Coffee. Links. Clean up. Go to church. Yardwork.
OK, my Sunday is set. I’ll just put this coffee down and set out a few links for you to bat around this morning.
- Springtime for patronage in Chicagoland!
- Sad, angry ….both at once. That is how you feel reading this.
- A horse ran faster than a bunch of other horses.
- I do wonder what collection agency they would use.
Enjoy, do not enjoy. Snark, be serious – it is all up to you!
Comments
397 responses to “Sunday Morning Links”
KRod is making me insane. Tigers need to do something with the damn bullpen.
Better than the Phillies pen. I know we’re supposed to suck anyways, but we have a bullpen ERA of approximately 786.
Ahem, please look at the Rays bullpen and revel in the ineptitude. Two relievers in Ramirez and Colome is about all we got.
“Venezuela can no longer feed its people, hobbled by the nationalization of farms as well as price and currency controls”
They did everything right, just have the wrong people in charge. Also, couldn’t read article as not subscriber.
Follow me.
Cool.
Well then Swiss should have linked to that.
I see you survived Stannous Week.
Yep. Shorn and showered finally.
So… Golden Shower?
Venezuela would be doing fine if they adopted socialism. Capitalism is ruining that country!
There’s nothing going on there that a minumum wage hike wouldn’t fix
Totes the wrong people, it was clearly the kulaks and wreckers.
Here is one way to solve the problem.
That damn Trump
It won’t be long before Venezuela takes Somalia’s place as the statist example of a libertarian paradise.
Are their roads gone?
*EDIT FAIRY FIXED LINK*
NOT TRUE.
NOT REAL SOCIALISM.
The people of Venezuela are protesting wage gap, the patriarchy, white privilege and Trump.
Where do you people get your news? From Palin Buttplug?
Did he ever try to make the jump to this side? Did he get cat-butted? Does someone have a link the thread if it did?
Yeah, this site will never be a true replacement without Buttplug, Hihn, and John.
I admit, it does take some of the fun out, but at the same time, watching Buttplug get hog wild about fellatiating a bunch of statist was enough to drive a body crazy
It could get to you if you thought you could open their eyes. But it’s just plain fun when you realize they weren’t there to engage in an actual conversation, but to rant and rave about how stupid everyone else was. When I went back to the other site yesterday, I got a kick out of seeing Hihn still going on about everyone else in the comments “committing aggression against me!” The delusional clowns are amusing. In small doses.
BE SILENT, YOU FOOL!
You know you miss them, Swiss.
I miss John and Crusty. Seriously.
And Citizen X.
Is Sarcasmic here? I’m not sure I’ve seen his name yet.
Sarc had some real life things going on. I miss X and Crusty – but they rebuffed repeated pleas to join us. The three earlier mentioned… *readies arsenal of cat butts*
Sarc’s divorce is final, and he got custody. He’s part of the Reasonoids e-mail group.
On the other site, Weigel claimed a few weeks back that he tried to post here and that his post got rejected by the mods.
Who knows if it’s actually true, but if it is, it only elevates my opinion of the mods and I will throw a few extra bucks in the tip jar once it’s finally in place!
Did he mean a comment or did he submit an article for consideration?
Either way, it’s news to me.
You must remember, he thinks shriek is Weigel.
By Weigel, he means Buttplug.
Yeah, we banned him after the first comment.
So awesome. Your first tip just got even bigger (you all really need to get that in place by the way!)
Why would he even try?
There are two kinds of trolls: those who know they’re trolls and those who don’t.
Both Tulpa and Shrike are the latter. You couldn’t convince them they’re trolls. It might be because they aren’t trying to troll. They’re just being themselves. That how they are all the time.
That’s why they’re easy to identify through their sock-puppets, too. They can’t stop being trolls when they’re sock-puppets either–because they don’t understand what it is about them that makes them trolls.
They know we don’t like them, but they don’y understand why.
Tulpa thinks we don’t like him because he’s so smart.
Shrike thinks we don’t like him because we’re Republicans.
They’ll never understand that we don’t like them because we don’t like THEM.
“Once Latin America’s richest country, Venezuela can no longer feed its people”
And won’t allow them or anyone else to do it either. It’s too important to prove that socialism is totally going to work this time.
Just wait a week, you’ll see!
I do wonder what collection agency they would use.
An army. Not letting BA planes overfly the EU.
Morning, everyone. Hi Swiss!
Uh, ok. Morning!
Grüezi.
Bitte auf Deutsch!
*narrows gaze*
Das is nicht deutsch, aber schweizerisch.
I would lean toward “das ist kein Deutsch” but what do I know living in Prussian country.
The EU is attempting to create an atmosphere of bad faith on order to make Brexit more difficult? Colo(u)r me shocked
Forgive my link, I am on mobile.
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/michigan/2017/05/06/elected-official-faked-divorce-get-mistress/101371158/
Pol fakes divorce to impress Brit bird.
“the woman contacted Rogers’ wife”
Evidently not that impressed
Pics or it didn’t happen.
California, land of “If it moves, tax it. If it doesn’t move, tax it.”
Gravity’s Rainbow hardest hit
Kim Jong Un softest hit.
Great book. Reminds me, i gotta go look for a kindle edition of that. Been about 20 years since I last read that.
They put all Pynchon’s stuuff in eformat finally. Only author I’ve read everything.
Way to kill the one industry that would have made Cali a tolerable place. I would look for rocket companies to start looking at other launch locations. I mean, it’s an expensive venture to begin with. Taxing it will just drive out all those rocket surgeons.
Hey, they stopped taxing at the edge of space, what else do you want?
It’s funny cause they would totally tax space but territorial authority prevents them from doing so. Wait for the UN or some other onerous, odious, body to start taxing spaceflight beyond the atmosphere, as soon as it becomes clear that people can profit from it without subsidies.
Don’t worry, they have lawyers working on a way around that.
“The emissions are contributing to galactic climate change!”
I have actually heard that argument. For real
We need to stop the heat death of the universe! The science is settled!
+1 level III Kardashev civilization.
Launch the rockets at California.
OH NOES, THEY’S CUTTIN’ MY SYMBOLIC DEPARTMENT’S BUDGET
Nothing says tribalism like progressives whining about Trump cutting the ONDCP.
They love the ONDCP. It’s a funds clearing-house for local “drug prevention” groups, ie parasites.
Well, it’s a step in the right direction at least. Now if Sessions can just pull his ass out of the ’50’s we might get something like a sane drug policy from this administration.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! (cough, cough) HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
You’re killin’ me.
I know, I know, but hey a guy can (opium) dream, right?
That’s called a Poppy dream
I’m Poppy?
