“I said it was a cocksucking call, you can’t throw me for that!”If you’re gonna be a big-league umpire, you need to not be a thin-skinned little bitch. At least that’s my assessment of what happened last night in Houston. No big deal, at the Firstros boat-raced Tampa anyway.But damn, a guy complaining 50 feet away with his back to you is hardly grounds to run him to the clubhouse. Other winners yesterday were: Baltimore,Pittsburgh, Toronto, Chicago (NL), Cleveland, Cincinnati, Minnesooooooda, St Louis, Oakland, Boston, Arizona, California/Anaheim/Los Angeles (AL), Los Angeles (NL), and New York (AL). And we watch to see who will falter and surge in the last month of the season, with the only interesting races the two central divisions and wild card races.
There were a handful of upsets at the US Open yesterday in both the mens and women’s draws. More to come as the week progresses and we get into the third round or so. Until then, there’s just too many matches going on at the same time to really pay attention. Sorry, my attention span just isn’t capable of sifting through this many matches. Maybe I’ll do better today as many of the big names are back on the court. But don’t count on it.
Let’s get on the birthdays, shall we? If you were born on the 28th of August, you share it with the following people who made a name for themselves one way or another: philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, father of cinematography Louis Le Prince, cartoonist legend Jack Kirby, baseball player and manager Lou Piniella, rocker Hugh Cornwell, actor Luis Guzman, Chinese activist Ai Weiwei, singer Shania Twain, 90210 actor Jason Priestley, hockey star Pierre Turgeon, big sister Sheryl Sandberg, and Danish (and by extension Greenland’s for the time being) Prince Nikolai.
Well there you go. Now on with…the links!
That escalated quickly. Well, not quickly, but it is certainly an escalation. Such a shame many Brits hate democracy when it doesn’t go their way.
Ilhan Omar to be stoned to death for committing adultery. Just kidding. She’s not still in her county of origin. But her political future may be facing that metaphorical prospect if the releases of campaign expenditures are accurate. whew, that’s a lot of travel she was funding. And a lot of very convenient round numbers.
Founder of substance abuse center appears to have been abusing some substances of his own. Alt headline: Christ, what a Masshole.
Jussie Smollett doubles-down in defense of his claims he was assaulted in Chicago. I don’t know who’s representing him, but apparently he’s unaware of how broke Chicago is. Not to mention how full of shit his story has proved to be.
Bret Stephens is a big, fat pussy. And a bully. Fortunately, his bullying backfired spectacularly.
Deutsche Bank apparently has tax returns of Trump and family members. It will be interesting to see whether or not the court forces them to be handed over and whether it will withstand an appeal, seeing as a court cannot compel someone to hand over evidence without articulating a specific crime it is evidence of.
Something good is happening in Illinois. No seriously, that’s not snark. Seriously. I mean it. I know it sounds like an Onion headline, but its true, dammit!
Thank God this happened after the G-7 meetings. Oh wait, its normal and happens all the time. Carry on then.
Two songs again today. Just couldn’t resist. So here’s the first one. And the second, which probably would work better on Brexit Day, but that’s not how birthdays work.
Go have a great day, friends!
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But her political future may be facing that metaphorical prospect if the releases of campaign expenditures are accurate.
She has a “D” after her name, she is immunized from serious consequences.
it’s almost too rich, though. I personally don’t care about this stuff but the Sanford thing was funny, the lewinski thing was funny, the airport foot tapper was hilarious and this is also hilarious.
“Gimme a D for Dimwit, gimme a D for Debauchery!”
Re: Engaging people like Bret Stephens; as my grandfather used to say, “the more you mess with a turd, the more shit you get on you.”
Depends on the animal it comes from and the type of gloves you wear.
I pity the zookeepers who have to clean that shit up on a daily basis.
Probably as much fun as doing spin control for Joe Biden’s gaffes.
But more honest work.
doing spin control for Biden’s gaffes is honest work as the man legitimately doesn’t know what the fuck is going to come out of his mouth when he is talking.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/08/27/oklahoma-city-anchor-apologizes-comparing-black-co-host-gorilla/2128100001/
Yeah and you can’t even compare your coworkers to the animals you provide upkeep for without everyone freaking out.
Ackshually, she said the gorilla looks like the guy, not that the guy looks like the gorilla
Distinction without a difference.
sometimes people say things without constantly thinking about the racial repercussions of what they are saying, those people should be stripped of their lively hood and marooned in Sahara with nothing but a single shot pistol and a canteen of water.
To kill a more heavily armed Boko Haram militant and take their kalashnikov?
^This is how you prog!
ZOMG GUN VIOLENCE PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENSEE!
They should be issued a carbon-free self-composting kit instead.
What a stupid, stupid thing to say. Not accurate either. The people who go with that trope have obviously never looked closely at gorillas.
It was a very “sorority girl” type of thing.
I praise the zookeepers for keeping their workplace cleaner than the streets of San Francisco
OK, that left a mark and I am certain some woke fuck from San Fran will be looking at a way to not just doxx your ass for pointing out their city is a shit infested dump, but because they are petty fucks about it.
My Grandpa, “There’s no clean end when you’re trying to pick up a turd, Son.”
part of an effort State’s Attorney Kim Foxx characterized as “righting the wrongs of the past.”
Too bad that quote doesn’t appear in the Smollet article, too.
That’s an interesting situation. How can you both social signal and support the “thin blue line” at the same time?
IL prosecutors are walking a fucking tightrope here!
Oh she’s going down, Police Union will see to that. It’s not like there aren’t dozens just like her ready and willing to fill her shoes but play nicer with the boys in blue.
I know a CPD vice cop. He said Rahm and the Cook Country State’s Attorney have reduced the CPD to only one remaining vice unit. They still arrest hookers, but only to get information on the traffickers. But now the hookers know that the State’s Attorney won’t prosecute them and if they can get through three arrests without ratting, they have complete freedom to ply their trade anywhere in the county.
Not that I personally think that prostitution should be a crime but isn’t this the exact “slippery slope” argument that the Socons have been railing on about for the last forever?
Yes and no.
Yes in that it’s the result of “still illegal but we don’t care much.” No in that if it’s legalized and business disputes can be brought to court, eventually the nastiest practitioners will be out of business by market forces (except for the ones who successfully run for Alderman).
So…. 50 of them then?
Socons are modern day Cassandras. Every terrible in their parade of terrible seems to come to pass. Degradation of the family leading to underachieving men and early-pregnancy for girls? Check. Destruction of civil society by the welfare state forcing out private charity and initiative? Check. Atomized society leading to increased levels of depression and suicide, check.
The only thing I can think of off-hand that they are wrong about is porn and soft drugs.
I just started reading Sowell’s Black Rednecks and White Liberals
It’s a pretty damning account of the cultural regression caused in the name of “progress”
This didn’t make the links, but it is still worth looking at:
https://twitter.com/tinaaguayotv/status/1166444807398387712?s=21
That’s fantastic.
That’s what they mean by “punching up?”
That right there demonstrates the fact that Bernie has never done an honest physical day’s work in his entire life. Sure he’s old but he has obviously never encountered sorcery like this.
Maybe Bernie has been hit on the chin by someone’s “bag” before? he recovered quickly to go back to inadequately man handling it…
Old dogs, New tricks…
Getting old is a bitch, aint it Bernie? The clip is hilarious and not at the same time.
And that’s why real resisters use bike locks. Puts some defensive distance between them and the unsuspecting target.
“White supremacy” in the streets, Klan in the sheets
meh.
More proof white males fetishize minorities.
bunch of cucks
This. I’ve got nothing against interracial at all, but why would you want to be in a relationship with someone who denigrates you all the time, whether they’re white, black, yellow, purple, or green?
Take Jill Filipovic’s huband for example.
That whole BDSM shit thing is a mystery to me. Some people like their kinky to involve humiliation and pain.
More like colonization.
I think it’s masochism and self-flagellation given who their sigificant others are.
Honestly, I think it’s more likely these people know what gets them elected/sells and probably don’t believe a quarter of the claptrap they spout.
What does that have to do with the unnamed spouses married to/dating these losers/harridans?
Because they like access to power/money/fame and aren’t really taking any abuse at home, so ipso facto are not masochist but instead parasites.
Assumes facts not in evidence. With the personalities involved, I need proof they’re not equally nasty at home.
I don’t imagine they do anything requiring more effort than peeling an orange if it’s not on camera.
This.
There are a few minorities I would like to fetishize and use my white male privilege on.
You have to be extraordinarily racist not to appreciate an attractive lady just because she is not of your race.
There is a black waitress at my favorite Mexican restaurant who looks like my imagined version of the Queen Sheba, exotic and a knockout bod. A strange place to find someone so fine.
IDK, my experience is that all taquerias have fiiiine ladies running the hostess stands.
But it is also racist to be attracted to your own race.
And also racist to be attracted to someone not of your race.
And transphobic not to want to suck on a woman’s penis or go down on a man’s vagina.
And straight guys bottom for other men all the time.
So, to be safe, be attracted to everyone and no one at all.
It is transphobic and anti science to refuse to suck a girl’s penis. It is dehumanizing fetishization to woo trannys. Isn’t it amazing that when every thing you believe is made up crap you end up with constant contradictions?
SHE PEES STANDING UP!
Pan genderfluid grey-ace FTW!
