Well, that’s over. The Penguins overcame a series of penalties in the third period, including an extended period where they were facing a 5 on 3 , and scored late on a fluke shot from behind the goal to beat the Nashville Predators in Game 6 and win the Stanley Cup for the second consecutive year. Of course, that fails to mention the official inexplicably whistling a play dead in the second period where the puck was sitting in the crease and a Nashville player was about to knock it in the goal to take the lead. Nashville fans were justifiably salty about that at the end of the game. But I guess it doesn’t matter. Adding insult to injury, Sidney Crosby won the Conn Smythe Trophy for playoff MVP.
In soccer news, the US pretty much played defense all game except for a few off chances and an incredible goal from 45 yards away for Michael Bradley. It resulted in a 1-1 tie against Mexico on the road and sets them up in decent shape for the rest of the World Cup qualification, assuming Brad Guzan does more than be a statue when somebody puts a shot on goal from 20 yards out.
UPDATE: And in tennis, unseeded Jelena Ostapenko won the women’s French Open in a match that nobody seemed able to hold serve in. And Rafael Nadal absolutely demolished Stan Wawrinka on the men’s side. Happened so fast, I forgot to even mention it. Sorry, straffinrun.
Also, the Astros are on a bit of a slide. Something like losing 4 of the last 6 games. They better get it together with the Rangers coming to town otherwise their lead might shrink to 10.
Aaaaand that’s it for sports. Basketball is up tonight. My guess is it gets closed out and Draymond Green grabs someone in the nuts. And Steve Kerr will get a technical foul for it or something. Whatever, here are…the links!
Grandstanders gonna grandstand. I’m sure their intentions are pure. If you think this is deliberately partisan, you must be a fan of Drumphy McHitler.
You can take our statue when you pry it from our cold, dead fingers. Good for these guys. Its time this erasure of history came to an abrupt halt.
Whoa! You mean to tell me that not every company out there panders to the left? How long before people protest the protesting companies? I expect it in 3…2…1…
R.I.P. Adam West, you freaky sonofabitch. Seriously, dude thought he was Bob Crane or something.
Lastly, an interesting story about a river in Egypt. Or something.
Well, one more for the pervs. (Not sure if SFW)
Gibberish sells apparently.
Have a great day, friends!
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35) This list has gotten some attention lately, comparing the 8th grade reading list in Edina County, Minnesota, in 1908 to the 8th grade reading list in the same county in 2017.
And yes, as the website points, out the 1908 list has more classics, more sophisticated reading, more history. But there’s one other thing I noticed—the 1908 list is far more boy-oriented. I mean, I’m an adult, I have a broad taste in books—and the 2017 list puts me to sleep. I can’t even imagine what it’d be like for an 8th grade boy. Homeless Bird? The Breadwinner? Call Me Maria? I’m sure these are worthy books, but YAWN…. This list couldn’t be better designed for turning off boys if it was intentional.
But look at the 1908 list. Captains Courageous! Treasure Island! Stories of Heroic Deeds! Now that’s more like it. These are books with adventures, books boys would love reading. There are like two or maybe three books on the 2017 list a boy could stand—Tom Sawyer, Fahrenheit 451, I don’t know what Last Book in the Universe is but it sounds potentially decent. But on the 1908 list practically every volume sounds fun.
You know why I think its all a bunch of indoctrinating and multicultural bullshit?
One of the striking features of the Edina list is how recent the titles are. Many of the selections were published in the 21st century. In fact, only four of the selections are more than 20 years old.
In comparison, over half of the titles on the first list were at least 20 years old in 1908, with many of them averaging between 50 to 100 years old.
No Sparks Notes or internet in 1908.
I had a customer ask me for the Sparks Notes for Diary of Anne Frank. I was half a second from saying, “You need a summary of a diary written by a twelve year old girl?” But “Literally Hitler” doesn’t fit on my name tag.
Did you give him a spoiler?
LOL. “She dies, but the Nazis lose”
I’ve said it before, when talking about Anne and Frank. The wrong one died in the closet.
*Anne and Barney. Blew my own joke.
Don’t worry, Barney blows that too. All the time.
Whatever, Tobias.
Addabissi called…
As in “spoiler: they all die”? Or “spoiler: Anne ultimately channels her inner goddess and rescues her family by single-handedly conquering the SS troopers who tried to arrest them, while the boys cowered in the corner”?
I liked the part where she collected 100 Nazi scalps, taken from the heads of one hundred dead Nazis.
Yeah, but it was even cooler when she freed the inmates from Auschwitz. Brought a tear to my eye.
They don’t all die: Anne’s father Otto survived.
Also, when they cleaned out the attic, they found a chamber pot containing the diarrhea of Anne Frank.
She was sent to the same camp as Geddy Lee’s mom. Guess which one lived?
They pulled a switch and Anne Frank is really Geddy Lee’s mom?
You should pitch that movie.
I’m pretty sure there’s a bowdlerized version of Anne Frank’s Diary for younger readers out there without the sexual fantasy and experimentation, probably simplified in other ways as well. You could have suggested that.
I would have answered, ‘that’s the book of a bored housewife turned porn star, right?’
Are Sparks Notes the 21st century equivalent of Cliff Notes?
Yep, if I recall correctly, they started online only from the same company that eventually went on to found OkCupid.
This list couldn’t be better designed for turning off boys if it was intentional.
What makes you think it’s not intentional? The current leftist-dominated education establishment is all about “empowering” girls by handicapping boys.
I’m struck by what a great list of books for boys that had in 1908. Of course boys would love to read some Fenimore Cooper, Kipling, and historical adventures! I bet this was designed intentionally to get boys enthusiastic about reading and learning.
It’s not exactly like there’s anything on that list that sounds interesting to girls, either.
Not that it matters, but Edina is a suburb of Minneapolis, not a county. Very affluent and hoity-toity. I believe that the kids there have the help read to them.
But yes, the older reading list looks like a lot more fun.
Nice water tower IIRC.
Yeah. I hear it’s filled with Perrier.
Thanks. The site had the phrase “Edina Public School System” so I guess I assumed it was a county.
Edina is reviled in Minnesoda because they used their affluence to build an indoor skating rink way back when and because their kids could skate year round they won a bunch of state high school hockey tournaments (when it was still a single class tourney). No one has ever forgiven them for that.
Known as the “cake eaters”.
Then they really suck at street hockey and have punished themselves.
They’ll remove Tom Sawyer because racism. And Fahrenheit 451 will be presented as an instruction manual, along with 1984.
Also, if I had to guess, there were more male faculty in 1908. And having an all boys school was perfectly legal.
Yup, when I was in high school in the 70s there were plenty of male teachers in all grade levels. Now I think teachers are something like 87% female.
Women dominate education, but we are all still held down by the patriarchy. Like those school dress codes.
I am surprised F451 is allowed, what with the anti-abortion section.
It’s still used quite a bit in Catholic private schools.
Last Book in the Universe
It seems like a dumbed-down mash-up of Fahrenheit 451 and Riddley Walker.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Book_in_the_Universe
unless i’m mistaken, reading lists are just recommendations. if you want to read, you can read whatever the fuck you want.
i’m not disagreeing with your observation. I agree completely that the modern lists suck balls for the most part.
I’m just saying, for kids who only read what they’re told to read, nothing will make any @(#*$@* difference because they’re not avid readers. What they read will have no impact on them anyway. For kids that are avid readers at that age (6-8th grade), the same is true – even if they read shit books, they’ll still get something out of it.
If this is a method of handicapping boys, its a poor one.
I went to Catholic school, and when we had summer reading lists we had to read some subset of the books and write reports on them the first week of class. I seem to remember it was usually 3 books or so out of 10.
that makes sense, but still – i’m pretty sure the vast majority of ‘summer reading lists’ aren’t compulsory.
usually the m.o. was “read something”, write essay when you arrive back in school. what you ended up reading was mostly irrelevant.
I remember my high school American lit class where I decided to read The Fountainhead for my final paper/exam material. Despite my teacher obviously despising everything Rand, I still got an “A”. It was my high school sophomore year English teacher that introduced us to Rand in the first place, by including Anthem in the cirriculum. I wonder what would happen to such a teach nowadays?
They would be accused of having molested the kids, and their life would be ruined to make an example of them. that is, if they ever could get hired in the first place.
My senior year I went with some Vonnegut and finished up with Herman Hesse (The Glass Bead Game – enjoyed it on the whole). Of course in high school in the mid-90s in a dormitory in high school, I was lucky to get an hour a night on the shared computer. I read like a beast.
One thing that article fails to touch on at all is the difference in perspectives of the 2 eras.
In most of the first half of the 20th century the common perception, especially among the educated class was that modern works were not literature and were merely entertainment trash for the common man. Given that it is not surprising that in 1908 there would have been a heavy focus on “the Classics”. Books like The Wizard of Oz (1900) or Call of the Wild (1903) that we today consider classics would have been viewed as being as “serious and important” as modern film critics view Adam Sandler movies.
Today however that perception has done a total 180, “The Classics” are viewed as tired works of “Dead White Men” with nothing to offer but a reinforcement of racism and the patriarchy and only in the last couple of decades has sufficiently woke literature begun to be written
There is no Edina County in Minnesota.
