Get up and out of bed. Even if you’ve got no particular place to go.
The father of rock-n-roll is dead.
Flying Home. 30 nations are refusing to take back illegals being deported after they commit serious crimes.
Why Should We End This Way? Is the Trump admin about to destroy the EPA?
Crazy Arms. North Korea tests high-thrust rocket engine. For their “space program”.
Bring Another Drink. Half of women drink while trying to get pregnant or shortly after conception but give it up once they know they’re with child. Yeah, maybe that’s because they’re normal, Vandy.
Go Bobbie Soxer. Cybersecurity companies hoping women are able to help fill a large number of the 1.8 million jobs they’re expecting. Because diversity is more important than competence.
Vaya Con Dios, Dominican Republic. The US is moving on to the semifinals of the WBC after eliminating our Caribbean friends.
Have a great day everybody. Try not to play with your ding-a-ling all day.
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30 nations are refusing to take back illegals
Deport them all to Mexico
Skimming the article I did not see a list of articles, but I assume they are poor countries that receive foreign aid from the US. How about the US cut off their foreign aid, and dump the violent criminals on the countries door step.
Some are small nations but the PRC is on the list as well.
Thanks for recognizing articles should be countires ?
Is counting ires what you do during the airing of grievances?
For a while in the early 2000’s, Somalis couldn’t be deported because there was no govt to hand them over to.
A lot of Somalis took advantage of this loophole. They learned that if they weren’t violent, the system would do just about anything to keep from locking them up. Probation for a ton of them because we didn’t want to pay to lock them up.
Then when the deportation ban was gone, there were all sorts of sob stories about these burglars being deported for minor crimes. What was glossed over was that these guys had a lot of minor crimes on their jacket. They were just being reported for the first one though.
1. No visas for anyone in a country that refuses to take back illegals. 2. Make up temporary diplomatic passports that expire in (say) 24 hours. Fly them to their home country, take them to the US embassy, confiscate the passports, and them kick them out the front door.
Chuck Berry was a revelation to me. I think I was about 6 the first time I heard him. I had a friend named Nadine and her Dad played that record all the time.
We always drove to Florida on vacation and my parents never wanted to spend money on a hotel room. So I still have flashbacks of hearing Chuck Berry at full volume on the 8 track at 3 am with the windows down because dad was trying to stay awake somewhere in south Georgia on I-75.
The one time we drove to Florida on vacation, we stopped at our aunt’s house in North Carolina.
We were also campers; no hotel for us.
Soooo, guessing no….Chuck Berry?
Same here, we camped all the time. The time the car broke and we got to have a hotel room in Vernal, Utah is still the talk of my siblings almost 50 years later.
I repeated the same with my kids. The tent trailer got repeat flats in 1991 near Vernal, Utah. But after leaving me in the desert with the trailer, my wife found spare tires and we DID NOT spend a night in Vernal and camped in Dinosaur Nat. Monument like Triceratops demanded.
We had a blowout on I-15 out in the Mojave, and had to spend a day at the Ford dealership in Vegas getting it fixed.
Vegas by day was decidedly less glamorous than the pictures I had seen in the old World Book Encyclopedia.
Oh, and we stayed at Valley of Fire State Park, where I remember the water coming out of the outdoor taps hot.
Now that sounds like fun.
Needless to say, I didn’t get to do that. (I was six years old that trip.)
That reminds me of some Arizona desert camping that I did when I was 11-12. Fire ants! Everywhere Fire ants!
I didn’t realize fire ants had made it all the way out to Arizona.
You learn something new every day.
When I was a teenager my dad, my older sister, our two german shephards, her husband, my mother, my niece and my younger sister were on a road trip in New Mexico we took a detour that this creepy guy in a gas station suggested. We ran over a spike strip although we didn’t know at the time. My father treked back to the gas station he was kidnapped and that night he was burned alive in front of our trailer. While we were trying to put the fire out my younger sister was raped and my older sister and mother were shot in the trailer. My baby niece was kidnapped. My sister’s husband left my younger sister and I to save his daughter. Meanwhile my younger sister and I were attacked and I set up a booby trap that blew up the trailer killing the assailant. My brother in law soon returned with his daughter and we made our way to civilization.
I never went on a road trip again.
Ok, I’ll get off your lawn.
Has anyone ever been to the Florida Keys? I’m looking for a vacation place to snorkel/scuba + warm weather.
I went down to Puerto Rico last year and enjoyed myself – minus the heavy police presence and ahem, third world charm.
St Croix. Fuck the keys.
Also, where were you in PR? If you stayed in Condado or Isla Verde, that was your fatal error. You should go again but head out to Vieques. You’ll see more goats or chickens in the street than you will police cars.
We were at the Vanderbilt hotel at Condado – we rarely left the hotel at night because of the aggressive panhandlers.
“Would you help an American down on his luck?”
You done fucked up. Should have either done Vieques or you should have gone to the Luquillo hotels or to El Conquistador in Fajardo. (Where I used to live and work!)
Try again, only this time get out of that dangerous shithole called San Juan.
Yes, but not since I was a child.
The campgrounds are probably already booked solid for the summer.
Campgrounds? After a childhood of camping and hiking – often hauling our own gear for a 12 mile trek, I don’t camp. Nothing but hotels for me, preferably luxury with solid noise-reduction construction.
We did the childhood camping thing too, as I mentioned further upthread.
