News, news, news! Comin’ at you at 100 miles an hour. Some of it true and some if it…well, we’re not sure yet but we’re gonna report it anyway. Especially if it serves our political paymasters well. But we don’t fall into that trap here at Glibs. Nosiree. We only report the facts. Or if we’re gonna report on innuendo, we at least make sure you know things are alleged or unconfirmed rumors according to unnamed sources familiar with ways of thinking of certain parties or whatever other bullshit people over at WaPo and the NYT are reporting as fact. Facts. Like the fact that the Celtics are one game closer to being put out of their misery. Facts. Like the Firstros winning again. And facts. Like the Penguins completely dominating a game yet losing to the Senators on the most dubious goalie interference call I’ve seen in my lifetime (with no explanation given by the official and much head-scratching occurring in the announcer’s box). Oh well, Game 7s are what makes playoff hockey so damn great. Tune in Thursday to see who will win the Prince of Wales Conference Championship and face off with the Campbell Conference champion Predators for the biggest trophy in North American sports.
But I digress. Even though you’ve come to expect it, I have steered away from my purpose. So its time to get back on tracks and give you…the links!
Three more arrests were made in the Manchester Suicide Terrorist Attack. I wonder how many of them are named for British monarchs. I’ll go ahead and take the under on that at 0.5. Won’t touch the over at 2.5 for them having a certain prophet’s name somewhere in there. Hell, I bet not even Ladbrokes is giving action on that sucker bet. Bu there was one thing I noticed in the article. Excerpt:
Officials are probing how often Abedi had traveled to Libya, which has seen an eruption of armed Islamist groups since dictator Moammar Gadhafi was overthrown and killed in 2011.
I suppose that’s the nice way of saying “Libya, which has been a cesspit since the United States had Quadaffi assassinated, the government overthrown and let the place descend into a terrorist haven where they could set up their gun-running to Syrian rebels operation under the stellar leadership of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.” But that would be like those facts I alluded to up top. And that’s just not cricket, mate.
Barack Obama: Illegal Spymaster Extraordinaire
Alright, enough is enough. When a President and his administration abuse the authority granted to them so badly that they are getting formally censured by a secret court set up exclusively so they can spy on people without it being made public, then even I will say enough is enough and heads should roll. Its time we all demanded prosecutions and impeachments. Its time we demanded congressional oversight in a public forum to shine the light on these flagrant abuses of authority. Its time we called Donald Trump Barack Obama and the rest of his crooked administration out as the scumbags they are. Seriously, Democracy Dies In Darkness, eh WaPo? So get off your fucking asses and report on legitemate and documented abuses of authority instead of third-hand accounts of what people are allegedly thinking about doing.
Um, maybe that’s not a woman, you shitlord. Ever thought that since Xe hasn’t identified Xerself as male or female, then you shouldn’t attach labels when you put these stories together? I swear, sometimes with all the unwokeness that exists in the world, I just can’t even. (How long before the harpies at Jezebel actually write a story with those exact words when something like this happens?)
Artist Rendition Of What May Have Happened
OK, instant poll time. And be honest, because God is always watching. Yes or No, how many of you expected to read this headline in your lifetime: Clown with Bladed Gloves Murders Man and Escapes on Scooter, Cops Say. The only thing that could make it more awesome is if it happened at a taco stand that used to be an Arby’s “with a bad reputation.” WHICH IS FOR REALS IN THE FUCKING STORY!!!!! Life is a mystery, my friends. A beautiful fucking mystery.
“Right there. In the middle of the day. In broad daylight. In front of God and everybody,” You can imagine where it goes from there. (No, he doesn’t fix the cable.)
Because you can’t, you won’t, and you don’t stop.
That’s all I got. Sorry for the long-winded commentary. Sometimes you gotta let off some steam. Anyway, have a great day, friends!
DON’T ANY OF YOU WORK?!?
Obviously I don’t.
Sometimes.
I’m at work.
When they make me do work at work, I don’t comment here.
After my coffee is made…perhaps.
Not full-time. I’m thinking about being an Uber driver in my spare time.
Make sure you have a streaming camera that auto-uploads
For car accidents, or facing in?
So that when some nut-job kills you, at least they can prosecute him
yes.
You can be one of those fake taxi drivers and the camera facing in helps when you pick up passengers and it all ends up with romping in the back seat? You know, because that why everyone wants to drive taxis or Uber cars nowadays.
My master is asleep so I have a few hours
I’m at an all day off-site where we’re being told to work smarter, not harder, and that the headcount we were promised has been ‘cancelled’. They’re boozing us up, at least.
What day is it?
HUMPDAY?
Is it a weekday?
Sort of. But my mind is in it even less than normal. Today is my “Friday.” Five day weekend ahead of me.
Lucky fucker.
I just got to work a few minutes ago. Shift doesn’t start for a little over half an hour from now though.
I’m in the part of my career where I wait for someone to get around to hiring me or at least not round filing my application.
So no, I don’t work.
tl;dr
Except for the alt-text. Nice!
The second one made my head explode.
2nded
Alt-text win, sloop
No, I can’t say I anticipated that exact headline.
I dunno…at the height of the Great Clown Panic of ’16, I could see it. But I would still have rated it as “unlikely”.
How in the hell are there not pics in that article!? Scooter-riding ninja clowns are why cameras exist!!
For the same reason why there are inexplicably no photos from the myriad cameras around the area where Seth Rich was murdered: because they don’t want you to know what really happened.
Great point, sir.
A beautiful fucking mystery.
Unless you got murdered by a clown with bladed gloves on a scooter.
Then life is no longer a mystery.
TDS must be subsiding since the clowns are back.
TL; DR
Damn you JD!!!1!!11!!
But YOU SHOUTED YOURS!!1!1
Three more arrests were made in the Manchester Suicide Terrorist Attack.
Unpossible! I was told this was just another lone-wolf nut job!
VRWC.
Very Religious White Person?
Very Religious White *Christian*
Dammit
You mean a lone worlf white supremacist christian fundamentalist shitlord.
…with IRA ties
I heard it was a bunch of racist, white men who support Trump.
It was obviously a BREXIT protest.
Supposedly successful bombings never are because you need a dumbass to wear the bomb *and* at least one other person with the expertise to source materials and construct the device.
Yeah, it was pretty obvious from the start what had happened, yet the media must insist it is probably something else not at all related to what we know is true.
Unless the bombing was at an abortion clinic, then rampant speculation would be expected. If not demanded.
“one other person with the expertise to source materials and construct the device.”
Question-
How difficult could it possibly be to build a suicide bomb? I’m no explosive expert by any means, but I bet I could spend a few hours on the Internet doing research and could build a bomb with little trouble.
I’d imagine getting the materials might be tricky, and then building something that you could wear in a reasonably concealed fashion that would still do damage would be a challenge, I’d guess.
Maybe, but in my area of the world, the are some real moron amateur chemists who mange to get all the materials to cook up some bathtub meth without much trouble. Making TN or something similar couldn’t be too much harder.
I think the real challenge is not building something that will go boom, but rather building something that won’t go boom till you want it to.
Apparently quite a few amateur bomb makers off themselves in the attempt.
A suicide bomb is easy, building a suicide bomb that will successfully detonate with sufficient force to kill a large number of other people at exactly the moment you desire it to do so, not 10 minutes before or after, well that is somewhat complicated
The Unabomber might like a word.
You don’t have to blow yourself up. But it helps.
I like the reformulation of “Known Wolf” since all of these people are known to security services beforehand
from the NSA link:
Agency officials called the violations “inadvertent compliance lapses.”
“Inadvertent”. Right.
I might use that in my next meeting with Legal and Compliance. If it’s okay for the government, why niot us?
why niot us?
Because FYTY.
That story is infuriating. I occasionally bring up illegal surveillance by the Obama administration to the pant shitters on reddit. The last time I was told it was such a far fetched conspiracy theory it did not deserve a response. Saying anything bad about Obama is a sure fire way to piss off some people. He is a cult leader now.
“Now?” He’s been one since before his election.
I’ve bookmarked that article for future Facebook sharing. If I do it now, I’ll be violating a tacit ceasefire among my friends. I’m just torn between outrage and jadedness, because as infuriating as it is I don’t think there’s anyone in this forum who really thought that the IC would honestly police itself in a manner consistent with the letter and intent of the 4th Amendment.
“Right there. In the middle of the day. In broad daylight. In front of God and everybody,”
Well at least it wasn’t a devil’s threesome
“Wobbly H spotted on area dock”
Probably more of a U, an H requires 2 guys and a girl
That was the headline that would have been…
We did this one yesterday!
Two fives do not make a ten. I believe there is some form of logarithmic function when adding additional partners.
My judgement says these two ad up to somewhere between 6.5 and 7.
More research is needed to determine the natural log factor of banging skanks.
‘Laverne and Shirley’ and ‘Golden Girl’ episodes are a good place to start.
World is plundering Africa’s wealth for ‘billions of dollars a year’
From our friends the guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/may/24/world-is-plundering-africa-wealth-billions-of-dollars-a-year
It said African countries received $162bn in 2015, mainly in loans, aid and personal remittances. But in the same year, $203bn was taken from the continent, either directly through multinationals repatriating profits and illegally moving money into tax havens, or by costs imposed by the rest of the world through climate change adaptation and mitigation.
I like how something nicely unquantifiable like climate change sneaks in there. Also repatriating profits is basically plunder.
The number one plunderer of African wealth? African warlords.
Exactly.
+1 Muagbe
+1 Taylor
+1 Idi Amin
here have been a lot.
But Amin was so adorable, he was like a black Pilsbury Dough Boy.
HEY?! That is His Excellency President for Life, Field Marshal Alhaji Dr. Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, CBE to you, pal!
I thought The last king of Scotland was a damn good movie.
I do agree, but don’t go in expecting a light-hearted romp.
I’d forgotten what it was about by the time I got around to watching it. (Back before Blockbuster folded, it was cheaper to reach the magic number of their X/$Y deals because anything other than X got charged full price, so I ended up picking up movies that I still haven’t watched just to pay less.)
Indeed. Africa is such a tragic place. Loaded with natural riches, most of Africa should be prosperous, but its countries almost invariably pillaged continuously by warlord dictators. My son’s soccer coach last season is Nigerian, and talking to him about his homeland was enough to make you want to cry. He clearly loves it and didn’t want to leave, but he didn’t see any way to make a comfortable life for his family there.
And did he tell you how he needed your bank account info so he could transfer $100,000 in bonds from his home country?
No, because he sadly is not a Nigerian prince, just an ordinary Joe.
But, there was an activist who told me everyone from Africa was royalty but for the White men!
Damn White Man stole everything!
It’s all still King Leopold’s fault.
In fairness, King Leopold WAS really horrible.
All the way back to the slave trade when local power-seekers would make sure the slavers stopped by their rivals’ homes.
You meet some of the people from Africa. You look at how rich the continent is in terms of mineral wealth. And you wonder what the hell would happen if they ever had non-predatory government.