I think education should consist of parents choosing schools on an open market, so parents should be able to choose whatever type of school they want. But I do think the most effective method of education would include some degree of gender segregation. The minds of boys and girls just develop differently. Boys and girls are interested in different things. I’m not saying it should be like some kind of Saudi Arabian school where the boys and girls never see each other; they could have a lot of classes together. But one big problem with education today is that they’ve just mashed the boys and girls into a one-size-fits-all* mold and ordered the boys to be more like the girls, and boys are lagging behind as a result.
* “One-size-fits-all” seems to be a recurring theme in education, doesn’t it? It’s a very bad thing for a field where human differences factor in to everything.
They’re reading Fahrenheit 451 in 7th/8th grade? I read that as a senior in high school and it’s on my list of stuff to read again now because I didn’t understand it at that age. I can only imagine how little I would have comprehended it in eighth grade. No matter how “book smart” you are (I had one of the highest GPAs in my class and read at a college level in fifth grade), you’re so insulated as a kid that dystopian stuff just doesn’t really have meaning to you like it does as an adult when you can see what other adults are capable of.
I agree that there needs to be more focus on “adventure” style books in the younger grades. People nowadays don’t read outside of school, and I strongly believe that it’s because crap reading lists like this kill any love of interest they may have had. I would have loved to read Treasure Island in school.
“New study finds straight men in ‘bromances’ often kiss and cuddle”
Oh man. Back in my fraternity days, we’d do this all the time. No big deal. An evening of watching porn and drinking would always end up with some dudes on the couch, arms around each other’s shoulders or inching up the thighs.
I’ve seen some (supposedly) straight guys – married, etc – who get very “chummy” after a few drinks. Not quite my cup o’ tea.
I had a friend who tried to introduce cheek kisses among the gents, sort of half-European, half-Goodfellas, but it never took off. I mean, particularly when I’m sauced, I take one look at the scruffy ne’er-do-wells I consider friends and I’m like, “I don’t want to risk any of that person making contact with a mucus membrane.” Love my boys, but handshakes and hugs are plenty.
They sure do in some parts of the middle east. The whole not being allowed to dance with the girls thing kind of pushes them to it.
“New study finds straight men in ‘bromances’ often kiss and cuddle”
Uh huh. I dont think they know the definition of all of the words they are using.
Bwahahaha! Nice try, gays.
All that sports and no love for Nadal. I’m calling foot fault.
Yeah, my bad. The match was over so fast I forgot about it.
15 slams so only 3 more to catch Roger. I’m thinking he’ll at least tie him.
Well, if he gets to play the French at least three more times, he should.
He didn’t drop a set the entire tournament. I love watching him play because he never cedes a point. Wouldn’t you like a big L candidate to act like that?
You’re assuming Fed isn’t going to win another slam?
Yes, Yes I am. The Joker beats him on hard courts and Nadal on the clay.
Why should I like a nasty bully?
Does anyone play a finesse game anymore? Like, coming to the net & shit? I lost interest in tennis when it became a baseline slug fest.
Glenn Campbell’s final album came out Friday.
Haven’t heard it except for this, buying it this week. Sucks watching him slip away. Glen Campbell was a helluva guitar player.
Great song. I remember playing GC records on our old console stereo when I was but a wee lad. Always loved his music.
Denmark Is Killing Tesla (and Other Electric Cars)
Drop in sales suggests market isn’t yet competitive
Andorran Ice Climbing Association
Lol. The same Elon Musk who gets pissed when any unwoke fuckhead suggests that his ‘businesses’ would implode without subsidies.
He will end up in prison.
^^^^ THIS!!!!!
God damn! Most of his businesses are so obviously ponzi schemes! The guy is the Bernie Maddof of tech entrepreneurs.
So on a level playing field Tesla get clobbered. I’m shocked, shocked.
Yes, removing tax breaks is totally the same as killing the market. Also, good for Denmark.
So there wasn’t actually a market to begin with….
Proof that “Cash For Clunkers” was a great idea. Hmmm.
Well, it feels like a great idea. And that’s what matters.
It wasn’t a “new” tax regime, it was just the same tax regime every other car is taxed by in Denmark:
180% automotive tax + 25% sales tax on top of it.
Electric vehicles had an exemption from the automotive tax because they wanted to encourage Danes to not kill Mother Gaia. But Tesla is a luxury vehicle, and with the tax on it, most Danes simply cannot afford a car in that price bracket, because it’s like taking out a second mortgage.
So you basically have to be high-upper middle class or above in Denmark to afford something like that. Which most people are not, because they’re taxed into oblivion.
Every time I see a Tesla around here with a Bernie sticker on, I get all agitated, because no-one would be able to drive a car like that in Bernietopia.
The apparatchiks and nomenclatura would certainly be driving Teslas, being the vanguard of the proletariat and all.
I’m pretty sure you couldn’t build a Tesla in Berniezuela.
FUCK ME RUNNING 200% TAX?! HOW DOES ANYONE AFFORD A CAR THERE?!
They don’t. I think the average car there is a 90 something volvo.
I believe the sales tax is added after the vehicle tax, so more like 225%..
People don’t replace their cars often, and one have one per family. Or they buy used cars with a lot of mileage.
Is this the Nordic socialism we keep hearing about? They’re right, we could use some of that shit over here.
Right? Tell a Bernster that Scandinavian countries have half our corporate tax rate and no minimum wage, and watch them begin to pucker up – this is going to make their heads explode.
Speaking of huge markets for electric cars…..
Minnesoda will tack on an extra annual fee of $75 for electric cars. Supposedly this is to make up for a loss in gas tax from the all electric cars.
My back of the envelope calculation is that the $40K is based on 266 cars paying that tax. Since they seem to be factoring in a big growth curve, my guess is that there aren’t even 266 cars now. Fuck, they should have just listed out the names of the people they were going to screw over in the new law.
They’ll probably spend more than $40K setting up and enforcing the new tax.
What do they care? It’s all house money anyway.
I’m waiting to see the government agency at any level that sees a budget and says, “Hey, we don’t need all that, let’s give the excess back,” or, “Look, this is money we took from people in trust that we’d spend it soberly and conservatively, so let’s try to be as efficient and cost-effective as possible.”
Yeah, hell will freeze over before these slavers ever decide they will give money back to people they believe didn’t earn it anyway…
The sanctity of the Constitution! And artistic stylings protesting a head of state overreaching in their legal powers. Libertarian Moment? The latter is just bloodthirsty mask-slippage, to be sure, when they go low, we go high.
Deliberately misreading the emoluments clause in the service of partisan hackery. My goodness, what principled public servants we have!
Racine said he felt obligated to sue Trump in part because the Republican-controlled Congress has not taken the president’s apparent conflicts seriously.
He had to do it, don’t you see? It’s the only way he can look himself in the mirror or kiss his children. What would they think of him if he weren’t a loyal stooge?
Where was he when Obama was pissing all over the constitution and the dnc operatives with bylines where gushing about how great of a statesmen he was for telling us it was just warm raiin?
“Trump on Monday, alleging that he has violated anti-corruption clauses in the Constitution by accepting millions in payments and benefits from foreign governments since moving into the White House.”
So they wanted Hillary who accepted millions in payments and benefits from foreign governments to move into the White House.
That was my first thought too.
Because people paying to stay at Trump hotels and resorts is exactly the same as Hillary accepting bribes to her phony slush fund in exchange for State Department approvals.
The Trump as Ceasar stabbing is not big deal imho if that is indeed the point of the play to insert modern day people into the character roles. But we all know they would never have done that when Obama was in office, and there were plenty of overreaches for those eight years.
It’s reminiscent of a play I saw at an East German school for the arts back in ’88, a tragedy starring all of the modern American presidents. It was not complimentary and meant to offend. But hey, it was East Germany.
I’m not particularly outraged. But, I do think the whole spiel is pretty damned stupid.
Julius Caesar was one of, if not the, most admirable characters in the play. The notion that he was a better man than his assassins is pretty evident throughout Shakespeare’s telling. And of course, even in the play, the assassins wind up turning on each other.
So, casting Trump in the Julius Caesar role says what? That he’s a better man than them?
Yeah, after they destroyed that rodeo clown that wore an Obama mask, I am just going to laugh at their asses for now being on the receiving end of the shit they peddled.
“A new study, published in Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, asked a series of in-depth questions to 30 British undergraduate sport students to try and discover what straight men really get up to with their best friends.”
There is no link, but asking thirty people doesn’t seem like much of a study.
“sport students”
???
STEVE SMITH A STUDENT OF “SPORT”!
Do you really need a study to tell you that British undergrads do a lot of gay stuff?
+1 game of soggy biscuit
You owe me a new keyboard and monitor man…
“Well, one more for the pervs. (Not sure if SFW)”
Awesome side boobage, but that outfit is terrible.
She snuck it off the planet when Wesley Crusher went into the forbidden area and got sentenced to death.
Those are just as perky as I’d expect them to be. On the other hand, that top looks like it’s made of the paper we throw down on a picnic table around here before we eat crabs, so there’s a weird combination of emotions there.
Are you saying you like to throw her down on a table and eat her?
I’d like to cover her in Old Bay and butter and whack her periodically with a small wooden mallet while I drink an ice-cold Busch!
*ice-cold Natty Boh
FTFY
Can’t get over the toddler face.
