Good morning my maniacal miscreants! And what a glorious morning it is for most school children throughout US getting days off due to the polar vortex.
Actor in TV show I have never heard of tells fantastical story about getting recognized by two bigoted Trump supporters in the middle of the dead of night in the middle of downtown Chicago in the middle of a polar vortex where everyone would be dressed like Eskimos and had liquid dumped on him, a noose wrapped around his neck, and yelled “this is MAGA country”. Not only does is read like a terrible Law and Order script, combined with the the location and time, it seems beyond impossible. Hell, I would still struggle to believe it if it had occurred in June in the middle of nowhere in Alabama.
Is anyone really surprised by this?
After being arrested for a false positive drug test, a man’s case leads to the dismissal of 11 more cases.
Hard to feel sympathy for the leader of a domestic terrorist organization.
Journalists angry that they’re held accountable.
SFGATE journalists confused as to why so many shops, including newer ones, in San Francisco are closing. Socialistic batshit crazy levels of regulation, taxation, and increases in crime tend to make good people and good businesses disappear. I’m sure shit like this doesn’t help either.
Proposed Virginia abortion bill would allow abortion right up until birth including going into labor.
That’s all I got for today, In honor of all the new far leftist abortion laws, I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
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Or, as we used to call it, winter.
The snow is the least of my problems today.
Keep the family jewels warm and you will survive homey.
It isn’t even cold here. I mean, it’s 13 degrees out. Wind chill above zero.
You mean people are not just freezing in seconds when they venture outside? Damn, and here I bought the hysteria.
It was a pretty empty and calm drive into the office today. Temperatures at about 0, but clear roads and less traffic (a bunch of government buildings/schools announced they were going to be closed today due to cold).
When I got up this morning in Canyon Country, CA, I checked the weather for my hometown of Aurora, IL. It was -24. Windchill brought it down to -52. That’s pretty frigging cold (apparently colder than Alaska and the Antarctic)!
Agreed on the picture Banjos
West Central WI glib report…
-30 (actual temp) on the way to work. 50% attendance here. Extremely limited Semi truck traffic on the interstate.
Helped a guy push his Dodge 1500 off the road on my way out of town.
I blame CO2 emissions, somehow.
I was born and raised in west central sconnie. Much has changed. Area I grew up is now a twin cities suburb.
Same here (could see Minnesota from my bedroom.) It’s just a little too far northeast of the twin cities to turn into a suburb though. (Unless of course…commuter rail!) I see my old town had -31 this morning. Here in northeastern Illinois, a balmy -22.
>>Polar Vortex
big meeting today at work about Sequencing and Paint lines – and I’m working from home since EF is off at court today and the schools are closed. And no one sent me a phone # or a session to log in to. ::shrugs::
Then that meeting ain’t that big if they can’t even properly plan?
Summary: Paint inside the lines?
yelled “this is MAGA country”
I am pretty sure that no one would identify Chicago as “MAGA country”, especially if they were actual died-in-the-wool MAGA Trump supporters. So I am gonna say false flag until proven otherwise.
As many said before: wait two or so days, and we will find out that what was reported was not even close to what really happened, and the dnc operatives with bylines decided to just report what helped their agenda. But the problem is with those that believe fake news is not just a real thing, but a serious problem.
The Aspie-Sleuths are already poking holes in the story – pointing out there are no Subway’s near the hotel, etc. I assume 36-72 hours before it has turned into … “my client has entered rehab” type excuse.
*conversation started*
And I am sure all the fuckheads that had been running with the original false stories will put first page retractions as they report the truth and the lying shits that tried again to peddle fake news, right Swiss?
Apparently they’ll be too busy checking on their Twitter feeds to get that done. But in the good old pre-Twitter days they would have been right on that, you can believe it, yessir…
The police actually put out a statement that said the video evidence that they have been able to obtain so far does not show any incident, potential suspects or vehicles. They are actively seeking additional video sources.
HuffPo had an additional bombshell….. the FBI is now on the case. If that is true, then that’s a big deal for our victim. He’s boxed in and the FBI might not just walk away if they can prove that he made false statements.
The way the story sounds – the police said he never made most of those claims during his initial report, just racial and homophobic slurs – I’m going to guess that he embellished his story as he told it to his family and friends, who then embellished it a little further… and then when the cops called back to get a handle on this new story he felt compelled to back it up.
Now when the FBI walks in the room to interview him he’s going to have to make a decision (assuming that my made-up scenario contains a grain of truth). It will be hard to retract the add-ons, but if he does he probably escapes consequences. But if he makes false statements to the FBI and they can prove it…. ouch.
The same FBI that interviewed Hillary? Mmmmm.
He’ll have his interview in a plane parked on the tarmac @ Midway airport ?
Well since he probably voted for her the FBI will not charge him since “his mistakes in telling a lie were not intentional.”
When they do their mindreading act, do the FBI agents wear that Karnak the Magnificent hat that Johnny Carson used to wear?
“Kept in a mayonnaise jar on Funk & Wagnall’s porch since yesterday…”
Whoever figures out how to control 4Chan will take over the world in about a week and a half.
Not your personal army.
If he stayed at either Hyatt Centric or the DoubleTree in River North, there is a 24-hour Subway next to Northwestern Memorial Hospital. So those elements are possible.
The rest is pure bunk.
I called bs on this one yesterday when he said they were white guys wearing masks – so how did he know they were white guys? Now the rope? And he transported himself to the hospital, so conveniently nobody witnessed anything.
What? You dont think white guys sit around in sub-zero temps with masks on keeping a rope and a bottle of bleach handy just in case….? C’mon. They do it all of the time.
>Chicago
>White
>2 am
Bullshit
The rest of the details are irrelevant.
Meh, that story is pure horseshit. Bank on it.
>>Journalists angry
more like propaganda.
Ever notice how all of the “hot takes” errors are always in one direction? That kind of indicates they’re not really just honest mistakes, since you would expect mistakes to go in both directions.
Anyone in that joke of a profession peddling this mistake thing is just peddling more fake news. These people are not referred to as dnc operatives with bylines just for fun. The cunts that do this shit do it on purpose. They are the people that went into journalism thinking they would change the world. The change is always pro-marxism. The party peddling that is the emocratic party. Hence this agenda to kill stories that hurt democrats and make fake stories to hurt their enemies. Fuck them. They deserve the scorn they are getting and much worse. I would tell them to go learn to code, but I am certain they are too stupid to do anything more complex than peddling marxist bullshit.
They could always work retail at Kohl’s or something. But I’d wager that they find that to be below them.
Especially since I suspect that they would be terrible at it even if they tried hard to not be. These sorts of people tend to be beyond inept/useless. That’s why they are drawn to these sort of jobs where no real positive action ever happens and nothing good comes from it, but they are drawn to it because think they can make a difference. Meaning usher in marxist utopia.
A certain half of the tweeters is more prone to delusion, and more comfortable with naked mendacity.
I love how it’s always the tool/medium for these lefties. No personal responsibility.
“Tweets were sent. False events were reported. Nothing else happened.”
I don’t read the news for “hot takes”. I read it for…you know…the news. Here’s hoping at least a few of these dipshits finally attain self awareness and come to the understanding that they’re not nearly as important as they think they are.
I’m pretty sure their self-image is based on an inflated view of their importance. The reality reaching the forebrain would result in suicides.
I sincerely hope that this is not what is keeping our fellow Glibs from Minnessoda from commenting this AM…
That’s my biggest fear – but I would end up at my parent’s house who have a natural gas-powered backup generator. And I would shut off the water supply at my digs.
There’s worse then no electricity:
A gas main leak that is allowing water to enter the system caused gas to be shut off for 195 Dominion Energy-provided homes in Rocky River on Tuesday, leaving them without heat as bitterly cold temperatures approach.
That’s a west side Cleveland suburb, the gas company is offering hotel rooms for those effected (and a $25 gift card).
What if I get robbed and they steal my coat on the way to the hotel?
Then you get your gift certificate:
Rocky River is also one of the wealthier suburbs, but it’s also where the postal workers were “terrorized” by wild turkeys, and refused to deliver mail for a couple of days.
DOH.. The certificate was in my coat pocket!
/fail
Who knows what sinister toils they get up to.
things that like are why Tres has 2 kerosene heaters in the garage, and 20 gallons of “coal-oil”
That $25 will go a long way towards fixing your burst water pipes.
It’s a -35 right now (not wind chill). My computer is running slow because I’m on DISH and we all know that slows things down.
OTOH, I’m sitting inside, wood stoves a-hummin’. I have to go out soon and feed the birds and critters, they need groceries too.
It’s interesting that I do not have the coldest temps here. Only -31 here. Lots of people with frozen pipes, but that happens fairly often in town. I’m in same boat as you. Pipes well underground. Wood stove cranking. Kids (and wife) at a local motel for my son’s birthday party where they, and many others in town, can have a nice swim in the pool since no school yesterday or today. I’m guessing they’ll cancel school tomorrow too, since it’s supposed to be just as cold.
Forecast tomorrow is for colder but not too much. Let the family enjoy another day at the motel, hopefully the restaurant will be running and they won’t even have to go outside to get there.
I had a problem with the water pipe where it came in the basement, cut out a little hole, now if it ever freezes 10-15 minutes with a hair dryer and we’re back in business. No problem this year, lots of snow.
They would stay but at $133 bucks one night is enough. Apparently a number of local restaurants closed last night, I think due to frozen pipes, so the hotel restaurant was packed.
Since schools are closed many people want to get their kids out of the house and make play dates (ugh). I prefer staying inside since driving vehicles in this weather probably adds more wear in a day than they’d get in a month normally.
I am surprised more people there do not have kerosene heaters, given the area is prone to cold snaps like this.
Kerosene heaters inside? Cue hand wringing over unsafe heaters.
Nope. Work is responsible (it’s the truth, Rufus!)
-29. We never lost power, but we have a NG fireplace that will still work. Still though, this sucks.
We got to -38 in NE NoDak. A few places in the area lost power last night…I think a few are still waiting to have it restored. Thankfully we haven’t had that problem at my place. But it’s suppose to get down to -32 tonight, so we’ll see hat happens. We are shooting for a balmy -20 for a high today!
“SFGATE journalists confused as to why so many shops, including newer ones, in San Francisco are closing. Socialistic batshit crazy levels of regulation, taxation, and increases in crime tend to make good people and good businesses disappear. I’m sure shit like this doesn’t help either.”
I know it was in D.C. but straw police too.
Think of it. There’s a STRAW BAN POLICEMAN in D.C. Getting paid. To be a straw man police. Get it? See what I did there? Bah.
DON’T ANY OF YOU WORK!?
Yes, from home…today and tomorrow.
NYC has always had socialistic batshit crazy levels of regulation and taxation, but the empty storefronts everywhere is a newer phenomenon. So what’s changed? The article hints at landlords holding out for higher rents. I think there’s a bit victim-of-their-own-success going on here in addition to the usual regs and tax impact.
I can only speak to office buildings rather than storefronts, but as commercial property it is sometimes easier to get things done without a tenant than with one. For example, the property might fetch more buyers the fewer existing contracts there are to deal with, otherwise you have to buy out existing contracts and the cost for that might be higher than the cost of leaving space unrented. I’d bet Starbucks wants to sign a 5-year lease agreement and the landlord doesn’t want a contract that long either because he has to put off redeveloping the property for 5 years instead of the two he was aiming for, or the market rents have been skyrocketing and a 5-year contract is too much of a limitation on rent increases such that a two-year vacancy isn’t the drawback the average knee-jerk reaction makes it out to be.
California prosecutors accused the companies of selling certain products in “oversized containers” that “mislead”
Doesn’t it say on the package how many ounces or grams of chocolate there are? I don’t get this story.
It’s commifornia. They not only believe the general populace too stupid to manage their own lives, they require a general populace too stupid to mnage their own lives.
The product probably causes cancer there to.
It’s also not a sealed, hard container. It’s not typically a big mystery that the bag isn’t full to the brim, assuming even a casual inspection.
I wonder if they complain when they get something in one of those gift bags too.
The public schools system in CA has produced some of the dumbest asshats on the planet. Firm believers in academic marxism and the fact that the problem is always someone else. Who the fuck amongst these low information douches do you think would actually be able to read labels or even care to read them. They saw a big box and expected it to be packed. When it was not they screamed in pain announcing their victimhood and demanded blood.
These are the same people who bitch that chip bags are half air, not understanding that the air is there as a cushion and to prevent you from getting a full bag of chip dust.
Packaging Science isn’t taught in the public indoctrination centers.
Don’t get me going on padded bras.
In this weather, I don’t begrudge them the ones with the microwaveable gel inserts.
It was really odd how quickly doing that flipped from being something the girls ruthlessly mocked each other for doing to being socially acceptable and all but the most well endowed doing. Seems like that window was less than 6 months.
