Hey guys, its a beautiful day. I finally beat my wife at darts — which neither of us is great at — for the first time. Then she bit me. I almost forgot that she was a biter when we met. She managed to eke out a victory in our second game, but that was also much closer than usual. Maybe if we played more often than once every six to ten weeks, we’d both get decent at it. I also commend to all of you mexican sharpshooter’s awesome STEVE SMITH totally not based on true events story from mid-day.
Florida bums have fight to death outside of McDonalds. Gotta love bums.
I’ll just get up on my hobby horse and post another alternative calculation of galactic scale gravitational forces that don’t require dark matter. This is just cool because they also used it to calculate how much energy it takes to uncoil DNA. Entropy is crazy and fascinating and the math makes my head hurt.
I eagerly await calls for common sense knife controls after a rash of mass stabbings.
This dude make Ryan Leaf look like a stable genius. Some people have such horrible mental health problems they’re beyond help. Unless by help you mean locking them away forever somewhere.
I can confirm. Nobody thinks I’m unproductive at work.
New music from a band who definitely does not take itself too seriously.
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Florida bums have fight to death outside of McDonalds. Gotta love bums.
I’ve always said, if it’s worth fighting over, it’s worth fighting to the death.
That’s just because the annual evaluation has been outsourced to India.
“I almost forgot that she was a biter when we met.”
Go on…
The use of noxious flavorants can deter biting in significant others.
Like Axe body spray?
That’s a repellant, so not if you want to keep the significant other.
*Not* like bacon flavored personal lubricant (can’t link cuz at work, but it’s a real thing).
*blushes
Show off.
Just finished the dark matter article. Really interesting stuff.
I’m not sure I really get it.
The need for the dark matter was related to things spinning too fast relative to the mass of the galaxy. I always assumed that calculation was done based on centrifugal force. How does the informational energy replace that?
Maxwell’s demon?
Mechanism does seem strikingly absent from the story.
Easiest way to think about it is that it is still “gravity”, but like MOND and other alternatives to Einstein’s dark matter constant, it does not require additional mass to be present to achieve the observed effects. Their analogy is something like this (all butchery mine): magnetic fields spontaneously arise from the flow of electrons. Entropic “fields” (this is all kind of speculation — but not the first that I’ve seen to say that what we call gravity is actually an emergent phenomena of some entropic force or field) may arise from matter. For me, the cool part is that it explains DNA folding and galactic rotation with the same set of equations. As I understand it, it is kind of a minimum energy to maximum entropy distribution of matter under other constraints (proximity, chemical bonds in the DNA example, etc).
I’d have to see the actual numbers. The way they handwave the discrepancy between their predicted and measured results sets off red flags. Astronomers are considering that physics might be broken because the universal expansion rate is off by a small amount between two different measurements.
I wouldn’t call it a proven result. More of an interesting theory. They admit it is a zeroth order estimate. Like Fermi guesstimating bomb yield by dropping a sheet of paper. Well, no the DNA thing, which had better inputs had a more precise output. But given that they made the simplest approximation and got something that was 30% off, it’s worth doing a more complex calculation.
I don’t typically get my science news from Newsweek.
Study: Erectile Dysfunction Linked To Poor Work Productivity, Lower Quality Of Life-
I had a lady at work yesterday offer to inject my own blood plasma into my penis, so I could be harder, longer. I politely declined.
For those interested.
http://www.browardurologycenter.com/treatments/sexual-health/the-priapus-shot-or-pshot-prp-platelet-rich-plasma-penile-injection
So. not. interested.
You know, when I think of my penis, I think of injecting things into it…. NOT
A penis is the injector, not the injectee.
What about girl penises?
“I had a lady at work yesterday offer to inject my own blood plasma into my penis, so I could be harder, longer. I politely declined.”
No thanks, I’m married *wink wink*.
It’s funny, because it’s true. My wife is what I would say…is on the jealous side. Having a work colleague offer me a penis tune up would not be well received.
But think of the link that Florida Woman removes Penis injection from Florida man with:
1. Python
2. Air compressor
3. Machete
would inspire. Won’t you take one for the team?
You go too far, sir!
With a little creativity (ie, meth) you can employ all three. Do *not* sell Florida Woman short.
Python
import Needle
import Plasma
dickneedle = Needle()
dickneedle.load(Plasma())
dickneedle.insert()
while dickneedle.isInserted():
print(“OWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!”)
furiouslySwat(dickneedle)
I had a lady at work yesterday offer to inject my own blood plasma into my penis,
Your workplace is more interesting than mine.
Some days. Most days I’m just shit posting here.
Ouch.
I used to suck at darts. Then I started playing while drinking. The more I drank, the better I played (until a certain point).
After a couple of years of regularly buzzed darts, I can play sober now. Still better with a few in me.
The Ballmer Peak is true in several things.
The left side of the graph is wrong.
At least for darts.
Steve Ballmer is still my favorite Silicon Valley personality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGwgMeO5cF4
+4 “Developers!!!”
https://youtu.be/d_AP3SGMxxM
“Briley has been arrested 54 times since 2009”
Holy shit.
