Hope everyone has had a nice weekend and a good last several days. I was completely out of it for a couple days there. A fever pushing 103 will do some strange shit to you over a 16 hour stretch. Some strange shit. But I’m back…much to the chagrin of a few people on here I’m sure. And a special thanks for the other Glibs that kept the mornings going (better than I could have) while I was gone. Thanks, Brett L and OMWC. And Swissy for helping in the shuffle on extra afternoon duty. If I missed anybody, I apologize. I really was in bad shape.
Anyway, I’m back playing at about 75% today. Still not up to full speed but on the mend. Which allows me to bring you….the links!
Min Bahadur Sherchan
A guy literally died doing what he loved to do. And people want to stand on his body and make a law he would obviously not agree with.
Fake news? Fake news ain’t shit compared to what’s happening with “Fake Law”.
Hey, maybe the crowd lost their audio and were waiting for the person on stage to set off on a badass rendition of Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag. Nah, they knew they were cheering for Waters. But I wonder if they know she can barely put two sentences together without making at least one factual and two grammatical errors? Seriously, that lady is so dumb she makes Nancy Pelosi look like Marie Curie.
Well the French picked Macron over LaPen by a pretty wide margin. And it looks like he faces a pretty big uphill challenge, as do all Europeans that embrace the super-state bureaucracy.
This man wants history erased.
This man wants it preserved.
Those who want to erase history vs those who want to remember it (which include some for the wrong reasons): Welcome to New Orleans. (TW: NYT comments offer their usual insight into the stunted mind of progressives) Also, try this shit on Monument Avenue in Richmond and you wouldn’t see protesters. You’d see mobs surrounding those statues to protect them from revisionist assholery.
Here’s one for the hoi polloi. Just in case you’ve ever wondered why Two Buck Chuck is so cheap.
Anyway, its good to be back. I’ll be 100% soon, so watch out. Oh, and this is probably one of the aforementioned politician’s best jams.
Have a great start to your week. I’m gonna try to make a few bucks and then take the kids to the zoo.
I, for one, am glad that
our overlordsloopy is feeling better. And if anyone says otherwise, they can get a visit by Warty.Hear, Hear. The only thing good about those bugs is realizing how good you normally feel when you get over it.
Nevo Zisin: People treat me differently as a man
Mentally ill person writes bullshit confirming the rightness of their distorted world view.
Pretty much. I was looking for a phrasing, but I don’t think I could be more apt than that.
Comments became more focused on how strong I was rather than how skinny, or how nice my shirt was.
But that implies that people still focus on a man’s body, which femenisim had taught me never happens to men.
Comments became more focused on how strong I was rather than how skinny
This happens to biological males who take testosterone supplements as well.
These were not privileges I had anticipated or ever wanted, but I had a new responsibility in recognising how a society that favours men would favour me when read as one of them.
Don’t word salad this, you’re a shitlord now.
“When I identified as a woman, I was often called “sweetheart”, “darling” and “honey”. I never liked those labels. They created a power imbalance where the person calling me that was asserting some kind of dominance over me.”
I have lived in the South most of my life and am called “sweetheart”, “darling” and “honey” pretty much every day. I also use those terms pretty much every day. It never occurred to me that anyone was asserting dominance over me and I certainly am not trying to assert dominance over anyone else. Down here it is called “being friendly”.
I’m glad that Nevo has found his niche in life but male or female he still sounds like a whiny little bitch and I doubt that all the testosterone in the world is going to change that.
As a male who lives in the south, I am probably called “sweetie” or “hun” by a woman at least once a week who I never met before. Usually right before they take my order or cut my hair. I try not to get offended. Oh wait, I don’t. Its an informal version of “sir” by people trying to establish a rapport to sell me something.
So you about it’s a part of the capitalist patriarchy!!!!
*admit
I’m a man, and women call me “Hon”, “Dear”, and “Sweetie” pretty often. Some of that’s proximity to Baltimore, some of that’s the pseudo-Southern culture of Bay-area Maryland, especially south of B’more. I’ve never felt that the person saying those things was doing anything at all, and if they were doing anything they were trying to put me at ease and make me feel welcome. It’s hard to respect other people if you don’t interact openly with them, and openness means exposing yourself to things you might not understand or might not choose to do yourself.
Wearing my hat as amateur anthropologist, it seems like northern mid-Atlantic culture, particularly in more urban areas, is typically standoffish. Your business is your business, you play your cards close the vest, and that sometimes reads as rude or cold. In the South, it’s the opposite on a superficial level. People are more open–like the stereotype in that commercial where a country guy sits down at a bar in NYC and actually tells everyone how he’s doing, since they asked–and they let you in more readily, to a point. Southerners are friendlier. Not nicer, per se, but friendlier.
Your story reminds me of a couple of friends of mine who moved to Colorado for a short time. One of them related his time there, and he was quite surprised at how openly unfriendly people were there. (We’re Texans, for context) People didn’t say hello or hold doors open over there according to him. It struck me as odd because I don’t really think in Texas we do it to be friendly, per se – I mean, I hate everybody, but I think in our culture it’s just something you do.
I hate faux friendliness. It’s creepy and disturbing. I much prefer honest indifference.
I don’t know you, I don’t want to talk to you, just leave me alone.
Why yes, I was born and raised in New York…
As a northerner, I also get a little suspicious of southern hospitality. My mental response is “what do they want from me?” Or, with certain types, “what are they trying to con me out of?” Just my natural suspicion caused by living in some shitty areas during my struggling years.
We’re kinda of friendly here in the wastelands of Michigan, but strangers don’t get more than a “good morning” or a wave. It takes time to build up trust.
My NYC coworker in Houston told a story about moving to Houston with his wife and standing in lines for kolaches. Guy in front of him turns around and says, “Hi, how’s it going.”
Him: “Yeah, hey.”
Guy: “Having a good day?”
Him: “I heard ya, buddy, whaddya want?”
Wife: “No, babe. He’s just being nice and asking how you’re doing. That’s how people interact down here.”
Him: “Fuck that. I don’t want random people talking to me.”
I’m Texas born and raised–never lived anywhere else–and that
is very much my thought on the matter.
I’ve given up on the French.
Oui oui.
Eh, Macron was going to win, I nursed hopes that the Eurocrats would get kicked in the balls by La Pen but didn’t really see a path to victory for her. Also the coverage was super classy on my derp book. A lot of feminist were mocking La Pen for her tears and saying something to the effect of ‘the only time its okay to make a women cry.’Stay classy ladies
They are all clearly misogynists for not supporting a female politician.
So feminism is actually synonymous with leftist politics. Who knew?
I eagerly await the left’s condemnation of foreign leader Obama overtly interfering in France’s elections and hacking their democracy.
I brought it up in a HuffPo piece about it and was roundly excoriated for questioning Obama. After all, it’s not meddling since he’s no longer a public official.
I replied by asking what office Julian Assange holds and I pretty much just got called a Russian bot after that.
Without double standards they would have no standards at all.
Yep.
It’s like standards are so important to progressives that they have two for every issue!
I’m stealing that one
Wouldn’t surprise me if he claims some credit for the win.
So have the French.
Yes it would’ve been nice to see the EU take a punch to the nose with La Pen’s election, but the result would still be very French more socialism, more union protection, more handouts (for French citizens) with the added bonus of leaving the EU allowing France to print its own money and go into debt more easily.
Oh for sure. La Pen was not a freedom friendly pol in the least. Her election would have been a nice crack to the EU but probably would have precipitated another fall for the French constitution, which would put them on like republic #6 I think. So in a way, a victory against Brussels but as you noted, a loss for France.
Bah. France is so far gone not sure if anything counts as a win over there.
Good cigarettes and shit philosophy? Politically though there is no winning. Its all one big shitty statist buffet.
It certainly wouldn’t have helped France in the long run, but it would’ve been a fun detour along the road to serfdom.
Oh I was definitely hoping for some fun.
Fuck France. I’m not a Frenchman. A Le Pen win would have been good for the ol’ USA.
Moi aussi.
Oh, wait…
Yeah, these days usually the only salad dressing I keep around is Italian.
Dude, you sell a two-dollar bottle of wine. I seriously don’t think your image can be “cheapened”.
When I was younger, a popular drinking game named the “tour de franzia” was popular. I can’t say that I didn’t enjoy it.
Still, there’s a certain psychological aesthetic to popping that cork.
And where I live it’s been $3 for quite a long time.
Beyond that, their initial marketing was centered around having their wine tested as the equal or better of higher end wines in blind tasting competitions. After they won a few awards early on, people like Consumer Reports picked up on them and it became fashionable to have their wine.
But I think they were doing something back then that is not listed in the “how they keep it cheap” article. They were buying up surplus grapes from California vineyards and blending them. So if it was a pretty good year for grapes in Cali, they’d have a really good batch. Other years, maybe not.