I also like how they don’t account for the value added after extraction. But I’ve come to expect it in the way they cover drug seizures.
You know, like when they seize a kilo of coke that is probably worth $50k (I’m guessing here, have no idea but the point is the same) if sold to someone buying kilos. But if that kilo is broken out to the smallest increment it’ll be sold at on the street and the max amount those increments are sold for is used, that kilo seized becomes “$250,000 worth of drugs seized in bust!”
through multinationals repatriating profits and illegally moving money into tax havens,
You know, the IRS and other tax outfits around the world offer huge rewards for people that turn in people doing this. I can only imagine the rewards for turning in “multinationals” “”illegally” moving “billions” into tax havens. I’m sure these newsmen haven’t provided any evidence out of some form of journalistic integrity rather than due to a total lack of it.
You would think if they have evidence of such large-scale law-breaking, they would cooperate by providing it to the appropriate authorities.
I really struggled with turning you in for tax evasion. I didn’t want to, but then the IRS offered me the $12…
But these newsmen are anti-corporate retards. They throw in shit like this about the multinationals illegally moving money to tax havens to rile people up. They know it’s a lie. Because if it were true, they’d write a story about it and win a fucking Pulitzer at the same time they turned all of their evidence in to the IRS and got millions in reward money.
Also, they actually believe that using the tax laws to minimize your tax burden is “stealing”.
^This. If those companies were doing something illegal according to the laws of the countries in which they operate, I would imagine that the Kenyan government, say, wouldn’t hesitate to seize some assets pending a thorough investigation. Unless there’s some bureaucratic culture in Africa that has a deep respect for property rights, which I highly doubt.
Keeping every penny you are allowed not to pay under the tax law is a criminal act. Remember they accused Trump of doing the same back before the election? The fact that we constantly have members of the tax loving prog political cabal being outed as tax avoiders, and then often getting away with it, however, should never be used to point what a bunch of hypocritical douchebags these confiscators are.
I agree. I was just admitting that i will sell people out for small sums of money.
“costs imposed by the rest of the world through climate change adaptation and mitigation.”
Yes, I’m sure they didn’t use any screwy statistics to come up with these numbers.
/sarc
I’ve got ~2000 words into a Remnant Wars piece I’ve been composing for this site. I don’t think it will reach suitable length for submission (complete it and let the Glib Editors chop it into serialized bytes) before my vacation.
No really good individual lines yet.
What exactly is a remnant war?
When I fight with my BIL over leftovers?
*standing ovation*
You know, like all the little piddly wars that are leftover after the big wars.
Time for backstory…
It was a random turn of phrase put out by SF regarding the backbiting trollscape among those left behind. I thought it sounded like a good title for a sci-fi action/adventure piece and a few ideas loosely inspired by the split percolated into my head. As Sloopy suggested I write a piece of fiction for the site, I decided to craft those ideas into something I could hand off to them.
Finish on a huge cliffhanger and then never come back to it.
But… there are no cliffs! One plot thread is at an Aerostat colony, the other on a space-steader ship. No one’s even seen anything that resembles rock, let alone cliffs.
No cliffs?!?!?
Is there a DOOMCOCK then? Or a talking hairpiece?
Because we have standards and expectations for our fiction around here!
I have my own standards.
You’re free to not read them if you prefer other content.
OK. So I get that things are a little more Mayberry here than where ever this woman is from. But damn lady, you need to calm the hell down.
East Grand Forks mom upset over unannounced bus trip to Dairy Queen
Marks, who moved to the area two years ago for her husband’s new Air Force posting, said friends in other areas have told her the driver should have instantly been fired, if not charged with a crime. Local reaction has been tamer.
East Grand Forks is on the good side of the Red River. Minnesoda nice for the win.
I could see how a mom would be upset if they had gone into NoDak land of Grand Forks.
Ugh. Just read that story. What a fucking cunt. Moves to the area and then begins hectoring the locals.
I will not feel good unless the Green Wave (EGF mascot) personally toilet papers her house.
Way to get out of her little bubble and make friends!
Especially when the DQ trip is cancelled next year thanks to her bitching about it. I bet her kid will be popular, too.
Last day of school next year on bus…
Bus with her kid passes DQ and blows horn at other kids getting an ice cream…
Kids break out in chorus: “Timmy’s mom’s a bee-itch. Timmy’s mom’s a bee-itch.”
She is a quilter and looks crazy.
My guess is that some poor teen age airman stuck it in crazy and ended up marrying her. I’m sure he’s having a great day at the base today as everyone gives him shit.
better pictures
Nice. I couldn’t find her on Facebook. And yes, I assume your guess as to their “courtship” is spot-on.
Oh shit, definitely a high quotient of teh crazy there.
Would.
Dammit.
Why do you hate Dairy Queen?
Them’s fightin’ words!
If Minnesoda won the war with the NoDak’s part of the settlement would be that you’d have to take East Grand Forks, Crookston and Thief River Falls.
There ain’t nothing in that neck of the woods. The only thing that those poor bastards at the EGF air base can say positively is that at least it ain’t Minot.
It the GF air base. But your main point still stands…at least it’s not Minot
It’s stories like that in local papers where it’s really a shame that comments don’t exist. Because I’m willing to bet that if there were a comments section, that lady would be ridiculed to the point she never opened her stupid, fucking mouth again when somebody decided to do something nice for her kid without begging her permission.
Agreed. This paper shut down the comment section a while ago because it was infested with idiots. I even saw one person say “this is why you should wear seatbelts” in the comments below a fucking obituary. Why they ever allowed comments on obits, I have no idea.
“I am glad that jerk is dead!”
The intent was probably to let additional randoms share their condolances – forgetting what sort of people inhabit the internet.
“She was a devoted sister. And a beloved cunt.”
“He died? That fucker owed me money!!”
Who do i collect it from now?
FYI. You can publish comments anonymously on her quilting blog. It might not be as fun as commenting on the paper’s story, but I bet we could juke the needle on the stats for 52quilters.com.
http://www.52quilters.com/2016/01/week-4-jackie-marks.html
“Quilting is almost as much fun as being molested in a Dairy Queen bathroom!”
FTA: “The driver was trying to do a nice thing,”. Well there’s your problem !
She’s probably one of those spouses yelling at people working at the commissary, “Listen here! My husband is a Staff Sergeant…”
I was working at a pizza place when I was 17. A guy complained about his pizza being made wrong. (I don’t recall the specific conplaint) I was trying to fix the problem (I think I was going to make him a new pizza free of charge) but he was still irate. After a few minutes of listening to him call me incompetant, he finally spews out, “You know, I am on the city council”
Being the smart ass that I am, I had no choice but to retort, “So. What are you gonna do, re zone my house?”
I got a stern talking to from management over that.
there was a punk ass kid in the ice cream place who pulled out the “my dad’s a LAWYER!!” on the poor clerk behind the counter. (this is in LA, mind you, a place not exactly short on lawyers). what a spoiled brat.
I’m trying to imagine the world in which this bitch feels good about herself. She’s stopped the kids from getting a nice, tasty treat.
Spreading misery is its own reward.
Tasty treats
I think your “(No, he doesn’t fix the cable.)” should be counted as a pre-comment foul and should be struck from the record. Thus leaving an empty void for one of us to fill with that comment.
You know who else liked to fill empty voids
Leslie Knope?
Jackie Treehorn?
STEVE SMITH
The person who invented expanding foam?
don’t be fatuous, ChipsnSalsa.
It’s all I have.
Seriously, Democracy Dies In Darkness, eh WaPo? So get off your fucking asses and report on legitemate and documented abuses of authority instead of third-hand accounts of what people are allegedly thinking about doing.
He didn’t want to do those things. The Presidency is an office which demands great sacrifices. That’s why we cannot allow just any power-hungry maniac to be President. Just OUR power-hungry maniac.
Not Really SJWednesday: Sugarfree Bait Edition
Oh, well, you read about it on a blog! Okay then, go ahead do some thoracic surgery!
what the hell is an “ish”?
Issues and struggles, which would have been cute/clever if it hadn’t been immediately overused.
If one of you gets something published in her column, I’ll buy you a fancy whore.
“Stop trying to make “ish” happen! It’s not going to happen!”
I actually thought that “ish” might be short for “fetish”.
Oh, well now I have to at least try. How fancy are we talking here? One of those $1000/hour chicks who looks like an underwear model?
Well, you can close your eyes and envision her when you’re with the girl I can afford (see above: the musings about driving for Uber in my spare time).
I think by “fancy whore” he means “one that has most of her teeth”.
In her mouth, or in a plastic baggy in her Harry Potter purse?
Purse, of course. Why the hell would I prefer teeth in her mouth??
What someone says after they see her dildo collection?
*narrows gaze*
isolated systolic hypertension?
feministing.com? naaa. I submit all my sex advice questions to minifisting.com
Do you believe in manifist destiny?
“I never the letters to your website were real until…”
Well, with a name like that, he’s lucky there was only one guy involved
Maybe the women had huge racks?
If ever a story needed some photographic proof…
Yesterday’s link had pictures. My eyes are still burning a little.
Photos were posted in yesterdays evening links but here you go…
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4534240/Women-man-arrested-Mississippi-public-threesome.html
One of them seems to be amply endowed, the other not so sure
Well, they’re all hideous. And one was married less than a month ago. That’s some serious CUCK!!! shit, right there
Yeah, and the other is 26?? Man, that’s some road miles, there.
New death metal:
Decrepit Birth
Sounds like the Cookie Monster is the lead singer.
C is for Cookie
Louis Armstrong is the singer?
Love that band. Underrated af.
Also check these out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzE9ELsCgrU Inferi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP0GIa9uJjE First Fragment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33nd5NSxP0A Brought by Pain
Maybe a cooler First Fragment song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUSJfCT4q2E
Agency officials called the violations “inadvertent compliance lapses.”
When I get pulled over for driving my Porsche 108 in a 60, I’ll be sure to say that to the cop. Oh, how we’ll laugh!
in a 60? If you’re going to speed, go for gold – 110 in a 20mph school zone.
I knew a kid in high school that did something similar – 100 in a 30, something like that. Got 60 days jail time for reckless driving, and the fines were so high that he had to sell his car to pay for them.
One of my childhood friends did 120 in a 35 late one night. Missed the turn. Hit the big oak tree about 15 feet up. They had to have a closed casket funeral on that one – most of the head was, well, not missing… but not exactly there either.
The kid sitting next to him was thrown through the windshield and flew 30 yards or so through the woods. Pretty much walked away though. You’d think that would scare you straight. Nope…. he was driving recklessly through the neighborhood about two weeks later. You can’t deter stupid.
Downtown library too small for Lexington city hall. Where can it go?
Besides straight to hell? But seriously, the city/county government of a population of 300,000 can’t fit in a 110,000 sqft building, apparently. Maybe instead of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to be told the obvious and wanting to build a gigantic building, they should focus on trying to fit into a just huge building.