In your dreams
Why all the blame on Sessions? Well before he made his Presidential ambitions known, Trump was known as an infamous teetotaler, having seen his older brother ruin his life as an alcoholic. Trump abstains from alcohol, drugs, coffee, and tobacco. Actually, much more than abstain…he claims to have never used any of those substances in his entire life. Now, being quite open about being Straight Edge alone doesn’t mean that he would seek to impose these values upon the entire populace, however, especially with the “I’ve seen a family member die from [x]” background, he fits the type. Furthermore, considering Law ‘n Order is a major plank in his platform, I don’t see him being friendly to taking away a pet pony of many, many police/DEA/ICE/Border Patrol unions and lobbies.
You’re not wrong, at all, but Trump seems to not have mentioned drug policy much, outside of the above story while Sessions has made several comments on it. Neither of them are going to be good for the WoD but Trump seems like a man who can be reasoned with in some respect while Sessions seems to be taking a much harder and non-negotiable position.
1st rule of leadership: Get someone else to do your dirty work.
Trump said he was for medical marijuana, which is at least better than Obama.
Can he zero out the DEA budget, too?
For the vintage car fans:
Fifty years of the Trekka, the only New Zealand car.
More info here; I would have put it in the previous comment but, you know, that idiotic one-link limit….
Wow. Protectionist policies result in a hideous box on an outdated commie chassis.
Never would have seen that coming.
Interesting story, though. I checked and the Kiwis managed to make 2,500 of these rolling abortions between 1968 and 1973. The NZ government tried to work a deal with Australia to relax import tariffs on the holden in exchange for the same on the Trekka. The Aussies, because they were awesome, said meh. Something like 100 were ever sent to Australia.
so it’s a copy of the original land rover, using soviet parts.
…
Sheep-powered?
Unchecked Fake News Gave Rise to an Evil Empire in Star Wars: A cautionary tale.
Holy shit.
I’m not even sure where to start with that. That’s derp on a whole ‘nother scale.
Paging Derpetologist! Paging Derpetologist!
I could give coffee enemas to a herd of cattle and still not produce as much bullshit as that article.
That’s Grievous.
*narrows gaze*
I miss Grievous Maximus.
Or maybe it’s just a story about aliens at war and fucking space magic. No reason to read too much into it.
Saw a vlog post on a similar topic by the Nerdist, basically because of the lack of paper books the people in that far-away galaxy have super-short cultural memory, to the point an event or person (Luke Skywalker for example) are seen as mythological only 25 years after the climax of their fame.
Or maybe George Lucas is a hack writer.
Likeliest answer. The vlog did mention how Lucas didn’t want books in the SW universe because sci-fi reasons. I’m a fan of the series but I don’t think that the screenwriting is anything to go wild for.
Well, when you’re talking about the distances (albeit with FTL travel), electronic media/broadcasts would travel much better than hard copy….maybe as a luxury good reaching back to the middle ages, but everyone is still literate with whatever gibberish they use as a common written language on the screens, etc.
Fake News
LOL
Plenty of fake news in 1984 and Harrison Bergeron. That would be worth exploring by the pipe smoking beard strikers.
Star Wars had no news, not fake news.
Letters to the Local Rag (These People Vote)
Gawd-damn that is some dense derp. I mean, damn. I’m at work and it’s really to early to drink straight liquor but that has got me reaching for some bourbon right there.
BEING A STRICT CONSTRUCTIONIST MEANS NO CHANGES, EVER.
EVARRR! It’s not like the framer didn’t create a system whereby the governing document could be changed, that would be crazy. It’s like these people hear buzzwords and then latch onto them without any context. Its a good reason why fascists is now a meaningless charge.
‘Cohorts’.
Cute.
Yes, please.
I’m surprised he didn’t mention that blacks would count as only 3/5s of a person.
That would mean that they actually read the Constitution
Letters to the Local Rag (Smackdown Edition)
As if state funding is completely neutral….
Just take the funding and call it the Gloria Allred School of Law. Problem solved.
Ideological competition is a bitch.
They seem to think there’s some logical axiom that says anything funded by or associated with the Koch Brothers is automatically wrong and evil.
I was explaining the harm of the regulatory state to a “progressive” one time, and he didn’t really have anything to counter the examples I gave, but he still favored strong regulations because “getting rid of them tends to benefit rich and powerful people like the Koch Brothers”.
Ask him how bill and Hillary became worth $200 million.
Actually, dont. I tried that once and was told they earned it by being lawyers in the 70s.
Just found this new game trailer. I wonder if they’ll include raiding the wrong home, flashbanging a baby, and swatting an innocent victim? Also love the game’s description.
See what all this income inequality will lead to!
“It’s set in a nondescript modern America, where an income disparity between the classes have become unsustainable…”
Where every kid in America has a console and plays $60 video games
Should have linked to this (should be safe for work) instead.
Must be after we embrace Venezuelan style socialism.
Oh yeah, saw that. It bills itself as a spiritual successor to SWAT 4, which was actually a pretty damn good game. It would penalize you for killing enemies unless they shot at first.
Then again, still, not as ridiculous a premise as Breach.
I miss when words used to have meanings.
I just chalk it up to: “We need to create a dystopian setting as quickly and cheaply as possible so here’s the laziest way we can do it.”
+1 unobtainium
American Cherry Pie Frappuchino.
Coworker bought one today. Looked nasty.
What do the Japanese do with American pie?
I don’t know. He posted a pic on FB, but I don’t think it’s on sale yet. I’ll send you one.
LIke the movie? Seems a little small for that, but then again… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTboGG7DMwU
Shake it and put it to their ear?
Where’s the coffee?
This.
The first comment is correct. Better than the Unicorn frappacino that came out in the U.S.
Here’s another possible outcome for the Venezuelans.
No kidding. Road to somethingdom.
The Trump administration is proposing to gut the budget of the White House “drug czar” by 95 percent, effectively eliminating the decades-old Office of National Drug Control Policy, the lead federal agency responsible for managing and coordinating drug policy, according to a memo that its acting director sent Friday to agency employees.
A little while ago, I was reading a NYT editorial shrieking about Trump’s dereliction of his duty to fill hundreds of federal government positions. Important positions, vital to the proper function of government. What a monster.
Puritan nanny’s hardest hit
Or fans of crazy Rachel Leigh Cook making breakfast.
Even with those crazy eyes, that would be hard to pass up.
And I just got out of my bunk….
You can tell by the utter chaos engulfing America Trump’s dereliction of duty is causing. Just the other day I saw someone speeding. SPEEDING!!!! That never would have happened under Obama.
LAWLESSNESS IN TRUMP’S AMERICA
Why weren’t those people shot as Obama (All Praise to Him) intended?
So…ACLU rejoices?
“I watched him sleep and sleep, getting weaker, all the time losing weight,” said Ms. Planchart, 34 years old. “I never thought I’d see Venezuela like this.”
I am curious Ms. Planchart, who did you support in the last 3 elections?
“Fake news in Star Wars is probably their number one problem,” says Ryan Britt, an editor who specialises in science fiction at the website Inverse.
Yeah. Death Star’s got nothing on Fake Nooz.
