Tuesday Afternoon Links

Right you lot. I shan’t try to trick you with pics of hot dames. No, I am going for substance here!  *turns red trying to hold in laughter*  Oh, who the heck am I kidding. Enjoy (or not) these links of….stuff.

  • South America has seen something like this, in the recent past, has it not?
  • Sure it is supply and demand…BUT!
  • For those in the mood to make a bit of a bet.
  • Time to sweep the Dons from the sea? It is a comin’!
  • Florida Tourism promoted!

That ought to hold you for a couple of hours at least. Then much better material will be here.

Comments

254 responses to “Tuesday Afternoon Links”

  1. bacon-magic

    Where da wymen at?

    1. Gojira used up our daily quota.

      1. bacon-magic

        Boo Gojira, boo.

          1. bacon-magic

            You rock, Just Say’n.

          2. AlmightyJB

            Hello

          3. Badolph Hilter

            Damn.

          4. AceDroman

            You’re doing the Lord’s work, thank you.

          5. R C Dean

            – 1 tough neighborhood

        1. Badolph Hilter

          To be fair, he did use it well.

      2. R C Dean

        Porting a query for HM over here re: the front page pics on the previous article:

        Is she thicc?

        1. I should think, borderline yes.

          1. R C Dean

            Yeah, that was kinda my take, but I’m not a thiccficionado. While certainly curvy in the buttocular region, I wasn’t sure if she needed a few more sammiches to really make the grade.

            Which is why I was asking HM, not you. 🙂

        2. Jefe Hayek

          She was already a Thicc Thursday entrant

          Jessica Tsai *Homer Simpson drool*

          1. R C Dean

            There you have it. Maybe if I looked at their faces I would have recognized her.

          2. Bobarian LMD

            Faces? I musta missed that.

  2. Just Say’n

    Spain the the UK are jostling over Gibraltar? Is this the 1600’s?

    Also, I am first

    1. Just Say’n

      Or second, I suppose

    2. From the diary of a soldier in the garrison of Gibraltar under siege, 1727.

      March 9th. Came a deserter who reports that while our guns were firing at them an officer pulled of his hat, huzzaed and called God to damn us all, when one of our balls with unerring justice took off the miserable man’s head and left him a wretched example of the Divine justice.
      April 12th. A recruit who refused to work, carry arms, eat or drink was whipped for the fifth time, after which being asked by the officer he said he was now ready to do his duty.
      May 7th. This morning Ensign Stubbs of Colonel Egerton’s regiment retired a little out of the camp and shot himself.
      June 17th. Today two corporals of the Guards boxed over a rail until both expired, but nobody can tell for what reason.
      October 11th. One of Pearce’s regiment went into the belfry of a very high steeple, threw himself into the street, and broke his skull to pieces.
      October 16th. Will Garen, who broke his back, was hanged.
      December 9th. Last night a deserter clambered up within a little of Willis’s battery and was assisted by a ladder of ropes by our men. When the officers came to examine his face, they found him to have deserted out of the Royal Irish two months ago. Asking the reason of his return, he said he chose rather to be hanged than continue in the Spanish service, so is to have his choice.

  3. Hammercorps

    Didn’t realize it was this easy to get into Stanford. Man, I’ve been doing this all wrong.

    1. Just Say’n

      He should probably study rhetoric in college

    2. R C Dean

      Oh, he just makes it look easy. Its actually pretty hard for a decent, normal human being to be that ignorant, arrogant, and entitled.

    3. Playa Manhattan

      It’s been that easy to get in ever since Chelsea Clinton went there.

    4. Rufus the Monocled

      Why Trump won. Why Trump won. Why Trump won. Why Trump won. Why Trump won x 20.

    5. KibbledKristen

      Smug little bastard. I went to college with a crapload of assholes like him. He’s about to find out what it’s like to be a fry in an ocean.

      1. robc

        I went to college with a crapload of assholes too. But not like him.

        You don’t survive with that kind of assholery at an engineering school. We had our own special kind.

      2. Badolph Hilter

        He’ll be wildly successful and get a 6-figure job in government.

        1. Juice

          Or as an Ezra Klein type.

          1. Badolph Hilter

            Indeed, the fact that Ezra isn’t living out of an appliance box under an overpass is all the proof you need that the system doesn’t really work the way you were raised to think it works.

          2. OneOut

            I live in a van.

            Down by tha river.

    6. Enough About Palin

      And yet he’s wearing a t-shirt promoting black-on-black violence.

    7. MemberBerries

      The people angriest at this should not be teenagers who were denied entry to Stanford. The people angriest at this should be any black or Muslim student who was accepted based on his or her own merits, and whose accomplishment has now been degraded to the equivalent of an ignorant stunt.

