It was a big sports weekend, to say the least. The Nashville Predators moved a game closer to the Stanley Cup finals and now have a 3-2 series lead and could clinch the Campbell Conference tonight at home. Meanwhile, I believe my predicted demise of the Penguins might have been premature after they beat the Senators by a touchdown yesterday and now have the same lead in the Wales Conference. We will know who makes it in the next few days, but after the weekend, I’m gonna reassess my earlier picks and just keep my mouth shut. Meanwhile, in Europe, the limeys and Spanish (as well as the Catalans) finished their domestic leagues. Real Madrid won La Liga for the first time in a while and Liverpool won their match, forcing Arsenhole to the Europa League for the first time in 20+ years. Enjoy Thursday football, Gooners you smarmy dickheads. You certainly deserve it.
I don’t even want to comment about basketball until the predetermined finals matchup materializes, which should take a few more days after the Celtics miraculously won a game last night. (Oh yeah, except to say that Popovich is a smug, douchey asshole. His “manslaughter” comment was among the dumbest things I heard this week.) So stay tuned for that.
Anyway, I know what you all came here for, so let’s get on with…the links!
Top Dem on oversight committee wants every note the White House has on President Trump’s meeting with Russian diplomat. This is the same guy that called the committee’s request for Eric Holder to testify during the Fast and Furious investigation overreach. I guess Executive Privilege only applies to his Team. Or he’s a raving hypocrite who is still living off the goodwill he earned from the 60s. (TW: HuffPo retardation)
Lengthy article wherein ultra-progressive author projects his family’s racism onto the rest of the nation. The comments, last time I looked, were pretty surprising. (TW: Salon super-retardation)
Looks like somebody doesn’t understand that the words “fresh” and “fries” at Wendy’s rarely go together. Now she can compare them to the fries at the county lockup.
Step right up out. And don’t come back. The Greatest Show On Earth performs its last gig. I remember seeing the show several times as a kid and enjoying everything. Even the clowns. But that’s all over now.
California Democrats embrace philosophy of “when they go low, we go high”. Well, if by “high”, they mean raising both hands and giving the President Camacho salute. Keep it classy, you clowns. That shit may sell in your bubble, but people in flyover country aren’t big fans of that idiocy.
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I still like Elijah Cummings, somehow.
Yeah, what’s not to like:
Hypocrite
Perpetual politician
Never existed outside his bubble
Race-baiting
Living off a few deeds from 50+ years ago
Liar extraordinaire in Tea Party “spitting” incident
Protected IRS during targeting scandal
It would be fun to see his face in a wind tunnel. Look like a bulldog sticking it’s head out the window at 70 mph. More slobber with Cummings, though.
He’s a Team Blue John McCain, in other words.
Elijah Cummings perfectly represents his district, which is most of the shittiest parts of Baltimore. I swear to god, if we could just give Baltimore to Delaware our state wouldn’t suck quite so much.
That’ll happen right after Pennsylvania finally offloads Philadelphia onto New Jersey.
Even NJ doesn’t want Philadelphia. Newark is bad enough.
Only if Northwest NJ can join Pennsylvania in the trade.
He was my Congressman for years and I lived in an awesome part of Baltimore.
What is this mythical “awesome part of Baltimore” of which you speak?
And if we in Virginia could give Fairfax and Prince William counties to Maryland, we could say the same thing.
It’s true, a bunch of statists up here working for the state or surviving off of the teat of the state. Worse, we’re a lot of people are becoming more and more proggy up here.
Oh heeeelllllll no. For all its faults, NoVA beats The People’s Republic any day of the week!
Sorry, but my DC Lateran Treaty would actually give you parts of DC as well. And not the parts with the Smithsonian.
I had a similar commute to Elijah Cummings for awhile so would see him in traffic. He had a tiny little Chevy Aveo base sedan with an Elijah Cummings sticker plastered across the rear window obscuring the view of his little bald head.
Christ, Count. What’s to like? The guy is the worst party hack and incorrigible liar.
Although I’m much younger than he is, I’m old enough to remember real racism being an issue. Which he did fight against, and quite bravely.
I’m also fascinated by the shape of his head. It’s like his skull was designed by Buckminster Fuller.
Yes he did. Now I suspect he and Maxine Waters cause more racism than they eliminate.
What is it, a links commenting boycott? Or are y’all stuck trying to slog your way through the first two I posted?
Hold your horses – I’m still on the first cup o’ coffee on a Monday morning.
I was late arriving.
I couldn’t see. Some bitch maced me.
Was it Eiram Chanel Amir Dixson by chance?
Didn’t smell like Chanel number 5. Number 2 maybe.
Eau d’ CS?
How did you not give me a *narrow gaze* after the mace joke?
I was too anxious to make my own bad joke?
Something stinks here…
I refuse to comment until we are provided a living wage
I woke up in Kansas this morning. I think I have a meeting when I figure out what time it is.
Kansas is in The One True Timezone. The current time is 7:28 am
For now.
Eastern Standard Time is the OTT. So Kansas is there for a big part of the year.
Wow. Where did you go to bed?
Australia, but he forgot about the Oz-Kansas wormhole.
Begins to narrow gaze, begins slow clap instead.
I’m sorry. I was trying to read the articles first. I know that’s a faux pas.
The Europa League hasn’t been around for 20 years.
Sure it has. They just changed the name.
It’s been around for decades starting out as Fairs Cup.
Mitropa was the original Champions League.
It’s raining here. DC people treat rain like southern Californians. Utter panic on the roads. So, late.
Some of us do work actually.
Customers just have these needs, man!
We were going to comment on the links, but then we got high.
Deja vu?
Here:
Liverpool won their match, forcing Arsenhole to MISSthe Europa League for the first time in 20+ years.
No, they are in Europa, not in Champions.
Since Everton literally had nothing to play for, I was hoping they would help out Arsenal (who I cant stand) and Middlesborough would step up and take out Liverpool (who I despise with the hate of a thousand fiery suns). When you have decided it is best for your team to lose, things get weird. Everton did their part, but flopping around uselessly despite being up a man for 75 minutes. I just wish it had been done with the second 11.
For Americans, the Europa league is the NIT of european club competitions.
New Branson attraction lets tourists hunt Bigfoot
STEVE SMITH THINK THEY HAVE THAT BACKWARDS – STEVE SMITH HUNT TOURISTS!
“I’m not out here with you. You’re out here with ME!”
-Stephen
an 18-hole miniature golf course
STEVE SMITH ALWAYS GET HOLE IN ONE, HE TOWER OF ACTION
STEVE SMITH HARDEST HIT!
STEVE SMITH HIT HARDEST
No Steve Smith is hitting hardest.
STEVE SMITH HIT THAT!!
This must vary by franchisee, because though it had been over a since I last visited one, the locals Wendys outs never had anything go stale.
Not even that “Where’s the Beef?” commercial?
The knock on Wendy’s has always been the fries. Although the new fresh cut version is hit or miss and I’ve actually had good ones occasionally, the rule is that they’re gonna suck.
Hell, I almost have a work theory that they use the shittiness of their fries as a marketing ploy to get more people to buy a small chili just to dip them in and make them palatable.
Their fries generally suck. Which I don’t understand because it’s not hard to make good fries.
Wendy’s fries always make me choke. It’s like they stick to my esophagus and congeal into a mass somewhere just north of my stomach valve.
That’s very strange, because the only problem I’ve ever had was an insufficient usage of salt. But that is easily recified.
I liked that Sriracha cheese sauce they had a few months ago.
I thought they were mostly used to dip in the Frostees?
But they have “baked” (steamed in foil) potatoes! Except they run out of them early.
Sometimes I’m tempted to go to Five Guys for a burger, and McD’s for fries, in one trip. Seems no fast food chain can get both burger and fries correct.
Where I work there is both a Wendy’s and a McDonald’s close by. I will sometimes get a burger from Wendy’s and fries from McD’s.
Market failure, or market opportunity?
You pass of the Five Guys fries? I think Five Guys has the best fries ever. I would weigh a ton if the closest Five Guys wasn’t so far from both my house and work. I make it there about twice a year and enjoy every last fry.
I don’t know about where you live, but here they’re moist and not at all crispy. They’re floppy fries.
They do trend “soggy” here.
Some of us don’t mind the slightly moist fries. The key is they are made from fresh cut potatos
Some of us don’t mind the slightly moist fries.
You’re just a monster.
And the peanut oil. Hate McDonalds fries – always too salty.
Burger King had the best fries in the area, hands down, until they switched away from trans fats. Now their shit tastes like some baked Ore-Ida steak fries, it’s horrible. The real shame is that it was the closest to Jack in the Box fries I’d ever had, and now there’s no real replacement.
I’m pretty sure BK puts a batter or breading on its fries. Gack.
They do. That was their answer to constant complaints about soggy and undercooked fries.
Problem is the batter tastes disgusting
Burger King french fries went south when they breaded them. Before that they were relatively good. But any of these fast food places has variations in the quality of their fries depending on how long they cook and how long they drain and sit.
We did that once for fun, got fries from McDonalds, burgers from Wendy’s, and milkshakes from Dairy Queen. (This was before Five Guys was a thing.) It was fun, but not worth the effort, and pretty damn expensive for a fast food meal.
Yeah, in my neighborhood, it would be pretty tough to shop around. There are a few fast food joint close to each other, but you’d be sitting in traffic while your food got cold.
That’s what food courts are for.
Worst case of food poisoning was from a Wendy’s burger. Laid me out for three days on vacation. Haven’t been able to stomach going back since then.
I haven’t heard of that from a Wendy’s. I was poisoned at a Hardee’s in FL back when they had Hardee’s. I was praying for death I was so sick.
Worst food poisoning I had was from Rax (remember them? A competitor to Arby’s) Roast Beef sandwiches. When I woke up with stabbing pain in my stomach, I rolled over to look at the alarm clock. The LED numbers were, from my sickened state, bouncing all over the room. I had to crawl on my belly with my eyes closed to make it to the toilet.
Yikes. I’ve been lucky, then. It was a shitty, vomity nightmare, but nothing psychological like that.
Taco Hell is the worst.
Roy Rogers. NEVER eat at Roy Rogers. Particularly in a highway gas station. EVER.
America’s Cities Are Running Out of Room
Everyone wants to live downtown, but only the rich can afford it. And it’s getting worse.
I suspect there is plenty of space available in Saint Louis, Chicago, Buffalo, Cleveland, Baltimore, …
Detroit has space from the one million people who have fled…
Citation needed. The reasosn suburbs exist is not because property values are too high in-city, but because city living is shitty for a lot of people.
This. I have a yard. And soon, a swimming pool!
Yeah, it’s weird, but it turns out that a lot of people like having a yard and being able to park in front of their own house on a regular basis. And not hearing sirens that often.
And the lower crime.
and the quieter streets
and the neighbors I actually get to know (and party with)
I’ve not seen much evidence of this.
Maybe it’s because I’m not one of those cult of the lawn people who likes to spend 20 hours a week doing menial labor but I’ve lived in a variety of suburbs for the last 20 years and never once have I been friends with a neighbor and there is only one guy that I was really even friendly with and that was mostly because we had a mutual hatred of the assholes who lived in between us (they were the ones who would not allow their kids to play with our kids because we didn’t go to the right church)
I’m friends with most of my neighbors. We have Front Porch Friday in the summer. BYOB and hangout for an hour or so – rotates from house to house.
I’m not the most outgoing guy, but there is also a local neighborhood owned pool, which is the focal point of most of the socialization. We BBQ there, swim, have movie nights, and even the pool cleanup and close downs are social events. So now my family gets invited to Memorial Day and Halloween parties.
