Well, good morning! I hope y’all had a pleasant Juneteenth yesterday. Mine was alright. Got some work done, built some furniture for my son and celebrated the littlest one’s (Justice Forall Sloopy Juneteenth Spicer) birthday. I bring it up because every time I have an anniversary, or every time one of my younger kids has a birthday, it makes me thankful for the group of people assembled here and at reason because they were such an integral part of my wife and I meeting and starting our family. So thanks to all of you, in an indirect way.
Looks like the NBA teams are trying to shake a few things up in order to compete with the Warriors next year (which probably won’t work). The Celtics are looking to get better value for their draft picks (which probably will work). The Lakers are trying to not completely suck ass for another year (but they probably will). But in the end…its still pro basketball and it still sucks compared to hockey, football, baseball, soccer, rugby, cricket, curling, badminton, UFC, college basketball and the spelling bee. Sorry, that’s just how I feel.
Hey, Tiger Woods is “getting professional help.” Which is usually code for “I’m preemptively trying to get on the judge’s good side before my trial.” Unless it means he’s getting the professional help he really needs. Which would involve Butch Harmon moving in with him and dedicating all of his time to reconstructing a swing that works. But that ain’t happening and the slide into mediocrity will continue and Jack Nicklaus’s record will stand. Which is only fitting, seeing as Nicklaus is the greatest golfer of all time.
Astros won! And in college, Florida State is hanging in there after knocking CSF out of the CWS. And meanwhile, Oregon State is managing to avoid the distractions that pederasty usually brings with it and won again.
That’s it for sports. Notice I’m struggling mightily with it now that playoff season’s over? I warned you. But only 69 days till college football! We can do this together, friends. And either way, its not about sports here. It’s about…the links!
Who will win father of the year? Nanny-staters probably think it should be this guy. As for me, I think he should (metaphorically) be chucked head-first into a woodchipper. Christ, what an asshole.
Carrie Fisher
Damn, Carrie Fisher went out like a champ. I guess she was trying to get into character for the Leia Organa scenes she hadn’t filmed yet (didn’t work). Or she was trying to get back into that costume (was never gonna work). Or she was trying to get into heaven a little smoother (apparently did work).
That Georgia special election will come to a close today. I hope it means I will stop getting tweets, fundraising emails and incessant reports about it, whoever wins. Make your predictions in the comments as to the outcome. I personally think Team Red will squeak it out but Team Blue will declare it a (yet another) moral victory in the string of moral victories since November.
That student that North Korea returned to the United States has died. He was in a coma when returned last week.
It gets more expensive to live in San Francisco. New labor deal is reason for increase, says company granted monopoly for trash removal by city.
Rahm Emanuel: Idiot
What to do when you run your school system so poorly that kids can’t learn how to fucking read by the time they drop out of high school in the 9th grade? Why, you double down on the retardation! This might be the worst idea since the Twilight series. Hell, it may even be worse since Stephanie Miller didn’t know any better but this assclown does.
That’s it. Thanks for making it through. Y’all deserve a balloon.
Have a great day, friends!
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So apparently there’s a thing called “The Affinity Mag”. This is how it describes itself:
Now, these being teenagers, nearly all of whom are known idiots (source: was once a teenager), they seem to believe that “Always controversial” means that they need to be controversial for the sake of being controversial. Which leads to this tweet on Otto Warmbier
Replying to a Washington Post journalist, who said…
[link removed due to double link rule], they replied..
Many people in the comments have already tried to call them on their final sentence when it comes to immigration. Surprisingly they don’t have an answer to this.
Unfortunately, I can’t read the tweet in question, but I can only imagine it was stupid and thoughtless.
It’s cut and pasted at the end of my post.
Oh ok, I thought that was a different tweet. Re reading it makes sense now.
“respect their lawss”. Fuck their laws.
Ehh, the whole white-privilege crap aside, I have much more pity for someone like Shaneen Allen who faced draconian punishment for a trifling act in the totalitarian state of New Jersey. I wonder how many of the people on Facederp and MSM comments expressed even a tenth of the sympathy and remorse for Shaneen and her two young children upon her arrest.
Not many from what In was able to tell..
They go back to just being a kid when they are dead, Cyril.
The magazine itself is pretty fun.
Let’s play “Spot the glaring logical flaw.”
Thousands of Foreign Exchange Students are Missing and It’s Time We Do Something
Everyone has lost their minds:
http://reason.com/blog/2017/06/19/did-otto-warmbier-really-die-because-nor
Speaking of teens. Here’s Teen Vogue *educating* people on Native American culture via McInnes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVT3oe9sXjY&t=920s
Why would we accept on their word that he committed any “crime”? (And since when have lefties gotten so uptight about stealing posters? Their campus brownshirts do it all the time.) So this brutal, despotic regime isn’t above show trials, torture, and murdering Westerners, but taking a student hostage as a bargaining chit is a step too far?
I think it is a trumped-up charge (drink!), but the cult of personality around the Kims is such that their faces are national iconography. It wouldn’t surprise me if there isn’t a law about how you dispose of, and request replacements for broken or damaged household pictures of the Kims, the way you Americans have ‘flag disposal’ services.
Nonetheless, it’s farcical the umbridge these Western outlets take with the alleged crime. Even setting aside the question of whether it happened at all, it’s impossible to take the laws of a despotic slave-state seriously. The law is whatever the slavemaster says it is, however arbitrary or picayune or deliberately tailored it might be, which means it’s not a law, it’s just pretext for making arrests and doling out punishment. And these Marxist naifs reporting for teen gossip mags are championing it as a matter of due process! WTF?
Apparently Chrome didn’t flag umbridge because Harry Potter or some bullshit.
Iranians executing suspected gays? That’s just their law, and we have to respect–no, celebrate–their forceful, lethal application of Islamic law. We wouldn’t want to risk being seen as cultural imperialists by condemning the laws of an atavistic, savage ideology, would we?
If it was not for double standards, these people would have none. After all, to them their ability to virtue signal is what is important, and picking on people that can’t or won’t reply with violence, is the safe bet. That’s why these douches go off on christians and white men, but wouldn’t dare to say anything bad about blood thirsty mooslims.
This is what drives me absolutely nuts. There is no evidence he did anything wrong. The fact that so many supposed news organizations uncritically accepted the accusation of the most despotic regime on earth is disgusting.
Repugnant and revealing. It’s not about respecting the “laws” of North Korea, it’s about getting in some digs at a white guy.
Because the people writing these insipid hot takes are knee-jerk bigots.
There was video of him tearing down the poster in the hotel. Not that 15 years of hard labor was the appropriate punishment for that heinous “crime.”
No, there was a grainy video of an unidentified person taking down the banner. You never saw the person’s face. There is no way to view that video and say it’s Otto Warmbier.
“When you can watch a white man who entered a theatre and killed a dozen people come out unscathed, you start to believe you’re invincible. When you see a white man taken to Burger King in a bulletproof vest after he killed nine people in a church, you learn that the world will always protect you….”
Because those things are totally legal here?
Would it be possible, given an infinite amount of time and energy, to get this person to understand the dissonance between that tweet and their views on illegal immigration?
I’m going with no, and an additional hell fuckin’ nah that idiot will never learn anything.
Bothers me that the hardest virtue signalers always are the dumbest and least likely ones to ever learn anything from real life, even when they are bunched in the nuts by their stupidity.
Surprisingly they don’t have an answer to this.
Wait, you mean to tell me that teenagers might possibly have wildly inflated perceptions of their understanding of reality with virtually no ability to substantively support their presumptions?
Unpossible.
But not the U.S. laws, like the 2A, amirite?
That’s not a real law or anything.. The D.C ban on guns is a real law!
Some readers of Affinity Magazine seem to know what’s up
I want 99 Luftballons!
Just don’t let them loose over eastern europe.
I assure you, there will be a time for Nena. It just wasn’t this morning.
Here’s Nena in 2010
Wood.
Damn! She must be one of those people who hit the genetic Powerball, like Catherine Deneuve or I suspect Marion Cotillard. And for the record, I’d let someone shoot me in the knee for a night with Catherine Denueve. Today. She’s my grandmother’s age and I still get a raging boner when I see her. Deneuve, not my grandmother, who is a lovely person in her own right.
But she’s no Catherine Deneuve, that’s for damn sure.
You seem to have a thing for women that don’t shave their pits… /j
Susannah Hoffs is another ’80s star who has aged really well.
She also youthed extremely well. Susanna Hoffs could give a zombie a boner
Early morning nutpunch link: It’s long, so save it for when you have time, but read this NY Times account of a Florida sheriff who’s done everything in his power, including trying to take down the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, to protect a deputy who almost certainly murdered a woman (they called it suicide), and has succeeded.
Much thin blue line is what keeps us safe driving murderers. If the keep a few from getting Justice so be it!!! If it weren’t for them there would be murderers running free!
That’s an enraging article.
Word of advice to young women, don’t marry cops.
https://youtu.be/XB_G68H67hY
what is this? game of thrones or something? king’s men can murder with impunity? happy to read the mayor and sheriff are political enemies. that’s one shred of promise.
“forward recoil”? What the fuck? How does anyone buy such obvious horseshit?
GA is tight though, team blue might pull it out, in which case we will hear no end to the trumpeting of Trump’s imminent downfall.
At least the BBC seems to think so http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40340081
The spin in that story would make the DPRK news agency jealous.
It’s kinda sad really, back in HS I would read BBC out of a belief that it was less biased then our own news outlets, but as I grew up I came to realize that that wasn’t the case. OR maybe they have just gotten more biased with time. Also I see they are still running with the body slam story.
You’d think they’d acknowledge that Team Red has won every federal race they’ve ran in since November.
Given the accuracy of polling in the last election I’ll wait for the results.
So much this..
Lena Dunham’s Dad Showed Her How to Use a Tampon—and She’s Very Grateful
Well, if her dad was doing things like this, it could explain why she molested her little sister. Just saying.
What a fucked up family.
That’s odd. I mean, if she was raised by her father alone it would male sense, but otherwise it’s just off a little, why bring up birthing children? Weirdo.
Because the story is not true or exaggerated.
Or it is. I mean, there has to be an explanation for her, right? I’m not sure that sort of idiocy arises ex nihilo.
These stories are likely partially or completely made up to fit whatever narrative that idiot is trying to peddle, all to up her creds with that virtue signaling crowd, is my guess here.
You just have to wave your male privilege in her face, don’t you, shitlord?
Always
I could see birthing children coming up like this:
“When I was your age, you would already be pregnant and chained to the kitchen sink you ungrateful little whelp.”
