Man, that US open was off the hook. Probably the most entertaining golf tournament I’ve seen in a while. (Note to USGA: people really, really, really enjoy compelling golf, and it doesn’t have to include tricking out a golf course so its nearly unplayable!) Brooks Koepka ended up getting the hot hand down the stretch and won by 3. Sorry Rickie Fowler fans. Looks like he’ll continue his chase to being the next Sergio Garcia…and will win his first major a decade or so from now.
And in other sport news, Pakistan absolutely demolished India in the Champions Cup cricket final. After bowling out the first two India batsmen in the first two overs, the rout was on and India’s innings were done in the thirtieth over. There were almost a billion people expected to tune in.
Astros lost 2 of 3 to the Red Sox and continue to disappoint their way to still having the best record in the major leagues by a good margin.
Righto! Now on with…the links!
Loretta Lynch
Loretta Lynch now in crosshairs of GOP-led Congressional oversight committees. The racist and sexist old white men committee chiefs tasked with looking into executive branch activities are expected to summon her to Capitol Hill to answer a few questions in light of James Comey’s testimony.
Somebody standing watch on this Navy vessel fucked up badly. There’s almost no other explanation for the collision that claimed the lives of 7 crewmen.
Want to test the bounds of the Non-Aggression Principle? These assholes will do it to you.
The special election in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District has now cost over $50 million. Just goes to show you that these fuckers have way, way too much power.
Revelers at EDC
The Electric Daisy Carnival still gives newsmen the vapors. I bet there were fewer incidents than at a typical Vegas NASCAR Winston Cup, er Nextel Series, no, I meant Sprint Series no, no, no…Monster Energy Series race.
Don’t worry. I’m not gonna subject you to techno. But there will be synths.
Make it a great day, friends.
BONUS LATE LINK: REAL FEMENISM!!!!!!!!! (No, seriously. Which is gonna cause a few panties to get soiled.)
Of course my luck will be such that this is not the second comment…
Yesterday I went back to baking. I adjusted a previous cookie recipe to come up with a forumlation that turned out especially addictive.
“Salt and Pepper*” Chocolate Chip Cookies
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup shortening
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup dark brown sugar
2 eggs
lukewarm water
8-12 oz semi-sweet chocolate chips
8-12 oz white chocolate chips
Preheat to 350.
Mix dry, powdered ingredients.
Add eggs and shortening.
Mix until dough forms.
If dough remains granulated and doesn’t consolidate, drizzle small doses of water and mix.
Stop adding water when dough consolidates.
Add choclate and white chocolate, mix. A full 24 oz of chips will be hard to fully consolidate into the dough. Start with less and add until no more will be readily mixed.
Parcel out rounds of dough onto baking sheets.
Bake for about 10 minutes.
Makes 2-3 dozen cookies.
* Alternative Name – The Heroic Mulatto Pre-Memorial cookie, as they come out of the oven extra thick and don’t flatten as they cool. Plus, you know, the chip miscegenation… Nah, I’ll stick with the name as written.
A full 24 oz of chips will be hard to fully consolidate into the dough.
Don’t be a quitter now.
There is a saturation point. It is close to 24 oz of chips, but not quite, as there were some that were impossible to fully integrate. Those must be the self-segrating chips.
This is the most racist recipe I’ve ever read about.
Was it the forced integration – or the part where they all went into an oven?
yes and yes?
Well at least the instructions don’t include using a Star of David cookie cutter and numbering them with icing.
Used to make chocho chips cookies from scratch about once a month. Now I just use pancake mix. Tastes OK.
…
I can see it making some edible chocolate chip pancakes, but not a proper cookie substitute.
Unless they sell very different pancake mix in Japan.
You’re right. They’re basically small pancakes that I call cookies.
Ohh. I’m sure they are very good cookies, but I was all excited for the cookies to have salt and black pepper. Hmm, I’ll have to work up a recipe, because I think that might be good.
There was a reason that part of the name was in “scare quotes”.
You should have put “Salt-N-Peppa” that way we would have realized immediately it was a racist dog whistle.
I would have thought chocolate chip cookies aren’t bland enough for you.
Contrary to popular reputation, I am not a fan of bland food.
I thought you weren’t a fan of, well, anything.
EDC brings out the tards like flies to shit. Every year it’s the same thing.
If only they’d do it in conjunction with the NASCAR race. They could do songs in between the race “phases”.
Oh goody my two “favorite things” mixed together, Like HM’s cookies
Expedition Mungo searches for Argentina’s answer to Bigfoot, the Ucumar
NOT MUCH OF ANSWER TO STEVE SMITH IF IT SMALL.
NOT SIZE OF BOAT, BUT MOTION OF OCEAN.
BY OCEAN, MEAN RAPE!
NOONE REALIZE STEVE SMITH ALSO CELEBRATE FATHERS DAY
STEVE SMITH IN CHARGE OF EXPEDITION BUNGHOLE
STEVE SMITH MAKE SURE NO ONE GO TO BED UNRAPED.
‘Woke Daddy’ Wants to Teach You How to Raise Your Kids Without Toxic Masculinity
“Gabriele”?
No wonder he writes like a eunich.
Isn’t Garbriele the Archangel who is supposed to herald the Apocalypse?
Gabriel. No trailing feminine e.
he felt uncomfortable being the family breadwinner, because
it cast him in a traditional “father role.”he’s a lazy hipster who wants to be on permanent staycation.TBH, my dignity is a small price to pay for not having to work for the rest of my life. Seems like this dude finally figured it all out. I’m not going to hate him one bit
I am. I’m jealous he figured out how to do it first.
Unfortunately for him, women are far less likely to tolerate supporting a man the way men tolerate supporting a woman. Sure, the feminazis will talk about these “horrible sexist roles society places on women and men” like the man being the breadwinner, but they can’t overcome their nature to expect the man to be the provider. Eventually they’ll toss such guys out on their asses for being no-good lazy bums.
Given that every Cosmo edition preaches two things to its readers.
(1) how to make him beg for sex with you, because it’s so great
(2) how your man is (sadly) a fixer-upper who just needs you to nag him
Given the attention span of most women, they try #2 (which is probably what’s happening to ‘Gabriele’ now) and give up when they fail to turn into Christian Gray.
His wife probably looks like Triggly Puff.
TBF, his name is Ludo Gabriele. Ludo, of course, is a traditional Grundy (rock-caller) name.
Luddy is not much of an improvement over Gabby.
Smell! Bad!
Toxic masculinity? Somebody oughta slap that bitch.
The only toxic thing that dude needs to worry about will happen if he leaves his tampon in too long.
Is Gabrielle a dudes name or am I “othering” by asking?
Did you read what was written? They are asking to be othered, and probably get off on it.
FTFY
Someone here ought to write a big about toxic femeninity.
Don’t be a fool, wrap your tool. But anyway, it’ll go away with some antibiotics.
There’s help for low T.
Just sayin’.
That dude’s T is so low he’s probably lactating.
TED talks
I fuckin’ hate TED talks. It’s like Top Men mutual masturbation.
One of the few I like: how to pretend that you’re smart in a TED talk.
An evil cabal circle jerk? Yeah I feel the same way. YouTube always is suggesting them to me too.
I thought it was TEDx talks that were the SJW filled nonsense ones. Regular TED talks are bad too?
The more techy talks aren’t bad, but to me they still come across as preachy. I remember watching one on advanced prosthetic limbs and thinking the tech was pretty cool, then he goes off on this positive rights nonsense on how everyone deserves to be “complete.”
Here’s a good TED Talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZBKX-6Gz6A
that is MY favorite
Listening to TED talks is a way to convince yourself that you’ve gotten some valuable insight or knowledge on a topic without the bother of having to actually learn dick all about the topic.
His father should have named him Sue.
Poor Gabby here didn’t learn the same lesson as Sue did.
Woke Daddy: Thoughts about fatherhood, personal development and the universe.
No arrogance there. Nope.
It also gets preachy on subjects that aren’t normally fodder for Dad blogs, like breastfeeding
All dad’s should support breast feeding. The milk is “free” and you stay sleeping during those night feedings.
CPA knows what’s what there.
like breastfeeding (he’s all for it, even if he’s physically incapable of doing it; cow’s milk isn’t vegan).
Maybe he’s not trying hard enough.
Why do I read comments anywhere else? That is a disgusting situation and the comments are retarded.
What do you mean…our governements are owned by big pharma and they want us all to die of early disease. FACT.
It’s a FACT
He even capitalized it, you’re just in the pocket of big pharma so you want your customers to die. FACT
On the one hand, I like the idea that people who make stupid choices weed themselves out of the population. On the other hand, no child deserves to suffer because their parents are stupid hippies or obsessed with social signalling.
Right, all men are emotionless robots who show no love, happiness, anger, sadness, etc. Or maybe a lot of men choose not to be slaves to their emotions and get hysterical or cry over every perceived slight or bad turn of events. Heck, I bet there even exist women who are like this.
He seems to be confusing “not being ruled by” with “not showing”.
Further he assumes that men are not showing their emotions, that men react to emotional stimuli in the same way as women do
It is funny that I just explained this to the new girlfriend this past weekend. if you don’t act bashit crazy every time there is something, you are emotionally unavailable or something…
I think we all have already formed a stereotype of exactly what his manhood is
So… he wants his male offspring to grow up to be an even bigger pussy than he is? Might be good, maybe they won’t be able to procreate.
This is a good article about the endgame of where the current climate is taking us.
https://fee.org/articles/what-happens-when-you-replace-shared-humanity-with-ethnic-identity/?utm_source=zapier&utm_medium=facebook
The glorious diversity and sharing of culture that comes in prison.
I mean if it works for the Crips and the Aryan Brotherhood, why not?
What makes you think racial cleansing isn’t the objective of a lot of these people?
I imagine it is. But good god, how the mask has slipped. Someone here, I forget who, so I apologize for lacking attribution, but someone mentioned that BOOOSH’s election was the worst thing that happened to the Dem’s, as they took Obama’s election and then reelection as the sign of the coming prog millennium, instead of a rejection of two shit candidates. This prompted the progs to gleefully tear of the mask and now they are getting pushback because they pulled the trigger to soon.
There’s certainly something to that.
Jesus, could you imagine the consequences of the Dems nominating someone that wasn’t a complete train wreck like Hillary? The SC would be turning far left. Ginsburg would be getting replaced by an extremist progressive. Speech codes on campuses would not be pursued by the DOJ. We’d be all in on the AGW treaty-driven redistribution scheme. We’d have the fedgov going after gun rights. We’d be getting hectored every night bybtalk show hosts about how the nation turned their back on conservative ideals.
Basically, we’d be another Canada.
Yeah, we got lucky in that the left over reached too soon. We got luckier in that they refuse to learn the consequences of that over reach and double down instead of demurring and waiting another couple of generations. It really is like an apocalyptic religion, they refuse to retreat because they are on the right side of history, damn it.
The progressives trot this shit out in a different country or region every generation. Lately they’ve alternated between North America and Europe since about the 1900s.
Of course, they try it every generation in a few South American nations in a rotating basis…with the same disastrous results every fucking time.
They just had the wrong Top Men in charge. This time it will be different.
Envy is a powerful emotion, and collectivism is sold by appealing to the envious’ ingrained belief that they are where they are, not by their own choices and actions, but by someone else’s abuse.
So the article’s contention is that ethnic nationalism leads invariably to Nazism and mass murder. Except that most societies on Earth view ethnic in-group preference as normal and this usually does not lead to mass murder. Not to say that it never does, but to suppose it’s just bound to happen is evidently wrong. I think his hypothesis needs some more development…
This has probably already been posted as I missed a few days of news cycle there
You Won’t Believe This Stupid New Law Against Cash And Bitcoin
ZeroHedge, but the analysis appears basically legit.
If you aren’t doing anything wrong, blah, blah, etc.
Let’s make this applicable to everyone.
The paperwork is the important thing.
And, derpers are gonna derp.
