Well the Astros lost…to a team of flappy-heads. And the Twins beat the Orioles (since there is a lot of rooting interest in those two teams from several Glibs). About the only other thing going on in the sports world is the courting of perennial assclown Carmelo Anthony by many NBA teams. Seriously, who in their right mind would openly invite cancer into their body? Nobody. Then why would an NBA team plan on throwing $100M at a minimum to bring that guy in?
Lots of big tennis matches today as Wimbledon trudges on. I’ll make a bold prediction that all of the top seeds playing will advance with the exception of maybe one minor to moderate upset. Nothing ever seems to happen there until the second week of the tournament.
And in case anybody was wondering, and I know some of you are, college football starts in 7 weeks and the NFL is exactly 2 months away from opening their season (the same day the Buckeyes open up as well!). So we got that going for ourselves, which is nice.
Anyway, you guys have places to go and people to see and undoubtedly don’t want to keep reading me ramble on and on. So let me go ahead and usher in…the links!
Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son. At least he had the decency to resign.
Leftist, anarchist assclowns go apeshit in Hamburg. I hope they get the water cannons out in force today.
United Airlines just can’t stop shitting the bed. Plus their excuse smells like bullshit. We “scanned his boarding pass improperly”? Since when do they scan anybody’s boarding pass with anything but the exact same indifference the scanned the previous one with?
Never trust your lady parts to Florida Man Doctor! Also, dude, you’re 87. May be time to perv elsewhere, huh?
Perhaps there was a woman menstruating nearby. (Cue up the STEVE SMITH sprinter jokes.)
Illinois House overrides Governor’s veto to pass budget. Let the taxing begin! I hope every one of them get primaried. And the funny thing is, the are still gonna get their credit downgraded.
And last, but not requiring a link, Trump to meet Putin today. From what I hear on Fox, it will be a glorious meeting where Trump will tell the Russian leader what we plan to do in Syria and North Korea. From what I hear on MSNBC, it will be Putin telling Trump what he will do in Syria and North Korea. And from what I hear on CNN, they will eat a baby together on Russian state TV while urinating in the mouth of a wheelchair-bound transgender midget. I’ll have to find out later tonight how it goes. I’ll be on the golf course this afternoon.
Have a hell of a great friday, friends.
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559 responses to “Friday Morning Links”
Melo isn’t a cancer. He just isn’t nearly as good anymore as he thinks he is.
He sucks all the payroll out of a team and he’s a damn ball hog that doesn’t do a good job of keeping his teammates engaged.
I stand by by initial assessment.
Have you seen him in the Olympics when he has actual talented players around him? The Knicks have surrounded him with dogshit for years.
If he needs all the best players throughout the United States to make him a winner, he’s not. Most great players have to make do with another All-Star-caliber teammate and a bunch of good role players. Could Melo have won the championship with the kind of teammates Dirk Nowitzki had in 2011? That Mavericks team…that was not an Olympic team by any stretch.
That was also an exceedingly rare event.
Melo was never on Dirk’s level, but people get so wrapped up in what he can’t do that they overstate their case. Besides, even LeBron couldn’t single-handedly carry a collection of stiffs to a title, which is why he went to Miami in the first place. And as to your point about what other players have to make do with…..Jordan didn’t win without Pippen. Shaq didn’t win without Kobe or Wade. Kobe didn’t win without Shaq or Gasol.
Melo is roughly comparable IMO to Paul Pierce as a player, and it took Garnett AND Allen, not to mention an All-star point in Rondo, for him to win.
I agree. But that’s not the way he is talked about in the greater sports media. Many would have you believe he’s in a higher class than Paul Pierce.
Jordan didn’t win without Pippen.
Pippen was exposed as a fraud without Jordan.
(probably last time I watched any NBA)
He won’t cost 100 million though, he has 50 remaining on his contract and no one will give him that kind of $$ moving on. He may be good on a veteran minimum as a bench guy though
Check out Melos stats in the second game when they play back to back nights. Guy is a dog.