Followed by something about dragging the sink up hill both ways through the snow.
I’m not clicking on that link because it might have a picture.
It’s not that bad. It looks like the topographical map of a hairy caldera.
The horror. The horror.
Sounds like man-splaining to me. I can’t believe she would look fondly on that story. smh.
like probably no dad before him and no dad since
Really? I mean widowers / single-parent dads never had to deal with this? Ever?
You do all realize that middle schools have mandatory health classes that include units on personal hygiene?
IIRC, tampon boxes have instructions on them too, so unless Dunham was an illiterate, habitual truant, it’s likely that she covered the basics in Middle School, almost all state legislatures (and I can’t imagine that NY isn’t one of them) have mandated education on topics such as HIV/AIDS, so i can’t imagine they’d avoid something as trivial as this.
Of course, there’s always the distant possibility that it’s a bunch of bullshit.
No idea since I don’t have daughters.
Not a disproven potentiality.
Although menstruating is a few years away, as the single father of a girl I can assume that I’ll be buying her first pads/tampons, and I’ll also make sure she knows the basics of how to use them before she runs off to the bathroom. If she is uncomfortable talking to me about it, then I’ll call my mother or one of my sisters and she can talk to a woman about it. She should know about menstruating before then, but I don’t trust public schools, so I’ll still make sure she knows what is happening and how to deal with. Because I’m not a shitty parent. This isn’t revolutionary.
I wonder how many years away we are from seeing parents arrested for failing to preemptively furnish hygienic products to school-age girls against the day they’ll need them, because child abuse.
Don’t give them any ideas.
To think, she’s been putting tampons in her ass all these years.
You owe me a new monitor Scruff..
Aisle 8a.
TL; DR.
“And we all know that because Lena Dunham is the every-woman”
Holy shit. Thankfully that’s not true or the end of the world would surely have already come and gone by now.
–“Don’t be silly and say dads are useless. Yours came in handy!”–
I thought it was her sister that came from Lena’s handy?
“The ins and outs of patriarchal society”
These euphemisms…
Catch a glimpse of sasquatch at the Bigfoot Hideaway Motel grand opening
Is Crystal Falls near Crystal Lake, if so I could see a nice cross over happening.
+1 head lopped off with a boat oar.
+1 Neck hole violated by RAPESQUATCH
SOMETIMES STEVE SMITH TO PAID GIGS. AND BY GIG MEAN RAPE
Let’s play spot the interest group!
Hmmmmmm…
Rapist sasquatches?
The plan makes sense to me. Obviously, if these kids haven’t learned to read yet they are just late bloomers and need a few more years at the community college to help them.
Totes, they just need more time and tax dollars to get their head straight.
Yes, and require it by law. Nothing like the threat of the state to motivate you towards success.
I see a cottage business popping up where people “sell” job offers right before graduation only to have to pull the offer a few weeks later due to cutbacks.
Hell, they could replace the taxi medallion system with this scam.
I see a potential revenue source for GlibCo.
Our potential adoptee meet ‘n’ greet went way better than I expected. He’s a good kid – interested in stereo gear (having fixed a receiver he found in the trash), working on cars, and is also interested in philosophy. He seemed genuinely surprised to find out that I build my own stereo gear, have done engine swaps, and have a philosophy minor. If he did become my son, I would probably push him toward a trade school – electrician/mechanic – since it seems (as far as I can tell) that he struggles with concentrating at school; if he’s interested in something, then no problem, but otherwise he has a hard time summoning the energy to do English homework. Which sounds familiar to my own mindset back then.
Anyway – no major negatives (yet) and my wife and I drove away feeling quite enthused about the whole thing.
oh and thanks to everyone who replied to my post about this yesterday.
Congrats, LH. Good to hear it went well. Sounds like y’all are on a (tentatively) good path. Hope it all works out.
I hope it works out – that is a very noble thing you are doing.
Hope everything continues to go well for all involved. I would be willing to do this but my wife got fed up with the process of adopting at the early stages so it’s more money for toys for me.
Congrats, sounds like a great first meeting.
If he can’t read The Awakening without his eyes glazing over, then what good is he to society?
Kid: I like engines!
LH: Son! I like thinking!
Kid: Dad!
Soooo, when do you ruin his life and introduce him to Glibertarians?
“I like horrifying political fanfic!”
Congrats! We adopted all three of ours. It is definitely more challenging the older they are, so just be prepared. Also, know that it’s common to have a “honeymoon” period where things go great in the beginning, then the challenges show up. Knowing that and being mentally prepared will help. But older kids are often kicked aside and forgotten so it’s great you are doing this.
thanks!
An older kid was not our ideal – but hey, we thought – we can always adopt more. And yes, I’m expecting everyone (including my wife and I) will be on our best behavior and then slide down the hill back to normality.
This kid really wants the family experience – even at 17 – which is, I imagine, a point that many teenagers in his situation mentally check out. We can only see how things work out.
Did he know what a “tube” is?
I mentioned vacuum tubes (even though I told myself that I wouldn’t!) and he just nodded. I assume – at his age – that he doesn’t know what a vacuum tube is. But I could be wrong since there are a lot of guitarists who still use ’em.
btw, during the recent neighborhood block party I got to talking to the guy who was hosting. He has several Moog synths, a vintage Hammond, and a few digital synths. Also all tube amplification for his instruments.
Your neighborhood has better block parties than ours does.
My last neighborhood the block party was horrible – I left within twenty minutes after the long pauses in conversation.
This neighborhood is filled with boozers who also have good taste.
Our neighborhood is a weird mix. No other musicians that I have discerned, and no consumers of fine alcohol- all the block parties feature Tecate, thousands of screaming children, and a few hundred little yappy dog-rats.
Luckily, I’m on a block of scotch and bourbon drinkers. I make up a keg of margaritas for the girls, and we slink off to one of the garages for scotch, cohibas and turbochargers.
Once the sun goes down, the turbos get shut away and we go and talk guns. Ammo all locked away.
Congratulations. Adopting is a ridiculous process from what I hear.
Did that 22 years ago and the process was insane. Can’t imagine how much worse it is these days.
Some good pics of old AWA wrestlers. Nick Bockwinkle is still my favorite wrestler of all time.
Forgot the link: http://www.startribune.com/the-mini-apple-grapple-a-look-at-twin-cities-rasslin-during-the-1980s/429434433/#1
Makes me want to watch The Wrestler again.
Every summer the AWA would put on barn storming tours and travel to a bunch of small towns in Minnesoda and have one night fights. My buddies and I would travel to a ton of them.
The highlight of our lives was in Wadena, MN. We were in the second row (a bunch of cocky 17 year olds who had drunk a few beers on the way there). Right in front of us were a bunch of little kids who still believed in wrestling. Jimmy “Hollywood” Garvin was the bad guy wrestling Curt Hennig (a good guy at the time).
During the match Jimmy Garvin kept flipping a hold by pulling Curt’s hair. Of course the ref didn’t see it. The kids in front of us were going crazy (and the rest of the farmers in the gym, too) about the blatant cheating that wasn’t being caught.
During all the other matches, we had rooted for every bad guy on the card. Mr. Saito. Baron Von Rashke. I forget who else.
So finally the ref – ignoring everyone else in that gym – looks right at us and asks if there has been any hair pulling. We all made the universal hand gesture for “open hand” to the ref and he instantly tells Curt that he needs to stop complaining because no one has seen this so called cheating.
The whole gym (and especially the kids) were apoplectic that we were letting the bad guy get away with it and booed us. We high fived each other like crazy. What a rush.
Baron Von Rashke FTW!
I met him at MSP many years ago. Coolest guy EVAH!
Go to an NXT show. It’s WWE but their developmental/minor league and is a ton of fun. Took my kids to the last one here and saw Shinsuke Nakamura take on Bobby Roode in a tag match. Nakamura is now up on Smackdown and Roode will be headed to Raw soon I’m sure. We’ve done big WWE shows but unless you want to drop serious coin on fake wrestling, it’s not as intimate and visceral as NXT.
Nick Bockwinkle was the consummate world’s champion. Down my way (also before my time, but I love wrestling and wrestling history) it was Flair, Lawler, and Race. But Bockwinkle carried himself like a legitimate champion athlete and cut the most articulate promos of all time. Flair and Lawler were characters and wildly entertaining, but Bockwinkle looked and acted like the champion of a legitimate sport. And then Bobby Heenan, the comedic genius, was there just for shits and giggles.
The AWA, imo, could get really boring at times with the style the presented (Greg Gagne vs Larry Zbysko…), but Bockwinkle was always a step above the rest.
In a universe that contained Haystacks Calhoun, Bobo Brazil, and Bruno Sammartino, everything else is gaslight.
And Junkyard Dog, right? RIGHT?
*narrows (((gaze)))*
No Backlund?
Backlund was a legendary fitness freak. Dude would ruin stairs for hours at a time, do hundreds of squat thrusts, etc. He came back to the WWF in 1994 when he was 45 and had been out of wrestling for 10 years and could still go like nobody’s business.
He also turned heel and was excellent at playing a raving lunatic. Probably because he actually is
I run into Bob every November. My kid and I do the East Hampton Turkey plunge to raise money for the town of East Hampton and some neighboring towns to help feed people, and he shows up to help with that event. Dude still has an insane workout routine and looks great for a septuagenarian. And no, I don’t live in East Hampton, but my town doesn’t have an event like this where I can go for a swim in early November.
Speaking of Reason, it looks like they have memory holed a few commenters. It happened to me, but they fixed it pretty quickly. Not just trolls it appears. Seems like Monte Crisco got all his comments wiped, too.
I mean your comments must take up tens of megabyte’s worth of space, so it’s just cost cutting.
Judging by the server issues they had, it wouldn’t be surprised if they ran out of storage space.
what’s a “Reason”?
/in denial, sobbing over Shack, ENB, Tucille
/looks skyward
WHYYYYY, REASON???????? WHY DID YOU CONTRACT THE DERANGEMENT SYNDROME?????
Access to D.C. cocktail parties..
Cross in Pensacola park must come down, violates Constitution federal judge rules
Forcing the faithful to pull down their symbols is as much an infringement on the free exercise of religion as the establishment of an official church. The Judge is wrong and these litigative bullies in the “Freedom From Religion Foundation” need to be slapped with punitive damages for the tortuous abuses they’ve inflicted.
Would you be ok if a city said they were going to build a public park so that a cross could be erected there so the (Christian) community could come together for Christmas and Easter?
I’m pretty religious, and I’d have a problem with that.
