Good Afternoon, Gentlemen…I am an H.A.L. 9000 computer…. Wait, no I am not. I am your humble purveyor of links. So without further ado, here they are, for your use and amusement.
- NATO Cha-Ching time?
- Chicago is a tiny bit less of a toddlin’ town.
- Someone needs killin’ [update: Here]
- Was he trying to look like a wizard? A Fremen?
Bat ’em around like a cat does a frightened mouse. Or ignore and post your own. Your choice.
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405 responses to “Afternoon Links”
First! …wait a minute.
No number next to your post means NO FIRST FOR YOU!
Indeed – our “Catch a cheater” safeguard works!
Fist hardest hit.
Whycome Fist never came here? Anyone know?
Conjecture is that he’s in the employ of TSTSNBN.
Is he . . . the JACKET?!?
I think it’s pretty confirmed by this point.
His BMI was too perfect for this place.
I don’t mind Fist’s regular posting, but the “first post!” for its own sake shit should have died out on Slashdot almost two decades ago.
Indeed – hence my self-mocking version of it.
Haters gonna hate.
I’m H.A.L. 9000!
No, YOU’RE Poppy!
Anyone see that wapo story about comey and bad intel regarding doj talking about email probe not letting it go anywhere?
Why would they post that now? Are they trying to get out in front of bad news for the dnc?
Ill try to find link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/how-a-dubious-russian-document-influenced-the-fbis-handling-of-the-clinton-probe/2017/05/24/f375c07c-3a95-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html?utm_term=.080680e301ae
Seems odd to me
Anyone see that wapo story
Nope.
Read and ask why would they print this now?
Yeah something sounds shady. They are presenting Coney as laying on his sword to protect the entire ntegrity of the DOJ against a “fake” email. However the tone of the article doesn’t seem aware that if the leakage of that document would have tarnished the DOJ then, there is no reason to think it would not do it now as well.
If it is fake so no controversy now then the same would be true for before.
And why would Coney care? He doesn’t run the DOJ. He would rather take the criticism itself.
If there’s a story here, it’s not the one they’re selling.
It sounds that this time the Russians are blamed for creating a fake document that accused AG Lynch and the Clinton campaign of collusion over the email server investigation. I see a pattern — damn Russians!
I wonder if it is going to come out they were indeed colluding and this is a way to downplay it
Meh, I suspect that WaPo is doing this is just to provide the democrats with cover now that potentially a special prosecutor might look at why the FBI let Clinton off the hook when she and a lot of people working for her clearly deserved to be behind bars making license plate.
That would by my guess.
I’ve stopped reading the Washington Post – except for the occasional article by Balko. Even though I am more forgetful than most, and the WaPo exerts a powerful field enacting the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect, it’s not powerful enough for me to forget all the bullshit they’ve peddled. I give them the same credence I give the Weekly World News.
“”How a dubious Russian document influenced the FBI’s handling of the Clinton probe””
i hope the story can substantiate how said document was a) definitely sourced to Russia, and b) how they can establish something as vague as “influence”
i am not even holding out hope that the authors of the piece have actually seen said document, much less name their sources.
Somebody read it to them over the phone as they were sitting in the pub. That makes it fact and ready for print. That is my guess.
Still nothing there saying how they know it is “russian” in origin at all.
At one point they suggest that it may have been in “russian language” which could be a willfully misleading attempt to suggest that it was therefore ‘russian intelliegnce’ simply because it was written in cyrillic.
in any case, there is a lot wrong with that story.
One big one being their assertion that Comey decided to *stop* the clinton investigation because he believed the DoJ was compromised. It makes little sense. It seems to suggest the actual investigation itself and the evidence it had collected was somehow irrelevant to the decision.
Or the Clintons called and said “oh shit someone found an Email between me and the AG telling them to take it easy on me. We need a story about how it was Russia who planted that pronto.” Since democrats are buying anything Russian right now it’s their easiest sell.
I used to hear about how locals would read Pravda because they could tell what was going on by the things not said. I feel like I’m beginning to get it.
Ah. Maybe the Specal Prosecutor might stumble across this? So they’re purposely poisoning the well by putting out stories about how “everything that makes claims about the Clintons / Lynch is just Russian counter-intelligence!!”
Its a plausible angle. But then, they don’t actually say that the underlying email *even exists*. It keeps pointing out that the only place it is ever referenced is in this document
my beef with the story is that their assertions about the nature of thing aren’t even questioned. Or that the “influence” is even plausible.
Follow me here =
– They say the document was somehow enough to convince the FBI director to make a huge decision re: the Clinton investigation. And yet do *nothing else* based on it.
… iow, it was so super-compelling, that it drove him to completely cut out the DoJ (*did he, really? Lynch made no objection if i recall); yet not so compelling that he’d even BOTHER TO FUCKING TRY AND SUBSTANTIATE IT? ie. try and find out if the email-communication mentioned in the doc actually existed?
And they seem to lay this shit 100% on Comey, as though no one else was involved in the investigation. You’d think there would have been a number of people needing to offer their input on the question. Why aren’t any of these people being interviewed?
there’s many more complaints, but the fact that WaPo doesn’t even make the slightest effort to get any 3rd parties on the record as sources is a main one.
That’s my thinking. Something about the story is suspicious but I’m not sure what.
I’ve scanned the thing three times and its hard to find anything they claim that could actually be confirmed or disproven. Its full of allegations that don’t even have any means of explaining how they know that.
*e.g. they repeatedly refer to the document as “Russian” as though that’s not in doubt – but then also assert that the document is considered potentially “fake” by many within the FBI. Does that mean its *faked russian intel* – i.e. not russian at all? Then why repeatedly continue to claim its ‘russian’ provenance?
the only facts that they actually mention that could be cross checked are a few meetings/discussions that happened between people, and a few denials from the DNC-connected personnel like DWS/Lynch. Nothing from Comey or anyone who has actually seen said document.
I think the document is Russian the email the Russians refer to in the document is fake.
How about this?
If George finds out an organization he is funding is promoting democracy he probably going to cut them off.
So a fake Russian document may have influenced the former FBI Director to not pursue charges? Am I reading this right?
Are they basically admitting there’s no merit to the Russian conspiracy theory and that they’ve got nothing left to cover their sorry asses?
my impression is that the WaPo is aware that the special-prosector (Mueller) makes their reporting on the completely-fabricated allegations of a russian conspiracy w/ Trump far more dangerous = iow, they can’t print anything completely horseshit, because the SP might eventually contradict them and call bullshit.
So they’ve decided to set that aside and pick up some completely new, evidence-free story of Russian meddling. This way they keep the “RUSSIA!!” panic-flowing, and the comey questions front and center, without ever risking telling a story that could actually be fact-checked and debunked.
