Man, what a busy weekend. But rejoice all you Canadian hockey fans! And you Liverpool fans (YNWA!) I don’t know how long the glow from either victory will last, but I’m feeling a lot more solid on the latter than I am on the former. And the same goes for the Spurs. Blowing a 25 point lead against the Warriors in Game 1 is not a good sign. Neither is losing your last healthy star.
Anyway, there’s a lot I’m sure you want to talk about, so let’s get on with it shall we? Here are…the links!
Ever wondered how self-absorbed and full of shit IRS agents could really be? Well wonder no more! Seriously, the gall on these two is beyond parodying. (TW: You’re gonna want to bust some shit.)
Baltimore on pace to out-murder Chicago this year. If only those two wild west-like towns could institute some serious gun control, all would be well. Oh, wait…
Victor Davis Hanson is back…and with a vengeance!
Yeah, yeah. We all know Chelsea Clinton used diverted funds from Haiti relief orgs to fund her wedding. But I found somebody that came up with a worse way to fund theirs.
Social Justice Warriors go apeshit when a black woman strays off the plantation on national TV. How dare she have an opinion of her own! She’s a woman. She’s supposed to be in lockstep with leftist retards.
Man, I need a fucking vacation.
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27) Kevin Williamson’s latest take-down of Chelsea Clinton was right on the mark, but I think it might have been beneficial to go into what the Democrats are thinking with her. What the hell is with the idea of advancing Chelsea Clinton? I mean really, Democrats, what the hell? Do you not see running her in 2020, or whenever, would mean the end of your party?
Seriously. Look at India’s Congress Party. It used to be the biggest party India; it ruled by itself or in coalition for decades. But over time, the party developed a bad habit of passing the leadership on to spouses and children of the original leaders. Rahul Gandhi is Chelsea in 20 years—an inept, disinterested leader without charisma and incapable of original thought who’s run his party into the ground. But nobody in the party will challenge him because he has the right pedigree. The party may never recover.
Is this what you want, Democrats? Do you seriously have so few leaders available that Chelsea is an attractive choice? Or is she just the lazy choice, and everybody backing her thinks they’ll be able to control her? Obama was a mirror, reflecting back at everybody exactly what they wanted to see. Chelsea will be a black hole, sucking in all energy and party initiative and giving you nothing in return.
Do you seriously have so few leaders available that Chelsea is an attractive choice?
Yes.
Yeah, I don’t get the push to try to make Chelsea thing. She can’t pull off Bill’s common touch.
Hell she already admitted that she doesn’t care about money, because she always has it. Chelsea makes Marie Antoinette look like an amateur when it comes to wasting other people’s money.
It’s a little Kennedy dynasty, a little “we realize Hillary was a terrible candidate,” and a lot of “It was her turn and the poisoned fruit of her corrupt womb still holds that chit.”
“Obama was a mirror, reflecting back at everybody exactly what they wanted to see.”
Hm.
With their finger up their noses?
A clown with a single tear drop on their cheeks?
“Social Justice Warriors go apeshit when a black woman strays off the plantation on national TV. ”
She’s cute too. And smart–a chemist. I like her.
She responded that as a government employee, health care should go to those with jobs, and it’s the country’s responsibility to create more jobs so more people have health care.
I don’t want to rain on your parade, but that is not the correct answer.
The mere fact that she dared to defy the conventional wisdom says something though.
Eh. It’s a lot closer to the right answer than your average beauty pageant competitor.
Healthcare is good because I want to work with children.
That sounds like OMWC’s line.
What does having a job have to do with who should get healthcare?
Ok, I’m picking on girl. But, really.
The two choices they gave her were: “Is healthcare a human right or not.” So her answer is a lot better than “yes, and people should be forced into single-payer”, which is the only correct answer a black woman is allowed to give today lest she wants to be ostracized and ridiculed.
We’re taking small victories I get it. Hazlitt wouldn’t win the swimsuit portion.
https://mises.org/library/henry-hazlitt-giant-liberty
IDK. Look at that smoky come hither stare
While she probably meant that insurance should be employer-provided, I’d like to point out that generally speaking, those with jobs are the ones who can afford to buy private health insurance. So she’s not entirely wrong.
I personally believe that U. S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some people out there in our nation don’t have maps and, uh, I believe that our education, like such as in South Africa and, uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should—our education over here in the U. S. should help the U. S., uh, or, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq, and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future, for our children. – Caitlin Upton
I don’t see the problem. She sounds better than Obama.
I thought that WAS Obama until I got to the end.
Needs moar uhhhs.
Teleprompter Obama or off-script Obama (uh…uh…uh)?
I’m less concerned with what comes out of her mouth than what could go into it:
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/56/23/05/562305d31e3875a1ee915ea2351211b7.jpg
All Caitlin has to do in life is blow her doctor husband every now and then and she’ll be fine.
Caitlin Upton made the heavy burtation girl look brilliant.
Did she say it in upspeak?
You be the judge.
OTOH, why did we give a shit how stupid her answer was, look at her.
Apparent the problem is not that she had different views, but that those views are obviously wrong.
I have already seen people commenting that she should take a social issues class…
You know, like the left always does with people that don’t do the right-think before they decide they need to go live in cold places? Or is it left-think? Never get this right except it always ends with a gulag or killing..
I love that. Is it cojones or a gobsmacking lack of self-awareness that compels a barista on Twitter to tell a nuclear chemist that she needs to go back to college to learn about “social issues”.
Everything she said would have been mainstream Democrat 30 years ago. Unless you continually prog harder, you will end up an evil reactionary conservative sooner or later.
Kára McCullough, a chemist working for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
So your telling me that it’s not enough to be a successful strong woman to be a femenist idol. You must also agree with everything that they push. Why am I not surprised that femenists don’t actually care about what they say they care about.
Can you name a single team blue issue that they actually care about other than as a means to silence anyone from questioning their shenanigans?
Of course not.
No, it sounds like she has a good idea what it means. That’s why she said she’s an “equalist.” Because feminism is not for equality, but female supremacy.
It’s not even that. Third wave, or whatever the hell it is now, is an abomination of a philosophy that isn’t even close to being non-self-contradictory.
In their written argument to Judge Barrett, attorneys for Lerner and Paz said the threats against the women should take precedent over public disclosure, which they argued is not necessary.
“Although there is a compelling need for sealing, there is no countervailing need to make those details public,” they wrote. “Allowing public dissemination … would likely lead to media coverage that may then subject both individuals to the very harms they seek a protective order to avoid.”
GO. FUCK. YOURSELF.
I like that line of defense. “People would want to crucify me if they knew what I did, so…”
Maybe it is time for peasants with torches and pitchforks to investigate the IRS.
Like Voltaire said: Pour le découragement des les autres.
Did he say it in a language the rest of us can understand? English or GTFO!
Technically, Voltaire wrote “pour encourager les autres” but the meaning is basically the same. Also, “des les” is redundant (de + les = des).
I thought it was Napoleon – translated, “Sometimes you have to hang an admiral to encourage the others”. He was getting tired of getting his ass kicked by the British Navy.
It’s in Candide (1759), so if Napoleon said it, he was quoting Voltaire.
Yes, a misquote of Voltaire. In this case the discouragement of other IRS (or government) employees is called for. Last thing I’d want them to do is double down on the crap they’re been pulling.
That is one of the most outrageous arguments I have ever heard. You were right, I wanted to break something after reading that article.
Do they do this for the masses when they do shitty things? Some animals are indeed more equal than others.
“Lois Lerner and Holly Paz both have argued in recent court filings that the threat to their lives outweighs the public’s right to hear their testimony about how IRS employees in Cincinnati and Washington D.C. handled applications for tax-exempt status from tea party groups.”
No it doesn’t. They are public employees.
My thoughts exactly. If you wanted a life of peace, then you probably shoulda thought twice before abusing government power.
Or taking a government job period?
“Dear IRS, I do not wish to give you personal information about my finances because you might use the information to harm me.”
You have to love the lefts use of death threats.
It fits perfectly into the culture that they have built up everywhere else, all threats must be treated as legitimate threats so we can use the police power of the state to shut down anyone we don’t like, and oh look now I can use it as a defense to keep key information out of the public sphere because I’ve received death threats
Am I the only one who thinks that people who make death threats are less likely to actually kill the person they threatened?
I mean, if I decide to kill someone, I’m not going to tell anyone…
*writes down for future reference
When I saw the headline before I read the article, I legitimately expected what they were going to say to be, “We had to persecute Tea Party groups because they’re Literally Hitler, and if we don’t stop them then we will Literally Die, so we had to do everything in our power to stop them.”
Baltimore on pace to out-murder Chicago this year.
Ravens 20, Bears 7?
Sending football players out with small arms would definitely be an interesting twist on the game.
The opening scene of The Last Boy Scout in real life?
Baltimore and Chicago should meet up in Detroit and fight it out to the death.
New Orleans, having drawn a bye, awaits the winner.
Cleveland might beat New Orleans in the semifinals…
St. Louis should have a good shot at making it to the playoffs.
So many cities ruined by decades of Republican government!
That’s not even two TD’s!
