We’ve entered the time of year when the heat is joined by its partner, humidity, and the desert becomes a steam table. Dry heat my ass. I’m destroying anything I wear when out hiking, just from the Jew Sweat. But before I head outside to face this, I’ll amuse you all (at least me, anyway) with some crazy shit floating around the news media.
Birthdays today include The Lip; a guy who shot a Coke machine; the guy who took nerdery to unheard-of levels; candidate for Most Tedious TV Producer; and someone who still objects.
On to the news.
OK, this is the one that may drive me from the same general dislike that I have for any president to full-blown TDS. Fuck you, Donnie.
And on that theme, “Fuck off, slaver!”
“We need to make sure we get our stories straight and not talk to anyone like that Judith Curry moron.” The dishonesty of politicized “science” on full display.
Jews to Sicilians: “Hey, y’all, hold mah matzo!”
$10 trillion dollars seems like a nice, round number. Not HER money of course, just you tax cattle.
A familiar script. “I feel morally obligated to come forward.”
ACLU loses a suit having nothing to do with civil liberties. “This is not over,” said Dror Ladin, a staff attorney with the ACLU’s National Security Project. Dude, you just lost at the Supreme Court.
“Wiretap, what’s a good recipe for blueberry pancakes?”
Old Guy Music is a video from one of the dinosaur tours. Back in the mid-80s, I saw TFT play at Magic Mountain to a crowd of nearly zero (recalling the air force base gig in Spinal Tap) and regardless, they were wonderfully fun. And they still are.
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A proud teetotaler who says he has never even drunk a beer, Trump heavily hinted that the countermeasure might hit one of France’s export crown jewels: wine.
“I’ve always said American wine is better than French wine!” the president said.
If he’s never had alcohol, how would he know?
like most people know most thing. extracted from anus
He knows…
And on that theme, “Fuck off, slaver!” – pay your due citizen
The agency warned that digital coin traders may have failed to report their investments properly — and they may owe money to the government as a result. The IRS began sending letters out last week, and expects to canvas more than 10,000 taxpayers by the end of August, it said.
Next week they’re going after Pokemon card traders.
Don’t forget baseball cards.
“Awwwwww…What’s in the box? What’s in the box?
$10 trillion dollars seems like a nice, round number. Not HER money of course, just you tax cattle. – but old man, think of the children.
Is the democratic party base dumb enough to think this is anything but pointless signaling?
Especially since her goal of 2050 will be about 18 years too late. The earth will just be a cinder drifting around the sun by then.
Yes. It’s a contest between the democrat and republican base to see who can outstupid the other.
So, business as usual?
Exactly. Especially because it’s US paying rather than them.
She wants her shot at stopping the rise of the oceans.
Ban government-sector workers from owning cars.
That’s what they’re doing at the airport. After suffering miserably with CNG for a decade or so, they’re going all in on plug in electrics. It’s reducing the miles traveled, if only because everyone’s afraid they’ll run out of charge and have to wait 8 hours to drive again. Can’t wait for the bus fleet to change to battery power. They’re already ordered.
Take all the parking lots at the Pentagon and turn them into green spaces.
Yay! Can’t wait to park at a remote stand and wait even longer to get bused to the terminal in the future!
Federal not state right? Please?
They think it’s about punishing the wrong-thinkers out in the middle of the country.
That’s a rhetorical question, right?
Be fair. Pie has fangs and sleeps when the sun is out. He’s not from around here.
But they ARE shifting the Overton window.
^^^
“Trump, a proud teetotaler, said he’d “always liked American wines better than French wines even though I don’t drink.”
Explaining how he comes to that preference, he noted: “I just like the way they look.””
Trump: the gift that keeps on giving.
He likes shiny things. This is known.
Colored liquids in uncolored glass appeals to my sense of aesthetics. When I first got into rendering, I went crazy making glasses of wine, bottles of wine, oil, etc. Nesting materials with different IOR so the object refracts realistically was a PITA until Luxrender got its volume shit together.
You know who else liked the way they looked?
Melania?
George Zimmer?
Sy Sperling?
I”m not a wine guy. Prefer beer. But my Grandma, a teetotaler herself, made lots of wine and gave it away to anyone who wanted some. Blackberry wine, dandelion wine and even plum wine. Her dandelion wine was wondrous.
IIRC Dandelion Wine was the B side of the 45 for Crocodile Rock. Still can picture it. Elton was pretty cool in those days.
“We need to make sure we get our stories straight and not talk to anyone like that Judith Curry moron.” The dishonesty of politicized “science” on full display.
I consider myself convinced. I say Americans need to have their taxes doubled. 10 trillion barely scratches the surface. Also ban cars.
