Good morning, friends. Getting antsy about the basketball tournament getting back underway? You’re only one day away. And yes, Duke is still eliminated…thanks to those trans-hating bigots in the North Carolina legislature. Or something like that. Either way, the important thing is, they’ll be watching the last last 15 games, same as you and me. And that’s reason to rejoice.
But I digress. I have a reason to be here. And that reason is to provide you with fodder for conversation. And a pretty little forum to do your thing. Enjoy.
Rand Paul says the Obamacare “repeal” bill doesn’t have the votes. He’s predicting that his party will pull the bill and start over. Hopefully they do and use his bill as a template.
More details coming out about the two illegal aliens that allegedly raped a 14 year old girl in the bathroom of a high school they all attend. The 18 and 17 year old freshmen from Guatemala and El Salvador both have outstanding immigration orders against them and at least one was stopped in Texas seven months ago after he entered the country. Sound like Dreamers to you? 17 and 18 year old freshmen. Needless to say, there are a lot of people in deep blue Montgomery County right now that are rethinking things.
Are we all less safe when a politician lies*? Susan Rice wants you to think so. Of course, our intelligence community nor the Brit’s version has ever told a lie, so when they refuted the “wires tapped” claim by Donald Trump, we can surely take them at their word.
One of the most schizophrenic and exciting games I can remember is being made into a movie. Let’s hope they keep Michael Bay out of it.
The Panama Canal for norsemen. As Brett L said elsewhere about it: “this would be badass if privately funded.”
Maine Man (although he is actually China Man?, Chinaman?): the Florida Man of the northeast.
Yes, there will be a music link as usual.
*”Lies” apparently doesn’t include things such as: “if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor”, “I didn’t call the Islamic State the JV team”, “Let me say this as plainly as I can, on August 31, 2010 our combat mission in Iraq will end”, “we have not had a major scandal in my administration”, “Over the past eight years, no foreign terrorist organization has successfully executed an attack on our homeland that was directed from overseas”, and “90% of the budget deficit is due to George W Bush’s policies”. And a bunch of other ones I’m sure you can repeat in the comments.
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13) Are there ever any politicians who make a black nationalist case for conservatism in the inner city? I know Rand Paul has visited some inner cities and made general libertarian arguments. But I mean specifically appealing to black voters as a bloc? It seems like there would be an opening for such a candidate.
I think the argument would be something like: The left wants abortion on demand to keep black babies from being born, minimum wage to kill off jobs for unskilled black workers and to cripple inner city entrepreneurs, complemented by welfare, food stamps, and Medicare to keep black voters complacent. They herd inner city blacks into gerrymandered districts where corrupt lifetime black politicians give the illusion of representation, and rely on heavy-handed police forces and a war on drugs to keep blacks in line. And they top it all off with charges of racism against American society so that blacks never have to think they might have to take responsibility for their own fates.
At one time I think the Black Panthers had some of the elements of this argument, unfortunately with a nasty Maoist philosophical underpinning. But I haven’t heard anything exactly like the above. Is there a politician lately who’s made such an argument? I think Ben Carson could, but I don’t get the impression he’s done a lot of black outreach—it seems last year in the primaries has was mostly trying to win over white evangelicals. Is it possible for such a case to be successfully made to black inner city voters?
Frederick Douglas and Malcom X need to get in their time machines and try this again. Although I suspect they’d be called uncle Toms and race traitors now.
Trump actually gave this a shot, though of course wasn’t as specific as you. He did go to black neighborhoods and talk about how bad the results of generations of Democrat leadership have left inner city blacks. But like what I said above, all he did was get called racist. Heck, even Bernie was shouted down by black crowds.
He did better with blacks than Romney or McCain did. On the other hand, he wasn’t running against Obama.
Nation of Islam tends to have some degree of ‘don’t trust the white system, man, they want to keep you down’ in their pamphlets that shows a critical eye towards the modern American state, but that’s mixed in with the stuff about how UFOs are military experiments intended to put the black man back in chains.
They’re wise to your tricknology, man!
I have a friend in NoI.
They’re very pro agrarian and very anti vax too.
Arguing for the abstract concept of liberty vs. tangible “free shit” is a hard sell, regardless of the race of the audience.
Also, the left is particular vicious against blacks who are not on their side.
I also read that the Black Panthers distributed copies of the little red book, not because they actually believed in Maoism, but because it made they look more radical.
Count Potatoes is sorry he got in a fight at their Black Panther Party.
I remember watching an interview with a Black Panther out of SF. His story was that they could buy Red Books in Chinatown for $1, then sell them to hippy college kids across town for $5.
He kind of laughed off being a commie. They were capitalist as hell, it’s just that communism sold well to white kids with money.
I don’t know about any politicians, but I have recently discovered a weird, Twitter-centric movement that calls itself Hotep which seems to preach pretty much everything you outlined above. I really have no way to determine just how big or small this movement really is though (it is Twitter, after all). It seems to align itself with the “alt-right”, whatever that really is. It seems intriguing at first glance, but digging not too much deeper uncovers some seriously cringe-worthy Jew hate.
“intruguing”
Paging Magic Edit Fairy… Magic Edit Fairy, clean-up in aisle seven…
Thank you!
yeah, it’s more like “everyone who isn’t black”
You forgot massive immigration to take over the less skilled labor jobs to keep less skilled blacks forever chained to government assistance.
Ben Carson would be Uncle Tommed to death if he tried that.
Many, many years ago (15-20 years?) my mother was invited to attend a talk at black church by one of her friends. It was Dr. Ben Carson giving the talk and he did basically say what you said above. According to my Mom the talk was very well received but a single speech, given once a year or two, isn’t going to make much of a difference. The key to changing attitudes is for black ministers to pound away at the message week after week.
I’m probably not the first to say this, but it just occurred to me that this site’s creators have herded cats.
And only cat butted a few of people!
They have mad cat herding skills. It comes from spending hours playing DOTA.
DOTA? Never heard of it.
*quietly logs off Steam*
Division of Transit Administration?
Demon of time assassination.
If they are herding Mad Cats wouldn’t they be playing Mechwarrior of some variety?
You must mean Timber Wolf, stravag scum.
+1 EDS
“The 18 and 17 year old *freshmen* from Guatemala and El Salvador both have outstanding immigration orders against them”
Yeah, I noticed that when this article first appeared in the Washington Post last weekend. What were these NOT-kids even doing in high school? They obviously had no intention of learning, which suggests to me their whole goal was to troll the halls for sexual liaisons.
“Liaisons” might not be the correct word, but you’re certainly right that these men belonged somewhere else. Probably in an ESL adult ed program if we were going to keep them here after they cleared customs and met our immigration requirements, which neither attempted to do. (SLD applies that there shouldn’t be taxpayer-funded ESL adult ed programs or any other public schools for that matter.)
