I have recently been made aware of a YouTube content producers The Kilted Coaches (Stephen and Rab) who are frequently wearing kilts (and only kilts) in their videos while giving athletic advice, which has not been vetted by Warty. As you may have noticed I have a terrible weakness for the intersection of affable goofball and hotness (mildly NSFW), and these fellows punch these buttons aggressively. Also Scottish accents. Did I mention the accents?
Some of their stuff is goofy to the point of being ridiculous and their inspirational quotes can be…schmaltzy (though I do like this one), but overall flipping through 10 months of Twitter, Instagram and YouTube content has been delightful. So make some bad decisions, and kill some time watching two dudes, in kilts, enjoy the shit out of their days. Also they know what’s going to get them buzzed about on the internet so here is How to get great glutes which ends with them walking bare-arsed off into the sunset.
I’m going to say what we’re all thinking. Jessie is racist. There’s a startling lack of people of color in our Manly Mondays. It’s all Turks and bearded white dudes up in here.
So no Mandingos then?
Why does it have to be blacks? Why not some nice Indian men? The kind with a good job that you can take home to meet your mother?
So that bitch can steal him away?
I’ve known some really fucking hot Sri Lankan men.
See, this is why I like the gays. Being dudes, sexual attraction is much more straightforward for them. When a gay dude isn’t into Asians, he’s only that way because he doesn’t like the look. Ergo, South Asians–who should be hot to anyone who likes really tan white guys–make the grade. When chicks don’t like Asians, they don’t like them because Asian is just an incredibly unsexy thing to be. (Freddy Mercury pretty much hid his heritage for that reason; whoever heard of an Indian rock god?) Really good-looking dudes who are Indian or part Indian just have the interest dry up instantly once the chick finds out. It’s the weirdest fucking thing.
Apropos of nothing other than dating someone Indian: my old workout buddy (well, my brother’s workout buddy, I just tagged along) briefly dated an Indian girl. He met her dad and immediately began mocking his accent. Her dad said something to the effect of (imagine the accent): “You’d better not pull this sheet when her cousins are around, they’ll keek your ass!”
Eh, to be fair, I can be that way with South American guys, not that my interest will dry up, but I’ll just be wary/on the defensive after having had a few guys get *really* possessive/jealous after first dates or even hookups. I had a Brazilian fellow tail me in his car when I was walking home from his place and then was confused why I wasn’t interested in meeting up with him again.
Meh, obviously cultural generalizations can certainly be true and do have their place (though if anything I think *persistence* is more a Latin thing and possessiveness per se more of a Middle Eastern), but I think this is probably something it’s wise to overcome. You might want to reexamine the sample size, and whether these might just be a couple of difficult dudes whose race you happen to have noticed.
I will say this about the Brazilians in particular, though: I have lifted with quite a few now and then, and I love how the Brazilians make just as much gratuitous noise when lifting as they do in their film performances. I keep expecting them to start spitting on and slapping the equipment.
You might want to reexamine the sample size
It’s better than a number of published studies and I’ve kept notes. Again this isn’t make or break sorts of stuff. If you’re hot and we hit it off I’ll give you a whirl, but I’m much more likely to have my hand on the eject button after a handful of really critical misfires.
So I’m guessing Kim does nothing for you.
What is this I can’t even
Chicks, man.
Why not some nice Indian men?
You asked.
LOL now I’m off Indian men for life thanks
I like me some Indian men but why did you have to go ruin it.
You’ve clearly never seen me talk about Idris Elba, but it’s fair to say my preferences skew hard on scruffy white dudes. I’ll try to be more inclusive in the future for you, Bro.
Jesse, I’M attracted to Idris Elba– and I’m straight.
As you should be. I really wish he picked better movie roles though. Any time I see him on TV he’s great and then as soon as he’s cast in a film it’s like he’s trying to bring gravitas to a clown role.
I should rewatch Luther.
well, he’s supposed to be Roland Deschain in the upcoming Dark Tower adaptation. Hard to get heavier than that, I think.
Huh. I didn’t make it past about book 4 in that series.
Only book series to make me cry. Got to the end and just had a real good cry about it. Felt like I’d lost a friend
FWIW I really loved 1, 2, and 3 – and I started with my mom’s copy of the 1st book in the 80s. Book 4 lost me in Roland’s past. I should probably give it another shot.
It gets really dumb really fast. At one point they end up fighting off Doombots throwing exploding Sneetches.
One nice thing I will say about printed books over e-books, I can feel free to throw a book at the wall for wasting my time without any regrets. I can’t really do that with a kindle.
I could stare at the Dark Tower pics all day. A+ costuming.
I could have sworn there was some color thrown in there somewhere. In any matter, in great contrast to the distaff case the white race is the clear master of aesthetic he-thiccness, which is what jesse is all about. Not to mention the oft-mentioned “scruffiness”; black body hair, for example, is almost always godawful.
Nothing to see here, guess I’ll go outside and knock down some hornet nests with my dick.
The “you might also like” section for that video was great.
One was a guy who tried to flood a ground nest. He had a lawnmower next to him, and all he had to do was park it over the opening.
I know exactly what video you’re referencing, and while that would have been hilariously entertaining, I think there was a second entrance they were coming out of.
That was pretty funny. Right when he started prepping, my first thought was “dude, you need to do this at night.”
You’d have a better chance plugging an underground nest with your ball, I think.
*balls… dammit
literally Hitler
Once, when I was very young, dad went up on the roof to prep the swamp cooler for the summer. He discovered a wasp nest. The next hour or so was us inside doing homework and listening to cursing and heavy footfalls as he darted up to it, hit it with a can of Raid, then legged it back to safety.
Report: North Korea soldiers face punishment for Kim Jong Un jokes
That country is ripe for regime change. Come on Trump let’s do something really fun.
Nobody wants to deal with the refugees.
Hell, South Korea doesn’t want to foot the bill for seventy years of Communist fuck-ups either. Imagine how much fixing the north would cost.
South Koreans seem mostly happy to pick up the tab at this point, but they want the then-former-DPRK to basically be a vassal state that’s brought up to ROK standards before political unification and open borders. They do not want a German Reunification on their hands.
That’s what I mean, South Korea is unwilling to reform the North Korean government, fix their decades of infrastructure problems, electrify the country, completely renovate their agricultural systems, fund the re-education of millions of people, clean up the whole autocratic system, etc. Someone’s got to foot the bill and the South Koreans sure as hell don’t want it.
That’s…the opposite of what I said.
SK is already growing most of the north’s food and shipping it in, where DEAR LEADER BRINGS YOU RICE is taped over the SK peace messages. They also tried to kick off industrialization with a shared economic zone, which the North of course fucked up. They don’t want a flood of NK refugees overwhelming their system with an instant reunification.
