Yesterday was like a midweek sports overload. The UCL matches (especially the craziness in the Chelski-Ajax match), a gazillion college basketball games (especially the Kansas-Duke game), the release of the first CFP rankings (with the committee largely getting things right at the top but with some head-scratchers further down). Feel free to discuss all of it as I begin to wrap my arms around basketball season getting underway. Until I do, I’ll stick to relaying the NHL winners, which were: New York (Islanders), Philly, Las Vegas, Montreal, Toronto, New Jersey, Dallas, Calgary, St Louis, the MINNESOOOOODA WIIIIIIIIIILD, and San Jose. Detroit won in a way by not playing, although they’re up tonight and able to carry on their losing ways.
The man who helped shape 80s rock solos Adolphe Sax was born on this day. As were march king John Philip Souza, Canadian person who did his best inventing in America James Naismith, baseball legend Walter Johnson, adorable actress Sally Field, musician Glenn Frey, and the lovely Emma Stone.
Good stuff, but time to move on to…the links!
That’s some good police work there, Lou. It’s what I expect of a government bureaucracy, to be honest. And I expect the accountability to be “minimal”.
Texas voters do what Texas voter do. I’m amazed that many on the left want to keep income taxes out of the state. Fortunately they can’t put a ballot measure out that says “Do you want to outlaw income taxes on everyone who makes the same and less as you while screwing over everyone that makes more than you do?” Because I bet the results would have been different.
I fully expect the day to come soon where police unions demand an end to body cameras and any other surveillance of police officers in action. Because if there’s anything out there keeping cops in check more than body cameras and other CCTV setups, I don’t know what it is.
Wait a minute, isn’t this CULTURAL APPROPRIATION?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! I hope she raised a lot of awareness for global warming. Maybe it’ll offset her huge carbon footprint.
As for her cause, the social justice runner may have to resort to other methods to help raise awareness for indigenous tribes. “No one recognized the Papua New Guinea flag on my head,” she says in a video uploaded to her Instagram after the race. “They kept saying ‘Pocahontas!’ and ‘Moana!’ and ‘Great costume!’ and not really focusing on the message.”
LOL, never mind.
I love good news. I especially love good news for Texas. This is not good news for Texas. Or Arizona. Or anywhere else those locusts are migrating to.
Virginia has officially turned blue for the first time in a generation. And Kentucky may have elected a Dem governor but Republicans for every other statewide office. Also, more than a third of the Virginia House of Delegates races were uncontested. Now that’s some fine gerrymandering right there.
Yeah, we’re continuing the theme from earlier in the week.
I got the trailers moved with only a minor snag. I had a brahma bull stalk me for a few minutes and had to hop a fence twice while getting one of them hooked up. Jesus, those are some big fuckers. Today I drive to Dallas to ready a bunch of home medical care stuff for sale next week in what will hopefully be my last sale of the year. And its been a pretty good, and illuminating, year. Go have a great day, friends.
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He was obviously watching training videos, that’s how dedicated he is to the job. Geez.
Netflix should do a series about these kind of incidents
So the next time it happens feels like infinite recursion to the officer?
Dispatchception!
^^^^ This thread alone justifies coming here every day.
The man who helped shape 80s rock solos Adolphe Sax was born on this day. – lets ignore Belgians, shall we?
What do waffles have to do with music.
They make my 7 y/o sing and dance when he eats them.
Stop giving children simple carbs, it is bad for their health.
C’mon, you’re from Europe, where chocolate bars are considered lunch and beer is a breakfast drink.
beer is not simple carbs beer is good.
Fixed that for you.
In the office, or I’d link the Psychostick beer song here.BEER IS GOOD. AND STUFF!
Also do you know who else was named… eah never mind
Coors founder?
Best sax solo in rock music–Baker Street, by Gerry Rafferty. Come at me.
Best sax solo in rock music is anything Steve Berlin plays.
Second place….”Latest Trick” Dire Straits?
I recently relistened to Brothers in Arms for the first time in forever. I’d remembered everything after “Walk of Life” as being kind of boring, but a lot of the songs struck me pretty well on the relisten. “Your Latest Trick” wasn’t bad at all–very atmospheric.
Why Worry is pretty
The sax on Baker Street is playing the riff and is not really a solo. These songs have great sax solos:
On The Dark SIde – John Cafferty and The Beaver Brown Band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzVxlXx6MQA
FM – Steely Dan – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=316mipUnA-M
Yakety Sax just took you down with one punch.
The price of having a constitutional prohibition on income tax is eternal vigilance – ask the 3% of Washington State residents who haven’t yet been assimilated into the Seattle borg.
CFP rankings:
Those are fair, I have no problems with that
OSU and Penn State still have to play each other, and LSU versus Alabama is Saturday, so it will change
I still would have placed Oregon over Georgia. And Possibly Oklahoma too. Georgia has a horribly bad loss but could play themselves back in with a win in the SECCG. Putting them at 6 is a bit of an injustice.
absolutely correct
I waited my Overrated submittal until the Grapevine Congress announced last night. Mine is a weak sauce that TPTB should only publish at 11pm if at all, this not being a particularly slow news week.
to up my odds, I did include several pictures of hot SMU chicks and some dating advice, so: think of Q !
I did include several pictures of hot SMU chicks
Sometimes I think of what might have been were I not married when I attended. A fit law student with 6-figure income could have cleaned up on the undergrad campus.
NOT WORTH IT !!!!!!!!!!111!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
* pours shot of Jack into coffee to stifle flashbacks *
I tried to understand all the different weird conferences in CFP and failed.
Why does Big 10 have east and west subdivisions but Big 12 does not? It does not make any sense. Also why does big ten not have either 10 teams or 20, not 14. It is all so very silly.
Because they grew out of earlier conferences that were put together
The Big XII has 21 schools, but most of them are only there for minor sports. like rowing, wrestling, and equestrian.
Do affiliate schools actually count?
I’ll allow them in the spirit of Glib ecumenicalism. (Two of us went to OU and it looks like some NoDak and SoDak schools are affiliates).
Back in the day, the big10 had 10 teams, the big 12 (combination of the southwest conference and the big 8 conference) had 12 teams.
The big 10 annexed Penn state to make it an 11 team big 10 for the longest time, but the big 10 name was so prominent that they didn’t change it. That basically set the standard for not changing names (pac 12 notwithstanding) when membership changes. Recently there was an annexation frenzy to ensure that all the major conferences had football conference championship games (which was increasingly influencing who got to play for the national championship) , but the big 12 got raided and was down to 8 teams. Rather than replace all 4 teams that were poached, they brought on only two teams ( TCU and West Virginia), resulting in them not having a conference championship for a few years until they got a waiver play one despite not having two divisions.
IOW, it’s all about getting the best opportunity to get their best teams into the football playoffs, because you make an ass load of money just for appearing.
Penn State will still be reeling from the beat down the Golden Rodents from THE U of M put on them this weekend.
We’ll see Jimbo. Minnesota really hasn’t been tested much this year and Penn State has found some offence in the second half. It should be really interesting game to say the least.
I’m living the fantasy now before reality hits this Saturday.
All the old coots in Minnesoda who remember when the Gophs used to be a power are giddy with nostalgia.
I’m excited to see another good team other than WIs in the BIG10 West. Nebraska has been a disappointment.
It’s a joke.
They just shoveled a bunch more money into PJ’s goddamn boat. The wailing and gnashing of teeth when we get crushed will be bewutiful to behold.
Since when have they been a power in anything other than wrestling?
Virginia has officially turned blue for the first time in a generation. –
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mornin’
Nevada representin’
Since I first stepped foot here in 2005 the state has gone full retard on the back of all the California shitheads that repopulated Vegas after the housing crash.
I have a hard time believing that the transplants turn places blue. Hell, we’re only blue because of the corrupt ways of the blue team. Orange County got blue with ballot harvesting, after decades of being a stronghold. That Katie hill broad represents (ed) the most conservative part of Los Angeles. I see people who are all upset at the way things are going. Somehow the votes always go to the commies. Somehow…
So what we need is a serious vote integrety campaign pourging anyone who engages or facilitates thes shenanigans?
Yes, please.
I honestly think that if the Republicans take the house, they should refuse to seat any representative from Califonia until they change that law. It’s an absolute fraud.
After the VA results, TX is looking increasingly attractive.
RACIST
They said if I didn’t vote for Dems, VA would be run by blackface wearing racists and rapists. And they were right!
I’m worried about Virginia. State-level Democrats have said they intend to transform the state. This isn’t like past times when a party might have a couple policies they wanted to change, a couple programs they wanted to put in place.
When we moved here in 1998, Virginia was for the most part a balanced, rational, well-run state, and it has remained so until now. Generally a low-tax, low-services state, but not to an extreme, and with better than average roads, decent schools, and one of the best university systems in the country. When I hear that Democrats want to alter that, I can only believe their goal is to destroy something that works well.
Well it only works well, because Virginia is still profiting off the backs of slavery still. This is why we need reperations. SMDH at this racist ignorance.
Ban guns would be the priority, if not already banned.
State-level Democrats have said they intend to transform the state.
They have adopted all the positions of national Dems. The are not moderates. They are ideologues that ran openly on intending to violate the State constitution in multiple ways. I’ll wait to see what happens, but there will likely be interesting court battles in the future.
SCOTUS rules that State Constitutions are unconstitutional
That’s what they did with marriage.
New York shows you the way.
Buckle up, Virginia. It’s gonna be a bumpy ride.
That list is…impressive, in a way. If VA democrats stick to legalizing marijuana and illegalizing cat-declawing, that’d be fine.
Oh, they’ve had all that and more in the hopper, just waiting for the moment they took full control.
Me – looks at link previous to VA link, sees VA was number 9 in list of where CA economic refugees are fleeing. Notes TX takes on 3 to 4 times that many refugees. Notes Beto sticker on CA tile guys car at house, shrugs, notes that we’re all doomed by the cancer that is CA politics.
I’ve thought about it before…but this is the kind of thing that might be a motivating factor to get more involved in local (municipal) politics initially – as a gadfly if nothing else.
At any rate, my motivations are reserved for further in the future when I have more time – and acting strictly as an independent for “common sense” type policies (minarchist, etc).
I’m willing to bet they’re almost exclusively fleeing to the DC market to feed on the gazillions of fiat dollars the federal government spews out.
We’re already making plans to move back to TX. 2, maybe 3 years and we’re outta here.
NoVa is shitty traffic, corrupt government, icy people, and stupid high cost of living crammed into a swamp. I wanted to love the nature more than I hate the city, but ultimately the dislike of the city won out.
Yeah…my current career plans require 4 yrs or so in the Norfolk area….but then…most of the shipbuilding areas are blue strongholds with the exception of Pascagoula and some of the smaller facilities in Alaska, Mayport, etc.
To be honest, I’m a big fan of WA weather if not Seattle politics, and Bath also looks like a nice place in terms of weather/landscape – but I guess it’s all a crapshoot and I’ll see how things settle out the next few years.
Don’t think any anti-gun policies will make it successfully past the courts in VA though – the blowback will be immense (literally).
I think that our inclination to move back to TX would be less if we lived anywhere else in VA, but up here in the DC suburbs, it’s not good.
Wait a minute, isn’t this CULTURAL APPROPRIATION?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! I hope she raised a lot of awareness for global warming. Maybe it’ll offset her huge carbon footprint.
It is not appropriation if she is transracial
Her grass skirt came from Havana, but she had trouble tracking down a top.
“I wanted it to be natural, so I thought about going topless, but I thought it might hurt my breasts,” says Grube, a Kingsborough High School ESL teacher originally from Brazil. Instead, “I took a leather belt and bound my breast with one, and put two more, on the top and bottom to keep it in place.”
No coconut shells? Disappointing.
More Maryann than Ginger?
Also-
“No one recognized the Papua New Guinea flag on my head,” she says in a video uploaded to her Instagram after the race. “They kept saying ‘Pocahontas!’ and ‘Moana!’ and ‘Great costume!’ and not really focusing on the message.”
The poor dear.
If she really wanted to represent Papua New Guinea, she would have had some human skulls on a pike and finished her run with a nice longpig roast.
Lucy hardest hit.
Marathons DONT routinely roast the fallen participants? Lame.
She should’ve ran with this playing on a boombox.
