Good Morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a glorious morning it is for everyone except R. Kelly who is melting down.
Will someone please just stab her in the heart with a stake already?!
Number of Republican senators voting to strike down Trump’s wall emergency declaration has grown to 15, getting close to overcome the veto-proof majority.
Sweet Jesus, they are desperately searching for anything to bring him down at this point. Next they’re going to be checking the tags on his mattresses.
Colorado and the Christian bake shop owner calling a truce.
Illegal immigration under Trump to surpass Obama.
That’s all I got for today, I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
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515 responses to “Wednesday Morning Links”
FIRST!
And a mime at that.
[Places Lord Hummungus in glass walled box.] Air holes are extra.
What about that big air hole about waist height?
That’s how you earn the ones for breathing.
As I said to my numbed right hand last night, “Hello, stranger!”
OK, I’m going to be trying to shake off that mental image for the rest of the day.
I’m disappointed. I wanted a SCOTUS ruling reasserting the right to free association.
“Despite the mutual agreement between the State of Colorado and Masterpiece Cakeshop, the law is still the law. No matter who you are, who you love, or what you believe, Coloradans across our state — including LGBTQ Coloradans and their families — are still protected under Colorado law from discrimination in the areas of employment, housing, and public accommodations,” said executive director Daniel Ramos, “except this physicist obsessed with boobs, because that guy is a total shitlord”.
I suspect that’s why they backed down.
Absolutely.
STEVE SMITH NO COMMIE. PUTS IT UNDER AND OVER.
AND THROUGH.
AND HOW
Over and Over!
The proper place is to put a loose roll on the corner of the sink and not in a bracket on the wall.
Proof that you live alone. If I did that in my house, there would just be a soaked mess of paper sitting there within a day. The girlfriend somehow has the ability to cover any counter top with water when doing anything in a sink.
We go for the top of the tank or propped on the hand-towel rail. If we put it on the roller the cat or the dogs will eat it. If we put it on the corner of the sink it’ll get wet.
AND, furthermore, if you have cats under is the way you keep from having your cats unravel the entire roll because they’re bored.
I solved that problem with a magazine rack under the roll.
Hmm. Like a barricade? Interesting. Wouldn’t do much for the dogs but that might dissuade the cat…
My stupid dog will destroy a whole roll if we forget to close the door and hurt his feelings when we leave.
Mine has a bad habit of not putting it on the roller at all, leaving it on the edge of the tub at which point the cats knock it into the tub and it gets soaked.
Mandrake, have you ever seen a commie replace an empty toilet paper roll?
Does sandpaper really ‘roll’?
One of the few disputes I’ve won with SP. She grudgingly gave in and started doing the over.
Isn’t the paper always going over the top of the roll when hung horizontally, with the only dispute being whether it hangs off the front (as Allah intended), or off the back (as benighted barbarians are prone to do)?
/pedant OFF
Not all that shocking given the low unemployment numbers.
76,325 Illegal Aliens Apprehended at Border in February
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/03/a-country-without-borders-76325-illegal-aliens-apprehended-at-border-in-february-largest-since-2008-most-will-stay-and-receive-benefits/
That’s a big reason. Another is that it’s similar to how gun sales hit record levels under Obama. People want to get into the country while it’s still fairly easy to do so.
The Republicans reclaiming their coveted title of “The Stupid Party”. They are going to take what is probably the single most important issue to their constituents, and forfeit it to Team Blue. All the Koch / Chamber of Commerce money won’t help them next year.
The Republican Party has been screwing their voting base over on illegal immigration for years ‘n’ years. It’s a given at this point.
I just wish Congress would be critical of other Presidents declarations of emergencies. Alas, I believe my wishes are in vain.
*sighs and takes a smoke*
Yup, if only Congress would grow a spine and take back some of their old delegated powers.
Yup. An issue where Trump is actually on the right side of the polls, and they are reverting to form by pissing on their voters to be part of the kool kidz.
Repeal the fucking law allowing Presidents to make these declarations, you pussies. Or let this one stand. But they have once again found that sweet spot, the worst of both worlds.
The GOP longs for that sweet election death.
Those sweet concession speeches aren’t going to write themselves.
And their doctors recommended no more salty ham tears in their diets.
And when they had majorities in both Houses, they did absolutely nothing on the issue of legal or illegal immigration. Some of them may try to run on the issue next year although they’ll get laughed at now.
I wish. “What are you gonna do? Vote Democrat?”
That is all it will take. The rubes will line up to pull lever for their Team no matter who is running.
It’s like a state AG saying they still need laws against sodomy (etc) on the books because… reasons.
We have to have rules and regulations, else anarchy! /reasons
I’m with you RCD. Repeal the law and I’ll respect you. Vote to overturn this one emergency (and leave the other 30 or so emergencies on the books) and I’m going to snort in derision and roll my eyes at your hackery.
Especially when you had 2 years where you had both chambers of Congress and the presidency and did nothing, NOTHING, on this issue.
Well, I mean at least Congress also made presidents stop with all these unconstitutional wars around the planet… oh wait…
The Republicans reclaiming their coveted title of “The Stupid Party”. They are going to take what is probably the single most important issue to their constituents, and forfeit it to Team Blue.
I wasn’t aware “handing over even more Congressional branch powers to the Executive branch, and then hoping Team Blue never wins the presidency ever again and turns that against them” polled well with Republicans.
This isn’t handing over more power. This is kvetching about how something they gave away a long time ago is being used by Orange Man Bad.
This would be a valid point if this declaration was unique, unfortunately it is not, and therefore does not ‘hand even more Congressional powers to the Executive.” Personally I think the wall is a waste of time, but let’s not pretend Trump is doing something unusual with this Emergency.
We have seized property belonging to private citizens and governments, forbidden commerce, and limited civil rights under these declarations over and over again. As people have said above, I’d respect them if they repealed the law that allows these, but to overturn this one and leave the law is idiotic.
Will someone please just stab her in the heart with a stake already?!
Funny you should mention.
On March 4th, Hillary Rodham Clinton announced that she would not be running for President in 2020 during an interview with local NY news station, News12. The announcement comes as a relief to most as her failed campaign against President Trump has led to a 2-year temper tantrum already.
However, don’t think we’ve seen the last of her yet. In her interview she said, “I’m not going anywhere” and vowed to remain part of the resistance towards Trump. She may have her eyes on a bigger prize, too.
Hillary Clinton has been meeting privately with all the top Democratic candidates this year from Sen. Cory Booker to Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Even less popular politicians seeking a White House run like Colorado Gov. Hickenlooper are getting facetime with the former Democratic nominee, and he met with her a full two months before he officially announced. While none of runners have made public comments on their secret meetings with the former Secretary of State, there are claims that they are all seeking her endorsement and advice….
Since HRC has covertly managed to position herself as the bread and butter of the DNC, it is unlikely that any 2020 Democratic presidential candidate would refuse her if she made the request to be a running mate. I am predicting that is exactly what she has done or will do.
If, and it’s a big if, the campaign is successful, Clinton would still get her coveted title as “First Female,” in this case first female Vice President. She would also be first in line for the seat of President if anything unfortunate happened theoretically to the Democratic President. Certainly, she does have a history filled of unfortunate happenings to people in her inner circle.
The witch is persistent.
“She would also be first in line for the seat of President if anything unfortunate happened theoretically to the Democratic President.”
Like that could ever happen.
Foster/Clinton 2020
Will someone please just stab her in the heart with a stake already?! – that is cultural appropriation
We could just dump her in Romania.
Yeah, anyone dumb enough to consider making Herself the VP should watch and meditate on the lessons of House of Cards (BBC). HRC is just the feminine form of FU. Buyer beware.
Tim Pool went on Joe Rogan to talk with Jack Dorsey and Vijaya Gadde.
Hopefully I linked to the right part, but from 12:03 on he absolutely nails her and she goes into full NPC mode
Later, she actually claims that “sunlight is the best disinfectant” is her favorite saying.
Her argument that they only ban “specific targeted behavior and harassment” doesn’t hold ant water. Trump is specifically targeted for vile harassment all day long on their platform
But nobody is dead naming Drumpf.
SJWednesday: Mr. President, we must not allow… a mine shaft gap!Mr. President, we must not allow… a
mine shaftorgasm gap!Anybody else getting the duplication error with Eyepiece? I’m not getting my money’s worth out of it.
*shakes fist at trashmonster, reports him to AOC*
I tried reinstalling Monocle last night – still hides all comments in Chrome and some in Firefox.
Glibe are more complicated. It’s naturally more difficult to have a comment-gasm for us.
Duplication error?
Oh, use tampermonkey, not Greasemonkey.
That’s what I’m using
Where do you go to replace greasemonkey with tampermonkey?
In the add-ons section of the settings page, you should be able to remove Greasemonkey. Then you can duck duck go for tampermonkey and there is a download link on their page.
When I use blockquote, italics, or strikethrough, it duplicates the text. See below:
Test TextTest Text
Do you have both Monocle and Eyepiece installed?
Not anymoreNot anymore
I hate to go this route, but try uninstalling and reinstalling Eyepiece.
If that doesn’t work, I’m gonna have to do some deeper inspection of the code on my end.
NopeNope
Damn. What browser/device?
Chrome / Windows
Echo…echo…echo….
Way easier to orgasm, as a women, when you have a penis.
