My A/C is out today — but I am working in my usual costume and it is overcast, so its basically like having my own work-at-home sauna.
Firstros are so far in front that their ace will be resting until after the All-Star break. If he gets all the way healthy, he’s going to be strong at the end of September — hopefully getting them into October.
The police officer who shot Philando Castile did nothing illegal, but his employer settled with the family for $3M. It seems like it would be cheaper to fire and aggressively prosecute police officers. (And, fair point to Kmele Foster in the latest 5th Column podcast, the officer was prosecuted with approximately the same charges that a non-law enforcement officer might be prosecuted if they shot and killed someone who said they had a gun and were reaching in their pocket. I think police officers ought to be held to a higher standard by both prosecutors and jurors, but at least the prosecutors got it to trial.)
The USSC seems to be signalling that they are looking to take a break broadening 2A rights. Dissenting were Thomas and Gorsuch.
The main wing of the GOP seems to be telling their people that the Health Care bill may be a giant turd sandwich, but everyone should take a bite.
Nate Silver’s blog says that maybe the “fight for $15” is hurting Seattle employment before they even finish implementing it. I’m guessing that between this and his hedging (and still missing) on (D) elections, he’s going to be outcast by 2018.
Throwback to the 90’s for the song.
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Leftists baffled by basic economics
https://twitter.com/JillFilipovic/status/879375456125976577
Seattle’s minimum wage increase has hurt low-wage workers the most. The Left is baffled. Incentives? How does that work?
If only there were some kind of science or field of study that could explain such things.
Gender theory?
Gender queer racial studies.
Not woke enough. Gender Non-binary Fluid Solidarity Studies
A BA in Finger painting with your own feces?
MFA in menstrual blood industrial design.
^ I think we have a winner
Ewwwwww winner
Theory of queer Puerto Rican critical basket weaving?
See guys? We just didn’t prog hard enough or cook the books enough.
WE NEED MORE PROOF. 100 YEARS IS NOT ENOUGH.
NOT. ENOUGH!
If only those weak willed socialists in the 20th century would have made 200 million people dead, instead of a meager 100 million, it would have worked! When are we going to finally try real socialism?
We gots to kill all the whities first.
“continued study of wage policies that optimize worker gains”
Yeah. It’s called no minimum wage, invisible hand of the market. Easy peasy.
As I’m sure you know, there is no minimum wage. The minimum wage is zero. As the government continues to raise what they say is the minimum wage, the number of people making the actual minimum wage will increase.
Precisely. You can make the law whatever you want, but that doesn’t mean reality will obey that law.
You might as well try to limit the daily rainfall by passing laws.
You might as well try to limit the
daily rainfallEarth’s temperature by passing laws.“the number of people making the actual minimum wage will increase”
And that can actually pay pretty well these days.
“broader policy packages”
This is just one in a long line of reasons why I truly despise the left. As soon as any potential issue arises, even before there’s any debate, they go straight to ‘policy’. It’s always about force, always.
I honestly don’t think most of them see the “force” part. All they see are selfish people who want to make money at someone else’s expense.
So it comes down to a mix of ignorance of economics and an unwillingness to embrace the idea that everyone has the right to not be aggressed against. Even selfish people.
See I think they do see the “force” part, because they spend all their time demonizing the rich. They know damn well they’re planning on stealing that money, and they justify it by painting the wealthy as evil monsters.
If they truly believed that taxation was some kind of voluntary wonderfulness, they wouldn’t be so fucking hateful.
Nobody could have seen this coming. NOBODY!
maybe we could cut taxes and stop withholding?
I’d go from 1200 a month to 1600.
This story has some interesting takes on Seattle’s minimum wage.
One study did a high level scan of just restaurant workers and found no impact. Another study by locals from the U of Wash actually looked at all the payrolls and found that there was a big impact. Mostly in the reduction of hours.
A lot of the story is a bunch of lefty’s trying to wave away the idea that there could be any negative impact.
according to one twitter, apparently there’s a wage equilibrium that can be met by govt mandate and then all’s well. not that the job market is fluid or anything. nope. there’s a minimum wage equilibrium and it’s $13/hour. oh fucking hell. how do these people feed themselves..
LOL “Let’s let the market figure out equilibrium prices, then mandate them to be minimum prices.”
Akin to commie apologists arguing that we can get around Mises’ calculation problem–they’ll keep Hong Kong as one mini bastion of capitalism and model their economic policies on it.
You just don’t understand how minimum wage markets work. You see, people get together and bid on minimum wages and….uhh….. they find the equilibrium of minimum wage prices and….uh the politicians they, like, set the minimum price of labor based on….you know like, uhh inquality and global warming. Get it now?
How does one calculate this ‘equilibrium’? Do you sit in a lotus position and hum some mantras until it comes to you?
As usual, there were a few exemplary turds buried in the comments.
This guy understands markets so well that he just knows there is an equilibrium to be found in the “minimum wage market”. So it’s not that this has been a failed policy for you see this law gave us valuable economic data for central planners to plan more betterer in the future. Seattle’s ideal minimum wage in 2017 is $13, as for 2018 we don’t know for sure, so we’ll have to pass another minimum wage law to find out. I FUCKING LOVE SCIENCE
Everything is static. A lack of status quo is the work of evil people.
* Climate
* Extinction (evolution)
* Markets
Who are the science denying conservatives again?
The stupidity of this comment can not be overstated. There is no minimum wage market. There is a labor market for unskilled labor. To day minimum wage is an equilibrium is also farcical, as it represents a minimum, and an equilibrium is an abstraction of the average price for a product. In this case if the minimum wage is above equilibrium, there will be a shortage of jobs in the unskilled labor market (and any itself markets that are encroached on by the minimum wage price floor). Otherwise effects will be limited to the outliers in the markets affected by noon wage.
Her biography is ambiguous, but, given that she’s unlikely to take her spouse’s last name, I apologize on behalf of Collective South Slav for her.
The sad part, even when they acknowledge they got this one spectacularly wrong while we warned them of exactly what would happen, they’ll still assume that they know better than our warnings in the future.
They don’t ignore our warnings. They call our warnings racist regardless of what they are.
It’s just going to be more proof of white privilege if it turns out reality is racist too.
I’m sure the mental gymnastics they go through and the painful contortions they twist themselves into to try and explain this will be most entertaining. ‘Ok, let’s see, the crazies on the right say that costs for a business cannot be above a certain level or they have to pass on those costs to the consumer and at a certain point, people will no longer buy that product. Then they’ll have to close their doors and all the employees will lose their jobs. Crazy lies like this is why we need the government to get more involved! It’s just all about greed!’.
That stupid bumblebee girl…..I hated Blind Melon
That song got played too much. I like this one better.
Yeh that was a good one. Have that album.
Didn’t the singer off himself?
Took a hot shot on a tour bus.
I thought he overdosed.
He OD’d on heroin, like half my favorite singers from the time (Bradley Nowell.. sigh… Sublime would’ve been so huge)
Sublime was awesome. Bad fish should be in the 3rd set of every bar band.
Be glad you don’t live in the greater LA Metro area. Sublime has been on heavy rotation for the past 20 years. Red Hot Chili Peppers as well.
Trust me, every day I wake up thankful I don’t live in California, and very little of it has to do with music.
I wonder if sublime would have been mainstream at all if not for that. I love em, they were great, date rape is best song ever. But I wonder if their mainstream fame was because of Bradley’s death
Blind Melon was awful. I had to sit through a show of theirs once, They were opening for John Mellencamp, and the GF of the moment loved him (sigh: the things we do for love)
It was the worst show I’d ever seen. Cats shuddered at the screeching that came from that guy’s vocal cords. Not to mention the sound guy was disgustingly bad as well. I could have done better right off the street.
Blind Melon was awful. I had to sit through a show of theirs once, They were opening for John Mellencamp, and the GF of the moment loved him (sigh: the things we do for love)
Like walking in the rain and the snow when there’s nowhere to go?
I once went to a Blind Melon concert and I was sad. Then I met a man who went to a Linkin Park concert.
Whoa. Bad memories. Here’s some anti-Blind Melon from the sidebar.
I remember this song existing, but I have no feelings about it.
Ok, how about this, then?
Very well.
Sparkle and Fade is a terrific album. One of the few I listen to from start to finish with no (well, ok, with little) track skipping.
Listening to Summerland as we speak. I agree with you – excellent album.
Summerland is a great lesser-known track. My favorite outside of the hits is The Twistinside.
Love that one – “Breathing fire — doesn’t look good on a resume”
You can preemptively get off my lawn. 90s music has no peer compared to the swill these clowns are producing nowadays.
Here’s something to wash that all away.
See you down in Arizona Bay.
I tend to think something like this when I think anti-Blind Melon.
Their lead singer did manage to check out like I’d like to eventually go though: a massive coronary after an all night crack binge with Gibby Haynes of the Butthole Surfers.
If only I could be so lucky.
Somehow, Gibby Haynes is still alive and almost 60 years old. Fun fact – he played college basketball and was an accountant before going full-time with music.
Trivia: One of the guys from Blind Melon, I think its the bass player, is now a labor/employment attorney at a Big Law firm in Philadelphia.
http://thefederalist.com/2017/06/14/5-big-things-know-celebrate-g-k-chesterton/
Five things to know about GK Chesterton
He opposed eugenics during its height. Aside from this revealing him to be more intelligent than the fools, I wonder if anyone called him a ‘denier’. I imagine eugenics was as popular as, say, climate change?
Is there a difference between the two?
When you listen to their arguments and views about humans, I think no.
I was a member of the American Chesterton Society for a year or two. Some good resources and reading material.
I think “The Everlasting Man” is one of my all-time favorites.
Really behind on getting through his collected works volumes though.
Yes, more attractive females. It’s a bad Monday.
http://thechive.com/2017/06/23/suns-out-buns-out-67-photos/
I see your pictures and raise you one Barstool Sports model: http://www.barstoolsports.com/boston/wake-up-with-nicky-gile/
She is a tasty treat, though she could use a bit more up top for my taste. Certainly wouldn’t kick her out of bed though.
She is a tasty treat
Okay, that was an implication, right?!
I live in Phoenix. Whatever temperature it is where you are, it’s 20 degrees hotter here. No sympathy for you.
Pshaw. You don’t have humidity so sweating works.
