You people in the northeast still with us? Did you survive the snowpocalypse? Let’s hope so. Now let’s get down to business…
Remember the great things I had to say yesterday about the budget? Well, one surefire way to lose all that good feeling from libertarians is to do this. Come on, Trump. Don’t go down that road.
I do want to point out the ironic stupidity that is the WaPo’s first paragraph. Read it below and stand, mouth agape, marveling at its simplistic, revisionist retardation. (emphasis mine)
In his final months in office, President Barack Obama sought to lock in a structure and set of rules governing targeted killings and drone strikes so that the incredibly lethal tool would not be abused by his successors.
What the shit? Abused like, oh I don’t know, killing American citizens not even charged with a crime? Or their teenage kids? Or killing more civilians than your predecessor did? Or killing more people in more jerkwater shitholes lacking the means to cause America any harm whatsoever than can be counted? Keep licking those boots, WaPo. That’s gonna continue building your well-deserved reputation of being a myopic shill for Team Blue.
::deep breath:: Moving on…
If Scotland are gonna leave Britain, they’re gonna have to wait until Brexit is complete before they get a chance to vote on it.
Is Europe about to spiral out of control? We can only pray that she does.
Just in case you weren’t aware that California government can be stupid as shit and caters to their pubsec union overlords, then read about their latest hare-brained scheme.
I almost hope UCLA makes it far in the tourney (don’t forget to sign up for the bracket challenge, dammit!), just so we can spend more time with Lonzo Ball’s dad. Dude is off the chain!
Looks like Florida Man will have to pleasure himself at home today rather than the bank. The CDC is telling people not to donate their baby batter in three counties due to Zika.
That’s all I’ve got. Except for libertarian music! (Not that anybody ever comments on the music I post anyway.)
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I don’t know what to do.
The governer closed the state offices
None of my coworkers have ever seen this happen before, and some of them have been here for thirty some-odd years.
Wait…are you saying that you and your co-workers are “non-essential”?!
*runs from room*
Yes, people will survive if we’re not at work. I’ve long admitted that I advocate policies that would result in me losing my job if fully enacted.
You are like Ron Swanson from Parks and Rec
Is the Governor staying home too?
According to the Times Union daily governer tracker “Gov. Andrew Cuomo will do his hunkering-down in New York City today; he’s scheduled to appear on ‘Good Morning America.’”
That sounds essential.
Pretty much every bureaucrat in the nation is non-essential.
I have the day off too, amazingly.
The snow was already up to where the door swings open against the step down to the deck at 6:00 AM, and I’m going to have to push more out of the way at 9, I think.
Officially doing some work from home today, later. Getting sleet at the moment, so not going out to clear anything either right now. I think I’ll just sit and visit with y’all while I drink some coffee.
We’re about to get hit.
A lot of snow here in Clifton New Jersey. Working from home today.
I managed to haul my aged carcass into work. Only a brush of snow here in the frigid wastelands of Michigan.
‘A brush of snow’ to a Midwesterner is a ‘snowpocalypse’ to those on the East coast. The Midwest builds hardy people
Some Civil War book I read somewhere sometime said the Southerners hated fighting the Michigan regiments the most. It’s takes a certain type of
stupiditystubbornness to live here.I just cleared my steps with a broom.
There was no reason to keep state employees home today.
Gov. Cuomo’s snow emergency is what kept us home, and I’m thankful for that. I was worried that the weather was going to be good enough for the morning drive in at 5:30, and then I’d be stuck going home. But the weather was already pretty bad then.
And I’m not one to complain about weather.
“I just cleared my steps with a broom.”
These euphemisms are getting obtuse.
Report from NYC: my office decided late last night to close today. It doesn’t look too bad out there – mostly sleet with some periods of heavy snow – but any chance to work from home is fine by me.
In northwest NJ it is snowing as hard as I’ve ever seen (I went to school in Maine). Snow is hitting the house so hard it sounds like rain but clearly is not.
Meanwhile, in the mountain West, I’m enjoying 70 degree weather.
You poor bastard.
You have my sympathy.
Another boring perfect day in Hawaii. There is a touch of vog, but so what.
It’s a perfect day in New York.
Hawaii would be torment.
Wouldn’t you rather have a touch of vag?
A touch of vag is always appreciated. Vog is the local term for when the smoke and gasses from the eruption on the Big Island are brought over the other islands. Normal trade winds blow those emissions out to sea, when the winds come from a more southerly direction we get a touch of haze.
64 right now in Tampa
At fist glance I misred that as “64 right now are tulpa.”
Must be missing a few socks.
It’s a bit cloudy here in Florida but I have the windows open.
I suspect the Scots get more of their dole from England than from the EU – they will do a little simple math and stay.
If the Scots separate the English should find a way to get rid of Wales. Might be good for Wales too, I don’t think getting $$$ from region A necessarily helps region B, maybe without the dole they would find a way to get their economy going. Or they would wallow in misery. Could go either way.
They’re welsh, they’d be miserable even if they got their economy going.
“Have you ever been to Wales, Baldrick?”
“No, but I’ve often thought I’d like to.”
“Well don’t, it’s a ghastly place. Huge gangs of tough sinewy men roam the valleys terrifying people with their close harmony singing. You need half a pint of phlegm in your throat just to pronounce the
placenames. Never ask for directions in Wales Baldrick, you’ll be washing spit out of your hair for a fortnight.”
+1 Blackadder
What are vowels?
I think their economy runs on Doctor Who now.
Actually, I think their economy runs on Gareth Bale sending checks to his family back home.
“I don’t think I’ve ever met a person from Wales.”
“Ever eaten a leek? Basically the same thing.”
The Scots are as annoying as Quebec with this crap.
The Welsh have been under the Norman Yoke far longer than the Scots. They’ve grown accustomed to England’s face, as it were.
Plus, the Welsh are too busy banging sheep and doing needle drugs, from what I’ve heard.
I find it amazing that despite centuries of oppression, the language is still holding on, barely. I say if they want out of the UK, let them go. Same with Scotland.