I hope that this is even 1% true.
I suspect it is. The problem, though, is that unless you make some monster changes, what stops the next proggie administration from ramping it right back up?
Once “drained”, it will be on congress to cut the departmental budgets to reflect the smaller staffs. Without that, it will only be temporary.
Yeah, that’s my fear. The same congress who voted 500 times to repeal O-care while the wrong top man was in charge and there was no chance of it happening.
The only way they were able to put Obamacare repeal on Obama’s desk for him to veto was via reconciliation, and they had 52 votes for it. One of those 52 votes is no longer in the Senate.
The problem is the RINOs and the moderates in the Senate. If the House could send bills directly to Trump’s desk Obamacare would have been repealed already.
Their only saving grace would be if they presented a budget and a Trump vetoed it because they didn’t put his cuts in allocation in it, causing them to resubmit a budget with the cuts. Then they could at least say “but we had to make the cuts otherwise there would have been a shutdown”.
Of course, the correct thing to say would be “do any of you people notice that there are fewer government bureaucrats? No? Then we did good!”
That would require a united GOP in Congress. As long as enough Republicans will give their support to the Democratic budget, it will pass with a veto-proof majority like the most recent continuing resolution did.
How many times has the minority party set the legislative agenda in the past?
Its a start.
The best way to reorient an organization is to clean house, then start over.
I guess even delusional people read the WSJ.
DAVID HERSKOWITZ 1 day ago
Incredibly Trump still denies that Putin helped Trump beat Hillary last November 2016, and that there was collusion between Putin and Trump in the 2016 campaign.
Trump suggests in his CNN video that he would use the worst possible physical violence against reporters who criticize Trump, thus ending the freedom of press in America.
Will Putin now allow Trump to have free elections in America in 2018 and beyond, or are we now finished with free elections in America?
shitthatwillneverhappen.txt
This level of hysteria should have one’s family and friends talking about treatment options…
What color is the sky on this dude’s planet, I wonder.
How does one deter littering without encouraging retaliation?
My asshole neighbors have an infuriating habit of just dropping trash out the window of their car before driving off. Since this is streetisde parking, there is a nonzero number of times it happens along my property. Of course anyone who does that does not clean up after themselves later on…
Catch it on your new video surveillance system.
Put any trash you find on their windshield, whether in front of your house or any other house that isn’t their own.
The problem is what usually happens is they toss it out the window, drive off and then the trash gets spotted.
It doesn’t have to be their trash.
I haven’t identified the specific culpret.
I only suspect it to be a neighbor because of the frequency of occurance.
clean up your own ellipses.
… If it’s my mess I’m okay with dealing with it…
…other … “people’s”… messes, however…
Seriously? I haven’t seen people litter like that in quite some time.
Who do you live next door to, Ron Burgandy?
I don’t know, I haven’t caught them in the act, but the appearance of trash only along the margin more or less where a passenger window would sit from the now open parking spot fills in the details.
this movie should provide some help on how do deal with neighbors.
Flamethrowers. I got no patience for that shit.
I had a kid that used to do that. I would pick up the trash and put it in his bed. That shit came to a screeching halt.
It’s a little difficult to do when they’re long gone by the time I find the trash.
Plus I lost the key to the lockbox comtaining my lockpicks, so getting into their place to return their trash might be difficult. (Even if I could ID them)
Is your brick in a lockbox too?
I have standards.
I have a similar problem, but because the wind blows from the street onto my property I can’t be sure it is my neighbor’s stoner kid who is doing it.
My neighborhood has taken a turn for the worse, part of the signs are the foil cigar wrappers and beer cans tossed on my lawn. I’m getting closer to moving to Missouri…Illinois is a hell hole that no one should live in. Thanks a lot Chicago and the Democrat infestation!
I hope they get the water cannons out in force today.