Irrelevant. As a former ‘Zonan and Florida Man, once it gets above 110, humidity no longer matters. AZ is worse. Every time.
Never lived there, but been to Phoenix and Palm Springs during the summer. Currently live in the Everglades, more or less..
It’s not a contest. As bad as it is here, it’s far worse there.
I spent 3 years at FT Irwin.
The sweating thing is true right up until 115. The only evidence that you actually are sweating is the white circles that form all over your uniform.
At 130, it’s like sitting in an oven.
What are you doing sitting?!? Safety stand downs are for closers!
It literally hotter here that it feels on the heat index.
And the dew point/humidity has been creeping up lately in the mornings. Extra sticky.
I lived in Yuma for two years. Whatever temperature it was in Phoenix, it was 5 degrees hotter in Yuma. I do have sympathy for you, but then I also don’t know why anyone stays in Arizona.
Arizona: It’s worth the heat.
See? I could totally work for their tourism department.
But yeah, Yuma is an extra special kind of hell.
Arizona: not even once.
Arizona: where the living envy the dead.
Arizona: putting the South back in Southwest.
Arizona: where California houses its fuckups and burnouts.
Arizona: gateway to Utah.
Arizona: our most famous attraction is a big hole in the ground.
“I’d rather be dead in California than alive in Arizona.”
I also don’t know why anyone stays in Arizona
Check back in four months or so.
To see if everyone died of heat stroke?
To see if they drowned during monsoon season?
To see us avoiding the inevitable heart attack from shoveling snow.
Good point. January in Yuma was glorious – every day was sunny, mid-70s, and dry. I amend my previous statement: I don’t know why anyone stays in Arizona (southern Arizona, anyway) in the summer. Had I the means, I would definitely winter in Arizona.
I remember doing humvee driver’s course in August 2005. The final bit of it was a drive from Yuma to Dateland and back. Flak and kevlars on, no air conditioning. I brought an ice-cold gallon jug of water with me. By the time we got to Dateland for the turnaround, it was practically boiling. There was an Army convoy there at the same time, and I was so jealous of those bastards. They were just wearing boots and utes, no blouses let alone flaks and kevlars.
At least in Iraq the Humvees had those jerry-rigged ACs.
Oh no you don’t! Once we’re done building a southern wall we’re making one to the north to keep out all the goddamn 80 year old snowbirds that infest us like plague rats in September.
Doers the population of Mesa still double every winter?
yes, and then gradually declines as the whitewalkers die of old age once they get here.
I swear to god I could take a picture of the parking lot of my local farmers market in November and you would be convinced I lived in Canada.
The population of Yuma triples. That’s what people there used to say, anyway, when the streets were clogged with RVs and giant trailers from places like Montana, Washington, and Alberta. All those old farts who drive the tenement on wheels down to Yuma to bask in the sun and cross the border to Los Algodones to score cheap prescriptions.
Arizona is Montana’s Florida.
Lake Havasu City will convince you that the sun wants to personally destroy you. It does encourage girls to get naked during Spring Break though.
It’s so hot in Arizona that street signs and mailboxes are melting
The mailbox was clearly run over by a female driver, but hey, global warming!
Try the Rooftops I work on in the I.E. 125-130-135, attics are worse. God help Arizona HVAC guys
Who’s the idiot that decided to live in a hot desert?
Mo?
Hitler?
My A/C is out today — but I am working in my usual costume
So you’re in just your tighty-whiteys?
They’re more gray now.
So you even stripped out of your jorts.
Jorts are for special occasions like fishing and weddings.
More like tighty-once-whiteys.
They’re probably not too tight neither, what with the waistband all blowed out.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170623/06000037650/cops-sent-warrant-to-facebook-to-dig-up-dirt-woman-whose-boyfriend-they-had-just-killed.shtml
Cops sent a subpoena to Facebook in hopes of finding dirt on woman whose boyfriend they just murdered.
Woodchippers.
Is it possible to be an even bigger ass?
Stay tuned for Thicc Thursday.
Is this John ‘John’?
Let’s find out…
It is everyone’s right to be able to own a bullet proof vest.
Fun fact, the bullet proof was originally a dent left in a breastplate when the armorer tested it against a black powder pistol (before those got powerful enough that plate just didn’t cut it anymore)
I’m guessing yes. I did always mentally picture him as a canine in a suit and sunglasses.
She live streamed the aftermath on Facebook.
It was evidence, and they eventually used it at trial against the officer.
The warrant was boilerplate bullshit, but it was absolutely necessary.
I’m not willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. The video was publicly available. You know as well as I do why they issued a warrant for the contents of her FB page.
That 2A denial by the Supremes is disappointing. Thomas’ dissent from the denial is completely on point.
The reasoning of the underlying judgement is ridiculous, if the linked article is correct in its assertions.
Oh, you mean before that thing you’re supposed to be judging the law against existed? How the hell does that hold up under any scrutiny?
Did he just give a solid argument for why US should be a monarchy?!
Twitler needs two more picks.
Brett, the Supreme Court of the United States is generally abbreviated to SCOTUS. USSC is the US Sentencing Commission.
You’re right. I knew that. My brain keeps overheating and resetting.
Sorry, buddy. Hope it gets fixed soon.
I assume mephedrone would do the trick.
I think he means the mistake, not Brett’s brain.
I won’t be held responsible for an unclear antecedent for “it”.
Go to my room. Right now, young man!
Oh my…
Fine. I’ll say it. That “oh my” totally reads in a George Takei voice.
That was the expectation, yes.
Today in hot women of twitter, I present Jewhadi, because there is no sexy like crazy sexy. Those eyes, that stair.
https://twitter.com/jewhaditm?lang=en
Would, but if she’s actually jewish I won’t be sharing my real name or address. Don’t need anymore jewish crazy in my life.
Don’t need anymore jewish crazy in my life
hate speech
Jewish crazy: more or less dangerous than Hispanic crazy?
More annoying, less physically dangerous.
Less. Jewish girls aren’t as proficient with a knife
Remarkably similar, but slightly less cuckoldry and much more direct spousal violence.
Do you prefer to have a luxury car parked on your head or hunted by her family after you get caught cheating?
Is this the John?
Shut up you half wit.
You’re just upset that I hit submit first.
No, it’s Hilter, I’m sure of it.
This can’t really be John.
Quick, say something that the real John would say.
Look closer. You know stare at the post. I left it right there for you.
Hi John.
Hello.
Hi John, took long enough
Yay John!
Yes, the typical 500-comment Glibertarians post should average about 900 comments from now on.
Without any uptick in quality.
Hi John, you shitlord who’s really Hitler.
Welcome, John! It’s like Hotel California, but I still can’t figure out some basic html stuff that used to work just fine on The Other Site.
A cool avatar. But why not a monkey in a suit?
That’s a little too Darwinist for him.
But why not a monkey in a
suitbullet-proof vest?Chimps in suits never get old. It’s called Menswear Dog. It’s a real dog. The woman who owns him and her boyfriend both work in the fashion industry and started dressing her dog up in men’s fashion and photographing him as a joke. It took off on Facebook and Instagram and she now makes several hundred thousand dollars a year from clothing designers paying her to dress her dog up in their clothes. She has the greatest answer ever to the question “what do you do for a living”; “I dress my dog up in expensive clothes and take pictures of him”.
Yes, it must have been you who stated on the old site that chimps in suits were inherently funny.
They are. A chimp wearing a suit makes any situation funny. It never gets old. It is an iron law of comedy.
Read my mind and tell me what I really believe!
/sends brain waves
I don’t know… it does have a subtly funny typo….
Yeah, but it doesn’t have the feel, the je ne sais quois, of a Johno.
It is me. Give it time. I have to get back into form with my malapropisms.
Lots of type-os will be the real test. We need some funny ones, so get to it.
We’ll find out the truth if he goes berserk over a minor point that most people wouldn’t even notice.
That too.
Quick, mention body armor.
What’s wrong with you Vhyrus? You used to be one of the smart ones here. You’re a blithering idiot and too stupid to understand what I’m saying.
That’s it, that’s the tell!
Also, promote more ‘zaftig’ women from now on…
Welcome to Hazingville, population: you!
Seriously, good to have you over.
Hello again! So glad the Supreme Court allowed you to be admitted despite the executive order, or is that a different issue?
PS – you get to submit articles. The mods decide what to do after that, but just take a look at what they allow to be posted.
just take a look at what they allow to be posted.
Do you think our submission standards are too ecumenical or too lax?
Eclectic, I’d say.
But I have some articles waiting in the queue right now, so I hope you’re lax. It’s taking a while to process them, hint hint.
Seriously, I wasn’t questioning the quality of the articles, simply alluding to the wonderful variety of subject-matter.
(Wonderful in the old sense of inspiring astonishment)
To clarify further: The articles are truly masterpieces of their genre – they are precisely what they are supposed to be given their aspirations – the thicc photos are indeed thicc, the SugarFree fiction is indeed creepy and gross – the Florida Man stories are Florida Man-y, and so on and on.
And I’m not just saying that to butter up you and the other moderators, I’m…I have trouble finishing that sentence.
(I’m trying not to offend through excessive flattery, but I do indeed read these contributions with great interest and appreciation. Even if I wasn’t the contributor.)
” Those eyes, that stair.”
It really is John!
Jewhadi, heh.
Manly Monday handled
Man, I loved that feature. When is that lazy asshole who did it going to get back on it?
Also I’d handle his Monday if ya catch mah drift.
Jesse – Too Lazy To Look At Porn.
Gay stereotypes hardest hit
I should probably go change my editor bio.
For some reason that tortilla you’re holding in your avatar always looks like an enema bag to me.
Too many years working in hospitals, I guess.
It’s lefse.
I’m reading a recipe and I would put that in my face.
How do you know it’s NOT an enema bag?
It *could* be an enema crepe.
*cries*
Yeah, when is that lazy asshole getting back with the program?
At least I got lazy on a high note with my last Scottish Fest set.
I remember Phoenix. There were days I had to use my shirttail as a makeshift pot holder to open the car door because the handle was so fucking hot you couldn’t grasp it bare handed.
When I lived there my roommate had an oven mitt he kept in the front seat so he could turn the ignition key without getting burned.
My mom left a little tub of vaseline in her car and when she went and opened it is was liquefied from the heat. Nothing like getting second degree burns from liquefied vaseline.
