Hi guys, I need some help. I made a tactical error of failing to empathize with how busy my wife is what with her last day of clinical practice ending in a luncheon, and then she has to make dessert for the pot-luck her class has, and she has to assemble all the instructor gifts because she is President of her class. Anyhow, I pointed out that the house was such a wreck that I was going to spend several hours tomorrow morning picking it up for the cleaning people instead of working. Now she is storming around the house loudly cleaning stuff and I am bunkered in my office, hoping that she has to run an errand about the time I’m supposed to pick up the kids (which I volunteered to do because she does have some things to do). Why can’t we do all that stuff tonight? Oh, its date night. She’s totally gonna spit in my drink when I go to the bathroom tonight, isn’t she?
Hey guys, look at this hip chick playing beer pong! If my family was just featured for running a sex cult, I might tone down the drinking aspect of my persona.
Two judges shot in a “disturbance” at a White Castle near Indianapolis today. At 3am. “Police originally said the altercation began at a nearby bar before spilling into the White Castle parking lot, but then said the entire incident unfolded in the parking lot.” I like to imagine it was a duel over qualified immunity for government officials.
English Hooligans strike in Barcelona.
Custom built drone delivers donated kidney. Now they just need to automate the orphan organ removal protocol and we’ll be all set. Don’t ask Swiss, he already gave at the office.
If we’re gonna talk about English hooligans on the Continent, I’m putting up one of the great pop-punk songs of all time.
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“Hi guys, I need some help. I made a tactical error of failing to empathize with how busy my wife is what with her last day of clinical practice ending in a luncheon, and then she has to make dessert for the pot-luck her class has, and she has to assemble all the instructor gifts because she is President of her class. Anyhow, I pointed out that the house was such a wreck that I was going to spend several hours tomorrow morning picking it up for the cleaning people instead of working. Now she is storming around the house loudly cleaning stuff and I am bunkered in my office, hoping that she has to run an errand about the time I’m supposed to pick up the kids (which I volunteered to do because she does have some things to do). Why can’t we do all that stuff tonight? Oh, its date night. She’s totally gonna spit in my drink when I go to the bathroom tonight, isn’t she?”
You pulled a me.
Except the date night stuff. I don’t do that crap.
Many of us have been there. Very recently.
I laughed at this.
I love the ones where even as you’re doing it you’re saying to yourself ‘don’t’ but you do anyway.
You don’t allocate and spend quality time with your wife? Why not?
We’re old school.
Uffda. Rufus’ wife is going to be so urinated off if you scolding makes him change his ways and spend more time with her.
“What the fuck did I ever do to those dickheads on Glibs? Why would they do me so wrong? Now I have to look at Rufus’ ugly face while he throws food into his mouth hole and listen to his stupid talk?”
…urinated off…
The only other person I’ve heard use this phrase instead of “pissed off” is my dad. It strikes me as funny phrase. Is it from something, or…
*eyes PJ suspiciously*
I picked it up in Okinawa. We had a first LT (the only non-mustang officer in the squadron) who was very straight laced. He complained about the profanity from the enlisted men and as a result we all started replacing curse words with the real words.
“Why don’t you just perform fellatio on me?”
“You’ve urinated me off”
“Kiss my rectum”
After about a week, another more senior officer sent word down that we should go back to cursing and that the LT had learned his lesson about making stupid requests.
+1 melon farmer
I don’t get the problem, she’s cleaning, right?
Shitlord status verified.
Allow me to introduce you to the concept of “I’d rather do it myself than listen to her bitch about it for 3 days.”
You should quietly build a cage in the garage and put her name on it. And say nothing. Then watch.
That escalated quickly.
What’s wrong with it? I’m sure he’ll add pillows.
And picture frames. Don’t forget the picture frames.
And lotion…
And a basket….
Why build a chain when you have toilets? Just add a chain and be done with it. Besides, you don’t have to clean up any messes that way.
Build a “Cage”. Come on, Spud.
Pretend it’s an open cubicle farm and wear headphones.
Ah, yes. That’s related to my personal favorite, “I can do it myself now or I can listen to her talk about how she did it and then have to do it myself later because she did it wrong.”
Switch up the pronouns, and that’s straight from Mrs. Dean’s psyche.
Good to meet you Mr. “I’d rather do it myself than listen to her bitch about it for 3 days.”
My name is “She was going to bitch about something for three days, at least now I know why”
I told my wife we ought to have a date night so she got on the phone and started calling around.
You earned this
Rodney Dangerfield cornered that market.
“My wife, she says she wants to have sex in the backseat of the car… and she wants me to drive!
No respect, I get no respect, I tell ya.”
‘sup
“Sex cult with beer pong? I’m in.”
— Brett Kavanaugh
Glibs heading to her house.
The glasses were filled with water! That is even lamer than Warren trying to chug a beer.
Hooligans? I thought for a second there you were talking about the Boston Bruins. Hey-ho!
Relevant
That was retarded.
Well, they are floppy-headed Canadians….
Just to give you an idea how British Columbians think when the Liberals act like complete buffoons and idiots (as they are now) their answer is not to vote conservative but go NDP. They go for the next level of derp.
Amirite Pan? Pan?
Pan’s not here, man.
But I can confirm. The closer the voter gets to Derp-ground Zero (Vancouver), the more likely it is he/she/it will punish the Libs by voting for the Dippers. Because the average voter in Vancouver’s a microcephalous paramecium.
Pan’s not here, man.
DON’T YOU PEOPLE WORK?!
North Van would like to disagree, sir.
Huh, looking at 2011, when Cons got 45% of BC vote and a crapton of seats…Lower Mainland was surprisingly stable. Only one seat flipped and that was Lib to Con in Vancouver South. I guess the city has gone beyond even punishing a party anymore.
Yeah, it’s mostly in urban areas you get that. Outside, they flip Con.
Unless you’re talking provincial politics, where labels are just wrong. Liberals are mostly equivalent to federal Cons mixed with blue Libs, and NDP is mostly federal Libs with some lukewarm NDP thrown in.
Yep. And of course, no matter who’s in power in the provincial Legislature, the Official Opposition will call for price controls on gasoline and the government will say that price controls aren’t the way to go, the “free market” should set the price and please ignore all those glorious gas taxes we already have on fuel here in the Lower Rainland.
