Haha, just kidding, its the usual mailed-in links, but I wanted everyone to feel excited about the last Monday of 2019. I have been experimenting with some new M$ technology at work, and was all “oh, this M language for Power BI is garbage language because it takes 8 zillion steps to write the same thing I can declare in a single SQL query.” Turns out you can just drop a native SQL query in there. So now I am Power BI expert!
Who are these garbage people who hold these garbage opinions?
I think none of us are surprised by this, but I want to ask a counterfactual: Could our economy even stand it if Trump tariffs weren’t slowing the growth from explosive to rocket-powered?
For some reason, “socialist” is a pejorative term with Florida Latinos… maybe lived experience has something to do with that.
While the rest of the US is rapidly attaining 1920’s levels of wealth, growth, and opportunity, NYC is racing towards the late 70s. Time for an Escape from New York remake!
Well, let’s rock into 2020, start now, wake up by Thursday morning!
Comments
361 responses to “Ultimate Monday of the Decade Afternoon Linkstravaganza”
Penultimate PM Lynx wasn’t good enough?
“President Donald Trump and former President Barack Obama each scored votes from 18% of US adults, sharing the spot for the most widely admired men of the year.
This year marked Obama’s 12th time as the most admired man in the US, Gallup reported.
Tied for third place were former President Jimmy Carter and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, followed by Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
Pope Francis, Sen. Bernie Sanders, House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff, the Dalai Lama and billionaire investor Warren Buffet rounded out the top 10.”
Jimmy Carter?
I don’t admire any of those people.
I like Elon, at least he’s cheap…
some i loath. otherwise indifferent.
Adam Schiff?
On the one hand he is a crony capitalist on the other hand Elon tweaking the nose of the SEC was great… can I go with grudging respect.
Everyone hates on the SEC, but they aren’t nearly as overrated as the B1G.
“Climate activist Greta Thunberg, at only 16 years old, cracked the top five, along with Oprah Winfrey and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.”
Where was this poll taken? Retard Island?
“For the second year in a row, Obama stole the top spot from Clinton, who finished first 22 times over 25 years, Gallup said. ”
HA HA
People who get their
newshistoryfrom Twitter.KLAATU BARADA NNN….. ummmm NECKTIE!
EDIT FAIRY, I SUMMON THEE!
Army of Darkness?
by way of “The Day The Earth Stood Still”
Your first comment about history is all too accurate.
It’s like as if everyone has forgotten that if IQ is indeed normally distributed, then half of the population is at the mean or below.
It’s not. It may be that way if possible to measure at conception, but the high mortality at the bottom end means the mean is not the median. We might in fact have more people below mean intelligence than above.
Yeah whenever there is a hard lower or upper bound you aren’t going to get a normal distribution.
But you can always do a logarithmic transformation and then you are fine.
Why do you hate Herrnstein and Murray, you two?
Antisemitism?
In reality the population tends to cluster slightly below the expected mean due to acquired IQ loss due to disease, traumatic injuries, etc.
*pours another glass of brain trauma*
People are stupid. News at 11.
Retard Island?
Boss, it’s ze caaake!
People who watch “The View?”
What did Barry do this year?
A lot less damage than he did in office.
“men”
Adam *effing* Schiff?
Yes, I can’t imagine that anyone actually respects him, loathsome scum that he is.
His name on there is more of a proxy for “I hate Trump”.
i admire the Lama’s golf game. scratch golfer, the Lama.
Big hitter, the Lama.
turns out more responded nobody than any of the top 10.
Eleven percent of Americans named a relative or friend as the man they admire most; 18% named some other living man; and 25% did not name anyone.
Now it is making a little more sense.
So 54% of people did not chose a politician or popular celebrity. Faith in humanity temporarily increased.
Carter? That’s where you draw the line?
He has some pretty big plusses on a lifetime achievement award version of “most admired” with his charitable work.
Gates I totally get. He changed the world with his clone OS. Musk, absolutely. He is in the process of changing the world. The pope? Meh. Dalai Lama…. that’s just people looking to look cool. But Adam Schiff? That guy is a knob to end all knobs. Is it just because he gets to be the face of “the Resistance”? I mean, he has been a joke. The guy actually tried to collude with Russians in order to get dirt on colluding with Russians. A fact that cannot be repeated too often.
Obama? Sure, if you are team-based and don’t really understand much. He was well marketed and stays on-brand.
The right has Trump. sheesh. I suppose you could admire the fact that he just keeps on going and doesn’t take shit from anyone. And you could make a case for Musk being a hero of the right and libertarians, despite being a left-wing guy.
In fact…. Trump is the only republican on the list. Huh….. Go figure.
But propaganda doesn’t make any difference.
“socialist” is a pejorative term with Florida Latinos
*Democratic* Socialist is preferred because it is somehow different.
Purple thumbs are magic.
Of course it is democratic…. the party leaders get to vote on who to send to the gulag.
I’m using that. Thanks.
Socialism: The dictator decides who to send to the gulag.
Democratic Socialism: The party leaders vote on who to send to the gulag.
Well, not just…
Yes, yes it could. The growth might actually not stand on feet of clay either.
feet of clay
Hmm. So you’re saying Trump is like Nebuchadnezzar…. So who is Daniel?
A cartoon parasitically feeding off of Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood’s legacy.
Ahhhh. And what does the Rolling stone mean again?
Wherever he laid his hat was his home.
Sho’ nuff.
His body lies, yet still he roams?
Yeah.
The guy traveling tonight on a plane?
I miss him….
President Donald Trump has promised throughout his presidency to revive American manufacturing by putting punishing tariffs on foreign competition.
I haven’t been following all that closely, but was Trump promising permanent tariffs or tariffs as a negotiating tool? From what I have seen, he is using them as a negotiating tool, but the whole kerfuffle is pretty irrelevant to the hospital biz, so like I said, I haven’t been following closely.
I don’t know that the tariffs are our Achilles heel. I think that’s more the Fed artificially suppressing interest rates. But, yeah, suppressed interest rates = bubble = bad hangover when the pop comes.
Which, like a hunger strike, is contingent on the other person giving a shit about you.
Unlike a hunger strike, tariffs have impacts on the other guy, too.
I agree that there is a Smithian “beggar thy neighbor” effect in the short term. But, particularly nowadays in a fully globalized economy, once the other country retools its exports to other markets, the effect is gone. My colleagues in East Africa tell me that with China’s pivot to Africa, they are making money hand over fist at the expense of the formerly American dominance of the market. And China always plays the long game.
And China always plays the long game.
I suppose.