Writing about fake news now it’s like trying to cash in on the housing bubble in 2009
Too much money
In the question and answer session, Buffett referred to cash as a business that effectively sells for more than 100 times earnings because Berkshire earns less than 1% on the cash it holds on its balance sheet. Munger quipped that it was even worse after taxes. Looking through this lens, cash is perhaps the “investment” furthest away from Buffett and Munger’s value investing philosophy of buying good businesses at reasonable prices.
The company’s cash problem will only grow bigger if Berkshire doesn’t find new ways to deploy capital. Buffett looked forward three years to explain that with no new big investments, Berkshire could have as much as $150 billion in cash to deploy in 2020.
Kindly Old Grandpa Buffett should just give the money to the government. For the good of Society. I’m sure the Berkshire share holders would understand.
150 billion applied to the right people is enough to install hillary onto her rightful place on the throne.
DO YOU PEOPLE EVEN CHURCH???
Christmas and Easter. That’s about it.
Word up.
I also think that if your church doesn’t have some arcane rituals involving transubstantiation, cheap wine, nice-smelling smoke, and scary bleeding statues, well you aren’t doing it right, and god isn’t listening.
Let’s not start that conversation.
Nope.
Nope, ’cause see, the media told me that Christians are all bigots, and I should be a Muslim instead, because they’re much more peaceful.
Well I put bacon on everything so that wouldn’t work for me. Plus I’m allergic to facing towards Mecca. Also, I don’t believe in God. I do like Mia Khalifa though.
Mia comes from a Lebanese Syriac Maronite Eastern Catholic upbringing.
She can rock a hijab though.
I work. But if I didn’t I would still sleep in. I like sleep.
My church has barstools and a jukebox. Was just there Friday night. I attend regularly. Not always the same location.
Her church works for me as well.
https://youtu.be/ouWQ25O-Mcg
No Fear of Hellfire https://youtu.be/1ughu8kWBbc
Nice:)
Don’t know about that coffee.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX1BPItDcDo&index=7&list=RDmJCiPl-V6h8
Sometimes.
I can practice vipassana and samatha any time, bro.
I did – but I am home now.
Is that the place people go so they can pretend they aren’t assholes just like the rest of us?
I believe it was Tarran who mentioned Robert LeFevre in the links a few days ago. I would like to thank you. I have been listening to his podcasts the past few days on my commute. It’s good stuff.
I need a new podcast. Gettin kinda tired of Rogan’s podcast.
there is a bunch of Lefevre’s on mises.org. I have listened to a half dozen the past few days. they are very good. They are all dated, but I really like them
Andrea Mitchell is asking hard hitting questions. WHY COME TRUMP WANTS BABIES ADDICTED TO HEROIN?
Because crack babies weren’t scary enough, Mrs. Greenspan.
So I missed the links where it got mentioned, but Holy Hell the Tories ripped up the opposition in the UK special. They seem to now have fairly effective control of the house of commons, if I am to understand the Limey election process.
Sonofabitch, they swept right through them. Don’t know if it’ll be good for Britain in the long run, but I have to admit it’s fun to stick it to the liberals.
Lib Dems or Labour?
Labour esp. The lib dems were never a factor outside of the coalition gov’t that they held with the tories for a breif time,
It seems like the Tories are taking a hard line on typical Euro-conservative stuff, they couldn’t properly be called conservatives as we Americans understand the term but they do seem dedicated to keeping the Brexit promise so I’ll at least give them that.
‘Understood’ the term, you mean. I have no idea what it means in 2017.
Fair point. Team red does seem to be itself moving in more euro direction. Though the freedom caucus seems intent in holding the old conservative line for a while longer, at least.
They also seem to be pulling from UKIP too. About fucking time the Tories woke up and realized that Brexit is a fairly popular position. UKIP wouldn’t have anything if they hadn’t been so blind to the dislike for EU government. Fuck John Major.
Note to Republicans- see what can happen if you fail to represent a large portion of your supposed contingency other than lip service?
As someone said the other day = it seems like UKIP actually presented itself as something of a one-issue party, and having won their one issue, has no further purpose for most.
I think it might have been helpful for them to try to exploit the change in political sentiment for some other, longer-term changes, but its possible they didn’t even expect to ‘win’ on Brexit in the first place.
Well, technically they were also an EU parliament party – maybe even over-represented there (Nigel Farage, etc). They never had a ton of domestic policies that I recall other than limiting immigration and maybe austerity. Now that Brexit has happened, they’ve been co-opted by the Conservatives, but I think on the whole they served their purpose very efficiently.
Hopefully this puts May in a position of power with moving forward on Brexit.
Well, looking at Sargon’s videos, it looks like Conservatives will pick up a near supermajority as Labor continues to shit themselves – look at local elections, etc. And Corbyn’s absolutely insane interviews.
Yeah, the Conservatives certainly had a massive landslide of a win. I’d say it’s a safe bet that the British people are still big on going through with Brexit. I wonder, based on this huge victory what the vote would be if the Remainers got their way and held a second Brexit vote? I’m thinking it’d win by an even larger amount than it originally did.
Well, well, well- Ma Suderman’s boy hits the big time
It’s unclear what health policy problem this bill would solve. Even for an opponent of Obamacare, it is difficult to understand why House Republicans chose this path https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/06/opinion/sunday/the-house-health-care-disaster-is-really-about-taxes.html?ref=opinionto revamping the nation’s health care system.
It’s difficult to understand, that is, if you think they were passing a health care bill. It makes more sense when you realize that isn’t what they were doing at all. They were passing a tax cut — one intended to pave the way for more tax cuts.
The flaws of the bill, then, can be understood as a symptom of the flaws of the Republican Party, which has for decades maintained a myopic focus on tax cuts at the expense of nearly all else. Too often, it is a party of people who seem to confuse governing with cutting taxes.
Somebody should tell Petey “Republikkkinz is Pure Evul” is Krugabe’s beat.
I sincerely hope that the Republicans stay the course on tax cutting. They won’t, and they aren’t, but it is a nice fiction.
Man, Suds is really shitting all over his Libertarian street cred, ain’t he?
/sarc
Nothing pisses off a libertarian like like cuts. Those sneaky bastards, trying to slip through a tax cut!.
Probably the first completely honest thing he has ever written.
Hopefully this means that professional fake libertarian shitbag will be leaving the other place soon. Of course, if he does Welch will just replace him with another one.
Your comment is awaiting moderation.
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*shrugs*
Not anymore…
Bret Stephens tows the lion
That’s the real story of this election, the most stunning aspect of which isn’t that the French might possibly install a crypto-fascist in the Élysée Palace. It’s that they seem strongly inclined to elect a former Rothschild investment banker who evinces no sense of guilt about his elite pedigree, capitalist profession and market-friendly economic inclinations that include tax cuts for corporations and an easing of the 35-hour workweek.
