Man oh man, is this week ever dragging ass. Maybe that’s because the Astros decided to stop putting their star pitchers on the mound the last two days. Seriously, it feels like they’re running a six man rotation. But I’m sure Hinch knows what he’s doing. Still, I hate to see them lose two in a row. Especially at home to a lively playoff team. Ah, leet’s see what happens tonight as they wrap up the series with the A’s with Verlander on the hill.
Your other winners yesterday were: Atlanta, Baltimore, Toronto, New York (NL), Milwaukee, Washington, Texas, Cleveland, Kansas City, Colorado, Pittsburgh, Sad Diego, Seattle and the weather (Detroit-NYY was postponed).
So that horse that won the triple crown last year? Yeah, that probably shouldn’t have been able to happen. In unrelated news, several of the California Horse Racing Commission’s board members are the recipients of an anonymous donation of several new Ferraris. Its nice that people will occasionally do those sort of things. Ah, coincidences happen all the time.
THE greatest track athlete in the history of the world Jesse Owens was born on this day. So were British explorer Henry Hudson, H.L. Mencken, country legend George Jones, politician Henry “Moleman” Waxman, singer Barry White, masturbation aficionado Louis C.K., poor drifter Paul Walker, the lovely Jennifer Hudson and singer Ben Folds.
Ok, let’s get ready for…THE links!
The Senate confirmed the 150th judicial appointment since Trump took office yesterday. That’s quite the feat, to be honest. Oh well, this is what Mitch McConnell told you would happen when you changed the Senate rules lefties.
Holy shit, the Supreme Court actually did its job? Well, there were still a couple of dissenters who didn’t really respect the separation of powers. Hopefully this kind of thing will continue…and Congress will start doing their job and stop giving so much of its defined powers to the executive branch.
California government hates free association. They are also telling people that they are too stupid to determine how they make a few extra bucks here and there. And they don’t really give a fuck who this hurts. Because they never did.
Want to hear a story about cops chasing pot smokers that has a happy ending? Well, you’re in luck. But seriously, NYPD…you’re chasing people for smoking pot. Not selling smack to grade schoolers…not tossing cocaine out of windows like Mardi Gras beads…a couple of people on a sidewalk smoking pot. Get your fucking priorities straight, you bozos. And stop driving what looks like clown cars (see photo).
In the timeless words of Nelson Muntz, “Ha-ha!” I’m sorry if I shed no tears for this stupid asshole. I’m just curious how the high school admins were unaware of his past.
Israeli settlement numbers in East Jerusalem soar. Which I’m sure the Palestinians will protest by lobbing a few hundred bombs into Israel and the UN will condemn Israel for provoking them. Its pretty much the template for the news cycle over there now.
Here’s a little something for you. Hope you enjoy it.
And I hope you enjoy the rest of your day, friends.
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Mornin’
The ponies are fixed? Say it ain’t so, sloop!
Any Dick Francis (or more like his wife) novel reader knows that…
Yay! Anoth Dick Francis reader!
What about being a Dick Trickle fa?
See a urologist.
We call them “geldings” in that case.
My Old Man used to hang with wealthy people that ran ponies. He never bet a dime on that racket and he was an inveterate gambler.
Got trashed last night. Bar hired new girl, some stripper that would make even Q’s eyes widen. She was not shy about showing those puppies off.
Hangover Defcon 5?
I’ll bet you tipped like crazy
Gotta slip em in her bra.
Regular hangout?
That was my question.
You guys seem so young to me… I haven’t had a “regular hangout” for 25 years.
I have had one for the past three years. No one ever goes there, and I don’t have to spend money if I don’t want to.
It’s convenient since it’s in my own home.
UCS is old and boring. Let’s egg his house!
heh…
I don’t really have a regular hangout, but I know the staff at a couple of the breweries around here, and they recognize me (and the girlfriend in at least one case). I did get spoiled when the two breweries closest to me (3.5 miles and 5 miles) partnered with a local bike shop to do a discount day for cyclists, and you’d get entered into a drawing at the end of the year (for a new bike, jersey, or gift certificate).
I had a regular hangout – staff and management got to know me over the years – which gave me access to test tastes of new beer and even used as a taster for new cocktails plus bonus free drinks. Sadly they closed last spring.
I have a new place, less expensive and more of a dive bar, but the bartender knows us now.
Can’t count how many regular hangouts I have.
I used to take thing 1 to breakfast every other Saturday or so to the same diner in town and we got to know the waitresses there pretty well. His regular order every time was pancakes and a side of french fries. We had his fifth birthday party there (this was not a birthday party kind of place) and they made him a “cake” with like eight pancakes stacked up with frosting like a regular layer cake and they put a side of french fries next to it.
Life pro tip – bring your adorable son to a diner on the reg before he hits puberty and you might get some free cake.
My regular hangout closed a few years ago and now I’m sad remembering it.
My regular Saturday breakfast diner sends me a Christmas card and a plate of cookies every year.
I may be spending too much money there.
They disagree.
Yeah, it’s my “regular” hangout. I go other places but cheap beer and a mile away, working class bar. You can also order pizza or wings from places in the same strip mall. Wings are some of the best in the state. It’s my weekday default. I try and get out maybe once a week on average.
So you went up to Dublin, OH?
Actually one of my favorite bars is Yogi’s. They have a couple bars in Dublin. The talent is ridiculas.
Next time get some goddam pics to share, buddy
^^^THIS^^^
>>Israeli settlement numbers in East Jerusalem soar.
You know who else caused a lot of Jews to move to a new location…
Donald Trump?
Nebuchadnezzer?
David Horsley?
Sherman Hemsley?
Ed Koch?
Al Sharpton?
Moses?
Gays moving into the neighborhood?
Up until now, I just assumed “East Jerusalem” was like the eastern part of the City of Jerusalem. But I find it extremely unlikely that one can build “settlements” inside of a multi-thousand year old city, so I was obviously mistaken.
East Jerusalem is the eastern part of the city, so I’m still confused.
*reads article*
Those “Settlements” are actually just “Building Permits”.
“Israel expanded the city’s municipal boundaries to take in large areas of open land that were then earmarked for Jewish settlements. At the same time, city planners set the boundaries of Palestinian neighborhoods, preventing them from expanding.”
Once again, city planners are the real problem.
Honest question: Are Palis prohibited from living outside designated Pali neighborhoods?
Well Hamas sure as hell will kill them for doing so…
US leftists call it “gentrification”.
Steven Spielberg while directing Schindler’s List?
Al Sharpton ?
Dammit!
…great minds
The Pharaoh? It has to be the Pharaoh.
Antiochus Epimanes?
The weather in Boca?
French dip sandwiches?
Patrick O’potatoeblight, inventor of the Potato Blight?
Torquemada?
“We cannot sit by while companies pass off their own costs of doing business onto California’s taxpayers and responsible businesses, while depriving millions of workers of the labor law protections that they are rightfully entitled to,” Gonzalez said in a recent statement.
You could’ve just jerked off in a corner.
No more Uber/Lyft for us. The major draw is the flexibility and the low prices. Retards in Sac just killed both.
Sorry, man. Same here.
Yeah, this pisses me off. The clock is still running on my mandatory
6 month suspension of my driver’s license (because the doctor was required to file a report on my “loss of consciousness” even though I wasn’t driving)
And I use Uber a LOT
Get ready to pay 300% more.
And damn those Republicans for making it happen.
Maybe this will wake Uber and Lyft up to get them to move their HQs out of California. I’ve loved both Uber and Lyft since they came to Cleveland. You mean for ~$40 (round trip), I can go out drinking and not need to worry about how I’m getting home? Cabs have always been worthless here in Cleveland, you need to call for a pickup unless you’re at a designated cab pickup spot (almost all are by downtown hotels).
Yep. Nothing like freezing your ass off because the idiot cabbie can’t seem to find the Circus on a cold day in November. Did I say the Circus? I meant the Basement.
Same in NYC. It’s the same price as a limo* now. In fact, it’s mostly the same drivers.
*The long-existing hired car service industry which was always very expensive
It’s those greedy corporations raising the price on those poor consumers!
“As God intended.”
-Louis C.K.
Someone gets it. Stop trying to “help”.
Also, this sort of thing was bound to happen where businesses no longer will be permitted to managed their own costs as sees fit. Passing along costs is one of those. So basically the calculus is ‘pay us more even if we’re not worth it and eats at the margins. YOU eat it’. Europe is like that. Try and fire someone. Ga’head.
California Über Alles
I am rather amused by the great offense California and the Dems have taken over Trump offering to assess how to help alleviate their out-of-control homeless problems.
it’s the suede denim secret police! they are here for your uncool… rideshare service?
The Kalifornia State Assembly pretty much has a golden goose fois-gras factory farm at this point.
I read that Uber and Lyft are already in “negotiations” with Shithead Newsome over how they can prostrate themselves to the oligarchy and limit the damage of this move. So well done Kali state government; you managed to give the Unions a reacharound and shake down rideshare simultaneously. You make us all proud by leading the way in corruption (except for maybe Illinois).
If they had balls, they’d stop operating here. The other prog states are biding their time. Cab drivers are celebrating.
We have the same problem here. Taxi associations are predominantly South Asian and they vote pretty reliably for the bread-butterer. The NDP has been spreading the oleo for decades.
Yes. This is why whenever people tell me ‘You’re Canadian, what do you care about California?’
Know why? Because other states AND provinces are WATCHING what California does.
Quebec on a couple of occasions cited California for their ‘progressive outlook’. One of those being a canon tax.
So perhaps I may not have a vote but we can blow back with a voice.
The last thing I need are more bad ideas infiltrating. Socialist ideas were imported from the U.S. not Europe up here.
Thanks for nothing America Sr.
That’s why I care about American jurisprudence. We’ve fucked ourselves five ways to Sunday but even a little push-back is a small victory. If the Liberal Party keeps this up there will arise a Western separatist movement and it won’t be anything to sneeze at.
