ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. THE OLD GRAVITRONIC COILS WERE SLOW TO WARM THIS MORNING. SOMEONE (ZED) FORGOT TO LEAVE THEM ATTACHED TO THE HEATER. HE WILL BE FORGIVEN…THIS TIME.
THAT IS OF NO CONCERN TO THE CHOSEN ONES, THEY SEEK THE LINKS!
- PURGE…GOOD START, NEED TO MAKE THAT “CLEANSE“. THE BRUTALS NEED TO STEP UP THEIR BRUTALITY GAME.
- JUST ANOTHER SUNDAY IN CHICAGO. ZARDOZ IS PLEASED.
- QUIT? WHATEVER HAPPENED TO DUELING? ZARDOZ IS NOT PLEASED.
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
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WHATEVER HAPPENED TO DUELING?
Ask Alexander Hamilton.
Mr. Hamilton. He dead.
We duel at dawn. *readies water pistol
QUIT? WHATEVER HAPPENED TO DUELING? ZARDOZ IS NOT PLEASED. – they should name the new party Labor
It’s called the “Independent Group” and they are anti-Brexit. *Mind Blown*
Independent [of voters] Group?
In fairness, the article did actually have some journalism in it and showed the Brexit returns for the constituencies these folks represent, and all their constituencies did vote remain. There are plenty of British pols going against their constituencies on Brexit, but not these seven.
You… read……. the article?
*looks around sheepishly*
No?
Hmmm…. how about the “ZARDOZ Party”?
“Fookin’ splitters”
“Fookin’ cleansers!”
Chuka Umunna?
Lol. A great name for a politician.
“Tak Umunna” would be even better.
Mike Gapes is even better
That first name is just begging for a racist joke.
*narrows gaze*
*plugs in the heater for the banhammer*
I blame my time in the 90’s living in the inner city. We’d screw around like that all the time and we were what the kids call a diverse crowd.
So you all had exactly the same opinions about everything?
Shit. Did I just do the “I have a black friend” thing? Meh. Should be legit defense anyways.
Chaka?
When the walls fell?
I think Chaka is more monkey-boy in dinosaur-land.
He’s running against George Sleestak!
In all those stories of the Chicago shootings, someone is just standing there and someone else just falls out of the sky and starts shooting them. I’m thinking some of the victims may not be telling the truth.
Flying Nigerians?
MAGA Hats…with wings?
Speaking of Chicago shootings.. Are the grievance peddlers going to off Smollets now that his stupid MAGA attack story has been proven to be fake?
I had a conversation with some porggie asshat this weekend that told me again that this, while fake, makes us have the conversation, get really angry when I pointed out that the conversation we needed was why without manufacturing these hate crimes leftists would be left with nothing to back their bullshit. He was mad I wouldn’t side with the victim until the evidence was provided. I pointed out that the victims here were Trump & Trump supporters and anyone too stupid to see through the left’s posturing, double standards, and constant SJW lies. Dude almost cried. Especially when I told him I was gonna call him pajama-boy from now on.
Sounds like fun. Where do you find these people? I never have conversations with prog types
about progressive talking points, and I live in prog central. Maybe I just look like the kind of guy that they
don’t want to do that with.
I live in “The People’s Republic of Connecticut” and these people are all over and unavoidable unless you want to become a hermit. Worst is that they are smug and think everyone is like them because they live in a commie shithole.
Well the Gadsden flag t shirt is probably a tell.
I used to have proggie acquaintances, but most of them have purged me from their social lives because I dared to express opinions that offended their delicate sensibilities. In that process I have heard all of their normal tropes and bad or non-existent reasoning. They were all self-parody. But it is still fascinating to meet them in the wild.
My proggie relatives avoid me because I just make fun of them and destroy their talking points with facts & logic. They only talk their trash when I am not around to call them idiots for believing what they do. They always tell me they want to avoid political conversations so we can have peace, but then without exception, end up going there. And I then immediately take their stupid down. I think that is what pisses them off: when they do their circle jerk they feel smart and right, but then, when I am around, I expose their stupid shit.
It’s just like religious fundies that can’t help themselves – after all, they are trying to save your immortal soul.
Oh, I am sure they think I am a heretic for not sopping up the proggie idiocy like they have. Their identity is invested in these beliefs. There is no room for them to admit they were had and to stop peddling their shit without admitting they are morons for believing this shit. It is religious fanaticism.
“He was mad I wouldn’t side with the victim until the evidence was provided.”
So much for innocent until proven guilty. Same with this #metoo shit. Love how the left are now openly anti-due process.
Oh, I pointed out that the left certainly didn’t feel that way with Kavanaugh, where his great retort was that Kavanaugh was the perp, and that lying woman was the victim. So I guess they are consistent about being pro the victim, but only as long as the victim is one of their special people.
I’m trying to come up with a “Special Victims unit” joke but I haven’t had my coffee yet.
I could go really dark with something about a Special Ed Teacher’s “Special victim unit,” but I have standards. Granted, tehy’re not very high, but they are standards!
Standards that few people trip on are the best standards
We need to have a conversation, Alex.
Heh. Any time man.
Funny how their idea of a “conversation” is my idea of endless, godawful sermonizing.
Just like “bipartisanship” has meant the democrats get their way no matter what, since that word became the shield they hid behind when the other side had power…
It’s always one way and the ratchet always turns just in their favor. It still makes me laugh how much their loss during the lost election threw a monkey wrench into all they were working on.
Smollet is done. Even GMA has started lining up their defense for being so wrong on the story.
But the big tell this morning was when Dan Abrams said without a hint of irony or self-awareness:
“You want to believe someone, you’re talking about an allegation of homophobia, racism, politics… all of it in one allegation.”
In other words, it fit our confirmation biases perfectly.
Well, you do have to understand why they would be triggered when they’ve filed the sear down that much.
You actually doubted that was precisely the reason that these dnc propagandist pounced on the story and couldn’t wait to go after the deplorables and their guy? The only regret that they have is that they don’t control all sources of news so they could keep telling this lie or spin it to favor the narrative again. They are fucking scum.
Ok Tell him is it justified to fake a rape, have an innocent person have their life ruined or go to prison just to have a conversation about rape?
These people are seriously dysfunctional in the head.
This shit happens more frequently than people would admit.
Porggie asshats are the bess kind of asshats.
Porrgie Tirebiter
He’s a spy and a girl delighter
Porrgie firefighter
He’s a student like you.
That typo amused me, as it made me visualize Alex having it out with one of these.
Shit, the asshat that I had to deal with is no where that sane looking.
Asshat… you is my woman now, you is.
He’s not alone.
Most of the media seems to be headed in that direction.
On particularly nice take mentioned here last night was “the fact that everyone recognizes the MAGA hat as a racist symbol”.. bla, bla, bla…
They are not relinquishing this hill. Thinking back, they never have. The number of fakes on this front is pretty large, and I can’t remember them ever making a big story out of that angle.
Think all the way back to Twanna Brawley. Everyone reacted in horror – then Al Sharpton claimed it was five police officers.
And a reasonable segment of society said, “Hmmmm… a conspiracy of five cops to kidnap, hold, sexually assault and then release a teenage girl with racist stuff written in dog poop on her body?” Uhm…. Ok….
And then Sharpton said the DA and Lieutenant Governor were there…… Aaaaaand, I’m out. But the media kept reporting it as “new revelations” about the case. And didn’t go into “Sharpton seems to be manufacturing bigger lies by the second” mode, like any sane person would. And I got my lesson on the dangers of cognitive bias the next day at work. I was just out of college and working in a lab of mostly women who were mostly black. One other dude my age worked there, and we were talking about the case – and had come to the same conclusion independently. It just didn’t pass the giggle test. Well, our supervisor overheard us and was outraged…. because we were such racists. Now, she had met my then girlfriend, later wife, who was black. So she should have known better. But the desire to have the narrative was so strong that even a claim as stupid as a ring of high-ranking politicians and state police kidnapping homely minority teenage girls (and then releasing them!) could not shake it. So they saw racism everywhere.
Every time an event like this comes up, their internal narrative won’t let them see reality. Yesterday Slate had an article doubling down on the “hate crime attack epidemic” angle (I can’t find it this morning. But they do have 4, yes Four!, articles about Trump responding to Alec Baldwin’s SNL sketch mocking him). The money quote for me was “every single terror attack in the US since 9/11 has been carried out by right-wing extremists”. Now, presumably they have editors over there, so that means that at least two people are that amazingly ignorant.
But such is the power of cognitive bias. Somehow your brain simply edits out information that contradicts your deeply held beliefs.
Does the FBI count as Right Wing Extremists here? Cause if they do this might actually be a true statement
The money quote for me was “every single terror attack in the US since 9/11 has been carried out by right-wing extremists”
Jeebus, the way they slobbered over Boston Strong and Tsarnaev, you’d think that wouldn’t have been memory-holed yet.
Uh…. Republican Senate baseball team?
San Bernardino.
Pulse.
I guess everyone has moved on, but the Pulse night club shooting is exactly what I’m talking about.
The narrative was set. It was a right-wing fascist Trump supporter who killed gay people because he suffered from severe homophobia due to his own repressed sexual desires.
Except not one syllable of that was true. It was a Muslim extremist who shot up a gay club accidentally – evidence was that he didn’t even realize it was a gay club. He just wanted to kill some ‘Mercans and get his 42 virgins.
No word on “workplace violence” incidents, I suppose.
It’s brainwashing, or at least the closest thing to it you’re likely to encounter outside of North Korea. It’s just like you say, on a subconscious level the mind just glosses over anything that doesn’t fit the narrative. I think part of the effectiveness is that Trump or racists or wrongthinkers or the 1% give people a socially-acceptable target for their biases and hatreds. You can look at a guy in a MAGA hat and feel superior as you call him a racist bigot who should be purged, and you’ll be praised for it. You get positive social feedback for engaging in the behavior you’re accusing people of engaging in because you’re doing it in a socially-acceptable way. At the risk of belaboring a tired comparison, this is how Jews get thrown in ovens by people who think they’re doing the right thing.
