You guys deserve a solid links today. Let’s see if I can deliver or if you’ll have to wait until the afternoon to get them.
- College group thinks segregation is a good thing, even when it comes to lifesaving training. But you probably won’t read about this in the Washington Post. Because the group is York University’s Black Student Alliance that is only offering CPR to black students.
- What you will read in the Washington Post, however, is that the reason the GOP has their strongest footing ever in government is because of racism. It even goes so far as to lament that in some places under 20% of whites (gasp) voted for Obama in 2008. No breakdown or justification was offered for the much higher %age of blacks that voted for Obama in the same election. Nope, just “research” that proves a lower %age of whites voting Republican in the south is racist. Enjoy the derp.
- Victor Davis Hanson offers a blistering, and in my opinion extremely accurate, takedown of the media. Enjoy the opposite of derp.
- President Trump released his revised travel ban and it could face some legal challenges. Expect those “challenges” to take place somewhere out west among a friendly Ninth Circuit.
- Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep set to star in a new Pentagon Papers movie that will be directed by Steven Speilberg. You may remember Spielberg as the director of such fantastic films as the Indiana Jones trilogy, “1941”, “Schindler’s List”, “Jurassic Park” and especially “Jaws”. Or you can be a dick and say everything he did sucked because he was attached to “Always” and “War Of The Worlds.” Either way, if you haven’t seen “Jaws”, you should.
Those are the links. Now its time for me to walk away and get on with the rest of my day. I see a zoo in my immediate future. And three kids that all want to go in a different direction. Wish me luck.
Comments
285 responses to “Tuesday Morning Links”
5) I was thinking about Trump’s allegations that Obama tapped his phones, and I’ve come to the conclusion it’s a message to Obama, and has very little to do with the rest of America. That message to Obama is: Stop hanging around D.C. Get out of town. Take your family. Because if you want to stay and watch the shitshow, I’m going to make you *part* of the shitshow.
GO HOME AND BE A FAMILY MAN
I think you are right. What Obama is up to doesnt make sense to me. There is no shit that Obama can stir up about Trump that wont eventually mean digging deep into Obama’s shenanigans.
I said right before the inauguration that Obama simply wouldn’t go quietly into the night. His narcissistic ego plus an eager audience of sycophants ready to regurgitate his every musing simply won’t allow him to.
No, I’m pretty sure its because the Obama admin had his phones tapped. The evidence has been out there for some time. Trump just chose that particular moment to go off about it.
He couldn’t care less if Obama sticks around DC. In fact, the closer Obama is to the WH the better. It gives him a local target to attack.
The cognitive dissonance on this has been staggering from the jump. People who were a couple weeks ago excitedly telling me how the “intelligence community” had totally spied on the Demon Drumpf and he was gonna be frogmarched any minute now because ZOMG RUSSIANS are now telling me that Drumpf is just being paranoid for suggesting to that he was spied on.
Like, two weeks ago it was household knowledge that the NSA and CIA had all the dirt on Trump, and it was the story of the week, but now only crazy people believe that Trump was spied on.
Especially the last part. One of the things a lot of people have ignored in breaking down the election is that Obama himself is just as responsible for getting Trump elected as Clinton is. He spent eight years trying to drag the country down a road that most didn’t want to travel, encouraged divisive rhetoric as much as he could, refused to connect Islam with terrorism, played the stereotypical DC elitist passing on his wisdom to the plebs, etc. He could certainly pull in the votes during an election, but both his terms have thoroughly delegitimized that style of governance.
I’m with you on this one, Sloopy. He chose this time specifically because the media has been throwing out baseless Russia allegations against his entire cabinet and this was its own salvo in distraction politics. He knew that they would scream their heads off and, at least for a few days, stop screaming about shadowy Russians behind every rock and corner.
I do think he wants Obama out of Washington, but I don’t think it bothers him overmuch either. It is an unprecedented level of dickheadery, at least in my recollection of other administrations.
Jimmah did meddle some during the early part of the Clinton presidency. He somehow injected himself into the regular NK sabre rattling that occurs every few years.
Although Clinton, doing what he usually did, jumped out in front of whatever was happening and claimed credit.
Yup. Obama gives him a convenient foil and a vehicle by which to rile up his most slavish supporters. Obama is the unifying agent, as Eric Hoffer described in The True Believer.
“The intelligence agencies are unimpeachable”. It’s like they don’t think we remember what they said in the run up to the Iraq war.
Or in the congressional hearings on mass surveillance.
*I gave the least untruthful answer I could*
That should be tattooed on his forehead.
Yeah, this one makes me laugh. Fucking Clapper gets trotted back out, claiming that Obama didn’t order any spying and the media (Dems) cheered. Everyone else cheered when Clapper said that there was no evidence of Russian involvement.
I’ll cheer when that lying piece of shit is not trotted out for any reason whatsoever. He has no credibility.
If you want to make a case for white privilege, use that creepy sumbitch.
This. How the hell does any media organization cite the words of James Clapper with a straight face?
Or all of the other world leaders Obama spied on.
He also spied on U.S. journalists.
Could some explain why we need all this redundant mess:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Intelligence_Community#Members
It doesn’t seem intelligent. If I had to guard something, I’d choose a pack of the same breed of dog, over a bunch of different animals.
Clicking on that just put me on 17 separate lists.
Disseminating evidence of Obama’s personal involvement in unlawful surveillance might serve as an effective way to disabuse his less fanatical supporters of their misconceptions. It won’t convince rabid leftists, considering their insanity, but moderates may rethink their Democratic advocacy. Or is that too much to hope for?
I’m with you but suspect it’s too much to hope for.
I’m curious to see what Potsie is up to. It’s not just Obama hanging around that’s weird, that Holder is speaking about ‘he’s coming’ is just as retarded.
