Happy St Patrick’s Day dear friends. Let’s all see how far into the day we get before we pass out drunk. Oh, what’s that…St Paddy’s is for amateurs? Well then, I guess I’ll drink all of these Shiner Bocks myself. But first, the links.
?One positive result of Trump’s proposed budget would be a quarter of a billion dollars less a year wasted on California’s failing education system. Perhaps they could take that money from the state taxes they are proposing to not collect from teachers and throw it into that gigantic waste of money.
?Another positive result of Trump’s proposed budget would be a lot of butthurt at the United Nations. Fine by me. Maybe we’ll start pissing more away on them when they remove despotic shitholes from the Human Rights Commission.
? A great big negative result of Trump’s proposed budget would be billions of dollars on his wasteful border wall.
?Hey asshole, what part of “freedom of speech” don’t you understand? This is the kind of politician that has never been in the private sector and neither has his brother or his father, by the way. Somebody go out and get some tar, feathers and a rail. I’ll find an angry mob.
?The Mayo Clinic will give a preference to privately insured patients over those on Medicaid and Medicare. Gee, maybe they like to be paid on time and at a rate which allows them to provide a return commensurate with their level of service and which will aid their research.
?Those potato-eaters sure must have a lot of money at their disposal. What other way to explain them throwing $110,000,000 on the HP campus in Boise and moving their offices there? I guess they’ll finally be able to stop working from libraries, Starbucks’s and anywhere else that has free WiFi and doesn’t cost anything.
?And to get your St Paddy’s started right, here’s some straight up, legit Irish music for you.
Have a wonderful day getting drunk. I know that’s my plan for later.
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11) A few months ago, I read my daughter a children’s version of some Sherlock Holmes stories. She really liked them, and when she came across a regular adult edition of Sherlock Holmes in our library, she asked that I read her those, which I’ve been doing the past couple weeks.
I have to say I’m impressed with how forthright the language and mores in Victorian England were. There’s no talking around things. In one of the stories, it describes a man with a bad leg as crippled, and the other characters refer to him as “the cripple,” not as an insult, but simply a shorthand way for everybody to know whom they refer to.
In another story, there is a scene in an opium den, and while the customers are shown as pitiful and wasting their lives, there’s no suggestion that they shouldn’t be able to live those lives as they want. Indeed, a character brings a constable to the opium den to investigate a suspected murder, but no one talks about shutting the business itself down. All this is contrasted with Holmes’s own cocaine habit, which is presented as not exactly admirable, but more manageable and less damaging than opium.
My daughter seems to be eating this stuff up. My wife seems a little skeptical that she really needs to know what opium is at her age, but hasn’t asked me to stop. So, raising my seven-year old right? Good training for producing a young libertarian? Or causing irreversible long-term damage to her fragile young psyche?
My wife seems a little skeptical that she really needs to know what opium is at her age, but hasn’t asked me to stop. So, raising my seven-year old right?
How else is she going to learn not to trust the inscrutable Chinaman?
The Chinaman is not the issue here.
Agent Cooper is right. Gone are the quaint days when alls we had to worry about were inscrutable and sly Chinamen.
The problem now is guys with the name D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty. These types of guys, they come from Connecticut and New York, they come up here, they sell their heroin, they go back home. Incidentally, half the time they impregnate a young, white girl before they leave, which is a real sad thing because then we have another issue we have to deal with down the road.
Brochetta, does the dude abide?
Contrast that depiction with the one from Ripper Street, a series on BBC America that takes place shortly after the Jack the Ripper murders if you’re unfamiliar. It’s not a bad show, although you can quit watching after the first two seasons without missing out on anything, but it’s kind of a progressive reimagining of the late Victorian period. A lot of anti-capitalist, half of London is gay (NTTAWTT), “look how bad things were before modern government came along” type of stuff.
It’s funny, because the dig on Victorianism is that it was stuck up and prude, but I think the central theme was a respect for individual boundaries. You behaved according to certain rules in public so that everyone knew what to expect. You didn’t pry into the business of strangers. The opposite was the “free love” hippie 60s, which, not coincidentally, also involved a lot of communal living. Everything belonged to everyone, including your own space.
It’s funny, because the dig on Victorianism is that it was stuck up and prude,
Legalized prostitution, open use and purchase of narcotics, doctors used to proscribe orgasms as medical treatment.
Yeah, they’re the prudes, BBC.
But there was no government healthcare to pay for the orgasm
Charitable people stand ready to fill in the gaps.
*slow clap*
Well, no one wore vagina hats or talked about menstrual cycles in public, so, you know, prude. Or so they tell me.
I’ve read some Victorian era porn stories. Not prudes at all.
Well, yes and no. That period is riddled with fin de siecle anxieties about social changes: socialists, anarchists, homosexuals (the Cleveland St scandal was 1889),, The New Woman, foreigners child prostitution, you name it. And of course there was a governmental response to all of that – eg. the age of consent was raised from 12 to 16, and imprisonment with hard labour introduced for homosexual offences, in 1885; the rise of special police units to investigate terrorism, with the attendant casual attitude to civil rights. Ripper St captures that seething, febrile London.
Do you have a link to the children’s version? Or which adult stories you read her?
http://www.greatillustratedclassics.com/book-p/adventures_of_sherlock_holmes.htm
Of the adult stories, so far we’ve read the Red-Headed League, The Man With the Twisted Lip, and we’re currently on the Blue Carbuncle.
I had a box set of the great illustrated classics when I was 7 or 8. I read them all. Frankenstein, the red badge of courage, oliver twist, a tale of two cities, around the world in 80 days, Moby dick, and a lot more. I haven’t thought of that in years. I will have to get those for my boy in a fee years.
I had some of them too. Excellent series for kids.
My kids were watching the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes series when they weren’t much older than that, and it hasn’t turned them into parodies of the actors in Reefer Madness.
Have your wife have a really close conversation with your daughter about what goes on, and what’s talked about on the school bus. That’s usually a good barometer of the kind of stuff you need to head off in your interactions with children. Once a daughter gets called a “filthy whore”, it’s probably a good idea to ensure she knows what she’s being called.
So she can file her Title IX complaint, amirite?
wow…can;t wait for teen years. If that happens, send my Glibertarians subscription to the Super Max prison in Canyon City.
“In one of the stories, it describes a man with a bad leg as crippled, and the other characters refer to him as ‘the cripple,’”
OMG, do you know how triggering that is!? They better not make students read that in a class at a university somewhere. They’ll need a bigger safe space.
IIRC, the story portrayed opium use as a habit of people with messed-up lives. It wasn’t presented attractively.
I’m no child-rearing expert, but I would be surprised if that led your daughter to be like “OMG Daddy let’s do some opium!”
Exception: Holmes’ opium use – that’s more of a problem, but I’m sure you can explain why opium doesn’t make you cool.
IIRC, Holmes used cocaine, not opium.
Because he’s smart.
I think it was opium, although I’m not sure it was explicitly stated, just described.
It was cocaine.
+ 7%
Watson is critical of Holmes’ use in canon Doyle, and in the Brett TV versions.