Virginia has a rapidly metastasizing cancer spreading down from it’s northeast corner.
See my response to Rebel Scum
Governor Blackface?
the social justice runner may have to resort to other methods to help raise awareness for indigenous tribes
Next year she’s running naked, pursued the whole way by a tiger
Meh, she should do the South Central Marathon. It runs down alleys late at night while carrying TVs.
Did you mean this?
Let her try the SF marathon barefoot.
The Hep C and Cholera Run?
No love for Typhus ?
Not since he turned traitor.
Will the tiger turn into butter?
[insert inappropriate Zola Budd comment here]
I am too old to think of a good one, as is anybody who gets the reference.
Mary Decker hardest hit. Or tripped.
She had some fine nipples, that one.
I concur.
Decker or Budd?
Decker.
Where all the California refugees going? The No. 1 destination is Texas, which may not come as a huge surprise. For starters, it’s a big state with the second-largest population after California. Jobs there are also plentiful — Texas added more jobs last year than any other state (the unemployment rate is about 3% in Texas).
They’ll be sure to fix that by maintaining their leftist voting habits.
Our economy is on fire too, it’s just not enough to offset the punitive government. It also can’t quite cover fixing any roads or supplying electricity to our homes.
Your economy isn’t the only thing on fire out there!
It also can’t quite cover fixing any roads or supplying electricity to our homes.
If they let the roads and electricity situation get too out of hand, that will snuff out the economy. Those are literally the two most important things to a modern economy.
I fully expect the day to come soon where police unions demand an end to body cameras and any other surveillance of police officers in action. Because if there’s anything out there keeping cops in check more than body cameras and other CCTV setups, I don’t know what it is.
Mandatory cameras for all and there will be no need for just the cops to have em.
Now that’s some fine gerrymandering right there.
And it looked to me to be 3-1 Dem-Rep uncontested. But I was assured that Team Red was up to gerrymandering shenanigans that disenfranchised Team Blue voters.
Anyone who thinks Virginia is gerrymandered now, wait until 2021 or so.
It’s not Gerrymandering when democrats do it. They are just making equitable districts.
One of my favorite claims locally is when they say Utah is gerrymandered. It’ isn’t Its just that Red, and the geographic distribution of the state means that the populace center is going to have to be divided to keep sane districts that have similar populations. The estimate i last saw was that Utah House should be 90% Republican. since we only have 4 seats and 1 is held by a Democrat currently, it looks like the districts actually favor the Democrats.
As for why people keep moving out of the Golden State, there’s no real surprise there: The high cost of housing was the number one reason cited.
Pay no attention to those regulations behind the curtain.
Also insufficient public transport.
I wonder if it is still profitable in IT to actually be based in Silicon Valley.
I know people who have an American startup and they did not even consider it, given the costs. They work with remote software developers and have something like 24 people in 20 cities / 8 countries
If there is any doubt whatsoever that DC runs Virginia now, take a look at this electoral map.
https://www.pilotonline.com/government/elections/vp-nw-live-election-results-map-1105-20191106-daykobizbzcn7mg67gqllf5ysy-story.html
Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries.
That being said, Washington probably brings some education to those bumpkins in Virginia. Don’t hate.
https://imgur.com/a/7tm1A4n
There you go
I have reached my monthly free article limit. What, is the limit zero? I’ve never visiting that site that I know of.
I copied the image and posted it on imgur because of that BS.
I see one GOP blob in the orbit of DC there. Must be all the richie, country-club types.
Some more news for ABC to spike. Hunter Biden’s Ukraine gas firm pressed Obama administration to end corruption allegations, memos show.
A former Ukrainian MP is claiming Sleepy Joe received $900K himself for lobbying efforts now.
Thing is there should be a paper trail of some sort, a way to prove this. I am thinking people do not really want to get to the bottom of this, one way or the other. Or there is no trail, but I doubt it.
They are trying to make charges to impeach a President to avoid getting to the bottom of several cases – that’s how badly they do not want this stuff investigated.
Wouldn’t it be easier to throw Biden to the wolves?
They might still do that, but they’re disinclined to because they all do this sort of thing. They certainly wouldn’t want to encourage anyone to start digging up their own dirty shenanigans.
Sure – then Barr immediately offers him immunity. Pelosi’s kid and many others end up indicted.
It doesn’t stop at Biden. If that can of worms is opened, a lot more democrats, including Clinton and Obama, are going to come out as having committed a plethora of crimes on the tax payer’s dime.
“I’m here to officially declare today, Nov. 5, 2019, that Virginia is officially blue,” Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam told a crowd of supporters in Richmond.
Well, not until January. I suppose my taxes are going up and there will be a direct assault on Article 1, Section 13, mostly by ignoring it to illegally make firearms/ammo/etc illegal. But perhaps GOA and VCDL are up to the challenge.
Blue? Not Blackface?
Did the asshat moonwalk?
HOW LAST NIGHTS ELECTIONS PROVE DRONALD BLUMPF GETS BLOWN OUT NEXT YEAR!11!!1!
I saw a lot of that online last night
Odd year elections are the lowest turnout of any election, and least representative of presidential year elections.
So we’re taking America back from Trump? Is that what I should know to start my day?
Should we all get blue hats that say, “Make the Economy shitty again?”
MESA vs. MAGA?
Making AmericaS Target Economy Real
MAKE TAXES HIGH AGAIN?
Tim Kaine: Disingenuous hack
Kaine said, “Any Republican that tries to downplay Andy Beshear’s win, and it looks like he will win, they are whistling past the graveyard. Kentucky is one of the most Republican states in the country. President Trump put it all in by going down there last night to try to get Kentucky to do what they always do, which is go red.”
Except apparently the down ballot went red. But Team blue wants concentrated authority in a single executive, hence their horror at the last presidential election. And I am sure there was no outside influx of funding that could have swayed this result for governor since Team Blue is against big money in politics.
KY is still a majority democrat state. They just dont vote that way because of the national party.
Even Miss America lost with a D next to her name.
She was an R while in that role, she switched when she married the D Lt Governor.
I dont know now, but when about 2 or 3 their daughter looked exactly like Daddy. Talk about losing the genetic lottery hard.
The KY race was all about Bevin, who is a bit of a loon. Mostly in a good way, but he pissed off a lot of the GOP.
I doubt they will be able to, or attemp even, to undue his flat tax. So Bevin has a legacy.
Texas voters do what Texas voter do. I’m amazed that many on the left want to keep income taxes out of the state. Fortunately they can’t put a ballot measure out that says “Do you want to outlaw income taxes on everyone who makes the same and less as you while screwing over everyone that makes more than you do?” Because I bet the results would have been different.
As high as property taxes are in Texas, i’m not surprised they would ban income taxes
The ban only matters until the Texas politicians decide to bring in an income tax. Doesn’t sound like a ban if they can undo it anytime they want. Or am I missing something here?
I assumed the Amendment to the Texas constitution would be harder to overturn, but i don’t know the actual amendment process in Texas.
Of course SCOTUS could always step in and say that State Bans on income Tax are unconstitional for some reason and so Texans can’t ban it.
This is why SCOTUS cannot be the sole arbiter of what the Constitution means.
If they really meant it, they’d give a guy that is really opposed to the income tax a nuke. “You can only use it if we try to reverse the ban.”
One of the pointlessly odd (as opposed to delightfully odd) things about Texas is that many items are codified at the constitutional level. For a state that pretends to believe in local option and personal autonomy, a shocking about amount of controls and prohibitions are baked in, not in laws rules and regs, but are enshrined in the top document itself.
That’s not to say those things are written in stone: modifications of its constitution are routinely on the ballot.
A good example of Texas craziness unenshrined is Prop 8. Until this millennium, you couldn’t take out a second mortgage (not that I recommend it, mind ye) on your homestead . . . because Texas was the home of the free and the we know what’s best for you after all. Prop 8 undid that, and now Texans can be as stupid about home equity as any other American.
Texas also implemented absurdly tight restrictions on Land Contracts (Contracts for Deed) some years ago.
The amendment prevents an income tax from being levied without changing the Constitution. This means that to get an income tax will require 66% of the legislature plus 50.1% of the voters. This replaces an amendment that forbid an income tax without a referendum, which would have required only 50.1% of the legislature plus 50.1% of the voters. So it does make it more difficult to implement an income tax, and most importantly makes it more difficult to implement a targeted income tax like sloopy mentions. Overall I think this is a good thing, as though not having an income tax means we have higher property and sales taxes in Texas (but still not the highest in the nation, even among states that do also collect an income tax), property and sales taxes face greater resistance to being raised, as they are more visible to more people. Nearly everyone these days does direct deposit, so never even sees the line item of taxes removed (unless they do their own taxes) let alone the money. But people do have to write a check to pay property tax, and they do have to pay sales tax at point of sale and see it on their receipt, so they are more aware that they actually pay them.
It certainly sounds like a step in the right direction. My point was just the standard ridiculing of the “parchment barrier”.
And that is always a fair point.
I noticed Proposition 1 is followed by a bunch of spending amendments that were approved.
That was disappointing, but expected. The funding was for things like disaster prevention, schools, and cancer research, stuff that’s going to be popular among low-info and feel-good voters. The silver lining is that all of those spending amendments only raised spending caps, they permitted but don’t require the spending, so if tax receipts fall short we are not penned in like in some other states.
My property taxes are higher in IL – and we have a 5% income tax…that will be racing skyward when TEAM BLUE cracks open the IL Constitution like a peanut shell this coming Spring
Romania opens road to nowhere as modernisation plan hits dead end
https://www.euronews.com/2019/11/04/romania-opens-road-to-nowhere-as-modernisation-plan-hits-dead-end?fbclid=IwAR3qsVzNJMMV7IPvR1IvzQGu5Zw3NTJhR7TNo14fyrv8dyAzVRmQMcIpQPY
Foreigners are just jealous of our superior roadz. I can guarantee you that would not have been build without big government. Check mate, libertarians.
To be fair, there doesn’t seem to be anything to extend that road to.
There are more fields beyond that field! Government will not rest until all fields have quality roads, with marked crossings and stop signs!
Some foreign tourists are very impressed by Romanian roads.
Why can’t the US implement policies that reduce traffic? All it takes is raising taxes and increasing regulations to the point where only a few people can afford cars or gas.
the highways are brand new. Just they are in very few places. Depends a lot where you are driving around. That is why the traffic is low, because they do not form a complete route from A to B
A to B
My people say ” you can’t get there from here ”
Is such a notion available in Romanian?
not really. you can get there from here but not on the highway . And if you need to get on and off all the time some people take the standard road. Especially since it is shorter as the highway does a loop in order to get close to a major city, so the non highway road is like 70 kilometers shorter. If it was highway all the way people would take the extra distance, but as it is…
Montgomery County has had enough of the Steve Smith treatment. Sanctuary County Rolls Back Its Anti-ICE Policy Following String Of Illegal Aliens Charged With Rape.
Are they saying that Mexico isn’t sending their best?
And all it took was a lot of women getting raped
How many Montgomery Counties are in the US?
At least one per state, probably.
It’s the Martin Luther King Blvd of counties.
Except Kansas City.
My friend and I used to write stories back-and-forth via email. One of the lines in one was “Martin Luther King Boulevard, which maintains the curious distinction of being the longest road in the world, running through the bad part of every major city in the contiguous United States.”
Wikipedia lists 18. There are also 24 Lincoln Counties and 31 Washington Counties. I have heard that Springfield is the most common city name in the US, but Wikipedia didn’t list any Springfield Counties.
Rand Paul: Russian Agent
Paul said during the rally on Monday:
“We also now know the name of the whistleblower. The whistleblower needs to come forward as a material witness because he worked for Joe Biden at the same time Hunter Biden was getting money from corrupt oligarchs.”
He told CNN’s Suzanne Malveaux during a brief interview on Tuesday that it is not illegal to identify a whistleblower and that whistleblower laws only prevent the government from identifying a whistleblower.
“The whistleblower statute protects the whistleblower from having his name revealed by the inspector general. Even the New York Times admits that no one else is under any legal obligation,” he said.
Paul went on to say:
“The whistleblower is actually a material witness completely separate from being the whistleblower because he worked for Joe Biden. He worked for Joe Biden at the same time Hunter Biden was receiving $50,000 a month.”