The various calls for segregation by black organizations are a bit puzzling to me. The only reason I can think of for them doing it is that none of them have ever seen segregation.
Yes, I don’t think old black people would support it.
Also, since most people aren’t black, I don’t see how only teaching CPR to black people could help black people.
We’ve been in a post Jim Crow era for almost 60 years. They’ve never seen it.
“It even goes so far as to lament that in some places under 20% of whites (gasp) voted for Obama in 2008.”
And presumably, when the Democrats nominated white woman in 2016, these same places gave more votes to the Democrats?
” But you won’t read about this in the Washington Post. Because the group is York University’s Black Student Alliance that is only offering CPR to black students.”
To be fair, they’re only offering TRAINING in CPR to black students. It’s not like they would actually refuse CPR to an ailing white student, presumably.
To be fair
I bet your hair is beautiful, isn’t it?
Burn!!!!!!!!
High five.
I believe you meant the Heimlich maneuver. Cough it up, White boy.
I see a Seinfeld-Newman scene…for blacks.
To be fair nothing. Imagine if they offered courses to just ‘whites.’
Irish need not apply.
Meh, I’m OK with this. It’s a black advocacy group, so I get them only wanting to provide training to blacks. I think what really upsets most people about this is how it is not seen as fiercely racist, whereas you can’t even have a white advocacy group without being called a Nazi.
Yeh. That’s another way to look at it.
Nevada wife who poisoned her husband’s Lucky Charms to avoid having sex with him ‘is hiding out in Mexico’
Sure, she pleads guilty to poisoning his “cereal, energy drinks and even whipped cream” – but guess what the headline focuses on?
Anti-Irish bigots.
Her being on the lam in Mehico?
Sounds like she replaced the blue moons with blue balls.
“Pink hearts
Yellow Moons
Orange stars
Green clovers
Blue diamonds
and Purple horseshoes”
IIRC.
I’m surprised some retarded ass consumer advocacy group hasn’t come out and demanded they change them from blue diamonds because it might be confused with viagra and then you’d end up with kids hooked on the stuff walking around with boners all day in elementary school.
“Walking around with boners all day”
*Thinks back on school days*
How is that any different than the current situation?
*Checks bowl of cereal* good thing I picked the fruit loops today.
Looks like the work…
*Dons Sunglasses*
of a cereal killer.
*narrows gaze*
U.S. Republicans unveil plan to dismantle Obamacare, critics pounce
Is it longer than a page?
Oh, bullshit. Individual elements of Obamacare are popular in some places, but in few of them is the entire rancid package as a whole popular.
Apparently it’s bad to have a plan that makes consumers pay more for insurance but only if the other side makes you do it.
Republicans really are fucking worthless.
Say what you want about War of the Worlds, those tripod designs were bloody fantastic.
This one, which also had It also had tripodal spacecraft, is far superior:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046534/
Naw, no legs (admittedly this was limitations of the special effects technology), goofy alien design (not that the Spielberg design was better). Heat ray was good though.
They didn’t? I haven’t seen it in a long time.
http://www.gratispdf.nl/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/awarworlds-593×1024.jpg
They’re like manta-ray ship things. I like the 1953 movie more than the modern remake, but the designs are a little too 50s cheese for me. Spielberg’s tripod is pretty much exactly what I imagined when I read the book as a kid, but more terrifying.
I mean Jaws isn’t exactly Piranha 3D, but it ain’t bad
Sharknado is the far superior film
This Slate article made me laugh and laugh.
He’s not only cutting essential services, but the environmental justice program is on the table.
Oh noes!
I think my favorite part is how the article lists various ways the EPA has failed to address environmental programs in minority neighborhoods for decades, and that’s why cutting the EPA budget is going to worsen the environment in those neighborhoods.
Dammit, just go here: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/climate_desk/2017/03/trump_s_epa_plans_will_disproportionally_hurt_minorities.html
The phrase is “Women, Minorities Hardest Hit.”
Slate? Slate?
Ugh.
To be fare can you do anything without disproportionately hurting minorities?
Environmental justice office…
You could bomb a Brooks Brothers store. That wouldn’t disproportionately hurt minorities.
Or a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert at a county fair.
But… but … the bombing would release stuff in the atmosphere and that hurts minorities worse than someone being blown up.
To be fair I’m kinda reaching here … Have to think of something better.
Brooks Brothers, Lululemon, Williams Sonoma, the audience at a performance of Hamilton, etc.
Orbital bombardments?
That is your answer to everything!!!!
When all you have is an exterminatus button…
To be fare can you do anything without disproportionately hurting minorities?
Some food for thought.
Spelling shaming is not OK, not all people are privileged.
To be fare…
Ask not for whom the toll booth tolls, it tolls for thee!
I could never understand this uncritical view of “any regulation is good regulation ” by some. Even if they really thing something needs regulating, it is obvious there are better and worse ways of going about it. You very often could get the same effect with less bureaucracy or economic damage. But that does not even enter thought. Its more regulation for the sake of regulation, no regulation can be undone no mater how bad etc. All regulations have good intentions therefore are good, all who oppose them have bad intentions therefore are bad. Or something.
I’ve had a less than fully productive debate with people who were of the honest opinion that if the food inspectors were done away with, restaurants would be deliberately poisoning their customers to save a buck.
They failed to grasp the counter-argument that any business owner who did that would be out of business and out a lot more than the cost of not poisoning the people who paid him.
IMO your average rank and file prog, who sneers at going to church, substitutes government for god. Asking a prog to do a cost benefit calculation for regulation is like asking a snake handling Pentecostal to do a cost benefit analysis on religious strictures.
There will never, ever, ever be enough regulation. This is is the intellectual movement that, at the final extremity, will send people to death camps because owning chickens and selling the eggs to the other people in your poor ass village is engaging in capitalist exploitation.