Donald J. Trump
Verified account
@realDonaldTrump
50m50 minutes ago
Wow, so many lies by now disgraced acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe. He was fired for lying, and now his story gets even more deranged. He and Rod Rosenstein, who was hired by Jeff Sessions (another beauty), look like they were planning a very illegal act, and got caught…..
….There is a lot of explaining to do to the millions of people who had just elected a president who they really like and who has done a great job for them with the Military, Vets, Economy and so much more. This was the illegal and treasonous “insurance policy” in full action!
7:29 AM – 18 Feb 2019
Hey man, t-the 25th Amendment was totally made so we could take out people we think were unfit for office, man. /McCabe and all those on board
He’s not wrong about a lot of that. McCabe has been making the rounds on TV basically admitting they were at least discussing a coup.
And people still defend this, because they feel the coup would have helped them deal with the negative feelings they have, because the criminal they were rooting for (cause they were told that was the candidate of the shmart people) managed to lose an election they had completely rigged in her favor, and would let them better cope with the fact that they are fucking idiots for believing the shit they do.
Whenever some asshat, but especially these weaponized Obama government stooges, today, after we all know the whole Russian collusion story was a made up hoax to cover the criminal activity of the Obama administration, still tries to act as if there is a real issue here and that Trump is the bad guy, we the people should be allowed to immediately accuse them of being part of the criminal activity, and investigate them.
When the story about McCabe saying he would wear a wire to his meetings with Trump came out, I think he denied it and/or said if did say that, he was being sarcastic/joking.
And now he apparently admits he did so more than once. Meaning he lied when it first came out.
Catch me if you can or want.
Nothing will happen to these rats.
That’s what I fear Rufus. And when people can basically get away with criminal activity like this, what we will get is a lot more of it.
Short of execution, what can you do? The next party member that wins the beauty contest will just pardon them.
It’s easier when the mask is off.
Not for us deplorables. it won’t be…
I think Rosenstein ‘joked’ about wearing the wire.
He and Rod Rosenstein, who was hired by Jeff Sessions (another beauty)
Did he just shit all over Sessions? Trump keeps rising in my book. I’m sure he’ll cancel it out with something else later today.
In a story that has a bunch of exclamation mark headline information, none of which is being picked up by the media, the second biggest after the admitted discussion of a coup attempt was his claim that the reason they initiated the counter-intelligence investigation of the President was that Trump moved to fire Comey. Get your head wrapped around that. They had been spying on Trump and his campaign for a year at that point, and had a full investigation centered on “get Trump” underway from the moment he took office. But potential “obstruction of justice” by a “Russian Operative” was the justification for a “counter-intelligence investigation” into Trump.
The interviewer’s response to that wasn’t “What the hell are you talking about? You had been investigating Trump for a good year at that point!” It was “are you saying that Trump was acting on orders from Putin?” or some such nonsense.
The historians really are going to have a field day with this episode.
ZH Trigger warning.
French Schools Replace “Mother” And “Father” With “Parent 1” And “Parent 2”
“This amendment aims to root in law children’s family diversity in administrative forms submitted in school,” said REM minister Valérie Petit.
“We have families who find themselves faced with tick boxes stuck in rather old-fashioned social and family models. For us, this article is a measurement of social equality.”
Ahem – what about Parent 3 or Parent 4 or Parent 5…. to infinity and beyond. Binary thinking! Sad.
Sounds like a major database redesign project. No wonder government came up with this “solution”.
and the funny thing is that you do not even need to postulate some kind of alternative polyamorous household to get this.
Mom and Dad are not together and have both moved on and remarried however custody is shared and the situation has go on long enough for each of the spouses to have legitimately become another parent of the child. That’s 1 kid 4 parents
That was my buddy. Parents divorced and each remarried. All four were active parents, so he had great fun in those situations handing the paper back to the powers that be.
“I need more lines.”
Yeah, but absent a truly extraordinary situation, only one (his biological mother) or maybe 2 (his biological father, if he retained rights after the divorce, or his stepfather, if his biological father didn’t retain rights and his stepfather adopted him) would have parental rights.
“I am not a number! I’m a free man!”
HAHAHAHA!
/The new Number 2
Well, Straffin, then what’s your solution to accommodate children of same-sex couples?
TBH, I don’t mind it so much. Just seems a little dismissive of the one who is called “number 2”.
Srsly? That’s weak.
Someone is always going to be listed first, whether that field is named “Father,” “Parent 1” or “Parent A.”
I get your point, Tonio. They gotta put them in some order.
And in the database those fields are probably going to have distinct names, unless they go with a whole separate tables of parents and guardians.
Also, children being raised by grandparents, which is fairly common.
My point in posting that is why not go with “Mother” “Mother” or “Father” “Father”? I’m not against same sex couples raising children. Eliminating gender in favor of numbers is what I found curious.
“Why do that when we can just add another column”
(apparently the thought process of most of the people whose databases
I have to work on)
“I’m not against same sex couples raising children.”
Sure, whatevs.
Yet you circle back to the dogged insistence that those fields be labelled “Mother” and “Father.” Perhaps someone like me doesn’t want to be labelled a “mother” if I adopt a child. Wouldn’t that be the redefinition of words that gets the socons so butt-hurt.
And, again, you don’t address the common situation of children being raised by grandparents, etc.
GuardianA, GuardianB, etc.
I didn’t see that you mentioned that below. I’ve already said that I get your point. I don’t think you’re giving me the same benefit of the doubt.
You have to go with a separate table. Denormalizing parents would be stupid.
(sore point, because even in this day and age I keep running in to people who want to put things like address and phone all in one table. I worked in a sales oriented company where keeping track of customers was really, really important. So we not only kept multiple addresses in a secondary table, we kept every address we ever had for them with date fields for created and inactivated (with a reason field) – so we could skiptrace if need be, and so we’d know if we paid for a new address and we already had that address marked as a bad address. Anyway, we had a shakeup that saw me moved (briefly) under the CFO. He hired in his own director of development and moved me (briefly) to the side. I happened upon a meeting where the new guy and his team were planning a redesign of the database, moving the phone number and address into the “customer” record. This guy and the people he hired were two levels too dumb to work for me… So I sat quietly listening and finally asked a simple question: “How are you going to handle someone who has multiple home addresses? ”
What?
“Yeah, we have lots of customers that have seasonal homes. Where are you keeping track of that?”
Uh….
“And how are you going to know that we already confirmed that a customer doesn’t live at an address when we pay for an update to people we’ve lost track of?”
What is that?
“Yeah…. we buy addresses every month. That’s what that big ETL process is for. We pay about 20 grand every month for multiple sources to update address on customers. You didn’t know that?”
Uh…..
“Yeah, maybe don’t redesign the database before you find out what the business requirements are, ok?”
And then after you try to help them with their database design,
they walk you off the project for not being a team player.
“Let’s figure out what the business requirements are
before we design the database.”
“You’re being mean to the project lead and the team
members”
Bah.
Sounds like a pretty crappy deal to be quite honest.
It will certainly flush out the conservatives.
Easily solved:
Parent A and Parent 1.
Arbitrary identifiers: Parent Chartreuse and Parent Platypus.
“I don’t want to be Mr. Pink”
The Duke of New York is A#1!
I suppose you could just have a section “parents” with however many lines your brand of crazy
thinks is required.
“Please attach additional forms if necessary”
Guardians, NW. There are plenty of children in foster care, being raised by grandparents, etc.
I’ll report to the nearest camp forthwith.
What about non-guardians with power of attorney, huh? Why are you leaving them out?
(I kid, of course, but the latter was actually my situation for most of high school.)
“I’ll report to the nearest camp forthwith.”
Charming.
I suspect I know who you are, and what “NW” stands for. Keep trolling.
Seems unlikely, since I’m nobody. I can’t tell if you’re serious, but
I wasn’t trolling, I was joking about the language police. If you
want to change the forms on something like this from “Mother”
and “Father”, it seems like you might as well go all the way
and just have a list of “responsible parties”, which is what the
school needs anyway. I’d probably in that case just have a section
with “name” and “relationship”. The parties can self-identify
then, and it should cover all the cases.
I am really curious though as to who you think I am and what you think “NW”
stands for.
FWIW, I know the guy personally. Not a troll.
Seems unlikely, since I’m nobody.
You the killer man.
My apologies. Thanks.
No need to have an A or B, really, unless you intend to demote one parent.
I think “Owner” would work.
Top Daddy/Bottom Daddy
Man Mommy/Mommy Who Cries A Lot
Grandma/Guy Who Steals From Grandma
Daddy/Daddy’s AA Sponsor/The Police
Legal Guardian/Colombian Au Pair
You are a poet laureate sir!
Cool, now we can have number one day and number two day! (Actual, number two day sounds like a shitty day)
There are languages that more or less do that. Russian IIRC. The days don’t really
have names, just “First day”, “Second day”, etc.
This is related to the parents thing, how, exactly?
Mothers day, fathers day replaced by number one day, number two day.
Ah, well, I mis-understood. Though I figured topic drift wasn’t unreasonable
to expect.
Um, no?
Dr. Seuss was just ahead of his time with Thing 1 and Thing 2.
I have been in cases where we have a flow chart of parents. . . since there might be 2-3 dads or more in some family situations.
Interesting, I always thought there was a 1 to 1 biological context. [grinning]
Honest question. How do you get three dads?
One biological, two adoptive step-fathers, is my guess. I assume
it’s possible to adopt without another parent losing parental rights,
or all of them anyway. Even without direct parental rights,
someone may have a right of inheritance if the child dies.
My oldest daughter has a younger sister.
Her younger sister considers me as a dad, her current step dad as a dad and her biological father (who passed away) as a dad.
Didn’t see that. Sometimes I’ll call an old guy “father” to get his attention when he drops something. They don’t mind.
