Sucks to your Monday. Have some downer links.
- The WHO posts what may be the most mendacious study results ever, claiming 1.7 million children under the age of five die from “environmental risks such as indoor and outdoor pollution, second-hand smoke, unsafe water and poor sanitation”. I’ll leave the commentariat to guess which of these the article focuses on.
- 7 places where the science still isn’t quite settled. It’s weird that fundamental physics like gravity and nuclear strong force are more open to discussion than other, less rigorously observed fields.
- For all of you super-intelligent, maladjusted commenters, a rumination on why you might turn to crime. And no, the answer isn’t because literally anything you do is probably illegal anyways.
- China releases $150B military budget. “China has the world’s second-largest defense budget, although it is still only about one-quarter of what the U.S. spends.” No, that’s one quarter of what gets appropriated during the budgeting process. It ignores all the “emergency” spending.
- Today marks the 228th anniversary of the US operating under the Constitution. Maybe some day we can return to that.
Comments
416 responses to “Monday Afternoon Links”
First?
Not that I care, but what kind of BS is this?
My comment was first.
I still consider it first.
If your comment is first and it’s a declaration or question with a single word in it–notably, “first”–I consider you the worst instead. *pointed dead-eyed stare*
I just mean when I posted, it was the only visible comment. Looking at the time stamps, maybe there’s some delay in what I see.
I saw it too. Just to back up your assertion.
The best first fights were on the old fuckedcompany.com site. Those battles were cutthroat. That site had quite the lively comment section for a while.
Oh man, I loved that site. Back then I was working in the semiconductor biz, and read that site every damn day!
And yes, the comments were hilarious.
Some still play that rigged game.
The “?” was meant to mean, “I can’t believe I’m first!” Also, It’s my first post on Glibertarians. Nice to know I stepped in it right out of the gate.
Just be glad you haven’t seen the cat meme yet. Welcome.
Just be glad you still have your essence, Jack.
“Ice cream, Mandrake. Children’s ice cream!”
AH!!! That explains it. Your comment was moderated and took a a few minutes to appear.
Again, not that I care… 🙂
Juice “identifies” as First. It’s ok, Juice, this is a safe space.
Except for the typically high salary, of course.
Where do I get one of those?
Become a professor at almost any US university or a researcher at any national or otherwise government lab. The pay is generally pretty damned good.
Generally, not that fabulous. Not bad (a full prof in hard science at a major school might pull in $150-$175k or so) , but well under what a physician, dentist, or attorney with similar length of experience will make, unless you’re a superstar Nobelist. And those jobs are few and far between.
It’s all relative. You’re “not bad” is in relation to those other careers you listed, but I’d bet the “pretty damned good” comment is considering the salary in relation to the general populace, since $150k-$175k is right around top 10% level.
Children won’t live long enough to die of cholera or dysentery if “the ballooning piles of discarded mobile phones and other electronic and electrical waste” get them first.
I was nearly crushed by a pile of electrical waste on my slog to work this morning.
At least this didn’t happen:
Man crushed to death by six ton porn collection falling on him
“That March 1984 Playboy has got to be around here, somewhere…YAAAAAAHHHH!!!”
I remember that one!
There was a throw away line on Bob and Tom this morning about being crushed by a ‘load-bearing wall’.
That would be the third time that post has been linked at this blog, that I know of.
Weird, how “Glibertarian” and “massive porn collection” seem to go together.
Hey, I resemble the insinuation!
“fundamental physics like gravity and nuclear strong force”
Woke theory adds perfect clarity to AGW .
Woke theory is my new term for arm chair scientists
I have had zero traffic citations since I put some smoky quartz and titanite in the change holder.
This rock repels tigers.
Well, that makes sense.
Well, I’m not as smart as an Albert Einstein* or anything, but I feel like I could pull off a bank heist without getting caught. I don’t have the desire, but there must be smart people out there who feel they can do it and want to do so. So there’s one reason smart people might choose to commit crime.
*You can tell how smart I’m not when my smart-person reference is Einstein. For people in my pay grade, it’s either him, Stephen Hawking, or, in a real big stretch, Richard Feynman.
It seems to me that it’s typically really dumb people who do crimes, not smart people. A week or so ago, there was the woman who shot her husband, took a photo of him lying dead on the floor and emailed it to people. Then called the cops after putting the gun in his hand.
Its the dumb ones who get caught. *taps side of nose knowingly
As near as I can tell, the predisposition to crime comes from thrill-seeking behavior. I am fascinated by the American Greed series, which shows highly intelligent, functional people who could have made scads of money legally, but just can’t stop committing crimes. I think they do it for the adrenaline rush. To the extent crime is something intelligent people do, it might be because they are just bored.
My FiL did it because he’s not as smart as he thinks he is. Of course, he got caught.
To the extent crime is something intelligent people do, it might be because they are just bored.
We had a corporate fraud investigator talk to us in our in-house internship class. I liked the way he put it, 10% of people are going to steal from you no matter what. 10% will never steal from you no matter what. 80% will steal if the circumstances are conducive.
I apply this to all things security related.
I lock my doors in a very safe neighborhood – won’t stop determined criminal
I use encryption in my email – won’t stop NSA (well, it actually might at this point)
I own a safe – won’t stop determined actor with time
But the fact it stops 90% or more makes it pass the cost-benefit analysis.
Plus if you’re a comparatively more difficult target, that’s all you need. Like that old joke about running from the bear.
It’s the dumb ones who get caught because…take a look at who’s catching them.
But Feynman doesn’t seem like a genius. Super smart, no doubt. But for some reason his affable and sometimes obnoxious New York persona just makes him fall somewhere outside the stereotype. I really like his lectures, maybe he’s the genius for the common man.
“subjects who suggested that adherence to standard rules and behaviors was important for the general public, but not for them”
If I had to guess who that line is describing, I would have to go with politicians.
The survey wasn’t based on ‘smart people’. It was based on members of a selective high-intelligence society (“think, MENSA, but more selective*”). In other words, it was based on people who demanded everyone know and acknowledge just how smart they were (in the most obnoxious way possible). There are certainly other variables involved than intelligence.
*the description is from the article
Like I always say when someone quotes some stupid rule to me,
“Rules are for people who need rules. I know what I’m doing.”
When people ask why I can’t take Nicholas Cage seriously, I show them this.
I need to watch Face/Off again. Nic Cage is awesome.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
But whut about Con Air?
Con Air is great.
He’s certainly something, anyway!
Haven’t seen Face/Off. Would watch it based on that scene.
How am I unfamiliar with this masterpiece of American cinema?
It’s Nicholas Cage and Jon Travolta spending half of the movie playing to type and then the next half pretending to be each other. It’s great schlock.
Face/off is one of the worst movies ever.
Good nick cage movies:
Raising Arizona. That is all.
What about Con Air?
Wild at Heart.