Amen. What’s with this, though:
I thought these fuckos want globalization??
This needs no intro.
I absolutely love that song. Spotify should be fun as hell today.
Different kind of globalization. The red, forced-labour kind.
You know what other pollack wouldn’t shake your hand?
Kevin, that one time I ran into him at a bar?
You too?
Pollock? They don’t have hands, they have find.
*rimshot*
Is that why they only produce splatter instead of painting?
Fins….why does autocorrect change an actual word to something else??
Because you drop trash on UCS’s patchy lawn.
It would be easier to get the plants in good order if people would stop littering.
My daughter could use that. Killing time today, we played hang man. Gotta teach her English, right? So I chose an animal, “beaver” and she had all the blanks filled in except for the “v”. Of course she asked, “Is there an “n”? The little racist.
“It sounded like the house was kind of blowing up,” said homeowner Glen Lindblade. “I mean, that’s my son’s bed. So this could have been a whole lot worse. I’m actually, I feel very blessed. And, this is a great day.”
Does your teenage son often say, “I’ll be in my bunk”?
And, this is a great day.
It’s always a great day when a government employee crashes their truck into your house while drunk and responding to a call, and nobody got hurt.
Was his next line “I’m rich, beeyotch!”? Because it should have been.
Doesn’t the article say he’s a volunteer firefighter?
Doesn’t matter. He’s working for the government on a call and he drunkenly drives his truck into a house.
The cash register is gonna get opened up and it’ll be the taxpayers getting ass-reamed.
Only quibbling because I don’t know: is a volunteer correctly considered an employee?
I would think so. He’s probably got a schedule where he’s on call at certain times. That would denote employment, even if it’s not compensated. And if they equipped his truck with flashers, they’re acknowledging that he is an officer with the right to violate traffic laws while en route to a fire. That’s most certainly an employer-employee relationship.
::sad trombone::
I had to go through a full background check to become a volunteer of the city.
Yeah, but it’s La Porte. You could take all the money that city has, and *still* not be rich.
Big thunderstorm came through last night – street looked like a bomb went off with a lot of debris in the street. Lost power – still out. Also part of my roof cap got rumpled. My parents house lost power but they have a natural gas generator. *shakes fist*
It’s Michigan, dude. We’re all cheering for the storm to win (as long as you get out ok first).
This Michigander wasn’t so lucky:
Man dies after tree falls on Grand Haven home
We had quick a light show in the thumb last night as well. Didn’t get the winds, but I watched lightning from midnight until about 2am.
Fake News: Journalists Invent ‘Super Awkward’ Handshake Snub of Trump
It looked like she snubbed him. That’s all that matters.
I thought women loved the snub?
Why in the world would the FL of Poland snub Trump? Based on CNN reports? And from I gather, Poland doesn’t strike me as a PC country so it’s not like she’s reading American news and screaming ‘what will they tell their children?!’
Supreme bull shit I smell.
She just rushed past Trump to get a hug with Melania – I would do the same.
‘We must have a threesome…I mean for tea!’
Is what she said.
And from I gather, Poland doesn’t strike me as a PC country so it’s not like she’s reading American news and screaming ‘what will they tell their children?!
Yeah. She’s married to a guy who officially declared Jesus Christ the King of Poland. Their government, led by her husband, has been telling the EU to shove their immigration quotas rectally. The only reason she’d be snubbing Donald Trump is that she thinks he’s some sort of effete, globalist, beta cuck.
It’s just a little cherry picked…it’s still news, it’s still news!
Aren’t you supposed to be in Mexico fleeing the coppers?
As a bonafide one-drop rule Mexican, I can say that the coppers are almost always on my caso for one thing or another. Usually it’s for being drunk and belligerent in the Home Depot parking lot.
So, pretty much like every other customer of Home Depot?
I remember thinking that Newsweek was low-quality leftist trash in the late 90s, but I got it for free so I still read it. I’m proud to say that I’d pay exactly the same price for it today.