They don’t always win the long game, though. And they have managed to long game themselves into some very serious structural problems with demographics, debt, and the usual central planning nonsense. I wouldn’t bet on Africa being a honeypot forever, either. From what I can tell, Africa always “wins”.
If by “winning” you mean dragging all foreign involvement down into the gutter of corruption and tribal infighting with them until it becomes too much of a problem to maintain a presence, then yeah.
Those are scare quotes, my friend.
I’m sure Africa is just chock full of potential, but the kind of bone-deep changes that would need to happen to realize that potential are just, well, not gonna happen in my lifetime. And I doubt that a hefty dose of ChiCom crony corruption is going to move it in the right direction.
Rapid change would require drastic actions which currently fall under the definition of “Crimes against humanity”.
I’m not a fan of tariffs but we are far from making anyone cry with ours.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tariff_rate
To be honest, my biggest gripe is that the executive has no constitutional power to unilaterally enact tariffs. The Constitution states in extremely plain language that power belongs to the legislature.
Preaching to the choir. I wish congress would claw back the war making powers as well as the purse.
Never happen at least for warmaking. They’d rather be able to wring their hands when the executive does something for which they don’t want to take the heat. And unlike the early national period it is possible to assemble a quorum in short order.
Might as well throw the regulatory power on the pile of things they should take back, as long as we are making a wish-list. Congress has done a damn fine job of hollowing itself out over the last century.
oh, this M language for Power BI is garbage language because it takes 8 zillion steps to write the same thing I can declare in a single SQL query.” Turns out you can just drop a native SQL query in there. So now I am Power BI expert!
Anytime someone starts talking about NoSQL i have to roll my eyes just a bit. I’ve worked with a lot of different NoSQL tools, and they are cool and beneficial for what they are designed for. But one thing that is fantastic is being able to have a known value of “How the fuck do i get my data out of the datastore”. SQL does that for you.
Oh and not having to “Ahead of Time” know what kind of data queries you will want is nice. NoSQL is like the anti agile.
So now I am Power BI expert!
You’re a power bi? Is that like being a power top and a power bottom?
At the same time!
LGTPBQ
What? I thought that bi just meant he could speak a little Spanish. Next you’ll tell me that S&M doesn’t mean Spaniards and Mexicans.
“GWM” Guy With Money
Next you’ll tell me “Spic and Span” aren’t two guys from Tijuana and Madrid, but rather a cleaning agent?
“For some reason, “socialist” is a pejorative term with Florida Latinos”
That’s real head-scratcher.
Yeah…. common sense is definitely not what people think of when they hear of Florida.
I hear Koolaid is a killer drink in Guyanna tho.
It wasn’t actually Koolaid. It was some knock-off brand. I say if it’s going to be your last drink, it might as well be the good stuff.
FLAVOR AID!!!!11!11!
A low-information acquaintance was recently bemoaning how many of his Vietnamese in-laws voted Republican and hated socialism. I hoped someone ‘splained that to him good and hard.
My neighbor is Laotian. I love to get her going about the socialist love among some of our retards.
Idiot socialists are gonna have their hands full with sweet older ladies from former commie countries.
Laotian Laotian or Hmong Laotian?
Laotian Laotian.
Also, Korean business owners.
My wife thinks hard-ass Park Chung-hee, President of the ROK in the ’60s and ’70s was the cats meow because of his anti-communism.
I’d bet your wife is not alone in that opinion, given that SoKo elected his daughter a little while back.
An old friend from high school was taken out of Vietnam when he was a toddler by his dad as one of the late ’70s boat people and ended up here in Richmond, and you will never find anyone who hates Communism more. I rather enjoy his angry rants at some of our old classmates who are the very definition of rich white gentry liberals.
“The best police department in the world has increased deployment in Crown Heights, Boro Park and Williamsburg, and has launched a new intelligence unit to prevent hate crimes from occurring,” it said. “We will continue to work hand in hand with the community to keep our city safe.”
Yeah, sure. I am surprise no one has referred to the attacked Jews as “Hanukkah Worshipers”.
The ghost of Eric Garner would beg to differ.
So where did the import these police from if they are the best?
South Yorkshire.
a new intelligence unit to prevent hate crimes from occurring
Well, that’s comforting.
It’s called pre-crime.
Did you know that Agatha also played Alpha in TWD?
“The Guardian Angels, an unarmed crime prevention group, said it would begin patrolling the New York City borough of Brooklyn on Sunday following a series of attacks against Jews.”
Unarmed aside, they look like a bunch of fat old white guys.
So no different from the cops?
Of course it is different…. as these fat guys are unarmed they can’t kill bystanders see completely different.
[golf clap] for Ted S. You worked the thread hard for that, buddy.
Are you sure that wasn’t more fitting for my Power Bi comment?
You mixed up bi with versatile.
I was trying to crack a joke about going “power” in two ways.
Finally, you’ve Got the Power.
AC and DC?
This is where I found myself, a while ago:
Nancy Pelosi holding the Articles of Impeachment hostage is just like the scene in Blazing Saddles wherein Cleavon Little holds the gun to his own head and says, “Nobody move, or the nigger gets it!”
Discuss.
Err, I’d do Cleavon before I’d do Nancy?
It’s twue! It’s twue!
She’s not trying to escape an untenable situation as quickly as possible, she’s stretching this out so the Senate will have to try the President as close to the election as possible.
Yeah… Holding it so it doesn’t interfere with Democratic Primary could be another reason.
that would be hilarious. i can’t imagine how many news cycles will occur between now and then.
https://babylonbee.com/news/americans-ready-to-move-on-to-whatever-the-next-dumb-thing-is
Thereby proving what their intentions were all along, trying to tip the election.
“Ding, ding, ding.”
Folks, we have a winner!
Speaker Pelosi is often compared to Cruella Deville. But a few nights ago, I was watching It’s a Wonderful Life and it suddenly dawned on me. She’s old man Potter. Just a warped, frustrated old woman. She sits around and she spins her little webs and she thinks the whole world revolves around her and her power and money. Well, it doesn’t. In the whole vast configuration of things, I’d say she is nothing but a scurvy little spider, who wants to turn America into Pelosiville.
Remember Nancy, no one is a failure who has friends.
The violence included victims’ being struck in the face, the head and the back of the head, as well as at least one person’s throwing a beverage at someone, police said.
Lo, how the mighty have fallen.
Umm, it has been CLEARLY and scientifically determined that throwing milkshakes is NOT violence!
Is it just me or do leftists/Democrats seem to be against private arms ownership no matter what as a means to control you?