That isn’t true.
I’m still stuck on the idea of “requesting an orgasm.”
One orgasm to go, please. And put it in a paper bag so it’s easier to carry home.
What, no DoorDash? It is cold out there, I am not leaving home.
You want bag!? NO ORGASM FOR YOU! BANNED! ONE YEAR!
NEXT!
“Hey could you keep licking my pussy until I come?”
I believe that’s what she was talking about.
By the time she’s done with that lecture, her partner already has his pants on and one foot out the door. That many have something to do with it, just sayin.
something something she’s so frigid a little light pops on when she opens her mouth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyVE1t8iMeA
Gay men only come 84% of the time?
What do they do with the other 16% of their time?
Catch
Not trying to be a shitlord here. Can you even have an orgasm after radical surgical reshaping of your genitalia?
Post-op MTF can have orgasms.
^This. They keep the penis head and its nerves attached and intact and put it where the clitoris would be. IIRC, that’s the most tricky part of the surgery since nerves and all. Creating the f*cktube is fairly simple.
Fun fact – during fetal development everyone has a vag – the uro-genital fissure closes in 99.99% of males, that little flesh seam running through your perineum is where your ug fissure was. The same nub that becomes a glans in a normal male fetus becomes a clit in a female.
“that little flesh seam”
It’s called the raphe.
“Creating the f*cktube is fairly simple.”
This might be my new motto.
“It’s called the raphe.”
Coolness. Thanks.
Raphe Culture
“Ug” indeed.
Interesting. With my layperson’s understanding I thought that nerves cut would be useless, and underestimated the plasticity of the human body.
No, they do not cut the nerves to the glans. NOT severing that little string is surgically very tricky. I do not recommend viewing media of this procedure. Seeing a severed glans hanging by a string is really, really gross (it’s not really hanging, that would strain the nerves, but you get the idea).
It’s possible, but not as easy.
Orgasms happen in the brain, so it’s theoretically possible that almost anything could give you an orgasm; like this guy:
https://nypost.com/2014/09/22/the-living-hell-of-the-man-who-orgasms-100-times-a-day/
I’ve read stories about paraplegics with total genital insensitivity whose erogenous zones “remap” so they can get off by getting their back rubbed in a specific place, for example.
HOWEVER, I’d be inclined to think that it would be significantly more difficult to cum and it may not happen for everyone.
So does that count of the number of orgasms include masturbation?
No, but orgasms achieved via The Shocker balance them out.
Yeah, it is called psychology, which ultimately is partially biology but partially not. Yes there is a problem with a very measurable percentage of guys, maybe even a small majority of them are either so self absorbed or lack the skills so that they are incapable of reliably bringing their partners to orgasm but at the same time it is true that it does not matter how skilled the and how conscientious about ensuring his partner has at least as good of a time as he does that for the majority of women there will be days where they are simply incapable of getting out of their own heads enough for the orgasm to happen and there will be other days where their bodies will just fail them (they go from being interested to too hyperstimulated where more friction is actually uncomfortable without ever hitting an orgasm in the middle)
“Don’t blame me, I just aim for the middle.”
So her orgasms are everybody’s responsibility but her own?
Fake News
Way to go TSA you finally stopped something!
Test runs of the grenade ?
While this happened in PA, it was Florida Man.
“next they’re going to be checking the tags on his mattresses.”
The subpoena, issued by the New York State Department of Financial Services, was based in large part on the testimony of Michael Cohen, who answered in the affirmative when asked whether President Donald Trump ever inflated his assets to an insurance company, according to a source familiar with the matter.
It looks more impressive if you value your assets in Rubles.
America is not ‘polarized’: it’s a land where a small minority tyrannize the supermajority
This is clearly by design. Libertarian thinkers — at least those who subscribe to the Ayn Radnian idea that a small number of people are innately superior and thus should be liberated from the constraints of lesser people — have long fretted about the danger that democracy poses to these supermen (see, for example, Peter Thiel’s infamous belief that “democracy is incompatible with freedom”).
Get yer strawmen over here!
“democracy is incompatible with freedom”
It’s a true statement in that pure democracy (as envisioned by these wannabe tyrants) implies basic freedom being overridden by majority votes.
Also: WTF is “taxes on the super-rich” supposed to accomplish? As far as I can tell its only function is to punish people; taxes for taxes’ sake. The revenue that the FedGov would obtain is paltry and everyone (even hardcore progs I suspect) knows that it’s just more grist for the mill and would promptly be pissed away.
WTF is “taxes on the super-rich” supposed to accomplish?
“It’s not the economic thing to do, but it’s the moral thing to do.” – Moonbeam
You know it is true, I do want to be “liberated from the constraints of lesser people” – like government bureaucrats and bad cops. If that makes me a “superman” then it’s a strange definition considering I want the same freedoms for everyone else.
No mention in the article that everyone would share the same freedoms. How people use those freedoms will result in some people having superior results, and that is what burns them.
Finally I’m a minority. Thank God. All that oppressing was eating up my time.
“net neutrality (83%)”
83% of the .3% of the population who have even heard of net neutrality, let alone know what it is?
“America is not ‘polarized’: it’s a land where a small minority tyrannize the supermajority”
*Looks around little cafe in Manhattan where I’ve hung out with my woke friends for the last 20 years* ‘This is America! What is wrong with them rednecks?’
Now do open borders, single-payer health care, and various other of your own hobby horses, Mr. Wu.
Also, tell me more about this “voter suppression.”
policies with extremely high levels of public approval
Are often unconstitutional, not the anyone cares.
Progjection…
“Colorado and the Christian bake shop owner calling a truce.”
Fuck that. Keep going at them. Personally sue the members of the commission. This is why progs win the culture war, because they consider compromise a defeat. He’s got a massive legal fund from donations, don’t let up.
Rule Number 8: Keep up the pressure.
When the State Board of Assholes dropped their action, they mooted (most likely) the baker’s suit.
^This.
Also, as noted above the progs are now fearing a ruling against them. It will be worse if RGB leaves the court and ACB is appointed which could well happen by the time such a case got heard by SCOTUS.
RBG ACB GACTGTCAACGAGGTCACGCACCGACCG….
They could have took it to SCOTUS, Captain Penaltax Swingvote has their back.
So there’s at least one Democrat who can do basic math.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/432774-dem-campaign-chief-medicare-for-all-price-tag-a-little-scary
She’ll be looking for a job soon enough.
Scary, and yet we can assume two things:
The costs are vastly underestimated.
The benefits are vastly overestimated.
Yea, everyone knows all you have to do is ///justpayforit.
Question for Monocle users — where is the mute button? Is it the “+” button next to a name? If so, how does it work? If not, what does the “+” button do?
Just curious — nobody currently posting I’d want to mute.
Also, everytime I post a comment it marks all the unread blued out comments as read, even though I haven’t read them, so I don’t know what are actually new comments. Is there some way to post a comment while leaving unread comments still marked as unread?
I guess I’ll keep to Monocle classic – for now.
Go into the options (three horizontal lines) and toggle mute on.
Is there some way to post a comment while leaving unread comments still marked as unread?
My Javascript abilities haven’t caught up to that yet. New comments are marked by the server, so I have to figure out how to post data to the server while retaining the unread comments. It’s doable, but it’ll take a while to code, thus why it hasn’t happened Yat.
Thanks for all the work on monocle and eyepiece! I normally use monocle, but decided to give eyepiece a shot.
I can tell you something about my work proxy doesn’t like eyepiece. It hangs for a quite a while before the the page fully loads.
So for the moment back to monocle.
The three horizontal bars on the strip showing stuff like Adblock Plus or Tamper Monkey? Cause that doesn’t seem to have a mute setting.
On the left hand nav bar
nobody currently posting I’d want to mute
I need to try harder.
What? I can’t hear you!
Pffft. Wait until SugarFree’s post at 1100. I bet he mutes the whole site!
Wait….that’s noon Normal Time, right?
Trans women also have a slew of sexual stigmas attached to them
You don’t say.
*and that is as far as I got
Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4_Bxqp2tQU
Stop talking about testosterone – there’s no such thing as a ‘true sex’
My throbbing man cock disagrees.
This is how you gaslight.
Technically, the author is right, as there are intersex conditions. However, such people are rare, and that isn’t who she is writing about.
Well that and a high natural testosterone level does not make one biologically male
It does if it comes with a cock and balls.
Sure but I am reasonably certain that Sereena Williams is 100% female genetically and based on her facial features I am also 100% certain that her baseline T level crosses above the median level for genetic males
Maybe, but she wouldn’t stand a chance playing men’s tennis.
The fact that a tiny percentage don’t fit the definition of biological male or biological female does not mean that those terms are undefined. It means a tiny minority fall into a third category, called intersex.
So is this. She did NOT backed away from the claim just stated in the previous sentence.
If all your cells have a Y chromosome, you’re biologically male.
If not — if you only have X chromosomes – you’re biologically female.
I’d love one of these people to teach a biology class sometime. Preferably something on genetics.
You can probably visit most any university campus and find exactly that.
Anyone arguing for trans women in women’s sports needs to look up Fallon Fox. MMA fighter fighting women and absolutely destroying them
Or the clips of actual females in UFC sparring with men and getting dominated.
*googles, sifts through typical stunning-and-brave reporting*
And lied about it at the beginning of her career.