Wait, EF is white. What were you thinking???
She’s half-Irish, half-Finnish. Technically not white. /s
She has fins? I haven’t seen her naked so I wouldn’t know.
Don’t fall for this LH! This guy just wants to check out your lady nekked…
*narrows gaze*
AlexinCT cockblocking TPTB is a bold move.
So half sidhe, half sorceress?
AOC’s guy looks about as you’d expect. By the look of him, I figure that his bloodstream is at least two thrids soy.
“I’ve been called a number of anti-Semitic epithets, received death threats, and been threatened with sexual assault on Twitter. As a cis-white male, moreover, I get a tiny fraction of the abuse that any non-white-male writer gets (especially those with multiply marginalized identities).”
Enough already.
Lord knows how much I endure round these parts
Only the the fires of snark can forge a spirit of True Steel.
Euphemism?
Can you survive the Twitterdome?
Yeah, you suck.
As a cis-white male, moreover, I get a tiny fraction of the abuse that any non-white-male writer gets
Bullshit.
From now on, if you call yourself a “cis” anything, I’m going to refer to you as a “cissy.”
Been tried. The issue is that an insult can only hurt if you think there’s something wrong with the categorization implied.
I think it’s OK in the context of discussing trans stuff, but in this case “as a white man” would have been made his albeit stupid point more clear.
OFFS
PS. Sybil was bullshit, you know.
how absolutely DARE you otherize multiple system headmates?!?!? I can’t even.
But Sybil was chained to the piano until she peed. She peed!
It was bullshit that sold more than 6 million copies. For that I’ll let you chain me to a piano
That escalated quickly. Well, not quickly, but it is certainly an escalation. Such a shame many Brits hate democracy when it doesn’t go their way.
First brexit, then retake the American colonies. Or at least burn Washington again.
I would be on board with the second part.
Careful there. I got in trouble and almost lost my security clearance for opining once that if D.C. was nuked – especially if the political parasitical class was in session there – it might be a good thing for the country.
Someone didn’t like the idea of super mutants on the Mall?
Rick “I’m the product of Golum and Skelator fucking” Scott isn’t a member of Congress
I believe the standard line is: “If Washington D.C. were nuked, dozens of innocent people would be killed.”
“Won’t someone think of the Tourists?”
I’ll donate the gasoline.
The royals existing still is like third on my list of hating those hick backwood incestual island dwellers.
Also
Harry Potter and the Death Penalty in England
https://twitter.com/CharlieNash/status/1166042993561878529
Oh, so there is a good book with that name on it.
Oh, so there is a good book with that name on it.
Assuming facts not in evidence.
True, that might not be a book.
Harry Potter and the Urinary Track of Fire was pretty good too.
Is the urinary track the dribble trail between the bar urinal and where most dudes seem to stand?
I have to practically do a Jean-Claude Van Damme split when I want to pee sometimes. Gross.
The ‘prime minister’ has finally come out as a dictator. I’ve had enough of being outraged. We must get rid of him and his loathsome gang as soon and as finally as possible.
https://twitter.com/PhilipPullman/status/1166633205035917317
A dictator?
Nation holds referendum. Referendum says leave. Parliment whines “We don’t wanna”. Prime Minister says “Sorry, Parliment, the referendum was binding, go home.”
Where’s the dictatorial element?
Clearly you are a nazi
Hold on a sec. I may be nationalist, but I am not socialist.
And it’s Parliament that’s bypassing democracy. Now they want to reintroduce it after suspending it and getting their way.
He threatened them with elections. Elections! Can you imagine?!
Exactly! Who the fuck would trust unwashed deplorables to actually vote the way their betters know they should, huh?
You would think that Pullman would welcome a new election on the topic.
Hey, now, he threatened them with following the referendum first and then having elections. He’s basically imposed a dictatorship of the people.
That’s the guy who really REALLY hates God, isn’t it?
I think you’ve got him mixed up with the Archbishop of Canterbury.
“You know, hell isn’t as bad as it’s cracked up to be.”
He’s kind of the anti-CS Lewis.
I don’t care that he is an atheist. But the books were meh.
Pullman is a twat who’s not fit to hold Heinlein’s ballsack.
did we address how big of a douchenozzle Brett Stevens is?
It’s Bret. He’s low-T.
a court cannot compel someone to hand over evidence without articulating a specific crime it is evidence of.-
Are we still pretending we have rule of law in this country? Because I’m pretty sure we’ve obliterated any pretense that we have.
^This. It’s all politics now, the actual law has nothing to do with it.
Stephens is a conservative op-ed columnist whose skepticism on issues like rape culture and the realities of climate change, the need for racial justice, or the shared humanity of Arabs have earned him no friends on the left. He also frequently writes about free speech on college campuses and the “necessity of discomfort.”
Conservative. More so than Krugabe, anyway.
Something something about him being a conservative because he is to the right of the guy that is miles to the left of Marx.
Well since the neocons are Trotskyites I suppose it’s pretty easy to be a conservative these days.
He doesn’t believe Arabs are humans? Really?
Ideologies of Delayed Informatization
https://theamericansun.com/2019/08/27/ideologies-of-delayed-informatization
What is the deal with this american sun thing does anyone know? This thing is overly long and I skimmed it it seem to have some points. Can someone read the thing and give me the Bulleit points?
Is your whiskey related typo deliberate?
yes
Otherwise it would not bee an upper case bee
the Bulleit points?
I gotta drink a bunch of whiskey before reading?
I…I am in favor of that.
My theory: Biden’s son got brain cancer from listening to Joe’s incoherent yammering.
Serious question if Biden was a Republican how much of the news cycle would be dedicated to the exploits of his coked out hillybilly son? Over/Under 65%
Well they also have to leave room for the family corruption, and his own Racist history and failing cognition.
true.
“A made up Radical Left Story about Doral bedbugs, but Bret Stephens is loaded up with them! Been calling me wrong for years, along with the few remaining Never Trumpers – All Losers!”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1166551774431498247
““The infestation of bedbugs at The New York Times office” @OANN was perhaps brought in by lightweight journalist Bret Stephens, a Conservative who does anything that his bosses at the paper tell him to do! He is now quitting Twitter after being called a “bedbug.” Tough guy!”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1166672386214772736
“So interesting to read and see all of the free and interesting advice I am getting on China, from people who have tried to handle it before and failed miserably – In fact, they got taken to the cleaners. We are doing very well with China. This has never happened to them before!”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1166683442098163712
How is SugarFree ever going to keep up?
We have faith in his abilities.
The Hat has the Hair locked up in the Presidential shitter again.
I can’t. I had to do an Expanded Universe piece for today.
Estate of Virginia Heinlein v. SugarFree incoming.
You are the first person to mention catching that reference.
Then the manager spoke. Maltzman wrote Stephens and affirmed Karpf’s right to speak, but then invited the columnist to “come to our campus to speak about civil discourse in our digital age.” It’s just the latest example of how the leaders of higher education in America are getting the issues surrounding campus speech entirely wrong. Asking someone to speak about civil discourse from a position of Stephens’ relative privilege on the matter drastically misjudges both the scope of this incident and the severity of the real problem.
Jesus H Steam Calliope, what the fuck is that even supposed to mean? Does CNN have freshman gender studies students writing columns, now?
CNN, a former news channel, said….
And CNN missed the obvious sarcasm from the GW Provost. His “invitation” was a swipe at Stephens inconsistencies and comes with the expectation that a lot of students will pack that auditorium dressed as bedbugs, prepared to heckle the shit out of him.
I have to go to a meeting but I’ll leave this here.
CNN host Brian Stelter blamed President Trump for the network’s falling ratings Sunday, accusing the president of killing millions upon millions of people that otherwise might have tuned into CNN.
“If Trump weren’t killing off most of America by the millions, we’d still have a pretty solid viewer base,” Stelter bellowed at the three viewers watching Reliable Sources. “Airports, lobbies, waiting rooms, and gas station pumps are now playing CNN to absolutely no one, since Trump has killed them all.”
A guest on Stelter’s show suggested that Trump has killed more people than Hitler, Mao, and Stalin put together, and Stelter had to agree. “I’d probably put his death count at somewhere near 7.7 billion,” he said after doing some simple math on one of those giant novelty calculators he keeps handy for such an occasion. “We can’t overstate the damage this president has done to this once-great news station.”
After the segment blaming Trump for the deaths of millions and CNN’s subsequent decline, the station continued to air 24/7 Trump coverage, which mostly consisted of the hosts screaming at the sky.
The sad thing is this is barely satire. I’ll have to find the relevant clip later.
Also.
And God is busy sorting them out?
He knows His own.
“after doing some simple math on one of those giant novelty calculators”
LOL!
“…giant novelty calculator…”
Nice touch.
I made it to the second paragraph before BabylonBee popped in my head. Need a little more caffeine.
Just an athlete trying to do his job and a spectator treats him like a piece of meat? Gross.
https://twitter.com/barstoolsports/status/1166344737441366016
Oh my God….she needs a caption.
Man was she thinking….
#metoo
The guy in the shades likes it too.
agreed.
“@lukesanderson20
Replying to
@barstoolsports
That’s somebody’s son… just think about that for a second”
All these scandals and abuses and no one goes down. Not Obama. Not Hilary. Not Ilhan. Not Smollett. Not Trudeau up here (who pulled a few which is astonishing).