“What Terry could never bring himself to admit is that the Welsh were put on this earth to preform menial tasks for the English.” -John Cleese
Tangentially related: I found a book at the library once that argued that the battle sites of the legendary King Arthur could all be located in Wales. Traditionally, the battles are described as being located in unknown places in England.
The implication is that the Anglo-Saxons had been migrating peacefully to an unoccupied land.
When my sister did our ancestry it turned out many of our ancestors came from Wales – I assume they left for a reason.
Can someone with first hand knowledge please settle the question of whether people in Wales have tails or if that was a rumor started by the English?
Probably started by the English, but I can say with absolute certainty that after some pretty rigorous investigations, at least some Welsh women did *not* have tails.
If Wales leaves, they have to take their Prince with them.
Never underestimate the power of vapid nationalist fervour.
You know who else underestimated nationalist fervor?
The Greeks circa 1919?
Eurovision contestants?
Advocates of the DH?
+1 bronx cheer from the bleachers
Hillary Clinton?
Jewish hot dog makers?
Santiago Casares Quiroga?
A lot of the Scots think they’ll get a lot of money from the North Sea oilfields – which is problematic for a couple of reasons.
robc’s land tax?
*polite applause*
Wait until I mention Paine’s suggestion.
It is both better and worse.
Damn fracking and rotten Canadians with their shale.
People think they’re nicer than they actually are, study finds
Gee I am worse than Hitler…
Those are the sorts of “help” that will get you sworn at and possibly attacked around here. With the sole exception of donating blood.
Donating blood gets government employees a half day off… out of the kindness in their hearts.
As for carrying heavy shopping bags, I wouldn’t dare, they might think I was trying to rob them.
The scores from the questionnaire were validated by a tool called Facereader which monitors features such as furrowing of brows, how eyes appear and shape of mouth, thus picking up on expressions usually indiscernible to the human eye.
*narrows gaze*
Oh fuck off. Refusing to give my hard earned cash to junky panhandlers does not mean I’m not a nice person.
Your response to the test is part of the test.
*punches camera*
I AM A NICE PERSON, GODDAMN IT!
I’m a people person!
I was treated to a nice ‘you’re a fucking racist’ tirade recently when I declined to share with a downtown shithead.
I’ve had that experience too, but the guy also hit me in the back of the head.
I give tons of my hard-earned money to strangers. It’s called “taxes”.
touche
“At this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge, … it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the Poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir.”
“Are there no prisons?”
“Plenty of prisons…”
“And the Union workhouses.” demanded Scrooge. “Are they still in operation?”
“Both very busy, sir…”
“Those who are badly off must go there.”
“Many can’t go there; and many would rather die.”
“If they would rather die,” said Scrooge, “they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”
Just busting your nuts…but consider Charity Navigator if you want to check the bona fides of a group asking for money…it’s also a good way to explain why you’re not giving them money right away, because you haven’t looked up their rating yet.
And as they themselves don’t hesitate to remind you, Charity Navigator is itself a charity.
Their rating system sucks. It focuses way to much on the program/m&g/fundraising ratio and then “rates” it according to some “standard”. Because the amount of infrastructure required to run a school, a theater, a soup kitchen, an AIDs research group, and a women’s shelter are the same.
The measure of success of a NFP is meals served, students educated, research conducted, women provided safe shelter, etc. Get to know your local charities and you will be better positioned to assess them than Charity Navigator.
I infrequently give to my family or friends. Strangers can pound sand.
I’ve had the gas station “woe is me I need gasoline to get to xxxxx, and I don’t have money” bullshit scam tried on me three times in past 2 months.
I’ve been nice about it but I’m getting to “Fuck you” levels.
They tried that on me once. I offered to put 5 gallons in their tank myself and oddly enough they didn’t take me up on the offer.
Moved into my condo 8 years ago. The guy next door is a nice enough fellow and we have conversations in the hallway. His wife, however, had never returned my greetings. “Good morning” was always greeted with silence from her. I refused to stop greeting her and probably have done it over 50 times without once getting a response. Last week, as she was locking her door, I let out my best “Ohayo gozaimasu.” Without thinking she returned it, “Ohayo gozaimasu”. When she turned around and saw it was me, her expression was priceless. I gave her the biggest shit eating smile I could muster.
Are you saying that senpai noticed you?
Someone has been watching high school dramas.
Is it a race thing? Or just rudeness? Why won’t she respond to you?
I don’t know. She’s a squirrelly little thing and might have some social anxiety problems. I’m not rude about it, but giving people a greeting is a big deal here. Pin your courage to the sticking post, little lady, and choke the words out.
HAHAHAHA! Wish you had a camera then.
She’s just trying to neg you. Take it as a compliment.
ve-sixths infrequently give money to strangers
I do this every year and then do it some more on April 15 some years.
This St. Patrick’s Day weekend, go walking with … Bigfoot?
STEVE SMITH HAPPY TO SHARE SHILLELAGH WITH HIKERS.
SEE, STEVE DO U-FEM-IZM TOO.
STEVE SMITH MAKE HIKERS SIGN CONSENT FORMS, THEY NO READ THEM TO SEE WHAT THEY CONSENTING TO.
STEVE SMITH NO NEED GREEN BEER FOR GOOD TIME
STEVE SMITH NOT STOP WITH HIKERS’ FEET WHEN ENJOYING NATURAL BEAUTY..
New York court to consider whether a chimpanzee is a ‘person’
Dance, monkey!
I was hoping they were arguing the case pro se.
I thought there was counsel, serving pro banano?
Love your icon/avatar there Juris Imprudent. I can practically recite the Rumpole series verbatim.
Thanks, and I am just as much a barrister as Leo McKern. Your top-hat is most excellent as well.
Two best things to come from John Mortimer: Rumpole and Emily.
It’s funny, because my wife is almost universally hailed as SWMBO.
+1 Jerry
Google made research easy!
I was able to locate an old bio of Lisa Rainwater, who nowadays is the Campaign Director of the Nonhuman Rights Project.
