Happy Wednesday, everyone. It’s Hump Day.
This is certainly.. one take on the Virginia elections
All your work belongs to the State, slave. (h/t OMWC, who is relieved to find… care… for his young friends)
My local sheriff is experiencing some quality control issues with a batch of guns he bought from a Florida Gunsmith.
Libertarian candidate Steve Smith of Muncie, IN goes all STEVE SMITH on domestic partner who did not want to “cuddle”. (h/t whoever sent this to SP)
Wow, talk about backing the wrong unicorn.
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Not only shall we allow babies to be killed, anyone who refuses to participate shall be stripped of their medical license.
If you don’t want to perform abortions, you shouldn’t become a doctor.
I assume you are being sarcastic, but that is exactly the response leftists give and it is probably the response most likely to send me into a blind rage. I heard it in law school when I said there were classes of suit I would never handle because I did not believe they were justifiable morally. “You have to! It is unprofessional to substitute your judgment!” me: “There are other lawyers, I don’t believe you should be able to to sue for X, so I won’t participate.” “What if there aren’t other lawyers? What if they aren’t as good?” me: “I am offering my services to the public, not my soul.” “Professional ethics! You do (insert evil thing here) as a professional, because the client has a right to ….” and so on.
I heard it in law school when I said there were classes of suit I would never handle because I did not believe they were justifiable morally.
Tons of that in the ethics class. “A child molester tells you where he hid the kid’s body. Do you have the professionalism to protect his privileged admission?”
“fuck no, here’s my bar card. Keep it.”
On criminal law I can even see an argument that the immoral act is not actually immoral. You are serving two functions as a defense attorney. 1. defending the specific criminal defendant and 2. performing role that is necessary to defend all of us from tyranny. Confidentiality even in awful situations is in and of itself a valuable thing. You still should not have to take the case unless you choose. I was talking about various shakedown wrongful firing cases. In my opinion, absent a contract to the contrary the employer owns the job and can fire you for any stupid reason they want. Which of course makes the whole “You have to!” all the stupider, because there are hordes of lawyers out advertising trying to find such cases.
Confidentiality even in awful situations is in and of itself a valuable thing.
Yup, which is why I would be a horrible defense attorney. Confidentiality of business secrets? Sure I can do that. Confidentiality of wrongdoing? That gets harder, especially as the harm becomes acute.
I am friends with a local defense attorney. She is the most jaded, sarcastic person I know. I love talking with her.
It’s a lefty Mad Lib. Last one I remember was, “If you don’t want to pay a living wage, you shouldn’t own a business.”
Wow… Do they really not see what they are actually promoting here?
They want us all working for either the State directly, or for giant mega corporations who’s executives all went to leftist colleges, whos board members are the children of Democratic politicians, and whose HR departments are the thoughtcrime police taking their marching orders from the latest Woke Directives of the Inner Party.
Small businesses that have enough success to provide their owners and a few trusted employees with a good living are anathema. If you can’t afford to hire a useless parasite of an HR person for every ten productive employees, you don’t deserve to exist.
“If you don’t want to prescribe whatever I want, you shouldn’t have become a doctor.”
If they want me to do what they want, then they shouldn’t be retarded.
sup’
Sup!
HEY YUFUS!
I missed the kite article last night, but I promise Ill go back and read it.
I’m glad you mentioned that. I would have missed it.
* waving emoji *
We’re lucky that at least one person’s preferred pronouns are he/him.
He “scrapped” their chest? Like turned it into scraps?
STEVE MAKE CHEST POP OPEN LIKE ALIEN.
Yeah, the value of post-consumer chest material has skyrocketed recently. I think it’s up above copper now.
Steve Smith grabbed a handful of his lover’s chest hair, and pulled him back roughly. “Don’t go,” he growled…
WHEN STEVE SMITH WANTS TO CUDDLE, YOU CUDDLE! AND BY CUDDLE MEAN…
Butt stuff?
Maybe there was a bunch of them? Everyone tried to get away from STEVE SMITH.
He likes it like that.
“The fun is in the chase” kind of thing?
STEVE SMITH always struck me as the type that liked the actual act even more…
STEVE LIKE HIM SOME FOREPLAY.
A LITTLE SCREAMING, A LITTLE RUNNING, A LOT OF PLEADING PUT STEVE IN MOOD.
And by “GOOD MOOD” mean…..
Yes, that elision of the other person’s sex stuck out like a sore thumb.
STEVE SMITH CUDDLES RIGHT BEFORE RAPE
Howdy Glibs – wotchya?
(Am I the only one that pronounces Brett L as if it rhymes with Gretel?)
I pronounce it to rhyme with Jor El
Huh. I always said it like it was French. “Bree Axis”
“Brett L,” like “beetle.”
I pronounce it as if Florida Man was Super Man’s uncle.
“Am I the only one…”
Hmm, not anymore.
I pronounce it like Samuel L Jackson.
Mothafuckah?
BRETT L MOTHERF**KER! DO YOU SPEAK IT?
You shout it?
Yes. And I shout about his big brain.
Do you shout it out loud?
I knew it before I clicked.
You’re awesome.
I pronounce it “methyl”
I don’t read Glibs aloud.
How do you provide moral instruction to your orphans during grueltime?
