The Tiny Terror (my 3 year old, not the one in my pants) wanted to have a 1am party. Took about an hour to get him settled down, then he was up again at 5am. I’m basically less functional than a zombie at this point of the day. Here, have some links.
The US Supreme Court seems to have indicated that civil forfeiture of a value greater than the maximum fine for the crime of which a person has been convicted is unconstitutional. It does not appear to me, not a lawyer, that the decision addresses whether or not a person must be convicted of a crime before such proceedings can be undertaken.
Looks like Andy McCabe might have spoiled the party for the Collusionists. It looks like Mueller may be issuing his report next week. The skeptic in me says that this is because the FBI has decided that they do not want any further attention on their behavior in the 2016-2017 timeframe.
Apparently teh gheyz not only infiltrated The Vatican, they run it like a shadowy cabal of Italian merchant families. Hey guys, take it from this lapsed Catholic: YOU were in charge of making sure children weren’t raped and abused. I don’t give a fuck about your sexuality because THE ENTIRE POINT OF TAKING THE VOW OF CHASTITY IS TO SUBSUME YOUR SEXUAL IDENTITY TO THE SERVICE OF THE CHURCH. It doesn’t matter if priests were raping boys or girls. Whatever good individual priests and nuns do (and I still believe there are a lot of them honoring their vows and doing good deeds in the service of the least among us), the Church itself is entirely rotten at this point.
Looks like Bernie can afford himself a 4th house.
After a rant like that, I guess I’m gonna go to Hell.
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418 responses to “Wednesday Afternoon Links”
THICC Zombie Girl is THICC
Brains are mostly fat.
https://www.oddee.com/wp-content/uploads/_media/imgs/articles2/a96711_porkbrains.jpg
1170% of your daily value of cholesterol.
Access denied for me, but I’ve seen the nutrition label for pork brains in milk before.
Brains must be great for keto.
“pork brains in milk”??
That chef must really hate jews.
Well, they had to stop serving cow brains because of Mad Cow Disease.
Wait, the prohibition isn’t just against the delicious meaty parts of the pig?
Yeah, there’s a thing about cooking meat in milk, I think particularly the milk of a different animal than the meat.
No, the same milk.
Mentioned in two other places as well, so really important. And interpreted to mean not eating any meat with any dairy in the same meal.
Oh yeah, that’s it. I just got through Exodus, I should’ve remembered.
And somehow extended to not eating poultry with dairy, but fish is ok.
That’s… real? ????
https://www.amazon.com/Rose-Pork-Brains-Gravy-Ounce/dp/B00FHIAIIE/ref=asc_df_B00FHIAIIE/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312140299152&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=1944424120388274930&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9031956&hvtargid=pla-633283988357&psc=1
No pics. What a gip.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/wisconsin-high-school-cheerleaders-received-awards-for-biggest-breasts-butt-at-banquet
That’s just irresponsible journalism.
Is there another kind?
Yes, hispanic weather reports.
“enormous boobs”
Let the record show that I did not post this link.
Thank you.
*narrows gaze*
( . ) ( . )
Seriously Swiss? You should be giving Q an award.
Maybe a prize: https://www.thisisinsider.com/a-pair-of-premium-melons-sold-for-a-record-setting-29000-in-japanese-auction-2018-5
Japanese melons don’t get very big.
Melanin deficiency.
Yoko Matsugane disagrees. Vehemently
Exception to prove the rule.
Who?
*searches Duck Duck Go*
*clicks Images tab*
*faints*
Meh. Just a bunch of basic white girls.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DXad8hbVAAAc9XU.jpg
I prefer fortran white girls, anyway.
In just world, you would get a catbutt for this. Or at least a lemurbutt.
You are old af, Ted.
At least it wasn’t FLOW-MATIC
Please stop bringing up your period, Scruffy.
But FLOW-MATIC requires a period at the end of each statement!
What kind of madness is that?! At least Smalltalk only requires a period between statements.
Hey, it was 1955
Doesn’t FLOW-MATIC turn your shop vac into a barbershop?
He’s part of a shadowy cobol.
Admittedly, with some assembly required.
If I could see sharp I might have seen your comment before replying.
My first computer programming was BASIC (with line numbers!) on a TI-99/4A, saved to cassette tapes.
Those of you who used punch cards are welcome to tell me to get off your lawns.
In 1972 I had a class where we punched holes in cards. I had no idea what we were doing. Still don’t. You’re welcome to set up your blanket on my lawn and pretend its a tent. Watch for the fire ants though.
Don’t they freeze to death in Minnesoda?
In 1979 we had punch cards. The FORTRAN semester final was programming a calendar for the year. I got a “C” even though my calendar was correct. I never determined why since I checked the block for my computer science class requirement and was done with programming classes.
“My first computer programming was BASIC (with line numbers!) on a TI-99/4A, saved to cassette tapes.”
God help me, I have something in common with Ted
#metoo but more so on a C64
In undergrad I used to do FORTRAN programs on punch cards because that was the only way to have a record of the JCL. If there was an error in the JCL you could waste a lot of time trying to troubleshoot the program itself.
OK, get off my lawn 🙂
My first programming experience was in junior high. My dad’s company bought a new computer to do accounting, but nobody knew how to program it. My dad learned and taught me and I wrote a few programs for the company ($25/program!). Input was through paper tape, and the whole machine (the size of a large piece of furniture) had 400 bytes total for the program and data storage. Machine language FTW!
How long did it take you to COBOL that reply together?
Is this going to SNOBOL out of control?
Go FORTH and comment, one and all.
