It’s Saturday morning and I have the doors locked. The house is filled with shady characters. SugarFree. Gojira. Mad Scientist. Mrs. Mad Scientist. Mexican Sharpshooter, Grand Moff and Kibby, Ozymandius, all coming later. So this will be brief. We’re talking about all you guys behind your backs. Especially you, Spud.
I wasn’t planning on watching the Team Blue debates, but if one can do that, fucked up beyond recognition with SP and SugarFree, it can be a fun experience. And while we were preparing, so was Reptilicus in a Pant Suit. Remember who predicted she’d be the Team Blue nominee because she was the most ruthless, vicious, and power-hungry “person” in the bunch. Y’all laughed at me. I feel closer to vindication.
And poor Uncle Joe, he’s imploding. Awwww.
Dead white girls dominate the news. Much fodder for morons.
IT’S HAPPENING! Well, not really.
Old Guy Music is back to the blues. With an actual old guy.
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That sounds like one freaky party?
The Revolution has started! Hey, wait a minute ! Sure, look at all the people that want to be the boss. You can’t tell me what to do.
SugarFree. Gojira. Mad Scientist. Mrs. Mad Scientist. Mexican Sharpshooter, Grand Moff and Kibby, Ozymandius,
Is there such a thing as a critical mass of glibs?
I saw Mrs. Mad Scientist in the guest list. So I’m going to guess that once wives start getting invited, critical mass has been achieved.
Tundra wasn’t invited? Understandably about you and me but Tundra?
Nope. I’m Cousin Eddie now.
Tundra has a standing uninvitation from SP.
Opposing wasn’t racist. Supporting busing was.
High school girls should be forced to watch the ID channel every day so when they’re out on their own they don’t do stupid shit like get dropped off at a park in a strange town in the middle of the night to meet a stranger.
“High school girls should be forced ”
Fuck off slaver.
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Way to take away my only move.
Well, that explains the burning ears and tingling at the back of my neck.
Either that or you’ve got a sunburn?
Yeah, but it doesn’t explain the burning sensation when you piss does it?
Sshh!
“It’s so hot in Spain that manure self-ignited”
So we can soon expect San Francisco to burn down?
I don’t know, but it’s all pretty shitty.
Only if they get their wish about global warming.
In the debate, Harris willed her way into the conversation about race and policing, calmly noting that as the only black person on the stage, she’d like to be heard.
Post-racial America. Thanks, Obama!
I’m getting really tired or the “we need to have a conversation about . . . ” stuff. Every issue that it comes up for has been discussed ad nauseam and usually the person bringing it up is on the side that lost.
“Nope, WE don’t.” Reduces them to spluttering apoplexy every time.
That and the “national dialogue”.
“The only black person…”
Isn’t she some combination of Indian and Jamaican? And her Jamacian family owned a plantation?
It sounds like it was very calculated and cynical.
Everything single thing they do is prescripted.
As cynical as sleeping with Willie Brown?
Piling on.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cory-booker-joe-biden-kid-in-hoodie-2020-democratic-nominee-language-race
I love it. Let them tear themselves apart.
I really don’t like that they make Creepy Uncle Joe look like the sane one and make me defend him.
How white of you.
Defending the words “hoodie” and “gangbanger” as being racially insensitive makes sense to me.
Using “apple pie” and “Mom” may well be culturally approbation in that case. I’m so, so tired
of how words have new and hidden meanings, Orwell was right.
calmly noting that as the only black person on the stage
Not really calmly. Hopefully a lot of people heard that and are going “do we really want four to eight years of this woman lecturing us?”
I see her winning three states, maybe four. Let her be the nominee.
Her motto should be: “We need the immigrant out of cages . . . .so we have room for American citizens in them.”
I suspect she may well be the nominee.
Why not? One of those idiots has to be.
You don’t believe the theory that HRC will announce she’s running again late in the race?
There are many theories which result in complete disaster for the dems. I suppose that’s another one.
Except she seems to be a lazy and uninspiring campaigner.
“African snails are an invasive species in the U.S. and pose a major threat”
Racist
“That goes a long way to helping voters envision her prosecuting the case against Trump on a debate stage next fall,” he said, “which is exactly the impression she wants to leave with Democrats who are prioritizing vague notions of electability.”
What America needs is a Scolder-in-Chief.
I found a good t shirt to wear with my cargo shorts. Just to annoy HM.
https://www.shirtpunch.com/carbs
*golf clap*
So what you are saying is that this can occur regardless of air temperature but you wanted to link it to a heat wave? I wonder why people use terms like “fake news”.
Heh. Gropey Joe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhQql-ZbZmg
Dead girls. White don’t mean nuthin’
Spontaneous combustion from global warming? Right. Bigger liars: gun grabbers or warmistas?
Achatina fulica….first thing that pops in my head: https://www.airgundepot.com/22caliber-air-rifles.html
If the shit keeps piling up they won’t be able to give those homes away. What worries me is that the moronic shitheads that created that mess are going to go shit on some other place.
Tyson’s IQ is a negative number. The guy is MR. Pay no attention to what he says.
Well, I certainly agree on not paying attention to anything Mr. Tyson says in the media about matters requiring some level of advanced knowledge and intelligence, but if I’m in a bar and walks up and says I’m sitting in his seat I will probably listen just because, well, I’ve spent all the time I ever want to spend healing up in a hospital.
Meh. Give up your seat and buy the guy a beer.
“The Associated Student Organization has two political parties: “Team Elite,” which is comprised of black students, and “Team Green,” which is comprised of Latinx students. They do not get along; in fact, members of Team Elite had allegedly threatened in an Instagram post to “chop the heads off of the euro-centrist white supremacist mexicans of the campus.” Black students claim the post was fake, and engineered by Team Green to rally their supporters.”
TW: Robby
https://reason.com/2019/06/28/college-title-ix-official-orders-student-newspaper-to-turn-over-unpublished-videos/
“euro-centrist white supremacist mexicans”
Arglebarglebeebleblop.
I refuse to read that.
Beto supporters?
Your tax dollars at work – encouraging race-war fantasies.
Helter Skelter.
Who would have thought they’d make Charles Manson seem like a visionary?
Pssst. . . . you’re supposed to lock them out of your house, not in.
He’s taking lessons from Warty
I’m getting a new garage door today. I really don’t have the money for it, but the old one broke in multiple ways. I nursed it along for several years, but I’ve finally given up. Also, this might be the first thing in the house (after living here about 5 years) that I’ve hired out. I know I could put a garage door in myself, but I just didn’t want to. But the bill is going to sting, piss poor timing.
Ouch.
Looking at replacing the central air unit and the water heater here….if I can squeeze two more years out of them I will just pay it all up front. Shit, I was looking forward to having that chunk of cash but it looks like it is spent before I get my hands on it.
I’ve been looking at going tankless for the next hot water heater. I’ve heard they’ve gotten a lot better in the last few years. Anyone with any experience?
If you have gas service, just get a regular tank. Operating a tankless doesn’t save you that much by comparison and the capital cost is much higher.
Besides which, regular gas hot water heaters are about as reliable an appliance as anything ever built.
The only real argument for tankless is if you have a household of 6 people or more. Infinite hot water.
