ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. SETTLED INTO A NICE ROUTINE, SINCE THE SMITHS AND ZARDOZ HAVE TAKEN OVER THE MORNING LINKS? ZARDOZ STRONGLY SUGGESTS YOU GET TO THAT PLACE, IF YOU ARE NOT YET THERE, RIGHT COMRADE ZED?
[BTW – YOU CAN PICK UP THE LAST OF THE TEAM OF BRUTALS YOU SENT IN LAST NIGHT – ZARDOZ HAS CONVINCED THE SMITHS TO … FINISH…UP, WITH THEM]. ZARDOZ’S CIRCUITS STORE NO HARD FEELINGS. TO SHOW THE BENIGN NATURE OF CRYPTID MORNING LINKS DOMINATION (DESPITE THE EFFORTS AGAINST US) – RECEIVE THE BENEVOLENT GIFT OF THE LINK! GO FORTH AND COMMENT.
- SO…THE BRUTAL NATION OF FRANCE, REELING UNDER PROTESTS ABOUT COSTS, SENDS 100 MILLION EUROS TO A LAND LOCKED COUNTRY FOR “ECONOMIC TRANSITION” AND A NAVY? SMDSH.
- ZARDOZ SENSES A BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY FOR THE CHOSEN ONES.
- ZARDOZ WONDERS WHAT IT IS ABOUT LIBERTARIAN CANDIDATES…
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
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531 responses to “ZARDOZ WEDNESDAY MORNING LINKS – USED TO IT YET?”
The one thing that leaves me hopeful with Brexit is that my preferred outcome is the default if gridlock can be maintained.
The EU needs to die…
Agreed.
“Ethiopia and France agreed their first military cooperation accord on Tuesday, a deal that includes helping the landlocked nation build a navy, as Paris seeks to boost economic ties in Africa’s second-most populous country.”
Well, at least they aren’t trying to build an Air Force.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONE.
… ZARDOZ BELIEVES THE EXPRESSION IS “ZING!”?
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
I concede that it is amusing to think of a landlocked country building a navy. But if they have at least one river, they can still float one.
Maybe they will sell their vessels to the Somalis?
Uhhh…where exactly are they going to put this navy? Is there a big lake somewhere they can keep it?
Yes. As well as several rivers. I doubt they’re trying to build a blue-water navy, but it’s not as insane as it first sounds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navies_of_landlocked_countries
The question is whether it remains a non-independent unit or if they want to build a separate bureaucracy. The involvement of France suggests the latter.
Dammit!
Let’s not forget Nebraska.
Maybe they want to become the dominant libertarian power in the region and they’re eyeballing Somalia.
There’s recently been rapprochement between Ethiopia and Eritrea (their former coastal province), so I imagine the Ethiopians are also going to cut a deal with Eritrea to station their new navy there. The real question is not where would they put it, but why would they need it?
“This unprecedented defense cooperation…”
What exactly is the threat model here? Who is going to be simultaneously threatening
France and Ethiopia? How much help would Ethiopia really be if… what, the British
decide to reclaim Calais? It seems like countries these days form alliances just
for the sake of having them.
Maybe Italy is eyeing Nice and Abyssinia.
$100m Euros are not going to buy you even the hull of a modern vessel. I suspect these will be some kind of brown water crafts.
Or swimming lessons for the army.
It’s France, so maybe how to not get river water into your rifle while retreating.
If you drop it, you won’t have to worry about getting water in it… And you can run faster.
I believe, from yesterday’s discussion of Argentina sinking a chinese fishing vessel, that a mid sized coast guard cutter with a 40mm Bofors was 60 to 90M US$.
A coastguard cutter, while armed, is not a warship in any sense of the word. Heck, it is probably not even considered a OPV, which is a lightweight offshore combatant. At least not in the sense of modern warships using missiles for offense/defense.
Unless the French are turning over some real old and derelict SINKEX targets to them, I suspect this will be brown water patrol boats armed to do interdiction work against non-military targets.
Shameless plug: I created a libertarian book group on in Raleigh if anyone lives around here and is interested in, well, reading libertarian books. It’s on Meetup.com, just search for Raleigh Libertarian Book Group (I think that’s what I called it).
Also, I have to admit I was surprised when I searched to see if I was stepping on anyone’s toes, and Meetup didn’t have a single hit for libertarian.
Raleigh – where dat?
North Carolina. The best Carolina
Come on and raise up
I sort of assume that was a music video, but it’s really funny watching that muted because I’m at work and the comments and description didn’t load. It was a mystery for a good 10 – 15 seconds.
To be fair, the audio wouldn’t have added much.
The mythical land of North Carolina
I’ll sign up I am in Durham
Yay!
Because it’s the best way to meet girls?
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONE. ZARDOZ HOPES NOT – REMEMBER, THE PENIS IS EVIL! ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
It starts out as aharmless book club, but before you know it we are attempting to sell exotic animals, hiring hitmen to kill our business competitors, and running as libertarians candidates
God I hope so. I resisted the urge to put some snarky comment about all becoming so educated in libertarian philosophy we finally transcend and move to Somalia.
“helping the landlocked nation build a navy”
France is only doing what the NATO wouldn’t do. Protect Ethiopia from those rascally Italians. If France wouldn’t do it, who would?
/Bolton raises his hand sheepishly/
*blinks*
“Wait-a-minute! That ain’t his hand!”
“Giants trade star receiver Odell Beckham Jr to the Cleveland Browns in blockbuster deal that sends New York fans into meltdown on social media and the Dawg Pound boasts ‘we have something special cooking’
New York is sending its star receiver to Cleveland for first- and third-round draft picks in April and safety Jabrill Peppers in the second blockbuster trade in four days.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6802231/Another-receiver-megadeal-Giants-trade-Beckham-Browns.html
Go Browns
The Browns just got cancer.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN DIAGNOSING ONE. WAS THAT CONFIRMED ON WEB MD? ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
Private jokes are the best jokes.
Oh, it’s penis cancer?
I believe ‘Cancer of the Penis’ is the preferred terminology now.
How does that compare to penaltax?
I thought Penaltax was just a different term for government forced sex change operations?
Thanks for the clarification. Lesbians trapped in a man’s body of the world unite against the penaltax tyranny!
*Claps government installed mudflaps in unity*
But a pretty good cancer?
Damn that’s a dumb trade. You can always count on the Browns to do the dumb thing in order to lose. They are like Republicans.
I think the browns have a better winning record than team red asshats.
“In the end, that means the Giants will be sending Beckham and Vernon to Cleveland and getting back the No. 17 overall pick, the No. 35 overall pick, Zeitler and safety Jabrill Peppers.”
I think the Giants made out more.
Jabrill peppers are the best peppers for chili con carne, it is known.
Correction – It’s the No. 17 overall and No. 95 overall + Peppers. Giants got raped in my opinion. You can say what you want about OBJ’s antics, but his locker room loved him, and he produced on the field. The Giants will be shit on offense next year.
The giants were shit on offense this year, less Barkley.
Eli is washed up. They need to rebuild.
I’m going to get sick of all of the cooking puns by the midpoint of the season. Assuming the Browns are doing well.
Don’t get all salty.
You’re always peppering the threads with puns.
The browns are the leftover cooking puns?
With Baker and Kitchens, they started during the coach debate. Feel free to look, if you can stand the punishment. Swiss would need the Ludovico Technique monocles to keep his eyes open.
As a Giants fan, I hate this trade.
I have no idea what they are thinking.
My guess is their thoughts are that they are in rebuild mode. Eli is done and their is no heir apparent. By the time they have rebuilt Jr. is going to be past his prime. So get some pieces for the rebuild now and get his antics out of your hair.
France has already surrendered to the Ethiopian Navy.
[golf clap]
Did France ask the U.S. to pay for it?