Lower Rainland’s gas price spread is from $1.589 to $1.729 CDN/litre (May 1)
Edmonton’s is $1.135 to $1.249/litre (May 1)
And now new Alberta Premier and current BC one are having a retard slapfight over the price of fuel in BC, and my lack of God help me, I’m siding with the local retard.
Now she is storming around the house loudly cleaning stuff
I can’t get the gf to clean, happy or mad. Incidentally one of us spent 2 hours doing dishes and folding laundry after having made dinner while the other one sat around watching stupid “reality” television shows.
She must be drop-dead gorgeous.
Of course not. Why else would I make her do all the laundry and dishes? ///jk
But she does need to start pulling her own weight. I do all the work to earn the money to pay the bills and I do virtually all the housework. And she is messy af. Constant clutter. It is getting old.
Are you a lot older than her? She sounds extremely immature and a bit selfish.
There are plenty of good women out there to want nothing more than to cook for you and take care of your babies.
I let my husband retire early under the mutual agreement that he would do all subsequent housework.
One of us kept up her end of the bargain…
Men and women have differing definitions of clean. When I vacuum, I vacuum. When my wife vacuums, she moves the furniture around. It takes her 4 times as long and in the end the house looks no different than when I did it.
I like your wife. ?
Men and women have differing definitions of clean.
Bingo. I have told Mrs. Dean that it is pointless for me to clean, because she just comes behind me and redoes it all anyway.
Fortunately, the couch is quite comfy for sleeping.
I have a rule about housework: you can tell me to do it, or you can do it yourself. You don’t get to tell me how to do it.
Mr Splosives is a laundry genius, and does a nice job at the kitchen and vacuuming. He chooses all the tools etc. I won’t tell him how to do anything.
But I have to do the bathrooms. Just totally different standards there.
Works for us.
My wife is a good cook and great with our kids, but she isn’t much of a cleaner. She isn’t a slob, but I’m the one who will field day the kitchen or bathroom every so often to get things squared away.
Then the brainwashing I got at MCRD San Diego thanks to Uncle Sam’s Misguided Children kicks in and I go nuts for a day.
Which is all pretty fine. Except that when she gets back from any trip she will roll her eyes about how dirty the house is and then “clean” it. That is when I storm around the house pouting.
+1 don’t look under the bed
So, who’s your favorite on Vanderpump Rules?
My wife dragged me to their restaurant in L.A. We had to humour her.
Food was ok. Meh.
It always is. For example, Emeril is a crap chef, Fieri’s restaurant sucks balls, etc…
Although Wolfgang’s places aren’t bad.
I had a really good mushroom tagliatelle at Spago’s in Vegas. I think he owns that.
The crab cakes are killer.
Had an excellent lunch in one of Wolfgang’s joints at, I believe, DFW. I was all the more impressed because it was airport food, and really good.
How is Ramsay’s places?
He tried to open a BBQ place here and it failed. He then got sued by the partners.
Why is Emeril crap? Never paid attention to him. Same with Fieri. Do tell.
Good friend went to one of Emeril’s shows where they served food. She said it was horrible.
Fieri’s has a restaurant in Norfolk. It’s just bad.
Never tried a Ramsay place.
That’s the thing about these food shows. You just have to trust it’s good. Never mind it’s all subjective.
Like Carlo’s Bakery. Sure, they make really nice cakes but I don’t think it’s out of this world. Good but not like TV suggests.
Not into food shows. I like straight prepare and show recipe shows. None of this judging garbage.
“She said it was horrible”
BAMM !!
One of those food show types runs a BBQ joint in Cleveland. The food was outstanding. Only tv chef restaurant I’ve ever been to.
Oh, I’ve been to Batali’s Babbo. I thought that was really good.
Does he still own that place? This was, what, 15 years ago?
In Greenwich.
Greenwich Village? No idea. I can’t afford to eat at local celebrity restaurants anyway.
Yeh the village.
It was expensive.
Most are these days.
Michael Symon. Like Emeril, another guy who got TV-famous after already making his mark as a chef.
Mario is persona non grata. His partners, Lidia and Joe Bastianchi booted him for being a #metoo pig.
Is he out at Eataly too?
Mario is persona non grata
He’s been un-personed; there was a new Iron Chef (they come out erratically now) when that was breaking and it took me a bit to figure out why it seemed odd – instead of the usual three judges, there were just two, and some of the shots seemed oddly composed.
As you can guess – Mario was the third judge and they flat-out recut the episode around him; if you’re looking you can catch him in some background shots, but that’s it.
Really creepy.
That said, and not to go all Robbie on you, Mario was apparently was up to some legit awful, criminal shit.
Yep. All his products and books were removed in 2017.
Is he out at Eataly too?
Yep, he’s poison so he was essentially forced to sell off his ownership stake in everything.
TW: NYT
@slum. Yes, Mario turned out to be a true, piece of shit. Too bad. I did like Malto Mario.
Too bad. I did like Malto Mario
Same; talent, ability and hard work don’t preclude someone from being a shitbag, sadly. That’s been repeatedly proven.
Linky broky.
What the heck was he up to?
Oh and……
Orange man bad for real.
Whoops:
link
Mario was a bit rapey.
On a side note, I now totally assume he was banging Gwyneth Paltrow
I’ve been to two of Ramsay’s places in Vegas. Burgr and his steak house. I liked both.
Tyler Florence (the host of Bite Club and The Great Food Truck Race) owns and operates the Wayfare Tavern in San Francisco. The food is fantastic.
http://wayfaretavern.com/wp-content/uploads/Dinner-8.pdf
Shit Francisco? The place where they shit in public like monkeys?
It’s in the Financial District. Cities tend to keep that part of their town clean because that’s where the money is. A San Francisco poop app bears this out.
Emeril is a crap chef
You’re in the minority with that opinion. I had a really excellent meal at NOLA.
Emeril is a legit chef who ended up on TV after building a successful career.
I went to Morimoto’s place in Philly. It was utterly amazing.
Never been to any famous chef’s place, but a buddy of mine (notable in our circles for just not caring about food at all) went to Bobby Flay’s place in Vegas, spent almost $400 there for two people, and said it was worth every penny. His wife (total foodie) practically orgasmed when he mentioned the place.
Sometimes it is worth it.
A few years back we were hosed for $100 a person at restaurant here in MTL.