I’m thinking of getting a tankless water heater for the room. With the furnace, water heater, water softener, washer and dryer, there is barely enough room for me in my utility room.
This is the reason why tankless is the only option in Japan. I’ve been in lots of old houses in Japan where the water heater was about the size of a large toaster and was affixed to the wall above the kitchen sink. There was another unit for the bath. No hot water lines anywhere else.
Thank doG that my Japanese in-laws are well off enough to afford hot water to be everywhere.
I couldn’t imagine the misery of having a cold jet of water hit you in the ass from the super toilet.
I couldn’t imagine the misery of having a cold jet of water hit you in the ass from the super toilet.
I have a cold water bidet on every toilet I own. I usually find the cold soothing. Anything is better than going back to smearing shit around with toilet paper. If you don’t have a bidet, get one. You can get the toilet seat attachment ones for about twenty bucks. It changes your life.
I have this one on the downstairs toilet.
Our washlet connects in-line from the cold water supply to the tank. Heats the water and the seat. No ice cold hammer from below.
My daughter who isn’t even 5 yet loves taking hot showers. Tankless will be in my future.
We put in a tankless water heater a decade ago. We have never looked back. It is well worth the money, and the freedom from worrying about whether there is enough hot water for the next person is something that you get so used to that it is difficult when visiting relatives.
We can have everyone in the family taking a hot shower for as long as they like while simultaneously washing clothes and washing dishes. The extra few bucks is almost irrelevant.
Plus, in our location the gas company subsidize the whole thing with zero-interest financing. They just added a few bucks to the bill for 5 years.
It isn’t a hot water heater. Hot water doesn’t need heating.
I know the difference.
Link fail . Here’s the difference.
Yeah, sometimes letting a professional figure out the problems and do the job right – often because they have both the experience and the right tools – can be a satisfying experience.
I generally DIY most of my home repairs but sometimes my time is worth more than the money it takes to hire a pro.
It’s always worth hiring a pro.
Depends. The Washlet (Japanese heated, butt-washing toilet seat) lost the heated function and my wife wanted to call a plumber to replace the entire toilet.
Since I was the one who ran all the plumbing in the bathroom (16 years ago) and knew how easy it is to replace the Washlet I talked her out of it and did the job myself.
We might be abbreviating “pro” differently.
Soaplands aren’t as accessible outside of Glorious Nippon.
LEARN TO (repair things to) CODE
Building code is just a suggestion
/looks around for insurance agent, Breathes sigh of relief when I see he’s not around.
I fixed the A/C in my car last week. It cost me about 3 dollars.
Hiring a pro would have run in the hundreds. There are a lot of things you can do yourself that will save you a ton of money if you’re willing to invest a little time and effort.
Not only that, but skills build on experience, and your tool collection grows as you tackle more projects, and eventually you can take on those more complicated projects.
If I’ve learned anything in my years, it’s that having the right tool for the right job makes all the difference. I used to just try and make due with what I had. Just buy the specialty tool if needed. It make life so much easier. There’s no such thing as too many tools.
I often marvel at how long I went before I bought a disc grinder. That, with a box of the cheap, standard disks and one diamond disc and there isn’t anything you can’t cut in a few minutes,
I have a box in the garage of tools I made when I was poor, well poorer than I am now. I look at those sometimes and wonder how I finished any projects.
Another big lesson in my life was don’t be afraid to put holes on the wall. Be it electrical, plumbing, or something else. If you think you need to put a hole in the wall, you eventually will, no matter how much you try and get around it. Just save yourself the time and put the hole in the wall. Paint is easy and cheap.
I’d be willing to bet I own more tools than ayone on this site, it’s still not enough.
I’d be willing to bet I own more tools than ayone on this site, it’s still not enough.
OK. I give. My “pro” ended in “stitute”. Lesson learned.
No, I got it. It seemed obvious from your second post.
ごめんなさい。
“There are a lot of things you can do yourself that will save you a ton of money”
It really came down to only being a $200 dollar difference between them doing it and me. And with the special I got, I’m getting a new motor on top of the door for the same price as just the door. I’m keeping the old motor in case the discount motor they give me doesn’t last very long.
For a difference of $200 you made the right choice.
Yeah, that’s a no brainer. They’ll have it done before you finish your 12 pack:)
Challenge accepted.
I just reset a toilet, easy job, right? First the toilet hold down bolts were rusty and wouldn’t come off. After an hour of screwing around I decided I needed a Dremel to cut them off. ‘Course, none of my friends have a Dremel and certainly I don’t. Anyway,I borrowed a Sawsall. I put Gorilla tape around the bolt to avoid scratching the porcelain and 5 minutes later the toilet was free. !/2 an hour later Mrs F was using the facility. I greased the new bolts in the event I have to do this again in 25 years.
The tough part in the reset was how heavy the toilet is and how unstrong I am these days.
All I heard was an excuse to go buy a dremel.
Or more friends…
Friends are best left to anonymous people on an internet website.
Seriously. Get a dremel.
I have at least three. I don’t need them often, but when I do, they are super handy.
You should try a flex shaft grinder (Foredom). I never use my dremels at home anymore, rarely use them on the road. If I could have only one the Dremel wouldn’t be it.
Nevermind a Dremel, get a multi-tool – I picked up this one and it’s fantastic.
It’ll go right through bolts. I needed to make cut right up against the edge of a cabinet and couldn’t fit a circular saw nearly close enough. It did a great job.
(before one of you shames me – I already had the 12v drill/driver set, so I went 12v – plenty of power for what I’m doing)
4″ angle grinder is about the same size and a lot cheaper if you only need it for one job. Also more useful in general; I’ve used the Fein Multimaster I found almost new in a pawn shop maybe twice in three years. I carry three angle grinders in my truck.
Also, since I don’t have repairmen at my house often. What’s the proper protocol? Do I watch them the entire time? Check in every so often. I’ve got thousands of dollars in tools in the garage and I’m not sure I like the idea of anyone alone in it. Further, they are putting in a keypad, should I reset it as soon as they leave. I’m not sure I like the idea of them programming the number for me.
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If these are workers from a respectable established company, you most likely have nothing to worry about, some guy your neighbor’s cousin knows, maybe keep an eye on them. You should probably change the code simply because they usually just set it 1-2-3-4 or the street number, that said locks only keep out honest people, it is extremely easy to get into someones house if you want to.
Further, they are putting in a keypad, should I reset it as soon as they leave. I’m not sure I like the idea of them programming the number for me.
Just like every other security device, you should reset it after they leave. Of course, im one to talk… I still haven’t changed the locks on our house and it has been 2.5 years.
I make sure to get a feel for them before I allow them to start work. Usually I’ll stick around for 10-15mins to make sure they know what they’re doing and work at a decent pace. After that I check in every 30 mins or so and make sure to offer them a drink every time I do.
When I was working in someones home, I hated it when they watched me the entire time. They will go faster if you leave them alone. As to the tools, I would recommend putting them out of view if possible. No need for temptation or an accidental grabbing of one of your tools and putting it in their truck. Most trades people would never steal tools because they have all had tools stolen from them and it pisses people off.
“Most trades people would never steal tools because they have all had tools stolen from them and it pisses people off.”
Bingo.