“A mud hut on every plot!”
look higher taxes on US citizens is a sacrifice I am willing to make
*Racks Romanian made AK*
“The agency warned that digital coin traders may have failed to report their investments properly — and they may owe money to the government as a result.”
Did the IRS just call digital currencies real money?
On the inverse, can I now start writing off Blizzard digital currency as a loss?
a guy who shot a Coke machine;
Joan Crawford probably shot a Coke machine, too.
How did he fit it into the syringe?
With a wire hanger?
“Reckless, Hell! I hit just where I was aimin’!”
“Wiretap, what’s a good recipe for blueberry pancakes?”
I never understood why anyone wants one of those. I disable voice assistance whenever I can although they may still be lurking.
The YouTubers Union, a community-based movement fighting for the rights of content creators and users, has joined forces with IG Metall, Germany’s largest union and Europe’s largest trade union. Together, they have launched a joint venture called FairTube and sent a letter of demands to YouTube accompanied by a video explaining their concerns, demands, and plan of action.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/j5wy8d/the-youtubers-union-is-not-messing-around
right… that’s a bold strategy…
I’m sure that letter has been passed around YouTube headquarters as a humor item.
well YouTube headquarters will be attacked with slingshots
IG Metall and the YouTubers Union have given YouTube four weeks to respond to their demands, with a deadline of August 23.
“Tick-tock, the clock is ticking,” Sparve said in the video.
Fuck off, wannabe slavers.
Love,
YouTube
they have launched a joint venture called FairTube
Ooooooo, another YT alternative?!
…and sent a letter of demands to YouTube accompanied by a video explaining their concerns, demands, and plan of action
Oh, nm.
“distinguished digital publications (HuffPost, Vox, The Intercept, Slate)”
Are you fucking kidding me?
Distinguished is quite a…generous…way to describe those digital publications, yes.
I can distinguish them from reading material, ipso facto, Distinguished.
I am humored that Scientific American is now included in the same list as them.
I used to buy that magazine 25 years ago. Had a subscription to Skeptic, as well.
Yeh, Shermer’s hard turn into partisan politics destroyed a couple of good resources. I too was a longtime subscriber to both magazines. I left both behind some 15+ years ago.
Distinguished by stupidity, perhaps?
“This is CNN.”
Clearly he’s just one of those misunderstood pillars of diversity from the religion of peace.
I wonder what the overlap is between those who are critizing CNN for hiring a guy that made racist tweets as a teenager and those who were mad that Harvard dis-invited a guy that made racist tweets as a teenager.
CNN guy’s tweets weren’t technically racist. Jew is not a race. Bigoted, sure, racist, no.
I thought they were both, or one or the other, depending on how convenient it is to an argument.
Touche.
Can’t we all just agree that racism simply means anything that one finds objectionable.
*jazz hands*
Sure thing, you racist!
I can’t tell if this is agreement or not.
Then I suppose we are done here.
Did someone get reparations? No? STOP OPPRESSING ME!!!!
But his name is Mohammad, so clearly he is a Jew killer.
Uffda. I’m not going to sugarcoat this. Looks like Omar’s honeymoon is over
A) How is she affording all this crap? Now that I think of it, I have no idea how the Omars make their money.
B) Learn to assimilate! Starbucks? In Minneapols? Every True Minnesodan knows it is Caribou Coffee.
C) Laughed at the story line that says a lot of Somalis are mad at her for not wanting to kill the gays
She must not be from one of the sects that kills the woman for divorcing.
“We were excited to have a member of the Somali-American community elected, just not her” made me snort beer out of my nose.
Yeh I don’t think that sentence means what I think it does.
“as she heads for SECOND divorce”
Obviously not Catholic
This serial monogamist casts the first stone.
Yeah, but did you marry the same person the 2nd time around?
Nearly?
Close, err, far enough for govt work.
Meh, I pay more rent than she does.
He actually is shown leaving a Caribou (look at the logo on the door and the cup in his hand) that is falsely referenced as a Starbucks. They do show a planned out shot of a Starbucks that he was supposedly at, but the clearly misidentified Caribous have me wondering if this is some type of paid ad for Starbucks.
Panned, not planned GD autocorrect.
OT: Two killed in South Korea balcony collagpse
The incident occurred at a nightclub where athletes from the World Aquatics Championships were celebrating; several athletes were among the injured.
(Sorry, I couldn’t find video of the actual collapse.)
What? Our women won some national sportsball tournament and I didn’t hear anything about it? Didn’t they have any fierce purple haired players who hate Trump?
*Not surprised at all by this story. Korea is a country that looks like it was built by a 10 thumbed idiot like me.
