Well, here I am again. I just want to call out the totally justified criticism of using Lobster Girl to cover weak links yesterday. Totally justified. So you get what you get for a featured image, and you can judge the strength of the links for yourself.
China abruptly announces release of nearly 1M Muslims, saying they need the space for Hong Kongers. Okay, I made up the 2nd clause, but does that really make it untrue?
Oh man, the Feds are gonna go on a rape spree over this: Parents transferring custody of children to less wealthy individuals to get the kids more financial aid. Book a room at Club Fed, folks.
I approve of the response time here. Less than five minutes from 911 call to engaging the shooter. If anyone deserves to be shot at Walmart, I nominate this chick.
Well, I found the new Glibertarian secret lair site.
Also, I think YouTube is throttling me. I haven’t been able to get a damn thing to play since I got back from vacation. All the shit loads except playback, so no music for you.
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287 responses to “Tuesday Afternoon Links”
>>250-million-year-old volcano up for sale for $60G
If we all chip in…
We can sacrifice virgins?
It’s in the UK.
🙁
And it’s so eroded it doesn’t even have the proper aesthetic.
It’s a start. Our mighty Glibertarian Army will sweep over the countryside. What are they going to stop us with, a few bobbies?
No, we’d be bogged down battling rape gangs and knife jihadis.
“STOP! Or I’ll yell STOP again.”
Whatever you do, just don’t use questionable terms on social media or it’s TO THE TOWER WITH THE LIKES OF YOU!
I’m more of an “underwater lab” kind of villain.
Snowy mountain fortress for me.
Limits attack angles. Smart.
Plus you can build secret tunnels into the mountain.
And henchwomen in short fur parkas.
It’s gonna be great!
Hmmm…
With mid century stone work and lots of glass to overlook the snowy kingdom
Easily beaten by even Daniel-Craig-Level-Bond.
I just assume that at least one of you is working on a Galt’s Gulch style cloaking device.
I’m partial to the helmet-shaped-building-on-stilts-in-a-swamp, personally
Plagarist.
“If you like mosquitoes you’re gonna love this little gem”
/Leap’s Real Estate Agent
Can we get a jacuzzi?
Easy. Just add water.
“China abruptly announces release of nearly 1M Muslims”
Released or released from this mortal coil?
They already harvested their organs, so the remainder is being sent out to wander until they notice the absense.
Interesting.
The press has been all over Trump for being the most racist person ever for wanting to vet people travelling here from countries that have endemic Islamic terrorism. Meanwhile, we haven’t even covered the fact that China has a million Muslims in re-education camps. I haz confuse.
I’ll give kudos to the BBC this time around: they’ve been running a series of stories on the Uighur re-education camps. Here’s one example from last October: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06pqb91
They’re kind of like the NYT that way. Pretty good on foreign affairs – dreadful on domestic.
Uighers on Parade?
Uigher, please!
Are you my uigha?
Well, then we’d all have to live there to call it a “lair”.
I’m in….
There isn’t even a working magma chamber!
We have Lasers, we can make our own, and Sharks! and a moat! it’ll be the bestest lair evar!!!!
“Oh man, the Feds are gonna go on a rape spree over this: Parents transferring custody of children to less wealthy individuals to get the kids more financial aid. Book a room at Club Fed, folks”
Lori Laughlin is hitting her head against a prison wall.
Close the loophole first, dummies.
I have no problem with people gaming the system legally.
“Police released surveillance images of the woman on their website. It is not known when the incident took place.”
Because surveillance systems don’t use time stamps?
This story is kinda personal for you huh Count?
Some people actually like their relatives.
How would you feel if some chick dropped trou and pissed all over your auntie?
The cops take a lot of flack around here, so when they do the right thing, they should be applauded. Good on them for doing their duty.
Oops. This was in response to comment 7.
Its Florida, probably uses tramp stamps.
Hi Brett!
That is an almost unbelievable response time. And to actually take a bullet.
Are we sure these were actually cops?
Country cops. And let’s be fair, everyone knows where “the Walmart” is around there.
>>Parents transferring custody of children to less wealthy individuals to get the kids more financial aid. Book a room at Club Fed, folks.
related: after EF graduated from law school, we had a very hefty student loan payment. After a year of equivalent to a monthly new S-Class Mercedes lease payments , we decided to get income deferment rates so we wouldn’t go underwater.
To calculate the minimum payment, my income – since we are married – is also included. She could have a lower monthly payment if she was single! So we – rather jokingly – discussed divorce to save some cash.
“I approve of the response time here. Less than five minutes from 911 call to engaging the shooter. If anyone deserves to be shot at Walmart, I nominate this chick.”
Left: should we focus on Gun Violence or the fact that Walmart drove her to Do this?
Recently, the idea of significantly raising wealthy people’s taxes has come back in a big way. I’ve read lots of articles and posts arguing over what “fair” tax percentages for rich people might be, but I think percentages are kind of meaningless when we’re talking about BIG money. My question is really this: if someone like Jeff Bezos had 99% of his wealth taken away tomorrow, would his life actually change much? Sure, he probably stops being a household name and loses bragging rights amongst the other billionaires out there, but other than ego bruises does his life really change in a meaningful way?