It’s not the opposite of what you said, those are smaller concessions to much larger problems. Yes, South Korea can cover stuff like that, but ‘bringing it up to ROK standards’? Would take billions, if not trillions of South Korean taxpayer dollars.
I.e. low end estimates are $50 billion, high end estimates are $1.5 trillion. Some of these studies do factor in North Koreans ending up in the South’s social welfare program but even as a vassal state the costs are staggering.
East Germany is still a drag on the West.
I have involved in Korean defense matters for decades. After the wall fell and the ROK’s saw how West Germany was choking on the costs of unifying Germany the ROK’s language changed from “unification now” to “unification….some day.”
SK better be stockpiling
wonUSD and RMB for reunification day.If the Kim’s regime lets up, you have a flood of refugees moving south. Would SK border guards use lethal force to prevent that? Would a SK backed vassal state do the same? As long as it’s nominally independent, there’s room for others (China, former regime leadership of various levels) to jockey for control of the money and political power, and postpones the inevitable purges.
It gets overlooked, but the Allies had much of the same problems with keeping Axis military and civil control in place immediately at the end of WWII along feeding/starvation problems.
Politically as well as economically. The former communists are frighteningly successful in elections in the East.
I’ll take Korean refugees ten times over anything coming from east of Israel to west of China
Especially the chicks
huba huba !
Nork ambassador warns of imminent nuclear war. Of course, the dummies on Twitter are glomming on to this, mostly in the “I hope you’re happy with your president, assholes!” vein.
a) He’s saber rattling in response to saber rattling. It’s what we do, it’s what they do. There’s no threat here. It’s just kvetching.
b) The Norks being belligerent isn’t something Trump invented. And it’s not as if appeasement has worked out well, either, except insofar as the status quo has obtained: Norks being disputatious, Americans having to shell out money to keep them contained.
c) Lists just look better if you have a third point to make. It’s the classical three-act mold for storytelling, a third point is where you wrap things up with a satisfying conclusion.
Um, the Norks would have to actually have nukes in order to use them. People think rockets are freaking easy. Nothing about them is easy. Where I work it takes a month and 30 people just to figure out if we can put a 3 inch hole somewhere on the outside of a 200 foot long rocket.
They had their Sputnik moment last year, which means it’ll only take them another twenty years to develop an ICBM platform that can actually hit something, a fifty before it can reach the U.S.
All the more reason to squash them sooner.
Depending on how you ‘squash’ them Seoul’s going to get pretty heavily squashed as well. And you’ll need a lot of bunker busters to clear out the thousands of reinforced North Korean artillery positions.
This is assuming that 90% of them don’t defect the moment we offer them some KFC and a bottle of Heineken.
Kind of hard to do that when they’re in fortified bunker positions across the border with orders to shell the shit out of Seoul. Defection doesn’t happen when you’re in your country with the local political commissar looking over your shoulder. Seoul’s always been the hostage in the Korean conflict, it’s having a knifefight in a closet. No matter how good you are it’s probably going to be bloody.
You do realize you could make the same argument against forcibly ending slavery in America circa 1850? “Oh, think of all the negros we’ll have to pay.. and what about Charleston?!”
You do realize that’s a shitty moral equivalency that is not reflective at of the military reality of the situation right? Don’t start idiotic “MUH SLAVERY” moralizing at me when your argument is “fuck yeah, I don’t care if millions of Koreans to die for U.S. foreign policy!”.
I wonder why on earth I would be concerned about the needs of the Korean people on the needs to the Korean peninsula? It’s far better for militarily ignorant Americans to be making the decisions on who to ‘squash’ and how, safe at home where their families won’t be murdered by North Korean chemical weapons, arrogantly making childish comparisons to the civil war to indulge their war fantasy.
North Korea has been the most egregious continuous violation of human rights since World War 2. Calling those people slaves is not at all a mis-characterization, and allowing that regime to continue to operate is a legitimate moral failing. this isn’t war fantasy. How many millions of people have to starve to death in NK before it’s okay to step in?
Your argument basically boils down to “Let’s not war, people will die.” No shit people will die. The problem people are already dying and have been dying for 50 years and will continue to die until something is done. You can use your argument to get out of every single military conflict not directly thrust onto you, which includes the US participation in WW2 and the Korean War. Are you going to argue those two weren’t worth fighting?
and allowing that regime to continue to operate is a legitimate moral failing
Ah yes, the poison of Wilsonian interventionism. Draw an arbitrary line as to what is a ‘moral failing’ internationally, act morally superior because you want to start a war over it. But, say, the actions of Syria or China, why, those aren’t enough.
Tell you what Vhyrus, if you want a moral crusade, the Peshmerga is hiring. I would at least hope you enlisted when Iraq was going on to prevent the tyranny of Saddam, or you’d be some kind of arbitrary cowardly hypocrite.
which includes the US participation in WW2 and the Korean War.
You’d just provided two examples of defensive conflicts in order to justify aggressive warmongering. Good job.
Your argument basically boils down to “Let’s not war, people will die.” No shit people will die.
No my argument actually boils down to recognizing the military reality of the situation and what ‘solutions’ might cause more damage than they’re worth. Also recognizing the military utility of an actual engagement in comparison to diplomatic or political influences, or other espionage solutions.
Unlike some civilian cunts/Armchair Generals who deem it fit to handwave millions of deaths because of their precious sense of moral superiority.
The idea that Saddam or quite frankly anyone in middle east in recent history is anywhere close to the level of brutality of North Korea is laughably absurd and you know it. I asked you earlier: how many people do the Norks have to kill before enough is enough? They have been doing it for well over 50 years now and show absolutely no signs of stopping, so how many more generations of murder are you willing to tolerate?
how many more generations of murder are you willing to tolerate?
How many more generations of murder are you willing to tolerate under despots or horrific regimes? You childishly lecture me on what I’m ‘willing to tolerate’ but then handwave the horrors of other regimes as not so bad? How many more generations of murder and labour camps in China and Tibet are you willing to tolerate Vhyrus? How many more people need to disappear for you to care? Oh right, you don’t care. Stove your moral righteous up your ass.
The military is not your personal morality police. Grow up. It exists to enforce U.S. foreign policy objectives globally. At current time, having vast amounts of an East Asian ally leveled to install a puppet regime that will require billions of dollars to prop up (which said East Asian ally isn’t willing to provide in its pre-bombed state) is not in the American people’s interests. It’s almost like we require more subtle means of doing so.
People will die. Quite a few of them will be South Koreans. South Koreans dying for the continuing struggle of North Koreans is not an equitable trade-off.
South Koreans dying to liberate North Korea and unify the Korean peninsula is absolutely an equitable trade off. If there is one place I would actually fly to and take up arms for right now it would be the unification of Korea.
