Good morning all. For certain values of good. I think I scratched my eyeball this weekend, and then in the first client meeting Tuesday morning, I scratched it worse. Yesterday, I really couldn’t open it or look at a screen or go out in daylight. And I had to be part of a fake meeting for a marketing promo video being shot jointly by our company and client. Nothing makes me feel sexier than having a a red, swollen eye. I assume any shots featuring me will feature the back of my head.
Let’s see, what else happened? Apparently strange times were afoot at Minute Maid. No more to say. I really couldn’t watch.
I assume this is the face one makes when wondering how his life got to the point where these morons are lecturing him about morality.
Oh, Florida Man. That’s just unsanitary.
Brutal. Trump’s web team is strong.
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Olaf was asking for it
He got snowed
Then he got plowed.
morning
Ooh, I’ve got avatars!
I dont believe you ‘
#metoo
Works on Firefox, not Chrome.
I’m on Firefox.
Doesn’t work.
Android with Eyepiece?
PC with no glib-specific extensions.
Chrome on my smartphone.
No Avatars here, and just logged out restarted browser (cache supposed to clear automatically) and logged in again. Nada.
Windows 10 Home Edition, Microsoft Edge v44…
I had them at home on my Kindle. None here at work in Firefox.
I’ve had them throughout y’all’s ordeal. Safari/iPad Pro, iPadOS.
Rhywun, ignore my comments about In The Mouth of Madness. My wiring was crossed and for some reason kept thinking of Lord of Illusions. I’m an idiot. Anyway, back to the links.
No prob.
Just saw your comment last night.
Valeo made wipers in Rochester: did your brother work up there?
It’s possible – yes, it was in Rochester. I might have confused it with some nearly Delphi plant.
“nearby”
GM bought Harrison Radiator, and that did get folded into Delphi.
This stuff is pretty random to you normal people, but after years working in an industry (especially automotive heat transfer), it’s hard not to think of towns in terms of who worked there, the evolution of the companies and infrastructure. When I see a truck or car rolling down the road, I think of who worked on it. It is thrilling to see millions of things that you worked on driving around, to see them every day.
I have the opposite problem. After years of dealing with layabouts, it’s hard to think of towns as anything but empty voids filled with people who don’t do anything productive. I’m shocked when I hear there’s actually a company doing business in a city, because that’s not what I expect to find in these places.
It’s a dark, depressing world.
what I expect
I suspect you’ve got the unhappy end of the elephant.
People are happiest when their endeavors line up with nature. Physical exertion and creativity need to come together for a man: he needs to see fields plowed, barns built, hams hung, trees felled at the end of the day (your genes may vary). Does anyone make a drug that tells the brain that lining up zeros and ones all day is productive art?
Work may have become entirely too abstract to have emotional meaning any more?
When you get those 1 and 0’s to line up in the correct way to get something up and working (or fix a high priority issue), it drops that hit of sweet sweet accomplishment as well. Problem solving is problem solving, just with different limitations, test cases, and ease of changes.
UCS works for the State of New York. When he gets his 1s and 0s lined up all that happens is a little more freedom dies.
When I do my job right, no one notices. When I make mistakes, I get incessant complaints.
Worse, when I do get recognized, it’s always for something simple that didn’t take any actual effort or accomplishment.
sweet sweet accomplishment
no doubt
What Neph said.
If you think that stuff isn’t “productive”, well, I don’t know what to say. Except it’s wrong.
Rhywun, I provide technical support for IT folks who support bureaucrats who support other bureaucrats.
I’ve not seen productive work since I left the Xerox helpdesk, and then only tangentially.
productive
Geez, nobody needs this stuff more than me. The question I had was whether it was stimulating, a question of job satisfaction and environment and all that stuff. UCS is the one who says the world is depressing, not me; my question is whether that has something to do with the business and work design and human nature. I just heard a bit of Rocketman playing and wondered what it means.
UCS: Fair enough, but it sounds like that’s a function of your place of work. I was speaking more generally.
Don: Not everybody gets satisfaction out of the same things. I was pushing back at the assertion which I frequently see that man must be doing physical exertion or some such in order to be satisfied. It’s a bit cliche.
Work may have become entirely too abstract to have emotional meaning any more?
I think there’s some truth to that. However, my personal experience is that project structure, workload, interpersonal interaction, time lines, and variety play into how much I enjoy my job.
In my current situation, I’m halfassing my primary responsibilities, bumping up against deadlines for a variety of nonessential projects, working on 2x the number of projects I should be, spending 6.5 hours or more of my day sitting silently staring at a computer, surrounded by a few good folks and a whole bunch of assholes. The only reason I work each day is because I have bills to pay.
In the past, I’ve been in positions that were more well balanced, and I actually looked forward to work most days. I’d still rather be somewhere else relaxing, but work wasn’t too bad of a backup plan.
“This stuff is pretty random to you normal people”
Anybody got a towel handy? I need to wipe this condescension off.
Enough with the euphemisms!
AOC to Zuck. You would actually allow free speech? Outrageous! We know she won’t.
https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2019/10/23/aoc-zuckerberg-pay-ads-facebook-saying-republicans-voted-green-new-deal/
What a timeline, when Suckerbird is the free speech advocate.
It helps when the person he’s arguing with is intellectually bankrupt.
You can’t go broke with money you never had.
I think the rub is that he wont take down Trump ads. They are all for free speech….their own. Others? Not so much.
If I were Zuck, my response would have been “Madame Congresscritter, if I were to start removing political ads for falsehoods, yours would be one of the first to go.”
Something Something, Climate Disaster, 12 years left…
Fundamentally, the Dems are demanding that Facebook deplatform their opposition. It’s as blatant an attack on political speech as we’ve ever seen in this country.
Let’s hope Zuck has the stones to fight them all the way to SC and the ghouls see it the same way.
Yeah. And this really does fall into a case of Free Speech. The policy is Facebooks, but part of the Government is clearly trying to demand that the corporate policy be changed to restrict the free speech of their opponents. It’s pretty coercive.
It’s extremely coercive and only one or two steps away from how the ChiComs handle corporations.
Zuckerberg is Secret Libertarian Tech Overlord.
MWHAHAHAHAH!
I think that maybe Zuck is sensing the wind shifting and that he sees that it is in his company’s long term interest to stop trying to censor the internet. If so, it’s likely a fiscal decision, the overhead involved in developing and operating the tools they use to play internet nanny must be colossal and it may also be an attempt to salvage a brand that has taken some serious hits of late.
Like a safe cracker walking up to a safe, and it’s open! too easy. The intern that remembered to check if the domain is unregistered will receive a little something extra this week.
Better shampoo first!
Maybe the intern will get Clinton-ed.
“Apparently strange times were afoot at Minute Maid.”
hahaha
Seriously, Verlander was a shoe-in for the Hall of Fame before, right? But going 0-5 in his World Series games? Is this really how a HoFer pitches in the post-season?
Strasburg on the other hand, kind of borderline for the HoF (still only mid-career, admittedly), but after last night, I think his chances have to go up.
Dude, Verlander is HoF. He’s a flat out dominant pitcher and greater than Strasburg. The sample size of the playoffs is too small. Willie Mays sucked in the playfoffs as did Barry Bonds. Should Mays not be in the Hall?
Just eyeballing this, but–Strasburg’s has had 8 full seasons (through 2019)–106-54 (.662 winning percentage) with 1,579 strikeouts.
Verlander’s first eight seasons (through 2013)–124-75 (.623 winning percentage) with 1,664 strikeouts.
Looks comparable to me.
Plus, in World Series–Verlander 0-5, Strasburg 1-0.
Just noting, Bonds is not in the Hall of Fame. Sure, steroids. But maybe also in voters minds that he was in only one World Series and didn’t do much?