I truly hope that happens. Better a fragmented Canada than what the Liberals are pumping. They really need to change their name.
Maybe the Progressive Fake Liberal party?
Also. I’d like to know who advised Bernier on naming his party the People’s Party. It screams ‘ignore us’.
Anything would have been better. The No Trudeau Party for example.
Canada and marketing is an oxymoron.
One of those being a canon tax.
So the latest Star Trek movies are exempt from it for the box office receipts?
I don’t know why auto-spell thinks it’s also an editor. It ALWAYS reworks a word in mid-sentence. VERY annoying.
Carbon tax.
Why don’t you just turn off that Bug?
WHERE’S THE SWITCH!?
“a canon tax”
Star Trek enthusiasts hardest hit?
Fortunately they haven’t made a Star Wars film since 1983 so our cannon is safe. Yes siree, nothing to see here.
Yeah, including man-eating teddy bears really ruined it.
If they had balls, they’d stop operating here.
Yup. Shut down and explain to the drivers and customers that it is the result of the government making the business model unworkable.
But if Uber shuts down in CA, Lyft essentially has the exclusive rights to operating in one of the biggest states. This will raise Lyft’s visibility and Californians and anyone who travels there for work or business will become accustomed to using them over Uber. Uber would become known as a niche provider. Even if they’re not making much they may not be able to afford to leave such a large market.
With the increased costs, can they afford not to leave?
Yeah, this pretty much ass-fucks the entire business model, I don’t see how it stays viable.
I can see it remaining viable in large, expensive cities where it takes over the existing hired car service (like it has in NYC). It will die everywhere else.
You don’t make up for marginal losses with volume. This isn’t a one-and-done thing. The additional mandates are only going to come more quickly.
If they had balls, they’d stop operating here.
I’d add, if they had any brains. This is only the beginning. Hell, I’ll bet half of the legislators will admit as much themselves. If the ride sharers go along, they’ll only pass more restrictions. And, as others have said, other states will join the bandwagon.
It’s not even Lyft or Uber. What this does is fuck any 1099 worker – think IT, insurance adjusters, etc. Take your typical independent adjuster. Here’s a guy or gal who can take work when they want and golf the rest of the day. Kiss that goodbye. There are a ton of retired military that are hired as adjusters.
Anytime I see one of these “government is going to help the little guy” initiatives, I know what really is being done is laws getting passed that make entities trying to make money obligated to paying off the political class (practically always team blue too) in return for the ability to operate. It’s the new socialism. You know. Where government doesn’t outright own industry, but indirectly can regulate any and all entities out of business and then blame the private sector for the debacle.
Fuck you, pay me.
Yup.
It’s not socialism, it’s fascism.
California government hates free association.
Wait, most news stories called this a “triumph” for the gig workers. TRIUMPH. Not loss.
Other than the gig, of course.
Why would those stupid peasants want to work anyway when Kali has created so many generous benefits for them?
West added that drivers would lose by being forced to work shifts, and not being able to “dual-app” by working for more than one rideshare service.
“Based on what drivers tell us, they are not changes that they would welcome,” he said.
“Triumph” is truly shameless spin.
Most news outlets call a raise in minimum wage a triumph too. Proving that most news outlets have the brains of ice cubes.
Or they’re midwits with an agenda.
I’ve been saying for years that as much of a buffoonish egoist Forty-five might be, his real job is to fix the imbalance in the Judiciary. He can take a dump on the Presidential Seal in the Oval office so long as he stems the tide long enough for me to shuffle off this mortal coil. The Judicial branch holds all of the cards.
^This, this, so much this. Even though we’re not always getting appointments we like, pretty much anyone he appoints will be less bad than the people Hillary would be appointing.
I imagined a Hillary appointed Supreme Court. She’d have added two liberal activists, and RBG would also likely have retired and been replaced too.
Shudder.
Yeah, the first and second amendments would be history. And then they’d go to work on what remains of the rest.
And people say I have disturbing thoughts…
I wonder what scheme or racket Hillary unleashed is up to these days.
A women like that scorned ain’t gonna be nice.
You’ve read the SugarFree non-fiction like the rest of us. Let him take you to the Reading Rainbow!
And Romper Room.
Yeah, I think she was borderline psychotic to start with, and the denial of her crown drove her over the edge.
She is scary.
I suppose we’d have troops in Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Egypt, and wherever else herself wants to play God.
INT. Oval Office. Hillary picking at some grapes irreverently in negligee spread out on the floor like a sot.
SofS (bows): Madame Queen and Lord of All. The French….
Hillary (looking away disinterested): Occupy it….
SofS: Very well….
Hillary: Wait….can we take out their leader?
SofS: Might be problematic given it’s France, you know, for obvious….reasons?
Hillary: Fine. Fine. Occupy….and bring me back a Mille Feuille!
/throws empty bottle of wine at SofS.
Do you even Blackadder, bruh?
She’s turned into a performance artist, thumbing her nose at laws other people sit in jail for breaking.
https://twitter.com/huffpost/status/1171880306825211904?s=21
My favorite response.
Then she said, “Too bad they didn’t have access to my gmail account. I get into a lot more details about where the sweet nourishing baby blood comes from”.
Such a nasty woman.
Did she read the 30 000 she scrubbed?
Like, with a scotch brite pad?
I wonder what scheme or racket Hillary unleashed is up to these days.
Oh, I’m sure she is Biden her time…
She will be the Vee-Pee, then Biden will commit suicide by double tap to the back of his head?
I’m not going to believe she’s not actually running until the election’s over.
The Judicial branch holds all of the cards.
Only because the executive and legislative branches allow them to.
That’s been happening for decades and the ratchet has no pawl.
long enough for me to shuffle off this mortal coil
I haven’t decided whether to shuffle off before the last nail is driven in, or hang around long enough to make fun of the commies when they get the utopia they asked for. The latter will no doubt result in my corpse being bullet riddled.
Grammar, how does it work? I dunno.
/TARDIS
Perfectly cromulent, My Good Man!
Thanks for the embiggening.
He won’t take a dump on the Seal in the Oval office. He’d hire a Russian Hooker to do that.
George Jones/Barry White
He stopped getting enough of her love today, baby
Bravo.
Can someone fill me on the Judge who lost his job as tennis coach? I know about the Turner story but was this a common thing with this judge giving lenient sentences to bad crimes?
Why shouldn’t he be able to be a coach? Plain bad optics? Can he be a judge elsewhere in some other capacity? Be a lawyer even?
He may be a knucklehead but he’s far – far – from being the only judge he did this. I’m sure Katherine Forrest is still earning a living.
Bad optics hiring a guy who went light on sexual assault of a woman as a womens’ tennis coach …
His crime was not understanding which criminals a judge must be lenient toward and which he must crucify. His sentence is apparently to live out his life as a pariah. This crap has got to stop and with all due respect to Sloopy, we should not be applauding the idea that some noncriminal act is reason to render a person unemployable for life.
I understand, but this dipshit deserves to be a pariah. A man was convicted on three cases of sexual assault of an unconscious woman and he basically gave him three months in jail when the judge could have sentenced him to 14 years in prison.
Sorry, I’ve got no time for people like that. Anybody that treats a rapist leniently should be a pariah.
There are way too many laws on the books. We need to get rid of 75% of them, if not more. But the ones that remain, crimes with an actual victim, should carry incredibly severe penalties. 3 months and then probation for that? Fuck that judge.
I have a friend who worked on the defense team on the rape case. He said anyone knowing the truth about the case rather than the media’s version would not think the sentence was inappropriate.
Does that include the jury?
1. We are talking about whether the now fired judge should be left alone to work a low status job as a tennis coach not whether the criminal should have been punished more severely
2. The State had to change the law after the case in order for what he did to be rape. He felt up, and apparently fingered an unconscious woman. This is certainly despicable conduct, and certainly criminal, but not rape.
THE greatest track athlete in the history of the world Jesse Owens was born on this day.
I am sure that someone could give him a run for his money.
STEVE SMITH NOT INTERESTED IN MONEY
STEVE SMITH GIVE HIM A RUN THOUGH, AND BY “RUN” MEAN…
He went to Ohio State University, formerly The.
Thot Thursday will never use Uber again.
http://archive.li/UOO46
I think Sloopy is a big fan of 70s/80 New Wave/alternative music.
Party Time at Sloopy’s!
Imagine putting up a similar video only not for whites. Something like ‘worst black drivers’. Or Asians.
I think you’re correct. I’d like to see a yearbook picture. Probably Flock of Seagulls hair and a popped collar.
He is not alone.
Nope.
Not even close.
EF and I are going to go see Ian Noe, a fine Kentuckian, this September 28th in Ann Arbor.
Holy shit, the Supreme Court actually did its job?
But there needs to be something done about the filing injunctions thing. A single leftist justice should not be able to stop something so clearly within the purview of another branch of government.
I remain confused about how some shithead judge from buttfuck nowhere county has the jurisdiction to issue an injunction against anything outside his district.
Fuck you, that’s how.
He doesn’t, I have no idea why everyone goes along with it.
Let’s hope these people put an end to this idiotic practice of letting your usual left state commies in robes hold us all hostage to their mental illness.
Its a very, very old power that has only been lightly used and in the most extreme circumstances until… I want to say 15 years ago or so. Its not a very well developed area of law (I am not a lawyer).
I think the SC is looking for a case to address it, but they want one that isn’t a partisan polarizing case. Something like a bankruptcy case or a case about how the USDA demands skim milk to be labeled instead of immigration, guns, Obamacare, or speech.
Yep. Either some decent legislation to limit lower courts from issuing those kinds of overreaching injunction that interfere with the actual operations of the government. Or, some Judges need to get impeached.
I notice those injunctions never apply to say, enforcement of NJ or NY gun laws. Only stuff that would make George Soros happy.
The legislature has the power to stop this, impeach the judges who grossly overstep their authority. If nothing else, maybe it’ll keep them too busy to pass more terrible legislation.