I’m off on a mini-vacation. Shopping, concert, foodie and booze stuff – gotta keep my wife from going insane with stress.
And of course last week part of the new connection with a customer I setup decided to take a dump – worked great in test, but not when the traffic spiked in the real world. I got it working again but I’m expecting a phone call sometime soon. *sigh* Off-the-shelf replacement in the works instead of my homebrew script.
Y’all, I got into work today and only one task came in over the weekend (upload a vid to Youtube)! Happy dance Monday!
(I’ve just jinxed myself. Some major crisis is gonna happen today now)
“She was joined on the red carpet by her fiance of four years Jason Sudeikis.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4594542/2017-TONYS-Olivia-Wilde-stuns-low-cut-crimson-gown.html
Four years?
The emaciated look accentuates her cyborg jawline. Eat a burger.
Sorry, John.
That hurts man, that really hurts….
It’s like an orange on a toothpick!
Seriously, she used to have breasts.
That there is definitely some Sarc Pron.
Am I officially an old fart if I don’t know who these people are? I mean, I feel old as shit…
I’m 45 and I know who they are. Sheesh!
I’m significantly younger than that. I guess when one of my older friends told me I have an “old soul” before, that’s what me meant.
They’re telling you that you smell like butterscotch candy.
Is that supposed to be some sort of proof that bros like to cuddle? Looks like it.
She looks like an emaciated pitbull with that set of jowls.
Side note: there’s a lot of big names still involved in the live theatre. Look at the nominees. That’s a little surprising to me, tbh. That has to be one hell of a grind.
Engaged to be engaged.
A story about the evils of developers upgrading apartment complexes and charging more in rents. The horrors at the loss of affordable housing!
Huh. An owner has to make a lot of expensive upgrades and then for some reason wants to charge more in rent? What a fucking evul capitalist pig!
Gentrification!
White flight!
Any change that doesn’t involve free shit!
We went on vacation to Cincinnati in April, and I became interested in the revival of the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood there. There’s tons of construction and new buildings in the formerly depressed neighborhood. Of course there’s a lot of criticism that local residents are being priced out of formerly inexpensive housing–but this once densely-populated neighborhood had fallen to a population of only 5,000 by 2000. It’s now more than double that. Sounds like the new, higher prices are serving the needs of a lot more people than the previous economic model in the area.
“We went on vacation to Cincinnati”
Does not compute.
This year, Cincinnati, next year, Akron!
To Dayton, ho!
Did you do the WKRP tour?
The “As God is my witness I though turkeys could fly!” ride is awesome.
They didn’t complain when they got priced into the neighborhood in the first place, or on second thought they probably did complain then too.
“We went on vacation to Cincinnati”
This makes no sense.
Hey man, some like a little water with their bread.
Wut?
They push policies to make houses too expensive for poor people to afford. After all, the only reason those people are poor is because of misdeeds in a past life. That’s karmic housing justice for you.
Here’s the only housing justice: You want that house/apartment/condo? Fucking pay for it yourself, fair market value.
What market forces? Most of it is down to government regulation.
The Police were a good band, before Sting started getting all tantric and shit.
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Wrong.
Came across this today. I didn’t even really like that song, but damn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v2GDbEmjGE
I sing that to my daughter all the time.
Mostly just the first two lines.
All I know the last time I saw The Police they did an absolutely atrocious rendition of Roxanne. I mean they just completely butchered it and it wouldn’t surprise me of it was all Sting’s fault.
Pissed me off.
ONE fucken song you have to play properly. ONE. And you murder it like Rufus clubbing a baby seal?
It’s fun to read about how much Copeland came to hate Sting. Hard to blame him, though.
My grandfather worked for the DoD pretty much from the day he got back from the war until he retired in the 90s, and he ran into his dad a lot. He told my aunt in passing not realizing the connection (something like, “Have you ever heard of some band called Police? This guy says his son’s a drummer or something.”) and she lost her mind.
His dad was CIA, wasn’t he?
His brother started IRS Records, as well. Talented family!
I think Copeland grew up in the Middle East when his dad was stationed there.
Fun trivia fact = Steve Kerr’s dad (later) ran that school. he was murdered
And some asshole Arizona State fans taunted him about it when he played for Arizona.
And some asshole Arizona State fans taunted him about it when he played for Arizona.
Yeah, that was pretty low chapter that comes up from time to time. Somebody in my Facebook feed posted an article from UA’s newspaper asking what would happen in UA fans stooped to something this low for somebody treasured at ASU, like Pat Tillman?
The first comment was something like, “We would fucking murder you. This is why you suck at football.”
The Police at their peak were one of the best bands of all time.
But no one can do that much cocaine forever.
If you listen to live recordings from the 1970s they have this nervous energy which nobody else ever quite captured the same way. Copeland and Summers were just so technically proficient … other coked-up punk(ish)-influenced bands would be reduced to smashing stuff. they just got tighter.
Interesting poll came out yesterday about the VA Governor’s race. At first I laughed at it, but reading the fine print it actually made some sense. It all depended on how you thought the turnout was going to be like. These guys are predicting an energized Democratic electorate and a relatively small turnout among the Republicans. I’m cheering for, but not expecting, a Stewart-Perriello matchup because I want more SF-style nihilism, hysterical progs, and “all derp all the time” campaigning. I do, however, expect and predict that GOPe Gillespie will face established gun-grabber Northam, and that the latter will unfortunately win by getting all of the NoVA bureaucratic vote.
No matter who wins, Virginia loses. I wish I weren’t so tied to the area.
I live in the state next door (NC), so I’m cheering for some good laughs.
I don’t think that a Gov. Stewart will ever happen, but his campaign platform is actually good IMO. He’s really annoying, I get it, but his ideas are mostly what libertarians like.
Even my father who is an unabashed Trump fan thinks Stewart is a bit of a racist.
My state just decided to sue Trump. Although Maryland has always been a deep blue hellhole. Maybe it’s more tragic to see the disease spread than to just always have been a leper.
I am fascinated by both Northam and Periello using the word “Progressive” in their campaign ads. What focus group told them that was a good idea?
Doesn’t surprise me – the immense voting power of the People’s Democratic County of Fairfax will respond positively to that shit.
God I wish we could foist everything north of Fredericksburg on Maryland.
I don’t know how well that shit will play among the center-left Democrats here. Fairfax is definitely blue, but everyone I know here is more establishment blue than, say, Bernie blue. My rep (Don Beyer) isn’t exactly known for having much of a stand on anything other than a vague “guns r bad” vibe. Perfectly milquetoast.
The primary and Perriello’s challenge has made Northam turn hard left to pander to the screeching #RESISTANCE, but from what I’ve heard from the liberal side of my family in VA, he governs more like a pragmatic Warner-type – A gun-grabber, but works with the right on fiscal issues. He’ll get the NoVA vote better than Perriello will, so if Gillespie wants to win he probably will want Perriello as his opponent.
To put it another way, Northam is about as proggy as Hillary: he goes where the wind blows. Perriello is a true believer (which is IMO way more terrifying).
You could try to encourage NoVA to secede CalExit style, so that the people who want Progtopia can get it good and hard.
Should recognize reality here: NoVa needs to be given to DC. That’s what its really part of, and consistent with the purpose of having a federal district in the first place.
Arlington was originally slated to be DC, IIRC.
Arlington (then called Alexandria County) and some of Alexandria were part of DC for half a century. They were given back to Virginia in the 1840s, since at the time Congress had no use for the land.
Northam’s primary commercial is like a Republican attack ad. If Gillespie is smart he’ll just fill the ad spots he was going to run with Northam’s primary commercial. I’m voting in the primary for Perriello because he is a true believer which should make for an entertaining blow out come November.
Damn, Adam West you dog! I didn’t realize he dated Jill St. John. I thought she was the sexiest thing ever back then (along with Barbie Benton).
Natalie Wood, tho :erection emoji:
Re: The Sam Houston statue
So the guys showed up armed to protect a statue from a fake threat, waving the flag of a nation Sam Houston refused to swear loyalty to?
Just goes to show you, most people are idiots
It’s not a fake threat. There just hasn’t been a formal complaint made to the city yet. There’s lots of leaders demanding it come down.
Per the article, they were expecting an antifa group to show up and demand the statue be removed. There may be a groundswell to remove it, but this group was responding to a very specific trigger (which turned out to be fake).
I guess you could say they were responding to the “climate” or whatever, but it’s pretty evident they thought a bunch of black clad twats were going to show up so they organized their fellow neo-Confederates to protect a statue of an anti-Confederate.
I’m not sure the people who oppose the leftist march through southern memorials are even close to predominately “neo-confederate”, which is a very specific thing to be, instead of just regular ole southern nationalists with a sprinkling of anti-leftists.
For the sake of brevity, in my mind, I will lump “Southern nationalist” in with neo-Confederates. The differences between those two groups seem too little to fret over.
Well, I’d say one wants to keep the Confederate flag and listen to Skynyrd, and one wants to secede from the Union. At the risk of being argumentative, that’s a big distinction, and if you’re going to lump in one direction you’re better off assuming they’re all the former rather than the latter.
