A confession: we still haven’t actually unpacked from our move. The process is not simple since our new residence is smaller and more oddly shaped than our old one (much like me). Much furniture and box moving back and forth for the latest iteration of room arrangement, in the manner of that old logic puzzle of the farmer, the fox, the goose, and the grain. I am feeling every day of my age at the moment. And Wonder Dog still looks at us like she’s been betrayed, despite having a new barking target, that giant roadrunner who lives in our yard. I’ve seen roadrunners before, but this one is massive, the Warty of the bird kingdom.
Birthdays…. let’s just say that every libertarian should be celebrating today as a holiday. But still, there are others: a pretty cooley guy who merely invented bits and software as words when he was done revolutionizing mathematics; the guy who gave Sheldon Richman a reason for living; the biographer of Al Gore; and a fine mess.
And now the news.
I’m shocked, SHOCKED that our fine men in blue could possibly lie to cover up for their brutality. I mean, this is a Team Blue city.
I have an alibi. Not sure about Heroic Mulatto.
Taking a stab at social media. That’s gold, man!
This put me in the mood for Del Taco.
So much missing from this story.
“We have the best crashes. Only the best crashes! The classiest crashes!’
Never change, NPR, never change.
Someone badly, badly needs punching. And it’s going to happen if there’s any justice in this world.
Although my Old Guy Music has a definite indy folk, classic prog rock, and bop jazz slant, I do get my funk fix now and then. And from one of my favorite funk bands, here is a perfect period piece.
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OJ tweeting from a golf course?
There’s a slice joke in there someplace.
I, for one, will not be taking a stab at finding it.
If the pun doesn’t fit, Swiss must acquit!
He’s a real bogie man.
“The sender’s name? A NSFW take on Bilbo Baggins from “The Hobbit.””
Dildo Baggins?
Prolly something like that. “Bored of the Rings” named the character Dildo Daggins.
Anyway, how is this story news? Because they were both on the same plane?
Samwise Creamjeans.
Is it just me? I don’t get it, but I don’t understand the technology.
one of the flight attendants picked up the intercom and told “Mr. Baggins” to immediately stop AirDropping.
They just took care of it,” she said. “They continued to check on me during the flight and as I left the flight. I just was incredibly impressed. . . ”
“Our crews are equipped to respond quickly and appropriately to address these concerns . . .
Because the individual was not arrested and Southwest did not identify the sender . . .
So: someone made some neighborly and unenforceable remarks over the intercom, some passenger felt better, and then WN took credit for the non-event?
Not only that but she had to have her airdrop settings to allow anyone to send a request. That is stupid.
“MIND BOGGLING Fast food could cause dementia – and the damage is ‘irreversible’, scientists claim”
That first pic is pure science. Stay classy, The Sun.
Demi Rose eating a Big Mac?
And there’s no connection between fast food and dementia, just overeating and dementia. But the researchers and media have a cultural animus towards fast food.
I’m reminded of the acrylomide hoax, where if you eat your body weight in cooked starches every day, the acrylomides produced in the cooking would kill you. It was true of any starch, but the news reports only mentioned french fries and potato chips.
Without any sort of data to back it up….
Potatoes seem like the most-commonly-fried of the starches. Corn 2nd. Wheat and Rice might be tied for 3rd.
My point being, some of that animus is probably from the corn lobby.
/adjusts-tinfoil
Meh. It’s bullshit. Fast food, however that is defined, is not bad for you. It doesn’t make you fat and it doesn’t give. you dementia.
I still won’t eat that crap.
Nor will I but the deranged hatred of fast food is deranged.
True. Also, tautology. But I get your point.
some fast food is indeed bad for you
It’s all relative. Potentially bad here because of the overabundance of easily available, high-caloric food. Same “bad” food would be a godsend if available to medieval peasants or current residents of a location like North Korea.
I think it was Freakanomics that described McDonald’s $1 double cheeseburger as the most efficient form of nutrient delivery, for the cost, in the history of the world. Or something like that, I don’t remember the exact quote.
overabundanceFor the first 125,000 years of human existence, the chief nutritional challenge was starvation.
All the sudden, birthday boy Adam Smith come along and recognizes what a great thing trade is and a few hundred years we’re all dying of abundance.
yes but it is also highly processed probably has sugar in it and canola oil or some shit…
$1 double cheeseburger
for affordable nutrition, potatoes and peanut butter are hard to beat; in the apocalypse, kill for ammo and peanut butter
George Washington Zombie Carver
Guns and (peanut) butter.
I would add that people who consistently choose to eat fast food probably are not making healthy eating choices the rest of the time. Anybody who sucks down 2 to 3 quarts of soda a day isn’t really looking at what is in the food they eat.
At least their picture is better than The New York Post
https://nypost.com/2019/06/13/your-terrible-diet-could-be-ruining-your-brain-study/
*eesh!*
Although the Post’s title is (surprisingly) much less clickbaity.
Agreed – screwing with somebody trying to honestly find a job is awful.
I’m trying figure out how this got the green light.
Oh, never mind… South Park – Netflix, you’re greenlit.
Never been a fan of the prank show genre.
I’ve seen a couple episodes of the Carbonaro Effect, which were pretty good.
https://www.trutv.com/shows/the-carbonaro-effect/index.html
The only way that is acceptable is if they hand out big checks at the end.
Pitman’s first words to the flight attendants: “I know this sounds crazy…”
Not “I never believed it until it happened to me”?
Well played!