Didn’t they have any fierce purple haired players who hate Trump?
No, they all have fluorescent greenish-yellow hair, just like all swimmers.
Uffda. Looks like Canada still has some shitlords of toxic masculinity running around in the wild.
I thought for sure it would be link to the two serial killers on the loose but you amended my expectations.
Good on those lads.
The teens promptly apologized for it taking so long
As the driver was American, it took several tries before the apology was successful.
“Late night donut run” Very Canada.
Fuck you Gillette.
“The teens called a fourth friend, Dan Morrison, who arrived on the scene brandishing water battles and a speaker so the group could listen to music while performing their manual labor.
Morrison drove behind the trio with his hazard lights flashing to alert other drivers.”
Why couldn’t their buddy just push or tow it with his car?
They’re Canadians, they still use metrimeters or whatever.
Uhhh… WTF?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/republican-danielle-stella-aiming-to-unseat-ilhan-omar-charged-with-felony
She has a bad case of crazy eyes.
She’s gonna steal the election…
Try hiding that up your hooha.
Speaking of fishy…
https://www.foxnews.com/great-outdoors/massachusetts-teen-catches-700-pound-tuna
Photo: Where Not To Put Your 700lb Tuna
Fuck that. She’s gonna steal your bunny.
She is also allegedly a big Qanon tinfoil hatter. But she still has roughly the same probability of winning that race as any other GOP candidate.
Is there anyone at this point who is sitting on the fence with respect to his or her position on global warming? But MSM thinks this will convince the naysayers…
Their intention is to make a reasonable approach to the science impossible to maintain. There can be no criticism of falsified data, poorly constructed statistical analysis, or hyperbolic conclusions.
I wish Trump would tell his NSF guy to only give out grants for research into global cooling. Just to watch the scientific community pivot on a dime and start preaching cooling.
It’s now the DNCLU
I like how the paper felt the need to clarify that it was satire lest someone feel offended.
https://www.floridaphoenix.com/2019/07/26/i-dont-see-any-white-privilege-do-you/
Ok, now do black people or mexicans.
“White People privilege like this *privileges all dorky* but Black People privilege like THIS *privileges with a laid-back pimp stride*”
*legitimate chuckle*
“ACLU loses a suit having nothing to do with civil liberties. “This is not over,” said Dror Ladin, a staff attorney with the ACLU’s National Security Project. Dude, you just lost at the Supreme Court.”
Sigh. It will be fun when Democrats use military budgets to enact green new deal and gun confiscation.
Yeah…not gonna be a fan of when that comes up.
“Pen and Phone”, Brother. It won’t be long before the pendulum swings in the other direction. Get ready for Canada 2.0
What’s sad is we Canadians see where America is heading. 2.0 indeed. The voting public is just not vigilant enough. I hope I’m wrong but me no like trend.
We’re like the Greeks who observed Rome.
Look at the bright side. Maybe this means Congress won’t give the military so much money that they have giant slush funds lying around waiting to be spent?
Sigh. Who am I kidding?
Covering Climate Now, a project aimed at breaking the climate silence that has long prevailed within too much of the news media.
*gapes in astonishment*
Scientists now think that __________ is caused by Climate Change.
A: Orange Men,
B: White Men,
C: Lack of Union Power
D: All of the Above
E: A & C
B. Straight White Men Refusing Copulation With Pre-Op M2F Xanspersons.
What’s this climate thing and why haven’t I heard about it?
C. Because you died in the flooding.
What was so sad about it was he had just escaped the great net neutralization.
RIP Everyone
Because of the lack of net neutrality. Obviously.
dammit. Should have refreshed before commenting.
That’s the mission TV newsman Bill Moyers urged at the launch of Covering Climate Now, a project aimed at breaking the climate silence that has long prevailed within too much of the news media.
Aaaaand done.
Christ, isn’t Bill Moyers dead yet?
I was about to type the same thing.
*internet search*
85 years old. Political activist all the way to the end. Don’t you have some grandkids to spend your last days with, Bill? Prick.
Proselytize for your religion. Gaia demands it.
Funny how all the deities seem to have created man just to impose demands on him.
God is to humanity as Glibs are to orphans?
I demand nothing of my orphans.
I EXPECT them to work, Or Else.
I guess Swiss comes by his orneriness honestly
Gal who moved to Switzerland when she was 8 denied citizenship because she’s a loud mouth vegan.
Any comments from our resident Servator?
She should collect a caravan of other load mouths and storm the border.
“load mouth” nominated as improved replacement for “cocksucker”
A load of loud mouths cavan-collected and border bound at the speed of sound.
NO LOUD MOUTH’D SHNOOKS.
What you did there- it was noticed.