I’d consider that a successful Saturday night.
Better than friction burns?
Wait, you actually went outside? Were you suicidal?
I accidentally branded my arm with the imprint of the seat belt buckle once when I lived in AZ.
I still have a scar from my first week in Phoenix.
The NYT article (linked this morning) about Seattle’s “experiment” featured some lefty interest group whining about the UW methodology. Also, a study from UC Berkeley totally shows no adverse effect.
So there, you bunch of Rethuglikkkin conspiracy theorists.
You mean the study that only looked at restaurant jobs and only within a certain radius of the city center?
That was a case study in selection bias.
Clearly if they had only included restaurant workers in Pocatello, it would have shown the true result that minimum wage has absolutely nothing to do with labor distortions. None. Zero. Zip. In fact, we should just make minimum wage 1 skillion dollars an hour. That’ll fix poverty. (takes a deep huff of paint thinner)
Even if low-paying jobs are not reduced by an increase in the minimum wage (which is in dispute), that money must come from somewhere. That’s what defenders of the minimum wage ignore.
It seems to me that either employers make less (so that they have less money to buy other things) or they raise prices (so that their customers have less money to buy other things). That could reduce jobs in lots of sectors, not just the one they study. Or it could mean there is less money for investment, which leads to fewer jobs than there would have been (choking off job growth that would have been there).
To not look at the whole picture is really misleading.
This is why suicide bombing is a dead end in warfare. The good ones never make it past practice.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4638994/ISIS-commanders-killed-one-group-s-suicide-bombers.html
I hope he got his virgins at least. If anyone deserves them it’s him.
OT: Whenever we think the Progs can’t get any worse, they do:
https://medusamagazine.com/beyond-pro-choice-the-solution-to-white-supremacy-is-white-abortion
TW: Weapons-grade derp with an undercurrent of pure evil (and I don’t use that word often)
Money quote:
White women: it is time to do your part! Your white children reinforce the white supremacist society that benefits you. If you claim to be progressive, and yet willingly birth white children by your own choice, you are a hypocrite. White women should be encouraged to abort their white children, and to use their freed-up time and resources to assist women of color who have no other choice but to raise their children.
Half of me thinks this has to be vicious satire. It CAN’T be real….can it?
That is not really DERP. Derp is just stupid. That is genocidal and evil. All they accomplish by writing this sort of shit is to confirm the paranoia of the radical right. its like they secretly want the country to go full Nazi or something.
It’s also probably a hoax.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2017/06/24/medusa-magazine-website-is-probably-a-hoax/amp/
Sadly, there is stuff like this that isn’t a hoax. These people are nuts.
Yes. John.
I think Medusa Mag is parody.
This was discussed earlier in the single payer thread. Majority seemed to favor parody.
And we’re suppose to go with the majority opinion? Do you even libertarian, brah?
Should you be off eating George Bernard Shaw or something?
Had him for lunch. I’m good
Consensus!
No way that’s real. But then again, I’ve said that about a lot of things that turned out to be true.
Was posted earlier today. I thought it was satire from the titles alone, and if you do some googling a bunch of people claim the site is registered to an anti-SJW activist. Also I googled a couple of the writers’ names and they either have no internet presence or just showed up earlier this year.
Poe’s law in force. The rational part of my brain tells me it HAS to be “A Modest Proposal” type satire, but nothing about progressive thought nowadays is rational.
It’s why the Onion turned out to be pre-cognition, rather than parody.
That… That has to be parody.
When you are a moron, the guys selling nice things to customers who want them are ‘shady’
The Shady Way Shops Beat America’s 25-Year Car Import Rule
Basically, the government is destroying perfectly good cars, and the blame lies in the people bringing the cars into the U.S. and not the actual entity destroying goods.
“It’s for SAFTEY!”
“But at 25 years old, I can drive it? what safety features does a car that old have?”
I had a German spec 1983 BMW 3 series when I was over there. Sadly, it was not yet 25 years old and I couldn’t bring it home. God I loved that car. It was a first generation 3-series back when BMWs were still awesome.
I had no idea that was actually a law.
Jesus F Christ.
Why else would the Japanese waste money Assembling in the US?
Literal shiploads of new foreign cars are driven off of, well, ships in the US all the time. Both of the Deanmobiles were driven off of a ship from Japan as brand new cars and sold to us without a hitch.
I am deeply confused by this rule.
Don’t ruin a bad joke with facts!
Those cars are built for U.S. specs to be sold in the US. I believe the rules in question are for cars built to Japanese/Euro specs. If you wanted to buy a brand new BMW from Germany, the car would have to be converted for US specs before it could be sold here. Or you could go down to your local BMW dealer and buy one built for sale in the US.
There’s such a thing as BMW European Delivery.
Still has to meet US specs to legally come here.
A JDM car, for instance, is going to be RHD. And both Europe and Japan have different emission standards; not necessarily less restrictive, just different.
Registering a gray market import is super risky. If you pull it off, great! If not, a rare car or motorcycle is about to be destroyed.
there are a good number of videos of people trying to get a skyline registered here.
No point to now since they sell the best version here. You just need $100,000 and the… oh, wait… damn.
I’d love a 1st gen impreza WRX.
the 22B is beautiful.
You can get a 2.5 RS and do an engine swap. That’s about as close as you’ll ever get.
there are a few people who have gone that route. Another popular one is the Outback Sport with a WRX engine and drivetrain. OBS is a bit harder from what I’ve read.
I saw a skyline a few months back. I had no idea what it was but one of the guys I was with is into import tuning and about shit himself when he saw it, and would not leave the driver alone for half an hour.
the ban on import cars younger than 25 years old
*Looks at Mercedes dealership, scratches head, shrugs*
Confusing, but I think it means you get a pass on safety and emissions standards for antique cars. If you try to privately import a newer vehicle it has to comply.
It was always fun telling Europeans that US emissions standards were stricter than Europe. It wasn’t always the case. But the 1990 Clean Air Act revisions (Thanks Bush) made US standards stricter than about anywhere else in the world and killed the grey market for cars in the process.
Antique cars are locked at pre 75 in CO.
You can import a 1990 GTR, and then not be able to drive it here until it passes emissions. not the US in 1990 emissions, 2016 brand new car emissions.
I also fucking hate that emissions crap. Trying to take an import car to todays standards is near impossible. It basically means you have to replace the engine with something made today.
If my truck was 14 months newer, I couldn’t drive it. it would take thousands, including a new engine.
I can’t change it to a diesel, unless the engine I pick was also sold new in that exact model truck.
But mine is so old they don’t care. and so I spew terrible things into the air.
Instead of allowing a skyline to stay mostly stock, which is far cleaner, they want you to get a new car, or a very old car.
no emissions or a fuckton. the middle is anarchy.
The only emissions control on mine is the Lucas electrical 😉
I got some pictures coming soon. I have to do the gas line still.
Great! I have mine apart, too. Clutch master leaked and fucked up the paint on the firewall. Because I’m OCD, I decided to fix it now.
That’s too bad. leak fixed or will you have to replace it?
Bore and piston looked fine – rebuilt it. I tore the brake master apart and did that as well. I’m debating whether to switch to DOT5 (which doesn’t eat paint), but the last rebuild lasted 17 years, so…
The only emissions control on mine is the Lucas electrical
Since it won’t start, it doesn’t produce emissions?
Bingo!
The cocksuckers are doing the same thing with construction equipment and heavy trucks in California under the Carl Moyer program. Its like they are giving the middle finger to third world nations that use the secondary and tertiary American market as their sole means of sourcing equipment they can afford.
Progressives are evil. Their economic policies are designed to push poor people into mass graves. And they don’t seem to give a fuck. The sooner they are swept completely from all power in the regulation and administration of the business and commerce of the world the better for all of mankind.
My wife’s boss has a couple of absurdly-low-miles heavy trucks that are nearly worthless now because of that shit.
The guys at Long Beach got it worst. They have like a 2-3 year window now on their trucks. Trucks that are designed to go a million miles and they’re being forced to retire them with 50-60k on them. Meanwhile, guys are allowed to drive in from across the border on a daily basis and use trucks of any age, thanks to NAFTA allowing them to (but not letting people from Arizona do the same since the EPA allowed them to enforce laws that essentially restrict interstate commerce).
Sloopy, does your company ever end up parting that equipment out? At some point I’d like to have an Izuzu 4bd1t or 4bt swapped.
The Toyota diesels are a little hard to come by.
You can find it on most any old NPR in a junkyard. Hell, they should be a dime a dozen from a guy that specializes in scrap commercial trucks.
Call prestige equipment just outside of Denver. I bet John Paglione or one of his guys could get you one quick and cheap They’re good people.
noted! thanks.
This can’t really be John.
“Those eyes, that stair. ”
I reserve judgement.
Stare? There are no steps.
Found Tonio.
Lulz. Well-done, Titor.
But this is usage, not grammar.
Aye
Well, we’ll know soon enough.
me, every time I have to guess anything
Why teachers Suck. Need to fill out government forms and need more resources (money).
https://bertfulks.com/2017/06/10/why-teachers-suck/
Fuck off, slaver.
What, schools don’t have the same “Fuck you!” immunity cops have?
Then the endless parade of bullshit that every fucking teacher is a sainted martyr pouring her own money into these poor deprived yutes.
Typical fucking horsehshit. I fucking hate teachers, and I am proud to say it.
Ok, the selling of pills and blaming it on the school not diagnosing the child is bullshit that should have been laughed out of any court, but 2 issues.
1. Why the Hell are there enough people that believe that a school has the duty to identify, diagnose, and treat mental health issues that such a case wouldn’t be immediately thrown out? Focus on teaching, and maybe you’ll get better results in education.
2. I know damn well from personal experience that schools get sued for very good reasons that relate directly to the education of children. When you fail so badly at your core mission, don’t be surprised when people want to leave. It doesn’t help when you hide those legitimate failings behind stuff like this.
I thought this is why teachers suck.
Well, they deleted that.
Try again.
Who’d a thunk it? Apparently the craft hooch industry has an unwritten code of ethics.
Caveman distillery finds out that if you go to a web site named after them, it is redirected to their competitor’s site. More technically advanced company doesn’t confirm or deny that they had anything to do with it, but the shady redirect is now gone. Personally, I have no time for anyone who complains about shit like this. Spend a few extra dollars and make sure you have your bases covered.