I also don’t think it’s a bad idea to portray high-functioning addicts in popular entertainment.
Holmes hides out smoking Opium in one of the canon stories, but his day to day drug of choice was cocaine.
Good training. When ideas are introduced to children dispassionately they are able to grasp them more easily and they are better able to form their own opinions without a lot of hooey thrown into the mix.
The other thing, according to my daughter who I just texted, is that the stories aren’t simple antagonist-protagonist. Her take was that in some of the stories, Holmes doesn’t come across as particularly likable, so there’s a little bit of narrative tension there that is totally absent from (all/most?) kids’ books.
Moriarty doesn’t *actually* wear a black hat, Irene Adler outsmarts Holmes – the bad guys sometimes win, or at least foil Holmes. That again is pretty refreshing for kids who have had a pretty constant feed of stories like Rainbow Fish and “The Little Train who could, provided Jerry Brown wrote another check”. They’re often ready for something far more challenging, but have no reference point in print. Personally, that’s one of the hooks that I think gets kids into comic books. Some of them are far darker than the kind of books they see in their rapidly-shrinking school libraries.
Book plug, with no skin in the game. If you have kids from about 9-13 years of age, and in celebration of St. Paddy’s day, try them on Eoin Colfer’s “Artemis Fowl” series.
Hansel and Grettel is a fucked up story…straight up.
Holmes can be a fascinating character but the real lack of enough evidence in the story itself to allow the reader to be Holmes is annoying.
My 7yo really enjoyed the Hobbit (i read it) but also likes the World History Atlas, whatevs.
I just finished High Desert BBQ by 2chilli, that book is hilarious. He kinda beats every single libertarian thing over the hear with a blunt club BUT it is digestible. And not condescending to a libertarian like Stossel feels sometimes (disclaimer, I defend Stossel’s approach as “not intended for an initiated audience”). I highly recommend High Desert BBQ.
In one of the later Sherlock Holmes stories, Sherlock comments extensively about how a black man smells really, really bad, the implication being the odor is due to his being a black man.
I too sometimes worry about both little bandit’s “fragile young psyches” but I try to keep in mind that less than 100 years ago children witnessed first hand the horror of war, polio and typhus and influenza destroyed families leaving orphans, mines were operated by those under 10, etc. Kids are damn strong if you let them be.
Hell no I don’t like talking about those uncomfortable topics like “Daddy, what IS is a douchebag?” or “Daddy, what is a sexual predator?” (Thanks AM radio). But, my approach is to be straight but also heavily edit. They don’t really want the full answer to most of their questions anyway. So “a naughty word Daddy shouldn’t say to other drivers.” and “A bad person who hurts people.” Those are sufficient answers for now. I think a little opium use and “That man is fat” are ok, I take that opportunity to point out drugs aren’t for children and we don’t call other people fat unless you are ok with them calling you names.
TL;DR – I wouldn’t worry about the original Sherlock books.
BulletBeer points.I don’t want to hear a peep out of Gilmore!
Yes! Already my favorite links ever. Wait, no alt-text on the beer images?
Drunk later? LATER? If you’re not started by now you truly are an amateur.
Sláinte, fellow Glibs!
I started at 8:30 AM Eastern. Irish coffee for breakfast. I’m off today. It should be a good day.
My peeps are of praise, mein freund
many peeps of praise
“I guess I’ll drink all of these Shiner Bocks myself”
Shiner Bock is truly a superior beer. Thinking about taking a day trip to visit the brewery the next time I’m in San Antonio…
I think if you want to be a true Texas hippie/slash alcoholic, you have to bike from Austin to Shiner.
I don’t think the Texas Hippie Coalition does a lot of cycling, but they probably drink a lot of beer.
You know who else like superior German things?
French women?
The Czech Stop?
Everybody that’s ever driven a car.
NASA?
James Bond?
If only it were actually a bock.
Exactly. It’s great if you’ve never had German beer. I remember when I gave a friend of mine his first Paulaner Salvator. He said, “This is amazing. It’s like I’m tasting this with my whole mouth.”
That stuff is magic. Almost a sleeping potion if you aren’t careful.
Moscow petting zoo sues ad company over ‘erotic’ raccoon shoot
he was traumatized and had become preoccupied with women’s breasts
So what name does he post under here?
Swi…. I mean, I wonder who?
Invisible furry hand?
Well, if it were “asses,” then there’s only one possibility. But HM has not yet shown a breast fixation.
Why is everyone looking at me?
“giving Thomas treats to lure him closer to the model’s breasts, thereby training him to conflate women’s breasts with food”
We do the same awful thing with human babies.
You conflate babies with food?
Well, there was this proposal…
Don’t be modest, speak up.
JATNAS’s wife: What should we have for dinner tonight?
JATNAS: I have a modest proposal….
Only the poor and fat ones.
Well, they start off wearing bandit masks.
And hey Fuck off off ya Russian Bastartds. Raccoons go where they go. Yeah they’re a pain in the ass, but they’re punk as fuck. Want to stop them, good luck.
Vasectomies peak during March Madness
I mentioned the other day the place in Louisville that does discount vasectomies on Thursday morning of opening day.
There are just some procedures that you don’t go to a place that gives discounts for them.
Lasik being the other.
I would probably avoid Discount Bypass Surgery too.
I would never get a vasectomy – the family jewels are for union members only.
If I were to ever get married I’d probably get one. Otherwise, no point.
There is a doctor named “Dick Chopp” who specializes in the procedure
https://www.urologyteam.com/our-doctors/dr-richard-chopp
Crom laughs at your four winds…
Super humans who are sexier, stronger and smarter will arrive by 2029 as brains begin to fuse with machines, Google expert claims
weird geek fantasies for 100
Merging your smartphone with your brain would make you sexier, stronger, and smarter? I predict the opposite on all three counts.
“Kurzweil Continues to Desperately Pray for his Secularist Utopia to Come Before He Dies, news at 11.”
They ignore that the 14% of things he got wrong were the big ones.
Someone is going to have to change his handle. Old Man with Candy Crush.
*standing ovation*
Oh that’s good.
They tampered in God’s domain.
The GitS adaptation is still gonna suck, Scar Jo be damned.
2 Questions:
1) What happens when you get a BSOD?
2) People are worried about the CIA crashing your smart car/driverless car, What happens when they hack your mind/body?
Ghost in the Shell is now a documentary.
Define “smarter”.
An Irish joke to celebrate the day…
Q: How many potatoes does it take to kill an Irishman?
A: Zero.
a narrowin o’ the gaze
1/4 of me is offended by that…
Then I have 3/4s failed.
So once again you’re left with the Irishman’s dilemma, do I eat the potato or do I let it ferment so I can drink it later?
“I don’t take my whiskey in pill form.”
We’ve learned to diversify our agricultural holdings since the 1840s.
We can now both eat and drink!
Woman fights off male attacker hiding in public restroom, locks him in until police arrive, shares her story all over social media, gets upset when anti-trans group uses her story in its advertisments.
From the article:
Coming up next: an article about how we need common sense gun control laws.