Shit, just look up boys 16 year old high school soccer team destroying US and Australian womens national soccer teams.
So you have a Y chromosome? You’re a biological male, excepting rare chromosomal disorders and such. Hey, that was easy.
I sincerely love how the prog trannies are going to drive a stake through the heart of women’s sports; and the brainwashing/cultural milieu control is so strong that the true elite female athletes have to act like it’s great while they get screwed.
It’s schadenfreutastic!
I think I posted a link the other day. Unless something changes, they are going to let trannies compete as women in next year’s Olympics. It is going to be hilarious.
It will be interesting to see if they wave the drug tests of people “transitioning”.
On the plus side, the WNBA might finally be worth watching.
Why, at best it would move up to be equivalent to the D league, do you actually watch D league games?
Yeah, I’d be more likely to watch lesbians play basketball than trans-women.
Hoping it would degenerate into something far more entertaining?
Basketcaseball
“I sincerely love how the prog trannies are going to drive a stake through the heart of women’s sports;”
The left destroy every single thing they touch. If women thought that doesn’t apply to their stuff as well…
“the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) intended to classify women with higher natural testosterone as “biological males”
Let me get something straight here. If I’m a guy competing in male sports, doping is a big no no because people will freak the fuck out and I’ll get banned from the sport. But if I’m a chick competing in a chick sport, I can dope away, or even if I’m a GUY pretending to be a woman, I can come in all naturally doped up and it’s all cool. And this is called equality. Do I have this straight now?
Good, good, you have your retard hat on, now you get it.
The East Germans weren’t cheating. They were just ahead of their time.
The sports’ governing bodies should just have an XY division and and XX division, and consider excess testosterone a PED in the XX division.
“Will no one rid me of this
turbulentevilpriestwitch?”Was that just a cynical attempt to get her face in the news cycle as she diligent plots her third attempt to
let slip the dogs of warbe in a position to do good things for allnon-deplorableAmericans?Not many people will see this since I’m sure I’ve been blocked by the new Monocle across the board.
http://archive.li/gjWUK
Are 5 and 6 the same girl? Either way, I’ll take them wrapped up to-go.
That tattoo on #4…tsk, tsk, tsk.
She could update it as she ages, like the little tick marks on the wall showing a kid’s growth.
You are a terrible human being. That’s why I love this place.
I haven’t figured out how the blocking thing works, so I still see your posts.
JK — If I could figure out how to temporarily block everyone but you, it’d save a lot of time finding the titty links.
Wasn’t any pics that met my criteria for both melanin enriched and thicc, but 23 was my fav, especially with the shadows
Not many people will see this since I’m sure I’ve been blocked by the new Monocle across the board
This is something I’ve actually been meaning to bring up. I’ve been thinking about writing up a “family friendly” mode so that i don’t accidentally click a tits link (it would be a scandal at work or while sitting next to my wife) . Obviously, I don’t actually want to mute you, but simply searching for NSFW doesn’t really catch it all. Suggestions?
I know nothing about monocle or how it works, but if you can block domains, you could prob just shut off Archive and that would handle it.
Probably be more efficient just to flag any link by Q
😀
That handles Q’s posts, but not Prole’s or Potato’s
They just made the list.
Oh, and I’m still not sure what to do with HM’s posts. I drank a gallon of bleach, but by some supernatural force, I’m still alive.
Wait we can block people now? How? Where? I’m not seeing this option, and I really want to block people.
I argued that having you on the blocklist by default was out of line but was overruled. I tried.
*whispers to everybody else*
Pretend not to hear him and he’ll think we all blocked him.
(click the 3 horizontal lines at the top of the left control bar, in there you can toggle the mute buttons on and off. The muting persists whether or not the buttons are enables)
Blockyomamma
It’s not me, it’s you!
The Climate Change Paper So Depressing It’s Sending People to Therapy
It’s always a decade away. Or two weeks.
I’d be more impressed if one of these experts said “I’ve had a Snake Plisken microscopic explosive capsules implanted in my carotid artery that will explode in 12 years. That is how sure I am the world will be ending in 10 years.”
The problem is – as Paul Erlich has proven – these people have no shame and even after their proggienostications are proven wrong, they don’t slink away and hide.
Still, it’s nice when they lay down actual dates for their doomsday.
Wait, I though Paul Erlich retired
So if this is true we can all stop saving for retirement and blow all our money on hookers? Go Climate Change!
A Boy Named Jem.
Dad must have hated him.
SJWednesday: Stop Victimizing Me With ComplimentsStop Victimizing Me With Compliments
>>First of all, it’s inaccurate. I look exactly how my mother and grandmother both looked when they were 39. I have the wrinkles, laugh lines and graying hair that come with age, plus the phantom pains that crop up if I forget to stretch after exercising. I would much rather hit up the farmers market than the club these days. I feel every single year of my 39 on the planet, and it feels good. It feels comfortable.
Damn, lady, you sound old.
All I could think of was Dylan Thomas would have to smack a bitch.
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Just take the fucking compliment like a normal person and move on.
Look at Scruffy Two Times over here. (over here)
“I was irritated at being made to do math”
Huh, so that’s what a medulla oblongata looks like.
Fine. It would be much more fun to deride you, anyway.
Secondly, this exercise in delusion puts a premium on youth and insults growing older.
Fine. You look like an 95 year old vagina.
So you are pushing 40, still clubbing, and it makes you feel uncomfortable? Sounds like some small part of your subconscious mind is still sensing reality.
Yeah, this is a bunch of words to blame everyone else for her failure to launch. Her mother and grandmother were raising 3-5 kids by the time they were 39 and didn’t have time and energy for this kind of silliness.
I have a number of friends who were long dead before they would have been 39. Fuck you if you can’t revel in, or at least enjoy, being 39.
I’ll take ‘Things that didn’t happen’ for $600, Alex.
“Now, having recently blown out the candles on my 39th birthday cake and made my wish (to climb Machu Picchu)”
She thinks Machu Picchu is a mountain, doesn’t she?
It’s not your body that’s repulsive, dear, it’s your attitude.
They could impeach him for his express violations of the Constitution as written and thus his oath of office, such as the bump stock ban’s violation of the 2A.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
* whew *
That’s literally the one category they won’t pursue, because they ain’t upholding the Constitution either.
I’m still using Monocle Classic. Because I want you kids off my lawn, but I don’t want to mute anyone.
Everybody ready to buy an indulgence?
‘Oklahoma!’ Takes Aim at Gun Issue
The revival will be the first Broadway show to join a new gun-related initiative that aims to mitigate the depiction of gun violence
Paywalled.
You remember in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory where they had the “tv commercial” and you could reach into the TV and grab the chocolate?
I think some people think that it’s like that with guns.
If you just look at them they go “bang”. Look at what happens with all the “trained professionals”.
I continue to ask progs, and have yet to receive an answer; what is so special about “gun violence” as opposed to regular violence? Like if I’m walking down the street and someone stabs me, I’m gonna say “Thank goodness he stabbed instead of shot me!”
God knows a 3 inch rip through your stomach lining is much less scary than a quarter inch hole!
“Gun violence” allows them to lump in stuff like suicides, killing people who trying to mass murder, other forms of self-defense, accidental discharges of weapons, shooting and missing, etc.
“Murder” would have much lower numbers.
stuff like suicides
Which is 2/3 of “gun deaths”*. They inflate their numbers and twist the language to suit their ends. In short, gun-grabbers lie.
*Something that is irrelevant, Constitutionally speaking. Even though I believe the numbers are on the side of gun-rights, I do not labor in those arguments because the only thing that matters legally, which can legitimately translate to some policy is what the gov’t is actually allowed to do pursuant to its founding charter.
How about a window
Funding also would go to community arts programs in areas heavily affected by gun violence.
Oh, that will solve all their problems.
“community arts programs in areas heavily affected by gun violence”
Oh, I’ve seen those arts programs but I always thought of it as graffiti .
Should help pay for the ammo.
SO may I suggest we start a non-profit organization dedicated to gun buy-backs so as to remove all those icky, scary weapons of war from our streets? Glibs Not Gats© will cheerfully give a $50 Dave & Busters Rewards Card to anyone handing in a working firearm; NFA items to the front of the line.
Up to! Up to a $50 gift card! Otherwise you are getting 10,000 used Makarov knockoffs from Bulgaria.
$50 for a Bulgarian Makarov?
Send me four of them.
Ok, wow those have gone up a bit! Last time I looked at them was more than 10 years ago and you could get a ‘pretty’ one for around $100, and they were practically giving away the worn looking ones. I guess the supply has dried up?
Sigh… I REALLY regret not picking up the FN-FAL that was hanging on the wall of the pawn shop in Thomasville, GA with the $300 price tag in 1993. I opted for the Ruger P89 and found it was such a POS that I sold it less than a year later.
M1911A1 in good condition for $500 something circa 1999.
Gun Salesman of the Year for 8 straight years did his level best to pump demand up as far as he could.
Did ya see this? New C&Rsenal Anvil video wherein Marc conserves a 1943 1911.
The person also says [Clinton] is extremely unlikely to run, but that she remains bothered that she’s expected to close the door on it when, say, John Kerry isn’t.
Well because No one expects John Kerry or Al Gore to try. But everyone expects you to try again because they know your a power hungry crazy person.