I wonder, for what? Typical bum stuff like loitering, or violent stuff? Inquisitive people unlike that reporter might want to know.
If that other bum had refused to salute the flag, he be out already.
I eagerly await calls for common sense knife controls after a rash of mass stabbings.
What are we, British?
No, I’m straight.
I eagerly await calls for common sense knife controls after a rash of mass stabbings.
Divide and conquer is an effective strategy. First, scary black weapons of war. Then handguns. Then Fudd’s guns. Then, once the last gun has been taken, it’ll be time for widespread knife controls.
Can’t do it all at once or it’ll spook the sheep. Britain has this down pat. I believe they have already moved past common sense knife control and are now seriously calling for the regulation of screwdrivers.
i say once they manage to criminalize semi-auto rifles that we just do a complete fold and take everyone else especially law enforcement with us straight to hell.
“No semi-auto rifles? Then FU Fudd, your O/U shotgun now makes you a felon. You want to keep your revolver, old retired judge? Well FU. You’re a felon too. You like your Glock, off-duty LEO? *poof* It’s gone.”
we just do a complete fold and take everyone else especially law enforcement with us straight to hell
I could get on board with that.
I blame Danny Trejo.
And Trump.
Machete kills was a fun movie.
What do you have against Danny Trejo?
Nothing. I like him.
Plus he was rattling around my head cuz of this: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/danny-trejo-rescues-special-needs-boy/
Yeah that was pretty cool. He also sells vegan friendly tacos.
The vegan friendly tacos cancels out the nice story. Thanks
I’m sure it was a business decision. There are plenty of places to get regular tacos in LA.
Isn’t “vegan friendly” just a nice way of saying “not actually vegan”?
I’ve eaten there, expensive and not especially good. Probably floats on star power.
Even if I had something against him, I’d be too scared to tell him.
IRL he was the heavyweight boxing champ in San Quentin. No joke.
I knew him back in the early eighties. Used to see him every Wednesday night at 8:30.
AA meeting?
DIng, Ding.
Helping people stay off drugs was how he made his break into Hollywood back in the 80’s
Whaddup
8Chan says murderer didn’t post manifesto?
Why didn’t they shut down Facebook after that shooter posted video of his shooting there?
Seems like the only way to not get banned online is if you work for the Chinese government. Strange times
“In hindsight, book burnings are fine so long as the people burning the books owned them”
– Hot New Take
I was assuming we’d hear this eventually.
I await calls to take down Instagram….
If no one calls to take down Instagram, I think it’s safe to assume that they are working closely with the Chinese since that seems to be the only way to gain “freedom of association” and be inoculated from blame.
Those bakers better start befriending the Chinese state
Instagram (also known as IG or Insta[9]) is a photo and video-sharing social networking service owned by Facebook, Inc.
Well, that should have been a link to wikipedia…
So if he didn’t upload it would he still have written it?
The best way to find out is to see who uploaded it.
Queue calls to focus on the real problem. It’s not important to know who uploaded it…
Russians, obviously
I guess that’s my question. I think he’s the one who wasn’t killed, so we’ll eventually know one way or the other if that’s his work or not.
Hahaaha!
Hey, we might get a 1-page report from the FBI some day.
REDACTED
“The [redacted] was [redacted]. We all had a good laugh and went home safely. The end.”
The Joe Murphy story is rough. A case where involuntary psyche confinement may be warranted.
Murph is a fucking tragedy. I’ll not be surprised if he’s gone soon.
That Joe Murphy story was covered in a doc on TSN years ago. Just awful for us hockey fans who grew up watching him play.
Fast, nifty player.
Did Leaf have psyche problems or just bad at life choices?
I’m trying to remember, but I think he unraveled too. Ended up in jail for some petty thing.
Pretty much.
Leaf’s story has a happy ending (so far)
When I first read that bum fights story, I thought Joey Lawrence was beat to death. WOAH
Ethnic militias, is that what Trump wants?!
No, but it’s what TEAM BLUE wants.
It will do wonders for their polling.
It’s like they looked at Yugoslavia and Rwanda and thought they were good ideas.
Fake news. Mass shootings only happen in America.
https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/some-thoughts-el-paso-shooting
things that the government can and should do
I have a feeling that your proposals will not entail the government adhering to its founding charter.
You know, for the cartoon I have spent many hours listening to Trump blabber on, I must not be in on the secret codes like these other media folk, because I never hear it.
That’s a lot of wishy washy mealy mouthed to be sures in support of liberty.
To be sure…
President Trump is not responsible for the actions of the El Paso gunman, but it is clear the president’s rhetoric has contributed to the toxic stew in which the gunman’s sick beliefs festered.
Somebody ask Steve Scalise for his opinion on this.
“It is long past time to take violence from white supremacists as seriously as we do the threat from Islamic extremists.”