I think that is just assumed
We are subsidizing France through NATO, so yes.
Since when does that stop them from asking for a side deal?
helping the landlocked nation build a navy
France has curious priorities.
When America is paying your freight it’s awfully easy to give free rides to others.
Try explaining this to Europeans who are not conservative this little nugget.
They think this is them being clever and fleecing the American tax payer.. Like they fleece their own people.
$100MM will buy a lot of yellow life vests.
I had no idea that Ethiopia is now landlocked. They lost all their beachfront property to Eritrea, Djibouti, and Somalia? They really do need help.
Yeah, when Eritrea gained independance, they took the whole coast with them.
You know what other landlocked nation has a navy?
Interviewer: And where exactly is the lake?
Sir John: Er 22A, Runcorn Avenue, I think. Yes, that’s right, 22A.
Interviewer: Runcorn Avenue?
Sir John: Yes, it’s just by Blenheim Crescent… do you know it?
Interviewer: You mean it’s in an ordinary street?
Sir John: Of course it’s not an ordinary street! It’s got a lake in it!
Interviewer: Yes but I…
Sir John: Look, how many streets do you know that have got lakes in them?
Interviewer: But you mean… is it very large?
Sir John: Of course it’s not large, you couldn’t get a large lake in Runcorn Avenue! You’d have to knock down the tobacconist’s!
Well done, Sir.
SJWednesday: Xe Blinded Me With Science!
Lysenkoism 2: Electric Boogaloo
Maybe instead of pointing out the obvious difference in anatomical body parts, we shouls just point out the difference between the XX and XY chromosome pairing? Or is that just as triggering and hurtful use of biology as pointing out that there are no chicks with dicks, just dudes with tits?
The statement is only inaccurate in that it leaves out the fact that eunichs are still male, as surgical alterations don’t actually change a person’s biological sex.
I AM TRIGGERED!
/some dude that tucked his dick and has tits
pseudoscience presumptions
Projecting, it’s what progs do!
We’ve only scratched the surface with how many genders there actually are
Oh God.
Every day, I read a comment from someone who views themselves as a “rational” human being. This person knows all the facts and can’t wait to share it with the world.
They bestow real gems such as, “If you have XY chromosomes you’re a boy, and if you have XX chromosomes, you’re a girl. It’s biology.”
Molecules are very much not woke.
Molecules are a product of the cishetero quantum mechanical shitlords.
Marxism can only work if it can bend the laws of physics, economics, and nature.
Except it’s correct. It’s put in those terms (minus stick people) to keep it simple for idiots like you.
They’re long into the sub conscience part of their spiel eh?
ie You’re racist, you just don’t know it.
Frightening.
They’re psychos if you ask me.
No deal Brexit plans would keep the Irish border open while stinging tariffs are slapped on the rest of the UK
I heard May’s deal fell through again. The Britons
will never beare determined to be slaves.Vassalage was once again rejected by parliment.
The comedy of errors is just amazing. The EU doesn’t want the UK to leave, but is refusing to negotiate with the Prime Minister, who also doesn’t want the UK to leave, all because they got all worked up over the public voting leave and the Parliment not just calling a revote. With so many levels of backbiting between plarimentary factions, I’m hoping the clock just runs down and the UK defaults into leaving with no strings and no transfer payments.
Parliament should keep calling revotes until they get the result they want?
It’s what the EU did in Ireland.
I saw a thing that explained it for me. UK is trying to get a sweetheart package.EU is saying, if you want that you really shouldn’t have left, because we want control in exchange for this deal. Hence why the deals fail.
Not a sweetheart package. May wants to keep the UK in the EU in all but name.
Every time I turned on the news yesterday it was about that college admissions scandal. Who could have guessed that rich people would use money to buy influence?
Next thing you know they’ll be telling me baseball players used steroids!
It made me wonder what other chicanery was involved in Fauxcahontas’ academic career.
I hear there is a lot of video of her hitting the peace pipe before getting the tomahawk buried in her..
It just looks like an axe wound.
Oh, for the luvva Pete. That’s a mental image I would have happily gone the rest of my life without.
Strangely enough, I didn’t see Jason Melon on the list.
Because he was an actual athlete – diving is a huge deal at Grand Lakes University.
Is that the school with the hot tubs in the dorms?
I kept wondering why anyone gives a shit, I think I figured it out. They are drumming up all this faux outrage so that when it comes out that Donald’s daddy bought his son’s way into school, they’ll finally have him.
Only if they can show me Obama’s records and it turns they didn’t rig the system for him.. That guy had the fix for him to get where he did…
A shit is being given because this is a turd in their punchbowl.
In what is being called the largest college admissions scam ever prosecuted, wealthy parents, Hollywood actresses, coaches and college prep executives have been accused of carrying out a nationwide fraud to get students into prestigious universities, according to a federal indictment.
The scheme had two major pieces. In the first part, parents allegedly paid a college prep organization to take the test on behalf of students or to correct their answers. Second, the organization allegedly bribed college coaches to help admit the students into college as recruited athletes, regardless of their abilities, prosecutors said.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/12/us/college-admission-cheating-scheme/index.html
See this never would happen under socialism. Meritocracy is a lie. WAKE UP
Speaking of USistan college this amused me
http://www.sarahlawrencephoenix.com/campus/2019/3/11/demands-westlands-sit-in-50-years-of-shame
Then again when paying 70 grand a year for nothing, one would have demands.
I couldn’t get through that. I am not sure what they are talking about, but more importantly I smell bullshit.
Leftist activists using race to guilt-shame The Man into giving them free shit. Film at 11.
Israelites only had to do 40 years.
Saw a good article yesterday that mostly quoted Dershowitz ranting about how the colleges had made themselves useless and stupid with their “everybody gets good grades” thing. Said that back when he started teaching, you couldn’t pull this same stunt ’cause you’d fail out.
SJWednesday: Employment Is The Only Metric Of A Business
women have often been forced to accept lower wages
Somebody doesn’t know what force means.
Not immediately paying them more, regardless of if they are worth that higher pay because they do more work or even have ask, is discrimination!
A woman who drops out of the work force for several years in the prime of her career to have children should be afforded the same salary, benefits, promotions, and opportunities as a man who doesn’t. Even if she’s working as a substitute special education teacher and the man is a heart surgeon.
That actually is their argument, except of course they never state it in such clear terms.
Bullshit. There is no pay gap.
Let’s just glide right past what is probably the largest factor in the modern western world.
I prefer not to work. Now cut the check.
One check for $0 coming right up!
Sounds like a government solution there.. And that check will prolly cost the tax payer $10 per to the tune of 250 million people…
WHY DO YOU HATE THE CHILDREN!?
The fuckers are needy?
They’re sticky and sometimes shit themselves?
And yet you hang out here…
“working women have often been forced to accept lower wages,”
If this is true then they should report those people for slave labor.
“(Oracle denied the allegations.)”
I know allegations in your worldview show guilt, but little real evidence had been shown since it’s still being litigated. Still here is one shining example the DOL put forth.
“The company “preferred Asian recent college and university graduates to all others,” the OFCCP charges. To back that claim it offered this statistic: of some 500 hires of recent grads between 2013 and 2016, 90 percent were Asian.
The population of recent grads Oracle would be targeting based on their relevant studies and the type of available positions is 65 percent Asian, by contrast, the complaint states”
That’s right they hired too many Asians. Everyone knows that the demographics of CS degrees look exactly like the makeup of the rest of the campus.
Did they all graduate with identical grades and accomplishments? I would bet not.
This will be followed by a drive to condense the college record to a single checkbox “attended”, which can be checked even if the student never showed up for class.
You know someone has jumped the shark when hiring minorities based on merit is considered by them evidence of discrimination against minorities.
What’s next, suing the NFL for discrimination for hiring too many black players and no women at all?
