Hey, what a snazzy title! Well, SP and I will be drinking heavily tonight to celebrate 13 days of the Glibertarian madness. I assume all y’all will be doing the same, with the Colorado and West Coast folks taking my advice to smoke ’em when you got ’em. Feds incoming!
After much dithering about which identity group to honor, the Dems punted and went with the money. Ladies and gentlemen, Tom Perez. First Runner-Up Keith Ellison, the former Farrakhan acolyte and apologist, gets a “deputy” title as a consolation prize.
How cheaply are people willing to sell any last remnant of privacy? About $40 a month. This just creeped me out beyond belief.
OK, this is creepier. The imminent autobiography of Rachel Dolezal. “The only work she has been offered is reality TV, and porn.” (h/t to Invisible Furry Hand, because by god, we give hat tips where deserved!)
Finally, just so you can get your fix of transgender puzzlement, I gift you with this.
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By failing to appoint Keith Ellison to chair the DNC, Democrats have written their suicide note…
My sides.
Eat your own, my precious proggies. Feast!
I used to think this was a good summary of libertarian purity matches, but it’s fitting the Democrats better now.
Interesting confusion between porn and heresy…
You are clearly unfamiliar with the Imperium of Man’s definition of heresy.
Porn is heretical?
Some forms of lesbian porn are, sure.
Democrats have written their suicide note…
And electing Ellison would have been what? Death by accidental Auto-erotic asphyxiation?
It would have led Alan Dershowitz to quit the Democratic party while continuing to vote mostly for Democratic candidates, so there!
(I linked that previously)
If only this were so.
Really needs a funny nickname, like Talcum X
Black Like Someone Else
Seriously, why can Shaun King have a career but she can’t? Fucking sexism, is what it is!
The idea that Shaun King covered up his own whiteness by hoaxing the idea that his mother had him illegitimately seems.. unlikely to me. Why does it seem likely to you?
Who would do that? Whose family (and mother?) would agree to go along with it? Etc.
Occam’s razor (especially given that he looks mixed to anyone who has ever known mixed families …) suggests to me that he is telling the truth.
Fuck you Zero Sum. Fuck you.
I was trying to eat barley and beef soup. Do you have any idea how hard it is to get a barley grain out of your sinus cavity? Do you?
Goddammit.
*snorts and hacks like a cat choking on a hairball*
If she takes the porn gig I assume they file her under IR?
Infrared? I suppose that describes her color as well as anything else.
International relations?
How about these for nicknames:
Mayo Angelou or Chalka Kahn.
Anyone else enjoying some Cuban fare tonight?
Fidel Castro – not dead enough.
Fidel. Finally a good Commie
Liberty Prime is now online.
So what’s the search term for Rachel Dolezal porn?
Black dicks on once white chicks?
White on not black?
Intra-Interracial?
Big Fake Tits and Tans?
Transracial, silly.
Nice. Here’s a good she male trans race porn title: Fool me once, fool me twice
Racial-fluid?
Noosracial?
“Big fake tits and tans”
Get out of my browser!
Silvia Nitrate
Twitter removes post by NYU professor who blasted PC culture on college campuses
Tom Woods had him on in December.
Word ’round the campfire is that Twitter’s been quietly removing these “offensive” tweets going all the way back. Several prominent users have reported the same.
They should have the balls to delete some Trump twits.
Anti-social media.
For a company that is striving to make uptwo billion dollars shit like this might seem like a strategy, but it will only backfire.
L.A./Anaheim. Proud of you. Old time hockey. Not enough of that anymore.
Pretty sure the Flyers/Penguins game is going to have its fair share of hits. It’s on NBC.
Not hits. Fights.
Including some rowdy fans, no doubt.
The Pittsburgh fans booed the Flyers when they were introduced. Classy!
The Rangers/Devils game wasn’t bad.
Too bad NBC only shows half a dozen teams.
Yeah, I had to get NHL.tv & a roku. Next year I might buy the Direct TV center ice package. But I kind of like being able to watch on a computer when I am on travel so I have to weigh the options.
How is NHLTV this season? The stream quality became unwatchable last year after they switched over to being run by MLB.
It’s been smooth and High Def for me this year (over fast DSL). It’s often 1-2 minutes behind reality, so I have to set my Budweiser Red Light to have a delay unless I want spoilers. 😀
Bud Red Hockey Light
If Hanrahan’s wife’s a dyke, does that make him a fag?
Jeff Hanson: Eddie Shore?
McGrath: Piss on Eddie Shore.
Steve Hanson: Old-time hockey?
McGrath: Piss on old-time hockey!
I know/knew guys EXACTLY like Denis Lemieux – they are/were a fucken riot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-OOW5CP7NQ&index=3&list=PL3F32ADE5B63D1402
The part where he explains the rules always makes me die.