225,000 spent just researching viability of buildings, seems legit. I guess I need to move into the viability assessment business.
The clown story would have been better if the clown had been tackled and captured by some teen-aged kids and their dog.
And then unmasked as the local anchorman trying to create news for better ratings?
+ meddling kids
Beastie Boys = cultural appropriation
It’s spelled (((Beastie Boys)))
Non-whites using recording devices = cultural appropriation
This is turning into a fun game.
Africans invented those first, but the white man stole them through tricknology.
“Tricknology” makes me laugh every damn time. Without fail.
Yeah, I was so entertained when SugarFree turned me on to Yakub and Tricknology. That shit just never gets old.
Nah, it’s Skeltonic verse, so who’s the appropriator?
Minor engine-fire on a plane at Newark airport last night. Not a big deal… unless you happened to be on a flight into Newark at the time. Then you got to enjoy flying circles for a while, landing in Philly and waiting for the to re-open Newark, and getting home at 3 am.
Gotta get the ATC archives for that one. You’d think EWR would be a big enough airport to direct traffic to another runway.
This one is better – 8:30 – 9:00pm.
http://archive-server.liveatc.net/kewr/KEWR-Twr-May-24-2017-0030Z.mp3
(United 1579 first comes on at the 26:00 mark)
The two main runways at KEWR are parallel and about 900′ from each other, it doesn’t have the layout of KIAD, KJFK, KDFW etc. The cross runway (17-29) isn’t suitable for most of the traffic. Until you triage the problem you assume that there are fuel spills, people etc.. At least they didn’t run over anyone: http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/07/12/sf-police-chief-confirms-sfo-plane-crash-victim-run-over-by-emergency-vehicle/
Yeah, it wasn’t until they evacuated the passengers that the airport was closed. It makes sense in order to prevent accidents and security breaches.
Here’s the tower archives starting at 9:00pm
Fuck all that. Can you find me the archive for LUN for October 19, 1978?
I can never hear that one often enough.
Oh fuck it. I’ll post the audio myself.
Bombing run starts around 2:40. And his reply a little later after the tower acknowledges him is pure awesome.
https://youtu.be/nyav1WBettg
Tom Friedman puts on his pith helmet, explores deepest, darkest flyover country, leaving platitudes and buzzwords in his wake. He finds a nugget of truth, examines it curiously, then discards it, skipping merrily away.
But just because there are workers looking for employment and there are new jobs opening, it isn’t automatic that local people work in those jobs, explained Jones, the recruiter. Because of the opioid crisis, many people cannot pass the mandatory drug test — and years of working for the government has left them unprepared for the pace of today’s private sector.
“The two biggest issues we are dealing with are the soft skills and passing the drug test,” explained Woody. “I thought the problem was that people needed more STEM skills.” But that’s not the case.
It turns out that it’s not that hard to train someone, even with just a high school or community college degree, to operate an advanced machine tool or basic computer. “Factory managers would say, ‘I will train them and put them to work tomorrow in good jobs” requiring hard skills, said Woody. “The problem they have is finding people with the right soft skills.”
What are those soft skills? I asked. “Employers just want someone who will get up, dress up, show up, shut up and never give up,” Woody responded without hesitation. And there are fewer workers with those soft skills than you might think, he added.
Who0 has taught these people they have no need to get up, get dressed, et c?
It’s a mystery.
I’ve always had a problem with the shut up part. The rest I can handle.
Since you mentioned Friedman, how sad do you think he was when that Chinese student at Maryland indirectly ripped her own country’s government?
Employers just want someone who will get up, dress up, show up, shut up and never give up
Used to be that this is what fathers taught their sons. What the fuck happened?
Metrosexuality.
From the comments:
“Tom JBerwyn, IL
It has only occured to me recently that the class warfare in our country and the blame of it resting soley on Democrats could possibly be fomented by Russians. That Russians could have recognized this weakness and exploited it somehow through fake news or propaganda — beyond what we know Fox has done.”
New York Times reader. So smart. So informed.
Could be someone trolling. I hope.
“Employers just want someone who will get up, dress up, show up, shut up and never give up,”
Thus is so true. I live in the middle of flyover country. My company is constantly hiring entry level positions. All you need is a high school diploma and be able to pass a drug test. The job starts at 16 an hour with full benefits. 401k health insurance. After 2 years it moves up to 19 am hour. If you move up over the years you can make up to 25 an hour. tons of overtime is available. We can’t keep people in these entry level jobs.
everytime I hear people bitch about a living wage and fight for 15 or whatever the current nonsense is, I mention this. There are good paying jobs out there. All you have to do is be willing to work.
Doing what?
Floor work at a steel mill. Grinding defects, driving forklifts, banding up bundles of steel.
Fuck that if they can get it for incompetently flipping burgers instead.
Round here, flippin burgers only pays about 7 an hour. And you never get a full 40 hours. And the benefits are not much.
Which is why the lazy entitled fuckers “march for fifteen” rather than do something that pays better where they might have to actually do some harder work.
yeah but angle grinding shit and driving forklifts is wayyyy more fun than flipping burgers
Yeah, some days I wish I still did that sort of thing. Nobody bothers the guy with an angle grinder.
Those aren’t euphemisms for some odd sex acts, Trolleric. They are references to factory work.
–“Grinding defects”–
I actually did this for about 6 months in Montgomery Alabama back in the early 90’s.
Moved down there to be with the woman who became my first wife and there were no electronics jobs so I took what I could get, making $9.50 an hour on a mandatory 58 hour work week sanding excess weld material off of aluminum air conditioner frames (the large industrial ones). Apparently I set the record for holding that job the longest because the typical guy they had at that station quit after he got his second paycheck. Then I did something that had never been done, caught up to the welders.
People were pissed at me when I actually walked off my station and found the foreman and asked him what he wanted me to do next rather than just stand around and twiddle my thumbs.
Oh can you guess, it was a Union shop?
Ha, I worked summers in a union shop when I was in college and they would hire on a couple extra guys from college to help out and fill in for guys on vacation. The union guys were always like “take it easy, kid, slow down, you don’t need to work so fast”.
Otherwise the quota gets raised, and they have to do more for the same rate.
This is why I’m inclined towards piece rates for manufacturing positions. Each person gets paid by the defect-free unit they process.
That’s how Wal-mart distribution centers pay their employees to load trucks. When you show up at work, you get a list of material to pull off the shelf and load into semi trailers. If you pull and pack more than what the quota is, you get paid more. The guys I know who have worked there, worked their asses off to get the trucks loaded as quickly and efficiently as possible. Incentives, they matter.
Yep, My station was next to the entrance to the paint line (huge conveyor system to take the frames through cleaning spraying and baking stations) and the guy who hung the stuff on the conveyor was always telling me not to go so fast or they’d expect it out of me all the time.
I always responded that was fine with me because I expected the same level of effort out of myself all the time anyway
+1 Boulting Brothers
But soft skills are so haaaaaaaaaaaardd!
“Employers just want someone who will get up, dress up, show up, shut up and never give up,”
And they’re sure as shit not learning those skills at modern universities, where a significant portion of students are percolated in ideas of entitlement and victimhood. Think about the day these SJW morons actually show up for their first day at work and find out that they can’t protest their way to less work and more money.
It’s feelin like a Starbucks kinda day.
Iced quad venti whole milk caramel macchiato kinda day.
Make sure you take your insulin first.
I was only mildly confused by your first sentence.
Your second sentence doesn’t look like real words.
They’re not. And it’s not real coffee.
Black Coffee https://youtu.be/i4odD2Bg1_0
Wrong link: Black Coffee
One of the reasons I no longer go to Starbucks is standing in line behind people who utter those kind of nonsense words while I’m trying to get a cup of coffee.
I saw a woman who printed her own order on address labels that she kept in her purse and she just hands that to the cashier.
Kids on Coffee!! https://youtu.be/p6KcnlwgL00
Descendants! Woohoo!
I only went with the regular venti (3 shots instead of 4)
RIP Kristen
Bullshit. None of those drinks has as much caffeine as a regular cup of coffee, and I routinely drink more coffee than that throughout the day. I will put away more coffee than that in just the first couple hours at work, with no ill effects, and I am in my 50’s.
I will put away more coffee than that in just the first couple hours at work, with no ill effects, and I am in my 50’s.
Me too. I keep drinking it until 4 or 5 in the afternoon, too.
I usually have to pee a lot after lunch.
I will actually keep drinking it up until around 7:00 or so at night. I guess I probably have some built-up resistance to caffeine, because it doesn’t keep me awake at night.
Fun game to play at Starbucks, imagine what that person’s sexual turn on’s are based on their order.
Really SJWednesday: Feminine Energy Edition
Let’s start with something that didn’t happen…
Follow up with some really strained logic…
And end it with meaningless platitudes…
So – was this a perfect love-match of vapid shallow morons?
And the Glibs above said my coffee order was word salad. Sheesh!
…did something just happen? I don’t understand.
It’s led people to make assumptions about me based on my physical appearance.
That’s not why you get called a cunt all the time, sister…
Let’s start with something that didn’t happen…
Bingo. I would bet that this loon has never even had a third date, much less a fifth.
In other words, by changing my mood so quickly, I was being “feminine.”
Whut ? This is just my experience but in general men will get a flash of anger, say and then return to normal. Whereas that flash of temper can cause your mate to stay mad the rest of the day, as in , your 15 second tirade has “ruined the entire day”.
I do the worst of both worlds. I’ll get mad as shit at the drop of a hat and not let it go for weeks. Unless I get at least a tepid apology, then it’s a full reset and I’m over it. My wife, on the other hand, is usually pretty hard to really piss off, and once you succeed…er…accidentally do something to upset her, it takes a little bit of work to make amends. Between the two of us, she’s easily the most calm, and at least as reasonable. While sober, that is.
Bro, you could have just hyperlinked the words ‘The effects and hazards associated with lack of good dick, read at your own risk’
they lost me once they started talking
Not that I’m condoning this sort of action, but I can understand what might drive a man to strangle a woman with his dick.
How it really happened.
Text (Her): WTF r u? ur l8. again
Text (Him): b there soon
Text (Her): shit
Guy picks her up. In the car:
Her: Hi. (kisses him on the cheek)
Him: Huh.
Her: What?
Him: I always heard girls were moodier than guys.
Her: Are you calling me a bitch?
Him: What? No!
Her: I just want to have a good time tonight, OK?
Him: Forget I said anything.
To be fair, this is analogy is so open ended and pointless, it could definitely be true. (not that I believe the conversation actually happened). If it helps her be less bitchy, we should probably just let it go.
Bernie backers rage over Calif. Democratic Party chair race Audit underway after accusations of ballot stuffing, floor protests.
They we demanding proper ID? Racists!
Racism is the only possible reason to want voters to have valid ID.
What no one tells you about the Deep South
Ma’am, can you kindly go fuck yourself? Much obliged
LOOK AT ME!!!!
WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU LOOKING AT ME????
Nice summation. If you don’t want people to treat you like a novelty, be conventional. Then they won’t notice you.
But clearly this person wants to be noticed and to bitch about it.
I have zippy patience for people who want to express their individualism without having to stand by it. If you don’t have the courage of your convictions, they aren’t really convictions. Plus, people need to toughen the fuck up.
“Toughen the fuck up” needs to be uttered way more in this here land.
I prefer HTFU
You know what’s funny? I’m Mexican too, and I was stationed in the south. Know what I did? I bought a Gamecocks t-shirt from the local Wal-Mart and had some Caroline BBQ. Nobody treated me like a freak, because I didn’t look like one.
Wait… “mexican sharpshooter” is a Mexican?
Either that or I picked a random character that has no dialogue from a remake of a classic western movie as my avatar.
A JeWitch, really? Jesus Tapdancing Christ, she probably did feel like an outsider.
Well reading that was a huge waste of time.
Did she happen to notice their female Indian Governor while attending the other USC?
Republican, so not a real woman nor Indian (see: Jindal, Bobby)
My freshman year, I had two friends from Spartanburg, SC. They kept talking about friends of theirs who attended USC and I was so confused about why so many people from their HS went to CA for school.
Then it clicked.
Now I think of USCw as the other USC. But I like referring to them as USCe and USCw to annoy both.
For the longest time I thought UConn was in the Great White North until I saw how it was spelled. Then it clicked.
Well, I have heard from two different people the exact same thing: that if you move to the South, the locals will ask two questions in this order:
Where are you from ?
Which church do you go to?
Having lived several places in the south, is probably day this is 90% accurate.
Of course the third thing they say is probably giving you the name of the nearest church of that denomination. And the fourth is to probably tell you the tougher areas of town to stay away from.
Meanwhile, the first two questions one usually gets asked when moving to a NE corridor city are:
Who the fuck do you think you are?
and
Hey, cocksucker, I said who the fuck do you think you are?
Well if you come all the way to Maine we won’t ask you any questions. If we did it would probably be:
What makes you think I want to talk to you?
You’re still talking?
In Louisville it is …
Which school did you go to (and surprisingly they don’t mean UK/UofL, they are referring to high schools)
Which church do you go to.
Give the wrong answer to either and you can find yourself ostracized pretty quickly.
In Los Angeles it’s…
Which freeways did you take today?
And…
*stares into smartphone screen*
Japanese variation for foreigners between 20-40:
Why did you come here?
Are you married?
Absolute bullshit.
At least she is just plain weird enough that this piece isn’t 100% cliched crap. But damn, she is weird.
The Messy Relationship Between Food Stamps and Health
Fatties can’t run their own lives. Need more assistance spending their government benefits properly.
“The incentive helped increase fruit and vegetable consumption by 25 percent.”
Consumption or purchase increased?
Exactly.
They then sold the crappy stuff at discount to some uppity hippies
I’m not entirely against this. You get to spend your own money on whatever you want. If you’re spending other people’s money, there are strings attached. This is even the case with most long term loan money – and that’s money you’re obligated to pay back!
If you’re going to have programs where you give people financial support, treating them like children incapable of making decisions probably does little to enhance the allocation of resources within the program or to help anyone get off of it. The set of incentives it creates only accelerates the learned helplessness inherent in a welfare system. Even if the paternalism appeals, the cost of compliance likely far exceeds what it would save.
the cost of compliance likely far exceeds what it would save.
That’s a drawback I totally agree with. If the cost of compliance outweighs the benefits, its not worth it. As for incentives, how does giving people free money with no strings attached incentivize people to do anything other than stay on the dole?
how does giving people free money with no strings attached incentivize people to do anything other than stay on the dole?
The strings attached don’t exactly seem to be peeling people off the dole, so it’s a false dilemma. Stripping the poor of any dignity by telling them they’re too stupid to make proper decisions and need to have their consumption bureaucratically managed probably sends a bad message. Believe it or not, there’s a lot of people on the dole who would prefer to work and have a better lifestyle. There’s jut a lot of incentives that keep you on the dole once you get there. Going to work eliminates benefits that you can barely live without with no transition period. So unless you can go from so broke that you had to apply for welfare to skilled enough to secure employment with immediate benefits and pay equal to or greater than what you get on the dole, you’re more or less stuck.
Just handing people cash requires next to no logistics or bureaucracy, puts cash more immediately and directly into circulation (if you’re into that kind of thing), and might well give the recipients a sense of self-ownership and self-direction that makes them behave more responsibly – not less. Personally I would a thousand times prefer a guaranteed minimum income than anything like the SNAP program. The trick, of course, is to set the level high enough to provide at least a subsistence existence, but not so high as to overly disincentivize working.
The strings attached don’t exactly seem to be peeling people off the dole, so it’s a false dilemma.
This seems hard to quantify. For all you know, the embarrassment and frustration of not being able to spend money on what you want (instead of what you need) could very well be motivating people to get off the dole. I think we’re shooting in the dark, so I have to say that this is not a false dilemma, or even a dilemma at all. It’s simply policy choice.
Stripping the poor of any dignity by telling them they’re too stupid to make proper decisions and need to have their consumption bureaucratically managed probably sends a bad message.
On the other hand, telling people that if they want to buy whatever the heck they want – if they want soda or candy – they need to figure out a way out of this spot they’re in, could send a good message.
Believe it or not, there’s a lot of people on the dole who would prefer to work and have a better lifestyle.
I have no doubt that there are “a lot” of people on the dole that want a lot of different things. A lot of people also want the government to take everything from the rich and middle class and give it to the poor. A person’s desires =/= how much they are willing to work for what they desire. Obviously not all people on the dole are lazy – I’m sure plenty of them are working hard.
There’s jut a lot of incentives that keep you on the dole once you get there.
That’s my point.
Going to work eliminates benefits that you can barely live without with no transition period. So unless you can go from so broke that you had to apply for welfare to skilled enough to secure employment with immediate benefits and pay equal to or greater than what you get on the dole, you’re more or less stuck.
This is a separate issue and I’m in agreement with you that it needs to be addressed.
might well give the recipients a sense of self-ownership and self-direction that makes them behave more responsibly – not less.
Maybe, maybe not. I think you’re underestimating just how lazy humans are capable of being.
Personally I would a thousand times prefer a guaranteed minimum income than anything like the SNAP program. The trick, of course, is to set the level high enough to provide at least a subsistence existence, but not so high as to overly disincentivize working.
Let’s stay on topic.
I disagree. If you are on SNAP, you get to go to the Gov Warehouse and “buy” stuff there. Maybe a little bit of shame, a bit of inconvenience, and a lot of government cheese will discourage freeloaders.
Exactly, my bank requires my to have insurance on my house, its like they own the place or something!
Yup. I haven’t bothered trying to convince a bank to buy a house for me with their depositor’s money yet.
Considering the depositors have nearly 80% equity in my house, calling it MY house is questionable at times.
It’s society’s house! Now quit your job and make room, shitlord.
But seriously, yeah, it’s the bank’s house until you pay off the mortgage. Then it’s 100% the government’s house, which you lease for the price of your property taxes each year.
You didn’t build that!
A few weeks ago the deed to my house transferred from the bank to me YAY!
Now I pay my rent to the government. YAY!
Congrats Lachowsky, you now understand the evils of the land tax.
Property Tax != Land Tax
But a land tax is a property tax.
And as all property taxes are unconscionably evil, so is any form of land tax – whether it be on the (known) developed market rate of a plot or the (unknowable) undeveloped hypothetical value.
These are not very direct comparisons either. Having to get title and casualty insurance to provide security to your lender doesn’t mean the bankman has to come by and approve which door handles you can install or what color you can paint your bedroom accent wall. You have stupid rules in the SNAP program, like where you can go buy bread, meat, greens, mayo, mustard and pickles and make yourself a sandwich, but can’t buy one pre-made from the deli on the other side of the grocery store because you forfeited the ability to tradeoff price for convenience when you accepted the benefits. If you’re going to be that paternalistic about how the stupid class spends their money, then drop the pretense and just send them a box of approved foods twice a month.
I gotta go, but you can read more about this issue here. Hayek and Friedman’s competing concepts are interesting. Friedman’s ended up morphing into the EITC and becoming part of the modern tax code, although that’s not at all the way he wanted it administered.
Response in comment #57 below.
Who pays the piper calls the tune. If you don’t want the strings, don’t take the money.
Actually, the box of food thing is not a bad idea, or rather a variation. If we are concerned about people starving, then just run depots where eligible people can get free bulk rice, dried beans, some vegetables, and cheap protein like bulk whole chickens. They will not eat in luxury, or even have much variety, but they won’t starve or be unhealthy on that diet, it will be much cheaper to run than food stamps, and it will incentivise them to get off the dole. You want free food? Here is your free food. so you won’t starve. You want better food? Go buy it yourself.
+1 Barry Farber plan.
But, but how am I supposed to remain gluten free??
Well, unless you are one of the rare people that has celiac disease, you don’t need to worry about it.
Bingo. Unless you want your body to have trouble processing whole wheat, which will eliminate the benefits it gives you in preventing heart disease… which is hilarious/sad when you think about it, cause people are avoiding gluten because they think it causes heart disease.
People are fucking morons.
I know that there’s no such thing as private charity and the only way for poor people to not die by the droves is for the government to take care of them using money justly appropriated from kulaks and wreckers, but every morning I walk past a church on my way to work that’s right across from a large public housing complex, and there’s a group of residents waiting for the doors to open so they can get donated food.
Now, I don’t know for certain that a bunch of old people who don’t look terribly spry and may very well have the sugar dibeetus are eligible for some sort of government assistance, but if they aren’t I’d love to know who is. So whatever’s going on with those monies, they aren’t enough to make standing around outside a church at 8:00 AM and begging for cans of beans not worthwhile.
Bingo.
I think we were being hyperbolic about the home-ownership thing… at least I was.
There was an uproar here in Maine when our infamous governor (Lepage), said that he wanted welfare recipients to have to take a drug test to receive benefits. While I wasn’t thrilled by more stupid drug policy stuff, my overall attitude was: ‘feel free to get a job then’.
“Well, I once read somewhere that masculine energy is like a river leading into the ocean. It knows where it’s going and it flows there in the most efficient manner possible. Feminine energy, on the other hand, is the ocean, with wild, beautiful, tumultuous waves.”
Umm, yeah. Whatever.
It’s like Plato came back to life and started philosophizing again.
Mega level Beta-chuck derp.
A nicer way of saying “focused and efficient” v. “crazy”.
I’m driving into that ocean hard
i don’t know what my parenting philosophy is called but it’s the one where if some date said that to my daughter she’d punch him in the face, possibly shoot him.. we’re still working out the details.
First Human Ancestor Came from Europe Not Africa, 7.2 Million-year-old Fossils Indicate
Cultural appropriation across time and space.
