Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a glorious morning it always is as I finally found something we can all agree with Crazy Eyes on!
Watch out for Tropical Storm Barry, which sounds like the nickname of a gay man.
Deficits growth is as American as blaming the Russians.
FCC Commissioner going after two leftist groups for misuse of federal funds.
Georgia Man throws 13 year old girl he met online out of car during high speed chase.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
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478 responses to “Wednesday Morning Links”
Morning Banjos!
Mornin’
I agree with eliminating the DHS. What she would replace it with is what scares me.
Deficits?
Department of Antifa?
NKVD.
AOC sees it as the home of the Border Patrol and ICE, and wants to burn the whole thing down. Admirable in a way, but her goal here is complete elimination of border controls, not increasing freedom in the way any regular person would understand it.
I wouldn’t trust her with that. Besides she’d just replace it with something worse. Remember. She’s an illiberal illiterate authoritarian at heart. Liberty for the people ain’t her gig.
This. She’ll fold all the surveillance and other unconstitutional shit into other agencies.
As a Patriots fan, I for am glad to see the term “Spygate” being used to refer to spying on the Trump campaign.
That’s cause you have electrolytes.
I’ve got what plants crave
THE THIRST MUTILATOR!!
Seen in the comments from the Georgia Man story:
Glibs are everywhere! #3 comment would solve the problem of #1 comment
Which is sort of ironic considering that it’s legislation passed during the Clinton admin, all of which he fully supported or even sponsored, which helped get the incarceration rate as high as it is now. I’m sure his idea would be something like, get them out of the general prison population and place them in forced rehad programs, all ran by his crony buddies. The guy is first rate scum.
Justin Verlander states the obvious – those baseballs are juiced.
Wait, the balls – and I mean baseballs – are being juiced, not the players?
They could just raise the mound back to where it’s supposed to be but no, fans like to see dingers.
For a second there I thought you said clingers….
My comment was a euphemistic minefield so…
BOOM!
Shakalaka?
I’ve reached my limit. An occasional home run is an exciting part of the game – as
iswere hit-and-runs, sacrifice flies, steals…Now when a 160 lb second-baseman hits a tape-measure opposite field homer, I think about other things I could be doing instead of watching the game turned into a farce like the NBA and NFL.
#defensematters
More important would be to return the strike zone to armpits to knees. The damned zone keeps getting lower – in a few years they’ll be playing f’ing cricket!!
Some of the younger umps are a little better about that. They came up with their zone being judged by the electronic cameras – so they at least call strikes above the belt.
Joey Gallo’s numbers are suspicious.
He’s a true three-outcomes guy: HR, KO, or BB.
Uffda. You guys are trying to throw shade on the offensive juggernaut that is the Twinkies. Shame on you for doubting that their Summer of the Homer is anything but the result of good coaching and clean living.
I’m a bit disappointed, but that is it. Mike S is gonna go high and to the right on you guys for doubting his team. (I bet he has already ordered his commemorative Twins 2019 World Series Champions bed sheets)
I thought it was that the concrete at Target Field had finally cured.
If by cured you mean, “Joe Mauer retired” then yes.
ZING!
Mauer drove me nuts. Runners on base, bottom of the ninth and he’d take a walk.
The dude was supposed to be a superstar and had no guts to go for it in a game.
That was also the ‘Twins Way®’. I was so happy when Gardenhire got nuked. Booooooring!
Well guys, I hope to watch your Twins lose this weekend. I’ll be at the game Friday night.
I don’t need to watch the game, just read the comments here in the morning
11.5 to 5.5 …
Voqal spent $47,095 on “providing schools with free or low cost wireless Internet” during 2016, despite reporting $9 million in revenue and $30 million that year, according to the group’s 990 tax returns. Voqal reported paying $642,346 to EBS services, including $403,832 for employee salaries, during that same year, the tax returns show.
They set out to do good, and ended up doing well,
“despite reporting $9 million in revenue and $30 million that year”
$30mm what? Investment income? Losses? Expenses?
For-Profit corporations are evil!
What she would replace it with is what scares me.
They’ll have really nice uniforms.
+1 Hugo Boss
Thanks for losing the gifatar. Those things are distracting.
yeah I meant to do it days ago but lazzzzziness got in the way
It’s the suede denim secret police.
Deficits growth is as American as blaming the Russians. – learn to stop worrying and love MMT
According to my wife, it ain’t the deficits that are a problem, it’s the monthly payments trying to keep up. Just put the interest payments on a new credit card, just crazy enough to work, according to her.
(Not true, Mrs F is extremely fiscally responsible)
wife jokes are no longer acceptable I would think
Everybody in the pool!
https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2019/07/09/aoc-sued-blocking-people-twitter/
Once again, the left shoots themselves in the dick trying to hit Trump.
And then after shooting themselves in the dick they can’t even get pot to fall out of their ass. They can’t even fuck up properly.
*Callback Golf Clap*
Yesss!
*fist pump*
“Some Spygate drama.”
I have heard from some reliable people that are in the know that now these weaponized three letter agencies that were not just encouraged but instructed by the Obama administration to do all manner of crominal and illegal shit no longer can deny they spied on the Trump campaign, that the FBI will blame bad intel from the CIA, and that the CIA then will blame a consultant company that came in to improve their efficiency and recommended a reorg for the failure to catch the blatantly obvious problem. In fact, they already are getting ahead of the story to give these crooks cover here by preparing the battlefield so when they have to testify they can pretend all this spying was just accidental instead of ordered from on high.
You know who else prepared the battlefield…
You on date night?
Mandatory
She was really sumpin’ back in the before times, in the long, long ago…
I thought you were going to go with cleaning the pipes…
If Nixon had his Watergate moment why can’t Obama. For Christmas I want Barry and Justin to get their cone-uppance. It’s all I want., And a teddy bear.
Is a cone-uppance getting a bear hug from Madonna?
Barry will never come under the gun, because that would be racist.
There’s no way anyone in a position to do so is ever going to come after the first black president.
But…but..I thought that was Bill Clinton!
I remember when you were derided by the media as a conspiratorial loon for suggesting Trump’s phones were bugged. How far we’ve come.
Aw man, I loved Rip Torn in MIB and City Heat. RIP to a fine and funny actor. Also, good morning Banjos!
Mornin’
Mornin’ Banjos! Great tune! I listen to that on my work rotation all the time. Still not sick of it after all these years.
Mornin’
FCC Commissioner going after two leftist groups for misuse of federal funds.
Could be an interesting story, but it’s so poorly written that it’s impossible to tell what is actually going on.
Grifters gotta grift.
I will tell y’all all about my day yesterday hen ai don’t have to peck out my words with one finger. I will drop this hint: I got surgery, he got an autopsy.
STEVE SMITH TEACH YOU TYPE NO FINGERS
+1 hunt and pecker
I hope you heal well and I am sorry for the loss Suthen.
Damn, well, hope you recover smoothly from the surgery and sorry about the loss. God bless you, man.
Sorry to hear. That flappy-flesh thing concerned me to no end.
Good, you will heal. A problem has been solved, 2 ways.
hope it all goes well and no excess physical pain from the surgery…
Feel better all around.
Sorry 🙁
I hope your flesh heals well and soon, Suthen. I expect the heart will take a while… this too shall pass.
Sorry man.
That sucks, but it better than the other way around. Get better and heal fast my friend.
Tough, but proper decision. Heal fast, old man.
Glad you’re OK, sorry about the pooch. Always tough when you have to do what’s necessary.
I got surgery, he got an autopsy.
Gadzooks. Hope you’re okay.
So here’s something I’ve been wondering about. There’ve obviously been a lot of excesses with the #metoo thing–but is it also bringing about actual justice? I mean, scum like Weinstein and Bill Cosby may very well have gotten away forever with decades of abuse if not for the sudden spotlight on sexual abuse. R. Kelly too, maybe.