“Two major figures of the revolutionary era who were not present in Philadelphia were future presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Starting in 1785, these two stalwarts of the Revolution had been serving as their fledgling nation’s first “ministers” — ambassadors — to Great Britain and France — the rival powers whose influence the framers most feared.
In a letter written late in 1787, Adams wrote that he understood Jefferson being “apprehensive of foreign Interference, Intrigue and Influence.” Adams said he shared that very concern and thought it was a good reason not to have elections too often.
“As often as Elections happen,” Adams wrote, “the danger of foreign Influence recurs.””
Didn’t Jefferson get help from the French, then after he was President give them a huge chunk of change for Louisiana?
See? He was right to be concerned!
i do not like the Anthony Davis trade. That is all
Good for LA since it gets the Ball Show out of there.
meh. I didn’t mind. what I don’t like is the lebron show.
This. Lebron is not only drama I think he’s poison in the dressing room and with coaches. I could be wrong but my impression of him over the last few years is a negative one for a player of his stature. When I mentioned this to a friend he responded, ‘yeh but he does great things for his community!’
That he does great stuff for people outside the game is irrelevant. I’m not judging him on his works off the court, I’m strictly looking at how behaves in the NBA. Not sure why people conflate the two since plenty of athletes do that. The most recent is Parayko with Laila in St. Louis.
Basketball is the only sport where a player can take over an organization to ridiculous levels.
It’s annoying.
a player can take over an organization to ridiculous levels
I don’t care about pro sports other than baseball, but this just seems like shitlords doing well in a market for talent.
Meh. LeBron has been a spoiled baby for years. The first year he took the Cavs to the playoffs, the night before a playoff game, he took a bunch of his teammates out to a club until at least 02:30. But if you want to start a fight, go to Akron and say something bad about him.
If you’re a Lakers fan and want to see them legit contend in the west, you should. He’s a beast and will carry that team with LeBron to at least the conference finals.
Vegas agrees.
Plus with KD and Thompson out for GS. That leaves who to challenge? Portland?
Denver? Houston? How is anyone going to defend a pick and roll with AD and Lebron? It’s going to be near unbeatable in the playoffs. Only hope is to outscore them 120 to 125. Not gonna happen and I don’t like the Lakers at all.
meh. one injury away from contention of an old and an injury prone player. and for me it is not just winning that matters. i like home grown talent in teams.
We’ll see. Someone at Lebron’s age and the number of years in the league needs a young gun to lean on and I’m a big fan of AD. Let’s talk after the all star break. My guess is the Lakers will be ten games above 500 at that time.
meh i wanted kawhi… but i think that aint possible. I certainly hope they dont throw a max at kyrie or kemba
Certainly isn’t any more. The Lakers are screwed in the future, but for now? Add a few shooters and they’re good to go.
Vegas has the Lakers as 3-1 favorites to win the West next season.
“‘My Little Pony’ gets its own same-sex couple just in time for Pride Month”
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2019/06/15/my-little-pony-gets-its-own-same-sex-couple-just-in-time-for-pride-month/
Of course it did.
So Bella Thorne had some leaked nudes or whatever. i was not sure how I knew who she was and them remember there was a commenter (sarcasmic?) at reason who kept sharing her daily fail links when she was like 16 and shit, not unlike our local thicc aficionado . anyhoo for some reason i already though she had nudes out there.
Yes, she did.
NSFW
https://thefappening.rocks/albums/index.php?/category/550
NSFW
Also, site has a ton of cancer.
Who?
*DDG’s Bella Thorne*
Ok, some actress. Good on her. Some asshole tried to blackmail her with stolen nudes so she just put them out there.
yeah i usually ignore these things but i was reminded of reason
i think every link had the comment “youth is wasted on the young” or something like that
Heh, I said that yesterday. But now, I can’t remember why I said it.
Said what yesterday?
“Hey @CDPROJEKTRED, I’m always available for consulting cause it sure sounds like you might need it before the whole of the internet drags you for what sounds like some potentially sexist representations… which we all know you’ve struggled with in the past
Nudity itself isn’t the problem, neither is showing and expressing sexuality or sexual desire. It’s about how it’s represented and what values the overall narrative promotes.
Video game designers! Let me help you avoid these kinds of mistakes. I want you to make the great games you’re envisioning while appealing to a broader audience (and that includes not offending entire market segments).”
https://twitter.com/anitasarkeesian/status/1140137417661407232
Well, I for one give her credit. She’s moving up from fraud to blackmail.
Literally who?
I never understood gamer gate until I read michael malice’s new book. These people don’t want anyone to be able to ignore their ideas.
You’re not a “market segment” if you were never going to buy the product anyway.
Were several of these lobbyists named Podesta?
Oddly missing from that story is bags of Chinese cash handed off to the Bill Clinton campaign.
Hey, but HRC is totally different because she solicited the foreign agent, not the other way around.
Yeah, I saw that. No matter what or how bad it is the left always has some shitweasely logic to justify it.
And she didn’t imply that she might be able to influence a member of the government – she was the member of the government whose authority she was delivering.
The mind boggles. To watch all of these Democratic candidates and lawmakers posturing about Trump’s comments makes my head spin. They are all members of the Democrat Party. Their own National Committee did not just accept help from foreign governments, they paid a British agent to bring Russian disinformation in the form of the dossier.
None of this is even secret. They admit all of it. And yet, no one seems to have the honesty to ask the simple question of these people, why aren’t you pushing for the dissolution of your own party? Why aren’t you pushing to put the people responsible in jail?