Suck it , Michael Mann.
I don’t know if this is accurate, but I’m gonna pretend it is and bask in the glow of payback.
If the court ordered him to turn over the data and he refused, the judge is not going to take it well. It’s either fear or arrogance, but I don’t doubt Mann failed to file the fraudulent data where it could be scrutinied.
It doesn’t exist. He can weather contempt of court and keep his career. He cannot weather being revealed as having fabricated (or only picked the part of the dataset that gave him spectacular results) data. So he’ll fight the contempt and play the victim. And probably crowdfund a big pile of money.
IANAL, particularly not a Canadian one, but… Judges do not like oppositional defiance. In the US the judge could lock him up until he produced the evidence. Even if the judge is sympathetic to warmism he’s not going to cotton to disrespect in open court.
At worst he’d be deported after a few days, but that would cause other problems down the road.
Also, super good this is not a US court as nobody can claim that POTUS rigged the trial.
Doesn’t the judge realize that sometimes Truth is bigger than facts or data?
The Truth is nothing before an affront to his authority.
I did have a great exchange with a prog once, years ago when Mann was employed at UVA. He was refusing to turn over his data to the public, and this prog was tying himself in knots trying to explain to me why a public employee should be allowed to keep the data he generated at a public university a secret.
If you’re honest, if the data backs up your assertions, then why are you so afraid to put it on the public record?
Not only that, but it is part of the process as far as I understand it. Dr. Ball wanted the data to reproduce Mann’s work, as so the process of verification goes. The fucker would never cough it up, and or his algorithms. Mann is a fraud and it is about time the world knows it.
Seems they don’t understand the meaning of ‘public’ and ‘public servant’.
Mind boggling how they just accept their work without examining it. Truly astonishing and points to their stupidity.
From the professors I knew in college, this isn’t that unusual. Many researchers don’t like revealing their data/methods. The good ones will though.
Yeah, if they want to play that game, no sucking off the taxpayer teat. If they want to be secretive, they can go into the private sector; I’ve been told they expect results.
And no calling it “science”, either.
Keep the data if you want, just don’t pretend it’s a valid hypothesis, you are using scientific method, or that anything you say is believable.
including a ruling that Mann did act with criminal intent when using public funds to commit climate data fraud
They will never, never, never, never prove this in a court of law. And I’m not sure it would be good if they did.
At this point, it that portion gets read into the court record, and he can still be jailed for contempt. Considering he’d rather rake in the grants for Climate Change research than work on something that might actually help humanity in the future (oil from algae program at Penn State that he heads), I like that he will always be considered a scared little child, afraid to show his work to the world.
He’s gonna be exposed any day now…
::sigh::
That fucker is the Teflon Don of
organized crimethe CAGW scam.what does Rick Ross have to do with this??
LoL
Holy shit, that makes my day. Is it too early to have a celebratory drink?
It probably is where you live, but if you were to change the time on your computer to, say, South Pole time, then I think they’ll have to respect that loophole.
/just a little joke
Let me guess…he loses the lawsuit he filed, maybe suffers sanctions, then becomes a Martyr to Science.
Future “expose” book by left-wing journalist: “Mann sued the right-wingers who lied about him, but by a legal trick, they forced him to choose between continuing with his case or divulging proprietary information. Because he chose to protect his proprietary information, the right-wing smear machine claims that his evidence of climate change has been refuted. Proving that right-wingers have no shame,” etc.
Right wing nutjobs claim they’ve disproved CAGW with this one weird trick.
Maybe one of our resident Canucks can give us a ruling on whether the hockey stick has an illegal curve.
Emma Stone sees Trump parallels in Battle of the Sexes
‘The way this has all panned out has been fascinating and horrifying,’ the Oscar-winning actress says
Who?
The chick from Zombieland
Her voice is sexy as hell, but she’s pretty average looking.