Anyway, I was pretty interested to try it when Trader Joe’s finally moved in to our area. I’m no wine snob, and I’ll grab whatever is on sale at Publix and give it a try. But that 2-buck Chuck was just terrible. Maybe I just hit a bad batch, but I won’t be likely to try again. And it is exceptionally rare that I say that, even about a $5 bottle of wine. I was really disappointed, because I bought the hype so many years ago.
Ah, so that’s where the “Franzia” brand of boxed swil . . . er, wine comes from.
The Franzia brand/winery was sold off in the early 70’s to Coke. Same family name but different winery. Interestingly, the founder of Franzia loaned money to her son-in-law Ernest Gallo to start his own winery.
Thanks, didn’t know that. Most “bargain” wine brands are a mystery to me — they show up for a few weeks/months/(sometimes years) at the usual government-controlled SOMA distribution centres here in the Lower Rainland™, and then fade away to be replaced by equally pedestrian offerings from somewhere else.
The only boxed wine the spousal unit and I drink nowadays is made by a local winery — Chaberton Estates in Langley. Unlike most of the boxed stuff, it’s not awful. I hear rumours about better boxed wine from time-to-time, but they’re always U.S.-based rumours, which just leads me to be totes jelly of the choice y’all are spoiled with.
Dude, they sell the highest quality $2 bottle of wine on the market.
By a long shot.
You really need to go up in price before you surpass their quality. Like $5-8?
Plastic cork- 5 cents
Composite cork- 3 to 4 cents
Now that I’ve been making my own apple wine, next time grape juice is marked down I’ll ferment some in a 2L Coke bottle for about 9 days as I do with the cider (using Hodgson regular or fast-rise yeast), decant it from the must, and see if it’s that much worse than this aged stuff. I’ve found it easy to make better-than-pizzeria pizza without any fancy equipment, so I might find the same with wine. Ale could be a tougher project.
And if not, you’ll have skills for a more comfortable prison stay.
Aging definitely improves wines – you only need to drink beaujolais nouveau for a few consecutive years and compare the experience with the same wine, once it’s been bottled for as little as 2 years, but making drinkable wine out of grape must is eminently possible, and if you’re making apple wines (without grape must) at the moment and they’re OK, you’ll probably do more than OK with grape.
I think the trick with bulk wines is largely in how much HFCS they add just before it goes in the box.
But I LIKE beaujolais nouveau, so maybe for me aging would be a DISimprovement. It tastes a lot like chianti to me. If aging takes out that “hot” fruitiness, then what the heck, I’d just as soon mix gin or vodka with juice.
Wait a minute — they sugar it AFTER fermenting (and optionally aging)? I sugar before fermenting the apple juice; I add 2/3 of the sugar at the start, let it go 5-6 days room temperature, then mix in the remaining sugar for another 2-3 days. Then I decant into another Coke bottle, put it in the refrigerator a day, and lately have taken to decanting again to get rid of more of the must.
Two buck chuck has been my go too for decent-ish wine. I’m no wine snob, so I’m not going to get pretentious about it. Now that I know it is produced by clever capitalistic means, I’m even more proud to consume it.
When I’m not guzzling gin & tonics, I drink boxed wine – usually Bota Box. it doesn’t have any sulphuric aftertaste and stays fresh for a long time. Some wine magazine or another rates ’em highly *shrugs*
My folks drink some swill box wine – Franzia? That tastes awful but hey, they like light beers.
Bota Box? Never heard of it. Is is a regional thing? My wine knowledge is limited to TJ’s wine and then the fancy wine and cheese shop I frequent twice a year for special occasions
My wife is in the wine business, and a couple of years ago Bota Box was one of the brands she represented. It’s actually pretty decent wine put into environment-friendly box packaging. The stuff sells in the millions of cases.
Wine kills me. Even a glass or two causes the hangover demon to use my head for target practice.
Thank god beer does not.
It’s the sulphites?
Anyway. It’s strange because while here I have to be careful with how much wine I drink, when I used to go to Europe I would drink a bottle with little after shocks.
Having a lot of sugar in it makes hangovers worse as well.
3 glasses of wine and I’ll feel like shit in the AM.
Two months ago, I hosted a card game, and ended up drinking an entire 5th of bourbon (less 2 shots) with about a cup of water mixed in and woke up the next
morningafternoon fresh as a daisy.Yep. The next morning my tongue looks like discarded tampon.
Me too. I can drink a crap load of good beer shit beer or any kind of hard stuff. But I feel more than 2 glasses of wine. And I really feel more than 2 bottles.
I’m a big fan of the Bota. The three of us killed a liter and a half of grigio last night.
Franzia is basically Annie Green Springs in a box.
that goes back a ways, how about Red Mountain?
Never heard of Red Mountain. Back in the day I was a Annie Green Springs, Boone’s Farm, TJ Swan kind of girl. Back in the day I made a lot of bad decisions.
Back in the day I made a lot of bad decisions.
Didn’t we all, lass. Didn’t. We. All.
To be honest though, Boone’s Farm is a legendarily bad decision.
Annie Green Springs sounds like something you’d buy in “Intimate Hygiene” at CVS though.
I use Franzia Chardonnay for cooking. Making chicken stock and doing collard greens. It is good for that cuz it is cheap as chips.
TJ’s near me don’t sell wine because I live in
Communist Russiacentral Maryland, whereregulatory captureconcern for the children prevents booze from being sold outside of liquor stores. Bota’s pretty good, though. I’m not a wine drinker unless we’re referring to volume and desperation, but I know the difference between the wine equivalents of Natty Boh and Budweiser.As odd as it sounds, I grew up in wine country. Altus, Arkansas. Population 486. There are three wineries there with regional distribution. Post, Weiderkehr, and Mount Bethel. There wines are pretty good for non expensive wines. If you ever run into any of the brands, buy one. You might be surprised.
I know and am friends with many of the Posts and Weiderkehrs. I grew up with many of them and have relatives married into their families. They are both family run companies that have survived around 100 years. The first girl I ever kissed was a Post.
Was she hard?
I was. Not so sure about her.
“The first girl I ever kissed was a post.”
Did you at least put a wig on it?
He’s from Arkansas, so probably just a hog hat.
I hope he doesn’t go into detail what he did with the knothole.
Easy Killer. If I wasnt a happily man and she wasn’t a happily married woman, I’d post a picture of her on here. She is and was a very nice looking Post.
The razor back was all her.
Here we are, a bunch of libertarians. Yet we can’t stop collectivising individuals from certain parts of the country. sad.
/Dons hog hat and whistles the razorback fight song.
What’s a hog hat? I am assuming a hat in the shape of a hog, kind of like the chicken hats people wear to Oktoberfest?
It’s exactly that. It’s a red cheap plastic hat in the shape of a wild boar. It’s kind of like a cheese head hat the Packers fans wear (except maybe a bit more ridiculous).
PS: I can make fun of them because I grew up in Northern Arkansas as well.
Ah. I also see something similar for St. Petty’s day lately, with a foam beer mug with a beard hanging down from it. Sort of Patty O’drunky I guess. PS I can make fun of it because I am 1/2 Irish-descended.
IF YOU LIKE IT THEN YOU BETTER PUT A WIG ON IT.
Related to Wiley? Serious question.
I was amused by the oak chip comment- I was talking with a winemaker from a well-known brand who wryly observed, “Everyone denies using them, but the companies that sell them are selling the hell out of them. The barrels along the tour route are for show, the teabags with chips are for go.”
There’s plenty of sense in using wood chips. More surface area = faster, cheaper, more thorough and more consistent aging.
It was really the 90’s when California, and everyone who trained in California started to overhaul traditional wine regions, like, well, almost all of France. You can get a K-J Zinfandel from 2010 that tastes almost the same as the 2009 and 2008 (and probably back to about 2004) because when you ferment in stainless steel, it’s more science than art, and while art may make the faux-sophisticates swoon, I don’t give a shit if I know I can just buy a 5 year old red from a given vineyard, year-in, year-out and know that as long as it’s been well kept, and isn’t corked, it’ll be fine.
Truly great wines – you won’t see consistently coming out of stainless steel for a while, if ever, but I’ve a low tolerance for risk when it comes to el vino.
My brother used to be a working sommellier back in the old country (UK) and aside from ‘work consumption’, hasn’t drunk much in the way of ‘trad wines’ for almost 20 years, and I can always anticipate dining with him to be a pleasure (as long as he stays away from politics).
Interestingly, K-J actually uses barrels, not chips. Their consistency is from very skilled blending.
The big difference between barrels and chips isn’t the extractives, but oxygenation- stainless steel tanks don’t pass O2, but barrels do (albeit slowly). There’s some micro-oxygenation methods which may overcome that difference.
Hmm. Didn’t know that about K-J, but I think the general approach seems to be science over ‘art’ – my understanding is that much of the chemistry is pretty well established now, which should yield far, far better quality control and potentially, greater consistency.