Honeymoon in Vegas
I think Nick Cage deserves all the disrepute he gets*…. that said = i think both Leaving Las Vegas and Adaptation were magnificent bits of acting, and that Raising Arizona is one of the funniest fucking movies ever made.
(*the one that killed me was Face/Off. I actually went to the theaters for it. I think eventually i understood it as comedy, but at the time it felt like abuse)
You might check this one out. A lot of people don’t realize he’s in it at all.
You need a time out.
Report as Spam
Say you’re sorry.
RUH ROH
The way that film is edited should be categorized as a form of psychological abuse. Its Woo-itis at its worst. It makes you dizzy. There’s a line where “merely-absurd” becomes actually painful. Broken Arrow was absurd. Face/Off is painful
“Her insides were a rocky place where my seed could find no purchase”
One of the greatest lines in movie history.
That movie was full of them. It’s definitely one of my favorites of all time.
Raising Arizona came out 30 years ago today, in fact.
Still awesome.
Raising Arizona is one of the funniest fucking movies ever made.
True dat. The scene where he steals the Huggies . . . priceless.
Hurry up son, I’m in Dutch with the wife!
I have as much respect for Cage as the next guy, but he was legitimately awesome in one of my favorite movies ever, Adaptation. I’m told he was excellent in Leaving Las Vegas as well.
Dammit GILMORE (I refuse to decapitalize your name, new site be damned), that was my comment on Cage! MY comment!
(shrug) if anything its validation of the point.
I think he also probably deserves credit for Moonstruck, but its been ages since i saw it
+1 big knife
I just re-watched that scene and i’ve changed my mind = he was ridiculous in that as well.
He’s actually pretty good in Bad Lieutenant, but they give him plenty of scenes to ham it the fuck up.
Leaving Las Vegas is a great movie. Damn disturbing though.
It’s disturbing for how believable that depression is.
True that.
Valley Girl was brilliant.
Have they seen Raising Arizona? That’s the reason I could never take him seriously.
I laughed my ass off for about two minutes when I saw this.
Ya, he could have declined that role.
I believe the settlement with the IRS and his creditors stipulates that he is no longer allowed to turn down any role.
Berkeley Will Delete Online Content
Thank goodness we have the government to protect us from uncaptioned lecture videos.
mother.fucker
Trump can’t pardon them?
I feel certain that I read about this months ago. Maybe it was another school, though.
Social justice is really just marxism by a new name. The result is the same: everyone is equally lowered by it until nobody has anything of value.
On the other hand, this ought to help make Berkeley less competitive, so perhaps we should encourage them to continue to cut their own noses off to spite their faces.
I predict that this really only affects productive online learning videos of use to those who go on to be productive members of society. The sociology and race/gender studies department videos turned out to be really easy to caption:
“Autistic screeching.”
Berkeley getting a taste of its own medicine?
Yeah, I have trouble coming up with any sympathy for Berkeley on this one.
Only the people who are now denied access to the educational videos.
There is a shitload of educational material online all over the place that isn’t captioned or in Braille, etc. Does all of that have to be updated too? This finding is absurd.
There’s a shitload of information in libraries that isn’t accessible by anyone who refuses to go to a library.
I propose that we burn all libraries. It’s the only logically supportable conclusion, given the precedent.
There’s no limit to Trump’s evil.
I laughed
Berkeley can’t be arsed to make course content accessible to the disabled? Seriously? Frickin’ Berkeley, with its $4 billion with a “b” endowment?
Joke’s on you. I’ve been conducting an experiment whereby every time I hit my head against the wall, social justice becomes easier to understand. I predict that I’ll be free of criminal impulses very soon.
For the death metal fans:
Lars Diedricson, writer of the 1999 Eurovision-winning song Take Me To Your Heaven has died aged 55. The only obituary I could find was in Swedish, and if I tried to link to it here the comment would wind up in moderation anyway.
After watching that, I can’t imagine why.
Eurovision is, for some reason, insanely popular in Europe. (I think a lot of it is people watching to see just how awful the songs are.) You’d think that other European media outlets would mention the death of a Eurovision winner.
The Chinese military really doesn’t pay its soldiers much certainly vs our volunteers. You can’t determine military effectiveness based on monetary outlay only.
Yeah, but they make it up on volume.
My FiL can attest, as he spent seven days behind enemy lines when the Chinese came running across the Yalu.
Kill a plant, save a child. And you gardeners out there. You are harming people. You should be ashamed.
So now we’re not supposed to plant trees? I thought the science was settled.
There oughtta be a law to make sure groups do what the overwhelming majority of them are already doing!
“Strong men also cry…Strong men also cry. “
Dudes are allowed to cry about certain things. Usually of the dead family members, dead dogs variety. That Fresh Prince episode is slightly off the list, but it’s close enough that it’s allowable.
WHY DOESN’T HE WANT ME, MAN?
*sobs*
C’mon… The Lion King?
Lebron should have all the WNBA records.
Dead dad. It’s allowable.
Also, if they witness something so profound and beautiful that they have no response but a single, manly tear.
Moses knows what’s up.
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
Shadow’s return gets me every time. Every damn time. Fuck you Disney for being so callously manipulative with my developing emotions!
I cry at the thought of having to watch a chick flick.
Deadpool is a chick flick, right?
Like the best chick flick evah!
If you had to peg it to one category, it might possibly fit.
Peg? Is that like an intercourse u-fa-mizm?
The only reason to watch Now, Voyager is for Bette Davis’ nervous breakdown.
Just for you, Ted.
It’s telling that as soon as I see Cherbourg I think “Oh, a film about Nazi killin’! …oh wait, it is not about Nazi killin’ at all.”
So it’s “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg”? A physically gorgeous movie to watch, but why did they have to sing all the fucking dialogue?
You said it above. Chick flick (if a very well done one.)
And the only other movie that can match its garish color scheme is Torch Song, which is hilariously awful.
I watched this movie as a kid when my parents had a black-and-white TV, so I was surprised to realize that it was actually a color movie when I watched it a couple of years ago. The actor is very good-looking, I wonder why he didn’t become more famous.
He mostly stayed in Italy. He did appear in The English Patient.
The first time I saw August Rush was on an Austrian flight into Erbil. Overhead monitors where everyone watched the same movie. The plane was filled with roided out security contractors. I was blubbering when August was reunited with his parents. I got some strange looks. Fuck them, it was a good movie.
Can somebody with a lawyerly understanding of the Constitution explain something to me. The Department of Homeland Security is threatening that the entire population of my state (Minnesota) will be banned from flying on airplanes and entering Federal buildings effective Jan 1 unless our legislature makes our drivers licence’s “Real ID Compliant”. Everybody is acting like this is a serious threat and the Federal government will really do this and hold the entire state prisoner for not issuing the correct pieces of plastic. This can’t possibly pass Constitutional muster, can it?