      1. Hammercorps

        If nothing else, maybe this will help people realize what a waste of time and money these Ivy League schools are.

        1. WTF

          Stanford is not an Ivy. Just sayin’.

  4. bacon-magic

    South America has seen something like this, in the recent past, has it not?

    Coming soon to North America

    1. Hammercorps

      Semi-OT, but have you read James Duncan’s Blood Republic? Pretty entertaining novel about the EC having a tie, and the country splitting into Progs vs MAGA people vs Alex Jones’s audience vs PMCs.

      1. If there’s a tie in the EC, doesn’t the House of Representatives just decide the election?

        1. Just Say’n

          That didn’t work out too well the last time that happened.

          1. robc

            Q wasnt a horrible president. And Andy J just waited 4 years and tried again.

          2. Tilden would like a word with you.

          3. Just Say’n

            Technically, I guess you’re right. I’m thinking of Rutherford B. Hayes and the disputed electors. Technically, that wasn’t decided by the House, as there was an agreement to end the dispute.

          4. robc

            Its the best kind of correct.

          5. Just Say’n

            So true

          6. Bobarian LMD

            Technically, it’s the only kind of correct.

          7. robc

            Way to explain the joke.

        2. Hammercorps

          I think so, but the candidates refuse to concede. There’s other reasons as well, but since they’re sort of spoilers I won’t mention them here.

    2. ChipsnSalsa

      Paraguayan lawmakers Tuesday suspended a controversial bill altering the constitution to allow the president to stand for re-election following riots and the death of an activist.

      That is a fairly narrow set of circumstances to allow the president to stand for re-election.

    1. 100th Meridian

      Sure it is supply and demand…BUT!

      $1.5 million? Pffffffff

      The bribes to get it approved probably cost the parking operator that much alone. Poor investment.

    2. Drake

      The “West Coast Ivy”. Snorts.

    3. Gilmore

      Twice is excusable, Thrice is an offense

  5. Drake

    Hilarious video of 3 Swedish lady police officers trying to arrest an “asylum seeker”. Another man actually wrestles him to the ground then leaves him for the cops to cuff. They immediately lose control and get their asses beat.

    1. R C Dean

      Two gems from the article:

      the asylum seeker was apprehended after the video ends but not before attempting to set several fires in the asylum home.

      Shame they stopped him.

      The heavily migrant-populated suburbs have also been a test for feminists in Sweden, some of whom are now moving away because Islamic fundamentalists do not tolerate their presence in the areas.

      One of the rare instances where an open border policy actually imposed personally on People Who Matter, who are generally quite adept at insuring that none of Those Sorts will ever make a personal appearance in their neighborhood.

    2. Raston Bot

      that’s worth a chuckle.

      was she trying to arrest that first guy that helped??

      i’m assuming no firearms on police in Sweden?

      and the bald guy at the end?? cop or just a dumbshit. he got rocked for a second there. not quite out on his feet but definitely woozy.

      1. Hammercorps

        AFAIK, the cops have to keep their firearms locked in their vehicles. Or maybe that’s Norway. One of the two.

        1. Agent Cooper

          That’s a good plan if the perp decides to flee to INSIDE THE CAR.

          1. Hammercorps

            They’d never do that! Those cars say Police on them! Those perps have to RESPECT OUR AUTHORITAH.

        2. Badolph Hilter

          It’s the second one. The Swedish cops have to keep their firearms locked in Norway.

      2. Gilmore

        i’m assuming no firearms on police in Sweden?

        Even so, its ridiculous that not one of them seemed to have an ASP baton or some other non-lethal weapon on them to kneecap the motherfucker. He could have been strangling someone to death while they stood around watching.

        1. Drake

          One of them had some kind of baton. She dropped it when she got smacked.

          1. Gilmore

            “”She dropped it when she got smacked.””

            (facepalm)

            the part of the vid that actually made me angry was the bit where he was smashing their car, and they were standing about 30 feet away from him watching (with one that he punched making it an extra 10 yards…)

            as though he couldn’t have closed that distance and killed one of them before either of the others could do shit. It was complaisance bordering on delusion. They were basically granting him control of the situation.

    3. Playa Manhattan

      I love how one the officers holds back the Good Samaritan. “NO! You’re not in the union!”

      1. Gilmore

        “we need to write you up for interfering”

      2. Rufus the Monocled

        I liked that part too. ‘Step aside sir and let us do, er, our jobs’.

        Embarrassing.

        At least American cops wouldn’t let themselves be fucked over, right?

        1. thom

          American cops would have just killed that guy in a fusillade of gunfire.

    4. 100th Meridian

      An angry man from a culture that doesn’t rate women highly taking on three women?

      Damn, who could have predicted this outcome.