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What ails France? The facile answer is to cite forces beyond French control: bureaucracy in Brussels; the currency straitjacket of the euro; the European Central Bank; the dark winds of globalization. Le Pen specializes in just this sort of blame shifting, which is another way in which she and Donald Trump are kindred spirits.
But then, after pointing out France’s disastrous labor laws, he sneaks one over the plate:
What has failed in France is an idea — an idea about the role of the state. Macron’s challenge, should he win, is to show the French there’s a better one.
Macron is a 100% supporter of the neoliberal status quo, He isn’t going to change shit!
Not anymore…
I have no idea how I doubled-pumped on that link. Presumably that was the issue.
Euphemism?
2 links or more requires approval. I got a ping, and approved it – DURING THE SERMON, MIND YOU!
You were awake? That’s hard-core.
You’re in church, you get a ping, and you check Glibs? That’s not Eli calling you, Samuel!
Aaaand, they’re off!
BWCA Northern Border 22 hours ago
Bret Stephens is wrong in many accounts. We don’t need to live in a McMansion and drive the latest model of a luxury car. We need health.
France despises American extreme capitalism and provide one of the best health systems in the world.
America gets rid of guaranteed health insurance for all its citizens. Only in America the dead and the unborn have more rights than the living.
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george coastline 22 hours ago
France will be better served when neo-liberal apologists like Stevens join the ranks of the French cheumeurs or unemployed. If the EU hadn’t moved their factories to the former Soviet satellite countries to escape unions and taxes would the children of those former factory workers be joining ISIS or would they be assembling Renaults and Peugeots? If the “strong state”passed yet another regulation limiting the abuses of ‘stagieres’ or unpaid interns would corporations actually hire real employees? Macron’s past and future ‘reforms’are nothing other than more corporate deregulation leading to fewer jobs, more insecurity, and eventually demogouges like Trump and Marie
NYT commenters are the bestest, most knowledgeable people around.
lolwut
I think he meant govt jobs. Or fake union jobs.
Doesn’t he mean “chômeurs“?
Parlez français ou sortez!
They’re cute because they try so hard to sound intelligent and then barf up things like “wrong in many accounts”.
Proggies are sad, sad people.
Only in America the dead and the unborn have more rights than the living.
I know this is my background, and upbringing, but saying the unborn have more rights doesn’t even sway me. In my opinion they are the most deserving of rights, they have done nothing of their own volition, and haven’t committed violence against anyone, which is more than most ‘living’ people can claim.
France provides the best healthcare in the world? Who knew? Certainly not the woman I read about a while back who sat in a hospital for over 12 hours with a sick child because there were no actual doctors in the hospital. A nurse finally sent her home with instructions to give the child aspirin.
This extreme capitalist works 50 hours a week to afford his Mc1bedroom apartment and walks or busses or trains to work.
Fuck you 35 hour work week, 4 month vacation having frogs.
“the future of tattooing is female
How fourth-wave feminism and social media are changing the culture’s gender balance.
2012 was the first year that more women in the U.S. had tattoos than men (23% of women compared to 19% of men, according to a Harris Poll). The statistic is less empowering for women working in tattoo shops — according to a 2010 study by Columbia University, just one in six tattooers is female — but it is still a progressive increase. As Sarah Carter, a tattoo artist who creates black-and-gray masterpieces inspired by religious iconography, puts it, “It’s not such a goddamn sausage party now.”
It started to become less of a sausage fest in the 1960s, when birth control first became available and more women than ever entered the paid workforce. That included the tattoo industry, which captured and amplified the non-conformist and anti-establishment attitudes of the decade.”
http://i-d.vice.com/en_us/article/the-future-of-tattooing-is-female
Backin’ it up just isn’t quite the same without a tramp stamp.
…and turned it into the enabler of rampant narcissism that it is today.
Ironically. almost all these women would look better without the tattoos.
Yes. Body mutilation rarely improved things.
“non-conformist”
Yeah, not so much
It was non-conformist back when only sailors and bikers had them.
http://theoatmeal.com/pl/minor_differences5/tattoos
Lol.
I liked this one as well
http://theoatmeal.com/pl/minor_differences/cutting_off
Sailors only know about actual waves, not ‘fourth-wave feminism’.
Like these WAVES – IYKWIMAITYD
Like all those rugged individualists at Sturgis every year…
So “progressive” means “more women”?
This thread is an amazing amalgamation of quotes by people pretending to be smart by using the right buzz words.
Also, “the statistic is less empowering for women working in tattoo shops…”
This is how gender studies majors write.
When I think of women and tattoos, this is where I inevitably end up.
“How Anti-Fascist Witches Are Mobilizing Under Trump…..
Around the same time, I was sent a Google Doc containing a poetic manifesto written by a mysterious group of anti-fascist witches called the Yerbamala Collective (YMC) that seemed to raise a similar question: Is it ever OK to curse a Nazi? The manifesto was titled, succinctly, “Our Vendetta: Witches vs. Fascists.” On the first page, it read, “FUCK [DONALD TRUMP], FASCISTS, RICHARD SPENCER, MILO.” On the third page, in giant font, the collective proclaimed with unpunctuated urgency, “YOU WILL NOT WIN EVEN IF YOU KILL US WE WILL HAUNT YOU OUR GHOSTS WILL KILL YOUR DOG.””
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/how-anti-fascist-witches-are-mobilizing-under-trump-broadly
You know who else believed in harnessing occult power for political warfare?
Darth Vader?
ZUUL?
Tipu Sultan?
All of you are suckers.
The correct answer is “Nancy Reagan”.
Hmm it’s an interesting question. Does cursing someone violate the NAP. In other words does violating the NAP require that you actually harm someone or do you violate the NAP if you do something that you believe will harm the person?
I don’t think these people even know what NAP means, and wouldn’t care if they did.
Does not violate the NAP because hocus pocus.
But that’s only because the method was ineffectual. What if someone who doesn’t know how to operate a gun tries to shoot you with the safety engaged? Or someone tries to poison you, but they do it wrong?
Guns and poison are real. Curses are not.
They exist, but they don’t work. Intent is the same.
Exactly, is attempted murder a violation? Yes. But does cursing, as in far are you think it will hurt someone constitute violence?
I would say no because there is zero evidence it causes harm regardless of what one thinks.
fucking hard to prove in court.
-1 Saudi Arabia
well, apparently I had higher hopes for this world.
“Hah! Attempted murder? Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel prize for attempted chemistry? Do they?”
— Sideshow Bob
Why not, They gave a peace prizefor not even attempting to make peace.
It’s the Non-aggression principle, not the Non-harm principle. Intent matters; that’s why (realistic) threats of violence are seen by most to fall under the type of aggression deemed illegitimate under the NAP.
Who gets to decide what’s ‘realistic’?
I’m not trying to be glib when I say “reality”. What I’m talking about is that if I threat you with harm that could only come about from the violation of the laws of physics, then it’s not a realistic threat.
But what about societies that believes curses are real? That would at least cause psychological damage.