Access to these things are not subject to Constitutional review unless or until they stop you from exercising some right. (Or unless you are unable to complete some Federally required task because you cannot access their facilities)
Airports are definitely a Constitution free zone.
Interesting. So on Jan 1 we all sue? And then all of our lawsuits are dismissed when we don’t show up because we can’t get in the building?
Not to worry, as a defendent in a criminal trial, you won’t need ID verification.
It’s Constitutional under the FYTW Clause.
Isn’t that a regulatory thing? If so, then quite apparently, judging by the things they’ve been doing the last few decades, it doesn’t fall under the rule of the constitution. Or rather, it cannot be restrained by the constitution. So, you have the right to your amendments, unless we make a regulation that says you don’t.
Technically, you won’t be able to use your drivers license to do that. You can use another ID. I generally use my Passport Card anyways, because I’m paranoid of letting an underpaid TSA drone who’ll probably quit in 2 weeks see where I live and know that I’ll be away for a while.
But it’s only constitutional because of FYTW, which is the most important clause in the Constitution according to the government.
Show me where in the constitution it says using airports, and or using any form of travel is a constitutional right. They are not stopping you from free movement. Drive. Walk. Ride a bike.
Ninth Amendment.
(OK, I’ll stop laughing.)
I don’t get it. There are obvious abuses concerning enumerated rights, ie the 2nd, searches at the airports, on and on, but I am not seeing how requiring a certain type of ID infringes on an enumerated right. (I am prepared to be made to feel stupid)
It is dumb that they have done that, and an unnecessary requirement by the fed gov, but I don’t see how it infringes constitutionally anymore than them groping my nuts in a security line.
I am not seeing how requiring a certain type of ID infringes on an enumerated right.
Well, the 9th is for unenumerated rights.
I don’t see how it infringes constitutionally anymore than them groping my nuts in a security line.
They are both unconstitutional?
They are both unconstitutional?
Ok, I will buy that after reading a bit more on the 9th. I was more reverting to the idea the Fed’s were not stopping anyone from travel, since airlines are not the only form of travel. I was not advocating that the the federal takeover of airline security was constitutional. The ID is just another layer. Of all the stupid comments I have made, my original one there is on that list.
If the airlines want to force you to use such a document to travel, that’s their business. But the State has no right to interfere in your contract with an airline to fly wherever just because the State doesn’t like what document you’re using.
Ya, I got it Ted, you can quit laughing at me now!
For now, go ahead and get an “Enhanced Driver’s License” in Minnesota. I had to switch to that because I have to go to military bases for my work. It costs a little more than the standard one, but it is compliant. I am applying for a CAC anyway, just to be safe.
Not every MN license center can issue them, so make sure and look it up online and figure out what you need to bring where.
“THAT’S CHEATING!“
He [finger quotes]killed himself[/finger quotes].
Elvis Sighting
https://middleburycampus.com/article/why-im-declining-aeis-invitation-to-argue/
This guy is ‘woke’. One of the people that tried to shut-down Charles Murray’s speech at Middlebury.
From the article: “Indeed, when I first arrived at Middlebury I was clueless to the systems of power constructed around race, gender, sexuality, class or ability, and found that when I talked about these issues as I understood them — or rather, as I didn’t — I was met with blank stares and stigma rather than substantial debate. As a young bigot, I can recall thinking: “I thought at Middlebury I would get to have intellectual discussions, but instead it feels as though my views are being censored.” However, as a first-year I had failed to consider a simple, yet powerful component of debate: not all opinions are valid opinions. I had fallen into the trap of false equivalence.
False equivalence is simple: just because two sides are opposed does not mean they are equally logically valid.”
What colleges are still unWoke?
All the racist ones. Which is… all of them.
Hillsdale College and maybe Catholic University?
John Brown University I think would be fine, but it’s Christian, and stuff, so only My People will feel comfortable there.
Every single dude I met at CUA:
“I’m ______. I’m from Philly/New York….well, just outside of Philly/NY…..Jersey actually.”
In other words, Middlebury taught him to be a closed-minded asshole who only understands violence.
He sounds like someone who got his first piece of ass from a militant feminist.
Ruint fer life.
Yep, that’s exactly why I stopped reading at this inappropriate use of a logical fallacy.
Having political or social opinions aren’t always logically supportable. The whole point of debating them to begin with is to see if there is a thread of logical validity to be found in either side’s position. And interacting with an idea or a worldview is not the same as accepting it. You don’t read Marx to become a Marxist. You read Marx to understand his ideas so that you are better positioned to argue with them if you don’t agree. Delegating your responsibility to the elites to tell you what someone thinks rather than getting it directly from the horse’s mouth is intellectually lazy and, in this case, a slippery slope right into censorship.
This made me rage pretty hard. But honestly, I don’t even believe him. Whenever I read an article in which the author claims to have had “seen the light” without providing any specific descriptions of what their policy positions used to be, I raise an eyebrow. Another red flag is when the author provides description of their “former positions” that are obviously strawman arguments and are obviously meant to delegitimize other people.
The author also says “I understand the premise: a college should be a place for rigorous academic discussion, where students should argue, disagree, learn from their disagreements and thereby learn from each other… My hope is that this piece contributes to rather than sabotages this ideal.”
Then he follows up by basically arguing that everyone should agree with him because “its 2017.” I don’t believe for a second that this guy was “a young bigot” that saw the progressive light.
‘Bigot’ has been whittled down to the point where believing in logic makes one a bigot or believing in free speech makes one a bigot.
To his credit, Bill Nye did not physically assault Ken Ham.
Isn’t it sad that that even needs to be applauded anymore?
Would he have assualted Ken Spam?
I think it’s nice they’re letting retards into college and publishing their writings.
They have to under the ADA.
Whew! It’s a good thing we finally got afternoon links, before a full on pizza war erupted. We’re saved!
Pizza sucks.
calzone man, huh?
Damn straight.
Actually, I’ll take stromboli over both of them.
My roommates mom sends us a gift box of cookies every month (she runs a company out of her kitchen) but every now and then we get her stromboli. good god.
The Commissary at Ft Sill, OK, used to stock a frozen stromboli that was absolutely to die for. Never found it anywhere else. I has a sad.
The anti-pineapple people were about to sue for peace, anyway.
Pineapple and banana peppers, FTW.
I think I finally understand literally can’t even-ing.
Hawaiian pizza is my favorite pizza. By far.
So it’s to be the 30 years war then. If so, I get to be the Swedes.
Why would you want to be a turnip?
Actually sauerkraut is really good on pizza. Especially with pepperoni.
Shouldn’t Hawaiian pizza have SPAM instead of ham?
Spicy Spam.
Different recipe:
Make Mac’n’Cheese
Slice and fry Spam
Mix together.
Try that with canned ham chunks(the tuna can size) and spiral mac. Delicious. My aquatic biology teacher made that on a canoe trip.