The system sucks because in what these people are accused of the average person would be charged and possibly got o jail.
These people get investigated, are found to be guilty (ie Trudeau and Hilary and even Obama with the spying) and we all get the ‘whaddya gonna do’?
Then they wonder why cynicism is slowly overtaking trust.
Hillary’s “private server” is beyond the pale. There isn’t a more clear cut case and literally anyone else in her position goes to jail for 25 years. Her? Meh. And a collective yawn from the chattering classes.
She knew what she was doing and she was repeatedly told it was not a good idea. But she’s such an arrogant, irresponsible, incompetent cunt she literally didn’t give a fuck because ‘what are they gonna do to me? Fact or fiction, the Clinton Body Count keeps those assholes honest’.
People who defend her as being ‘nothing to see’ are fools and even bigger losers for not seeing this.
All these scandals and abuses and no one goes down.
I have it on good authority that Huma went down for Hillary IYKWIMAITYD
YUUUCK!
She calls it her “cinnamon and vanilla swirl.”
Ugh.
11:00 should be interesting.
If any of you guys want a special gal in your life…
Woman who fatally stabbed boyfriend 39 times during sex game freed from prison
Er….I hope she has meds?
45? Pass.
FM:
Her: Wanna play a game?
I mean, I do, but if I’m risking death I want the reward to be commiserate with the danger.
Maybe it will only be a little death.
“College Boy, eh? Gitum!”
And eighteen years of that was in prison.
She’s just rarin’ to go!
One shower a week + lots of grubby fingernailed fingerbanging = “texturally enhanced” vag.
*hurk**hurk**hurk*
We’re just Jelly that you’re able to lick yourself, Trashy.
“Prosecutors said that the inmate took prison programs to obtain a bachelors degree.”
A psycho killer has a college degree? That’s totally fine then.
psycho killer qu’est que ce
Thank you for reading my mind.
I’ll pass, sharp knees.
Good ol’ townies
/Purdue alum
So I went and saw OneRepublic with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra at Red Rocks last night. Not only was it a kick-ass show, I saw what might be considered a perfect female specimen of the species. A true 10. I sprained my eyeball mentally undressing her so hard. Ass Wednesday is dedicated to her.
http://archive.is/lvWOO
“Ass Wednesday”
I’ve been trying for years, but the Pope won’t answer my letters.
What kind of selfies are you sending him?
Something something thicc….
Damn. HOT
Here’s back at ya!
Nice.
lol that chick gave the guy a better view.
She’s at the full apogee of her powers and wants to demonstrate. “Bend To My Will!” fer shits and giggles. Good for her!
You should have “accidentally” spilled a beer across her breasts and used that as an opening to get her phone number. And what about your other eyeball?
She’s not still in her county of origin.
I was assured they have no government in Somalia, so how could it be subdivided into counties?
Okay her warlordy of origin.
Hey! That warlord identifies as a Count!
What about warladies, shitlords?
It’s Somalia, not Roman Britain.
The Romans were unkind to the Warlady
He’s aiming low. Olde timey warlords got to be dukes or kings. Counts were merely the people who hung around the king.
And the Marquises were the guys that hung out as far from the King as possible.
ROADZ!
Adorable old curmudgeon
Sen. Bernie Sanders was in town for the Democratic National Committee’s summer meeting and dined out with staff at San Francisco’s iconic John’s Grill on Thursday, according to Politico.
The presidential hopeful didn’t impress the owner of the 111-year-old restaurant, John Konstin.
“It was all very nice, except for cranky Bernie,” Konstin told Politico.
Konstin told SFGATE the U.S. senator from Vermont declined to shake hands and take photos and “was rude” to staff.
“He was just rude, not friendly,” Konstin said. “I think he was just hungry and didn’t want to be a politician. He lost my vote.”
Fuck off, Peasant.
The restaurant is barely older than Bernie
““was rude” to staff.”
In SF that’s called “stepping on the turds.”
Stepping on them is to be expected. Refusing to wipe your shoes on the mat in front? Rude.
A proper Democratic Socialist would have shot some smack and then got down on the sidewalk and rolled around in them as a show of solidarity. Bernie’s lost his edge, Man…
Why am I not surprised?
I don’t get how politicians out campaigning could treat anyone like shit given they want every single vote to win.
Bernie: THERE ARE TOO MANY ITEMS ON THE MENU! No one needs four types of soups, five types of sandwiches, all these sodas and deserts!
No country needs more than two voters.
I read that in his voice and lol’d.
PEOPLE ARE GOING TO DIE!
Washington Post equates JD Vance, father of a biracial son, to racist believers of ‘white replacement’ theory
Just because he’s really really bad at replacing his race doesn’t mean he doesn’t subscribe to that belief, plenty of people are bad at things but keep trying at it. Its really the only way to truly get better.
What is wrong with people? White people as a collective on average are CHOOSING to have fewer children. Non-whites as a collective on average are CHOOSING to have more children. It’s not some conspiracy it’s a function of child survival rates, cost to raise children and wealth.
But the white parents being able to expend their resources on one child is contributing to INCOME INEQUALITY! Obviously this is racist and needs to be offset by a whiteness tax.
I’m in favor of enslaving all the wywimmin in interracial breeding farms. We can also sell videos of the generative acts for a side profit.
No.
just the young hot fertile ones?
Well, they’re already spending money to make shark porn, so…
+1 drop
She lied and now she’s doubled down. All narrative with these people.
We read minds so you don’t have to!
This is so fucking tiresome. Urbanites, cloistered in their concrete prisons, see year-over-year population growth and never wonder at the hows and whys. Ruruals, living in failing small towns the distributed Bum Fuck Egypt that is most of geographic USA, see year-over-year population decline. In small towns, every closed gas station, hardware store, and factor sits like a scar on the land. Forever.
Rurals are concerned about population decline and replacement because a very large percentage of the young generation *MOVES AWAY*. When there is no population, there is no market, when there is no market there is only poverty.
So year. Rurals are freaking out about it. So are mainstream demographers and economist and health professionals.
In a parallel, but separate, concern, white supremacist (like, actual no-shit white supremacist who ironically use terms like ‘mongrel race’, not the convenient smear applied to your political opponents of the day) and white nationalists (who are not the same thing) have been beating the drum for white fertility over 7 decades. You can read about it in old books put out by then-mainstream progressive economists and social scientists. I know that I personally heard it more than 2 decades ago out of face-to-face conversations with non-supremacists white-nationalist women. But the left is too fucking stupid to see any difference between a Catholic father of a biracial kid and White Supremacy, so there’s no hope in them possibly understanding the difference between white supremacy and white nationalism, let alone the difference in concern between male and female white nationalist (which, in short hand, is basically the man’s job is to set up the nation or fight the race war, and the woman’s job is to repopulate the nation or after the race war).
And if it wasn’t obvious and needs to be said, white supremacy and white nationalism are both odious ideologies that need to get themselves on the dust bin of history.
They’re only talking about the bedbugs at NYT to distract you from the fact that their journalists are shitting in the hallways.
IF they would fire Brett Stephens they might even solve the problem.
They said that if Trump were elected segregation would return and they were right!
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13615
More seriously, how monumentally insulting, racist and paternalistic is it that your “underrepresented minorities” (read: blacks and Hispanics) course requires “added support”, “additional class time” and “learning assistants”. That’s not even the soft-bigotry of low expectations, that’s just “darkies are stupid”.
Obviously the solution is to get rid of gifted programs.
-NY mayor’s office
It gets better.
Utopia is coming!
There is trouble in the forest
And the creatures all have fled
As the maples scream ‘oppression!’
And the oaks, just shake their heads
So the maples formed a union
And demanded equal rights
‘The oaks are just too greedy
We will make them give us light’
Now there’s no more oak oppression
For they passed a noble law
And the trees are all kept equal
By hatchet, Axe, And saw
You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill;
I will choose a path that’s clear-
I will choose Free Will.
“Sorry, you don’t get a choice.” /Bill
+2112
The scary part is one of these students will eventually be a forced diversity hire and be head of some physics department or organization. The mediocre run the show now.
So. What’s the first order of business? Debunk Newton’s theory of gravity because dead whypippo?
Newton would probably have consented to owning a slave anyway so….off with his head!
Gravity has been holding minorities down for centuries. Get woke, bro.
Floating Man, Liberland: A tiny festival in one of the world’s newest (and smallest) states
I still want to start Glibland but I’m afraid the glove production plant won’t be able to keep up with UCS’s needs.
Do you need a remedial orphan-whipping class?
I think trying to form a new country or even influenced a US state is unnecessary. If a group of like minded individuals bought a large enough piece of property they could petition to be their own municipality and even though technically under the laws of the fed/state, in reality the only laws that could/would be enforced would be at the municipal level.
And with a large enough population (ahem militia) the state and feds would find it difficult to enforce their laws. Of course they would stomp hard on anyone who tried this.
WDW was able to form their own municipality. With the right amount of money and the right amount of votes and selling it as a tax boost to a poor county and hiding the true intentions of the project, you might just pull it off. It’s not as ridiculous as trying to build a floating country. The core problem is still the same. Herding libertarians.
Kirias Joel says “Hi!”
And we can call it… Utah.
The main reason I wouldn’t got to Floating Man is that I’m just not a swamp guy. I can’t imagine I’d appreciate Euro-skeeters any more than American ones.
