After blood sacrifices and many vile oaths, the Expedition is shifting again. The ultimate culprit? A 5 amp fuse. I guess I just misread the fuse box instructions, because I checked about six of them before ordering parts. However, both my sons thought the old shifter, taken apart was pretty bitchin’, and they don’t know dad blew $250 to fix a $.25 problem. Lemme tell you, I know a fuckton more about all the safety electronics surrounding the brake systems of modern cars though.
UN reports record cocaine production. And here I thought the blue hats just pimped kids.
Good lord, this is not for the weak of stomach. A man was found alive after a bear broke his spine and dragged him back to a den. Holy fuck.
EU vows to rip off SpaceX Falcon 9.
People who don’t understand how commodities work, part 100,404,845. Although, I’d totally go be an asteroid miner once my kids are raised.
Mexican Sharpshooter wanted me to play this for you
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Good lord, this is not for the weak of stomach. A man was found alive after a bear broke his spine and dragged him back to a den. Holy fuck.-
I’m kind of skeptical. If the bear was saving him for food, why didn’t it eat him within the month?
At the end of the article, it does mention some discrepancies such as the incident not registered in the region it supposedly happened, and the man not speaking the language of the region where it supposedly happened.
Did anyone make sure the supposed bear was not Steve Smith and that this guy was kept alive cause Steve Smith wanted to …
Well, he didn’t report being raped…
He had a broken back, so he might have thought the bear was just hugging him.
Good thing it was a bear and not some version of a SMITH.
So, not sexy.
I’m not looking at that again but it reminded me of the wax corpse that “comes to life” in Se7en.
Kind of skeptical? I’m super-duper skeptical.
Cool if true though.
I would feel bad if I called the dude a liar and it turned out to be true.
So you’re not a Democrat.
I self identify as an enthusiastic nihilist.
That must be exhausting.
Yeah, me too. I’m really, really skeptical, but I also don’t want to be the kind of person who looks at someone who manages to survive after all that and say they’re doing it for attention or something.
“You’re not just here for the hunting, are you?”
If the bear was saving him for food, why didn’t it eat him within the month?
That’s not why the bear took him back to the cave.
Oh, congratulations on fixing the truck. One of the best feelings. Problem solving and saving money.
I did something similar with a 1971 Monte Carlo back in the 70’s. It quit working. Replaced everything from the timing chain to the GM Quadrajet carburetor. Turns out it was a bad condenser that came with the tune-up kit I installed a coupe of weeks prior. Ran real well after that though.
Nice.
Troubleshooting is a painful and expensive skill to acquire.
We were told to change the cheap parts first,
but I would never figured to ohm out a new condenser
In his state, it is understandable he thought STEVE SMITH was a bear.
STEVE SMITH is considered and honorary Bear.
And smarter than the average bear.
We couldn’t know for sure if there is a BEAR SMITH or not.
No alliteration.
BEAR SMITH RAPEITERATION!
urSine Smith?
There is such a creature, he’s screwed me twice in the past month, pictures to prove it.
Rape is not sexy when it costs the rapee big bucks
Wait, STEVE SMITH takes your wallet after he rapes you too?
Damn that is harsh..
‘Most probably, it happened somewhere outside Tuva.’
Speech on the background in the video appears not to be local language Tuvan.
Where’s the video? Of course, everybody speaks Russian in Tuva.
* Takes out pad and pencil *
Is there anyone who can verify your whereabouts on the night of the 11th?
Not Adahn on June 26, 2019 at 2:40 pm
Not to step on the post of anyone’s content that is scheduled for tonight or tomorrow, but I am very much looking forward to reading glibertarians.com while the debates are on.
But is there an official Glibs drinking game?
I will read the site, but not watch the debates.
Why would that stop you from commenting on the debate?
People here get made fun of if they read the links.
It won’t. I can’t handle those assholes, but I think reading about them in short spurts is ok.
Every time someone says “free” you take a sip of beer. You’ll be drunk in half an hour
And dead within the hour.
^this^
Yes, that’s not a drinking game. It’s a suicide pact.
Also, “I believe in *XX*, but…”
Don’t forget “fair share”.
Also declaring that some good is a “right”. The favorite rhetoric of communists for a century.
I just figure everyone is lit all the time.
I usually play a game called “Drink the Beer”.
What do you win?
It’s a loss, because he’s drinking beer.
No, you always win…until you lose.
Drinking is no game to most of the Glibs.
Yes. It involves doing ass-shots with a weed smoking Mexican.
The Powerline Drinking Game Rules (TW: Powerline)
Nice.
What’s our debate protocol?
I’m thinking you post a candidate’s quote as a new item: start new items often or else the thread will get really long.
Err on the side of new post even if it risks a little redundancy?
I figure if it that constant stream of derp gets on the nerves, worst case you can easily mute those participants for the rest of evening.
Lol.
How many times have you seen LEARN TO CODE successfully executed here?
L
I don’t drink, but if I watched the debates I might have to start.
safety electronics surrounding the brake systems
The spec on the HVAC controls for a truck I did for Daimler almost 20 years ago required the AC compressor be locked out if the brake pressure fell below some level (80, 90PSIG, I don’t remember now).
Vacuum assist or something?
I’m sure this is boring.
a/ The tank for the brake air runs at whatever pressure: cut in 85, cut out 100 PSIG, say
b/ The AC compressor on class 7 and 8 trucks is usually an integral part of engine: bolted in and even painted as one big ugly block; it takes its power off an internal gear instead of the FEAD, but, in any regard, it’s a load on the engine.
c/ The AC compressor is always a bolt-on taking off power via the FEAD: it’s on a belt.
d/ Theory is that we don’t want anything (like HVAC) distracting power away from the primary safety jobs of the engine: continuing to run, continuing to charge the brake pressure back up. We’re talking about a compressor that pulls at most 3HP bogging an engine that makes 200HP at idle, but they’re paying the bills.
e/ So the HVAC controller is a tiny PC now with a bunch of IC and IO, and it reads the SAE J1939 electronic communications bus where the sensor for the brake pressure is publishing and makes the decision. If the set-point is 80, say, we’ll turn off the AC by turning off the clutch switch until the take pressure is annunciated above the set-power.
f/ You can do anything like that: don’t shift to four gear unless the outside temp is above 32F . . . whatever nonsense you wish to code.
