Happy Friday. Hopefully work is over.
Congratulations to Texans, who can once again legally carry Bowie knives to better kill each other defend themselves with as of September 1. (Here’s the legendary providence of the Bowie Knife — used to kill a corrupt Sheriff.)
Once again, a citizen with a gun ends a crime spree.
Happy Birthday, Adam Smith!
Apprenticeships? No way the Department of Labor will support that. It would probably work.
Is this the worst music video (category: song poor, video poor) to play on MTV? Also, why do I have a strange desire to punch a Russian?
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424 responses to “Friday Afternoon Links”
First.
Sigh.
/looks around room meekly waving mini-American flag.
Abortions for some. mini-American flags for all!
Glad you know what a real flag looks like.
Mini-Americans have their own flag? Who knew?
Not a proper first since no quote from the post itself or the links.
Why no excellent maple leaf flag?
You can all go to hell, I’m going to Texas.
I like this guy’s style
Dying at the Alamo is no way of living, son.
It’s the only way of living. What, knave, do you want to live forever?
Tomato, Tomahto
I went to Trader Joe’s this morning. Are they all that small? Anywho, had the chimi rice and pollo asada for lunch. I like the rice, but the chicken was a touch salty. My wife liked the flower selection and appetizer section.
The ones I have been to have been pretty small. I actually like it that way – a lot easier to get stuff and get out.
I took a lap and was back at the front. I thought “did I take a wrong turn somewhere?”
Albuquerque probably.
+ 1 wabbit
There’s a contention that their parking is always terrible. Many of them are small although in my market a bunch of grocers recently collapsed and some TJs are filling the commercial spaces. Generally the newer they are the bigger, but not always.
This one is maybe a year old. It shares a building with a restaurant.
I don’t know about the rest, but the parking at ours is truly awful.
Part of their business model is to avoid being an anchor tenant in the commercial space, so yeah, their parking is going to suck pretty consistently.
^THIS^
At least where I live.
You got the pollo asado, or the Rosemary lemon chicken?
I do not endorse the pollo asado. It’s… barely mediocre.
I’m disappointed Florida Man and his wife don’t get to kick you in the nuts.
Context here.
Still no takers. My reputation precedes me.
She thought asado would go better with chimi.
As long as she knows she was wrong.
So I take it you’ve been to Houston in summertime.
To some, the same difference I suppose.
http://www.barstoolsports.com/boston/wake-up-with-ashley-rossi/
Model or……
http://www.barstoolsports.com/boston/barstool-local-smokeshow-of-the-day-julia-from-uconn/
…..college girl
Choose wisely
Julia for UConn is a ringer.
College girl by a mile. The only thing thicc on model is her eye brows and silicone bags.
College girl in a walk. Those chest beefers are real and look amazing. And the tattoos and tattoo placement probably means … stuff
Model looks like she’s roughly 40% plastic
You’re good at this game. The correct answer is ‘college girl’
Julia’s local talent.
There’s *some* point in being in Connecticut.
Definitely college girl. Fishlips McSilicone there is just gross.
“Choose wisely”
Nolo contendere
College all the way.
This is one of the easiest ones yet. College Girl in a landslide
If college girl can take a shower and clean the dirt off her arms and shoulders.
Btw, WTF is with the constant need to relogin every two weeks or so? Getting tired of it.
I’ll volunteer to take Gustave’s share of college girl.
Have at it. It’s like taking a sharpie marker to the Mona Lisa.
The ink is a bit disappointing, but when a girl has those kinds of “youthful indiscretions”, they’re sometimes a leading indicator, y’know?
Those are the wordpress defaults for session cookies.. One would need to see if other actions could be set to extend the lifetime of the cookies. (comments, etc).
//if “remember me” is checked;
if ( $remember ) {
//WP defaults to 2 weeks;
$expiration = 14*24*60*60; //UPDATE HERE;
} else {
//WP defaults to 48 hrs/2 days;
$expiration = 2*24*60*60; //UPDATE HERE;
}
Also see:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/configure-login-timeout/
Looks like cops can shoot permit holders and face no penalties.
Ugh…so discouraging, but I can totally see a MN jury falling for the “guns are scary” defense. At least they held a trial? Is that progress?
Based on the laws as written or instructed to a jury, that’s the only defense cops need.
Yanez, who is Latino, testified that Castile disregarded his commands not to pull out the gun and that he feared for his life.
And if Castile had complied, Yanez would have testified that Castile pulled a gun on him and that he feared for his life.
I wonder just exactly when Yanez decided to kill him. When he first saw him drive by? When he took a while to pull over?
Because they can’t for once not have that be the predominating detail of the whole story. FULL DISCLOSURE COP WAS NOT AN OBVIOUSLY RACIST WHITE MALE…THIS TIME.
So can you use this case as reasonable fear never to tell a cop you have a gun?
Cop: “Mr. Dean, do you have a gun?”
RC: “Why, do I need one?”
Cop: *panic fires entire magazine into RC’s car* “He was resisting, I thought I heard something about seeing a gun, and feared for the totality of the circs.
I know there’s several states with a requirement for permit holders to inform if asked. Sometimes to inform even if not asked.
I got pulled over for speeding several years ago. The cop asked if I had any weapons in the car. Since I was on my way to a hunting trip, the answer was “You bet!
Probably three knives, an axe, a shotgun, and a rifle.”
He seemed more concerned with my lack of pants.*
*Kidding!
I got pulled over last weekend on my motorcycle while carrying and I can only conclude the cop didn’t actually run my license (used the printed address on the license for the ticket not the one in the computer system) or didn’t think I was carrying given the hiviz power ranger gear. There’s always a bit of pulse quicken when dealing with cops while armed.
They aren’t supposed to know here. I’m skeptical that it’s true, but the last time I was pulled over the guy didn’t ask.
A cop came to my house last weekend. I figured it was about the credit card I lost on a local hike that morning, which it was. But I still couldn’t stop my pulse from quickening
I didn’t know STEVE SMITH took payment let alone with credit card.
So in other words, you didn’t mention your “pistol”.
So he wasn’t concerned?
I was on my way to pick up a foreign national that was in town visiting. He’s from a decadent European country that doesn’t have civilian firearm ownership. So needless to say, my trunk is strapped like a 90’s rap CD cover.
Three blocks away from his place, I get T-boned by a drunk in a white Bronco. Fucker spilled his Modello all over his lap. I call 911, and a cruiser pulls up like two minutes later. Drunk was trying to drive away but ha-ha my car is jammed under his and he can’t move.
I’m mostly fine, but 1) this was in Minneapolis and 2) it was two days after this shooting. “Hey uh, officer, way over there where I can’t reach them” I said with my arms to my side and palms up “I need to tell you have a few properly cased and unloaded firearms.” Cop got real uncomfortable, an I could see his beady black little eyes scrunch up and the fat roll on his neck started to overheat and steam. Thinking was not a leisure activity for this guy. “Oh, yeah, no, ok, no problem. You aint going to shoot me with them hah hah.” But other than that, it was easy. I was stone sober and this guy was drunk, and he was an easy arrest.