So the investigation into the corruption of Hunter Biden involves this whistleblower because he was there at the time. Did he bring up the conflict of interest? Was there discussion of this? What was his involvement with the relationship between Joe Biden and the prosecutors? There’s a lot of questions the whistleblower needs to answer.
Tag-fail.
Guess it’s not just Virginia turning blue.
Everyone has known the
whistleblowerleakerbullshitter is Ciaramella for a couple of weeks.CIAramella
Wow. They aren’t even hiding it anymore.
Russian agent confirmed!!!!
https://www.thedailybeast.com/thanks-to-trump-booster-rand-paul-russian-media-are-naming-the-alleged-ukraine-whistleblower
Putin is laughing his ass off at this crap.
Checker RT and Tass and I don’t see where they’ve named the guy. Anybody got a link for that?
Kansas City is putting out the welcome mat for anyone who doesn’t like Virginia going blue.
Guess I should have scrolled down…
I could see California doing the exact same thing for different reasons.
“which appeared to end Kansas City’s reputation as one of the largest U.S. cities in the country without a street named for him.”
If the city actually didn’t have an MLK street, it wasn’t just their reputation, it was an actual fact.
I guess the “reputation” part is “racisty racist town” because that is the only reason to not have a street named after him.
They opposed the name change because they say the City Council did not follow city charter procedures when making the change and didn’t notify most residents on the street about the proposal. They also said The Paseo is an historic name for the city’s first boulevard, which was completed in 1899. The north end of the boulevard is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
So racist. Also, I wonder how much this street name change is going to cost.
I bet one of those lil crossing-street signs costs at least a thousand bucks, not counting installation.
“…The campaign has been divisive, with supporters of King’s name accusing opponents of being racist, while supporters of The Paseo name say city leaders pushed the name change through without following proper procedures and ignored The Paseo’s historic value.”
Is that R-Card easy to get?
“…Many supporters of the Martin Luther King name suggested the opponents are racist, saying Save the Paseo is a mostly white group and that many of its members don’t live on the street, which runs north to south through a largely black area of the city. They said removing the name would send a negative image of Kansas City to the rest of the world, and could hurt business and tourism.”
Whites can never have a valid reason if they don’t support a black initiative. According to the picture, I count 12 people with a ‘Save the Paseo’ t-shirt. If my racial profiling abilities are correct, six are black that’s – air maths – 50% of the line!
“…Supporters of the Paseo name rejected the allegations of racism, saying they have respect for King and want the city to find a way to honor him. They opposed the name change because they say the City Council did not follow city charter procedures when making the change and didn’t notify most residents on the street about the proposal. They also said The Paseo is an historic name for the city’s first boulevard, which was completed in 1899. The north end of the boulevard is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”
Sounds like a reason usually put forth with these things. That is, ‘historic value’.
“…U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, a minister and former Kansas City mayor who has pushed the city to rename a street for King for years, was at Sunday’s rally. He said the protesters were welcome, but he asked them to consider the damage that would be done if Kansas City removed King’s name…..”
“…The Rev. Vernon Howard, president of the Kansas City chapter of the SCLU, told The Associated Press that the King street sign is a powerful symbol for everyone but particularly for black children.
If the sign were taken down, “the reverse will be true,” he said.”
Has the street sign been up long enough for it to settle into the deep psyche of children (who really don’t give a shit)? Not following the logic. What truth will be reversed? The symbol of it being crucial to the development of black kids? A stupid sweet sign? Talk about a low form of ‘soft bigotry of expectations’.
‘Why you in prison, Chad?’
‘Because when I was a kid….they took down a MLK street sign!’
It’s a street sign Cleaver. Get a hold of yourself. Appeals to racial emotions are an unfair tactic. Kinda racist if you ask me.
Their mistake was allowing the public to vote on it. Don’t they even authoritarian?!
They said removing the name would send a negative image of Kansas City to the rest of the world, and could hurt business and tourism.”
No one goes to MLK Blvd as a tourist.
As a white boy who lived off Paseo for over half a decade in the mot too distant past I can assure you there was no big clamor by the black community around there to change the name of the street. In fact, I’d say indifference to outright hostility was the tone I seem to recall being most common.
The whole thing was just stupid social signaling by the city council, and nevermind the tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars wasted taking down, and replacing all the signs, just to do it again.
This. The City Council basically ignored the wishes of the citizens who lived on or near the Paseo becase, apparently, a majority of the Council is woke.
We have a new airport terminal building in the Northland. It might just be a better choice for MLK’s name.
Maybe there’ll be fewer murders there.
Maybe it really IS a good idea to turn the country over to unelected bureaucrats
Wasn’t Hobbes thesis that the Leviathan was better than the state of nature?
The Morality of Administrative Law
Sunnstein is really sniffing his own farts now.
“@RuleOfLaw”
Yeah, ok.
Well it looks like it is over for Trump. Yesterday all the youtube news (except Fox) were talking about how One of Trumps Allies addmitted to Quid Pro Quo. Fortunately i’ve sworn off the Coporate Press (the Grey Lady can go fuck herself after her disgusting take on the Mexico Massacre yesterday, I truly hope the building goes down in flames, and the owners, journalists and editors are left destitute.) so i didn’t watch any of them. Anyone got a good article or take on this?
So a Quid Pro Quo to get a prosecutor investigating your corrupt kid fired = okay
Quid Pro Quo to get an investigation into government corruption restarted = impeachable offense
Note that the unimpeachable lt col Vindman was himself reprimanded by his chain of command for some real serious partisan and anti-US behavior, but hey. The liars are the people pointing out this guy has an agenda and is working with the corrupt democrats to peddle another hoax.
I thought a quid pro quo was the heart of diplomacy.
What else is diplomacy but a wrangling over who gets what in exchange for giving up what?
It doesn’t matter. No quid pro quo actually happened, regardless of whatever brainfarts came out of Orange’s head.
I think it doesn’t matter if it did anyway.
It should not considering this revelation…
He “presummed” there was a quid pro quo.
No one above him ever told him their was.
Unrelated to the links, the first weekend of December, I’ll be in Philadelphia for PAX unplugged. The current plan is to arrive Thursday, and leave Monday/Tuesday. If any of you in that area want to meet up for some pints, let me know. I’m definitely planning a trip over to Monk’s Cafe.
Is that Nov30/Dec1 or Dec 7/8?
December 6-8th is PAX Unplugged, a board game convention. My first time going to it, so I’m not sure what all to expect (except that there’s a Diplomacy tournament Saturday that I may have to try to get into).
Play Italy. Be bold!
And dont go Lepanto, Italian Oktoberfest opening!
Unless things have changed, country assignment is random for tournaments. Otherwise you’d probably have fights about avoiding Italy and Austria.
Random or everyone submits list and you get highest priority if available.
Gamble on getting England or go with Germany and hope no one else lists it first?
Or just choose Italy and get your choice for sure.
Last one I did (which was probably 15-20 years ago) was pure random determination.
Choose Switzerland, then go drink!
I was thinking about street names.
We should name streets after failed Dictators/Puppet leaders that the CIA has tried to install. We could have a Juan Guaido Blv. That way when people ask, “Who was Juan Guaido” people can say “He was that asshole the CIA tried to get us to go to war for in Venezuela”
Smells like… desperation
In an era of wild inequality, sputtering wages, and rising rents and health-care costs, the American working class has had one consistent financial respite: “stuff,” broadly defined, is cheap. Sure, workers might not be able to afford a decent apartment, a college education, or sufficient elder care for an infirm relative, or to ever, ever get sick. But burgers, leggings, yard tools, bicycles, dishes, smartphones, soda—these items have become less expensive, thanks to big-box stores and internet retailers and imports from abroad.
Or perhaps not. A new analysis from a prominent group of economic researchers suggests not only that rising prices have been quietly taxing low-income families more heavily than rich ones, but also that, after accounting for that trend, the American poverty rate is significantly higher than the official measures suggest. Call it “inflation inequality,” a subtle, pernicious way that the fortunes of the rich and the poor have diverged.
Using government data and scanner data from retail stores—the bar codes that get swiped at Target, the produce codes that get punched in at grocery stores—Xavier Jaravel of the London School of Economics found that from 2004 to 2015, the prices of the products purchased by the bottom income quintile increased faster than the prices of the products purchased by the top income quintile. As a result, low-income families experienced an annual rate of inflation conservatively estimated at 0.44 percentage points higher than that of high-income families.
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In an interview, Jaravel offered beer as an example. In the past 20 years, the tastes of higher-income consumers have fueled an explosion in craft brewing, whereas the market at the lower end has remained stagnant in comparison. A small-batch sour IPA is more expensive than a Keystone Light, but fancy beers are cheaper, more plentiful, and more accessible than they were in the early Aughts, whereas beers that come in a 30-pack taste the same and cost as much as they always did. “Of course, luxury products are more expensive,” Jaravel told me. “But inflation is about a different thing. It’s not about the level. It’s about the change.”
Inflation inequality has not filtered into government calculations, at least not yet. “These patterns are all very, very strong,” Jaravel told me. “But you can’t measure them with the standard data that the Bureau of Labor Statistics has, because the Bureau of Labor Statistics doesn’t keep track of spending patterns within these very detailed product categories.”
But new research from Jaravel, along with Christopher Wimer and Sophie Collyer of the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University, suggests that it should. Accounting for differential changes in prices would bump up the 2018 poverty rate by 8 percent—adding 3.2 million people to the ranks of the officially poor, and 836,000 people to the ranks of those in deep poverty. According to standard government measures, the real household income of the bottom quintile fell 1 percent from 2004 to 2018; using the new, inflation-sensitive accounting, it fell more than 7 percent.
Adding more people to the ranks of the officially poor, you say? Justifying ever-larger increases in government “assistance” programs, you say?
Just make it all free.
“In an era of wild inequality, sputtering wages”
But what about our era?
So this guy finally read Terry Pratchett?
Cheaper products have lower margins and are more sensitive to changes in input costs while higher margin goods can absorb more volatility. This is news?
rising prices have been quietly taxing low-income families
Interestingly, there are dozens of taxes on many items and the companies that produce them. Why, it is almost as if businesses pass taxes along to customers as it is a cost of business.
This concept is stupidly simple, but I’ve seriously talked to people who bemoan that “these corporations are just passing their taxes onto customers” and seem to believe that CEOs are immoral monsters if they don’t pay every single cent of tax out of their own pockets.
…seem to believe that CEOs are immoral monsters if they don’t pay every single cent of tax out of their own pockets.
The same pockets that are filled with customer payments? Or do they believe that CEOs have money trees somewhere?
Yeah, I get that they probably think that if the CEOs weren’t paid as much that things wouldn’t be that expensive, which is the problem you get when people don’t understand numbers and scale and such – the CEO makes a tiny fraction of a cent off of each thing you buy.
Sure, Jan.
Just keep excluding the dozens of government programs that already help keep the poor down. Maybe add a couple more and you can invent even more scary numbers.
I’m surprised Lefties are so comfortable complaining about rising healthcare costs since Obamacare was sold as a once-and-for-all solution that would eliminate the problem of not being able to afford healthcare. They’re basically admitting that Obamacare did nothing at all.
The only reason it failed is because the
kulaks and wreckersobstructionist tepublicans gutted it.They just claim that without Obamacare it would be EVEN HIGHER!!
Um, they promised to bend the cost curve. Not their fault you assumed it was bend it down.
“, thanks to big-box stores and internet retailers and imports from abroad.”
Sure, those have had an effect, but I am sure there’s a lot of other reasons those things are cheaper.
Emma Watson says she is ‘self-partnered’ rather than single
https://news.sky.com/story/emma-watson-says-she-is-self-partnered-rather-than-single-11854721?dcmp=snt-sf-twitter
vids?
Multiple personalities? Voices in her head?
It used to be a common insult to tell somebody to fcuk themselves. Maybe that isn’t the case anymore?
Local man goes, fucks self.
“I sniff my own farts.”
Egomaniac?
Cass is a Top Man. He will guide us to utopia using the magic of regulatory apparati.