Fun facts
Thankfully it’s not a public pool, but a privately owned one. Members – and membership is limited – have to pay in.
Do they do the thing where they fill the pool with bubble bath on the last day before draining it for the season?
The most communication I have with my neighbors is this one guy that really likes my car – we have reserved spots that are right next to each other so we run into each other in the morning and when I’m home for lunch. We just say “hey man, have a good one.” Occasionally I see him dealing with a crying baby or dealing with an irate wife (that happens to be the property manager for the apartment complex). I wonder if he’s happy, then I remember that I don’t really care.
Invite them over for beers and a barbeque. You’re missing out.
Maybe it’s because I’m not one of those cult of the lawn people who likes to spend 20 hours a week doing menial labor
When we lived in TX, our neighborhood had beer Fridays, where everybody would bring their booze over to one house and hang out for a few hours. There was certainly no cult of the lawn. Waaaay too much work when everybody is on an acre. Instead, we were happy to overlook a few minor eyesores and looked out for one another when code enforcement trolled down the street.
We haven’t been in the new neighborhood in VA long enough to get to know them well, but they’re all pretty chill so far. We’re on an acre again, and nobody care about cult of the lawn crap. I haven’t even mown in 3 weeks, and the yard is more weeds than grass. Hopefully we can establish beer Friday here, too.
And schools that don’t resemble SuperMax.
That reality has spurred developers to focus on center-city neighborhoods where high-density building is allowed
So it has to do with government zoning regs stifling what people want?
Somehow I don’t think the author will ever make the connection.
And it’s not like rent-control in places like NYC discourage developers from operating mid-level residential units, either.
Eh, all the hipsters moved into The Heights and Washington Ave. Although that might have more to do with the relative costs of Ubers and DUIs than zoning.
“Progressives” usually just skip over the whole topic of the government regulation that currently exists (see also: healthcare, the finance sector). It’s surprising that this author actually mentioned that high-density building is not allowed. Even so, the author didn’t consider whether these laws could be eliminated; they just kind of mentioned it in passing as though it were an unchangeable law of the universe that we just have to work around (with more laws, of course).
Breaking news: Resources aren’t infinite and are priced accordingly. Updates at 11.
I don’t see the problem with scarce vacant lots. People will move to other areas and create new desirable areas. Although, I would consider living in the downtown of major cities about as desirable as a root canal.
I don’t want to live downtown.
Where the neon lights are pretty…
I’ve lived in cities when I’ve had to and don’t miss the experience one bit. From where I live in can be in Tampa or Bradenton in thirty minutes and Clearwater, St. Pete or Sarasota in forty-five minutes. I get to enjoy living in a sleepy little rural town and when the mood strikes be in the city in the blink of an eye. It really is the perfect life.
You are in what be favorite part of the country. I grew up in Boca Grande, a wee barrier island about half way between Tampa and Naples. The moment wifey retires, we are heading back down to Florida. I’m now in Rockaway Beach. We were in Crown Heights Brooklyn (600sq.ft. apartment w/1br, 1ba for $1200 per month) but had kids and needed more space so we were priced out of the neighborhood. Now we have a fenced yard, garage, 1500 sq.ft. house with 3br, 2 ba., we’re right on the beach and our rent is only $1400 (Holy Mackerel, I hate NYC).
As someone who lives there Tampa doesn’t really have much of a city, people only go there for work, or the occasional play.
I live in a sprawling city that supposedly encourages density in development, except that building anything dense requires years of permitting and reviews. Rents are shooting sky high yet there are huge surface parking lots throughout downtown. Bicycling is encouraged yet the city maintenance and police departments constantly parks their own vehicles in the bike lanes they built. It’s almost like the government can’t figure out that incentives matter more than empty talk.
Except vacant lots aren’t really a hugely useful metric of downtown urban real estate pricing. I originally moved from Brooklyn to the Upper East Side because the prices of the “bargain” hipster neighborhoods in Brooklyn matched those on the UES. Those neighborhoods still have more vacant lots.
I’ve always lived downtown because I like being able to walk to work and everything else. I also liked the “edge”, for want if a better word, of it. Unfortunately for me it became the in thing in both of the cities I’ve lived in as an adult. Downtown Denver was a shit hole in the early 90s, but now is like Boulder. Then I move to shithole jersey city and it turns into lower Manhattan 2.0.
There has to be some shit hole downtown somewhere in a place with decent jobs where I can move that won’t become popular. I’m open to suggestions. Currently considering Detroit, Cleveland or Buffalo.
Illuminati CONFIRMED
*rises to begin ovation*
Dude in the middle looks concerned, like he planted a bomb and thought he would have been long gone by now.
Is that the Center for Extremist Ideology?
And right under (in our flattened perspective) that sign, is that David Koch?
Or is it Scientology: Confirmed?
Dude in the back has his hat on sideways!
Was that taken at a Colorado country estate known as “The Meadows”?
https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/866637081312972800
And when the music stops you get to rule whatever territory your hands are touching
Doesn’t that disfavor Trump, because, you know…?
I’m just going to leave this here
LOL at NYC train riders indifference to weirdness
Never make eye contact.
This is not some joke, but something that happened for real? Man, wtf is wrong with people?
LSD and MTA don’t mix?
i think he makes some good points there.
Are you talking about the shit he was mumbling, or about the tiny protrusion in his banana hanger?
Why would you keep the chicken-unicorn imprisoned? It needs to be free, man!
Not sure about the leotard, though…
I clicked the share button and the description reads “Chicken Unicorn … a new song ready to go viral.”
It’s all marketing, man!!!!!
Does that make me a corporate shill? Damn you, big
oiltobaccopharmaagriculture…rubber chickens?People pay a fortune to live in a place where they have to put up with that shit? What the hell is wrong with people?
‘The words male and female describe who we used to be’
Self-obsessed bullshit. We don’t really care about your personal hangups concerning your junk.
^This^
I am getting pretty tired of hearing about this shit from crazy people that cant figure out who they are.
“Soloway’s production company is called Topple, as in toppling the patriarchy. What does that mean in a practical sense? “Well, I would just like to topple the whole thing: get Trump out of office, have a female president, a queer president, a person of colour…”
Well, as long as they never find our secret treehouse.
Too late. These people have been secretly burrowing into our institutions for a long time now. Our entire secret culture treehouse is honeycombed through and through by now.
I was recently lectured at work that gender is a socio-cultural construct based on one’s environment and self-identity while sex is based on hormones. And not to ever mix them up again.
Did you ask them if sex at work was cool?
I don’t know, I think there’s some truth to the idea that gender is the social component of the genetically-determined sex. I just think that there’s a synchronicity between traditional gender roles and those traits that tend to follow sex. There’s a reason that stuff like war, hunting, and strength-based pursuits are typically associated with men in most cultures, for instance.
Yes, that’s basically the difference between “sex” and “gender”. Unfortunately, their strong correlation, and all but rare causation, leads people to believe that sex is also a social construct. And that’s when it gets retarded.
The difference, if there is one, is an ivory tower debate that shouldn’t be brought into the real world workplace in the name of SJW activism.
There’s no difference between sex and gender for 99.9999% of the population so insisting on a difference in wording to suit a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of people is asinine. Environment and culture could play an influencing factor but there’s no doubt gender roles are strongly connected to sex.
Nothing should be brought anywhere in the name of SJW activism.
The simple point is that “male” and “masculine”, and “female” and “feminine”, mean different things.
At the risk of insulting any transgender people, here’s how I think of it. I have every right to dress up like Batman. If I want to change my name to Bruce Wayne and ask people to call me Bruce, that’s totally cool. I don’t have a right to use the law to force people to behave as if I really am Batman if they don’t want to play along. I don’t have the right to get a special Batmobile parking space because, since I really feel like Batman that makes it true.
Exactly. It’s when you start thinking that a woman who doesn’t do typically feminine things is no longer a woman, or that a man who wants to be a woman becomes one by just acting like what he thinks women are supposed to act like. And even if you get reassignment surgery, you can live life as a man and ask people to think of you as a man and refer to you as “he”, and that’s fine, but the genes don’t lie. That and you don’t actually have your very own real twig and berries.
I don’t know. I mean, you can just like wearing makeup and dresses and shit without getting surgery. But whatever, I don’t care what people do.
Gender as a social construct is just made up bullshit. Sex is gender. If a woman likes trucks she doesn’t have a separated gender sex relationship she is a woman who likes trucks.
^This. The nonsense about sex and gender being different things is a fairly recent creation to try to rationalize the normalization of transgenderism delusions.
If gender is just femininity and masculinity, then it’s a social construct, but those constructs came about as the results of tendencies that go with sex. Fifty years ago you wouldn’t describe a woman’s penchant for big ass trucks as “feminine”. You’d consider a woman who dug on Grave Digger to be a tomboy. You wouldn’t stop thinking that she’s a woman, you’d just think that it’s weird that a woman was that into monster trucks. Actually, shit, that would probably be true now unless you write for Salon or are in the market for a romper.
First.
World.
Problems.
Your life is so good you’re anguishing about your gender identity and changing your whole wardrobe every six months. Tell me more about how woke you are.
This. This is what gets me. Gay folks in Iran literally get their junk cut off so they can fuck who they want without being executed. But you get upset when someone calls you “pretty”. Fuckin-a.
Wait, what? How do they fuck sans junk?
And why do I suddenly want Korean food?
Iran is one of the biggest providers of sex reassignment surgery in the world. They get one head cut off in order to avoid getting their other head cut off.
Progressive: Iran supports women concealing themselves from the gaze of the patriarchy AND supports trans individuals? Where’s my passport?
Ya have to break some eggs, etc., etc.
/prog
So I ran that through my bullshit:English translator and it got considerably abbreviated to “LOOK AT ME!”
“One utopian ideal that Soloway brings to their sets is what they call “doing box”, which is when everyone gets together at the beginning of the day, stands on a box and shares whatever they’re going though in their personal life. This way, Soloway says, “Everyone knows humans are prioritised over time and money here. It’s a patriarchal-toppling tool.”
“Doing Box” is the name of their “patriarchal-toppling tool.” That is too fucking hilarious.
But probably a good way to figure out who to fire next.
Gee around here we just call that the daily standup
Our stand-ups stay professional and talk about work. I would not feel comfortable sharing my personal issues with anyone at b work but my manager, who does great at his job because I’m comfortable discussing that with him.
I used to have a boss like that. Every morning he wanted everyone to get together and talk about how they felt.
“Suthen, how do you feel this morning?”
“I feel like people are out there depending on me to get things done. Can I go now?”
He never asked me to come to his feelings meetings again.
Oh, for fuck’s sake, can we give these assholes (progressives) a state? Somewhere where they won’t do much damage to anyone else and can self-destruct away from the rest of us? The rest of us can move out and the proggies in the rest of the country can move there.
It’s not that I want them to die. It’s that I know their recipe leads to misery, starvation and death. Let them have things their way away from the rest of us and let them realize the consequences of their choices.
so they can see which person can out narcissist the rest? don’t they have facebook for that?
Glad to see that Ralph Macchio is working.
I have no sadness for Barnum and Bailey. Fuck circuses. And SeaWorld, too. It’s animal slavery.
Man, unless you’re vegan, I hate to tell you where your meals come from.
They come from the store!
The old Onion article DESPERATE VEGETARIANS DECLARE COWS PLANTS comes to mind.
You know who else need consumed extra protein?
Hannibal Lecter?
Jenna Jameson?
Linda Lovelace?
Your mom?
Your Dad?
Think of all the little animals killed when growing plants
Reminds me of an article I saw a while back (might’ve been on that other place) about a farm on Long Island where a woman was protesting that they shouldn’t kill the cows on the farm for meat but instead go to Whole Foods and buy it.