‘two minutes by yourself….you feel shame….and then you get free…’
A more succinctly eloquent explanation of a two-minute penalty you’ll never hear.
That’s not a masturbation euphemism?
Heh. “Old Time Hockey” = hockey that bears no resemblance to the game played in the Original Six era, when fighting was basically non-existent.
President Trump to skip White House correspondents’ dinner
Awesome
Meh I’d be impressed if this was some principled stand against the pomp and circumstance surrounding the DC ruling class not the thin skinned whinging of a full grown man. It’s not as if he’s ducking the limelight as some working class hero might (“just doing my job,anyone else would do the same”) , he loves the limelight, as long as it’s the right limelight.
I see it as a positive that the same kind of jerkoff fest of a demigod and his sycophants slobbering all over him doesn’t happen this time.
But That same kind of sycophantic jerkfest just happened, they called it CPAC*. I don’t care where Trump (or any politician/celebrity) goes to get their egos pumped, and I don’t care that Trump is skipping this ‘look at how funny and cool we are’ shindig, I just don’t find it to be an Awesome can of Fuck You, this war on the media has to my ears been hackneyed for a good decade now. I stand by my initial Meh, in fact I’ll go as far as ‘Oh My God Who Cares.
*yes I know one group “claims” to be objective and the other “admits” their bias, but Christ anyone paying attention for the last twenty years knows this shit and anyone not paying attention, well, they aren’t going to pay attention to any complaints about it either.
WDATPDIM
Now that is an enormous middle finger.
Good. Who would want to go to such an event?
Does it have an open bar?
David Harewood: Next Doctor Who should be black or female
Omg so original! Also, he’s calling them different?
How about some man-candy for a companion. That would be different.
Rory has a sad
OK, recently different. I liked Rory rather a lot.
I was thinking of a different Rory.
Rory rides me raw.
I’m a regular reader of SP and I wouldn’t have jumped directly to that Rory.
Probably would’ve guessed Gilmore Girls first and I’ve never even watched the show.
I figured you’d jump to this Rory.
What doctor?
Doctor What is on second.
Why?
Third Base.
Mrs. Who, Mrs. Whatsit, and Mrs. Which are in the lobby and would like to discuss the techniques for folding spacetime.
(Love that book.)
“Hey, we still haven’t figured out how profoundly condescending it is to talk about the race of a character as their primary defining attribute like we’re checking off a grocery list.”
Proggies are so dense that they apparently didn’t understand the purpose of Token’s character in South Park.
Janelle Monae as the next Doctor?
I’m down like Charlie Brown!
So I guess she’ll be looking for a male “companion,” eh?
Well, Ms. Monae has been notoriously coy concerning her attractions.
On your knees blowing Linus?
Poor HM doesnt get it. Knock-out feminine chick. She has as much chance of getting the part as I do.
A little light skinned for my tastes but not bad.
jesus, I am so tired of “blacks” being the only non-whites that get checked off for this shit. There are more Asians (south and east Asians together) in the UK than there are blacks. The BBC should pick someone like Andy Lau (born in Hong Kong) as a fuck you to all the progs who somehow never see Asians (plus, massive Asian sales of Doctor Who, win-win!)
What if you’re a Chigro?
Tyson Beckford as the next Doctor would make a lot of people happy, methinks.
I’d be happy with not-retarded writing, but apparently no one cares what I want.
The current writer needs to stop trying so hard and just write something fun again. These obscure villains (“the silence”, “the shadow”, whatever) are getting tedious.
The current writer needs to learn how to actually write human beings. That soldier guy from a season or two ago (I stopped watching after the refugee political commentary episodes, and it has more to do with their utter stupidity than the actual issue) was one of the most poorly written veteran characters I’ve ever seen.
Blessid Union of Souls, certainly.
*raises hand*
I’d like to see a movie about Martin Luther King Jr. where he’s played by a white man, and the film focuses on the plagiarism in his dissertation.
Oh, you! Riots are such a hoot.
LOL
David Harewood: Next Doctor Who should be black or female
Cultural appropriation.
Proggies shit on everything good. News at 11.
I am sure the new black, handicapped, fat translesbian will squeak squeak squeak around in a wheelchair blathering platitudes in one social justice parable after another. The ratings will skyrocket!
Several times in the reboot there have been paeans to things like National Health and I said to myself, well that’s clever. Then I saw the opening of the London Olympics and realized they were serious.
Well the original did have that anti-Thatcher episode, among others, so (unfortunately) it’s not unprecedented.
US President Donald Trump has announced he will not attend the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on 29 April.
How will they have their circle jerk with no jerk of honor?