KJ have been around (and successful) for a long time – doesn’t surprise me at all that their blending seems to be a key factor in their consistency.
As an aside that the other KY guys can attest to…
Used to be you could buy bourbon barrels for next to nothing here, because a bourbon barrel can only be used for bourbon once.
Now you can’t get them because wineries, brewers, and distillers (scotch and tequila) all buy them up for their products.
Back when I lived in Saudi Arabia, we’d char oak chips and put them in siddiqui (a.k.a., moonshine) to make Scotch.
Welcome back, Sloop.
How about a Monday morning controversy?
JB is overrated.
Wait, our JB, or is there someone on the St Louis Blues named JB?
Because I know you can’t possibly be talking about The Godfather of Soul.
I’ll take Otis, Sly, Little Stevie Wonder, Prince or George Clinton over him, any day of the week.
Our JB is underrated, if anything. And I don’t acknowledge the Blues.
Go Oilers!
Prince was a shell of an artist compared to those other names. I’m sorry, but he wasn’t all that great.
Also, comparing George Clinton to James Brown is kinda tough since their genres are so different. It’s like comparing Willie Nelson to Dr Hook.
You mean this
vs.
this?
they were actually pretty similar. they were both impresarios who ruled with an iron fist over large groups of musicians and dictated how everything would work. (and both James and George were later sued by their bands for cheating them out of money/royalties/credits they were owed)
Clinton had keen marketing sense as well, splitting the same groups output into Funkadelic (for a perceived white market) and Parliament (for a black market). JB was also keenly aware of the vagaries of market demand and was one of the fastest to transition between soul, R&B, + funk when the markets started to shift.
Like James, Clinton wasn’t a instrumentalist of any particular skill, but he nevertheless wrote parts for every other member of the band, while also encouraging the best instrumentalists to improvise and then capture their most unique performances in recordings. Basically he didn’t play anything, but he dictated how everything got played.
they were basically both megalomaniacal, multi-talented personalities who weren’t especially good at any single thing, but liked to have their personal fingerprints on everything – such that you could pretty much replace 100% of the musicians in the band and still produce very distinctive and identifiable “JB” or “Clinton” recordings. Which both did over the years.
both were also delusional crack fiends who slapped women for fun and said, “I’m [james brown/george clinton]! bitch!”
That said, none of any of these people hold a candle to stevie wonder, musically. And i love them all! But stevie was a genuine freak of nature.
Are we comparing music or drug consumption?
Stevie Wonder is obviously the greatest. Nobody even comes close. When you look at what he did the 5 years after he got out of his juvenile contract with Motown, it is incomparably better than anyone else, ever in terms of raw sales, awards, or talent. The only person to win a best album Grammy besides him in that time period was Simon & Garfunkel. The year he didn’t put out an album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrNeBQURRBM
Around 5:15…and I love Stevie Wonder, but he just didn’t have that kind of talent
That’s solfege, and almost any competent formally-trained jazz musician can do it in greater/lesser degrees. if you want to impress people, find someone who does it by singing harmonies of what they’re playing, or filling-in chords (e.g. play double-stops, sing the 3rd note). And i’m pretty sure stevie did solfege on occasion, but it was usually as a counterpoint to keyboard solos rather than doubling them. His music wasn’t really about showing off instrumental virtuosity, even though he had it whenever he wanted it.
I don’t think George Benson has to sing anything to impress people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amMqzUvHiUE
Just my opinion, but I think he does a better job of fusing jazz, blues and pop(sort of the same thing SW does, even if not on purpose) and has a better command of his voice and instrument than Wonder
I do think SW was funky before there was such a thing as funk, and something GB is not:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKRqzxeJ0bc
i think you’re confusing a talented instrumentalist with a far more wide-ranging and deeper musical talent, but whatever. I probably own more records with benson actually playing on them than i do stevie records. some of benson’s best playing was in the service of better composers. Noted* = benson played on at least 1 track on Songs in the Key of Life
My Nephew called yesterday. Apparently Bo Diddly’s son has fallen on ‘hard times’. He was going around Gainseville selling off all of Bo’s personal memorabilia out of the trunk of his car. Nephew got a signed album for 35 bucks.
Email this morning from my favorite contemporary author, a British fellow. “There was a Duane Eddy film on the other night of him playing at a “stars honouring a guitar hero” do. He had various wannabees rotating through his supporting band including, Tom Waits, K D Lang, and a rather irritating but quite well-known fellow whose name I can’t quite bring to mind. Ah, now I remember; Bruce Springsteen.”
Buckwheat sings the classics is the greatest. End of discussion.
Kurt Schlichter – For Fussy Liberals, It’s Always Apocalypse Right Now
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2017/05/08/for-fussy-liberals-its-always-apocalypse-right-now-n2323544
“Apocalyptic liberalism is the natural consequence of power-centered politics unmoored from principle. It’s not persuasion; it’s manipulation. After all, it’s hard to persuade people to just give you power and money simply because you covet them.”
“Liberals sure freakin’ love their #science, but #hashtag #science methodology doesn’t involve objectively analyzing data, then refining or discarding the original theory when the evidence does not support it. #Science involves liberals shrieking until they either terrify or bore the normals into submission and the normals finally hand liberals their power and money. #Science isn’t a process – it’s a pose and a grift.”
Plus a few good Schlicter zingers thrown in for good measure.
If there is no crisis, then there is no need for emergency powers. If the truth won’t fit change the truth.
“Progressives” make everything into an existential crisis because deep down, they know that their shit candidates like Obama and Hillary have unsupportable positions. Their way out of this is to argue that THIS particular election is SO important that you just have to take what you can get – anything to keep the other guy out of the White House! Hence their apocolyptic rhetoric…
“Healthcare is the most important issue now; we can work on the other stuff later.”
“Climate change is going to destroy our planet if we don’t do something right now; we can’t afford a president who is bought off by the Koch brothers and big oil!”
“Hillary may have her faults, but Trump is literally Hitler!!!”
http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-a-gawker-affiliated-website-made-espn-politically-correct-1494187629
A good article on how Gawker’s Deadspin turned ESPN left
Rather than sue Mr. Denton’s bullying internet pirates into submission the way tech billionaire Peter Thiel did, ESPN chose to acquiesce and adopt progressive ideology and diversity as groundbreaking business innovations. ESPN is the exact network Deadspin desired. It’s diverse on its surface, progressive in its point of view, and more concerned with spinning media narratives than with the quality of its product.
The channel has become too handcuffed by politics to protect its most experienced and loyal employees. It’s a massive symbol of everything that fueled Donald Trump’s bid for the presidency.
ESPN NFL reporter Ed Werder, one of the most prominent faces among the layoffs last month, said in a podcast that he heard quality of work would not be a consideration when employees were let go. He lamented that “it seemed to me that quality work should be the only consideration.” Not in this America, the one ruled by social-media perception and dismissive of the real world.
I am happy that ESPN’s decision has been working out so well for them.
Groundbreaking isn’t supposed to mean “cable subs are crashing into the ground.”
How to get past the pay wall? I tried an incognito tab, but it didn’t work.
I think the bastards finally figured it out. None of the old tricks seem to work.
That explains why Jemele Hill is still around.
Why would you actually pay for a rag like the WSJ?
You don’t. You take the link, go to google, paste the link into google, and click the result. Poof, you’re through the WSJ paywall.
That….doesn’t work?
Aw, man, they fixed it? It worked for years!
Incognito mode. Works like clearing your cookies, so they don’t know how many visits you’ve made.
Completely disagree. I do pay for it. It has some of the best reporting around. Their editorial page is biased but their reporting is not.
Meh, they publish hit pieces on people calling them Nazi’s. I’m not a huge fan of PewDiePie or anything, but when a rag starts trying to get views by libeling people, they won’t see a penny of my money.
Yeah, the PewDiePie issue was a real eye-opener.
A posse of hacks out for a scalp.
Show me an article in which the WSJ called someone a Nazi and I’ll gladly eat crow.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/disney-severs-ties-with-youtube-star-pewdiepie-after-anti-semitic-posts-1487034533
That’s the result of the original article, but I think if you have access thru’ the paywall, you’ll find the original article.
I just read it. WSJ never calls him a Nazis. About the closest they come is this, “Since August, PewDiePie has posted nine videos that include anti-Semitic jokes or Nazi imagery, according to a review of his channel by The Wall Street Journal.” That’s not name calling.
Look up PewDiePie and WSJ controversy. Eat Crow.
From what I’ve read it seems you can’t throw a rock on Everest without hitting a corpse. What’s special about this guy other than he was old?
Related: Bodies of Everest
Whoa. I don’t think I’ll be adding ‘Climb Everest’ to the bucket list.