Yeah. IIRC a guy had a small farm and let city-slickers visit so they could see how farms work. This one crazy lady was totes into it until she was told that the pet cow wasn’t a pet at all. Her and like two friends set up a picket line and got to watch the cow drive past on its way to the butcher.
And no, the cow wasn’t driving itself to the butcher. It was being given a ride in a trailer.
Darn.
I was picturing a real life Far Side cartoon.
So when they refer to cattle drives, they don’t mean…? Shucks.
Something like this?
What happens in vegans definitely doesn’t stay in vegans.
Uh, yeah. I’m happy it’s gone. All domestic animals are basically slaves, but circus animals were not treated well. Good riddance.
Just google videos of rescued circus animals and Ringling Bros. does not come out looking good.
“Students had particular issue with Pence’s positions on Syrian refugees not being allowed in the country, his opposition to gay rights and anti-immigration policies, according to USA Today.
“The participation and degree-conferring of VP Pence stand as an endorsement of policies and actions which directly contradict Catholic social teachings and values and target vulnerable members of the University’s community,” Notre Dame student Xitlaly Estrada of “We StaND For” said in a released statement, according to USA Today.”
http://www.salon.com/2017/05/21/groups-of-students-walk-out-during-vice-president-mike-pences-commencement-speech-at-notre-dame/
Because Islam and the Catholic church have never been opposed to gay rights?
Is there a single us law that even mentions gay people besides the ones establishing them as a protected class?
No, but there are still a few that single them out for exclusion , I would imagine. Doesn’t the tax code define spouse as between a man and a woman, even if the IRS rules are different? And there are a boatload of state laws that identify married couples as requiring a man and a woman.
So while a lot of laws don’t mention gay people, per se, they exclude them explicitly.
Kind of like how saying men excludes the trans explicitly. We need to march on Washington sister. And I mean sister literally because I will not let the state define who is or is not my sister because I reject their defining my relationship.
I guess it’s the same. Most laws that deal with “male” or “female” specifically say “sex”. Therefore they do exclude trannies by definition, since that’s a gender-oriented term rather than a sex-oriented one. You know, since cutting ones junk off doesn’t change their DNA.
There are probably quite a few at the state and local level although most of them are probably unenforceable and they likely don’t use the word “gay” specifically but rather refer to specific activities or behaviors that one would normally find primarily or exclusively in the gay community
If the belief that gays are persecuted in the US needs to appeal to unknown laws that “may” exist but we don’t know of them being used in our lifetimes than I’m going with my original thesis that it’s bullshit. I don’t have any difficulty finding actual laws used by the LGBT supporters to punish bad thinkers, so if I’m to believe that they are the victim and not the victimizer I need numbers that not only exceed those cases but certainly exceed the zero examples I’ve been given.
Do they even Notre Dame at Notre Dame, bro?
If you watch the video, the walk-out crew was tiny, maybe 50-100 students.
Virtue-signaling attention-whores.
I’d wager that this is an accurate representation of my generation’s SJW demographic in general – perhaps even overblown here given that we’re talking about a prestigious school where it’s a prerequisite to have your head up your own ass. A very small but very vocal community. Most of my generation thinks they’re insane.
That’s encouraging.
Talking to a buddy of mine – someone I’d call a Democrat (only because its a default from his parents, he doesn’t read a lick of politics or anything resembling news) – I asked him if he’s a feminist, without any priming or anything.
His response was “well, I would say ‘yes’, but I’m not a feminist in the man-hating abomination it is now.”
I was really taken aback, his girlfriend nodded in agreement too, and she’s certainly someone that gets really uncomfortable if anyone mentions anything even slightly disparaging about trans people, gay rights, etc. – even if its a joke. (Not that these have anything to do with classical feminism, but you get what I’m saying here)
The more regular average-joe people I talk to about this, the more I notice the same thing. Quietly held beliefs that men and women should be equal, but these fringe people (like antifa) are fucking crazy and mean.
This flips on its head when I’m around the artist/musician scene here. I am forced into these situations to support my brother’s art shows. More aggressive proggy-ness in the art scene. Excitement about tearing down statues, extreme TDS, and total scolding and shunning of all other viewpoints.
It would be cool though, if the school were to give the diplomas to Pence to hold onto. If the students want them, they have to go get them from him.
This is the reason a lot of people have problems with taking in refugees. Once they are in, getting rid of them is almost impossible.
The story is about how we took in a bunch of people during the Ebola crisis a few years ago on a “temporary” basis. Now years later, they (surprise, surprise) aren’t excited to go back to west Africa.
I’m for pretty open borders myself. After working with ICE to get my wife her permanent resident card after being married, I’m totally sympathetic to anyone who has to deal with them. But when you are allowed in on a temporary basis to escape some bad shit, please don’t fuck it up for the next group by trying to burrow in like a tick.
I still haven’t heard one convincing argument why anyone needs to be a refugee halfway around the globe from their home when a safe zone can be established far cheaper nearby their point of origin. The question about where they want to be is irrelevent as long as tax dollars are paying for it. I’m talking humanitarian aid. Why spend more per refugee to ship them way far away from where they come from and lead in to getting such problems when they don’t want to go home?
Virtue-signaling, appearances over results
Why do Brits buy sheep from New Zealand rather than grow their own? Because it’s more economical to ship sheep halfway across the globe. Africa has an absolute advantage in producing refugees. It doesn’t make sense to produce them locally, so we import them.
We should insist on only locally-grown organic refugees.
Why? Because it isnt about making people safe. It’s about votes.
Incentives, man. If I’m from Rwanda and I get to the US, you’re gonna have to drag me kicking and screaming back where I came from.
Or just put, and keep you in Detroit in the first place. You’ll leave happily when the time comes .
Dr. Girlfriend graduated with her PhD this weekend and I sat through the awfully long and boring commencement. There are some super weird doctoral programs out there. The most surprising one to me though was Accounting. WTF is an accounting dissertation about? What are their journals like? What is the original contribution to knowledge they make? Other honorable mentions were Advertising and Music Performance. Oh and lets not forget the entire college of education. Those people were waaaaay too happy to walk across the stage to get their dumb diploma that lets them be a principal or whatever.
I imagine a good accounting dissertation would involve explaining when it’s a credit and when it’s a debit.
They discovered a new expense type which is neither operating nor capital.
A quantum superstate expense that is both capital and operating and neither all at once.
The Higgs-Boson exemption?
Hell I’d settle for their being able to come up with a meaningful distinction between capital and operating expense when it comes to Software Development
A PhD in accounting tells me that the tax code needs to be simplified.
A PhD in Education tells me that credentialism has overtaken merit in public schools.
I think credentialism has overtaken merit in most industries. I’ve just gone back to school to get my MS and am strongly considering a PhD afterwards just so I can advance. It’s extremely difficult to in my field without this piece of paper regardless of experience or successful track record.
What do you do?
But public schools are AWESOME! I saw some study once that claimed education majors enter college with the lowest average SAT scores and graduate college with the highest average GPAs compared to all other disciplines. Naturally I figured this was pretty solid evidence that teacher school is completely fucking pointless. But one of my teacher acquaintances informed me that it is only natural. They go to school to learn how to teach so naturally they have the best teachers in college, and they know how to learn the best so they get the best grades! Yeah…. it could be that. Or it could be that you take shit like children’s literature for credit and write your college papers on James and the Giant Peach,
Donald and the Giant ImPeach. Aimirite?
A+
Education PHD earned
Makes you wonder if the saying “Those that can, do. Those that can’t teach” isn’t dead on…
You forgot a comma.
QED…
Like this?
“Those that can, do. Those that can’t teach, teach”
Isn’t it “Those that can, do. Those that can’t, teach. Those that can’t teach, teach phy ed.”
My HS history teacher (and the father of a friend of mine, so I had social interactions with him after HS), said that in college he had a teacher who said that all the time. He responded once with “And those who can’t teach, teach teachers.” And was kicked out of the class.
I’ve always heard, “Those who can’t teach, administrate.”
And those that can’t teach, teach Phys Ed
/Jack Black, School of Rock
oops, sorry
It’s funny but in the IT industry a PHD works against you. There is a huge prejudice against PHD Computer Scientists because they are viewed as guys who spend 6 weeks writing the most beautiful elegant code that does not work when an average programmer hacks out some ugly recursive garbage that gets the job done in 3 days.
Outside of a few very specific programming fields it is actually easier to get a job as a Developer with no degree than it is to get one as a PHD.
This is true in a lot of stem fields.
It depends. There’s a huge difference between the people that went straight through school all the way to their doctorate without ever actually working and going through the normal learning process of getting their first job and going “holy shit I don’t actually know anything” and the people that finished undergrad and worked a real job for X number of years before going back to school for their PhD. The former group are quite literally useless for anything beyond teaching theory in a university. The latter group can be extremely competent smart people that you would definitely want on your team.
Just like any field, it’s not the degree, but the resume that really matters.
Creating a viable scheme to hide $millions in overseas banks without being caught by the IRS?
Just cut your auditor in on it. Duh.
What was it Gaius Verres said “one third for me, one third for my friends and one third for those that would prosecute me”?
No Cicero lurking in our system right now.
Just remember what happened to Cicero.
Forensic accounting and the formulation of international standards are both rich with research potential. Even in the absence of government, GAAP would still exist (maybe especially in the absence of government, since government doesn’t use GAAP).
And for all its flaws, GAAP > IFRS
Anyway, in the eyes of certain employers she’s more employable, so congrats.
The doctorate for accounting is for those who want to teach, universities won’t hire you unless you have one. Actual accountants though get the Masters and the CPA.
Typically most anyone getting a PhD is doing it to teach. I get that and I get that university credentialism required profs have a PhD. I just don’t understand what a research program in accounting is even about. Although it probably makes more sense than the weirdos who got a PhD in music performance.
“Actual accountants though get the Masters and the CPA.”
Eh. My state has a 150 credit hour requirement in order to sit and take the exam. Like most licensing schemes, it is bullshit.
I was allowed to take a few MBA classes my senior year of undergrad which counted 3 credits toward my degree but 4.5 toward the exam. I filled in the rest of my 150 hour requirement by reading CLEP books and taking those tests (I’ll let you decide what that says about psychology and sociology). I also took a few community college classes online AFTER I already had my bachelors. Long story short, I met the hour requirement and passed the exam without a masters. I only practice 1/4 of what the exam covered on a daily basis. This was when I learned that licenses are mostly bogus.
“We must bind up our party’s wounds, for only then can we save our country,” Schiff said Saturday. “And it is not our country alone that needs us right now. In these extraordinary times, it can be said with little exaggeration that the fate of the free world depends upon us, even we here in our golden nation-state.”
Wut?
Suggesting secession? You know who else suggest leaving the Union?
Terry Malloy?
Charles Shumer’s balls?
::good edit faerie earns a gold star::
Darnit. What’s the punishment for forgetting the (?)?
“Schumer.”
A student who has to get back to class?
‘Kissing bug’ disease more deadly than thought.
I’ve noticed that CNN has been big on a “we are all gonna die from rare diseases!” kick lately.
I think it’s more “We’re all gonna die…”
Lately? CNN is a cornerstone in the modern freak-out industry.
So why do intellectuals love dictators so much.
It’s a conceit of intellectualism. They have been indoctrinated to defer to the experts and elites in any given field of study. This leads to a serious case of ‘Top Men’ syndrome wherein they believe the right benevolent autarch could usher in the best possible outcome.
Fatal one, no less.
