Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a glorious morning it is for everyone but congressional Democrats who is getting pushback by the Trump admin against their endless fishing expeditions.
Oh honey, you definitely need to sit this one out.
Supreme Court appear to be ok with having the Citizenship question on the census.
Second accidental death at Grand Canyon this year.
Woman emerges from 30 year coma.
McAfee claims he is going to out Bitcoin creator Nakamoto.
Mississippi teen disarms intruder and shoots him to death.
Plurality of young voters agree with non-interventionist foreign policy.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
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Hiya Banjos!
Also one of my fave CSN tunes from their later period!
That is one of my favorite songs by anybody.
Mornin’
“And what a glorious morning it is ”
You went to Harvard?
Quitter. One more year and you’d have had a Coma Pension.
Someone better have her watch Idiocracy so she can get caught up on things.
I laughed. Then I realized how close to the truth this was, and I am now feeling like crying…
That movie did come out after she went into the coma, too. Amazing to think how different the world is from 1991.
It was a gentler, more simple time in 1991….
Hearing that the president is Donald Trump will be a shock to the ol’ system.
Woman emerges from 30 year coma
Wait til she sees who’s President
Wait til she sees who was the last one “A Nigra?”
Well, 30 years ago would be 1989… that’s just after Reagan left, so from one media personality to another isn’t that bad.
The culture shock of the internet and social justice will be worse.
They rounded. It was in 91 so really only 21 years
28*
To be fair, that’s not going to be much different in terms of the shocks I outlined. The internet, ubiquitous smart phones, and the taint of socjus will be unwelcome surprises to the poor coma patient.
“PUT ME BACK! PUT ME BACK!”
“welcome!, To the world of tomorrow!”
You say that every day.
Fascinating article. Thanks, Banjos.
Quite frankly I’m surprised she survived that long. People just don’t do well lying in a hospital bed 24×7. You have to turn them and massage them or they get bedsores which become infected which often lead to death. FWIW it appears that she was moved several times – the article mentions hospitals in Germany and UK.
Treatment a la Weekend at Bernie’s?
Lol
“I feel so rested and refreshed. Get me a toothbrush.”
Real question.
Does anyone give a fuck about Trump’s tax returns. I know the whole Russia thing kinda fizzled out and the media narrative has to shift to something else, but are tax returns really that interesting to anyone?
All the evidence of Trump’s treason is in there. The FBI couldn’t find it, but professional politicians will be able to.
Because it takes a thief I guess.
Well the IRS was used under Obama to target and financially destroy political opponents/entities unliked by the left…
Somebody needs to make a meme of that. Trump’s 1040 flips open and it’s a soviet military parade inside.
No.
Given how often he’s audited, there’s not going to be any evidence of criminal activity in those returns. They want them because they can’t have them and it’s something to screech about.
They are looking for something embarrassing. Anything. They don’t care what. Doing business with guy they can say bad stuff about. Not doing business with somebody. Paying too little tax. Paying too much tax. Not giving enough to charity. Giving to the wrong charity. Writing off a business loss.
Literally anything. As long as they can spin it and control the narrative, that’s all they need.
Depends which colorful rag that you march under, I’d imagine. Hey Lach, haven’t seen you around much. Must be busy raising the next gen of shit-lords and melting steel for fun and profit!
No. IRS pries into his stuff every year, guaranteed. This is just another bull@#$% confrontation designed to whip up “HEZ HIDIN’ EMOULMENTZ!!!” or some crap.
Whatever it takes to cover this shit up.
That seems newsworthy, no?
I’ll just pop over to NPR and read the details…
Some intrepid reporters from the CBC are on the case, to be sure.
HAHAHAHAHAHA! Good one!
If it’s not on NPR it must not be real news.
“No wonder Hillary Clinton has thus far skated – Barack Obama is implicated in her email scheme.”
A criminal conspiracy going all the way up to the president, and nothing else happened.
What Switzy said.
I’m shocked that more of his returns haven’t been leaked.
He probably had a memo forwarded to the IRS staff along with the article in the NY Times describing the Disposition Matrix or the excerpt of the NDAA saying they can throw your ass in Gitmo on a whim. They’re accountants, and can put 2 and 2 together.
To be honest I’m hoping Trump strings them along for another couple years, then releases them like Obama with his birth certificate. Let the lefty press gin up frothing pretend outrage at what is he hiding and then just authorize the dump. Because there’s bound to be nothing there. And then it’s Mueller report all over, hours of substance-free howling at the moon over trivialities but no big rotten collusion egg they promised.
Lach’s back!
Hey kid, I hope all is well in your world!
And no. I DGAF about The Donald’s returns. I expect they would depress me and make me question what I’ve done with my life.
The only people that care will never even glance at the returns if they are released and will instead rely on sources within their media bubble to tell them that everything in it = orange man bad. And the returns really don’t even need to be released for that.
^This.
Not even a little bit. What’s the worst they’ll contain? He’s using every trick in the book to avoid paying more than he absolutely has to? Bully for him. He’s rich as fuck? No shit, he has his own line of ties and gold-plated toilets. Or, let’s go the other direction: what if he’s actually paycheck-to-paycheck? Or what if he was flat broke until The Apprentice, and that’s basically all the income he’s got? Don’t care.
Oh, and that’s true for basically every other politician, too. I honestly don’t give a shit about an elected officials on-the-books financial situation.
Meh. I find the tax info of the millionaire politicians pushing for higher taxes interesting. I like to see if they contribute to charity (they don’t), and if they take all their deductions (they do)
All or nothing. If you want to see the President’s tax return, then I want to see the tax return of every congresscritter, senator and federal judge.
If they think it is that important, then they would pass a law making the President, VP, Senator, Congressman and federal judges tax returns public on April 16th each year. Publish a book that no one will ever look at. Primarily because “their side does it too” will be obvious.
Um, like he might like have a W-2 from the KGB since those are like required and everything by all employers.
/AOC
Fuck no. Those, disclosure forms, and the rest are all about erecting barriers to entry from outsiders and non-politicians, not transparency.
This
People driven by envy/jealousy want Trump’s tax returns. It’s about a fantasy where they somehow find something illegal, or barring that can shame him for taking all the deductions allowed under the law instead of paying his “fair share”. Because, you see, everyone else should be paying in money so they can get free shit.
Lach! Good to see you.
I think the tax thing is just a ploy to reveal that Trump might not be as rich as he has bragged about being. He’s only worth hundreds of millions instead of being a billionaire. Surely his supporters will be stunned and disheartened to learn that Trump fudged facts to make himself look good.
You probably don’t believe he has an 11 inch cock either.
The dwarf rooster was unexpected, and was not accepted by the hens.
“Does anyone give a fuck about Trump’s tax returns.”
Not sane people. But we’re talking about lefties.
I don’t even care about my own. I let my accountant do them and just sign it.
I care even less about Donald’s.
Does anyone give a fuck about Trump’s tax returns.
I care in the sense that forcing their release will set a really bad precedent. Let’s be honest here. Nobody thinks they’re going to find any evidence of illegality in Trump’s returns. The Democrats are hoping to find sensitive or embarrassing shit that they can use in the election. But, who in the world thinks that game is going to stop with Donald Trump? Deciding the government can demand and publicize your finances at their convenience with impunity isn’t something I have a lot of appetite for.
Hiya, Banjo!
I’ve been to a lot of the western NPs and I’m shocked that more people don’t die from falls and stupidity. Bad enough to have zero situational awareness around steep drops or wildlife, but I’ve seen people climb barriers to get a better selfie. Retarded.
Thanks for the lynx and the beautiful song! Have a fantastic day!
Happens up here all the time. People don’t realize how dangerous mountainous terrain is until they don’t realize nothing, no mo.
Some where there’s a picture of me in Alaska, standing behind a sign that says, “Do not go beyond this point”. Somehow the glacier seemed not moving fast enough to catch me. Signs, signs, everywhere there are signs. Don’t tell me what not to do!
Fourscore bragging on his sprinting prowess again.
*rubs sore ass from where speeding glacier clipped him when he tried to duplicate Fourscore*
“people climb barriers to get a better selfie”
Only slightly behind home invaders on the list of people whose deaths illicit zero sympathy from me.
Illicit deaths don’t elicit sympathy from me, either.
The Ghosts of Bob Crane and David Carradine weep.
Mornin’
I *think* this is the third one this year.
Cull the herd, I sez.
Good morning Banjos and all my fellow glibs and gliberinas. Daughter #1 is trolling me by choosing to attend college in DC. We are up early to catch a flight so we can attend admitted students day.
George Mason?
Anyway, as long as she doesn’t end up interning for a congresscritter everything should be fine!
Have fun!
Hopefully GMU Economics Dept
GW. Thanks Tundra.
GWU – nice.
I remember taking the tour there as a high school junior because it was my introduction to Libertarians. Seriously – there was a Libertarian group with a table set up on campus and I remember chatting with them for a while and thinking “Huh, seems to make sense to me”.
Didn’t really take for a long time, though.
-1 Chandra Levy
Not actually in DC, but nearby in Fairfax County, VA.
Early in my career as a physician I had an unfortunate patient who was suffering from brain issues after a poisoning. She was from Fairfax. Why do I know that? Because all day long for the several weeks she was in the hospital she would shout nonstop “I’m from Fairfax. FAIRFAX!!!”