Presumably, being a neo-Confederate means you are in favor of the Confederacy as it was constituted. Which means, you would’ve liked for their to be a Southern nation. Maybe they don’t actively campaign for a new one, which would be the dividing line between them and Southern nationalists, but I think you’re giving them too much benefit of the doubt.
I don’t think the people who want to listen to Skynyrd in peace or have a Confederate flag in their yard are the types to take an entire weekend to show up armed to a potentially violent rally to defend a statue. That seems like another breed of person entirely, in my experience
You’re probably right, but don’t discount the fact that this is Texas we’re talking about. It’s an entire state with ODD.
Honestly, I don’t think the guys who listen to Skynyrd and have a rebel flag sticker on their lifted F-250 think too deeply on the subject.
One is a subset of the other. Being “neo-confederate” necessarily implies all sorts of nasty things that’s not necessarily true of your standard nationalist. Which is why the left likes to paint people with the broad brush of that label, as they did with Ron Paul, Bob Murphy and Tom Woods. Of all the terms to use for the sake of brevity, that leftist propaganda jargon is probably not the best one.
Honest/good faith question: what is the difference between the two?
You already seem to be aware judging by your post higher up. A “neo-confederate” necessarily indicates support for a revival of the CSA as it was constituted, or it advocates the creation of a successor state to the CSA or some kind of interest in reviving the policy goals of the old CSA. A southern nationalist is a much more broad term, ranging from appreciation for southern culture, cooking, dialect, regionalism, or life style to someone who really wants to reconstitute the CSA.
There are people in New England or the pacific northwest that could be described in “nationalist” terms but people don’t label them “neo-Confederates” since the region wasn’t the home to a losing side in a civil war.
I also wouldn’t casually call every German nationalist a “neo-Nazi”, since one is a relatively broad term and the other is highly specific.
OK, well:
Calling your “regional” movement a “nationalist” one, when your region is the only one in the country with a history of trying to bloodily form a nation, makes it easy to conflate those terms. In fact, simply using that term would indicate some level of self-awareness to said history. I don’t think anyone from Washington would call themselves a Pacific Northwest Nationalist, even if they had a tremendous affinity for the region
Now, that doesn’t mean you can’t be proud of Southern culture; I sure as hell am. But it’s always just a little odd when people talk about culture, food, dialect, etc. but then really only show up to defend public glorification of Civil War generals/politicians/icons. I can just imagine the guys at the local chapter of the Southern League discussing Albion’s Seed and critiquing the finer points of the lineage of the Tidewater accent vs the one found in Northwest South Carolina when they are called to action to defend a Jefferson Davis statue. Not because they are pig-ignorant of history or cyrpto-racists, it’s just a part of their culture. A part that I somehow missed out on during my Southern catechism.
And to your German example: If they used the exact imagery of the Nazis, used language that was coined by Nazi apologists, and frequently spoke out about issues related to Nazism, maybe it would be OK to infer they might have some Nazi sympathies.
“Regionalism” is a species of nationalism. I’m from Ohio, I could very well be an “Ohio nationalist” despite the fact that Ohio is but one state in the union of 49 others. If I were to say that I’m an Ohio nationalist, that does not necessarily mean I support Ohio’s secession from the US.
And if I broadly support confederation versus a federation, that does not make me a neo-confederate.
I hope you’re aware that the South didn’t start the war. They initiated secession, the response to which was federal troops invading the south.
So what if they don’t use the term or fall under the banner of one particular organization, that doesn’t mean the sentiment and beliefs of some particular group are not nationalistic.
I’m sure many of them showed up to the rally to defend gumbo and chicken gizards from the leftists trying to abolish those things too, you just didn’t hear about it! 😉
It’s hardly the case that *only* neo-confederates would want to defend those memorials out of respect for the history of the region or just to push back against the agitating leftists.
Certinaly, but let’s not take my example completely out of context. You asked what the difference was between a “southern nationalist” and a “neo-confederate” and claimed that you saw very little difference. I’m pointing out that by way of example, that a German nationalist is not necessarily a neo-Nazi just because neo-Nazis (in Germany) are necessarily German nationalists.
I would count “trying to bloodily form a new nation EXPLICITLY to maintain slavery” as a substantive difference between the American Revolution and the Civil War.
I’m old-fashioned like that, though
Yes yes, they had icky reasons for secession so therefore they started the whole bloody war and are completely at fault for all of it, regardless of who actually made things bloody. I guess being intellectually inconsistent is old fashioned.
There are a bunch of “Lost Cause” types, I suspect, plus a lot of regional pride and cultural conservatives. And by the latter I don’t mean people who don’t like gay people, I mean people who venerate tradition and want to preserve their culture. Cane-shakers and lawn protectionists, in other words, of whom I would probably count myself a member.
I’m very culturally conservative in my own life. I don’t extend that to trying to defend the government maintenance of statues glorifying people who fought a war MOSTLY to preserve slavery.
You can have tradition and culture, even tradition and culture that includes very negative things, without glorifying those negative things; especially when we are talking about public land.
To me it reeks of knee-jerk reaction to the legitimate attempts to tear down tradition and culture from the left. So know we’re in a world where not wanting to memorize two pages of possible pronouns is grouped together with defending public statues that have (or had, or had and still have. Interpretation is up to you) very overt racial messages. I’m sorry, but I can’t go for that. I’ll fight the former all day, but I’m not going to for the latter just because the opposition is the same
Well, without touching on the somewhat unique issues relative to Southern culture, I’ve always believe that sometimes the enemy of your enemy is also your enemy.
Documents now reveal that Bill and Hillary skimmed the Russians for $2.85M on the uranium deal. I’m sure CNN will get right on it.
It was known before the election.
And CNN is too busy staging protest videos.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/06/10/more-footage-leaks-of-cnns-staged-muslim-anti-terror-protest-video/
I’m sure those AG’s would have filed the same charges against Hillary for enriching herself as they did against Trump. Right?
She was just b establishing peaceful relations with a foreign power, not betraying her nation to the evil Russians, like Trump. Besides it was her job to talk with Russians, Trump had no right making money off of business he had in Russia, and no right to talk with them.
^This is what the left actually believes.
Without double standards they would not have any…
It’s the idiotic tribalist feeling that your guy can not do wrong, because he is your guy after all, and the other guy always aims to do wrong.
James Comey has some entries his in diary about it.
Fake News!
“You can take our statue when you pry it from our cold, dead fingers. Good for these guys. Its time this erasure of history came to an abrupt halt.”
If anyone is actually trying to take the statue down they’re wrong, but as for that guy with the Confederate flag…is he aware that the Texas secession convention removed him as governor because he wouldn’t swear allegiance to the Confederacy? He said in a speech:
“Let me tell you what is coming. After the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and hundreds of thousands of lives, you may win Southern independence if God be not against you, but I doubt it. I tell you that, while I believe with you in the doctrine of states rights, the North is determined to preserve this Union. They are not a fiery, impulsive people as you are, for they live in colder climates. But when they begin to move in a given direction, they move with the steady momentum and perseverance of a mighty avalanche; and what I fear is, they will overwhelm the South.”
“removed him” = removed Houston
And saying some demonstrators were armed is like dog bites man, since this is Texas.
Some demonstrators, onlookers, retail clerks, bicyclists…
I don’t care if some misguided dumbass thinks this is about preserving the memory of the confederacy. And as for they being no threat, nobody has formally demanded its removal at a city council meeting, but there have been a lot of “local leaders” and “community organizers” saying it needed to be taken down because Houston owned slaves.
Hopefully it will get nipped in the bud. I’m tired of people tearing this shit down.
You’re really going to be pissed when they decide to tear down Monticello.
I’d be headed back to the commonwealth if they threatened that or if they threatened any of the Memorial Avenue monuments.
I’m serious. I’d chain myself to one of them, armed with a shotgun.
Million Gun March.
It’s coming. There have been incidents of vandalism at the Monument Avenue statues.
It’s the timing – if as the news articles claim the “threat” was simply a trollish provocation, it opens the door to lots of “dumb paranoid right-winger” stories.
As for myself, I’m sure there are people who would tear down any statue of any non-socialist if they could, keeping only the statues of Che – and I know that some weirdo students in Oregon want to rename a building because it’s named after a county which is named after Senator Thomas Hart Benton, so I know there *could* be an anti-Houston initiative, but this specific one isn’t it.
“Conservative journalist Lauren Southern was doused in urine by one of the Manhattan protesters.”
http://www.wnd.com/2017/06/violence-promised-violence-delivered-at-anti-shariah-rallies/
Stay classy, antfags.
““We’re making so much noise to drown out the fact that they are furthering hate speech,” said Eric Josephson, 66, a retired union organizer from the Bronx, noting the use of cowbells, drums and air horns to stop their opponents side from being heard.”
The union would never have let him be one of their organizers if they’d known he was into such tactics! /sarc
Oh, this reminds me. I was told to “just go to your anti-fa rally” after I called out the Las Vegas Police Union (I enjoy trolling police/union facebook pages) after they were bragging how they raised $35k for a cop who has been charged with manslaughter for choking a man to death (and actually suspended WITHOUT PAY! That’s how you know it’s serious).
Unfortunately the police union deleted my post, the big meanies. I should sue them like the people suing Trump for blocking them on twitter.
Ya, I find it funny that the blue lives matter crowd can’t believe anybody but an anti-fa member or BLM militant would have a problem with police brutality and double standards for prosecution. It is kind of weird actually.