Brittle
It’s pronounced Throat Warbler Mangrove.
Well you’d better cut down a little then.
U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer in Manhattan declared the so-called “conscience rule” unconstitutional in a 147-page decision stemming from a lawsuit brought by New York and nearly two dozen other mostly Democratic states and municipalities. The rule had been set to go into effect later this month.
Freedom of Conscience? Fuck it. It’s not good enough to have abortions legalized, we have to weed out any Doctor who sees it as immoral.
We will make it moral by punishing those that dare to think of it as immoral!
I just can’t fathom the legal twisting to get “Freedom of Religion” which is *explicitly mentioned in the first amendment to the f’ing Constitution!* as unconstitutional. SMOD 2020 already.
We’re on the precipice of a second progressive Era. The first one brought us eugenics, the administrative state, and the complete emasculation of the states. I can’t imagine what Progressive Era 2: Authoritarian Boogaloo will ring.
Last example was implemented just over 100 years ago. I’m sure it will work out fine, we have much better planning tools today to get the “correct” results.
It is a little backwards
This is a litmus test issue for me.
On the bright side, this may go to the Supreme Court where I doubt any of the conservative justices will approve.
“The agency recalled 309 rifles from Odessa-based Adams Arms and demanded a refund of more than $300,000.”
First it was Russia, now Ukraine…
A few years ago the NJ State police tried to sue Sig for defective pistols because they were always failing during target practice. Sig proved conclusively that the shitty cheap target ammo they were using was the issue.
Multiple shots from a single trigger pull is unlikely to be an ammo issue.
How about incompetent deputies?
This – I don’t think most cops should have a “patrol rifle” because most have no idea how to shoot or maintain one.
Ok, not to defend the derputies, but if you can accidentally modify a rifle into full auto, their is a manufacturing defect involved.
I’d wager that the Fifes went ahead and mess around with the rifle to make it full auto – which is why Adams offered to inspect them and the Sheriff wasn’t interested.
Damn it I did it again there, not their.
and if a bunch of sheriffs deputies were changing out sears I’d expect more than one failure to fire 🙂
Maybe they’re just a bunch of twitchy meth heads?
“Health care is a basic right that should never be subject to political games,” James said in a statement Wednesday. “… The refusal of care rule was an unlawful attempt to allow health care providers to openly discriminate and refuse to provide necessary health care to patients based on providers’ ‘religious beliefs or moral objections.’”
What a sick fuck. Seriously Fuck the AG of New York and Fuck New York City, and the Entire state of New York. This is the same kinda logic that allows people to force doctors to “euthanize” undesirables.
““Health care is a basic right that should never be subject to political games,” James said in a statement Wednesday. “”
If I recall it correctly, when someone has a “right” to your labor and can force you to accept subpar or no compensation for said labor, you are nothing but a serf or slave. Guess the left really wants to make America a slave owning country again…
To which we reply…
*Raises hand eagerly*
I know! I know!
*ahem*
FUCK OFF, SLAVER!!!!
Nailed it in one.
“Some animals are more equal than others”?
I guess “necessary” doesn’t mean what I think it means
“But many physician and health advocacy groups contended the rule would have disproportionately harmed certain groups of patients, including LGBTQ patients.”
Bullshit.
Well, technically not, because of the ‘T’. Conscience objections covered objections to sex-change surgery, which would affect the T crowd. The L & the G are almost entirely unaffected, as they tend not to need sex-changes or abortions.
Possibly they are talking about anti-retroviral meds used to prevent and treat HIV? But I can’t recall any incidents.
I can’t imagine more than a handful of isolated nutters taking the “die a horrible death, fags” line. Doesn’t stop the larping left from imagining a vast conspiracy of people just waiting to deny folks HIV meds because “that’s what happens when they don’t have to bake the cake”
I would be absolutely shocked if a single doctor, no matter how fundamentalist, would ever refuse a sick person medication. Although I suppose you might have a fundamentalist refuse to prescribe PrEP as it might lead to gay sex, I propose we avoid all this by eliminating the prescription requirements.
It wouldn’t affect them in reality because such surgery is a specialty.
Because they’re much more likely to get pregnant?
Weed out the people who are unwilling to go along with whatever the state mandates.
She has taken the usual partisan hackery of that office and dialed it up to a thousand.
I know STEVE SMITH and you, sir, are no STEVE SMITH!
I don’t know if i can keep it up today guys. That Decision reminds me what a terrible state of affairs we live in in this country.
The system is broken at this point beyond repair, and it will take a demolition and restart to try to get it back under control I am afraid to admit. Those of us hoping for a resolution that’s peaceful are not going to get any of that.
Yet, I look at the demographics of America and how they’re becoming energy independent, there’s also reason for optimism. Add that Canada is highly inefficient and likely to further fragment, the EU is a mess, Russia is a second world country and is right years behind and China’s demographics are a disaster in the making and you have recipe where the USA will once again stand above all else. Dare I say may even have a ‘Second Dynasty’ in the future.
But you have to kill all the commies for mommy.
So, last horse in line at the glue factory.
Take some Viagra. Q will have other options I’m sure.