Or as Dave Smith says, a lizard person bent on the destruction of the human race.
She really believes the bullshit that the only reason people don’t like her is that she’s a woman. The only reason she’s treated differently is because she’s a woman. It never occurs to her that she is universally perceived as a power hungry sociopath who will do anything to get power.
“Universally” at Glibertarians, sure.
She would have received an Electoral College beatdown of epic proportions if she only had gotten the “I’ll vote D even if she is a power hungry sociopath” vote.
I just started reading another thing about this “green new deal” which purportedly will tell me all about the original FDR New Deal and explain how awesome it was, and why we need another one.
For no apparent reason, I just flashed on one of my high school lessons about the New Deal which featured farmers dumping milk in the street to drive up prices. I hope that’s the sort of thing they are planning to do, this time around. That will make everyone’s life better.
+1 wickard
I’m sure there will be plenty of burning corn.
And burning
strawmenstrawpeople.I am considering visiting Denver with the family at the end of April.
It’s me, the wife, a 3 year old and 10 Month old.
Maybe looking at short hikes, a bottle shop or taproom, train museum, dinosaur ridge
Is April a good time to visit Denver?
Any sights I should consider?
If this trip happens I am down for a glib meet up.
STEVE SMITH SUGGEST LONG HIKE
I guess I take one for the team for the rest of my family 🙁
April is a good time, though it’s the 3rd snowiest month historically so be prepared for freak weather events. If you’re gonna see Dinosaur Ridge anyway, I’d recommend staying in Golden (Table Mountain Inn or Golden Hotel). That’ll give you easy access to the mountains (fun little day hikes in Evergreen) and you can get downtown easily.
The restaurant at Table Mountain is great. There is a new hotel nearby called Origin Red Rocks that we liked a lot.
We have a friend that lives in Golden, so we were aiming to stay more in that area.
Red Rocks is worth the trip and there are some short hikes there as well.
Yes! Very fun and scenic for some Florida boys on a work trip. But they are serious when they say stay on the path.
Are you planning to acquire the children before or after your arrival. Orphans of that age are very expensive if you buy them at the airport.
Central Denver is littered with breweries and taprooms. The suburbs aren’t bad in that department either. The train museum out there in Golden is a nice diversion for the yunguns as well.
tis a fine day in old Bucharest. The sun is shining, a pleasant 18 degrees, and one of those days when things went according to plan. the guys who needed to get rid of my old stuff came at 9 as they said they would and took it. the guys with the new stuff came at 12 45 as they said they would. I hit the gym after and now am chilling.
no idea if this works
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lP8yEuKHUbnOAVR0dRGcdS18r2xUXNS-/view
the color is different than i though but it is better
I like the color. And now I want a recliner too.
We have a “no recliner” rule in our house. And by our house, I mean EF’s house. She hates recliners – unless they are retro-mid mod and cleverly hide the foot rest; so something very expensive.
something like this presumably.
Limber up your checkbook.
Bob’s makes a decent recliner, there are likely several locations close to you, they deliver, AND their Goof-Proof insurance policy is fantastic – they’ll replace, for pretty much any reason, for 5 years (with cats and young kids, it’s a Godsend; we’ve replaced a great many pieces).
https://www.mybobs.com/furniture/living-room/recliners-and-reclining-furniture/recliners/c/recliners
Ah, I was trying to remember their name – see their commercials all the time.
i am disappoint at the lack of people praising my new furniture
Looks comfy. Love the floor!
the floor dates to 1939
It’s gorgeous! What’s the outlet to the left of the loveseat?
all outlets are electricity they are poorly placed but i need to redo the whole thing and that takes $$
also it is not a loveseat it is a two seat couch. the 3 seat one was unneeded
Yeah, that’s what we call a two-seat sofa.
TWO SEAT THREE SEAT. STEVE SMITH FINDS A WAY
i need to get a smaller rug
Brazilians do without.
I’m too distracted by your freaky European wall outlets.
GO AMERICA
It’s 14 degrees below freezing* and you’re thinking of furniture ?
*Farenheit Forever
What is that? 1.5 kilo-cushions?
Cozy & uncluttered. *thumbs up*
Very nice. Tasteful.
Kicking back and watching soccer. I can see it. My pad and I’d need a coffee table filled with paraphernalia, but I still like your choice.
coffee table filled with paraphernalia
Isn’t that risky in Japan?
I wasn’t always a geezer in Japan. Pie is a single dude living alone IIRC.
yes i just focus on booze
this set of furniture from the same producers was nicer looking but less comfortable and thrice the price
https://www.mobiladalin.ro/produse/canapele/rio-canapea
Nice, I do appreciate a nice recliner. Not that you asked, but I think you should hang some more art on the walls. Or put up a shelf or something. Then again, I don’t think a place looks lived in unless there’s a whole bunch of crap laying everywhere and a dog farting away contentedly into the couch cushions.
Cheap wall art:
https://www.lightinthebox.com/c/wall-art_904?prm=1.1.51.0
” I don’t think a place looks lived in unless there’s a whole bunch of crap laying everywhere”
I was thinking the same thing. A few books next to the recliner by the big coffee cup, a bra hanging over the 2 seater. Things like that, more of the Oscar look and less of a Felix look. I’m overlooking those things today because everything is new (and very nice). Good job, Pie.
i actually don’t like a lot of stuff. also no pets.
Going for that Gulag look, eh?
(note – I can’t open your link from my work PC)
Is the farting mandatory? She’s pretty good on that front.
No, but the slightly put upon look is the sign of a real professional.
She’s got that down. I get it nightly when I’m chasing her out of my side of the bed (she turns in with the wife before I do, usually).
Mine doesn’t fart a lot, but he has the chilling on the furniture down pat.
You’re freaking me a little. That looks like a Natuzzi, same model as the one my dog wore out.
I have no idea what brand it is (I do remember it was pricey), but we’ve had that furniture for more than 20 years. It has survived two kids, two dogs and me.
Would purchase again.
No idea how it happened, or what we did to deserve this, but Wonder Dog never farts. Never chews, either.
We lucked out:
– she doesn’t fart
– she doesn’t chew things
– she came housebroken (got her at 7 months)
— she has never gone to the bathroom in the house
– almost never barks, unless it’s someone at the door
— she does, however, bark in her sleep – it’s adorable
The two TPLOs and now tumor removal have been/will be pricey, but the rest has been great.
Housebreaking Wonder Dog took less than a day. She got sick once and shit everywhere when no-one was home to let her out, but other than that, she’s been perfect.
Barking is a different issue. Great Pyrenees is a barky breed. She is a barky Great Pyrenees.
never knew your dogs breed
different view
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ab0fw-ERE9DOiomnWnTkk3BqtFHJDmjj
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1DuUvmeVPrdQD0fkAuzW8deTQ2L8QHssA
That painting is hung way too high.
never though about it…
Interesting…so it looks like you’ve got a little of my situation. Originally my house was such that you’d come in through the front door with a wall on your left and you’d be in the living room. The left wall separated that room from another room with a coat closet, likely used as a dining room. At some point, someone knocked that wall out to join both rooms into one long room, which is fine, but we wound up using a couch to kind of separate the TV/fireplace area from what would in theory be the dining room on the other side.
18 degrees
In degrees Commie or degrees Freedom?
If I lived in Colorado and had money to burn, I’d troll the fuck out of the left by filing lawsuits against prog business owners for refusing to create MAGA banners, Nazi cakes from Jewish owners, KKK ads in alt-lefty magazines, etc. Just rub their noses in the consequences of this assault on free speech and freedom of association, make the process the punishment.
Too lazy to find a link, but a guy did try this. He went to a gay cake shop and asked for a KKK cake (I think, it was something like that).
Result? Owner refused and the CCCR promptly upheld it, lawsuit was dismissed and the whole thing was swept under the rug.
2 reasons: FYTW and his request wasn’t woke.
i remember they did the gay cake at Muslim baker were rejected and nothing happened
That’s what I was thinking about.
Was it just some random guy or an organization that knew what it was doing. The lawyers who tend to win in this sort of case wait for the perfect storm – most egregious law, jurisdiction of a court they believe will be sympathetic, clear path through the higher courts, etc.
You need to target a situation where a protected class is denied service. A very politically incorrect religion might work.
Are the Republicans voting to remove the power to declare emergencies? cause other than that i think it is posturing. (Mind you i think its OK, but it still doesn’t fix the issue that the Republicans will stop Trump from doing this but Pres. Warren will use it to do GND and Gun Control, point to trump and No Dems will cross the line to stop her.) If the republicans don’t put a Full Stop on presidential abuse, this will only hamstring themselves and screw over Americans on their rights when democrats take power.
Yep. It’s lunacy not to take leftists at their word on some things. They’re rarely honest, but when it comes to asserting their will to power, believe them.
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/728/383/bcc.jpg
It’s just an unstable seat, Q.
Free Bombs for everyone!
Why Ron Paul Is Dead Wrong On Venezuela
Although Paul thinks he must stick to his non-interventionist guns, his abandonment of the Venezuelan people in their time of need will not be forgotten.
Yesterday i had a thought about suing the government for establishing a religion. The religion is “The State” and there are clear violations of peoples rights because of it. If you have another Religion, it requires you to follow the laws and ordinance of the state religion before your own. This is another example. Here you have an Evangelical State Missionary. He believes that by killing and bombing Venezuela we can bring the democratic sect of State Religion to Venezuela.