Ground zero for TDS
Many of those are trying to show Trump supporters as the aggressors in their dealings with AntiFa. My YouTube is broken, or that is BS.
Is feminism killing romance?
“Spurred by the movement for equality, women are increasingly adopting active roles in initiating romance and are displaying more dominant sexual behaviours.”
This sounds like the idea of romance is changing, rather than dying.
I read the article (!) and found it didn’t mention the one thing feminists are doing that really is killing romance–making women out to be victims of patriarchy who are likely to be raped or sexually harassed at any time. But this is from a New Zealand newspaper–maybe that’s only a problem with American feminists?
No, Kiwis can be prosecuted for blasphemy if they breathe a word against the mother church of feminism.
It’s sad, the biggest thing I did this weekend was check my tire pressure (it was 38psi) and put my portable compressor in the back of my car.
I don’t know what the niche under the cargo compartment was intended to hold, it’s soo small for a spare tire but just right for the compressor and its hose and cable. Best of all, it doesn’t get jumble in with whatever I’m trying to transport.
I need a life.
Hey, at least you’re prepared for your vacation now.
I’m debating bringing mosquito repellant. I probably should…
I don’t know if you are into craft beer, but if you are, check out Holy Grale, one of the best beer bars in America.
UnCivil only drinks distilled water.
Just say no to Zika!
I apologize.
I also added 3,855 words to “Prince of the North Tower”, basecoated some miniatures, sort-of played Mass Effect (It’s a bad sign when I start painting a Land Raider while playing the game), baked three dozen cookies and twenty-one ceesecake cupcakes (I ran out of cupcake liners and couldn’t be arsed to run to the store for more). But none of those were really significant events.
Plan on handing out treats to the locals? Rolling in like the king.
Co-workers, actually. For sopme odd reason I have more of an urge to bake now that I’m on my diet (almost a year in at this point, doing okay) than I did at any point before.
I played golf and got drunk at the same time. Made a couple new friends on the course a buddy brought out there and sponsored for membership. Lost a few bucks gambling on a few shots. Went to the park with the family. Spent a little time in the swimming pool. Made a nice mess of shrimp and skirt steaks for everyone. And watched Liverpool move a step closer to UCL soccer next season.
A nice weekend.
Fairly easy weekend, rode for about 20 miles on Saturday, grabbed brunch, hit up a couple of breweries, and a meadery. Sunday, did an 8 mile slow roll ride with the girlfriend, and then put new accessories on the road bike and tested it out for a 10 mile ride.
There was also a party Saturday night with lots of wine and beer. It’s a tough life.
Better than spending most of your weekend working because some incompetent asshole in India did something that brought down a slew of systems and their DR sites like I did…
But I keep getting told these people are better because they cost less…
Gambling is strictly prohibited at Bushwood, sir.
And I never slice.
OK, you can owe me.
Dude. Boredom is greatly under-rated.
Before you ‘get a life’ go out in the world and see what that entails. Debt. Drama. Divorce. Contact with the police. Being the last one to find out about all kinds of shit you have done. Lost, broken,, and stolen shit. Scheming and plotting.
I have a happy quiet marriage. No debt. I wouldn’t know my neighbors if they walked up and bit me on the ass. Today I am going to run the weedeater, trim my muscadine vines, check on my bees then have a cocktail and watch the wife’s TV show – I’ll be happier than a pig in shit.
You don’t need a life, you have a wife.
I didn’t have anything close to a life – for some 23 years – until I got rid of the wife…
Barrel of lye?
Long story, but all it took was a great lawyer, good planning to collect evidence of her behavior, and threatening to expose here behavior to her family where she was great at playing the role of the good girl. Kept the house and didn’t pay a cent more than I needed to. Guess I am one of the lucky few that divorced without getting screwed by the system, and that was because I made sure the usual tactics would backfire.
Alan Dershowitz?
I wouldn’t know my neighbors if they walked up and bit me on the ass.
I’m willing to bet you’d know them better afterward.
I just bought one of those compressors after the gas station air pump broke yet another tire valve.
There was one gas station with free compressed air, but the machine was broken as often as not. I didn’t want to have to keep paying at the other stations, so I just bought my own compressor. It may not have paid for itself yet in terms of cash savings, but I no longer have to deal with finding a working air pump.
Most states require gas stations to give air away for free to paying customers. Usually you can ask the attendant to just turn it on for you and they will.
You want me to actually talk to the attendant?
That level of inconvenience is not worth saving $0.75
/antisocial curmudgeon.
Better vacation song.
Best vacation song.
Touche.
19 Mother’s Day Gifts for the Feminist Mom
No thanks, my mother is sane.
“Your mom won’t feel guilty about receiving these gifts, either”
Think about how sick your family life has to be if this is a real worry.
No big deal. It’s the free market at work.
Seriously, no. I gave my mom flowers, and a bottle of wine. The only thing she’s guilty about today is the hangover.
Man, I bet that’s one fucked up looking resume.
“I didn’t want to be Veronica Vain,” Jennings, now a resident of Texas after a brief stint in Hawaii, added.
I would’ve bet she spelled “Vain” differently.
Wow, I knew Paige would grow up to be really screwed up with the Soviet spy parents and all, but I didn’t forsee this.
So she expects to be paid for playing video games on youtube? That’s an actual business model?
I donno. Some people willingly and knowingly pay me to lie to them.
/Fiction Writer.
Well, what’s she wearing while playing?
yep. There’s a whole bunch of twitchhoes who seem to subsist entirely on patreon donations for playing games with almost no clothing and then doing cosplay “modelling” on the side with even less clothing for the
suckerspatrons who donate more than $x/monthThere’s plenty of people who make money on Twitch just for playing video games. Watch a popular streamer from any of the top games on Twitch (Hearthstone, Overwatch, League, DOTA 2) and see how fast the subscriptions come in ($5/month).
Hell, Amazon lets you give one of those away for free if you have Prime, so people don’t even have to put their own cash into it.
Actually, yes it is
When you have 15 million subscribers, you can make some money.
Also, I’ve found that it has little to do with the actual gaming and more about the host’s/gamer’s personality and creativity that gets people to watch.
Think of all the lucky Wall Street douches that she laid it on
While world obsessed on Russia, here’s what Trump got away with
“a radical dismantling of America’s political norms and consensus policies of the post-World War II-era continue to grind forward”
Maybe times are different now, so we need different norms and policies? Maybe a unique confluence of world events allowed the United States to run a domestic and foreign policy that it might not have the luxury of running in a different era?
Maybe those post-WWII norms and policies that were themselves a historical aberration, and we’re returning to a more normal period? Maybe those post-WWII norms and policies were not wholly admirable and even at the time, we could have done things better?
When Obama changed his mind or undertook a decision, the premise of ‘things change’ was acceptable.
Not so much under such an *obviously* stupid man.
This is how it works.
Judge Nap?
I thought *every* Republican President was a radical extremist who violated previous norms?
Yeah, didn’t Ronald Raygun try to “rip apart environmental protection, voting rights, and even basic human rights in this country?”
The Old People’s Enemy Who is Now Dead was so so so so much more reasonable and moderate and moderately reasonable then the Currently Living People’s Enemy Who is In Power, he is a dangerous extremist extremist who is dangerous and extreme.
These fucking idiots only have like 5 talking points, they just repeat them their entire lives.
Let’s see, there is no evidence of collusion between Trump and the Russians, despite an investigation spanning at least half a year, and just a couple months (weeks?) ago the Democrats were demanding Comey be fired. Which the President has a right to do.
I get the idea he just doesn’t understand the constitution at all.
Methinks that if you just realize that what team blue is basically doing is oppose and undermine everything, with no regard for how bad they look for the flip flopping, this all makes a lot of sense. It’s scorched earth all the way. If we discovered tomorrow that Trump could cure cancer by touching people, the same douches now with their panties in a bunch would be screaming of the inappropriate patriarchal touch-monster.
Those post WW2 norms involved te communist bogeyman. And a persistent march toward state control of ever-increasing segments of our daily lives. The media are shitting themselves now that the bogeyman has been gone for 25 years and that someone might begin to marginally unravel the deep state bureaucracy that have really run things for over a half century.
Fuck those norms. Fuck them right in the ass. They’ve led us to financial insolvency and have destroyed the rights of the individual. They belong on the ash heap of history.
Amen, brother!
That nails it perfectly.
Define “constitutional crisis”, please. I can imagine the same kind of answer given for “Social Justice,” or “Diversity”
They know it when they see it!
It’s a crisis because the Constitution shouldn’t have allowed for this to happen and thus must be changed.
I’ll tell you what’s NOT a constitutional crisis: a president doing everything in his power to dismantle the 2A. No sir, that’s just “common sense”.
“Progressives” have a weird stance on the 2A; it’s kind of like that joke about the Japanese government’s position on the Rape of Nanking:
1. Nobody’s trying to take your guns away!
2. Besides, you don’t need to own a gun, so it’s nothing to worry about!
my version of that (mentioned here a few times) was =
1 – “It never happened”
2 – “besides, they deserved it”
I credit myself for authoring it. Its possible i heard something like that somewhere, and then simply repurposed it and believed it to be my own. unconscious plagiarism is a real thing
+1 George Harrison
As another article pointed out, the 14 or so Executive orders and regulatory-schemes which congress and the president have managed to undo in the past few months…. were themselves only implemented in the last 6 months of Obama’s tenure.