But know what? It was outstanding.
I wouldn’t make it a habit but there you go. There’s also a pizza place right across the street. Just about as good a pizza you’ll get. Expensive but I don’t care. It’s that good.
I’ve been known to spend. And die again.
Well, there’s expensive and then there’s expensive. The BBQ place in Cleveland I mentioned was the former – and therefore worth it. I’m kind of thrifty though, so I doubt I’ll ever drop $100 a head. Unless my circumstances radically change for the better.
My wife doesn’t help.
Rufus (looks to wife for cue): It’s expensive.
Wife: Meh.
She’s a huge proponent of ‘you live once and life is way too short.’
I doubt I’ll ever drop $100 a head.
*hides Amex bill from Rhywun*
Hey guys, look at this hip chick playing beer pong! If my family was just featured for running a sex cult, I might tone down the drinking aspect of my persona.
In fairness to her, when you are sitting at half a percent support any attention is good attention.
LOL. You’re screwed Mr L.
I recommend a puppy.
I recommend a puppy.
Adding more responsibilities into the mix does not sound like a smart move in this situation.
Then again, it does sound like the Florida Man move in this situation, so I second the motion.
Well to be fully Florida Man, shouldn’t it be a baby caiman or python?
A handful of ferrets.
What could possibly go wrong??
pit bull/rottie mix
That bird that was going up for auction because it killed it’s owner…in Florida, IIRC.
Would the puppy be in addition to, or instead of?
Good news Mr. Smith, your kidney is on a drone right now. My 12 year old son Timmy is operating it, he’s really excited about drones and I thought this would be a good way to encourage him since he’s struggling with his STEM courses right now.
when they were shot
By each other?
Probably the clerk they went all London Bridge on.
https://www.foxnews.com/science/cocaine-found-in-shrimp-shocking-study-reveals.amp
Submitted without comment.
*buys shrimp futures*
Where can I get me some of this shrimp?
Florida shrimp?
Shrimps do coke?
Reminds me of this channel. Well, it was an excuse to post it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og1bQuiLQ-M
Shrimp with an energy boost.
Aka Robert Reich with an espresso
Democratic New York Sen. and presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand released a new ad Monday on Twitter, in which she plays beer pong with water.
So…. she’s not playing beer pong. Later in the article:
The other is receiving donations from 65,000 unique donors, including a minimum of 200 donors in at least 20 states.
Wait, you can buy your way in? Huh, that could be amusing. Imagine if Vermine Supreme bought his way in?
Isn’t that what Trump did yesterday with Chuck and Nancy?
“2T, Nancy, I like your number. That includes the no impeachment, right? Good, good, the best number. You get re-elected and I get nothing, right?”
Wait, you can buy your way in?
Yes. And Mike Gravel is trying to do just that with the sole purpose of getting on the debate stage to raise issues he thinks are being ignored.
If Glibs had a larger audience, it would be funny to try to run a campaign to get someone like Sugar Free up on the debate stage under those rules.
^^^I accept^^^
I will gladly register as a Democrat and donate to your campaign. Well, as soon as I can find 64,999 other people to join me.
I wonder if this is something that could be accomplished with a Kickstarter…
I’d kick in for that.
“Ilhan Omar: ‘This Is Not Going to Be the Country of White People’
Black Lives Matter and other anti-Trump groups held a rally on the grounds of the Capitol on Tuesday to call for President Donald Trump to be censured for what he said about Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) controversial statement that “somebody did something” on 9-11.
People chanted ‘“Hands off Ilhan” and in a series of speeches blamed the president and Republicans for the rise of “white supremacy masked as white nationalism.”
Omar spoke at the event in praise of her homeland of Somalia and said the president and his Party are responsible for recent attacks on synagogues and mosques.
“At this moment, the occupant of the White House and his allies are doing everything that they can to distance themselves and misinform the public from the monsters that they created that is [sic] terrorizing the Jewish community and the Muslim community,” Omar said.
Omar said she is criticized because she is a Muslim woman.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/30/omar-at-hands-off-ilhan-rally-trump-gop-created-monsters-terrorizing-jews-and-muslims/
TW: Breitbart
JFC.
She’s poison.
Ha-ha-ha…. now you know
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb2np1HGqxg
Praising Somalia for what?
The question should be….then why did you leave bitch?
Because it was too Libertopia for her??
And she didn’t want her daughters to go through the FGM that rendered her a bitter woman?
I just think it’s most rude and unbecoming of someone who escaped a dangerous shit hole to then piss on the country that accepted her and afforded her a great life. It points straight to her ungrateful mindset. She should kiss the ground every fucken morning.
100%, this is why I especially despise her.
Yeah, its really bothersome for someone who took refuge in a country because things were horrible in their home country to turn around and say the country in which they took refuge is a horrible place but their home country is amazing.
I hate saying it but maybe this is one instance where “there ought to be a law”: if you are a refugee in America then start publicly claiming America sucks ass and your home country is better, your refugee status gets immediately permanently revoked with deportation to follow.
I know if I put up someone whose house burned down and they started saying their burned down house is currently better than my house, they’d be looking for another place to crash.
Apparently she was arrested in 2013.
https://alphanewsmn.com/ilhan-omar-arrested-in-2013-for-trespassing-booked-at-hennepin-county-jail/
She’s all about mayhem for its own sake.
Her parents took her along when they left. I doubt she could have chosen to stay at the age of 11.
That said, I do agree she is toxic. But hating your fellow countrymen is par for the course in her party.
I don’t think she realizes calling Trump ‘the occupant’ somewhat diminishes her claims he’s divisive.
They also call Israel ‘occupiers’.
Its roads, of course.
[golf clap]
To think I had to seek refuge in California to get away from her as my US Rep. What’s the country coming to?
So there is a difference? Beyond not being a commie that is…
I didn’t get that either.
This makes no sense. Masks are supposed to hide something. This is like saying “Nazism masked as fascism”. Its a distinction with only a minor difference.
When I was researching racist groups during my back and forth with David Duke, I discovered that the racist guys actually think this is a big difference.
The white supremacists believe that white people are superior to other races with respect to some set of overriding criteria (eg. morality, civilized behavior, intelligence etc).
The white nationalists don’t care about that superiority crap. They see race as a team, and you support your team no matter what. This group will make common cause with black nationalists because they see them as friendly opponents.