The story has a happy ending though. Couple of weeks later, I take the guy to the range and he has the time of his life. He fell in love with the AR-15. Not in the “dat ist a vell made machine” way of his people. But in the “HAHAHAH” POP POP POP “HAHAHAHA” POP POP POP “VE CAN BUY MOAR BULLETS, YES?” of our people.
I find it kind of weird how readily cops can be convinced that someone is a threat. Even a guy who didn’t actively or passively put himself in situation to have a conflict with said cop in the first place is a cunt hair from death just because he has the mere means to do harm, whether that’s because of weapons or he’s just a large person.
My brosef in law is similarly foreign and from an equally decadent European land. Few weeks ago he was visiting, I took him out shooting last day of his stay and the dude discovered the joy of firearms so hard that he’s making concrete steps to move here. And he was a fucking natural marksman, shooting with the best of us at our range. Whatever attributes make for firearm acuity, must be naturally imbued in some people.
SpaceX vs. military, cost transparency, etc. Elon Musk isn’t all bad, gize.
That’s a pretty low threshold to beat there.
I don’t believe anyone is 100% a dick.
Elon had a nice tweet about this….. with the cost difference about equaling the cost of a high priced satellite, launching with SpaceX is like getting the satellite for free!
Was that “hero homeowner” properly trained in apprehending fugitives?
No idea but I hope he gets the 130k.
yup, they’ll probably figure a way to stiff him on it.
Apparently they’re splitting the pot between all the minor tipsters as well as the homeowner, according to some lawman in the know.
Gov. Nathan Deal released a statement, “Rest assured, justice will be served. My sincere thanks to our local, state and federal law enforcement officers who assisted in the manhunt. Because of their tireless efforts, the public is safe.”
See? He didn’t do anything; it was all the LEOs.
https://twitter.com/ThomasEWoods/status/875568515465396224
Tom Woods doesn’t like Cathy Young. I don’t remember the piece she wrote trashing Ron Paul
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She’s a fake libertarian plant. People wonder why we purity test, it’s bc we have OBVIOUSLY been infiltrated & subverted. Wake up,”
Uhh….
Who isn’t gay for liberty?
STOP GENDERING LIBERTY YOU PIECE OF CIS SHIT!!!
Wrong again Nazi, Liberty is anatomically a ‘female’, but she identifies as a ‘male’. Ergo, I am validating her gender identity by being gay for her
Liberty is anatomically a ‘female’, but she identifies as a ‘male’.
Would it even possible to bang such a creature without being gay?
Male bangs Liberty, is sticking into “identifies as male” = gay.
Chick bangs Liberty, is sexing up female bits = gay.
You don’t need to suck dick to be free no matter what that guy told you.
Free from his basement, maybe
Bro, stop fucking this up for me.
Going back to a question from an earlier link, yes, people probably accidentally click on this site, read the comments and leave, slightly disturbed
Only slightly?
I’m @GoyForLiberty. I roll on Shabbat
[golf clap]
(((golf clap)))
No one’s gay for Moleman…
I was saying Boo-urns.
i have never really heard Raimondo say anything that didn’t make me think “yeah, sure, but you’re a dick”
Raimondo is one of those people who can make you rethink your own position by agreeing with you. Otherwise known as the “Cytotoxic effect”
A lot of hate for Raimondo. I’ll agree that he’s a twerp, but at the same time I respect his unwavering anti-interventionist positions and his biography on Rothbard.
lol exactly.
On a documentary about the American Revolution, this historian described Thomas Paine as someone you’d be “embarrassed to have on your side”. I feel that way about quite a fews self-described libertarians.
WHY ARE YOU LOOKING AT ME?
*glare*
Your words, not mine!
(I was thinking more along the lines of McAfee and Alex Jones)
Oh thank god
*lovingly caresses libertarian identity card*
Fuck it, she was the only journalist (maybe Milo counts) who didn’t think Gamergate was about a horde of rapist murderers descending upon the helpless femalehood of Nerdmerica.
I can’t remember the last time Cathy Young wrote something @ Reason.
Archive search says Oct 11, 2106.
But, it also says she’s got an article coming in August edition of the magazine.
How did you get an archive to the future? Is it only of reason? If not I’d say you are morally obligated to share any information to make us all rich.
I just searched for “Cathy Young” and up it came. Maybe because I’m a subscriber to the magazine.
He does that and John Titor will jump in his timemachine and waste us all.
Yea a google search is not turning up what woods is talking about
According to Tom Woods and Raimondo in the tweet, Young has fallen out of favor with the Reason Foundation trustees.
They should just turn the whole fucking thing into a reality TV show and have done with it.
I would pay to watch Raimondo and Gillespie debate. If Raimondo wins- he gets the leather jacket. If Gillespie wins- Raimondo can never praise Pat Buchanan again. High stakes
If Raimondo puts on the leather jacket, he becomes Nick Gillespie. I think they’re twins in a Judge Dredd sort of way.
Yeah she called him a neo-confederate because he felt that the Civil War and it’s outcome was bad for federalism and Woods is also a big proponent of secession (everywhere it can be achieved), so basically he’s Jefferson Davis reborn or something.
Bi-monthly Friday Costco run complete. I’ll be conducting beef experiments (no euphemisms) daily through Father’s Day.
First on the list: Cold smoked then grilled tomahawk ribeyes over fajita seasoned vegetables
(for me and the wife. Kids get Costco beef polish and a nice warm glass of shut the hell up)
How do you polish beef?
With your tongue, obviously.
Hi-Yo!
It’s obviously a euphemism
I think it’s how he got to Fathers’ Day in the first place.
Next up: Braised beef short ribs with scallion and pineapple.
I’ll probably serve it with instant mashed potatoes, because that’s the kind of guy I am this week.
Have you ever done a 12+ hour sous vide for the short ribs?
Yes. Up to 48 hours at 133. It’s amazing, but I have impulse control issues. I start sampling at 12 hours, and it’s gone before it’s done.
If you get the USDA choice boneless chuck short ribs at Costco, after 24 hours in the bath, it’s the same quality as a $50 steak at a restaurant.
They’ve pretty consistently had decent ones lately. I’m gonna give it a try.
Thank you.
Ask for the cryovac ones. They have some chuck short ribs out in the plastic wrapped trays, but those suck compared to the ones in back. You have to ask for them specifically.
They’re more marbled and uniform in size. Nice and thick, and full of flavor. All you need is a little Lawrys and pepper if you’re doing it sous vide.
I have zero experience with sous-vide, but am very tempted to buy the equipment soon. If you purchase cryovac meat, do you first have to remove the packaging and then repackage it for the sous-vide, or can you skip that step and just prepare it as-is?