It’s all Jakub’s fault.
Damn Greeks.
I like how they throw the weasel word in at the end of the headline.
How is it a weasel word when there is significant actual uncertainty?
I don’t have a problem with the uncertainty, but rather the assertion that makes up the rest of the headline. They would need a lot more evidence than they have to prove a great ape “came from” southern Europe, so they shouldn’t have implied it, then hedged.
Racist, straight up. Now the white man is even stealing human origins. Tricknology at it’s most insidious.
“its” – in before the grammar Nazis
Do we have grammar Nazis here? I haven’t noticed any yet…
But vee haff noticed you, Herr Tripod. Vee encourage you to continue using proper grammar. Any mistake you make could haff “grave” consequences. Guten tag, Herr Tripod.
*clicks heels, turns and walks briskly away*
Shit, I found one! Quick, someone punch him!
You know who else was obsessed about their racial origins…
Shawn King?
Rachel Dolezal?
Clayton Bigsby?
ha!
I think we have a winner
Yup.
EU ministers on Tuesday (23 May) backed a bill that seeks to curb hate speech on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google’s YouTube.
The move follows wider concerns over online radicalisation and the incitement to commit terrorist acts.
It also comes on the heels of a suicide terror attack in the UK that ended the lives of 22 people and injured 59 others following a concert in Manchester.
The EU bill still needs the support of the European Parliament before it becomes law.
https://euobserver.com/justice/138009
Well this is just great. I am sure it will prevent lotsa terror and not be abused in any way. I mean no way can this ever be used to nefarious purposes. That’s just cookie-talk
If the terrorists ever start linking to Breitbart, Facebook will be all over it.
What do you mean, “if”? People who post at Breitbart ARE terrorists. If they weren’t, they’d participate in the comment sections of responsible, centrist websites like Huffington Post.
Why do you hate children?
Screaming, odiferous and not mine.
Because they think Muslims are animals that cannot stop themselves from flying into murderous rage when criticized. Kind of like how if you look a cop in the eye they may get startled and shoot you.
*Europe gets attacked*
*In retaliation, Europe stabs itself*
The elites don’t want the plebes getting the crazy idea that they don’t give two shits about them because they are more worried about lining their own pockets and then pointing that out, let alone realize they will need to protect themselves and going vigilante. That shit can quickly turn into the plebes thinking they should extract some justice from the elites as well, and the top men can’t risk that sort of nonsense happening.
The worst thing about this is that those platforms will likely just make the hate speech laws defacto in every country they operate in because it’s easier for them to implement and enforce that way. The EU is basically passing a law to create worldwide social media censorship.
Without that sort of thing you get Trump and Brexit, so it is for our own good…
The problem is that it’s largely invisible. I forget what it is, but due to a law in Pakistan Youtube outright bans certain content (probably certain stripes of criticism of Islam). I didn’t find out about that from Youtube, I found about that from somewhere else (one of you guys I think when I was lurking at TSTSNBN).
It’s similar to the NSA domestic spying, which most people don’t really give a shit about.
Because they are certain that nothing will come of anyone spying on them 24/7. After all, they hold the right beliefs and ideas, and even go so far as to believe that they have not done anything wrong. Our legal system makes criminals of everyone daily. Just because nobody acts on that immediately, doesn’t mean that when you piss someone off in that government that spies on everyone, that someone can’t just use that machine and its findings to bulldoze your life to hell. Even if you think you have done nothing wrong when they get pissed at you, they can and will destroy you, never registers.
This is completely retarded. Even setting aside the speech issues and obvious misuse, it won’t stop what they’re claiming to want to stop. It makes monitoring the individuals and groups more difficult if they close the known accounts and then have to go hunt up whatever replaces them. It’ll just be whack-a-mole, and there’s no winning with an infiinite game of whack-a-mole, you’ll miss more and more.
Over a comment a minute? Dang
Well, I mean, our orphans have made us breakfast and have gone off to their work in the mines. What else are we supposed to do?
We’re at a comment about every 38 seconds going on 4 hours straight.
It’s a lot better than that. We’ve only been at it 3 hours. The Glibs clock is set to God’s time (Central time, bitches!)
Yeah, I forgot about that. Wow, that’s pretty amazing.
Our current average comments-per-post stands at 207. I think that’s really good for a 3 months old place run by amateurs and goofballs.
Amateurs?!
Sirrah, I am a professional goofball!
Geez, I can’t wait to see your writing when you turn pro.
I have 6 or 7 of those comments. Yet I have contributed nothing of any substance. I have no soul.
I have no soul.
You’re here, so we knew that already.
I have a good and pure soul.
I keep it in a jar on the shelf.
No idea whose it was originally.
Have folks been following the ongoing DNC IT debacle?
Need MOAR backdoors
Be funny if the NSA leaked all their data to take the wind out of the sails of the alleged blackmailers.
Shit, then the NSA wouldn’t be able to use to blackmail them.
Is it any surprise that politicians would be ripe for this type of infiltration/blackmail? They’re the kind who don’t care how things work, just whether or not they gain influence. They’re notoriously arrogant, they’re generally morons….
Easy targets if you ask me.
Hilarious that while the Democrats were loudly bitching about the fabricated Russian hacking, they really did have all their data stolen – by a female Democrat aide who fled to Pakistan.
http://americanmilitarynews.com/2017/05/democratic-it-staffer-under-investigation-for-security-breach-flees-to-pakistan-with-family/
She and her relatives that ran the IT shop came highly recommended by Clinton’s top girl Abedin….
The Africa subthread brought this to mind — what does the commentariat think about the idea that the further from the equator the greater the productivity of a nation and that this is actually inate?
I would provide a link but I am lazy.
For modern nation-states or in general? The Inuit are not exactly the bastions of productivity.
You try working on ice
Modern, but may be in general too.
I would think there would be some sort of peak short of the arctic/antarctic circle and then a sharp fall off heading to the poles. But very few modern nation states have their population center there. Even the Canadians squeeze up against the US border.
The Inuit developed as essentially hunter gatherers. Their climate was not historically conducive to temperate agriculture. Whereas the changing of seasons from cold to warm incentivizes long term planning. Agricultural societies that ate their seeds in winter died. The societies that didn’t learn to set aside some harvest as winter reserves, tended to die. The societies that didn’t weren’t very good at maximizing their yield in the appropriate span of time, tended to die.
So it’s not latitude per se, but the use of agriculture in the presence of changing seasons that rewarded long-term planning and low time preference (deferred gratification).
You try working in a desert
Yeah, but then how do you explain Cananda?
I can at least theoretically see how dying horribly in harsh winter can incline one more towards planning. And maybe weather affects character, but who knows? I can see it being harder working a 10 hour desk job in the Caribbean with view to the beach.
The Air Conditioning or lack thereof would play a factor in how well I’d manage ten hours in a carribean office building.
I’m deeply skeptical. I had an anthro professor who, while a likeable guy generally, could be an insufferable snob, and he claimed with a straight face that this was why–not making this up–all the best universities in the US were in the North, and why people in the South weren’t as smart. Basically, the ol’, “If it’s warm and nice all the time, there’s no challenge to survival, and therefore no impetus to solve problems.” Counterargument: It’s at least as difficult to survive in the Sahara as it is in Massachusetts, so by that logic the Tuareg should have already colonized the Moon.
The prof was almost half right but for the wrong reason. It’s not necessarily harshness of the environment that selects for raw intelligence or productivity, it needs to be a specific type of harshness where survival depends on planning, execution and deferred gratification.
The GF and I were talking about this the other day, then busted out a map and noticed how much of the landmass on the planet is north of the equator. I’ve heard something to the effect of what you’re talking about, but just looking at the map and thinking about previous advanced civilizations (for their time), it doesn’t seem to hold much water. But I’m just an uninformed idiot, so what the hell do I know?
The headline should have been ‘Clown with Bladed Gloves Slashes Man to Death at Torchy’s Tacos’.
I just feel the Torchy’s Tacos gives it that extra bizarre touch that it really needs.
I love that sloopy uses the old NHL conference names. They should have kept using them, they have more history and character. My team (Chicago) was in the Norris Division of the Campbell Conference back in the day.
The Patrick Division of my youth was the Rangers, Islanders, Devils, Flyers, Caps, and Penguins.
The Norris had Chicago, St. Louis, Toronto, Minnesota North Stars, and Detroit. The old divisions encouraged some great rivalries.
Saving is bad
Both President Trump and the House Republicans’ proposals reserve the biggest tax cuts for the wealthiest. Slashing rates at the top is probably the least effective way of spurring spending, however, because high-income households have the luxury of socking away a financial windfall, said Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at the research firm IHS Markit. The Trump plan, he said, “could well end up hurting a lot of poor people without boosting growth.”
“If you tilt the tax cuts toward lower-income households, they will spend more of it,” Mr. Behravesh said. “There is virtually no debate among economists about that.”
Apparently, economists believe everybody should live paycheck to paycheck.
The Federal Reserve has done a good job of discouraging savers and distorting the price of financial risk, so we’ve got that going for us.
Shut up and buy three new phones and a car
I get better returns by paying down loans right now. So what money I might otherwise be saving up pours into my mortgage and student loans. The car loan is 0%, so that gets the minimum payment and will be finished up with less valuable future dollars.
But I still tuck away 5% of my paycheck into my deferred comp. (Not that that will last very long once I retire at the rate things are going)
The s&p 500 average annual return is still 7% over the most recent 10 year period.
And? I see my statements, I can even go online and look up the current state of my funds.
At a rate of return of 7% and a continued 5% contribution rate, I’ll have all of four years at a reduced cash rate before it bottoms out at $0 after the intended retirement date. (and that’s about a 50% reduction from current spending dollars not counting inflation)
This is assuming the pension fund gets plundered and I don’t have my state pension to back it up.
I’m not even going to bother including a payout from social security.
If I do get a pension, the deferred comp lasts a lot longer.
I think he was saying that if your mortgage is <7% that you would get a better ROR investing more and paying the mortgage off slower.
On the other hand, paying off the mortgage early gives more flexibility down the road and more peace of mind.
On the gripping hand, even Dave Ramsey doesn't recommend paying extra on the mortgage (step 6) until you have at least 15% going into retirement(step 4).
I will be debt free.
Yes, that was the point of the other hand.
But you could bump your retirement from 5% to 15% and pay off the house slower and have retirement covered AND be debt free.
If I upped deferred comp, it would not be coming from the mortgage repayment account. It’d cut semi-discretionary funds.
Because poor people are more likely to spend significant amounts of disposable income than people with greater wealth? Seriously?
I hate these assholes. If you actually look at the plan, and I know that’s too much work for the slovenly leftists who pass themselves off as journalists today, you will see that the middle class and lower incomes will also be getting a nice break. I calculated my own after I understood how it works and it’s around 10k less in taxes for me.