It doesn’t. But even though I am a filthy liberal who enjoys screaming EAT THE RICH alongside my fellow comrades, even I think taxing them at 99 percent is onerous. Tax the fuck out of them, but leave them enough dough to hold lavish fuck parties and go spearfishing on private islands and what not. I can decry the American Dream as a poorly disguised Powerball ticket all I like. Doesn’t mean I don’t still dream about being richer than fucking God. Should you base an entire country’s economic model on what is essentially a daydream? Probably not. The problem isn’t just that the rich don’t pay enough in taxes, but that things are set up in such a way that fuckheads like Bezos can even amass that much to begin with, largely by tying his employees’ urethras shut and bullying every other potential competitor out of existence. There shouldn’t be avenues for that type of horny penis to flourish in such a manner.
But, as it stands now, if I ever invent a side mirror dimmer switch and become a billionaire many times over, I’d almost certainly morph into a deluded asshole who thinks he’s earned every penny and that the masses are all BUTTHURT and ungrateful and incapable of my visionary achievements. I say we take, like, 60 percent of Bezos’ shit. Then he can’t go to space (and wonder about all the people getting themselves off below!) while everyone else starves to death.
Percentages are meaningless, so let’s do 99%.
incentives, how do they work?
Take away 99% and he might still be ok, but I can show you a lot of people who will be fucked.
What exactly would we even take away? The t-shirts sitting in an Amazon warehouse, and just…give them to people? Or do we just burn the warehouses down?
Send them to the third world, like they do with all those Minnesoda Vikings championship T-shirts. And destroy the local garment industry in the process.
Uncalled for, Ted.
*runs off sobbing*
Shouldn’t you be used to it by now?
At least we have the Twins…oh, wait…
Or the Wild…er…forget it.
What exactly would we even take away?
The stock. Because those pieces of paper (or electrical bits) will be so valuable once people realize they can be confiscated on a whim and provide no return or control.
The government seizes the stock, presumably, since these people are socialists who want the government to own the means of production.
And then does what with it? Amazon, if memory serves, doesn’t pay dividends, so there’s no income. Sell it? That would defeat the whole own-the-means-of-production thing.
OK, so the government forces Bezos to sell 99% of his assets. And, presumably, requires everyone else who owns assets worth more than 1% of Bezos’s net worth to sell down to that level. Who is going to buy it, since all the people with money are being forced to sell?
‘memba when Deadspin wrote about sports? I ‘memba.
I even ‘memba when Drew Magary was rather funny.
That’s a whole lot of stupid in a couple of paragraphs. Bezos “can even amass that much to begin with, largely by tying his employees’ urethras shut and bullying every other potential competitor out of existence”, what? And “while everyone else starves to death”. Wow.
Why do you drag the derp here? If I want to read stupid drivel, I’ll go to Reason.
So the author is simply jealous of Bezo’s wealth. Got it.
“I can decry the American Dream as a poorly disguised Powerball ticket all I like. Doesn’t mean I don’t still dream about being richer than fucking God. ”
Is this what most people think is the American Dream? I mean let alone that you are already richer than 90% of the world.
Not sure, I have no desire to be Bezos or a CEO of a publicly traded company in general.
I’m better looking, Bezos can’t buy that…..
…and I have more life’s experiences…
Yes, most of these jealous communists think it’s all about being lucky, not about hard work and making tough decisions.
Better than that. My middle class income places me in the top 0.01% of all of the people in the world. not 1.0%. not 0.1%, but 0.01%. Americans have no basis to complain about the incomes of other Americans.
Really? If there are 8 billion people on earth, 0.01% is 800,000.
Check your math. 8,000,000,000 x 0.01 = 80,000,000
Uh…. multiplying by .01% is equivalent to multiplying by .0001.
I mean let alone that you are already richer than 90% of the world.
0.5% of the world population lives in countries where the median income is greater than that of the USA. 95% of the world lives in countries where the median income is less. Sounds like a good dream to me.
In the olden days we hanged thieves and highwaymen.
if someone like Jeff Bezos had 99% of his wealth taken away tomorrow, would his life actually change much?
Better question: If he had 99% of his wealth taken away tomorrow, would it even put a dent in the amount of money our government spends every year?
These idiots don’t give a damn about what the government spends because they think the feds can just print more money. They want to tax the daylights out of the rich as punishment because they’re jealous, they hate them as a result, and they rationalize this with vague notions about fairness.
I would think that if he had 99% of his wealth taken away he’d start laying off some employees to cover the shortfall.
In actuality 99% of his wealth in Amazon. If 99% were taken away – otherwise known as “nationalized” (or if you prefer: “textbook fasiscm”) – the company would be out of business in 6 months unless taxes were increased further in order to keep it running.
Mom and Pop stores rejoice!
No, no, no, he’s like Uncle Scrooge and has a huge money bin filled with gold coins that he swims around in.