Do you even intersectionalize, brah?
This whole college admissions scandal is going to be fun to watch.
The crazy part is that colleges aren’t very hard to get into these days if you aren’t worried about the cost (like pretty much all of thee people). We are going through the application process right now with my son who is a mediocre student with decent SAT’s. I was actually surprised at some of the schools that accepted him.
So you saying there is going to be a new Drake Library at Princeton?
Sure – right next to the Wilson School of Government.
Ah, the mists of time… I remember wayyy back in 2015 when some woke students wanted to memory-hole a Democrat, and it didn’t work. A simpler time.
I knew he was saving up those checks from the Koch brothers. Those stipends add up over time.
Look at the retention rates of those schools. Ie, what percent of freshmen return for their sophomore year? What percent of freshman graduate?
These schools often have liberal admission policies but have things structured so as to flunk out a huge percent of their freshman classes. Also look at how the ratio of freshmen to other years compares with that of schools with better graduation rates.
It is still a total mystery to me why any of this is criminal. It’s private schools.
I just assumed that those schools take govt money. I could be wrong.
ETS (Educational Testing Service) and the other people who own and profit from those admissions tests might have a valid fraud or breach of contract against the prep companies, but that’s about it.
Fraud? Bribery?
Taking bribes to get a kind into school because he’s tennis player even though he sucks and won’t make the team.
I don’t buy that. Private transaction, just like slipping the maitre-d’ a twenty for a better table.
Wait! That’s how you get the good table?!
I’m with OMWC here. Why in the hell is this a criminal matter? If the school thinks it was deceived kick the kids out, and sue or blacklist the testing company. The outrage smacks of envy. Envy is bad m’kay, just say no.
I think a good percentage of the charges were because after giving money to the counselor’s “charity,” they then tried to write it off.
That’s tax fraud, not mail fraud (which is the only charge that I heard)
Mail fraud is fake news. Nobody sends things by mail anymore.
Isn’t mail fraud one of those charges prosecutors pile on to threaten 900 year jail sentences so that people will sign plea deals?
UCLA isn’t private.
Probably a government form that was filled out fraudulently, and then sent through the US postal service. Horror of horrors is a double felony!
I’m more amazed that people are willing to pay the cost for the “elite” schools. There are lots of good state universities that are far cheaper. 4 years of tuition at my university is $24K for in-state students. Our last tuition increase was in 2012.
They have become luxury brands. This is about that.
Bingo
The parents receive social status based on the school that their children go to.
How do you think they became elite in the first place? Shit’s been going on for over a century.
Credentials is what matter in today’s system. Actually being able to do anything of value is of no importance at all, as the massive amount of failure without consequences from our credentialed elite class clearly proves…
That’s about what I pay for my son’s college too. It’s a bargain. What gets you is the room and board if you stay in the dorms. That triples the overall cost.
Any school will do. Once you get a job no one gives a shit where you went only what you can produce. This scandal is about people who imagine that they are part of some sort of aristocracy.
Once you get a job no one gives a shit where you went only what you can produce.
Depends a whoooooole lot on the job. Finance, law, and government still have very strong alumni benefits.
^^^this. And my Econ Degree from The People’s University Of Utah is basically worthless.
I should sue them. My chem degree was from a top 10 department, then they turned Stan Pons loose and devastated the reputation.
Yeah… That only barely beats out the Department of “we only hire Marxists” economics.
Though it adds context to why they were so happy that Mario Capecchi won the Nobel.
Did I mention the number of washed out Chem E majors in my finance classes at Fighting Blue Hens U?
Heh, my son enjoys chemistry to the point that he annoys me with chemistry puns. I told him that if he wants to pursue it that he needs to be serious, because the programs don’t cut anybody any slack.
Right! Those guys might have been the bottom of the barrel for Chem E, but they blew the curve for the rest of us.
The good news was that during my days before insane grade inflation, they had to overcome a heck of hurdle to get their GPA above a 3.0 so they could gain admission to the business college. Usually it took them until senior year to pull it off.
In my freshman year we had over 800 Mechanical Engineering majors. When I graduated there were fewer than 80 of us left.
Tejicano – somewhat OT – I started out with 17 people in my Japanese 101 adult education class here in NYC.
After year 6+ I’m the only one left. The one person who started with me got fed up with the school and quite earlier this year.
What do you mean? I hear it’s only five, ten years from bearing out.
Old Mormon With Candy? Do we need to change your brackets?
So much this!
True in the real world unless you are in a really technical field. But if you can’t get into an engineering program on your own, that may not be the field for you anyhow.
You really think these privileged kids were trying to get job skills?
The only real benefit of the ‘elite’ schools is the networking opportunities.
My son majored in business at LSU. His degree is one the school hands out like confetti. He got a job and learned a business. 2 years later he opened his own business. He is 26 now and has 4 locations. He plans on having 8 by this time next year. The education gave him a starting block, that is all.
I have had numerous conversations with him about people his age and their work ethic, life decisions, etc.
His primary complaint is that they have a sense of entitlement and that cripples their ability for success, and more, they dont seem to care.
In short, he is running circles around those privileged kids.
“Any school will do. Once you get a job no one gives a shit where you went only what you can produce.”
If you work for government you don’t need to do any of this work shit…
“Stormy Daniels slams Avenatti, says Cohen is ‘dumber than herpes’ at DC event”
https://nypost.com/2019/03/12/stormy-daniels-slams-avenatti-says-cohen-is-dumber-than-herpes-at-dc-event/
I guess if anyone would know.
That’s one classy broad right there.
Usually she is the one getting slammed!
And just like herpes, she persisted.
Woman attacked by jaguar says Arizona zoo should consider ‘moving fence’
Everybody else is gonna have to look at the animals through binoculars because you were retarded enough to lean over into an enclosure with a 200 pound big cat.
Just make the fence taller, and make the woman pay for it.
But that’s not fair, she’s suffered enough. The rich should pay for it!
/prog
Make the jaguar pay for it.
I am surprised they didn’t put the thing down for actually showing the selfie getting cunt that she shouldn’t think her perception of nature created from watching Disney movies was an accurate one.
*selfie snapping snatchbeast
You’re not even trying Al.
They just need to stop rescuing people who go over the barrier. Who knows, that kid with Harambe could have grown up to be Tarzan.
+2 new additions to the exhibit
How about if we just let anyone who wants to take selfies with large predator animals go ahead and do it?
We can take pictures of them taking selfies in the enclosures.
This. In fact, I’ll take the picture if they just go over there and stand next to the big kitty.
They could even have “selfie day” where they just unlock the cages and let the animals come out to pose with people.
Your idea won’t work because the animals will be too busy eating each other to eat the subhumans.
Works for me!
at the bare minimum the zoo should move the fence closer to the barrier.. or maybe remove the barrier and let people get as close to the cage as they want. okay, maybe have a short barrier to keep toddlers who don’t know any better from getting closer. actually, a toddler probably takes one look at a giant cat and instinct kicks in and the toddler a. shits their diaper, and b. runs away.
Last time we took toddler trshmnstr to the zoo, she was scared of everything but the lemurs
LOL. The first time I took my son to the zoo, one of the panthers was stalking him like an afternoon snack.
I can see “Petting Zoo” written all over that proposal
200? I dont know the size of the one that clawed the dummy but jaguars are the tigers of the Americas. They are big motherfuckers. Some injuns tried to sell me a hide in…a south american country… off of one they had shot. It was nine feet long tail to nose. That is as big as a bengal tiger. Fortunately the jaguar evolved in a people-less environment so it doesnt see us a prey and rarely attacks people, but it is still a giant meat eating cat. What she did was unbelievably dumb.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_cats
I see the chart. I am just telling you what the tape measure said.