Inequality, in other words, is depriving low-income families of wages, shutting them out from the benefits of economic growth, and making day-to-day life more expensive. “It’s not just that inflation is not uniform across income groups,” says Michael Linden of the Groundwork Collaborative, a think tank and advocacy organization that worked with Wimer, Collyer, and Jaravel to produce the new poverty-and-inflation analysis. “It’s that it’s not uniform across income groups because of inequality itself.”
That’s it, then. It’s time to eradicate inequality, once and for all.
“It’s not just that inflation is not uniform across income groups,” – Audit the Federal Reserve
Damnit. Sometimes they get soooo close to realizing the true nature of the problem (e.g. that government-caused inflation is robbing average people – especially those inclined to save money – and enriching the rich and well-connected).
Which is dumber?
Is a hotdog a sandwich?
Is a pizza pocket a ravioli?
Is cereal a soup?
Is democracy under capitalism a democracy when businesses are still run like dictatorships?
https://twitter.com/existentialcoms/status/1191452432133320704
Or
what if instead of organizing every facet of society around working for and obeying the rich so they can make more profit, we just decide what to do ourselves? not sure what to call this new idea, thinking about going with “democracy”. Americans should love it they love democracy
https://twitter.com/existentialcoms/status/1191904201682538496
Bonus for doubling down on extra stupid
https://twitter.com/existentialcoms/status/1191228200963067904
Is democracy under capitalism a democracy when businesses are still run like dictatorships?
This fool is worried about businesses being run by dictatorships!?! we have 330 Million little dictatorships being run right now. Every little person deciding what they will study, where they will work, who they will have relationships with, without concern to how this affects the poor and minorities. It is truly awful.
Do you consider blood a soup or a beverage?
Pretty sure the existential comics guy thinks its a bathing material
I am not a fan of democracy. It’s a good thing the US is not one.
It’s so sad: The guy keeps condemning communism but calling the thing he’s condemning ‘capitalism’. You’d think he’d eventually figure out his mistake.
what if instead of organizing every facet of society around working for and obeying the rich so they can make more profit, we just decide what to do ourselves?
That’s already the case. Everyone works so that they can make a profit for themselves, and in the US at least they have a wide latitude on how to choose to pursue that. This guy is stupid.
Good morning!
Thanks for the lynx, Sloop. The barefoot twit was priceless. “Why won’t these assholes recognize my wokeness?”
Glad to hear the trailers are safe and no one was gored. I assume those will be converted into filthy lucre at the earliest opportunity?
Have a fantastic day!
https://fox59.com/2019/11/05/republican-dan-ridenour-wins-muncie-mayoral-race/
The libertarian candidate STEVE SMITH only got 1.72%of the vote . . . I’d stay out of the woods near Ball State today!
Ball State’s going to take on a new meaning.
How few voters are there in Munice that you guys managed to Write-in STEVE SMITH?
Wonder if that is the real Steve Smith that started a this them. *Google checks image*. Uh, nope.
They must be related though . .he “cuddles” violently
https://www.theindychannel.com/news/local-news/crime/muncie-mayor-candidate-arrested-for-domestic-battery
There was a STEVE SMITH running for reelection as sheriff in Greene county VA. Never got around to taking a pic of his posters, but didnt look too bad.
MACHINE GUN MAN NOT REAL SASQUATCH!
GOOOO EAGLES!
Fuckin DC.
How’s the puppy?
She’s a little better. Back on antibiotics and something that’s escaping me now.
Waiting for blood work for possible thyroid issues.
The other medicine was to try to get her to stop licking as much. Apparently it becomes a sort of addiction. Dopamine hits for incessant licking.
Really?!
*Begins licking wrist*
It only works for dog brains.
*returns self-licking gloves*
PJ Harvey: ‘Wearing veil in Afghanistan was a freeing experience’
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-50300011
“How it almost feels a little bit like a mask and in doing so frees you because nobody could see me or I was just looking out of a small area of my face, and it freed me to be utterly in the moment.”
Can’t you get that same ‘feeling’ here?
“And a lot of the time I was mistaken for an Afghan.
“Other Afghan women would talk to me because all they could see was my eyes – and I have got quite dark eyes. It’s just a sense of utterly being in a place and nothing else but the moment you’re in. That’s why that shot in particular means a lot to me.”
No shit Sherlock.
/face palm.
She’s one step removed from hopping on a bike to prove how safe and peaceful the region is and that’s really white Christians the problem.
I’m sure it is so “freeing” when you have no ability to hop an a plane and head back home where you are not required to wear one.
Other Afghan women would talk to me because all they could see was my eyes – and I have got quite dark eyes.
This line struck me as odd, given that the most famous photo of an Afghan clearly demonstrates they can have light eyes as well.
Come for the hijabs, stay for the gang rape and stoning.
Article idea / Fun game. Would anyone be interested in doing a “Mail” version of Diplomacy. I would be willing to write up an Article for each “Turn”, so that the glibertariat could follow along.
There are some online diplomacy engines that would be better to use. And yes.
I’d be interested. And WebDiplomacy will easily run the game. IIRC, we tried on the old site, and after a first turn, it went to a lot of NMR.
My hope is that if we can get some “active” posters playing, and an Update Post about moves for the gliberatriat to enjoy, that it might have some more staying power.
Has anyone put Dune online?
Not that I’m aware of. Probably due to licensing. The game was supposed to get a reprint this past summer from Gale Force 9.
It has been reprinted – the rules got a bit of a screwing up too…. see BGG for details.
I’d play
Seconded.
You realize the Swiss are impassable and useless in this one?
I’d be on that like stink on a 2001 Otakon attendee.
Best part of playing England: while everyone else is building armies, you ate sailing around in boats and being obnoxious with that one army in scandanavia.
Nice. Just two more volunteers (or one, and i play, or we just play a variant)
Joy Behar: Totalitarian-enabling Witch
The ladies of ABC’s “The View” conducted an autopsy of former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s presidential campaign on Monday when his plan to take guns from law-abiding citizens came up.
“They should not tell everything they’re going to do,” Ms. Behar said of the Texan’s now-famous “hell yes” attitude toward gun confiscation in America.
“If you are going to take people’s guns away, wait until you get elected and then take them away,” Ms. Behar said to laughs and clapping from the studio audience. “Don’t tell them ahead of time.”
Wow.
Classic case of ‘they won’t come for me’ or
“Me? Which wall do you want me to stand in front of? That one? Sure. What’s this ab…”
Kill a commie for mommy.
She’s a reprehensible moron with a taste for authoritarianism.
Speaking of “Gun grabbers always lie”, where’s Suthen been?
Cancelling that stupid show would probably do wonders for American politics.
I riffle through dead people’s porn collections after calls from shocked relatives
David Notaro clears the houses of adult content collectors after they have died
Uncommon collections are a problem. I recall a long thread on BoardGameGeek about how to make sure your collection is properly taken care of as part of your estate. Especially considering some out of print games will sell for a pretty penny.
A lot of things get sold in estate sales for far less than they’re probably worth. I got my 120-bass piano accordion from some 20-something dude who was selling off the contents of an estate. It plays well and probably could have gone for $1000 or more. They guy asked $300.
My motorcycle enthusiast dad (who is getting on in years) mentioned that there’s a special carburetor in the attic that is NOT to be thrown away or scrapped as it is an old, rare part that is worth a lot of money.
I bet historical porn collectors have a tough time finding items in mint condition.
It is a sticky problem.
It really takes a stroke of genius to properly handle that one.
None of that now!
*narrows gaze*
In the first episode of “That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime” the main character dies (spoiler, I guess). His dying wish to his friend is to take a bath with his computer.
Watching with my 10 year old son and pretty oblivious wife “Why did he ask them about that?” Me: “Uhhh… he was probably a spy.”
Three Ancient Shipwrecks Still With Cargo Found Off Greek Island
https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/shipwrecks-greece-0012818
SEA SMITH NOT DO THOSE!
But did SEA SMITH do the sailors?
I have an acquaintance who worked for McCain on the Hill and was one of his pallbearers going on a rant about how McCain was right about Rand Paul being an asshole and a Russian agent because of the whistleblower situation.
A family of goobers.
Outside of politics he’s a decent guy but he’s one of those NeverTrumpers who constantly pisses and moans about the GOP allowing Trump to get the nomination in 2016.
Then maybe he should advocate for the GOP to stop being a corrupt shitstain of a party.
“Go vote for a primary opponent then.”
Is democracy under capitalism a democracy when businesses are still run like dictatorships?
I tried to think of a sufficiently stupid analogy to that question, but I failed.
RO Govt. expropriates land for new airport terminal in Bucharest
https://www.romania-insider.com/land-expropriation-new-otopeni-terminal
Article idea / Fun game. Would anyone be interested in doing a “Mail” version of Diplomacy.
How about “global thermonuclear war”?
I’m still working on getting hooked up to the OpenSource API made available by NORAD
That game is Supremacy. Too much dice rolling for a good PBM/PBEM. Besides, the mushroom cloud tokens are too nice to replace.
Nuclear War and the sequel Nuclear Escalation.
The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?
“If you are going to take people’s guns away, wait until you get elected and then take them away,” Ms. Behar said to laughs and clapping from the studio audience. “Don’t tell them ahead of time.”
If you’re going to rape and murder that girl you met on the internet, don’t tell her when you pick her up. Let it be a surprise.
You can’t get mad at her because at least she’s being honest.
Being honest about your intent to lie?
The thing is, gun confiscation is not a brand new idea, nor is it one that they’ve kept secret. High-ranking Democrats have been making statements for decades that support outright confiscation of guns.
The most infuriating thing is the capacity for doublethink on this issue. I can’t count how many people I’ve argued with who will insist that “nobody should own an assault weapon”, then (in the same breath) insist that it’s a wackjob conspiracy theory that anyone is considering taking a single gun away from anyone.
Also, see “weapons of war” even though 1) the point and premise of 2A is for citizens to be armed similar to the government and 2) the AR-15 is not and never has been used in any military on the planet. A 2nd model short-land Brown Bess is an actual weapon of war. An AR is not.
Well it is time to get worried about the 2020 election. Is Trump paying attention? Probably not because he didn’t seem to learn anything from 2018. Chester County PA went Democratic last night for the first time since the Civil War. They swept every county office with young inexperienced folks going up against incumbents who had modernized, lowered costs and ran efficient and transparent county services. A friend who is well connected in the county GOP says that Trump was the issue. “Enough independents and Republicans are turned off by his obnoxious, juvenile, and undignified behavior that they will punish good Republicans down the ticket just to stick it to Trump.” I invite Trump supporters to show one significant political entity where the pro-Trump vote has grown since he took office. We libertarians better hunker down and prepare for the Blue Wave in 2020 and hope the Dems don’t end up winning with some Godawful fascist with the backing of a House and Senate majority. And pray, too, that Ginsburg decides to resign or die before Trump is ousted.
SHUT THE FUCK UP LIBTARD!
So these people are fine with the behavior of Adam Schiff and the rest of the clown show? That tells me they aren’t really moderates or independents, and are going to vote Dem no matter what, and gerrymandering was likely the most important factor.
are going to vote Dem no matter what
There is a 24-7 stream of propaganda in all forms of media and entertainment that the GOP has to contend with. That could be a significant factor. They need to grow a pair and attempt to control the message in part by pointing to the insanity of their opponents and their opponents actions.
If a republican speaks truth to power in a pressroom, does he make a sound?
One thing that the GOP needs to do is stop giving a shit about what the media does. They’re walking on eggshells to keep the Anderson Coopers of the world from going all righteously indignant on them. Say what needs to be said, and let the media froth.
I wouldn’t put a tremendous amount of stock in an off-year election when the contest is going to come down to Warren v. Trump in 2020.
In the first place these elections don’t draw the same way that presidential elections do. As a result, it’s also easier to perform tabulation fuckery, which occurs with the regularity of the earth orbiting the sun even in presidential elections.
In the second place senile old church ladies don’t fire up the electorate in the same way that racial novelties do. We found that out in 2016.
Yeah. Trump has not done much to increase his base, and the left has done a lot to remind you that voting for Trump is the absolute worst thing. Maybe he will pull it off once they nominate Warren. There are a lot of things in play (impeachment for example) that could have effects in both directions. Trump has a lot of strategic sense in getting his opponents off balance, but right now he has to also Run on his own accomplishments, which are fairly sparse.