Seems like a lot of people already have…
*narrows gaze*
That’s snow blindness, Swtizy! You shouldn’t climb unprepared!
As long it’s the very last thing on your list, you’re good.
Nothing. He’s just another in the long line of people that died trying to climb Everest. It’s just that people are trying to use his death to pass ageist legislation.
There ought to be a law-a dangerous combination of words in any language.
If that’s what he wanted to do at that age – and why not? – then more power to him. I would rather die trying to do something adventurous versus lying a hospital bed filled with pain killers.
I rrad this this morning. It’s a damn good look at the origins of Venezuela’s descent.
https://mises.org/blog/venezuela-chavez-prelude-socialist-failure
If only they had socialismed harder, they would have achieved utopia!
right. the argument among my proggie inlaws is that Chavez didn’t prog hard enough and squandered all their oil money instead of “creating institutions”. no shit. this is what they say.
creating institutions
Like concentration camps?
Clearly it would have worked this time if only thsy had the right people.
my deadpan response was along those lines and they ate it up, totally agreed they just needed the right people in charge next time.
I congratulate you on not killing your in laws. FWIW, I have the same challenge.
But at least they’re not saying Chavez was good but Maduro is bad. And even the Mises Institute article implies that the problem indeed was the failure of the state (even preceding Chavez) to create wealth-producing institutions.
I heard that all the problems were caused by speculators, the CIA, and counter-revolutionary wreckers and sabateurs. I don’t know how to say kulak in Spanish, but I’m pretty sure they share in the blame as well.
TW: John pron
What Falling In Love As a Fat Girl Taught Me
IOW, she’s blaming her social retardation on her fatness when they’re really two utterly unrelated things. It’s not my bag, but there’s plenty of chubby chasers out there and I have been personally acquainted with fat girls who got laid like a mile of railroad tracks.
All of the “non-traditionally beautiful” (or whatever the term de jour is) are basically saying they want “traditionally beautiful” people to fuck them without actually having to make an effort to attract them. But they want to couch it in language to make it not appear as sad and pathetic as that.
I’m attracted to a wide (har har) range of women, with the outliers of very skinny and very fat being outside that range. I’ll just say that whatever weight a woman is, as long as she looks healthy and is fun to be around the rest pretty much takes care of itself. In my dating days, night one was based on physique, but whether or not nights two through X happened were based on personality.
I’m guessing she has facial hair and rarely bathes.
Exactly. There was a girl here at work that no one would call skinny or even stop at chubby, but she had an out-going personality and was just a blast to be around. I called her Tinderella because she got so many dates. She was usually juggling two or three guys at once.
Sturdy girl, it seems. The upper body strength must’ve been through the roof
*slow clap*
Please tell me while she tap danced and pulled a cat out of her pussy.
“Now that’s a pussy cat!”
Yeah, I have a friend who is not only morbidly obese, but she is by no means a looker at any weight. But she’s confident, smart and fun to be around and enjoys people and her sexuality. She gets laid plenty.
One thing is, she figured out a long time ago that as a woman she has the home field advantage, which enhances the confidence factor.
I also was seeing naked bodies for the first time; not just his, but also my own.
So she couldn’t even bear to see herself in the mirror?
Which then leads you to wonder why she should expect anyone to like to look at a body she doesn’t like to look at.
I’m waiting to hear her tale about the lover who covered her in white flour, and then looked for the damp spot so he knew where to fuck.
I didn’t check, but was she white or black? If black, I think it would be problematic.
Dog startled me awake at three this morning. Someone rummaging around in my brother’s truck which was, stupidly, left unlocked.
Walked outside with my tire iron and cold-cocked the guyStood befuddled at the window trying to think through the benadryl haze while he quietly closed the door and shuffled down the street. In retrospect, I’m glad I didn’t wander out: dude was in a pack of four trying doors all the way down the block. Called the cops, spoke with a surly responder, declined interview. “Just a head’s up, they’re breaking into more cars.” I doubt they sent anyone. Couldn’t get back to sleep.Good dog. Did you give him bacon for breakfast as a reward
Our city has a police report in the local paper. I am always astounded how many thefts from unlocked vehicles there are. Is it that difficult to push a button?
That said, I used to live in a neighborhood where leaving the car unlocked and empty was prudent because the little fuckers would punch your locks anyway.
When I was younger, I had a shitty Chevy Luv truck and lived in a bad neighborhood. Never locked it because breaking a window would have totaled my car.
And also Tundra you should check your suburban privilege. My current car is the first one I have owned with power locks. My previous cars all required me to lean over and pop the lock manually.
I had my car broken into in the city and a few bad suburban neighborhoods (they exist). Had an iPod stolen when my brother forgot to lock his side back when I had manual locks. I was so pissed off, I worked my ass off and got a great job and moved the hell out to a nice neighborhood. Also earned myself a remote start car with automatic locks.
I have bend leaving my keys in my unlocked truck, car, other car, 4 wheeler, SXS, tractor, lawnmower, and house for as long as I have those things.
#ruralprivilege
Wouldn’t they also do damage as punishment for not leaving them a present?
Our local police department put out a warning, telling people to lock their cars and to not leave keys inside the car (!!). Apparently two cars had recently been stolen, in both cases because the keys had been left inside.
I routinely lock my keys in my car, still in the ignition…
Maybe they crossed the wires or something
Granted I’m not that old, but my parents used to tell me all the time that back when they were kids the cops would actually respond to anonymous complaints and minor disturbances. For those of you old enough to remember, when did that cease to be the case? Was it ever any different, or were my parents just idealizing the past? Why can’t you get a cop to respond to shit like that? I know for certain that it’s not underfunding or understaffing, at least not in every municipality. I’ve lived in plenty of places where there were surplus cops, but you couldn’t get one to respond within an hour to a burglary in progress.
Those his gotta make sure they come home to Jimmy… That’s what really matters.
I remember cops responding to petty stuff when I was in high school in the late 80s. Stuff like mailboxes being knocked off their posts or trees being toilet papered or flaming bags of shit left on porches.
I know they responded because I was usually watching them respond from behind a car a half a block away…laughing like the jerk I was.
Makes me think of this.
I know the sitcom cop showing up for a noise complaint trope lived into the ’90s. Never seen it happen myself, despite having called the cops over noise complaints and having had the cops called on myself over noise complaints (presuming the guy actually followed through on it).
You could’ve handled the noise complaint yourself.
Ever play in a band? We always got hassled by the cops in the 70s/80s
Never played in one, but that above-referenced time I got the cops called on me for a noise complaint (or at least threatened with it) was when I was an audio technician and was running a show for a local teen band. If the cops ever did show up, they missed the gig.
That was back when a decent percentage of police knew their role. Small town cops knew they were small town cops and acted accordingly. There have always been exceptions, but that seems to be the general consensus from the older folks in my family. Hell, when my dad was in high school the Sheriff would go around handing out half pints of bourbon to everyone in town in an attempt to win reelection. This included my dad and his friends, who were 16 at the time.
For contrast, I was at my fiancee’s grandpa’s funeral a couple years back in small town Idaho and the cop leading the funeral procession had a bullet proof vest, padded gloves, at least 5 extra magazines, an AR in his patrol SUV, and what amounted to a giant cow pusher on the front bumper. Mind you, this is in a 90% Mormon town of less than 3,000 people.
It appears the police ranks have been depleted of, at best, honest men who care about their community and see it as a good career path or, at worst, local hucksters who can at least be bribed out of fucking up your life, and replaced by small dicks with God and small man complexes mixed together.
Mind you, this is in a 90% Mormon town of less than 3,000 people
Hey you never know when us mormons will rise again!
You have been at war with the United States before…
Now that you mention it, the cemetery is in Meadow at the foot of a Mountain.
I’m really glad I opted not to take the wagon train, now
Buchanan’s blunder. The best part was how the news media pushed for the war, and then were calling it Buchanan’s blunder, before federal troops had reached Utah.
My father thinks you can figure out when a force went from small town policing to COPS wannabees by looking at photos of the cops. As soon as you get two guys who shave their heads and are wearing Oakleys you’ve switched into SWAT mode.
Dad was a probation officer and blames COPS for a lot of this shit. According to him, when he started back in the ’60s most cops wouldn’t even dream of pulling their weapon until they had been shot at a few times. After watching all the chuckle heads on COPS run around with their pistols drawn for the slightest reason, the rest of the cops thought that was normal.
I had the cops called on me a few times in college for having parties. But I was lucky in that, the small town in which I went to college had cops who were, not yet, trigger happy. They rolled up one night for a noise complaint during an event I was hosting. They cop-knock on the door, which was not fully closed. It swings open, hitting them in the face with a wave of wacky-tabacky smoke and gansta rap. I waded through the crowd, greeted the cops politely, while trying to not shit myself in fear. They compliment the music, tell to turn it down and leave. About six months later the town had its first homicide in a couple of decades. The cops turned real hard, real fast after that.