So I go on a two week news fast and literally nothing has changed. The Dems are still looking for some way to impeach but haven’t done anything yet. I know why, but an honest media would stop talking about it until some real movement was made.
There’s no money in doing that.
I don’t believe it is about money with them. After all, they are failing in market share.
I think they see themselves as the real force behind the US government. They’re the saviors of the country. And they are the propaganda wing of the democratic party. It has always been there in some form, but between the crazy, worshipful years of the Obama Administration and the election of trump, they have gone full tard. They no longer pretend to be an independent fourth estate. They are simply the mouthpieces for the DNC.
Maybe, whatever the cause they’re doing a terrible job.
They’ve kept this going for almost 3 years now. You’re going to need to take a longer break than that.
The president has claimed several times this year and as recently as Friday in a “Fox & Friends” interview that the U.S. stock market would be 5,000 to 10,000 points higher if the Federal Reserve hadn’t raised interest rates four times in 2018.
Nah: BHO44 and DJT45 are just riding a dead cat bounce from 2008; the slack is being taken up consistently . If taking credit for the SP500 were a presidential thing, Trump should be tweeting: so far I’m as good as WJC42.
Today, I’d like thank the glibs for banging their wives.
who are these they?
“Happy Father’s Day to all, including my worst and most vicious critics, of which there are fewer and fewer. This is a FANTASTIC time to be an American! KEEP AMERICA GREAT!”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1140256498561536000
I didn’t get to bang any of the wives. 🙁
I did. It was disappointing.
“Antivirus pioneer John McAfee complains that he is trapped in Cuba while on run from the IRS and vows to expose ‘corrupt’ CIA agents if anything happens – one week after his ‘body double went missing’”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7145207/Antivirus-pioneer-John-McAfee-says-trapped-Cuba-run-IRS.html
What the hell is it with that guy? Every time I hear about him it’s more and worse trouble.
he’s livin life?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p47fEXGabaY
jesus i actually clicked on that. goddamnit
Hi couldn’t figure out what it was going to be?
How did auto-correct get “Hi” out of “You”?
Been seeing some of his tweets about the search for his missing double. Hope the guy is okay.
Three thumbs up for Old Guy Music today.
I found the perfect girl for OMWC:
https://twitter.com/beyondreasdoubt/status/1139942270252269568
WHY DID YOU DOX SP????
Re-shared from yesterday’s dead links:
I’ve heard of jealous jilted lovers before, but Florida Man takes it to a new level.
Lorena Bobbit was acquitted the day before my son was born, so those papers I bought then will never be framed and hanging in his office.
Good grief. I put about 4 inches of food in 3 hummingbird feeders yesterday afternoon. This morning 2 of them are empty.
I just got an image of Michelle munching on bird seeds on your land. And when you turned the spot lights, it frightened her and she ran away.
Well, it is sugar water not seed, but that is funny.
I was wondering who might be robbing the feeders, the birds don’t usually consume this much food this early in the season. By late September, early October they will eat about a dozen quarts per day, but this early only about one.
There is a bear that shows up once or twice per year and robs my fruit trees. I am gonna be shit out of luck if he figures out what is in the bird feeders.
sugar? junk food? come on give the birds some broccoli
You joke, but some morons out there mix fill their hummingbird feeders with artificial sweetener.
…as the hummingbirds die before they reach the next source of real calories.
Think of it as an excuse to buy another 45-70
Last winter I went out about 2am in my pajamas and slippers to get more wood for the fire. The firewood is stacked about 100 feet from the house. While I was loading my arms up with wood in the dark I heard the bear. That sound is unmistakable. Even if you have never heard one before when you hear that sound you know exactly what it is. The fucker was close, closer to me than I was to the door of the house. I nearly shit my pajamas. I never did see him but apparently he saw me.
I was talking to one of the locals recently and told hm that story. He said “Awww that ol’ thing? I see him all of he time. He is only about this big *puts hand about 3 feet high*”
I responded with “Would you be scared of a dog three feet tall? It might be small bear-wise but it’s still a bear.”
After that incident I keep a rifle by the door. I would hate to have to shoot him but I would hate wrestling with him in my pajamas more.
And the bear was later seen telling a story about his encounter with a “scary ass white guy”…
Black bears aren’t likely to attack you. Although “aren’t likely” is no guarantee. Wild animals are wild. I’ve seen them during daylight, while walking through the woods, and we just ignored each other. Still, it’s better to have a gun and not need it, than need a gun and not have it.
US bears are weak not like strong Russian bears. That is why the US is doomed.
Why would the bear be in your pajamas?
There it is, I was beginning to fear that Suthen teed that up so high that nobody would hit it.
It’s just rude not to acknowledge someone’s set-up work.
don’t feed wild animals.
You would think OJ would just, you know, lay low and live his life in quiet peace. Bu nope….socio – no – psychopaths gotta psycho.
He is a piece of work alright. Honestly I am surprised he is still drawing breath.
Tell someone to learn to code and they toss you off Twitter, murder two people in cold blood and they’re happy to have you.
Allegedly!
Alright, they’re allegedly happy to have you.
Study: Men find low waist-to-hip ratios attractive because it signals youth — not health or fertility
https://www.psypost.org/2019/06/study-men-find-low-waist-to-hip-ratios-attractive-because-it-signals-youth-not-health-or-fertility-53849
and here i though it signaled thiccness
New study: Most studies are bullshit.
eh the menfolk liking the ratio on women folk is pretty well established
Isn’t youth an indirect indicator of health and fertility though?
