Yesterday afternoon, I was looking out our back door at the golf course and saw a large brown object. I thought, “Wait, what the fuck kind of animal is that? A dog? An oversized record-setting cat? A javelina?” Then it rose up and hopped away- it was the biggest goddam jackrabbit I’ve ever seen, and I lived in Texas. Our next door neighbor was out and remarked, “Yeah, when they get that size, they chase the dogs instead of the dogs chasing them.” I swear, we’re living in Australia, every animal here is freakish and dangerous. Now, what does this have to do with links? Nothing at all.
But still, gotta have birthdays. And today’s include the REAL Klaatu; a decent cartoonist whose reputation outshone his talent; a cross between Trump and FDR; the one and only true James Bond and Zed; the greatest mustache in MLB history; and one of my favorite radio hosts.
News to follow.
If Biden gets the nom, go long on popcorn stock.
Government really has become a circus. God bless it.
Gay marriage means messy gay divorces. Really, is this what y’all had in mind?
I knew that there was something about Phoenix I liked. Lots of quotes from a real expert, a UC professor, and obligatory dark and ominous invocation of those that evil Koch brothers.
Every time something bad happens to the Irsays, an angel gets his wings.
In other football news, well, that didn’t last long.
Rapey teachers, rapey, rapey. Teachers.
Sooooo carefully focus-grouped. And so dull.
Why you can safely ignore ANYTHING that The New Yorker has to say about art. Christ, what an asshole.
Old Guy Music was going to be something on the rabbit theme, but SP gave me an earworm I can’t shake.
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Whenever they talk about “unsustainable”, they never mean the government welfare Ponzi schemes being unsustainable.
Every government program is sustainable as long as you’re stealing it from those evil capitalists!
The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people’s money.
I think it’s commonly attributed to Margaret Thatcher, although I don’t know if she was the first to say it.
Guess Who else Obama is listening to…
I suspect he’s not sharing HIS land.
“Kentucky Biology Teacher Allegedly Raped Boy Multiple Times Over Summer Break”
Somehow, Im guessing it wasnt rape-rape.
Isn’t that kind of thing legal in Kentucky? Or do you have to be related?
The women teachers doing this have got to be serious control freaks. I just can’t understand any other reason they want an adolescent boy.
Ummm…. never-ending erections?
Acne, no finesse, adolescent boy humor. No thanks
adolescent boy humor.
pull my finger
That never goes away, we just learn to hide it.
…most of the time…
*give the knock-it-off hand-sign to ‘sloper*
She’s a teacher. I’m certain she planned on fixing some of that.
The biology teacher wants an ungraduated cylinder?
Along with a Bunsen Boner
Bunsen was a pervert, what with him always accompanied by his phallic assistant
Meep meep.
ALOL
Not rape, she is a biology teacher, for goodness sake. Don’t you even tutor (toot her).?
Just to keep things straight, a man commits murder with a gun and the NRA gets heat even though the man was not an NRA member and the NRA did not endorse or encourage his behavior. But NEA members rape children and get union protection.
Why aren’t there CNN town halls with people shrieking “burn them burn them” at the NEA president?
The New Yorker piece is sending me into a white-hot rage. For real.
These neo-Puritans aren’t gonna stop until they’ve burned everything fun to the ground. Fucking pricks.
Is it wrong if I hope that some fat acceptance SJWs go after the author of that piece? Cause that would be funny.
The arrogance of a loser New Yorker writer talking shit about Renoir. I
He’s apparently “evolved”.
https://twitter.com/slovydal/status/1165504754488762368?s=21
Of course. I’m beginning to like him.
E Buzz Miller is a much better art critic.
https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/e-buzz-millers-art-classics/n8656
“until they’ve burned everything to the ground”
Only the bourgeois white male stuff, comrade.
Cut him some slack,, it’s getting harder and harder to break new ground in the culture wars. Grievance studies grads have to actually work at it now.
Seriously. At some point it’ll just….stop.
I’m glad I don’t get out much. I ever get around one or more these fuckwits, I’m afraid I’ll end up in prison or the morgue. I’ll either give someone a good beating or take one.
If there are any Miami or Florida fans on here, you should be ashamed of yourselves. A little bit of football died last night.
Josh Rosen fucked up?
which one has hotter women>
Very sloppy, even for a first game. It certainly wasn’t as neat as watching Ohio State steamroll the SW Ohio Middle School for Girls, that’s for sure. I hope the refs gave back their pay for the game.
I hope you’re not a Miami fan, because the ACC is …
Listening to Roland Kirk this morning, as one does on Jazz Sunday, Amazon Music’s list of related artists- The Cramps, The Misfit, David Bowie, Black Sabbath, and Weezer.
Kirk was a god. An absolute god. Hope you’re playing some cuts from Rip, Rig, and Panic, one of the greatest jazz albums ever recorded.
Left and Right, right now, will put RRP on deck.
“the platforms of the city’s light-rail system are packed with rush-hour commuters on this August afternoon.”
I see photos of the outside of the trains but no photos of platforms packed with commuters. No photos of the inside of the cars packed with people. I am guessing they are empty. And that ‘rush hour’ traffic looks like deserted streets to me.
Call me a skeptic but I think that article is just shilling for the light rail boondoggle.
“Renoir took such presumptuous, slavering joy in looking at naked women—who in his paintings were always creamy or biscuit white, often with strawberry accents, and ideally blond—that, Lucy goes on to argue, the tactility of the later nudes, with brushstrokes like roving fingers, unsettles any kind of gaze, including the male.”
Fuck off and flagellate yourself, Puritan bluenose. Women are beautiful so we like looking at them.
Sitting outside in 115° weather, sun beating down, waiting for the train, yeah, sounds like a plan.
Oh, and that CNN article reads like it was written by a high school freshman, complete with exclamation marks.
Chris Cillizza is an idiot.
He liked them thicc. Light the John signal.
Nobody tell this guy about Reubens…
“creamy or biscuit white, often with strawberry accents”
Do you even 19th Century France, bro?