I think the Pentecostal could handle it just fine: Soul >>> Life, so the risk of death is nothing compared to the value of the eternal soul.
“Government regulations” certainly sounds like a misnomer. The don’t really regulate government, do they.
Byron York: The information vacuum deep inside the Trump Russia controversy
The entire premise is absurd. If the Ruskies hacked our election (no one seems to know what ‘hacked’ actually means) then why did Hillary win the popular election? Wouldn’t the popular election be easier to manipulate while the electoral college nearly impossible?
And beyond that, if there were any actual evidence of any Russian collusion with Trump, it would have been broadcast far and wide a long time ago. Why would the bureaucrats and Dem operatives who despise Trump sit on such information if it existed?
Another thing, is that why would the Russians prefer Trump over Hillary, and her stupid reset button? Obama was very soft on Russia. The Democrats even laughed at Romney for saying that they were a concern.
The one thing that would make it rational for the Russians to not want Hillary was the idea that she wanted war with Russia. But the people who believe the Russians meddled in the election don’t believe that her foreign policy would lead to war with Russia.
True, she did say she wanted to impose a no fly zone over Syria.
Furthermore, if you were pro-Russia, you would be anti-fracking and anti-pipeline. Democrats are more likely to take those positions.
No the divide in votes (say in California) is too large overall. You’d have to fraudulently swing 3 million or so votes. The key would be to just leverage a few key areas (MIchigan, Wisconsin) and have the EC votes go to Trump instead of Clinton — less votes to turn. Nevertheless, I don’t believe any of this happened.
The media still can’t get outside of their bubble to see that a lot of people were just that fed up to vote for him.
Even if the Russians were responsible. And that’s a big “if”. The wikileaks were too inside baseball. Anyone who follows politics that closely already knew that the DNC was in the tank for Hillary and Podesta was a sleazeball. So I doubt it affected anyone’s vote.
Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.
The Middlebury professor who got injured in a mob attack speaks out against the attackers, but adds this:
“To people who wish to spin this story as one about what’s wrong with elite colleges and universities, you are mistaken. Please instead consider this as a metaphor for what is wrong with our country, and on that, Charles Murray and I would agree. This was the saddest day of my life. We have got to do better by those who feel and are marginalized. Our 230-year constitutional democracy depends on it, especially when our current President is blind to the evils he has unleashed.”
h/t Rico Suave at the other site
the evils he has unleashed – antifa?
“I would like to call upon America to be more careful with its trust … and prevent those … because of short-sightedness and still others out of self-interest, from falsely using the struggle for peace and for social justice to lead you down a false road. Because they are trying to weaken you; they are trying to disarm your strong and magnificent country in the face of this fearful threat. … I call upon you: ordinary working men of America … do not let yourselves become weak.”
— Alexander Solzhenitsyn
June 30, 1975
She is right about our current president unleashing hate, and that hate being what broke her neck. It’s just that she overlooks that the hate is by people who hate the president and anyone who disagrees with them.
How did Trump ‘unleash hate’ that culminated into their violent behaviour?
And fuck her.
By that, by coming up with that bull shit in trying to pin this on some level to Trump. Everyone is their own moral and intellectual agency. To suggest a person they perceive to be spreading hate *helped* caused this is grotesque. It makes me want to pull her hair….but I won’t. Because I’m not an idiot.
Listen, shitlord. These people are too stupid to have agency. That’s why we must always elect people from their political side of the aisle. The alternative is them always reacting with violence when they don’t get their way. So its better to placate them than to tell them to grow up and to throw them in prison when they riot.
-what I think a lot of academics really believe about the left.
It was a joke. I meant he unleashed hate in a Pandora’s Box kinda way. His election caused hateful people to begin to riot. I was trying to emphasise the way the responsibility for actions is passed from the instigator (rioters) to the object of their rage (Trump).
I can see why it didn’t read that way.
Ha!. You’re right! Thanks.
We have got to do better by those who feel and are marginalized. Our 230-year constitutional democracy depends on it, especially when our current President is blind to the evils he has unleashed.”
You can’t condemn these violent thugs without also condemning President Trump for running for office. After all, what other purpose was there for it but to incite violence from radical leftists?
I bet she’s a big fan of Shikha Dalmia’s twitter feed.
I’m not sure how anyone could be. Every time I open it, this is all I see.
LOL
She had to add virtue signaling at the end, otherwise the little Maoists would come back to finish her off. If Trump’s Education Department would just start de-funding these universities, I would happily wear a MAGA hat and praise Cheetos Mussolini.
Kevin Drum: Trump Really Did Win 28% of the Latino Vote
Media types tend not to realize that illegal immigration really isn’t a motivating issue for many Latinos who are second generation or further removed from the old country. I have an old friend from Texas whose ancestry is Mexican, but his ancestors have been Texans since the 19th century. A prospective member of La Raza, he ain’t. Except for his skin color and name, he’s a typical Texas good ol’ boy who lives for hunting, football, and big ass pickup trucks.
http://m.myleaderpaper.com/mobile/columns/patrick_martin/why-not-allow-guns-in-legislative-gallery/article_d8401124-f948-11e6-a8de-c7c43216c24a.html
“There is at least one freedom-loving brand new representative who sees this inequity for what it is. That would be state Rep. Nick Schroer (R-O’Fallon), a St. Charles County rep who pre-filed House Bill 96 before he had even been sworn in this year.
Schroer’s bill would make business owners who post “No guns allowed” signs on their doors responsible for the safety of gun owners forced to leave their pieces outside. Should something happen to them inside that might have been prevented by their iron, they could sue the prissy pants off those who posted the signs.”
Okay. I have a problem with this sentiment. First and foremost, you, nobody else, is ultimately responsible for your own protection. That includes making the decision to frequent a business who’s owner doesn’t wish to have firearms on their property. Don’t like it? Don’t shop there. Trying to hold the business owner liable seems to be another example of forced public accommodation.