I like the fact that there might be bad blood between these two champions. Like Bird vs Magic.
Why? What law or property right did they violate?
I think it really depends on how the redirect works. If it sent you off to Norseman distillery’s site and it was clear it was Norseman’s site, I don’t think they have any case. If they tried to put up a site that looked sort of like their competitor’s site then they might be in trouble.
Fraud? Putting up a website with the name of a competitor to redirect traffic to yourself sure sounds like fraud to me.
Also, a trademark infringement, assuming they registered their trademark competently.
How is it fraud? Who’s fooled into thinking they’re at Tattersall’s site when it says Norseman all over it?
Reminds me of that whole RonPaul.com fiasco a few years ago. It was disgraceful for Ron Paul to sic lawyers on the people who ran that site (in support of him, no less) even though it was clearly stated that the site was not run or owned by Ron Paul or was it officially affiliated with Ron Paul.
Mentioned this recently before, but the ongoing mass DNA tests on Egyptian mummies is pretty solidly debunking the ‘black Egyptians’ hypothesis. Turns out that from the mummies they’ve tested in the New Kingdom period Egyptians actually had less of a connection with sub-Saharan Africa than they do today.
WE WUZN’T KANGS (as if Afrocentrists will take DNA evidence seriously).
Science is Racist, yo.
Tricknology, yo.
The key word here is ‘The New Kingdom’. Alexander the Great put his own people as the royal house after his successful invasion of Egypt, which would explain why theses pharaohs were not African. I highly doubt that the royal house during the Old Kingdom and Middle Kingdom were not, at least in part, African
I think they’re including pre-Ptolomaic mummies in there…
OK, I misread the story at first. It would appear that this study covers more than the royal family. I’m going to stick with my original thought, though, that the Middle Kingdom and Old Kingdom would show more African ancestry.
This is also just one testing group they’ve been working with. There’s been a large scale three year program to get testing done on mummies from various locations and places in the hierarchy.
New Kingdom period began over a thousand years before Alexander was even born, you’re thinking of the Ptolemaic period. The New Kingdom period is when Egypt was at the height of its geopolitical and cultural dominance, when their borders spanned from northern Ethiopia to Syria.
There’s several dynasties we know were likely Nubian, but the evidence is pointing to ancient Egyptians overwhelmingly being based around Levantine Semitic populations, not sub-Saharan African.
Do you even Hittite, bra?
… *fails to properly word joke about Ramses’ nose being too pronounced*
I blame the Hyksos
I thought they were more Hamitic than Semitic, but you probably have the most updated info.
‘New Kingdom’ predates Alexandrian conquest by ~700 years, although the article does say the mummies came from the New Kingdom to Roman period, so it’s fairly broad. The more pertinent fact is that the mummies came from Lower Egypt (the north), and it really should surprise no one that northern Egyptians had more in common with the Middle Easterners next door than the Africans a thousand miles south.
Well, someone should learn to hit “refresh” before commenting…
FWIW Wiki defines New Kingdom as 16-11 century BC. Centuries before Alexander came by.
Of course it’s all a grand conspiracy by the white devil to discredit and disenfranchise their noble lineage.
So they’re settling the science?
A classicist named Mary Lefkowitz pretty much demolished that bullshit back in the 1990s. Here is a response to her from the author of Black Athena. It is an amazing piece of derp. It is one of those things so stupid only intellectuals could believe it.
http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/1996/96.04.05.html
As someone who went to grad school for classics, I can report that it is rapidly becoming intellectually vapid at only moderately less-terrifying rate than the rest of the humanities.
Still being eaten away from the inside by post-modernism and critical theory tripe, unfortunately.
Keep them out of your statements that are not factually based, thank you
they know that the Deena is just tricknology
Wife called me in a panic to tell me that when she went to pick up our daughter from camp, they couldn’t find her. It’s not like it should be difficult; the building isn’t that huge, and everything’s indoors. Called me back 10 minutes later to tell me they’d finally found her.
I’m going in the morning to raise hell. They actually did this last year as well, though I excused that because she’d fallen asleep on a couch in the corner of a room that faced towards the wall. Time to demand some money back or I’m finding a new camp.
I thought you had to pay a little extra to get them to lose your kid.
OMWC Summer Camp
Camp Motto: “You’ll get your kid back in one piece…eventually. But they’ll never look at you the same way again.”
She’s obviously afraid to go home. Child services en route.
I hear there are monocle polishing internships out there, unless you think she’d be better suited for the mines.
My daughter doesn’t get a monetary allowance. Her chores are done by her very own orphans. She’ll stay that way until she’s ready for her own monocle.
Maybe she was in Narnia eating Turkish Delight (aka: powdered fruitcake).
This might make me a giant pussy, but I feel for your wife. Nothing is worse than when you can’t find your kid. I like to laugh about helicopter parents as much as anyone, but when you do have that “oh shit” moment it totally sucks.
When my daughter was 4 or 5 we were going out to eat and we all went out side to get in the car. A few distractions and having to belt her baby brother in later we were ready to put her in the car. No where to be found. We checked the house, the garage and the back yard thinking she was there. Nothing. FUCK. My daughter has always been pretty fearless so we figured she wandered off to the playground to play. Got in the car and drove around the block looking while Mrs. Holiness ransacked the manor grounds again. Still nothing. Double FUCK. We were just about to go ask neighbors if they had seen her when we heard a giggle from the back of the swagger wagon. We found her hiding under a bench seat. After hugging and shaking her, we asked her why she was back there. “I was practicing my hiding. Never know when you’ll need it.”
That she lived past that incident is a testament to my good nature and parenting skills.
I agree with you. My daughter got separated from us in Mexico. It was only for a short time, but it was unpleasant.
My daughter once got bored shopping with the wife and aunt in Japan and decided to just walk home. She was six or so. Things were all OK by the time I got back, but I think that the local mall was terrorized by two Korean mama bears looking for their cub.
My understanding of Japan is that a six year old walking by herself is a not entirely unusual condition.
Yes, but the little girl not getting molested by a Lovecraftian horror with more tentacles than even SugerFree’s dark imagination could conjure is remarkable.
No, they deal with it much better than we do. Korea is even more lax with letting their kids play where ever they want.
More of a panic by the women that she had been right there and then she was gone. They weren’t so upset by the idea that she had been abducted but by the fact that if she was lost, she was going to have a hard time telling anyone where she lived.
I got lost in the NYC Museum of Natural History once when I was about five. My parents were chaperoning my sister’s Girl Scout troop, and as a kid sibling I had to go along since they couldn’t get a baby sitter. I stayed to look at one exhibit while everybody else went on.
I got the brilliant idea to go to the ground floor and stand by the entrance to the bathrooms nearest where we entered because I knew the girls would have to go to the potty before leaving.
And thus began a lifelong habit of hanging out around women’s restrooms.
Better than Larry Craig’s habit.
Yeah, that doesn’t make you a giant pussy, there’s not much of anything that could be more terrifying than thinking your kid is missing.
Brooke Burke has aged
But only from the neck up.
Isn’t everything from the neck down bionic anyway?
That would explain the strange sound track from her sex tape
She looks a bit rough.
Plus, how low do you have to slip to get saddled with the “stake out Brook Burke on her vacation and get a few snaps with her hubby” beat? What, was Tori Spelling not on holiday and the “reporter” had free time to slip over to the Burke coverage?
I don’t think she looks too bad. Her body actually looks less plastic than it did back in the day. She almost looks real.
Who is she? Not trying to be funny. I’ve really never heard of her.
Was she on some show I was too old for, like “Saved by the Bell”?
Send those semaphores!
What’s a semihore? Some chick who only sells it on the weekend?
Its the same thing as a ‘Lot Lizard’.
Still would.
Texas high school students know how to troll better than most adults.
Good for them.
I think just having a boys only program is some excellent trolling. How the fuck do they get away with that?
They’re simply making it historically accurate.
-1 pair of pink sneakers worn for 13 hours straight.
Don’t they do that in Minnesota? I thought they had a Boys State (and a separate Girls State) in most stats.
Huh. I guess we do: http://www.mnboysstate.org/
I remember the nerds going to model UN as a kid, but never heard of Boys State. Of course, you probably had to show up in class to hear about that sort of thing.
I did Boy’s State. Fascinating microcosm of government. Basically you spend a week there, and mock out a state. The dorms are towns, with mayors, sheriffs. Each dorm sends two reps and a Senator, and their are two parties that run for the statewide offices of G, LG, and AG. There’s also various other mock civic institutions.
This was a population that was obviously all male, and being an American Legion run civics camp held at Liberty University, you can imagine exactly what kinds of males were there. I’d say 70% were right wing, 28% were apolitical, and 2% were leftist. Funniest thing. That 2%, every single one of them chose to work at the newspaper, and they published every day. So literally every day the newspaper was full of thumb-sucking concern pieces about how there was no political diversity at Boy’s State, whatsoever.
R C Dean on June 26, 2017 at 3:25 pm
the ban on import cars younger than 25 years old
*Looks at Mercedes dealership, scratches head, shrugs*
Probably too late, but-
Models not officially certified by EPA and NHTSA(?) for emissions and safety compliance. “Grey market” cars used to be banned for stuff like not having sealed beam headlamps and 5mph bumpers as well as emissions equipment.
Poor, poor, poor farmers.
A story about how dairy farmers are having a hard time getting help because the unemployment rate is so low in Minnesoda. They’ve tried everything! (except you know raising wages).
Most of the story is goofy, but read this quote from a farmer:
Uffda! Have you heard of such unreasonable suffering? How dare the taxpayers not dole out some free money so they can all upgrade their technology?
Thanks to Gilmore and BP for talking me into taking a grinder to my guitar and then talking me out of it in the morning links. I didn’t see your responses until after everyone had migrated to to next post. Anyway, I will probably try it out one day when I have a spare nut and nothing better to do.
You’re taking your guitar to Grindr?
Apparently he’s also looking for an extra testicle.
Well, he ain’t gonna get any on Grindr based on his looks alone. He has to play the guitar to get the lovin’….
He has to play the guitar to get the lovin’….
What is this, Norway?*
*When I was in Bosnia me, a rando American guy and a rando Norwegian girl were handing out and she invited us back to her hostel, but told us to go grab our guitars. We were deeply confused since neither of us played. “How do guys get girlfriends in the US if they can’t play the guitar?” was her explanation.