Sure it is.
Its not the size of your FloatingMan that counts, its the motion of the ocean that matters… when the Westphalian state decides to take notice and send in their actual Navy to fuck them up, which will cause a wake, which is a motion of the ocean.
I don’t think I’d park my new country in between Serbia and Croatia.
Well the space between Sudan and Egypt was already claimed.
Liberland? Is that near Krasnovia and Pineland?
Because Islam made slavery a form of charity. The slaves had many rights, one of the rights being the ability to free themselves, but being a slave to a muslim meant free food and clothing so many preferred to stay as slaves instead of being free~
https://twitter.com/m546792/status/1165879784154509313
Sounds legit
I mean, they also had the right to be beaten and murdered if they tried to “free themselves”, it’s totally charity.
Yea…my only reading on the topic suggests that muslims were far more brutal than westerners.
There was a rather large trade from southeast africa to the middle east of ‘Zanj’ slaves.
There’s no significant black population in the middle east today.
wut
here’s a handy tool I use, replace descriptor of people with white if it’s some group of people besides white and replace white descriptor with black, it’s really changes your perspective. You could publish entire books of essays for Storm Front with minimal effort.
too bad their isn’t any money in it.
You should reverse it, and use Storm Front articles to write for the New York Times.
Wait, isn’t that what’s already happening at the NYT? Their shit sure smells like racialist nonsense…
you know though come to think of it I’m pretty sure that’s what Ta-Nehisi Coates in reverse.
“Stormfront or Social Justice?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-ZX5V4Qft4
Amaan~
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No, because taking people who are free into slavery is forbidden in Islam. Just because the people who did it were Muslims, doesn’t mean its a part of their religion~
I’m pretty sure the text actually says that taking free muslims into slavery is forbidden, but the non-believer exists to be enslaved.
She said “people”. Non-Muslims aren’t people.
What are we then? Bedbugs?
Close enough.
Well, I for one I’m happy for American slavery. Without it, we wouldn’t have the blues!
Who doesn’t like a song sung from pure anguish?
No Blues, no Jazz, no Hally Berry’s tiddies.
Spoken like a true, selfish whypippo.
I’ll cop to that!
This along with the recent proclamation that the Muslims stand with Jews against Trump, I’m beginning to feel we’re in Bizarro universe.
Honk Honk!
Is Jussie out of his mind or a genius?
I mean, this strategy of deny to the end and refuting reality is exhausting and may get him off for good.
Police: Dude, we have actual footage of you putting the noose your neck.
Jussie: To the untrained eye. But what if I told you the two Nigerians forced me to do it at gun point? You don’t see that in the footage do you? How convenient!
Declination of prosecution is not an acquittal. At this point he has to stick to his lie, or else he would be aiding potential prosecution by some future replacement for whatshername up until the statute of limitations runs out.
It works for the Clintons
“Depends upon what the definition of “jizz” is.”
All these scandals and abuses and no one goes down. Not Obama. Not Hilary. Not Ilhan. Not Smollett. Not Trudeau up here (who pulled a few which is astonishing).
The system sucks because in what these people are accused of the average person would be charged and possibly got o jail.
Laws are for little people. And muppets.
What did Rufus do to you Brooksie?
How Decades Of Paranoid Attacks On The Koch Brothers Turned Into Mainstream Leftist Tactics
The passing of David Koch last week recalled the left’s increasing penchant for explaining American politics with wild-eyed conspiracy theories.
If anyone does the same shit these leftists did to Koch when Soros’ deal ends and he is dragged to hell, I am sure we will be told that it is violence of some kind and evil…
It never occurs to anyone that the Koch brothers were smart enough to make $100 billion dollars, but not smart enough to realize that their supposed evil scheme to pack the government with libertarians gave them absolutely 0 bang for their buck.
And didn’t actually result in any libertarians getting into Congress.
Even if you want to attribute the Freedom Caucus to the Kochs, then the Congressional Black Caucus has 10x the membership and had a black president. Does the anti-Koch crowd think that blacks secretly run the country?
One non-marxist, is one too many!
(((No)))
Stupid voters!
Debbie Walsh, director of the Center for Women and Politics at Rutgers University, said the questions about Warren’s electability are something of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
“In some ways, it seems like it’s a story that is self-perpetuating,” Walsh said. “There are a lot of people who say they’re enthusiastic about her, but afraid others aren’t — and that creates this notion that she or a woman in general won’t become electable.”
How can we trust the proles to vote the right way? They didn’t elect the most qualified candidate ever, just because misogyny.
Surely it was misogyny that people didn’t vote for a woman married to a serial sexual predator of women, and whose best friend was married to a serial sexual predator of women. And some of the victims claim the first woman intimated them into not coming forward. Any woman who didn’t vote for Her must have been a misogynist, simple as that.
I don’t remember any thinkpieces about Palin being “unlikable” to conservative voters. Maybe its just Dems that hate women.
Her coming off as a shrill, nagging, self-righteous aunt has nothing to do with it.
SJWednesday: It’s A Postmodern World, We Just Live In It
All women should get prostate exams.
Dig deeper, you might find it!
Then why don’t you move to one of the abortions-for-everybody-at-any-time states?
No more John W. Campbell Award.
John W. Campbell was a fascist
Y’all read a ton of sci-fi here. Are his stories worth reading?
Old, white and dead? Need you ask?
They’re OK. Campbell’s real contribution was as an editor and promoter of (then) young talent. Like publishing Heinlein’s first stories.
But seriously, fascist has a fucking meaning. Or the other way around…
Not anymore. The co-opting of every single word ending in “ist” has made the original meaning of those terms pretty much null. Unintended consequences or part of a larger scheme? Who can tell?
That’s Potatoist thinking.
I’m keeping an eye on you.
Short answer: Yes. Longer answer, yes… but he was not particularly enlightened even for his time period. The Heinlein novel Sixth Column was an attempt to clean up one of Campbell’s stories (as the rumors go).
Fascist or just your garden variety mid-20th century racist?
From what little I know, probably Nationalistic, not fascist. The racism was probably more then the average at the time, but I don’t want to try to wade into the fever swamps and try to separate out the real from the impressions of his work.
He was a shit-stirrer that would argue positions he didn’t believe. Basically, he was an Edgelord Out Of Time.
A Shitlord in a Clown Land?
Not like I pay attention to all the awards and authors trying to out-woke each other any more.
GFY
He was responsible for setting a tone of science fiction that unfortunately doesn’t haunt the genre very much anymore. Adventurous, archetypal, mythic, based in science not religion and telling stories that encourage progress and achievement.
And yes, he was flawed. His own writing is often dry and wooden and he clearly believed in a degree of genetic determinism that crossed into bigotry. So what? I can read, enjoy, and benefit from books written by socialists, fascists, and yes even racists without sharing their beliefs. I grew up reading C.S Lewis AND E. Nesbit. I read Wells, Heinlein, Doc Smith, Orwell, and Ezra Pound. Hell I have read Hubbard. The left is going full on Savonarola/Hitler. They are pushing a combo Bonfire of the Vanities and Kristalnacht and it is infuriating.
I can’t imagine what kind of crap they’re heaping awards on nowadays.
Rather than change the name of the award, it seems that giving the Campbell Award to people Campbell didn’t approve of would be a nice eff-u to him.
Well since Campbell approved of good writers, they have been following your advice for years.
OR, or, hear me out, this may sound crazy, but, how about we ignore irrelevent attributes and only judge the work.
Bigot!
Also, all kidding aside. Campbell was not the “I hate/disapprove of X” flavor of bigot. He was the “X groups have produced most of the great achievements and therefore X are superior” I don’t recall him ever taking the final “and Y should therefore have fewer rights” step, but I am not a Campbell expert.
Cancel culture at its finest.
“Jamaican man bringing HONEY into the U.S. is detained for 82 days after authorities mistakenly thought it was liquid meth and he was left languishing in jail while tests were done
A Jamaican national was detained for nearly three months in the U.S. after bringing in three bottles of honey from the Caribbean island that customs agents mistakenly thought was liquid methamphetamine.
Leon Haughton, who has lived in Maryland for 10 years, had gone back to visit his family in Jamaica over Christmas.
The 45-year-old had bought three bottles of honey from his favorite roadside stand to bring back with him.
His long ordeal started on December 29 when he landed back at Baltimore-Washington International Airport and customs agents had a dog sniff his bags.
He assumed the dogs had sniffed the KFC chicken he had in his bag but was surprised when agents seized the three bottles of honey he uses to sweeten his tea.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7402699/Jamaican-man-jailed-82-days-bringing-honey-mistaken-meth.html
Well, Son of Sam was just listening to a dog.
Look, Jamaican bees are not going to put hardworking American bees out of hive and home with cheap honey exports.
How do we know that honey wasn’t made from meth flowers? Huh? Answer me that, smart guy.
Because there are no meth flowers.
Proof that GMO crops have failed us.
Phew. Because once you get a few of those in the garden, it’s only a matter of time until the Invid show up.
-1 protoculture
How difficult is it to get a construction loan?
I don’t want to cover the context of the question, because it involves the privacy of people who are not me.
I got a zero interest loan to remodel my house. It was quick and easy. Not sure if a construction loan is the same.
