Brett posting links this morning completely screwed up my “Brett’s on a bender” joke.
Here, have some links.
I’ve been a news junkie for decades. But these days, I can barely look.
We are in a place where governments throughout the world no longer give a shit about what the people say. I fear that there is some nasty shit coming, and there are people in the shadows that are overjoyed.
You can take the Constitution and shove it right up your ass.
In some ways, I don’t consider this to be a bad thing.
Could someone pass the duct tape? I need to wrap my head to keep it from exploding.
I’m actually not as grumpy as it may seem. Here, have some southern fried rock.
Comments
342 responses to “Tuesday afternoon links of pinch hitting”
The Constitution is just a fucking piece of paper.
…written over one hundred years ago by white men, many of whom owned slaves.
53 years ago for their state constitution, but being Connecticut it was probably still white men responsible.
It’s white men all the way down.
But the current US Constitution is only 27 years old (less than an Evan!) since it was last modified in 1992.
Where is Evan from Evansville? Pepperidge Farms demands accountability.
Last he checked in here he was somewhere in SE Asia starting a new job, so I assume that keeps him too busy to pop in (plus time zones and all).
When the Founders enshrined freedom of speech in the Constitution, they couldn’t have imagined the assault language of today that can kill millions of people with a single tweet.
CNN has exclusively obtained a cover of the book, which has been a closely guarded secret until now and will be released November 19 by Twelve, a division of the Hachette Book Group. The author will remain anonymous, and sources familiar with the book tell CNN that “elaborate precautions have been taken to protect the author’s identity.”
Necessary, because if Trump finds out who it is,
Trump’s private death squad will disappear him he might get fired and lose his prestigious job and cushy pension.I have a solution for that. Trump should just fire EVERYONE working for the executive branch. Every. Single. One.
I haven’t been this aroused since the masked magician.
If Trump finds out who it is he’ll forget to close HTML tags? :-p
“Anonymous” means no credibility can be given to anything that isn’t independently confirmed. Sorry, but that’s the way it works. You don’t want to back what you say with your name, then we have no person who we can attach credibility to.
The whole thing is a farce which will be taken with utmost seriousness by the MSM.
“Hachette Book Group”
Well named.
“The school confirmed to Campus Reform that the men were charged under a Connecticut statute that makes it a crime to “ridicule” certain people.”
I don’t want to live on this planet any more.
Oh, I don’t expect this to survive a court challenge. But the damage has been done; chilling effect and all that.
But I’m going to start drinking cheaper gin so I can send The FIRE a few extra bucks.
I recommend Broker’s. Mmm mmm good.
I do hope the school and the state end up paying them $millions.
I’m with Tonio on this one. I’m glad they’re finally arresting people for the dreaded “hate speech” so we can get a court case and hear what the Supremes have to say. Because if the court says that this is “A-okay” we’re getting really close to a shooting war. If NY can jail people for saying “illegal alien” then it’s all over. Because I still have some faith left, I think these will wind up getting curb-stomped by the Court. I think you might even see a 9-0 kind of decision in order to make the point, but nowadays, who knows. The idea that “words are violence” is something even lawyers can’t allow. Using language, even provocatively, as a rhetorical device is something the courts will protect.
Even Breyer or Kagan?
Yeah, I think it’d be 7-2 at best. But I would love to be surprised by a 9-0.
…unless they want their opinions subject to being deemed assault.
This is why I think we might see something like a 9-0. Or maybe 8-0. They don’t do it often, but when they do, it is generally considered “message-sending” by the legal community. As in, “Even 9 separate law offices all agreed this was dumb!”
I’d be interested in hearing your thoughts on the Oberlin College libel/slander case. From this brief account, I can’t tell on what basis the judge reduced the jury award.
Vague recollection: there’s a statute limiting damanges.
The judge still approved over $30mm. I wouldn’t appeal just the reduction, but I think the case is going up on appeal anyway, so why not throw it in.
Oh, that’s the unwritten “Juries do CRAZY shit!!!” rule that appellate judges apply whenever a jury awards a “large” dollar amount in a case. When I first heard about this from my law school dean I asked the EXACT same question. That’s about the answer I got, dressed up in a lot of legal-speak. There may be some cases when reducing a jury award is justified, but I’m going to go out on a limb here and say it’s horseshit.
RC is right that some jurisdictions have statutory caps on damages in specific types of cases, but even when that isn’t in play, appellate judges are known for doing this. I would have to answer with a full article (and maybe I’ll do it some time down the road, but it’s on my list of “legal concerns” – unfortunately, it’s a ways down the list.
There is a cap on jury awards in Ohio, so even if the amount is higher, they can only be awarded so much. I remember this from when the case was decided.
*zombie OHW smirks*
Glibertarians in Connecticut hardest hit.
I like the author bio.
To me this is so odd. Five or so years ago the feminist zeitgeist was that gender was a bogus social construct forced upon the population by the evil patriarchy. Given this why would someone cut their dick off in order to better align themselves with a bogus social construct forced upon the population by the evil patriarchy?
Grrrrrr
if Trump finds out who it is,
Trump’s private death squad will disappear himhe might get fired and lose his prestigious job and cushy pension.What the fuck Connecticut?
The question that answers itself
Glad I left that shit hole. . .
To another shit hole. 🙁
Cigarettes as currency? You mean like in a prison. Way to go socialists. A tally stick would be an improvement over what they have now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tally_stick
Come Mr Tally Man, tally me banana.
Tallying your banana is also used as prison currency.
In some ways, I don’t consider this to be a bad thing.-
Fiat currency is the greatest trick the devil ever pulled.