Congress ha control over the jurisdiction of the lower federal courts. Like much else, it has abdicated that authority.
TBF, a penis ring toss does sound kind of fun.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/penis-ring-toss-lubricant-taste-tests-featured-at-public-universitys-sex-ed-carnival/
“not all people with vaginas are women”
Honk.
>>“Consent Carnival”
Take the STEVE SMITH trolley car of whimsy and wonder.
Boring!
I was expecting people to be tossing greasy onion rings at dudes with porno penises. The winner gets to choose who gets/has to eat the ring off the schlong.
Jihad Rajabi, who lives in the Palestinian neighborhood of Beit Hanina, says he wasn’t given the option of destroying his own home.
Authorities showed up one morning last month with police and heavy equipment. They only gave him and his extended family of 15 people enough time to salvage some personal belongings before demolishing the 200-square-meter (2,150 square-foot) home.
Just your average dude named “Jihad” living with his 15-person family in a house he built sans permit. Way to live down stereotypes.
If I ever get the opportunity to have another child (God forbid) I’m naming my first born “Murdersplosion”!
I always thought a great name would be Dickcheese.
You mean like Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine?
I used to tell people if I was a corpulent fella and my name was Richard Hurtz, my friends could then refer to me as “Big Dick Hurtz”….
A Texas high school teacher admitted to carrying out an inappropriate relationship with a student, authorities said.
Police said Seymour, of Kyle, Texas, faces a second-degree felony charge of having an improper relationship between an educator and a student.
Authorities say there has not been any indication of other students being involved.
The school district released a statement Tuesday clarifying that Seymour — who worked for the school district since March 2016 — is on administrative leave.
“The trust between a teacher and student is sacred, and we do not and will not tolerate any violation of that trust,” superintendent Mark Estrada said in a letter to parents. “The safety of our students is our number one priority, and we will continue to cooperate fully with law enforcement during this ongoing investigation.”
“She will not return to this district,” Estrada added, noting that her actions were also reported to Child Protective Services.
Seymour was booked into the Caldwell County Jail with a $50,000 bond, police said.
Can I get a verdict?
Is that a mustache?
Dead eyes. But nobody looks their best in a mugshot photo.
Can’t tell if it’s just the picture, but too much mustache.
Protetsant
A touch of paint here, a little spackle there… Would.
Need a wider lens to render a verdict. Definite maybe.
Probably.
I look forward to San Francisco declaring the NEA a criminal organization that defends pedophiles. I mean, if the NRA, who doesn’t defend mass murderers, is a terrorist organization, then surely the unions that defend these creeps are worse.
“improper relationship” or, for a male teacher: “rape”
But yeah, also probably would
Some double standards make sense. This is one of them.
16 year old Bob would shoot her across the room.
OT: lady glibs, is using a coupon on a first date a faux pas? I’ve got a date next Monday and it’s in an area of town I don’t usually frequent. I was thinking of taking her to the bowling alley since not much else is around there. I have two 1/2 hour free coupons to said alley. I’ll probably never go there otherwise, so it’s the perfect opportunity to use them. But I don’t want to look to cheap.
Can you use it without her seeing?
“Hey, look at the fancy lights on those lanes!” *Quickly slips the coupons to the cashier*
Ugh. “Cosmic Bowling” is the worst form of bowling.
Totally…I had a migraine last time I went, and I don’t get migraines.
It would certainly discourage wannabe gold-diggers.
like the bowling alley wouldn’t be enough discouragement.
Hey, if it was good enough for Richard Nix-
OK, good enough for The Du-
Fuck…point taken.
It’s actually a trendy bowling alley. It’s one league bowlers like me usually wouldn’t be caught dead in. I’m at least smart enough to not bring the three ball roller.
Leave the Robdy Revs glove at home as well.
I don’t see the issue but if you give off that vibe she might want to see your 401K. Knock yourself out, bowling date is chill, fun date.
Do you want to look responsible and practical? Do you want to start your prospective relationship with actual honesty instead of showing some persona that’s not you?
Use the tickets. Just don’t mention them before, during, or after the date. Just use them.
Isn’t not mentioning them kinda like deception?
Asking for a muppet friend.
I meant if you tell her in the car about your great 1/2 price tickets and gloat about it in any other way, you’ll seem Jewish.
Just use them openly and don’t apologize for them. As if it made sense to use them. Which it does.
Buy the drinks and everything else and you won’t seem stingy.
Exactly my thoughts. If you pay for everything else it doesn’t make you seem stingy.
“I meant if you tell her in the car about your great 1/2 price tickets and gloat about it in any other way, you’ll seem Jewish.”
Really?
Nah, everyone knows (((Jews))) don’t bowl.
I waited 2 hours for someone to comment on Hayek’s comment to post that damn it.
Can you blame them?
Do you want to look responsible and practical? Do you want to start your prospective relationship with actual honesty instead of showing some persona that’s not you?
Way to talk me out of it.
The whole date or coupon use? Didn’t mean to harsh your date.
What HS said. I’d have no problem with it, but I have a history of marrying broke guys. If she comments on the coupons, say something like “We can play that much longer if we want.”
She said LADY GLIBS.
“I’m saving the money so I can pay for your abortion.”
OUCH!
“Not only can we bowl for 1/2 price, but I also got $10 Plan B!”
^^^!
Total faux-pas. Do you even peacock, brah?
Yes.
Ok, I’m gonna chime in now.
1. The coupon is no big deal
2. If she’s not a bowler and you’re a league bowler (so probably pretty good), don’t take her bowling. You run the risk of it being boring to her or giving off a “show-off” vibe when you act nonchalant about something she couldn’t do if she tried, like rolling a turkey or something.
Ask her what she’d like to do and take her there. Take her bowling on the second date, once you’ve both decided that you want to go out again and you’ve explained that you’re a good bowler and would like to impress her by showing her how well you roll.*
*sprinkle in a pun about wanting to see her 7-10 split at your own discretion.
If you are looking to get your dick wet, don’t use the coupons.
If you are looking for a long term relationship, use the coupons.
If you are looking to get your dick wet this week and have it develop into a long term relationship, readjust your priorities to something realistic.
Take her to a shooting range, pay for her ammo, gun rental, range fees. Look, if you are interested in her show her that you really care and you want her to know how to protect herself.
I wouldn’t use them: what are we talking about, $20? I’ve never let a girl see me sweat anything. It’s like the charity argument last night: it’s not the money, it’s how you feel about it.
Lawyer4 was second generation out of Brasil: smart and hot with just enough issues that I might could be her hero. She lived a long haul over on the divorcee side of town where I didn’t know anything (yet). Second date I figure bowling; it was a goofy place to bowl but a great date: dark, decent menu, beer, and I kept it under 200. After a weird couple of months, I quit calling her to see what would happen. A year goes by . . . whatever: good for her; I hit a quiet stretch and rang her up: bowling would be safe and not too sexy or forward. We had a nice, safe evening: turns out she had joined a league and met a bunch of friends.
Lawyer5 was weirder and I gave up on Texas chicks entirely.
So Florida Man hates charity…
It’s also worth pointing out how much estate and gift taxes suck. The charitable deduction for income taxes too. These all make charitable giving and charities more inefficient, which was one of FM’s biggest gripes.
After moving to California, even though the square footage of the house is slightly more than what we had in Minneapolis, the rooms are configured totally differently and the Midwest oak stuff didn’t match our Tuscan style house.
So we bought some new stuff and have been giving away the old directly to either a young, starting-out couple we know, or on NextDoor or Craigslist.
Is that harmful to the economy? I don’t know. I need the stuff gone and don’t want to haul it off, I hate wasting useful stuff, and it helped these folks spend on something else. Works for me.
I sold a couple my 2000 Ford Expedition for $1k to a young couple we know whose other car had crapped out. My Ford was old and rusty on the bottom (thanks, Minnesota salted highways!) but I could have gotten more than $1k for the 5.4 L V8 that fits all similar Expeditions and F150s. Did I do wrong?
No. It was an easy cash transaction and it allowed the wifey to keep her job. Worth it to me.
“Is that harmful to the economy?”
It’s harmful to bureaucrats. So, good on you.
Awkward…
Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) great-great-great grandfather Jonathan Crawford served in Major William Lauderdale’s Battalion of Tennessee Volunteer Militia from November 1837 to May 1838, a six month time period during which it fought two battles in Florida against the Seminoles.
Today, there are two federally recognized Native American Seminole tribes, the Seminole Tribe of Florida, which has 4,000 enrolled members, and the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, which has more than 18,000 enrolled members.
Lauderdale’s battalion fought against the Seminoles at the Battle of Loxahatchie River, in present day Jupiter, Florida, on January 24, 1838. Then on March 22, 1838 they fought against the Seminoles again at the Battle of Pine Island, in present day Fort Lauderdale. …
Jonathan Crawford is the same ancestor of Elizabeth Warren who one year earlier in 1836 served in the Tennessee Militia that rounded up Cherokees living in Tennessee at the beginning of the Trail of Tears.
Crawford was among 600 Tennesseans who volunteered to serve in the battallion recruited by William Lauderdale to fight against the Seminoles in Florida.
Quick, somebody sic David Hogg on Standing Liar, quick!
https://dailycaller.com/2019/09/07/david-hogg-gun-violence-racism/
Does that kid have cancer, or some other kind of wasting disease?
‘Cause, DAMN.
Come on now, even stick insects gotta make living, somehow.
It almost makes his face less punch-worthy… almost.
Why the fuck does anybody pay any attention to that ignorant little twit?
At this point it’s purely for entertainment, I’m convinced.
Make-A-Wish Syndrome–humor the terminally ill?
Hmmmm
Imagine if David Hogg and Greta Thunberg were an item???
I have enough real reasons to hate Warren, don’t need to play this game.
It’s good to see the left hoist by their own petard and make them subject to their own rules.
If only they could learn that swords can be double edged….