To clarify – basically none of these rules and regulations which were removed were *ever actually in effect*. So… basically the GOP has returned America to the lawless dystopian horror that was Spring of 2016
e.g.
Republicans want you to believe they’re scored major victories, the Democrats want you to think they’re returning us to 1920s pre-progressive rapacious capitalist exploitation.
Neither is true. Some paper was shuffled between last summer and now, and bad ideas never came into being, leaving us with mostly the same world we have before the election started.
Man, I need a fucking vacation.
Mine started today.
Also, would. Especially the mousy vegan one.
Didn’t expect that from you even though it said vacation.
Jane Wiedlin?
Still hot, but I prefer Belinda.
Also still looking good.
Nice! I need a vacation so badly, but it’s the time of the year that our member’s year-end financials roll in… I have so much analysis to do. 🙁
what’s a vacation?
You need a vacation from fucking? Man, are you getting some!
The party on Friday went well – only five couples and their kids (all 13 of them!) showed up. The cheap volleyball net was broken within 20 minutes, hastily repaired by the mechanical engineer, and then completely destroyed by the time the sun set. I drank more than anyone else – I get a bit nerved up with guests – and had some beer, two gin & tonics, and a few glasses of wine. There was a still a bunch of hooch left – damn these responsible adults! – versus the old punk rock parties I threw where the keg would be promptly drained.
One thing I noticed – the men had no problem playing volleyball with the kids, and we also got very competitive too, all while trying to keep the kids involved. The women, except for my wife, just sat around to talk and drink wine. They never left the porch!
I still find adult parties to be something of a disappointment compared to my college days. Everybody’s married with kids, so there’s not the sexual tension you get from people trying to hook up. And people have responsibilities, plus they have to drive home, so you get modest drinking.
I too tend to drink more than other people at parties I go to. I wonder if I have a reputation as something of a lush? Although by more previous standards, my drinking is pretty mild nowadays. (Except parties at my wife’s cousin’s house–for some reason, she and her husband bring the hard-drinkers out to play. Weird leftist folks in Maryland, but fun if you avoid politics.)
It isn’t like anyone had to drive home since all of their houses are within a block. And even the neighborhood lush was taking it easy. I guess I’m taking that role over.
But I know what you mean about the lack of sexual tension. One of the moms is Swedish and is fairly attractive, but she has a triple-A personality – very bossy and uh, socialist. She also starts every topic with “Well in Sweden we _fill in the blank_”
“Seen the news fom Malmo recently?”
“Yeah, me neither.”
Does she wear lederhosen?
From Sweden?
Please to help me with my ROOOOK-sack?
Another reason that firearms are bad. Lead poisoning. Women and children hardest hit.
Stop licking the bullets and it won’t be a problem.
MinnPost comments are always so articulate and thoughtful:
*pounds head on desk repeatedly*
Muh studies. Muh science. Muh consensus.
Careful traumatic head injury can be almost as bad as led exposure. Someone should take your guns as precautionary measures.
Who knew light emitting diodes would prove to be so dangerous?
I notice they never provide links to those “studies” they’re always claiming prove their point. And when called out on it, they almost always say “google it yourself” or “I’m not here to do your research for you”.
They also just ignore the fact that concealed carriers have a far lower rate of violent criminal activity than even cops do. Which is astonishing given that cops are rarely even charged, much less convicted no matter what they do.
Ninja’d.
The concealed carry crowd has an extremely low crime rate. It’s lower than police, and Mayors Against Illegal Guns.
Also, if the gun grabbers were so concerned about lead exposure, why did they ban teflon bullets? They weren’t some magical projectiles of death. They were so one could have an indoor range without a special ventilation system.
Suggested is science.
*pounds head on desk repeatedly*
So that’s the loud, hollow sound I hear.
See?? Look how violent your response is!
You want to see crazy let’s go back to putting mercury in primers. What a horribly written article.
If the substitutes were so damn good, it wouldn’t require the intervention of the ruling class to get us to switch.
Don’t you see the rubes in the general public are too stupid and easily manipulated by the evul corporations who want to poison them to know what’s good for them.
Don’t forget the windrows of dead victims of eating poisoned mallards that used to litter our streets.
Cam Calloway was a visionary when it came to public health.
One of the reasons I don’t hunt waterfowl is that I refuse to pay the price for steel shot. Duck hunting was already marginal fun in my book, but adding on paying more than double for lead shot and I’m out. I’ll keep hunting upland birds for fun.
Yeah, those regulations are for the birds.
*cries fowl*
Look we’re just winging it here.
These bird puns make me loony
That’s your o-pinion
Well, there are arguably safer types of ammo to use from a contamination standpoint. But the difference doesn’t come anywhere close to making up for the cost increase.
Hey, sounds like wind and solar vs fossil fuels.
I love the old ‘lead poisoning’ canard. It is tossed around by people that have no understanding of what it is.
I thought it was a euphemism for a gunshot wound.
“Also, they attract a much higher proportion of women”
Whoa whoa whoa, I thought the shooting sports were only for obese redneck males? Which is it, anti-gun people? Make up your damn minds!
It’s a side effect – women are irresitably drawn to the smell of cordite and toxic masculinity.
It’s a pity when serious injury influences a playoff series… And besides, people will go on for years with the well they won but X was injured line of argument.
Anti-abortion student group sues California professor over free speech. I think it is time as a nation we come together and void all college degrees from California Universities.
Yeah, prof. You got me there. I do not understand.
There are several unaccredited law schools in the State of California. The only state they’re valid in is California and the only state their graduates can take the bar exam is in California.
We should do the same thing with the rest of the schools over there. Kind of keep the poison from spreading.
Microsoft warns ransomware cyber-attack is a wake-up call
Considering how shaky security is this whole getting internet in everything may not be the best idea.
A “Wake up call” for what? For everyone on Windows 7 to signup for their own version of ransomware? (Win X)
They hate the US government, and they’re multiplying: the terrifying rise of ‘sovereign citizens’
TW: the guardian
Shorter Guardian: Drone anyone who disagrees with federal policy
These fucks really want us in the Camps.
You know who else wanted certain people to be in camps…
FDR?
The Boy Scouts?
KOA?
/guffaw.
*applause*
Bill Murray in Meatballs?
The Fyre Festival?
The Kim family?
Paul Lynde?
No, wait, he wanted to be camp.
*narrows gaze*
Mr Taggart?
The U.S. Army?
No, the Army has forts. The Marines have camps – Camp Lejeune, Camp Pendleton, etc.
The Army has camps also. Many of the current forts started out as camps.
They also have those retarded Joint Bases shit now too, particularly with the AF.
Muddah and Faddah?
At camp Granada?
Hillary Clinton?
People who want to be left alone because they may act dangerously when we duck with them.
Yeah. ‘Terrifying’.
Why does the Guardian care, anyway?
Ideas are not constrained by geography
IdeasIdiots are not constrained by geographyBetter?
TW?
“Kandacy Adams @_KandKand
Dang I wanted Miss D.C to win but I’m sorry affordable health care is not a privilege. Health care should be a human right! #MissUSA”
They have to learn that it’s not.
That story about the guy killing his friends for a wedding. Man, brutal.
Well a right is whatever you want it to be at a given time. I think that is the official definition. Or at most you need to get it in some sort of bureaucratic declaration of rights. Then it definitely becomes a right. Like magic.
I watched the 20/20 or Dateline or whatever about that murder story. That guy….man, just take him out back and shoot him already. He killed that girl just to make it look like the other victim had fled after killing her, to buy him more time to cover his tracks and get away with the first murder.
Why does California even bother with the death penalty anymore? They don’t execute anyone. What’s the point?
I saw that. He joins 750 other CA inmates on death row? He’ll most certainly die of something other than state execution.
Forced into porn: Japan moves to stop women being coerced into sex films
In some of those stories there seems to be very little coercion going on. In some cases there seems to be, but grouping all together is not wise.
That being said, I still don’t get how people in the 21st century still believe random propositions they get on the street, being for stardom or investment opportunities.
The Guardian can suck my balls. You’ve got Japan on one hand where rape, divorce, assault, abuse, etc. are nowhere near the levels of what is happening in their own backyard, yet somehow it makes them feel better to go after a tiny problem on the other side of the world. Go to Rotherham, you cowards and after 10 years of reporting on that daily, maybe you can come here and bitch about a girl that willfully got swindled by a scumbag.
Exactly.
So much this.
Amen. Preach it brother. Or sister, if you’re on of those elusive libertarian women.
Counting down the days until this Minnesoda city residents begin complaining about their taxes and asking state legislature for a bailout.
Forest Lake expected to pass contract to keep local police force
The city council voted recently to disband the city police dept and save $385K/year. They just reversed that vote yesterday.
$385K/yr? They have two and a half cops?
No, I think that is the delta between having their own police force and simply contracting with the local sheriff.