Article 1, sections 4 and 5 of the Connecticut constitution: 4. Every citizen may freely speak, write and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty.
5. No law shall ever be passed to curtail or restrain the liberty of speech or of the press.
Combined with the federal constitution and that’s thre ways they fucked up with one law; impressive, but probably not a record for Connecticut.
Sounds like the lawmakers should be the ones arrested for willfully disregarding their oath of office.
In a perfect world the tar pot would be heating up while feathers are gathered up and a suitable sapling for a rail is found.
^this.
Unfortunately breaking the constitution seems to be the only illegal thing you can do with absolutely no consequences. Serious mistake with the document imo.
Yeah but they didn’t mention the day of the week.
Technicality for the win.
Next time someone starts going off about the wonders of socialism, feel free to point out that Venezuela is basically one big crude oil barrel and the government has managed to destroy the economy so thoroughly that people are eating their pets.
The left considers that a good thing. You have to break a few million Venezuelan eggs to save Gaia.
It really is a miracle of modern governance. It’s pretty hard to be dirt-poor when you’re sitting on nearly limitless reserves of one of the most valuable commodities on Earth.
“Also, no fairz because the capitalist countries totally wrecked Venezuela because they hate socialism.”
Actual argument I heard from actual Brazilian commie punk. The sex was great, though.
God I hate that argument. Basically, socialist economies can’t exist unless they’re assisted by capitalist economies, is what they’re saying.
It works great, right up until you run out of other people’s money.
Actual argument I heard from actual Brazilian commie punk. The sex was great, though.
Did he know you were a libertarian? I guess even if so, if he was a true commie he’d have to put out anyway, given the whole “to each according to his needs” thing.
I remember being shocked when Chavez put currency controls on. Needing currency controls on an oil rich country is a pretty neat trick.
I was surprised that the AP article even admitted as much:
That reporter is fired.
They are still rich, just don’t have any money (of value).
That Venezuela apology looks so much like a police shooting report to me. So much passive voice for forsee able consequences.
Reposted from last thread
https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2019/10/federal-appeals-court-upholds-no-fly-list-designation-for-4-people-who-filed-lawsuit-in-oregon.html
It’s all ok because it’s civil, not criminal. SLD, i can see a limited time period ban to prevent an immediate danger with either criminal prosecution for an alleged crime or removal from the list. An indefinite ongoing ban, without recourse, is flat out unAmerican. This is Soviet or Nazi level mendacity.
It’s the Ninth Circuit, Gus. Let’s hope this gets appealed up and granted cert.
Civil would be when the airline says you can’t fly on their planes, not when the government says you can’t.
[CENSORED – Massachuests Board of Decency] please, it’s all civil cause they weren’t charged with a crime. No Crime, no criminal.
Whats that your mumbling about being deprived of rights for no crime? You have no right to fly on the airplane?
9th Amendment? Never Heard of her.
We’re putting you in a reeducation camp as part of a civil process.
Somewhere, John Roberts nods.
This is Soviet or Nazi level mendacity.
For a while now i’ve held the belief that while the Nazi’s lost WWII, Fascism won.
So Il Duce got the last laugh after all.
You have suspension of Labor Rights in England, the direction of labor, Conscription, i could go on. The Western democracies were all in on the totalitarian train. “we have to suspend liberty to save liberty”.
And then what happens after the war is over?
FDR wanted in on that action. I saw a video where (unrelated to the topic at hand) a guy made a snide remark about how republicans and indians were opposed to the New Deal legislation as if it was insane. The New Deal was a fascist takeover of the US, and WWII let FDR go further than people would have let him without it.
WWII let FDR go further than people would have let him without it
I’m not so sure about this. Yes, there were a lot of wartime measures that were essentially nationalization. But they ended after the war. The more enduring parts of the New Deal, both legislative and especially judicial, that endured past the war started before it (or, at least, before the U.S. was involved).
It tracks.
http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/Germany/mussolini.htm
There were fascists on ever side in that war, how could they lose?
*I’m looking at you, guy in a wheel-chair.*
— every side…
Indeed. FDR’s New Deal was basically the kinder, gentler, more democratic version. Not that it felt especially gentle to Filburn or Korematsu, but eggs and omelettes old boy.
The author’s clear intention is to convince the nation to not re-elect Trump in 2020. One of the sources familiar with the book tells CNN that it is intended for two audiences, “the country in general of course and Trump voters, at least the persuadable ones. The hope is the book will get into the hands of those who are persuadables.”
Those familiar with sentiment at the Federal Election Commission had no comment.
I haven’t heard from sources familiar with Anonymous’ thinking that she/he isn’t a goat fucker.
Don;t worry. They’ll go right back to bitching about Citizens United after the book is sold.
Next on CNN: “The Deep State is a conspiracy theory of crackpot alt-right wing-nuts”
for two audiences, “the country in general of course and Trump voters
so just one audience.
Spoiler: It’s going to get in the hands of a bunch of warehouse workers and landfill operators, still packed in boxes.
“The hope is the book will get into the hands of those who are persuadables.”
“The Persuadables”
They live and die by the book
…Trump voters, at least the persuadable ones…
Nominating Warren will be a good way to persuade them to double down.
The author is either Pierre Delecto or McMuffin. Or maybe Brennan.
Prediction, before the 2020 election ‘Anonymous’ will be revealed to be a member of Trumps administration (although, not as high ranking many on the left would like), and most if not all the accusations will be independently verified, everyone who called it all Bullshit and fever dreams from the start will switch to “it’s all politically motivated and not a crime anyways even if true.”