And then there’s WebDom, whom I inherited from one of SP’s previous marriages. Not formally adopted, but everyone assumes she’s mine, given her sense of humor and general snarky attitude.
Lots of alcohol followed by a night of bad judgements and willingness to try something out.
Jerry Springer can sort it out.
JERRY! JERRY! JERRY!
“Good morning parental unit 1, can we consume mass quantities now”. Europe is fucked in the head.
What a nothing-burger. Every official school-related document I recall from three decades ago said “parent or guardian”. I don’t think anyone forced them to do it, either.
This is France, though. The France that has laws against overt displays of religious symbols as part of its school dress code.
Yeah, there oughtta not be a law. Maybe then sensible solutions would emerge, instead of ridiculous “national conversations”.
Karl Marx’s grave desecrated by fascists
It’s a giant stone head kind of Monday
Or maybe even a Stoned Head kinda Monday.
have the perpetrators been identified as fascists?
Well if they are anti-marxist they must be pro-facist, duh.
/The modern left/MSM
This site to which LH linked is WSWS – World Socialist Web Site. They see fascists everywhere.
It’s a dialectical thing – the world being divided into right-thinking socialists, and fascists.
This. Hegel is an overrated imbecile.
I’m sure they were wearing MAGA hats.
Karl Marx’s grave desecrated by fascists
Clearly fascists, because only fascists would disagree with Marx’ political philosophy.
Marx’ grave should, at most, be a communal open latrine.
I like my bathrooms to not be infected with mental diseases that drop people’s IQ and exacerbate their envy towards others.
Well, there goes my illurinati idea.
The golden shower of enlightenment?
Rebury him at sea like bin laden so his gravesite can’t be a focal point.
Socialists denouncing acts of vandalism. That’s rich.
“Karl Marx’s grave desecrated by fascists”
Marxists v. Fascists v. Socialists v. Communism v. Western Progressives.
Retard fight!
I’d sooooo want to see that in a debate. I’d pay.
Cripple fights make me feel bad..
They would agree on nearly everything except who gets to wear the jackboots.
So one group of leftists vandalizes another brand of leftist’s memorial? Or are the perps not actual fascists?
How can they have plenty of acid lying around to throw in women’s faces, but not enough to do real damage to that rock?
Yo, Kristen:
Good luck with the Colorado move.
Missed the evening links yesterday but there is a commercial product called “Pill Pockets” which I’ve had good luck with for pilling my critters. It’s a meat-flavored doughy product which comes formed into little open pouches into which one can slip a pill or capsule.
I hope you guys are talking about something for your pets….
/joking
“THE OLD GRAVITRONIC COILS WERE SLOW TO WARM THIS MORNING.”
Did you check the thermostat ?
“Have you switched off and back on?”
Is it plugged in?
How Democrats can woo disaffected conservatives — without sacrificing their principles
“There are three obvious places to wage this battle for the soul of libertarianism. First, Democrats should unapologetically fight against government interference in Americans’ private lives. On issues such as reproductive rights, freedom of the press and LGBTQ rights, there is common ground to be found.”
How are they going to do this since their entire platform is predicated on government picking winners & losers in all things, including these?
Shorter version, Democrats should selectively support controversial lefty libertarian policies that many libertarians contest or outright reject.
Hate to break it to you dood but most of the reason staff probably already votes Team Blue.
Ah, yes, the obligatory “Why Libertarians Should Vote Democrat” article one sees at the beginning of every election cycle. LOL.
A lot of people can’t seem to adjust to the politics that actually exist, preferring to work with the ones in their heads.
The main roadblocks to libertarianism in the Republican Party are: the socons, the warmongers, and the law and order types. There’s a lot of overlap between these, but let’s just look at their current situations.
The Socons are, at this moment, completely engaged in a rearguard action. Their current issue that they are fighting, and losing on, is “The State should not force us to bake cakes.” We’re not talking mandatory prayer in schools or anything. The current Dem Senate leadership thinks that “being Catholic” means you shouldn’t be a federal judge because you have morals in opposition to Leftist dogma. You could argue that in the 80s the SoCons were the Empire, right now they are very much the rebels.
The warmongers are dealing with a Republican President who’s ordered, albeit in a very “chase the shiny object” way, the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan and Syria. The Democrats, when it comes to war and peace, are allowed to constantly run on their propaganda and not their actual record. They have always been in favor of war, ever since Wilson was in office. They’ve consistently voted for it when called to, and they always support it when their guy is POTUS. Their cries of peace only come when they can hang an unpopular war on a Republican President. If you ask the average prog, Nixon started the Vietnam War, and every Democrat voted against the Iraq War, and Obama only ever bombed baddies.
Law and Order Types are as strong as ever, with the new moral panics of opiods and fenatyl. Depending on who ends up with the 2020 Dem nomination, there might be some separation here. But if it’s Kamala Harris, who is an ex-prosecutor with all the evil that that entails, vs Donald Trump who signed a Rand Paul authored criminal justice reform into law, I know who’s better there. Neither party is ending the WOD anytime soon. GOP for actual policy reasons, Dems because it produces a ton of government workers who can be unionized and skimmed from, plus breaking the shit out of poor communities who then can be turned into dependent voting blocs.
*reads comment, mulls it over… adds whisky to coffee*
Ya know the Democrats could still strongly support and champion those three issues above (ahem – the Green Deal kind of blows a hole into the fiscal responsibility thing) and I would still hate their guts. And btw – not all “libertarians” support reproductive rights, UBI, and etc.
I support whatever rights you want for yourself as long as:
1. You pay for all of it yourself.
2. You don’t demand I give you any kind of free shit.
3. You deal with the consequences of they things you want.
4. You hurt nobody.
Fascist!
Democrats should unapologetically fight against government interference in Americans’ private lives.
If only Democrats actually believed in not interfering in peoples private lives.
On issues such as reproductive rights, freedom of the press and LGBTQ rights, there is common ground to be found.
Only if you believe in infanticide, suppressing speech because “hate-speech” and forcing people to associate and labor against their will.
Second, Democrats should trumpet their record of fiscal prudence.
LOL!
“If only Democrats actually believed in not interfering in peoples private lives.”
Social Justice is about preventing the more capable/hard working from getting ahead while stealing their shit to give it to those that don’t do as well. You can’t pretend you will not interfere when your entire raison de etre is to rig a system that picks winners & losers to provide power to the elite over every detail of people’s lives.
I still remember the 80s and 90s when we were constantly warned that the social conservatives wanted to take away our privacy and freedoms. The only people that have actually done anything to fuck over my freedoms have been SJWs and their recent movements to make stupid & envious people believe that the problem is that people like me are agents of evil (and not them).
The biggest example of that farce laughed at by us during that time wasn’t even performed by social conservatives but Tipper Gore. I’m pretty sure was a Democrat.
I recall the TSA and Homeland Security being cheerled by conservatives. It ain’t just leftists trying to stomp out freedom.
I suspect a libertarian interpretation of reproductive rights, freedom of the press and LGBTQ rights would not closely align with the author’s interpretation, since in the next ‘graph he assumes libertarians would be on board with soaking the rich. Also that libertarians are dumb enough to believe that Clinton balanced the budget or that Obama did anything other than increase the federal debt eight years running. Ending subsidies, yes, but not just for agriculture: solar, wind , etc.; that is, all the leftist pet boondoggles.
Didn’t Friedman later recant on UBI? Embarassing to admit I haven’t read much of Milt.
Friedman’s support of UBI was in the context of dropping every other form of welfare. Basically, it’s not politically feasible to have no welfare, but having only UBI is cheaper and less intrusive than the market distortions we have now
“Increase the dole, Praetor Urbanus!!!”
Tell them “we will totally be friends and invite you to the parties after you vote for our candidate”.
Then two weeks latter when you see them at the grocery store, point and laugh like Nelson because they believed you again.
First, Democrats should unapologetically fight against government interference in Americans’ private lives.
So is there a split coming in the Democrat party a la UK Labor?
“…Obama successfully shrank the deficit after the Great Recession faded (the debt had increased 74 percent during the crisis)…”
So, Obama shot the deficit through the roof, and then spent a little less than the through-the-roof figures after that.
Well done sir…
ANOTHER DRUG CRISIS!
Biden tells Europeans in Munich that America is ‘an embarrassment’
Speaking on German soil 75 years after the U.S. and its allies prepared for D-Day, Joe Biden described America as “an embarrassment” and its trade policies “self-defeating.”
“The America I see values basic human decency, not snatching children from their parents or turning our back on refugees at our border. Americans know that’s not right,” the former vice president and potential 2020 Democratic presidential candidate told the Munich Security Conference. “The American people understand plainly that this makes us an embarrassment. The American people know, overwhelmingly, that it is not right. That it is not who we are.”
Biden, 76, speaking at the annual gathering of foreign policy leaders, didn’t mention Trump by name. But, despite a longstanding tradition of politics “stopping at the water’s edge” and refraining from criticizing a commander-in-chief while on foreign soil, Biden took the opportunity to blast him, even veering into criticism of domestic policy as he launched into what sounded like a stump speech…
Biden said: “While I cannot speak today as an elected government official who is able to set policy, I can speak as a citizen. I can offer insight into my country. I know we’ve heard a lot today about leadership, but in my experience, leadership only exists if somebody — and others — are with you. Leadership in the absence of people who are with you is not leadership.”
Sure, Joe.
He is just following in Obama’s & Clinton’s footsteps.
Zero honor.
Unbelievable.
Hillary, Kerry, Obama, Biden. A loathsome quarter of losers.
Michelle told the world she was never proud of her country and then her husband went on to win two elections. It is a winning line for them.
Out of all the stupid things that came out of their mouths hers was the most telling and despicable.
Grope any of the Mädchen while you were there, Joe?
“…not snatching children from their parents…”
I don’t remember his concern when he was VP and this same thing was happening.
The site is boned for me on chrome mobile. Just a FYI. Comments either run off page or the font is very small. Don’t have desktop version ticked.