And it’s filled with nitrogen to prevent spoilage.
So don’t open the bag too quickly, or your chips will get the bends.
it’s only about 1000 hPa, so no worries.
The pressure has spoiled the joke.
We should Bar him from commenting.
OK: I so bar him.
Just like any other libertarian shitlord. You are demanding that an individual consumer actually read a package, make a decision and live with the results of their decision. You sir, are an uncaring monster who probably feeds your monocle mining orphans with their annual Christmas gruel sweetened with saccharine.
Saccharine?! Do you know how much that costs??? I just throw in some used up honeycombs from my attack bees’ hives (the honey goes to making mead for the Libertarian Feasting Hall).
Also, isn’t CA the state with all the labeling requirements? Are they not admitting those are ineffective?
The answer is MOAR lLABLEZ!
“Warning: This warning label contains a warning label about a warning label known to the state of california to cause cancer.”
Yep. Apparently it’s not enough to follow the law.
The gov’t already mandates labeling. At the very least the net weight is on the package. Read it.
TBF the article claims the weight wasn’t accurate. Not that it should matter. We have two hands for comparing that sort of thing.
It does? There’s a bit about “Ghirardelli overstated the amount of cocoa one chocolate contained” but most of the article is about “the bag is too big”.
I stand corrected. My mind did a mashup of that and one of the comments. I blame lack of coffee…
“It does? There’s a bit about “Ghirardelli overstated the amount of cocoa one chocolate contained” but most of the article is about “the bag is too big”.”
Thank God Hershey’s isn’t in California or they’d be out of business.
What dont you get? The took nearly a million bucks from a candy company because they could. The reason doesnt matter, any excuse will do.
Handlrey believes one contributing factor might be a reduction in Bay Area residents living outside San Francisco who used to come into the city for a show, to eat at a restaurant and to shop. The city’s issue with people living on the streets and traffic have contributed to this decline, he says.
“Now it’s a hassle to get into the center of the city with the changes in streets, the reductions in lanes,” he says. “And the people who get off at the Powell Street BART station…and the homeless issue.”
Supervisor Aaron Peskin says commercial vacancies are a problem everywhere as people turn toward delivery services and online shopping for everything from coffee to groceries to a new pair of shoes.
“We are all experiencing nationally and internationally the impacts of the society of convenience,” Peskin says. “People with means have stuff delivered to their doors. And that’s a new economy. That economy has put people to work and it has also displaced other people from work. It has led to a number of ground-floor retail vacancies in this city and other cities.”
He adds that landlords need to shift their rents in accordance with the changing economy. “I think rents are stabilizing and landlords need to realize that,” says Peskin.
To address this issue of landlords keeping their properties vacant until they can extract higher rents from potential tenants, Peskin has introduced legislation to tax landlords with commercial properties in Neighborhood Commercial Districts — areas where stores and services are clustered — that are vacant for more than six months.
If the city can’t fix this problem, nothing can.
Nothing helps spur failing businesses to success like increased taxation…..
Tax unrented/unleased property? Brilliant.
Don’t property owners pay taxes regardless of if the property is in use? Cause I don’t think I have ever heard people saying they are not paying property taxes because said property is not occupied….
I’m assuming it’s an additional tax. You know, the good kind of tax.
A “penaltax”, if you will.
They should call these things rape-taxes. Cause they sure feel the same as getting raped.
Who did I trigger now?
Increase taxes on vacant properties. Then the city will seize the property and the homeless will finally have a place of their own.
So the politicians created a problem and are demanding they be allowed to use that problem to fuck people over even harder? Go figure…
The answer is never “loosen your grip”. Never.
go on…
On power, power!
Gosh, you people have dirty minds.
Power is sexy.
And these packages are getting delivered by teleportation? Or did the increased delivery traffic not create new jobs in delivery businesses?
I seriously doubt people have en masse started to get their $4 cup of coffee delivered for an additional $6. However, if the city has reduced traffic lanes and increased the price of parking, then paying a two dollar delivery charge makes economic sense if the cost of getting it yourself is an additional three dollars.
“To address this issue of landlords keeping their properties vacant until they can extract higher rents from potential tenants”
Hmmm, supply and no demand? Raise prices to make up for lost revenue, works every time
Great Gaia, just ban delivery services. This isn’t that hard.
Wrong order. First regulate, then ban when that doesn’t work.
Then subsidize it.
Then government takeover due to ‘market failures’.
“Peskin has introduced legislation to tax landlords with commercial properties in Neighborhood Commercial Districts — areas where stores and services are clustered — that are vacant for more than six months.”
By all means, keep digging motherfuckers.
“Supervisor Aaron Peskin says commercial vacancies are a problem everywhere as people turn toward delivery services and online shopping for everything from coffee to groceries to a new pair of shoes.”
Not a problem in Columbus, Ohio. Hmmm … something else could be afoot.
The only appropriate punishment is for him to serve the consecutive sentences for all the false charges he facilitated against his victims. If someone would have spent ten years in jail for possession with intent to distribute, he serves that. So on, and so on.
Anything less is a miscarriage of justice and should be responded to with a public lynching.
I’ve been really interested in the media lately – what they choose to cover, how, and why. So I went down the rabbit hole a little bit last night following the Chicago MAGA attack story. I posted overmuch on the Soave writeup at TOS.
Summary: CNN kinda ran with it. Not to the extent of the Christian School fiasco, but they pushed it somewhat to the front and covered it credulously. Lots of great quotes from politicians in the CNN writeup:
MSNBC also was covering from the “wow, look at this terrible hate crime” angle, but less over the top.
HuffPo was surprisingly newsy in their coverage. They did close with a money quote from an activist who says this is part of an epidemic of violence against every sort of minority you can think of. And they added in an important tidbit that nobody else seems to have:
The FBI is taking over the investigation.
That’s pretty big if true. For one thing, it means that at least someone thinks that this might be an actual targeted attack that goes along with the weird hate mail the show says it received.
Then we had the Today show this morning. They seemed to be playing both sides. They covered the story with language that indicated to me that they may be a little skeptical of the claims – they said “claimed attack” and “claimed they said” – never attributed to the actor as a source, nor framed as fact in the language. Not even “he was attacked”. But then they spent the bulk of their time showing reactions – famous actors talking about hate and how “yet another black brother should never have a noose around their neck”. (Steve Harvey actually came off a little bit homophobic in his support video….. maybe it was just my take, but it sounded a lot like he was implying that even though the guy was gay, we should all pull together to support him). Anyway, the whole story seemed crafted with the Native standoff story in mind – that they were not about to get out in front of the facts on anything that they claim, while still being sure to get the narrative out there at the same time.
It will either be fake, or it will have been staged. This shit is a leftists wet dream, which is why I guarantee you it isn’t real.
Or the dipshit was trying to buy drugs and got mugged, then made up this story as a cover.
No… it was a modern day lynching. Our next president says so….
You mean the candidate that the people that failed to steal a rigged election but are sure this time they will do it, want?
Better that than them going all fake-douchey.
Also.
Steve Harvey. I don’t get it.
Like Michael Strahan. Don’t get it.
While I’m on it. Same with Katie Couric at the time. Didn’t get it.
Couric was perky-cute back in her day. Non-threatening to women and dream girlfriend for the dudes. That explains her appeal. The other guys…. yeah, you got me. Strahan is huge, athletic and affably non-threatening, so maybe that’s why women dig his shtick.
Harvey was an average headliner standup, but he actually is pretty good at being a game show host. Dunno about the talk show gig, never saw it.
I *guess*. Sigh.
I was a huge fan of Michael Strahan the terror of QBs. Michael Strahan the morning TV pussy? Not so much.
“And they added in an important tidbit that nobody else seems to have:
The FBI is taking over the investigation. ”
Probably a lie.
“Anti-Lynching bill”
JHFC. I will never understand, and am disgusted by, the victim identity. My mom relentlessly weeded out any signs of weakness from my brother and me, and taught us to identify ourselves by our achievements. And here these people are, not victims, but desperately actively seeking to be excusably weak, scrounging history for some shred of victim lineage to lay claim to. And absent that, to “self-identify” as a victim and/or to speak “their truth.” Who breeds and raises these losers and why?!
hate crime
What I meant to say is that “hate crime” amounts to thought-crime and should be illegitimate in our legal system. Sure, use evidence to establish a motive, but it is illegitimate to punish because of the motive.
Anyway, looks like they got their talking points straight.
Wait, lynching is not currently illegal? Or is Booker just trying to make it more illegaler?
He wants to make it a super special bad federal crime.
My supposition was that this was their end-run around “hate-crime” and the first amendment. So define “crimes against people on my team by people who are not on my team as lynching” is the solution.
I may be off-base here, but that seemed to be the thrust.
Because as far as I know there really isn’t an epidemic of lynchings. In fact, the last vigilante justice case I’m personally aware of was way back in the early 90s in Atlanta. And it was epic.
They had been covering the case of a 15 year old girl who was rather violently raped a couple of weeks prior. The police hadn’t found the suspect, but they knew who it was. So I’m listening to the radio ( AM 750 ) and they break in to say that they’ve found the suspect. Apparently they “found” him in the middle of the busiest street in College Park at 11:30AM. He was naked, beat all to hell and had a pair of vice grips attached to his mangled man-bits, laying there in the middle of the road. It seems that her brothers and cousins found the guy before the police did and dragged him into the middle of the street by his junk using the vice grips.
Anyway, the strange thing was…. nobody saw anything. Darndest thing you ever heard. Middle of the day, really busy street in a busy neighborhood. Nope. Didn’t see a thing.
They interviewed the head of the investigation for the police and he didn’t seem to be terribly interested in the investigation into who meted out vigilante justice. I seem to remember a bit of a chuckle as he said “yeah… nobody saw anything. So what are you going to do?”
Anyway, not sure if that would have counted as a lynching, but as all the parties involved shared the same racial identity, I doubt Ms. Harris would be too interested.
‘Used, bruised and battered’ sex dolls swapped online
Beotch for sale. Been ridden hard and put away wet. Needs new batteries.
Is this an ad for Tinder?
“I bonked her so hard I broke her gears.” — Brick Dollbanger
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/7390801/harmony-sex-robot-test-brick-dollbanger-realbotix-realdoll/
If that’s how he does it, I really don’t have to question why he’s having to do it with a doll.
Eww! /teenage girl. Seriously I wouldn’t buy used socks. . . and this is so much worse.
Erm…
I am not sure about used sox and the whole foot fetish thing, but there is a whole industry around “used female apparel”, isn’t there? Freaks have to get their freak on, so maybe this is just another freak?
I see a business opportunity; Sex Doll Repairman. Two year associated program coming to a tech school near you!
Karin Flood, executive director of the Union Square Business Improvement District, concurs and thinks the vacancies will fill with new retails and restaurants quickly.
“The city is getting ready to invest a lot into that corridor to improve the street scapes there,” Flood says. “At the moment, the situation doesn’t look good but I don’t expect it to be that way for long.”
They’re going to round up the homeless people and ship them to San Diego?
I assume some of them are good people?
Re polar vortex. Jesus, I guess I’ve been living in a perpetual polar vortex machine because those conditions are pretty normal here. Ok, they don’t always stay iike that but when get a ‘cold snap’ or ‘feeling snap’ it doesn’t become headlines. Americans are so dramatic. Want some roses after the play is done? Lol.
‘These are actually a public health risk and you need to treat it appropriately,’ Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Tuesday.
‘They are life-threatening conditions and temperatures.’
If you come to my daycare – you’re all invited! – you’ll see baby carriages and sleds off to the side. Even in sub-zero conditions. While I think it’s a bit much, but parents insist on being outside. We don’t take the kids outside on days like that.
“Many people on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in the Dakotas live in housing that’s decades old and in disrepair, or in emergency government housing left over from southern disasters such as hurricanes.
‘They aren’t made for this (northern) country. The cold just goes right through them,’ said Elliott Ward, the tribe’s emergency response manager.”
What did they do before the white man came and went all maniac and genocidal on their red asses?
“The cold weather was even affecting beer deliveries, with a pair of western Wisconsin distributors saying they would delay or suspend shipments for fear that beer would freeze in their trucks.”
Because of the cold? In 1998 when there was an ice storm, the premier had to plead people stay home because things went on as normal.
In short, why are people acting like Johnny Fonatine?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nqcgUDoV_M
The end. Lol.
‘freezing snap’. Wtf? Auto-spell is sneakily changing words!
Americans news media are so dramatic.
FTFY
Yes. This is true.
WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!
I was being tongue in cheek just so we’re clear. People can get so touchy.
Uffda. Don’t get me started on reservation housing.
The big res near my house was notorious for having govt supplied housing fall into disrepair in mere months after the Indians got a hold of them. In one case the resident chainsawed a dog door into the side of his new trailer home.
