I’m struggling with an intro here. I’ll quickly bring up the fact that the Capitals got back in their series (barely) after knocking Crosby out. And I’ll also mention that the Rockets absolutely thumped the Spurs to open their series, even though we all know the NBA Playoffs are equal parts basketball and equal parts WWF when it comes to series beginnings vs endings. So I won’t be holding my breath that it continues that way.
Paul Ryan – Budget Specialist
Anyhow, we are moving past Monday. And the second chapter of this workweek begins with…the links!
Paul Ryan has convinced me that he’s a Manchurian Democrat. There’s no other way to explain a budget that Obama himself wouldn’t have dared to propose when he was sitting in the White House (pondering over the beauty of the Washington and Lincoln Memorials from the Truman Balcony, as he said in his latest $400,000 speech).
Well, we might get to see the Fast and Furious documents after all. But I doubt many of them have escaped the dreaded computer crashes and shredded accidents that tended to plague other Obama officials when they were subject to oversight.
You mean the left is closed-minded when it comes to an open debate on their ideas? Harsanyi says no shit, Sherlock.
Colorado hippies look to prevent college from competing with other universities. To paraphrase Melissa Click Eric Cartman, “can I get some muscle Slayer over here?”
Political infighting in The Pine Tree State.
Feline Pretty Good!
Baylor University fraternity suspended for doing what fraternities do. Hopefully the school is punishing them for not knowing how to read a calendar or for failing at basic knowledge of foreign languages. But I suspect that’s not it.
The policeman’s story that the car he shot into, killing a 15 year old, was driving toward him was not true, according to the local police chief. The killing has been ruled a homicide. The local D.A. and “police integrity unit” are both looking into the matter while the unnamed officer is on leave.
Music from Delaware? It’s a thing. Or at least it was a generation ago.
Tequila + me = a bad idea. And with my *secret powers, especially bad.
*I don’t black out when I drink but can remember every single detail of my stupidity.
I can see you dancing on the bar to that song.
I thought I was that way… then I met a fellow missionary serving in another city in Slovakia and the two of us drank with a Slovak friend of his while living in Slovakia. The trouble started with the Slovak’s wife being a good Slovak wife and making sure our glasses were never empty, I definitely blacked out. I was told I screamed the Slovak equivalent of pussy or cunt repeatedly at 1am in front of a pastor’s apartment, declined to continue drinking in town, emphasized that I needed to brush my teeth (i remember that), and passed out in the wrong bed
Ty pica.
My body will no longer allow me to drink tequila. One bad night.
It is now nearly as effective as Ipecac.
Last blackout I had was from tequila. But I still like it! I just have to stop at two.
*pours tequila*
I can only drink Tequila as Patron XO Cafe being part of that concoction known in some parts as a “Baby Guinness”.
I only had two!
*holds up open hand with all fingers extended*
Dave Attell:
I’m drinking Jack and I started blackin out. You ever black out? Or as I call it, time travel? You ever do that? Oh yeah! You know how it is — you’re drinking, you black out. You wake up, you’re in another bar. You’re drinking, you black out. You wake up, you’re playing that knife game with a half-Indian somewhere in North Dakota, “Yeah! Yeah! Winner fixes the tranny! Yeah”. You’re drinking, you black out. You wake up, you’re in White Castle — working there 3 years, STILL not assistant manager. Your buddies tell you to quit, but you can’t ’cause you’re banging the slow girl on the fry-o-later. They say she’s a little retarded, but those titties ain’t retarded!
Ahh, May 2nd. Let’s see what doughey North Korea apologist Judge Juche on twitter had to say yesterday: I noticed that he has replaced out his previous twitter avatar dorm room selfie featuring Abercrombie & Fitch sweatpants, which is a shame because mommy and daddy paid good money for that sweatshop-fabricated garment.
Damn, unfortunately not much activity. Just some Lenin and Stalin apologia brain farts. Disappointing haul today.
GILMORE: A couple days ago I caught the most recent War College podcast with a South Korea-based North Korea expert. The interview was interesting.
thanks
My reaction
Suddenly I want a hamburger.
I’d send her hot dogs for her birthday.
Are we not doing phrasing anymore?
Using every part of the animal is being conservation minded and respectful of the animal’s sacrifice.
Plus, restaurants that use whole animal Lips to Assholes is hip now.
I liked this:
Once again, a tiny minority making all the noise. How about a simple “fuck off, herbivore”?
Not only that, but there were only 25 protesters, according to the article. Why is this even a story?
Because we click.
Despite our better judgement.
I remember during the ’12 election how the media touted Paul Ryan as this penny-pinching fiscal hawk. Sheesh.
Yeah. He went from Randian psychopath to gigantic big-government pussy in one cycle.
Fucking loser. This budget is the worst political thing to happen in a while.
I sent Ryan an email about the budget yesterday. I’m sure some flunky email reader got a real kick out of it but it made me feel better to vent.
I used to do that to Carl Levin’s staff, it was futile, and led to a return email that essentially said “we read your concerns, and here is how democrat party line will help to change this issue.”
My favorite is the auto reply that asks for a donation. “We couldn’t be bothered to read your email but we sure would like to have some of your money. Click on the link below!”
You got that reply from an official Congressman’s office?
You must have emailed Rangel.
I was a summer student intern for Senator Domenici back in the day. It was the interns’ job to read and sort the mail, and we would input the addresses for responses that the LegAsst chose for the topic. Most of it was easy – back then there were a lot of “Send this card to your legislator to tell him to not cut Social Security!” so we would get a pile of postcards, and index them. No one in the actual staff would look at them, just the count yay/nay. Anything unusual would go to the LegAssistant for that topic.
He will be labeled a scrooge McDuck Randian, again. When it suits the narrative
I think Bastiat had something to say about this.
Thank God Trump isn’t defunding government food distribution, because then everyone would starve.
The irony that he heard about Trump’s evil plan to “uneducate” people on public radio wasn’t lost on that dumb bastard?
Why am I not surprised?
Well he is going to stop some sort of Michelle Obama program for third world girls education because he hates educated humans or something. I seen it on the facebook.
If he really wanted to “uneducate” people, all he would have to do is implement Bernie’s free university scheme.
Maybe the better word is “miseducate”.
Did Janet Reno crash that Frat party?
Somebody needed to shut it down. With all that drinking and fucking going on, they ran the risk of people starting to dance. And that’s just not done in Waco.