“In 2002 she was a spokesperson for Cities for People!, a coalition of organizations and community groups that objected to the corporatization of the 2002 US Mayors’ Conference. In this capacity, she assisted in the organization of a People’s Conference, which addressed community concerns such as health care, childcare, *reproductive rights,* environmental protections, development and sprawl, and labor.”
“Reproductive rights” is a euphemism for denying legal personhood to millions of unborn human beings.
I wonder if she’s changed her mind on that since 2002?
If not, she can sod off.
And this is from the Twitter feed of Matthew Dominguez, Director of Public Affairs and Government Relations at the Nonhuman Rights Project.
“Just made a donation to @PPact in honor of @GovPenceIN because women’s health & reproductive rights matter! #StandWithPP #PlannedParenthood”
And here’s one of the responses: “Matt ever looked into AbortionProcedures? How can u be for #AnimalRights then support a group that does that?”
And here you can see how Sue Lee K. Troutman, one of the Development Director of the Nonhuman Rights Project, donated to the Center for Constitutional Rights, “one of the first legal organizations
to work with the reproductive rights movement to affirm a woman’s bodily autonomy” (pp. 4, 40)
So the ‘natural’ culmination of all of this is that chimps must have the right to free abortions, amitrite?
It suggests to me that, at least as a working hypothesis, we can consider abortion-rights and animal-rights to be joined at the hip.
Alternate explanations are welcome, but consider: First it’s Peter Singer, then it’s these guys. Declaring living unborn human beings to be nonpersons who can be killed by their mothers – therefore the status of being human does not in itself trigger human rights. Then saying that certain nonhuman animals have personhood rights which are denied to unborn humans…
I’ll spend some Godwin points and say that the National Socialists were big on animal rights at the same time as they were denying the right of millions of human beings to life.
So it seems that certain powerful human beings can grant and deny human personhood at will, extending it to some animals and denying it to some humans.
Some animals are more equal than others.
So the big money question is what is the end game? What do they get from placing animals above humans on the civil rights totem pole?
We lose this case and this will be a … PLANET … OF … APES.
Is the court a Kangaroo Court? How do Kangaroos feel about monkeys?
“Is Europe about to spiral out of control? We can only pray that she does.”
Hey wait a minute some people live in Europe
And you’ll be better off when she spirals out of control and dissolves back into sovereign nations again.
I’m not sure about me. Many of them probably would be.
Where are you, Greece?
Romania. So worse than Greece. The advantage of EU is that if things get to shitty here, I can leave. Then again I’m an engineer so I might be able to leave anyway.
Well I still think you’ll be better off in the long run far, far away from the Brussels leviathan with no ability to set your own policies.
I’ve seen our policies wouldn’t be to sure … Anyway the main issue for us is to keep Russian influence as far away as possible. For this I think our joining NATO was more important than the EU, however much NATO will last …
If I were English or Dutch I would probably be against the EU. Right now … I’m not sure. Not that it was some great benefit, but visa free travel and work permits helped a lot of locals escape. And many EU companies moving here opening offices hiring people…
On the other hand huge brain drain and young worker drain in general, population is dropping, now we have more retirees than working people. And maybe less pressure to actually solve problems. Overall things did get better with time, I mean compared to someplace like Belarus (which is a model the current ruling party would like). How much this was due to EU I don’t know but for Romania I think the EU was a net gain. At least on a 10-20 year timeline. Long term? Who knows. Libertopia is distant around these parts.
Get your military spending above 2%, from what I’m seeing it’s at around 1.2%…
Then again the Vampire Corps probably is a force multiplier.
military spending? No money for that, offshore accounts for corrupt politicians don’t just create themselves.
Do you mind if I ask where in Romania and what type of engineering you do?
So you mean “Europe” as in Brusslescentric quasi-despotic bureaucrats having to go find honest work…not the “you-know-who-else wanted Europe to spiral out of control” sense.
But, just in case.
Albrecht von Wallenstein?
You would think that any political initiative that Napoleon would have been in favor of, would be enough to hold against it.
I tend to agree. The elite are in pants-shitting mode over the EU “crisis”, that’s for sure.
In the EU, anything to the right of Hollande may as well be Hitler.
They’re hellbent and determined to isolate anyone who objects to the open-borders/EU bureaucracy policies and label them as the coming of the end of the world.
Pfft, Romania isn’t Europe, it’s a land time and decency forgot, like the Czech Republic or Knowsley.
Well at least we don’t play curling
Great place to meet women and drink. You must hate fun, like UCS.
Exclusive: Russia appears to deploy forces in Egypt, eyes on Libya role – sources
Putin should buy a map. Those Russian forces might as well be on the dark side of the moon.
Turkish Bey: I have been stationed in Dara for three and a half years. If I were posted to the dark side of the moon I could not be more isolated. You don’t have the slightest idea what I’m talking about, do you?
T.E. Lawrence: No, effendi.
Turkish Bey: Do you? No. That would be too… lucky.
Hillary and Obama’s Libya “success” just keeps on giving, doesn’t it?
The Desert Spetznaz?
Lonzo Ball shoots like his dad talks.
EU headscarf ban ruling sparks faith group backlash
“faith communities are no longer welcome”
Duh doy. Glad you finally noticed.
Worship of Gaia and the State are the two alternatives finding most favor in Western Europe.
Cat Gets Snake Up Her Nose But Doesn’t Have A Hissy Fit
There’s a ‘snake in your pussy’ joke somewhere in there, I know it.
Wanted felon finds 6-foot teddy bear doesn’t provide adequate cover from the cops
Classic. Like a skit from Reno 911!. Too bad about the nonviolent charges they’ve tacked on.
The best part was that it almost worked!
What’s with the picture of Sloopy with his hand down his diaper?
Needz moar labelz!
Hey, I might have had a little too much whisky that…. I mean, yes, an amusing photo, isn’t it?!
*slips out of room*
As usual, there was no snowpocalypse, there was just a pretty typical winter snow shower that should have caused minimal impact. But because I guess people are generally bored with their lives these days, it was blown out of proportion.
yeah, looking out the window it is a fairly typical storm. That is really why I’m confused today.