These adults had no business being in HS. That it was a public HS just compounds the problem.
If these adults wanted to learn, a dubious proposition, then they could have contracted for it with an individual or business at their expense instead of the taxpayers expense.
Sloopy says it better, and faster, than I.
They are non-English speakers and were in some kind of program for guys like them. My guess is that they were way over their heads even with a freshman curriculum.
Also, I suspect they were put in that school to keep them from being deported. The immigration activists there were ‘hiding’ them from ICE. Thats my suspicion.
City schools won’t let immigration agents enter without warrants
Just say they’re from the DEA looking for weed.
Yeah? Well, does ICE let City officials in their offices without a warrant? Huh? Yeah…. Don’t have an answer for that, do you???
I am okay with this. I think more warrants for authorities to do shit is generally better than less.
Issue the agents with binders full of preprinted warrants, of course!
Oh, I doubt it. Progressives are like the Bourbons, they forget nothing and learn nothing.
Legitimists or Orleanists?
I wonder if they were on any sports teams at the school. “Lost my papers” is a good way to shave a few years off your age and become a ringer.
+1 Danny Almonte
When I was a junior in HS this kid from Guatemala transferred to my school. He was batshit crazy and would fight just about anyone that even looked at him wrong.
Fun with anecdotes. My wife is a public school teacher here in Brooklyn. NY Board of Ed rules ‘age out’ students at 21 years old. Up to that point, they can be enrolled in NYC public schools. Wifey has a 14 year old Syrian refugee in one her 6th grade classes who speaks/reads/writes no English, is obviously shaving every morning, and is far and away the largest student in the school. He is actually trying, struggling even, to obtain some rudimentary proficiency in English and he is above level in arithmetic but he is a well behaved, polite young man. His little brother however, while having rudimentary English skills and being the proper age for the grade is a Holy terror on campus and would have been smacked down for his behavior already if the administration wasn’t walking on eggshells because of the family’s refugee status.
Well, to be fair .. if you were 11 years old and had to flee your home to a completely different continent where nobody speaks your language because people were trying to kill you, you might have a little bit of an attitude problem at school too….
This is Maryland, where the house of delegates voted to become a “sanctuary state”. You’d have to look towards New York, maybe Massachussetts to find a deeper blue state. And Montgomery County is like the bluest of the blue, maybe just short of Baltimore City. I would bet anything that there are a number of people in MoCo who see the odd rape as an acceptable loss in the greater struggle for “immigration justice”.
I would bet anything that there are a number of people in MoCo who see the odd rape of someone they don’t know as an acceptable loss in the greater struggle for “immigration justice”.
It never ceases to amaze me how willing people who pride themselves on their compassion and community-mindedness are nonetheless willing for other people to pay any price for the greater good.
Oh, forget people they don’t know. That’s just standard-grade villainy. A good friend of mine who has gone full-on deranged decided with his wife that they are enrolling their children in a local public school that has a horrible reputation rather than send them to a private school they can afford, because, and this is nearly a direct quote, “it wouldn’t be right to deprive the district of funding just because [they’re] white and privileged.” True believers will literally sacrifice their own children in the belief that it will somehow improve the results they’re getting from the state.
But, but, the district is being funded by them via property taxes whether or not they have kids at all.
Collateral damage in the Great Woke War
Obama and his minions will never go away will they? They are the toenail fungus of America.
What gets me is the uber-arrogance on display, They act is if they broke the mould on things when in fact they’re just mold breathing in the walls.
Why not just research the game? There is plenty of entertainment value right there.
The next best thing would be a documentary using interviews with players, footage from the dugout, etc.
Rewatch, not research.
But then you couldn’t have close-up human drama of the backup lineman’s baby mama holding up their infant and breaking into tears in close up. Or whatever.
Ugh you’d think I’d take five seconds to proofread. And maybe buy a thesaurus.
I hope Michael Bay does the movie. He’ll cast some talentless model as the ball girl, and we’ll get some memorable slo-mo shots.
“One of the most schizophrenic and exciting games I can remember is being made into a movie.”
What would a movie about a single game have that a recording of the game itself wouldn’t have? Is there some crying need for Kris Bryant to be played by Leonardo DiCaprio or something?
Look, man, I don’t make the news. I just report the news. Or, um, report on the reports of the news. And in one case today, I reported on a report in the news that had been re-reported once already.
Quite a retort about your report, er re-report.
It sounds like a gun range with all these reports.
I am just imagining Leonardo DiCaprio delivering the line “someone set us up the bomb.”
“The Panama Canal for Norsemen.”
I’m trying to figure out a way to turn “Valhalla, I am coming” into a palindrome, a la A man, a plan, a canal, Panama.
Ahhhh-ahhh-hhha-hhhha works pretty well.
I lol’ed out loud at that
*narrows gaze*
You need to see an opthamologist for that, you do,
A man, a plan, a canal, St. Lawrence Seaway!
RIP Chuck Barris
He finally got the Big Gong.
Aw man… we need more like him. And yes, I like schlocky TV.
You think we need more CIA assassins?
I’d watch a revise version of the Gong Show.
revised
Like a revisionist history of The Gong Show? Or like a re-boot?
Isn’t that called America’s Got Talent?
With Senator Jean Shaheen the Dancin’ Machine
Didn’t this guy already die the other day?
Chuck Berry (the musician) died the other day. Different guy.
Just a sick joke… 😉
Do we need a sarcasm font here?
I don’t know. What do you think?
That ship tunnel better have a couple of Viking Longships issue out of it, for the inaugural use.
Bull gores 11-inch horn up matador’s butt
Romero was rushed to the hospital for urgent treatment for horrific injuries to his rectal area.
STEVE SMITH CHEER BULL ON!
SMITH SMITH GO OLÉ IN YOUR HOLÉ
Eewwww!
*studio audience applause*
You mess with the bull …
I’m no fan of Tomi Lahren. But if you follow the link in this article how she is “openly racist”, it reads nothing of the sort.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2017/03/21/tomi_lahren_reveals_she_s_pro_choice_enjoys_alt_right_support.html
Why can’t the media realize that all this wolf crying is dangerous? It’s only going to lead people to ignore actual racism.
It’s the only trick they’ve got right now, collapse everyone who disagrees with them into some kind of ‘racist alt-right’ category that they hope delegitimizes them. When in reality it’s just exposing their dishonesty, at least to anyone who isn’t a true believer in the first place.
I was flipping through the channels the other night, and Hannity was using the term “alt-left”. Oddly, he was using to refer to examples of mainstream media being anti-Trump. So it’s bunch of word games on both sides.
I saw “alt-left” used by moderates on left wing sites after the election in an attempt to distance themselves from the social justice warriors. It doesn’t really work because the social justice crowd is a core, approved part of the left while the alt-right basically represents everything the conservatives don’t want to be seen as and are understandably hated.