I’m gonna need another cup o’ java if I’m gonna wrestle with this pun-python.
I learned to program FORTRAN back when it was still THREETRAN!
Q prefers C++
I would think he’d prefer D. Granted, it’s younger, but I don’t think that’s gonna stop him 🙂
It says right on the trophy “Varsity Small”.
Where da big girls at?
Well I guess we know who got best boobs.
Dayum those girls are almost as ugly as the cheerleaders at my high school (where for whatever reason being a cheerleader was not a cool thing to be and so it was pretty much only social outcasts who even tried out)
Wisconsin, donchaknow.
That was my HS in the article. The cheerleaders were always kind of ugly, especially basketball and wrestling. The pom-pom girls had all the hotties with nice bodies.
Kenosha hasn’t got that much press since they passed a law outlawing “having your penis in a turgid state” while at the beaches along Lake Michigan.
The music link is not AC/DC.
Thought this said AOC/DC and wondered what kind of songs they would sing.
“Apparently teh gheyz not only infiltrated The Vatican, they run it like a shadowy cabal of Italian merchant families.”
Apparently they are also responsible for the Jussie Smollett hoax.
Not (((Them)))?
(((We))) are much too busy with the Trilateral Commission and Federal Reserve.
That’s BS. Everyone knows the Trilateral Commission is a mis-directional false flag designed to divert attention from the Bilderbergers.
What about the Heirs of Col. Sanders?
Yeah but they are all really controled by the Fnord motor Co as a wing of the Gnomes of Zurich who are locked in a battle with the Dscordian Society and The Network to seize control of the Eu
Splitter! Bilderberg is it, the top dog, runs it all.
UNLESS…David Icke can provide indisputable evidence.
The fact that you are desperately attempting to distract attention away from the Bavarian Illuminati and the Rosicrucians shows that you’re just shills here to D&C
NO TITTIES!
RE: Sanders.
I fully encourage this kind of insanity. In order to get out of bed in the morning, I have to believe that a majority electorate still has enough sense to reject outright Communists. The further the Donks careen sinistrally, the more they marginalize themselves into a regional party.
Wait, wit, wait ! First liar desn’t have a chance. Now all the candidates will have to out promise Ol’ Bernie. Bern probably figures he won’t be around long enough to have to worry about making campaign promises come true.
Damn. You caved to Swiss like a Pakistani apartment building in a 4.0 earthquake.
Warren only pulled in $300,000. She would have gotten $307,200,000, but she’s only 1/1024th a candidate.
BAM
*Mic drop*
The math check out.
Too bad your English doesn’t.
Sorry, the maths check out.
How long before police unions lobby to have maximum fines increased?
I’m fairly sure they already do crap like that.
Have to bump up the 3 crimes rule a bit, like to 6 to make policing begin to pay off.
I’m seeing some progressives claim that Bernie is a Russian asset who’s just in the race to get Trump re-elected, and that’s … just, just great.
They would love to be able to send him into internal exile. They will never forgive him for capitulating to Herself.
Well if anyone is a Russian asset that was developed during the 80’s…
Zing!
This is definitely the horseshoe effect.
Is it progressives or the Dem establishmentarians who are claiming that? It seems to be the neoliberals who are so quick to break out the Russia card.
Doesn’t the “liberal” in “neoliberal” usually mean the classical liberal?
There are no liberals.
Usually when I hear the term “neoliberal”, it’s a sneer against the free-market system at best, or just an all-purpose replacement for the old “fascist” slur; not the opposite of “neoconservative”.
Clinton (either) would probably be a good “neoliberal” more business friendly than their progressive counterparts, but not particularly afraid of high taxes or regulations, but unwilling to start nationalize shit. willing to swing a big dick globally
In various Poli Sci classes I’ve taken the Clinton administration was often held up as an example of neoliberalism in foreign policy.
Neoliberalism is the philosophy that it is fine to kill brown people and take their land if you do so in order to bring them democracy.
Well, I think that’s more neoconservatism. Neoliberalism says that whatever you do to brown people is fine as long as you do it after a meeting and as part of a coalition.
Neoconservatism is just Trotskyism without an icepick.
Idk. But I do know that the trouble with liberals is that they are not.
Well, they aren’t wrong, they just have the tense and timeframe wrong: Bernie was a Russian asset for a long time and only quit when the Soviet Union collapsed.
He’s still mad at the Soviet Union for quitting.
Well, it’s not as if Bernie hasn’t had much gushing praise to heap upon Russian back in the the ’80s.
If everyone is a Russian asset, NO ONE IS.
“Apparently teh gheyz not only infiltrated The Vatican, they run it like a shadowy cabal of Italian merchant families.”
Crikey, they’re on to us.
Say, could you make me Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg?
That does sound suspiciously gay.
There is nothing gay about wanting a bishopric.
It’s the Mitre hat, isn’t it?
Don’t forget the ornate crosiers
Or the mammoth amethyst ring bling
Cardinals look fabulous!
Mike Matheny did have a roguish charm to him
The Italian merchant families are back? Time to rework the secret societies board to account for this new information. Hmm, probably related to or controlling the Bilderberg steering committee.
One Medici bartender could end the Bilderber steering committee in 3 sips.
The infiltration is, and always has been, the Pontifical Swiss Guard. I mean, c’mon!
Half the staff of NR just orgasmed at the thought of a “muscular Catholocism” reasserting itself.
If the Catholic Church declares a crusade against the Islamic State’s jihad, does that mean the secular world can sit the damn war out?
At this point, this is like proving God doesn’t exist.
