dress code and.are.much warmer than most.slacks.
And more comfortable than jeans. Whoosh whoosh!
Human truths are good sources of humor. Partisan hackery, not so much.
Add to the impeachable offenses.
As peace talks with the Taliban resume, the administration will announce sometime next week that the U.S. will withdraw 4000 troops from Afghanistan.
The drawdown had been long anticipated as Trump mentioned several months ago he wanted to bring some of the troops home. The president told aides earlier this year that he wanted all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan by the 2020 election.
Truly this man does not care for our national security.
Ending wars is exactly how Hitler came to power.
But that war is going so well! We are only a decade or two from Victory.
Just another governmental standard/tradition that Trump is destroying because he doesn’t understand how things are done.
It’s amazing how little press that random act of journalism by the Washington Post got. Needs more “orange man bad”.
And if Trump doesn’t pull troops out after this farce has already been exposed then it’s safe to say that dude is full of shit when he talks all pretty about ending our foreign conflicts.
Absolutely. Insane how one trivial phone call is worthy of super serious impeachment, but 18 years of absolute failure and government lying isn’t worth a minute of discussion.
How is it a failure?
Do you know how much money our defense industry has made?
You know, you’re exactly right! Why, with a couple more invasions, we would be shitting in high clover!
On to war!!
“Cui bono” always applies.
That’s my reading of it too. In some cases I think it just reflects piss poor analysis on the part of institutional shareholders and management where they’re completely disconnected from their customers to the point that they start to misunderstand their own market. In the majority of cases I think it’s just groupthink among the financial class and a desire to shape society in their image regardless of the consequences to any particular company or business unit.
Do any of these people ever go into their own stores, or the places in which people buy their products? Have they ever actually observed their customer base in the wild?
* the Bloomingdales Manhattan flagship store does not count.
Apparently “Jewell” FLOPPED at the box office.
But nobody is gloating about it. Well, hardly nobody.
Of course it would flop. who wants to see something that puts the Media in a bad light.
Not really the type of movie people go to this time of year anyways.
I heard the pacing wasn’t great. Eastwood can put out some ponderous, meandering stuff sometimes. I was pulling for it but even so I had a strong feeling it wouldn’t cause people to come away thinking, “Hey, maybe this FBI isn’t all that trustworthy in other matters, either…”
Did it actually “flop” or did it just do “OK”? I figured no matter how it did that the corporate press would label it a “flop”. I’m waiting until I can just buy it at home. Going to the movies is so last century
I did not spend $1000 on a 4k TV and a soundbar to watch movies on a curtain sitting on the collected farts of strangers surrounded by the chattering of the hoi polloi and according to a timetable, as if I’m trying to catch a bus.
I go to 2 or 3 movies a year at most. It’s usually going to be to see special effects porn that are much better on the big screen, like Marvel/DC or Star Wars. Did go see Dr. Sleep this year though.
Opened at #4 with a $5M take. Not great, but not flop territory either, considering the limited appeal of the subject matter. Of course, with a $45M budget maybe it will be a flop, as it will have to have staying power to earn back its expenses if it is starting at $5M.
It’s released in December so it qualifies for the Oscars. I expect it might do better in January.
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/proxy/2IU9KcrwstTN0YqzK-FsiHDSDba2KANAVSbcAiWZRyXmZBsnIuvcxsHjd1rb5r6YZv9fSS-uAPxyv8qhiC-HA13F=w5000-h5000
The Economist or The Eugenicist?
Tough call, but worrying about people in third world countries having babies is very on brand for Western elites. Very, very, very on brand. Indira Gandhi agrees.
Non-stop transport flights to first world countries?
Considering how abysmal Western birth rates are……
My favorite group think opinion that we are fed is “falling birth rates are good and are actually just natural for a wealthy and prosperous country”.
BREAKING: The US was not wealthy or prosperous until sometime in the mid-80’s.
In and of itself it’s really neither here nor there, and it’s certainly correlated with increasing levels of wealth and standard of living, but when you’ve built up your entire social welfare scheme such that the ratio of contributors to beneficiaries can’t fall without casting the entire system into financial chaos you have a problem on your hands that a bunch of post-scarcity theology really won’t fix.
bunch of post-scarcity theology really won’t fix.
TRIGGERED
I’ve had a PH.D Economist talk to me about how asteroid mining was going to bring about the “Post Scarcity” Economy and that it was just around the corner.
Seriously dude, your institution should strip you of your Degree.
In truth, US fertility has been steadily dropping since 1800 (with the exception of the 1950s & 1960s, every decade has seen a decline relative to the previous), so that matches up with the idea that prosperity leads to falling birth rates.
That’s not entirely true. But, it is true that if you want to find something in data, you will find it.
Well, I guess on second glance the bump in the 50s/60s does go against the narrative, since that was peak US economic dominance. But, whatever. *handwaves away inconvenient facts*
It’s not that I am entirely disregarding the point, the thesis though has a lot of curious and inconvenient variables. That are not entirely explained by “richer equals less births”. An obvious one is the fact that fertility dips most dramatically during an economic downturn, such as during the 1920’s or the most recent financial downturn. That would seem to contradict the “richer equals less births” hypothesis. Not to mention France’s recent spike in fertility from the 90’s.
Another more riddled notion that has gained currency among the smart set is a corollary to the “richer equals less births” thesis: that greater access to contraceptives improves the wealth of a country. This theory demands that we look at fertility rates and access to contraceptives only from the 80’s forward, because if we look further back we reach the uncomfortable fact that wealth in Franco’s Spain was much higher than in China or India and yet Franco’s Spain outlawed contraceptives, while China and India were either mandating contraceptive use or handing it out free of charge.