    5. Rufus the Monocled

      What in the fucken hell did I just watch? What a bleeping disgrace. The guy WALKED AWAY and they still did nothing? Apparently, only later did he get apprehended? And what is this retardation of sending THREE women cops into a refugee area without a single male officer?

      Man oh man, Sweden is cuck en masse.

      1. Drake

        Women are just as tough as men. This is known.

        1. Women can kick a man in the face or the groin, and there’s nothing he can do about it.

    6. thom

      Would this guy be considered a “refugee”? If so, if he’s looking for somewhere to go, he’s apparently welcome at several homes in my Minneapolis neighborhood, according to signs that people have posted in their front yards.

      1. 100th Meridian

        Aw man, do your neighbors also have those stupid signs that start ‘In This House’ and the list several trite platitudes to let everyone know their house is a GoodThink house?

        1. thom

          I haven’t seen those, which surprises me since many of my neighbors are really into signalling their correct beliefs.

      2. Left Hand of Radar

        We must live in the same neighborhood. I especially love the middle-aged white lady who puts signs out suggesting I “Celebrate Ramadan!”

        1. thom

          Ha! I have seen those.

    7. Juice

      Looks like he learned a lot from Andy Kaufman.

    8. Suthenboy

      Useful idiots. They have scrambled shit in their heads and cant understand the reality of what is right in front of their eyes. He is an ‘asylum seeker’, not a savage invader there to rape their children, cut their throats and steal all of their shit. He’s just a poor unfortunate fellow there to get a taste of the good life.

      If they dont pull their heads out of their asses, hang their pols, and fight back they are doomed. What a shame.

    9. Badolph Hilter

      TW: vertical video

    10. Badolph Hilter

      Jesus Fucking Christ. Did those officers get any training besides Community Relations?

  6. Drake

    The new civil war.

    The left is a treasonous movement. The Democrats became a treasonous organization when they fell under the sway of a movement that rejects our system of government, its laws and its elections. Now their treason is coming to a head. They are engaged in a struggle for power against the government. That’s not protest. It’s not activism. The old treason of the sixties has come of age. A civil war has begun.

    This is a primal conflict between a totalitarian system and a democratic system. Its outcome will determine whether we will be a free nation or a nation of slaves.

    1. Just Say’n

      Such a measured take

      1. Drake

        Anything measures at this point? The Dems have lost their minds.

        There’s another angle here though, one that is not reductionist. Progressives have been in control of America since the Civil War. The great industrial wars of the early 20th century, then the long Cold War, worked to restrain some of the worst impulses that are let loose when a person or group has unchecked power. Those restraints are gone so all of the reckless tendencies of Progressives can be indulged, seemingly without consequence.

        In other words, this reality denying madness we see going on with Progressives, has a late phase degeneracy vibe to it. Most of this nonsense is happening in well insulated compounds like the college campus. The Progs have total control so all of their worst instincts are free to run riot. It’s not some new phase in the long civil war, but the final burst of maniacal lunacy before there is the knock on the door and reality bursts in.

        1. Just Say’n

          I don’t disagree. I was being flippant

        2. R C Dean

          The Z Man has an interesting blog. He dabbles in nuevo race realism (or somesuch, can’t follow the micro-distinctions), but he’s a sharp guy and generally worth a read.

        3. We should allow the libertarians to have unchecked power.

    2. Suthenboy

      He isnt wrong.

  7. jesse.in.mb

    Caitlyn Taylor, 17, was in Destin with her high school softball team for a tournament when she was bitten on her leg in the Gulf of Mexico, the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Department confirmed to the Courier-Journal. While she was being bitten, the quick-thinking teen punched the five-foot-long shark back, according to authorities.

    I would run this story into the ground as hard as I could.
    Job interviewer: Tell us about the scariest time and how you handled it.
    Taylor: I was bitten by a shark, and punched it in the face
    Mugger: give me your wallet!
    Taylor: I punched a fucking shark in the face, you think I won’t fuck up your day?

    I can’t think of a scenario where I wouldn’t bring this up constantly.

    1. Hammercorps

      I punched a bull once. Was a dumb idea though.

    2. The Other Kevin

      Once again, Mythbusters proves to be the most useful show on TV.

    3. AlmightyJB

      My ex boss and her family just got back from Destin a week ago. I bet she’s freaking out

      1. Florida Man

        I was surprised it was destin and not new Smyrna. Destine has crystal clear water, so it’s unusual for a shark to mistakenly bite a human there.

    1. Drake

      If he ever goes bald, he has lots of follicles available to transplant.

      1. KibbledKristen

        Dog forbid! Jeezus! He could use a #1 cut, stat. Or a #0, even.