Fake news! If she weights 125 kilos she is NOT a cougar
Chub-chasers will challenge you on that..
Cub-chasers won’t though…
Referring to the chart, a kg is not a unit of weight. /pedant
SJWednesday: Progsplaining Is The Best Splaining
Well if it makes them feel any better, I’m ashamed to share a species with them.
Department of Conversations That Never Happened
“My white friend doubted Jussie Smollett’s story when it broke, and keeps rubbing it in now that it’s been revealed for a hoax. How can I make him stop telling me, ‘I told you so’?”
Hire some Nigerians from the US to beat you up and blame him?
They both should be allowed to say it, even though in both cases it’s a stupid thing to say. Being born white or black isn’t an accomplishment.
Well in America, being born black did mean you might have had to fight off the abortion doc.
I’m proud to have a pre-disposition for colon cancer.
I am proud to live in Obama’s post-racial America.
Well said Suthen…
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
SJWednesday: A Moral Calculus For Retards
Click thru for charts and math….
WTF am I reading?
Some idiot’s special pleading that even though life is suffering, he has a social obligation to whinge incessantly for the duration of his natural life rather than cut it short.
You’re going to rot your mind with this stuff, Scruffy.
My neurologist said it was too late anyway.
I think you mentioned something about having an MRI? I hope it isn’t anything serious.
Nah, although there were some indications of white privilege in my amygdala.
I think the gains from an anti-natalist suicide are higher than claimed. You have to assign a proper value to the blessed silence.
Florida Senator proposes bill to strip gun owners of their Second, Fourth, and Fifth Amendment Rights if they exercise their First Amendment Rights.
Fuck you Jason Pizzo Shit
for some reason, and this Florida bill is far from the only example, pols see the intersection of “shall not be infringed” and “make no law” and think it’s an open invitation to regulate.
This is part of that eradicate the culture crap, isnt it? The left is nothing if not on script.
Apparently Florida is trying to become New Jersey.
Checking with lawyer to see if selling Jason Pizzo targets is valid 1st amendment.
I notice he decided to have his press conference in front of a house with bars on the windows.
There’s no question that if you’re a parent and have a dependent child in your home, what they are doing, what they have access to, and what goes on under your roof are your business. How you handle that parental authority is your call, or it should be. Depending on circumstances, alerting the police may be a viable option. Just be aware that their vested interest in their own safety, and the protocols they will follow to ensure it, will take precedence, and you may come to regret that you didn’t try to resolve matters another way.
Veiled threat to kill the kids… Lovely.
TW: Huffpost
Trump Parrots Anti-Science Misinformation As He Readies Climate Change Panel
It only benefits humans who are dependent on agriculture.
Zealots hate an apostate more than a heathen
You have to understand that “human benefit” means that every single human on the planet benefits, and equally so. Anything else is a catastrophe. See Humpty-Dumpty quote by WTF above.
I thought the AGW cult only considered anything related to this scam as a benefit if it allowed them to advance their marxist agenda? What did I get wrong?
Non-benefits are good too, because it allows them to say we’re doing it wrong and they should be put in charge.
Is this some kind of last gasp for the AGW grifters? They are really pounding the drum hard. 12 years huh? In the past it was always 20 or 30 years. Why the jump? Panic?
Well they recently revised their reporting policy to switch from using the previous 30 years trend to instead use the previous 15 years and the predicted trend from their models for the next 15. Given how shitty (and overestimating!) those models are, are we surprised the doom window got cut in half?
Given that the actual temperatures have been flat over the past 15 years, that should have extended the deadline indefinitely.
Well that’s where using the models comes in. No matter what data you feed them, they’ll model a steep increase.
For those who are interested, the BA has released the top 50 (by volume) craft and overall breweries in the US.
I don’t think of the first 3 as “craft” beers.
Yuengling, Boston, and Sierra Nevada? Keep in mind this is using the BA definition for craft, which is primarily a limit on production amount (which keeps getting upped), independence (ownership percentages), and making beer (though this percentage changed). The BA adjusts the rules on a semi-regular basis (which some, myself included) believe is to be able to keep Boston Beer in the fold. It would be embarrassing for them as an organization to explain why the craft output dropped by a huge amount the year after the rules finally excluded Boston Beer company from the BA. Sierra Nevada, I’d stick up for more, as they are still innovating, and are one of the grandfathers of the entire craft beer movement. Yuengling gets in since they’re still family owned.
The part that’s starting to jump out to me is how many collectives are on the list now. You’ve got Duvel, CANarchy, Artisanal Brewing Ventures, and Gambrinus. Even I would be hard pressed to name all of the breweries that make up each of those (I cheated and looked up Gambrinus when the list crossed my news feed yesterday).
The list has a different feel to it than 8-10 years ago when everyone was independent. Everyone knew this was coming, but it is interesting to see it play out.
Yuengling wasn’t until the definition change a few years back, but the other two always have been.
Originally, Boston brewed regionally, contracting through independent brewers. Their lager in upstate NY was significantly different (and better) then it was in MO/KS or in CA.
New Glarus at #16 while distributing to exactly 1 state.
That’s pretty damned impressive.
i did not know Founders was 30% owned by Mahou San Miguel.
You should see the Founders Mansion a few blocks away from my house. I run past it a few times a month on my jogging route.
https://www.mlive.com/business/west-michigan/2015/06/see_the_house_that_founders_bu.html
They payed a lot for that 30%.
They sold a stake several years ago to expand production and distribution, and it’s paid off for Founder’s.
Particularly, didn’t it get them distribution in Europe?
It did. Of course, there were also breweries such as Brooklyn Brewing and a couple others that found their own distribution path. I was entertained when I was in Dublin, walked into a pub, and they were advertising a Tap Takeover for Founders…
I find Tap Takeovers in general to be weird things.
I get them as marketing, but as a consumer, I don’t want to be constrained to a single brewery.
There’s a couple during Cleveland Beer Week that are worthwhile. As an example, there’s one that’s annual where Bell’s brings out their rarities, and does special tappings every hour or so. It’s not like you’re going to find multiple vintages of Black Note on tap on a regular basis. The only other times I really see them around here is when a new brewery comes to the area. And even then they choose a place with 20+ taps so they really only takeover about half the taps.
Agreed on all of that (a Bell’s tap takeover was probably my favorite), it is more in theory than practice that it bothers me.
The night before Great Taste, all the bars around Madison are doing tap takeovers, I liked the one that was basically 3 different tap takeovers, about 10 beers each across 30 taps.
Censorship in gaming — an all-too-comfortable relationship
Maybe that’s why the Wonder Woman movie was WW1 not WW2? Although I don’t think Germany is that big a market.
Everybody knows that when a German sees a swastika, they immediately transform into a Einsatzgruppen officer.
I appreciate the work janitors do, this isn’t a gripe about them. This is a gripe about the manager who decided that it would be a great idea to have the janitors work during the normal workday on tasks such as cleaning the bathrooms. I know my co-workers are horrible, but there is no good reason I should have to cross the building several times on multiple floors to find one bathroom not closed for cleaning.
Employee wellness? Think of all the extra steps you’re getting in while pinching a loaf walking like a cowboy.
OK…..
For some reason, at my university bathroom cleaning time is from about 10 am to 2 pm. Every day.
Same at my office. 2 or 3 cleanings between 10:30am and 2pm.
It’s like they’re trying to justify their existence. Oh, and we only have the one bathroom in our office, so unless I want to walk across the street to the gym, I’m SOL.
They got to many complaints about floaters and scatter shots, and are doing it now during the day to clean up the crap some of the dirty fucks in your company are causing when they do their business?
Be glad they get cleaned… ugh
I’m glad they get cleaned. It’s just that about 10:15 am every day, classes end, several hundred students spill out into the hallways in my building (not counting the ones waiting for the next class) and…bathroom closed!