“wealth taken away tomorrow”
Wealth is not income. These asshats have no idea how wealth works — not everything Bezos has is that liquid. So dismantling his empire will destroy a ton of lives.
There are a lot of things that deadline-driven content slaves working for websites don’t know about.
They do so know how wealth works!
Well, I can think of a couple of things that would have changed…
If you had taken it all back when he was just selling books and everyone was saying that Borders, Dalton and Walden Books were going to eat their lunch, we wouldn’t have same day delivery for less than local retail of just about anything known to man, because he would have been forced to go public to raise the cash for the confiscatory taxes, which means he couldn’t go for more than a decade without turning a profit.
If you had taken it all ten years ago we wouldn’t have Blue Origin – which means no replacement for the Russian-made rocket engines that we currently use to power the government sponsored ULA fleet.
So other than something that made your life unarguably better and something that made things better for government, space science and the world….
Well, I’m sure there are a lot of “something else” items to be found.
Shorter: “I’m a totalitarian windbag.”
“stops being a household name and loses bragging rights amongst the other billionaires out there, but other than ego bruises does his life really change in a meaningful way? It doesn’t. ”
How would you know?
Who is this faux-intellectual bonehead?
Deadspin? More like Deadthink.
More evidence education is a colossal failure and an argument for why the 2A remains a critical amendment.
Even a Canadian gets it!
Sure. And while I won’t shed a tear if the vanity project that is the Washington Post folds, do you think if you confiscate his wealth that would happen? Or how about Blue Origin?
And and how would third rate TV reporters wreck marriages and get sugar daddies?
I like sports. Deadspin makes me hate sports.
There are so few level headed sports writers/commentators. There all on some sort of progressive-liberal spectrum.
Except Clay Travis. Or Serrano of course. Maybe Cowherd. Slim pickings nonetheless.
Subscribe to The Athletic.
No. But almost everybody else’s would, for the worse.
Nobody needs same-day delivery. /Bernie
Bond 25 needs a rewrite…
“Ilhan Omar and bespectacled mystery man try to avoid being pictured together as they leave romantic out-of-the-way Playa Del Rey restaurant where they were spotted holding hands over dinner
A brief, grainy video of two people leaving a restaurant could hold the clue as to the reason the marriage of leftist congresswoman Ilhan Omar broke down.
The 12-second video, obtained exclusively by DailyMailTV, shows Omar and her companion leaving a romantic, out-of-the-way Italian restaurant in California the day after she had made controversial remarks blaming 9/11 on ‘someone doing something.’
She left Caffé Pinguini in Playa Del Rey, a beachside enclave in Los Angeles, with a man who took pains not to allow the couple to be photographed.
And DailyMailTV has learned that an eyewitness observed Omar and her companion holding hands while dining inside the bistro.
‘The bigger question is why they were at this particular restaurant,’ said the man who took the video. You don’t just stumble across Playa Del Rey on a chilly Sunday evening in March.
‘It’s so out of the way. It’s the sort of place you go when you don’t want anyone to know where you are.’”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7301469/Ilhan-Omar-spotted-leaving-restaurant-mystery-man-holding-hands-him.html
What the fuck is she doing in LA?
Spending your tax dollars?
And how the hell does she afford that apartment?
Los Angeles, Mogadishu, let’s not split hairs here.
One had streets lined with shit and homeless are everywhere. The other is in Somalia
She took a left at Albuquerque…
Congresspersons can’t travel?
Not when they keep telling us deplorables that we’re killing the planet and need to reverse climate change.
Maybe she walked there.
True. But surely a congressperson would have left a wake of destruction across the country had that happened.
Wasn’t she in Venice with Pelosi and Cummings?
This happened awhile ago.
She is doing something about the border crisis!
I bet she is pulling an old fashioned Somali Harriet Tubman and smuggling Mexicans across the border by marrying them one at a time. Once she gets them across the border, she divorces them (in a faith tradition) and goes back for another one.
So who’s the relative? Because I doubt she’d be holding hands with a non-related male after portraying herself as such a devout Muslim.
The relative must be kin by marriage, looks to be racially different, NTTAWWT
Dude sort of looks like a cracker.
Omar can get away with a lot of shit, but dating a white guy might cross the line with her supporters. White AND male? Two strikes.
Omar can get away with a lot of shit, but dating a white guy might cross the line with her supporters. White AND male? Two strikes.
What if he’s gay?
Nope. Gay men are the white men of minority men.
*Swoon*
The former first lady took to Twitter Saturday to honor a step-dancing team from Baltimore, just hours after President Donald Trump attacked a prominent African-American congressman and referred to his Baltimore district as a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess.”
“On #NationalDanceDay, I’m shouting out the Lethal Ladies, a Baltimore STEP team who I saw perform back in 2017. I’m so proud of you all—and everyone who’s dancing today!” Obama wrote…
Obama’s tweet makes no mention of Trump. But if you watch the video clip, the message is clear.