I’d rather rent a cabin out in the woods/mountains for a vacation. I still like the hiking thing.
I live about 30 miles from Mt. Magazine. It’s the highest peak between the Appalachians and the rockies. They have beautiful cabins you can rent on top of the mountain. A couple times a year we rent one. We will bring my side by side up there with us. There is something like 60 miles of trails that go all over the mountain. We will ride all day and spend the night in the cabin. it’s a lot of fun. there are some beautiful views from the top.
Where do you count the Rockies as beginning? Mt. Rushmore is much higher, as are peaks in Big Bend National Park in Texas.
I guess you are correct. I just looked it up, and you are right. Everyone around here has been telling me that since I was a little kid and I never bothered to look it up. Hmm.
in fact I can remember being taught that in Arkansas History class in the 5th grade. Fucking Public schools
I said St Croix because you can do the wall dive right off the beach at the Westin Carambola beach resort. At least you could 19 years ago when I did it.
I lived in Key West back in the early 90’s. I went down there a few years ago for a day trip in my rental car. It was so crowded I did not recognize the place. I would not choose the keys for a vacation.
If I had the means, and wanted snorkeling/diving, I would do a catamaran charter in the Caribbean. St John, St Croix, Tortola maybe. They will know the good spots, and depending on how much you spend, some proper pampering and good eats and libations.
If my life had turned out as I had it planned, I would say you could charter my boat. But it didn’t.
Been awhile, but Tortola is/was great. Small enough to not be touristy, and the original home of Pusser’s Rum.
John pennekamp state park in largo is great snorkelling. Also, Bahia Honda park. If you get all the way to key West take that cat to the dry Tortuga’s. Be sure to grab a beer at The Porch on Duval.
The Dry Tortugas does have some decent snorkeling. The fort is interesting too. You just have to deal with the madness that is now Key West.
If the ideologues prevail, there is the very real possibility that the EPA will be functionally eliminated.
What exactly is their ideology?
Smaller, less-intrusive government.
Which is worse than Hitler apparently.
Oh, and rule of law and process. Which are also worse than Hitler.
Uh-huh, because Stalin was so much better than Hitler. Fucking slavers.
Poor people should die for the profit of the rich i presume
If by “rich” you mean “government”, then it’s already happening.
Growth for the sake of growth. You know, like a cancer cell.
The EPA is yet another text book example of an agency that was established for one reason and instead of declaring victory kept looking for reasons to expand.
The most cancerous of all? Public health.
Also note that Pruit likens the EPA to the IRS, but the author describes the EPA as “still popular with Americans, [and] with Republican donors”
No doubt when pushes comes to shoves that many if not most Americans would be aghast to learn the EPA was being eliminated, but some good PR would go a long way in showing Americans how detrimental to their lives the EPA is especially regarding cars. Cars are a basic and essential part of nearly all Americans lives. Showing that the new CAFE standards would essentially eliminate their ability to afford a new car would defeinitly push Americans to welcome the agency’s demise or curtailment.
Highlighting some emotional stories like the damn smelt story in CA, and bringing out some people whose lives the EPA is destroying through litigation just because they want to alter some waterway on their land would be good moves too.
Or the flooding a river in (Colorado?) with toxic mining waste.
The King Gold Mine is just about the most egregious example of an unpunished EPA bungle that I can think of.
The contractor that pulled that off is still a favored EPA contractor. It is zero liability all the way down.
The last I heard/read about the case, EPA hadn’t even apologised or admitted wrongdoing. Of course, it wouldn’t be a rational act from a legal point of view to admit wrongdoing this early.
Yeah, this.
I can remember signing the contract to liquidate an almond farmer’s entire list of assets because he couldn’t get water for a third year. The man sat there and cried as his family orchard (for nearly 100 years) went BK because of the EPA’s water diversion scheme.
Anyone ever read Unintended Consequences? I think on it often.
Foreseeable consequences are not unitended.
If that was in CA, I may temper my sympathy. Stupid fucking farmers planting the most water intensive crops in fucking DESERTS? All because Uncle Sugar was delivering virtually free water.
If it was in the valley (especially up by Stockton) if might not have been totally stupid of them. The Delta’s right there and most of the almond farmers I knew when I lived there got their water from the Delta. Especially when this orchard was established (100 years ago), it probably was not on the farmers’ radar that California was going to get as out-of-control huge as it has, or that their access to this big-ass water source was going to get restricted for a fish no one cares about.
Just looked at the time stamp and realized I was commenting on the AM links, not the PM ones. Oh well. The midnight lurker strikes again.
It doesn’t need to be a waterway on your land, it can be a temporary wet spot unconnected to any waterway.
Remember the EPA also has gone after lawnmowers and essentially killed the 2-stroke outboard. Plus there is this little matter of the Animas River.
But millions will die from the toxic CO2 emissions.
Direct quote from coworker, “We are only going to have sewage to drink if Trump gets his way “
Well obviously! Only government knows how to handle water. It’s not like they would coverup a toxic waste spill on a major river, or lead poisoning in our water pipes. These are all things nasty corporations do. And since they have the money you couldn’t even sue them. /Progderp
(Seriously the most tragic part of Flint Michigan is sovereign immunity keeps the people of Flint from getting Justice, but that is totally overlooked)
Every progtard that brings that up gets a one-word response: Flint.