I have no idea if Virginia is “gerrymandered” or not, but I do know that it’s perfectly possible to draw maps that can favor either party and following criteria that are generally accepted as “not gerrymandered”. I forgot the link, but I’ve seen it in practice on some site.
The Dems have created districts all the over the country that favor minorities just like they accuse the GOP of doing. And for the express purpose of electing minorities. I don’t see the MSM calling that gerrymandering.
Maryland, for instance.
Virginia isn’t really gerrymandered, but given how long the Republicans have been in charge of the legislature, if it is gerrymandered they did a really, really shitty job of it.
Says in the article the Dems sued and the court got somebody to redraw it. I’m sure the current map is totally fair now – I mean, that’s why the Dems took control. It has to be fair.
the court got somebody to redraw it
A partisan hack professor from a university in CA. Forgot which one. The Republicans protested the decision, and the court told them to stfu.
It’s a little frightening how many courts have dropped any pretense of not being partisan and showed solidarity with the Dems.
More than a little bit frightening.
The bureaucracy creates regulations that have the force of law, and the courts enforce it. As long as those regs are leftist ones.
Bernard Grofman, UC Irvine. Same guy who was a consultant when they redrew the 4th Congressional district to become heavily Democrat.
Just to give everyone an idea – the 4th district, which had voted for GWB twice and went to Mittens in 2012 was 59-37% in favor of Lady Cankles in 2016 and 61-37 in favor of Gov. Coonman in 2017.
The court-ordered redistricting heavily favored the Donks. The Democrat-held districts that became more Republican were almost entirely inconsequential because they were already overwhelmingly safe. Republican-held districts that were redistricted, on the other hand, were almost all highly contested. The partisan makeup of six GOP districts flipped to majority Democrat, and I think at least three or four of them went Democrat in the election.
This fucking state is going to be circling the bowl in a few years. Rename it South New Jersey.
It’s not so much the gerrymandering as it is the plethora of blue districts around DC. There’s simply an enormous number of them packed into a small area. DC runs Virginia now.
This. They keep putting up row after row of town homes for government drones to live in. Even out here, 30 miles from the city, it’s townhomes or mixed neighborhoods
What sort of sick bastard wants a townhouse? It’s the worst of all worlds. You don’t get the freedom from maintenance of an apartment, nor the privacy of a house, and a lot of them end up in HOAs.
Um…*raises hand*
We bought a townhouse. It has a hoa.
It wasn’t what we went looking for, but we’ve been quite happy here.
The hoa just put new roofs on our section this summer. The landscapers do a decent job. The snow removal company does a good job in the winter. Decent neighbors means no missing Amazon packages. What’s not to like?
You found the unicorn of neighbors and HOA.
And we bought on a weak market with a low ball offer, and the current value is way up. I’d like to say I’m crafty, but really I’m just really lucky with a lil bit of smarts.
Gerrymandering has been invented in Massachusetts and practiced to these days with great success. Each congressional district is solidly Democratic even though 36% of residents voted for a Republican Senate candidate last year.
Hilariously, a few months ago the Boston Globe published an article denouncing gerrymandering in New Hampshire.
Yeah, outside select minority/hipster districts, even Trump was competitive across NYC of all places. All you have to do is construct a reliable majority in every district and you’re golden.
This district, adjacent to mine, one might be my favorite. Possibly the only one in the country obviously concocted to elect a Jew.
I see that Russian Jews from Brighton Beach are split between a district that covers Staten Island and another one that goes almost to the Manhattan bridge.
I live in that district. Didn’t even know we had Brighton Beach.
Racial gerrymandering is required, not forbidden. That is the entire point of majority minority districts (but not too much minority, that would be wrong).
Talk about backing the wrong unicorn
You might say he was ridding on the horn?
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7656731/Demi-Rose-shares-incredibly-svelte-throwback-snap.html
That’s a fuckton of silicone, man.
Silicow
“Plans to regain her slender physique”
Needle and suction?
Gang Bangs?.
How many calories does that burn?
Asking for a friend.
I think it depends on how active the bangee is.
I have heard there are films on the Internet regarding the topic.
IDK. I have heart monitor that counts calories burned though.
And Photoshop
This is getting kind of silly.
Feinstein Lashes Out at Rand Paul – Warns Him Not to Reveal Name of Anti-Trump CIA ‘Whistleblower’ Eric Ciaramella
Can he reveal the name of the Chinese spy on your staff for 20 years and how much you and your hubby made off of trading with China during that time?
I like how they included his name multiple times in the article.
Takes some of the drama out of Rand’s big reveal.
“Billionaire Robert Smith’s Playboy model wife Hope reveals she is expecting TWINS via surrogate, as she shares her struggle to grow her family while battling an autoimmune disease”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7657041/Billionaire-Robert-Smiths-wife-Hope-expecting-twins-surrogate.html
Let’s hope someone finds the cure.
What autoimmune disease is this that she has?
Psoriasis? It is heartbreaking, after all.
Not pregnancy
I see what you did there.
Yes. Bravo.
Joe Rogan Experience #1368 – Edward Snowden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efs3QRr8LWw
What a huge pot bust!
(with a special bonus only understood by those of us with kids)
that’s funny.
I think we can all sleep more soundly now, knowing that 7 grams of The Devil’s Weed have been taken off the streets.