2009 CATO: The War on Terror is a disaster designed to destroy civil liberties
2019 CATO: Our only principle is fashion
It’s long past time that people stop pretending like anyone funded by the Kochs is concerned in the slightest with liberty
“Originally posted on National Review Online”
Conservatism is progressivism driving the speed limit
Russell Kirk spins in his grave.
Well, up here they’re called ‘progressive conservatives’. Now I realize how misleading the term is.
As if conservative on its own is a pejorative.
It’s just meaningless. You may as well say “reactionary”
Well in the past they were “Liberal Conservatives” and “Progressive” meant the old agrarian party of the 1920s.
Bingo. When someone says “i’m a conservative.” I respond with “Oh, so you have no developed set of first principles other than resistance to change?”
The conservative will oppose all new expansion of government and then, once its been implemented, defend it to the death and argue that it is as American as apple pie.
And the same can be said for Beltway Libertarians who lack all principle beyond “respectability”. Fucking assholes arguing that the same statist policies used to combat Islamic terrorism be employed domestically. What the actual fuck?
How about we end those policies used to combat Islamic terrorism, not utilize them domestically and you go cry to the Kochs? Get fucked you fascists
As per usual, when challenged with a situation where they fear they will be labeled as meanies, the Cosmos and Republicans buckle. Every Fucking Time.
Written by a senior Fellow at Cato
I like it.
I believe that is attributable to Michael Malice
They can’t let Niskanen steal all their thunder.
It is long past time to take violence from white supremacists as seriously as we do the threat from Islamic extremists.
Umm, no. I’m not sure I’d say we’ve had any mass killings committed by actual white supremacists. I don’t count the guy in Ohio, because being anti-immigration is not the same as being a white supremacist, not even close.
it is clear the media’s misrepresentations of the president’s rhetoric has contributed to the toxic stew in which the gunman’s sick beliefs festered
there are things that the government can and should do
Fuck you, you beltway pseudo-libertarians.
I don’t count the guy in
OhioEl PasoMy ex-FBI friend assures me that they still have informers planted in virtually every KKK/neo-nazi, etc. group that is formally organized.
Lol. The informants are the only ones that attend the meetings.
Man. Who do you have to piss off to get stuck with that gig?
Why is it bad? It’s probably a relatively easy gig.
I wonder if there is a diversity quota requirement for that assignment?
https://pjmedia.com/trending/hollywood-film-depicts-trump-supporters-being-hunted-for-sport-by-liberals/?fbclid=IwAR07PhHn9ZIUInLxFl5tWAzv3I9vhL5rKk_0pEvuUD8t_gOhsf7ikDpGfYQ
Jason Blum is making the Hunt. He has made it explicit that the Purge is about how guns and libertarians are bad.
My take isn’t that it’s liberals doing the hunting; it seems more apt to say it’s elitist republicans hunting mouth breathing republicans.
Could be, but movies change from script to screen, so it could be different as well.
You do know this is the same guy who made the Purge right?
I’m confused at the premise of the whole movie. Unless he’s trying to satirize the whole political system. But this won’t play well anywhere. Certainly I imagine leftist would balk at being portrayed as blood thirsty retards.
Well, aren’t you optimistic.
I watched the trailer and I think it could be construed the exact opposite; about how prog elites are psychopathic Nazis and this will be about the deplorables exacting revenge. Either way, it’s going to be a shit movie, just like the Purge.
This is how I saw it. If the protagonist is the blond lady from GLOW, chances are pretty good the entire movie is her killing the elitist progs.
To be fair, it is a product of it’s time.
Thing is Blum hates guns and Trump so I wonder how sympathetically the Deplorables will be portrayed.
Are you planning to see it?
No.
I suppose it is possible that the deplorables will win and that will be a metaphor for Trump’s election or something.
I’m just saying…if you are expecting it to be personally offensive, why see it? If you aren’t going to see it, why be upset about it? Besides it looks like it’s demographic is the horror/gore crowd.
Well it’s a Hollywood leftie who makes films that express some of these views in very explicit ways making what appears to be a very explicit political satire. Can’t help but wonder how it will play out.
I’m not sure “this wasn’t made for you” is the best argument against not liking or complaining about something.
How does this differ from, all the other Hollywood lefties that make films expressing their views in very explicit ways that appear to be explicit political satire? It’ll probably play out like that. I doubt socons will line up in droves to see it, get offended, and burn down Blum’s house.
I never said it wasn’t for you. If you are into the gross out, blood and guts, gore flicks that come out every fall then more power to you. I personally find the genre has repetitive plot lines; you see one you see them all.
As I mentioned before, it’s just another chick kicks everybody’s ass movie. It was amusing a couple of times, but now it seems to be the norm. If you look at action TV shows, it’s most of them now where the girl is the toughest fighter in the room, always.
I can only suspend disbelief so many times before it gets annoying.
That said, if she gets naked and kicks everyone’s ass in a big tub of Jello, I’m cool.
Joss Whedon should sue for royalties from everyone remaking Buffy over and over again.