That was some R’s fault!!1!1
It’s amazing how far and broad assumptions about what EPA actually does, based on the naming of the agency alone. Most people seem to not be aware that every state has its own State-level agency dedicated to environmental matters.
A few weeks ago, I had lunch with a guy that blew the balance of the inheritance from his grandfather on a MBA in something like Environmental Management. He talked about wanting to apply for a position in hazardous waste management for our State agency, and was concerned that this job would be put in jeopardy, with the line of reasoning being that Pruitt was going to something something defund EPA. The only sense you get is the cartoonish characterisation of Pruitt wanting to dump hazardous waste into the environment because reasons.
I pressed him on this very basic reaction: why would decreased funding to the Federal EPA impact the State agency? Even if the moustache-twirling defunding of hazardous waste programmes at EPA were to happen (ha!), shouldn’t the effect at the State agency range anywhere from neutral to increased footprint at the State level? He agreed.
Our state’s version has fucked up a couple of cases of town water supplies being contaminated, but there aren’t calls for heads to roll because the administration is deep blue. Tgat, and it’s the businesses’ fault.
EPA sends a lot of funding to state agencies via grants and so forth. In my neck of the woods, it might filter down to the Chesapeake Bay Program, where easily half the funding is from the EPA. A lot of state and non-profits get money from EPA to pay salaries of people they send to work on behalf of the CBP, so it does trickle down. Mind you, it just means that people have to make decisions about how much they value those jobs and whether results they’re seeing would be worth assuming the cost themselves.
I agree. In this case, I really don’t think that hazardous materials disposal programmes here in the state are in any particular danger either way. My expectation would be a net neutral effect in those terms, even if the Federal EPA was dissolved today.
Well, the overt ideology is that without a federal bureaucracy overseeing anything connected to the environment (and what isn’t, btw?) wealthy industrialists will cause an environmental catastrophe, the air will be carcinogenic smog, the water will be toxic sludge, and we’ll terraform the Earth into Venus via immoral greed. Lying just slightly beneath the surface is the dread that one feels when one is paid a handsome sum of money for a job that, when pressed, one is unable to tie into any kind of positive, valuable outcome. If your job title is something like Diversity and Inclusion Program Coordinator and you hear that budget cuts are coming, you start to feel a little uncomfortable.
In a just world, when the “Diversity and Inclusion” person reads of budget cuts they hear a loud rumble. When they get up from their seat and look out the window they see a boisterous crowd with an idling woodchipper and rail on the shoulders of men. In between is a sign that says “Choose”.
The World Boxing Council has semifinals?
Yes, and even I don’t care.
Teams must fill boxes of varying sizes and shapes with an assortment of items within a specified time period. While timed, the contests are judged more on the amount of “free space” in packed boxes (less is better), and the aesthetic appearance of the items packed.
The trophy is usually passed back and forth between the Germans and the Brazillians, but, ironically, a couple of years ago the trophy itself was packed by mistake, and they’re having a deuce of a time finding it.
Relevant, but sorry for the terrible quality.
It was hard to choose just one string of choice derp from that article.
Then why choose just one?
OK, here’s another!
Guess which is which.
The pragmatists are the ones that will keep expanding the department’s reach and grow its budget every single year. And the ideologues are the ones willing to take a skeptical look at the agency to make sure the taxpayers are getting value for their money?
Am I right? Is that what he said?
You are wise to the ways of derp.
I’d just say [citation required] and watch him twist.
At the cocktail parties with all his bodies in DC the EPA is extremely popular, post hoc, ergo propter hoc, the EPA is still popular with Americans.
He has more than one body? Where are they buried? :-p
D’oh!
🙂
Most Americans like clean air! QE-fucking-D! :mic drop:
/progderp
How would I live without the EPA with their stringent mileage “guidelines” removing engines from a car lineup?
I mean instead of the silky smooth BMW inline-6, we get a more complicated turbocharged 4-cyl that sounds like a diesel.
How about the gas-can spouts?
I’ve argued elsewhere that the worst taxes are in fact not so much taxes, but regulations that serve as taxes on our time. So much of what the alphabet agencies do is this.
In theory you can make more marginal dollars; you can’t make more marginal time.
Don’t even start with the fuel jug spouts.
I’m so glad someone here linked to that company that sells the old ones.
Just buy cans intended for racing or “off-highway use.” The hose is a simple plastic tube.
That works as well. I had to just get the hoses to replace some of my epa nozzles.
Oops. SF’d the link:
https://smile.amazon.com/VP-Gallon-Square-Racing-Utility/dp/B00AVA2DJA/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1489944564&sr=8-5&keywords=fuel+jug
These are much cheaper and you can retrofit your existing can:
https://smile.amazon.com/Replacement-Spout-Water-Update-Your/dp/B00CYNDNM8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1489946502&sr=8-1-spons&keywords=gas+spout&psc=1
I’d say the first 10 words were derpy enough – when the clear answer is no.
I want to know what happened to Chuck Berry’s videos.
I’ll leave it to you wags to suss out the “female perspective on cybersecurity”.
The ladies are more concerned about their feelings on-line.
(This is why there are no female libertarians….)
“Two-factor authentication is hard!“
Using a Trojan to gain backdoor entry?
::slow clap::
All https addresses will now be displayed in pink to fight breast cancer.
Well, it was that hot Aussie broad who figured out the decepticons where hacking the military.
