Grüezi mitenand. I had told the other Founding Glibs that we should stick to analog… Like a good Swiss watch. Oh well, I guess it is a digital age after all. Here, nice and reliable links for you all.
- Intersectionality malfunction? Does it matter that it is not in the US – or are they more “authentic” for being in the East Indies?
- Florida fireworks Fail. Kind of the anti-Florida Man result.
- I shall call him…. “Mini-Trump“! ….Trump o’ the Nor’ East?…The Bangor Bloviator?…The Augusta @$$hole?
- Illinois….uh, State Malfunction?
Enjoy timely and working links. Uf wiederluege mitenand.
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671 responses to “Thursday Afternoon Links O’ Malfunction”
DO ANY OF YOU WORK?!
…on what?
My workday is over, Rufus.
OUT?
Work out. *belly laughs*
Only when there are “technical difficulties” at this place
I just got home about 10 minutes ago. so yeah some of us work.
I found where I’m going the next time I’m in England.
(I’d invite Pan but he’s not allowed there anymore after getting caught with his dick in a T-34 exhaust port)
Pan, before the arrest
Pan, before the arrest
Pan, before the arrest NSFW!
Okay I REALLY want to know how you found that image.
I don’t waste time memorizing important facts, scientific theories, or generally accepted knowledge. Instead I waste brain cells on obscure urls.
I think it was from an old site – cruel.com – that had wonderful links each day to strange, perverted sites. Now I come here.
I really do not want to know that, and I never want to find that image again.
Dicks out for Pan? Wait, who the hell is Pan?
The royal armories are also amazing.
Well you could just skip England and go to Kentucky instead…
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g39418-d260419-Reviews-Patton_Museum_of_Cavalry_and_Armor-Fort_Knox_Kentucky.html
Seconded, and if Mr. Titor and co. are looking for accommodations then I’m sure I could work something out…
I am also boycotting Starbucks.
McDonalds and 7-11 are just fine, thank you.
And I’m boycotting Rolls Royce until they come up with something reliable and cheap.
This should do it then.
Jesus P.!
I want one.
Shout out to the McDonalds app (I just started using it). It does not ask me to link a payment method to it or any of that bullshit. It just lets me browse through deals while I am standing in line.
During June, every day it would give a buy one get one breakfast sandwich coupon code. The egg mcmuffin was already $2. That would be two mcmuffins for $2.
I am somehow not fat.
Noted and downloaded. I have 3 kids that LOVE it, and I’m not beneath having it once a week myself.
Also, FUCK the Starbucks app. I’ve had my primary credit card re-issued 4 times in the last 3 years for security breaches. Once was Target, once was Home Depot, and the other 2 were the Starbucks app.
And Starbucks does fuck all to help you work with your bank to recover the money
I didn’t really need their help. It’s the credit card company’s money, not mine. I only owe what I authorize and sign for.
2 minutes after my wife reloaded the balance on the Starbucks app while in the their store, somebody tried to check in to Disneyland Hong Kong with my card. Sounds expensive. Best of luck to you credit card company, but not my problem.
yeah it works a bit differently if you link it to a debit card than if you link it to a credit card, you don’t have as many protections on debit card.
Scotchman for me, they have the extra caffeinated coffee I need to make it to 9:00am without killing anyone.
Y’all talk crap about taco Bell but you’ll stuff McDonald’s in your pie hole? Really?
What’s the term for when people denigrate something to cover their shameful enjoyment of it?
hypocrisy?
Taco Bell is fine. I had it a week ago.
You must be thinking of Chipotle.
“llinois….uh, State Malfunction?”
Misspelled.
Also, the whole state is a hazmat situation.
I see you corrected the misspelling. Very well, sir
MAYBE THAT WAS PART OF THE JOKE?
DO ANY OF YOU JOKE!?
My job is a joke
Re Starbucks. Another example of why it’s a good idea for corporations to stay and steer clear of politics.
Starbucks brought this on themselves. Same with any idiot CEO who thinks it’s a good idea to virtue signal.
Sell sneakers? STICK TO THAT and DO YOUR JOB. I don’t give a shit about your fucken politics.
You sing songs that have nothing to do with politics? Good. STICK TO THAT and DO YOUR JOB. Not interested in hearing your TDS takes.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9xzv7_mtv-s-aimee-allen-ron-paul-anthem-m_music
I don’t know. I rather liked Aimee Allen’s political statement in that one music video
I think it was Billy Joel who remarked that celebrities are just there to entertain and should keep their mouths shut otherwise. He found it strange anyone could care about their opinions since they’re essentially “court jesters”.
Sounds like Billy Joel is the smart one in the room.
Raise your hand if you have a kid with Christie Brinkley
Looks like she already has three of them.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4672182/Christie-Brinkley-says-older-women-need-represented.html
She’s still smokin’ hot.
Would.
That woman isn’t human. She looks better at 63 than 99% of women ever do at any age.
Angela Bassett at 58 is still workin’ it.
SHe played the delightful Gayle Gergich.
Seriously.
Him and Ric Ocasek. Talk about surpassing expectations.
Ocasek at least made great music.
I saw Joel in 1986 and enjoyed it!
I’m glad Alexa Joel turned out to be pretty. When she was a little kid, those facial features did not work. But she aged into them nicely.
The court jesters were the ones who would say the uncomfortable truths to the the King. That’s not what celebrities do. They’re more like court flunkies.
I think he meant just the entertainment aspect. The statement was something along the lines of ‘We’re the court jesters not the court philosophers”.
Alice Cooper said something similar.
“If you’re listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you’re a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we’re morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal.”
The irony, of course, is that Alice Cooper is much better read and thoughtful than 99.9% of his industry peers. That was the joke behind his Wayne’s World cameo.
“There was no big finish,” said Donna Zimmerman, 49, of Brandon. “Very disappointed this year.”
Uh, that’s what she said?
No relation to George?
France to ban sales of petrol and diesel cars by 2040
France will end sales of petrol and diesel vehicles by 2040 as part of an ambitious plan to meet its targets under the Paris climate accord, Emmanuel Macron’s government has announced.
Nicolas Hulot, the country’s new ecology minister, said: “We are announcing an end to the sale of petrol and diesel cars by 2040.” Hulot added that the move was a “veritable revolution”.
He said it would be a “tough” objective for carmakers but France’s industry was well equipped to make the switch. “Our [car]makers have enough ideas in the drawer to nurture and bring about this promise … which is also a public health issue.”
What in the hell?
It’s not going to happen. The date will keep getting pushed back… just you watch.
Yup, like anyone will remember who Macron was by 2040…
23 years? No shit. I can’t see how this is even remotely possible; especially without impacting the economy/GDP.
I believe they were also discussing a phase out of their nuclear plants. There is no way this works without nuclear energy.
Here’s the basic problem with renewables. Every erg of electricity consumed by people plugged into the grid has to be generated at the same time (ignore speed of light lags). If you produce too much electricity or too little, you get over and undervoltage events.
And so a grid with lots of renewable sources has to have an interconnector to other grids – both to get power when the wind doesn’t blow and clouds blot out the sun – and to remove the excess electricity when the sun is too bright and the wind is too windy.
But if your grid is drawing too much power, or you are destabilizing the other grid, they can unilaterally disconnect you. This happened to NSW Australia’s power grid a few months back, and has triggered what will be a long economic slump as heavy industry is fleeing the province because they can’t afford to pay for the damage caused by the outages as well as the high prices demanded by “sustainable” generators.
If France goes this route – they are going to discover that they are at the mercy of their neighbors. If you want a Le Pen presidency, this kind of bullshit is exactly how you set up the right conditions to get one.
How feasible is energy storage? My (limited) understanding is that:
a) energy storage is lossy, and the losses compound the longer you store it
b) the more energy you store, the more dangerous the storage itself is
Gravity storage? Losses due to pumping/evaporation, floods are nasty business
Batteries? Low loss but high expense, also the damn things like to catch fire and explode
Molten salt? Expensive to set up, not sure about the risks besides leaking molten fucking salt
Flywheels? Only good for very short term storage, bearings need regular maintenance, but not very dangerous
You’ve obviously never seen a 2 ton flywheel break loose.
I haven’t either but I’ve heard the stories.
Hydrogen?
http://www.nrel.gov/
Thanks for reminding me I need to get back to finishing those nuclear energy articles…
Yeah, unfortunately a lot of people don’t realize that this is an issue at all, or think we already have or will have massive battery banks to magic the problem away. Heh.
Tarran, biodiesel and ethanol could be used any time. But there’s no way France can produce enough to supply their needs. Nuke or go dark.
I don’t think the French farmers are going to tolerate using electrical tractors. And they like to dump shit – literally – in the roads when they don’t get what they want.
The new aristocracy that rules France will cave when the smell of burning manure penetrates their offices.
…Or orifices because that’s where they’re going to shovel it.
It’s France. The whole country is run by Parisien smug.
Paris has the power but Parisian smug is absent in places in the North west or South west.
You have to get the assholes in Paris to sign off on home improvements in Alpes Maritimes…their smug has no bounds.
That’s why I said it has the power. But the point is the population in those places have a different mindset from Parisians.
Yep, it’s the same crap the Chinese peddle about their emissions too. Just red meat for retarded environmentalists.
Something something “green religion”.
/I know. But, still…
France, at least, has nuke plants to power plug-ins.
exactly. Its all about signaling “aspiration”. When it becomes clear that that sort of ‘progress’ isn’t happening he will express sadness that the world was not ready for his bold vision.
Ah, the Musk gambit. A classic.
I suppose you can ban cars and to be perfectly frank, I’m surprised it took them this long to start banging this drum.
Is that why they keep importing camel jockeys?
*narrows gaze*
Well it should slow down their jihadis a bit at least.
“kaisersoser 35m ago
Meanwhile in the United States, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency is denying that the environment needs protection.
That’s “America First” for ya….”
Stoopid deplorables, sophisticated Europeens!
He has actually said the exact opposite. He just thinks the EPA’s recent regulation binge went too far. Climate change catastrophe mongering is not the same thing as environmental protection.
AGW takes all the enviro oxygen out of the room. Warmists are doing more to damage the environment than the Chi-coms by diverting $ and efforts.