The worst thing about Bonds is he already had a HoF career before we decided to roid out. He had, what, three MVP’s and seven or eight Golden Gloves before that, but he was jealous of all the attention giving to McGwire and Sosa and did what he did.
Yep, he would’ve had a better chance of getting in HoF if he’d just retired somewhere around 2000. Total self-sabotage. And out of envy for Sosa (and McGwire)! As if the one-dimensional Sosa was ever going to be more than a footnote!
already had a HoF career before we decided to roid out
absolutely
Bonds still had the fastest hands of all time. That’s the difference-maker, not the steroids (because how many pitchers were on the stuff at the same time??)
The most compact, efficient, and brutal swing I have ever seen.
Verlander ERA in World Series–5.73
Not just one game he didn’t pitch that great–five games.
A Hall of Fame pitcher that you hesitate to hand the ball to in the World Series?
Barry had a .471/.700/1.294 BA/OBP/SLG in the only World Series he played in. “Didn’t do much”? OK, we’re officially in crazy town…
Christ, I can’t believe I’m going to defend Verlander of all people, but……It’s not as if he pitched poorly last night. Strasburg was a little better, that’s all.
Le the public relations dopes in the Astros organization do his defending.
It was so close through six. Here’s what I carded:
WSH37 Strasburg: 6IP 2ER 7H 1BB 7K 26BF 114pitches with 1IBB, 3.00ERA
HOU35 Verlander: 6IP 4ER 7H 3BB 6K 27BF 107pitches with 1BB, 6.00ERA
If Verlander doesn’t take the mound in the 7th, Straburg barely edged him: those other two earned runs were the game, of course.
That’s what I noticed – minus the score card.
So should Hinch have left him in?
I do second-guess sports where it’s clear (hell, I post whole articles about it), but the pitcher thing seldom is clear to me:
I can’t rationally say that the same manager who left him in to walk another batsman after giving up a home run also somehow (should have?) had the power to assess his ability the inning before. Along those lines, it’s hard to imagine that Verlander could have done any worse than Pressly who attempted to finish the seventh; same manager called that guy in. It’s really random, so, like gambling, addictive.
AOC is the mix of smug, arrogance and ineptitude made perfect for Congress.
Man Had Sex With Stuffed Animals At Target
Sounds more like a ‘People of Walmart’ story.
That’s why he was arrested this time though. Target just ain’t the place for that kind of behavior.
“That’s just unsanitary”
I read it as the Cops, comma, man had sex…..
Comma Man? Is that TedS’ alter ego?
It’s the Comma Chameleon.
Damn you!
Too late.
Comma Comma Comma Cumolafon
/Polite Applause for that effort
“Had sex with” is an interesting way of putting it.
“Todos con Biden”?
All with Biden? A little presumptuous with that slogan there, aren’t we?
Nice to see you JATNAS.
Thank you! I usually have to check up on Glibs later in the day, but this week is pretty light here at work, for some reason.
I’m ba-ack! – ehm refresh my memory who are you again? Were you here before?
Also given the paucity of links can we go directly to offtopic?
368.43) Were there rules on this before?
Sector or arcuate visual field defects?
and the lack of avatars. Apparently it doesn’t take much to throw me off. I’m wondering who half the people are when we are commenting without avatars.
What lack of avatars?
There are no pictures. Everyone is just a name. I can’t figure out who any of you are without wasting valuable word processing cycles.
Works fine for me.
Maybe you need to renew your Glib subscription?
Every picture.
there were never avatars.
the picture next to your name
What picture next to my name?
Pie took a selfie, and being a vamp, no picture appeared. He then hacked all our accounts and used his pick to replace all of our avatars. Mystery solved.
Shouldn’t the image then be the wall?
I just assume Pies is always accompanied by a light blue mist wherever he travels.
UCS, the wall just happened to be baby blue.
Which would stand out from the white background.
Stop tripping me up with logic, man. I’m riffing here.
The Gods decided they were tired of mortals calling their digital representations by this blasphemous name and smote them.
Speaking of avatars, where’s yours from Pie? I’ve seen it (or something very similar) on several other people’s profiles around the web, so either it’s from something or you really get around.
This?
Ah, so it’s a meme. Thanks.
“The Biden campaign continues to be inept with a deeply flawed candidate,” Deputy Communications Director Erin Perrine told ABC News. “Latinos are thriving under President Trump and now thanks to the Biden camp, people can find out more about that success at http://www.todosconbiden.com.”
Classic.
“It is no surprise that Trump’s Campaign would resort to childish antics like this to take attention away from this President’s appalling record of separating families and using immigrants as scapegoats, fomenting hatred and white supremacy, and trying to take away health care from millions of Americans who need it,” according to Isabel Aldunate, deputy director of strategic communications/Hispanic media press secretary for the Biden campaign.
NarrativeTruth > FactsUmmm. Maybe if this dude was a Dem instead of a Never Trumper he would have heard about this catchy slogan Billy C ran and won on “It’s the economy stupid!”
From what I’ve heard immigrant Latinos who’ve been living here a few years and have jobs and have developed local roots aren’t real keen on competing with the latest arrivals. Also, most Latino immigrants from years past were Mexicans, most nowadays are from Central America–not all Latinos are alike, Isabel!
Not to mention that Hispanic families tend to be more conservative in their views than most of the democratic voting base.
‘As detailed in a criminal complaint, Cody Christopher Meader, 20, entered the retailer around 2 PM Tuesday and approached a display of merchandise featuring characters from the Disney film “Frozen.”’
Dude, let it go. Let it go.
Let it go.
This reference was inevitable, given the story, but I still hate you for it. I need to go find another ear-worm now.
39 dead in UK truck were all from China.
That makes more sense. They were being reported as Bulgarians for some reason yesterday (do English cops think Bulgarians and Chinese look alike?), but Bulgarians are in the EU and, at least for the moment, UK is too. So shouldn’t be a need to smuggle in Bulgarians, I wouldn’t think.
I never assumed they were Bulgarians in the first place, do not remember what the report said.
The truck came from Bulgaria.
During the session, Rep Waters also complained that the Harvard drop-out had failed to improve diversity at Facebook.
Of course she did.
Yeah, a few billion people and no diversity. Checks out.
If I ever found myself in a situation where I’m being confronted by Maxine Waters about, well, anything, I wouldn’t be able to stop myself from laughing like a lunatic in her face the entire time. The woman is a cartoon character.
That’s an insult to ‘Toons!
These brave Democrats are fighting fascism by coming in and telling those mean companies what they can do.
…for the good of the nation, and of the party.
Anyone else think the “reaching out” to Latinos by the Democrats, by using Spanish for everything is a little odd? Wouldn’t it be a bit patronizing?
My favorite thing about local news is when the cracker reporters use a Spanish accent to describe a person, place, or thing, then go right back to their normal voice patterns. Never understood the point of that, but it’s funny.
The best is when Julian Castro, who doesn’t actually speak Spanish, does the same thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jyGsKOzEVE
Wouldn’t it be a bit patronizing?
Yes. I have cringed every time any of them have used Spanish in the primaries.
A Hispanic coworker of mine said he was disgusted when Beto broke into Spanish at the first debate. “Does he think we can’t speak English?”
“Que?”
“‘Por favor’? No soup for you!”
Vegetarians are ‘less healthy and have a lower quality of life than meat-eaters’, scientists say
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/vegetarians-are-less-healthy-and-have-a-lower-quality-of-life-than-meateaters-scientists-say-9236340.html
I choose to believe this as it confirms my preconceptions
I’ve noticed a lot of people who are overweight and eat unhealthily switch to vegetarianism to get healthier. No surprise when their cholesterol goes down, they lose weight, etc, when they go from fast food, overeating, sodas, sugar, etc., to actually considering what goes in their mouths. Makes it look like vegetarianism is some kind of magic. But they could’ve gotten the same or better results just be switching to a healthy diet with meat.
their cholesterol goes down – this may be not that significant
Once again making us all look like bitches, because science is a liar…. Sometimes.