Overly-draconian laws over “revenge porn,” you idiots!
Hackers will always have access through Candy Crush.
North Korea is banned by
The United Nationsreality from conducting long-range missile tests,No free speech for transphobic pieces of s**t.
Useful. Idiots.
For now.
Check out the hysteria here. I might drop the NAP for a minute or so if I were that guy.
Or you could say it is self defense, no P violation required
I hav e been wondering about this lot. What the fuck are we going to do with them? They are brainwashed to only see things one way: everything is oppression from common pronouns to the hygiene of fictional characters. There is no way they can be satisfied. They simply wreck everything in front of them. They cant be productive, solve problems or function in any constructive way. This is very useful if you are trying to tear down society. If that were ever accomplished what do these idiots think will happen to them when the time comes to rebuild?
They truly are useful idiots in the old sense.
I think Zardoz has some sort of competition he is sponsoring.
Well, that would keep the Brutals’ numbers down.
If that were ever accomplished what do these idiots think will happen to them when the time comes to rebuild?
They can’t even… process that kind of thought. And in fairness, they shouldn’t bother trying – when they succeed in tearing down society they won’t live long enough to see what comes after. Which is the part that they really SHOULD think about.
Here- have a Sunday buffet of argument by assertion and personal anecdote.
Overall, Americans spend far more of their hard-earned money on health care than citizens of any other country, by a very wide margin. This means that it is in fact Americans who are getting a raw deal. Americans pay much more than people in other countries but do not get significantly better results.
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Many countries require employers and employees to contribute to the health care system through payroll taxes, more than the United States does. But again, Americans are paying far more for health care than anyone else, and America’s businesses are stuck managing this mess. It’s true that in countries with universal health care the cost of hiring a new employee can be significant, especially for a small employer. Yet these countries still have plenty of thriving businesses, with lower administrative burdens. It can be done.
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Americans today are paying vastly more in money, worry and hassle for the same, and sometimes worse, care than people in other wealthy capitalist democracies. Some Americans have coverage that serves them well, but judging by the current mood, the number of Americans who think the system needs to change is growing. No health care system is perfect. But in a nation that purports to champion freedom, the outdated disaster that is the United States health care system is taking that freedom away.
Defining your terms is for chumps. I suspect the claim “Americans pay lots and lots more than those fortunate Finns!” has more to do with the way costs are broken out and trackable. If the costs of health care are buried in the general tax pool, the Finns pay “nothing”. Also, if the government puts doctors on a salary, so they can be freed from the evil fee-for-service business model, that will inevitably have an effect. And, if your doctor decides he has seen enough patients to justify his salary, he might just take the rest of the day off.
Progs might want to stop holding up Finns as the epitome of civilized behavior or people might notice how lily-white those Finns are and start wondering if the progs are going to start eugenics up again.
The Finns have also had a rather frosty relationship with refugees, putting them in tents.
A large portion of the refugees to Finland have voluntarily left to go back to Iraq, etc… Think about that for a second.
Who said the progs gave up on eugenics?
Private, auxiliary health care in Finland.
(And why did the site log me out in the last five minutes?)
Because you were logged in for a whole day, I’d guess.
Wasn’t logged in overnight.
Hmm. If I just hang around on the site for 24 hours, it drops me out. I guess there’s more to this internet doohickey than meets the eye.
I get logged off once in a while, but randomly. My desktop is always off overnight.
I’ve been getting logged off one or two other sites as well.
This is meaningless and probably wrong.
What % of US medical spending is for “Quality of life” rather than longevity?
How many people in other countries get knee/hip replacements?
So whats the over-under on days until Mr Peanut or the monopoly man send glibertarians a cease and desist letter for using their logo/likeness?
…the monopoly man…
His name is Milburn Pennybags! damn it.
I thought his name was Charles Koch..
Do you have a copy of The Monopoly Companion, or something?
They will have an unpleasant surprise when our general counsel fixes them with a narrowed gaze.
*positions nutcracker and Get Out of Jail Free card*
So whats the over-under on days until Mr Peanut or the monopoly man send glibertarians a cease and desist letter for using their logo/likeness?
My money’s on Daddy Warbucks.
Don’t go in there!”
Oh, those smooth-talking, self-congratulating white liberals. Listen to them moon over Barack Obama. Look at how widely they open their arms to a black visitor. Don’t be duped. They’re wolves in L. L. Bean clothing. There’s danger under the fleece.
That’s a principal theme in the most surprising movie hit of the year so far, “Get Out,” whose box office haul in America crossed the $100 million mark last weekend. Heck, that’s the premise.
The Politicization of Everything continues.
Please, do!
I’d say he’s trying to be relevant, but movie reviews should top the list of most relevant topics to write about.
I have avoided that movie. I assumed it was The Wicker Man morphed into a whitey is the ghoul preying on darkies plot. I am really worn out on the whole racism schtick. Nearly every time I hear something leaning that way now I just say ‘fuck off’ and turn my back.
Turning your back on oppression is so white privilegy.
I watched it last night and I thought it was hilarious. The rich, elitist, ‘we love black people’ people turned out to be the most vile, oppressive people on the planet. Life imitates art, as they say. Oh, and seeing this with my black girlfriend just gives me a whole new avenue of ways to fuck with her.
Yeah, the posters make it look stupid, but I’ve heard good things from Red Letter Media, Chris Stuckman, etc….it’s one horror flick I might actually put in the effort to see before it’s out of theaters.