Q: Why are Baptists against sex before marriage?
A: It may lead to mixed dancing.
::guffaw:
Different version —
Why don’t Baptists fuck standing up?
Someone might see em and think they were dancing.
“But I can’t party as a white person. The hangover of regret hits before I even drink.”
Grrrrrrrrrrr! Sic ’em Bears?
Older women reveal what worries them most about millennials
Porn, social media and feminism were all flagged up
Public hair is gross.
And knees.
“Cover your knees up if you’re gonna be walking.”
Older women lament that they are not as attractive to men and hate competition from younger women. News at eleven.
Older generation thinks younger generation is making poor desicions. What else is new?
But have you heard their “music”? It’s sickening.
It is an old complaint, but often right. Humanity tends to travel through cycles of foolishness, though more often than not a new error is merely replacing an old one, so the danger is not too great. When the errors begin to compound, that’s when you’re in for real trouble.
Women were invited to share the problems that younger women should be wary of in a post on the Ask Women section of Reddit.
So you’re linking to The Independent which is reporting on a Reddit thread?
Damn it, staffinrun, I’m a glibertarian not a reporter!
It’s links all the way down.
I should think young women should be wary of the Ask Women section of Reddit.
Alternate title: Dried Up Spinsters Lament Inability to Seduce Teen Boys
The Harsanyi article links out to this, an homage to all the well-intentioned fuckwits that praised communism in America.
The only reason they were “voyagers” here instead of the genocidal maniacs they became in other nations is because normal people that value free will stopped them in their tracks.
But if they were not brutally stopped by evil capitalists these guys would have brought forth real socialism, and utopia would have ensued. I mean if they had their way people could spend their time enjoyably commenting on the internet instead of working. Oh….
GOD BLESS HOWARD HUGHES!
/tight jawed sporting a pipe. Adjusts ascot riddled with moth holes.
Bravo, Vivian. BRA-VO!
Nazis are also an oppressed political minority and I’m not sure that they killed even half as many as the communists. Yet communism is still fashionable and something to get nostalgic about? Read the part where the author mentions Khrushchev’s unmasking Stalin’s crimes, for the author and her proletarians the real bummer was the bad PR their brand suffered and that tens of thousands of Americans left the party afterwards. The millions of dead and tormented were a new obstacle to their obtaining power.
It is a real shame that pro-Communists are not treated with the same level of contempt as neo-Nazis. In a society that had its head on straight, anyone who promoted Communism would be viewed on the same level with slavery apologists, as what is Communism except the proposition of universal servus publicus.
Regular ole slavery would be a step up. At least if people were regarded as private property, the owners have some incentive to maintain the value of their slaves. Communism is a system of slavery where human beings are public property and are therefore as disposable as any property governed by the tragedy of the commons.
Looks like the UT stabbings were perpetrated by a student without any ideology. Look for the drug warriors to make hay. There is an unconfirmed rumor that a concealed handgun carrier interrupted the rampage. I rate this as not impossible but not yet credible.
This is pretty fucked up. Second campus murder in a year and those are the first two campus murders since Whitman in ’66.
“Do any of you people know who Charles Whitman was? None of you dumbasses knows?”
He showed what a motivated Marine and his rifle can accomplish!
I had a roommate whose last name was Whitman when I was at UT. Nobody knew who he was then either, that was late 80s.
I just hope if I’m ever unfortunate enough to be in a situation like this, I’ll be braver than these people.
Yeah, in situations like that it always seems that two or three quick-thinking individuals can swarm the guy and stop the attack then and there, but that requires two or three people who won’t see a person clearly willing to kill them and not hightail it outta there. Sitting in front of a keyboard I’d like to think I’d have the stones to take the guy down, but in the moment, who knows?
Unless you’ve got something readily available to smack in the head with (crush his skull), the best thing is to make noise and let everyone else know to get away. The winner of a knife fight is the one who makes it to the hospital before he dies.
“He told officers that he takes “happy pills” and had his blood drawn as part of the arrest.”
If this is what he does when he is “happy”…
He probably had to stop taking the pills as part of a pre-trial monitoring program.
William Shatner firmly believes in misandry, a concept favored by men’s rights activists
Another reason The Shat is the 20th century’s greatest gift to mankind .
Pretty much proves Shatner’s point.
What do you call it when a man pretending to be a woman hates men for being men?
Misocrazy?
*narrows gaze*
So, he is talking about the Middle East. Of course this has fuckall to do with the West.
The women there like it, so that doesn’t count.
Didn’t you see THE HANDMAID’S TALE?? We are LITERALLY SECONDS AWAY from Pence declaring marital law and chaining all women to their kitchen sinks!!!
I hope the chain is long enough to reach the fridge and the oven, because I gots to eat!
Put a mini-fridge right next to the BarcaLounger, you will be OK.
Is there a standard accepted definition for toxic masculinity? If so what is it. If not, it means anyone can adapt and define as they see fit to circumstance. Which is meaningless for debate.
The Wikipedia article on it used a definition from an article in The Atlantic. Not sure The Atlantic is the most reliable source of information.
Well, Wikipedia is barely a reliable source itself. I see so much misinformation on topics I know about and then wonder why I trust it on topics I don’t.
You know it when you
seetaste it.Motor oil and scotch?
… mixed with Semen.
*HURK*
Basically “Toxic Masculinity” is just “anything a man does that people who use the term ‘Intersectionality’ in a serious manner don’t like”.
Second question: is there an accepted definition of non-toxic masculinity? You know to teach to young men so they don’t get all toxic?
Yeah, when you get to this stage.
The one users of the term “Toxic Masculinity” would give amounts to “Be more like girls”. It makes no one happy, which appears to be the goal of these people.
I don’t have any son’s, but there is something about when feminists talk about “Toxic Masculinity” that sure makes me know that if i did, i’d raise him to be a Man’s Man.
It’s funny on how unaware (or maybe they are just that insipid), Feminists who proclaim Toxic Masculinity are. Men are socialized in a way that they don’t like, therefore men must change everything about themselves to conform to how feminists want them. Same Complaint, different women.
I think the majority of women would be grateful that you raised him to be a Man’s Man.