There’s a reason why so many people fantasise about having sex with their stepmums
“Hi, Missy, I mean Mom…”
I’m not sure why I’m encouraging this, but…
During the Restoration, James Duke of York’s second wife was only a few years older than his teenage daughter Mary, and he told Mary that she (Mary) would now have a “new playfellow” – you know, two girls being BFFs.
Of course, it got complicated when James became king and his daughter and her husband took his throne from him. #awkward
Just $40? Man I’m glad I got out of cam whoring when I did, the market just tanked.
‘Tough pup’ recovering from heroin overdose in Texas
Sounds like one bad [s]hombre[/s]perro.
sighFrom Zero Sum Game’s link:
So it was incredibly important that the Democratic Party take some steps to indicate that it cared about progressives. Since the election, it hadn’t been doing a very good job of this (Nancy Pelosi’s insistence that nothing needed to change, and her rebuke to a young leftist, demonstrated the prevailing attitude.) Appointing Keith Ellison to chair the DNC was the perfect opportunity. After all, chairing the DNC is a pretty minor role. It would mostly have been a gesture of friendship and unity, showing that even after the catastrophic mistake of ignoring leftist warnings not to run Clinton, the party was capable of valuing its leftmost members.
But no. Instead of granting the tiniest possible concession, the party has decided to affirm precisely what Nancy Pelosi has indicated: democratic socialists and social democrats don’t belong in the party. It’s not for them. What the party does depends on what billionaire donors want it to do.
It’s been a very long time since I read anything from Current Affairs. I had no idea they had turned into Salon.
Jesus… they think Bernie would have won over Clinton?!
Humans were arrested for heroin possession and for fraudulent destruction, removal, or concealment of writing.
Wait, what? are they spies?
In the house of love, no less.
If you think about what this means, its actually incredibly racist
She held a senior position w/ the NAACP. (well…. to be fair… in Spokane. Which is like being Honorary Eskimo Chief in the Sahara) The implication is that the only qualification she had for that position was “being black”, and now lacking that, she has nothing.
You’d think she’d at least demonstrated some acting talent.
Are you saying porn isn’t acting? Dammit, next you’ll be saying that pro wrestling isn’t an athletic competition!
good point – that probably explains the porn offers. partly. I am guessing the videos they had in mind were all “Racist Bukakke”-fetish movies.
Go on…
I knew better than to click on that. Yet I did it anyway.
Same here westernsloper. He gets me every time. I just cant help myself.
Hehe
What does Robbie have to do with it?
Ask the “gay for pay” people.
(well…. to be fair… in Spokane. Which is like being Honorary Eskimo Chief in the Sahara)
Having lived in Spokane for roughly half my life, this is accurate.
Having said that, my childhood best friend from Spokane from ages roughly 3-12 was black. We lost touch almost 20 years ago. I just found out a few weeks ago he was shot and killed right out on the street by some criminal fuck face with a mile long rap sheet over a feud from like 8 years ago. So that was really sad.
I’m not sure what the point of that story was. But yeah, Spokane fucking sucks.
Regarding the transgender wrestler,
Would the testosterone treatment give them an advantage over male opponents, or would it just get them closer to the males (no better than equal, if that)? It seems like the logical thing would be to allow biological females (regardless of whether they are transitioning or not) to compete with males if they choose, since sexual dimorphism seems to always skew to the advantage of males in sports.
Forbidding males from female sports makes perfect sense, though.
I don’t know that answer to any of that, but I do know I’m sick of it making headlines.
^pretty much this.
to Sir Niko =
I don’t care how roided/Testosteroned up a girl is; you can’t turn a genetic female into a male w/ drugs, and a teenage male who has been training to wrestle is a freakishly strong-per-pound creature.
so , she’s trapped in a tweener world, where she can’t compete fairly against equals under any circumstances. I honestly think that’s sort of sad, simply from a sporting point of view. Nothing would suck quite like winning all the time but never feeling like anyone respects it or that it reflects anything real about your own talent.
My question is what ethical doctor would agree to giving hornone/testaron therapy to a person who isnt finished with puberty yet, and is way too young to make such a permanent decision. You have to be 18 to get a tattoo for gods sake. And WTF are wrong with her parents?
It should just take them out of the sport if they choose testosterone treatments. Since those are already illegal except for the snowflake exception removing snowflake exceptions is sufficient.
The imminent autobiography of Rachel Dolezal. “The only work she has been offered is reality TV, and porn.
At least she didn’t go with the porn. *shudders*
At least she didn’t go with the porn. *shudders*
Is that all it took? You sure finished quick.
I practice a lot.
Speaking of alternative facts…
Unfortunately, the disaster does not stop there. Lying in wait is Trump’s pick for EPA Administrator, Scott Pruitt, whose track record on climate change would make even Myron Ebell blush with envy. As Oklahoma Attorney General, Pruitt had a habit of taking press releases from local oil and gas companies, stamping his letterhead across the top and passing them on to the EPA verbatim as the official position of Oklahoma.