Sexist? I don’t know about that. I thought Renoir was French for Thicc. Or perhaps PAWG.
Shhhh! Don’t talk about Lucy!
“Megan Barton Hanson shows ex Demi Sims what’s she’s missing in underboob flashing crop-top and fishnet stockings as she attends Manchester Pride”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7390825/Megan-Barton-Hanson-shows-ex-Demi-Sims-whats-shes-missing-tiny-crop-Manchester-Pride.html
She looks like she’s dressed to make a porn video.
Butter face.
Agreed, caked on make up and Botox doesn’t improve anyone’s looks
Who are these people?
Her ex isn’t Demi Rose?
“Why you can safely ignore ANYTHING that The New Yorker has to say about art.”
Christ, what an asshole. Go on, tell us how great Jackson Pollack was.
*buzzer sound*
White male. Try again. I’m thinking some indigenous trans woman who paints in xer own menstrual blood
“Why Maude Lebowski Is The Artist America Needs In The Trump Era”
-New Yorker cover, Sept 2019
“The Small Lebowski”
Go listen to the CBC sometime.
Their obsession with anything Indigenous – including art – is quite impressive in a weird way.
They say the CBC is needed to ‘bind the country coast to coast to coast’. Not with that….and Neil MacDonald they won’t.
I always love people trying to explain Jackson Pollack. The mental contortions are entertaining.
Like any great art, it doesn’t need explaining, just experiencing.
Lady Gaga can sing, for example, her duet with Tony Bennett performing “Baby it’s Cold Outside.” Most of time, she sings the way that makes money.
Jack Benny could play the violin. He even owned a Stradivarius. He played the way he did in public and got applause and money.
Jackson Pollack did some conventional type pieces at the start of his career. The stuff more recognizable as Pollack art is the stuff that led to fame and whatever money was left after everybody took their cuts.
I hope my “mental contortions are entertaining.”
“Corgi racing is the sport you didn’t know you needed ”
https://twitter.com/espn/status/1165360287626801157
I don’t think I need it, but it is awfully cute.
Corgis are a guarantee you’ll laugh hard every day. Too bad the puppies are so expensive because they are an awesome breed. I tried to adopt a corgi-heeler cross once but the rescue association deemed me unworthy. Ergo rescue associations suck.
Curious, how much do the puppies cost?
I usually hear numbers between $1200 and $2000
That is expensive.
It’s about a third of what you’ll pay for a good gun dog pup from a reputable breeder.
Not particularly. Between hunting dogs and breeds like Cavalier King Charles Spaniels, puppies can get very expensive.
Looks at $200 blue heeler dozing on couch. Terrific dogs can be incredibly cheap too ?
*Looks at $0 American Bulldog cross laying at feet*
*gives Bob a “you damn-right” look*
About as much of a sport as cornhole.
YOU SHUT YOUR WHORE MOUTH!
Cornhole is the sport of kings!
Yep, they are cute. Looks like a Chinese fire drill. I couldn’t even tell who won. I guess it doesn’t really matter.
Just when you’re about ready to lose faith in humanity (and caninity), something comes along and revives it. Thanks for that, CP.
I also like wiener dog races https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OFtcfVgLQ5Q
That is awesome. There might have been a few rules violations there.
A neighbor of mine fosters wiener dogs for a rescue. They are so cute and fierce barking at my greyhound when we walk past. My dog just ignores them.
There is also goat racing.
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/1165466332017692672
No.
Well, yes, but only because she’ll lose.
I have had strong suspicions all along that is what it would come to. It would be delicious to see her have her ass handed to her once again.
Ugh. Just having the words “delicious” and “her ass” in the same sentence made me barf a little in my mouth.
She’s going to swoop in at the last minute to be the “voice of reason”. She’ll select Warren as running mate. Together they will vanquish Drumpf and all will be right with the world.
^This. The Clintonite’s choice Joe Biden is obviously addled and people are noticing. She’s rejected the offered crown but she’ll step in due to a manufactured popular demand to save the Dems from themselves. And then they’ll lose (barring a badly timed recession)…
With bad orange man out there working trade deals, it seems unlikely for a recession. IMO.
Several of my prog friends are whispering that Michelle will ride in to settle the deadlock.
Michelle rides something…
/ewwww
I think Michelle is quite content making bank for doing jack shit.
I was busy reading Pogo in the ’40s/’50s but I really didn’t understand the nuance ’til much later. A kid only reads literally. I thought Pogo et al was funny though. Youth, wasted
Letters to the Local Rag: Make Candy Great Again
Oranges are fruit, not candy.
What about Circus Peanuts? They are orange.
Letters to the Local Rag: It Wasn’t Me, I Swear
When your knowledge of the world is based on watching far too much TV.
L&O:SUVFTW!
Actually, most fraud related to theft is committed by women “of a certain age” – i.e., the nice lady in accounting that is a mother hen type and brings donuts every other Friday.
Men tend to commit the Enron-style financial misstatement fraud. Overstating earnings to show how big their dick is and earn the bonus for making the earnings targets.
Wait, I thought (((they))) commit all the financial crimes in this world? Or is it that (((they))) are eventually the usual victims of asset theft in the “civilized” world?
BRING THE RAIN!!!!
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/23/weather/possible-tropical-storm-formation-east-coast-us/index.html
I blame global warming.
I blame CNN.
It’s not their fault, they’re just following the DNC’s orders.
This seems appropriate here.
I like Toots and the Maytals. I saw them play a show in Boston about thirteen years ago. It was a good show.
How to get out ahead of bad publicity
John Wick 4 looks awful.
https://twitter.com/SignsFun/status/1165600621766107141
Renoir took such presumptuous, slavering joy in looking at naked women—who in his paintings were always creamy or biscuit white, often with strawberry accents, and ideally blond—that, Lucy goes on to argue, the tactility of the later nudes, with brushstrokes like roving fingers, unsettles any kind of gaze, including the male. I’ll endorse that, for what it’s worth.
Fap fap fap.
So now we shouldn’t enjoy the female form, particularly the Rubenesque ones.