I grew up in a small town in Kentucky. Back then cops would pour your booze out if you got caught underage drinking and drive you home if you needed it. I got drove home one time. The deputy told me if he caught me out drinking again he would knock on my Dad’s door the next time we got home. I got much sneakier after that.
Maybe its a Ky thing then? I went to college in small town in KY. Like I said, the cops were really pretty chill until the first homicide in recent memory happened. Even then it was the nature of the murder (drug related) that got their hair up. After that they started getting new cars and heavy hitting weapons, showing a little more oomph in the enforcement of things. Still chill by comparison to the city I live in now but not as innocent as it once was.
When my son was eighteen he went up to Kentucky to visit his grandparents. He got “treated” to having his booze poured out by a deputy. He thought I was making those stories up. For a short time I worked in a community bank in the small town where I live in Florida. Every once in a while a customer would try some petty fraud and I could call in one of the local deputies, give him a heads up and between the two us scare the customer straight without charges ever needing to be filed. You can’t do that here in Tampa. I’ve gotten along “fairly” well with “most” of the deputies I’ve dealt with here at the credit union but it definitely isn’t the same.
Well… The town in Massachusetts where I grew up and some of my family still lives is certainly like that. They have 29 (I think) full-time cops working in a town that might need 5. They’ll respond to anything phoned in by a taxpayer just to justify their outlandish budget. I point this out whenever my family starts complaining about their property taxes – you can literally see dots connecting in their heads. (They also seem willing to put up with speedtraps everywhere and cops forcing themselves on anyone doing roadwork for overtime pay)
My town doesn’t have a police force – you have to wait for the Staties to show up if they feel like it – which is how I prefer it.
It seems like there should be a balance between having so many cops they have to make up shit to do and enough that they can respond to actual crimes and misdemeanors. On top of that, you always see these stories where the police respond with a fucking SWAT team to drunk and disorderlies. It’s weird. You’ve got all these cranked up weekend warriors who want to go Judge Dredd on a traffic offense, and yet you can’t them off their ass when some gangbangers are having a fight in a public park or your place is getting robbed – where a response might actually be warranted.
In the city in Iowa I grew up in we had too many cops, we had code enforcement SUVs patrol neighborhoods and we had the cops repeatedly be called on us for parking disputes and other petty things. The cops came to our door at least half a dozen times because our neighbor didn’t like that we parked in front of their house on the street.
There is no inventive for cops to respond to alerts of property crime. It costs the PD money to investigate and apprehend theifs. There is money to be made writing traffic tickets.
This. I have to go to traffic court next month to limit their revenuing damage to just a fine and not points that will cost me in insurance.
Shotguns mean never having to put on pants in order to address the issue of randos in your front yard.
Well, there’s a euphemism…
Kevin Williamson: The ‘Right’ to Health Care
He has been crushing it lately.
Great article. Williamson is back to doing good work.
Give it up Yanks.
The fact the prevailing perception ALL civilized countries have ‘universal care’ all but condemns you to joining the ranks.
You’re sca-rooed. Just like the day Obamacare was signed.
‘You fucked up. You trusted us!’ Otter.
They’re celebrating Maxine Waters? Maxine, three time nominee for Most Corrupt Congresscritter by CREW? “Putin is advancing into Korea” Maxine?
Jesus
MTV: Moron Television.
Their decline has been unmatched until ESPN decided to go full retard. Which is funny, since their decline started with a standing ovation at an awards show.
Maxine Waters is quite possibly the stupidest public figure I’ve ever seen on TV. She makes Bush II, who the left loves to make fun of, look like a goddamned genius.
The Old Left definitely had a deeper intellectual bench. Then again, so did the Old Right.
I’m curious what passes for a public intellectual on the left these days. Is it just Krugmans and Eichenwalds scaling the lofty heights of that ten-foot ladder? Or are there more redoubtable heavy hitters we simply don’t hear about because they’re doing boring yeoman’s work rather than publishing histrionic clickbait?
The celebrated intellectual left now consists of check-box aggrieved groups that parrot meaningless insults and vapid appeals to envy.
I think Cruz, whatever your opinion of his politics and sliminess, is very smart. But smart doesn’t win much these days since most people are too stupid to keep up with all that fag-talk.
“Your shit’s all ‘tarded and you talk like a fag!”
Maybe the scariest movie ever made.
I happen to think Obama is dumber than Dubya.
But that’s me.
Dubya got better grades than Kerry.
Maybe we could compare W’s transcripts and Obama’s – oh, wait.
SAT, GMAT or GRE scores would be better points of comparison anyway, IMO. You can be whip smart and still fuck off with a C average through college. Especially if you’re getting a law or business degree that you know damn well you don’t need as a precursor to inheriting your parents’ political empire.
The inflation of Obama’s intellect always made me laugh.
He made dumbass gaffes just like George W. Bush, but the media didn’t jump all over him and do special segments on how stupid he is. See: “Malvinas/Maldives” and “Navy corpse-man”.
Without reading the Everest story I’m going to guess: This man was a seasoned Alpinist, died while climbing, now a punch of people are pant-shitting about people dying on Everest even though its been happening forever. They want to pass a crappy law to fix a problem that could be solved very easily by with either good training or Darwinian sorting.
They want to change it to “He died doing what he didn’t love”.
He never loved mountain climbing, the patriarchy forced him to. Here’s a law to stop it from happening again.
False consciousness can’t be cured with an oxygen tank?
Here’s a shocker lots of people die on mountains regardless of age. Mt Washington, NH has 150 recorded deaths since 1850 As the author notes most of the deaths are because people don’t plan or recognize the danger of the climb. My dad was lucky that his poor planning didn’t result in injury, but when he descended he encountered someone just as ill-prepared attempting a hike. When I went I encountered someone at 4PM with just a water bottle hoping to reach the summit (he was probably .25 miles from the parking lot) since he asked I tried to dissuade him due to the changing weather and his apparent ill-preparedness. He tried to continue but I saw him enter the parking lot as I was leaving.
It’ amazing the hubris that the modern world has imparted on people. They see schmucks in movies doing that shit and then think its not that hard. They just need a sweet training montage
Push it to the limit
The Limit
Walk along the razor’s edge, etc.
10 fucking essentials, people. It isn’t that hard.
And yes, if you’re one of those dipshit trail runners, you too can (and probably will) fall and fuck up your leg and when you do, that 8 oz bottle of water isn’t going to be much help.
Californians invaded Nepal?
Sherpa who had previously summitted Everest, but yeah.
SOCIAL DARWINIST!!!
Oh johnny the lack of self awareness is amazing
https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/opinions/trump-says-obamacare-is-broken-hes-the-one-who-broke-it/2017/05/05/29434658-31b7-11e7-8674-437ddb6e813e_story.html
pity WaPo turned off the comments for “penaltax” Gruber’s screed.
Democracy dies in darkness.
“Democracy Dies In Darkness”, says the website that selectively turns off comments to feed a progressive narrative.
Nothing that vile, lying sack of shit has to say is worth hearing. Go fuck yourself Gruber.
Why does the media continue to give a platform to a man who proudly admitted being a baldfaced liar?
birds of a feather flock together.
Manic Monday: Remedial French Edition
Bonus DU Celebrations
Well I used to think the left was the party of peace, then Obama and Russia happened.
I used to think they were the party of women, but then I saw how they treated women who were independent thinkers.
Now I recognize them as the party of do whatever the hell I can to obtain more power.
That’s all it was: Le Pen is Trump! No, she isn’t. What’s fucked up is that people that were supporting Occupy Wall Street were full in behind a Rothschild banker.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39843468
Alas poor Pepe, we hardly knew ye…
Furie lamented in a recent article for Time magazine that it was a nightmare that his “blissfully stoned… peaceful frog-dude” in Boy’s Club – who enjoyed “a simple life of snacks, soda and pulling his pants all the way down to go pee” – was now being used as a symbol of hate by racists and anti-Semites.
Can’t the subject speak for himself? I’ve noticed this a lot lately. The media quoted his description of the character but goes on and attributed thoughts to him without quotations around it. In other words, either they’re manipulating what he said to feed the narrative or they’re completely fabricating a motive to him that doesn’t exist. They interviewed him, or pulled quotes from other interviews. Yet for some reason, the most important declaration in the piece that’s being attributed to him doesn’t even have a direct quote establishing it as genuine? Color me very skeptical of the media for this reason alone.
It is very sketchy, but to all things serve the narrative. If it stops were instance of weaponized autism it was worth it. I too have seen an uptick in unattributed quotes and descriptors, and it is probably some of the need to feed a particular story, but I also suspect that its shitty editing, because the vaunted outlets hire based on wokeness not actual editing or writing skills.
It was also be a departure from his previous comments.