“How do guys get girlfriends in the US if they can’t play the guitar?”
Money seems to do the trick…
Big swinging dicks. That’s how baby.
Go on…
A big swinging dick. Probably NSFW
Or if you like, a big black swinging dick. (SFW)
In the senior year of HS I was among 2 or 3 people (out of 20+ students in our class) who didn’t play guitar.
I bet you were pretty bummed about your lack of girlfriend too.
Gonna get the ol gal hooked up with a mandolin. You know a better way?
Lol. Then I won’t talk about using playing cards to raise it…
lol
its actually not that big a deal if its an electric guitar w/ a bolt on neck;
with an acoustic with a glued-in neck, you can fuck it up pretty bad. it depends. i’ve never owned a lot of acoustics (i’ve had an Ovation and a Takamine, both of which were beaters), but i’m just generally not a fan of doing work on guitars if you don’t absolutely *need* to. In 90% of the cases you’re more likely to create more problems than you’ll solve. in the case of an acoustic, for instance, you can fuck up the intonation by moving the nut without also making adjustments to the saddle. its not worth it if the thing is already perfectly playable and stays in tune.
My saddle can be adjusted and now that I’m home and looking at it the nut doesn’t look difficult to change out if I do it. Now that I’ve pondered this for the day I think it would help me on bar chords to file down. And I am confident in my ability to do it right. Though I generally go with the “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” mentality, so I am a little reluctant. I just want to play like Jimmy Hendrix so whatever will do that.
Nuts are easy. Take off the strings, grab it with some pliers if it is stuck in there and pull. You could also get replacement nuts that are lower than factory and try them instead of messing with filing them yourself. Don’t like the new action, and you can replace it in a few minutes.
Regardless of what anyone tells you though, under no circumstances should you mess with the frets themselves. Trying to file them down to remove buzz and you’ll end up taking the guitar to a Luther to get fixed. Or bugging some rather expensive specialty tools. Or just destroying the fingerboard and buying a new guitar, like my idiot friend.
Luthier, not Luther, buying not bugging, damn phone etc.
I don’t see how filing the frets would be good. When I started I thought it would have been easier to learn with higher frets but that’s nothing I was gonna try and change out
He bought a second hand guitar that had been played heavily, and the frets hasn’t written evenly. They never do. Anyway, he was having problems with buzzing due to the uneven frets, and got the idea to file them down.
This is something that will eventually need to be done on a guitar, and there are specialty files to re-level the frets, and other files to reshape them after leveling. He had neither, and proceeded to royally mess up his frets.
He then got the bright idea of removing the frets and buying some fret wire to replace the damaged frets.
Frets are do not come out easily. He ended up completely destroying the neck of his guitar, and ended up finally taking it to an actual luthier.
Original cost of fixing the frets would have been about $50, but he ended up paying over $400. Moral of the story, read up on anything before attempting it, watch a few videos of people doing it, and if it at all seems like a bad idea out beyond your current skill, don’t do it. Guitars, like all instruments, are built with a high amount of precision, and it is very easy to turn a $5,000 guitar into one that sounds like a $50 guitar if you don’t know what you’re doing.
drop your tuning a half-step, get some Ronsonol, drop some acid, play the blues.
He’ll have to string the guitar upside down and switch hands, as well.
i’ve had an Ovation and a Takamine
I’m distressed that we have the same acoustics. My Tak is the lawsuit model, the Ovation is an acoustic/electric.
why be distressed? they’re both some of the best value-per-$ acoustics you can get under $500/$1000 (ovation/tak, respectively)
i think above $1k, you might as well buy entry level martin or a taylor.
the ovations are sort of the best-in-class for “travel guitars”, or things for a kid to play which will survive abuse and not suffer from humidity-damage.
Anyway, I will probably try it out one day when I have a spare nut and nothing better to do.
Unless you’re Lance Armstrong, you should have a spare nut every day.
That would have been funny back in 2008…..
If you can, borrow a set of files from a shop or luthier. They make files in the correct width for different strings (EADG), which is especially useful for bass. I had to make a new nut after one broke on my bass. It took a second try with the right files to make it work.
I was planing on filing it with a small drill bit (without the drill) . Seems like it would work well in theory anyway.
http://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=32426
Democrats starting to face their Pelosi problem.
As badly as I want to see her gone, they’re just going to replace her with another prog moron.
Diane?
Kamala?
Clayton Bigsby.
It will be like when Beria replaced Yezhov. Sure it was nice seeing the malignant dwarf finally get his but the replacement was not exactly an improvement.
Meh, I’m kind of in favour of keeping the old bats around, if only to make the Democrats look like the new party of old, degenerate fucks. When your ‘youth candidate’ is an almost eighty year old guy who reminds them of their grandpa it’s kind of hilarious.
I hope she stays in the leadership forever. Nothing could hurt their chances of doing anything more than Pelosi continuing to steer the ship.
Please let it be Maxine Waters, we need the lulz.
I would love to see her press conference if she lost her leadership role. I think she’d pop a gasket and go on a rant that would sink the Democratic party for 20 years.
I remember I was surprised when Pelosi didn’t resign as the Party leader in the House… in 2010.
An undead creature like that never leaves a post willingly.
Not until someone threatens her phylactery.
Couldn’t find the video but I think it would be like the college president going off in the movie PCU.
When will Team Red face their Trump problem? Oh yeah, when he costs them elections. Because it’s all OK if the Team wins.
“Keuchel, mired in his second 10-day disabled list stint because of a pinched nerve in his neck…”
The fuck? pinched nerve? Also, one of the main Astro pitchers is named Dallas? Just a bowl of WTF…
Colbert for President 2020! Why the hell not!
He can pick Al Franken as his VP!
I am not sure what is sadder; the fact that the Democrats could actually do that or the fact that they would be shocked when Trump won re-election.
I would say he would be at least as entertaining as Trump but the latest incarnation of ‘The Tonight Show’ is so far disproving that theory.
It would be a novelty to see two fake conservatives running…
“Ladies and gentleman, please welcome the 46th President of the United States: Stephen T. Colbert.”
That has a nice sound to it, and given Colbert’s comments over the weekend…
Really bloody subtle about your bias there CNN.
I still think Random Lefty Celebrity 2020 is what the Democrats are going to end up doing. Whether it’s Colbert, Oprah or whomever (it won’t be Zuckerberg because that man has problems just pretending to be human).
When Zuckerberg visited Iowa last weekend, he said it was “his kind of place”. IN response some friend of Iowahawk tweeted “Alcoholism, sexual frustration and child sacrifices to barbaric corn gods.”
That’s the fake North Korean propaganda twitter that Popehat runs.
I thought it was someone else. Popehat is never that funny.
It’s run by Popehat’s co-blogger Patrick.
It’s like Water Boy syndrome.
So, the media and progressives are banging the drum on he new CBO score on Trumpcare: “22 MILLION PEOPLE UNINSURED!” HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WILL DIE!
None of them bother to mention that the vast majority of those 22 million are people who will choose to go without health insurance since they aren’t being forced to buy it.
(also, fuck Trumpcare, it’s Obamacare with a pretty colored bow on it. Full repeal or don’t bother)
Something something enemy of good.
Would apply if Trumpcare was even “good”…
What about families like mine? Our deductible is now so high that we avoid having minor shit fixed up. I was much better off before Obamacare because I had good insurance that I could use.
It’s the bill coming due for all your white privilege.
Hey, I live in the barrio of East Maple Grove! How does that qualify for white privilege?
If anyone, you are the one who is going to be first when the people rise up, living in toney west Maple Grove.
Maybe, but I can escape quickly into the adjacent farmland. Proggies can’t abide rural areas!
Well there is no mass transit to the boonies. And since none of the proggies have a driver’s license (much less a car) you are safe from them. As long as you stay off the bike trails.
-1 flat tire
Because of your privilege. You didn’t build that. We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.
Pre-Obamacare I had a PPO with fairly low co-pays and a managable deductible. Now I have a HDHP (where the deductible has more than doubled since I got it) and I pay more for the privilege than what I paid when I had a PPO.
They are all cowards and sycophants to lobbyists. All of them. They can get anally reamed sideways with a tire iron. You vote to repeal 60 TIMES when King O. was in office, now that it would actually be signed into law your testicles magically go missing. It’s pathetic.
Because it was obvious. They never wanted to repeal. They voted for it knowing it would get vetoed. They voted for it to look good. Nothing more.
That’s really not fair IMO. If the US was a unicameral legislature with a prime minister and not a President, then Obamacare would have been repealed years ago. But the system doesn’t work that way. Inertia works both ways: bad policy, once it is implemented, is just as hard to get rid of as it was to pass in the first place.
They have the thought process of “a straight repeal wouldn’t pass the Senate. So we’re not going to waste time passing it.” Well maybe they’re right. Maybe they’re wrong. But simply pass a repeal bill in the House, and see if it passes the Senate. At least make the fucking Senate vote on it, up or down, yay or nea. This is one of the ways that the progs win even when they lose: everything is done in 2 thousand page omnibus bills, and the average person can’t read through it or understand it. But everyone in the media is telling them it’s a good bill or a bad bill (depending on who’s bill it is) and that’s where they get their opinions.
You cut through the Gordian Knot with a sword, you don’t pick at it with your fingers.
I stand with Rand.
Me too, let it burn and let Democrats try to replace it.
I got excited for minute. But it turned out our favorite lobster-loving lady was not there when they took pictures.
At edge of seat, I am.
So, it’s a comedy article?
More like a tragedy. I was hoping for lobster girl.
I got ya.
They’re apparently really good at making those things disappear too.
So if it is legal, why are they yanking it out of the luggage and taking pics with it?
Just Be Claws?
I find this surprising.
http://legalinsurrection.com/2017/06/yale-fires-dean-who-called-white-people-trash/?utm_content=bufferc1657&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
“I have learned a lot this semester about the power of words”
Here’s what I don’t get.
She’s the dean. How could she not have known this beforehand? Being dean implies a certain intelligence;wisdom that goes beyond academia.
I guess I ask for too much.
Leaving such a comment – on Yelp no less – revealed an incredibly lack of judgment, respect and reminded that inner-prejudices transcends race or creed. It’s been nothing short of disgraceful and anti-intellectual to single out whites for such thoughts.