Of course there will be word games on either side, but I wouldn’t take Hannity as an indicator of anything but his own stupidity personally.
I don’t watch Hannity. I think he’s a blowhard. Regardless, then it would seem that he and the Democrats are using the term for two different things. As far as “alt-right”, at first I thought it referred to people on the right who don’t fit social conservative identity politics (Milo is gay, That Guy T is black, Blaire White is trans, etc.) or don’t hold socially conservative views. The Kek meme warriors and 4chan crowd probably aren’t big on going to church. I did not know about Richard Spencer the earlier “race realist” definition.
Don’t forget the MGTOW/anti-feminist constituency.
And really, the “race realists” were the formative group. Paleo-alt-right, one might say, if one wanted to confuse the shit out of all the onlookers.
It gets dumber the deeper it goes.
Modern feminism is so solidly leftist that being ant-feminist is mainstream right at this point.
If you have the stomach for it dive into the twitter feeds of some of the super proggies. They actually believe their own bullshit. Their heads are full of two dimensional, flat stereotype villains. I think the effort to cultivate useful idiots has come into fruition and it aint purty. I dont know what we are going to do with them. dbleagle said it well higher up…they are like toenail fungus.
While one could argue that toenail fungus is violating some inter-species NAP, at least it’s acting in it’s own self-interest. Not all progressives are white. Even if you accept their absurd contention that there is no such thing as anti-white racism. Non-white progressives are definitely not acting in their best interest by making the word “racist” a toothless slur, cast wildly, and devoid of denotation. Humans have a long history of actual, straight-up, violent racism. Just because it barely exists in the West now, doesn’t mean it couldn’t rise again in the future.
That’s absolutely right. When I make the mistake of discussing politics or political philosophy or social issues with progressives and challenge them on some point that they can’t defend, there’s always this weird moment where it’s as if they’re having an internal monologue with one side throwing every single logical fallacy it can think of against another side that’s starting to doubt the authorized view. The brainwashing will usually hold, and they’ll come back with something about racism, or attack my sources, anything other than a direct rebuttal of my argument.
Generally speaking these people aren’t arriving at their positions via thoughtful consideration based on first principles. They don’t question their assumptions too closely because they don’t want to arrive at unwanted conclusions. If you upset that house of cards, they react angrily and emotionally, but, ironically, they refuse to admit that they hold some beliefs for illogical reasons.
This has been one of my major problems with that other site. Libertarianism isn’t conservatism, but conservatives are much more likely allies, and better ones at that. I’ve gotten into a good many debates with conservatives and while we’ve had to agree to disagree from time to time I don’t remember a single one that got personal or emotional. And hell, on several occasions the person I was talking to wound up saying something to the effect of, “I’m not saying what I believe makes sense, it’s just the way I feel about X.” I can respect that, even if I don’t agree.
agreed.
Dead thread? Who cares. Just want to say that’s been my experience with conservatives as well. Progressive are just out of their minds at the moment. You can just ignore them.
I know progressives have been the focus for us all lately because of their utter unhinged-ness, but let’s not forget the intractability of law-and-order and war-making conservatives. I have as much trouble / it’s as unpleasant (if not more) talking to cop-extolling conservatives about issues like the drug war and police unaccountability and the unjust justice system in general as I do with most progs about their weird ‘virtues.’
Why would you mention “media” right after you post a Salon link? Was there a media outlet that had reported in what Salon wrote? Because I see no direct link to the media from that screeching bunch of baboons with typewriters over at Salon.
Hang on – if I understand you correctly, there’s a finite, if tiny possibility that Salon might, one day, turn out an article that will be as good as the Complete Works of Shakespeare?
Not possible!
That’s crazy talk. I said baboons, not monkeys.
It was a Slate link. Not that it matters. The web is media just as much as the screeching bunch of baboons with teleprompters are media. I remember how all the three major networks and CNN were going on about how the Tea Party was racist, without a shred of evidence.
The media is mostly screeching baboons, so Slate is perfectly qualified to join their ranks.
Some outlets are Gibbering Gibbons.
Huh. I just read something somewhere else that said that coming out as pro-choice on The View was an attempt to jump into the main(er) stream media markets. Fox News must need another blonde who is consevatish.
A massive number of women left Fox this past year.
But if you’re alt-right then of course you’d be pro-eugenics because that’s the obviously racist choice. Not that it applies to the left of course.
“Actual racism” is hating on white people, right?
Sorry, if this comes out as gibberish
It came out as blank. I was trying to post this:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C7eCA1pVsAA4Ohb.jpg
Well, that is certainly gibberish.
I hope she dies in a car accident.
Is that too Glibertarian of me?
One of the most schizophrenic and exciting games I can remember is being made into a movie. Let’s hope they keep Michael Bay out of it.
*Hollywood executive board*
“Hey, let’s try to make baseball interesting!”
“Brilliant Steve, have some money!”
In my sleep deprived state, my immediate reaction was “I don’t even know John Titor – how does he know about that scratch game of Unknown Armies we set up where we woke up 3 days later with tiny runes tattooed over our bodies, an empty fridge and several house pets missing?”
“—Let’s hope they keep Michael Bay out of it.—”
I don’t know. Having killer robots blowing shit up just may make baseball watchable.
Dat alt-text
Indeed.
No good deed ever goes unpunished.
General Mills PR flacks have decided that making a few donations and engaging in some dubious publicity stunts will make them look like a model corporate citizen. However, the latest gimmick of sending out a mix of wildflower seeds to help bees has backfired.
A lot of “concerned” people are worried that the plants won’t help the bees and will in fact make things worse.
Why the fuck do companies think that they can make nice with the crazies?
In the story, it is revealed that GM gave $4M to the Xerces Society. I’m really hoping that this year they give nothing and I see Eric Mader standing in a clump of flowers by a freeway exit ramp begging for change.
They need to catch up. Bees are recovering just fine, exactly what anyone with knowledge of how biology works knew they would.
Whenever I see this “OMG the bees!!11!!” crap on derpbook I like to point out that honeybees are not native to North America and are in fact an invasive species introduced by Europeans in the 1600s.
The Columbian Exchange was one of the best things to come out of the age of exploration.
Speaking of BEEEZZZZ – I have a proto idea for an article about honey – and the tariffs imposed on foreign honey, along with the huge amount of black market honey that comes in from China. Lots of parallels to the drug war and also a story about how the tariffs keep the local producers in business.
I hope you write it. I have not heard of those shenanigans.
I can’t recall where it was now, but I read an article a while ago on various honeys from the supermarket being tested, and finding that many of them, such as the Chinese imports, weren’t pure honey but rather flavored and colored corn syrup or combination of something along those lines. I wish I could remember where I saw it.
There are ways to find out where honey came from based testing the pollen.
