Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a glorious morning it is for everyone but the American taxpayer who is now on the hook for over 22,000,000,000,000.
American’s escape from socialistic blue state shitholes continues its march forward. If you are a Glib blue state refugee, please reach out to the Glib community for assistance. Glib’s Gulch has not been built yet, but at a minimum we can help you escape to freer lands.
Cocaine Mitch to force Democrats to publicly, on record, put their name to the Green Deal.
Ted Cruz urges Senate to pass bill using El Chapo’s fortune to pay for The Wall™
7 year old boy tries to ride bike 5 miles on a highway to his grandmother’s house to save his diabetic father who passed out. God, I love children.
People upset that an American hunter put $110,000 into a poor area of the world’s pocket.
1.4 million people drop off food stamps.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
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We got ice in the overnight.
Only an eighth of an inch, but enough ice to be annoying.
I am very glad I cleared my driveway last night.
I mean, I had to do it again this morning, but it was much faster than it would have been.
The plow buried my car. then the ice came and glazed the snowbank.
I finally moved my mailbox back far enough that it doesn’t get decapitated every time the plow comes by.
I’d be most upset if the plow decapitated my mailbox – it’s built into my house.
Apparently your house is close enough to the road that it might be a possibility.
Worse, it’s a corner lot.
I regret clearing mine yesterday. Ice on top of snow is easier to deal with than ice stuck to asphalt.
Unless it’s stupid cold, salt usually deals with ice on asphalt.
I’ve got a solid 1/3 inch of ice coating the driveway right now. I salted the sidewalk and steps, but I’m guessing it would take 30 or 40 bucks of salt to salt the driveway. Supposed to be 42 degrees tomorrow, think I’ll just wait it out.
For that much ice, put out sand to provide traction and wait for thaw.
Good suggestion.
I left work yesterday just as the snow was turning to sleet. I was worried the driveway was going to be a sheet of ice this morning, but thankfully it wasn’t.
Don’t Upstaters own skates?
COME ON PEOPLE!
No. No sane person does.
I’m in the Catskills, not upstate.
Oh, and, Mornin’ Banjos.
Mornin’
Rain all day yesterday with temps in the 40’s, switching to the 20’s overnight, and the rain changing to snow. I decided with the snow and ice, today was going to be a work from home day.
Yeah, we are supposed to have rain all day today.
And Highs are not supposed to get more than the low 80s. I may have to break out a heavy t-shirt.
Brrrrr….
#SoFlaLife
I’ll take the rain, but not those sweltering temperatures.
Last week ice knocked out electricity for 150k+ plus homes in the area. Now it’s just snow – lots and lots of snow. Driving in with the Mustang today was an adventure.
Our kids have only had school three days this month in the thumb area.
First ICE makes a fake school to entrap illegals, now they are conspiring with the Russians to cut off power??
Mornin’, Banjos!
Mornin’
Dropping of Food Assistance Programs?!!
MORE EVIDENCE OF FOOD INSECURITEEZ!
Rethuglikkkanz are kicking people off the welfare rolls to starve!
/NPR
Food Assistance Programs
We’re so wealthy even our food gets assistance!
Hey that Corn doesn’t shuck itself
We did develop a self-shucking corn, but anti-GMO efforts quashed it.
Plus it horrified everyone who saw the process to the point of madness, and no one wanted to eat it.
+1 Yellow Sign
Go shuck yourself
These people who didn’t want to work are forced to steal immigrants’ jobs!
When I was a poor college student, there were several food banks in the area that gave out food – for free!
I was too proud to go them and instead subsisted on my small weekly funds to live on Mac ‘n’ cheese, spaghetti, tamales, etc. But some friends had no such qualms and would load up for the week by visiting several.
There was a Hare Krishna house 2 doors down from me in Tallahassee in the FSU/FAMU student ghetto; they would do a weekly open dinner for the community. The food was often quite good (I love Indian food, YMMV), it was frequented by ideologically addled coeds (I
loveonce loved ideologically addled coeds, YMMV), but it always came with a heathen sermon and accompanying ritual mumbo-jumbo (I can dig it but it lacked variety, YMMV).But did you score with the hippie chicks?
Never got the appeal of smelly, unwashed women with hairy legs & pits. If I was into fucking monkeys, I would just do that.
[standing ovation]
The limitless supply of mushrooms that grow in Leon and Wakulla Counties helps out.
There is a dark haired cashier at a sushi joint I frequent who doesn’t shave her pits and for some reason on her it’s very sexy (YMMV).
Not knocking your tastes. I had a roommate when I was doing my college thing that liked hairy women. I jokingly told him he should try to fuck some ape so he could really get that hairy thing going, and I saw the wheels turning there as his eyes lit up, and almost lost it. I would not be surprised to find out he got arrested for going into animal research and plowing the monkeys.
To each their own.
The food pantry I worked at for 5 years (until January, when the Millenials that work there decided coming in every 5th Saturday was icky) featured many people 3 balloons or more waddling through. Some did look like they were in dire need, but they were in the minority.
Three balloons???
“America is the only country where the poor people are fat.”
And complain they are not being given enough free shit too…
“Gimme my Obama phone!”
“Our revsed policy mandates that Obamaphones can only be used to call an Obama.”
My grad school days were spent in Salt Lake City. Our greatest bonanza was when Idaho farmers would periodically protest low potato prices by driving truckloads down to SLC and give them away. I was not too proud to accept.
Irish Potato Famine in reverse.
So, let me get this straight. the plan to protest low prices is to expend money on fuel, and give away stock unreimbursed, further driving down demand?
Something about Idaho turns people into tards.
I’m looking at YOU, Spudalicious.
Wha?
Wanna fight? Behind the Idanha at 3:00 p.m.
Some if the food banks in Boise are generous.
Trump is starving the poors! -CNN
Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a glorious morning it is for everyone but the American taxpayer who is now on the hook for over 22,000,000,000,000.
If you had 1000 dollars for every year the universe has existed you would still need 9 billion more years to have enough money to pay off the debt
Thanks, Debbie Downer!
Here’s a Pick me up. If you had 1000 dollars for every Year the universe has existed, you wouldn’t have as much money as the US GDP last year (or any year since 2007).
If every person on the planet gave you $1,000, you would still need nearly another two planets worth of people to pay it off.
And they’ll regard it as cheap compared to when we just declare bankruptsy and trigger a general collapse.
Probably the other way around with a civil war mixed in, but yeah – that money is never getting paid back.
Easy-peasy you just inflate the currency faster than the universe expands.
Ok, that’s brilliant.
Wait…. maybe that is the source of the “dark energy” cosmologists have been wondering about!
“7 year old boy tries to ride bike 5 miles on a highway to his grandmother’s house to save his diabetic father who passed out.”
…
Toxic Masculinity….at such a young age. *sigh*
Better than toxic ketoacidosis.
Or the heartbreak of psoriasis.
The public school system will fix that.
I assume the father was charged with child endangerment.
Not only can’t Tesla deliver on products order, It’s almost as if There’s a problem with the product to boot.
That reads like a conspiracy theory blog.
And?
As I have pointed out before, the distinction between a “committee” and a “conspiracy” is mostly a combination of secrecy, and whether you approve of their goals.
I admit, I mostly hate that Musk misused Nicola’s name for a shit product.
in this case “conspiracy theory” is the term, not simply “conspiracy”.
Intended to connote an irrationally derived concoction a-la the “moon landing hoax” type conspiracy theory.
I have no knowledge of the topic myself, beyond normal media consumption. I was merely referring to the style of writing and the huge logical leaps taken. Some of that could be down to use of jargon and the assumption of an already existing base of knowledge on the topic of NTSB incompetence in the context of an ongoing critique of the agency, to which I have not been a party.
My personal NTSB barometer would be that they are exceptionally conservative and over-cautious in their work, which would argue against some conspiracy to exonerate Tesla. More importantly, if there were some thumb on the scale over at the NTSB with regard to an upstart like Tesla, my experience would lead me to believe it would run in the direction of favoring established industry players like the big three, the big Japanese and European manufacturers and against new players.
Ok, I read a little more from the site.
They are a lobbyist organization wearing some sort of facade. It is unclear who pays the bills, They appear to be modeled on the Nader empire, and include Nader alums.
I am so glad that the Senate has adopted trolling as a standard way of doing business.
Well, with the house in crazy hands, it’s not as if they’re going to get anything passed, might as well have fun.
I prefer that to actually passing more laws and stuff.
I’m entertained by it.
Sadly this does seem to be the primary purpose of modern politicking – to keep us entertained.
Sadly this does seem to be the primary purpose of
modernpoliticking – to keep us entertained.It’s always been this way. We just think there was some nobler time of yesteryear.
If you are a Glib blue state refugee, please reach out to the Glib community for assistance. Glib’s Gulch has not been built yet, but at a minimum we can help you escape to freer lands.
I and my wife will be moving from NYC to Idaho in one year. I was born in NYC but raised in Montana. Came back to NY after High School, lived here ever since. It’s time to leave. I hate this fucking city now.
Nice. What part of Idaho (IYDMMA)?
Coeur D’Alene. We brought my mom there last October. So we’ll be by her.
So you’re saying you’re a Nazi… /jk
Sounds great, and in the pretty part of Idaho.
Enjoy the pizza while you can.
*narrows gaze*
The deliciousness and pizza-ness of Chicago tasty food product in no way diminishes the deliciousness of NYC’s Neapolitan-derived pizza food product.
Slammer is ready for Fine Artisan Pizza.
No really:
http://www.fireartisanpizza.com/dinner/
Derp, that says fire and not fine.
I now remembered why AOC’s new Green Deal was so familiar: It reminded me of the girl that ran for 5th grade president that promised everyone candy for lunch, longer recesses, no more math classes, and all the paste you can eat!
AOC plan
Perpetual motion machines to the rescue?
Glib’s Gulch has not been built yet, but at a minimum we can help you escape to freer lands.
We had to start over after the great Lube Flood of ’13
We TOLD Jesse to knock it off with the 55 gallon drums, but Noooo.
I am disappointed that I can’t find the episode of Mythbusters where they poured personal lubricant on an ice rink on youtube.
Was Kari involved?
My dream woman. In every way.