No shit. And water is wet.
This. After being a voracious meat-eater, I became a strict vegetarian for eight years. My fingernails went from hard as a rock to much more flimsier. Went back to meat eating again and the went back to normal. And I was a vegetarian who understood how to do it right nutrition-wise.
I mean, why not? She already beat him once. She can do it again.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” former Clinton adviser Philippe Reines stated that it is “unlikely” former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton runs for president in 2020, but “there might be a reason that she’d be the best person, not only to beat Donald Trump, but to govern after Donald Trump.”
Reines began by saying that Hillary hasn’t completely ruled out running in 2020, but later added that Hillary running is “unlikely” and he has greater odds of winning the Powerball than Hillary running in 2020.
He added, “Well, look, this is a huge if, but if she were to jump in, for whatever reason, and the party has moved someplace that she hasn’t, then she won’t get the votes. That’s the point of the primary. … I don’t know. She’s not running because she has any anxiety about the Democratic field. She really likes a lot of the people running. She knows them well. She thought about some of them for her vice presidency. But, there might be a reason that she’d be the best person, not only to beat Donald Trump, but to govern after Donald Trump.”
IOW the bitch is running.
“there might be a reason that she’d be the best person, not only to beat Donald Trump, but to govern after Donald Trump.”
That reason being?
Well she has the best chance of beating Trump over the other nominees. The money knows that. Warren and Sanders are a joke. Biden doesn’t excite the base for lots of reasons, perhaps the main one being he’s a white male. There’s no question the vote between the Hildebeast and Orange Man would be close.
He is resented for not admitting he was Cornpop’s bitch….
Beaked cloaca?
But first, she needs to fix the Powerball drawing.
Yup. That or she’s planning on running and her staff are still trying to convince her to stop.
I imagine she wants to wait till Biden is in his final stages so she can come in the hero to the neoliberal left.
Why would her staff do that? More money, bigger budget, empire building… I assume they want her to run more than she does.
She’s running and she’ll be the nominee. It’s in her best interest to wait as long as she can to announce. Maybe before Thanksgiving. She can still “campaign” against Trump in the meantime given her unfettered access to the media and all of her sychophants. She wants to go right into the general election, spending as little time in the primary as possible. That way she limits the time she has to pander to the insane and also limits the time she gets friendly fire from other dem candidates. Primaries start in January. People will be paying less attention during the holidays. As soon as she announces, the money will be there.
I agree that she is winning. I differ on when she will announce though.
My theory is that she doesn’t run in the primaries at all. Instead at the convention, she will walk out on stage and announce that she has received all the pledged votes of the super delegates already and has rigged the vote counting of the rest of the ballots and she will be the nominee. Then she will tell the convention that it is exactly this level of corruption, ruthlessness and shameless ambition that they need to beat Trump. After about four seconds of silence the crowd will go wild and the MSM will instantly start singing her praises.
This. Getting up on stage next to the younger candidates like Gabbard, Buttiplug, and Yang would make her look old and completely out of touch. They might even say bad things about her. So just steal the thing.
Like she did the last time, then?
Will she expect that everyone else bow out like they all did last time.
She’s running and she’ll be the nominee.
That would be kind of crazy. While it is not unprecedented for there to be a rematch in the Presidential election (it’s happened six times, or so), it has been over a hundred years since a rematch has unseated a President. I do not think Clinton could break that streak, and it would be folly for her party to let her try.
That’s why she’s so confident she’ll win, because she won last time.
I cant wait until she is a three-time loser.
I just pray that there are just as many tears.
Oh come on, they need to one-up themselves. A public breakdown on camera from the candidate, replete with profanity and her true opinions of the voting public would be the proper capstone.
I would gladly pay a month’s wages to see a 4k video with THX sound of her first 2 hours aftet she found out she lost.
I would also be fine with winning on the electoral votes, losing the popular and dying right before in the inauguration. Then we get four years of everyone reversing course AND getting to beat up on whatever whipped-dog agrees to be her VP.
Didn’t he used to play for the Expos?
Pie, no love for the T-Woofs? You would think a true NBA fan would applaud their spoiling Kyrie’s debut.
I mean they are the T-wolves. So I am mostly indifferent… And I don’t much care for kyrie… Lotsa game last night but I was distracted by work and other silly stuff like that and did not much comment in the linx yet.
I am gonna say this: Wiggins is still probably overpayed and if he was not so useless Minny would be better but still not contenders, although Towns can have a huge season.
Also a looot of players were over-payed this summer and autumn if we include the rookie extensions of the last month.
One of Zuckerberg’s greatest challenges right now is the launch of Libra, a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin.
It has been heavily criticised by experts and politicians who fear it may be used by criminals for money laundering.
There is also growing concern that the scale of Libra could affect the global financial system.
Only central banks are allowed to manipulate currency values. Zuck is stepping on some well shod toes.
They already said the money would be based off central bank currency.
I also would be wary of money owened by Facebook.
Exactly this. I think Zuck et al failed to predict that Congress, being completely in the pocket of the big banks, would come for his head over this. Wall Street has managed to get constraints on Bitcoin, but Facebook exists outside their realm. That will not be allowed.
With that smile Zuck needs a bow tie
Can’t he afford a head transplant or something? At least get a better haircut. Yikes.
Where’z the little pictures of everybody? I can’t seez no little pictures.
They disappeared yesterday, and I’m lost.
Well, how am I supposed to know who’s talking?! [sobs]
I see pics
Pics of the pics or it didn’t happen.
Ok… I’m warning you first. It might make you look like a jackass.
https://imgur.com/a/SiSeEen
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How does a whale blow its spout UNDER WATER???
This is so
retardedintellectually challenged I had to share right away. It has everything.Always can’t escape its ‘female’ problem
It’s an update on yesterday’s tampon troubles.
The TERFS have lost this. The left has already messaged that they are non inclusive Nazis. Being a product of left thinking, they will gain little traction elsewhere.
Women’s sports is dead.
Yeah, it’s not just TERFs that are starting to get sick of their shit. I think the fate of women’s sports is still up in the air, at least.
I guess at some point we’ll find out how important women’s sports are to women. They could fix it like that with a general athlete boycott. If they could get male athletes to show solidarity, it would be over in 5 minutes. Olympics will be interesting. The HS and College level beauracrats don’t have the cahonas to take on the sjw mob.
women’s sports are to women
My mom and wife watch a ton of sports, particularly football and golf, baseball for Mom. They watch zero women’s sports.
I watch women’s college basketball and softball.
I wonder if our viewing says anything about who can save what?
Morons
I also think it means the litterally caved to “one Ben Saunders” as in no one else was throwing a tantrum, but this one guy on twitter was harassing them about it. Obviously they felt terrible, because our modern world has taught us that you can know the morality of something by how much of a [CENSORED – Mass. Decency Committe] fit other people throw about it.
The major corporations just run scared from the wokesters now, thus giving the stupid asshats power. Look at what happened to Ken Fisher over a silly analogy/joke. It’s out of control.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/22/fisher-investments-losses-hit-2-billion-as-new-hampshire-pension-exits.html
Normal people chuckle or don’t and forget it was said five minutes later. It’s pathetic really and the fund pulling out because of that isn’t looking out for the people in the fund.
And those proud, brave, resilient, courageous non-binary and trans folks are sent to the fainting couch at the mere sight of a symbol on packaging.
When you are devoted to living a lie reminders of the truth can be powerful.
If you are stupid enough to try to play games by the rules set by crazy people I have no sympathy.
See: Cricket
Uffda. Fucking Feds are fucking with a fine pair of Minnesodans.
I don’t even know how to react to such shameful pearl clutching.
