Without further ado…
Cubans headed to America seem to be caught up in an extortion scheme.
The knives come out against Labor Secretary nominee Pudzer, as Oprah tape expected to be used in his confirmation hearing today. I, for one, am certain an ex-wife scorned is a very reliable character witness to use against somebody.
New York police and prosecutors persist after decades and get conviction in 40 year old kidnapping-murder case.
Private Catholic school in St Louis expected to bar a LGBT group on religious grounds, and people are up in arms over it.
Florida Man does something very un-Florida Man.
And here I thought everything in Las Vegas was legal. Apparently stuffing cash in condoms isn’t. Neither is whoring anymore, although they’re now calling it “sex trafficking.”
Have a great day out there, friends.
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A Nigel Farage speech:
I wish I had 20% of the ability to speak like Farage. Though lately he does seem awfully lovey-dovey with Trump.
Russian government dismisses claims intelligence officials in contact with Donald Trump election campaign
Jabbarov? Sounds like a talker…
*narrows gaze*
The man with a golden bum! Suspect arrested for smuggling 12 gold bars inside his rectum after customs officers spotting him ‘walking in a funny manner’ off a plane
Rect’ ? Damn near killed ‘im!
People are freezing their genitals to ‘spice up’ their sex life – and improve their appearance
PASS.
Isn’t the message, “help, we’re dying?” And think of the turtling going on…
Sounds, um, fun?
Whoa, whoa, whoa. -160F Where? No thank you. Too many science courses.
It’s not my bag, baby.
Sounds safe.
Abandoned missile base in Florida Keys found to be housing four pythons
You don’t say…
Asps…very dangerous. You go first.
This sounds like a SyFy movie setup. Abandoned missile base? Giant pythons?
Mad props on the threading fix. Es tres bien.
Possible French Takeover of Opel Ruffles German Feathers
Related: What car company is the most libertarian?
Tought question given that any auto maker receives handouts, tax breaks, has lobbyists, and often has (very political) union manufacturing.
I think that libertarianism can’t be in their DNA. I’m in the midst of doing PPAPs, APQPs, and a million other acronymic documentation packages that add zero value and carry huge opportunity cost, but are all done because “that’s the procedure and cannot be questioned.”
Ugh. Tesla? I know it’s silly, but at least they want to sell direct to customers instead of using dealerships. That may be the only thing even slightly libertarian about them.
DeLorean?
Wasn’t DeLorean just a money laundering scheme for a cocaine enterprise?…Yup that pretty much makes it the MOST libertarian.
Tucker.
Brilliant ideas first marginalized then crushed by the Establishment.
+1 hadn’t thought of Tucker. Is that movie any good?
I loved it.
But I’m a car nerd.
Oh, and you might find this interesting:
An Open Letter to The Automobile Industry In The Interests Of The American Motorist By Preston Tucker President, Tucker Corp.
The more things change…
Well, it was good enough for everyone to decide that Bannon was an antisemite, despite not a single bit of other evidence…
This explains what happened to Lucy the Goose. In Chicago, we have a different way:
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2016/10/15/body-found-at-suburban-chicago-golf-course/
DON’T TALK ABOUT LUCY….wait, we CAN talk about Lucy. Has anyone invited her to contribute here? She was my favorite first.
Ugh. Warning: Personal Work Venting ensues
Our heavy trucking division hired an older woman who has the same title as I do – but yet she is technically incompetent. She can’t program, she doesn’t understand basic project management, nor does she understand manufacturing. But she’s the wife of one of the senior managers there, which makes things even worse since they work together to get their way on projects.
I took part in her interview process – and recommended that she _not_ be hired since she lacks the skills to do the work. My recommendation was seemingly accepted since they did not hire her…. for a year. And then, because of pressure from her husband, she eventually was.
She provides nothing but more work for me, and another barrier from the people who used to report issues directly to me but now have to go through her. Instead of spending my time working on projects, fixing custom software, or tweaking an EDI setup, I’m answering emails from her, and doing her work, or explaining to her how to do her job.
I’ve told my boss about this and he understands, but I got a sort of: “Well that’s just the way it is” answer. And agrees that she shouldn’t haven’t been hired just for the nepotism reasons alone.
Remarkable. We can’t even work in the same division as a spouse. Which is too bad because Mrs. OMWC could have cleaned up a lot of problems we’ve been dealing with.
Look, your path is easy:
1) Do exactly the same work as she does
2) Get fired
3) Never work again on the comfortable settlement.
There’s all awful lot of people who want to live in a meritocracy. You, me, I’m betting just about everyone who hangs about here. We’ve seen that the law of the jungle is like, we hate the inefficiencies and lost opportunity costs, we’re content to build and work until it pays off according to the market.
Then there’s everyone else, who relies on their capital and not their merit. Usually because they have the former and not the latter, although to be fair it might just be because relying on the former is much easier.
There’s a reason journalists write badly-spelled fake news, make their careers off trolling and Twitter circles, and they never get fired. Rico quotes Shaun King, a fraud and a fake and also not good at what he does, with blithe aplomb. Huma Abedin missed all the signs, participated in a shit campaign that utterly failed and they didn’t even know it, downloaded State emails to her sex-crazed husband’s laptop in Outlook, and is still highly employable at a significant wage. It isn’t merit, she just has capital that is highly valuable in DC: the right numbers in her contacts list.