Yeah, but if the document is a fake like the FBI believes, they can roll over and say “see, even the FBI mentioned Russians, but it was fake, so we weren’t really wrong in talking about Russians.”
What they didn’t bother mentioning was that if it is fake, it just makes the DNC look even worse than they already do.
iow, they can’t print anything completely horseshit, because the SP might eventually contradict them and call bullshit.
At this point, do you think they really give a shit if it is eventually flagged as bullshit or not? By then, they’ll print a two paragraph retraction on page 14 and it will be time to talk about some different scandal. This is about stoking their remaining audience. And they know they won’t really be paying attention to whether Mueller contradicts them or not.
Unfortunately at this point, I think you’re right. WaPo knows their base/readership/half the damn country buying into this RUSSSIAAAA nonsense will eat it up with a spoon. That it makes no sense doesn’t matter, because none of it ever really did, it just goes into the #TrumpRussia smoke and the believers don’t pick at the details. The way the allegations are set up, Mueller can’t ever prove nothing happened, only that he can’t find anything worth prosecuting, which means to the believers that it must still be out there, somewhere.
Meanwhile, in Canada, real, no shit, documented evidence of foreign influence in the 2015 election by the American left.
Enabled by stupid contribution limits and rules? Yes. Possible sour grapes by defeated Conservatives? Yes.
But still … crickets from most of the MSM.
It is, in fact, well-known. It’s just that the Canadian Left, and their wholly-owned subsidiary the Canadian MSM, don’t care. The Canadian Left regards Americans as icky, until the American Left gives them spiritual (and of course financial) aid.
We’ll send Hillary, is that enough? I mean, they just have to agree to keep her.
Seems likely to me that the existence of the document was going to get out, so they decided to get ahead of it and brand it as a fake. Which it may very well be, of course.
True, but this far all Russian allegations of interference have been inventions of the democrats minds so really a true Russian interference document would be unique. Whatever exist or doesn’t exist probably has nothing to do with Russians.
said one person familiar with the matter.
Two takeaways, reading through the article you can come away strong no matter what your opinion was before hand.
Second, the above quoted individual is the only one ever cited in the entire piece.
NATO leaders meet under intense Trump pressure on spending
…Stoltenberg, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte also stressed the importance of being able to trust allies in fighting extremism.
Trump, if you manage to get Zoolander to increase Canadian military spending you’re alright in my books.
I think one should meet commitments and not free load
I think the 2 pct of gdp is a stupid metric however
It is a stupid metric but you know what, if the US announced tomorrow that it was cutting it’s defense spending to 2% of GDP, bringing all ground troops home and massively scaling back the navy and airforces based overseas every major European country would be spending well north of 2% by next year
You vastly underestimate the modern European fondness for suicide.
Indeed. I suspect Germany would roll over and say “Scratch my tummy!”
France, on the other hand, would say all the right things but secretly torture anyone they thought was an enemy of the State. They’re bald-faced hypocrites when it comes to that kind of stuff.
And sometimes I can’t blame ’em.
Look who’s got unreasonable standards now.
Hitler?
always Hitler
I think he hit the 2% GDP target pretty early on….
Zoolander’s a little coward who desperately wants to appease Trump in order to keep NAFTA going, he rolled over and showed his belly as soon as Trump was elected. It must naw at him that he has to lick his boots. I wouldn’t be surprised by anything.
the commentariat?
Take that back!
We’re unreasonable, but we don’t have standards!
Well, we are un reasonable, amirite?
If Trump manages to get The Hair That Walks Like A Man™ (I really oughta code a macro for that) to increase military spending, he’s the freakin’ Second Coming.
Trump, if you manage to get Zoolander to increase Canadian military spending you’re alright in my books.
Um, why?
Because Ottawa’s been fucking the military for decades while still demanding they function in ways they refuse to fund.
Yeah, the Canadian military used to have to go, cap in hand and begging, for heavy-lift capability every time Ottawa wanted to pretend Canada was “doing something” in some Godforsaken place that needed help or military intervention. One of the few good things the Harper gov’t did was actually purchase heavy-lift Globemasters for just such occasions.
Too often, the pols here were more than willing to send under-resourced troops into situations that virtually guaranteed some of them would come home in bodybags for no other reason than that they were indeed lacking resources. I’ve got family and friends in the Canadian Armed Forces; shit like that pisses me off.
That happens in the US military too. All those billions don’t necessarily trickle down into body armor and the like for every soldier. Like public schools, simply increasing overall funding isn’t what’s going to get more resources into the classroom or the front lines.
Not the same, there’s a difference between increasing funding so that the military can actually do its job, and having an overbloated budget. 18 billion is not enough to run a functioning modern military, let alone one that the Libs want to throw around the world on ‘peacekeeping’ missions.
Maybe they should ask for donations. Hold a bake sale or two. Do something besides tax people.
I used to cringe at how hard the Canadian Army troops stationed around me had to work in Afghanistan with wearing out kit and vehicles. They looked f’ing whipped tired. I used to try to stealth them any help I could.
“Here, you go recce the whole fucking Hindu Kush….try not to break anything or ask for spare parts.”
And then the decade of Afghanistan busted all that equipment.
The replacements are scheduled to be funded in the 2030s (I’m serious).
Wait, is that the same Canadian military I was once told was knee deep in the fight against ISIS because they “participated in” like 5 missions by the other site’s resident Canuck idiot?
Then the military should start functioning in ways that are paid-for only. What’s Parliament going to do? Cut their budget?
That’s called ‘mutiny’, and is generally frowned upon in military circles.
So not following an impossible order is mutiny?
You have to die trying.
So not following an impossible order is mutiny?
Sadly, yes.
Unless you have some evidence that your commanding officer is literally insane, yep.
There exists the possibility that an impossible order may be unlawful however.
You have to die trying.
C’mon yah hosers, do you want to eat poutine forever?
My SIL used to be the school psychologist for an elementary school for an elementary school in or near Chicago. She told me a while back that about once or twice a year, she would encounter a child who would do things like this, or masturbate in class, or try to molest a classmate – and it was clearly the child ‘processing’ what was being done to him or her.
The abuser was almost always the dad, and almost always the mom was looking the other way because if her man was locked up, they’d be on the street. In a significant minority, if not a majority of cases, the parents actually thought it was OK – it was what had been done to them or their siblings growing up too, and so what was the big deal?
And, in starting the chain of events that would put a stop to this, my SIL was reviled, threatened, berated for messing with stuff that wasn’t her business. And often the whole exercise was futile – odds were that the kid was going to be given to a relative to raise – a relative who had been marinating in the whole pedo culture.
For those wondering which culture this was – these were very poor hispanics often from central america.