“When someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you don’t stoop to their level,” one of the women can be heard saying in the video. “Our motto is …”
Then the rest of the women on the team chant back a version of the phrase that the former first lady made famous: “When they go low, we go high. Raise our standards to the sky.”
Michelle Obama made a similar veiled reference to the President last week after his racist attack on four progressive Democratic congresswoman of color.
Trump had implied in a series of tweets that the congresswomen weren’t born in America and suggested “they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.”
“What truly makes our country great is its diversity,” Michelle Obama wrote. “I’ve seen that beauty in so many ways over the years. Whether we are born here or seek refuge here, there’s a place for us all. We must remember it’s not my America or your America. It’s our America.”
after his racist attack
Assumes facts not in evidence.
Didn’t you get the journolist memo? Trump’s tweet will be described as racist. No need to explain further.
Is Baltimore not a disgusting rat infested mess?
“When someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you don’t stoop to their level,”
No. Apparently you get your husband to sic his deep state cronies on them.
And you get the MSM to stoop to “his level” for you.
“What truly makes our country great is its diversity,” Michelle Obama wrote. “I’ve seen that beauty in so many ways over the years. Whether we are born here or seek refuge here, there’s a place for us all. We must remember it’s not my America or your America. It’s our America.”
Uh…. must have all been recently….
Seems I recall that the first time she was ever proud of her country was when her husband was sworn in as President.
The best people. The classiest people. Totally classy.
“Tattooed mom, 26, SMILES for her mugshot after ‘leaving her baby in a car with the engine running so that she could drink shots at a bar’”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7302633/Mom-26-SMILES-mugshot-leaving-baby-car-drink-shots.html
“Kathy Griffin complains that she was left ‘unemployable and uninsurable’ by widespread outrage at her infamous photo with Donald Trump’s severed head”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7300813/Kathy-Griffin-complains-left-unemployable-Trump-photo-row.html
BFH
Whatever happened to that rodeo clown?
Why would Lefty Hollywood not give Kathy a job?
Because she’s not entertaining?
The first one or two “My Life on the D List” were pretty funny IMH(uninformed)O
She sucked anyways so this was an excuse to give her the hard goodbye.
If you watch Comedy Central (don’t, unless it is a rerun of The Office) the commercials are Trevor Noah making a Trump funny or some no-name comedian doing a joke about Trump during their bland stand-up. Surely Kathy could work with them.
Centrally-planned Comedy sounds just as bad as Centrally-planned Economy
Hmm. I’m going to steal this, at least a variation of it.
I think her career had died before the beheading thing.
Not that I ever understood it in the first place. If you aren’t funny, it should be pretty tough to find work as a comedian.
Have you seen comedians? funny is way down the list of qualifications.
Some stand-up has become nothing more than identity rallies.
I love stand-up: Bill Burr, Louis CK, Dave Chappell, Chris Rock . . . tend to the cynical, a surprise to you all, I’m sure. Then NewWife makes me go to Eddie Izzard: sure, babe, whatever makes you happy. He’s funny for at least five minutes out of the 90, a point or two I would have never thought of. I absolutely give zero fucks what he dresses like, identifies, or loves: just be funny, dude. Well, he gets a D-.
But that’s not what the attendees cared about. Izzard gets a standing ovation for being on the right team. I actually drifted off, and she was mad at me: sorry, I fall asleep during shit I don’t care about. . . he utterly failed to keep my attention.
It was a GLBT rally, NTTAWWT other than I don’t care and $100 is a little rich: I see gay folks and cross-dressers for free most days.
Yeah, “Hey, I’m gay” might have been edgy 40 years ago… but not anymore.
And 50+ years ago we had flamboyantly gay anyway – Liberace, Rip Taylor, Paul Lynde, etc. Maybe it isn’t as woke as they think
What do you have to do to get the job of writing headlines for the Daily Fail?
I don’t understand. How does buying metal detectors keep you from being stabbed on the street?
It’ll beep just before the blade sticks into you.
Because you’ll be on the beach? You can get stabbed there, instead.
She really looks awful.
Simple exercise that would be interesting. For those defending her right to free expression, would they feel the same had someone did the same of Barry Obama?
She absolutely has the right to free expression, including a beheading in effigy.
Everyone else has a right to be stunned at the hideous nature of her sense of humor.
Freedom, how’s that work again?
As for the reaction – I think a lot of the outrage was directly a reaction to “what if someone did the same with Obama”, because the outrage against her was initially muted, and although eventually was somewhat universal, it still carried some level of support for her on the left. And everyone… I mean every single stinking person in the country…. everyone knows that if someone had done something even hinting in the same direction with Obama all hell would have broken loose. They would have been literally unemployable, not just less employable. They would have been investigated and hounded and chased out of the country. If Sarah Sanders can’t get a meal without being attacked, imagine what the person who dared heap such an insult on the great President Obama.
So I think everyone was doing that calculation and it was as much of a “see how horrible and hypocritical you people actually are” reaction as it was a specific reaction to her photo.
If Sarah Sanders can’t get a meal without being attacked
She gets plenty of meals.