You can say that again!
Dude.
Thanks for that.
I think 😉
ugh, my beautiful link-heavy reply is in moderation; the un-linky version:
I’m sure this is boring.
a/ The tank for the brake air runs at whatever pressure: cut in 85, cut out 100 PSIG, say
b/ The AC compressor on class 7 and 8 trucks is usually an integral part of engine: bolted in and even painted as one big ugly block; it takes its power off an internal gear instead of the FEAD, but, in any regard, it’s a load on the engine.
c/ The AC compressor is always a bolt-on taking off power via the FEAD: it’s on a belt.
d/ Theory is that we don’t want anything (like HVAC) distracting power away from the primary safety jobs of the engine: continuing to run, continuing to charge the brake pressure back up. We’re talking about a compressor that pulls at most 3HP bogging an engine that makes 200HP at idle, but they’re paying the bills.
e/ So the HVAC controller is a tiny PC now with a bunch of IC and IO, and it reads the SAE J1939 electronic communications bus where the sensor for the brake pressure is publishing and makes the decision. If the set-point is 80, say, we’ll turn off the AC by turning off the clutch switch until the take pressure is annunciated above the set-power.
f/ You can do anything like that: don’t shift to four gear unless the outside temp is above 32F . . . whatever nonsense you wish to code.
* scowls contemplating finding the moderation page and untying myself *
Frigging CAN bus…
“People who don’t understand how commodities work, part 100,404,845. Although, I’d totally go be an asteroid miner once my kids are raised.”
It doesn’t really take a genius to figure out that if everyone had a truck load of gold, the price might fall a little. But hell, it would still be worth as much as aluminum, right? You could sell it all and buy a really neat new coffee mug. Billionaires everywhere!
Aluminum is the perfect analogy. Isn’t the capital building topped with aluminum because it use to be so valuable, then new technologies made aluminum cheap?
Washington Monument.
Thanks. I couldn’t remember which building it was.
Well, the (US) Capitol has a dome…. :-p
In the beginning, only royalty had aluminum tableware.
Me first!
/China
Yup, and I wonder when Russia will get around to it.
Well I’m sure the “You didn’t build that” crowd will be along shortly to “prove” to us that SpaceX wouldn’t be anywhere without NASA so even if people rip off SpaceX it still doesn’t invalidate their contention that the Government is responsible for every great idea (like the internet).
You would think that crowd would be all over China’s case for stealing all the government’s ideas. Instead we’re getting tongue-bathings about how great China is, or at best – complete indifference.
People who don’t understand how commodities work…
Or inflation. Also, who assumes that everyone will share equally in this?
For some reason I picture something like the diamond cartel.
Its kind of a neat thought experiment. As soon as the mining ship docks with that asteroid, all the gold on earth instantly becomes next to worthless before they even begin drilling.
I might pick, the second the first cargo is successfully delivered to the Earth’s surface, but you’re not wrong.
Depending on the velocity it was delivered at it could make a whole lot more worthless
I once had a co-worker who seriously asked the question “Why is gold worth so much?”. I answered her “Because all of the gold in the world would fit inside this building.” She couldn’t grasp that concept, so I just gave up. She was fairly close to AOC level on the intelligence scale.
I have come to the conclusion that economic illiteracy is even more of a threat to liberty than ignorance of the constitution. It enables magical thinking and fallacies such as raising the minimum wage to increase prosperity long-term.
But who will teach people economic literacy and why would they want that?
“I have come to the conclusion that economic illiteracy is even more of a threat to liberty than ignorance of the constitution.”
And the democrats are counting on it, which they will prove tonight beyond a doubt.
Or the fallacy that taxing the rich will generate enough revenue to pay for everything.
Well, as long as we tax ALL the filthy rich making over
one billion40,000 a year, it will work.What, are you saying that if everyone on the planet was a billionaire, a new Toyota Corolla would cost 3 billion? Non-sense! You just want to be the only billionaire, while everyone else lives in abject poverty! Women and children hardest hit!
This fucker kept muh Publisher Clearing House notification!
“Hell, we had no idea he was stealing mail. It’s not like any customers ever complained about not receiving mail.”
Oh, great. More AOL discs.
Hey: free coasters!
Made me laugh. Then I felt old.
#MeToo
lmao
We used to hang those on a wooden shed in the back yard and then the boys could shoot bb guns at them. If they hit them you get a nice splintering.
Once upon a time, I offered to help neighbors with their computers.
“What was the last thing you did?”
“I installed this new AOL disc”
HT to Don Ex-TX
King of the Ashes
NRATV and Dana Loesch are gone, which presumably means Colion Noir as well. Also Chris Cox. LaPierre couldn’t have done better if he was a gun grabbers’ plant.
Fuck them all. They cared more about their kingdoms than the mission.
Who is gonna step up?
Gun Owners of America?
Second Amendment Foundation?
No one?
The culture war is gaining against the Second Amendment
Wish every state had their own version of the VCDL
Thanks for the reminder. I need to join.
LaPierre is a corrupt scumbag as far as I can tell and he needs to be bounced out on his ass.
From TTAG:
Editorial: Was Ackerman McQueen Trying to Save the NRA?
No, they were trying to protect the gravy train.
Furthermore, I have the highest respect for Lt. Col. Oliver North.
*tunes out*
They’re leaving a trail of smoke and spiraling into the sea. What a shame.
And Andrew Cuomo is salivating at the juicy shit that will come out.
Yes, the rot is much deeper than I thought at first. I still worry that the gun grabbers will use this as an excuse to defang the NRA (even more than it already is). Step one of skin suiting.
Should have cleaned house quickly and efficiently. However the structure of the NRA precludes that, LaPierre won’t go without a fight, and North is a such a scum ball himself with a chunk of baggage along with his backer that wanted to turn the spigot over to themselves rather than excising the decay.