To be fair, this shit happens in all cultures.
It does. But how willing people are to turn a blind eye to it, or think it’s OK varies from culture to culture.
Contrast Christmas Island, where it became clear that every male above the age of 14 had engaged in child molestation deserving of serious jail time with the Swedes, who may have the occasional broken person but as a culture are far less likely to mistreat their children.
What stunned me was how endemic she presented the situation as. I figured it would be a once in a career event, but it happened frequently enough that she had developed a doctrine for investigating it and to whom she reported what sorts of things, and had developed expertise at it. Once or twice a fucking year? In one elementary school?!?!?
That just made me think of this .One time I when I was only 18-19 years old, I got this guy I knew who was old enough to buy me some beer by promising to drink it with him. So he got the beer while I waited outside and we walked down the road a little and under a bridge across the river so we could sit there and drink our beer. So I’m getting a nice buzz on and then I see this little girl on the other side of the river looking at us. There was a trailer park on the other side of the river so I figure she lived over there and was just playing down there. She was I am guessing about 6 years old, 8 at most. Then all of the sudden she says ‘Hey, do you guys want to f*** me? My daddy f***s me all the time’. My friend just sort of starts and goes ‘What the hell did she say?’. Then he yells to the kid ‘Hey, you get out of here now, go home!’. And then he said ‘Let’s get the hell out of here and I was right behind him’. I was freaked out but the poor guy that got the beer for me was totally freaked out. I’ve never seen anything like that before, but knowing the hillbilly inbreds who lived in that trailer park, probably par for the course.
Welp, guess I’ll start drinking early tonight.
I was a team leader for the County Child Advocacy Center (I was the Assistant State’s Attorney and had a DCFS investigator, two cops and a victim advocate working for me). We were sad a lot.
I don’t think I could do that work again.
My sister used to work as a child protection specialist. She has horror stories of what has happened to children. She burned out.
This^
Why Law &Order SVU is, to me, more unbelievable than Agents of Shield.
My wife used to work in pretrial services for the local sheriff’s office. Same deal. Too many child abuse cases, both sexual and not, was putting her in a very dark place, so she quit.
I was a PD in a tribal court for a number of years. There is shit that cannot be unread.
Oh damn….so you had it every bit as bad, if not worse than me… *salutes*
When I worked at the women’s prison, sometimes I’d have to sit in “treatment team” meetings with inmates and the psychologists/psychiatrists/social workers, and they would often discuss child abuse.
It’s fucked up shit, and it’s no wonder that those girls ended up in prison.
Or maybe she was embarrassed and came up with that excuse since she knew it would turn scorn into sympathy.
I don’t think that’s it but it remains a possibility.
Nine-year-olds these days are so scheming, right Bob?
Never trust a (9-year-old) ho.
I have two at my house. Yes they are more clever than you think. I had a nephew who was pushed by his mother to claim he was molested by her ex. He was a bit older, but parents can convince kids to do and say lots of things. It wasn’t true and the case fell apart.
I don’t think that’s the case here based off just a guess and that there was a previous accusation. But there is a phenomenon where if an accusation is heinous enough people will demand justice before the demand evidence. For instance the article provided no evidence other than he was arrested (not really evidence), and yet even among cop hating libertarians people have assumed him guilty.
This. I went through a phase, once I discovered you can lie about stuff, where I lied about everything.
Oh, yeah. I totally believe you.
Yea, things got harder when I figured out the lies had to be believable.
A little follow up for ye.
And it is possible she was abducted by aliens and they programmed her to act thusly. WTF, man? Done a lot of work and research in this area?
Oh, come on. Do you really for a second think it’s possible a 9 year old sought out porn while in a very public setting and then decided to accuse a relative of serial molestation so she wouldn’t be embarrassed?
You can’t possibly be serious.
You know what?!? It’s possible. During my military days I heard of a case where a guy was locked up by the local PD in a liberty port after some 12 year old girls decided to cover up for getting in trouble by making up a story about the sailor they had spied walking down a sidewalk five minutes earlier trying to molest them ( I should hasten to add that the PD were unconvinced and decided to split the middle by transporting the guy to his ship and letting him go … until the petty officer of the watch thought it would be hilarious to greet the cops and his shipmate with a hearty “did they catch you molesting little girls again?” as a joke).
I’ll warrant that less than 1 in 10,000 nine year old girls would be so world-wise and sociopathic as to do something like that.
Big difference in 9 and 12 year olds mastering manipulation.
And 1 in 10,000 should never be mentioned as “possible”. It’s about as possible as her being struck by a bolt of lightning.
If she was 13 or so, maybe.
9, no way. If a 9 year old is searching porn, there’s something going on.
well, I do have the afternoon off… Perhaps it is already scotch-thirty.
Yum, scotch!
*Passes a glass of Doublewood to Swiss; clink!*
Did you bring enough for the whole class?
I do have a variety of booze! You’re welcome to the scotch(y scotch scotch) if you’re into that. 😉
I’ll trade you a glass of your Doublewood for a glass of my Nikka.
YOU WIN!
Oh man. That looks tasty as heck. I still mean to get my hands on some Angel’s Envy, but I haven’t even seen it anywhere.
I’ll get some for you.
You’re doing god’s work here, Mad Scientist.
Someone has to.
I’ve been on a bit of a Briuchlaiddich kick the past few months, myself.
I do love Scotchy, scotch, scotch!
Scotch in my (mostly empty) belly. I love scotch!
Where’s my A’bunadh?
Man, this party blows.
Aberlour is on my list. … Next time it’s on sale at my liquor store, anyway
A’bunadh? SALE?!?
What is this “sale” of which you speak?
My regular liquor store puts their decent scotches on sale about three times a year. It’s not a lot–usually only $10 off–but I’ll take it with no complaint.
Hating you just a >little< bit right now, Riv' m'dear . . .
This is funny if you read the comment directly above and then move on to yours.
Hah! You’re so right.
Scotch me up!
*seals bacon-magic against stains with Scotchgard™ before taping him to a lamp post with Scotch™ Brand cellotape*
Scotch a 3M family of products.
I’ve got a flask full of Talisker. God bless the Scots.
Liberals are butt hurt trump didnt pledge support for article 5 of nato
Good move on his part
Kind of scummy coming from the only country to ever exercise Article 5.
Yeah, that is shabby.
No that is not good. If that is the case, withdraw.
what’s the point of NATO if not collective defense?
I’m not convinced there actually is a point to NATO anymore.
I suspect it’s another wildly extreme initial bargaining position that he’ll walk back after all the usual suspects express public horror and surprise; he’s actually quite predictable with this stuff.
For some it’s a chance to rent the most powerful military in the world.
The argument could be made that having only one major power prevents another world war, at least between the NATO countries.