I was thinking about the occasional debates where some people try and apply the NAP to foreign affairs.
in those situations, attempts to suggest that ‘intent matters’ were sometimes handwaved away as irrelevant.
say a hostile state surrounds its enemy and positions armies on every border; are they still not “aggressive” up until the moment a shot is fired? Is the defending nation barred from any action whatsoever, lest it be perceived as ‘initiating’?
If someone points a gun at you. You don’t have to wait for them to start shooting.
That’s what makes it tricky. There’s always a (figurative) gun pointed at you. What’s difficult is figuring out if there is a real intent to use it. Saber rattling, or real threat? It’s not always easy to tell the difference.
So is it always the same regardless of who is pointing the gun, or why? Tamir Rice had it coming?
My question wasn’t about the superficial appearance of a threat – it was about how (apparently) “Intent matters“.
You’re now suggesting that the mere appearance of a threat justifies retaliation?
Or does it require both ‘pointing’ AND some plausible intent?
Prior to this mention of ‘intent mattering’ i have been told that intent doesn’t matter, and that “Threats are not aggression” regardless of how plausible the threat.
I don’t know the facts of the Tamir Rice case.
Anyway, I would say what matters is that the threat is plausible. Why they want to shoot you isn’t relevant. Obviously joking or impossible verbal threats are not aggression. But pointing a gun, whether it’s stranger with some unknown reason or a known enemy whose motives are clear, is aggression.
You keep using this analogy as though it provides a perfect illustration of the obviousness of a “realistic threat”…
..when its not very applicable to the range of things that might be possible in FP scenarios (see my ‘armies positioned on borders’ example). Its also, as per the Tamir Rice example (and there are easily-found others) not as simple as you make out.
Either ‘intent matters’ and there’s some calculus for determining intent, or it doesn’t. choose one.
“armies positioned on borders” is pointing a big bunch of guns.
If there is intent to cause harm, then a threat would be plausible, and therefore aggression.
that is exactly the “if” which prompted my question in the first place.
If “intent matters”, what are the criteria for establishing intent?
So Trump will create a Witch Hunter General cabinet post now? Do they want to bring back the Inquisition? Cause this is how you bring back the Inquisition.
Everyone’s expecting the Trump Inquisition.
The Tyrannish inquisition?
“It’s “ethically inappropriate” for government and medical organizations to describe breastfeeding as “natural” because the term enforces rigid notions about gender roles, claims a new study in Pediatrics.”
https://heatst.com/culture-wars/study-describing-breastfeeding-as-natural-is-unethical-because-it-reinforces-gender-roles/
Someone forgot we’re animals
Maybe they skipped the chapter on mammals?
Shhh… millenials are sciencing.
They are welcome to try and have a dude breastfeed their children… the CPS can take them away. Win-win?
CPS would have to take on Slate pundits if they tried to say that Milkmen weren’t a real thing.
+1 Bitchin Camero
The published study detracts more from Pediatrics’ credibility than the authors. What was their submissions editor smoking?
Non-mammals are people too, asshole!
They don’t have much credibility, having published political nonsense for a long time.
Is that a joke?
Link at bottom says “Zoos are polluting our children’s minds with dangerous gender stereotypes – Parents should refrain from referring to zoo animals as a “girl” or a “boy” unless they have actually asked the animal.
The left has been letting their insanity hang out for all to see and It is really difficult to tell anymore what is parody and what is not.
No, I’m quite sure the author is serious.
And that other paper, “Naturalizing Gender through Childhood Socialization Messages in a Zoo” is from Sage Publishing. They’ve been in the radical left-wing nonsense business since the 1960’s. You wouldn’t believe some of the shit they’ve published.
“We draw on public observations conducted in a zoo to identify three instances in which adults make use of its specific spatial and symbolic resources to transmit socialization messages to children according to “naturalized” models of hegemonic gender difference.”
I heard a lady tell her daughter that otters are too complex to have evolved at the denver zoo.
Seemed bad, but I’d rather hear that than some PC gender neutral tour.
Well, the Denver zoo is only about 100 years old.
I recently read this book Forbidden Thoughts It’s a sci-fi collection of short stories and a couple of essays centered around taking social justice bullshit and carrying it out on a societal level. The thing that kept snapping my suspenders of disbelief wasn’t how far-fetched the stories were. It was that I could see large numbers of leftists actually seeing the stories as Utopian.
There were some great stories, but this genre of cautionary tales needs to be both a logical follow-through of the ideas being criticized and far enough fetched to get even the supporters of the idea to at least take pause. But the loonies are so out of control, it has become, as many have observed, impossible to parody them. Nearly every one of the extreme positions in the stories, are ideas actually espoused by leftists.
Maybe we really do need to startup Pinochet’s Helicopter Ride Amusement Park and Curative Rest Home For Socialists.
That looks like a decent little collection, going to have to loo into getting that.
On a largely unrelated note, what is it with the links on the right column of that site? Do they specialize in “major MILFs who are on trial for having sex with teenage boys”?
They think natural means normal. Another example of prog retardation.
I got a ping, and approved it – DURING THE SERMON, MIND YOU!
That’s better than a “hat tip”! Take that, lowly brutals!
*puffs out chest, struts around room*
My wife recently, via Facebook, reconnected with some old college friends of ours (ok, mostly hers). One of them, a woman named Annie, apparently died a few years ago. No one would tell my wife the hows and whens. Today, using my google-fu, I managed to find the original obituary and – this gives some idea of the date – her Myspace page. She died of cancer at age 37, almost 11 years ago.
I know people die unexpectedly, but Annie was one of those “bigger than life” personalities who was always fun to be with. She would always go out of her way to make everyone laugh. It’s just hard to believe that’s she’s dead, that’s how full of life she was.
Related, depressign song
Annie’s Gone https://youtu.be/nmtbEK7Q4uA
It’s rough finding out folks that’ll always be kids or young adults in your mind because you haven’t seen them for so long aren’t around anymore and that they’ve been gone for a while. Unfortunately, the older you get the more that happens unless, of course, you end up being the one they’re saying “I can’t believe he’s dead” about.
Sorry to hear about your friend. I know the feeling. I’ve learned of two friends passing just this week via Facebook. I’m only 56, and already this seems to be a regular occurrence — it reminds me of when I was younger and would always hear of my parents’ friends passing. As it is, my two best friends from high school have already passed, and a third is nearly blind and homebound on disability. Yikes.
My favorite uncle died of cancer at 39. He was a health nut and workout fiend who didn’t drink, drug or smoke.
Sometimes life seems like a sick joke.
I’ve had 3 friends die in a period of less than 3 months. I’m 37.
One of the girls who just died lost her brother when he was 20.
I wonder how the parents feel, knowing that both of their kids died of alcohol/drug related causes. They probably don’t care, or they would have been better parents in the first place.
Blaming the parents seems weak, but you know them and I dont.