I’m an hour south of you, and just looked out the window to a good six inches and a lot of snow blowing off the roof.
Maybe in your neck of the woods. I wouldn’t be surprised if we have six inches already, and it’s supposed to snow until midnight.
That it? Are you a downstater or something?
I’m in the Catskills. And, of course, the snow is supposed to pick up in intensity from what we already have. I probably would have been able to get into work, but getting home would have been a dickens.
I am just teasing. I can’t actually judge the local conditions anywhere but where I am.
If I look at the deck, I can see a good four inches on it above what I already shoveled off.
30 feet away in the opposite direction, I’m looking at the “shelter” for our gas grill. Most of the snow has been blown off by the wind.
Our morning news was saying the accumulations were pushed down because the sleet has compacted the snow from earlier, though we are supposed to go back to snow later this morning.
Weird weather, our temp here is 25ish – so that must be some warm air aloft.
It is weird. Keeps switching between ice and snow.
My wife was so convinced she’d have off today. I told her not to get her hopes up.
Yeah, this is nothing compared to where I grew up upstate. And I didn’t have the ability to work from home then, either.
Snow is a state of mind. It is all in your head.
Well, snow does go up your nose….
wear a scarf next time, just to keep the airways clear.
That kinda defeats the point.
oh “snow” not snow.
I just like the way it smells. Honest
I do too.
Try to keep up. Every weather event these days is the apocalypse because GLOBAL WARMING!
And fuck the Weather Channel for naming these storms for the purpose of turning them into an event to drive ratings.
They’re calling the windstorm we had last week in Michigan the Huron hurricane.
That sounds like a nickname for a boxer or a hockey goon.
The name three storms, but don’t name three sunny days. This c is c why Gaia punishes it is with global warming.
*global
**edit faerie floats by**
Thanks! What do I have to leave under my pillow tonight?
That’s a bit of a stretch.
/We can only pray that she does./
I for one am not so enthused by the possibility of a continent-wide economic crisis accompanied by the election of very nationalistic governments. I don’t think we are going to see WWIII but I don’t think it will be good for Europe or the rest of the world.
They’ve collectivized to the point people are pushing back for more local control. Better now than a decade or two later when it’ll be well past a boiling point.
It depends on whether you see a short-term issue like that of greater concern than a bureaucratic control freak macro-state that was bound to fail anyway.
Though the disintegration of the autocratic and unaccountable eurocrat apparatus would be a net gain.
That’s exactly what Putin would say …
As long as NATO still exists it’s cool.
Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia have their own little group for purpose of defense but Romania was not invited. I don’t think Russia will actually invade Romania, but it will try to exert influence. The current ruling party is Russia friendly. Sadly.
have their own little group for purpose of defense but Romania was not invited…
The current ruling party is Russia friendly.
Think I found your problem there.
One of many. Lots of countries in the region have sayings that go like “Beautiful country here, a shame it is populated”
Isn’t it a good thing to be friendly with nations near you? Like, I’m a lot happier with our “Russia-friendly” Trump WH than I would have been with “Russia-unfriendly” Clinton angling for a proxy way with them in Syria.
You know, since unfriendly relationships with big countries that have vast arsenals usually means bad things can happen.
There’s a difference between ‘Russia friendly’ and ‘Russian vassal’. The latter tends to be the Russian goal for former Warsaw Pact states.
If friendly means policies that turn the country into a Russian vassal state, then I would rather do without. Not that we should have a conflict with Russia, but we should not try to emulate them politics-wise
Russia still has an arsenal?
*looks in closet*
I thought they sold that off.
Oh noes mah Putin!!!!
Hey I can see the Kremlin from my back yard, OK?
Which one?
I absolutely think it could be, but it depends on how/what it disintegrates into.
The economic crisis is coming whether the EU falls or not. It’s due to their insane spending programs. As for “nationalistic”, the majority of their popularity is a direct result of the EU ham-handedly taking their national and local policies and discarding them as garbage without so much ad an explanation beyond “we’re smarter than you so STFU and do what you’re told.”
All of Europe’s problems can be laid at the feet of the EU’s decision-makers. Fuck all of them. They need to be dissolved.
Of the EU is a disaster, don’t get me wrong. Sadly most local governments would not be much better. But such is the fate of humanity I suppose.
Local is always better. More responsive to the needs of their constituents if they’re more tuned in to their issues rather than enacting shit that affects an entire continent with dozens of national identities and hundreds of local cultures with a dismissive, superior indifference
On the other hand due to the EU, Canada lifted visas for Romanians so I can now vacation in Canada. I think the EU now want to pressure the US in removing visas for all EU countries but I’m not holding my breath. Then again I could probably get a US tourist visa without much problem.
Good set of links, and there’s never a time that is not good for some Devo.
Are we not men?
I’m not so sure about some people around here.
We’re through being cool, then?
I wasn’t accusing you of anything.
Not a Devo fan, huh?
D-E-V-O!
I can’t say I’ve heard that one before.
And I was unable to sit though the whole thing.
*shocked face*
He’s just working in a coal mine from home today.
I’ve always liked this version for the extended ending.
I guess I’ve found what I’m listening to today.
-2 ninnies and twits
When a greyhound comes along, you must whippet.
When a gaze comes along, you must *narrow* it.
::polite golf clap::
We had a fucking pile o’ snow. Roads were awful here. As I write this, travel time from O’Hare to Chicago is 2 hours 42 minutes. If I didn’t have to interview someone today, I would have stayed home, dammit.
Oh, and 7 more inches expected today. Not the good kind of 7 inches, either.
Huh. One County south of you, we got a bit, but not that much.
To be fair, we’re at the north end of our county. That said, the drive down Army Trail Road today was 5 miles of white knuckle.
Huh. Snow? I am sorry to hear that. The jasmine and redbuds are finished blooming here. The goldenrod is getting started good and the bees are out. Everything is budding out, even pecans. Two parishes south the bees are already in swarm. I baited my boxes Sunday.
I baited my boxes Sunday.
“Go ‘way!”