So, we can’t be giving tax cuts to the poorest working stiffs because they’ll just spend it all, and that’s somehow bad… because why? and we can’t be giving tax cuts to the wealthiest because evil one percent. Did I get that right? I can’t wait to hear this stooges explanation of why we can’t give the middle class tax cuts, but I’m sure he has one.
And of course, it’s the NYT. And I suppose by ‘economists’ he means the likes of Krugabe?
It’s the government’s money and people like you should just kiss their collectivist asses in thanks for leaving you with some of it you greedy bastage.
The left loves poor people so much they want to make more of them.
Also have to love how they ignore the fact that the upper incomes get the biggest cuts because they actually pay the bulk of the taxes, by far. And being allowed to keep more of your own money is a “financial windfall”. Fuck off, slaver!
Last night I finally forced myself to watch the documentary Weiner.
To my surprise, Huma actually comes off as well – human. God knows how considering her constant proximity to Hillary.
Anthony Weiner … aka Carlo Danger… is just a jerk. His lefty arguing method appears to be shout down the opposition! and then get smug. His tough guy act is also pretty funny.
My main takeaway: Politicians are narcissists, verging on the delusional. Carlos is probably no better and no worse than the majority of the people in Washington. Also the people who buy into their shit is really depressing. And that must have the effect of feeding into the politician’s ego even more. I can’t even imagine what Obama is like, given his petulance.
Also Huma is quite striking and/or handsome. She’s not a beauty in the classic sense and isn’t my sort at all, but works with what she has.
Another thought: New Yorkers are the worst.
Huma is the ultimate two-face. Sometimes she looks great, other times…woof. But the one thing she always has going for her, she looks like she has big naturals to go with her small frame.
I’m a thicc fan, but that combo is always a winner
When they do the Huma biopic, here’s my casting recommendation.
I’ll be in my bunk…for a while
God. Dayum.
Is it bad that I’ve been hot for her since she was on Malcom In The Middle? OMWC, may we have a ruling?
Holy Crap, she was on Malcom in the the Middle. Jesus I feel like a pervert.
Why the long face?
I think Huma’s one of those chicks who, if she were like really cool and fun to be around or really nice or whatever, would kind of handicap into above average. Some people kind of hover in the middle numbers of attractiveness with the deciding vote being cast by personality. Not just that they’re likeable, but that their personality is such that you view ambiguous physical quirks as being attractive, rather than unattractive.
The most disturbing thing is that Weiner and people like him are what we’d call “top men”. These are the people that are supposedly better than you at making decisions that affect your life.
Are you doubting their topness? Their topnicity? Do you, sir, deny the essence of their topitude??
You just can’t stress that enough. When I argue with my proggy friends who say “the government” should do something, I always point out that there is no government apart from the people in it. Pick the politician you hate the most, that’s who you’re saying should be deciding this something.
I loved that doc. It was hilarious all the way through.
The image of Weiner hiding in a broom closet in a basement McDonalds…that’s gold Jerry.
And the scene in the deli where he finally loses his shit.
Carlo Danger was the chosen disciple of none other than Moobz. How could he not turn out to be a dick?
Exactly. Like anyone who wasn’t a huge knob could spend any time around Schumer at all.
And only in machine politics could he have run for NYC mayor in the first place. He was a disgraced Clinton crony pervert. How did he even get on the ballot?
Anthony Weiner, the Fredo Corleone of the democratic party…
And-
There are lots of reasons to tinker with the tax code, many experts say, but the notion that there is a simple cause-and-effect relationship between cuts and growth is faulty. “Tax policy is clearly not some overwhelmingly powerful tool that affects growth,” Mr. Viard said. There are simply too many other things — like technology, worker productivity and aging — that can either muffle or overwhelm their impact.
In the months after Mr. Trump’s unexpected victory in November, many business leaders and investors thought that the Washington logjam might finally break and that corporate tax reform, more infrastructure spending and other growth-friendly policies would be passed by Congress and signed into law.
But with Washington and the White House now distracted by the investigation into possible ties between former Trump aides and Russia, momentum for major tax cuts or a big infrastructure bill has stalled.
Thanks to news outlets like the NYT, Trump’s “business friendly” agenda has been derailed. Economic efficiency is no longer a threat.
Hurray!
They live in horror that people might actually discover that high taxes and government regulation actually stifle growth and hurts them economically.
If the government takes your money you have more money. If they take less of your money you are poorer. All economist know this.
Why doesn’t one of these politicians perform this demonstration on stage when challenged. “Hi, thanks for asking if paying taxes makes us wealthier. Give me $100 and see if you have more money in your wallet. How about $50?”
the notion that there is a simple cause-and-effect relationship between cuts and growth is faulty.
No shit?
Economics For Simpletons lays it all out for you. You should try reading it.
I believe that’s above their cognitive ability.
Back to Friedman-
After he allows as how jobs are going unfilled due to the shortage of people willing to get out of bed and stand around in some store all day with a dumb look on their face, Friedman zooms off into a cloud-cuckoo America where every other hick town has a cadre of free-thinking geniuses running a 3-D manufacturing plant churning out cars to order. No mention of how the EPA and NHTSA might feel ,about that.
Also have to love how they ignore the fact that the upper incomes get the biggest cuts because they actually pay the bulk of the taxes, by far.
No kidding. I see a story about how some rich bastard is going to “get” five million dollars in tax “breaks” and all I can think is, “Holy fuck, how much are they soaking the poor bastard for?”
All tax cuts must come the middle class and upper class. The lower classes mostly pay little to no income tax. I know people who get more on their refund than they paid in all year.
You sir lack the proper motivation to be one of them: envy.
Pregnant Maryland teen not allowed at graduation ceremony
She discovered she was pregnant in January, just a few days after receiving a college acceptance letter, according to the New York Times.
But after she announced her pregnancy, Runkles was suspended for two days.
School officials also removed the 18-year-old from her position on student council and told her she wouldn’t be able to join the rest of the senior class at graduation in June.
Heritage Academy Administrator David Hobbs issued a statement calling Runkles’ pregnancy ‘an internal issue about which much prayer and discussion has taken place’.
“Small, private Christian academy”. Oh, well!
Consequences, etc…
Yeah I was a little annoyed by it till I noticed it was a private school. I don’t agree with them but it is their school and entirely within their rights to do this so there isn’t much to complain about.
Private school.
Still assholes.
Depends if it was in the handbook or something they made up on the fly.
And also whether the father is also being similarly treated (assuming he is a student).
Why? Are people required to think it’s great? Chances are the taxpayers will be the breadwinner in the family. I have no issue with the community at large thinking single motherhood is worthy of scorn.
They are certainly allowed to make a bad decision. But from the stories out there, she was a good student, active in the school community (soccer, President of Student Council, etc), and never had a disciplinary issue before. She was suspended and removed as president of the student council. To keep her from celebrating with her peers is a step too far, and apparently that part is not spelled out in their student handbook.
When I was in high school (late ’70s), if you got pregnant, you were told not to come to school, and had assignments, etc. sent home. We had two girls in my class of about 180 who got pregnant. It was shamed.
Now, if you’re pregnant, you not only come to school, you can bring your kid and there’s a daycare. I don’t know how many pregnant girls there are in the current class, but its a hell of a lot more than two. It is celebrated.
Anecdotal, but something something of what you reward, etc.
Shit. The kids revolt if the teachers don’t participate in the celebration. My mother-in-law works in a Philadelphia school, it’s beyond belief.
Access to publically funded abortion would have prevented this tragedy.
As ol’ Jimmy Carr would say, falling down the stairs is not that complicated
How many people were shot in Maryland in the last week?
Yet this story is rare enough that it got national coverage all the way out on the West Coast and the violence in Baltimore didn’t.
Seriously, Democracy Dies In Darkness, eh WaPo? So get off your fucking asses and report on legitemate and documented abuses of authority instead of third-hand accounts of what people are allegedly thinking about doing.
I saw that phrase more as a statement to explain what they were doing, rather than a cautionary refrain.
Bidets Can Save 15 Million Trees Annually—So Why Aren’t We Using Them?
Europeans use them; 60 percent of Japan uses them; 90 percent of Venezuelans use them.
Ok, what tags am I supposed to be using now?
Link: https://lifehacker.com/bidets-can-save-15-million-trees-annually-so-why-arent-1795431390
-a href=”url”- -/a-
With < and >, of course.
Or you could direct him to that malware I installed from thrakzorg. Wink, wink.
I also tried to bold, was that getting too fancy?
-strong- for bold
-em- for italics
It’s a wordpress thang.
But, yes, thrakzorg’s add-on is groovy.
For bold: use -strong- instead of -b-
for italics: use -em- instead of -i-
or just use Monocle and the provided buttons
Naw, That should be just fine.
Assuming the tagging is correct.
I am such a noob.
Trees can be regenerated. The problem in many countries is that the government does not prevent cutting trees on land one does not own. And prevents the owners from doing it themselves.
I have trees regenerating in my fence row right now that need to be removed.
Will you be wiping your butt with them?
/Cut out the middle man!
Well, how hard is it to clean up Venezuelan buttholes? No food, no feces.
Think of how many trees we could save if we had a toilet paper shortage here too!
Most paper production is from fast-growing trees planted and harvested specifically for paper production, in addition to some sawmill scrap and dust. So cutting back on paper to save trees makes about as much sense as cutting back on bread to save wheat.
Yep. N Florida & Georgia (and a lot of other Southern states) have huge ‘factory’ forests of slash pine grown for no other reason than paper.
How much do you want to bet that the people who worry about the volume of paper products used think paper companies clear cut old growth and never plant anything?
I’ve had that very discussion on the DerpBook with folk who truly believe that paper goods come from oak and redwood.
The giant Sequoia that takes 1000 years to mature, those are the best paper trees. So from now on, every time you buy paper for your Gaia raping printer, just think of the 400 ft tall 1000 year old tree that was killed so that you can print your capitalist tree killing stuff!
Of course that’s what they do, then they rape the bare earth they created and intentionally poison it so nothing will ever grow there again. That’s what corporations do! BIG PAPER is no different!
Which is carbon sequestration in action.
A lot more than old growth forest, in fact.
One day someone will invent synthetic paper. Then the progs will go hysterical about the GMO frankenpaper that’s going to kill us all.
Unless it’s Hemp. Of course if it’s GMO Hemp all bets are off.
My paper comes from recycled sugar cane pulp. Literally no trees involved.
I thought there was a water crisis? Pick one, progs.
They did – there’s too many western people (or just plain too many people)
Only the progs would worry about running out of something that literally falls from the sky.
Just wait until they figure out that you can just use one hand to clean your ass and use the other for everything else. Then that will be the answer.
Then how do you dry off your bits and ass? With a towel? What if there’s still poop flakes on there? I never really understood bidets.
But this song is funny.
Also, Europeans are not racist. Only backward Merikan rednecks are racist.
I like this one
I am confused by the “more hygienic” claim when it comes to those attachments you can buy for regular toilets.