How about Epstein? His crimes have long been known but not gone anywhere–nobody ever seemed interested in prosecuting him. Has #metoo changed the cultural atmosphere, allowing him to be brought to justice (if indeed he is brought to justice at some point)? Or is this something that would have happened anyway, eventually? Maybe it’s just difficult to prosecute extremely rich individuals, but the wheels of justice do eventually grind, and #metoo is simply taking the credit?
I don’t know. Sometimes #metoo and the whole attendant atmosphere seems like a Cultural Revolution. I have a friend whose book was recently published and who’s been attacked on Good Reads for being insufficiently feminist (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/41150303-this-is-not-a-love-scene). It’s bizarre, because it appears to be coordinated attacks of one-star reviews that all say almost the same thing. And she’s one of many, many people going through something similar–the publishing industry in particular seems to have been taken over. Somehow not following the precise party line on any given day is unforgiveable.
And yet, I see justice actually moving for scum like Epstein, who should be in prison for life. Just absolute malevolent individuals going around and ruining other people’s lives for their own momentary amusement. I don’t know what to think.
I believe that #metoo did take out and as you said, shine the spotlight on some of the formerly “untouchable” scumbags, but I also do believe that it’s caused a lot of damage in personal/professional relationships as a side effect/result of some bad actors. In short, I think it was overall a mixed bag.
Bill Clinton still seems to get (mostly) a pass.
I did say some. I hope he gets his comeuppance soon enough as well, but I ain’t counting on it.
I would hazard a guess that Hillary (the “real” president) provides the protection for Bill. ie, not many in the fevered left can attack the Clintons because Orange Man is worse.
They can’t take Bill down when so many of them still pine for the return of the might dragon lady that Trump somehow denied her destiny to.
His appearance will become older and more fragile as this winds through the courts, much like that Mafia Don in New York that used to roam the streets in his slippers and pajamas, feigning his infirmity. Too pathetic to prosecute.
What both of y’all said. Hillary’s still got some pull and power so as long as she can be of use, her hubby will get some nice cover and enabling.
What are the odds of Bill suffering a debilitating stroke just before he’s due to testify? Even better if he died outright just before the Democrat National Convention.
That would be absolutely magical.
I would prefer the herself stroke out and be left unable to communicate but still able to hear and comprehend. Let them circle in for Bill while Herself can do nothing but watch.
You have a dark turn of mind, Tejicano. We like that!
I think letting the Epstein stuff resurface in the press is a way to attack Trump AND to keep Hillary out of the campaign. Rumors were that she was on some of those flights.
That’s dark. I’m not sure they are they competent. However, I wouldn’t be shocked either.
I think the shoving politics in everything is one of the shittier aspects of the left among many shitty aspects…
JATNAS! Haven’t seen you in a dog’s age! The rich and powerful have been doing this since before we lost our prehensile toes. It’s in our nature.
But is Epstein being chased for the crimes of 15 years ago? Didn’t he get his conviction, pay the penalty? The allegations of new crimes have to be proven, not just bantered about because of his past history of being a scummy guy. I’m not defending his past or present, I’m waiting for justice.
It will be framed however the powers that be wish it to be framed. We’ll never know “the truth”.
The recent double talk that underwrites double jeopardy is disgusting, a setback from constitutionality to feelz, the most dangerous shift for Americans of the past decade.
The events he’s charged with now supposedly happened after that last conviction, and they did find a lot of photos of allegedly underage girls at his house, which he was never charged for. Also, there’s one new woman who is claiming he raped her when she was 15. I think they are being careful about double jeopardy.
I understand all that but we’re still in the ‘supposedly, allegedly, claimed’ area. Are pictures of unknown girls of unknown ages illegal?
If he is proven to have committed offenses I will be the first one to holler “Hang the guilty bastard” but until then I want a conviction in a court of law. Perhaps justice wasn’t served in the last case but judges, juries and witnesses have always been for buying and selling. I think its called “settling out of court”
A wiser fella once said, sometimes you eat the bar, and sometimes, well, the bar eats you
What I hope is obvious to women is that the time to report a situation is now, when it happens. Consolidate evidence, work with authorities, and maximize the potential for justice: that is your obligation not only to yourself but to other potential victims. I respect that sexual crimes are very difficult to report, retell, and relive, but the credible response to a crime is outrage and an urge for accountability.
The old stories either have evidence to support them or they don’t, and those suspects should be handled accordingly. That said, it is a lousy model for any victim to see people waiting decades to accuse.
Yes, if you want justice for something done to you, the time to seek it is within hours, or at most weeks. Not 20 years down the line.
I guess I was sexually assaulted. A gay man who I knew publicly groped me when I was in my late teens. I felt guilt, shame, weirdly put all the blame on myself until much later. I’m sure many women who went through much worse than I did have similar counterproductive feelings. Which sucks, because it doesn’t help the process of finding and punishing victimizers.
A gropy gay feller? Only in Obama’s America! Not to make light but the same happened to me quite a bit when I was a teenager. Shrugged it off. I had long hair and tight pants.
Who here hasn’t been groped by a handsy gay feller?
::raises hand::
Maybe I’m just too ugly? ::runs away, sobbing::
FWIW, I’ve been groped by a straight guy.
You could start by taking off that mask. It’s a little intimidating.
I wear it because I’m ugly!
FWIW, I’ve been groped by a straight guy.
That wasn’t a grope, it was a manly ‘attaboy!’ slap on the ass.
That’s not where I was groped.
*puts hand down*
#metoo. Except that my incident was caught on camera and he was fired for sexual harassment.
Mine was a drunk English buddy at a party.
You said he was straight.
FWIW, I had my doubts back then. But he’s been happily shacked up with a female during most of the years since.
Ideally, yes, but when it’s someone rich and powerful, who has the best lawyers and unlimited funds, I don’t blame the victims for not coming forward. Look what happened last time – he got an easy plea deal, the victims were never consulted, and they were labeled as prostitutes. And that’s pretty mild considering what else he could have done.
“they were labeled as prostitutes”
At least some of them repeatedly took money for sex and recruited for him, so not entirely inaccurate for those.
“How about Epstein? His crimes have long been known but not gone anywhere–nobody ever seemed interested in prosecuting him. ”
Well, a lot of this is because the media has seen its role as either ignoring, or when ignoring a story was not possible, whitewashing stories that hurt team blue. Have you missed the distorted and absolutely desperate attempts to tie Epstein to Trump, while the fact an enormous number of democrats that are connected to him, especially Bill Clinton, are never mentioned?
Yes, and if Hillary had won the election, none of this would be coming to light.
The resisters only need to resist when one of them is not in the WH. Otherwise this shit gets ignored. As was mentioned here by someone else, in their desperation to bag Trump, they have fired so many torpedoes that have circled back right at them, that their ship is now turned into a smoking hulk and sinking fast, but they just can’t stop themselves from shooting more torpedoes set to circle back.
why check out this political cartoon
At least they got Clinton and Acosta, but there’s Trump too. Were Epstein and Trump actually friends? I don’t know enough about the case to answer.
Supposedly they had rubbed shoulders a few times including a flight on his smaller plane but Trump banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago in 2007 for sexually assaulting an underage female in the premises.
Doesn’t matter.
Yeah, the DemOp media is trying to grasp any straw to tie Epstein to Trump to deflect attention from his ties to Democrats.
Yeah, Trump flew on a plane once. These two hate each other. But the media needs to connect trump to this to salvage all the team blue power brokers that are going to go down with this ship.
I first saw his depiction of Trump as Hillary. Funnier that way.
Trump barred him from Mar al Lago, so they haven’t been friends since at least that happened.
Am I hallucinating, but isn’t he on a first-name, give-vast-amounts-of–money-in-exchange-for-favors relationship with Sen Menendez?
“Were Epstein and Trump actually friends?”
One of the things democrats, the left in general and their media wing, tend to ignore, is that being friends with someone or associating with them in whatever way, is not a crime, regardless of what heinous crimes they may have committed.
This. Epstein is going down because the politics have changed and no other reason.