Isn’t an hourglass figure a high waist to hip ratio?
High waist-to-hip ratio would be 24-36-24.
It is generally referred to as high HIP to WAIST ratios. Not low WAIST to HIP ratios.
“low waist to hip ratio” is reserved not for girls blessed with nice hips, but rather the ones that starve themselves into a bowtie.
“Police Let Mom Keep Feeding Son Bleach After She Showed Them YouTube Videos, Doctor Approval
Search YouTube for “Miracle Mineral Solution” or “MMS” and you will find a trove of videos about how consuming bleach will treat various illnesses—acne, flu, malaria, HIV, hepatitis, cancer, and autism.
But MMS is just chlorine dioxide—an industrial bleach. The Food and Drug Administration has warned that MMS “can cause serious harm to health” and said the agency “has received several reports of health injuries from consumers using this product, including severe nausea, vomiting, and life-threatening low blood pressure from dehydration.” It advises that anyone who has the solution “should stop using it immediately and throw it away.
One such YouTuber who has reportedly promoted this dangerous “treatment” is Laurel Austin of Lenexa, Kansas. According to an NBC News report, the first time she fed one of her sons the bleach solution, she filmed the moment and shared it with her thousands of subscribers. Reporter Brandy Zadrozny described the video, writing that after the young man, who has autism, took the solution, “his arms seem to involuntarily twist around one another and he screams into his forearm before taking a bite of a banana.”
According to NBC, four of Austin’s of six children have autism, and a review of her Facebook page showed she has attempted various fad alternative treatments on her children. The news outlet reviewed social media posts and a Lenexa police department documents that reportedly show throughout the last year, Austin has given regular doses of chlorine dioxide to her two sons, aged 27 and 28.
Police documents reviewed by NBC show that Austin shared with police a link to a Rivera video about chlorine dioxide protocol, and online articles from Autism Research Institute, which promotes the widely debunked notion that vaccines cause autism. According to NBC, a police officer wrote about the articles in the report saying, “This legitimizes the claim by Laurel of her use of MMS CLO2 as a holistic treatment approach.”
The documents also reportedly showed that police reviewed a list of supplements meant for one of the sons, which advised he take 16 doses of chlorine dioxide treatment each day, one every hour. This was reportedly signed and stamped by a primary care physician at Kansas University’s MedWest Family Medicine Clinic, Sarita Singh.”
https://gizmodo.com/police-let-mom-keep-feeding-son-bleach-after-she-showed-1835521968
https://twitter.com/Gizmodo/status/1140001061329149952
It’s retards all the way down.
Jesus.
HCl plus CLO2 equals salt water. What a fucking idiot.
“four of Austin’s of six children have autism”
wut
Austin. autism. It’s practically right in the name.
even more wut is “Austin has given regular doses of chlorine dioxide to her two sons, aged 27 and 28.”
If adults are willingly consuming bleach, that’s not autism, that’s mental retardation.
Sounds like Mom is mentally handicapped. At some point one must reflect back on what the problem is, sounds like its in house. Stop eating fast food, Mom, it’s the cause and not a solution.
/sarc/
Is YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki – Wokejcicki – evil?
Discuss.
yes.
I’d imagine she thinks she’s doing the right thing…so definately.
I think we throw the term “evil” around to cavalierly. Very few people are actually evil. Being an anti-free speech control freak does not, in and of itself, make one evil.
Anti-free speech control freak leads to gulags.
I think evil is appropriate here.
If you actively use power to suppress speech and opinion, you’re evil.
EVIL!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rADdKqPNdaM
I just don’t think someone who is in charge of a private company, banning videos that company doesn’t like rises to “evil”. Could that person have evil intentions in their heart? Absolutely. I just don’t think the act automatically makes her an evil person. She honestly (to give her the benefit of the doubt) thinks she is doing it to protect people. Misguided, unprincipled, stupid, etc…but not evil.
WATCH THE VIDEO.
I’ve always thought KITH was overrated. Fight me.
Evil!
Seriously. Like most sketch comedy, there’s the good, the bad and the ugly I guess.
You’re just saying that because you have the fever for Candace Owens.
“If I were President, the punishment for burning the U.S flag would be the renunciation of citizenship. No jail time, no fine— simply one year to liquidate your assets and get the hell out of our country. In exchange, we’d extend citizenship to a hardworking LEGAL immigrant.”
https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1140235720843550720
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bhko8xygwVh/
Wow. She’s not messing around.
Just a wee-tad excessive.
I have been traveling the back roads of Northern Wisconsin the last week. Internet connectivity has been oh, well not good enough to call it intermittent. And the weather has been very pleasant for someone used to South Florida Heat. But I still don’t think 40° is reasonable for mid- June.
Anyway, I made it to a spot with internet coverage today. And imagine my surprise when I found out there is a new and bizarre attack on Trump. No, not the weird thing where he told Stephanopoulos he would take dirt from a foreign government. And then the Democrats all pretended like that was the worst thing that ever heard when their own National Committee actually paid a foreign government for dirt.
No, I’m talking about the weird thing where our government is supposedly stepping up its cyber attacks on Russia.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/448759-trump-accuses-new-york-times-of-virtual-act-of-treason-with-russia
So for some reason senior officials are telling the press that we are increasing cyberattacks on the Russian power grid. And they are saying that this is Way Beyond the levels that they used to do before Trump took office. So for some reason they are admitting that we are attacking the Russian power grid? And this was taking place under Obama?