Am I off base here?
Nope. But this is sort of a rising movement on the Right: make them play by their own rules. If we have to have forced public accommodations, if Connie Christian Baker has to bake a gay wedding cake, then Paul the Proggy Coffee Shop owner can suck it up and tolerate my sidearm.
Exactly. Play by their rules until it leaves their anus bloody.
I agree, TH. People who don’t want to patronize these businesses, don’t have to. If they do, they should comply with the owner’s rules. And if when on the premises, they are in a situation where they wish they’d brought their gun, well, they had fair warning that wasn’t an option.
Sometimes a property owner’s carelessness gets so extreme that he might be legitimately held accountable for crime on his premises, but normally the onus of the crime should just be on the criminal.
You aren’t off base at all. I would add that this spiteful measure also violates private property rights. If Joe Shmoe doesnt want me carrying on his property he should have that say.
I think you can still carry in the Virginia legislature’s galleries. Texas too, IIRC.
We had a proggy freakout because a legislator accidentally left his gun in a meeting room. A NoVA proggy legislator found it and tried to make it a “LOL RESPONSIBLE GUN OWNERSHIP AMIRIGHT?!?!!” moment. It failed, because guns are cool and half the liberals in this country agree that they are, so the hoplophobes are completely marginalized.
No children around… guns don’t just go off on their own, not even a problem worth considering. Idiots.
Eh, I mean we do seat the legislators from the NoVA, so there are mentally fragile people running around for sure.
The woman who found the gun
Ick! It’s scary!
If Trump wants my vote in 2020, he will get it if he builds a big beautiful wall alongside I66.
Fuck that. It needs to be just south of Potomac Mills and go all the way out to Warrenton.
I wish we could force Maryland to annex Fairfax, Loudon, and Prince William counties.
he will get it if he builds a big beautiful wall alongside I66.
Let’s at least carve out the battlefield, nobody lives there and it’s a nice reminder of a simpler time!
*cries self-interested tears at the prospect of being locked into a walled DC city-state*
I’m sure you can since that piece of shit Joe Morrisey never faced charges for waving an AK around during the GA session a couple of years ago in an attempt to drum up support for gun control.
I agree, however there is an aspect where business will socialize security costs onto local police forces, which they ought to provide for themselves. Also, by asking Patrons to disarm, I think it could be argued that these business are assuming some responsibility for said patrons protection.
I like the KY rule on those signs. They have no legal meaning. If someone carries on your property AND you happen to notice, you can ask them to leave and if they dont, then they are trespassing. But it has nothing to do with the firearm/sign.
For those that argue different, from a somewhat valid (except I am about to destroy it) libertarian position, my counterargument is that my weapon is on my body, which is MY property, so it isn’t on the business owners property. So there is no property rights issue.
Don’t bring sex into a gun thread. SMDH!
he will get it if he builds a big beautiful wall alongside I66.
Let’s at least carve out the battlefield, nobody lives there and it’s a nice reminder of a simpler time!
*cries self-interested tears at the prospect of being locked into a walled DC city-state*
dafuq? How did this reply end up here?
I agree. It’s a stupid law. A private business should be allowed to prohibit whatever they want on their own property. That being said, I don’t see how putting up a “No Guns Allowed” sign could accomplish anything good. It’s not going to prevent crime. And it might discourage business from gun owners.
It’s Republican-brand government overreach.
Volkswagen’s Driverless Creation is Everything That Scares People About Autonomous Cars
Are you trying to lure John here? Get him ranting about how no true manly man would ever let his car drive himself?
By the way, has John posted here yet?
Not that I’m aware of…
Thank f*ck for that.
I probably agree with John on more things than I would care to admit. But his argumentative style – pedantic and the sudden turns to nastiness – were tiresome. He “wins” his arguments by continuing them until the other party walks away in frustration.
I was generally fine with him (and agreed with him on more things than not) for the longest time. But he’s gotten more and more annoyingly argumentative, and his whole “HOW DARE YOU SAY THIS IS A FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION ISSUE AND NOT A FREEDOM OF RELIGION ISSUE” about gay cakes was way over the top.
His strenuous defense of pizzagate dropped my estimation of him a few notches.
Wait, he defended Pizzagate? Don’t remember that.
I mean, would I be surprised if Pizzagate was true?
Yes.
But would I be shocked?
No.
When it first broke, he was saying something along the lines of, “Did you read what those emails say? It’s clear as day.” If you want, I could search for it, but hopefully someone remembers the thread.
Here’s the thread. That took a while to find. Damn, John posts a lot.
John: There is no way that email is anything other than what it seems. Does it alone prove Podesta guilty of a crime? No it does not because it doesn’t say he actually went to the party and did anything. It is, however, pretty compelling evidence that he is. And certainly compelling enough to justify the police investigating whether he is.
I didn’t have too many issues with John, but you are right about him just dialing the argument up to 11 and then declaring victory when the other person walks away.
The issue that bothered me the most was his insistence that all driverless cars were evil and that anyone who wanted one was a commie.
I still wouldn’t lump him in with the other trolls though. He was a couple notches above that.
It is all a matter of the subject with John, though. The one that really got me was body armor.
John went frickin insane. Because we can all have guns, nobody should be allowed body armor.
For probably six hours.
You could drop in to the thread anywhere and post another turd bomb and John would respond in 15 minutes.
I have no problem with John’s arguments, and a lot of them actually promote discussion. The problem is that he’s a cunt. As soon as you disagree with him strongly he just cranks himself up to 11 and starts freaking out about how stupid you are and all that. He seems to think shouting down opponents is a winning strategy, when in reality it actually makes him come off way worse.