According to Cernovitch, the timing of the Epstein stuff is no coincidence and has more to do with covering up guilty associates than justice. As to the larger point, I do think #metoo is a good thing, even with the inevitable return swing of the pendulum. Hopefully the next Cosby/Weinstein/Penn State guy, and possibly more importantly their enablers, can’t be nearly as bold.
How can I properly read this without a number to let me know where in the sequence it fits?
I feel you, but I like to only attach numbers when I can offer at least some minimal level of originality in an idea or analysis. This was simply a plea for help in understanding.
Dear Julie: what do I do about my boyfriend’s secret sex toy?
I bet she thinks vibrators for women are totes cool.
Just wait until she learns about the special rack in the dishwasher for her beau’s “special friend”.
Empowering
Brava!
“I bet she thinks vibrators for women are totes cool.”
Porn for guys is totally icky. Romance novels for women are harmless fun.
Watch your boyfriend masturbate with it. Stare deeply into his eyes.
That’s love right there….
“Dear Julie: what do I do about my boyfriend’s secret sex toy?”
Wait until his birthday and buy him a fancier model?
“Onanist” is a new word for me. Brings a wholly different perspective on Onan engines.
I thought it was as strange use, especially tying it to the word “creep”.
I mean what man doesn’t masturbate and/or pull out? (well minus you weirdo Catholics).
Male pleasure outside of reproduction or pleasing the female is verboten.
When I hear somebody actually say this I am so tempted to say “OK. Should I wear a condom or do you prefer the taste of semen to latex? Since you don’t want me to do it myself I assume you are offering to help.”
And all because Onan didn’t want to get his brother’s widow pregnant and pulled out.
I do wonder when someone is going to claim to be an Onanism connoisseur/geek/nerd.
Ahhh, forgot that story.
“Onan spilled his seed upon the ground” seems like what any good farmer would do come the Spring.
Somewhat common use in Japanese. For a second I thought maybe that was the origin, but just looked it up. Derived from…. German.
Onaru is the slang for the verb!
オナニー (ONANII)
Links
Noun
1. masturbationFrom German “Onanie”
Wikipedia definition
2. MasturbationMasturbation refers to the sexual stimulation of a person’s genitals, usually to the point of orgasm. The stimulation can be performed manually, by use of objects or tools, or by some combination of these methods. Masturbation is a common form of autoeroticism, providing sexual pleasure or orgasm in the absence of a partner. The act, when performed with a partner, is called mutual masturbation and is sometimes used as an alternative to sexual intercourse.
“I’m so good at sex, sometimes I even do it with a partner.”
Countess Alexandrovna: You are the greatest lover I’ve ever had.
Boris: Well, I practice a lot when I’m alone.
“if you could shine a light on this dilemma…”
I see what you did there, lady.
it might spill out when I least expect it
Heh heh heh heh
” shine a light on this dilemma”
Oh, she’s so fucking clever, too.
“I’m sometimes left there on my own – and he’s encouraged me to treat the place as my own.”
Unless he’s already committed to marrying this girl, there’s his first big mistake.
“Aren’t these cheap plasticky thrills the preserve of creeps and onanists?”
*makes sure to run home and hide all of her cheap plasticky dildos before proceeding with the condemnation of other*
Trump is tearing this country apart
Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) lit into White House counselor Kellyanne Conway on Tuesday after Conway took aim at the freshman Democrat for voting against a President Trump-backed border aid bill.
“.@KellyannePolls oh hi Distraction Becky,” Pressley said in a direct tweet to Conway. “Remember that time your boss tore babies from their mothers’ arms and threw them in cages? Yeah take a seat and keep my name out of your lying mouth.”
Her tweet came in response to a tweet Conway made in which she mocked a disagreement between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Pressley and other progressive Democrats over a border aid bill recently passed by Congress as a “major meow mashup.”
Feral children roaming the halls of Congress. “I want I want I want!”
“Remember that time your boss tore babies from their mothers’ arms and threw them in cages?
Conway worked for Obama?
“Becky”. Hmm. Kinda racist, no?
Old article b ut didn’t know about this
The Most Senseless Environmental Crime of the 20th Century
Fifty years ago 180,000 whales disappeared from the oceans without a trace, and researchers are still trying to make sense of why. Inside the most irrational environmental crime of the century.
https://psmag.com/social-justice/the-senseless-environment-crime-of-the-20th-century-russia-whaling-67774
basically commie Russia did not need whales, but killing whales was considered by bureaucrats a subset of fishing, it was put on the five year plan and the fleets had to constantly exceed the plan to look good
>>environmental crime of the century.
Other than the gulags and mass starvation, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?
I think you are missing the senseless keyword. gulags and mass starvation had sense for people wanting a stranglehold on power. This did not.
Gulags and mass starvation are senseless too, eh? I’m sure there was some “logic” to the whale slaughter, just as there is with locking up and killing people.
I don’t get your point. Killing people for power is kind of standard. Killing whales for no reason is not.
Think we’re talking past each other. Yes people are killed for uses of power. But some are also killed senselessly, without reason.
Maybe they just hate whales?
Well the logic is whales are fish and fishing must increase, but the point is is more senseless logic than send potential enemies to the gulag, and some innocent as well just to encourage the others.
“Kulaks and Wreckers of the Sea!”
Communism, what can’t it do?
Bring prosperity to the masses?
We totally need commies to halt globalz warmingz
There’s no greater contributor to global warming than whale farts. Just look at how global warming has accelerated since the Soviet Union fell.
It’s the commies (there is a reason we call the AGW cultists watermelons) that manufactured the whole AGW crisis. And then only to sell a despicable and evil political solution to a fable that would usher in more communism. Fuck the lot of them.
I have a coworker who’s outlook picture resembles a cross between uncle fester and dr evil. I know it is bad of me but I almost laugh every time I get an email.
So I need some advice, PieInTheSky. My wife’s co-worker and family is flying back today from a trip to Romania, her home country (co-worker’s, not wife’s). She has a son my son’s age, and they’re getting together this weekend to play some video games and whatever.
So my question is whether I need to take precautions before letting my son go over there, and whether you think a garlic-heavy meal beforehand or just carrying around a cross would be more effective?
Crosses and garlic are a myth really. Your son needs to fill his underwear with a mix of dried thyme marigolds, yarrow and wormwood
I thought that was to keep scoutmasters away, not vampires…
Has he tried to recruit you to the gang yet?
My work has tried to say that we all need to put a picture of ourselves as our MS Office avatar. I am still using the generic initials that Office provides.
Your going to Siena dick pic, aren’t you?
Fucking autocorrect.
“Sepia” dick pic sorta works.
I do like being
employedpaid, so probably not. But some time with a razor, some temporarily drawn on tattoos, and some specialty sunglasses could have me looking like this.Long lost brother!
Look Ma, no barrel
A man was injured Tuesday morning after being swept over one of the waterfalls that makes up Niagara Falls, police said.
Police in Ontario, Canada, were responding to a call of a man in crisis at Horseshoe Falls when the man climbed over a retaining wall, Niagara Parks Police tweeted.
The man was swept over the rim and fell 188 feet into the Lower Niagara River.
Officers found the man sitting on some rocks near the water and he was taken to a hospital. His injuries aren’t life-threatening, police said.
I hope somebody captured that for posterity.
Was he Indian (from Asia)? For some reason every Indian that comes to the US has to go to Niagara falls.
And they’re disappointed they can’t get there from Manhattan by taxi.
For those who need something new to use to remember Cleveland. There is now a third hastily made Cleveland Tourism video.
/we’re still not Detroit!
Do I detect a little more optimism this time around?
Just a bit… of course I believe that video was also paid for (specifically for the All Star game going on), so he couldn’t bag on the city too hard.
Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash:
Royal Navy sailors banned from pubs after grotesque sex act caught on video
Four Guys, One Eight-Ball?
WTF?
To each his own, but how much alcohol does it take for someone to think doing shit like this, in public too, and then recording and positing it, somehow is a good idea?
Wait! I thought for sure the Royal Navy was going to have them flogged so they can complete the trifecta.