Forest Lake is pretty much known for being the city where the North/South branches of interstate freeway 35 join back up after splitting in half through the Twin Cities. My guess is that speeding tickets are going to dramatically increase there this summer.
Forest LakeDenton is pretty much known for being the city where the North/South branches of interstate freeway 35 join back up after splitting in half through the Twin Cities.FIFY!
Huh, I forgot about that one, it’s been a while
This story is about a survey with a lot of shady results. I’ll let you guys pick your favorite (my favorite is the assertion that adding one more trip per day between Mpls and Chicago would add 130K new riders to the current 157K).
The real reason I’m linking this article is that for once the real reason that surveys like this are done is revealed.
I know a way you could get to wherever you want whenever you want.
You didn’t read the article. Youngsters don’t want to own a pollutionmobile anymore.
Don’t want to, or can’t afford to?
Their stupid parents never pushed them to drive. And they’ve been brainwashed into thinking that cars are evil and Should Be Outlawed.
That said, I was at a car show this weekend, chock full of vintage dinosaur-burners, and was pleased to see how many youngsters were there and how engaged they were learning about the cars.
We will prevail!
Admitting it is that you can’t afford it might make you look like a loser, so you pretend it is for noble reasons..
Got to make those studies degrees pay off..
Admitting it is that you can’t afford it might make you look like a loser, so you pretend it is for noble reasons..
Oh the people bitching can afford cars. This is straight up social signaling. You go ask poor people from virtually any city in America and they’d tell you a car would help them better their situation.*. You ask wealthy young adults in the same city with enough money to pay for cabs wherever they feel like going and/or the means to buy monthly subway passes without it denying their budget and they’ll be the ones that say cars should be outlawed.
*these same people vote almost in lockstep for Dems…the assholes that brought you cash for clunkers and spiked the used car market to where a $1000 car is a fantasy anymore.
“Midwest Interstate Passenger Rail Commission (MIPRC)”
Why does this exist?
Exactly. I thought the Midwest was all flyover country.
Good Monday Morning! Here’s your nutpunch for the beginning of the week:
https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/man-dies-on-las-vegas-strip-after-police-use-taser-neck-restraint/
They didn’t choke him to death, they restricted the blood flow to his brain until he died! That’s totally different.
When applied properly
That’s some weasely shit right there.
“He wasn’t decapitated, he suffered lacerations to the neck of greater than one hundred percept depth.”
Science!
“It’s unclear when police will identify the officers involved and the man who died, because the incident is different from usual in-custody deaths and involves elements Metro does not classify as “deadly force” — namely the Taser use and neck hold, Rodriguez said.”
That’s some might fine set theory there, Lou.
Also, what crime did the deceased allegedly commit in the first place?
Disobeying the King’s men, obviously.
So… nothing? Being schizophrenic?
Though maybe not; there *were* people chasing him who wanted to do him harm.
True. Although I don’t see why the police would chase him, since he wasn’t fleeing from a crime or anything.
The other thing that strikes me with this, and the Eric Garner case, is that police are such wimps they can’t subdue an unarmed person without killing them.
Regarding that Miss USA story…..is there anything lamer than major media reporting on what a bunch of random retards are spouting on twitter?
I’m sorry, were you listening for Miss America or C-SPAN?
I’m just talking about newspapers and other media organizations publishing stories based not on what t he story purportedly is, but on “Twitter’s reaction” to the story. Who fucking cares what random losers have to say?
Straight out reporting is so yesterday. What good is being a reporter if it is not to push the SJW/leftist agenda?
“Who fucking cares what random losers have to say?”
Newsish?
I think it would be great if Newsish alternated between citing “things said on twitter” with “things written inside of a toilet stall”
Adams’ Dilbert strip has been pretty good lately. Making fun of the CIA, robots, climate change “scientists”.
Wonder how many reader he lost. Or gained
His blog is excellent, too.
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/160515646406/the-comey-firing
The guys at PowerLine make a good case that Adams climate change scientist is Michael Mann
How long until Steyn wins the suit?
I played Star Wars: The Old Republic for the first time this weekend and I gotta say, I’m really liking it. I never thought an MMORPG could actually have a decent story.
The main issue I had were the parts where they tried to force multiplayer cooperation, and the fact that the story tanked in the expansions. I stopped playing a while back because of loss of interest.
There’s one storyline per major character class, but a lot of overlap in the non-class specific missions, which hampered efforts to replay to get the other stories.
At this point, they hand out XP so quickly that you can just skip all the side missions and only do the main quest. That’s probably what I’m going to do for the other storylines.
The fun part about the Sith non-warrior storyline was whever I ran into a character I didn’t like and had the reaction of “Tell me I get to kill that guy later” the answer was usually “Sure do!”
Yes, yes! (*evil laugh*) I’m excited to start my imperial character. I hear the Agent storyline is fantastic!
Yeah, the agent storyline was fantastic. The main problem is that there is no real end game.
MMO “Endgame Content” is the least significant part of the game. Or do you mean the story doesn’t have a proper ending?
The story has an ending, but there’s not much to do once you hit max level. Except roll an alt. Bounty Hunter is a solid second choice.
That just reinforces the opinion that they should have made a single-player game.
Yeah, this was my big problem with TOR as well. Tried playing it a while back since it was made free to play, and just had the hardest time making any progress since you earn XP at such a slow pace on a free account and every mission is setup to almost essentially require playing with other people. Why couldn’t they have just made an actual KOTOR3?
Its completely different now, XP comes quick. I leveled to 23 in about 5 hours. Granted, there was an XP boost going on but people were saying those are pretty frequent now. I went ahead and threw them $15 since you really get slowed down after level 20 if you’re a F2P account. So far it seems like money well spent.
The F2P thing is just like a dealer giving a free hit. You’re not really supposed to get to max level as a F2P player. You can do it, but it is designed to be as painful as possible.
Once you’re willing to pay $15 a month, then the game just gives you an insane amount of XP.
This is what progressives actually believe
Libertarians hardest hit.
Have they actually spoken to conservatives?
Unlikely.
Fine by me. It makes our tent bigger.
The most important thing in American politics is to crush progressivism. We can deal with SoCons and NeoCons later. But they’re nowhere near the immediate threat that progressivism is to individual liberty, personal responsibility and economic freedom every person should enjoy.
My favorite comment
“Most people in USA lean left. The left backs up their ideology with facts most of the time..It ‘s why facts are suddenly under attack. The only way the right wins is by gerrymandering and off the wall fake news and dirty tricksters like Stone..”
Holy shit that is some crazy projection right there.
Well that sounds like a fact to me. Are you one o dem deniers of facts?
All of the writers friends lean left, therefore, the US leans left. After all, nobody they know voted for Nixon, therefore nobody voted for Nixon.
Facts and the Democratic Underground are mutually exclusive. In order to understand the former, you need reason. Something that seems to be absent in their ranks.
They gerrymandered all of those governorships and senate seats, right retards?
Yeah the states boundaries are a hundred year conspiracy.
We watched “Get me Roger Stone” last night (Netflix). Pretty interesting. The broad from the NYT who wrote “Dark Money” was pretty annoying.
100% agreed. More than anything else, what I am is an anti-leftist. They are vermin. They destroy everything they touch.
I’ve fallen under this category. I have no tolerance and wish to no longer humour their destructive impulses.
They destroy everything, tag it as success and attack anyone who dares challenge their anti-humanist views as ‘extremists’.
You can’t compromise with these people. It’s their way or the highway, and their way can change whenever it is convenient so everyone lives in a paranoid state and feels compelled to out social justice the others for fear of being labeled a heretic…
It’s a fucking cult..
I gotta agree with Sloopy, progressives need to be paired down. Unfortunately I firmly believe that this won’t happen until either our education system gets better or Antifa kills a few people. I expect that it will most likely be Antifa activities that get the silent majority to speak up…
I don’t mind pairing down with a leftist chick every now and again, iykwimaityd.
I am afraid you may be mistaken about Antifa killing people changing minds.. The excuse making to justify this has not only already started, but the only standard these people have is a double standard. They firmly believe the rules don’t apply to them, because the end justify the means, and their end is to bring us utopia on earth..
As I already said: we are fighting a religion that worships all might government, and because they believe what they are doing is the right thing, breaking some eggs to make that omelet isn’t going to make them stop and rethink even for a second.
We’re not talking about changing the mind of the basement dweller in black next to the killer, we’re talking about the indecisive masses who make up the majority of the country and are not hard core zealots of TRIBE or OTHERTRIBE
Exactly. I’m talking about mom and pop that watch their TV and might think “how ‘come those people are wearing masks and the folks they’re attacking look like you and me?”
Crush progressivism ? So… helicopter rides?
IT’S RAINING PROGRESSIVES!
As God as my witness…I THOUGHT THEY COULD FLY.
/mischievous grin.
This is terrible….oh the humanity!
/Les Nessman
Dammit!
Hallelujah.
As god is my witness, I though progressives could fly.
You would think with all the hot air they have in them.
“The right no longer stands for anything, they simply stand against something.”
Because they are calling themselves The Resistance?
They have a point if you look at the douchebags that represent the right in DC. I find very little distinction between the credentialed elite on the left or the right when they work for government. They are all about bigger, more intrusive government. Now the people they lord it over sure are different.