The attachment is in the toilet bowl ready to spray water into your ass. After your dump has passed close to this water nozzle, you will then use it to clean up. If you have a night of cheap Mexican food, this water nozzle could become even more questionable.
That’s what I don’t understand, either. I can just imagine the UTIs from such a setup.
There’s a reason the Civilized world abandoned them and left them to backwaters like Europe and Venezuela.
Give progressives enough time, they’ll have you using the two clamshells.
We don’t even get three seashells!? 🙁
wdalasio uses the third seashell for… other purposes.
Sponge on a stick…rinse in sink…repeat.
How roman.
I got one in my house. Pucker up.
You were the one who chose to live in schitzotech land.
I love it. Power nozzle and dryer. I’d eat off it if I were more flexible.
before deploying, the electric ones do a self-clean routine, they do it after they’re done as well
with the built-in heated dryer, of course
The Japanese electric toilet was pretty cool, until I accidentally operated the automatic tampon applicator.
/Pickin’ cotton.
Damn, that sounds…..
Wrong.
Poop Flakes. Worst breakfast cereal ever ?
This or GTFO
No poop flakes left after that bad boy does its work.
Ok great, mow many additional gallons of water will need to be purified, how much energy to purify that water and what are the environmental impacts of that?
People who write stories like this always seem to think there is no trade off whatsoever to the good thing they want to see implemented. In the end bidets may be better for everything than using more TP but damn it actually do that analysis, don’t just pretend that there are not trade offs being made.
Reminds me of my frustration with the “don’t buy disposable diapers you eco terrorist!” crowd when the son was a baby. There was zero acknowledgment that the desert is large and empty, but water is scarce in LA, so perhaps a little more thinking about whether washing cloth diapers is actually a net gain on the environment would be useful. No attempt to do anything other than “millions of diapers go into a landfill!!” screeching was ever made.
Four dead in tent at Everest South Col. Why anyone would think a coupon deal on such a risky venture is a good idea is beyond me. If I were to do Everest, I’d have no problem paying top dollar for someone like Himex or AC.
Looks like counterfeit Sherpas have become a serious problem.
RIP fellas.
How much of Nepal’s economy is in Everest tourism?
Or the funeral business for it’s tourists… (Too soon?)
I think tourism in general plays a very significant role in Nepal’s economy. Not sure what other resources they have other than spectacular scenery. Maybe textile products?
If I were climbing Everest, I’d demand that Melissa Arnott share my tent.
I’ve heard base camp is basically one big orgy, but I can’t imagine being attracted to anyone with all the layers of clothes and infrequent bathing. Oh, also mountaineers are douchey.
This week in fake polls: Yesterday, a poll came out on Survey USA that said that “Pajama Boy” Ossoff was up by 7 points in the 6th District race in GA, which is usually an R+8 district. I checked up on how the poll was taken, and saw that it was basically a hackjob. The vast majority of the sample (519 out of 700!) came from voters that already voted in early voting, which almost always is majority Democrat. Bad data in = bad data out.
Real Link
The question is, why? Why would a poll skew so heavily for one candidate over another? You don’t…you don’t really think they’d favor a candidate, do you? I thought they were just reporting facts!
My guess: Russians.
It says something when Chris Hayes of all people thinks that this poll is biased. Can these pollsters be any more shameless?
Hillary has a 98% chance of winning the Presidency!
Should the Endangered Species Act be repealed?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/05/24/farmer-plowing-fine/339756001/
How the fuck this shit is not a “taking” requiring fair compensation is beyond me.
Yes.
And the paper cpies used in the pyre of the people who push for it.
Speaking of votes… Maxine Waters in a Cowboy Hat vs Evul New Jersey Billionaire is tomorrow. As far as sampling errors go, based on yard signs, it looks like Maxine in a landslide. But I don’t think it’ll play out that way. I certainly hope not.
* yard signs and similar forms of social signalling seem heavily skewed leftward.
Montana, from a poll standpoint, seems to be neutral at worst to the Trump presidency (near 50-50 approval/disapproval in recent biased poll). Evul Billionaire likely to win.
Re: my ‘box of Lucky Charms marshmallows / pack of rookies’ comment yesterday – I’m not trolling. I really love this site over the old one.
I was a lurker at The Other Site for *years*. I can’t remember exactly how long I was over there, reading comments every damn morning (what a way to start the day) – but I remember some of the memorable moments.
I clearly remember this incident, for example. Oh, the fun that that created for, like, two weeks.
I wonder how many people actually lurk on that old site or here.
I still visit both, but enjoy the comments here. I read more than I comment though. When I did comment I got called Tulpa so that tells you how often I comment.
Shut up Tulpa!
Shut up Tulpa!
Sounds like something Tulpa would say. I keed, I keed.
Not how I pictured Tulpa.
Tulpa unmasked!
I made the mistake of starting commenting shortly after Tulpa ‘vanished’ in a huff.
It took a while to shake the accusation of being a sock outside of the “everyone is Tulpa” meme.
It took me a while to figure out Tulpa was/is a person? I initially thought it was some kind of fantasy world code word for an idiot.
Wait, whot? It isn’t?
He’s about the nastiest troll that H&R ever had. After I started commenting anyway. Him and Cytotoxic were both even worse than shreek and Tony. And that botard fuckhead.
I’m Tupla. I’m TULpa. I’m TulPA.
I don’t remember that incident.
I do remember some people blathering about it.
Blathering? I had hoped the petty insults had died with yesterday’s thread.
What was so important about yesterdays thread?
And how is a comment about the pointless chatter a petty insult.
It’s not “blathering” when we do it. It’s cutting social commentary. And as for yesterday, immigration and Mooslems tend to bring out the claws.
They nuked that thread, by the way. Some sad bid for respectability on their part.
That’s more despicable than anything else they’ve done.
They did it back in the early days of the 2016 election if memory serves. Left the article, nuked the comment thread.
http://reason.com/blog/2006/11/08/your-tears-are-so-yummy-and-sw
And other threads of the era are available, for it wasn’t a server crash or purge, either.
You can see the comments on Internet Wayback Machine, though.
The internet archive wayback machine has it covered. A little dated, but still….
I just realized I re-linked your same damn link.
Fuck, I need coffee.
Innocent readers? You’re on the wrong intertoobz.
The real question is… who is “highnumber”?
Yes. His commentary was pretty funny.
I remember him from way back.
Long-time commenter. Finally left during The White Indian Fucknado, iirc. Still participates in grylliade, an earlier H&R spin-off site.
GILMORE|11.8.06 @ 4:12PM|#
Rick Jr. (or, “little dick” as he’s known around the house) was actually weeping his eyes out too during the concession speech. They just caught him in a stunned moment where he contemplating what Dad had told him =
“If I’m not re-elected, Democrats are going to gay-up every red blooded male in America, and everyones going to burn in Hell for eternity”
I actually dont know his name, but he was crying. I wanted to hit him and take his milk money. Then tear the head off of his daughters doll, and start doing a sassy gay strip routine directed at Rick, making him ‘froth’ with rage.
This is all just emotional payback for so many weeks of dumb political news
highnumber|10.23.09 @ 6:17PM|#
GILMORE got a job as a cable tv pundit based on this comment.
highnumber has some seriously high-quality commenting skills.
I felt like I was watching an old movie where they show photos of all the actors during the credits, freezing each picture and giving you a little text blurb about what happened to that character’s real-life counterpart.
It reminded me of Mystery Science Theater 3000
They nuked the comment thread on the Draw Muhammad Day thread as well. Which was kinda ironic.
Delightful- I even saw a comment from one of my old handles (edna).
That was one of the earliest threads I ever lurked on.
Well, it was old. I remember someone with the handle Viking Moose (or something similar) hung out in that thread for years, but rarely ever posted in the current threads.
‘box of Lucky Charms marshmallows / pack of rookies’
Plate o’ shrimp.
“No reason. No point in lookin’ for one, either. It’s all just part of the lattice of coincidence that lays on top of everything.”
“Did you do a lot of acid, Miller? Back in the hippie days?”
“Why would anyone target a concert by the American singer Ariana Grande? The grim answer may lie in the fact that with her revealing stage outfits, her stockings, pink bunny ears and unabashed sexual confidence, 23-year-old Miss Grande is a symbol of everything Islamists hate.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-4535970/JAMES-HARKIN-Ariana-Grande-symbol-Islamists-hate.html
Well, I mean you only have 2 choices if a scantily clad girl is having a concert. You either completely ignore it or you blow people up. I mean faced with such a dilemma, maybe this young man just made the wrong choice? I mean we all do it, yesterday I wore short sleeves and it was chilly out. See what I mean?
Also, in his own culture, is blowing people up considered bad? You see what I mean, the UK could be being culturally insensitive to the thousands of Islamic militants who they are knowingly let stay in their country. In that case, maybe a sharia court to decide this case. I mean for the people involved who were not yet ready for their 27 virgins and so are still alive. Nothing is more important than multiculturalism. I’ve had lots of very smart progs to tell me this, so it must be true. Also, everything is better in Europe and free, so the USA has a long way to go before we too can enjoy free healthcare and people blowing up little girls at concerts.
From Count Potato’s link:
Assistant U.S. Attorney Gregory Broderick said he could not comment on the case and referred questions to his office’s public affairs department, which did not return phone calls.
However, documents filed in court explain some of the rationale behind the government’s case.
“Even under the farming exemption, a discharge of dredged or fill material incidental to the farming activities that impairs the flow of the waters of the United States still requires a permit because it changes the chemical, physical and biological integrity of the waters,” the U.S. attorney said in court filings.
Nothing left to cut.
“James Watson, who co-discovered the structure of DNA with Francis Crick and shared the Nobel Prize with him, got disinvited from giving a “narrowly focused scientific talk” at the university’s Carl Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, The News-Gazette reports.
He was just going to talk about his cancer research, but UI faculty threatened to protest his planned speech because of his past comments on race and intelligence (think Charles Murray), including that African populations have lower intelligence than other peoples”
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/32770/
Some sad bid for respectability on their part.
You cannot cultivate a productive and mutually affectionate relationship with the sort of serious thinkers found at Bleeding Heart Libertarians with that sort of indiscretion tainting your past. You might as well have a framed set of photos commemorating that time you pulled a Hell’s Angels train on the Santa Monica Pier gracing your mantel.
Apparently they got the wrong guy.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4536624/Salman-Abedi-known-security-services-point.html
He couldn’t haven done this. Look at him! He’s obviously retarded.
Any mention of Skittles?
That’s why they gave the bomb to the smart brother. Also, wouldn’t he actually be innocent in the belief of radical Islamists? I mean his brother (the smart one who they gave the bomb) got 27 virgins and the guy who is not yet a hero martyr and has no virgins, gets arrested? NOT FAIR!
What good are virgins in the afterlife? I mean, in the mortal world, I kinda get it – surefire way to increase the odds that your heirs are yours and not some douchebag from a previous relationship, but in the afterlife, where you aren’t reproducing – what’s the point?