Thot Thursday will work as effectively as Florida Man’s coworker’s penis injections.
http://archive.is/3ogsQ
Oh, Florida man. You cheeky bastard.
JFC… this country has lost its fucking mind.
What else can you do when you see secret nazi haircuts at the gun counter
“…what say ye…”?
Dude….
What does a white supremacist look like?
I’m sorry, white nationalist
Well…they’re probably white…?
They all look alike.
Huh. I’m pretty sure I’ve that I’ve heard Candice Owens called a white nationalist.
https://mises.org/wire/wars-and-domestic-massacres
While the military is certainly carrying out the orders, the responsibility lies with the civilian leadership.
I also think military leaders who advocate for foreign military involvement should always be on the front lines along with their political toadies, always.
the real perpetrators of death in America—-the US military
Don’t think the military really kills very many people in America.
Are we counting veterans who commit suicide and/or get their healthcare from the VA?
I don’t really care that Twitter banned Mitch McConnell’s account after it posted video of protesters outside his house threatening his life. That’s a biased platform and anyone who doubts that doubts reality.
What disturbs me is that we just went through a three year investigation that argued that Russia “hacked the election” by creating fake social media accounts (Mueller’s team had to stop saying that Russia stole Hillary’s e-mails because a judge ruled that there is no evidence to suggest that). So, I’m a little confused how creating a fake social median account is “hacking the election”, but banning a politician’s account is not interfering with an election. The double standards here are just to obvious and people are noticing that.
And what kind of idiots run Twitter to think pissing off the government is a good idea? I
I repeat. Dorsey is a punk.
Dorsey is a moron. I think it was Musk or Thiel who said that Dorsey tripped into wealth.
The guy was a hacker. He’s way above his pay grade in dealing with issues of free speech clearly.
Well, he did basically bring grafitti-scrawled-mens’-room-walls to the Internet.
I guess we should be grateful that he didn’t figure out how to implement an unflushed, feces-packed gas-station toilet on the Internet… 😕
Personally, I don’t even click on links to twitter anymore. almost universally the tweets are garbage. And if it’s a tweet conversation, you have a 100% chance of encountering stupidity that is so virulent that it will lower your IQ measurably.
I was thoroughly unimpressed when he did his rounds on internet shows a few months back.
The bull shit oozed out of his ears, mouth and nose it was so obvious.
I guess we should be grateful that he didn’t figure out how to implement an unflushed, feces-packed gas-station toilet on the Internet… ?
4chan already has that covered, and they beat him to the punch.
Wait, they banned McConnell’s account? Why the fuck would they do that when both sides of the aisle are already gunning for big tech? Seems like throwing gasoline on a fire.
Probably some stupid advisory committee staffed by Sarkeesian and her ilk thought this was their big chance to strike down Cocaine Mitch. They may live to regret it.
“yes! Strike me down! And your journey to the dark side will be complete!”
The story I read was that they notified his social media manager that until he removed the tweet of the clip of the mob screaming for his death from his feed his account would be blocked.
It’s like that girl who took naked pictures of herself and sent them to her boyfriend and was prosecuted for making child pornography.
So, they are deplatforming an elected leader and claiming the moral high ground.
“Wear it’s corpse as a skinsuit and demand respect.”
Ahem.
So, I’m a little confused how creating a fake social median account is “hacking the election”, but banning a politician’s account is not interfering with an election.
Easy. Twitter is not run by Russians.
Prove it.
We need a special counsel to investigate.
We know this to be true as much as we know that those “fake accounts” were run by Russians
Come to think of it. How do we know grizzly isn’t a Russian spy?
/narrows gaze licking rocket popsicle.
A passage from the previous article on this site raised an interesting question in my mind:
Could you actually take a person on the plan as your emotional support animal? I assume these animals get free or reduced passage, given the widespread fraud we see with it, and a person is technically an animal. Although they do require a ticket for all people going through security, so I guess that’s where they get you. Although, what if you bought a cheap ticket to get through security (say instate travel) and then tried to be an emotional support animal on an expensive flight (say to Hawaii)?
These are the important questions I’m pondering right now.
No, but you should maybe start researching who qualifies under ADA for aids and attendants when traveling, who gets to pay for those, whether they travel for free, etc.
I wouldn’t want my human-identifying-as-service-animal to have to get all the rabies vaccines and such.
Yeah, but that’s not as fun.
I eagerly await calls for common sense knife controls after a rash of mass stabbings.
Considering all the recent hand wringing of late has been over “gun violence”, not “violence” per se, I’m inclined to doubt they really care about violence or public safety.
Inclined?
Heh heh me too
It may not be true, but it’s my truth.
Biden, 76, was presumably referring to the Democrat Party when he told the audience: “We choose science over fiction; we choose truth over facts.”
Biden’s statement led to numerous accounts tweeting out the hashtag “TruthOverFacts” and some even mockingly suggested that it should be his new campaign slogan.
Cory Booker agrees.
Chalk this one up to him being retarded?