My prospective solution was made in all seriousness. These parks should be sold off and proceeds sent equitably to taxpayers (based on how much each paid last year).
If built for that explicit purpose, that is beyond the remit of the city. The communities can fund their own spaces.
In the context of “We have this monument that’s been standing there for decades”, ordering it town down at this point is definately the wrong decision as well.
And I’ve seen court cases where the court has gone “Okay, we’ll sell the five square feet the cross stands on to a nonprofit that will take care of it.” This produces some of the most righteous screeching and rending of attire by the anti-faith bullies.
That’s a pretty imposing cross to be on public property.
The best solution would have been for the judge to order the sale of the park.
That would have been hilarious.
We went to Bayview Park all the time when we lived in Pcola, and I don’t ever remember seeing that thing despite the fact that it’s huge.
As an Athiest I tend to agree. As long as the city is willing to allow any faith to erect religious symbols on public land and the symbols are paid for and maintained by private organizations there is no Separation of Church and State issue.
The one place where you do tend to run into problems is in most of the communities where these issues have arisen is that the city is NOT ok with any other faiths symbols being displayed on public lands and actively comes up with reasons to artifically restrict them
I know of one JC who will be disappoint.
Given the cross was donated by a private group, I’m wondering how the judge reasoned his way around Pleasant Grove.
Finsbury Mosque Terror: Theresa May says attack justifies her plan to crack down on internet use.
What are you supposed to do to woman who just doesn’t get it the first time?
They hate us cause of our freedoms!
I don’t notice any black eyes. Maybe she hasn’t been told properly.
You forgot the part about telling her to go make you a sammich after the instruction brah!
I dunno, take her party to near-defeat in a general election rather than giving her a landslide in a campaign against an old-school totalitarian socialist?
Not only is he a full-on Stalinist, but he and his ignoramus girlfriend are widely despised in the UK even by socialists, and yet Theresa May did everything in her power to diminish her majority in parliament. This was her major failing even she was Prime Minister, she’s a security state fetishist. The only credit she deserves is that she has somewhat faithfully pursued Brexit despite being anti-Brexit before the vote.
‘Has’ – being the past tense. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
I fear for he future of Brexit negotiations.
The DUP looks to be the Tory partner in government, and they want to put Farage on the negotiating team. That might mitigate some of May’s Remainer residuum.
Let’s
electpick a barren cat lady for Prime Minister and pretend she’s conservative.from the nanny state article
To use the parlance of our time.
FUUUCK YOU!
Just because you’ve dropped a phone / tablet / computer in front of your kid for the last decade doesn’t mean you get to call in the government to have your back. You’re the adult, be the adult and clean up your own mess!
Hear, Hear! Don’t rely on the gov’t to do anything right. It’s amazing that with the melt down over Trump and his supposed abuse of power that people still refuse to see the downside of giving the gov’t more power.
“I’m not the government.”
Ok that checks out.
“And us parents need to decide what is best for our kids
Can’t say I disagree
“And we can’t do it alone.”
GTFO
Yes, you are a parent. But you’re not my kid’s parent, I am. And I say she can do whatever the hell I allow her to do, and that includes watching The Secret Lives of Pets, a.k.a. “Dog kitty movie” twice in a row, back-to-back, while she strolls around the living room looking for things to pull off of shelves.
I’m gonna translate him:
we can’t do it alonesome of us are too lazy to raise our own kids and would prefer we be able to pass off unpopular parenting decisions to the state instead of look our kids in the eye and tell them we are the boss until they are older.”“It takes a village to be an asshole.”
CNN gets A+ for their article, a paragraph of two sentences questing the wisdom of nanny dad and his legislation. The rest is glowing support for the legislation. That some hard hitting journalism. Of course we get ONE study that CORRELATES screen use (according to the article TV is notable absent from the focus of the study) with speech delay, but has no impact on body language, social interactions, or gestures. Thus with that ONE study the nannies have all the data they need to push this legislation.
I would encourage nanny dad to take 4+ hour day time trip alone with my son in the car. The first two hours my son will be asleep, but the rest of the ride he will be a howling banshee in which at times even watching Tumble Leaf on his kindle will not calm him down. My son hates car seats (which are probably modern day torture devices) and daytime car rides. Once his ass touched the car seat he was screaming. After 6 month my FIL bought him a kindle. Now car rides between us to the in laws (2 hours) are easy as our son (now 14 months) will either fall asleep to the show or enjoy watching it. He likes sitting in the car seat as long as we turn on the kindle.
Anecdotally, my cousin is a speech therapist. Her son (3 yo) is super smart. His vocabulary is astounding thanks to her deliberate speaking with him using real words. He has gotten screen time though as I saw him use his mom’s phone when he was 2 and younger.
Heh – I was just talking to my dad about an old car trip that we took down south. I was maybe seven or eight at the time. Someone pulled out in front of our Oldsmobile. At the same time my dad managed to slam on the brakes and swing an arm over his seat to strong arm / push me solidly against the backseat.
Of course back then we didn’t have car seats but roamed freely in the backseat – getting in fights with my siblings or falling asleep slumped on the floorboard or against the armrest.
We got our first minivan in 1986 when I was ten, and I loved it because I could move all around the back between the two rows of seats. Nobody wore seat belts then.
His solution is to make it illegal to sell phones to children under 13? So I guess he’s been taking the phone away from his kid, but the kid just goes out and buys another one? How many 12 year olds and under are buying their own phones?
Two of the major retailers I worked for in the past had policies saying they do not sell phones to kids under 13.
You are missing the point: he won’t buy his kids a phone, and so he doesn’t have to deal with his brat complaining that you bought your kid one, he decided to prevent you from buying your kid one.
Given that the phones require a contract with the phone company and 12 year olds cannot consent to contracts none whatsoever
That was my reaction. That’s how I used to scam Columbia House when I was in high school – I’d get my 10 CDs for the price of one, never buy another one, and they couldn’t do anything about it because I was a minor.
This so much. I wonder how many thousands of CD’s they ended up giving away because of that?
All of them, I’d think.
That’s not exactly how it works… the kid signs the contract and the Phone Company is still bound by its end of the bargain. The Phone Company can’t enforce the contract against the kid, however, for lack of capacity.
kids of an anesthesiologist.
Thank Dog that I didn’t read this yesterday while I was prepping for my colonoscopy. I would have gone super nova in the expulsion of vomit and shit.
Fan boi journalist writes about his inclusion in Al Franken’s book. I’m sure this columnist would wonder how anyone can think of him as anything as a hard hitting newsman, even though he wrote this:
Speaking of which, did they find anything in your trunk?
Franken is a fake Senator.
What is interesting is that Lefties are always bemoaning the lack of bipartisanship and comity. Then they tell you how much they all love Franken. A guy who joked about writing a book “I Fucking Hate Those Right-Wing Motherfuckers.”
Also never forget that Franken is the guy who body slammed a protester in the name of free speech.
The sex must’ve been damn good.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/young-couple-drown-after-car-10650509
something that’s the handbrake something not my penis
My guess is that she was blowing him and as the water rose she kept trying to sit up and escape.
“I can’t breath”
Then with his eyes closed, he would push her head back down his ego expanding because no other gal had ever given him such a compliment.
“That’s right, you are gonna choke on that fat cock”
Then when he noticed that she had drowned and water was rising, she had his cock in a literal death grip. I don’t care if you are Michael Phelps, you aren’t going to be able to swim out of a car window all the way to shore with your crank vacuum locked into the mouth of some dead gal.
Er, you really seem to have, erm, thought this through…a little too well.
Jimbo used to have a gig with Sid Hudgeons writing ‘confessions’ for “Transom” Mag.
I came.
Um…so it appears you finished that on-line course at the SugarFree Writing School?
Only a fool would show up to the in person classroom version of that course. Especially since that involves Warty as the TA that runs the lab section of the course.
At least we now have some idea why 55 gallon drums of lube are even a thing.
“Lab supplies” Even us online users get hit with those fees.
I blame vodka.
I got an erection thinking about how many useless county and state employees this would take care of. If I win the lottery, I’m getting this fucking thing and going around fixing roads. I’m going to be the Robin Hood of potholes.
Ha! They “fix” potholes here by slapping on more tar into the hole. A few years later the road looks like No Man’s Land.
Ship one to Illinois ASAP.
You’ll have to pay in cash.
Did that video say the entire technical part of the process takes less than five minutes? Holy shit, that’s the greatest thing ever for road maintenance.
Yeah, but that thing will put people out of work. And that’s bad progress.
And they failed to show where the slot in the machine is to put the grift. How can you have any street repair happen without grift?
We have the best situation of all, Holiness – all of the grift
the actual road repair.
Our potential adoptee meet ‘n’ greet went way better than I expected.
Nice.
I watched The Red Pill last week. It was refreshing to find someone willing to actually listen to others’ point of view. The film-maker clearly needs to be stoned/burned at the stake.
https://acculturated.com/feminists-find-red-pill-hard-swallow/
“No one who protested the film had seen it.”
You know who else found it hard to swallow…
Lorena Bobbit?
Me when I had pharyngitis?
“This might be the worst idea since the Twilight series.”
I watched all of them. Then again, I’d watch Kristen Stewart read the newspaper.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4620708/Kristen-Stewart-hand-hand-Stella-Maxwell-London.html
She’d look more attractive if she had more than one expression for that face.
And if that one expression didn’t look like a bulldog licking piss off a stinging nettle.
*opera applause, with one extra “Bravo” thrown in*
That’s the attraction. Every guy thinks he can wipe that resting bitch-face away with his cock.
I think it’s brave for Count Potato to tell us about his attraction to non-binary humans.
You mean like her?
https://twitter.com/MsBlaireWhite
She does.
http://www.fashionnstyle.com/articles/61885/20150520/kristen-stewart-smiling-photos.htm
SCIENCE!!
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/06/another-left-wing-science-scandal.php
“Briefly put, the author of the IARC’s carcinogenicity study, Aaron Blair, an epidemiologist from the U.S. National Cancer Institute, covered up his own research showing that exposure to glyphosate did not lead to a higher incidence of cancer in humans.”
Well, that’s settled.
He was an epidemiologist. It’s gonna be epidemics all the way down. isn’t it?
But I F****** love science
If a leftists lies about something and makes a ludicrous claim unsubstantiated by the scientific process, it is still science because it was the right feelz and concensus!
You know it’s bad when Mother Jones admits it’s a lie.
Yeah, but the commenters are keeping up the fantasy.
I am sure a Venn Diagram with those folks, anti-vaxxers and NO-GMOZZZ types is a single circle.