Just like racism against whites isn’t a real thing, sexism against men isn’t real. Nope. Only women and non-whites will ever know what it feels like to be discriminated against. You just can’t see this through your cis-white-male-hetero-shitlord privilege!#%@#%113#%
Just ignore all of the affirmative action requirements and government set-asides that disadvantage men in favor of women and minorities. Ignore also the fact the any man on a college campus can have his life destroyed on the mere word of a woman with no evidence required. Ignore the constant depiction of men in media as fools and incompetents and inferiors, especially white men. Etc. etc. etc.
But what are going to believe, a feminist with an agenda, or your own lying eyes?
caught the eye of trans feminist writer
Because of course it did. You can’t slip one by those guys.
” those guys.”
So triggered right now.
Bitches be trippin’.
Transplaining?
You mean the left is closed-minded when it comes to an open debate on their ideas? Harsanyi says no shit, Sherlock.
A great article that I’m afraid is too critical of the left to appear on a certain site.
The legend of Bigfoot started in Humboldt County
STEVE SMITH LEAVE BECAUSE GERMAN TOO TOUGH, FIND AMERICAN EASIER PREY.
Wait a minute, I read that as Hamburg. Fucking hell.
STEVE SMITH HELP HIKERS WITH GROW OPERATION IN HUMBOLDT.
The cast measured 18 inches long and 7 inches wide
WITH MEASUREMENTS LIKE THAT STEVE SMITH HAVE NO REASON TO BE HUMBOLDT
o7
This, my friends, is the winner.
You win the internet. Please email Al Gore to claim prize. Hint: carbon credits.
STEVE SMITH STILL RETURN FOR HOLIDAY, ESPESCIALLY NEW YEARS.
STEVE SMITH REMEMBERS RAPE OF HUMBOLT COUNTY.
FONDLY.
FONDILY.
I have been sending my brother a continuous stream of articles like the New York Times Op-Ed because he was one of those screeching eco-nuts. I had to repeatedly assure him that I’m not denying climate change and am merely skeptical of the methods and politics involved. It took a while to get past the screeching but he’s finally admitted that the free market is what will solve our energy needs. He’s a huge advocate for nuclear power now. It feels good to bring someone, kicking and screaming, into the fold.
Start sending him daily updates from wattsupwiththat and he’ll become a full-blown skeptic in a week.
Well, he will if he values the scientific method in the slightest.
The fact that they tout “consensus” as meaningful shows that they have no regard for scientific method.
I don’t really care if he’s a skeptical or not as long as he’s not forcing people to conform to his views. If the only thing that comes from this hysteria is more widespread acceptance of nuclear power I’ll be satisfied.
Your brother didn’t go to the “but all opposition is funded by big oil!” card? Good on him.
No. He’s quite intelligent, he just lives in an echo chamber.
Nice job. I’ve shared this article on Cobalt mining with the eco-freaks in my world. They have a terminal case of magical thinking when it comes to energy, technology and a high standard of living. There ain’t no free lunch, greenies.
Cobalt
That will take care of the hippies nicely. Thanks!
Eater of Birds. Better name than their first choice, “Turkey on pumpernickel”.
Somebody a while ago had linked to a piece on the rare earth mining in China that happens in order to produce the exotic magnets that go into wind turbines. Lost the link.
Link
Excellent article, Pomp. Thanks for that.
Can’t be that rare, those bloody things are all over.
If it were anyone else I wouldn’t try so hard, but he’s a teacher so I figure if I can convert him the outreach is exponential in that he’ll be helping to raise generations.
Playing the progs at their own game.
+1 Long march through the institutions
One problem, is that even if climate change is a real threat. The watermelons are only interested in one solution. From that article:
“It is not denialism to proffer that state control of economic choices as the only way to “fight climate change in any genuine way” has a poor track record and isn’t worth the tradeoff.”
They want carbon taxes and massive restrictions on fossil fuel production. If someone invented a CO2 filter, made from recycled trash, that was inexpensive and 99.9% effective, they would be against it.
Look how they turned against natural gas once it went from expensive to cheap. The reason why US CO2 emissions are below the limits set by Kyoto are entirely due to switching to the now very cheap natural gas as an energy source from oil and coal. And prior to it becoming cheap, the greens promoted the fuck out of it.
It’s a classic example of revealed preferences. In my limited anecdotal experience, greens don’t really love the Earth in any way. Rather they seem to be motivated by hatred of the works of humanity. Artifice (literally meaning that which is made through art) is a dirty word to them. They don’t want to say they hate humanity – so they claim to love that which is not of humanity, i.e. the natural world. But it’s very interesting when something they promote suddenly goes from opposing the flourishing of humanity to assisting it; suddenly that thing becomes evil. Every time.
I don’t know if they hate humanity, or just capitalism raising people out of poverty. There could also be some racism thrown in there as well, as they support policies that hold back third-world countries.
It’s a control thing. The left generally, but especially Progressives, are uncomfortable with private wealth because it represents power that they can’t control. Everything about free markets scares them shitless because there’s no plan, no panel of experts to steer people towards desired outcomes. The causes are almost incidental to the issue of the locus of power.
it’s why they’re truly watermelons, that red just shows through
So how many glibs were at the fyre festival? I mean if tyou can’t trust Emily Ratajkowski’s instagram for quality festivals, what can you trust?
http://www.shortlist.com/entertainment/music/the-fyre-festival-looks-like-one-of-the-worst-events-in-human-history
fucking retards. Apparently “cute wild pigs” were part of the advertising. No thanks. I’m not going near wild pigs without multiple firearms.
Dammit, Negroni, this is Lord of the Flies we’re role-playing here, not Robinson Crusoe! No firearms allowed!
Lord of Flies would be ok depending on which kid you are. Robinson Crusoe is definitely better though. Plus you get a manservant that way.
You also still have pockets when you’re completely naked.
There are several adjectives I’d use to describe “wild pigs”. Feral, dangerous, savage, aggressive. Cute ain’t one of them.
Tasty.
I have had those.
There is a place in the Bahamas that cooks two per week, they are sold off to fund the restocking.
Apparently, we can’t trust Bella Hadid either. What has this world come to?
I can’t even
/the-fyre-festival-looks-like-one-of-the-worst-events-in-human-history
Yes. I place it just above the treatment of Yale graduate students and the Holocaust.
Wich raises the separate question, why does the left get enthralled with entitled people bitching about how bad they have it? I mean those Yale students are already in the 1% to be going there, let alone the compensation they get back is better than 50% of Americans.
