Thursday. Not only Thursday, but the least productive Thursday of the year. Good luck if you’re participating in a basketball pool. (I promised not to plug ours again here.) Now let’s get down to business.
- OK, everybody in the US Senate, if you trust Rand Paul not to be a stooge of the Russians, raise your hand. 1, 2, 3…97, 98, 99. That leaves you, John McCain. You crazy old bastard, eat a Snickers bar.
- Women and minorities are buying guns in record numbers. Reasons vary, but its still good news when more people are discovering that the Second Amendment is there to protect them from their government.
Janet Yellin - The Federal Reserve Bank raised interest rates a quarter of a percent, as expected, with the economy heating up.
- California residents are flocking to Texas to escape the lousy job market and skyrocketing cost of living. Note to people making the journey: don’t bring your retarded-ass big-government ideas with you, ok? We don’t need them.
- Provo, Utah residents assumed it was family issues that caused the police chief to quit. Turns out it was something a little more serious. And based on the reasons his predecessors left, I’m thinking there might be a systemic problem there.
- Just read the article and stay away from the comments. Those people have no shame. Which reminds me, we need to invite them here.
Not exactly lookers, but they could play. - This is for Mad Scientist. As he’s going up the country for a ski trip.
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351 responses to “Thursday Morning Links”
She blinded me with science?
Doctors say Florida stem cell clinic left 3 women blind
Isn’t it more like science blinded her?
Look, three things you take the discount on:
1) Tattoos
2) Vasectomies
3) Eye procedures
10) Do you see how ingenious Trump’s budget proposal is? Okay, not every cut’s going to make it through. But by proposing huge budget cuts for dozens of departments and agencies it changes the conversation. It’s no longer a matter of whether there will be cuts, it becomes a matter of Congress having to pick and choose what it really wants to save. NEA? Gone. EPA? Hobbled.
My favorite ridiculous quote from today’s Washington Post cover story: Trump has said he wants to eliminate all disease, but the budget chops funding for the National Institutes of Health by $5.8 billion, or close to 20 percent.
Because funding for the NIH = eliminating disease! How else would you eliminate disease? There is no other way. If you increase funding for the NIH, all diseases will be gone. If you lower it, there will be more disease. Obviously.
Those dog-fuckers at the NIH needed their wings clipped anyway. You want to study shit like gun control, do it on your own time and your own dime.
I have similar feelings about NSF grants, but strictly from the waste point of view. I’ve seen too many grants issued to technology companies, who in turn carve the grant up into distributive working allocations for university students….who do turn-the-crank bullshit applications/studies that the distributing company should be capable of doing by itself with internal staff or direct contractors…on their own investment dime. The whole grant writing subdiscipline in science academia, also, I view as incredibly perverse.
However, when all is said and done, it’s true at least something more productive than gun control studies is the output.
I think we’d be so much better off if instead of grants, we switched to prizes.
You come up with a way to do X for such and such a price and we’ll give you $1B.
Solar power for example. You deliver a solar panel that costs $100 and produces 1kW and we will pay you $100M (plug in real numbers for my made up ones).
Pay for results. Stop paying for them just to play.
Unfortunately supply chain considerations and economy of scale factor heavily into cost. Prototypes necessarily cost a shitload more per piece than a production run. Also, you do need money to do the initial research and development. I agree our current system is hopelessly broken and easily gamed, but I’m not sure this solution will work.
I hear what you are saying – but those aren’t my problems. Risk your own capital instead of my tax dollars if you think you can win the prize.
Actually my solution would be to simply not do any NSF grants or prizes.
I’m sure scientific shit will still happen even if govt stops participating at any level. The way it is funded would change, but it would still happen.
I’m just saying, that I really don’t think that giving grants is the worst way to do this.
Actually, I like the prizes for military research.
We need a plane that does X.
We will pay you $Y billion dollars for a prototype that does X and $Z per plane after that.
If you want to pursue it, go ahead,
I’ve managed to score several million in both NIH and NSF grants. It’s even worse than you say it is. Grant-writing is a particular skill unrelated to scientific ability.
I could only imagine. Despite having a close and ongoing relationship with my alma mater, I’ve only scraped the tip of the terrifying iceberg, but have met only one or two professional grant writers at parties. Arrogant and insufferable gasbags each time.
I’ll exhaust my limited pool of grant-writing anecdotes with the following: I had an ex-girlfriend once that was awarded a grant from some Federal alphabet soup entity that I cannot recall. Her grant included an airfare stipend, housing stipend, food stipend, and fully paid tuition for a summer course in sunny San Diego, taught at a university, about Hannah Arendt and her writings. My relationship with that idiot ended shortly after she returned from her junket.
Oh, and the rub with that one is she was a high school English teacher, and had never heard of this philosopher before applying for the grant, but applied because free summer vacation trip. Go buy a book or two by/about Hannah Arendt on your own dime, asshole. The fuck.
It is beautiful. Those agencies are so bloated and have such worthless missions it will be pure entertainment watching them try to defend their budgets.
Considering the jackass administrator of the NIH Fancis Collins used the ebola scare to stump for more funding, and whined petulantly that we’d have had a vaccine already if only the agency were better funded, I say go ahead and shutter the thing.
Has no one in the media read Art of the Deal?
Jeez.
People who underestimate Trump or think he’s crazy or stupid or whatever don’t understand that he’s doing what the Dems have done for years, culminating in Obama: he’s framing the conversation. He’s begging the question over and over again. He just lowballs the shit out of his opponents–endearing himself to his base–and then the discussion amongst the “serious” politicians willing to compromise in the name of getting things done goes from, “Should we cut the budget”, to “How much can we reduce budget cuts”, as an example. Same with immigration. For bonus points, savvy Democrats can put up a bit of fight, compromise, and then go back to their constituents and tell them about how hard they’re fighting to keep Trump from having it all his own way.