In the end the philosophical difference is much more meaningful to them than to us who aren’t racists; both groups see non-racists as back-stabbing traitors to the white race.
But the difference is as big as the one between left-libertarians and people who actually love freedom for real. 😉
Ok, that does make sense. Thanks for the explanation, which completely clarifies why a prog would see this as a big deal, since they’re all white supremacists themselves. If they weren’t, they wouldn’t always be taking about how white people are so superior that something must be done about it.
It’s just racism all around.
What a vile person. And from a safe district, so she’s in Congress as long as she wants to be.
“That district would elect a glass of water with a “D” written on it.”
Apparently after Keith Fucking Ellison and now the vile cunt in the 5th district, now you have to have a D and a Peace-Be-Upon-Him signature and THEN they’ll vote for a glass of water.
The cast of Jersey Shore were unavailable for comment.
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Roller-Coaster-Test-Dummies-Fall-Crash-Ocean-City-Jersey-Shore-Hotel-Roof-509233341.html
New Jersey: America’s Other Florida
I imagine there are dry towns in FL.
Ocean City, NJ is dry. I grew up close by and unlike Wildwood, NJ it really is family friendly. Wildwood, OTH…
Because they were the crash dummies, dummy.
Mmmmmmm…
Yet another song where the Weird Al parody is better than the original.
Low bar for that one
That’s the joke.
*insert Simpsons gif here*
Damn. And I’m usually so good at those.
I thought maybe they are all in the hospital to get treated for anal gonorrhea or something.
GILLIBRAND PLAYS BEER PONG IN AD
“I’m ‘with it’. I’m ‘hip’.”
Relevant
These guys are hip.
…I was going to spend several hours tomorrow morning picking it up for the cleaning people….
My late wife and my current girlfriend always insisted on the “clean for the cleaning people” bit. I’ve never understood it. You’re paying them to clean.
It’s like brushing your teeth before going to the dentist for a cleaning. You don’t want to look like a slob.
Oh….
*takes notes*
My mum was the same. And my dad insisted on me washing the dishes before putting them in the dishwasher.
That’s why you hire them. To get your wife/girlfriend to do it.
“My late wife and my current girlfriend”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJefPK_UkdM
Okay, I guess a “both” would have added to the clarity.
Yeah, they’re actually paying for the bragging rights that they can afford maid service at that point. I love listening to the housewives whine about how they have to correct the maid for reusing the sponge used to clean the bathroom to clean the kitchen. While a valid point, it betrays that the real joy is being able to order the maid about, then whine about it to their fellow yoga-pantsed, kraut SUV-driving friends.
We have a cleaning person come in twice a month (my wife got a job and basically pays for it herself, so who am I to complain?). But we usually do need to pick up some areas each time so that they can then be cleaned.
Bingo. You’re paying them to clean the toilets, vacuum the floors, mop, etc, not to put away your dirty clothes. You clean up before they come so you get all the crap out of the way that would otherwise prevent them from doing their job.
Buy a hamper and draw a map to the laundry room for your woman.
Dirty clothes on the floor? What kind of barbaric heathens are we talking about?
Teenagers.
Impossible then.
Did you ever get the video I sent you?
I don’t think so. did you send to the c.anacreon gmail address?
That one has weird spam filter issues. I’ll check it out in a bit.
Yep.
A great video on those dogs in the T&C with a hottie host.
You’ll love it.
Can confirm re: that video. Three thumbs up!
Ah. Say no more.
Hmm so Guaido is still a free man. Interesting that Maduro does not feel he is able to just arrest him. For now that is…
This is the weirdest coup ever. No one really rallies to the opposition, but the dictator is seemingly unable to do much of anything to really crush the guy.
Makes me wonder if the claims that Maduro is dependent on Cuban troops might be true…
Wouldn’t surprise me given that the head of the police or army or whatever publicly rebuked Maduro. Seems like most of the armed forces/police are kind of sitting this one out, not getting very involved either way.
There’s 20,000 of them. I think the military is sitting on the sidelines and waiting to see what happens.
No one really rallies to the opposition, but the dictator is seemingly unable to do much of anything to really crush the guy.
From what I’ve read, the opposition had more people rally to it but the dictator had more people with guns rally to him. Such imbalance would explain the odd impasse.
They’ve been arming his socialist supporters (the Colectivos, is that the perfect name or what?) Meanwhile it’s illegal for anybody else to have a gun.
If we’re gonna talk about English hooligans on the Continent, I’m putting up one of the great pop-punk songs of all time.
Matt Damon’s finest performance!
That movie is surprisingly good.
For a stupid teen comedy, yes, it’s shockingly funny. Plus the German chick, whoever she is, was a knockout.
Jessica Boehrs
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0127080/
She was great in Kreuzfahrt ins Glück!
Which movie?
Eurotrip.
We were referencing the Bratislava scene yesterday in the Pie article.
So two days in a row that it has been discussed.
Euro Trip
Fuck Liverpool.
There actions at Heysel cost the best Everton team in the last 50 years the chance to play in Europe. And caused the team to break up because the stars wanted to play in Europe.
Just in time for Everton to be at a nadir when the Premier League starts.
If it wasn’t Liverpool, it would have been another English team.
But it was Liverpool.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_Bomb_(album)
This is the greatest punk album of All Time.
Wait till after the match – the shit Liverpool is putting out on the field right now isn’t going to make them happy.
BTW, I am very disappointed with all the soccer talk. It’s as if a bunch of European communists have infiltrated the Gliberdome.
The thought of a CL final with no English teams warms the cockles of my heart.
а че? только заметил?
Lionel Messi is a human cheat code.
Once I ate in a restaurant in Buenos Aires that was across the street from the apartment building where he lived in the penthouse. It was all anybody who worked at the restaurant spoke about the whole night. Then we went on a city tour the next day and went to the slummy side of town where he apparently grew up as a highlight. The man is an effing god down there.
Kamala Harris Wants to Ban Right-to-Work Laws
On Saturday, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) advocated a federal ban on right-to-work laws, which have been adopted by 26 states. These important laws give workers the choice of whether or not to join or pay dues or fees to the labor union that ostensibly represents them. These unions often have political stances that do not represent their workers, so the ability to opt out of paying or joining them is important for workers’ First Amendment rights.