I think he is just old and has lost his touch. I cringe every time I catch bits of interviews with him. It is more than just these types of gaffes.
Oh, I think he still has “the touch.”
Ewwww…
Does he also have the power?
Wait… that’s a real song?!
I thought they made it up for Boogie Nights.
You never Transformers the movie? For Shame!
jk,,,I haven’t seen it either.
Of course not.
Man, I love Triumph!
AOC is now the Dem’s thought leader. She said bascially that when caught in a lie.
Her truth
If we all have our own individual truths now I suppose we can get rid of the judicial system.
We’ll see if “but it was MY truth” is a good defense to perjury.
Before long our courts will no longer be judging guilt or innocence, truth or lies, but degrees of wokeness
Hang it up, Joe.
“Hey guys, its a beautiful day. I finally beat my wife at darts — which neither of us is great at — for the first time.”
How the MSM edits this quote:
“Hey guys I finally beat my wife which is great!”
“Man boasts on-line about beating his wife”
Leftist tolerance in action.
This is all so fucken tiresome at this point.
And when the Dems get back into power and push through Trump-like policies these turds will be nowhere to be found.
Circle of life.
Like he gives a shit or else he would have been yelling at Obama too.
Everyone’s an asshole.
Wait a minute! I…. eh, you’re right.
“He saw someone who looked like a white nationalist purchase a gun”
Secret Nazi haircut?
Ugh thread fail
Probably just a bald white guy.
Moby bought a gun?
As long as it is made of stars.
Just stay out of the South Side.
What you just did- I noticed that.
Baseball cap, pickup truck, sleeveless t-shirt, mullet, chewing tobacco, wallet on a chain,and wispy or oddly groomed facial hair
Definitely needs to be shot
Why are you stalking me!!!!!
I couldn’t even check off one of those. ?
Kenny Chesney?
https://www.aier.org/article/%E2%80%9Cdo-something%E2%80%9D-dangerous-demand-make-politicians
“Well, if you can’t trust the police with guns who can you trust?”
How about myself?
Gawd, I hate getting old. I jacked my back up last weekend and it was finally feeling pretty good…until I reached for the soap in the shower this morning. Yep, that’s right. I blew up my back reaching for a bar of soap I didn’t even have to bend over to pick up. I’ve been doing the old man shuffle all day.
It’s a bitch alright but better than the alternative
Every day above ground is a good day
What if it is the day you get drafted to trim Rosie O’Donnell’s nethers?
I’ve done that tying a shoe. Way back when I was 30. Back muscles are a tricky thing.
Mine’s been jacked up since I was 19. Two man gurneys were a torture device.
Deadlift moar!
That’s one of the exact movements that caused it in the first place.
Now that you’ve dead lifted the gurney with a patient on it, twist sideways at the waist while you load it in the ambulance.
There’s your problem. The twisting. On a serious note, I hurt my back deadlifting because I was thinking of all the stuff I needed to do and let my form slip. Now, my mind is on the lift or I’m not lifting.
I saw a podcast with a guy who competes in strong man contests and holds (or held) the record for the deadlift. He said that doing deadlifts are too risky for the reward unless the only point is to do deadlifts. Lots of other back exercises that don’t risk so much.
About a month ago or so, Id made breakfast on Sunday morning. I sat with a plate in 1 hand, turned a certain way, and my back suddenly acquired a sharp, stabbing, pain.
I had a knot for a week. At a certain age, breakfast will kill you.
Several months ago, if y’all remember I spent a couple of weeks paralyzed with pain after taking a swing with a machete
You have my sympathy Spud
Wife: “Is that bag of dog food still in the back of the car?”(50lbs)
Spud: “Fuuuuucckk.”
It’s now sitting next to the car. She can go out to the garage to fill their bowls. I have a drink next to me and the ice is where it belongs. In a bag on my lower back.
Funniest “how did that happen” injury story I ever heard was from a relatively young guy who cracked a rib stretching over the arm of an overstuffed couch to get his phone off the end table.
You have my total sympathy. Here I sit with 2 fractured vertebrae, wondering if it will ever be the same.
I hear from anyone with back troubles that they like to show up for an encore unexpectedly throughout life.
Huzzah!
Are you back at work? How’s it going?
Sort of. I worked Monday and then Tuesday until at noon I got a stern phone call from HR telling me I had to stop work immediately because my “return to work” note was not phrased to their liking.
My doc is out of town this week so it took until today to get it all straightened out.
The pain comes and goes. Definitely getting better overall!
Stable fractures heal fairly well. It’s the soft tissue issues that may be your new friend. You’re healing though!
That’s what I’m hoping re: the soft tissue.
Definitely glad to be healing! Good wishes to your recovery too.
Let’s see…
Drying off my leg
Tying my shoe
Untying my shoe
Sitting down
Cleaning the bathroom
Not injured by…
Lifting anything heavy.
Go figure.
It’s just stupid, and annoys the piss out of me.
Sneezing
^^^^
You old coots need to stretch and ramp up your CBD consumption. Jeepers.