Just like every accusation in the Steele dossier. And in the FISA application. And in the Mueller report.
No on the Steele dossier, only about a quarter of that was verified. The FISA Apps, have they been made public? I haven’t seen them. The Mueller report? sounds about right.
Another childhood memory shattered.
https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2019/10/et-star-henry-thomas-jr-jailed-for-duii-near-portland-police-say.html
“ET, phone
homeUber”MA to CT: think you’re better than us?
Bay State Considers Bill Banning The “B” Word
Bitch Please…
Elton John hardest hit?
Luckily for you guys, I identify as a bitch.
And not a butch, thank goodness
Dan Hunt, obviously related to Mike Hunt
He sure looks like a bitch-ass goatfucker.
https://images.app.goo.gl/ZZd31XrPsZLBBtHk6
That’s one ugly bitch.
Bateriot.
Unconstitutional. Next?
None dare call it a tax.
https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2019/10/safeway-customer-sues-store-over-1-surcharge-on-non-grocery-items-in-portland.html
In better days, parasitic scum like Tyler Wallace would be tarred and feathered.
Also, fuck you Californian refugees for instituting stealth sales taxes.
Is that legal? Here’s a tax; you can’t explain it to anyone. Hmm.
It’s one of those new penaltaxes. It’s whatever the government says it is, which doesn’t have to be consistent from day to day or context to context. Also, shut up and pay.
They can’t imply or say the clean energy surcharge is a customers’ tax,
So they have no 1A right to free speech or to petition for a redress of grievances by pointing out this unjust law?
“Shut up!” he said…
I thought it was a surcharge, and that a surcharge is somehow not a tax…
It’s a dessert topping, and a floor wax.
It’s not only unfair to customers, who are made to feel like this is a tax on them
But it is. Every dollar, every cent a business pays to the government comes from the pockets of its customers. This is because, spoiler alert to those born yesterday, every dollar a business spends comes from its customers*. This way of thinking, that “customers don’t pay, businesses do” really irks me.
*Loans and capital investment, too, but those are made with the expectation of repayment through customer cash, so to me it’s the same.
They’re certainly asking for it.
LOL the voters approved this?? Dumbasses.
Same dumbasses that passes an income tax for “the arts”.
The source also told CNN that “the views reflected in the book are those of numerous senior officials in the administration including those afraid to say anything publicly.”
Come forward, speak up (and show your work), and accept the consequences, you chickenshit cocksuckers.
They’d like to but most of them are made up.
Straight from the fever dreams of Jake Tapper and Fredo Cuomo.
Also…
“The author wrote that “many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.””
Just quit your fucking jobs if you’re so disgusted by the president.
Where’s the stunning bravery in that?
Run for President, dipshits.
@Bob Boberson, RE: Tulsi Gabbard/ Rand Paul:
I think at play with the way Tulsi is treated vs the way Rand was treated by Mises institute types, is a bit of Bigotry of low expectations. There were high expectations for Rand, and we knew Rand knew, so when his foreign policy was tepid, it disappointed a lot of us.
Also, i think Tom Woods makes a good point that, you don’t have to like her domestic opinions to use her as an example of what happens to anyone who dares oppose the Deep State, and the Military industrial Complex, even just a little. Tulsi makes a much better example for that than Rand, because she holds the establishment democrat opinion on everything else. But because she holds one variant opinion, she must be unpersoned.
That latter bit is an excellent point, because like you say in all other regards she’s well within the acceptable bounds of the national Democratic party platform. Hell, she’s pretty much your standard left Democrat.
Speaking of Tulsi, I’d like to see our own resident Tulsi Gabbard Apologist work up a little piece on a possible TG third party run. Just saying.
…to confirm our suspicions that he’s a Russian asset?
McAfee/Gabbard, 2020
“Hot, and Crazy!”
They could make the new Matrix movie!
“The Author of A WARNING refused the chance at a seven figure advance and intends to donate a substantial amount of any royalties to the White House Correspondents Association and other organizations that fight for a free press that seeks the truth,” Latimer said
So you’re saying its a journalist who’s just making shit up?
Much virtue signaled. So woke.
White House Correspondents Association
Whatever goodwill they engendered by bringing Norm McDonald in to roast the Clintons and pre-TDS Stephen Colbert in to roast Bush they lost by not daring to challenge the Lightbringer. Fuck ’em.
“Intends”
the White House Correspondents Association, and
otherperhaps to organizations that fight for a free press that seeks the truthUConn President Thomas Katsouleas released a statement reacting to the arrests, saying, “It is supportive of our core values to pursue accountability, through due process, for an egregious assault on our community that has caused considerable harm. I’m grateful for the university’s collective effort in responding to this incident, especially the hard work of the UConn Police Department, which has been investigating the case since it was reported.”
Oh, the humanity!
Buchenwald’s got nothing on UConn.
Dude has a different idea of assault than I do. Assault needs a physical component.
I think that’s battery.
Since I am not a lawyer, you should accept everything I post on the internet as the gospel.
Yeah, they really haven’t thought this through. When some other pol gets in and says offense is something the left loves, they’ll be screaming about how restricting them violates the constitution.
It doesn’t have to involve something physical, but at least be a physical threat. And even with that, the “assailant” must also have the ability and opportunity to carry out the threat.
So how much of the eventual payout will come from UConn endowment, and how much will the Taxpayers front? i’m thinking a 0% 100% split?
Sounds right.
But not just.
only if the students fight it. likely they’ll plea out so they can stay in school. their names are already public though so maybe staying at UConn is not a prudent option.