Dictators usually get to do what all these intellectuals dream of doing: forcing those they think are the dumb lessers to do what they, the smart intellectuals, “know” is right. Lording it over people you feel need to be micromanaged and punished for not accepting that you are their better and they should not only do what you tell them they should, but wholeheartedly believe that is the right thing, gives these credentialed idiots with delusions of grandeur boners.
-Hoffer
Young men falling to the bottom of the income ladder
Finally
I’m sure this has nothing to do with affirmative action, “diversity” quotas, progressive feminist control of the education system, making colleges hostile environments for men, etc.
If the numbers were reversed, this would be considered a national crisis requiring emergency action. But it’s just men, so fuck ’em.
It’s justice!
Now they need more government programs to prop up women that have no clue what the fuck they are doing, so the sisterhood can tell you how they have no need of men anymore…
Affirmative action has the result of puttting education in the hands of people who don’t work at the expense of those that do. Most of the families I know gave the least educated spouse as the breadwinner.
This has to be a waste of economic resources. It’s not a great outlook for my son.
How long until men can go to college to get their “M.r.” degree? Alas, too late for me.
Fuck that progressive slave-owning bitch. For fuck’s sake, the more I dive into my Irish history the worse it looks but I’m not out rending my shirt at the injustice of it all.
Fuck I can’t stand these people. Don’t you put that evil on me.
Everything that was said about the poor black maid could have been said about a poor white from Appalachia. This concept seems lost on people.
That’s where you get it wrong. They don’t care about that poor white person at all, because it doesn’t advance either the narrative nor the agenda. More importantly, they only care about that black person in so far as it helps push the agenda and narrative too. Some black lives are more important than others, for example.
They don’t care about that poor white person at all, because it doesn’t advance either the narrative nor the agenda
I don’t know about that. I was listening to POTUS channel on sirius yesterday, and some Dr woman was going on how even poor whit trash needs to recognize their privilege. Poor white trash has more privilege than poor people with other skin tones. It is all about class sets and white = privilege in any class. I am sure some poor people may disagree with her, but I am sure they do not travel the circles she does.
Not even a destitute black boy raised on Gullah is worth a shit in their book.
Never mind that he rose all the way to the United States Supreme Court. He’s just an Uncle Tom and not authentically black.
Whereas the guy who had wealthy parents that sent him to an exclusive prep school in Hawaii and somehow got great grades despite struggling to write a paragraph that is grammatically correct let alone advances a coherent argument he’s an inspiration for everyone struggling to get out of the ghetto and you’re a racist if you think he’s anything less than perfect.
My impression is that it’s an implicit desire to take a hierarchically dominant position. From these guys’ perspective the black maid will always be inferior (Yes, they are that racist. It’s why, in homogeneous company, you’ll hear progressives refer to a “black tax”. ). Giving her a leg up is a sort of patronage. The poor white from Appalachia, on the other hand looks like them. With the right education and opportunity, he’s their boss or their kids’ boss. And he might start challenging his place and loyalties. And if there’s a group even further removed from them that they can use to position themselves as superior to the rest of their cohort by throwing the poor black maid under the bus, they’ll be happy to sacrifice her interests to theirs.
It’s also why they tend to take the most negative view of the U.S. possible. They’re not terribly interested in the U.S. being better than other countries. It’s being better than other Americans that’s important to them.
Demolition Drama in Moscow
A New Movement Takes Root
If you can’t trust Russian government to tear your house down and build something better, who can you trust?
Personally, I would’ve gone with Soundgarden links for a full seven days. But I know lots of you have NO appreciation for great vocals.
What the fuck is a “soundgarden”?
I really don’t get the hate. You realize Grunge killed hair metal, right? At least give them props for that.
I don’t hate grunge. I’m just indifferent to it. Bunch of whiny bitches lamenting how tough life was during the biggest economic boon America had experienced in a generation and the greatest technological boon for the world since the wheel was first made.
Fuck those dumbasses. If your life is so shitty, move away from a Seattle to a place where the sun shines.
Don’t confuse the Grandma’s old cardigan wearing Cobain, with the rockin’ Cornell. SG weren’t really whiny bitches. Now, Pearl Jam and Eddie Vedder? The worst.
*crosses Pearl Jam compilation off Sloopy’s birthday list*
Thanks. That’s doing both of us a favor.
Grunge was just mopey, retarded musical faggotry. “Oh, life is so tough! What with this new ability to have the knowledge of the world and instant global communication at my fingertips. Whatever will the youth do now that we have extra free time and luxury our grandparents could never have conceived? Can we ever overcome this hardship foisted upon us? Oh woe is me!”
Fucking loser-ass suckholes. At least hair rock was about drinking, having fun and banging hot chicks.
I remember this exchange from Grosse Point Blank:
The Newsweek comment was a nice touch. Kind of sums up the whole movement.
Part of the reason I like Oasis so much. The tunes may have been derivative, but they were the antithesis of the rest of ’90s rock. The Gallagher bros knew how good they had it.
Grunge was like 1991-1992. That tech boon was still a few years out for most people.
This.
Grunge came on the scene in the late 80’s when the first Gen X’ers were graduating from High School/College. The transition from School to work and beginning a career is ALWAYS difficult for every generation no matter how good the economy and Grunge was over by 95 when the Computer revolution was just getting started.
Leaks ‘expose peculiar Facebook moderation policy’
The Guardian said Facebook’s moderators were “overwhelmed” and had only seconds to decide if posts should stay.
I hope they were strapped in a chair ala Clockwork Orange.
So is this going to get legs?
I hope so, but I have my doubts. It really would be amazing if the whole thing is proven true and exposed.
F A K E S C A N D A L
HuffPo has got you covered.
I know Newt Gingrich is a complete hack. But just because he says something does not mean it isn’t true.
If I recall, even Assage hinted it was Seth Rich. Although he can’t be trusted either. Neither can anonymous posts on 4chan.
I wouldn’t even call what Assange said a “hint”. In that interview he said Rich was a source in as clear of terms as he could and still maintain that Wikileaks never reveals sources, dead or alive.
Fair enough.
My point is that no one can know for sure because almost everyone that could possibly be possibly involved — politicians, spies, hackers — is inherently dishonest. Which is one reason why this ZOMG RUSSIA chorus is so so stupid. One could just spin a globe to pick any other industrialized nation, and blame them, as long as the media was willing to chant along. They all spy on the U.S. Even our allies spy on us.
That’s what is hillarious. Kim Dotcom, besides Assange, is probably the most trustworthy of all the characters involved. Tim Poole and others are saying that even if it’s proved that Rich was the source, it doesn’t mean that he was murdered because of it. I’m sorry, but if it’s proven Rich was the source, the probability of him being murdered for the leaks goes through the roof.
Occam’s razor dictates that since the odds this was just a random robbery – where nothing was taken – gone wrong are negligible, the connections he had to something that hurt the Clinton’s grasp on power, make the chance he was offed for hurting them, the most probable scenario.
Yes, the odds definitely go up if the link is proven. And nothing was taken? That’s just unbelievable. Just go to YouTube and you can see people going through the pockets of people who are unconscious after being beaten up by some other dude. Something is definitely wrong with the robbery story.
The biggest red flag for me is the lack of video.
Well that and Assange all but saying Rich was the leaker.
Well, those two things and the fact that his laptop was taken by the cops in a “botched robbery” investigation and has never been returned.
Well, those three and the fact that the DNC went silent on it two minutes after it happened. No real demand for gun control, even! Which is totally against their policy of climbing on a pile of dead bodies to score political points.
This is starting to get traction. And the MSM is already attempting to discredit any skeptics the same way they did when the National Enquirer broke the well-researched John Edwards bombshell. I think there’s a decent chance this works out the same way.
If it is ever proven that Seth Rich was the source, there will be a blizzard of fact-less accusations and elevated speculation that he was working for the Russians. It’s “if she drowns, she’s witch” at this point.
You are playing 5D chess there Count Potato, and I would not bet against you on that claim. It is exactly what they would do. And they would then claim whomever murdered the guy did us all a favor too.
As far as I know, Assange’s various statements and revelations over the years have not been proved false, so it seems he is actually a fairly reliable source.
I don’t think this is someone doing the anonymous thing, as we have others naming names. This guy is offering written testimony, which to me says he can back whatever claim he is making in court. You and I know that the credentialed elite top men would throw this guy’s ass in jail if he threatened to derail their gravy train and the narrative, so I am inclined to put weight on the fact he is willing to go on record with this.
Why would you say Assange can’t be trusted? Has the guy ever released a single word that didn’t turn out to be 100% true?
Obama and Clinton said he was lying about how fucked up and corrupt both of them were?
The big stink about Assange’s truthfulness came over his promise to pay Bradley Manning’s legal costs, for which he collected monies. When time came to help out Manning, the money wasn’t forthcoming.
Some of the crypto blogs I used to follow had a great deal of criticism for Assange, painting him using wikileaks to fund a great lifestyle while talking big, doing little – as if he were the crypto world’s SPLC.
Being detained in the Ecuadoran embassy seems to have encouraged Assange to be more true to his mission.
From whom?
CNN? NYT? WaPo? ABC? NPR? NBC? MSNBC? CBS?
I hope so. I thought I was tapped out on schadenfreude but if this goes anywhere I may find myself indulging again.
DotCom hates the US government and received a lot of abuse from the Obama administration. I imagine he’d like to get even.
I haven’t heard a peep about Seth Rich in the MSM. They’re going to be awfully embarrassed when they’re scooped by a site like Infowars when the story blows up. Kind of like how the National Enquirer humiliated them with their John Edwards reporting.
The story will never blow up, because they will smother the fuck out of it.
There are plenty of enterprising anti-Hillary folks out there that can Woodward & Bernstein this stuff.
But would they if it got them banned from the cocktail parties with the kool kids (libs)?
Or Drudge and Monica.
It will never get any air, because RUSSIA!!111!!!! IMPEACHMENT!!!!!11!
I saw WaPo had a “How fake news still works” story about it this weekend. I’m too lazy to find a link.
Written by none other than Dave Weigel.
I didn’t read it, I just saw the headline linked on reddit. I have given up on wasting my time reading WaPo articles.
Don’t bother, the entire newspaper is a case study on how fake news works.
It would make me very happy if the Independent Counsel started issuing subpoenas to everyone who knew Seth Rich – and everyone involved with Hillary’s homebrewed server.
Mexican Mob Lynches Russian ‘Nazi’ in Cancun
I see no winners here.
“Cancun deserves respect,” the man said, adding, “It’s the most beautiful place you could ever imagine.”
Not when I was there. Granted that was after a hurricane had flattened it and the streets were filled with regular trash and trash that used to be something gawdy.
said Joe Schmo, who’s never traveled further than 5 miles from his birthplace and never been on the internet.
The most beautiful place you can imagine is the town of Mizil in Romania.
I was raised in a Skinner box, so this box is the most beautiful place I can imagine.
Is that where they filmed the Kazakhstan scenes in Borat?
Whew. For a second, I thought maybe we were coming to our liquor senses in Minnesoda. After passing a law to allow Sunday sales, I was a bit worried that cronyism might be hurting.
Not to worry.
Legislators are deep-sixing a bunch of reforms in a liquor omnibus bill. They feel allowing Sunday sales is enough for us peons.
Heaven forbid that we do away with the 3 tier system.
The cognitive dissonance is strong with this one.
Or, the sense of irony is weak with this one.
Both?
But you understand what she meant, right? Maintaining the same level of privilege in the same hands means no winners or losers.
“and not choose winners and losers in this situation. We have to work to protect our Main Street retailers.”