I’ve done that with pre-seasoned vac-seal meat, but seasoning then sous viding helps impart flavor deep in the meat, so you’d want to crack it open and season first.
Sous vide is easy. Playa has all the hoity-toity equipment, but I just use the Anova and some heavy ziplocs. You’re going to want to add seasonings before it goes in, so you will have to open the package anyway.
I’ve pretty much stopped cooking steaks any other way.
Serious Eats (Food Lab) has some great information on equipment and techniques.
If you purchase pre-seasoned meat (i.e corned beef or one of the flavored Harris Ranch tri-tips that they sell), you can chuck it right into the bath.
I wouldn’t cook unsalted meat, though.
You don’t actually have to buy vacuum bags, though. Ziploc is fine.
The whole vacuum bag thing about because Food Saver (maker of the vacuum bag system) and Sous Vide Supreme (the first commercial sous vide machine on the market) had a partnership that has since dissolved. They marketed their stuff together, so everyone assumed that vacuum bags were required. They aren’t.
Anova now has a partnership with a producer of silpouches that are kinda neat. The one they sell is great for two chicken breasts. Annoying to clean though.
“hoity-toity equipment”????
I have the Gourmia. It’s the cheapest one! You and Jesse have better gear than I do.
I stopped using the SV Supreme when better, cheaper options came to market.
Is it the cheapest now that Anova released the Nano? I think not.
Lol. I know. I bought the anova after you and Jesse recommended it.
There are a ton of cookers on the market now.
CULTURAL APPROPRIATION!!! RACIST!!! 11!!!!
If I ever murder someone, it will be at Costco. I generally stay at about a 2-3 but setting foot in that store immediately takes me to a simmering 8.
I take it you shop at the one in Torrance, CA?
RACIST
RACISTLacist maybe.
I go Fridays. It’s packed with super nice (and pretty) Indian women. Saturdays and Sundays are terrible.
I go on Saturday/Sunday and its packed with ham planets and geriatrics. I try to avoid Peak Sample though.
Why do you hate great values, RBS?
Are you even American?
Part of the problem is that people aren’t used to handling oversize shopping carts. Therefore, people are ALWAYS in the way.
You want to read the label on that pair of XL Kirkland Jeans? Pull the fuck over! The beef and booze is in back, and I’m in a hurry!
This. I get the same shit every week. Get out of my way!
The one and only time I was in Costco, I thought I had been transported to the DMV in [insert third world shithole here]. It was a goddamn nightmare. I think it was about a 4-hour trip in total, including getting my membership, shopping, and checking out.
Try a different one. Ours is awesome. Even when it is busy, the cashiers fly and I rarely wait more than a few minutes. I always walk the automotive/tool aisle and impulse buy stuff.
I love Costco.
They have the best meat and beer/booze, bar none, and it’s 1/3 the price of Whole Foods or a higher end butcher.
My Costco recently added a butcher counter. All Prime steaks, cut to order. They also have U-6 shrimp, which I’ve never seen before. They were the size of my fist.
You sure it was normal edible shrimp and not ?mantis shrimp?
Thought they were the largest fine wine retailer in the U.S.
Prices are usually fantastic. Used to be where we’d go for salmon/steelhead until discovering local seafood markets near Galveston.
The crowds aren’t too bad, unless you’re going on the weekend. “Peak Sample” and “ham planets”, LOL.
Unsurprisingly, those 2 things coincide quite neatly.
Same with the one here. My wife has a membership, and she’s welcome to go fight the place, but at this point I’m willing to pay full retail the next time I need a 5 gallon jar of mayo.
I need a 5 gallon jar of mayo
Pervert.
Only if he bought a job lot of 11 jars.
Do they sell mayo in 55-gallon drums? Asking for a friend.
Who the fuck came up with the shitty idea to have colds in June?
This sucks! At least I left work early
You know who else leaves work early? Communists. Communists leave work early.
Yeah, by dying.
Real Party members never show up.
And the French.
But you repeat yourself.
Re-posted from earlier comatose post:
OT: self-contained – and oblivious – irony from the AAUP.
First sentence: “Higher education is dangerous because it raises expectations.”
ahh, such lofty goals and self-importance.
What expectations was the AAUP raising on Capitol Hill yesterday?
“Their message was clear: make college accessible and affordable and block harmful Trump budget cuts to student aid and federal research and humanities programs.”
Yep, the expectations that someone else should pay for your life choices.
From what I can tell from a brief internet search, the main pants-shitting is over the proposal to abolish the public service loan forgiveness program starting in 2018 (those already in the program will continue). This particular program allows all student loan debt to be forgiven after 10 years of service in any government or non-profit agency. Hmm, wonder why the AAUP has a problem with that.
That’s . . . barely a start.
They need to just auction off the loan portfolio held by the feds, strip the guarantees, and let the loans be discharged in bankruptcy. I’d be interested to see what kind of discount the market would want.
For extra lulz, bundle the loans by the major of the borrower. STEM loans would probably get discounted 10%; gender studies by 98%.
That’s not even a LULZ. I’d say that writing an educational proposal for your loan application like a business plan would help you get your priorities straight. I sincerely doubt many things ending in “studies” would be financeable.
Brett, I think you meant “provenance” which is the history or authenticity of an item. “Providence” means divine guidance.
Probably.
Tonio doesn’t take Fridays off.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WZvl2aqIyNg
I submit my entry for worst MTV video ever.
Find dancing more horrendous than that, I dare you.
No fair, Billy is retarded!
Rick Astley’s dancing was pretty bad. But he has a good sense of humor and makes fun of himself.
While Billy’s was performed with the oblivious, earnest exuberance of a 13 year old girl.
It almost looks like a bad batch of ecstasy at the exact same time as a grand maul seizure. What are the odds?
Dude, have you ever seen Ruby Keeler’s “dancing”?
(For some values of “dancing”.)
And here’s Joan Crawford’s dancing.
What was so bad about that? I saw a lady with a nice set of gams tapping to the tunes of her era and some silly group choreography. Though the attempted rape about 2:10 in was a bit much.
Ruby Keeler’s dancing makes her look like she’s a marionette with somebody wildly pulling the strings.
I see your Billy Squier and raise
Oh my lord.
If I recall correctly, this one was the winner on an MTV show filmed in the late ’90s picking the worst videos ever made
Serious question: when do you think they felt stupider?
When they were doing that dance in front of the green screen, or later, after they digitally put in all of the clouds and rainbows?
Obligatory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY_DF2Af3LM
This was going to be my pick as well, but Brett set a high bar with “terrible song”.
Shit, Chipwooder may have us both beat.
Nope, Simon Lebon (my first love and future husband) is the worst.
Ugh. Definitely not their strongest effort, but the vid itself was pretty standard fair at the time.
He’s just lucky he’s so pretty.
Here is my nomination for worst video. It’s a great cover of a great song. But the video is fucked up.