Isn’t that what conservatism, taken literally, means? As well as what the “right” originally was about? You want a certain change, we don’t. Why is this news? Why should it be considered pejorative?
Because it means you oppose PROGRESS How can anyone be against PROGESS??!
Disclaimer – I am a conservative.
(shrugs)
What i think is lost is that 80-90% of the voting public doesn’t have an “ideology” either. they simply vote for one tribe or the other because its culturally more-accepted. And they don’t really have any principled political beliefs about anything other than ‘they want shit to work’, more or less.
e.g. they don’t have some philosophical idea about whether schools should be public or private = they just want it to be cheap (or have the costs hidden) and be ‘as good as what they had’ when they were kids. They don’t know if mandated health insurance is right or wrong, but they know the price of the ACA is *not* right. That it costs too much and they aren’t getting anything better for their money.
Parts of the left are riddled with this idea that ‘more govt’ is better. But many people even on their own side don’t believe that so much as simply *repeat* it. They just assume that must be right because the darn Team Red people just want to steal all their tax dollars and give em to billionaires!! Its not ideology = its fantasy.
I agree with the conclusion, “libertarians hardest hit”; because trying to sell people a philosophy when all they want is ‘shit that works and costs less’ will not spread the idea. They don’t want to be told to think about stuff and they don’t want to subscribe to your newsletters, they just want the warm-fuzzy of a group-affiliation, and to be told that what they want is ‘fair’.
Pretty much my point. It’s full on tribal warfare.
I don’t know that actually seems somewhat accurate, the bulk of the Republican electorate and the core part of the party itself has ceased to stand for or mean anything. Sure there are a handful of rightish or conservativish ideologies still hanging around the Republican banner, libertarians, Social Conservatives, Federalists, etc but as a general rule they are fringe groups within the party, maybe able to command one single issue (a’ la So Cons and Abortion) but with little to no power over the larger direction and platform of the party the bulk of which only stands for “Not Democratic and Not Progressive”.
Penn State pledge’s family plans to file lawsuit, claims ‘planned and orchestrated’ fraternity drinking.
I’ve never understood the idea that the family is owed anything in these types of situations. Yes, it’s tragic and horrible and I feel for them. However, they weren’t financial dependents of their son, who was an adult. So why should they get a bunch of cash?
They were on GMA this morning talking about how they want to end underage drinking once and for all. Now I can understand why their kid didn’t know how to moderate.
If only they realized the age limit is what created the binge culture to begin with.
The solution is always to BAN HARDER and BAN MORE.
I’d give my right arm to see a state try to move their drinking age to 18. It’d be the greatest thing ever.
It’s not SJWednesday yet, but this is too good.
The Real Reasons Women Fake Orgasms
In my mind’s eye, I imagine They Live billboards with ORGASM on them.
Aren’t they out of business yet?
Wait a minute. You’re telling me that women fake orgasms?
I call bullshit.
So I accepted an invitation to come home with him on the grounds that we really just cuddle.
I accepted the invitation for him to put his cock a quarter inch from my gaping hole.
EF, lol
as if men don’t fake them sometimes too for various reasons (cue Kramer, enough was enough and I just wanted to get some sleep!)
So, not a psychology major then.
My interpretation is = she wanted to try and put the hooks into this guy and lure him into a subserviant long term relationship, and in her idiotic mind she thought sleeping with him but denying him any intimacy was a great plan for this. when her plan failed and produced nothing but anger and contempt, she rationalized how this was Men’s fault.
Um, women are not the only ones who fake orgasm’s
Facebook Thinks Saying “Men Are Trash” Is Hate Speech
“More to the point: “men are trash” is not hate speech. Largely, men who act offended by things like “men are trash” or “white people suck” are doing it to make a point, not because they really are offended; they seem to think being offended by a slur is a fun activity they’re being left out of.
But I’m sorry, dudes: that just isn’t how it works. “Men are trash” is simply not the same thing as sexist attacks on women, because you don’t face the systemic oppression that makes sexist slurs so toxic. If you’re a man and someone calls you a stupid trash man, wow, I’m sorry you had a bad day. If someone calls a woman a bitch or a slut, that’s tinged with millennia of oppression. “
I find few things more tiresome than bigots claiming to not be bigots because of “systematic oppression” or its newspeak synonyms.
What a crock of shit.
I mean, look, I reject the concept of “hate speech” falling outside of the 1A to being with. I simply insist on the left being held to the same bullshit standards they want to apply to everyone else.
I’m not saying they can’t say that, but I am saying that everyone who calls them racist or sexist for it has every right to do so (and are often well justified)
If someone calls a woman a bitch or a slut, that’s tinged with millennia of oppression
I don’t know, sometimes women are sluts. NTTIAWWT See Scruffys link above: The fact that I felt obligated to orgasm for this near-stranger’s sake
That there be a slut.
Most of the time, the people most involved in labeling women as sluts are other women.
SO much this…
As always in these discussions, there is never an acknowledgement of the position that hate speech shouldn’t be a crime.
I second the position that hate speech shouldn’t be crime.
Hey let me try that. Obviously not all women are sluts, however, the ones who are really upset about it are the ones who absolutely are! Think feminists would be OK with that?
You have to wait a millenium. Starting now! *Hits stopwatch*
These people are so far up their own asses that they could do a polyp count.
it’s about quantifiable damage to a marginalized group of people.
Huh?
It’s all about nebulous terms and conclusions that allow the self-appointed evaluators of grievances to take control. It’s akin to the communists putting artists in charge. These people have no valuable skills other than bitching and masking their petty insecurities with sophistry.
Proggie word salad.
They hook you up to the damage machine and see how damaged you really are. And the machine prints a ticket with the reparations you are due. Or which you owe if you are insufficiently damaged. Kinda like the thingy Scientologists use to count the evil alien in you or something
And where do I put my feet?
so much this
Quantifiable damage sans quantification.
Plus, obvious the damage done male individuals have gone through is not quantifiable.
And that’s the rub. We should refuse to down in their terms. We should talk about individuals not groups.
We should refuse to drown in their terms.
This. And this is the problem I have with the modern GOP. It has largely acquiesced to arguing in the same framework as the progs. You cannot win that. Unfortunately, the only successful alternative has been to resort to schoolyard insults, a la Trump.
Absolutely. Trying to hold a civilized debate with these people means you already lost. They are only worthy of mock and derision.
It’s not that all men are trash but those who feel the need to comment in the gawker network sites definitely are.
Men who feel the need to out people as gay who don’t want to be outed, most definitely are trash.
I am very much on the record as saying that we need to protect the speech of people like this, because if we expect our speech to protected we need to protect theirs as well.
The issue is that these people are clueless. *Their* speech is good. *Their* speech is right. It’s all those other people whose speech should be restricted. Not theirs. I don’t understand how people can think like that. I really don’t.
That’s why you are not a prog?
Of course not. It’s just one of many things that I don’t understand about them.
Actually valuing logic and reason to form your thinking are a bitch of a problem if you want to be a prog. Which is why you see neither when you deal with progs.
I don’t disagree with the first point. “Men are trash” a pretty laughable statement because, Hey, fuck you too. Guess what? We’re not naifs prone to fainting when someone is rude to us. We tend to recognize it for what it is: words. And not especially threatening or inflammatory words.
We also don’t collectivize ourselves in dinky grievance cults the way feminists have, which makes generalizations like “men are trash” funny or eyeroll-worthy rather than upsetting.
Way to give men the power, ladies.
To be honest there are way to many people of all 347.2 sexes which get excessively offended by random crap on the internet.
It’s such a backward attitude, in any event. “He’s pointing an empty gun at us, quick, give him some ammunition to make the threat credible!” You’re giving your bullies dominion over you by submitting to mere words! How stupid are you dumb sluts?!
Dinky Grievance Cult … band name or album title?
That’s the name of Danny DeVito’s fan club.
The other day, I read a NYT article about Trump(!). It was a lot like the other articles about Trump. The author(s) pointed out his aberrant, bizarre, un-Presidential behavior and they focused on his obsession with that startling election victory. All typical and unremarkable, for a NYT article. But then, they did something unique. They admitted, explicitly, that this obsession with the election results stems in no small part from the media’s concerted ongoing efforts to delegitimize him, and the constant barrage of news stories about how this villainous madman should not be accepted as a ‘real’ President. Strangely, comments on that piece were closed.
Two scoops. TWO FUCKING SCOOPS! How can we be expected to endure this madman any longer?
The sun from the old Raisin Bran commercial is now our President?
*dives into bunker to hide from Swiss*
Well, at least the sun wouldn’t be Putin’s cockholster!
Does a cock need a holster? It’s already attached.
(Cue King Missile referenes)
No one needs more than half a scoop. You could feed a village somewhere with the other scoop and a half you know.
In other words, The right no longer stands for anything, they simply stand against something.
Yeah, there was one of those in the NYT. “Nobody is *for* Trump. They just hate justice and equality.”
More of that bird-flocking behavior.
“Authorities in Hamburg, the second-largest city in Germany, have begun confiscating private dwellings to ease a housing shortage — one that has been acutely exacerbated by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision to allow more than two million migrants into the country in recent years.”