Dutch ‘blunder building’ bans dancing
Client 2: I don’t know we need to worry too much about strengthening that. After all, these are not meant to be luxury flats.
Client 1: Absolutely. If we make sure the tenants are of light build and relatively sedentary and if the weather’s on our side, I think we have a winner here.
Dutch Top Men build true socialism, not ‘buildings’; it’s a more human priority.
Wait, the 2x6s weren’t for the floor joists?
What’s a joist?
/Dutch crew
yoistenfluur?
The Democrats’ baffling socialist swoon
Non-Stalinist leftists have never existed except in the egos of Stalinist-leftists.
I like it when twitter socialists say USSR was not real communism but if you scroll to their tweet you see they desire to do the same things to the “bourgeois”
Yes. They never seem to be able to explain exactly how these failed states are not real communism when they have exactly the same policies.
To be fair none of the failed States claimed to be real communism. That was the running joke about the five year plans in the USSR, “True Communism is just 5 years away!” True Communism is the magical end state that occurs after the gulags have made new soviet man and the dictatorship of the proletariat has faded away. It’s the pie in the sky (apologies) by and by for the red religion.
There is more reality in the old fables and children stories or the myths of old religions than there ever will be in any marxist dream. Marxist shit can only produce nightmares.
I like it when Twitter socialists claim that and subsequently get slapped down by some low brow mutant tankie proclaiming that bread lines and mass graves are precisely the idea.
I see socialists cant open their mouths without prefacing everything they say with “Don’t talk about Venezuela!”
It would be hilarious if it weren’t so tragic.
If you ignore history Suthen, what usually happens?
These people seem to think the answer to their idiotic desires is to apply the Ostrich defense to any criticism or intrusion by reality.
Feature, not a bug. People can project whatever utopian hopes and dreams they have onto a term with no real meaning. It’s how the country coalesced behind Obama.
-1 Hope
-1 Change
It’s a foggy, unfocused concept that tells voters very little about what its exponents believe in or want to achieve.
But that won’t stop ’em working it good and hard.
So what is the tl;dr on the Boeing’s 737 MAX 8. Is it safe?
Sure but you may want to pack your own parachute.
I think they are temporarily grounded in the EU…
No wonder your arms are so tired.
UK:
Only socialist planning can save the planet: Build a mass working-class struggle to achieve it!
I’m sure Honda will just go along with this.
Give them credit for being consistently irredeemably stupid.
I dont know that that even rises to stupid. It looks like pure insanity to me. It reminds me of the city council woman in…Seattle?….that wanted to have the workers seize the Boeing Factory and turn it to produce…city buses. It really is a special kind of delusion.
If you can accept the delusion that collectivism is good and can work, you can accept any idiotic idea, no mater how far fetched. I am surprised that these socialists have not told us that the difference between all the failed socialist experiments and what they want to do is that they have magic on their side and that will finally make it work…
Rabid anti-Semites nationalizing major industries. Hmmmmmm
“democratic socialist plan of production. ”
Here’s the plan: we didn’t plan for Libertarians, conservatives liberals, lukewarm progressives, farmers, programmers, writers, journalists, professors, etc. to be a part of society, so if you could go starve.
The only solution is to take major industry out of private hands in order to enable the development of a democratic socialist plan of production. Jeremy Corbyn should immediately pledge that an incoming Labour government would prevent all job losses by nationalising Honda Swindon under democratic working-class control.
This would not mean having to continue to produce polluting petrol cars. On the contrary, an appeal should be made to the Honda workers to propose alternative, environmentally friendly production the plant could be turned to.
Sounds legit.
I knew an old guy in Mexico…a German ex-patriot (if you know what I mean)…who upon any mention of communists would turn beet red and through clenched teeth say “There is only one way you can deal with them”. Then he would make pistol hand and snap his thumb down.
To be fair, he said the same about Jews, the mentally disabled, cripples, gypsies, and gays.
What’s the finger sign for gas showers?… Ohhhh, now I get why all the Marxists are so fond of uptwinkle!
“New York’s freshman congressman, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has, like, a lot to say, lol.
Over the course of a wide-ranging 80-minute interview at South by Southwest on Saturday, the 29-year-old left-wing lightning rod let loose a litany of “likes,” “you knows,” and “whatevers.”
In between calling America “garbage,” capitalism “irredeemable,” and President Reagan racist, AOC said “like” no fewer than 71 times, “you know” at least 34 times, and “whatever” five times.
She also said “ummm” too many times for us to count. The popular progressive personality also has a penchant for peppering her prose with, “I think” and “I guess.””
https://news.grabien.com/story-aoc-sxsw-you-know-whatever-you-know-montage
This is our “boss”. This is who is “in charge.”
But the fact that she’s dumber than her food and speaks like an inarticulate suburban 8th grader is what makes her so totes relatable! YASSSSSSS QUEEN!!!!!!!!!!
I’ll say as :shudders: part of her generation, peppering your language with those phrases is a sign that you want acceptance and are testing the waters. Also it can be used to make you feel like you aren’t being aggressive… You know?
holy shit. that is sad.
She’s an idiot, a useful idiot with a superiority complex.
You would think that someone in the public eye would attempt to reduce the number of “likes” they use. I catch myself in conversation and feel embarrassed by it.
If you’re going to say something, understand it and mean it. Otherwise shut your trap.
I have an annoying verbal tic where I too often end sentences with “you know what I mean?”, but fortunately I’m so stiff and anxious around people I don’t know that I’m constantly scrutinizing everything I say or think so I’m able to keep a lid on it until you get to know me.
Shouldn’t you have ended that comment with “…you know what I mean?”
I know what you mean.
I don’t.
Related
Yes, I believe I know what you are saying.
Looks like you have done it now Pat. You are gonna get ribbed forever about that. You know what I mean?
I would be disappointed with all of you if you didn’t.
I won’t rib you ’cause I don’t know what you are saying. In fact, I don’t know what most of the people here are saying. I understand “Uffda” and then I lose track of the conversation.
Ribbed for our pleasure?
That doesn’t bother me, makes it sound like it’s not rehearsed.
The scary part is the content she comes up with after attempting to think about the questions asked.
No shit. Her desire to force banks that provided capital loans to companies that contracted to build pipelines if those lines leak is indicative of how far from the levers of power the little commie should be kept. Looking at shit like that makes me wonder how it took so long for Venezuela to collapse.
Speaking of which, what is the over/under on how long before Maduro has a lamp post named after him? Days? hours?
Seems like it will be months.
Whoever edited that deserves a medal. The applause break at the beginning is golden.
That’s because the ideas are not her own.
I mean I am sure she believes them but it is pretty clear she does not actually understand them. She is more like an actress memorizing lines than someone with an actual political position which makes sense given how she came to be a member of Congress. She literally answered a Justice Democrats casting call.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h5iv6sECGU
don’t look at it, don’t look at it, don’t look at it.
I looked.
Uber to pay $20 million to settle long-running legal battle with drivers
Congratulations, Drivers, you’ve just lawyered yourselves out of a job.
Sounds like the whole union issue in good old Detroit…
“Researchers launch neutral-sounding ‘Q’ that’s neither male nor female to fight bias in smart assistants”
http://www.genderlessvoice.com/share
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6796065/Gender-neutral-voice-assistant-developed-combat-gender-bias-artificial-intelligence.html
But does it like boobs?
Conspiracy theories, probably.
Does ze lecture you if you misgender zit?
No, you disappear in a diamond-shaped flash of light, never to be seen again.
It’s nice to know Ari Shapiro continues to find gainful employment.
That sounds exciting.
Siri.
http://photo-ht.wickedpcontent.com/models/2591/280x377_1.jpg
Not a fan of her earlier work, but I’ve got to admit she’s won me over. Granted, part of that was my heavy anti-Apple bias.