Paul’s argument is usually “Don’t Stick It In Crazy”
How devious of him.
Not supporting a coup against the Venezuelan govt and supporting the Venezuelan govt are not synonymous.
Not hurting is the same as helping!
Eh, I’m only partially with Paul on this one. I see no reason why we shouldn’t give diplomatic support to the Venezuelan opposition. Military support, hell no, but recognizing them? A-OK by me.
Seconded.
Why is a leading libertarian voice supporting a Communist dictatorship
He isn’t.
Last week, I was reading America’s Siberian Adventure 1918-1920, by William S. Graves. The author was the commanding officer of the American troops that were sent to Siberia at the end of WWI; their orders were to act more or less as peacekeepers and to stay out of partisan battles. I came across this passage:
“…the reason for not issuing orders to me, as commander of the United States troops, to support Kolchak is apparent. To have ordered American troops to take sides in this internal conflict, which not only would have implied the use of force, but would have required the use of force, would have been an act of War. The Constitution of the United States provides: “The Congress shall have power – to declare war; grant letters of marque and reprisal and make rules concerning captures on land and water.” The Executive was therefore powerless to direct the use of troops, and there can be no question but that President Wilson and the War Department expected me to remain neutral.”
How far we have come in 100 years.
Professor Jem Bendell, a sustainability academic at the University of Cumbria, wrote the paper after taking a sabbatical at the end of 2017 to review and understand the latest climate science “properly—not sitting on the fence anymore,” as he puts it on the phone to me.
What he found terrified him. “The evidence before us suggests that we are set for disruptive and uncontrollable levels of climate change, bringing starvation, destruction, migration, disease, and war,” he writes in the paper. “Our norms of behavior—that we call our ‘civilization’—may also degrade.”
SIUYA
*Paging Paul Ehrlich, Paul Ehrlich to the red courtesy phone*
Sorry Paul is bombed again.
Worth a re-post: https://www.whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/globalwarming2.html
My sister’s ex-husband is severely emotionally manipulating their kids in an effort to make my sister so miserable that she gives him full custody. He’s succeeding, too.
I’m still debating whether it’d be morally acceptable to tell Maryland authorities about the unregistered, unlicensed small arsenal of guns he has. I know it isn’t, but goddammit I’m tempted.
How old are the kids?
11 and 6
Shit, that sucks.
I’ve seen that happen before and it wasn’t pleasant. You’ve got to be a real douchebag to use the kids against your ex.
I’m still debating whether it’d be morally acceptable to tell Maryland authorities about the unregistered, unlicensed small arsenal of guns he has. I know it isn’t, but goddammit I’m tempted.
I know it’s A tough Moral Question… Especially because using the state… But the guy sounds like a grade A Asshole.
All’s fair in love and war.
My uncle’s been there. His useless, waste of life junkie of an ex-wife turned their daughter against him and he barely sees her anymore. She got to their son too, but, as he grew older, he started to see what a fucking piece of shit he is and now has cut her off instead.
fucking piece of shit SHE is, that is.
He would probably end up going to prison for that. Hard to pay child support when you’re in prison, hard to get a job when you get out, etc. Other long-term effects on kids wrt their views on liberty, guns, crime, etc.
I can see how you would be tempted, but you’d be handing gun-grabbers a huge PR victory.
He doesn’t pay child support and he doesn’t really work, his parents support him. So I don’t give a shit about that. He also doesn’t have a dog. He already has shitty views on liberty (his politics are somewhere to the right of Il Duce).
Like I said, I won’t do it, because morally I’m opposed. But I’m also tempted because he’s just the worst kind of human being.
Just threaten him with that if he doesnt cut out his shit.
A few reminders down the road might be necessary unless he can hide the guns but it might work.
But the guns can be moved after the first threat. “I once saw him with a gun he said he had illegally” is much different from the po-po finding the cache of weapons.
If it is a large arsenal where to put it ?0
http://cdn.ecommercedns.uk/files/5/227995/2/5014782/kmk311-words.jpg
Sending to my girlfriend. Wish me luck.
*peruses websites of mortuary services near Atanarjuat*
I think that picture may lead to a DIY disposal.
There is no indication Aon did anything wrong or even underwrote the Trump Organization’s policies but was the company’s insurance broker.
The Department of Financial Services inquiry, described by the same source as being in the early stages, could lead to a referral to prosecutors of any potential insurance fraud the president may have committed by misrepresenting his finances.
Apparently David Axledick thinks it is unfortunate how this has the appearance of a witch-hunt. It looks like a witch-hunt because that’s what it is. Our legal system is not supposed to involve endless investigation with no prior evidence of a crime. But, you know, “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime”. One thing I find particularly grating is that leftists are putting up the facade of “rule-of-law” as their motivating factor. They don’t care about that. They only care about power.
Aon is an insurance brokerage. They do not underwrite insurance policies, they represent their commercial clients (like Trump’s companies) to the underwriters. If they were not acting in a way to (honestly) represent their clients’ best interests, they would be committing fraud.
It cuts both ways.
Depending on how “creative” the broker is with the application(s) and loss data they can also defraud the carriers as well.
That doesn’t moot your point, however.
Aon is way too big and they have far larger clients than Trump to lie to the underwriters. And the underwriters (actual insurance companies) share loss data with each other – so they know all about it even if a company switches brokerages and tries to hide a loss*. It’s a just a fishing expedition.
*Married to an commercial underwriter.
Ummm…they make a limited amount of loss data available, usually through ISO or such.
There is no interest in giving away certain information – either for legal/regulatory reasons, or giving away free intel to your competitors.
Yes! Especially for losses within the insured’s retention!
My wife seems to know a potential contract’s loss history immediately, whether they want her to or not – including pending losses that haven’t been paid yet.
What lines to she underwrite?
DOES she underwrite.
Commercial stuff like employee dishonesty, IT risks.
Hmm. In my days, that stuff wasn’t reported to ISO however, usually you had to attest to any losses on the application.
Been out of the P&C business for a while now however.
It depends on the individual underwriter and the line of business.
Aon stretched the truth as much as any of them, but in my dealings with them never anything that got close to fraud.
There were certain brokers I simply didn’t trust, but that just meant I reviewed their submissions skeptically.
On professional lines and excess the brokers were much different than somebody doing commercial property.
The fact is, if you truly lie on an insurance form, you don’t really have insurance.
Amazon joins the Tommy Robinson ban.
https://pjmedia.com/homeland-security/amazon-bans-tommy-robinsons-book-mohammeds-koran/
Not good, not good at all.
What’s next? Burning them?
You know who else…
1930’s version of a server in your closet.
“Wiped, like with a cloth?”
/smirk
Erasing 1984 from kindles a few years ago was only a test
What happened in 1984?
Purple Rain was released.
I don’t remember that either. Was that a Winston link?
related: December 1984 – Tipper Gore forms the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) in response to the “filth” she hears on her daughter’s copy of Prince’s Purple Rain.
Yes, the solo in Let’s Go Crazy is truly filthy.
I was conceived
Christ, I’m old enough to have been responsible for that.
Me too, if T&T is the hybrid offspring of a Scruff and a Kleenex
The crime dog?!
Menudomania?
I graduated High School and voted for Reagan.
Nobody gets meta jokes around here. *Throws self down memory hole*
Man up and quit whining!
Fucking meta cucks like you make me sick
Then quit fucking meta cucks like me. Ya weirdo.
We’re already too far down this hole.
WHY CAN’T I QUIT YOU!!!
Here’s what’s going to happen, I think. As this happens more often, it’s going to narrow but deepen the exposure of people on the wrong side of Progressive political correctness. In other words, if you’re familiar with Tommy Robinson and don’t have a negative opinion of him, this news will make you more interested in what he’s saying and more likely to seek his stuff out, maybe find him on Patreon or wherever he’s able to set up a payment site and throw him some cash to keep up the good work. Yeah, people unfamiliar with him will be less likely to just happen upon him, but especially in this day and age word of mouth is the most powerful advertising method there is. If you’ve got Tommy Robinson going around saying that the left is rolling over and submitting to Sharia law and rape gangs, and that it’s a conspiracy supported by sympathizers in the government and the corporate world, what do you think is going to happen when you arrest him and then ban his books?
Kind of a win/win when you think about it that way. Amazon gets SJW cred. Tommy gets supporters’ cred.
Yeah, in a sense I think it might be. I don’t know if either side sees it that way, but that’s how it might play out.
Netflix is driving a ‘sex famine’ in Western marriages
I thought “Netflix and chill” was the new “let’s take a nap”.
That is only till you get married and the first two or three years after the wedding
Netflix is the new Beanflix.
Sorry, I disagree.
Take away the tv shows and it isn’t going to make people actually want to have sex with their partners anymore than they already do. They aren’t having sex because they just aren’t that interested in sex, at least with each other netflix just gives them something to do besides fight with the free time
Droughts in my marriage have usually coincided with exhaustion, stress, or anger. I have received, ahem, special attentions, while watching Letterkenny in the living room. It’s not the tv.
Who could resist?
I forget the episode but there was one bit where they were all doing like a steady two, maybe three minutes of blowing raspberries. I’m just sayin’, when I’m in the zone I have the focus of a damned brain surgeon.