*Loses balance due to monstrously virile erection*
>>People upset that an American hunter put $110,000 into a poor area of the world’s pocket.
Reminds me of an old Onion article:
Point/Counterpoint: Nigeria May Be A Developing Nation, But It Is Rich In Culture vs. Get Me Out Of This Godforsaken Hellhole
More Onion Nigeria Content
Ah, The Onion. Back when it actually was funny and not owned by a prog asshat that turned it into a joke itself.
Yeah, Good satire is hard to come by these days. IowaHawk does a pretty good job, and babylonbee can be hit or miss. Onion was fantastic.
Duffleblog.
Gesundheit.
Duffleblog hits that Onion level, but for a specific Area. The Onion used to be able to satirize all parts of society.
The Onion just predicts the near future.
Accurately.
babylonbee is much more consistently funny if you have a dog in the calvinism/arminianism fight.
And frankly, who doesn’t in these divided times?
*raises hand* I don’t.
Hmmm…one hand up, one hand down. You don’t even agree with yourself!
The Wittenburg Door was pretty good before it shut down in 2008. It was the predecessor to Babylon Bee.
And yes, the original creators spelled it wrong in 1971. Apparently accidentally.
I read “back when it was funny” and thought “hey, the Onion response to 9/11 was one of the most brilliant things I’ve ever read!
Then I remembered that 9/11 was nigh on 2 decades ago.
Unpossible!
you know you are getting old when all of the things that you count as “new stuff” happened before college kids were born.
Yuppers. Kids hitting college admissions next fall will have been born in 2001. Class of 2019 is this Spring/ Summer.
The Onion isn’t completely beholden to progs.
Ted Cruz urges Senate to pass bill using El Chapo’s fortune to pay for The Wall™
Fuck you Ted Cruz. At least some portion of El Chapo’s fortune was made providing a service people wanted.
Although it will be fun to watch the Dems all vote against it.
How is that not a bill of attainder?
I’m going to guess it’s phrased something like “Assets seized in forfeiture proceedings from persons who have made over $XXXXXX in the illegal narcotics trade”
I guess because asset forfeiture already exits, and this is just a matter of deciding how to use the seized assets?
Maybe so, but Cruz’s too cute by half naming of the bill blurs that line.
From wiki
Bills of attainder were sometimes criticised as a convenient way for the King to convict subjects of crimes and confiscate their property without the bother of a trial – and without the need for a conviction or indeed any evidence at all.
Sounds exactly like modern asset forfeiture in many cases.
Settled law, buddy. Settled law…..
How is that not a bill of attainder?
Once them money is forfeited to the feds as part of his criminal conviction, the feds can do what they want with it. This is just appropriating it for the wall.
Since he has been convicted, this isn’t the kind of asset forfeiture that we have come to know and loathe. In fact, a criminal conviction as a condition of forfeiting assets is exactly what most libertarians have been demanding as reform.
I don’t see a bill of attainder issue or a due process issue here. As a PR stunt, Cruz’s bill cuts the legs out from under the Dem argument that we can’t “afford” to spend $5BB on the wall.
This
Actually, they just put “this is not a bill of attainder” in the language of the bill. Problem solved.
Works for me
/Roberts
When people leave government assistance programs it is a bad sign for the nanny staters. Expect actions to be taken to cripple the economy to bring these people back!
I hope Newsom actually does this to these deserving entities. And I hope it burns them despite the monopoly they created with the help of people like Newsom. Fuck these fascists.
Nice way to destroy some of the value of those companies and then make them move out of state.
You think they would learn anything, though other than to bring their desire for fascist government that helps them maintain a near monopoly?
Let’s see if any of them have backbone to actually move out of California.
*Perks up*
/Texas
“He went further by suggesting the companies share some of those profits, joining other politicians calling for higher levies on the wealthy in U.S. society.
“California’s consumers should also be able to share in the wealth that is created from their data,” Newsom said. “And so I’ve asked my team to develop a proposal for a new data dividend for Californians, because we recognize that data has value and it belongs to you.”
What the heck is going on with these insane parasites? Newsome is just as retarded as that buffoon from the Bronx.
SexRetard sells.These days of woke fucks going crazy because Trump-Putin-Hitler won an election they had rigged for Hillary sure seems to validate that premise sir.
7 year old boy tries to ride bike 5 miles on a highway to his grandmother’s house to save his diabetic father who passed out. God, I love children.
When i was 17 i saw a kid eat it on his bike, on a fairly busy road. I pulled over and gave him a ride home. Even then i made sure to bug out as soon as i dropped him off. No good deed goes unpunished and all that.
A couple years back I was doing a long-ish ride, and ran across two different people who got clipped by cars on the same day. One was a little black boy, I came up just as he was getting his bike up in the road. The asshole who clipped him had already gone. I called for some emergency services (no helmet, and looked like a possible shoulder injury), and gave the kid a card with my phone number on it. Later that same day, I came across an older black woman who was walking her bike down the street after getting clipped. She was scraped up but alright. Performed first aid, and helped her on her way.
Same driver?
Possible, but unlikely. The two were a couple miles apart, and the kid got hid by a car making a turn away from my path.
Pervasive racism in Trump’s America. SMH
I gave up bike commuting after one asshole cut me off close enough that I could’ve banged on their rear window. Not worth dying over.
Performed first aid
HEY NOW.
1.4 million people drop off food stamps.
But where did the drop them off?
The Sarlacc.
@ my house! Party at Agent Cooper’s this weekend!!!
MISOGYNY!
Deja Vu. She got kicked off the team again already?
I was talking about the pattern…
TW: Media Matters
Conservatives invoke murderous dictators to attack Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Green New Deal
I heard that the FAQ was totes fake, hacked by the Russublicans.
Also i saw some dipshit get upset that destroying swaths of the economy (clearly hyperbolic) gets so much attention when we have TRUMP as a RUSSIAN STOOGE!! (and the mesicans aren’t paying for that wall!)
That hacking claim was a transparent excuse, and one that would have backfired hugely had we had an honest media willing to pursue that further. See, if Little Miss Gulag was hacked it was probably a password=Stal1n “hack.” And if it was a real hack then why is the house computer system not being audited (answer DWS).
I would love to be present at the talking-to she got from Nancy over that.
Did they really claim it was hacked. I saw some stooge claim that it was a false FAQ pushed by republicans as disinformation… But someone showed them the PDF’s metadata…
The most terrifying part of it? That democrats think sending fake copies of political pieces is totally normal.
“Well, we do it all the time, so of course everyone else does.”
Believe that they mistook Mark Dice’s fake GND tweet as containing the “unwilling to work” part. IOW, they either were intentionally being obtuse or are really that obtuse. It’s so absurd that I’m going with both.
Link to Mark Dice’s GND tweet?
Here’s him referencing it. Can’t stand the guy, so I’m not gonna look any further through his account.
https://twitter.com/MarkDice/status/1095062150672920576
Considering she claimed that the obviously-edited Stewart-like parody of her making an ass of herself re: Israel was an attempt to spread misinformation via “doctored video,” I’m going with DARVO.
So they’re admitting Stalin and Mao were murderous tyrants? Or is that a smear, too?
It’s a desperate attempt to deflect from the fact that these murderous cunts are actually heroes to them, by pretending the right is not being serious. After all, Karla Marx’s plan will not kill over 120 million and put billions in misery, and not for lack of trying, but just because the US doesn’t have enough people to make that happen.
And yet how many people compare Trump to Hitler?
That’s because woke people know it is true!
Trump = Hitler in their eyes on ? grounds but no one can call out AOC for the no-shit downright Stalinist/Maoist she is when it comes to the policies and goals in her NGD.
Sounds fair to me.
What a bunch of mendacious turds.
Right-wing media figures immediately misled their audiences
By reading it?
“How dare you use our own words against us!”
“Republicans Pounce!”
Literacy privilege!
Who shoots a goat? Really?
Also I was called for 3 days in Graz but one and a half days in I have nothing to do here. I try to get on with my usual work but find it hard to focus.
Go get good food and beer instead.
Proschtli!
These days when I don’t have much work to do, I at least can enjoy Tel-Aviv beaches.
I can’t believe no one has posted this request yet…
(((pics)))?
I’ve never shot a goat, but I’ve choked a chicken.
Spanked a monkey?
Self-shucked his corn?
Bopped the baloney?
Burped the turtle?
I always liked the credits at the end of Grumpy Old Men:
“He’s paddling the skin-canoe to tuna town.
Mountain goats are seriously hard to hunt, because of the terrain they live in. You have to be in excellent shape, and you better be able to make a long shot under difficult conditions. I assume that is a wild mountain goat, which is a legitimate trophy hunt. I have no doubt that the meat was properly disposed of in misc. Pakistani stewpots.
Go skiing.
While I’d like to be optimistic about the migration of people to lower-tax states, the cynic in me wonders if these are not economic migrants but an invading force of progs – whether deliberately so or not. How many times have we heard from Glibs in those population-gaining states about the Californians moving in and ruining the place?
Most people are economically illiterate. They find a nice cheap place to live, then discover that the place doesn’t offer as many “services” (free shit) as the place they left and start agitating for more services and engaging in magical thinking that that won’t lead to higher taxes.
Also, climate is a significant draw for AZ.
How many times have we heard from Glibs in those population-gaining states about the Californians moving in and ruining the place?
My former deep red district in north Dallas flipped blue for the first time since the 70s this last election. The difference? Thousands of Californians and Illinoise due to big companies relocating their HQs.
“due to big companies relocating their HQs”
I think you’re on to something there, Trashy.
I just saw Cuomo lamenting that the millionaires were departing NY in droves. Reminded me of our old governor Malloy doing the same when “The People’s Republic of Connecticut” decided to balance their massive spending deficit by fleecing the millionaires, and these millionaires promptly moved away.
WHY DON’T YOU PEOPLE THAT WE PRETEND GOT RICH BY ROBBING THE POOR JUST ACCEPT THE MUGGING AND THANK US FOR IT, HUH?
/commie- fascist pol
Modifying an old ethnic joke…
Did you hear about the progressive who moved from Illinois to Texas? It raised the income tax rates in BOTH states.
/Looks around Ohio.
I think we’re still safe here, thanks to the rural areas. While the big cities are strongly blue, they aren’t big enough (yet) to outvote the rest of the state.