No kidding – I didn’t realize it was this bad:
Why would Ackerman McQueen (allegedly) expose information about LaPierre’s hyper-spendy charter jet rentals, or the ten $20,000 suits, to say nothing of putting up a sorority girl intern in a $4,500/month apartment near NRA HQ? Why would Ack-Mac do any of that if they wanted to keep the gravy train rolling? Or was that just their way of striking back at LaPierre after the first lawsuit was filed by the NRA?
I have to say, I’m feeling better and better about my decision to not join the NRA so I could join a gun club a decade ago. It was one of their requirements for membership, and the only really sensible purchase option was a lifetime membership, but then there would have been no way to get off their rolls. I kind of thought this was one of my “just being an asshole” stands back then.
I had to join to get into my club, but AFAIK, there’s no need to maintain a membership.
Me too. I be paying the GOA instead.
Good move, I joined for a year during the Sandy Hook madness and they’re still junk mailing me expensive looking packages of bullshit.
It’s funny you mention that. There’s a club with a very nice outdoor range maybe five miles away from my house, but you have to be a member to shoot there and to be a member you have to have an NRA membership. I’ve held off for the same reason for years, which means I go to a range that’s an hour and a half away, unfortunately. I nearly cracked a few months ago but didn’t. I guess that was for the best.
Jeez—I had no idea that was even a “thing”. I guess it makes some kind of perverse sense. I’m used to just signing some kind of acknowledgement-of-rules form that requires you to repeat a phrase proving you actually read the thing.
“We’re all Tulpa”, or, some such…
100% clubs get additional resources and opportunities from the NRA. There’s incentives to clubs to go that route.
Well, maybe not for much longer, amirite?!
That’s very interesting and news to me. That explains why my local gun range requires NRA membership. Fuckers. I Paid for membership but SAF gets my lifetime membership.
Let me check the by-laws of my local range… ah, turns out anyone whose name is on the deed has unrestricted access.
I was in the NRA for a couple years way back, like in the middle ’90s, and gave up on them because of the massive volume of solicitations. It was years before they finally stopped nagging me.
Wow. It’s almost like creating a market for something, and then seeing what shakes out among private competitors, is superior to top-down decision making.
Blue Horizon has been most impressive on this. But not sure how far they will get since Bezos seems hellbent on giving all his money to bimbos.
His rockets are going to be stiff competition.
Once he can reliably get them up.
Hey Spud. It’s about time to start buying your apple cider equipment. Harvest will be here before you know it.
Lol! I’m barely able to keep up with the garden this year.
I’ve actually been working – apologies if this has been posted.
New Republic reverses, says all part-time jobs will include benefits after social media backlash
LOL who would be stupid enough to take a job that won’t exist by next year after the magazine folds?
But you’ll have benefits!
And when it’s all over, you’ll have time to become an artist!
People who borrowed $100,000 to get a degree in Inequality Studies?
Everyone working there?
Doh! I was too late and a dollar short
Reap the whirlwind MFers.
Speaking of fixing things, Jugsy’s 36 year-old air handler conked out today. The culprit? Drive pulley finally failed. My forearms look like Brett’s hand in the picture, from about 100 sheet-metal lacerations from pulling the motor out.
https://postimg.cc/y3VLKPqV
https://postimg.cc/9RPLskn8
I’ll save y’all the trouble.
Neither of those are Jugsy.
/disappointed
The “larger ladies” dont countenance heat very well- I doubt anyone wants to see her now, specially since I cant get a replacement pulley till tomorrow.
Nor are they Tres Cool’s lacerated forearms.
Right?
I was looking for blood. Now I’m going to have to go to a cock fight after work to get my fix.
When you say “cock fighting’ do you mean you have a rooster that fights others? Or are you talking about some sort of bout where cocks are doing something to each other?
I mean, I’m going to be swinging my dick in combat against other dicks. What do you call it?
A sport I am not partaking in…
But I am not judging anyone that wants to..
It’s a free world.
What do you call it?
“playing swords”
Just another night at Jesse’s?
obligatory “check the thermostat” comment
And use your “dipstick” to do it. WinkwinknudgenudgeKnowWhatIMean.
Really? Now it’s time to change the filter.
Oh look, another defunct manufacturing concern from my home town.
the motor itself seems fine, which should be a testament to the quality of their product
Two comments:
– Jesus man, clean your air handler
– How old is that thing? It needs to be oiled? I think Ajax went out in the 90’s/
From what I was told by technical expert Yufus, 36 years old.
I dunno man, Belters seem to have unpleasant lives. And be ugly.
On the plus side, you get to talk cool like a Jamaican.
So…British?
I find Drummer kinda hot
Drummer absolutely does it for me. And Mr. Riven. She can rock hop over here anytime.
Hi Riven!
/dork
Hey Tundra!
How are things in Big Sky country? Brooksie was sharing snow stories with us last week!
Luckily, I haven’t seen any of the white stuff for a few weeks. We’ve just been getting the standard summer afternoon thunderstorms with the odd hail storm thrown in, just for fun. I did hear-tell that the folks with mountain privilege got some, for sure, though!
I was going to pile on with an Unknown Hinson tune, but then I thought:
that would be an Unknown Hinson tune
/ redneck
I’ve been having a shimmy and a rattle over highway bumps since Sunday. I suspected a shock was to blame, possibly a little loose.
Here is what I found yesterday after digging a bit deeper.
FFS this design is garbage. I expect it failed due to the series of unavoidable potholes I hit each day.
https://imgur.com/gallery/QGSU2H9
Is there not supposed to be some sort of boot there?
The top of the shock shaft pushed through the rubber bushing/ top mount. the top of the shaft has a nut and 1″ of rubber attached to it. So i order 2 new mounts and shocks.
I won’t drive the dammed thing in that state. If I hit a bump hard enough it will send the shaft through the wheel well. The ride is very unstable as you might imagine with no dampening on one wheel.
Fuzzy pic – did the top of the shock detach from the body?
I’m disappointed there are no lewds in your imgur favorites.