It’s off year and Team blue hasn’t nominated anyone yet. 2016 was a vote against who you hated and it’s probably the same now except faceless team blue lead isn’t nearly as ugly as the one that will fill the photo. Still, I call it a toss up.
I don’t know, Trump can run on a booming economy, fewer regulations, no new wars; these are not trivial things, especially given the Dem’s are running on open borders, higher taxes, and destroying the economy with endless free shit and regulations.
You are assuming that most of the media won’t twist these accomplishments into liabilities. Case in point – pulling troops out of Syria.
We don’t serve ourselves well by assuming, as the Goldwaterites did in 1964, that there is some huge hidden, poll shy, group of Trump voters who are just waiting until the 2020 election to make themselves known. I’m increasingly pessimistic about the outcome of 2020.
We don’t serve ourselves well by assuming, as the Goldwaterites did in 1964, that there is some huge hidden, poll shy, group of Trump voters who are just waiting until the 2020 election to make themselves known.
It really depends on who the alternative is, as 2016 showed there actually was a large group of Trump voters (or, at least, anti-Clinton voters) missed by the polls, enough to turn the election. You mentioned a county in Pennsylvania, a state that Trump carried for the Republicans for the first time since HW in 1988, not exactly a red state. And the county itself is a suburb of Philadelphia, so while I don’t know the specifics, it wouldn’t surprise me if it has been a “beneficiary” of Philadelphia refugees bringing their politics with them. Basically, I don’t see it as a bellwether.
Here’s the thing that worries me about that: I argue there’s this huge chunk of voters for whom the economy doesn’t actually matter, short of an actual no shit recession.
Government workers, perpetual students and academia, tech firms, big financial services companies, all this 21st century economy stuff doesn’t really suffer in a slow growth Obama type economy. An AFSCME member doesn’t give a fuck about the economy, their raises are contractually obligated. Apple’s stock price might grow slightly slower, but they will still be in business. Wall Street, as long as they get some moderate Democrat who will tow the lion, will still get theirs. Then we get into the people who are theoretically private sector, but in reality are make work quota type hires in the HR departments and corporate diversity offices. The nonprofit sector which is funded by government grants or the tax writeoffs by the wealthy. The huge array of law firms that exist because of Leviathan.
A slow growth Obama type economy hurts the margins, and a bunch of those people are Bernie bro jerkoffs who blame the Republicans for everything anyway. The Democratic Party, as a whole, is pretty damn divorced from the actual health of the private sector. As long as Wall Street keeps pushing zeros and ones around, and the tech firms keep on doing well, they’re gold.
Basically, I worry that somewhere around 40% to 45% of the voting population would rather have 3% growth with 7% unemployment under a President that gives them good feels than 5% growth and sub 4% unemployment under DER DRUMPF, because it doesn’t really affect them.
I mean hell, even if Warren wins, takes the Senate and the House, and actually does destroy the American economy, who do you think the media and the academics will blame for it?
Maybe…I’ve heard that the wall street companies are planning to line up and back anyone but Warren (or the equivalent) but I guess we’ll have to wait and see if that translates to anything else.
Let me know when the blue wall actually goes blue again.
his obnoxious, juvenile, and undignified behavior
I find it rather entertaining. And I don’t understand people, I guess. I prefer results over style.
When you can’t argue with What someone is saying, complain about How they’re saying it.
I honestly don’t get this effect. I guess it’s real but it doesn’t make sense to me. You’re voting for the person in front of you, not “Trump”. The only explanation I can come up with is “people are stupid”.
Virtue signaling.
Blame the 2018 district map redraw.
In Penna. for congress, sure. But county government lines weren’t redrawn. Blue is drowning Red in the Phila. suburbs for no apparent reason other than an R after your name is becoming a liability because of behavior in the White House and the media’s ability to spin that behavior.
“Enough independents and Republicans are turned off by his obnoxious, juvenile, and undignified behavior that they will punish good Republicans down the ticket just to stick it to Trump.”
The media controls this narrative and the media is the enemy. If you check pro-Trump sources, you’ll see many examples of Trump’s perfectly dignified and “presidential” behavior. But an average Joe won’t see it on TV. At least Trump understands that there’s no point in trying to win the media. He wants to discredit it instead, that’s why his behavior is always portrayed in the worst way.
SJWednesday: I’m Special And Don’t You Fucking Forget It
Includes lousy cartoon.
Condensed version of the comic
(NSFW)
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. Everyday Feminism is a satire site and you will NEVER convince me otherwise.
Both NBC and the NYT are taking this talking point. They can go fuck themselves. If your first reaction to woman being raped, burned alive and children being shot is “well they were icky polygamists” then i don’t see why you think you would have been a brave defender of the Jews in Hitlers Germany. NBC, NYT and the rest of the corporate media can get bent, and i hope the author’s family is not caught in a simlar situaiton, because i would have a hard time summoning any sympathy for him/her.
“If your first reaction to woman being raped, burned alive and children being shot is “well they were icky polygamists” then i don’t see why you think you would have been a brave defender of the Jews in Hitlers Germany. ”
Woah woah woah, to be fair, the ATF and the FBI didn’t rape anyone in Waco.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1076776
This is a weird article.
Those
faggotspolygamists had it coming.I guess by “weird” you mean “vile”.
That is a better take.
The nine U.S. citizens killed in a brutal ambush in Mexico belonged to a fundamentalist Mormon group that had been touched by cartel violence before.
A word intended to lessen the sympathy of peaceful people that were brutally murdered.
I don’t get why they are even taking this take? The only reason that it makes any sense is that Trump tweeted in favor of the family so they must show that the family was bad or something? What do they teach in journalisim schools these days? It’s all disgusting.
I will note that if they belong to the FLDS Church, they call themselves Fundamentalists.
Sounds a lot like an anti immigrant screed with the race and religions changed.
^^^This.
I seem to recall a certain Mexican president making remarks about the saftey of his citizens in the US after a shooting in El Paso….
Comon Virginia. We’ll see how this ends up, but I’m worried VA is on the track now to become another Maryland or New Jersey. The Dems have an insane wet-dream list of gun control bills to pass. And they will need to repay their far-left funders.
What do you all think of the long-term outlook for South Carolina or Tennessee? Not that we’re planning on going anywhere, but a move is always a possibility down the road if it starts getting too bad. Mobility is a huge perk of working remotely.
All I know is I’m going to speed up my plan for getting a CCL.
It takes an afternoon. You can take an online hunter’s Ed course in an hour and get the documentation together in minutes. The most inconvenient part is dropping it all off in person.
I’m waiting till I get home from vacation. Didnt want to risk getting pulled over in MD, etc because some jackass ran my plates and saw a CCL.
How in the fuck is that probable cause?
You know that probable cause for cops can be manufactured after the fact. The Courts have effectively argued that cops do not have to have any real cause as long as they can make shit up after the fact.
They may have stopped it after being sued a few times but MDHP would regularly pull over normal folks if they ran their plates to search for “illegal” CCL weapons.
Happened to folks I knew at Dahlgren (next to the 301 bridge into MD). Cant really dig up a story via my phone atm.
Definitely, but it’s a major ongoing issue. Maryland cops basically continuously run all VA plates near the border (I think the tool is called ALPERS). The VA DMV automatically flags any license plate for them that belongs to a VA CCL holder. The MD cops then pull the driver over for a fishing expedition. Usually a very stressful, dangerous stop for the victim since the LEOs are often scared shitless.
It got so bad that VA repubs tried to pass a law that stopped the VA DMV from sharing VA resident CCL info with out of state LEOs, specifically to end this shit in Maryland. It failed when the VA State LEOs started a sob story about how this bill would endanger their fellow brother heroes in blue that work in Maryland. Not one shit given about the VA tax cattle that actually pay their salaries and are put in extreme danger on a regular basis from the Maryland LEOs.
scared shitless
I can’t speak for right coast sensibilities, but in flyover country even LEO recognize that CCL are certified good guys with a gun. Your brother-in-law with the assault conviction and restraining orders ain’t getting one. I’m constantly pulled over and can assure you that no good-ole-cop in TX, AR, or TN has ever even blinked during our transactions even though I’m sure SkyNet hat told them I was armed (but not necessarily dangerous).
I can’t speak for right coast sensibilities
My next door neighbor reported my other neighbor to the cops because hes uncomfortable with the other neighbor having guns. That’s right coast sensibilities these days.
I can’t speak for right coast sensibilities, but in flyover country even LEO recognize that CCL are certified good guys with a gun.
That’s how it is where I live in rural VA. A neighbor called 911 to report a break in at another neighbor’s. Dispatch asked if the caller had a shotgun and to go over there until the cops got there.
Maryland is a different animal. Non-LEOs essentially don’t have guns. There are no good CCL holders from their perspective because CCL holders don’t exist unless they come from out of state. If they don’t even allow their own citizens to bear arms, they definitely aren’t go to take it well for non-residents.
Some of the cities are like in the Virginia too. One of my good friends, who ironically later became a LEO, was pulled over on the interstate for speeding and disclosed to the cop that he was carrying and had a CCL. She was so scared that she emptied the entire magazine right there onto the ground on the side of the interstate. He had to pick up the bullets one by one off the ground after she left. No exaggeration.
Another tried to arrest him because his statewide CCL was issued in VA Beach but he was pulled over in Portsmouth (different cities). A supervisor came out and let the LEO have it.
neighbor
My neighbors see me open carry from time to time: checking the mail at the street coming from the truck while maybe carrying my concealment garment instead of wearing it. Mine is a crazy, crazy Blue district, but most folks mind their own business at the street level.
When they need a ladder or a 12mm socket, they know where to come. I suspect I might be called on for other things as well should a situation arise.
reported my other neighbor
The response should have been “Not illegal to own guns. Please do not waste police time and resources.”
I’d be looking to get even with that asshole.
The cops didn’t bother the guy about the gun. Local cops know that this is a semi-rural area and that people shoot around here. Some of the newer residents bitch to the cops, but all that happens is a visit, a conversation explaining that a neighbor has complained, and a “carry on”.
Neighbor has been on my shitlist since then, and I’ve hardly spoken a word to him since he gleefully told me about his goodspeak. I have zero issue going to the cops first and sorting shit out later when it comes to him.
My wife let hers expire. I’ve been getting on her for months to renew it. She’s going next week, no excuses.
I have her original documentation, but the expired CCL *should* be all that’s needed.
Mine expires next month. I have to take another fucking class to renew it.
I’m thinking seriously about saving off a couple thousand from my year end bonus and getting an AR and the M1A I’ve been eyeing before they close up the private sale “loophole”
Were you just wanting an M1A or are you wanting a 7.62X51 rifle? If the latter I would just build a nice AR10, it will do everything better and be significantly cheaper. If the former than nevermind. I have a National Match M1A that is a very nice rifle but quite honestly would have just saved the money if I could do it again.
That said it is pretty amusing when even the West Virginia cops around my town say they won’t carry into Maryland because of the hassle. Can’t wait for VA to be the same.
I want the M1A specifically. I looked at the AR 10, but the walnut stock and the design heritage of the M1A is what makes me want it. Still deciding between the standard or the scout size.
I have the standard size. It is quite big lol but you probably don’t have any CQB in mind. I have no problem off hand shooting with it. I ran the SA mount for the optic but it was heavy and clunky and eventually upgraded to the Sadlak aluminum mount.
what muni? in Alexandria, the new Clerk of the Court is going to start jacking up the application fee if not outright revoking already issued CHPs and slow-walking or denying new applications. this is Clown World and i’m leaving.
#MeToo
Come on down. Tennessee is safe for decades: we’re relying on good Republicans to keep the right prayers in school and to end abortion.
Happy to report that my brief stint of unemployment is ending, and The new company I’m going to actually offered me more than what I was asking because they knew I had other offers on the table.
So you’re buying the next round?
Sure!
*runs toward tavern*
Kirschwasser on me!
Congrats
Excellent!
Congrats! Also, I like the new pic of your pup.
Thanks! He’s only a year old and already a very muscular 105 pounds. Fortunately he’s a big friendly doofus who loves everyone.
Congratulations!
There is no such thing as voter fraud!!!
A guy gets nabbed for trying to submit 13 fraudulent ballots. You would think a big city paper would be very interested in finding out what campaign he was working for.
It’s kind of our thing here, Holiness.