Suspected Devil’s Weed!
They took a picture because they found a short quarter bag?
I like big busts and I cannot lie.
Massive marijuana shipment confiscated by NYPD
Same kinda thing
IowaHawk reporting.
https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/1192145893018996736
LOLOL
I blame Trump
Honestly, I have to admit that I respect Son for at least acknowledging that he screwed up. A lot of American CEOs would be giving the song and dance about how it was really a brilliant decision that the rest of the world and the markets will eventually catch up to.
You fucked up. You trusted me with $billions.
Poke that bear! I have plenty of popcorn.
https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2019/11/06/hoo-boy-kansas-city-votes-remove-mlks-name-street/
Meanwhile, in Boston.
Should go with Nubial Square:)
I was told this was only about the Confederate Battle Flag and nothing more. And would never lead to people dismissing the BOR because Madison owned slaves.
What’s a Nubian?
I think they were a rap band.
Give nothing but abuse!
Shut your crackety ass up!
SIT YOUR WHITE ASS DOWN!
A kind of goat
Intergalactic civil war?
About 20 bucks.
PS. I read that as “Thomas Dolby”.
Yay! Utopia is only weeks away now!
Went to the range for the first time in months on Sunday. Only one limp wrist incident, and that was in my first two shots. I did OK I guess. I was only loading 5 rounds at a time so I could keep track of my shots better.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/19i0kw-Zdv0QZoSQ5FvDpZ5OvgSmUKAYI/view?usp=sharing
Nicely done! I really need to get to the range. I should at least be dry firing at home.
Nice grouping! What distance?
Only 5 yards
I wish I had a chance to get out there this weekend. It has been almost a year for me, and I wasn’t the most in practice before then.
You say the word and we can do a mini glibs meetup. Maybe the El Tee would join us from down south with his AR
Slate: Democrats can win when racist Republican gerrymandering is killed.
Also Slate: How to fuck your dead husbands caregiver.
“He sent me a picture of his erect penis. I’ve done research on that and realize that may mean that he is really interested because men think their penises are special, great, etc.”
Lol. Riding that gravy train.
“He promised my husband that he would continue to live here and take care of me”… “I’m 73 but feel about 50, and he is 38″… “He said that neither his mother nor his ex-wives ever treated him as well as I do”… “He sent me a picture of his erect penis”… “I am in a peculiar position because I’m the one with the money now and he doesn’t have any”…
Oh yeah, this is definitely going to end well. “Relax and lean into it.” Such great advice.
We can watch the ending on the ID channel.
That reads like one of SF’s more gruesome entries.
“Warty Hugeman and the Cave of Dust”.
Dear Penthouse Forum…
“1. Scoop: ABC News execs believe they know who the former employee is who accessed footage of @arobach expressing her frustrations about her shelved Jeffrey Epstein story
That former employee is now at CBS and ABC execs have reached out to CBS News execs”
https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1192193027995045890
Typical, just typical.
It’s beyond parody now.
Media: “don’t name the whistleblower!”
Also Media: “find that snitch and hang them!”
“Hey, aren’t there more Trumpalos making memes who we can dox?”
Meh, the whistle blower followed proper gov’t guidelines, the “snitch” broke company policy that they most likely signed a contract saying they would abide by. Breach of contract used to mean something to libertarians. Ah well, principals/principles.
Conferring with Adam Schiff’s staff before submitting a complaint is the proper procedure?
Probably not required but probably not forbidden either.
It the stories I’m hearing are true, the “whistle blower” is a Democrat operative that has been working since the election to get rid of Trump.
And? So someone who is really jonesing to get a particular guy, ends up claiming to have dirt on that guy, the evidence is either there or it’s not. What the accuser’s motivation is is moot. You want to argue that Trump did nothing wrong in the Biden/Ukraine affair fine, I may even agree with you on that to some extent, but who brought up the charges is immaterial. If it turns out that is was Ivanka or Trump Jr that dropped the dime does that suddenly change the facts of the case? This isn’t a he said/she said thing. This is “X” happened, It either did or it didn’t that’s all there is to it.
That’s all fine if what you have is an objective search for the truth, but you’re not naive enough to believe that’s what is happening here. Knowing his background blows the “heroic whistleblower” narrative out of the water. Which is exactly why they are fighting so hard to keep it a secret.
So what? I don’t think anyone here is calling for the whistleblower to be punished. They are just commenting on the unwillingness of the media to name them. Nothing in the law prohibits the media from naming them, and it is relevant information given the allegations that it was a politically motivated smear not an actual whistlebower. I think you are stretching to find hypocrisy where there is none.
it is relevant information given the allegations
So allegations are now (or is it again? {I can’t keep track of who’s outraged by what anymore}) reason enough to ruin someones life?
Personally, I argue that a bona fide anonymous whistleblower involves a docu dump.
If you’re asking me to take your unsupported word for something, I want you to answer questions, provide context, so I can see if it all hangs together.
If you’re a whistleblower who needs to remain anonymous, you best be dumping lots and lots of actual evidence to support your accusations.
Context.
Eric Ciaramella Attorney, January 2017: “Coup Has Started” – July 2017: “We Will Remove Him”…
This. Anonymous doesn’t work with hearsay.