Exactly, you might see 4 or 5 nights a month where a couple has mutual interest in sex but the end up not having it because one or both stayed up too late doing other activities like playing a video game or watching netflix. Nobody is making it even a week passing up sex that they are actively interested in having just to watch a couple of extra episodes of House of Cards
There might be an age thing, too, or maybe just a personality thing. More than once among the Glibertariat it has come out that there are two camps: one who is ready to bang at the drop of a hat, and one who has said or thought at least once, “Can we do this after a nap or something?”
Yeah that is the thing, obviously most people’s libido wanes as they age also the urgency for sex in a relationship declines as the relationship ages, combine those two and when you get a couple of 35+ year olds who have been together for 10+ years and only having sex a few times a month is pretty normal. Sure there are exceptions, you get the occasional 60 year old couple who have been together for 30 years and still have sex on average more than once a day but that isn’t the norm.
I would not really consider a marriage to have fallen into the sexless or “platonic marriage” state as this Rabbi calls it unless they are down to having sex less than 20 times a year, when you are down that low there is simply no way that you can say netflix or anything else outside of the relationship is causing you to not have sex, the problem is that one or both of you just do not want to have sex, maybe at all, maybe just with the other person in the relationship. There are a million reasons why this lack of desire may exist, from medical to just a normal failing libido, to just not being attracted to your partner any longer, to actual problems with your relationship but a netflix addiction is just not going to be something that is going to cause you t go a month or more without having sex with your partner.
Did it go like this?
From the history lesson:
In the run-up to World War II, private companies were not going to get suckered again. And banks couldn’t stomach investing the money necessary for war. The government, for its part, did not want to spend billions of dollars on state-owned weapons factories, which smacked of the fascism they sought to fight. Besides, they needed those billions to buy the guns and pay the soldiers.
Somehow, however, the country had to prepare itself, and to develop advances in aerospace in particular—still a new sector but of increasingly obvious utility for the war effort. So the RFC did for planes and other instruments of war what it had done for houses and electrification: It created channels for capital investment through the Defense Plant Corporation (DPC).
Like Jones, the people behind the DPC were not ideologues but practical men and women from both management and labor. William Knudsen, the president of General Motors, who had helped organize the first Ford production line, was there. The president of a major railroad, the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, Ralph Budd was on the committee too, as well as a vice-president of Sears, Roebuck. Labor was represented by none other than Sidney Hillman, the famous unionist who helped draft the National Labor Relations Act. The DPC even had lifelong activist reformers, including Leon Henderson and Harriet Elliot. It was a committee that reflected an alliance of interests between labor, capital, and the state.
Okay, then. Just as long as we don’t call it fascism.
I get the impression this guy mourns the day that glorious system was dismantled.
The New Deal WAS the Depression.
The Depression ended the day FDR died.
TW: Slate
Guilty
In 1998, I helped convict two men of murder. I’ve regretted it ever since.
It’s like they were so intent on acceding to the government judge’s commands, they forgot or never knew all twelve of them were judges who could ignore the tranny dressed judge if they so chose.
And, of course, we have the obligatory slander of the profit motive:
Following on the success of the FHA, in 1935 Jones created the Rural Electrification Administration as a subsidiary of the RFC. Jones asked Morris Cooke, an engineer and consultant and the head of Philadelphia’s public works, to be its founding leader. Cooke was skeptical of the motives of business owners who held “a belief in the absolutism of private property.” The financially driven “holding companies” that controlled “76 per cent of the two billions of capital invested in electric light and power companies” were more concerned with maximizing profit than the needs of the people. Cooke was not opposed to profit—as long as it did not stand in the way of progress.
Fucking hoarders. Leeches. Vampires.
belief in the absolutism of private property
Fuck. Off. Slaver.
as long as it did not stand in the way of progress
Define “progress”.
Define “progress”
Getting what I want.
In the 30s? No small measure of eugenics.
GFY, Cooke. I’ll take dividends over your bloody “progress.”
Today, the majority of the U.S.-Mexico border remains open. At the same time, the U.S. has continued funding border walls and border security programs in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Egypt, and Lebanon.
So I can expect Schmoobs and Nazi Pelosi to decry the immoral use of American tax dollars to fund such border control operations, right?
While flipping the channels last night I paused to watch a little of the Kennedy show. She does a pretty funny impression of AOC. She also had a lawyer on stating that AOC’s alleged campaign violations could be serious shit. I sure hope that is true. It would be hilarious.
Campaign finance violations are usually just a fine, if anything.
DAMMIT.
Well, playing games with where the donations came from and how you spent them on the campaign are minor crimes. Putting the money in your own pocket is a big deal.
The lawyer on TV (yes, I know…) did say there could be jail involved because allegedly the campaign manager took money from the campaign, moved it to a PAC, and then moved it again to two of his private companies.
Politicians put money in their own pocket all the time as campaign expenses.
More like buy themselves dinner and say it was a campaign event. This sounds more like turning it into cash.
They are serious – but will result in a finger wagging, maybe some sort of “fine”.
Our fine rep has already earned a House resolution condemning her behavior. Suck on that NYC!
*Go ahead and nit pick about how the resolution didn’t condemn her by name, but we all know who the Anti-semitic Superstar is.
AOC has already tweeted that there were no laws broken so just move along.
At most, that flunkie who ran her campaign will go down. She’ll be untouchable. See: Cuomo and the ever-increasing numbers of criminals in his circle that wind up in jail for an example of how this works.
^This.
He is a rich Dem who founded Democrratic Socialist and Justice Democrats so probably not even that
“Will someone please just stab her in the heart with a stake already?!”
LOL. Of course she’s running. She just found out we’re still in Syria and there’s still more little kids there to blow up.
I’ll take the deranged rantings of a partisan shill for $1000
“It’s very clear that the president obstructed justice,” Democratic Rep. Jerrold Nadler told ABC Sunday. “It’s very clear — 1,100 times he referred to the Mueller investigation as a witch hunt, he tried to — he fired — he tried to protect Flynn from being investigated by the FBI. He fired Comey in order to stop the Russian thing, as he told NBC News. He — he’s dangled part — he’s threat — he’s intimidated witnesses. In public.”
Think what you will about the reasons — calling an investigation a “witch hunt” is obstruction of justice? — but Nadler sounded less like a man weighing the evidence than a man who has has made up his mind. Given that, Nadler’s ABC interview led to a question: President Nixon was threatened with impeachment for obstruction of justice. President Clinton was impeached for obstruction of justice. Why is Nadler, who heads the committee in the House that originates articles of impeachment, not moving forward with impeaching President Trump right now?
“We don’t have the facts yet,” Nadler said — a perplexing admission for a man who had just confidently enumerated the president’s crimes. “Impeachment is a long way down the road.”…
“We have to — we have to do the investigations and get all this,” Nadler said. “We do not now have the evidence all sorted out and everything to do — to do an impeachment. Before you impeach somebody, you have to persuade the American public that it ought to happen. You have to persuade enough of the — of the opposition party voters, Trump voters, that you’re not just trying to … that you’re not just trying to steal the last — to reverse the results of the last election.”
Oh, ok.
In other words, anything short of bending over and dropping trou for the Mueller ass-reaming, it’s obstruction.
Defending yourself proves your guilt.
I’ve said this before, but nobody would stand for the local sheriff saying “I don’t like Mr. Smith. I think he’s a bad guy. So I’m going to investigate the hell out of him, because there has to be SOMETHING I can throw him in jail for.” That’s exactly what they’re doing to Trump. They just know he’s a bad guy and should be impeached. They’ll think of a reason later.
NO ONE LIKE STEVE SMITH. BUT STEVE SMITH LIKE EVERYONE.
KDW on the left’s hatred for Jews:
Apparently the too-late House bill condemning antisemitism will now condemn “Islamophobia”, too. These people are living caricatures.
You know who else became a caricature in their lifetime…
Everyone that’s visited the Atlantic City boardwalk?
Jimmy Durante?
Hey, mistakes were made, wives were beaten. But, let’s agree that we can all be better people.
And none of that is your fault is it you nasty witch? I suppose it’s all the fault of those damn Deplorables?
She wouldn’t have to prey on envy if we all* had the same amount of money.
*ruling class not part of a balanced breakfast
And none of that is your fault is it you nasty witch? I suppose it’s all the fault of those damn Deplorables?
I blame teh kkkorporashunz.
What if All the World’s Economic Woes Are Part of the Same Problem?
“At low interest rates, the valuation of market leaders rises relative to the rest,” Mr. Mian said. “Amazon becomes a lot more valuable as interest rates fall relative to a smaller player in the same industry, and that gives a huge advantage to Amazon.”
No fucking shit. The Fed has been doing everything it can to hamstring smaller businesses that work out of their cash instead of piling up debt.
“Murderers Review Murders in Movies”
https://twitter.com/HardDriveMag/status/1102969698214469632
Lion King, ftw!
OT for trshmnstr
re: Monocle Eyepiece
Two small quibbles;
1) The horizontal blue highlight across usernames; can this be either changed to a different color (very light gray?) or removed altogether? It distracts the eye from new comments.
B) The numbers of comments have disappeared. Can they be brought back?
All in all, I love it. (see my high praise in the previous thread)
From above-
Why is a leading libertarian voice supporting a Communist dictatorship supported by a small fraction of the population over a free market-oriented, libertarian-minded opposition that enjoys massive popular support? And why is he adding insult to injury by shrouding his arguments in language of legality?