Yeah, Mike and Jay are not exactly SJWs.
Mike and Jay achieved demi-god status when they,made the Mr. Plinkett Star Wars Prequels reviews.
Sounds reminiscent of Die! Die! My Darling!
“The father of rock-n-roll is dead.”
Has anyone told Lou Reed?
Alternative joke: He’s watching angels pee now.
the objectification and violation of black bodies; white people’s appropriation of black culture; the trope of the white savior.
Ok, the white savior thing makes sense, and it’s a pretty gross trope in its way, up there with the tragic mulatto. And I guess appropriation of twerking is worth getting upset about if you don’t like skinny white girls pretending their spastic pancake asses are worth looking at. So those things make sense to complain about if you accept their premises. I guess.
But what’s with the term “black bodies”? You hear it all the time nowadays. How is a black body distinct from a black person? Is it something like, the black person isn’t seen as fully human in the framework of white supremacy, so we need to use this rhetorical device to highlight it?
I don’t get it. Someone with a doctorate explain it to me, please.
Fuck. Peice of shit fucking tags. The first paragraph is italicized. Ignore your lying eyes.
It’s a Ta-Nehisi Coates thing, you wouldn’t understand.
If that guy ever gets a reparation check….I’m gonna come down there and slap you people out.
I don’t get the term “black bodies” either.
And the Magical Negro is another ugly trope.
Every time I hear “black bodies” I think thermodynamics.
+1 ultraviolet catastrophe
I think of black holes. Can’t get much blacker than a black hole.
I assume the phrase black bodies is used when there is sexuality involved.
For example like when studying black anality
https://twitter.com/RealPeerReview/status/793106095090896896
anal ideologies
Dibs on the album name.
It is at this point that I could have made an entire career -with tenure- from my hobby.
‘IFLS’
Don’t you mean “IFLBA“?
Those girls (at least the first couple) didn’t seem too thicc. Doesn’t Jeny Romero have any twerking vids?
’cause I couldn’t find any.
It sounds more like a term for property to me. Just another reason I am sick of hearing about it. It is a disgusting false narrative kept alive and relentlessly pushed on everyone for the sake of manipulation, for power over others.
Fuck that.
It sounds like slave lingo to me.
You mean “lingo of the enslaved”.
It’s meant to imply the dehumanization of black people. That whites mentally reduce blacks to nothing more than bodies, or property.
The unintentionally hilarious part is that most of the people using this term would identify as socialists/communists, where people’s bodies literally are the property of the state.
It isnt unintentional or hilarious.
something interracial something porn?
Quit mumbling muthafucka and provide some links!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_body
I was assuming that was what it was, and I was not disappointed. Fucking geeks [myself included].
jk this guy ‘splains good =
Exactly.
Precisement. The vocabulary choice is deliberate because the goal is not to discourage discrimination (a kind of collectivism) but to attain power over a particular group.
Kmele Foster did a special edition of the Fifth Column podcast several weeks ago that included one professor that was absolutely fucking obsessed with using the term to characterise a uniquely aggrieved class of Americans. The second half of the podcast was extremely tedious, as the professor continued to namedrop philosophers and more or less say nothing more than characterise “cultural memory” a couple dozen different ways without saying anything new.
Gates is/was tolerable and seems like a smart guy with a few blind spots and misconceptions. The second guy, Yancy?, is just a straight up angry racist disguising his racism as intellectualism.
The NYT has discovered no-knock raids. It’s a long form narrative, highly dramatized, and I only skimmed it. That was all I could stand.
At the end, we get this:
Mr. Guy debated that very point with his police interrogators during their jailhouse interview.
One officer, according to the transcript, explained that the “protocol on high-risk search warrants is no-knock — it’s for officer safety.”
“Oh, I didn’t know,” Mr. Guy said.
“A lot of other states have gone to that as well,” the policeman added.
“It would have been a lot easier if someone would have announced themselves, man,” Mr. Guy offered.
The URL mentions “drugs”. One more example of how the War on Drugs is morally evil.
Nice beatdown of the whole “Meals on Wheels” idiocy.
Remember the peaceful “Water Protectors” protesting the DAPL up in North Dakota? Surprise, surprise; not all of them were so peaceful.
Coming soon to a pipeline near you; they’ve spread out across the country to repeat their antics elsewhere.
The good news is they ultimately lost
Pipelines are the devil’s bidding! We must stop these inanimate objects from being built to save our souls!
The case brought by the Cheyenne River Sioux was actually on those grounds. Something about once oil flows through the pipeline, the “sacredness” of the river will flow away. I guess the dozens of other pipelines going under it must have had some special coating to prevent that from happening.
And so it was.
The best part is, the dopey-lefties that cringe at every Christian reference just gobble this shit up.
Looks like Moe got a FB account.
Are there any pix available for the Marine (and other armed forces) “scandal?” I just want to check them for research purposes.
I might not be so eager LH. Thinking back to my days with Uncle Sam’s Misguided Children, I’m not sure I’d be eager to see nudies of the WM’s (women Marines). Unless you are really into lesbians, the other branches of the military might be a better fit for you.
Amazing how many WM’s were fairly butch lesbians (this was even before don’t ask don’t tell) that joined the Marines to go to foreign lands and bang a bunch of pussy. Just like the male Marines.
I guess I have high expectations – given the female contingent of the IDF.