Got it, I think.
Jewish rabbits hording all the Peeps…anyway, I woke up surrounded by pussy…cats. For some reason they give me extra attention when the gf unit is gone.
Always assume they’re trying to kill you.
+1 cat weaving between your legs at the top of the stairs
Hey OMWC, I hope you’re up to date on your shots.
https://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/central-phoenix/health-department-teen-competing-in-world-hip-hop-championship-at-arizona-grand-resort-had-measles
So no pics or even a name?
(His earliest nude in the show, “Boy with Cat,” from 1868, isn’t only rare for him, with its male subject, but startlingly homoerotic.)
I’ll bet it is. Now, about your mother…
Hopefully someone will call him out for “whine rape” too, and he’ll disappear.
Nikki Haley would be interesting as vp.
I for one despise her. She’s a hottish female Jon Bolton. Arguably she will do less damage as VP but that sets her up to run for Prez. Fuck that noise, 8 yrs of GWB was enough.
I said interesting, not good. I know she is neocon-ish. But I think there is entertainment value in seeing leftists attempt to trash an (actual…) Indian woman.
I thought Mia Love would have been an interesting VP choice. Too bad she developed a severe case of TDS.
“Why Nikki Haley is actually white”
NYT editorial and/or Shika article
Looking forward to the NIKKI HALEY – RACE TRAITOR? chyrons on CNN.
Haley knows that by tweeting what she tweeted, she will start a conversation about the VP swap story. What “false rumors?” reporters will ask. And then they will make calls and check with sources to see what exactly, Haley is talking about. A few stories will be produced — and a few more cable TV segments will be made — that try to figure out whether there is any “there” there. Even if there is nothing to Haley’s “false rumors” claim, she will have effectively pushed the narrative back into the political bloodstream.
“The only person talking about Nikki Haley as VP is Nikki Haley herself,” a senior administration official told the Washington Examiner.
Of course, if you think about it, Haley’s tweet is a decidedly Trumpian move. Float something that no one is talking about. Watch them talk about it. And then, well, see what happens!
You don’t say. I wonder if that would work.
Haley sucks and bad. She’s a corrupt neocon with an attractive face and nothing more.
Well, if we end up getting a neocon anyways (which we will, dem or rep) I’d rather it look decent.
Maybe she could have Tulsi as Sec Def. It worked on the West Wing.
“rapey teachers”
*Looks*
Not guilty. //Jk
Honestly, I though that too, but then I saw 23. And I really expect more out of 23. Is there a half-guilty or maybe a semi-guilty?
“I love this place. Look, what’s not to like about Vermont in terms of the beauty of it? And what a neat town…everybody has been really friendly. I like Keene a lot.”
To be fair, you are almost in Vermont when you’re in Keene.
A Kentucky teacher has been charged with multiple counts of rape after allegedly having sex with one of her 15-year-old male students.
Kendall Burk, 23, was a biology teacher at Grant County High School. According to the Grant County Sheriff’s office, she allegedly began a relationship with the student at the end of last school year that turned sexual over the summer
Somehow I doubt this was actual rape.
Who doesn’t have a problem with Pierre-Auguste Renoir? A tremendously engaging show that centers on the painter’s prodigious output of female nudes, “Renoir: The Body, the Senses,” at the Clark Art Institute, in Williamstown, Massachusetts, sparks a sense of crisis. The reputation of the once exalted, still unshakably canonical, Impressionist has fallen on difficult days. Never mind the affront to latter-day educated tastes of a painting style so sugary that it imperils your mind’s incisors; there’s a more burning issue. The art historian Martha Lucy, writing in the show’s gorgeous catalogue, notes that, “in contemporary discourse,” the name Renoir has “come to stand for ‘sexist male artist.’ ” Renoir took such presumptuous, slavering joy in looking at naked women—who in his paintings were always creamy or biscuit white, often with strawberry accents, and ideally blond—that, Lucy goes on to argue, the tactility of the later nudes, with brushstrokes like roving fingers, unsettles any kind of gaze, including the male. I’ll endorse that, for what it’s worth.
This is a word salad. “Sexist male artist”? Go fuck yourself.
Old guy music is good.
“By inviting Spicer to be a part of the new season, ABC and ‘Dancing with the Stars’ are helping normalize the behavior that is undermining the pillars of our democracy.”
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1165309068455624704
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/sean-spicer-abc-s-dancing-stars-2019-slap-face-every-ncna1045001
What?
A former press-sec is damaging our nonexistent form of government?
Dancing with the Stars is a pillar of our democracy?
Yes. Because DWtS is determined by popular vote. No Electoral College. Like America should be.
OMG HE EXAGGERATED THE SIZE OF A CROWD – NO OTHER FLACK HAS EVER DONE THAT.
Last night we celebrated (a day early) for Lord H’s birthday. Steaks, wine, beer, corn on the cob and redskin potatoes. Neighbors, who always bring 2-3 bags of bottles. They rock. Music, and games too. I almost got naked in the backyard – but didn’t.
“redskin potatoes”
One of Elizabeth Warren’s recipes?
Ooh! A logic puzzle!
OK
1. Last night they celebrated
2. The celebration was a day early
Hey! Today is Lord H’s birthday!
Happy birthday, dude!
Also; reds are far superior to russets.
Depends on the use, redskin are good for potato salads (gold are better) and smashes, but not so much fries or hashes.
OK, I’ll give you french fries, only because russets generally get bigger. But literally every other use, reds are better than russets. Hash browns, fried, baked, mashed, tater-skins, etc…
And yes, golds are delish’, as well. I just don’t care for russets.
/grew up in red potato farming country
As someone who spent several years eating nothing but potato based products, I will say they all have their place.
I like potatoes.
corn on the cob is unlibertarian
it came pre-shucked by orphans
We share a birthday, who knew?
Go to hell, you old bastard!
https://youtu.be/FauoKcYOLK4
Leave the husks on and cook it on the grill.