Well, if your idea of common sense gun control is, like mine, constitutional concealed carry and no restrictions on magazine size, selective fire, or anything else, because murder is already illegal, then there’s a logical comparison to be made.
Common sense gun control
I say we ban bathrooms. Everyone pees out in the open, where we can see everyone is safe.
Also known as the Indian subcontinent.
We will export all of our bathrooms to them.
They’ll come here and take our toliet facilities and make ‘Murcians potty train them first.
/anti-H1Bathroom
“The state Department of Administration has signed a nonbinding letter of intent to start talks with HP Inc., Gov. Butch Otter’s office said Thursday a news release.”
Ehm Butch Otter?
Do the same rules apply for gayness as they do for negatives in sentence structure? If so, the double-gay makes him straight. Unless his middle name is Twink.
Glossed over in the article is that property tax is not levied on government owned property in Idaho, including property rented out to non-government entities. So by selling and leasing space back, HP no longer pays properties taxes, directly or indirectly, on that leased space. Or more accurately, government landlords have a lower cost than private landlords. Gee, what kind of incentives that create?
That list goes in a crescendo from silly to insane.
That is beyond rage-inducing.
‘inaccurate’, ‘irrelevant’, ‘inadequate’ or ‘excessive,’ ”
Congress in a nutshell
I wish you were right about “irrelevant”.
“intrusive”
The problem is that the representative who proud this has Oedipus complex, but doesn’t want anyone to know about it. This is the only way he can keep people from learning about it. At least that’s what I read online.
*Good Edit Fairy stands by*
Gosh I need to take extra time in the mornings. My phone hates me, and I can’t catch it’s ‘corrections’.
That is what I am for, this morning.
Do you have sparkly rainbow wings? A magic wand? Creepy anime eyes? WELL DO YOU???
*narrows anime gaze*
Well for the record ‘proud’ was supposed to be ‘proposed’.
… Why do the make the Post Comment button so shiny…I can’t control myself.
GO BACK TO BED.
The guy is a NYC assemblyman? International social media platforms that host billions of posts per year, employ thousands to manage and maintain those systems are now going to have to navigate a byzantine maze of rules, laws, and regulations cooked up by a disparate gaggle of low level political hacks from every city council in the nation, and worse from dinky little countries in Europe that no one has ever heard of?
Sounds like a workable plan to me.
I wonder what that guy’s constituents are like. He is just signaling.
Read his bio. He took over his brother’s seat who took it over when daddy retired.
This is the kind of scroungy little fuck that has never contributed anything to the world in his life. He is a parasite that belongs nowhere near the levers of power.
Even worse is the part where he tries to forbid sites from posting takedown notices to show that they’ve been censored.
*URGE TO KILL RISING*
This sounds much like NY insurance regulatory guidelines. “We’re just one of 50 states, but we claim authority over anywhere a company does business (even if our rules directly contradict rules in other states)”. In the insurance world, companies all just form subsidiaries that sell in NY only to skirt their stupid rules.
It would be interesting to see how Google would react to such rules. With a federal lawsuit would be my guess.
A better reaction would be to cut all of its services off to places that do this. I’m sure that would cause a hubbub fast in his constituency.
It Begins: Bots Are Learning to Chat in Their Own Language
For some reason they have 87 words “kill all the humans”
How much of their communication is cyber sex?
Hey baby, wanna trade some code words?
Once again: they tampered in God’s domain.
This is probably why I’m going to get caught surprised and will be one of the first murdered by the new robot regime, ‘cuz I don’t see anything fundamentally game-changing about this sort of thing. If anything it just reinforces what makes humans perfect drudges, because we’re adaptable, we learn quickly, we already speak a common language, we already orient in three dimensions, and we produce outsized value for what we’re paid. You can make burger-flipping machines to skirt dumb minimum wage hikes, but for higher-order operations, humans are just better and more readily available.
In short, the internet is a fad and it won’t catch on.
*pages through the Mentat’s Handbook*
Are you the guy who works for Google that’s right like 85% of the time?
We also develop artificial intelligence. I don’t expect artificial intelligence to do such a thing, unless real humans direct it to.
Barack Obama to spend a month in French Polynesia
Just a month? Really, he deserves much more than that. How about years?
+1 Papillon
I’d be happy if he stayed there for good. Kick back and enjoy life, Barry – you’ve earned it!
I wonder how he feels about an extended stay on Elba?
Many of us are up for an extended stay on Elba
I’m straight but I understand.
Shiny.
“eco-friendly Brando resort”
And he got their in a plane powered by pixie dust, right?
Pxie farts contain methane so it is not that green. Also pixie farming is disgusting
You don’t need to raise the pixies that long before they can be dried and ground into powder.
Just remember to clone enough spores for the next crop. And capturing the methane provides a ready source of power to run the farm.
It costs more in fossil fuels to capture pixie methane than they produce, so that’s why the farmers let it go to waste.
Are you raising free-range pixies or something? Battery farm them with a proper capture mechanism on the barn and there’s a net gain.
But have you contrasted that with their shortened lifespan, limiting their overall pixie dust output? I’m in the game for the dust.
Past the first three weeks, you get diminishing returns on feed per unit dust. If you keep them more than a year, you’re losing money on feed.
What do you do with dead pixies? Can you mulch them, or eat them?
You either sun-dry or kiln-dry them and grind them to extract the class two dust.
Some people swear by sun-dried for higher quality, but most can’t tell the difference between kiln- and sun-dried.
Class one dust is shed while they’re alive, and commands a higher market rate, but I think it’s a worse product.
As for the feed issue, I ran into that my first year in pixie farming, but discovered that they can survive quite some time on the orphans who make more fatal mistakes in my mines.
But your methods pique my interest. Perhaps a merger of farms is in store.
Does he bring his own bathwater?
What are the French up to with Corsica these days? It seems like that would be a fun rental.
I don’t know about the French, but the Corsicans are surely still killing each other in vicious blood feuds.
So how about Elba? Seems we could toss a former wannabe dictator there.
There goes the neighborhood.
Car Twerkers Are Storming Miami. Could Your City Be Next?
I hope so
*waves for Lena Dunham to twerk on Slammer’s car*
Who says the knockout game is a myth. That was harsh.
she wrecked muh armored truck
I was thinking “I wonder if anyone ever made a warranty claim for a damaged BearCat”?
There is a serious lack of women putting them on the glass. That seems like a serious safety concern.
It’s no Ghost Riding the Whip …
Police take to Facebook to ask drunk man’s friends where he lives so they can get him home safely
“Poor ol’ Cameron was too drunk to remember his address”
THAT is model policing.
TW: Breitbart
Judge Considers Ordering President Donald Trump to Double 50,000 Refugee Inflow to the United States
Okay, no, this is not within his authority to decide.
They can stay at the judge’s house
The way liberals and other members of government act with Trump in power only convinced me more that we need people like him. Before no one cared to oppose Obama, but now I get cutting news (still working on being insightful, but at least they are opposed to the government) and other branches are trying to reign in power of the executive.
“The Court will resolve that Motion, which the parties have agreed should be construed to apply to the successor provision of the Second Executive Order, in accordance with the previously established schedule.”