We have precedent regarding civilian ownership of cannon, the founders were A-OK with them. The cops don’t have any legal ground to stand on and should appologise.
absolutely the correct point
Looking at the story, I don’t think the cannon is their main problem.
I knew several people who owned working cannon back in the day. Not illegal.
I’ve also known a number of people with cannons that shot cue balls. They are fun.
My friend’s crazy granddad had a full-sized cannon. He would shoot half-gallon milk jugs that had been filled with cement.
The little people are just fodder in the war the 2nd amendment.
What is the accepted Libertarian Canon on this issue?
*narrows gaze*
Uh oh. Switzy is loose. A loose canon, if you will.
Howitz-our fault for loving good puns?
Puns are the mortar that indirectly hold us together.
None of that, or he’ll bring out the big guns.
Sounds like sour grape shot to me…
Please don’t touch off another eruption of narrowed gazed y’all.
You guys are staring down a barrel of Swiss squints right now
BOOM!
So a muzzleloading cannon then. Who cares?
Muzzle loading, black powder arms are not illegal to possess. Technically it is not even a firearm. Thousands of people in the US have cannon. It is perfectly legal.
Whether or not drugs should be legal, they aren’t. If. you possess drugs you are asking for trouble. Begging for it really.
Libra is being created to pick up chicks.
Power and chicks.
Such is the origin and intellectual evolution of Zuckerberg.
Ardoff said that possessing any firearm while also having illicit drugs is illegal, but he was unsure about the legality of having a cannon absent any controlled substance.
“To be honest, we are researching that right now,” he said.
Looks like they’ll have to go back and plant some drugs.
They already did. JK.
But the drugs are going to be what puts them in jail.
“there might be a reason that she’d be the best person, not only to beat Donald Trump, but to govern after Donald Trump.”
She’ll take the gloves off!
You misspelled mask.
Look, we can all argue about whether deep dish is real pizza or if pineapple is a valid topping, but we can all agree that right thinkers only shitlords buy pies from guys.
I notice she didn’t specify what talent she had that so impressed her husband.
“Prestigious pizza parlor”? I lost it laughing there. I’m a pizza purist, but even I know it’s common man food.
Beam me up Scotty.
Papa Johns, Little Ceasers, Pizza (rape) Hut, (old men play) Dominoes.
The Patriarchy is strong in the Pizza world.
That is a lot of pepperoni and sausage.
Herman Cain
nodssmirks.So you’re saying you want a big sausage pizza.
These people are exhausting.
Whatever. In my experience visiting California, they don’t do Italian right. Can’t even get a decent espresso without hunting for it like a cat in the jungle.
Columbus street in Shitfransico. Pick any joint and you’ll do OK.
Down here, it’s a bit Didier, but if you stick with small local casual places, you can do decently. Upper end places aren’t usually very good.
*dicier damn phone.
Yes. And that’s what I concluded.
But wasn’t blown away or anything.
In fact, I thought to myself ‘hey, I should come set shit straight here’. But then I realize it’s California. Nice to visit but I ain’t living under that Democrat dystopia no matter how many conservatives there are in the interior. The government is what makes life miserable.
*facepalm*
Believe it or not, I’ve never bothered to care about the gender of the pizza parlor owner or the gender of the people making the pizza. Not signaling virtue here, just honestly have never heard anybody, ever, comment about the sex of the people making the pizza.
It’s NPR. EVERYTHING is about gender, sexual preference, and race to them.
I really like calm, long-form work, so NPR and PBS have the right type of platform. But I’ve long-since tired of working their what-do-lefthanded-lesbian-librarians-think-about-it angle into every f-ing report. I fantasize about a libertarian, cut to the chase, news platform that reviews the same international topics and entertains call-ins like C-SPAN, but where tangents, irrelevancies are simply pointed out and callers and interview subjects shut down when they get all loopy. A network where people are told they are too stupid to live, shut up, that’s not in the Constitution anywhere.
Keep the dream alive man.
I tire of all politics all the time on the AM radio, so I switch over to NPR regularly, but for dog’s sake, they’ve gotten horrible. I usually just rage punch the off button after a few minutes before I start ranting to myself.
Podcasts. That is what keeps me sane.
Yep. Take 2 Econtalks and call me in the morning.
We should assemble a glibs podcast. It would be epic.
Don, I feel your pain. I was a C-SPAN junkie for decades, a regular caller (sometimes I even got through) to Washington Journal. I walked away from them sometime during Obama’s 2nd term. The shills started to overwhelm the commonweal on the call-in lines to the point of unwatchability.
If she has so much talent and is so concerned about the pizza gender gap then she should make a like a big girl and go start her own parlour. She can even charge men more if she so desires. She can buy all the pineapples in the world.
You probably don’t care about race either, you racist.
How very NPR.
By the way, file under ‘Things that probably don’t happen like Lebron being a victim of a hat crime’ or ‘Just going with the flow of the zeitgeist to get attention.’
Lebron being a victim of a hat crime
Somebody wear a “Free Hong Kong” hat near him or such?
Laura Meyer? Ain’t no vowel at the end of that name – why are you appropriating my culture, bitch??
Wouldn’t it be hilarious if she was one of those ‘muh cultural appropriation’ folks? Of course, people would just say ‘pizza is international now!’ to get around it.
“Guys stare at my chest. They think I don’t see. Guess what? I see.”
Sexual slaves and victims of female genital mutilation in Africa have never had to deal with horrors like this! I’m so glad feminists are attacking the real problems women face.
No one is staring: https://www.eater.com/2016/6/28/12033514/laura-meyer-tonys-pizza-sf
I’m gonna go ahead and issue NYC’s collective “GetTheFuckOuttaHere!”
Yeah, the pizza on my corner is probably better than any of that crap.
Not saying hers isn’t good, it probably is all that and bag of potatoes, just saying relax a tad with your own chest pumping.
But that rosemary winner? Yeh, we’ve been eating that way since I was a kid. You should see the tricks and techniques the matriarchs around here have created over the years (my mother was ‘infusing’ herbs since the fricken late 50s) I slowly see find its way onto menus – 20 years later.
Nothing like wokesters on the Food Network bragging about reinventing the pizza wheel which has been around.
Just insights into my world bitch.
“I’ve come up with this new way of cooking. We take a chunk of meat, stick it on a stake, and hold it over a fire. Genius! No one has ever done such things before!”
Oh, I’m mostly kidding. I’m sure hers is fine. And it probably costs a small fortune. It’s like pointing out how great the food is at a two-star Michelin restaurant. Well, duh. I’d still be just as happy at the diner on the corner – another style that benefits here from heavy competition.
My point is more that it takes some skill to perfect something so simple and some places have that skill in abundance and most don’t.
I got and agree with your point.
I just wanted an excuse to plug how much better my mother is. Lol.
just wanted an excuse to plug how much better my mother is. Lol.
Way to promote stereotypes about Italian boys. Wannabe motherpluggers.
Jarflax: LOL.
I’m good with that.
We just made over 50 jars of fresh ‘pelati’ tomatoes.
Yes indeed. Snark aside though, our local makes a BBQ chicken pie that is now my favorite pizza evar!
*squints suspiciously*
“pizza”
….
I’ve had ‘award winning pizza’ that was under whelming.
Most of them don’t use enough cheese. And a lot use funky sauce unfit for purpose. Too many also put odd toppings that don’t belong. And some even fuck up the dough.
Sounds like you’ve been a judge at these things.
They weren’t looking at her chest, they avoiding looking at her face?
She looks like she’s been getting high on her own stash. Dealers shouldn’t use so much product.
“They basically refused to acknowledge that a woman had won,” she said, recently recalling the snub. She was the first woman to win — and the first American.
I guess it had absolutely nothing to do with a bunch of Italians being pissed an American won.