Pretty Woman
…At least it was interesting?
Sorry, kids, but this is the worst.
How can that be the worst MTV video in history when I found it impossible to wipe the shit-eating grin off my face?
Riddle me that.
Drugz?
That bowl of Diamond OG Kush I just smoked had absolutely nothing to do with it and I’m deeply offended that you would suggest my cognitive reasoning might somehow be altered in regards to what entails a quality music video.
That was gold, Tundra, gold.
Cheezus. That was terrible.
This is the version to love.
Bravo!!!
Holy shit. I just had a flash back. Damn you Tundra.
Try this.
Like Mike S’s, I like the song, but the video… ugh
I forgot about this one. You’re right; great song, terrible video.
I remember now that it was on an episode of Beavis and Butthead. Washin’ the dog, washin the dog!
Love FS1 golf. Straightening out my putter.
https://cdn-s3.si.com/s3fs-public/golf/2015/01/05/Holly-Sonders-4_0.jpg
When I first saw her I was like, “damn, what a fine little MILF”
Turns out she’s 30. Yikes. Still would like to see her naked, but she definitely needs to lay off the plastic surgery for a while
I hope that photo is just airbrushed as hell. If not, then I would have to conclude her entire face is manufactured out of plastic.
That’s probably the best sex change I’ve seen to date.
She can hit it 300 yards… if you know what I mean.
“Straightening out my putter.”
C’mon BigT, that’s barely even a euphemism.
Oh. I didn’t look at the link. Forget I embarrassed myself. I dont read well when I am drinking.
There’s a simple solution for that.
Off the wagon?
High five!
The Audrina Partridge is strong in this one. Wonky eyes.
Brett, if that headline refers to this, I’m impressed.
Song sucks, however.
That was my first thought too.
And I also hate hate hate that song.
It did. I just didn’t have the heart to post that as the song.
Worse than this?
And you should have linked to this song and video from the movie.
I nominate this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIWzz6wcNug
Only one redeeming feature, and no- it’s not the EU flag.
Yeah, but that’s not something that would have been likely to end up on MTV.
Okay. True. But it is the Zombie Lawrence Welk.
For MTV I would nominate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULjCSK0oOlI
Nothing redeeming
Congratulations Texas. What the hell took you so long?
Hell, open carry was flat out illegal there until last year, I think.
Anticipating leftist reactions:
1) Knives aren’t mentioned in the Constitution, so we can’t just go around letting people have them
2) It’s time we had a national conversation about common-sense knife control
3) People shouldn’t be allowed to have assault knives
4) (When corrected about #1) The Founding Fathers could not have foreseen the kinds of deadly knives we have today
5) We’re going to have to add the word “Knife” to all “Gun-free, Drug Free” zones
Welcome to Britain.
1) Neither is abortion.
2) Let’s start with the ones in your kitchen.
3) Like the one hidden behind my belt buckle?
4) You’re kidding, right? This is probably in the top 5 of humanity’s oldest tools, its older than the wheel.
5) //pulls knife from behind belt.
“knives aren’t mentioned in the constitution”
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Are knives arms? Yeah? That’s why you want to prohibit them, right? Then they are covered by the constitution.
“Demi Rose Mawby flaunts her pert derrière and busty assets in a khaki draw-string bikini on the sun-drenched beaches of Ibiza”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4612020/Demi-Rose-Mawby-flaunts-pert-derri-khaki-bikini.html
God bless the Daily Mail.
Now, that’s some thicc I could get behind.
I still think some of it looks fake. If I could go back in time and choose between killing Hitler or Kim Kardashian, there’s no question of which I’d pick.
I’m always on board with camel toe.
i think that’s crossed into moose knuckle territory.
That’s a nice bathing suit!
(her tits aren’t bad, either)
Apprenticeships? No way the Department of Labor will support that. It would probably work
The NYT article I read yesterday was all about “hospitality” and “healthcare” apprenticeships.
I’m pretty sure an “apprentice bartender” is a barback.
Why does the federal government need to be involved in apprenticeships at all?
*spoiler alert- cost shifting
Healthcare apprenticeships are going to do nothing to help healthcare. The current healthcare model needs to be burned to the fucking ground and reinvented from scratch. It’s a dinosaur and the government getting more involved has only made things worse.
I thought healthcare apprenticeships were already baked into the training process. You know, residencies, clinical rotations, that kind of thing. They’re basically mandatory for a lot of positions.
No, no, those are interns, residents, or fellows — NOT apprentices.
I know what you are thinking. My only response is: nomenclature is everything to these people.
Nursing clinical hours. Yeah. I mean, I’m sure the docs will be all about candystripers, but I think the healthcare practical education is extremely robust.
Nah, man you are so confused. Those are medical school students. What we want to do is pull people off the street and show them how to do surgery on you, whether they want to or not, because jerbz.
So does that mean 20 photogenic people competing for a shot at working for you company by winning a reality game show? Because that sounds like a waste of tax dollars.
? provenance
Too slow, Gilly.
Was this posted already?
“The Telegraph noted that cladding “is used as an insulation to make buildings more sustainable to meet green energy requirements.” Some 30,000 buildings in the U.K. have been retrofitted with cladding to cheaply comply with green energy mandates.
Grenfell Tower became more energy efficient, but the space between the cladding and the building increased the potential damage from fires, leaving hundreds of residents at the fire’s mercy.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/06/15/deadly-london-tower-fire-fueled-by-green-energy-rules/
Hence, Tories must be destroyed and Corbyn elevated to Premiership.
This is what the Left is currently pushing in UK.
Be fair, the Crazy Side of the Left, there’s still plenty of Labour that thinks Corbyn is scum.
They also think Tories are at fault here, but yes, they don’t like Corbyn. They’d like to re-elevate Blair. Maxim guns in front of open pits for the whole lot, I say.
Blair’s not great, but Corbyn is a wannabe Chavez. He’s like the perfect ideological test as to whether you’re fucking nuts.
Their deaths are forgiven since the building was green. Plus the dead are no longer discharging carbon dioxide and have reduced the population so it is a net positive.
-sarc-
It’s looking like the death toll is going to be in the triple digits.
But this is the government, so nothing else will happen.
Oops, something did happen.
Jeremy Corbyn: requisition the homes of the rich to house the Grenfell victims.
So… in summary: Government runs unsafe building. Building burns down. Blame the rich.
… and steal their stuff (unsurprisingly).
Well, if they weren’t rich the government would have enough money to build proper housing, so it’s totally their fault.
/proglogic
This guy is fucking killing me. I almost wished I would have voted for him. Best president of my life time. Not that that’s hard or anything, I mean he would almost have to try harder not to be. Still, has anyone seen a president attack the regulatory state like this? Ever? No wonder the left are going apeshit.
He’s got all the right enemies. Which doesn’t make him my friend, but it gives my enemies another enemy, which I like.