I would actually fly to and take up arms for right now it would be the unification of Korea.
Internet tuff guys are a dime a dozen.
Move your immediate family to Seoul and you’ll have a point.
I can only offer my life for something. If my family wants to move to Seoul that’s their prerogative. Apparently you think ad hominems, insulting my machismo, and threatening the lives of innocents somehow validates your argument, which is really confusing.
I can only offer my life for something
…And many South Koreans as you’d like, but of course they don’t actually matter, right?
threatening the lives of innocents
All I’m asking is for you to have something other than your snide sense of moral superiority in the game. It’s hilarious that you accuse me of ‘threatening the lives of innocents’ when your entire argument rests on you threatening the lives of innocents.
Your argument is literally ‘South Koreans are worth more than North Koreans’ and I cannot even entertain such an inane concept. So I don’t think were going to find common ground on this one.
You are literally arguing for risking the deaths of allied countrymen for our foreign policy adventurism. Maybe that adventurism is justified, maybe it’s not. But let’s be clear, we’re fucking with their dicks when we provoke the Norks. That’s not a casual decision.
No, my argument is literally “the Korean peninsula situation is a complex situation and engaging in a shooting war is more trouble than it’s worth.” Millions of civilian deaths is just the start on a long list. Billions of dollars in military spending alone. Clean-up costs in the trillions, and that’s just the North, not the damage the south will endure. Even more costs and deaths managing the puppet state that would be set up. A mess of diplomatic and political fallout. And this is all, of course, ignoring what happens if they deploy functional nuclear weapons on the Korean peninsula.
And this is what you’re claiming the morally pure and bestest answer. You don’t understand the logistics and strategy needed to engage in such an intervention, the financial and diplomatic issues, the sacrifices that would need to be made, nor the aftermath and management of the puppet regime afterwards. You talk about ‘reunification’ but don’t even understand that South Korea will not want a bombed out shell of the North. Hell, they’re unwilling to reunify with them in their current state.
It’s pure feels with you, I might as well be arguing with a social justice warrior.
I want to be perfectly clear about this: US interests have absolutely zero influence in beliefs about north Korea. I’m not arguing for intervention for some kind of unilateral reach around for the US. North Korea is a never ending human rights nightmare and it shows absolutely no sign of stopping. This is about stopping the wholesale slaughter of generations of people whose only crime was being born on the wrong side of a fence. There is no country currently operating that you can legitimately compare nk to. Not china, not Iran, not Syria. NK has them beaten by orders of magnitude.
It’s rather hard to talk about morality when it involves forcing people to pay and fight a conflict that has nothing to do with them, as a war in Korea would. Not to mention the likely mass casualties in the early stages, and the fact that its difficult to find a unique rationale to justify the conflict.
You are saying North Korea is the worst, but there’s plenty of people who would argue this or that government/warlord/war is worse and we should intervene there. There’s a whole lot of bad shit that happens all over the globe, and I don’t see what the clear line is for when we should or shouldn’t intervene if that’s the standard employed. There’s the issue with using some qualitative standard rather than something clear and bright like we were attacked.
We could justify conquering just about all of Africa here. We could probably improve it, even, given what a shithole the continent is. We could easily argue more lives will be saved in the long run. What’s the difference, really? Are children being raped and turned into soldiers in the Congo worth less than Koreans?
And then we can get into…how the hell is the justification here much different than the one used for the welfare state? Progressives will argue the morality of their positions all day. People should be forced to pay for x or sacrifice their rights in the name of the greater good. It will help more people than it hurts. You can try to tackle them on utilitarian grounds alone, but that’s not what most libertarians do. Nor is it going to be the most persuasive to many people. Besides, our government’s history of military intervention isn’t much better than its record with regards to managing efficient welfare programs.
I want to be perfectly clear about this: US interests have absolutely zero influence in beliefs about north Korea.
Great. Start a kickstarter, and get filibustering. Leave the U.S. and South Korea out of it.
I asked you before how many people had to die in order for you to agree to intervention. I guess I should have been clear that I was not being rhetorical. At what point are you okay with stopping mass murder? If the answer is never then fine, I just need to know where you stand. You claim that war with NK would cause massive casualties. Would it cause more than allowing the Norks to murder, directly or indirectly, hundreds of thousands of people every year for another 50 years? Another hundred? At what point do you say no more?
The military doesn’t exist to be the morality police, they exist to enforce the self-interest and foreign policy platform of nation-states, primarily for said state’s defense and protection.
It’s not your right (or anyone else’s) to throw taxpayer money at your own personal moral crusades. National armies do not exist so you can feel good about yourself. You can play John Brown as much as you like but it is not the military’s function to spread joy and goodwill.
At what point do you say no more?
At the point wherein North Korea is a substantial and pressing threat to the United States or whichever nation.
I think the hardest part I have with your argument is you speak of mass murder as if subjective morality could be applied to it, as if I’m the weird one for opposing it.
As far as North Korea being a credible threat, they admit that they are actively seekings ICBMs. They are building and testing missles in the open. Even you admit it is only a matter of time until they get them. It will be officially too late to do anything if we wait until they actually have them. Is not enough of a credible threat? We have invaded and bombed countries for a fucking lot less than what the North Korean government has done, then what they’re currently doing.
No. I keep saying it, but you keep ignoring it: the military does not exist to enforce your emotional and moral whims. Alright, so you draw the line at North Korea. Lots of others draw theirs at Syria. Should we invade and occupy Syria just because the majority of the people feel those atrocities are more pressing than the atrocities you don’t like? You draw an arbitrary line on what you consider atrocities that warrant attention and then lecture others on your sense of moral outrage. Guess what, that doesn’t cut it when it comes to using military resources (and this is, again, ignoring the messy-as-hell, decades long clean-up that you are signing the U.S. up for just so you can feel like you done good).
Even you admit it is only a matter of time until they get them. It will be officially too late to do anything if we wait until they actually have them. Is not enough of a credible threat?
Nope, because I think that
1. regime change is more likely to occur before that happens
2. Even if they have it they are unlikely to use it (by the logic you present here conflicts with Iran and Russia would be inevitable…and stupid).
3. Diplomatic solutions are better in the long run than a pointless, bloody and expensive war. If I was Trump right now (since I don’t care about trade protectionism) I’d be pushing the Chinese to pressure the North Koreans into dropping their program (confirmed by UN inspectors) for better trade relations in return for status quo trade policy. Diplomatic and more…internal (*cough* coups and assassinations) solutions have more potential than a massive boondoggle that will cost trillions of dollars for very little in return.
We have invaded and bombed countries for a fucking lot less than what the North Korean government has done
That’s not an argument in favour of anything, that’s an argument that shows how reflexively stupid U.S. foreign policy has been/has gotten.