Year, make and model?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/26/shell-not-green-saviour-death-machine-greenwash-oil-gas
That guy is a moonbat.
Well, it is the Guardian, so moonbats are most common round there.
Why did the bear not eat him right away? Why keep him for a month?
Is there a bearologist in the house?
Reverse zoophilia.
Well, it may just be zoophilia to the bear; not quite sure about that.
You might want to be more specific about what kind of bear you are asking about there Rufus…..
Ursidae-ophobe!
The article doesn’t specify.
I’m just going to assume the Russian mafia buried him alive somewhere and he’s thought of a good cover story to preserve what’s left of his health because that bear story seems a bit suspect.
Yeah, it kind of reminds me of a case near my in-laws’ village. A man with two broken arms was found hanging from a tree. It was ruled a suicide.
Probably this is the witness Mueller was looking for and Putin and Trump figured the bear would finish him off. Just wait until he recovers and testifies to Congress!
In all seriousness I have never heard of an actual bear doing anything like that. Strange. But as noted upthread there seem to be irregularities with the story.
Not quite ripe, like a tomato from the Farmer’s Market
Culinary bears feed their prey bugs and berries for a few weeks to get rid of that horrible non-gamey taste.
I think the bear was making jerky.
“UN reports record cocaine production.”
I had no idea the UN produced cocaine.
Gee I wonder why the ChiComs would want an American to attack American economic policy and praise China. Do they give critics of the regime any screen time at all?
Oh there is definitely a Make China Great Again effort. This is to be achieved by crushing Hong Kong, Taiwan, Tibet, the Uighers and restoring China’s status as the Middle Kingdom.
I find this interesting since China is still a one party tolitarian state and our Western Globalist elites don’t seem all that enamored of laissez faire economics.
Who is speaking here and what is the link?
I will say that the slavish disposition that Western elites have toward a nation that has re-education camps, forced abortions, and an Orwellian social credit system is quite telling. No one believes that the elites in the West believe in anything other than enriching themselves and that’s why they are rightly despised.
We sanction companies for doing business with the Iranians and Russians, but Google gets applauded for helping China to round-up its dissidents. They’re evil bastards and deserve nothing but disrespect, derision, and animus.
But, I guess we should just pretend like businesses that censor and help the Chinese track down dissidents so that they can access Chinese markets or be granted Chinese monopolies are somehow operating in a “free market”, but it sounds a lot more like mercantilism more than anything. Which I guess is cool now, because reasons.
The Chinese today are more horrendous than the Soviets in the 70’s and no free market people wrote apologias for them, while white washing their atrocities. This is a fucked up article. At worst, Rothbard wrote excuses for the Soviets against American imperialism, but never did he pretend as if the Soviets were somehow some land of freedom. I’ve lost a lot of respect for Tucker. People have lost their god damn minds
Who should one enrich if not himself?
I agree. I mean that they present themselves as benevolent defenders of some fake liberal order.
Apparently a lot of people find it hard to oppose tariffs against China without writing little love poems about them.
A corollary is that one should able to praise China’s liberalization of trade without having to include a Soave-esque boilerplate condemnation of the CCP’s known sins in order to avoid accusations of being an apologist for the Chinese’s governments atrocities.
This part is definitely slavish bootlicking:
I don’t agree with that. I don’t think that liberalization of trade amounts to much when you rule over slaves. I have no problem with people noting the crimes of foreign nations anymore than I do someone noting the crimes of our own country. But, China always seems to be off limits, which I find disturbing.
I don’t see where you get that perception at all. Just this week, the newest report about China’s organ harvesting of political prisoners was all over the papers.
Or merely a statement about a difference between the sound-bite culture and media imposed ADHD we have here and how things work elsewhere.
If Iran or Russia or Poland (which is a bad guy now, apparently) or Hungary were running re-education camps and applying a social credit model I doubt that articles like this would be written about how they have liberalized trade. I’m sorry, but liberalized trade doesn’t do enough for me. Yes, it is economically beneficial, but I am more concerned with a free society more than promoting free trade.
We sanction Russia and Iran for far far less. Which is not to say that I believe that we should sanction Russia or Iran or even China. I’m only saying that China is treated with kid gloves that are not afforded to any other country, which are far less totalitarian than the Chinese state.
Seriously, Norwegian TV broadcast an entire 4 hour lecture by some historian on the 2016 US presidential election. With no interruptions.
I still don’t see the difference between how China is treated and “our friend and ally” Saudi Arabia is treated, for example.
Defending State-owned TV for being better than private TV is pretty hypocritical from a libertarian perspective.
Not to mention defending the State TV of a authoritarian state for giving you lots of screen time to tell what the regime wants to hear is disgusting. Might as well praise TASS for giving you free reign to attack the Vietnam war.
I remember the days when Rockwellians would claim Russia Today was the most libertarian network ever since Rockwell and co would be on it a lot. So would Welch and co. On the other hand they had Thom Hartmann on it. Gee I wonder why Putin would to have Rockwell, Welch and Hartmann to attack American policies?
The liberal assumption was that the elites will support Laissez-faire economics since it benefitted and will never turn on it ever for selfish reasons.
I’d offer up a guess, but it would get me cat-butted.
“Gee I wonder why the ChiComs would want an American to attack American economic policy and praise China. Do they give critics of the regime any screen time at all?”
Sure, you get all you want right before you’re hauled off to the gulag.
The amount of air time varies actually varies depending on how high they take the helicopter up.
Oops:
Goddamit: Jeff Tucker
That’s beyond disappointing.
I got to say that really pisses me off.
Holy shit I suck at linking today:
https://www.aier.org/article/chinas-communism-not
I suspect that the reason China is “opening up” likely more has to do with the fact that after the Cultural Revolution and The Great Leap Forward the situation in China was so terrible that there was no where to go but up. The effort has been very successful for the Chicoms so far…
Conversely the West was already extremely wealthy so there is no benefit to encourage growth for the elites in the West.