OMG, I’ve been watching this chick do the morning traffic for years – since before she got married – and had no idea this was her husband. I can’t even.
a son named Story Moon. Their daughter, Sunny, is 2 years old.
Jesus wept.
What do you have Against Congressman Bono?
I feel for the kid. A boy named Story Moon?
Couldn’t even do Dweezil?
‘Story’ by itself or as a nickname could be all right, that astronaut made it work, but ‘Story Moon’ fucking neo hippies.
What a stupid name. They should have named her “Harvest”, or “Blue”, or something like that.
He’s a baby. “New” would suffice.
I think “Blood” would have been epic.
Goodnight Moon.
Your ex ?
Neither of them.
He looks like Norm Gunderson crossed with Billy Zane.
Dude should shave it all off. A buddy of mine looked like that for years – doofy fringe bald. When he finally went full-shaven he looked 15 years younger and totally badass.
https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2019/08/08/wayne-lapierre-hints-nra-will-oppose-gun-control-proposals-consideration/
Also Cosmo favorite David French is all in for Red Flag laws.
None of thier proposals would have stopped the recent shootings
In fact would not have stopped any shootings
This should tell you all you need to know about thier motives
Exactly this. They have zero desire to stop mass shootings.
It’s almost like the shooters planned this all out in advance. ?
if the copycat spree killers in the US all start using gasoline like the psych in Kyoto a few weeks ago and all mass shootings stopped like magic the left in the US will just roll the gun-banning laws into a comprehensive “public safety measures”. They don’t care if there is any reason, they just want to ban guns.
https://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/the-12-most-common-fallacious-gun-arguments-and-how-to-refute-them/?fbclid=IwAR3EmSWlFVfJ9co_Vw8As6V5thIRuoVtvXGM-gtqysfM-RvkjOtSZy2LX9k#.XUmocdt5E3V.facebook
“If the government wanted you dead, then your AR-15 or Glock 19 would be of absolutely zero assistance to you. Our military has the most sophisticated weapons and armor the world has ever known. There simply is no civilian weapon that could stand up to their tremendous military might. You could stand in front of an M1A2 SEP and fire thousands of rounds into it without impairing its function whatsoever. You would have even less chance of defending yourself against a drone strike that was absolutely invisible to the naked eye.
This isn’t 1786. You can’t simply load up your musket to defend against the British.
Fins, Vietnamese, and Arabs would all like a word.
And the ~7000+ dead Americans since 9/11
Oh yeah….it seems like this author has caricature of gun owners and their arguments.
If they’re so so ineffective, why does he want to take them?
Isn’t this an argument for allowing civilians to own more weapons?
Man-portable anti-armor, at a minimum. Man-portable anti-air would also be nice.
Congratulations Pvt Dean! You’re a MANPADS crewman! You get to be part of a crew.
(Variant of the story one of my first CPL’s told me about his first job in the Army. Before he learned that MANPADS stood for Man Portable Air Defense System and the crew was a two man team)
Hey! That’s what I did – 16R/S Vulcan/Stinger Crew. Stinger rotations suck; one is often assigned to an infantry unit and, since one’s team is not organic to their structure, they often forget to bring chow for the 2 poor schmucks humping the 2 75lb. tubes and a PRC-77 radio.
If an organized group really decided to and were not retarded, they could behead the government in a day. The military wouldn’t make a bit of difference and we would be plunged into chaos.
This ^^
It seems to me if you are going to over throw a government, you target government officials, not the military.
*not an endorsement, just a hypothetical
We’re remarkably close to a full breakdown. All it will take is a couple of true believers who don’t mind dying for the cause.
Death squads Ireland or El Salvador style would make quick work of numerous soft targets.
“Gun prohibition would never work. With 300 million guns already owned in America, you could never collect them all. I sure as hell wouldn’t give mine up!!
No one is asking you to give up your gun.
But since you brought it up, gun-prohibition actually does work.
It is worth reading up on how Australia accomplished this after the Port Arthur mass shooting of 1996. They enacted sweeping gun reform, offered amnesty to those with illegal guns and began a gun buy back program, offering fair market value to encourage people to sell their guns back to the government for destruction.”
Except, you know, there are still millions of guns that are legally owned in Australia, and likely hundreds of thousands (if not more) that are illegally owned. So, no, gun prohibition has not been successfully accomplished in Australia.
Sure it has. It’s made criminals out of non-compliers.
and 2/3 of the guns were never turned over, but shhhh that’s a secret……
…with an estimated 30% compliance rate.
If the end result is to decrease violent crime and homicide, then the Australia program and the UK laws are abject failures.
I keep meaning to write an article thoroughly destroying this argument for the horseshit it is, but it just seems so tedious and the TRUE BELIEVERS will never change their minds, anyway. The fact is that if the people are armed, an occupying force has to live behind walls because the great leveller is sleep. Yes, sleep. Even government goons have to sleep and that means they need someone to stand guard. And that means that all of the tanks, aircraft, machine guns, etc., can’t protect you against a populace that has weapons. You would have to (literally) occupy every house and it can’t be done. THAT’S how countries like those american colonists were able to defeat the greatest Army and Navy in in the world. It’s also how a bunch of illiterate Afghans have defeated BOTH of the world’s superpowers in a mere 50 year timeframe.