Someone get Alanis Morrisette on the blower …
The Surdyks thing really proved that this is all about control with them. We are allowed to do what they tell us we are allowed to do, and no more. We must comply with the letter of the law, not the spirit.
Even more depressing was how many people here agreed that he should be pilloried because the “LAW IS THE LAW”.
Too many thought that he was completely out of line for not groveling for permission.
*postpones celebrating libertarian moment*
Why did I start reading links at Salon? It seems that their business model is to drown weak ideas in verbosity.
http://www.salon.com/2017/05/22/tear-down-those-confederate-monuments-maybe-we-can-rid-ourselves-at-last-of-civil-war-hangover/
I saw a funny story about someone in New Orleans spray-painting potholes with names of Confederate Generals so the city would come fix them.
Awesome. And at least that actually fixes something. History is irreparable.
I heard they were painting on Confederate Flags.
Maybe we can, but should we? Deciding whether to bring back extinct species
Stupid finds a way?
Depends on what they taste
I’m down for some maatho steak.
Yabba dabba doo.
*mammoth
Can they actually do it or is it wishful thinking? Thus far the ability to stop something already living from dying has eluded researchers. I’m skeptical that they can bring something dead back to life.
Um, they actually have been able to bring the dead back to life depending on when one considers death to occur…
http://observer.com/2016/05/were-closer-than-ever-to-bringing-the-dead-back-to-life/
That said the case here would not be resuscitating a dead animal but using material from a closely related animal and using genetic engineering to create an embryo of the extinct animal and implanting it in the modern relative to carry the fetus to term or using an artificial uterus to grow the fetus in
I don’t see how that article supports your statement they can bring the dead back to life.
It basically lists Pigs, Dogs, and Mice as animals that they have “killed” and then brought back up to an hour after all biological activity had ceased with no apparent lasting impact.
The real question is at what point are you considered dead? When the Heart Stops used to be the dividing line but we’ve been bringing people back from that for decades, there are some cells that have been shown to be able to continue to regenerate up to 17 days after “death”, and with these 2 new techniques the amount of time that you can be brought back after the heart stops is being extended to at least an hour and possibly beyond.
It may be that your statement remains accurate and we need a new better definition of death or maybe we need so new terms for the various stages of death and the word death will cease to refer to an event but rather an ongoing process that up to a certain point can be stopped and reversed, either way using the traditional definition of death as the cessation of cardio pulmonary activity the statement that we can’t being beings back from the dead is no longer true.
Bah, there was a Jewish guy that beat that 24 hour record by 48 additional hours, more than 2,000 years ago.
Sorry the methodology was not well documented and attempts to replicate the research have to date failed ergo it was probably a hoax
“Your scientists were so obsessed with whether or not they could that they never stopped to think whether or not they should.” Jeff Goldblum taught me that.
Before Venezuela, there was Greece. Tax authorities to chase undeclared properties.
Cause it is the government’s money, and they are kind enough to leave you with some of it…. DUH!
Over the weekend I watched Klute with Jane Fonda. Damn she was incredibly sexy. She isn’t the prettiest woman nor does she have the greatest body but she knows how to work what she has.
That’s what the Vietnamese military said about her too..
hey now…
Hey I would hate fuck her too, but I bet the bitch would drive me crazy with her crazy talk..
As a young tween/teen in the 80’s, it was obligatory to watch Barbarbella. I think that may be the only Jane Fonda movie I have ever seen.
What? You never saw this gem?
Oh, nope. You’re right. I have seen 9 to 5 multiple times. Loved it.
Oh man. You, and this is the collective “you”, need to see “Fun With Dick and Jane”. That movie is fucking hilarious.
He’s referring, of course, to the uproariously funny 2005 Jim Carrey vehicle.
Sorry George Segal >>> Jim Carrey
I doubt Segal could pull of Me, Myself & Irene.
off.
For close to a decade, the most visible and famous Israeli was none other than supermodel Bar Refaeli.
But with the upcoming release of Wonder Woman, Refaeli is being ousted from her throne by the one and only Gal Gadot.
http://www.jpost.com/Not-Just-News/The-meteoric-rise-of-Gal-Gadot-492352
So in a pillow fight between Gal and Bar who would you root for?
The pillow is the real winner.
I’ll be in my bunk.
Don’t recognize Bar’s name. Been following Gal since Fast 5 a few years back.
Manic Monday: John McCain Edition
Almost speechless… almost
Unfortunately, McCain is never actually speechless. That’ll only come when he finally kicks the bucket.
Why couldn’t he stay captured?
I wish we could give him back to Vietnamese.
I think they’d rather have more agent orange in their country then have McCain back.
Love you long time…
More Agent Orange
McCain should be prosecuted for sedition. That is all.
Nearly 600 illegals convicted of sex crimes released
Wouldn’t the prudent course of action be to send them back anyway?
Or should we consider building penal colonies?
Yes, send them back. Escort them on a plane, walk them to the terminal in their home country, release them, turn around and leave. Fuck this not taking their citizens back.
C-130 and parachutes. Don’t waste time with airports and customs.
Don’t waste money on parachutes.
And then there’s Hickenlooper…
So he became a productive father and husband in prison???
Some- I assume are nice people.
Given that 90% of them are probably guilty of hiring (or being) a prostitute not really sure if I can work up much outrage
Indians, as in from India, growing desperate as currency swap deadline approaches. Liberal media bleats about how swap will help the poor by bringing in more tax revenue, help everyone by eliminating corruption. Statist assholes chuckle.
That they say this shit without shame tells you how fucked up these statist and their lackeys in the media are..
C’mon David Brooks! Stop writing hit pieces and learn to be a better follower.
To be fair to Brooks, you can’t be a “conservative” writing for the NYT without virtue signaling to your colleagues that “No! I am not Donald Trump!” That’s basically what I think these op-eds are doing.
To be sure.
“Second, most people of drinking age have achieved some accurate sense of themselves, some internal criteria to measure their own merits and demerits….
But Trump’s statements don’t necessarily come from anywhere, lead anywhere or have a permanent reality beyond his wish to be liked at any given instant.”
And this is from the New York Times.
It’s astounding how this man somehow got people to work for him for decades.
Shouldn’t he have been banished to a rock in the ocean for all eternity?
Calling the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office for help leads to social media humiliation, woman says
The post didn’t use Nevins’ name, but she said there were enough details — her age, location and time of the incident — for reporters and curious citizens to figure out who she was by searching public records.
If you didn’t want there to be a public record of the police encounter, you could have just tried removing the cap from the Thermos yourself…
“At the time this photo was taken, slavery wasn’t so long in the past — only 86 years, in fact. I have friends who are 86. Hell, in only 16 years, I’ll be 86.”
As a matter of fact, why doesn’t everyone get the [bleep] off my lawn!
Lucian K. Truscott IV – so you can tell he’s a certified white person from a good Southern family, accustomed to have other people hang on his every word – so the dumb hicks from less prestigious families better pay attention when he calls them racists!
I picture him with a bowtie and seersucker jacket.
Seersucker suit and white wingtips. You still see that in The South.
+1 Mint Julep
The important point is he is the star of his own drama, either as a the dashing rakish villain or as the white savior.
Don’t forget the Panama hat and mopping at his face with a handkerchief.
I had a guy tell me once his grandfather had slaves. I said that seems unbelievable, slavery ended 150 years ago. Then he said it was when his grandfather was a child he knew a slave. It’s possible if you’re close to 100 (and he wasn’t) and both your father and grandfather had children late in life but improbable. His grandfather would have had to been born prior to 1860 to remember it. People seem to want a connection to that time and invent mythologies.
I’m sure there are still people out there. My great-grandparents were born in 1867 and my mom is 63, so it’s not really unreasonable to me that there’s some person in their 70s or 80s who was part of a slave owning family in their teens.
whose grandparent was part of slave owning family, that is.
Lucian K. Truscott IV, as in General from WWII ?
Yes, according to the article that Lucien Truscott was his grandfather.
That may be his grandpa.
As the saying goes, “I study war so that my grandchildren can write for Salon.”
It’s spelled out crystal clear in the article that that is his grandfather. There’s even a picture of him.
Yeah, but do you trust something in Salon? I went with Wikipedia.
OK, that’s pretty funny
I don’t click Salon, I let you guys do it for me
The Salon guy has his own Wikipedia entry.
“His grandfather Lucian Jr was a US Army general during World War II…
“He is a member of the Monticello Association, the members of which descend from Thomas Jefferson, who was Truscott’s great-great-great-great-grandfather. The association owns the graveyard at Monticello. During a November 1998 appearance on the Oprah Winfrey Show he invited descendants of Sally Hemings to the family reunion in 2000. The Hemings descendants had not been allowed to join the association, or to be buried in its graveyard….
“The movie rights for his fourth novel, Heart of War, were sold for one million dollars.”
That was the author’s grandfather.
FTA:
But, that 86 yo former slave would not remember slavery in any useful fashion having been an infant. The vast majority of former slaves were dead by the end of WW2. The 1930s were the last decade where you had a large number of people with useful memories of slavery.
I’m doing research for an article on this.
FWIW, sorry about my decreased involvement here. Cjanges both at home and at work, all good.
OK, as long as they are good…
OK, sports fans. Your Global Warming watchdog is on the case. You can forget quashing those embarrassing personal gas seeps – the USWGS says: “Fart GOOD ” It’s now GOOD for the climate!
Out of curiosity, are the methane warming assumptions that might be exactly backwards built into the current doomsday models?
Doomsday is buils into the models, other parameters are adjusted as necessary for it.
not a warming effect as we previously thought. IT IS SETTLED SCIENCE!!!!
The science is settled again.
Bozeman’s ongoing freakout over vacation rentals, ch 857:
While the city has hoped to make registration a nominal hassle for Type I rentals, most of whom currently fly under the public radar, it looks like that’s going to be complicated by the local health department, which considers all short-term rentals public accommodations.
Under the state health code, public accommodations need a fire inspection and separate license from the health department. That means even occasional Airbnb hosts who want to follow the rules will need to file paperwork with two separate agencies, pay multiple fees and be inspected by both city fire staff and the health department, according to a two-page flow chart included in commission briefing materials.
Regulations don’t destroy economic opportunity, and your neighbors will never use government as a cudgel to keep you in line. And they’ll never use some completely bullshit miniscule-probability scenario to trot out the Precautionary Principle as an excuse to keep you from doing something they don’t like.
Only crazy people think that.
Wow, the progs are actually going to try to primary Manchin. I’m going to take a guess that not too many WVans really fit their intersectional/beta/fem coalition all that well. This will probably go just as well as Christine O’Donnell did a few years back in DE.
You know who else tried to purify their political party…
Libertarians?
That fucking hurt man…
^Ignore this man, he’s not a real libertarian.
Better you mop rain or sweep a dirt road than try to purify the Libertarian Party…
Che?
The Puritans?
Robert Byrd?
More likely that seat will swing R. Manchin publicly flirted with the gun grabbers which enraged a huge number of constituents. Multi-culti also hugely unpopular in WV.
These progs tend to forget that in WV, Democrat can mean Robert “Exalted Cyclops” Byrd. Not really the narrative that the true believers want to hear.
Nope.
Historical map of the Democrat party:
https://www.vox.com/2014/12/8/7328755/maps-democratic-party
Nope not what they want to hear I mean.
The Democrats are still the plantation party, just fit for modern race-baiting tactics, but otherwise spot on.
I thought Manchin was flirting with a party flip? Then he’ll go full pro-2nd Amendment and chirp the RNC establishment lines. He seems like the type to do and say whatever necessary to stay in the Senate and avoid real work for the rest of his life.
It would be fun to watch the Dems try to run a powerskirt ultra progressive in WV.