There are still more discussions to be hand, but if things go a particular way, I could end up trying to finance buying a piece of property off of a relative, but the building that is there is… not structurally sound.
Avoid the desire to just burn it down and collect the insurance… Those insurance folk are might suspicious types when some old unsound building goes up in flames..
Especially when the electricity and gas have been shut off. Although, if you can decorate the scene to look like some homeless are living there it becomes a whole lot more believable.
Construction loans are easier than mortgages. But, you have to be able to convert from one to the other when construction is done.
It is 2019 a sex dungeon is nothing to be ashamed of.
I kind of assumed that UCS had his own basement well in situ.
Great idea! I need to have a well concealed armory – preferably in the basement – of any home I would have built but there’s always a problem with the builders knowing about it. Calling it a “sex dungeon” would be the perfect cover!
There is a time honored way to handle that issue Tejicano…
“Yes mister general contractor, I do need a ten foot by twenty vault installed, and the inside walls need to be covered in pegboard. Its for my… uh… valuable 17th century gynecological artifacts. They are all still in great shape and need to be displayed, but in a secured location. Do you want me to bring some over to show you how they work?”
I had no problem getting one. Basically you have to qualify for the final mortgage for whatever you are going to build. The construction load was refinanced as a traditional mortgage when the house was done.
Now I have to figure out how much the work would realistically cost.
You work with the builder to get the construction loan, so you should have the number in advance. Unless you are building it yourself.
How does it differ when you don’t currently own the land? (See response to Florida Man, above)
As part of my construction loan, we bought the land also. Get a deal in place for the land, get a building plan from the builder, take it all to the bank.
Cost of land, cost of building. With the right bank they will put together the construction loan and the final mortgage after construction is complete.
Also, what kinnath said below.
Running the numbers with some online construction cost estimators to get a ballpark, and I keep coming back to the same quandry.
If I were buying from a complete stranger, I’d without hesitation go “That building is collapsed and rotten, I’d have to tear it down and rebuild, so I’m only going to make an offer on the land, or land minus demo cost”
But, not only are the owners family, but they’re family in a bad situation. Current assessed value includes $30k for the building, despite the fact it is uninhabitable.
You have to decide if you want to donate 30k+demo costs to your family. Or split the difference with them.
Demo can get pricey, and building when you do not personally have a construction trade background is often an invitation to get fleeced. You seem pretty good at research, bit this is an area where you really want to do your homework, and definitely want the contract with the builder vetted/written by an experienced NY real estate attorney.
I needed to provide building plans and a construction estimate to the bank. The bank estimates the future value of the house from the plans and compares that to the construction estimate to determine whether you would qualify for the future mortgage.
I got a “combo” loan for the bank meaning the bank guaranteed they would write the mortgage when construction was done (not all banks do this).
To qualify for the combo, the estimated value of the house had to give me 20% equity when the build was done. This provides some cushion when the build goes over budget (it will, don’t think it won’t). When construction was done, I had 10% equity in the house.
You have to pay the accrued interest every month. At the beginning you have not borrowed much, so the interest payment isn’t bad. Towards the end you are basically making the mortgage payment every month without getting any equity for it.
When the build goes over schedule (it will, don’t think it won’t), you are making a full mortgage payment on the new build while continuing to pay rent or mortgage wherever you are living. Lots of people get into financial straights during the last few months of the build.
I’m not leaving my existing house, so my expectation would be full payments on both loans from the word ‘go’. Unless the timetable is such that I finish paying off my current mortgage before anything gets started.
The construction intent is because the property is two and a half hours away from my house, and the ability to stay overnight (plus the necessity of a working toilet) is a prerequisite for doing much with it.
Of course, this could all go away if the discussion this weekend goes “We decided to give the land to X instead”.
It sounds like you have a realistic plan.
But I don’t know if I have the money to do it.
If I finished paying off my current mortgage, or had a few more years to save up, I’d have fewer doubts.
Though it may end up that I buy the land but can’t put anything on it until I’ve paid off my current mortgage.
My wife and I bought a lot then spent 3 years paying off the loan for the lot. (hadn’t planned to wait three years to build, but 9 11 01 put a damper on our employer’s bottom line).
The equity in the lot became the equity in the house to qualify for the combo loan.
The Remainers talking about “democracy” is hilarious, considering they are ignoring the exit vote.
Oh they support democracy so much, they insist on having more votes until the voters get it right.
“You need to calm down! Kellyanne Conway uses Taylor Swift’s own lyrics to mock her VMA performance hitting out at Trump”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7402097/Kellyanne-Conway-uses-Taylor-Swifts-lyrics-mock-VMA-performance-hitting-Trump.html
I’m thinking Kellyanne is better in the sack.
Seems Swift decided her career needed a boost and hitched her wagon to the SJW train.
That video is about 15 years too late. The LGBTQs in it are almost like props for her.
I would have liked to have met Kellyanne about 35 years ago before I had standards or any sense of decorum.
Because you do now?
Wait, wait – you do now?
Festus those aren’t ‘standards and decorum’. It’s called getting old and tired
OT: Light votive candles for me. I’m on Round 2 interviews for two jobs, and there’s a dark-horse third that, if it happens, I’m wired for it.
I would be sad to see you exploited by the capitalists, but if that is your wish so let it be
Who’s exploiting whom, that’s the real question.
I’ve only got a citronella candle, is that okay?
I hope you are using silver wire /not really
No, no – it’s specially constructed alloy cable with a cool Teflon sheath supported by hardwood cable risers!
Good luck OMWC!
ooh
Umm… That’s something you don’t need to be IB McGinty to make. I could probably make a whole slew of them for much less than $50.
Charlie Hansen (late of Ayre) assured me that myrtlewood is the only possible choice. By “assured,” I mean “hurled intense verbal abuse and personal invective.” I told him to calm down and take a walk around the block.
Good thoughts beaming your way, Old Man. I’m an atheist so it will have to do.
good luck, pappy!
/duct tapes 100 roman candles together (hold my beer) and lights.
^^^ Correct answer.
No M-80s? I am disappoint.
Why do a half assed job? Go for sticks of dynamite already!
Nuking well-wishes from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure.
I’m wired for it.
FBI informant?
Former boss who’s at a different company now. We got along fabulously and have stayed friends in the years after.
Good luck man. All still in the same area, or are you gearing up for another move?
One here, the others would require moving again. Upside is that the hiring companies handle the relocation.
zol zayn mit mazl!
Good luck, man. Maybe you’ll get out of the perpetual oven that is Phoenix?
Hmm,,wired eh?. Waiting for a commission number then I’m outta here yippee!
Good luck OMWC! I hope you get a big, fat offer from the job you really want.
+1. Kick some ass.
Is a blow torch okay?
Just don’t be yourself and you’ll be fine. *Good luck.
Mazel tov!
I’ll include prayers for you in the meeting with the Dark Brotherhood tonight.
William Buchan of Edinburgh agrees that liquor can make a good wash for genitals, but only if you warm it up in your mouth first. Seems reasonable
https://twitter.com/f_osis/status/1166335609767702530
Wait are we talking about warming it in your own mouth? Or having some lady (dude for those that prefer that) warm it then apply it?
Tucker on point:
https://twitter.com/XasthurWithin/status/1163441859215147008
Ireland’s population declined before the Vikings arrived, researchers find
http://www.medievalists.net/2019/08/irelands-population-declined-before-the-vikings-arrived-researchers-find/
Who knew raiding, rape, pillage, plunder, and slave-taking would reduce the target population.
Oh, before I reed gud.
The point is that the population was dropping before the vikings did anything
Internecine strife was a huge feature of ancient Irish folklore. Tribe on tribe violence on an island is not conducive to population explosions until the blood has time to soak into the ground and the fires burn out.
+1 Cattle Raid of Cooley (aka Táin Bó Cúalnge)
I really think that story gives you a warped sense of history.
What you did there… it was seen.
Also when you drink to paralysis every night you tend to not have a lot of kids
We know why.
Bernie Sanders proposes a cheaper version of AOC’s Green New Deal
1) Bread Lines
No circuses?
2) Blackouts
3) Population reducing pandemics
After everyone is dead the plan will achieve it’s stated goals; eliminate fossil fuel usage, ended unemployment. Success!
Grampa Gulag has been letting the mask slip a bit of late. Note the bit about jailing oil execs.
AOC and Trump agree on one thing: ‘bed bug’ Times guy Bret Stephens is a major snowflake
O’Crazio and Drumpf joining forces is just what this country needs rn
SJWednesday: Pizza Delivery Boys Hardest Hit
But people don’t give a crap about your pet causes, they just want the porn.
Some people’s porn IS their politics.
School resource officer fired after sending nude selfies while on duty
Piss selfies at work are hot af
so is your link!
YEAH YOU ARE
There aren’t any photos or nothin’.
Well what was the point? What the Hell were you thinking? Answer me young man!
I wanted everyone to have the desire for their partner to send them a pee selfie.
I am sure Winston’s mom will get right on that….
At least link to the selfies!
Great song picks!
Woman Almost Died Getting Surgery To Achieve ‘Fattest Vagina In The World’
She’s a literal horror show – don’t look!
Isn’t there some sort of ethical standard to not do elective surgery on the mentally ill?
It’s people building shrines to their own deluded self destruction
I wonder if that’s her given name. Nothing like being named after a redeemed hooker.