The successor provision of the second executive order? Am I reading this right? Obama signed an EO which commands his successor to perform some action and the Judge is considering this to be binding? Is he fucking insane? Is this also the Judge that just met with Obama? This is starting to look more and more like no-shit sedition to me.
Of course it’s sedition. The fucking left doesn’t realize just how dangerous this shit is. Part of the peaceful transition of power is that the outgoing administration goes away quietly and allows the incoming administration to govern. If they stick around and try to undermine and destroy the incoming team, that encourages the incoming team to start political prosecutions of the previous group to get them out of the way. Which of course encourages the incumbents to never want to leave. You want a dictator? Because this is how you get a dictator. This shit doesn’t just happen overnight, it’s a path that you go down.
Exactly WTF. Just outlined the events to my wife.
“Trump is going to have to steamroll these assholes. Trump won the election. Trump is president. They cant accept that so it has to be jammed down their throats.”
That is what I am worried about. How do you go about fixing this without destroying the civil nature of our politics? If Trump successfully uses the legal channels for dealing with this is the left going to just start a shooting war?
That’s the problem, the civil nature of our politics has already been destroyed, and the left seems determined to just keep doubling down until it’s all burned to the ground. If the left would just accept that their side lost and back off while they try to figure out a path to electoral success in the future, then there might be some hope, but I don’t see that happening.
It seems like Trump could just jot out a quick EO undoing that EO.
Because of the Reid option allowing the federal judiciary to be jammed with radical Obama appointees, Obama’s EOs are to be regarded as immutable law while any Trump EO attempting to undo them will be regarded as invalid.
Not unless Obama issued a “No Backsies” EO first!
Hmm I would think it is taking about something in the second immigration order, not something Obama did. At least that’s the way I read it.
You may be right. There is a lot of fuzzy in there that I cant make sense of. In any case a federal judge has no power to dictate policy to the administration.
So the danger with shit like this is that, once you abandon the sort of collective fantasy of stuff like the rule of law and separation of powers and so forth, the only thing you’re left with to resolve power struggles is violence. And the thing is, everyone involved is just waiting for an excuse to stop playing nice and just shoot and punch and yell until they get their way. You play by the rules even when breaking them benefits you in the short term, because if you abandon the rules everyone else does, too, and all of a sudden you lose the protections they afford you.
I think there’s some kind of law to that effect, has to do with metal…
The ghost of William Roper smiles.
On St. Paddy’s Day, I’m one of Jerry’s Kids.
That’s good.
Another irish tune
According to Popbitch, when Prince stayed at the Four Seasons he would bring in his own bathwater.
God I loved that little maniac.
As in “bath water he re-used”?
I supposed he really like that bath.
*liked
I’m starting to warm to a 30-second editing window as an idea.
*Good Edit Fairy looks expectantly at UCS*
Wouldn’t you rather we fix our own typoes?
Power corrupts, man. I am just sparing you from this.
Glibertarian TOP MEN will do your editing for you UCS. If you disagree you’re just a bitter clinger.
I’m tempted to fix “typoes.”
Water from melted Himalayan glaciers, used once and then released into the wild.
I assume it was it was the same lake water he used to make Pancakes.
I thought her name was Appolonia? But yes, all good Minnesodans bring water from Lake Minnetonka to purify themselves.
There is a Prince-shaped hole in the world, and we are all the poorer for it.
A man rubs a rhino (SFW, you sick fucks)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olIZcIPu4-g&feature=youtu.be
The RNC Masseuse filmed his work?
We can’t help our rhino lust. We’re HORNY!!!!
*narrows gaze*
*swoons*
The benevolent gaze of Swiss is just as good as before.
That rhino is like “Stop and I trample you.”
Tempe woman arrested on bestiality charge after cell phone video discovery
Nice SF of the link.
I screwed the pooch.
Wait, isn’t that Jennifer?
Since I SF’ed the link, I suppose you can step on my joke.
The patriarchy wins again! A man can spread peanut butter on his dick and let the dog lick it off and nobody cares. But a woman fucks that dog one time…
Okay so while not cool, do they need a warrant to search the phone, or does this fall under the penumbra of “probable cause”? Because I’m not sure what the phone has to do with the domestic disturbance call.
Also – did the husband film the video using the phone?
See this is the part that bothers me. The guy obviously coerced or at the very least tolerated her fucking the dog, but the moment he’s in the back of that car he’s like “I’ll show that bitch!” and squeals on her just to spite her. He should be charged as well since he’s aiding and abetting ‘animal cruelty’. Btw animal cruelty for letting a dog fuck you is pants on head retarded.
The Supremes addressed this recently. Cops have to get a warrant.
Indiegogo campaign of the week: Lego sticky tape
An Irish song for Humungus to test his system and speakers with.
A traditional Irish celebration (NSFW)
I only have little B&W Matrix 805s right now – the UREI 813As got sold when I moved 🙁
I generally loathe most “Celtic Woman” style music, but that song gets me right in the gut, every time. Mary Black’s voice is phenomenal.
I’m beginning to rethink my position on No Irish Allowed.
The Other Site’s comments now have regular discussions between Tony, Hihn and Mary/Kizone/whatever.
It is truly a sight to behold.
But what happened? I mean did some people leaving encouraged them or are they just more visible?
Both. Kizone’s there because in her mentally unbalanced mind this is ‘her victory’. Also, there is less people, but now one of the most prominent is John, who’s really, really easy to troll.
“We’ve done the analytics, and outside of the basement troll demographic, our greatest number of visits are from partially literate people looking for dried fruit. We have been looking into the cross-promotional possibilities presented by the latter group.”
Pretty much. Every single comment section now has Mary/Tulpa/whoever baiting John, John hitting on the bait like a blue marlin, and the ensuing shit-flinging match. It’s pathetic.
Nature abhors a vacuum.
I went over yesterday reading the comments on Nick’s article about the giving tree. It was John and Hail Taxes going at it, and a bunch of people I’ve never seen before, split on which of the two was the real troll. I know John was annoying, but he was no troll like Hail Rataxes. But now no one knows what to think over there.
And it’s all Fist, Crusty and Sevo trying to defend the castle.
Hinh seems to be popping up with much greater frequency.
He senses victory, having purified Reason’s server of faux libertarians,
The Paulistas have been owned. Aggression in response to aggression is justified.
Your words are aggression BULLY!
*snicker*
This thread is triggering me! Now I have to go join a death cult.
Also, the fuck happened to HazelMeade? I remember he being way more balanced, but now everything is about how everyone’s secretly racist or sexist. She makes OldMexican’s TDS seem mild.
I’m really struck by how bilious the comments section is over there now, and how much more bearable it is over here. There’s a certain generosity and giving the benefit of the doubt you get once you drop all the trolls.
This – I don’t harbor any secret grudges now… ok a few. Looking at you – no, not you – that short guy in the back of the room.
*looks down, kicks pebble*
Well said. I cruise over there now and again, but, frankly, the articles and the commentariat here are vastly, vastly superior. And not having to wade through troll noise is a huge plus.