Well, even though I grew up with the kids, I don’t know the parents. That’s probably 75% of the problem right there.
There’s bad luck, and then there’s this. 2 for 2.
“Students of color demand extensions on their finals because of racist-banana incident ”
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/32481/
The banana was the real victim here.
There is a 99.9% chance that it’s a false flag incident
I’ll keep my eyes peeled.
I’ll take the over on that.
Postponing exams because of bananas is the very definition of a slippery slope argument.
Lol I at first read this as meaning that black women are demanding free hair extensions.
They want extensions on finals for all students of color and no penalization for previous exams.
This almost makes it sound like one of them set the banana thing up themselves to get out of finals… Impossible!
“Anti-rape activists publish hoax accusation against innocent student, shift the blame
An anonymous activist group at Brown University that publishes names of students accused of rape has gone dark after allegedly targeting minorities.”
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/32409/
I do love how “intersectionality” is the achilles heel of modern-batshit-feminism.
Well, lord knows i trust things scrawled on toilet walls more than i do police-investigations, testimony in front of a court of law, etc.
(*as someone who frequently uses quotation marks for absolutely no reason, even i find that example unacceptable. “rape apologist” on the other hand deserves them, it being a silly term)
I apologize for raping you.
Star Chamber gonna Star Chamber. The fact that they couldn’t even apologize is the worst part
Isn’t that rule #1?
Ok I looked it up. I guess it’s part of rule 8: “Never let up”.
Wow #2 explains why I’ve been hearing the same shit my whole life:
“Never go outside the expertise of your people.” It results in confusion, fear and retreat. Feeling secure adds to the backbone of anyone.
Dead babies, Koch brothers, Fox news, tax cuts for the rich, racist.
Here’s some fatuous nonsense to spread on your toast.
Women gained entry into a wider range of professions, and the gap between men’s and women’s wages narrowed significantly. Nancy H. Teeters became the first woman appointed to the Fed’s board in September 1978. Ms. Yellen said that their increased work force participation had produced clear benefits not only for women, but also for men, for the children of working women and for the American economy.
“The evidence shows that the rise in women’s participation has contributed to widespread improvements in the safety and productivity of our workplaces, to the health of families and to the macroeconomic success that our country has enjoyed,” she said. She spoke at a conference titled “125 Years of Women at Brown.”
Top (non-gender-specific) Thinkers.
[insert correlation reference]
And this doddering old bag “runs” our economy. It’s a wonder we’re not as hungry as the Valenzuelians.
“And this doddering old bag “runs” our economy.”
A “progressive” once complained to me that “we need actual economists running the economy instead of politicians”. It didn’t occur to me at the time, but I should have pointed out that we DO have economists “running” the economy. If the entire economy is under political control, partisan politics are going to be a huge factor. I don’t get why people don’t understand this; there seems to be a belief that you can have the government perform some function and it can somehow remain “nonpolitical”. How many times have you heard people complain that a government function is “politicized” as if that’s some abnormal state?
That analysis, a 2013 study by Francine D. Blau and Lawrence M. Kahn, both of Cornell University, attributed much of the difference to government policies. The United States lags behind other countries in the availability of paid maternity leave, affordable child care and flexible work schedules. Ms. Blau and Mr. Kahn estimated that adopting European policies on those issues could close more than half of the gap in the United States between male and female labor force participation.
We could really goose those labor force participation numbers by rounding women up and sending them to forced-labor camps.
“Female College Students Say They Live in Constant Fear of Being Raped
As higher education promotes the idea of a “rape culture” where society excuses and even encourages sexual violence, female students are paying the psychological price.”
https://heatst.com/culture-wars/female-college-students-say-theyre-suffering-from-rape-anxiety/
I wish I could plug feminists’ brains (or whatever) into a Saudi Arabia simulator so they could see an actual rape culture.
Muslims rate higher than women and gays on the chart.
[insert humorous observation that author is an Indian woman here]
RAPE ISNT FUNNY
Unless you’re raping a clown.
Send in the rape clowns.
George Carlin says, “Fuck you, rape is hilarious.”
Well gosh, how would these women get the idea in their pretty little heads that they have a one in four chance of being raped? Why would they think that? Is somebody going around college campuses spreading that rumor?
And accusing anyone who bothers to look at the underlying study and points out that number is only true if you include things like being asked out by that creepy guy with bad teeth as rape of being a mansplaining rape apologist?
Cause and effect in effect. Ha ha ha.
You stay classy, Kurt Eichenwald
http://dailycaller.com/2017/05/06/kurt-eichenwald-i-want-republicans-to-watch-their-families-lose-insurance-and-die/
Kurt Eichenwald: I Want Republicans To Watch Their Families ‘Lose Insurance’ And ‘Die’
Eichenwald said on Twitter Friday night that he hopes every Republican who voted in favor of the American Health Care Act on Thursday sees a family member come down with a serious “long term” illness and lose their insurance before dying. When challenged, Eichenwald doubled down. “I want them to be tortured,” he said of Republicans who supported the AHCA. He added: “I want the [Republicans] who supported this to feel the pain in their own families.”
You know who else had a Germanic name and wanted people to die?
Duke Albrecht von Wallenstein ?
Franz Fuchs?
Danzig?
https://youtu.be/5SQm_mBmiIg
Koch?
Paul R. Ehrlich?
Clearly the left in angling real hard for another electoral ass-kicking come 2018 and 2020. If a Repub went out and said, ‘I hope their family/kids get killed by a muslim extremist, then the media would crucify said Repub. This will either get ignored or else be raised up as a new standard of engagement.
I hope Eichenwald’s friends and family are never reduced to suffering for lack of quality, affordable healthcare–and that’s just one of the reasons I support the AHCA as an improvement and a necessary and important step to something even better.
Eichenwald should probably see somebody about the possibility of anxiety and/or paranoia. Lashing out at everybody and anybody–and their friends and family, too–could be indicative of something like that. The world isn’t conspiring against you, Kurt.
I don’t know. Maybe he’s just an asshole.
This is what they’ve always felt. It’s good that it’s out in the open now.
Looks like the Hat and Hair are getting a new roommate.
Nuclear football reportedly set to get private apartment in Trump Tower
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/05/06/nuclear-football-reportedly-set-to-get-private-apartment-in-trump-tower.html
Drinking beer and burning my brush pile. I should get a burn barrel to be a better redneck.
Trying to decide if I should do some work today, or blow it off and force a confrontation with my peice of shit supervisor over his insane expectations that we work on the weekends whether we need to or not. Maybe I can get him to throw a tantrum and punch and kick things like he likes to do.
So, related to the discussion we had a couple days ago about when it’s time to leave a job, when you start having daydreams about flattening your boss’s face every time he spends an hour berating you or someone else in the office over taking notes the wrong way or something equally trivial, it’s definitely time to go, right? Since that’s got to be a common scenario.