+1 Foghorn
I meant to add-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFZqR4r6fcM
As the guy who literally wrote the book on loudmouth evangelical vegans, I’m with the Swiss on this one.
residents did not want to grant her citizenship “if she annoys us and doesn’t respect our traditions.”
So
RACIST.
>>$10 trillion dollars seems like a nice, round number. Not HER money of course, just you tax cattle.
that’s awfully nice of them. BTW, that’s not a flattering pic of AOC
She somehow looks like Granny from Looney Tunes there.
Ilan Omar is a mess. Oh Minneapolis—why don’t the Dems fight harder for the Dem nomination? It is such a plum job!!
But she’ll fix America good again!
Rolling Stone on Kamala Harris
Sen. Kamala Harris listens to Yekutiel, the son of a Brooklyn-born lawyer and an Afghan Orthodox Jewish rabbi, as he tells his story about how his family reacted to his coming out.
“She held my hand, and we had a very powerful moment,” Yekutiel tells me later. “Like a lot of politicians, real emotional connection is what fuels her. Selfies and stump speeches, that’s not what gives them energy. What does is being in a broom closet with a small-business owner who is disowned by his father, and being able to look him in the eye and say, ‘I got you. I’m Kamala Harris, I’m running for president. I’m one of the most powerful women in politics, but I’m here for you.’ ” Since the first Democratic debate, something different is happening with Harris.
After months of a campaign that was stagnating in the polls, her performance on the Miami stage edged her into the top tier. For an electorate rightfully obsessed with defeating Donald Trump, Harris made herself look like the best person to stand opposite him — and she did so by weakening the front-runner, Joe Biden, in an unforgettable exchange about his opposition to school busing in the Seventies.
“And you know,” Harris said as the former vice president looked away from her, “there was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools, and she was bused to school every day, and that little girl was me.” Biden’s head snapped toward her. The entire primary had changed.
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Harris’ life experience and political skill may give her the unique ability to pull together the broadest possible Democratic constituencies — the fabled multiracial Obama coalition that seeks both progress and pragmatism, and a far left that has moved beyond “hope and change” to focus on bold and concrete policy goals. But almost immediately after her triumph over Biden, she faced a series of birther-style character assassinations from bots and conservatives that echoed what President Obama faced from Trump during his administration. (Donald Trump Jr. briefly took part in this racist rumormongering, sharing, then deleting, a tweet that falsely claimed Harris isn’t an “American Black” because she’s “half Indian and half Jamaican.”)
But Harris, 54, may have to overcome an even bigger obstacle, one that also happens to be one of the central selling points of her candidacy: her career in the criminal-justice system. Her decades as a prosecutor — including seven years as district attorney of San Francisco and six as the state’s attorney general — arguably make her the perfect person to take on our lawless president and restore order. Nobody that has seen her grilling the likes of William Barr or Brett Kavanaugh in Senate hearings can deny her ability to outmaneuver an adversary. But that she is a black woman who chose to work within a system that’s proved time and again to be biased against African Americans means she needs to earn the trust of black and progressive voters. It’s a compelling quandary that no other candidate faces, and decisions she made around wrongful convictions, truancy, and sex work are now being given a hard look by voters.
I’m on the edge of my seat.
she faced a series of birther-style character assassinations from bots and conservatives that echoed what President Obama faced from Trump during his administration.
Trump started the Obama’s a Kenyan thing, really? (serious question)
But that she is a black woman who chose to work within a system that’s proved time and again to be biased against African Americans means she needs to earn the trust of black and progressive voters.
So she needs to earn the trust of black voters because she’s working in the system that’s so biased against blacks that a black woman had no trouble getting elected. That people wouldn’t trust her is the only part that makes any sense at all.
I remember back in Nov. 2008 saying, “Now that a black man has been elected President of the USA, maybe we will finally stop hearing how the system is rigged against blacks.”
I was so naive.
And you KNOW they have an explanation for this which works for them (he was a “well spoken, half white, educated…”) but at that point I can’t be arsed to care anymore.
a tweet that falsely claimed Harris isn’t an “American Black” because she’s “half Indian and half Jamaican.
Her mother is from India. The father is of mixed Indian descent. She went to high school in Montreal. You know, the standard American Black experience.
She lived in Westmount, an Anglo stronghold home to some of the richest people in Quebec.
Quebec? In Canada.
The epitome of privilege her.
True. Even after la loi 101
“part of the second class to integrate her public schools”
Which is a lie. Those schools were already integrated. She was in the second class to be bussed there.
She outmaneuvered Kavanaugh? Really? You mean by asking multiple questions about whether he talked to someone in a BIG lawfirm about something? And never did anything with it? No “I have a report that you did”? No “I have caught you lying”?