Clapper. Was he touching his bald head when he said that?
Clapper is such a piece of trash. If he doesn’t belong in prison no one does.
Don’t leave me out!
/Brennan
But he’s the apparatchik for the anti-Trump wing of the government, so in my flavor of American Kremlinology, this is the signal to their allies to start pivoting. “Of course, Trump wasn’t colluding with Russia, he’s just their unwitting tool because he’s so boorish and stupid”
Also, the FBI realize that it would be good if their corruption wasn’t in the news every day, even tangentially. A couple years of finding morons, converting them to terrorist ideologies, selling them fake bombs, and then arresting them is what they need to get their reputation back.
It’s a failure of the deep state, they need to learn how to cross-talk and share intelligence better.
He was probably touching both heads.
2 years
Unlimited budget while Trump appoints 2 SCOTUS plus 100 Fed judges ?
And no conclusion ?
Actions speak and if there was the smallest bit of evidence they would have stopped Trump long ago.
Can someone explain to me how Bernie is permitted to run as a Democrat? Serious question. I don’t get it. He ran in 2016 as a D. After the election he switched his voter registration back to Independent. I haven’t heard about him switching back to D but maybe I missed it. Do the D’s not impose some sort of time requirement as a D before registering for a primary?
He could run as a woman, should he chose.
I was wondering this as well. I thought the DNC had enacted a rule after 2016 to prevent an independent from getting the Dem nomination.
Wait, they did:
https://www.politicususa.com/2018/06/09/democrats-change-rules-so-bernie-sanders-cant-run-without-being-a-democrat.html
Ah, but from that article:
The plot thickens.
Lot of folks have always believed Bernie was a card-carrying Party member.
In Soviet Vermont Party always find Bernie.
It is weird, isn’t it? It almost like Bernie calling himself an Independent was bullshit and he was just a standard issue Democrat all along…
The party moved to assimilate him.
Locutus of Tard
*polite applause*
The Democrats were never socialist enough for him. Until now.
Well technically the parties do not officially exist at the Federal Level. So it is up to the individual states to determine how he gets on the ballot and which ballot he gets on. In some states it may be the fact that he cannot run as a democrat
Looks like Bernie can afford himself a 4th house.
The worst thing from that article:
Harris? How was she popular enough to be the pre-Sanders fundraising front-runner? I guess there are a lot of people from California.
I do hope Sanders buys a nice house, though, so he can have someplace to retire, sooner rather than later.
He has been dreaming of a nice dacha for a long time.
She checks the right boxes on the identity bingo card and the media are very supportive of her.
whether or not a person must be convicted of a crime before such proceedings can be undertaken.
Let’s see…
No person shall…be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; – 5A, US Constitution
Seems pretty clear, not that it matters to the powers that be.
The police think you committed a crime. They fill out the right forms. Voila. Due process.
And if you properly fill out the right forms and take your case to the Supreme Court, well, then, they’ll happily restore what remains of your property to you.
They take what they believe is their due, that’s the process.
civil forfeiture of a value greater than the maximum fine for the crime of which a person has been convicted is unconstitutional
so, if they’re convicted, the constitution has their back. Just take their shit and drop the charges, problem solved.
SJWednesday: Crazy? I’ll Show You Who’s Crazy!
And how would intentionally changing your own body be a topic of moral judgement, pray tell? I thought that changing your body to suit the person that you feel you are inside is something that we celebrate unconditionally. It’s interesting that fat people have to just suck it up and be fat, but the second a middle-schooler decides he prefers heels and wants a womb his parents are abusing him if they don’t have him on hormone therapy that afternoon.
Some mansplaining is just fine, I guess.
How could you leave out the author’s descriptor?
body-positive burlesque
There’s a chilling turn of phrase.
Brother-in-Law: What’s burlesque?
Sister-In-Law: It is retro-inspired dance show that celebrates women’s bodies.
Brother-In-Law: [growing confusion]
Me: Fat strippers.
Brother-In-Law: [nods, then frowns]
(This has been TRUE STORIES by SugarFree)
Where were you a decade ago when that description could have saved me from a revolting evening?
And that’s what happened. I saved him from a burlesque show.
Although, I was a bit inaccurate. I should have said “Fat, tattooed strippers.”
Although, I was a bit inaccurate. I should have said “Fat, tattooed strippers.”
You left out the rainbow hued close cropped hair
Don’t forget… lots of bad tattoos.
They aren’t bad you shitlord, those tattoos are slow motion performance art that changes with their growing
stretch marksbody positivity.There’s a burlesque show I’ve been to in LA a few times called Tease if You Please. A few of the girls are a bit overweight, but most of them are fantastically hot.
Strippers? Burlesque is a tease. No goodies are shown.
Not the shows I’ve been to. Everyone in my circle that was into the goth/etc. scene 20 years ago moved into the burlesque scene about 10 years later. No idea if it’s still going. At our age, I doubt it.
drag queen trapped in a cis woman’s body
So she’s a woman that wants to be a man that dresses like a woman?
Or she’s trolling… HARD?
Basically. But she also looks like she was born male.
That jaw line…
Me? I know who I am. I’m a
dudechick playing a dude disguised as anotherdudechick.Julie Andrews did that already.
That’s Perry Farrell!
I tried reading that link but you showed me that I am not woke. Fortunately. I thought only SugarFree was to be avoided, did I ever learn my lesson. Glad dinner is not for a couple hours, give me a chance to settle down.
I’m really quite charming in person.