Sounds like the locker room at Eton or some other public school.
There are no 8-Ball Fisters in the Royal Navy.
Is there some drug concoction called an eight-ball.? Didn’t Belushi do some of that, until he didn’t? I’m old school and unknowledgable of these things.
Yes, but that’s the American term. In the UK it would be called a “swami-tacker.”
An eight-ball is a weight measurement for cocaine – eighth of an ounce or something. A speedball is a drug mixture.
Thanks NA and BP. Never too old to learn. Probably won’t get a chance to get that into a conversation with my friends but still nice to know.
Yeah, and enough to get you popped for intent to distribute.
And in Virginia news, the special session on gun violence went nowhere, as predicted. The Democrats have their campaign soundbites and have proceeded to wail about it in the media, with one rep crying on air.
Pussies.
I am very pleasantly surprised by this.
Ditto. Maybe it’s time to get some scary black guns while it’s still legal here.
Under capitalism, “freedom” is when one person owns everything and tells everyone else what to work on. Democracy over what we work on is called socialist “authoritarianism”. We have been convinced of this because the people who own everything also own the news.
https://twitter.com/existentialcoms/status/1147574408854171648
Because the business owners have armed troops to force compliance, while socialist collectivism is entirely voluntary.
Lots of bases stolen right there, man what a mendacious prick.
It’s not mendacious if he’s just stupid.
Fair enough, I may have been charitable in giving the man some intelligence.
I dunno. I find so many of them are both. The average mendacious lefty I have known is generally stupid enough to assume I believe their horseshit.
“Under capitalism, “freedom” is when one person owns everything and tells everyone else what to work on.”
Wha? This has been a very common system in history and is known simply as tyranny. I know people don’t believe the world existed before last week. The comments to that weren’t great but a lot better than the tweet itself.
>>one person owns everything and tells everyone else what to work on.
Who is this one person? They must have one hell of a throne
You did not disappoint.
SJWednesday: Hall of Fame Edition
Every time I hear one of these cunts telling people how the only way for healthcare to be saved and made better is for government to run it, I point out that there is a reason I make sure to remain employed with a company that offers great healthcare: I want fuck all to do with the VA and the nightmare that system is.
And also point out that when people like Mick Jagger need heart surgery, they come to the US rather than trust the lovely NHS.
I know. If you’ve never thought about this stuff before, having it laid out like this can be overwhelming, confusing, and even terrifying. We take for granted the science behind health and the morality that we assign it.
But we need to think hard about this shit – especially for those of us in the U.S. who are grappling with scary politics around healthcare.
And yet no trigger warning.
Jeffrey Epstein Arrested! Mike Cernovich and Stefan Molyneux
Apparently this Cernovich character has been championing the Epstein issue for a while, to deafening press silence.
I’m not that familiar with Cernovitch but Molyneux is a blow-hard of the first order. If he would limit his video posts to less than 15 minutes, I might listen to his show.
Our buddy Preet gets an ignoble mention.
“Revealed: Russian intelligence service planted the false conspiracy theory that DNC staffer Seth Rich was killed by Hillary Clinton associates”
That doesn’t mean that DNC staffer Seth Rich was not killed by Hillary Clinton associates.
The Clinton’s feel bad about Jeffrey Epstein’s upcoming suicide.
Nobody thought that Seth Rich’s death had anything to do with the DNC until the Russians planted that idea. Not one person.
It occurs to me belatedly that this may more about Assange than Seth Rich or the conspiracy. Tying Assange to the Russians had been
(trying to correct the had to has led to premature posting)
anyway we know CIA and co are desperate to get him here, we know what’s his face at yahoo who wrote this is a tool, so maybe this is one of those planted stories they’re gonna use as a reason for extradition.
or maybe I’ve become too cynical.
Not completely wrong
But the mortification here is not only for the Tories, or for Trump. Darroch’s cables should, rightly, also be an embarrassment to the Republican Party, and to all those who work with Trump. In the summer of 2017, Darroch wrote, “We could also be at the beginning of a downward spiral, rather than just a rollercoaster; something could emerge that leads to disgrace and downfall.” By last month, though, in assessing Trump’s reëlection chances, he was writing that there has been a key change since the 2016 campaign: the institutional Republican Party was now “four-square behind him.”
The people around the President, whom Darroch described as his “gatekeepers,” were, to the Ambassador’s eye, also susceptible to flattery and glitz. They loved being part of Trump’s state visit to the U.K., in June, he wrote, “telling us that this had been a visit like no other – the hottest ticket of their careers.” In their “dazzled” state, Darroch wrote, they would open doors for the U.K.
Darroch attended the rally in Orlando, in June, at which Trump launched his reëlection campaign, and he described the joy of the President’s supporters. The crowd was overwhelmingly white but “with a pretty even mix of men and women, young and old.” The answers that Trump offered to the problems facing the country satisfied the crowd, Darroch thought, even though—or maybe especially because—“as is standard at these rallies, the language was incendiary, and a mix of fact and fiction.” Thanks largely to the support of Trump’s base, Darroch thought that Trump had “a credible path” to victory. Despite all the scandals around him, Trump might even “emerge from the flames, battered but intact, like Schwarzenegger in the final scenes of The Terminator.” (Arnold Schwarzenegger, as it happens, briefly replaced Trump as the host of “The Celebrity Apprentice.”) Much depended, Darroch said, “on who the Democrats choose.” That is true, and Trump knows it. One hopes that the Democrats do, too.
The bottomless well of shame which is Trump’s America. Where is our Savior?
We haven’t needed to care about the opinions of the British for about 240 years.
A former British Ambassador to the US made the point that the UK should be embarrassed that they have leaks in their foreign service and that the releases were probably cherry picked to give a one sided viewpoint. The NPR interviewer was not pleased.
So is the United States.
“You Lie!’
Yeah, based on what you see on television, white people are a small minority.
If only we had a respectable head of government like Teresa May!
Former House candidate from Bath faces 9 charges in alleged attempt to murder relative
Now that’s how you libertarian.
You have a Bath in the US? Does it have a royal crescent?
Nope. Hillbillies.
https://www.blackbeard300.com/about-blackbeard/
>Now that’s how you libertarian.
I won’t applaud him until I know if he’s a deontological or consequentialist libertarian.
An analysis of centuries-old Arctic ice has revealed how bickering among Charlemagne’s offspring sent the global economy into a tailspin in 814.
Long cores of ice extracted from 13 sites across Greenland and the Russian Arctic illustrate with new precision how the continental economy withered as Charlemagne’s heirs squabbled over his empire, plunging Europe into some of the dimmest years of the Dark Ages. The cores capture fluctuations in levels of atmospheric lead pollution over centuries. These, in turn, indicate how much silver was being smelted in Europe at a given time.
High pollution levels suggest that during Charlemagne’s rule silver production reached levels not achieved since the Pax Romana, the apogee of the Roman Empire. His death coincides with a slump, signalling plummeting productivity at his mints. “The link is striking,” Joe McConnell of the Desert Research Institute in Nevada, co-author of a paper published yesterday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, said. “You almost feel sorry for Charlemagne’s heirs — everything craters around them.”
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ice-shows-how-charlemagne-s-death-chilled-economy-77vqc0qgr
Huh, I was expecting the Babylon Bee.
“You almost feel sorry for Charlemagne’s heirs — everything craters around them“
Gavelkind is the worst! / CK2 player
I have a question. Why do random Americans who I do not know and have no connection to my field of work add me on linkedin? What is wrong with you people?
I’m always getting suggested contacts on LinkedIn. I ignore them all but I’m not surprised that some people keep connecting with those suggestions until they end up adding random Europeans to their “network” of people who don’t know them.
well I don’t know no one from no Pittsburgh
And you never will if you don’t accept their requests.
Well, how are you ever going to get a job in Pittsburgh with that kind of attitude?
I get most of my random contacts from India. I had a guy from the Ukraine send me a request the other day, though.
How can we trust anti-“obesity” research findings when the studies are funded by the weight-loss industry?