I think they have some crude level nukes. But nothing they can put on a missile and launch. They can’t even manage to launch a conventional missile without it landing in some random place in the sea or exploding on launch. It’s laughable to think they’re a couple of years away from hitting the USA with nuke tipped missiles. The problem is that they could do some serious damage in South Korea with conventional weapons, like long range artillery. It would be suicide, so it’s doubtful they will do anything but talk unless we attack them. Kim may be crazy, but that doesn’t mean he wants to die.
The easiest way for the norks to use their crude nukes is as nuclear landmines. Bring a mountain down on a critical MSR would be a heck of a crimp. Plus what is the international law of using a nuke on your own territory?
I bet the USA and China both have a pretty good idea where their nukes might be at. I would guess we would take those out in tactical strikes first thing if hostilities start up.
Wait, are these dudes who have a workout video channel where they work out in kilts? That seems most impractical.
Impractical like chicks wearing high heels to do anything.
Look hot? That’s pretty practical.
It is. There’s a still from one of the videos joking about how inappropriate it is to do burpees while wearing a kilt. They are unfortunately good about covering such things with their logo when more than a bare ass shows up.
It was when the dudes were doing ballet. I think they were doing the Nut Flapper, but I am not sure. I don’t know anything about ballet.
Glibs! Does anyone know of a better 2A organization than the NRA (actually a sports lobby, as we all know)?
I like to bitch about them as much as anyone, but they have an important practical role to play and are actually quite smart about it for the most part. I would be interested in a “pure” 2A advocacy group, but the problem is I haven’t found one that doesn’t seem to be run by fucking nutjobs. One of them, Alan Gottlieb of the Second Amendment Foundation and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, manages to be both a fucking nutjob *and* a far bigger sellout than the NRA (he supported Manchin-Toomey)!
Any suggestions?
Pink Pistols are always fun. I remember at one point in the ’00s there was some dust up with the NRA becoming too strident with it’s non-gun-related conservative politics or something and a bunch of (straight) moderate and liberal gun nuts ended up joining up with the Pink Pistols.
They came up recently in the H&R Comments
How popular are they? I’ve been looking for a real presence for them beyond the website since Pulse, especially here in NYC. I’m particularly interested in gays as a 2A group because not only is it a nontraditional group that’s being neglected, but because I have a specific agenda I want to start pushing around the gay community: There’s a quiet, state by state push to expand the MDV definition to include anyone who you have “dated”; I want to start pushing the narrative that resisting this is a gay issue.
Overall, though, I am very disappointed with gays. I was expecting fertile ground for libertarianism, given their history. But they fucking suck balls, frankly. Huge surprise for me.
Clarification: GOProud looked like a libertarianish group set to displace the Rockefeller grayhairs in the Log Cabins; there was a lot of hype. But it turned out to be essentially a paper organization, and collapsed into nothing. I am wary if Pink Pistols is the same.
PP has been around for a lot longer than you realize. They are small but totally legit, and they need support. AFAIK the only support they get is from other mainstream 2A groups cause the liberals won’t touch them. This is in contrast to Gays Against Guns (GAG, no I did not make this up) which was formed all of 2 years ago and is 100% Bloomberg astro turf and the msm fall all over themselves to get them airtime.
Good to know. I think I’ll sign up! I fucking love their attitude.
I remember GAG! Whenever I’ve gone to the Pride parade, I’ve usually gone with a gay friend or girlfriend, but the one right after Pulse I was sure to go alone so they wouldn’t be embarrassed when I gave those fuckers an old-school New York greeting (minus the beer can). I’m surprised I didn’t start a second Stonewall riot!
Never heard of them before Pulse, btw, of course!
I stopped going to those because I got sick of the politics on display. I remember seeing one libertarian group and like five thousand “progressive” groups.
And of course Jonathan Rauch helped inspire them.
They’re a rad group, but their fortunes have waxed and waned over the 17 years they’ve been around. There was a serious spike in interest after Pulse, but I don’t know how long term the bounce was.
Doesn’t look like they have a NY local, or even a NJ one. (I don’t know if a straight person, even someone with a lifetime of ties to the gay community, is really in a position to start one up.) Again, doesn’t surprise me too much.
Speaking of which, jesse, did you see today’s morning links btw? When I saw Pottymouth Kid for a second I thought Manly Mondays had gone twink!
That probably has more to do with the gun laws in NY and NJ and less the demand. There is a PA regional chapter you might be able to hook up with.
I don’t know about that. NY in particular is awful, but I can’t think of a state where the future looks as bleak as California, and there seem to be chapters all over the fucking place. Putting my experience together with jesse’s, I think NY gays just suck.
But thanks for that suggestion! I think I’ll join the Philly one. I fucking love going there and will take any excuse.
I didn’t get a chance to hop into the morning links. My work day was really heavily front-loaded.
Diego, I know a lot of local ranges have ladies nights where they teach women how to handle guns. I’m guessing if you asked around, they would be happy to have a Pink Pistol night if you have some friends that might be interested in learning how to handle a gun.
Maldives? Men Dating Volkswagens?
I don’t know what it means either. I’m guessing Mad Doughnut Vortex.
Sorry. Misdemeanor Domestic Violence. Only ever used in the Lautenberg Amendment context, but used pretty consistently in that context in law articles and such. But I figured it was standard libertarian lingo or something. Hey, I’m new at this!
clarification: “Misdemeanor Domestic Violence” term only used in gun control context (like “loss of civil rights”). MDV used as abbreviation commonly in law articles on the matter.
I was expecting fertile ground for libertarianism, given their history.
In my experience a lot of gays are reflexively Democrats because of their history with Republicans. A goodly chunk of them living in the denser gay ghettos seem to have really drunk the koolaid, but for the most part my experience (not living in WeHo or SF), has been mostly moderates and liberals who think libertarians are ridiculous but they espouse a largely “socially liberal fiscally conservative” position on their politics AND THEN VOTE DEMOCRAT BECAUSE WHAT OTHER CHOICE DO THEY HAVE. Which is about where I headdesk hard.
There’s GOA. But any advocacy organization inevitably becomes more about sustaining and enriching themselves rather than the purported cause.
Gun Owners of America if you want a real hardline no bullshit group.
I thought about them. But I feel like I’ve heard that Larry Pratt is a self-serving con artist. Also, I’m not sure if he’s good for opening up a “big tent” among hardliners of all stripes tightly around this issue. He’s got a bunch of other lobbies on his plate–a weird rightist alternative-medicine one, a hardline anti-immigration one, Operation Rescue (I’m very hardline pro-life and I’m a little wary that a 2A spokesman is wearing this rather distracting hat)–etc., plus he seems to be rather anatagonistic on divisive cultural issues. I’m loving the Ron Paul endorsement, of course, but…an imprimatur from the Good Doctor ain’t exactly much of a guarantee that you aren’t an extremist weirdo, to say the least.