Meanwhile in the United States, they managed to be one of the few countries to actually meet their Kyoto emissions reduction, and they weren’t even a part of the treaty. While European emissions continue to climb while they virtue signal over shitty, nonsense treaties. But sure, America’s the fuck-up.
Any day now, wind and solar will be cheaper and more reliable than fossil fuels, nuclear, and hydro. Just you wait!
Hey, hey. Slow down there. Someone hasn’t taken their cues from Rick Mercer. Americans are DUMB so stick to the script, Queens Highway boy.
Don’t forget that we also get hard-ons for guns!
Enjoy timely and working links. Uf wiederluege mitenand.
Bitte auf deutsch!
*waves Swiss flag and yodels*
*bursts into coughing fit, sucks on a Ricola*
*blows into Alphorn*
Licks a Swiss Miss.
Oh, you mean like these?
Some of those girls have that Florida smell on them.
No; like this.
God, I hope so…
BP: good job on the column. Appreciate the acknowledgment.
I am not boycotting Starbucks, because it’s the only coffee place I can walk to from my office.
What is this ‘Starbucks’? Is it like a Tim Hortons, but filled with hipsters and overpriced shitty coffee?
You’re thinking of Intelegentsia cafe. Starbucks is for pseudo-hipsters
Not necessarily. I buy their Guatemalan and brew it Turkish. Fan. Fucking. Tastic!
I’d never buy a beverage there though.
As a coffee enthusiast, I have to disagree about Starbucks quality. It’s actually very good. They just don’t know how to make a proper cappuccino or latte despite the fancy Italian machines, but it’s not bad at all. Over priced sure but the quality is fine.
It’s certainly better than that shit Hortons peddles.
That shit Hortons peddles is exactly what I expect for what I’m paying.
Is Timothy’s too elitist for you?
Those don’t exist north of Orillia Rufus.
Ah. Good to know.
*throws empty Timbits box*
“coffee enthusiast” is only slightly less effeminate than “tea connoisseur”. Only slightly
I AM BARISTA.
Exactly. I want my November Juliet to be black, bitter, and picked by a child labourer making ten cents an hour.
Their tears enrich the beans
Those Bialetti’s make outstanding espresso.
At first I thought you were describing a calendar girl.
Not everyone is a Monster energy drink enthusiast.
I’m a Rockstar aficionado, myself.
Once you’ve had Death Wish Coffee, you never go back.
Seconded on the Death Wish. It’s also awesome iced.
oooh! I haven’t tried that yet. Will do. It was 91 degrees out today, and that’s toasty for a thicc Minnesotan lass.
Quality is easy when you roast your beans just this side of coal…
Makes for a consistent product while they are at it.
Makes for bitter, shitty tasting coffee. Starbucks’ success comes from convincing idiots that bad tasting coffee is what good coffee tastes like.
It’s bitter because they over roast the beans to preserve them longer.
I have to disagree about Starbucks quality. It’s actually very good.
Because I dislike their brewed coffee so intensely, I haven’t gotten any for years. But it used to be that they over-roasted the ever-loving shit out of their coffee beans, because that’s what they needed to do to disguise the quality of the beans and get a consistent flavor. Aside from truly dreadful gas station coffee, it was the worst. Now, maybe they don’t still do that, but whenever I look at the beans they have for sale, even their “light” roast is pretty damn dark, and their dark roast still looks like charcoal.
It’s still garbage. Over priced garbage at that.
I haven’t been in years so I admit to basing it on that. It wasn’t like that before.
But apparently you may be on to something.
http://worldofcaffeine.com/2011/03/09/burned-beans-the-shame-of-starbucks/
My one problem with Starbuck’s is that they have a hard-on for over-roasting everything.
“Moderation” doesn’t appear to be in their vocabulary.
Now, the UK’s Costa chain, those folks know how to roast.
Ink coffee is good
– 1 thermos from home.
-2 Keurigs in the office
-3 fresh brewed coffee in the break room.
-3 Bottle of caffeine pills
Damn it Vhyrus
That’s actually what I find myself doing most often. 200mg tablet.
I get the exact same dose every time, and there are no calories.
That’s how it starts. In no time you’ll be snorting crank off the butt crack of a meth-ho
Or as it’s otherwise called around here, “Thicc Thursday.”
Keurig achieves the rare feat of making coffee as bad as Starbuck’s. Its bad (thin, mostly) in a different way, but still barely drinkable, IMO.
That’s why you get the little reusable insert and use your own coffee in a Keurig, instead of their K-Cups.
Had some Peet’s Dark Roast in a K-cup machine when I and the spousal unit went to Waikiki back in February. Damn good, actually! And miles better than the brown-water swill the hotel was serving for their “continental” breakfast. I kept wanting to ask “Which continent? Antarctica?”
Can’t get Peet’s here, but we do fairly regular runs down to Seattle area.
I’m not that excited about Peet’s although my brother-in-law and an ex (not the same guy mind you), both worked for Peet’s at one point so I hung out there a lot.
I’m almost out of some Finger Lakes Coffee Roasters “Witch’s Brew” which has been delightful and their medium roast Canandaigua blend was the tits.
I used to visit Starbucks every day, now hardly ever. I can’t stand waiting in a long line of people ordering milkshakes and fancy hot chocolates. And they used to rotate their coffee flavors – now it’s always the same crap and I hate Pike’s Place.
Someone at TOS described it as tasting of ‘burnt ass’. That’s about right.
This, I drink black coffee.
Starbucks is like drinking the stuff someone left on in the pot from yesterday.
K-cups in the office, all day.
Starbucks espresso roast isn’t bad for pulling shots, much better than basic bitch tins of Lavazza from the grocery store. But it is expensive. My go-to espresso is caffè Motta.
I have no idea how Starbucks manages to get their coffee to taste so rancid in their stores, but it can’t be their beans or roasting methods. I buy bags of their coffee from the grocery store to brew at home in a French press, and the difference in flavor is staggering.
I also should have qualified “buy” with “occasionally” because I only get it when it’s on sale.
Black espresso or GTFO so I can get my coffee drinking done in 2 minutes.
+1, extra delay for machine warm-up time, offsetting time savings.
I rarely go to Starbucks unless I’m travelling outside my hometown and I desperately need a jolt of caffeine… But I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say that I can make a latte just as good as Starbucks with my Moka pot, milk frother, and some of that nice local full-fat milk from the meat market down the street.
I also will probably not be boycotting Starbucks. How can I be the most basic bitch if I don’t even drink the kool-aid/coffee? (And from my own, favorite 10 ounce branded mug?
From the day I first saw one of your posts, I’ve never thought of you as “basic.” 😉
Well! That’s very kind of you to say.
Honestly, I’m probably at least a pair of Uggs short–I think they’re hideous and have never bought a pair.
They are hideous, and good on ya, mate.
In cold weather, Uggs are the best. I wore them around the house 5 months a year in WI. But in public? No. Just, no.
I probably own 8-9 pairs of Uggs. You people don’t know what you’re missing. Their work boots are fantastic. Their casual shoes are fantastic. And their flip-flops are even better and more durable than the old Rainbows (before they cheapened the quality). Hell, I even have a pair of their leather sneakers and they’re extremely comfortable.
Alternate analogy:
The governor of Maine IS the media.
The revenue bill would hike the 3.75 percent personal income tax rate to 4.95 percent to generate about $4.3 billion. An increase in the corporate tax rate from 5.25 percent to 7 percent is expected to bring in about $460 million. It also increases the earned income tax credit for low-income families, ends some corporate tax breaks and reinstates the research and development tax credit.
If at first you don’t succeed, double-down on failure!
It’s okay, they can raise the minimum wage to 15
bolivarsdollars an hour to compensate.They should just convert to Zimbabwe Dollars.
Wipe out the debt in an instance.
I have a Zimbabwe one million dollar bill. True story.
Ebay, amirite?
Amateur. I have a one hundred trillion dollar bill. Along with a 10, 20 & 50 trillion dollar bill. (true story)
HA HA! They’re worth so much more!
/retard
That’s nothing, I have a note from Hungary’s hyperinflation period whose value can only be viewed in scientific notation.
This shit is why I’m into crypto.
Also, one of those is not like the others.
Actually two.
The Democratic Party platform in a nutshell: free shit for some,
tiny American flagstaxes for the rest.My most leftist family members live in Maine. Every time I see them, they have a new crazy story about LePage. They tell the story thinking I’ll be outraged and appalled. Instead I think they are hilarious and ask for more.
I don’t know much about him, except that he sounds like the kind of Republican governor of Maine that Stephen King would invent.
sarcasmic’s from Maine and can probably give us a good summary of LePage.. but alas he’s been MIA since that shit that went down.
what went down?
Bad homelife events.
Ouch, that really sucks. There are few things worse than a homelife going bad.
LePage is what happens when you give French Canadians power.
This is true… (stifles maniacal laugh)
Do they know you’re libertarian or not?
You would expect that the owners of a vegan restaurant would be crazy. This is a bit much though.
That is just wrong.
Sounds like the kind of parents that scream at random people who politely tell their kids to fuck off after said kids ruin said people’s lunch.
Welp, never going to get those 20 minutes back…those replies were pretty good though.
I am the only one on this thread who thinks responding to individual fans on Twitter is a not-great idea.
Thanks to my fellow Glibs to carrying the afternoon links for the week. Gulf County, FL has much to recommend it. Dolphins that swim within 15 feet of the shore — about which my kids did not give a single fuck, blue craps to catch and show the kids (the 3 year old loved that), but not a lot of internets. So, stay out of Gulf County, FL. There’s already too many people who go down there! Go to Destin or Gulf Shores.
I bet most 3-year-olds like blue craps.
(Please, edit faerie, don’t change it!)
Destin is little Louisville. If I go there I will run into people I know. Why would I want to do that?
Because I don’t want to meet half of Louisville in Port St. Joe?
I would rather go to Charleston anyway.
You can’t beat Destin for moderately well-to-do 40something bottle-blondes looking to cut loose after the divorce, though.
The blue craps?
/I used to get those with Booberry cereal.
When I was about 16, my friends and I got shitfaced on Kamchatka vodka mixed with Hawaiian Punch. We killed off about three gallons of punch between all of us (with me having a larger share). The next morning, I took a bright pink shit. It was the weirdest thing ever.