Yet on Saturday, Harris advocated forced union membership for workers, in the name of worker freedom. George Orwell would be proud.
Speaking at a Service Employees International Union (SEIU) event on Saturday, Harris warned that “the barriers to organized labor being able to organize and strike are something that have grown over a period of time and we need to address that” through both laws and the “bully pulpit.”
“Let’s be more specific: It has to be about, for example, banning right-to-work laws,” Harris declared, without skipping a beat. “That needs to happen.” She also called for increased “penalties on corporations that stand in the way of organized labor being able to do the work that is about advocating for working people.”
Something something ‘pro-choice’…
She’s confused. She thought she was talking about the right [of the state to force prisoners] to work [for nothing].
What a shock!
She knows it will never happen. It’s a ploy to curry union endorsements.
If there’s one thing that warms Kamala Harris’ fat, black heart, it’s using state force to compel people to do things against their will.
I do too. If an employer wants to negotiate a closed shop, that is his business.
If the employer was free to agree to the union, then I would agree with you. They are not. Unions in business are fundamentally not based on mutual agreement, but on the government forcing a business owner into a relationship based on a (damn unfair) election by the employees. To then turn around and force employees into that relationship is compounding an already bad situation.
“Let’s be more specific: It has to be about, for example, banning right-to-work laws,”
Ummm…does that actually pass constitutional muster?
Depends…are we gonna bring Lochner back?
“In San Diego, @BetoORourke says he has to head home to address family crises including the disappearance of baby Gus, the family turtle. Prognosis for finding Gus doesn’t look good, he says.”
https://twitter.com/MaeveReston/status/1123309235486375937
That’s leader material right there.
Is he running for president or for chairman of the neighborhood association board?
He was going to run for Dog Catcher, until he found out how fast they are.
This is for real? I was for sure thinking this was clipped from Babylon Bee, but nope, a CNN National Political Reporter would never stoop to falsehoods.
Oh Man I didn’t realize that until you said that. I thought it was some spoof tweet…
Beto probably stepped on the turtle while climbing up on a table.
Are you by any chance referring to the old elementary school playground rhyme?
Here comes the bride,
All dressed in white.
Stepped on a turtle,
And down came her girdle.
McConnell got into the cocaine infused shrimp?
Well, that is a gracious way to bow out and still save face.
They make my work so hard to do.
Remember the shit McCain got in 2008 for pausing his campaign to “deal” with the financial crisis? I’m sure they will be mocking the crap out of Beto on all the comedy shows, right?
He’s talking about his dick, obviously.
Maybe the turtle ? had his own skateboard.
English Hooligans strike in Barcelona.
Liverpool is the Philadelphia of Europe?
Do they eat horseshit off the street in Liverpool? If so, then yes, they are.
Liverpool is Boston.
Philly is probably Manchester.
Which makes me wonder how I’m a Philly/Liverpool fan.
I am a Cincinnati*/Everton fan.
I guess it makes sense, historical teams with little success recently.
*but not the Bengals, not really an NFL fan at all.
By default I am a DC fan for MLS (and NFL). But when I watch I pull for an eastern conference team over a western conference team. I had a roommate in college that was a die-hard Manchester United fan and we would watch games. Naturally I rooted for Manchester City when they played each other.
I know that Indianapolis White Castle! I used to drive by there every day and stop in occasionally. It’s a little rough.
B.P.: I’ll have a burger.
WC: You want fucken fries with that prick?
B.P.: Hey!
WC: Come on, come on. You’re holding up the line snowflake. Honey BBQ or Spicy?
B.P.: Just ketchup and mustard.
WC (into mic): White burger for Mr. White Privilege.
B.P.: Hey!
WC: You’re #29. NEXT!
Venezuela updates from El Nuevo Herald (Miami Herald en espanol)
1. Guiado has called for a general strike; starting with staggered work stoppages towards a full strike. Does it really count as a strike if you stay home because you’re not getting paid?
2. The Cuban foreign ministry says there are no Cubans (except all of the medical workers the state pays for) in Venezuela.
3. The Pentagon has ruled out “imminent” military intervention, so that’s good.
Here’s one I missed. Elliott Abrams, so you know, huge grains of salt.
Basically. Abrams is saying that the Chavistas apparently negotiating for Maduro’s bloodless exit from the country have “turned off their cell phones”. Likely means nothing.
“turned off their cell phones”
So, they’re still in denial.
The batteries went dead and no power to recharge them?
Could jump them from their Teslas. Oh, that’s right…
Not seeing any indications on my end of military intervention in Venezuela – stupid declarations from FL Senator-man notwithstanding.
In other news….this would be a great step (and long overdue IMO): https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/30/us/politics/trump-muslim-brotherhood.html
Has NYT written anything about the Trump administration that wasn’t “according to officials familiar with the matter”?
Do they have a policy of exclusively using anonymous sources when reporting on Trump? Come on guys, Obama isn’t President anymore. You’re not going to go to jail, be wiretapped, or get audited for saying negative things about the man in office.
Oh, sometimes it’s from sources familiar with his thinking.
It shocks me that anyone can claim to be familiar with Trump’s thinking with a straight face.
Well, you can be familiar with his thinking. But, the consequences are total and incurable insanity. Some say that SugarFree can tolerate it. But, I don’t think anyone wants to find out.
a storied and influential Islamist political movement with millions of members across the Middle East
Since they are basically the “acceptable” front for a bunch of terrorists, that sounds like all the more reason to bring them down.
Remember Level 42?
Guitarist Boon Gould dies at the age of 64
Now he’s level -6.
*slow clap*
I dug their hits.
There’s something about you, Ted.
You like the cut of his jib?
It’s Over…
Ah yes…
Duh duh duh woohoo oOoOO woohoo oOoOO ooooo
For a moment I had him confused with that Somerville guy from Bronski Beat
Delta Force commander dies in… lawnmower accident!?
Did he have something on Hillary?
Great news via e-mail:
“Hello parents,
In 4th grade Social Justice Studies for the month of May we will be discussing Climate Change, the root, and how we can solve it. At the end of the month we will have finished letters urging our state representatives to act now on reducing carbon emissions. We will discuss the meaning and necessity of equity and Climate Justice, and demand that our voices be heard by those in power.”