    2. See, I would have linked to a photo of Carla Suarez Navarro.

      1. KibbledKristen

        Not hairy enough

        1. jesse.in.mb

          Were you around for the Turkish oil wrestling post?

          Still might not be hairy enough for your tastes, but Turks, so…

          1. KibbledKristen

            Hello Ahmet!! (the guy in the third pic…wowzah)

          2. jesse.in.mb

            Yeah, if it’s not a sport you’re already following you should start. Or just GIS it now and then to remind yourself that there is good in the world.

          3. Enough About Palin

            I frequent Zen Box, a very good Japanese restaurant. I always sit at their counter, right in front of the TV. It’s always tuned to the Japanese channel (NHK). A few visits back they channel had Sumo wrestling. I’m like, I don’t need to see this while I’m eating.

      2. He never should have left “Scrubs”. I don’t think he’s been in anything since.

  8. Mad Scientist

    I shan’t try to trick you with pics of hot dames.

    Damn you, Swiss! It’s not a trick if we EXPECT it!

    1. I didn’t want people halfway though the links before they went “Where muh Thicc?”

    2. Gojira

      He doesn’t love our children as I do.

      1. Mad Scientist

        Gojira is the new Zardoz!

        1. GOJIRA SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS COMMENTING ONES. HE GIVES YOU THE GIFT OF THE GUN… ER, GIRLZ.

  9. BigT

    Teen punches shark during attack off Florida coast.
    A Louisville teenager’s spring break got real — as in real horrifying after she was attacked by a shark on Sunday in Destin, Florida.

    Caitlyn Taylor, 17, was in Destin with her high school softball team for a tournament when she was bitten on her leg in the Gulf of Mexico, the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Department confirmed to the Courier-Journal. While she was being bitten, the quick-thinking teen punched the five-foot-long shark back, according to authorities.

    She is a……

    (wait for it)

    ….Louisville slugger!

    1. jesse.in.mb

      Catbutt it from orbit!

    2. *narrows gaze*

    3. robc

      I would point out that Destin is nicknamed “Little Louisville” in Louisville.

      Anyone who vacations there runs into 27 brazilian other Louisvillians.

  10. jesse.in.mb

    Yosemite National Park and Yosemite Conservancy Launch New Website to Protect Bears with First-Ever Online Bear Tracker

    News Grrizzes can use

    Since 2014, Yosemite’s bear biologists have benefitted from previously unprecedented access to real-time spatial data of bears captured in the park and fitted with GPS collars. This high-resolution data that identifies the bear’s location has allowed park managers to better understand responses of bears to seasonal changes in the distribution of natural foods, as well as the lure of human food. Yosemite’s bear team has utilized this information to better strategize and manage park bears in near real-time and keep bears out of developed areas.

    keep bears out of developed area

    Except Silver Lake of course.

    1. The Other Kevin

      Pic-a-nic baskets everywhere breathe a sigh of relief.

      1. jesse.in.mb

        I was actually more worried about the local squirrels in Yosemite. They operate in packs and they’re 0% afraid of people.

    2. First-Ever Online Bear Tracker

      I thought that was Grindr.

      1. jesse.in.mb

        Scruff or Growler. Grindr is more twink oriented

        1. Florida Man

          *adds bookmarks*

    3. Yosemite’s bear team

      Put in an application, jesse? 🙂

      1. jesse.in.mb

        Would I have to resign from Bearforce 1?

        1. Joint Duty Posting.

        2. AlmightyJB

          Not clicking

          1. jesse.in.mb

            It’s not inappropriate, just and ultra-cheesy Dutch pop group comprised of hirsute men

          2. R C Dean

            Well, which is it? Not inappropriate, or an ultra-cheesy Dutch pop group comprised of hirsute men?

          3. jesse.in.mb

            I’ll leave the typo for posterity.

      2. Mad Scientist

        Good idea. You’ve been doing this on an amateur basis for too long, Jesse. Step up and become a professional bear wrangler.

        1. jesse.in.mb

          I don’t know how I feel about my hobbies and my work being the same thing.

          1. “If you love what you do, you’ll never work a day in your life”

    4. grrizzly

      I have to get access to these real-time data before my trip to the park.

      1. jesse.in.mb

        You’ll need a ’90s cinematic hacking montage. This should do.

  11. Drake

    The shocking thing I learned today. Susan Rice (filed in my brain as “Obama’s lying lady”) is married to an ABC News Executive Producer. Almost makes you think their might be some sleazy connections between the DNC and mainstream media.

    1. AlmightyJB

      Funny. I actually think ABC is the least worst of the ancient 3. Nationally and locally.

    2. Gustave Lytton

      A family tree/org chart of people in public life generally would have a surprising (or unsurprising) number of connections.