It’s a mix. And who knows whether they’re all really Marines.
Question from the tech-challenged: A few days ago I noticed that when I begin to type out a comment and need to open up a second window to check my spelling/reference/whatever and go back to the original page my keyboard will not allow me to continue to type. I could be halfway through a paragraph but it’s a no go and I have to refresh the page to type again.
I have no idea why this suddenly happened and can only assume I accidentally changed a setting while in a drunken stupor. Any ideas?
You were hacked by the Russians. At least that’s what it says here in my IT for jackasses book.
Well, I do have a bit of Russian blood(possibly Russian Jew, but my southern-born elder kin refuse to elaborate on it). So, It’s entirely possible I subconsciously hacked myself.
SP put in a macro which detects when you have been watching porn.
Sneaky Harpie!
Nah, this is a problem on all sites. Not just here.
Well, I know that is not true. Because I am not having TH’s issue.
You need to be nicer to your keyboard, and try and be a better listener sometimes
So you’re saying that only slapping my cock against it leaves the keyboard emotionally unfulfilled?
That, and you also neglect it when its sending ‘signals’ its looking for some non-judgemental attention.
“I have to refresh the page to type again.”
I’ve been having this issue for a few months on my Motorola phone. You can install a different browser app and then switch between Apps instead of between windows in the same App.
*gives it a try*
Nope. The Chrome page automatically refreshes after I return from the other browser.
Now to try it exclusively on the other browser, which I’m not a big fan of…
Okay then. Works just fine on the other one. Guess I need to wipe and reinstall Chrome.
Yeah I’ve had other issues with chrome as well. I also use adblocker which appears to be very similar to chrome.
My Chrome doesn’t normally refresh if all I do is switch between App windows. Are you closing it and re-opening it or just switching between windows?
Just switching. God knows what sort of bugs I’ve unwittingly downloaded to my computer. :/
I’ve had the problem for a while, although it depends on how long I’ve been off the first page. I think.
Yeah, I’ve had that problem in the past as well. This was something different.
I had a friend in nursing school try to get a professor to admit that the absolutely no drinking during pregnancy line he just told us was sensationalist crap, but the professor refused. The professor said since it would be unethical to conduct a study to discover the safe limit it’s better to be safe than sorry. My friend pointed out that clearly there is a safe small amount of consumption as we all know someone that knowingly drank knowingly or unknowingly during pregnancy and the kid was fine. The professor still refused to back away from the absolutist position.
Idiot @ Daily Beast says “Environment = EPA”
He also says “making the correct noises about climate change means you’re a “pragmatist”.
The military and the state dept *rely* on …. what the fuck are you talking about?
Pretty sure if a single muslim was fired because of their religion that they’d have a slam dunk lawsuit on their hands.
he also asserts that Pruitts statements about the role of CO2 were “demonstrably false”; of course he doesn’t point to a single source of anyone “demonstrating” the falseness of the statement, but instead handwaves at “lots of studies” without specifying anything about C02. Judith Curry, Climatologist, chimes in and says, “Pruitt is 100% correct”
Who to believe? Scientist, or author of “God vs. Gay“? Its so hard to decide.
After much consideration and deliberative thought I have come to this conclusion about the EPA and environmentalism.
Fuck the EPA. Shit-can it, pour gas on it and light it up.
I’m pretty sure if a single muslim in a government position is fired for ANY reason they have a slam dunk lawsuit if they can get in front of the right judge, because literally Hitler.
Has anyone run across this yet? It has apparently been out for a while, so someone probably linked to it already. If not…
Here’s a new board game; Secret Hitler. Get it and be the bestest host at your next TDS party! And just in case you aren’t sure if there is some woke message behind this game…from the FAQ’s:
Played it a couple of times – not bad, but it seemed a bit difficult for the Liberals to win.
Huh? Sounds like they are describing both Hillary Clinton, and Barrack Obama.
They should have just named the game “Projection”.
Freud would have a field day studying these idiots. Also, whatever he got wrong, he was dead right about that.
I hope you are at least getting royalties. Sounds like a rip off of Secret Nazi President to me.
I was thinking the same thing. But I’m still undecided about IP.
Thanks for the “Tool” reference the other night concerning Trigger Hippies coded speak. I listened to them the rest of the night.
They are an excellent band. And (to me) they do a great job at being far more disturbing than any black metal I’ve heard.
“…they do a great job at being far more disturbing than any black metal I’ve heard.”
I remember the first time I saw the inner holographic image in the Aenima CD case and thinking “Hey look, a guy blowing himself. You don’t see that everyday.”
I have Warty to thank for making me aware.
This is what happens when people use a citation itself as evidence, rather than the source that’s being cited. From the drinking article:
Follow that link and you’ll read:
We were lucky enough to have an OB who was honest about those studies. Her take was basically that while abstaining from alcohol entirely was a great idea if that’s something you want to do anyway. Otherwise, a drink or two a day is fine, because your liver is going to process the alcohol before it gets to your kid. The studies that most sources rely on for FAS never controlled for other “lifestyle variables”. In other words, people who are problem drinkers will a.) tend to lie about how much they drink, and b.) probably do a lot of other unhealthy things they aren’t going to tell you about.