I always ask if it costs more if I help. The answer is always ‘yes’
I don’t even like using someone else’s tools – no euphemism
Steal a tool or materials on one of my jobs and I catch you you’re fired.
The proper protocol is to hover around the workers, wearing a negligee and a silky bathrobe that just won’t stay closed. For added effect, have a martini in one hand and chain smoke menthol cigarettes. Also, make awkwardly suggestive jokes, and talk about how much fun you had in college when you were dating a garage door repairman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bOjrl9Qxzg
That way underdelivered.
I’d hire someone if only because garage door springs are high on the list of “quietly scary things that can hurt you badly” – lots of energy in there if you screw it up some how.
If I worried about things like that hurting me . . .well . . uh . . I’d probably have a lot less scars and still have the two missing toes on my right foot.
If replacing just the door, I’d do it myself (and have). It’s easier than one might think. But if putting up new track and springs, I’d hire that out. That looks like a lot of work.
…unless I got a deal like you got. I think I would have made the same choice as you did.
A host of Biden’s primary rivals have sought to inflict further damage on the top-polling Democrat…casting doubt on his ability to help bridge America’s racial divides.
Those in tinted glasses houses shouldn’t…
I’ve had about all the “healing racial divides” I can stand from that lot.
Especially since it seems their idea of “healing” involves a pair of pliers and a blow torch.
Just up the road a little ways from me. I’m glad this guy spared us the expense of a trial. What a piece of crap.
He probably gave her the flat tire and followed her.
Outrage army, assemble!
They were having a good time. Like old friends reuniting, they warmly shook hands, smiled and chatted amiably. And then President Trump brushed off Russia’s interference in American democracy with a joke as President Vladimir V. Putin chuckled.
The first encounter between Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin since the special counsel Robert S. Mueller III reported that Russia conducted a “sweeping and systematic” operation to sway the 2016 election proved more convivial than confrontational. Rather than challenge Mr. Putin, Mr. Trump treated it as a laughing matter.
In the process, he triggered a fresh furor over his accommodating approach to Russia and brought back old questions that have haunted him since he took office. Angry at perceived challenges to his legitimacy, he has long dismissed or at most grudgingly accepted the conclusions of American intelligence agencies that Russia sought to help his campaign.
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As he sat down on Friday with Mr. Putin on the sidelines of an international summit in Japan, Mr. Trump was asked by a reporter if he would tell Russia not to meddle in American elections.
“Yes, of course I will,” Mr. Trump said.
Turning to Mr. Putin, he said, with a half-grin on his face and mock seriousness in his voice, “Don’t meddle in the election, President.”
As Mr. Putin smiled and tittered, Mr. Trump pointed at another Russian official in a playful way and repeated, “Don’t meddle in the election.”
OMG how could he not take us seriously?
“Robert S. Mueller III reported that Russia conducted a “sweeping and systematic” operation to sway the 2016 election”
Its “the big lie” of our times.
Why don’t they skip the rest of the primary process and just have Tulsi and Kamala naked oil wrestle for the nomination?
“In the debate, Harris willed her way into the conversation about race and policing, calmly noting that as the only black person on the stage, she’d like to be heard”
Kamala Harris is probably the only person on Earth whose candidacy would make me drag my ass to polls next November. That bitch is evil.
Her claiming to care about race and policing as the only person on stage who ever actually prosecuted and imprisoned racial minorities is pretty rich.
“…the only black person on the stage…” Corey Booker has a sad.
Yes, don’t leave out Corey’s lived expeience as a sort-of black body and son of IBM executives raised in suburban New Jersey.
Police said the investigation showed Ajayi and “Lueck’s phones were both at the park within a minute of each other.”
If you ain’t learned by now to leave your phone at home when you plan on going out raping and killing, they you just ain’t ever gonna learn.
^^
Also, don’t take the toll road
/scribbles down in notebook
Any other tips?
Bleach kills dna.
But it won’t cover blood up from luminol.
That’s why strangulation is the preferred method.
Frame someone who pissed you off.
Have Nigerian brothers buy the supplies. I know at least one case where this worked for a perp in a high profile case.
Remy debate rap
https://youtu.be/QL0g6KmFRYw
Remy is a national treasure
I’m no W. fan, but he is the best ex-president of my lifetime. Why can’t Carter just go away? Any why, at 94, does he still care about anything but his family and maybe his work for Habitat?
“a full investigation of Russian election interference would show that Trump didn’t actually win the election against Hillary Clinton in 2016.”
Uh huh. Good thing for Trump there hasn’t been an investigation.
Go away Jimmah.
Further proof what a fraud that “aw, shucks” vibe always was.
ISTR Bush the Elder also kept his nose out of things after he was done.
I’ve been looking at going tankless for the next hot water heater. I’ve heard they’ve gotten a lot better in the last few years. Anyone with any experience?
Based on what I have heard, I don’t think they’re worth it. People here have told me the water from their wells was too cold for the heater to bring up to temp.
It kind of bugs me when I hear the big “whoosh” as the thing fires up after I had the hot water on for a couple of minutes to wash my hands, but For the price premium of the tankless, I can afford a little extra propane, now and then. YMMV
I made a a cursory cost analysis and came to the same conclusion. I’m on my 2nd water heater in 27 years.
Tankless are also much, much more complex. And super hard water fucks them up fast.
And super hard water fucks them up fast.
This is what will keep me from getting one it looks like. Indiana has some of the hardest water in the country.
“Authorities said the fire likely began when an “improperly managed” pile of manure self-combusted in the heat, causing sparks.”
Somebody needs to get their shit together.
Also, common knowledge for anyone who has dealt with hay. Dont bale it until its dry. If you put it in the barn wet, it will begin to decompose and that decomposition will generate heat inside a hay bale that can’t be dissipated. Heat begets heat which begets fire and man oh man will a barn full of hay burn.
A couple of years ago I went out to smoke and noticed flames in the sky a couple of miles away. What farmer doesn’t know to not put up wet hay? WTH?
A beautiful old barn burned to the ground.
Even a small pile of grass in the yard can get amazingly hot.
Last month I was riding the old Milwaukee Road right of way in central Washington. As I was driving back from the trailhead I saw an impressive barn fire next to the road. Hay bails make a hell of a fuel.
Still the most impressive barn fire I saw was in Bavaria. Middle of the winter with snow everywhere and the manure ignited. A beautiful traditional house (barn on ground floor with living area above) was completely consumed in less than 30 minutes.
Her claiming to care about race and policing as the only person on stage who ever actually prosecuted and imprisoned racial minorities is pretty rich.
I’d like to hear smebody ask her how many black bodies she has personally responsible for putting in cages.
That woman locked up parents of children who were truants. I shudder to think of what she would do if given more power.
I would have thought the best two hours in her political career was the accumulated time she spent giving Willie Brown blow jobs.
That joke leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
It really was the climax of her career.
I think she was just shooting a load of bullshit.
It sure got her out of some sticky situations.
She’ll blow it again eventually.
I tried to come up with something to contribute but couldn’t think of a joke that didn’t suck.
Someone around here will help you erect something.
Here….use this: “something something tough to swallow”
I’m waiting for Swiss to show up and make us quit dickin’ around.
She needs to do more squats
“About a dozen are on the market at prices ranging from the mid-$600,000s to the high $800,000s for two- and three-bedroom units, respectively.”