And only a moderately bad hangover. Got up, opened the presents, and then went back to bed for an hour. I almost feel human ::quivering Captain Kirk voice:: but I’m looking forward to some hair on the dog. But first it’s time to lift some weights!
Neighbors bought me a bottle of whiskey – Basil Hayden’s Dark Rye – which was not a hit, even with them. It’s a blend of whiskeys but also with added Port. Gah! Too rich and sweet. I’ll buy some coke to mix it with.
Wait you and Yusef share birthdays?
I know Tundra shares one with some glib.
The Tulpa registrant-bot doesn’t have a very good RNG apparently.
With thirty or more Tulpae it would be odd if some didn’t share a birthday, it science, like astrology.
I’d say there are about 100 Glibs who do 90% of the posting.
Of those 100, we would expect somewhere around 22 shared birthdays.
So this happy birthday event of either flavor happens only 78 times a year, every fifth day.
I don’t expect three Glibs to share a birthday.
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday, old dude!
I hope this year’s the best one yet!
Almost? What a tease.
Yeah. It was getting cold, what can I say?
Happy Birthday LH.
Buy some more go fast parts or audio
bought some records… and a painting… and some high octane guzzoline
“I almost got naked in the backyard”
None of you made a comment about this?
” almost got naked in the backyard – but didn’t.”
Boo.
What does that mean? I don’t speak Pretentious Asshole.
Not worth trying to figure out. No one is forcing him to look at the paintings.
You know who else had great beer and steak for an early birthday? Some clown named Yusef!
Mad respect if that was your breakfast
No, I’m eating La Quinta motel breakfast, real good for a motel, and I am 56 today, yippee?
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday ??
Buddy, have a drink, of straight orange juice. Happy Birthday!
56? A mere stripling.
Nevertheless, enjoy your day, mang. Hopefully you aren’t spending too much of it working.
Hope it’s a good one Yusef. I was born 3 days after you old man:)
Happy Birthday, Yusef!
back at ya Lord!
????!
Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday buddy! Any plans?
Beer and work tonight, not at the same time,
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday Yusef and LH!
Great minds ? Happy BD 🙂
Happy birthday, Yusef!
Glad to see you still remember what’s good in life! Have a fantastic day!
Happy birfday, man.
Hey, Rocky! Watch this. Nuthin’ up muh sleeve…
Prepping for back to school used to mean new backpacks for the students and new lesson plans for teachers. But today, as the nation wrestles with the pervasive issue of mass shootings, going back to school means something completely different.
As schools around the country reopen, many students will go through active shooter drills and practice school lockdowns. The necessity of such preparation is even more pronounced this school year after a deadly summer of mass shootings occurred in Gilroy, California; El Paso, Texas; and Dayton, Ohio.
“School shootings are becoming normalized. It’s becoming a reality,” said Lopez, a Spanish teacher for Jeffco Public Schools, home to Columbine High School, where 12 students and a teacher were killed in a school shooting 20 years ago.
I’ll use these completely unrelated incidents to prove how ubiquitous school shootings have become.
CNN. All facts, all the time.
Must stir up panic and fear 24/7/365.
Disgusting.
Is the nation wresting buck naked in oil with a pig?
You can’t have my guns motherfuckers no matter how much fear and outrage you stir up.
Yea, the lockdowns that turn everyone into sitting ducks.
“Pivar was also present for a number of Epstein’s science summits. Epstein himself was no scientist, said Pivar, the author of Lifecode: The Theory of Biological Self-Organization and an advocate of non-Darwinian models of evolution. (This was borne out in a recent New York Times story that described Epstein’s interest in cryonics and eugenics and his wish to “seed the human race with his DNA by impregnating women” at his New Mexico ranch.) Epstein was a dilettante, and easily distracted. But he pulled so many prominent thinkers into his social circle, using the promise of his money to create “some kind of a mini university of thought,” that in Pivar’s view he did “amazing, incredible, amazing, remarkable things for science.” There were lavish dinner parties with the likes of Steven Pinker and Stephen Jay Gould during which Epstein would ask provocatively elementary questions like “What is gravity?” If the conversation drifted beyond his interests, Epstein was known to interrupt, “What does that got to do with pussy?!””
https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2019/08/jeffrey-epstein-my-very-very-sick-pal/
pussy makes te world go round
I can’t see any of these comments. It say there’s 110, but I’m only seeing about 6.
have you tried no more absinthe for breakfast?
Blasphemer!
Well, that’s what I get for having a touch screen. Accidentally hit the hide button. My laptop is a convertible.
I wish I had an opinion on the Renoir article but I don’t. If a painting isn’t on velvet and doesn’t contain either Elvis, Jesus, or dogs playing poker I don’t consider it art.
What about Rock band Logoes on Mirror?
You got me there, mirrors and the sides of old vans are acceptable media as well.
One of my favorite Archer homages:
https://archer.fandom.com/wiki/Krieger%27s_Van
I especially liked the spoof of the “Rush” album called “Van”.
I had a Rush logo belt buckle.
Surely you like this?
Ah…New Yorker art.
Uh, what about chopper tanks?
I enjoy going to art shows. I can never afford to buy anything I like though.
If a painting isn’t on velvet and doesn’t contain either Elvis, Jesus, or dogs playing poker I don’t consider it art.
What about a buxom, scantily clad Aztec princess lolling around with an enormous jaguar?
howabout this classy black velvet painting of a certain Glibertarian “mascot”?
and we even use the top paint brand.
Sold!
The little Jag SUVs are indistinguishable from all the others. Tough to make a neighborhood statement with one of those. Get an F-350 and GAIA doesn’t even care in the long run.
A Google image search for “buxom, scantily clad Aztec princess lolling around with an enormous jaguar” was disappointing.
Americans’ love of hiking has driven elk to the brink, scientists say
Stay inside and play non-violent video games people – it’s the our only hope.
Guys and Dolls
I for one support this. Maybe the watermelons will convince themselves that the best thing they can do for Gaia is to stop ruining places like Bozeman and Cody, WY. They are welcome to stay in their coastal enclaves.
a heard of elk in one place
Stay inside and play non-violent video games people
that uses electricity and will also kill the planet. It’s best to move into a house with many, many others and stare at the wall until death.