The American public cannot and will not stand idly by and watch a Trump administration packed with fossil fuel lobbyists and billionaires like Rex Tillerson, Scott Pruitt and Rick Perry systematically demolish every environmental regulation since World War II in the span of fewer than four years.
Trump will force us to burn used tires for heat!
What to do when you get caught lying: double down on the mendacity in order to win back your credibility.
But they have no problems with the EPA taking press releases from environmental groups and stamping the EPA letterhead on it and announcing at new policy.
re: The transgender wrestler
as i said yesterday when i posted the same story in the PM links (*read in “snippy attempt at taking credit” voice)….
… anyone else injecting testosterone (but still calling themselves a girl) would be called a “Cheater”.
this article actually goes into greater detail on that same point, which i think makes it more interesting.
The thing they don’t actually touch upon is how this actually calls into question the assumption made by sports-governing-bodies about the supposed “risks” of taking supplements like Testosterone.
why is it a “valid medical purpose” if you merely ‘want to be a boy’? and not if you want to be SUPERMAN?
*Disclosure = i have never juiced. Double disclosure: I wrestled, but didn’t enjoy it much. great training tho.
Just stick with the talking points. Do you want people to think you’re a bigot?
It’s almost like we can’t have a rational conversation about yet another issue again.
why is it a “valid medical purpose” if you merely ‘want to be a boy’? and not if you want to be SUPERMAN?
Because fuck you, that’s why.
I heard someone (I can’t remember who) making the argument there should be no anti-doping rules. May the best athlete and pharmaceuticals win.
Gillespie has written in favor of that over at Reason, as have a few of their other writers.
Then people would have no choice, and plenty of people wouldn’t want to compete who might otherwise be top athletes.
My opinion on it is, let the governing organizations for the sports set whatever rules they feel like. They’ll either be responsive to market demand or go out of business. Easy peasy.
I remember arguing that if you wanna go in that direction, set up a separate drug-league and see which one wins people over. I believe that people would generally prefer the existing leagues but of course I could be wrong.
That seems reasonable. Let the market decide.
separate drug-league
Contestant 1: “I can ash that bowl in two puffs.”
Contestant 2: “I can ash that bowl in one pull.”
Judge: Ash that bowl!!
Name That Overdose
It’s like studying for a drug test
Well, the NFL and MLB were pretty much drug leagues for quite a while.
I had never read that there. I was hit and miss for a few years with them. It is an interesting idea though. I am not sure if I agree or not.
I’ve heard a lot of good arguments to that effect, and i generally agree with them.
I don’t necessarily agree with “Anything goes” supplementation; but i think a large part of what they are “banning” at the moment is actually the sort of stuff that i think would be ideal to permic.
e.g. – the sort of high-level training any pro-athlete engages in is actually – sans drugs! – incredibly taxing on the human body (esp the heart) and life-shortening; it is a CHOICE to put the body through that trauma in attempt to achieve maximum performance.
in many cases the supplements that athletes take for performance enhancement are actually simply to *speed muscle repair* as a consequence of high-intensity training, and to make that high-intensity training more-effective overall (increase blood-ox transfer?), reducing the necessity for excess repetition and wear-tear.
this isn’t an argument that “drugs should only be permitted if they are otherwise health-neutral or improve the quality of life of athletes; but i think its a very compelling reason to allow drugs to be experimented with which CAN eventually provide these ancillary benefits.
I also think that a certain amount of “less risky” supplementation needs to be brought out of the shadows in order that the dark-side of teen/college-athlete juicing is made safer. basically, the argument there being sort of like legalizing weed – take the most-commonly used drugs and make them regulated and less risky/adulterated, and help developing athletes use them judiciously and in moderation. By keeping them banned, a lot of space is created for experimentation with even-more dangerous stuff. I reject the idea that “allowing a little” will result in some explosion in teen ‘roid use, necessarily. Tho i am sensitive to the potential risks of creating some juvenile athletics drugs-arms-race scenario. I just think bringing it out of the shadows ultimately will reduce harm.
“” would be ideal to permit“
in many cases the supplements that athletes take for performance enhancement are actually simply to *speed muscle repair* as a consequence of high-intensity training, and to make that high-intensity training more-effective overall (increase blood-ox transfer?), reducing the necessity for excess repetition and wear-tear.