I couldn’t afford to live in San Fransisco. Those numbers are crazy. Where I live, 800k would easily buy me an extremely nice house sitting on 100 acres with a pool and pool house.
*tries to suppress jealousy*
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/10932-S-Highway-215-Charleston-AR-72933/113880183_zpid/
Modified A-frame lodge style home with shop building, pole barn, and 2 outbuildings. Detached outdoor patio with fireplace. 166 acres included with 60 acres of pasture, mostly fenced. 2 wells on the property. Rural water for the house and shop. 8X10 safe room, walk in closet
We toured this house the other day. We can’t afford it and we aren’t in the market right now, but it checks 80% of the boxes for our next house.
My wife sent me this one.
I’m hoping she was just kidding.
Shit. You may as well go big and then go home.
Yucky.
My dream home.
I’ll bet you’d even come and visit.
It’s a bit big for me, too. But I do like the three pools and the indoor range…
I absolutely would come and visit. That’s a fine home! Let’s set some dates 😛
Even that one I linked makes me tired just thinking about taking care of it. Yours is insane!
The ranch is more my speed anyway.
You people need to think outside the box.
more my taste
Downside – PA.
Damn, this is pretty nice
Marblehead is a nice town, too. I could spend more than that for just a condo around here. It seems suspiciously cheap for Marblehead
So thanks to work I know a lot of (very ) lefty- liberal attorneys, who say that Kamala “won” the debate, for what that is worth.
They’re all about the identity politics for sure.
Totally. I should turn off facebook so I don’t see this crap.
On a related note, can a business just be a business – I mean provide a good /or service and take money for it, without having to be political? I’m so tired of all these places with “pride” flags, or what not. Freaking ravelry for chrissakes, as an example….
*takes a long swig of a drink and sympathizes*
It gets really tiring.
The Virtue signaling is very strange these days.
I have been visiting family in northern Wisconsin for the last couple of weeks. Most of that time I have spent camping out near lakes in areas without cell service, so I’ve been out of communication.
But we went into Duluth a couple of times to shop. At several stores in the Duluth Mall there were pride month displays.
They seemed quite out of place in this location. Not just for the Pro lbgtq content, but for the clothing styling that was on display. for those not familiar with this part of the country, clothing styles are much more conservative then in the rest of the country. Well, bye rest of the country I mean the two coasts and big cities.
but most of the big retailers had Pride flags and mannequins wearing Pride clothes set up at least in part of the store.
I took my 9 year old and 6 year old daughters clothes shopping for a daddy date. Parenthetical – that’s what you do when you have daughters. One of the few stores that had anything edgy enough for my 9 year old was Hot Topic. About 20% of the store was devoted to lesbian attire – things with rainbow triangles, logos that say straight, I’m not!, Etc.
So of course she’s over there browsing through the lesbian stuff, not really having any idea what any of it is, with about a half a dozen rotund and pierced lesbians giving her and me the side eye.
It was a very surreal experience for this working class Port City. Luckily, there were no “I have to explain this to my elementary school kids” moments.
Don’t worry, they’re probably teaching your kids all about it in school.
It amazes me how fast it went from “its nobody’s business what happens in my bedroom” to “i fuck people the same sex as me! LOOK AT ME!”
I remember visiting Facebook’s headquarters 5 or so years ago and being aghast at the way the entire campus was transformed for Pride week. I remember thinking that it was an example of how these new social media companies were gonna drive off good employees and collapse.
Now everybody does it, and nobody even blinked.
Huh. I thought Trump was the winner.
The cops can come in detain an entire bar? Technically, you could tell them, “No, I’m not giving you my ID”, but I don’t think that would turn out well.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/c6mnn5/indiana_cops_detain_entire_bar_seall_off_exits/
Shades of Waco. V 2.0 of course.
Trump’s America. SMDH
Silicone Saturday sez “Love is a lie!”
https://thechive.com/2019/06/28/underboob-is-a-really-really-delightful-treat-31-photos/
I’m pretty sure I’ve been to that bar. There is a a stage on another part of it and I ended up playing drums with the band for a few songs when their drummer drank himself sick. My friends came on stage and sang the “hoo-hoo” part of Sympathy for the Devil. I’m 90% sure it was that bar. But, I was fairly intoxicated and it was probably 10 years ago.
I didn’t read the article, But this is definitely a future country song.
Man abandoned at Six Flags, apartment robbed, dog taken
TL;DR – “I shacked up with a fuckin’ psycho.”
Everywhere I look, I see exactly what I’m looking for
TW: Michelle Goldberg
We’ve now had two Democratic debates in which women dominated. On Wednesday, Warren was one of the first debate’s clear winners, along with Cory Booker. And across the political spectrum, there was a near-universal consensus that Kamala Harris triumphed on Thursday, scoring a devastating blow against Biden in an exchange about busing. The question now is whether these victories can convince battle-scarred Democratic women to believe once again that a woman can beat Donald Trump.
There’s a bleak paradox here. Feminists, myself included, are probably more likely than others to believe that sexism played a profound role in Clinton’s loss. Looking back, the 2016 campaign seems to me like a slow-motion symbolic femicide — the “Lock her up!” chants, the “Trump that Bitch” T-shirts, the proliferation of medusa imagery. But the more you think that misogyny undermined Clinton, the less inclined you might be to support another female challenger, given the hellish prospect of four more years of an authoritarian goon — who has now been credibly accused of rape — defiling the White House.
I suspect this is part of the reason why various configurations of white men — Biden, Bernie Sanders and either Beto O’Rourke or Pete Buttigieg — led in many Democratic polls throughout the spring. But the last two debates have made it clear that the two strongest Democratic candidates are women. Warren has the most well-developed ideas and the clearest vision for what she wants to accomplish as president. Like Sanders, her platform isn’t an accessory to her campaign, but her entire reason for running. Harris is fierce with an ineffable charisma; she’s often warm and joyful, but you could imagine her vivisecting Trump onstage.
Several things can be true at once. Without the handicap of sexism, Clinton probably would have won a race that was essentially decided by a rounding error. Misogyny will work against the next female presidential candidate. And yet the people best positioned to lead the Democratic Party are women.
Yeah, okay. You love authoritarian fascism, with a whiff of the dominatrix’ lash. You pine for the yoke.
How nice for you.
symbolic femicide
WAR ON WOMYN CONTINUES EVER MORE.
Warren has the most well-developed ideas and the clearest vision for what she wants to accomplish as president.
Ya, and it scares the fuck out of the liberty minded.
Goldberg is the most fascist Jew I’ve ever heard of. She would have been great in the Judenrat.
given the hellish prospect of four more years of an authoritarian goon — who has now been credibly accused of rape — defiling the White House.
The white house was defiled a long time ago, sweetheart.
Is she referring to the crazy lady trying to sell her book? Is that the “credible accusation” that has now been made?
Credible.
*looks up definition*
Ah. Ok then.
“authoritarian”
How exactly?
“credibly accused of rape”
How exactly?
“symbolic femicide”
Yeah. OK. Go take your thorazine.
hellish prospect of four more years of an authoritarian goon
Barry is running again?
who has now been credibly accused of rape — defiling the White House.
Slick Willy?