But there is a way (legal too!) to filter out the pollen, making such honey impossible to determine where it came from,
related article:
https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/hsi-chicago-seizes-nearly-60-tons-honey-illegally-imported-china
As an interested mead consumer, I would ask that you write this article, plz!
The only way to consume mead is to quaff it.
Preferably from the skull of a defeated foe. Bikini-clad cuties arrayed around the throne are welcome accessories too.
So there’s a guy at the end of the block I’m moving to next week who sells locally grown honey — hopefully by the 5 gallon bucketful. I just ran across my carboy and airlock, which need a good cleaning but appear functional. I’m going into production — probably May, because I’m going to be, uh, “bringing out the potential” of the new house for about a month.
(It’s actually in good shape, but the Mrs. sees more potential than I can afford in time and money, but she’s going to get as much as she can.)
So are cows.
And horses.
And white people.
Before the Europeans introdues honeybees, flowers were pollinated by chupacabras.
What are you trying to tell me? Dawn soap doesn’t clean birds after an oil spill?
You gotta use 20 Mule Team Borax for that. Dawn makes the birds’ feathers so soft and gentle that they can’t be used for flying anymore.
Borax is a great thing to keep around the house. Has many useful applications, even beyond cleaning – an insecticide made from mint jelly and borax is the only thing I’ve ever tried that keeps those damned sugar ants out of my kitchen for any length of time.
I make my own laundry detergent with borax, washing soda, and oxi clean. More effective than the vast majority of laundry detergent for a fraction of the price.
Also, instead of using dishwashing machine detergent. I fill the cup in the machine 3/4 with baking soda, fill the remainder with salt, then put a few drops of Dawn in. More effective than the vast majority of detergents for a fraction of the cost.
And don’t get me started on the power of baking soda and vinegar. I’ve gotten rid of more piss and puke stains out of couches and mattresses than I can count with baking soda and vinegar.
Thanks for revisiting ‘Stories of my grandma’, Banjos.
Your grandma sounds awesome.
Re Obama lies (and there have been many), how about the time they blamed the Benghazi attacks on the video?
I’m also not convinced he ‘evolved’ on gay marriage.
Was listening to some audio from the Gorsuch witch trial on my way to work. The Democrats should just stop now to save themselves because he was killing it.
No, they should stay the course. I want them to completely kill any credibility they have left.
All they know is double down.
Gorsuch totally pwned Sen Coons of Delaware.
What he did to Feinstein was even more impressive. She looked like she wanted to fall into a sinkhole and disappear.
Was unaware of that. Will have to check it out later. Thanks.
Here it is.
That actually needs to happen, like now.
They can’t. When they see media coverage, they’re like Paul Newman in Slapshot “Scouts?”. It doesn’t matter that its bad coverage, they’re like moths to a flame.
I had some crappy sleep last night so my posts will contain a higher percentage of gibberish than normal.
I usually find after a night of poor sleep that everybody else is less coherent than normal while I remain my normal model of sterling clarity.
Monstrous – and I mean *monstrous* – fart from our dog woke me up at 3.15 this morning, ruining my sleep.
Dogs and sheetrock walls hit hardest.
Well the best looking woman in the company decided to park herself in the IT department today… she looks quite a bit like Marisa Tomei.
not meant as a reply
Hey, that’s a way to improve my day anyway.
We’re talking “Cousin Vinny” vintage Marisa Tomei? If not, send her back and order a “Firefly” vintage Morena Baccarin – or even a “Firefly” vintage Christina Hendricks if it comes to that.
more of a “The Wrestler” era Tomei. So MILF-hot.
Works for me. That woman has aged like Chateau Lafite Rothschild.
I was awoken at 5 by a sharp pain in my thigh. If I suddenly disappear from here, it’s because blood clots killed me.
I have no idea if that’s what it was, but the clotting mutation runs in my family (killed my grandmother, almost killed my mother) and I’ve gotten paranoid about them.
Don’t rule out shingles. Worst pain I’ve ever felt.
JFC, when did I get so old?
Unpossible!
Alamo Rangers detain man in Speedo riding wooden pony with rubber chicken
I’m sure the Rangers who put him in cuffs were scolded right? Someone sat them down and told them that they can’t just cuff any citizen they feel like and not expect some repercussions.
If it had been Austin, he would have got a grant from the Austin Performing Arts Council, and pride of place in the city “Let your Freak Flag Fly” parade.
At least they didn’t taze or shoot him.
meh.
An ‘artist’ with a publicity stunt.
I wouldn’t be averse to a little bit of mild police brutality in this case.
The internet is not happy with the new Wonder Woman’s armpits
She’s a hypoallergenic Amazon?
Except, she has had plenty of contact with the “outside” world.
I clicked the link within the article. Almost all of the embedded Tweets complaining about the lack of pit bush were made by what appear to be creepy middle aged men. My guess is that it was far too difficult to turn “they should have shown more close-ups of her bare feet” into anything resembling a feminist battle cry.
Amazons are have naturally hairless bodies everyone knows that
So, tooling around in an invisible jet is commonplace for an Amazon but basic grooming isn’t?
She needs to cut off one of her tits to be authentic.
Why would an Amazon be able to lift a car and throw it down the street?
Because their potential isn’t stunted by exposure to The Patriarchy, duh.
You know who else prepared their country to go to war with the Russians…
Sweden preparing nuclear fallout bunkers across the country amid fear of Russian war
Well you could just suck up to them while proclaiming your ‘neutrality’ like you did with Nazi Germany Sweden.
If those shelters are ever needed I can see some interesting situations arising wrt MENA immigrants.
Those aren’t fallout shelters. They’re rape dens for their visitors from Syria to use.
I can’t believe there isn’t a link to the excellent job Minnesoda’s senators have done in ferreting out the crypto-fascist Gorsuch.
Klobuchar totally p0wned him on his hidden sexism in writing that only a man can be president.
Franken was yet another senator who Gorsuch pantsed.
I just do not get how anyone can take Franken seriously and yet, the left loves him.
Minnesota, man. I’m choosing to blame Jimbo.
TUNDRA TOO!!!!!
He’s an intellectual, don’t you know. Look at those glasses.
They love him because they know he literally stole an election. And the fact that he got away with it and that led to the 60 seat supermajority that allowed O-care to be imposed on America is reason enough for them to lionize him and overlook all of the retarded ass shit he says every day.
STEVE SMITH WAS YOUNG ONCE. HAVE FIRST DATE WITH GOAT.
Cleveland County’s Bigfoot Jr.
Ivanka Trump’s White House Gig Is an Insult to Working Women
There’s a word for this: nepotism.
In a similar vein, I only recently discovered that the First Lady has federally funded staff.
Why?
I’m surprised Bill Clinton never used the argument that the position of First Lady is “taking away a life-changing opportunity from another woman.”