Bingo. John’s pretty smart. And for all his accusations of everyone else being Asperger’s, I think he’s on the spectrum. He argues like an Aspie. It’s condescending and grating.
I have an arsenal of cat butts ready if he, or anyone else tries that crap here. Disagree all you want – but start the wall of text, and raving insults that murder a thread … KITTEH HINEY.
Yup. I’m on the same side as John on more issues than the opposite side, and he can have compelling arguments, but the guy can never back down in the slightest no matter what the counterargument is. When he’s proven to be wrong, he just digs in and will never concede anything.
FWIW, I’m completely on his side on autonomous vehicles, at least as it’s usually envisioned. If I don’t have control of my vehicle, then someone else does. That means they have control of my movements. I find that revolting.
Swissie, you just hate well-reasoned opinions and that’s because you’re a socialist at heart (did I mention you’re probably an idiot?)
*readies anti-cat-butt missile defense system*
*stands to applaud Scruffy*
Disagree all you want – but start the wall of text, and raving insults that murder a thread
Well if he wants to do that he can just go over to the Other Site and argue with Tony, PB and Dan O., who seem to be in ascendancy.
Well, of course they’re in ascendency, they’re the TRUE libertarians. Just ask them.
He seems to think you need to be invited to come here. He might figure it out eventually, but he seems to be having fun yelling at trolls and chemjeff on the other site.
Do nothing to alter his belief.
Where in hell would one find streets smooth enough to drive that thing on? The wheel guards would be torn off inside of 100 yards around here.
The same is true here – winter rips up the roads on an annual basis.
Here’s footage of a real car to counteract the painful sight of that monstrosity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT3rbwXUXKo
Ahhhhhh. Much better, now.
Thanks!
Here’s an additional video (the soundtrack will arouse you):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_yX8KkESmM
How about some Italian?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhnDJbV29dM
How about Italian AND American?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r79BXCZii4
Skip to 0:25 for the music.
Mama mia! Now that’s a spicy meatball!
Driving behind an 8 second (quarter mile) Grand National
That’s incredible. The closest of my own experiences to that is when some guy in one of the earlier Challenger Hellcats decided to floor it on the highway from his tame, calm cruise (I was the second car behind him, and watched him break loose). It wasn’t stock, not even close. The sound was heavenly.
That’s Chris Chow’s car – a quarter mile run can be seen here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1moBIuDipg
That looks like the ideal conveyance for mobile revolutionary struggle sessions.
It looks like a robot turd.
It’s simple. Cars are freedom. Progs hate freedom. That’s why they love trains. Autonomous cars are just trains by another name.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/03/07/thaad-deployment-threat-stokes-us-tensions-with-beijing-moscow.html
THAAD deployment threat stokes US tensions with Beijing, Moscow
The U.S. decision to send equipment needed to set up a controversial missile defense system in South Korea is likely to add to tensions with Beijing and Moscow, countries that have spoken out in the past about deploying the system.
China said Tuesday it would take measures against the U.S. missile system deployed in South Korea, and that the U.S. and Seoul would bear the consequences.
“China firmly opposes the deployment of THAAD,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said. “We will definitely be taking necessary measures to safeguard our own security interest. All consequences entailed from that will be borne by the U.S. and (South Korea). We once again strongly urge the relevant sides to stop the process of deployment and refrain from going further down that wrong path.”
Lou Yuan, an outspoken, retired Chinese general, wrote in the Global Times, a state-run paper, that the Chinese military “could conduct a surgical hard-kill operation that would destroy the target, paralyzing it and making it unable to hit back,” The New York Times reported.
“We forbid you to defend yourself against anyone!”
Sod off, China.
You lay off, you mean meanie libertard meanie-face! *Strokes own crotch.* China. Mmm!
/Thomas Friedman.
I think this kind of shit is the craziest thing about the Left nowadays.
You have Hollywood. You have the mass media. You have pop culture. You have the academy. You have the (enormous, giant, far reaching) bureaucracy. You have the public school systems. You have every single fucking thing under your control.
But you still wanna wrap yourself in the mantle of fighting the oppressor?
In an alternate timeline where Hillary! is POTUS, a drone strike vaporizes some kind of right wing group of kooks in the Mountain West, and the Left cheers how the plucky underdog federal government has vanquished the Dark Network of Global Oppression that is 9 toothless Klansman in a trailer in Idaho.
Revolutions can never end comrade.
Somewhat off topic but your post made me recall a conversation I had with an LEO acquaintance recently. While I think your average small town cop generally leans right in their politics, they are ready to freak the fuck out over the sovereign citizens movement. Like the spector of mooslim terrorizers, they see the SCM as a vast network of sophisticated conspirators that will attack the police station Red Dawn style at any moment rather than a loose affiliation of weirdos. While most of the cops I know are very anti-clinton they sure seem ready and willing to be used by the left to root out the phantom militias.
Obama was fighting The Man, doncha know. It’s alway 1968.
In some good news Minnesoda once again voted against conforming to the Fed’s Real ID requirements.
My state senator Warren Limmer voted against it for the right reasons (“why give the Feds more power?”).
I am crossing my fingers and hoping that we have a showdown with the Feds and the TSA about this next year about whether they would try telling a bunch of citizens that they can’t travel because they don’t have the right type of ID.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/06/house-republicans-release-obamacare-replacement-bill.html
House Republicans release long-awaited ObamaCare replacement bill
House Republicans on Monday evening released the text of their long-awaited ObamaCare replacement bill, proposing to eliminate the various taxes and penalties tied to the original legislation while still preserving certain patient protections.
Aiming to deliver on their signature campaign promise after several election cycles trying to reclaim control of Washington, majority Republicans unveiled what they call the American Health Care Act. The sweeping legislation would repeal ObamaCare’s taxes along with the so-called individual and employer mandates – which imposed fines for not buying and offering insurance, respectively.