Warren has the most well-developed ideas and the clearest vision for what she wants to accomplish as president.
Indeed. Literal fascism.
but you could imagine her vivisecting Trump onstage.
I can imagine a lot. But I don’t think such a debate would go how you think it would go.
Clinton probably would have won a race that was essentially decided by a rounding error.
77 electoral votes is a rounding error?
Did this happen? The only place I’ve ever seen Medusa imagery is here.
I have no idea what she is talking about.
I have a question about that one. It’s such an odd topic to come up. I wonder if that one was pre-planned? I mean, it isn’t beyond the DNC to coordinate with moderators. And it isn’t beyond these moderators to do something like that.
I mean, the DNC loudly proclaimed that they would only be holding debates in Friendly quarters. They even went so far as to enforce this by saying they would ban any candidate who attended forums that were not run by friendly media organizations. That is not suspicious at all…/sarc
we also know that Savannah Guthrie was coordinating with Chuck Schumer and his office during the Kavanaugh affair. So we know even the Today Show staff is not above participating in partisan political propaganda. And I don’t think we need to even pretend that those working at MSNBC are above partisanship and political meddling.
It’s gonna be a long 2020 Campaign ain’t it?
*takes a swig of drink in sympathy*
Yep. . .
* looks into distance at the trees *
The San Francisco gang quickly decided Sleepy Joe wasn’t an investment
Gender, of course, functions very differently than race. But most women don’t want Trump to be president, and the 2018 midterms showed a widespread eagerness to put women in office. This week should give us confidence that a woman can lead the fight against this grotesque president. Surely it’s not riskier to back the women who won the debates than the men who lost them.
Whatever. Take your meds.
“I’m so vapid that all I care about is the type of genitals the candidate has.”
…even though those genitals have no bearing whatsoever on whether that person is actually male or female.
It simultaneously is the most important thing and also irrelevant.
Schroedinger’s Dick?
Lol
The first guy who puts on a dress at the next debate gets my vote.
My money is on Castro*.
*Is he any relation to, you know…the other one?
This one? I don’t think so.
Of this one ?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U67s5WmNuhI
I honestly think more women are likely to vote for a woman just because she’s a woman, than men are likely to vote against a woman just because she’s a woman.
After the Kavanaugh hearing, that may be changing.
In all honesty, after that incident, I had to have a pretty serious debate with myself about whether women’s suffrage was a mistake.
Women’s suffrage is the first step towards bankruptcy.
I can’t find it now, but I think BlackPigeon did a vid on that topic.
We had some pretty heated discussions in my household about that.
Apparently That scenario really pushes many women’s buttons. My wife could not even comprehend that there was another side to the debate. One that involved scary consequences for irrefutable allegations That are mini decades-old. We did not even get to the part of the discussion where even if everything alleged was true, it still was a nothingburger.
most of the guys I know who followed it at all where incensed at the whole thing. But then again, I don’t hang out with that many proggy guys.
Yep. Wife: “These females and the people who enable them give women a bad name. It’s a wonder we’re even allowed to vote if this is what a modern, empowered woman looks like.”
I don’t know. They may say that but deep down, they all want a man in charge.
^^^Now *that’s* how you shitlord.
Illiberal/Leftist women tend to like conservative/libertarian men more than soyboy leftist because conservative/libertarian men are typically more masculine. Nature > nurture.
That’s how I always read those “vagina hat” protesters – “my vagina is in charge and I always do what my vagina wants (and right now my vagina wants cock)”.
What would people infer if I walked around with a plastic representation of a hard-on stuck to the top of my head?
That you are a real dick head?
That with such a mushroom head, you’d be a fun guy?
Is Biden really imploding? I’ll wait for the next polls.
The last thing they tried to manufacture against that guy had absolutely zero effect on his pool numbers. Are the .3% of Americans who watched the democratic debates really driving this thing?
Joe Biden 2020 is Jeb Bush 2016.
Hes the establishment party hack choice and he has no chance.
Except that Bush was never that popular and Biden is kicks everyone’s ass in the polls.
Again, we’re going to get something really, really bad. Why not Biden or Harris or any of the other nuts? How many people are influenced by these debates this early? My guess is that it’s the media pumping out articles analyzing the damn things that is driving it. Nobody who avoids politics for most of their life is going to tune in for that.
The media chooses a narrative from the debate, then relentlessly flogs it until it becomes “common knowledge”. I’d bet many of the lefties saying Kamala “won” the debate didn’t even watch it. They’re just parroting what MSNBC told them.
Whether that moves the polling needle, I have no idea. But what I do know, the DNC is going to find a way to make sure Biden is the nominee. He’s the only guy who has a realistic shot of winning the general and the DNC overlords are not stupid. They know the Hard Left lunacy from the other candidates is poisonous.
The DNC may have lost control. Tiger by the tail.
Not exactly like the GOP did in 2016 but something similar could happen.
Are we talking about the same DNC that pushed Hillary?
I think the common idea that Bernie would have won is off base; they were screwed no matter what. People were sick of the Dems after Obama’s bullshit and I think Trump beats either one of them, but Hillary was the safer choice.
Then again, I may be overestimating the electorate. Or I’m just a general idiot.
It would have been harder to flip the blue collar worker than it was against “we’re gonna destroy your jobs” Clinton.
If Bernie had won the nomination, they wouldn’t have nominated Trump.
My contention is that people voted for Trump because he was the only one they trusted to stand up to Hillary’s BS. None of the traditional candidates would have told her during a debate that they’d nominate a special prosecutor to look into her email server like Trump did.
Can you even visualize (with a bloated budget of Hollywood CGI effects) Jeb calling Hillary out for her corruption?
I think it was plain and simple arrogance to think Hillary could win. She simply had too much baggage. Even her husband doesn’t like her. I think Bernie could have squeaked out a win over Trump. I think Trump has won a lot of voters over though, and don’t think Bernie could do it next go around. At this point, if Trump can avoid an Iranian (or any other military) conflict, he probably has my vote in 2020 and he didn’t get it in 2016.
Bernie’s numbers were inflated because of Dem protest votes against Hill-dog. Outside of the NE and hardcore socialist enclaves, the guy would not do well.
They’re just parroting what MSNBC told them.
I wouldn’t expect any more of them. They are literally incapable of critical thinking.
This.
Which is why the left is so passionate about maintaining control over the media and the narrative.
GODDAMMIT I had a long comment typed out when my login expired.
TL;DR Biden is already a hard-left lunatic. Yeah, he has time to flip-flop his way back to something resembling a 90s-style Democrat but will he? I suppose he will if the DNC tell him to.
I thought he sounded like a rambling drunk during the debate. Or maybe that was just me.
So? Trump did too. The point of those debates is to introduce you to new candidates and they have no other function. We will see if the new candidates are popular.
When you’ve lost Morning J0ke…
MSNBC host Joe Scarborough called the second night of the first 2020 Democratic debates a “disaster for the Democratic Party” and said that he hopes voters were not watching the face-off, which aired on his network.
“With apologies to our friends and watching, last night was a disaster for the Democratic Party,” Scarborough said Friday on “Morning Joe.” “My only hope is people were not watching and I will tell you why.”
He went on to jab the candidates for criticizing each other instead of focusing their ire on President Trump.