Also I suspect that one reason that trade hasn’t lead to more freedom is that since the Economy is run by the ruling elite they are unsurprisingly defensive of the regime. In the west the urban merchant class was not part of the aristocracy or the state church so they supported classical liberalism. Another key reason is that the urban elites in China fear that Democracy will cause them to be outvoted by the urban and rural poor. Yet another is that China is not a US-backed regime where the US pressured the regime to democratize around the same time trade liberalization occurred.
“China…now has the world’s largest economy…” Wrong. The US is still bigger with only about a quarter of the population.
“…and the fastest growth rate. ” Maybe, but the official stats can’t really be believed.
China has the worlds largest economy? By what measure? US GDP was still $7 trillion higher than China in 2018 and it seems unlikely they’ve closed the gap in 6 months.
Apparently, encounters between men and bears happen all the time in Tuva. Earlier this month a man chased a bear away, biting the tongue of the bear.
I got distracted by this from the sidebar:
http://realistpress.com/blog/94-50-foto-glamurnykh-devushek-iz-provintsii?utm_source=ClicksCloud&utm_campaign=28875&utm_medium=1664132&utm_content=5c77ebc2c798d321e5b3aaf1
Sorry to go OT, but I didn’t want to beat a dead thread.
The funny about the whole Megan Rapinoe tantrum about Donald Trump is that these are the same idiots throwing a hissy fit that they aren’t getting paid as much as the guys. Here’s a newsflash, if you’re a professional athlete, you’re a form of entertainer. Even how good you are versus your opponents compared to another athlete versus his or her opponents is really only incidental. What really matters is how many asses you can put in the stadium seats. And how many eyeballs you can get watching you on television. How good you are is only one factor in that final judgement.
You want to get paid more? You want to get paid like the guys? Then put more asses in the seats and more eyeballs on the television. You know how you don’t do that? You don’t do that by alienating half your potential audience. You don’t do that by confirming the stereotype lots of Americans have that soccer players are effete bobos looking down on the rest of society. Your virtue signaling will get you an “Attagirl!” from a good portion of your existing (small) fan base. But, you know what? They’re already going to your games. And no one in hell is going to start watching women’s soccer because you don’t like Donald Trump. But, plenty of people won’t watch it because you confirmed their stereotype.
She wants her pony, and she wants it NOW!
“You want to get paid more? You want to get paid like the guys? Then put more asses in the seats and more eyeballs on the television.”
But, that’s not fair. /the end
THIS
She’s an dumbass that doesn’t understand sports at all.
*awaits Ted missile strike*
* scrambles to light second candle *
you’ll be okay
Certainly not the business aspect of it.
What’s the difference between Rapinoe and a circus midget?
…cunning bunch of runts?
Oh, wrong punchline.
Close enough.
Their contract is also different. A player for the US men’s team gets hurt and can’t play for 3 months. He doesn’t get paid. A player for the US women’s team gets pregnant and can’t play for 6 months she gets paid.
I wonder why they only talk about the money? Also, for a real surprise, the NY Times actually had a good article about this a while ago.
What about the fact that she is protesting the US in a tournament where the US women’s team receives a boatload of more resources to compete than all of the other nations?
Is she protesting the US or Trump?
Yes.
Yeah, I think she was on the BLM train before Trump.
“how many asses you can put in the stadium seats. ”
I wonder if even having the soccer women play topless could do this? Maybe Q has an archive on FLBP soccer chicks?
How well does the Lingerie Football League do?
The murder of this Florida man had to have been a Flamingo mob motivated payback hit….
Well…. bye….
Immigrant Detention Conditions Were Atrocious Under Obama. Here’s Why They’re So Much Worse Under Trump.
CBP facilities have long faced criticism for their abysmal conditions. A lawsuit filed in 2015 during Obama’s presidency challenged the situation at these “hieleras,” or “iceboxes,” alleging “appalling conditions” including people held in “freezing, overcrowded, and filthy cells for extended periods of time, no access to beds, soap, showers, adequate meals and water, medical care, and lawyers in violation of constitutional standards and Border Patrol’s own policies.”
Many of the photos showing the squalid conditions inside the detention centers were obtained during this lawsuit, which is still ongoing. It is hard to say whether the terrible conditions in CBP facilities currently are “worse” than they were under Obama, but what seems to be clear is that a focus on detaining people—including children—is forcing more people to spend longer amounts of time inside CBP facilities, which would likely cause a deterioration of the already-appalling conditions.
Slate gonna Slate.
Then why do they keep coming here?
Because fuck you, that’s why?
“It’s worse now because Trump is not my own personal messiah”
*end article*
I thought their argument was “Cause we say so!”…
What would they have us do with the children while processing their criminal parents? Release them into the wild? Pin a 20 to their chests, put them on a plane to Canada and wish them the best of luck?
“Hard to say” but easy to put in into a click-bait headline.
Well you see, brown man was very good, however orange man is very, very bad.
They repeat this line three seperate times in three seperate paragraphs…
“Trump administration is focused on deporting as many people as possible.”
Wonder why considering just on the 17th, USA Today reported that deportations were down.
“The Trump administration has not turned those arrests into more deportations, however, as those numbers keep falling. “
Immigrant Detention Conditions Were Atrocious Under Obama and we kept quiet about it.
More importantly, Congress didn’t do shit about it.
2015 you say? This quote will be great to troll your favorite prog with. Read the quote and ask what he or she thinks of the president who would do such horror.
After they fulminate about Trump, tell them Obama did it. 10 to 1 they then call it “fake news.”
Here’s an evergreen headline for Slate and a fair number of TDS sufferers: “Anything you can think of is worse because Donald Trump.”
Honestly, inhumane conditions in ICE facilities (or any government detention facility) is worth looking into.
But by advocating totally open borders as the number one solution, the Left is basically derailing any support for fixing these conditions.
Kind of like how Black Lives Matter took the very real issue of unjustifiable police shootings and turned it into a completely unproductive shitshow of racial discord.
Can someone explain to me why this shitshow will not go massively bad for the desperate impeach Trumpers?