If I had to choose, I would first shit can the DEA, burn the building down and piss on the ashes. 2nd in my crosshair would be DOE, which I would treat as the red headed step child of the DEA. Goodbye retards. EPA and FDA I’d allowed to exist, but seriously cut their mission creep back to the original intent. I figure about a 95% reduction in workforce would be a good start.
Centrist Democrats struggle to draft a survival strategy
“Centrist Democrats” are two words I never expected to see beside each other again. I’m glad all six of them were able to get together and form a plan to take their party back from the brink of Chavism.
Chavism? Like this guy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Carroll_%28lottery_winner%29
Christ. All gone after a three year bender? Bleedin’ idjit.
Never did like the centrist thing. Pretend you’re not on any side and gloat that you are less ideological or something.
Yeah, centrist is a bit of a weasel word. And those who pretend that centrist=moderate are the most annoying of all: Mussolini and Hitler were both radical centrists, so centrism is no protection from tyranny.
Exactly this. When someone says their a centrist, that just means that they’ll go along with whatever that keeps them elected. They don’t really have any stands on issues, they just want votes.
They’re in favour of turning the world into English wigger shitbags?
They are less a wing of the Democratic Party than a feather.
They should have invited Paul Ryan. He’s got a lot of ideas that would have put him in the center of the Democrats 20 years ago.
All they have to do to turn things around for themselves is explain what a bunch of stupid and backward yokels the voters are for electing Trump. They are just deplorable.
Also, double down on identity politics.
Trivia: a lead guitarist for Canned Heat is the guy who got SP and me together.
I credit/blame The Dave Matthews Band for getting my wife and me together. Our college had a free concert in 1993 with the then-relatively unknown band, and I took my wife on our first date. The music was so terrible we went back to my dorm room after a few songs and she spent the night…. Thanks, Dave Matthews, for sucking so much!
I once had a party where I was playing The Pagans when this chubby hippie chick asked if I had any Dave Matthews.
“Uh no” was my reply.
An hour later she proceeded to throw up in my bathtub and then passed out. The rental house only had one bathroom too so she had to be rolled out. She hadn’t even been invited to the party but was a tag-a-long.
This line from the Wikipedia entry on the Pagans is the most punk line ever written:
“Another Pagans song, “What’s This Shit Called Love?”, was covered by the Meatmen on their 1985 album War of the Superbikes.”
I prefer Caged Heat…
Female prisons are hawt.
tw; auto start video
Wriddhiman Saha & Steve Smith tumble on field, end up in awkward position
STEVE SMITH NEVER ASSUME ACCIDENT. UNLESS ACCIDENT JUST MEAN RAPE
EVERY POSITION AWKWARD WITH STEVE SMITH
It was declared a dead link.
“California residents are flocking to Texas to escape the lousy job market and skyrocketing cost of living. Note to people making the journey: don’t bring your retarded-ass big-government ideas with you, ok? We don’t need them.”
It’s a good thing Texas is so big, otherwise it might tip over into the ocean from all those new people. Also, makes California less likely to tip over into the ocean. Win/win
Except for the temperatures and better music, Austin has become indistinguishable from Berkeley.
Kind of. I live in Austin and it is very much a Berkeley like hive mind, except there is a lot more actual tolerance here. The progs here are mostly used to minding their manners among all the scary redneck conservatives. Also there are a ton of libertarians here (well….paulbots and Alex Jones cultists anyway). So my experience is people are pretty chill about me believing what I believe and us getting along anyway. In grad school it was definitely the CA and NY transplants that were the shrillest and most obnoxious stereotypical progs. The homegrown ones were pretty tolerant and tolerable. Basically Austin is still TX. Even a lot of the hippies have guns next to their bongs.
My best friend moved down to Austin – maybe 10 years ago – I would say the city (and the Burning Man crowd) has changed him.
In three years living in Austin, I have to admit that I never encountered a single libertarian. Lots of Progs, a few Team Redders, and… that was pretty much it.
We keep a low profile.
You know who else kept a low profile?
Isn’t Jones bunkered down somewhere in Texas? I thought I heard that somewhere.
I don’t understand why the poor would want to leave a place run by politicians who care so deeply about them and head to a place run by peliticians who only care about the rich.
Texas is one of the states that neither expanded Medicaid eligibility nor established a state Marketplace.
I thought the poor were infatuated with Medicaid expansion and the CA Marketplace under ObamaCare.
Instead the native born CA poor are moving to Texas as economic refugees. Who knew?
The proggie infestation will of course change Texas, eventually, into another proggie shithole.
Just as long as those carpetbaggers don’t stop in Arizona. We ain’t got time for the likes of them.
Southern Poverty Law Center overuses ‘extremism’: Jon Gabriel
They’ve been caught doing corrupt shit so often that I’m amazed that they are still taken seriously in some fever swamps. Basically, it’s the Morris Dees Mansion, Coke, and Hookers Fund.
WaPo still cites them as a source.
Perfect example.
So do a lot of media outlets. Do not some of the writers at the [[[other site]]] also cite them sometimes?
To be sure.
*narrows gaze*
All of what I saw of them at the other site was calling them out for this BS, but I definitely haven’t read every article they posted.
I wish this piece had been written by a decent writer/publication. This story needs to be explored and told, but this piece left a lot to be desired. There are many better examples that could be cited than a group that got put on a list two weeks after it was shot up.