“So they’re lined up in trench warfare, ready to get out of the trenches and charge Donald Trump. Instead, they all turn their guns on each other and shoot each other, and everybody is yelling at each other all night,” Scarborough said Friday morning.
“If you’re an American and this is your introduction to these candidates and the Democratic Party, and all you see are 12 people yelling at each other, trying to interrupt each other, insulting each other, you’re like, ‘You know what. I thought Donald Trump was a clown show. I’m changing the channel.’”
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Scarborough also criticized the Democratic candidates for adopting a slate of progressive policy platforms, including decriminalizing border crossings and providing health insurance through a public option to undocumented immigrants, suggesting that they would not be able to beat Trump with that focus.
“It was a bad sign for me, as someone who desperately wants to see Donald Trump taken out of office,” Scarborough said.
He slammed Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) for calling out Biden on his history of opposing the policy of busing black students to predominately white schools. One of the most heated moments of the debate came as the California senator attacked Biden’s record on civil rights.
Scarborough said the “overwhelming majority of Americans” oppose busing as a means of integrating American schools. Fifty-nine percent of Americans opposed school busing in 2009, according to the Pew Research Center.
Who cares what some white conservative says?
“Conservative.” I crack myself up.
It is rather amusing to watch the circular firing squad happen to them for once.
Usually their overlords keep such a tight leash on them, they’re not allowed to look sideways at the presumptive nominee.
He does know what a “debate” is, right…?
and everybody is yelling at each other all night
It’s almost like they are campaigning against each other.
On a related note, can a business just be a business – I mean provide a good /or service and take money for it, without having to be political?
When I was doing shirts, one of my friends sent me a guy who wanted to have some Obama shirts made. He kind of hemmed and hawed a bit and asked me something like, “Is it okay? Are you for Obama?”
I said, “No, but I don’t give a shit. I’m just in it for the money.” He never came through with the order. I think he wanted me to do them for free.
Dirty capitalist! Don’t you know there are things more important than money?!? Like giving me everything I want for free.
My niece, a very nice Canadian, asked me about my cases : “You only take cases where you’ve got a chance to win, right?” and I replied “Well, actually, I take cases where people pay me.”
Given that it was your niece, did you help her think through the implications of only taking cases you can win? I totally understand why you wouldn’t.
Maybe next time, good idea.
Bingo. I’ve had at least one outright commie among my clientele (unsurprisingly, a total jerk in other ways) but their checks cleared, so…
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/458245ecf0da3b135ee9f5fec2986f843398e96d66e7c56b15744430ca20b2a6.jpg
https://www-m.cnn.com/2018/03/02/us/school-shootings-2018-list-trnd/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww-m.cnn.com%2F2018%2F05%2F21%2Fus%2Fschool-shooting-us-versus-world-trnd%2Findex.html%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3H1x3QJ6otW8zAGu9uWY-ZaLg0Q8XzWRfgCHOSZTrHYnn9475mAAIr7mM%26r%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fm.facebook.com%252F
I just saw this posted to facebook by one of my more ignorant acquaintances. The claim is that there has been an average of 1 school shooting per week so far this year. Scratch the surface of that claim and here’s what we get-
April 9: Gloversville, New York
A student shot another student with a BB gun in Gloversville Middle School.
March 13: Seaside, California
A teacher accidentally discharged a gun during a public safety class at Seaside High School, injuring a student.
March 8: Mobile, Alabama
One person was hospitalized after a shooting at an apartment building on the campus of the University of South Alabama.
March 2: Mount Pleasant, Michigan
Two people were shot to death at a dormitory on the campus of Central Michigan University. The victims were not students and police think the incident stemmed from a domestic situation.
February 24: Savannah, Georgia
A person was shot on the campus of Savannah State University and taken to a nearby hospital where he later died. Neither the victim nor the shooter were university students, the college said.
Anyway, you get the point and I think suthen says it best, “gun grabbers lie.”
“A student shot another student with a BB gun”
JFC.
Getting shot with a BB gun is a rite of passage GDI.
Me and my cousin “hunted” his younger brother once with BB guns at our grandparents. Wasn’t very nice.
In my experience, hunting younger cousins with BB guns is not so much a problem. It’s if you decide to quarter them up for packing out that it gets into NAP violation territory.
Not so if you take all the organ meats. You must show respect by utilizing the whole animal.
True
I love that movie
Last time I met my mom, the topic of guns/school shootings came out and I ended up having to pull up articles and studies to show her how rare and infrequent the actual school shootings occur as well as the weapons used.
All I got was an “Okay, I’m just going to disagree with you there and you don’t need guns because the government will just kill you anyways.”
Reason #9402385 why I drink.
“don’t need guns because the government will just kill you anyways”
I see she is a Sawellite
“because the government will just kill you anyways”
Sounds like she’s almost ready to be a Glib. Just need to modify the whole “you don’t need guns” as a consequence of aforementioned truth.
Story doesn’t pass the sniff test for me. Maybe we’ll find out in 8 years if the voice can be positively identified and if it’s clear that it was “rape” that was taking place. If true, I would say the same as with other historical figures, the truth whether spoken by the virtuous or the scoundrel, is still the truth.
https://quillette.com/2019/06/28/say-it-aint-so-doc-how-should-martin-luther-king-scholars-deal-with-the-rape-story/
I don’t get this obsession with needing historic figures to be saints. Who cares of MLK was a pussy assassin and a scumbag? He was one of the only ones preaching nonviolence, peace and love as part of civil rights instead of violence.
Like you said, who gives a shit if the messenger sucks, the message is what’s important.
I’m looking forward to seeing white liberals tear this down and renaming all of the streets.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr._Memorial
Don’t put it past them. But not for the reasons you imagine. They’re not down with the non-violence schtick.
“They’re not down with the non-violence schtick.”
As long as it the paid goons doing it. Them personally going toe to toe with the alt-right will be problematic.
I don’t remember who it was that first predicted MLK would be unpersoned by the Left eventually, but it’s definitely coming true. The guy was the anti-identity politician preaching true colorblindness and individuality; and from a religious perspective to boot.
The thing is: none of this surprised me in the slightest. I thought it was common knowledge that he was an insatiable poon hound. Since his ideas have become toxic to the New Left, now is the time to assassinate his character by acting as if these are new revelations.
This. I get respecting the figures, but I believe sharing their flaws would be healthier and more true to how reality works than how we currently deify them.
Yeah, the 24/7 news cycle has probably ended that anyways. Could a sports star get the hero treatment today that a Babe Ruth and Micky Mantle used to get? I don’t think so.
It’s Jesus fault really. No one can live up to that standard.
Also the standard issue human think famous good people are saints,when the famous almost certainly outweighs the good part. In other words the best people in the world are usually not the well known people but the Normal person.
Truth.
So what you’re saying is Jesus banged Mary Magdalene?
I like my heros with warts (but not psychotic deformities). I know I have my flaws and it makes me feel closer to them to see how much greater they were than me in some ways while still sharing the same humanity in other ways.
The author is — or at least was — a well respected MLK scholar. And at least part of it (the liquor and womanizing) is widely accepted as true. So it will be interesting to see how this turns out.
https://archive.li/b05Vb/c35c39cc6a0e0ae2b6c65608d2dddfeff7c8d1c7
Good grief Charlie Brown
Ugh. Drank too much vodka last night. Just got out of bed. Hosting a cookout/movie night in 8 hours.