Why does my kid’s private school have a Social Justice Studies program? Because the founder of the school’s daughter-in-law is the teacher/indoctrinator. It’s a great school and is good for the kid, so I put up with it. I don’t talk to my kid about politics and such at. all., but I’m hoping by the end of the month he’ll be writing to the state representatives about the wonders of zero-carbon nuclear energy.
Is that a cut’n’paste? Because the grammar is horrible.
The part between the quotes is.
And these people are educators? They teach children? smdh
I’d be having a meeting with the school.
Similar to how my third grader was going to be career evaluated at school. I put the kibosh on that one.
I suspect I will. I know there are at least a couple other parents who are not pleased.
This is the problem with bundled services from cable TV, to private schools, and even to HOA’s.
The less they spend, the less CO2 they emit.
I’m having a hard time squaring the circle of “its a great school” and “they indoctrinate 4th grades into social justice”.
I’m trying to think offhand of anything I learned in fourth grade that made any kind of difference to my adult life. Frankly I’ve never understood what other than an absence of gunplay makes an elementary school “great”. I can grok attending a top tier college to some degree depending on your career aspirations, maybe even a college prep program, but fourth grade?
I want to read that book “The Case Against Education” by Bryan Caplan. I already know from the Tom Woods show as well as some of my own research that the American public school/university system is worse than useless.
I sometimes go on rants here about how the whole education system is long overdue for a massive market correction, largely due to the new capabilities unleashed by the Internet. There’s very little information you can get at schools that you can’t get online for free. And the stuff you can’t do over the Internet (e.g. hands-on disciplines like auto mechanics or medicine) could probably be offered at for-profit educational labs for a much lower cost.
It’s one of various sweet visions that I cling to when I need to cheer myself up: Widespread collapse and downsizing of schools and colleges, drastic reduction in power of teacher’s unions, control of education slipping through the fingers of government, and the emergence of a lean, efficient, open-minded, and effective marketplace of schools.
I’m pretty sure the main function of the “education” system is to provide free day care services and after than engage in a sort of Kabuki theater that resembles teaching.
It’s a long rant, but it seems to me our main problem (as in many things) consists of not knowing what we’re trying to do. How does one define an educated eighteen year old? What subjects should they have been required to study, for how long, and to what degree of proficiency? What tasks should they be able to execute? And how should we measure those things? Further, what should we do with those who can’t, or won’t rise to that level of proficiency?
The lack of any coherent answers to these questions allows for silliness such as a fourth grade social justice curriculum to proliferate. Nobody has any idea what is supposed to be happening, so just about anything involving an adult standing in front of a board looks like serious learning.
First Bigfoot Bill (book turned out awesome by the way), now Shinobi Sasquatch (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/shinobi-sasquatch-book-one/x/6734996#/) – it’s truly the year of STEVE SMITH.
“WOW: @IlhanMN says the U.S. has “helped lead the devastation in #Venezuela,” and accuses the U.S. on “bullying” the Maduro regime.
Apparently Maduro’s starvation of his people and armored trucks running them over in the streets is not worthy of criticism in her eyes.”
https://twitter.com/thejcoop/status/1123676951573561345
Poisonous batshit mentally retarded.
I’ve said before, the media has been doing their best to promote the Three Stooges (Omar, Tlaib, & Nieman Marxist) as the “New Face of the Democratic Party”(tm) because they’ve actually drunk the Kool-Aid. But, in practical terms, it’s been nearly in-kind contributions to the Re-Elect Donald Trump campaign.
The issue arises after 2024. If we don’t get another outsider who publicly calls out this BS, all we’ve done is put the slide towards totalitarianism into forbearance for eight years. If all that pent up communism comes due at once on January 20, 2025, we may all OD and die off.
Well, those of us left after Net Neutrality repeal and pulling out of various climate agreements at least.
Socialism seems to be a disease like chicken pox that every country eventually needs to contract to try and build an immunity.
Too bad it kills so many in the process. The remaining eastern Europeans may be the only ones to have successfully been immunized.
Not all of them were immunized. I’ve chatted with a few former Eastern Europeans that miss Communism. Almost all of them, but not all, were part of the connected/favored classes. Thankfully they are in the minority.
They’re probably the lazy ones.
Well it certainly makes sense that the winners under communism would resent losing their golden ticket.
The issue arises after 2024. If we don’t get another outsider who publicly calls out this BS, all we’ve done is put the slide towards totalitarianism into forbearance for eight years.
Maybe. Of course, I certainly hope not. There’s part of me that is always the perpetual optimist that wonders if maybe the fever will break if it can be held off long enough. Put it this way. Let’s say in 2020 Trump not only gets re-elected, but there are significant gains for the Republicans in Congress. Because the media didn’t realize that they were showing the public the abyss and the public recoils in horror. What happens? There’ve been a number of Dems, some prominent even, who have been warning the party not to go where it’s been going. Do you think they shut up and play nicey-nice with the loons who cost them their coronation? Or do you see a full-on purge?
Its always purges.
It seems like each generation of leftist looks at their predecessors as compromising pussies, and their successors as insane radicals. Yet the cycle continues in a race to the bottom.
The Three Stooges won their seats after the dems lost in a spectacular manner which they still to this day refuse to admit actually happened, much like my toddler refuses to admit that things happened if he didn’t want that thing to happen.
These politicos show very little capacity for learning and little desire to represent the American people. Many would rather represent foreigners and openly say so. And voters still vote their party 80% of the time regardless of who is on the ticket.
Expect more AOCs to pop up in safe D districts, which will grow the crop of radicals to serve as Presidential candidates.
Expect more AOCs to pop up in safe D districts, which will grow the crop of radicals to serve as Presidential candidates.
You see, I don’t think the purges will be of the center. But, of the radicals. You lose once, you can blame the other guy. You lose twice, it starts to look like maybe something’s wrong. You keep losing and those radicals from safe D districts look like they’re doing more harm than good.
When you start from the twin premises that America is inherently evil and socialism is inherently a godsend, all sorts of mental gymnastics are required to make sense of the world.
Socialism fails.
Possible causes:
1. Not real socialism
2. The right people weren’t in charge
3. US sabotage
4. All of the above
Funny how often that happens. The system is remarkably fragile. In order for socialism to work you need perfect leaders, a perfect populace, and a guarantee that neither of those two things will change. Ever.
Resilience is racist.