How, indeed?
Better to trust government diet advice that gets proven wrong over and over.
Shut up and eat your oatmeal, egg whites, and toast with a sensible dollop of marmalade. (But no butter.)
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7227685/Demi-Rose-shows-underboob-gold-lam-swimsuit.html
Ah, THE QUEEN returns. #stillwould with righteous fury.
That bottom ain’t “pert”. Fat and photoshopped, yes. Pert, no.
Birthing hips.
I used to believe that idea about “birthing hips” until my wife had kids. Now I’m not sure.
Normal size/shape for a Japanese woman – pumped out our firstborn 20 minutes after breaking water. Our second born took three pushes – done!
One of my favorite moments from that show.
I have no idea who this is:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7232265/Zara-Larsson-shows-toned-skirt-flirty-hot-pink-skirt-steps-London.html
I swear to God you’re as bad as my Grandma that had subscriptions to People and The National Enquirer. (Lotsa fapping at Grandma’s after lights out)
Looks like my go to move is now illegal.
If you put them on someone’s eyes the practice is called a teabag. What do we call it when it the package lands on someone’s back?
The Fatback Slap?
A poultice?
Saddling up?
Once you go black tea, you never go back tea.
Your go to move being the guy’s or the lady’s?
BAZINGA!
I’d be so happy and feel so wanted if random dudes were sneaking up on me and rubbing their junk on my back!
Sadly that never happens. That Bugs Bunny bit about wearing a wig and a dress is a total lie. The mashers see right through that.
I thought your go-to was the ‘stop short’?
Nope. The stop short is reviled by Koreans.
She died for the environment.
Retired jockey, 60, died when she fell onto an eco-friendly metal drinking straw which impaled her eye in a freak accident
The 10inch stainless steel straw entered her left eye socket and pierced her brain.
This shouldn’t be funny, but it is.
Kind of like a story I read a while back where an Instagram “celebrity” died when a whipped cream canister exploded.
Gaia has a sick sense of humor.
Thank god no turtles were hurt.
OK, after reading the story, something seems awfully fishy. Alky lesbians are not the most peaceful demographic.
From my experience, they’re just short of “Islamist husband” on the fisticuffs scale.
BAN IT! IF IT SAVES JUST ONE LIFE!!!
SJWednesday: Feminista Jones
Not the blacksploitation film you were hoping for.
LOOK AT ME!
racial capitalism
Wut? Define, please….
Quit asking for a word salad generator to produce another word salad to explain terminology of their original word salad dude.
The South! Cotton! America wouldn’t be anywhere the industrial powerhouse it is without the work of slaves!
(!)
“who identifies as a queer asexual, says that she finally began to openly embrace womanism”
What?
“Marxism broke my brain.”
Wait…..if she’s a “queer asexual”, then why the emphasis on being a woman? Sounds awfully biiiiiiiiiiinary to me.
Would she sleep with a woman with a penis? That’s the only qualifying answer. No crib notes.
The Clinton’s feel bad about Jeffrey Epstein’s upcoming suicide.
Found hanging in his closet, wearing a slinky nightgown?
Slip and fall off the top of el Capitan?
Killed himself by jumping under a falling piano?
Committed suicide by shooting himself in the back of the head twice?
And after the 2nd shot, throws the gun in the river two blocks away.
..with a muzzle loader…
Street robbery where nothing was taken?
Maybe a metal straw through the eye to the brain? The story above was just a trial run?
Tesla auto-accelerates into utility pole.
Good morning Banjos and my favorite reprobates!
I thought Angry Maynard might not work for such a gorgeous morning, but I was wrong. Great choice!
Mornin’
From fish to bacon, a ranking of animal proteins in order of healthfulness
I consume mostly red meat – and yet I’m still alive.
Biology must no longer be thought – or thought effectively – to people in school anymore, because so many people miss the simple meaning of the fact humans are omnivores…..
Pork is not red meat. When they get such basic facts wrong, can you really trust the rest of what they say?
Yeah there’s an awful lot of “may” “can possibly” “may”, etc. in there.
I’ve got some healthy meat she can consume.
I’m really tired of this “meat is the devil” BS. The number one cause of death for vegans and vegetarians is heart disease. Heart disease is caused by inflammation. Sugar and simple carbs cause inflammation while cholesterol repairs damaged cells and does not cause inflammation.
I am willing to bet that the Food Pyramid has killed more people than cigarettes have. No matter how many times this red meat bullshit is debunked, it just keeps resurfacing.
Now that more information is available I’m pretty sure that statins at least accelerated, if not drastically promoted, my father’s Parkinson’s condition. Side effects from statins are almost an exact match for Parkinson’s symptoms.
I don’t understand the hate against processed meat.
Do you know what beef jerky is? It is meat with salt.
Do you know what bratwurst are. It is meat with salt and spices.
Do you know what bacon is? It is meat with salt and sugar.
Do you know what ham is? It is meat with salt and sugar
Do you know what pastrami is? It is meat with salt and spices
I make all of those at home. I don’t believe that simply adding salt, sugar or spices to meat somehow makes it any worse for you than the original product.
but it’s processed! /unlike TVP, Tofu, any bread, etc
“Natural” — Trying to figure out a way to make wheat taste like chicken.
Also a life without bratwurst is not a life worth living.
Nitrates and nitrides are, on balance, probably associated with shorter lifespan, and while you can buy commercial processed meat without those, they are hard to find.
The average healthy consumer, on balance, would probably live longer if they exchanged some saturated fats for unsaturated fats in their diet. (salt sensitive people and people with actual heart problems are different.)
But we are talking hours and days for an otherwise healthy person. They’ll extend their life and feel better taking a fish-oil tablet and putting 5 lbs of muscle mass on their frame than they ever will from restricting saturated fats.
“Nitrates and
nitridesnitrites are, on balance, probably associated with shorter lifespan”*Narrows gaze at the healthy celery sticks in my lunchbox*
https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/90/1/1/4596750
As ever , when an alarmist uses the word “may”, substitute the phrase “may or may not”. Example:
“Cooking red meat at high temperatures may or may not increase cancer risk, and red meats tend to be higher in saturated fats than other protein sources.”
delicious saturated fats
“may or may not” = “probably have no relation to”
Where does Prosciutto fall on the scale?
Wood.
The danger of unknown meats is rated inversely to how delicious they are.
Er… un-inversely. YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN.
OSU’s soon to be renamed Wexner Medical Center, heh.
“the principal exports of Bhutan are ferroalloys, carbides, dolomite, gypsum, and raw plastic sheeting”
https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/1148930359821778944
“raw plastic sheeting”
That some sort of euphemism for condoms?
(The World Health Organization classifies processed meat as “carcinogenic to humans .”)
Yes, of course they do.
The Left’s Metaphorical Holocaust Denial
All right, Nippon Glibs, I figured out muh logistics/travel itinerary with my work, so yeah, I’ll be in the Tokyo area from August 3rd-August 10th. Let me know either here or at my protonmail email: (fesaly @ etc.) what days during that week will be best for us to have a little last hoo-rah. Kampai, fellow gaijins.
Sounds very good. Do you have any requests for the type of venue? Any limits on cost range? Any particular part of Tokyo you enjoy?
Same here. I know some good izakayas either in Western Tokyo or Shinjuku/Shibuya areas.
Excellent, lads. I was thinking of yakitori/izayaka/beer gardens so definitely open to suggestions on that front. Having the shindig Western Tokyo (up to about Kichijoji/Musashino) would be great since I don’t to play around there often.
Cost wise, I’m cool with stuff like 3000~5000 yen nomihoudais and that good stuff.
I love Iseya in Kichijoji. It’s got a long history and is Yasui. Last time I was there I had to step over a passed out high school girl whose hair was soaking in her own upchuck. And it still was an excellent diner.
http://www.kichijoji-iseya.jp/publics/index/13/
Well shiz, sounds like a swell joint minus the poor lass. All right, I’m down to clown there. I’m pretty much free that whole week really so you and Teji just let me know what days y’all are good on and we’ll work it out.