“How many times have we heard from Glibs in those population-gaining states about the Californians moving in and ruining the place?”
This is not limited to people from CA. It seems blue staters are completely unable to understand they are forced to leave their impossibly expensive failing blue states because of the progressive shit they demanded. Just like they tell you communism, the real thing, never happened because the right people were not in charge, they then proceed to recreate the same proggie shit that ruined their state in the first place. Could it be malice? Who knows? Stupid people have real stupid reasoning.
I’m aware of the Masshole problem, and in Virginia we have a Yankee problem, but the four top-gainer states are Idaho, Nevada, Utah and Arizona which suggests (but only suggests) migration from California because of propinquity.
Also, see Trashy’s excellent observation above.
25 years ago when I was a kid and living in Spokane my parents used to make fun of what a redneck hell hole Boise was. It’s a Portland annex now. It’s insane how much that city has changed just in that relatively short amount of time.
Spokane ridiculing Boise for being a hellhole? Ok…
Well, specifically a redneck hell hole. At the time Spokane was substantially larger and a bit more cosmopolitan by comparison to Boise. Although my parents didn’t really like Spokane that much either. I don’t think anybody does. People just end up there and it’s like the hotel California.
I am in South Florida. Every bad thing down here is due to folks who migrated from New York and New Jersey. They are a blight on humanity.
We aren’t sending you our best. But some, I assume, are good people.
I was going to say the same thing. For the love of fuck, PLEASE stay where you are and eat each other.
Yeah, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about relocation, both personally and for glibs in general. Unfortunately, there is no way to “shut the door” against prog in-migration while staying true to libertarian principals. And there are many of them and few of us. And once they start ramping up the free stuff it affects the welfare class.
…attracts the welfare class.
Yeah, yet another reason why I’m not a libertarian. Taking the principle to its logical conclusion results in collapse.
Under the current system, yes. But if we had an enforced constitution there would be no federal welfare, etc.
Also, there is the pipe dream of an actual libertarian state, somewhere, somehow.
Also, there is the pipe dream of an actual libertarian state, somewhere, somehow.
Not mentioning any names, but maybe if some people had moved to NH for the Free State Project to get things kicked off…
Why not have a Free State East AND a Free State West. I thought libertarians liked market competition?
Maybe if the FSP hadn’t picked fucking NH but rather NM or even WY
The FSP was never going to work, you’ve seen how we all argue about weather.
Winter sucks and is the worst, btw.
HM did his part.
I contend that FSP new Mexico would have been heaven.
Las Vegas is another example. I first moved there in 2005, and even just from then to now it’s like a different planet in a lot of parts of town. Tony Hsieh’s grand experiment in gentrifying the crackhead district of Old Downtown notwithstanding. God what a fucking sped.
Of the nine states with no personal income tax, seven experienced positive domestic migration in the past year, totaling more than 339,000 on net. On the other side of the equation, a majority of states with the highest personal income tax rates experienced net domestic out-migration last year.
Well, maybe they are leaving for the right reasons?
an invading force of progs – whether deliberately so or not.
It is, unfortunately. They leave the bad situations they create and continue to vote for things that made those bad situations in the first place.
It’s not “Californians moving in and ruining the place”; it’s their kids.
go on…
‘I don’t wish it on anyone’ WWE star Paige reveals sex tape humiliation
Only humiliating if you just laid there.
This isn’t when she planned to leak the video, so she’s humiliated.
Yeah, I was gonna say. I don’t buy for even one fucking second that there has ever been a legit “hack” or “leak” of a celebrity sex tape.
The bankruptcy of Gawker, begs to differ.
/Hulk Hogan
Even in that case I suspect the “leak” was orchestrated. Just not by Hogan.
Shut up, Bevis
Oh woe the top men that embraced their elitism too happily!
This thing is a mass of confusion, half truths, and stupidity driving to the point that the elitist cunts that think they know better and will tell us what to do, only fault was to embrace said elitism. The fact that they wrecked everything they touched seems to never be mentioned. At this point I expect better decisions from a bunch of car mechanics than I do from all these elite experts on any subject.
‘She was trying to put us black kids down’: Sub resigns after class says she spread MLK conspiracy theory
…the sub berated the fifth-grader for his clothing and made other outlandish remarks — invoking President Trump and religion before falsely telling students the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. committed suicide.
Was that guy Jussie Smolents or whatever he is called involved in this?
You know who else people falsely think committed suicide?
Kurt Cobain?
All those people the Clintons ordered killed?
David Carradine?
Vincent Kennedy* Foster?
*-may or may not be his real middle name.
Things I Never Knew About Skiing Until I Was a Private Instructor in Aspen
Followed? Would she need to precede them to properly do any berating?
There isn’t really a good word for that.
Actually there is, preceded. UCS even used it.
Take followed out of the quoted paragraph and replace with preceded and it reads exactly right.
I can’t believe I agree with UCS on something.
In fact it even reads better because it forces the imagery of a chick skiing backwards.
Either “preceded” or “led” works.
The image of her following him skiing backwards is amusing, though.
Righhttt… those ski instructors personally remember the incident from 30 years ago? BS. I bet half weren’t even born then, and most of the other half wasn’t old enough to shave, let alone drink.
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Publicly supporting President Trump is becoming incredibly dangerous…
Many people know of @randalthom of #FrontRowJoes fame…
While Randal was live-streaming at the Amy Klobuchar event someone was on his farm murdering his Husky “Donald J Trump”…
If true, that neighbor sounds like a real gem. Maybe he and Rand Pauls neighbor can get together.
That kind of thing might lead me to publicly rename the rest of my dogs after Trump family members, arrange a false flag appearance on social media so whoever did it thought I was gone, and when they show up on my property as an armed trespasser to kill the rest of my dogs, I blow their fucking head off in “self defense”.
I’m no lawyer, but a 200 yard shot while hiding in a tree stand might be hard to call ‘self-defense’…
Oh, it would be face-to-face. 12 gauge, single aught buck. Come onto my property armed to do harm to me and mine, my conscience is clear under the NAP.
I’ve never liked the carveouts in self defense doctrine for essentially entrapping somebody into threatening your life. If they’re willing to come into your yard to kill your dogs, it shouldn’t matter that you’re springing a trap on them.
Shouldn’t this fall under defense of property? They are your dogs, afer all.
I know some jurisdictions don’t treat defense of property as justification though.
Usually, premeditation and planning will kill any self-defense/defense of property claim. Same reasons you can’t put landmines in the front yard to keep the kids off.
What, you think I’m going to tell the cops I set the bastard up?
There will be only story told, and it will be mine. About how I’m just standing in my kitchen, minding my own business, when this guy rolls up with a gun. I get mine, ask what he’s doing on my property, and he threatens me and I do what I have to do.
He’s not gonna have much to say about anything.
JFC
‘Should the Government Help?’ A Three-Part Test for Conservatives.
Progressives will always say “yes.” Libertarians will always say “no.” Conservatives, on the other hand …
Conservatives are ultimately statists and have the same blind spot as progs that there is and should be a difference between society and government.
It falls on conservatives to continuously defend the last major victory of the far left.
Libertarians aren’t anarchists, so the premise is wrong.
“Libertarians will always say ‘no.’” =/= “…even the libertarian wings on the right … are not against the idea of government providing a backstop or cushion…”
And let me get this straight, according to the author, it is progressives who act as a homogeneous blob and will always say “yes.” While for conservatives, “it depends.” And yet the author calls conservatives the mob. Ok.
It’s Kristoltown, Jake
It should be “should the government take any particular action?” and “is it Constitutional for the government to take said particular action?”
Prog comics community is pure poison.
Peter Simeti (owner/publisher of Alterna comics) is one of the nicest guys out there – amazing customer support etc – if you’re a fan of old school newsprint comic books for a buck and change, he’s the guy to see. I’ll probably drop a $20 on catching up on some recent titles – and he’ll be shipping packing and shipping them straight from his house.
And those f**kers did this to him.
https://twitter.com/petersimeti/status/1095522005691052032
“I just had two guns pointed at me tonight because someone made a call to the police and gave them my address along with a falsified report. I’m shook up, but everything is OK now. I’m going to talk to the police tomorrow and see if I can find out more.”
“According to the police, an anonymous caller pretending to be me, called up and said that I had “stabbed my girlfriend and that I was suicidal”. They gave the cops my name and address. The sergeant gave me his card and I’ll be giving them a call tomorrow.”
Read the whole thread.
And nothing else happened.
People keep blaming the person who made the fake call. Fine, but fuck the cops that show up at someone’s house like that on based on a phone call.
“but fuck the cops that show up at someone’s house like that on based on a phone call.”
I see your point, but if they don’t show up and something bad legitimately happens then they’ll get real shit their way.
Also, BUTT FUCK the cops? Is the Thin Blue Line really a thong? Hmmm …
some crazy ass SJW true believer SWATTED him.
Yeah, but it was all because of Trump….
Why the attack on our cameraman was no surprise
Gee, I can’t imagine where these benighted rubes could have possibly gotten the idea that your agenda entails hating their guts and smearing them every chance you get.
They are every bit as much a part of his “set” as Honky Tonk Woman and Satisfaction are part of a Rolling Stones concert. You just can’t imagine it not happening.
I don’t get why Jews hate the Nazi’s so much. They are just going about doing there job, in a country which cherishes industry.
Yet nothing about Antifa attacking newsmedia. And nothing about the difference between random drunken lout, and actual coordinated Antifa actions.
Stockholm Syndrome?
See, if he were coding in his cubicle this would have never happened.
Wise words there sir!
From some really rough calculations, 22T in debt means about $2000 in interest per year per American.
That is government spending that is paying for past stuff, not new stuff. That is not a good way to do things.
I’ve have seen conflicting definitions of ‘Tallow’, some where it is exclusively beef fat, and others where it is a rendered fat but the animal isn’t important.
What is the opinion of the various Glibs on the matter, can Tallow refer to non-beef fat or mixed-animal fat, or must it be only from beef?
I always thought it was rendered fat from either cattle or sheep. You often see references to “beef tallow” in particular, which would be redundant if the term referred exclusively to beef fat.