What’s that saying which goes something like “a good idea/company survives and thrives in spite of bad management rather than because of it”? Someone here said it once and I can’t remember it too well, but it seems to aptly describe socialism.
Was it Friedman that says a good government system causes bad men to do the right thing.
I was listening to Fox Radio on the drive home and apparently it is a slam dunk that Trump obstructed justice. Apparently, the Fox expert didn’t think too highly of one of Trump’s conflict of interest so there goes that excuse. Plus Trump called somebody to fire Mueller (because of the conflict of interest) on the weekend. As far as I could tell that was it.
I turned it off after that.
Yeah, it’s not like the President has the authority to fire a special counsel according to those right-wing Trump fanatics at Time
Constitutional crisis here we come.
Fox is going left. It’s basically been controlled opposition for a long time and as the left bound of the overton window leaps towards full on communism at lightspeed, Fox starts to adopt stances that CNN and MSNBC had a mere 2 years ago.
Boiling the frog only works when you keep the heat low enough. I’m not sure the burners could be cranked up any higher right now and it’s obvious how absolutely everything is being turned into a progressive weapon.
Eh it’s the Murdoch spawn, they desperately want to participate in NYC high society.
I only work a mile from my house. I rarely drive anymore, but last week ended up making an hour drive to a relative’s house. I made the mistake of listening to Public Radio (National & Minnesoda).
Holy Shi-ite! The slanted coverage was enough to make me go out and buy a MAGA hat. In their world, the Mueller report was damning proof that Trump was guilty of 8 different kinds of obstruction and a few flavors of treason.
I’m so glad I don’t have to put up with shit like that on my commute.
The slanted coverage was enough to make me go out and buy a MAGA hat.
First, racist.
Second, split the difference and purchase a MAGA Prime hat from CPRM’s store. I would but international shipping is murderous.
If that pissed you off, then good god, don’t look at the Wikipedia article entitled “Russian Interference in the 2016 US Elections”.
Wanton Wednesday has Cavernous Crevasses of Cleavage to calm your existential anxiety.
https://thechive.com/2019/05/01/cleavage-the-great-divide-100-photos/
62 wins just for the humor value
All I got from this is that some hero of an entrepreneur opened a White Castle next to a bar. That is brilliant.
I noticed that too. A license to print money.
Random story: today at lunch the guy making my sandwich said I looked like the actor who plays Pablo Escobar on Narcos. I didn’t know quite how to take that.
Better than Chris Parnell, I think, which is what I’ve repeatedly gotten.
I got a short Toni Kukoc back when he was playing for the Bulls.
So, a cross between Matt LeBlanc & Ralph Macchio?
More Ralph less Matt. Less hair.
Young Al Pacino starting to look like old Al Pacino here.
*begins tying noose*
President McAfee will need some body doubles, so you’ve got that going for you.
I used to get Ric Ocasek.
If that in any way results in you getting Paulina Porizkova look-alikes, that is a straight-up win.
Try ordering the shrimp.
I get Keanu Reeves.
A lot.
Humblebrag
Hey, don’t shoot the messenger man.
Keanu would have said dude.
Imposter
True story.
In Whistler, me and my buddies bumped into a bunch of girls celebrating a bachelorette party and the bride to be drunk as a hobo came up to me, touched my face and said, ‘Ooo, Keanu.’
Sadly, nothing came of it.
“Exxxxxcellent!”
When he and I were both younger I sometimes got Dennis Quaid.
I used to get Tim Robbins. Grew a beard to escape that one.
I was accosted by an elderly Serbian woman protesting Clinton’s bombing her country during the Kosovo thing. She told me that I looked liked Andy Dick. She was a big fan of NewsRadio, apparently, in spite of all the American Imperialism and stuff.
You do understand that wasn’t a compliment…
It was a comment on his level of coke use?
Yes. Yes, I do.
I get things like “my second cousin” or “my neighbor’s kid”.
My mom, OTOH – under the right light she was a dead ringer for Candice Bergen.
If it’s Wagner Moura in Tropa da Elite (great Brazilian film btw) then it was a compliment. If it was him in Narcos, well… I don’t know.
It was him in Narcos. So…yeah.
In my younger days I got Sting, Howard Jones and Christian Slater. It’s the hairline.
Lol, when I was a teenager I had serious hair. I got Shaun Cassidy once.
Man I wish I still had that hair.
A good friend of mine was a dead-ringer for 70’s era Peter Frampton. His college ID is hilarious!
He’s going on his last tour I hear due to health issues. I got to see him a few years back. He’s still got it.
Maybe you still do, but it migrated to your back & ears.
I think it’s just given up on life.
Someone once mistook me for the guy from Jon and Kate Plus Eight.
Beyond Meat IPO tomorrow – Tyson already sold their stake (not steak).
Well, I’ve had their “burger.” Frankly, The Real Canadian Superstore‘s “President’s Choice” Portobello Swiss Burger blows the Beyond Meat offering out of the water. It’s my first and only time I’ll eat the Beyond Meat thingie.
I may have been spending too much time here – I spent several seconds trying to parse “meat IPO” as some sort of filthy euphemism.
Occupational hazard, and all that.
Meat Insertion POint?
I would still bang Kathy Lee Gifford.
*retches*
Taking one for the team.
Thanks, Spud.
Then again, I’d do Ann Coulter.
Gross.
Stop that shit and go turn on Isles/’Canes.
Lol. The Isles are done.
I think.
I shouldn’t even bother to attempt a prediction this year.
CBJ is impressive this year.
CBJ is impressive this year.
Sadly, yes.
Isles seem to do better away from home*.
*Maybe because they don’t currently have one
And the Islanders have outplayed them.
Always be wary of teams who get outplayed and still find a way to win.
Love that team.
There is always a weird one that goes on a run.
Jesus man…. It’s not that bad
Same here. I like to believe she’s a pig.
Ballgags exist for a reason, after all!
Suntory Whisky Toki.
Good. I like it.
I feel like I can speak Japanese after three glasses.
Hai!
“Hi!” to you too!
I liked that stuff, but I can’t say I’ll buy it regularly given the price (here in southwest Ohio).
Yeh, it’s a bit pricy but not that bad. $60 CDN.
$44.64 in real money isn’t that bad.
I’m just a punch line to you guys, eh?
Well, adding the “eh” and the end probably didn’t help.
Certainly not, Neo.