Do not let perfect be the enemy of good, and in the case of Pro-2A groups, good is the best you will ever get. The only group I give to is the NRA and they are just barely inside the ‘fuck right off’ line on my scale of tolerable.
Well, that’s precisely what I mean. Obviously if I wasn’t into this I would tell the NRA to go fuck themselves. But that’s just it–I wanted more information on the various “purer” groups so I could weigh the pros and cons. The NRA has done and continues to do a lot of good with their ultra-pragmatic approach, and if a “pure” group is going to be a bunch of fringe foil hats who are going to, for example, be *worse* with something I don’t like about the NRA (e.g. waging your own sort of “culture war” that substitutes the NRA’s bubba-ish panders for some Alex Jones crowd bullshit and a bunch of shit about Mexicans and Muslims and abortionists or whatever), then I might as well go with the NRA.
It’s like those Johnson-Weld supporters who accused opponents of being “enemies of the good.” No, they just looked at what GayJay’s “compromises” supposedly bought libertarianism, and didn’t see much of a bargain.
The GOA are 2A absolutists. Whether that is a good or a bad thing I will leave up to you, but they are definitely a no compromise group. From what I can tell they are also much less on the “ERMAHGERD TERRERISTS!” type fear mongering that make me want to choke the shit out of whoever runs the NRA’s marketing department.
Obviously that is a good thing. I am not particularly keen on the situation when we rely on the ACLU–an explicitly *anti*-gun rights organization, not merely a neutral one–as the only power in the country standing up to the NRA’s assaults on gun-rights due process. When you make the ACLU gain across-the-spectrum praise for being principled, you are doing something wrong.
Between you and Ron Paul, I’ll take your reassurances about the GOA. Thanks.
And good call on Gottlieb. He’s been a compromising sellout for years. My secret conspiracy belief is that Heller was an attempt by gun grabbers to put a final nail in the 2nd Amendment’s coffin but it fell apart at the SC.
Thank God someone else saw it! I thought I was the only one.
But in truth, I should point out that Due Process is the soft underbelly of gun rights–without it, the 2A can be reduced to worthlessness. And the NRA has done some great work there (essentially, their job is to channel their overall support from the stupid populace into a smart policy package that includes shit their minions would never support on their own–essentially, all due process shit). But then, there’s the Cornyn NFNB bill, which is their preferred one. Once the Republicans get 60, which they probably will in 2018, they’ll *have* to pass it after the next mass shooting. And there goes the neighborhood.
I was fooled by their support for Heller, but Gottlieb has been a compromiser for several “common sense” gun control measures in WA state in the past.
Might check out local groups. We have these guys in Ohio and they’re pretty decent. If you contact them, they may know about some good groups near you.
https://www.buckeyefirearms.org
Ditto. Georgia Carry is great and a buddy says whatever-the-Tennessee-one is too.
Great idea, thanks! Though NYC might prove more of a challenge. I’m about this close to finding my local “New Black Panthers Party” and joining their new Huey P. Newton Gun Club.
Jesse: “Welcome to All Things Scottish. If it’s not Scottish it’s CRAP.”
file under: I am woman, hear me whine
Next time some worthless TERF legislator declares free tampons to be a “women’s rights issue” and anyone who opposes it to be a misogynist, I for one am looking forward to smacking that shit down with a reminder that my opposition to it cannot possibly be sexist because tampons have absolutely nothing to do with being a woman.
I have no problem with this. Have you ever met a woman that needed a tampon and couldn’t get one? Of course you didn’t, because you’re still alive.
Predicting those things get wiped out routinely as a burgeoning underground market in crotchstuffing develops off-campus.
Meanwhile: College’s Plan to Offer Tampons in Both Men’s and Women’s Bathrooms is a Fiasco Due to Rampant Looting
Interestingly, one of the side links Heat Street provided me there was on the world’s oldest porn star and how he keeps it going so long. Apparently, he’s one of them orientals. With really yellow teeth.
Also, Florida Man stole the drummer from Nickelback’s identity.
He stole a member of Nickleback’s identity? Is Florida Man suing for damages?
I’m honestly shocked guys didn’t just toss them all in the toilets to clog them, and blow the University’s plumbing budget.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the entire underlying purpose of this program was so that they could put the products in both bathrooms.
a rare victory: Student government forced to recognize libertarian student group it called ‘dangerous’
Excerpts from the chief whiner’s op ed:
Liberty is slavery!
Holy shit, the projection. Listen, honeybunches of oaf, it’s not YAL doing the pathos thing to gin up support for some twisted crusade against wrongthink, it’s your people. Your entire spiel began, carried on, and self-terminated with emotion-laden drivel. I don’t care what you’re agin’ or aginst, because I don’t think you’ve thought through a single thing you wrote even while writing it.
I do not see such cultural gaps fixing themselves in a non violent manner. I predict dark days in our future.
29 huh. Is student government a lifelong career?
Fuck, I’m thirty and still in college. And I’m not even running for student government!
I was collage past 30 as well but at that point I sure as hell didn’t have time for student government. I was working full time and helping my wife raise our kids.
No wife, no kids. Would probably behoove me to knock some poor broad up if for no better reason than to light a fire under my ass, but I’m not cruel like that.
No rush dude.
Man, it did my brother a world of good. He went from working for my dad for ~30k a year when work is consistent, to assistant project manager for a big national company making 70k and bonuses. All because his babymama is insistent. She’s fucking with his dick, but she got a good fucking deal out of it.
Victory came after FIRE wrote the school and “gently” reminded them of their constitutional obligations, and by that I mean they threatened to sue the school if they didn’t overturn the SGA’s dumbass decision.
It’s amazing how many petty tyrants get their start in student government. Today, they’re passing edicts banning student expression, tomorrow they’ll be denying political groups nonprofit status and unmasking foreign intelligence around for domestic political gain.
unmasking foreign intelligence and passing it around for domestic political gain
Anger as Theater Cancels Biracial Writer’s Play Over Word ‘Mulatto’ in Title
Paging HM to the white courtesy phone…
Don’t you mean the beige courtesy phone?
Flesh.
You ain’t so white, baby.
So, between the white parent and the black parent, which ones is the mule and which one is the horse?
*donkey
Is mulatto really a derogatory term? Or is that more racist projecting?
It was part of the Mexican caste system, so kinda?
Huh, I had never considered it derogatory.
No, it’s okay, I’m taking it back!
That’s pretty funny 🙂
Huge fan of that movie. Rosario Dawson is my cheat celebrity.