A lot of the poor white eyes who were living in trailer homes were understandably upset that they were paying to live in their home while their taxes were constantly being used to give new trailers to the Indians.
They need another casino. The Mille Lacs bunch seem to have adjusted fairly well, although I never go off the highway. Driving to Pickle Lake, Ontario, many/most of the homes on the reservation had fuel oil tanks at the house. I’m guessing that if they are getting subsidized heat there would be no reason to burn wood, with all the work that encompasses.
White Earth is be enough that the casino profits are spent on improvements on the tribe instead of cutting a check to each member like the smaller tribes/casinos do.
That money has been nothing but trouble for all the tribal govts since the casino was built. The people running the tribal govt will begin funneling that money towards improvements that enrich others in their family/clan. Eventually it gets so bad that they either go to jail or get voted out by another family/clan who promise to reform the system. The new govt will almost instantly become as corrupt as the old one.
I’m also old enough that I am ranting about the way the Indians treated their govt provided housing before the casino showed up.
We’re already stacking up bodies like cordwood from the government shutdown, so of course the polar vortex is hitting us hard.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure that literally everyone is either dead or homeless because of the shutdown. At least that was the impression I got.
Look on the bright side: you now have a giant open-air freezer for the bodies. Beats stacks of bodies in 90 degree heat.
True enough, and truly, the dead are the lucky ones.
The cold weather was even affecting beer deliveries
The real tragedy. Get the ‘Ice Road Truckers’ moving, stat.
I tend to feel the same way. But I get it. The issue is that it isn’t normal for most places. Without snow cover, most pipes will freeze. Even large city mains, since they aren’t buried as far as areas where it is regularly cold. If you are prepared it’s tolerable. If not? Sucks to be you.
The most striking thing about this story is not their absense from the market, but that the company managed to sell chalk-flavored ‘candy’ for 153 years before going under.
When I was a kid, I used to love Necco wafers.
I can’t remember what they taste like, so I’m not going to pass judgement on that.
But who kept buying the heart-shaped chalk mislabelled as candy?
Chalk. They tasted like chalk. Once, cause who eats more chalk after getting suckered into thinking something is candy?
Aktshully, quite a few people:
That is a sad indictment of our civilization.
Necco wafers used to work great in toll booths.
Better than eating the horrid things…
Yeah, I saw them at a checkout a few years ago and having the fond childhood memories flood up in my brain I impulse-bought them. I ate one and was like “what the fuck was I thinking?!”
So, no surprise Necco finally folded?
Was it the lead in paint or the lead in gasoline that made you feel that, do you think?
lead in paint
You mean wall candy?
#metoo – don’t get the hate. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I have a feeling that this has something to do with changes in the classroom – whiteboards replacing blackboards (I would guess this is pretty much complete by now). So fewer people have childhood memories of tasting/eating chalk. As the generations shift to fewer adults having that experience woven into their childhood the market for flavored chalk dwindles to zip.
Now you’re making me think about the aroma of the blue-ink mimeograph copies…
Text me? When did that one start? Also, most of the other ones are hate speech.
Tums should come in heart shapes with messages.
“Burning for You”
I LIKE NECCO WAFERS!
There! I said it. And the stupid heart candies.
Leave Britney Alone!!!
What’s not to like about corn starch candy? I liked those things at the Saturday matinee, circa ’45-’46. Longtime enjoyment for a nickle.
This is the pertinent part of the Virginia abortion bill.
In other words, solely the claim of mental health reasons is enough to justify a third trimester abortion. While I’m generally supportive of abortion rights, this is fucking sick.
That bold part is a loophole big enough to stick an ice pick through.
While the kid is halfway out of the crazy mom.
It really is sick. Yet there seem to be hordes of people who will not only defend it, but actually celebrate it.
These are the same people that will tell you that you are a murderer for eating meat, cause some poor animalk was murdered so you could eat that…
The Democrats in Virginia are putting up a lot of these types of bills this year, whether it’s abortion or gun control. I believe it has to do with the House being in Republican control by only one seat, and that seat was determined by a coin toss. They’re clearing the way for the next session if they get full control.
Mark my words, if Herring wins the governor’s seat next election, Virginia is fucked. He’s a royal piece of shit that will do everything he can to turn Virginia into New York South.
It’s like they’re actively trying to get me to move back to Texas.
Mark Herring is indeed the most repulsive of progs. We’re fucked. I know I’m gonna be moving in about 3 years.
I would think that them showing their hand like this would work against them. But I suppose proggie infested NoVa and Hampton/Richmond pretty much dominate the state.
” Yet there seem to be hordes of people who will not only defend it”
The sponsor of the bill seemed determined to duck questions about what the bill really does:
“The Daily Wire reported on Tran’s legislation and provided this exchange between Tran and Virginia Republican Delegate Todd Gilbert:
Gilbert: So how late in the third trimester would you be able to do that?
Tran: It’s very unfortunate that our physician witnesses were not able to attend today.
Gilbert: No, I’m talking about your bill. How late in the third trimester could a physician perform an abortion if he indicated it would impair the mental health of the woman?
Tran: Or physical health.
Gilbert: Okay. I’m talking about the mental health.
Tran: Through the third trimester. The third trimester goes all the way up to 40 weeks.
Gilbert: Okay. But to the end of the third trimester?
Tran: Yep. I don’t think we have a limit in the bill.
Gilbert: Where it’s obvious a woman is about to give birth, that she has physical signs that she is about to give birth. Would that be a point at which she could still request an abortion if she was so certified? She’s dilating.
Tran: Mr. Chairman, that would be a decision that the doctor, the physician, and the woman would make at that point.
Gilbert: I understand that. I’m asking if your bill allows that.
Tran: My bill would allow that, yes.”
When does the right to an abortion end under their bill? When the cluster of cells crowns? When the umbilical cord is cut? When the cluster of cells takes its first breath? When the cluster of cells is weaned and no longer sucking nutrients out of the mother like some kind of parasite?
These sort of questions are just a symptom of your misogyny and privilege. You should just go ahead and report to a re-education camp now.
Horrifying. If anybody wants a prime example of why “a pox on both their houses” isn’t realistic, here it is.
Frigid Winter Days
The complaint was endorsed by district attorneys from Fresno, Sacramento, Santa Cruz, San Joaquin, Shasta and Yolo counties. “The People of the State of California” is listed as the plaintiff.
“Consumers have the right to expect full value in their purchases and compliance with packaging requirements is an integral part of the process,” Reisig said. “We will continue to aggressively monitor businesses and prosecute those that violate consumer protection laws.”
In other news, Ghirardelli has unexpectedly announced they are relocating to Nevada.
“Consumer protection” really means “government protection”.
One of the coldest spells in HISTORY wreaks havoc across the Midwest
I thought global warming made this impossible.
Actually, they’re blaming this on global warming. Something about how the Arctic is warmer so it’s destabilized and sent cold air south.
The eye rolling is life threatening.
I heard that from the one proggie in our department.
It is well known that
global warmingclimate change causes everything, everywhere, that is bad.IT SAYS SO RIGHT IN THE NAME: CLIMATE CHANGING!
Armageddon!
CLIMATE CHANGE! is unique to this time and has never before happened in the history of the world!!11!!!!
DOOOOM1111!!!1!!
The world will end because capitalists have fucked up that optimum temperature nature had forevah!
Why do you expect logic of any kind from people whose primary drive in life is the belief that marxism will finally allow them to create a fair world (fair being an intangible and wishy-washy thing that will end up meaningless as they constantly change what it means to suit their latest murderous spree).
But is the (((polar vortex))) climate or weather? /not a serious question
History? Like 40,000 years ago when a mile thick glacier covered the Midwest?
/baffled historian
Tax unrented/unleased property? Brilliant.
Use it or lose it, Bub. The city will determine what is and is not economically justified business practice. If you can’t produce enough tax revenue, they’ll find somebody who can.
“If you can’t produce enough tax revenue, they’ll find somebody who can.”
Isnt that the official slogan on the Detroit city seal?
Sure they will.
Maybe not Detroit, but certainly New London, CT.
I can confirm.
This is why the Georgists and their land value tax are evil.
*nods grimly in agreement*
Last week: 130 examples of Cis-privilege.
This week: 160 examples of male privilege
SJWednesday: More Grievances Are Better Edition
>> it’s idea that the only “real men” are the ones who don’t show their emotions, who solely value sports and physical strength, who don’t reach out for help when they need support.
::stoically watches women wrestle in jello::
What is it with them and ‘real men cry’ shtick lately? I love how during the Gillette scandal people were claiming it wasn’t about toxic masculinity when it was about TM….you know, just like they explicitly said it was.
They play weird mind games with language.
The other nefarious tactic is ‘it doesn’t mean you’re a bad person you have privilege’ but then go on to explain how you engage in bad things…..without knowing it.
Do these people not realize this is precisely how they threw you in the gulags? Or if you like your analogies with extra pop culture, it’s like the scene in Bat-Man (the one with Bale in it) with Scarecrow’s kangaroo court.
I can spin their language and say they’re unwittingly being evil. Or are they….unwittingly doing so?
I’m surprised they don’t demand men publicly denounce their toxic masculinity and get a special tattoo for doing so.
Ha ha ha! I would bet that tattoo will be part of American culture in a couple years. And I would bet a dozen times more that men wearing the tattoo will not understand why they get mugged/ripped off at a higher rate than those without it.
I like how women think they get to decide what a “real man” is. And oddly enough it’s usually something that serves the interests of women.
“What is it with them and ‘real men cry’ shtick lately?”
I not so recently was banging a lady that broke up with some dude that she confided to me during pillow talk had cried when she had told him it was OK (to her surprise). She got mad at me when I told her that she lost interest once he showed her he was a beta. She was one of these progressive types that really wants to be part of the in proggy crowd but ends up acting counter to these beliefs because of her biology. Dumped her after that event. Just saw the writing on the wall.
Glad to hear that the big head won out over the little head.
I am worried one day the little head will win, and then I will really pay for that.
They play weird mind games with language.
Feature, not bug
Objective reason and observation is a massive roadblock to the glorious revolution. You can’t co opt a malleable populace unless the people’s brains have been turned to mush. How do you turn their brains to mush? Make them believe that rationality is subjective. Then they can believe literally anything. 1984 is the left’s instruction manual.
“But once you understand that these often invisible perks aren’t available to everyone,”
Oof.
Invisible perks. Like write-offs?
No, invisible as in nonexistant, but essential for the dogma to continue.
+160 struggle sessions.
#161. Men who put bacon bits in and on everything.
Our current cultural expectations, legislative system, and social programming work to sustain a hierarchy that constantly places men on the top. Consequently, men consistently achieve, succeed, and benefit at the expense of every other gender. That’s called male privilege.
Assuming facts not in evidence.
I can be sympathetic to a point about men historically behaving boorish or poor towards women (and other genders …) but at this point my responses will now actively celebrate male privilege with a hearty “FUCK YEAH, COME AND TAKE IT!”
Because while fairness is a valuable goal, equality for equality’s sake isn’t nearly as important as justice – for liberation’s sake.
Boring old class conscious Marxism. Who would’ve guessed?
So when is gender a make believe social construct and when is it not? Is it, if you’re born female and/or identify as female it’s a social contract but if your born male and identify as male it’s not and you’re just a pig?
It’s both.
It is intentionally anti-logical in order to facilitate their political ends. With each passing day, Peterson sounds like less and less of a crank when he talks about the Frankfurt School.
“Without further ado, let’s face these examples of male privilege in the US so we can make the change we all deserve.”
Or you could just fuck right off.
Because while fairness is a valuable goal, equality for equality’s sake isn’t nearly as important as justice – for liberation’s sake.
That about says it all, doesn’t it? They want to oppress people because “justice”.
Wait….. they are encouraging me to make a change for my own sake? Are we talking about
gender reassignment surgerygender confirmation surgery? Because I don’t think I’m really going to be able to support you guys on this one.Great job on the links today, Banjos. I actually clicked on a few.
Pffft. Amateur.
Remembering an AmeriCorps Boondoggle Boss
Harris Wofford’s legacy: super expensive, government-directed “service” for silly, politically approved causes.
Wofford was a useless sack of shit. He was a prototype for funneling federal dollars to political organizations that Obama learned from.
Q: What do you call a nanny with a breast implants? A: A Faux pair.
http://archive.li/f6YLM
4, 56, 70, 91.
13, 42, 54, 97, 99. Thanks, Q. Good number of girl-next-door types in here.
23 and 54 are the chubby girl using strategic camera angles and cropping to focus just on her tits.
6 wins the hot but vacuous award:
https://archive.li/f6YLM/ad2443fb5b938550506683217fb05932de61e1e9
But, they saved the best IMO for last:
https://archive.li/f6YLM/28dd20522c016eb04d6b2bed021afd5da1c5e465
23’s jawline leads me to believe she’s not too chubby.