That was over 30 years ago and I can still remember her voice as if it was yesterday.
Are you sure the brain issues were from the poisoning and not from being from Fairfax?
/person who lives close enough to Fairfax to think that joke is funny
I’ve got a cousin who went to American for drama. Seriously. Somehow he wound up as a developer for Activision.
Congrats, Chafed.
*googles GW tuition*
*faints*
Hurry up and get those loans on the books before The Forgiveness!
This guy gets it.
“White House plans to fight House subpoena of former counsel Donald McGahn for testimony on Mueller report”
Well, if Trump has nothing to hide why would he not let “them” search his car, his house, his records, etc, unless, unless…
/heard at various meetings on various networks/
It’s about a coup attempt. We will find something to get rid of you, and you not allowing us to do so proves you are corrupt!
Have to say, though, that it is fun tweaking the conservative cop sucking law and order Trump backers with the old “if you have nothing to hide….” line.
One can only hope the lesson sinks in…for one or two of them.
I have heard several of them saying that not agreeing to an interview amounts to obstruction.
And pretty much all of them have counted “gave full cooperation” as a lie because he only submitted to questioning in writing.
Which I actually find revealing. They all seem to know that an interview with the FBI is really just an excuse to get some notes they can use to claim you lied to investigators.
A plurality of young, likely 2020 presidential election voters oppose the United States nation-building and toppling foreign governments around the world, a new Harvard poll reveals.
Why do I immediately assume this has more to with the person currently Commander-in-Chief than any principled reasoning?
To be fair it would be their cohort (but not them) going off to lose life and limb.
+1 disposition matrix
oppose the United States nation-building and toppling foreign governments around the world,
So they’re voting for Trump? Because he’s been pretty good on this stuff, at least compared to others
Tallest midget?
I wonder if they’re in favor of using smart power and focused kinetic actions to assist democratic movements and bring regimes that continually violate human rights to justice?
“A plurality of young, likely 2020 presidential election voters oppose the United States nation-building and toppling foreign governments around the world, a new Harvard poll reveals.”
They’re also pro-commie, big government authoritarians. So they will ensure that continues if they get their way.
At this point Hillary is just rubbing it in.
*retches*
Not rubbing it out
The rubs go in, the rubs go out
The rubs wear sores on her silken snout
At this point one can but react with a jaw drop whenever she yaps and spews crap.
She might be getting worried that the deal she made with Obama (you make sure I don’t go to jail, and I make sure you don’t go too) will not protect her, and she is then hitting the talking circuit right after hitting the chardonnay.
Barry is now busy positioning himself as a woke enlightened soothsayer for good on Twitter.
Is it wrong to have a racial ‘type’?
No.
The really interesting thing is squaring the logic employed here (racial preferences are purely socialized with no biological component and exclusion based on any racial aesthetic characteristics is wrong) with, say, sexual preference. But then we’ve already been treated to the many dissertations on why not dating trannies is bigoted. Everything is a socially conditioned response. Except being gay, you’re born that way.
All for the centralization of power, nothing against the centralization of power.
I don’t think so. The various ostensibly ethnic qualities are just physical characteristics like anything else. I think we analyze them on a bunga-bunga level before we get to the part where we use the stupid social justice or racial consciousness part of our brains.
As wrong as having a gender type
My wife got mad at me when she figured out I don’t have a type.
Women are weird.
My wife’s type is Jason Momoa, followed by young, athletic black dudes. Why she married a stocky WASP I’ll never know. She has confessed to having strange sexual dreams about people like John Goodman and Vincent D’Onofrio, though, so maybe that’s my hook.
I seem to be suffering from yellow fever…. if you know what I mean..
I know several other Glibs here have the same , erm, problem/issue….
Hey Alex, I had Yellow Fever, then I moved to Texas and fucked a lot of Latinas and black women and got over it big time.
Latinas are basically Asian women with the potential for big booties, genetically speaking, Bering Land Bridge and all that.
Fun Fact – there is no physical evidence of human migration by way of Beringia. In fact, the archeological evidence shows a technological discongruity between the stone age peoples of Siberia and North America. The distribution of artifacts seems to show an east coast arrival point, but there is no conclusive evidence of migration there either (damn climate change raising the sea level after the last glacial maximum!)
Fascinating. That kind of changes… everything we learned growing up.
I also noticed a few common arguments for the existing Beringia theory that are just as weak either way.
There’s no evidence of boats, but boats at the time would not preserve very well (and would have been by the shoreline that is now well under water).
The genetic evidence is… ambiguous. But there is a lack of ancient DNA to test. Modern DNA has the dual problems of admixture between populations, and a reticence by native americans to be subjected to DNA tests. Modern DNA also doesn’t help answer the original population route because there is no guarantee that there was a single wave of migration that begat the entire set of natives found when columbus arrived.
The stone tool analysis shows more commonality with and evoltion from stone age european technologies, but my eyes start to glaze over from the details because the texts try to describe actions better conveyed by diagram.
There is now a good bit of evidence for the Beringia Standstill Hypo.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/evan.21478
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324174176_Beringian_Standstill_2018
are two good places to start (lots of citations in the second one, I haven’t read more than a small handful)
It’s not settled, that’s for certain.
Agreed. Evidence for =/= proof of.
The DNA record shows that the Native American portion of Latino bloodlines almost all came from a single tiny group of Asians from Siberia:
http://britam.org/y-haplogroups-1500ad-world-map.jpg
Then people from all over the world arrived and added a massive amount of complexity to the DNA mix.
The Y-haplogroups, yes, but the Mitochondrial DNA presents a different distribution – which implies that this Siberian Y-haplogroup entered into the americas, found people there and pulled a Genghis Khan on the locals.
I did the latinas and a couple of black ladies in the my younger years prolefeed, so that was old news to me.
Everyone has a god, and everyone has a type.
Maybe because I didn’t date very long (I met my wife when I was 19), I never had a “type”.
Unless cute counts as one.
I dated a few brown haired girls, a couple blonds, one black girl, and a few Japanese girls.
My wife was the last Japanese girl I dated.
Then you swore off japanese girls for good?
I’ve “dated” the United Nations, women of every major ethnic group. Turns out women are remarkably similar at their core, regardless of minor biological or cultural differences.
I dated the undeveloped countries, apparently
I need a Desi to complete the set.
does “said yes” count as a type?
Ye… WAIT A MINUTE! I’m not falling for that!
Woman Killed After Falling 200-Feet Below The Rim Of The Grand Canyon
The government is shut down?
Does anyone give a fuck about Trump’s tax returns. I know the whole Russia thing kinda fizzled out and the media narrative has to shift to something else, but are tax returns really that interesting to anyone?
All those 1099s from the world’s despots and criminal masterminds will expose him for the fiend he is.
Dunno ’bout you guys but the last 10m of that Sharks/Knight game was among the best I’ve seen. And I’ve seen lotsa hockey games in my life.
I need my beauty sleep, but I watched the highlights this morning. Looks like the Knights lost their focus over the major call.
There can’t be an intact bracket left anywhere in the country.
They completely fell apart but had enough steel to go fetch the tying goal. Still, that melt down was amazing.
The Sharks were galvanized by Pavelski’s injury. And damn is Thornton still pretty effective at his age.
Still? Or finally? In our playoff pools it used to be the last team chosen was whatever team Thornton was on.
Heh. True.
But he’s been really solid as a Shark in the post season last couple of years. Not as productive as one would like in his career but hey.
I don’t have a dog in the fight, but that major call was horseshit. I didn’t even really see a penalty to be honest. Completely changed the game.
Yeh I agree. It didn’t seem like there was malicious intent there. It just looked like a usual hockey play and Pavelski just lost his footing. Just bad luck all around because those kinds of stick plays are pretty much standard.
Just in case I didn’t use the word just enough.
Absolutely. Awful call. I’d be furious if I were a Vegas fan. That cost them the series.
Bullshit. Giving up a bunch of goals cost them.
Bad call, yes. But kill the fucking penalty.
Well. If there was a 2 minute penalty, it’s gone after the first goal. They still have a two goal lead with 8 minutes left and are not killing another four minutes down a man. I look forward to the Colorado-Carolina final this year (eyes rolling).
But you gotta find a way to kill that. Even after letting a goal in.
Yes, exactly. They aren’t the first team to face the situation.
So, they jumped the shark?
*narrows gaze*
The 2OT in game 6 was insane. I was in the casino and cashed out at a table to watch it. There was one person nearby watching it who was from San Jose, and cheered during the goal. It was a lonely cheer in that area of the casino.
Lol.
Like a monkey who coughs in an empty room.
Just watched the highlights. Incredible. What was the major called for?
Cross-checking. And it was b.s. Only called because Pavelski got seriously injured.
To give up 4 goals on the major, though, is also redonk.
Cross-checking. Extra tacked on for the injury.
Again, not a great call, but the tarnished Knights gave up four fucking goals in four minutes.
“Extra tacked on for the injury.”
Not tacked on. The penalty was only called in the first place because of the injury, which wasn’t even caused by the alleged cross-check.
It’s clear from their description that the refs probably didn’t even see it.