When my little brother was 4 or 5, he found some of the dye for the upcoming holiday. the dye was in solid for and liked vaguely like a piece of hard candy. He ate a red one, and decided it didn’t taste good. He didn’t tell anybody. A fee hours later I hear him scream from the bathroom. I run in there and he is pissing a bright red stream. My mom freaked out until she noticed his mouth was stained red and got the story from him.
Eat a pint of actual blueberries. It’ll look like you feasted on leprechauns next day.
That place is wayyyy to over populated.
Dude, you went to Port St. Joe for vacay?
Well, I guess if you have kids it’s better than PC Beach.
Oh man. Right there in the links on the Tampa fireworks article:
Florida Man sits on gun, shoots himself in penis.
That’s not my worst nightmare, but probably top 5.
Appendix carry, ftw!
The bullet would have to go all the way through my ass to get to my penis, and that’s way more ass than a 9mm can handle. Gun guys are fat for safety.
Not to waste too much mental energy on the mechanics of this, but he may have sat down on it in a way the barrel protruded just in front of his chode or something.
Of course they’re mulling a felon in possession charge. Personally, I’d not want to waste the money locking this guy up – nature has already suitably punished him. Why punish the taxpayers?
He’ll probably go on disability, the taxpayers will be punished either way.
What kind of job does he need his dick for?
Umm, asking for a friend?
Im not looking it up but ask yourself, would it honestly surprise you if severe trauma to the dangly bits qualified for disability?
Thats how I felt about Plaxico Buress a few years ago. If I had been the judge that got to sentence him, I’d have delivered a severe tongue lashing and sentenced him to 6 days in county jail, with some probation on top of that. You deserve something official for being such a dumbass, but most of the punishment has already been self administered.
I’ll bet he was pissed off!
That’s a fine intersectionality of doublethink and gibberish you got there, Starbucks. Well done, it will piss everyone who cares about the boycott off, regardless of their side.
“local customs and traditions”
…like 20 year sentences for sodomy?
I thought it was a 20 story sentence for sodomy.
*diving competition applause*
Nope, we’re talking about a moderate Muslim country.
1000 lashes?
10 stories, then?
You think that’s bad, wait until you see the penalty for drinking with your left hand.
Bullmoose!
The Master Resource Blog has a great exposition on the unscientific nature of climate alarmism. It’s written as an open letter to the president of MIT.
Response to MIT President: Paris Exit Scientifically Sound (Part I)
Part 2 is excellent as well
“sins of emission”
Favorite quote of that article.
They’ll make you go blind, or so I’m told.
You can buy indulgences from Al Gore. Then you can emit as often as you like. As long as you stick to the payment plan.
In this scenario, failure to pay your carbon indulgence is a greater sin than spewing killer CO2 into the atmo.
I like the way this guy thinks: Is Pirate Hunting The Next Great Untapped Market?
Would. In fact, anyone got a decent boat on the atlantic? I’m looking for a partnership.
It actually sounds pretty fun.
+1 Letter of Marque and Reprisal.
Oh hail ya.
Dear gun grabbers. When the second amendment was written, private citizens could own warships with cannons and armed men. Quit with your bullshit about the founders not being able to envision an assault rifle. They were OK with the private ownership of the most powerful weapon of war that existed at the time.
Quite lucrative too, sailing up and down the eastern African coast, between the Seychelles and Oman and back again.
If they could perfect the instant HIV test you could work in a mail order bride package on the side.
Canadian 10th graders are on it, yo.
Well, the profit comes in from having Maersk Line pay for the boat, the M242’s and the ammo. All you’d need to do is turn up with some buddies and organize a watch-on-watch schedule, and lay off the beer when you’re on duty.
It actually sounds pretty fun.
Depending on the boat and the armament, maybe.
Dudes! Let me know…
There are a few companies that are pirate protection on ships.
I’ve been eying that as a business model since 2007.
Step 1: raise $20,000,000.
Step 2: buy boat, kit boat out, fix boat
Step 3: sell boat at loss
Its funny because its true.
That’s the cost model for like… 95% of boats.
Strangely, the next owner will have the same experience.
they always do
One down. 2.5 million to go.
Translation: He got passed over for a promotion and needs to let the butthurt flow through him like something out of SugarFree fiction.
Whenever I see this “government wants to pretend like they’re an intelligent, hip and trendy tech startup” thing it starts the alarm bells ringing in my brain. Let’s see, 18F:
Sounds like an auspicious beginning. Blech.
“citizen-facing government technology”
My technology for facing governmemt is chambered in .308
So, who wants some prime Ontario clothing company virtue signalling on Canada’s 150 anniversary? Challenge: find anything related to the product they make!
Say what you will about BC, our stupid clothing company virtue signaling never got this concentrated smug, and they at least have a virtue of making yoga pants acceptable everyday wear.
+1 Yoga pants
You’re so desperate to try and make Ontario seem as bad as BC, but it will never work. Toronto may help you a lot, but at least we weren’t protesting over the election of the U.S. President and our lawyers are sociopaths who capitalize their name.
Canadians arguing over which part of of Canada is better is like watching two guys argue over whose character in Dungeons and Dragons is more badass. No one knows what you’re talking about and everyone thinks your both lame
^^ Winner
Papists with Chesterton avatars are not allowed to have an opinion on what constitutes lame.
Arguing about who is “better” is un-Canadian. We bitterly fight over being “least worst”.
No, no! They can always turn around and dump on the Newfies!
Hey now, we love the Newfies like any other mentally handicapped person. It’s not their fault.
Hey Swissy, hold my beer while I do this!
“Allez Jean! Je suis Quebecois!”
We just need somebody from Winnipeg to go the other direction and affirm that it is indeed a frozen shithole.
Keep it up and you won’t make the cut!
Fuckin Canuckistani infighting. We should just stay out of it. We’ll never really umderstand it and we’ll always just be a blundering bull in a china shop.
I don’t even know where to go with this one:
Protesters Are Using Crazy, Race-Fueled Tactics to Drive New Coffee Shop From LA Neighborhood
And this:
Keep the shithole shitty, I guess.
If you don’t want your rents to go up, then buy. If you can’t buy, why don’t you ask those politicians you keep voting for why they do everything they can to drive property values up.
If I still lived in LA, I’d go there – then immediately move out again.
Other ways of keeping rents low include high crime rates, vermin infestations, etc.
heavily Mexican LA neighborhood…Mario Chavarria, one of the co-founders, was born in El Salvador
The Boyle Heights thing has been on a high simmer for a while. I find it hard to believe Chavarria thinks the Mexicans see him as equally Hispanic. A lot of Mexicans talk about Salvadorenos the way some of our weary keyboard warriors talk about anyone darker than a cave-dwelling Irishman.
And Cubans look down on absolutely every other Spanish-speaking people other than, y’know, actual Spaniards.
our weary keyboard warriors talk about anyone darker than a cave-dwelling Irishman.
How dare you associate the Irish with the glories of the white race.
He meant the Italians, John.
Northern Italians, fine, but no Sicilians.
My great-grandfather would totally hug you right now if he weren’t dead.
My hubby’s Italian lineage comes from Prascorsano, near Torino, so he qualifies as Piedmont/North Italian. His grandfather had great disdain for the Sicilians as well.
One of our funnier generational/cultural intersections to me was when I brought him home to “meet the parents”, my mother tried to make friendly familiar chit-chat as they worked (naturally) in the kitchen. She made a reference to “the Italian race”, which hubs took in stride, but then mouthed to me behind her back, “the Italian RACE??!!” Still cracks us up.
My dad’s family is from Compiano,a little village right near the border between Emilia-Romagna and Liguria. I never met my great-grandfather, but I’ve heard what Grandpa thinks of Sicilians, and dad says his nonnu was much more vehement than Grandpa.
A story my dad likes to tell is from their wedding reception. When they introduced my grandparents as the parents of the groom, the band played the theme from The Godfather, and dad says he never saw his father so furious. “That’s not an Italian song, it’s from a movie about Sicilian criminals!”
I’m hearin’ your words, Chipwooder!
A bunch of races passed through Sicily before the A-rabs. And it’s not like the Sweden, UK or Germany won’t be facing some DNA adjustments, right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trBxPFLq__g
Oops.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicily#Ancient_tribes
Getting in my face while I’m holding a 16 oz cup of boiling liquid is a really bad idea.
Shockingly, the group behind the protests is Communist. Like retweeting Iranian Press TV coverage of a North Korean ‘celebration’ communist.
You know, maybe it’s the whole ‘ex-communist’ thing, but I can at least appreciate leftists who own their disasters rather than go the ‘MUH STATE CAPITALISM’ route.
Does it count as “owning” the disaster when you don’t even admit it’s a disaster?
At least you mark the bodies with ‘this was done by communism’ rather than the lame ‘this was a do-over, doesn’t count’ excuse.
Bodies? What bodies? Great Leader doesn’t kill people. He loves them!
It’s not Stalin
She was a girl from Birmingham…
She was a bloody disgrace!
2 words: Roof Koreans
Some people on the right fear the “demographic bomb”, but this is a good example for showing the reason why I believe that intersectional demographic coalitions are too fragile to be reliable long-term. Many of them flat out hate each other.
—-Keep the shithole shitty, I guess.—-
Well, they DO need to keep their cushy six-figure poverty activist gigs. If the area actually got better and people got work, these activists would be in deep shit (since they have no actual work skills).
Can we get some freedom riders up in this mutha fucka?
I didn’t do it. No one saw me do it. You can’t prove anything.
Your guilt was never in doubt. The only question is, what was the crime?
Stolen.
Is that a kbo original?
I actually think Kafka said something like that in The Trial, tho he might have come up with his version on his own
Doubtful. I thought it came from Kafka, like Gilmore said, or maybe Solzhenitsyn.
It’s highly suspicious that none of these denials are mis-threaded.
I bet this will get a lot of coverage @ the WaPo
Protester Arrested at Sen. Flake Office: “You know how liberals are going to solve the Republican problem? They are going to get better aim”
“Protester”
I was going to point out the links below showing that even the AZ Republic isn’t covering that…yet, but then this happened at his Tucson office.
http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix-breaking/2017/06/23/protesters-jeff-flake-vote-against-health-care-act/424469001/
http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2017/07/06/disability-advocates-we-occupy-sen-jeff-flakes-office-until-he-opposes-health-care-bill/453781001/
Unfortunately, my father’s not around to ask anymore, but he used to joke about the AZ Republic as the AZ Republican–something to do with them opposing the freeway systems so AZ didn’t turn into LA?–but whatever they might once have been, I swear that the last half-dozen plus times I’ve laid eyes on a copy the front page either had an anti-gun scarepiece or something bawling about migrants.