Bah. We got a dusting on Sunday. Maybe a couple inches.
Worst. Winter. EVER!
How much candy is consumed in an “interview?”
Sadly, it’s a guy and over the age of consent.
That wouldn’t stop Warty!
OR STEVE SMITH
WHAT AM CONSENT?
Wait, you do interviews?
Does that somehow help the kids get into the van?
Jerome Kern is spinning in his grave….
Yeah, over emoting really kills a song like that – keep it straight and simple.
Buzzfeed, but it’s pretty funny. 49 Gross Things Most Girls Secretly Enjoy
Icky.
I didn’t need to know those things.
Um, doesn’t #20 actually take longer than just washing?
I’d like to see the list of things UnCiv secretly enjoys.
I’m not the sort of person to advertise what I like.
Or the sort of person that could come up with a list longer than this of things he likes…
1. My lawn.
2. You staying off my lawn.
I don’t have a lawn. The absense of lawn maintenence was one of the positives about this house.
seasoningslong walks on an empty plain under a grey, leaden sky
listening to the sounds of outer space
a bath in body temperature water
In space, no one can hear UCS complain.
The Super Bowl…pregame show.
Wonder Bread with bologna and butter
butter
Hey now, let’s not get carried away.
I was thinking more of a tasteless gruel.
or mashed potato flakes.
I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter?
Which he REALLY can’t believe.
The color of concrete, a stroll around a brownfield, normal-ruled paper…
12. Running your fingers through your pubes in a nonsexual way.
Women have pubes again?
Only the sort of women who also neglect their hygene in the manner described by the list.
God I hate the anti-pube lobby. Pubes are sexy goddammit.
Especially oiled ones like Emma Watson’s
CARDINAL OF WINCHESTER
Do what thou darest; I beard thee to thy face.
GLOUCESTER
What! am I dared and bearded to my face?
Draw, men, for all this privileged place;
Blue coats to tawny coats. Priest, beware your beard,
I mean to tug it and to cuff you soundly:
Under my feet I stamp thy cardinal’s hat:
In spite of pope or dignities of church,
Here by the cheeks I’ll drag thee up and down.
BISHOP
Agreed. They need to make a come back
Um, the seventies called. They want their unkempt forest of hair back.
We don’t need forests. Maybe just a savanna.
A well-maintained suburban lawn. ::wiggles eyebrows::
Scorched earth or GTFO.
The Bic lighter treatment? Fucking odd fetish, bro.
There’s a middle ground between “Swamp Forest” and “Barren Wasteland”. I appreciate fine landscaping.
+1 Demi Moore photo spread
What’s wrong with peeing in the shower? Nothing is acceptable anymore.
Shower is fine. Bathtub is disgusting.
I don’t know why your response made me laugh so hard. I guess just because it needed to be said.
What? The urea exfoliates!
My first wife was a classic uptight WASP. I told her the riddle about, “How do you tell someone is a WASP? They get out of the shower to piss.” She looked absolutely horrified, then ran upstairs to the bathroom and scrubbed the shower out with disinfectant.
The only violation of shower peeing rules is taking one after a meal of asparagus.
My girlfriend freaks the fuck out if I pee in the shower. It’s gotten to the point that I do it in front of her just to fuck with her. Sometimes I’ll pee on her in the shower if I’m feeling really devious.
Okay, Mr. Kelly.
I was astonished and not a little unnerved to find that this is a major attraction/perversion on YouTube. I hope HM doesn’t see this…
reddit.com/r/popping
You’re welcome.
I hate you.
You can’t look away, can you?
I haven’t looked, but you have simply reminded me of the many utilities of our wonderful Internet.
Anyone that does not like to squeeze out a nice ripe zit is a liar or a fraud. There I’ve said it.
11. Chilling out in front of the TV with your hands down your pants
Al Bundy approves.
ew. Speak for yourself, Buzzfeed.
Canada’s Girl Guides Will Cease All Travel to the U.S. Until Further Notice
Good.
They heard about me?
Oh, and obligatory: would, would, would, would, would.
So brave.
That hit to the old bottom line is gonna sting, though.
Right-thinking Canadians must social signal as hard as they possibly can, so dammit, they won’t go to the U.S. to buy cheap stuff!
Meanwhile the dollar’s in the shitter and the economy’s on a downturn, but who cares, we need to whine about America.
They have a woke pretty boy as their prime minister. There is nothing more shameful than that. I’d say America still wins this round, once again
You really want to tweak the Trudeau fans – read them his quote on the Alberta oil sands.
Oh please….
I’m sorry Canuckis, from orbit is the only choice.
We’re ice-flowing her as we speak. We don’t take kindly to lyin’ in these here parts.
It’s just so damn odd the way she phrased that. Guilty people being denied entry based solely on their skin colour would be ok?
It’s not meant to make any sense, it’s just a bellowing accusation of American racism unsupported by reality, a rather common Canadian MO. The way Canadian progressives frame it as soon as a brown person goes into the United States’ every American mutters some variation of ‘nigger’ and every cop has his hand on his holster.
Uh huh. I wonder what the real story is.
He co-worker’s friend makes $5635 jsut last month and bought anew Audi?
I’m sorry to hear about your Sikh friend but we have quarantine rules for a reason.
I’m protestanting your hurtful words.
K.
Is that some kind of poor-man’s version of the Girl Scouts? Do they sell cookies?
Timbits.
I’ve come to realize that Swiss Servator’s entire knowledge of Canada consists of the Tim Horton’s menu.
Not true. He also knows none of your flappy head teams have won a Stanley Cup in some time.
I heard the NHL was thinking about creating a second, lesser cup and giving it to the best Canadian team each year.
Fine. You can’t have any of our Boy Scouts!
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/03/13/ny-dropping-teacher-literacy-test-amid-claims-racism.html
There might be a good reason to eliminate this test but this isn’t one. “Having a white workforce really doesn’t match our student body anymore,”
“Having literate teachers doesn’t really match our student body.”
Oh for fuck’s sake. We’re two steps away from labeling English as a racist construct and therefore unallowable.