+ 1 La Raza
The whole colonial Spanish caste system. Elaborate as fuck. They stopped slicing and dicing like that a long time ago. But ain’t nothin’ wrong with mulatto, so I’ma keep using it until they come up with something better. “Biracial” is not that something better. Biracial means two races, any races. It’s offensive if anything, but typically American, to use a term like that or even the earlier “mixed” interchangeably with “half white and half black.”
Well, what’s the word for it, Lana? You freaked out when said “quadroon”!
I think it is only derogatory when used that way. Kind of like most words.
You mean when the listener decides to get offended! Who the fuck are you to decide that for them, you privileged shitlord
Derek with an apostrophe at the end????
Really????
I actually kinda was rooting for the guy, but now not so much. David Malki ! gets grandfathered in, but there’s a limit.
He’s either Klingon or Cthulhu.
It’s a typo.
His name is actually Derek “Duck” Washington.
Burnsville is a suburb of Minneapolis that I always associate with Minnesoda country rednecks that done well.
My guess is that their objection to “mulatto” is that it is too many syllables to sound out quickly and it makes the feel dumb.
Well, they tried to settle on Quadroon or Octaroon, but somehow that only mad things more racist.
This made me smile and Nelson-laugh: Antifa gets a wedgie
I love the sheer enjoyment on that guy’s face. I wonder what led up to that moment…
I like the guy right of center going for what looks like a facepalm.
There’s one on YouTube where an obese chick tries to spray silly string on a Trump supporter. He yanks it from her hand and when she screams at him he fills her mouth with her own silly string.
Please post that if you find it.
It was in the middle of one of the videos and I’m not sure I can sit through any more of them. Will do if it pops up.
That’s hilarious
Don’t have that footage but I do have footage of the British American Trump supporters headquarters reaction to it
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gaRtlMp-hMU
Sargon pieces together football of the Berkeley event. I had only seen bits and pieces, but it confirms the obvious – the little Maoists were completely routed.
Little is right. What is a 98lb girl doing in a melee? And apparently trying to start something at that…
I think someone has maybe seen a few too many movies.
I hadn’t seen the whole thing because I find most things like that stupid. When the 98lb girl came up in discussion a few days ago, I saw people agree it was wrong to hit a woman. Which I agree with. But after seeing that: the way she was dressed, the stupid hair, the pace of events. I doubt if Nazi dude knew she was a chic. What was she going for? A pressure point? Throat punch?
Ya, too many movies.
The New York Times allowed a Palestinian terrorist to write an op-ed and at first didn’t bother to mention that he was, in fact, a terrorist. The article gave the idea that Israel imprisoned him for political purposes and nothing more. They finally added an editor’s note to say it; before it only described him as a “Palestinian leader and parliamentarian”.
Stay classy, Times. Enjoy 8 years of Trump. Keep it up and It will be Bannon/Spicer 2024.
That is a classic NYT tactic.
Without Fear or Context.
Palestinan terrorist writes an op-ed; women and children hardest hit.
NYT:
“Marwan Barghouti is a Palestinian leader and parliamentarian.”
Wiki:
“…is a Palestinian political figure convicted and imprisoned for murder by an Israeli court.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marwan_Barghouti
So re: Kilt-iquette….
what goes in the leather crotch-purse? i’m unclear on whether its completely ornamental or functional (aside from being a convenient shield against errant ball-strikes or unexpected wood)
Is that where you keep your gold? Oh wait wrong stereotype.
There potatoes and whiskey?
My people (the irish) keep a horde of gold at the end of the rainbow. You have no idea how hard it is to find an ATM for that.
I hear there are several branches of that bank in San Francisco.
You need an ender chest and ender pouch, scrub.
Absolutely the wrong stereotype. A true Scotsman sticks every cent of his money far up his ass where even the Jews cannot reach it.
You know, that was actually a sincere question.
you people forced me to google
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sporran
I was expecting something of high-symbolic/cultural significance. it turns out its more like, “cos tharain no pockets on a bleeding kilt you dumb cunt!”
Although i have to say, the ones made out of the pelts of badgers, that use its head as a flap? that’s some pimp shit.
now i know what i want for christmas
Thanks for doing the research so I didn’t have to. Was genuinely interested in the answer. Lol
I want one! That is just about everything I could ever want in a crotch purse. I may just buy one and skip the kilt from time to time.
Doesn’t compare to the original crotch purse, though.
Tonio referenced them in one of his first posts. Something about a camel scrotum satchel. It was very intriguing. I wanted to get one after reading about it.
Dur, it’s where James Bond hid the metal strip to get out of his room to all the hot chicks.
… Hobbit
file under: the Voldemort school of journalism
Keep up with that courageous reporting, WaPo.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/04/13/detroit-area-doctor-charged-with-performing-genital-mutilation-on-girls/?utm_term=.d74e312ea5ed
This is the point where we throw their own rhetoric back in their face. “We have no right to judge their culture! Why can’t you be more tolerant of diversity and give her space to cut infant vaginas to shreds?!”
The Battle of Berkeley, according to Antifa:
https://www.youcaring.com/arresteeswhoprotestedtheneonazirallyinberkeley-802486
Anyone else imagine the old Iraqi Information Minister reading this in their head?
They just ooze self-righteousness. Completely detached from reality.
Smash the system, comrade!
How far gone do you have to be to believe any of that? It’s one thing (thinking back to a Vanity Fair article I read yesterday) to take for granted things like ‘Trump pandered to white supremacists’ because you got stuck in an echo chamber. But this stuff
Argh… only this should be quoted: “…the gathering of neo nazis, white supremacists, and fascists who drove for hours to Berkeley with the direct intent to harm citizens of the city”
it is so fortunate the Antifa people showed up, who knows what would have happened had they simply stayed home and let the idiots have an unmolested march
Victim of Far-Right Attacks at Berkeley Trump Rally Speaks Out
“The alt-right, militiamen, nazis, fascists, Trump supporters … held a rally in Berkeley and took downtown,” Mother Jones senior editor Shane Bauer said in a Facebook post Sunday. “Street fights broke out all day. The fascists pushed through and took downtown. (Saturday) was their victory.”
It sure is fascinating how so many people believe in might makes right until they get their asses kicked.
It’s disgusting how much play this is getting, versus the people attacked by the antifa at the previous Berkeley riot earlier.
Wasn’t she the one who went there to collect a bunch of scalps?
This is why there are no straight libertarians.
Why the Alt-Right Are So Weak
And Why They’re Becoming So Dangerous
Projection, projection, projection
I tried to find the video of a stupid protester getting a mouthful of her own silly string, but this was the best I could do:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bDyWZtj7vk
I found it amusing.
“No smoking within 25ft of the building!”
Good god. Fuck off.
I hear entire college campuses are “smoke-free” now. That would have been… problematic in my day.