Collective payments to contractors?
Chicago still has more people than 2010. Obviously not enough shootings.
*Dumps another box full of NRA funded guns out the window of his blimp hovering over south Chicago.*
If you need some help with the gun running, ZARDOZ is probably looking for another delivery job.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. TRULY BRUTAL VHYRUS IS AN ESPECIALLY CHOSEN ONE.
THE GUN IS GOOD!
Somebody isn’t thinking of the children…
Na, he’s just thinking they should be armed.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. THE BLADED BRUTAL IS CORRECT. THE GUN BEING GOOD, IT SHOULD GO TO ALL THE LITTLE BRUTALS.
I’m on board, provided that the guns which go to the children are fixed and crew served, as is tradition.
ZARDOZ always thinks about children. About how there should be far, far fewer (and only spawned by chosen Brutal Enforcers).
*Dumps another box full of NRA funded guns out the window of his blimp hovering over south Chicago.*
*starts looking up flights to O’Hare & Midway Field.*
Which reminds me, whatever happened to that group who were giving away break action single shotguns to the urban poor for defense in the slave states? They still funded?
The guy is good for a chuckle, you have to give him that. It is like the inauguration when he stood in front of all the Washington lifers and all but said they were shitbags. I am unclear on how they can be divided on “his spending demands”. Didn’t they agree to that to be part of NATO? The intelligence sharing I can see though. I don’t blame them there. It is kind of getting ridiculous on that front.
There’s probably some non-American NATO staff looking at this trend and having happy thoughts.
How much did Molsen Air bank on their Afghan operations? Are you a Molsen employee?
https://twitter.com/PolishEmbassyUS/status/867079024962670594/photo/1
Too good. Poland issued a statement criticizing Cramer’s ‘Mad Money’ for mocking Poland’s performance in the Second World War. Does anyone even listen to Jim Cramer. No need to punch down like this, Poland.
Polish diplomatic team heading off to request apology from Cramer.
THEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED!
“Was it over when the Poles invaded Warsaw?”
“Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!”
“let him go, he’s on a roll”
Thanks for the nut punch, Swiss.
That poor little girl.
Balko’s not here, man.
“wearing flowing scary muslim robes while taking out the bins” video is disturbing b/c it humanizes him. and the vid is more like “sleepy dude taking out recycle bin at 6AM in bath robe because fucking municipal authority will fine him if he doesn’t”.
Problem solved, crisis averted.
You jerks can thank Minnesoda for solving the whole global warming deal later. Uffda, was it really that hard to fix?
Youbetcha!
Minnesota has almost nothing but upside from global warming. Maybe, eventually, winter can get knocked down to just seven or eight months.
No way. If we get down to 7 months of winter we will be inundated with riff raff.
The cold keeps our wonderful state all to ourselves.
I remember after a mild winter, people joking that you could run on a pro-global warming platform and win. This was about 20years ago.
Yeah, because those pines will go extinct if the environment goes from ranging between -30F and +80F over an annum to ranging between -28F and +82 F .
THIS IS WHAT ENTERING A DARK AGES LOOKS LIKE!
Did you not catch the bit about it being 400 acres? Are you some sort of metric commie that needs me to convert that to hectares so you can understand the awesome overkill of this project?
Shit. 400 ac is a slow year.
Balko nutpunch
Did this already make the rounds? Team Red pushing hard to be the stupid, evil party.
It feels weird to say I never read Balko anymore, considering his previous masochistic appeal, but after he bailed from Reason I didn’t really follow except for the occasional link. The fact that he went all gung-ho for Egg McMuffin, perhaps partly from bald solidarity, didn’t exactly engender me to change that. Seriously though, I think that McMullin is actual controlled opposition.
I rarely read him because I gave up on WaPo, but this is worth reading. Basically, Team Red wants to federalize every time a cop is assaulted or killed, even further limit habeas rights for those convicted of those crimes (which is saying something considering how much AEDPA gutted habeas), and make it nearly impossible to ever sue an officer.
Balko has a pretty good twitter feed although he definitely is more concerned with having the ‘right’ opinions now than he used to be.
He voted for John Kerry and Bob Barr. *shrug* make of that what you will
I always knew he wasn’t exactly a doctrinaire libertarian, but the cocktail party/”right opinions” shit… sigh.
Could someone explain the following paragraph to me:
Rather than traditional gang battles, police are dealing with retaliatory shootings set off by personal disputes. They plan to counteract the violence by increasing patrols and targeting the most dangerous offenders.
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/police-spike-in-seattle-shootings-driven-by-gang-grudges/
Sorry, I should include the headline: Spike in Seattle shootings driven by gang grudges
Specifically the big blue gang?
The one with the power-lifting surfers?
Instead of shooting at each other for business reasons, they’re shooting at each other for pointless personal reasons, and since it’s eye for an eye it just becomes a cycle.
I don’t think the cops really want to stop it either.
It seems to me that most gang grudges were personal. Sure, they might shoot each other for territory, but those are often built around personal disputes.
I don’t know what the Seattle gang scene is like, but I don’t think gangs are sustainable if they’re overwhelmingly focused on personal vendettas. Attracts too much heat for no rewards.
I don’t think it’s well-developed like Baltimore in The Wire
You’d have to imagine that just like any big business, the more strategic people exploit the emotional instability of those lower in the pecking order.
I guess… I thought pretty much every gang shooting was “retaliatory” for something prior, hence the “cycle of violence”.
It’s the thrill of the fight
Rising up to the challenge of our rival
And the last known survivor
Stalks his prey in the night
And he’s watching us all with the eye of the tiger
Predictable response to BLM. Criminal justice reform had some momentum until those idiots decided to kill cops in a public display and not only stopped it but put half the country on the cops side. They did more for cops ability to violate civil rights then anyone in 20 years
I’m not sure how the Bureau of Land Management gets the blame here?
I mean, sure, they’re an extremely shitty government organization, but they hardly ever do drive-bys.
It means whoever wrote “Boyz In The Hood” might have an IP suit against these savages.
The movie or the song? Because I’m pretty sure Eazy-E isn’t about sue anyone.
It used to be the Jets and the Sharks, with a whole lot of dancing and the occasional switchblade. Now, it’s guys with guns and they mean business.
I’m sure none of those writers in Seattle will piece that gang violence with the story from this morning where whistleblowers are saying the Obama admin knowingly let detained MS-13 members enter the country as DREAMers.
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/867829249008381952
Definitely not running for president.
“First Autistic President” doesn’t have the same ring as “First Female President.”
What’s with the dude in the tophat, holding that sightly creepy grin.
That’s our field reporter hard at work.
And he is wearing a trench coat. Pants? Who knows.