The Buckets were just way ahead of their time.
Arizona QB Khalil Tate comes up 1 yard short as Hawaii pulls off exciting upset
Sloppy but exciting! (you all make your own jokes)
Trump White House Accuses NRA of ‘Dick Move’ and Leaks on Gun Messaging
Jeepers!
I hate the NRA but Trump attacking them would be a low functioning retard move.
Agreed. There’s really 3 NRA’s
1. The actual organization and their policies
2. The “NRA” that is used as a blanket statement for gun rights.
3. The “NRA” that gun grabbers conjure up in their head.
#2 is the majority of gun supporters out there. They may or may not have a membership in the actual NRA.
Noted conservative and fiscal hawk Bill Weld is on Meet the Press.
Bad Orange Man is bad.
Weld has been getting a lot less free press than I thought he would. You’d think the media would be all-in on helping primary Badorangeman.
Jeffrey Epstein’s talent-agent pal spotted scouting ‘fresh flesh’ in Brazil before Epstein arrest
You can’t hide from the tabloids, bub.
They have to have the goods on these people. How are this guy and Maxwell not in jail awaiting trial right now?
The deep state.
That comes to mind to me too but if that’s the case how would you explain the rearrest of Epstein? If they’re protected because it was all an intelligence approved blackmail op he would have gotten away with it too.
Attempting to understand to motives of The Deep State is like trying to defeat the Kobayashi Maru.
“The President is either mentally unwell or morally unfit.”
Game, set, match.
Why not both?
?
Disjunction is inclusive.
This statement could apply to any president.
Yeah, I think the desire to be President is ipso facto evidence that someone is unfit for the Presidency.
Maybe sometimes five black spaceships can look like one white one.
“heads we win….”
You know the rest.
Illustrated for clarity
mildly NSFW
The near crying and disbelief of the local press here (Indy) for the Andrew Luck retirement announcement is nauseating.
Trump Clarifies His Trade Regrets: China Tariffs Should Be Higher
All is well!
I see this morning China is imploring us to lift the tariffs on them but no mention of them lifting theirs on us.
“Dont trust China! China asshoe!” seems appropriate.
Macron is a little shit like Trudeau. I love how Salvini tells him to go suck a lemon.
Imagine how bad the the DNC field is that Biden is in the lead.
Sunday Strategist: Popeyes Knew Exactly What It Was Doing
You people…
Thanks to its superior product, the chain has been doing fine in recent years, but Chick-fil-A was beating it at its own game. What did its competition primarily sell? Fried chicken sandwiches. Popeyes needed a sandwich. And it needed a fight.
The Popeyes sandwich soft launched in select locations months ago.
Popeyes had a sandwich you ignorant dipshit, which they took off the menu. Better than that turd they replaced it with.
Mobile penis flashers on the rise in Japan
You will never defeat our dick pics! NEVER!
Sexy af
a naked hedgehog
IOW, a tiny penis?
grim reality of a packed Tokyo evening commute
“次はトレブリンカ。
The next station is Treblinka. Station number JY13. Please change here for the Saikyō Line, the Shōnan-Shinjuku Line, the Seibu Ikebukuro Line, the Auschwitz line, the Tōbu Tōjō Line, and theTokyo Metro Marunouchi Line.”
https://youtu.be/tplzQveTdgQ
Chuckie just came out and said it:
“Preservation and restoration of the Obama Legacy.”
Public Enemy Number One is wrecking all the wonderful things the Ascended One did.
Mayor Prissy Douchebag will save us with soothingly vacuous platitudes.
There, there, America, everything will be okay. Greatness will be restored.
Passover Rabbit
He looks like a jerk.
Re The New Yorker. Renoir today but that will expand to creations like Michelangelo’s David, Matisse, and other nude paintings or sculptors. It won’t matter if one painted models or it came from the imagination. SJW is quite the poisonous infection to contract.
Watch.
https://www.salon.com/2019/08/24/mass-rallies-crazy-decisions-grandiose-posturing-this-is-what-living-in-a-dictatorship-feels-like/
Boilerplate TDS. Like, literally Hitler.
This country is pretty fucking mellow, yes we have the usual jackasses, but people are way nicer than the media wants you to think,
FUCK OFF, TULPA!
Mike, keep quiet or I’ll tell everyone you are Winston’s Mom
That’s just what Tulpa would say.
NO IT’S NOT!!! OPEN YOUR EYES – THERE IS VIOLENCE ON THE STREETS! THE WORLD IS ENDING! THERE IS A CIVIL WAR COMING! PICK A SIDE AND FIGHT! FIGHT FOR WHAT YOU BELIEVE IN!
Welp, that will probably be the stupidest sentence I read today.
“this-is-what-living-in-a-dictatorship-feels-like/”
No, asshole. Go to an Antifa march with a MAGA hat. When those jackbooted thugs start caving your head in, you’ll know what living in a dictatorship feels like.
I say that’d be more ochlocracy than dictatorship.
Ochlocracy (from Ancient Greek ὀχλοκρατία/okhlokratía, via Latin: ochlocratia) is a political system in which the crowd (okhlos) has the power to impose its will.
aka, mob rule.
AKA democracy.
OH MY GOD. WHEN WILL OUR NATIONAL NIGHTMARE END?
Good thing the Obama admin never made any arbitrary rule changes.
Means, ends, etc.
Elections, consequences, etc.
He’s Lucius. K Truscott the IV.
Middle initials. Lineage designation. Lucius.
He’s gotta be smart.
LITERALLY HITLER went from being edgy hyperbole to a complaint voiced by grown people without a shred of embarrassment. Kinda like bullying is now something grown men do to other grown men. What a soft, precious society we’ve got.
Gosh, I guess dictatorships aren’t so bad after all.
“I wrote an article about Trump for Salon, in which I included this:
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/salon writer
Hey Everybody! Where is San Lorenzo?
https://photos.app.goo.gl/VGwpzW328xfWsgRr8
That’s were somedude lost their heart while wearing flowers in their hair.