I was on a college campus planning to implement that shit the next semester. Some dumb bitch doing a tour for prospective students walked by and made a big point to say in a loud voice how good it was that smoking was going to be banned from campus soon because smoking is bad for you. A bunch of the little shits listening to her clapped.
It’s moments like that which really let you know just how authoritarian most normies are, in case you ever forget.
I believe the children are our future…
Oh me too. I never had a problem smoking outside, but the thing where any non smoker was offended if they even smell it was a bit much. Including with the 25 feet rule, which I never followed. I find it offensive that non smokers are pricks. That is coming from an ex-smoker.
At my college, you would literally have had to get in a car and drive to the real world for a smoke.
I got that in CA twenty years ago all the time – and just seeing it, not even smelling it.
In NY I very rarely see that behavior.
Support Prop 421!
Jesus. Christ. They really truly deserve a beating.
No clue what the douche looks like, but the voice tells me his face is immensely punchable. I wouldn’t give a shit about the silly string, but I wouldn’t be able to sit there and listen to this little douche whine about smoking near the building.
And that lady too. Wtf? And why didn’t anyone react to those idiots?
Well,this is annoying. Two games headed to OT. Which to watch? I already missed a few goal because of flipping back and forth.
Well, there goes that problem.
(fuck the capitals)
NHL hockey is unbelievable in the playoffs. There’s no reason the Caps should be trailing 2-1 in this series. They’re about as balanced a team I’ve seen. The Leafs are a building project. Yet, here we are.
They’re behind by one game.
We’ve lost playoff series leading by 3 games to 1 twice.
They have to dig deep now because the Leafs came to play.
They lost a playoff game in Toronto.
Did you expect the Capitals to sweep the playoffs in Toronto?
No, but you can’t blow 3-1 leads like that. Game 3s are important.
I still think they should win but they’d better wake up and play to their full potential. 1st round match ups are always – ALWAYS – hard on the favorites.
The Capitals don’t like you either.
Okay. The Leafs solved that problem.
Wow.
Well, one of them just ended so now you can watch the other one.
I fuckin’ hate Toronto right now.
You know what the biggest difference is between Alex Ovechkin and the women of Toronto?
Alex Ovechkin takes a shower after three periods.
It’s like that.
Fuck Toronto.
5 on 3, brah. Gotta seal that deal with that kind of fire power.
Look, it’s not their fault your team chokes in the playoffs every. single. year.
(Since the Flyers currently suck, all I have going for me is being able to root against the Caps, Rangers and Pens)
To me it will always be the Patrick Division just like the Adams Division.
My general hockey hatred is concentrated on most of the old Patrick Division. I don’t really hate New Jersey or the Isles. I also don’t like the Bruins, but that’s more of a recent hatred against everything Boston.
They haven’t choked yet.
They’re behind in the series by one game.
Only in Toronto are they convinced that means they’re going to win the cup.
They aren’t going anywhere. They’re young, they suck, and they’re in Toronto.
I’ll probably drop out after the Rangers get eliminated. I don’t have a strong opinion on these other teams.
Boy, you’re soft. Don’t you remember Puddy’s rule? GOTTA SUPPORT THE TEAM!
Just being realistic.
Yeh, the Habs really bitched slapped them last night. Radulov is a beast. So is Gallagher.
Oh, and fuck Pittsburgh.
And fuck the Wild. What kind of stupid ass name is that for a team anyway? To get any stupider, they’d have to call themselves “The Extreme”.
I like Boudreau, but not tonight.
Oh, and Toronto is going anywhere.
Good. Two games settled early.
What a player Karlsson is. Unreal.
That Jesse. Excellent taste.
I heard he’s single.
Yeah, I’ve had an unrequited crush on him for years. Don’t tell anyone.
GILMORE: a while ago on another site, if I recall correctly, you had linked to a really kickass tonic water recipe. Do you have the link still?
not me.
my tonic water recipe is = “buy from store”
I’m not even much of a G+T guy until its hot out. oh look, its getting hot out. (goes and makes one)
Dammit, I do not recall correctly.
Do you have a Soda Stream?
35 degree water + aspirin + force carbonate = makeshift tonic water.
Do those consumer machines really work? I’ve always thought it would be the balls if you could carbonate fruit juices, but people have told me that will ruin the machine.
Uh oh, do you have malaria? My recipe won’t work.
This might be the recipe, or a variation on it.
Tundra and I talked a few times about tonic syrups, and A LOT about Whole Foods’ house (365) brand tonic water, but I couldn’t find anything about Gilmore having a recipe besides you referencing it.
Does that syrup recipe look familiar? I remember you guys talking about a lot of commercial products and I even bought a few of them based on your positive experience with them.
HuffPo continues its descent into madness:
I Am A White Woman And I Must Confront My Racism
White people like me are resistant to recognizing our compliance with systemic oppression. This must stop.
Nothing says giving up on a “naive belief in a post-racial America” like making your entire life revolve around race. Bonus points for “shit that never happened” anecdote.
I don’t know. I only skimmed through the article, but when I see shit from people like this I always figure they are indeed telling the truth, not merely empty virtue signaling or whatever. Probably they *are* petrified of black people, Latinos, whatever. (Maybe there were none in whatever cornfield they came from before moving to the big city or whatever.) Maybe they do look at every one thinking they are about to rob or rape them like the brutal apes they are. Maybe they do not treat black people with courtesy when they encounter them. And now they are commendably trying to turn over a new leaf.
But these people are so constitutionally, comically full of themselves that they honestly think, “Well, if *I*, such an incredibly *good* person, is this racist, then certainly *every* white person must be! Certainly none could simply look at blacks and simply see a fellow human being; *I* can’t really honestly attain such a stupendous feat, so the very idea must be a self-serving lie! Why, some of those who claim such a thing *did not even vote for Hillary*! So stop with your clearly spurious claims, dear reader.
“And don’t be too hard on yourself, reader, because despite appearances *I* am not. This is strictly a *ritual* self-flagellation, a condemnation of my personal ‘privilege’ and of the whole ‘pervasive white nationalist culture’ that has filled my head with such hatred and bigotry. Goes down so much easier than the thought of simply being a piece-of-shit racist fuck, through no one’s fault but my own.”
“I purposely sought out film, literature, and music created by and centering people of color and women. I started following black folks on Instagram and Twitter.”
Oooh, that’ll make a huge difference in race relations! She’s just a regular Rosa Parks… *wipes away tear of admiration*
“I looked for images of black men smiling and of fathers playing with their children.”
Ok, now she’s just bordering on creepy.
“I made a point of making eye contact and smiling at black men as I passed them on the street… I said “excuse me” and “please” and “thank you” and called every black man I spoke with ‘sir’.”