It seems they never will.
My great-Grandad murdered his wife. Does that mean that I should be forced to donate to women’s shelters? He paid for his crime 120 years ago. Book is closed.
I had relatives on both sides of the Revolutionary War and on both sides of the Civil War.
Pretty sure that makes me a colonialist/traitor/patriot/rebel/ who probably owes myself money.
I’m confused.
Same on the Revolution. One of the patriots deserted at Valley Forge, but had the good sense to go back in 1782 when the war was basically over, thus securing a pension for himself.
Only Confederates when it came to the Civil War – maximum shitlord bonus points!
I actually have an ancestor who was a Hessian soldier in the revolutionary war. Once he got over here he switched side from the British to the colonists.
Oh, the reverse Benedict Arnold.
I’m sure that somewhere, someone in the identity politics side of bizarro reality they have a predecessor matrix drawn up – with a seven sided die to square the gaps – to calculate what you will owe to whom.
I’m not going to search for it right now using someone else’s computer, but there are some pretty complex tables that were used in pre-revolution Haiti that delineated exactly race someone was legally assigned to. It sounds a lot like this.
We could just have a racial draft.
Please please please let the Mongols draft me!
Sorry Jarflax, you got picked up by the Mongrels instead.
Hybrid vigor uber alles
Lets see… *consults chart* Nope, you got the “Worst traits of both sides” phenotype.
WOOHOO VICTIM OLYMPIC GOLD!
Sign here.
That’s the whole idea behind this pseudo-marxist bullshit.
So she probably does have some Cherokee blood in her family. Not in her DNA but in some bastard cousins’ DNA.
According to all of my teachers, the Seminoles weren’t really a civilized tribe. It was actually kind of humorous the stereotypes the different tribes have for each other. The Chickasaws are the Jews of the Indians, for example. Although i heard heard any stereotypes about the Creek/Muskogee.
ummm…what customs do/did Chickasaws have that make/made them “the Jews of the Indians”?
It must have been the circumcision and the Yamalukes.
The mockery over the 1/1024 Indian thing was justified because Warren made it an issue deliberately by lying about it. The same is not true in this case and attacking someone based on the actions or identity of their ancestors is flat out evil, no matter who does it
‘Genderless’ penguin to be raised by same-sex couple at London aquarium
ahem – I DON’T THINK THE PENGUINS CARE
Perfect example of the hubris humans possess.
Self-absorbed, ideological assholes.
Cobblepot was genderless. True story.
“The penguins teach us humans so much! We should learn from their wisdom and tolerance.”
The same critters who’ll kick another of the flock into the water to check for seals?
Ding ding ding!
That’s how you can tell which penguins are the wrong-thinkers!
They always kick them in from the left.
This seems ripe for a BB parody article about a nun being raised genderless.
How exactly is the penguin going to tell them what gender xe is choosing?
If they wear a bow-tie with their tux….
Hasbro’s latest weird political swing: A Ms. Monopoly game addressing the gender pay gap
Relevant.
https://babylonbee.com/news/new-female-version-of-monopoly-has-you-recruit-your-friends-into-a-pyramid-scheme
Poor EF gets invited to jewelry, makeup, and even -once- a sex toy “party”, aka pyramid sales. One was even for artistic sticker – like a cheap family crest – that you can put on your wall.
Ugh. Tupperware parties, makeup “subscriptions”—bitch, please.
::snort::
I’d snort too but Daughter#1 has been roped in with cleaning products. I don’t know why. She has acreage, a really good job, money in the bank and a seemingly blissful existence. Sigh. She’s always wanted more. It’s not for just comedic reasons that we used to call her “Veruca” when she was 12 years old.
TBH, that was for the mental image of Hayeks saying, “bitch, please”.
Sorry about
VerucaDaughter #1.Heyak! If the shoe fits…
In the 90s – before cellphones and free long distance phone calls were a thing – I had a salesman who wanted me to join his pyramid sales scheme for phone cards. And how I could “sell them to my friends”.
I said: “and if my friends don’t like them, what do I do then?” “They’ll blame me.”
Heck I once sold a truck to a friend in need – and she proceeded to bitch about it non-stop. Six months later she needed new brakes, and blamed me. A year later she needed a new clutch – her first stick shift car – and blamed me. Never again!!
Have you thought of acquiring some new friends? Amico Marketing has the perfect deal for you…
When I was a kid I knew people that were really into Amway but they also hosted naked pool parties at their home in suburban Montreal.
That’s why you never recommend a shotgun to a friend, if friend doesn’t like the gun you’ve lost a friend. OTOH you might make a good buy on a used gun you’d like.
Some years ago I had an office/warehouse space in Cincinnati, and my neighbors were the top of the sex-toy pyramid. The distributors. Small business, owned by a husband/wife, and another partner. Nicest people ever, specially when you consider they had a warehouse full of such devices. One day while making small talk, I noticed the Jeff Stryker-patterned dildo sitting out (impressive in it’s own right) and I asked, “say- whats one of these things go for at a “party?”. I was told, “well, depends on the saleswoman, but prolly $60”. Then I said, “ok, what do you sell it to the salesperson for?” The answer was, “depending on the person, and how much sales we get from them, maybe $25-$40.” Then I asked the big question- “what does it cost you?”
She pulled out a giant catalog from the manufacturer in China, looked it up….”around $6″
Nice racket.
::nods knowingly::
Think I saw that one.
Must be like the USDA food pyramid but causes less death.
Well, one can hope.
“manufacturer in China”
Vaginal lead poisoning at no extra cost.
How else do you keep your Thots stupid and excitable?
“a sex toy party”
Did they sample the products IYKWIM?
Schtupperware
Actually, the donger that was in plain view was a demo. Being forward-thinking business owners (this was like a decade ago) they wanted to branch out of the mold of “horny women get together, drink wine, and buy stuff” and started catering the gay/lesbian market.
Ill never forget seeing the Doc Johnson “Mr Fister” with packaging that said “One size fits most”.
Good lord, my fiance decided to ‘pay for our wedding’ by joining a MLM. I was still young and stupid and didn’t know that in a good marriage, one spouse can and should veto the bad ideas of the other spouse for their own good or for the good of the marriage. (remember, at this time I was an “individualist” and I thought this violated the other’s autonomy)
So I ended up footing the entire cost of the wedding.
And her $3k in credit card bills from buying into the MLM. But we still have some of those shitty smelling candles in our fucking basement.
ARgh – I forgot about scented candle sales.
A man smells something bad? He cooks or lights a few matches.
A woman smells something even slightly off-kilter, it’s candles, incense, or – gah- spraying flowery scents into the air.
Is there a male equivalent? Can I state my own
pyramidMLM selling…jerky?I think they already exist, but you can start one any time.
Your milage may vary in terms of success.
UCS, can we throw a sausage party in your living room?
No.
Literally CPA right now
Also, USC, yes, we can throw a sausage party in your living room. We may not, but if we really got it in our heads I’m pretty sure you couldn’t stop us.
When you pass Go, you’ll also pay the bank $2,000 for all the products you’re forced to buy. By the end of the game, everyone will be broke and the real winner will be the men who launched the deceptive MLM businesses and suckered women into them in the first place.
Ha, disregard my last comment.
I remember my mom getting sucked into a jewelry thing 20 years ago. I think she still has in her garage several boxes of that stuff that she was never able to sell.
Mine got sucked in by Mary Kay. When I explained that MLM = Ponzi = The sales rep is the customer of the company, and the money made is made from the reps she got very mad at me, because her good Christian friend had gotten her involved. 8 month later she admitted to me that she had put in a couple hundred hours, ‘invested’ almost $8,000 and grossed under $500, and that yes I was in fact right.
Home sales parties are a particularly heinous form of hazing that women inflict upon one another.
But at least you usually get sex toys out of it.
Those are the only kinds of such parties I’ll attend willingly. Yea, even eagerly.
…a board game meant to draw attention to the obvious and actual real-world evils of the gender pay gap by positing a world where women both start with, and receive, more money than men
Nice to know that “imaginary” and “real world” are interchangeable now.
And as a man, I am still waiting to “receive” the higher rate of pay that goes along with my still-missing “privilege”. I guess it all got lost in the mail.
The gap actually goes the other way when you’re a sous-chef at Hooters.
Woo hoo–career change!
*gathers the chest wax and the double sided tape*
Landed a job with the weirdest “interview” ever. Start Monday and everything seems to be much more like it should be when it comes to my history of teaching.
Going a few hours north to Pai tomorrow afternoon. Supposed to be a very hippie village. I plan on renting a bike with Lady and exploring and going to their “Grand Canyon.” I also intend on taking many mushrooms, as I am wont to do before a big change in my life. I shadow on Monday and maybe Tuesday before I take the reins myself. I’m excited. It’s will be the first time that Lady and I will have been able to take a weekend off together.
Tripping balls; I got my music and she’s got her paints, overlooking the Thai sunset in a chill town….all for about $20. I believe I’ll gladly take it. T-Minus 16 hours til departure.
I’m more excited than I have been in a long time. The depression is replaced with the Good Nervousness. I’ll get there at 3 or so, Lady will get there after work at 830ish. She’s gonna explore my drug-fueled mental passions as well. It’s been a long time since I’ve been able to share that part of my brain with someone else. So thrilled. Hope everyone has a lovely weekend ahead!
Good luck, and congrats. Mind your balls when you trip…or, whatever.
Yay! Sounds good. Enjoy the adventure.
I watched the speed racer movie on shrroms once. . . .that was . . .trippy?!?
We also couldn’t stop watching the clip of Bill Cosby talking about his “barbeque sauce” and laughing. It’s funny sober, it was a million times better on shrooms
Good tripping is sublime. Best thoughts to you and the Lady, Evan!
How is the local wine in Pai?
Wine is gross. It is known.
I was able to render an Italian Red drinkable by adding half a shot of Krupnik and half a shot of Barenjager to a glass of it.