The endowment is finite and people care about losing it. The tax cattle have deep pockets and little desire to see it spent well.
It’s blatantly unconstitutional bullshit and he’s an idiot.
“an egregious assault on our community that has caused considerable harm.”
Who was harmed? The ghosts in the parking lot?
Hachette Book Group (HBG) is a publishing company owned by Hachette Livre, the largest publishing company in France, and the third largest trade and educational publisher in the world. Hachette Livre is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lagardère Group.
Something something it’s okay when furriners do it to save democracy from self destruction.
*via Wiki
FOREIGN INTERFERENCE!!!!!!11!!11!
/Rhee
Fucking ?s
Gay
The Brexit deal doesn’t seem much like a Brexit or a deal.
These limeys need to sack up and declare sovereignty. It’s not like the US would not support them.
*sends diplomatic request to become protector of the UK* Total War rules are for real life too, right? Right???
“It’s an honor and a privilege to publish this book. This is serious stuff and this is a serious warning about our President, ” Sean Desmond, Twelve’s publisher, told CNN.
I’ll take it seriously when you put your name to it and provide ample evidence of any particular accusation.
Great pics!
Great song too!!!
Thanks. I love that song. Maximum volume.
“Any person who, by his advertisement, ridicules or holds up to contempt any person or class of persons, on account of the creed, religion, color, denomination, nationality or race of such person or class of persons, shall be guilty of a class D misdemeanor,” the statute states.
That’s some unconstitutional horseshit. (federally and otherwise)
No law shall ever be passed to curtail or restrain the liberty of speech or of the press. – A1 S5, Constitution of CT
Volokh has a long analysis of the law.
tl/dr The statute, though, is pretty obviously unconstitutional
https://reason.com/2018/08/06/racial-ridicule-is-a-crime-in-connecticu/
That’s ok because the pols who sponsored it and will waste taxpayer dollars defending it will get to use the defeat as an opportunity to show how racist America is.
Also you know this law, even if allowed to stand, would not be enforced fairly or as-written. It protects “creed” and “religion” from ridicule, and given how many un-PC things are found in the world’s most popular religions if this law were enforced to the letter there would be a lot of guilty leftists. Also, “creed” is ambiguous enough one could make the case it protects philosophical and political opinions from ridicule – which gives me the great idea that, if citizens are allowed to press charges, Donald Trump should press charges under this law against any CT public figure who ridicules him.
Is it just me or is there at least one protected class very conspicuously missing from that quotation of the statute? I wonder why that is.
Sex?
OK, two.
Well it doesn’t have sexual orientation or gender identity either, so by leftist standards it’s a pretty poor list.
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2019/10/22/amb-bill-taylor-testifies-that-amb-gordon-sondland-said-trump-specifically-wanted-ukraine-to-investigate-bidens-in-return-for-military-assistance/
initial reactions to Bill Taylor’s testimony are very bad for POTUS
(a) So what if he did? The Bidens were involved in something that sure looks like influence peddling. Worst case: what Trump did (conduct a corruption investigation into the Bidens or we’ll withhold funds) isn’t as bad as what Biden did (fire the prosecutor investigating my son, like Obama wants, or we’ll withhold funds).
(b) Swearing match. Sondland said there was no quid pro quo, now Taylor gives hearsay testimony about Sondland’s other statements. Sondland is backed by the Ukrainian government. I say Taylor loses the swearing match, absent any additional evidence.
And if Biden weren’t running for election? How would this be considered compensation?
The idea that declaring you are a candidate for the Presidency should immunize you from any criminal investigation strikes me as . . . odd.
Well, it worked for the Obamas and the Clintons, why wouldn’t it work for Biden?
The Dems have been screaming up and down that the Obama administration had reason to believe Trump was a Russian asset and therefore justified in siccing the entirety of the federal intelligence apparatus on him.
If there is reason to believe that Biden is corrupt, then of course they should support an investigation of him…..
I amuse myself
As far as I can tell, the current game is no/stymied investigation = nothing to see here, drummed up investigation = obviously guilty.
It’s not enough to declare yourself a candidate. You have to be a Democrat candidate.
You have to be a pro-war Democrat, too.
i’m reading through the testimony and it’s a great big narrative. i’m getting a nothing burger feeling from this.
conveniently tucked inside is this passage:
On September 5, I hosted Senators Johnson and Murphy for a visit to Kyiv. During their visit, we met with President Zelenskyy. His first question to the senators was about the withheld security assistance. My recollection of the meeting is that both senators stressed that bipartisan support for Ukraine in Washington was Ukraine’s most important strategic asset and that President Zelenskyy should not jeopardize that bipartisan support by getting drawn into U.S. domestic politics.
It’s okay for Biden to threaten withholding assistance and it’s okay for Dem senators to threaten Ukraine’s “strategic assets” but it’s not okay for POTUS to leverage military aid. Got it?
Fake news. It’s spelled “Kiev”.
The Ukrainian politicians love to fight against the multi-century legacy of Russification on all fronts. Despite this, they still barely speak Ukrainian among themselves.
He wants us to throw off our shoes in homage!
I’m still stuck at, how is this worse than what Biden did in the first place?
It’s not. What Biden did was purely for self enrichment.
Apparently the current claim is that Joe Biden’s pressure on Ukraine had nothing to do with his son. Unfortunately, we are back into mind-reading territory, which is a game Trump always loses because he’s bad and wants bad things and everybody opposed to him is good and wants good things.
Apparently the current claim is that Joe Biden’s pressure on Ukraine had nothing to do with his son.