It also would repeal the Affordable Care Act’s subsidies, replacing them with tax credits for consumers.
However, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said the bill “looks like ObamaCare Lite to me … It’s going to have to be better.”
It’s a shitty bill that keeps around everything bad about Obamacare, just calls it different things.
The GOP was perfectly willing to vote on a full repeal of Obamacare when they knew it would get vetoed. Now that they control both the legislative and executive branches, they give us this steaming pile of shit.
I will say that I am seeing the grassroots Trump supporters not falling for it. They’re calling Ryan a globalist shill, a cuck, and urging people to support Rand Paul’s plan.
Yup. The Republicans once again show they are completely worthless. Yet another thing to wave in front of the people that constantly scream every election that you absolutely must vote for the Republicans.
Sources: Wash. Post employee allegedly impersonated ICE agent; guns found at his Md. home
http://libertyparkpress.com/as-trump-admin-promises-kept-will-president-consider-2a-proposals/
As Trump Admin Promises Kept, Will President Consider 2A Proposals?
In his first day on the job, newly-sworn Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke reversed a last-minute Obama administration order to prohibit lead ammunition and sinkers on national wildlife refuges and other federal lands.
President Donald Trump last week also signed an order reversing an Obama administration rule that had the Social Security Administration providing information on individuals with mental disabilities to the National Instant Background Check System. Even the American Civil Liberties Union and National Alliance on Mental Illness had opposed the Obama requirement.
Sportsmen are cheering the lead ammunition reversal. But there is more to this than just a win for the so-called “gun lobby.” Here’s what Zinke said when he undid the 11th hour ban announced by Obama’s Interior Secretary Dan Ashe:
“After reviewing the order and the process by which it was promulgated, I have determined that the order is not mandated by any existing statutory or regulatory requirement and was issued without significant communication, consultation or coordination with affected stakeholders.”
New king, new decrees.
“*Even* the American Civil Liberties Union and National Alliance on Mental Illness had opposed the Obama requirement.” [emphasis added]
Under normal circumstances that should read “the American Civil Liberties Union and National Alliance on Mental Illness *in particular* opposed” etc.
Yeah well the second amendment isn’t a civil liberty, but free college is!
The ACLU’s definitive progressive slant has made them somewhat notorious among gun-rights advocates, and rightly so.
Really concerned we are going to miss a big opportunity to repeal some of the worst anti-2A legislation. Pretty much aligns with my thoughts on the election right after it happened; lots of bluster, not much concrete.
I’d start with the NFA.
Same here, but it’s looking increasingly likely the HPA won’t even make it. Or will have a *very* difficult time.
Most of the Republicans don’t have the balls to use their majority to its full extent and Trump is barely even conservative, let alone libertarian. So, I’m prepared for 4 years of wishy washy “middle way” bullshit that does nothing for the 2A (or the Constitution as a whole).
Since most gun laws are local, the most important thing might be the Supreme Court.
From the VDH column:
How odd that the public is now learning that the Left apparently sees identity theft as a minor matter for illegal aliens, though a serious one for citizens.
This is what makes me rather unsympathetic toward illegals. I worked in a DACA clinic for 4 hours, and I lost count of the number of illegals who had committed identity theft. Not only that, but the clinic wanted us to lie on the forms and pretend the identity theft didn’t happen. It’s one thing to ask for sympathy when you commit a victimless crime, but when you’re stealing grandma’s social security check, you’ve run out all the slack.
http://listen.sdpb.org/post/constitutional-carry-passes-senate-heads-governor-s-desk
Constitutional Carry Passes The Senate, Heads To Governor’s Desk
A bill that establishes constitutional carry in South Dakota now heads to the governor’s desk.
State Senator Brock Greenfield brought House Bill 10-72 to the full chamber. He says current concealed carry laws create a barrier for law abiding citizens.
““It streamlines the situation. It doesn’t require somebody to lease back their guaranteed second amendment right, so long as they’re not subject to any disqualifiers.”
The senate passed the bill by 23 to 11 votes.
The South Dakota States Attorneys Association, Sheriffs Association and Police Chiefs association all oppose the bill.
Governor Dennis Daugaard says he’ll veto any change to South Dakota’s concealed carry law. Lawmakers would need one more vote in the Senate and another 10 in the House to override a veto.
Prepare your shocked faces my friends.
Turns out that the ex-chief of staff for Gov. Mumbles, who was then appointed to be in charge of managing the new Vikings stadium, has been caught yet again taking perks from the Vikes.
She was forced to resign when she got caught using two luxury boxes for “marketing”. If you define marketing as having friends and family and Democratic hacks come to the boxes for free.
Now it has come out that she jumped the line and bought season tickets for herself and family before anyone else was allowed.
The infuriating part of the scandal isn’t that it occurred, but how inept it was. This gal is such a hack she can’t even cover up her grifting with a simple straw buyer.
Was there another Viking that ran things the wrong way?
Whoever the GM was that traded for Herschel Walker?
One of last giant tusker elephants ‘killed by poachers’
damn – thread fail.
*kicks can down the road*
Urusai!
Jim Marshall was my favorite Viking of all time. How dare you say bad things about him? I see him a couple of times out at a bar I frequent when rehydrating after playing basketball. It really is a shame how much his body has broken down.
Speaking of Vikings, will AP leave or will free agency spank him like one of his kids with a switch?
Jim was awesome. My all time favorite was Joey Browner. He made Ronnie Lot look like Emma Thompson.
Joey Browner was fantastic. Except that time that he managed to miss Steve Young twice on that horrible scramble for a TD.
Wikileaks releases the passphrase for Vault 7 (I linked it last night):
SplinterItIntoAThousandPiecesAndScatterItIntoTheWinds, a quote from Kennedy about the CIA.