Thanks.
According to sheriff’s office reports, a resident of the apartment, who shared it with his mother and sister, came home from work Monday about 8 a.m. and found the apartment’s rear door ajar.
About that time, the resident was confronted by Robertson who had a gun, and a fight ensued.
At some point during the fight, the man managed to take the gun from Robertson and shot him several times.
Just another instance of gun violence to add to our totally accurate and non-deceptive statistics. ///gun-grabbers
They will find a way to punish law abiding gun owners despite the fact that the person with the gun here was a criminal with a restraining order against them…
“He said no charges have been filed and the case will be referred to a Warren County grand jury.”
Sounds like a punt to me.
“We think it was a rightful shooting, but let’s do a CYA and let a grand jury say that.”
Gentlemen, I propose to you that there is nothing better to improve a man of a certain age’s mood then to get a “shy flirt” from a pretty young thing. Turns the dusk to dawn. I also aver that sundresses were a gift from God to old lecher’s eyeballs.
hear hear
Keep up the good work, I lost my place in that line sometime back
Can confirm.
Raises snifter of brandy to all.
^This.
Yes. On all counts.
Salt-and-pepper hair is the best thing that’s happened to my dating stock since puberty. Mind you, I’m no longer public, but it’s nice to know there’s some interest still among chicks who could, technically, be my daughters.
Even white hair draws a look from time to time.
Of course, a healthy reservoir of Animal Magnetism doesn’t hurt either.
Combo platter of white hair and big bulge in your pants (where your fat wallet resides) is a total turn on for a certain type of young lady.
Is that what you meant by animal magnetism?
Also yes.
All the white hair does for me is get a younger person to hold a door open for me. I have noticed though, the widow ladies at the post office every morning are extra friendly and I heard one tell her friend, “And he still drives”.
My mother was miffed to find out that there is a waiting list for my father amongst her old biddy friends in the event she passes away.
According to her, those vultures were salivating at the idea of having a man who could cook for them and brought home fresh fish and game all the time.
It is all good until you realize that the only reason she is flirting with you is because she thinks you are a harmless old coot who she doesn’t have to worry about taking her up on her offer.
^^^THIS^^^
Although some are into the whole daddy thing, most do it because they feel safe..
SO?
The flip side of this situation is that you can say all sorts of outrageous things to the young ladies and they all giggle and think you are a cute old flirt. If you said the same things as a young guy you’d be in HR in about 10 seconds flat.
Must have happened to a friend of yours.
DAMMIT STOP STEPPING ON MY DELUSIONS!
If by “shy flirt” you mean blow job, yeah, agreed.
When they don’t scream in abject terror and rend their flesh is the closest I get to shy flirting at this point.
So if they don’t read your stories, that’s shy flirting?
The outside has grown over the years to match the inside.
*screams in abject terror and rends flesh*
Daughter #1 is trolling me by choosing to attend college in DC.
Eek!
“Eek”
I’m not familiar with that sorority.
So the guy who disarmed an intruder and killed him with his own gun: If no charges are being filed why is it being referred to a grand jury? Can’t the DA just decide not to charge?
He disarmed him before shooting him. He probably shouldn’t have shot him after that, is likely the argument. Never talk to the cops is all I got from the article.
Covers fannies. If they want to make a show of it, but get no charges, they will simply present this as good guy stops potential murder! If they want charges, then they tilt it toward the shooting a disarmed guy…and throw their hands up and say “the grand jury made me do it!”
I suspect they will tank it.
“Disarmed” doesn’t mean the intruder wasn’t still a threat. The way I read it seemed like the intruder was shot as a circumstance of the physical altercation.
From what I have read, it is entirely possible that the two were still engaged in physical struggle and the intruder could have regained control of the gun if not put down.
You’re not gonna believe this, but it was ISIS.
Watch the video. A dude bringing a huge backpack into church is probably a red flag.
Just listened to a mournful tune on the college station about how this chick is resenting the fact that it’s hard to hug her boyfriend with his backpack on. Apropos.
Those poor Easter Worshippers.
Why Rufus ?
Some people did something and some non Muslims were blown to pieces.
I just hope that the remaining Muslims don’t lose any of their civil rights.
That is all that should be of concern.
ISIS also has a history of claiming credit for things they didn’t do.
To be fair, Ishtar Worshippers *are* infidels.
Who in HELL would worship that miserable movie????
Umm. I bring three kids, a car seat, and an overflowing diaper bag to church.
keep an eye out for Abu Leon!
…and an overflowing diaper bag home from church..
Thanks for the links, Banjos. Jeebus, that poor lady who was out for 30 years must in one helluva shock at what she came back to.
must be in*
When she went in there were two Germanies. Now there is only one, and it looks like the commies won…
Mein Gott! That Ossie Stasi woman is in charge?! We lost the Cold War!
We can joke about it, but from the way the world is these days, someone that skipped the last 25-30 years would surmise the commies won the Cold War without firing a shot, and then, despite the dissolution of the USSR and China going all oligarchic.
It sounds like McAfee backed off saying he’ll out the guy and was doing the whole thing as a form of self-aggrandizement. “I’m a superb technologist.” Almost channeling Trump there.
I have returned from Viva Las Vegas. Pictures were taken, tiki bars visited, alcohol consumed, stories were created, bands were seen, and a random job offer in the Vegas area happened. What all have I missed around here the past week?
Ted corrected both spelling AND grammar. HM documented Glib’s meetups. Swiss worked on his crow’s feet.
We actually had a couple of SP sightings, which was nice.
Glad you had fun, man! Post some pics!
I will. I need to look them over and toss the ones that didn’t come out, check out the video quality of the couple of videos I took, and make sure there’s nothing that can dox me in them. I unfortunately only was able to get group shots of the Pin Ups, so no solo shots of that, and we were fairly far back for the Burlesque Showcase (hosted by John Waters) so I’m not sure how good the pictures are. But for the first couple of days we were asking all of the foreign visitors (which is probably ~20-25% of the people at Viva) what brought them into the Rockabilly Culture, and I’m going to try to put together a piece on the answers I received.
Story time one: First night, after waking up at ~8:00 Eastern, flying across country, and going to a Tiki bar, I wound up drinking pints with a couple of Brits. The girlfriend had decided to go back to the room. About 15-20 minutes later, my phone starts blowing up with notifications, I pull it out, and I’ve got ~5 missed texts, and she’s calling me now. I mention, “Shit, I’m in trouble for something.” One of the Brits grabs my phone and answers it with, “Look love, he’s having pints with us right now, he’ll be there when he gets there.” and hangs up. The girlfriend thought it was me (even though I do not have anything close to a British accent) and sent me several angry texts. The hardest part to believe? She apologized for sending the texts the next day.
…she apologized? You sure you’re not dead and in Heaven?
Well, I’m at work today, so at best I’ve just made it to Purgatory.
You didn’t smash the brit’s presumptuous face with your pint glass for touching your phone?
I am disappoint.
Getting kicked out of the casino/hotel I was staying in for the next 6 nights would have been a bad idea. You can get away with some pretty outrageous behavior in casinos, but starting a fight, walking behind the tables, arguing with the dealers, using your phone during play, or doing something questionable about the cards will do it.
He started the fight by touching your property without permission.
“Whatever. Get the fuck out.”
/casino security
Why don’t you go test that out?
The few of us who didn’t die from net neutrality or the O-Care penaltax getting repealed have all died. You are now in a website where AIs based on the consciousness of users here post.
I had an article on beer that you missed.
https://glibertarians.com/2019/04/my-first-time/
“a random job offer in the Vegas area happened”
Hey, $20 is $20. We aren’t going to judge you.
No job offers of that kind, but a 2-year contract job doing call center support out there. I’m still running it down, and seeing if they’re really interested in paying me enough to make the cross-country jump (to a place with a higher cost of living). Unfortunately they want the job to be on-site, and aren’t interested in remote with regular on-site visits. It was just entertaining (to me at least) to get an e-mail like that while I was in Vegas (especially for a phone system that I much preferred working on).
If the Census people can ask you how many terlets you have, they can ask the citizenship question, too.
(They shouldn’t be asking any of this, of course.)
Yeah. It hasn’t been clear though if the count is still by population or citizens.
population.
It must include anyone who is a free person, citizenship is not mentioned.
which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.
Are such Indians still excluded? What about foreign students here to get a degree or foreign tourists spending a month touring the States?
So long as they’re not from India, they count.
Are such Indians still excluded?
The Indian Citizenship Act made them all citizens. So the provision is still there and technically applies, there’s just no one who meets the criteria anymore.
In case them Canadian Injuns wander over the border!
This stuck out at me:
Why, indeed. My guess is that the Dems don’t want to attract any attention to the reasons they want to do it.
If places like CA and NY no longer could inflate their census with the more recent illegals, which no longer come here for work as so many before them used to do, but because they can now get free shit paid for by the productive, they would lose seats in the house… Lost of seats. And a lot of those seats will end up going to the yucky red states… That’s not good. Especially when you have spent all this time gerrymandering voting districts to gain local advantages to impact congress and the whole composition of the house goes out the window if non-citizens are not counted…
I’m going to decline to answer all of those questions, just like I did in 2010.