I mean how is Mueller going to avoid answering the question “When did you know there was no Trump Russia collusion?” followed by “Why, if you knew before you were appointed this was bullshit, did you waste 2 years or so and $30 million of tax payer money?” Do the democrats seriously think this time this game will go their way? Keep throwing that pooh at the walls and hoping it turns into a Jackson Pollock bitchez.
The media will be running full on interference on this. Don’t expect much to come of it, other than a couple choice soundbites that CNN/MSNBC will be running ad nauseam.
Rest assured, there will be teams of reporters watching and re-watching in search of the perfect “gotcha” moment.
I refer you to the media take on the Kavanaugh hearings.
“I was tasked with investigating the Russian interference in the 2016 election (and hoo-boy, did we find a lot of that), the Trump collusion was only a part of that and his administration’s repeated obfuscation and outright mendacity hampered my efforts and needlessly prolonged the investigation”
Can you state what interference Russia engaged in?
“The entire first half of my report outlined that in detail, did you not read it?”
The interference that was alleged amounted to fake social media accounts and supposedly stealing e-mails from Podesta (of which no evidence is provided) and a woman who was supposedly trying to infiltrate the NRA, which many people have noted the case is abysmal.
So, I take it you believed in WMDs too?
The “Russia interfered in our elections” is probably the biggest fraud perpetuated since the WMD fiasco and has led to an increased military presence that is bound to lead to a proxy war in Ukraine. I hope that you will enlist to fight the Russkies when that occurs. Because the Russians interfered in our elections or something.
https://www.thenation.com/article/russiagate-trump-mueller-report-no-collusion/
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/mueller-report-released/
I think Hyperbole is being descriptive here, not necessarily endorsing the veracity of the statements.
I am such an idiot. You are right.
Damn it. Hyperbole, I am sorry. I enjoyed your points about chick-fil-a the other day. I am too trigger itchy on the Russia stuff.
I’ll see myself out
I’ll see myself out
that’s always funny
No worries, I really should have put an “/Mueller” at the end.
Mueller is going to have to answer questions about the original FISA application, about Page and Papadoupolous. Those answers are unlikely to be to the Dem’s liking.
Mask?…what mask?
The concerned gun owner pointed to SB107 and said the purpose of it was “to take away [his] semiautomatic firearms.”
Morrison then interjected that the purpose was not to take them, but to prevent any future sales.
The gun owner responded by pointing out that the ban on future sales included a fine for current owners who did not hand their guns over. He said, “You want me to turn them over to the state police unless I pay a fine for each firearm and register them, then I get to keep them.”
Morrison concurred, saying, “Okay.”
The gun owner then asked, “If I get to keep it–if I pay a fine and register it–then, how dangerous is it in the first place and why do you need to ban it all?”
People in attendance applauded the gun owner’s point and once applause died Morrison said, “Well, you just maybe changed my mind. Maybe we won’t have a fine at all, maybe it’ll just be a confiscation and we won’t have to worry about paying the fine.”
How dreamy…
/progtard gun grabber
Come collect them yourself, you chicken shit, candy-ass, petty, authoritarian. I dare you.
I’d jump straight to triple-dog dare, but I don’t want to be crude…
At least he didn’t threaten to use nukes.
I fucking hate this “logic” that the lying gun-grabbers use.
How about this: Gay marriage is banned nationwide from this day forth, but all current gay marriages can stay. It’s completely fine because we’re not actually nullifying any existing marriages, just preventing any future ones!
Or what if we banned abortion but allowed the woman to go through with it as long as she had already scheduled the procedure? There’s no violation of rights because it’s just a ban on future abortions, not actually stopping any woman from getting abortions.
Maybe we can shut down voter registration but continue honoring all existing registered voters. That’s A-OK by lefty logic, right??
Mini Japanese lesson.
Kim Kardashian’s Kimono lingerie line sparks Japanese anger
It’s like somebody trademarking the word “robe” in English. “Ki” means “wear” and “mono” means thing. So literally something worn.
Underwear is almost the exact same thing in Japanese “shitagi”. “Shita” means “under” and “gi” is the same thing as “ki”. The sound is influenced by the previous sounds.
So calling undergarments an outer garment just sounds dumb. But not as dumb as many kanji tattoos.
Are they saying no Japanese have applied for trademarks of English terms?
Does Cow Piss count?
That product is, alone, responsible for the popularity of the gokkun genre of Japanese pornography.
*pushes* bottle behind monitor
You don’t have to send $.25 to Tokyo every time you use the word “LACIST!”?
“Japanese anger”
So, one or two social-media cranks? Stop the presses! International incident!!!
Precisely. Everyone else in Japan is scratching his or her head and thinking, “but it’s underwear!”
None of which live in Japan.
“Yasuno Yoshizawa, also known as Bunkaiwa, is a Japanese “cross culture consultant” based in California.”
Nice work if you can get it?
So, a professional SJW. I am shocked.
Underwear is almost the exact same thing in Japanese “shitagi”. “Shita” means “under” and “gi” is the same thing as “ki”. The sound is influenced by the previous sounds.
Is this somehow related to Skitaki mushrooms?
Shiitake mushrooms are a different sound – shii – an extended “ee” sound in Japanese.
Speaking of – I’m off to Japanese class. I check back in to the late night post on the train ride home.
がんばれ！
Yeah, you probably shouldn’t ask where your mushrooms are grown.
8 thought shitagi was a type of mushroom.
Wayfair workers protest sale to detention center
http://www.startribune.com/wayfair-workers-protest-contract-with-detention-center/511832392/
Wayfarir works: Who cares if children have to sleep on a concrete floor; we need to virtue signal.
Fire them all and replace them with new immigrants recently granted asylum.
That would be perfect.
Got the lube ready for Tulsi’s debate.
No need to apologize.
I’m going to need more kleenex
By “debate”, do you mean “nude modeling”?
Who’s pegging you?
Tulsi’s got a giant strap-on named “socialism”.
this. Her only sane policy position is foreign affairs.
Thanks for the kind words about my book review, BTW.
You do excellent work. And I’ve been introduced to many new beers because of you.