You are being disingenuous here. Let me put this plainly. This impeachment spectacle is blatant abuse of the power of impeachment. Even taking the claims made at face value, assuming Trump flat out said to Ukraine, investigate Biden or no cash, (which is NOT supported by the transcript btw) there is no crime, nor is there anything remotely improper unless you also assume that 1. There was no connection between what Biden did and his son or his son’s employer and 2. Trump knew that 1 was true.
It is not improper for the executive branch to investigate charges of corruption.
It is not improper to ask a friendly State to cooperate in such an investigation.
It is not even improper, nor is it at all unusual to delay aid pending such cooperation, even if that in fact occurred.
A ‘whistle blower’ who is a political ally of the subject of the investigation, who blew the whistle on something that is not illegal, nor improper, by approaching other political opponents of the target and planning how best to attack for PR purposes, needs to be identified (which he has been) and these facts are relevant to the story and should be mentioned in reporting.
I get that you think I and others here are too supportive of Trump, and perhaps we are, but at least in my case my support grows as the Democrats, their allies the media, and above all the utterly corrupt Praetorian Guard of the ‘intelligence community” continue this despicable attempt to use their positions and the shreds of our laws to oust him.
“I get that you think I and others here are too supportive of Trump, and perhaps we are, but at least in my case my support grows as the Democrats, their allies the media, and above all the utterly corrupt Praetorian Guard of the ‘intelligence community” continue this despicable attempt to use their positions and the shreds of our laws to oust him.”
This is really what it comes down to.
The media has the right to be lying propagandists for whatever side or party or politician or party they wish. Government employees DO NOT have the right to use their power and authority to overturn the result of the 2016 election.
This “pox on both their houses” shit is so tiresome, because its not “shitstain politicians versus other shitstain politicians” that’s the issue. The issue is the people who in true Orwellian fashion are dubbed the “intelligence community”:
1. Use satellites and backdoor taps into networks and god knows what else to tap into every communication on the planet. Giving them blackmail material on the wretched scum of crooks and perverts that make up the Congress.
2. Have control of a completely black cadre of door kickers that moves freely about the world, paired with a tidy little pocket air force of missile firing drones. They can kill anyone anywhere they can loft a Predator, and there’s no longer even the necessity of finding a skilled pilot to carry out the strike. You just need some leftist true believer willing to click an icon on a screen.
3. Have god knows what kind of influence and messaging operations going on in the media, in Hollywood, in academia. So before the smoking ashes of you, your home, and your family even settle back to Earth the drooling masses will be convinced by the constant media flow that you were all terrorist drug dealing Russian assets.
4. Have the authority to abduct and detain indefinitely those designated by secret courts as terror threats. Those secret courts staffed by judges, and who knows what kind of skeletons these judges have that can be leveraged.
Run a quick Google search. Look how many “intelligence professionals” are freshman Democratic Representatives. The tail is wagging the dog in a very real sense. It is extremely frightening, and should be frightening to anyone who actually values liberty.
Don’t forget the whistleblower was only able to be a whistleblower because they changed the rules.
After he went to Schiff.
Add in the fact that the impeachment thing was prepared before Trump even got into office, and has been powered from day one by a cast of characters who have been linked in one way or the other to the upper echelons of the Obama administration, and most are linkable to Hillary Clinton in one way or another. The same handful of names keeps popping up over and over and over.
I don’t trust it in the slightest. I don’t trust the Democrats. I don’t trust the media. I don’t trust the Republicans. I don’t trust Trump. However, out of all of them, I find what Trump has said to be the least unbelievable.
There are 5 paths forward that I can see.
1) Trump is removed due to the impotence of the Republican Senators, cementing progs in full power for the next decade.
2) Trump is removed because legitimate damming evidence is revealed, progs gain the presidency, but lasting damage is minimal.
3) Republicans kill the impeachment weakly, resulting in a blue wave in 2020
4) Democrats play this thing out through 2020, leading to low dem turnout
5) Republicans go scorched earth on the impeachment, exposing all the shenanigans that happened in the 2016 campaign, and following up with criminal indictments for those executing whatever the heck was going on back then. Despite the media’s best efforts, this story actually gets out and a red wave hits in 2020.
More like next generation.
By “run someone’s life,” you mean “get a multi-million dollar book deal and a lifetime of highly paid sinecures” yes?
If breaking his/her company contract to bring to light the blatant corruption of your company, who’s sweeping criminal activity against children under the rug for access to power is a violation of libertarian principles then knock me down a rung on the Nolan Chart.
I’m certain that the company also has guideline to follow if you feel one of your coworkers is acting unethically, The snitch should have followed procedure just like the whistle blower did. Go rouge and you best be prepared to get treated like an outlaw.
Coworker/people who run the company and issue the marching orders, same thing, yes?
And yeah, I’m sure they signed something, and if they did, the ABC has all the legal right in the world to go after them, but don’t pretend this is a typical, mid-managerial decision to kill a story based on editorial standards when they repeatedly showed those standards are not held consistently in the very recent past. To suggest that this could have been brought to the public’s attention through the company’s standard channels is absurd. I just hope whatever damage that news agency manages to do to that person is negated by the public’s support, we’ll see.