+1 obscure reference, dang!
It’s where my grandma moved after the 1906 earthquake.
The Obamas are a brand. Barry sure loves capitalism eh?
They’re so insufferable. But people just loooovvve them. Oh well.
Freedom and markets. A little for everyone.
Aren’t you working?
I’m working on my reply to you!
He’s been going through an evolution on this issue.
Horrific oppression
Google is fed up with employees expressing political opinions.
The company has issued new community guidelines on Thursday that address what employees are allowed to say within the company. According to the new rules, “disrupting the workday to have a raging debate over politics or the latest news” doesn’t “build community,” and employees should, therefore, “Avoid conversations that are disruptive to the workplace or otherwise violate Google’s workplace policies”
“Our primary responsibility is to do the work we’ve each been hired to do, not to spend working time on debates about non-work topics,” the guidelines state.
Recode reports that Google sent out an email to employees on Thursday evening in which CEO Sundar Pichai addressed the revised guidelines.
Stop yammering about stupid nonsense and get to work. Literally slavery.
My eyes just rolled out the back of my head…
LOLOL
I’ll take them at their word here when they shut down all their internal identity-politics bulletin boards where the toxic BS forms and spreads.
But at least Donald Trump will be happy to see the company bending its knees a little bit while he ramps up his attacks.
Somehow I doubt there is ever a “raging debate” at Google headquarters over whether Orange Man Bad.
Isn’t Google supposed to more or less archive everything on the net? I thought that was the whole point, if they censor at all, then they become just another Wikipedia or Snopes, bad idea
I work for the city. Trust me, there’s not much wildly ambitious work accomplishing going on there. Yet we can’t even consider doing anything but work for “hours at a time.” How is google staying so evil if they just fuck around arguing all day?
The guidelines show a strong shift from the “open communication culture” that Google used to be known for. But that culture has increasingly caused issues for Google over the last couple of years. Divisive discussions within the company first came to light in August 2017 with then-Google employee James Damore’s anti-diversity memo. But by most accounts that kind of internal disagreement is limited.
Google has also increasingly been facing political pressure as President Donald Trump lobs unfounded accusations about anti-conservative bias and censorship, and Senators Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz have “grilled” the company about their content moderation practices.
The guidelines also say that Googlers can “raise concerns and respectfully question and debate the company’s activities.” But it advises caution in doing so.
“Be sure to speak with good information,” the guidelines say. “Don’t assume you have the full story, and take care not to make false or misleading statements about Google’s products or business that could undermine trust in our products and the work that we do.”
UNFOUNDED ACCUSATIONS!
LOL pay no attention to the leaked memos and C-suite meetings behind the curtain.
Funny how that antidiversity memo literally contained suggestion after suggestion as to how more minorities and women could be brought into the field. These people are full of shit.
The memo did not toe the Lysenkoist line. That is its only, original, and irredeemable sin. Now, lots of what Damore wrote was questionable, but that is the nature of science and especially the soft sciences. Lots of decent argument could have been had back and forth on the specific points, and additional research could have been done to affirm or refute some of the dicier claims. Instead, he was pilloried for having dared to point out that things might not conform to the woke worldview, and consequently held to an impossible standard that none of the counterclaims made against him could themselves withstand.
A surprising insight, paraphrased:
“Biden thinks Trump is the problem. Sanders and Warren think America is the problem.”
How the hell did she get on Meet the Press?
*No idea who that was.
all British degrees are above average
This supposed university miracle can only have happened in one of three ways.
The first is that schools have, over the past 30 years, supplied universities with students of a far higher calibre than in the recent past. This would be a notable achievement, as the university students of the past were the select few – in the 1970s and 1980s between 8 and 19 per cent of young British adults went on to higher education, whereas 50 per cent now do.
The second is that universities have taken historically indifferent students and turned them into unusually capable graduates.
And the third is the reality: the university miracle is a mirage.
But they went to college, they must be smarter than slobs such as I,
Did I say that right?
To all New Yorkers out there. I haven’t been to Katz’s in over 30 years. Is it worth seeking it out next time I’m there?
Katz the brothel or the sandwich place? Because you need to know the right people for the former, but it is worth it if you get in
I’m too old for the sandwich place. Er, I mean, the brothel. I mean….
You can get a sandwich in either place.
I haven’t been there in ~15 years so can’t say. Probably still good.
It’s been about ten years, but last time I was there, it reminded me of the Anchor Bar in Buffalo in the sense that it’s not bad, its iconic, and although there are many better places to go, it’s still worth it.
Trump, Abe agree on principles of trade deal at G7.
Thanks for the corn, but you can keep the ethanol.
maybe they will finally ban anime
So I’ve been seeing lately how the MSM has been highlighting all of Biden’s gaffes. I can’t help but think this is their attempt to knock him out of the race in favor of a more leftist candidate.
Yeah, it’s not making me re-think my position that they want Harris. Too bad for her that every time she opens her mouth, her poll numbers drop.
Harris should be grist for the criminal-justice-reform mill. It really speaks to the depravity of modern progressives that she gets a pass on prosecutorial misconduct.
Almost as if the left is completely unprincipled.
Yeah, I’ve been with you on this all along. I do think maybe she’s got some of that HRC contemptability that cannot be hidden that I didn’t account for. Or maybe Tulsi knocked her off her horse and she can’t recover
I think they would be happy with Warren as well. As long as it’s a non-Tulsi woman they’re good.
Agreed. And the constant flattering coverage proves it.
Krugman approves of moderate center right Warren.
I view it as more normalizing it to take the edge off of it.
“Old news”. No pun intended.
The DNC gave them their marching orders, and now they’re doing their duty.
Sad thing is, this points to Hillary stepping in being more likely.
So. Are governments like household budgets?
https://twitter.com/zei_nabq/status/995322878399778816
but with an army.
Not really bureaucrats have no skin in the game, households do. Also the answer is stupid. And all the morons in the comments as well.
sa thing is there is no reasoning with these people.