This is why I have left. I am sometimes in the mood to tweak Hihn or one of the trolls and have a little shadenfreude fun, but mostly I want to read interesting comments and respond when the mood takes me. I don’t particularly enjoy spending time watching trolls and idiots talk past each other. And the writers seem to have a particularly virulent case of TDS. Trump is not the second coming of Von Mises, but he has certainly shown at least a few glimmers of proliberty action in his first days in office, which is something no President since Reagan has shown. There is more chance of a libertarian moment now than ever under Obama, but the Libertarian Moment brigade is running around screaming that the sky is falling.
I think they are horrified that their conviction that libertarianism as a political movement was on the verge of a breakout were falsified. Massie was right – people voted for Ron Paul not because he promoted freedom, but because he promised to kick the people they hated out of power. They voted for Trump for a similar reason. A lot of the writers for Reason are shocked to discover that a large number of the people they counted as supporting freedom turned out to not be very interested in it at all. And they are lashing out in anger.
Political Freedom will come only as a byproduct of a cultural embrace of freedom – i.e. a culture where people learn to respect each other and their property. Reason has put its emphasis in the wrong area.
I think maybe that’s a little off.
Its not that “people don’t support freedom”. Most people do – its just that they also =
1) consider “National Security” an essential part of “freedom”, and
2) think the doctrinaire-libertarian embrace of illegal immigration as an unmitigated good is ridiculous
I’ve said many times in the recent past that the Reason-brand libertarianism seems to have a confused mandate
If the goal is to “expand the libertarian tent”, then there should be an honest attempt at identifying “Who is the most ripe to pull in?”
– i.e.. who is *closest* that we can pull inside the tent? and what are the issues they balk at?
and if you’re going to compromise your principles/water-down your doctrinaire libertarian view, you would have to compromise the principles that serve the purpose of getting those borderline people in.
Instead, it seems like Reason focuses on the people who are NEVER going to ever become libertarians, and share no core ideas at all…. and instead compromises their principles in order to merely make libertarian ideas *seem less offense and less like their natural-enemies*. Lefties are never going to ‘expand the tent’- but at least they won’t want to burn it down!
It just seems like the mandate of the magazine is confused. It seems to superficially aim to be about ‘outreach’, but in practice seems more to be about ‘beating libertarian ideas into a shape that is less offensive to its enemies.
that’s maybe nice if your goal is to merely get the occasional nod as “one of the good ones” from the MSM – not “hated and derided”, and instead merely chided as “irrelevant kooks”.
I think because they thought that was all that was left.
I think they thought that the populist right died with the discrediting of the neo-cons. Never mind that the neo-cons only ally with the populists occasionally and by accident.
They really thought there were two ideologies left to fight for control of the political system; the progressives and the libertarians. The so-cons, they concluded, will lose more influence with each passing year. They felt that the national security types have no animating ideology to rebut. As to the Chamber of Commerce big-business/big-government types, they would never dominate anything but would seek to partner with more ideological factions in exchange for some tax breaks, subsidies, or beneficial regulation.
So, all they needed to do was kill the progressive left, and all the starry-eyed idealists would vote LP!!!!
That’s why they put so much emphasis on promoting Gary Johnson – and Matt Welch got all pissy when I asked why they had most of their reporters following the guy around when only one would suffice.
I agree 100% with your assessment that they are engaged in something utterly futile. The progressives really don’t care about making people’s lives better. The progressives aren’t going to be convinced by the leveling effect of the market which raises the prosperity of the poor much more so than the wealthy. In my experience, progressives are primarily animated by hatred of the haves and by their desire to be deciding who gets what.
You could show progressives utter proof that freedom will help those less well-off, irrefutible, penned by the Angel Michael in their presence, and they will not abandon their love of coersive distribution and the carceral state.
That doesn’t mean people shouldn’t try to convince them to come over to our side. Walter Block, for example started out as a socialist who attended a lecture by Ayn Rand for the purpose of booing and hissing at her, and ended up being converted away from socialism by the experience.
So that Reason decided to make such rare conversions a priority doesn’t bother me very much. What really bothered me was that they are doing it in a very unrigorous and easily rebutted manner. For example, their attempt to promote open borders (and I say this as an open-borders extremist) was utterly hamfisted and counter-productive. Denying reality (that some immigrants are socially less beneficial than others, that some immigrants actually are socially injurious, that some immigrants are nasty people) only weakens one’s case. And their defenses were additionally weakened by their desperate desire to keep themselves in some Overton window of responsibility. This is not how people who believe in what they espouse act. This is not the product of someone who is confident in their political judgments.
Moreover, their coverage has gotten so shallow as to be an embarrassment. Consider Ron Bailey’s coverage of the #ExxonKnew movement. Every article, he’d leave out material facts. I actually bookmarked a comment I made in one of his early articles for the sole purpose of copying it into every article he wrote on the subject so that people wouldn’t be misinformed. I suspect he hoped that by soft-pedaling his argument, keeping stuff out of them, he could stay respectably within the pale (kind of like some writer discussing the failures of Lysenkoism pretending that Lysenkosim is a credible scientific theory in order to say in the good graces of the Komissars.
I stopped trusting anything they wrote that hadn’t been vetted by the commentariat. And that, more than their focus on the wrong targets of conversion is what pisses me off.
A glance at the people who supported Ron Paul, then Bernie Sanders, then Gary Johnson should have been enough to falsify the idea that support for Paul was support for libertarianism. That progression was a common one in my experience.
Hazel’s been trending that way for a long time. Trump just put the process in overdrive.
It flows down from the writers. Nick has a terminal case of TDS. His response to a proposed budget with real cuts to government agencies in my lifetime was basically “Trump sucks”.
No shit. The response should be jumping up on the parapets and screaming “More! More! More!” with articles laying out where to cut deeper.
Like a tag-team version of Crossfire, but manned with retards?
You still visit there? The only time I’ve gone over there the last few weeks is for Stossel’s articles.
What better way to celebrate a bunch of fenians than getting drunk and not working?
If I owned anything orange, I’d be wearing it today
What better way to celebrate a bunch of fenians
Hanging the lot of them?
(Canadians are touchy about Fenian assholes)
Quebecers shrug.
Of course, them and the Guineas are all in on the Papist conspiracy obviously.
Popish plots abound. Click my username for automatic enrollment in my newsletter and online zine about the subject
Since my ancestry is Irish AND Italian, I’m very well placed in Project Pointy Hat, and let me assure you – we’re going to get your ass.
We McWops disavow Nick Gillespie, though.
Since my ancestry is Irish AND Italian
You poor soul. I’ll be praying you get the least awful hell
They’re not the Mounties, IIRC
(Canadians are touchy about Fenian assholes)
Phrasing?
My hatred of the Irish has nothing to do with me being dumped by a fine Fenian ass, I assure you.
*quietly fumes*
LLNL Atmospheric Nuclear Tests
Declassified Nuclear Tests uploaded to youtube
That shit is just horrifying. At least we have a government that is stirring up hornets’ nests around the world.
Some of them are oddly beautiful, like that last Operation Teapot one.
So is the sun, but I don’t care what the song says, I don’t want to walk on it’s surface.