My aquatic biology teacher
Best euphemism for ‘abuser’ I’ve ever heard.
I wasn’t abused! I did however manage to flip the canoe that I and the hottest chick in the class were in. We were stuck on a snag and there was a freaking cottonmouth(no, not a pot head, he was in the canoe) in the tree above us. She probably still hates me. I still regret not having a smartphone to immortalize dat ass I watched the whole time til she switched canoes.
I wasn’t abused!
Keep telling yourself! You’ll block it out.
Not by him, at least. He couldn’t stand me. I never had my homework and passed all the tests. He failed me and told me my laziness would catch up to me. It did. /self-abuser
Thanks!
That is an excellent point.
You can have it.
I’ll be over here eating a pizza with all the meats* on it. Like God intended.
*And mushrooms–the meatiest of the vegetables
Hear, hear!
Mmmmm mushrooms. It’s almost morel hunting season here. One of the few times I get off my lazy fat ass and walk through the woods.
I love mushrooms. Regular mushrooms. Haven’t ever tried the fun kind.
It’s neat that you live in an area where morel hunting is an option!
We’ve been talking about fried wild turkey breast and morels in cream of mushroom soup today.
Now my stomach’s grumbling and my mouth is watering.
Morels fried in butter with a cracker crust is the best way imo. Add fried rabbit, gravy and potatoes(oh how I miss thee potato!) or a B.L.T. and I’m in heaven.
Morels are edible. Very tasty. Not Psilocybin type which I know nothing about. *looks at own avatar with a rictus grin*
God didn’t intend for all the meats to he mixing together, which is why he originally put them all on their own pizzas. You got your pepperoni on your pepperoni pizza, you sausage on your sausage pizza, etc. They’re all much happier that way.
Either it was all part of his plan, or he created humans with free will so that we could perfect the pizza with all the meats (and mushrooms). Either way, all-the-meats pizza is clearly divinely inspired.
Checkmate, atheists.
Er, wait. I’m an atheist. Playing chess against myself, I’m always a winner right?
Thats fucked up. You’re a fucked up person.
I used to wear this shirt all the time
Is that a … turd on the right side of the pizza?
So, at what point was your retardation diagnosed?
At least the hummus cult didn’t follow us over here.
*Looks through pirate telescope at hummus cult*
…I propose an alliance.
Hummus is awesome. I wonder if anyone has tried to make a bacon topped hummus?
*scurries to kitchen*
I wonder… so would you emulsify bacon grease into the chickpeas instead of olive oil, maybe?
I think that would be Bummis. And taste like the seat of a sweaty truck drivers truck.
As far as I’m concerned, you’re a Pizza Nazi Hyperion, and I’m going to punch you.
What do they call a Pizza Nazi with cheese in countries without the metric system?
OMWC?
Trump?
Pizza Nazis unite! Someone, catass this guy!
Look we are never gonna agree on what does or does not belong on a pizza *coughamonionmushroomsh*, or if your crust should be thin (as god would have intended it if he existed) or some abomination in a cast iron skillet. What I think we can all agree on is that the secret* to ‘The Hyperbole’s perfect pizza dough’ which I divulged yesterday is a game-changer.
*rhymes with ‘sesame oil”
We don’t have to agree. Be we are woke about pizza, and people who put pineapple on theirs are pizza deniers.
so you think you’ve had a piece of pizza?
The WHO posts what may be the most mendacious study results ever
Listen, pal. Those NGO parasite jobs don’t save or create themselves.
If only the Illuminati actually ran things
And how exactly do you know they don’t smart guy?
a co-worker still has a christmas song as a ringtone. i hear the thing about a dozen times a day. a jury wouldn’t convict me, would it?
Dude, just change yours to Olivia Newton John’s Let’s Get Physical.
Within a week, there will be a company-wide ban on ringtones.
That is brilliant
ringtones are for women anyway, not grown men. if i did that, i’d have to kill myself.
Speak truth to power, brother.
Oh FFS now I have that song in my head – and that video.
Thanks Tundra.
Here, have some Solid Gold dancers.
Yes! We used to watch that when I was a kid. I learned all my best dance moves from them.
So euphemism.
XKCD covered this
Nice alt-text. Different alt-text: “This is why I act.”/Nicholas Cage. He is a national treasure.
That would be the best alt text.
A photo montage of Arab-refugees … fleeing the USA for Canada.
It looks like all of about 3 families, photographed from a lot of different angles to give the impression that ‘its a thing’ rather than an odd-choice.
Am I not getting the joke, or is that the wrong link?
lol
i guess my copy-paste got screwed up
this was the intended article
You’re not fooling me, those are Mexicans pretending to be Middle-Easterners.
One of the refugees looks exactly like John Travolta. No wonder Trump is doing this. MAGA!
Marge: “That bartender looks just like John Travolta”
Bartender: “Yeah, looks like”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_55jpuZonM
That is Travolta, he’s fleeing Scientology.
(by the way everyone, watch “Going Clear”, it’s great)
is this a new kind of rickroll?
The department reached that conclusion after receiving complaints from two employees of Gallaudet University, saying Berkeley’s free online educational content was inaccessible to blind and deaf people because of a lack of captions, screen reader compatibility and other issues.
The Dog in the Manger strikes again.
But now, all non-Berkeley students have “equal access” to that on-line content. Objective met.
Believe it or not, to the activists, this will count as a win.
Way back when I was just a baby lobbyist, I ran into a bunch of deaf activists pushing to have payphones outlawed unless they were deaf-accessible. When it was pointed out this would not result in more deaf-accessible phones, but just a reduction of regular phones, so there was really no upside in the new rule for them, they didn’t care. It wasn’t about helping deaf people, it was about punishing people with hearing.
How politics works
in the 21st century.The Department of Homeland Security is threatening that the entire population of my state (Minnesota) will be banned from flying on airplanes and entering Federal buildings effective Jan 1 unless our legislature makes our drivers licence’s “Real ID Compliant”.
I haven’t heard anything about it lately, but I believe Montana is also not in compliance. If I recall correctly, Governor Schweitzer, said, “We ain’t payin’ for that.”
KY is in the same boat.
Wa is caving. Pussies missing out on a chance to poke Trump in the eye, but statists are gonna statist.
I almost forgot to watch this today.
I wrote Reason a while back asking them to do a story about Pogo and how he got banned from the USA
he’s written about libertarian ideas on his blog before and i thought his story made for a very compelling argument why American immigration enforcement is often unbelievably stupid and self-destructive.
never got a reply. or, i can’t remember if they did.
I hate our government so much.
I used to get replies from Balko, Cavanaugh and Tucille.
Oh, i wasn’t picking on them so much, i just think he made a great story *at the time* (2013-2014) and it was too bad they passed on it.
I probably would have sent it to welch in any case.