She’s average by Hollywood standards but rather cute by normal person standards.
They’re making a triumphant movie about an in her prime women’s champion beating a middle-aged guy in a match he almost certainly threw. UGOGIRL!
Look, if you don’t think men and women are physically equal, you’re a disgusting bigot and won’t be getting invites to cocktail parties.
The light bulb just went on.
I expect if you take a look at the men who attend these parties, you will find that they are physically equal to women. No wonder they all think that men and women are physically equal.
On the one hand, my wife knows how to change a tire. On the other, she doesn’t go to cocktail parties either.
She’s “stripper most likely to pass as not a stripper in public” hot
I can name one thing that’s not a parallel: Trump won.
There are some rumors that Riggs threw that match to pay off gambling debt to the mob. He beat the number 1 player Margaret Court with ease just weeks before the King match. I think the whole thing was an act to draw ratings. He was the Andy Kaufman of tennis.
It’s almost certain he threw the match, whether it was to pay off a gambling debt or just for the lulz.
“this narcissistic, self-focused, constantly-stirring-the-pot kind of guy”
But enough about Barack Obama…
incredible, qualified woman
When did ‘qualified’ become the go-to word for describing a presidential candidate by their supporters? It seems like a downer or a backhanded compliment since it would apply to virtually every single candidate. All the possible superlatives they could choose (courageous, smart, inspiring, leader, etc) and I keep seeing qualified as the number one used for Clinton.
I realize it’s only because that’s the best her supporters could come up with, none of the other superlatives being even remotely applicable, but how can they not realize the implications… Orwell style doublethink?
I’m qualified to be president as well, but you don’t see me pissing and moaning because the deplorables didn’t vote for me.
It’s worse when you stop and think about it. There are three qualifications to be president – Age, time of residence, natural born citizen.
Millions upon millions of people are “qualified” to be president.
Also, not barred from public office after being impeached and convicted.
Eg., Thomas Porteous was impeached for judicial corruption, removed from his judgeship, and the Senate “voted to bar him from ever holding public office in the future.”
So he couldn’t be President even if the voters wanted him.
I wish that punishment were employed more often.
It’s just an Clinton campaign buzzword that’s outlasted the campaign itself. One of those Hillary reinventions was pointing out her “experience” as First Lady and her blood-soaked reign as Secretary of State. Useful idiots on the left even went as far as “most qualified candidate ever” especially in comparison to Trump, who had no prior government service and actually had dirtied his hands with private enterprise.
Like, I saw a clip of a guy, like his name was something Gengy Kawn – I’m bad with names! – and he was like all rahwww across Europe raping and killing and such. It was so Nazi like! I thought, like OMG this is like Trump! It’s eerie!’
Dude, you’re a savage! lol Spilled meh coffee
They got a chick to play Billie Jean King? What the hell?
*Old joke- What do tennis and Billie Jean King have in common? A: Fuzzy balls.
Because it’s revolting?
Why are women allowed less body hair than ever?
I like that its totally fine that he was blacked out and being raped, but leaving immediately over toe hair is right out.
Yeah, Dude, that wasn’t a toe.
*hurls*
I think there is a general trend in reduced body hair among men as well. Also I may be completely wrong but I remember historically ancient Romans and Egyptians did a lot of body hair removal so are we really sure it is lees then ever?
*why* is it revolting though? I can think of a few evolutionary reasons (men being more hairy, the need to evolve less body hair for heat regulation, etc.), but why does it specifically evoke a kind of gag-reflex?
I think they do have some point that having body hair is more or less natural.
My guess? Less hair is associated with younger women who are looked at as being more fertile. Of course that won’t include Armenians and some Italians. 😉
^this. Discovery covered this in the Biology of Love series 20 years ago, back before they became the 24 hour shark channel.