SJWednesday: You Know Who Else Spread Their Wings In Vienna?
WTF?
Yeah, a black dude in Austria? GTFO.
We have balls, Goddamnit!
Not for long shitlord!
Cell phones don’t give blow jobs.
My Iphone sucks.
“EXCLUSIVE: @KamalaHarris has a new a bill to stretch the school day from 8 am to 6 pm.
The shift intends to fix the misalignment of the traditional school day and work day, a gap experts say contributes to $55 billion in productivity losses each year.”
https://twitter.com/karavoght/status/1192073204166209537
“The School Day Is Two Hours Shorter Than the Work Day. Kamala Harris Wants to Change That.
The 2020 candidate is introducing a bill to keep kids at school longer.
The mismatch between the school day and work day presents a real burden to working Americans with families. And Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) has a new bill that seeks to correct it.
The majority of schools days end around 3 p.m., two hours before the end of 70 percent of parents’ workdays. And most schools don’t have a way to make up the difference. Fewer than half of all elementary schools—and fewer than a third of low-income schools—offer after-school care. Beyond that misalignment, schools shut down, on average, for 29 days during the school year, the majority of which are reserved for professional development, parent-teacher conferences, and myriad vacations and minor holidays the federal government doesn’t recognize. That’s a full two weeks’ worth of days more than what the average American has in holidays, vacation, and paid leave combined. And then, of course, there’s summer vacation, a two- to three-month break that leaves working parents scrambling for day-long care.
I wrote about this phenomenon for the Atlantic last year, pointing to a series of disquieting statistics that Harris also raises in her bill, which the California senator is releasing on Wednesday. The school day and calendar is a bad deal for children: In the absence of a better alternative, 3 percent of elementary-school students and 19 percent of middle-school students look after themselves from 3 to 6 p.m. on school nights.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/11/the-school-day-is-two-hours-shorter-than-the-work-day-kamala-harris-wants-to-change-that/
Gift to the NEA
Can you imagine how insufferable teachers will be with a longer work day? They already claim to have enormous amounts of work to do after going home.
Now they can do that work at work instead. Kids will still need to complete homework at home.
I knew I should’ve refreshed first.
Three minute rule is glibs version of the three second rule in restaurants. You’re fine.
Why not let school districts handle this? You know, like let parents who think this is an issue manage it at their level? why does everything have to be a Federal issue?
Scruffy is right this is a gift to the NEA and leveraging more power means more money coming in to both the NEA and Kamala “Go to jail” Harris.
3 percent of elementary-school students and 19 percent of middle-school students look after themselves from 3 to 6 p.m. on school nights.
Think you want those percentages higher not lower.
So basically an admission that school is really just “free” child care.
How the hell have we twisted the world so badly that the Hippies at Mother Jones are now advocating for kids to spend all of their ‘free’ time in the hands of the Man? If they implement this, I predict a significant jump in suicide rates. I am not even a little bit kidding. Just reading this brought back memories of that horrible sense of dread I felt most days going to school and the relief when I stepped off the bus in the afternoon.
You too, huh?
Government schools (and the private ones that are run pretty much the same) are literally a prison-like environment. You have close to zero rights, you get bullied but also get in trouble if you fight back, and the food is total shit. The fucked-up way that schools are run was the first thing that clued me in to the fact that the government is not a kind, benevolent organization that is just looking out for you.
It’s not that bad is it?
*raises hand to ask permission to use the bathroom*
Hah, that reminds me… One time in 9th grade, a troublemaking stoner kid asked to go to the bathroom, and the teacher denied it. The kid proceeded to walk over to a potted plant in the corner of the room, unzip his pants, and piss in the pot. A couple grades later, that same kid got accused by the assistant principal of being in possession of drugs. He stripped completely naked in that guy’s office (which had a big window into the hallway, and it was at the time of day when the student body is going to lunch). Kid was fucking hilarious, but he recently died of an overdose unfortunately.
It may sound silly, but I kind of wish I would have made more trouble in school. Nothing severe enough to get me sent to juvie or anything, but enough to let the teachers know that I have zero respect for this pretentious bullshit that they do all day. I mostly kept my head down and made some effort at following the program for fear of being screamed at by teachers, but I kinda feel like I took it laying down. Oh well.
Did you think of England?
Well, it confirms my life-long belief that schools are merely babysitting operations.
Not the purview of the federal government.
The federal government has no right to dictate that, most schools already have after-school activities (including study-hall) that cover this for those that need it and make it a non-issue, and if anything kids need more time out of school, not in it.
Kamala Harris (who is a cop) wants to extend the school day to 8 AM-6 PM
Keep those kids in their government indoctrination centers all day!
locusts
The first place I ever saw the annual cricket plague was Waco, maybe late August or into October? You couldn’t walk without stepping on them, and, after about three days, everything was crusted over with rotting cricket guts. The phenomenon wasn’t as strong in Fort Worth; I can’t say I saw it anywhere other than on that Chisholm axis.
I’ve seen it in Austin, and like you say, a more minor version of it in Dallas.
The mismatch between the school day and work day presents a real burden to working Americans with families. And Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) has a new bill that seeks to correct it.
Free babysitting. At least she’s being honest.
I’m not sure the teachers will go for it, unless she’s planning to fund a second shift.
She’s absolutely gonna fund the second shift.
I’ve said it before, and I will say it again: the entire purpose of the Democrat Party is buying votes. It’s not a political party, it’s a racket. Every single policy position they have requires Peters’ tax dollars to go to Paul, the loyal Democratic voter. You can’t find a single plank of their platform that doesn’t include that.
The Republican Party has their military contractor buddies, but they have plenty of positions that don’t involve spending money. It’s not like they’re calling for every gun owner to get a 5000 tax credit to support their 2nd Amendment rights.
Today, in insufferable horseshit
https://twitter.com/CANCEL_SAM/status/1191934500093202432
It’s so sad Elizabeth Banks is a leftie.
Dumb Dumb Dumb Dumb
That wasn’t even the worst Democratic party shill song of 2016.
Somebody please put that cat out of its misery.
“Comments are turned off.”
So, apropos of nothing, I’m playing along with songs of my youth (or songs that were played in my youth – I’m not that old) Piece of Mind and Living Loving Maid, among others.
Peace of Mind always seemed vaguely communist to me.
Yeah, Boston was kinda woke. Still, the bass line to that song is really fun to play.
Also, somewhat impressive – I remember a drummer who thought I was a complete choad. Then we played POM. He never had a doubt as to my ability afterward. I guess it’d be like a guitarist playing a note-for-note rendition of the solo from “Sultans of Swing” – nothing necessarily incredibly hard to play, (I think I could learn it, given time) but if you can deal with learning the phrasing, it shows competence.
I mean the locale from which they derived their name and Tom Scholz being an MIT grad, that’s to be expected. I’ve always liked their sound though. Shame about Brad Delp.
I know three other MIT alums that aren’t so that’s at least four of us 😉 But you’re definitely right that we’re overwhelmingly outnumbered.
Oh and I suppose Massie would make five. Is that a quorum yet?
In Britain, problem drinkers account for 68% of industry revenues. They drink 78% of all alcohol consumed
https://mobile.twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/1191996400671842305
Problem drinkers being all who excede the government recommende 15 units so like a beer and a half a day
1. Dubiously Define Problem.
2. Find Indsutry
3. Show Industry makes any amount of money off of step 1
4. Call for regulations.
5. Fuck off
6. Die
There is no need to eliminate their steps, we can compromise. They get their 4 steps, we get 2, and to be fair they can do their’s first.
Well, the UK never had their prohibition era (unlike the US and some Scandinavian countries), so maybe they’re feeling left out?
Politically savvy
“The View” co-host Joy Behar argued that Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., as well as other 2020 Democratic contenders, should clear the way for former Vice President Joe Biden to grab the party’s nomination.
“He has to go,” Behar said of President Trump on Tuesday. “Who is going to get him out? And the answer is, at the moment, Joe Biden. So, all the rest of these people are, you know, just really they’re just treading water as far as I’m concerned.”
When co-host Abby Huntsman asked whether Behar’s statement included Warren, Behar said it did.
Behar made the comments while discussing Biden’s prospects in 2020 and noted that black Americans supported him.
“If there’s one thing the black community knows — and believes in — it’s winning and beating Trump,” Behar said. “So, they’re looking at the prize. They’re saying, ‘Listen, this guy has to get Trump out. Somebody’s got to get him out — he’s killing people of color, he’s killing immigrants, he’s killing the environment, he’s killing the rule of law.’”
As a black person, Joy knows what every single black voter in America wants and needs.
That woman needs to seek help.
he’s killing people of color, he’s killing immigrants, he’s killing the environment, he’s killing the rule of law.
*taps foot waiting for ABC/CNN/NBC to call her out for outright lies*
FactCheck says: Mostly True.
The White Cunt’s Burden.
Democrats think they still own black people.
the Virginia elections demonstrated loud and clear that military veterans can be just as anti-2A as every other progressive.
As long as they get their carve outs they don’t care.
Virginia is a vassal of the federal government at this point. As the bureaucracy has continued to explode and spill into that state the turn to Team Blue was inevitable.
STFU, Old timer.
You know, I would probably be upset on behalf of the guy given this idiotic response. But, let’s face it, they’re the generation that raised them. They’ve been totally okay with being disrespected by the younger generation while subsidizing their lifestyles. In a sane world the 25-year-old lawmaker wouldn’t be in office because she would have been kicked out of her parents’ house for that kind of attitude and she’d be busy trying to build an actual career.
There are many parents of that generation that just went to work, paid their bills and took their kids to the beach in the summer. Yeah, they should’ve been more aware of what the public schools were teaching their kids, but I don’t blame them more than I do the schools and media which pumped poison into their kids’ heads.
but I don’t blame them more than I do the schools and media which pumped poison into their kids’ heads.
The stupid ideas? No, I don’t blame them either. The arrogance and lack of respect? Yeah, that part really is the parents’ job.
There’s a lot of blame to go around. I’m just saying to be a little easy on normal people that are trying to raise a family in this craziness. I’m trying to raise my kid and her Iphone only has three numbers she can call (Wife, Grandma and me). No internet. Limited TV. Even here where the sun rises, the silly environmental totalitarians have managed to put stuff into her head. 10 years old, dude. Luckily, every time we pass a politician’s poster, I stick up my middle finger and she joins me. “He’s a thief, too. Right, Papa?” “Yes. Yes, he is.”
I’m just saying to be a little easy on normal people that are trying to raise a family in this craziness.
Yeah, I get that. But, the fact is that the Millennials (and their younger cohorts) are getting their lifestyles subsidized by their parents on a pretty massive scale. And this kind of arrogance and contempt seems to be all too common.
Honestly, I’m starting to think the world has gotten to safe. They’ve decided that this sort of arrogance and contempt for others is to be lauded as “authenticity” or “keeping it real”. But, they do so because they get away with it. A generation or two prior, this is the sort of thing that would have gotten her a slap in the mouth (or decked, if she were a man). Civilization developed rules of decorum because the alternative was violence. Absent the violence, we see that the decorum slips away, as well.
You’re probably right in that the world has gotten too safe. Honor vs Dignity culture.
https://unpleasantfacts.com/honor-vs-dignitiy-vs-victimhood-cultures
There are many parents of that generation that just went to work, paid their bills and took their kids to the beach in the summer.
Some would say that the complete moral reprogramming that comes from a government indoctrination facility being primary caregiver is something that was foreseen, what with that being the primary goal of mandatory public education from the start.
I would be one of those that says that. Fucking Prussians.
Dude, she’s going to carry the burden of climate change, which is totally more serious than the burden of insane levels of governmental debt passed down onto the young’uns.
No shit. The joke’s on her in that the Boomers will be long gone and she’ll be left holding the bill.
Bonk bonk bonk on the head
Unfettered capitalism
Jersey City, a four-minute train ride from Manhattan, has become crucial territory for Airbnb as a popular and affordable lodging alternative to New York. It’s in close proximity to the Big Apple’s main tourist attractions, but doesn’t fall under New York City’s stringent short-term rental rules that have frustrated Airbnb and its host community for years.
Airbnb sunk $4.2 million into its campaign to win Jersey City. Its most powerful opponent in New York, the Hotel Trades Council, spent more than $1 million beefing up support for the other side.