At my parent’s house, we always cut down a good chunk of trees every summer. some was to thin out the woods, but one year dad wanted to expand our yard a little. we had a pile of brush and trees that had to be the size of a master bedroom. So we threw the christmas tree on top (~18 ft).
There are pictures of that burn, the very top of the fire could be seen from the front yard over the house. The heat melted one of his glasses slightly.
You never regret burning an old Christmas tree.
It’s never a bad idea to start looking for something better.
It’s always a bad idea to accept a counteroffer to stay once you’ve resigned.
“It’s always a bad idea to accept a counteroffer to stay once you’ve resigned.”
Just out of curiosity, why is that?
Because you’ve demonstrated that you don’t want to be there, is my guess.
There’s no way to tell if they want you back because it will take six months to train someone to replace you–and then they can fire you.
There’s no way they’re going to count on you to be there in the future, and so you stop figuring in their long term plans.
Your boss can sleep at night because he trusts you. Once you resign, that modicum of trust is gone. You held your boss over a barrel. There’s no regaining that trust completely.
I’ve seen people accept counteroffers. It’s a mistake.
I have an interview in a couple weeks, so hopefully this won’t be for long. And there’s no danger of me staying, but that seems like good advice for the future.
P.S. I’ve never regretted standing up for myself.
I’ve pad dearly for doing so, but looking back, I don’t regret doing it.
I regret every time I didn’t stick up for myself.
Oh yeah. I’ve started to call his bluffs when he issues some bullshit threat, and he’s really starting to hate me for it, I think. Fucking manchild. Who thinks you can handle anyone by threats and intimidation? Especially adults.
I was recently told by my (former) manager “You still have friends in this agency.”
Who says that shit? What is this? Fucking high school?
Needless to say I’m hopefully moving on mid-June to another job.
Yeah
Our boss tried to put the blame on us the other day for not working enough overtime. When some of the people pointed out that they work second jobs and can’t do overtime, he basically said that was their problem.
One of my boss’s favorite sayings is, “I don’t fucking care. Get it done.” Sounds like he and your boss went to the same school.
at my previous locksmith job, we had a “no OT!!” rule, but the boss would take every job as an emergency, which made our road techs very busy, and usually into OT. which she would blame on them. I was opening and closing, mon- sat. but somehow was tasked with also avoiding ot.
The problem is we have work that’s supposed to go out in a set amount of time from when we get it. And then the servers went on the fritz twice in the past two weeks because the bosses use ridiculously outdated software.
And somehow this is our fucking fault? I’m at close to 120% of the production standard, anyway.
Here’s my possibly worthless advice as a man who has been fired from every engineering job he’s had:
Bosses in general tend to be assholes, so no matter where you work, there is a very high probability you will end up working for one. The good news is the assholes usually get fired or reassigned within a few months or years.
I’ve also noticed that bosses are far less likely to hassle older (40ish and above) engineers. It seems like if you just stick around long enough, the asshole bosses either leave or they stop trying to lord over you. Young engineers are easy targets.
I would try to hold onto the job while looking for another one. If there is any possibility for you to become self-employed, I would research that.
As tempting as it might be to have a confrontation with your boss, the most likely result is you being fired.
If your boss is driving you nuts, but you don’t want to find another job, seems like the best thing to do is avoid interacting with him as much as possible. I have found the best way to reduce stress in my life is to avoid situations and people who annoy me rather than try to change them.
All the older engineers I’ve known have the same attitude towards asshole bosses: they just shrug it off and carry on as best they can. They just make peace with the fact that enduring abuse is part of the job. The tape up Dilbert cartoons in their offices and keeping getting paid.
In a hundred years, we’re all dead, and all the silly things we worry and fret about will pass. I have found that reflecting on that helps keep me sane.
This guy goes beyond asshole. The fridge has a nice neat row of knuckle prints from his tantrum a week or so ago.
But yes, not quitting until I have another job, not beating his face in unless he loses control enough to lay hands on me. Those are good advices.
I am really sorry to hear about your work stress Warty. Aside from the rape dungeons you seem like a pretty good guy. I am guessing you are in a pretty narrow field?
If you hate your job leave it. Life is short. No one ever lay on their death bed being glad they stayed in a job they hated. I had a mathematician buddy that hated his job at NASA. He was kind of a big deal. He walked out one day and started managing a fast food joint. He loved it. Low stress and he was banging all the young cashier girls.
There’s definitely not enough low-class tail at NASA. We need more women in science.
Thanks. And your buddy is a smart man.
What pisses me off the most about my job is that it really ought to be a dream job. The work is really cool, we’re working for a huge client, and there actually is a no-shit chance to get filthy stinking rich. But it’s just not worth it. Even if staying there wouldn’t eventually put me in prison, there’s only so much a person can take.
That’s one decent thing about the military. Generally you’ll have a new boss/command team every 1.5 years (to 3 years depending on the unit). Not stuck indefinitely with crap (still can be a heckuvathing to put up with in some cases).
I had a similar experience with a bullying psycho boss. I had the violent fantasies and everything.
I pushed back. I lost and got fired, but I don’t regret it.
It’s funny going down lists of behaviors of wife beaters and going, yep, yep, yep, that one too, yep…
I feel bad for the 22 year old kids we have now. These poor H1B FOBs are kind of up shit creek.
The other day I watched him berate one of them for an hour and a half in a meeting. The high points were telling the kid he’d fire him if he didn’t man up and stop being so nervous, and berating him for having shitty English.
This was…I think 2 days after lecturing this kid for at least 12 hours straight. That’s not a joke. I went into his office at 10:30 pm to get something, and psycho boss had this kid, who was visibly on the verge of tears, confess to me that he had done something terrible – he had tried to interpret something that he didn’t understand.
The more I think about that particular incident, the more disturbed I get. It’s like this fuckstain read Solzhinitsyn and thought it was a management manual.
Oh! And Fuckstain likes to joke around about being Beria. And his favorite joke is that his grandfather died at Auschwitz – he fell out of his guard tower. Which is a fine joke in isolation, but come on.
Management is either willfully unaware of how bad it is or doesn’t care, so there’s really not much to be done except leave. Fuck it.
What’s even worse than watching an asshole bully a 22 year old (the kid can just quit since he’s probably living with his parents anyway) is one bullying a 40 year old man who can’t quit because he’s taking care of his sick father. Or bullying a nice quiet pregnant woman into crying.
He really is lucky to be alive.
Not if the kid is FOB. He’s pretty stuck, isn’t he?
I dug out two root balls from some ancient bushes that had probably been planted when my house was built – so older than 50 years. It took a lot of shovel and axe work to free them. Whew!
Anyways – regarding the job – I’m lucky to work at a place with a small IT department and a high level of trust. My boss has – issues – but they’re nothing that can be worked around. Sure I’m on call 24/7 but have a huge amount of freedom with my time. As long as the work gets done, that’s all my manager cares about. So some weeks can be frustrating/busy while others I feel guilty for getting paid.