To add context to the reason I’m asking – I have a character who’s withdrawn from society and living in some ruins subsisting as a poacher. His only fuel for his lamp is a mixture of fats rendered from wild game he’s taken. Given the differing definitions I’ve seen I was wondering if Tallow was a viable descriptor.
I know you are much more exacting than I, but i think the broader definition is fine. I actually like it when authors transfer a good term for use in another context, for which there isn’t an adequate term already.
I suppose you understand that most wild game (depending on region and season) don’t carry a lot of fat. I could imagine him using most of it in day-to-day cooking – unless he is in the northwest with more megafauna and colder winters…
The whole reason he doesn’t want to use it is because he has so little.
Though I’m still not sure which forest he’s in. Of the candidates, one is subarctic, and the other more temperate. (Fantasy setting, so not the real world map)
Well, in real world setting – there are a lot of feral hogs in temperate areas of the US (and much of Australia as well) which could be harvested just for the fat.
Yep, I ran across one in the woods outside Chappaqua, NY.
One thing this thread established is that would most distinctly be lard, and not tallow.
(though I do acknowledge what you are saying)
That reminds me of a feral hog encounter that I had. North Texas is well-populated with them, and I was deer hunting on brushy hillside when a big one came up the same trail I was on. I dropped him (thank you, .300 Win Mag), but he was close enough that I had to find another place to hunt. I didn’t want to become the new host for the vermin those things carry – lice, fleas, ticks, etc.
On the plus side, my new spot gave me a view of the dead hog, and I shot some coyotes off of it.
semi-related but I think my dog, per one of Suthen’s posts, is a Blue Lacy. It looks exactly like one. It’s supposed to be a good hog hunting dog, cattle herder, and tracker. I feel bad having her cooped up in the house, only exercise is walking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rViMzlXuCyE
Where are the chupa cabras?
Their habitat got destroyed when Maria levelled Puerto Rico.
You would think it would have allowed the population to grow considering all the disposed and homeless. What? Chupa cabras only prey on the well off? I didn’t know they were marxists.
True story:
Shortly after moving to Tucson, I saw some footage of an alleged “chupacabra” trotting down a dirt road. A few weeks later on my drive, I saw the spitting image of that chupacabra crossing the road near my house. I saw it a few times, and once managed to pull up next to it.
It was a coyote with the worst case of mange I have ever seen. Open sores down its back. The coyote was pretty much hairless, and the pain gave it a hunched and awkward gait. I wished I had a gun with me to put it out of its misery.
Do you mean rushlights or candles? Tallow is a solid, so it won’t work for lamps unless you have some source of heat melting it.
I have looked into it, and technically it is a lamp. Though you might call it a sideways candle if you were silly enough.
I went back looking for references, and Tallow in lamps predates the invention of the candle. I get how you might see an upright kerosene lamp, or something similar, but the most basic lamps are literally a small dish with a wick laying in flammable hydrocarbons. With something that likes to be solid at room temperature, one must presume that the heat from the flame melted the nearby material and allowed it to flow up the wick (advancing down the dish as fuel was consumed.)
In one Little House book, Ma used bear grease in a saucer, tied a wick to a button and buried the button in the bear grease.
The animal is important, but can be other animals besides cow. I believe deer/elk/etc. fat is also considered tallow. Pig fat is lard.
“As the fat renders the tallow should float to the surface.”-Fight Club. Tyler is using human fat. That is the extent of my knowledge on this.
“McConnell thinks he can end all debate on the Green New Deal now and stop this freight train of momentum,” said a statement from the freshman Democrat’s office. “Unfortunately for Mitch, all he’s going to do is show just how out of touch Republican politicians are with the American people.”
She’s completely bonkers.
Part of the ‘mobilization’ (and that was a deliberate commie word they used) is to make people work in green and for the government. It’s bonkers beyond belief. Those Democrats backing her need to be fired. Imbeciles.
I think it’s hilarious that democrats are trying to do some “Disaster Control” on what she has said (re: destroying Aeronautical Industry, etc) when she clearly doesn’t want to back down from it.
Silence this wrecker/Kulak!
I wonder if Pol Pot, when he was the same age as AOC is now, was saying/thinking similar things. I can imagine him starting out on a similar path and then, when reality refused to cooperate, he reached for the big hammer to put things in their proper place.
What are you talking about? She went to college and clearly remembers some physics prof talking about momentum in her 101 class. So if her plan has a “freight train of momentum” that clearly means it will work.
She loves science!
That train already went off the rails, crashed, and burned.
“7 year old boy tries to ride bike 5 miles on a highway to his grandmother’s house to save his diabetic father who passed out. God, I love children.”
I was waiting for the part where they arrest the kid….or the father….or granny.
That entire story is a con job. It was just a cover to distract the cops from all the nudies of that teacher that was on the kid’s phone.
Gun, taser, cuffs – guess who got which?
Study says 37 percent of Americans have faced ‘severe’ online harassment
37 percent of Americans dealt with “severe” online harassment and hate speech in 2018
Fuckin’ Pussies
And someone is holding a gun to their head to make them participate on Facebook, etc…?
Do they mean 37% of people are easily offended? That would make more sense.
“Harassment” as defined as?
Fuck You.
Sorry, not into dudes.
Homophobe.
Looks like 37% of people couldn’t handle xbox live in-game chat.
“Hate speech” = “Opinions I don’t like”
Or any disagreement at all.
Yes, but shitposting on people you don’t like is A-OK. They can’t turn around fling it back though.
Classic
NoDak Mike does say some hurtful things. Put me down in the “Harassed” column.
If its true, is it really harassment?
A YouGov study commissioned by the Anti-Defamation League indicates that 37 percent of Americans dealt with “severe” online harassment and hate speech in 2018,
Self-reported study?
Whatever.
Michael Cohen’s secret agenda
A person wanting to run for office? sounds nefarious.
Glibs. I want to ask a question to the lot of you. But first I need to set the stage. To start off, I didn’t vote for orange man: I voted against insane crooked Hillary whose great claim to fame was that she got away with crimes and ridding other people’s coat tails. I thought the guy was gonna be just as bad as everyone else when it came to keeping promises, fixing the corrupt and evil deep state, and that we would just keep losing freedoms and income. I do admit to taking massive pleasure in the fact that the guy showed no respect to the cunts that basically were not much more than mouthpieces of the dnc. Hillary walking away scot free, after committing crimes far in excess of those that ruined other people and put them in fed prison for a long time, really jaded me and I dreaded the direction we were headed in. Then came that whole Russia hoax and the revelation of how weaponized and downright criminal our state’s justice and security apparatus had become. Obama got away with having people do what Nixon only asked and got run out of office for.
That these people were willing to go to this length to hide their criminal activity, scared me. Orange man has not been my ideal president, but the guy has been so much better than anything I could have believed possible in this day and age. And he keeps fucking over the marxists to the point that they have come unhinged and no longer even pretend to not want to recreate Mao’s China or Stalin’s USSR here. The democrats are in what I consider to be full blow “I am gonna show you how crazy of a bitch I really am” mode right now, and my heart is warmed by them finally dropping the mask and showing their true color. Yes, the usual elitist scum that buy into the soft fascism nanny state we have today and want to move to full blow marxism already, all feel it is do or die for them and the sheep they plan to use as their serf class. But this shit is doing real damage to them and their credibility.
I have no doubt that people that want free shit and are motivated by envy of those that make it big (and feel they should be torn down so they can feel less bad about being losers at life) will stay with this horrible political movement, because they want those better off than them punished and to keep getting free shit, but anyone that has two firing neurons should be seeing that if these people get power again things will get real fucking ugly. What bothers me is that I feel that no matter what those of us that value individual freedoms over everything else do, this all feels like a delaying tactic, and that these evil people peddling envy and revenge will win out. And what follows them will be a new dark age.
Well I should focus on the good, that at least I get to enjoy proggie stupidity and tears while it lasts, and hope for the best.
Giving into despair doesn’t do any good. Giving up only increases the speed at which things move in the direction you don’t want. Focus on the good, keep pushing in the direction you want to go, and don’t let the pretend inevitability of the opposition get to you. They’re not as unbeatable or all-powerful as they pretend.
If you haven’t already, read How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World by Harry Browne. TL;DR: the march of history is inevitable, so focus on those things within your locus of control that can give you more freedom to do as you wish.
Bullshit on “the march of history” or the right side of history. That’s the same rhetoric as drives the Communist Manifesto.
Nothing is inevitable except death. Life is always a struggle and there is no glorious future awaiting us under any regime that humans can imagine (including the fantasies of anarchists). Laugh loudly and proudly at the fools who think they can deliver “a better world”. Also be ready to eventually have to point a gun at another human who plans to do ill to you for not being with the program. Odds are in your favor that you aren’t dealing with a full on zealot and will have to pull the trigger – but better to be prepared.
“Never give up, never surrender!”
Oh, I am not the type to give up/surrender, simply not in my psyche, but I do worry for the snowflake generation and what that means for the ever dwindling group of people that will not bend over and grab their ankles because the alternative requires effort of some kind.
Perhaps I didn’t articulate it as well as I could have, but the point of the book is that you have virtually no ability as an individual to effectuate a mass movement, and will inevitably find yourself disappointed if you focus your efforts to that end. You’re better off focusing on direct action that is within your sphere of control and using the choices available to you to make yourself more free to live in the manner of your choosing (for example, choosing how to pursue your occupation with minimal interference from licensing and tax authorities; choosing how to pursue business and personal relationships with minimal legal commitments, etc). You’d probably find that Browne’s thinking falls closer to your own in terms of rejecting any type of mass movement – that’s actually the entire point of the treatise.
As far as it goes though, the world is going to do what’s it’s going to do. In that sense I’d argue that the “march of history” is inevitable, or near enough for all practical purposes. Unless you’re in a position to stage a successful coup you aren’t going to influence the direction of the government or your society. Giving up in a certain sense is a defensible strategy – not giving up your liberty (at least to the extent it’s possible; the government is always ultimately going to have the bigger gun), but giving up on any grand sense of revolution or political tactics.
“Always look on the bright side of life.”
+whistle chorus
All jokes aside, what all the fellows above said it right and well. The best that any of us here can do is whatever is possible in our control. The statists only seek despair, power, destruction, and a regression in humanity. We can’t just give it all up and despair like them. We have to stay strong and be a spark of inspiration for our immediate family and circle of friends. Sure the statists assholes may end up on top for a while, but if history shows us anything, this too will pass.