As far as I can tell, no media on earth is more out of touch with it’s customer base than the ones in AZ.
+1 EJ Montini.
I don’t know how he goes to AJs without getting his ass kicked.
Yep, they’re pleasing nobody. Even lefties don’t like like for different reasons.
Holy shit. Jeff Flake? The inoffensive, aw-shucks Mormon nice guy Jeff Flake? If it was one of the GOP that more closely represents whatever sinister caricature the voices in the left’s collective head dreamed up, I almost might be able to understand. But Jeff Flake? How deranged are these people going to get?
Just the usual “if you don’t support socialism you’re a creature of pure hate that wants to murder everyone, especially nonwhites and women” spiel.
The best part is they did this in AZ. Yeah, go ahead and try to shoot Flake in the middle of Mesa. I want to see how many different calibers they find in your dead body.
-1 Gabby Giffords
1) That was Tucson, not Mesa.
2) She lived.
3) There was a concealed carrier there about to blow his brains out but they had already tackled and restrained him.
“better aim” was my nickname in college
Taking it on the lam? FBI trailing ‘socialist’ Bernie Sanders and wife over bank loan deal.
Oh my, so catty….
I mean, Bernie deserves it but
Damn, is this a Republican rag, or does Clinton wing really hate Sanderses so much that
Stop, stop, he’s already dead.
“A million deaths are not enough for
YuehBernie!”-1 Imperial Conditioning
If he dies, he dies.
Over a million? For what? That sonabitch never worked a day in his life!
The AP is soon to post a correction: “Bears of color”
I did a spit-take.
well, duh.
from Kenya
Is that surprising?
There’s a lot of lakes and rivers in Kenya.
*shrugs*
Its a mystery
http://news.wgbh.org/2017/04/27/why-do-so-many-africans-drown
Brilliant plan!
Jesus. I’m still shocked when I run into people here that can’t swim. Land of 10,000 lakes and you think it’s fine to not swim, huh?
Korea is surrounded on three sides by water and one side by norks. They still can’t swim.
We were really confused why the lifeguards kept freaking out when we’d get waist deep and then realized the lifeguards couldn’t swim either. Miserable beach day incidentally mud is not a sunscreen and actually removes sunscreen from your body with a quickness. Be warned before you go to Boryeong Mud Festival.
The ocean would be a bit harder to learn in than a river or lake (depending on weather). You’d think people would see it as a useful life skill, but I guess not.
The town I lived in had a river right through the middle with shallow banks that people picnicked on and people waded in, but there really wasn’t swimming going on.
Kids were comfortable splashing around in the cold pools at the Korean saunas, but nothing that really required “swimming”.
My half Korean kids all swim like rats. Full disclosure though, they get it from me. Their mother can’t swim a lick.
I’ve never thought of it, but now that I am, I agree that I’ve never really seen any Koreans swimming for fun. There is a reservoir near my wife’s house. I’ll have to go swim there next time I’m visiting just to fuck with the locals.
Ya they do, and the lakes and rivers have some things that would like to eat eat you given the chance.
That is a fair point.
They were black bears, ffs, the hobos of the animal kingdom. You’re only in danger if you are between them and a garbage can.
I saw dozens of black bear when i was a teen, camping in ontario. they were like the size of dogs/teddy bears and scared shitless of humans that weren’t asleep. the guides basically ignored them, other than making sure we were scrupulous about burning garbage and securing food storage.
moose were what made the guides nervous.
Yep. They are a huge pain in the ass – particularly when your dumb ass friend leaves one of the food packs out overnight – but not dangerous. Moose, though, are kind of scary. They are immense and ornery as hell. We once paddled around a point in the Boundary Waters and pretty much came face to face with one. He started bellowing and we took off. He swam to shore and then bulldozed his way through some decent sized trees.
Pretty damn impressive.
my “zombie moose” story gets retold at least once a year. i’ll skip the long version: a sick moose crawled into a pond to die. its flesh was being eaten off its body by larvae. it just lay in the water with nothing but 1 nostril and antlers sticking out. i suppose it made it hurt less.
we surprised it when we paddled by. it jumped up and made a noise like this. its ribs were visible, and it had no lower jaw, half of its face was gone. a smell exploded over the area that made everyone nearly pass out. it turned and stumbled off with bits of itself falling off as it went. i didn’t stop shaking for like an hour.
whenever people start talking about some touchy-feely- ‘back to nature’, gaia-the-earth-mother bullshit, i always think of that.
Holy shit!
I love the outdoors. The fact that mother nature wants me dead just heightens the pleasure. Kind of like dating a ginger.
someone who was hip to Moose-issues later said it was probably Brainworm infection. which is apparently pretty common. they get retarded, and stumble around and hurt themselves, which becomes infected, and yadda yadda yadda = Zombie Moose.
My grandpa, who was a professional poacher in Canada, said that moose were the ones that gave him the hardest time. Mean and tough, you didn’t want to wing one. On the other hand, if you could bring one down, it was a LOT of meat.
When I was in 9th grade my mother* won one of the lottery tags to hunt moose. She went to NW Minnesota and bagged a nice bull (there was a much nicer one standing nearby that she never saw). When I went up to it, I grabbed one if its antlers to pull its head up in the ditch so it would be easier to gut and it didn’t even budge. At the game check station, it weighed over 1200 lb.
*Back in the day, you would apply in a group of 4 for one of a few moose tags. If your group got picked you could party hunt. My mother and her friends applied and won much to my dad’s chagrin. He had applied for years and years and never gotten picked. He is still convinced that the DNR saw four women on an application and gave it to them as a PR stunt.
Well, don’t go into the woods with dumb-asses or you could end up as a bad example.
So in third grade we did a unit on bears and had a park ranger come in. He asked if anyone knew how to tell the difference between a black bear and a brown bear and got the smartass responses of “one’s black and the other is brown, duh”. and then explained that wasn’t always the case.
“The way to tell for sure is you pick up a big stick and hit the bear on the nose with it as hard as you can and then climb a tree. If the bear climbs up after you and mauls you it was a black bear. If it knocks the tree over and mauls you it was a brown bear.”
This didn’t sit well with a class full of third graders, but it makes me happy every time I think back to it.
That reminds me of the joke about wearing bells and carrying bear spray around grizzly bears, and how to tell the difference between black bear scat and grizzly scat. Black bear scat is small and dark with berries in it. Grizzly shit has bells in it and smells like pepper.
Damn you! Damn you to hell!
How to avoid bears advice:
wear bells and carry pepper spray. The bells will keep you from startling the bears, and you can use the pepper spray to chase away the bears.
Also, watch for bear sign. Black bears leave tracks about the size of a man’s hand. Their scat is in small piles and consists fur and berry seeds.
Grizzlys leave tracks the size of a grown man’s feet. Their scat has a peppery smell and has bells in it.
And here’s some advice repeated on many a gun forum whenever someone asks the best handgun to use for bear defense:
Guy 1: “Hey everyone, what do you think is the best handgun to use for bear defense?”
Guy 2: “Don’t overthink it… Just use the largest caliber you have. And be sure to file off the front sights first.”
Guy 1: “Why would I need to file off the front sights??”
Guy 2: “So it won’t hurt so bad when that bear takes that handgun and shoves it up your ass.”
No no no
The best bear gun when hiking is a nice light compact .22. When your hiking partner tells you that your gun won’t do anything but make a bear mad, you reply, “I’m not going to shoot the bear, I am shooting you in the leg and running.”
Reposting this from my “howdy”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZluTvTCkVA
Nice video. The Mare’s Leg has long been on my “list of guns to buy at some point” under the “cool factor” subcategory.
Just a quick question here for purely informational and educational purposes… Let’s say a criminal bought a Mare’s Leg pistol, then bought a lever-action rifle stock from the same manufacturer. Is there a chance that this devious scofflaw could put the full-length rifle stock on the Mare’s Leg, thus creating an illegal SBR? I’m just wondering because the thought of criminals subverting the law like this just gives me the creeps.
Asking for an acquaintance, huh?
So I guess he out ran the other guy?
I’m sure the bears were rather shocked to find someone in maine that could actually run.
I call bullshit. Either the bears weren’t really interested or there was enough distance between them that it didn’t matter.
that’s probably right, but i don’t think its the local-news guy’s job to be skeptical when you get handed some cute bullshit story like that.
Yea, I guess so. I have black bears frequently on my property so view them differently. They are one of several reasons I’m always armed, even if it’s just taking the trash out.
A quick Google search shows black bears can run about the same speed as German shepherds. Last year, I watched my male GSD catch up to, keep pace alongside, and then play bite a fleeing stag. He could have brought that sucker if he wanted.
Maybe it was professional courtesy? Black solidarity? Woke BLM Bears?
Bears aren’t endurance runners, if they came after him outside sprinting distance its plausible.
For the philosophically astute, am I off base for creating this?
Nope, looks right to me.
oh my god i love you.
Nice.
I like.
Uffda. I think I have a found a study with shakier conclusions than climate change.
Yeah, I think we can safely say the science was settled long ago.
I think you would have to follow them at least year. Based on my experience dealing with women, not every cycle has the same effect.
Exactly. Mrs. Holiness would go a bit full Spanish Inquistion about 1 out of 4 visits.
Maybe the study was supposed to go longer, but after 2 months, they said fuck it?
Obligatory tasteless joke.
Clearly, they saw it was dangerous to continue the study.
And, that it would have been even more so to publish the results, if they had.
So, two months-worth is what you get.
Studies!
Once a month you have to worry about the bomb.
Think ‘clearly’ is not the same as think ‘rationally’.
Hah! Truth. I know a ton of women with very clear plans to destroy lives and create drama. Doesn’t make it rational.
I had an endometrial ablation 10 years ago, and it was the best thing evah! No more monthly visits from Aunt Flo. Mine were always irregular anyway, so that shit needed to end (I will spare you the details, but I became anemic).