As the others said, I would walk before I took that level of crap from anyone. You can always live on the 401K / savings/ your good looks for a while until something else comes up. It’s just not worth the heartache. Also a good time to get back at the boss during the exit interview.
Even with my okay work situation I’m still looking forward to the day when I can retire. And then do something part-time. My wife’s income as a lawyer is going up as time goes by. She’s going to surpass mine real shortly – provided everything else goes why. Then I can devote my life to weightlifting, starting a small business, reading, and general tomfoolery.
*goes well
::taps self on head::
Somehow I expected your advice to me more like this:
“There has been too much violence too much pain. None here is without sin. But, I have an honorable compromise. Give me the gasoline and I’ll spare your lives. Just walk away. I will give you safe passage in the wasteland. Walk away and there will be an end to the horror.”
http://isis.liveuamap.com/en/2017/7-may-old-but-confirmed-isis-banned-civilians-from-wearing
Old, but confirmed: ISIS banned civilians from wearing Nike. Reason it represents a Greek god. Therefore anyone seen wearing it was reprimanded.
Why wouldn’t they want the goddess of victory to be on their side? No wonder they’re losing so hard.
That is… more educated than I would have given ISIS credit for. Most of the Western world probably have no idea what the word “nike” means or its history.
There’s a good chance that there are a few educated one who are always on the lookout for the stray ungood thought. I mean they have to know what apostasy is before they enforce the dogma
Good! More Nike’s for me. ?
See, even considering AHCA (which in all honesty isn’t a terrible bill IMO) and general GOP stupidity, I’m really skeptical that the Democratic Party can capitalize on 2018 as much as I originally feared. Judging from Feinstein, I now predict that they’re going to race-bait just enough next year for working class Americans to reject them again. Stupid beats evil any day of the week.
Why do theologians get to call themselves “Doctor”?
For the same reason that I do – they have a peice of paper that says so. Do you have a peice of paper? Well, do ya? Punk?
Hold on just one minute…
http://www.expressuniversitydegree.com/buy-a-phd/
*clickclickclickclick*
Ok, now what were we talking about?
Dr. Warty to see you.
Warty: I recommend a course of squatting and deadlifts. That will get ya perked up, old man.
this was suggested on youtube for some reason, but I think the top comment is great.
so, which one of you is TacomaPaul?
Female College Students Say They Live in Constant Fear of Being Raped
As do we all.
STEVE SMITH could be lurking behind any corner. And I make sure my kids know that before they go to sleep every night. If they’re naughty, STEVE SMITH is going to get them.
my peice of shit supervisor over his insane expectations that we work on the weekends whether we need to or not.
A long time ago, I worked for somebody who seemed to think we were stealing money from him by being home in bed, asleep, instead of in the shop, working. That job didn’t last very long.
Most of the Western world probably have no idea what the word “nike” means or its history.
Nonsense.
A Nike.
Satanic Polish black metal is going extremely well with the beer drinking and brush burning.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=YpOdLGtmDw4&feature=share
Your bush is burning?
Warty is Moses?
More Polish black metal.
Macron gets 65% of the vote.
Probably for the best. Sigh.
Apparently around 29% spoiled their ballots.
Sucre blue!
There’s no “probably” here. There is absolutely zero about the fucking National Front (seriously? That’s the name they decided was a good idea?) that’s not a horrorshow. Just because the alternative is a filthy commie is no reason to support scum like them.
Jean-Marie National Front is apparently quite different from Marine National Front, though. They pretty much purged the Holocaust deniers like her father and they’re mostly just an anti-EU, pro-nationalist party now with some Bernie-like socialist programs to keep the French happy.
Well, I think the transnational EU bureaucracy in Brussels is a massive destroyer of prosperity in Europe, and should be shuttered tomorrow. A Le Pen victory would have brought that about. The only question was whether France itself could then course correct from electing a crypto-fascist.
Anyway the show isn’t over. Front National had I think 3 parliamentary seats last time: they are projected to get 40-100 in June.
Seriously though…”National Front”? Was “National Socialist French Worker’s Party” taken?
It’s almost enough to make me grateful for our politics.
Relative to basically everywhere else in the world, our political system is actually pretty healthy. Doesn’t feel that way sometimes, but I think it’s pretty true.
My real question is why is being anti-EU considered an anti-free market position in France? I guess it goes to show you that just because something is anti-establishment doesn’t necessarily make said position good or bad, it just make it anti-establishment.
Being anti-EU in France is considered anti-free market, because in France there is no pro free market party.
Macron is allegedly pro-free market, but that probably means something very different than how a libertarian or true conservative would identify it as.
Pretty much how I see it, he may be pro free market in the French sense, but that’s not what I call anywhere near free market at all.
Macron alleges he is pro-everything.
Prediction: usual shitty French politics ensue. That’s one country with beautiful art, countryside, and some of the most fucked up politics.
People get the candidates that they ask for. Le Pen-like figures tend to form when you culturally marginalize a large portion of your citizens: instead of thinking logically and carefully, they tend to break windows and vote with anger.
Communism came and went a few doors down from the French. Somehow, too many of them never understood what was wrong with it.
Some of this can be laid at the feet of the horrid ideas of the French intellectual class for the last…century or so.
NASCAR is at Talladega today. One of two tracks where Danica Patrick has a chance to win. But she likely won’t.
Why, because it’s a restrictor plate track?
Yup. It causes pack racing and if you can get lucky and get your timing right you can get pushed out front and steal a win. The handling on the cars is so good and areo is so important it evens out the skill levels of the drivers.
On other tracks, despite having top-tier equipment there’s about 20 drivers she can’t outdrive thus she finishes 20th or worse usually.
And she’s caught up in a wreck.
But her boyfriend wins.
KFC has put out a romance novel called Wings of Desire.
Danica Patrick has a chance to win.
Sure she does.
She won one race in the IRL, and that was by using a pit strategy gamble they used a bunch of times that year. She was nowhere near being fast on the race track, but everybody in front of her had to pit for fuel. If a yellow had come out, she never would have won that race. If the race had gone another ten laps, she wouldn’t have won. It was a “real” win, and I’m not trying to say it wasn’t; nobody bitched when Dario Franchitti won using the same strategy.
She qualifies okay, but she’s not fast on race day. If she identified as a man, she’d most likely either be spending her own money, or out of a ride.
She sells a lot of merch and is a good pitchman for her sponsors. Plus she’s still a novelty. That’ll keep her in the car.
Macron is allegedly pro-free market, but that probably means something very different than how a libertarian or true conservative would identify it as.
The U S Chamber of Commerce school of “free market capitalism”.
You have to love the mets.
Look what’s in the locker next to the player’s arm.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C_HYR7UVYAAAEne.jpg:large
An Obama bobblehead?
Supplements?
A giant black dildo?
60 Minutes with the subtle lineup tonight:”The deportation of a father and business owner; prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials…”
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