Fuck that noise. I don’t get what she said was wrong. She didn’t call all whiteys trash. She said that a certain place was great if you were white trash.
Cracker please! Have a sense of humor.
Post from a prog friend of mine:
You should send them a piece of cake.
ughhhhsfasihpoagdsg
I love how Medicaid not getting tax money is a “loss”. Up is down. Left is right. War is peace. Etc. etc. etc.
The headline in the local paper today was something about how the GOP tax cuts in Minnesoda would “cost” the state $650M.
Ah, multiplication. The dark art known only to those who have graduated the second grade.
Uh isn’t federal govt only 350billon per year in medicaid?
Yeah, but it could have been 4 trillion if not for you kulaks and wreckers. America spending more on healthcare is good except when it’s being used to prove that every civilized country on earth spends less.
how can medicaid “lose” money it never had? Does this person think spending is an end in itself?
why would you WANT to spend $4trillion on medicaid unless you had to? increasing enrollment in an inefficient program isn’t a measure of public-policy success.
By that same logic, they could bemoan declining spending on unemployment benefits. “WE JUST CUT UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS BY X TRILLION!?! ” never mind that all those people got jobs.
Speaking of Chesterton, his essay on Poland sums it up quite nicely.
He’s referring to Polish army defeating Red Army* at Warsaw in 1920, stopping their westward progress and preventing them from conquering Poland and advancing into Germany to stir up the Communist revolution there. Something that was not forgiven by the European Right-Thinkers ever since.
*when Stalin supposedly fucked over Trotsky, both leading a column each
Most Mothers Have Been Victims of ‘Mommy-Shaming,’ Poll Finds
Solution: Stop being a shitty mother.
Apparently criticism of anything is now _______ shaming.
Instead of shaming people, we should simply make their actions illegal and report them to the proper authorities.
Hmmmm….I wonder what the breakdown on mom vs dad telling their daughter she’s doing it wrong is. Cuz I have a guess.
How dare the father opine about child rearing. His job is to donate sperm and fill up the bank account, he doesn’t get to actually have a say in how his kid is raised!
I think it’s funny how this is set up as an opposing viewpoint. The amount of formal rules my parents had were very very few. But when I fucked up, there were pretty harsh consequences, which did include corporal punishment when I was younger. I guess the analogy would be that I had an enormous yard to roam in, but the fence was electrified and razor wired.
Nowadays I see kids who are not actually disciplined, but the intervention is constant and unceasing. Rather than letting them play with their siblings, and stepping in when someone begins to bleed, they hover over and constantly defuse every possible conflict. I see the timeouts going hand in hand with strict rules, with the freedom to explore, in my experience, was paired with spanking.
“I guess the analogy would be that I had an enormous yard to roam in, but the fence was electrified and razor wired.”
Just like the above-ground break area in my monocle mine!
Pretty much. Plus they negotiate their kids.
Never negotiate.
Fuck Spock.
Criticism is not shaming, you stupid unless cunts at the US National Library Of Medicine.*
*(Nothing left to cut? My fucking ass!)
What’s the point of criticizing people if it doesn’t cause a soul crushing sense of embarrassment and unworthiness? That’s like 85-90% of the fun.
The reference to Poles and Chesterton reminds me of this Chesterton quote about whether women are an oppressed class (trigger warning: insensitive language, to put it mildly):
“A Prussian does not feel from the first that he can only be happy if he spends his days and nights with a Pole. An Englishman does not think his house empty and cheerless unless it happens to contain an Irishman. A white man does not in his romantic youth dream of the perfect beauty of a black man. A railway magnate seldom writes poems about the personal fascination of a railway porter. All the other revolts against all the other relations are reasonable and even inevitable, because those relations are originally only founded upon force or self interest. Force can abolish what force can establish; self-interest can terminate a contract when self-interest has dictated the contract. But the love of man and woman is not an institution that can be abolished, or a contract that can be terminated. It is something older than all institutions or contracts, and something that is certain to outlast them all. All the other revolts are real, because there remains a possibility that the things may be destroyed, or at least divided. You can abolish capitalists; but you cannot abolish males. Prussians can go out of Poland or negroes can be repatriated to Africa; but a man and a woman must remain together in one way or another; and must learn to put up with each other somehow.”
Andrea Dworkin disagrees
Sports spoiler – just in case.
No miracles for Oracle this time.
“It is not surprising that the lambs should bear a grudge against the great birds of prey, but that is no reason for blaming the great birds of prey for taking the little lambs. And when the lambs say among themselves, “These birds of prey are evil, and he who least resembles a bird of prey, who is rather its opposite, a lamb,—should he not be good?” then there is nothing to carp with in this ideal’s establishment, though the birds of prey may regard it a little mockingly, and maybe say to themselves, “We bear no grudge against them, these good lambs, we even love them: nothing is tastier than a tender lamb.”
I think I recognize that quote. Hint: Not Chesterton
Obviously, but it’s relevant to the idea of the ‘oppressed’ complaining about the ‘oppressor’.
McMansion Hell (one of the only good things on Tumblr) getting sued by Zillow. Zillow claims the pics do not meet the “parody, commentary, etc.” standard of the Copyright Act.
That’s incredibly lame. I love McMansion Hell.
Even Popehat is weighing in. I don’t know what kind of law he practices, but maybe he can give the author a good referral and beat Zillow to the ground.
Fuck. Site is gone.
YEah, she took it down out of an abundance of caution.
Some folks “quit” (i.e. were asked to resign) CNN after fake Russia article is published.
Not surprisingly, a former NYT reporter is involved.
The piece is by Brian Stelter, so you can be reasonably sure there’s a huge lie in there somewhere.
oh, here it is =
At least we know the NYT reporter’s involvement is totally true, though. Pretty sure they have a liars’ training program over there.
Taught by the eminent Jayson Blair, holder of the prestigious Walter Duranty chair of institutionalized lying.
Well, it can’t have anything to do with lying or making up shit out of thin air, that’s their entire business model.
I’m guessing that the word “actionable” came up while consulting with their lawyers about the situation.
Throwing some people under the bus in an effort to regain credibility, perhaps? Like, “oh look, we fired these two, that means we totally back everything else we say, promise!”
Its like McDonald’s announced that they’ve fired the Hamburgler on suspicion of promoting unhealthy food habits
I’m sure next time they will be sure to also ask the Senate bathroom attendant for his anonymous opinion, that way they will have twice as many credible sources.
And this evening it was like they learned nothing from all of this. Don Lemon did a tease before going to commercial: “With all that we’re learning about Donald Trump and Russia collusion, is this all turning into ‘Watergate 2.0’?”
OT: Why do you think most societies have such a strong prohibition on homosexual relationships?
It’s true that some societies had varying forms of homosexuality that were tolerated (such as Greek pederasty) but I’ve never heard of a society where it was acceptable – up until very recently – for a person to decide that they’re attracted to the same sex, have a gay marriage, and live happily ever after (if I’m wrong on that, please correct me). Why do you think this rule evolved in almost every culture in the world? It’s not likely that the idea came from one source because it appears in societies that never had contact with one another, almost as if there’s something about the early stages of human civilization that leads them to the conclusion that homosexuality is causing some kind of harm. (note: I have absolutely nothing against gay people, and I think they deserve the same rights as everyone else).
Most societal norms evolve for a reason – they’re rules designed to promote a prosperous and civilized society. Rape, murder, stealing, and other misdeeds are destructive to society, so these rules exist as a mechanism to prevent a backslide to barbarism. Of course, human societies often come up with rules that cause no harm whatsoever if broken, but my point still stands because there is usually a belief that breaking this rule causes harm to society.
But why was homosexuality counted among the greatest wrongs by most of the world up until very recently? What would possibly make people think that homosexuality is going to destroy their civilization if they don’t snuff it out and suppress it? The only justification I could think of is that in an age where population replacement was no easy task due to the high infant mortality rate as well as the high adult mortality rate, it seemed wasteful to have people expending sexual energy on an activity that stood no chance of producing any children. But there don’t seem to be very many social injunctions against heterosexual people who just fail to attract a mate. They might get ridiculed for their failure to get laid, but that’s about it.
Any thoughts?
Uh, gonna disagree on that front.
Seconded
I mean shit, I’m still south of 30, and a guy, and I was getting quite a few pointed questions about when I would get “serious”, settle down, and start producing munchkins. Childless women past 35 or so, I can’t even imagine how much shit they are on a daily basis.
They=me. 45, never married, no germ factory ankle-biters.
I’m pretty cool with my life choices (regrets? I’ve had a few). I know people think I’m weird or whatever. But I’m pretty proud of being 100% self-sufficient and self-supporting. One of my friends once told me she hopes her daughter grows up to be 1/2 as independent as I am. By a MILE, best compliment anyone has ever given me.
I’ve never understood why people try to pressure others into having kids. If you aren’t sure you want children, you probably shouldn’t have them.
Same instinct as “Oh my god this smells terrible…check it out!” but with 18+ years of potential consequence.
“Suffer with us, we totally made a great choice.”
Jesse, your theory lines up my own experience. I actually had that happen a while back. My sister has three daughters, the oldest is about four years older than the twins. So about a month after the twins were born, my sister was all, “You should come visit see the twins.” So I go down to visit, and my sister and her husband were sleep deprived wrecks from trying to deal with a 4-year old, plus two babies. I spent most of my time hanging with the four year old taking her to parks and the natural history museum, (She loves Dinosaurs.) all so my sister and her husband could take some naps.
After about three days running myself ragged trying to keep up with a rambunctious four year old in order to help cure my sister and her husband’s sleep deprivation, my BiL says, “Thanks, you’re really great with kids, when are you going to settle down and have some of your own?”
“I know people think I’m weird or whatever”
Who cares what those people think. Never married = smarter than most of us.
Not getting married and not having kids is not one of my regrets, believe me. I’m way, way happier when I’m on my own. One day, about a year after my ex had died from being a drunk, I woke up and realized how amazingly happy I was. I will never forget that feeling.
That happened to me after my first marriage as well. At first it was weird living in a big house in the middle of nowhere all by myself. So quiet, I felt a little sad that I’d ‘failed’ or maybe not me, but I’d let something fail. This went on for a couple of weeks and then I woke up one day and suddenly felt happier than I had been since I was a little kid. I felt free and life felt like an adventure once again.