Free agency is only a thing as long as you tow the line apparently.
https://heatst.com/culture-wars/romeo-and-juliet-feminists-attack-youtuber-laci-green-for-dating-chris-ray-gun/?mod=sm_fb_ad
Sweet Sarenrae, these people are sociopaths, and they’re not even trying to hide it anymore. Sounds like Laci’s on her way to abandoning SJW activism and I’m happy for her; it seems apostasy has freed her from that brain disease.
Pretty much. I mean when you have people advocating the destruction of someone relationship over political views, well things are going to get worse before they get better.
I’ve seen religious apostates treated better (I mean at this point I think Lacie would prefer outright shunning to this, at least they leave you alone.)
True, but that’s a very low bar to clear.
The prospect of a ‘rational, balanced’ Laci gives me a sad. But I hope she learns her lesson permanently from this.
I find her far more attractive in her ‘crazy’ incarnation, and I probably would. When she goes ‘normal’ she’s just a plumper with dimples and big glasses.
*Pats Number.6 on the head*
There there, it’s alright. We’ll still have Anita Sarkeesian and EverydayFeminism.
No way. I wouldn’t touch THEM with YOURS,
Who knows? It converted Laci. Now we just need some poor schmuck to volunteer…
The really brave one would be to convert Zoe Quinn.
*Shrieks in horror, then curls into a fetal position, quietly rocking back and forth and mumbling something about “Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.”*
She was always a plumper with dimples and big glasses. Never thought she was particularly cute. All she’s got going for her is her rack. Certainly doesn’t have brains. Also, I still haven’t seen any evidence that Laci has “converted.” Being willing to have a dialogue and date anti-SJWs doesn’t suddenly mean she’s dropped her feminism BS.
From the article:
Personally I don’t think Laci is free quite yet, but I’m hoping the stream of vitriol from the tolerant, oppressed SJWs will jar her from it. I still expect her to be a leftist, just hopefully not an SJW leftist.
Not to go all John, but I wouldn’t call her a plumper just because she has a large rack.
Also, TIWTANLW.
It’s the cheek and jawline. She might not be a plumper, but she’s certainly somewhat THICC.
She’s cute, but her langolier smile is unsettling. I’m hoping the experience is humbling and she shelves the smug rictus.
Just checked her Twitter feed and apparently she’s now saying that she isn’t against gun ownership. Heads are asploding, as you might imagine. That dude must be a stallion, but you wouldn’t think it to look at him.
But seriously, it’s almost as if interacting with someone who has a different ideological outlook than you in an open-minded way might cause you to reconsider your views. Who woulda thunk it?
Why do you think they oppose it so vehemently. The first thing Cults do is to isolate new recruits from anything that might cause them to question the teachings of the cult.
All of these leftist sociopath movements have resorted to cannibalism. There’s nothing left to do except getting a beer and popcorn and watching the show.
In honor of father’s day, the (now) standard freakout,
TW: Jezebel is referenced.
https://heatst.com/culture-wars/womens-blog-jezebel-throws-a-tantrum-over-fathers-day/
To make it even, we could start “Miserable Bitter Sexless Spinster Harpy” day.
International women’s day is already a thing.
A lot of the TV channels geared towards women have an inordinate amount of “women as victims of evil men” made-for-TV movies. Because apparently nothing is as empowering as showing women victimized.
My wife commented yesterday on how they had hauled out all the ones that featured an evil father-figure. Go figure.
TW: semi-NSFW, ala British tabloid style
Courtney Stodden strips naked ‘for feminism’ – but it majorly backfires
You have to be ugly to be able to strip for femenisim.
Victories against Trump are mounting. Here’s how we deal the final blow
Couldn’t be that the media has been trying it’s damdest to create a self fulfilling prophecy here. Nope, not a chance.
Which part of the Bill of Rights is The Guardian’s favorite, the right to keep and bear firearms, or the right for non-credentialed journalists to publish information during election time?
Probably that bit where the states reserve most rights instead of the feds.
They reserve most of the powers not given to the feds nor prohibited to the states, yes. The rights are for us proles.
Aren’t these the same polls that routinely oversample democrats and gave Hillary a 98% chance of winning the election?
Ssshhhhh.
Dissapproving of the president means you are against every single thing the resident has ever said or done. Obviously the election was stolen from Hillary.
Wait, so you are saying there are no possible conservative of libertarian reasons to dislike Trump?
You can’t be “a little bit pregnant”, just like you can’t be “a little bit Republican”.
If you ever had a single conservative or libertarian thought, it will infect you and control you for its own nefarious purposes.
dismantling of healthcare, education, environmental protection, and the bill of rights,
1&2: I guess if the government doesn’t do it then no one will huh?
3: far more nuanced than you think. It turns out that the government is the worst steward of the environment.
4: say what?
While I agree that there are people out there who want healthcare, education, environmental conservation and basic freedoms to be destroyed, they aren’t the people this writer things they are. In fact that people have been in power for a while.
Victories against Trump are mounting.
What victories? The one’s in their own empty skulls? Because I don’t see anything there.
They’re counting the media circus show as a victory in and of itself. They could probably also count the immigration EO injunction a victory too, even though the injunction’s legal basis is smoke and mirrors that can do real long term damage to jurisprudence, but in the moment, the only thing that matters to leftists, it counts as a win too.
Matthew McMahon, 29, and Randa Askew Faust McMahon, 36, of Shelby County were arrested June 2 and charged with first-degree injury to a child, according to local reports.
Marry someone named Faust and you better check your vows closely.
I’m gonna be about twenty minutes outside of Shelbyville in two weeks at my FIL’s. He recently retired from the Sheriff’s Department, and one of his good friends is still a deputy there. As small as Shelbyville is, I’m sure they not only know the couple somehow but have the inside scoop on them. Also, I’m curious as to which won out between their strict professional code and strong ethical code.
So later in the afternoon I’m headed off to meet a potential adoptee – a male teenager who is currently living at a
prisonfarm for orphans / wards of the state. There’s nothing like meeting a complete stranger to get the anxiety levels pumped up. I’m not sure what we’re going to talk about – this is the introductory level stuff but of course being the first time I’ve ever had to do this things are a little unknown.Good luck, good sir. It’s a noble endeavor to adopt, especially a teenager. If you don’t mind sharing, what prompted this? Teenagers seem a bit unruly to be proper orphans for the salt-mines.
What prompted this? Long story short: my wife and I only have once child who is autistic. So we really missed out on a lot of normal parenting routines. We decided – she came from a big Catholic family – that we want some other kids to take care off. We live in a great school district, a close-knit neighborhood, are doing well financially, so why not help some children have a better life? At least give them a better chance of doing well.
It’s been a slow bureaucratic nightmare – that and the classes and home inspections – along with the frustration of waiting on the whims of social workers and therapists.
And I’m sure it going to bring some additional heartache.
That’s very noble of you. Kudos for wanting to make the world a better place. I do imagine dealing with high-minded bureaucrats can be tedious, but I do wish you all the luck.
These two sentences, when paired together, make me sad. Good luck to you, LH & wife. Adoption is a wonderful thing (my bro is adopted).
Thanks, KK! The process of adopting domestically is like all the worst excesses of government rolled into one. I suppose the agency workers think they are stopping roving bands of child exploiters but it really just makes the process very long, very invasive, and is sure to turn away a lot of potential families.
A friend of the family who adopted her grandchild after her daughter lost custody had to jump through all the same hoops as any other foster parent, including taking blocs of 8-hour parenting classes and having her family and friends documented by CPS.
I suppose it’s meant to scare off more marginally attached fosterers from trying, but the result would have been shuttling this kid around between foster homes in the system until he turned 18, because the kid’s a mess. At least he’s on familiar ground with his grandmother.
I’ve had personal experience with bureaucrats who were too lazy to actually look into things, even from the kids point of view the state system is a nightmare. But then I guess you may find him to hate the system as much as you do, so maybe you adopting him will teach him the ways of the libertarians.
Good luck. I hope you guys find a match and are able to help a kid have a better life.
I’m not sure what we’re going to talk about
Talk about fidget spinners, you’ll look really cool and “with it”.
No, no talk about the hip music the kids are into these days. Boyz 2 Men, In Sync, Backstreet Boys. You know. The new hot rock and rock music acts.
OK Kristen. It will take me ten mins to get the coffee snorted back out of my sinuses. Thanks.
I have a whole list of thing NOT to talk about – like vacuum tubes
I hear “slam dancing” and Reebok Pumps are hot too.
I’m think the social welfare people may frown on your talking about turning boys into men with a teen you might be adopting. That shit might fly over in Islamostan but we’re civilized here
Been there brother. I wish you the best of luck. It can be very trying and it can be very rewarding.
Hah! Building owner gets trashed for trying to do what the govt does, close the skyway early to keep the bums out.
The story is about how St. Paul has a quasi-govt owned skyway system. The city council says skyways have to stay open until 2 a.m. A local building owner was tired of having homeless people sleep, eat, shit, piss and fuck (may not have been in that order), so she closed her piece early and petitioned the city council for the ability to close early. She rightly points out that 5 of the 6 skyways that do have permission to close early are owned or rented by the govt.
Thing have not been going well for her.
Wait, one standard for the government and one for everybody else? That can’t be.
It’s got bums when it’s cold, like any other place.
Literally, FYTW.
You must kiss the ring before we deign permit you to act, citizen.
When the family takes a trip to the big city and has to park in a ramp the wife is always badgering the kids to not touch anything.
I didn’t just marry her for her looks.
Is there a FIRE-like organization for small businesses?
Institute for Justice?
ij.org
I watched Joe Rogan’s interview of Bret Weinstein about the student protests at Evergreen college. The further I got in, the more apparent it was that Mr. Weinstein has no idea that he is part of the problem. He acknowledges that the students have lost their minds but it goes right over his head that the structure of Evergreen college and its acceptance of teachers doing whatever they want (in addition to radical progressive ideology peddling victimhood) is exactly the problem that got them here. The students follow one teacher for an entire year and the teachers have total freedom in what/how they teach…. well of course the students studying gender studies and intersectionality (i.e. victimhood) are going to come out of that year as total freaking lunitics! They haven’t been exposed to anything else in a way that, you know, a normal college would expose them (at least before the total takeover by 87% liberal professors).
At first I thought, well maybe the far left professors will start to learn the error of their ways… but nope. Of course not, I’m an idiot for thinking that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq4Y87idawk&t=3160s
On another note, my computer is asking me if I want to add “intersectionality” to the dictionary… because it’s NOT A WORD.
Weinstein is unknowingly part of the problem but his heart really does seem to be in the right place so I have to give him some credit. It’s better than you can say for most of the faculty and administration there.
Weinstein knows he can go on Rogan or even Tucker Carlson and have a welcoming ear. Would he have given nonprogs a fair hearing of ideas a year or two ago? Was he presenting contrarian ideas in his classes a year or two ago? I don’t know, but my guess is “no”.
Almost certainly no but better late than never.
He’s not presenting contrarian ideas now. He’s still peddling his victimhood bullshit. You start to see it about 45 minutes into the interview I linked. He just draws a short, porous line in the sand really, really far to the left.
But he’s still (slightly) to the right of Mao, which makes him literally Hitler.
So it’s an ego stroking institution for the faculty.
Yes, and according to Mr. Weinstein, its “the only college in the country that operates this way” with absolutely no reflection on what it has wrought.
How hard is a glib supposed to beat their 13 yr old child after they were found to have made a video smoking parsley out of make_shift pipes like he’s snoop Dogg?
What were you planning to use the parsley for?
Kid found about an ounce of it from a friend of his. I don’t know what anybody does with that much parsley
Chimichurri.
Well now we’re getting somewhere. Don’t beat your kid, you gotta go find his dealer.
Wait, I thought a major component of libertarian parenting was teaching your children the proper way to use drugs?
I can see a concern about it bringing agents of the state no-knocking on the door…
I thought we had agreed that the proper punishment is for you to make him smoke all of your fresh herbs in a closet until he never wants to smoke fresh herbs again.
I don’t think that’s end well for me.
Wait until he puts thyme in a bottle. Then beat him.
Such sage advice.
You want me to keep it cumin?