It is apparently evidence of the CIA’s hacking operations worldwide. Shit just got real.
The Autistic Army over at /pol/ is all over it. Biggest revelation so far, in my opinion, is this:
http://i.imgur.com/X22l2Y7.png
Basically, the CIA has ways of hacking/stealing data and then making it look like it was someone else that did it. They can steal/hack things and frame someone else for it (Russians????).
You made a mistake in your article. You started listing fantastic Spielberg movies, but then accidentally threw in one of his overrated movies, Jaws, into that list. You might want to replace that with a good movie of his.
E.T. > Jaws.
Wasn’t really that great of a film. Pretty much just campy crap to watch these days, but I guess people were legitimately scared by that film.
Ugh. ET was great though, can’t endorse anything else in this statement.
I haven’t actually seen E.T. so can’t comment on that, but I agree with the rest of this statement.
Think of the two best scenes in Jaws. The shark isn’t in either one.
Spielberg turned a pretty trashy novel into a better film. That alone puts it on the list of one of his best for me.
It is a matter of perspective. If you were in the movie theater in 1975, when Jaws came out, it was ground-breaking.
It was the first ‘Summer Block-Buster Thrill-Ride’ movie.
Thank god that the mechanical shark turned out to be a buggy piece of shit. Barely seeing the shark made that movie much better than seeing it.
The shark coming out of the water while Brody is chumming the water was the biggest thrill I’d ever experienced at 10 year old.
The movie hasn’t aged well because special effects are sooooo much better now, but better effects would have likely ruined the suspense.
If they’re the scenes I’m thinking of they were written by John Milius and not Spielberg, which is why they were good.
I didn’t see the movie until I was older, but the scene where the shark is rolling over and over with the boy in his mouth, while blood shoots into the air, made an impact.
The Elite Elite’s got lifeless eyes, like a doll’s eyes.
No. Jaws is big league. You’re fake news.
*narrows gaze*
I thought you only narrowed your gaze for people that said questionable things or bad puns. Didn’t know you did it for someone saying an obvious truth as well.
Lord, deliver me from the temptation to cat butt T E E…
Here, have some Limburger, Curly!
Jaws synopsis: “Look at that big fucking fish bite someone!”
I suppose if drooling retardation is your lifestyle, you could be entertained by that for two hours.
Someday, we will employ Ludovico’s technique, and you WILL see the movie. Then you will acknowledge the error of your ways.
I prefer Ludwig. Real horosho.
Jaws synopsis: “Look at that big fucking fish bite someone!”
Cytotoxic, is that you?
How did “Amistad” get left off of the list??? One of his best movies, and arguably his most libertarian.
Racism, obviously.
The solution to obesity: wrap junk food in plain paper! I mean, it’s sure to work, right?
It worked with dirty magazines! /sarc
And cigarettes!
/more sarc
So he wants a dopamine hit from doing something unhealthy like sitting on a beach?
Wrap the beach in paper!!!
Wrap all the things!!
We’re not supposed to judge fat people but fat is bad. Fat people are great but they’re everything that’s wrong with the world and America in particular. It’s not their fault, but they make bad choices.
What do we do? The obvious answer is to try to legislate/regulate fat out of existence.
You know who else believed they could regular undesirables out of existence…
Regulate*
Does he sport a peculiar mustache, perchance?
I don’t know, did Woodrow Wilson have a mustache?
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES.
EXTERMINATORS CAN “REGULATE” BRUTALS OUT OF EXISTENCE.
Yeh. I think I’m gonna pass on the Spielberg-Hanks-Streep Democrat alliance.
What did people around here think of ‘Lincoln’?
WHY AREN’T YOU WORKING?
THIS IS WORK!
Does Ford still make that model line?
Are you not a fan of those weird fucking Matthew McConaughey commercials?
I do not own a TV.
I do not see very many commercials
I do not have a clue what you are referencing.
This
There are like 20 of these abortions.
Never been to Nebraska
Beautifully made and acted, but dreadfully slow and dull.
I prefer Mercury
Plymouth!
http://gtspirit.com/wp-content/gallery/1971-rallye-red-plymouth-cuda/1971-plymouth-cuda-1.jpg
Your car is watermarked.
It’ll polish right out.
Daniel Day-Lewis tends to class up anything he’s in, so it may be hard to watch on its own merits. Hell, Gangs of New York would have been awful without him, but he manages to make it work.
SO DISAPPOINTED IN ALL OF YOU! /wags and points finger furiously.
Historically, is it more on point?
Not enough Abe/Joshua Speed butt sex.
Just how much would be enough?
It is enjoyable both as a character study and a political thriller. I’ve not read Team of Rivals so I can’t say how close it hauls to the source material, but I do think it paints a fuller picture of Lincoln as a politician – with all that entails – as opposed to some national hero. As far as casting goes I think they did well and the cast is a joy to watch.
About the press and their relationship with Trump, I was taken aback by the “Open Letter to Trump from the U.S. Press Corps” that the White House Press Corps collectively published in the Colombia Journalism Review.
http://www.cjr.org/covering_trump/trump_white_house_press_corps.php
They threaten a “unified front” against Trump, etc. It’s like a letter promising all the things they’re going to do to Trump, and then, of course, they’ve actually been doing all the things they threatened to do.
Everything we see on television about the White House comes from a pool of 30 reporters, who collectively signed an “open letter” promising to work together against Trump. Every report you read from every news organization on the internet or in print about the White House originates from a group of reporters who signed the same “open letter”.
But you have to be crazy to think the White Houses Press Corps. is anti-Trump. Just crazy!
You can wiki “white house press corps” and see their names.
If he doesnt tow the lion they are going to hate him extra hard? He should give them the finger, extra hard.
I’m not sure what this is intended to do other than drive the circus seals of the left to slap their flippers together faster.