Isn’t this essentially what HGH does? I think I agree with you. I don’t know the extent young athletes are juicing these days. I was a young athlete (a hundred years ago) long before steroids left the body building world. When I wrestled in high school, the harm we did to ourselves was by cutting weight. I knew dudes who would eat a couple of skittles for lunch day in day out and not much else to make weight. It was stupid. Hopefully coaches these days watch that sort of thing.
i think so. tho i presume i’m vastly oversimplifying/distorting it. what little i’ve picked up has been from the news. But the last few pros who i’ve heard about getting ‘busted’ for supplement/hormone use were using it in order to recover from injury or improve wear-tear effects from training. they weren’t snorting ground up shark-adrenal-glands to get superpowers. they were being ‘smart’. and i think if there were more rational discussion about the real cost-benefits of allowing more experimentation and innovation, we could make sports more interesting AND safer. Or maybe someone will explode.
Oxford Dictionaries adds ‘yas,’ ‘squad goals,’ ‘cat lady’
Follow the link to see all the new words and definitions.
Wait, “herd mentality” is *new*?
“Kodak moment”? They’re still around?
I think they went bankrupt one or more times recently. Watching what its demise is doing to my hometown is not pretty. But yeah, that concept is probably about 75 years old.
Slightly annoyed that these new ‘words’ are just phrases of common words. Will Oxford start adding entire sentences to their dictionary as words?
C’mon, OED, where’s the word for “the awkward dance in the restroom trying to find just the right place to set off the motion sensor”? That might actually be useful.
“kirjigger”
Pemapants
I nice little surprise today. 35k people running right in front of my office window. Tokyo marathon today.
No, you fool, they’re fleeing from Godzilla!
*Flees*
Into the waiting beak of Gamera.
*Shoves Taro into beak and flees into soap land*
Nite links, nite links, whoohooo!
Anyway, around the world.
Proof that fat kids from South America CANNOT play guitar:
geetar, geetar, really?
I have no idea what counts as an “amazing” guitar solo but that didn’t do anything for me. Prolly because of the music. I’d take e.g. J Mascis any day over that.
If you’re not into the technical aspects of guitar playing, then I wouldn’t expect for it to do too much for you, but I got some feel out of it, as well as being impressed by the technical aspects, that was very impressive.
Yeah. My brother could play like that when he was 12, same style. A decade of hearing that stuff from his practice sessions burned me out on that stuff long ago. I prefer peace and quiet.
Ok, whatever you guys say, I’d like to see some links of your 12 year old brothers playing like that. I grew up in a music scene in a major US city, back in the 70s. playing guitar, and I knew a lot of great guitarists. I have never seen anyone play like that.
That guy was fantastic. I’m not a huge fan of super-technical guitar, but I certainly appreciate the skill. I prefer fingerstyle players like Leo Kottke and Adrian Legg and jazz players like Joe Pass and Charlie Byrd. Gypsy jazz is a lot of fun – certainly highly technical – and Ted Greene, whatever genre you would place him in, was magnificent.
I’ve played guitar for 25 years+, tho mostly dropped it a few years back when all my buddies got married and no one wanted to jam anymore. i suck now.
My favorite “guitar wizard” from a ‘modern technique’ POV is Wayne Krantz. But its pretty much impossible to talk to non-guitar players about what he’s doing and why its so ridiculous and groundbreaking.
My favorite guitar god from the perspective of ‘pure musical genius’ is obviously Django. I think he’s better when he just plays slow ballads. the occasional fireworks stuff is just icing on the cake.
Gilmore, do you have any familiarity with Willy Porter?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7Uj5__vgzA
He was something of a prodigy. Wisely my grandfather kicked his ass and made him get a civil engineering degree from Tech.
Chet Atkins says hello
Whatever the problem is, money will fix it.
After successfully appealing to the Trump administration for help with the Oroville Dam emergency, Gov. Jerry Brown announced Friday that he wants to accelerate state spending to reduce flood risks as he asked Washington to expedite federal environmental reviews on several projects, including repairs to the dam’s spillway.
The Democratic governor’s flood protection plan combines $50 million in existing general fund money with $387 million from the $7.5 billion water bond approved by voters in 2014.
Brown, who made a surprise visit to the dam’s incident command post Wednesday, said the state faces tens of billions of dollars in infrastructure needs.
“There is real work to be done,” Brown told reporters at the Capitol, calling the proposed allotments “basic government needs.”
“We got to belly up to the bar and start spending money,” he added.
We need more studies and action plans!
“We got to belly up to the bar and start spending money”
That’s probably going to end up as the national motto.
If the dam must burst, could it take Brown and the rest of the state’s politicians out with it?
Noah would have bitchin’ time making the list. Two by two? Bigot! Two LGBTQ by two LGBTQ. Hey, we’re short one queer platypus.
Stick a train on it.
♫ If you like it, you should’ve run a train on it. ♫
Look, we have more important things to spend our money on here in the Golden State. We have public employee pensions and that medium speed train to the future. We cannot possibly do that and keep up basic infrastructure. Come on, the Federal guv can just
print up more money. There’s a mint right here in San Francisco!