As long as it keeps the narrow gazes at bay
Great. Now you guys are gonna pepper the thread with bad puns.
Well don’t get all salty about it.
That’s not how you curry favor with the staff.
I’d make a mint if I could make a book of these puns.
We should stop before we get caraway.
That might make anise change… nah.
DOH! You beat me from Nihon? But how?
I beat you and how! Kemowasabi.
That’s because UCS doesn’t dilly dally.
I suppose I could pun more gingerly.
We’d be sorrel to see that happen.
All these puns for free… someone should get a celery
Getting paid for these puns would be quite a caper.
Don’t worry about that, Slammer, we’ll keep saffron through it.
rosemary
Saffron and get what cumin to him.
More puns? Aren’t you guys getting a bit caraway with this?
We’ll carry on until it gets far less savory.
This is such anise little sub-thread
Repetition gets a little dill.
All these comments and I still don’t know how hard to beat my child….
yeah, but some of the punds don’t really cut the mustard.
I should have made that sfarron pun in response to this.
So clove yet so far…
if you repeat it, I have a can of mace I’m itching to use.
That’s one way to chili discourse.
FOR EVERY SWINGIN’ ONE OF YOU!
*NARROWS GAZE*
Tell them that there’s no reason to smoke parsley? Try corn silks instead?
Stay classy MSNBC – Steve Scalise Can’t Defend Himself But MSNBC Is Back To Attacking Him Anyway
Bitch had it coming, obviously.
Way to punch down. Geez, these people can’t even hold thier traps shut about a man who was shot and is still in the hospital. At least they should invite someone on to defend his record in abscentia.
A man who was shot by a vocal ideological ally with a kill list of other conservatives in his pocket. You’d think that might be reason to lay low for a week or two and let the thing blow over. You’d think NYT wouldn’t commit a fucking Giffords tu quoque to paper. But no, they can’t restrain themselves even that little bit. It’s all fists and elbows with these retards.
“There’s a whole country out there and a lot of people, at least in my Twitter timeline, and it’s a delicate thing, because everybody is wishing the congressman well and hoping that he recovers, but Steve Scalise has a history that we’ve all been forced to sort of ignore on race,” Reid claimed.
Obviously she doesn’t read HuffPo or Salon comments.
Obviously implied in that is “everybody that matters”.
Do people realize they are playing a game that never ends and no one wins?
HE HAD IT COMING! BERNIE ACKBAR!
Maybe the ghost of the Willie D infected the USS Fitzgerald?
Somebody sure fucked up. I know there are rules on who has to yield when crossing paths on the high-seas, but a Destroyer is just too maneuverable, and too well equipped for this to ever happen. Everyone on that bridge needs a court-martial unless the captain purposefully ordered them not to alter course.
Captain was asleep in his quarters apparently. So whoever was standing watch is in charge.
This is gross negligence that’s not been seen since that SUV rammed a Japanese fishing boat near Hawaii years ago. And IIRC, that exposed some seriously fucked up shit. I wonder how this will play out.
Your link comment say it was “collusion”
A buddy of mine who was in the Navy was talking about this Friday evening. According to him, Navy vessels under way in international waters having standing orders to not change course to avoid another vessel. For all I know he could’ve been talking out his ass, but he was in the Navy for most of the 2000s and has worked as a contractor since, so his experience is pretty recent.
That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard – particularly at night when the Philippine crew is half asleep, not answering their radio, and may not even know your are there in your tiny little ship.
It’s bullshit.
I used to stand bridge watches. Standing orders allowed us wide leeway as to avoiding traffic. If other ships were going to get within certain distances (depending on their relative position to our bow) we had to wake the captain.
Sometimes we’d be fucked by the planned operations (i.e. having to sail at flank speed in a straight line with no deviations to get to where we needed to be for the next morning’s operations because the previous watch team had been delayed by something (or laziness)) so that we really really didn’t want to change course and speed… BUT we did it if he had to.
The scariest situation I’ve ever been in was a ghost ship we encountered in fog. We could see a faint return on the radar. The lookout could hear a fog horn. They correlated enough that we thought it was a real ship.
We couldn’t raise it on radio. It basically sailed straight towards us and matched our maneuvers until it was a few hundred feet off. Then abrputly the noises and stopped and the radar return The captain was on the bridge with hastily thrown on uniform pants and what looked like poofy slippers for 20 minutes on that one. We basically sailed at three knots through the soup for the next hour or so.
The worst we-dodged-a-fucking-bullet situation was one night when a pale faced ET showed up on the brige to notify us that for the past 3 hours we’d been sailing with our navigational surface search radar not emitting. We’d been seeing clutter (the receiver was working and transmitting noise) and so it looked like it was working. We had no idea we were sailing blind. Fortunately we were far away from the sea lanes and it was a very clear night (the milky way seemed so bright that I felt like I should be able to read in its light).
That one ended up with a very ugly captains mast that cost a second class PO a stripe.
The less maneuverable ship has the right of way, according to TLOTSea, I have to dodge almost everyone in my Catamaran ( except Filthy Jet Skis)
That’s horribly incorrect.
First of all, there is no right of way. In an interaction between two vessels, there is the “stand-on” vessel and the “give-way” vessel.
The stand on vessel is supposed to maintain a constant course and speed unless doing so would hazard the ship. The give way vessel is supposed to maneuver around the stand on vessel.
Who is stand on and who is give way depends on the two ships’ relative motion and positions except in certain cases:
1) Vessels that are not under command (i.e. have lost steering or propulsion control) are always stand-on vessels
2) Vessels that are restricted in ability to maneuver (i.e. a ship conducting flight operations or laying submarine cable)
3) Vessels that are fishing take stand on vessel over everything except 1 and 2 above.
4) Vessels that are sailing are the stand-on vessel unless they are encountering a 1,2,3
5) Powered vessels are the give way vessel for 1 – 4.
Because nobody has the right of way, it’s almost impossible for a collision at sea to be solely the fault of one vessel. A merchant marine captain named Washburn once joked that for him to be in a collision that wasn’t his fault, he’d have to be sailing at full speed and get rammed from behind despite his attempts to shake his pursuer. I only know of one collision that was solely the fault of one vessel and it was a collision between a U.S. aircraft carrier and a Russian sub where the sub came up to periscope depth right under the carrier and got rolled.
Your description is much better, but it’s generally saying much the same thing.
No it is not.
If my aircraft carrier were steaming near your catamaran on sail, I would be far less maneuverable than you were, but I would be the give-way vessel.
“This is a Lighthouse.”
Classic.
I listened to that podcast on Saturday with a few ex-navy guys on a long drive back from Algoma. The ineptitude and silliness of that ship led to a lot of sea stories about their time at sea.
Sony’s gonna get rights to the inevitable dramatization when we settle with Japan.
Being a fat slob with your stomach hanging out is the hot, new trend this summer?
I guess nobody from Mic has ever been inside a Wal Mart between May and September.
FTFY
Of course not. Walmart is practically a slave labor sweatshop that exploits poor people for profit. Only the unenlightened rubes would shop there. /prog
Looks like a ton of bad news.
I’m flabbergasted!
Summer? I’m a fat slob year round
My gut is coming back now. All winter and nothing, but come summer and *Blooop* out it comes.
Dudes dressing like chicks. I understand why the left if pushing it but I dont understand why anyone bites.
That “dude” they’re talking about is Zeke. And he’s not dressing like a chick. He’s dressing like about half of the skill players in the NFL dressed in the 70s and 80s until they changed the uniform rules. And he dressed like that in college (all three years he ran over Michigan, by the way) and when he Ran 85 yards through the heart of the south on the way to a National Championship…I’ll spare Oregon fans the embarrassment of posting his stats from the final. But I’ll tell you this: they were mind-boggling.
They’re comparing disgusting fat slobs to a ripped athlete dressing like a ripped athlete used to before the No Fun League changed some rules.
I didn’t read the article. I just looked at the ‘crop top’ headline, saw a dudes face and figured…
*looks back at article, notices jacket, bow tie and crop top*
No, thats a dude dressing like a chick. He is free to dress as he sees fit, but its still a dude dressing like a chick.
That’s not a dude dressing like a chick. That’s a dude marketing his gimmick and preparing to cash some big ass checks.
Dennis Rodman dressed like a chick. Zeke is dressing like he knows how to market himself.
*whispers*
I know that
Its still fun watching him run the football, even if it is against my team which has the worst running defense in the NFL. Dude can dress however the hell he wants.
I replaced my game-day jerseys (white was Corny Greene throwback, red was so old it was bought as a Steve Bellisari jersey!) after the Fiesta Bowl debacle with Zeke jerseys. Both of mine, my son’s and Banjos’. My eldest daughter already had her JT jersey.
I especially
Like the black numbers on the shoulders on the red jerseys.
Jesus, we’re gonna be good this year. I’m already excited. 70 days till college football starts!!!!
I have to re-start my TV subscription so I can watch college ball again. I hate DirectTV’s stranglehold on the market. I think I might just get SlingTV and watch the nationally-televised games, which means a lot of watching Ohio State… and that’s a-ok with me. They’re fun to watch.
Fuck DirectTV.
Good series with the Astros and Red Sox. Last night’s game had it all – a struggling big-money pitcher. Home runs, hit batters, an ump with no idea where the bottom of the strike zone is, and a caught-stealing base-runner to end the game.
Have seen you guys talking about it, yet. Mayweather or McGregor? I think Floyd is going to pepper him to death.
You mean Floyd’s gonna treat him like a lady?
Laila Ali might give him a better fight. It’s ridiculous.
I think it’ll be a good fight for both of them. Financially.
If people want to pay for it, I don’t care.
I’ll fight Mayweather for 125 million.
Well, we’ll finally get an answer to the age old question of who is a better professional boxer: A professional boxer or someone else?
If McGregor wins, it will be ALL luck. A rush of some kind might work. But I don’t think so.
I didn’t realize that it was a boxing match, I thought Mayweather was going to fight MMA. Wow. If McGregor wins I’m going to assume Mayweather threw the fight.
I think some people are underestimating McGregor’s hand skills. Watch some video of his fights. The guy is quick with his hands and almost all of his KO’s are a result of that. Mayweather will probably win by decision, but if he actually takes a solid punch from McGregor, I think he’ll go down.
Mayweather has somehow survived guys like Miguel Cotto, who has faster and stronger punches than McGregor could ever dream of.
It’s not that hard; McGregor is not a professional boxer and Floyd is one of the best ever.
If Floyd loses it will be the greatest upset in the history of Earth or a dive to setup a bigger payday rematch
Floyd isn’t just one of the best ever, but he is the absolute best ever with his defense. He’s going to make McGregor look silly. Now maybe McGregor lands a big one, but I think he’s much more likely to be hitting air or glancing punches off Mayweather’s shoulder.
Vegas odd have McGregor as a 1100 point underdog (that has gone done in some places), so he has a “punchers chance” as they say, and while Mayweather is on the wrong side of 40 he is probably going to win.
That’s pretty funny ( the music video) – quite topical. Not so long ago, I was the boringest dad in the universe, with the boringest taste in music for showing my kids what kind of videos were on MTV, explaining what MTV *was* when first launched. “Quelle Horreur” of being subjected to *that music*.
And in maybe three short years, my (very weak) anecdote of hanging out with Morten Harket and the band’s keyboard player, “Mags” at a RADA-tard party in London about a month before that song went stratospheric. Seems like everything old is new again. They were pretty interesting guys – they really had their shit together,
I’m a huge A-Ha fan, especially their album Analogue.
Celice
When my boys were just getting into music, we got a smart tv with a web browser and a you tube app built in. Just testing it out, I started showing them the same thing as you did. All the great early 80’s videos.
The nearly pissed themselves watching Flock of Seagulls.
I always liked Volkswagen’s homage.
The Molly Ringwald dancing at the end cracked me the fuck up
He won by going 5.5!
That’s awesome.
Mags can raid my monastery any time.
Morten and Mags were both very charismatic guys (sober *and* drunk) and have remained mega- chick magnets.
Good for them.
He is in the dictionary next to “aging well”.