While being interviewed by C-SPAN in September Biden criticized Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R) signing of a law to allow licensed gun owners to carry firearms in church for self-defense. Biden said, “It is irrational, with all due respect to the Governor of Texas, it is irrational what they are doing.”
Biden elaborated by describing the idea of “being able to take [guns] into places of worship” as “absolutely irrational.”
Armed self-defense with a firearm against an attempted mass-murderer is “irrational”…because, presumably, we all know that prohibiting firearms in places means any person intent on murder is automatically thwarted.
Yeah….
Being armed was the rational thing for all of humanity’s existence. The fact that we don’t deal with highway robbers and the Huns coming down from the steppe doesn’t mean that it no longer is rational.
If Joe gets elected I want to start a petition to disband the secret service because self defense is irrational.
No. We need to replace the Secret Service with a “Presidential Shotgun” that he can shoot out the back porch of the White House when someone hops the fence.
He can have a button that’s reads “gun free zone”, that’s it.
I think Bernie already has his one picked out.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nw-__BwhecQ
Not this?
Or this?
I don’t think we’re gonna see that happen.
We would be a lot safer getting rid of all politicians though.
Yeah, we now have video proof of how rational and effective it is.
It was a hell of a shot. The old guy was ice cold.
They are trying to retcon the parishioners on the security team as some sort of professional hired guns. And then asking why a church needed that, anyway?
Well someone still got shot, so really what good did it do? If we just had common sense gun laws, then no one would get shot.
How did he sneak a shotgun into church anyway? Was it one of the shockwave types?
That’s what I thought I saw on the video. Though it’s hard to be certain.
Welp, that’ll be an administrative banning
For those of you not into gunspeak, the BATE reclassified a currently legal firearm as being not one, not two, but THREE different kinds of NFA item.
Well someone still got shot, so really what good did it do? If we just had common sense gun laws, then no one would get shot.
If someone actually says this seriously, they should be reminded of the Luby’s shooting, which cured Texas of its formerly-held belief that a gun-free zone was a gun-free zone.
Well someone still got shot, so really what good did it do?
Slogan of the Broward County Sheriff’s Office.
Really disappointed in Joe. Thought he’d be all for double-barrels in every pew.
Confucius say, “When Joe Biden fart in church he sit in own pew.”
I mist say, I love being able to point to the ebooks I have created and say (not quite this arrogantly), “I am worth every penny of that quote you just had a heart attack over. Go ahead. TRY to find someone else who can or will do this intricate of a job.”
I could try. But I can’t guarantee the results, or a quote that would save them money.
I just did a Chinese cookbook with 50+ pictures, text boxes, and embedded fonts (natch, because Chinese). That’s not the hardest or most intricate one I’ve ever done.
I would almost certainly take more time, and be more expensive as a result, and then pile on a frustration surcharge for the fiddly bits.
With my workflow process, there are few fiddly bits and I onow what those will be up front amd I include em in my quote.
I save my surcharge for potentially pain-in-the-ass clients.
I haven’t done a lot of work for other people, so I lack that experience.
I also make sure everything’s spelled correctly and that I don’t introduce mistakes. ?
Wot? I hav to spel too?
So all the Chinese stuff was spelled correctly? 😉
That’s a mist, in any business.
Or at least not introduce mistakes. I’ve done that before, on stuff I had to convert via OCR, and forgotten to ask the client to proofread. Then I ended up proofreading on my own time.
Expensive lesson learned.
“I need to run this through my conversion software and then you will have to proofread it because it will introduce mistakes. Unless you want me to proofread it and then that will be $X?”
I do often correct typos as I’m formatting, though. I don’t tell them. They don’t notice.
I… What was it? If it wasn’t something that predated digital composition, I’m going to be baffled.
@Ted’S and Hyperbole, that was a poke at myself and my execrable typing.
Ted, I told her she needed to have every character where she wanted it and make paragraph breaks clear because I wouldn’t be able to do it. Then I had her proofread it before I finalized it.
Won’t lie: That one tested my nerves because I would never know if I screwed up.
What was what?
I very often have to format ebooks from PDF or bad out-of-print copies. I have the client (presumably the copyright holder] go to Office Depot, have them cut the spine off, and scan it to PDF and email it to me.
Or else they have the spine cut off and mail me the book.
Or else they mail me the book and I just pull the pages out and scan them.
Then I run it through my OCR converter. Best software purchase I ever made.
I have even retyped sections of books and once, a whole book.
See, I make my money by being willing to go analog, something no one else will do or thinks to do (mostly they don’t think to—”It can’t be done.”). It can. It’s just tedious. But to most people nowadays, the tedious ways don’t even enter their heads. If it can’t be done with a computer program, it MUST not be able to be done.
“This is totally unreadable to my OCR engine and needs to be retyped. You can do it or I can do it. If I do it, this is what I will charge.”
So it’s fairly common for your clients to not have a digital copy?
Correct.
See, I make my money by being willing to go analog
Go on . . . .
Okay, I’m not your competition. We’re entirely in different markets.
Correct. I specialize in the difficult-to-format and specialty nonfiction.
I am the formatter of last resort.
I very rarely get the easy fiction I can do from their Word DOC that I charge $65 and takes me 1/2 hour. Other people can do that.
It’s tedious. ?
Well, my stamina isn’t what it used to be . . . .
I may be easy, but I ain’t cheap.
My new textbook comes out in two weeks, the ninth book I’ve been a participating author for overall, and the third book where my name is on the front cover. It’s already available on Amazon, B&N etc for pre-order, but once it’s really available they should have downloadable pages and the like on the bookseller website. I’d be interested in the thoughts of several of our Glibs authors on the design and layout, so I’ll provide a link at the time, I think 1/9 is the release date. This one is published by Lippincott/Wolters Kluwer, my last one by Cambridge University Press.
Okay, but … why? Do you not like it?
Thanks Mojeaux! I do have mixed feelings on this one’s cover, so I was interested in what you professionals thought about it.
I’ll link it when it’s officially out next month.
*scribbles notes*
“Don’t be a pain in Mojo’s ass.”
Oh, you’d never know you got PITA surcharged. ?
More evidence that Drumpf is a Russian puppet.
“Yesterday, President Vladimir Putin of Russia called President Donald J. Trump to thank him for information the United States provided that helped foil a potential holiday terrorist attack in Russia,” White House Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley said in a statement.
Gidley said both Putin and Trump committed to preventing terrorism in both countries and also spoke about the state of the United States/Russia relationship.