Yup, if you don’t slobber on police cock, you must be some far-left radical who just hates cops because racism. I can only make sense of the conservative love for cops by believing it to just be a knee jerk reaction to the lefty stupidity over calling cops a bunch of racists. The cops aren’t on your side conservatives. Look at the damned Berkeley incident. They get told to stand down and do nothing while an all out brawl was occurring, so they stood down. When they get told to arrest conservatives for “hate speech” down the line, what makes conservatives think the cops won’t arrest them?
“I don’t make the law’s i just enforce them”
The conservative love of cops started long, long before they were routinely called racists (mostly for, you know, being racist.)
The police have always represented and enforced the status quo, something generally represented by laws, laws that often violate individual liberties. The average conservative loves laws that violate individual liberties, if they didn’t they’d be libertarians.
Hope you’re taking before and after screenshots to document their fragility.
I should’ve. I posted, saw a couple of replies, went back the next morning to take a screenshot and it was already deleted.
So, the counter-protestors are in actually in favor of sharia, which means they are in favor of laws against: women’s suffrage, women owning property, women being independent, women having rights, gays not being killed for being gay, etc. etc. Do these idiots even realize what they are actually supporting?
“That’s not real Islam.”
The end of Western civilization?
Bingo!
Here’s the thing. The counter-protesters are doing this on the idea that “It’s just religious law, like Jewish religious law! They’re not asking us all to follow it!”
Which shows … well, they ain’t too bright. Jewish religious law is very narrow and is only used in-religion in specific situations (like when orthodox Jews divorce). No country, including Israel, operates on Jewish law. Meanwhile, Shariah is a much more expansive, much more… kill-y religious law, is used by many countries in the Middle East and other Muslim majority countries where they kill people for “insulting the prophet” or deciding to leave the religion, and their fucking specified goal is to install Shariah law as law throughout the world.
IOW, they’re naive and idiotic.
The key difference is that the Jews don’t believe that Jewish religious laws apply to Gentiles. Those are rules for being a good Jew, so it wouldn’t make sense to expect a Gentile to follow them. The jurisdiction is limited by the ideology to which a person subscribes, essentially.
On the other hand, Sharia is expected to apply to everyone in a given geographical territory, regardless of belief. So yeah, it’s much, much different, and the difference is that Sharia has no “baked in” limits. The only thing limiting the enforcement of Sharia is the ability of its adherents to enforce its tenets through violence.
I thought that’s what I said?
But agreed, either way.
Hey media: The RATIO of marchers is not the point.
“Jews marching in 1930s Germany greatly outnumbered by Nazis.”
“Darwin marchers greatly outnumbered by Creationists”
“Copernicus marchers greatly outnumbered”
Giddy Up.
Do these idiots even realize what they are actually supporting?
No
Alright, I might not agree with one of those signs, but that one’s one of the best protest signs I’ve ever heard of.
It’s telling that the leftists show up in defense of Sharia. It’s almost like someone was inciting and bating them….
Deregulating lemonade stands?! Utah’s just asking for mass poisonings now.
I like the alt text.
As Boyack himself put it, “Let’s at least give kids a taste of the free market before the crushing bureaucracy weighs in upon them.”
No way, Man. It was good enough to crush me. It’s good enough to crush you.
I guess Orange Julius doesn’t have as much stroke with the government as they thought.
Whoa! You mean to tell me that not every company out there panders to the left? How long before people protest the protesting companies? I expect it in 3…2…1…
Ohhhh, but they were totally cool supporting the show when it had the murder of a popular Roman politician.
Where’s the American Italian Anti-Defamation League when you need them?
This sounds like complete bull shit
I’m a complete rube, though, when it comes to drugs so I am not 100% sure.
‘Tis true, doncha know. You can die if you are a sweaty pig and you douse your sweaty pig skin with fentanyl powder like a lime scrub, or snort a line of fentanyl. You’re ded. Ded like coming into contact with some granules of plutonium.
Deaths from exposure among Pharmacy Assistants is probably zero.
It’s a load of horse shit.
My guess is that they’re implementing this policy so they can terminate “first responders” that decide to take a little snort when they show up on a crime scene and claim they got all fucked up through skin contact.
It is in response to shitstains like that cunt dunphy, who used to excuse any and all cop behavior that didn’t have a departmental policy specifically prohibiting or advising against it.
Apparently the flashbang grenades of which the po-po are so enamored have a tendency to aerosolize drugs, putting the heroes in blue in grave danger. They could use respirators, but those limit vision and are uncomfortable.
+1 4 mile road march in MOPP-4 because Top was in a foul mood about something at home and SSG Gill just could not resist being a wee bit too familiar and flippant at morning formation. Now I’m triggered and should probably take the kids to the beach.
My father is a nurse anesthetist. He has access to the absolute most awesome stuff known to man. Fentanyl, oxy, valium, morphine, no problems. Not one fucking time in his 30+ year career has he ‘accidentally’ dosed himself while handling this shit literally every day of his life. In other words, my bullshit meter pegged so hard it bent the needle.
In today’s news in Intersectionality
BLM stops the DC Pride Parade
Tasty. I wish protesters could come up with something more original than variations on “hey hey, ho ho” though.
Those gender studies programs really should have a required class on rhyming and rhetoric just to give some variety to the chants. My guess is the best these geniuses can do is switch it up to “Ho ho, hey hey.”
“Death to the fascist insect that preys on the life of the people!” /Symbionese Liberation Army
You should have heard the Iranian culties that used to protest outside the State Dept. They could have used some lessons on rhyming and meter from the “hey hey ho ho” people.
“We swear, it sounds really good in the original Farsi!”
What do we want?
-Klav kalash!
When do we want it?
-Klav kalash!
A lot of the mainstream gays were not happy about this, especially since there was an explicitly political march the following day.
Grandstanders gonna grandstand. I’m sure their intentions are pure. If you think this is deliberately partisan, you must be a fan of Drumphy McHitler.
Oh, it is definitely partisan, but there could be some good arguments there about violations of the emoluments clause. I don’t know.
But if we are going to go there, we also need to them look at the Clinton Foundation and its donation records during the time Hillary was being touted as the next president by every news outlet on the planet, vs the donations now. Also, what is Barack Obama up to these days getting what was it $3 million for a speech overseas? Who pays that kind of money and why? Kick backs for plane loads of cash to the right people? Kick backs for the right green policies that helped the right people? And then we need to look at everyone in congress and their overseas investments. I would gladly see Trump railroaded out of office if it ended the other corruption, but we all know that is not going to happen. It is not about what’s right or legal, it is about Trump.
Here’s the thing. Caesar was a fairly strong rhetorical intellectual and military genius.
The left considers Trump anti-intellectual and probably a coward.
Love how they pick and choose fragments and nuggets of history to suit a pathetically infantile contemporary narrative.
All they see is Caesar usurping power by force while ironically position themselves as the conservative forces (Pompey, Cicero etc.) protecting the Republican ideals of Rome. Except they abandoned such a principal when Obama was flouting the Constitution.
Republican process is good when it’s convenient. But it’s bad when it’s not.
So much this.. same with the electoral college.
Oh it’s funny how quickly discovered the value of tradition after Trump’s election. Every single day we hear all about how such and such thing is unprecedented, or how Trump side-steps the presidential tradition of doing X, Y or Z on a certain day, or that it’s highly unusual for a president to say X to some person. We’re actually seeing the left cite tradition and precedent as reasons to fear a growing tyranny. But when it’s a leftist in power, tradition is the tool of white supremacy.
All they see is an opportunity to fap while a bunch of people pretend to stab him in the back.
I’m not too concerned about it. There’s been contemporary re-tellings of Julius Caesar for a long time. I know they did one in 2012 or so “starring” Obama.
Minus the stabbing?
Reworked. Obama wrestles the knives from the would-be killers, offers them amnesty only to order their killings in the middle of the night framing bandits for the deed.
Well, he IS really good at killing people by his own admission.
Where would bandits get access to drones? Eh, I’m sure the media won’t look too hard into that.
I did not know that they did one with Obama. That negates my post up page and makes me care less about the whole thing.
I’m not sure they did. I tried googling it and couldn’t find anything.
I know they did one in 2012 or so “starring” Obama.
You got a link? I tried Googling it and couldn’t find anything.
Finally found it.
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/shakesblog/obamas-ides-of-march/
Wasn’t the same acting company though; was incorrect there.
Like I said above, Julius Caesar is a very admirable character in Shakespeare’s play. It’s his assassins who come off badly. It’s pathetic that people in theater don’t know that.
That would require they read and understand all that pap written by evul white people…
Parenting tip: teach your kids to cook.
That way they won’t have to shop here.
Plant-based? Really?
I really hate the Red Star. The writers are getting worse every day. The sous chef is just a sous chef, fuckhead.
Besides, if we are going to be accurate, he’s carbon-based.
I prefer to call them the Star and Sickle.
Also, you haven’t seen these young ‘uns working at one of these service jobs. If you had, you would believe the plant based theory (if not opting for the mineral based theory).
Is that a vegan sous chef?
Nope. You read the article. It’s sentient humanoid plant life.
How can you be so fucking lame you can’t even cut your own vegetables?