Yea, but she can’t enjoy it in peace.
It’s a love/hate thing, not my problem if she won’t accept being a
full figuredhuskyvoluptuousphatthiccRubenesquepleasnatly plump woman.DON’T YOU DARE INSULT PIE!!!!
I agree. I had no problem with her doing it. But just pointing out there is a double standard.
Not that anyone will read this.
“Tattooed mom, 26”
Who in their right mind would fuck that?
On the same level as the giant snail from the other day.
Dude, she has “Live Free” tattooed on her fingers! What else could you want in a gal?
I can only hope her toe tattoos say DIE HARD.
Never trust neck tats.
Although – an aside. There’s an attractive woman who works at the dry cleaners I use and she’s very thin but has a rather ample bosom, and she’s dark complected (think Egyptian-looking) and she has a sleeve of tattoos and neck tats that stop at her chin.
She also drives a red RAM pickup truck. I’m a little obsessed with her because I want to know her backstory. Like — what happened in your life that led you here?
She’s up to her neck in tats.
“I want to know her backstory.”
Simple: crazy.
Hot and crazy leads to curiosity. Which leads to mistakes that are hard to unmake.
Kookoo for Cocoa Puffs?
Glibertarian secret lair site.
As long as we get a moat stocked with ill-tempered, genetically modified sea-bass.
Governor Nosense
The Los Angeles Times quoted Newsom saying, “You can’t put borders up, speaking of borders, to a neighboring state where you can buy this damn stuff legally. How in the hell is that possible? I have no problem with the 2nd Amendment, you have a right to bear arms but not weapons of [god–mned] mass destruction.”
Breitbart News reported that police believe the gunman lived in Nevada for a time with family, and that is where he legally purchased two guns. One of the guns was a rifle the described as an “AK Variant,” according to LA Times, the other was a 12 gauge pump shotgun. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that firearms such as the shotgun “are permitted in California.”
Because both firearms were purchased “legally” from gun stores, the gunman would have undergone FBI background checks to acquire them.
This is important because Newsom also brought up background checks, saying, “California’s doing its part, but Jesus, these guys, the folks in the White House have been supporting the kinds of policies that roll back the work that we’re doing in states like ours to get rid of large capacity magazines, to address the issues that we’re trying to advance on background checks.”
Newsom did not mention that Gilroy Garlic Festival was a self-declared gun-free zone. In such a zone a criminal with any firearm has every advantage over the crowds of unarmed people.
Another gun grabbing liar. What a shock. Fuck off slaver.
Damn Hoosiers opening up business elsewhere!!!
I really dislike that argument. Why should the preferences of Californians (gun control) dictate and supersede the preferences of Nevadans or Utahns or Freaks from Arizona? Why do they think it’s ok to toss their weight around and blame other people for voting on their preferences and getting the laws they want? Exhibit 15358 that the left doesn’t give a shit about democracy.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/30/trump-infested-baltimore-congresswomen
No, you stupid limey, he’s talking about actual rats. Go to Baltimore. Move two blocks away from the Inner Harbor. Stay for two hours. Tell me with a straight face there isn’t a vermin infestation.
I have richly enjoyed the many paeans I’ve been reading to the wonderful things there are in Baltimore…..all of which are at the Inner Harbor. What a fuckin’ joke.
At the rate they’re going the Inner Harbor is gonna be the Green Zone. Anecdotally, of the many people I know or have known who lived in Baltimore, all but one has left. Some areas are doing OK–Hampden is supposed to be alright, for instance–but as a whole the city’s just broken. I don’t know how you fix it, but apparently pumping money into the city government isn’t how it’s done.
This is taking the ‘Trump is a racist’ thing to a whole new level. The mental gymnastics these people perform. It’s impressively macabre.
Yeah, Trump doesn’t really speak in coded messages, nods and winks, dog whistles, etc. He bluntly and transparently says whatever the fuck comes off the top of his head.
Whenever the media says “Trump”, we know they’re talking about the imaginary Trump who lives in their heads.
I wonder if she works for Snopes?
ProPublica Illinois identified at least 40 cases where families from affluent areas had obtained a legal guardian for their child between January 2018 and January 2019 in the Chicago suburbs of Lake County alone. The parents include “lawyers, a doctor and an assistant schools superintendent, as well as insurance and real estate agents,” according to ProPublica.
Oh God no, not real estate agents too.
Of those listed occupations, the insurance agent might be the one that actually knows how to handle money.
Someone tell Bernie that you can buy cheap, OTC insulin in the U.S. Don’t even need a prescription.
“According to Walmart’s website, it sells a vial of Novolin for $25 without a prescription.”
So it’s not covered by insurance, and people are conditioned to think it’s only good if insurance covers it.
If it was covered by insurance it would be five times as expensive.
No, if it was covered by insurance it would be free
/typicalAmericanSocialist
Yes, but only at icky Walmart.
Something a little different today.
“If you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up” – Ferris Bueller Modena Spyder heads to auction
Interesting backstory on the replicas used in the movie. It really is a pretty vehicle and I like the restoration job. This make me spit out my coffee, though:
How much is the real Ferrari?