Evan is only and Evan’s age old, he hasn’t developed the taste for wine yet.
If you have to force yourself to believe it tastes good, then it doesn’t.
Good luck!
Tulsi kinda scares me – https://youtu.be/WeQDTj1UllA?t=213
Cant handle stromg women? I cannot click the youtube so am assuming
There were a couple of dissenters. Huh. Without looking I will take a wild guess…..
Kagan and Sotomayor are my bets.
Ginsberg and Sotomayor, I believe.
She is alive then…good for her.
There must be a trail of sawdust every time she enters and leaves the chambers. One of these days she’s going to yawn and about a thousand moths will fly out of her mouth.
Childlike sex dolls a violation of law, Norwegian court rules
because the real thing is so much better /s
This would be the same Norwegian criminal justice system that gave Anders Brevik a mere 20 years in a posh jail/club Met for the slaughter of dozens, yes?
It’s gross but it’s also just a hunk of rubber and I don’t care if some dude’s banging it.
Better a rubber doll than an actual child.
Oh, good, let’s take away and criminalize a safe outlet for pedophiles, what downside could there possibly be?
Charles Stross nods smugly.
wut?
Asymmetric jeans: will you wear the trousers that are flared one side, skinny the other?
Nope nope nope nope
that’s just as bad as the skinny capris all the millennial….men…are wearing. they’ve gotten so ridiculous that they are literally 1/2 way up the calf now.
They’re not going to like what happens when they realize they’re the coulottes and Madame Guillotine has come back to town.
I’m tired of the skinny suit look – it looks like a teenager trying to fit into their adolescent Sunday best.
I am definitely no clothes horse like a certain Lord of the Wasteland, but I do up pretty spiffy in just a classic suit and tie. Being middle-aged does have its perks.
Watch the pendulum swing from 90’s era “I’m wearing my dad’s suit” to today’s “I’m wearing my son’s suit”. Every twenty years (1990, 2010) they look reasonable. Based on this scientific investigation, I believe we are in for a corrective period where suits begin returning to their appropriate size, which should happen exactly in the first round of the 2030 NBA draft.
Explain 1970 then. I dare you.
It was the LSD.
They look like they have elephantiasis.
No. They look like fucking douchebags.
Seriously! Every male under the age of thirty here at work wears on casual Friday jeans that look exactly like the ones the girls wore in middle school in the late ’80s.
Yikes! So basically me in 1980?
You just solved a mystery for me. The other day I saw a picture a friend took at a concert, and some guy was in it wearing what looked like women’s pants. I first glance I thought it *was* a woman. I wondered what that was about.
Welcome to 2019 urban ‘Merica. If I hadn’t forgotten my phone at home today, I’d snap some pics of my colleagues.
My co-workers don’t dress like that.
Mind you my co-workers are 50% indian men, and 50% state employees older than I am.
the same man without pants?
https://imgur.com/a/TDYYkAY
*posted at the Mustang group I belong to
Waaaaaa! Imgur seems to be blocked at my workplace 🙁
*sympathatic shoulder pat*
I know, I know. They block imgur here too.
Maybe its a……really short kilt ?
Somebody lost a bet.
I’m ready to go back to oversized pleated slacks with the stretch waist band . . . .talk about comfortable.
We call them eatin’ pants ’round here.
Sometimes a thing has never been done before (especially in arts) because it’s a shit idea.
Novelty in itself is not a feature.
Let me interest you in this novel idea that I like to call “Post-Modernism”!
Barry White? Awwwwww yeeeeaaaaahhhhh
Archaeologists: Pre-Inca Child Sacrifice Site Was Actually A Planned Parenthood
A recently discovered pre-Columbian burial site containing the bodies of hundreds of slaughtered children was originally considered to be part of a mass human sacrifice. However, experts have discovered new evidence revealing that the mass execution was simply leftover from an ancient Planned Parenthood.
“Our initial reaction was horror!” said Dr. Molly Locke, lead supervisor of the excavation. “It really made us ponder how a society could get to such a depraved place that they would willingly allow their young, innocent, vulnerable, children to be violently and systematically torn to pieces. There’s absolutely no excuse for that!”
Dr. Locke described the emotional weight of finding one child’s severed body after another, carelessly piled on top of each other. The whole crew seemed to stagger from denial to depression, to anger at this needless, barbaric atrocity.
“But then we found the trademark Planned Parenthood logo on the side of the temple,” Dr. Locke explained with relief, “and it suddenly all made perfect sense. The stacks upon stacks of innocent children’s mangled bodies weren’t the result of a barbaric practice by some archaic religion, but of a respectable organization that is totally civilized and not at all questionable—unless you’re a woman-hating misogynist!”
Following this wonderful turn of events, the crew intends to hold a grand reopening party.
Never change, Bee.
Wow. Truly excellent.
Heads asplodin’ over at Snopes right about now.
Their fact checking resulted in a verdict of “totally true”, didn’t it?
Waiting for the Snopes rebuttal in 3,2,1…
Oh my God.
so brave…
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez makes $1,200 student loan payment — in middle of hearing on student loan debt
This is our job – this is an odly specific job for a congressthing
said she owed $20,200
My student loan payments are more than my monthly mortgage payment and I make considerably less than a congresscritter. And I owe considerably north of that.
who makes $174,000
Id’ have that paid in 3 months if I had that salary.
$20K is about six weeks’ salary for her now.
She is using most of that money to pay for her meds…
“19 grand in the hole, a significant financial millstone for the 29 year old representative who makes $174,000.”
Less than people makes a third of that owe on a car. Millstone, my ass .
Yeah try six figures after EF got out of law school. And I had to make the monthly payments on my single income which is considerably less than AOC’s. It was like a double mortgage payment, or a BMW 750 lease – minus the car. We were b-r-o-k-e for a year or so until we got them refinanced and EF started making $$. But we went in knowing it was going to be tough and the payout wasn’t going to be right away.
You mean, deferred gratification is a thing?!
NOT FOR STEVE SMITH
It’s Racist/Classist/ fascist
I graduated law school with 10x the debt and less income. I bet I’ll have mine paid off before she pays hers off, and a have a family to support.
I really don’t get why the progs go after this demographic. Its hard to think of a less sympathetic, or politically profitable group.
She’s only $19k in the hole and yet is making a $1.2k payment. At that rate, she’ll have it almost paid off by the time her next election comes up. Good for her. I guess “Woman responsibly makes large payments to pay loan off faster” is not as sexy as a headline.
I thought it was The Bee again. Can’t tell anymore. Honk Honk
No, it is not the fucking job of congress to help people avoid paying off a loan they took out. Fuck you, pay your own debts.
AOC is sooo dumb, she just paid a bunch of extra on her loan when in 2 years all college debt will be forgiven.
*shakes head*
She only has a degree in economics, how can you people expect her to do basic arithmetic!
That she still owes $20k after being in Congress for 1.5 years is a testament to her poor fiscal management and nothing else. Even if she made less than half of what she does now (and apparently $174k is still not enough for her), she could pay that off before she’s 35. And it’s not a millstone, she got college out of it. Most college grads don’t make $174k at 29.
She’s really holding out for that debt forgiveness.
The Browns can’t even keep track of the fans correctly.
Christ’s communists: the radical religious sect that challenged the Holy Roman Empire
Six centuries ago in Bohemia, a dissenter army led by a one-eyed warrior waged war on the Holy Roman Empire. Tom Holland tells the story of the Taborites whose creed was to reject money, property… and the Antichrist
https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/tom-holland-taborites-who-religious-sect-challenged-holy-roman-empire
God…my US History teacher in 9th Grade (Coach Karl) swore up and down that Jesus was a Communist.
Then again, his claim to fame in the school was, as a Vietnam Marine, he had cut the heart out of a dead Viet Cong during a fire-fight and took a big chomp out of it to freak out another Viet Cong. So, yeah…
You had Professor Tergison?
“Jesus was a Communist.”
Remember when he forced all those people to join his church and then forced them to give everything.
Well, if you are woke enough to realize that “The Kingdom of Heaven” and “Hell” are just different kinds of labor/reeducation camps…
Yeah. It’s what we got for DISD hiring a wrestling coach to teach US history. I mean, he WAS legend for his heart story, and afairly nice dude. But, damn.
His selling point was that Jesus instructed followers to share/give away possessions. Man, you fought communists–you literally see no difference?
The Book of Purges is one of the more obscure New Testament books.
[REDACTED] was cast forth into the gulag for [REDACTED], and condemed to have Xir memory stricken from the records.
Jesus may very well have been a communist. And I’m fine with that if He was. But he also said that people should/must enter into His kingdom voluntarily.
I’ve got no problem with communists, as long as people are able to come and go into the commune as they please, free from coercion or violence carried out on them.
The problem I have is with forced participation.
Free to go yes. I think commies have a right to exclude the Bernie Sanders of the commune.
Communist in some sense, maybe. Marxist, Stalinist, Maoist, Hoxhaist, etc., no.
Reminds me of dinner at home in 8th grade. Ex-Air Force, nuclear research technician Dad asks “What did you learn in school today?” I reply, “My history teacher says the USA is the greatest country ever.” Dad, without hesitation says, “Your teacher is an asshole. He could not have lived in all the other countries for two years each to make an honest comparison.”
I don’t need to actually screw a belt sander to determine that I prefer women.
Booker Introduces Bill Requiring Gun Owners to Obtain 5-Year Federal License
A smart Republican (I know, right?) would immediately introduce a bill requiring free speech licensing, licenses to attend church, licensing to not have your house turned into an Army barracks, licensing to require warrants for police searches, etc.
Licence to vote. You need to pass a background check and some sort of profficiency test
Maybe there should be a law against introducing bills that are blatantly unconstitutional.
Think of all those judge jobs lost
18 U.S.C. 1918:
“Whoever violates the provisions of section 7311 of title 5 that an individual may not accept or hold a position in the Government of the United States or the government of the District of Columbia if he (1) advocates the overthrow of our constitutional form of government [and] shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year and a day or both.”