What? That was the name of the Catholic grade school I went to! The school is now closed, the church is still there though.
Enough of the Demi Rose links already!!!
About what I’ve spent on fat cunts in my life.
WUT?
Sorry, thought that was in ¥.
so about $tree-fitty then?
Or so. Maybe around $foo fiddy per tiddy.
Loch Ne$$ – $Fo Fiddy Per Tiddy
on iTunes this Fall.
Adorable old curmudgeon, pt 2
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) offered praise for China while stating in an interview that he believed the U.S. could have a positive relationship with the country, saying it had made “more progress in addressing extreme poverty than any country in the history of civilization.”
The Democratic presidential candidate offered a nuanced view of Beijing, criticizing it for a move toward authoritarianism and stating that it looked out for its own interests first, but also saying it had made progress in helping its own people over the last several decades.
“China is a country that is moving unfortunately in a more authoritarian way in a number of directions,” Sanders told Hill.TV’s Krystal Ball. “But what we have to say about China in fairness to China and it’s leadership is if I’m not mistaken they have made more progress in addressing extreme poverty than any country in the history of civilization, so they’ve done a lot of things for their people.”
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Sanders once again emphasized his stance against “unfettered free trade,” and his opposition to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which he says treats U.S. companies unfairly.
“What I said then and what I said now is trade is extremely important but you cannot have unfettered free trade written by large corporations and their CEOs, you need trade agreements that are designed to work for working families,” he told Hill.TV.
Sanders has stated that even though he doesn’t agree with Trump’s approach to China, he also that he wouldn’t rule out using tariffs if he became president. He told CNN’s “State of the Union” over the weekend that they should only be used in a “rational way within the context of a broad, sensible trade policy.”
Those Chinamen were raised out of dire poverty by taxing the rich.
Sorry posting at the same time!
Ummm… China’s “cave” dwellers…
https://theluxuryspot.com/cave-dwellers-china/
“more progress in addressing extreme poverty than any country in the history of civilization.”
The money goes farther if you kill a few million.
I’d like a word with you about Chairman Mao
Sanders: China has done more to address extreme poverty ‘than any country in the history of civilization’
Forced abortions? Baby girls tossed away? That’s how you reduce poverty. One corpse at a time!
Can you trust any numbers China puts out on reducing poverty?
Define Poverty.
By some metrics Americans in poverty are among the richest people in the world.
What is Chinese ‘poverty’?
Same as American poverty, but you’ve got to get out of the car and run around when you stop at a red light.
Same as American poverty, but you pee in the can of Coke first.
Same as American poverty, but you’re hungry again an hour later.
Have you noticed that seems to be a dead trope? Like pepper making someone sneeze — that gag never gets used anymore.
SJWednesday: Biphobia Was The Best Def Leppard Album You Never Heard
“Stop being afraid of women who aren’t afraid to do what pleases them and not other people.”
I’m not afraid of them. I just don’t want to marry them.
I don’t want to waste time on them even…
Does The Viral Grapefruit Blowjob Technique Actually Work?
The more you know.
So you are saying you want to fuck a grapefruit?
It feels good, bro.
It’s not as bitter when you hang out with the guys.
The Hat is way ahead of you…
Yesterday he was shilling for big tobacco. He just got a new contract from big citrus.
Tomorrow: cranberries and turkey.
I don’t want anything viral to be a part of any blowjobs I’m receiving.
And once the citric acid has had enough time to fully perfuse up the urethra, that’s when you jam a sewing needing up it.
Five years ago, Obama was blasted for wearing a tan suit. Now, it’s used to contrast him with Trump.
Truly our nation’s lowest moment.
I have to admit I like to wear a tan suit when I need to dress up in the summer.
Tan suits with dark skin are dapper as fuck.
“…Tan Suit Gate has taken on a different meaning, coming to symbolize the relative dearth of scandals during the Obama administration. ”
See, when you say shit like that I cease listening to anything else you have to say.
Remember that time he drone striked a 16 year old American citizen sitting in a restaurant and refused to give an explanation? Not really a scandal because apparently the press didn’t consider it one.
I don’t remember any of that.
I seem to remember some kerfuffle back in the ’80s involving Gorbachev wearing brown shoes to a meeting in China.
From the SBANYPD official Twitter:
Oh MY goodness
WHY NOT ALL CAPS?!?!
TOTALITY OF CIRCS, BRAH!
SMOOCHES!
They didn’t want to seem hysterical.
Joke, but probably true.
White Man’s Burden
Brazil’s president has been the subject of international opprobrium for fanning the flames of the Amazon’s destruction, with protests against his environmental policies both at home and abroad as well as interventions from celebrities like actor Leonardo DiCaprio and model Gisele Bundchen. But his upbringing and early career suggest that he’s not about to back down. Indeed, Bolsonaro initially rejected a pledge of 20 million euros from Group of Seven members to help fight the fires, sharpening a dispute with French President Emmanuel Macron, who said G-7 leaders must regard the Amazon’s plight as an “international crisis.”
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That military legacy translates into Bolsonaro’s conviction that the region is a Brazilian and not a global asset; that its resources should be utilized and not left in the ground; and that any foreign interest stems from a desire to control the Amazon’s mineral wealth rather than preserve its ecosystem.
Given the context, Macron’s attempts to impose solutions on Brazil from outside were bound to raise hackles. Sure enough, Bolsonaro resumed the feud this week, lamenting Macron’s “unreasonable and gratuitous attacks on the Amazon” just hours after the French president responded angrily to Bolsonaro’s jibe about his wife.
Bolsonaro’s politics have remained remarkably consistent over the years, but they are increasingly out of step with global opinion: As the impact of climate change becomes more tangible, the rainforest’s significance has risen dramatically up the world’s political agenda.
National sovereignty is a discredited notion. Our dusky halfbreed brethren of the southern hemisphere are not competent to manage their own affairs without careful supervision. One World Government (run by Eurocrats) is what will save the planet.
The lungs of the planet and Bolsonaro is chain smoking Pall Malls.
Dude should have taken the cash and built a logging museum.
“fanning the flames of the Amazon’s destruction”
He’s not. The whole ‘Amazon is burning’ hysteria is fabricated.
“Bolsonaro’s conviction that the region is a Brazilian and not a global asset;”
Maybe he should make a claim on French soil.
“any foreign interest stems from a desire to control the Amazon’s mineral wealth rather than preserve its ecosystem.”
No shit. Colonialism, plain and simple.
“As the impact of climate change becomes more tangible”
Which ones and in what way? I am not seeing it.
“Macron’s attempts to impose solutions on Brazil from outside”
Yeah. Colonialism. Bolsonaro should make a claim on French soil. All that wine is a global resource. He should claim all of their vineyards.
Telling Macron and the others to fuck off is appropriate. What the fuck are they going to do anyway? They have no way of backing up their demands.
“As the impact of climate change becomes more tangible”
Which ones and in what way? I am not seeing it.
You can’t hear the constant rheeee-ing where you are?
*snort*
“Bolsonaro’s politics have remained remarkably consistent over the years, but they are increasingly out of step with global opinion: As the impact of climate change becomes more tangible, the rainforest’s significance has risen dramatically up the world’s political agenda.”
Well, here in the provincial U.S., an April poll of likely voters placed climate change as the 17th most important issue out of 29 issues.
I have recently discovered that baby powder on the perineum and around the anus post morning shower provides and unparalleled fresh and clean feeling that takes me from a 7 to a 9-10 on the “ready to crush the day” scale.
My only regret is that I did not find this out sooner.
My only regret is that I did.
Find out or use powder?
Yes.
I recently discover through the warnings at the end of drug commercial that what I have been calling the “taint” area is officially known as the perineum.
I, for one, will continue to refer to that area as the taint. Mostly because, well, that’s what it is. But also because calling it something in Greek sounds like I’m extending an invitation for something which is not being considered.
Greeks can never leave their brother’s behinds!
taint that the truth!
But have you ever realized that animals with tails actually have two taints?
Have you made arrangements to have your brain studied after you pass on?
I actually lolled at that.
You know you’re giving yourself ass cancer from all the asbestos in “talcum” powder, right?
A small price to pay for having an anus as fresh and pure as driven snow.
The driven snow isn’t typically caked with ground rocks.
Aren’t they corn-powder based now?
TMI Q. TMI.
+1 Blue bottle of Gold Bond.
Bruh, gotta use cornstarch. If breathing in baby powder gives you lung cancer, you’re risking peepee cancer putting it down by your giggle stick my dude.
Also, yeah, I put a dash in my boxers every morning.
I never thought about making powder out of babies, but if you say it works, I’ll give it a try.
Alyssa Milano: The key to beating Trump? Elect all of the Democratic candidates
Imagine this: Vice President Biden is currently leading the field, so let’s start there. With Biden at the top and a Harris vice presidency we would speak to the majority of Americans who prefer Biden to any other candidate.
At the same time, we would bring the perspective of a new generation of leaders to the highest offices in the land. Attorney General Cory Booker could take on the NRA and the racial injustices he so often faced as mayor of Newark.
Elizabeth Warren could lead the Department of Education and it would transform our nation for generations. Bernie Sanders playing the role, as Secretary of Health and Human Services would ensure every person in America could access health care we could afford.
Milano could be Secretary of Abortions!
Don’t do it Joe. You’ll end up in county.