I mean she did have that really stern look on her face but I don’t regard that a win by itself.
The 2.73 gears are out, replaced by 3.55s. And I really like the difference, especially with a engine you have to wind out to get power.
meh? https://i.imgur.com/ASrOVSwl.jpg
or https://i.imgur.com/ASrOVSw.jpg
I vote for the 404.
Do you have an auto or manual transmission in the gelded pony car?
I recall the later Fox bodied GTs did much better with a gear swap as well. At some point I’d like to get a mid to late 80s GT before they changed to the more “aggressive” look.
I will in the NYT article that Democrats are thinking about impeachment and subpoenaing Mueller’s Grand Jury. It’s like they don’t actually want to impeach Trump but just want to constantly insinuate that some bombshell will come out.
The 2.73 gears are out, replaced by 3.55s
I’m telling
Momthe EPA on you!Don’t drive that car to California; they’ll confiscate it and send it to the crusher.
The crusher is battery powered, no worries.
“He was a perfect gentleman,” Mahele Nyota said. “But I obviously felt uncomfortable with my mom spending a night with a man half her age, a man that’s a total stranger!”
Way to go veering of the “smash the patriarchy-Gillette do better men ad” script.
Random people are not the devil, news at 11.
Huh. I read that whole Rolling Stone thing about KAMALA! (or else!), and Willie Brown’s name was not mentioned even once.
Drink this bottle of water, somebody get a blanket and some cocoa, just try to breath, slow and deep. How many fingers do you see?
“American taxpayers shouldn’t be subsidizing an industry built on greed that’s destroying communities’ health and the planet,” she wrote in the post. “So I will work with Congress to end federal subsidies, including tax subsidies, for the fossil fuel industry.”
The New York senator also said she would reduce the federal government’s carbon footprint by repairing infrastructure, like building out electric-vehicle charging or prioritizing transportation funding for high-speed rails, as well as making it more resilient to the effects of climate change, particularly in rural communities.
Oh, okay. Horse drawn trolleys, it is.
Once we’re done weaponizing the tax code against every segment of the economy we deem insufficiently woke, we’ll have more money than we know what to do with.
I’d have to look it up again but I believe that a good portion of those subsidies are for reduced cost heating oil for the poor.
“You’re trying to freeze the poors, you monster!!!”
That’s the point. Some of them are even proud to admit it.
Those projects, she said, would not rely on carbon-intensive products, thanks to a federal “buy clean” standard she would propose. In fact, all new major energy infrastructure projects would be required to undergo a climate analysis to ensure they’re consistent with the net-zero carbon and other greenhouse gas emission goals.
In other words, magic.
So she’s pro-nuclear energy?
Wow! It sounds SO science-y and well thought out. I bet she did all the math on that without help too!
“net-zero carbon”
This is the new euphemism for that engine of graft, carbon credits.
A trillion here, a trillion there… before you know it, this country will be the sort of place people will be proud to call home.
White nationalist spotted!
In regards to climate change I think one positive development has been the allotment of more parking spaces for green cars.
https://imgur.com/gallery/nELyu07
I would prefer a camo-painted pick-up with a gun rack but that Mopar will do in a pinch.
That’s a classic
Truly an ass
That is awesome.
Matt Taibbi looks in the box, and Schroedinger’s Investigator ain’t looking too spry
At times Mueller appeared to be merely non-answering questions. In other cases he seemed genuinely confused, unable to remember names, dates, and events, or follow the logical thread of questions.
Both Democrats and Republicans appeared startled by his inability to follow questioning, and commentators on both sides of the political aisle pronounced Mueller’s performance a train wreck.
“This is very, very painful,” tweeted former Obama strategist David Axelrod.
“I don’t know what the #Dems were expecting from #RobertMueller,” wrote Howard Fineman, “but this probably wasn’t it.”
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The main result of Wednesday’s hearing was to lift the lid on a two-year media myth.
When Mueller was appointed Special Counsel in the wake of James Comey’s firing two years ago, the press plunged into hagiography mode. Donald Trump really screwed up this time, we were told, trading the “anguished Hamlet” James Comey for the “adamantine Marine” Mueller. He picked the fight with the wrong G-Man!
Mueller was soon a literal religious icon, depicted as a steely “Lie Detector” on the cover of Time. He became so many things to so many people over two years that Atlantic magazine did not seem ridiculous when it depicted him, cape-clad, above a headline reading:
Batman. Superman. Boyfriend. Savior.
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Until the hearing this week, it was never even suggested that Mueller was being shielded from press conferences because he couldn’t hold up in front of the cameras, or physically incapable of running his own investigation. Yet one of his own former prosecutors, Glenn Kirschner, just suggested Mueller had a “health issue” causing a “dramatic difference … in communicative abilities.” How had we not heard that before?