I am very much good with this. Tuesday through Friday is best for me – I hope that works for you guys.
Sounds perfect to me. I’m looking towards Thursday or Friday so that fits pretty well!
Thumbs up.
Ginza, hostess club, soap land, or Akiba maid cafe?
Kidding aside find a comfy izakaya and have one for me!
Thanks, sensei. Lol though, might make a final trip to see the nice ladies at one of the soaplands.
I hear they rub people the wrong way.
WTF s wrong with the MLB? I do not want some announcer chit-chatting with the guys in the outfield while they are playing the motherfucking game. Talk about fucked up. It’s baseball, not the G-d damned Olympics.
MLB is bad, but nowhere near as bad as the Olympics
On the other hand, breakdancing totally belongs in the Olympics, simply because I think it’s cool.
https://www.npr.org/2019/02/22/697009844/breakdancing-in-the-olympics-paris-2024-organizers-say-oui-garcon
OFFS
All-Star Game? I’m cool with it in that scenario because it’s not really a big deal.
When you study the Holocaust as history, rather than metaphor, it becomes impossible to reduce the events to a simplistic progressive parable about the virtue of tolerant lefties who resist racism.
Wait, what?
Just ignore it. Doesn’t fit the Trump narrative.
Medicare for ALL:
1 Federal Department Now Spending $100 Billion Per Month
It’s hard to overemphasize how even minor changes in Medicare reimbursement rules have drastic effects on the healthcare business these days.
“While Western corporate media propaganda portrays the anti-China protesters in Hong Kong as “progressive,” they are violently breaking into the legislature and hanging up the flag of the genocidal, racist, mass-murdering British empire — which colonized HK”
https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1145862615580762112
“Silly protestors don’t realise that freedoms and rights are tools of white supremacy”
https://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/1148816661329383425
What does it say that they they prefer the genocidal Brits over the ChiComs?
What does it say about this Ben Norton shitheel that he blathers on about how genocidal the British are without breathing a word about the Chinese treatment of Tibet or the Uighers?
Apparently he works for or with Max Blumenthal, a proponent of the idea that not only did American adventurism in the Middle East spawn the current crop of terrorists (a point on which I have some agreement with him), it also created Donald Trump.
Ben Norton’s twitter feed a mismash of incredibly stupid takes and some kind of decent ones on places like Yemen. Typical Marxist: Kind of gets right the follies of interventionism, but completely oblivious to the fact that it’s large, centralized governments that are the problem.
Kind of gets right the follies of interventionism
I understand the point of the occasional alliance of convenience with these guys. But, I think its a mistake to suggest they get it right. These sorts aren’t opposed to military adventurism. They’re opposed to military adventurism by the United States. They’re mostly all too happy see America’s adversaries engage in it. Where libertarians are skeptical of adventurism because they think it will lead to failure, they’re skeptical of adventurism because they think it will lead to success.
Western Marxists only get on the right side of foreign policy issues by mistake (eg — Johnny-come-lately opposition to Hitler).
“Who do those chinks think they are? How dare they think for themselves! Don’t they know that their rightful rulers in Beijing know what’s best for them?”
There is something inexpressably disgusting and repulsive about a man who lives in a safe, comfy western democracy shitting on people trying to wrest themselves from tyranny because they are not good little Marxists.
Uh, “Ben Norton”, if that is your real name, that bit of violence was perpetrated by a small section of the group and on one day only and separately from the Main Event. Nobody’s pretending every single member of a hundreds-of-thousands strong group of scared and anglry individuals is going to be an angel.
Not to be confused with the genocidal, racist, mass murdering ChiCom government.
Which, unlike the British Empire, is actually right there and not gone for two generations.
I would gladly send my college Mandarin textbooks to this fuckstick so he can take his first step towards life in the glorious PRC.
Wanton Wednesday sez “tits out for HK independence!”
http://archive.is/U4vqk
2, 16, 30. Wow, some real knock-outs in there, Q. Many thanks!
Out? Blatant case of false advertising!
3.
3 6 14 22 26
*saves for the lotto*
not a bad idea 😀
I don’t think 6 is even real, Pie.
wait I mean 5
I’m starting to doubt your judgement of the ladies is much of a good-luck charm at all. ?
Better, but 7 seems to be more your speed.
Oops. 8
not really… i prefer brunets and something about 8 seems strange to me
i like 9 more than 8
Further proving that everything the media thinks about “Hispanic” voter is likely wrong, parochial and ignorant.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jul/9/55-of-hispanic-voters-approve-citizenship-question/
Once again: 1) most/many of these people would not identify as “Hispanic” if not for govt/census meddling, 2) People of Latin American origin who have been in the US for several generations do not have interests that automatically align with new arrivals, 3) There is nothing inherently biased/racist about determining someone’s citizenship for the purposes of Congressional apportionment.
The whole thing is bullshit. If it’s just to count people, then why does it ask all these other questions?
https://www.censusquestions.com/us-census-form.html
“NOTE: Please answer BOTH Question 8 about Hispanic origin and Question 9 about race. For this census, Hispanis origins are not races.”
When I lived 90 miles from the border in TX, we had few illegals because the local Tejicanos despised them.
Not a monolithic mindless bloc.
Bro, do you even lift… up books of sociology written from a structuralist point of view?
No fue mi culpa
“In the last few weeks, the leading social media companies have doubled down on their strategy of deplatforming people and censoring content. Alt-right accounts are disappearing from Twitter, videos on controversial topics are being deleted from YouTube, and even some politically moderate YouTube streamers/content creators who didn’t violate the terms of service are being demonetized in an effort to drive them away. But deplatforming won’t work.
This claim needs clarification. Whether something “works” or not depends on what you’re trying to accomplish. If Twitter/YouTube/Facebook want to virtue signal by showing that they oppose controversial views (which could well be their true aim), then deplatforming controversial people will work. What I mean is that it won’t accomplish the noble goals that these companies say is motiving them: to prevent violence and the spread of socially destructive misinformation. If these are their goals then deplatforming will backfire—and already has backfired.
Advocates of deplatforming tend to think only one step ahead: Throw people with opinions you don’t like off mainstream social media and you won’t see them again—out of sight, out of mind. But the deplatformers should try thinking two, maybe even three, steps ahead: What will people do after they’re banned? How will their followers react? How will this be perceived by more or less neutral observers? With some forethought, it’s easy to see that banning people with supposedly “bad” or “wrong” views may not be the victory that deplatformers think it is.
Banning people from social media doesn’t make them change their minds. In fact, it makes them less likely to change their minds. It makes them more alienated from mainstream society, and, as noted, it drives them to create alternative communities where the views that got them banned are only reinforced.
Banning people for expressing controversial ideas also denies them the opportunity to be challenged. People with extremist or non-mainstream opinions are often written off as deranged monsters who could not possibly respond to rational argument. There are, of course, some neo-Nazis, Holocaust deniers, and the like, who conform to this cartoonish stereotype. With these people, reason and evidence go in one ear and come out the other. But not everyone outside the mainstream, and not everyone who falls for a misguided conspiracy theory, deserves to be written off. People do sometimes change their minds in response to reason. If they didn’t there would be no point in debating anything.”
https://quillette.com/2019/07/08/deplatforming-wont-work/
Although I hold the platforms responsible for their actions, a lot of the blame has to go to the ad agencies that are pushing the outlets to deplatform anyone who does not tow the SJW lion.
Ad agencies are notoriously leftist to begin with (I think 85% Democrat) and they determine how and where their money gets spent. If they said that they only cared about market penetration and not the risk of being tagged on association with an “alt-right” video, there would be some shifts in the platform behaviors.
This, when they silence those “problematic” voices, they just make their ideas and statements more exotic and give it that lovely “forbidden fruit” effect.
There’s the forbidden fruit effect. But, I think there’s something even more dangerous. The censors inevitably also target the thoughtful and reasonable people opposing the popular zeitgeist, as well. And silencing them actually empowers the extremists. When people start to see problems with the views pushed by the popular zeitgeist, there isn’t a thoughtful and reasonable position they can naturally turn to. So, the case of the actual extremists makes more sense.