Well it’s all relative …
“Major Lazer, Tyga and, er, Blink 182”
I have no idea what any of those people sound like.
Blink 182…
Is there any writer more self-unaware than Thomas Friedman? He’s talking about the toxicity of Trump while being entertained in an authoritarian petro-state.
Funny how not taking any refugees makes Dubai the counter-ISIS.
I use simple applications when it comes to spotting idiots and bull shit. Firzample, whenever someone says something vague and absurd like “assault on truth and science” chances are they haven’t thought things through and are just repeating the marching orders.
Thus, Friedman is a bull shit generator:
http://thomasfriedmanopedgenerator.com/about.php
With its Ministry of Tolerance, Ministry of Happiness and Ministry of Youth
Run away! Run away!
I wonder whose in charge of the Ministry of Plenty there?
” the U.A.E. has made Dubai into the counter-ISIS, a place where young Arabs can live local and act global. It’s the most interesting crossroad city in the Arab world today.”
Interesting because it deviates so far from the regional norm in certain ways. Not so much in others.
Reading a little about the UAE makes it seem like its a potential powder keg, just waiting for an economic downturn for all hell to break loose. Not only is it a confederation of absolute monarchs, but only 12% of the population are citizens (descendants of the original inhabitants) and 88% of the population are immigrants. Citizens, of course, receive preferential treatment, and the government has been known to commit abuses of all kinds against people who offend it. This doesn’t seem like a stable social structure to me.
It is a powder keg. They’re one global financial crisis away from complete disaster.
Dude is getting paid to play golf in Dubai and write (badly) about it. Is this really a dumb man? Have you seen this fucker’s house?
Lucky cat
Good on that Finnish dude.
I don’t know. That was a pretty sketchy play. If the only way you can beat somebody is to deliberately headhunt their best player, then you don’t deserve to play the game.
Yeah, I keep hearing ‘accident’, but my 40+ years of playing hockey says bullshit.
Bad hit.
It may be my hatred of Crosby, but the hit was clearly inadvertent IMO. More caused by the initial hit by Ovechkin that put Crosby in a bad position.
His hands and arms just happened to extend out as hard and fast as possible at the moment they connected with Crosby’s head?
These guys are professionals. No way was that inadvertent.
Also, Ovechkin’s slash/blow to the head with his stick didn’t draw a penalty?
I’m no Pens fan, but I don’t want to see a team win like that. That’s Bush league.
Trotz was salty about it in the interview. A Pittsburgh reporter was pressing him on the hit, and Barry was basically like, “How ’bout all the bullshit non-penalties the Penguins pulled? Just looked like hockey to me, bub.”
Meh, payback for the dirty hit on Ovi in game 1 that didn’t even draw a penalty even though it was blatently illegal
My hatred for Crosby started with the Red Wings vs Penguins Stanley Cup series of 2008 – the Wings were winning, but the NBC crew and commentators were all Crosby all the time. “Look, there’s Crosby going to sit on the bench.” “Looks there’s Crosby taking a drink from his water bottle.” “Oh look there’s Crosby getting the puck stolen from him by some Red Wings player (Datsyuk)”
Yeah, same reason I can’t stand him. And being a Caps fan.
Trump to kill the children:
Hey kids, salt stays and grains go in school meals
“As his first major action in office, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said the Agriculture Department will delay an upcoming requirement to lower the amount of sodium in meals while continuing to allow waivers for regulations that all grains on the lunch line must be 50 percent whole grain.
Schools could also serve 1 percent flavored milk instead of the nonfat now required.”
1 percent? Gross.
Nobody drank 1% when I went to school. It was mostly 2%, with a few who had skim foisted upon them by their parents.
I went to school in a more rural area, so most were drinking chocolate milk but the plain milk drinkers were all having whole.
I’m a 1%-er now. I drink too much milk to drink whole, and skim is just too watery.
I don’t drink it, I don’t care for the lingering aftertaste. So I only have some around when baking with it.
Killing children, that’s horrible. He is stealing Planned Parenthood’s job.
Skim milk became a “thing” in schools right around my first grade year. Everyone jumped on the bandwagon wanting the “blue milk”. And it literally is blue – the carton and the actual milk. I’ve since come to my senses and realized whole milk is the only way to go.
Lactose free would make more sense if they actually wanted kids to drink it.
Children’s developing brains need the fat in whole milk. And higher amounts of salt have been shown in recent studies to not be at all harmful.
I thought the left was supposed to be the “science” crowd?
They fucking love it, man
It’s about exercising the power to belittle people and deny their wants. “Science” left the building a few decades ago.
1 percent flavored milk
I don’t think its a flavoring… but i’m not a milkologist.
I really hate how “whole grains” are characterized as this perfect natural food.
Ever seen who sponsors the continuing ed for Registered Dietitians?
You should see my dietician aunt, who works at a hospital in the Chicago area. She’s extra hefty.
Belgium Minister of Health
http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/bbbls.gif
I believe her last public speech concluded with:
“Han, ma bookie, keel-ee calleya ku kah. Wanta dah moolee-rah. Mon kee chees kreespa Greedo?”
de Block is a nickname, apparently.
You laugh, but after climate change destroys all the farms and the starving times begin, she will outlive all of us.
Is it brown rice that is the “better” whole grain compared to white rice, except for the fact that the body cannot absorb any of the nutrients?
The nutritional differences are negligible. Brown, I believe, has a lower glycemic index. Best advice I’ve ever read on the subject:
Eat whichever tastes better to you.
Brown rice has more fiber.
This is an interesting read.
Slightly, OT, but when we bought our first dairy cow, the guy we bought it from said they took dairy cows to the Stock Show every year, they would tell the kids that chocolate milk comes from brown cows, and strawberry milk comes from red cows. They said it amazed them not just that the kids believed them, but the number of grown adults who bought that story as well.
He’s lucky they knew milk came from cows. Lots of people have no idea where any of their food comes from.
OT OT: that reminds me of the day I was on the train heading to work and a grown-ass woman was peeking into the driver’s compartment at the front of the train. Not seeing any kind of wheel in there, she asked her boyfriend how the driver steered the train.
He wants to put whole white milk back in school because he’s a White Supremacist
Did he make the OK gesture with his hands while announcing this?
Jesus Christ, they’re pushing skim milk on kids? I just can’t even.
In my day I always picked whole because we drank 2% at home (because it was cheaper) and I never got it otherwise.