The reason was, nobody in the press had seen or demanded evidence Mueller was up to the job.
The truth is out there, and it’s ugly ugly ugly.
He became so many things to so many people over two years that Atlantic magazine did not seem ridiculous when it depicted him, cape-clad, above a headline reading:
Batman. Superman. Boyfriend. Savior.
The august journal of respectable upper class American opinions, ladies and gentlemen!
The answer is more windmills…
https://imgur.com/a/gDV6Euq
Yeah… but on a day like that can’t they just switch to solar?
I wonder how much additional power you could get out of a windmill if the blades had panels mounted (REALLY securely) on them. They’re pretty big, looking at the Enercon E-126, maybe 60m sq per blade? That’s a max of like 180kW of incoming light, but after tracking and conversion efficiency probably less than 10kW-electric added onto a $14mil/7MW windmill for god knows how much additional cost in panels.
Ok, never mind.
Muh SLUSHFUNDZ!
With all the infighting and intraparty intrigue in recent weeks — most recently over the prospect of impeaching the president — many Democrats in the states are beginning to worry the party is losing its grip on its message, potentially paving the way to Donald Trump’s reelection.
The anxiety reverberated far from Washington this week, as the nation’s governors gathered here for their annual summer meeting.
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For Democrats attempting to focus the electorate’s attention on health care and economic positions popular with general election voters, a second round of presidential primary debates next week is likely to add to their frustration. The party’s sprawling field of presidential candidates are outbidding each other with increasingly liberal positions on impeachment, criminal justice and immigration that are being demanded by the party’s base.
In the run-up to the debates in her state, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer cautioned that Democrats’ “strength is on the dinner-table issues.” The party’s presidential candidates, she said, “should stay focused, I think, on solutions that really improve people’s lives.”
She said, “In this environment, with all the social media and all the stuff coming out of Washington, D.C., it’s so easy to get distracted by the tweet of the day.”
For several days at the National Governors Association meeting, Democratic and Republican governors touted bipartisan work in the states on the economy and other issues, while Democrats labored to keep a heavy focus on health care. But the fallout from special counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony on Russian interference in the 2016 election hung heavily over the proceedings.
Looking at Washington, a top adviser to one Democratic governor said, “The feeling here is that everybody just needs to get on the same fucking page.”
Democrat governors know what plants crave. Get Trump out of there, and get the juice flowing.
Why does the Democratic governor’s association allow a racist like Ralph Northam in its midst?
FYTW
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said that in confronting Trump, whom he called a “master messenger,” Democrats “have to have that capacity, as we do in Minnesota, to multi-task, to not normalize that behavior.”
With Trump attacking the four high-profile progressive congresswomen who make up the “Squad” — tweeting that Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts should “go back” to the “crime infested places” they came from — Walz said, “It’s a fine line. Because if you all of a sudden say, ‘You know, I don’t have time for this. I need to focus on roads.’ Really, you don’t have time to address racism? You don’t have time to address interference in our elections?”
The first primary debates last month laid bare how fractured the Democratic Party remains, with significant ideological disagreements not only about health care, but also immigration and criminal justice reform — issues Trump is already signaling he’ll leverage in his re-election effort. A Fox News poll this week found Democratic primary voters’ support for health care for undocumented immigrants and decriminalizing crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border are opposed by a majority of the electorate.
More vote-buying, or ad hominem attacks? Why not both?
What does that even mean? What does multi-tasking “as they do in Minnesota” (what, do they do it differently there?) have to do with confronting a “master messenger”? And how does one “not normalize” being a “master messenger”.
Is it just me, or are more and more people speaking in gibberish these days?
Authentic Frontier Gibberish has been replaced with Insincere Political Gibberish
Why does the Democratic governor’s association allow a racist like Ralph Northam in its midst?
He know how to vote, when the cards are on the table.
Damn, I can snag a salmon fishing permit for 80k right now that’s down from 200k over the past two years. It might be worth it to sit on it and wait for the price to go back up if/when the fish ever come back. Or I’d be out 80k if they don’t come back.
When they come back? Uhhh… This year was a really strong year in Bristol and they’re raking them in in Kodiak. Where’s the permit?
Chignik.
The Bay crushed it again this year. Unreal. Good for them, even if it’s mostly outsiders.
You should be able to easily recoup your initial investment by leasing out the permit every year. I’m guessing you don’t have a boat and it’s a seine permit?
Correct on both accounts.
Did they get any kind of opening at all this year? Where’s your nearest Cannery, Kodiak?