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10352/germany-migrants-property-rights
On the upside, Germans taking over land could never end badly.
Fire-bombed too much or not enough?
Taking dwellings because of a shortage seems like it would exacerbate the issue.
You don’t understand how it works, comrade.
https://youtu.be/mq__Z-Z_Ofs
What movie is that? Looks good.
Are you joking?
Meh. It’s a 50 year old film.
(though, IIRC it’s still in the top 10 all-time US domestic box office if you adjust for inflation)
You have to keep in mind a 50 year old film is twice as old as I am.
Nope.
It’s Doctor Zhivago. I recommend you see it, because it’s one of the greatest films ever made.
It’s terrible. It starts with the book’s epilogue, giving the story away, and the ending seems to celebrate socialism.
Speaking of looking good:
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/85/bf/2c/85bf2c01260ed03351d420aaba108fd7.jpg
I mean, “would have”.
http://iv1.lisimg.com/image/5167481/600full-julie-christie.jpg
Face looks like a dude.
I think it’s one of the LotR commentaries where John-Rhys Davies goes on and on about Julie Christie being the most beautiful woman ever. It was pretty adorable hearing him have such a crush.
Even YouTube comments can be funny once in a while – that one features “Dr Zhivago definitely felt the Bern”
Vacant since 2012, so not really in this case.
No… economically speaking taking property, even if it has been vacant, will be a big downer on anyone who wants’s to develop more housing in the area. Think rent control on a whole new socialist level.
Could you imagine them doing that here under any guise of a government program? Sure you’ll get the occasional person getting fucked over by Imminent Domain and it’ll be met by yawns. But imagine if the government announced a program to confiscate private dwellings due to the overwhelming amount of free-riding refugees they’d allowed in?
You would see pitched battles. And I don’t think that’s an exaggeration.
And they are billing the rightful owners for renovations they are making:
How that doesn’t result in armed resistance is beyond me.
How that doesn’t result in armed resistance is beyond me.
Well, this is Germany… so gun restrictions and whatnot. Reminds me that the gun rights we have really do protect us from Tyranny
that’s the fool’s errand – I’d expect it to result in some kind of series of freak cooking accidents and insurance being collected.
then properties not being rebuilt.
And hopefully some feathers to go along with that pitch.
They HAVE done this, albeit not for refugees…
http://poststar.com/news/local/city-to-use-eminent-domain-to-pressure-banks-to-clean/article_a0917d4c-3431-55b2-b394-db56c1303d08.html
It was however for similarly progressive reasons
You’d think that Germans (especially those in places in East Germany or, like Hamburg, that were close to the border) would be sensitive to a Stasi-like program like this.
And I thought our post-Kelo eminent domain policies were bad. They can take your property and make you pay for it.
I think I’d lose my shit.
I’d burn the place to the ground.
Holy shit….that last bit is unimaginable. “Hey, we’re stealing your property so we can give it to someone else. By the way, we’re going to be doing some home improvements. Expect to see a bill in the mail.”
It’s all there in the fine print of the social contract that you implicitly signed when you were born. /duh
I’m surprised that with a law permitting them to forcibly expropriate rental units, private owners aren’t investing on building new ones….
What a totally unforeseeable bit of bad luck!!!!!
It would be funny, except it isnt. It is sad and infuriating. Merkel should be hanged.
The greatest thing you will see today:
“Not-so-friendly street art greeted California Congresswoman Maxine Waters to a Inglewood town hall meeting on Saturday.
Famed artist Sabo posted several works around the venue”
http://www.theamericanmirror.com/impeach-maxine-waters-street-art-appears-near-inglewood-town-hall-meeting/
I get that politicians don’t really need to be particularly bright. But why is it California seems to revel in sending short-bussers?
I don’t think that California is unique in sending idiots to D.C., but man they sure do love sending idiots to D.C. over and over and over again.
It is a way of getting rid of them and making sure whatever damage they do is spread out…..
Can someone explain the Two Scoops comment, or point me in the right direction. It sounds familiar, but I must have missed it.
At a recent state dinner event, Trump asked for two scoops of ice cream on his pie and the press freaked out because everyone else had only one!
Seriously it is that petty.
I’m glad the state of the nation is so good that this is what we have to worry about.
Somebody should compare how many scoops of ice cream the guests at Chelsea Clinton’s wedding each got relative to the Hatian earthquake victims the money that paid for the ice cream was supposed to go to.
Look, she just isn’t interested in money, OK?
Trump gets 2 scoops
On the plus side, it has given us the best nickname so far for Trump:
Donny Two-Scoops.
Nobody fucks with Donny Two-Scoops.
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
Those of you who live down stream from the headwaters of the Missouri River might want to get your sandbags ready. There is a lot of water headed your way.
It’s official, P Brooks took his morning leak.
Back on diuretics, eh?
I hate that book.
PBR party?
” A man covered in blood reportedly walked into an Oregon grocery store on Sunday while carrying a knife in one hand — and a woman’s severed head in the other.
KATU-TV reports the blade-wielding suspect left his car running outside the Harvest Market Thriftway in Estacada, walked into the store just before 2:30 p.m. and stabbed an employee.
The employee’s co-workers tackled the attacker to the ground while waiting for police. The victim was airlifted to a Portland hospital about 25 miles northwest of the store, according to the television station.”
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/man-busted-ore-grocery-store-attack-carrying-severed-head-article-1.3166627
Apparently, Oregon grocery clerks are tougher than Las Vegas police.
Well they are police, so only the most cowardly pieces of shit on the community.
Cleanup in aisle three!
No other information?
What’s in the box, man?
An unassembled kit for a vacuum tube thermometer.
What?
Ahem…
An unassembled kit for a vacuum tube thermometer
I know I don’t always enunciate properly, but I thought I’d been clear.
OK?
While I like nixies as much as the next guy, what does that have to do with the price of bananas?
Rectal?
I did trade with a monkey for it…
Don’t mix business with pleasure.
Please tell me that this maniac didn’t leave any small children in his running car while he went in to take care of a short errand!!!!
Machine Shop Ear-Bender: So we were doin’ paramedical work in affiliation with the state highway system. Not actual practice, you understand. And me & Bill were patrolling down Nine Miles.
H.I.: Bill Roberts?
Machine Shop Ear-Bender: No, not that mother-scratcher. Bill Parker. Anyway, we’re approaching the wreck, and there’s this spherical object a restin’ in the highway. And it’s not a piece of the car.
Honestly I’m shocked.
In Texas I suspect the guy never would have gotten 3 steps past the front door, in a big east coast city where guns are outlawed I can see the store employees fighting back and subduing the guy till the cops get there, but in Portlandia? I’m shocked there was enough testosterone left in the city to muster a harsh word to the guy forget actually successfully fighting back
It was in Estacada, about 30 miles southeast of Portland. There’s a vast difference in the types of people you’ll encounter pretty much the second you leave the city limits. Especially going east rather than west.
Does this man have a name? It seems to be missing from the article.
Aw hell, Powers Boothe died.
Well… bye.
One of the most underrated actors of all time. Now more pissed that the Deadwood movie took so long because if it ever does happen, he can’t be in it.
We still have Lou Reed though.
Last I heard there were a billion screaming chinamen.
It was 5 on 1. I got four of them.
Shoot straight for once ya Army pukes.
Behold, the brilliance of Heather Mac Donald:
“while police officers have an indefeasible obligation to treat everyone they meet with courtesy and respect and within the confines of the law, community members have a reciprocal obligation to obey police commands and not resist arrest. The Trump administration could start a national campaign: “Comply now, complain later.” Such a campaign would publicize the fact that the vast majority of questionable police shootings over the last several years, as well as the justified police shootings, were triggered by the noncompliance of the victims.”
Whole thing here: https://www.city-journal.org/html/how-trump-can-help-cops-15121.html
something police something state
I make it a point to interact with the police as little as possible. I trust them less than a toddler running around with a pair of scissors.
Per department policy, the officer was permitted to run with a pair of scissors in his hand. While the officer was running, he inadvertently collided with the suspect, who was walking down the sidewalk in a suspicious manner, and plunged the scissors into the suspect’s chest. After doing so, the officer attempted to upright himself, but fell due to the suspect’s death spasms and repeatedly plunged the scissors again into the suspect’s chest.
Excuse me: “The scissors were repeatedly plunged into the suspect’s chest”
The scissors went off repeatedly, plunging themselves into the criminal.
Wow, you should get a job handling their press releases.
Last week I was in an elevator with a Chicago cop in our hotel. My boss kept talking with the cop (he’s a small town boy from Iowa) and the cop was in a good mood and was joking. I backed as far into a corner and stared at my feed and shut the fuck up. As we left the elevator, the cop told us to have a nice night and clapped me on the back.
As soon as the elevator left, I told my boss to never do that again when I was around. He had no idea why I would be so nervous around cops. I couldn’t point him to this site or he’d figure out how I spend my mornings. So I told him to google Radley Balko.
is your idea, ‘being sullen and hostile’ is the best way to avoid unnecessary conflict? I’m not sure i get your posture here.