You see the guy in the top hat too, right? It’s not just me?
We all see him, and that smile… but did anyone who was physically there see him?
Whoa.
Perhaps he only appears to us. The Grinning Glib, silently trolling. His icons, the Top Hat and Monocle, worn in veneration.
that clip feels like a Monty Python sketch.
“the chairman for The Very Silly Party is now about to speak”
I don’t see him, since Twitter videos won’t play on my computer.
Mister Mxyzptlk?
I bet you can’t say kltpzyxm retsim in Christopher Walken’s voice.
I trust a man who’s willing to blatantly lie about his own religion (walked back his atheism with some obviously bullshit vague “spirituality” mumbo-jumbo) and has talked about how the people who do trust him are “dumb fucks.” Also builds massive perimeter security walls for his properties while bemoaning “fearful voices calling for building walls.” Yep, and with all the politically uneven enforcement of Facebook rules showing you the fairmindedness present in the corporate culture he created… yeah, a real straight shooter, right here.
Also, as Taiwanese Animated News likes to point out, he’s a massive stooge for Chinese authoritarianism.
Apparently we want celebrity Presidents and Hollywood is full of attractive actresses. Just saying. We can do better than Zuckerberg.
All hail President Kat Dennings.
Kat “Dennings” (((Litwack))) is the Zionist Lizard People’s endgame.
WAKE UP SHEEPLE!
BUSH DID 5/28!
If that’s their endgame… I, for one, welcome our new reptilian overlords.
She does have a strange following among my people so it might happen…
We already know that our next President is going to be Lisa Simpson.
At least youse folks would finally have a President with an IQ higher than a warm turnip.
Yes, but on her inaguration day we exile her to Monster Island.
oh shit, it’s a Harvard thing. they’re all wearing stupid fucking hats!
https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/25/watch-mark-zuckerberg-speech/
It’s a good thing the staff at Hogwarts never mixed up the Sorting and Fucking Hats.
Especially given the age of the first-fifth years.
His campaign isn’t off to a very good start based on the responses he’s getting on twitter.
His about face on the 1A is causing him a little problem.
DC glibbers meet up?? Anybody interested?
Is that one of those DC cocktail parties I hear so much about?
Given that it’s a libertarian group, it’s gonna be heavy on the cock and light on the tail.
HEYOOOOOOO
Maybe you wouldn’t want to meet me, but why the hell not? I can bring the legal stuff.
Releases? Or NDAs?
Restraining orders, of course.
So no boxers but
::removes sunglasses::
briefs are ok.
You guys should meet at O’Shaughnessy’s in Old Town Alexandria. Close to the blue line and you can smoke and drink very cheap happy hour pitchers.
Fuck, wish I was around.
wish I was around
But then you’d be in DC.
Au contraire! I’d be in the glorious commonwealth. Not that shithole across the river.
I would be interested.
I like you guys, but not enough to drive up 95 to that place.
If there’s ever anything in Richmond or even Charlottesville, though….
Next time I’m in town, we can go to Rare Olde Times for a few pints of Guinness and so I can pour a beer on the curb for Martin Creighton.
Then we can go to Cap Ale House and get fucked up.
Oh man, I haven’t been to Rare Olde Times in years. I remember way back when that place was Loose Ties and my parents used to go there for drinks. Back then, that was the edge of the West End, there was nothing further out.
I’m down in principle but it’ll depend on the time and if I can get the fam settled.
I’m starting on a new anti-depressant and I can’t drink. Which is fine, really, because I don’t drink more than a couple on Friday/Saturday nights, but still.
At least I have benzos to make up for it.
When they gave you the news, did they have to double your prescription?
That’s just a suggestion to not mix with booze. Not a law
This advice might suck, but follow it. Trust me.
I stand by my advice…
Any time a Doc gives me a med, (last time it was antibiotics) and says I can’t drink, this conversation happens:
Doc: You can’t drink alcohol while taking this,
Me: What is going to happen when I drink alcohol while taking this?
Doc: You can’t drink.
Me: Did you misunderstand my question? What is going to happen when I do?
HOW DARE YOU QUESTION THE WISDOM OF A DOCTOR??!!!!
Fuck, I can’t tell you how many of those conversations with docs have gone sideways for me.
And when a drug does come out that makes your heart explode when mixed with drinking then there will be endless dead bodies that thought “you always say don’t drink with every med and nothing ever happened”. Kinda like trying heroin because “you lied about pot, figured you were lying about the rest of the drugs”
That’s why I always gave my kids 100% truthful information and answers about drugs. I had to know that if I warned them about something in particular, they would believe I was telling the truth.
It depends on the antibiotic, but they used to tell people you couldn’t drink on antibiotics because they “affected you weirdly” or amplified the level of drunkenness just so people wouldn’t get drunk and give another woman the clap while they were still not cured. Some classes of antibiotics though have their efficacy hampered by booze.
The hampering effect was the argument. It was for a spider bite I received in South Sudan the day before I was flying out. It took longer to heal, and I have a scar, but whatever. That was some years ago. Thinking about it now, I am mistaken. The last time I was told that and had that conversation it was pain meds for a bunch of broken ribs. Percocet maybe? Something something liver damage. Whatever. One can’t live forever and it led to some great facebook rants that got me unfriended by a bunch of progressives.
If it was a few years ago then your doctor was on his or her a-game. Percocet is oxycodone/acetaminophen and the old blends had a pretty high rate of acetaminophen compared to the current ones (they’re capped at 325mg now). People were taking opioid/APAP blends and drinking with them or taking extra Tylenol (more acetaminophen) and getting themselves acute liver toxicity.
You might be able to get ahold of of something like Vicoprofen which doesn’t have the Tylenol component but is also more strictly controlled.
It was last year. I should have remembered that conversation but the spider bite has always stuck in my head because it was the first conversation I had like that and my friends laughed at me when it happened and said my bite would be swollen up the size of a grapefruit by the time I got home. They were right. I only took the Percocet for the ribs for a few months. I am not taking anything now and or want to.
No, not really. Dictators have purpose, and NAZIs and communists and Jihadi’s. Any purpose doesn’t mean much, I’m not even convinced no purpose isn’t the best option, since I might get left the he’ll alone.
For some reason the purpose is never to be well respected in your community for working hard and supporting your family. It’s always some grandiose pinky and the brain purpose to make humanity better.
It’s “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” Zucker, baby. That means letting people forge their purpose, not giving them purpose.
See if they all have a sense of purpose and think they’re “doing something”, they will ignore what’s actually going on.
See hashtag activism.
NATO Cha-Ching time?
Hey Trump. Instead of other countries spending more, how about the US spend less? You’re all about deals. How about you renegotiate some deals with war contractors over bullshit like the F-35 and clitoral combat ships?