*facepalm*
Seriously?
If there a primal cut of a carrot? Do you need to debone your romaine? Do you need help removing the skin from your apple?
I, like Jeff Lebowski, am high in the running for laziest man worldwide, and even *I* don’t shirk from chopping vegetables.
And even if you did, it’s not as though food processors don’t exist.
How does this box of cereal work? Do I have to open it? Holy fuck man, that’s oppressive.
Give it to the grain based sous chef.
scraping a carrot
Who even does that?
Euphemism.
scraping a carrot,
Do people realize you can just eat them the way they are? Just run it under some water to clean it off a litte.
^This. Why the FUCK would you peel a carrot?
Mirepoix is the yardstick of civilization.
look past the euphemism..
Because your mom did.
Well the hardest part of eating vegetables is getting them out of their wheel chairs…. (or so I have been told)
Swissy to Thread 26, please! Narrowed gaze needed on thread 26!
Cutting rutabagas in no joke, though
Yeah, they do put up a fight.
Of course it is, because rutabagas are inherently funny.
Rutabaga.
Fuck coconuts.
https://xkcd.com/388/
I’m not a fan of cutting butternut squash. Even just cutting it in 1/2 is a POA. I have to bust out my meat cleaver and bash it on the counter a few times. My dog starts to put his tail between his legs when he sees me unloading butternuts from my grocery bags.
Hey I have it on good authority that Avocados are a public health menace
meal delivery kits
STEVE SMITH DELIVER MEAT ALL OVER THE
WORLDUNIVERSEI don’t get it. My local Kroger stocks prepared vegetables (diced, minced and sometimes julienned if they have excess zucchini and squash on sale) in the produce section. They’re almost always on clearance since they turn faster.
The human chopper gives it a special … je ne sais quoi that a nice job-outsourcey automated chopper machine doesn’t provide.
I’ve watched some of my friends cook, and one of the main problems that they tend to have is with poor knife skills. Unfortunately none of this surprises me.
Show them this, they’ll get better.
Making money from specialization and the division of labor?
Awesome.
Have these people never heard of a hypermarket?
Forecast today is 95 degrees. It’s already over 80 at 9am. Someone decided it would be fun to turn on the heat lamp in the smoking area at my office building.
That does sound like fun. And your building has a smoking area?
Yep – a nice little corner of the parking garage with benches, carpet, plastic ficus plants, and heat lamps. This is Flavor Country©, after all.
Every year my office makes the smoking area smaller and pushes it further away from the building. I think they are trying to give smokers a hint.
I work for a healthcare company on a smoke-free campus. While I don’t smoke, it is fun to watch the smokers literally sneaking into the woods for a drag.
Glad I never picked up the habit. The smokers in my office have to be the least productive people, given they spend 4 hours every day hiking to smoking areas.
Life imitates the IT Crowd?
Hey sloopy, remember the other day when you posted about the “History professor” at Harvard who apparently doesn’t know American history, and I quote-tweeted you the woman who said disagreeing was mansplaining?
The mansplaining woman blocked me. I’m sad. This is the worst thing since James Woods blocked me. Or maybe since Arthur Chu blocked me.
But has Donald Trump blocked you, thereby literally raping your 1st Amendment Rights?
If not, you aren’t resisting hard enough, comrade.
I don’t follow him on twitter. Not sure if that counts as treason.
Was that the idiot who claimed the Treaty of Paris was the “international community” creating the United States?
Yep.
The United States is an international treaty organization, okay? What are you, some kinda history denier? We don’t take kindly to your type ’round here.
Yeah. Well done, JB!
Now go out there and get Dave Weigel to block you and advance to level 9.
You got blocked by James Woods?
We are not worthy!
Here is the tweet:
https://twitter.com/joycechaplin1/status/870383338799976448
That’s akin to saying that because a French girl blew me one time, my children have to root for the French soccer team.
What if they are playing Germany, Spain, Italy, GB, Netherlands, and a slew of other countries I had someone else from give me a blowjob? Do you root for the one that gave the best blowjob? And what if they are engaged in some event other than soccer?
Do you just travel the world collecting blowjobs from people? Do you have little tiny dick shaped pins you stick in a map of the world to keep track?
Because that would be pretty awesome.
Do you just travel the world collecting blowjobs from people?
Don’t you?
I was only keeping it all in memory, but I think it is time to back that up as I am getting old, so I think I will get a globe and start putting pins in it, of different colors for the blow jobs and other various depraved acts.
Justice Willett. One of the reasons everyone should be on the Tweeters.
Justice Willett is a national treasure.
Was hoping Trump would nominate him for SCOTUS at some point.
“Many German homes have notices in the toilet asking guests to make use of the seat rather than risk unwanted collateral damage to the bathroom.
Others even go to the lengths of installing a device called a Spuk – a spook – on the underside of the seat which issues a warning to would-be standing pee-ers, with models even available in the voices of former Chancellors Helmut Kohl and Gerhard Schröder.”
https://www.thelocal.de/20150122/court-allows-man-to-urinate-standing-up
German men ought to just remove their dicks and be done with it.
Sitzpinklers.
Schwanzabschneiders
As someone who just endured a week of Quality Managment audits from our German overlords, I completely understand how this case could have lasted as long as it did.
Holy shit, there is no limit to their love for a good process that will answer all questions.
The crazy fuckers probably draw up a detailed set of plans to change a light bulb.
The process is the solution?
The Final Process
If the Germans didn’t insist on toilet designs that allow a good Sheissesehen post dump they would not have this problem.
First!
Fuck the Penguins.
Fuck. The. Penguins.
That is all.
You…you want to tap these?
And I forgot the link
I have an Aussie friend who lives in the UK who is a Pens fan. I want to know what knuckle-dragging asshole told her it was OK to be a Pens fan?
They’re like Cowboys fans.
People who don’t know anything about football are Cowboys fans.
Pens fans. Crosby fans.
They root for these people because they expect them to win.
There’s nothing punk rock about that.
It’s the Casey Kasem take on hockey–as in top 40 popularity.
Not like that one time Casey Kasem was totally awesome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDYK2H0ldbo
Warning: f-bombs ahead.
+ infinity
A case study in “why does everyone treat this celebrity as hot?”. I mean I guess she’s attractive for a 12 year old girl with tits but there’s nothing particularly attractive about her that isn’t also true of any young fertile maiden that isn’t fat or burned.
A five minute stroll through any southern college campus and you’ll a dozen prettier girls.
I give her a 7 out of 10 because I’m generous as fuck.
I’ll bet you $100 you’re wrong.
Meet me at the gates of Hampden-Sydney College tomorrow at noon.
In all fairness, Hampden Sydney guys are just desperate.
I bet they kiss and cuddle each other in non-gay ways.
Hah – several guys I knew in high school went to H-SC. Assholes for the most part. The other went there because most of the men in his family had gone there and his dad more or less forced him to.
So they could cuddle and kiss?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/megyn-kelly-alex-jones_us_593e4421e4b0c5a35ca0dd46
IT’S GOING TO MAKE THE FRIGGIN’ FROGS GAY!!
You know who else gave a platform to far right figures?
Milo?
The guys who built the stages for Franco’s speeches?
Say what you will about NBC, but their interviewer/interviewee lighting and camera setup is the best in the biz.
WHY THE FUCK DOES EVERY INSANE CRACKPOT WHO HAS NO CLUE WHAT LIBERTARIANISM ACTUALLY IS CALL THEMSELVES LIBERTARIAN?
To be fair, he seems to like Ron Paul’s foreign policy ideas quite a bit. He loves to use insane conspiracies to justify them, but still.
I think it’s a conspiracy by the government to mitigate libertarian thought. See they want to keep us down, do they plant crackpots to make us all look insane.
*Adjusts tinfoil*
To be fair, Alex Jones kind of IS a libertarian, i.e. his ideal system is a small-or-no-government world where you’re free to pursue your own goals and values as long as you don’t harm anyone else.
The problem is that he got to it through the Bilderbergs and the Illuminati using chemtrails to create the world government.
Chemtrails
They go after the low hanging fruit of their competition to show that the MSM are the only ones to trust. I still think Megyn Kelly is trying to turn the frogs gay though.
Sort of like when 60 Minutes tried to make the nutty, single-payer supporting Cernovich the face of the right-wing media.
Cernovich’s faults aside, he slayed them in that interview and he does actual journalism that they like to take credit for.
Ship it
When the Daily Mail runs those ads for the clothes the celebrity in question was wearing, it’s obvious the celebrity in question got paid to wear that item.
They do it with dresses and bikinis all the time–it’s like a regular feature.
The pay celebrity x to wear something revealing, chastise her for wearing so they can run a story about it, and then sell that item in a link under the story. It’s a daily feature.
The celebrity in question is presumably getting a cut of the sales by way of that link, too.
And it’s not like Selena Gomez was posing nude, It was an “accident”!
Selena Gomez looks like a twelve year old. It’s creepy.
I agree. Not into it at all.
The point was about hoe the Daily Mail sets these things up.
It wasn’t about whether or not you’d do her.
But you wouldn’t kick her out of bed. And you’re thinking about it, aren’t you?
Somebody says Selena Gomez was admitted to Yale, and your first response is about whether you’d do her and why or why not.