Sure, totally a coincidence that the prosecutor was investigating the company the Bidens were peddling influence to. No inference to be drawn from that.
Other EU muckety-mucks and I gather Ukrainians were also agitating to get him fired, as well, supposedly because he wasn’t aggressive enough. But the thing about somebody who is supposed to be investigating political corruption is, when politicians call for him to be fired, you have to wonder why? Is he corrupt and incompetent and the politicians want an Elliott Ness on a white horse? Or is he investigating, well, them?
I don’t think there’s anyone in the Ukrainian government who isn’t at least some degree of corrupt. The country hasn’t exactly had a history of spotless governance since independence. It’s possible that any of a number of things were going on. At the very least, it’s hard to claim that nothing fishy was going on when Hunter Biden got that job.
The same people who went to DEFCON 1 over Trump saying Mueller should be fired see nothing wrong whatsoever with this.
So hearsay again?
Idle thoughts on impeachment – if I had the slightest confidence that future presidents would be held to strict constitutional standards, I wouldn’t care one bit if Trump were impeached. The thing that pisses me off about it is that similar manufactured “scandals” to this one could likely have been created in any recent presidency, and will be again in the future. Never again will a president operate under this kind of scrutiny, and in particular no Democrat president. So, in the end, they can go fuck themselves.
If every SOB that was tied up with the Ukraine in corrupt dealings went down with Trump, I’d say ok.
But since that would mean Biden, Pelosi, Clinton and Obama would all go to jail, it’s not going to happen.
Therefore, Trump gets a pass because at least nominally, he’s attempting to uncover criminal acts that already occurred as opposed to straight up graft.
This. Selective enforcement is worse than no enforcement. Since we can’t even attempt consistency, I prefer none.
Pfft selective enforcement is the greatest tool the state has for getting its way. It ain’t going away.
dittoes
I say we just have the intelligence community choose presidents from now on. Cut out the middle man
Anonymous/Anonymous 2020!
Brett posting links this morning completely screwed up my “Brett’s on a bender” joke.
Morning links and a meth bender are not inconsistent.
Is it morning if you’ve been up all night shopping at Walmart?
Yeah, but his writing was coherent, reasonably.
Based on my current dealings with Fedex, if their stock price is a nickel, it’s overvalued. “Your package was delivered.”
But not to ME, unfortunately. Fucking retards.
They’re still better than “let’s jam this oversized package into your mailbox so it both crushes the contents and you can’t get it out because we’re too lazy to put it on your steps” USPS.
Or “if it’s raining or snowing hard, we’ll mark the box delivered today so you get the notice but we won’t actually deliver it until tomorrow” USPS.
Or “We’ll leave these packages in your driveway and not let you know” USPS.
Heh, UPS recently delivered a custom machined part addressed to me in Virginia to an elderly farmer couple in NY.
They had stuck an Amazon delivery sticker over the original label.
They elderly couple called me since they noticed the original sticker. I politely asked them to send it to me using my UPS account.
Instead they returned it to Amazon.
Somehow I got the package a month later. Still don’t know how
Yeah, I finally got something from FedEx today that was supposed to be delivered last Friday. But first they had to ship it in the wrong direction by about a thousand miles and let it sit there for two days before sending it right back to the place it started from.
It could be the “Gee, I wonder who these people are driving behind me and picking up every package I lay down at a doorstep” gambit.
Ribeyes in oven for a reverse sear! Japanese Yams baking in toaster oven.
Titty Tuesday opposes the BoR.
http://archive.is/i4Hx3
It’s Spud!
Thanks for the lynx, you crabby bastard!
But after reading that UConn story, I’m ready to stomp a puppy or two…
I think the world has gotten too stupid to survive. Thank god for good music – that’s the best AB song off their best album. If you don’t feel better after listening to that there is definitely something wrong with you.
“…that’s the best AB song off their best album…”
I’m pretty partial to Statesboro Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezPZxfS1jys
Yeah, today’s links are more enraging than usual.
I think the world has gotten too stupid to survive.
At worst, too stupid to survive in its current form. Civilizations, cultures, and philosophies rise and fall, but the species, and the world itself, endures. But it does feel like we may be on the edge of another transition period. Or maybe not, it’s hard to predict the future.
Music to soothe the savage beast.
The Russians got Trudeau reelected!
Pass it on
The white supremacists? Nice.
Amusing point I saw somewhere – since a majority of Canadians didn’t vote for Trudeau, Democrats will consider him an illegitimate PM, right? Isn’t that how their standard works?
That’s the absolute first thing I thought when I heard it.
The funniest part?
“Brownface” Trudeau has to form a minority government. Let lose the memes of mockery!
Why does this have 30M views?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dboi1bja6M8
Is everyone a Russian bot?
Da.
The Astros are giving a master class in how not to do PR and damage control.
“Trumpian denial”
and… I’m out
Didn’t notice that…..it’s impossible to avoid that kind of nonsense even in sports reporting now.
The Astros still handled this really, really badly. And, since I fucking hate them, that pleases me.
I still don’t understand what the fuss is about.
The Astros signed a wife beater, feminists found some problems with this, said wife beater was on the winning side of a sportsball contest and his manager yelled at a bunch of feminists that he’s really fucking grateful that they signed the wife beater over the feminists protestations because winning a game is more important than not associating with wife beaters.
I guess at least he’s honest. He could have said he was uneducated on the topic of spousal abuse
He served his suspension, didn’t he?
Who? the wife beater? that may be your standard for forgiveness, It ain’t mine.