Guns kill almost 1,300 US children annually, study says.
Come on people keep your guns inside or on a leash. I’m tired of seeing stray guns running around our streets. It’s only a matter of time before they go after a child. Also a friendly reminder to bring you guns in during the extreme heat and cold times of the year.
That it? That’s a rounding error in this country.
A little less than 0.002% of the children in this country (source).
I would snidely point out how many more die in car crashes and suggest common sense car control, but given their Green hysteria and recent attacks by
Muslim terroristsAsians, I’m afraid they’d take it seriously.From 2012 to 2014, on average, 1,297 children died annually from a gun-related injury in the US, according to the study, published in the journal Pediatrics on Monday.
I’m not going to bother reading the study, but I wonder just how tangentially a gun has to be related to the injury for it to be “gun-related”.
Also, I wonder how many of those were cops.
Also, how many of these ‘children’ were over 17.
And how many were killed by cops?
Many of those ‘children’ were feral, inner city ‘youths’.
Gun locked up in a safe when the kid drowned in the bathtub? Gun related.
Buzz Lightyear (TM) Alien Space Blaster in the kid’s closet when the kid choked to death on chicken skin? Gun related.
Kid suffocates wearing a plastic bag at grandpa’s house, which has the entire run of Gunsmoke on DVD in it? Gun related.
Went shooting with my son yesterday. At one point, I caught my target pistol trying to sneak off the range to hunt the neighborhood kids.
Swimming pool manufacturers are probably the biggest anti-gun propaganda folks out there. There’s no other explanation for the excessive coverage of gun deaths while completely ignoring the much higher number attributed to drowning.
Also, take four metro areas out of that equation and I bet the number is little more than half that.
There’s another stat out there we’ll just kind of whistle past, too.
Gunz.
Does “children” include under eighteen gangbangers who are popping off rounds at each other? Enquiring minds want to know.
Define ‘children’
What they mean are gangbangers under 18.
The number of actual ‘children’ who die from gunshot wounds is actually lower than the number of children who die from falling head-first into 5 gallon buckets. No shit.
^Obviously a shill for Big Orange.
It’s like the zero fatalities nonsense the Utah highway patrol is always doing. It’s a great ideal, but the only war it can be guaranteed is to Nuke all cars.
Exactly. Many of these studies even include 18 and 19 year olds as ‘children’ which skews it even further. Just like labeling suicides as violent gun deaths.
Dude, see this is why it’s so important to take your guns out for regular walks. It’s not just that it wears them out so they don’t have so much nervous energy, but it also offers them plenty of opportunities for socialization.
what? no easily digestible chart showing the age breakdown of those “children”?
“The fact that these children are injured, they are cared for by surgeons, within the health care system, they have fractures, they have brain injuries, they have lacerations to their body and so forth, so that’s the biology of this disease,” said Hargarten
This person is a Doctor and a professor in Wisconsin, ostensibly teaching future doctors.
Not sure if this was discussed over the weekend. The London building that became a fiery deathtrap went through a green retrofit last year.
Also there wasn’t a single ladder truck in London that could reach the upper floors. A clusterfuck across the board.
Sadly, there are parts of London that a US-sized ladder truck couldn’t get to anyway (this wasn’t one of them), but it looks like this was a combination of stupidity, mendacity, negligence, bad policy and shitty luck.
Naturally Corbyn’s solution is to seize houses from rich people and give them to these guys.
It’s summertime, put them in fucking tents for a bit-it won’t kill them.
Don’t be too sure, the last bit of government housing tried…
-American after all those ethnicities. I hope that was understood, but if not, there you go.
The fuck? My first threading fuck up
*high five*
You’d have the likes of Anjem Choudhrey coming out claiming that it’s a re-imagining of the concentration camps the British built for the Afrikaaner settlers in the Boer War.
Or like the concentration camps FDR built for our Japanese- , German- and Italian-American friends.
Sloop, good point in including Italians and Germans. The Japanese certainly suffered the worst, but they weren’t the only ones.
I always get ticked when people just talk about how bad the Japs had it. Don’t they know the Krauts and Wops generally had it just as bad?*
*Relatively speaking, of course. We all know the Heebs in Europe had it a lot worse. As did the fags, Polacks and Gyppos.
Dude, don’t forget the Russian POWs. Brutal treatment. Brutal.
A councillor claims the residents also declined a sprinkler system retrofit due to the inconvenience of remodeling.
::sad trombone::
Using flammable gases as refrigerants, especially given that the early claims were that the initial fire was caused by a faulty refrigerator – would seem to be a bad idea too.
I wonder if I’ll get both Antiques Roadshow and Manly Monday episodes today? I know my DVR is all set for Roadshow…
Terrorism of any kind is inexcusable and unjustifiable.
That being said, there’s an ongoing libertarian debate about the proper role of government in immigration. There are those who say that the government has no business interfering with the free flow of goods, services, or people across borders–and I’m sympathetic to those goals. The free flow of labor across borders should work just like the free flow of goods and services–and Adam Smith taught us how that works with goods back in 1776.
However, there is something to be said about the proper role of democracy, the rule of law, and the social contract. The free flow of labor across borders may be the ultimate goal, but imposing an unpopular immigration policy on the American people is like imposing an unpopular war. The Constitution properly enumerates immigration policy to Congress for that reason–just like it does with the power to declare war.
Avoiding war entirely is a worthy goal just like the free flow of labor across borders, but just like there’s a big difference between arguing against the merits of any particular war and arguing that Congress shouldn’t have the power to declare any war, there’s a big difference between arguing that Congress should pursue a policy of open borders and arguing that Congress shouldn’t have the power to decide who can and can’t come across our borders.
My understanding is that the people of the UK voted to leave the EU in no small part because of their concerns about the EU’s immigration policies. Since then, the elitists in both the UK’s government and bureaucracies have dragged their feet or undermined the cause of Brexit at every turn. Meanwhile the people of the UK have suffered terrorists attacks that are widely connected to immigration in people’s minds.
I’m not a fan of social contract theory, generally speaking, but there’s one thing they get right: When people feel like the government has ignored its commitment to democracy and its responsibility to protect their rights, bad things happen–whether they’re justified or not. Excellent examples may include the Glorious Revolution, the Boston Tea Party, The Irish independence movement, the LA Riots of 1992, and some kooks plowing into a crowd of innocent Muslims last night.
Justification isn’t the issue–I’m talking about cause and effect. When democracy fails and the government is failing to protect people’s rights, certain things happen as a result of that. Yeah, the kooks usually go over the edge first and they tend to do unjustifiable things–but whether they’re justifiable is beside the point. The question is whether they’re foreseeable consequences of democratic government failing in its legitimate responsibility to do the will of the people on questions like immigration and whether they’re the foreseeable consequences of the government failing to protect people’s rights from terrorist threats.
“Open Borders Libertarianism” is completely self-defeating.
A: It is known that the vast majority of the world does not believe in basic principles of Libertarianism.
B: Inviting them all to come to libertopia at will is asking for them to dismantle said libertopia, either at the ballot box or through violence.
Until A is no longer true, open borders is a great way to swamp freedom with people holding antithetical ideologies.
This. Open borders is nice in theory..but like progs they are folks who destroy everything in their path
Why would i want them?
So…. ideological testing, amirite?
My post was already wordy, so I didn’t include the part about how Congress’ rules on immigration are still subject to both the First Amendment and the Fourteenth Amendment.
The good news is that given Trump’s revised travel ban EO as a model, which is perfectly constitutional on both First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment grounds, there’s no need for congress to implement anything unconstitutional.
My reply was in response to UnCivil’s post. But yeah, I think you and I are in agreement.
I was always shocked by those pointless debates at the old place. They had some kind of intellectual block that prevented them from recognizing the logical prediction of the consequences of importing millions of (real) Nazis, Marxists, or Muslims.
Open borders means different things to different people.
I think we should have a treaty with Mexico that lets their people come back and forth across our border at will–so long as they develop a sufficiently reliable ID system so we can verify that they’re who they say the are, aren’t convicted felons, aren’t wanted criminals, are immunized against certain diseases, aren’t terrorists, etc.
I think this would both give us the benefits of the free flow of labor across our borders and improve security since if non-threats to our rights could simply show ID and cross the border, the only people sneaking through the desert at night would be terrorists and criminals.
It’s democratic–with a treaty approved by the American people by way of the Senate–and it improves security, better protecting our rights from terrorists and criminals. If the American people won’t support it, then we shouldn’t have it.
If that’s what people mean by open borders, then I’m open borders. It’s my policy preference–not something I want the government to impose on Americans against their will.
I think it’s a worthwhile debate, but only in a theoretical universe at this point. If you grant the existence of sovereign nations, the ability to control their borders is part and parcel of that existence. I know that lots of highly speculative libertarian futurists question the necessity of the nation-state, but at this point in time, it’s a pipe dream. It’s possible that someday, perhaps, nation-states will be obsolete; but right now if you want to try and create a nation that thrives on liberty, open borders is self-defeating.
It’s the exact reason why leftists want open borders. They know most immigrants will vote Democrat. The other side of that problem is that a large percentage of them will be 3rd world peasants with no job skills who will need tax payer money to survive.
I fall on the side of strict government control over immigration from volatile regions. Not so much from stable nations.
Also, did someone plow into a crowd of innocent Muslims last night? I didn’t hear about this (I went on a no-news hiatus this past weekend).. where did this occur??
I fall on the side of strict government staying-the-fuck-out-of-bribing-immigrants-with-a-shitty-work-ethic-and-no-interest-in-integrating-with-American-culture-into-coming-to-America control really.
I think that kind of government in the US would eliminate many (most?) of the problems.
I’m not sure if the government would be very good at determining which ones have a shitty work ethic and which ones don’t. Let alone which ones have an interest in integrating with American culture.
I get what you’re saying, but it seems impractical. My solution, the half way point, would be that if an immigrant doesn’t have a job within 6 months of moving here… kick them out. I don’t care about any sob story they have. Being an American and finding hard work go hand-in-hand… or at least they used to.
The key point being that a benefits system that encourages people to come to the US and collect ‘free money’ is the proximal cause of the kind of demographic I’d like to avoid arriving in the US?
I don’t think we need interviews at Ellis Island. I don’t even think we need a 6-month review. People self-deport without any kind of ‘nudge’ from government if they have no income.
That’s a good point. I can agree with this.
London.
Someone plowed a van into a crowd of Muslims as they were leaving a mosque.
Stay tuned for endless lectures on Islamophobia.
That’s not fair. We get those lectures when it’s the other way around, too. *Kicks pebble*.
Yet, there is no lecture about how “this does not represent conservatives” or “beware associating all conservatives with this lunatic.”
There are no conservatives in England. There are only socialists that want to be integrated into a multicultural paradise and those that want a white-only socialist paradise.
Conservatives hold ~43% of parliament in the UK… the largest share even after the major upset this past week.
Tories are not conservatives, regardless of what their official party name says.
Hm, I don’t know much about UK politics, so its tough for me to really know who to believe.
TripodKat, UCS is right. The European “right” would be considered center-left in the US. And almost every anti-immigration party in Europe has a platform that is basically indistinguishable from the American Green party – except on immigration.
The first step will be determining his political affiliations. If he really comes from where that van was hired, it’s very possible he’s a unemployed, reliable, documented labour voter. The “Not all *insert political flavor* supporters are like this” screeching will happen, but the British tend to be a little more circumspect and reflective beforer they haul out that rhetoric.
If the perps are under 25, you’ll see a lot of “misunderstood”, “misguided”, “disenfranchised” language used.
Their lectures are quickly becoming absolutely meaningless
Oh great, they now have a new Dylan Roof. This is a prog’s wet dream. I predict that from now on every. single. timea Muslim extremist blows people up they’ll trot this guy out and say “See? There is violence and extremism on both sides, so shut up.”
I suppose we can just set up a body count scoreboard or something.
It’s maybe beside the point or maybe the crux of it that the guy didn’t jump out and start knifing people.
Do they? It kinda looks that way but they haven’t given the guy’s name yet and I noticed a mention of the Canadian Mussie on Mussie violence as an example of islamophobic violence so I am wondering if that might not be what this is.