If 73 is relieving ‘herself’, run away fast….
Another greedy capitalist
https://www.foxnews.com/world/russian-plane-in-venezuela-takes-20-tons-of-gold-flies-to-unknown-location-lawmaker-claims
Yuck, yuck..
Nobody else is laughing.
denied there was a Russian plane at the Simon Bolivar International Airport in Caracas.
Duh. It already took off with all the gold, so of course its not still there.
Sounds like someone is getting ready to flee with his loot to a country where he will be safe from extradition.
Give this man a cigar!
That was my first reaction as well.
A ton of gold is around $42mm, so that would be . . . carry the one . . . . $840mm! Ahh, socialism.
It’s not accidental that under capitalism the really rich end up getting power and under socialism only the powerful have any of the riches. But for some reason I keep getting told collectivism is the cure to the evils of capitalism as if the answer is to let only a select few have all the wealth…
I smell a History Channel TV series, once they get done digging up every square inch of Oak Island or finding that Civil War gold buried under Sleeping Bear Dunes.
Tucker does a great troll of the anti-wall celebrities who live behind walls.
Don’t we all live behind walls? Every house I’ve ever lived in has walls.
Because while fairness is a valuable goal, equality for equality’s sake isn’t nearly as important as justice – for liberation’s sake.
Don’t pretend you can satisfy us. Our needs and wants are fluid, and will be redefined as needed to keep you at a disadvantage.
This just sounds too damn complicated…
The Ins and Outs of Topping as a Trans Girl
And we’re supposed to respect these people? Should I be fucking with my wife’s femininity in order to make her feel low?
The mentally ill are mentally ill, any way you cut it.
If you have a dick, you are not a “trans-woman”, you are a man, regardless of your mental impairment.
It’s not a chick with a dick: it’s a dude with tits.
It’s Always Sunny did it.
Don’t they say that rape isn’t so much about sexual gratification per se as it is about demonstrating power over someone else?
Tell him what he’s won, Johnny!
As long as they both consent, I don’t really care what people do. But if you ask me to celebrate their fucked up reasons for what they do, I’m going to tell you to screw off.
This is the point I reached a while back.
I really have no issues with what people do with each other as long as both (or all) of them are OK with the program. Why should I care?
Heck, sometimes my wife and I might do something in bed that a number of people would not want to do. Is it my right to not only make my activities public but to demand everybody else not just affirm but celebrate my actions? Really?
Why the Fuck does the actions between me and my bed partner have to spill over into the public realm and require everybody else to socially participate?
“Heck, sometimes my wife and I might do something in bed that a number of people would not want to do”
Go on…
They eat crumbly snacks and don’t change the sheets.
*shudder*
They turn off the pixelation.
Mere tolerance is apathy. You just don’t care.
When they switched over from demanding tolerance to insisting on privileges and celebration, they crossed the line from “equal treatment” in the law and in the public square to something more totalitarian. Fuck that. That well is poisoned now, and I for one have learned my lesson that special pleading from any group may start as “we just want don’t want to be discriminated against” to “you will bend the knee to us”.
“girl-dick”
Yeah, I’m done with this lunacy.
To quote Suthen:
“They don’t call it a demoralization campaign for nothing.”
Also: I’m with Scruffy in that I don’t care what these people do as long as it doesn’t involve coercion. However, I’d bet dollars to doughnuts that this “Octavia” fellow is dead from either AIDS or suicide by age 40. People who are that mentally ill don’t last long without treatment.
Like I posted last night, progressives are acting in bad faith trying to get the rest of the world to embrace this stuff (“You’re just a bigot if you don’t see that ‘she’ is a real woman!”), but they’re cruel, manipulative assholes for trying to convince trans people that the rest of the world will just go along with it. It’s as much a primrose path as convincing women that abortion is a holy sacrament, or convincing black people that they’re systemically oppressed and therefore unable to control their destinies,
Good grief. Pure gibberish. I have had schizophrenics talk to me and make more sense than that.
This translates to… “woman”? I’m so confused.
Right? We’ve already got a word for what that person is talking about, and it’s “woman”. “Female”, “lady”, and “girl” are also acceptable.
“leader of domestic terror organization”
Aka future member of President She Guevara’s administration.
Don’t even joke about these things.
Well as a narcissistic lying psychopath and arbiter of all morality she’s a natural politition.
I thought I was gonna have a good sleep tonight.
As long as we are going to fuck with the Constitution to get rid of the Electoral College, we might as well lower the minimum age to run for President to be 25 or whatever AOC is. Because it is her turn!
“How late in the third trimester could a physician perform an abortion if he indicated it would impair the mental health of the woman?”
“Doctor, my 13 year-old is just driving me crazy! I think it’s starting to impair my mental health.”
“OK Mrs. Smith. Here is your state approved abortion device”
*hands Mrs. Smith a Mossberg 500*
“Just make sure you use magnum buckshot; sometimes we have women who use birdshot and only end up doing the job halfway. Then they end up having to bring the fetus into the clinic to have us put it down. We’d just like to avoid that extra cost since your insurance will only cover it 90%.”
Up to 18 seems legit. #righttochoose #qualityoflife
Is the “men just want to control womenz body argument still valid”? I mean, once you are already stretched out and bloated in your third trimester…
It was never valid. The most vocal pro-life and anti-life advocates are and have always been women. By and large, men have been less strongly invested in the debate. (these are statistical trends, not absolutes applicable to all individuals).
I still am unsure what power killing an unborn innocent child has granted women, but I am told that taking it away is patriarchy. Far be it from me to tell you what you can or can’t do, but if you feel being able to kill an unborn child is what gives you some kind of freedom and power, then things are already foobared and you are in dire need of help.
How is it empowering to have a state-approved person do the killing? To be truly empowered one could simply give birth at home and then put the unwanted items in the trash dumpster.
My point here is that empowerment has nothing to do with it. It’s about having the state bless it so that the person is relieved of their guilty conscience.
Oh, I get your point, and it is a great one. With these fucks it is about giving themselves cover. The fact that a huge majority of women that had abortions sooner than later end up fucked up mentally because of it seems to never factor in with the people championing 60th (or whatever number gets you to ancient adult) trimester abortions.
I dated 3 different women that eventually told me they had had an abortion at some point in their life and a lot of their mental issues – especially around illogical behaviors and insecurities – immediately became clear. One even admitted that she really ended up seriously mentally fucked by the event, years later, and ended up in therapy for it (she still was). But you never, ever, hear people mention this shit.
Sure the state might give this act a veneer of legitimacy, and the feminist movement even might tell women it empowers them to do this shit, but the psychological impact this has on women, is not avoidable. Some handle it well. Most are really fucked up by it.
And yet, the “good guys” are the people enabling this shit.
but the psychological impact this has on women, is not avoidable. Some handle it well. Most are really fucked up by it.
My limited exposure to women who had abortions reminds me a lot of interacting with soldiers who have seen combat. There are obviously differences in the details of each group’s reaction, but the overall impression across both groups is that it was an overwhelming experience that chews at them to this day.
Yes, it chews at them. But the ones I know all attempt their penance by progging harder.
Which is a weird combination of “I’m sorry” and “It’s someone else’s fault.”
haha…reminds me of the South Park episode where Cartman’s mom wants to get a “25th trimester abortion”
The story has already been written (by PKD no less). The answer is when the child can learn algebra, that’s when the soul enters the body.
/in before RobC.
dammit!
In many the story isn’t even really about algebra.
It is about turning America into a matriarchy and the hell that would release.
Alter that first sentence until it makes sense to you. Thanks much.
“Algebra isn’t even really in the story”
I knew I could count on you to alter it in a way that makes sense AND is false.
I followed the instructions to the letter.
yes, you did. The way only a government employee would.
So Progs have no souls?
LEARNTOMATH
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When I think “well-adjusted and upbeat”, I don’t think “French existential philosophical marathon”.
New Jersey adds gender neutral option to birth certificates
Parents in New Jersey will see a third option for gender on birth certificates starting February 1. In addition to male and female, there will be nonbinary, a gender-neutral option. This also makes it easier for nonbinary and transgender people to change their birth certificates to affirm their gender identity.
How? If you choose nonbinary, you still assume your baby’s gender.
These people are insane, and I don’t understand what people catering to their delusions expect to achieve.
With the election of Murphy as governor, the Dems have total control in New Jersey, and are determined to codify their insanity into law.
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice
There is no decision here. There is a cock or there isn’t.
“Dammit, we wanted a girl! Let’s just avoid the paperwork later, and register this one as a girl. We can get the hormones and surgery out of the way before xe goes to kindergarten and starts asking questions.”
Well, sometimes it isn’t clear.
A very, very rare sometimes. Not in a gender-identity way though. Babies prolly don’t have that. But in a “the parts didn’t cook right and we are not sure which way this one is going to turn out.
There was a spate of news features about people in this predicament a few years back. The stories went like this: Young couple has a baby that has indeterminate gender. The doctors say they can make the bits look female easier, so they go with that. They raise the kid like a girl. They dress the kid like a girl. But the kid hates that stuff. The kid later learns that he was probably always a boy and they just modified his bits. Kid gets angry and starts working on ways to reclaim his stolen gender. We wish him well in his quest. Roll credits….
Anyway, I’m not sure if that’s what they are trying to address. If so, i suppose I can see how it might be helpful to a small number of people.
But if you label your poor son as “gender non-binary” on his birth certificate, I think there’s a really good chance that your son’s 15 year old self is going to chop you up with garden implements.
I’ve heard of that, actually. But in this case, I mean, you’re in a hospital, and they’re already taking blood from the kid. For that matter, they’ve already taken blood from the mother several times, certainly enough to determine within a pretty damn good margin of error the sex of the kid prenatally. If it’s that unclear, I think you’d be justified in doing a test or two in order to get it right.
You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill
I didn’t see it in the article about the cop and the faked field drug tests, but was he planting the “substances” on his victims? It seems weird to carry Tide detergent in a baggy so my first reaction was planted evidence, but the victim never denied it belonged to him which one might do if it were planted.
I was pleasantly surprised to see the perp might be facing legal action and that the sheriff’s office is doing what they can to make things right for the people he fucked over.
It seems weird to carry Tide detergent in a baggy
I’ve done that when using a laundromat.
FAKE CATHOLICS UNITE
Like her fellow nominally Catholic governor Andrew Cuomo, Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo, who is also nominally Catholic, supports legislation making abortions legal up until the moment of birth.
The legislation, titled “The Reproductive Health Care Act, “ states that the state shall not “restrict an individual person from terminating that individual’s pregnancy after fetal viability when necessary to preserve the health or life of that individual …” The legislation asserts, “For purposes of this section, ‘fetal viability’ means that stage of gestation where the attending physician, taking into account the particular facts of the case, has determined that there is a reasonable likelihood of the fetus’ sustained survival outside of the womb with or without artificial support.”
In her State of the State Address, delivered earlier this month, Raimondo said, “Let’s make this the year we codify women’s access to reproductive health care here in Rhode Island.” She and the co-sponsors of the legislation, state Sen. Gayle L. Goldin and state Rep. Edith H. Ajello, have been supporting the Rhode Island Reproductive Health Care Act since 2017. According to Goldin and Ajello, the legislation is to “defend against threats at the federal level.”
LifeNews reports of Raimondo, “Her bill would even repeal the state partial-birth abortion ban and fetal homicide law, which provides justice to pregnant mothers whose unborn babies are killed by abusive partners, drunken drivers or others whose illegal actions cause the death of the unborn baby.”
One thing thing I have never thought made sense with regard to abortion is that a person can be charged with 2 murders for killing a pregnant woman but the pregnant woman can legally kill the fetus/baby/unborn.
Some of these crazy new bills are taking that charge out of the criminal code.
Pro-Abortion people are pretty consistent: they believe that a fetus is a parasite and that the mother has the sole power to decide what happens to it. Basically they treat it like a cow or something: if you killed my cow, you would be in the wrong, if I kill my cow, then I’m just processing cow into beef. In ancient Rome, or so I have heard anyway, the father had the absolute power of life and death over his wife and children. As of now, the standard is that a child is not a child until it’s born, and until it is born, then the mother has the right to kill it.
This is distinct from the slighly different belief that abortion up to the point of viability is a justifiable use of a woman’s right to bodily autonomy, but abortion after viability is the killing of an otherwise independent person.
Why are they not being excommunicated?
Because the Catholic church no longer has the courage to live by its supposed principles. The clergy seems to be dominated by leftists.
This. They have lost their moral strength.
maxist beliefs >>>> religioun’s beliefs.
Covering for pedo priests wasn’t enough.
Years ago, when Rudy Giuliani was invited to speak at the graduation ceremony at Loyola College in Baltimore, the archdiocese, and especially Archbishop William Keelor, made a big show of protesting by not attending, because Giuliani is pro choice. They were mysteriously uninterested in how prominent Maryland Catholic politicians like Martin O’Malley and Barbara Mikulski felt about abortion.