That means she’s got you. She’s got you in her web.
Selena Gomez set off my smoke detector.
No she doesn’t!
*furiously erases browser history*
That’s a John grade mistake.
Fabulous.
Any hear the new Comey-Clinton song – What Difference Does It Make?
Better than Katy Perry
well that’s just inaccurate.
That was pretty good. His Bernie one is good, too.
By what logic does a satellite company’s firewall block a domain called satellitecommunications.ca? Maybe they block all Canuckistanian URLs by default?
I assume Rufus is somehow to blame for this.
WHY THE FUCK DOES EVERY INSANE CRACKPOT WHO HAS NO CLUE WHAT LIBERTARIANISM ACTUALLY IS CALL THEMSELVES LIBERTARIAN?
“Well, Megyn, I like to think, of myself as a sort of hitlerian pacifist. You know, a libertarian.”
Why do socialists and commies continue calling themselves liberals? That’s one thing about the current antifa fad that I find heartening, they sometimes repudiate “liberals” for being too moderate.
“I like to think of myself a Pol Pot-ite, prohibitionist non-interventionist. You know, a libertarian.”
I find myself to be a free-market Assyria royalist, you know a libertarian.
Anarcho Cthuluist
The smoke detector startled me awake a little after midnight this morning. I thought at first the battery was going, but no, these were shrill full-blast bleets. And not sequential, either: it went silent for several seconds after the first alarm, then gave off two more back-to-back, then went dead while I pulled it off the ceiling and fumbled the 9-volt out. Gave it the tongue test: still holding a charge. Weird. So I sat for several seconds reading the backpanel thinking there might be some indicator instructions. And then a little spider crawled out of a slot. Am I crazy for thinking the spider touched off a sensor? There certainly wasn’t a fire.
Spider farts
That spider was probably radioactive. You should have let it bite you, you could have been Spider Man.
Or it could have been a radioactive brown recluse, hilarious necrosis ensues.
If it was hanging out in the ionization chamber that certainly could have been the cause.
After a little googling that seems like a likely candidate.
I prefer WTF’s scientific explanation, and I don’t think you should be so quick to disregard it.
High school friends were throwing a hissy fit on Twitter over the cultural appropriation of Cyber punk. There is a new game that has a progressive dystopia with a Ubi. https://www.google.com/amp/www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/06/11/leftist-knives-last-night-game-developer-e3/amp/
Thidle Whites comment is peak useful idiot
Meant to post this https://mobile.twitter.com/ponettplus/status/874057669744750594
I’ll buy that when it comes out just to about them.
Am I crazy for thinking the spider touched off a sensor? There certainly wasn’t a fire.
As soon as that spider has you trained to sleep through the alarm, there will be.
That is silly. The spider isn’t training him to ignore the alarm. It is trying to disrupt his sleep pattern until he is so exhausted that he won’t notice when the spider wraps his body in a cocoon of spider webs before it feasts on him.
To be sure, the spider will start a fire to burn up the empty husk once it is finished, but that is just to cover its tracks.
*buys pallet of insect fogger*
Good thing for spiders that they aren’t insects.
*Exchanges pallet of insect fogger for flamethrower*
“WATCH Gay Muslim Activist Tell Tucker Carlson American Tax Dollars Should Pay For Their “Safe Places””
http://rightwingnews.com/gays/watch-gay-muslim-activist-tell-tucker-carlson-american-tax-dollars-pay-safe-places/
Because there is nothing more lesbian than Islam?
The fact that “gay Muslim activists” can exist and live here peacefully with almost nobody bothering them shows that America is the greatest country in the world.
Exactly. She doesn’t need a “safe space” because she is already in a safe country.
I thought they do part for she places…. Oh she’s not referring to the taxes that defend us from Muslim suicide bombers….
It’s starting to seem like this could turn out to be bad.
I’d say we should just let them have at each other and not get involved, but it’s more likely that I’ll be having a threesome tonight with my wife and Emma Watson than that.
Considering Turkey is a member of the NATO suicide pact, this could get interesting.
But the Saudis are our most valued Ally
That’s a mighty fine hornet’s nest they’re stirring up there. And how long has it been since we blundered into some unconscionable no-win war there? Seems ripe for sticking our dick in.
Why do socialists and commies continue calling themselves liberals?
Haven’t they turned “neo-liberal” into a vicious slur against anybody they see as *apologists* for free market capitalism?
Yes, but that is mostly coming out of Europe, where “liberal” doesn’t mean “Democrat.”
You know who else gave a platform to far right figures?
The Nuremburg Tribunal?
Apparenly you can murder someone *before* you’re a cop, get fired once that becomes known, and *still* get your job back in arbitration
All of these cops got their jobs back after being fired (only one cop’s actually had his termination upheld on review)
while drunk on tequila
No need to impugn my liquid good-times.
John-Paul Guillot, who had a long history of disciplines before an internal affairs investigation concluded in 2013 that Guilloy had no probable cause to order the arrest of a motorist. An arbitrator ruled that Guillot should have stopped the arrest, but the penalty of firing was “too severe.”
Exactly right. He should had been imprisoned and then fired for job abandonment when he didn’t show up for work because he’s making little rocks out of big rocks.
Is there some Hispanic part of Quebec I’m not aware of?
Pantswetting article in Slate about citation errors in science makes huge citation error in favor of being more pantswetting.
Also, anyone who thinks opioids are overprescribed needs to have his kneecap broken and just told to walk it off.
I just read that whole article. And as far as I could tell, there was no mention that of any study that citation was wrong, that the medical use of opiates does cause addiction.
Yup. This ludicrous attitude has been growing that people in intense pain should be given Advil and told to suck it up. Unsurprisingly, the people promoting that attitude are seldom in intense pain themselves.
“Female prep school math teacher, 25, is charged with having sex with THREE male high school students”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4589622/Teacher-charged-having-sex-three-male-students.html
I don’t get why this keeps happening.
It’s like you never had health class.
Hot 25-year-olds can easily find willing men that are over 18.
Boys under 18 are just grateful.
I’m sure the over 18 are just as grateful, if that’s what these teachers care about. But they wouldn’t risk losing their jobs and going to prison.
Under 18 year old me would have shot out her eye before we ever had a chance to do anything.
Many years ago, a guy I knew got into one of those deals with a teacher at our school. She wasn’t actually teaching him, but she ran one of the legitimate after school activities and developed some interest.
He enjoyed the whole deal for a while – and it was kinda-known within the student body that he was hitting it like a pinata (as well he might, she was a solid 8+ by just about anybody’s standards).
The problem was, according to my friend was that she really was crazy, and once summer break came along, he was getting things popped thru’ his mailbox, ‘accidental meetings’ on the street. He’s not “permanently scarred” from the whole thing, but he has a real, visceral hatred of the situation, and that’s after having been fucked silly by this classroom goddess. It was kinda endemic around a number of schools in the area, and he actually got to know other *real* ‘victims’, and the story is pretty much the same; these bitches be certifiably crazy – often scary crazy.
Aside from the vagina, they’re really right up there with creepy Uncle Ernie. If it wasn’t for the Power of Pussy, guys would see this for what it is.
I lol’d.
I’m sure those boys feel just terrible about themselves after having had sex with a smoking hot hottie.
Maybe for only lasting 15 seconds?
I wish I had been tutored like that back in the day. I bet I would have done a bit better in school. Or you know, actually showed up to class once in a while.
No the real question is why couldn’t that have happened to me??????
Archie Bunker on Democrats
Funny how things never seem to change…
The premise is ridiculous.
A one-paragraph blurb helped cause the opioid crisis.
I’m trying to figure out how many assumptions are tied up in that one little sentence.
Charles Blow haz a sad
And yet, there was something many seemed to find unsatisfying about Comey’s testimony: There was no knockout blow. It wasn’t the penultimate moment that guaranteed impeachment, but rather just another moment in what will likely be a plodding inquiry.
This becomes the critical and increasingly urgent question for many: Will Trump be impeached — or indicted — and when? The anticipation has produced a throbbing anxiety. There is so much emotional investment in Trump’s removal that I fear that it blinds people to the fact that it is a long shot and, in any case, a long way off.
——
I know well that the very real obstacles to removal injures the psyche of those worn thin by the relentless onslaught of awfulness erupting from this White House. I know well that impeachment is one of the only rays of hope cutting through these dark times. I’m with you; I too crave some form of political comeuppance.
But, I believe that it’s important to face the very real possibility that removal may not come, and if it does, it won’t come swiftly. And even a Trump impeachment would leave America with a President Pence, a nightmare of a different stripe but no less a nightmare.
With any luck, the delusional saps with their desperate hopes pinned on impeachment will all start dying off from brain embolisms as the clock ticks away.
What an asshole. His emotional need for political vengeance is far more important than anything else, including the political stability of the country.
Blow sucks.
*narrows gaze*
“It’s Megamaid – she’s gone from suck to blow!”
his cousin Kurtis is much better anyway, but those are the breaks
“Throbbing Anxiety” was my nickname in college.
Here’s a shocker.
(Democratic) Miami-Dade County Prosecutor Katherine Fernandez – Rundle, possible candidate for governor in 2018, held a press conference where she bullshitted about why she didn’t charge the officers who scalded Darren Rainey to death, and talked about how good she was at prosecuting officers and how many have gone to prison under her watch.