I’m not sure what you want. Pogo worked in the US (as is got paid). It’s a huge no on a tourist visa or visa waiver.
Well, if he would have just walked on across the border with no visa at all, the left would come to his aid and called him a ‘dreamer’ or something else meaningless like that.
I agree that he was stupid and naive.
It was the “banned for 10 years” part that i thought deserved scrutiny
That story is too local.
However, as a first-year I had failed to consider a simple, yet powerful component of debate: not all opinions are valid opinions. I had fallen into the trap of false equivalence.
That’s just… like… your opinion, Man.
Also- that kid is retarded.
*readies molotov cocktail*
Puts pineapple on pizza?
Justice Department asks to drop Playpen child porn case to prevent releasing Tor exploit
Remind me again why our government was actually running a child porn site for several weeks?
It’s related to PizzaGate, I’m sure.
Wait, so they want to drop their prosecution of child porn distributors so that they themselves can continue to distribute child porn?
They want to drop the prosecution so they don’t have to out the flaw in Tor that they’re using to catch people.
This flaw, by the way, also likely exists in Mozilla products (Tor is based on Firefox), so by refusing to release the exploit the government is allowing millions of people who use Firefox (including me) to be exposed to a possible zero day flaw.
I thought they already said that it was getting dumbasses to turn on flash while visiting the site where the FBI distributes the child porn. I didn’t think it was a flaw with Tor.
They caught Ross Ulbricht when he fucked up and accidentally outed himself. They were able to use his IP address to figure out where the Silk Road Tor hidden server was located and commandeered it. There was no flaw in Tor they exploited. They exploited human carelessness.
And now, everyone they catch has a get-out-of-jail free card. This particular method of investigating and prosecuting child porn enthusiasts is now useless.
You can’t catch flies without honey…
And who has the best kiddie porn? The FBI.
I’d joke that you’ve been added to a list, but obviously we all are already on several.
Your threat coefficient went up though, comrade.
To save the children.
Remind me again why our government was actually running a child porn site for several weeks?
“If you want the job done right, get somebody from the government to do it.”?
How you can tell that ObamaCare is still working.
Maybe we just need to keep it to find out what’s in it.
No one needs more than one insurance carrier. Heh, that’s an actual argument of the left. Their utopia is on it’s way.
Back before it first passed, I floated the idea around TSTSNBN that it was built broken on purpose so that when it eventually failed, it would justify their complete takeover. A lot of people thought I was a loon, but I’ve noticed that the idea has gained some momentum.
Consider current events. I think they really believed they’d built an unbreakable coalition and we’d be basking in the glory of socialism in perpetuity. They figured they had time to make us all swallow the bitter pill that was already unpopular when they first proposed it. Things obviously didn’t work out as planned, and the ACA is the thing that has Obama’s knickers in such a twist that he stayed in Washington to hector the new Administration and try to thwart any progress it makes.
The combination of the penaltax and guaranteed issue could lead to no other result.
Your average prog voter doesn’t understand that, but the people who wrote the bill knew exactly what they were doing.
That idea was probably most-popular around 2011-2013, and less so now.
I think the “intended to fail” argument was undermined by the fact that Obama didn’t try to impose the “Fixes” that would lead to Single-Payer ASAP
If he had, it would be seen as an admission of the original intent.
If he dragged it to the top of the hill, got some Republican concessions in it, and let the rollercoaster go on its own, he could deflect all criticism to them. It failed because we tried to work with those dastardly Republicans. This is why we need to do it all ourselves, without their input.
He may well have intended to leave the mess to be dealt with by the next Democrat (presuming, falsely, that they had said perpetual lock on the office). Time tends to make people forget as well as soften their views. Hell, they’re even trotting out old Dubya now that he’s saying some things they like and toothless to do anything. They hated his guts, but now due to time he’s transformed into a sage old Republican and the new one with power is crazy and lawless and should heed his predecessor.
I think he honestly didn’t think too hard about it, and assumed it would work about as well as Massachusetts system works
basically, i don’t think the “designed to fail” thing is actually true at all. It was designed to deceive, no doubt. I think if the single payer thing was more a ‘backup plan’ in the event of failure… but not the assumed goal.
Sounds about right. And, with the backup plan, they really didn’t care much if it worked or not.
Foreseeable consequences are not, cannot, be unintended ones. I am not an actuary, I am not an insurance broker, hell I flunked Algebra II, but I can do simple fucking math.
Wasn’t that always the plan? Insurers keep quitting the exchanges because they’re losing money. Before long thousands of counties and millions of people have zero options on the exchange. And that’s how you get a “public option”.
Notice the strong overlap with this map
(*excepting Wyoming, Arizona)
Why is Alaska so fat? To survive the winter I guess?
i have no freaking clue.
Maybe we just need to keep it to find out what’s in it.
Apparently, not many insurance policies.
success on the truck! took an hour drive, tried to make it extra warm by going uphill the whole time. shut off, walk away for 15. Turned right over, no choke or any funny tricks. just first try, right away. I should still rebuild the carb, but maybe this means I can wait a bit.
Eh, put some seafoam in it and you’re good to go.
I watched one guy’s videos on a rebuild. He’s pretty well known in the landcruiser community. It’s got to be the most complicated thing they put in the truck. It was made worse by our friends at the EPA. My FSM has a breakdown of all the different ones they used, based on where it was sold. The American one is a few pages longer.
Half of us can’t cut a $500 check
I’ve seen surveys like this before, and they are usually a little misleading. They typically don’t take credit cards into account. However, the idea that 56% of people don’t have a $500 emergency fund is scary, much scarier than antifa crap or SJW takeovers or shitty socialist programs. 150 million people in this country couldn’t handle getting laid off, let alone a moderate downturn in the economy.
This is why inflation is the second most pernicious form of taxation behind property taxes. When you incentivize living on margin, you put people in a very precarious position.
The difference between Obama’s definition of “employed” and actually being employed.
And you’re right, it’s especially dangerous. As far as causes of civil wars go, hunger tends to beat ideology. Hell, just look at Venezuela. There is still a group that doesn’t believe the ideology has caused the problems they face, but hunger is a reality they won’t quickly escape.
Saving is for suckers. Deficits don’t matter anymore.
That really is unsettling. In an ideal world, I’d like to have ~six months worth of expenses saved up, but I have a hard time with more than that because that money would just be sitting there not doing jack.
but I have a hard time with more than that because that money would just be sitting there not doing jack.
Roth IRA is your friend. Keep 1 or 2 months’ worth in cash (enough to get past an emergency that would require payment in less than a week) and the rest in a Roth IRA. Because of the caps, it takes a couple years to get to a full 6 months’ worth that can be withdrawn without penalty, but at least you’re making money in the market while still being able to have fairly quick emergency access to it.
I love my Roth. It was the best hint my parents gave me.
What’s your opinion of Money Market accounts?