Maybe already linked, but it’s so crazy have another look: Socialist Venezuela Now Targeting Bakeries With Absurd Regulations
Like their other programs, this is just to make sure that the food is equitably distributed to the people*.
* So long as they support Maduro
To be fair, baking is really complicated. It makes sense you would need a whole government apparatus to help you do it right.
Hence why the rise of bread in history coincides with the rise of the state. Little known fact but another, holier, title for the Pharaoh was “the Most High and Holy Baker”.
Economics of scale for mills and ovens, plus a stationary infrastructure base and higher concrentrations of people.
Venezuelan MREs.
I am at a loss as to why they don’t have a revolt/coup/revolution.
I imagine they eventually will. We like to think we would in those circumstances, but with mouths to feed it’s tempting to just hang low and hope it blows over peacefully. Of course it won’t, but hope is a misleading bastard. See election 2008.
I too am at a loss. Maybe they’ll end up the North Korea of South America.
Because all of the people who can think and solve problems have left the country. They are headed down the road to mass graves at full steam. Oh good we get to see another politically fueled mass murder in our lifetimes and once again it is the usual suspects.
I think Suthenboy is right. The only smart and crafty folks left are those that profit/benefit from the way things are.
Dang, I get to use the line again …
I, Bread.
In other news, the Vice President of the Philippines is about to be summarily killed by police for drug trafficking.
What is the history of the drug war there? My hunch is that whatever it was, America played a massive role in kicking it into overdrive. Then acts shocked when some strongman gets in charge doing this shit.
GO FUCK YOURSELF TONY AVELLA YOU PIECE OF SHIT. Go out and get a real fucken job you jerk off.
I APPROVED THIS MESSAGE.
Drunk already, Rufus?
I almost respect the guy for coming up with a bill that unconstitutional. It takes a certain kind of talent to do that.
After “Campaign Finance Reform” I trust the judiciary not at all. Things like this abomination need to be squashed before they ever even come up for a vote.
I’M DRUNK ON FREEDOM.
Beer? Liquor? Esoteric concept a lot of people fail to grasp?
gunpowder, duh.
I am greatly disturbed by Rufus holding the top spot in the bracket challenge. It’s a day of national shame when a Canukistani is beating us at our national pastime.
The luck of the Canadian?
And the receptionist, who doesn’t watch college basketball and who asked me if I was picking Syracuse to win it all *sob* is leading the one at work.
The less you know about college basketball the better you usually are at brackets.
True, since they’re less likely to feel compelled to pick some crazy upsets. Yesterday was chalky as hell – the only “upsets” were Xavier and MTSU. MTSU was actually the betting favorite because Minnesota was ludicrously overseeded, and Maryland has been trending down for weeks. Xavier beating them is no real surprise.
Yeah, I fell for Vermont and Florida Gulf Coast in a couple brackets. Close, but no cigar.
Also, Vandy screwed me in my work bracket or I’d be perfect there.
Vandy, the most academically prestigious school in the SEC, lost because they committed an astoundingly bone headed foul to send one of the best free throw shooters in the big ten to the line with 17 seconds left.
I KNOW.
Litigation?
Score.
Frivolous Litigation.
Maple syrup makes you good at picking badketball games.
Then you must also be eating pancakes every morning. Your picks were solid. I believe only VCU let you down?
Barbra Streisand’s picks must be dynamite then.
Fucking VCU…..my hometown boys waited until the second half to start playing, thus losing to the goofiest looking team in D-I history.
Carytown and Jackson Ward probably looks like a war zone after the game last night.
Of course they probably looked like a war zone before the game last night too.
The
freaksstudents will be mopier than ever now.The question is, who else got a vasectomy this year to watch the games?
You SHOULD be ashamed.
Well, we do regularly beat the Canadians in hockey.
Ahem, last I checked Team Canada still dominates not by a bit…by a lot world hockey. For now anyway.
/swings stick. Elbows JD in the head. Bites ear.
We’ve won a few of the U20 junior championships lately, though.
Lord Stanley just points and laughs.
If it wasn’t for the NHL throwing the canucks a bone and letting them have the HHOF in Toronto, Canadian boys wouldn’t even know what the cup looks like.
WARNING SOCCER BALL TALK:
Atletico is no pushover obviously, but LC had another decent draw in champions. Pretty goo match-ups all around.
Bayern-Real Madrid and Juve-Barca should be good.
Dortmund and Monaco too, two young teams that are fun to watch.
Since I watch mostly PL, I would like to see LC keep winning, but I think this is probably it for them and Atletico wins comfortably (4-0 agg).
Juve hopes Barca spent their energy in that game against PSG.
Man, those big four teams really got it good.
Well, Arsenal always tries to walk it in. That is my expertise when it comes to sportsball.
+1 Did you see that ludicrous display last night?
I would not want to play Atletico. They play like Simeone did. Very hard to play against that. The team best suited to adapt to that style is Juventus and Bayern. Atletico got a favourable draw.
What? It’s an “Irish tune,” isn’t it?
You know, there’s an Irish song linked at the top of the page. And a bunch of stories too!
Is everyone wearing Orange today?
I didnt, this year, too cold and my only orange shirt is short sleeves.
Being Protestant Irish, I would – but I don’t own any.
You could wear a orange sash and a bowler hat as you parade jeeringly through Catholic neighborhoods.
The papists around here are Italians…
I don’t own any, due to the possible confusion of being associated with the University of Tennessee, but I plan on throwing away a perfectly good potato later
My dad was always big on wearing orange today, but I went with the dynamic grey shirt over jeans.
*glances down at grey shirt and jeans*
*momentary identity confusion*
Orange doesn’t mean the same thing in the U.S. as in the Old Country.
So: teacher funding, budget, and all that: I get to participate in my school district’s “advisory council.” It’s sort of like a link between the board of education, and the parents, school administrators, etc. Earlier this week I attended the last meeting, where I learned that 1. we (a fairly wealthy district, but not in the top 1% of the state) have a budget deficit every year since 2012, which we are working to shorten 2. the deficit is/was caused by the slanted way in which the State of Michigan configures per-pupil spending (slanted to help less affluent districts), the economic downturn of 2008, and the fact that a huge chunk of the budget is used to fund the retirement system (also declining birthrates, the amount of schools of choice students, etc, but those are minor comparatively speaking).
I had no idea that the amount spent on retirement was so large.
Anyway, during the meeting I heard an administrator (president of the board of education, actually) bemoan the fact that “in our county alone 10,000 students attend charter schools” where there is no forced participation in the retirement system. In other words, the charter schools have their own 401k or whatever, and can’t be made to contribute to the retirement system. And then she proceeded to infer, given that amount, consider state-wide what the loss of these students means to the overall budgets of all state education systems?
The libertarian in me wanted to say, why can’t we just make our who district separate from the state, and work it out that way? Which I guess would mean making the district private. But there are two (or three) parochial systems in the area, which function fairly well with tuition-only participation. I checked online today, and the tuition at my former high school (I am partly a product of private schools) is just under $9,500 per year. I don’t think that’s outrageous, given the quality of education the parents want to provide.