Agreed. It may be 2 steps forward, 1 back, but humanity does learn and improve.
Yeah, that’s what I am now doubting. We seem to keep coming back to the same problems/mistakes. And the more horribly murderous and disastrous something is, the more likely it is that people driven by base motivations will demand we try it again (Exhibit A: marxism).
I’m no scholar, but I’d say that socialism/marxism is historically relatively new on the humanity scene. Technology, in the form of weapons, facilitated its murderous implementation. Most of us have learned the bloody lessons from attempts to institute it as a governing philosophy. I think it’ll just take some time for socialism’s allure to fade. That’s not to say that there won’t always be assholes intent on the destruction/control of those they envy, but I think we’re learning how to keep the tools to accomplish that out of their hands.
Eh. I don’t think so.
Socialism is based in envy, which is a universal human emotion, one that can be just as valuable (“Look at all the food Tuk Tuk has! I really should work harder so I can have that much!) as it can be evil (“Look at all the food Tuk Tuk has! Bastard doesn’t deserve or need that much! Let’s take it!)
As for technology, well it certainly helps. The Rwandan genocide killed 1.5M in six months or so, and they were using shovels and farm implements to do their trick.
What we got ain’t nothin’ new.
Evan you are dead on. The problem for me is that we used to have a moral code that looked down on those motivated by envy jealousy, and actually thought people to value and chase success. That code was destroyed by people that claimed such a code prevented those that were in need from seeking help for said need (meaning government handouts). These days we have a system where envy and greed are not just encouraged, but drive policy. How do we role that back?
I think what will keep the totalitarians in check is the concept of 2A. The founders knew that the weapons should be in the citizens’ hands, in the hands of those most intent on maintaining their freedom. I know that 2A is always on the chopping block of the statists, but I see 2A as moving in the direction of keeping the tools out of the wrong hands, and I also see its principle as being one that spreads in time, and beats out violent political systems.
“When you’re chewing on life’s gristle, don’t grumble, give a whistle!
It’s always been a battle between people that want to take other people’s shit and the people that want to keep their shit. You’ll never get a moment rest from that as long as you’re a human. Shitpost. Works for me.
Well, I guess I better bone up on my shitposting skills then…
If you need any advice, I’ll help you shitpost.
There will be a cost, won’t there SF? How much sanity will it cost me? I know you work for the Old Gods.. I know the Hat & Hair are just incarnations of these sanity eating gods….
I agree, we are long past the tipping point, and Trump is only a temporary delay, a speed bump on the drive to socialism. I just take solace in that I am old enough that it likely won’t appreciably affect me too negatively in my lifetime, but I feel bad for the younger generations.
Trump is breaking some things that needed to be broken, but neither he nor anyone around him has a clue about what and how to rebuild. Or what needs to just be shoveled into a pit and burnt. That will come after Trump whether one term or two.
I’m hoping for two, and enough of the ediface reduced to rubble that it can be swept clean.
AOC and the GND is flair.
People have been warned.
They need to heed it.
Flair?
“I have no doubt that people that want free shit and are motivated by envy of those that make it big…”
IIRC from discussions on here it’s not the resentment starts at the next tangibly better-off class than you. IE, those with one car resent the two-car families, those with two cars resent those with a boat or camper, etc.
But stay strong, enjoy the good, and remember that Trump’s SCOTUS appointments will continue to tear down the proggie agenda for years. I’m tempted to start praying again so I can nightly pray for the health and safety of Justice Gorsuch.
And the left seems to be splintering into the hard-left NGD faction, and the faction that wants to continue winning elections.
i resent anyone with more than one toilet in their house.
Even if one of them isn’t hooked up?
What, are you an Illinois politician?
Lol, no.
I was thinking of when I replaced the toilet that came with the house. The new unit was ordered separatly and sat in its box in the kitchen until the plumber’s appointment came around.
At least some guy didn’t walk into your house and took a dump in it before it was installed like we saw some people do at a home depo recently where someone just had to use the display unit to do their business…
Where did they think they were, San Fransisco?
Manchester, Connecticut.
It was a rhetorical question because of the ‘just shit anywhere’ attitude.
To be fair, that’s at least 25% on Home Depot. You work in consumer retail, you should have been able to anticipate this.
I’ve been having similar thoughts too. The pendulum will swing; the Democrats will gain enough power to enact some of their craziness. The RINO squishes will still squish and the Republic will flounder.
But hell it has been floundering since inception, slowly declining from the original vision. What’s that Chinese curse again? “May you live in interesting times”.
But that’s history. And to look on the bright side – I’ve never been mugged, live in an age of amazing medical advances, have access to more information / videos / pron than anyone would ever need, I never had to die/fight for my country, and get to “talk” with you freaks.
There are now the most breweries in the US for it’s entire history. We have so much plenty that our poor people are overweight. Entertainment media as a whole has reached what may be the closest to a post-scarcity system as we will ever see. Communication has opened up the world in ways that we tried to predict, and failed.
I’ve got a decent job that pays for my expenses, and allows me enough budget for multiple vacations a year. When my biggest problem is trying to make time to exercise and restrain my food intake to drop weight, I’d say I’ve got a pretty good life overall.
It is so easy to overlook the blessings of this life, to take shit for granted. That may be the real curse of general prosperity.
But unfortunately, they are all making IPAs
🙁
^this^
“America is at that awkward stage. It’s too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.” — opening lines of 101 Things To Do ‘Til The Revolution by Claire Wolfe
I have thought the same and been equally despondent. However …
People adapt. “Make the world a better place for my children” is so silly. My children will adapt. They will (hopefully) find love and have families. They will (hopefully) be a part of a close community. And if they don’t, then I will mourn with them. But life is the individual and family unit, and I don’t see that going away no matter what the government does.
And then will come a generation of muckrakers and malcontents who’ll gin up the courage to overthrow the system.
Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations.
I don’t see a question there.
Comments!
“Ok-
To begin with there is a huge transfer of wealth in our capitalist economy. Basically we do not force the polluters to pay for that right or to clean it up(excepting in rare cases due to litigation) This is a huge transfer of wealth to businesses. So to transfer some bit of that back to fund countries to develop with out having a traditional “industrial age” like we did is not all that bad an idea….
We don’t want anymore countries industrializing in the same manner we did as our planet will become uninhabitable”
“…more than 50 years of clear scientific results is not “hubris.” I agree that some politicians may have ulterior motives, but that does not detract from the scientific findings. I have been following the science since I was finishing my Ph.D. in the early ’80s. I would have been shocked back then if I had known that people would still fail to understand the scientific evidence almost 40 years later.”
The early 80s when it was Global Cooling!?
Don’t heckle the old priest on his dogma.
That fucking left a mark man…
I can only hope that my Karma will run over his Dogma…
“This is a huge transfer of wealth to businesses.”
I am always flabbergasted at people that see businesses as some distinct entity, and always with nefarious means and goals. I always thought businesses where entities that had to produce a product consumers wanted/needed – unlike government – and do their business in a way that allowed them to make enough money to pay their employees (and shareholders if publicly traded), and again do so unlike government entities which these days where totally uncountable. While a business could go rogue, fucking over the customer or community they relied on, doing something like this was tantamount to suicide for any business other than those huge monopoly-holding conglomerates that became the chosen winners of the incestuous relationship with the quasi-fascist government we in the western world are run by that gets labeled as capitalism (and it is not). Businesses also never pay taxes, penalties, or any such government levied penalties: their consumers and shareholders do. I have also seen no entities outside businesses – and especially small businesses – that produce real value. Sure government these days is bloated with people getting paid huge money to shuffle papers and feed the machine that picks what enterprises are allowed to win and which ones are not.
Contrary to what the marxist want to call capitalism, it is obvious that fascism won that fight. But the marxists are now doubling down and demanding they get their way.
Go live in a cave if you really believe what you’re saying. If you don’t like civilization, stop participating in it (see hippies).
What you miss is that they are expecting other people to do so, just like they expect them to pay for the shit they peddle.
(see hippies)
https://digitalcommons.northgeorgia.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1195&context=papersandpubs
“Despite their best efforts to reject traditional society and its materialistic trappings, an inescapable reality soon manifested itself: they needed a certain amount of money to survive. As a result, commune members eventually resorted to short term and/or part time “straight” jobs in nearby towns. In a reversal of traditional gender roles, women now became the primary breadwinners by receiving government support
such as welfare, food stamps and alimony from ex-spouses. Hippie women also depended on handouts from parents and relatives; others turned to crime in the form of petty theft or drug sales.31 Most Owl Farm residents received food stamps … but the irony was that while they viewed the state as repressive and corrupt and sought to escape the working world as much as possible, they ultimately relied upon government assistance to survive. They justified this by reasoning that the amount of welfare they received was minuscule in governmental terms, and cities benefited by achieving their goal of ridding themselves of the unwanted hippies.”
Say what you will about Dirty Hippies, they at least had the sense to throw Bernie Sanders out on his ass.
I blame that on the patchouli fumes.
“Back”?
Anyway this sounds like they’re talking about the Paris accord. And we have more than 50 years of clear empirical evidence that people will spend money you throw at them any way they want, not the way you want.
You know, this place really does get messed up with SP. I made a cartoon for the anniversary and accidentally asked for it to go up today, just looked back and saw the Anniversary was yesterday. And there we sat with no night post. Sheesh. Like a bunch of kids when mom is out of town we are.
Don’t you mean “Without SP”?
SEE WHAT I MEAN! Anarchy!
proving his point.
In addition to whatever anniversary you’re celebrating, we’re almost at 900,000 comments. Which means the millionth comment is just around the corner.
I wonder who’ll make it.
Tulpa.
Will i get a pop up about it and my new free car when it happens?
Sure. Haven’t you seen HM requesting credit card details so he can pay the prize taxes on your winnings?
^^^^THIS
And I didn’t even know it was Anniversary.
And you didn’t even buy flowers! /dejected
Ah shit. Seriously, that reminds what day it is tomorrow.
And the day after tomorrow the heart-shaped boxes of candy go on sale… and I’m on a diet.
(._.)
Single drifters Christmas?