The NBA teams may be trying to compete with the Warriors now, but none of that will matter in a few years when the young Sixers core starts to dominate. Arguably have 3 of the top 6 u23 players in the NBA now.
Yeah. And can’t win 20 games with them.
If Embiid and Simmons stay healthy, the Sixers make the playoffs next season. The East is weak and will get even weaker if Butler or George end up on the Cavs, so no stretch for the Sixers to get in as the 7 or 8 seed. They’d get swept the first time, but in a few years, when all the Warriors are getting into their 30s and the Sixers core is hitting their mid 20s prime… well watch out.
Oldie but goodie.
I love this guy, talking like an exploited production worker forced to buy his goods from the company store and work 7 days a week, 14 hours a day for a robber baron. OSHA and minimum wages were in play in 1917 too?
*Goes up to LEO*
Can I speak to my comrade…
I feel like the Bolsheviks would be turning in their graves if they say this guy as their political progeny.
As so many have already observed, cosplay.
Those are some pathetic revolutionaries.
Love the comrade in dreadlocks who appears later in the clip. Isn’t that cultural appropriation?
Other than that….christ, what epic losers.
And selfish pieces of shit too, blocking workers from getting to work. Muh comradez
About a minute from that starting point, he says “you can’t arrest him for defending a woman from getting punched by a grown-ass man!”
One minute, he’s Mr. Egalitarian Peoples’ Revolution; the next minute, he’s reinforcing patriarchal social norms.
Hillary Clinton Told FBI’s Mueller To Deliver Uranium To Russians In 2009 Secret Plane-Side Tarmac Meeting
Not to give too much credit to the mammal with the cankles. But why did they go through some secret plot to return stolen enriched uranium back to the original owners (who were not particularly anyone’s enemy at the time)?
Listen, shitlord. She was doing work with the Russians before they started trying to hack our elections. Therefore there’s nothing to that story.
Retailers would also have to file a monthly report to the state Department of Revenue that lists whether the type of phone sold was a smartphone or a cellular phone and how old the owner was at the time of the purchase, according to the statement. The Department of Revenue would then create a portal to investigate these reports and collect any fees and penalties from the retailer. The first violation would result in a written warning, the second violation would carry a $500 fine, and the fine would double for each subsequent violation.
“You know, to most of the people that are saying things like, ‘Well, it’s a parent’s right; how dare the government do this,’ I would like to say, I’m not the government, I’m a parent. And us parents need to decide what is best for our kids,” Farnum said. “And we can’t do it alone.”
FUCK OFF, SLAVER.
Well, just had one of those fun Nigerian-Southerner can’t understand each other tech support calls. Actually, his english was perfectly understandable. He was finding me incomprehensible. Also, I’m not sure “ampersand” is a word that everybody knows. (Trying to spell a password for reset)
One of the funniest “divided by a common language” calls I heard of was back when I worked on a help desk. A Mubai call center agent ended up connected with an engineer in another part of India, and neither could understand a word the other said…
I admit, I’m fairly incomprehensible on the phone to something like 98.5% of the English-speaking population. Although for some reason the guys we work with in Norther England understand me perfectly.
Me too – a heavy jaw makes me a mumbler. That and years of shyness + speech issues (couldn’t say my Rs when I was young).
My first name has two of them. And I still couldn’t say them.
To this day, I hesitate before saying “girl”.
That was the toughest one for me.
Lord H’s or robc’s first public speaking engagement?:
https://youtu.be/OuALwLhUmKY
Could be both?
Back in the day I would kick you in the nuts. I still go into a (((controlled))) rage when someone says they can’t understand me. But that’s what happens when you get mocked as a kid for not being able to speak very well.
I was guessing mawwiage scene from Princess Bride.
If you abandoned the hockey mask, it might be easier?
I hope you guys know I was just kidding.
You sloop? nah. Never entered our minds you might be.
No probs – it’s like a Pavlovian response from me. I’ve almost slammed the phone down during a conference calls because a salesman kept repeating he couldn’t understand me. Instead I went outside after the call to walk it off.
Embarrassment: Turns out I needed a new handset for my ancient landline phone.
My issue just went away with *time. But those horrible speech therapy sessions in elementary school still piss me off to this day.
*new studies show that a lot of young speech issues just go away as the brain continues to grow.
THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS
They might have helped a little, but I doubt it.
TLSD was diagnosed with quite severe apraxia when she was 3. She laughed when she wanted to say “yes” and went “Ttttt” for no. She ended up doing speech, physio and occupational therapy, and got her addicted to chewing gum to improve her jaw muscles.
The most valuable insight we got was from the speech pathologist, who told us that despite what all the other *parents* might say, yep, she’d outgrow it. In fact, the whole thing is like people who call the fire department when they see a cat in a tree. How many cat skeletons do you see in the branches of trees, or under the trees?
The issue is (and I *do* agree here) is that it stops their educational advancement elsewhere which can have knock-on behavioral effects. And, given TLSD’s and Lord H’s. problematical relationship with authority and government, I’d say that rings true.
I had a pretty bad lisp as a wee Dean. I have fond memories, actually, of speech therapy in elementary school. The therapist had the patience of a saint, and I got out of class. The therapy, going by vague memory, was some exercises and a lot of reading out loud (which is probably why I liked it). My lisp basically went away – therapy or just aging out of it? No way to know.
You have a Southern (US) accent? Well if I remember what I read correctly, that dialect hails from Northern(ish) England originally.
When I worked in Switzerland, there was a Scot there. We needed a girl from London to translate.
I understood about 1 in 3 words he said. Ditto for him.
When I was embedded with the Scots Borderers, they had one private they called “Mumbles” – even the other Scots could catch about 2/3rds of what he said. The only thing I understood him say, first time, was when he threatened to shoot a feral dog that always menaced us near the gate of an Iraqi Army unit.
In Okinawa, we had two Jamaican guys in our squadron. Individually, no one had any trouble understanding them. When they talked to each other, though, and the patois started flowing, it was impossible to have any idea what the hell they were saying.
Alexa Jones
https://twitter.com/MSamenfink/status/876411281049362433
Sanders, Warren tell Americans to demand health care bill transparency
Amazing how transparency becomes important again when you’re not in power.
I keep trying to demand health care bill transparency and no one will tell me what anything costs beforehand.
The hospital my daughter was born at allowed us to prepay for a “discount”. They actually broke down all the estimated expenses. It was the closest thing to a transparent bill I’ve ever seen. Of course there was fine print saying unexpected medical procedures not included and the anesthesiologist bill was not included.
In my experience anesthesiologists are grossly overpaid and grossly under-skilled. I’m sure the cost of their services has a lot to do with insurance, what they do is a dangerous thing and I’m appreicaitive of all the ones that put me under and didn’t kill me in the process. But at the same time some of the most negligent and underperforming medical staff I’ve ever come across were anesthesiologists, who then charged me about $5k despite having failed to do their job.
Monopoly man. Who the fuck is going to undergo surgery or a colonoscopy without being knocked the fook out?
The left jumped off the Uber train a long time ago, but now they are done with all ride sharing (except public transportation of course):
Lifehacker Article Forgets Target Audience
The article itself is just reviewing the new Lyft Shuttle, which the left has mocked as Lyft trying to claim they invented the bus (they never seemed to have made that claim.
But the comments:
yes, it’s a bus. but it’s worse: it’s a fucking charter school. like, you can improve a shared public good (buses) or you can add a private company into the mix, and take away from the public good, thus creating adverse selection for the public good by skimming the customers away. that in turn will lead to worse public good outcomes on behalf of a (alleged benevolent but yeah fucking right) private company.
it’s stupid, it’s gossamer transparent, and just like with charter schools once again liberals will eat this shit up as being “innovative” while in fact it’s just a wealth transfer of the worst kind, and makes the hard choices (MAKING THE PUBLIC GOODS BETTER BY GIVING THEM DEDICATED LANES BETTER TECH ETC) go away.
fuck this.
MAKING THE PUBLIC GOODS BETTER
Buses aren’t public goods, dingus. They are unequivocally neither nonrivalrous nor nonexcludable.
I know it’s a lost battle, but it annoys me to no end.
I’ve made this argument at school about education. Everyone thought I was an idiot. Just because it’s something good doesn’t mean the market can’t provide it. Rather the contrary.
Even dumber is the bitching about needing more tech for public buses. Like somehow tech paid for by taxes is magically better then tech paid for by a private company.
When I nonchalantly called the teachers unions a cartel everyone except my professor looked at me like a lunatic.
It didn’t occur to me until afterwards that most people don’t know the word cartel outside the context of violent drug rings.
Does OPEC count?
They really aren’t wrong, they are just assholes.
Of course Lyft Shuttles will cream off the people in the intersection of “people willing to take a bus” v. “people unwilling to watch a bum shit on the floor” Venn diagram.
Maybe the solution is to stop bums from shitting on the floor.
Tents situation:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/06/18/outdoor-clothing-giant-patagonia-pledging-lead-resistance-trump/
Why are they willing to alienate customers? It’s retarded beyond belief. For example, if I’m to see a Patagonia product (and I did own one once upon a time) I’m going to look right past it now. Fuck Marcario.
The good news is that I might be able to pick up some nice poly propelene long johns for super cheap once they start going out of business!
The closure of both Sport Chalet and Sportsmart last year flooded the discount stores with top shelf gear at insanely low prices. At least out here in California.
But alas, that inventory is pretty much gone. Look forward to finding Patagonia gear at Ross at 70% off.
Do they think large numbers of stupid SJW millennials can afford Patagonia shit?
Based on my unscientific survey at my local coffee shop every morning; yes.
Given that a good chunk of those millennials are still living off mommy and daddy’s credit cards they probably can. Maybe not enough to keep a company like that afloat long term but for a while at least.
Fiduciary duty to the shareholders you say? AIN’T NOBODY GOTS TIME FOR THAT
I wonder how she felt about Burwell v. Hobby Lobby?
“Progressives” are totally cool with big corporations playing politics as long as it’s politics they agree with. I don’t know how many times I’ve heard them complain about such and such company donating to Republicans, but they get all giddy like schoolgirls when they talk about how “forward-thinking” another company is for financially supporting lefty causes.
I think (without googling) that it’s privately owned by some Frenchman.
Well then, sounds like she’s doing right by her company then.
i’ll be sure to send her the next pic i take of me in her company’s high quality orange rain parka with a white tail. oh the lulz that will ensue.
Yeah, okay, fuck you breitbart website. I guess I’ll never know.
every Chicago public high school graduate essentially already meets the new standard because graduation guarantees admittance to the City Colleges of Chicago community college system.