Given time, I could further flesh this out, etc. but I am strapped for time today!
You didn’t stand up and say “fuck you, cut spending”? I am disappointed.
You are a brave woman, Elspeth. Do be sure to make a record, even if it’s just a written one, of statements like the one by the BoE person. School boards are merely a stepping stone for people who aspire to higher office.
“In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.” – Mark Twain
And then she proceeded to infer, given that amount, consider state-wide what the loss of these students means to the overall budgets of all state education systems?
Sounds like she sees students as meat-based funding units, whose real purpose is to fatten up the budget. I would infer that the idea that, when you have fewer students, you shouldn’t need to spend as much, has never crossed her mind. Perhaps one might look at the fixed costs of the system and start identifying those that can be dispensed with? Nah, that’s crazy talk.
And damn those people who don’t work for the state, not being forced into the state retirement program so they can fund it now, never mind that increasing the number of participants just increases the amount of funding it will need later.
Part of the budget discussion also addressed which cuts had been taken since 2012, which was fairly lengthy. For which part of the deficit, a local schools foundation has stepped up their game. So cuts have been made, etc. etc. I will give our district credit, they are very transparent, and anyone can participate in this advisory council if they choose.
Are they cutting the rates of pay too, or just select positions? Unless it’s the single outlier, I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that the ratio of teachers to non-teaching staff is lower than 30 years ago and the ratio of actual classroom teaching hours to overall total district wide labor hours is lower still.
Sláinte agus táinte, you lovely fiends!
Here’s an interesting article from Vox with the incredible declaration that progressive policies are not a winning strategy!
http://www.vox.com/world/2017/3/13/14698812/bernie-trump-corbyn-left-wing-populism
Of course they attribute it to racism by well-to-do plumbers and shop owners.
But being obnoxious shits, and publishing ‘explainers’ is? Maybe Vox should rethink itself.
There is no issue so complex that it can’t be thoroughly explained to me by some vapid 25 year old with little to none real life experience who holds the awesome title of PoliSci BA holder.
And, SPOILER ALERT – the article concludes that racism is the root cause. Of course.
some vapid 25 year old with little to none real life experience who holds the awesome title of PoliSci BA holder.
Hey now…some of us have real life experience. We just don’t write for Vox.
Thanks for standing up for me! 25 year olds unite!!
*Sees crowd of Bernie Bros and fellow millennials*
Well this is awkward…
Damn plumbers and their KKK robes! I always feel sorry for their wives having to get all those stains out of the white fabric.
Kulaks?
A legion of
commentators and politicianscomplete morons,…“PROG HARDER” has become the rallying cry amongst the the hardline progressives.
One downside of Clinton losing is that the Bernie Bros are playing alternate history fantasy games where Bernie OBVIOUSLY would have beaten Trump and the only reason why people didn’t like Clinton is because she was a corrupt Wall Street stooge. Yep, those eight years of Obama had no influence on the election whatsoever.
The average person shares some of the blame for giving into their game of inches strategy for decades. As soon as they rolled out the class, race and sex bating tactics and used them to get free shit, the people should’ve told them to go fuck themselves immediately. That’s why free speech is such a threat to them.
This is why I think things will continue to get worse. The narrative is never wrong and they only care about their goals.
Alice Anil is a good example of this. She somehow manages to correctly analyze most of the strategic blunders the Democrats made, but then immediately starts talking about how the answer is a TRUE PROGRESSIVE movement that is obviously represented by Bernie. It could never be that your ideology is wrong or misguided, or that the open elitism and disdain is a product of it (“Don’t call people who disagree with you racists, but we do have to have a conversation about race.” What do you expect the outcome of that to be Anil?).
And of course “conversation” means “shut up and listen while we explain to you how racist you are”.
Words mean things, and they are very good at twisting.
And the media cannot be trusted. Look at today’s Columbus Dispatch. Front pager about Trump’s budget and how the cuts would “hurt” Ohio. Not labeled an Op-Ed at all, the story continues with how it is now “under siege”
Just think if CNN ran nothing but stories about the $20 trillion debt day after day for the past 8 years how that would shape people’s approach to bigger government.
That’s a downside?
Let the lefties squabble.
It’s a downside if they pull their shit together and you now have to deal with a hard left Stalinist party instead of just the shitbag, soft left elitists that are the Democrats now.
Exactly.
We should be glad they pare down their base so much. They’ve already lost a huge chunk of would-be sympaticos to Trump populism. Bernie’s a lot like Ron Paul: he’s terrific unless you have to listen to him speak, which unfortunately is a necessary component of political evangelism. He has a ton of followers who vibe to his tone but can’t explain his message with any fidelity. And he’s having to work with a party obsessed with Chelsea Clinton, doubling down on identity politics with the likes of Keith Ellison and Lizzy Warren, reinstating windbags like Nancy Pelosi, and staging pussy protests. They’re not pulling shit together so much as covering themselves in it and running around screeching autistically. It’s beyond pathetic.
I doubt that would go over very well with the public. A hard left stalinist party would pull the curtain back and probably turn off a lot of left of center people. The left would end up crawling back into the shadows. They cant move into the next stage of the glorious pinko revolution with public struggle sessions, purges, riots, and organized Lenin style intimidation here for one simple reason.
The Second Amendment.
They are kind of stuck in this shitbag, soft left elitist limbo.
No think we need more political division in society. Not enough people are being killed in the streets over these things.
That article still manages to pull epic-stupid conclusions from a very simple and correct observation. IOW, “Vox”
Among them are that “the reason Europe has a high-standard of living is their welfare state” (rather than the fact that they’re ‘european’ to begin with)
That people are only racist because they have the material comfort ‘freeing’ them to worry about race. In his words , “” the European left is the victim of its own success.”” Socialism made everyone so rich that they suddenly became free to be racist! Never mind that whole “inevitable fiscal implosion” thing looming around the corner….
He sees everything in either/or terms, an all-encompassing dichotomy where where Proggyism is constantly waging against “Right-wing” stuff failing to take into account that there’s lots of stuff outside that spectrum, and lots of stuff overlapping both. Basically he’s a moron who tries to rationalize everything into an idiotic Left/Right paradigm and fails to recognize that stuff like “culture” matter, that there’s no common EU identity holding the mess together, and that mere standard of living is not a measure of economic security = because when the future looks worse than the past, it doesn’t matter what your current status is.
Basically he breaks his arm patting the left on the back for “economic success”, and thinks there’s absolutely nothing for the Left to question itself about there, despite the entire EU being only a few years past the most severe economic crisis of its life.
Oh, and his analysis of the US is even dumber than Europe’s. The only reason the white working class isn’t socialist is because they’re racists.
Never mind that the black + hispanic working class don’t really buy your proggy bullshit either, and mostly vote blue because of local loyalties.
Of course, the EU doesn’t have all that high a standard of living. EU GDP per capita runs about $35K. US GDP per capita runs about $56K.
He starts his piece with,
by which he means, “if you ignore wealth, and throw lots of other cherry-picked statistics like spaghetti at a wall”, MOST favor the EU.