Be careful. Italians aren’t totally like the French in that way. Plus it was an ‘American category’ so why would they?
Already I find her ‘macho’ line to be borderline stereotypical.
Why would there even be a “pan pizza” category in Parma?
Good question. ESPECIALLY in Parma where they take things VERY seriously.
I… wut?
ONE MUST BE PUT UP IN CENTRAL PARK!
I loved it when the public gave several excellent suggestions for female statues (Jane Jacobs, Susie B., etc.) and they were all rejected for being white.
Does it get any more 2019?
Because the country is littered with male pizza-maker statues.
“Guys stare at my chest. They think I don’t see. Guess what? I see. My very first day of work, a coworker just watched me do my job like I was a show, entertainment, an ooh-la-la toy.”
I really doubt that is why they are staring. It’s actually because your a land-whale.
https://hoodline.imgix.net/uploads/story/image/15718/Meyer1.jpg?auto=format
“Guys stare at my chest. They think I don’t see. Guess what? I see. My very first day of work, a coworker just watched me do my job like I was a show, entertainment, an ooh-la-la toy. So many people think I could only be as high up as I am because I’m Tony’s wife. I’m not his wife. I’m his talent.”
I’m gonna need to see some pics.
Seriously. I got NPR cookies on my machine just to see a tiny Asian woman instead of the one bragging about her tits?
Uffda. I don’t think you do.
Yeah, guys are staring at her, yeah…. right…..
Yikes.
I’m guessing that since it was an “ooh-la-la” situation, the creep ogling her was French. Really not surprising. Those frogs have no taste whatsoever and will hump a gopher hole if given a chance.
They’re staring at her because she fills the entire field of vision.
BAHAHAHAHA…..talk about delusional
You know. It’s too bad. She probably could have made her point without all that bull shit. She clearly enjoys making pizza and has a passion for it. It probably is very good too. LET YOUR PIZZA DO THE TALKING MEYER.
By going all ‘woke woe is me’ you just open yourself to criticism not related to the actual art of making pizza.
“Though she’s only 27…”
Weep for the shitlords in Minneapolis
“A number of Evangelical Christian men told KSTP the gym gives them a place where they are comfortable to work out.”
Pence rule meets Pumping Iron.
“It’s more comfortable,” Traeger said. “You don’t have to worry about anyone coming up to you and talking constantly, so it feels good.”
LOLOLOLOLOL
Bitches won’t shut up amirite?
You fuckers didn’t go look at my link did you? DID YOU!
My point stands.
I was laughing at your Comic Genius.
Oh, well-played.
Agreed. That was deftly handled.
Well done, Pontiff of the Prairie!
Sneaky, sneaky!
Wait, this isn’t not the Bee?
After a foot of snow, Thot Thursday is just the thing to warm you up.
http://archive.li/AEKD4
Liverpool’s 1,000-year-old oak is England’s tree of the year
Allerton Oak in Calderstones park will represent UK in Europe-wide competition
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/23/liverpools-1000-year-old-oak-is-englands-tree-of-the-year
You WISH you had nice trees like this in America
We have older trees
You know, clicking that link led me to one of the most Florida stories ever. There was a pond cypress tree that was 3500 years old in Florida that was killed by a fire in 2012. How did this happen, you may wonder? Well…..
This is why we can’t have nice things.
Reminds me of this: https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-worlds-most-isolated-tree-was-knocked-over-by-a-dr-1450644401
About 10 years ago, I only consented to a family trip to Disney on the condition that we could spend a half-day at the Senator.
George LeMieux was pretty confused at having tourists around his office.
Looks like a nice place for a 7-11.
I couldn’t see the forest.
It’s worth a try
Carlos Ghosn’s lawyers have asked the Tokyo District Court to dismiss all charges against the former Nissan Motor Co Ltd (7201.T) chairman, saying prosecutors colluded with government officials and Nissan executives to oust him from his post.
Ghosn’s legal team in a press release on Thursday said they had submitted two court filings ahead of a planned pre-trial meeting the same day that list cases of “misconduct” by prosecutors and “factual defences” that show Ghosn is innocent of financial wrongdoing.
“The prosecution against him resulted from unlawful collusion between the prosecutors, government officials at METI (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry), and executives at Nissan, who formed a secret task force to drum up allegations of wrongdoing,” the lawyers said in the release.
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Currently on bail in Japan, Ghosn is not allowed to contact his wife or use the internet unsupervised and has had to submit to surveillance of his movements. Japanese courts have dismissed several appeals by Ghosn to ease those restrictions that his lawyers have argued violates Japan’s constitution and international law on family separation.
What a weird story. Ghosn was the greatest ever, until, one day…
Ghosn is not allowed to contact his wife
Did they have a falling out, or is there some context that can explain this?
He got cucked.
I am sure there was some government fuckery going on
Don’t Japanese courts have like a 97% conviction rate?
Most first world courts have conviction rates about that level.
That’s in the same ballpark as the US
Neanderthal ‘glue’ points to complex thinking
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50131120
I’ve read about this in other outlets and watched a few of their promos.
https://wgntv.com/2019/10/22/scariest-haunted-house-in-u-s-requires-40-page-waiver-doctors-note-safe-word/
You’d have to be a complete moron to do it and the guy who runs it is beyond creepy.
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Does it say you may or may not be raped on the way?
STEVE SMITH LIKE HAUNTED RAPE HOUSE!
The Odd Conservative Love Affair With Tulsi Gabbard
Tulsi gets Strange New Conservative Respect for several reasons, but the primary one is that she doesn’t seem to hate our guts. She is what an opponent should be – an opponent, not an enemy. Let’s face it – the mainstream Democrat Party hates our guts, and given its malignant druthers it would strip us of our First, Second, and probably Third Amendment rights in order to make sure that we never, ever have a say in our own governance again. Then, with us silenced and disarmed, it would take our money, corrupt our children and generally oppress us in ways that make today’s punitive straw bans look tame. If you don’t believe that a scary number of mainstream lefties want us Normals enslaved or dead, well, you’re either in denial or not on social media.
Make no mistake – Tulsi is not one of us conservatives, though the kind of leftism she embraces (which owes a lot to the socialism of Bernie Sanders) shares some superficial similarities to the populism that has swept the GOP base. In many ways, we share her critique of an inept, corrupt ruling caste eager to send non-elite citizens off to fight their endless, mismanaged wars. We also share a critique of Big Business as a crony capitalist simulacrum of free enterprise, basically a bunch of rich jerks sidling up to the leaders of both parties to repeatedly shaft us regular folks to pump up a few digits on their balance sheets.
That Tulsi will take on the corrupt leaders of her garbage party, like Felonia Milhouse von Pantsuit, is certainly a welcome change from the lockstep stonewalling we have seen from the others – “Why, I see nothing wrong with Toots McHoover Biden peeing hot then getting 50 grand a month from an oligarch, and if you do you’re racist!” When Mee Maw got into the cooking sherry again and started calling her a “Russian asset,” you knew Tulsi was drawing blood from Ole Granny Reset Button. That charge is particularly amusing since Major Gabbard is an Army officer and a veteran of the elite’s dumb wars – another thing the right appreciates about her. But then everyone is a Russian agent these days. We cons get the same insane idiocy, and not just the president.
Felonia Milhouse von Pantsuit
I larfed
Felonia Milhouse von Pantsuit, is certainly a welcome change from the lockstep stonewalling we have seen from the others – “Why, I see nothing wrong with Toots McHoover Biden peeing hot then getting 50 grand a month from an oligarch, and if you do you’re racist!” When Mee Maw got into the cooking sherry again and started calling her a “Russian asset,” you knew Tulsi was drawing blood from Ole Granny Reset Button
Not Enough Block Insane Yo Mamma….
Points for the use of “Mee Maw”, though.