Really, he is. Makes me wonder what deep, dark place the writings come from…
What some see as dark, I just feel is innocent malicious glee.
I just feel is innocent malicious glee.
I can see no definition of the word innocent which would allow it to be applied to your description of the intimacy between Huma and Hillary. No definition, not even a definition under which John Wayne Gacy was an “innocent clown”, can apply to that crime against sanity and the stability of our universe. You sir, not only violated God’s laws. You did so on a scale that bids fair to summon the elder gods from their eternal slumber! Your ‘innocence’ may have doomed all of creation!
That was brilliant.
I am but a simple snag in the sweater of reality.
That’s why you’re SP’s favorite.
Sanders campaign reports raising $4M in less than a day
He said he intends to have a running mate of another gender. Idk what that means in this day and age of gender being whatever someone wants at any given time. I would speculate he means one the other sex. It is a good thing that Gulag Barbie is not eligible because grandpa gulag probably wouldn’t make it through the first term (not that I expect him to win. He is too old, white and male for modern Democrats.)
Bernie identifies as an Independent and a Democrat, why not male and female. He could be his own running mate.
It’s cutting edge social justice theory!
one of*
First liar desn’t have a chance.
Nice. I haven’t heard that for a while. My old guy friends in Indy used to say that.
*no offense, Mister Old Guy
My father says this constantly. He is fourscore plus three.
No person shall…be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; – 5A, US Constitution
How quaint.
That was written with a quill pen. Did you know that?
…by a slaveowner.
Like 100 years ago! We’re more advanced now.
Why is it that the clearest tenets in our founding documents have been the most clearly violated?
The clearest are also the biggest impediments to control.
To be totally fair, there are plenty of barracks, so nobody has to house soldiers.
Is that someone knocking at your door?
Do me a favor. Open the door. And let ’em in.
Not so fast! These guys deserve credit
https://www.theonion.com/third-amendment-rights-group-celebrates-another-success-1819569379
The Onion can still bring it: Pope Spends Afternoon Filling In Glory Holes All Over St. Peter’s Basilica
If it were just an article about intentional fat loss, I’d have an issue with it on the basis that fat loss and weight loss are only potential side effects of lifestyle change, and as soon as you add intention to the mix, you’re engaging in an act of warfare against your body that’s usually a result of cultural conditioning against fatness.
That’s weird. I thought stuffing yourself like a goddam foie gras goose was an act of warfare against your own body.
Shows what i know.
Barry still can’t stop losing in court.
U.S. District Judge John Robert Blakey, an Obama appointee, issued the ruling allowing Protect Our Parks to challenge the city of Chicago’s grant of more than 20 acres of historic Jackson Park to the Obama presidential library project for a pittance — reportedly a mere $10 for an indefinite lease on the land, Fox News reports.
Jackson Park is a federally recognized historic park designed by Frederick Olmsted, the same landscape designer who fashioned New York City’s Central Park. The city of Chicago wants to “lease” 20 acres of the 500 acre park to the Obama library, allowing the former president to use the park’s land indefinitely for “a 225-foot museum tower, surrounded by a cluster of smaller buildings, including a 300-seat auditorium.”
In 2012, during President Obama’s tenure, the federal government reiterated its commitment to preserving Jackson Park, calling the land “inappropriate” for development because of its historical value.
Protect Our Parks argues that the land should be preserved as-is, and that the Obama presidential foundation could have explored other options, placing the complex on vacant land, of which Chicago’s South Side has plenty.
The monument to his holiness will have to wait.
What a shame.
I wasn’t aware he was going to drop that turd in a public park. He really has no shame.
Damn, his own appointee. That’s got to hurt.
He can’t build that.
Apparently Netflix is now spreading Russian propaganda.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/you-might-be-binge-watching-russian-propaganda-on-netflix/2019/02/20/fb08f5d4-346c-11e9-854a-7a14d7fec96a_story.html?utm_term=.30817cf45769
Everything is Russian propaganda.
Brett L is being paid by the Kremlin to run this site in fact.
The comments on the article are scary crazy.
It’s a good thing I don’t watch Netflix, then.
Propaganda and chill.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4E1zMLghhY
I see you, and raise you one Fishbone.
Fishbone, Joshn Cusak, and Tim Robbins
Wait, so…
Communism good.
But now, cuz trump, Russia bad.
Despite, Trotsky Russia = Communism.
And yet, Netflix communism propaganda is bad.
Being a liberal must be the most confusing thing.
Your problem is you’re thinking. Proper partisans leave that troublesome mess to the party.
Word. That’s why I’m bellied up enjoying a beer 🙂
But I thought socialism was cool!?
I’m imagining this set to Foo Fighters’ “My Hero”
That’s a real profile in courage right there.
He gets eviscerated in the comments.
Ah yes, Captain “Nuke the Flyover States”
His inset image on his page is him kissing a baby. If I didn’t see the blue check of leftism I’d assume that account was some troll parodying a congresscitter.
Kaila Prins is a drag queen trapped in a cis woman’s body
Wheeee! That made me dizzy. I should probably go lie down with a cool damp cloth on my forehead.
You can watch her feminist one-woman burlesque show at performingwoman.com/lovely; read her unpopular opinions about feminism, marketing, body image, eating disorder recovery, and more at her website, or find her on Instagram @performingwoman.
Yeah… no.
If you agree with the SJW theory de jure, you’re guilty of some sort of -ism if you don’t read her website.
What we need is a fresh, unused mind. Somebody who doesn’t know the difference between an -ism and a kangaroo.
My assistant has provided one. Abby something he says.
performingwoman.com/lovely
This account has been suspended.