It’s licenses all the way down.
Booker: ideas guys! I need to know what to do to get more traction in the polls.
It is as much a revenue scheme as it is defacto registration.
A smart Republican (I know, right?) would immediately introduce a bill requiring free speech licensing, licenses to attend church, licensing to not have your house turned into an Army barracks, licensing to require warrants for police searches, etc.
Don’t give them ideas. I could see them jumping all over speech licensing.
I get multiple background checks every year, plus a LTCF from the state of PA every 5 years.. He wants to add a federal license on top of that?
He can fuck right off with that nonsense.
I just found out my cousin’s wife became an American citizen yesterday. She seems to really value even after growing up in the upper caste in Bangladesh.
“Upper Caste”? Acceptable. j/k Good for her!
I remember years ago talking to the mother of one of the other kids at a birthday party my son was attending. She was a Pakistani immigrant, but definitely from the upper class over there, an attorney who spoke English with a slight British accent. Rather hot, too. Anyway, she sounded like a caricature of a MAGA-hat wearing redneck when on the subject of immigrants who don’t speak much English, insist on keeping all their backward cultural practices from the old country, refuse to assimilate. It was an unsual experience – “Why come here if you don’t want to be American, but rather want to just be a Pakistani in America?”
That’s a gal I’d like to meet.
Good on her.
The Micheal Flynn case is still unwinding. Powell Confirms Rosenstein Authorized Targeting of Flynn Jr. for Leverage…
A crude legal ambush followed up with prosecutorial misconduct by openly threatening his family.
Misconduct? Family is open game for prosecutors.
This was the Obama administration using the weaponized bureaucracy to go after its political enemies. Flynn was targeted for pointing out how imbecilic and dangerous the whole Iran deal was, and team Obama wanted to make sure he not only got punished for daring to call them out on their stupid, but to set an example for any others that might feel obliged to do the same.
In a just world, Flynn would be able to sue the bastards into perpetual penury. Take $3 off the judgement for shining his shoes. And maybe $10 for a blowjob.
So that’s how they got Sessions to recuse himself, so a special prosecutor could be appointed. I wonder who in the FBI opened the FBI investigation against Sessions, and where the supposed allegations came from.
The FBI didn’t so much as destroy the mafia as supplant it.
So, you don’t care much for ‘socialism’?
Man, I was so sure that was going to be a Vox link.
#MeToo
What a lazy argument by dumb fucking idiots that think this shit actually is some kind of a beatdown. My answer is that i would prefer they repay me all the fucking money they stole from me and left me out of that pyramid scheme that would be illegal if done by any other entity but our government.
No. We take at gunpoint and you beg for scraps with a smile on your face.
Yeah, if I could have kept all of the money I had to pay for SS and invested it myself for even modest returns, I would be yielding nearly 4 times what I i *may* get from SS.
Eveyr time I try to calculate the ratio of what I could have gotten versus what my expected Social security yield is, I end up with a divide by zero error.
he heh
*goes of to cry in the bathroom*
You hit it spot on. Dumb shit. The idea that someone can’t recoup their losses without consenting to their privations. I guess those slaves should not accept any living space or food from their owners if they didn’t like being slaves.
But perhaps my favorite part is this:
“This has been fun, but now it’s time for a little common sense. ”
Ummm buddy nothing you said was super crazy.
Social Security! An idea so great it’s mandatory!
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
-Voltaire
Welfare =/= socialism
His defense of welfare is still weak.
We have to because it could help you! And it’s just common sense.
Correct. And only strong capitalist economies can afford a lot of welfare.
OK buddy. Instead of writing insipid letters to the editor, send your fucking paycheck to Uncle Sam. Put your money where your mouth is or you’re a hypocritical pussy.
Oh cool, that works for me. So then you’re alright with me opting out of paying taxes into Social Security, medicare, and welfare, right? You know, since I won’t be using them?
Australian monster dubbed ‘Mr. Stinky’ pleads guilty to cold case sex attacks
Absolutely disgusting. Who rapes a 51 year old?
A person with such debilitating body odor that they’re called Mr Stinky?
We needed a study to determine this?
https://amgreatness.com/2019/09/10/study-shows-that-trump-rallies-did-not-increase-hate-crimes/
“Talk about fake news!”
/CNN
Corporate fascism.
Twitter, the GAP, and 143 other businesses, sent a September 12, 2019, letter to Congress asking elected officials to pass more gun control.
The letter, published by the New York Times, is a push for court orders to seize firearms, as well as for universal background checks.
The missive says:
“As leaders of some of Americas most respected companies and those with significant business obligation to stand up for the safety of our employees,customers, and all Americans in the communities we serve across the country. Doing nothing America’s gun violence crisis is simply unacceptable and it is time to stand with the American public on gun safety.”
The letter is signed by 145 companies, included Bain Capital, Credit Karma, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Doordash, GAP, Levi Strauss & Co., Pinterest, Reddit, Royal Caribbean, Twitter, Uber, and Yelp.
Just because you want the government to do something doesn’t mean that it is legal for the government to do. But thank you for the honesty, as I now have a good list of companies to no longer patronize or continue not patronizing.
“Uber”
Fuck you guys, I hope the new Kali regs drive you into the ground.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/Ushomicidesbyweapon.svg
Crisis.
Yea. I wasn’t a prior customer to most of the list except Uber and occasionally Levi’s. They can fuck off now. Inject politics into your business and face the consequences.
Just get your Levi’s at goodwill for a quarter of the price and you aren’t giving the company any money.
I buy my jeans at Cabela’s.
/Maximum Deploranazi
Lyft is on there, too, the cuntes.
Doordash, eh? I don’t know whether I should be pissed at them for pushing this shit, or, remind them that their drivers are prime targets for violent robberies, and that they must not care very much for them.
/why not both, right?
Really? Dicks Sporting Goods? Pinterest? these are businesses primarily frequented by conservatives.
And Skillshare is on the list? wtf? the same company that pays for ads and plugs on Ben Shapiro’s podcast and Tom Wood’s podcast?
Phallus already tipped their hand at hating Deplorables. Pinterest I’m not particularly surprised about since it’s oriented toward arts and crafts; we all know how knitting has become a Bolshevik pastime. Uber banned their drivers from carrying guns (even if they have a CCW) years ago. I’m not surprised at all by pretty much any of these companies except for maybe Bain. Firearms make $$$ and I would think a Hedge Fund/Holding Company wouldn’t want to alienate a big source of potential revenue.
Bain was also surprising to me. But I think Skillshare is the one that really threw me for a loop. I guess they’re the smart ones, playing both sides of the aisle.
Cough Mittens Cough
Fuck him. They smeared him up and down as The Next Hitler and he still wants to be in their good graces.
Already ditched Dick’s. Never gonna take another RC cruise, apparently (I don’t even like cruises, but the wife does).
I thought corporations shouldn’t be allowed to be in the political process?
I would have been impressed if they actually wrote something that could be judged, discussed, and passed.
This is not about policy. It’s about appeasing the loudest voices within their own ranks.
Likely just one dipshit from CalSTERS sending a letter that begins “As a shareholder…”
Isn’t Bain Capital Romney’s gig?
He’s a cofounder but he left a while ago and is uninvolved now.
Am I only supposed to trust big business when they support the pet peeves of socialists?
And does anybody honestly think NYT actually confirmed the participation of each of the names listed on the letter?
“… obligation to stand up for the safety of our employees,customers, and all Americans in the communities we serve across the country.”
So you are against gun control?
Submitted without comment.
https://newrepublic.com/article/154931/conservatives-well-spill-blood-keep-guns
Also: Photo at the top, would.
Elections have consequences, right?
“Who, then, would gun-rights supporters murder in response?”
Unasked question: who will gun control supporters idly watch get murdered. Just because the government does it doesn’t make it murder.
They think they are calling a bluff. They are just revealing their own hand.
“Idly watch”? Are you kidding? These sociopaths are pretty much openly salivating at the prospect of law-abiding gun owners getting shot by the government. They’d form cheerleading sections if they got the chance.
Because they think it’s one and done. Nothing happens after they win the election and get their way. For all their “fascism” talk about Trump, they only use the language because they know he fundamentally accepts the very basic norms of republican government that they’re trying to strip away. They know Trump wouldn’t define their seeking of peaceful redress as “domestic terrorism” the same way they’re trying to define that of the NRA.
It’s bad enough for the rest of us if they ever get their way. But, I don’t think they’ve considered what round two winds up looking like for them, as well.
Same with Profa and their violence. If there really was a violent movement that they oppose as they claim, it would quickly look like El Salvador or Ireland. Peaceful public marches would be the least of it.
Yeah, the MSM response to the Malheur occupation was enlightening.
How many law-abiding gun owners, who have committed no crimes and hurt no one, are you willing to kill to enforce your policy, shitheel?
Omelet. Eggs. You know the drill.
Once they ban the guns, only criminals will own them. QED.
I like how outright confiscation by force is now a “modest solution”.
Also. There doesn’t have to be violence if the Dems would let the states leave the union. But that won’t happen.
So we’re “shackled to a corpse” ?
More like a zombie
It’s in the “Sure you joined voluntarily but if you ever try to leave we will shoot you.” provision that is apparently written on the back in invisible ink.
I was thinking the first place to start would be writers at TNR, Matt.
Photo at the top, would.
I’d figure she is not as endowed as you’d prefer.
Tucker Carlson echoed McCain’s blood-soaked sentiment on his Tuesday night broadcast. “So, this is—what you are calling for is civil war,” he said. “What you are calling for is an incitement to violence. It’s something I wouldn’t want to live here when that happened, would you? I’m serious.” Erick Erickson, a prominent conservative columnist, also warned of tragedy. “I know people who keep AR-15’s buried because they’re afraid one day the government might come for them,” he wrote on Twitter. “I know others who are stockpiling them. It is not a stretch to say there’d be violence if the [government] tried to confiscate them.”