And this is why I don’t read the Federalist.
Word of advice never try to use fresh turmeric. That shit stains everything my grater my hands. Goddamnit
It will (eventually) wash out.
The Secret Life of
Walter MittyPaul KrugmanKrugabe is just full of shit at this point.
Fatuous turd.
How about, “She needs to go to court and be held to the laws of the land”? Not quite as catchy, but probably the real sentiment behind “lock her up”.
Common core math is insane. Also, would.
So… you have a bit of a MILF thing going on there, RS. No problem with that. ::jots a note down::
Hunh. Someone did a brain transplant on younger Laura Dern’s body.
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There are lots of videos promoting Common Core. One expert might brag about how children are taught to look for “multiple strategies.” Why not the best one? Another official says it didn’t matter if students can’t find the right answer and wander hopelessly. What matters is the search. Getting the correct answer quickly is so 19th century. Yet another professor raves on about “multi-dimension mathematics” and “rich, open tasks.” Apparently, students should struggle to find the correct answer, and that struggle is supposed to be the genius of Common Core.
Common Core is a cheap trick. When fourth-grade questions are given to second-graders, you’re almost guaranteed bewilderment. That’s the basic gimmick all the way through New Math, Reform Math, and Common Core Math. Go over their heads, make them feel helpless, so they give up.
On my third kid going thru this.
It’s the federalization of education and the educational lobbyists/consultants that create the STUPID MATH. They’re lining their pockets with federal contracts because it’s being forced down the school systems throats by NCLB, etc…
Until the states wean themselves off the federal teat, this will continue to be a problem.
Fuck George Bush
I believe it. I have no fucking idea how they’re teaching elementary school kids math these days. My son was struggling with his math homework recently, and I tried to help him. It was adding fractions, and I tried to go through a problem with him to understand where he was struggling. He got very upset as I worked through it that they weren’t taught the things I was doing – just finding a lowest common denominator and then simplifying the fraction.
feature not bug.
You can’t help your kid.
I truly believe that was a goal of the creation of a new way of figuring math. Parents made to look stupid.
Not really insane. It is actually a pretty good process of rapid estimation to mentally arrive at the correct number.
While I would not use that exact same structural setup of the problem it is a good intermediate method to build the skills needed to use the method I would actually teach
Common core standards are straightforward recommendations for what concepts a kid should be able to understand at given grade levels. I thought they were a bit ambitious but not unrealistic.
The teaching methodologies associated with common core are utter horseshit. These methods are pushed by for-profit companies that are apparently run by a bunch of gender studies majors. They are appalling.
I disagree on most of the common core math. Most of what I have seen from it is a significant improvement over memorizing multiplication tables and teaching a single algorithim for solving arithmetic problems that is really only suited to being done on paper (as opposed to in your head which is where most people are going to have to do math) and do not really feed into learning more advanced mathematical concepts in the future.
For the common core in subjects outside of math I agree it is mostly a bunch of ideological nonsense but the math is by and large a significant improvement over the traditional way math was taught, the real failure was in not providing resources for teachers and especially parents to understand the newer terminology in many of the assignments which make it difficult for them to actually help kids who are having difficulty grasping a subject.
Totes disagree with you Rasilio. See my rant below.
I think that having to do all those multiplication problems is what allows you to easily do it in your head later in life. It isn’t fun, but it is like muscle memory, if you want to be really good at something you have to put in the time.
Yep. Memorizing multiplication tables is probably the most useful thing the vast majority of people will get out of math in school. And they don’t even do it any more.
Disagree, the only multiplication tables you should be taught or memorize is for 2, 3, 5, and 10 as it is faster and easier to convert all other multiplication problems into problems using only those numbers.
You want to solve 7 * 8?
Great so that is (5+2) * (5+3) now use FOIL
5*5 = 25
2 * 5 = 10
5*3 = 15
2*3 = 6
25+10+15+6 = 56
More steps to the problem but easier steps to perform with a lower probability for error and the calculation time for most people will be less than the memory recall time
More steps to the problem but easier steps to perform with a lower probability for error and the calculation time for most people will be less than the memory recall time
You made a one step process into 5, now multiply that out at 5 steps per digit and a 3 digit number times a 2 digit number can take up to 25 steps, all to avoid memorizing the multiplication table? Sorry not buying this one.
Yeah, had me going for a minute there.
So you are gonna memorize multiplication tables for 3 digit numbers? How about 4 digit numbers? You can just memorize all 1 million values in the 4 digit multiplication table and then instantly recall any value from it right?
I really hope you are trolling, because that is ridiculous
894 * 356 =
894 * 6 = 5364
+
894 * 50 = 44700
+
894 * 300 = 268200
=
318264
Oh no no you don’t get to do that.
Your method is this…
894 * 356 =
6X4 = 4 carry the 20
6×90 = 40 carry the 500
6×800 = 800 carry the 4000
4 + 20 + 40 + 500 + 800 + 4000 = 5364
50×4 = 0 carry the 200
50×90= 500 carry the 4000
50×800=40000
40000 + 4000 + 500 + 200 = 44700
300×4 = 200 carry the 1000
300×90 = 7000 carry the 20,000
300×800 = 240,000
240000 + 20,000 + 7000 + 1000 + 200 = 268200
268200 + 44700 + 5364 = 318,264
This is literally a representation of the steps needed to solve the problem using the classic algorithm represented by the form using memorization of the single digit multiplication tables and even this is omitting several steps where I have implicitly multiplied by powers of 10 in the interests of brevity
894
x 356
______________
4864
44700
278200
______________
= 318,264
The quick solution you just typed out is EXACTLY the method I recommended teaching
How is it EXACTLY the method you recommend teaching? the 6X4 would have to be (3X2) X (2X2)…or whatever…you are leaving steps out, right?
The steps you typed out are technically correct, but they’d be done vertically and wouldn’t actually be doing all the horizontal math equations. You rightly represented it at the end. Much easier to go top down than horizontally.
Actually 894×5 + 894×1 because multiplying 894 by 5 and 1 then adding is faster for most people than multiplying by 6
I don’t have kids going through this.
I have only seen videos, including videos from proponents of the methods explaining how to do it the “right way”.
The best of the videos are “missed it by that much”. The worst are atrocious.
That is actually more “mathy” than some of the crap that my kids were taught.
I’ve ranted about this before, but I got into lots of fights with teachers when the youngsters were in grade school about math. A few times the kids would lose points because they didn’t draw an ‘x’ through the picture of a banana (the question was “Joe had 10 bananas, how many does he have after he gives 3 away”). My kids simply wrote down 7, but the way they were being taught, they had to draw those X’s to “show their work.”
My kids were also doing better than just about anyone else in their grade in math. Why? Because I was a mean parent and made them do flash cards and lots of those stupid work sheets that have 100 simple problems on them. Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. I made them do enough repetitions that it became rote to the them. So when they ran into math problems they could just do the arithmetic without needing to draw mental bananas.
During parent/teacher conferences, I would tell the teachers that they were nuts for trying to teach like this and that they were screwing their kids future up. How can you do any advanced math, if you don’t have the basics ingrained in your brain?
By 4th grade, my kids were “proficient” enough in math to pass the test they give to Minnesoda high schoolers before they issue a diploma. What a sad joke that is.
So when you made your kids do the flashcards did you make them write the problems out formally? Or did you expect them to solve them in their heads?
The issue is not drilling till it becomes second nature to you, the issue is the algorithim that they teach you to use to solve the problem.
The standard algorithim is BAD and there are better ways to teach kids to arrive at the correct answer which are both easier to remember, easier to perform in your head without having to sit down and write the problem out long form and simultaneously prep you for learning and understanding algebra without having to learn it as something completely new.
Take a simple 2 digit addition problem 43 + 88
This is the traditional algorithim
3 + 8 = 11 so write down a 1 and do something mystical with the 1 called carrying it
4 + 8 is 12 but now you have to add that carried one to make it 13 and you write the 13 down next to the 3 for a final answer of 131
Now this method is simple enough that by 4th grade or so you should have little problem carrying it out in your head but it does not scale well and asking a 4th grader to solve 5 digit arithmetic in their head this way is a good way to have them lose one of those “carried numbers. It also doesn’t really fit into how our brains normally process numbers and it does not build understanding that will aid in comprehending future math concepts.
Now what if we taught a different method that synched with how our brains process numbers? So we have 5 digits on our hands and 2 hands and as a result our brains have evolved to have a far more innate understanding of math involving increments of 5 and 10, if we had 4 fingers we’d probably use base 8 natively and if we had 6 fingers on a hand we’d probably use base 12 natively but base 10 is pretty much innate. So to solve that problem I am going to teach an approach that has more steps but the individual steps are far easier to grasp and simpler and more intuitive to solve
so 43 + 88
start with the 10’s
40 + 80 = 120
then the ones
3 + 8 = 11
now combine
120 + 11 = 131
This is mathematically equivalent but it is a simpler process to grasp reduces the difficulty in keeping track of place for large numbers (aka carrying errors) and actually builds towards an understanding of more advanced math concepts as you end up solving the problems in a similar way you would solve binomial problems late on.
Now I can use the same kinds of flash card drills with this new method to make the knowledge become innate but it is a better technique than the old method.