Manchin has large enough name recognition that he can win as an Independent, like that other notorious slimeball known as Lieberman. The one difference, though, is that the GOP is way stronger in WV than in CT.
Indians, as in from India, growing desperate as currency swap deadline approaches. Liberal media bleats about how swap will help the poor by bringing in more tax revenue, help everyone by eliminating corruption. Statist assholes chuckle.
Statist assholes like Larry Summers and Ken Rogoff, who likely would have ended up as important “economic advisors” in a Hillary! administration.
One more reason to
likehate Trump less.Bernie was in Bozeman yesterday. My constitutional aversion to inane platitudes and moronic groupthink prevented me from doing on-the-scene research. I’m guessing Maxine-Waters-in-a-cowboy-hat squawked out his assigned talking points “middle class” and “health care is a right” at least 100 times. Also, “real Montanans” despite the fact those would have been few and far between at the Party Rally.
I assume much swooning was to be seen.
Speaking of this race, it’s sort of funny that up until Trump won with less than half of Hillary’s funds, so many progs were screeching about the “dangers” of outside money in politics. As the special races are showing, that narrative’s falling apart outside of “true believer” Secular Talk circles.
Alien Covenant sucked pretty hard. Michael Fassbender was pretty good, the twist at the end was so obvious it was annoying waiting for them to do the reveal because you knew it was coming. No tension at all, but the special effects were pretty fantastic and the gore was awesome.
wait for it to come out on dvd.
The main purpose this movie had was to set you up for the sequel..
the thing that annoys me is Scott could have done this whole series without any alien mythology and it could have been far better. At this point it’s pretty obvious that the mythology of the alien movies is really holding back what maybe could have been an interesting idea exploring creation myths.
Although both movies seem to treat the audience as if we are completely stupid. Especially the last one. So maybe not.
Better than/on par with Prometheus?
Did anyone see that other alien monster movie from a couple months ago? I don’t remember the name. Was that any good?
It only raises more questions, scientists/explorers in this one might actually be more reckless. I would go ahead and say on par with, far more predictable but Xenomorphs were involved.
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The fact that these people, scientists the lot of them, walk out on an unexplored alien planet without proper precautions against microbial life and then get infected kind of is a huge hole in the plot. Ruined the whole thing for me.
Honestly the worst part of the movie for me was the “twist” at the end. It was so obvious it was coming it was completely ruined the third act for me. The best theory I’ve heard it this movie was just giant middle-finger to critics who didn’t like Prometheus.
I could have dealt with your criticisms as just suspending disbelief, and actually it wasn’t as dumb to me as the when they had the equipment in Prometheus and just threw safety to the wind for some stupid reason. The “twist” to me just seemed like completely lazy writing actually the whole movie struck me as lazy. Every single plot point that moved the movie forward required stupidity and ineptitude by the protagonists that didn’t even seem remotely plausible.
Agreed. Its almost as if the people that write these things want to insult their audience.
http://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/sea-lion-drags-young-girl-into-water-at-richmonds-steveston-wharf
Luckily, she wasn’t hurt.
Sea lions are assholes.
Animals be animals, bro…
I was reminded of this.
I was going to post this as a reply to the transgender article above, but it got so ranty that I thought I should just post it as a primary.
The “gender as social construct” nonsense is neither measurable nor falsifiable; ergo, not science (the same goes for essentially all of social “sciences” but that’s another post). You are perfectly free to call yourself whatever you want, dress however you want, shoot yourself up with whatever hormones you like (with your own money) and do whatever you want to your genitals (again, with your own money). What you are not allowed to do; force everyone on planet Earth to conform to your vision of reality, use the power of the state to fund your “transition” or use a patina of “science” to justify your personal opinion.
Save for exceedingly rare chromosomal disorders, there are those with XX (female) and those with XY (male). Full stop. No more to the story scientifically. To deny that and try to create some pseudo-scientific Marxist meta-narrative surrounding that fact is nothing short of a direct assault on objective reality. This is why I get so hot under the collar about the Trans stuff, there is nothing “phobic” or “bigoted” with understanding that what science has to say about this is cut and dried. It reeks of the Communist propaganda technique of forcing the population to accept a lie so enormous it accomplishes two things; not only does it change public opinion over time, but the lie is so blatant that it humiliates those forced to repeat it and breaks their spirit because EVERYONE KNOWS IT’S BS.
I can’t be more emphatic that people can and should do whatever floats their boat. If you have the inclination and the resources, go take hormones, lop off your frank and beans and, if you ask me respectfully, I’d be more than happy to refer to you as “Phyllis” instead of “Philip” and say “she” instead of “he”. However, I have a hard stop when you try to say that there is any science backing that you are actually a woman and once you try to use shaming tactics and taxation to beat me into submission.
While there’s no proof, it’s likely that XXX and XYY phenotypes are more common than we think, since most with that phenotype either have no symptoms or such mild symptoms that it wouldn’t really be noticed or thought of. So I’m not sure I’d go with “extremely rare”. But that’s just pedantic. 100% agreed otherwise.
Again, you are conflating sex and gender. While some people might claim otherwise, gender isn’t based on science. Otherwise it wouldn’t be a social construct.
It’s just like race is a social construct. Discrete gene pools corresponding to geographic areas simply do not exist. So sorting people into races (eg. white, black, asian) is based on nothing more than how people sort them. Moving north from central Africa, at what point to people stop being black? Moving east from western Russia at what point to people stop being white? There is no scientific basis to what constitutes a separate race, how many races their are, or who is a member of each.
Discrete gene pools corresponding to geographic areas simply do not exist.
Really?
And gender, male v. female, is genetic. Except for rare instances of chromosomal variation, xy = male and xx = female. The nonsense about gender being something other than biology is recent completely made-up bullshit to justify the delusions of “transgenderism”.
And to push an agenda where logic, reason, and facts are turned upside down.
That graphic clearly illustrates that discrete gene pools corresponding to geographic areas do not exist.
Gender is not male v. female. That’s sex, not gender.
So, your ‘argument’ simply boild down to “nuh uh!”
Okay.
No, it’s that sex and gender are two different things.
“Gender” just means “type”. There’s no reason for it to be synonymous with “sex” as long as the word “sex” is available. In language genders started being called masculine and feminine after the fact, when they could’ve easily been called by other arbitrary names for division into kinds. When you consider that in French and Spanish the nouns for key and lock are feminine and masculine, RESPECTIVELY, you see gender’s not about sex.
I’m peeved that now all forms ask to fill in one’s “gender” when they really mean “sex”, and wonder why they don’t have a choice for “neuter”, or even a fourth choice considering languages with 4 genders (which I think exist).
Gender isn’t a social construct is his point. Saying races don’t exist is like saying trucks don’t exist because some cars might have some features of a truck and vice versa. It’s taking categorization to a level requiring people to be idiots and accept that unless all features are discreet no features matter. The difference between automobiles and buildings is a social construct since they both have windows and roofs. It’s sophistry.
And race and sex are completely different. If a black person and white person have a child their child will have some features of both but if a man and a woman have a child they don’t get some androgynous mix of male and female characteristics they still get someone who is one or the other except in rare circumstances.
Discrete gene pools corresponding to geographic areas simply do not exist.
“Human” *is* a discrete gene pool that at one time likely corresponded to a distinct geographical area when we diverged from our common ancestor with the other hominids. Thanks to migration we took care of the geographical correlation. There’s still genetic features more common to different groups though – your doctor can tell you all about it at your next cancer screening. And those genetic features are mostly based on ancient adaptations of geographically separated humans. That’s all based on science.
Gender roles are not based on science in that sense, but there’s some commonalities across cultures and huge lengths of time that might give us some indication that they predictably arise because of the genetic reality of sexual dimorphism. Fashions in hairstyles and clothing for men and women have changed considerably, such that distinctions between masculine and feminine have almost completely reversed at various times. But things like men tending to do most of the warring and women tending to do most of the child-rearing for 10,000 years or so is probably in at least some small way linked to the genetic differences between biological males and biological females. Even in our modern world where biological differences can be compensated for with technology, it’s plausible to think that perhaps we still see manifestations of biological differences between the sexes in things like career selection, for example, in addition to cultural and social conditioning. Unpacking how much, if any, is genetic vs social is not as cut and dried as just repeating the mantra “gender is a social construct”.
I’m not claiming there is no causation between sex and gender.
Define gender then
I’ll define it: arbitrary typing into a small number of categories when there’s no descriptive typing in use.
“Discrete gene pools corresponding to geographic areas simply do not exist”
Not so sure about that. Only sub-Saharan Africans have no Neanderthal genes. All Europeans and Asians have it. And that info is found on NatGeo and quite a few science sites, not talking about hack pseudo science sites. That’s not even just a different race, it’s a different species. So I would conclude that these sub-Saharan Africans have DNA which is different from everyone else on the planet. This and the fact that Africans, Asians, and European people, who were all congregated in distinct areas look quite different from each other. So you’re saying there is only one race? I guess if you want to say that everyone originated from Africa, you would be right. But Europeans and Asians after leaving, developed into their own races, same species still of course, but quite different in appearance. Unless you want to label us as ‘breeds’ like dogs. Most of us are mixed race, all of us at a certain point, except for the sub Saharans who must be the only pure breed homo sapiens.
We are all homo sapiens. Excepting people such as identical twins, everyone has different DNA. And I’m well aware of all the theories regarding Neanderthal DNA. Even though admixture is not the only explanation. It’s irrelevant. I just think that you are missing the definition of “discrete”. And yes, it’s like breeds of dogs. You can say a black lab is in a different category than a chocolate lab, or you can say they are all labradors, or all dogs.
Bit of a nitpick, but this had become a pet peeve of mine; chromosomes have nothing to do with determining biological sex. If you want to go full science, it comes down to gonads. Humans have five possible sexes. Male, meaning they have testicles or testicular tissue, female, ovaries or ovarian tissue, neuter, neither ovarian or testicular tissue, partial hermaphrodite, both testicular and ovarian, and true hermaphrodite, fully functioning testicles and ovaries. The last, true hermaphrodite, had never been confirmed in humans, and neuter and partial hermaphrodites are very rare. Other issues such as intersex individuals, pertain to the presentation of the individuals sex, not with the sex itself. Someone with underdeveloped male genitalia at birth is intersex, but if they have testicles then they are biologically male. Someone with Klinefelter’s had XXY chromosomes, but they have testicles, so they are male. Someone with XX male disorder has the female chromosomes, but they have testicles and are therefore male. Someone with XY gonadal dysgenesis has male chromosomes, female genitalia, but had neither ovaries or testicles and is biologically neuter.
I don’t have anything else to add in regards to your originals point(s). But please, if you’re going to claim the mantle of science and denigrate your opponents for their lack of empirical rigor, use the correct biological terms.
That read different on the page than in my head; chromosomes are not the deciding factor is an individual’s sex. Under normal conditions the chromosomes do determine sex, but they do so by causing the fetus to develop either testicles or ovaries.
Yes, we know there are extreme and rare outliers. That is not the point of discussion here.
Fair enough, but I consider all of these conditions to be extreme outliers. As JB stated, it would be difficult to calculate true prevalence because there are times in which chromosomal abnormalities and intersex conditions mimic typical development. However, as an example, Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome is estimated to only affect one of every 20,400 XY births. And, all points aside, these conditions are measurable through empirical techniques. By blindly declaring “gender is a social construct” and saying anybody can “identify” as anything they want is anti-Enlighenment because there is no rational basis for making such a determination and no evidence that can be presented one way or the other. You can test the chromosomal makeup of someone suspected to have CAIS, nothing similar can be said of a trans-woman/man because there is nothing to test; ie, not measurable or falsifiable.