Assistant GM, not the manager
Tomato, Tomatillo
It was an assistant GM screaming at female reporters “I’M SO FUCKING GLAD WE HAVE OSUNA” because they received a lot of criticism for trading for a guy who was charged with assaulting his girlfriend. Osuna blew the save by giving up a homer to DJ LeMahieu in the top of the ninth, so it’s pretty hard to say that his comments had anything to do with his play.
Then the Astros issued a denial, which was kinda dumb since a whole bunch of people were in the locker room and saw what happened. Then they issued a pretty weak apology.
“Jessica Yaniv has officially LOST her case against the women who wouldn’t wax her balls.
Yaniv now has to now PAY THEM $2,000.”
https://twitter.com/MsBlaireWhite/status/1186747050857156608
Didn’t some of Yaniv’s targets lose their businesses? It’s going to take a lot more than $2,000 to make most of his victims whole.
His balls… His
I don’t play that game.
Dude doesn’t even actually try to be a woman. He’s nothing more than a crossdresser who is trying to capitalize on the woketarians current deification of transgenders to be a pervert without getting in trouble for it.
^this. It’s important. Meanings have words.
I would have been tempted, to tell you the truth, to give him what he asked for. Because I think you could make it extremely painful.
The thing that pisses me off about it is that similar manufactured “scandals” to this one could likely have been created in any recent presidency, and will be again in the future.
The people pushing impeachment know the pretext is bullshit. They know perfectly well that they’d never apply the same standards to one of their own. They even know a lot of the rest of us know its bullshit. That’s what I find incredibly offensive. They’re so arrogant that they honestly expect the rest of the world to be too embarrassed to point out their mendacity. The attitude is “Sure, we’re corrupt. And you’re supposed to pretend we’re the pillars of morality and decency because…well…reasons”.
I mean think about the situation. The former vice president’s son, who has no experience in the oil and gas business and is just a couple of years out of law school, gets a half-million dollar a year board seat with a company dealing with the same foreign officials as his father. And Trump is the corrupt guy for asking about it. They’re either so incredibly clueless that they can’t imagine this is a problem, or they’re so arrogant that they understand they can do so, and even if you realize what’s going on, there’s nothing you can do about it.
Better yet, in the midst of all this, we’re supposed to believe Hunter and Joe never talked about anything.
Shame there’s a picture of the two Bidens golfing with execs from the Ukrainian gas company.
I’m sure they were just talking about how to improve their stroke.
Hunter admitted that they did even as his father denied it.
Well, yeah. And no. I’m not even convinced we’re supposed to believe it. The denials are so non-credible as to be perfunctory. They know it’s bullshit. We know it’s bullshit. They know we know it’s bullshit. But, they control the narrative. And guilt is difficult to prove. And the political class (on both sides) will protect its own. So, there’s nothing we can do about it. And, given there’s nothing we can do about it, they think it’s rude that we even mention it.
Don’t forget the part where certain folks in the media become outraged because evil, right-wing political operatives are targeting a politician’s kid. A kid who is 49 years old.
*cough* Chelsea Clinton’s no show jobs *cough*
Things I used to hear while growing up but don’t hear anymore.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me.
It’s a free country isn’t it?
Sound as the dollar.
I get some mileage out of “Well, it used to be a free country”.
Just pulled out sticks and stones in talking to my son last night after my wife was snooping on his phone and discovered a kid he thought was his friend was sending his texts calling him a “fagget”
…a kid he thought was his friend was sending his texts calling him a “fagget”
Either the kid is not a friend, or a friend just busting balls, or a friend obliquely trying to become “more than a friend”, depending on context.
Or a shit talker who sucks at spelling a common derogatory term.
Do they not teach spelling anymore in schools?
“Okay kids, today’s spelling list comes from George Carlin.”
You talk like a fag and your shit’s all retarded
Thank you for spelling correctly
Do they not teach spelling anymore in schools?
Nope. Spelling and grammar are white supremacy.
so is capitalization, shitlord! unless you’re speaking of Black people.
e.e. cummings was pre-woke.
Option A. Kid who often pretends to be his friend but has been a real dickhead to him lately. Fairly typical 6th grade stuff.
I never liked this kid in the first place so it didn’t surprise me.
I had a couple of those around that age. Didn’t start until 7th grade & a new school, though. Up to 6th grade I had 3 tight friends and liked everyone else in my class. Suddenly it was high school and different kids in every class and older kids too – mayhem.
Autocorrect fails again.
“PENSACOLA, Fla. (WKRG) — A Pensacola woman was arrested Sunday after deputies say an argument about pork chops turned violent.
An Escambia County Sheriff’s Office arrest report says Jesseca Danielle Hardy, 32, hit a man in the head with a hammer after they got “into a verbal argument over pork chops.”
The man told deputies Hardy hit him in the head and face area more than once.
Deputies said they observed swelling to the man’s head, eye and lips. The man’s top lip was also cut, according to the report.
Hardy was charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. She is being held in the Escambia County jail on a $5,000 bond.”
https://www.wkrg.com/northwest-florida/woman-accused-of-hitting-man-with-hammer-after-fight-about-pork-chops/amp/
This was at one of those dumpy trailer parks on Palafox? NO WAY!
a verbal argument
Pretty sure there’s no other kind.
Sure there are. I’ve had nonverbal arguments with my wife where neither of us speaks but we slam doors, drawers, throw things around, etc.
Interpretive dance arguments are a thing too.
Has no one seen “You Got Served”?
Relevant
It’s cop speak. They put unnecessary words in there to confound juries and appease lawyers.
A passive-aggressive war between neighbors where they do stuff to each other but never talk.