What are they pulling today? 1%? IMO, it’s not worth the additional regulations (minimum balances, etc). I’d rather take the 1% hit and keep it in a checking account where they don’t get bitchy about my 7th withdrawal of the month. If I really don’t need the money in the short-term, the Roth IRA is gonna do an order of magnitude better on the return.
Roth IRA is a suckers bet.
Do you honestly expect that when SS runs out of money the government is not going to confiscate your retirement savings in return for some new SS plus benefit that they will fund with the seized money so they can keep the charade chugging along for a few more years?
My theory is that the feds will stealth confiscate tax-advantaged retirement accounts by requiring them to keep X% of their assets in Treasuries. For safety, you know. This is essentially the feds taking your cash and giving you an IOU. Such a deal!
Do you honestly expect that when SS runs out of money the government is not going to confiscate your retirement savings in return for some new SS plus benefit that they will fund with the seized money so they can keep the charade chugging along for a few more years?
I think that the chances of gov’t stealing my retirement account are pretty low. Until and unless they start seriously agitating for that, I’ll take advantage of the benefits. Standard diversification disclaimers apply here.
It depends on how many people have been impoverished first. I guarantee you right now in Venezuela a mob is lynching someone who’s managed to stockpile a little extra rice, and that mob thinks they’re doing the right thing distributing the hoarders ill gotten loot to the starving masses.
Yep. If you think a net worth tax isn’t coming, you haven’t been paying attention.
Every time one of my friends on the left wants to raise min wage or complains about something like this I always give my “what I would do if I were in charge” speech.
no income tax. No payroll tax. there, everyone just got a huge raise, and can ask for more. let people opt out of SS, eventually ending it.
That alone, before we talk about starting businesses or building more housing to lower prices, lower prop tax to lower rents, or anything else would help so many working people get off the ground floor.
I make well under $15/hour, and I owe money to the taxman this year.
Property tax should just be eliminated. A one time 15% sales tax is ok, but when you pay off your home, you should be able to stop making payments on it.
100% agreed.
Sure, if you don’t want the gov’t to enforce your ownership for you.
Do you know what property tax pays for?
I’d assume it depends on where you live, however if it is not your property taxes that pay for your ownership insurance than what taxes do, income, sales, payroll? someone defends your property rights, if it aint you then it is the government, why shouldn’t you be taxed to pay for that service in a (fuck, some word that sounds like consummate but isn’t) manner.
Commensurate, dammit, call Bacon-magic so he can call the edit fairy.
The government doesn’t defend my property rights, the government is the primary violator of my property rights.
So if someone trespasses or squats on your land, who you gonna call. If your neighbor claims that the property line isn’t the hedgerow but halfway through your garage, how do you settle that?
I was told it’s roads and bridges. I don’t give a fuck, it’s bullshit that on one can actually own property.
no one
You should be able to live off the fucking grid.
So if someone trespasses or squats on your land, who you gonna call.
Dude, I live in the desert. I wouldn’t even have to call the morgue.
Feh, forgot link.
Dude, I live in the desert. I wouldn’t even have to call the morgue.
I have a rifle, and I have the ability to speak. If they don’t leave when asked, I have the rifle, and a shovel to go with it.
I mean, the one time I actually needed the police’s help in recovering stolen property, they did jack shit.
Well you head down to the courthouse and examine the records. Which could easily be done via a private company, or by no one at all, through decentralized methods.
Like, let’s say I have a working hyperdrive, and I load up 500,000 libertarians and we ship out for the Trappist system. Do you really think we would need property taxes to register claims and prevent trespass?
Even if I were to concede that government performs some functions better than the private sector, the fact is that 95% of the property tax bill is for things better left to the market, namely the indoctrination centers they call schools.
I have a rifle, and I have the ability to speak. If they don’t leave when asked, I have the rifle, and a shovel to go with it.
And when the squatter is better armed and quicker on the draw?
Which could easily be done via a private company
And who pays for that?
I am not saying that you are getting the bang for your buck on property taxes, I get the school thing,(no kids myself, and I absolutely abhor that I subsidize the busing for those twits that drive their kids to the end of their driveway to wait for the bus then drive back to the house, or worse yet pull out and follow the bus down the road? You were fucking going somewhere anyway and you can’t take your god-damned kid to school first, better that I should sit behind this big yellow road tortoise for mile after mile cuz kids these days can’t even be arsed to walk a half mile and catch the bus at one location preferably off the road so the rest of us can get on with our lives..but i digess) however unless you want to go full an-cap (which I’m amenable to) one has to admit that property owners do benefit from the state running things, poorly as they might, and if someone’s gonna pay, it might as well be the land owner. You want to opt out of all government protection/dispute resolution, I’ll fight that battle with you. but if we have a government that enforces property rights, property owners should pay for that and property taxes are the only fair way to assess those taxes.
if we have a government that enforces property rights, property owners should pay for that and property taxes are the only fair way to assess those taxes.
This assumes that property ownership is a privilege bestowed by the sovereign. Should I have to pay the crown for the ability to speak my mind or to own a gun? What about to keep them from quartering soldiers in my house? What’s special about owning land that makes it suddenly okay to have a tax just for possessing it?
property taxes are the only fair way to assess those taxes
how about we charge for usage of government services instead of for basic rights? You want to go to court to figure out where the property line is? Fine, but it’s gonna cost you $1000. You want to record your deed with the county? Fine, it’s $500. You want the cops to come when you call 911? Fine, it’s $35/month.
Is that a serious question?
How on earth do we keep who owns what web address straight without a Department of Web Addresses?
What’s special about owning land that makes it suddenly okay to have a tax just for possessing it?
It’s not the owning it’s the keeping.
you must have missed this part
You want to opt out of all government protection/dispute resolution, I’ll fight that battle with you.
you must have missed this part
No, I’m just missing how it’s relevant. I’m not against paying for government protection/dispute resolution. I just think that property tax is the single most evil, liberty-killing form of taxation ever dreamed up. I’d pay $2 in income tax for every $1 reduction in property tax because that’s how evil I think property taxes are.
Nothing says that the government owns you quite like being taxed simply for living somewhere.
How on earth do we keep who owns what web address straight without a Department of Web Addresses
Honestly I don’t know, I’m just a guy who earns a living making sawdust. Serious question- because I don’t really know all that much abut how these tubes work – could some own forcibly take my web address from me? and if they did is there a group of people who, free of charge, get it back for me?
So you are okay paying the government to protect your property but don’t want that payment based on how much property you own? One guy makes beau coup bucks but owns a tiny townhouse and should pay more than the poor (on paper) rancher who owns thousands of acres? both rely on the state to enforce their property right, when one could do it himself with a shotgun and the other would have to hire a team of regulators to do it for him. Someone’s getting a sweetheart deal out of this.