I haven’t read anything in detail, because I don’t like babies (no offense). But I’m highly skeptical of the statement “because your liver is going to process the alcohol before it gets to your kid”. The liver takes roughly an hour to process one drink’s worth of ethanol. I don’t know what the ethanol exchange rate between maternal and fetal blood is at the chorionic villi, but I would guess that an hour is plenty of time. Plus, the ethanol that does make it the fetus is metabolized more slowly and will persist longer.
Given that for many, many years, nobody gave a shit about FASD and most Irish kids grew up with normal bilateral symmetry, with all the bits they were meant to have, and none of the bits they weren’t, and (despite rumor having it otherwise) and weren’t clearly intellectually inferior as a group, I’d suggest that a very modest level of alcohol consumption in expectant mothers was likely to lead to correspondingly slight increase in the risk of FASD or whatever acronym-de-jour we want to apply to it.
There are plenty of prenatal risks in the world, and frankly, most of the plausible risks to the fetus have been suitably Godwinned, it’s time to concentrate on the harder targets. Expect proscriptions on carbohydrate intake and tea next.
To be fair, carb-loading has probably led to any increase in obesity in the West.
You aren’t sugarcoating that at all, are you?
I’m not carb-loading. It is a bulking cycle. (that has lasted several years)
I’m cultivating mass!
Ugh!
Local columnist says Jim Surdyck opening his liquor store on Sunday was an assault on the rule of law. He gets his “legit journalist” card punched too because he backhandedly says staying open on Sunday is as bad as Donald Trump.
1) I actually know the columnist. I drank beer with him years ago when he was a PR flack working in the same building as me. Nice guy, this surprised me.
2) Comments are pretty good. Many smartasses are asking why being open early is such an existential threat to the rule of law while sanctuary cities aren’t.
Voluntary? When did this start?
Sure, you can choose to not pay, have your property seized, be arrested, resist, and be shot dead in the street. It’s a shitty choice, but it is a choice.
Some of these people deny that is you don’t pay your taxes that the government will force you to the point of death. It’s crazy how delusional they are.
I’ve got the Sunday shows on in the background. Those bozos (Chuck Todd, Stephanopolous) are totally obsessed by this fucking “wiretap” nonsense.
Apparently, D T has DEFAMED the Ascended One, and must kneel before Him to express his remorse and offer up a heartfelt plea for forgiveness. Kissing his ring is not optional.
Trump’s popularity among the plebs will only grow as the Trump’s perfidy re: Obama is broadcast.
I like living in a bubble as much as the next guy, but I try to remind myself that it is a bubble, and not representative of other’s views or experiences.
I went out last night for some beers. Some dudes starts talking about how great Trump was and I pretty much was staying out of it. But then they started talking about how he was going to “rebuild” the military and invade Syria and protect Europe and I just couldn’t do it. Went off with a bunch of F-bombs. Then some dude starts talking about Plato and I’m like what the fuck. I probably didn’t do my argument justice but they all ended up taking about something else which suited me fine.
It’s funny, talking about Plato is pretty much guaranteed to make me go off with a bunch of F-bombs.
God rest Dana Plato’s X-rated soul….
I dont understand why that didn’t go well. Alcohol consumption in a bar is the perfect set-up for talking rationally about politics.
The History of Philosophy in a nutshell
Try living in a box instead.
I have All Girls Garage on with the sound off. Much better than that.
Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman
http://hotair.com/archives/2017/03/18/chelsea-clinton-lands-her-latest-plush-gig/
It is good thing Chelsea has accomplished a lot in her short life in private industry. Her record of success of unmatched for someone as young as her. Plus with her husband’s incredible success in hedge funds there is not limit to the amount of money they can make.
Seems to be. Expedia sucks ass BTW. I tried to avoid them when I traveled a lot. The one time I did book through them, I got hosed trying to make a change.
This makes perfect sense. Expedia is in the business of helping people go places they would never be able to get to on their own. Their board should contain people who have experience with that.
*Polite applause*
My wife bought a new bottle of gin yesterday – small batch, this bottle being “Batch 001” – that is made here in the city of Grand Rapids by Long Road Distillers.
It is the most boozy gin i’ve ever tasted with very strong overpowering – like ethyl? – aftertaste. Hardly any juniper/citrusy taste at all. It needs a hefty squeeze of lime slice to make it palatable.
The first time I tasted it I waved my hand a few times in front of my face to make sure I hadn’t gone blind.
http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2017/02/michigin_beaver_island_juniper.html
called Michigin – har.
Sloopy thinks you should be drinking Ohio gin.
Dude, North Shore #6. There is no other.
Hedrick’s is nice
Hendrick’s is a very good solid gin.
That doesnt sound like something you are supposed to drink. Are you sure isnt supposed to be a solvent for leaching essential oils?
I was watching TV the other day and saw something interesting about Prohibition and the rise of mixed drinks. Alcohol is needed for industrial use so they couldn’t allow it completely. So some of the industrial alcohol got “diverted” for public use. The industrial alcohol didn’t taste all that well so they started adding other ingredients to make it taste good. Hence the taste for mixed drinks was developed.
The nut punch part of it was the federal government knew people would divert the industrial alcohol so the mandated additives to be added to the alcohol. The “diverters” knew this and would filter the alcohol to remove the additives. The federal government changed the additives several time over Prohibition and it was a race between the “diverters” and the government over removing the additives.
Oh yeah, the additives were deadly. Nobody kept records on how many people died because nobody wanted to. Modern estimates are in the thousands, maybe even 100,000. Good thing government was always looking out for our best interest.