He’s a wrecking ball. As long as you keep him pointed at the building you actually want to destroy you’re fine. Just hope you don’t fuck up and take out the 7-11.
He’s chemotherapy. He kills the cancer, but he kills the healthy cells just as well.
The regulatory state and the political establishment is all cancer. Take them out, or if you can’t at least scare the shit out of them.
This. And while I’m sure Trump is going to do stuff I will hate, even more than appointing that gnome like dipshit Sessions as AG, I can’t think of any president in modern history who libertarians should like more. I mean it’s not even close. This guy is the only president in modern history who has balls to do what needs to be done, which is put the DC establishment back in their place of serving the public, instead of building empires. That being said, I still would much prefer Paul as POTUS, but that seems a pipe dream at the moment.
And I laugh at the fucking clowns who talk about Pence being POTUS. There are many problems with that. Number one being that Americans did not elect Pence, they elected Trump and that needs to be respected. I respected that Americans elected Obama for 8 fucking years even though I despise that asshole. Second of all, Trump was elected despite Pence, not in the least because of him. Pence will never be president, so shut up clowns.
8 years of Trump could pave the way for 8 years of Rand (at least as a VP), because if the GOP base enjoys 8 years of anti-establishment presidency, what’s to stop voters from taking a second dip? Especially since Paul is actually getting way more popular with the base post-Trump, even with his occassional nays.
Anything Trump does that is good is mostly unintentional. And, frankly, even 8 years of him “attacking” the regulatory state like this would basically just be a feint. But…overall he’s better than the last several presidents by a wide margin.
He’s unlikely to ever secure large legislative victories. And some part of that actually is his own fault. With some of that fault going to his own lack of clear ideology. I did very much like what I saw of his comments about Cuba today, as well.
B, I think Trump’s lack of legislative stroke has nothing to do with his lack of a clear ideology. I think it has everything to do with the slavering hatred of him by everyone who lives inside the Beltway.
100% agree – the establishment and insiders are terrified that the little plebians that they allegedly represent actually matter now. Trump is the wake-up call that they have needed for several decades.
If you were a crafting a healthcare bill for Trump that would also be relatively acceptable to your constituents, what would you put in it? What would you repeal from the ACA?
I don’t have a clear answer to that question. Trump’s last public statements on the matter were something along the lines of the House bill being “mean.” Clear signals from the White House matter. And while I find the whole spectacle of Trump contradicting his press team amusing, it’s not going to make for good policy. It’s not all Trump-is-a-martyr here. The guy has few clear positions and he’s not even good at delegating. It should also be mentioned that he was never that particularly good of a businessman. He was a salesman who plastered his name on shit. And it didn’t particularly matter what it was. And here we are.
Trump never said in public that the House HC bill was mean, it was more of those “unnamed sources” if I remember that alleged this. Trump was always wishy-washy on healthcare anyways considering that a bunch of NY cocktail party leftists are screeching at him daily.
The anonymous source reports aren’t all bullshit. People want them to be, but they aren’t. And it’s entirely possible some of them are true at the time of reporting, but not the next day. I think Trump will put his name on any healthcare bill at this point, basically. But he’s incapable of giving clear marching orders on the matter and it complicates things.
Any political party – especially in a duopoly – is going to be a coalition. And it will require compromise. An effective president has to be able to get people to move in his general direction. Even Obama couldn’t get the Dems on board with his ideas on healthcare despite a far large cult-like following.
What would you repeal from the ACA?
President Suthenboy’s bill > ‘The ACA is hereby repealed.’
“Hey Rand, you still have that bill you wrote? Bring it over here”
Kill it, or let it die. Replacement? No.
If you were a crafting a healthcare bill for Trump that would also be relatively acceptable to your constituents, what would you put in it? What would you repeal from the ACA?
Repeal outright the insurance market reforms, lock, stock, barrel, root, and branch.
Don’t touch Medicaid expansion (sorry, but if I’m compromising to mollify my constituents in a high-Medicaid market like mine, that’s the way I’d play it). Here’s the thing about Medicaid expansion – its currently subsidized at nearly 100% by the feds. In a few years (I forget when), it will drop down to the usual 65% subsidy by the feds. The impact on state budgets will be biblical; the states will start pulling back on Medicaid expansion all by themselves.
Yep. Keep in mind that the vast majority of the GOP are also establishment cronies who only want more power, for themselves, not the people.
He’s unlikely to ever secure large legislative victories.
Who needs them anymore – all of the meaningful rules that impact people’s day to day lives are made by executive departments.
A good sound bite, but not really true. The ACA has an impact on many. Tax reform has an impact on many. And then anything Trump does by himself can be undone.
A decent portion of what he’s facing is a result of the DC bubble and its detachment from reality, but the man himself is deeply flawed. That’s a statement that should go without stating. It’s pretty fucking sad that he’s the best that could be done.
Look at the Obama presidency and it wasn’t much different. ACA and Dodd-Frank are about the only things that were advanced legislatively in 8 years. And still, look at how much of even that legislation can be gutted by executive fiat. They designed it that way expecting the Democratic Millennial Kingdom. Most of Obama’s agenda got wielded through executive rulemaking. Of course it means that all of the changes are ephemeral. That’s exactly as it’s supposed to be.
I really do think that the Clinton machine, combined with the MSM, played a major role in Trump’s initial nomination. They had so much clout and organization that they were able to encourage crossover voting among their base of supporter and favorable media coverage to ensure the weakest possible opposition for Hillary’s coronation. The fact that Trump was able to end both the Bush and Clinton dynasties despite all sides opposing him is the reason why I look at Trump far more favorably than most on this board, even as a policy skeptic of his.
If Trump can push through the tax reform he’s wanting, I will vote for him next election. The GOP should just let Obamacare implode, which is inevitable, and then let the democrats have their way of disrupting any chance of a GOP replacement. No replacement will be better, it just further cements the government takeover of healthcare. No fucking bureaucrat has the right to tell me what treatments, drugs, etc, I can get or when. In saner times those fucks would be looking at a good tar and feathering.
“but the man himself is deeply flawed”
Hey, man, you don’t talk to the President. You listen to him. The man’s enlarged my mind. He’s a poet warrior in the classic sense. I mean sometimes he’ll… uh… well, you’ll say “hello” to him, right? And he’ll just walk right by you. He won’t even notice you. And suddenly he’ll grab you, and he’ll throw you in a corner, and he’ll say, “Do you know that ‘if’ is the middle word in life? If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you”… I mean I’m… no, I can’t… I’m a little man, I’m a little man, he’s… he’s a great man! I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across floors of silent seas…
“but the man himself is deeply flawed”
Deeply flawed and the best president since… Obama? Bush? Clinton? Reagan? Carter? Nixon? Johnson? Nope, we have to go back further. Maybe someone who can tell me to get off their lawn can weigh in.
Going backwards:
Obama
Bush II
Clinton
Bush I
Reagan
I’d probably stop with Reagan.