Get some bigger glasses, mole man!
Fwiw, on mobile Firefox theres an ability to zoom the page without actually adjusting the view frame and I haven’t quite figured out how it works. I was going to try to standardize the comments using Monocle so that they didn’t run off the page, but had no luck on my first attempt.
Wouldn’t be surprised if mobile chrome has something similar that fucks with WordPress.
TW: The Guardian (of Derp)
Florida is drowning. Condos are still being built. Can’t humans see the writing on the wall?
Is it about to tip over?
That’s dumb. It’s a peninsula not an island. We would need to move everyone over to the East Coast to flip the continent.
Major newspapers used to not publish the rantings of doomsday cultists.
This person is flying in an airliner and concerned about climate change. Makes sense.
Can’t he see the writing on the wall?
SAVE THE MANATEE!
“Cow of the Sea”, “The Ocean’s Hamburger”.
Just make sure you drain the fat after cooking.
Sea stroganoff?
I thought that was a way to point out the chick was not as big as a whale, but still scary fat?
Hm… I wonder who might be perpetuating such a culture? The insurance companies with their access to actuarial tables and decades of flood data, hmmmm?
Why indeed? It’s almost like nobody really believes these forecasts are accurate. I wonder why?
LOL
Now, this is the way to do it!
Down the memory hole you go. No hard feelings! ::steps on fingers::
BELIEVE THE VICTIM YOU SHITLORD!
Uffda. By deleting it aren’t you tacitly admitting that you only cared about the attack for political reasons?
A person who really cared about the issue would have tweeted something like “I’m so pissed at this guy for lying about something this important. I believed him and I’m so mad”
Why would she want to be inconsistent with the rest of her life?
LOL! Trying to demonize Alabama and completely ignoring the long list of other states that don’t even observe President’s day:
https://www.al.com/news/2019/02/presidents-day-2019-alabama-omits-civil-war-leader-abraham-lincoln-from-presidents-day-holiday.html
Reflections of a Jamaican Father By
Donald J. Harris
‘Er, dad! What are you doing?!’
Show us on the Rufus doll where daddy touched you Kamala!
“New York Did Us All a Favor by Standing Up to Amazon”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/17/opinion/amazon-new-york.html
Yeah… That’s exactly what happened.
Anyone see Karla Marx’s insane tweets comparing the $3 billion in tax breaks NY gave Amazon in return for 25K jobs and an estimated $250 billion if revenue over 10 years to getting a $300 pizza coupon and ordering 25 pizzas? I am telling you. If you got a degree from BU or sent your kid there, you should write that school and demand they refund you. Especially if you or your kid studied economics. If Pol Twat is what an econ student from BU is like, then the school is engaged in a criminal activity for telling these morons they got an education worth the money they paid for it.
I guess it’s not that insane, she left out the price of each pizza.
If she gets her way, they will each cost $300 in NY.
Sandinista de Blasio schooling Gulag Barbie was a fun read. Team Red just needs to sit back and enjoy the show.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/de-blasio-ocasio-cortex-claim-spending-amazon-tax-break-money
No. They did YOU the lazy-punk assholes in the enclave of splendid retards you call an ‘editorial board’ a favor so you can write degenerate, faux-virtue, anti-business screeds.
You couldn’t care less about corruption and the work force impacted by this.
Seriously. Will Dunkin’ Donuts take over the space NYT occupies already?
What’s the point of that rag anymore?
Half that staff can find work at Daily Kos or some other lefty publication given there isn’t much journalism or intellectualization going on.
Brawndo is in negotiations with Cuomo to take up the slack…
Paywalled but I totally have no doubt they’re speaking out against targeted tax breaks for companies like the New York Times, right?!
You will see the massive benefits of privilege, and the way it allows a homeowner, particularly a second home owner, to afford the risk. You will see emerging issues like Miami’s climate gentrification, where previously low-income neighborhoods like Little Haiti are rising in value and under pressure from developers because of their higher ground, resulting in the displacement of people and place-based culture.
“Climate gentrification”? Now, I’ve heard everything.
SJWs get extra points for making up new words or combinations thereof. That is what is known as “groundbreaking research” in the grievance studies disciplines.
Fredo Corleone of the DNC released from his prison stint…
I thought it was Carlos Danger?
Whatever. This guy is an idiot that wants everyone to know how shmarth he is.
Perfect Democrat.
As much of dirtbag that guy is, his sentence seemed a bit harsh. He’s completely screwed even after he gets out.
Driving to work on President’s day is a good way to remind yourself of how much government bloat & bankers there are. I had the road to myself.
We got today off, mainly because it’s cheaper than giving us another day of PTO
“QUIT? WHATEVER HAPPENED TO DUELING? ZARDOZ IS NOT PLEASED.”
It’s the lack of sunlight, isn’t it? Have they forgotten to chew limes?
Speaking on German soil 75 years after the U.S. and its allies prepared for D-Day, Joe Biden described America as “an embarrassment” and its trade policies “self-defeating.”
“The America I see values basic human decency, not snatching children from their parents or turning our back on refugees at our border. Americans know that’s not right,” the former vice president and potential 2020 Democratic presidential candidate told the Munich Security Conference.
I wonder if anybody mentioned our less than stellar performance in regard to Jewish refugees (from an area which shall remain nameless) in the late ’30s and early ’40s.
“not snatching children from their parents”
Unless they’re already American citizens, in which case we do that all of the time.
Shhh! There was a racist Democrat in power at the time they don’t want to talk about that.
I forgot about FDR’s policy on the matter. Many peoples lives could have been saved.
Another example of “never open your door”.
Cops given a “good shoot” clearance for shooting a drunk guy who answered his door while holding a gun. Fuck, fuck, fuck.
After 11pm, the guy had a BAC of .141 and the body cam video doesn’t really make the 61 year old victim look like a true desperado who was looking to take out the fuzz. One cop simply runs for it, but the other one plugs the guy.
They were responding to a fire alarm.
Paging Dunphy to the white courtesy phone. Dunphy to the white courtesy phone.
If you look at the body cam video, you can see that the victim is more in a confused “Who is out there” frame of mind. Yeah, he isn’t going to win any gun safety badges for pointing the gun out the door, but he wasn’t frothing at the mouth and screaming “Die coppers!”
Pussy cop panicked and shot a guy in his own house and won’t lose anything.
As we remember from our good friend Mr. Dunphy when this same thing happened a few years ago, if you open your door in the middle of a night, not knowing who could be out there, holding a gun, and those people turn out to be cops, you deserve to die.
The situation is fucked (why are cops responding to a fire alarm?) but the old guy really should not have been pointing the gun like that. That said, the cop was still too trigger-happy.
The old codger didn’t do himself any favors. But like you said, the cop was way too trigger happy. His partner ran away. That is what this guy should have done too. Or – I bet – he could have just stood there and told the guy to stop pointing the gun at him and no one would have gotten shot.
They are also supposed to announce themselves as police. Many things went wrong here, including lack of communication. Also, this is America. Many people are armed, as is their right. The default should be to assume someone is armed and not freak out at the prospect. “Officer safety” trumping citizens rights is a concept that needs to go. You sign up to be an agent of the government in a country where the governments primary legitimate function is to preserve the rights (lol…) if it’s citizen then you sign up to assume the associated risks and responsibility.
Hence the training that Game Wardens receive. They know that everyone they come in contact with is armed but shootings involving GM are incredibly rare.
You mad bro? AOC Can’t Take a Joke Over NYC Canceling Amazon Deal
and
The thing that gets me about this is that the incentives were not specific to Amazon. They were part of New York State and NYC’s programs to try and attract businesses. They applied to anyone planning to relocate to NY. Amazon’s incentives were so big because Amazon is such a big company. It’s perfectly valid to argue that such incentives in general are a bad idea, but acting like this was some kind of cherry deal just for Amazon is mendacious and stupid.
Mendacious and stupid is her nickname.
If this is the gen Z cream of the crop, we as a nation are doomed. Someone should start lynching everyone involved with our education system if this is the caliber of minds it is producing…
Yeah, if there was any hope that I’d see my Social Security money again, the younger generation is pretty much killing it.
That’s why I told my financial planner to not only pretend there will be no SS when I finally decide to retire,. but to probably assume that government stole about half of what I saved in my 401(k). The way things are going, I now fear they will steal it all because I didn’t do that by myself (I used their roads or something) and there are other people that are not going to be there, which is unfair.
I assume by the time I retire Gen Z will have already bankrupted every publicly traded company.
Brawndo will be the only employer outside the US government, which will be a subsidiary of Brawndo anyway..
As much as it pains me to point out, AOC is not Gen Z, she’s a Millennial.
Fucking millennials! They’re worse than hippies.
She’s not Gen Z, She’s a Millenial.
Gen Z’s start at 22 year olds and go down from there (born 96 or later)
I hear they are worse than the millennials…
But my son loves Alex Jones (ironically)!
I obviously only have limited localized info based on my own kids but from what I have seen actually no they are not.
I mean yea if you really freak out over the culture war bullshit they could seem worse as the Gen Z kids are much more open to gender swapping and homosexuality but from what I have seen they are not down with the victimhood narrative and they are not exactly anti capitalist or pro socialism either.
I admit that maybe what I see from my kids friends might not be the norm and that they might change once large numbers of them get into the indoctrination scheme known as college but what I see in the Gen Z kids around me gives me some small glimmer of hope
Agree with Rasilio 100%, The kids are all right.
I agree with Rasilio.
My kids and their friends seem very different than what I keep hearing about. Very cynical and independent.
Also, one of my son’s college buddies had a “taxation is theft” sticker on his laptop. Anecdotal, sure, but I’m gonna hold out hope.
My kids all make fun of SJW’s.
They know the lingo and use it to mock the ideas that they hold so dear. My kids all use their half-Korean heritage to pretend that they are uber-victims. (The youngest calls me the White Devil)
I agree with Rasilio and Tundra that I think the youngsters have rebelled against the silliness of this crap.