Whole milk is actually about 3% fat. I really don’t see the point of 2% milk.
Whole milk is 1.5x more likely to cause heart disease!
75% of quoted statistics are 85% fabrications!
Even if salt caused high blood pressure, isn’t hypertension pretty rare among children?
The thinking is to develop good habits that will be retained into adulthood. Eating tasteless (no-salt) food doesn’t strike me as a particularly good habit, but what do I know.
It’s always the one-percent with these people.
Once more for the morning crew. Trsh has bet $10 that it’s POC that did this. I agree. I think it was some sort of senior “prank” by the members of the sorority that was mentioned.
I got an email from the Prez of the university saying they will keep us alumni updated on the results of the investigation. My ass. When they find out who did it, it will be radio silence.
Can I get any side action on this story?
Local fancy pants private college in Northfield (about hour south of the Cities) boycotted classes yesterday because of threatening notes. St. Olaf’s is very, very liberal, so the story is already a bit suspect.
Bull. Shit.
Remember the hoopla at the school, Holiness? Notice how it just disappeared?
If he no longer feels welcome, I’m sure there are other schools he can attend…
The Maple Grove HS BS?
I actually asked my boy about it not too long ago and he said that he had never heard of it again. So, yeah, I’m like you. They found out it was some kid who didn’t fit the profile and swept it under the rug.
Also, how can anyone be afraid of all the pasty betas running around St. Olaf?
Yeah, if you’re going to pull a false flag, at least do it where it would be even a tiny bit believable.
But the die-hard professional victim trainees so totally believe it!
Look at it this way. You are attending a super liberal college that costs a ton of money. Everyone is cool and you are learning a lot.
Don’t you see how fucking horrible that is? All your buddies who went to some shitty community college back home are lucky enough to have some red neck student there call them all sorts of names.
When you graduate, what war stories will you have to tell your family and friends?
You are the guy who during WWII was sent to a psych hospital in Florida to treat nurses with nymphomania. How are you gonna feel down at the VFW drinking beer with guys from Iwo Jima and Guadalcanal.
They did their work 6 inches at a time and so did I.
Braggart!
St. Olaf’s has racists? Bullshit.
They do – the most common expression being the bigotry of low expectations, followed by intersectionality.
Well, it’s rotten with proggies, so…yeah.
Betty WHITE played a character from St. Olaf.
Jeez. Do I have to spell it out for you?
I was expecting it to be Swedes saying something derogatory about Norwegians.
“AU’s first Black female student government president took office today… and we woke up to a racism.”
They found a racism. Everyone stand back, it could explode at any moment and then you’ll be all covered in little sticky pieces of racism. I hope they don’t find another racism.
She quoted Frederick Douglass of all people.
Ugh, Tequila Cat is problematic on literally so many levels. I can’t even.
Indeed. That sombrero is far too small for its head, it should be bigger. Plus it will get its head stuck in that cup trying to drink the remaining tequila.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/01/may-day-violence-france-six-police-injured-armed-group-hijack-paris-march
Romanians traditionally grill meat not cops on May Day. Mici to be specific, which are like well small ground meat caseless sausages. Usually the urban hordes try to get out to do a direct word by word translation of the local term “to green grass” and basically set up somewhere outside the city by the side of the road or in a forest or meadow somewhere. It makes traffic a bitch going in and out. Also people for some reason go to the mountains or seaside although this means spending many hours stuck in traffic. Never got that. I mean I get someone living in a 60 square meter apartment trying to get out, but everyone doing it on the same day leads to going from a crowded city to crowded rural spot …
Nice selection, Sloopy. Glibertarian anthem?
libertarian-themed music? I’m always a sucker for
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrmQB38aT5U
This?
SF’d that one there bud.
sure did.
Great song, though.
Released in 1971, by the way.
Not the John Lee Hooker version? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-fSZRYeBWk
Oh for fuck’s sake. Just got a spam email where the spammer did a cc or bcc, so now I’m getting all the “Reply All” emails telling said spammer to fuck off. In my work inbox.
I’m sorry, but that is pretty funny.
It is…I just don’t know how many people are on this spammer’s list. I could be in for 100s of “FUCK OFF!!!” emails today.
Why not reply all to tell everybody to not reply all when replying to the original email?
Have you no principles?
The ghosts of all those mice you slaughtered are haunting you.
+1,000,000 squeaks in the night.
“Speaking to Khaleej Times, Gurnani, who was in Dubai, said it is impossible to build protectionist walls in a digital era.
“In the digital economy, how do you build barriers? You can’t just build walls like those being planned on the US-Mexico border,” he said.
“In the long run, the reality is that America does not have enough engineering and technology graduates and if they choose to do it, I think we can help them in creating this manpower,” said Gurnani who has led Tech Mahindra’s transformation journey, and one of the biggest turnarounds of Indian corporate history – the acquisition and merger with Satyam.”
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/technology/indian-tech-giant-sees-zero-fallout-from-us-visa-restrictions
Is it true that we don’t have “enough” engineering and technology graduates? If so, why? I’m hard pressed to believe that our students aren’t as smart or capable as students in other countries. Are we doing something that discourages students from going into those fields? Or do we have enough graduates but some other factor encourages employers to overlook our graduates in favor of those from other countries?
The price tag. The cost of the degree makes them have higher earnings expectations and requirements, so the people who would be hiring instead get the dollar store knockoff brand staff.
Which is why degree programs should be revamped and based on the trade school model. You go to a trade school and everything revolves learning that trade. Journeymen ironworkers, who make real good money, aren’t required to be “well rounded”, they are required to be experts in their field. A degree program shouldn’t be any different.
Plus a lot of engineering firms are pretty rough on their engineers, leading to a high rate of attrition, but visa engineers often aren’t allowed to quit and remain in country so are a much better investment from the POV of a firm. There are a lot of degreed engineers in America working in non-engineering jobs due to better pay or better conditions. The engineering firms get away with their pay scales and working conditions because there is no shortage of engineers, so the market favors employers.
not to mention, if you’re working for an engineering firm and work dries up, you’re out the door.
that and those firms hire fresh out of school kids who know nothing and cost little and manage to fuck specs up so badly the end user ends up with something so far from what they actually need it’s comical. Engineering done in India is even worse in this respect; certification requirements that aren’t applicable, that directly conflict, etc.