Jesus that twitter account is on of the most retarded things i read recently
goddamnit rufus you ruined my day with this shit
Remy is fun,
https://youtu.be/enTEvon9pbw
?excellent as always
Also particularly relevant to us Bobs. I have infact paid off my student loans too.
Bob’s pay the most taxes in America, that’s why they keep us around…….
I like Remy.
That was excellent.
Jesus that twitter account is on of the most retarded things i read recently
That’s why I hardly ever click on twatter links. Self preservation.
Yeah, at most I’ll read the twat in focus and skip whatever retardation follows.
Kudlow spoke while the nation awaited the President’s decision whether to appoint him to head the War Production Board or the Office of Price Administration
OT (but can anything really be OT in a linx page?):
Trump and the anti-China Dems keep claiming that China steals “America’s intellectual property.” Whenever someone bothers to flesh this claim out, this “theft” comes from the fact that American companies, if they want to do business in China, need to share their IP with a Chinese counterpart.
How can this be construed as theft from a libertarian point of view, or even at common-law? Sounds like a voluntary deal to me.
The only way this could be theft is if you believe the abstract concept of “America” actually owns the IP and the company is merely America’s agent. Which sounds dangerously close to “you didn’t build that.”
You’re right. It’s more like extortion than theft.
Is it, though? Do American companies have a right to access the Chinese market?
I think our government has a stronger case on national security grounds, e.g., fears of Chinese spyware infiltrating American telecom equipment. But again, that’s not the usual argument that Trump and the protectionist crowd make.
Of course it is. Remember, the other part of the equation is that if you don’t play along, they’ll let your IP be stolen anyway, and turn a blind eye to it.
But again, that assumes American companies have an a priori right to access the Chinese market.
so after one of the hotter days of the year now it is pouring rain and ice. I blame global warming
DRUMPF! strikes again, robbing Romanians out of their due.
its insane i do not remember such combination of rain wind hail and thunder. repent the end is nigh
damn
In the Salon article from Truscott linked up top.
“Trump is very Mussoliniesque. The bombast, idiotic policies, etc. I wouldn’t be surprised if he had his picture placed in every classroom with the caption “Trump is always right” Mussolini did the same thing.
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If you watch old film of Mussolini he really did resemble trump. Same ugly, downward pointing pursed lips and hateful eyes. Even the way he carried himself, turned his head, jestered is eerily reminiscent of Trump. PBS ran a really good series last fall on dictators, with each episode focusing on just one. One thing I took form it is Trump IS Mussolini. Only difference is Mussolini was an actual intellectual with an actual ideology. Trump’s just an empty vessel who’s all over the map, even if he leans authoritarian and fascist.”
These people are completely out of their fucken minds.
There are plenty of photos with Obama’s chin up in the air and him taking poses reminiscent of communists. AOC does the same thing.
so people share common facial tics and expressions? Who knew!
Like this little seen image?
“If you watch old film of Mussolini he really did resemble trump. Same ugly, downward pointing pursed lips and hateful eyes. Even the way he carried himself, turned his head, jestered is eerily reminiscent of Trump.”
Borderline Personality Disorder 101.
It’s funny how the writers of those comments are focusing solely on appearance since if they read about Mussolini’s actual policies at all, they’d realize that they closely resemble those of “progressives” much more than Trump.
I knew that there was something about Phoenix I liked. https://beta.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/will-americas-least-sustainable-city-vote-to-kill-rail-transit/2019/08/24/6a66a912-c455-11e9-b72f-b31dfaa77212_story.html
For more information, see https://glibertarians.com/2019/08/bah-kill-it-kill-the-light-rail/
Phoenix has the Colorado River and a Nuke plant, That’s more sustainable than most of California,
now fuck off Tulpa!
What does having nuclear power have to do with OMWC and Mexican Sharpshooter both being against using taxes to pay for light rail?
And why be rude to me about it?
If you’re against CO2, having a nuke plant makes way more sense than having a light rail system, especially in a sprawling metro area like Phoenix.
And everyone we don’t know is Tulpa, at least for their first week here.
My first comment on this site was June 28, 2019. I posted my first “Hey Yusuf! Short cans up!” on June 13, 2019.
So he forgot.
My bad, but I also think you might have your timeline reversed or mistaken (check your dates – unless you’re talking about real content vs. a simple joke).
Don’t take it personally would be my ultimate takeaway.
Tall cans, Yusef
Trump and the anti-China Dems keep claiming that China steals “America’s intellectual property.” Whenever someone bothers to flesh this claim out, this “theft” comes from the fact that American companies, if they want to do business in China, need to share their IP with a Chinese counterpart.
How can this be construed as theft from a libertarian point of view, or even at common-law? Sounds like a voluntary deal to me.
I’d say the problem is mostly one of not adhering to the terms of a contract. For decades, there have been stories about Chinese contract manufacturers who make products for American companies, and then continue producing those products and selling them under another brand.
Not kosher.
But yes- if you agree to teach your Chinese subsidiary your processes, you can’t very well expect them not to be used in the production of other things.
I’m sure there’s plenty of brazen corporate espionage, too. FWIW.
Suthen had it above, just reposting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3tnH4FGbd0
If that’s the case, then the complaint is more understandable. But even then, American companies, with the knowledge that the Chinese will violate their non-compete contracts, keep doing business with the Chinese. They also have full knowledge they have no civil recourse except at maybe the highly ineffective WTO. It’s clear they view this “theft” as the cost of doing business and access to the Chinese market is totally worth it. So I have a hard time having any sympathy for them.
It’s like a lender that keeps loaning money to a guy who repeatedly violates his agreement to pay the lender back and the guy is judgment-proof.