One step.
I hope we switch to Esperanto. That way we’re all in the same boat.
Fake “Languages” need not apply.
UCS thinks the prettiest sounding language is ASL.
Not really. Have you ever heard deaf people? They can’t tell they’re making noise. It’s worse than zombies.
I knew I remembered seeing something like this.
I’m a racist,
You’re a racist,
Wouldn’t like to be a racist too?
Be a racist, think like a racist….
Step 1 – Ignore the raging bigots at the “writing center”
Step 2 – Start writing.
Step 3 – Practice writing some more
Step 4 – get an editor who will not go easy on you.
What about Asians? I’d bet they have the highest pass rate, but they are excluded because that would go against the narrative.
They are mostly too successful in life to reduce themselves to joining the New York City public school system.
“Two polo ponies are traveling in opposite directions at 10MPH. Your butler uses mallets to measure the distance between them after 5 minutes. How many mallets does he need?”
None, they crashed in the middle. Call an ambulance.
See? The privileged kids know that they’re traveling away from each other.
That is cowardice!
Well, technically running towards each other would also be in opposite directions. You didn’t state a starting position or faced direction. I choose d) unable to determine.
996 polo mallets, provided he is using a 53″ long mallet and not the 52″ version. Also, I made the assumption that the ponies begin at the same basic point and run away from one another.
I agree that’s a poor reason.
On a related note, years ago I was briefly a substitute teacher in an inner city school system while in between jobs. Overwhelmingly majority black schools and the white teachers couldn’t keep order worth a damn. I remember seeing the 6’2” 300lb white teacher in the class next to mine ask a couple middle school kids to tuck their shirts in and their response was laughter and “shut up white nigga”. The guy just looked at me and shrugged.
You might blame it on a lax discipline but the teachers and even security guards are genuinely afraid. In one high school, I was sitting with a couple security guards in the hallway and they told me that no matter what I was told by admin, do not ask for hall passes because some of these “kids” will visit their homes and beat/kill their families if disrespected. Big guys that could have played college football and they were terrified by some of the 15 year olds walking around.
But they’re just kids!
My mother-in-law is a monitor in a Philadelphia high school. It’s barely better than a zoo.
There are plenty of stories about teachers being assaulted after recent moves to relax discipline against certain kids here in the NY area. It’s madness, and you could not pay me enough to work that job.
It’s stories like these that show you can throw all the money in the world at schools and it won’t fix a thing. When lefties cry about school choice I always point out it gives good students in a crap environment the chance to go somewhere better.
Just go straight to the Millennium Education Reform Act.
So their “if it’s brown flush it down, but if it’s yellow let it mellow” hiring policy is finally under fire?
So this popped up on my derpbook feed from a friend with Gilmore’s fashion sensibilities.
My God. If that’s the future of fashion than I’ve vastly underestimated how terrible tomorrow will be
It won’t catch on. Most people are not into plastic sticking to their skin.
“Muscle in Plastic”
I’m going to buy those and smear mayo all over the inside of the plastic.
If there is one thing you can count on it is predictions about fashion.
I love how the model is on her knees in half of those photos.
UN drone finds out world isn’t good.
“Michael Sharp was abducted along with a Swedish U.N. worker named Zahida Katalan, three local drivers and a translator, Congo’s government and a U.N. official told The Associated Press. John Sharp said his son was working as a coordinator with the United Nations Group of Experts for the Democratic Republic of Congo.”
What would we do without coordinated groups of experts?
that’s the country Bob Costas, during the Olympic opening ceremony, said was neither democratic nor a republic. haha. classic.
It Is Now “BLATANT RACISM” To Wear Red, White And Blue
They’re not going to like the Fourth of July
“I’m banned??
Fine! I’m going to the Betamax activities!”
Yeah, but did they visit slavery?
Is nobody gonna comment on the California government looking to make school teachers tax exempt?
I swear, you guys ignore my links another twenty or twenty one times and I’m outta here!
No one reads your puny leaks!
holy shit I’m sleep deprived
I like leaks better. Good typo.
Sloopy, you should know us by now.
Most of the time no one reads the articles.
When we do, we often don’t have the attention span to make it to the end.
That was a lot of links.
I thought it was just one long link. After all, there were no bullet-points.
I believe there was some discussion of your music link.
UnCivil hated it!
UCS’s favorite song is a metronome set to 40.
I thought it was a stopped metronome.
Bathroom fan.
You are giving them too many links. Starve them. Abuse them. They are craven dogs that will love you more for it.
SugarFree learned the right lessons from being raised in a Czech sex dungeon.
So THAT is why he is who is today!
Who is?
ZuckerFrei. Creation of a Czech Sex-Dungeon!
Today.
Shut the Fuck Up Slave Driver.
Feel better?
SF Unified sounds like a soccer team.
Unified school district works about as well as unified field theory.
We saw it, we saw it. I am just not sure what to say about it. How does the teacher’s union have so much clout? Really, what is the % of the population that are teachers?
Concentrated benefits, diffused costs. Does it really matter?
They have the combined might of the machine behind them.
And like the mighty faggot…
I’m of slightly below average height, actually.
C’mon – California – it would have been comment worthy if it wasn’t something stupid.
An entire southern Oregon town could be yours for $3.85 million
I’m going to guess that the people are not actually included in the sale.
What’s the point of buying a town then?
To get away from people?
Do I get to go a-ridin’ into town a-whompin’ and whoopin’ every living thing that moves within an inch of its life? I’ll spare the women folk, of course.
+#6 Dance
Legal brothel.
Between all of us, we can chip in and buy it, right?
“Gliberton”
Rock Ridge
Glibertopia.
“Approximately 2 million board feet of merchantable timber.”
That would mostly pay back your 3.8M, at least it would around here. This makes me very suspicious. I wonder what ‘merchantable’ means in this instance.
I suspect it may begin with “Endangered”
That spotted owl refuge is sure to bring in literally hundreds of dollars in tourism money.
Now, imagine the possibilities of a tourism-scam for the gullible tree-huggers.