Once again, let me say that my main problem with this is the cudgel of the state and social shaming being used to beat people into submission. There are scientific realities here related to genetics and it can’t be conveniently explained away as cis-white science privilege.
And I think we are off on two different discussions here. One, the science side, and the other the ‘social construct’ side. Gender is designated before birth and if you come out male, you’re male, you come out female, you’re female. There is no ‘social construct’ in the science side of the argument, even with the few very rare cases where you have ‘neuter’ or you truly have both. That is science.
The gender as a social construct bullshit that the SJWs are going on about, is bullshit when they’re applying it to the science side. On the other hand, when I decide to identify as a woman tomorrow and start wearing dresses to work, THAT is a social construct, constructed by none other than me and having no science value at all.
Sex is scientific. Gender is social. If you don’t believe me, look at noun declensions. Language is a spontaneous order. Sex is something examinable.
Years ago, I saw something on (I think) 60 Minutes about some supposed “tomboy gene”. Then I’ve read subsequently that it is more along the lines of how much testosterone a fetus is exposed to in utero. Anyway, I’ve always been curious about where my very so-called “masculine” personality traits came from (I have very few feminine qualities beyond my hoo-ha and [almost nonexistent] boobs). Was it how I was raised, or was it pre-determined before birth?
From an AP story about the election:
The health care bill is the clearest sign of how Gianforte’s allegiance with Trump runs counter to the interests of Montana voters, said state Democratic Party Executive Director Nancy Keenan.
“I think that they don’t want somebody else in Congress who’s just going to be a rubber stamp, especially on issues like health care,” she said.
How do people say stuff like this and not just burst into flames?
A rubber stamp is exactly what Nancy Keegan wants in Congress. Just one who will vote “aye” or “nay” exactly as instructed by Nancy Pelosi instead of Paul Ryan.
A rubber stamp vote only happens when the other side does it man… Get woke already.
Turkey has summoned the US Ambassador to Istanbul to explain how protesting Americans hurt Erdogan’s bodyguards’ fists with their faces.
Iowahawk on how this should go and how this will go:
Not this time. Trump is getting so much love from the Saudis and Israel on this trip
That he can rebuke Turkey on their goonery that happened on our soil.
I’d like to see him call out the gutless pussies on the Metro DC Police. They need to be called out for being such cowards in this case when they’re quick to pull their gun on an innocent person.
It certainly will be interesting to see how Trump handles Turkey. I’ve said before on here that, while it’s not as sexy as Syria falling apart or North Korea saber rattling, Turkey becoming another Sharia-state is the great geopolitical tragedy of the moment. How far does our alliance with them go?
They’re well on their way. Isn’t the dictatorship always the first step towards Sharia?
It would be an unprecedented move to kick an almost-charter member of NATO out. I think they should have already been kicked out, Sharia or not. Erdogan is a strongman dictator with a vice grip on power. That shit doesn’t belong in NATO.
Technically both the US and Russia have told Turkey to go f themselves re: their attempts to “help” in Syria.
Will be funny to see Turkey do much of anything as they slowly exhaust their non-purged military.
In a case of life imitating Secret Nazi President, Robby is over at you know where defending Gender Studies against “The Conceptual Penis” paper we were talking about yesterday.
Robby is Cortez Cortez.
Sad.
Not quite, Cortez Cortez says ‘that’s right, Becky’ and Robby says ‘but Trump is worse than Hitler’.
“That’s right, Ken”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/apos-sologamy-apos-people-now-170718031.html
“What Is ‘Sologamy’? People Are Now Getting Married To Themselves”
While not yet considering marriage, I’m very serious about myself each time I fire up pornhub.
No mention in the article this is a bunch of women imitating what they saw in an episode of Sex and the City?
Sex and the City is still relevant to these folks? They’re animal hoarders just waiting to happen, aren’t they?
Apparently. There’s an episode where Carrie writes about weddings and gifts, etc. and how she’s going to “marry herself” and have a wedding so she can get the same swag as married couples. Then, of course, the character goes on to actually get married to a man, so she doubled her windfall.
“There’s an episode where Carrie”
Was she the horse face one?
Mathew Broderick has a sad..
I’d have a sad too if I had to see that horse face every morning.
Sarah Jessica has a sad. Her husband looks like an old lesbian.
They’re going to live happily ever after with their 60 cats, until they get raided by animal rescue.
There’s nothing wrong with being single, and there’s nothing wrong with enjoying being single. But all I see here is people who don’t really enjoy being single and very much want to participate in the marriage industrial complex. Their envy translates into “buy me shit for my singlehood”. It’s the equivalent of being turned down for a date and then saying “I didn’t like you anyway! So there!”
“there’s nothing wrong with enjoying being single”
Absolutely. All I can think reading about the women in this article though is “the lady doth protest too much, methinks.”
Yep, pretty much. Insisting that you are entitled to participate in marriage even though you say you don’t want to be married says to me you really, really, really want to be married.
People that do that shit are pissed nobody asked them is what this comes down to.
http://redalertpolitics.com/2017/05/17/bernie-backing-rapper-stuns-liberals-explains-hes-nra-member/
Chris Cheng, another Pink Pistols member, shocked Kasher by saying that gun owners are more tolerant of him being gay than the gay community is of him being a firearms advocate.
“STAY ON THE PLANTATION!”
Chris Cheng is awesome.
No mention that the NRA’s most prominent spokeshole is a black dude?
That guy won’t be a prog for long – He’s in that first phase of transition where he finds out that no one on Team Blue actually liked diversity all that much.
If he can’t goose step then he’s on his way out anyway, willing or not.
I wonder how many gays watched the whole mess with Milo and instead of seeing what the left wanted them to (ALT-RIGHT EEEVILLL NAZI!) , instead saw that it was the conservative students who were inviting the gay guy to talk? It ruins the narrative that the Right Hates Gays on a fundamental level. The SJW push that hard (as seen with the Pence protest/walkout thing) to keep their intersectionality coalition together, but it should be pretty clear to anyone who paid attention that it wasn’t the right who was protesting.
They can’t even talk about issues they care about without being racist and virtue signaling. It’s okay that I’m an NRA member because I have to hang around “crazy ass nut job white people.” to get what I want.
Christ, it’s okay that I’m for drug legalization guys, I’m just hanging around a bunch of stupid blacks and spicks to get what I want. Can you imagine if that’s the sort of disclaimer people used when talking with team red to justify disagreeing.
“crazy ass nut job white people” is pretty tame compared to what i’ve heard.. i’m just happy it was a black dude saying it and not some cracka ass cracka.
“Step right up out. And don’t come back. The Greatest Show On Earth performs its last gig. I remember seeing the show several times as a kid and enjoying everything. Even the clowns. But that’s all over now.”
I had inner ear issues as a little kid, and I used to fall over for no reason–and crack my head open all the time. I once had stitches on my head three times in a couple of weeks. I’d just be sitting in a chair or standing somewhere and the whole world would just go sideways. My mom had to carry a note from my doctor explaining what the problem was so the ER wouldn’t call CPS every time I came into the ER for more stitches with a crazy sounding story.
They sent me to clown college, taught me how to juggle and ride a unicycle. I became a huge circus fan.
This is how markets work, though, you know. If you want to stop people from degrading freaks, you don’t need the government to step in. You work on people’s attitudes, and when that changes, the government couldn’t revive it even if they wanted to. It’s the same thing with animal acts. The market isn’t there anymore, I gather, because people don’t want to support that. Meanwhile, I think every major hotel brand in Las Vegas as a feature animal free Cirque de Soleil production, with traveling shows drawing good audiences.
That’s the market for you. If you want to change the world, change consumer tastes.
They sent me to clown college
Berkeley?
Practically every Ivy leagues school is a clown college these days unless you avoid the studies & humanities..
Did learning to juggle and ride a unicycle actually fix the balance issue?
Anyone care to take a guess at who wrote the following words?
“To be sure, there are some real problems with gender studies as a field”
I know I know! Hitler!!
Did he also write, “To be sure, this conditioner is kind of expensive”?
I think it was ‘This conditioner is worse than
TrumpHitler.’Mises.
The same person who opined “The goals of social justice are noble.”?
http://www.yourtango.com/2017301700/fat-women-make-men-happier-says-science
Perhaps we can lure John over from TSTSNBN….
The chick in the top 3 photos would surely make almost anyone happy, but she’s also not even close to fat.
It’s funny how they conflate having curves with being fat. Those are two completely different things.
Exactly
Yeah, what women consider “curvy” and what men consider “curvy” are two very different things.
Curvy
Indeed..
It’s intentional I’m sure, the purpose of the study is to make fatties feel good about themselves, the methodology is adjusted for the right answer.
That’s because chicks that look like the second one want to be in the same club as the first one. There’s a huge, huge difference between chicks that are thicc, chicks that are chubby, and chicks that are sloppy fat. It’s the difference between looking healthy and looking like a slovenly disaster with no impulse control or self-respect.
The second chick, is that Schumer?
Rebel Wilson. Chuck Schumer has bigger boobs.
I haven’t seen John over there for a long time. Not saying he’s not there, but I haven’t seen him. The comments section is sort of weird now. There’s only a few of the old commenters still around. Seems to be about half progs or trolls now.
I saw Russian Prime Minister comment there recently, which was odd – hadn’t seen anything from him in a couple of years. There was also a HoD sighting.
“To be sure, there are some real problems with gender studies as a field”
Presumably, these problems, for the most part, take shape as the refusal of our more antediluvian citizenry to allow themselves to be educated out of their pig-ignorant superstitions about the true nature of reality.
Then enlightenment truly is over.
Listen, you mugs. I read Soave’s thing, and the Bleeding Heart Libertarians totally back him up. TOTALLY. That’s how legit he is.
So quitcherbitchinz.
To whoever posted the link of the mouth-breathing neckbeard (not a judgement, just an observation) who was singing Allstar over other songs: I hate you. I have had that song stuck in my head for days and it is a form of torture. Thank you, Sloop, for the great Clash song — one of my favorites — I hope it does the trick. Nothing else has worked.
If you need a new song to stick in your head, check out my link above. Comment #6
Neil Cicierega (check out the hilarious paste-up avatar on his SoundCloud) lays that one over a lot of things.
American Spectator to Republicans: maybe stop letting the Dems eat your lunch?
I don’t have any doubt that Hillary needs to go to jail. Why? Because of the server thing, any of us plebes would now be in a federal prison over that stupidity. But to be honest, I’m satisfied that she’ll never be president and she has to live with that for the rest of her life. I’m sure that’s worse for a sociopath like her than even being in prison.
I was happy to see the hatchet buried magnanimously back in January, but after months of spurious allegations and calculated hysteria, Sessions needs to go on a warpath. This is no longer a matter of Obama’s moral turpitude, which might have gone into remission after his tenure was over. It’s a matter of nailing Democrats’ asses to the wall for their crimes just to prove that it can be done, and no, you won’t get away with blatantly criminal conduct.
That very well could be what happens with this special investigator. If I were the Dems, dirty and crooked as they are, I would be really careful about opening up some sort of Pandora’s box. But the TDS has them so deranged, I don’t think they can think straight. This could backfire on their asses big time.
“That very well could be what happens with this special investigator.”
That is precisely what should happen. The real evidence all points to democrats breaking numerous laws and then using this Russia thing as a smoke screen. There would be some serious justice if the investigation leads to Clinton, Abedin, and even Black Jesus doing some time.