I actually heard Cardinal Dolan on the radio this morning explaining that it would be “counterproductive” to excommunicate Cuomo because that would be “playing into his hands” somehow. I guess Dolan believes that political considerations are more important than adhering to the tenets of Catholic faith.
That response strikes me as not getting your tumor treated because you don’t want to deal with the side effects of chemo.
Bullshit. He’s a coward and probably afraid that Cuomo will direct more investigative resources against the Catholic Church pederast priests.
^^^THIS^^^
The asshat sold out.
One thing thing I have never thought made sense with regard to abortion is that a person can be charged with 2 murders for killing a pregnant woman but the pregnant woman can legally kill the fetus/baby/unborn.
Sort of like the woman can choose whether to abort or keep the kid solely on her own, without getting permission from the dad, and can then keep him on the hook for the next
1825+ years?It’s okay to force men to take on parental responsibilities against their will, but wrong to force women to take on parental responsibilities against their will, because reasons.
The perfect Minnesoda picture.
It is hard to read, but the sign at the airport said it was -14F outside. The guy at the left must have waited 10 minutes outside waiting for his ride. I’m sure he didn’t want to inconvenience the person picking him up.
I can’t laugh too hard, because I was outside waiting for about 3 minutes waiting for my pickup too. My wife stayed inside until she saw me putting the bags in our daughter’s car.
Don’t get the nuts too close to the fire or you will experience what Chet did in that song about his nuts roasting on an open fire…
Gotta love Terminal 2, though.
It was the first time my wife had ever flown out of it. She loved how easy it was to get in/out of there.
I’ve been trying to use Southwest as much as possible. Parking there is a joy and, even though I have Pre-Check, the security line is a breeze. And Southwest kicks the living shit out of Delta.
Why other airlines don’t use Southwest’s boarding policy is beyond me. I hate having an assigned seat now when I fly other airlines.
I agree. Also, their two free bags policy is awesome. When Spawn 1 flew back to DEN, he had a suitcase and a snowboard bag to check. Total extra: $0.00.
I think I paid $240 for his roundtrip.
It’s not a two-free bag policy. It’s rolling the price of two bags into the ticket even if you only have one bag. Totally socialist.
The best part of free bags is that more people actually check their luggage and means that people get on/off more quickly.
Last time I flew Delta I was amazed at how many 5′ tall 110lb business women were trying to wedge full size suit cases into the overheads so that they didn’t have to check a bag.
My rule would for carry on luggage would not be how big it is. Instead you would have to do an overhead press of your carryon 5 times before being allowed to bring it on board the plane.
It irritates me to no end when that tiny gal holds up deplaning because she needs help getting her luggage down.
I fly solely southwest. Cheaper, free bags, no bullshit seating assignment /upgrade regime, and the seats are a bit more roomy than some of the other carriers. Also, they sent me a bunch of drink tickets out of the blue before one of my flights. That’s how you keep a customer!
Pope, I see you have been on the same flights with my wife. She stands helplessly while looking for you or another chivalrous man to put her bag in the overhead, then blocks the aisle on arrival until you get her bag down.
I help all the shorter ladies (or men) at Walmart or any store, it’s a responsibility we have by being endowed by our creator with maleness.
The whole idea of a viscious scrum for the handful of actually good seats on your average airplane doesn’t appeal to me.
But the onerous process of going through the TSA Theater is a bigger factor in me not flying anywhere.
All the seats on a Southwest flight are identical. You can make a case that the first row is the best, but storage for those seats is limited and if you get stuck on the aisle, every person boarding will bump you.
The idea that there is a good seat though gets people to get on quickly. Much better than watching clueless people meander down the aisle towards their seat.
Ditto for both. I have no desire to be on a flying bus, but I was willing to do it until they threw in the TSA check. Now I either drive or just don’t go.
I’ve been away for a while. Did we cover the potential cure for cancer?
I haven’t seen it on here. But I saw it in the news. Sounds like the guy is bullshitting to get more funding.
This one?
Good thing we have the FDA to keep people dying in the meantime.
Think of the fun if it turns out that the cure (discovered by (((scientists))) doesn’t work if the patient has a particular gene mutation only found in Arabs.
Will the SJW’s demand that no one use the cure if it doesn’t work for everyone?
Death or Mau Mau?
I have told many a lady that the cure for everything is a thrice daily does of my love. It has 12 vitamins and minerals and I always want to help the good looking ones get their minimum daily requirement.
I’ve always thought that, should I be granted three wishes two of them would be to make my semen taste like dark chocolate and have the effect of crack cocaine.
I can imagine it would lead me to an early grave and I believe I wouldn’t care.
The problem with wishes is always the interpretor. It might turn out far different from what you envisioned.
Yup…
It’s not accidental that every myth or story about wishes revolves around things going wrong because of the interpretation or stupidity of the wish. Not saying your wishes are bad, but can you imagine the wish granter deciding it should not only taste like dark chocolate & have the effect of crack cocaine, but have its consistency as well? People with kidney stones will tell you that you never want to go there…
“Our cancer cure will be effective from day one, will last a duration of a few weeks and will have no or minimal side-effects at a much lower cost than most other treatments on the market,” Aridor said. “Our solution will be both generic and personal.”
Yeah, I’ll believe it when I see it.
What’s the medical equivalent of “vaporware”?
Theranos?
So, this alleged cancer cure is probably a “Theranos”.
Yeah, I kind of like it.
Its either that or a slam dunk Nobel in a few years.
Yet.
Airline employees booted a woman off a recent United Airlines flight traveling from Las Vegas to Newark after she went on a tirade about being placed in the middle seat between “two big pigs.”
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2019/01/29/woman-booted-off-flight-tirade-about-sitting-between-two-big-pigs/
She picked a fight with a former NJ union head? Not a good choice.
She’s lucky she didn’t end up in NY Harbor in a 55 gallon drum
The shudown created a shortage of 55 gallon drums that hasn’t been made up yet.
I’m going to assume, based on every encounter I have ever had with a union boss, that she was one of the big pigs?
How did she know they were cops?
Maybe I should have thrown a tantrum when I flew back from my tropical vacation a month ago. I sat next to a lady that was hacking her head off before the flight left and clearly had the flu and some other problems. Not 5 minutes after we took off she barfed in my lap (before I could hand her the bag), and told me she had to do so because she didn’t want to ruin her new shoes. I kept my clam, but I really wanted to kick her ass. I ended up getting the flue and a lung infection 3 days after the flight. Thanks you fucking bitch.
Being barfed on is where I would lose my shit.
Should’ve shot your load on her new shoes. “I didn’t want to ruin my new socks.”
That’s when you order coffee and accidentally spill it.
The stewardess was flustered that I kept my cool. I pointed out that I was not interested in getting in trouble with the law and thus suppressed my desire to pound this idiot into the ground – and she heard me say it – and after that kept catering on me. The stewardess offered to give me her number but she was not really doing it for me so I didn’t pursue that option. The lady next to me kept acting like a bitch the whole flight cause I basically wished her -politely, I add – a dark fate for being such a cunt.
“Well, you ruined my $200 pants instead. Pay up.”
I should have gone with that…
I kept my clam,
TMI.
Evan, welcome back to Indiana. In honor of your return, we’ll try to get close to positive integers today. If your bored while in town email me at username at the evil search engine.
“Doctor, my 13 year-old is just driving me crazy! I think it’s starting to impair my mental health.”
“OK Mrs. Smith. Here is your state approved abortion device”
Philip K Dick wrote a story about that.
This here is what you calla a huge fucking load of horseshit.
Aren’t conservatives and especially libertarians usually the ones who acknowledge that edge cases make bad laws? Yes the bill ALLOWS something but the fact that the bill allows for that thing does not actually mean that the thing would ever actually occur. There is literally no evidence that this scenario has ever happened a single time in all of the millions of abortions which have ever been performed where a mother was in active labor with a full term healthy baby and all of a sudden decided she no longer wanted to go through with it but would rather have an abortion and then had the doctor actually go along with her wishes. This is simply something that HAS AND WILL NEVER HAPPEN.
As it stands 3rd trimester abortions are so ridiculously rare that the basically are not worth legislating for and the overwhelming majority of those which do occur do so beacause of the discover of significant fetal abnormalities that either render it non viable or will require a lifetime of intensive medical care accompanied with significant pain and suffering. Elective 3rd trimester abortions of otherwise healthy babies do happen, maybe 100 — 200 times a year and even those are generally done prior to the 8th month.
Yeah this bill is probably a stupid and unnecessary one which could probably be improved in many ways but please stop acting like the fact that it allows an extremely unlikely event to occur means that said event will actually occur
Elective 3rd trimester abortions of otherwise healthy babies do happen, maybe 100 — 200 times a year and even those are generally done prior to the 8th month.
But it’s okay, because 100-200 innocent lives is just the price we pay for women to avoid inconvenient children.
Hey, if the numbers are below a certain completely arbitrary line, that makes anything okay!
Yeah, I don’t get that thinking, either.
It’s sort of a twisted dark mirror of virtue signaling legislation. Because it seems to be based on a fucking SVU Episode or something:
“What if a sick twisted Baptist Rethuglikkkan kidnaps his stepdaughter and knocks her up and keeps her chained for eight months in a cabin in his evil Republican woods. Should she have to give birth to that baby? WHY DO YOU HATE WOMEN?!?!?!”
So what is the rationale for legalizing it? Third trimester abortions are already legal with medical restrictions. Removing those restrictions makes no sense.
“So what is the rationale for legalizing it? Third trimester abortions are already legal with medical restrictions. Removing those restrictions makes no sense.”
We can apply the same rationale to gun laws.
It’s weird, this is like the one issue where progs suddenly adopt a very libertarian view of an intrinsic right being unlimited and any restriction on it being a violation. I can’t think of any other issue that they have this kind of principled stance on it.
Like, when you talk about abortion, they suddenly understand things like
1. Laws aren’t magic.
2. Regulations hurt businesses.
3. Regulations can be written for political purposes to shut down unfavored businesses.
4. If something is an intrinsic right, then any infringement on it is illegitimate.
The same people who will call for five day waiting periods for guns screech about ultrasound requirements.
Gun laws are a balancing of your right to self-defense versus the State’s monopoly on force.
Abortion rights bills are a balancing of the rights of the mother’s personal medical decisions and the unborn infant’s right to life.
I view these as wholly different scenarios, morally and legally.
What I meant was in the way progs think about abortion rights from a philosophical perspective.
If you concede the premise that a woman has the intrinsic right to abort a pregnancy at any time, then any restriction on that right is illegitimate from a libertarian perspective. The libertarian case against abortion is “a fetus is a human being, and killing a human being outside of self-defense is morally wrong.”
My point was that on every other issue I can think of, progs are all about democracy and collective decisions and usually end up with he State as final arbiter. They never have a problem asserting that “the community” or “the people” can decide on how much of your money to steal, how hot your shower can be, how many guns you can own, and soon to be how much meat you can eat or how much property you can own.
But on abortion, all of a sudden they completely understand the concept of “I have an intrinsic right to do X, and any infringement on that right is wrong, because free people don’t have to justify their decisions to anyone.” They understand “These politicians don’t really care about the health of the women in the clinic, they just want to shut the clinic down. These proposed regulations are just a backdoor attempt to ban something they don’t like.” they understand “This ultrasound requirement is just a hoop designed to suppress abortions, it’s not actually going to stop anyone from getting an abortion.”
I agree with you and I concede that the rest of the Virginia bill is a repeal of the restrictions that are not about the health of the mother or the welfare of the child (ultrasounds, hospital regulations, etc…)
The portion concerning the removal of the medical reviews for a third trimester abortion relates directly to the balancing of the rights of the mother and child and is a total and complete removal of all the infant’s rights.
“complete removal of all the infant’s rights.”
Not sure progs accept that humans under the age of 18 have any rights.
“under the age of 21”
I have two objections:
(1) One late abortion for the convenience of the mother is too many.
(2) This is progressive “demoralizing” in action. They are grinding their fellow citizens face in the power and presumed moral superiority of the progressive movement. If it makes no difference, then why do it at all?
These laws are just hard core pandering to their base. Recent polls show that over 50% of Americans consider themselves “pro life”, and even most of the “pro choice” people are fine with restrictions such as limits to the first trimester. To me this is no different than punitive taxes and talk of socialism. Throwing this kind of red meat out there keeps the base encouraged in the “age of Trump.”
“even most of the “pro choice” people are fine with restrictions such as limits to the first trimester”
That sounds like pro-life but in denial, or avoiding a label that would get your “friends” to diss you
prole, I think a lot of people are pro-choice as long as that fetus looks like a “blob of tissue”. But when the fetus starts to look and act like a baby, they get squeamish.
^^ this.