“Of course, ” Ramadan continued “we do not consider infidels ‘innocents'”.
That is explicitly stated in the holy texts. I don’t have the citation off the top of my head, but some digging will turn it up.
Striking resemblance to Clock Boy.
Also, in his own culture, is blowing people up considered bad?
What about the IRA? Who is culturally appropriating whom?
Inquiring minds, et c…
Well, the Islamists are apparently not very smart. I mean there are lots of retarded ones like the one Sloop pointed out above. If they were really smart they would change some things. For one, when you blow people up, you get 27 virgins. No matter how many people you blow up. So one buy blows only himself up, you know like what would have happened if they gave the bomb to the retarded brother. He gets 27 virgins. But then some guy blows up 50 nuns holding babies and he also get 27 virgins. They know nothing about incentives. They are the the socialists of the middle east.
Also, in his own culture, is blowing people up considered bad?
Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing, because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing is frowned upon… you know, cause I’ve worked a lot of jihads, and I tell you, people do that all the time.
Swiss counting on climate change to keep them warm.
http://hotair.com/archives/2017/05/23/switzerland-votes-ban-nuclear-power-use-dubious-strategy-replace/
This is how survival of the fittest works, JB.
They’ll depend on their narrowed gazes to keep them warm.
When they’re freezing, they can light some candles and sing songs. That always works.
In response to Pat’s argument for disconnecting all strings to welfare dollars:
Pat linked: https://www.libertarianism.org/columns/libertarian-case-basic-income
I read the article, and it makes a few good points (especially about the compliance/monitoring costs of existing welfare programs, 100+ programs can be consolidated, etc.) – these points aren’t new to me, but nevertheless they are good points.
However, I the article is just as hand-waiving about the disincentives that disconnecting all the strings attached to “free” money can create. From the article:
One of the most common objections to Basic Income Guarantees is that they would create objectionably strong disincentives to employment. And those who make this objection can draw some support from experimental studies with the Negative Income Tax in the United States in the 1960s and 70s.
But the significance of this objection depends a lot on the details of the proposal under consideration, and is probably overstated, anyway. After all, with a Basic Income Guarantee, the money you get is yours to keep. You don’t lose it if you take a job and start earning money. And so in that way the disincentives to employment it creates are probably less severe than those created by currently existing welfare programs where employment income is often a bar to eligibility.
With a Negative Income Tax, the disincentives are there, but arguably at an acceptable level. After all, under a NIT if you are unemployed and then you get a job, you’re going to have more money as a result. You won’t keep all of the money. But nobody keeps all of the money they earn from their job – a large chunk of it goes to taxes. It’s the same idea here, except in reverse – hence, the label of “negative income tax.”
I actually like the NIT, and I agree that the NIT creates less disincentives than a no-strings-attached UBI or SNAP program would. However, the second paragraph: “But the significance of this objection depends a lot on the details of the proposal under consideration, and is probably overstated, anyway.” Um… okay? I’m supposed to just take your word for it?
“After all, with a Basic Income Guarantee, the money you get is yours to keep.” So everyone gets the same amount, no matter how much they make? In this UBI scheme, I have to assume that people’s benefits don’t scale back as they start to make money… because that would create a direct disincentive to working (who wants to flip burgers to make $40,000/year when they can do nothing and earn $40,000/year?). So, if we’re all getting the UBI regardless of what we make, doesn’t this have just as much of a potential to cause prices to dramatically increase, essentially nullifying a the UBI and necessitating an increase/other programs? How many people will just say, well, $40k/year is enough for me, fuck it, and stop working? Don’t tell me we all have stellar work ethics, I don’t believe that for a second.
“And so in that way the disincentives to employment it creates are probably less severe than those created by currently existing welfare programs where employment income is often a bar to eligibility.” There are a lot of different programs out there, many that do not bar you from eligibility if you work – but that’s besides the point – because we’re off topic now. We can easily say programs shouldn’t be unavailable to you just because you have a job without saying fuck it, lets cut all of the strings.
The thing is no one has ever come close to suggesting a $40,000 a year GBI.
The highest proposal I have ever heard of is a GBI at the poverty level, which would only be $12,000 a year for an individual and $24,000 a year for a family of 4.
So, you can sit your ass on the dole and collect your $12,000 a year or you can go out and flip some burgers for $24,000 a year ($12k from the GBI, $12k for the burger flipping).
The logic behind it is that you can survive, albeit with a really shitty life, on just the GBI and your incentive to work comes in the ability to easily have a less shitty life.
The failure of the GBI is that it will NEVER remain just the GBI because the same “unfairness” arguments apply. It’s not “fair” that the poor person with a physical or mental disability is “forced” to live on just the GBI. It isn’t “fair” that inner city young adults are forced to use their GBI to pay rent while suburban 20 somethings still live with mom and dad and use it to drink latte’s and take fancy vacations. It’s not “fair” that grandma has to use her GBI to buy medications while the fatcat CEO’s use it to buy a Porsche. And so on.
A GBI is one of those Utopian things that work great in theory and if they could ever be set up to match the theory would work just as well in the real world but human nature being what it is means they will NEVER be implemented in a way that matches the theory.
$40K was just an example. But, I do feel the obligation to point out that the swiss recently proposed a 60k+ UBI. I agree with a lot of what you’re saying here – nothing will be enough to satisfy the people that clamor for these programs.
The reason it will never be enough isn’t because of the gimme more free stuff crowd. It’s because of politicians who create these programs and use them buy votes, control people, and keep themselves in a lucrative racket where they do nothing of value.
I would much rather see a system like the you mentioned above:
This is actually far superior to what we have now. And it is entirely fair, more than fair. No bureaucracy, everyone gets a GBI. EVERYONE. I don’t give a fuck if the person has zero income now or it’s Bill Gates. If it’s your only income, then get off your ass and do something to make extra. Otherwise STFU and watch TV all day and eat until you can’t get out the door. I don’t care. Just stay the fuck out of trouble and leave everyone else alone.
I’d argue that its driven by both groups, working (or fighting to not work) together. I suppose what you suggest is worth a shot – but I do think that inflation might make the GBI pointless. It’s hard to say. If its sufficiently low (like $12K), I’d be on board.
Well, the only solution to the ‘it’s not fair’ is to go full on socialistism and everyone is equally poor. So instead of having lots of middle class folks who decided to get off their ass and work, a small minority of wealthy people, like we have now, and a horde of GBI I don wanna do nuthins, we get everyone living on just GBI and no chance to earn extra. That’s better, right, because it’s fair?
I’m guessing that’s a rhetorical question. We’re in agreement here – and yes – I think that the most hardcore advocates would actually be in favor of full-on confiscate-the-means-of-production socialism. GBI is just a half measure to them…
I’ve seen people stretch disability and unemployment benefits so they could sit in their apartment drinking beer and playing World of Warcraft. Passing a UBI would amount to corporate welfare for Blizzard and nothing else.
Not really, because those people are already gaming the system, they might work for a couple of months here and there, just long enough to get the Unemployment benefits back or finnagle their way into a new disability claim but our system today is already built so that someone who just wants to get drunk and play games all day on someone elses dime can get away with it.
Tom Woods is on Molyneux today. Remember when they both substituted for Peter Schiff on his radio show. Ought to be interesting.
Molyneux lost me awhile ago. I came back to see what he was up to and found out he went full-on Trump. I thought he was an-cap?
I think Trump brought out the true colors of lots of people out there, from Justin Raimondo and Lew Rockwell to Alex Jones and Stephan Molyneux.
How many people will just say, well, $40k/year is enough for me, fuck it, and stop working? Don’t tell me we all have stellar work ethics, I don’t believe that for a second.
It’s not like those people will lie around watching the teevee and shooting smack all day. They’ll become artists and philosophers.
Why do you hate erudition?
This is where you’ll need a PhD to work part-time at Safeway.
(my Pa argues for guaranteed minimum income, and I told him if that were the case, I’d go back to working 20 hours/week at the doggie daycare.)
Just what we need more of, people that think they know better than those with practical skills.
See, this is what obstruction of an ongoing investigation looks like:
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz threatened the chief of the U.S. Capitol Police with “consequences” for holding equipment that she says belongs to her in order to build a criminal case against a Pakistani staffer suspected of massive cybersecurity breaches involving funneling sensitive congressional data offsite.
The Florida lawmaker used her position on the committee that sets the police force’s budget to press its chief to relinquish the piece of evidence Thursday, in what could be considered using her authority to attempt to interfere with a criminal investigation.
Note: this isn’t an anonymous leak, either. These are on-the-record statements by a member of Congress in charge of the police department’s budget.
That “equipment that belongs to her”, BTW, is a laptop that was found stashed in the Capitol Building, that had apparently been used by the Pakistani “IT consultants”. Who have all fled the country and gone back to Pakistan, where for some reason they are heroes.
It seems like the DNC is in full-on panic mode covering up a lot of shady shit right now. I feel like (maybe unrealistic optimism) the lid is getting ready to blow off.
I’ve been saying for weeks now that if I were the Democrats, the last thing I would desire is to go out looking for a bunch of investigations to get opened up. Everyone, I think even part of their own voters know how dirty they are. The GOP had decided to let the Hillary thing go, one guy who is out of the clique got hurled under the proverbial bus, one Wiener that is. DWS is now going to fly under the bus because she’s out of the clique. The Democrats are either going to have to sacrifice some more to the bus tires, or they had best give up this Russian bullshit.
I’m thinking it’s just a gross miscalculation on the part of the Dem leadership. I mean they are not the sharpest tool collection in the shed. I really believe that they started all of this Russia shit up again and calling for Trump impeachment as a way to get their base fired up and out to the polls. They know themselves that nothing will come of it. But they’ve went too far with it and now the GOP are looking for revenge. And they have all the power right now. And the Dems have barge fulls of skeletons in their closets.
It just astounds me that idiots like Wasserman Shultz are the TOP MEN people trust to make all the right decisions for us puny little commoners.
The failure of the GBI is that it will NEVER remain just the GBI because the same “unfairness” arguments apply. It’s not “fair” that the poor person with a physical or mental disability is “forced” to live on just the GBI. It isn’t “fair” that inner city young adults are forced to use their GBI to pay rent while suburban 20 somethings still live with mom and dad and use it to drink latte’s and take fancy vacations. It’s not “fair” that grandma has to use her GBI to buy medications while the fatcat CEO’s use it to buy a Porsche. And so on.
Let’s not forget “It’s not ‘fair’ to make thousands of dues-paying AFSCME welfare bureaucrats look for productive employment.”
The reporting slant on the situation in the Philippines is illuminating. It’s primarily about the potential for dictatorship with subtle reminders about previous dictators in the country, how Duterte is friendly with Russia and China, and that Trump praised the extrajudicial drug war. Talk about ISIS-affiliated militants taking Catholics hostage, burning buildings, decapitating the police chief or taking over a hospital are generally included as background info but not the message of many of the stories.