The interesting part to me as a chick is that I felt the hormonal effects at the time before the ablation, but now that I have zero symptoms but still have ovaries, etc., I don’t have any emotional swings. At all. I dig it.
Did you become libertarian about 10 years ago. Just curious.
Ha! No. I was an elected official in the Minnesota GOP from 2004-2010. I even helped host the GOP national convention in Minneapolis in 2008, during which Sarah Palin was announced as McCain’s running mate. I texted my hubs, “Who the hell is Sarah Palin??” And the GOP went downhill ever since.
When I totally broke with the GOP was when they went after Justin Amash in the Republican Primary. Now I just give campaign contributions to locals in school board and city council, and to Amash, Massie, and Paul. National and Minnesota GOP is dead to me.
So I guess 5-7 years. It takes a while to admit you’ve been wrong.
Not sure this woman understands the concept of public service.
She is really peeved that Trump is going to defund AmeriCorps, Senior Corps, and VISTA, as well as the Public Service Loan Forgiveness. She thinks those programs are great ways for recent graduates to learn valuable skills and get some loan forgiveness.
Um, so if we don’t pay them a bunch of money for fake work, they will never learn about self-sacrifice? And what is wrong with teaching them that they should be focused on taking care of themselves?
fuck forgiveness on student loans.
They’re going to have to do something. If you leave a giant segment of the population in a lifetime of debt, you’re going to get a shitload of problems. Fuck the Universities and work with the students to get the debt paid off. Fuck the banks for making a shitload off modern day debt slavery. Making the students solely responsible for an entire system set up to screw them isn’t fair either.
True. I really don’t know the best answer.
I paid mine off, took up a trade and am now teaching myself new skills (although possibly heading to Galvanize this winter)
My friends did jack for 4 years, and they want to complain.
I’m fine shafting the universities. If they’re smart they’ll fire 3/4ths of their administrators to curb the costs of the loans.
Join the fuckin Army, we’ll give you $40K if you’re worth a shit.
/
Be all you can beArmy Strongas far as size of “ifs”, that one is on the heavy side.
They will learn about self sacrifice when they start making decent money and realize what kind of taxes they are paying.
My kids have learned that at an early age working after school jobs. Not sure it takes a degree to puzzle that out.
My youngest just turned 16 and has his first official job working as a cashier at a large supermarket this summer. It was funny watching him figure out why his first paycheck was so light. The biggest reason was because he had to pay union dues.
You would think that a union would be pro-active enough to let the kids keep their money and maybe tell them how the reason they aren’t chopped into bits by unsafe conditions is because of unions. Maybe then they might pick up future union members. Nope. My kid hates unions with a burning passion right now. They stole about a week of work from him. And he works on the lane next to the self-checkout lane.
He is a chucklehead, but he isn’t stupid.
CNN uses patriotic quotes to shame Trump and ends up getting it all wrong – again
Oh, and good morning.
For the past couple days CNN has basically been running a train of fuck-ups where someone does something extremely stupid and damaging to their brand, only to have another person line up and say “hold my beer”.
Hey, we’re talking about them, aren’t we? CNN FTW.
I’m really upset today. I found out this morning that a friend of mine committed suicide last night. I hadn’t talked to her in a while because I went off social media several months ago because the TDS was stressing me out so much. It hadn’t occurred to me that if it was so stressful for me, someone who’s healthy and also knows how to take any “ERMAHGERD TRUMP” headlines with a grain of salt, it could be incredibly damaging to someone who’s struggling with mental health problems and actually believes that the world is going to end under Trump. In her last blog post, she mentions she had been going through a depressive spell and that her usual outlets were making it worse—her email was inundated daily with solicitations from places she’d donated to in the past screeching at her that the world was ending and people were going to Literally Die. She’d go on social media to talk to her friends and it would be nonstop panic-mongering about how the world was ending and people were going to Literally Die. She’d try to walk away from the internet, but since the internet was usually the outlet she used to turn to to distract herself when she was having a depressive episode, she couldn’t find a way to distract herself and the depression would get worse. And she was an author—her publisher was the one I linked to months back who was #Resist-ing at Inauguration time—so whether she was working or trying to relax, it was just a nonstop inundation of panic and doom.
I know there’s lots of factors to all of this, but I am just sitting here feeling miserable because it just feels like TDS killed my friend. These people don’t know how to dial down their rhetoric, they’re completely out of control, and they’re not considering how this absolute hysteria might be affecting people who have mental illnesses. If she hadn’t come out and said it in her blog, that would be one thing, but the fact that she acknowledged that TDS (well, she didn’t call it that, since she was just as Trump Deranged as the others—she called it “all the bad news”) was negatively impacting her mental state… I just feel like, don’t these people see? This hysteria is killing more people than the ~evil Rethuglicans~ ever could.
I’m very sorry to hear about this.
That’s terrible. Sorry to hear that. This is why I’m against big government. The pressure that comes with the fight for big power usually falls squarely on the vulnerable in society. Whether it’s taxes, regulation, compliance, etc… the people feeling the brunt of state power aren’t the ones with control of the levers.
That’s really horrible.
And the headline for “resisters” that heard that story is “Trump Kills Woman.” Which, honestly, makes them ghouls.
Christ, suicides are always a rough one. Condolences.
There isn’t a consideration for consequences because the hysteria is inherently irrational. What TDS effectively is is a collective amygdala hijack being constantly reinforced by tribal impulse. No amount of evidence or reason is going to pull people out of it, the only thing they can really do is burn out.
Slate star codex actually mentioned this explicitly at one point. It’s been affecting a lot more people than just your friend, but as long as it sells ad space the media is going to run it into the ground, consequences be damned.
Create a crisis and profit from it. Quite the cycle, ain’t it?
Awful. Sorry to hear this.
I’m not one to think rhetoric could necessarily lead to things claimed (i.e. shootings etc.) particularly where mental illness is concerned, there is a tipping point where I reckon it could. I definitely think the DNC and the left crossed the line; the Rubicon with their nasty, hyper, unsubstantiated, unhinged behaviour.
I mean, when people you considered to be rational think ‘he was buying skittles’ is an example of a legal argument or that they wondered what they would tell their daughters after Trump’s election, you know things are a tad askew.
The media don’t care about what they’re doing. Ratings is everything. I mean I understand profit, but there is no excuse for what they’re doing. They’d be much better if they just show lots of tits and get their ratings up and stop being unethical shitheads. I have an acquaintance who I saw the day after the election and he was all distraught. I thought he was upset because Trump one, typical stuff. But no, he was upset because a teacher at the school his elementary age children attends, had terrified them by telling them that Trump is going to deport them. They’re fucking citizens! I myself would have went to the school and raised hell.
Wow, awful. It’s easy to laugh at the hysteria until it affects someone close to you. Difficult to comprehend, my condolences.
Not much to say about that. My condolences.
Sorry to hear that.
i don’t think it will be any consolation, but i don’t think you should think of it as being caused by any one thing. when people are in a suicidal state of mind, they can find excuses in anything.
I know you’re right. It’s just a rough day all around. Thanks, Gilmore, and everyone for your nice comments.
A good friend from the old days killed himself a few years back. No one ever really knew why, but as Gilmore said, the reasons can be legion.
I’m very sorry for your loss and I hope you have some cool people to help you. All the best.
Its usually chemical depression. It’s real and it kills people. It kills a lot of people when not taken care of properly.
He didn’t kill himself, but the world. Or so I’ve heard. And, it’s been true for the friends I’ve similarly lost. Of course, after some time, this has shaped my attitudes on the subject.
I am so sorry to hear this, MLW. Truly and verily–it sucks. It sounds like even if you hadn’t been abstaining from social media, she still would have been inundated with “all the bad news.” 🙁
That is terribly sad, MLW.
I don’t have much else to say. Suicide sucks. I’m sorry, truly.
Sorry to hear that. I found out last week that a client of mine has suffered a series of strokes and is currently on life support. Nice lady. Kind and very generous. But was getting increasingly wound up with TDS. Wouldn’t surprise me if her stress triggered the strokes.
I did the exact same thing recently–tuned out of social media and news in general for a while, because the TDS was just too much and I needed a breather. I’m sorry about your friend; life’s a bitch sometimes. I’ve honestly started to get concerned about the mental health of some of my own friends and family as the months have gone on with the fever pitch of hysteria maintained…
That is awful MLW. Condolences. The human mind is indeed a weird place. Many things can rob a person of hope or will to live. TDS surely doesn’t help matters with some people I am sure.
My deepest sympathies.
I just got moved into the cubicle of a dear friend and coworker who committed suicide 2 years ago. I thought I would be OK with that, but it’s really kind of sad.
(OK with the cube move, that is, not the suicide. I will always be haunted by that. RIP, DB.)
That’s really too bad. Suicide can be hard to deal with, I know.
I’m so sorry to hear about that. What a terrible thing.
That is hard, and words seem trivial. My condolences, and I wish you strength.
Overcharging = supporting?
I generally find PJ Media stuff (other than Instapundit) sort of boring.
(Kurt Schlicter’s parodies can be funny sometimes as well)
but i think this is the best description of CNN i’ve read yet (mildly edited) =
The CNN Two-Step is a simple dance. Step One: Put one foot in your mouth. Step Two: Shoot yourself in the other foot.
the source of that is really not even worth reading beyond that line.
I’ve also noticed that individual journos at CNN seem to be doubling down on behalf of the institution, and making extra effort to ostentatiously display their ‘not caring’ that the brand of the network is somewhere between “cancer” and “canine diarrhea”.
It comes off sounding like your drunk friend who just got his ass kicked in a bar fight, but who starts going, “let me at him, i’ll fucking kill him” as soon as people intervene to protect him from further humiliation.
Scaramuchi described it as Ahab chasing the white whale. Pure, unadulterated obsession mixed with bubble thinking to multiply the effect. It really is a sight to see.
There’s obviously some kind of top directive at CNN to NEVER apologize, never surrender! or some such thing, because my god, not one of them will even admit it might’ve been a little bit over the top to go after the gif maker dude, or that maybe they should fact-check a little bit better, or anything.
and meanwhile Acosta continues to whine. Talk about no self-awareness.
It’s far too late now.
CNN
Florida woman used to only doing butt stuff cause no one is doing that from the front.
http://abc6onyourside.com/news/offbeat/woman-accused-of-trying-to-smuggle-meth-into-jail-in-her-buttocks
Why did I click??
deputies said she grabbed the baggie of meth, put it in her mouth and started chewing.