On Monday, Putin again invited President Trump to visit Russia in 2020, according to a statement from the Kremlin:
“In a Christmas and New Year greeting message to President of the United States of America Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin noted that Russia and the US were historically responsible for ensuring global security and stability and that Moscow speaks in favor of normalizing bilateral relations and establishing an equal dialogue based on the mutual respect of interests. The President of Russia also reaffirmed his invitation to Donald Trump to visit Moscow to take part in the celebrations of the 75th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.”
Russia refers to the Great Patriotic War as the period that the Soviet Union fought Nazi Germany on the Eastern Front of World War II.
And thus concludes another Tom Clancy Novel.
Needs more CIA desk officers that know karate.
This guy keeps @ing me on twitter with these headlines, I don’t think he’s actually looked at my content.
The discussed issues of “mutual interest”? Really?
Like “yeah there’s this guy named Tsarnayev that’s going to blow some shit up. Maybe you should look into him. “
If only you stupid rubes would just listen to us and vote like you are told.
On Sunday’s episode of NBC’s Meet the Press, host Chuck Todd plumbed new depths of journalist malpractice, essentially implying that people of faith can support President Trump because they grow up believing in fairy tales.
After reading some bigoted nonsense that Todd says is “fascinating,” Todd piggybacks on the bigotry, saying that voters just “wanna be lied to” and are averse to being told “hard truths.”
“Hard truths”, such as Trump’s Russian collusion, antisemitism and general racism, etc.
And this gem:
Porter Anderson✔
@Porter_Anderson
Media: David Remnick to @brianstelter: “We have a country that’s split. And to the great frustration of people like you and people like me, we don’t somehow understand why the evidence of things, why facts, don’t penetrate so many of our brothers and sisters in #America.”
Correct but not how you mean.
I was on a panel with Porter Anderson at a writers conference some years ago. He was very hungry to be important, and if he had to start with indie publishing, that was where he had to start.
The Media have been fond of saying about Trump “When someone shows you who they are, believe them”, but seem incapable of understanding why everyone treats them like liars all the time….
How Phillip Pullmanesque
what’s a PM links without the Babylon Bee..
https://babylonbee.com/news/media-disappointed-to-learn-armed-citizen-stopped-mass-shooting
“We are absolutely heartbroken and in shock over here,” said one New York Times journalist. “What could have given us weeks and weeks of frothing-at-the-mouth stories about gun control will now have to be suppressed since it does not align with our agenda.”
The media didn’t even try to find children who were present during the shooting to parade around talk shows and put on the covers of magazines for a full year this time around.
I thought the Bee was parody, when did they start covering news?
These days it’s a fine line to skate.
I believe they have wrested the title America’s Paper of Record away from the NYT.
Not even satire.
The media didn’t even try to find children who were present during the shooting to parade around talk shows and put on the covers of magazines for a full year this time around.
And this just in: Burn!
Doesn’t matter. As noted above, Biden condemns guns in churches anyway. And in a pinch, it is no effort whatsoever to twist these stories into another attack on Trump “inciting hate”. You know, because they have no shame.
Elizabeth Warren Opens Casino To Help Finance Campaign
Savage.
And how.
The fundraisers in the firewater cave weren’t working out?
You people are savages!
I–I mean, brutal!
Puulllleeeeeeeeeze!
Beto O’Rourke✔
@BetoORourke
So saddened to hear about another church shooting in Texas, this one in White Settlement near Fort Worth. Clearly what we are doing in Texas, what we are doing in this country, when it comes to guns is not working.
Armed citizens responded to an active threat. I’d say it worked out as best it could.
Ce pula mea.
Poor Beto, he still thinks people care about him.
HELL NO BETO, people don’t give a fuck about you.
he still thinks people care about him
Relevant: El Paso Man Comes Down From Insane Acid Trip Where He Hallucinated That He Ran For President
A lost decade for rock apparently.
A lost decade for rock apparently.
Gifts to the United States
U.S. Department of the Treasury
Funds Management Branch
P.O. Box 1328
Parkersburg, WV 26106-1328
It wasn’t the first time that Abigail, who inherited part of her grandfather’s fortune, had experienced discomfort about her wealth and how little she had done to deserve it. As a child, she would go with her grandfather to Disneyland, where she was treated as a special guest. “He loved taking us to the front of the line,” she said. She would hang her head as they marched past other families who had been waiting for rides in the hot sun. “I’d say, ‘Grandpa, they hate us,’ ” she recalled. “And he’d say, ‘I worked so hard all those years so you could go to the front of the line.’ ” As a young adult, Disney forged her own life in New York City, first as a mother and later as a documentary-film producer. She eventually stopped flying on the private plane, although it took a year or two. (“These things are hard to give up,” she told me.) And she started advocating for peace and women’s equality.
In 2011, she joined an organization called the Patriotic Millionaires, a group of wealthy Americans who are concerned about rising income inequality and who speak out in favor of policies traditionally considered to be antithetical to their economic interests. She began to make public appearances and videos in which she promoted higher taxes on the wealthy. She told me that she realized that the luxuries she and her family enjoyed were really a way of walling themselves off from the world, which made it easier to ignore certain economic realities. “Coming face to face with it feels fucking awful,” she said. “That’s why the wealthy have the private planes and the bottle service in the back and the limousines with the tinted windows.”
Shut the fuck up until you can produce a cancelled check and a receipt. The bigger, the better.
Abigail Disney felt guilty she didn’t have to wait in line at Disney World? LOLGTFOH
As a young adult, Disney forged her own life in New York City,
Uh-huh. Didn’t take a penny from the old man, eh?
She eventually stopped flying on the private plane,
Oh, FFS.
the luxuries she and her family enjoyed were really a way of walling themselves off from the world
Damn straight. And I bet she is still pretty damn walled off from the world. What a cunte.
Disney and I discussed another Patriotic Millionaires member, Chuck Collins, the Oscar Mayer heir, who, in 1985, at the age of twenty-six, gave his inheritance away to various environmental and civil-rights organizations. In Disney’s twenties and early thirties, she had considered doing the same. “Honestly, the only reason I didn’t do it was that I was chicken,” she said. “I wish I was a more courageous person.” Over time, she told me, her wealth has grown, and she’s been able to give away much more than she would have if she’d donated it all back then. (She said that her net worth is a hundred and forty million dollars, and that she has given away around sixty-five million dollars. The number is hard to verify; she said that much of it was in the form of grants to social-justice-oriented filmmakers and to organizations that work with low-income populations.) She pointed out that her name and wealth are what enable her to talk about poverty in the first place. If she were an unknown person with less money, she said, TV networks wouldn’t invite her on the air.
Weird, if you give it all away you cannot generate new wealth.