It’s complicated by the fact that the Chinese government itself owns a large number of companies, and the PLA in particular owns, manages, and staffs several on its own, including a few holding companies. When they aren’t directly controlled by the government they still often have relatives of influential party members in controlling positions within the company’s management. Frequently, foreign companies have to trade IP just to get access to China’s domestic market, and once that IP is acquired it quickly disseminates through the companies controlled by the government. So, even if the government wanted to actually enforce international IP standards there’s a massive conflict of interest issue. And, really, they don’t give a shit. You can add a side of compromised national defense, too, since anything that has a military application is going to go straight to the PLA, and the fact that companies directly or indirectly controlled by the Chinese government have been buying up American shipping infrastructure such as port facilities for several years now, essentially establishing a pipeline straight past our typical border security.
It really is maddening how we don’t seem to be taking them very seriously, even at their stated goals.
I have a friend who works in the national security/intelligence sector, and she’s adamant that within the next five years China will have the capacity to shut down the US power grid and essentially close down our Pacific ports before we could respond to a Chinese military incursion in the Pacific theater. She thinks they’ll have us out of the Pacific within the next decade. I think she’s totally wrong on a lot of domestic policy stuff and we disagree frequently, but when it comes to stuff like this I 100% believe her.
That New Yorker article really has it all: pointlessly purple and impenetrable writing, woke historical revision, and, most importantly, smug condescension toward an icon that thinly veils his deep bitterness at being nothing more than an art critic and not an artist.
I can vividly see him sitting in his posh Upper East Side study savoring the smell of his own flatulence.
Smugstorm?
It’s pretty concerning how we have a significant number of intellectuals and their adherents who believe basic male biology is inherently evil.
We have a significant number of intellectuals, some of them ostensibly scientists, who believe people’s sex chromosomes have no meaning.
And yet, trannies take hormones. Why?
“savoring the smell of his own flatulence.”
I do this but then I don’t write stupid articles for The New Yorker.
I’m sure there’s plenty of brazen corporate espionage, too. FWIW.
No doubt.
What a shithole
But a revolution was coming. As the quarter century of growth that followed World War II sputtered to a close, economists moved into the halls of power, instructing policymakers that growth could be revived by minimizing government’s role in managing the economy. They also warned that a society that sought to limit inequality would pay a price in the form of less growth. In the words of a British acolyte of this new economics, the world needed “more millionaires and more bankrupts.”
In the four decades between 1969 and 2008, economists played a leading role in slashing taxation of the wealthy and in curbing public investment. They supervised the deregulation of major sectors, including transportation and communications. They lionized big business, defending the concentration of corporate power, even as they demonized trade unions and opposed worker protections like minimum wage laws. Economists even persuaded policymakers to assign a dollar value to human life — around $10 million in 2019 — to assess whether regulations were worthwhile.
The revolution, like so many revolutions, went too far. Growth slowed and inequality soared, with devastating consequences.
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But the turn toward markets was a bipartisan affair. The reduction of federal income taxation began under President Kennedy. President Carter initiated an era of deregulation in 1977 by naming an economist, Alfred Kahn, to dismantle the bureaucracy that supervised commercial aviation. President Clinton restrained federal spending in the 1990s as the economy boomed, declaring that “the era of big government is over.”
Blah blah blah just think how much better off we’d be with confiscatory taxation and nationalized industry. England in the sixties was a paradise. And why can’t we invest in education?
Alfred Kahn was a monster. This country would be better off if a plane ticket from New York to San Francisco cost ten thousand dollars, and people still dressed up to fly.
LOL those two sure are a free-market madhouse.
Not going to go after allowing homebrewing as well?
“Deregulation” is such a relative term to be almost meaningless. For example, even after airline “deregulation,” major airports continue to be owned and run by local governments while the FAA controls and operates ATC, unlike in other Western countries which have been slowly privatizing these assets. Other regulations which affect airlines have also grown one-hundred fold, such as fuel and engine standards, minimum spacing and materials requirements, security regs, etc.
Just because the government doesn’t directly set prices anymore doesn’t mean the industry has been truly deregulated.
Anything less than total control is an anarchic wasteland.
Same with trains and other transit. There is a reason the DC metro is falling apart and why it costs 5 to 10 times as much to build a mile of subway in NYC versus Europe et al.
It’s hilarious to see progressives on the same side as major airline CEOs (TW: Wikipedia):
Then fix it, Bob! Why do you need regulations to tell you something that you know needs to be done? How did you get to be CEO of anything larger than a lemonade stand?
It’s also completely unclear how revoking a monopolistic franchise for routes and eliminating price controls for fairs would lead to the woes he complains of (which is largely what the Airline Deregulation Act did).
It’s also undisputed that fairs decreased substantially after deregulation and that more people than ever before get to fly. Meanwhile, airport infrastructure – largely government-owned – has only slowly responded to the increase in passengers and authorized new routes. You also have, of course, the regulatory fallout from 9/11. Maybe, just maybe, these government actions have created, or at the very least significantly contributed to, the problems Mr. Crandall highlights (assuming he isn’t blowing these issues out of proportion).
Again, “deregulation” as a bogeyman term was developed by crony capitalists to scare and confirm the biases of leftists and the pig-ignorant public.
The job of a modern CEO is to improve investor confidence. The primary investors in large corporations are risk-averse retirement funds. The government is, to them, the ultimate agent of risk aversion. So, in a sense, he’s playing to the base. He doesn’t need to be able to run the company, he just needs to keep the investment dollars flowing.
It’s rich coming from Bob Crandall, the original nickel and dimer of cutting airline standards.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/moiravetter/2015/06/04/the-40000-olive-how-entrepreneurs-can-spend-time-saving-money/#1725fca15fbb
ps- It’s the economists’ fault, with their crazy “cost benefit analysis” and radical individualist hatred of society.
“Gay marriage means messy gay divorces. Really, is this what y’all had in mind?”
I was thinking the same, why they would want it. Also, how do you decide which one is the man, I mean the one who gets screwed over by the courts?
Gays never wanted marriages, only weddings.
And cakes! Lots of cakes.
I forgot cakes. And flowers from the only florist on earth who could supply them and wedding pictures by the only photographer in the universe who could take them.
But you’re right. They all want cake.
Anything less than total control is an anarchic wasteland.
Wild West dog-eat-dog kkkapitalism.