You put a bug in your house? i think you can hack that thing to listen in on your neighbors.
There is pornstar named Siri.
Stop off for a beer or go straight home? Oh, who am I kidding.
Huh?
Maybe don’t get blackout drunk at the Japanese gay bar and you will still be straight when you head home.
Sound advice…
And if someone approaches you and asks you “If you go camping, drink a ton, wake up with your ass covered in vaseline and hurting, do you tell anyone?” run for the hills.
Well, if you stop off for a beer you can always go home later. But if you go home without stopping off for a beer you will only be going home.
Seems more productive to accomplish both goals.
It’s on the way, like running an errand.
You can always go home when there is no place else to go.
Shocked, I tell you!
“This is an unfortunate example of the lengths to which people will go to circumvent and manipulate the college admission process, particularly to gain admission to highly selective colleges,” said Stefanie Niles, National Association for College Admission Counseling president and vice president for enrollment and communications at Ohio Wesleyan University.
“If these allegations are true, they violate the essential premise of a fair and transparent college admissions process,” Ted Mitchell, president of the American Council on Education, the leading higher education lobbying group, said in a statement. “This alleged behavior is antithetical to the core values of our institutions, defrauds students and families, and has absolutely no place in American higher education.”
The NCAA said the allegations are “troubling and should be a concern for all of higher education.”
If the NCAA is troubled, that really means something.
The only thing that troubles the NCAA is finalizing the March Madness contract every year.
Stop off for a beer or go straight home? Oh, who am I kidding.
Have a beer and think about it.
Wednesday tittays.
http://archive.li/Ni8YO
We’re supposed to have a blizzard but the weather’s fine.
1>10R>19>25>7
I liked the nerdy hot vibe on 18
Same, actually, but she’s getting into uncanny valley territory with the makeup and filters.
I wasn’t picking up on that, but if I were to rank by Real Doll-ish, she’d come in third behind 24 and 28.
1 works
Also 7 maybe 14
How I accepted I’m an introvert – and learned to refuse invitations without guilt
She just sounds like an asshole.
I’m an introvert. She’s an asshole.
As an introverted and anxious person I have sympathy for the general sentiment, but I can’t stand how “introvert” has turned into yet another snowflake buzzword the last 10 years or so.
Go home and recuperate after you’ve fulfilled your social obligations, Karen, don’t lecture me about how empowered you are.
I’m very much an introvert – but still like to socialize with friends and neighbors. And even meet new people – I just can’t do it for long without having to get some breathing room.
Is “breathing room” code for doing lines in the bathroom?
^This. Being an introvert does not mean you are an anti-social misanthrope. Generally, it means that interacting with others requires more effort and that you need alone time to recharge your mental batteries. Extroverts, on the other hand, tend to be energized in situations with a lot of social interaction.
That’s the gist of the psychological definition, but even that has been turned into a trendy identity group, particularly in the business press with books like The Introvert Advantage and Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking (the former of which I actually read my senior year of college incorrectly thinking it might have some useful insights into shoehorning an introverted personality into a business career; it doesn’t). Seems to have particularly caught fire among women, since it serves as an additional means by which to claim workplace oppression.
I know what you mean.
An introvert friend of mine (I am also, but he is more extreme) calls extroverts social vampires. Extroverts suck energy out of social situations, while introverts are drained by them.
I’m an introvert too, but I know not to take more than one drink at a party, so I can get the disinhibiting effects without the depressive effect that lets this author of this take their inner asshole out for a spin.
I guess it works if you never want to be invited to anything again.
Scientists have discovered a shape that blocks all sound–even your co-workers
Now that is cool.
I can think of more than a few applications, but small engine mufflers would benefit mightily.
Suppressors!
*Tapes PVC pipes over ears*
WHAT???
Forget that shit, I would clad every external surface of my house in this material.
Or at least the room that leads to the well.
Do they make a size that fits a woman’s mouth? Asking for a friend…
Duct tape works for my friend
Why the fuck are lawn mowers and leaf blowers so damn loud?
#2 thing I hate about moving to the South is the 5 months of constant leaf-blowing. Get a rake you assholes.
When you don’t have winter, the trees don’t conveniently drop their leaves just-once (or twice, fucking oaks) a year.
I guess BU really is ashamed of Occluded-Cortex.
That’s cool.
*scrolls down, encounters “bottomless page”, considers raging, reads on*
Science!
Discriminating against the incompetent. Monsters.
So they made a 3D model of husband/father lips?
I don’t understand the physics of it but my wife/kids seem to be unable to hear anything I say.
“A team of Boston University researchers”
Can they make an alumni filter?
The French genocide that leftist historians keep trying to sweep under the rug.
You know who else… oh never mind.
French Revolution got a bit out of hand. I was also reading a bit about the “Citizen Genet” affair in the U.S. that almost toppled George Washington and the nascent United States.
Huge street riots in Phila., NY, Boston came pretty close to overthrowing the Constitution. Yellow Fever, not troops, pretty much ended Genet’s secret attempt to re-colonize the
U.S. for the French. Years and years on, one of Genet’s descendants became the first official American flyer killed over France in WWI.
Thank you Ron Burgundy!
That was upsetting.
Many bodies were skinned for their leather. On April 5 1794 at Clisson, General Crouzat’s soldiers burned 150 women alive to extract their fat to use as grease.
okay, i think this story may be jumping the shark a little.
Every day this week at 11 01 the internet at work goes down for 20 minutes. No one knows why
Aliens
That’s the time we try to send messages to Romanians instructing them how to resist Trump.
Vampires – duh
Old women looking for scrap copper?
Hitler?
They are rebooting it?
It’s outrage, all the way down.
Many less-prestigious sports are expensive to participate in, let alone excel at. They require investments like elaborate equipment, pool time, and private coaching. They overwhelmingly attract white players and even more disproportionately exclude black students. Just 160 of 7,277 women’s crew team members last year were black, according to NCAA data. Among water polo players, black athletes made up 31 of 2,263 team members.
When special slots are set aside for these athletes at elite schools, they’re essentially designated for wealthy applicants who otherwise might not be accepted. According to a Harvard Crimson survey last fall, more than one-quarter of recruited athletes in the current freshman class come from families with incomes above $500,000. Just 12 percent of recruited athletes at Harvard come from families with incomes below $80,000. Yes, it’s a scandal that a few dozen rich and famous parents essentially bought college acceptance letters for their kids through a “side door.” But we shouldn’t fool ourselves into thinking the front door is so much more noble.
Maybe we should just ban college.
Send the
studentsYoung Pioneers to government indoctrination camps in the countryside.“…exclude black students.”
They are excluded. It isnt that fewer blacks want to play water polo (really? Who wants to play water polo?) or crew it’s that the school is actively excluding them.
*I* want to play water polo. We didn’t have it as a varsity sport in college, but we did have a club team.
We had it as an intramural sport here until about five years ago. My team won one year and finished second the next year. It’s fun to get your students into the pool and beat the shit out of them.
https://www.ncsasports.org/athletic-scholarships/mens-water-polo/louisiana/grambling-state-university
They also do not offer these:
https://list25.com/25-dumbest-sports-ever-created/
Warning – click baity site
Cheese rolling is awesome. I love those videos.
“Maybe we should just ban college.”
Oh I think higher ed is doing a perfectly fine job self-destructing all on its own.
Convergence of the Ethiopian Navy story and St. Patrick’s Day.
The NoDak navy another land locked naval force.
The Wisconsin Navy.
Never mix naval drinking traditions with Packer paint thinner drinking culture.
Must be a transplant and not a real bread sconnie, passed out during daytime, rookie.
I assume it’s the following morning.
He’s only gone thru a mornings worth of beer, though.
Here’s our Navy.