Doesn’t the “liberal” in “neoliberal” usually mean the classical liberal?
I don’t know what anything means, anymore.
It means what I say it means!
/media
“UNDERCOVER: Late-Term Abortion Clinics Exposed!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXX9IJu_4pg
“Our investigators exposed this New York abortion facility, which says they will put a born-alive baby in a jar of “solution” to drown her. They also say to “flush” the baby down the toilet, or “put it in a bag” if she’s born alive.”
https://twitter.com/LilaGraceRose/status/1098262867512418304
Henrico Police✔
@HenricoPolice
Henrico Police is on scene at Virginia Randolph investigating reports of an active shooter. At this time there are no reported injuries and no confirmed reports of gun fire. We are continuing to investigate. Family Reunification Area at St. Peters Baptist at 2040 Mountain Road.
https://www.wric.com/news/local-news/henrico-county/police-investigating-reports-of-active-shooter-at-henrico-county-school/1796707713
I assume they set up a perimeter just in case.
Family Reunification Area
That has an Orwellian tang to it.
The official drink of Orwellian astronauts?
It tastes of apples and milk.
Not pig brains and milk?
No, now you’re thinking of poon tang.
I like your avatar. I was the one odd kid who collected Scrooge McDuck comics as a kid and it gives me that happy little moment when you see something you associate with childhood. (not associate with childhood in the “No please not the wire hanger again Mommy” sense, but that happy association like Christmas morning before you remember that you are the adult and all you are getting is a couple of coerced thank you notes sense.)
Thanks. We’d had so many references in the comments about too many people thinking that “the rich don’t do anything with their money, but instead swim in piles of gold coins like Scrooge McDuck” I thought it would make a relevant avatar, and for once someone else hadn’t already done it. I believe I had a number of Scrooge McDuck comic books as a kid too, as well as Richie Rich.
I can’t see ‘Scrooge McDuck’ without thinking of this scene.
That’s maybe five minutes from my house.
Apparently some kind of false alarm.
“Probably but still entirely credible because that is the kind of hateful violence that is encouraged in Trump’s America.”
How is it an ‘active shooter’ if no weapons were fired? Was the shooter doing jumping jacks? Also, what’s an ‘inactive’ shooter then?
an active shooter is a FPS game on a wii. An inactive shooter is what my fat ass plays on my pc, while slumped in a chair moving 3 fingers om my left hand, and my thumb and index finger on my right.
And then, there’s this
In one sense, then, the problem with the radical Left is that it is not radical enough. But if the movement is serious about trying to bring new and imaginative thinking into the public conversation, its representatives might consider giving a careful read to Eric Posner’s and Glen Weyl’s recent book, Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society. The authors, a well-known legal scholar and a maverick economist at Microsoft, share the Left’s discontent with crony capitalism, capture, and inequality. Yet, unlike the left, they offer a set of radical policy proposals that are counterintuitive, grounded in solid social science, and fly in the face of both right-wing and left-wing orthodoxies.
Consider one source of systemic injustice that has haunted economists since time immemorial: the existence of rents from immobile, fixed resources—traditionally land. A landowner who happens to own a plot adjacent to a new development may have done nothing to improve his land, yet they will see their wealth rise as a result of other people’s efforts. It only seems fair (and economically efficient) to heavily tax such gains insofar as they are not result of owner’s conscious decisions. Already in the 19th century, thinkers including Henry George and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon sought to tax rents from unimproved land.
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[insert additional nonsensical blah blah blah] aaaand the punch line:
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More importantly, unlike other forms of taxation, COST would also help move resources to their most valued uses, resulting in a culture where constant churn, instead of holding on to assets indefinitely, would be the norm. Finally, it would provide a significant mechanism for redistribution, as the tax would be levied both on assets and related liabilities (resulting thus in a subsidy for homeowners whose property has suddenly fallen in value).
Use it or lose it. But this is totally not some sort of deranged left wing redistributionist plot. It’s just a way to nudge property into its most highly valued use. Because society needs justice.
Gee, there’s just no way poor people would ever be displaced by a policy that’s designed to tax the fuck out of them if someone builds something nice next door. This takes class warfare and codifies it into law.
Gentrification as a tool for genocide?
Gentrificide.
But don’t they then also pay more property tax? I certainly did when my neighborhood became exceedingly popular. Oh, and fuck off.
So you have to value your assets yourself, and if you value them to low others will buy them off you with no further negotiation on price, and if you value them too high you get raped on taxes. This is the economic equivalent of your dad sending you outside to pick the stick he’s going to beat you with.
The value is whatever someone is willing to pay for it. There’s no secret value that only the owner really knows.
Sounds like extortion to me. Agree to pay more tax or you may have to sell your property to someone else.
Finally, it would provide a significant mechanism for redistribution
I think this is the punch-line.
To answer your query about the location of the white women…
~ef
I thought this was the question.
Wait, that Meetup respects freedom of association for all is a brickbat?
Thanks for the edit.