(I want to be perfectly clear – I’m not conflating my low-end struggles of being an unmarried middle aged chick with the actual struggles of teh gayz. I’ve never had the shit kicked out of me because of who I do and don’t fuck, for example)
Do we know how homosexuality was viewed in pre-Judeo Christian societies? Kind of. Some of them were totally cool with it. (*cough*Sparta*cough*). THen, of course, there’s no information on what prehistoric groups thought of it.
As always, controlling sex is one of the main tenets of many religions.
IIRC, in the Greek pagan aristocracy it was OK if you “played the man’s part” but not if you “played the woman’s part,” if you get what I’m saying.
In other words they were so misogynist that acting “manly” was all right but being womanly was one of the worst things you could be.
There’s a reason (as opponents of Christianity liked to point out) that Christianity appeals to women.
Why do you think this rule evolved in almost every culture in the world?
Citation? And did these rules develop independently or you know because widespread influence of Christianity and Islam, and later because British colonial legal structures got adopted around the globe at the peak of their distaste for homosexual behavior?
First thoughts are that you are conflating two separate ideas: Tolerance for homosexuality and marriage. Marriage as we know it, that is a secular affair woven into the workings of the nation-state for the purpose of tax breaks and other bennies, is not a historic universal, but in fact a largely a product of Prussian social engineering intended to raise the birth rate. Secondly, what you describe as a “norm” is really only the norm of the Abrahamic faiths, which when introduced in say, classical Rome, was seen as savage and backwards. Indeed, further afield, until the 1930’s open homosexuality was barely worth a raised eyebrow in Shanghai. In short, the one-two punch of 19th century Westernization and 20th century Communism brought intolerance of homosexuality to many East Asian cultures. It’s worth noting that Thailand, never having been colonized by a Western power, is still home to this.
Also, yaoi has been around since the Qing Dynasty, at least:
Ha, she’s totally lady fapping to that.
I believe there’s a term for that…
Oh my god thats hysterical and appalling all at once!
And who isn’t lady fapping to that?
Look at that facial expression of pure “squee!”.
Fucking weeaboos.
Speaking of that, the new Sailor Moon reboot looks incredible!
According to Wikipedia, the first Sailor Moon comics came out in 1991.
So if she was, say, 13 years old then, now she would be 39.
Well, I’ll be a monkey’s uncle.
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I think I can fap to this. brb.
I’m continually impressed by your ability to surprise.
You’re projecting your modern views about homosexuality onto cultures with very different views on it. In Greco-Roman societies homosexual activity was seen primarily through a lens of masculine/feminine roles, not about the act itself. The masculine role, that of penetration, was not really viewed negatively while the feminine act, i.e. being penetrated was more the taboo of the relationship. This dynamic defined homosexuality activity in European pagan society, and you can see it in regards to how these societies legislated in regards to it. For example, superior officers in Roman military organizations were forbidden to penetrate or be penetrated by their men, because the act was an offense to the masculine gods of war, i.e. you were feminizing the epitome of masculinity, a grave insult. Greco-Roman homosexuality was contextualized by the activity and your role in it, rather than as a ‘lifestyle’. So of course there’s no concept of a ‘gay marriage’ in Greek society, women are for procreation and men ‘with no hair upon their chin’ are for more actively masculine sexual activity. In the west at least it’s only with the advent of Christianity that the idea of homosexuality becomes less about a feminine/masculine activity and more about the act itself.
And for the record, this view hasn’t disappeared either. It’s still pretty common in the Middle East (viewed much more negatively than the Greco-Romans obviously), but you’ll still get, say, people in Saudi Arabia who say they’re totally not gay just because they fucked some guy in the ass.
I also know that there were various periods in China (pre-Confucian) and Japan (see the Kagema) where homosexuality was fairly tolerated, but I don’t know much about it beyond that.
TL;DR Homosexuality is historically viewed very differently across cultures and periods, and for a lot of the time it’s not considered the ‘greatest wrongs’.
I don’t recall the early Confucians deeming homosexual behavior worth mentioning…I don’t actually recall any of the Warring States philosophers mentioning it (mind you this wasn’t an area of depth for me).
As for Japan, I seem to recall reading that homosexual behavior played an important role in Genji Monogatari, and not in a way we’d recognize as stigmatized, but I haven’t read it and don’t know the details.
I’m half-remembering something I read years ago about Taoists writing about homosexuality activity in their weirdo sex books which were later censored by Confucian scholars as taboos towards sex increased. Like I said, I haven’t researched heavily and I wasn’t trying to infer that Confucius hated the fags.
Did Confucius support gay marriage? If not, he hated all gay people.
/sarc
Yeah poorly remembered Chinese history and Chinese philosophy later philosophers read anti-homosexual implications into they way early Confucians structured filial piety. Especially when states were using Confucianism and Legalism as a shillelagh to enforce conformity (not that Legalism is good for anything else).
There is a Chinese romantic legend known as the Tale of Pan Zhang & Wang Zhongxian, which is basically about two dudes who fall in love at first sight and then live together until they both die on the same day. The village then buries them on a hill, from which a tree springs forth from their graves with the branches intertwined as if they were still embracing each other in death.
We all, of course, know how to read traditional Chinese.
That’s what Google Translate is for, silly!
See?
I see.
Heard a lot about man-boy Thursdays from folks who went to Afghanistan – years and years ago (ie. 2004). Of course it was apparently a non-thing in the media until they tried to charge the SFC last year for beating up the local Police chief.
Everyone in the service has heard about this stuff….but it’s a non-starter for the SJWs and progs over here…..
Yes. It’s what some people do for pleasure. And all pleasure is sinful. Especially sexual pleasure. Especially sexual pleasure that ‘I’ don’t agree with. People are and always have been insufferable nannybot shitheads. There’s my thoughts.
Tundra – what’s yer take on Michael Floyd? I know the Vikes have a history of taking on “troubled” players with mixed success, but this guy seems like another Manziel.
(and Pope J., of course!!)
Never forget his Holiness, KK!
I think Zimmer can handle him. He seems to be comfortable with problem children.
That said, Michael should maybe think about getting his shit together. I don’t believe the Kombucha story, but if the kid can just plug the fucking bottle for awhile, he could do some good things.
Big ‘if’, though.
Still more worried about O-line.
I was fishing with my father when the story about him failing the alcohol test came out. My father is a retired PO and he just rolled his eyes and said that it was only a matter of time before he gets nailed with his next DUI. According to him, some dudes are just drunks who will never have a rock bottom moment and will flame out.
To me it sure seems like the guy is doomed. If you move back home and are told you have one last chance, how hard is it to keep sober?
And I’ll always treasure the thought that I am the second most important Glibertarian in Maple Grove.
Floyd’s a 27 year old athlete who’s currently on a 1.4 million dollar one year deal, ~1.2 million of which is guaranteed money, which brings his total cash earnings for his career to around 18 million.
He’s got a way to go before he hits rock bottom.
*does victory lap*
Not vikings fan but a Cards fan. He was popular with the fan base here and was never much of a problem child which is probably more indicative of other factors like having Larry Fitzgerald around. As for the DUI, I probably would have gotten fucked up after that Miami game too, and I did. A fall from gave is normally nothing more than a couple bad choices.
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Minnesota Man? Uffda! You betchya!
(duck, duck, gray duck)
“controlled substance”
Which one?
There’s a Swanson for this.
Mine says ‘fuck off slaver’
Am I the only person who doesn’t appreciate retro liveries on commercial aircraft? It makes me think I’m flying a 1970-vintage DC-10 that’s headed for explosive decompression.
Yes. What the fuck is wrong with you?
I miss Pan-Am.
Well if the stewardesses still give you the special treatment like they did back in the day I’m on board.
Why I always flew Cathay Pacific.
Model Falcon 9 Stage 1 lands in backyard pool.
Sonofabitch.
Link
do they have it for android? I have a boss to impress.
That’s awesome.
Wow. That’s some cool shit right there.
Why do I need a prescription for goddamn dog medicine? And it’s just standard heartworm stuff, not like some kinda tranquilizer.
They don’t need to give you a reason you heartworm medicine junkie.
This would fall under the well known FYTW standard.
Sure you want to turn your dogs into drugs addicts, and you hate the children.
I had the same problem with my old dog’s ear infections. Same shit every time.
I liked my vet and boarded my dog there several times a year, but I finally told them that I would never buy my meds from them. Instead I took a prescription and started buying online. The vet was pissy about it, but I simply photoshopped the original scrip and used it over and over.
And I have to say, the fucking buzz from that shit was AWESOME! Unfortunately watching my dog scratch his stinky ears was sort of a buzzkill.
Now, I’m getting Interceptor for
myselfthe dog. Tell me: does one snort it or shoot it up?I don’t know about that. But the way the ear medicine worked is you would apply it to your balls and then lick it off for a sustained buzz…
Look at Mr. Contortionist over here. I haven’t seen my belly button in years.
Two things: 1) Some dude is horking my GENERAL RIPPER avatar. I’m sure he’s a nice guy and all but, really? 2) I love this site. But the reality is there are times when I think that we all come here to get EXTRA pissed off. I’m pretty much pissed off all the time. Maybe it wouldn’t be such a bad idea if you– the powers that be — devote one night’s links to positive, pro-liberty links. How about Friday night? I know after a week at work I’m pretty cranky. I could use some positive-attitudes with my bourbon. Just a suggestion. xoxoxo shuey
Freedom Fridays? (see what I did there?)
FRIDAY IS MY DAY YOU DAMN STRUMPET!
*flips table, storms off to clean guns*
Ahem.
MY PRECIOUS! MINE! GET AWAY!
*throws Friday into a volcano*
Your euphemisms are showing!
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. If we don’t call out the transgressions they will keep happening. Not that they would stop even if we do but sometimes, rarely, we make progress here and there.
Hey, I staked claim to this avatar fair and square… 7 March it was, according to google’s recollection.
But I’m nothing if not reasonable.
So I’m willing to agree to grant you sole rights to use of said image, in exchange for five sturdy orphans, or a case of WD-40 and a serviceable woodchipper.
There can be only one. You must meet on a stony hilltop in scotland during a lightning storm and battle with broadswords.
We must battle with broad’s words?