Um, yeah. If California taxpayers are hoping their money gets spent on anything other than pensions for retired public employees, they’re probably going to be disappointed.
How much goddamned money did Moonbeam blow on his pet choo-choo? Suddenly he notices tens of billions in needed infrastructure spending?
They are currently claiming that the choo choo train will cost 68 billion. I would put the over/under at 120 billion and bet heavily on the over. The only reason they got it down to 68 billion was that they changed it from a high speed train to a medium speed train. If I remember correctly they now claim it will take just under 5 hours to get from SF to LA, and that is not including station time, the inevitable security checks, etc. I could get in my car right now and be in LA in 6 hours or so. The insanity never stops here.
There is no way your choo choo will come in at $68B. The short light rail train they are putting in on Oahu is now up to $9B on the shortened route that connects nowhere to a bread factory in an industrial area. If it goes all the way through downtown expect the price to double.
Ours is straight forward routing. Yours will somehow have to tunnel through the boundary of the NA and Pacific plates and somehow make that stable.
NEEDZ A PREVIEW BUTTUN
C’mon! Quit yer whinin’! Put your back into it, wouldja!-)
Drunk or terrorist?
I call drunk. Just to make it interesting.
Why not both?
Well, they arrested the driver but didnt release his name…
Cold front just went through. Thunderstorms in February, and it went from ~70 degrees to ~45 in a few hours.
It was nice while it lasted.
Here in Indianapolis it was 72 degrees on Friday afternoon, and there was snow on the ground Saturday morning.
Why cities are increasingly reluctant to host the Olympics
“Local governments and the general public in potential host cities are starting to realize what economists across the political spectrum have long known: public subsidies for sports events and stadiums routinely create far greater costs than benefits for communities. In addition, host governments for the Olympics and the World Cup often resort to such cruel tactics as forcibly displacing large numbers of people in order to make way for sports facilities…
“Afterwards, the facilities built for the games often turn into “white elephants” that provide little if any benefit or even lie empty and abandoned.”
That’s not true, Sarajevo’s Olympic facilities provided to be an excellent venue for small arms engagements and artillery bombardments in the war.
Abandoned Sarajevo venues:
http://www.businessinsider.com/abandoned-olympic-venues-around-the-world-photos-rio-2016-8/#the-abandoned-ski-jump-at-mount-igman-8
The abandoned bobsled track in Sarajevo being used by mountain bikers. Looks like a blast.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CdvW71UE94I
I’ve seen that before. Looks fun. My first thought was, what would they do if a deer wandered onto the track?
Slam the brakes and pray it jumps out the way.
The bidding for the 2022 Winter Olympics was an utter farce – four of six bids were withdrawn after the locals said “fuck this shit”, leaving Almaty and Beijing as the only competitors. (Almaty. And Beijing.)
The other factor not mentioned in that article is that both FIFA and the IOC spread hosting duties around the continents – officially for fairness and to “grow the game” etc (but in fact to buy votes from Africa/Asia/South America.) A whole lot of trouble would be avoided if hosts were required to have the necessary infrastructure or something close to it in place before they bid, but politically that’s a dead letter…
This is like the greatest music video ever made: Flesh for fantasy
It’s held up so well.
Today’s advice column: (abridged) I’m a housewife in her 30’s. My 60 year old dad had to be hospitalized. My younger brother and I took the opportunity to clean his filthy house and toss out all the old stuff that had been piling up everywhere over the years.
When dad got out of the hospital and saw what we did, he was pissed and demanded we get his shit back. Maybe we made a mistake. Can we fix this?
H子 in Hokkaido.
Yesterday I heard about a woman who gave her husband’s old coat to Goodwill – it was so old and nasty! Then it turned out hubby had been saving up to take his wife on a foreign vacation, and guess where he hid the cash so nobody would find it? Fortunately, when they went to Goodwill, it turned out the staff had found the cash and set it aside (thinking it was a generous donation?), so they got the money back.
That’s a cool ass honkey
I have never seen that guy play before. I am pleasantly surprised. That was pretty good. I watched all the way through. Generally with hip-hop style music I can bear a maximum of about 15 seconds before I switch back to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyKgyo0gOrA
or this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqGTs-ANyTI
Or this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPpZ3GqAUI4
or fapping to the hot redhead with a bare midriff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVbu8bh7SWk
She is a indeed a hot redhead. Many mahalos. Until now every time I hear that tune it takes me to the movie “We Were Soldiers”. Now hopefully the tune will take me to her instead.
Or you can watch this group because when you think “Cotton Eyed Joe” you think Czech girls.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZvpHwoQfqk
Waitaminute. You guys are … awake?
Oh, we’re so woke.
I bet you like this kind of hip-hop.