This is pretty funny. New Republic tries to sneak one by the goalie and gets hammered.
Imagine! Trying to have a deputy editor on inequality on half pay by limiting their hours to 29.5/wk. Shocked at they hypocrisy on the left I am.
Pssst. Look upthread.
Yup. If you look upthread, you will already see my mea culpa.
Blessings be upon you your holiness.
https://babylonbee.com/news/conflict-looms-between-unstable-rogue-warmongering-nation-and-iran
“Conflict Looms Between Unstable, Warmongering, Rogue Nation And Iran”
FTA:
“We’re dealing with a country that sees itself as a kind of world police force,” warned one commentator. “They seem to be willing to go to frightening lengths to accomplish their foreign policy objectives, no matter the cost in materials, money, or human lives.”
“There’s simply no negotiating with a rogue nation like this. When they decide they want war, they’ll lie, cheat, and steal until they make it happen.”
I wonder what in the world is causing Right-wingers to critique the idea of war with Iran when there is a Republican in the White House.
Maybe some of them actually mean it?
Maybe ’cause despite pop media stereotypes, a whole bunch of the folks that make up the Bee’s audience are VERY much on the “we’re tired of foreign wars” type.
TW, Splinter:
Donald Trump Tweets Angry, Racist Rant at Wrong Megan Rapinoe Account
On Wednesday morning, it happened, as President Donald Trump responded with a series of social media posts calling out Rapinoe, and also making some astoundingly racist comments about the NBA, specifically about owners not being called owners anymore (?) and “black unemployment.”
Is the racism pointing out the NBA is 75% black?
“Astoundingly racist” doesn’t mean anything anymore, I guess.
Mexican Sharpshooter wanted me to play this for you.
Less stinky.
I’m just happy I am wearing headphones…
Addendum: some NSFW lyrics.
Stinky
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7184191/Demi-Rose-goes-without-underwear-risqu-swimwear-wrap-poolside-Ibiza.html
Thicc!
Today I learned: in Ye Olde England they used to give place-names that were descriptive of the activity that occurred at said place, giving rise to such names as Gropecunt Lane and the still-extant Tickle Cock Bridge. I guess that was before the invention of the euphemism.
There’s already a street named after Trump?
His streets would be Grabpussy Way and Moveonherlikeabitch Street.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/26/dog-train-seats-emily-maitlis
For a second I thought she was describing me.
“EXCLUSIVE: Missing University of Utah nursing student, 23, boasted she was a SUGAR BABY who had two sugar daddies and sought out men over 35 on Seeking Arrangement and Tinder
Missing University of Utah nursing student Mackenzie Lueck is a ‘sugar baby’ who sought out men over the age of 35 online, DailyMail.com can reveal.
Lueck, 23, disappeared on June 17 after landing in Salt Lake City, Utah, and taking a Lyft ride to meet a mysterious man in a park around 2am.
The college senior’s social media accounts reveal that she considered herself a sugar baby, and boasted about having at least two unidentified sugar daddies which she found through online sites Seeking Arrangement and Tinder.
DailyMail.com obtained screenshots of Lueck’s posts made nearly three months ago in a private Facebook group where Lueck gave advice on how she finds sugar daddies – wealthy older men who lavish younger women with gifts and money in return for company or sexual favors.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7185285/Missing-University-Utah-student-Mackenzie-Lueck-sugar-baby-sought-men-35.html
I’m guessing that advice didn’t include, “Don’t meet strange men in a park at 2 AM”.
Hopefully she didn’t meet anyone driving a Subaru.
Especially not the Steve Smith Limited Edition.
“Alyssa Milano is turned away from Florida migrant detention center after turning up unannounced demanding to be let in to inspect the conditions and meet the children inside”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7184383/Alyssa-Milano-turned-away-Florida-migrant-detention-center.html
I think I know where some of that cocaine is going.
Oh, that’s rich.
Uffda. She needs to spend less time protesting and more time in the gym.
Doesn’t she realize that the only reason anyone listens to her is because she is(was) hawt?
Obligatory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U0SGLTDEfk
Oh my god what happened to her?
Serenity now.
TDS is high in carbs and misery.
It’s so depressing. The pic I posted pretty much checks every box for me.
Sad.
The good news, though, is that Mrs. Tundra at 51 is now way hotter than Alyssa!!
something something ugly on the inside something outside
WHO’S THE BOSS? I’M THE BOSS. LET ME IN!
This may be the best summary of Fourth Wave Feminism I’ve seen.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/25/all-female-planet-frozen-sperm-space-flight
Raising Gazorpazorp?
The spider in sector “C” is still alive. Plan your route accordingly and expect delays. We’re not telling you what to do, we’re just sharing how we feel.
I’m here if you need to talk.
“But there’s no guarantee that a future female colony would be any kind of utopia.”
“No guarantee”? Imagine an entire planet that’s one big sorority house…
Men could never make something as dysfunctional.
So, this but on a society-wide level??
They are welcome to try, adds a government bureaucracy can manage it are small however.
remember the reason NASA never pursued that technology was they deemed it too technologically difficult even though they had a prototype SSTO (single stage to orbit) that did vertical landing back in the 90’s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-X
Remember, the Chinese government has been pledging to copy Russian and American jet engine technology for 40 years now and they still can’t do better than 20% of the thrust to weight ratio than the Russians get.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/26/climate-disaster-script-urgency-change
The media is your enemy. Period.
Real is that World Health Org. estimates 4.3 million people died , in 2012, mostly in Africa, mostly women and kids, from pollution caused by burning wood and dried shit in cooking fires. Greens would get far more mileage out of donating their money for more efficient cook stoves than attending rallies to ban plastic straws and bags.
That’s no good because it doesn’t provide for a mechanism to screw with your neighbors here.
I still have scars on my hands from changing spark plugs on S-10 Blazers over the years. There was a heat shield in the way that blocked the view (and tore up flesh) and I almost had to stand on my head to get to some of them. #6 was always the hardest and I recall on time that the #6 plug was a different brand than the other five. The last guy had given up and left it.