So, a completely worthless proposal.
So an associate’s degree from a Chicago community college has no value?
Actually, the statement in the article was that anybody who graduates from a Chicago high school gets automatic acceptance at CCofC. But to graduate from high school, the new proposal requires an acceptance letter. So if you haven’t graduated until you have an acceptance letter and you need an acceptance letter to graduate, it sounds like CCofC is not an option here. Nice Catch 22, eh?
“America Stands United in Hating Katy Perry”
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/448691/she-definitely-not-playing-her-strengths
(National Review has great writing, but I don’t like how their website blocks copying text.)
I’ll agree with the Katy Perry bit and disagree with the quality of NR’s writing other than VHD’s. They fired everyone else with an original thought.
Kevin D. Williamson, Ken White, Jonah Goldberg…
And Kat Timpf is adorable.
We’ll have to disagree particularly on Goldberg.
Subtract Goldberg, add Charles C.W. Cooke
And what is so bad about Goldberg’s writing?
He’s your stock inside the beltway establishment conservative. Basically a low-tax liberal who got exposed last year when NRO (with the notable exception of VDH) went full-retard on the Never-Trump rhetoric – while they were pumping every establishment Rino who jumped in and then failed miserably. He’s everything I despise about the GOP.
Much like our old place, Goldberg and the rest of the NRO crew were getting vicious beat-downs in the comments sections a year ago for being Rinos – so they switched to Facebook comments and lost a ton of readers.
The establishment types and the cocktail types hate them someone that could upset that apple cart…
Discarding the lubricious, healthy California-girl look and her bouncy shampoo-commercial hair, Perry looks like a German New Wave lesbian vampire with an eyeball between her lips on the cover of her new album
This.
She married Russell Brand. If that’s not a condemnation of her intellect and standards, I don’t know what is.
On the plus side, she subsequently divorced him. So maybe she’s sentient.
IIRC, he dumped her… by text message.
“Too vapid for Russell Brand”.
Oh, BURN!
That’s gotta leave a mark on the psyche.
She’s also an expert on terrorism.
http://imgur.com/uFTDDAE
You kidding? I love her old stuff… Does she have any new stuff?
But her new look is weird.
That is the article. Old Katy good, new Katy fucking awful.
Me too – have enjoyed everything up to her most recent weird ass 90’s R&B/dance soulless garbage.
This is why script blockers are very useful. I can copy the text from there just fine.
Any tips on figuring out the name of the script?
Look for the “oncontextmenu” event. You can search through the script sources of a website with standard dev tools built into browsers. It looks like the culprit is “nro.min.js”, but being mummified it is hard to read and tell what exactly it is doing.
*Minnified
Damn phone.
OK, it seems like that worked. Thanks.
Minnifcation is almost the same thing as mummification: in one case you wrap up a corpse and in the other you do it with javascript…
Can I still love her boobs?
Yes, especially if you catch her unplugged show.
I tried starting a Go Fund Me to pay her to pose nude before she lost them.
Whiskey and/or shot glasses
Beer glasses as well, I prefer the classic shape of a weissen glass.
I think Ossof will win. Ultimately Handel is just boring.
No way. I love his Water Music.
I drove over to the 6th for a nice Father’s Day dinner. I can not believe that district will flip to the commies via that smarmy beta-male shit-weasel. Oh well! stranger things have happened.
Hollywood poured close to $50 million into buying the left that seat, didn’t they?
Have some nonsensical whining to dunk in your coffee.
After all, polls show that a majority of Americans support progressive positions on most big issues. Yet Republicans dominate state and federal government.
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My instinct is that the answer for Democrats involves a passionate message of fairness — of providing jobs, lifting wages, protecting rights and fighting Trump’s plutocracy. It can be bolder than Democrats have been in decades. But it should not resemble a complete progressive wish list, which could turn off swing voters without even raising turnout.
Apparently, axe-handle-wielding skinheads chased away all the liberal voters. Or maybe it was cops with snarling German Shepherds. Somebody did, we know that much.
In any case, “liberals” don’t vote in sufficient numbers, or something.
I guess there oughtta be a law. Like in that enlightened liberal paradise, Australia.
But it should not resemble a complete progressive wish list, which could turn off swing voters without even raising turnout.
Oh, that’s just crazy talk. Those “polls” you referred to earlier are 100% reliable.
Pretty sure that’s what they have been doing, and no one is buyin’ it.
That might be their message, but they don’t back it up with anything. They totally lead from behind on gay marriage. They haven’t done shit about the drug war, and its racism. And they haven’t done anything to address the kitchen table issues of the working class. The only “right” they protect is abortion.
If the majority of Americans support regressive positions on most issues, why don’t Democrats dominate every single level of government? Shouldn’t almost all governors, senators, and congress
menpeople be Democrats? Or is it that these polls are a bunch of horseshit, just like the ones showing Hillary winning in a landslide?They would be, except the Russians and the Republicans worked together to steal those positions away from them.
I’m assuming that by most big progressive issues, they mean getting free stuff by using government force to steal from others.
Which once they find out about it they back down
Colorado shot down singlepayer
Washington shot down a rev neutral carbon tax
Polls say what you want them to say
Most liberals I know only vote in national elections, particularly the presidential election. Most of my liberal friends don’t even know that we just had a primary for governor. I didn’t tell them, just like I won’t tell them when the general election passes them by.
Why do I imagine poll questions along the line of:
“Should the government enact policies that will help everyone find a job?”
“Should the government work towards protecting rights for everybody?”
“Should the government work towards a more fair society?”
Basically pablum that everyone (in general) would agree is good. Hell, I’d even agree with two of those. The devil is in the details, and the fact that the progressive plans do the opposite of what their stated goal is.
I once got a marketing phone survey from my local electric company. The questions were so skewed, it was impossible for me to answer honestly. It was stuff along the lines of “Do you think Dominion Power is more focused on profit or people?”
I would hope they’re focused on profit as their first priority, but it was clear that they would view that as a “negative” answer in their results.
“Should the government work towards protecting rights for everybody?”
So they support the elimination of wealth redistribution and affirmative action and the reimplementation of freedom of association? Wow, when did that happen?
Of course not. But in their mind, those aren’t rights, while the right to force someone to bake a cake or perform a medical procedure is. Progressives argue like Humpty Dumpty:
Yes Minister on opinion polls:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0ZZJXw4MTA
So much this. Rigged questions followed by shaming people that point out the question are meaningless and the agenda is obvious…
And, of course, the obligatory ahistorical ignoramus pipes up:
Marv Raps NYC 6 minutes ago
Our constitution from the beginning was a democracy only for elite white land owners. Universal suffrage was never a goal. Whether by race, sex, age, or education, voting was restricted to ensure that control of the wheels of government were in the hands of the elite.
The Electoral College and the Senate defies the most basic principle of democracy: one person, one equal vote. Laws that make registration and voting more difficult for many people further ensures that a minority of voters will determine the outcome. (If just 60% of eligible voters vote, then 30%+1 can determine the result.)
Only constitutional amendments can fix the problem completely, by abolishing the Electoral College and reforming the distribution of Senators in accordance with population. Congress, if it were truly interested in democracy, can help by making it easier to register and easier to vote.
Yes, Marv, you are correct. The United States was never intended to be
a democracyruled by the whim of the mob.The Senate was a fucking compromise to prevent California (okay, Virginia and Mass) from rolling over everyone else.
Its a fucking feature, you fucking nitwit.
Also was supposed to rep state government
It is only a feature when it stops your guy. When it impacts my guy, then it is something negative or an obstruction to progress…
Didnt those white males pass the 13th amendment and women voting?
Is the dem party made up by non elites?
Wonder if mary is pissed because obama got 30 pct of eligible voters
Distribute senators in accordance with population? They already defeated half that chamber with the 17th amendment, so now they want to have two identical chambers in Congress? At that point why not just abolish the Senate and have a unicameral legislature? These people really understand so little of why the framers did what they did. But rest assured, this asshole’s vote cancel’s out your vote.
defeated half the purpose of that chamber*
They’ve already gotten away with forcing this upon every state, and they did it over 50 years ago with Baker v. Carr and then Reynolds v. Simms. Even though 49 states have bicameral legislatures, there’s really no purpose to the division any more, since both houses have to be selected by population. They got to rewrite 49 sovereign government constitutions by fiat and how many people even are aware of it?
Side notes: (1) the justification for Baker v. Carr was that “redistricting is not a political question and is thus justiciable by the courts”. Fast forward to 2017 and the courts are saying that redistricting is inherently political in nature which is why it’s okay for Democrats to redistrict by race but not Republicans. (2) the justification for Reynolds v. Sims was that “the states must guarantee ‘one man, one vote’ in their representation”. Fast forward to 2016 and the courts are saying that people who can’t vote must be counted for representation purposes. Results-oriented jurisprudence at its finest!
It’s enraging. Shit like that is exactly why the federal judiciary needs to have their balls cut off and replaced with smaller balls. Or just one medium sized testicle, max.
Vegetable Oils, (Francis) Bacon, Bing Crosby, And The American Heart Association
hmm… what does this remind me of? I just can’t my finger on it.
“Berlin Considers Banning Ads That Show ‘Beautiful but Dumb’ Women”
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/448777/berlin-considers-banning-ads-show-beautiful-dumb-women
I for one, look forward to more billboards with scantily clad Merkels and Albrights.
*puts barrel against temple, cocks hammer*
Fortunately, they fail both criteria.
Until the criteria are redefined, comrade.
What’s their criteria for someone looking dumb? A unibrow? A dunce cap? A crucifix? Should models be required to pose with their STEM degrees prominently displayed?
“Well, honey, we have this great photoshoot for you, but you need to lose 15 lbs and write a critique of Henri Bergson’s “Time And Free Will” in view of his later philosophical evolution”
“Can’t I just tell everyone I love animals and want everyone to coexist?”
I’m all for hot women in lab coats.
I guess Germany is trying to out-retard the UK?
Will they ban ads featuring bumbling husbands and wise wives? (FWIW, IDGAF)
That’s a standard issue sitcom format already.
So Katy Perry’s new act is an ambitious play for the German market?
Bravo!
So are they going to ban reality TV as well? I’m all for banning Bachelor and Bachelorette. I’m not allowed in family room when either to on because I mock them.
That might be enough for me to want to resubscribe to cable TV.
I was at the bar the other day and they had that beefcake who shat himself in some MMA show (John Cena?) running some retarded relay race competition with a quarter million prize. The only upside was some 20-y-o chick from NJ had to strip down nekkid for one of the races.