Lovely plumage on that spotted-owl. He’s just nodded off, you wait a while and he’ll be flittering ’bout.
…Or pining for the fjords
Oops. Ok, a quarter of it. There is still a catch somewhere. Back taxes? An EPA disaster? There is something wrong here.
Oregon.
I would take Oregon over Minnesota any day.
The important question: Is it within artillery range of Sacramento?
wrt Devo.. those are some kickass LA Rams earpro. /currently reminiscing about the Dickerson days
The wall is preventing interracial gay sex?
Our worst fears are being realized.
I much prefer interracial straight sex, but then again I was always a bit off.
The best statistical estimate of the number of lives saved each year by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is zero
Are they, and I’m not kidding, including the stress and anxiety that the reams of paperwork the ACA has put on business owners and workers alike? How about the fine? There are a lot of unseen costs to that pile of garbage law.
I love how they’re taking the CBO report about what’s going to happen in *2026* at face value.
The Huffpo called the report devastating in their headline, saying it exposes the empty promises of repeal. Of course, I refuse to actually open the article and give them page hits, but I assume it goes on from there in a similar fashion.
What we need to do is shift the months a bit…push December to where February-March is now, so that we can enjoy a White Christmas.
What we need to do is build a wall along the northern border to keep Canada’s shitty fucking weather in Canada.
Southern cowards! The cold is a frontier challenge only for those brave enough to face it. Embrace it, allow it to wash over your nation and wipe away the hipsters and trash!
Only the strongest hobos survive in Canada for a reason.
Those are Cryozombies, Titor.
You’re clearly unfamiliar with Canada UCS. Zombies freeze over during the winter months and then defrost to ravage the countryside for our two and a half months of spring and summer.
You are either willfully ignorant or involved in the creation of the frost-resistant undead.
We could always send you back your snowbirds.
Hipsters liked winter before it was cool.
Well, it’s not for everyone.
I know some people living in a place called Winnipeg and it is beyond me why.
A wall of radiant heaters all plugged in on the Canada side, because we are gonna make them pay for it.
Can we get John Snow to man it? That would be pretty awesome.
As a native of Southern California, that has been probably my biggest disappointment so far in Pennsyltucky.
push December to where February-March is now, so that we can enjoy a White Christmas
So you want February for the whites now? So fucking racist I can’t even.
He just wants to block out Black History Month.
Is that you, Irish?
Daily Mail EMPHASIZES certain title words at random for some reason.
“Can we go back to being invisible? kthxbai”
No, no, no. You must either be revered or vilified (sometimes both at the same time).
No quiet pursuit of happiness for you, young man!
Good lord, I read about or saw a report about some Harvey Milk hagiography on network TV recently and the brave wokeness was nauseating. Catch up to the rest of the country, Hollywood.
Nothing wrong with a quiet pursuit of happiness now and again.
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Sloopy et al
while i don’t like the idea of Trump doing anything re: “Drone Strikes” either, please consider the headline vs. what that quoted sentence says
Headline
Actual Story
About a half dozen of the “OMG TRUMP RUINING THE PLANET ENDING THE WORLD HATING ON [MEXICANS, IMMIGRANTS, WIMMINS, TRANNIES, POORS]” stories so far this year follow exactly the same @#*#&$*( template.
#1 – Obama implements brand new (which he himself never observed) often-complex rules regarding something in his final days in office which have some headline claimed purpose of making something ‘better’ /’less bad’ for some special aggrieved party or which has something to do with the use of force
#2 – Trump undoes things Obama did in final days in office because people come to him and says, “this is stupid”
#3 – Media goes “HOLYSHIT WE NEW IT DEFINITELY HITLER HE TAKIN AWAY AR PROTECTIONS”
In every case i’ve seen, most of this shit were literally rule-making booby-traps designed for no other purpose than to gift the media with a ready-made story the moment Trump took office and started cleaning up the bureaucratic tangle
From tranny bathrooms to the way deblasio’s admin keeps records on illegals to the Dakota Pipeline to emissions rules to….. anyone know any others off the top of their heads?
It was an obvious strategy dems took in December/January. They littered the landscape with stuff for Trump to “undo”. And the GASP!=HITLER stories wrote themselves.
It’s working for the Democrats, if their plan was to destroy their own party.
shhh
Something about CBO scoring 24 million “losing” health insurance, when in fact they estimated 14 of those 24 million would elect to drop coverage if the mandate is repealed.
Thats a big one as well.
The same shit the media was probably warning people about in 2016 as “What’s going to happen to Obamacare if congress does nothing!”” is probably being spun as “What’s going to happen to people if the GOP does anything!”
Literally the same information is just given a new scary-gloss.
Look, not forcing people to spend money they dont have on health insurance they dont want or need is the same as taking away their healthcare.
I don’t want murderdrone rules relaxed from “you cannot use a drone to bomb anyone without congressional approval”. Not from a libertarian perspective. So if he’s looking to relax them at all, I’m still begging him not to.
Don’t drone me bro.
You ever feel like getting away from it all?
I’ve posted this before at the old site, but it’s something I think about now and again. Especially after this weekend. The thought of roughing it and living off petty larceny for a couple decades is a welcome one.
I needed to get away from threading, too.
I’m headed the way of the bacon hermit. *gathers items*
“Oh, my God, how do hobos fit all this stuff into a bandana?! It doesn’t make sense, man. We’re going to need, like, a towel or a tablecloth or something, but… it’s not going to look cool. We’re going to look like assholes!”
I don’t believe there is any such change because there is absolutely no congressional role at all to “relax” things from
Once congress updated the AUMF, everything is discretionary to the president and the pentagon on how to “U” that “F”
So if that’s your concern, i think you can rest easy. Below outlines what would actually ‘change’ =
re:
1) according to this Obama approved over 1000 strikes in 2016. Do you think he actually reviewed every single one of those?
2) there is no such thing as ‘near-certainty’ in warfare. there’s risk and discretion. And the definition of ‘War Zone’ in contemporary usage is wide enough to drive a fleet of drones through
3) Continuing…AND Imminent? Sounds like a make-work program for lawyers. What if its *just one*? Those are terms intended to create overlapping legal demands. To what end?