From the picture, how could they tell if it was butt or mouth?
Gah!!
she makes the breaking bad meth-hooker look like an understatement.
I worked intake at a county jail in college…I remember having to check for contraband.
No one likes a braggart.
This one time, a guy had a picture of a Ruger P95 tattooed to his ass. When I recognized it I asked him why he had that particular pistol permanently etched to his ass. He stands there, naked, grabs his balls and simulates an overhead gangsta grip and shouts, “ya dawg, that’s my nine!”
I went home after my shift (I worked nights) and immediately took my Ruger P95 to a gun store and put it towards payment on a CZ.
A wise decision.
Not really, you ever try finding a holster for a CZ 40b?
Goddamn amateurs. You keep the P95 in case you get a PC9, so you can feed both with the same mags.
You still go out and buy the CZ though.
That’s a face that will haunt my darkest nightmares.
Police found a syringe and heroin inside the vehicle.
In the trunk?
I always wondered what happened to Freakshow.
She’s scary but sad.
Looks like the IL malfunction is really happening. 32% increase in income tax.
RUN AWAY! RUN AWAY!!!
IT’S NOT A 32% INCREASE IT’S 1.2% WHY DO YOU REPUBLICANS LIE
(an argument I actually saw)
If it was only 1.2% then it wouldn’t be doing anything to solve their budget problems.
I get that people do not know the difference between percent and percentage points, but FFS the whole premise of this thing is to “raise money” so they don’t have to cut spending (THE HORROR!).
“Progressive” leftist wordplay burns me up. They always say “raise money” for huge tax increases. It makes it sound so peaceful and communitarian, like a neighborhood church holding a bake sale to recarpet the vestibule rather than a coercive government taking money from already-broke people so they can pay the army of do-nothing bureaucrats (who are whining to their public sector union for more cash and benefits).
I especially like the phrasing “generate tax revenue” as though the only thing necessary to add value to society is to levy a tax.
The Lefty Yuppies in Ukrainian Village will realize they’re reaping what they done sowed in a couple years. They’ll probably just prog harder at that point, not realizing when they scream “tax the rich” that they are the rich, because all the actual rich have skipped town.
Can’t say that Gov. Rauner didn’t try. Still has my endorsement for reelection. Hope any of the RINOs in that state that signed off on that insanity get a good electoral massacre in the primaries, but I won’t count out. Lucky to say that I’m in NC and not that blackhole.
The Illinois House has officially overriden Rauner’s veto of the “budget” and tax increase.
Sorry, Illinois residents.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-madigan-rauner-illinois-house-tax-increase-override-met-0707-20170706-story.html
Win/Win. Rauner avoids blame, the House gets the credit. Now you just have to figure out what “win” means.
“Win” = Titanic will sink a tiny bit slower
Five years from now, Chicago will be Detroit. Who the fuck, with any means, would stick around there? Maybe Gary Indiana will experience a Renaissance. Until they fuck it up.
I’m debating whether to send my brother a “You fucked up” tweet right now. Seems cruel.
Play to your strengths.
A Chicago de-population may be the only thing that’ll turn around that legislature. Look at Rauner’s victory map 3 years ago: He won every county except the one that houses the inner Chicago metro area, and he still only won by 4%!
Isn’t it great that the Supreme Court forced every state to adopt popular representation for all legislative houses? Now one county gets to run the entire state!
Just looked up that case, I think it’s Reynolds v. Sims in 1964. Talk about a decision that spectacularly backfired. What did these folks not understand about “tyranny of the majority?”
Yeah, that’s the one, although it was presaged by Baker v. Carr two years before (in which they gave themselves the authority to do what they did in Sims). And honestly, I don’t think Earl Warren would consider the results a backfire. He was quite an odious man, the exact sort of moral crusader that should not be given such power. It is notable that, on the Wikipedia page for Sims, this very prescient observation from shortly after the case was decided is quoted:
De-population will do about as much good in Chicago as it did in Detroit. They’ll just prog harder.
When I say de-populate, I meant leave the state. The rest of Illinois is SO intolerant, you know.
BOHICA.
it just feels like TDS killed my friend.
That is a truly truly sad thing.
And you’re right about how completely unhinged some people have become. They wallow in their melodramatic delusion.
IT’S NOT A 32% INCREASE IT’S 1.2% WHY DO YOU REPUBLICANS LIE
Let me guess- it goes from 3.3% to 4.5%.
3.75% to 4.95%, but yes.
I’m surprised it was below 5% to begin with (MD has 5.75% top marginal rate), but I’m guessing IL has other state taxes.
Yeah, I’m surprised too. Utah has a 5% flat tax.
Extremely high sales and property taxes, tolls on all the up north interstates and a few other roads/bridges. Lots of gas taxes and sneaky little shit fees, etc.
Don’t know if already covered/seen…two S. African sides to join Pro-12:
http://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/40448854
Yeah, that’s the top marginal MD state rate, but we also have the county and local taxes that piggy-back on top of it. That’s like an addition 3% in my county
Pretty sure I called dibs on the Bender avatar.
Don’t be jelly. Smoke a bowl instead.
Fair enough. I’m in one of the better counties (2.5%) but it’s not much different.
Fine. Let’s raise FF rate a mere 1.2%. It’s a tiny increase!
So I was looking at Google street view in Chicago, checking out Ukrainian Village (looks drab), and flew east on Chicago Ave and ran across this. W.T.F. Is there much of a demand for lariats and Stetsons in the west side of Chicago?
I just read Chicago had over 100 shootings over the holiday weekend. So more Wild West than the Wild West was.
Better a Wild West than a tame Chicago.
Few Distilery is on Chicago Ave. Good booze https://yelp.to/qTKq/pOFyfM8tzE
Forget that! FREE BOXES!!!!
Duh, it’s the West side.
Obama’s Champion of Change
http://hotair.com/archives/2017/07/06/womens-march-organizer-muslims-may-allah-see-struggle-trumps-administration-form-jihad/
Posted that speech on the last thread, but it really was a spectacular performance art of intersectionality. She even found room to tribute an unindicted co-conspirator of the ’93 WTC Bombings, how brave of her.
You can tell a lot about people by who their heros are.
So moderate. So peaceful.
Bak. Derk-derk-Allah. Derka derka, Mohammed Jihad. Haka sherpa-sherpa. Abaka-la
—nothing personal.
That “sorry, not sorry” bit really makes the quote. Rocks thrown at my noggin–super personal.
“Look, somebody wrote a book 1400 year ago that says I have to kill you. Nothing personal.”
I accept zero responsibility for my actions. I don’t want to stone you to death, but what can I do? It’s not me, it’s the book.
+1 Wall of Prophecy
Christ, how stupid do you have to be to think that’s a good idea?
“Trump doesn’t like Muslim fanatics, so I’m going to call on my imaginary father figure invoke holy war on his administration, and this doesn’t validate his point or anything.”
Fine with the whole article except that bolded part. Nobody should ever “cooperate” with the FBI. Especially since in this sense cooperation usually means the FBI manufacturing terrorist plots so they can arrest people who’d never under any circumstances be able to carry anything out on their own.
The FBI’s strategy seems to be: if they aren’t a threat, turn them into one, and if they are a threat, ignore them until it’s too late.
Pffft…That is a little harsh. That is just top notch super duper police work. Where are the “potential” terrorists going to get the idea to purchase surface to air missiles unless the FBI talks them into it and then tells them they have some in the trunk.
I saw a choad stumblimg around a jazz festival wearing this on Monday. In downtown Montréal.
The likeness on the t-shirt? Would, without the hijab. Nude Princess Jasmine would be better tho.
Kooky American leftist tourist, or someone that really wished that world government is actually a thing?
Has HM shared this before?
This is my new fetish, actually.
Apparently it’s mine now as well.
She seems a little high maintenance.
She didn’t swallow.
So this is apparently a thing.
“Also know as “the mullet of the shoe world”.”
I was just going to say that those things were begging for a mullet cut.
Good lord they’re like assless chaps for your feet.
assless chaps
Careful, son. That’s like kicking a hornets’ nest around here. I for one prefer the assless chaps construction as it really highlights the reason they’re remarkable in the first place, but *some* pedants will tell you that as chaps are assless by definition you’re being redundant. Those same pedants might also garotte you for ordering a Hawaiian pizza.
There’s something both hilarious and predictable about a gay guy explaining the finer points of chaps.
Also, is gaysplaining a thing? Can we make it a thing?
Yes, but the name has to be more offensive, in keeping with glibertarian tradition. Something like “fagsplaining” or “talking out your ass.”
Fagsplaining it is. So let it be written, so let it be done.
“Talking into your ass”
Also, is gaysplaining a thing? Can we make it a thing?
Yes on both counts. I’m sure my early Manly Mondays fit the bill nicely.
You are a *wonderful* gaysplainer.
I appreciated your lesson on otters!
Ass Chaps would just be leather pants, right?
Wouldn’t they be crotchless leather pants at that point?
Today’s thought brought to you by “things jesse shouldn’t have GIS’d at work today”
See, if it’s a link you can just say you were trolled, but if you type it in yourself it gets a lot harder to explain.
“It was the drugs.”
Hawaiian pizza is delicious, but it’s even better when augmented with bacon.
As a former Calgarian I’ve finally seen something on the ‘Net that offends me.
LOL.
Obviously, they’d look better with socks…
Shoobies, man.
Do they have a built in holster for the boot, uh, boot/sandal gun?
Any of you Glibs playing Smallworld 2 online? I’m looking for people to invite to games.
It’s a Smallworld after all?
So, they’ve recorded some of my lectures and uploaded them as part of a MOOC. You can check out the first lesson here.
I now understand what “applied linguistics” means!
I find it best to cover the expectations for the course at the very beginning.
Perfect gift for those people who have been banned from here and have nothing else to do.
Why is this a thing?
OMG. What does your Amazon search history look like?
Not as bad as Jesse’s
In a just sayin’ moment, you think you could get the imperial press on the other side of the pacific to start talking about the chubby lunatic lobbing missiles in our general direction? Tweets are important and all, but *Ducks*
This might make me take up golf.