Right? Start a business, create jobs. Pissing it away on “social justice” bullshit isn’t helping anyone – it’s patting herself on the back.
Yep. That’s just a vanity project. Nothing to be praised for, in the least.
This is how “What a Way to Go” begins and ends (bookends) – with the gorgeous Shirley MacLaine no less.
Give it away if you feel so guilty you holier than thou bitch.
Meet the Virginia Attorney Educating Thousands On The 2A Sanctuary Movement
Thank you for that. Am definitely going to try to do something with those folks.
Anyone here like the BBC (on Amazon here) series “Fleabag?” I’ve tried to engage it, yet I find it unfunny and the titular character loathsome.
NPR hosts seem to love it.
Strike One!
Now I know I’ll hate it.
That show sucks. I tried it and felt much the same as you.
Someone Stole Stalin’s Car. This would never have happened before perestroika.
Beginning in the early eighties, the remnants of the post-F.D.R. era of social democracy gave way to the age of Ronald Reagan, which brought deregulation, tax cuts for the wealthy, and the promise that free-market capitalism would lead to widespread prosperity. In spite of ample evidence that the new system wasn’t working as anticipated, this ideology has dominated economic policymaking ever since. Sean Wilentz, a historian at Princeton, told me, “We live in a world where supply-side economics, which was always a fraud, became a religion.”
Yup. What a shithole.
Sean Wilentz has opinions on a range of issues:
This is the one that made me laugh:
Anyway. Historians are not ones i typically rely on to talk about weather or not an economic theory was a “Fraud” or not.
all sorts of rules and regulations that would constrain their abuse.
Like the FISA court?
Surveillance and secrecy will never be attractive features of a democratic government, but they are not inimical to it, either.
Are you kidding me? Secrecy isn’t inimical to democracy? I guess all that huffing and puffing about how reporters shouldn’t be prosecuted for publishing leaks of state secrets was just wrong? All that preening and posing about how a free and independent press is essential to a democracy was just self-serving twaddle? They really see themselves as nothing more than the PR arm of the totipotent State?
It’s been dog-eat-dog ever since. Be careful out there.
In spite of ample evidence that the new system wasn’t working as anticipated, this ideology has dominated economic policymaking ever since.
You’re referring to socialism, right?
“We live in a world where supply-side economics, which was always a fraud, became a religion.”
I am no economist, but it seems to me that the supply-side is unquestionably more important than the demand side, given that no one will trade with you to fulfill your demands if you cannot supply something of value in return. Demand without supply is empty, and since demand is insatiable it is not to be worried about, so focus on the supply.
Just look at poor countries who have embraced supply-side policies vs. demand size. They’ve gone from poorest in the world, to among the richest, in a generation or two. The ones that embrace demand-side policies stay mired in poverty.
*demand-side, not size
ample evidence that the new system wasn’t working as anticipated
For what values of “working”? If we are talking about economic growth and increased productivity per unit of input, it seems to have worked just fine. Better than any alternative, at any rate.
the post-F.D.R. era of social democracy gave way to the age of Ronald Reagan
Who made not a dent in the transfer programs and other apparat of “social democracy”.
tax cuts for the wealthy
Bullshit. I took my tax law class right after his tax reform was passed, and it was mostly about how a lot of tax shelters and deductions were eliminated. Those aren’t use by the po’. I don’t supposed they compared the amount of taxes paid by each quintile before and after his tax reform, did they?
“Mayor Pete Wants to Decriminalize ‘Meth, Coke, Ecstasy,’ Not Just Pot”
https://pjmedia.com/trending/mayor-pete-wants-to-decriminalize-meth-coke-ecstasy-not-just-pot/
His one correct position?
On all fours?
He has at least nine
Cash Bail Reform: End it
I need more info than this. Cause getting rid of bail seems like you are saying people should rot in prison until they are brought to trial and acquitted.
No, it means no jail-time at all for “non-serious” crime – assuming he’s riffing on the law that takes effect in NY in a couple days.
The cynical 9/10 of me says they’re only doing for social justice reasons, and to take credit for sending fewer people to jail. I remain unconvinced it will “help” in any way but I guess we’ll find out soon.
Non-serious crimes being mostly property crimes, I assume.
All misdemeanors, IIRC.
Deblasio still has delusions of closing Rikers and this strikes me as a major tool to that end.
Is this guy for real?
He wants to get elected
Doggy?
So you are saying drug fell out?
Where’s Pie?
Cancer patient set on fire during operation in Romania
I imagine RC Dean clenching at the thought of the malpractice suit if that happened at his hospital….
My aunt was an attorney for American Family – they had a case where the hospital neglected to check for intestinal gas before using an electric cauterizing gun on his intestines.
Bad times, and a large lawsuit, followed.
Oops.
Err, we actually have a claim for a burn on the operating table right now. Not that bad a burn, though. The patient wore makeup (which we specifically told her not to do, and which she still denies). It “flashed” off when we pulled her oxygen tube (pure O2 trapped under the head covering). Looked nasty, but it was superficial and actually turned into the equivalent of a chemical peel when the scorched dermis peeled off. My suggestion that we charge her for it was rejected. I’m thinking we offer to pay for the chemical peel on the other side of her face, to even them out.
Fire in operating rooms aren’t common, but they aren’t as uncommon as you think. We keep wet towels in every OR, just in case. There are flammable gases, flammable materials, and plenty of electrical equipment which can throw a spark.
What kind of makeup?
Because unless it was the mineral makeup you can’t see, why was she not given a washcloth by a grumpy nurse and told to wipe it off? That’s one thing preop’s for, right?
Exactly my question to Risk Management.
Apparently, because the face wasn’t an incision site, we don’t typically swab it. And it apparently wasn’t heavy makeup, but everyone who saw a picture of her without makeup said “Oh, yeah, she had makeup on.”
This was very much a freak accident. Better adherence to protocol (turn off the O2 before you pull the tube) would have prevented it.
I think this is the first fire we’ve had in an OR in three years or so? Given our volume of surgery, that’s pretty good, really.
I’m not following. extubation takes place at the end of surgery. Why was there an ignition source when surgery was over?
The Bovie was still on, but shouldn’t have been close enough to start a fire (it passed inspection after, too).I don’t think we ever figured out the ignition source; maybe static? She basically had pure O2 under the draping over her face, so it wouldn’t take much.
Hmm. Drapes should have been off too. I wonder if the patient was waking up early and they pulled the tube quick. Knock on wood 13 years and no fires.
It was a biopsy on her neck, so the whole thing took only a few minutes. O2 was via a nasal cannula.
On the plus side, it was a sentinel event, which means the anesthesiology group lost a bonus payment.