Lots.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.autoblog.com/amp/2016/03/14/ferrari-250-gt-swb-california-spider-amelia-island-auction/
$17 million
How many miles on the odometer?
“… but the speedometer uses a GPS feed instead of a cable or wired connection to a sensor.”
Uh oh! ?
Dammit!
*pounds hood, which drops car off jackstands*
Who do you love? You love a car!
It’s not just Trump. California’s new law could keep other presidential candidates off its ballot
“This bill is all about equal opportunity and transparency for all, no matter whether you are a Democrat or Republican,”
Fuck you it’s about voter suppression.
Until California starts splitting it’s EC votes , no GOP candidate should care. But I’m glad California is sticking up for Democracy!!
I’m sure that’s the plan. Pass a law clearly aimed at one specific candidate, then get rid of the EC, lard up the voter roles with fake voters, and presto! One state determines our next President. Sounds super legit.
*Shuffles off to buy more ammo*
“So you get what you get for a featured image”
Someone need to see their proctolgist STAT!
“I’m taking action because the unchecked power of Big Tech companies over our public discourse is a danger to our core American values of free speech and fair elections. This isn’t about me—I’m fighting on behalf of all Americans & our freedoms. Join me ”
https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1156176458332528640
I just don’t buy the “Tech companies” will influence your mind, angle. It’s Russian ad buying but from the right.
“White people.”
https://twitter.com/sairasameerarao/status/1156016626191388675
That’s her entire tweet.
So bizarre. Most Indian-Americans want only to be somewhat assimilated into American culture and become successful. They have little interest in identity shit.
There are power seeking scum in every culture trying to grab something for themselves.
One of her other tweets: “Children don’t want to be martyrs or heroes. They want to not be shot and not be killed. THEY WANT TO BE ALIVE.”
Huh. Sounds like that might apply to other policy issues.
I know plenty of children who want to be heroes, and a few who want to be martyrs.
What children don’t want to be is political footballs.
*snort*
This is the woman who co-founded an organization that invites white women to dinner for the purpose of berating white women about white supremacy. She’s a racist, and not of the dog-whistling variety.
Thank FSM that Twitter came into being so she could feel empowered.
IOW, she is entirely dependent on white people for her living. That irony’s gotta burn, man…
This is a good reply: https://twitter.com/Brittany_207/status/1156113061515792384
“A Discussion with an Anti-Racism Activist”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XoK7fQLCPw
https://twitter.com/PetiteNicoco/status/1155939251290140672
If you are interested in a solid half-hour of cookie-cutter crazy.
“If anyone deserves to be shot at Walmart, I nominate this chick.”
I never buy produce or meat at WalMart. Packaged goods only.
“So, you wanna fuck an alien?”
https://twitter.com/CountDankulaTV/status/1155854711578386432
“Storming Area 51”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdEEJhin-C4
Are she talking about Natasha Henstridge? Because the answer is yes.
Ha-Ha. *Nelson voice
Out of Finland, Estonia and Sweden, Sweden seems like the most oppressive. Only a state-run monopoly can sell any alcohol above 3.5%. You can buy light beer (below 3.5%) in certain grocery stores–but that’s it. It was better in Utah: there were interesting low-alcoholic beers there, if I recall correctly. Naturally, the state-run liquor stores close at 7pm Mo-Fr and at 3pm on Saturday, closed all day Sundays and holidays. Apparently, not so long ago they were closed completely on Saturdays and closed at 6pm on weekdays. Finland is somewhat better. Estonia, on the other hand, is the land of the free. Is it because everyone speaks Russian there?
Nobody who speaks Russian can be bad.
*Russian Bot Alarm*
Rheeeeeeeee!
Or sober….
Bot confirmed!
Comrade Tulpa?
Я с этим согласен.
70 years of keeping the proles stocked with the other opiate of the masses plus a recent fuck off slaver?
I knew a Swede who made a living bootlegging liquor into Sweden
My fellow Glibs. I have just realized I am having a George Thorogood Tuesday. I started with a triple Angels Tears. I am continuing with a Laphroig elect (which apparently grants me a square foot of Islay, so there is that) and I now I must finish with whatever beer is in my fridge, just to complete the cycle.
Scratch my back Babe!
TALL CANS !
John Lee has a sad, you racist.
Angel’s Envy? Because I’m not familiar with a bourbon named Angels Tears.
That’s not a bad idea…will have to do that when I get home.
in other news, water is wet,
https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2019/07/hot-pavement-dangerous-realize/
You would think people would know that, until they walk their dog and have no idea why the dog is limping.
“Whats wrong with fluffy?”
“Fluffy’s paws are bleeding, because Fluffy doesn’t wear shoes….”
My dog will not wear booties. So when it’s hot like this, I plan our route for shade and grass to protect her feet.
Mine wears them all winter. 12 years in, he still acts like he’s being murdered every tim ewe put them on.
They are great, though.