And then to undermine their own attack on Trump, they say Trump doesn’t know anything about it. Because they were afraid to brief Trump about it?
The implication being that Trump might leak it to the Press? Unlike these guys?
Or maybe the implication being that Trump would shut it down if you found out about it because he’s a Russian agent? Because supposedly we should all be in favor of our government committing acts of war against Russia?
I can’t figure out the logic of the liberal mind. But whatever, the New York Times in the rest of the press seem to think that this is making some great political Point against Trump. And of course there is not a deep state. Only a conspiracy theorist would think that.
“Do you believe that the Failing New York Times just did a story stating that the United States is substantially increasing Cyber Attacks on Russia. This is a virtual act of Treason by a once great paper so desperate for a story, any story, even if bad for our Country…..
…..ALSO, NOT TRUE! Anything goes with our Corrupt News Media today. They will do, or say, whatever it takes, with not even the slightest thought of consequence! These are true cowards and without doubt, THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1140065304019644427
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They actually do painstaking research and deep vetting on every article they print, not just blurt them out loud to their golf caddy Twitter Secretary and wait for one of his five same asskissy compliments.
48 replies 32 retweets 421 likes”
Lol. Yeh-k Jeremy.
Sure they do. Sure.
Much research. So vetting.
Either you can’t share the details but declare who’s speaking, or can’t share the who because of the details they shared. One or the other can weightify your claims. Not revealing both?
+1 Bold Strategy, Cotton
A story sourced by nobody, who knows nothing. Perfect.
I didn’t follow it closely but that was my reading of it.
That would be it. Not cyber attacks directed against a foreign power &sovereign state could be construed as an act of war, depending on what was done.
He’s both an ignorant low IQ rube AND a must-faceted evil genius with designs only high IQ villains can execute.
That’s how they play it. And if you don’t pay close enough attention you’ll be sucked into the incoherent vortex of the modern liberal press.
That’s what gets me, those things are mutually exclusive and they just don’t care. It’s fundamentally irrational.
https://www.engadget.com/2019/06/15/us-offensive-malware-in-russia-power-grid/
“The US is effectively betting that this creates a stalemate, rather than exacerbating an already tense situation.”
Seems like a big gamble.
wut
In any event, I would imagine that every country that is capable of doing so is already doing this to each other. The Times yapping about it seems politically motivated to me.
There is nothing the anti-Trump crowd would love more than to get us. sucked into a war so they could use it against Trump.
Is YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki – Wokejcicki – evil?
Who’s a what, now?
I can’t figure out the logic of the liberal mind. But whatever, the New York Times in the rest of the press seem to think that this is making some great political Point against Trump. And of course there is not a deep state. Only a conspiracy theorist would think that.
For some reason, that made me think of the big outburst of media huffing and puffing over the SHOCKING REVELATION that, somewhere, deep in the bowels of the Pentagon, there exists a contingency plan for the invasion of Canada. Deep in the bowels of the Pentagon, you will find a contingency plan for pretty much any scenario you can imagine, no matter how unlikely. It’s what they do.
Study: Men find low waist-to-hip ratios attractive because it signals youth — not health or fertility
I don’t like girls with big fat asses. What does that tell us?
Not my preference either
You’re gay?
i think there are 75% odds you are not a rapper
because it signals youth — not health or fertility
Ignoring that youth typically correlates to health and fertility.
It tells us, Brooks’s anaconda don’t bite.
Girls with fat asses and no tits look lopsided. Moreso than girls with big tits and small asses.
“Don Lemon and Jim Acosta Insist CNN Isn’t Anti-Trump or Pro-Democrat: We ‘Hold Their Feet to the Fire’”
https://twitter.com/Mediaite/status/1138814481306226688
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/don-lemon-and-jim-acosta-insist-cnn-isnt-anti-trump-or-pro-democrat-we-hold-their-feet-to-the-fire/
Lol. Two cowards who can’t admit they’re partisan hacks.
If they could admit it I’d respect them.
Oh I’m sure they held Obama’s feet to the fire. Lemon in particular that little racist twat.
What a bunch of partisan hacks. Stop pissing on us and calling it rain, I’d prefer they just be honest with themselves at this point instead of insulting our intelligence.
It’s like they are in a contest to see who can say the most outrageously ridiculous things.
Where was this fire 4 years ago? Where will it be when Trump is gone?
I was more annoyed I had to quit a Battletech mission (in Iron Man mode) in order to join the call.
At least the Save&Quit option is quick. Almost upto iron man. Been putting off Coromodir for 50 missions now…not sure about the pacing, taking longer than i’d like to get all 3 bays filled with big mechs, and upgrading everything prolly won’t ever happen.
Still pleasantly addicted though.
Oh, goody. Chuck Todd has his pointy little badger teeth sunk in Trump’s treacherous request for “dirt” on his opponents generated by foreign governments.
“AGAIN” just like in 2016.
pointy little badger teeth
Funny but accurate.
Buttgag is a prissy little douchebag, spouting a nonstop stream of vacuous nonsense. Much Presidential.
Much Presidential – you joke but… i mean your not wrong
WHYCOME U HAYT GHEYZ?
cause they are considered to have better fashion sense than me
I keep forgetting that guy’s name. Whenever I see him all I can think is ‘Alfred E Neuman’
“Let us join together in celebration of our grievances.”
I got a rash.
That’s crabs Straff.
Where does that rank?