I always thought TV in the 90’s was brain-dead. I lack the vocabulary to be able to accurately describe it nowadays.
I don’t watch TV anymore outside of some sporting events and the occasional movie.
I always enjoy the Welsh word for stupid: dwp. Pronounced doop.
Throw it into Google translate and hit the sound button to hear it pronounced. The tone of depression and futility really sells it.
The origin of “derp”?
Being one of those filthy English cynics, I’d have to suspect it’s a new word, adapted from ‘dope‘, given that Welsh hasn’t invented any new words since about 1350 when the English pointed a metal tube at them and they decided they’djust steal the word ‘gun’.
c.f ambulance, breakfast, helicopter, hovercraft etc …
::big grin.
Wait, they’re saying women can be dumb?
Isn’t that a violation of Section 3, Article VII of the Prog Tolerance Act of 2016?
Emanuel’s proposal would add one more big item to the graduation checklist for high school seniors: proof they’ve been accepted into college or the military, or a trade or a “gap-year” program.
It’s a wonderful thing Chicago’s public education system is on such sound financial footing that they can afford boondoggles like this. It’s not like they’re teetering on bankruptcy or anything.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/maybe-chicago-schools-should-declare-bankruptcy-and-get-it-over-with-says-moodys-2017-01-13
“And for those who haven’t met one of those criteria, Chicago has launched a new program of public works that provides mandatory ditch-digging and highway-sanitation opportunities for high school graduates which will revitalize our city”
Gosh! What a great idea! They could build that high speed rail they’ve been salivating over with that labor force. It worked with the autobahn!
Looks like another opportunity for me to indulge in cultural appropriation. Need to pick up some firewater next time I’m in Kentucky since 190 was banned here for the childrenz.
http://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/ohio-city-on-track-to-replace-columbus-day-with-indigenous-peoples-day
I vote we replace that hack Columbus with Leif Ericson day.
Plus Viking Day would be more fun than Injun Day.
I’ve got my eye on a few pagan rituals already in prep.
This ERMAGERD RETHUGLIKKKAN VOTER LEAKS feakout is grating. AFAICT from the source report it’s all public information plus predicted political leanings. Even if there was any indication that it had been leaked to anyone but the security firm that found it — and there isn’t — it wouldn’t really matter.
According to the folks at the netsec subreddit, anyone who points this out is a GOP operative.
Yes, the media has gone full-retard with the HackerzOMG! narrative
if you read carefully, you’d realize the last update on the Election ‘hacking’ was actually very similar to this = evil sneaky russians “stealing” information that is often widely available in public databases elsewhere. Basically, attributing sinister motives to nothing but humdrum snooping for the sake of snooping. which is pretty much what everyone does with the internet.
So, how quickly will this story go down the memory hole? Although there seems to be layers so maybe there is still something here to further a political goal on the left.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4619826/Man-accused-killing-Muslim-girl-illegally.html
Let’s bring in all those good think AG’s who decided that giving people a break because they might be kicked out is a good idea.
(I know that this doesn’t apply in this case, but the grandstanding of it all pisses me off. Why are these AG’s suddenly all woke when Obama was the biggest deporter in town.)
I mean McAuliffe is openly saying he will pardon people who get arrested for minor crimes in order to avoid them having to be reported to ICE. I mean who are they appealing to? It honestly makes me think that some of these illegals have to be voting because pretty much everybody I’ve talked to whose registered thinks this is a ridiculous double standard(even some lefties).
Wtf is the dem party doing
It’s already been demonstrated illegals vote in VA.
If even they don’t vote, they raise the population enough in a given area to garner that area more seats in congress and more electoral votes than they would otherwise have. There is a perverse incentive to pack as many illegals into their census data as is humanly possible.
Wasn’t there a time when the US Army oversaw elections in VA? Something about stopping Democrats from interfering with the voting process? /s
It’s always difficult when the protected classes clash. Better to just not talk about it.
FTA:
Darwin Martinez Torres, 22, appeared in court on Monday to face a murder charge after he got into a dispute with the 17-year-old Nabra Hassanen and a group of her friends in Sterling, North Virginia, the Fairfax County Police Department said.
The dream of everyone living south of the Occoquan River.
They successfully got rid of the mountain hicks.
Hah! One of my friends posted on derpbook about this and was outraged this wasn’t classified as a hate crime. I refused to read the story but I now see the obvious answer to her question.
So at first they thought it was a hate crime, but then they found out the perpetrator was an illegal immigrant from south of the border, not of the white male category. So suddenly….
…..it becomes an incident of road rage.
This might help explain some of John McCain’s behavior. He apparently got into the “foundation” game and is raking in money from all sorts of insiders.
Soros, Clinton-Linked Teneo Among Donors to McCain Institute
ROFL!!!!!
A do tank?!?!?!?
All the staffers have to have tats and wear a do-rag.
More like a doo-doo tank, amirite?
Yes you are..
Only 215 comments by 10am? Slow day at glibertarians this morning. Im at the mechanic waiting for my car to get repaired this morning. News on the TV in the waiting room, not a single soul watching.
It is on you to change the channel.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-james-hodgkinson-foster-daughter-cathy-rainbolt-20170619-story.html
So, apparently our would-be assassin was a total piece of shit, all around. While the fate of the foster kid mentioned at the top is sad, it’s the one at the bottom that you should read… there’s a definite implication that the Hodgkinson’s might have burned one of their foster kids alive.
I sure hope the wife is being investigated, she sounds like someone who needs to spend the rest of her life rotting in prison.
I wonder why he was never convicted of anything?
I’ll take “probably because he was never charged the cops couldn’t build a case” for $10, Alex
^That was a bizarre posting. I’ll blame my computer.
No, as it says in the article- nobody came forward, so with insufficient evidence, no case. If Fernandez wasn’t squeaky-clean, the chances of his testamony alone might not sway a jury to convict.
They say witnesses didn’t show up for the hearings.
My guess is
a) They didn’t care enough to get involved.
b) They were scared of retaliation.
c) He bought their silence.
d) They didn’t know the hearing was happening because the summons were not delivered.
WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?!?
People rarely immolate themselves to commit suicide. When they do, it’s to send a message and is done in a public way. Jesus!
No reasonable prosecutor……
And if they do, why would they put the cans away from the intended suicide location?
They’re worried the cans might explode and hurt them as they immolate themselves?
I realize that we’re talking about Illinois, but what investigator on Earth wouldn’t think that’s suspicious?
“Welp, looks like a suicide, boss. She obviously grabbed two cans full of gasoline, drove down a deserted country road, doused the car in gasoline, walked back to discard the empty cans away from the car, walked back to the car, lit it on fire, got inside, and waited to slowly burn to death. Case closed.”
Are we certain all the drugs in Carrie Fisher’s system got there just prior to her dying? I mean, there had to be a huge backlog of coke from the ’80s still trying to sweat its way out.
No. Some of those things linger in the system for a month+ or more. Coke on the other hand will get flushed entirely out of your system within a week or so.
its one of the ironies of drug testing = if you smoke weed, you can get ‘busted’ by a pee test even many weeks after barely inhaling. If you go on a coke bender the prior weekend, you’ll probably beat it.*
*this is a mild exaggeration, but the point is that things metabolize at very different rates
Live police chase!
Huh. OK. TV station decides to follow motorcycle because he was driving erratically when they were out on their morning traffic report. No cops involved. Dafuq?
Was it a big guy in leather driving through a storm drain?
Holy fuck, that would be awesome! How do we do a Kickstarter to get someone to do this?
I love the fact you always link to police chases. it makes me giggle every time.
I don’t know why I find them so entertaining! I think it’s the helicopter narrators they have in LA (especially Stu).
Its Meyer, by the way. Stephanie Meyer wrote Twilight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephenie_Meyer
Lane Meyer’s sister, perhaps?
+ $2
Language of love…
Stated vs revealed preferences shows progs are toxic. Yet they insist on polls which of course can be misleading
Progs like to jump to conclusions. I support the notion that humans have some impact on climate change…dont want the government to do anything about it. Of course a prog would see this as supporting a carbon tax
Democrats are terrible to the folks that produce tangible goods here. How they think increasing taxation, regulations and licensing creates jobs is beyond on me (other than the small number of bureaucrats)
Any aviation nerds know what this is about? CRJs & hot weather, maybe?
You’re exactly right.
Leave it to the Canuckistanians to make a plane that can’t fly in desert climates!
It’s takeoff roll, I believe. I’ve experienced it in small planes, when you need a whole fucking runway to get in the air. And even then the climb out is pretty slow.
Tahoe used to be infamous for the high-hot-humid trifecta. I’m sure there are others even crazier. Persian Gulf isn’t high, but I wonder what the density altitude for some of those locations is during their insane 150 F + heat index days?
Longer runways, as long as the engine can build up more speed and isn’t maxed, can solve the issue…
The flip side of this is how dense air becomes when the temps are really low. Back when the CN Tower in Toronto was being completed, the builders had to use a Sikorsky Skycrane to lift the antenna tower into place, and apparently they had to wait until the forecasted “coldest day of the year” to do so. Claimed that the Skycrane would be able to lift an extra ton of weight during that weather compared to its usual specs.
Went off without a hitch.
Powerful enough to lift Justin Trudeau’s ego?
Ha. You need this.
The ego of The Hair That Walks Like A Man™ is self-inflating, so not necessary.
“The Convair NB-36H, much beloved of the Reavers”
Wow. That’s pretty cool. And because the internet is the greatest invention since beer:
how about some old footage of the beast in action?
Thanks, d00d. I was too lazy to go searching for it.
Delta had trouble flying their ERJs into Alaska last winter. Too cold for those planes.
Thanks again for the AAviatiin Day links! Couldn’t find find any decent fares for the date from where I am so will be passing this year.
I couldn’t even get tix – sold out in minutes for DCA. 🙁
I’ve wondered whether the temp restriction is because the plane will break if you fly it when it’s that hot, or whether its just because the POH charts don’t have a higher temperature axis than 118 F, and no one wants to tempt the liability gods by extrapolating the graphs.
It’s been silly hot, these last few days. Thought I’d read that Death Valley was flirting with 130 F or so.
I’ve lived in Tucson for several years, and this is easily the hottest I can remember. When I took the Dean Beasts for their walk this morning it was already hot (90 degrees), which is very unusual in our high(ish) desert climate. It didn’t help that we have three decent-sized wildfires not far enough away, and you could smell the smoke. I felt like I was a brisket getting ready to be turned.
The humidity here the last week or so has been in the 2 – 3% range. How the firefighters manage during this kind of weather, I have no idea.