Again, much of the stuff Obama implemented had little practical utility in actually “preventing strikes” so much as to simply make Trump people look bad by changing these nonsensical legal tangles.
I am not a fan of drone warfare. They make war too-easy. But I don’t think they’re necessarily worse than cruise missiles, which don’t suffer under any special legal-tangle of their own (other than the ones associated with use of force in general).
i don’t think any of this even indicates that there would necessarily even be a continuance of the Obama-era level use of them. Almost all of the 1000+ drone strikes in 2016 were in Afghanistan (and a handful elsewhere – like a dozen); i think rather than get all Libertarian hurrr durrr about Drones in particular, we should pay more attention to the way the current Admin positions itself re: the few ongoing shitshows that the Obama admin kept on the backburner for him, a la Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan. Trump in his actually seemed to suggest in his few speeches on National Security issues that some of these places are not ‘vital american interests’. I am personally more concerned that he live up to that rhetoric than i am worried about the legal-tangle surrounding drone-warfare.
re: that last point, there was this blurb in the WaPo story
It’s called shitting in the nest OMWC and Obumbles is a master at shitting on things. Basically Trump is just hosing away the turds.
The href=”http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/03/judge_napolitano_says_that_british_intelligence_provided_obama_admin_with_surveillance_data_on_trump_tower_phone_conversations.html” title=”Judge ” target=”_blank” >Judge explains how it’s done.
The Brits spy on Americans, then dump the data to the NSA, we return the favor over there. No laws are technically broken while they wipe their asses with the spirit of the law.
What the hell?
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/03/judge_napolitano_says_that_british_intelligence_provided_obama_admin_with_surveillance_data_on_trump_tower_phone_conversations.html
You hear that a lot.
Country 1: “We’re not spying on our own citizens, we’re spying on foreigners!”
Country 2: “What they said.”
Country 1: “Oh, by the way, Country 2, do you know anything about so-and-so, one of our citizens?”
Country 2: “Of course, we have the file right here, it’s information collected as part of our spying-on-foreigners program, no offense.”
Country 1: “Oh, no offense taken, these files look great! Oh-oh, the media is calling…no, silly, we don’t spy on our own citizens, quit spreading fake news.”
I suppose it’s comforting that they bother with the pretense.
They demand Trump produce evidence to support his accusation that the slimy ex-president spied on him.
No, not that evidence, other evidence. Not that evidence either, other evidence. No, not warrants that are a matter of record, other evidence. You cant produce it, can you? Thats it! Trump is in cahoots with Putin!
Keep it up Dems. I am loving this.
BTW, this was exactly how the US managed to make claims about what we “We Definitely Not Doing” in Benghazi
When the CIA partners with other intelligence agencies in overseas operations, they give each other a degree of plausible deniability; “the CIA wasn’t *smuggling* weapons! We were observing and monitoring someone else doing it.” (from what i can tell it was US + UK overseeing Egyptian and Saudi intel people who did the hands-on-dirty-jobs)
Basically, commingling assets allows each side to claim they were “Aiding” someone else’s operation, and the standards for “Aid” mean that they don’t necessarily need to disclose the funding or the details, because that only applies to US-lead operations, you see.
re: the spying, makes perfect sense. “you do me and i’ll do you”.
Is Germany’s self-righteousness in welcoming gazillion Mooslim refugees and being the poster child for global warming stupidity merely atonement for its Nazi past?
They may be starting to come around on climate (although still crazy with the AGW religion)
http://www.thegwpf.com/german-minister-of-the-chancellery-announces-end-of-unilateral-climate-policy/
No.
the first is about their long-term fiscal need for warm bodies to produce taxable income for their welfare state.
the second is about the liberal wing of the party being super-fucking stupid, and having to walk back their changes in the Energiewende because they ended up using MORE coal by making their green-targets so high while cutting Nuclear capacity.
Around the edges of the growing pit, red-tipped wind turbines tower over the desolate earth, bringing the two opposing thrusts of Germany’s energy transition face to face.
“Opposing” like a fly meeting the swatter.
The joke’s on them that they think the wave of uneducated, unemployed young men from the lowest rung of their home countries are going to yield economic growth and net positive taxes.
I think they were more betting on their babies, but i think the same problem likely applies
i wasn’t endorsing their plan, just noting that it has had a significant influence on the European-wide attitude re: immigration since the fiscal crisis of 2011
That plan would have a little more merit – if they required an equal or greater number of young females into the West, and they got serious with requiring assimilation.
Germany Needs Women.
Gilmore, I speak to many Germans, and they are largely moralizing and self-righteous, much like the SJW’s here. In particular, the older ones will occasionally specifically mention that Germany has a bad reputation from WW2 and are still trying to become the good guys in the world. Recall how they responded to the Greek problem – caved in despite the inevitable repeat of the financial disaster.
” they ended up using MORE coal by making their green-targets so high ”
Yeah, the targets are set extra-high so they can preen on their pedestals of morality. I am in the energy/renewables business and the Germans, more than anyone else, are all-in on AGW. And it’s for ‘moral’ reasons that absolutely have no economic or efficiency reasons, which is a bit odd given how efficient Germans are in so many ways.
I have no doubt they do.
What i was expressing doubt about was whether the expressed conscience of old-people re: “Nazis” is actually is the primary driver of German national energy/immigration policy.
I maybe mistook your first question-mark as suggesting you were actually asking other people what they thought.
That’s how I see it.
As for the climate stuff, I don’t really see a connection.
Thanks for
whiningthe reminder, sloopy. Mega (or MAGA) thanks for the Peace Frog link yesterday. My favorite Doors tune, but I kinda forgot about it. I added it to my playlist.Also: thanks to Suthen for the weekend link to The Dead South. I really am digging those guys. I’ve added a few of their tunes to my playlist.
As a way of payback, here’s one of my favorite performers that never quite made it big. Some of our Canadian friends might recognize him. Here’s a more upbeat tune by him