I seem to remember the Wookie jetting all over the world for months at a time with her 200 closest friends on the taxpayer dime to the tune of tens of millions. I am sure if we look back we can find where these same people were complaining about Meeeshelz privilege.
^This. And they have also started talking about taxpayers and tax dollars. Their hypocrisy is stunning.
Musta been a bit of a comedown really.
Air Force 1 and heavier-than-airs are OK I guess, but they’re pretty tame hooptys compared to the Millenium Falcon.
Hey, the wife of the mayor of New York has a paid staff; you want the wife of the President to go without ?
“If only we had all voted for the wife of a former President who received pretty much all her positions and influence due to her connection with said President, this wouldn’t have happened.”
Well, of course, That president’s daughter would have had a salary!
+600,000
Ivanka needs to be at home with her kid. She also needs to be making more babies, and making her husband a sandwich.
Or she could just come over to my house …
IKR? She makes the best sandwiches.
Or, are you talking about something else?
Think euphemistically.
I would love it if Ivanka and Dana Perino made me a sandwich
Wasn’t Chelsea Clinton just put on a board for six figures by Barry Diller recently? Is that not nepotism because Diller isn’t related to her?
Correct, that’s cronyism.
Just the latest in a serious of cushy sinecures for her.
Or series. I’ve heard it both ways.
/Shawn Spencer
But nobody batted an eye when FLOTUS Hillary Clinton was sitting in on meetings, running a healthcare policy shop, etc.
Seems like Ivanka is the de facto FLOTUS.
You will notice there are no calls to defund FLOTUS, only complaints about a specific person.
Actually, I’m calling for a defunding of that “office”. The government has no business supporting a private citizen like that.
Agree 1000zillion% I don’t know at want point in history this started, but it needs to end. I have been bitching about it since the Hillary care team Tonio mentioned.
Well, First Ladies have been interfering to some degree for a very long time. At some point it was obvious they’d need to delegate some of that meddling down to a bunch of peons.
Oops, didn’t mean the folks here, UCS. That’s the assumed default libertarian position.
I meant the progs on derpbook, etc.
I’m not a libertarian, but I accept your refinement of the referenced population to derpbook progs.
Technically it is nepotism, but I do believe that Ivanka has demonstrated on more than one occasion (The Apprentice series) that she is an independent thinker and has a fairly capable strategic mind. Also, she’s been heavily involved in the family business for quite awhile now and isn’t some half-assed know nothing.
seen on twitter:
Geoffrey MillerVerified account @primalpoly 19h19 hours ago
SJW logic: reject old ideas from dead white males. Also, found whole ideology on Marx, Freud, Gramsci, Adorno, Marcuse, Derrida, & Foucault
That was something I picked up in university in some of my Asian nationalism courses.
Asian Marxist: Western ideologies are only designed to benefit the west and screw over non-Western countries.
Me: Oh good, it’s not like Marx was a German writing in London or anything.
Speaking of ol’ Marx- it seems (at least to me) that the left has become anti-intellectual, all while pretending to carry the very mantle of intellectualism.
Except for the brief love of Piketty or Coates, do they churn out books that the actually read, quote, and use to bolster their arguments? It all is just a free form rehash of Marx.
I’m no deep reader of weighty tomes – but I never heard of Gramsci, Adorno, Marcuse, Derrida, or Foucault.
Maybe this is a sign of a “movement” that is intellectually exhausted.
Foucault, Derrida and Gramsci are all pretty well known (Gramsci’s wrote early in the 20th century) but they’re largely restricted to university environments. Of course they also avoid the whole fact that Foucault was pretty disillusioned with the left in general in his later years and saw classical liberalism as a possible answer.
But there’s certainly a degree of intellectual exhaustion in a movement that immediately tries to project Marxist theory onto every non-class relationship in human history. Third wave feminism was particularly lazy about this (sex is exactly like class!). It’s one of the reasons intersectionality became a thing, the Marxist mess collapsed in on itself.
Foucault rings a distant bell but definitely not the others.
But I was never a doctrinaire liberal – and I assume that’s the way with most of the left. It’s about the feelssss.
I remember a few references to Gramsci in some international relations theory classes, and my wife read some Foucault in some postgrad theory of ed courses, but that’s about it. I don’t think the left is really doing much in the marketplace of ideas, these days.
When and where did you go to school? World systems theory is standard in IR now in my experience, and Foucault is central in a bunch of sociology and criminology courses.
UMBC in the single-digit oughts. By and large the emphasis was on neoliberalism, primarily various takes on “complex interdependence”, and neorealism, the latter either in a positive or negative context depending on the professor. Touched on constructivism a little bit, maybe a smidge of “English school” here, but mostly those two.
How does one define intellectual in this context?
I would have agreed with him.
“I know, Marx screwed you guys good and hard, right?”
Little girl takes Pope’s Zucchetto
In a more civilized time, this girl would have been burned at the stake. Now she gets worldwide media attention and a laugh from the Pope. Millennials, smgdh
Seriously, she should at least have to stand barefoot in the snow outside the Pope’s palace for a few days.
Are we still doing euphemisms?
If by “we” you mean the Pope and by “euphemisms” you mean little girls…yes??
HOW DID YOU GUYS LEARN WHAT MY PET NAME FOR MY GENITALIA WAS?!!?!
Dinner guests have spoken well of my Zucchetto carbonara.
Are we all less safe when a politician lies*? Susan Rice wants you to think so.
Do you mean this Susan Rice?
Fuck that cunt.
She would. It’s Philosopher Kings and Noble Lies all the way down.
Yeah, I’m back on my “Fuck Plato up the azz with a woodchipper” jag again.
From what I’ve seen of history, there have been very few true Philosopher Kings. However, it seems the next guy ALWAYS takes the power the Philosopher was given and uses it to become a raging tyrant.
Well, I don’t know about us being less safe when a politican lies, but we’re certainly less safe when a trouser stain like Susan Rice has her grubby little paws on the levers of power.
I’m certainly not convinced Trump is the answer, but he’s ten thousand percent better than the available alternatives were.
I’ve come to the conclusion that either the Washington Post is slowly becoming the Onion or that they no longer teach ‘irony’ at universities.
Talk about an awful appeal to authority.
Yesterday, Limbaugh was saying that failure to pass RyanCare/TrumpCare would mean that tax reform would fail, as well.
The implication is that the “conservatives” in Congress who don’t like RyanCare/TrumpCarr need to suck it up, or else they won’t get what they want.
What I want to know is, which Congressmen are such yellow-bellied traitors that they would vote against tax reform if TrumpCare/RyanCare Isn’t passed?
I don’t know which ones, but you know they exist, and there only need to be a couple in the Senate to flip things.
It would be easier and much quicker to compile a list of those congressmen who AREN’T such yellow-bellied traitors.