Even if it isnt it wont matter. It was only a matter of time before they got some resistance to the invasion. The elites over there may have painted themselves into a corner. I am not sure there is a good way for them to respond to this.
The van was rented in Wales.
Fuckin’ terfysgaeth Cymraeg.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_-l0crIZKE
NSFW
I chi ddechrau ei!
“Bring it on”?
Dammit, fucked up my tense. Dechreuodd, not ddechrau.
Christ I hate conjugations and declensions.
Shia and Sunni Muslims – I lose track of which are from where, but they sure like to kill each other if there isn’t a Jew or Christian within easy reach.
Unlikely to be a sectarian event. I’ll put money on ‘white NAZI guy’, unfortunately.
There’s very little sunni vs shi’a conflict n the UK. The few shi’a I knew tend to be Iranian emigres who left when the ayatullahs got in and are hence quite secular.
BBC: “The prime minister said the driver acted alone, and police declared it a terrorist incident within eight minutes.”
Jeremy Clarkson?
Well, if there was a crash…I would have guessed Richard Hammond. That seems to be his thing.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/18/richard-hammonds-wife-almost-went-pieces-dramatic-crash-despite/
Too soon?
A legal immigrant will need to show proof that they can support themselves or have a sponsor who can. For me, this is the main reason to support some immigration rules. If you can come here and not be just another burden on the economy, then come on as long as you’re not a known or highly suspected member of a terrorist organization.
A legal immigrant will need to show proof that they can support themselves
About 90% by weight of our current immigration laws can be traced back to this. Its funny – as the welfare state has grown, so has the immigration bureaucracy.
“Want to test the bounds of the Non-Aggression Principle?”
I didn’t sign anything
I am not sure that stepping on behalf of a child who is being abused is a violation. In the case cited I wouldn’t care if it was.
Yeah, my understanding of the NAP is that it comes with a moral duty to stop aggression towards others if you can.
The NAP is like the red words in the Bible-a good thing to aspire to but often not realistic in the real world.
Yeah, my take is that if you can pass a purity test on any ideology, no matter how Noble it may be, then you haven’t thought about it much.
That’s why there marked red? Now it all makes sense.
The theoretical purpose of the state is to clear any proposed aggression by making sure (a) you’re getting the right person and (b) they get an appropriate punishment.
The theory does not necessarily = reality, of course.
A key phrase in the headline is “police say.”
The police may well be correct, in which case I anticipate the accused getting a fairly stiff punishment – and if not, that would be the time to complain.
That’s the beauty of the NAP. Other people don’t need to sign it for it to be valid. You just get to use self defense when they violate it.
For the guardian writer… once you understand what progs think is democracy is that they should be allowed to control you then the writer’s position makes sense
“BONUS LATE LINK: REAL FEMENISM!!!!!!!!! (No, seriously. Which is gonna cause a few panties to get soiled.)”
Nonsense – feminists have *never* been against women choosing to stay at home if they really want to – they simply liberated women who *wanted* to work from the shackles of all those Handmaids-Tale style oppressors who wanted to force them into sex slavery.
/sarc
(None of the above should be read to mean feminists have any sympathy for Donald Hitler Trump and his Hitlerian schemes to limit immigration from certain Handmaids-Tale style countries)
Wow. I stopped watching Test matches because they usually started out with 100-150 “dot balls” (i.e., deliveries without result – no runs, no outs) Pakistan killed India, and I’d be quite surprised if there are no internal shake-ups in the India team as a result.
“After bowling out the first two India batsmen in the first two overs, the rout was on and India’s innings were done in the thirtieth over.”
That sentence resembles English, only without any meaning that I can understand.
No, it is English. It resembles American. The nearest equivalent is: “Red Sox pitcher struck out the first 10 Yankee batters, and then went on to a 14 run win.”
Hope that helps.
Yes, thank you!
But Jinder Mahal* retained the WWE title, so everything is cool.
* – Actually Canadian.
Alexa Jones
Parody of Alexa
Literally, shit my pants laughing.
That would actually get me to buy one of those stupid things.
“Sorry, my testosterone is up. Swam two miles this morning and ate a big fat steak”.
Why can’t I ever saying anything that epic?
You should just start (even if they’re lies) and see how it goes in daily conversation.
That’s gold!
400,000 people attended EDC in 2016.
It was 109 degrees F in Vegas yesterday.
There were only 305 medical calls and only five people taken to the hospital–despite all those hundreds of thousands of people dancing in all that heat?
Only five divided by 400,000, carry the one, * x percent dancing on god knows what massively dehydrating substances = OMG, how’d they do it?
Umm… dunno, bro it’s a mystery.
But how would they know to do that if the government didn’t tell them?
It’s a dry heat.
Just turned on the TV. Some congresscritter is asking if members of congress should be ‘allowed’ to carry firearms for their own defense.
*facepalm*
Is it a violation of the NAP to slap people for intractable stupidity, ignorance or mendacity?
I think if it’s therapeutic it doesn’t count as aggression, although if you could smack the stupid out of people I’d wear my hands out by noon.
E. J. Dionne explains how a guy who hates Republicans shooting at Republican Congress members…is the fault of Republicans
“We are not, alas, about to enter some new age of civility because of this terrible episode. And our divisions are not just a matter of our failing to speak nicely of and to each other, even though politeness is an underrated virtue these days.
“The harsh feelings in our politics arise from a long process — the steady destruction of the norms of partisan competition that began more than a quarter-century ago. Well before President Trump took political invective to a new level, Newt Gingrich was pushing his side to extreme forms of aggressiveness….
“Gingrich won his majority in 1994, but the cost was high. This is not to say that Democrats were pacifists. But I’d argue that the critical shift happened on the Republican side. The turning point came when President George H.W. Bush was punished by members of his own party, including Gingrich, for agreeing with Democrats on the need for a tax increase in 1990….
“Yes, I am offering a view of our problem from a progressive perspective. For what it’s worth, I have over the years written with great respect for the conservative tradition and conservative thinkers from Robert Nisbet to Yuval Levin. Conservatism has never been for me some demonic ideology, and I am happy to take issue with those who say otherwise.
“But I would ask my friends on the right to consider that ever since Bush 41 agreed to that tax increase, conservatives and Republicans in large numbers have shied away from any deal-making with liberals. They have chosen instead to paint us as advocates of dangerous forms of statism. This has nothing to do with what we actually believe in or propose. Every gun measure is decried as confiscation. Every tax increase is described as oppressive. This simply shuts down dialogue before it can even start….
“…We can at least agree that political violence is unacceptable and that each side should avoid blaming the other for the deranged people in their ranks who act otherwise. Things have gotten so intractable that even this would be progress.”
“If they didn’t want to get
rapedshot at, they shouldn’t haveworn a short skirtlowered taxes.”When did they lower taxes? Boiled down, this douche believes Republicans are evil for not being Democrats.
Not saying they did, but that the delusional author thinks they are ruthlessly slashing taxes.
I wish Republicans were half as maniacly anti-government as progs think they are.
“They have chosen instead to paint us as advocates of dangerous forms of statism. This has nothing to do with what we actually believe in or propose. Every gun measure is decried as confiscation. Every tax increase is described as oppressive. This simply shuts down dialogue before it can even start….”
…They have chosen instead to paint us as advocates of dangerous forms of corporatism. This has nothing to do with what we actual believe in or propose. Every call to protect freedom of speech is decried as racism. Every attempt to protect the relationship between patient and doctor is described as oppressive. This simply shuts down dialogue before it can even start…”
“…They have chosen instead to paint us as advocates of dangerous forms of corporatism”
Yeah, as opposed to Hillary. Jesus F’ing Christ.
We can at least agree that political violence is unacceptable and that each side should avoid blaming the other for the deranged people in their ranks who act otherwise.
Two things. First it’s always funny how each side parrots this line when “deranged people in their ranks” act this way.
Second: why should we avoid blaming the other side of there is a close look between rhetoric and what these deranged people do? Are the anti-fa just deranged people? Or are they outspoken represents of a violent wing in the left?
And third, even if the other side is to blame by it own standards, then confront them with those standards and see if they’re willing to apply them or explicitly abandon them.
people who read dionne get what they deserve.
Brain rot?
Even among his ilk, EJ Dionne is particularly annoying.
Little Eddie Dionne reminds me of those punching puppets with the tiny fists of fury.
Spare me the bullshit Dionne. Compassionate conservatives made all sorts of deals. Neocons made all sorts of deals. Deficits don’t matter anyway.
Violence from the right: “Look what you did!”
Violence from the left: “Look what you made us do!”
Too bad the taxpayers are on the hook. Now if only we could get cops convicted of murdering people.
OK Glibs, time for a fun survey! What is your daily carry piece?
I’ll start: I currently carry a Kimber Pro Carry II. For the uninitiated, this is a Commander-sized 1911 with 8+1 of .45 ACP. It’s a bit heavy, but I love 1911s and I’d rather have fewer of a big round than lots of a smaller one.
^^^ATF agent.
Don’t blow my cover!
Whoops!
To answer your question, an M&P Shield. Love it.
STEVE SMITH IS ALWAYS READY TO SHOOT
IF I did, it’d be my CZ75 PCR. No doubts.
Until I get the P320C. That’ll be a tough call.
Living in New Jersey, I carry wishful thoughts of escaping to a free state with me every day.
I’ll be buying a PX-4 Compact before our new Governor gets a chance to further reduce my liberties.
EAA Witness Compact, the all-steel one. It’s an inexpensive knockoff of the CZ 75. You can convert it between a bunch of calibers – 9mm, 10mm, .45, .38 Super, .40 S&W. I go 9mm because I’m a skinflint. .38 Super is fun to shoot but I don’t feel like paying those prices. One thing – you’ll hear sometimes that they have a habit of cracking in the bigger calibers. That’s true. The issue is that Tanfoglio uses a crappy spring. Upgrade the spring and you won’t have any problems.
For 20 years I carried a full size Kimber 1911 with tritium sights. That damned thing shoots like a K-22…I cant miss with it. I still carry it on my hip while out in the woods but for everyday carry I switched to one of these:
https://www.sigsauer.com/products/firearms/pistols/p938/ *scroll to bottom
and one of these:
https://www.smith-wesson.com/firearms/model-60-3 *mine is blued
I’ve been thinking of switching to a revolver for a while now. I love the reliability and I’m just a suck for wheel guns. What do you think of the Ruger LCR?
sucker for wheel guns*, though I suppose I would consider sucking for a free one if there are any takers…
Don’t have one myself, but my friends mom wanted a carry gun, and after trying several out she fell I love with the LCR. Hers is in .357.
One of many afternoons where we were murdering cans in his field, we asked if we could borrow her LCR. It can be a little hard to keep your grip on it with .357, because being as small and light as it is the recoil is massive. But loaded with .38 the gun was fantastic. Not the most accurate, but it’s a snub revolver, what do you want out of a barrel that short? But more than accurate enough. We ran about 100 round through it a piece, mostly .38, and it had no problems at all.
For the price point I’d say go for it. One caveat, since the LCR, and most other guns in that class, are designed for women, if you have larger hands you may want an after market grip, especially if you go with a higher power round like .357. There are plenty available.
I’ve considered the .327 Fed Mag. Kind of an exotic round, but more power than .38+P and you get 6 instead of 5.
I really like the .327, I have a revolver in it. Granted, I also have 12 old break top revolvers (I collect them) in older .32 caliber rounds that the .327 was based off of, so I always have plenty to feed it.
LCR is fine, but it’s not much fun to shoot unless you’re a bit of a bulldog (small-ish and tough).
My grip is SIG 226-sized, so an LCR is kinda small in my hand. The original LCR in 38 is accurate and light to carry, but it’s a bit of a punisher if you want to get acquainted with it at the range. The 357 is – painful. If you ever need to shoot a perp, you should tell them that this is gonna hurt you nearly as much as it hurts them, then do both of you a favor and use the minimum amount of ammo necessary.
When I do shoot it, I’ll normally stop after 20 rounds and go get a beer. I deserve it.