This article clarifies that form of argument
Nowhere is there any measure of ‘opportunity’ or ‘mobility’ of course. The way they choose their measurements weight “stability”, “sustainability”, “equality”
it basically presumes that a narrower gap between rich and poor is inherently better, and greater ‘stability’ is favored. It also milks huge amounts of its claims for economic benefits from the rapid improvement of the Eastern European countries which improved dramatically after the fall of the berlin wall.
Or – they lack the US proggy wizardry with statistical/rhetorical mendaciousness. or they don’t need to go to such lengths because they don’t have a skeptical audience to begin with.
BTW – that’s become something of a gimmick i’ve seen more often = the “misleading”-via-indexing-of-data
Instead of picking your individual metrics, and comparing them, they will bundle metrics into some form of composite so that the constituent parts are no longer being compared; the actual underlying definitions of what the # (the index score) MEANS is obfuscated.
Its sort of how the “97% of scientists Agree” re: Climate Change got created. The meta-study which produced that number was not actually measuring 100s of people being asked one question; it was bundling lots of different climate studies together and measuring them based on whether they presumed “climate change is happening” (at all) and whether human activity plays ANY role (turning what was a diverse range of opinion on ‘how much’ that role matters into a binary YES/NO question)
Basically, the method is to “Bury the details in the stew” ; force people into talking about the “stew” as though it is the common term of debate.
The knives are already out for the Mayo Clinic.
So now the po folk who are on the dole are Piper’s “members”. Right.
Bonus points for Piper looking just like you thought she would.
*clears throat*
“Bite my ass, Piper.”
DONT READ THE COMMENTS.
Learn from the mistakes of others, primarily ME.
I’d Piper
With a length of wrought iron, maybe.
She’s not wearing a kilt and a Hot Rod T-shirt.
There are a surprising number of comments bucking back against the derp, actually.
Suderman was right. The scales have fallen from my eyes. Perusing the NYT has shown me that der Trump is going to round up all the artists and put them in forced labor camps. Henceforth, artistic renderings of any type will be verboten.
Oh, the humanity!
If only the artists hasn’t painted Trump with small hands! He would be merciful!
Music of an Irish slant.
DRINK!
I was expecting a Chinaman dressed as a leprechaun playing a fiddle.
*narrows gaze*
The Mayo Clinic will give a preference to privately insured patients over those on Medicaid and Medicare. Gee, maybe they like to be paid on time and at a rate which allows them to provide a return commensurate with their level of service and which will aid their research.
Next thing you know, banks will want to restrict their lending to people who can pay them back.
And zod knows where that could lead.
To this day, every time I see a reference to the Mayo Clinic, I have to think of Airplane! when Captain Over is talking to a doctor at the Mayo Clinic:
“Captain, I have a Mr. Hamm for you on line 5”
“All right, give me Hamm on 5, hold the Mayo”
One of my family members is a dentist. She refuses to deal with Medicare/Medicaid patients. They never show up for their appointments on time.
She still treats poor people, she just mostly works it out it in trade. It’s not a setup for a porn film. Sometimes a dog walker needs dental care. She has a dog, they have a service, solution reached.
Does that make her a wrecker or a kulak?
Wrecker. Unless someone needs a quick wealth confiscation – then kulak.
Don’t limit yourself. Both!
Ron Paul did the same. Didn’t take medicare/medicaid (well, I doubt many on medicare needed a baby delivered). He used to talk about getting a load of shrimp as payment.
a Chinaman dressed as a leprechaun playing a fiddle.
It’s out there somewhere.
… worst case, it’s gonna be as a result of Rule #34
Or best case, hmmm?
Get up and out of bed!
Y’all know who Vegan Gains is, right? Well, he finally went full psycho.
Yeah, I’m lovin’ it.
Internet Tuff gai flags camera, shows his gat is airsoft
Thank you, Sloopy. That is true Irish music.
Here’s a fun one.
I’m really struck by how bilious the comments section is over there now, and how much more bearable it is over here.
this
Bloomberg infographic breaking down the impact of Trump Budget on alphabet agencies.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-trump-budget/
For those of you who don’t like too many words to intrude on their morning.
Those potato-eaters sure must have a lot of money at their disposal. What other way to explain them throwing $110,000,000 on the HP campus in Boise and moving their offices there? I guess they’ll finally be able to stop working from libraries, Starbucks’s and anywhere else that has free WiFi and doesn’t cost anything.
If you work off the presumption that state workers need state office space, this deal appears to save money over the status quo:
“The state leases more than 800,000 square feet of office and warehouse space in Ada County at an annual cost of $12.2 million, the governor’s office said. The HP property would give the state roughly twice as much space. It includes eight buildings with about 1.3 million square feet of office space and 200,000 square feet of warehouse space.
HP would lease back more than half the office space for an initial seven-year term.”
You take the $12.2 million they’re paying annually now, add what they’d get each year from HP from the leaseback, and you get to $110 million plus renovation costs pretty quick, maybe 6 years or so, at which point their leasing costs effectively drop to zero.
You assume they’re not tied into leases and can walk away without notice. You’re also assuming their estimates for rehab costs, relocation costs, maintenance costs and any other costs are accurate.
What they should be doing is going through public records to find out which commercial leases have been unoccupied the longest and then offering 10¢ on the dollar for them. Sorry that wouldn’t let them have a huge campus and look impressive, but it’d save a shitload of money.
I fucking hate Purple Rain. What’s the deal with Prince? Tons of hits, legitimately great songs, and then this dreck. Eugh. May as well be a Jackson b-side.
Have I gone insane? Has the world gone insane? I’m googling around trying to salve my confirmation bias about how bad this song sucks, and there are a few voices of sanity out there, but we’re drowned out by people who seem to think there’s something redeeming about this awful track. What the hell? It’s not even worth deconstructing the wretched thing, it’s shit from front to back. It makes me reconsider even liking Prince as an artist, I’m so put out by the thing.
“Iconic” always sounds so much better than “Uninspired”
The only Prince song I truly like is “Raspberry Beret”. I sort of like “Diamonds and Pearls”, but it can get stuck in my head.
Reminds me of hanging out at the mall in my youth.
@the Zerohedge story…
…the comments manage to have 1 relatively neutral remark, before immediately diving into, “PEDOPHILE JEWS AMIRITE”
Is this ALSO a bunch of “Meme-Warriors” trolling the progs? What’s odd is that despite the chorus of antisemitism, only one person is called out for being a troll… a lefty troll….
Is it really the proper function of the federal government to provide day care services?
*This is not a rhetorical question.
They’ve been doing it for kids age 5-18 for some time. But no, I don’t think it is.
How else do you explain the legions of bureaucrats it employs? Adult daycare.
No, day care should be provided by the kids mom.
Only slightly related:
I was on another forum, and a commenter there described the local gym at which he worked. The gym provided child care for members, but the owners figured out that the child care was incurring a loss. so they cut that service.
They lost 100 members, and around $150,000 of annual revenue from gym membership dues and personal trainer fees, according to the commenter.
Sometimes spending that extra money to add value to a firm’s primary business is worth it.