Marlee Matlin has a sad.
Alright, now Ima hafta get all pedantic on your ass.
Arguments are by definition verbal.
If you aren’t speaking, are slamming doors, dancing, or doing stuff to your neighbor without talking, it might be a fight, a conflict, or whatever, but its not an argument. Geez.
(Ahem)
“No it isn’t!”
/Monty Python
When does it progress into a brouhaha, a melee or altercation?
So, how where the pork chops?
Stupid news never answers serious questions.
I like pork chops.
@OBJ FRANKELSON, I answered your question in the last thread. I have not been home. Today has sucked as much as yesterday did and that sucked pretty fucking hard.
I don’t know what this refers to, but I’m sorry to hear that. I hope things get better going forward
Thanks. Our XY tax deduction is…taxing. To say the least.
In TX, you’re apparently allowed to turn your minor XY into an XX.
That won’t be happening, so there’s that.
Show him the article, and tell him if he doesn’t get his shit together you’re going to move to Texas and cut his balls off.
Oh, well…what I threatened him with was almost that extreme and he knows that while I may forget to punish him, when I do remember, I am not bluffing, and I have every reason to remember. It was enough to get his attention.
I feel your pain. I raised three boys, two of them with “issues”. It does get better eventually.
Thank you. At the moment, our goal is to keep him out of jail, out of the grave, off the street, and in our house until he’s 18. At least. This is going to be a very long five-year stretch.
Mo, have you considered RAH’s method of rearing boy children? You place the child at an early age into a large barrel and feed it through the bunghole. At the age of eighteen you drive in the bung.
“Climate Protestors FAIL at Activism (Extinction Rebellion Train-Stopping) | Ep 94”
https://twitter.com/BlazeTV/status/1186469723816550402
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ITiJh7ijdA
I liked the In N Out employee who just carried that motherfucker out of the restaurant as you would a screaming toddler.
The time is coming where the calm and rational among us are going to get tire of their shit. It will not be a good day for everybody.
I just used my favorite line about the NYT with a co-worker who reads that paper as if it were holy script.
“My favorite NYT writer is Pulitzer prize winning writer Walter Duranty”
“I’m not familiar with his work”
“Oh, he stopped writing in the 50s. You should check out some of his groundbreaking exposes on Stalin’s gulags”
So now if she checks him out she will either (a) conclude that Stalin’s gulags were a myth, because NYT or (b) I’m a Russian asset, ignoring the cognitive dissonance of such a conclusion
“The Gulag Archipelago, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn” :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5InIwcWESk
It is quite a long listen, yet one that I think is worth our time.
I’ll stick with the book, thanks. I have a far longer attention span for reading than for listening.
I think that you might agree that some of us learn differently than others of us.
Would you recommend either the book or the audio version of “The Gulag Archipelago” to anyone?
Absolutely! Back when I had delusions of becoming a teacher, it was drilled into my head that some are visual learners, some auditory, some by moving. (It’s been long enough that I don’t recall the exact terminology.) I suspect I’m more visual.
As for that particular book, I know it only by reputation, but I don’t doubt it would be enlightening in whatever format works for you.
Everyone can learn through visual, auditory, and kinesthetic modalities. However, each individual has a learning style that includes a particular preference for a particular modality, but the concept that people learn differently is a damaging one, in my opinion.
Could that be restated as efficient versus inefficient learning modalities?
For instance, it takes me 6 times longer to learn how something from reading than it would from a YouTube video (see the WWI podcast series).
I CAN learn by reading. It is wildly inefficient for me to do so.
I would agree that it is more efficient to learn through the modality one prefers, usually.
GT and Heroic,
My objective was to invite other individuals to explore Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s “The Gulag Archipelago”.
I think that this audio is worth listening to, or, in the case of those of us who prefer reading, reading through (the text is readily available from internet sources).
A worthy objective!
Any interest in a Glibs book club?
@Charles Easterly, I consume nonfiction almost exclusively in audio. Thank you.
I listen to audiobooks because I cannot retain any information from reading them.
Why no, Youtube, I haven’t masturbated today.
You’re so thoughtful, Youtube!
I hear you can find actual porn on the internet these days.
I haven’t masturbated today.
Fake news.
Self-love is different.
A self’s love is different from that of a square?
Or even a trapezoid.
Slacker.
https://youtu.be/mJYtJs_PkKE
Forbidden? Hold my beer.
Eensy tweensy bit of potentially good news, which I don’t normally expect out of Chicago.
After nearly 1,900 hours of investigation
I’m good with wanting him to reimburse the city for a false report but calling bullshit on the billable hours here.
IANAL, but that strikes me as the ask-for-way-more-than-you-have-any-reasonable-right-to-expect legal strategy.
Yeah at 3 weeks , 40 hours a week. That’s 15 officers…
If Chicago put 15 cops on that, they need to investigate that.
1 cop to do all the work and 14 to supervise him.
/union rules
How to keep those pesky kids away.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/georgia-sheriffs-no-trick-or-treat-signs-lawsuit-sex-offenders
The Rise of Skywalker Final Trailer – A Flop In The Making
I don’t disagree with any particular point.
I think he gets at the core of why pretty much all of the GRRRLLLL PWWWWRRRR movies inevitably suck. A compelling protagonist isn’t made by his or her awesomeness, but by his or her weaknesses. To make a great hero, there’s got to be the possibility that the hero will not only fail, but fail spectacularly. Even if you know the hero is going to win in the end, you want to hear the story of how the hero overcomes whatever it is that might otherwise destroy them. But, that’s a complete 180 from the whole female empowerment narrative. The entire point of GRRRLLLL PWWWWRRRR is to deny the notion of female weakness. To have the heroine at genuine risk of utter destruction is to deny the notion that women can do anything.