The 45-day war divided the city’s residents and descended into accusations of lies, misinformation and harassment between Airbnb and its critics.
The new rules impose a 60-day cap on rentals where the owner is not present. They also forbid rentals in buildings with more than four residential units — including the luxury high-rises in the gentrified downtown and along Jersey City’s revived waterfront.
Airbnb declared the proposed regulations an outright ban on listings and said they were “crafted at the behest of the hotel industry’s special interests.” The city council said the “commonsense regulations” were enforced because Airbnb listings had increased ten-fold since 2015 and showed no signs of abating.
Dog eating dog. Capitalism grinding the poor under its heel.
The city council said the “commonsense regulations” were enforced because Airbnb listings had increased ten-fold since 2015 and showed no signs of abating.
In other words their is a clearly demonstrated demand for Airbnb, supply is growing to meet said demand, and therefore economy is happening without Government involvement, must stomp harder!
There not their, I swear every morning I wake up a little less intelligent.
You’re losing too much vital energy to ejaculation.
Work on your dry orgasms.
When a slaver says something is “commonsense”, grab the KY because your ass is about to get a pounding.
“The city council said the “commonsense regulations” were enforced because Airbnb listings had increased ten-fold since 2015 and showed no signs of abating.”
So?
Message from my Congresscritter:
Drive,
“…REAL ID compliant credentials display a small star in the upper right corner…”
You know who else used a star to identify people?
Sylvester McMonkey McBean?
I still chuckle when I saw the star on the approved Real ID.
These will also be used for voting, right?
Yours must be the last state in the union to comply. They phased it in here a few years ago. The documentation was the same that the DMV required for the non-RealID compliant license I had previously anyway. Since I didn’t have a passport and needed access to domestic flights I got the RealID version. Land of the free.
Back by popular demand, Ass Wednesday!
http://archive.is/Oc8H2
1, 20, 33
Also: It’s a good day for CO and for me personally.
Prop CC to redirect tax refunds into bullshit ROADZ boondoggles failed and local Prop 4A to raise taxes for MUH EDGUHKASHUN boondoggles also failed.
My pocketbook smiles.
My pocketbook
Bro…
GET OFF MY LAWN
Needs moar Califuctards for next time.
evil cyclist wins petty election .
. . . Juli Briskman on Tuesday night won her race to become supervisor for the Algonkian District in Loudoun County, Virginia. The win comes just over two years after a photo of Briskman flipping off the President’s motorcade as it made its way back to the White House from Trump’s golf course in Sterling, Virginia . . .
Our politics are the worst reality show ever.
Thanks for the kind words on my kite post everyone, I didn’t know it was posted, I was taking the Wife to Cali to the hospital. Now I’m sitting in my friends backyard, homeless, with a Kia
At least you have your Kia, as long as you have that, not all is lost.
Fact! Plus Bella, my Wardog, things went to shit again, so we try again….
When you end a joke, do you say “I kia, I kia”? Because you should
Cheer-up! A Chicom was stabbed.
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1169104.shtml
Thoughts and Prayers for the NBA
Junius Caesar, Ho!
They Killed Winnie the Pooh?
Boy, that would kick off some serious crackdowns. I shudder to think what the ChiComs would do.
Whatever they do won’t be splashed across the page of ChiCom controlled media.
Holy smokes
A hearty thank you to all of the well-wishers last night. I’m trying not to dwell on it, and coming here to interact is a welcome respite.
Missed it. Well-wish for whatever needs wishing for.
Yeah, AC, sorry to hear about your cousin.
I saw that hours after you posted. My condolences, man.
Point: Biden
Joe Biden slammed Elizabeth Warren as out of touch after she accused him of running in the “wrong presidential primary,” writing in a Medium post on Tuesday that such attacks are “condescending to the millions of Democrats who have a different view.”
“It’s representative of an elitism that working and middle class people do not share: ‘We know best; you know nothing’. ‘If you were only as smart as I am you would agree with me,” Biden wrote.
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“But if anyone wants to defend keeping those high profits for insurance companies,” Warren added, “and those high profits for drug companies, and not making the top 1% pay a fair share in taxes, and not making corporations pay a fair share in taxes, then I think they’re running in the wrong presidential primary.”
Tow the socialist lion, Joe.
“It’s representative of an elitism that working and middle class people do not share: ‘We know best; you know nothing’. ‘If you were only as smart as I am you would agree with me,” Biden wrote.
When Joe Fucking Biden is calling you an Elitist, you might be an Elitist.
Hello Plinking Glibs – I am interested in slowly turning my shitty 10/22 into a not-so-shitty 10/22. I’d like to put a marksman sling of some type on it to aid in offhand shooting. But the 10/22’s base sling uses a barrel band that ties the barrel to the front of the stock by where a sling swivel would anchor. That seems like its going to cause the barrel to deflect, which would be a problem because I put after-market iron sights on the rifle and the rear sight is on the receiver, not the barrel like stock sights.
So is it necessary to find a freefloat stock and use that, or can I just take the barrel band off and possibly float the barrel by shimming the receiver if it doesn’t float on its own?
If your interest is in getting better groups, leave the 10/22 stock and spend the money on ammo and practice time. If your interest is in having a gunsmithing project to tinker with, well, have fun.
Ideally you don’t want anything touching the barrel. Note that the receiver needs to be properly supported if you float the barrel.
No doubt. The most important upgrade happens 6 inches proximal of the charging handle, and I’m working on that.
I am wildly out of practice, but I used to passibly ok with a benched 22 when I was in scouts. I’d like to get back to that + more experience with other positions.
Since the rifle is so short, the sling’s deflection should be almost purely vertical as it routes around and under your front hand first. You can work around that because, no matter what you do, you’re going to work on matching ammo to the range and rigors of your typical shooting load anyway.
I approve of slings, even on casual plinkers: it’s a good tool and habit to be in.
If you think the sling’s pulling you off, you can change your mind and do whatever later. In my day, though, bedding that barrel would have cost almost as much as upgrading to a tack-driver. If you need to drive tacks, pick up the Ruger 77 and then keep the 10/22 as a truck gun.
That makes sense. I haven’t actually shot with a sling yet, but I’m trying to figure out if its worth buying and installing the swivels on the factory stock.
I’ve seen people use an adjustable 2 point sling and tighten it up when its time to shoot, but that very clearly applies a lateral force as well as a vertical force. I can see how that would be fine with a free-float handguard on an AR, but seems problematic on 10/22.
I may still replace the stock with something with a greater length of pull, we’ll see how it feels wit the new sights on it this Friday. But if this stock puts my cheek in the right spot for these sights and my ridiculously long ape arms can hold it securely, Its nice to know I won’t need to.
I don’t own a truck, sadly.
Keep it in Tundra’s truck!
I second this.
Boyd’s makes some nice replacement stocks.
“As for why people keep moving out of the Golden State, there’s no real surprise there: The high cost of housing was the number one reason cited.“
Total mystery as to why it costs so much to build here. I live in an 1100 sq foot house with my wife and three growing boys. Last year I had an architect draw up plans for a vertical and horizontal addition. Due to the age of my house it would be vastly cheaper and easier to completely knock it and build something completely new that could be made to look like it (even though there is nothing special about it architecturally). I am not allowed to do so by the city. I have to keep at least 50% of the original structure. Next comes the permit fees and school fees that will total close to 30k. That is not a typo, it really costs about 30k just in government permission to do an addition. Then of course comes the reassessment, which doesn’t begin when you finish, but begins the day you start your project. Total fucking mystery as to why housing costs so much here.
There was big to-do over Apple putting $2.5B towards affordable housing in CA.
My immediate thought was it would be far more effective to put that $2.5B to work funding hit jobs on planning zone commissioners.
It’s unfixable. The rot goes far too deep. While I blame them for not learning their lesson and continuing to hold to bullshit “progressive” values, I can hardly fault the refugees for leaving. It’s the only viable solution.
Yeah, but we need to tighten down on the amount of interstate immigration there is coming from these failed states. I mean i know Constititon and what not, but the constitution is not a suicide pact…
the constitution is not a suicide pact
All contracts do is define where the arguments and lawsuits begin.
To be an American is to be trapped inside the walls with 300 million idiots. My people were told we couldn’t opt out; YMMV, good luck.
You might survive either way. I recommend Camus: The Plague is available en anglais if you prefer.
My people were told we couldn’t opt out; YMMV, good luck.
Mine too.
Yup, the rot goes too deep now, it is beyond fixing at this point.
It’s far far beyond planning board commissioners. You could cap everyone of them and it would still cost a fortune to build in fees and requirements. Then there’s the inflated cost of construction itself, also boosted by government action.
“Democrats took full control of the Virginia legislature for the first time in more than two decades”
Woe unto VA gun owners.
At least the legal ones, amirite?
Or maybe it’s just childish petulance
“OK Boomer” is an efficient way for members of younger generations to dismiss the attitudes of baby boomers, people born between 1946 and 1964. For those who use it, “OK Boomer” represents a rejection of the attitudes of an older generation they see as having made life harder for their children and grandchildren through a combination of selfishness and complacency.
Whether these criticisms are warranted is the source of intense intergenerational debate. A popular view among their detractors is that baby boomers came into adulthood at a time of relative prosperity and opportunity when college was cheap, housing was affordable and the country had a robust social safety net.
Boomers capitalized on these advantages, critics say, without maintaining them for future generations. As a result, younger people have been burdened with low wages, prohibitively expensive education, underfunded government programs, growing inequality and a rapidly deteriorating climate.
“underfunded government programs”
All I need to know.
““OK Boomer” represents a rejection of the attitudes of an older generation they see as having made life harder for their children and grandchildren through a combination of selfishness and complacency. ”
Not untrue, but let’s solve that problem by looting more money from productive citizens to pour into government black holes. That’ll show ’em!
The generation that wants all their insanely stupid economic decisions covered by government is calling someone others selfish.
low wages, prohibitively expensive education, underfunded government programs, growing inequality and a rapidly deteriorating climate
Gee, how many of those are caused by relentlessly expanding government? That’s one thing that can be laid at the feet of boomers and well, pretty much every generation. Except X, because we’re driftless slackers and always will be.
I was going to argue about this, but couldn’t come up with a good argument.
As a result, younger people have been burdened with low wages, prohibitively expensive education, underfunded government programs, growing inequality and a rapidly deteriorating climate.
And the actual data out there says that younger people don’t have it all that much worse than previous generations of people at the same age. On top of it, the current generations have seen a skyrocketing of parental subsidy. They’re entitled. They think they’re supposed to have the same lifestyle their parents built a lifetime establishing. And they don’t think they have to show even a modicum of deference or respect to the people they expect to give it to them. No wonder socialism is so popular with them.
They’re special. They know they’re special because they’ve been told that over and over from day one.
OK Boomer
I’m not, but OK.
*resumes slacking*
I just picked a comment…
I love how the richest and most privileged generation in history is blaming boomers for their non-existent problems. They should try jumping out of a plane over France.
I am a boomer. My kids are doing well. They would never say shit like “OK Boomer” to someone and dismiss the opinions out of hand.
Not all boomers are assholes, but I meet a lot of young people whose parents should be beaten with a club for raising such useless cunts.
That is probably true of every generation. Which is why collectivizing the attributes of different generations is so stupid.
When I graduated college as a Gen Xer, everyone was all pissed off that there weren’t enough jobs, opportunity, whatever. I distinctly remember. And this was even right into the Clinton boom (which has only been eclipsed by the current Trump boom).
It’s a phase.
That is probably true of every generation.
Maybe. But, it does seem a more prevalent trait among Millennials (and younger). As I suggest above, I think it has a bit to do with parenting. But, I think a major factor has been the extent to which our society has become “safe”. Acting like a snotty, entitled, douche is now celebrated as “authenticity” or “keeping it real”. In previous generations, there were potential downside consequences to acting like that. But, we’ve (rightly) banned people from imposing such consequences. But, I’m not sure that leaves any incentive to not acting like a snotty, entitled, douche.
Heinlein said “An armed society is a polite society.”. I’m not sure I want people shooting each other over lapses in manners. But, I’m not sure that the elimination of the fear of it is entirely a good thing.
My kids are Gen X (my wife and I started young).