One guy makes beau coup bucks but owns a tiny townhouse and should pay more than the poor (on paper) rancher who owns thousands of acres?
Depends. Is Mr. Townhouse living in a nice area with low crime? How about Mr. Rancher? How much work does the government have to do for each?
both rely on the state to enforce their property right, when one could do it himself with a shotgun and the other would have to hire a team of regulators to do it for him. Someone’s getting a sweetheart deal out of this.
Bullshit. One’s need for enforcement is not strongly correlated to the amount of property they own. A 700sqft apartment in the southside of Chicago uses up shit-tons more government services than a 10,000 acre ranch in the middle of Texas. Besides, property taxes are on the value, not the size of the property.
So you are okay paying the government to protect your property but don’t want that payment based on how much property you own?
I’m not paying them to protect my property. I’m paying them to clean things up once I’m done protecting my property. There is a disconnect between use and property taxes that is being ignored here. I could own a million acres, or a tenth of an acre, and if I call the cops to remove one trespasser, they’re only being used to remove one trespasser. Why should Mr. Million acres have to pay ten-million times as much to have a trespasser removed than Mr. Tenth? Even moreso, why should Mr. Million-dollar-house have to pay more to remove a trespasser than Mr. Hundred-thousand-dollar-house?
Then, when we expand things out to other services, like emergency responders and schooling, we pretty much have the same Obamacare community rating bullshit baked into the local and state government. You’re a single 20 something? You’re to pay for the schools your nonexistent kids don’t go to and the emergency responders you use 1/100 as much as your elderly neighbors.
I really need to write that article I’ve been promising on how evil property taxes are.
I’m not paying them to protect my property
Yes you are, the services you mention are ancillary to the primary purpose of government when it comes to property. Try owning a million acres without a government, your going to need to create one (or something very similar to one) if you want to retain ownership of that land.
I really need to write that article I’ve been promising on how evil property taxes are.
When you do,I’d be interested in writing a counterpoint essay, that is if horrid spelling and even worse grammar is tolerated round here.
Try owning a million acres without a government, your going to need to create one (or something very similar to one) if you want to retain ownership of that land.
How does this not apply to every single other fundamental right, though? I guess we should have a poll tax, because the government needs to keep the KKK from scaring the black folks off. We need to have a speech tax because the government needs to keep antifa from bashing Milo’s head in. We need to have a due process tax because the government protects you from having a rogue cop toss you in prison for looking at him wrong.
I have over $2000 sitting in a U.S. bank account…and I’m….well as you all know, from another country that shall remain unnamed.
Not only that I invested in the USA.
What are you people good for?
Keeping out the Canadians? Ok, we’re not even good at that. Trump, move that wall!
It must be nice to open a bank account in another country. As and American, I WOULD HAVE NO IDEA.
It’s pretty sad when a Canadian can cut a $500 check more than most Americans apparently.
Yo Rufus, My Man!!, you are looking good, say could I maybe get a few ducats from ya, I’m good for it, you know that. Say five hundo? that cool?.
Sure. Call Vinny the Doge. He usually sets things up for me.
Yeah, thing is I could use it right now y’know. If you could just cut a check, make it out to cash tho, I got a thing going on and my bank is being a dick about it.
I was trying to make the point there is no country on the planet that will let an American open a checking account thanks to the IRS. Well, normal people anyway. I am sure the uppercrust can. I couldn’t do it when I used to get paid in AUD.
Yeh. Sucks.
Absolutely nothing, say it again.
The problem is if you keep inflating the money supply but prevent that inflated money from driving up wages you create a situation where people have no choice but to avoid saving even if they otherwise would want to because their costs are rising faster than their wages and even a small difference in those rates of increase is going to eat up all of the discretionary income in budgets fast. Since we’re into our 3rd decade of stagnant wages combined with moderate consumer price inflation and massive monetary inflation it has reached the point where only a tiny percentage of the populace, primarily those without kids, can realistically out earn their expenses by any measurable amount.
My wife and I have 4 kids and a combined household income north of $160,000 a year and she’s had to take a second job so we can make ends meet and more than likely we’ll both be signing up to be Uber/lyft drivers as well.
Buy you are almost rich accordinting to the last administration.
You should be happy to pay your fair share.
Kulak. Wrecker !
Quebec (well, the left-wing PQ did anyway) considers 130k ($CAD) household income to be ‘riche’.
The Exhaustion of American Liberalism
This one’s going to upset a lot of proggies, no doubt about it. The feeling of everything they’ve used to attack everyone else for slipping through their fingers.
Even a stinging rebuke for Warren in here:
Read the whole thing. It’s impressive.
Weird, I didn’t get pay-walled when I first clicked the link. Here’s an archived copy in case you get hit by it.
If it’s like WaPo, just clear your cache and wallah! No more paywall.
WSJ has a subscription paywall. You get around it by copying the link, going to google.com, and pasting the link in the search bar.
Yeah for all the bleating they do about how it’s the current year, they really don’t seem to understand that it is in fact the current year.
It’s not 1965. It’s not 1975. It’s not 1985. It’s not 1995. It’s not 2005. It’s not even 2015 anymore. Over half the country was born and has lived their entire life post Jim Crow.
The whole gender and racial privilege bullshit means believing that that little Billy Bob Peckerwood of Trailer Park, WV, father unknown, who’s mom has a fake disability diagnosis has some kind of advantage over Malia Obama. It’s ludicrous.
Virginia Commonwealth University is expanding both its LGBTQ *AND* Intersectional Studies Departments. We are so fucked.
Intersectional Studies? They have that special designation now?
I guess third wave feminism is fully embedded now.
What in the wide world of sports is intersectional studies? *duck duck go’s*
I’m going with something to make mentally and emotionally unstable people feel sort of normal and important?
Or maybe… it’s just a place to stick the imbeciles so as not to have to deal with them being in classes that actually require learning useful stuff?
Wikipedia says if you are normal but don’t really dig that, you can identify as mentally and or emotionally unstable and then be in some way discriminated against. At least that is how I understood it.
A way to siphon money from the productive to the unproductive. Just like 90% of what government does.
WHO study-
Damn that pollution! we should all be in caves, dying at 25 like the
good lordGaia intended.A bernie/warren/thechirstianleft friend of mine posted a link on how Americans only live on something like 56% of the US land.
Looking at the map, most of this land was one thing. Any guesses?
Dirt?
Touching the ocean, and or around a big city?
Or do you mean the land not inhabited by progs?
Nationwide. I couldn’t figure out if it was a post about population or immigration.
Its almost all fed land or state land, and stuff like Alaska.
Who could live there, the gov owns it. I cant buy it or build there.
You can live on fed land. You just have to move your abode every two weeks. This dude even writes a blog about it. I like to think of it as my back up plan. Not that I follow that guy. First search result.
Fair enough. You can camp. My friend in leadville dated a tent girl for a bit. She was a little crazy though.