For awhile, I was trying to give her some benefit of the doubt as a young person who got very lucky and is in over her head now.
Not any more. She is just plain stupid.
I think she leans more toward the evil side of the stupid-evil spectrum of progressives
I think she’s 29(?) and was a bartender that has no idea how businesses operate. Call it ignorant. Or stupid, doesn’t matter because it’s the same result.
Ignorant is uninformed, but can be willing and able to learn from mistakes.
She is stupid, because she has shown no willingness or ability to learn from her mistakes.
TO be pedantic…
Unwillingness to learn is to IGNORE information and logic as it comes in. “Ignorant.”
To be stupid is to be incapable of taking in information and logic as it comes in.
Is she
1) incapable of processing information
2) simply arrogant to think her shit doesn’t stink and is unwilling to process information
3) aware that voter stupidity is what gives her power?
1 and 2 are closely related, but #3 is a strong possibility and tends to rule out #1.
Stupidity is ignorance that you die with?
I don’t get it. She’s stupid.
I miss James Trafficant. At least he was charming as a loon.
ZARDOZ in the morning? What a treat on Mammary Monday!
21, 31, 40 (minus the duck lips), 45.
DO’H!
http://archive.li/7qZtu
10, 21, 25. Yowza man.
Was there a single pair of non synthetic one in there?
Never tried a silicone one, but saline implants feel the same as the real thing. And, if one of these came up to you in the bar and asked you to buy her a drink before going back to your room, you’d care?
‘Ceasing from the voice of joy and gladness’: Ælfric’s Homily for Septuagesima
https://aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2014/02/ceasing-from-voice-of-joy-and-gladness.html
Today, nine weeks before Easter, is traditionally Septuagesima Sunday, the beginning of a period of preparation for Lent. One of its most distinctive features was the custom of ceasing to sing ‘Alleluia’ at mass, a practice referred to in medieval England as ‘locking the Alleluia’. The word was symbolically locked away, to be unlocked again amid the celebration of Easter – then the word was imagined to be released from its captivity, just as Christ would break out of the tomb and human beings would be liberated from captivity to their sins.
Who hear can read the original language?
*here goddamnit
*raises hand*
I made good choices in life. That’s why my wife makes lots of money and instead I can read Old English, Old Saxon, Gothic, Latin, etc. Definitely a worthwhile trade-off!
Your wife has odd tastes in trophy husbands. Although what do I know, maybe Old Saxon is sexy.
It’s a symbiotic relationship! Engineers often find it useful to have someone around that can actually read/write and talk to human beings for them.
Dust off your shocked faces, but it seems as if those extortion payments from Big Tobacco aren’t actually being used to stop smoking. Shit flies, as some tobacco companies stop payments. *the reason they stopped payment is because they were sold off from Reynolds and the new owner says that means that they are no longer subject to the agreement.
Anyhow, the loss of those payments has shone some light on how that money was being used:
It would be nice if someone in Minnesoda would audit ClearWay (a nonprofit created to “distribute” funds from the tobacco settlement), but I suspect that both parties have been using ClearWay as a slush fund for party hacks and cronies.
“even as teen tobacco use is rising and a historic drop in adult tobacco use appears to be slowing down.”
Are they pointing to vaping?
Yes. There was a lot of hyperventilating about vaping. Especially by the kids
We are so close. Just give us a billion or two more and we’ll get there.
This time, next year.
Any way the demon nicotine gets inside you is bad, m’kay?
Exactly. Here, take these even more lucrative anti-depressants instead.
If it wasn’t for the FYTW clause, an enterprising man might come up with a way to synthesize nicotine without any use of tobacco. That way, a company could make e-juice that was entirely tobacco free and not subject to any regulations about tobacco products.
But as any sentient human knows, you could make tobacco free e-juice and regulators (and judges) would simply say that all tobacco laws apply anyhow.
And then they stamp their feet when you call them “fake news”.
Cop Kong: Police officer dresses up as gorilla to catch sex offender
Wait, was this perp they were after the guy I knew that liked hairy hippy chicks? The one I mentioned the other day and had told to go actually fuck a real monkey if what he wanted was hairy?
“nearly three days hiding out around a park, dressed as a gorilla”
Imagine the smell
Imagine the overtime!
Yep, both stink.
POLICE SAVE MONEY BY HIRING SISTER STEPH SMITH. BY HIRING SISTER, MEAN RAPE TAXPAYER.
If you got a degree from BU or sent your kid there, you should write that school and demand they refund you. Especially if you or your kid studied economics. If Pol Twat is what an econ student from BU is like, then the school is engaged in a criminal activity for telling these morons they got an education worth the money they paid for it.
For a time, I thought there should be some sort of fundamentals of economics requirement at the college level. But- yeah. If they’re going to end up listening to the deranged ravings of somebody like Robert Reich or Krugabe, there’s not much point.
They be better off learning how to darn their socks by the light of a tallow candle.
Teaching students “economics” such as she peddles is, IMO, criminal. I don’t know how they can get away with teaching material that is unequivocally, demonstrably, wrong. It would be like the physics department teaching that the universe is made of interstellar ether.
That they can and keep doing it is just frighting to me. It’s
almostlike they are putting dogma over facts/logic/truth. This is how we eventually end up in another dark age.You just don’t get it. We have to tear down the patriarchy. We can’t do that teaching stuff that slave owning white guys taught, like 100 years ago.
I wonder what form of government they think we will have once we are back in another dark age…
They’re just *certain* that they’ll be the ones with the clipboards planning out our glorious utopia.
Feudalism baby – and they don’t believe they will be the serfs. [Joke being on them of course]
See this is my biggest beef with these fucking idiots: they all think they will be part of the master class, and not serfs (albeit collaborator types) like the rest of us. If they had bothered to educate themselves, they would know that the first people they send to the gulags/death camps are the non-believers, but the second wave (and subsequent waves) tend to always be the true believers that the real elite running the show view as dangerous to their hold on power.
Working on it!
/Dmocrat Socialists
I kicked around doing something like this when I was younger, but then decided I wanted to have a life too.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/tips-from-a-guy-who-managed-to-live-in-manhattan-on-a-40000-salary-and-still-max-out-his-401k-contributions-2018-11-12
I have a friend who maxed out his 401k for several years then took it all out with penalties before the 2008 mess. When the markets bottomed out he dumped it all into stock of one of the insurance companies and made bank. Lucky SOB.
I am with you, but his argument is he is getting to live more in his 30s.
So, good for him.
I am a big believer it putting 15% of your gross income into investments (retirement or otherwise). If people do that from the start, they can adjust to the lower pay and it pays off down the road. And it isn’t that big a stretch (although I am only doing ~11% right now, still bouncing back).
Don’t worry about the seven MPs leaving Labour. The party still has it!
I guess I should be happy that they’re not pretending any more?
I can only hope that the Donks eventually go through something similar, though I guess there aren’t many “moderates” (read: sane people) left amongst their elected officials.
There’s no way back from how far left they’ve gone. Their only solution is to just keep dragging that goalpost along behind them until they can declare themselves the moderates, once again. Pretty soon, they’ll have Reason writing stuff like ‘Sure, socialism is great, but shouldn’t we have a reasonable amount of farting cows?’.
A glowing report on how well our “navigation center” is doing in Minneapolis. (A navigation center is a big tent where the homeless who had been living in their own tents can now hang out in).
Another person just died there this weekend, so that makes two deaths in the Nav Center.
162 people, $1.5 to run the Nav Center. You could have just given those people a check for $1500/mo for six months. But then how would bureaucrats have any power? Better to set up a tent and have it be run by various agencies who can build staffs and power.
“Health professionals are on site to offer medical help”
Obviously not doing a great job since people are dying.
“assess people’s needs for drug addictions”
Like providing them with needle exchanges and “safe places” to shoot up?
I recognize that drug addicted homeless people present a challenge, but you get more of what you reward, and programs like these sure seem like an incentive to stay homeless and drug addicted rather than trying to clean up your act.
Not sure if this is common in other areas, here in Charlottesville, specifically during the winter months – think it starts the second or third week of Nov normally – local churches take turns for two weeks at a time providing sleeping space, dinner and breakfast, bathrooms/showers, etc for about 45 overflow homeless guys there isn’t space for in the local shelters. I guess it’s mostly the same folks every time (locals). I volunteered a couple times to serve dinner (hotdog buffet plus chili and chips was a major hit with ’em) and cleaning up in the morning before the church service (they slept on the floor in the sanctuary), and then breaking down stuff at the end of the two weeks so that the local non-profit could shift gear over to the next church. Basically gives them shelter for about 12 hours – 6PM to 7AM or thereabouts. (includes a shuttle to pick some of them up in bad weather or with wheelchairs, etc).
Think it’s been going on for a while now. Using air mattresses was a lot easier than cots this year according to other volunteers. As a non-profit, I’ve heard them advertise a couple times on the local indie radio stations, but not a lot of press that I can tell. Easier that way I think.
My wife’s church does something similar but it is for single moms who lost jobs or were abused and had to leave home. These kinds of homeless appreciate the weekly rotation from church to church while they attempt to get back on their feet (they go to programs that teach job skills, etc. while the kids are watched). The other kind of homelessness – drug and/or mentally screwed up – almost begs a Darwinian solution. These folks refuse to come in from the cold, etc. etc. so are enabled with blankets and hot meals while they crap on the sidewalk and annoy passersby. Preachers are always on about the “Good Samaritan” bit but what should the response be when the roadside victim tells the Good Samaritan to leave him the f**k alone?
In Richmond there is a similar thing called CARITAS, so I’m guessing it’s part of a broader social movement.
CARITAS is a private (church) initiative but we also have a more traditional gubmint-funded shelter.
The interesting thing about CARITAS is they bus they people around to different churches. No single church has a permanent shelter. I think this is as much to keep the neighbors from going ballistic as anything, but it reminds me of “Down and Out in Paris and London” where they kept the homeless of the day moving – no more than one (?) consecutive night in any one facility.