I have to keep up my drinking to keep my Glib status, or SP will kick me out of the database.
Wow! Someone’s been paying attention.
Last night chez Humungus/ Flashman we drank vodka Arnold Palmer’s. Zomg there oughta be a law.
I don’t get this obsession with needing historic figures to be saints. Who cares of MLK was a pussy assassin and a scumbag? He was one of the only ones preaching nonviolence, peace and love as part of civil rights instead of violence.
He also, as I recall, preached self-reliance and responsibility.
The first guy who puts on a dress at the next debate gets my vote.
So what you’re saying is you’re voting for Harris?
Any glibs familiar with employment contracts or, more generally, have experience leaving a company? I just put in my notice yesterday, and later that afternoon received a notice that I’d not accrued the vacation hours that I actually took over the course of this year, and that they’d be clawing back some amount of money. It’s certainly possible that they’re completely in the right here, but it also seems like one of those things that they pursue because they figure nobody’s gonna push back on. I figured it’s worth asking here.
Your paychecks should tell you how many vacation hours you’ve accrued. Ask for the records if you don’t have them.
When they provide you records, make certain it’s a two-year history and not just your final statement. Companies are known to cheat on vacation payouts.
Companies are also known to do a terrible job of tracking actual vacation hours/days taken…
This. Doesn’t your pay stub tell you how many vacation hours you have accrued versus used?
A quick litmus test: have you taken more than half of your vacation days this year? If yes, you probably owe money. If no, then it’s worth more investigation.
If they want you to stick around longer than 2 weeks, that vacation money could be used as a bargaining chip.
Yeah I’d look into it. Everywhere I’ve been (where I had vacation days) it was clear how much I had and what I was owed. So I’d check your pay stubs. Also some places let you “go negative “ so check you haven’t taken more than you were owed. Finally it is pretty rare these days but some companies treat vacation as a lump sum paid out at the end of the year. While it really should be prorated I’d check your employment contract for any info on vacation compensation.
Thanks for the responses, guys.
If they are trying to fuck with your pay, it’s a federal offense with treble damages.
And depending on your state, state laws regarding vacation/pay practices apply.
“Your Polish guys didn’t have s**t happen to you compared to what happened to black people in America. No one imprisoned you for 250 f***ing years. And raped your mother, and your sister, and your brother in front of your eyes before they killed them…What happened to y’all was really bad…but nobody in the world’s been persecuted more than black people.’
Maybe it’s time to let black activists understand that the world doesn’t revolve around their historical pain which pains in comparison to what happened to other cultures and peoples.
The Poles for example.
It’s weird how they view history.
pales
“No one imprisoned you for 250 f***ing years”
I don’t think anyone was ever imprisoned for 250 years
https://youtu.be/hTcfDX1NvMk?t=8
I’m reading the comments and a few say he’s correct. What am I missing?
Besides, it doesn’t like a fair comparison anyway. Why do we have to play ‘my culture had it worse than yours’ anyway?
At least Tyson has the brain damage excuse for his retardation.
Send him a copy of Bloodlands.
OK. Now do women who refuse to swallow or take it up the ass.
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/a26838187/cheating-on-husband-personal-essay/
I think some marketing guy from Ashley Madison sent that in.
Hey man, sometimes you just have a headache.
I didn’t read the entire thing but it seems she is fooling around because her hubby won’t go down on her.
I dunno. Maybe my point of view is unusual because that’s never been a problem – but I wonder how much effort she has put into trying to get hubby to pick up the habit? I sometimes wonder if, in the day and age, American women can gently entice a man towards what they want in bed without some kind of iron-fisted ultimatum.
She’s just looking for an excuse to fuck around. The no cunny is a rationalization.
I didn’t read the article, but was he doing it before they got married? If not, then there should be no expectation that he needs to start.
disclaimer: I love going down on women. Give me a snorkel and a sandwich and I won’t come up for a week.
#metoo
#metwo-three-four…
Interesting article coming to interesting conclusions.
https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/is-your-boyfriend-effeminate/
I don’t necessarily agree with it, but it’s nice to see a unique viewpoint.
I wish she explained a bit more about men have been pushed away from being responsible.
about how men*
“If you’re dating a guy that is trying to get you to have sex with him before marriage or always trying to seduce you, get away from him because he’s effeminate.”
Lol.
I always thought that if you hadn’t decided to get married yet it wasn’t pre-marital sex.
Oh those crazy Cubans!
https://twitter.com/joannamrod/status/1143921678143164416
Would the poster too.
De Blasio was an utter moron to give Che Guevara a tongue bath in the city filled with people who were celebrating Castro’s death in the streets like it was 1999.
Also #would the poster.
Growing up in NM and living in Miami for several years taught me that there’s almost nothing stupider than the identity politics crowd stuffing everyone descended from south of the border as “Latino” or “Hispanic”. You’re literally grouping people as a race/ethnicity just because their ancestors came from Spanish-speaking nations with no thought at all to the individual histories of those nations, or the individuals themselves.
Might as well create an “Anglo” race/ethnicity and dump everyone from English-speaking countries into it (y’know, South Africa, India, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, all those places filled with whitey shitlords).
TL;DR – Identity politics is totalitarian and stupid.
Agreed, identity politics was and always will be a mistake.
Oh yeah. My Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Mexican friends all had disdain for each other. The different groups would exchange insults after school and refuse to hang out together, stuff like that.
Fine, we’ll take Trinidad, and Tobago, but not the Irish.
She’s a little on the Thicc side but pretty.
I thought the dead white gal was a Sugar Baby? Was that not true? Or is that being memory holed so they can really gin up some hate for the killer?
*Everyone* pays for the pussy one way or another.
She was . . .the only place I saw it mentioned at all was the Daily Mail. Which just further shows how much our media picks a narrative and only reports things in a way to fit that narrative. I don’t personally care that she was essentially a high end hooker, but it is part of the story.
I had not heard that at all.
Found it
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7185285/Missing-University-Utah-student-Mackenzie-Lueck-sugar-baby-sought-men-35.html
Betsy hates teh childrunz
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is rescinding an Obama-era rule that was created to protect students from abusive for-profit colleges.
The rule, known as Gainful Employment, required for-profit colleges and career certificate programs to post debt-to-earnings ratios, proving that their students could find good-paying jobs upon graduating. If the average ratio did not meet government standards, the school’s federal funding would be revoked.
The Department of Education outlined a number of reasons the regulation was flawed in a notice posted Friday. It said the rule failed to account for factors other than program quality that could affect a graduate’s earnings.
DeVos has also criticized the rule for not requiring all nonprofit colleges to also publish the data. In May, the department released new student loan data at the program level from nonprofit colleges, as well as certificate-granting programs.
“Again and again, Secretary DeVos proves she only cares about protecting for-profit colleges, no matter how many students they swindle,” said Aaron Ament, president of the National Student Legal Defense Network.
Who will stand up for the legitimate swindlers?
“protect students from abusive for-profit colleges”
Because it’s simply too much to ask of adults to look out for scams on their own.
*cough* gender studies *cough*
Not me.
Oh those crazy Cubans!