I plan to hit a bar, find some lonely lass, and tap her…
Fuck – I forgot all about that too.
Told someone at work they should go buy a dildo and some other present, so if she doesn’t like the other present she can go fuck herself…
Too late! It’s today now.
I (and I’m certain everyone else) is looking forward to the latest chapter of The Glibbening
I noticed that, but I thought that celebrating the 2nd anniversary the day after the 2nd anniversary might have been part of a joke.
From the “I’m sure this will go well” file, Dallas is planning to relax police hiring standards to get a wider pool of applicants.
Worked great for Minneapolis
*BLAMBLAMBLAM*
And Washington DC.
And Los Angeles.
Not sure this is overall a bad thing: “The change would eliminate the requirement of 45 hours of college credit, 36 months of active duty military experience or 36 months of law enforcement employment with another agency.”
Someone going from the military to law enforcement might bring a military mindset to the job.
Someone transferring from another law enforcement agency — might be a reason they had to leave.
Less educated cops – that might have some downside.
Someone going from the military to law enforcement might bring a military mindset to the job.
Quite frankly that would be a breath of fresh air. If anything we should ban LEOs from entering any sort of military serveice as they bring an LEO mindset to the job.
As for relaxing the standards… I mean the ones in place didn’t do anything to stop that dipshit who shot the guy in his home cause she “Thought” it was hers.
I recall reading an article a bunch of years ago, the gist of which was that, during the meat of the Iraq adventure when the military was trying to work out all of these delicate arrangements among communities and tribes, it was the guys in National Guard units who came from law enforcement that were screwing things up by kicking in doors, pointing rifles, etc.
Having Navy SEALs come into areas resulted in the same kind of shit.
Relaxing the standards means that people scoring better than 82% on the test will no longer be dismissed outright for being too intelligent to take and follow orders. They might move the automatic rejection level to 84%
Students caught trading ‘N-word passes’ during lunch at Churchill High School in Potomac
The principle couldn’t say what he really wanted to say because he hadn’t received one of the passes.
*principal. Same difference.
See! The Market coordinates the use of scarce resources.
Winston Churchill High School
The Aryan stock is bound to triumph
That’s a great idea. Think we should all get about five of those things every year. Roll them over like sick days and use them all when you run into a group of Black Hebrew Israelites.
So these “passes”, it basically means they registered as Democrats?
Only in Virginia.
Uffda. Those sound great, but I already have my pardon from Walter Williams.
Very well, you can join your children in the re-education camps. Don’t expect to take them back home with you, either.
What if the passes were initially issued by black students? Wouldn’t that make them OK?
Attention authority: You might get a little more traction with high school students if you gave a calm, sideways glace and said, “Yeah, don’t do that. It’s not polite.” instead of freaking the fuck out and turning it into a panicky nationwide event.
Now, look! No one is to stone anyone until I blow this whistle! Do you understand?! Even, and I want to make this absolutely clear, even if they do say ‘Jehovah’.
It’s like cap and trade.
what a glorious morning it is for everyone but the American taxpayer who is now on the hook for over 22,000,000,000,000.
This morning, Bloomberg put up a chart which showed a historical trajectory for the national debt. It was fairly stable and steady. Then, right around 1968 or so, the slope of that line began to increase significantly over time. Of course, when you’re paid not to know how much two plus two equals, you just shrug your shoulders and wonder why taxes aern’t progressive enough. Or wonder why we don’t have a wealth tax.
If you’re me, you say, “Thanks for the monster regulatory/administrative apparatus, Nixon, you worthless son of a bitch!”
Snooping on those idiots at the DNC wasn’t even close to the best reason to hate him.
Something Happened in 1971. Something that allowed the government to deficit spend all they wanted…
Nixon went to china? No, that was ’72.
Come to think of it, Dick was kinda a Dick. We have the war on drugs, the EPA, normalizing relations with China, and ending the gold standard. He didn’t even properly bind congress not to screw over the south vietnamese when getting out of the war.
^ This ^ There are at least a dozen better reasons to hate Nixon than the Watergate silliness.
The problem is not the debt, its the debt clock. If we didn’t have the clock we wouldn’t have the debt. Just cancel the funding for the debt clock and the problem disappears.
^^ I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Never forget that the Debt Clock was the brainchild of Robert Durst’s father.
So it’s not about the nookie?
Fred Durst is literally worse than Hitler?
It’s not the debt per se, but the debt as a fraction of, say, GNP. But in recent years that has reached the stage in the U.S. where it historically begins to stunt growth.
SJWednesday: Disparate Impact As Applied to Fraternities
The correct ruling would be “Under the right to free association, you may not force a private organization to accept any member for any reason whatsoever”.
The real ruling is probably going to be “Bake that Cake!”
Look in a safe free society, every right has to be regulated. You know what kind of horrible things could happen if we let groups exclude anyone they wanted? There could be groups that tell jokes we don’t approve of.
And then of course the sororities should be next. And also the minority student organizations, because the law must be applied neutrally in order not to discriminate.
Wrong, shitlord! Sororities and minority organizations are safe havens for historically repressed classes of people and therefore must be left alone to make up for past wrongs…or some shit like that.
When mom forced us older brothers to play with our younger brother, the results weren’t what she expected.
Heh heh heh… Been there, done that…
I know
/Youngest brother
/starts filling out Curves application.
Of all the reasons I despise leftists, the fact that they force me to defend fucking frat boys is high on the list.
The funny part is the presumption that the alumni networks will benefit them. The alumni patronage is purely voluntary and I don’t see the old boy’s club taking kindly to Xe Pat, their newest member.
I don’t see the old boy’s club taking kindly to Xe Pat, their newest member.
Hey!
“Chi Phi Rho Epsilon? Never heard of it. Sorry, toots, I have an appointment.”
I TAPPA KEG!
I FEELA THIGH!
Zeta Eta Theta
Alpha Cholera.
The way I look at is is simple. You can sober up a frat boy. You can’t fix stupid.
Of course, the real goal is to take the organizations over and retool them to suit their leftist preferences.
^^THIS^^
This is why Gary Johnson should have won the presidency. His “Bake the Cake” standard would be the law of the land today and we wouldn’t have to argue over stupid things like “property rights” and “freedom of association” or the “First Amendment” or other asinine arguments that only those crazy people still believe in liberty consider
Let’s hope some clever person file a motion to join the lawsuit to demand that Yale shut down all of its female-only organizations, programs, and scholarships.
This is so stupid. How is a chick going to pass the fraternity’s initiation? She doesn’t have a dick to fuck the goat.
One word (hyphenated): “Strap-on”
Or maybe she was born with a dick, you TERF shitlord!
Isn’t the obvious result going to be that all frats fold and the “access to leadership positions” ? with them?
Klobuchar’s manual: Fact or fiction?
https://freebeacon.com/blog/exclusive-washington-free-beacon-obtains-employee-manual-for-klobuchar-presidential-campaign/
If true. She’s certifiable.
“Amy’s vision is based on movement. If you remain still and don’t make a noise, she will eventually lose interest.”
IOW, lizard person.
That can’t possibly be true, it reads like over-the-top satire.
I can never tell if a Canadian is being serious, or just too polite.
Q: What’s the difference between a Canadian and a Minnesotan?
A: Canada sucks
Enjoy Omar Ilhan Minnesota.
/evil grin.
See, that is just low there puppet master…
Why is it always so windy in the Northwest Angle?
Because Canada sucks and Minnesoda blows!
What is funny is her “denials”.
Oh, that makes it so much better. All adults have tantrums in the work place where they physically throw stuff. But to throw it at someone is beyond the pale.
“If you are explaining, you are losing.”
Piss off, you self-serving mediocrity.
https://mises.org/library/death-politics
50 years ago today, Karl Hess (former Goldwater speechwriter, turned tax resister/anarchist/welder/perennial thorn in William F. Buckley’s side) published this article in Playboy magazine. Still true today.
America may be massively in debt, but our greatest export is still degeneracy.
http://archive.is/bRkbw
1, 3, 4, 5… et. al. Shower me in depravity until death.
51>64>2>67>18>34
Some nice thiccness here. Fav was 1:
https://archive.is/bRkbw/600e1174db6e5f6c8d3006100efa8b20d1009142
Also smoking hot thicc: 32
https://archive.is/bRkbw/9c1e11f70feb181072471771024e1f759430ef3f
And 71:
https://archive.is/bRkbw/3a75ae053efad31612fa98b2101dd1feb7927fab
Anything beyond 5 is superfluous.
Quick on the draw, hmm?
Divest Everything by Hammy Nolan
Oh fuck, I said something similar just last week.
After we liquidate the holdings of the person elected president, those holdings will be deposited into the US Treasury. For good. Now they belong to America. Congratulations, rich guy, you now have a real stake in the system. Go forth and rule wisely.
Whew, okay, I didn’t say anything that stupid.
The law will allow democrats to waive this requirement I am certain… That or will be written so they can come in with little and leave billionaires (see Clintons, Obamas).
If you can survive on $400k for 4 years, you get to leave and do million dollar speaking tours.
Two thoughts:
(1) Its ridiculously easy to circumvent.
(2) John Kerry.
Congratulations, rich guy, you now have a real stake in the system
I mean, generally the Rich have the highest stake in the system already. You don’t see billionaires going around talking about how we need to burn the system to the ground.
Isn’t that exactly what Soros says we need to do?
In the version of Robin Hood that Ted Cruz read as a child, the Sheriff of Nottingham was the hero, I guess.
That’s just because Robin Hood was Ecuadorian or some other type of Mexican
You’re thinking of Zorro.
Zorro was Spanish, he just lived in the barrio
I thought that was Esse Barrio. Did I have it wrong?
The real irony of the way the legends have evolved is that they continue to paint Prince John as the villain, and King Richard as the distant crusading hero. But all the taxes John had to levy were to pay Richard’s ransom when he got captured by the Germans, and finance his wars in France.
The whole story breaks down when you read history. Richard didn’t give 2 shits about England other than the tax revenue.
Sounds like the same shit happening these days with the people that have agendas that require insane amounts of money be pissed away, demanding the taxes go up.
I always have to point out to leftists that reference Robin Hood as their hero because he stole from the rich to give to the poor, that the rich he stole from was the government. You should see some of the discussions that followed. Mostly because these idiots want to do away with that fact.