Of course, with a 21 week old baby looking like this (actual pic of 21 week old baby, don’t say I didn’t warn you), people usually ignore the facts of the situation and draw their personal “line in the sand” in the abstract.
Dang.
not clicking. Probably more stomach churning than anything HM has put up.
Give that baby another week or two, and it is legitimately viable.
as long as that fetus looks like a “blob of tissue”
There is a little more to it, though. I think most people differentiate between a fertilized egg and a baby. Personally, I think the standard ought to be the presence of the brain waves we associate with human consciousness (beta waves?).
It has the ability to create brainwaves if you don’t destroy it. A vegetative human can’t get that back with the science we have now. I don’t know when “a human life” starts, but it all comes down to a judgement call in the end. I’d prefer to err on the side of giving too many “humans” the umbrella protection of life than too few.
If they’re so rare and medically unnecessary, why legalize it? What kind of dipshit logic is that?
I don’t want to be an asshole, but seriously this logic is bizarre. “It’s rare that someone slits a man’s throat, cuts off their face and wears it as a mask, so we’re going to legalize it.”
Bill co-sponsor Ed Gein could not be reached for comment.
Mr. Gosnell disagrees.
SJWednesday: You Will Submit Yourself To The New Inquisition (With A Smile) Edition
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That men would rather cordon themselves off from the women in their workplace than do to the work of examining why they cannot distinguish between predatory behavior and mentoring
Way to deliberately miss the point. The problem isn’t not being able to “distinguish between predatory behavior and mentoring”, the problem is being falsely accused of predatory behavior by being in a situation where you can’t prove your innocence.
This is the problem with believing your own bullshit. If you genuinely, truly believe that not one woman has ever once used a false accusation or the threat of it to her own advantage in the work place, then you simply cannot comprehend any motive for this other than pure misogyny.
This exactly.
These feminists deliberately miss the point, which is that men today know they can and will be falsely accused of sexual misconduct that will ruin their careers. High-profile men in particular have a target on their backs.
Its not that they cant control themselves. Its a risk mitigation tactic. Ambitious women have a lot to gain by becoming a “victim” by victimizing men who did nothing wrong. Best to not give them the opportunity, though if you’re high enough profile (see Kavanaugh, Brett) even no evidence you were ever in the same room isn’t enough to save you.
The very first parable in the Bible is how women fuck everything up. Islam, as evil as it is, has a handle on hypergamy and is winng it slow , high momentum war by immigration.
I live how American women’s unfettered freedom is helping (cuz they could do it without cowardly men) destroying a civilization. Hypergamy is an ugly thing. And our ancestors new that. But what the fuck did our ancestors know about thier own humanity. They didn’t have Netflix after all
And we sit back and wonder why our work places are fucking dystopias
Since, I’m a reasonable guy, open to compromise, I think I can see an accommodation to this woman. We can go with her demands that men expose themselves to the risk of false accusations. But, in return, in any case where an accusation is made that later turns out to be bogus, a dozen feminist authors will voluntarily give up their citizenship and self-deport. To Saudi Arabia.
I can’t agree to that. There need to be repercussions for people who make false accusations in addition to all that.
Okay, a dozen feminist authors and the accuser give up their citizenship and self-deport to Saudi Arabia it is, then.
And if men are inherently predatory, why wouldn’t you want them cordoned off from the women?
What’s funny is, if women were demanding that men stay away from them, they would support this. When men stay away from them on their own accord, they oppose it.
Men who are doing the cordoning aren’t the ones having trouble making that distinction.
Gronkowski missed the meeting
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/new-england-patriots-rob-gronkowski-receives-backlash-over-sexually-suggestive-remark-at-female-reporter
The reactions are idiotic. Sure, suspend Rob Gronkowski from the Super Bowl because he made an off-color joke.
He strikes me as the type that tries too hard to show how straight he is.
Too bad they didn’t hold Gronk out of the media session. When asked why he wasn’t available, you could tell all the reporters that Gronk would probably say something that would offend the women reporters and to avoid that it was easier to just hide him away.
Then let the reporters figure it out on their own.
And why is making a 69 joke only offensive to the woman? If there is something wrong with that sexual practice why isn’t it just as offensive to the male reporters?
I suck at SJW.
Could be because he pointed her out and said “she knows what I’m talking about” which is fairly crass behavior any way you cut it.
Yeah, that’s what I saw too. If it were just an offhand comment? Shrug. But that he specifically pointed her out made it personal.
Crass, yes. But if it was had been all dudes there and he had said the same thing to a guy (and I bet he would have), would there still be vapors?
Women sports reporters argued their way into the locker room by swearing that they were just as tough and professional as any male reporter. Good on them. I’ve got no beef with that.
But when they now run for a fainting couch because some lunkhead makes a crass joke? Fuck them.
And is the actual female reporter really all that offended? Or are all the other journalos offended for her?
Fair point. I know there wouldn’t be a backlash, but my position would remain the same if he had specifically pointed to a male reporter. But then, I have consistent values.
To clarify. I’m not impugning your values Pope. Rather the inconsistent shits in the media, etc. I have no problem with the reference to 69, but the fact that he took a pretty standard question and made it personal with a reporter. i guess I’m just not capable of being a dick.
69 is not offensive or a joke, unless performed in some unexplained and unknown way
Exactly. I don’t get how we can get upset as a society when someone makes a 69 joke, but laud some woke trans-woman with a dick when she talks about how empowering it is to fuck another guy in the ass.
I think your problem is that you’re concerned about how “we” take these things. There is no ‘we’, I can find the behavior of both the woke tranny and the crass jock objectionable, why some need to play one off the other is beyond me. I don’t like the PC police or the outrage mob. That doesn’t mean I’m going to defend every single thing that upsets them, even a blind squirrel can read a stopped watch or sommat.
Foreseeable consequences are foreseeable.
Foreseeable consequences are not unintended. FIFY
Some trans women I know feel especially feminine when they top.
That’s nice.
They feel especially feminine, when banging somebody, with their DICK. Sure, okay.
When banging a guy with their dick.
Re The $1 million Ghiradelli fine. Why do companies sit there and take that shit? I know it’s a bitch but move, no?
It’s why Bob Irsay is a personal hero of mine.
Why haven’t you left Canada?
Companies are run by people. People do not always make the most strictly rational decisions, especially about major changes such as relocating the entirety of thier operations. It has to get pretty bad before they go “Screw it, I’m leaving.” Otherwise these sorts of governments wouldn’t last nearly as long as they do.
I would draw the lines at $1 million. But that’s me. Maybe they see it differently and figure it’s a cost of doing business.
So about $600k US?
It is universally accepted that companies headquarter where the CEO wants to live. Simple as that.
The company is owned by Lindt which is not located in SF. The fine has nothing to do with local operations. The only leaving they could do is no longer sell their products in SF.
What the hell happened to you all? When I was growing up we never talked about how cold it was even when it was well below zero for a month straight. If someone did happen to talk about it (usually someone visiting from another state) we’d just say, “No shit it’s cold. Thanks for reminding us.”
I was a Floridaman until the last few years, give this poor soul a break. I understand how those Iguanas in South Florida feel during Winter.
After checking the temps in the midwest, I’m changing my mind. That is some real cold.
I suppose you are driven mad (as I am) by the constant drone of “Samui!” (“it’s cold” in Japanese) that all Nipponese feel obligated to mention at every turn.
“yeah, it’s cold. It’s January. It’s always cold in January.”
“samui desu ne” was one of the “important phrases” taught in my Japanese class.
Not “biiro kudasai”? Followed by “oteari doko desu ka?”
I agree with you. Normally we’d just smugly nod at each other, knowing that we are “special” people for being able to survive here. Like to see a bunch of sissy ass NYC-ers try to put up with this.
Of course, back in the day, you were stuck only talking to other people who were just as stuck in the cold as you were. So it was sort of pointless to yap about the cold. And it happens every year, so it isn’t anything that is unexpected.
Maybe the internet has something to do with the weather whining? You have a bunch of people like you Glibs that we can vent at?
It’s 28 fucking below zero. Fuck!
I blame Canada
:stares suspiciously at arctic air mass:
Well, it does look kind of metric, but when the wind blows, I don’t hear any ‘ehs’ in it. So I’m going to have to rule this rumor as ‘unverified’
My wife won’t go outside at all in weather like this. But what makes her nuts is that the predictions are that this weekend will warm up to low 40’s. Then back down to high of 3 next Wed.
The volatility of the weather in Minnesoda makes her crazy.
She’s not alone.
The part that will irritate me is that all weekend we will hear about the warm weather being proof of Global Warming. The lows on either side of it will be conveniently ignored.
Embrace it!
Surf’s up on Lake Superior
You win.
The “topping trans girl” (whatever the fuck that is) thing reminds me of the TWO HEADED BABY headlines I used to see in the checkout line tabloids when I was a kid. Carnival freak shows have always been a thing. We just need newer and freakier freaks.
I don’t the two-headed baby getting off on emotionally tormenting their sexual partner(s). Nor being told to approve of it or I would be a bad person.
They sure as hell weren’t trying to get away.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/man-appears-to-punch-two-women-at-los-angeles-hot-dog-stand-authorities-searching-for-suspect-video
Honestly, I’m less sympathetic than I would have been, maybe, five or ten years ago. A lot of women today seem to think the masculine standards against hitting women gives them carte blanche to hit guys. I understand that women are weaker than men, but is it really any more fair to allow the weak to prey on the strong than vice versa?
If you want to fight like a man then…..
I look at it this way: if you are attacked by a small, weak man, is it okay to hit him? If so, then the same rules apply to women.
It’s interesting that the video doesn’t show what was happening before.
Convenient is more the word here..
I suspect these women did some shit, probably even started this, and got hit for that effort when the dude had enough, but the people with an agenda want to make sure people remain unaware of that.
Notice how the nearby men didn’t feel the need to step in. Obviously, they understand the guy is huge and won’t go down easy, but if he was really attacking these women it seems some other large man would at least try to stop it.
I wasn’t there, nor have I ever been in that situation, but I’d like to think I would avoid knocking out two women if I were still on my feet. He could have walked away. If they follow and take you to the ground? All bets are off. Call me old fashioned I guess.
Right when the video starts, he is literally throwing a bitch off of him. Looks like she was trying to tackle him.
Was he on the ground? No. My point still stands.
I don’t like this shit any more than you, but I’m concerned at how many people are willing to throw away their principles just because the other person is willing to throw away their’s, if they ever had any.
They were both coming at him and were separated from each other flanking him. The first one he pushed away came back at him and swung at him. Without seeing what happened before this clip starts, it’s tough to say for sure, but they sure looked like the aggressors to me.
@MikeS: We all have to make our own decisions. Again, I wasn’t there. I know if I hurt anyone (male/female, bigger/smaller) when I could have avoided it I would have to live with that. I look at it just like using a gun. If I can remove myself from the situation, that is best for all. I’m not willing to hurt someone just because they are aggressive. If I am backed into a corner or have no means of escape (e.g. on the ground), that changes the calculus. I don’t see that here. He could have turned and left, or backed out, the same direction he did in the end. Nobody was there to stop him. Would his pride have been hurt for backing away from two much smaller women? Maybe. Better than broken faces or worse IMHO.
Russia claims no knowledge of plane sent to Venezuela ‘to extract 20 tonnes of gold’ from national bank
Russian authorities have moved to quash suspicions that 20 tonnes of gold are about to be moved from the Venezuela’s national bank to Moscow.
Allegations that a Russian jet which landed in Caracas was due to load an $840 million portion of the country’s gold reserves surfaced early on Wednesday.
That’s called “Take what you’re owed before it disappears forever”
Having been thru collections in bankruptcy cases, I have some sympathy for them although the people of Venezuela are getting fucked. The people need to take it out of Maduro’s hide, bloody drop by bloody drop.
Maduro’s hide and the hides of his thousands of sycophants.
I think Maduro and his inner circle can see the writing on the wall and are planning for their escape to Russia.
Honestly, as shitty as it would be for him to get away scot free, it’s probably the best outcome.
One of my favorite bits of historical trivia is from the Spanish Civil War. Some of the Spanish state’s gold ended up with Franco, some with the commies. The commies turned their part of the gold over to Stalin on his orders, in exchange for weapons and support. Franco kept his gold, and issued currency backed by it. Guess which one that worked out for?
Interesting. Gotta a link so I can read more?
I actually got it wrong, Franco didn’t have any of the gold reserves at all. From Paul Johnson’s Modern Times, page 332 in the revised edition.
https://imgur.com/S0cMPvV
Basically the old “If you owe the bank a thousand, you have a problem. If you owe the bank a million, the bank has a problem.”
Eating the rich
https://hotair.com/archives/2019/01/30/video-mike-braun-explains-eating-rich-never-works/
Obligatory
https://youtu.be/Fcrj4szgTjc
I’m so disappointed. Was sure that second link would be Motorhead.