Ok Glibs, help me out. So my cat, Franki, recently came down with a pretty severe stomach virus. The vet gave me some anti biotic drops to put in his food but when I’d do that Franki wouldn’t touch it. So, the vet suggested using a small dropper tube to insert the medicine directly into his anus. The first time was absolute hell, my cat fought me the whole time but once the tube was in and the medicine pushed out he seemed to calm quite a bit. Well the next day he was acting strange, he has always been an independent cat, rarely coming around, never wanting to be held, but as I sat on the couch he started walking back and forth meowing and rubbing my leg. He then went and jumped up on the table where we’d done the application the night before and meowed louder and louder until I decided I guess we will go ahead and do the medicine treatment. This time he didn’t fight me though, and when I inserted the tube he closed his eyes, stretched his neck, and let out a noise that can only be described as a moan of pure ecstasy. Maybe the medicine made him feel better, I supposed. That night he slept on my bed curled up right next to me, which he had never done before. For the next week he’d do the same thing every day, meow on the table until he got his ‘fix’… But then the medicine ran out. Even though I had no medicine he’d still cry and beg for it, I thought maybe if I insert it without medicine he will realize it doesn’t make him feel better anymore and forget about it. Well that was 2 weeks ago and he is only getting worse. He walks around me all day with his tail up presenting his rectum and trying to entice me. He is demanding insertions more and more often. Yesterday I caught him looking longingly at the turkey baster… When I sit he jumps in my lap purring and rubbing me affectionately. It was then in horror I realized my cat thinks I’m his gay lover, and that I’ve been sexually pleasing him for weeks now. Needless to say the sexual tension between us is palpable. How do I let my cat know that I’m not gay, but still like him as a friend?
This is the worst chatroom ever.
LOL
Hey, $20 is $20.
(That’s how that goes, right?)
This is my cat, btw:
He looks dashing in Bear Wear.
Don’t take this the wrong way, but I’d let your cat buy me a drink.
I’m going to have to see the other end before I can give any advice.
Same as downtown right?
Convince your cat to insert things into your ass instead. When he realizes he doesn’t like it, he’ll take the hint.
I’m not sure that’s how it works.
Is it gay if it’s an interspecies relationship? Maybe give him something that requires a bit less commitment, a hand job while wearing a glove perhaps.
Dear Cat Fanciers Forum,’
I never thought this would happen to me…
Are you sure he identifies as a tom? Don’t just assume his gender!
I don’t care if he is neutered. I’m not calling him a “gib“. Facts don’t care about his meowing.
Maybe he’s pan?
HM’s cat is Pan Zagloba?
Time for you to catbutt yourself again.
I’m starting to suspect that Heroic’s superpower is to find and/or write disturbing copypasta.
In just this moment, around the world at least 100 bulls are getting jerked off by humans so we have a plentiful supply of meat and dairy products.
Perspective.
LOL. And thousands have their arms up a cows butt to deliver the ‘load’. (Been there, done that…too many times.)
Have you contacted Alex Jones? He might want to do a feature.
I started to read that in good faith, despite clearly seeing ‘Heroic Mulatto’ right there. I’m in the middle of having to medicate my dog so maybe it’s just HM showing a moment of humanity.
It started to dawn on me that it was standard HM fare, and yet I kept reading.
I would say I hate you, HM, but I really hate myself, for I knew better and yet I persisted.
It’s called “self-actualization’.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaver_Synod
Catholic Church: Woke before Wokeness
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/kass/ct-met-jussie-smollett-kass-20190219-story.html
two muscular Nigerian brothers
You wanna describe their cantaloupe-sized calves, too, racist?
Their big thighs do make them better ath-a-letes.
BTW aren’t they actually Americans?
What I think of every time I hear about these brothers.
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/john-waynes-family-responds-to-actors-controversial-1971-interview-with-playboy
So how long until Orange County changes the name of its airport?
Also might as well destroy the Walk of Fame. If we purge every dead actor for his or her unwoke political, racial, sexual views I’m not sure there will be any left. I mean just look about Hollywood’s views toward homosexuality in the past or their views of the Japanese during WWII.
Those Chinese Emperors did have some pretty nasty stuff in their past mind you.
https://www.libertarianism.org/columns/debasing-roger-taney
This Catoite sees otherwise.
The interview is 48 years old and was controversial at the time. This is news now because….why, exactly?
I don’t know anything can be a twitter controversy now if enough people complain about it and news outlets pick it up. See: Covington.
To be fair, I always wanted to know how to say “dey dinnu nuffin’” in White.
*confused* They didn’t do anything?
I see.
Don’t help him! He’s trying to learn enough White to infiltrate our chatrooms!
Me? I’m a Misfits fan – there are no black Misfits fans! Only white people take Glenn Danzig seriously.
It’s the belt buckle.
Don’t help him! He’s trying to learn enough White to infiltrate our chatrooms!
Pfft, all it takes to stop HM from passing is to post a picture of Taylor Swift and start talking about how sweet her ass is. He’ll out himself immediately by his reaction.
“What seems to be the problem, officer?”
It’ll always be SNA to me.
“It’s snowing in #NewYork. I need coffee. The closest cafe is inside Trump Tower. This is me walking to an alternative.”
https://twitter.com/RepSwalwell/status/1098312693436596226
So brave. Much heroic.
I had nothing to do with this.
Come on! It was literally 12 posts earlier that I linked this!
Nobody reads the comments.
There are comments?
UCS hardest hit. Swissy’s eyes actually open fully in happy surprise.
There are
linkscomments?Sanders supporters are masochists.
Convince me otherwise.
No sane person gives money freely to a lazy, parasitical socialist.
No sane person gives money freely to a lazy, parasitical socialist.
I think I see the problem.
“Apparently teh gheyz not only infiltrated The Vatican, they run it like a shadowy cabal of Italian merchant families”
The worst part is that PBS is in on this conspiracy!
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/secrets-of-the-vatican/
“PBS is alt-right”
“The Kids Are Alt-Right”
/The Who
The MAGA Shitlord Attacker starter kit was suprisingly easy to find and purchase.