What Gilmore says is needlessly harsh, but in that situation, you were in no danger. I can understand being afraid because of knowing how cops can be when you get on their bad side or when they just feel like fucking with you, but you have to be smart. Jovial conversation in the elevator isn’t going to suddenly turn into you getting choked on the elevator floor. A smile and a nod would be fine if you don’t feel like talking. If nothing else, remember that you don’t know anything about this guy except that he’s a cop, so there’s no reason to treat him any differently than another random stranger, unless he starts barking orders at you — which is, again, highly unlikely in the situation you were confronted with.
you don’t know anything about this guy except that he’s a cop, so there’s no reason to treat him any differently than another random stranger
I don’t know that I would go that far. I think its eminently rational to be more cautious around cops than normal people. Keep the interaction to the bare minimum necessary to avoid looking suspicious, is my general approach (outside of the occasional public gathering, when they are usually easy to avoid entirely anyway).
(takes “harsh-meter” off shelf, shakes it. hears rattling noise. opens with screwdriver. find empty box with loose washer)
I’ve had more than my share or encounters with the police, and here are my rules that work well.
1) Be polite and pleasant if you are encountering them in your day to day affairs. Be polite and grave if you are interacting with them on a law enforcement matter.
2) Be terse or laconic. If they ask you how you are doing, “Good” or “I’ve had better days.” are good non hostile answers.
3) Listen and nod if they are in a talkative mood. They are human beings who crave social interactions just like us, and they aren’t all monsters who are looking for an excuse to destroy your life. If they are in a friendly mood, be friendly back.
4) Be brief, and be gone. Complete your interaction quickly but without undue haste, and go on your way.
99.999% of the cops walking around at any given moment are not looking for trouble. They aren’t looking for unnecessary exertion of fucking with you. Don’t give them an excuse and you will almost always be fine.
He was looking for any guns you might have had taped there, John McLane style.
Compliance – the hallmark of any great civilization!
I think there is a sane middle ground. Neither police nor “community members” should escalate the situation. Don’t strangle a suspect over a non-violent shouldn’t-even-be-a-crime, and don’t punch cops in the face.
I could go along with that. On one condition – any police officer found to have violated the rules of public interaction (spelled out in advance) will be immediately terminated, have their pension revoked and can never be employed in any government capacity ever again.
community members have a reciprocal obligation to obey police commands and not resist arrest.
Notice what’s missing? The word “lawful”.
Yup, just obey the police, no matter what! *facepalm* I get really sick and tired of the cop lovers.
Man, this is so much better on a computer as opposed to mobile.
Kinky.
Euphemistically speaking?
Its not easy to drag the laptop and Ethernet cable into the bathroom but I make it happen.
“Comply now, complain later.”
OBEY
What a worthless cunt.
OT Query. I interviewed for a job with the hiring manager at a major drug dealer about two weeks ago. How long before I should ask their HR if they made a decision?
I’ve been with the feds too long to know what’s proper anymore. Here you apply and they tell you 2 months later you mathematically scored high enough for an interview and will be contacted, only to let the cert expire so they can send out the job announcement again.
I don’t know…
In my last two job changes I got one job offer after I’d forgotten I’d interviewed for the position (but was still unemployed, so I accepted) and interviewed after I already started the position to fill the bureaucratic requirement that there be an interview of candidates conducted.
Are you moving coke or H?
At the same time I knew what you meant, but also had the image of a small corner kiosk selling soda and hemorroid medication.
Its for Medicare Part D Compliance. So both.
You should check with ZARDOZ he’s working for a major drug dealer.
in seriousness… I don’t know. Typically I would wait a week or two, but it depends on the size of the company. (larger companies can take time.)
Doesn’t ZARDOZ require tribute to speak with him? What’s the procedure here, a small altar, a can of ether and a dead rabbit?
Its with CVS Silverscript, so yeah they’re pretty big, but they probably won’t pay as well. I’ll wait.
Did they tell you how long it would be before someone got back to you (were they still interviewing candidates during some window of time)? Even with a big company, 2 weeks seems to be excessive to me. Then again, often time they are far faster to reply when they want to tell you no thank you than when they are considering you.
I ALWAYS ask when I can expect to hear back when I have any contact with a potential hiring company, whether it’s an initial phone call or a face to face interview, assuming I haven’t been put off by the encounter and am no longer interested in the job. As a hiring manager I usually tried to let people know as well so as to avoid getting too many “just checking in” messages, especially when we were in the early part of the interview schedules.
If you haven’t done the now obligatory “thank you for taking your inestimable time to spend precious minutes deigning to speak with my worthless self” note, then I would put that question in there. Otherwise I would say wait at least one week, but definitely contact them if you haven’t heard anything by 2 weeks so they know you are still interested.
Now that you mention it, I have not sent out such a message. I’ll play that angle. Thanks!
It was a good three weeks before I heard back from the last time I interviewed (and got the job). By that time I thought I was out of the running so it was a surprise when they called me back.
Drug dealers have HR departments now?
When I talked to the Cali cartel, they were back in touch within a week. But the Medellin guys took like three weeks and I had to calm them before they sent me a blowoff email.
So it varies from dealer to dealer. Keep that in mind.
+ 1 “COMO CONSEGUISTE ESTE NUMERO?!”
And you really don’t want to bug MS-13. Their HR department motto is “plata o plomo”.
Carrot or stick sounds so beautiful in Spanish.
I thought it was Spanish for “plate or platter?”
Silver or lead plates/platters?
Fair enough. They interviewed me on a Friday so “within a week or two” is a bit distorted.
Listening to old metal this morning.
I can’t believe I didn’t remember this. That’s a young Kennedy.
Speak English or Die!
Wow…..I’ve enjoyed SOD for a looooong time but never saw that video. Thanks
Danny Lilker put together a SOD cover band called Stormtroopers of Beer. Im seeing them next weekend at a festival in Baltimore
OK, the house is neat as a pin (a miracle after grandchildren visiting yesterday), the yard is cut and the bills are all paid. I am off to the market and then I will haunt these boards.
*Tonight; steak with garlic/mushroom/red wine sauce, asparagus with mornay sauce (the real one with gruyere), and mashed potatoes (sour creme, butter and cheddar melted on top).
Now all we need is a good movie.
Lookit Suthen here, too fancy for hot dogs and French’s.
Ever work with black garlic? There’s a recipe calling for it and I’m thinking I may venture into one of them GOT-DANG FURRENER markets.
Stupid Black Garlic Burger
Black garlic? I had to google that.
I will be trying it very soon.
Apparently you can substitute roasted
whiteSUPREMACIST garlic, so I’ll save the black garlic for another time. Maybe aioli.Ramen for lunch, udon for dinner.
Menu here.
IT people: if someone requests an email and/or IP to be whitelisted, do you take that to mean “one time only” or “permanent whitelist”?
Because I asked our IT people if they could whitelist emails from this particular source, and they obliged, but only to deliver the messages that had been backlogged in the queue, then they shut it off, apparently. I think it’s time for a smoke break.
Adding something to the whitelist is supposed to be permanent.
I wonder if they were freaking out about the Wannacry virus, and they unwhitelisted a bunch of things as a measure to reduce their vulnerability.
Sounds like they didn’t white list anything for you, and most IT departments will not white list email addresses but might change quarantine protocols to allow them through if there are no attachments or embeds. At least that’s how it has been in my experience.
Our spam filter lets users whitelist email addresses. I think that’s pretty standard.
Filed under: I can’t even.
OMGWTFBBQ?
No! No! No!
This can’t be real. It can’t be.
…the fuck?
Although this is a great (satirical if it has to be made obvious) reply:
Can we replace all Booleans with floats as well? The reasoning is two-fold:
Bool and Boolean are named after George Boole, a white, straight, British male who lived in the 19th Century, the height of British and Western Colonialism and the oppression/genocide of people of color, i.e. everyone outside of Europe. Honoring him with a data type, let alone two, is an insult to aboriginal cultures everywhere.
Boolean variables are forced to be “True” or “False”, implying that anything can be identified as objectively true or objectively false. This is a heteronormative, imperialistic Western philosophy and is the root of all racism, sexism, classism, ageism, speciesism, Fascism, neurotypicalism. Non-European cultures believe that everything is some combination of True AND False, and as a result had no hatred, warfare, discrimination, poverty, or starvation until European Imperialists showed up.
My favorite comment was the one pointing out all of the uses of “blacklist” in the Linux kernel and inviting someone to suggest to Linus Torvalds that they be removed. It’s hilarious, but only if you know what an utter asshole Torvalds is. The likelihood of such a patch getting integrated is several orders of magnitude below the likelihood that Torvalds would pen a two-page foul-mouthed rant about how and why such a patch is completely worthless and the person who suggested it has no business writing software.
That’s gold, Jerry! Gold!
It is all about context. Which option would be the most annoying to the requestor? That is the one you choose.
Speaking of white racists (but I repeat myself): Marvel cancels Ta-Nehisi’s Black Panthers series after two issues, cites collective shrug from nerd community as reason.
One presumes Coates couldn’t bring himself to condemn a public institution, even in his personal grievance porn.