      1. Ben Rhodes’ nickname should be “Lonesome”.

        1. Gilmore

          Shocker = People who have very little experience paying for things themselves think other people should pay for most shit

          Why do they keep polling the least relevant part of the population (the one that gets sick the least, etc)? Because they know what results they want to tout.

          1. Gilmore

            fuck me that’s the third time today.

          2. Juice

            Youngun: “Government should pay for X.”

            :Youngun’s taxes go up:

            Youngun: “Unfair!”

          3. I have a cousin who was a Bernie bro right up until he got his first full time job as a welder. Took one adult paycheck for him to look at the government’s cut and decide maybe he might like to keep a little more of that shit for himself.

      1. thom

        Having read several articles about this scandal, I’m still not sure I completely understand it. Did Rice just ask for the identities of people referred to in reports who were unidentified in those reports? I guess I’m failing to see the big outrage in this.

        1. Playa Manhattan

          There were no reports until she had them created for political purposes. These were routine intercepts by the NSA of foreign communications. Rice had all of the US names associated with Trump unmasked and compiled on a spreadsheet so she could use the information for political purposes.

          Then, after Hillary lost the election (in spite of all of the ridiculously unfair advantages she had; let’s call it cheating), they had all of this information classified at a lower level where it could be much more easily leaked, but not easily refuted. All to delegitimize the lawfully elected incoming president.

          1. Gustave Lytton

            I’m having delayed schadenfreude thinking about Rice and others that were shitting themselves Nov 8 & 9 as it became clear they were going to be bounced out on the street and the ones they had been fucking with were going to hold the ropes for a while. And the low level shitheels that realize their new bosses were the ones they had just been complicit in trying to screw.

            These people don’t get it. They’re Ropers, every last one of them. As soon as all the polite fictions and traditions get shitcanned, the next change in power isn’t going to be cleaning out desks, they’re going to march people down to the basement and put a fucking bullet in heads. None of this screwing around with leaks and shit. Dead fucking bodies.

        2. Gilmore

          Did Rice just ask for the identities of people referred to in reports who were unidentified in those reports?

          yes she did. and it would have been illegal if not for recent rule-changes.

          but then, its probably still illegal since there is no underlying crime being investigated which would have merited unmasking US nationals. Which raises the question what the basis for the surveillance requests were in the first place.

          and then it is most definitely and indisputably illegal that these unmasked reports were intentionally distributed to people who had no security clearance. (e.g. the press, political flunkies)

          as with most things like this, there’s like 3 or more layers of legality that need explaining. what the press will obviously do is simply focus on one of them and say, “BUT IT WAS LEGAL”, ignoring all the ways it wasn’t.

  12. Gustave Lytton

    Has this been posted here yet?

    http://emojipedia.org/face-with-monocle/

    If not, for shame, sir!

    1. PieInTheSKy

      yes, it has

    2. Is it thicc?

  13. PieInTheSKy

    For a city so proud of its beer culture, Munich still has kinda shitty beer. This may seem controversial but true nontheless

    1. robc

      When I take my German beer trip, I am going zoigl hunting in the Upper Palatinate.

      Also, for my Belgian beer trip, I am going to detour to the alt stadt in Dusseldorf.

      Munich is 3rd on my German beer trips list.

      And I still think you are nuts.

      1. PieInTheSKy

        the most interesting beer i had in Bavaria was one made by Inselbrau on Frauenlinsel im Chiemsee island. The best by a brewery called Camba. But whenever I come here I am take on the company dime to Augustiner Keller or Paulaner Nockherberg or both and it is always kinda meh. But hey free beer.

        1. robc

          I wouldn’t go to Munich for “interesting” beer. Come to the US for that. But solid, well made, tasty beer? Yeah, Munich will have that.

          That said, getting off the touristy path would probably help a lot.

          1. Juice

            That’s the thing. German beer is traditional. Germans like it that way and the law pretty much requires it.

          2. Getting off the touristy path in general is a good idea.

          3. R C Dean

            Unless there’s wildflowers involved, of course.

    2. Glitterstorm

      We killed all the good ones in the war.

  14. R C Dean

    On the off-chance that you might have been regaining a smidgen of faith in humanity, this should put that to rest.

    They had come to see the “super bloom” of wildflowers that have sprung up around the trails snaking around this drinking water reservoir. People are excited to take pictures of the flowers and themselves among the flowers, and many areas have been trampled.

    There are signs along the main trail marking the boundary of the reserve, but overly-enthusiastic wildflower viewers ignore them.

    “It’s sometimes nice to see yourself in a really nice picture with a really cool background,” said Robin Kopf, who was trying to get her friend Christina Barrett, who was sitting cross-legged in a patch of poppies, to pose. The girls had driven two-hours from West L.A. in Barrett’s mom’s minivan with a group of their friends from high school.