Pretty good assessment. She’s a really bad far-left candidate, but it’s dwarfed by the awesome terribleness of her Dem opponents.
I think the main thing is that she seems to at least be principled and she doesn’t seem to hate the voters/opposition.
No. She just hates your guns and your money. Endorsed Bernie the last time around.
RE: This.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/katie-hill-first-female-lawmaker-to-face-house-ethics-inquiry-on-sex-related-matter
My thoughts:
1) They’re adults, who gives a fuck?
2) If she were TEAM RED we’d have 24/7 coverage about her hypocrisy and moral turpitude.
3) HAWT
I’m leaning toward 3.
I’m leaning toward 3.
I, for one, would like to be her staff.
Be her staff? You mean give her your staff?
Abuse of tit power says I
Gary Studds committed statutory rape on an underage male page and got nothing except a censure – and was reelected. I don’t think she has much to worry about.
I was a page* for a week in high school. It’s what pretty much turned me off of politics.
*was not raped, although I met a page from Utah. I would have let her do anything to me that she wanted.
I’ve seen the picture. I’m unimpressed.
Honestly, I don’t care what grown adults get up to in their spare time, but this is at least unprofessional. Getting off with a subordinate has been considered an ethical lapse for decades, and I don’t see why an exception should be made here. And as noted, if you’re going to beat the #metoo drum, don’t stop just because one of the suspects is a woman who’s a Democrat.
^This is the problem here. Her sex, party, and tits are just a distraction.
A man in a normal job with a subordinate in that photo… Fired, so fired, company sued, end of career.
Absolutely.
the power imbalance is the only detail that matters.
and i hope she gets off and reelected just for the hypocrisy and lulz.
She’s a 5; 6 at best.
That’s not to say I wouldn’t.
She’s in that category where she’s not ugly, but absent a hell of a personality or legendary sexual prowess I wouldn’t bother.
Which painting is better
A man ejaculating, while holding a bird-trap on a bamboo pole to catch flying vulvas. Gouache painting by an Indian painter, (c.1900).
https://twitter.com/WhoresofYore/status/1186937660339904513
or
A grenadier and a woman having sex outside a sentry box, she has laid her basket of groceries down in the street. (19th century, watercolour)
https://twitter.com/WhoresofYore/status/1187027983426621441
Gotta go with the first one for pure novelty.
Strange, I had that exact dream last night.
I don’t understand how that would trap birds, though, and I can’t get past that.
The second. He might be banging a whore in a street, but he’s still holding on to his weapon.
Good military order and discipline!
Well that’s obvious.
The grenadier one could be improved with a hyena in the background watching
Thank you. I’ve had that image in my head since I read the article. Brilliant, just brilliant.
Lol. The first one. Did you see the size of his cock?
/pounds table laughing.
You laugh, but … *takes a second look*
*third*
*fourth*
My immediate instinct was to pick #2, but I have to say that the comments on #1 won me over.
#2: “emotional support bayonet”
That made me legit LOL.
I thought #2 benefited from the audience of other soldiers in the background.
Yikes.
Exactly. I’d stare at her chest exactly the same way I’d stare at a mound of feces on the sidewalk. In horror and dismay.
Oh, Ted’s.: Your Ear film is once again available – on Blu-Ray. It looks to have a pretty libertarian message quite relevant to today. Unfortunately, it’s also pricey (kind of fair given the niche market, though).
£19.99 isn’t that bad. We’re spoiled with low prices these days 🙂
Yeah, I’ll probably dig deep for £20, especially since I’ve been interested in late-anti-Soviet writings/works for a while.
Holy fuck. For some unknown reason, I flipped on to CNN. They’re talking about saving the salmon.
But- it won’t be easy. “Speshul interusts” like farmers (and electricity users) will fight tooth and nail top keep those dams in place. What a horrible, cruel world we live in.
Way more important than clean, basically free energy for the west coast.
Ahem.
Wow, that’s a bad article and a lot of mendacity or stupidity. They’re saying that hydro dams generate methane because damming a river allows the formation of more algae and so forth, which then rots, and the algae growth is exacerbated by nutrient runoff from farms. That’s a little like saying traffic lights cause increases in violent crime because when a car is stopped it’s an easier target for a carjacker.
will fight tooth and nail top keep those dams in place
Not to mention all the people living below the damns…
dams*
Biden coming to Virginia ahead of Nov. 5 elections
Former Vice President Joe Biden will visit Virginia just days before the state elections on Nov. 5, according to his presidential campaign’s schedule, when all 140 seats in the state legislature are on the ballot.
The planned trip for Biden, one of the front-runners in the 2020 Democratic primary race, will be his second to Virginia since announcing his run for president. In August, Biden held a campaign fundraiser in Richmond.
With Republicans holding slim majorities in the Senate and House, Democrats could possibly take control of the General Assembly after the election. It is unclear whether Biden will be campaigning for any Virginia Democrats or if the Nov. 3 visit will be for his presidential campaign.
“I love this state. It’s beautiful. I haven’t been here since, oh, 2014. But Maryland is great!”
Isn’t it bad enough that we had to endure Zander Baldwin?
I can’t believe I missed the horror movie post last night.
Here’s one that should be on the list: Lake Mungo
Well, I hope you enjoyed it and found at least one new movie to watch.
Well, I’m skeptical about Zombeavers but I’m willing to give it a shot… As for the rest, I’ve seen them all and I applaud your excellent taste in film, sir.
Zombeavers is outstanding. Be sure to stick around for the closing credits music.
This poor man just wants his life back
The cop fired over the death of Eric Garner is suing the police commissioner and the NYPD to try and get his job back, The Post has learned.
Former cop Daniel Pantaleo filed a lawsuit in Manhattan civil court Wednesday arguing his termination was “arbitrary and capricious,” according to his attorney Stuart London.
Pantaleo was publicly canned by Police Commissioner James O’Neill in August following an administrative trial five years after Garner’s death.
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London said he hopes the state Appellate Court will side with him instead of NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Trials Rosemarie Maldonado’s “reckless” decision to suggest Pantaleo’s termination.
Maldonado, who oversaw the trial prosecuted by the Civilian Complaint Review Board, found Pantaleo guilty of using a banned chokehold on the 43-year-old Garner, which a city medical examiner said triggered his death.
Somebody should drop an anvil on that guy.
He just wants to breathe new life into his career.
That’s how we get Anvil-Gate
arguing his termination was “arbitrary and capricious,”
Yeah, sure. Nothing wrong with strangling to death a detainee.
Even if he did everything right, I’m not opposed to firing him on the principle that someone died due to his actions.
Oh, no! Now they’re talking about the racist insensitivity of Trump’s use of the word “lynching”.
Maybe Teen Vogue should copyright that, too.
The democratic party has maintained the trademark since 1870’s
There are already montages going around of Democrats using the same term in regard to the “political lynching” of Bubba and the “high-tech lynching” of Her Shrillness. The MSM has zero shame in the their lying and distortion.
Fuck off, NBA.
I was never much of a fan in the first place, but screw them.
And then they kicked him out, confiscated his tickets, and harvested his organs.
They finally asked him whether he’d like to liver die.
That pun doesn’t have a leg to stand on.
To arms! To arms!
These are tearable appundages
We need to stop going about it piecemeal.
Swiss is gonna be here any minute to exspleen the rules of punning
Maybe we need an appendix in the site FAQs explaining all this.
But is he narrowing that gaze to look Chinese, or to protect his eyes from the Chinese?
Nice
The young fan was waving a Clippers shirt, baiting the dance cam to catch his moves. But his next move sent the camera operator into panic mode, as he pulled a switcheroo and began waving a shirt that read “Fight for Freedom, Stand with Hong Kong.”
No “okay” hand sign?
Inb4 the “Why the Alt-Right is Supporting Hong Kong” Voxsplainer.