#metoo
“We demand to see Trump’s tax returns!”
“You first.”
A lot of the donkey pols demanding his returns likely will not be current on their taxes if we go by recent history….
Any prominent person would be nuts to release any tax return not previously audited by the IRS. Aside from “none of your damn business,” the reason would be that tax accountants and tax attorneys don’t agree 100% with that the murky complicated tax code means. You could always find some expert who would claim someone was “cheating on their taxes.” As I recall, “Money” magazine once sent a pretty typical set of income and deductions out to cpa firms and the IRS and got a dozen different bottom line results, with even different IRS offices disagreeing on what the mythical taxpayer’s tax was.
They do it every year, or the WSJ or similar groups do, around tax time to point out the insanity.
Wanton Wednesday demands the tax returns of these hotties.
https://thechive.com/2019/04/23/tuesday-is-heating-up-with-hotness-like-this-30-photos/
8>1>25
22 and 30. Just wow, I love the freckle’s on 22’s puppies too.
Whelp, that’s it for me. I need some snooze but I hope all of you have fine day! Yes, I’ll be in my bunk.
Central Pennsylvania living up to its reputation.
https://www.wearecentralpa.com/news/breaking-men-charged-with-having-sex-with-12-animals-sentenced-to-20-41-years/1944917660
Jeez, I wonder where they’ll be in the prisoner hierarchy.
There is a “prison bitch” hierarchy?
It has 2 tiers – top (aka Party Members) and bottom (aka the Proles).
Why is beastiality on the same level as rape or murder? 20 years? Really?
This means beastiality is worse than when a teacher bangs her students.
It’s definitely more disgusting but I doubt the animals suffer any lasting psychological trauma.
Fido was asking for it!
Some animals are more equal than others.
*applause*
I think it is because a lot of bestiality isn’t really about animal fucking. It is someone who has to stick their dick into something. They just got caught fucking animals this time. Best to lock them up before they find a human to molest.
That is significantly higher a punishment than you would get for rape. Hell it is higher than you would get as rape of a child
https://www.city-journal.org/5g-communication-revolution
***President Donald Trump has announced that 5G, the next communications revolution, will be “private-sector driven and private-sector led,” while the federal bureaucracy will focus on facilitating innovation and restructuring any regulatory impediments.***
Since deregulation is one of the areas Trump hasn’t backtracked on, I remain hopeful here.
***5G represents a leap in performance equivalent to going from the era of dial-up modems to high-speed fiber networks which took us from the world of emails to streaming, high-definition video. Deploying 5G will entail enormous capital expenditures, involving a more than 100-fold proliferation in base stations, entirely new classes of wireless semiconductors, and artificial intelligence to manage wildly complex networks.***
Do you want SkyNet? Because…
The marketing pitch for 3G wasn’t that much different.
Take our word for it
President Donald Trump met with Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey on Tuesday, hours after Trump erroneously accused the social media company of “discriminatory” behavior toward conservative users.
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For years prominent Republicans and right-wing media personalities have repeatedly made unfounded accusations that Twitter and other social media platforms are biased against conservative users.
CNN says those accusations are completely unfounded and without merit. That’s good enough for me.
Completely unfounded. It’s not Twitters fault that all the bad people who have to be banned are conservatives.
Sounds like the argument made by the people that adjust AGW temp data, and always in one direction: up…
Erroneously? Apparently we don’t live in the same world.
erroneously accused the social media company of “discriminatory” behavior toward conservative users.
There are dozens of examples to support a claim but the claim is completely erroneous. ///CNNFactsFirst
They are facts first. CNNs facts come first.
Sounds like the argument used by entities like CNN and others of said ilk whenever people bring up voter fraud…
This is an apple…
And this is a pen…
Sorry I missed your thread, Staff, but it was a good read and that’s awesome your circle has your back. I know I’ll be quite sad when I split up from my circles after I move. From what it looks on my job hunt though, a bunch of the offers I got were in Kanto so hey, easier for us to glib and chill?
That would be fun, Raph. My busiest day of the year business wise, so I just saw the thread mys of.
Ouch, well at least the day is done, hope you get some good well-deserved rest today! And thank heavens we got a long Golden Week this year.
Making money busy doesn’t bother me. It’s the housework/kid/govt paperwork busy that leads to heavy drinking.
Amateur.. You need an excuse to do heavy drinking? Psha!
Ah, I see. Well hopefully, someday soon we can just go and chill at a nice izakaya. My treat, dude.
I thought you were returning to the US of A?
Unfortunately I missed the sign-up for this research.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/love-sex/774099/how-to-sleep-better-sex-improve-orgasm-tired
That’s okay Q, there’s always future tests to…validate and reinforce the conclusions found in the last study. For Science, you know?
Don’t get too down on yourself. You probably would have been in the control group anyhow.
If Q can get down on himself we won’t be seeing Q any more.
Hah hah hah!
Placebo sex? Is that when you have sex with/by yourself?
For likely 2020 voters between 18 and 29-years-old, nearly four-in-ten said they opposed the idea that the U.S. should use its military to topple foreign dictators and promote democracy globally. Meanwhile, less than 25 percent of young likely 2020 voters said they supported nation-building policies like those previously carried out in Iraq and Libya by the Bush and Obama administrations.
And yet they voted en mass for the intervention candidate.
Whoa whoa whoa. Are you implying that stated preferences and revealed preferences don’t always align?
http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2019/04/lets-brew-wednesday-1910-fullers-x.html
Mild Wednesday recipe!
Welcome back Neph.
Thanks. I’ve got your article pulled up for after I dig out of a week of missed e-mails and meetings.
That recipe is only 73% malt, getting dangerously close to being a dark High Life. You know, if Miller used hops in noticeable amounts.
Hops are the Enemy of God and the People!
But Miller is triple-hopped!
Glad to see you’re on the anti-hops side of the debate.
Not a fan of this I take it.
That’s a good one (and their old Hop Wallop recipe was a shocking disappointment), but I was expecting this. Go big or go home.
I like that one, but can only drink a few in a row.
Hop Devil, I could go through a whole 12 pack in one sitting. (in my younger days)
Actually thinking about it now, I usually only drink a few most nights when I drink, maybe I’ll add the 120 next beer run.
I hate being old.
And finished the read, my first beer was the sips of whatever was cheapest at the time from my dad’s mug (I do recall seeing PBR light and Beer in the fridge growing up). Teenage years were mainly whiskey and weed. For my 21st birthday, after drinking at a friend’s house (where I was handed an oil can of Foster’s), a group of us went on a road trip to visit a small brewery in Kalamazoo that one of the guys knew about, and had a band we wanted to see playing there (The Articles). That brewery is now known as Bell’s Brewing.
humorous fisking of a SJW anti-gun screed
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2019/04/daniel-zimmerman/the-dumbest-thing-on-the-internet-about-guns-youll-read-today/
Got that? It was the gun that changed these people into “unethical agents.” If not for the malevolent influence of the firearm, they’d have been noble, positive contributors to their community. And if you dare to attribute the kind of mystical powers that guns are said to have in the armpit of the western hemisphere to ignorance or superstition, you’re A RACIST, mired in closed-minded white supremacy.
Kivland’s message is, when it comes to “gun violence,” to forget human frailty, corruption, personal responsibility or agency…it’s the gun that makes us evil, exerting its powers on our state of mind.
“The blade itself incites to deeds of violence.”“
-Homer
It was a stupid idea three thousand years ago and it’s an even stupider idea now.
That’s pretty remarkable.
Maybe a Haitian witch doctor?
Ting tang
Walla walla bing bang.
Ceci n’est pas une pistolet?
I went to the original article. There are only 14 comments currently, but all excoriate her for the ridiculousness of the topic.
I smell a trap. She is doing some kind of experiment on her potential readers? Seeing how many threats of violence she can elicit?
In any case all she elicited was laughter.
Which she will still categorize as threats when she is interviewed by Salon.
It’s funny, Terry Pratchett wrote on both sides of this in his Discworld books. One story is premised on a flintlock pistol that possesses the wielder and drives him or her to murder. Another has the captain of the night watch say the following:
Here’s something Kivland’s insane ramblings and theorizing fail to take into account. Over the last quarter century, civilian gun ownership here in the Unites States has more than doubled. There are, by most estimates, nearly 400 million civilian-owned guns in this country (and probably far more).
At the same time, firearms-related crime has sunk to historic lows. We live in a country awash in guns that’s also remarkably safe and, other than a few notable urban exceptions, largely free of “gun violence.” If guns possess the mystical properties to beguile and corrupt those unlucky enough to come in contact with them, how could that possibly be?
Maybe it’s because Chelsey Kivland is a frothing-at-the-mouth bigot who regards blacks as a barely sapient creature well below the faculties of higher-order primates. Just a theory.
ACLU to the rescue!
The American Civil Liberties Union is warning people not to travel to Florida if the Legislature passes a ban on “sanctuary city” policies being considered in Tallahassee Wednesday.
The bills — SB 168 in the Senate and HB 527 in the House — would require state and local law enforcement agencies to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement by turning over undocumented immigrants to the federal government. Though Florida does not currently have any self-described “sanctuary cities,” the bills would punish local police departments that don’t comply.