Heave, Ho!
clitoral combat ships
Opening salvo in the War against the Patriarchy! Feminist Pirates!
Or a better one:
“There’s only one man in that boat!”
C’mon men let’s lick them.
Send the HMS Hood to cover us!
I know a dude who works for the DOD in procurement for these ships (actually a contractor, that’s mostly the way it is in DC) and he was telling me some absolutely ridiculous stories about those things. I’m talking just careless, boneheaded shit that makes sure things cost 3x and take 4x as long and are never actually completed, ever. No project doesn’t have at least a few things like this. Also, from what he was telling me the whole concept is shit and these littoral combat ships are fucking useless.
We used to get helicopters from the factory after an extensive upgrade. Every Satcom radio was wired incorrectly and we had to get someone to rewire it correctly. We went to the factory and told them about the issue. They said they knew it was wrong but their contract said to do it that way and they didn’t like it either. We were never able to get the contract changed so this went on for a couple years until all modifications were done wrong, then redone right.
Millennials want to buy houses, won’t save down payments
I see articles like this on occasion, and I wonder how much is just “Youngest generation does something only stupid young people do” and how much is an actual culture shift towards living nearly 100% on margin, and never worrying about paying it off. Obviously, the next minor downturn in the housing market is going to put a bunch of these 0% down folks waaaaay underwater.
And we’ll I’m sure ending up paying for it.
The rate at which I save for a down payment is not as fast as the rate of increase in housing prices. /GenX
On a similar note, during my morning meeting (which is really nothing more than the Mortgage Manager, Collections Manager and me sitting around BSing) we were talking about how young people never put a down payment down on a car. Everyone is doing 125% of MSRP on a depreciating asset. Most purchase gap insurance, which is financed in, so if they wreck the car they just move on to the next overpriced, overfinanced vehicle. The idea of saving up money just isn’t young people’s vocabulary.
Because the incentives aren’t there for it. “Save money? Why? I can have this sweet ass ride right fucking now and I’ve only got one life to live.” I don’t necessarily blame them.
Personally, though, I’ve paid cash for the last two vehicles I’ve had. I’ve had the taste of debt before and, no sir, I just don’t like it.
Dealerships seem to have some serious trouble understanding you when you ask them to just hand over the keys and title with 100% down. There’s kind of a blank look and they don’t know how to revise their sales script with 3/4ths of the content gone.
When my father was a young man in 1970 the median salary in the US was $6000, the Average New Car cost $3700. 10% down was basically 3 weeks take home pay
My 17 year old is about to become a young man, today the median salary in the US is $41,000, the Average New Car costs $25,000. 10% down is basically 6 weeks take home pay
Given that it is damn near impossible to earn more than inflation plus taxes plus fees on less than a $10,000 investment (and hard enough to do even there right now) why would a young person even bother? Saving for a car means waiting twice as long to get the needed funds and the value of their savings is continually declining wheras their grandfathers savings always grew
I’m not a banker but 37/60 is .616 and 25/41 is .609 . How does 7/1000 of a percent equal double the effort? exponents?
And the difference is in the wrong direction (if it’s gonna make your point) Adjusted, your wage versus car numbers would make a new car now 3650 versus 3700 in 1970 dollars. Unless i’m totally missing something which is quite possible as I stopped working* and have been drinking since 3:30.
*technically I’m still doing some work, it’s just work I can do while drinking, otherwise known as the best kind of work.
Given that it is damn near impossible to earn more than inflation plus taxes plus fees on less than a $10,000 investment (and hard enough to do even there right now) why would a young person even bother?
I have been told there is no inflation, and taxes and fees are the price you pay to live under the social contract your son signed by being born. .
–“I wonder how much is just “Youngest generation does something only stupid young people do” and how much is an actual culture shift towards living nearly 100% on margin, and never worrying about paying it off”–
I think it is
20% A
50% B
10% of it is that there is little to no chance for your average young person to save a traditional down payment before they are 30 anyway so they get discouraged don’t even bother, even assuming they have no gaps in employment and start saving at 18 a dozen years with an average salary of 30k and saving 10% per year for a home purchase only gets you 36,000 in savings which won’t even buy a median priced home. Alternatively if they go to college they don’t start saving till they are 23 but make more but you are still only looking at 7 years at an average salary of 60,000 a year giving you $42,000 in savings. Lets be honest here things are not the same as they were in the 1980’s even and home prices have inflated significantly faster than wages over the last 30 years.
Finally the last 20% is that it is a fairly normal situation for young people to not be saving to buy a home, or at least it has been the case since the 50’s at least but what has changed is that millennials are more likely to whine about the unfairness of it than previous generations.
For that college educated don’t forget about the student loan part of the equation which also puts pressure on the ability to save. Start them young on the culture of debt.
THIS!
*cries over the 6-figure student loan statement that just came in the mail*
At least I can pay my student loans back. I can’t imagine what my classmates at $60k jobs are gonna do about their quarter million dollar debt.
Tell your kid to not buy median priced homes. Buy shit house homes. Fix them to good enough, rent it out, and move on to another shit house home. Repeat. He will retire at 40. I was not smart enough at the time to do this myself. I got sidetracked.
Good advice but rather irrelevant to the discussion as the same strategy could have been applied in the past as well
Curious, has anyone heard about an accidental shooting involving two kids in my neck of the woods in KY? It’s a sad story, the kind that could get some national press. Was wondering if it has?
Where’s your neck of the woods?
This?
http://www.wdrb.com/story/35486062/12-year-old-boy-dies-in-accidental-shooting-in-green-county
Bowling Green. Yeah, that’s it.
There are two of us in BG?
We need to start a plot to overthrow Mike Buchanan
I did my first year of college at Western. Not a bad little town.
That’s my alma mater. You must not have liked it too much or you’d gone for year two?
I CLEPPed out of two years and went for one year and then I got married way too young and didn’t return to college until five years later. I liked Western a lot but I was really, really immature and my parents were putting a lot of pressure on me because my dad wanted me to be an engineer and my mom wanted me to be a lawyer and I didn’t have a clue what I wanted. Getting married wasn’t the smartest thing to do but I grew up and got my shit together.
We were just at Mammoth Cave last September. Had a cabin on the north end of the park. Nice week of hiking.
There are caves everywhere around here. It’s a wonder none of us died spelunking when we were kids. It’s beautiful in the mammoth cave park area. We do a cave tour every couple of years, can’t beat it in the middle of summer.
Yeah, it’s a great area. Last time we were down there we did the lost river cave which I thought was pretty cool.
I live less than 5 miles from there and have never done that. We walk he dog on the trail from time to time but never went in by boat. I’ve been wanting totry and go in it where it comes out and turns into a creek on private property but the water has to be just right to do it by small boat. One of these days
I am close to Lost river. I did the tour, it goes undet the new medical center.