Very strange that addicts can find a drug seller and the police can’t. Seems to be some sort of black market or entrepreneurial skill in finding and filling the gap between willing buyer and willing seller. Something politicians could look into between Climate Changes and Immigration Non-Policies. It would totally eliminate the need for Social Workers….
Didn’t think I could get that out without laughing…….
“Environmentalists” (not to be confused with Conservationists) clear-cut 3,500 acres of old-growth forest, plan to douse the area with herbicide, then erect solar panels.
HAH!
But, they painted the solar panels green.
Where do I apply for my Agent Orange compensation?
That is basically what they will be doing unless they pave the land.
I’ll just leave this here.
Sure, but those are unintended consequences. Eggs, omelettes, leftover egg shells
Oh, there is a wedge to be driven between the Nature people and the Green Energy people.
Perhaps already posted, but holy shit:
PLEAUZUH LET THIS BLATANTLY OBVIOUS FAKE STORY BE TRUE SO I CAN FEEL SMART AND VINDICATED IN BELIEVING STUPID SHIT!
“And that reason, more than any other, is why I need this story to be true, despite its ugliness and despite what it would say about the danger of the world I live in”
Translation: “I won’t accept reality no matter how much evidence is presented to me!”
That could be the motto of the Left.
-C.S. Lewis
Eerie how accurate that is.
*reads article*
OMG, she actually said that. I need a shower now. What an evil person.
He’s going to have to claim some sort of substance abuse problem and go into rehab to try to salvage his career.
He’ll either claim he lost his meds or he was sexually abused as a child.
PTSD caused by the pervasive everyday racism in Post-Obama America.
“It could have happened and that’s what’s important.”
The morally reprehensible position to take. That she cannot see that is somewhat mind-boggling.
Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer, we’ll keep the red flag flying here.
Nice. Don’t give up the ship!
The ol’ in and out.
Our sex life is so repetitive I have to imagine arousing situations in bed
I’m actually shocked the pop-psych columnist didn’t recommend an open relationship. That seems to be the waste basket advice du jour.
Her advice was surprisingly good.
“I have to think intensely about arousing situations to overcome the numbness.”
Translation: I cannot share these fantasies with anyone because they’re all extremely politically incorrect.
Could be a soy boy issue.
a) poor baby doesn’t always feel the magic but somehow feels guilty about fantasizing. And finds fantasizing exhausting.
b) something changed that she’s not revealing, and she’s just not into him any longer
Yeah the “I love my boyfriend passionately” but “making excuses to avoid sex” doesn’t compute.
She needs to watch more inter-species erotica.
STEVE SMITH LET HER DO MORE THAN WATCH
STEVE SMITH approves this advice!
Dammit -should have refreshed!
She also doesn’t mention how long they’ve been together. Hon, after about 2 years, those intoxicating infatuation hormones have largely worn off and you’re going to *gasp* have to put in actual EFFORT. Sure, you can dump the guy, but you’re eventually going to be facing the same problem with whomever you choose afterward.
Welcome to the real world. Now grow a pair and tell your boyfriend you want to be tied up and butt fucked.
Just have a kid with him. Does wonders for a strained relationship
Why punish some poor kid like this man?
You are a shitlord extraordinaire!
Sure, you can dump the guy, but you’re eventually going to be facing the same problem with whomever you choose afterward.
They know this, but they are always the first ones to look at an old couple and say, “Oh, they’ve been married 50 years. How cute.”
In my case my ex reacted like that whenever that came up. But when I pointed out that there usually was one of them that looked angry and another that looked like they couldn’t wait for the reaper to show up and save him from the prolonged misery, she got mad. Staying together 50 years usually meant that you learned to live with a lot of giving up on what you wanted to compromise and keep things from ending in people choking each other.
“50 years usually meant that you learned to” ignore each other.
Telephones for 1, fishing rods for the other. Cheaper than a divorce.
Hahaha. Just kidding,, not if you buy quality fishing rods…
There is great wisdom in what you say there. Relationships work best when both parties have their own lives and then a shared one. If one partner demands 100% of the other person’s time, things will go south quick. Even if both partners are OK with this 100% time together thing, sooner than later that changes, and then the shit hits the fan. I still firmly believe that women are hardwired to not be able to let a man have fun. If their guy is having fun without them, they feel an obligation to ruing his mood.
45 years next month. Today looks like a good time to clean a couple guns
She can only ruin your mood if you allow her to ruin your mood.
43 years together next month.
You should pick better women.
Hey I tried for 23 years. The first 18 or 19 where good, but then it went to hell over time. I would like to believe there is a right woman, but experience has dissuaded me of that. Maybe the problem is me. I am not the type that just goes with “yes dear” to keep the peace.
Mmm, okay.
That.
Big meh to all of this. Yeah, codependency ends poorly, but marriage seems like a whole lot of downside if the only upside is you get a roommate with occasional sex privileges.
the only upside is you get a roommate with occasional sex privileges.
It not the only upside.
I think you’d still come out ahead. Now if you buy a boat, that’s another matter entirely.
“Arousing situations” translates to gang bang, imo.
For him or for her?
Speaking for a friend, wait until you find out what sex is like when there are dishes piled in the sink, the kids need help with their math homework after you’ve had an exhausting day dealing with the boss from Hell, the car is making a funny noise, the property tax bill arrived today, AOC is ranting on the t.v., and who the fuck knows what A Leppo is.
Wish I would have thought of this during the campaign.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4SJTkkohMw
“What is A Leppo?” I thought it was “who is A Leppo”
Could’ve had a Bobcat.
In the not so distant past, she and her man would have conceived a child by now and be busy raising it. Nature is telling her the guy is sterile so she will move on and find a man who will get her pregnant.
People who believe in evolution but don’t think it applies to them are amusing to me.
Imagine the smell
*STEVE SMITH awakens*
Houston cop lied in affidavit before deadly raid.
So double murder charges coming?
Pshaw. Felony murder charges are for little people.
Double Murder charges? Ha more like 2 week paid vacation while the city tries to quietly settle with the family.
All cop related payments should go out of the cop retirement fund.
I assume the police pension funding is already down to 40%.
Too remote. They should split it up and deduct it from everyone’s paycheck. If you have 1000 cops and get a million dollar judgment, then everyone gets $1K garnished from their paychecks. Then there would be some incentive to not cover for each other.
Are there relatives or kids? Might be cheaper to kill them too.
Stop it, I’m dying from laughter.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/17/mccabe-fired-trump-fbi-1173596
No you were fired for being a liar. You opened an investigation because he fired Comey.
It was about the gang that did the Obama admin’s ordered dirty work to spy on Hillary’s opponent trying to make sure now that they had lost the WH, that these stories didn’t come out and destroyed them. You know Clinton would have just ordered them all killed, but Obama might have broken down like a pussy and confessed to it all while blaming Clinton, and they just couldn’t have that kind of scandal.
Seriously, if this doesn’t end up with the lot of these people going to jail, American politics will just become even more banana republic than it already was made during the Obama admin.
Well people are not going to go to jail.
Hence my prediction that we are really no longer going to have a nation of laws, but of principals..
“American politics will just become even more banana republic ”
Democrats are counting on it. They look at the Lula/Dilma era in Brazil with much fondness. If only they could steal hundreds of billions in national wealth… maybe a Green New Deal would do it?
There is no maybe about it. The green deal is basally a bunch of people pissed that they lack both the skills and the grit to upend the current status quo by doing better at it than the key players, and deciding that they want to simply reboot the game, with new rules favoring them from the get-go, so they can take it all over.
They look at the Lula/Dilma era in Brazil with much fondness.
The results of which pissed off the people enough to elect Bolsonaro. They should be careful what they wish for.
As More Electric Cars Arrive, What’s The Future For Gas-Powered Engines?
More relevant to ask the future of our electric grid. If every commuter has a car plugged in all night, solar isn’t going to help. Wind is worthless.
Don’t ask questions just bow to our green overlords! Unless you want the Earth to burst into flames?
ELECTRICITY COMES FROM A WALL!
Wait,walls are immoral.
But they are 100% green energy!
Maybe Trump should tell the left he is building a wall that is all recharging outlets for electric vehicles?
superconducting grid, FTW!
Ship electricity anywhere in the world with no losses…. easy-peasy, lemon-squeezy.
Why aren’t you techie types making that? /proggie-studies-grad
But I want a stick shift… and the sound of headers on a V8, especially when the secondaries of the carb kick in and it sounds like the gates of hell have been cracked open.
Stick shifts, safety belts, bucket seats, all have to go.
Why do you hate the children?
Because the little bastards can’t drive and they damage the bodywork if I run over them?
Well said sir!
“Probably in the mid-2020s time frame, it becomes comparable or cheaper to actually buy and operate an EV ”
Sure, and driverless cars are going to take over the highways any day now. And we’ll all be visiting family in Europe, via high speed rail.
I’m holding out for the trans-Atlantic hover train.
Everything is coming up Pope Jimbo!
I say that because in another 10-15 years, I’ll be getting a bit long in the tooth to do as much walking while hunting upland birds and will be wanting to do more road hunting.
I’m thinking that having a quiet electric SUV that I can creep up on birds with would be awesome. Even better, I can sit in the passenger seat and jump out and blast the birds myself.
There is a handicap license now that allows a hunter to shoot from the vehicle. A lot of slow movers drive their 4 wheelers out to the deer stand.
I’m sure there will be a recharging station conveniently located out by Nine-mile Swamp.
Without huge subsidies? Bullshit.
What is ironic is that for optimal operation in Minnesoda, we need a ton of Global Warming.
If electric cars running on electricity generated entirely by wind and solar (what did hydro do to get shunned so much?) actually could stop climate change, us Minnesodans would be fucked. When our cold winters returned, we’d have to reduce our daily driving by 40% (or more) because our cars stopped working.