I just think that people are reaching the conclusions that they want to be true when it comes to fertility.
It’s a very fine balance. You want enough of them to form a permanent but controllable voting bloc of tax cattle to replace your aging and non-breeding natives, but not so many that it becomes unmanageable or they start getting uppity and expecting rights and shit.
Ok Boomer.
what to do? how bout not give a shit. war, famine, and pestilence.
Population growth is limited by food supply. Stop interfering and these sorts of things are self-correcting.
Ok Mathus.
Humans aren’t bacteria. When we approach the limit of our food supply we figure out how to change the limit.
Traitor. Turncoat. Sinner.
Six staff members said Sunday that they are resigning from the office of Rep. Jeff Van Drew, D-N.J., office over reports that he plans to switch parties because he opposes impeachment of President Donald Trump.
In a letter to his chief of staff, five of the employees said Van Drew’s decision “does not align with the values we brought to this job when we joined his office.”
The staffers said they respect Van Drew but “can no longer in good conscience continue our service.”
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Cheri Bustos, chairwoman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, offered the staffers work with the party’s campaign arm until they find new jobs that “align with their values.”
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The decision came after Van Drew voted against moving forward with the impeachment inquiry, saying testimony presented during House hearings hadn’t persuaded him.
Being a Democrat is an act of faith, not reason. What is this nonsense about wanting to be “persuaded”?
It is likely Van Drew had a significant primary challenger who would have defeated him in 2020.
he was going to be primaried after this anyway.
Did The U.S. Kill An American Citizen After Taking Out ISIS Leader Al-Baghdadi?
play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
I’m not sympathetic to him in particular, but extrajudicial summary executions of Americans are an affront to the constitution regardless of who it is. This could be al Awlaki 2 Electric Boogaloo.
should an American fighting with ISIS in the Middle East be afforded Due Process? or treated as an enemy combatant?
Seeing the American Foreign Policy establishments quickness to say that Donald Trump committed treason for saying they are wrong, and that he was pretty much committing treason to not give Ukraine weapons, i’m gonna say i will give the devil his rights, for my sake.
Probably too late for this post, but I see the press are breathessly reporting there were 400 (FOUR HUNDRED!!!!11) rounds of ammo at the pawn shop in Joisey somehow connected with the people who shot up the (((ethnic))) grocery store in Jersey City.
I have a couple thousand rounds of .22lr, plus whatever .45 and 9mm I have lying around. I hope nobody from the NYT finds out.
NOBODY NEEDS THREE KINDS OF AMMO!
400? that’s it? pretty weak.
Maybe someone misunderstood and it’s 400 cases?
https://abc7ny.com/man-possibly-linked-to-jersey-city-shootout-due-in-court/5758704/
the pawn shop owner was a prohibited person in possession of a couple ARs. not sure why they’d mention the ammo. 400 rounds is nothing.
did the pawn shop owner sell the firearms to the Black Hebrew Israelites that shop up the deli?
*shot*
I haven’t been active in recreational shooting for years and I have at least that much lying around in leftovers.
The thing about Gulag Barbie’s latest dumb post on health insurance… rather the comments, is that it’s really amazing how all of these dumb people think they are getting ‘free’ healthcare with single payer, or medicare for all, or whatever they’re calling it these days, is that they completely ignore the cost in increased payroll taxes. Sure, you’ll get your free healthcare, and it will only cost you 60% of your income. So while Gulag Barbie is still going to get free healthcare, along with those who have no income, the rest of us tax slaves are going to get royally screwed with a 60% tax burden and a 25% VAT tax on everything. This is the only way to pay for it and those in favor of it are fully aware of this. How they manage to keep their voters in the dark about this, I can’t even understand. It’s not like it’s a secret or anything.
TANSTAAFL, but even if there was, it also completely ignores the quality of care issues that are endemic to any centrally planned health care system. You not only get to pay as much or more for your health care in the form of taxes instead of premiums, but now you also get the privilege of queuing for basic services like you’re in a bread line.
I’ll put this here, since I don’t want to shit on Animal’s post.
A different view of depression (an evolutionary response to protect resources) that makes total sense to me and may be more than mostly applicable.
FTA:
Or, as I told my shrink (aka “drug dealer”), “Medication isn’t going to fix this. My life just sucks, and that’s pretty much all there is to it.”
(Yeah, I know it’s Psychology Today.)
There is a difference between Chronic Depression, and the emotion of depression. One is a health issue, the other is a fairly common human occurrence.
^ This. When your depression leaves you paralyzed in the face of situation that need attention and incapable of finding any joy or pleasure in any aspect of life for an extended period something is wrong with the mind not the life.
Not to be flippant, Mo, and not to discounted your personal problems, but I hope you know that people here think that you’re awesome and that your books are the bees knees.
I further hope that it doesn’t depress you to know that such a group of miscreants appreciate you, but it is what it is.
Damn, it’s dusty in here.
Thank you. From the bottom of my heart, thank you.
Wipes crumbs off of bed I was in until 9pm. Because drugs ran out and can’t get an appt. until mid January. Looks at cat. Wants to sleep more but can’t because I slept for the last 14 hours
Suck it up loser!
I’ll probably drop a link in the pm lynx, but I was just reading a John Harwood/CNBC interview with Elizabeth Warren. I am literally(!) frightened by the prospect of a President Warren.
I don’t know which is worse, the complete dependence on magical thinking, or utter lack of understanding of human behavior and incentives. Or maybe the lying.
For me, it’s the fact that much of the population falls for her bullshit. They mistake emotionality for integrity.