The Pope weighs in on the pipeline.
A little rich coming from the Catholic church.
“Allegedly” the prostitution is legal outside of Clark County (so, like 40 miles from the Strip), though my personal record is being propositioned by seven different women in one evening (at Mandalay Bay). Apparently, a wedding ring and plenty of extra pounds is a big aphrodesiac. I suspect there are also inferences about cash…
“I remember having a club in my hand, and as soon as he had me in the water up to my waist,…”
Wow. That is one lucky dude. If you ever get to lay your hands on an alligator, even a small one, your first reaction is surprise at how crazy strong they are. It is more like laying your hands on a machine than an animal. They won’t usually fool with adult humans, but a 10+ footer? Once they get that big they lose their fear of people. Not only are they strong as hell, they are armored. He fended the thing off with a putter? Wow. A big one like that is a real monster. I would keep my distance. In fact I do.
My house is only a few hundred feet from a bayou chock full of them. Last year they drained the lake upstream from me to kill off the Salvinia. The gators had nowhere to go except the bayou. I tried to fish a few times because I knew the fish had done the same and figured it would be easy to fill the freezer. No such luck. With every cast a dozen gators would pop up and converge on my bait. I caught three fish and every one of them ended up in a gator’s belly before I could reel it in. Dammit.
Then we had a flood. A number of people lost dogs when the waters allowed the gators to swim around in the countryside, often into people’s yards.
Yeah, this dude is lucky to be alive.
A note on the threading. As of now, there is no metadata linking threaded replies So if comments are flattened, there is no way to put it back again.
This is true. So when threading got turned back on, it didn’t automagically thread the replies during the time when it was off.
Greetings! Looking like a little fun is going on here. Good to “see” you all again.
And you as well!
I like the avatar!
Hiya Liz! LTNS!
Battle of the Strawmen!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlt4ZpEFSFM
*Trigger warning: Sean Hannity
This issue will forever be contentious as long as neither side is interested in honest arguments or real solutions. All I see one either side are immigrants being used as political pawns.
This issue will forever be contentious as long as neither side is interested in honest arguments or real solutions.
This is about deep dish, isn’t it?
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/14/politics/donald-trump-aides-russians-campaign/index.html
The battle between Trump and his intel people continues.
Random question for the commentariat: I wrote a research paper on the development of public education in Western Civilization a couple years back. I could probably pare it down to the American stuff and make a decent article out of it. Would anybody be interested in reading an article about that?
I would.
yes
What more needs to be said than Horace Mann was an Irish-hating authoritarian asshole?
I actually went light on Horace Mann in my paper. IMO there was enough of a public groundswell from the 2nd great awakening that it didn’t matter whether Mann or a trained monkey was agitating for public schooling. The anti-Catholic (and general anti-intellectual and anti-immigrant) fervor in the Protestant south was going to result in public schools.
Yes please.
I would, and with school choice in the national eye, it’s very timely.
Go for it, dude.
WUT UP BITCHES!!!!!
So, how is everybody? I finally got brought up to speed. I have left the H&R comments for good, or at least until they earn me back but I don’t see that happening.
So now you all will be inflicted with my awesomeness over here. MWUAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH!!!
So do tags work
Perhaps
Links like Google?
OK, NO EDIT BZUTTON? REALLY? NO BOLD?
WAITER MY CHECK!
em and strong instead of i or b
That’s the secret.
much obliged big D.
Know it, live it, learn it, love it.
NO BOLD?
You just need to know the secret
close enough. Hi CB!
You get an Edit button when you’re promoted to Site Owner. Which requires some rituals involving a mohel, an ampallang, and an Octodog.
Shit two out of three…
You have been given [i] v, [em] & [b] v. [strong] tuition, and let it be known ещё которий функция РУССКИЙ БУКВИ! Ура!-)
Если у тебя клавиатура с кириллицой, можно писать по-русски.
Если у тебя клавиатура с кириллицой, можно писать по-русски.
Да, ты как правильно, конечно.-) Мне большой нравится, что ты как здеь, монжно хаписать к Комментком.-)
Жеодор…. (так заню…так знаю) ХАХАХАХА!
+ь, +с, -х/+н… Ой… глупая клавиатура
Ya know Goovus, I was thinkin’ earlier as the radio news was doing the whole “Trump is in bed with Russians” I thought to myself, no, but I AM!
BOOOOM!!!!
BOOOOM!!!!
I see Mrs. Bandit finally made you buy the BMW*, didn’t she?-D I am also pleased as punch to see you commenting here, Your Triteship.-)
*BMWs in Russia and Eastern Euro-landia are colloquially known as, “Boomers.”
ROADZ!
Extra bonus Iron Law reference. I really like his short videos, btw. Lots of them are worth checking out. It is amazing to me how many people are ignorant of basic economic principles (willfully so, in some cases – see Krugman – or I should say, late Krugman, after he abandoned his basic principles to write inane NYT columns).