I like to ask, “How many people paddled makeshift rafts made of stuff like inner tubes and old bedsprings across shark-infested waters from Miami to Havana in search of a better life?”
Guess who
The presidency of Donald Trump has been one horror after another — the endless lying, the coddling and worship of dictators, the rank incompetence and corruption of the people he has chosen to run government departments, the saber-rattling and about-facing with various enemies, the repeated attacks on voting rights and free speech and a free press, the countenancing of rank racism and white supremacy in Charlottesville and elsewhere, the personal corruption and grifting at his resorts and golf clubs, the reverence for a celebration of ignorance, the disdain for science and expertise, the constant tweeting and spewing of hate and stupidity and racism and misogyny and xenophobia — the list goes on. Add your own outrages at will.
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I’ve spent my entire life trying to figure out how the entire nation of Germany, all of its ordinary citizens living in cities and towns and villages across the country, could have stood by while their own government rounded up people and stuck them in hastily built, disgusting concentration camps, and then proceeded to kill them by gas or bullets or starvation or overwork or disease or simple filth and neglect.
This was the week I think I finally understood it. What happened in Nazi Germany didn’t affect their own lives, it happened away from them, it happened to “others,” to people who were not like them, whom they had been conditioned to hate, and it happened at the direction of a leader they admired and revered. And it happened with the overt or tacit approval of their fellow citizens all around them.
We’re all Nazis, now.
When everyone’s a Nazi no one’s a Nazi.
Not everyone. You can prove you’re not a Nazi by condemning Trump.
Dissolution of power from the central government via lower taxes/regulation is total Nazism. Or is this person upset about the fact that this is a sovereign country with a border that is being enforced just as it has been for decades?
And having the government put people into private companies in order to make sure they are doing things “right” is not.
Trump is exactly like Hitler. I mean, look at these horrible Nazi-like things that he has said about immigrants:
But if [illegal immigrants] are going to live in this country, they have to be put on a pathway to citizenship that involves them paying a fine, making sure that they are at the back of the line and not cutting in front of people who applied legally to come into the country.
When it comes to immigration, I have actually put more money, under my administration, into border security than any other administration previously. We’ve got more security resources at the border – more National Guard, more border guards, you name it – than the previous administration. So we’ve ramped up significantly the issue of border security.
We need immigration reform that will secure our borders, and punish employers who exploit immigrant labor; reform that finally brings the 12 million people who are here illegally out of the shadows by requiring them to take steps to become legal citizens.
Oh, my mistake, those quotes were actually from Barack Obama. Silly me.
Oh yeah. My Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Mexican friends all had disdain for each other.
But them Asians, they’re all like peas in a pod. No friction at all between the Japanese and the Koreans and the Chinese.
I like to ask a friend whose parents are Cuban if “is this how you do things in Puerto Rico?” just to set him off.
Maybe too late before the beer starts flowing, but since this seems to be home improvement day- what’s everyone’s preference for cordless tools? Same brand & battery to minimize chargers or mix & match?
I’ve still been mostly plug in with a cordless drill and jigsaw (different brands), but I’ve been wanting a cordless screwdriver. I like the feel of the low end Black & Decker toothbrush over the pistol grip style & size but weighing going with a common set (with the smallest pistol grip like a Makita 12v) just to cut down on the different batteries.
I have a small makita 12v set, (impact driver and a drill) as well as a bosch 18 v set. My old wrists like the makita way better, but some jobs require the horse.
Same on the makita 12v – driver/drill combo, added the matching multi-tool. Plenty of power for what I’m doing.
You can always fall back on the corded tools when you need more power.
My buddies who work for a living get either Milwaukee or Dewalt. Those brands cost more upfront but you get what you pay for.
I have a Dewalt cordless (20v?) set. I’ve been nothing but happy, and the 2 batteries have been enough for most of what I do. The circular saw chews through a charge, but the other tools sip.
I reckon to get a 20v Dewalt set up when I get my new house. What’s another grand at that point?
The nice part about the DeWalt 20v is you can buy an adapter and still use your old 18v batteries. If not for that, I may have considered switching to Milwaukee in the future.
I sold all my stuff two years ago when a relationship went south and I needed to leave the state in 3 days. Still kicking myself for that. Oh well.
I work at a place that repairs and sells these tools (it has nothing to do with what I do, but I talk to the shop guys occasionally). The consensus I’ve gathered is that all of these tools have gone downhill since they moved manufacturing to china and since several of the parent company mergers. Milwaukee still seems to be a little better, but not great. DeWalt is solely riding on it’s reputation. When I talk to the guys in the shop, they tend to lean towards “get whatever is on sale”
Consensus for hand tools is that old Craftsman is the gold standard for used tools.
That sucks. Hopefully you at least got somewhere near what they were worth.
Interesting. That makes me wonder if Harbor Freight’s new line of cordless tools might be something to consider. I bet they’d suit most homeowners just fine for many years.
Given the short time frame, I made out okay on it. It was pretty low on my Give A Fuck About list at that point.
That’s kind of what I figured. My cordless drill is one of Milwaukee’s older styles and made in Central/Eastern Europe. I picked up a couple of very dusty NOS made in USA Milwaukee tools from a electronics shop that went out of business. Wish I could have bought more.
I have noticed that DeWalt is back to branding a bunch of their stuff made in USA again. Was made in Mexico for a while.
I’m also a big DeWalt fan and have been for years.
I have used Milwaukee tools at work and they are really nice, too. And the number of cordless tools they have is amazingly large.
If you are looking at smaller handheld tools (like a power screwdriver) check out the Milwaukee M12 line.
Can recommend Milwaukee. The M12 tools give you the option of a small piston grip battery but will also fit physically larger ones that hold more charge. I have their 3/8 impact, 3/8 ratchet and a jig saw, all heavily used and abused.
Thank you all! Appreciate being able to bounce stuff off the collective minds here.
I bought a bunch of Snap on cordless tools off Ebay and they are very impressive. The 14.4v stuff is great and the batteries last forever. I have a huge 1/4″ hex drive setup with drill bits, sockets and screwdriver bits so I use it a lot. Can’t recommend it enough. I have the 18v impact and it’ll take lug nuts off a semi. That’s like 500 ft/lbs. The 14.v impact takes pickup lugs off with ease. I barely start my compressor anymore.
Mass is in memory of my Dad tonight. It’s a sad /happy event. It’s still hard to think that he’s been gone a year and half now. Major kudos still go to Lord H for being there on the awful day, driving me to my parents house, and hugging me hard when I heard the sad news on the phone.
I’m sure nothing compare to a father, but one year ago tomorrow we got home from my Uncle’s funeral and received the call that the other uncle was having his breathing tube pulled. My dad lost two brothers in 6 days. It’s heavy on my mind the last few days. I’m going to go over to my parents tomorrow and do my best to distract dad.
My sympathies for your loss.
Let me extend my condolences as well. All family losses are hard.
So for Mythical Libertarian Woman and the other Glibs in YA stuff – has this Oni/LionForge hitpiece been making the rounds in your circles or are the comics groups pretty far separated from your groups?
ie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B1vjIwy9w4 (D&C) – although Ethan van Sciver also has a 2+ hour livestream talking about this in detail (fairly entertaining background noise)