It was kind of freaky that the water was so high.
Investigators say a shot was fired from what was believed to be a toy gun.
huh?
Kid can’t tell the difference between a real and fake gun. Maybe that should be taught in school or something
Mattress Girl has apparently become even more insane. Her latest “art” project is some weird BDSM thing.
Bonus article correction:
Wouldn’t
Sulkowicz is a reverse-centaur.
An insult to horse faces.
Unless you mean A woman’s body and a horse’s ass?
Just the right height, no bucket required.
Your links truely are heroic HM.
After the puking kid on the last post, and then the horse humper, I am not sure heroic is the word I would choose. I hesitate before I click every time, but click it anyways. I am never sure if I made the right choice.
“Open Link in New Private Window”
Always put a rubber on HM’s links. ALWAYS.
And we thought she would be unemployable.
As long as there are left-leaning, stupid, emotialist people with the lowest of standards Emma will be able to make a buck here and there.
Or people whoget off on women getting tied up and humiliated
She’s really mastered the art of ‘earning’ money by pretending to be raped.
Most prostitutes charge extra for that.
So, I’m not sure she’s mastered it…yet.
Minor aggravation of the day:
When you have an online payment option, give me all the information I need in order to log into your online portal to pay the bill. I shouldn’t have to fill out a request for them to email me an access code to use when creating the online account.
damn nesting fail.
Mattress Girl, Clock Boy. I wonder who’ll be next.
Bookcase Intersex?
It Them.
Social Justice League unite!
I assume she’s getting a federal grant for this?
Someone should do their art project on her about what narcissists will do for attention. I think as long as you told her you are documenting her intersectional power you could probably get her to roll in feces and bark like a dog.
you omitted the best part!
That man is a hero.
Hey Chicago glibs, any of you looking for a new place to live?
Well, he’s honest
Right on. My kind of digs. I refuse to live in cities though.
[blockquote]I really do want this area to kind of at least from the street look like a decent neighborhood and safe for our neighbors.[/blockquote]
In Garfield Park? Good luck with getting even Satan himself to help you out with that.
Stupid wrong brackets. HAIL SATAN!
With its retraction of the Seth Rich story, it occurs to me that this iteration of FOX News, as well as the horrible mess it is sure to become, will be a very useful piece of the Leftist Propaganda Machine. Whenever a story like the Seth Rich murder robbery gone wrong comes along – and considering how vile and corrupt the Democrats are, there will be more stories like this – FOX will be the right-wing filter by which the Machine tells the public, “See? There’s no “there” there. Even FOX News says it’s a nothing story!”
As David Brooks serves his function at the NYT, so will FOX serve the same function in the greater media. Nice kids you got there, Rupert.
What retraction? Do you have a link?
Granted, the source is CNN, but it seems legit at a glance.
it sounds like from the CNN story that ‘Rod Wheeler’, the Private Investigator Fox claimed as a source, basically denied Fox’s reports.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/05/23/statement-on-coverage-seth-rich-murder-investigation.html
I forget the money quote that somebody else linked on here recently, but the Fox shift is basically because his kids want to feel loved at cocktail parties. It’s always cocktail parties.
:waves hand: This isn’t the bomber you’re looking for…
Never understood why you’d have a black stillsuit in the goddamn desert. Other than that they look awesome.
And the white ones are soooo hard to keep clean.
Just like a black basalt floor in that respect.
Well it could be black as long as you wore sand colored robes over it to blend in. One more stupid aspect of that movie adaptation.
Still my favorite one though. I keep hoping that one day he’ll get over his butthurt and release the directors cut with all the footage they forced him to remove.
I like the stillsuits as portrayed in the “Eye” illustrated anthology – pretty much my go-to mentally. Anything in a desert like that which doesn’t also cover your head in full is just stupid – especially for full waste recycling, etc. I like the look of full body wetsuit with lots of extra pouches, rougher texture, etc, but then bedouin style robes over top – either blend-in type or colorful depending on the locale.
Not familiar with it, I’ll have to add that to my list of books to acquire along with the encyclopedia. Makes sense to have an outer garment.
You won’t regret it – some beautiful illustrations of Dune Messiah era Arrakis, and a number of excellent short stories (not collected in other anthologies that I recall…but it’s been a while since I cracked it.
I think I paid upwards of $80 for the encyclopedia on ebay back in ’99 or so – and to my shame I’ve barely opened it since. Too many moves lately. Looking forward to getting everything out of the boxes this year.
Ugh. This is going to get bad.
Troubled kid spotted in park with gun. Cops show up and end up shooting him. Turns out that the gun was an airsoft gun. BLM is already ramping up.
The kid’s friends are saying that he was trying to commit suicide by cop. BLM doesn’t care.
Sounds like a totally fucked up scene. Of course no one will care about the facts. Line up with your tribe and get ready to start fighting.
He knew what he was doing. But yeah you can’t argue with stupid.
18 years old, mental problems. This may not be Tamir Rice. The cops came in blasting there then made up a story about him going for his gun. With a 12 year old you think probably a toy but approach with caution.
These situations are too difficult to judge without video. Too much nuance is required. Somehow BLM always gets spoiled up about the stupidest cases though. Brown got more air time then Rice.
Yeah, that annoyed the shit out of me. They always seemed to champion the worst cases.
It’s always the loudest and most pig-ignorant that demand the attention and suck the air from the room. Good gifs and soundbites are more important than truth-telling and bonus points if you can source a buncha random bullshit from your twitter feed. God help us all.
God designates random Maryland man as His judge on earth.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40045802
It’s a private Christian school. I don’t think a Christian utopia is one where there not only are no laws or rules, but no judgements at all.
Oh I have no doubt about that.
It’s not as if it’s a tough call with a need to balance competing interests – no, it’s about putting scare quotes around “immorality” while at the same time saying what *real* Christianity is.
If these journalists were prolifers trying to discourage abortion, or if they left out the scare quotes, I might take them more seriously.
Apparently she’s the son of a local banker and school board member at the school itself – maybe they thought it would be demoralizing to look like they were playing favorites with the daughter of an influential person?
I don’t know, because the reporter just puts out the narrative without a great deal of curiousity.
Oops, daughter of a local banker. I don’t think she’s enlightened enough to identify as male.
I’m not sure if Jesus, the guy who regularly hung out with sinners and was big into the whole forgiveness thing, would be cool with that.
I don’t know what specific option He would take, but I know he wouldn’t put scare quotes around “immorality.”
The best argument for having her at the ceremony is that being too harsh would encourage girls to have abortions.