I think they had two openers this year and zero last year. After the Chignik Trident plant burned in 2008? they’ve relied on floating processors or hauled to Kodiak or Sand Point.
I live in Anchorage but lived out in the bush and spent time in that area in a past job.
I’d look a lot more into it, but it sounds like a fairly reasonable investment. Buy low. Sell high. The salmon aren’t just going to disappear.
If I had 82k laying around that I could risk, I’d probably do it.
Glibs syndication opportunity?
https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/static/applications/dcfnewsrelease/993821032.pdf
That permit is only 76k on Dockstreet. I’d think about it, but I’ve got WAY TOO much on my plate right now.
*looks up 401k withdraw penalties*
Cy, are you in AK or WA? I take it you’ve spent time on boat up here.
Texas. I own a 150′ tender working out of Kodiak right now. I have a lot of family up there. I was born in WA. Long story short, I’ll probably be moving back to WA in the next few years.
Gotcha.
An article on tendering would be pretty cool to read. Hint. Hint.
We bought a ship in Louisiana that was sitting in a bayou in December. Re did the bottom, added shoes, redid the mains and gensets, installed fish tanks, installed refrigeration and sailed it from New Orleans to Panama to Seattle to Kodiak…. We did all of that in 7 months. During that time, we’ve had an engine fire, a piston through a block, an intentional ramming by a tug boat, an illegal seizure of the boat… that’s just scratching the surface. I could almost write a book, but at this point I probably couldn’t afford the pen to do it.
Yeah, you definitely have to submit an article on the ordeal.
Damn, I can snag a salmon fishing permit for 80k right now that’s down from 200k over the past two years. It might be worth it to sit on it and wait for the price to go back up if/when the fish ever come back. Or I’d be out 80k if they don’t come back.
The salmon all drowned when the polar ice cap melted.
It’s for a management area that has been skunked two years in a row. Three years ago deckhands were making 80-100k for two months of work. However, deckhands aren’t known for their financial foresight and that money is long gone, and the boat/permit owners are also hurting because their boats ain’t cheap.
A recent poll by a leading centrist think tank found that less than three in 10 Democratic primary voters support Abolishing ICE. But 64% of those who tweet at least once a day do. The alarm for Democrats is that the gulf between those presidential primary voters and the general public is also quite deep, said Lanae Erickson, senior vice president for social policy and politics at the Third Way.
“If it sounds like Donald Trump is the only one who cares about keeping our country safe, that’s bad politics by Democrats,” Erickson said. “What voters want to know is that Democrats also care about knowing who is coming into our country and following the laws and making sure it’s a not a free for all. But that part is much more difficult in a Democratic primary.”
Fuck the voters. We’re saving democracy.
I’m in favor of abolishing ICE.
Jeffrey Epstein’s ex-cop cellmate says he saved multimillionaire sex offender from hanging: source
He’s accused of murder and bunking with a creepy pedo so I don’t care.
Ex-cop and pedo in prison… which gets shanked first?
Tough decision.
Why not both?
I think Kissinger had a saying about situations like this…
They’re living in worst conditions than the illegals in the border camps, and that’s okay!
With Trump waging war on America’s legal and intelligence communities to help undermine public opinion of the Mueller probe and his dialing up the rhetoric around illegal immigration, the deeply divisive and often personal partisan rancor that has marked his tenure in Washington is bleeding into the states. Along with a stalemate on an immigration solution, spiraling federal debt and a lack of progress on fixing America’s infrastructure has added to the dysfunction.
What a shithole. So many people are fleeing the country, it’s impossible to count them all.
Just traveled to and from Chicago last week. Anyone who thinks there isn’t a shitload of infrastructure spending going on should take a road trip.
No kidding, the West is Booming,
The Front Range was one big construction zone.
Seems to me a whole lot of people supporting the intelligence community were ridiculing it about WMD in the recent past.
With Trump waging war on America’s legal and intelligence communities
Put one in the credits column (if this is even true, which I haven’t really seen).
spiraling federal debt
Suddenly that’s a problem again?
Citing free speech, judge dismisses Covington Catholic student’s lawsuit against The Washington Post
Well that blows… They really screwed over those kids.
So, basically, all reporting is legally opinion now.
the paper did not factually report Sandmann had behaved in a violent or menacing way, relying instead on a recounting from Nathan Phillips, the activist, who said the teenager blocked his path.
It used be that publishing somebody else’s defamation was grounds for being held liable. I don’t even see the court saying the false statements were opinion, not fact. Just that a paper can publish defamatory lies said by someone else and get off scott-free. Which is a brand new standard, as far as I can tell, that would basically erase the tort of defamation from the American judicial system.
ruled that the Post’s reporting was projected as free speech
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The ruling elaborated that although the reporting may have been inaccurate it was not defamatory.