Such as? Please give the examples you’re referring to because I would love to have them in my back pocket for future discussions.
You crazy Americans and you guns savagery /Enlightened EU citizen
You Romanians need proper stake and holy water control. Do you know how many vampire citizens are killed by illegal stakes every year? DO YOU?!?!
What about fully-automatic stake-firing crossbows?
Clearly no one needs to fire more than eight stakes per minute.
I have that stake from ma grandaddy and you can have it when you take it off my exsanguinated body.
Romanians also need better steak control. You can not believe the overcooked shit people eat round these parts. Medium is underdone to most. Especially filet mignon , that really needs to be rendered dry and flavorless before eating.
You’re really selling your country here. Pro-Russian government, bad steaks, pro-EU, ex-communist country with active socialists, chief export is crippling depression…
chief export is crippling depression…
…and bloodsucking creatures of the night!
Shit, my bad. You’d already mentioned socialists.
Do the Romaine sisters make up for it?
the broads are gorgeous though, so there’s that
And absolutely nasty piggish.
Whatcha talkin bout?
I thought the food in Romania was pretty good when I went there a decade ago.
The grill at Caru’ cu Bere was good in Bucharest. There was a good grill at the Brasov ski resort area as well. But, yeah, they have a tendency to overgrill their steak.
John?
Comet Pizza gunman to plead guilty in tentative deal with prosecutors in Washington
commandeering a Washington pizza restaurant
Did they make the pizzas the way he wanted them?
He was rightly infuriated because they tried putting fucking PINEAPPLE on them. Some people just need killin’.
He wanted breakfast, but they stopped serving it.
Oh noes, not an assault-style rifle! Those things look extra dangerous!
IT KILLED EVERYONE IN THE RESTAURANT!!!!
Donald Trump’s Effective Tax Rate In 2005 Was Actually 79 Percent, Not 25 Percent
Why do I find it completely unshocking that journalists can’t read a tax form properly?
I did find it weird that Trump was taxed at a lower rate than I was and I don’t even make enough money to be considered a filthy 1%er
Why would you add back in losses?
Were those carryover losses and they were trying to figure out his “just that year” number (the obvious answer is they did it intentionally, but I am trying to go with ignorant as default)?
BTW, with losses and refundable tax credits, my effective tax rate was negative in 2016. Thanks for the money everyone!
Same here. Thanks to the ability to transfer money from a taxable account to an Individual 401(k) account and a HSA plus a net of $3000 of capital losses plus my ObamaCare refundable tax credits, I had a negative tax rate also. Instead of the IRS, I pay taxes to an insurance company for a grossly overpriced ObamaCare policy now.
To properly calculate a taxpayer’s rate, you divide it by taxable income. The other income isn’t taxable. At least, that’s what I way I analyze the problem. That makes Trump’s rate 121%.
Of course, the only sensible way to analyze for tax planning is to evaluate marginal rates. I suspect it’s about 25%.
OK, everybody in the US Senate, if you trust Rand Paul not to be a stooge of the Russians, raise your hand.
Well, there was that time that he broadcast communist propaganda in Vietnam…
Oh wait. That was John McCain.
Vietnam’s very own Tokyo Rose.
Gosh won’t John McCain go away? His entire career had been a suck on taxpayers money and American lives.
(Unrelated note, my phone tried to ‘correct’ ‘taxpayers’ to ‘racists’ so obviously it has been infected by progressivism.)
I’d rather wake up to a photo of a Lena Dunham/Amy Shumer lesbian trist than John McCain’s sex face. Somebody pass the fucking Pepto Bismol.
Apparently Lena lost some weight recently, although I dare not link a picture
*rubs hands together while cackling*
So beautiful
She looks like the girl who works the register at the discount tobacco outlet across the street from my office. Not exactly a beauty queen but I’ve seen worse.
Jezebel ain’t gonna like her succumbing to the cishetero shitlords by losing weight. She better go out there and get a couple abortions to keep em happy.
At first glance I read ‘succubus’.
Her top in the “after” picture could be concealing some pounds. The only noticeable difference I see in the two pictures is that she seems to have lost about half an inch off of each thigh.
Didn’t you hear? She’s on the Trump Diet. Poor thing is so tied up in knots she can’t eat.
So much losing you’ll get sick of losing (weight)
It didn’t help, she’s still fugly.
Why did Preet go easy on Wall Street?
1. I enjoy that got us assumed here and they fit away thanks to their morally corrupt lawyers.
2. Isn’t it a bad sign that we have forced late into the role of clergy, delineating right from wrong?
Are you having a stroke? I tried rereading your comment 5 times and couldn’t make sense of it.
This is what happens when I’m still waking up and using my phone to comment.
Yeah, wtf just happened?
You talk funny. You one them fureners? We don’t take kindly.
if you trust Rand Paul not to be a stooge of the Russians, raise your hand. 1, 2, 3…97, 98, 99.
You know who else couldn’t raise their hand?
The Black Knight?
+1 flesh wound.
My uncle when he came back from Vietnam?
Oh wait. Thats not funny.
*slurps coffee*
August Landmesser?
Christopher Reeve?
Bob Dole?
I assumed this was the right answer.
So there’s this site called goop on which I learned a percentage of you filthy buggers have parasites. But worry not, there are solutions even for you.
What increases your chances?
“If you have a health system with a low vibrational field or a weakened immune system, you’re more susceptible to parasites. We’re all already tired, and our cells are moving slowly, so a parasite can knock us over—it can be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.”