Advertising that works
Just saw the horror movie post last night. I’m not at all a fan of horror movies, but it was nice to see the only horror movie I really like – In the Mountains of Madness – listed. Also, anyone who isn’t a fan of Jack of All Trades is stupid and I don’t believe that such a person exists.
So I’m not the only one who saw the animation?…
cool
Perhaps a big chocolate milk and 2 peanut butter and banana sammiches was not the wisest breakfast. I think I might need to shirk on some housework and nap/watch Cotton Comes To Harlem and Come Back Charleston Blue before the kids get out of school.
This should be interesting. And why is it always Luna?
https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2019/10/24/texas-investigating-mom-turning-7-year-old-boy-girl/
Because they live on the second floor?
No… wait…
Actually sounded right for a second.
Because those bars are turning them
gaytransgendered.CPS is often justly reviled but if ever there was a use case for a government agency empowered to take someone’s child into custody pending an investigation due to the risk of imminent harm, this is it.
it’s a relief that more scrutiny is applied to this.
maybe we’ll find out what fucked up doctor was lined up to prescribe puberty blockers.
The mom was a “pediatrician.”
https://www.oregonlive.com/commuting/2019/10/trimet-unfazed-by-blowback-fare-enforcement-hires-advocates-call-it-laughable-to-think-riders-care.html
“transit equity” “unhoused”
People are actually supporting fare jumpers. Or fare jumpers if there was any physical impediment to not paying a fare to board.
The tri-county transit agency sent a series of tweets to its more than 63,000 followers on Tuesday explaining why it would be dramatically ramping up fare enforcement on MAX trains.
63k people are following the tri-county transit agency. Why? Make the trains/buses run on time or GTFO.
I assume 63K people work for alleged news-gathering outlets and this is a requirement of their employment.
The Twitter mob has spoken!
Miss “I think it should be free” is perfectly free to send a check to the state to cover the actual cost of her trips.
“Mr. Snodgrass was a junior staffer who took notes in some meetings but played no role in decision making. His choice to write a book reveals an absence of character,” the statement from Mattis’ assistant, Candace Currier, says, adding that “surreptitiously taking notes without authorization for a self-promoting personal project is a clear violation of that trust.”
wut?
WTF is wrong with Nebraska?
Those Nowledge -loving Cornhuskers bought fewer pistols than the fraking District of Columbia
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/nics-checks-reveal-americans-changing-gun-purchasing-preferences/
Too busy stocking up on ARs?
LOL…did the Mafia pay off the Astros or sumpin?
California will save the world
The Trump administration on Wednesday filed a federal lawsuit against California, alleging that the state exceeded its constitutional authority by joining with the Canadian province of Quebec in a program to cut fossil fuel emissions.
The complaint, filed in California federal court, names Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and others. It alleges California bypassed federal power to conduct foreign policy and make international accords when it signed onto a cap and trade program with Quebec.
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Constitutional expert Cary Coglianese, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, said the new lawsuit raises questions about whether Trump’s inaction on climate change amounts to an international and domestic policy that states are obliged to follow.
Josh Blackman, a professor at South Texas College of Law, said the lawsuit “has some merits … regardless (of) what you think of global warming.”
“The gist of the complaint … is that California’s conduct interferes with the idea that the nation speaks with a single voice on climate — in this case, by pulling out of the Paris accord,” said Deborah Sivas, a professor at Stanford Law School.
Declare war on the Union, and be done with it, Gavin. Choose your metaphorical Fort Sumter.
Maybe that guy from Vox can propose to connect CA and QC with a toll bridge and the two can form their own country.
*severe fucking eye roll*
Do you think he’ll endeavor to persevere?
I wish they would secede, there are a lot of fine people in Cali but they’re outnumbered.
If they did, the AZ population would double overnight…..
A lot of people don’t realize this:
https://abc30.com/politics/red-vs-blue-california-election/398766/
From 2014 but still…
i assumed that was the case up and down both coasts.
It seems that, generally, urban areas trend Democrat and suburban/rural areas trend Republican. A lot of ink gets spilled analyzing why that’s the case. I don’t have a good working thesis myself. Every time I think I’ve figured it out I either can’t make the causal connection or come up with too many counterexamples.
1. People who want to be left alone live in places more accommodating to being left alone?
2. People who want to make common cause and feel more “a part of something” live in places that force you to be closer to/more engaged with others?
I’m generalizing, but I think you’ll see the point.
Maxine loses to Al Green in the stupid face competition.
.https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1187033479395061761
I have no idea how Zuck can sit through that crap without popping a blood vessel and/or flipping the table and walking out. I guess that’s why he makes the big bucks.
I would love the opportunity. After years of honing my sarcasm and disdain, it would be a great test.
Me too. I really want to be questioned by Congress.
I’d go for the Howard Hughes style of answering.
There’s no way you could put me up there. “Are you fucking kidding me?” would be my first reaction to most of their questions.
The 3rd gen synths like Z are much less prone to unexpected emotional rampages then gens 1 and 2.
He has to accept that any Congressional testimony will be like talking to retarded pre-schoolers with gigantic egos.
Better Al Green
*boogies*
Why are they making me feel sorry for Mark Zuckerberg?
Because they’re unrepentant morons who are wholly and totally incompetent, yet they want to be in charge of everything and everybody, including you.
JHTFC
Somebody turn the lights off on their way out.
You gotta love his kill shot, though. “How many white males are working for the association?” *Mic Drop*
*gasp* white men?!?!??!
So, speaking of horror, who decided the feature image on this post should be that silly little boy who looks like the next pinup for Penitentiary Monthly?
::goes back to look:: Enh – wouldn’t.
Any Gen Xers care for an earworm?
Repay in full
I watching a Bloodhound Gang episode right now LOL
Next up, Electric Company.
Great Space Coaster
Or Bloodhound Gang.
“The roof…the roof… the roof is on fire…”
I was in high school when that came out, but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM_FGAL0-Mghere’s one I remember well.
That movie was fantastic.
+1 Willem Dafoe
I loved that show.
I have never heard that song or known of that TV show ever.
Natsoc Propaganda Radio says, “Shut up and vote for the Democrat.”
It’s happening again.
Democrats are wringing their hands, wondering who else might be out there?
Michelle Obama? Sherrod Brown? Mike Bloomberg? Hillary Clinton? Oprah?
Democrats do this mental gymnastics nearly every election cycle — is there anyone not running for president who is better than who is running and can definitely win in a general election?
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“Democrats win when we are the party of common sense,” the Obama official said, noting that Hillary Clinton and Obama made sure not to adopt policies outside the mainstream in the 2008 primary race. “Some of these ideas are going to scare all those suburban women that delivered us 2018.”
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“This hand-wringing seems to happen every presidential election — perhaps more acute this time because of the threat Trump poses to our country and the strong desire to beat him,” said Karen Finney, a Democratic strategist who worked on the 2016 Clinton campaign and was an adviser to Stacey Abrams during her bid for Georgia governor in 2018.
Policy is irrelevant. It doesn’t matter what he or she will do. Democracy hangs in the balance.
The nation must be saved from Trump.
“Some of these ideas are going to scare all those suburban women that delivered us 2018.”
You’re not supposed to tell them you’re running a con on them.
Some of the best cons aren’t even a little shy about telling you that you’re getting conned, and people still fall for them.
I wonder. Seems like they would be susceptible to promises that their little soccer stars won’t have to pay for college, nor for doctor visits when they have the sniffles or need feminine hygiene products. Appeals to emotion ring true for many suburban women when coupled with “concern for the less privileged” and “it isn’t fair.”
Between that and the incessant heart of the jungle pieces about rednecks/Trump voters…. ugh….
It doesn’t matter what he or she says they will do because they will just pander to the idiots for the election, then we shall have our glorious revolution
I’m so glad my tax money contributes to their funding, so glad indeed.