If so, they can sue for breach of contract. Then publish the name of the whistle blower, because obviously whistle blowers aren’t so sacrosanct after all.
So is it a typical response of a company to let another company know that their employee is a snitch?
Odd, isn’t it? One might almost think they were organizations with shared goals and ideologies, rather than business competitors.
Biden associate coordinating with Schiff…legit.
News agency covering up a story about a pedophile with extensive high profile associations they like…meh.
Remember folks, it is wrong to out a whistleblower. Maybe even illegal.
“Nothing says fighting intolerance like depicting your political opponents as insects to be exterminated. Well done, Stanford SJWs!”
https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1192169504089853952
Remember when neo-nazis were the Holocaust deniers?
“Bike locks will be provided for those not privileged enough to afford one.”
And the police state comes to Iowa.
Two students at Clear Creek-Amana High School were taken into custody by law enforcement during a K-9 unit training exercise which evolved into a drug investigation on Wednesday.
According to the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office, local law enforcement agencies were doing training for their K-9 units on school grounds in Tiffin. During the training, officers had cause to investigate two vehicles in the parking lot for possible drugs.
Deputies consequently conducted searches of the vehicles, locating a handgun in each.
Two students, 16-years-old and 17-years-old, were taken into custody. Both were charged with carrying weapons on school property, a class D felony. One of the students received a charge of possession of a controlled substance, a serious misdemeanor.
We’re just going to conduct a training exercise and accidentally sniff every car in the student parking lot. No warrants needed.
“Training”. Riiiiight.
I was in High School (early 90s) when they started random dog sniffs of our possessions.
Fuuuuck. Glad I missed that era.
SRO: “I got a couple of kids I want stitched up.”
“No problem. We’ll just call it a ‘training exercise.’”
Warrants….pffffffft
https://www.google.com/amp/s/fee.org/articles/the-rural-libertarian-as-a-historical-anomaly//amp
Is he suggesting that free-markets and anti-authoritarianism are outdated principles in modern urban America?
Bloomberg, AOC, and DeBlasio are the result of libertarian social and economic development?
Who are these urban politicians that support these principles?
Dammit that wasn’t supposed to be a reply…
Schrodinger’s libertarian. We both have no power and control the country.
My thesis then is that American conservativism, insofar as it values the free market and suspects authority, is a historical anomaly because the free market and anti-authoritarianism just happened to be the prevailing tradition in the United States at the time rural communities of the Midwest and the Southwest were being established.
And your thesis is shit.
These places were founded by individuals willing to give up “civilized” life in cities and start from scratch in the wilderness relying on their own two hands to make it.
“Libertarian candidate Steve Smith of Muncie, IN goes all STEVE SMITH on domestic partner who did not want to “cuddle”. (h/t whoever sent this to SP)”
What the fuck is up with their use of pronouns?
“U.S. victims in Mexico massacre were tied to family with a long history of violence”
https://twitter.com/latimes/status/1192117695153618945
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-11-06/mormons-mexico-lebaron-fundamentalist-history
Those babies had it coming, apparently.
Anyone who is descended from, or collaterally related to, a murderer is guilty.
Good news. That is literally every human being.
Return of blood guilt…
So does that mean we cordon off South Chicago or Compton and call in the air strikes? I mean, virtually every resident is related to someone who committed some serious crimes.
I love how the media just has to throw the Mormon religion thing out there like that has anything to do with them being slaughtered.
Some reports are claiming they were targeted. ??♂️
The one good thing to come out of the VA elections – I am spared the horror of Senator Cat Lady. Not that Siobhan Dunnavant is worth a shit, but still….
“My campaign wants four of these. Problem is: the president of the company supplying these is gay. Found out when he sent back the dozen Bangkok hookers I had delivered. He demands that I “hang” with him twice a year instead. Is it worth it?”
https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1192121221200121856
National. Treasure.
I wish I had a twitter so I could reply “Dude you banged a whale. Take one for the lulz.”
I have nothing but respect for future US President John McAfee.
Woke Charmed is a documentary:
“Women’s March Endorses ‘Casting Spells’ to Fight the Patriarchy”
https://twitter.com/womensmarch/status/1191712728601247744
https://freebeacon.com/politics/womens-march-endorses-casting-spells-to-fight-the-patriarchy/
They fuckin’ love them some science.
Hey, if they can turn Trump into a newt, more power to them.
These are Social Justice Witches, so it would probably turn him into Newt Gingrich.
How about Nute Gunray?
https://fee.org/articles/the-urban-origins-of-liberty/
City air gave us the Green New Deal…
Big American cities are the first places that come to mind when I think of bastions of freedom.
So why is modern city air giving us such shitty leaders?
The Atlantic suggests an alternative:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/597955/
Not to mention modern urbanites are dependent on police, schools, electricity and water given to them by the government.
And doesn’t internet shopping and modern consumerism ironically make central planning look easy? If I can order something with the click of a button why can’t TOP MEN do the same? And this is so much crap online that I don’t care about or even hate that why do I care if it is banned?
TGA thinks that gentrification is causing these issues. Rhywun thinks we shouldn’t overlook Democratic urban political machines. Also vote fraud and gerrymandering can’t be ignored either.