“which Congressmen are such yellow-bellied traitors that they would vote against tax reform if TrumpCare/RyanCare Isn’t passed?”
I’ll name a few. Ryan, McCain, Graham…
Bring it. I am equally not looking forward to the Chamber of Commerce/H&R Block Christmas Tree that they will call “tax reform”.
You make an excellent point, unfortunately.
I heard that Pres. Trump’s proposed budget involved actual cuts to departments (the saved money was shifted to the military, though). I heard Republican lawmakers saying that the budget was irresponsible, and my head caught fire, which was awkward, since the fire hazard is at level red ’round here.
Trudeau ethics on display:
http://globalnews.ca/news/3325050/justin-trudeau-aga-khan-island-trip-125k-bill/
Pft. He’s a piker compared to Obama.
To be fair, his government credit card has a lower limit that Barry O’s
Hey, he has a very good reason for spending all that money. It’s 2017.
Bah, I’m having a stupid pissing match with Jesse Walker now.
Squeeze the end. Makes the stream go further.
So a friend told me once.
Private or publicly on “that other site?”
Other Site, dumb argument about the use of term ‘Trump Era’. I’m pretty much bored with it but he pissed me off by being a condescending ass.
Trump Era? He gets his own era already?
The Cretaceous Era wants a recount.
Eras are determined by electoral votes, not popular votes.
Earned Run Average? Is there a Trump that players Baseball?
ERA isn’t a great stat anyway. What’s Trump’s FIP?
Maybe Voros McCracken can make his way over here to explain.
While it is far from perfect, as traditional stats go, ERA actually isnt that bad.
Wow! That was very condescending. I’ve not noticed JW use that tactic before when he engages in the comments but maybe I’ve missed something.
That site has been overrun by Leftist trolls
Do you think he’s wading into the comments and, dare I say, acting a smidge trollish because the commentariat (at least the commentariat that matters) has left? I mean, Jesus, it’s a ghost town over there. And the people who are left? Yeeeesh.
I’M NOT WRONG YOURE WRONG
Rachel Maddow compares 2017 Russian hack to start of Cold War
ZOMG there are state-sponsored hackers in Russia?? how does Maddow keep getting these game changing scoops???
I dunno, but word is, she’ll explain that in tonight’s show – AFTER the commercial break.
She still has a show?
It keeps her mom off the street.
Notice how they don’t give a damn about China’s massive state sponsored hacking and misinformation programs but obsess over the half-failed middle power petrostate with tons of long term problems? Oh, China just tried to hack the DoD again, that’s fine, but RUSSIA (allegedly) RELEASED INFORMATION ABOUT HOW CORRUPT THE DEMOCRATS ARE.
China is Trump’s bogeyman. They can’t feed his narrative.
the half-failed middle power petrostate
Clearly you’re forgetting that, except for that Norwegian interloper, they still rule the chess stats.
That must be how they’re secretly Machiavellian geniuses at manipulating foreign powers but can’t competently run their own state, we must close the 3D Chess Gap!
Keep in mind that the greatest threat to anyone in power is not a foreign power but the people of the country that put them in power. Almost everything they do is to manipulate or bully their own people. The Ruskies cant do jack shit to us but we can sure as hell put a lot of pols out of their jobs.
This always makes me think of Paris, the City of Light.
“Rand Paul says the Obamacare “repeal” bill doesn’t have the votes. He’s predicting that his party will pull the bill and start over. Hopefully they do and use his bill as a template.”
I read Rand’s bill and not impressed with that either. Just kill the pile of dung already and forget about a replacement. Any replacement will eventually be worse than the ACA, since future administrations will be able to amend it.
You’re advocating for ANARCHY, sir. ANARCHY!
That kind of talk at this site is … oh, n/m.
You mean like the type of anarchy we had before the ACA was passed? Ok, anarchy it is.
Rand’s bill allows companies to sell across state lines, gets rid of plan required coverage for shit that doesn’t apply (like birth control, Pap smears, colonoscopies, etc) and eliminates all forced participation. It’s a huge improvement.
And provides for people to form collectives. Yes it is a huge improvement. Probably the best we can hope for. That’s why I knew the establishment R shitheads would not like it. Were it up to them they would keep Ocare. Thinking about them just pisses me off. I feel my hair starting to stand up.
They have the house, the senate, and the oval office but somehow they still just cant do anything they promised.
Not the best we can hope for. Best we can hope for is repeal, no replace. That’s what the cowardly shitheads promised to do and tried to do when they knew they couldn’t do it.
What I should have said was ‘best we are likely to get’, but it would take some doing.
Repeal no replace does NOT allow for selling across state lines or collectives, both better alternatives than the status quo ante.
The feds already f’ed up the health insurance and healthcare systems before O-care, so repeal would put us back in the same crappy situation that caused people to turn to Dem solutions in the first place.
” An elderly man was sitting alone on a dark path, right? He wasn’t certain of which direction to go, and he’d forgotten both where he was traveling to and who he was. He’d sat down for a moment to rest his weary legs, and suddenly looked up to see an elderly woman before him. She grinned toothlessly and with a cackle, spoke: ‘Now your third wish. What will it be?’
‘Third wish?’ The man was baffled. ‘How can it be a third wish if I haven’t had a first and second wish?’
‘You’ve had two wishes already,’ the hag said, ‘but your second wish was for me to return everything to the way it was before you had made your first wish. That’s why you remember nothing; because everything is the way it was before you made any wishes.’ She cackled at the poor berk. ‘So it is that you have one wish left.’
‘All right,’ said the man, ‘I don’t believe this, but there’s no harm in wishing. I wish to know who I am.’
‘Funny,’ said the old woman as she granted his wish and disappeared forever. ‘That was your first wish.’ “
It’s like you WANT David Muir or Scott Pelley to say mean things about them.
Not saying it’s not an improvement over Ryan’s Obamacare Lite, just saying that it will eventually be even worse, as any bill will be, because future administrations will amend it. We need to kill it now. Kill it before it multiplies.
I think it is an improvement over repeal too.
Repeal just takes us back to pre-Ocare levels of government interference in the health care market. Rand’s is an improvement over that.
Yes. What that stupid term means is ‘potential future Democrat voter’.
We’re a quarter of the way into LBJ’s “200 years”. Gotta keep the pipeline filled.
She still has a show?
More popular than ever. She should be paying Trump a hefty portion of her earnings, in tribute. She’d be wherever Melissa Harris Perry is now, if Hillary had won.
Megyn Kelly should probably be paying Trump a nice percentage of whatever MSNBC is paying her as well.
As has been explained countless times, these two young men are simply here to earn money to feed their families, so stop separating families. Not a single immigrant comes to this country to do anything else. Everyone knows that the real perpetrators – I call them “perpe-traitors” – are wealthy white men, probably members of a fraternity.