“I am an individual, not a person.”
“Faaack Yoooo”
that person was clearly Canadian, and should have been shot merely on suspicion of being a syrup-smuggler.
These euphemisms…
I don’t know what the MM angle on this is going to be, but i think there’s probably a wide-gulf between the “YOU AINT GOT NO RIGHTS OVER ME” sovereign-citizen nonsense, and the typical libertarian attitude of respectful non-compliance / observation of rights.
The people in the former category give the latter a bad name.
That’s my take generally as well. The whole “Articles of Confederation” thing….really? That wasn’t superseded? MM does a great job keeping the humor super dry (he’s got some great videos re: tumblr, DA and other things too – just not as prolific as Sargon, Mundane Matt or Vernaculis).
And he’s got material relevant to our audience.
I did see that last night. Was wondering if that’s where the name came from on TSTSNBN.
yes, i think everyone is familiar with the Hugbox Chronicles, etc. IA did good work, and i like his extended-understatement style of humor as long as its not beaten to death. I liked this piece which he did soon after re-launching as MM
I think some people think he’s drifted more ‘racist-alt-righty’ in the last few years. I think there’s probably some truth to that, but i don’t really care myself. I think his larger points about the methods/rhetoric of the left are still sometimes interesting. He’s often capable of making some simple/clear observations sometimes in way others take longer to articulate.
Well, there’s a fire just outside town. Started in the mountains near Nederland. Someone called it in at 130 this morning. it was 3-5 acres then, but grew rapidly. we have the national guard flying over the place. Mandatory evac about 4 miles from my place. I put my camping gear in the truck, just to be sure.
Fire Near Downtown Boulder
They don’t cull the dead trees in and near town? Seems pretty stupid given wildfire risk around populated areas.
They have been, but the beetle issue is kinda bad.
There was a fire here a few years ago that took care of most of the mountains near Ned.
Some years Back, you could cull in Big Bear Cal. because of the Bark Beetle infestation, sad, but many decks were built, and there was much rejoicing.
Bob
I have friend in Leadville, he’s been building benches and fences with it all. we also mined some trails for turquoise, he’s puting that into an end table that has some good cracks in it. Should look pretty cool.
Ya, the foothills got hammered with the bark beetle. It is less of a problem the further west and higher up you go. I am not sure why.
Clear cut/re-plant might help, but the tree huggers would have a fit.
Y’all are giving me the heeby jeebies. The bark beetles (not sure if the same species) gave me fits back in the 90’s . Louisiana timber was pretty hard hit. I lost a bit but not like some people did. My grandfather was familiar with them and theorized that having a mix of species would dampen that problem and it looks like he was right. Monoculture always invites epidemic of one sort or another.
Ya, from an ignorant laymans view, it looks like the lodge pole stands get hit hardest. But they also take a fair number of Ponderosa Pines. On the front range, whole mtn sides are dead.
If they would have went in and culled the sick trees from the start, I would imagine it would not have spread like it did. But we can’t be logging any trees now can we.
Controlled burns are terrible for the environment, too!!1!
I tried to take pictures when I grabbed gas this morning, but they didn’t come out well. Looking into downtown, it looks like a bunch of fog almost. can’t see the fire in the mountains, but the smoke is right over pearl st.
Oh no! All the snowflakes are going to get cancer!
Single Payer Now!
Nederland was about my favorite place in CO. Any town with a Dead Guy festival is OK with me.
I like it up there, if I ever get a house that’ll be on the list.
I camp up there a lot over the summer.
The first time I tasted it I waved my hand a few times in front of my face to make sure I hadn’t gone blind.
That, of course, reminded me of this:
Fiorello: Well I don’t know about that.
Driftwood: NOW what’s the matter?
Fiorello: I don’t like the second party either.
Driftwood: Well you should have been at the first party, we didn’t get home till around four in the morning…I was blind for three days.
+1 aint no sanity clause.
Hi guys, Long time Reasonoid Lurker, sometime poster Yusef here, I just wanted to say Thanks to All of you for doing this. Commenters starting a Website, and it’s instantly filled, how cool is that? I may run my mouth from time to time in the future, and Bonus, NO Tulpa!
Bob
Hey Yusef!
Howdy, nice place you got here
You make it sound like an AA meeting.
(swigs beer)
WOOOOO
Play Another Saturday Night Yusef, no one cares about your new stuff.
Wrong Yusef, I’m Captain Adama’s Father, a Lawyer on Caprica, BSG much?
B
Old Paki English guy driving a beat up old Korean car, what an image
B
Fuck you.
/This is standard.
I’m hoping for a narrow gaze, can I get a narrow gaze?
Check yusef befo you wreck yusef
And thanks for using a REAL timezone, none of this EST crap
AAAnd I can’t tell time…
Yummy Nuke Video
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/03/these-recently-declassified-nuclear-test-videos-are-utterly-mesmerizing-terrifying/
Ah, yes, no doubt. Because any attempt at all to hold an agency to any level of accountability or constrain their budget, is trying to kill it. Agencies must be allowed to go totally rogue on American citizens and no amount of revenue is too much.
Wondering if Sloopy lowered himself into cheering for a Rick Pitino team – that lost anyway.
I was torn. Part of me hoped for one of the baskets to collapse and then not to have a replacement, and another part hoped for a CX gas attack.