How nasty is the hooker you caught them from? You could get some victimhood points by association.
All you can eat/drink suddenly becomes much clearer.
Sunday, Slutty Sunday.
https://thechive.com/2019/06/16/the-battle-with-clothes-rages-on-clothes-are-losing-43-photos/
number 6 has a weird print on her underwear that is unappealing
Damn Canuckistanis.
Strike two?
For the second time in recent years, auto workers at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., have narrowly voted against forming a union.
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The governor’s visit and the onslaught of ad campaigns around the vote added to debates on the shop floor that may still be lingering after the vote.
Christopher Bitton, a worker at the Chattanooga plant who opposed the union, said the lead up to the vote exposed divisions among the workers, and he does not expect those tensions to dissipate.
“There has been a clear division between pro and anti on the floor,” Bitton told NPR member station WPLN. “And after this is over with, I don’t know whether or not this is going to clear up.”
Union officials accused the Volkswagen officials of interfering with the vote through “legal games,” saying workers faced threats and intimidation and a “campaign of misinformation” ahead of the vote.
Workers at the Chattanooga plant typically start out getting paid $15.50 per hour. Just months before the union vote, the company announced pay increases for production team members. While that is a strong wage compared to median earnings in Chattanooga, it is below what unionized auto workers are paid.
Competitive wages? That’s anti-union.
Something tells me the UAW won’t just accept this gracefully.
Just keep having votes until you get the correct result.
i had an Austrian colleague that was shocked when i said we voted against a union in the Romanian branch. or workers council as they call it. I see no point to it in a design center. and the arguments were weird. she said like when people get bad performance reviews the union can protect them… i mean yeah but if the reviews are accurate someone else must pick up the slack
on the other hand she was against vaccines and chemicals in food…
What happened that Detroit is no longer the auto building capital of the world?
If the dumbasses form a union there the same thing will happen to that plant.
In fairness, Japan is the short answer: a culture with few native resources evolved a data-driven industry that built small, reliable cars that got great fuel economy just when the world needed it but before the US3 figured out how to do it. The American unions had a huge investment in the status quo; their intransigence was a key ingredient in the failure of the US3 to evolve to maintain share.
FWIW, Japanese unions were a vital ingredient in the employee development and process quality that accelerated Detroit’s collapse.
It’s a very different world now and so it should be. Half of my career has been spent removing people from the equation by designing quality into the components. People like me joke that the factory of the future will have two employees: a guard and a dog . . . the guard is there to feed the dog, and the dog is there to bite the guard if it looks like he’s going to touch any of the equipment.
This is the first I’ve heard that Japanese auto manufactures were unionized.
Are they unions in the same sense as US Unions, or something more…I don’t know, Japanese? I mean, were the Japanese ones more about team and unity, or collective bargaining?
They made a good documentary that explains it. It’s streaming on amazon.
i remember this blog about suppressing unions helped Japanese textile industry grow in the 20s
https://pseudoerasmus.com/2017/10/02/ijd/
We call that condition “running lights out.” It’s never actually been achieved, and frankly probably won’t be. The market demand for a specific product mix isn’t stable enough to for the fab not to be always reconfiguring.
It could be done by robots.
Not as long as there are trade unions.
But yeah, maybe once there is a general purpose construction robot it could happen. But at that point there will also be completely automated farms, Johnny Cabs and the like.
I remember that Twilight Zone episode.
Eh, the unions are far from the only, or even main thing that happened to Detroit. The unions moved with the plants. Much had to do with changes to layout of plants (and zoning) and other government foibles. Plus racism played a real role. The union in Detroit itself was far ahead of its time in terms of racial equality as opposed to later iterations (I’m looking at you Gary Indiana).
Union officials accused the Volkswagen officials of interfering with the vote through “legal games,” saying workers faced threats and intimidation and a “campaign of misinformation” ahead of the vote.
Threats and intimidation is the job of the unions!
Holy shit- the nodders are sitting around the table talking about how Trump has completely destroyed the norms of behavior in American life.
Yeah, that’s all Trump’s doing.
Did they happen to specify or give examples?
I would be legitimately surprised if they did…and if it wasn’t in some way hypocrytical on their part or something taken out of context.
Hypocritical, even.
Just like he has destroyed the “norms” of the office of president. Dozens of people who were assholes in one form or another occupied the office before him. “journalists” are the most historically ignorant people I can think of.
“journalists” are the most historically ignorant people I can think of
Part of the reason for this is that they failed to adapt fast enough. The old model was collapsing and lots of people refused to change. The end result is a new generation of “journalists” that were never mentored by the previous generation, full of the mistaken notion that they got where they are now because of how smart they are, rather than because they bought in at fire sale prices.
she said like when people get bad performance reviews the union can protect them… i mean yeah but if the reviews are accurate someone else must pick up the slack
The union is there to protect the lazy and incompetent. The ambitious and competent don’t need help.
The union’s primary purpose is to protect their source of graft and enrich themselves; protecting incompetence is a peripheral bonus.
RE NPR and “foreign interference,”
Supposedly there was this rooshian operation after the election where the Badenovs would set up an anti-trump protest and pro-trump protests at the same place at the same time (using “fake” social media accounts to organize them).
Not only did NPR run with/promote the (rooshun-backed fake) anti-Trump protest, they interviewed the handler of the account on the air.
AFAIK, NPR has never admitted they were party to foreign interference.
THAT’S DIFFERENT!