I suppose I should qualify my statement on the recoil. The other two guns I shot that day were in .44 mag and .454 Casull, so my experience of the recoil being annoying but manageable for the LCR is probably off a bit. #6’s experience it’s probably more accurate.
If you get a chance to try one before you buy, try one chambered in .327 federal. The recoil will be much more manageable, and you can shoot 3 other lower power rounds out of it for practice.
It helps to realize that I’m a raging wuss when it comes to felt recoil.
P938 represent! I “carried”* a full-size Para-Ordnance for awhile. But let’s face it, a 1911 with a five inch barrel is just a pig to carry, especially with double-stack mags. I thought the P938 was the right size – barely big enough for my tastes. I had a some soul-searching over the 9mm (sorry, but to me its just on the very lightest side of caliber for killing people), but the .45 carry guns I looked at were still a little beefy.
*Infrequently. Did I mention its a pig?
There’s still that thumb safety.
Why have a thumb safety if you don’t need a thumb safety?
If you carried a 1911 for years before hand, and your thumb looks for the safety even if it’s not there, then I guess that makes sense.
The thumb safety doesn’t interfere with carry or draw. I’ve always thought it was quite intuitive. Plus, I’m old, so no safety makes me itchy.
Same here – spent my formative years toting an M9 Beretta for Uncle Same when I wasn’t properly armed with a rifle. No safety ain’t for me. And, turns out I like double-action, not the sameness of a striker gun.
that’s a sexy revolver
I have my eyes on a 686+ 3″, when I can figure out how to sneak it into the safe without SWMBO intercepting me.
My only firearm is a Taurus Judge (aka Judy), so I don’t carry her. She sleeps in my nightstand.
Shotgun shells, .45s, or a mix?
I have some of both. At the time I bought it, the .45 long was hard to find. I found a web site (thanks to a TSTSNBN commenter) that had a few boxes, so I bought them all. I think she’s loaded with the .410 right now.
http://www.ammoseek.com You will never run out again.
You should probably switch back to the 45LCs. My understanding (I dont have a Judge so not personal experience) is that the short barrel doesnt allow the buckshot to get much velocity. Standard .410 buckshot will barely dent a sheet of 3/4″ plywood. I know there is some .410 buckshot made specifically for The Judge (probably pistol powder…Red dot or Bullseye). If you have some of that it probably works fine, but I know for certain you can take 45LC to the bank…well, you probably shouldn’t, but you know what I mean.
If you and the squeeze ever find yourselves in Louisiana let me know. I have a few thousand rounds of 45LC loaded up. We will BBQ some ribs and burn some gunpowder.
I’ve heard that a good use for those is the first round .410 to stun the enemy, then .45 in the rest of the chambers to put him down.
Nice!
…reminds self not to initiate ‘surprise booty call’ at Kristen’s Krib.
You’re just as likely to get your eardrums shattered from the piercing yap of the pug.
So, busy tonight?
Asking for a friend with good range earmuffs.
If the squeeze doesn’t text me back by 4pm, and your “friend” really loves Antiques Roadshow…
He does, actually, although he finds the English imported editions more entertaining.
I thought you were describing a sex toy.
I don’t carry every day, but when I do carry, it’s a Sig P938.
Stay strapped, my friends.
Samsung S7
It’s funny. I have a buddy who teaches Kali, the Filipino martial art that includes use of everyday objects as weapons. I was over at his place a month ago and he smacked me with a smartphone in a workout. My nose bled for quite a while.
Weapons of opportunity!
All the youtube Kali tends to concentrate on knives and staves, but I tell you, a smartphone across the bridge of the nose or the edge of a shoe sole inserted under the temporomandibular joint with sufficient force is quite enough to mess someone up.
I’ve only carried 2 days in the last 15 years of shall-issue licensure. If I did carry every day, it would be with a Sig. Passive safety ftw.
I live in Maryland, so my EDC is a Cold Steel Recon One and a Kershaw Clash. If I could carry, I would probably pick up an M&P Shield in .40 cal.
Kel-Tec P-11.
Simple, easy to use, and either smaller and/or easier to use than my other handguns.
Right now nothing.
I will be buying something this month. PPQ is at the top of the list, but the ruger revolvers are always in my mind.
Im actually heading to the gun store today.
I recently swapped out my M&P9c for a G26.
I OC a steel Magnum Research Baby Eagle .45 it holds 10+1
One of the best guns for $600 you can find, but they don’t have a lot of accessories available.
Do you live in a rural area to get away with OC? Granted, OC is technically legal where I live, but I think I’d get kicked out of a lot of places and, at the very least, get lots and lots of very weird looks if I did that.
I think I’d get kicked out of a lot of places
Sounds like you need to work on your concealed carry.
I’m fine with concealed, I’m saying I don’t open carry unless I’m out in the sticks.
I OC everywhere in the Hampton Roads area (Norfolk, Va. Beach, Chesapeake and Suffolk).
I don’t carry to work since it’s on a base, and I’ve been kicked out of a couple of places, but people’s comments have been 100% positive.
I don’t even think about it anymore since I’ve been doing it for four years, but the first few times I really felt like everyone was watching me.
Hey Ron. Fellow Tidewaterian here.
Enjoying the humidity today?
It’s awesome, and the AC bas a frozen $1400 part that gets replaced tomorrow.
Wife says down stairs is 82 degrees.
Where are you?
Williamsburg, grew up in Seaford
I live in Suffolk and work on Norfolk Naval Station.
That’s a wonderful commute.
/sarc
It’s not too bad, 30 miles and it takes me 45 minutes with a $2 toll
A coworker lives near me and refuses to pay the toll and it takes him an hour
That’s my only complaint with CZ and CZ derived pistols. They shoot great but there’s not much of a market there for holsters.
I had to get a custom holster from F.I.S.T holsters and it’s very nice, but expensive.
Due to the statutory limitations my employer bestows upon me, not that anybody else at this hospital is realistically paying attention to such trivial matters, I always have one of these: http://www.eseeizula.com/
Otherwise I have a Walther PPS .40 or a Ruger SR1911 Government length.
This weekend I considered consolidating calibers by stepping up to something like a Kahr P45 or even going the revolver route with a S&W 325 Nightguard. Then I remembered how terrible S&W builds their triggers these days and considered that Ruger has better triggers, stronger frames but otherwise fewer caliber options out there for revolvers. I even went so far as to considering how much an Alaskan would go for with the cylinder machined for moon clips–it’s like I am preparing for a meeting with STEVE SMITH. I got tired of it and played KerPlunk with my 3 year old.
in Virginia now, pps m2 with the 6rd mag, no extra mags. single-stack is the only real option for me in this heat. when in DC and MD, nothing. i don’t get anxiety when not carrying but still choose not to be in those restricted zones longer than required for work.
NATIONAL RECIPROCITY NOW!!
National reciprocity might convince me to get a permit
National Constitutional Carry Now!
there will be no end to the gnashing of teeth and rending of garments should the House pass that bill.
wait, that’s a bill in the house?
I thought it was a pipe dream.
hypothetical. i doubt it exists.. yet.
Even better
M&P Shield in 9 with JHPs. I also keep my 92FS (same load) with two spare mags in the car on days that I’m driving instead of riding.
Sig P238 (basically a miniature 1911 in .380ACP) for pocket carry, which for me is about 75% of the time. .380 is a marginal caliber, so I have been considering replacing it with the 938 (similar gun in 9mm) but am concerned it is JUST larger enough to not work as a pocket gun.
If I decide to wear a holster, I usually carry a S&W E1911SC (4″ 1911, scandium framed) in .45ACP, either in a paddle holster or a cross-breed style IWB holster
I used to daily-carry a FN Mk3 Hi-Power in an IWB holster but I’ve relegated it to safe-queen status these days since they are hard to find
I prefer single-action-only autos that can be carried cocked-and-locked (which basically means 1911, Browning Hi-Power, or a couple of other related designs like the CZ-75 SA)
I have been considering getting a Ruger LCR, either in .357 or .38+P, as an alternative pocket-carry piece on the logic of, if I only get 5-6 rds, I’d rather them be something large and fast, but I haven’t shot small wheelguns well in the past so am worried the LCR won’t work for me either.
Ruger LCR 357 w 38+p
sloopy, is that first part an acknowledgement thst you and Na were wrong about the course?
long rough is fine. it appeared to be an appropriate penalty for missing the fareway.
I loved the early 2000s, when Tiger was winning seemingly every event and the talk was of “Tigerproofing” the golf courses…by making them longer.
Sure. The guy who’s outdriving everyone is at a disadvantage when the course is lengthened, not the guys who usually have to lay up on par 5s.
Wind-up monkey beats his tin drum some more
The right’s zombie-in-chief is the insistence that low taxes on the rich are the key to prosperity.
Low taxes on *everybody* are the key to prosperity, but that does not promote Krugabe’s notion of social justice.
Lots more in there about the intrinsic evilness of Republicans. The undoing of Obamacare is being conducted in total secrecy! We won’t know what’s in it until it’s too late!
What is your daily carry piece?
I don’t feel the need to lug a gun around with me. If I did, it would probably be my Sig p6. Single stack 9mm.
Here’s another little gem from Krugabe-
This is unprecedented. Ignore Republican lies about how Obamacare was passed: the Affordable Care Act went through extensive discussion, and Democrats were always very clear about what they were trying to do and how they were trying to do it.
Extensive debate, and then, when it was obvious the thing would never pass, Harry Reid used a little procedural sleight of hand in reconciliation. As I recall, he jacked up the title page of another piece of legislation, slid Obamacare under it, and, SHAZAAM! The ayes have it!
+1 passing the legislation to find out what was in it.
If you like your plan…
What a fallacious little shit Krugman is. I dare him to say that outside of his little bubble.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDgq-K2oYLo
I remember: Extensive discussion with the insurance companies, all while demonizing the very same companies.
He’s not wrong, they had a lot of internal discussions and were very clear about what they were trying to do and how, but not in the way he means.
The Washington Post is really trying to make this a hate crime story (Write an incendiary headline and hope no one reads the actual story)
I struggle with stuff like this. I don’t want to give them the clicks/views since I know that’s the whole reason why they do this.
What a shit article. A ton of ink, but pretty much nothing about the suspect, other than the police aren’t treating this as a hate crime.
other than the police aren’t treating this as a hate crime.
Mentioned at least three times, as if it were astounding that they weren’t doing so.
Clearly it’s a failure on the part of the police.
puppy loves golf. short game on point!
This link is great, you are all terrible.
imgur is blocked at my work.
Checked on my phone. Confirmed, super cute.
Worth it.
I didn’t post my reaction, but yes, that link is fantastic. The puppy’s reaction after making the putt is amazing.
I will never be as happy as that puppy.
None of us will.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE2tcalBh9w
Just discovered a whole parking lot o’ food trucks out here in suburban hell. Gonna sweat my ass off walking over there in a bot.
I suggest getting out of the bot first. Might be more comfortable.
If you have an iron man suit you could just fly.
Gundam suit?
Foodtruckapalooza!
*bit
too late the fun has begun
I should get groceries, but I’ll probably end up eating lunch somewhere instead.
Wait – you actually leave your office for food?
Does. Not. Compute.
We occasionally get fed here – when the Board is in town. Most times I just walk to the mall next door, but given that it’s an incredibly high-end mall, buying lunch is a $20 proposition. So I’ve been trying to find cheaper alternatives. I’ll probably need to start bringing my lunch from home, since my lazy ass been paying for the express lanes on the Beltway for both my morning and evening commute.
Are you near Tysons-II or something?
Yep
Ugh, I hate Tysons. Traffic sucks, the people are stuck up.. its just the worst. Godspeed to you.
It sucks. The commute, the pedestrian-unfriendliness, the expensive shit.
I’ve been making turkey sandwiches into work, then buying an avacado from the grocery store next door.
Put half on the sandwich, and usually end up just eating the other half woth salt and pepper.
My goal on lunches is to get it around $5 with a drink right now.