No kidding. How is that a BLM-inspired comic couldn’t actually have real cops as the Bad Guys when that was the initial point of BLM, but has to resort to the tired Big Corp. as the only conceivable Bad Guy.
BLM was never about curtailing police brutality or prosecution corruption. It was all about imposing the Left’s authoritarian agenda on an unwilling populace.
I’m not big into comics, but Arkham City had the same shit going on. I guess, it’s easier to put Evil Corporate Evil Executive 1% Guy into jail at the end, then ask why and who allowed government functionaries to go wild?
That’s not fair to Arkham City, they establish pretty early and continuously that the mayor is a ‘law and order’ piece of shit that just wants the problem to go away and will let anyone do it. There’s also a direct reference to the city council voting on and okaying the “yep, bomb the supervillain concentration camp into ashes” plan at the end.
Yeah, but the entire prison is staffed by private security because…we can’t have Batman punch cops? Despite the whole thing being run and funded by the city – like any Police Union ever would allow such a deal without getting in on the action (a chance for extra shifts, and more hires).
because…we can’t have Batman punch cops?
It creates the problem where you can’t frame Gordon as some moral paragon of a police chief because he’s got a massive abuse and corruption problem under him that he effectively does nothing about, so then you have to spend time actually explaining that or Shamus Young will write a four hundred page series on why your writing sucks. It’s just easier to make the operation completely independent, funded by al Guul and run by Strange with the government being a bunch of useful, easy to manipulate idiots who are willing to wash their hands of atrocities but still approve them.
Also, you can punch the shit out of cops in Origins and 90% of the force is corrupt as fuck.
There’s no sugar Coatesing it; the idea sucked.
Coates is a shitty ass author. The idea that he is the next James Baldwin is downright insulting.
That’s bizarre. And why would robot cops share human biases about skin color, or overreact to possible threats due to fear like a real cop might? Makes no sense whatsoever.
Because the racist executives are only going to hire racist program managers who are only going to hire racist programmers to write the code. Don’t you know anything about capitalism?
+1 White Dog movie
Given that 75% of those programmers are pretty damned Brown Skinned Asians themselves that is even less likely
It’s pretty funny the best ideas they have sound like children’s television show ideas.
These people are children and they think like children.
Uh, comic books?
Yeah, not going to criticize them for that.
I’ll criticize them if they write the kind of stuff children wouldn’t want to read.
Do actual children like it?
I was thinking this is along the lines of little einsteins, even comic books shoot at a grade above.
Its not even remotely creative, either, unless you think “Robocop 3: Racist Boogaloo” is original.
what? “boogaloo” goes with the first sequel, not the second. it’s “Robocop 2: Racist Boogaloo” because rhymes.
I was counting the remake as number 2, but fair point.
I’d buy that for a dollar!
I always think its funny when progs endlessly rediscover that “‘Woke’ shit is not popular”
whether its feminist ghostbusters, bill nye’s musical attempt to equivocate between ‘transgender issues’ and ‘butt stuff’, or emma watson’s “i am woman = hear me whine”-ness…
…they always seem surprised when the public reaction to their shit is, at best, “meh”, and more commonly = “that’s fucking dumb”
Today in fake news:
Mika and Joe: Kellyanne Conway Secretly Hates Donald Trump
I can think of another reason why someone might say they need a shower after being on Morning Joe. Note that the reason she said she needed a shower is imputed to her by noted telepath Mika.
Note that the headline “doing this for the money” is something that not even Joe says Kelly Anne ever actually said. As to what she meant by “I’m gonna get through this”, who the fuck knows? Could be something like “Presidential campaigns are brutal but they don’t last forever. I’m gonna power through this.”
As ever, the headline and chatter are utterly unsupported by anything that was actually said or done, even by the professional liars in the DemOp Media.
She hates Trump so much that she dressed like a George Washington clown for the inauguration! /s
And “this is like my summer vacation in Europe” and “I’m just doing it for the money” make no sense. Who goes on vacation in Europe because it pays well? Vacations are for spending money, not making it.
I’d be down for a working vacation. Hell, I might even prefer it. I get bored playing tourist.
And is vacationing in Europe really considered to be a bothersome chore?
Well, it sounds like Trump is done for sure this time anyway. Firing the FBI director is an impeachable offense. It’s right there in the Constitution. I mean it has to be or they wouldn’t be going on about it 24/7, right?
Local news just said public works is replacing 18000 feet of sewer pipe and it will cost 3.5 mil. That’s $195 per foot. This seems high. Is it?
ask the local union
You can probably find this on YouTube, but David Letterman had a segment with kids telling jokes, and this one girl was like “how many teamsters does it take to change a light bulb? [Large number] – you got a problem with that?”
Letterman was visibly nervous that the girl went there.
Probably not out of the realm of possibility. I’m sure there is some graft built in, but the pipe is not the bulk of the expense. Digging up the old and paying people who know what they doing to join the new pipe is not cheap.
I’m assuming some graft but not being in the pipe-laying biz I don’t know what percentage it is.
The pipe sections looked to be about 20 feet long. Does it really cost almost 4k to by new pipe, trench, remove old pipe, and lay and join 20 feet of new pipe?
yes.
particularly when the union rules say you need 5 people to do a job that 2 could easily accomplish. and then there’s the compliance costs and the environmental impact assessment. what, you think you can just start digging holes or something?
^Bam. Not only that, but my wife noticed recently that local PD is sticking plainclothes officers in with the road crews, presumably for speed trapping, pseudo-checkpoints, that sort of thing. We were driving past a road crew when she was like, “Uh, one of these things is not like the other…” and pointed to the clean-cut, youngish, notably unweathered white chick distractedly holding a sign while she chatted on a walkie. Turns out she recognized her having met her through a mutual friend who was a local cop. Apparently it was mutual, because the chick made eye contact and then pulled a quick “Oh, hey, what’s this thing down on the ground behind me that I have to look at right now” move.
So in addition to assistant sign holders, we’ve also apparently got cops hanging around not being terribly useful.
When a friend was opening up his business in Chicago, he used non union labor. Some union guys stopped by the business and tried to persuade him to use union labor and my friend told him to fuck off. He one day came to his store with a notice from the city saying that he was in violation of some obscure law. When that didn’t work, he one day came to the shop and found out that his non union laborers did not want to finish the job. We don’t know for sure, but we’ve both always suspected that those non union laborers where threatened to never come back to store. He finally capitulated (due to necessity) and hired union laborers.
Reason #7439 why the inner cities are dying.
“I always charge $195 per foot to lay pipe.” /Weird Uncle Bob
Well, there’s excavation and so forth as well, so maybe that’s part of it.
Depending on the circumstances, excavation can be anywhere from a trivial part of the cost to a source of serious cost overruns. Everybody is supposed to document what they put in the ground exactly where they put it (position and depth) but you don’t know for certain what’s down there and where until you start digging (it’s not always someone’s fault, either—soil settling and compacting can move things around). Excavation also gets a lot more labor-intensive in tight spaces and developed areas. It’s dirt cheap (no pun intended) to dig a large hole or trench in a wide open space with loose soil. A narrow hole or trench in a tight spot that’s been covered in asphalt and/or concrete for 50+ years? Different story.
Is $3.5 million the cost of the winning bid or the amount of the bond?
Last sentence question is for OP.
The newswoman just said “cost”. The story isn’t on their web page yet.
From the aerial view it looks like the pipe is only a few feet below the ground and they know right where it is.
Ok. That doesn’t seem so high to me. But I’m also grading on a curve. It’s a government contract, more effort will be spent on compliance than work.
STEVE SMITH LAY PIPE FOR FREE
What about the Pope?
STEVE SMITH LAY ANYTHING THAT MOVES. OR DOESN’T MOVE.
A woman at Disney World stole an expensive stroller. What she did was use her young daughter as a front. She walks up to the stroller with her kid and places her in there and then pushes the stroller away. And who is going to notice?
Someone did, there were no details to how she was caught but police found that she had an online page that listed numerous other high-end strollers, purses, wallets and diaper bags.
The stroller she got caught with had a wallet and an epi pen. Don’t leave your wallets in your strollers, people. And certainly not anything you might require rightfuckingnow to save your live like an epi pen.
I heard about it on a podcast but instead of making you listen to that I found a text article. Cause I’m nice.
We didn’t go to Disneyland until our kids could walk, but even if the couldn’t our previous practice was to use umbrella strollers and just use ourselves as mules for carrying everything we needed. This incentivized us to carry to absolute minimum. And if it happens I end up pushing a toddler around in Disneyland or any other theme park that’s how I ‘m going to do it.
I don’t know how many of you have tried to walk through Adventure Land on a busy day, it totally sucks it is so crowded and it’s crowded because of all the massive strollers parked out side of Indiana Jones, Jungle Cruise and the gift shops. C’mon people scale it back it bit. Hunter and Mathilda don’t need a rolling palace to enjoy the park from.
Umbrella strollers fold up to almost nothing, if Disney would mandate that only those were allowed in the park they could take care of a lot of their congestion problems in all areas of the park.
This scenario was a plot arc on the last season of Shameless. The chunky red-head was stealing high end baby stuff and selling it on EBay.