How is this a “paradox”?
https://www.france24.com/en/20190616-american-paradox-deficit-widens-even-economy-grows
well deficit is only influenced by how much money the government collects and this has to do with the economy. there is no other factor that influences deficit.
I know this has been covered, but the bar graph is pretty enlightening.
https://freebeacon.com/culture/this-fathers-day-thank-dad-for-his-hard-work/
What I take from this is that Dad works harder at the office no matter the circumstances, and staying home is relatively light duty regardless of who’s doing it.
Dads are sometimes labeled lazy, but they don’t deserve to be, a new research brief from the Institute for Family Studies argues. – is the IFS reliable?
https://ifstudies.org
Judge for yourself.
Though I will say that any “reliable” (read: academic) institution would probably have gamed the data to make sure their preconceived conclusions are satisfied.
this site is ot impressed
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Institute_for_Family_Studies
then again that site looks like far leftist bullshit of the worst kind
also way to hide their racism with the picture on the banner
Happy father’s day!
Get off my lawn
Lol
Imagine being this guy:
https://twitter.com/TheBlackNerd/status/1140068842124828672
Coverup! Obstruction of justice!
A lawsuit filed by a former campaign staffer who accused Donald Trump of forcibly kissing her was dismissed by a federal judge on Friday.
According to Politico, U.S. District Court Judge William Jung
tossed out Alva Johnson’s complaint, saying in his 15-page order that “the complaint presents a political lawsuit, not a tort and wages lawsuit.”
Jung added, “If plaintiff wishes to make a political statement or bring a claim for political purposes, this is not the forum.”
Trump got that judge to dismiss the charges of
forcible kissingattempted rape against him. There’s your high crime.IMPEACH
IMPEACH
IMPEACH
“I knew it was inappropriate because I worked in human resources. So I knew that it was completely inappropriate,”
WTF is wrong with HR people? That’s the only way you would have known unwanted physical contact was unwanted?
“It was gross and creepy. Like I could sometimes still see those lips.”
New source material for SF and CPRM!
I am guessing it is bullshit.
FWIW, Japanese unions were a vital ingredient in the employee development and process quality that accelerated Detroit’s collapse.
I object *less* to unions which do not see their mission as inherently adversarial.
*Many business executives are idiots. I don’t want anyone to think I believe they are blameless in labor disputes.
A lot of labor disputes devolve quickly into petty idiots bickering with each other. Even as whole plants get shut down, they will still cling to bullshit “grievances” and long-held grudges. The sad part is that the managers usually get to fail upward while the peons get fucked by their alleged union “representatives”.
“Alabama court forces rape survivor to allow rapist to have visitation with children
A 32-year-old woman in Birmingham, Alabama says the state’s laws have forced her to face the man she says raped her again and again. With Alabama’s recent abortion ban, Jessica’s story has gotten national attention, showing how the state is failing rape survivors. Jessica asked to have her last name omitted from this story to protect her children.
Jessica says she was continually raped years ago by her uncle, her mother’s half-brother. Despite the evidence, including a DNA test, he was never convicted.
“Well, it all started when I was 12 or 13 years old, and he started climbing in my bed at night,” she said.
She was impregnated 4 times as a result. At 14, she miscarried. At 16, she had a baby boy. At 18, she had her third child. He later died due to a disease common in cases of incest. At 19, she had her youngest son.
“I literally just felt like I didn’t have any options,” she said. In another interview, Jessica told The Washington Post she was forced by her family to marry her rapist. That marriage was later deemed illegal by a court due to a “familial relationship.”
Recently, her accused rapist has been taking her to court and winning for visitation of her sons. Jessica says she is sharing her story in hopes it brings change.”
https://www.knoe.com/content/news/Alabama-court-forces-rape-survivor-to-allow-rapist-to-have-visitation-with-children-511195642.html
there is something really fucked up going on there
I have a solution
Sounds like the state was failing rape victims well before the abortion ban that isn’t relevant to her situation was passed but hey let’s bring that up again.
Good morning, Old Man! And happy father’s day to all the padres. You know who you are.
Picking a favorite funk band is difficult. I am partial to Parliament and Sly especially, but Mandrill is very solid.
From the dementia article:
Uh, so maybe their are one or two eensy-weensie other contributing factors?
“You know who you are.”
Well, not necessarily.
Not it!
I got Glib pint glasses for Father’s Day. I guess I’m still loved and it’s okay for me to drink more.
I wished my co-workers a Happy Father’s day and the divorced ones said, “You mean, Happy ‘I Should Have Pulled Out and Wiped it on the Drapes’ Day?”
Your kids know about this place?
Definitely should not get a “World’s Best Dad” shirt, amirite?
Happy Father’s Day to you as well, T. I’d agree with your funk band choices, I’m a huge Sly fan. Wonder if you have ever heard this one? I’m sure you will have heard the song that sampled it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lmoy8xOqXQQ
That’s a great song, KS! Old school perfection!
“A UK student was kicked out of class for saying that there are two genders. His teacher insisted that wasn’t an “inclusive” thing to say, and that it contradicted the school & government’s official policy.”
https://twitter.com/TheLaurenChen/status/1140047963844222976
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xelLPBgJs8Q
Clear First Amendment violation. UK isn’t YouTube.
United Kingdom, not University of Kentucky. I don’t believe they are subject to our Amendments, perhaps they have their own IDK
Nope, just those from Brussels.
Apparently not.
Yeah, I knew they didn’t. The gender issue will disappear when Shiria kicks in.