Oh. That makes more sense.
Damn right I’m not going to pay a bonus after a sentinel event.
Pre-op is useless.
*mad about last 4 shitty IVs I’ve replaced*
Not always their fault. I’ve had anesthesiologists who couldn’t find a good vein on me. They have that handy-dandy UV vein mapper too.
That said, I can’t remember a phlebotomist not being able to hit it fast and in one.
It’s a little easier drawing blood than inserting a catheter. It’s not the lack of IV I get mad about, it’s the not bothering to tell me the IV is nonfunctional. The start of surgery is busy, I’d rather start the IV in pre-op.
I will clarify and I promise I will try not to expect you to read my mind (insert “women!” here).
Generally, my hands have the only good veins for IVs and blood draws (although the phlebotomists can find one anywhere).
In preop, I have had nurses try and try and try to get an IV in me and if they fail (50/50) they end up blowing out all marginally decent veins. This wouldn’t be so bad if I were hydrated, but noooooooooo I haven’t had water for 12 hours, you sadistic pricks. /sarc
Anyway, the worst was, in preop before I went in for a followup procedure the week after my hysterectomy (that didn’t go well at all), they needed to draw my blood. My veins were still gone from the week before so after 3 nurses couldn’t get enough blood and blew out the last vein I had left trying to get a whole vial, the nurse asked the anesthesiologist, who said he’d get it after I was under.
I woke up in recovery to find that had not been able to be accomplished. They had to wait until I was rehydrated.
It’s like you were there for my wife’s c-section…
(My wife is an RN and was ready to replace her own IV.)
I roll my eyes a lot and and frequently sigh heavily.
Pregnant ladies have the juiciest veins.
Pie, have you highjacked Florida Man’s handle?
Phrasing?
Well, it’s Romania. Are we entirely sure the person was set on fire by the scalpel and alcohol and didn’t just get exposed to sunlight?
BTW, I have to say this whole sub-thread was quite interesting. The unexpected twists of the comment section is something I love about Glibs.
Mammary Monday mops up after you.
http://archive.li/3hbfq
These pictures make me hate tattooists.
37, 20 and 22 appear to have avoided that particular bad decision.
(37 wins.)
Most of them, but 31 is special.
38
“Top 10 woke arguments of the decade”
https://twitter.com/MsBlaireWhite/status/1211709419026694144
https://www.thepostmillennial.com/top-10-woke-arguments-of-the-decade/
Word
She pointed out that her name and wealth are what enable her to talk about poverty in the first place. If she were an unknown person with less money, she said, TV networks wouldn’t invite her on the air.
Poor little rich girl.
Nobody takes her seriously.
Attention whore. Give your money away quietly.
Oh, wait, no. Then she wouldn’t get the validation she so desperately wants.
She needs people to know she is more than just the money she inherited. So she will talk about how she is more than the Money she inherited.
She also tossed in a gratuitous ‘fucking’ modifier in there, which should be unnecessary for a supposedly well-educated philanthropist.
But I suppose she was just keepin’ it real.
Saddest tweet I have ever seen.
Short of Stalin et al there aren’t too many people I want to read that from.
I don’t know that person. It’s just someone cleaning up their digital life so someone else doesn’t have to, and saying goodbye to internet friends collected over the years.
There’s just such a pathos to that, I can’t even.
I had one of my Japanese penpals / language exchange partners notify me that she had end stage lung cancer. Married woman with two kids. She started some serious chemotherapy which seemed to knock the cancer down. She was posting happy updates and I was praying for a miracle and than the updates stopped.
I prefer to think that things worked out and she is living the good life with her husband and family and is too busy to write.
That’s a good assumption.
In Disney’s twenties and early thirties, she had considered doing the same. “Honestly, the only reason I didn’t do it was that I was chicken,” she said. “I wish I was a more courageous person.”
So, the rest of us have to pay the price for her neurosis about the fact that she lacked the courage of her convictions and couldn’t bear to risk doing without the fortune she so conveniently damns (but still isn’t giving away).
Who was it who quoted an ancient NYT article about black antisemitism in the last post?
There is a reason I always wear headphones on my commute.
Just a reminder to one and all: Glibs denizen Yusef (Robert Lozonne and his wife Wendy) still need our help and support. You can go to his GoFundMe page and donate there, or you can send him funds via PayPal (search on “Bob Lozonne” or “yusefthehomeless”). If you don’t have a PayPal account, no sweat — PayPal can also use credit cards to send money.
They’re still not out of the woods yet, folks!
Need More Fish In My Diet.
Here you go.
“I think none of us are surprised by this, but I want to ask a counterfactual: Could our economy even stand it if Trump tariffs weren’t slowing the growth from explosive to rocket-powered?”
Well, first we have to believe it. Umm, Vox… so…
In other news:
We freaking love science!
“Then “two years later,” says CNN, “Extinction Rebellion was born.” We imagine the “mystic ‘moon circles’” Bradbrook held with female XR colleagues “inside a tepee”
Umm, yeah, OK, then I’m convinced, global warming is real, I mean I have to agree with the scientists, on account of I’m real smart and shit.
Oh, FFS. She’s a drug tourist. Which is fine, if that’s your hobby, but shorn of its context its not going to be a source of profound insight.
Yeah, I don’t give a fuck how many cloud forest teepees you set up and get fucked up out of your gourd, I totally support your right to do that, but you’re not telling me how to conduct my life or stealing from me.
Or interfering with me going about my business. These people are particularly nasty.
Personal Rage of the day story:
I get an oh-so-pleasant call from a collections agency this morning attempting to collect on a internet bill from my last residence. I tell them I’ll deal directly with the company and hang up. I search through my spam folder on my email and verify that they are claiming I owe them $81.65 for I don’t know what. I was told when I cancelled things were square and assured that again when I went to the SuddenLink storefront and returned my modem/router. The email bill does not explain what the nature of the charges are.
I cannot log-in online as I never set up a digital pay account as they required a long-lost pin from my first statement to get access. I call and go through the 20 minutes of prompts to be placed on hold and then hung up on. I call back and go through 40 minutes of prompts and being put on hold only to be told they cannot process payment over the phone and I’ll have to go to a storefront. I tell the woman I’m 1000+ miles from the nearest storefront. I’m placed on hold for another 20 minutes and then told I’ll need to go to the nearest storefront. All this while she continues to ignore my questions as to the nature of the charges.
Lets just say sometimes your patience is tested and fails that test. I went verbal scorched earth on her until she hung up. I despise cable/internet companies with a loathing matched only by my (theoretical) feelings toward government.