Scroll down a few links:)
Gah, just now realized I goofed where the reply was.
Re: the crooked cop, he “had worked in two other departments, and had a clean record.” Yeah, right. What are the chances he was just as big a fuck-up in those departments, but when they figured him out, they said “walk away now and we’ll pretend we don’t know what you were up to.” Anyone ever convicted based on “evidence” submitted by this guy should be be trying to get their case re-examined.
RE: MUH UHBORSHUN
I think it was Trashy who said it on here, but I’ve adopted it for myself: you want to repeal all restrictions on abortions? OK, but we balance that with repealing all restrictions on 2A. When I can go down to WalMart and buy a truck mounted Vulcan cannon, you knock yourself out killing as many kids as you want. I’ll let G-d judge you for being the murderous piece of shit you are.
That’s not how power works. They’ll get what they want, you’ll get nothing and like it
https://youtu.be/0f6l1QljpMo
I see your Krokus and raise you a Motorhead.
Awesome! I’ve seen Krokus in concert. I think they led for Nugent. Would LOVE to have seen Motorhead.
Sadly never saw Motorhead live, either. I caught Krokus opening for Sammy Hagar in St. Louis back in the day.
I would have loved to see Lemmy in this band, too.
Far fucking out, man.
Definitely!
That band was like a fuckedup MadLibs
On Tuesday (name) went to see the band (animal)(noun). Their backup singer, (first name) (verb)meister, would go on to be really popular in a totally different band. The lyrics were written by (author of unrelated emo sadboi novels.)
Nothing better than 240p YouTube uploads.
That’s funny. I’ve proposed the opposite before, in response to gun control proposals. The “For the Chilllllldrennnnn” Amendment. It would repeal the 2nd and ban abortion. I stipulate that I’d oppose the law totally. But, it really is fun watching proggie heads explode.
” I’ll let G-d judge you for being the murderous piece of shit you are.”
The whole point is to relieve themselves of guilt by the government blessing it.
The new boss sent us all little steel slinkies. This is the biggest workplace development since they upgraded our monitors two years ago.
Canaderp literally tea-baggin MN and WI right here. SMDH.
We had our central heat set on high last night, nominally 73F. House fell to 61F. Two generations ago they called that “every night in the winter.” Now its a once in a lifetime event. So I’ll try not to complain, but my testicles have taken up permanent residency in my abdomen.
On the plus side, no line for the squat rack today. Or anything else at the gym. There were like 6 people there total when I was there.
I don’t run a fire at night, no wood after about 8 PM, mornings are in the low-middle 60s. I get up early, start the fires, the missus wakes up to 75, looks for her cleanest dirty t-shirt.
Two generations ago at my parents’ home the geraniums in the windows froze every year, unless Mom moved them onto the dining room table at night, Kitchen pump was froze. I liked going to school, the bus was usually warm, school was warm. Even into the 50’s some things in rural America were waiting to change.
Is it really windy? It’s 34 here but apparently feels like 22 with wind.
https://www.weather.gov/safety/cold-wind-chill-chart
Polar Vortex
Fuck Off Slaver
MANNERS…
Today’s example of AYFKM:
A few years back, IBM paid us to take a couple of their wafer fabs off of their hands. IBM is/was full of really smart people who can get more out of their equipment than normal humans, because they are a) very smart, and b) working with the same equipment for literally decades. They had a FILO policy on layoffs which meant everyone working there had been working for less than five years or greater than 30.
Anyway, one of the fabs had their metrology start to fail, and since I am always looking to expand my empire, I offered to run their wafers on my tools. I started getting petulant demands that I recheck the work because they were getting fails that they “never” got before. My tools are four orders of magnitude more sensitive then theirs.
It turns out that they wrote their pass/fail limit at 1/30th of the detection capability of their in-house toolset.
I am not surprised.
/not an IBM fan.
LOL
I ran into this with Nokia years ago. They were demanding that we test every product shipped for a performance spec that was at the limits of measurement technology (and still is since it is a function of the earth’s static RF noise). The only way you could get a pass was to clean every connector with alcohol and precisely connect the unit to the test equipment and then cross your fingers.
In the field, that performance would never be realized because they the installers were not cleaning the connectors nor paying attention to anything other than getting the hell off the cell tower as quickly as possible.
When asked if we could go to a sampling test since the unit’s performance limit was largely a function of material choices, Nokia threatened to pull the contract. So we decided to sample the test anyway and fudge the reports. Stupid assholes never knew the difference because it made no difference to how they used the product.
Yeah, that’s when you know their demands are bullshit. Back when I worked for Motorola, we took over the lab that did the QC on the photoresist developer. The engineers using it swore that it had to be 2.385% +/- 0.001% of r the process wouldn’t work.
It turns out that the contractors that had previously run the lab had been faking the results for four years without incident.
I guarantee you that even if the installers cleaned the connectors with IPA, a) they’d leave the bottle open and the IPA will dilute b) use too much and let the residue dry on.
I’m Going to Save Every Dollar I Can.’ Government Workers Are Saving and Looking for Private Industry Jobs to Prepare for Another Shutdown
“I’m going to save every dollar I can until a permanent budget is passed,” says Jazz Sexton, an Internal Revenue Service employee based in Pittsburgh.
Um, shouldn’t you implement a permanant savings plan so that you don’t get blindsided by the next budget impasse?
And who hates their kid enough to name them ‘Jazz’?
Everyone knows what their parents were listening to when they were conceived.
“This is little Slayer, and his baby sister MedaDeth.”
But my non-government job doesn’t grant free vacations with back pay.
What? You mean you don’t have oodles of sympathy for the tax man’s time off?
I’m also expected to show up on President’s day, Columbus day, and Veteran’s day.
There’s at least one worker who isn’t a moron.
He is a moron if he just started that plan now.
A teachable moron, but still a moron.
I’m going to save every dollar I can until a permanent budget is passed
That, my friends, is what missing the point looks like.
And it is, as the Times reports MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle suggested at a Davos panel on the future of masculinity, ultimately an excuse to return to the status quo of all-male leadership boards and exclusive boys’ clubs.
Stephanie Ruhle is a dumb cunt. Almost as dumb as Erin Burnett.
However, there is none dumber than Alisyn Camerota.
A good breakdown of the new Oregon gun control laws:
https://youtu.be/AoFxSBbiVJM
What the fuck Oregon, this is absolute insanity.
It’s not just Oregon, it’s the future. The school kids being indoctrinated today to fear guns and the people who own them will be voters in a few years. The youngest of the commenters here will live to see nationwide confiscation of firearms.
Doesn’t even need to go to confiscation. Pass the law without getting it struck down, and the firearms will turn themselves in a generation later.
Grain of salt, but assuming the numbers are true, 10% turned in 15 years after Australia’s gun ban. No “buyback”, just people turning them in.
https://www.businessinsider.com/australias-2nd-national-gun-amnesty-estimated-30000-guns-turned-in-2017-10
Reality sets in. You can’t do anything legally with an illegal firearm. It’s just a felony waiting in the gun cabinet.
“Felony waiting in the gun cabinet”. Good point.
Hopefully it will get crushed in the courts. I doubt anyone will enforce this crap in the easter 2/3 of the state.
Doesn’t matter if it’s not enforced. A bad law ignored on the books is far better than one struck down. Instafelon when needed.
His background is a bit off. Gun control didn’t start after, nor is it a result of, of the Clackamas Town Center shooting. It’s been going on for years, the modern push really starting with closing the gun show “loophole”. It’s just been increasing as the Democrats control ever larger percentages in the legislature.
This is why the “Sanctuary City” stuff for illegals is going to set a precedent that progs may not like.
If this kind of legislation gets widespread national traction, I could see jurisdictions declaring “sanctuary” for guns. Hell, do it for drugs and prostitution also. Let this farce spin itself apart, the faster the better.
Another thought: sooner or later, the FedGov will, in fact, run out of money. Take Detroit: it has piles and piles of absurd laws, but operates as a functional anarchy since the government doesn’t have the resources to enforce them even if it wanted to. We can only hope for such a future.
That assumes logical consistency and intellectual honesty that progs sorely lack.
The democrats hold super-majorities in both houses of the legislature and the governorship. I wonder if they are going to fuck around and do nothing like the R’s did on a national level when they were in a similar position or if they are going to ram their shit down everyone’s throat?
The R’s had a chance to put a stop to the gun control nonsense nation wide and once again they squandered it. Worthless fucks.
I’m going to go with “ram their shit down everyone’s throat”. That’s what’s happening in NY. We all know the Dems are way better at this shit.
Damn that wind is howling.
That’s not a mistake, that’s a bird. Totally not gay
Tales of teh olden times: I remember, when we were kids, when we went to the farm for Christmas, there would be a heavy coating of frost on the inside of the upstairs bedroom windows. Because that’s why god made blankets.
“that’s why god made blankets”.
And Mom, too, made them. I had so many blankets on my bed I woke up with a back ache. As I recall, 7, counting the quilt(s). Some things I don’t miss about the old days.
A friend of mine had a great-grandma who migrated from Norway and lived in a sod house as a kid.
You couldn’t complain about anything around her without her being able to humiliate you as a complete whiny bitch. She also insisted that her family have a special dinner of lutefisk around Christmas every year (told you she was tough).
She basically said that you would do chores in the morning to keep the livestock living and then huddle under a bunch of blankets and sleep as much as you could.
“special dinner of lutefisk”
Fortunately we weren’t that special, not enough Scandinavian
I still have that. Plus a coating of ice along the cracks. Brand new windows.
I suppose you are driven mad (as I am) by the constant drone of “Samui!” (“it’s cold” in Japanese) that all Nipponese feel obligated to mention at every turn.
“yeah, it’s cold. It’s January. It’s always cold in January.”
People who live in paper houses…
The Real Lesson of 70 Percent Tax Rates on Entrepreneurial Income
Economist Emanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman point to the 1950s to 1980 era as proof that raising the top income tax rate to 70 percent or higher can reduce inequality and constrain the immoderate and unmerited accumulation of riches. However, Saez’s own data suggests that the high personal income rates of that era simply encouraged the rich to modify the composition of their income and effectively pushed entrepreneurial income out of the income tax system.
During that era, many rich people likely sheltered their income in their businesses, which can retain profits indefinitely, much like an IRA. Their wealth was still there during this period, it was just not accounted for on individual tax returns, which academics rely on to measure inequality.
Those days ended with the enactment of the Reagan tax cuts in 1981 and the tax reform of 1986. As the data presented here has shown, few changes in the tax code over the past 70 years have had as big of an influence on the composition of taxpayer’s income, the composition of business forms, and how business income is taxed as the Tax Reform Act of 1986. It is also clear from the data, that these factors greatly influenced the appearance of rising inequality since then.
That’s also when companies started paying people with stuff instead of money – corporate cars, health-benefits, etc…
People peddling this sort of idiocy don’t do this because they believe it will result in economic growth of any kind, but because it allows them to control who gets rewarded and who gets fucked over. It’s always about the power with these sorts of asshats.
People peddling this sort of idiocy don’t do this because they believe it will result in economic growth of any kind,
If I recall correctly, Saez and Zucman’s original article didn’t really try to claim it was good for economic growth. They just tried to dodge it with claims about wealth inequality and democracy.
But they don’t care about equality either. Suggest a baby step toward reducing equality: Eliminate Congressional immunity from insider trading. Then see how they really care about equality.
Why do you think that was? Envy/jealousy driven shit like this is never about lifting up all people, but about fucking over those that the people making these suggestions feel unjustly are doing better than them.
I think that’s part of it. But, I think there’s more. I think these types have a God complex. They see the people they seek to rule as props for them to manipulate to their personal aesthetic.
Oh, I am sure there is a ton of that. Nobody is as dangerous as someone that thinks they are on a divine mission to save something or another. Practically all the real evil shit came from people on a crusade to fix something or another they believed was wrong.
It’s always about the power
Power is the end not the means.
Really interesting article. This fixation on the appearance of inequality is maddening. Loosen things up, let people keep what they earn and watch the machine kick into high gear.
But of course that will never happen.
Yeah, I’m going to “store” all my wealth in my business where a lawsuit or downturn can quickly reduce it to zero.
“…reduce inequality and constrain the immoderate and unmerited accumulation of riches.”
People think I am over the top when I say that the left uses taxes to destroy your ability to accumulate wealth. It seems the only people that fully agree with me are lefties.
*Cue Obama saying that taxes aren’t about revenue, they are about fairness.
Saez’s own data suggests that the high personal income rates of that era simply encouraged the rich to modify the composition of their income and effectively pushed entrepreneurial income out of the income tax system.
Entrepreneurial tax accounting.