“Pepe’s creator Matt Furie over the weekend depicted the frog in a coffin, mourned by other members of his Boy’s Club cartoon strip.”
But how is that going to get people to stop using it?
Out of respect for the dead! Duh!
I don’t think that’s what it was about. It was him giving up, just let the idiots have the character.
Other than progressives ginning up the racism narrative is anyone actually using this character? I got the notion Pepe and Putin were in the same boat.
Oh yeah, the Pepe thing’s still going, often in association with the whole “Kekistan” gig.
If you go over to minds.com it’s everywhere in there.
They are. You see it in the deeper darker sections of Reddit and Twitter.
Pepe lives. I count 12 Pepe’s right now in the catalog. Sometimes there’s more. Rarely less. Bear in mind that Pepe has been a meme across every 4chan board for years though. Associating it exclusively with neo-Nazis is absolutely fucking retarded. It’s like the haircut thing or the OK hand symbol.
(^open in private tab)
LOL
http://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/124652501
Pepe was like chicken, or tofu or whatever. It took on whatever was added to it. People used to to express all sorts of things. It didn’t become associated with the “alt right” in particular, until the Clinton campaign made a big deal about it.
You mean it’s like a blank screen on which people of vastly different [political] stripes project their own views?
Or use it to express their own views.
My friends haven’t completely given up on the swastika/fylfot, though, but they’re prudent about where they use it, to avoid misunderstandings.
That said, I used to live in a neighborhood where leaving the car unlocked and empty was prudent because the little fuckers would punch your locks anyway.
I was in NYC a long time ago, walking around in some sort of brownstone neighborhood (lower Manhattan, probably) and there was a nice new Mercedes 450SL parked on the street, with a big cardboard sign in the window: “Door is unlocked. Please don’t cut the top.”
*The practice was to slice the top open with a box cutter, reach in, and unlock and open the door.
I like a more aggressive approach to security.
Burglar protected!
Or you could import a car from South Africa.
I’m strangely aroused…
The classic
Nice. I go with the Vlad method.
That would be handy getting through demonstrations.
Exactly the scene I was thinking of.
Granted I’m not that old, but my parents used to tell me all the time that back when they were kids the cops would actually respond to anonymous complaints and minor disturbances.
I’m so old I remember when the cops would cruise up and say, “Hey, knock that shit off!” and drive away, instead of hauling everybody in. They might steal your beer (or dope), but that was it.
You must be old as fuck.
I’m not even that old and I remember that.
Yeah, but you lived in Mayberry.
Need help from non-Minnesodans.
Is this story even a bit legit?
Are the rest of you clamoring for Amy fucking Klobuchar to be your next president? If so, WTF?
For my own sanity, I’m going to believe that this is just some silly wishful thinking by the local proggie rag.
“Who, now?”
/the rest of the country
The fact that this woman thinks she can be president is astounding. Shit she wouldn’t even be Senator if her father hadn’t been a beloved columnist in a statewide newspaper.
You can’t tell me that if her name was Amy Olson, son of Lars Olson a sugar beet farmer from Thief River Falls, she would have “earned” half the positions she has filled.
I went to college with her step-sister, a spectacular hottie. May not have been Jim’s spawn.
‘Cause it’s the way I roll, Googled “Amy Klobuchar ‘step-sister’ ” to see for myself. According to Google, the step-sister’s dead. Unless there’s more than one, of course.
Killed by Tundra’s Male Gaze?
Not likely – it was pretty weak back then.
No, that’s not her – too young and too insane. Maybe I got the relationship wrong, because the chick in question did indeed share a last name with the Senator.
I get the feeling the D field in 2020 will be like the R field in 2016. A whole buncha “Who?” and “What now?”
Setting the stage for beloved TV star and presidential aspirant Oprah Winfrey to launch her campaign.
Why not? Isn’t free shit her thing?
It sure is.
That’s funny
Let’s entwine a couple of threads running through the lynx this AM.
We’ll make a deal. If mountain climbers can be prohibited from climbing mountains due to age and infirmity, then Maxine Waters can be forcibly institutionalized as a threat to herself and others.
I don’t know why we should compromise here. The latter can be demonstrated in mere minutes.
Are the rest of you clamoring for Amy fucking Klobuchar to be your next president?
Who’s the alternative? If it’s Satan, I’ll go with Satan. If it’s Chelsea Clinton, Klobuchar’s gonna win.
This is funny. From Wikipedia:
She’s a Reaganite!
OMG that is too funny! If the GOPers were smart, they’d hammer the shit out of her for that. Say things like “Hey! Why don’t you join us in the Republican Party?”
If the GOPers were smart,
As my dad used to say, “and if a frog had a square ass, he’d shit bricks.”
Not a competent legislator. Her bill to Save The Children from lead poisoning had – get ready for this – unintended consequences!
Turns out when you say that kids can’t play with any thing that has lead in it, there are activities like bike riding or atv riding that kids are banned from. Of course, Amy didn’t mean that and she says that the word “any” wasn’t supposed to be taken literally.
Amash posts his reasons for voting for that health care thing
For those who don’t Facederp (though the post is public):
Give it a break amash, people might start thinking you take your Congressional duties seriously.
‘Quit it Justin! It’s cute how you’re taking this seriously, but you’re making us look bad!’
Eh, I mean, pretty much what I expected. He hates it, but it was an inch in the right direction. When does the Senate vote/amend?
Senators are saying not for “several weeks”. Whatsherface from Maine said they’re probably going to scrap the whole thing and be more “thoughtful” LOL
I’m not very impressed with Amash’s pragmatism here. It’s my teenage Objectivism poking through, wherein I think pragmatism is pretty rotten.
I’d be more impressed if the bill had done more. As it is, I really don’t much care one way or the other because it’s not passing the Senate in it’s current form, so it doesn’t matter much.
I like the “voters get what they deserve – good and hard” approach better than the “okay, well it’s already fucked up, so let’s figure out the best way to pay for it” approach. The latter is how you get from Social Security circa 1935 to Social Security today, or Medicaid circa 1965 to Medicaid today. It keeps people under the delusion that failed programs are actually working. Letting it blow up would be potentially more painful in the short run, but better for long term policy.
I’m OK with pragmatism. I’ll take “slightly less horrible” over “horrible”.
I hope the senate amendment is to drop the text and replace with the Paul version.
The Lachowsky bill-
We really fucked up sticking our government dicks into health care and have realized the folly of our way. We hereby repeal all laws and regulations that are even tangentially related to the healthcare market and issue our sincerest apologies for what we have done.
“We further recognize that nowhere in the constitution is the federal government provided with any authority regarding health care or health insurance. So we are going to stop that shit right now.”
I can dream, can’t I?
While we are dreaming-
We the government also agree to pull our dicks out of every other market in this country and promise to never ever ever interfere with the economic transactions of a free people.
Well there’s dreaming, and then there’s unhealthy delusions…
Because I haven’t been following any news, and I’m generally a boring person, here’s a hot superhero chick.
Would.
Oh, same, most definitely.
Still wouldn’t pay $7.50 for a theater ticket.
I only go to dollar theater.
Still have those? 95% of movies out today aren’t even worth that.
I generally go to the theater 2-3 times a year. Usually end up regretting one of those trips.
Bewbs?
So Kushner’s sister is pimping work visas in China, and that’s different how from the Clinton Foundation? Other than the fact that Bill & Hill knew how to extract REAL money for connections.
Ya, I was reading about that this morning. I am not seeing much difference, other than the Kushners have been doing that for awhile. My learnings this morning led me to believe that H5 visas have been part of their business model for years. It is just now they get to say, “hey my brother is in the administration, so we are in the know.” It stinks if you ask me. They are right in there on Clinton level scum if you ask me.
Sounds like a good horror movie.
7 days and counting mouse-free!
I did encounter my neighbor huddle by her door, terrified of the mice in her house (she’s 3 floors below me). Yet she refuses to take any action.
I asked “did you bait the traps?” (she had un-baited sticky traps). “No.”
“Did you look into other kinds of traps?” “No.”
I cannot put up with people’s personal crises who refuse to do anything about it! If you’re under siege in your own house, fucking DO something. Jeezus.
Tell her to sit on her bed with a .22 and a bottle of vodka.
If she hasn’t walked the 100 yards to the grocery store for some peanut butter to bait her traps, there is no fucking way she’s going all the way to the gun store and liquor store! Sheesh!
The one time I had a mouse, I baited a kill trap with peanut butter and didn’t even get into the other room before the trap snapped on the little fucker’s neck. I had a mouse because my shithead cat brought it in and didn’t kill it and the thing nested in my couch. Other “pets” the cat brought home: duck(s) — one flew out the door, the other hid behind the washer so I shot it with a pellet gun and fed it to the cat. Oh, and a flying squirrel. That little fucker would sit on the cat’s food dish and eat the food. I caught that guy and set him free because of his audacity.