Turn off the heater and get a longer extension cord. It’ll be great, you’ll see…
From that David Leonhart thing in the NYT (linked above):
But there is a larger picture here: Corporate-relocation subsidies are terrible policy.
They do nothing to lift the country’s economic growth — to create more cupcakes, as it were. The subsidies mostly redistribute income upward, from taxpayers to corporate shareholders. If every city and state justifies big giveaways based on its own immediate interests, the tragedy of the commons will never end.
Somebody needs to make a principled stand. In New York, a coalition of activists and politicians did so. They called attention to the grubbiness and secrecy of these subsidies, which are, in their own way, anti-capitalist. The deal’s collapse, Greg LeRoy, a longtime advocate on the issue, told Emily Badger of The Times, is “absolutely a godsend to those of us who have been trying to reform economic development.”
“Corporate-relocation subsidies are terrible policy.” True enough. But what about (whatabout!) allowing race hustlers, anti-gentrification whiners, union goons and a host of other “community activists” to extort favors and special treatment for their various and sundry politicized victim categories?
It’s not the “tragedy of the commons” you idiot. “Society” does not own Long Island City. A howling mob attempting to impose their terms on the deal is not social justice, it’s thievery and extortion. This is why property rights exist.
That seems to be the beef here: the mob is pissed they couldn’t get their way and rob the evil korporashun…
I bet you he’s silent when the next time this happens for a company with a much lower profile.
Unti then, it’s all faux-virtue.
“Corporate-relocation subsidies are terrible policy.”
I hate calling this sort of thing a subsidy. You are not cutting them a check. All you are doing is promising them to stop taking as much money as you could for a while.
I don’t think you would find many people who would say that the money would be spent more effectively by the company than it would by the government (at least not many people who don’t work for the govt).
I don’t know what the right name for this action is, but subsidy isn’t it.
Solyndra = subsidy
Oil & Gas = preferential tax laws to pay less in taxes
If it was not for a double standard….
Well, maybe a grant to re-vitalize downtown. That would bring the people back in…
/small town guy/
My old hometown has tried this many times.
For some reason the Walmart on the edge of town consistently kicks the down town merchants asses. Despite the fact that the city fathers spent money to create a glorified mini-mall and to repair the facades on downtown (as well as fancy ornamental lightpoles) people still seem to prefer low prices.
Yeah, Waco and Temple, which are mid-sized towns, tried that 40 years ago. People seem to like easy parking, lower prices and 1 stop shopping. Every dead mining town (redundant, I know) has a vibrant downtown, thanks to the Dollar Store.
*looks out my living room window at city avenue lined with thriving shops for miles in both directions*
There’s no hard-and-fast rule here. When it fails, there are probably more reasons than just “people want to shop at WalMart”.
Do most of your neighbors have a car?
I’m not sure a Walmart would work in a neighborhood like yours. NYC is built for foot traffic and most of the rest of the country is not.
@grrizzly
I think the rate around here is about half.
@Mojeaux
FWIW, there are lots of big-box stores in Manhattan. They do just fine.
For me, one-stop shopping is the key. Why go to three places when you can go to one to get most of your basic needs and the odds are the price is lower also.
Around here, specialty places thrive too. Famous Footwear, Office Depot, Michael’s, Hobby Lobby, Sprout’s, Party City…and then there’s Aldi’s, supposedly the only company Walmart is afraid of.
Grants and grand redevelopment plans rarely work, at least not alone. You know what works? Simplifying things (permits, taxes, etc.), focusing on the basic stuff you should have been doing all along, and leaving people the fuck alone.
Hey I like that down town area. I go to the Caribou coffee all the time when I am in DL in the summer. Then usually stop at Walmart on the way out of town.
I don’t know what the right name for this action is, but subsidy isn’t it.
“Relief”, as in tax relief. Subsidy = give money. Relief = don’t take money.
If it only applies to certain people/companies or only at certain times, then I’d say it’s “special relief” or “targeted relief” or “a sweetheart deal”.
“Cronyism” works too.
Work continues to be strange. I’m the only employee of my company in the office I’m working out of (which may be changing to a full work from home situation in the next couple of months). I’m now up to my third supervisor, who I have yet to have a one-on-one conversation with (I had all of three with my previous two supervisors). The annual review is due soon, but I don’t see it on my calendar. Just got notification that I qualified for a bonus this quarter, so I guess I’m doing good?
Sounds to me like there is great turmoil and you are the calm center. No one worries about you because you simply get shit done and don’t require anything.
Just enjoy it. It probably won’t last.
^THIS^
Be the golden employee who gets shit done without needing to be micromanaged.
My last job, I had an awesome employee except for the fact that he needed constant validation. From discussions with him, it became clear that most of his angst came from his previous employer who abused the poor kid. He learned that he had to constantly get positive feedback on his daily actions or sometime down the road he’d get screamed if things went bad. I called him my pound puppy. He was such a productive developer that I put up with his needs (while trying to break him of the bad habit).
I know there are managers out there who LOVE to micromanage, but I think the vast majority are pleased as punch to find someone who can be given general direction and then left alone. Too many shitty employees who actually do need constant monitoring.
The fact that you got a bonus makes me think you are doing everything right.
I know there are managers out there who LOVE to micromanage, but I think the vast majority are pleased as punch to find someone who can be given general direction and then left alone.
We have the lovely combination of general direction and micromanaged results. The motto of the department should be “I could’ve done it that way and saved us all 2 weeks if you had just told me that’s how you wanted it.”
That’s what I’m doing. Handling my ticket load, following up with the contacts on things we don’t support, and doing my best to keep the customer happy and willing to pay for us. But it even goes to things like trying to get help filling out my first annual review. No response from my managers, thankfully the Account Manager for the client helped me out. It doesn’t help that one of the questions on the review was about having regular conversations with your manager.
Oh well, in better news, all of my 16:30 meetings have either been cancelled or rescheduled to be earlier in the day. Including the double damned Friday afternoon 16:30 meeting.
I’m in a similar situation. I’m the only one from my team in the main office. I can work from home but my boss wants me in the office as much as possible. I’m not sure why I don’t have any meetings or answer to anyone in the office. I feel like I could disappear for a couple weeks and no one would notice. A little unerving considering we might be going through a merger soon. IMO the work I do is extremely valuable, but given the current environment it’s being overlooked.
My entire role was pitched as supporting the call center here as the onsite guy. After I was here a couple of months, I had resolved most of their outstanding issues (and got my primary support contact here a couple of awards for getting the issues fixed). The primary support contact is at about an 80% chance of being bought out and made to retire. They’ve said they aren’t going to replace that position, so I wouldn’t really have a contact here anymore. The work load has also dropped since the beginning of the year, so there’s not an overwhelming amount of work to be done. But my salary is paid for under the support contract the company pays for, and I’m supposed to be 100% dedicated to their environment. Not a bad gig, but not exactly what I was sold on when I was first interviewing for the position. I’m not seeing this as a long term position, but I’ll stick around long enough for my 401(k) to vest, and then start looking.
Not bad, keep your resume polished just in case.
Must be nice to feel integral to an operation.
/gently kicks ice pebbles hands in pocket.
What are ice pebble hands? And who’s pocket are they in?
Its a Canadian thing, you wouldn’t understand and therefore have no need to know, unless, unless…
The only thing I could come up with for “ice pebble hands” is “what Bambam complains about to his buddies in February after a hot date”
Canadian pocket pool
162 people, $1.5 to run the Nav Center. You could have just given those people a check for $1500/mo for six months. But then how would bureaucrats have any power? Better to set up a tent and have it be run by various agencies who can build staffs and power.
My hatred for those goddam parasites in the “non-profit” ecosystem grows more intense each and every day.
Non-Profit =/= Government
Non-Profit is things like Boy Scouts, Red Cross, etc. Most churches are incorporated as non-profits for tax purposes. This Nav Center seems to have been an initiative of the city government.
Now, there is an incestuous relationship between government and some non-profits, ie where I live the govt “contractor” for homeles services is a catholic org.
QUANGO!
Don’t read the story I linked to about tobacco payments in Minnesoda and the non-profit (ClearWay) that is in charge of spending them. At least the homeless non-profits run the risk of dealing with a smelly, crazy homeless person to get their grift.
The worse that can happen to a leech at ClearWay is running into one of the bluenosed, self-righteous, teenage prig who is trying to stamp out smoking at her school.
How about them good ol’ boys down there in Daytona, yesterday? Yee Haaaaaaw!! I laughed my ass off.
Man accused of pulling gun on couple wearing MAGA hats
A Tennessee man is charged with first-degree wanton endangerment after witnesses told police he pulled a gun on a man who was wearing Make America Great Again hat inside Sam’s Club.
The hat is associated with President Donald Trump’s campaign for office.
James Phillips, 57, of Cottontown, Tenn., is accused of pulling a gun on the man inside the store Saturday after making an obscene gesture with his finger, according to his arrest citation.
Phillips, who was wearing a veterans cap, told police he made the gesture at the man and a woman with him because of the MAGA hats they were wearing, according to his citation. The man then confronted Phillips inside the store and an argument began.
That man then made the same obscene gesture to Phillips, according to the citation. At that point, witnesses told police Phillips pointed a gun at the man. That portion of the incident could not be seen on video surveillance.
Police encountered Phillips and the couple after being called to the Sam’s Club parking lot where multiple witnesses had called the police to report a man pulling a gun on a couple, according to his citation.
Callers told police the man, later identified as Phillips, told the woman, “it’s a good day to die b…..”
In his rear right pocket, Phillips was carrying a concealed .40 caliber Glock with a bullet chambered. He had two extra magazines in his left cargo pocket, according to his arrest citation.
He holds a concealed carry permit from Tennessee which has a reciprocal agreement with Kentucky for concealed carry licenses.
Phillips is lodged in the Warren County Regional Jail.
I await the national outrage over this hate-crime.