Trying to carve out their share of the American Dream.
It’s like you don’t even propaganda, dude.
STEVE SMITH APPROVE THEIR VERSION OF AMERICAN DREAM.
It’s like you don’t even propaganda, dude.
How dare you! I specifically used the current talking point of Stop Separating Families, #6. Granted, I should have capitalized it in the previous comment too, as to signal my comrades.
Everyone knows that the real perpetrators – I call them “perpe-traitors” – are wealthy white men, probably members of a fraternity.
Skull and Bones strikes again!
So I was reading this Kevin D. Williamson article and seeing the car in the picture reminded me that I can finally buy a v8 Mustang this year as the previous 6000 dollar tax on a 5 liter engine was repealed. Not that I would buy it but still.
Williamson keeps whooping up the production side of the economy but forgets consumption. However much wonderful stuff gets created, it’s all useless to people lacking the means to acquire it–i.e. a job, the way things work now anyway.
I dunno. What do others think?
Best. Alt-text. Ever.
This site needs a Robby S to link to the latest campus free speech stories
https://www.thefire.org/in-anti-intellectual-email-wellesley-profs-call-engaging-with-controversial-arguments-an-imposition-on-students/
This site needs a Robby S
No site needs a Robby Soave. What is actually needed is that Robby Soave needs to either be abandoned in the woods with a knife or trained to be a real man by any of the 80s greatest action heroes.
Someone like Paul Reubens?
Laugh all you want, but as I recall, PeeWee made it clear across the country to get his bicycle with nothing but the clothes on his back and his wits. The dude was resourceful as hell.
No need for that. Just give his car a flat tire and steal his AAA card. He’ll be helpless.
Just steal the latest version of Journolist email group and send out an open invite to this site.
Then we’ll have lots of campus free speech stories.
It’s always projection, isn’t it. Allowing controversial speakers impinges on the liberty of the students; it’s a form of bullying; it actually stifles debate. It’s always projections and opposite day.
Someone forgot the but rule right out of the gate. “We defend free speech and it is essential to education BUT…”
Progs like big buts.
http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2009/06/25/i-mack-sir-mix-a-lot-on-politics/
The progs have the best hypocrisy. Someone needs to package some of their nonsense up as a Trump quote and post it on one of their social media cesspits and watch as they pile on with a complete lack of self-awareness.
“Look, I love free speech. Love it. I’m the biggest free speech lover there is. But this is hate speech. Hate speech. It’s not free speech. These people, they have no idea what they’re talking about. They just make up these lies, and that denies my humanity. Denies it. It’s the worst. You know what the worst part of it is? They know they’re lies. Total lies. Big, fat, whopper lies. These have been debunked so often…I’m just saying. We shouldn’t need to listen to them anymore. We should just shut them up.”
That’s uncanny. Well done.
Also
Virginia College Students Complain Of ‘Racial Battle Fatigue’ Due To Traumatic Microaggressions
http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/20/virginia-college-students-complain-of-racial-battle-fatigue-due-to-traumatic-microaggressions/#ixzz4c41tdpfN
We know what that means. Break out the safe spaces with coloring books and puppies.
VCU *sigh* how did I know?
I remember the good old days when the most I’d have to hear from VCU students was when one would get into Sticky Rice on karaoke night and would embarrass himself by drunkenly trying to sing Brown Eyed Girl. Now I have to read about them being butthurt over microagressions online from Texas?
Are U of R kids just that much better? Or is it that they just have the decency to keep their whining to themselves?
It’s like I can’t escape.
I’m sure UR kids aren’t much better – after all, it’s just a safety school for rich suburban kids from NJ who didn’t get into Duke – but they aren’t as noisy. Plus there aren’t nearly as many of them. VCU’s enrollment is probably at least 5 times UR’s.
Based on my memories, I enjoyed Potters Pub (when Rose was alive and before Tony ran it into the ground) and the U of R kids a lot more than the places I’d occasionally get stuck at on Grace Street (I’m drawing a blank on names. The Diner? I never went to Babe’s so I can’t count that.)
I don’t know. I tried to stay in the west end anyway. More civilized drinkers there without all the college kids.
Potter’s Pub. Wow, that takes me back.
When I was lawyering in Richmond, though, was back when the Shockoe Slip was reviving and had some nice places. Its been literally decades, though.
So much has changed in Richmond. I grew up here, moved away in 1999, and when I moved back in 2011 it was like a completely different city. Some for the better – there are a shitload of excellent restaurants here now, for instance – and some for the worse. The influx of proggies fleeing the Northeast has not been ideal.
So many of my friends went there. Many of them think modern day feminism is cancer.
Maine Coon
Racist
It’s sublimely hilarious that the press is trotting out Obama hacks with long records of lying like Susan Rice and Jen Pskai to write chin-tuggers about the dangers of dishonesty in the White House.
The left are shameless, compulsive liars. They cant quit. They cant help themselves.
*remembers shreek, Tony and a few others arguing that truth is irrelevant, end justifies means, serving the narrative is all that matters and that the deplorables are deplorable even when they are right they must be resisted*
OMG, Tony. At least shreek was good for a laugh if you got him/her/it really going off the rails, but Tony just sucked.
The amsoc phenomenon is interesting, though. I never did get the story of how someone…sane…got his handle.
No one got control of his handle. Someone made an amsoc handle with an “I” instead of an “L” in “socialist”.
But the cool part is the original amsoc apparently abandoned it. The troll got out-trolled.
It was a beautiful thing! I’m guessing he goes by “DanO.” now?
Too hasty
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) doesn’t think the Senate should proceed forward with the Supreme Court nomination hearings as if there is no Russian smoke clouding President Trump’s nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.
———-
Warren’s message is what all Democrats should be saying in public appearances. This is not about revenge or even Gorsuch’s stance on issues. This is about the investigation into Donald Trump’s ties to Russia. What kind of insane government would sit back and allow someone under investigation for treason to appoint a lifelong position to the highest place in the third arm of the government, part of the checks and balances that are supposed to make this country work.
The founders never anticipated Congressional Republicans being willing to sell their own country out, so Congress is not functioning as a check and balance due to Republican cowardice or perhaps something more sinister.
The only area of federal government left untainted by Russian control right now is the Supreme Court.
Of course Donald Trump should not be allowed to choose someone to fill the seat that President Obama constitutionally should have filled, but didn’t because Republicans blocked Obama’s excellent choice for no reason.
Obviously, impeachment is inevitable.
Apparently, once Trump has been impeached, the Presidency will revert to his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, because the Constitution was written a long time ago by a bunch of crackers who talked like fags.
To be honest, was there any choice of Obama’s not excellent?
I’m pretty sure he preferred Chicago style pizza. Other than that, his record is spotless.
She actually used the word ‘treason’? Did she give any details about how the russians are controlling this government and to what ends?