Years ago I had a Persian cat with a big overbite. He would sometimes get lucky enough to catch a bird, but could never manage to snap their neck because of his bite. He’d bring them in the house proud as a peacock and let them go for us to try and catch or push out the doors.
“I assume you’ve met my drinking buddies, Brett? Don’t mind if they visit a while, huh?”
Pest control companies will come out and set traps and empty them for you if you don’t want to do it yourself. Hell of a lot better than just letting the disease-carrying vermin have the run of the place.
I hate those little bastards. The only thing that worked at our last house was baited stations that our pest guy put in. I have no idea what was in the poison, but it worked. Pest guy told us don’t leave any pet bowls out because the first thing they do when the poison hits is run for water. Sure enough the next day I found 5 dead mice in a puddle in our backyard.
Usually something like warfarin; they’re so bled-out from it that they feel dehydrated.
So is she German or Swedish?
If she doesnt take care of her mice they will be your mice again very soon.
My Nephew called yesterday. Apparently Bo Diddly’s son has fallen on ‘hard times’. He was going around Gainseville selling off all of Bo’s personal memorabilia out of the trunk of his car. Nephew got a signed album for 35 bucks.
damned double post
Unfortunately the album was signed by “Bo Diddly’s Son”.
That has occurred to me.
You guys have the coolest stories.
“Wearing a black gown, the California Congresswoman walked on stage as the audience went crazy.”
So her crazy is contagious?
Evidently.
Exhibit A in why she is a danger to the rest of society.
They could make a movie about this contagion.
28 Derps Later.
And if Brendan Gleeson is in it, I’ll fucking buy a ticket.
Re: the Maxine Waters thing,
What in the fuck ever happened to subversive art in pop culture? I mean, even into the ’90s as best as I remember most of the popular bands didn’t cozy up with politicians and turn out for campaign stops, and the awards shows didn’t lionize ancient congressional dinosaurs. Rage Against the Machine might be the most ridiculous limousine liberal faux-Marxists in the history of useful idiots, but FFS, they started a goddamn riot at the 2000 DNC – they didn’t lead a standing ovation for Al Gore. Howard Stern’s Fartman wasn’t exactly the height of sophisticated cultural commentary at the 1992 VMAs, but it was a damn sight better than barking like a bunch of trained seals for an 80 year old authoritarian.
In the 80’s I always vaguely assumed bands like The Talking Heads were lefties – but they were way too cool to shill for Ted Kennedy or Walter Mondale.
Exactly.
David Byrne eventually did get with the program. But you simply weren’t cool shilling for any major political party back then.
It’s sad.
Punk rock in the 70s and 80s shitted all over politicians on left and the right. I could be wrong but I don’t remember Crass saying “Vote Labor!” (or even Labour).
But these days? Meh.
They became The Man and they liked it.
I don’t ‘know. I mean, that explains the old fucks who just got old and stayed stuck in their era. But the young’uns are supposed to come up behind them and upend their apple cart. It seems like popular media today is, if anything, the opposite – it reverences the subversive politics of 30-40 years ago that have since become mainstream, but subverts nothing itself.
There’s a gap for the young’uns to exploit. They just have to find it and if it doesn’t cause immense pantshitting, it won’t catch on. I think AntiFa is an attempt at finding it, albeit simply rehashed Marxism. The kids are not going to put up with the oppressive left wing for too much longer. I don’t know what’s coming next, but it won’t be “suck that tranny’s dick, you homophobe!”. Even the Trump jokes aren’t funny even to people who don’t like him.
This discussion actually jogged my memory of an interview Billy Corgan did several years ago where he said that God is the future of rock. I almost hope he’s right.
He’ll never top this.
Here you go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GyVx28R9-s
That’s quite awful. Is all their stuff like that?
As a church kid and church youth volunteer who listened to (and even sometimes enjoyed) every crappy top 40 knockoff Christian rock band from the mid ’90s to the mid aughts, I have never related to an episode of South Park more than that one.
That having been said, there’s a few Christian acts that were actually good and/or influential as musicians. Mostly from before the ’90s when CCM and Christian radio became a thing. Phil Keaggy and Blackhouse come immediately to mind, but I know there’s more.
Not sure how Christian, but I liked Collective Soul.
All their stuff is two clowns doing hip hop. Most of it isn’t religious.
I think ICP probably sounds better if you’re high on cheap meth and Diet Moon Mist Faygo.
Yeah, but doesn’t everything sound better when you’re high on cheap meth and Diet Moon Mist Faygo?
“there’s a few Christian acts that were actually good and/or influential as musicians.”
Larry Norman immediately springs to mind.
Yep, that was another one of the ones I couldn’t remember. He passed away a few years back. Very sad.
Randy Stonehill was another one (a compadre of Larry Norman, IIRC); he could also be quite light-hearted — his “Ramada Inn” song was always a funny crowd-pleaser.
Also Mark Heard (another one of LN’s associates) who passed away aged 40. A lot of his stuff is on Spotify (as is some of Norman’s).
“suck that tranny’s dick, you homophobe!”
~straffinrun on the state of political culture circa 2017
Put it on my gravestone, would ya.
I think the problem is schools. Leftist indoctrination starts in grade school and goes all the way through college.
Retard authoritarian . The breathtaking stupidity of that woman would be amazing enough even if she weren’t a semi-prominent national politician.
I think Zach de la roach is an absolute moron. I do love some RATM though.
There have been multiple instances of a RATM song starting, and my reaction, not knowing it’s them, is positive. Then the lyrics start with Zach screeching all over the place, thus ruining the song forever.
I actually liked his vocal delivery in the context of RATM. it suits them. You don’t fully appreciate it until you hear them play with the Soundgarden guy on vocal duty. But the lyrics are just brain dead.
Reason did a good piece way back in the day that pretty well encapsulates it.
I get that, and I even like “Killing in the Name”, vocals and all, but in general I can’t fucking take that shit.
It gets old fast and hasn’t aged well for sure.
Lyrically, it’s hard to disagree with-
“Fuck You! I won’t do what you tell me”
That sentiment appealed to a 14 year old me and still does to a 30 year old me, no matter how much nonsense the rest of his lyrics are.
Hah! I’m 40 and I still love Killing In the Name. The inanity of the lyrics is overcome by the glorious disobedience of the chorus.
Oh the 90’s – you are apparently forgetting MTV getting on their knees and opening wide when Slick Willie pulled out his sax.
You mean National Lampoon’s Fartman.
First!
“Wearing a black gown, the California Congresswoman walked on stage as the audience went crazy.”
Those people were crazy when they got there.
“Protester featured in iconic Ferguson photo found dead of self-inflicted gunshot wound”
Followed by crazy conspiracy theories.
The police report has 2 witnesses saying he shot himself in the head
.. with 5 rounds ..
Black Pigeon’s newest is pretty good.
regarding the New Orleans statues…
So at least we know this guy is so genuinely concerned…. about Trotskyite performance art.
I know the cure.
Yes please! lol
It’s amazing that neither he nor the reporter shows any kind of embarrassment at being an adherent of a murderous ideology.
The WaPo in their version of this story:
Yeah, antifa is a term coined by the right for progressives and opposition to Trump. SMH.
Yeah it’s not that they adopted that name themselves to puff themselves up to look like tough post-WWII partisans and postwar Marxist hooligans. NOT THAT.
“Researchers at the University of Edinburgh and Scotland’s Rural College found that replacing half the world’s meat consumption with consumption crickets and mealworms would cut farmlands by one-third. This would help reduce greenhouse gases and stave off climate change.”
http://nypost.com/2017/05/04/scientists-and-chefs-agree-its-time-to-start-eating-bugs/
Because it can’t be worse than haggis?
Further evidence that most of Scotland’s cuisine was based on a dare.
If its not Scottish its crap!
Aye!
It takes the average human body eighteen hours to turn perfectly good raw materials into feces, but the average Scottish cook can do it in under an hour.
I don’t care what these people think.
Our ancestors did not claw their way to the top of the food chain so we could go back to eating bugs!
Feed the bugs to the cows, feed the cows to the people. Jeez, do I have to think of everything?
The UK elections are going to be an absolute rout
Jeremy Corbyn 21% approval and 53% disapproval. And that’s with the same poll saying 30% will vote Labour.
Texas in the news . . .
We’ve got Texans, here, right?
We’ve got lawyers.
Hell, I think we’ve got some lawyers from Texas!
Anyway, the Governor of the Lone Star state signed legislation that prohibits any municipality from enacting sanctuary city type policies.
I know it’s supposedly unconstitutional for the federal government to punish cities for refusing to enforce federal law, but is there any reason the states can’t do that?
Prop 187 was about discriminating against people for looking Latino (supposedly), etc. when they denied state services to illegal aliens. That would be a stretch to extend that logic to comply with federal law, wouldn’t it?