Um yeah, telling them that (insert adjective here) studies is a valid career move
My neck of the Minnesoda prairie makes me proud.
Why not just run the picture of Keith Ellison trying to pretend he’s a hunter and let it go? That is all you need to do to mock a pol who is hypocritically trying to court gun owners.
And everyone knows the correct term is “goat roper” not “goat humper”.
I’m sorry but the self-righteous indignation in the lede made me stop reading.
It was so left-wing bent I was convinced at first it was a parody article, like The Onion or something.
What is funny is that this will be the Streisand Effect.
Lots of the rural folk living out on the prairie probably don’t pay much attention to Facebook and certainly not the GOP FB page for that district. Now they are going to find out that their rep Collin Peterson is hanging out with an urban liberal like Ellison and get pissed.
Some will be pissed for racist reasons, but most will be pissed because they are pretty conservative out there and will be mad that Person is cozying up to him. Trump won that district pretty easily (if I remember right). Peterson wins because he is a very conservative Democrat. Pro-gun and doesn’t mess with social issues. He is also a big wheel in the Ag committee.
Gotta rope ’em before you can hump ’em, I guess.
Goat Roapers Need Loving, Too
When you’ve somehow lost Slate…
“Samantha Bee’s Not the WHCD was Somehow Worse than the Real Thing”
Today in fun with the Orleans Parish DA, when they can’t railroad a defendant, they file false charges against the people in the public defender’s office
26 years old and juggling 70 cases. That just don’t seem right.
We have a couple lawyers up in here, though not sure if any of them are in criminal law. But what if the state offered student loan reduction/forgiveness in exchange for private criminal defense lawyers taking on public cases pro bono? Because the public defender system in just about every state is fucked.
(but this system is just another way to keep poor people poor and incarcerated)
Public Defender offices should be funded equally with prosecutor’s offices (given that, unlike most things government spends money on, this is actually something that’s constitutional). It’ll never happen.
They should be the same employees.
Whether you are prosecutor or defense on case X is a random draw.
Pretty sure that’s how they do it with JAG in the military.
I still think the better system would be for the DA office to have half its budget earmarked to the public defender’s office and the same levels of staffing, including the use of police officers doing investigations to help defendants.
including the use of police officers doing investigations to help defendants.
Somehow I don’t think the cops would be very motivated to find exculpatory evidence.
It would be worth trying as it’s very unlikely to be worse than the current setup (I’m a public defender).
Oh! A real life person in the belly of the beast! Have you thought about submitting an article to this web site? I am so interested in what you do and the hurdles you face!
I have, and I even started one, but I lost it to a computer crash and haven’t been motivated to start over. The difficulty is that it will take 10 pages just to describe the overall system of the state where I practice to provide context for how things work.
That is even better because then it becomes a series of articles and if done right could even segue into a regular headline
Paul Ryan has convinced me that he’s a Manchurian Democrat.
Wait, what? I have been informed by a Nobel Prize -winning economist that Paul Ryan is a flim-flam artist who wants to starve us all and let us die in the streets.
I wish he were. Unfortunately this is THE ONE time that Paul Krugman was hyperbolic about a subject and got it completely wrong.
Well the story “It’s time for truth telling at Fort Snelling” was not at all what I thought it was going to be.
Fort Snelling is at the juncture of the Mississippi and the Minnesota rivers. It was used to protect the settlers from the Sioux and the Ojibwe. And as in the Sioux wars, it didn’t do that good of a job.
The story isn’t about the evils of the white settlers though. It is by a local historian who is urinated off by what she sees as a very slanted one side only approach to a new historical exhibit being built at the fort with taxpayer dollars.
I’m going to have to check the comments later today to laugh at the outrage.
“In the 21st century white Minnesotans must face our troubling past.”
Well, get to the confessional box, Jimbo!
I have faced our past, and you know what – I’m okay with it. I am not wracked by guilt for things other people have done. I am not going to flagellate myself for sins of others. I am not so prideful as to think all the ills of the world are somehow my fault. Our society is not perfect – but it is a damn sight better than the alternatives.
That’s three months of diversity training for you, bud.
I’m afraid I deported the instructors.
And, of course, the more damaged and damaging one’s society, the less likely one is to feel any guilt about it. It’s only in enlightened societies attempting to rationalize the past in terms of present norms that people get bent out of shape trying to come to grips with the differences. So not only are we better people overall, we’re even better at feeling guilty about how imperfect we are.
Baltimore prosecutors told to consider consequences for prosecuting illegal immigrants for minor crimes
Wouldn’t want to mess with votes, I guess
It’s more like a conflict of interest between the cops and the pols. Cops (detectives especially) generally don’t want illegals to be hassled in any way, because they need them as a resource as confidential informants and witnesses.
So, illegals get shielded from arrest for “minor, non-violent” crimes, while actual citizens and legal immigrants get the hammer? I think this veers so far outside prosecutorial discretion that it violates equal protection.
Going to the mountains for camping with 6 other families. Total of 7 kids all 8 years old. Leaving in about 5 hours so not much time to prepare, but any ideas for how to keep the kids occupied? Easy activities?
Snipe hunts
Use the kids as beaters?
When I was that age, it was all running around in the woods finding rocks and trees to climb. No need for much in the way of activities, but card games and the like are good. Unless you’re talking about the drive up there?
This. The woods is enough.
Hatchet throwing contests
Knock them out with high doses of laudinum.
iPads and other tablets.
heh that was going to be my suggestion. it’s what i would have wanted.
I would be more worried about keeping my own sanity. You have a few pints of whiskey stashed away?
*drunken slur* “hey kid, why don’t you get your Uncle staffinrun another beer?”
I love hanging out with the kids. It’s the adults that bug me.
+1 Yeah. All that talking and socializing. Ugh. I’d rather go build a fort.
Show them the rules for playing doctor
Fire? Build a fire and let them feed it. Should keep them busy for a week or so.
And remove any brush for a radius of a mile or so.
Oh, no, the fire will do that for you.
Or a couple gallons of Nair.
My gawd have mercy on your soul.
*may
I thought you were channeling Jim Ross there for a second.
Read STEVE SMITH stories to them and then they’ll just cower in their tents.
When I was a kid one of the adults told us kids a Wendigo story at night by the campfire. Scared the crap out of us.
That would scare me, too. Square hamburger patties? Dave Thomas? Yeesh.