If they are successful in crushing Trump I dont think they will like what comes next.
She’s presuming it’s not just him but presumably all congressional Rs, with possible exceptions for the ones who openly oppose Trump. Basically let’s flip the two elected branches on their heads and fill them with virtuous non-Russian tainted Dems.
You’re right, if that somehow happened she’s really not going to like the long-term results.
What kind of insane government would sit back and allow someone under investigation for treason to appoint a lifelong position to the highest place in the third arm of the government…
Must be nice to not be subject to libel laws.
Wasn’t HRC more-or-less under investigation for espionage? Although, I guess technically there never was a specific charge since they never convened a grand jury.
These fuckheads don’t even realize that a president can’t be charged with a crime while in office. So any investigation would have to be handed over to congress to bring impeachment proceedings forward. If a president is removed from office, only then can criminal charges, and that includes treason, be brought against that person.
So whoever said that is demonstrably wrong.
I meant there was never a specific charge against Hillary.
Oh I wasn’t refuting you. I was just making a statement and responding to you seemed like the best place to do it since that was the closest reply button when it popped into my head.
What kind of insane politician would accuse someone of treason without first looking up the constitutional definition of the alleged crime?
a blind partisan?
I was gonna say “a former Harvard Law prof.” Same thing, I suppose.
Um, it’s not like Gorsuch is someone we’ve never heard of before. He’s been a federal judge for ten years. Congress had no trouble with him the last time they confirmed him.
But the only area of federal government left untainted by Russian control right now is the Supreme Court. So why take the chance?
I think there’s a joke about bodily fluids in there somewhere
Pie, do you know why I only drink distilled water or rain water, and only pure grain alcohol?
Relevant.
“This is not about revenge or even Gorsuch’s stance on issues.”
And the warm moisture you’re feeling on your leg is rain.
As I recall a number of D’s were explicit that they planned on doing this for revenge.
I have to admit if Gorsuch is a Russian sleeper agent, you would have to give it to the Russians, they planned it well.
Wait I thought they all had dark tans and rapped?
At last, Jeffrey Epstein is a topic in the MSM:
WaPo: Labor nominee Acosta cut deal with billionaire in sex abuse case involving 40 underage girls
Well, this is the first I’ve ever heard of a wealthy client buying his way out of justice.
If they dig too far into this what are the chances they will find a trail leading back to Clinton?
I can’t imagine another prosecutor doing any better under those circumstances, especially because others came forward after the conviction.
The only possible way Clinton would face the music over this is if one of those girls was the daughter of someone else with money or power. I’m guessing Epstein doesn’t work that way.
If others came forward after the conviction, then start a new trial for the new victims.
I fail to see the problem here.
Zero. They won’t dig that far.
Damn. How do ya post a (worksafe) image to this joint?
Only ZARDOZ knows.
You picked exactly the same picture I tried to sneak in. And failed.
Is it just my imagination, or has Google News swerved sharply leftward? Maybe they have entered a contractual partnership with WaPo, because that seems to be where most of their stories come from.
I need a new news aggregator. Suggestions?
Wait you mean these here links are not enough news?
Cautiously optimistic about The Dark Tower. I know I shouldn’t be given that most of King’s adaptations are crap.
American Gods looks great, too.
Been meaning to watch more of the Dirk Gently series, but the first episode was scattered and mushy and I can’t look Elijah Wood without thinking about an Australian man in a dog suit.
Come on, Idris Elba is going to look like a badass as a scruffy cowboy who don’t give a fuck and McConnaghey is going to do his weird, but effective screen chewing creepiness and its going to be great! I just hope they don’t soften Roland up.
Definitely. And it doesn’t follow the books, which is promising. I enjoyed a lot of the series, but King is terribly self-indulgent.
And very, very resistant to any editors’ god advice.
And I hope McConnaghey captures Eddie’s petulant loser character instead of recasting him as a badass.
Aw, hell. I assumed McConnaghey was Eddie. Seems like there won’t be an Eddie. Just the kid? Fuck!
Really? He even sort of looks like the Flagg character from the movie version of The Stand.
Anyway, whenever I read TDT (especially as it slid further along into meta weirdness and self-indulgence) I always wished to have more time spent on the Western/dark fantasy backstory. There was one later book that was mostly flashback, which I did end up liking.
Thank god the boy has been rescued.
Superintendent Susan Bohn emailed Lockhart High School parents on Monday to notify them of Fowlkes’ arrest and suspension.
“Lockhart parents entrust their children to us every day, and it is something we do not take lightly. Student safety is the district’s most important priority,” said Bohn. “As soon as we learned of the report, we acted swiftly to involve law enforcement and CPS to conduct a thorough investigation. The district does not and will not tolerate any improper communication or contact between a teacher and child.”
And- before you ask- wood, throbbing.
My female high school teachers all looked like failed experiments from the Island of Dr Moreau.
She’s cute. But that face with those hands? Something is amiss.
Whoops. That was a shot of Debra Lafave.
There were a Trump-handful of high school and junior high teachers I had that weren’t flaming sacks of garbage. Nothing close to these hotties you see every week now.
When I was in 9th grade, one of the English teachers was a Miami Heat dancer.
Oh, the conversations that go on among 9th grade boys…
a Miami Heat dancer
Go on…
You know, there’s an interesting confluence here, with the issue of Susan Rice’s egregious lying, the current mendacious evil of the left and their philosophical foundations, and ZARDOZ (the movie, not the Glibber).
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. BE WARNED, ASSOCIATING ZARDOZ WITH THE LIKE OF SUSAN RICE MAY GET BRUTAL #6 CLEANSED.
What do you want to bet this is widows and orphans dreaming of the good life?
http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/britain/british-parliament-in-lockdown-after-reports-of-shooting-stabbing-and-at-least-a-dozen-injured-35555655.html
Probably an attack by the alt-right.
The Catholics are striking back!
Well, Martin McGuinness croaked in January, so it would be a long shot.
Other than that, The Troubles are kinda quiet at the moment.
Guy Fawkes’s dumber, less creative descendant strikes again!
There probably isn’t that much gunpowder on the whole island right now.
Take that, Oath of Supremacy!
Da Fuck?
Shooting at Parliament?
Damn crazy cops. Had to be a cop – guns are banned in the UK!
Heh. It was. Perp had knife.
Apparently it was the cops doing the shooting. Damned racist cops shooting a dreamer.
A narrow escape. I barely managed to get the teevee shut off before Trump came on.
And there was much rejoicing.
for your 10-year old selves:
high quality iconic Vader scene from Rogue One
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XWXzZ_FdN0
Rogue One is the best Star Wars movie.
But not a very well run operation.
You are a sexy, beautiful man for linking to that. Do you mind if I put you in leather trousers and cover you in oil…for reasons?