We had to live behind walls and you can’t know who exactly is working with the enemy. And that’s why the idea that because the military has tanks and we only have small arms that somehow means we should be disarmed. It’s got to be the second dumbest argument for gun control that there is. (The first one is even stupider and I’ll save it for when someone brings it up).
You would think the fact that the first thing an authoritarian government does is disarm its citizens would be enough to shut down this argument, but no.
The front line of tyranny is your local sheriff.
Headline for the local paper today was “Trump Stokes Divisions” in bold across the entire page. It’s like they’re not even trying anymore
“Trump Strokes Parisians” is how I read it.
they seem to like fire, stoking, inflaming, incendiary, let it burn,
Pyros I tells ya!
I suppose in many professions such as teaching and journalism, once the balance of progs vs libertarians/conservatives/apoliticals gets tilted too far left, the remaining non-progs go away due to attrition and lack of entry into the profession by non-progs.
I think it’s hit that level already in many colleges and universities
Gross.
In case you actually thought this couldn’t get any stupider:
A Public Option for Broadband
Warren wants every single house in the US to have fiber optic broadband. I can’t imagine what the cost of replacing 3/4 of our internet infrastructure with fiber optic would be. And I bet she doesn’t either.
And , apparently, even though it will be run by the government and many will be subsidized, there won’t be any tax dollars expended!
I know this word is overused and lost all meaning but fuck it, Warren is a fucking fascist.
Here’s Fascism, I just a lost a project in San Fran because……. I’m not a union man, we were told it would be dangerous to try to work anyway. this is the Union against Corporations like Chipotle, so pay the Piper, or get fucked, Fascism? the SF government endorese the policy so yes
I HATE UNIONS!!!!! Pussiest all!
In SF? Get out of here. I had a buddy working in NY as a telecom contractor and just told to tell anyone that asked that they were union. And this was NY. I think they got handed “membership cards” too.
I was told to provide a card when I got there, HAHAHAHA!!!
Our Company said Fuck Right Off!
On the plus side, it means you don’t have to go to San Francisco.
nope, still have two more up there
Whereabouts?
no giant ISPs running away with taxpayer dollars
And that’s exactly what it would be.
Minitel for All!
And once she controls your access to the internet, she’ll control what you access with it.
Never change, Liz.
I can’t imagine what the cost of replacing 3/4 of our internet infrastructure with fiber optic would be.
$200/LF times hundreds of millions, possibly billions of LF of cable. Not much at all.
…and after they complete the waste of a gazillion dollars on fiber optic networks, Elon Musk’s global wireless internet by satellite goes online.
Oops.
from the morning thread, but it’s a common gun control talking point:
The vast majority of gun-related deaths in the United States are from suicide.
Isn’t this an indication of how low the violent crime rate is.
I missed the discussion about “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” I saw it yesterday and really enjoyed it. This came up in my feed today:
https://www.vox.com/2019/8/7/20695284/charles-manson-family-what-is-helter-skelter-explained
It’s not as derpy as you might expect for Vox until the parting shot:
“His rise to prominence and the violence he engendered says more about the complicated moment in which he moved, and the gender and social roles he exploited, than his special talents as a master manipulator. Manson’s power was built not on his own abilities but on the bodies, sacrifices, and ravaged souls of the people he took into the Family — long before they began to kill for his sake.”
It’s not a new narrative but I find it interesting that the girls who helped carry out the murders are often spoken of as victims. They wielded the knives and enthusiastically set about their work. I reject the idea that they are somehow less culpable or less evil.
My mom Guarded Fromme and the other one in CIW prison, and no, they are as sick an animal as one would imagine, no remorse, just blank dead humans…
It’s a bullshit take on it, one fostered by the mythology of the patriarchy and women trapped by false consciousness.
I had the same problem with OUATIH as I did with the Coen Brothers’ Hail Caesar! — both are love letters to a bygone Hollywood era wrapped up in flimsy-ass plots where not much happens.
Just got another call from a different collection agency on the new cell number. That’s it. Gonna pay the fee to change the number again.
Christ on a stick.
Maybe next time you can get a discarded number from a telemarketer that everyone has already blocked.
Were they trying to reach you? Or are you getting calls for the previous owner?
My son got the number of a guy who apparently owned some muchacho a bunch of money. The calls from the aggrieved party and his homies were pretty funny.
I’ve been getting calls on my work number (desk phone) off and on for 5 years for the guy who had the phone before me. It’s slowed down a lot lately though.
I got calls for several years from collection agencies looking for the previous owner of my cell phone number.
“No, I’m not Brenda.”
“No, I don’t know Brenda.”
“No, Brenda hasn’t had this phone number for several year, please quit calling me.”