Can anything be done?
“Every medical tradition from Western to Chinese to Ayurveda has a unique method for clearing the body of parasites. My treatment is based on knowledge of the Essenes, a community that lived outside of Jerusalem during biblical times. In those days, when a healer learned of a worm infestation, they would put the patient in a tub of milk until the worms would come out to drink—parasites love milk! In fact, many people who think they’re allergic to milk actually have a parasite in their system.
In my experience, an eight-day, mono-diet goat-milk cleanse—accompanied by a specific vermifuge made of anti-parasitic herbs—is the most successful treatment. ”
Do YOU want to know more?
http://goop.com/you-probably-have-a-parasite-heres-what-to-do-about-it/
…nobody tell them about nematodes…
I hear drinking liquid mercury helps with parasites-those folks should try that.
How about colloidal silver?
*blinks secret code*
You blue it.
Specific Vermifuge, band name or album title?
Album.
Not easy enough to pronounce to be band name.
parasites love milk!
yeah…
We already knew that, have you seen how many parasites suck the government’s teats.
Yeah, I got parasites. What was the percentage Romney threw out? 47% About that many parasites.
*scratches crotch reflexively*
Wasn’t webdominatrix supposed to post that?
“Just read the article and stay away from the comments. Those people have no shame. Which reminds me, we need to invite them here.”
Cute girl. Wonder why they thought the railroad tracks would be the spot for a photo shoot? Didn’t everyone’s moms tell them to not play on railroad tracks?
Darwin Award winner.
Pregnant woman hit by train? Good thing she wasn’t hit by a bus or she would’ve had twins.
Just read the article and stay away from the comments. Those people have no shame.
The temptation was just too great, and the comments did not disappoint. The best comments are puns dropped by real identities. I feel dirty now.
I looked through some of them too. Am I a horrible person for admitting to laughing?
Best of the lot:
Q – Why did she step out of the way of one train into the path of another?
A – She had a one track mind.
I narrow my gaze enough at you lot, I don’t need to go looking for more.
I want Gilmore’s fashion advice.
When buying my next set of grundies, which would be the most comfortable to wear under my vestments AND get Mrs. Holiness all revved up when disrobing?
The Sacfree or Manties?
Yes
The intertoobz is weird.
“I was attacked by left-wing rioters and it’s Trump’s fault! (to be sure the rioters should be punished)
“In the days after the violence, some have spun this story as one about what’s wrong with elite colleges and universities, our coddled youth or intolerant liberalism. Those analyses are incomplete.
“Political life and discourse in the United States is at a boiling point, and nowhere is the reaction to that more heightened than on college campuses. Throughout an ugly campaign and into his presidency, President Trump has demonized Muslims as terrorists and dehumanized many groups of marginalized people. He declared the free press an enemy of the people, replaced deliberation with tweeting, and seems bent on dismantling the separation of powers and 230 years of progress this country has made toward a more perfect union. Much of the free speech he has inspired — or has refused to disavow — is ugly, and has already had ugly real-world consequences. College students have seen this, and have taken note: Speech can become action….
“…I am still wearing a neck brace, and spent a week in a dark room to recover from a concussion caused by the whiplash.
“It is obvious that some protesters made dangerous choices. But with time to reflect, I have to say that I hear and understand the righteous anger of many of those who shouted us down. I know that many students felt they were standing up to protect marginalized people who have been demeaned or even threatened under the guise of free speech….
“Intelligent members of the Middlebury community — including some of my own students and advisees — concluded that Charles Murray was an anti-gay white nationalist…Never mind that Dr. Murray supports same-sex marriage and is a member of the courageous “never Trump” wing of the Republican Party….
“More broadly, our constitutional democracy will depend on whether Americans can relearn how to engage civilly with one another, something that is admittedly hard to do with a bullying president as a role model. But any other way forward would be antithetical to the very ideals of the university and of liberal democracy.”
and seems bent on dismantling the separation of powers and 230 years of progress this country has made toward a more perfect union.
…“More broadly, our constitutional democracy will depend
Pick one.
Translation to English: I’m really smart, really! Watch how I throw in some big words while saying nothing and trying to shift blame from the people who actually hurt me to a bad man who has never come within 500 miles of me.
Whycome you hurt me? I’m one of YOU!
How fucking sad is it to watch the useful idiot being blindfolded and put up against the wall while they gibber and rant about the glorious revolution?
In the end she finally realized….. She truly loved Big Brother
… and fade to black.
I think they gave him more than a concussion.
her
See? She’s totally confused.
Whoa. Sex change, too?
“More broadly, our constitutional democracy will depend on whether Americans can relearn how to engage civilly with one another…”
Bring back legal dueling over slights and watch civility skyrocket overnight. Bonus win: the SJW movement will also disappear overnight.
can relearn how to engage civilly with one another…”
Your team first.
Yeah, it’s a bit rich for people to be complaining about the lack of civility when their own allies are out rioting.
It’s called protesting when the left destroy private or/and public property and assault people.
When the right says mean things that’s called violence.
You ain’t woke, bro.
Bring back the 2nd amendment to it’s original ‘shall not be infringed’ state and civility will skyrocket. Of course some crazies are going to shoot themselves or someone else, but that’s going to happen anyway, cause people be crazy. But the net effect will be positive.
But for us to engage with one another as fellow human beings — even on issues where we passionately disagree — we need reason, not just emotions.
I have a feeling she’s mouthing those words in one specific direction.
I think that “both sides do it” can only be true at a broad level of generality, with a broad definition of “it.”