(NSFW)
As in, don’t play it in the office even at low volume, people totally wouldn’t understand.
Sounds like an O’Henry story. I can’t imagine throwing out anything my father owned without his knowledge.
My sister cleaned out the back bedroom after Mom went in the nursing home, but that’s obviously a different situation.
Of course you can fix it. Easy peasy. Give him his shit back.
I may have linked this before. It has some witty lines and gets more outrageous as it goes on. Still one of my favorite non-PC parody songs. 😉
Complete OT, but fuck it! Who would rather talk about gun shows….
I was participating in one of your regular primitive weapon bazaars today, and was forced to endure a 2 hour wait on my purchase. Apparently your central mammal government is still a bit overwhelmed by weapons purchases despite the defeat of the mammal with the cackle
Find a nice heat rock and bask a bit. How many safety pin wearers were there?
2 hours? I would claim reptile discrimination. My last purchase took 15 mins.
Well you weren’t in Cali. I purchased a double barrel shotgun there in 2010 and the process took eight days because of the “cool off periods and what not. I also had to purchase a trigger lock because bringing in my own did not count.
Pretty sure the one that lost is one of yours.
This is what happens when you get Reptilians to invade, they’re always cutting corners on the budget. No plasma rifles or scram cannons for you, you get to wait in line for monkey tech.
Setting the child up for success, are we?
Langston A. Dolezal.
Or L. A. Dolezal.
The 4th through 7th will have tricknologist or Yakub in their names.
they had originally thought about Kwame Ta-Nesi Zulu Shaquilla Mbutu Dolezal, then decided it was “too black”
I should have gone with “wasn’t black enough“
Attickus
This is what happens when you watch the movie instead of reading the book.
She claims that he’s named after the original heroic mulatto, Crispus Attucks.
I don’t see any mulattoes mentioned in John Adams’s speech at the trial – he just refers to “a motley rabble of saucy boys, negroes and molattoes, Irish teagues and out landish jack tarrs.” What’s a “molattoe?”
And he comes back to the subject of the Irish: “Carr a native of Ireland had often been concerned in such attacks…”
But why does Adams mention “teagues”? The Urban Dictionary definition seems quite flattering: “A very attarctive man who draws alot of attention to girls he loves women and they love him back. he is wonderful in bed and the girls keep coming back. he is very sweet and caring. his smile is like no other and is very unique.”
What was Adams trying to tell us?
It’s not the urban dictionary version, it’s just a variation of taig.
Source: I know a lot of horrible things to call the Irish.
I know what Adams meant; I was just teasing him.
I’m drinking Miller Lite amongst several hot barmaids and am quite happy.
I’m glad they feel you worth their time, regardless of the piss you choose to drink
I hope your taste in women is better than your taste in beer.
/obligatory beer-snob joke.
Yes, I enjoy craft beer along with beer I can drink a lot of like Miller Lite.
There was an interval when I couldn’t reach this site…was it just me?
No, not just you, and it’s not just this site. Comcast has a backbone issue happening for the past hour.
On further poking around, Time Warner and AT&T are having trouble, too. All three seem to be spread across the US..
Well, of course I wouldn’t assume the problem was on *your* end! 🙂
And I didn’t know you could divide software into vertebrate and invertebrate, I learn so much hanging with computer people! 🙂
So what you are saying is you want your account here to remain. 😉
If at all possible.
Did I mention how awesome everybody is, especially all the site administrators?
SP, get the cat butthole ready…
Are you Eddie Haskell by any chance?
Overdid it, didn’t I?
Perhaps a little. But the effort is appreciated.
If I need to compensate for being so obsequious, I could look up a few good insults and lob them at you.
Or would that be overcompensating in the other direction?
Had to take the kid to a birthday party this afternoon. It was at one of those giant trampouline “parks”.
I’m in severe amounts of pain. I’m too old for this shit.
The only drink of any sorts in this house is lemonade. Does that mix with anything?
Tequila and vodka. Not necessarily at the same time.
I haven’t drank tequila in a decade. Since my cousin’s first wedding.
I at least did better than my brother, who tried to match my cousin’s friends (all in the military) tequila shot for tequila shot.
It did not end up going very well for my brother.
At least he learned? Or you learned by example….
I’m 9 years his senior. I was smart enough not to try. He learned. I spent half that night awake making sure he was breathing.
Never a good time. (I’m assuming he
lived.)
Fun Medical Fact:
The antidote to ethylene glycol poisoning is ethyl alcohol (ethanol); the most popular requested spirits to imbibe the antidote are:
1) Tekillya
2) Vodka
3) Burbon
Every ER/hospital pharmacy is stocked with booze, beer, and (sometimes) a strong wine (port is recommended) for this reason, and there is an Antifreeze Poisoning Protocol in place. The bottle is sent down to the nurses station, and the attending nurse has to keep an eye on the patient to make sure they can pour their own shots, or if nursing has to play bartender.