It was meant to protest Trump’s apparent intention, at the time, to deny the White House Press Corps office space within the White House like they’ve enjoyed for a long time.
That’s in the letter.
Trump was rightly considering kicking them out of the White House because . . . they all hate him and he won without their help. Hell, Trump won despite them smearing him as a serial sexual assaulter who runs Nuremberg style rallies complete with his own Brownshirts. Trump won without hardly spending any money on advertising. Why should he subject himself to their daily condemnations–and give them space to do so from within the White House?
That’s why they were pissed.
And a happy birthday to the deceased Rik Mayall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKfbSHW9uGA
I’m more of a John Mayall fan.
He was a complete bastard! RIP, Prick
+1 /Pollution . . .
You guys should really be paying attention to Wikileaks this morning.
Jointly developed CIA+MI5 malware infests Samsung smart TVs to turn them into covert microphones #Vault7
There have been other revelations about how they’ve lost control of their hacking arsenal and some of it is out in the wild now.
I don’t know yet if this is going to be at the level of Snowden, but the choice bits they’ve given so far have been tantalizing.
Big brother is listening to you, and they got you to buy the telescreen yourself.
More detail:
https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/#PRESS
If losing track of firearms and crates filled with cash don’t raise the public’s ire, unfortunately I don’t think they’ll give a shit about this either.
Losing weapons and cash only has a limited effect on regular people’s lives.
Losing an entire hacking arsenal means that anyone could be watching you through your webcam, listening to you through your microphone, intercepting all your communications. Your privacy doesn’t exist, and it’s not just the NSA doing it, and there is probably no oversight whatsoever when the CIA does. Other world governments undoubtedly now control the same capabilities and possibly even civilians too.
Give me the choice between them losing weapons and cash or their hacking capabilities, I’d choose (so would you, I assume) losing the weapons and cash. I’m saying I doubt the public agrees with us, however.
But you should totally trust these guys with a secret key to your phones. It will totally stay secret under lock and key!
And the left is worried about the Russians hacking?
I am thoroughly enjoying the liberal meltdown on social media over the health care proposal. The hypocrisy is delicious!!
CIA steals other groups virus and malware facilitating false flag attacks #Vault7
So, not only could that supposed hack of the DNC by the Russians be bullshit, it could be a false-flag by our own CIA to put Hillary in the White House. Though Wikileaks has already said that it was a leak, not a hack.
Everything the public reports pointed to as evidence of Russian involvement could have been done by random nobodies. The code they pointed to is already available. Doesn’t even have to be the CIA. They’ve still provided no actual evidence of Russian involvement. It’s nothing but take our word for it because we’re great.
Yep, I’m aware. But considering that the fox itself is telling us that some other fox is the one that ate the chickens, it’s the first place I’d point my finger for culpability now. They were the ones largely involved in claiming that it was a Russian signature all over it.
Phishing retards could be done by a teenager. Staging the other “evidence” more likely was government involvement. And since the DNC didn’t ask for any help initially, it undoubtedly gave a pretty good window of opportunity to plant everything else to make it look however they wanted.
Finally, given that there are clearly elements within the CIA working against Trump in the *ominous music* deep state, it makes that outcome even more likely.
Oh, fuggggggg
http://i.imgur.com/exEpsg8.png
relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hastings_(journalist)#Death
No, the “russians do low-level hacking for political-reasons” thing is real.
Its misleading, not a lie. The misleading part is pretending that what they did w. the DNC was in any way new or special or different or otherwise at all out of the ordinary.
I just replied to you above with that.
This entire batch of wikileaks dumps are big fuggin news, but I can guarantee you the MSM will ignore it.
I saw it on Fox, but not CNN, ABC…then I stopped looking. I mean, with all the Trump news, who has time for anything else?
You know who else hasn’t seen Jaws?
Francisco d’Anconia?
MATT DAMON?
Michael Caine?
They still paid him, so why should he bother to watch?
Anyone with intelligence and taste?
Smile, you son of a bitch.
*Makes shark fin, pineapple, deep dish pizza, and leaves it in the thread.*
*Walks away, never looking back.*
Cool guys don’t look at explosions.
Wait, are you saying sharks don’t have taste buds?
Judging by what can be found in their stomachs, I’d say their tastes don’t map well to anything we’d be able to empathize with.
Watched ‘Battered Bastards of Baseball’. Awesome. Thanks for the tip!
Much better than Jaws. See it again and again.
He was disappointed when he found that the movie wasn’t a movie about a loan shark, and that it wasn’t called *Jews.*
h/t Michael Kinsley
The ATF had a secret slush fund — financed by cigarette smuggling
*Maybe covered. I can’t be expected to keep up with you maniacs.
Lefty news pundits are desperate to hold on to the “fake news” canard (the canard being that it’s primarily or solely a problem for the conservative media), but it seems only to have caught fire among right-leaning commentators, at least to go by twitter and Facebook. Lefty commenters howl about Trump’s lies or Session’s lies or Bannon’s lies, but they appear to have lost ownership over the fake news censure.
Yeah I saw a brief Noah Smith ad making fun of Trump and ‘Fake News’ as an attack on the media, which is exactly is what always was, especially when the traditional media was trying to push it after the election.
Someone just turned me on to this Hillary tweet from October 31, 2016:
“Computer scientists have apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank.”
—-Hillary Clinton
Twitter
https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/793250312119263233
The tweet goes on to reference that there’s a server registered to Trump Tower that’s “covertly communicating with Russia”.
What this makes clear to me is that it wasn’t necessary for the NSA, CIA, FBI, or White House to have forwarded this information to the Clinton campaign. All they needed to do was leak it to the press–and the Hillary Clinton campaign would find out about it.
Fake News
-lib
It won’t be here long, but someone managed to get Supertramp’s “Long Way Home” onto YouTube.