If Charles Murray is a white supremacist, there’s no real difference between him and Richard Spencer and he should be censored in the minds of the banners. But, when the audience Murray is being banned from encounter evidence that there are IQ differentials between ethnic groups (that may be genetic or may be socio-cultural; that are overshadowed by IQ differentials within ethnic groups), they don’t wind up getting that evidence from a guy like Murray, who’ll spell out all the caveats. It’s a guy like Spencer who’ll be happy to pull them in.
MASS MURDER.
as the old Romanian saying goes, it is lucky stupidity in itself does not hurt…
The winning comment right here.
Ah, yes, I remember the bodies piling up in the streets prior to 2009.
The horror, the horror…
PSA for you Mosin Nagant owners.
SGAmmo has a limited supply of the 7.62x54R training ammo in stock. The stuff is great.
https://www.sgammo.com/product/surplus-ammo-sale/912-round-crate-762x54r-czech-surplus-46-grain-hollow-core-low-recoil-ammo
Thise are very rounded compared to the bullets I’m used to sending through the Mosin-Nagant.
Plus no one ships ammo to NY. 🙁
Sorry dude.
Indiana is not THAT far away!
Not true:
https://www.targetsportsusa.com/
Also, get your damn pistol permit so we can go Action Pistol shooting. It’s the most fun I’ve had with a handgun that didn’t involve having to deal with a body afterwards.
Archaeologists are, for the first time, discovering the probable origins of ancient Greece.
Excavations on a tiny island in the Aegean Sea – 125 miles southeast of Athens – are revealing the earliest truly monumental complex of buildings ever unearthed anywhere in the Greek world.
Dating back 4,600 years, the site may also have been part of the inspiration for a key aspect of Greek religion – the idea that mountain tops were the dwelling places of the gods.
The complex – on a mountain peak-shaped islet off the coast of the Aegean island of Keros (part of the Cyclades archipelago) – is totally changing archaeologists’ understanding of prehistoric Greece.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/ancient-greece-archaeology-keros-aegean-sea-bronze-age-dhaskalio-bible-pyramids-crete-milos-a8997666.html
They had a gift shop.
Neat.
Dating back 4,600 years, the site may also have been part of the inspiration for a key aspect of Greek religion – the idea that mountain tops were the dwelling places of the gods.
Yeah, okay. I’m gonna file this part in the “journalist writes bullshit based on a throwaway line from an archeologist” file.
“Intriguingly, it was built within 100 years or so of the creation of Stonehenge, the first Egyptian pyramids, the great cities of the Indus Valley and the first known Mesopotamian kingdoms.”
I’m not saying it’s aliens, but… it’s aliens.
I was not aware that Stonehenge, the first Egyptian pyramids, the great cities of the Indus Valley and the first known Mesopotamian kingdoms were so closely contemporaneous that you could say anything happened within 100 years of their creation.
Don’t you even history bro?
It’s almost like they dropped the extra zero in the significant digits.
Florida man!
Today, in everyone is literally Hitler
https://twitter.com/Halalcoholism/status/1148773860151459840
Winning comment:
“He should punch himself just to be on the safe side.”
“Trump fans adopted soccer star Kelley O’Hara as their hero. Then they watched this kiss.
Republican pundits eager to praise Women’s World Cup soccer star Kelley O’Hara received a rude awakening when cameras caught her smooching her girlfriend in the stands.
Following the big win by the American team at the World Cup Finals, O’Hara received praise for picking up an American flag which had accidentally fallen to the field.”
https://www.queerty.com/trump-fans-adopted-soccer-star-kelley-ohara-hero-watched-kiss-20190709
https://twitter.com/Queerty/status/1148764105043398656
Because Trump supporters hate hot girls kissing?
I’ll be in my bunk
WHAT? There are lesbians involved in women’s sports? When did this start happening?
I like how there’s no evidence whatsoever given in support of this narrative.
You don’t need to cite evidence when what you are saying is a known FACT.
Everyone knows Trump is a Republican and everyone knows the GOP is anti-gay. Why do you want to waste our time by asking for proof Rhys?
It’s about the clicks.
Yup, progjection as always.
“Trump fans adopted soccer star Kelley O’Hara as their hero. Then they watched this kiss.”
… and now consider her even more of a hero.
Republican pundits eager to praise Women’s World Cup soccer star Kelley O’Hara received a rude awakening when cameras caught her smooching her girlfriend in the stands.
Did any of the “Republican pundits” who were praising her complain about her smooching her gf?
No? So this is all in your head, isn’t it.
Much like people getting upset about a black Little Mermaid. These people live in a fantasy world
MUH NARRATIVE!
Gross National Happiness
Economic dignity would mean being able “to care for your family and enjoy the most meaningful moments of family life, without economic deprivation taking away those most meaningful moments,” Sperling said. It would mean being able “to pursue your potential and your purpose.” And finally, it would mean being able “to participate in the economy without domination and humiliation.”
By Sperling’s criteria, he said, America is failing on all three fronts. Even as the unemployment rate in the United States is hovering near a 50-year low, the country has no universal paid-family-leave requirement to ensure that new parents have time to spend with their infant children or to heal after birth. No law grants employees bereavement leave with which to mourn loved ones and begin to piece their lives back together in their absence. The federal minimum wage falls beneath the poverty line for families of two or more. Officially, about 13 million Americans—and likely more unofficially—have to work multiple jobs to make ends meet. The U.S. also fails to provide adequate support for people who have lost their jobs, Sperling said, and adequate resources with which to find new ones. Students are taking on crippling debt to go to college. In 2017, 12.3 percent of Americans were living in poverty.
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But Americans can fight for greater economic dignity, Sperling said, arguing that many already are: By unionizing; pushing for a higher minimum wage; lobbying for better leave, child-care, and health-care policies; and demanding action against workplace sexual misconduct, they’re working to claim more of what he put forward as the base necessities for all working people. Sperling argued that the government should be doing much more. “Government is responsible for making sure you have a degree of economic dignity,” he said, though he noted that policy makers shouldn’t start out “with a bias for exactly how it has to get done.” Policies to promote dignity could take a number of different forms, he said. The 2020 Democratic presidential candidates are debating a number of universal health-care plans. Expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit could help achieve what he feels is an essential “economic dignity wage,” he noted. So could a federal living wage, or, perhaps, a universal basic income. Child-care allowances, substantial periods of guaranteed family and bereavement leave, and barriers to harassment could be achieved in many different ways, he said.
Moar government.
The answer is always Moar Government.
What a giant steaming pile of bullshit. Move to Bhutan.
“to care for your family and enjoy the most meaningful moments of family life, without economic deprivation taking away those most meaningful moments,” – this is literally meaningless nonsense
High unemployment and welfare subsistence to replace long stressful days and family vacations. Nah, brah, thanks anyway. I’ll take my day job.
I had not really thought “economic dignity” was obtained by demanding more gimmes and handouts and relying on the government.
I am a loser and suck at this game of life, so I want the government boot on everyone’s neck, including my own, so others don’t show me up!
I won’t be truly happy until the Ministry of Plenty has increased the chocolate ration from 30 grams to 12.
https://www.engadget.com/2019/07/10/amazon-game-studios-lord-of-the-rings-mmo-leyou/
Huh. Interesting.
Hard pass.
Senate talking about arms sales. Cruz just said that there is no question that Iran is a bigger threat to the US than Saudi Arabia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emJYadS_2Vw
Please make this happen.
TW: It’s one of the Post’s new millennial stringers and therefore full of misleading “facts” and galloping goalposts.
I am bringing the popcorn…
USWNT players could earn roughly $260,000 in earnings for the World Cup win, including a victory tour, while the USMNT would get almost $1 million in the equivalent scenario.
Equivalent scenario. Hahaha.