I buy bag salad, lunch meat, and ranch dressing. Add in some cheese sticks for snacking. Meals work out to be well under $5 a pop, also low carb.
By the 5th day the bag salad can be a little er, brown, so Friday is usually meat and cheese day.
I grill a bunch of meat on Sunday and make giant salads Mon-Thurs. Friday is a Jimmy Johns unwich because I’m tired of salads by then.
This is what I’ve been doing. With the number of times my cube has been relocated, it’s cheaper, easier and more reliable than chasing after local vendors.
I’ve started getting my lunches here from a local outfit that delivers a week’s worth of lunches (or dinners, whatev) at a time.
Really clever idea – its paleo-ish (which lines up reasonably well with my metabolism), but she does her marketing/distribution through local gyms, mostly Cross-Fit. Excellent focus on a good target market. The food is good. This is strictly local, but you might see if anyone is doing anything like this around you.
You know who else has a $20 proposition for you?
Barry Badrinath?
Exactly UCS, the orphans should be bringing it to you.
Fucking Tysons. The “food truck” lot is now a huge hole in the ground with various gantry cranes and dump trucks working furiously.
Always read Google reviews before heading out into 1000% humidity.
An actual good morning for freedom of speech at the Supreme Court this morning. Both 8-0 opinions!
1. Packingham v. North Carolina: SCOTUS invalidated a NC law barring sex offenders from all social media on free speech grounds.
2. Matal v. Tam. A convoluted 8-0 opinion that says that the Patent and Trademark Office can’t invalidate a trademark just because it’s offensive.
The supreme court really is the last thing protecting the first amendment.
Wait… what about….. you forgot….
oh
I suppose the last thing after the supreme court would be 50% of the country, along with their guns. If they aren’t lazy.
Which is incredibly frightening and leads to presidential elections being much higher stakes than they should be.
That is good.
Yet more reasons I think the future of the libertarian ideology rests in the judiciary, not elected officials.
Guess they’ll have to go after the Redskins in a different way.
The band The Porchmonkeys rejoice.
Unexpectedly interesting health care article.
An alternative structure can be found in the early decades of the 20th century, when the medical marketplace offered a variety of models. Unions, businesses, consumer cooperatives and ethnic and African-American mutual aid societies had diverse ways of organizing and paying for medical care.
Physicians established a particularly elegant model: the prepaid doctor group. Unlike today’s physician practices, these groups usually staffed a variety of specialists, including general practitioners, surgeons and obstetricians. Patients received integrated care in one location, with group physicians from across specialties meeting regularly to review treatment options for their chronically ill or hard-to-treat patients.
Individuals and families paid a monthly fee, not to an insurance company but directly to the physician group. This system held down costs. Physicians typically earned a base salary plus a percentage of the group’s quarterly profits, so they lacked incentive to either ration care, which would lose them paying patients, or provide unnecessary care.
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It’s easy to see the challenge of real reform: To actually bring down costs, legislators must roll back regulations to allow market innovation outside the insurance company model.
Heavy AMA bashing; hard not to like that.
Practical implementation of those much needed market innovations seems improbable. But at least she recognizes the real (to me) issue, which is the delivery of health care itself, and not tinkering with (or blowing up) the payment system for it.
Comments are largely idiotic hobby horse flogging, as always.
Because the free market never delivers what the customer wants.
Well, as every good prog knows, corporations are dedicated strictly to coming up with new and innovative ways to kill their customers. Becuz they are teh totes evil.
And yet I guarantee you that silly little fucker uses Amazon.
Probably even pays for her own groceries instead of just relying on her neighbors.
How the fuck does she get an oil change for her car, though? IT’S NOT COVERED BY INSURANCE!!!
Why are people so fucking stupid? It’s discouraging.
I’m sure this prog just goes around, giving his money to random sick people because “we should just take care of each other.” Idiot, we only take care of people we truly care about. Despite your virtue signaling, you don’t actually give a shit about anyone outside of your immediate community.
it occurred to me this morning that its going to be 110 in the next couple hours and numerous people paid no attention to the homeless guy outside the hospital.
I gave him some Gatorade, it isn’t $5 or heroine, but I’m sure he’ll appreciate it later today.
Wait – you helped someone in need without making a profit in return? You’re not a libertarian at all!!
/how libertarians are caricatured by “progressives”
Regardless of his politics, The moment Mexican sharpshooter gave the homeless guy some Gatorade, he ceased to be a libertarian.
They probably give me grief because his sign very clearly stated that he was hungry, NOT thirsty.
It was laced with rohypnol.
You got me. I will harvest his kidneys and sell them on the black market.
1. ???
2. ???
3. Profit!
Mexican sharpshooter, so now you’re obviously going to buy the homeless man a house, pay for a out-of-pocket checkup and any follow up visits to the doctor for him, right? RIGHT?
After all, we should all just care for each other. Translation: Make other people pay for my healthcare.
That’s an odd viewpoint, but sadly, it’s not unusual.
Here’s my question: if the government can provide healthcare for every single citizen with no injury to the quality or supply, why not do that for every industry? I mean, if it works for something as complicated as healthcare, why not do it for home construction? Building cars? Producing TV shows?
If putting the government in charge is the magic ticket to infinite supply and quality that is unhampered by that icky profit motive, why not just go full communist and have the government produce everything?
I know many “progressives” would agree to full communism, but there are still some who claim that they’re in favor of free markets “with some common-sense regulations to protect consumers and ensure fairness”.
“legislators must roll back regulations to allow market innovation”
Did writing this sentence cause the NYT writer to burst into flames?
I’m sure the writer will be summarily executed in front of the NYT building later this afternoon.
She’s a contributor, so no proper NYT luminary had to sully his hands with all that icky market talk.
+ 1 arms-length relationship
Rus Roberts interviewed her a few weeks ago. Well worth an hour of your time, she gets into the weeds quite a bit more than the article allows.
The final bit revealed she is too big gov for my tastes but still way better thananything post war.
There is hope for all you out-of-shape shlubs out there.
http://www.womenshealthmag.com/life/women-prefer-dad-bod
EXCELSIOR!
Do you think that it might be cumulative? ‘cos I have about two-dad-bods worth of blubber I’m carrying around.
That’s fine for them. I don’t prefer it for myself.
I’m too fucking vain to have a dad bod. Although I need to get back to my regimen. I’ve been slipping and it shows.
yeah back when I was 30 pounds heavier and had little arms and no chest, the ladies weren’t exactly paying me any attention.
Now? I get female gazed. *cries despondently*
I find that hard to believe.
yeah right. that’s utter bullshit
i would accept they prefer a dad’s cold murderous stare after spending 10 hours with their kids.
The thing about women is that there’s a huge difference between the kind of man they say they want and the kind of man they actually choose.
To the extent that’s true, I think the key is that “dad bod” takes the pressure off of them. It’s unusual to find a couple that lasts very long when one person is obviously better shape than the other. Another article I read about it put it like this: women don’t want a guy with a dad bod, they settle for a dad bod. They want a Greek god, or Thor, or whatever, but dad bod is comfortable, low-maintenance, unlikely to stray, and can’t really complain if she lets herself go a little bit. It’s like the sweatpants of physiques.
I have a friend who looked like Santa Claus when he was in his early 20s and got married ill-advisedly to his mess of a girlfriend. Lived in her parents’ basement, kind of a depressed, isolated existence. Shortly after they moved into their own place, he cut his hair short, started working out, and lost like 100 pounds. Damned if he didn’t start stepping out on his wife; got a divorce two years later. The joke became that you could tell the relative health of his relationship by what shape he was in, so when his current wife started bitching at him about eating too much we all thought, “Careful, sister. If he trims down it’s the last you’ll see of him.”
They might prefer dad bod but they prefer single childfree mid career salary wallet even more
YOU BUNCH OF REPROBATES!!!! How DARE you not even mention the greatest Baseball team ever. And their sweeping of the Giants with a Nolan Aranado Walk Off Home Run for the Cycle.
I was THERE MAN! (and I got a spatula)
A spatula? You all continue to confuse me with all these weird euphemisms.
You beat the Giants? Everybody beats the Giants in 2017.
Its to counter balance the Av’s season.
lol
And the euphemisms keep coming.
I traded Arenado for Scherzer in the beginning of the season and so missed out on his cycle last night. *lowers head, walks away”
On a Star Wars meme bender this morning instead of working, and came across this.
Imagine the reaction to that bit if a Republican president had said.
* – “…president had said it.”
SCOTUS invalidated a NC law barring sex offenders from all social media on free speech grounds.
Oh, come on. That makes perfect sense.
In fact, we should build on that, and make it illegal for bank robbers to buy or sell anything.
Anyone remember when Vice used to be kinda sorta quasi-libertarianish?
That was a long time ago.
https://i-d.vice.com/en_us/article/the-united-nations-may-finally-make-cultural-appropriation-illegal?utm_source=idtwitter
Yeah, those indigenous groups couldn’t possibly want a basis to sue and collect some sweet, sweet dollah bills in their own little act of cultural appropriation.
I wonder how many virtue-signaling liberals will be surprised when they find out going to their yoga class is now illegal.
I predict a whole new category of law, culture. Can you imagine the growth potential?
Not the biggest fan of Gavin McInnes, but when he left, all libertarianish ideas left with him.
Not much of a fan of his either, but I do appreciate how much heartburn he must cause the current proprietors of Vice when he is listed as “Vice co-founder Gavin McInnes” in news stories.
Of the right’s youtube and tv personalities, he’s up there. I will at least click on his videos. Crowder is more annoying in some places. Shapiro is Shapiro
Shapiro makes by far the most eloquent political arguments of the three, but his fundamental flaw is Israel. When you can’t separate what is “anti-Semitic” vs. what is “anti-Middle Eastern intervention”, we have a problem. This is the main basis behind the absurd argument that foreign policy libertarians like Ron Paul are against Israel and are therefore “ANTI-SEMITES!”
You know how (((those people))) get.
I like Shapiro, despite that. And a lot of what he criticizes are pro-Palestinian activists chucking bombs at the West and hitting Israel square-on. That’s not necessarily antisemitism, but it’s a denial of Palestinian responsibility as well as the responsibility of muslim countries in the region.
McInnes and Crowder, on the other hand, are more reactionary figures on YouTube, more cultural than political. Not my personal cup of tea (I think that Milo does a more effective job at what they’re trying to do, warts and all), but important nonetheless.
I can’t stand Shapiro. Aside from being a smug little shit, his voice is irritating to listen to. This is before we even talk about content. I don’t think I actually disagree with him on a good number of issues, I just can’t stand the twerp.
He’s got the Ted Cruz smarm problem: from a philosophical standpoint, you’d probably agree with him on everything except Israel and national defense. But yeah, he’s not for everybody, and he has that mousey little voice.
watched their latest guns/climate change episode. the interviewer really could not wrap her head around how much the Russians love the idea of warmer weather, lower heating bills, and shorter shipping routes.
“when we hear from the West on climate change, we hear words like ‘catastrophic’. what do you think when you hear climate change?”
and the guns portion of their episode purporting to show the future of firearms was the least interesting Vice i’ve watched.
My best friend’s cousin was just tapped by the Trump administration as a nominee for an appellate judge appointment. He’s a fair-minded individual, also a staunch conservative that was a “never-Trumper.” Awkward.
So, he has to begrudgingly recognize that even a blind squirrel can find a nut, and accept the appointment. I doubt he literally has to kiss Trump’s ring.
I thank thee, President Trump, for the opportunity to be humbled by you nominating me to a judicial appointment. I could only hope that my service would please you and provide for furthering of your agenda.
Pretty much. Of course he’s going to accept… and good for him. Honestly, the longer Trump is president, the more things I find to like about him, or at least the people that are steering him. Definitely better than Hillary or Bernie.
I find that the fact that he drives a certain group of people so crazy that they end up showing their true colors, motives, and where they want us to go, invaluable. And the dnc operatives with bylines that have spent decades telling us they are unbiased, have lost all credibility with anyone not part of that first group I mentioned. He has also set the precedent that people should work around these gatekeepers for the left. That alone makes his presidency worth it IMO.