For relaxing times, make it Suntory time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0X3CLJVMJU
I have a bottle of Toki. Good stuff. It’s pricey here as well.
You know how I know soccer is a crap sport? There’ more action from the fans than the actual game.
Paging Rufus.
Nice summation of the Russian witch Hunt
https://youtu.be/ira-KHm5OY8
That was good.
Can I ask a serious question? What crime, like specific statute in the criminal code, is the Russian Troll farm actually accused of committing. Because, it seems like posting on facebook shouldn’t be a crime regardless of nationality.
Regardless, Papadopapowhatever and Flynn (and all that baggage or threats to his family) for process crimes Manifort for actual crimes that precede everything, and noted scumbag Cohen. That’s the result of the “investigation” Two bullshit crimes, two actual crimes that don’t involve Trump, and a troll farm that I’m not even sure what the actual crime is. Fucking hell, anyone who can look at that and say “yep worth the time and money” can safely be disregarded as a partisan hack.
Nice. He nailed it.
I may have bought too many mushrooms.
They’ll cook down. They always do.
True, true – this may require two pans, however.
LOL
Last night I boiled 3oz of egg noodles to mix with the last of my leftover beef stroganoff that I popped in the microwave. Opened the stroganoff and it was already full of noodles that I forgot mixing in last time. So I mixed it all together and threw in some sriracha because why not, and ruined it. Worst dinner ever, would not do again.
You know what they call a masturbating cow? Beef Straganoff.
I approve of the cutting board. Very nice.
Yeah, that’s beautiful.
What’s the wood?
Teak.
I believe it was this though the recent review make it sound like they may be cutting corners (no pun intended).
Cool!
I have several bamboo ones, but they are boring. The teak is super cool.
I don’t care for how hard and splintery the bamboo boards I have are. The teak has a little bit of give, which is nice.
FWIW, Wirecutter reviewed boards; a smaller version of mine was one of their picks.
All the ones I have are polyethylene.
I bought them for their sex appeal.
Same, ‘ceptin’ they came in such a purty range of colours . . .
Bamboo is the best, imho.
My bamboo one was fine, but even with treatment, it ended up splitting on me.
Man, I’m getting leery of buying a lot of random stuff on Amazon lately. It seems like you never know what you’re going to get.
That is nice. We have a couple of Boos maple end-grain cutting boards that aren’t as showy as that. They just suck in the oil in this climate.
The big one is actually one of those freestanding butcher blocks (kinda like this, but a little different). Weighs a ton. I would ordinarily never buy one, but this one was a display piece at a cooking store that was having a going out of business sale. I think we paid $150 for it over ten years ago. I expect it will be in our family for at least another generation.
That’s really sweet – Money well spent.
I’ve no room for something that large, sadly.
Danke. Birthday gift from the wife.
I really didn’t need to buy an entire gallon of mineral oil, but the regular treatments do have great results.
Every few weeks I’ll bleach my board and then coat it with oil. Based on the look of your board, I now need to replace mine 25 year old one.
Straight bleach or diluted “sanitizer” blend?
10% bleach solution.
What is yours made from?
Mine is maple. Boring.
The Vatican- tackling the tough issues.
Doesn’t this idiot have advisors?
Advisors? Sure. Good advisors? Jury’s still out.
Lebron James the producer of Barbershop has a sadz.
“Hi guys, I need some help. I made a tactical error of failing to empathize with how busy my wife ..”
I think I see the problem right there.
No shit.
If I had a dime for every time I did that I could afford a trophy wife.
My point was probably too abstruse. It’s the idea of having a wife I can’t grok. A 24/7/365 companion that you have to answer to. I can’t do it.
Well, it helps to marry a smokin’ hot one…
I’m only good for a weekend then I want my space back. Probably some deep seated psychological thing from experiencing my brawling parents
Or I’m just a freak
I hear ya. I’ve known a tiny handful of people in my life I felt I could do the 24/7 thing with. None of them were among my romantic partners.
I’m exactly the same way. I don’t like being around any gigantic crowds where I’m expected to interact with other people (e.g. at a bar or huge family event). A group of about six comprised of half new people and half good friends seems to be the ideal social situation for me. And I need to balance out any social time with corresponding alone time, and longer alone time is needed for more intense social situations. For example, if I have to go to a big family event with 20+ people, I’ll probably just shut myself in for the rest of the weekend and maybe have a few close friends over.
… Although I didn’t have any brawling parents, so I’m not sure what the cause is. I just remember being an introvert my entire life.
Appreciate those last 2 posts. I’m not alone in being alone lol.
I just had a lady who is fun as hell and pretty as hell spend the weekend. Had a great time but was glad to see her leave
Yeah, man. I’m assuming you’re just a run-of-the-mill introvert. Nothing crazy or freakish about it.
I really liked this TED talk. She is really relatable and…sweet. When I fist saw this, something kinda “clicked” and I realized I was an introvert and it was not only OK, but something to embrace.
After spending some time among the progs, I’m about ready to start BASIC ECONOMICS FOR BASIC BITCHES podcast/videos or something.
The “socialism is so great!” crowd is driving me nuts. Episode one – “WHAT IS CAPITALISM? no Becky it’s not WellsFargo is a big meanie.”
Although with some of these people I’m not even sure they know what money is – it’s just on a card, right?
“Payday” going from an envelope filled with money, to an envelope with a check in it, to some numbers on a screen changing has had some negative consequences in terms of understanding the value of a buck.
They don’t understand where money and wealth come from and how wealth is created. It’s like talking to somebody who thinks electricity comes from holes in the wall and food comes from whole foods
Update on the wonder ham:
I raved about my Easter ham earlier. Today I used the bones to make a pot of beans. Typically, there is no flavor left in the remaining meat so I just toss it. On a whim I tore a piece off the bone and it was somehow still fantastic. I then spent the next 45 minutes with a hammer, chisel and tongs breaking apart the h-bone and nomming all the scraps.
She’s totally gonna spit in my drink when I go to the bathroom tonight, isn’t she?
Relevant. Hilariously relevant.
Wow.
10/10
Lol awesome
MAMA
Just sniffed some hair…
Put my nose against her head…
…grabbed her by the throat
Banged that ass on the bed
Busted in the house
Saw a bitch feelin dread
Showed her what it’s like
Now she knows why I got cred
Well that escalated quickly.