Because we like to have preconceptions reinforced. Women are different than men in that they generally have less hair, naturally. So, it only makes sense that, as men groom to have less hair, we expect women to have even less than that. And when that social/evolutionary cue isn’t there it makes you think about it in a way that is sort of generally unsexy. Basically, I don’t want to intellectualize my boner.
As an aside, one of my best friends is a lesbian who doesn’t shave her armpits, but her legs are smoother than any femmed up sorority chick I’ve ever seen. Never asked her why, but always found that funny
I’m right there with you. Sexual dimorphism strongly reinforces the sex drive – thus THICC or curvy women being attractive, taller men with broad shoulders/narrow hips being sought after, and even cultural (‘gendered’) things like long hair and styles of dress typically being divided by sex. I get the feeling the SJWs have a big blindspot when it comes to this when speaking about sex, and gender. As though there is no good reason for men to be manly and women to be womanly.
Also eating pussy is like eating food, don’t want to many hairs stuck in your teeth
Because he woke up, saw dude foot and figured that he got so drunk he went home with a tranny. And that he was now infected with teh ghey.
Why is pubic hair curly?
So you don’t poke your eyes out.
I prefer shaven, but I don’t care *that* much. Just keep it reasonable. I have to shave/pluck/trim various areas so I don’t look like a pre-historic caveman, so its reasonable I expect my SO to do the same. That being said, its not the end of the world if she goes a few days without shaving. I don’t see how anyone could really think its “revolting” that a woman has some toe hairs. Seems like an overreaction to me.
Lost me at “seeds being sewn”. Do feminist idiots even spellcheck, bruh?
Didn’t you ever stitch seeds into garments?
This word “allowed” is key here. It reveals something very pernicious about leftist thought: the idea that the majority of the population having a preference is the same thing as some kind of diktat being enforced. Women are “allowed” to have whatever amount of body hair they want – last I heard, there’s no law against hairy toes. The only consequences a woman will face if she grows body hair is a different pool of willing romantic partners (she’ll end up with one of those guys who has a body hair fetish instead of a guy with more “mainstream” tastes).
If they’re saying that women have the right to be sexually desired no matter what their body hair situation is, they’re headed down a very deep and tortuous bunny hole. Think about it: that would mean that men don’t have the right to exclude sexual partners whom they find unattractive.
Also, why are feminists constantly whining over things that women are allegedly “forced” to do to avoid repelling potential sexual partners, but they never say a peep about men? Most women will freely admit that certain attributes in men – liking My Little Pony, watching too much anime, being fat, being poor, etc. – are instant deal-breakers, but nobody would listen if you said that men are “forced” to watch mainstream TV shows, get in shape, and make a lot of money.
“Leftist” and “Anarchist” aren’t copacetic.
Sure they are. These guys want anarchy. The fact that they’re using it as a tool to usher in communism doesn’t negate that fact.
Anarchy with benefits. Not a fan.
I am not a fan of tags like that. I have seen the tag ‘anarchist’ used many times to describe straight-up commies. It’s just a common tactic used to smear anarchists used both by commies and non-anarchists. Personally I think both philosophies are equally unrealistic, but they are different things.
Thank you. *Caresses Black and Yellow Flag*
BTW, the yellow and black dudes don’t want to bring about anarchy by first making government all powerful. We actually want to go the opposite way, so even if we are unrealistic, you’re going to have fellow travelers for a long time. Until we get to taxation for national defense, I think we’ll find a lot of common ground.
” the yellow and black dudes”
I *knew* those glibs were just rayciss.
Copacetic means in good order, very satisfactory.
Also, I think this is more of a set-subset relationship
The Racial and Religious Paranoia of Trump’s Warsaw Speech
When the president says being Western is the essence of America’s identity, he’s in part defining America in opposition to some of its own people.
Are goats taking jobs from union workers?
::not meant as a reply::
Most people have that feeling after dealing with a union.
Goat Scabs, my new band name
The Smithereens beat you to it.