    But in order to get the picture, Kopf and Barrett had flattened a patch of poppies. They seemed to feel badly about it.

    Effing self-centered idiots.

    1. Mad Scientist

      This is not news. Women love killing flowers.

    2. PieInTheSKy

      the wildflowers had it coming

    3. Flower Lives Matter

    4. jesse.in.mb

      I’m still bummed I didn’t make time to head east for the superbloom.

      1. Playa Manhattan

        I’m going on Friday. I’m going somewhere a little more off the beaten path, though.

        1. jesse.in.mb

          Go on…

          1. Playa Manhattan

            Not sure. I’ll be at Desert Springs from Friday to Friday.

            At the very least, I’m going up the tram and doing the loop, going to the waterfall at the Indian Canyons, and hiking the fault at mission creek. I’m going to ask around to see where what best blooms are before I go looking for flowers.

        2. Mad Scientist

          To boldly trample where no man has trampled before!

    1. Mad Scientist

      Is it normal to involuntarily shudder every time I see that bitch’s photo?

      1. Playa Manhattan

        I’d be worried if you didn’t.

      2. Rufus the Monocled

        Shit, my shudders increase in intensity each time I see her.

        And I’m Canadian!

      3. Bobarian LMD

        Depends… are you shuddering because you climaxed?

        1. Mad Scientist

          And now I’m dry heaving too. Thanks!

          1. jesse.in.mb

            *Jewish grandmothers over*

            eat! eat! eat!

  15. Pan Zagloba

    From the “no shit” department: Rent control makes Toronto affordability worse, not better, CIBC says

    Rent control policies implemented more than 20 years ago aimed at helping low-income Ontarians get affordable housing are having the opposite effect now, and making accommodation even harder to find, an economist with the CIBC argues in a new report Tuesday.

    Amid calls for even stricter caps on how much landlords are allowed to hike rents in Toronto’s competitive market, economist Benjamin Tal argues any such policy would do more harm than good — even to those it’s ostensibly trying to protect.

    Comments, of course, are a true delight.

    1. Glitterstorm

      I don’t understand rent control. Is it bad because it actual prevents housing from opening up?

      1. robc

        Like any price ceiling, it causes shortages.

        1. Glitterstorm

          Thank you.

        2. Rufus the Monocled

          And squatters.

      2. Playa Manhattan

        Look at any place with rent control. NY, SF, Berkeley, Santa Monica…

        It’s very expensive and very shitty.

        1. thom

          If it weren’t for rent control, though, all new development would stop and only billionaires could afford to live in the city. At least that’s what advocates of rent control actually seem to believe.

      3. Pan Zagloba

        It makes rental housing far less profitable than for-sale housing, so rentals don’t get built/purposed.

    2. robc

      LA LA LA … I refuse to accept reality, you can’t make me … LA LA LA

      Did I capture the comments about right?

      1. Mad Scientist

        Anyone who opposes rent control just wants people to be homeless. There are huge profit margins in that!

      2. Pan Zagloba

        You forgot “banks are evil”.

      3. Juice

        Hey Ben, take your elitist one percenter ideas and shove them. What’s really needed is laws that force developers across Canada to supply a certain percentage of every development they build to low income fixed rent suites. That will cure what Ben argues is in reality just plain developer greed.

        Yep, laws that force developers to build certain things and laws that tell them what to charge. I’ll bet this guy thinks of himself as an “antifascist.”

        1. Glitterstorm

          Love buzzwords like one percenter.

        2. Ayn Random Variation

          Fuck off slaver.

          – hank reardon

    3. Dr. Fronkensteen

      This kind of thing drives me nuts. How many years and real life examples does it take for reality to smack the “reality based” community into understanding even the simplest economic and good governance principles.

    4. Caput Lupinum

      Adam Smith
      Given that a vast majority of the over 300,000 immigrants that are admitted into this country a year end up in Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal and two out of three of these cities are have housing affordability crisis. Just Google news to search “Vancouver, Toronto, rent, housing, affordability”

      Also see: http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/nhs-enm/2011/as-sa/99-010-x/99-010-x2011001-eng.cfm

      Based on the above facts Ottawa’s immigration quota needs to be lowered to provide relieve to Canadians facing housing affordability problems.

      That’s an interesting view. I thought all the racists were down south in America.

      Edit Faerie: closed em tag at suspected correct location. *flutters away*

      1. Caput Lupinum

        And my phone ate the tags again. I’ll learn one of these days.

  16. Glitterstorm

    It still amazes me how much the Clinton campaign had the deck stacked and still lost. It was like the Warriors, Falcons and Indians championship loses but better.