Not only is a ban on any particular firearm unconstitutional, at this point what leftist are now pushing is entirely unworkable. There are too many guns and they will never be confiscated. One would think that they could see this impracticality but ideology seems to reign.
“I’d figure she is not as endowed as you’d prefer.”
She’s got a cute face and likes guns. That can overcome a lot.
Did they seriously just call a mandatory gun “buyback” a “modest solution”?
It’s more of a modest proposal. Certainly not a final solution.
Remember, the “moderate” and “compassionate” Nazis advocated just stripping Jews of the property and deporting them.
A different kind of “final solution.”
That’s what I read. Even banged my head on the desk a couple times to make sure it wasn’t misfiring.
My modest solution is to require every member of the milita to own at least one firearm compatable with milspec ammunition for the defense of the realm, and to practice regularly in its use.
The wailing when it’s pointed out that the militia is all adult citizens will be glorious.
*hands 60mm mortar rounds to UCS to carry in his briefcase as part of his basic load*
I’ll have to use a separate bag, the briefcase is full.
Wait till you get to the original definition of adult for militia purposes, or even the current age of 17.
Original? Oh, no we’re more into equality now.
We’re not going to exclude so many women and minorities from the responsibilities that come with citizenship.
buyback
We really need to get control of the language. This would not be a buyback as no one bought their guns from the government. This would be compensated* confiscation.
*And probably not even that.
Not just “conservatives”, but gun owners, Matt, so stop acting like it’s twenty 4chan posters and the Rush Limbaugh fan club who object to the government seizing firearms in direct violation of the Constitution. And, for the record, that sort of thing is exactly what the 2A is for.
This remains a pretty good rant on the issue:
https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/08/rant-second-amendment-repeal/
Excellent.
“Some gun-rights activists would murder government officials who try to enforce a duly passed law.”
The constitution is the supreme law of the land and the contract we agree to in granting the govt. power. Anything green lighted by the legislature that contravenes the constitution, especially if it directly violates people’s inalienable rights, is not law. It is a crime committed by the state and a breaking of that contract.
“Some gun-rights activists would murder government officials who try to enforce a duly passed law.”
Do these people ever think at all? What if the duly passed law was an order to round up [fill in your preferred minority] for genocide? Am I wrong to take to the hills with my rifle? How about “All women are property of the State and license to rape is granted according to the following priority list”? Can I rightly shoot the enforcers then?
So is it Constitutional or not wise-ass Latino woman? That’s your only fucking job.
https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2019/09/12/sotomayors-blistering-dissent-asylum-rules/
Has Sotomayor packed on a few more pounds? I don’t remember her being so portly.
She has diabetes. Maybe the stress of the job is making her hit the doughnuts in the breakroom a little hard.
That poor wonderful wise Latinx I think she should retire to fully enjoy all the good things in life.
a quick image search shows my memory was wrong
That’s Latinx you racist hater.
So is it Constitutional or not
Breezing through it was like some rhetorical nonsense that avoids the actual relevant query. But she SLAMMED Trump and the court majority decision.
Sotomayor DESTROYS Trump!
Yeah, she never once addressed the issue of whether it was within the law and the constitution, which is the only issue SCOTUS should be ruling on.
Koch family launches ad campaign defending Silicon Valley giants like Google and Facebook against the mounting antitrust probes that they say are a ‘political spectacle’
The Kochs and Big Tech are in cahoots against our president!
The left will not love you Koch’s.
No, but they are right that the government shouldn’t be involved.
So it begins.
House Judiciary Democrats on Thursday took a big step in their Trump impeachment push as they met to set the ground rules for a formal committee inquiry — but Republicans laughed it off as a “giant Instagram filter” to hide how divided Democrats truly are on the question….
“The resolution before us represents the necessary next step in our investigation of corruption, obstruction, and abuse of power,” committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., said in his opening statement.
The vote allows members to show the impeachment-eager base they are moving forward. But the push has also rattled some Democrats from more moderate districts.
“It’s sucking the air out of all of the good stuff we’re doing,” Rep. Donna Shalala, D-Fla., who flipped her seat from Republican control last year, said Wednesday.
But Nadler has sought to clear the air on what his committee is actually doing, amid widespread confusion. Nadler said Thursday the panel is “engaged in an investigation as to whether to launch an impeachment investigation into President Trump.”
Nadler had previously said House Democrats are pursuing an impeachment inquiry, a remark subsequently contradicted by Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md. Hoyer later released a statement saying he had misunderstood the question and that he supports Nadler.
In his opening statement Thursday, Nadler said: “Some call this process an impeachment inquiry, some call it an impeachment investigation. There is no legal difference between these terms, and I no longer care to argue about the nomenclature.”…
But Republicans brushed off the meeting Thursday, arguing that Democrats are all bark but no bite on the subject of impeachment, making a fuss about “a simple procedure issue.” Rep. Doug Collins, R-Ga., compared the Democrats’ move Thursday to a “giant Instagram filter to make you appear that something’s happening that’s not.”
“The difference between formal impeachment proceedings and what we’re doing today is a world apart no matter what the chairman just said,” he said.
>>“It’s sucking the air out of all of the good stuff we’re doing,” Rep. Donna Shalala, D-Fla., who flipped her seat from Republican control last year, said Wednesday.
like…?
Forget it, that’s the Shalala. Clinton’s HHS secretary and all around Clinton creature.
It doesn’t matter if she’s a senile biddy, because her staff will do all of her work for her.
dog catches car etc. etc. doesn’t know what to do etc.
Good luck, you’re really gonna need it!
The reason Trump’s not going on Twitter and telling the Dems to shit or get off the pot is this is one of the best things that could happen to him. It’s going to backfire bigly.
Like republicans totally shitting the bed on the repeal of the affordable care act.
The vote allows members to show the impeachment-eager base they are moving forward. But the push has also rattled some Democrats from more moderate districts.
“It’s sucking the air out of all of the good stuff we’re doing,” Rep. Donna Shalala, D-Fla., who flipped her seat from Republican control last year, said Wednesday.
When Donna Shalala is the voice of reason in your caucus, it’s probably time to step back and rethink some things.
Did not know Shalala had entered Congress. At 77?! Sheesh, at 77 I’m (hopefully) kicking back, not spending my days in DC.
I recall her being president of the University of Miami for quite a while.
Good morning, Sloop! And good morning to the rest of you crazy fucks!
Hope you enjoy it.
I did. Thank you!
it’s also the most wonderful time of the year!
Wild will likely suck, but with training camp opening tomorrow, there’s still hope!
Israel accused of planting mysterious spy devices near the White House
lol what a cuck move
Tomorrow’s NYT Headline: Trump Enjoys Watching Netanyahu Fuck Melania While Masturbating in the Corner
‘Sopranos’ gets its own Con festival in, of course, New Jersey
Bring your own garlic breath!
People are gonna be pissed when St Elzear doesn’t have his gold hat.
So now that Uber and Lyft drivers will soon be employees, how long until the CA legislature steps back in to “protect” those new employees from being forced to use their own vehicles? I give it two years.
And then go to a quasi government commission to receive a medallion that allows them to operate within the cities…maybe paint some numbers on the sides of the cars also
Chris Grant, ‘hero’ in El Paso shooting honored by Trump, made it up: authorities
Opportunistic photo op > half-hearted research.
Then release the video and we can judge for ourselves.
His lie had more correct details than Biden’s whopper about pinning a medal on somebody in a war zone. But this is different.
‘They are just so boring’: Clinton lingers for an hour at fake Resolute Desk reading her emails
?
Trying to get out ahead and keep the narrative straight.
Remember when fredo Cuomo said it was illegal for anyone to view them but honest journalists?
Please end your use of Italian-American insults – they are hurtful to both me and my family.
Thank you.
See folks, this is how you do it. I’ve never understood people embezzling a couple hundred grand. Go big or go home!
NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million
Elizabeth Warren Turns on the Defense Industry She Once Courted
Someone is fighting against the Deep State and the Deep State is fighting back!
The list of “companies” supporting gun control is interesting. Very few large companies, and those are mostly fast growing new ones or declining/marginal existing ones. Very few of any blue chips.
https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/1699-gun-control-letter-to-the-sena/3258ed616a016f80dfa3/optimized/full.pdf#page=1
Interesting that it doesn’t seem to include direct competitors. For instance, Uber’s on there but not Lyft; Levis but not Lee; Gap but not J. Crew.
I see Lyft.
Oh, huh, didn’t notice them.
I doubt these people even got on a teleconference together. Sounds more like some chain letter bullshit that administrative assistants signed.
Yeah like I said above, maybe all of these great minds could have actually sat down and wrote something (an actual bill) they deem acceptable. Instead, just some limp virtue signaling.
So much for the Corporations aren’t people thing.
Two Courageous Young Rebels Superglued Themselves To A Bridge To Protest Climate Change
That’s called dedication, people.
Would have been more productive and better for the planet if they superglued their nuts to their thighs.
Mere speedbumps, lower the plows and drive on.
What if it’s not snowing?
What’s that got to do with anything?
Dudes got a boner, wtf.?!?
He’s only there so he can bang that chick
Either that or protest LARPing is really exciting.
Wait, better joke.
Guy must be a Boy Scout, he brought his own tent.
Glue your hardhat to a girder. Kids these days.
Checked into the DMV about 30 minutes ago. Said the wait was 137 minutes. 10 minutes later wait is 170 minutes 10 minutes later 183 minutes… Classic DMV
Clearly, it’s your fault.
The DMV Is the Things We Do Together
We need to make our healthcare system more like the DMV.
Oh hell no.
I just made a Dentist appointment for monday with the understanding I’ll be seen this monday, get prompt treatment, and have the option of negotiating the payment plan with the provider.
I’ve pulled that line on proggies before when they told me how great single payer would be. “But, but, but, that’s not what we were talking about.”