“If Florida State Bill 168 and House Bill 527 pass, it would undermine local governments’ ability to protect the civil rights of their residents by forcing local officials to cooperate with ICE,” the ACLU said in a statement. “It would also put immigrants at risk of violence, potentially forcing victims and witnesses to stay silent for fear of deportation.”
I’ll see your vapid pointless grandstanding and raise you with some hysterical what-iffery.
In the US sates are unitary. Any local government exists with only the consent of the state they are a part of,so from a leagal standpoint this is a non-starter.
Yup. Relationship between the States and the Feds is different than the relationship between the localities and the States.
Most of our tourism comes from South and Central America. The only real tourism we get from the US are people here for a few days before their cruise leaves.
Undocumented immigrants aren’t really going to be in either category.
Also, not like it’s relevant, but the senator putting this forward is an asshole. Like a huge, gaping, goatse-sized asshole. Had to deal with him before. He’d put forward a bill requiring his own mother to be tortured slowly if it’d get him ahead politically.
Disney?
Nobody’s going to stop going to Disney. The last time somebody tried was when the extremist Christians got all pissed off about the “Gay Days” they had in the 90s – and those idiots were still THERE, and paying money, they were just protesting which was … just so goddamn funny.
Like buying books to stage a book burning. Um…
The Saudis are getting their chop on.
I believe they also crucified someone during that.
It’s a post-mortem crucifixion, sort of for display purposes I guess.
I guess that student won’t be heading to WMU after all?
Shame. After he made the cut.
*strongly narrows gaze*
Just as well. I probably didn’t have the head for it.
probably for the best. the illiberal SJW movement on that campus is a pain in the neck.
Should a quit while he was a head.
Some One has to buy Boeing’s jet fighters…..
The left did say heads should roll after Trump made that statement.
Trump would have been indicted if he weren’t president says Hillary Clinton
Because then she would be president and she would have no problem jailing political opponents under dubious/false pretenses.
Hillary would have been indicted if Obama wasn’t president
Well she wouldn’t have been secretary of state. So no she wouldn’t have been indicted.
That’s true, good point. but still, she at least should have been indicted
B F Skinner was unavailable for comment
Police arrested a California couple who allegedly locked their toddlers in cribs that were stacked and “secured to the wall like dog crates,” authorities said Tuesday.
Officers with the Modoc County Sheriff’s Office made the bizarre discovery last Friday while serving a search warrant at the Northern California home, where detectives found drugs, guns and the twin boys locked in cribs that were modified to operate as “secured cages,” according to a statement.
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Modoc County Sheriff Tex Dowdy said the suspects may have been trying to keep the twins, estimated to be about 22 months old, away from the dangerous items in the house.
“It’s my understanding that they were struggling with keeping the kids in their cribs. The kids were able to crawl out,” Dowdy told ABC News in a phone interview late Tuesday. “It’s just speculation, but I would assume that they were trying to keep them away from the various items that were located in the house.”
“It’s an experiment. We’re a science lab.”
My friend’s ex locks their five-year-old son’s bedroom door at night to keep him in. I’m not sure if she has continued to do so since he found out, but I know if I were in his position I would put a stop to that shit quick. I get the impulse, but seriously?
My brother at age 1 could climb anything, and then would jump head-first down onto the floor. We found him on top of the fridge at least three times. Parents had to put a top on his crib that basically made it a cage.
He does Crossfit(TM) now.
I had a top on my crib to keep me from crawling around, and I turned out….
Nevermind.
“‘”Wife beater” murdered spouse on the same day charity paid his bail’
https://metro.co.uk/2019/04/17/wife-beater-murdered-spouse-on-the-same-day-charity-paid-his-bail-9240972/
“A Missouri man was charged with murder Tuesday for allegedly killing his wife after a nonprofit group posted his bail in a domestic violence case, prosecutors said.
Samuel Lee Scott, 54, was charged Tuesday with first-degree murder in the death of his wife, 54-year-old Marcia Johnson, several hours after he was released from jail on a domestic abuse case involving the woman.”
https://www.foxnews.com/us/st-louis-man-accused-of-killing-wife-after-release-on-bail
These “bail projects” are generally a good thing and I fully support them, but if he hadn’t been bailed, he would have still been in jail, and not murdered her, so therefore the bail did in a way cause the tragedy.
$5,000 bail. Not insurmountable without the help of a charity. I don’t know a thing about a judge’s discretion and bail guidelines. Would the judge have set bail higher if the DA thought this guy was still a danger? Could the judge have detained him until trial without bail?
Tragic. Should’ve been a DGU.
Was the bail forfeited after the murder? Inquiring minds
If the reason you miss your court date is because you’re in jail on a different charge, do you still forfeit your bail?
I’m not going to read the article and just assume “charity” is his stripper girlfriend.
The number one name in ///fakenews
CNN’s chief media correspondent Brian Stelter fretted Tuesday afternoon that President Trump’s decision to skip the White House Correspondence Dinner amounted to “an attack against the media.”
“Say what you will about the press,” fussed CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin, “This is an event that honors the First Amendment!”
“Yes!” agreed Stelter. “That’s what it’s about. It’s an awards dinner and a fundraiser. In the past, presidents have always shown up even if they were angry at the press at the time,” he added.
Earlier in the day, CNN reported that the White House reportedly ordered all Trump administration officials to boycott the WHCD, which is scheduled for Saturday night.
“The usual tensions between reporters and government representatives have escalated to extreme levels in the Trump age, due largely to the President’s near-daily attacks against the media,” CNN “reported.”…
“It’s useful for White House aides to schmooze with reporters,” Stelter told Baldwin. “It’s helpful for us to get to know our sources. There’s some value in these sorts of festive events.”
Stelter lamented that during the Trump era, the gala was being “put on pause.”
“It’s yet another example of what we’re seeing — the administration’s attack against the media takes many forms,” Stelter declared. “One form is the president having a rally this Saturday instead of attending the dinner. And I do think it matters mostly because of what it means about these tensions continuing to escalate,” he added.
Yea, sure…
Brian Stelter sounds like a whiny little bitch.
Sounds?
Stupid orange cocksucking baby rapist Russian puppet has the fucking AUDACITY not to come to our party?!?!?!
Just like gays and trans folks. It isn’t enough that you tolerate them, you have to celebrate them.
I’m still stunned at the lack of self-awareness of the press. Do they not realize shit like this is what will convert hundreds of thousands of people into Trump voters?
I don’t expect Trump to show up at some COMDEX to validate tech geeks.
Say what? Orange man is not coming? THE ASSHOLE!
Can’t they just host some party without him anyways? Plus it’s not like the Correspondence Dinner has always been done in American history so why is this such a big deal?
That BITCH! Why isn’t she coming to my party?! I didn’t have to invite her you know.
The home flooring project I thought was going to cost 10k is going to end up costing 13.5k. And I need to replace the water heater now. I feel like my life has turned into that movie The Money Pit.
LOOK, G-D, I’M BROKE. IF YOU WANT TO KEEP THROWING SHIT AT ME FINE, BUT AT LEAST GIVE ME A LOW INTEREST CREDIT CARD FOR IT.
Sorry to hear that.
How old was the water heater?
It’s the same one that was there when we moved in (2008). I think it dates to 2004, but I’m not positive. It was probably due.
But still, there’s been an incredible amount of house expenses this year. And I’m also about to pay about $2500 for summer camp for the kid (it’s EXPENSIVE down here).
Uffda. Sorry to hear about the financial nut punches JB. I’ve been there. The only good news is that (hopefully) it means that you have a bunch of years of minimal costs in your future.
As far as summer camp goes, maybe take a gander upthread at Brooksie’s story about the parents who built cages in their house for their kids?
The Money Pit is a classic.
“Mozart? Honey, Mozart is dead, his troubles are over – help MEEEEEEEEEEE!”
I feel your pain. We bought a house expecting to replace the old smelly carpet with hardwood, but one thing led to another after we ripped the old carpet out and we ended up having to take the entire house down to the studs and rebuild it.
We paid cash for it, but our monthly expenses have been over double what a standard 20% down mortgage would have yielded. We got this place to save money but have been unable to save a single penny since everything we make is going towards making this house whole.
Ugh. We picked up a house on short sale thinking we’d do five years, fix it up a touch, and move on to something bigger. Ten years and two layoffs later, we’re looking at a house where damn near everything needs to be repaired or replaced if we’re going to sell it at anything like the comparables in the neighborhood. We’re probably close to the point where we’d be better off selling it to a house-flipper than spending the money to fix it up.
If you’re serious about the low interest credit card thing, Amex is offering 0% APR for 15 months then variable.
““I truly believe that a child cannot consent to being on a diet the same way a child cannot consent to having sex,” says non-binary fat activist ”
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1121033282596921344
““We should be critical of the use of science and the production of knowledge to continue promoting this idea that certain bodies are fit, able, and desirable…is it my fatness that causes my high blood pressure, or is it my experience of weight stigma?” Rashatwar asked. She then connected the science suggesting that obesity is unhealthy to Nazism, saying that “fatphobic” science is “often actually eugenic science….eugenic science is Nazi science.”
However, she then pivoted to support scientific findings as she pondered “intentionally pursuing weight loss,” claiming that “what we’re discovering scientifically is that that’s not possible.”