Well, fuck…. I think I know what I am writing about for firearms friday.
Wasn’t there some hubbub about a similar product (can cannon?) turning an AR into an AOW?
Basically the ATF was retarded and called it a short barreled rifle because it could technically chamber a live round, even though shooting that live round would almost certainly blow your gun up. They had to recall them all and change the design so you couldn’t chamber anything other than blanks.
Yeah, the can cannon is basically the same thing as that golf ball launcher, except larger. I could be mistaken, but I believe the can cannon uses a completely different upper receiver that only fires blanks though, so it isn’t an AOW.
The can cannon is in fact a complete upper. This golf ball launcher is just a muzzle brake that holds a golf ball.
Wow, i feel like that’s a terrible idea. How long until some idiot hits the golf ball with a live round?
judging by the answer to the question on Amazon, I’m assuming it already has .
I think they make them for sks’s too.
From the questions:
Like Donald Sutherland’s “Loudener” from Kelly’s Heroes.
dude managed to hornswoggle that poor german into trading a tiger for a damn sherman, even if it leaked a little!
Or alternatively that german got a way of avoiding going to a pow camp, and keeping his gold. Use the tank to go behind the allied lines, while wearing the uniform you traded yours for and disappear with the gold.
CNN getting beat in the ratings by Nick at Nite.
What sponsor sticks with CNN after the asses theyve made of themselves? There’s no way they actually want to be affiliated with them at this point is there?
Soros, and anything Berksire Hathaway
Soros will be reduced to selling Sham Wow to fill ad time.
Well those ridiculously embarrassing messes won’t clean themselves
You’re gonna love his nuts.
Has anyone else mentioned that the Twitter hashtag (CNNBlackmail) is still getting at least 1000 posts per hour and that Twitter has intentionally removed it from trending since 2 hours after it first was trending?
That water ain’t gonna carry itself…
Hopefully the yuts have had all they can stands and they can’t stands no more. Wishful thinking anyways.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/449249/cnn-donald-trump-feud-post-millennial-generation-z-rebellion
Would would would.
2017 is the 30 year anniversary of “The Princess Bride”. Feel old yet?
Inconceivable!
2 years until the events of Blade Runner. Replicants must be running wild.
Joanna Cassidy could have run wild all over me back when the original was made.
I used to be a barista at a coffee shop that Joanna would come into every morning. Nice lady.
They better get cracking on building those massive Tyrell pyramids. I want to see one looming over the city, it’d be awesome.
I’ve still never seen it.
I don’t apologize. I’m sorry, but that’s just the way I am.
it’s worth a watch.
I haven’t seen it either, caught bits and pieces is about it.
Me neither. Saw parts of it a couple years ago so I get some of the references but that’s it.
“ntersectionality malfunction? Does it matter that it is not in the US – or are they more “authentic” for being in the East Indies?”
LGBT, get under the bus, all snowflakes are special, but some snowflakes are more special than others. I mean, there’s like a billion of them, if we can just get enough of them to vote for us, socialists paradise! What else could we do? Sorry about those stones and your head, we had the best of intentions. /the left
Hey, you got your radical feminism in my critical race theory! You got your critical race theory in my radical feminism! Wow, two great tastes that taste great together!
There is apparently no end to the entertainment in the left’s desperation. I literally believe I’ll never grow tired of it. When they’re finished, it will almost be like I want to bring them back from the dead just to watch them implode again.
Seems like it’s mainly ivy league white feminist talking about it. Not sure they’ll get the reciprocity they think they deserve.
Malfunctioning mayor. OK, I suspected that the G20 was going to bless us with the usual shenanigans that such events always do but this is off the charts. Lots of petty grumbling that the mayor should be, uh, mayoring instead of embrassing himself once again as the Prog poster child he seems to think he is.
Beer Hall Putsch?
That’s breathtakingly stupid. And it’s why Trump is going to win re-election in a landslide.
The Democrats have been all talk about taking the house back. I think at this rate they could lose even more seats. Maybe a few Libertarians disguised as Republicans could steal a few seats.
Now you’re just asking for too much.
Well, doesn’t hurt to try.
He is just so spectacularly tone-deaf in everything he does. I can’t wait for another 4 years of it.
Hillary Clinton killed the Democratic Party. Not only did she lose an election that should’ve been so easily winnable (by virtue of the fact that she was so terrible), but she left a fractured party that tried to pull itself back up to its feet and ended up … well, fuck, I’m not good at metaphors. But it’s ded. D-e-d ded.
No, Barack Obama slowly poisoned the Democratic Party over a period of eight years, Clinton thought that was taking too long so she just stabbed it to death. His cult of personality did so much damage to them because they completely ignored their internal problems. Now they have an aging leadership with no replacements, a party schism between two major sects, the collapse of the Obama coalition, and entirely insular and poisonous ideologies obliterating any chance of moderate support.
(I know that people were saying the Republicans were dead after 2008, but the big difference is that they don’t have the same crippling institutional problems).
This is marred by the bad publicity that the national shenanigans get, but GOP legislatures have also been very effective in state politics, which builds the base and party organizations even more.
Despite their long history as the Stupid Party, the Republicans at least have a rising ‘youth’ faction that will define in the party in the 2020s and 2030s. Who do the Democrats have? Booker? They never thought beyond a decade.
No, not even Booker – the Bernie faction absolutely despises him, thinks he’s a “Corporate Democrat” that buzzkills their dream of single-payer because of his support for big pharma (NJ is a major hotspot for pharmaceuticals). They don’t like Kamala very much, either, because she never bothered to procecute any of da bankerz as AG.
I guess we’re now referring to photoshopping as “doctoring images,” which is special and not at all suggestive.
And it’s looking increasingly likely that the GOP are going to be shooting blanks yet again during the next mayor’s race.
You wouldn’t want them going too hard, they might mistakenly give the impression they come equipped with spines.
haha, so the President of Poland took to twitter to smack down the gif of Trump that was cut right before he shook hands with the Polish First Lady, so it looked like she dissed him to shake hands with Melania instead. It was just a pile of derp/fake news, but I adore that President Duda tweeted:
Contrary to some surprising reports my wife did shake hands with Mrs. and Mr. Trump @POTUS after a great visit. Let’s FIGHT FAKE NEWS.
If the media keeps digging we may really get global warming when they get to the Earth’s core.
The Rest of Europe hates the current Polish administration.
I picked two five gallon buckets of tomatoes out of my garden this evening. I’m now drinking beer and making spaghetti sauce. For the uninitiated, if you have never had spaghetti with with sauce made from garden tomatoes, you’re missing out.
It is called “gravy” in Sout Philly, but then again they call sub sandwiches “hoagies.”
It’s called gravy in Italy.
Where I live we call it delicious.
Google says I won’t make it by dinner.
I’m just about to throw a couple ribeyes on the grill. Have any of y’all tried anchovy butter on a steak? It is absolutely amazing. Chop up a few anchovy fillets, garlic, and parsley and mash it up with a generous amount of good butter. A dash of salt and pepper and a squeeze of lemon and mix. Unreal good on a steak.
I skipped dinner because I was enjoying a book and you all are bound and determined not to be cool about it.
That does sound fantastic.
We do garlic and herb butters all the time for steak and potatoes but haven’t tried anchovies. Will give it a shot.
The chovies give it that extra something special. Works really well with beef.
That sounds interesting. I have done the butter and various spices on steak, but have never tried to incorporate fish with it. I’ll give it a shot. Probably just on mine. There’s no way my wife will let me try that on hers.
Just don’t tell her what it is and give her a bite of yours. You can’t taste fish at all. I just wing it but here is pretty much what I like.
http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2011/08/steak-with-anchovy-butter-recipe.html
Or ask her if she’s ever had Worcestershire Sauce. (Yum!)
We love worcestershire. I don’t know how that relates to fish though.
I like to cube a beef roast and soak it in worcestershire, and make kebabs. I cut large chunks of squash, onion, mushroom, and bell pepper, and then shake them up with Cajun seasoning. Skewer the veggies with the beef and grill. It’s great.
It has anchovies in it.
I’ll be damned. I never knew that. I guess I should read the ingredient list some time
I’ll try that! Anything with garlic, really.
Anything butter is pretty good.
Anchovies are loaded with umami. It’s why caesar dressing is so good.
One word: Umami.
Sounds great.
I did the exact same thing minus the making sauce nonsense.
the way I see it-
I have more tomatoes than I can possibly eat before they go bad. I’m making sauce out of this picking. The next picking I’m gonna make salsa. What ever I get for the rest of the summer I eat and give to friends. that’s how I roll.
Pressure can.
If you don’t can properly, you can get botulism.
Growing up, my dad made me spend an hour a day in our vegetable garden in the summer before I could go run wild. I swore I would never do anything as stupid as having a vegetable garden when I grew up.
I have been living at my house now for 23 years and have had a vegetable garden for 23 years. You can’t put a price on home made veggies (especially tomatoes).
My wife grew up on a farm and is far more knowledgeable about growing things than I am. However she underestimates the value of a veggie garden as a way to convince your kids that sitting around on the sofa is a great way to be put to work pulling weeds.
However she underestimates the value of a veggie garden as a way to convince your kids that sitting around on the sofa is a great way to be put to work pulling weeds.
I spent a lot of time with my grandparents when I was a kid. My grandpa was a child of the great depression. (born in 1919) He had 80 acres about ten miles from my childhood home.
I spent a great deal of my childhood on his farm. I didn’t enjoy the work when I was a kid. I learned something from my experience though. Hard work will pay off. I’m a pretty successful adult these days. I attribute that in large part to the work ethic I learned on my grandparents farm 20+ years ago.
Work ethic.
I that’s that a lack of it is what is wrong with my generation. (millenial)
You know who else ran out of comments?
Not Trump
Here’s some more Title IX insanity, this time in Chicago:
https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/michael-bonesteel-resignation-saic-henry-darger-comics/Content?oid=27428790
Some organizations need to broke and burn to the ground.
Yeah, and I don’t know how anyone thinks that indulging these pampered immature brats is doing anyone including them any good at all.
In the comments, someone righteously disagrees with you:
Like I said below, a couple of generations of unemployment, in this case via other people refusing to pay for it, will solve the problem.
That have zero perspective outside their little bubble. What a way to go through life.