Well that’s a bit young for a shot-by-shot reenactment of “Battle Royale”.
Ooh, tell them to go catch all the Pokémon in the forest.
One of them suicide forests I hear about?
Snipe hunts
Wesley wouldn’t like that. Sounds racist anyways.
Bret Stephens clarifies his position
There’s no need to convince me on your first two points. Our 45th president is a man who seems to regard rumor as fact, opinion as evidence, wishes as truth — and truth as whatever he can get away with. Hence the conspiracy theories about his predecessor’s birthplace, the lies about the size of his Inauguration Day crowds, and so on. As for your reference to some evangelical voters, it’s astonishing that so many in this country seem not to have gotten past the Scopes trial.
And, lest there be any remaining doubts: I subscribe to the theory of evolution, I vaccinate my kids, I don’t smoke because it causes cancer, the earth is not flat, and the world is warming.
“Honest, guys, I’m one of you! Now, for goodness’ sake untie me from the railroad tracks. The Super Chief is coming.”
Something tells me the howling mob is unappeased.
Coward
Struggle Session.
Reminds me of this italian guy. The Scientific Authorities in his country forced him to recant as well…
Serves him right for believing the word of a Pollack.
FYI: Judge Napolitano’s book Suicide Pact is on sale at Amazon for $1.99 (Kindle)
Thanks!
Link.
Thanks!
I recommend Book Bub to all you e-readers out there. You can pick your favorite genres and they will send weekly emails showing deals on ebooks that you might like. You can also add specific books or authors and get an “instant” notification when there is a deal to be had.
While I heard the name before I’m trying to remember if it was in a negative or positive context. It was entirely on a forum dealing with independant publishers so it was from the opposite side of the transactions. Part of me wants to say they came off as shady.
From a publishers point of view I could see them not being popular. They don’t tell you when your fav author has a new book, they tell you when he marks it down below $2.
But as a consumer, I think they’re the bees knees
Ditto. I’ve been introduced to a bunch of good authors that otherwise I would never have heard of through Bookbub. And a few proggie turkeys.
This is peak Vox. It cannot get more Vox than this
“Turns Out, the North Korean Economy is Doing Pretty Well”
*knocks self unconscious with facepalm*
Well given that people think WW2 was great for the economy, when there were still rationing, i’d say i think i can understand a slight part of the confusion. But then i remember that even the most dysfunctional tribes could still feed themselves, and have to say that they are being intentionaly obtuse. (which should just be Vox’s byline)
You though that was bad, but did you know that Obamacare is going to explode and it’s Trump’s fault. And the fault of his fat rural voters, personally, not because the law is an unmitigated catastrophe or anything… according to Vox.
Here’s your great economy.
Auto sales numbers are out, and they’re… disappointing.
Ford is in trouble. Toyota down, too. Can you say ‘credit bubble’?
I knew you could.
Ferrari killing it, though.
It was too hot, too cold, the Chinese, a hurricane, Venezuela, The Russians…It wasn’t my fault!
Locusts! It wasn’t my fault!!!
::removes sunglasses::
::raises one eyebrow::
My tux didn’t come back from the cleaners!
The sun was in my eyes!
I got a Povitch in my Sajak.
It’s just going to get worse. For every car maker. They make too many cars. It’s that simple. There’s a glut of cars on the market globally. It’s going to be like computers and tv’s in about a decade. Cars will be awesome, but cheap.
Tennessee woman beats home invasion suspect with baseball bat
4’11” tall
HOT.
Also, good God did she give him a walloping.
HOT!
Although it brings to mind something the late, great Patrice O’Neal would have said… Bitch, the only reason you’re not in traction right now is ‘cuz he didn’t want to hit you! *eardrum-shattering peal of laughter*
Awesome. i also love that his girlfriend left without him.
And when he is eventually forced to resign and receives no jail time, I think we can all agree that justice will have been served. /judicial system
*Tries to focus on comment but eyes keep getting drawn to avatar*
It is very impressive.
Enticing pic.
Be wary. If you stare into the banana hammock long enough, the banana hammock stares back at you.
By “forced to resign”, I’m assuming you mean “Resigns after 8 months of paid leave and takes a job as an officer two towns over”
That goes without saying.
Ferrari killing it, though.
*puts on 26-year-old-MBA “thinking cap”*
“Dude- Ferrari needs to build an SUV! “
Well, Porsche has one, Lamborghini has one coming out, Maserati has one now… Ferrari says they won’t, but it’ll probably happen.
Lamborghini made a jeep from ’86 – ’93.
Lm002. Damn impressive beast too.
It’s for China, primarily. Reminds me of a classic:
“If you walk into a Porsche dealership and drive out in an SUV, you’ve failed at life.”
“Why wouldn’t Schumer and Pelosi be celebrating? They were just handed a beating in November that was as bad as any we’ve seen this century and yet they somehow came out of the budget negotiations looking for all the world as if they had won the White House and both chambers of Congress.
“So how bad is this stink bomb? Allahpundit asked if Trump was “really going to sign this turd.” Daniel Horowitz said it was nothing short of a betrayal. Philip Klein concluded that if you took out all of the names you would probably assume that it had been written by Democrats. Rush is already wondering why anybody bothers voting for Republicans. I could take up an entire column with more reactions which were, if anything, even more fierce.”
Google’s cat butts are invisible.
Paul Ryan is addressing the nation. Did you know our units are stealing parts from museums to keep their planes flying?
*No mention of the BILLIONS OF DOLLARS SQUANDERED ON THE F35, for some reason.
Not that it seems to have mattered, what with the GOP acting like whipped curs regardless. But here’s some election night schadenfreude to remind you of another, more promising time several months ago.
Ruh-roh. Trouble in paradise
Millennials, sick of being told that they don’t know how good they have it, may well point out that Australia is home to some of the most spoiled baby boomers in the world. Many retirees divide their time between cruise holidays overseas and subsidized medical appointments here, all the time complaining that it is the young people who don’t realize how good they have it.
Aside from tax policies that encourage speculation, other policies show successive governments have been fueling a rat race when they should have been building a society. Over the past two decades, federal government funding of private schools has expanded, including to those with very high fees and swimming pool complexes, beautiful gardens and performing arts centers, further dividing the country. Many middle-class parents have become anxious about sending children to the local public high school out of fear that they will lag behind their peers at schools that are expensive or academically selective.