After addressing the topic of science and making her claim that there is no connection between high blood pressure and obesity, Rashatwar turned to discuss political philosophy and policy.
“This conversation about pushing off our own wellbeing onto the individual is part of these 1980s Reagan era policies that again try to move that structural obligation of a system and this social safety net onto the individual,” Rashatwar said, “instead of thinking that there should be social supports that also help me to subsidize my food costs.” ”
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=12142
…“what we’re discovering scientifically is that that’s not possible.”
Correct. It’s impossible to consume many thousands of calories above and beyond your BMR and lose weight.
Fatty.
There’s morbidly obese people on the internet who claim they eat 1400 calories and work out 3 hours a day and still gain weight (and are thus “healthy”)
1400 calories a meal and that’s three hours including breaks.
There are also people on the internet who claim to not need to eat at all and are perfectly healthy.
You know, I’m starting to think there may be some liars on the internet…
There are a few. But they are easy to spot because they are uggos. You can trust guys like me who have six pack abs, a giant schlong and the chiseled good looks of a super model.
Your a moron.
That’s because people are terrible at calorie counting and estimates. Show them a Caesar or Taco Salad, and most people will be off in their calorie estimates by around 50%. Hell, ask most people to show a serving of rice, pasta, or other starch, and they’ll give you 2-3 servings.
Who defined one “serving” because it does not ever seem to be an actual value of a serving used by the average human being. If it’s size were corrected and the values for real servings used, might we get more accurate data?
The gummint’s latest fiddling with nutrition labels supposedly addressed this very issue.
Is that counting or not counting the cup of Vidalia Onion dressing drenching it?
Seems apropos of the subject.
I get it, you have genes that will prevent you from ever being a super model. Most of us are in that boat. But it doesn’t mean you have a license to bulk up to the point that you can’t do basic things in life. There is a middle ground.
I’m guessing the writer has a very expansive middle ground.
You leave the Pope alone ! But not with your lunch.
But it doesn’t mean you have a license to bulk up to the point that you can’t do basic things in life.
You don’t need a license for that, and you’re perfectly welcome to fuck up your body in whatever suits you, just shut the fuck up about how the biological sciences are persecuting you when you face down the inevitable consequences of your actions.
Once we have single payer health care in the US, and your health becomes my concern, I’m sure that a license will be required to have a high BMI.
The UK is getting there. There’s yet to have been a restriction of human behavior that can’t be justified by the NHS.
I think that is its purpose.
“Touch your toes,
MontagFattie!Pay me to be a fat fuck!
Last Friday I had to go to Walmart for a few things. Somehow I get stuck doing the shopping before the major holidays. I usually use their electric scooters because they’ve got a big basket on the front, and this time I had to get some larger items. But the store was busy as I’ve ever seen it, and all 12 scooters were out. I had to wait about a half hour to get one. The few that I did see had people with no other disability than being overweight. Pissed me off to no end. I guess one solution would be to learn how to push a shopping cart while I’m in my wheel chair.
But to stay on topic, I think the bigger danger to our society is the view that being overweight is a disability that you can’t do anything about.
Put a little trailer ball on the back of your chair and tow the cart.
And then taunt the fatties by asking if you can help them reach anything.
And a Mad Max style bumper on the front…for obvious reasons.
*thinks of zombies standing on one side of the aisle staring blankly at canned goods while cart is parked on the other side of the aisle *
*smoke begins curling out of ears*
He’s point about consent is irrelevant. Kids can’t consent. That’s why they have parents to help them, and in some cases make them make decisions that they don’t want. Kids can’t consent to vaccines either, yet a big majority of the population agrees that a responsible parent gets their kids vaccinated.
If childhood consent were a factor I’d never have attended school in the first place.
I hate it when people misuse the word SCIENCE! for their own ends.
DENIER!
For those who care, the local alt-weekly has done their annual Best (and Worst) of Cleveland. I’m a bit disappointed in some of the changes, for decades the best pizza went to a place called Mama Santa’s, which wasn’t actually that good, but it was dirt cheap. It happened so much the alt-weekly started bitching about it (“This is supposed to be best pizza, not the cheapest pizza.”)
I think best would be the highest ratio of Quality to Price, so cheapest could be the best if the quality was at least mediocre.
That’s what it was. Looks like the prices have jumped up over the years, but back in the mid-90’s, you could get a large pizza for ~$6. The place was also long rumored to be an old mob safe house (it’s in the Little Italy region of Cleveland).
My alt weekly went to the “best of” with “readers’ choice” formulation at the bottom years ago. I suspect it was prompted by the readers picking Pizza Hut and Taco Bell as best ofs, in a metro area of 3 million.
Assume a can opener
The presidential candidate is targeting what some economists say has become a handbrake on the U.S. economy, slowing everything from home ownership rates to the creation of new small businesses. Wiping away the debt could supercharge the economy, economists say, by easing the financial burden on families and freeing up cash each month to pay for housing, health care or education for their own children.
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By one estimate from the Levy Economics Institute at Bard College, erasing the student debt held by Americans could boost the GDP by almost $1.1 trillion over the next decade, create up to 1.5 million new jobs per year and lower the unemployment rate by as much as 0.36 percentage points over a decade.
“Student debt cancellation results in positive macroeconomic feedback effects as average households’ net worth and disposable income increase, driving new consumption and investment spending,” according to the Levy Economics Institute researchers, who published their report last year.
“According to these numbers I just pulled out of my ass, we’d be crazy not to do this.”
Reward failure. Punish success. Make the world a better place.
So forgiving something like 1.3 trillion dollars in outstanding student debt will net us 1.1 trillion dollars in GDP… They can’t even make the made up math work.
“…create up to 1.5 million new jobs per year…” – Ironically, the people with the most debt won’t have the skills to get those jobs. Unless they mean people will have more disposable income to spend at the coffee shop.
Because shafting one group out of $1.3T won’t have any negative consequences. Nope. Those shitlords obviously didn’t need that money anyhow if they could afford to loan it out.
I realize how politically different it is to stop student loans these days, but at least curb them by setting a max.
I saw today that the total private debt of Americans is about $14 trillion. Just think how the economy would soar if all that debt was wiped out! Even better, let’s make $200 per hour the minimum wage.
Fuck student debt, that is intangible shit. Let’s cancel my existing mortgage debt. I’ll buy a second house. Instant real estate boom!
Paging Mr. Basquiat to the Broken Window Desk.
*Bastiat. Basquiat was the junkie graffiti artist who art critics turned into the black Warhol in the ’80s.
I thought that looked strange when I hit the button…
Magical thinking. Is there anything it cant do?
So, CBS News searched high and low to find an economist to sign off on this horseshit, and found one.
And from not-left-wing-at-all Bard College.
“This conversation about pushing off our own wellbeing onto the individual is part of these 1980s Reagan era policies that again try to move that structural obligation of a system and this social safety net onto the individual,” Rashatwar said, “instead of thinking that there should be social supports that also help me to subsidize my food costs.” ”
Fascinating. When did you come to realize your father hates you?
When did you come to realize your father hates you?
When I spent all night tossing and turning with indigestion after eating him. The fact that he didn’t agree with me made me realize he’s the root cause of why I do not have 14 boy friends and a job as the CEO of a Fortune 500 company.
Tossing that little nugget about subsidizing her food costs makes me think…parody?
I didn’t RTFA.
had my annual physical. missed last year’s so it’s been two years which coincides with the start of my plant diet. almost vegan. i had a soft-shell crab sandwich once b/c God doesn’t totally hate me.
good news:
triglycerides down 26%
total cholesterol down 2%
bad news:
HDL down 15%
LDL up 9%
non-HDL up 6%
really bad news:
WBC down 25%
the big dietary change was swapping sardines for nut butters. apparently that’s a really stupid substitution. should’ve seen it coming. sardines in water vs nut butters heavy with saturated fats.
Why is the color of the blood cells so important to people? #allcellsmatter
The Macrophage union prohibits members from conveying oxygen or carbon dioxide.
Just another construct of white supremacy.
Certain nutrient deficiencies can affect WBC. What was the count?
Hopefully that’s the case. From what I’ve read, vegan diets are B12 deficient b/c it’s just not present in plants. Sardines are an excellent source of B12. My WBC count has historically been low. 3.9 for years. Now it’s 2.7. Not sweating yet b/c there’s definitely a dietary component that can be adjusted. If it’s still dropping after a re-test, then it’s a visit to the hematologist.
Folic acid, too, I believe.
But good on you. Diet is the first and best line of defense!
HDL to LDL ratio is arguably a better predictor of cardiovascular risk than either number by themselves or total cholesterol. If the LDL wasn’t obtained by formula rather than direct measurement, it might also be overstated if your triglycerides are below 100.
*was obtained by formula…
that makes sense since HDL carries cholesterol to be flushed out of the body so you want more of those guys relative to LDL. i don’t know if the lab direct measured LDL.
Those two things don’t seem very interchangeable to me.
i get what you’re saying. nobody eats a sardine ‘n jelly sandwich.
I guarantee you someone has done that.. Now what flavor of jelly they used can be debated…
I Fought In The Battle Of Mogadishu. Here’s What Rep. Ilhan Omar Gets Wrong About ‘Black Hawk Down’
Don’t worry she also retweeted someone who says Jesus was a Palestinian.