So if by “it” you mean closed-mindedness and an unwillingness to engage in civil discourse, then yes, both sides do “it,” as thus defined.
But if by “it” you mean “engage in riots to shut down speakers the rioters don’t like,” this has lately been a strictly left-wing phenomenon, and I’m wondering what’s the most recent example they can give of a right-wing example in the U.S.
I heard Juan Williams last night claim this left-wing rioting is just like the TEA Party opposing Obama. Seriously.
Yeah, I remember the riots, interstate shut-downs, and skull-cracking. It IS just like that.
Juan claims that’s just a tiny minority doing those things, just like on the right. I think he actually believes it.
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize”
It’s like we haven’t learned anything since Charlie Hebdo.
+1 Obama compromise
Citation please.
That’s not a professor with any substantial insights or principles.
Very sad.
It’s a good thing these “marginalized people” have all these woke white upper middle class people to save them by holding protests and talks and making signs and whatnot. I’m sure they all appreciate it.
This is a case study in Robbyism.
It utterly fails because it refuses to call a spade a spade. It thinks it can ‘coax’ people into reasoned discourse without ever actually criticizing their batshit assumptions. Its a bullshit facade pretending comity with people that JUST FUCKING PHYSICALLY ATTACKED YOU FOR MERELY STANDING NEAR THEIR ENEMY. .
You keep telling yourself that.
Playboy did not immediately respond to Mic’s request for comment.
Why the hell would Playboy comment?
Shit thread major fail should have been bellow
“should have been bellow”
YOU DON’T HAVE TO SHOUT!
A little bit softer now.
She used what will probably be reported as her best ratings night in the history of her show to recap all the great reporting her team has done over the last week and a half about all of Trump’s corrupt business dealings and connections to Russia and crooked banks.
The Hindenburg parlayed it’s ratings bonanza into…
So, she recapped all of the left’s unhinged and unsupported assertions? Which she still has no evidence to back up?
They never stop.
I didn’t see any of that until after the fact. What I heard was that she billed the show as something spectacular and everyone thought she had numerous returns and devastating revelations.
The first thing that popped in my head was that Trump is the one that leaked the return. I was asked what made me think that…”How did he know which one to release ahead of the show if no one knew what she had?”
Who is making who roll over and bark like a dog?
Keep it up left, keep it up. Soon you will be back under the rock where you belong.
Trump really does play the left like pathetic little fiddles. You would think they might start to learn, but no.
If she wants to move the narrative to “Trump paid MORE than his fair share of taxes” she succeeded with flying colors. I’m just going to assume that wasn’t what the author was getting at.
$38 million. 24%. That’s more than Bernie or Obama paid. It’s the perfect own goal.
Still less (as a %) than the wife and I paid.
His effective tax rate based on AGI is actually around 79% on that return.
White ‘Playboy’ playmate calls Van Jones “house n*gger” on Twitter for not resisting Trump”.
Oh honey, you weren’t put on this earth to think.
Uh-huh.
Another playmate who disrobed to pay her way through law school?
I first read this as Playboy inmate.
If you lived at the mansion, it was pretty much that.
First off, Van Jones is patient zero for TDS. I watched him on election night on CNN and I genuinely thought he was going to put his foot right through Lewandowski’s shit eating grin. I have yet to see one nice thing he’s said about Trump. Second, I am pretty sure Ariane just wants his D and is frustrated she doesn’t have him on speed dial.
Third: ‘Undefinable nonsense’ is the perfect description of the left’s attacks on Donald Trump.
A court’s decision in a Maine labor dispute hinged on the absence of an Oxford comma
I knew I shoulda taken charge when we were discussing pet grammatical peeves yesterday.
+1 Eats roots shoots and leaves
The article is about some shit that shouldn’t come within 1000 yards of government anyway. My enjoyment of the article, however, makes me feel dirty, happy and vindicated.
/looks for one of two square sovereign flags.
Just last week my request for Oxford commas in some stuff our communications department did was slapped down. “Not AP style, dahling”.
I just forwarded that story to them. HAH! Who just won a totally pointless and irrelevant argument NOW, communications people?
You sure showed them, Dean.
I have become death, destroyer of worlds.
I thought it was a link to this.
woops wrong song
How Alcohol and Caffeine Built Civilization
I’m getting ready to build some more civilization right now.
If you keep up the early morning drinking we’re going to have to send you to the Russian front.
I am not convinced by the caffeine bit
It might not have built civilization, like alcohol…but it sure helps maintain it, now!
mounds of hangover poop?
An interesting article. Although I’m surprised you didn’t note for the commentariat’s benefit the names of the coffeehouses frequented by Adam Smith (as mentioned in the article): Cockspur Street and the Turk’s Head. It’s probably a sign of my immaturity that I laughed when I read that.
Don’t mess with our bars in Cleveland. We take our drinking seriously, especially as it’s the run up to St. Patrick’s Day.
Doesn’t look like the kind of bar you’d want to rob at 7:00 pm on a Saturday.
this is Cleveland
Needs more Bone Thugs
At least we’re not Detroit!
Great musical choice, Sloopy!
This is the best Canned Heat song, however.
I was torn. I made my choice partially due to the color video and partly because of the rockette dance moves that are so far out of sequence and off-beat they needed to be shared.
And the shirts. The poor youngsters around here need to see the sheer majesty that was ’70s fashion.
I was in high school in the 70’s. The things I notice the most about looking at old high school photos are 1) the fashion, and 2) nobody was overweight. There were like a couple of kids in the entire school who everyone knew as “the fat kids”, and that was it. I look at kids that age now and see how many of them are heavy and wonder what the fuck happened.