That’s the definition of a no-win — for the sake of us both, I give.
Looks like Serena decided to be an asshole rather than face reality.
http://www.espn.com/tennis/story/_/id/19744673/serena-williams-tweets-response-john-mcenroe-ranking-comments
I especially like the “respect my privacy while I’m having a baby” bullshit. She’s living her life on twitter, for fucks sake. You want privacy? Go away.
Besides, all the man did was answer a question honestly. And he basically gave the same answer she gave nLetterman years ago. But she’s all woke now so I guess she’s gotta keep her street red with the pussy-hat brigade instead of saying “well sure I’d lose to an elite man. It’s a different game.”
I had her pegged: she’s an asshole. Venus would have never said something this retarded and smarmy.
Looks like we need an overhyped McEnroe/Williams grudge match.
Even better if they made them play with the old early ’80s wood racquets. Lets see who really has skill.
But Venus doesn’t have the same huge bouncy rack. I can live with some attitude for a Boone & Crockett rack.
I am so tickled that so many people think “Sean Spicier” is the real deal. I always read the replies when he Tweets so I can play Spot the Moron
I’m still giddy about the real one’s last name. Its a conversation starter for me.
This commentary by hitch popped up in my recommended feed again, so i rewatched and realized what he was saying applied almost exactly to the current situation re: progressives + Trump
Dwell on this for a moment:
http://www.infinitelooper.com/?v=OTXXmVP7djw&p=n#/54;104
Gilmore’d Gilmore! DAMNIT GILMORE
Look upon my works and despair
I must be on Benadryl or sumpin*, because that metaphor took me forever to put together!
*I am
best part is when he calls Moore a Brownshirt.
He had a great talent for derogatory characterization.
My reason for the post was the comparison of John Birch society accusations re: Eisenhower, suggesting he was a “communist controlled puppet”… with contemporary ones of Trump being a “Russian Stooge”.
Hitch wondered aloud how anyone could live in a country while maintaining that sort of delusion about their own leaders. Yet here we are.
Yep. Nothing changes. Same play, new actors. I think we’re just seeing the Leftist plays all at once this time rather than dribbled out over decades.
I used to call it the left’s birtherism, but maybe Bitcherism is the better insult.
Willett & Wife
I’ve been waiting and waiting for Battlebots to show up on my DVR schedule, and now I come to find out it hasn’t even been scheduled and there’s a hashtag campaign to bring it back??? Da fuq?
Did you know drone racing is a thing? And you can strap on a VR helmet for it?
Jeezus! They sound like F1 cars! (not sure if a compliment to the drones’ engines, or an indictment of F1)
I’ve been seeing promos on the Science Channel, and their FB feed says it starts July 12 at 10 Eastern/9 Central. I’m wondering when we’re going to get the first episodes from the next generation of Mythbusters.
Science Channel?? That’s weird! I thought ABC had been doing well with it in the summer season. July 12 is too far out for my DVR to pick it up, so that makes sense.
I’d forgotten it was on ABC before, so I couldn’t say whether these will be new episodes.
So s this Sargon Twitter character halfway interesting? Or interesting enough guest to listen to a Joe Rohan podcast? I know he has come up before around here but can’t remember why
Rogan
The youtube guy? He’s got quite a history. He’s good if you feel like shoving your head into the online SJW blender and hearing him take the piss out of feminists and whatnot. Otherwise, a bit repetitive and a bit simplistic.
his youtube channel is his main show
its a mix of editorial content and (long ass) livestreams where he talks with other Youtube personalities. sample the editorial content to get a feel for his thing
his “This week in stupid” episodes review news items of the past week
this one is from the beginning of the month, when the Evergreen thing popped off
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH1nQ__r_84
he mostly focuses on “SJW freakouts” and deconstructs their nonsense in a methodical way. he’s become very popular because he himself comes from a modestly-lefty perspective. he attracts a lot of attention from UK and US younger people.
I wouldn’t suggest you should start with the Rogan show. It was after VidCon and you can tell. not sure if he was hungover or just tired, but definitely not his best outing.
Today I competed for the coveted title of top Klingon student. My grammar and accent impressed the judges almost as much as my bat’leth skills.
Klingon takes no prisoners. My class began with 18. There are 10 of us left, and some of them will not pass the DLPT.
Sooooo do you guys just read Thai menus angrily at each other?
This man is the avatar of a Youtube video comment section made manifest in flesh.
What i learned there is that its ok to call people spics and camel jockeys, but if you threaten to say “nigger” the white girls will cry “don’t you dare” as though you just threatened to break a kitten’s neck
best comment =
Qapla’!
Laser gun for Apache helicopter successfully tested:
https://warisboring.com/the-u-s-military-just-attached-a-laser-weapon-to-an-apache-gunship/
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Raytheon claims it’s the first time a “fully integrated” laser weapon system—specifically, integrated with Raytheon’s Multi-Spectral Targeting System sensor in this case—has been successfully tested from a helicopter “over a wide variety of flight regimes, altitudes and air speeds,” the company announced in a statement.
The test, which involved U.S. Special Operations Command, took place at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. The idea behind the experiment was to see how well the laser performed against several unspecified targets. And in doing so, the company and SOCOM can study how the laser handled the Apache’s constant vibration, along with the downwash caused by the helicopter’s rotor blades in White Sands’ dusty, desert environment.
A picture released by Raytheon shows the laser’s distinctive, greyish-white pod mounted beneath the Apache’s stubby left wing pylon. The device “achieved all primary and secondary goals” and “performed as expected,” the company stated.
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Yes, but can these be mounted to a friggin shark?
It’s still at the proof of concept stage. But I would love to see more info about what wavelength they were operating at, and how they solved the dispersion problem inherent to laser weapons.
Yeah, that guy fails physics forever.
OK I might have been a bit harsh, but a microwave gun that makes people in the ME already fighting in 110 degree heat slightly hotter doesn’t seem like that great of a weapon.
They’ve already got a non-lethal microwave weapon for crowd control. Dunno if it’s on youtube but they were testing it over 10 years ago. HMMVW turret mounted (like an Avenger), point it at a crowd and it gives folks a very strong burning sensation/skin crawling/pain/etc – makes them run away pretty quick in the tests.
A little larger than I remembered.
This was the Navy’s test a couple years ago – haven’t read anything new, but I think it’s mostly about looking at power sources (like the railgun) before adding to complements.
Like the precision accuracy, but they need something that can be full auto too – next should be a drone test at range – that’d give a better idea about defeating ASCM (Anti Ship Cruise Missiles) which are the primary threat out there.
From a coworker who owns an old FJ55.
What do you call four tires in a field?
A 50 series with the rust removed.
Power went out a couple hours ago, so I ate a pint of ice cream. Now the power is back on and I can see I’m a slob.
Loving RLM’s coverage of the new Transformers movie. Three reviews already!
Great moments in Remove Kebab
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Zenta
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The Battle of Zenta or Battle of Senta, fought on 11 September 1697 just south of Zenta (Serbian: Senta; then part of the Ottoman Empire; today in Serbia), on the east side of the Tisa river, was a major engagement in the Great Turkish War (1683–1699) and one of the most decisive defeats in Ottoman history. In a surprise attack, Habsburg Imperial forces routed the Ottoman army which was crossing the river. At the cost of a few hundred losses, the Habsburg forces inflicted thousands of casualties on the Ottomans, dispersed the remainder and captured the Ottoman treasure. As an immediate consequence, the Ottoman Empire lost control over Banat, while in the long run, the Habsburg victory at Zenta was the last decisive step to force the Ottoman Empire into the Treaty of Karlowitz (1699), ending the Ottoman control of large parts of Central Europe.
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On 11 September 1697, the Ottoman army began to ford the river Tisa (Tisza, Theiss) near Zenta (Senta), unaware that the Hungarian Imperial Army was nearby. The Imperial army was able to surprise and attack the Ottoman forces while they were in the process of crossing the river. After an intensive artillery bombardment, many Imperial Dragoon regiments dismounted and proceeded to the moat encircling and engaging the Ottoman camp. Ottoman troops behind the entrenchments retreated in confusion to the bridge, which was now overcrowded. Austrian artillery targeted the Ottoman troops and slaughtered them. The left flank of the Imperial army attacked, penetrating between the Ottoman left flank and the bridge, cutting off their retreat. At the same time, Imperial forces attacked from the front and, after ferocious close-quarter fighting, broke through the trenches surrounding the Ottoman camp. Inside the camp, beyond the camp-wagons, the slaughter was terrible. Imperial soldiers pressed the attack relentlessly. Barely a thousand Ottoman soldiers escaped. More than 10,000 Ottoman troops drowned in the Tisa river. Up to 20,000 Ottoman soldiers were slaughtered on the battlefield.
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[Nelson laugh]
Ah, the Turkenkrieg. Good times… well, except for the Turks, I guess. (If you want a good chuckle, check out wikipedia’s list of Ottoman grand viziers – quite the attrition rate between 1683 and 1699.)
Due process is just shitlord propaganda.
Still better than the article I saw last week that suggested that courts should lower the standard of proof in criminal rape cases.
Lots of to-be-sure’isms in that article. Had to double check it wasn’t Rico.
How are we at a place where the legitimacy of due process is even a conversation anywhere in society?
How are we at a place where the legitimacy of due process is even a conversation anywhere in society?
That’s an exceedingly good question. And a question I personally find incredibly disturbing. Things like freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and due process (the list can easily go on) used to be the bedrock, the common ground, for public discourse. They were the boundaries on how far any faction could push things. Yes, they got trampled on in times of emergency. Yes, they were often enforced hypocritically. But even those breaching the principles recognized their value and at least paid lip service to them.
I don’t think I’ve ever run across a period in American history where there was significant element of society, and and educated one at that, that ever thought it was a legitimate idea to throw those principles out the window. What the hell is it that they think is going to happen when those principles are thrown out? Do they think their opponents will still somehow be bound by them?
You get rid of those principles and you’re looking at a pretty vicious civil war.
Just don’t read this. I’m 100% serious.
I hate you.
If I had sad 99%, your hate would be justified.
If he wore them while visiting a ME country outside of Israel, I might give him some grudging respect.
I wonder if he has a pair of “Arbeit Macht Frei” socks stashed away somewhere?
Also seeing WaPo’s democracy slogan on top of that article feels kind of ironic.