My thoughts.
Amazon is missing out?
This was the closest I could find…
BREAKING: Video Shows Brothers Linked To Jussie Smollett Attack Buying Items Allegedly Worn In Assault
https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1098338821857366017
Missed it by this much.
Riding my coattails again….
L
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TOCODE
https://twitter.com/Drissdan/status/1098343759970918400
What a hoooooah.
HATE SPEECH!
Shouldn’t you be on a mountain or something?
I got about 15 runs in before the wind picked up. Back at the room to hot tub.
Oh, and beer.
Seriously.
https://glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/twitter.jpg
All the left has is socialism and censorship.
I fully support gratuitous usage of the word “pullout”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-slammed-over-anti-amazon-push-in-new-york-city-billboard-thanks-for-nothing
“If we were willing to give away $3 billion for this deal, we could invest those $3 billion in our district ourselves, if we wanted to.[“]
…
“No, it’s not possible that I could come to a different conclusion. The debate *must* be over my intelligence & understanding, instead of the merits of the deal.”
Yeah, it’s really reaching to impugn your understanding of tax policy, Alex.
“Try poaching your pizza instead for a healthier slice.”
https://twitter.com/Namru/status/1098101802900353024
Poach the King’s pizza. How does that make it healthier?
When I think of poaching I’m usually thinking venison…
MW
@mid__west
11h11 hours ago
Replying to @Namru
I reheat mine on the George Foreman Grill to let that grease just slide off. And then I have a dipping sauce!
This guy gets it.
https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/liberty-chronicles/was-civil-war-libertarian-moment
I’m just gonna leave this here.
A reenactment of every Glibertarians.com comment thread ever.
But which of us at the dog and which are the cat?
You know who you are!
We’re the carpet.
This seems like a good analogy for this place.
https://youtu.be/p3U__0deSGI
OFFICIALLY A SUSPECT
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/20/entertainment/jussie-smollett-attack/index.html
I’ve got to say that this has been one hell of a story. I laughed, I crie….well, I mostly laughed. I would definitely watch the whole thing again once it goes into syndication.
Is it time for conservatives to POUNCE yet?
Nah. If they go too hard on it (and they will) they’ll burn it out before they can really effectively use it as a Trump card someplace really fun.
“Why would anyone EVER fake their own oppression!?”
*coy smile that doesn’t reach their eyes* “No, I suppose you’re right. Perhaps that Jussie Smollett fellow would know…whatever happened with that case anyway?”
It’s awesome.
He’s proper fucked.
I’m $500 poorer, but I have a clear main line out to the street.
Colonoscopy?
Without prep.
You one tough chick. Apparently a high fiber diet as well.
Were you right? Was the problem where you said?
We had a few problems. The last one just got fixed. So total repairs for about 3 problems … almost $5,000 since the beginning of December. Hopefully we’re all done now.
Holy cow. That sucks.
Well, when I talk about living with bad decisions we made, buying this house was the decision I’m talking about.
It’s why I do so much DIY. Can’t afford to hire stuff done that I can do. I just don’t mess with water or electricity (beyond changing out light fixtures and outlets and switches).
I used to do all of the home projects/remodels. The body no longer cooperates. I still do a number of things, but I’ll never take another project like a kitchen or bathroom remodel.
Yeah, my rotator cuffs have benched me the last 2 years. One’s been repaired so as soon as I get my garage and tool chests put back together (thanks, Boy Child!), I’m going to get back to work.
Oh, to answer your actual question, no it wasn’t where I thought it was. I have rarely been so happy to be wrong.
But you are richer, without the aggravation.
Yes, money well spent.
So, do people really fall for Elon Musk’s bullshit anymore?
Yes.
WEREZ MUH HYPERLOOP!
Speaking of Smollett one theory I read in the Jezebel comment section (yes, I know, really!) was that Smollett fucked up since he thought that as a black gay man the CPD would ignore his attack and not bother to investigate since they hate blacks and gays so much. If that is the case that would be very ironic.
In retrospect his wishing is wishful.
“A rich guy used a PAC to pay @AOC’s boyfriend $6,000 when her campaign was running out of money. After AOC won, she gave that rich guy a job in her office. Follow me on a journey.”
https://twitter.com/ltthompso/status/1098217831215362048
https://medium.com/@ltthompso/the-congresswoman-loves-the-swamp-d33296ec251e
Read this a while ago. I refuse to get my hopes up.
Corruption in the pursuit of good isn’t corruption, comrade.
As long as you are morally correct and not factually correct like some kind of shitlord.
“She has learned well, Grasshopper”
“Reminder that the Los Angeles federal courthouse has a statue of Abraham Lincoln where he’s a shirtless young stud suggestively tugging at his waistband like a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model”
https://twitter.com/MuseZack/status/1098278578158858240
WTF, LA?
Hope they are no Native American activists in town…
“Barack Obama: ‘If you’re confident about your sexuality, you don’t need eight women around your twerking”
https://twitter.com/Newsweek/status/1098242623049998336
HM hardest hit?
Need != Want
Fucking socialist.
You don’t need that 8 lb chain around your neck. I however do need a 250 foot tower in the park to show the world how important I am.
80 does seem better than 8.
At some point you have enough twerking women around you. Who needs eight twerking women when children are going hungry? You didn’t build those twerking women.
This also sounds like the beginnings of a Rapper’s 12 Days of Christmas. 8 women twerking, 7 beats a thumping, 6 shooters shooting, 5 golden grills, 4 rims a’ spinning…
3 Bodyguards, two lbs of blow, and a hard east coast beef!
Eight years as El Presidente, and he doesn’t know why you’d have eight young things twerking while you receive supplicants. He learned nothing.