That might not be clear. She literally retweeted a tweet claiming Jesus was a Palestinian
Jesus, who by the Bible died in ~31 CE (probably earlier historically), who was born and lived in Judea, a province of Rome. Around 40 years after he died the Romans became the latest group in history to massacre Jews, but Judea still kept its name. About 60 years after THAT, Hadrian began the second Roman-Jewish war, either killed or enslaved the Jews who already hadn’t been killed or enslaved around 70 AD, destroyed Jerusalem and built a new city on top of it, and renamed the area Syria Palestina.
So Palestine as an identity/area/term didn’t even exist until at least a century after Jesus died.
But sure.
(wait a minute: I just realized something. Jesus was Jewish. If Jesus was Palestinian, all the Jews from the area were Palestinian too. If that’s true, then the Palestinians should be blamed for killing Jesus, not (((us))). Take THAT, ant-semites.)
Eh, your history is a little off. Hadrian didn’t start the war. Jerusalem was already in ruins. The Romans were rebuilding the city, with pagan temples, as Aelia Capitolina. They also stationed a legion there, because the Jews had already revolted twice before. The third revolt began the war.
Ironically, the reason Hadrian didn’t build any Jewish temples was to discourage the rebels. He wanted to show them what a civilized Roman life was like. And that is a big part of the reason they revolted.
Well, I should say this is the story as I know it, which some Wikipedia articles agree with and others don’t. I guess nobody bothered to keep accurate timelines in the second century, or none of them survive to this day.
The name Palestine descends from Philistine and is used to refer to the area controlled by them. So the name is both newer than Judea as you point out and also much older.
True, but the name was given out of spite and not because it was descriptive. Whoever the Phillistines were, they were long gone by the time the name got revivied.
I mean technically Palestine was the roman name for the lands of Israel at the time, but that would make him roman, since Palestine was never a real country and Palestinian isn’t a real ethnic group
Nevermind, JB’s comment above tells me i’m wrong about the timing of roman Palestine. Either way, Omar’s still wrong
Wiki with a pretty simple paragraph on the matter (I was remembering from Hebrew school)
(this is also nice for those who say the Jews have no historical presence in what we now call Israel but just stole it in 1948).
Wikipedia doesn’t seem to agree with itself on whether the city was named Aelia Capitolina before or after bar Kokhba’s revolt.
“Roman” still had a distinct legal meaning at the time, and did not apply to subjects in the provinces who had not earned citizenship.
If she (and AOC) didn’t exist the Republicans would’ve had to invent her.
In other words, we were sent halfway across the world to help protect people just like Omar and her family. Nineteen incredible men gave their lives defending her country while serving ours.
that gauntlet was not so much thrown as beaten upside her face.
Ilhan Omar. Man, Minnesota, y’all got some work to do next election cycle.
Virtue. Signaled.
O’Rourke was asked if he would support compensation for the descendants of slaves. In his answer, O’Rourke explained that he discussed the reparations issue with Bryan Stevenson, a civil rights lawyer and political activist. O’Rourke said Stevenson explained that he might not be able to have a “Truth in Conciliation Commission like you had in South Africa” and “may not be able to force the coming together” that’s starting to take place in Rwanda.
“You may not have, as they did in Germany, forcing every single citizen or almost every citizen to go to those places that they would otherwise deny to address their complicity in the problem that they created in the deaths of millions. We need something like that here, but I’ll just be honest with you, given the composition of this country and the fact that we are still a white majority and that far too many people who look like me aren’t going to voluntarily take that action, Bryan Stevenson says this has to happen at a community by community level,” O’Rourke said during a recent campaign rally in Old Town, Alexandria.
“Now I’m all for Sheila Jackson Lee’s bill that would set up a reparations commission. I would sign that into law in a heartbeat but I want to make sure that in every community at every level, here in the Commonwealth of Virginia, perhaps especially, that we are ready to have that conversation person to person, eyeball to eyeball, just like we’re doing in this room right now. I’m convinced that if we do that, we will form the consciousness and the political will to take the action necessary to repair the damage done, repair the root of the word reparation and to stop visiting that injustice on future generations,” he added.
Community by community…at gunpoint. And I can’t wait to get my check, given that I have Slavic ancestry (I wonder from what “slave” is derived…). That, of course is one of the problems here, even accepting the premise (which I don’t). Slavery was practiced in a cultures all over the world all throughout human history. It is a pretty good bet that most people have slaves in their ancestry. So, Beta, kindly fuck off.
If reparations are supposed to compensate current generations because of the long-lasting impact caused by things that happened long ago, (((we))) are going to be due a shitload of money by pretty much every country on earth.
Are southern families due and reparations due to the death and destruction caused by Sherman’s March?
*quietly conceals evidence of German ancestors who arrived in America in the early 1900’s*
I eagerly await my check from Italy. Well, Rome, if we’re being fair. Oh, and England…although that will probably be a wash. I’ll just hand myself a hundo.
No worries, it’s just a conversation.
If you can prove that you were held against your will and forced to labor on someone else’s behalf you should contact the police. Failing that, fuck off. My family lost a bunch of money during the Depression, but you don’t see me suing the Roosevelts, do you?
The Rwanda genocide was caused by a country having no food and an ethic majority deciding to find some scapegoat to plunder so they could not die.
“complicity”…..and my complicity in slavery and Jim Crow as someone born on Long Island in 1976, whose ancestors were immigrants to NY post-Civil War is….what, exactly?
100%. You are part of the collective that has been adjudged guilty.
You benefit from southern slavery via white privilege. As does a 16-year-old Irish kid and an elderly Swedish woman. ‘Cause the whiteness is *that* strong.
https://www.theonion.com/white-male-privilege-squandered-on-job-at-best-buy-1819576421
The big problem with reparations is the timeline. I they did this in 1866, then they could identify people who were slaves, and people who owned slaves. But now, all they have is that white people, in general, have fared better than black people, and that in *theory* it’s because of slavery and racism. To me, it’s way too complicated of an issue. It’s been generations since anyone has been a slave. We’ve also had generations of people who are white, but immigrated here recently. And then you have some groups who are white, but have been historically discriminated against because of ethnicity or religion. Does that offset the advantages of being white? How about if a person is half black? Or light skinned?
The whole thing sounds like a great discussion to have in sociology class, but there are just way too many factors and too much unproven theory involved to make it work in practice.
Good thing this is just for show. It probably won’t even make it to the “conversation” stage they keep yammering about – which is too bad; it would be “fun” to watch them try to wrap their brains around these questions.
The big problem with reparations is group guilt. “We know you didn’t do it, but someone who looks like you did it 200 years ago so we are going to punish you for it” has never lead to good outcomes.
Group reward is not much better than group guilt IMO. The flip side of the reparations coin is a bunch of people getting checks from the government for no particular reason other than skin color. Some will save it, many will squander it, but a whole lot of people are going to think they deserve it regardless of how they use it. Reparations will not be a one-time deal.
Britain ended slavery in the empire early on, but there’s still an argument that black Brits are as disenfranchised as black Americans being made. So, while I believe that slavery is certainly a factor in a very complex issue I’d argue that there’s much more (and much less) going on: in any society, ethnic minorities tend to have less social influence, less political power, and subsequently less success within that society, for a whole host of reasons ranging from children tending to play with kids that they think are like them (for whatever that means to the kid) to straight up intentional, conscious bigotry.
Walter Williams had many essays comparing the state of the black families under actual segregation and under the welfare state.
The family unit was destroyed by a policy to “help” them, but all the policies explicitly designed to destroy them couldn’t do it.
Speaking of Walter Williams…
http://walterewilliams.com/WalterWilliamsAmnestyProclamation.pdf
You cant rule a nation of innocent men. Gotta have that guilt to beat them with.
Fuck you Beto, and the skateboard you rode in on.
I forget where I saw it, probably here, but reparations will end up making people who were never slave owners give money to people who were never slaves.
It will literally tear the country apart. The people advocating this should be ashamed of themselves.
That might be their goal. They’re too stupid to realize just how nasty it could be, though.
Bigger targets – on-going extortion of companies/corporations who were the “beneficiaries” of slavery. This was a major topic of the House Banking Committee when big-bank CEO’s testified a couple weeks ago.
woman emerges from 30 year coma
Ms. Abdulla had also spent time in a hospital in London
She’s lucky the NHS didn’t do for her.
For those who subscribe to the Athletic:
Down Goes Brown: Finding positive thoughts for the non-playoff teams
(and you really should subscribe. It’s well written sports news without the social justice bullshit)
Seconded. It’s a bargain for the price.
Pass.
Needs more anti-Trump rants.
Lol. They are so unwoke they don’t even try to slip them in surreptitiously.
Seriously, though, some of their behind the scenes features are fascinating and the writing is top-notch. I hope they can maintain the quality.
I’ve watched bits and pieces of playoff games, but this hockey season was so depressing as a Rangers fan that I haven’t really gotten into it too strongly.
I’m a Rangers and Sabres fan. Oh well, better luck next time.
Because all the top teams are getting skewered?