I concur. People complain about Reagan not living up to his anti-government rhetoric, but forget that he had to work with Democrats to get anything done. The Democrats controlled the House the whole time, and the Senate for half the time, and their leadership hated him (Tip O’Neill said that “The evil is in the White House” while Reagan was busy calling the USSR an “evil empire”). What with firing the striking air traffic controllers, cutting taxes, and popularizing anti-big-government rhetoric, I think he did about as well a job as a president could have in the circumstances he was in.
I’m always a little amused at the historical reverence of FDR’s fireside chats as an example of the president connecting directly with the people, but the use of modern social media to interact directly with the people is a vulgarity unbecoming the office.
I still think Trump would be well-served to do a youtube video once a week for 10 minutes, and close down the press center and turn it into an indoor dog-park for the White House staffers, or maybe a chicken farm.
He could only improve it by making it into a home for weasels.
Mink farm would work too.
I see a lot of good things at least he can do without congress
– pipelines
-regs
– net neutrality
– school choice
– taxes
– guns
– sc
– federal judges
– foreign policy superior to obama and bush
– not hillary
– paris agreement
I dont think all those are unintentional
Plus, he’s not Hillary.
Did we mention that he’s not Hillary?
Do folks honestly want congress to write and lazz legislation with trump? Seeing their fuck ups
Only one i want is tax reform
His tax plan is yuuuuggggeee for my income bracket. And I’m not a one percenter.
If he refrains from doing the following:
– Building a physical wall on the border
– Sticking our collective dick even deeper into the Middle Eastern hornet’s nest
– Making shit expensive by imposing tariffs
… I might actually consider voting for him in the next election if he runs.
Trump is God’s judgment on the world. And whom the gods would destroy…
Bad News For All Those Twitter People Telling Others To “Kill Yourself”
Horrible person? Yes. Guilty of manslaughter? Hell no.
I agree. She is one seriously disturbed person. But she’s not guilty of murder. Is there some lesser crime for intentionally tormenting a person who was in his state?
What I was wondering, since much was made of the fact in the stories I’ve read about the trial, is if there’s some kind of obligation under MA law to try to help someone in mortal danger .
That. I thought it was settled law that a lay person didn’t have the obligation to report or act, absent a law telling them they had to. Or was this a case of, the defendant caused the situation, and therefore was required to act to aid the deceased? I don’t see it that way, but I’m otherwise drawing a blank at what reasoning the judge was using to infer some obligation to act.
I don’t see how there’s any way under law to make someone be a good Samaritan I don’t have an issue with that. But what she was doing was mentally torturing this person and encouraging him to take his own life when she already knew he was suicidal. That’s just pure fucking evil, period.
Agreed, she’s an evil bitch, and I won’t mourn if she ends up mysteriously dead face down in a ditch, but she still did not recklessly causing the death of another. Despite the ruling here.
Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress? Sure. Textbook really. I’ll even listen to a negligent homicide argument, provided we can show Duty and Breach.
Manslaughter, (And how did they get involuntary out of the facts given?) seems a bit much. Probably will be overturned on appeal.
I was thinking mental cruelty or something like that. Massoholio needs to be cut off from the USA mainland and shipped to Eurotardia.
Article says it was Involuntary Manslaughter, not Murder.
The UK has a finding of “depraved indifference” which I would consider to be pretty accurate.
Prosecutors deliberately pick icky people like this for their test cases. Just like they did with Lori Drew.
I remember reading about that and thinking how horrible it was. What the fuck is wrong with her to do something like that? Even as emotionally fragile as teens can be, that just seems like pure evil. Especially considering that the guy was already suicidal.
That is a bad, bad, bad, bad decision. I hope it gets overturned.
Yeah, she’s an absolutely vile person, but she’s not a criminal. Worst she is guilty of is being an asshole, which shouldn’t be criminalized lest we all end up in jail.
When Rolling Stone says WTF you might have a problem with interviewing.
http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/10-most-wtf-revelations-from-oliver-stones-putin-interviews-w487694
Oliver Stone has never met a nominal anti-American dictator or autocrat that he didn’t want to fellate.
What’s his position on PM Zoolander?
Kneeling, mouth open?
DAMN YOU
on his knees, mouth open, tongue extended
Zoolander’s not sufficiently anti-American right now, he’s too desperate to not be known as the guy who screwed up NAFTA. It’s one of the few parts of his leadership I’m enjoying right now, that he has to be careful and bootlick around a person who basically represents everything he hates. The SJW part of his brain must scream every time he has to deal with Trump.
On his knees, hands tied behind his back, mouth open, and a bottle of lidocaine throat spray?
Oh, I see you guys have this covered.
Anyone who need an explanation of why he would make that statement has apparently had their head up their own ass for at least a few decades.
7. How Many Offices Does One Man Need?
This paragraph is really bizarre when compared to how the media portrays POTUS office spaces and luxuries. Russia isn’t exactly a small, struggling country with a humble head of state.
Apparently Rolling Stones main problem with the interview is: denying any involvement with U.S. election hacking
Grab the hacker’s motherfucking leg!
http://time.com/4818165/steve-scalise-shooting-suspect-james-hodgkinson/
What was his motive?
A motive is still unclear, and the FBI is investigating the incident. Slater, of the FBI, said it’s too soon to say whether the GOP lawmakers were targeted in a deliberate attack. “We’re exploring all angles,” Slater said.
A couple days old but god damn. Truth is definitely dumber than fiction and parody.
They are going to try and disown him. They disowned Oswald, they will this one too. They wont get away with it now with the internet.
Is there anybody in the country that is not a child, or with a legitimate mental deficiency, and does not understand that smoking is bad for you? Anyone?
Good, we don’t need to continue funding these programs. Poor people probably have their reasons for smoking and its none of your business why.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/americas-new-tobacco-crisis-the-rich-stopped-smoking-the-poor-didnt/2017/06/13/a63b42ba-4c8c-11e7-9669-250d0b15f83b_story.html?utm_term=.b057327ff8dc
America’s upper and middle classes see smoking as an already solved, bygone problem
Isn’t it?
If I read that chart right, the difference between smoking and not is 78 vs. 81 on average, worst case.*
*I note there is no qualitative description
We smoke to pay for our kids healthcare.
The bottom line is, it’s none of anyone’s fucking business what a person does with their own body if they are not harming anyone else. The problem with ideas like this are that the solution for the people talking about it is ALWAYS more legislation, and I mean ALWAYS. There is NEVER a time that is not the solution. Even when they say education, what they really mean is legislation to make sure you get that education. FUCK.THESE. ASSHOLE.BUSYBODIES.
Remember, being opposed to government funding of something means that you’re opposed to that thing being done at all by anyone.