We should re-create the USSR in policy and practice. What could go wrong?
Jesus. That’s more horrifying than anything SF could dream up.
The boys at the L A Times weigh in
The fires raging at the edges of the Amazon rainforest are, at the moment, largely consuming lands that had already been converted from their natural state into tracts waiting to be farmed or developed. Nevertheless, some of the blazes are eating away at the rainforest itself, reducing its size by a football field a minute. And one of the most disturbing things about them is that they aren’t part of the cycle of nature, like a California wildfire might be, but are intentionally set in many cases to get rid of brush and felled trees to make way for soy fields and beef grazing grounds. That reflects Brazil’s troubling return to a policy of deforestation that, if unabated, could have grave consequences for efforts to counter the worst effects of global warming.
The reason the Amazon is burning is because Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who followed Donald Trump’s populist, anti-establishment playbook to win election last year, wants it to. He thinks the Amazon should not be protected, and that lands reserved for indigenous peoples should not be recognized — all in the name of economic growth. That see-no-evil approach is another point Bolsonaro has in common with Trump, who has sought to make an alarming amount of public lands available for oil and gas drilling and other extractive industries, such as uranium mining — the health of the planet be damned.
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We are all joined by the hard reality that our continued release of carbon into the atmosphere — whether it be from the cars we commute in or the forest Brazilians burn to grow food — is endangering us all. It’s a reality not recognized by Bolsonaro. Nor by Trump, who neither joined the criticism of Bolsonaro’s policies nor showed up for the G-7 climate talks that led to the fire aid package. Both presidents’ disregard for the well-being of the world is, literally, playing with fire. That won’t end well.
The obvious solution is to let the California Air Resources Board dictate global environmental policy.
We need to get rid of populist nationalist maniacs like Trump and Bolsonaro, so we can begin to heal the planet.
They fail to point out that soy fields and grazing fields also produce oxygen and consume C02.
The great Amazon fire fraud.
“12 years left to avoid climate catastrophe”
Yeah. It’s been a few years away for the past 50 years. Always just around the next bend. Totally not a scam.
Transparently, they never criticize lefty darling Evo Morales (I even saw him appear on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart) whose country also has fires now and who actually increased the amount of land farmers could legally clear using fire.
Meanwhile in Australia… New Report: Electric Cars Have ‘Higher CO2 Emissions’
Unless you have nuclear or hydro power plants, electric cars don’t save anything. How are the nuclear and hydro industries doing in California?
No shit. Anyone with a passing knowledge of physics knew this.
[passingknowledgeofphysics]
generation and transmission losses. production, transportation and disposal of massive battery packs.
here, this napkin analysis covers it.
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The idea of traveling through the Outback using batteries… will I get to tow a generator with me? And a few dozen jerrycans of diesel?
The planet does not have ‘health’.
It strikes me that the fundamental challenge of libertarianism is that statism carries no price. In theory, it’s libertarianism that should be costless. After all, we’re basically leaving everyone alone and not bothering them. There’s no cost imposed by libertarians, at least acting in that capacity, on others. But, that’s not the way it works. We’re vilified and treated like anti-social bastards just for not joining the mobs out to crucify others. In the meantime, what about statists? When their little projects of running roughshod over the rights of others fail to deliver their promised results, does anyone single them out? Or do they get lauded as at least “meaning well”? In a just society, the NRA would have made Donna Dees-Thomases (the woman who launched the Million Mom March) a household name of scorn and derision. Her “assault weapons” ban ran roughshod over the rights of millions of Americans and didn’t do a damned thing to stop gun violence. She’s the one who should have had to make a public apology. Instead, she’s still welcome in popular culture and even conservatives treat her respectfully. With that incentive structure, why wouldn’t one favor coercion for one’s pet projects?
Well, who really wants freedom? It’s messy, scary, unpredictable and promises exactly zero utopias.
I keep needing to remind my self that normies read Snow Crash and think its a dystopia, not a utopia.
People know that big government carries a price – that’s part of the appeal. Forcing your enemies (race, social, wealth, whatever) to pay the bill is a big component of the left’s message. It’s all politics of revenge.
You know who else believed in the politics of revenge…
Hammurabi?
Conan the Barbarian?
Re-Flex? Oh, never mind.
It’s all politics of revenge.
But, why isn’t anyone else visiting back on them? It seems to me that the only thing that might stop the politics of revenge is the fear that it might be visited back on you. Otherwise, as you say, it’s part of the appeal.
By who? Mainstream “conservatives” have obviously been co-opted. They are utterly useless, agree with everything the left proposes in principle and pretend to disagree only in degree (Lindsey Graham’s Red Flag proposals are the prime current example). They deserve to be called “cucks”.
I think that the fundamental challenge for libertarians is the people just don’t fucking agree with us.
Good morning, Sloopy and the rest of you sons o’ bitches!
Starting to feel like autumn here today. A little bite in the air.
One day closer to hockey season, anyway.
A-MEN and Hallelujah!
(We have our first old man scrub league game next Sunday and I’m geeked!
“…Puttin’ on the foil, Coach!”)
Agreed, a little “cool” (in an autumn sort of way) on the walk from the car to the office.
*gets the foil ready*
Imagine this: Vice President Biden is currently leading the field, so let’s start there. With Biden at the top and a Harris vice presidency we would speak to the majority of Americans who prefer Biden to any other candidate.
You want to see the 25th Amendment put into action to
remove an unstable mentally incompetent President from officeeffect a coup? ice President Harris will have Biden hauled away in a straitjacket, and proclaim herself the savior of democracy. Sad, but necessary.With Biden at the top and a Harris vice presidency
Way to skip over the Amerind who polls highers. Plus, wouldn’t Harris, as a vicious, unprincipled AG, be just what a leftist administration would need?
OK, but WTF do you want me to do about it?
https://m.imgur.com/a/r2HSl7k
That some of the critters that you get when you play that Pokemon game all the kids are playing these days? I think I might become interested if I could catch some of those tentacle show anime chicks…
And why is the Paralympics pink?
I told my friends I’ll try to visit the year after the Olympics.
World Cup was bad enough. The Olympics are gonna be so bad I may just go to Korea for that time. *Shudders*
You mean hordes of blind-drunk gaijin burning the place to the ground wasn’t fun?
I even feel bad for my friend in Kansai. I expect the tourist crush will impact her there as well.
My friend in metro Tokyo already knows she is screwed.
Maybe I’ll get an adidas jumpsuit in Russian colors and pick up chicks as a squatting Slav.
That might work. Kind of like the ultimate gaijin-smash.
Also blame Christel “Omotenashi” Takigawa soon to be Koizumi.
I enjoyed the link to the gun show video, though I still don’t understand the way the Japanese hear things. Tekisasu? Wouldn’t Tekusasu fit closer to the actual word?
For actual English words transliterated to Japanese – neither do I!
English words in Japanese many times are harder to understand than native Japanese.
One thing to keep in mind is Japanese stress accent is usually on syllables we don’t in English. That’s why “desu” sounds like “dess”
The mouth shape doesn’t work with ku as well as with ki in that word. You’d have an “oo” in there with ku.
Is there a rule for when you elide the “u” as in “suki” or “desu”/
I believe it’s when it’s next to a voiceless consonant like ‘s’, ‘t’, ‘p’, etc.
Not that I’m aware.
My “old school” language school doesn’t even teach pitch accent. Fortunately I have a good ear and work and just try to pick it up.
There are some web sites and some advanced schools that work on it and teach it. But accent varies by dialect as well. For example, my friend from Kansai is always worried that her “standard Japanese” pitch accent is influenced by her native Kansai accent when she is trying to help me with my (standard) Japanese. She’s being modest as her standard is quite good.
Rule? No idea. I gave up on trying to learn the rules a long time ago. Didn’t help me one iota. The only thing that worked was hearing them speak over and over until it became natural.
Rhywun – are you thinking of a different property – i.e not the “u” sound NA is asking about?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendaku
Sensei, no, this one.
It strikes me that the fundamental challenge of libertarianism is that statism carries no price.
It’s not that statism has no cost; the costs are so diffuse and widely distributed (and the benefits so concentrated) that the return to the vast majority of people are dwarfed by the cost of resistance. They (we) just keep their heads down and keep plugging away, while the water is slowly brought to a boil.
Understood. But, then why do the rest of us play nice when they lose? They try to violate our rights and our response is basically “No harm, no foul”. It shouldn’t be that way. It certainly isn’t the way it’s reciprocated. As long as that’s the case, they have nothing to lose with trying to violate people’s rights, with launching Twitter mobs to target their enemies, or any of the other bullying tactics they like.
Consider even journalism. Even TOS was singing the dangers to freedom of the press when the Covington kid decided to sue the media outlets that tried to ruin his life or now that the Republicans are bringing up the social media history of lefty journalists. Is it really? Does anyone think it’s a greater threat to liberty that media outlets get sued when they defame someone than when a kid gets his life ruined for daring to smirk while wearing a MAGA hat?
I think it’s a little like being in a relationship with someone who you constantly wrongs you but with whom you have children, say, or who you can’t afford to leave. You know they’re not going to hold themselves to the same standards as you, you know they’re not going to work at fixing the relationship, but you also know that they’re happy to play chicken with you and never take their foot off the gas so you do their share of the work to keep the relationship intact for the sake of the thing you need or value. I think, despite what people might say, most of the classical liberal / libertarian / conservative crowd don’t really want the US to burn to the ground and be reborn as something else. They’re not really willing to go scorched earth.