You know, people with basic politeness have been doing this all along without “making a point” of it. It doesn’t make you an anti-racist hero.
https://heatst.com/culture-wars/he-cracked-a-bottle-over-my-homies-head-antifa-accused-of-beating-up-other-protesters/
I really wish people would stop calling them antifa in the first place. Most of these assholes had never heard of antifa until the last few months. Those cunts had like a few dozen people at Obama’s inauguration. They aren’t anarchists, either. They’re just your typical garden variety SJW’s and progressives. People who drank way too much fucking kool aid.
I dunno… they make a convincing case of being commie no-shit fascists like every other “antifa” group in existence.
i’d like to think of them as “communist ninjas“- because it seems technically-accurate as far as ideology and fashion-statements go – but they seem to possess neither the organizational skills of communists, nor any of the grace and agility of the ninja.
They also lack any sort of logical agency or goal, very much not like the ancient shinobi.
Also, they dressed in camo and used guns. So basically a fuckload more like a Trump supporter (or just generally someone who’s not a fucking idiot asshole) than antifa.
The video raises the question of what exactly Marxists have against trash receptacles. As Sargon pointed out in his recent video, they end up beating the shit out of a trash can or dumpster *every single god damn protest.*
The Berkeley PD has a “Protest 101 / Event Planning Checklist”. Fine, whatever, I’m sure the Berkeley PD deals with that a lot. But… at the bottom of this list… WTF
Lets see… okay sounds good looks SYMBOLIC FUCKING ARRESTS?! WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCKITY FUCK?!
I’m sure they can make the beatings look realistic if you ask nicely.
Maybe the Berkeley PD could have an exchange ridealong program with those PDs who prank drivers by scaring the shit out of them with “symbolic” traffic stops and then giving them presents so they can post footage of their cuddly good deeds to their Facebook account and coverage from news website interns can make them go viral.
Most generous reading of this is that the Berkeley PD is so used to people deliberately trying to get themselves arrested at these things that they have found it convenient to simply ask if there will be any of these folks there actually planning to do something arrestable but relatively nonviolent like blocking the sidewalk. A bit weird, to put it mildly, to ask it using those terms. But maybe they find it behooves them to ask in this way, that they get more truthful responses for their planning. If I were a police chief and I could get perps to tell me ahead of time what they were going to do, I’d do it!
a quick google found anecdotal confirmation that this is indeed a pretty normal occurrence in Berkeley
Is it a legit arrest, or do they simply put some cuffs on them, lead them around the corner, and let them go?
I’d presume they’d book them, process them, and leave it to the DA to decide whether to press (all at taxpayer expense, of course, but protesters gonna protest). Again, the precise terms makes it look like the protesters are being asked to order up an arrest as just another role in their street theater–as though they could just as well tell the guy who dressed in the monocle and top hat during their anti-Koch demonstration to be a “cop” this time. But again, it’s probably more convenient to get a heads-up on folks who don’t want more trouble than that if they can.
Laughable to imagine that shit happening in NYC, btw. For about the last 15 years a harmless hipster “prank collective” has staged, among other things, a “Pants off subway ride” (yes, that’s how ridiculously safe we are now) where they spread the word to have folks ride in their boxers. It’s a huge thing nowadays, and practically an officially endorsed tourist event, but in 2006 it hit the awkward level of prominence where the police took notice but didn’t consider it cool. There were mass arrests. Yes, for the crime of riding a subway in your boxers. (It was *very* locally famously established decades ago that women actually have the right in this state to ride the subway *topless*, but never mind.) An insider’s account on their website has some fun reveals into their culture, like where a cop makes the prisoners wait so he can go eat a sandwich, and his partner is openly pissed off because he did it *while the press are watching*. Of course, all this is recounted with no bitterness, only amusement, as it was from the whole prank collective, no hard feelings. As only a rich white kid can.
I don’t think this makes the Berkeley PD look better here. I mean, symbolically arresting people to further their protest isn’t what they get paid to do. It’s not their job to further the symbolism of some snowflakes protest.
Well, like I said, if they are going to commit an offense to get themselves arrested regardless, why not get the heads up? Weird but sensible.
The interesting thing comes if such an accommodating approach actually *encourages* some people to get themselves arrested who would not have otherwise done so. Because then what you basically have is a sort of arrangement where the cops hold out the promise of actually being treated on the book and humanely, in return for the heads up beforehand.
Basically there’s just so much weird shit here I’m having trouble wrapping my mind around it.
Headaches abound for Minnesota man declared dead by the IRS 29 years ago
Sucks for him, although it’s hilarious that a certificate of resurrection is an actual thing.
Unanswered question: Why the fuck is he still withholding any of his check at all? Tell the fuckers to bill him every year and they will magically declare him not dead in a new york minute. I can’t be the first person to say this out loud.
If you have to pay more than a certain amount (I think it’s $1000) and your estimated payments for the year are less than the previous year, you have to pay a penalty. Fucking scum IRS and the withholding regs. Piss on Friedman (for one day).
I’m going to fix a drink. Just wrote checks to the state and feds. Made a little bit more last year and fucking fucksticks in DC took an even larger bite of it.
If he’s legally dead, how is he being taxed to begin with?
You’d think once someone is declared dead, they’d be taken off the tax rolls.
Estate taxes, duh!
I’m just going to go with the most obvious issue here which is that the IRS bureaucrats are so incompetent at their jobs that they haven’t been able to resolve this over a period of 29 fucking years. And these are the same people who will hammer you if you break some inane rule within their 80,000 page or whatever tax code.
One thing I love about this crowd is the understated honesty.
Most places a “NSFW” flag means maybe some bikini clad boobs, so you just click away.
Around here “Mildly NSFW” means “Absolutely under no circumstances click on this at work, or on any computer using your own account, browser history or network connection”. I appreciate that level of honesty. Such is life when dealing with people who are notoriously difficult to offend.
Then again, merely having “glibertarians” in your ISP history probably flags you for special tracking with homeland security….
What? What sort of churchmarm websites are you usually hanging out at? For full NSFW I expect some titties or genitalia (on a European website, maybe not even the former) at the very least. Bare ass might not even do it necessarily in and of itself; you could see that on network TV thirty years ago after all. Mildly NSFW should get you something obviously sexualized but short of that. Context matters; for an entertainment news website for example, bikini clad titties all up in your face would very likely not even get the mild (also when you’re warned with other language, like jesse telling you about the asses here). Under no imaginable circumstances would I expect a narrow peek at a Scotsman’s hip (not the barest sliver of pubes or anything) to merit anything remotely close to what you describe. Even as a comic exaggeration. It barely even registered with me as something sexual.
I have to object to calling this weekend’s demonstration as the Berkeley riots. Did any shops get burned down and/or robbed. Then it wasn’t really a riot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6z4JmU0hY4
And the Berkely cops don’t give a a shit about people fighting in the street. If you have a problem with that, take it up with the union.