“the sheer majesty that was ’70s fashion”
*chokes on coffee, flails arms around*
That was about my reaction too.
The fuck is wrong with you people?
Can you dig it?
The woman’s dress is OK, but otherwise, no.
That is Mod style, which is somewhat acceptable. It lasted until about 1971/1972 before the calamity of hot 70s style garbage was foisted upon the populace.
I would be fine having this foisted upon me.
Worries?
Switzy would never be able to see again.
CORRECT.
The biggest threat facing middle-age men isn’t smoking or obesity. It’s loneliness.
hugs for everyone!
Three kids, a business, a house remodel, aging parents…. who has time for friends?
That’s not really a rhetorical question.
I like talking face to face with women. Especially if they are really short.
Or on their backs?
HR: Joe I’ve asked you in here because one of your coworkers complained you.
Joe: What? Who said I did something wrong?
HR: Betty said you made an inappropriate comment this morning.
Joe: What are you talking about? All I said was ‘your hair smells nice’!
HR: That’s the problem Joe. You can’t say that when you are a midget.
Friends? We are libertarians, so we only have co-conspirators or such, right?
These Disney Princess Bikinis Are About To Make Your Summer Magical AF
Does one have to have one’s soul removed to wear them, or does it just help?
I’m partial to the Pocahontas one. All Pocahontas costumes are superior.
Cultural Appropriation!
Also, why is there no Alice? Asking for OMWC…
Alice ain’t no fucking princess.
The actual Alice was a little slut.
http://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ph/web-large/DP209284.jpg
Get yer creep on…
If OMWC had posted that I would not have clicked.
^This^
I just gave you one. It’s SFW.
/hahahahahahaha you’re fired
So AF is now ingrained in the journalism lexicon? Okay, then.
Inoright!
Provo, Utah residents assumed it was family issues that caused the police chief to quit. Turns out it was something a little more serious. And based on the reasons his predecessors left, I’m thinking there might be a systemic problem there.
Want to know about a seriously corrupt Utah police department, check out West Valley
Also I appreciate that you obviously added that link link just for me
Ooh, yeah, West Valley is bad.
Yesterday I looked around on the internet a bit. I saw more than a few people characterizing TSTSNBN as having gone off the rails and a few comments about this site. Apparently we are purists, true believers, disposed towards internecine fighting, overly rational (?), unwilling to compromise, intelligent and sometimes funny but a bunch of cantankerous contrarians blah blah. None of those were intended to be positive.
Overall I was pleased.
Who the fuck said those things?
Also, what would Frank say about us?
“You glibertarians disagree with me and I know why”, he would proceed to explain that it’s because we are all racists, and not because he lusts after the power of the state.
I’ve invited him here to debate but he’s too busy moderating away the comments left by glibs to show up.
Sad, because he’s obviously not unintelligent or uninteresting. He’s just a chicken.
I would argue those points. He seems to be unintelligent and uninteresting, all at once.
Just random comments from out there *waves arms towards space*
I didn’t find much in the way of one place or discussion focusing on this place, just snippets here and there. Like I said, I was pleased. I spent a total of 15 seconds on Frank….15 seconds of my life wasted. He seems like a textbook glibertarian in the true sense; with regards to liberty all hat and no cattle. Those people are a dime a dozen. They start out by identifying themselves as libertarian then spend all of their time arguing for redistribution, cracking down on dissenters and outlining limits to free speech.
Fuck that guy. If he needs a sharp stick to sit on I will mail him one made from this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aralia_spinosa
It grows in my yard. Or maybe one of these:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_locust
I have a hundred acres with that shit on it.
Really? I figured the whole shoot had been fairly civil and unnoticed beyond the metaphorical walls of TSTSNBN and here.
There was already a bunch of complaints on other websites (the Federalist, I think someone linked a thread on the Drudge Report) about how the Other Site had become progressives-lite instead of libertarians before the Schism even happened.
It’s such a shame really, because there aren’t many places that claim to cater to libertarianisim and even fewer that are satisfactory.
I think they got tired of being in the wilderness. Being Jon Snow only looks cool in a movie. In reality he spends most of his time pouring hot water on his testicles to thaw them out or sleeping in a room while he smells farts from a bunch of overly hairy dudes that never bath or brush their teeth.
Cocktail parties really are more enjoyable than fighting the good fight.
Rookie. You dunk your testicles in the boiling water. You don’t pour the water.
It is like you have spent your life living in a moderate temperature zone instead of in a manly man place like Minnesoda.
WE are worth every penny, right?
I’m personally finding some of the ‘new’ commenters over on the Other Site hilarious. My favourites are the ones who think Reason writers are Trump sympathizers.
Sow, meet reap. I’m sure you two will get along great.
It’s amazing that anyone would actually give a shit about what people are doing here. Of the billions of people on the internet and the sites they self organize around, this is just one more. Why would they feel the need to attack?
The same reason we link to DU, Jezebel, Everyday feminist, etc etc.
Haven’t you ever been to a fair? Have you ever been able to throw balls at the dunking booth without standing in line first?
If the internet is the fair, we’re the carnie hanging out behind the teacups selling meth.
…..probably right.
*looks down, kicks pebble*
There are worse things to be.
The dancing girl who gives blow jobs for a dollar behind the trailer behind the teacups (TSTSNBN)?
Yeah, I saw those. I was like WTF?
I guess the very existence of this place is a living, breathing purity test.
Where are these discussions?
Yeah, links are appreciated.