Then one time I was doing a brake job on the front and noticed the flap in the fenderwell, similar to the picture that Timeloose posted earlier. I lifted the flap and there were 3 spark plugs looking back at me. All this time I had been doing it the hard way.
I had similar access issues with my old taurus. I did the 5 plug replacement one time because the 6th required taking half the car apart. Haven’t tried to replace the plugs on either of the current cars, but I don’t look forward to the project.
On my Tacoma they want you to take the air box off to get to the plugs. Screw that noise. I just use a flexible extension and snake my way in.
It’s not a project unless you bleed.
Mmm. Greyhound.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/JdqabviAQSueke6LsqFWoA._-6CPpzU4TTEuc3p6_SiQK
Wanton Wednesday provides plentiful posteriors.
https://thechive.com/2019/06/26/congrats-on-making-it-to-hump-day-here-is-your-reward-45-photos-23/
Just finished Bruce Willis’ 2018 remake of Death Wish (do not recommend). Apparently you can buy full auto AR pistols from Chicago gun stores and take them home same-day. Count the number of things wrong with that sentence.
Just imagine what’s for sale in Indiana!
It’s a poor remake. The original wasn’t all that accurate either. A .32 that drops people dead with one shot?
I’ve mentioned before that, in the books, James Bond carries a .25ACP with a suppressor. About as much energy as hitting the bad guy with a thrown marble. Around book #3 or so that gets replaced with the Walther PPK in .32ACP
If I recall correctly, his boss forces him to ditch the .25.
My dad has my grandfather;s old Steyr Piper (Presumably taken off a dead german in WWII, but we’ll never know for sure). It’s a .25ACP. It sure doesn’t pack much punch, but it conceals excellently.
My current lust
http://www.usarmamentcorp.com/manufactured-products/colt-1903-pocket-pistol///
Being in Chicago?
https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1143871724708081664
Huh
Racist!!!11!
In firearms related news, it looks like the newest Hi-point model is going to be called the “Yeet Cannon”. This truly is the best timeline.
I don’t get it.
Get off my lawn.
Not sure this will clear it up much,… but
New Jersey Attorney General Grewal recently revealed that the NJ government had been using “undercover state investigators online” (read: desk cops with Chromebooks) to try to purchase magazines that hold more than 10 rounds from out-of-state companies. New Frontier Armory in Nevada, it seems, sent what they thought were customers the products they ordered. A shock! To think that a company operating within the law of their own jurisdiction might expect out-of-state customers to be informed about their own local laws. Worry not, for New Jersey plans to sue every retailer in America to ensure they all enforce New Jersey’s laws for them.
Sue FedEx for not knowing what was in the parcel ?!1!/1?
Imagine if Hobiecraft released a new model “Boaty McBoatface.”
For a while I meant to come back to this passage in Richard Evans’s The Coming of The Third Reich. I find it somewhat relevant.
I don’t know 19th century Britain and America had similar issues. Newspapers were openly partisan and there were plenty of partisan artists and social clubs. All those Gentlemen’s clubs in London. Purely political at first.
The liberals of the time were culture warriors and believed in the politicization of everything.
“Broward County terminates two more officers for Parkland shooting response”
https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/1143907316405800960
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/26/us/broward-sheriff-report-parkland-shooting/index.html
“BREAKING: LEAKED @Google doc from ‘transparency-and-ethics group’ calls @benshapiro, @prageru, @jordanbpeterson “nazis using the dogwhistles” and recommends the disabling of the “suggestions” feature.”
https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1143578145666326528
https://www.projectveritas.com/2019/06/25/breaking-new-google-document-leaked-describing-shapiro-prager-as-nazis-using-the-dogwhistles/
Worth re-posting:
https://quillette.com/2019/06/23/how-free-speech-dies-online/
If you can hear the whistles, maybe you’re the dog.
Let us not forget that the New York School system considers individualism to be white supremacy.
“Reddit is blocking all BitChute links. https://archive.is/rGKq0 Is this because we refused to remove the Project Veritas videos? We will never remove them #GoogleGate #RedditCensorship”
https://twitter.com/bitchute/status/1143931252241604608
“The official reasoning Reddit gives for quarantining The_Donald is “threats of violence against police and public officials.” First, The_Donald is likely one of the most Pro-LEO communities on the internet. It’s pretty clear that Reddit is just slandering us with that alone. 1/7
Any threats toward public officials, rare as they may be, have been actively removed by moderators forever. Again, pure lies by Reddit.
Why were we actually quarantined, then?
We played a large part in spreading @Project_Veritas’ Google censorship story. 2/7
The story that lit a fire under big-tech leftists to make good on what was said in the video (while denying it). Reddit admins removed the story claiming it violated the mysterious TOS, and banned both Project Veritas’ subreddit and company account. 3/7″
https://twitter.com/thedonaldreddit/status/1143969011761405953
I’m starting to wonder if they’re getting close to placing the final straw on the Camel’s back. It’s getting so obvious and intrusive.
“Two things to notice. This happened immediately after Media Matters called for T_D to be shut down, and it’s the eve of the first Democratic Debates. Put two and two together. 7/7”
It’s hard to believe that all the Big Tech/SocMed ideological purging isn’t coordinated.
Libertarians supported the rise of Big Tech and are being rewarded with censorship. Interesting.
It’s a combination of a few things.
1) everybody knows everybody in the upper echelons, so they virulently spread this cancer through their social circles ;
2) I&D consulting is big business, and acts as another transmission vector;
3) big companies are suffering from administrative (read HR) bloat, similar to but less extreme than higher Ed. With that comes wave after wave of true believers;
4) ideological bubbles. Silicon Valley is a giant one. There’s also a chilling effect when HR is preaching progressive social justice out one side of the mouth and inclusion out the other side of the mouth
5) shit tons of money. They aren’t incentivized to change because almost nobody is talking with their wallets.
Stupid Japanese beetles munching on my pepper plants. ?
*Squish squish squish*
I haven’t seen those in ages.
They went crazy on a Linden tree of ours last year. We had the lawn treated last fall so hopefully that will take of the little fuckers.