Besides, it’s not like the free market just gave us a device that provides nicotine without the overwhelming majority of the health risks of cigarettes. I mean, it’s not like this hypothetical device allows you to slowly taper off your nicotine usage or anything. Nope, the free market has shown zero initiative in helping people kick their cigarette habits, therefore we need government funding of anti-smoking programs forever.
Also,
Gee, from the sound of it, you almost get the idea that someone’s financial situation AND their tobacco use might be at least somewhat related to their ability to delay gratification, consider consequences, and plan for the future.
Greatest Video Ever Made For the Worst Music Humankind Has Ever Conceived
I thought you might have been linking to Queen doing a cover version of:
Wasn’t the Lion Of London Bridge, the guy who had 6 or 8 pints on board who fought off the jihadis, a Millwall fan?
Yeah, God bless his little cotton socks.
Poor bastard felt short-changed. On a good day he could have taken twice that number down.
Too bad, really, that the jihadis didn’t decide to go nutter right before a soccer game. I’d like to have seen them beaten to death on the street.
I believe the quote was “Fuck you, I’m Millwall” so yeah.
One of the Terrorists was wearing an Arsenal Jersey, and that’s what set him off. The guy has a brass pair it’s kind of odd that THAT’s what set him off.
And then, a challenger to …..”Worst Video AND Worst Music“
I always keep this awfulness in reserve.
Did that person really merge “Free Bird” with “Baby I love your way”?
flabbergasted
It hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, too.
It’s not the worst version of “Baby I Love Your Way”, either.
debateable. i think the musclebound-steve-perry/florida guido still grates harder
Wow. Watching the video is causing me to re-evaluate. I was just comparing the sound, and I found Big Mountain’s to be worse.
The guy singing looks like a character out of “Trainspotting”. That might explain the rather…unusual…artistic choices.
Someone took all the existing video and audio footage of Cream’s 1968 farewell concert and patched it all together:
Cream Farewell concert
Obsessive and impressive.
You’re doing a shitty job of trying to win the worst video contest.
Double negative = I win?
cool.
the sound is sort of shit. like someone recorded it with a mic in the back of the room. you’d think if they’d gone to the trouble to film it, they’d have had some direct-line-ins.
It was 1968 and the BBC. I’m amazed the sound is as good as it is. And that they didn’t delete it all 4 years later to record something else.
yeah, i know. I was mentally comparing it to woodstock, which was unbelievably good live-sound.
Woodstock was helped significantly by having Eddie Kramer record it.
Speaking of ‘great live performances‘
one of those Old Grey Whistle Tests from the 1970s, but with hypnotic intensity
i rewatch it all the time. the thought i keep having is “modern musicians simply don’t *sweat* like that”
at 4:20? I never heard this guy, really fuckin good,and Yusef loves him some Reggae, TY
I get a system generated email from this lady at least once a week. She is way more attractive that I would think possible.
https://www.healthdatamanagement.com/news/va-online-tool-helps-veterans-compare-ptsd-treatments
I give her a 6/10 with a point added on for being over 40.
Its the two black eyes, isn’t it, you sicko. 😉
Hmm, maybe. My wife rarely wears makeup.
He’s got a thing for women that don’t listen.
Wow.
*applause*
BigGreg with the slam dunk off the assist by RC!
I often wonder why I spend time here, and then I read something as tasteless as that and remember.
“Just what kind of a name is Poon, anyway?”
“Comanche Indian”
Ahem. You take away points for being over 40.
Go directly to jail. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200.
You are the weakest link. Goodbye.
I grade on a curve.
She might rate a 3. After I’ve had a few beers.
Yeah. I’m still not sure if this is trolling.
I’ll give her a 6. -1 point for applying her makeup with a putty knife
Big teeth. Creeps me out.
First time for everything, I said “Way to go, PM Zoolander” when I read this:
Trudeau government has passed half the bills Harper did by this time in the mandate
Until you to this:
The Liberal government has passed some substantial legislation, including:
Increases to Canada Pension Plan (CPP) payouts.
A budget bill that included massive infrastructure spending.
I mostly see this as the Senate and the Old Guard Liberals holding Zoolander back.
Probably his incompetence, and the fact that it would cut into his preening and posing time.
Maybe we can send him off to a pointless summit somewhere for couple weeks every month?
If Obama could just distract him with some more lunches that’d be great, two birds with one stone.
anybody here ever shoot 450 Bushmaster? the per round cost isn’t as bad as i was expecting for big bore.
It has a rebated rim. I cant find load data for it over 300gr and those top out at 1900fps.
I have a 450 Marlin. Not a rebated rim. Up to 500gr bullets (I load 350 and 400gr hard cast). My loads run about 2100 fps. So, thats a bit more punch. I am not a big guy and I shoot that out of a Winchester 94. I handle the recoil just fine. It will kill anything there is.
Oh, and the cost is about the same.
Hey EAP, Keep your head down this weekend!
This was interesting:
“Fuck you that’s why”
Or “Suppers waiting at home and I got to get to it.”
That’s pretty typical. Juries here are specifically told in the first instructions that they will not be given transcripts of testimony and it’s up to them to take good notes.
For the trial lawyers playing along at home, why can’t the jury get a transcript of the testimony to review in the jury room?
Because juries aren’t supposed to do an in-depth review of the evidence. They are supposed to do what the judge tells them.
Or at least the loudest mouth with the most questionable memory in the jury room.
Lee J. Cobb!
Re- Trump
Also, consider what he has *prevented* from happening by keeping Hillary’s mitts off the tiller, as well as what he has actually done or will do.
Keeping people like Larry Summers and Paul Krugman away from monetary policy is an incalculable benefit. Sessions is awful, but what about Attorney General Kamala Harris? What climatological nutjob would be running the EPA right now?
So…worse than Hitler but not worse than Hillary. I concur.
Sarcasm aside, I expect him to win over quite a lot of skeptics before it’s over.
True, we’re basically comparing a Trump presidency to a hypothetical libertarian presidency that was not one of the options.
I can’t think of any extremely crappy music videos. But the best has to be 3 little pigs by green jelly.
I dunno, I always thought this was pretty bad.
That was just awful.
I am not sure “awful” grasps how bad that was. I am not sure there is a word for how bad that was.
I dunno, the chick was pretty cute and Bootsy is always double-plus good. I’ll admit to growing sick of the tune in my peeler bar-going days.
Thankfully was not named Gay National Anthem.
Slater, of the FBI, said it’s too soon to say whether the GOP lawmakers were targeted in a deliberate attack
A weapon was discharged.
Maybe he was cleaning that rifle.
I thought Slater was CIA.
Apropos yesterday’s open borders/colonization discussion, I’ll just leave this here:
MS-13 gains recruits and power in U.S. as teens surge across border
I take exception to the word ‘colonization’. The French didn’t colonize North Africa. They invaded it. When it became too expensive and troublesome to keep the conquered land they left. Now North Africa is invading back. The NAfricans dont have the cultural mechanisms and institutions to make their invasion look the same, but it is an invasion never the less. When it becomes too troublesome and doesnt pay to stay, they will leave.