    1. DOOMco

      I saw something on instagram titled “which one blew the biggest lead?” and had her up there.

      1. Glitterstorm

        Oh man my chest hurts lmao

    2. one true athena

      That’s how they know it musta been those dastardly Russkies, because no American could’ve stopped them!

    3. Juice

      How did the Falcons have the deck stacked?

      1. Glitterstorm

        Well you see they were supposed to be the ANTI Trump team and well.

        1. Juice

          Anti-Trump … football team? ? I must not have been paying enough attention.

          1. DOOMco

            Brady and Belichick never said they hated Trump.

      2. Glitterstorm

        See the Falcons have the same colors as antifa and actually this means comma

    1. Glitterstorm

      GOOD! I hate that we’re supposed to respect the beliefs of Literal Slavers.

    2. Juvenile Bluster

      Do you have that link on a site that isn’t run by actual demons from the pits of Hell? thx.

      1. Lol, it’s The Sun, not Daily Kos. They’ve got a few decent cheesecake pics in there as well.

        1. Juvenile Bluster

          Heh. I’m kind of joking, but I won’t click on S*n links. Part of being a Liverpool fan.

          1. What’s up with Mane? Last I read he may be gone for the season. Which means we’ll have to hope Origi can fill his shoes (which he can’t) or Coutinho can just go nuts with Firmino and Sturridge (possible).

            Either way, Everton are a bunch of dirty cunts.

          2. Juvenile Bluster

            Missed this earlier. His knee’s too swollen to be sure either way, but I’d be surprised if he wasn’t out for the season.

            And Everton are a bunch of dirty cunts. Every friggin year they manage to injure a striker.

  17. DOOMco

    Way too busy recently. At least some of it was skiing, though!
    Flat earth!

  18. Glitterstorm

    Wasn’t Clinton predicted to have 97% odds of winning?

    Man that number is a total meme.

    1. Juvenile Bluster

      98% I think. That’s what HuffPo (?) was saying when they were talking about how dumb that Nate Silver was for giving Trump a 30% chance of winning.

      1. Glitterstorm

        This is the best timeline.

  19. hate_speech

    Hi All, fairly new lurker from TSTSNBN, that came around moments before TDS kicked in. Been lurking here for a bit and thought I’d come out of the shadows.

    If the powers that be are interested, I’d like to present the tribe with a kill. AKA, I’m willing to do a review / commentary on the first episode of this shitty podcast, which somebody posted here awhile ago but didn’t have the stones to listen to.

    1. DOOMco

      Go for it!

      1. hate_speech

        I forget if you’re one of the Powers That Be. I don’t want to do it if you guys don’t want the article. It might only be half an hour long, but, it’s painful all the way through. I listened to about half of it at one point before my gf made me shut it off.

        1. DOOMco

          I am not.*peasant fist bump*
          Just submit it, who knows?

          1. hate_speech

            You’ve convinced me with your peasant solidarity. If you never hear from me again, the second half of the podcast was somehow worse than the first and I’ve likely been locked up in a psych ward.

    2. Gilmore

      this shitty podcast

      (looks at description)

      The Racist Sandwich podcast serves up a perspective that you don’t hear often: that both food and the ways we consume, create, and interpret it can be political. From discussions about racism in food photography to interviews with chefs of color about their experiences in the restaurant world,

      (shudders)

      You’re intending to …critique this?

      they actually provide full-text of their podcasts

      the only thing that instantly rubs me the wrong was is this “person of color” bs. It seems to want to pretend there’s some important shared experience between, say, an Indian Bengali, a Korean-American, and a black guy from Trinidad

      1. hate_speech

        I listened to the first half of it already. It’s pretty much a boring, steaming pile of shit. It’s not like Shika levels of dumb, but it’s pretty bad. I was listening with my gf, and it took us a long time to get through it because pretty much every sentence was some stupid statement that was trivially easy to prove wrong. She’s a lot newer to the prog derp than I am, and made me turn it off after 15 minutes as it was hurting her brain.

        I figure I can mine it for some amusing stupidity.

  20. Brexit ripple effect showing no signs of slowing down.

    At this rate, there won’t be a Labour Party in a decade.

    1. Playa Manhattan

      Thank you

    2. DOOMco

      Are elected people still ignoring the writing on the wall?

      1. Just the hard left.

        1. DOOMco

          +1 double down!

    3. Pan Zagloba

      It’s just a prediction, and a month is a long way to go…

      1. Yeah, but Labour isn’t gonna improve their position in that month. It can only get worse.

      2. John Titor

        Jeremy Corbyn, the next big Donald Trump turn-around.

        -Said no one ever.

        1. Pan Zagloba

          Never count out the commies.