She lays down and won’t get up. She could teach a class on passive resistance. It’s much easier to plan routes in the summer and clean her paws in the winter.
Not an option here. The salt plays hell on his pads and the ice in his paws cripples him.
Watching him right after we put them on is absolutely hilarious. He carefully lifts each foot like he’s tiptoeing. 100 yards into the walk he’s fine.
When I’m hunting with Adler, he’ll stop and lift up a paw. That’s a signal for me to come clean the ice balls out of his paws. And then he’s off and running.
The thing where the dog starts jumping around like he’s on fire because you’ve put something on his feet? That never fails to amuse.
Mine just piss under the overhang. Which makes walking barefoot to the outdoor beer fridge just a bit…interesting.
Train the dogs to grab you a beer while they are out there.
But then your dogs will know how to open the refrigerator. This could come back to bite you.
They’re Chihuahuas. They can’t carry a beer.
*crosses Chihuahua off the potentials list*
Aww, death from the ankle down
Is it me, or did Brett come across a little defensive and petulant today?
yes.
Oh, what a great afternoon. An old coworker from Company A reached out to me to ask me if I’d chat with him about Company B because I had worked there. He is thinking about doing some business with Company B and wanted my insight.
Why is that so great?
Because Company B closed its North American offices while I was there, which meant I had to go find a real job. So now I am sitting here fantasizing about unloading on Company B with this guy and letting him know what a bucket of inbreds they are.
In reality, I won’t dump too hard because it is a small world and I don’t need the bad karma coming around and biting me in the ass if I disparage them too much.
So you just say, “Oh they’re a pretty good company” and then when the old co-worker gets fucked over you just say “Man, things must have really changed over there since I left.”
Company B
Say what you will about Company B, but they had the Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfWc52smNs8
I think we’ve strayed off message.
Just tell the truth. Unless he’s retarded he’ll read between the lines.
And old saying applies: “Be careful whose toes you step on today, because they may be connected to the ass you have to kiss tomorrow.”
One of the links this morning was about Nancy P and Elija of the Rats living it up in Rome. Sorry, they were conducting important Congressional Business to help the fine citizens of Baltimore. Anywho, it showed that Nancy had brought along her four little girl congress critters.
How often do first-year congresscritters get to accompany The Speaker on such plush junkets? Two things came to mind:
1. Always keep your enemies close. (Sun Tsu?) and
2. Are you enjoying yourselves ladies? This it what it’s like when you play along. Capisce?
Totally. “Ilhan, how’s your pasta? Good? Ladies, isn’t this nice? Just us girls having a nice, friendly meal together. It’s so much nicer to be friends, isn’t it?”
So, the last thread had gone necro by the time I was reading it, but this is something to chew on:
That was published in the Guardian about Brexit, but, I agree with it, and I don’t see the left as making the big destructive inroads that they want. This is for the same reasons that the so horribly misread ’16. In fact, I see them losing CA in 10-20 years, and then the right being the side of destruction. It comes in waves, and while it gets progressively (drink) worse, it does stabilis.
Tulpa out!
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/29/how-the-left-lost-the-fight-for-englishness
I don’t know, I’d like to think you’re right, but if you get past the minutiae I’d argue that American culture has gradually become more Progressive over the past century. It’s like the left demands they paint the house neon pink, the right argues against painting it at all, and then they compromise by painting it white.
The house over Overton windows?
*the house WITH
I am pretty indifferent to the T-man, but he has been going straight after lefty shibboleths, like Baltimore and such. Far too many hard-left cities are deep in the disaster stages, like SF and LA. Even the normal Dems are starting to notice. The city workers, fed types, what have you. Uni’s are breaking down over what gets people jobs. The left is reacting like the Thing when McCready does the hot wire trick. They are scared shitless.
“ST. LOUIS — A man made a disturbing discovery at his mom’s home in south St. Louis.
Police are investigating the suspicious death of a baby.
Adam Smith said his mom lived in an apartment complex on the 6000 block of Magnolia for years.
Smith recently moved into her apartment to help her after she was diagnosed with cancer.
After she passed away last week, Smith said he started rummaging through her stuff.
As he was shuffling through the freezer to see what to keep or toss, he saw a box.
“I’m 37 and it has been in my freezer for 37 years and I was always told it was a wedding cake top,” Smith said.
His curiosity took over. Smith thought there could be that wedding cake top or even some cash in the box. But what he saw was the last thing he was expecting.
“It turns out it was a baby,” Smith said.”
https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local/i-want-more-answers-man-finds-frozen-baby-in-moms-freezer-in-south-st-louis/63-e0f2345f-5de1-4b08-935f-acb6496ad142
Killed by an invisible hand, no doubt.
beat me to it
Whoa. Welcome to therapy, pal.
Yeah, some decisions are no-win…
“I really should turn this mummy over to the authorities. Wait, I really don’t want my late mother to become a national pariah.”
First it was Gay Nazi cakes, now it’s dead baby cakes. We were told it was a slippery slope!
Stillbirth, I’d guess.
Cripp Daddy is on it.