Cases in point: Clarice Starling and Ripley, off the top of my head.
Sarah Connor
I always saw Clarice as weak, period.
Had to look her up; totally forgettable character.
Plus JF, overrated.
Indiana Jones.
He failed spectacularly several times over the trilogy.
That last movie was a steaming pile of shit. I can’t recall ever seeing anything worse. Disney paid $4 Billion for the franchise then wiped their assess with it.
Yeah, but the smug satisfaction of virtue broadcasting is priceless.
The Critical Drinker is great. I was definitely a Star Wars fan growing up. I hate to think how much time I wasted on watching the original ones when I was younger. However, I can barely remember the character names in the latest ones.
Although watching the originals with my kids it is really stunning how much of a whiner Luke was. I guess that is sort of the point, whiny farm boy to galaxy saving hero, but man it was a shock after not seeing it for 15-20 years.
Trump, never change.
Predictably, the wokesters pounce:
Only one problem: lynching is color-blind.
TW: WaPo, so according to them he is millimeters from being hounded from office:
Naturally, exactly what the legal threat is, as in what crime he might have committed, is left to the reader’s imagination.
He looks like he’s standing in the White House to me, not to be budged until 2024.
Only one problem: lynching is color-blind.
+1 Leo Frank.
If you keep taking half a step towards impeachment, how long before you’re actually there?
Zeno comin’.
LOL
Now you’re getting it. So go chase that laser pointer.
Lynching may be color-blind, by Michael Eric Dyson sure as hell ain’t.
Also, I wish a day wouldn’t go by when he wouldn’t spill hot coffee in his lap on the way to an interview.
R C, since you are the legal expert .. tell me. If Trump withheld money to the Ukraine to get them to investigate Biden… is that illegal?
Not an expert on that, but I can’t think of any.
The fact that none of the lynch mob hasn’t named a crime is a clue, just like Mueller was commissioned to investigate the non-crime of “collusion”.
““This group of unelected people are only manipulating things behind the scenes because they know what’s best for the American people” is a hot take even for NYT.”
https://twitter.com/PetiteNicoco/status/1186448646973378565
*headdesk*
How do you follow politics without drinking?
I don’t follow politics very closely.
OK
*sips bacardi*
Listen, there are days I would sell my soul for some mind-altering drugs, but I don’t know how to sell my soul. It’s got to be more complicated than calling up Mephistopheles.
Me: *calling hell* Yeah, hey, can you send Meph out this way, please? I’ve got a soul to sell.
Demon: YO MEFFIE—House call tomorrow. Hey, Mojeaux—love your name—how’s 2:00 work for you?
Me: Yeah, that’s fine, thanks.
Glibertarians have souls?
Mephistopheles: Yeah, hi. You have a soul to sell?
Me: Hi, come in, come in. You’re early.
Mephistopheles: I’m a very busy demon. Hey, you know how when you give blood you have to have good size veins to get the needle in?
Me: Boy, do I! I can’t give blood.
Mephistopheles: Right. So I have to check your soul to see how mich it’s worth.
*demon hand on my head*
Mephistopheles: Yeah, no. You don’t have enough of a soul to qualify. Ciao!
Oh, damn.
Plot bunny.
“President Trump is right: The deep state is alive and well. But it is not the sinister, antidemocratic cabal of his fever dreams. It is, rather, a collection of patriotic public servants — career diplomats, scientists, intelligence officers and others — who, from within the bowels of this corrupt and corrupting administration, have somehow remembered that their duty is to protect the interests, not of a particular leader, but of the American people.”
OFFS!
The American people who voted for President Trump?
97% of DMV workers agree Trump is a real threat.
Hey, hey, hey – don’t drag us into this.
Well, since the latest “impeachment” effort relies entirely on anonymous allegations by career bureaucrats to bring down the President, its kinda hard to deny that there isn’t a Deep State, which has always been, well, anonymous career bureaucrats trying to bring down the President. So they kinda had to admit it wasn’t a crazy conspiracy theory after all.
I think that pig is gonna some more lipstick, though.
their duty is to protect the interests, not of a particular leader, but of the American people.
Because the interests of the American people are so brilliantly served by having an unaccountable bureaucracy subverting the policies of duly elected president based on their own policy preferences and in contravention of laws limiting their power.
It’s like the idiots at the Times can’t see past the particular details of today’s particular policy dispute to see where this sort of thing goes.
It’s all so tedious. ?
“They are not the resistance.”
/NYT
“I am part of the Resistance”
/”Anonymous”
I’m going to claim that “woke and broke” will become this next generations “fat, drunk and stupid”.
Fat, drunk, and stupid has worked out for quite a few of us. Don’t knock what you don’t understand.
Avatar checks out.
Math checks out.
Nearly all college students nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the College Bias Response Team they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline of the Democratic Party. On the contrary, they adored the Democratic Party and everything connected with it…. All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the State, against libertarians, unwoke white men, thought-criminals. It was almost normal for people over forty to be frightened of their own children.
The arrests come the same week that Massachusetts lawmakers hold a hearing on whether to impose a fine of up to $200 for using the word “bitch.”
I’d like to attend a hearing on that when they can’t use the word “bitch”.
That’s just racist against Rick James.
I started reading “Hillbilly Elegy”
It’s very…. meh. I’m bored so far. Going to try to read for an hour or more tonight and see if it gets any better for me.
The parallels to ghetto culture are fascinating.