I think it was PM links. I was somewhat disappointed because some of the critics were people I’d have expected to have enjoyed the cut and thrust of *this* group, rather than the stolid, arthritic mumblings of the remainders.
Pornhub Says It Will Plow Snow in Boston for Free
Not to be outdone, Youjizz will mow your lawn.
Tesla wants to raise money
Warning: auto-play video
For Tesla, going mainstream doesn’t come cheap.
Tesla plans to raise as much as $1.15 billion in stock and debt to have more of a cash cushion as it revs up for the launch of the Model 3, its first mass market car.
The electric car company said Wednesday it will offer $250 million in common stock and $750 million in convertible debt, with an option for its underwriters to buy up another 15% of the two offerings.
Elon Musk, Tesla’s CEO, will purchase $25 million of the stock.
Tesla’s stock rose 2% in after hours trading Wednesday following the announcement.
Oh shit. I got hit by the threading bug.
I wonder if Musk is sensing doom, yet. Why the hell people will still put money in that company after they did the SolarCity deal is beyond me.
There are morons out there who invest with their heart, not their head.
http://www.socialfunds.com/
I should short Tesla. I think it’s long past time to do it.
Well, the timing is the issue. The market can stay irrational for longer than you can stay solvent.
The market can stay irrational for longer than you can stay solvent.
Therein lies the problem.
If you short Tesla you’re against humanity.
*shorts Tesla*
SEE!! SEE!! NOT JUST ME!! ONE OF US NOW
I was hit with that threading bug yesterday, but *I* didn’t turn it into a screechy tirade about some shadowy conspiracy, you hysterical queen.
….
i think i said, “you should refresh the page i guess”
fair cop
*quietly hides evidence of conspiracy*
Can we get someone to put together a Hitler has problems with threading video?
Okay, now THATS a euphemism. It has to be!
McDonalds is currently learning the lesson: You don’t put a minimum wage intern in charge of your social media.
And a verified account. Nice.
Somebody just lost their job.
That made me laugh.
Tiny hands? Then he wont have trouble holding a big mac.
Obligatory, and even more ironic that its a burger king ad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu_bE7g2wqM
This after all of Trump’s free advertising for McDonald’s last year.
Milk is racist.
I’m pretty sure the ‘milk is racist’ bit is entirely a product of Meme Warriors.
Who you calling a meme warrior?
Don’t wanna meme no more!
Face, meet palm.
Isn’t this part of the Kekistan thing?
Milk is just a good example of regulatory capture and government meddling in markets. It’s no wonder black kids prefer soda when over half of them are lactose intolerant. And the Chinese? Well, don’t sit in a small room with one after a milkshake.
Lactose Intolerance by Race
1. East Asian 90-100%
2. Indigenous (North America) 80-100%
3. Central Asian 80%
4. African American (North America) 75%
5. African (Africa) 70-90%
6. Indian (Southern India) 70%
7. French (Southern France) 65%
8. Ashkenazi Jew (North America) 60-80%
9. Balkans Region 55%
10. Latino/Hispanic (North America) 51%
11. Indian (Northern India) 30%
12. Anglo (North America) 21%
13. Italian (Italy) 20-70%
14. French (Northern France) 17%
15. Finnish (Finland) 17%
16. Austrian (Austria) 15-20%
17. German (Germany) 15%
18. British (U.K.) 5-15%
Ranked 18, but explosively intolerant, not to be outdone by them steenkin’ East Asians.
Wait…65% of the cheese eating surrender monkeys are lactose intolerant?
Depends on the cheese, the cheese might be tolerable to someone with lactose intolerance.
Stop that. I was trying to give them a good excuse for dropping their rifles and running from the battlefield while holding their asses. You are trying to make them look bad.
Sure. Cheese fermentation eliminates a lot of the lactose.
They can manger tout le fromage quils veulent.
Ironic about France and Italy given the sheer diversity of their cheese production. I think only the USA is more diverse.
+1 Monty Python “Cheese Shop”
Note the variety of cheeses in the sketch that are made by the brits.
I’m surprised that central Asians have 80% lactose intolerance, as I assumed they would all be descendants of the steppe nomads, who had heavily milk centric diets.
Maybe yak milk is low in lactose?
“…subtle racism hidden in our health facts.”
She belongs to the same ilk as the bunch that wants rational thought, evidence, and fact out of science, doesnt she? Last night on the teevee I overheard someone say “The left isnt just useful idiots. They sense the death of their movement and are in a panic. They are absolutely incapable of thinking. It’s all just nonsense.”
I have it on good authority that parasites love milk
+1 soak
OK, everybody in the US Senate, if you trust Rand Paul not to be a stooge of the Russians
In the interest of improving Russian-American relations, I extend an invitation to my house for dinner and discussions to Anna Semenovich (her wikipedia page is safe for work, her boobpedia page is not safe for work, and a google image search for her is probably not safe for work). It will be a hardship, but I’m certain we can work out our countries’ difficulties.
Candidate for Thicc Thursday.
Semenovich? That is a stage name for a porn actress, isnt it? Tell me it is.
Or at least a Bond henchwoman.
Why not both?
*high fives swissy*
Excellent!
Nope. Her boobpedia page used to have an explanation of her last name.
Siliconovich is more accurate
Boobpedia claims she is natural.
*adds boobpedia to fake news list*
Sad!
The second ‘e’ is pronounced like ‘yo.’ It should have two little dots over it, like this: ë. Semënovich is her patronymic, it means “daughter of Semyon.”
Daughter of Semen.
You aren’t helping.
Speaking of porn actresses, I sought out Mia Khalifa.
Dear bog, she needs a refund from her boob surgeon.