Yes, he took back the excessive taxes collected by the rulers and gave it back to people it was taken from.
What? You English want the Germans to hold your (exclusively) French-speaking king hostage indefinately?
Anyone have any experience with CBD oil/extract? Effects and what to expect? Shipment arrives in a week or so.
The reputable site also sells a faux-opioid called Kratom. Any insight would be appreciated.
Part I of my Sri Lanka article has been submitted. It’s oddly personal which is my excuse for why it took so long to finalize. Dentist appointment in a few hours. The last time I had one I went in without a problem and left with an open hole in my tooth making chewing a bitch.
/End transmission.
Dude! [coughs]
But seriously, those who use CBD for themselves or family members say it helps with body pain. And a non-pothead friend who uses it for her dog says it gives the dog the munchies, FWIW.
Let us know about the kratom. Always interested in ethnology. (Hint – A R T I C L E)
Have you ever read True Hallucinations: Being an Account of the Author’s Extraordinary Adventures in the Devil’s Paradise by Terence McKenna?
It’s an ethnopharmacology classic.
I grow it. We have switched over to pure CBD instead of THC plants on the farm I’ve written about before. (I probably need to do an update).
CBD will help with aches, pains, and insomnia to a degree. It has no real hallucinogenic effects whatsoever. My mom and dad, both Southern Baptists who were straight-edge before there was such a thing and are in their late 60s take the pills I send them on the regular. If you want a muscle-relaxing agent, then CBD is the tits. But it won’t get you high.
I want something to help with bruxism.
Three students at Yale University laid the groundwork yesterday (Feb. 12) for what could become a historic reckoning on campus. In a class-action lawsuit, they sued the school and nine of its all-male fraternities for discrimination based on gender, the Associated Press (AP) reports.
And, yet, nobody sues the NBA for disparate impact. Talk about a slam dunk.
Is anyone suing all-female sororities?
The counter-suit of guys looking for residential privileges at the sororities will be hilarious.
Looks like it is not Graham, but cocaine Mitch that will make the democrats go on record about their support for Karla Marx’s new big marxist deal….
That’s good enough to make it into the links!
I doubt it. You really think this exact same story, from the exact same publication, would be linked up top? Keep dreaming, cosmo
But was this linked?
Haha. That’s hilarious.
You can’t parody this shit man. These people are fucking insane and care not a bit that you see they are. They have an agenda, and they will not let reason, facts, logic, or anything else get in the way of them getting more power and our money.
Yeah, but I set it up so I could link this.
Congratulations, rich guy, you now have a real stake in the system. Go forth and rule wisely.
I’m not delusional. You’re delusional!
Don’t know why, but this made me LOL.
@MikeHudema
3 out of 4 Mongolian nomads are now using #solar power. Time to catch-up!
We have solutions to the #climatecrisis. Let’s raise our ambition implement them.
#ActOnClimate #climate #energy #cdnpoli #climatestrike #GreenNewDeal #PanelsNotPipelines
I don’t believe it’s a parody account either.
How much electricity do these mongols actually use? I’d wager not much more than what’s needed to charge a satphone.
Yeah, charging electronics including LED lights. They are not cooking or doing laundry with that shiznat. Also, desert so presumably bright sunlight.
Yes, let’s all live in yurts with solar panels.
The thought yurts.
I think you khan come up with something better than that
Well, I can’t just horde all the good ideas, now can I?
Stop it! I can’t let these bad puns go unanswered. Now you’ve made me miss one of my scheduled flossing times today.
Now I’ll probably get genghisvitus because of you.
That’s a bit of a reach. You won’t get that much of a Tatar buildup from missing one flossing.
I really felt that.
Damn. That Qin dynasty better watch their ass. The Mongol Horde’s got solar power now!
You’ll also need some horses to milk and a yak.
The sun makes the grass grow where they graze their horses – so sure.
Can someone make sense out of this for me. So some douche says he plans to murder the cops that say they will not infringe on people’s right to bear arms? Is that what the left means when they mention gun control? That those that object to their attempts to disarm the law abiding citizen need to be shot? Who should I root for in this story?
That is messed up
Is that what the left means when they mention gun control? That those that object to their attempts to disarm the law abiding citizen need to be shot?
Yeah, pretty much. You need an armed-to-the-teeth force of highly-qualified professionals to do violence on behalf of the collective, of course.
If you don’t believe in gun control. I’ll shoot you. (Obviously with a compliant small capacity magazine)
What’s not to understand? They hate you and want you unarmed before you’re rounded up for the re-education camp.
The reductio ad absurdum of all leftist ideas.
“No private citizen should own a gun. And I, as a private citizen, will use my gun to murder anyone who doesn’t confiscate, err, my gun.”
PNG is missing almost 300 cars after international summit
The cars were destroyed to protect the environment?
They can’t be that impoverished if they ‘re maintaining roads that can fit luxury automobiles.
So that’s where all the humvees went!
Luxury Mazda?
929.
He just posted this because the number was “69”
Wouldn’t you?
…16…
16 year high
This is insensitive to Heroin Addicts
If they’ve been high for sixteen years, they won’t notice.
“Gliberinas!”
FAKE NEWS
HERETIC!
Shut up, Shultz, you heretic denier!
There is a traitor among the democrats. He ain’t woke. Burn that witch! Go left, go further left, it’s the only way!
When you’ve lost Bill Gates and Howard Shultz…
Well, they are the primary targets for this new Green Deal peddlers…
White men, figures, they’re always the ones causing problems.
Tulsi in Iowa. Why can’t democrats do math?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/paloma/the-trailer/2019/02/12/the-trailer-tulsi-gabbard-finds-her-people-in-iowa/5c6222481b326b71858c6b53/
Math is a racist tool of the patriarchy.
“The powers that be have dragged us into war after war,” said Roger Leahy, 67, a sheepskin and leather salesman who got his start in politics by protesting the Vietnam War. “I supported Ron Paul. I supported Dennis Kucinich. I support anyone who will stand up to the war machine. Ultimately, I’ve never been able to vote for a Democrat or a Republican in the general election, because the good people get weeded out.”
I mean, come on, she’s the only candidate that is appealing to both sides of the spectrum with a single issue: foreign intervention.
Non-interventionism is an extremely appealing position among the working class, particularly in the Midwest. The Democrats are most assuredly going to win the presidency again if they’re pimping “perpetual war in Syria to troll Russia”. Tulsi is the only Democrat in the race who could win the presidency. That’s just a fact that Dave Waddle doesn’t want to accept, because he’s a cosmo (at best) and a left-wing partisan (at worst).
*The Democrats are most assuredly NOT going to win the presidency again if they’re pimping “perpetual war in Syria to troll Russia”.*
You would say that.
That single issue is the only one she’s not awful on.
Giving the move to legalize pot a bad rap?
I bet just like in the days of communism, that this phenomenon will lead to better sex for the women. After all, who doesn’t like the idea of other people hearing and looking at you when you are doing the wild thang?
Only if it’s fun and kinky women who don’t mind spending time with an old man.
oh wait… that would end up being hell
I think I found why you can’t afford a house on your own.
So give away your wealth you fucking pussy.
https://www.iol.co.za/news/world/nobody-deserves-to-be-this-rich-bill-gates-19277011
Put your money where your mouth is.
“All that money and he still can’t get a decent haircut.”
Or rid of that beta attitude of his.
Compared to that Davis dude who owns the Raiders, his ‘do is a work of art.
Captain Kangaroo?
He’s going to give it all away, just as soon as he’s done living.
So I guess his real point is that his children specifically do not deserve it.
“Well I earned that money, it wouldn’t be fair for me to not enjoy it.”
Well, not so much “away”. It’s going to his foundation. You can’t control your kids with an iron fist after you die the way you can with a non-profit foundation.
He could send his billions to the govt to be spent on wise and just programs.
It might be instructional to the unwashed masses to see that Gates could give all his money to the govt and it doesn’t put a scratch in the national debt.
The goal is not to actually pay off anything, or even to provide additional services, it’s to take the rich down a peg because they don’t deserve to have so much money. Better for everyone to be equally miserable than have more happiness but more inequality.
His entire net worth would only cover about 10% of this year’s budget deficit, let alone the debt.
It’d be gone before the ink was even dry on the check, and nobody except a handful of lucky croneys would notice the difference.
“So give away your wealth you fucking pussy.”
I’m thinking we can fit an entire caravan full of ‘migrants’ from Central America into that Medina compound. Have any of them learned to code?
Fuck Off you fucking Slaver. Hey if IBM hadn’t picked your shitty DOS, you’d have been working for Steve Jobs.
Well, I will stipulate that, particularly after that comment, Bill Gates doesn’t deserve to be that rich.
What a douche. If he wants to be charitable, go for it. But, stop the mindless bleating telling everyone how other people shouldn’t have the opportunity you had.
He’s well-aware that all the billionaires in the world combined can’t afford to jack to accomplish all the left’s lofty goals so there is a need to guilt-trip the rest of us to do our share™.
And maybe charge a little bit less for your shitty products.
He no longer works there.
CA high speed rail given up on?
And yet the Democrats believe they can do this on a national level to the extent we will no longer even need air travel. Are they delusional? You decide.
Florida doctor…
To be fair, every machine in a hospital beeps.
/spent way too much time visiting hospitals recently.
One of the ladies I once dated had a, erm female pleasuring device, that beeped. She tought it was sooooo cool and it made the whole experience so much better to her.. Freaked me out cause I was waiting for her to demand I beep too.
dirty talk in morse code?
Kinky!
Damn, I should have thought of that!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd8MGNjkm0s
Why do hospitals seem like they’re specifically designed to prevent sleep?
To keep the Residents awake?
Hah, could be.
Because Meat-Based Billing Units are in the hospital to generate revenue, not lay around resting.
Quantum therapy analyzer. Looks legit to me.
https://twitter.com/MarkAmesExiled/status/1095453542305935361
Lyndon LaRouche’s group were the first ones to posit “Trump’s a Russian Agent” all the way back in 1980. You might recall that in the 1980’s, when Trump flirted with the presidency, he advocated nuclear proliferation with Russia and “muh…tariffs” with Japan (the 80’s version of “muh…China”).
https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/02/nyregion/trump-gives-a-vague-hint-of-candidacy.html
NY Times documents Trump’s political positions in 1987
“Mr. Trump, according to his office, spent a total of $94,801 of his own money to purchase full-page advertisements in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Boston Globe, which circulates extensively in New Hampshire.