We need to rediscover our egalitarian roots. It is true that Australian culture can be anti-intellectual. We can deride achievement and cut down those who succeed, in a phenomenon we call tall poppy syndrome. But the egalitarian values of our society should not be discounted. In fact, it is on the matter of egalitarianism that Australia has made some of its most important intellectual contributions to the world.
Australia has succumbed to the false allure of dog-eat-dog Randian moneygrubbing and me-first-ism.
Chances they’re not being entirely honest here?
And- the reliable NYT comments:
Yellow Bird Washington DC 4 hours ago
There is only one reason for the change of culture which you decry and the ludicrous house prices being paid in Sydney and Melbourne: unrestricted, rapid population growth. There is a tsunami of money and of people coming out of China to – amongst other places – Australia and New Zealand. As immigrants, they value hard work, thrift, educational achievement and material prosperity above all else, and consider taking time to smell the roses a misguided delusion. Cut immigration from these hard-working and thrifty cultures and you will slow the rat race. If you don’t, the goldfish will be eaten by the sharks.
Yeah, those Aussies are totally open-borders fanatics. Come one, come all.
“As immigrants, they value hard work, thrift, educational achievement and material prosperity ”
Oh, the nightmare
Oregon man riots after finding out that Trump was not actually impeached
Some of those people are a little old to be acting like babies
LET’S START A RIOT
Appropriate.
I think I notice a sad, wistful tone in the coverage:
“The demonstration began as a city-permitted march featuring impassioned but peaceful rhetoric, but it ultimately was defined by black-clad protesters, fires and property damage.”
If only those riotous elements (probably “outsiders”) had stayed away, there could have been a great, peaceful march against Trump and his evil ways!
Ooh, check this out:
“A rock was thrown through a window at Goldmark Jewelers, and protesters left a wall and other windows marred by graffiti.
“”Why’d they have to do this?” said Kurt Thomas, the building security guard. “The owner’s a nice guy, not a corporate store at all.””
Why don’t they attack the counterrevolutionaries and fascists, instead of the nice petty bourgeois?
Perhaps someone neglected to tell Comrade Stalin that the owner of Goldmark Jewelers is a loyal bolshevist.
That crowd of losers is white enough to staff the Gawker newsroom.
LOL
Predictable.
OT: Another Jackie UVA type incident?: Is UNC Campus Rape Heroine Actually a Campus Rape Hoaxer?
SF’d the link.
Here.
I don’t think I need to even read the article to know the answer.
While the authors do not explicitly accuse Pino of fabrication, they certainly seem to imply as much—even pointing out parallels to Jackie, the University of Virginia rape hoaxer at the center of the later-retracted Rolling Stone story on campus rape. It is an explosive charge on a highly sensitive issue.
Much like, I don’t know, a rape allegation?
Or, for that matter, alleging a national conspiracy among men to commit and cover up rapes?
Just like Jackie’s story, there was blood everywhere, severe injury, massive amounts of physical evidence, but she didn’t go to the police or seek medical treatment.
And nobody else noticed any of these things, and nobody thinks to try to speak to her ‘friend’ who supposedly went to the party with her, etc.
So assuming her story is true – she was violently attacked and didn’t report it and nobody noticed it – then I suppose the thing to do with a follow-up would be to see if any incidents of a similar nature *had* been reported. Because this could have been the work of a serial predator, right?
Or maybe he was a serial predator but none of the victims reported his crimes. Or maybe this was the only time he committed a violent rape.
There’s certainly a strong burden of proof on this story before we use it to influence public policy.
There’s certainly a strong burden of proof on this story before we use it to influence public policy.
That ship has already sailed.
Interesting: not one word about hacking attempts on GOP …
Open question: Did the GOP simply have better cyber security, are the GOP hacks just undiscovered as of yet or was there actual complicity between the Trumpistas and the Puties??
I can tell which way CNet is leaning …
How US cybersleuths decided Russia hacked the DNC
https://www.cnet.com/news/how-experts-decided-russia-hacked-dnc-election/
… and, NO, no Oxford coma here.
Oxford coma?
“By Jove, that was quite a nap I had. I hope I won’t be late for my meeting. We will be discussing whether non-Anglicans should be admitted to Oxford. Non-Anglicans, what’s next, women? Pfaugh…”
Oxford Coma. Holy shit. That’s a great typo.
“When he woke up from his Oxford Coma, Professor Partington discovered that he had developed psychic powers. One day he had a horrific vision of the Dean taking away the senior faculty’s parking privileges. Nobody would believe him, so he decided that only assassination would solve the problem…”
According to Comey, it was better security. The hackers used the same methods for both, it was just far more successful with the DNC.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/10/politics/comey-republicans-hacked-russia/
For fuck’s sake, the DNC “hacking” consisted of the idiot Podesta replying to a phishing email and giving out his password. I guess the Republicans didn’t have anybody stupid enough to do the same.
Pas$word…..bahahahahahaha
VEEP is far more true to life than people realize.
Unexpected
All along, car companies have operated training programs to convey the specialized repair information peculiar to their new models. But that continuing education is intended to update experienced mechanics. To replenish the entry-level ranks as technicians change jobs or retire — turnover runs as high as 20 percent a year — automakers need to start at a more basic skill level, expanding the range of their own programs and partnering with private technical schools to reverse the technician deficit.
Enrolling suitable recruits is not easy.
“There’s less of a mechanical interest and understanding among young people,” said Gary Uyematsu, national technical training manager at BMW of North America, noting that the biggest hurdle in hiring is the difference in basic skills. “They are not hands-on. Mechanics used to start with some gas station experience. Now the experience a person gets working at a gas station is selling slushies.”
Who could have seen this coming?
So they’re just regurgitating what Mike Rowe has been saying for years? The articles just write themselves!
And-
Providing career paths in skilled trades is valuable for young people who may be technically adept but not especially interested in conventional paths.
No
fucking
way.
You mean the left is closed-minded when it comes to an open debate on their ideas? Harsanyi says no shit, Sherlock.
Aw, goddammit. Because of reading that link I found out that Roy Spencer is a fucking creationist. Ugh. Just shaking my head here. I guess I never paid attention to him, but fuck. That’s awful. Guess it’s time to throw him on the “you’re not helping, please go away” pile along with “Lord” Monckton and the like.
Trump: Our country needs a good “shutdown”
Everything about this is an “oh, for fuck’s sake!”