It is the charts… No published data… you are now a test pilot with a plane full of people… have fun.
and by good science, you don’t extrapolate data… you can interpolate data given that you have tested the extremes… but saying.. hey.. this line is pretty flat here.. I’ll just project it, where you actually hit a material yield curve, not good. You can theorize the extrapolation, and then test it..
ITT temps will be going high, density altitude reduces lift, extends accelerate/stop distances, limits torque, etc..
That is ISA+35 13c (ISA @ 1000ft) + 35c = 48c= 118F.
The CRJ has the same limitation:
https://cospilot.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/crj200-limitations/
I have not found the ERJ charts or limitations, a quick look also shows ISA+35.
Yeah, sometimes it gets too hot to fly out of Phoenix. Other things it is too hot to do here this week include: purchase propane, use an oven, swim in a pool, and wear pants. The worst was when I went to the gym yesterday, one lady likes to camp out in front of the fan filling the entire gym with her stank.
It’s odd that only the CRJs ara affected. What about the ERJs? And the 717s?
It might simply be power-to-weight ratio – the all-up-weight of the ‘plane compared to how much lift that particular power plant can generate with the fuselage design (cue talks about energy-efficiency etc).
I think it’s unlikely that it’s the airframe itself,
This. They just don’t have enough balls to fight through it.
Or enough wing area.
Runway?
Royal Ascot – one of the biggest horse racing events in the world – is on this week. Dress code for men is morning coat & top hat. Officials are considering allowing men to remove their jackets because of the extreme heat. How hot is it in London? 84F
Doesn’t matter, as long as Dover moves ‘is bleedin’ arse.
84 in no shade would be considered unmanageable for many Brits. When temperatures in the cities start hitting 90, some town councils establish cooling centers. Let’s remember, ACs are a luxury over there. Last time Paris had a 90+ “heat wave” for 3 days, hundreds of people ended up in hospital. Many died as a result. I’m sure it was similar in the UK, but the “wonderful” NHS would work hard to suppress the stats,
But I have to say, 30 years ago, 84 and high humidity was pretty much unknown in the UK. When I moved to the US, adapting to 90 degrees on a regular basis wasn’t that hard, but the humidity slayed, and continues to slay me over here in NY.
Yeah, I moved from New England to DC 27 years ago and still haven’t adapted to the summer.
Well, living in DC is like living in someone else’s underpants, while they’re still in them.
Living in the Chesapeake Bay area you get hot and humid summers, and the kicker is that once you get about half a mile from the water you retain the humidity and lose any kind of air movement. I walk to work, and when I’m walking home there’s a point where as soon as I turn onto a particular street the wind is gone and the perceived temperature goes up about 5 degrees. Hell, I’m always about 10 degrees warmer than whatever the reported temperature is because I’m pretty sure the local weather monitoring station is on or near the Naval Academy.
Born and raised in Southern Ontario, I used to dread the onset of high humidity during early summer. Toronto and environs would fairly regularly get a thermal inversion, which, when you flew into Pearson International, looked like a brown force-field over the entire area. Inside that force field, the temp/humidity/pollution concentration would inevitably climb for several weeks, until humidex readings of 50° Celsius (120° Fahrenheit) were common. And of course, no-one got any sleep at night for several weeks, which resulted in a population becoming increasingly sleep-deprived and testy.
First time I experienced warm temperatures without significant humidity was when I moved to Edmonton. I thought I’d died and gone to Heaven.
Where I live now (Pitt Meadows) is famous for being as much as 8° to 10° Celsius warmer than downtown Vancouver during high summer, with higher humidity and its own variant of a thermal inversion. Now we have whole-house A/C, so I no longer really care. It’s just a good excuse to drink beer/cider. 😉
Liable to develop Dave’s Syndrome in heat like that.
I thought you meant this Dave.
No one can hold a candle.
All this blaming the victim bullshit from those unprincipled collectivist scum for Warmbier’s death just make me fucking sick.
“Don’t go to NK and do some shit that is perfectly acceptable in your own country and expect to be OK”
is the same as
“Don’t go into a frat house dressed like a slut and expect to be OK”
They are mad the dad made obama look bad
Those densely packed rhymes made me read that in Eminem’s voice.
I do think going to NK on a Chinese-organized tour wasunwise.
But that’s a Far Cry from thinking the guy deserved anything more than an education about slave states. Education can be expensive, it shouldn’t be terminal.
Far Cry 6: Hermit Kingdom.
Most of the game is spent roaming around, acquiring skills like “Eat Bark”, or “Inform on family”.
“Achievement unlocked: Things Got Methy!”
Did you slip the term “Far Cry” into a discussion about a brutal dictatorship on purpose?
Well, let’s just say it’s one of life’s little coincidences that it got capitalized. I’ll try not to do it again, because – well – if you keep doing the same thing time and time again – you know how these things go.
“Don’t go to NK and do some shit that is perfectly acceptable in your own country”
and
“Don’t go into a frat house dressed like a slut”
are both good pieces of advise, however.
Well, I agree that it wasn’t a good decision on his part to go on a tour to North Korea, but that doesn’t mean that I would mistake what the Norks did as anything other than murder. He didn’t deserve what happened to him just because he made a foolish decision to trust bad people.
Do I really need to clarify that I’m talking about the hypocrisy of SJWs?
Rompers for men, duh.
Lacy rompers for men.
I want my glibertarians beer coozie!
Needs to be a 40-oz
I’ll second this.
And suggest a fidget spinner.
jesse.in.mb is designing a… special one.
NOT THE PENIS ONE!!
Available in two versions, cut and uncut.
Purple helmeted warriors hardest hit.
The basics: bumper sticker, t-shirts (fitted for men and women), and mousepads.
Additional: Glib panties for women, boxers for men. Maybe a take off of a MAGA hat. Make America Glib Again
I second a mousepad. My AR15.com pad is starting to get worn. Also everyone keeps asking me why there’s a gear wheel on my mousepad.
What H. said. I like the MAGA hat idea, too.
My admin wears a pink pussy hat with MAGA embroidered on it. She’s a bit of a piece of work.
I think I love her.
These guys do some cool things with custom socks for fundraising. Glib editors may want to look into it
https://bakdrop.com/pages/getstarted
Thanks for this. We are always looking for more interesting fundraising for the band program.
Listened to your playlist over the weekend, btw. One of my favorites!
Thanks for listening. Will be adding to Jangle Noise soon. It’s now over 4 hours of guitar based rock n roll. No keyboards, no horns. From garage to surf, psyche, noise, power pop, no wave, post punk, and Buddy Holly. Guitars all jangly and sweet, and guitars noisy with feedback damage.
Recently added Royal Headche, Atlantic Thrills, the Molochs, Tiger Trap, King Tuff, and more!
Coming soon; Cheater Slicks, Sleeping Beauties, Ride, Go-Betweens, Radio Birdman.
https://open.spotify.com/user/egould310/playlist/20QahoaMym4xptW1UNzNpk
Oooh, that might work for me!
Shirts and mugs are items I’m most likely to pick up (provided shipping isn’t murder, which it often is). Mousepads are OK, but I have a big-ass gaming one which is solid and looks like will last me for a long time.
Tiny models of The Hair and The Hat would probably be too expensive to make, but man, I’d love to have them as monitor toys.
Bobble-heads of H & H would be awesome. But probably waay too spendy, unless 3d printing?
Like the sock idea, too. I have a wide selection of silly socks that I wear to work. People stop and ask to look at my socks. After I wore the flaming skull socks to one negotiation, and the Darth Vader socks to another, my COO checks my socks before a meeting to see where my head is at today.
Time to contact Oglaf and order some Sithrak socks then.
Warty Hughman in his time suit with doomcock? And STEVE SMITH, with or without surprised hiker “attachment”.
I think Secret Nazi President is the most likely figure, as it could also target the prog market. Only they’d be buying it unironically. Then, we could have The Hat and The Hair add-ons.
Radical Qatari Islamists infect US Service members with HIV and/or Hepatitis.
https://www.airforcetimes.com/articles/air-force-as-many-as-135-patients-may-have-been-exposed-to-hiv-hepatitis-at-al-udeid-clinic
Wait, that’s not right. That was the Air Force, nice job guys.
“…we want your ideas in what you’d like to be able to buy, if anything, for swag.”
Whatever it is should at least be tasteful.
Monocles?
Personalized orphans? Like, one with names and everything!
“we want your ideas in what you’d like to be able to buy, if anything, for swag.”
Flavored condoms.
See? Tasteful AF.
a STEVE SMITH thingy
Exactly what I don’t want, thanks.
Those are OK, but it always sucks when your buddy chews all the taste out of them before sharing.
And I also feel bad for the poor janitor who has to scrape the old dried ones off the bottom of the desks.
“So thanks to all of you, in an indirect way.”
This gives me a great idea…a Glibertarians matchmaking service.
(I’ve done the Big Picture work, if you can work out the details I’ll let youhave a share of the profits)
Aren’t most of the dudes up in here attached in some way or another? (the irony of you anti-government types getting married always tickles me in the same way the “Don’t Tread on Me” Virginia license plates do)
I wouldn’t be opposed to hearing if y’all have any hairy, beefy, 40-something brothers or cousins, tho.
Wow, everyone’s more traditional than I thought, NTTAWWT.
It’s … complicated.
So are most of the 5 or so women that post here. So there would be a pool of, what, 2 women and 30 men? Might need to grow our user base first.
Or embrace the disparity and create a reality show!
“We don’t solve problems, we create them and point cameras at them.”
I see you have a Hulu sub, too.
In my defense, I had to tow the Man’s line on marriage in order to keep Mrs Holiness in the country.
.. and you *still* don’t know what color her toothbrush is!
But I do! ?
I’m flattered you think I can trick someone with teeth into marrying me!
Even if I was cheating by poaching them right off the boat.
What about hairy, skinny 30something cousins?
Beefy. 40-something. As a tall fat chick, I like my dudes to be bigger than I. And reasonably close to my age.
So, having two dad bods isn’t a disqualifier?
Not necessarily. The squeeze looks like George The Animal Steele, for example.
My then three year old girl is watching the wife give me a hair cut and she says.
“You should shave your back.”
funny to this day.
Damn. If you were willing to let your age requirement, I know a 38 year old 6’2″ lumberjack turned army mechanic that could use his chest hair to clean cast iron. Oh well.
Go on…
You’ll have to wait three months or so for the divorce to finalize. He lives in the shadow of Elk Mountain; his family used to own it before it was turned into a ski resort.
Heh. Beefy Lumberjack AND ski resort.