“At some point, you’ve
made enough moneyenough T and A around you.”The Olympics are toast:
Breakdancing tipped for inclusion at Paris 2024 Olympics
Uh…
1984 called and it wants its Olympics back and btw it is tired of being used as an instruction manual.
Well done! 1984 gets revenge…..
1984 Olympics II, Electric Boogaloo
The Olympics died when flag dancing became an event.
You got served, Chinese Taipei!
FUCK YES.
‘I am dreaming of a way to kill almost every last person on earth’: A self-proclaimed white nationalist planned a mass terrorist attack, the government says
Yeah, yeah, yeah, white guy doesn’t kill anybody. Is that a Nagant Revolver?
That’s not a cache that is one gun safe worth.
That’s about what I lost in last weeks boating accident. Pretty light on the ammo, tho.
NEEDZ MOAR AMMOOOO!
Quick, get this into the news so we can forget about fake hate crimes!
A Mass Terrorist Attack eh. Sounds *yawn* scary.
Yeah, just another variation on the Thanos idea. Been there, done that.
I bet he started out dreaming of a White Christmas. They warned us about that hateful song but we didn’t listen.
‘Almost’?
I wonder who gets spared. Taylor Swift?
A crazy government employee from MD? Sounds legit.
That is one sorry ass “cache”.
That is one sorry ass “cache”.
I like how this is another instance of showcasing someones guns/rounds as if the number possessed is relevant when he would not have been able to carry/use them all at once, and not likely in succession, kind of like the Vegas shooter. Btw, has there been anymore info on that one?
… kind of like the Vegas shooter. Btw, has there been anymore info on that one?
*waves hand* there was no Vegas shooter
That has been memory-holed. I’m not prone to conspiracy theories, but the silence on that one is deafening.
Well, there was that official report someone wrote on a napkin a couple weeks ago:
What’s wrong with that? Lucy v. Zehmer 196 Va. 493, 84 S.E.2d 516 (1954)
Sometime people are both evil and crazy.
True, it might be just that, but the silence makes me more prone to believe the “crazy & evil person in FBI sting gone wrong” conspiracy theories. Because it’s always a FBI sting gone wrong.
Christopher Paul Hasson called for “focused violence” to “establish a white homeland” and said, “I am dreaming of a way to kill almost every last person on the earth,”
1) Kill every last person on Earth
2) ????
3)
Profit!White Homeland!At that point, you’re not a “white” supremacist, you’re a “me” supremacist.
Wow. Nicely done.
The TV series is getting close.
I’m very interested.
‘focused violence’ + ‘I am dreaming of a way to kill almost every last person on the earth’ = shithouse rat.
It’s wrong to have dreams like that?
I’d forgotten that when you hit the Submit but on the submissions tab, it says “Sending you your safeword”. Or is that only me? Either way, hilarious.
Hmm, you must be using the special Webdom submission button.
They asked for my PIN number and the name of my childhood dog.
I am in great danger.
How can I help you?
I need your credit card number, the three digits on the back, and the expiration month and year. But you got to be quick, so I can book my ticket to Phnom Penh and escape extradition!
That wouldn’t protect you from my cheapskate wife. She’d hunt down a Mossad agent if he shortchanged her.
Sounds like a good woman.
This is my sincere message to all of you.
I managed to avoid having to explain to my 75-year-old neighbor why the Deez Nuts ad during the Super Bowl was making me laugh hysterically.
‘Dietz Nuts’, rather.
AD-1 Skyraider: A Piston-Powered Anachronism In The Jet Age But Had A Long And Successful Career
Bernie Sanders on Division Politics | It’s Wrong, Unless It’s Against the ‘Billionaire Class’
So when they go to soak billionaires, are they going to index it to inflation, so eventually it will only apply to multi-billionaires?
On second thought, once they don’t get as much money as they expect or need, the threshold will go down.
Apropos of nothing; today, we drove in to Manhattan and wifey took daughter (8yo) to see the Broadway production of Disney’s Frozen while I took son (5yo) to the Natural History Museum. A fantabulous time was had by all. I really lucked out finding on street metered parking right behind the museum at $4 for 4 hours but got raped at the pump because I forget to fill up back in Queens ($2.30/gal.) and felt like it was 2005 again at a Manhattan Mobil ($4.98/gal.). Kids are asleep already, I’m full of tacos, working on some Bourbon/cherry juice/ginger ale and a Sativa strain called Super Silver Haze and I love you all. G/d bless us, everyone.
Designing A-frames for my brother’s make-believe cottage rental business, I’m coming to the conclusion… A-frames are bullshit. You want a loft, genius? Of course you do, what else do you put in an A-frame. Where you gonna put the stairs? Where are you putting three foot runs with eighty inches of headspace? Up the fuggin’ middle, of course. SO WHERE IS ANYTHING ELSE GOING, GENIUS? You just bisected most of the run of your stupid A-frame cottage with a staircase to get up to the sleeping level.
It cuts out half the possible inside area and volume of a house.
I was at a meeting the other day. So I ask the dumbest, most obvious question: “What is the scale of this thing? Is it 1/4 inch or something metric?” Him: “Oh, of course it’s metric. 1:25, I think.” Me: “It can’t be 1:25. It’s probably 1:50.” Him: “Oh, 1:50 it is then!” Come one, man! And of course, every color is also wrong on the materials we got, and the revisions are held up in millennial heaven.