A big problem is that urban libertarians are likely small fish in a huge pond. NYC could very well have the largest collection of libertarians in the world (or at least in America) but they are too small to have any effect in local, state, or federal elections.
One thing I find interesting is that aren’t these people guilty of the very same thing they accuse conservatives of? Having a very romanticized and idealized view of the past? CATO and AIER tend to have a very romanticized and idealized look at 19th Century Europe and America especially of the cities.
However if they don’t have this idealized view they likely to have a woke SJW view instead though.
Cities were attractive to liberty-minded people in areas where the countryside was locked down by aristocratic estate holders. Where middle-class landholders dominated, the countryside tended to be more open to liberty. Basically, wherever happened to provide more opportunity to control your own destiny attracted the people who wanted to do so.
That is an interesting theory. When would you say this shift happened in the US (if ever?). What would you say is more liberty-minded in Modern America: Cities or countryside?
I knew about this, but not that the bookies picked it up and blew the whistle. Private sector for the win!
The local TV star who rigged the lottery
“Male Chinese ‘Relatives’ Assigned to Uyghur Homes Co-sleep With Female ‘Hosts’
Male Han Chinese “relatives” assigned to monitor the homes of Uyghur families in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) regularly sleep in the same beds as the wives of men detained in the region’s internment camps, according to sources who have overseen the forced stayovers.”
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/cosleeping-10312019160528.html
Schlafen macht frei
Friendly rape.
This is unsurprising. The ChiComs have a long history of forcibly migrating Han Chinese to areas heavily populated by other races/cultures inside China.
Migrating into your bed seems like a new twist.
Is it just me, or does the CGI in those ads for Midway look awful, like a mediocre cartoon?
Well it is from Roland Emmerich
Why in the hell does anyone feel the need to remake one of the greatest war movies of all time?.
Someone is remaking Stripes?
We watched Halloween the other weekend which my wife had never seen and I was telling her that I had a crush on PJ Soles back in the day.
Yeah, no shit. She’s like the 70’s version of Elisabeth Shue.
I had no idea you shared OMWC’s proclivities.
I like 80’s Elisabeth Shue, If that makes me a pedophile than chemically castrate me because I can’t deny her.
Shue was super hot in Leaving Las Vegas but I still didn’t like the movie. Too depressing.
Palmetto, ’nuff said.
Not just you. Movie looks like overly dramatic garbage, anyway.
If I had to see this….
https://twitter.com/CANCEL_SAM/status/1191581772766744576
Hell is real.
Worst music decade 90’s or 00’s?
Nu metal was the early 00’s right? Had to be the 00’s.
Arrogant leftists who know nothing about flyover country paint it racist
I’ve noticed the left media has been picking this story up. They show their ignorance of the issue and Kansas City.
Most black people in KC that live on or near that road DON’T.GIVE.A.FUCK. As I said on the morning links, I lived off that road for years. Nobody ever brought it up in conversation one way or the other. The only exception I can think of off hand was when they decided to announce the street name change and some locals told them to fix some of the damn potholes instead.
Sure, Jan.
I think the more interesting aspect of this farce is that once again, a city council mandates something the voters don’t want.
“spatial tool”….totally not a bullshit made-up term
Human Geography, yes… it’s an actual degree from your more liberal colleges.
“Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography is a peer-reviewed journal published 12 times a year by Taylor and Francis to provide “a forum for debate in human geography and related disciplines on theoretically-informed research concerned with gender issues.””
https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/cgpc20
What I find most interesting is the reported $120k plus it’s going to take in total for both the first and impending sign changes. They’re pissing away revenue right in our faces. Chump change in a city budget, I know, but the point stands.
They could sell the MLK signs as souvenirs.
A memento for upper-middle class white progressives? To commemorate that brief moment in time when black people in the city where given an honor without their consent or approval, before they voted against their conscience?
You might be on to something here.
A thousand bucks a pop and they’ve recouped the cost.
Heh, they priced the old seats at Arrowhead for sale at under half that. Goooooood luck. 😉
Maybe the locals realized that Martin Luther King Boulevard is almost always the last place that does his name any recognition.
Pretty much. If anybody living there has been paying attention, they’d take the name change as a backhanded insult.
If there isn’t an MLK Boulevard, how will I know I’ve reached the worst part of town?
It gives off a miasma of despair.
how will I know I’ve reached the worst part of town?
When you find yourself on Malcolm X Boulevard.
Surprisingly, our Malcolm X Boulevard is far from the worst part of town. Bed-Stuy is rapidly gentrifying.
First galnce at the article and I thought “MLK’s disappearance has begun already.” With the blasphemy in his “I ahve a dream speech.” I thought it was the left that wnated the name wanted the name change.
Yeah, judging people on the content of their character instead of the color of their skin is totes racists in the bizarro world of the left.
Thought MLK was on the way out. I have seen some articles criticizing his “I have a dream” speech because it only addressed race. Therefore he is an obvious homophobe.
No, he’s on the way out because he valued character over hue.
The ugly truth about MLK:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TrOpoWEToaQ
— Dug FitzHelen, ‘Blue Powder’, On Unknown Shores
I like it!
dDark ice fell from Jotunrender as hot vitae swept down the blade,to itself startwhere it began to freeze.I’ll get around to proofreading. Right now I’m trying to get the story out.