“I despise cable/internet companies with a loathing matched only by my (theoretical) feelings toward government.”
So, you’ve been yet another unfortunate Comcast customer? Because nothing besides government can typically unleash that sort of unbridled hatred, other than Comcast.
+1 We have the option of Verizon FIOS or Comcast where I live. My wife has threatened divorce if I consider switching back to Comcast.
This is at least one case where I’d have to side with your wife before hearing any more facts.
I’m, against all oaths made I a fit of rage, once again a Comcast customer by default since ISP’s seem to enjoy them some good old crony/regional monopolies. This time around the rage was directed at SuddenLink but I’m sure I’ll end up with a spit-flecked post about Comcast in the next 12-24 months. They all seem to suck to varying degrees. The ‘fuck you pay up’ final charge seems to be standard practice. They know people will pay up rather than go through the hassle of fighting it. Claiming they never received a modem back or billing you for an additional month after you cancel has happened to me several times. They’re fucking thieves.
I keep my turn in receipts for a while, just in case. Even though I haven’t had any issues.
I don’t believe the store even offered me one (in hindsight I should have demanded one). They must give their employees training in stonewalling. More than once I’ve had this conversation:
“Sir the bill is for the month of (whatever month)”
“I cancelled it the month prior”
“Well our records show you were still getting the service that month”
“I specifically told whoever I spoke to when I cancelled the service to disconnect it by X date”
“Well it wasn’t disconnected until X date”
“How is that my problem”
“FYTW, pay up bitch [in so many words]”
AT&T is right there with Comcast. I’ve yelled at both of them.
The only time I’ve truly went verbal postal on anyone was the last time I was on the phone with Comcast, more than a year ago. My wife was sort of freaking out. When I got off she was like ‘OMG! Who the hell was that, you scared me!’. I said ‘Comcast’ and then she started giggling. That the the last time they ever called me.
AT&T kept doing this to me – for years! – while I was traveling back and forth overseas for business. They fucking robocalled me to death. I had mailed back their equipment, gone into a store, and had other accounts with them, but now I’m dealing with “collections”. I finally got a woman on the phone (twice) and got her to tell me exactly what dates they were claiming I owed them for, and I had moved out of that place something like 9 months before that (someplace in either Vista or San Marcos, Cali, in fact). All of the sudden the woman’s tone changed when I told her I could give her my moveout/end of my lease. I still had the paperwork. I told her, in plain language, “I dispute the validity of the debt under the Fair Credit Reporting Act. I paid it. I owe you nothing.” haven’t heard from them since. The fact that I was a lawyer and told her I made my living as a trial lawyer and would wreck them in court for fun if I had to, may have had something to do with it. I don’t know.
That story of the rich Disney chick reminded me of the woman who popularized the concept of “white privilege”, who also came from serious wealth. Quilette did a piece in her a while back, it’s worth a read (it’s Quilette só it’s a longer form piece).
https://quillette.com/2018/08/29/unpacking-peggy-mcintoshs-knapsack/
It occurs to me that those who truly believe that white privilege and structural racism exist should be the most outspoken secessionists. If the system is built around denying you access to success should you’re impulse be to disassociate from that system entirely?
I try to not be around any progs, but I am around a few of them by necessity. And they seem to be pretty much done with identity politics. I mean they can see where this is headed. I had one of them who I was having a conversation with a couple of weeks ago, tell me that someone she knows ‘tried to play the race card’ and that she thought it is disgusting. Have heard a few more comments over the past few months, very similar. They seem to be all into impeachment and climate change, but they seem to be more than a little apprehensive about identity politics and political correctness. Maybe it’s just that I only talk to the Yuppies, not the younger more brainwashed fresh out of college ones who have yet to get gainful employment.
They seem to be all into impeachment and climate change, but they seem to be more than a little apprehensive about identity politics and political correctness.
Give ’em time. Once ‘Peach Fowty-Fie is off the airwaves and CNN/MSNPC/etc. are back on the structural racism/founded on slavery bandwagon, I’m sure they will follow right along, bleating and baaing like good little sheep.
We’re Soailist! Wait, no we’re not!
Yeah, I know, politicians are supposed to lie, but FFS!
Didn’t read the links, eh?
I did, but I guess I missed it. Anyway, I misspelled socialists on purpose!
Uh huh. Sure you misspelled it on purpose…
Shut up, Tulpa!
https://twitter.com/Toms_Spectre/status/1211681630273716235
Christ, what assholes.
Panhandler Patrol? What brave heroes, I’m sure they’ll get their own prime time reality series soon.
https://twitter.com/Volceloid/status/1211350895155265536
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
Please tell me that was a disabled Euro Libtard Cuck Ben and those Nazis threw off the cliff?
Dafuq?
Ermergrd
That’s technically slander, or is it parody?
I don’t get it.
I have a good buddy who I sort of have a Jedi-Padawan relationship with when it comes to libertarianism. Sadly he seems to still love him some Ben Shapiro. I subscribe to the Dave Smith view on Ben Shapiro; he’s great at owning semi-retarded college kids who believe there are 72 genders but a intellectual lightweight (and dumb-fuck neocon) outside of that arena.
Ben Shapiro is pretty sharp witted and very quick. You have to at least admire him for that, at least I do. I’m not really sure why some people seem to hate him, his voice or something I guess.
He’s brave for being willing to say very unpopular things in front of a very hostile audience, I wouldn’t take that away from him. His pro-war stance is what grates me the most; dude would have us nuking Iran if he could.
Yeah, he’s very hawkish. Not sure if that has anything to do with being a member of a people in a tiny country surrounded by people who hate you and want to genocide you, but it might.
Genociding them preemptively in return hardly seems like the rational response.
Or rather having a supportive super-power do your dirty work for you…
Well, he is an Orthodox Jooh…
My community is full of them. In fact, I think they are about 80% of the population here. I’ve had nothing but problems. Just last week I saw them throw at least a dozen disabled people off a mountain, and seems there’s nothing anyone can do.
Plus all the Zionismsz, too.
My home printer has finally crapped out.
Fair enough; it was 8 years old. The ink cartridges were getting scarce and pricey.
Any recommendations for a replacement?
Requirements:
Color
WiFi
Scanning included (all-in-one)
I’ve always been partial to Hewlett-Packard but haven’t tested the waters so I’m asking my favorite and wisest community for advice.
TY.
Same thing is happening here. Our 10 year old Epson Ink Jet it getting ready to take the plastic landfill dirt nap. I’m looking at lasers, they’re dirt cheap now. Not sure about brand yet, just be sure to use the recycled toner or cartridges if you use ink jet, that’s where they really get you. They sell you a printer and then charge you the same price as the printer for replacement ink. The recycled is just as good, I’ve been using it for years.