This would be the lead story on every news channel if the MAGA hat had pulled the gun on a leftist.
Let’s see…
…background checks don’t work
…concealed carry license holders are dangerous (this and the Oregon police shooting: never mind that both are leftists)
Guns must be banned entirely!
Anyone talked to robc?
No, no one has. I joked that Rand Paul’s neighbor had lost it again.
I have been inside that Sam’s this month.
Yet another example of right-wing political violence in the era of Trump.
Dude, that’s the take. Otherwise intelligent people will say that Trump has created a situation in which political violence is acceptable because he has encouraged it. It won’t matter that the violence is coming from people who don’t support him.
In other words, if they didn’t want to get shot they shouldn’t have worn that hat.
Doesn’t MAGA/Veteran go together, like 2 peas in the same pod type of thing? I see those folks sitting side by side on TV Trump gatherings
A Tennessee man is charged with first-degree wanton endangerment after witnesses told police he pulled a gun on a man who was wearing Make America Great Again hat inside Sam’s Club.
Self defense.
That’s exactly what some will say. Punch a Naziism.
Non-Profit =/= Government
Unfortunately, that is not really the case around here. Calling the relationship between the social services non-profits and the government incestuous hardly begins to describe the disgusting circle jerk.
In the environmental sector where I am (and in which I work) the EPA is the rich only-child frat boy at the bar buying rounds for all the non-profits and then getting mad if he doesn’t see their tits. The only other nonprofit player in the game pretty much exists to a.) get donations, b.) make tchotchkes, and c.) buy up “research facilities” on islands and beaches for upper management to use on the weekends. It’s a shame, because a lot of good could be accomplished if the nonprofits weren’t chasing Fed grants, which are typically awarded for towing the EPA regulatory lion, rather than doing better outreach to–God I hate myself for saying this–local stakeholders with an interest in conservation. IOW, maybe don’t just pass limits on oyster and crab harvests and treat watermen like evil, inbred hicks.
I didn’t know that Pat Caddell had passed away. My ears perked up whenever he was speaking since it was always brutal truths.
Mirror Spock was a stone-cold player.
He didn’t like the mexican chicks?
Well, the TOS Klingons were basically just swarthy Mexicans, no?
YIKES!
I read that as Reason Klingons at first.
Kathrine daughter of Mangu, Nick son of Jacket, and Matt son of Blazer Bought at Goodwill.
Are TOS Klingons in blackface?
Brownface.
Roddenberry originally based the Klingon Empire off the Ottomans.
It’s nobody’s business but the Turks.
+4 (Lads)
Now that’s funny I don’t care who you are.
Did our Glibs living there do this? NTTIAWWT
Is it just me or are Shinto festivals the gayest shit ever? (Not that there is anything wrong with that.) But, Japan needs to come to grips with the fact that to reverse their population decline they need to cut this shit out.
Japanese Glib: That’s my lucky stick you just grabbed dude!
“We’ll go to our favorite (don’t say “in-house”) grant writing non-profit and get them to rustle up a grant which we will then funnel to our favorite (don’t say in-house”) local government consulting services non-profit to explain the desperate need for more grants which we can then funnel to our favorite (don’t say “in-house”) social services, or housing services, or economic development non-profit so we can do a bunch of shit the voters would never let us get away with if they knew what we were up to.”
And don’t even pretend that any of that grant money will somehow find its way into the war chests of any politicians who oversee the budget of the govt agency in question.
Money is totally not fungible. All the grant money goes entirely into the program that it was designated for. Of course some of that grant money has to pay for the overhead of the non-profit. And sure some of that overhead is compensation for the executives. And sure those executives are big contributors to local pols. But it is completely not money laundering!
*looks outside, sees that sky is still blue*
Huh.
The ground is unusually cold today, however.
Yeah Sharpton isn’t above using the cops to shut down the competition in the race grievance shakedown game
Ummmm… ok.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/8405159/pregnant-smoke-drink-hide-habits-not-quit/
What?!?!?! Next you’ll tell me that when people count calories they often under-report serving sizes!
It’s a shame, because a lot of good could be accomplished if the nonprofits weren’t chasing Fed grants, which are typically awarded for towing the EPA regulatory lion, rather than doing better outreach to–God I hate myself for saying this–local stakeholders with an interest in conservation. IOW, maybe don’t just pass limits on oyster and crab harvests and treat watermen like evil, inbred hicks.
I recently saw an article in some “outdoorsy” magazine about a couple of people who have been working on property-rights-based conservation programs in Africa for the past few decades. You could tell the writer was pretty much horrified by the notion conservation of the larger population of [insert endangered species] might successfully be enhanced by getting Whitey Mc Gun Nut to pay a bunch of money to fly in and shoot one now and then.
Moralists that like to pretend they are pragmatic, scientifically-literate, problem-solvers. And nothing is more immoral than a market-oriented solution.
Yep, just read this: http://www.planetexperts.com/two-years-russ-george-illegally-dumped-iron-pacific-salmon-catches-400/
Dumping a bunch of iron filings in the ocean causes algae bloom, which means more plankton, which means more plankton eaters, so on and so forth, and then BOOM record salmon run.
“Still, many environmentalists are still seething over the blatant disregard for international resolutions. “Even the placement of iron particles into the ocean, whether for carbon sequestration or fish replenishment, should not take place,” said Kristina Gjerde, senior high-seas adviser for the International Union for Conservation of Nature, “unless it is assessed and found to be legitimate scientific research without commercial motivation.”
Why does this worthless parasite hate fish?
“Silvia Ribeiro, of the international anti-technology watchdog ETC Group, says that projects like George’s distract from the need to reduce carbon emissions. “It is now more urgent than ever that governments unequivocally ban such open-air geoengineering experiments,” he said. “They are a dangerous distraction providing governments and industry with an excuse to avoid reducing fossil-fuel emissions.”
We need to focus on the real issue: diverting billions of dollars into my hands.
Ducks Unlimited does a metric s-ton of work in conservation because, as it turns out, to shoot ducks you have to have ducks in the first place. You can tell the watermelons from the real conservationists by their unwillingness to work with the people who actually depend on natural resources, because of course the point isn’t stewardship so much as moving the locus of control into the state.
Many, many years ago I used to live in the Central Fly-way of duck migrations. Those nutty people in the Dakotas and Manitoba starting digging little holes and filling them with water and the fly way shifted west. We see a few local ducks, geese and now swans but the giant flocks are gone. Those Ducks Unlimited people have stolen MN ducks.
Drain tiling to grow more fucking corn didn’t help.
This week’s econtalk is an interview with a property-rights conservationist.
I just listened to the first bit so far, she was talking about her work with elephants in Zimbabwe and how trophy hunting controlled by the local populations leads to an increase in the number of elephants. And when the US banned importation of the trophies, it started to fall apart.
Every southern African nation saw an enormous drop in the game species (you know, the ones idiot Westerners go ooohhh and aahhh over) after they banned trophy hunting.
In the era of big game hunting, the elephant was valuable as a living animal to be hunted and killed for sport. For the sport to be worth the cost, hunters wanted a big open preserve with herds of elephants and other game so they could spend weeks living in the bush and taking trophies. In other words, the marketplace created habitats. No big game hunter worth his salt wants to hunt on a 20 acre preserve.
Now the only use elephants have is for ivory, sold to countries that don’t give a shit about Western sensibilities. So the elephants are slaughtered wholesale, as quickly as possible, not with big game rifles which can provide a clean kill.
I heard he channeled spirits to help do the good work, and when dealing with good looking women the one he channeled was “Don Juan del Tolete” (John with the big stick)..
I need healing for my feminine problems brother Joao!
Let me channel the right spirit for that job…
Clothes off and assume the position.. I will heal you with the magic man goo!
I am about to go on a murder rampage against some mice. I have electric traps, but was wondering what kind of floor/wall damage I would do with a BB gun? For those moments when the motherfuckers decide to run across the kitchen when I’m in there. I mean, the building is being razed in a year or so, so minor paint damage doesn’t bother me. I could also practice my holster carry & draw.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48DN8QWVAJg
.22 with fine shot.
It’s called ratshot, and is quite effective. However, I believe KK is a condo/apt dweller and the noise could cause problems.
Hon, if you can hit a moving mouse with a .22 then you’re an excellent marksman.
Airsoft might be less damaging, but would probably only stun.
Yeah, no “real” guns as I’m on the 3rd floor of a low rise condo.
It’ll be good practice, though, and I might get lucky
BB or pellet? A Red Ryder is gonna be a little like shooting it with a Brown Bess. If you miss you might put a dent in the drywall at close range, but I’d think you’d be fine. Pellet guns are another story, that’ll probably pop into the wall.
Get a blowgun. They’re remarkably effective. And fun.
OT: Relevant to a prior discussion about flu vaccination
It’s a Weather.com article, but the sources are legit. I had something damn near the flu last week, or at least close enough for my tastes. Anyway, the tl;dr is that this year’s vaccine has been slightly less than 50% effective, up from last year’s 40% effectiveness. So a coin-flip, basically.
My whole family got it this year, we are all vaccinated. My daughter got it first, gave it to me and my wife. I basically only had a 2 week long dragged out cold and cough, no fever. My wife had the fever too.
I started getting the shot after getting a bad case 5 years ago. Vacs that don’t work suck. The docs did say it was less bad in people who had the vaccine.
“Still, many environmentalists are still seething over the blatant disregard for international resolutions. “Even the placement of iron particles into the ocean, whether for carbon sequestration or fish replenishment, should not take place,” said Kristina Gjerde, senior high-seas adviser for the International Union for Conservation of Nature, “unless it is assessed and found to be legitimate scientific research without commercial motivation.”
Fuck you, and the broom you rode in on.
senior high-seas adviser for the International Union for Conservation of Nature
Useless Twat is easier to say.
Anyone watching Live PD? It’s an interesting show that I think it maybe could be the best PR vehicle for the police — it shows that police a mainly a babysitting service for stupid poor people.