Kristen’s in her bunk.
His dad’s the lumberjack, him and his brother(the younger brother being my best friend, which is how I know them) just help out when he needs them.
Do you REALLY want me to set you up with SugarFree?
Does being in an open relationship count? /asking for a friend
Staunch defenders
Writing for the majority, Justice Samuel Alito said the law violates a “bedrock First Amendment principle: Speech may not be banned on the ground that it expresses ideas that offend.” That’s the right call. The First Amendment bars the government from discriminating among speakers based on their viewpoints. In this case, the Trademark Office did that by blocking only registrations for trademarks it determined to have negative connotations. The free-speech clause doesn’t apply to the government’s own speech, but registered trademarks can’t be put in that category — otherwise the government would have to argue that it endorses each of the more than two million trademarks it has already registered.
The decision is likely to help the Washington Redskins, who lost their trademark protections in 2014 after years of complaints from Native American groups. At the time, this page supported the Trademark Office’s decision, and we still regard the Redskins name as offensive. Based on this case, however, we’ve since reconsidered our underlying position.
“We’ve reconsidered our position.” Until the next “hate speech” conversation, anyway.
Is this the link you’re looking for?
“The New York Times…where the Supreme Court gives us cover to back off from some of our ill-considered positions…unless we want to double down, in which case we say the Supreme Court is full of right-wing extremists.”
You sugarfree’d the link, Brooksy.
You are lead director for a tenant council presiding over a council high-rise. You must manage rents, squatters, broken elevators, irate tenants, itinerants shitting in your lobby, local government pressuring you to house more immigrant families, and green government initiatives forcing insulative cladding retrofits. Can you head off costly sprinkler system upgrades? Prevent your high-rise from catching fire and killing everyone inside? Dissuade the village housing authority from repossessing and demolishing your building? It’s up to you!
Sim Council Estate, coming late 2017.
I’d play that!
I mean, we have the Tropico series, but I’d really like a strategy game that shows the “friction” side of trying to run things. Where all your best planned moves fail because goddamn pieces move on their own, and second- and third-order effects are real.
As always, things are more complicated than the initial narrative lets on. But I’m sure many people will continue to believe that deregulation and underfunding are the sole causes of this incident, with maybe some class warfare thrown in (I’ve seen it said in many places that the cladding was installed because people in the surrounding area thought the building was ugly). The fact that it was a shitty happening lying at the intersection of many shitty situations and incentives will be lost in the noise of the “do something”-ism which is sure to follow.
And nobody will bat an eye when their preferred solution–full nationalization of council estates, private managers and developers be damned–results in reduced housing stock, worse conditions, and more disasters.
Alternately, they will might safety by drastically cutting back on environmental regulation compliance. The nice thing about being the government is that you get to ignore the rules you force everybody else to follow.
they will might safety = they might improve safety
I think you’ll find that those tower blocks are already way outside of compliance when compared to real privately-developed multi-floor developments elsewhere in the Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
Britain has its failings, but you’re not going to find multi-family dwellings beyond a certain size being exempt from having mandatory sprinkler systems. We’re not all Millwall fans!
Well, those council estates are basically ‘nationalized’ anyway. Those much-criticized “Management Organizations” are quasi-governmental bodies (so-called QUANGOs) set up for a number of reasons, one of them being that it reduces the apparent head-count of personnel working for local government.
The problem that will arise from the enquiry is that unless it’s carefully written, the fiction that these management companies are private entities will be torn down and people will see that it’s civil-service incompetence all the way down.
Yes, the management ‘company’ contracts out to private firms, but what you find is that in a development with 5 towers, you could have 5 management companies – all with the same effective buying- and bidding- criteria, who – amazingly – all award contracts to the same builders. The builders are dealing with a monopsony within a given borough (and sometimes with an effective multiple-borough bloc), and are often entirely reliant on those management companies for their survival.
And yet you tell me you’re not qualified to contribute here.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from “Yes, Minister”, it’s that carefully written enquiries which disguise its incompetence are what the civil service does best.
How about cod pieces?
Since there are no female libertarians, you’d expect those to be a big seller.
Well, what can a man say to a suggestion like that, other than Word Up!
Eh. I prefer salmon or tuna sashimi.
Dayum. This is just hardcore:
During one Changing of the Guard [at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier], the firearm slips for the relief Commander’s hands. Though the Commander attempts to recover, he is unable to regain control of the weapon immediately. As the gun falls, the bayonet points downward and ends up stabbing the sentinel in the left foot.
The only sign that something went awry ends up being the blood dripping from the boot on his left foot, showing just how much commitment is required of those chosen to keep watch over the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
http://tribunist.com/military/sentinel-shows-awe-inspiring-discipline-after-accidentally-being-stabbed-during-guard-change-ceremony/
Stiff upper lip, baby.
I mean, the Unknown Soldier probably got injured much worse, and you don’t hear *him* complaining.
If he had COMPLAINED, we’d know who he was, wouldn’t we? Duh.
WORKERS’ COMP!
DC heat and humidity in full uniform, and getting stabbed in the hoof? Fuckin-a, man.
I’m impressed that the bayonets are actually sharp. Makes me wonder if the rifle is loaded, too.
Traditionally, those ceremonial at the Tomb M14s were not loaded, but were fully functional. Other honor guard details carry M-14s and on occasion these will be loaded with M82 blanks.
Of course, the place is teeming with security details with more modern, more appropriate hardware to meet any needs that might arise.
more appropriate hardware
I’m trying to think of hardware more appropriate for punching holes in people than the M14, and I’m coming up blank.
*opens gun safe, soothes wounded ego of M1A*
Sadly, the world is enthused with plastic guns, so those security details will have M-4/16 if in uniform or MP5s if in civvies, so they’ll have to fire about 20 rounds to put the bad guy on his ass and out of action, rather than a proper USMC “one bullet, one target” metric.
I’m still waiting for the CMP to start selling M14s now they’re running out of nice M1s. I’d like to keep *my* M1A warm at night with an older, more experienced partner. With luck, they’d breed.
*ahem* That’s “one shot, one kill”.
/jarhead
Duly noted.
I’m pretty sure the Queen’s Guards at Buckingham Palace carry loaded rifles.
They do. Typically, whoever is on guard is using their standard issue rifle model.
I’ve always though the combination of mid-19th C uniform and L85 was a little odd-looking – give ’em Sniders, I say!
Pretty much SA-80’s throughout now, either as standard barrel configuration or carbine-length.
Probably the better choice, and a real crowd-pleaser would be equipping the guards with Martini-Henrys
Nope, they aren’t.
Those guys are nuts. The Old Guard in general (3rd Infantry Regiment, the unit that the tomb guards are part of, as well other ceremonial units) has ludicrous standards. My uncle was in the Presidential Salute Battery back in the early ’90s, and it was mind-blowing how much of his day was spent on preparing his uniform.
You sugarfree’d the link, Brooksy.
D’oh!
Tuping id hsrd.
On my lunch break, I’ve decided I’m going to watch every STS mission launch & landing.
The STS-1 landing coverage was pretty cool. I ended up Googling the black anchor dude. He had a fascinating life. I wonder if there’s a book about him somewhere?
Oops – didn’t mean to include a timestamp. Link from beginning (incl some fun 80’s commercials)
Speaking of insensitive and offensive nomenclature, I find “Cracker Barrel” to be problematic.
The squeeze said he hated that place because of the name. When you’re on an 8-hour stretch on I-81, you almost have no other choice.
I could do without the stupid kitschy store that my wife wants to spend hours in, but the food is decent enough and the bathrooms are almost always nice and clean. I almost always choose a Cracker Barrel for bathroom breaks on the road, even though that puts us at risk of not getting back on the road for an hour.
Seriously, woman, it’s the same shit in North Carolina and Alabama that it is at the one five minutes from our house! The only thing that changes is the names of the colleges on the hats and t-shirts.
I always buy a shit-ton of candy sticks when I’m there. Their hash browns are good, and I love playing that golf tee game thingie.
I-81. Christ I hate that highway.
Why? Drove it a bunch of times between central PA and Syracuse (not to mention nearly daily while living in Syracuse). A lot less annoying than some highways I’ve driven (like, say, I-26 in South Carolina)
I-26 between Johnson City & Asheville is spectacular, though (except for that one spot at the top where the speed limit goes down to 50ish, and there’s always a cop right there)
Oh, there are worse highways. But living in North eastern PA, I was on it between Hazelton on Scranton nearly every day. Further south than that, it’s fine. Further north, it’s fine. That stretch? There seems to be a bubble of stupidity that makes everyone drive like 16 year olds with learners permits, the potholes can swallow midsized sedans, and it has been under construction since I was 2. Plus, the best you can hope for is ‘I’m going to Scranton’, a thought that would make Santa Claus on December 26th contemplate slitting his wrists.
It sucks. The way I’ve found to retain my sanity on that road is to a) break my trips up and stay a night around Roanoke, and b) set my cruise for 64 mph (so I never have to change lanes or pass anyone)
But barrels are inextricably linked to apes by way of Donkey Kong. And you know which peoples have been denigrated as little more than gorillas?
That’s right. Cracker Barrel is in fact racist against people of color.
“And you know which peoples have been denigrated as little more than gorillas?”
Glibertarian commenters like the author of this article?
Oops, I mean the next article, the school one.
STEVE SMITH OPEN NEW HOTEL IN MICHIGAN. EACH ROOM COME WITH FREE CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST AND RAPE.
I can see why they included “Hideaway” in the name of the hotel.
STEVE SMITH HAVE SPECIAL HIDEAWAY FOR PENIS
So, the murder of that Muslim girl in NoVa was a road rage incident with a Salvadoran. No hate crime – what’s a WaPo reporter to do?
Why, it’s easy! Simple yammer on about how it feels like one!
ya SFed that shit right there.
So I did.
So the author seems to be groping toward the idea that murder is inherently hateful. Fair enough – which is a good criticism for singling out particular kinds of murder as Extra Hateful.
Then there’s
“We watched it, stoked it with every debate that turned into an argument, fanned it with every Facebook meme that went just a bit too far, fueled it with every zero-sum approach to discourse and action. Courtesy is no longer the norm.”
I don’t think murder is legally defined as “the opposite of courtesy.”
If discourtesy is murder, I’ve been murdered time after time.
“Oh! Your brute! How dare you behave so impolitely towards me by murdering me! Well, I never!”
And not just a Salvadoran – an illegal immigrant, I gather.
I wonder of the Gov. is going to pardon him to prevent him from being deported, like he as for other Salvadoran illegals.