They do but it means jackety shit. They are throwing people ini jail for telling jokes.
to be fair the jokes are offensive.
Ah, I was thinking U of Kentucky.
“Vatican Releases Global Educational Guide to Sexuality That Calls Nonbinary Gender “Fictitious
The Vatican released the church’s 31-page guide to sexuality Monday—titled Male and Female He Created Them—designed to help Catholics and Catholic schools around the world teach and talk about individual sexuality. Sexuality is more and more a topic of open discussion across North America and western Europe, with increasing acceptance of more fluid definitions of individual identity. This development prompted the Vatican to release its first extensive paper on the topic, coinciding with Pride month, which finds that we, the world, are in the midst of an “educational crisis” surrounding sexuality. As you may have guessed from the title of the report, the Vatican is not big on nonbinary thinking.
The report described the idea that a spectrum might exist on human sexuality as a fictitious construct and “nothing more than a confused concept of freedom in the realm of feelings and wants.”
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/06/vatican-releases-global-guide-to-sexuality-that-calls-non-binary-gender-fictitious.html
PEACH BAD ORANGE MAN
Activists took to the streets Saturday to hold rallies calling for the impeachment of President Trump, as they seek to pile further pressure on Democratic leaders in Congress to back a push to oust the president.
“Donald Trump’s abuses of our communities and country demand action from Congress, which has the responsibility and authority to hold Trump accountable,” a website page for the “#ImpeachTrump: Act to Defend Democracy” national day of action by left-wing group MoveOn read. “The next crucial step is an inquiry into whether to draft articles of impeachment.”
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While protests were being eyed across the country, California seemed to be the main state for the demonstration. The Mercury News reported that more than 140 rallies were expected through Southern California and across the nation overall.
The outlet reported that the day began with a protest in Seal Beach — aptly named “Impeach on the Beach” where demonstrators spelled out “Impeach!” with beach towels.
National Day of Butthurt.
Did they happen to name any of these abuses of communities and our country?
Oh my fucking god, they’ve cranked the doublethink up to 11.
“Defend Democracy” by overturning the result of a free and fair election.
Moveon is leading the charge for impeachment….
*paging Alanis Morrisette to the white courtesy phone*
Politically motivated? US?
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) hammered the Justice Department on Friday over a legal opinion it wrote backing the Treasury Department’s defiance of a House subpoena for President Trump’s tax returns.
“What is the President hiding in his tax returns? And since when does ‘shall’ mean ‘unless it displeases Trump?’” the House Intelligence Committee chairman tweeted late Friday.
“And, perhaps more importantly: What will be left of DOJ’s independence and reputation for impartial justice after Barr? The answer? Very little,” he added.
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Schiff’s comments came after the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday released a legal opinion backing up Treasury’s decision to reject a request by congressional Democrats for six years of Trump’s tax returns.
The opinion followed after Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin last month rejected a subpoena from House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass.) demanding Trump’s personal and business tax returns from 2013 through 2018.
Neal had sought Trump’s tax returns through a provision of the federal tax code that states that the Treasury secretary “shall furnish” tax returns sought by the chairs of Congress’s tax committees if the documents are viewed in a closed session.
However, both the Justice and Treasury Departments say Neal’s request is political in nature and believe his intent is to publish the tax returns.
“No one could reasonably believe that the Committee seeks six years of President Trump’s tax returns because of a newly discovered interest in legislating on the presidential-audit process,” Justice Department wrote in its legal opinion Friday. “The Committee’s request reflects the next assay in a longstanding political battle over the President’s tax returns.”
Neal, meanwhile, has said it is improper for Treasury or DOJ to second guess a congressional committee’s conclusion about its need to see the tax returns — an argument DOJ criticized.
The department went on to specifically cite a provision of the federal tax code that bars unauthorized disclosures of tax returns.
The very notion that this could be an attempt to release Trump’s tax returns to the media is slanderous and completely without merit.
Harrrumph!
“What is the President hiding in his tax returns? And since when does ‘shall’ mean ‘unless it displeases Trump?’”
Hiding? On a form submitted to the IRS is a damn strange place to hide something. I prefer to hide the details of my illegal business dealings on billboards and dirgibles.
And since when does ‘shall not’ mean ‘FYTW’?
“Happy Father’s Day:”
https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1140242776153567238
“The future of men and marriage is bleak
With Father’s Day upon us, the time has come to address as a nation what Heather Mac Donald noted earlier this year is “the greatest social catastrophe of our time”: fatherlessness. Fatherlessness is the No. 1 cause of nearly all social ills we face. We can’t afford to ignore it any longer.
To be clear, father absence is the more accurate term, since fatherlessness implies that men have become “deadbeat dads” — nothing could be further from the truth. Sure, this faction exists, as do “deadbeat moms.” But the two most significant threats to a father’s presence in the home are divorce and out-of-wedlock births.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-future-of-men-and-marriage-is-bleak
Why buy the cow when the world is overflowing with milk. Feminism won. You’re on your own girls.
Yeah, who needs men when the government will take care of you.
Good morning, you glorious bastard!
(it’s still morning here)
I think the most disastrous consequence of feminism has been encouraging outright hatred against all males. Single mothers probably pass these attitudes onto their kids, so girls grow up hating boys and boys grow up hating themselves.
Society is about to get a rude reminder of why there used to be social rules governing sexual conduct.
Society is
about to get ahas spent decades ignoring [the many] reminder[s] of why there used to be social rules governing sexual conduct.You know who you are.
Not it!