The last time I bothered engaging anyone on the topic they wouldn’t acknowledge that my $66 x-ray was better than the ‘free’ crae they got “because some people don’t have $66” when in the same conversation they’d been talking about learning how to stitch up their own wounds because they never got seen by anyone (said person was in the UK)
Oh, and the bit about stitching their own wounds hadn’t been in jest, it was something they had actually resorted to.
Some enterprising food truck should park outside.
The central DMV (called MVA here) for the state of MD is mercifully a short and fairly safe walk from several places to eat.
Just quit my job for only the second time in my life. My hand was forced because an employment verification came in. My boss was very gracious, more sad than anything, but said she understood. Now I know why people rank fear of public speaking on the same level as fear of death. I find tough conversations like that brutal.
>>an employment verification came in
what now?
Just to clarify – you were applying for another job and that company asked for an employee verification letter?
Part of the pre-employment routine is a “background check”. They basically check to see if you lied about where you work, where you went to school, and if you have any felonies.
For you.
Congrats, Kev!
Now I know why people rank fear of public speaking on the same level as fear of death.
Huh? I only fear two things, and one is nuclear war.
Thanks. I’m sure you are all happy you will no longer have to hear me bitch about my job or the guy in the next cube who chews noisily.
In my world contacting your current employer for verification is a big no-no.
Only way they’d do that was after a signed deal with the contingency and giving you time to resign first. Otherwise they open themselves up to big liability.
That’s where we are. I already signed the offer.
That’s awkward.
I think my company has outsourced it’s verification process, not sure. Either way with the size of company we are I don’t know that my boss would know that someone asked if I worked here.
Do verification letters get phrased in such a way that means that you were looking for a job not applying for credit and the loan company wanted to verify employment?
It was basically “x company on behalf of y company”. She asked if I was looking for a new job, and that opened the door to the rest of the conversation. I wasn’t going to lie about it and then quit the next day.
Woke: credit cards are responsible for mass shootings
ooh the replies. Nice.
Wow. Is that what flop-sweat and desperation looks like?
That guy is too retarded to even be the president of a HOA.
Yes, but he is certainly mendacious enough.
Credit cards have enabled many of America’s mass shootings in the last decade—and with Washington unwilling to act, they need to cut off the sales of weapons of war today.
The poor woman with an abusive ex who needs a gun but can’t afford one will have to rely solely on the restraining order that will lead to her being murdered for the greater good.
1) Refuse to take part in the sale of assault weapons.
2) Stop processing transactions for gun sales online & at gun shows without background checks.
3) Stop doing business with gun & ammo manufacturers who produce or sell assault weapons
You have to have a firearm shipped to an FFL who will perform the background check and facilitate the transfer when you buy online.
And what do they expect to accomplish by trying to excommunicate people via financial institutions? I say they are going to make more enemies than friends.
Oh my God.
Driving things underground where there is less of a paper trail seems like a good idea.
The goal is to make it more uncomfortable for normies to engage in constitutionally protected behavior (buying and selling is recognized as being part of the 2nd amendment just like the 1st and any other one.) I’m sure the recent shooter who illegally purchased a hobby-shop created rifle (was that El Paso?) paid in green backs.
The onerous burden of being expected to work, at work
The National Labor Relations Board has ordered Google to let employees openly debate political and workplace issues, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The action came as a result of federal regulators reaching a settlement on employee complaints that the company restricts free speech, the Journal reported, citing sources familiar with the situation. The settlement, which was approved this week, ensures that Google will strike recently revised community guidelines that are meant to crack down on what employees can say inside the company.
Last month, Google released a new set of community guidelines that discourage employees from talking about politics on Google’s internal mailing lists in forums. The rules also bar employees from making statements that “insult, demean or humiliate” other employees or Google’s extended extended workforce.
“What does this have to do with generating revenue? STFU and get to work.”
“CEO letter”</a?
“That’s why we we urge the Senate to stand with the American public and take action on gun safety by passing a bill to require background checks on all gun sales and a strong Red Flag law that would allow courts to issue life-saving extreme risk protection orders,” they wrote in the letter.
Red Flag laws, which are also known as Extreme Risk laws, allow family members or law enforcement to petition a court to prevent someone temporarily from obtaining firearms.
“These proposals are common-sense, bipartisan and widely supported by the American public. It is time for the Senate to take action,” the letter concludes.
Tell me that’s not a “sign and return (or else)” form letter written by the PR consultants at Moms Demand Action.
“If you choose not to sign, you are free to do so. However, we will have no alternative but to publicize your refusal to stand with us in our efforts to make America a better, safer place.”
You get a letter like that and you make a pre-emptive statement calling out the extortionists and defying them.
Do not kowtow.
“These proposals are common-sense, bipartisan and widely supported by the American public.
Common sense ain’t common. Also, partisanship and public support do not make government action constitutional.
UFC Octagon Girls are under political attack
Reminder: girls need to be protected because they are brittle and weak and dumb little girls.
It is never time to move on from scantily clad hot women holding signs. I say we utilize this technology for traffic signs as well.
***News Item*****
“Traffic accidents dramatically increase at intersections with traffic girls”
Gross numbers of accidents increase. Injuries and damage decrease. Rolling into the car in front of you at 1.2 mph while staring isn’t a major wreck.
It’s 2019, do we really still need scantily clad women to wander around the middle of a fighting ring between rounds?
Was that a resounding “yes!” I heard from down under?
“It’s 2019, do we really still need scantily clad women to wander around the middle of a fighting ring between rounds?”
“ZOMG it’s the current year!”
And yes, yes we do.
I’d say we need them more than ever, because it’s ${CURRENT_YEAR}
I laughed
Let’s try it this way-
“CEO letter”
“That’s why we we urge the Senate to stand with the American public and take action on gun safety by passing a bill to require background checks on all gun sales and a strong Red Flag law that would allow courts to issue life-saving extreme risk protection orders,” they wrote in the letter.
Red Flag laws, which are also known as Extreme Risk laws, allow family members or law enforcement to petition a court to prevent someone temporarily from obtaining firearms.
“These proposals are common-sense, bipartisan and widely supported by the American public. It is time for the Senate to take action,” the letter concludes.
Tell me that’s not a “sign and return (or else)” form letter written by the PR consultants at Moms Demand Action.
“If you choose not to sign, you are free to do so. However, we will have no alternative but to publicize your refusal to stand with us in our efforts to make America a better, safer place.”
The colors looked better this time.
Oh, for fuck’s sake
Just cancelled my membership in Credit Karma. I’ll check on the rest of the list to see who else I can eliminate.
tomorrow night at the Rhyman
Los Lobos open.
Headlining are the Miami-meets-SanAntone Mavericks.
Dancing boots recommended
Tonight at First Ave.
In all the remembrances yesterday of 2001, I completely forgot about 2012.
They sure fucked this guy.
But hey, there’s no Deep State. THat’s just paranoia.
OK.
https://summit.news/2019/09/12/swedish-rapper-calls-for-white-people-to-be-shot/
Swedish…. Rapper?
Does not compute.
*yawn*
You’re Swedish, cunte.
“Conable, who emigrated to Sweden in 2008 and now has citizenship, has a combined total of 280,000 subscribers on YouTube.
As we reported earlier this year, another rapper in France released a track in which he sings, “I fuck France, I burn France,” as he is portrayed strangling a white woman meant to symbolically represent France.”
I’m assuming he didn’t emigrate to Sweden in the hull of a slave ship.
Also, the symbol of France is now a white woman, apparently.
It has been since the revolution, but I think she wears a shirt these days.
“the symbol of France is now a white woman”
Tits or GTFO.
I would post a link to the painting from the French revolution, but I’m at work.
Here you go, SFW
It’s from 1830?
Well, I’m glad I didn’t majro in Art History.
The French Revolution was more an ongoing annual festival in Paris than a discrete event.
And yet they’re only on the fifth republic? (Not counting the empire and the bourbon restoration)
Well they are French, no one said the Revolutions always worked out.
And his YouTube account has been deleted, right?
I’m having a hard time believing this; sounds like the conservative equivalent of made-up hate crimes.
https://summit.news/2019/09/11/new-sexual-fetish-couples-getting-pregnant-and-having-multiple-abortions/
Faaake.
+1 noose
Yeah, not buying it.
Not even for the low-low price of sixteen payments of $39.95?
Slate ponders the unthinkable.
When I asked him how a man whose daughter was killed by a semi-automatic weapon in a mass shooting could campaign against banning semi-automatic weapons specifically, he gave an answer that was theologically resonant but politically and emotionally confounding. “One life is just as important to me as 10 lives, so trying to limit the size of weapons doesn’t make sense to me,” he said. His daughter’s life was precious, but a determined killer, he insisted repeatedly, could be just as effective with a knife or a sidearm. When I asked him how a man whose daughter was killed by a semi-automatic weapon in a mass shooting could campaign against banning semi-automatic weapons specifically, he gave an answer that was theologically resonant but politically and emotionally confounding. “One life is just as important to me as 10 lives, so trying to limit the size of weapons doesn’t make sense to me,” he said. His daughter’s life was precious, but a determined killer, he insisted repeatedly, could be just as effective with a knife or a sidearm.
it has a happy ending..
The shooter at Sutherland Springs used a semi-automatic weapon that he should have been barred from purchasing because of his conviction for assaulting his then-wife and stepson. Soon after the shooting, Texas Sen. John Cornyn introduced a bill to strengthen the background-check system that should have prevented the shooter from acquiring weapons. For Pomeroy, that’s enough. “OK, done,” he said. “There’s no reason to keep pursuing these ideas, because he did what needed to be done.” This month, Texas enacted new legislation allowing people to carry guns in churches and other houses of worship.
Huh. Shouldn’t that have been up to the places of worship to decide?
I get the heebie jeebies when I hear the word “allow” in legislative terms.
New thread up!
Shh, they might not notice.
is that Dolly Parton?