It wouldn’t be so bad to have to kiss the ring, if it was a finger ring….
We now hold that this provision violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment. It offends a bedrock First Amendment principle: Speech may not be banned on the ground that it expresses ideas that offend.
*clutches chest, keels over*
Can this precedence please start being applied everywhere, all the time, immediately to once and for all shut down this absurd “speech is violence” bullshit? Pretty please???
Gavin McInnes spreading the good news to all Canuckistanis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpoYWROw5BY
The thing about portions is real. Everyone I know who comes here to visit from out of the country are really confused about why they give you enough food for 3 people. Until they see how fat most Americans are, then they get it.
It’s funny though because I didn’t really notice a difference in portions when I was in Canada or the UK. It might be that I when I go out in the US, I don’t tend to order things that are overloaded with sides. I try to eat low carb and paleo-ish. I just assumed that since people think our portions are huge, I would think theirs were tiny. But I always felt like I had more than enough to eat.
My wife and I always split any entree at a restaurant here in the US. Even then, there are times we can’t finish it.
Wait… everyone doesn’t hate the French? You’re killing me, Gavin.
He’s right about the racism. The most racist places I’ve lived are LA and Boston. The least racist in practice was the South.
Same here. I lived in Boston in the mid-80s, and in Richmond before and after. There is absolutely no question in my mind that Boston had much worse race relations than the Capitol of the Confederacy.
Nah, I think it’ll happen sooner. The putter kept Sergio out of the major column for a long time, and Rickie can putt. If Fowler doesn’t win at least one of the next 10 majors, I’ll be surprised.
Ace of Spades christens Chelsea Clinton “Chubble.”
Chubbles works better, imo.
Democrat dream team 2020 – Cankles and Chubbles!
Theres a new rainbow flag??
Why would we add brown and black?
Was purple a people now?
And yellow was racist this whole time!
Well, there were Purple People Eaters, does that count?
I bet there were fewer incidents than at a typical Vegas NASCAR. . . race
It wasn’t Vegas, but I think it was last year somebody put their grill in the back of their pickup after the pre-race tailgate. While it was still burning. Caught their truck on fire, and maybe one or two others. I doubt any cars were torched at the techno gig.
http://www.foxsports.com/nascar/story/pickup-truck-catches-fire-during-sprint-cup-race-kentucky-speedway-quaker-state-400-070916
Thought it was Bristol for some reason, but Kentucky.
Off-Topic: Hi from another lurker who followed you folks from the other site.
Fuck off, Tulpa.
Who is this Tulpa you keep talking about?? /Tulpa every time he was found out
evergreen
studentsprotesters hate green day.What.the.fuck.even…
The one person at the beginning of the video, who’s wearing all black, looks like the retarded offspring of Ozzy Osbourne does his sister.
“you should open for limp bizkit!”
Is forced sterilization of these people a violation of the NAP?
I’m beginning to reconsider my opinion on that.
They must feel so empowered.
I bet they celebrated their success for days.
I like that one guy and some chalk can distract four people endlessly.
It’s retards all the way down.
srsly, get a colostomy bag cozy or something. Nobody wants to see that.
That’s it. I give up. Humanity no longer deserves to live.
The video is lightly NSFW. I’ll give you the summary.
Ecosexuals ‘f**k’ nature to raise awareness of planet’s ‘sexuality’
Is it time for Exterminatus yet?
A Warhammer 40k reference? Man, this place *is* the geekiest place on the internet.
But if we’re talking about our deserved planetary destruction the Death Star would probably be quicker and less painful.
Calling someone out for a 40k reference is like narcing on someone in middle school if you see them shopping at K-Mart.
Burn, HERETIC!
*lights flamer, ignites Naptown Bill*
Entwood
Treebeard.
Did nature consent to this? Otherwise I’m assuming they would be brought up on rape charges.
that guy at 25 seconds (-30) is clearly realizing it’s not worth all that to get laid.
You mean he doesn’t’ want to get laid by the planet? That he might have ulterior motives? He’s just part of the patriarchy!!!!
I’d rather be an ecosexual than a ricosexual.
What do you have against Rico Suave?
Hopefully, nothing is close enough to be ‘against’ Rico Suave.
WOOD not.
Pack it up. We’ve had a nice run. SMOD time.
Splinters dude.
More ways to stick our collective dick in places it shouldn’t go.
(It’s not what you think)
And then, predictably this.
Chapman: “Violence is part of our collective political DNA.”
Here’s a thought I’ve been kicking around for awhile: maybe the fact that we can count the number of domestic political assassinations off the tops of our heads, and that the scale of violence is so small that we count the number of victims in the thousands rather than tens of millions, is a pretty good indicator that American political violence is just not all that noteworthy. High, sure, if you’re going to compare our hugely diverse country of ~325mil people to Luxembourg.
But continentally speaking, contrasting our history against any other similarly situated peoples over the same period, even accounting for our civil war, there’s no comparison. I don’t see why Europe gets a pass for lighting the fuse on its political powderkeg twice in a quarter century, or the Nazis or Soviets or Chinese for politically-motivated mass-extermination, or violent revolutions throughout the developing world, or Europe’s self-inflicted exsanguination by immigration. Are those not political events? Is it only when some Communist nutjob blows away an American politician that it gets recorded in the “political extremist” column? Or are we going to be honest that our political violence is minor, isolated, and tends to fizzle out quickly?
Chapman’s right inasmuch as political violence is not as shocking and unfathomable as we like to pretend it is in the aftermath of a tragedy. And I’ll grant that our day-to-day incidence of extremist violence is probably higher than Europe’s, although Europe is quickly being pushed to a crisis. The point is, I’ll take America’s perennial brushfire approach to political violence over the all-consuming once-a-century conflagrations that the rest of the world succumbs to.
Politics is about control of government.
Government is about the initiation of force/violence.
Ergo, politics is about violence. So, yes, violence is in the political DNA.
Except Chapman suddenly becomes an American exceptionalist on this issue, as if politics everywhere weren’t predicated on violence. The problem as I see it is that most forms of political violence are not deemed criminal.
The UK has an atrocious record of criminal political violence, France’s record serves as a cautionary tale to western nations, Spain was mired in it for most of a century, the Yugoslavia remnants had a not-so-fun time in the 90’s and on and on. I’m not sure about record in the low countries but it’s probably better than the US, as is Denmark and Switzerland et cetera. So basically there’s nothing special about the US in terms of western countries, we probably figure into the middle of the pack for large populous western countries and that’s factoring in a hugely diverse set of ethnic and religious demographics as compared (formerly at least) to Europe.
I’m not reading Chapman because… well, because Chapman
but you’re exactly right. one of the core features of “American Exceptionalism”*… (read properly to mean, “That which has made us our history incomparable to that of the rest of the developed world”) … is the fact that – civil war aside – our political environment has been almost entirely violence-free.
And what little violence does occur is universally considered *shocking*. the idiotic play-fighting in places like Berkeley is actually far closer to the norm in other parts of the world. Ok, maybe not as colorful, but the idea is basically the same: young toughs representing the extremes of each party routinely meeting each other in the public square to beat the shit out of each other.
Yes, we have had presidents get shot at with boring regularity. (and even boring ones like Gerald Ford get shot at). Because “right to bear arms” plus “free speech” means crazy fuckers who are armed are the price of doing business. But what’s most notable about most of these shooters is the fact that they’re *mentally ill* – not truly representative of political extremism in America.
by and large Americans are still a polite and orderly people who, rhetoric aside, dislike rabble rousers and shit-throwing malcontents. I think the “#Resist” nonsense is ultimately going to backfire because, while its satisfying for the progs and their endless social-preening, it mostly just turns off mainstreet-America.
I was worried someone would (rightly) point out that the Civil War is a *huge* hole in the narrative of mostly-peaceful politics.
I think the Civil War, or some similar catastrophe, was baked in regardless. If we were to have a United States, we would need to accommodate the South in some way. Else there’d be no revolution and no country, there would be English and French and Spanish colonies. So America = unsettled slavery question = succession = Civil War. And as far as these things go, as destructive and heinous as that period and its aftermath was, we came out of it an abolitionist country. We didn’t systematically starve tens of millions of peasants. We didn’t industrially murder millions of ethnic undesirables. We didn’t fundamentally restructure the American society like Maoist China. We corrected an untenable and unsustainable question left unanswered in our founding.
^secession, ffs
He’s taking writing lessons from Robby
Conservatives can blame inflammatory anti-Trump rhetoric, just as liberals have faulted the president and his supporters for their often threatening tone — both with ample cause.
So, after one day of soliciting donations, are we done yet?
Do we have a total (see, this is where Patreon would help you guys)?
my pay day is friday.
I hope the drive goes till then!
I think Swissy emphasized this point – if you’re in any way strapped for cash – it’s OK to ride for free.
I can skip buying a coffee or something. A few bucks should be ok.
I’m too thankful to not do something.
So grass or ass are welcome?
Man, Paypal must have really upped its game.
Well that first thing I can help with.
Libertarian is just one word for ‘dope smoking republicans’.
I wish that were true. republicans would be much cooler.
Gary Johnson Is that You??
How about bearer bonds?
I don;t know if any of you folks will recognize me, I was a longtime lurker at the other place. Anyway, I was the guy that made the artwork to go with SF’s Girl with the Nazi-ray Eyes Warty story. I goy bored the other day and
I did some hat and hair artwork
I like it, man.
The hat looks wired.
thanks
That is amazing. Thank you so much. I’m going to use it as the new banner for all the stories.
You honor me good sir.
Awesome!
Love it, the Hat especially.
Very nice work.
‘Bout fuckin’ time.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/06/19/trump-admin-begins-to-dismantle-obama-campus-rape-tribunals/
that will really piss off the protesters.
I realized I was referencing this
The undoing of Obama’s EOs alone is worth voting out Hillary. I’m liking 2017 more and more everyday. On a side note, it’s hilarious how Trump’s best cabinet picks (like DeVos and Pruitt) are the ones that got the most obstruction and fainting sessions from the Left.
It furthers my opinion that the left hates libertarians most of all.
Oh, that’s absolutely true. They hate us way more than they hate conservatives or Republicans. I mean, Republicans are just the flip side of a two headed nanny state coin. They know full well that there’s not many Republicans not named Donald Trump who are going to even attempt to drain their beloved swamp.
Yup. Progressives are statists first and foremost, which puts them almost diametrically opposed to libertarianism.
It furthers my opinion that the left hates libertarians most of all.
The punchline is – the right also hates libertarians most of all.
*cracks beer*
Yep. A really great example of this is to get on a site where people are commenting on a topic about legalizing weed. State your matter of fact opinion about that. Watch the contards attack. Watch how the proggies love you. Then tell them you’re a libertarian and watch their love instantly change to unbridled hate.
“I bet you don’t even want to tax pot to pay for [pet social program]!”
Libertarians will let children eat marijuana. Untaxed marijuana!
You let your orphans eat pot candy? You sure are generous.
The old dinosaur cons will attack, but not the young cons, at least from my experience. The young cons mostly like weed.
DONALD TRUMP WANTS COLLEGE WOMEN TO BE RAPED OMG /Every Headline for Two Weeks
TW: Government link. Committee of civil rights seal clubbers do not approve.
http://www.usccr.gov/press/2017/06-16-Efficacy-of-Federal-Civil-Rights-Enforcement.pdf
So basically all the non-white males are now in danger from the unbridled hate of white men.
Well, it’s definitely dangerous to some people. Mostly swamp critters with do nothing government jobs. Everyone else will be just fine.
Kinda stealing a base there, assuming “less enforcement” = “more discrimination”.
You can tell you are dealing with someone weakminded when they spout obvious pre-digested talking points. Note the shift from “communities” of color to “____ people”. Not something that you would say unless you were spouting pre-memorized cant.
I’m really starting to like this Secret Nazi President.
Now 5 out of 5 women on campuses will be raped.
6 out of 5
DONALD TRUMP WANTS COLLEGE WOMEN TO BE RAPED OMG
We all do, son.
We all do.
I think “rape” is a strong word.
Almost as strong as my urges.