I think it’s creep. Universal government retirement/healthcare for boomers leads to UBI. Universal primary education for boomers leads to universal post primary education. NFA/Brady etc leads to universal gun bans. When previous generations ceded the moral high ground today was inevitable.
well put
We are such a remove that the virtues of guns are unthinkable. The 10,000 murders in the US last year are clear; the millions of murders in autocratic societies are distant, irrelevant trivia.
Well, unless you’re a disingenuous Leftie spewing nonsensical, ahistorical comparisons to Trump and Hitler.
@Akira
They’re drawing more assessing the slow erosion of understanding of the majority. I certainly was.
The disingenuous may be discounted out of hand because they’re disingenuous.
OK Boomer
40k Califuctards doesn’t seem like a lot on the surface but that’s 1% of the population here. And it’s been going on forever.
A recent study estimated 20% of the residents were born in CA. That doesn’t include the number of former California residents born elsewhere which would undoubtedly make it higher. Full disclosure: that last category includes my own parents.
Did the “boomers” fuck things up royally? Yes.
Yes, they did.
Will those fuckups be in any way alleviated by imposing a fascistic framework on the economy? Nope.
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Sick burn.
The 90’s called and they want their joke back. The 1890’s.
https://youtu.be/0_HGqPGp9iY
So all these tourists I see that look exactly like that are from Portland?
Or from オドナロトゥープ
https://youtu.be/WRBQ-b8QJ-0
https://www.odnarotoop.com/sp/
Well son of a bitch!
“That’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-york-lawmakers-are-considering-a-ban-on-tackle-football-for-kids-under-12/ar-AAJDqDX
BAN IT!
They really are trying to ban everything.
To be fair, it’s probably more dangerous than lawn darts.
Hockey’s next.
Chick hockey is already no-checking, but they get more concussions than the guys. High speed sports are just gonna be that way.
Really? Why does Chick Hockey produce more concussions than men’s?
Physiology
Huh. Thanks
Men have larger and more muscular necks so they can brace their head better, less snapping of the neck and shaking of the brain.
Yeah, that’s just plain wrong and ignorant of basic physics: “snapping” is a complete dodge and mis-characterization of the dynamics in play. The risk is the brain’s acceleration: shear against connective processes and compression against the skull. Any external material that delays or elongates the dynamics so that the brain experiences less/later/longer of whatever the body experiences is better. The problem I had in that business (measuring shock on helmets) is that there’s no good way to understand for sure the difference between what happens to the skull and what happens to the brain; my professional advice is to avoid that industry and its liabilities entirely.
Your brain is the driver in the car. Old, big, rigid cars just smash up the driver in a wreck: he dies crushed against the structure of the car itself. The new car is soft and wrinkles up slowly around the driver; the air-bag slowly absorbs energy; the driver survives.
The male’s strong bracing is exactly the way you would design a system to make sure that the impact and shear delivered to internal devices were maximized.
My guess is that there are structural differences in the brain itself that evolved through natural selection due to men being much more likely to engage in violence.
no doubt
The article is making the opposite case: there is something about women being softer that allows the brain to be whipped around. That argument is stupid; the other details in the article might be flawless.
People who know physics avail themselves of the direct vocabulary; when I read the pop terms instead, I know that soon in the text some appeal to some imagined notion (eg: hot water freezes faster than cold water) is probably coming. You don’t need a degree in free-body diagrams and a career’s worth of spring and dashpot to recognize such departures, but it helps.
He’s a doctor. He’s only had like 16 years of post-secondary education. You can’t expect him to know elementary physics!
OK Boomer
I don’t think muscular bracing provides rigidity. As you said
Any external material that delays or elongates the dynamics so that the brain experiences less/later/longer of whatever the body experiences is better.
Muscles aren’t steel beams they are more akin to elastic bands, which would seem ideal to delay or elongate the dynamic in the same way that crumple zones do.
It doesn’t matter that they’re not steel in the least or even the material values; further, the article doesn’t rely upon such explanations.
The article asserts that the stronger male structure somehow ameliorates trauma. If we stipulate that the male processes are stronger (higher tensile strength, higher spring rate), we necessarily agree that more of any given external force is translated more quickly, directly, and with less mitigation than otherwise to the brain; that would be more damaging. To argue otherwise would be to say that helmets cause more damage: it’s the same argument.
I’m not making any point about the sexes or style of play play; I’m merely pointing out the lone statement in the article that is ceteris paribus fundamentally wrong.
I think it’s a combo of physiology and approach. If you watch chick hockey, they put themselves in dangerous situations all the time. If you’ve been taught to hit and be hit, you are a safer player.
I’ve been watching my kids learn how to take a hit and how to fall in martial arts class. It seems like a good skill for them to have.
Tackle football is played in middle school? When I was there, and it wasn’t that recent, middle school was flag football. High school was tackle.
Sure. I think my son went from flag to tackle around 3rd or 4th grade. Kids who don’t learn how to tackle and take a tackle early on get hurt far more often.
I started playing tackle football in 3rd grade.
I played tackle football in 7th and 8th grade and was well behind the curve starting that late.
That and my coach couldn’t see the benefit of putting the tallest, skinniest lineman in a fullback or tight end position.
Kids around here (SC) start playing tackle football pretty early.
I was 5 when I joined pee wee league. Which was tackle. That was the 60’s though.
‘We Are Not The Enemy Of The People,’ Say Press Who Intentionally Deceive The People To Protect The Political Elite
“We are not the enemy of the people,” said a spokesperson for ABC News, waving his hands in the air as though trying to perform some kind of Jedi mind trick. “Yes, I know it may seem that way when we cover up damaging information to protect the rich and powerful, but trust us when we say we know better than you.”
“We are your friends,” he added in a hypnotic voice while swinging a stopwatch back and forth. “Say it with me: we are your friends. Yes, yes, gooooood.”
CNN’s Brian Stelter agreed, saying that though he calls out the president for lying all the time, it’s different when the press does it. “Our lying is democratic lying,” Stelter said. “It’s for your own good.”
Damn. The Babylon Bee does not fuck around.
Not even satire, more accurate reporting than ABC.
“waving his hands in the air as though trying to perform some kind of Jedi mind trick”
LOL
I suppose it stands to reason if you expect to outsource your generosity to corrupt bureaucrats that you wouldn’t be particularly satisfied with your life.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/11/04/research-finds-conservatives-are-more-happy-generous-and-purposeful-than-liberals/
Though these kinds of population studies are usually bullshit.
If I had to venture a guess I’d say it’s probably down more to traditional family structures and religious engagement.
I still consider myself Christian but it’s a more or less empty exercise of Pascalian gambling at this point, and I can tell you I was happier – at the expense of some ignorance – in my youth when I was more pious. That’s been borne out by many studies on the subject.
They tend to abdicate their free will to “heartless billionaires” and other bullshit. My shitty life is always someone else’s fault.
Heartless billionaires are told they didn’t build that by these people. except for the misery it looks like…
Gross.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/even-on-my-worst-days-im-killing-it-prominent-abortionists-plaque-reads/
All the churches near me were giving away free tickets to Abbey Johnson’s movie about her time working at Planned Parenthood. I didn’t see it, but I heard it was well done. The critics score is very negative, while viewer scores are very positive, so it must be a good movie.
I can’t see how this plays well even among nominally pro-choice people.
Most pro-choice people I talk to are still in the “safe, legal and rare” camp, not the “let’s gleefully dance on babies’ corpses” camp.
The shit that came out with those undercover videos was positively fucking ghoulish even if you contend that they were selectively edited (they weren’t). And I understand that in the medical profession a certain kind of detachment has to take place, and there’s going to be insider lingo and attitudes that seem callous to the outsider. But this was something quite worse.
Leftist Base / Voting Base disconnect.
Maybe i’ll take some time to think about it more, but in my view the Democrats are banking very hard on Trump being universally despised. That is why they feel comfortable running to the left so hard. While there may have been some leftward shifts, it is my opinion that the vast majority of people have not changed, its just that the deranged leftists have gotten way more attention, and power in the Democratic Party. So you do have lots of vocal people who are on the “An Abortion is beautiful” camp becoming the face of the DNC. It might work for that faction of the Dems, but it is banking on them being able to paint Trump as awful.
They have a lot of power, and there is no limit to the stupidity of the average human, so it might just work. I hope that there is some level of sanity that turns off the regular person from the extremist left.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/nancy-pelosis-party-billionaires-and-drag-queens/
Not about abortion in particular, but the dynamic plays out.
TW: Pat Buchanan founded this rag.
That’s a phenomenal rag. The only non-interventionist publication in print, except for maybe the Nation
I really honestly can’t believe that as much as the guy’s been in the limelight for the last ~50 years old Pat honestly thought literal Nazi apologetics was a good look. If for no other reason than PR, for the love of fuck man, release it under a pseudonym or something.
Its a daily read for me, but I’m a little uneasy about the founder’s potential antisemitism. If it was called “Rod Dreher n’Pals” I’d feel better about it.
Dreher is a little too religious-y for me a lot of times. I do appreciate the stuff he’s written on the church sex abuse scandals, though. Disturbing shit.
Also, Buchanan is called an antisemite because of his book about how World War II could have been prevented. Anyone who has read the book knows its not apologetics for the Nazis. And current Democratic members of congress have said things that are far more antisemitic than anything Buchanan ever said. His immigration policies has always been his biggest defect, in my opinion. Then again, I don’t usually get upset with Sheldon Richman’s stuff about Israel, so I may have a different tolerance than some here.
He literally argues that Hitler had no ambitions on continental conquest and the responsibility for the war rests solely on Britain’s reversal and war guarantee to Poland. It’s hard to rebut a counterfactual, but that’s a contention that’s not very well supported by all of the historical facts from the period.
Bruh, Patty B has been dealing with allegations of antisemitism for decades before that book came out.
I don’t know if he’s an anti-semite or not, but there’s a lot of smoke there.
And for the record, I’m also uneasy about the antisemitism of my esteemed representative in congress as well.
“Dreher is a little too religious-y for me a lot of times. I do appreciate the stuff he’s written on the church sex abuse scandals, though. Disturbing shit.”
Dreher is good *because* he is so “religious-y”. Not everyone of faith needs to think and talk like him, but the way he writes, it comes across as a core part of his identity.
There are a *lot* of things he says that I disagree with, but its refreshing to see someone who clearly takes the implications of his religion to heart.
I-O.
This is big since Tucson is pretty damn blue, at least by AZ standards.
https://apnews.com/da330b2c09114f839c449787a7b8c8ca
Not a great picture.
So Japan can replace 120 cars and 10 engines for their bullet trains in roughly one year’s time. (Enjoy paying for that straff!)
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/06/national/typhoon-flooded-shinkansen-trains-scrapped/
Meanwhile the dysfunction know as NJTransit that makes my commute miserable thinks it can maybe manage to get the first of 113 cars for a commuter railroad in three years.
https://www.nj.com/traffic/2018/12/nj-transit-is-buying-new-trains-the-bad-news-it-could-be-several-years-before-commuters-get-to-ride-them.html
For those in VA look to NJ to what to expect. Plan to get out.
And they aim to have 100% by the end of the business year, which would be March 31 of next year. Pretty impressive because the Shinkansen sets running on the Hokuriku use two different voltages over four separate sections. They can’t just borrow sets from elsewhere.
I can only dream of Japanese rail quality. Right now I do get experience Japanese passenger overcrowding however.
Interesting trivia about the voltage differences. NJTransit has to contend with some lines that don’t have overhead lines over the whole route.
Slight correction, it’s the frequency that’s slight different, because of the different grids. The Tokaido Shinkansen would have had the same issue except they constructed it with frequency converters to run Kansai frequency on the catenary through to Tokyo Station.
Ahh, that I knew. Japanese appliances have to run on both 50Hz and 60Hz.
Who’s the fools delivering 50Hz power?
Japan’s incompatible power grids
Blame the Germans
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Japan#Transmission
The housing development I live in under massive construction of new builds appears to be over 50% CA transplants, based on the license plates just as they move in, before they get TX plates.
In an entirely unrelated incident, Hays County (where I live) flipped Blue in the last election. In other unrelated incidents, two of those CA license plates were on Teslas. The residents driving jacked up 3/4 ton pickups I’m gonna assume are likely Republicans.