I did a feasibility study in college about this exact thing. I demand compensation
Ah, the good ol’ AFSCME – the savior of many a prison guard who committed serious misconduct and got to keep their jobs thanks to their well-heeled union.
*dejected sigh*
You found the mother lode of derp in one line. Congrats.
The West is I assume where white supremacist shitlord patriarchy reigns
The West is the best.
And skinny girls.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umoHZbKnUW4
Ya, what do you call that? Progsplaining?
I don’t know what you call it, but it warrants the response off: “thanks for the info, Captain Obvious.”
Muh dog whisslez?
Not even fifteen years ago, a person writing such drivel would be mercilessly mocked. Today they are called ‘woke’. This is how I know that the West will not last beyond this century
I can’t tell if my opinions have changed that much in one year (I don’t think so) but the Atlantic used to actually be interesting to read, and not just drivel.
They still do some interesting work. I think it’s like reason – the print stuff odd much better than the hot take garbage on the site. The division is just worse at atlantic because they hire open progs.
Ed Yong has some nice stuff, but that is just cool animal facts- hard to mess that up.
Actually I consider Japan part of the west. It is a cultural term, not racial or religious.
Hey Pete, why dont you haul your ass to Libya. I am sure you will be happy in a non-western country. I give you a week before you end up on a spit.
OK, here’s a transcript of the speech, and it’s from CNN, so any errors in the transcript will *not* be in Trump’s favor.
With that in mind, where are the racist dog-whistles?
Oh, Lord, more concern-trolling about the moderation of previous Republican Presidents. George W. Bush was praised for not mentioning “the west” in speeches in Poland, and for mentioning AIDS in Africa, etc.
But I found this in one of the Bush speeches they linked to:
“In Warsaw two years ago, I affirmed the commitment of my country to a united Europe, bound to America by close ties of history, of commerce and of friendship. I said that Europe must finally overturn the bitter legacy of Yalta and remove the false boundaries and spheres of influence that divided this continent for too long.”
Back when Bush was President, his denunciation of Yalta was “reigniting an ideological debate from the era of Joseph McCarthy.”
That was just about a minute or two of Googling – George Orwell was overly optimistic, you don’t have to destroy the records of the past, you just have to get your trained seals to wilfully ignore the evidence in the records.
To be considered Western, a country must be largely Christian (preferably Protestant or Catholic) and largely white…
What exactly do you say to this level of fucking idiocy? They can’t even recognize the existence of distinct cultures without racializing and victimizing it.
Just rolling my eyes hard here. I looked up the byline… and it’s Peter Beinart, who also recently put out this bit of brilliance.
I know I rag on Tesla a lot, but this headline cracked me up:
Tesla Excuses: Ludicrous Mode
Musk is a lying, conniving, douchebag. Anyone who’s ever dealt with Paypal as a vendor would already know that.
I emailed you a couple days ago but it must have been a dead address. ?
Had a professional question.
I’ll check that email this morning. I only use it on occasion.
What have they done or do? I don’t use it enough to know but I’m curious.
Paypal is notorious for putting holds on vendor accounts for almost anything, holding back a percentage of receipts for extended periods, placing reserves on accounts so you can’t get to your cash, etc….
Ah. Thanks.
A lot of card processors do this. PayPal isn’t uniquely horrible in this regard by any means.
Paypal has a particular reputation for being arbitrary about it. I’ve been with a number of processors, and while they’re all mostly opportunist concerning fees, I would never use Paypal based on my research about them. If my processor tried to hold my money for 45 days without providing me a reasonable arbitration method to get it back, I would go ballistic.
Yeah, I’ve read much of the same material, and have some bad experiences with PayPal. You really can’t escape the one-two punch of power-drunk, low intelligence nosepickers in any payment service provider’s Risk department. In all but the most extreme circumstances, PayPal’s generally on a predetermined auto-release schedule. My worst experience with a PSP was an 18 month hold on 40K on what amounted to FYTW, but it was just easier and less costly to just wait it out, rather than fronting a bunch of money into litigation. The Risk Analyst handling that case was a douchebag that signed his emails with his title of “MBA” from University of Phoenix.