Missouri’s navy consists of “steamboats” on which you can gamble.
in concrete moats that don’t move.
Don’t forget the Branson Belle…
Kids these days.
https://hotair.com/archives/2019/03/12/students-sarah-lawrence-college-demand-free-fabric-softener-right-fire-conservative-professors/
You’re not supposed to USE fabric softener on children’s pajamas!
It’s Tide pods man, they just want free food.
This bullshit will continue to grow so long as it is tolerated.
Whose kids are these? What kind of asshole do you have to be to raise a little shit like this?
Unfortunately the “good” generations seem to raise shitty ones. The Greatest Generation brought us the Baby Boomers and Gen X brought us Millennials.
And yes, I’m collectivizing. Fuck off.
It would seem to be the Boomers that brought us the Millenials.
Gen X is a little young too young to be responsible for the shithead generation.
Accordingly, my parents were born just before WW2.
Yeah, Gen X’s kids are Gen Z. They’re as bad or worse though.
Not mine. My 16 year old was permanently immunized against leftism by the Covington Incident.
Both my kids hate Fortnite, and my son loves Alex Jones (ironically, of course)
Same as it ever was
yeah some millennial have Gen X parents but as a general rule most Gen X’ers waited till they were in their late 20’s to have kids which has most children of Gen X parents being born after 1995 and 1996 is the currently accepted end of the millennial generation.
Millennials are by and large the children of Boomers second families as Boomers were the first generation (and possibly only generation) to have a common life pattern where they married young, had a kid or two, got divorced, remarried and had more kids.
Earlier generations had kids spread across 2 generations as well but it was more typically the result of their having a lot of kids spread over many years in a single family
I looked up the school. The place sounds like it was a liberal insane asylum long before most colleges went that way.
Yes, the founder was a 1890s progressive. Ironically, he made his fortune in pharmaceuticals which, in those days, was quack elixirs loaded with alcohol and narcotics.
Too bad they stopped selling them.
Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline of the Party. On the contrary, they adored the Party and everything connected with it…. All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the State, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals. It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children.
I have no sympathy. Frankenstein’s monster is a self-solving problem.
I will pop the corn.
As long as they’re not paying for it with my tax dollars, I don’t care. Next protest is why did our tuition go up so high?
It’s already $53,000
?
The lunatics are in charge of the asylum.
“such acts could not be tolerated. Judd agreed, but did not pledge to take any further actions. ”
So the acts are being tolerated then.
The older sister from “10 Things I Hate About You” wanted to go to Sarah Lawrence. Enough said
Yeah but I so totally would have anyway.
My late wife went to Sarah Lawrence. She wanted to go to a conservatory to study theater, but her parents pretty much told her that wasn’t an option. From what she told me it was always a left-wing shit show. Mostly with approval from the faculty. That and most of the girls who went there were really vicious bitches.
Precisely why I wanted to go to a commuter school. “High School With Dorms” seemed like a stupid concept.
“This is a weird interview https://www.teenvogue.com/story/youtuber-olivia-jade-usc-dorm-room … HT: @TaylorLorenz”
https://twitter.com/TheStalwart/status/1105502533840236545
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/youtuber-olivia-jade-usc-dorm-room
It’s basically an Amazon ad, lol. Also, would.
“Lori Loughlin’s daughter cashed in on student status after alleged bribery scheme
After actress Lori Loughlin allegedly bribed her daughter’s way into college, the “Fuller House” star’s teen cashed in on her student status — despite admitting she was attending school just to party.
Olivia Jade Giannulli is a social-media star in her own right, boasting 1.3 million followers on Instagram and almost 2 million on YouTube.
After arriving at USC last year, she posted sponsored content on Instagram for Amazon Prime, featuring a photo of herself in her new dorm room.
“Officially a college student! It’s been a few weeks since I moved into my dorm and I absolutely love it. I got everything I needed from Amazon with @primestudent and had it all shipped to me in just two-days,” the caption read.
A few days later, she posted an ad for Smile Direct Club’s “invisible aligner treatment” for “back-to-school season.”
Loughlin and husband Mossimo Giannulli allegedly paid $500,000 in bribes to get Olivia Jade and her older sister into the college under the guise of them being crew athletes — even though neither participates in the competitive-rowing sport, prosecutors said Tuesday.”
https://pagesix.com/2019/03/12/lori-loughlins-daughter-cashed-in-on-student-status-after-alleged-bribery-scheme/
Whose kids are these? What kind of asshole do you have to be to raise a little shit like this?
Without looking, I’d say there is a sufficient pool of applicants that Sarah Lawrence could expel every member of that cadre and replace them with “students” instead of “activists”.
That’s what Milton Friedman stated compelled him to work at the University of Chicago- they expelled their Maoist cadres
“The house eunuch at CNN”
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/tucker-carlson-tears-into-media-matters-cnn-calls-brian-stelter-a-eunuch/
LOL
PS: Media Matters has tax exempt status? WTF??
It’s a 501(c)(3)
Fuck that. Trump should be stripping all these phony non-profits of their status.
Better yet, do away with the phony distinctions and stop double taxing corporate income.
Lois Lerner approves.
I saw that last night. Brutal. They came after him and it looks like he is going to hand their asses back to them. This is like Ayn Rand hate…they hate anyone that shines a light on them showing them for what they are. Tucker is wildly off target on some things (MJ legalization) but he is spot on about the left.
I am not sure what a Media Matters boycott against Tucker is supposed to mean. Media Matters creepy cadre of shitweasels dont watch Tucker. They are probably going to make his ratings rise.
I never watched any news or commentary shows on Fox News during the whole Obama administration. Since the Left has torn off their mask after Trump won, Fox News channel gets put on a lot in my house.
Fox is corporate media. Everything else is woke corporate media. *Shrugs, puts on Fox*
Tucker used to be for marijuana legalization.
Tucker MC’d Ron Paul’s “Rally for the Republic” so I don’t know what they guy ever believed since he seems to reinvent himself every couple of years. He’s the Madonna of politics
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/12/bernie-sanders-jews-israel-1218781
“Sanders aide apologizes for questioning American Jews’ ‘dual allegiance’ to Israel”
It’s so weird how all these attempts at questioning American foreign policy toward Israel always seem to be devoid of any policy critiques and just revolve around antisemitic talking points.
So when Trump accused a federal judge of Mexican descent of being biased he was just critiquing US foreign policy toward Mexico, right?
Weird as in completely unsurprising?
‘For Us, by Us’: Inside the New Social Spaces for People of Color
Who wants to join my new Caucasian club?
Sounds lame
Make Segregation Great Again
if only the acronym could spell out MASSA
Is there a sign on the door that says ‘Coloreds only’?
You ain’t woke. It says ‘POC Only’.
Ooops. I am just going by memory. I have a vague memory of a water fountain in Natchitouches, La of a water fountain with ‘Whites Only’ on it, a sign at a boat landing in Deville, La that read “No Nigers Aloud” (I guess they weren’t allowed to speak?), a pile of throwing rocks by the highway in Pollock, La with a sign by it with “No niggers” on it, and even better was a gallows by the courthouse not far from Jena that had a sign on it saying “Nigger, stand here”. Best of all is the fuzzy memory of my sadistic great uncle taking me to see the body of a black woman dumped in the woods because she had gotten pregnant by a white man.
I dont know what POC means but I fucking sure know what segregation means. These people are undiluted evil.
Huh, I have ‘Dunkirk’ on the teevee right now and realized I still use the term ‘shell shocked’.
Just get the hell off of my lawn.
I dont know what POC means but I fucking sure know what segregation means. These people are undiluted evil.
Quoted for truth. We need to be shouting this shit from the mountaintops.
Way to publicize your lawsuit-waiting-to-happen enterprise, morons.
Can’t have them color folk mixing up with whites.