^^This. Cartridge prices are ridiculous.
We have an HP 8600 that’s about seven years old. I’m sure they’re much better now. Print, copy, scan, fax, wifi, and an app that let’s you do it all from your computer.
HP 8610
It’s been fine. I can print from my phone. Ink is spendy, but it is for all of them.
Recommended,
Canon ts 3122, all in one with WiFi and print from phone/tablet, Walmart 40 bucks, bombproof and cheap
Interesting …
I like Brother printers. I didn’t realize there were any printers that weren’t all-in-one.
I don’t know how much you depend on the quality of your printing or ink cartridges, but I get cheap Chinese shit on Amazon (e.g., https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JMVG9M6/ref=dp_cerb_1) and they work for my purposes. In the last ten years of ordering this generic stuff, I’ve had one cartridge leak. It was magenta. No big.
Brother printers have the biggest black ink cartridges.
/runs out of room ducking
Me, yelling from the front door at my husband who is about to go run errands: HONEY, CAN YOU GET ME SOME BLACK CAULK?!?!?
For you MJ:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY6CiLH-_YM
“Who wouldn’t want a golden deck?”
Ded. D-E-D ded.
Nice!
Although I have good experience with both their laser and inkjet printers.
*snort*
I’ve never owned an all in one printer. Mind you my current printer is a Brother monochrome laser printer that is probably on its last toner catridge before final replacement.
How much do you print? Laser is considerably cheaper per page.
When my son was in school here and my wife did lots of stuff that required printing I quickly did the math and the upfront cost of the laser was quickly amortized.
Laser quality is better as well. If you buy good paper. I mean if you need it to look nice. We have an office laser at work and we bought the cheapest fucking paper I have ever seen to reduce cost. I’m not sure if that shit is made out of recycled cardboard and rice they dug out of dumpsters or what. I don’t usually print much, but I printed out some color Visio charts I did recently to take to a meeting and when I got it off the printer, I was like WTF is this shit? It was like the paper was wet and it was about to fall apart like wet ultra thin wet cardboard. And it looked like pure shit. I showed it to my project manager and said ‘What the fuck is this?’, and he says ‘Oh, we’re cutting cost on office supplies’. I threw it in the trash and sent people the link.
Lol.. cost cutting. Nothings free—-there’s always a cost. In this case, quality and professionalism
I picked up this little number last year but I’m not sure why the price has more than tripled. I paid 45 bucks for it. Anyway it works well for my limited needs.
ugh
Hewlett-Packard used to great many years ago, but they suck now.
Epson was always crap.
I’ve had very good luck with my Brother all-in-one.
Lol. Brother is why I went back to HP!
Good luck,’splosives!
They all suck!
Death, taxes, and printer cartridges/toner.
It’s a business model. Not blaming anyone, technology and competition have made printers dirt cheap. So they try to compensate by charging hyper-inflated prices on ink. Just don’t do it, use recycled. Hopefully when we’re 3D printing our way to self sustained happiness in the near future, we get recycled 3D ink.
Epson Eco-tank. You’ll pay up front but save in the long run on ink.
“The bone-eating snot flower or osedax drills into the bones of whale carcases to reach the lipids inside. Males are tiny & live inside the female!”
https://twitter.com/StrangeAnimaIs/status/1211319968026877952
Nature makes 4chan look like amateurs.
“The bone-eating snot flower”
Didn’t that get elected to the House in 2018?
It runs the house Intelligence Committee.
Speaker of the House….
https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1211004325155102720
Tax dollars at work.
This is why the Brazilians are light years ahead of us on the homeless problem. They just let them build dwellings on the side of the nearest hill. Then the inevitable mudslides solve the problem. America, not always the leader.
I linked hostile architecture earlier today.
“Anti-homeless benches”
Nothing says friendly like when I want to take a load off and some bum is sleeping there. How many billions of dollars do went spend on shelters and such again?
Maybe that sanctimonious hero can help them out with a camp in his front yard or something.
There doesn’t seem to be anything known to man that can keep them from sleeping on sidewalks or pavement, or wherever, around here. I guess some drugs can make you sleep anywhere.
Tough to figure out who to root for here: (paywall)
Carlos Ghosn Flees Trial in Japan for Lebanon
While Mr. Ghosn had been released from detention and was permitted to leave a house in Tokyo designated as his residence, he was required to stay in the country pending his trial. It couldn’t be learned how he was able to leave Japan; a person familiar with the matter said he arrived in Lebanon via Turkey. Lebanon’s criminal code prohibits extradition of its citizens, making it unlikely Mr. Ghosn can be forced to return to Japan if he stays in the country.
If an island country like Japan can’t prevent people from getting out, how is any jurisdiction going to prevent guns from getting in?
Japan is the only place I’ve ever had my luggage searched ENTERING the country.
Obviously, they put up a sign declaring the place to be gun free… they must have forgot putting one up to prohibit skipping bail.
Still won’t stop Indiana guns, so they say.
You have to be, I assume, pretty desperate to leave Japan for Lebanon. Whatever he did, isn’t that about punishment enough? Or do we have to send him to Somalia?
His current wife and former wife are both from Lebanon.
That cracked me up, somehow.
I say go for it. He was gonna get ass-fucked in Japan. It’s isn’t only his fault that Nissan engineers made the worst CVT known to man!
Forgot this gem:
Japan is copying us, yet again….
To be fair we were the ones who wrote their constitution.
“Japan is copying us, yet again….”
I keep advising other countries to NOT do that, but they never seem to listen. It started with the drug war. And when you thought it couldn’t get worse…
So looks like he’s into Lebanese pussy. Nothing wrong with that. I think the problem is that he is used to fucking them in Tokyo, not Beirut.
Anyway, have you ever seen those Cedar trees from there? There are some amazing ones here in MD. Maybe the women are just as amazing.
He’s essentially Lebanese himself.
Born in Brazil to Lebanese parents, Mr. Ghosn grew up in Lebanon from an early age. He still has friends and family there, as well as personal and business interests, including a vineyard he owns.
Yep. I get it, but Asian chicks seem to be a draw for every dude except him!
Only about half of my friends are married to Asian chicks, the rest of us are married to Latina chicks. Poor American chicks, no one wants em.
At least none of us are surprised that Vox would find a government study alleging that Trump’s tariffs failed. Who defines “failed”? Is theirs the only possible definition?
“Failed” = “Anything done by Trump if it’s not racist, sexist or -phobic”