*Backs away from the thread*
I got my fill of beatings on this topic yesterday.
I think everyone is colonized out after yesterday, and today. Where’s Eddie to start a thread on abortion?
You could’ve segued that better. Lemme try:
Pregnancy is just a man colonizing a Woman’s body and mandatory abortions should be required for everyone.
Oh, you mean when a woman evicts the fetus colonizing her uterus?
DAMMIT!
Nimble fingers even as the deQuervains takes hold.
If you’re not first you’re last
A collective colon-cleansing
THe author may be a twat, but this is some funny-ass shit.
Is use of the word “twat” a generational thing, regional thing, or what? I’ve heard it used three times in two days and rarely heard it before now.
I like to switch up my vocab. “Douche”, “moronic friend of Hillary” are overplayed.
I think it’s more commonwealth English than American, Archie. I tend to shy away from ladybit insults after an ill-timed c-bomb.
More cunts for us then. Rule Britannia.
Weirdly my younger brother was confused that I thought calling someone cunt was worse than bitch. In his friend group it was exactly the opposite and I wondered if he was living a parallel existence as a working class Brit.
Generational maybe? I’ve used to hear it more (in the 80’s) than I do now. Maybe also a regional thing? I’m in the upper midwest, and Kristen used to live here. (She posted that info yesterday. I’m not stalking Kristen, I promise)
Never hear it in the southeast. I remember Jay Hickman using it in a couple of his comedy bits and he was southern so I’m leaning towards generational.
People keep trying to take our curse words away. So we’re kind of stuck calling people special needs poo-poo headed meanies. So Twat steps up to the bat, since it doesn’t have all the associated cultural baggage of calling someone a retarded shit for brains cunt. Give it about 5 minutes and it will become taboo.
We do need a couple new curse words.
Gradual takeover of the American language by your proper betters with the Queen’s English. Don’t fight it, just accept it.
Not as funny as this:
OH CANADA!
Joke’s on Zoolander, I can still say any unPC bullshit I want on the internet, thanks Tories!
I thought it was a Native American joke.
Groundhog Day unofficial reboot
SPOILER ALERT: The trailer is 2:30 and I feel like I’ve seen the entire movie. If you don’t want that experience, do not click.
That looks kind cool. Groundhog with a side of Nightmare on Elm Street
My opinion is If you’re going to do a remake, don’t remake a classic. All you’re doing is inviting comparisons to a classic movie, and odds are you’re going to fall flat on your face. Nobody really wanted Tim Burton’s remake of Charlie and the Classic Factory, since the previous version stood well on it’s own.
Exactly. Remake a piece of crap. It’s already written, so you’ll only have to do a few re-writes, it probably won’t cost much to gets the rights to it, and everyone will have low expectations, so they’ll be easy to top.
Doesn’t work for what Hollywood companies are actually looking for. Older remakes like The Thing had some actual artistic goal behind them, but remakes now are purely focused on branding and familiarity with the former product. They think for some bizarre reason that a previous audience equates to a guaranteed one now (see Ghostbusters, Total Recall, Conan, etc.)
I kind of liked the Conan reboot, It was closer to the books than the Governator versions. And The Judge Doom reboot was pretty damn awesome.
Dredd had the advantage of the first one being bloody awful. Also Karl Urban is apparently a massive Dredd nerd, which helps.
Worked for the Zucker bros when they bought the rights to Zero Hour! and turned it into one of the funniest comedies of all time.
This didn’t look so much like a remake as a reimagining as a horror movie.
How not to ask to be allowed to revise and resubmit a paper:
“On my [first] paper I felt that I anwsered the question that where provided. I did add in my own opinion on things but do feel that I had good points.”
So, you want to revise your paper based on the belief that I graded you wrong on the first version?
I loled:
Vandals alter highway sign to read ‘Crooked Hillary’
Chick pays with Legos.
plays
Amy Shira Titel is pretty cool. She blogs here: https://vintagespace.wordpress.com/ (and has an archive at Popular Science).
She also turns up on Universe Today’s “Weekly Space Hangout” from time to time.
Some of the best journalism going on in Seattle is occurring at blogging sites such as this:
http://roominate.com/blog/2013/monica-spain-is-missing/
If you bother to hit some of the other links on the site, you’ll see old-school gum-shoe journalism– making phone calls, knocking on doors, asking who such-and-such is, where can I contact them… are they a real person etc.
To wit, if you read the story from the above link, it’s a fascinating look at how the local NPR station is essentially reprinting press releases from a corrupt local organization called SHARE as calls for donations to the organization.
As you can quickly see, this is a classic puff piece. It has a pregnant 19-year-old girl (very helpful for getting sympathy and money) and gives virtually no context to the story.
♠ There’s nothing in there about who really runs Nickelsville. (Scott Morrow, Peggy Hotes, and the Merry Band of Miscreants known as SHARE.)
♠ There’s nothing about the circumstances under which Nickelsville was evicted from their previous squat in Highland Park, after trashing the place.
♠ There’s nothing about how Nickelsville moved in without a permit or without telling the neighbors, as required by law.
♠ There’s nothing about whether Nickelsville is a safe or appropriate place for this confused and pregnant teenager, or said teenager’s recent trouble with the law.
♠ In short, there’s nothing in there. It’s just a story about a pregnant girl living at Nickelsville. Oh . . . and by the way, Nickelsville needs donations!!!!
Two days later, I posted a retraction (sort of) on my original satirical claim that Ms. Spain is an unpaid intern. Then I went back, again, and asked Ms. Hennessey for Ms. Spain’s contact information, which is all I’d wanted in the first place. As I explained to Ms. H, I still wanted to ask Ms. S.where she’s getting her information about Nickelsville.
No dice. “I’m not going to give you Monica’s personal information,” Erin said.
“I didn’t ask you for her personal information,” I replied. “I asked you for her contact info. The New York Times newspaper lets people contact their reporters, for chrissakes. Are you telling me that KPLU can’t have the same level of accessibility as the NY Times?”
No reply.
“Just tell her to contact me then. She can use whatever bogus e-mail she wants. Or she can call my phone from a boiler room somewhere. I just wanna know she’s a real person.” [I’m paraphrasing the conversation there. But that was the gist.]
A day after that, an astute reader sent me another, earlier Nickelsville piece by “Monica Spain.” And I’ll be damned if it wasn’t the same story: Hey everybody! Nickelsville’s got kids to take care of. They need cash money!
The name sounds so made up. Like Veronica Portugal. Or Vanessa Iberian.
Monica Spain. 123 Fake St.
At least they could have made it Espana. Duh.
Isabella de Cabral Catalonia. I know her, she’s been missing.
I think this is the first time I ever clicked on the music link here.
“(category: song poor, video poor) ”
Couldn’t agree more… why???
Also, time to get blasted.