And he thought he wasn’t going to get an inheritance
Don’t feel bad. The system I am currently monitoring at work is giving me the spinning circle of FFFFFFFFFFFYYYYYYYYYYYTTTTTTTTTTWWWWWWWWW
I was flipping around the radio on the way home earlier and Hannity had a pretty good compilation of Dems talking about Baltimore.
Obama even used the word Thugs. Bernie said you’d think you were in a third world country. And the Mayor herself said “you can smell the rats” when on a tour of the city.
Remember how shocked everyone was? Remember how they all called President Obama a racist?
Yeah… not so much.
Also mentioned that the murder rate is higher than in Honduras, where people are fleeing and claiming refugee status here in the US because of the violence.
Pretty nice trolling.
I do like the way the troll played out today. Almost scripted…
* Trump rolls out petulant tweetstorm against congressman who was bad-mouthing him.
* Two-day national freak-out. Tweets are declared racist by all the right people.
* Day three: Say, Baltimore, whatever happened to that $16 billion that floated your way last year?
I love the way they lionize anyone attacked by Trump. Cummings is a hero – a real champion of civil rights. He fights tirelessly for those he represents.
You were listening to Hannity?
Ewwwwwwwww.
That’s almost as bad as your music links.
It is right between the two best sports talk stations – so if I flip back and forth it goes by the station with Rush and Hannity.
Kinda works out…. that way I don’t have to actually listen to more than a couple of tidbits here and there.
But that’s an abnormal situation. I have 3 kids, so usually I get to listen to the lame pop-hip-hop stations that they like. And I can tell I’m fully old now because not one single song they listen to sticks in my head. They are completely and utterly forgettable.
I mean, you can play that game of using their own words against them all day long. But you aren’t considering what’s in their hearts. It’s about intentions and all right thinking people know that Trump is racist and Democrats aren’t.
They also get upset whenever somebody tries to horn in on their wholly-owned reliable voting blocks.
Bingo
“But you aren’t considering what’s in their hearts.”
It’s Granite. Same thing that’s in their heads.
Incentives. How do they work?
Did you see how those potatoes were dressed? Totally asking for it.
The Left considers Babylon Bee worth fact checking because they’re fucking retarded and because no matter how derptarded the shit is that the BB makes up, the left is almost indistinguishable.
https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2019/07/30/no-joke-babylon-bee-sics-lawyers-snopes-fact-checks/
The left is upset that BB actually tells people it’s fake news right up front. Apparently honesty is threatening.
What do facts have to do with anything?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dnc-lawsuit-trump-campaign-russia-wikileaks-hacking-dismissed
They really are setting themselves up for the biggest rake-step of all time, aren’t they. You’d think they’d just slink away and STFU about all this but nope.
It’s all they have. That and Trump’s a racist.
Snopes has also fact checked Duffel Blog, so… they say it’s because they’re readers might be confused. In other words, Snopes thinks it’s readers are stupid
Snopes
thinksknows it’s readers are stupid😉
Taking my dog to the vet Saturday. She’s stumbled with her back legs a couple times and I’m worried about cancer.
I may spend Saturday crying and stuffing her full of treats
That sucks big time. I hope for the best.
Oh man, that’s rough. But it could also just be that she’s got a sprain she’s been hiding, or it could be arthritis, or a whole host of other things. One of our dogs had a whole bunch of lumps and we thought the worst, but it turned out to just be fatty tumors. On the other hand, a good friend of mine’s dog had a questionable lump on her knee, but it was removed and she’s fine now.
I had a lab with a number of health issues. Fatty tumors were the least of it, but there were some of them that had to be removed because they were affecting mobility.
Is she an old dog? Does she have spinal stenosis?
She’s a greyhound, she’s 8, and she is already on Rymadol for arthritis. I’m preparing for the worst, but hoping we’ve caught it early enough. Maybe she could be a tripod. Greyhounds aren’t susceptible to a lot of genetic disorders (bred for health and speed, not looks) but they are very susceptible to bone cancer. I use no chemicals in my backyard because of it. I hope it’s just worsening arthritis.
My last dog had a neuropathy that first manifested by paralyzing her back legs. We got her a wheelchair.
Fingers crossed it’s just arthritis.
Fingers crossed, Tulip. Hoping for the best.
Moi aussi.
They always come down with something, and we’re always there to worry ’bout them and get them help.
Today is the last day before I start the new gig. Haven’t had to work at an office in 7 months. Thankfully it’s just a week of orientation before the kids even show up, and next-next weekend is a 3-day one. Might do something special for that one.
I’m gonna have to be social and friendly and exuberant again. But again, money. Money is good. I also have a shitload of Lorazepam to help me sleep early (Lady has to wake up at the same time for extra support).
It’ll be my first time as an adult working first shift. Even earlier than that. Commute and then work from 730-4. Having two incomes will be greatly helpful for us. We need to treat ourselves a little bit. We will probably go to Phuket for the 3-day weekend. Excited. Scared. Nervous. Time to start a new-ish chapter in life.
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