Republicans have perfected helplessness as a political strategy. Always looking for a savior. “Won’t someone save us from Obama? Won’t someone save us from Trump? Won’t someone save Trump from Trump? We’ll appoint a special prosecutor to save us from ourselves. We control all of Congress, but we can’t actually do anything for fear of being called racist. Won’t someone lead us out of this valley of electoral dominance and into the sunlit uplands of permanent minority status, where we don’t actually have to accomplish anything?”
It’s like the 2 parties are just flip sides of the same coin. The Dems get in control and they go crazy passing every form of insanity they can. Then people get pissed and vote the GOP back in. Then the GOP don’t do anything they say they were going to do, including getting rid of some of the bullshit the Dems passed, and so people get frustrated and vote the Dems back in. And the cycle repeats.
The problem with the GOP really is that they are still mostly controlled by wishy washy democrat lites, like Paul Ryan and Turtle Head. Even some of the old neocons are running around making noises. The very few that actually care about limited government, like Paul, there’s just not enough of them to do anything.
True conservatives and libertarians are basically on the same page except with the Israel question, which is why I consider myself more sympathetic to the right than to the left. The problem is that though the Tea Party revolution was effective in instilling libertarian ideas in safe states and safe districts, there needs to be a cultural shift to get more mainstream support of these ideas.
The Republicans that actually want to fight the left, like Paul, Cruz, Lee, Amash, Massie, Freedom Caucus, etc., are in the young wing of the party and are not in positions of power. The GOPe types that are in power wants to sip cocktails with their buddies without getting bothered about being with those icky Southern rednecks. That why they act helpless as a political strategy.
Republicans members of the establishment all suffer from the same idiocy and need for acceptance at the cocktail parties, that make them such losers. IMO, a big reason why Trump won is because he promised to play by the rules democrats do, and a lot of people saw that as essential to bringing down the machine in DC.
Again, I truly believe this, but I think that Trump was the ideal candidate and president for this particular year. I don’t agree with him on a lot of his policy ideas, especially as it relates to protectionism, but what his nomination and victory meant on a cultural level was massively disruptive to the political establishment on both sides.
No disagreement on that. The shitfest and meltdown on the left and in the republican elite circles, is precisely because the plebes dared to give the establishment the finger. The anger that the unwashed masses dared to defy them and their world vision is manifesting itself in this need to make sure the country ends up ungovernable. They are telling us all that if they are not in charge, then nobody will be, and they are willing t burn it all down rather than watch their ill gotten gains challenged.
The media has already destroyed itself by dropping the veil and showing how much of a partisan hackery they are about. The democrats are blaming everyone and everything but the fact that their policies and beliefs are destructive for the loss. They are furious that despite the rigged game, some outside doofus beat their dark horse, and that the doofus actually can’t be bought or cowed into bowing to the establishment machine. The republicans are doing their sabotaging under the covers for fear the plebes might just turn on them.
The way things were going was unsustainable. Trump upending that cart is worth it. The shit flinging campaign and the fact that the shrieking is getting shriller, tells me that the guy is doing the right thing. Hopefully more people wise up to the shit that is going on as the cabal unravels and goes nuts trying to stop Trump from dismantling their status quo. I doubt many of the woke progs will realize they were had, but I hope many more people realize that business as usual needs to stop.
Some more red-meat.
Hey, remember when Republicans were the ascendant class of fresh, energetic idealogues?
Remember when, even after the anti-ideologue Trump took the keys and immediately wrapped the party around a tree, it still seemed like he might at least upend the Washington consensus?
Remember when, even after it turned out that Trump plays checkers rather than nth-dimensional chess, the inertia of his victory and those state-level proxy battles Republicans kept winning made it seem like the party might at least stumble into some policy victories, dragging the administration with it?
Remember Gorsuch? That was pretty good.
Jack Dorsey decides, “prog harder!”:
“I thought once everybody could speak freely and exchange information and ideas, the world is automatically going to be a better place. I was wrong about that… because not everyone said things I agree with, waaahhhh, it isn’t fair!”
Twitter should apologize for Twitter, because Twitter.
Moron
Dorsey needs to watch out long-term – his business model is easily replicable, and site like gab.ai are going to slowly eat his niche away because they are run by people that actually support the 1st Amendment unconditionally.
Is this the same dickhole that wants to turn Twitter into
The Twentieth Century Motors Companya co-op?This is the guy in charge of one of the Internet’s hottest properties which after a decade still can’t turn a profit, right? I want to listen to what he says why, exactly?
Since profits are obviously evil, Twitter is a huge success.
Twitter should apologize for not having a sustainable business model.
Butthurt because his platform is one of the only places on the internet where conservatives have established a strong presence. What an asshole.
Twitter commentariat is pretty biased to the left: much of the dissent is quashed because they refuse to verify many conservative accounts, for example Project Veritas. I think it was only this year that Breitbart was verified.
On the other hand, the YouTube commentariat is arguably the most conservative-leaning and anti-SJW on the internet, which is why their uber-prog leadership has been hyperventilating and demonetizing videos left and right in the name of “RACISM!” and “SEXISM!”
I thought once everybody could speak freely and exchange information and ideas, the world is automatically going to be a better place.
“How was I to know there were so many people out there who aren’t just like me? It’s horrifying.”
The technocrat’s dilemma, in a nutshell.
And it is, fuckstick (not you, Brooks.)
Prepare to be ASTOUNDED!
Drunk driving arrests are down sharply after decades of aggressive enforcement, while drugged driving arrests are climbing.
Georgia now has more than 250 officers with special ‘drug recognition expert’ training.
But WHAS11’s partner station WXIA’s Chief Investigator Brendan Keefe discovered some drivers are getting arrested for driving stoned — even when their drug tests came back clean.
“Expert recognition training” indeed.
“Well, as long as I’ve got you pulled over, I might as well arrest you for *something*.”
Wait until they get the lawn patrol experts trained.
Citizen: Hey what are you doing with my tomato plants?!
Cop: You can’t fool me, I’m a highly trained expert! These are dangerous marijuana plants!
I should add, I independently discovered the “uncanny valley” and became hooked on the circus from a traveling circus with a freak show. It wasn’t Barnum and Bailey, it was an old time small production. It was mostly a carnival with one tent with one ring for the circus act. They were advertising “The World’s Smallest Elephant”, and I just had to see it. I rode my bike over there with a couple friends without my parents knowing. I was about ten years old.
First they brought out two elephants with a girl riding on top of them wearing nothing but some sequins and a smile. There were probably 200 people in the bleachers inside this tent. Then the world’s smallest elephant came running out–it was just a baby elephant. It was running around behind the other elephants trying to keep up with its little legs–it was adorable. They took out the adult elephants, and the baby posed on a raised platform in the center of the ring–like its parents had done. Everyone applauded.
Then the ringmaster and the girl in the sequins started fiddling with something on the baby elephant’s neck. Suddenly, the pulled on a zipper, and a chimpanzee jumped out! It was just a suit that made him look like an elephant. I couldn’t believe it Someone brought a tiny motorcycle with training wheels on it, and the monkey got on the bike. They attached lines to the monkey, and the monkey started riding the motorcycle around in a circle inside the ring, with the ringmaster holding the other end and spinning around in the center of the circle. Everyone laughed and applauded. That’s when things got weird.
The ringmaster took his end of the line, and he yanked it just as hard as he could, pulling the chimp off of the bike. He tumbled around in a circle as he fell, and the ringmaster started laughing. The chimp didn’t want to get back on the bike at first, but in his other hand, the ringmaster had a bullwhip. He started whipping the chimpanzee until the chimp got back on the bike. The monkey goes zooming around in the ring again, but, again, the ringmaster yanks on the line, the monkey tumbles around the ring as it falls, and the ringmaster starts whipping the monkey again until it gets back on the bike. This sadistic cycle of cruelty repeated three times.
The first time the ringmaster started whipping the monkey, you could hear a lot of grumbling in the crowd. “I didn’t bring my kids here to see this”. I’m thinking, “Is that how they train a monkey to act like an elephant?” The second time the ringmaster started whipping the monkey, people got really vocal. “Cut it out!”, people started yelling. The third time the ringmaster started whipping the monkey, people got really mad. It was the drunks at the top of the bleachers who went over the edge first. They were out looking for a fight anyway on a Saturday night. They came storming down the bleachers, and they were sure to put an end to this guy whipping a monkey like that in front of all these kids.
Then the monkey jumped up on the platform, the girl with the sequins started fiddling with something on his neck, a zipper was pulled, and suddenly out jumped a little person! It was just a monkey suit! The tough guys stopped in their tracks and started laughing at themselves and each other. Everyone applauded. I’m sitting there thinking, “How come it’s alright to use a bullwhip on a little person?” Maybe the suit cushioned the whip. Maybe it was that everyone knew he was in on the joke. In my mind, it was more that.
The ringmaster knew he could work the crowd into a frenzy by whipping a chimpanzee, and he also knew that they’d stop in their tracks and laugh when they found out it was a little person he’s been whipping all along. The more something is like us, the more we empathize–right up to a certain point. Past that point, we lose empathy with them because they’re too much like us. This accounts for all sorts of things we see, for instance, environmentalists who care more about wildlife than other people. Or, say, upper middle class liberals, who care so much about illegal aliens, Muslims, and minorities–from afar. They’d never actually live in a neighborhood with minorities or invite Muslims into their homes–and they’d have a crisis if their daughter married a minority.
That ringmaster traveled from town to town, night after night, all over America–bull-whipping a little person for our amusement–because he could count on his audience. They say familiarity breeds contempt. Yeah, hurting a chimpanzee can get you in big trouble, but you can bullwhip a little person and people will treat it like wholesome family entertainment! Is that because a little person is more like one of us? I understand Le Pen did well in areas with lots of newly arrived Muslim immigrants. People in the wealthy enclaves of Paris, of course, would never vote for someone like Le Pen–or so they think. I’m not sure newly arrived immigrants anywhere should count on the support of liberals who see them as cute as the world’s smallest elephant.
So what jumped out of the midget suit?
The world’s smallest elephant
Mind. Blown.
TL, DR. ; )
Sorry Ken but that reads like a drug induced hallucination.
As I was reading I assumed the last line would be, “And that was the last time I did mushrooms.”
“The Aristocrats!”
LOL. That also would have worked.
I told you the point at the beginning.
It’s a bit like “Shooting an Elephant” except is isn’t about why imperialism always ends in tears.
It’s about why unprincipled people tend to admire certain things from afar, and . . .
You know what it’s about!
I give you people gold.
Ken…Ken is really Agile Cyborg!?
It actually happened!
Hilarious that they could pull off the second “switch” after SHOWING you the first! “Lost” did that a lot, and people still didn’t catch on after repeated clues. Like for instance that the supposed crash survivors were substitutes for people killed in an actual crash, even though they’d shown us someone who stole an identity after telling of having survived an ostensible balloon wreck, and then demostrated the supposed survival of a rabbit that’d ostensibly been killed: “How do I know you didn’t get another rabbit and paint an 8 on it?” “You don’t.” The audience didn’t catch on either to a character’s supposedly being held hostage after several demonstrations of persons pretending to be hostages.
https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/866263589082075136
ROTFL
That’s priceless.
Going to that took me to this, which also cracked me up
ATTENTION:
“Gender reassignment surgery” will hereafter be referred to as “gender confirmation surgery”.
This concludes today’s announcement. Please resume enjoying your 3.5 oz chocolate ration which has been increased from 2.5 oz as of yesterday.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/05/gender-confirmation-surgeries-rose-20-in-the-last-two-years/
I think the chocolate ration increases from 3.5oz to 2.5oz.
Well, “confirm” sounds pretty final and there’s not really any going back, so…
This cracked me up ( wait for it…)
Lol. Classic.