          1. John Titor

            Yeah, if they’re lead by Lenin or some other clever bastard, Corbyn is like Andropov with Downs Syndrome.

    4. robc

      Should May call a snap election?

      Looks like she would need a 2/3rds vote.

    1. Rufus the Monocled

      It was Preet wasn’t it?

    2. Vhyrus

      I love when people are grossly negligent and then turn around and sue the makers of properly designed and functioning equipment for their own fuck ups. It just brings a tear to my eye.

      1. Mad Scientist

        Yeah, I’m really curious about that rope that pulled him into the chipper.

  21. Suthenboy

    Meh on the girl fighting off the shark. It was just taste testing her. It bugged off probably because it wasn’t that hungry and she didn’t taste very good. An earnest bite would have done a hell of a lot more damage. She’s lucky as hell, thats all.

    1. Bobarian LMD

      Why you want to ruin her story. That’ll be good for years.

    2. Gustave Lytton

      So _not_ smelling like fish saved her from being eaten out?

      1. This Machine

        *scowls, then begins reluctant applause*

        1. Gustave Lytton

          I know. My joke was… *dons sunglasses* …tasteless.

    3. Badolph Hilter

      Oh, sure. If this was a man you’d be saying he’s a hero. ADMIT IT.

      1. Suthenboy

        Actually my favorite shark attack was a man…

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pjbH5OuBc4

        He was in the midst of explaining how safe he was and how uninterested sharks are in biting people.

        *Clue – Sharks eat meat. You are made of meat.

        1. Hyperion

          Anyone wants to go surfing at high tide off the beaches of Recife, Brazil, I will gladly sit on the shore and watch with beer in hand.

          1. Vhyrus

            I was reading about that. I had never heard of shark attacks in Brazil but apparently when they put in the new port they screwed up the local ecology and now bulls and tigers hang out right off shore.

            Sharks are my one big fear. I am fucking terrified of sharks. Since I live in Arizona this doesn’t come up very often but I also scuba dive occasionally so it isn’t completely out of my mind either. If a big shark came up on me while I was down I would probably shit directly into my wetsuit.

          2. Hyperion

            It’s about 8 degrees south of the equator. And there’s something about the topography of the area that makes it very attractive to huge great whites. I’t one of the top 10 most notorious shark attack areas on earth. It might have something to do with 3 rivers emptying into the ocean right there with the warm currents. The low tide forms tidal pools of bathtub warm water. At high tide it is well known to all the locals that you DO NOT go into the water because the natural reef (recife = reef in Portuguese) is submerged, letting predators near the shore. I remember a few years back when we were down there, a surfer at high tide was just swallowed by a huge great white, with witnesses, they didn’t even find any remains.

        2. Hyperion

          Also, calls to mind the Steve Irwin event.

          1. AceDroman

            May he RIP.

          2. hayeksplosives

            I remember he told one of his camera crew that if he ever died doing his wildlife shots, it would be in the ocean.

            He wasn’t wrong.

            And yet rays are very non-aggressive in general. That particular one did not care for Steve hovering over him, and maybe not the camera crews and lights. Wild animals are unpredictable.

            Steve seems to have been a good guy, and his family a great group.

        3. It’s funny how casual the shark was, like the shark is thinking, “ok, pal, interview’s over, we’re late for dinner, let’s go.”

  22. Hyperion

    In case you’ve been wondering about how we’re going to fix this healthcare debacle. Look north, Murikans! Canada has the answer! Gawd, it’s been right on our doorstep all of this time, how could we be so blind!?

    Don’t blame Canada! Let them help us fix healthcare!

    1. Juvenile Bluster

      Don’t blame me for my son Stan. He saw the darn cartoon and now he’s off to join the Klan.

    2. Badolph Hilter

      Our single-payer model — marked by a lack of competition, market-based pricing, and patient choice — has contributed to one of the most expensive and least effective health-care systems in the industrialized world.

      Have to admit, wasn’t expecting that.

  23. AceDroman

    [a href=”http://www.bradenton.com/news/local/crime/article142600654.html”]I’ll never leave Florida.[/a]

    1. Vhyrus

      You’ll also never leave this page with that link.

      1. AceDroman

        How embarrassing

    2. AceDroman

      Arrrrgh! Anyways, the headline is “Teacher arrested after getting drunk and letting boy, 14, drive her to Waffle House, cops say”

      1. Badolph Hilter

        She was incapacitated and therefore not capable of giving that male aggressor consent to drive her anywhere.

        1. AceDroman

          Her name is Ms Virgin pfft lol

  24. hayeksplosives

    If anybody cares to host a Glibertarians NHL playoffs bracket, I’m game. I already have a Yahoo account freshly created for NCAA (and, presumeably, surveillance) so why not?