But these reporters with the selective citations of Jesus would probably be shocked that he told the woman taken in adultery to “sin no more.”
What do you mean sin, who are you to judge?
Now you’re getting too worked up. Reporter says nothing about said hippie demigod, she just cites tweets of other people who claim to be Christian.
Let’s just say I’m skeptical she gave full coverage to the different sides.
Oh, the BBC…yeah, let’s see them champion some student denied access to a private-school graduation ceremony because (s)he made a racist Tweet.
Well yeah, because Aramaic and Hebrew don’t have scare quotes. Stupid.
You got me there.
I know Hebrew should probably go out and buy some Yahoowahoo damned vowels already.
Would
Say it with me, you can wear the Polka Dot pants too.
NO
Come on, you’d look sporting in them!
ILM
https://youtu.be/758_eiHzZqE
Hire a Samurai!
Note: Only rich people hired samurai, poor people who could not afford to hire samurai did not hire samurai.
At Bob’s Discount Samurai Emporium, we offer low monthly payments, and you too can leave our lot with a previously-owned samurai with almost as many limbs as a brand-new samurai!
I believe the number of limbs is not the main issue with pre-owned samurai, it’s the Katana piercing the major organs in the torso, but
I’m not an expert in these matters.
Oh, that’s only a flesh wound, that samurai is merely pining for the fjords.
Japan has fjords?
previously-owned samurai
A ronin to call my own? Your views intrigue me etc.
Are you telling me that movies have lied to us yet again?
Not sure if anyone has posted on this yet, but:
Politico continues it’s perfect record of being wrong about everything
Wife just told me about a friend whose kid has a pet crow. After it grew up they let it go outside where it quickly integrated with a flock. Flock quickly noted that kid would feed the former pet so they got in on the act. Now flock brings lots of shiny presents in return for the food.
“They aren’t presents. They are paying for the food. They are free market birds…capitalists. Holy shit, who cares about eagles? Glorified buzzards. The crow should be the American bird. ”
Now I wish I had thought of this for the glibertarian logo contest; stylized crow in top hat and monocle clutching a gold coin.
That’s actually pretty awesome.
I am smart enough to think of everything and understand everything but I’m slow so I always get it too late.
T-shirt design contest?
Stealing that for my tombstone.
Ya, crows are pretty damn smart birds. How many dead crows do you see on the road? That is a great story. But in Crowlibertopia, would there be roads?
Yes, straight as the crow flies
Only to cover those distances you can’t as the crow flies.
I misread it at first and thought the kid had a pet cow.
If I had a pet cow I’d name her Rare.
My boss had two pigs; Bacon and Porkchop.
Did he subsequently consume them? I’d take my Rare medium.
In my new life, I have been pondering getting some pigs. A few people have them around here. Most of my neighbors do the chicken thing, but I think pigs are tastier and less likely to be carried off by a predator.
My advice: No. They are incredibly stinky. You cant put them far enough from the house.
They are smart. You get attached. Slaughtering ends up being difficult. They are not cheap to feed or keep. Cheaper to buy one.
Find a pig farmer and buy one already butchered. Any butcher will sell you a whole hog. Buy the whole hog and cut it up yourself. Freeze it.
Trust me on this.
My brother-in-law had four turkeys: “Easter,” “Thanksgiving,” “Christmas” and “Spare.”
This was fortuitous: he was cheap enough that he didn’t feed his pigs very well, so one of the pigs ended up eating “Spare.”
We had one or two cows at a time with names like Hamburger, T-bone, etc. when I was growing up. And when the freezer was empty, the mobile butcher would pull up, shoot one, and field dress it in the back of their truck. About a week later, the freezer would be full of delicious beef meat.
My family wasn’t big on the organ meats and such so I asked the guy to save the tongue one time. He told me to go get a cake pan and delivered it on the spot. Still warm.
Crows have regional dialects and can recognize humans by their faces for years.
When humans are gone this planet will belong to them and the octopi.
Ravens! Lunch stealers! When I worked in the bush we had a problem with Ravens. Buddy wrapped his tin box in about ten rolls of wire to keep them out. Determined Raven just picked it up , flew to a certain height and dropped it until the hinges gave way. Hid my lunch under brush, Raven flies overhead with a Florida orange pierced on his greedy beak, laughing.
They’re also capable of tool making and passing on that knowledge. Those bastards are in some ways smarter than chimps. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/04/0423_030423_crowtools.html
That explains a lot
Not all animals are equally noble as the crow.
Monkey mafia steals tourists property, offers it back in return for food
That’s awesome
Those monkeys are Indonesian. Everybody knows to watch your stuff around them. That and never try their hot sauce. It will burn your eyebrows off and tastes like shrimp shells.
Should be holding some cards too
It should be a trivial thing to teach the crows to bring you bank notes.
Crows are adorable but eagles are pretty cute too.
As a Chicagoan, please allow me to just say HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chicagoinc/ct-pritzker-reilly-san-antonio-0526-chicago-inc-20170525-story.html
Good on San Antonio for showing these arrogant pricks some comeuppance.
Viagran? Is her best friend named Cialistic or something?
“After an exhaustive four-year bidding process, Pritzker’s firm was ranked the best bid by San Antonio council staff”
But they went with a local bidder because some alderman (not Pritzker) said something dumb?
“The council instead voted 10-1 for San Antonio-based Go Rio, whose owner, former Texas Secretary of State Hope Andrade, pointedly told the council, “We’re no strangers or Johnny-come-latelies.””
They know the rules, and so do we…
A 100 million dollar contracts what I’m thinking of
You shouldn’t do this for any Chicago guy
Yeah, the South looks askance at carpetbaggers for some reason.
I wouldn’t really consider San Antonio Southern. South-Western maybe. Texas gets into a weird grey area on that one.
Carpetbaggers was a narrow term for white Republicans coming South after The War and going into politics – it didn’t apply for some reason to, say, people from other states going to Texas and becoming leaders there.
Finally, a feel good story. I shut just shut my browser now and leave it closed until after my up coming 9 days off.
That’s pretty funny. Honestly, it’s not much of a river, but they have made the most of it.
I originally read this headline as that Rush had said this which made me crack up.
http://hotair.com/archives/2017/05/25/rush-caller-every-republican-slammed-reporter-ground-id-donate-bankrupt/
Luke had a point: Tatooine sucks.
Just reading the comments in the last thread about House Dems using financially compromised Pakistanis for their IT. What the fuck happened to any kind of background check prior to hiring them? It’s like ban the box to the infinite power.
“It’s like ban the box to the infinite power.”
For everything except guns. With gun purchases, not only is “the box” magically not racist, but it’s a wonderful idea that should be expanded and intensified.
Well, sure. Just like asking for photo ID for people trying to exercise their rights.