The fought the racist segregationists hard so they could… self segregate? I am missing something here, ain’t I?
Where all the white women at?
If you find out tell me. I want to avoid it.
Sideways pussy FTW!
is there some kind of book alerting people to places like this? Maybe a green one.
“ZARDOZ SENSES A BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY FOR THE CHOSEN ONES.”
To me, it’s almost astonishing that this ruse has went on since the start and the British seem to think that Teresa May is not just doing exactly what her EU masters have directed her to do. Have they ever been anything but serfs over there?
Depends on the class. Middle and lower middle class are very much like us but have little power to do anything about it.
So, serfs and royalty as always.
The bug or feature of a Parliamentarian system. The only people who voted for May are the residents of one district. She then inside politiced her way to the equivalent of Majority Leader. If we had a similar system, Nancy Pelosi would be our Prime Minister.
We have a variant on that in the U.S. Gotta win the vote to get into office, then the real election takes place to see who runs the legislative body.
I thought it was widely known that May is a Remainer who is actively trying to sabotage Brexit. Good on parliament for slapping down
the EU’sher legislation over and over.What man has his wife negotiate the price for his hooker?
^This. Even “no deal” is better than the garbage-deal she was proposing.
“Your comment is awaiting moderation.”
crap
You’re going to mess up our family friendly reputation.
If there’s been a narrowly directed banhammer against Demi Moore pics, I can get behind that. Or behind her behind.
I got the “comment under moderation” thing a couple times until I learned to not put more than one link per post.
Two links has never been a problem for me.
Except when I mess up the HTML.
Spalding!
I did decide to stop off for a whiskey on the way home. Met the Japanese ambassador to Sweden at the bar. He sure did love telling filthy jokes. Just checked and that guy really is the ambassador. Weird night.
Probably just taking advantage of being in Japan. Telling those jokes might get him up on hate crime charges in woke Sweden.
“Lori Loughlin’s Daughter Olivia Jade Is Being Harassed on Instagram Following Alleged Cheating Scandal”
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/lori-loughlin-daughter-olivia-jade-harassed-instagram-alleged-cheating-scandal
You don’t say.
“Going to prison so your daughter can attend college just to get Instagram likes is sadder than Old Yeller”
https://twitter.com/KatTimpf/status/1105624761433051137
You’ve got famous parents and are more than passably good looking, why waste time pretending you’re going to get an education?
So she can get into the right school and go husband shopping?
It’s not about an education if you’re good looking enough and not inclined to work hard.
Looks aren’t everything, but she looks like she’s as dumb as a rock.
According to the info that came out yesterday, after the bribe, she was having trouble filling out the application so Singer had someone do it for her.
She is not the sharpest bulb in the deck.
Don’t you think there was an easier, more traditional way for her to get into college? There would be if I was HEAD of admissions.
USC? Huh?
It’s like they don’t even internet.
Would that they apply that standard to anyone else.
would. for both. Lori Loughlins always been a smoke show.
This goes without saying. The real question is which is the better mother/daughter duo: Nikkie Haley and her college daughter or Lori Loughlins and her college daughter.
Why not switch them up? Research is needed.
It’s like he’s never even heard of a control group, sheesh.
The correct answer is always orgy.
Have any college administrators been charged? Seems like that should be the focus of the story. The notion that we should be surprised that the rich are bribing elite schools to take their kids is preposterous. We all know that was going on. I want to know how deep this scheme goes in colleges.
The female Asst. AD at either USC or Stanford (I forget which) was arrested. She was a bit part of the scheme.
Sounds like a fall guy.
USC. It is why the USC situation is across multiple sports.
From what I’ve heard, you can bribe the school as an institution but not the individual admins.
/just another story that makes me sad about the low viewership of my youtube channels./
Is there a sign on the door that says ‘Coloreds only’?
NO HONKEYS
Harpo Marx has a sad.
Some of you have posted about making mead before and I had a question. I just started a gallon batch and the fruits have not sunk to the bottom (I know true mead doesn’t have fruit, but mine does so deal with it) yet during the first fermentation. It’s been almost two weeks. Should I siphon the liquid to the second fermentation even if the fruits have not sunk to the bottom yet?
Please advise
I make fruit wine (which is apparently mead). I usually put the fruit in a straining bag so it’s easier to remove, and I don’t know if the fruit floats or not. But I’d say after 2 weeks the primary fermentation is done and you should transfer to secondary. If you get fruit bits in it that’s ok, you will get them the next time you transfer.
What type of fruit is it?
Blood oranges
Where they whole oranges, or were they peeled first? Was this a play on the Joe’s Ancient Orange Mead (JAOM)? Basically, I’m asking if the mead is sitting with the pith in it? JAOM uses the whole fruits, but uses a weak yeast to leave behind sugars to balance the pith bitterness. Generally when adding citrus fruit you add just the juice and the zest. If it’s a play on JAOM, you’ll be fine. If it’s using a real beer, wine, or mead yeast, I would transfer it to the secondary, and taste a small sample to see where it’s at.
Thank you, good sir. It is the whole orange sliced.
Not a problem, if you do have some pith bitterness and astringency in there, you’ll most likely need to let it ferment out, stabilize the mead (adding sulfates to kill the yeast), and then backsweeten it to balance that out.
Muh Do-Over!
Today May will once more try to persuade Parliament to support her essentially unchanged agreement. The Commons should reject it again, and for the same reasons: Her deal would cost jobs, reduce economic growth, harm competitiveness, and diminish Britain’s sovereignty and standing in the world, all while accomplishing next to nothing. Every serious analysis of the proposal has confirmed that it would be an expensive mistake.
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Although undoubtedly contentious, a second referendum would offer the public a chance to put Britain back on the path to sane and orderly government. Whatever happens today, this Parliament and prime minister have shown themselves incapable of doing that. One way or another, a new vote would give businesses some clarity about where Britain is headed. With luck, it might even bring this whole egregious misadventure to an end.
Bloomberg editorial board weeps for the tragic demise of a United States of Europe. Senseless destruction, pointless woe. They say it. It must be true.
Uh, if they hold another referendum and “Remain” wins, then it’s just tied. So…hold a third one a few years later for the rubber?
THAT’S NOT HOW IT WORKS.
/EU
Expensive Mistakes do seem the be the hallmark of Sane And Orderly Gov’t.
Tyler Cowen is disappointed, if not shocked
Another hypocrisy has to do with using legal donations to get into a prestigious college. Universities are loath to admit the details, but if you give a few million dollars to a top school, your children will be given very favorable admissions consideration. More generally, the advantages of coming from a wealthy, well-educated, “upstanding” family are extreme. Some colleges have more students from the top 1 percent than from the bottom 60, in terms of income.
That kind of unbalanced enrollment isn’t mainly because of donations, but still it seems unfair, a sign that a particular kind of early head start is being valued too highly. Which brings me to one final hypocrisy: These inegalitarian results are tolerated, even engineered, by the very same American institutions that pride themselves on their supposedly egalitarian values.
Blah blah blah. Once upon a time, schools like Harvard and Yale did not pretend to be “egalitarian”. They prided themselves on their exclusivity and inegalitarianism.
Back when they were honest, and proud of it.
Manafort just got 43 additional months.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/13/paul-manafort-gets-additional-43-months-in-second-mueller-sentence.html
So a couple of guys that worked for Trump got life sentences for that. Banana republic bullshit.
I wonder how many years an honest system would give to half of the democrats if a prosecutor were to crawl up their ass with a microscope.
It’s a warning from the political class – “Stay off our turf.”
I wonder how much time Tony Podesta will do?
Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) asks Wells Fargo CEO Timothy Sloan: “Why was the bank involved in the caging of children and financing the caging of children to begin with?”
I kept wanting to look down her shirt – and yes I’m that kind of shitlord.
*nods and high-fives LH*