Sherrod Brown??? ***BARF!!!*** I try to tune him out, but a barely-repressed memory is whispering “vocal fry.”
“Hillary Clinton and Obama made sure not to adopt policies outside the mainstream in the 2008 primary race.”
Who doesn’t want to vote for the “I’ll say whatever to win party”
Clinton did win 3 million more votes than Trump; they were just in some of the wrong places.
In 2007 and 2008, some were apprehensive that a young, inexperienced black Democrat couldn’t beat a war hero. Obama, it should be remembered, went on to not only win the presidency once, but reelection as the only person to do so with at least 51% of Americans’ vote twice since Eisenhower.
*sigh*
hey NPR, fill in the blank:
The United ______ of America
thanks to whoever recommended LetterKenny yesterday. holy shit i had fevered dreams about that women’s hockey team skit where the two ladies relentlessly rip on each other’s “mitts”.
Amazing writing, isn’t it?
if somebody chirped me like that i’d admit defeat and leave the arena.
For you.
Yep. I’d pack up my stuff and go home.
I too have been youtubing it
It’s the funniest show I’ve seen in years. I’ve got a friend who will find some way to work, “S and P’s the way for me” into any conversation and it still cracks me up.
The Germans are putting a 93-year-old guy on trial – for being 17-year-old draftee camp guard 75 years ago. Because he didn’t rise up and start shooting Nazis – like everyone else in Germany, Sweden, and Norway.
Whatever you do, don’t look at the rampant crime among the migrants we brought in, look at this ancient dude who was forced to participate in what everyone else was forced to participate in.
they should save some old Nazis for trial later after Erdogan opens the immigant flood gates and they have to distract from the consequences.
There may still be plenty around as I recall plenty of bitching in 1950s and 60s that Bonn was not prosecuting Nazi and SS figures who had plenty more to do with war crimes than did some teenaged camp guard.
Just put anyone who was alive at the time on trial.
My first thought was they must have reached the bottom of the barrel to come up with this guy. I doubt there are very many left by now.
The Germans are just pathetic. Hitler broke them.
They were broken well before Hitler
when all you have is a tribunal everything looks like a nazi. That’ll stop the rising tide of antisemitism in Europe. totes.
Hookworm and Chagas. They’ve turned our insects racist.
“Millions”?
Bullshit.
The first step to reducing your emissions is to know where you stand. Find out your #carbonfootprint with our new calculator & share your pledge today!
https://twitter.com/BP_plc/status/1186645440621531136
Oh noes I am sin against Gaia pls help what do?
Who answered better Naomi Klein
https://twitter.com/NaomiAKlein/status/1186978368543186944
Or my boy K N
https://twitter.com/K_Niemietz/status/1186995416564424705
Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers U
i loved her in Miami Sound Machine!
that is brilliant:
Kristian Niemietz supports cultural degradation
@K_Niemietz
When something fails repeatedly, despite lots and lots of attempts to make it work, we eventually stop doing it.
There are two main exceptions to this:
1.) Socialism.
2.) Companies trying to suck up to commies via self-flagellation and the adoption of leftie rhetoric.
You can appease someone who objects to specific things that you do (namely, by doing less of it, and signalling your remorse). But you can’t appease someone who objects to the fact that you exist. Why is that so hard to understand?
Yep. Naomi Klein is proof of that.
Jeebus, the drooling fangirlz on Klein’s twit.
Leo DiCaprio and his buddies need to take that quiz
Don’t forget to subtract you virtuefootprint points.
I’ll take “Things BP Should Shut Up About and Do Their Damn Jobs Already” for $100, Alex.
Hey now!
*quietly gets back to work*
You tell him, brother.
Dumbasses
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-protests-idUSKBN1X308F
“Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters rally for Catalan independence”
(Insert “It’s Happening” Gif)
There are hints of 1848 in this cross border support for those who rally against tyrants.
https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/be-water-catalonia-separatists-ride-hong-kong-protesters-wave-11571685796
“‘Be Water’: Catalonia Separatists Ride Hong Kong Protesters’ Wave
Demonstrators embrace tactics pro-democracy activists have utilized; umbrellas, airport occupation and high-tech coordination”
They’re learning from each other
The question is will Spain learn from China when they inevitably come in and massacre the protesters.
They’ve already arrested their politicians and beaten their protesters. Spain is more like China than the EU wants to admit, except with less money and sophistication in its tactics.
Hey, wait a minute…
I am all for decentralization. Bring back the Republic of Ploiești
You think Bucharest will give up that sweet, sweet oil money without a fight?
what sweet oil money? Back in the day maybe
Glibertarian Moment!
China denies meddling in Hong Kong and accuses the United States and Britain of fomenting the unrest, the biggest popular challenge to Chinese President Xi Jinping since he came to power in 2012.
I don’t even think the Chicoms are denying they are meddling in Hong Kong.
Xi already came out and said “we will crush you”.
To be fair, I don’t expect much from Reuters but sheesh that line IS pretty egregious.
LOL…yet another Tweet that aged like fine Wild Irish Rose
There was an district girl in Amsterdam with that name
Really, nothing at all happening to her might be the best possible outcome, just so the next time somebody yells about the patriarchy or #metoo she’ll be there to look around awkwardly and change the subject.
I haven’t been paying enough attention, but WTF Mexico?!?
Yikes. Tell me again why we are fucking around in the ME?
Mexico is easier to nuke should it get out of hand
We are, and have been for about 7 years, living in a cyberpunk midtopia.
Why? Well, as an example, I brought this up to my wife yesterday and her immediate reaction was to bemoan that it would make it harder for people to fight against Trump and his supporters when they’re being racist against Mexican immigrants. It will literally take a war on our border to shake these idiots out of it, and even then I have my doubts.
When that’s your reaction to Mexico descending into a failed state ruled by feuding warlords with long histories of astonishing brutality, well, lets just say your priorities might need re-examining.
Phillies to hire Joe Girardi. Now they just have to figure out how they will climb over the awesome pitching staffs of their NL East rivals Atlanta, Washington, and Mets.
More years of frustration ahead.
Boeing is fucked.
Just look at this bullshit:
We were too far gone 100 years ago. This is why I’m a collapsitarian.
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Some (potentially) good news:
TX Governor Sending AG And Family Services To Review James Younger “Trans Kid” Case
A detail I did not know:
A post by the witness:
Now we know part of the reason why the jury ruled the way they did: the judge made damn sure they never heard any witnesses in support of the father. Here’s hoping Family Services can stop this before permanent damage is done to the boy. For better or worse, they have the authority to strip the mother of custody and award full custody to the father. I can’t imagine anything less being the right thing to do here.
So, the judge needs to be impeached.
Got it.
That, and the mother needs to lose her license.
And charged with some felonies.
^
Yup. This case causes me to go into inchoate rage. I can’t even think straight about it.
#metoo
I can think gay about and utter all-consuming rage is the minimum viable reaction.
Interesting that the judge blocked her testimony. I wonder what the legal excuse was for that.
“No time. The lawyers need to make their closing arguments.”
Ah, the “I’m a judge and I say so” rule.
I had no idea how much power judges wield until I spent a year working in the circuit court up the street. It’s terrifying. I honestly don’t believe a single person should have the authority a judge possesses in a free society.
Because it’s devastating to my case!
More good news
Federal court strikes down Obama administration ‘transgender mandate’ for doctors
https://www.foxnews.com/us/court-doctor-transgender-surgery
It would be nice if someone were running a score card on Obama policies that have been repealed or overturned. I expect the count to grow.
Madness – I wasn’t aware of that particular edict.
I could not find this politician’s affiliation in the article…
Democrat. Took a little poking around on the ol’ tubes, though.
Nah. If its a scandal and they don’t identify the party, its always a Democrat.