Anyone who lives in a tent in leadville is more than crazy. Air is a bit thin there.
Can’t be mountains. Or desert. Or water. Or swamps. Or farm fields. Or… shit, I give up.
Within 20 miles of a Starbucks?
fed land/ and tops of mountain ranges.
You cheated, you never told us it could be 2 things!
Fed land was the correct answer, but after reading all yours, I realized it wasn’t 100% truthful.
They also used waterways.
It was probably Peak Stupid that day.
Well, I did think about federal lands but realized that it couldn’t add up to that, and neither could mountains. But you know, there is a lot of truth when people say if you think the earth is over populated, get the window seat on a plain and fly across the USA. Which I’ve done on numerous occasions. Most of it does look to be completely uninhabited. I would even say the same thing driving across it. Here in Maryland, once you’ve left Baltimore and start driving west, you soon realize that most of the state is completely empty. It’s nothing but hills and forest. You can drive for miles and miles in western Maryland and not even see a single human dwelling. All of the population is concentrated in a narrow stretch west of the bay.
Ditto New York. Get north of Westchester/Rockland, and there’s a lot of low-populated areas.
If you put everyone in the USA inside Texas and spread them out evenly, there would be 1300 people per square mile, which is 3 times less dense then the city I live in.
The overpopulation problem is entirely fictional.
Why would people want to be in Texas?
waterways = land
So you were asking what land was not inhabited? I throw an ambiguity, and misleading flag! *tweet* we need a ruling.
Privately owned?
I think I misread the question.
I doubt i worded it right. It was mostly ramblings.
Lol. Apparently Creepy Joe is allegedly still trying to live up to his name.
Claim: Joe Biden Likes To Swim Nude in Front of Female Secret Service Agents
Ah, I didn’t realize that this is old and should have checked in advance. Apologies.
Can anyone here decipher this shit?
What is this?
My plan is to wait until Rand Paul shits all over it. A bit lazy, but I know he’s going to do it anyway and I already respect his opinions on the topic. After that, I’ll look into it more deeply.
Wow, looking at the Old Site today, only one article has more than 100 comments, and that one’s another Shikha hit-piece on Trump. (One of two today.) Sad.
All the comments seem to be the conservative, team red cheerleaders and trolls arguing with them.
Papaya, to really get the full Trumptweet flava, you need an exclamation point:
Sad!
The comments in the 2nd Shikha piece is almost all Tony and AmSoc having a word salad orgy.
Interesting: Utah legislature calls for transfer of Bonneville Salt Flats to state’s control
Yeah the history of federal land in Utah is interesting. Utah agreed to make polygamy Constitutionally illegal in turn for statehood and eventual turn over of the lands to the state. As you can bet, ‘eventual’ became ‘f*** you’.
I didn’t know that. If I thought having more than one wife to be a good idea, which I don’t because I had one before and can only envision more than one to be a nightmare, I would move to Utah and take multiple wives and force it to the Supremes.
It’s not prosecuted anymore, except in cases of fraud, or minors.
Utah’s call for federal land to be transferred to state control has been seen as some terrible thing. I don’t know *why*, but apparently it is.
Utahans are the wrong kind of people.
Principals, not principles.
The SL Trib is a bit of a liberal rag, but in a conservative state, it isn’t usually too bad. I think they broke the corruption scandal with the AG a few years back.
Also it’s obviously a bad idea, because the federal government takes care of land sooooo well.
I really have to stop going to reason for now. I get so furious when I see that shikha still writes for them. And apparently to the trolls that run the place you are a Republican shill if you criticize her.
To be fair, many commenters are indeed Republican shills.
I think some of the shills are actually socks for the trolls.
note to self – ‘logo idea-troll socks’
I think that’s accurate.
True, but that DanO guy is infuriating.
careful, he knows about our glib catasses.
DanO is Shikha. And now there’s a poster named Cunt. Oh wait… that’s Curt, heh.
you think its her?
I thought it was someone else who was white knighting a while ago. They can’t seem to understand there might be a libertarian who disagrees with her.
No, I was just joking. I have no idea, never saw the poster before, that I can remember. And don’t recognize the posting style. Also, Shikha doesn’t seem imaginative enough to make a sock. That they let her write there is sort of astounding to me. It has to be some token gesture of multiculturalism or social signaling of that type.
Idk who it is. Wouldn’t get em a beer though.
“A” libertarian? More like lots of them. 😉
Look, ted, everyone knows I’m the only pure libertarian.
I typically visit at least once a day. But I’ve almost given up on posting because it’s hardly ever possible to post more than one comment without the server blowing the fuck up. They apparently don’t consider the comments important at all.
Reading Charles Gannon’s Caine Riordan books right now. Enjoying them.
webdominatrix, this might be of interest!
Found on facebook
I didn’t watch the video, but if that is a shot of tequila, I agree.
so i go to the youtube page where that video is hosted…
….and the #1 most common comment? is basically =
“THIS NEW AGE STUFF IS BULLSHIT = Y’ALL NEED TO GET JESUS INSTEAD”
#2 is “THIS SHIT DOESNT WORK BECAUSE THE GOVT + CORPORSHUNS PUTS SHIT IN THE WATER WAKE UP SHEEPLE #PRISONPLANET #NWO”
I think that pretty much covers the majority of the population’s various superstitions.
yes.
Sounds like the same posters who show up to post about any type of space travel article.
If you think Shikha is a disingenuous loon, feast your eyes upon this treasure of jouralism:
Trump’s travel ban will make America sicker, especially those undeserving deplorables
why do i click?
Always hover first, DOOMco, always hover first.
“SANTA FE [NM] – Democrats in the state House on Thursday blocked Republican efforts to pass a law requiring doctors to provide medical care if an infant is born alive during an attempted abortion….
“”Opponents of the bill said that laws and medical standards are already in place covering how to handle abortion and other procedures.
“Dr. Sandra Penn, a physician for more than 30 years, urged the committee to avoid “political interference” in medical care.
““This bill would add the possibility of criminalizing a medical procedure,” she said, and inject fear into a situation “when it should not be there.””
Here is the rejected bill
Hmm, Wikileaks just posted this.
No idea what it is yet. Really vague, though.
Ah, it’s vague on purpose. It’s that Vault 7 they’ve been teasing for a couple of weeks.
It’s that Vault 7 they’ve been teasing for a couple of weeks.
Ah; the one without medical aid/personnel.
Oh please let it be Hillary election night video.
Guys, do yourselves a favor and read the comments on this post:
https://www.facebook.com/BaltimoreCityPolice/photos/a.277239856955.154351.58771761955/10154185854496956/?type=3&theater
It’s just a good thing that the authoritah has taken that machine gun off the streets. Wouldn’t want the maniac owner to be spraying musket balls all over the place. That thing is a weapon of mass destruction.
Pretty funny.