Ban fire!
Ogg like fire! Keep STEVE SMITH at bay!
Photos of the scene showed tables and chairs jumbled around, with the bodies of semi-nude women lying amid the debris
Man, I miss college.
*Article includes picture of bar with the name “El Caballo Blanco” painted on the front of it*
Also, racist.
I’d try to come up with a glib remark about this, but it’s just too stupid to even bother.
https://freebeacon.com/politics/sanders-china-has-done-more-to-solve-poverty-than-any-country-in-the-history-of-civilization/
standard: “Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?”
Well, they had more poverty to solve. And still do.
It is often commented here that when a cop is on trial, other members of the force will show up in uniform and sit in the audience to intimidate the jury.
How does one end this behaviour while reconsiling any method with the first amendment rights of the officers?
Might be weak but, how about setting up the jury box so that they can’t see the spectators?
But then the spectators couldn’t see the jury.
The courtroom is already a 1A-free zone. The judge can ban you from giving certain testimony, ban the press, etc.
I kind of wonder how intimidating that really is when you consider that you’re already in the middle of a government building filled with police in uniform.
When they are wearing the uniform they are acting on behalf of their employer. If they want to show up in plain clothes, that’s fine. Most employers have wording in the employee handbooks that the employees are not to speak/act on behalf of the company, with punishments leading up to termination.
Hell, my Catholic High School would punish you for acts off campus if you could be identified as a student of the school based on the uniform.
I’m trying to think of a solution that does not depend on the police policing themselves.
Tar and feathers?
Forbid the wearing of the uniform when off-duty (same rules I had when in the Marines – couldn’t wear utilities except on duty and on the way to / from home). Make them subject to local gun-laws while off-duty. I know several cops who would never even get a permit to own, much less carry a pistol, thanks to multiple domestic abuse situations.
Bingo. This. Simply make it that when they’re off-duty, they’re… (wait for it) REGULAR FUCKING CITIZENS.
(I know, I know, crazy talk)
They are regular citizens while on-duty also. They are just citizens hired as law enforcement.
Couldn’t agree more, but I was giving them a pass on their magical blue suit of qualified immunity for purposes of this thread.
The judge should be ordering the agents of the state not to dress in their agent-of-the-state uniform. It should be a power reserved only to the Judge and his functionaries like the bailiffs. But most judges lick the badge so…
The city’s civilian leadership should not permit it to happen either, since its their uniform. But most like the badge so…
Prosecutors should treat it like any other time an organized group known to be armed and happy to intimidate jurors packs the seats (aka gangs). But most like the badge so…
Cops should have the right to show up and watch, but they don’t have the right to use their uniform any way they wish.
Should have stayed with “lick the badge” in all cases.
Just because I’m illiterate doesn’t mean you should read-shame me.
Yeah, I wonder why….
Well… If I was Trump, I would want this story dominating the news right about a year from now. September 2020 would be perfect timing to perp-walk McCabe and his pals past the courthouse.
They protect their own first.
Oh man, give them a break. They really thought they were going to win the election or they wouldn’t have done it. So it’s totally excusable you see.
Make legitimate journalism great again
MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell added to the swirl of rumor that surrounds President Donald Trump’s relationship with Deutsche Bank, suggesting that his loans with the lender were underwritten by Russian billionaires.
O’Donnell, appearing on the network Tuesday night with host Rachel Maddow, said that “this single source close to Deutsche Bank has told me that the Trump — Donald Trump’s loan documents there show that he has co-signers. That’s how he was able to obtain those loans. And that the co-signers are Russian oligarchs.”
“If true, that would explain every kind word Donald Trump has ever said about Russia and Vladimir Putin,” he said.
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O’Donnell, an outspoken critic of Trump, did not claim to have been able to corroborate the source’s claim and no other news organisations have substantiated the claim.
O’Donnell did not reveal his sources identity, or the nature of the sources connections to Deutsche Bank.
“My hairdresser’s second cousin’s dog walker said he hooked up with a night janitor at Deutsche Bank who spilled the beans. This will blow the whole thing wide open.”
Have we gotten to the impeachment part yet? ::taps foot::
“without providing evidence”
Ageists
A February NBC/Wall Street Journal poll showed 62 percent of voters said they had “reservations” or were “very uncomfortable” voting for a candidate over the age of 75. And a Pew Research Center poll conducted in May showed just 3 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents saying the 70s are the best age for a president (it’s worth noting that Biden, Sanders, and Warren are all in their 70s).
We need somebody young and photogenic. Governing philosophy is irrelevant.
Biden’s candidacy is based on the premise that he’s the most electable candidate. The big question is whether voters’ concerns about age will cut into his support down the line.
At a separate recent campaign stop in New Hampshire, Biden’s wife, Dr. Jill Biden, flat-out told voters they should consider her husband because he had the best chance to beat Trump.
“I know that not all of you are committed to my husband, and I respect that, but I want you to think about your candidate, his or her electability, and who’s going to win this race,” she said. “You know you may like another candidate better but you have to look at who’s going to win. Joe is that person.”
Unlike Warren (the plans candidate) and Sanders (the political revolution candidate), the biggest part of Biden’s pitch to voters is that he has the best shot of unseating Trump in a general election and returning America to the normalcy it enjoyed in the pre-Trump era that Biden, as Obama’s vice president, embodies.
Sure, Jill.
Yeah. Return us to normalcy. Business as usual for the Deep State. Isn’t that what all of us truly yearn for?
It’s such a dumb strategy. Any of the other candidates running on the, “I’m unelectable, but you like me, right?”. Oh, wait, has Gary announced yet?
It’s the smart play for the primary; that’s all that matters right now. Consolidating power is always a primary goal, and, for that matter, a voter/consumer reaction: people want to feel like they are winners. I’d argue that was a big part of GWB43’s appeal: the notion that name recognition and a royal trend would give him an extreme advantage.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/20/politics/cnn-poll-democrats-2020-biden-rebound/index.html
Biden is also bolstered by those voters who say their top priority is choosing a candidate with a strong chance of beating President Donald Trump, a group that makes up 54% of Democratic and Democratic-leaning registered voters (35% in that group support Biden).
Received a job offer about 30 minutes ago. That takes the pressure off my interview this afternoon.
I am probably going to accept the current offer, but I will give this other company a chance to make me an offer I can’t refuse.
Congrats!
You were looking to relocate, no?
Considering I closed on my house July 26th, yes!
LOL. Where did you land?
Right now, living in a van down by the river.
Or a rental house in Evansville.
Tomato/tomahto.
I will give more details of final location after they are finalized.
LA so you can get lakers season tickets
Yeah, I am looking at about 3000 miles away from there.
Do you have any interest in South Atlantic league baseball?
I was wrong, just under 2500 miles to a Lakers game.
Being a normal human being no?
Total league attendance in 2018 was over 2.9MM.
That is a lot of abnormal people.
Are those ticket sales, or unique customers?
Either ticket sales or turnstile clicks.
Not unique for sure, as many people go to mutliple games.
Probably “ticket scans” as no one uses actual turnstiles anymore.
Evansville uses scanners and they are in the Independent Frontier League.
I went to a game a few weeks ago. Shawon Dunston Jr was playing for the opposing team.
Alright, a little late birthday present for robc.
My final interview with them was on my birthday.
Congrats
Thanks.
Congrats!
I think I’m close. Now that the summer lull has about passed, I seem to have an interview every day.
I too am close. I had a third interview last week and I’m waiting on a final decision. Nice to hear a lot of us are having good luck.
Yeah, after the 1st company I interviewed with fell thru after they brought me on site, things went dead, and have picked up hard of late. I have a 2nd interview today and another 2nd interview tomorrow. Will probably cancel the one tomorrow if I can get everything worked out today.
I think I have mastered the art of being the second choice – which is what I think typically happens when they go silent on you. Waiting to see if their first choice accepts the offer.
That is what happened with the first company. I just was surprised they spent the money to fly me to CT as the backup plan.
After the Murf’s Guns commercial, a little news from closer to my home town:
https://www.tulsaworld.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/quiktrip-security-guard-shoots-man-after-assault-with-didgeridoo/
I read the link as “Tulsi World” and was temporarily excited.
Link didn’t work for me.
Well, the headline link pretty much tells the story.
What does it take to be a “superfan”?
https://theconversation.com/how-male-porn-superfans-really-view-women-121679
50 gallon drums?
So, the survey is utter garbage, or they must mean “actual movie, watched the entire thing in one sitting.”
Most surveys are, especially those related to private topics like sex.
None of my porn has MPAA ratings
Has the recession inched closer, or did that talking point expire last Friday? I haven’t been hearing anything new about it.
That’s because we’re all gonna die from a lack of oxygen. We’ve got no time for a recession.
Sounds like they’re (pathetically) trying to circle back around to RUSSIA! RUSSIA! RUSSIA! while simultaneously keeping up the chorus of RACIST! RACIST! RACIST!
It is a delicate business keeping up with the narrative of the day.
Of course they cycled off that one quickly. It was the only one that actually has a shot of being right.
Look man, experts are predicting the coming recession apocalypse. EXPERTS! DID YOU HEAR ME!?