I am not a fan of this new thing where the reply box moves out of the thread line to the bottom of the page. Is there a way to revert it to the old way? Is it because I have monocle running on this computer not eyepiece?
I don’t have this issue. Running Firefox 66, no monocle or eyepiece.
Clear your Glibs cookies and/or do a hard refresh of the page.
clear your cache and restart. Should clear it right up.
Thanks!
The Democratic politicians care because they want to continue to make it seem like Trump should be impeached and convicted, but dammit, he’s withholding the evidence!!!1!
About half the populace care because they want a coup d’etat … or something. Some way to Nixon the hell out of him, shame him and make him resign in disgrace. Except, you know, he ain’t gonna quit and he’s apparently incapable of shame anyway.
The letter of the law in question says Congress can force the IRS to release tax forms on anybody for any reason whatsoever.
The Bill of Rights says exactly the opposite of that law in unambiguous language: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated”.
The Democratic politicians view the Bill of Rights as “The Bill of Suggestions That Can Be Violated Or Completely Reinterpreted At Will If It Is Politically Expedient, Unless Those Pesky Republicans Are Using It Against Us, In Which Case It Is Sacrosanct … Until It Ain’t.”
(The Rs do, too, as the TSA proved, but y’all already knew that.)
Sounds like an opportunity to get SCOTUS to weigh in on another unconstitutional law.
I agree. This sounds like one of those bullshit laws that has never been used, and so has never been challenged. Until now.
Why not just declare executive privilege ala Fast and Furious and be done with it?
Unfortunately, the courts have already settled on, records in other people’s custody are not your property, even if they’re about you. Not that they don’t also allow warrantless searches and baseless warrants against what they do consider to be your property, but the barriers are even lower when it’s not yours.
So saying the IRS can be compelled by law to release your tax returns is no different from saying AT&T can be compelled by law to provide your text messaging history, or your bank can be compelled by law to disclose any transaction above (or below, a la “structuring”) $10k, etc.
Of course, in theory, the release is supposed to be to Congress, not the public. But we all know that it will be leaked the minute it’s released, if not sooner.
But we all know that it will be leaked the minute it’s released, if not sooner.
In which case I hope the Barr DOJ has a team of loyal agents doing surveillance on the Congresscritters the returns are released to and is ready to send any such offenders to Federal Pound Me In the Ass Prison for the rest of their natural lives. Hell, I’d throw their kids on the fucked over list, as well, just to make an example. This shit has got to be dealt with as harshly as possible. Through the tax system, the government has the authority to force you to hand over the most intimate details of your private life. Their turning around and releasing that information, just to embarrass some target, when the release has nothing to do with any criminal accusations, is the sort of thing that deserves scaphism.
That ain’t gonna happen. Targeting Congressmembers, especially when you don’t have any prior evidence, will only invite their ire. And they could give whoever did the leaking top cover by reading the tax return into the Congressional record.
Targeting Congressmembers, especially when you don’t have any prior evidence, will only invite their ire.
I don’t think raising the ire of people bent on playing what amounts to a blackmailer’s game is a big risk.
There is an unhealthy relationship between the bureaucracy and Congress. The AG and FBI Director may be appointed, but the people who work for them are lifers. Congress can put the hurt on the FBI, and thus every senior civil servant’s fiefdom there.
American SS Renegades-The George Washington Legion:
https://youtu.be/T_y71_XhQqA
Interesting stuff…
The Democratic politicians view the Bill of Rights as “The Bill of Suggestions That Can Be Violated Or Completely Reinterpreted At Will If It Is Politically Expedient, Unless Those Pesky Republicans Are Using It Against Us, In Which Case It Is Sacrosanct … Until It Ain’t.”
All mature, reasonable people agree. Rights are created and granted by the government. All this talk about “natural rights” is just silly.
Rights are fine, as long as they’re subject to reasonable regulations.
We can infringe, it says so in the “well regulated” part!
Besides, you’re not in a militia.
“Shall not” means “We can’t, unless we really want to”
+1 pen
+1 phone
It seems like statists and Progressives both make the case that rights don’t exist absent the presence of a government to establish them. But then they’ll talk about “human rights” and rights to education, healthcare, whatever, which apparently do not yet exist as they haven’t been written into law, but should be written into law because…people seem to already have them…
Trigger warning for HM: I’ve found my new (upcoming) favorite anime! “Rifle is Beautiful” – Slice of life AND guns!
https://twitter.com/rib_anime/status/1121066278943203328
I only watch anime if it includes fighting tournaments resolved by demonstration of bread baking skill.
For those who didn’t get enough of Upotte!!!! ?
Or Gunslinger Girl, or Gun Gale Online, or Girls’ Last Tour, …
There seems to be a lot of series about girls with guns (with varying degrees of focus on the guns).
For sure. Although Gunslinger Girl was disturbing because it was essentially set in the current world. Girls’ Last Tour much more SF and less focused on small arms.
Gunslinger Girl was basically lolicon.
I know the general Sword Art Online series is crap, but SAO: Gun Gale Online was good. Mostly because it didn’t have any of the “main” characters.
Yes and not set in the context of some high school harem comedy.
The girls were actually groomed.
No miniskirts? Am disappoint.
My new favorite porn star, Ella Knox (technically SFW, but don’t)
How do we help those bumpkins?
A stark spatial hierarchy is emerging in the United States. Big cities are ascendant, enjoying accelerated job growth in a knowledge-driven economy, while midsize cities, small metro areas and rural communities struggle to keep pace. These geographic fault lines have provoked a debate about how to revitalize rural America.
What if the best way to rejuvenate small towns is to invest in cities?
There is already clear evidence that the economic prosperity of cities and metropolitan areas benefits small towns. Studies in Georgia, Illinois, Minnesota, New York, Washington and Wisconsin have found that urban and suburban centers subsidize rural areas by generating more revenue for states than they receive back in education, infrastructure and other public investments.
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Proximity to cities does not solely explain rural prosperity. And some direct investments, such as broadband and rural entrepreneurship, can improve rural fortunes. Yet in an economy where private investment flows to places with dense clusters of prized assets, the best rural policy may be supporting the development of small and midsize cities across the country, improving rural residents’ access to jobs, customers, training programs and small-business financing.
In short, the best strategy to mend the nation’s regional divides is one that supports cities and small towns.
“What if the best way to rejuvenate small towns is to invest in cities?”
Needs moar fedgovbux, presumably. If we just fine tune our regulations some more…
I never saw that coming.
I don’t think the message quite says what they think it does. The cities are “subsidizing” the rural areas by spending money on a bunch of things the rural voters likely don’t even want.
What do the enlightened souls of the NYT commentariat have to say?
Russ Hanson
Back Woods of NW Wisconsin1m ago
The anti-union, anti-government, anti-advanced education, anti-intellectual, technology phobic, gun loving, God fearing nature of rural residents assures them of a homogeneous neighborhood of folks who wonder why the world has passed them by, ready to grasp at any politicians promise to make them great again.
Those of us who moved away to get a good job and returned to retire are not empathetic to those who stayed and still block change that would make life better here. They look back and see a world that never was and then point the finger at all those other people who are to blame for a poverty in their old age while voting for folks who are intent on removing social security and medicare — the underpinnings of rural life.
We embrace and affirm all our brothers and sisters. We accept and celebrate their choices. We will do unto them as we would have them do unto us.
There is no constituency for removing Social Security and Medicare, because the only groups of people who believe those things: right-libertarians, left-libertarians who want to replace it with UBI, minarchists, and anarchists, make up a tiny fraction of the population (and are too geographically diffuse to have any effect on even local elections). That entire position is a political boogeyman.
Of course, if Social Security and Medicare are actually the “underpinnings of rural life”, then rural life is already gone. Of course, I’m going to guess that not everybody living in the sticks agrees with that assessment.
He seems nice.
Probably considers himself not to be divisive.
I’m not divisive, it’s those damn redneck hicks who are divisive! Why can’t they all just die?
I know this guy (I’m originally from that area.) He’s a retired schoolteacher, so it may help to view his ramblings through that lens.
anti-advanced education, anti-intellectual, technology phobic
Farming involves zero scientific knowledge. Got it.
Russ,
Kekko desu.
Mike
Somebody was paying attention last night…
It is a kid.
Another genius (from Iowa, of all places) chimes in:
Deborah Fink
Ames, Iowa18m ago
Rural used to have something to do with agriculture. Agriculture is how rural communities came to exist. This article says nothing about agriculture — meaning agriculture is now irrelevant to the fate of rural communities? That might be so, but then the question is why should rural communities be rescued? Do they provide an economic, social, ecological, cultural or political benefit to the country as a whole?
WTF?
If only there were some way to enslave those far flung flyover morlocks, and put them to work making my life better…
Ames is a government (translate – hypocritical prog) town. Fink writes for the local rag.
They provide food, namely. The American midwest is the breadbasket (among other things) of the world. Wtf is wrong with people that think this way?
political benefit
Ah. They don’t tend to vote how you like. Idiots like this would be wise to note that food/fuel/etc goes from the rural areas to the urban areas, not the other way around.
“They provide food, namely. The American midwest is the breadbasket ”
WTF are you talking about? Food comes from the super market, just like electricity comes from a wall socket!
/progtard