I know there’s no law that limits immigration that’s so good that a judge can’t find a legal justification for striking it down, but this is about as bulletproof an effort as I remember seeing–speaking from a lay perspective.
http://www.bigcountryhomepage.com/news/main-news/gov-greg-abbott-signs-sanctuary-cities-bill-into-law-on-facebook-live/708952123
Oh, and I’m guessing any presidential aspirations this governor had are now over, whether he realizes it or not.
Or, I dunno. Maybe with the press so busy covering secret Nazi president, people at the state level can get away with murder these days.
So, the state says that you can’t disobey the fed when it comes to immigration enforcement.
This is texas right?
I thought Texans were individuals who supported their state’s nominal sovereignity over the pressure of the fed.
Regardless, we’re not talking about the federalism and the ability of the federal government to force local government to do something.
We’re talking about the state and whether it can force municipalities to do something.
To my eye, this is like state preemption laws.
Las Vegas used to require handguns to be registered.
State preemption made it so that no municipality can have stricter gun laws than those of the State of Nevada, and the registration requirement in Las Vegas went away.
Apparently, the Texas law has criminal penalties associated with doing sanctuary city stuff. I don’t know that there were any criminal penalties associated with the City of Las Vegas continuing to require handgun registration, but I suppose if they charged you with violating that law, you could sue the hell out of them.
I wonder how the enforcement is supposed to work. Is it like when the state was jailing County Clerks for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples? I suppose that’s another precedent, there: if the state can force municipalities to issue marriage licenses in compliance with federal (case) law, why wouldn’t they be able to do the same with sanctuary cities and make them comply with federal law?
From my understanding, states are unitary, so the municipalities kinda have to do whatever the states says… Not that I think that is a great system.
Regardless, we’re not talking about the federalism and the ability of the federal government to force local government to do something.
We’re talking about the state and whether it can force municipalities to do something.
I would say that states forcing municipalities to do things is not much different that the feds forcing states to do something. Furthermore, I would say that states forcing municipalities to do something is no different than municipalities forcing individuals to do things.
I’m not talking about right and wrong, here.
I’m talking about constitutional or unconstitutional.
We all know there’s a difference between what is right and what is legal–we’re libertarians!
The question is whether and how the federal courts will strike this down given cases that wrestled with similar constitutional questions in the recent past.
“it’s supposedly unconstitutional for the federal government to punish cities ”
Once you get off of the path into the weeds it isnt long before you find yourself neck-deep in the swamp.
Yeah, it never seems to occur to them that their logic is going to be used against them in another context someday.
Eh, who cares? By the time it comes back to bite them in the ass, they’ll be the state’s Attorney General anyway–or maybe a senator or something.
Here’s an amazing example of that kind of logic on display.
http://reason.com/archives/2017/05/08/on-churches-in-politics-trump-does-nothi#comment_6838268
I’m pretty sure Chapman is just trying to poop on Trump because he’s Trump, but what he ends up arguing (far as I can tell) is that he doesn’t support Trump’s executive order–because it doesn’t do enough to protect the right of evangelical preachers to campaign for candidates from the pulpit.
I don’t think Chapman really meant to do that–I think he just walked out into the weeds and ended up in the swamp.
I don’t even think he even knows he’s in a swamp.
If it did do that, he’d complain that it was a dangerous threat to the integrity of the first amendment.
The same is true of all of Nick’s criticisms…. its either that trump’s ‘swamp draining’ efforts are too generic and incoherent and aren’t guided by any libertarian logic, or that they’re too harsh and too-specific and threaten to make the white house seem like an imperious meddler out to get enemies within the deep state. same with any tax cuts = either they’re fake, or they are too-real and aren’t offset by spending cuts
the M.O. seems to be “make sure they are screaming foul constantly, just in a slightly different way from the rest of the D.C. pundits”
the only time i think they’re actually doing their jobs (as a libertarian publication in a sea of DC hacks) is when they look at the shriekings of other pundits and call Bullshit. Like what ENB did to the NYmag writer who claimed the AHA made rape a pre-existing condition.
I told Chapman I’d bookmark his article for later!
It just goes to show how far they’ll wander into the swamp to make their case.
I was speculating last night about whether some big donor gave them a huge sack of cash to . . . emphasize some libertarian takes at the expense of others–all in the cause of attacking Trump. There are big donors who go around and give organizations like theirs big sacks full of money.
Especially if a wealthy, politically active type thought that he could dictate a spin directly to the libertarian choir.
That’s a better explanation, to me, anyway, than the idea that they all just completely lost their minds at the same time in the exact same way. I don’t know, of course. TDS is real, and those journalists do exist in a bubble. Maybe it’s all genuine. I don’t get it.
The question I always ask is this:
If it is unconstitutional to punish cities for their status as a sanctuary city, then you are also against the Feds punishing cities that have “incorrect” bathroom laws?
That usually gets the progs I know sputtering about how those are totally different.
Anyone else getting “your comment is awaiting moderation” on your posts?
Two or more links in your post?
“The reason I’m hoping to engage you in a conversation about this is because if the categories of ‘actor’ and ‘actress’ are in fact supposed to represent ‘best performance by a person who identifies as a woman’ and ‘best performance by a person who identifies as a man’ then there is no room for my identity within that award system binary.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/04/06/gender-non-binary-star-asia-kate-dillon-ponders-emmys-actor-or-actress/
This seems to be a disease of affluence more than anything.
Related to afluenza?
Poor people have better things to complain about.
whatever
If you can’t even competently act like a boy or a girl you probably aren’t gonna have to worry about the awards shows anyway.
Seems like this person would have twice the chance of winning. But I’m glass half full guy.
Two X zero is still zero
Am I…am I the first one to mention this?
Winner of Miss Black UT “Not Black Enough”
Goddamn Trump!
One drop rule?
something something one drop rule
curse you, Pat!
“I don’t have to look a certain way to be black.”
The naivety of youth. Not only does she have to look a certain way, she has to vote a certain way too.
Taking over John’s work of triggering me with S*n links, are we?
Wow, The Sun has some cutting-edge journalism.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/3501344/underbum-style-summer-trend/
I will not be “rockin'” that look.
Sadly, there will be large numbers of 300 lb, nominally female munters in the UK who will.
Maybe I’m going to the wrong beaches, but I never see women wearing string bikinis, or even thongs. The closest thing I can think of is one or two mesh bikinis where some of the details of the bum and breasts were apparent.
There was one time, in Puerto Rico, where I saw a woman wearing a string bikini. She was knocking on 50 and looked high mileage.
Apparently, the term of the day on the
DemocraticMob Rule plantation is “unintended consequences”.There will be unintended consequences associated with the Republikkkins’ Obamacare Lite bill. And there were none associated with Obamacare. There are, to be sure, “intended consequences” running the gamut from a mass die-off of the aged and infirm to new yachts for hedge fund managers. Trump will undoubtedly receive billions in hotel and golf bookings (wink, wink).
Also, Repeal and Replace (which has been discussed and debated ad nauseum for years) was rushed through in a matter of seconds, with no opportunity for anyone to know what it was, or what was in it. And that’s bad, when the aforesaid Republikkkins do it.
According to Amash (Nicole was kind enough to link upthread):
So Republicans can’t even fall back on Pelosi’s braindead excuse. They own this shit sandwich.
Nicole
Wow, I’m not sure where that came from. I swear it’s not because you all look the same to me!
Nicole _was_ the worst.
You had me worried.
Plus how dare the Republicans restructure 1/6th of the economy without knowing what’s in the bill.
Her Chelseaness: How to Be Entitled and Boring without Really Trying
Many good zingers here, but it’s a worthy piece for dwelling on just how cancerous is the Democratic establishment generally, and the Clintons specifically, to lefties. Boring, hackneyed, and trite is the angle you’re going with in 2020? By all means and best of luck, but don’t let’s act surprised when she craters like her mother. There’s a gross sense of fatalism that oozes off her, just like it did her mother: she thinks she’ll get the gig because she puts in the time. Hillary’s only accomplishment that kept her relevant and a contender was having stuck by Bill while he embarrassed her flippantly and repeatedly. Because a successful political dynasty requires that personal matters be dealt with like a mafia family. So now Chelsea is teeing up, having accomplished nothing other than inveigling a bunch of camp followers who all but stripped themselves in their zeal to be seduced.
She. Is. A. Brave. Woman. You. Fucking. Shitlord.
New interview with a Real. Brave. Woman. I’m in love.
My favorite Ali, much better than Mohammed.
most powerful woman in the history of the planet?
Queen Victoria has a sad. Or Margaret Thatcher. You know, someone who actually ran a whole damn country, not just a now-retired head of a government department.
hell, even Theresa May
Bill’s looks and Hillary’s personality. Poor thing.
I don’t think Chelsea is a rageaholic like her mother. Or an alcoholic, either.
Give it time.