Those areola incisions really got fucked up, An ice fisherman coulda done a better job.
Her breast implants make me sad, but other things about her make me happy.
дерево
Renault denies accusations of cheating emissions tests
Warning: auto-play video
Renault shares dropped by as much as 5% on Thursday after the company denied media reports that it cheated on emissions tests for decades.
The automaker called the reports “unbalanced” and categorically denied any wrongdoing.
“Renault vehicles are not equipped with cheating software affecting anti-pollution systems,” it said in a statement.
The automaker was responding to multiple reports in French media that said the country’s fraud watchdog believes that Renault (RNLSY) distorted the results of anti-pollution tests over a period of 25 years. Some of the reports said that investigators believe CEO Carlos Ghosn should be held responsible.
Investors have sent shares down by 10% since the reports were first published.
From the comments of the “train-hits-girl” story:
Honestinjun
a day ago
This is sad, but seriously, how can you NOT hear a train coming? And why didn’t the photographer notice and alert her?
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Supadupafly Honestinjun
a day ago
Perhaps she was not trained?
We used to walk on train tracks and you can feel the train coming just by the vibration on the tracks well in advance. It’s not as if it stealthily sneaks up on you; unless you’re sleeping.
I don’t get it either.
Dear Supadupafly,
Please come to this site and comment here.
Sincerely,
Me
The FedGov is bumping against a debt limit, again.
The debt limit seems to be just as limiting as the constitution.
The debt limit is racist.
Take it to the limit
Women and minorities are buying guns in record numbers. Reasons vary, but its still good news when more people are discovering that the Second Amendment is there to protect them from their government.
Oh, you goofy peanutz!
We’ve had an uptick in probably-lefties turning up at my gun club.
They sidle in like timid woodland animals, asking about he NRA Basic Pistol Course which is a prerequisite to getting a carry permit in my state. We haven’t had anyone run away when they see the ‘average members’ of the club, but you could see the ‘flight or shit your pants’ response being mastered.
Brings to mind a gun show I went to awhile back. The usual scene – lots of tables, most with vendors, a few others. One of them was a Pink Pistols table. It didn’t have anyone at it. My buddy and I wandered by and started to chat with them. Within a minute or two, they had a bunch of people at the table. In my experience, the vast majority of “gun people” aren’t really political and will buddy up with anyone who wants to be a gun person, too.
This confirms that John McCain is Michael Hihn. giggles
BULLIES!
He’s back on the Other Site now, having chased most of the fascists away, nobly standing his ground against aggression. But there’s still the number one and two fascists to remove.
Goober
really? I’d read that.
*Checks it out* It’s like having a friend date your ex and he keeps bitching to you about her.
I was #9.
*sniffles in pride*
hmmmmpf!
Pfft. Top 5. Get on my level.
Tom Hoenig [FDIC] was just on Bloomberg. talking about bankers, he just said,
“Failure should not be illegal.”
I’m good with that. Provided the “failure” is its own punishment, and is not rewarded by the government.
We used to walk on train tracks and you can feel the train coming just by the vibration on the tracks well in advance. It’s not as if it stealthily sneaks up on you; unless you’re sleeping.
Oh, nonsense I saw the documentary. Wile E Coyote looked left. Nothing. He looked right. Nothing. Clear, to the horizon. He stepped onto the tracks, and, BAM!
Train.
*thunderous ovation*
This is what we’re up against
If not for the alternative minimum tax, a part of the code that applies to wealthy taxpayers, Donald Trump would have paid just 4 percent of his reported $150 million income in federal taxes in 2005.
But thanks to the AMT — which disallows excessive deductions so that the very rich pay something closer to a fair share — Mr. Trump paid tax equal to 25 percent of his income. That’s still too low; the merely affluent, who earn six and seven-figure incomes, are subject to similar rates and rules. But it’s better than it would be if there were no AMT.
So, of course, a linchpin of the tax reform plans by Mr. Trump and congressional Republicans is to get rid of the AMT.
That is not policymaking. It is a type of con in which Republicans change the tax law i to further personal and special interests, rather than the public interest, while claiming that tax cuts will spread prosperity. They won’t. Repealing the AMT would result in a loss of nearly $460 billion in revenue over 10 years. It would be akin to another Republican goal — repealing the estate tax, which would also benefit the very wealthiest Americans, at a revenue loss of $226 billion over 10 years. Those tax cuts would occur as roads crumble, bridges weaken, school buildings deteriorate and tens of millions of people suffer from otherwise avoidable want and fear.
Redistribution is PEEPUL!
Women, children AND MEN hardest hit!
Well, if it would help the wealthiest people then we definitely can’t do it. We can easily ignore the hurt it does to the non-wealthy people among us. They’re obviously just Republican plants. Real people don’t have anything to leave their offspring, especially farms or businesses.
Donald Trump would have paid just 4 percent of his reported $150 million income in federal taxes in 2005.
I like how her moral preening and outrage permits her to omit the part about how that measly 4% contribution is probably more than the lifetime earnings she and 100 of her closest friends are likely to generate.
It’s the AMT, which is evil until it gets used against someone they don’t like.
Was the train track girl the Thicc Thursday entrant?
Probably not now, I guess. That booty went from fat to flat in no time
You must be reading my emails. When I sent that link to sloopy this morning, my comment was, “Thicc, then thin.”
Read your emails? Certainly not!
Apropos of nothing, your doctor appointment next Tuesday conflicts with another appointment and I’m pretty sure that thing you ordered is illegal
Only illegal in 48 of the 50 states. Be fair.
*57 states