It’s wednesday already and I’m not even 20k words up from the start of the week.
“When a metric becomes a target, it ceases to be a useful metric.”
I have a target of more metrics.
Nice fortune cookie. Such sayings are, well, distilled beyond all utlity.
There’s a multi-billion dollar manufacturing site a bit north of you that disagrees.
There are a lot of metrics (literally 80,000+ control charts) that we could use to reflect our various processes health, but there is no way we’d ever be given a bonus on any of them. All that matters is salable product.
Nobody manufactures in New York. You’re making that up.
nobody
I laughed.
Of course, you’ve read Rhywun and my exchanges about the factories we’re both familiar with upstate.
Are you goofing off? Or is it proceeding at a natural pace? If you are goofing off the metric may mean something. If it is just how the writing is going and you force things to try and reach the budgeted pace I suspect you won’t like the result.
Context, the sail pattern and construction are completely unfamiliar to the narrator, and they’re trying to get away from the guys he was fighting in the earlier excerpt.
Sorry if this has already been posted today but here’s a link to an interesting global warming mitigation strategy that was signed by 11,000 experts that was published in Bioscience yesterday. It looks like their final solution to the climate change problem is a final solution regarding the human problem. It’s really some crazy shit:
https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biz088/5610806
And all this time I thought Suthenboy was just a bit paranoid when it came to the climate change stuff but, as it turns out, he was right.
Paul Erlich was one of the contributors to that drivel. That alone should discredit all of it.
What?! Not Paul ‘write a doomsday scenario book everytime my cash flow starts to wane’ Elrich! He’s got decades of accurate, proven, totally not hyperbolic predictions under his belt. Above all rational criticism, he is.
Paul Ehrlich & Hal Lindsey are the same person. Discuss.
Pfft… Erlich looked nothing like Barney Miller.
You magnificent bastard!
No thanks. I don’t want to be poor and hungry again.
They’ll accept dead.
*unrefreshed shaken-fist*
You’ll be thrilled to hear about the other option then, but first, wouldn’t you like to take a shower?
“Still increasing by roughly 80 million people per year, or more than 200,000 per day (figure 1a–b), the world population must be stabilized—and, ideally, gradually reduced—within a framework that ensures social integrity. There are proven and effective policies that strengthen human rights while lowering fertility rates and lessening the impacts of population growth on GHG emissions and biodiversity loss. These policies make family-planning services available to all people, remove barriers to their access and achieve full gender equity, including primary and secondary education as a global norm for all, especially girls and young women (Bongaarts and O’Neill 2018)”
You know who else systematically reduced population?
Harold Shipman?
The next Venezuela? I wonder how much of this is stirred up by outside Marxist agitators.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/chile-police-molotov-cocktails-fire
Next?
I think I hear helicopters.
Me too!
Me Three
Partly cloudy with a chance of scattered communists?
Dealing with helicopters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9HFjErMMlA
Just remember, “Leave a commie on a helicopter once, and he will fly for a day. Throw a commie from a helicopter, and he will fly for the rest of his life.”
Okay, that was funny. What I don’t get is that there are huge cliffs on the Pacific bordering the Atacama. Could’ve saved a lot of money…
How many ARE Venezuelans? Chile has gotten several tens of thousands of Venezuelans over the last few years – hundred thousand? (it was a lot, anyway)
Heard today: that new season of Jack Ryan features Venezuela quite heavily… as a failed state domineered by a right-wing Bolsonaro-like populist dictator. Not a word about its actual socialist ills.
the children of new math write interesting stories
Clancy is rolling in his grave.
“A feminist coven in the university
Inspired by Sara Ahmed’s call to study what is near to you, we write about our sometimes-joyful, sometimes-furious, always passionate struggles as graduate students in the academy. As a site of imperialism, racism, and patriarchy, the university grinds especially hard on women, people of color, black, indigenous, queer, disabled, and otherwise oppressed scholars. Out of a desire not just to get by or get ahead in this hostile space of competition and scarcity, we write about a feminist praxis that subverts the academy. Using collaborative auto-ethnography, asynchronous online interviews, and co-theorization, we conjure a network of rebels – what we call the feminist coven. We solicited contributions from feminist graduate students in response to three prompts about forms of communication, emotional labor, and imaginaries. Our findings show a vibrant landscape of creativity, love, rage, and longing for academia to be a more hospitable place. We and our contributors, whose voices pepper this article, offer ideas for how to summon new worlds and ways of being through small actions and everyday practices, subverting the violence of the academy by being the storm that blows through it.”
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0966369X.2019.1681367
Oh, just shut the fuck up.
‘Out of a desire not just to get by or get ahead in this hostile space of competition and scarcity,…’
*compares the environment of university life to real world life*
If you think it’s tough now…
They’ll all be in Congress making 6 figures screaming about wealth inequality soon enough. That or part of the unelected bureaucracy that whittles away at the countries soul.
Even worse – they’ll go into HR.
“They expect results!”
Hey, should we take up a collection for STEVE SMITH? First, rape Muncie…
Damn. C’mon people, there’s even a theme song
@MichaelBarone on C-SPAN2
He bored me twenty years ago; I’ll give him ten minutes.