She was bullshitting at an amazing rate, and was actually called out on it by the press
Haven’t heard about the Rainey case-that’s fucked up.
What an insufferable bitch. The entire department deserves to rot in hell, as it appears that they all colluded to make sure that those two sociopaths didn’t end up on the wrong side of the bars.
The Miami Herald has done an excellent job of reporting on this actually. A lot more officers than those two deserve to be rotting behind bars. Miami’s jails may actually be worse than Arpaio’s jails in Maricopa County.
Nigel Farage might be given a role in Brexit negotiations.
MP Herder? Chief Heckler?
“You can take our statue when you pry it from our cold, dead fingers. Good for these guys. Its time this erasure of history came to an abrupt halt.”
I am disgusted by the fact that the city of Houston is still named Houston. Naming a city after a slaveholder is fucking hideous. Maybe someone in Washington DC can pass a law against it.
+38 Bde Maka Ska
“When Will Wonder Woman Be a Fat, Femme Woman of Color?”
http://msmagazine.com/blog/2017/06/05/will-wonder-woman-fat-femme-woman-color/
You know, there are times when I understand the Khmer Rouge. Some people really need to have a shovel shoved into their hands and be marched out into the countryside.
You really think they are competent enough to be marched? I see a street littered with people sitting on their asses and bitching about how miserable walking is.
Don’t even get me started on your idea that they would know how to use a shovel.
Well, that’s where the orphans with Kalashnikovs come in….
Fat superheroes that can fly, bound large buildings, and kick criminal ass without a scratch? Doesn’t seem believable to me…
The committee got gridlocked on the issue of whether she should have an afro or straightened hair. European standards of beauty are so problematic.
Crazy social justice musing and football ignorance together at last.
I can’t think of a single fat linebacker that I’ve ever seen. The only fat football players you ever see are offensive lineman, defensive tackles, and Jared Lorenzen.
The Hefty Lefty is one of my alltime favorite players for the simple fact that logic dictated that he could not be an NFL QB.
And yeah, LB/DEs tend to look like Greek gods. Hell, some OLs aren’t even really fat. Tony Boselli wasn’t.
Sebastian Janikowski
Though he may not qualify as a football player in a lot of people’s eyes.
Of course, if you expand to other sports, has there ever been a big star who looked the part less than Phil Kessel?
Which tells me that, shocker, an SJW doesn’t know the difference between a lineman and a linebacker.
When the studio no longer cares about making any money.
“When Will Wonder Woman Be a Fat, Femme Woman of Color? And Please Don’t Ask Us To Create a New Character With Those Traits, That’s Racist.”
They could make an Oprah comic book.
When Will Wonder Woman Be a Fat, Femme Woman of Color
Way to cishetero and other the gender-unstable, shitlxrd.
You’re right, SJWs. It’s unfair that a character supposedly modeled after a tribe of fanatical warrior women of Greek myth isn’t short, black, and pudgy, as of course you’d expect anyone to look who comes from a tribe of Anatolians famous for being obsessed with perfecting warfare to the exclusion of all else.
“Eric Clanton, the Antifascist accused of attacking Trump supporters with a bike lock in California, was allegedly filmed attending a meeting in support of anarchists yesterday – a potential bond violation.”
https://milo.yiannopoulos.net/2017/06/clanton-bail-violation/
“anarchists”
“Anti”-fascists.
Well, whaddya know- Immelt to retire, GE up a buck. (nearly 4%)
How many vections does he have?
Sad!
So the hipsters are on Miller High Life now?
Fuck. I actually drink that shit. Not because it makes good ironic face book posts when coupled with a spam sandwich, but because it’s cold and fizzy and I can drink a lot without getting hammered.
The champagne of beers, the favorite of my great-grandmother (according to my mom).
That’s why I used to buy a six pack every Friday after work. Just a cheap beer with which to unwind. Hipsters ruin everything.
I don’t think they ever jumped on Yuengling. That’s my go-to cheap beer. Not available everywhere, though.
When they came for the Natty Lite, I said nothing, because I was not a drinker of Natty Lite.
I feel you. This is also my beer of mass consumption.
Now everyone will think I’m some sort of hipster? At least it is summer so I can remain clean shaven for a while.
All I can say is that it better not get more expensive….
Speaking of beer, I dig the new Busch commercials that are parodying the ones from the 70’s.
I loved their jingle when I was a kid. It was one of my favorite songs.
Buschhhhh… Head for the Mountains?
Yep. “Head forrrrr the mountains of BUSCHHHHHHH….BEEEEEEEER”
I have found it to be uniquely terrible.
WTF?
Uber’s board of directors has adopted a series of recommendations about its corporate culture from former U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr., which reportedly includes ordering Chief Executive Travis Kalanick to step down temporarily.
A spokesman confirmed that the board met with Holder and Tammy Albarrán, both partners with Covington & Burling, a law firm hired to investigate complaints of widespread sexual harassment and other deep-seated cultural problems at Uber.
Board members voted unanimously to adopt all of the firm’s recommendations, which were to be released to employees Tuesday, the spokesman said.
I wouldn’t take advice from Eric Holder on where to eat lunch.
That’s called paying protection money.
So the hipsters are on Miller High Life now?
Maybe they found out Pabst is in cahoots with the Rooooskies.
You say you want infrastructure? That’s fine: quit wasting decades and trillions of dollars on permitting infrastructure projects.
You might get the impression that burying such projects under years of litigation and environmental impact reviews and bureaucratic intransigence is less about the environment and more about stymying industrial development…
FTFY
The radicals no doubt want to stymie industrial development. But the average bureaucrat or contractor just wants some good old fashioned cash (and a taste of power). Less Khmer Rouge, more funnel other people’s money into our pockets.
You say you want affordable housing for the poor? That’s fine: quite using zoning restrictions to price out low-income renters.
You might get the impression that zoning restrictions have less to do with protecting “ethnic” neighborhoods from the predations of would-be gentrifiers and more to do with protecting upper-income elites from incursions by those icky low-income renters.
My neighborhood is super diverse. Not because some bureaucrat decided there were too many white people, and therefore we needed to bus in POC in some kind of Potemkin village of rainbow colors. Nope. It’s because it’s affordable and safe. It’s been almost entirely overlooked as an enclave, both by politicians and the media (my Congressional reps have always favored doing their baby kissing in the lily white Del Ray neighborhood, where rich dumb voters live). You want a safe, diverse neighborhood? Best to keep politicians away.
You are actually my neighbor. You should stop by for drinks on Friday.
Whereabouts are you? I’m over by Telegraph & North Kings (near the Bestway)
I grew up off Telegraph. Huntington used to be a real shithole.
It’s “gentrifying” as they say. Lots of new apartments & condos. Our condo is selling to a developer. Just got my condo termination papers the other day!!
Today, in wishful thinking…
“We’re hoping to socially reconnect that area and provide a space for folks of different socioeconomic levels to come together,” says Hunter Franks, an artist who is working on the public space project, dubbed the Innerbelt National Forest.
The Innerbelt National Forest will go up early next year, and run for three months. If it is a success, its supporters hope it will convince city officials to give the highway over to public use permanently. It could be a mountain bike park, they say, or an adult playground complete with swing sets. Or simply a walkable corridor free from cars and construction.
“We want to open it up to people and see what happens, see what people use it for,” says Kyle Kutuchief, Akron program director for the Knight Foundation, which awarded the grant.
It would be terrific if it works, but my confidence in the ability of professional urban planners to “heal” cities by bestowing their pie-in-the-sky dreamworld fantasies is… low.
I’m sure Akron is just swimming in tax dollars and can afford to convert the highway into a healing space instead of selling it and returning some healing cash to the taxbase.
convince city officials to give the highway over to public use permanently
Aren’t highways given over to public use pretty much by definition?
So… rather than giving over to the market what statists failed to make profitable, they’re going to engineer an impossible-to-police commons which will shortly succumb to crime and public dumping. And rather than making money on the deal, they’re going to chain the local economy to this boondoggle. And in a couple decades when the public mood is sufficiently foul and they opt to bulldoze the preserve, some new crop of art-students-turned-civil-engineers will come up with some new cockamemie scheme for keeping it out of the hands of private developers.
Progress!
Yeah, there totes won’t be any muggings or rapes there. Nope. Never.
“Warriors, come out to plaaaaaa–aaaayyyy”
provide a space for folks of different socioeconomic levels to come together
I always thought dark alleys were the best place to get mugged or raped, but an Innerbelt National Forest sounds like an expanded hunting ground.
Sweet Cheebus, the artist rendering looks like a first year Photoshop student’s exercise.
BP does better work on Nazi president.
Not sure who should be insulted with that statement.
or an adult playground complete with swing sets.
The Lamest Generation.
The Innerbelt National Forest will go up early next year, and run for three months
So it’s temporary bullshit and then it goes back to seed?
STEVE SMITH HAVE GOOD IDEAS FOR WHAT TO USE IT FOR. WON’T DETAIL TOO MUCH. BUT MAIN TOPIC IS RAPE
… UNEXPECTEDLY
one word:
THUNDERDOME
Could the Ivy League be any more trashy? I’d be horrified if any (non-existent) kid of mine wanted to go to one of these shitholes.
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