The advertisment, according to an advance copy provided by his office, carries the headline: ”There’s nothing wrong with America’s Foreign Defense Policy that a little backbone can’t cure.” America, Mr. Trump adds, ”should stop paying to defend countries that can afford to defend themselves.”
…………………………………
“He did, however, travel to Moscow in July, where he met with the Soviet leader, Mikhail S. Gorbachev. The ostensible subject of their meeting was the possible development of luxury hotels in the Soviet Union by Mr. Trump. But Mr. Trump’s calls for nuclear disarmament were also well-known to the Russians.”
Ladies and gentlemen, that is how you, as a journalist, confirm the suspicion that you are a mendacious cunt.
I just want to say, I have brought to the Glibs two things with which I have been struggling and after some discussion you all have ironed them out for me. I love this place. *sniffle*
I’d offer you a tissue, but I forgot to restock.
(The darn air quality in this office building has my nose running a lot. Doesn’t happen anywhere else)
EEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWW!
Snot my problem you’re easily disturbed.
All I got was UCS telling me to put sand on my driveway. I don’t feel like I’m making the most of this opportunity.
Uh oh, what did we do?
(Can’t take credit, I’ve been mostly AWOL during the 40 Years In The Desert)
The big one is our ongoing envy discussion. You all have been able to shift my focus on what I should be grateful for, the progress we have made despite our limitations, and accepting that some things aren’t going to change … and that’s okay.
The other one is talking me down out of the trees with my unfortunate gun and ammo purchase. Knowing I can get it off my hands fairly simply (gunbroker) makes me not resent my stupidity so much.
Excellent.
SP and I are still somewhat wistful about not ending up down your way.
Mr. Mojeaux and I reciprocate your wistfulness.
I missed the gun and ammo discussion. Care to summarize?
I think it involved some bullets and a dumb salesman who didn’t know ammunition but talked as if he did.
that could be really bad.
The story I recall is that the salesman insisted that there was no such thing as a .380 and sold her some .38 special rounds instead. But I may be misremembering.
UCS is correct. I should have brought a bullet from my stash into the store (Walmart) to compare, but didn’t realize 380 is not a standard off-the-rack size.
Point of order- both .38SPL and .380 are off the rack sizes.
And the obvious solution is buy a .38 (or.357) to go with the ammo. 🙂
It was suggested I buy the gun to go with the ammo (“Honey, did you buy another gun?” “Oh, that ol’ thing?”), but I don’t want a revolver, so…
I bought a Ruger 380 years ago. I never took it out until last spring and realized that despite a childhood spent with guns in the house, I a) don’t know jack shit about them, b) it’s an expensive hobby, and c) I’m probably never going to need one and I’m not going to carry it.
The biggest portion of that is that it’s an expensive hobby. The friend I went with to the range had a frigging arsenal she let me shoot (oh my goodness, did I have fun), but the amount of ammo we went through was insane.
ANYWAY, UCS is right. My biggest issue was that I had been sold ammo that didn’t fit my gun and I didn’t know better. So I felt sick to my stomach about that ammo sitting there (when I knew how much ammo Lucie and I had gone through) with no gun to match it. And that led to my resenting the gun I DO have, not wanting to get a gun to match the ammo, and rather would have something like a Glock, and wondering what to do with my little peashooter.
Folks suggested gunbroker, so now that I know I have a place to go to recoup a little of my losses, I am chill.
You decided on the best pizza and bbq? Congrats!
Um … I guess this is where I admit I don’t care for pizza all that much. I’ll eat it, but it’s never my first choice for food. Or second. Or third. Or twentieth.
KC BBQ always (preferably Gates or Bryants).
https://twitter.com/greta/status/1095638540506009600
“When Mueller probe ends,each cable news orgs should hire outside journalism investigator on themselves and see how did on all its Mueller reporting-did anchors report facts or make wild statements(for/against) that misled the American people? And that analysis should be released”
The old hag is right. The only tangible impact of the Mueller probe has been: increased sanctions with Russia (which Congress locked into place, while hilariously trying to overturn tariffs against China) and arming Ukraine.
The willingness of the corporate press to run with any intelligence community talking point is the main reason why most “journalists” are nothing more than propagandists who are terrible at their job and should probably learn something useful like coding. If the CIA ran a newspaper would it really look all that different from the NYT?
But, in all honesty, if no one was fired over “Iraq WMD” myth then certainly no one is going to get fired over “Muh…Russia”
Fair point. Although, in deciding whether an intelligence “failure” that supported starting a war or an active intelligence op to overturn a Presidential election and/or undermine the Presidency is worse, I opt for the latter.
When it’s framed that way, I agree. But, that would mean that Iraq WMD was an honest mistake. I don’t think that’s true. I don’t think government officials should ever be afforded the benefit of the doubt.
Regardless of whether the WMD was an honest mistake or not.
And, I’m not convinced it was entirely a mistake. We know he used it, we know he shipped a bunch of something to Syria before the war. We found some old shells loaded with it. We just didn’t find anything fresh, or any confirmed manufacturing facilities (although the jiggery-pokery around inspections before the war sure was suspicious).
I don’t think it is so much benefit of the doubt as data confirmation. Prior to Iraq, there really wasn’t much debate among political leaders, even those opposed to going to war, about whether Hussein had WMDs, so much as what to do about them. They were almost universally wrong.
Saddam actually thought he had them, along with potential nuclear capability.
Turns out his military advisors lied to him.
Well, he did strike me as the kind of guy who’d kill a messenger for giving him bad news.
Scott Ritter=WMD Denier
Powell lost all credibility that day
These are the same organizations that didn’t predict the fall of the Soviet Union, which was arguably their entire raison d’etre back in those days.
There is no reason to believe that they are competent, let alone honest.
Iran ’79.
One of the top 10 intelligence failures in world history.
An argument could be made that the CIA, pretty much as the old OSS folk left, became primarily a jobs program for Ivy League nit-wits.
To be fair, I’m not even sure that the CIA or any part of the IC is actually a source (other than the upper echelons of the FBI. They’re rotten from the head down).
“According to sources familiar with the matter” means they’re making shit up out of thin air.
It starts with one single unsourced claim, and then other corporate media report it with the caveat “according to Buzzfeed”. They know the listeners ignore the caveat, and they don’t care.
QUIT TALKING ABOUT IDAHO!!!
The unrelenting influx has turned much of the Treasure Valley into just another overpopulated shithole. And because school districts aren’t allowed to collect developer fees, I’m paying for your kids effing education too. On top of the percentage of property taxes earmarked for schools, 20% is dedicated to school bond issues.
There are even some who will openly state that they’re going to “fix” Idaho as soon as enough Californians get here. People suck.
I suddenly see an image of Commifornian transplants forced to work in potato gulags digging up tubers by hand.
If only. They’re all bitching about how cold it is. It’s been so mild, I haven’t had to use the snowblower since the beginning of December.
Round up some Commifornians and put them to work in your potato gulag then.
I mean, the manual labor will warm them right up.
Word, Brother.
Spud,. I am aware of that vector. I work accepting donations at a nonprofit. I get a lot of people from California. I will point blank ask them if they are moving here to escape the insanity or trying to infiltrate.
One guy said he moved here cuz he wanted to keep his guns. But I did spot an guerrilla. A big fat Blasey Ford looking cunt. As soon as the question was out, her head snapped, a short little eyeball exchange and I knew.
Lines are hardening and this is a red state. They won’t have enough time to subvert I don’t think in big enough numbers.
Fortunately, the numbers are showing that the proggies are still a distinct minority of transplants, but Ada County is already blue.
Of course they head for the urban center – it’s their natural environment.
Point taken.
I’m watching Spacehunter: Adventures In The Forbidden Zone for the first time in maybe 20 – 25 years. HOLY MACKEREL! It’s still awesome.
+1 young Molly Ringwald
Where’s that overused clip from Pulp Fiction?
Forgive me for repeating a shitty joke I made a few weeks ago: The coast of Lake Michigan between Illinois and Indiana should be renamed in honor of the Laffer Curve.
Did anyone ask Cuomo about his and other members of the part of “taxing the rich, the party of the little guy, and SJ warfare what their beef with the SALT deduction cap in Trump’s new tax legislation really is about? For those that are unaware, the SALT cap basically put a hard stop from really rich people from deducting anything over $10K paid to state taxes. So all the blue states that had these millionaires paying huge state taxes but getting fed deductions for them that told us plebes that we should be paying more taxes now bailing the blue states because their scam is gone. So the new tax plan suddenly closes a loophole for the real rich, and the democrats in blue states are all pissed about it. Party of the little guy and taxing the rich my ass. The democratic party is the party of the multi-millionaires/billionaires.
Fuck Cuomo and all the blue states now trying to repeal and find a loophole for all the ultra rich cunts now looking to move to non heavily taxed states.
but would be a fucking idiot to back the repeal of the SALT limit.
But the cap has been strongly opposed by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle from states such as New York, New Jersey and California, who are worried that the cap will hurt their constituents.
i’m not seeing a lot of “both sides” in that list of high tax states.
The legislation is co-sponsored by Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) — one of a small number of House Republicans who voted against the tax bill — and a number of Democrats from high-tax states, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), who are both running for president.
okay, there’s one guy. Chris Smith who represents Trenton, Lakewood, Freehold, and a chunk of the shore.
With the increased standard deductions (from $12,700 to $24,000 for married filing jointly), the people who are itemizing is (way?) down, too. So there’s people who might have been hit with the SALT limit who have been saved by not itemizing at all. And a lot of people who were itemizing less than $24,000 who are ahead with the new standard deduction.
Logically, I know I paid $500 less in taxes on $5,000 more in income, but seeing the calculated returns in TruboTax stay the same after every document god added took the last slice of joy out of the process.
I’m pretty sure I came out ahead, but can’t be arsed to really figure it out since last year’s income and this year’s income are so different due to some deferred comp vesting.
Laffer Curve jokes.
/Sniff
/Wipes away single tear.
I almost like you guys