Uffda. Think how much money you could make as a professor at a big college if you had an essay test with one question:
“Write about a sexual assault at a campus party. Be explicit.”
It’s really hard to fathom that their parents would pay for such garbage. Until you’ve been around such parents for a while. They themselves have been brainwashed to the extent that they truly believe in the socialist fairy tale dreams. They’re all so pie in the sky deluded that they have no fucking idea how dumb they look to normal people with less doctorate degrees. But I’m more than confident that a couple generations of unemployment will solve this problem.
“Bonesteel”… huh huh.
(Full disclosure: I grew up on a Bonesteel Street.)
I’d be tough too if my name was Bonesteel! It’s not fair! I want to be Bonesteel! Who the fuck does not want to be Bonesteel!? Equality, everyone gets to be Bonesteel!
We need to have a toughest Bonesteel name contest.
Bart Bonesteel!
Barnabus Bonesteel!
Baron Bonesteel!
Who is the toughest Bonesteel of all? Wait to find out, only on Glibertarians.com.
Brutus Bonesteel
Max Bonesteel
Chest Von Bonesteel
I have to concede that Brutus has it so far….
wait…
Brutus Maximus Bonesteel!
Sue Bonesteel.
I can’t believe this guy exists.
Rip Slagpec! Dirk Steakface! Bolt Vanderhuge!
Shout out to a fellow MST3K enthusiast.
What if a Bonesteel gets a Titanium implant? Is he a liar?
Fortunately we moved elsewhere when I was 10 or it could have gotten awkward.
the year 2085
“Grandma, what did you do during the #Resistance?”
“Well, sweetheart, I piloted a drone to airdrop avocado toast to the pussy hats at the front lines.”
Lol
Nice.
I have to say that I’m glad that there was no internet when I was a teen/early adult.
I had a bit of both, being from 91.
It is strange to think about my youngest sibling having his entire life online.
It really is endumbening an entire generation, isn’t it.
It’s not just that. I really would not want my youth documented online:) I can’t even imagine that really:)
See, today’s youth seem perfectly happy to document every minute of their life for the world to see. I don’t get it, myself. During my commute I observe the younger set frantically thumbing their way through social media and it mystifies me.
My generation would not have been taking selfies and posting our “deep” thoughts and insights. We would have been posting compromising photos of each other as jokes:) I don’t even remember half the stupid stuff I did and frankly I don’t want to:)
Everytime we head south, right after we get into KY we see signs for Big Bone Lick State Park which is just outside of Beaverlick, KY. Yes, we laugh at both signs like grade schoolers.
Thought I was replying to Rhywun’s Bonesteel comment
Your comment stands pretty well on its own.
You should camp there!
Pitch a tent, if you will.
I set em up, you knock em down.
I haven’t been camping for years. We usually opt for cabins these days. More for the hot tub and jacuzzi then anything else.
Yeah, but only Maryland has this:
Celebrating Thiccness in MD
LA neighborhood, unsatisfied with new coffee shop, apparently prefers derelict buildings and boarded-over windows.
As usual, progressive Marxists wind up a
punchbike lock meant for whitey and manage to clock a poor brown bystander instead.Scroll up
Doesn’t surprise me it’s made the rounds, but I could either take my hot take to Twitter and get lost in a sea of morons, take it to Facebook and get the cold shoulder from woke friends who feign surprise that this shit happens, or I can bring it here and rage impotently.
Oh, speaking of LA: I’m going to be flying in to visit my sister next month. We’re probably touching down and immediately driving to Santa Barbara, but is there any can’t-miss sights in between you’d suggest a guy and his pops check out along the way?
How much time do you have?
The 101 is already a nice drive, but there are bonuses.
Stop here for a drink or two. Feet in the sand, drinking a rum punch out of a watermelon. Maybe some celebrity melting down at the next table. Most importantly, it’s the restaurant/parking lot where Rockford’s trailer was parked. https://yelp.to/qTKq/f97IvtWYzE
It was posted above, but yes, intersectional people can’t find any LA Trump supporters to beat up because they’re all in hiding. Therefore, time to eat their own.
John Schwarz? SMDH
Is it just me, or is there something really fucking wrong with people who still live in Germany? Some, I assume, are decent people, but what the fuck?
Yeah, I thinking that same thing early reading about the G20 protest. It’s like their solution to having crippling migraines is to pound their head against the wall over and over. And if that doesn’t work, just do it harder. I don’t get it at all. I really don’t.
I wish I’d studied French in high school, not German. I feel like when I finally visit the last redoubts of civilization in Europe they’re all going to be French.
It’s scenes like this when you really understand why the progs think that Obama is a “centrist”. The entire world outside of the US and a few isolated pockets is just one giant leftist, antifa-d cesspool.
Really? France seems much more f’ed up to me than Germany.
By far. But I have a feeling that at this point, it’s only Germany’s powerful industrial base that is saving their ass. No one survives a serious dive into socialism. There is NO immunity from running out of other people’s money. That law is immutable.
It’s really weird how individual freedom overall has improved dramatically worldwide, but in the European world and several parts of the old Econ power bloc freedom has taken a nosedive. Pre-Trump US was very nearly heading in that direction, too, because of that odious urban coalition.
We’re trying to talk my daughter-in-law and her husband into leaving there and coming here. Neither of them are from Germany and neither would have a hard time finding work here. Merkel is destroying Germany.
I’m more optimistic than that. I might be biased from having lived there, but… Germany has a long Gastarbeiter history – of course, they never left but they don’t set cars on fire in the Vororte either. the newer arrivals, yeah, they might be a little more problematic. But I’m not dismissing the country yet.
They really should – America may be the cultural heel of the world to every elitist around, but hard to really think of a better country in human history either economically or socially.
Well, they’ve been socialisming – if not as hard as France – for many decades now and without too many complaints that I have seen. I think the US needs to fully pull out before we see how that turns out.
They have millions of new immigrants who are unskilled and uneducated. Nearly all of these will become long term burdens on their generous welfare system. Yeah, it’s still nice now, but how long can that last? They’re already propping up the EU economy almost on their own. And Britain is soon to be out.
I expect a lot of them to be refused refugee status. And the discord they’re causing tells me that the current situation can’t stand. Meh – I’m just spitballing. But the people aren’t happy – that much I can tell.
Culturally, I mean. At least, from what I’ve heard. The French are a lot prouder and more insular than most Europeans. Might actually compel them to do something to address their problems. Or not.
Except Germans still sort of cling to a work ethic that France, well, doesn’t.
^this^
Yeah, but they use that work ethic on some really bad things.
It’s funny that it doesn’t come up more. You can pretty much mock Germans with impunity, but people…. don’t.
It is a bit depressing. My ex-husband, a German by birth and upbringing, had no interest in having kids or any future aside from his own, and he wanted the hell out of Germany. His father (whom I loved) remembered WWII and its aftermath, and despaired at what modern German culture was doing. He thought Germany was circuling the drain as early as 2002! So he furiously researched American pro-freedom, pro-democracy charities to donate to. My then-FIL and I bonded because we were both Christian, but my then husband and his mom were atheists. Not a recipe for success, as it turned out.
Before I turn in for the night, I just want to say that I’ve really enjoyed watching the media step all over their own dicks this week. Like really, really enjoyed it. Thanks, media! And to think that today is only Thursday.
Rest assured they aren’t done yet. Even when there’s just little shreds of dickmeat left for them to step on, they’re not finished.
sugarFree should do a series featuring CNN execs and anchors . No one deserves it more.
I think it should be a high school version. Cillizza is the girl who says “OMG!!” a lot, loves social media, and is dumb as a stump. Acosta always badgers the teacher to call on him because he’s a suck up. Kazinski is the tattletale who can’t wait to tell the principal what the D&D nerds are doing.
That’s just from this week’s shenanigans…
Doesn’t Cortez Cortez work for CNN?
Forget about the proto-libtard etc if you listen to the lyrics, this is just a great song, and oh those pipes.
Wow that doesn’t even make sense to me, and i know what i mean!
Ok:
“Don’t listen to the hippie dippy lyrics, but listen to that voice sing those lyrics. Her voice is incredible.”
Ah, ladysingers.
Y’all suck. Try this instead
Go home, you’re drunk!
(so am I, but don’t judge)
At this hour, I assume we all are a few nightcaps in.
I still have to finish this rye.
And the beauty is that I’m already home! I can drunk post as much as i want; flirting with where cat butt territory meets freedom fighter!
I am in fact …
*raises hands dramatically and passes out
*flips keyboard*
dude i can barely type, but i approve this message (shit.. it took me like 4 minutes to type this, ) Masonic ring out.
Looking back through the Technical difficulties issue, I have to say I hate the Indian Tech Support industry, This isn’t even a case of dey took our jerbs. The Indians suck at my job, and as long as they continue to continue to suck at their jobs I can always find a tech support job.
I had a call where the Indian tech support guy kept telling the some lady that she needed to reboot her modem for about an hour and a half. It took about 30 seconds of conversation to realize that she was an old woman, so I just asked, “Do you know what a modem is?” So I explained to her what the box with all the blinking lights should look like, and had her unplug it for 30 Mississippis, and that solved the problem.
I had another call, where someone called up because their e-mail wasn’t working. The Indian It worker was all about resetting her Outlook settings. I just said “OK, pull up your browser and go to CNN.com.” “It’s not loading” ” OK, so your internet isn’t working, so just reboot your modem.”
That’s why I got payed the big bucks and helped train people on how do tech support.
Well, crap, just took my BAC and it came back as .30. I guess I need to sign off now…
Next two weeks I am giving up control of my life to the Feds to Amrtrak train me from St Paul to Chicago, to the California Zephyr, to SanFran. Then three days in San Fran, and a jaunt to portlamt and returning to st paul via the Empire Builder.
Dayum! That’s been my dream vacation for years (though returning via the Southwest Chief instead)! Please tell all about it, either en route or after you get back. The hubby & I are headed from OH to CO/NM tomorrow, but we’re driving all the way.
Will do! I have never taken a train, so I feel some trepidation, but we’ll muddle through somehow. It’s Mr and Mrs Hayeksplosives 10th wedding anniversary, so we wanted something special. We reserved our own bedroom on the train with private WC and shower, so I think we will be OK. We’ve read a bunch of blogs on how to do it right (bribe the car attendant). Time will tell!