Wait, the men’s team gets $1M if they beat a bunch of women’s national teams? Let me go find my cleats! Where do I sign up?
Viewership for the women’s final in the US beat out the ratings for the men’s final in 2018 between France and Croatia.
You don’t say.
In France, they had 19m viewers. Out of 66m people.
Women’s soccer is like a Special Olympics event. Any D3 men’s college team could beat them easily, but we pretend to care because, bless their hearts, they try real hard.
Theodore Dalrymple agrees.
LOL
Now, if women could play football as well as men, there would be no reason to have all-women’s teams and competitions. Women would have to compete on precisely the same terms as men, but we know that this would be absurd. If mixed teams were chosen purely on merit, there would not be a single female on them.
Not when the Title IX requirements and discrimination lawsuits began piling up. Equality will finally be achieved when lawyers and bureaucrats are responsible for fiddling with team rosters. Counsel will be on the sidelines of every game advising which starting lineups and substitutions aren’t discriminatory.
Keep going, idiots. If you were trying to kill women’s sports, you couldn’t do a better job.
Oh, I’m looking forward to the shrieks and wails when the trannies start demanding representation on the women’s teams.
You want woke? Okay, enjoy your woke.
The wokest all-trans women’s team beat out every other team for a perfect season. Again. Yay women!
It’s the world they want. Let ’em have it. Good and hard.
^^^^THIS^^^^
We can’t achieve equality until all women’s sports are composed of men pretending to be women.
There’s a simple solution to this whole matter – split the Federation and the leagues in two, a men’s federation and a women’s federation. Each can be a member of FIFA. They can negotiate their TV contracts separately. The women should be just jumping at that opportunity. Their stunning success wouldn’t have to subsidize their incompetent male counterparts. And they’d finally be able to negotiate their wages divorced from the sexism that prevails in the men’s league.
In short, are they willing to put their money where their mouth is?
The women should be just jumping at that opportunity.
They could ask their dads or husbands to negotiate.
split the Federation and the leagues in two, a men’s federation and a women’s federation.
You mean like tennis? Of course, you get the occasional female player bitching about equal pay in tennis, too.
I’m all for withholding funding for the World Cup no matter who is being paid what.
I knew it!
In America, the freedom of movement comes with an asterisk: the obligation to drive. This truism has been echoed by the U.S. Supreme Court, which has pronounced car ownership a “virtual necessity.” The Court’s pronouncement is telling. Yes, in a sense, America is car-dependent by choice—but it is also car-dependent by law.
As I detail in a forthcoming journal article, over the course of several generations lawmakers rewrote the rules of American life to conform to the interests of Big Oil, the auto barons, and the car-loving 1 percenters of the Roaring Twenties. They gave legal force to a mind-set—let’s call it automobile supremacy—that kills 40,000 Americans a year and seriously injures more than 4 million more. Include all those harmed by emissions and climate change, and the damage is even greater. As a teenager growing up in the shadow of Detroit, I had no reason to feel this was unjust, much less encouraged by law. It is both.
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Let’s begin at the state and local levels. A key player in the story of automobile supremacy is single-family-only zoning, a shadow segregation regime that is now justifiably on the defensive for outlawing duplexes and apartments in huge swaths of the country. Through these and other land-use restrictions—laws that separate residential and commercial areas or require needlessly large yards—zoning rules scatter Americans across distances and highway-like roads that are impractical or dangerous to traverse on foot. The resulting densities are also too low to sustain high-frequency public transit.
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As a matter of law, the operating-speed method is exceptional. It enables those who violate the law—speeding motorists—to rewrite it: Speed limits ratchet higher until no more than 15 percent of motorists violate them. The perverse incentives are obvious. Imagine a rule saying that, once 15 percent of Americans acquired an illegal type of machine gun, that weapon would automatically become legal. Other legislation amplifies the harm from this method. In California, for example, cities are sometimes obligated by law to raise speed limits against their will, and local governments are barred from lowering them even for safety reasons. This occurs against a backdrop of radical under-enforcement of the speed limit nationally, and the widespread banning of proven but unpopular lifesaving technologies such as automated speed cameras.
It was all a plot by Big Internal Combustion.
Fuck, dude. Seek professional help.
You know your derp
Keep on lifting
Higher
Higher and higher
it is also car-dependent by law
I am unaware of even a single law requiring travel by automobile.
I do.
The Law of Awesome!
That’s a pretty direct application of the “Anything which isn’t forbidden is mandatory” mentality. Car ownership isn’t forbidden, therefore it’s mandatory. So let’s forbid it.
Adam Conover makes this same argument. It’s not really logic based, it’s about other people not sharing their public transportation fetishes.
Turns out Mr. Let’s-live-cheek-to-jowl is a law professor in…. Iowa.
“America is car-dependent by choice—but it is also car-dependent by law.”
What even in the fuck? Sure, it’s choice because everyone can walk 50 miles to work and back every day if they have to. And by law, because everyone is forced to own a car? What even in the fuck? Did Gulag Barbie write that?
It’s car-dependent by law because we don’t have laws making it prohibitively expensive to drive a car. QED.
Sounds like the lefty logic of ‘If it’s not prohibited then it’s mandatory’ for sure.
full of misleading “facts” and galloping goalposts.
Galloping Goalposts, Batman!
Check out the right-wing knuckle draggers who are charging people who burn the flag with a “hate crime”
https://newstarget.com/2019-06-20-man-charged-with-hate-crime-for-burning-pride-flag.html
https://abcnews.go.com/US/utah-high-school-football-players-trouble-burning-pride/story?id=63784276
That first link’s broken website is a hate crime.
It works for me.
https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2019/07/09/harlem-gay-pride-flags-burned-arrest/
Try this one
It’s a nationwide epidemic!
No. It just shows once again that Liberalism is a myth and no one should be obliged to abide by its rules that are always, always hypocritically applied.
If people want to ban burning the American flag, I’ll shrug at this point
SInce hate crimes are supposed to be motivated by someone’s membership in a protected class, and national origin and sexual orientation are both protected classes, why isn’t burning an American flag just as much a hate crime as burning a gay pride flag?
Seems like either both are hate crimes, or neither is.
You live under a theocracy, but none dare call it that
It’s like abortion/murder: if the mother didn’t want the unborn baby killed, it’s murder to cause its death; if she did want the unborn baby killed, it’s not any sort of crime. It’s sort of like Schrödinger’s legal system.
The United States is not a nation but rather an oppressive, racist empire. Nations are benighted little places that are allowed to have borders and national pride.
Utah high school football players could be in trouble for
burning pride flagexercising free speech in videoBecause it’s been well-established that flag burning is free speech.
LOL
There are multiple examples of people being prosecuted for burning a pride flag from Iowa to Utah to now New York. Keep pretending like you have free speech rights. Maybe a baker can show you how much free speech rights matter
Oh, I know, but the courts have already held that burning an American flag is protected speech.
Burning THAT FLAG is protected speech. Burning the ones the left loves however, is a hate crime.
Uh, I’m pretty sure stealing someone else’s American flag and burning it (as the guy in the first link did to the business’s pride flag) is still illegal. Maybe not treated as a hate crime, and maybe that’s a double standard, since “American” is a nationality, but it’s not as bad of a double standard as you’re making out.
You obviously didn’t read the other links where they burned their own flags. If it makes you feel better, sure just pretend like this is different
Down the BaT rabbit hole we go.
WANT!
Whoa. That’s pretty cool, but it’s gonna go for a ton.
Here’s my current fave.
Chick. Magnet.
I have not and will not tell Mrs. Dean about that website. I don’t want to work until I’m 90 paying for cars, no matter how awesome.
Mandatory
I’ll have one of these before I die.
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1975-ford-bronco-6/
That website was created by Satan to keep me down.
That looks a lot like the 1980-something Le Car that my high school buddy’s mom owned.
That’s quite a “sunroof?”
they could have just given the owner an umbrella to stick through the roof and open up when needed.
A freind’s older sister had a Le Car. He called it “Le Shit” because it was always busted.
This Alfa is more my style.