Claims of goat fucking may have been inaccurate, The Post apologizes for any confusion.
Beat me to it. But I’m bean drinkin’.
What kind of beans are you drinkin’?
What else could it be? Jim Bean.
Shocking moment a homeowner pulls a gun on teens who attempt to rob him as he waters his lawn – before one of the suspects, 15, is shot by another neighbor while fleeing through their backyard
Literally owb, but okay.
Teens approach man watering lawn. Attempt to rub him. Man pulls pistol. Teens run away. Teens crash. One teen flees. A man shoots fleeing teen when teen enters his property. Man arrested.
Justice?
If some guy walks up to me with the intent to rub me, he better be ready to fight.
#nohomo
NTTAWWT
Some jurisdictions will charge somebody just to get the facts out and clear them of wrongdoing. It helps the citizen if the perp lives and tried to file a civil suit.
Thank you for the correct use of citizen. The insidious use of ‘civilian’ when it comes to things like this drives me crazy.
I’ve spent more than enough time in the military to cringe whenever I hear/read somebody in a blue uniform refer to citizens as “civilians” – as if LEO’s are not civilians.
How many cops do you know who have been fcuked up by an IED? Or really traded fire with a belt-fed and RPG’s? Yeah, I didn’t think so.
I don’t see any cops getting Article 15s, so fuck them. Playing tacticool dress up to flashbang a crib doesn’t mean you’re in the military.
I had a bit of a row some years back with a cop friend after getting the standard line about how I don’t “know what it’s like” out there… “on the job.” I asked him if the perps were now planting IEDs on the local freeway or if he was getting rocketed in his house at night. That wasn’t so well-received, but I wasn’t in the mood and Afghanistan was a lot fresher in my memory.
Well, as far as I can tell he is being kept in county jail, and although the fleeing teen wasn’t trying to get in his house he was on his property. I think the homeowner could easily receive some charge.
I wouldn’t convict him. GTFOMMFL.
Holster fail?
Cops: Pregnant Woman Had Sex With Boy, 14
Midwest white trash > anything on World Star
She’s facing 50 YEARS! She could a killed him and got 20.
It’s equality under the law, which makes it right.
I guess I came away from that story saying “fuck you” to the French for their digital tax.
If the French government wants to tax its own citizens, that’s their business. If the US government wants to tax me, that’s my business and (especially in this case) I object.
They are taxing their own citizens to the detriment of US citizens. In situations like this, I’d say there’s enough Fuck You‘s to go around.
I think Kissinger had a saying about situations like this…
“Kill them all, and let Yahweh sort them out”?
I assume you are aware that this statement is paraphrased from centuries ago…
The New Yorker Seriously Mischaracterized the Story of One of Al Franken’s Accusers
This is basically an article that explains why, if a person is choosing to trust a journalist, that person better do their research on that journalist, because chances are those journalists aren’t your friends.
Also, don’t trust a journalist.
In a police interview this week, Stricker reportedly confessed to having sex with the minor up to 100 times, saying that the victim “acted older than 14
He lasted longer than twenty seconds?
The kid knows how to throw hog, Brooks.
“You don’t tax our companies. We tax our companies.”
Mafia boss Trump.
Holy cow. Keenan Wynn’s full name:
Francis Xavier Aloysius James Jeremiah Keenan Wynn
Yeah. I had to read that four times just to let it sink in. Hell of a handle.
That’s Mr.Cross to you.
At least he’s not “junior the 1st.”
When you’ve got as many kids as the Wayans clan, you have to get creative with nam….oh, what? Never mind.
*looks up actual guy referenced….oh, thank god, he’s white*
845 am, 100 degrees at the River, and YES ITS A DRY HEAT, all the humidity left the desert on Thursday night.
now we go get beer and a kiddie pool full of ice, and enjoy the melt!
Attention shade tree mechanics: I just learned that this tool existed. No more deep frying your hand when pulling the drain plug!
*adds to cart*
Oil filter’s gonna get you worse than the plug anyway.
This is true.
I’d like to give a hearty “FUCK YOU” to the GM engineers who thought it would be good to tuck the filter up into a recess in the oil pan on the 5.3 liter
You can buy a drain plug valve, too, if you’re changing the oil often,.
Thanks. Searching right now.
If you like the Beatles, tune in to Michael Shelley’s show on the fun 91, WFMU right now. On wfmu.org
Is it just me, or are more and more people speaking in gibberish these days?
It’s not gibberish, it’s secret code, like blinking S-O-S during a propaganda film shoot.
Gooble gobble, one of us!