All shots of booze are served neat, by the by. No mixers, no chasers. (Though I did hear of one case where pharmacy actually mixed dry vodka martinis for one victim of poisoning).
The last time I drank tequila I blacked out and suddenly found myself in a 24h laundromat, lying on the floor with puke on my shirt at 3 in the morning. I think Blackout Me was trying to address the puke-on-shirt problem. According to the friends I had been out with I just sort of disappeared at around 12 when we were walking somewhere.
I have read quite a few tequila quitting stories the past few days. Quitting is for the French. Haven’t you people ever fallen off a bicycle? I had a bad experience, but I blame Jimmy Buffett. It was a concert at the Gorge in WA. I don’t even remember where I woke up. I just know I did.
Vodka.
Kick ass. Breaking out the Tito’s.
Canadians are putting a U in “trampoline” now?
No, just, “trampoutine.”
Late to the links, because, well… there was beer. Just watched Green Room, if you were a punk at any point in the past 20 years, watch the film. There were several times I had to pause the movie to explain jargon to the girlfriend. If you enjoy watch Patrick Stewart be a menacing asshole, I recommend it.
Remember the multiple articles written at that other place about that clusterfuck of a minor league baseball park being built in Hartford? Apparently the FBI is now involved in investigating the flow of public money towards that park.
Ooh got the adrenaline shakes. Outside puffing a stogy, eldery lady next to me with a cig. Guy comes up and asked for cig. I don’t have any, and apparently the lady didnt, either.
Guy starts giving her shit, saying shr is “going to fucking wrinkle to the bone” or some crazy stupid shit. Thats when I told him to move on.
I’m a small man, and people often assume that means I’m not strong enough to pick you up and body slam your ass. Summers a little different ’cause i wear tshirts, youknow?
Anyways, he stands up to me, like I’m not about to kick his ass. Then he does a double take and decides maybe he isn’t billy bad ass.
But apparently I’m a racist. An “old white racist”, to be exact.
Adrenaline and booze, for the win!
And they said chivalry was dead!
Actually, I hate that adrenaline rush.
Hey at least you got the adrenaline rush BEFORE the fight. My fucked up female physiology gives me the rush after the fight is over, when it’s about useless for you know fighting. No questions about how I know this….
Good on you Denver. You old, white racist.
We all know that you routinely put up with white assholes cussing out women, you only used this guy’s behavior as an excuse to pick on him for being non-white.
/sarc
It’s true. If you’re white and male, you can be as abusive to old ladies as you want. I wont say boo.
He probably finds himself surrounded by racists wherever he goes, including racists of his own race.
Summers a little different ’cause i wear tshirts, youknow?
Should someone call a vet?
Call ATF, there’s a gun show in town 😉
So, did she put out?
Damnit Gilmore! I just spit whiskey all over the bar!
Uh, this thread is so not-alive at 12:14PST, is it?
Some, perhaps many, guys were creeped out by Julia Vins the other day. (Maybe it was on the orange site) In response, I now submit video of a woman who perhaps strikes the best balance of muscular and feminine that I can ever recall, Charity Witt.
Some, perhaps many, guys were creeped out by Julia Vins the other day.
I wasn’t.-) She’s *VERY* attractive! Magnificent figure and lines!
sheeezz. It is almost 8 a.m. here. Y’all need to get your drunk asses up.
16:05 here, mister. We’ve been up *way* longer than you. *waves
middle fingerfrom the future*Just because *you* are currently riding the water wagon, doesn’t mean the rest of Glibbets are a bunch of wet blankets & fuddy duddies.-)
*grumbles curses*
Yeah, looks like my drinking days are over. I am not going to tell you what my AST and ALT got up to. I will say that they are back down dramatically, even threatening to reach normal.
Getting old is a bitch but it beats the alternative.
I am not going to tell you what my AST and ALT got up to.
If you got a direct order to immediately cessate, I’ve got a pretty good idea what those values are.
I will say that they are back down dramatically, even threatening to reach normal.
Excellent! And I compliant patient, too! The last time I saw one of those…..*eyes suddenly roll back, in head, clutches chest, falls over*
Getting old is a bitch but it beats the alternative.
*gets back up* Don’t worry, it was just gas.
Mrs. Suthenboy, I have no doubt, is in no hurry to find out how to deal with the alternative. Really, good on ya. Perhaps you may find another avenue of recreational, “Better living through chemistry.” Or, just choose to get high off of life. At worst, you’ll just go back to wrestling your alligators and giggin’ your frogs.-)
A brief explanation of AST & ALT, and further explanation of LFTs (Liver FXN Tests) for those playing along at home.