I get the sense that the push to eliminate homework is related to the way they are changing how things are taught.
They are tired of hearing complaints about ‘new’ ways of teaching, so the solution is to stop sending homework and the parents will no longer see it and know to complain.
If it compromises learning by reducing practice time, oh well.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there will be a time that students aren’t even allowed to bring textbooks home, especially history and political science texts.
Krugabe is just full of shit at this point.
Krugabe has been having a back-and-forth with some MMT maven at Bloomberg lately, and I have to say, he might not have forgotten everything he ever knew about economics. He is occasionally capable of emerging from Republikkkins Baaaad mode, apparently.
I think the most egregiously dumb/wrong thing about MMT is the presumption of an infinite supply of viable and beneficial “investments” just waiting for a massive infusion of government spending. The MMTers have waved their magic wand and banished the notion of diminishing returns, among other things.
The TP goes over….if you are a dumbass and dont have a cat.
The roll goes on the floor. Age old battle with the wife and I’m not losing that shit test.
Cat can still pull down on the paper from the back by just grabbing the dangling end. On the other hand when you have the TP going over and you pull it you are pulling UP to tear the paper, when it is under you are pulling down to tear the paper. Pulling up you are pulling against gravity and therefore have to pull much harder to have the roll keep spinning and unraveling on the floor, when you pull down you are pulling in the direction of gravity and a slightly too hard tug will have half the paper rolling out onto the floor. QED over is best
How many people who insist on TP going “over” have their paper towels in the kitchen going “under”?
You hang paper towels in the kitchen?
I need to file for a variance – TP holder is on the back of the door in my (tiny) bathroom and there’s a hook above it.
Invariably, somebody (not pointing any fingers here) will lackadaisically hang her towel on the hook – it will invariably slide off, hitting the TP roll on the way down and spooling it all out onto the floor, if the TP is hung overhand.
Thus, underhand is called for.
See? All this strife over TP. Exactly why I don’t use it.
I was sort of thinking that maybe I’d modernize a bit and go git me one of them fancy Sears catalogs that my yuppie neighbor is always bragging on. But then I saw that the Sears is going out of business, so it looks like I dodged a problem there.
Nope. Corn cobs were good enough for my Pappy and they are good enough for me and my family.
Trshmnstr. Thanks for the eyepiece update. Quick question, how hard would it be to add a feature to mark individual comments as read?
Common core math is insane. Also, would.
Fucking hell. I wish I hadn’t watched that (not with the sound on, anyway). Now my head hurts.
Wood, also.
Rand Paul Is Right to Reject Trump’s Emergency Declaration
Katherine Timpf gets it.
Not only does Kat Timpf get it, I’d happily give it to her.
No doubt
Listening to her ramble on the 5th Column podcast ruined her for me.
You guys have my blessings, just keep her somewhere where I can’t hear her.
Katherine Timpf
Would.
to me, there is nothing more important than ensuring that our executive leader does not get into the habit of behaving like a king
Would while listening to her wax philosophical.
She responded to me once on Twitter. The only time I felt that dumb site was worth a damn (other than Kmele flipping me off via emoji). I think she was drinking.
And when she crashes Fifth Column recordings all tipsy and giggly… excellent.
I, for one, would have no problem with a “Make Lord Humungus Rich” executive order. And then I can finally build my secret base deep in the heart of the Amazon with lasers and Brazilian women wearing tight pants.
Since the law passed in 1976, 58 presidential emergencies have been declared, 31 of them are still in force but nobody cared about them until the Bad Orange Man proposed one. Our constitution loving legislators and the chattering class are hot to grandstand by opposing this one, but none of them are agitating to repeal the law that allows them in the first place.
Wake me when there’s a serious effort to get rid of the law.
I agree the other ones should also be shot down, but he’s clearly using it force a domestic law by executive fiat. It’s horseshit.
Well, that is just humiliating.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rapnJ4Tg1h8
There’s a version of that set to the first couple lines of Burning Down the House (“Watch out, you might get what you’re after”), and it’s superb but I can’t find it now.
Crying like a bitch isn’t going to help him in prison.
“Okay, children, take your shoes and socks off. We’re going to do math, now.”
Was this posted already?
“Pinkos Have More Fun Socialism is AOC’s calling card, Trump’s latest rhetorical bludgeon, and a new way to date in Brooklyn.”
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/03/socialism-and-young-socialists.html
“Pinkos Have More Fun”
Digging in the garbage for edible scraps? More fun that you ever imagined! Finding something to burn during week long blackouts? More fun than you ever imagined! Wheeling a truck load of paper currency to the local market to buy some toilet paper, only to find there is no toilet paper? More fun that you ever imagined!
“We’re going to need the cisgendered Olympics.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/womens-sport-transgender-athletes-unfair-competition/
I think that’s the only solution.
It wouldn’t be a week before the tranny outrage mob figured out a way to infiltrate that also. There is no solution, except maybe a dino killing asteroid.
“Speaker attempted to give his speech to live stream but the disruptor followed & continued ringing bell. @Portland_State has no policies in place to deal w/disruptions at student-organized events. Police will only intervene when there is violence or property destruction.”
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1103211662109110272
Or many times they will just ignore it.
“Disorderly conduct” is not a thing there?
This makes my brain hurt.
How do you wake up with this as your plan for the day?
If the cops won’t do anything, they realize that eventually someone is going to take the bell, or is that what they’re waiting for?
Are these people winning over converts doing this? When confronted with an orderly assembly on one side of the street and a hysterical screaming lunatic on the other, who crosses over to the lunatic’s side?
Other lunatics.
https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1103067043048419329
I AM FULLY SELF AWARE!
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/1103100765823004673
OFFS
“It’s not about pitting them against each other, it’s demonstrating a point. Major news outlets claim that films like Cap Marvel or Ghostbusters fail because of sexism. People are sick of this narrative so Alita is perfect proof of how false that characterisation is.”
https://twitter.com/BeyondPhere/status/1103076574587346944
https://twitter.com/dj_diabeatic/status/1103082742542200832
Christ, what an asshole.
128-year-old patent for toilet paper sparks a heated debate over the ‘right’ way to hang it
It goes over the top. That is the only legitimate way to hang it. Fight me.
I find it more useful on the bottom.
Our new IT Director thought it would be good for our server guy to concoct a *fake phishing email, using a website link and an email address that is similar to our company name.
We had over 200 people click on the link and only 30 phone calls coming in, asking if the email was legit. This peeved off the PC support guy since his name was used in the email and he got all the slings and arrows from the user base.
* someone in our corporate office clicked on an earlier phishing email and fell for it, sending a sum of money to the phisher; hence the sudden interest in security.
My company did that too. Anyone who fell for it had to get re-educated.
Every year at our corporate meeting they list the number of people caught by internal phishing tests. Fortunately, the number is dropping year over year.
‘Cuz who even uses email anymore? I give all my credentials away via FaceTime.
Our internal phishing tests are so laughably transparent I just forward them on to infosec with “I believe this is for you”
I remember when out IT dept sent out a phishing alert and warned everyone to not respond to fake emails asking for user names and passwords, pretending to come from internal sources, and stating that no one internal would ever ask anyone for a username or password in an email. The next day, I started getting these emails asking for my user name and password. I deleted them. This went on for a few days before I realized these were being sent out by someone in our department, seriously asking people for user names and passwords to set up our new laptops. Durrr. /things that really happened
We have some contracted deal to send those phishing emails. Just got my quarterly phish attempt.
Frankly anyone who falls for it should be fired on the spot.
As far as I know, that woman who did fall one – and used a corporate cc to send the funds – still has her job. But I don’t pay too much attention to office politics unless they are amusing.
Like the gal who was sending – via work email – sexy & suggestive messages to someone who wasn’t her husband.
She should be fired for just being stupid.
At my former gig, we would sometimes be hired by a local law firm to do investigative work on PCs.
The answer is always porn. Weird porn too.
That was always just the bonus to add onto the harassing messages being sent. Or the University Prof who thought he had destroyed the linux box sufficiently that they wouldn’t be able to track that he hadn’t been using his grant money on the appropriate project.
Dude, you left behind the log files detailing your destructive work. Bad, bad job.
I didn’t know you worked with Lisa Page at the FBI!
But… but… what if it was a hot 20 year old Russian chick trying to hook up with me? /haz a sad
There’s websites for that! (or so I’ve heard)
Get a job with a security clearance, it probably won’t be too difficult to find a hot Russian chick who all of a sudden wants to hook up with you
I tried that. But all of the hot Russian chicks emails were coming from Nigeria. Isn’t that weird?
Oh, that is just where the Russians all host their proxy servers. Those emails are totally legit.
My company has been doing it also. First time I forwarded it to the abuse mailbox as per the policy. Got back an automated pat on the head email that it was a test. Annoyed me enough that I don’t bother anymore.
Somali Gangs in Minneapolis:
https://pjmedia.com/michaelwalsh/somali-gangs-battle-in-minneapolis-somalis-demand-that-cops-do-something/
Ever notice that shit like this doesn’t happen in places where folks are allowed to defend themselves.
Everything I noticed about it is badthought enough to get me hurled into the void.
The toilet paper goes under. I find that if it goes over, the end is more likely to adhere to the rest of the roll as you spin it around and around trying to find the end.