We should have different rules for women polititions (democrats only) because their such fragile cupcakes. (Nikki Haley says FU)
https://hotair.com/archives/2019/01/30/wapo-columnist-kamala-harris-love-life-bounds/
Trump’s love life, though, completely legit target. But let’s never talk about how Harris advanced her career by banging a powerful married man 30 years her senior.
She was using her power as a woman!
Maybe I’m going to sound like a prude here, but I honestly think the only reason you’re seeing the “her love life is out of bounds” is that people have been so circumspect in describing her behavior. If people called her what she is – a bigger whore than any of the women she made Backpage unavailable for – I doubt we’d be hearing this sort of baloney.
Yup.
If her dalliance with Willie Brown hadn’t been so blatantly transactional, there might be a bit more leeway for her. But it speaks volumes about who she is that once Brown couldn’t help her career you could hear her spit his cock out of her mouth.
And Brown freely links his appointment of her to various commissions to the fact he was banging her. God bless him.
A small anecdote in regards to the story about businesses and regulation in SF. I frequently go to a wholesaler to get parts. Because I am on the road between jobs all day I would often use their bathroom. This is an old warehouse and the bathroom is on a second floor with two sets of stairs and no elevator. Last year sometime I went to use the bathroom and it had a lock on it. I asked the ladies in accounting what was going on. “The city inspector came a few days ago and said it had to be exclusively for employees since it is not ADA compliant.” This is just one small example of the asinine bullshit that goes on here.
The other thing not really mentioned at all in the article is that SF has been quite busy getting rid of street parking wherever it can and then zealously enforcing expired meters in the areas you can still find parking. Go one minute over and you can be sure there will be a 70 buck plus fine on your vehicle. Total mystery as to why businesses are having trouble here.
Smart parking meter companies are awesome for cities. An old company I worked for met with a Canadian company that was big into smart parking meters and they were insanely aggressive when it came to maximizing revenues for cities who installed their meters. I can’t remember the actual numbers, but I remember that old dumb meters would make several hundred of dollars a week for the city. A smart meter would make thousands. Why? Because everyone quickly learned that any time you parked you had to pay or you would be slapped with a ticket (at best) or be towed (very quickly).
They company we met with would openly say that they were not a parking management company. They were a ticket management company.
Their meters had a camera that would snap a pic of the license plate when a car parked. It (for a service fee) run the car’s plate and see if the owner was wanted for any warrants and notify the police. They could also flash all their meters and look for a particular plate in real time. Very spooky shit.
I had never thought of what such an aggressive parking policy might do to retail locations. But yeah, I can see how getting screwed every time you park in a city might teach you to not ever stop your car unless you absolutely had to.
Shit, and I stopped shopping in Albany proper when they installed red light cameras.
The Canadian company also did red light cameras and they would bitch about how many US cities and states banned them as unconstitutional. The right to face your accuser in court was a horrible concept to them.
I apologize for those hosers.
C-eh-N-eh-D-eh!
Genius
The indictment of Roger Stone for lying to Congress about his efforts to reach out to WikiLeaks during the campaign, and of intimidating a witness into lying, followed this script. Like many previous indictments, this one largely tracked to public news reports but contained a few unreported, eyebrow-raising details, such as the charge that “a senior Trump Campaign official was directed to contact” Stone about WikiLeaks’ plans to release additional emails. The indictment, characteristically, was tightly drawn. As former federal prosecutor Joyce White Vance points out, Mueller had good reason to limit the charges he brought against Stone and other targets. If he charged him with conspiracy, Stone and other conspiracy defendants would have to be given access to Mueller’s evidence of this crime.
It’s all there, he’s just waiting to spring the trap!
New Yorker writer accuses Trump’s defenders of desperate and childlike desire to believe in his innocence. Uses her desperate and childlike desire to believe in his guilt to “debunk” them.
Any day, now, Mueller will perp walk Trump out the front door of the White House, accompanied by a CNN camera crew.
Am I missing something here? It seems to be that every person Mueller has indicted was indicted for post election “crimes”.
Where’s the Russian collusion that happened *before* The Downfall of The Most Qualified Candidate Ever?
Has it been proven yet that Russia was the source of the Wikileak’s data? Back in olden days, Assange said that they were not the source. The author, Chait, sure seems like he believes that the Russians absolutely were the source and that proves collusion somehow.
Given the fact that Hillary’s email server was incredibly insecure (and possibly sending copies of all emails to someone in China), I think it is a stretch to say that only Russia could have gotten those emails.
“Has it been proven yet that Russia was the source of the Wikileak’s data?
Actually all that was proven was that the Russians, amongst with a slew of other bad actors, had the info. People tend to forget that Debbie Wasserman- Shutlz’s IT experts from the Pakistani intelligence services – Imran Awan – had compromised the DNC servers so badly that every intelligence agency out there had access to its content. Note that that case never went anywhere either, since it would have deeply damaging the DNC, which was more worried about what would have to be disclosed at trial than it was about national security of any kind,and cemented the reputation of the elite members of our deep state ruling class as a bunch of fucking inept and downright dangerous cunts, and hurt the deep state. But this Russia hoax shit has stayed alive because it helps the deep state hide how horrible it is.
I’d bet my left nut that the Russians were not the original source.
There’s the wild insecurity of her email server, there’s the fact that Podesta basically violated every possible IT security principle regarding passwords, there’s the crazily shady actions surrounding both the DNC and the Clintons, and, let’s not forget, there’s the content of the emails themselves which the DNC doesn’t even deny (aside from some lukewarm intimations that the Russians forged them)…but the major criminal issue here is the possibility that someone associated with Trump asked Wikileaks for the emails. Wikileaks. A group that created a website to release leaked material to the public.
But people who voted for Trump are delusional. Right.
I seem to recall a statement during one of the ultimately pointless House hearings that something like five foreign actors had access to Herself’s server, and they may have even said that Russia wasn’t one of them.
Why would anyone start with a presumption of innocence? All the Top Men know you start with the fact that Trump is guilty and you work from there.
Trump is the enemy of the deep state status quo. He is threatening the lucrative and cushy world the credentialed elite class has created for itself, and that can not be allowed to go unchallenged. Trump MUST be destroyed. both to stop him and set an example for anyone else that might challenge the elite left’s class.
Just had a Tobias Funke moment. I was heating up soup in the microwave and it’s the ‘drinkable’ kind from Campbell’s that they fill to the freaking brim and said to myself:
“I’d take a half inch less to avoid getting a mess all over the place.”
Cooper, you blowhard!
“I’d take a half inch less to avoid getting a mess all over the place.”
And risk getting sued by the State of California for consumer fraud?
OT: I want to thank A Leap at the Wheel for his advice on wet shave equipment. I got the stuff in last night and did my first shave this morning. Only one nik that needed the styptic pencil.
Face or sack? Sorry 🙁
Don’t forget about me!
/Uranus
*grabs clump of hair and pulls*
Only one nik that needed the styptic pencil.
I have used a mug and a brush since I started shaving, because that’s what my father and my grandfathers used. But there’s a reason those “safety razors” have a market share of about zilch.
I don’t know. One nik the first time with the safety razor, I can live with. It’s a nice shave.
Because it doesn’t technically shave as close as the wonderblades. Less irritation for sure.
Just watch the angle and don’t try to go too fast.
Modern razors will give you a passable shave no matter what you do with them.
A DE razor will give you a shitty shave and a crime scene if you aren’t careful, but a great shave if you are.
That set up just begs for legions of plebs to use one, and men of culture to use the other.
Basically, this: https://imgur.com/ULcDU4G
Okay, now the straight razor is just over the top. I trust my barber with one. But, I don’t think I’m ready to start waving one of those around my face.
I no longer use any shaving cream at all. I just use a safety razor and that is it.
Okay, I now have sufficient snow to make awesome snowmen and tunnels/forts. I demand the lake freeze now.
Am I missing something here? It seems to be that every person Mueller has indicted was indicted for post election “crimes”.
Or long-past acts which are in no way related to the election, or Trump.
Remember that if you are on a special commission charged with investigating a specific crime and that crime doesn’t exist, you are out of a job. Unlike other people in the legal profession there is no “next case”. So if you want to keep collecting a check and get news cycles, you have to invent crimes to keep the show going. That’s what Mueller is doing.
He’s not in it for the money. He’s in it because he is the champion of the Swamp. He’s going to stop Trump and the hordes of rubes from throwing off the yoke of the Top Men.
I was talking in general about these special commissions and the scope of their investigations. I am fully aware the in Mueller’s case the shenanigans are really about making sure the commission never actually looks into what happens and discovers the real criminal behavior was being done by several US 3 letter agencies under direction from the Obama administration to help steal an election for Clinton and then delivers that to the American people. It is absolutely the deep state protecting itself from people finding out how corrupt they have gotten (along with how inept they are, but that I believe most people already know).
I demand the lake freeze now.
Ice fishing, so you can tell teh grandkids?
Or so you can do donuts in the pickup?
So I don’t have to pile snow higher than my head anytime soon.
“Smollett was still wearing the noose around his neck when police arrived at his friend’s apartment nearly 45 minutes after the attack, according to a police spokesperson.”
https://twitter.com/alimhaider/status/1090441382001545216?s=19
That link to the Eddie Murphy “Trading Places” skit accurately reflects what likely did happen here. I hope when the truth finally comes out these people will be held accountable for a change, but in the day and age where the law is there to get the enemies of the left and to protect agents of the left, I suspect they will get away with this shit…
Yes, he lied, but he meant well. He raised awareness of a real issue threatening our nation. Bla bla bla…
“Began a conversation”
Which skit?
https://i.imgur.com/7CHpzpk.gif
Or how about Master Thespian?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmZSkWBJwBU
Acting!
Smollett was still wearing the noose around his neck when police arrived at his friend’s apartment nearly 45 minutes after the attack,
Because that’s exactly what you would do if two masked assailants put the noose on you during a violent assault.
Vortex update: city offices, and main courts were closed. Their notice went out on the Twitter page, not the website. That does me no good, as I don’t use Twitter. Instead, I venture downtown – 40 minutes early thank you very much – to find out the closing. How did I get the notice? Client bitching me out in a text.. . . oh yeah.
Apparently court shutting down has happened 2 times in 27 years.
And they thought a tweet was the proper avenue to announce it? Do they have a 22 year old in charge of things there?
The Canadian company also did red light cameras and they would bitch about how many US cities and states banned them as unconstitutional. The right to face your accuser in court was a horrible concept to them.
PROVE YOUR INNOCENCE
Conservatives secretly wish they were Gulag Barbie
Ann Coulter is secretly obsessed with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Steve Bannon is daydreaming about ways to team up with her. And Republican representative Matt Gaetz, a second-term congressman from Florida, openly admits his desire to emulate the freshman congresswoman from New York.
All three conservatives are part of AOC’s ever-growing right-wing fan club, which Politico shined a light on Wednesday. The 29-year-old has ideas they revile, but conservatives see in her someone loved by the media, someone who can “rally the left to populist causes,” and someone who reminds them of Donald Trump.
It’s a facile comparison. Yes, both Ocasio-Cortez and Trump can effortlessly command attention and both rile up their political opponents if they so much as sneeze. But while Trump’s appeal is based on the (false) notion that he’s a brilliant businessman and his ability to speak to, and for, a narrow group of aggrieved Americans, Ocasio-Cortez’s brand is authenticity and inclusivity. Trump doesn’t know how grocery stores work. Ocasio-Cortez cooks mac and cheese on Instagram.
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Ocasio-Cortez is not just about good tweets, she’s about good ideas. And you shouldn’t expect to see any of those coming out of the right-wing fever swamp any time soon.
Yup. What I’d like to know is, what sort of sauce will go well with that golden-egg-laying goose when you kill and eat it.
Oh my God.
Dude, she cooks mac and cheese. On Instagram. Just like most working-class Americans.
I can’t wait for her and Warren to get together and have a beer on Facebook.
It’ll be like a polar vortex of authenticity and inclusivity, I’ll bet.
I just love the idea of the brain-trust at a place like NYMag sitting around the conference table trying to stifle the giggles when they pitch this crap to each other.
Ocasio-Cortez’s brand is authenticity and inclusivity
Nothing says “authenticity” like totally retconning your past and adopting a completely new persona.
“Trump doesn’t know how grocery stores work. Ocasio-Cortez cooks mac and cheese on Instagram.”
And if she gets her way, that’s about all you’ll be able to buy at the grocery store.
Hah! You will not get to buy shit if people like her get her way. You will have to stand in line with all the other serfs, and use your government issued coupon for whatever they allow you to eat. And Mac & Cheese for sure will not be one of those things.
And not even the good Kraft Mac ‘n Cheese, it’ll be the store brand stuff. The $0.39/box stuff that has zero dairy in it and those weird macaroni noodles.
she’s about good ideas
Let me know when she has one.
Steve Bannon is daydreaming about ways to team up with her
I’ll bet he is . . . .