I still get collection letters to a previous occupant of the apartment I’ve been living in for 7 years.
I’ve had the same cell number for ~24 years.
Get off my lawn.
Something for our car but Minnesoda Glibs to do this weekend.
Things like this are always interesting but the top market value for the cars is usually less than the cost of a restoration.
https://jalopnik.com/a-minnesota-farmer-spent-his-life-collecting-cars-and-n-1837066153?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=jalopnik_copy&utm_campaign=top
Car nut
What, no Tundra? Or did he run out of his house and drive there immediately on hearing this?
Elissa Slotkin Parks Illegally, Makes Innocent Staffer ‘Personally Apologize’
They’re just like us!
Maybe it was the staffs fault, and at least she sent someone to apologize she could have just tossed the note on the ground and left like almost everyone else would have in that situation. And now that I think about it why didn’t they just tow her, if she was really parked ‘illegally’ her car would be gone in a heartbeat, towing companies love illegal parkers. Sounds to me like she ignored a ‘such and such only’ sign which is not necessarily illegal.
I see you’re an authoritarian apologist.
Noted.
What can I say, she has a less angry Pie look going, I’m sucker for that kind thing.
Maybe not illegal, but an asshole move. She was,driving, so she parked and it’s on her, not her staff.
And if her staff said, “Park here it’s cool”?
And if her staff jumped off a bridge?
“The congresswoman asked me to personally apologize to you for her inability to read parking signs, and her total lack of concern for anything it might have said had she been able to read it anyway. Remember to vote this November!”
She’s Klobucharing again!
Let them eat cake.
Cakes, ranked:
Carrot
Butter
Coffee
Apple
Chocolate
Pound
Red Velvet
yo misspelled ‘Cheese’ like nine times.
Cheesecake is not cake. It’s a custard pie variant.
Also Q pics.
Cheese.
Everything else.
Cheesecake is for children and the pregnant.
No ice cream cake? Russian stooge found.
Go back to Russia, commie.
I don’t eat ice cream.
You flick it with your tongue, slowly & gently at first and gradually picking up the pace?
Gotta agree with the cheesecake lovers but a good red velvet cake is damn close.
There was a restaurant I used to go to that made a Bailey’s Irish cream chocolate chip cheesecake that was otherworldly.
Tre Leches from the top rope for the win.
Hyperbole’s right. Everyone who’s anyone knows it goes:
#1 – Cheesecake
…
…
…
#25 – Red Velvet
#26 – other things with cream cheese, including bagels
#27 – all other things
How about a bagel with butter? It’s actually not bad.
To NB & SW: (also, anyone else) I wonder if I’m the only person who likes cheese cake & olives on a bagel.
Please don’t ever again tell Hyperbole he’s right about something.
Who’s the Libtard now?
Lady Baltimore says you’re wrong. Also, Red Velvet tops the list if it is made red by the interaction between the buttermilk and the Broma cocoa.
WTF? Vegetables do not belong in dessert.
Also, cakes in general suck. Pies are much better.
Cooper out!
NY Times ‘Closely Examining’ Deputy Editor Jonathan Weisman’s ‘Poor Judgment on Social Media’
“Famed writer.”
Honda’s New Tactic for Attracting First-Time Car Buyers: Esports
My car is in for service at the dealership, they gave me a Tiguan for a loaner. I’m not a fan of suvs, but it seems nice.
Wasn’t that you who posted on the VW warranties? When are they paring them back, next model year?
2020.
6/72 right now & transferable.
“Seems” is the operative word. When you drop it back off, it’ll wink and purr at you, and then when you’re gone — call you “bitch mofo” behind your back.
Better Birth Control Could Exist, But It Wouldn’t Pay for Big Pharma
These people want to keep the birthrate down so Mexicans and Muslims can take over the Western world! THEY MUST BE STOPPED!
Also, Yaz
“It’s time that women have the opportunity to have sex on demand, like men have had with condoms for years.”
Whut? The condom only benefits one party? Who does she think those men were having sex with?
Other men. Duh.
I think I liked CJ avatar-free. Thanks whoever avatar shamed him.
It’s an ocd thing, dude.
https://66.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6m569TPKK1qcwhkeo1_400.gif
$2 million-a-patient gene therapies to treat rare diseases
Real money maker there, I bet.
HOLY MACKEREL!! The prices we’ve been quoted for the simple act of moving a piano from a ground floor room in LawnGuy Land to a ground floor room in Rockaway Beach (roughly 40 miles) runs from $350 to $1200! I think I’m gonna go with the $39 rent a 14′ box-truck with a lift-gate and borrow a pallet jack from work option.
Whoa! Doesn’t NY background check box trucks now?
It’s NYC, I have a guy. Seriously though, it’s a local company that primarily serves the film/tv production industry and only rents box-trucks. A 14′ with electric lift-gate is $39 for 12 hours.
I’ll do it for fifty bucks plus travelling expenses.
Does it have wheels? Or is it a grand. If it’s a grand piano I would go with the 350$.
New thread is up!