And scammers are happy to take advantage of Paypal’s deserved reputation. It’s a common tactic to order something and then file a claim that the item received was never received. If the seller disputes, Paypal freezes their account, even if the seller produces a delivery confirmation via tracking receipt. So someone who does thousands of sales weekly can have their account frozen over a $5 item. The ultimate end goal of the scammer is to keep the item and get a refund. In order to unfreeze their account, the seller has to refund. It’s not worth the hassle over a $5 item but can cause a big hit for higher priced items.
At least this is how it used be a few years ago. I knew several people who relied on internet sales to stop taking Paypal over this because they were getting repeatedly hit and Paypal told them to screw off no matter what evidence they produced. I mean, we’re talking emails with time stamps from the buyer acknowledging delivery.
SD: What you’re talking about, in my opinion of course, the party of ultimate blame is not PayPal, is a side effect of the individual card brand dispute rules and acquiring banks overwhelmingly interested in tickling the cardholder’s balls to keep them satisfied. Cardholder wins by default if they’re asshole/insistent enough on committing friendly fraud, and have a sympathetic card issuer. The only way to really catch a piece of shit cardholder like what you’re talking about is to pigeonhole them by gathering enough evidence to demonstrating something like clear mail fraud, which you need an overwhelming amount of evidence for and just isn’t practical to support in most card not present situations.
If they knew about the battery thing when they filed their 10-Q for the first quarter, it absolutely should have been disclosed as a risk factor pursuant to Item 503(c) of Regulation S-K. Wonder if the SEC’s going to take a look at it (they’re like the IRS, they might review your filing randomly or they might review it if they get a credible tip about fraud).
So, I took a quick look at their 10-K Risk Factors. They’re kind of generic, but they do warn the market about potential problems.
We may experience delays in realizing our projected timelines and cost and volume targets for the production, launch and ramp of our Model 3 vehicle, which could harm our business, prospects, financial condition and operating results.
Our future business depends in large part on our ability to execute on our plans to develop, manufacture, market and sell the Model 3 vehicle, which we intend to offer at a lower price point and to produce at significantly higher volumes than our present production capabilities for the Model S or Model X vehicles. We unveiled a prototype of Model 3 in March 2016 and have announced our goal to achieve volume production and deliveries of this vehicle in the second half of 2017.
We have no experience to date in manufacturing vehicles at the high volumes that we anticipate for Model 3, and to be successful, we will need to implement efficient, automated and low-cost manufacturing capabilities, processes and supply chains necessary to support such volumes. We will also need to do extensive testing to ensure that Model 3 is in compliance with our quality standards and applicable regulations prior to beginning mass production and delivery of the vehicles. Moreover, our Model 3 production plan will also require significant investments of cash and management resources.
Our production plan for Model 3 is based on many key assumptions, including:
• that we will be able to build and equip a new dedicated final assembly line for high volume production of Model 3 at the Tesla Factory without exceeding our projected costs and on our projected timeline;
• that we will be able to continue to expand Gigafactory 1 in a timely manner to produce high volumes of quality lithium-ion cells and integrate such cells into finished battery packs for Model 3, all at costs that allow us to sell Model 3 at our target gross margins;
•that the equipment and processes which we install for Model 3 production will be able to accurately manufacture high volumes of Model 3 vehicles within specified design tolerances and with high quality;
• that we will be able to continue to engage suppliers for the necessary components on terms and conditions that are acceptable to us and that we will be able to obtain components on a timely basis and in the necessary quantities to support high volume production;
•that we will be able to complete our final tooling, production planning and validation for Model 3 and the delivery of final component designs to our suppliers in a timely manner; and
•that we will be able to attract, recruit, hire and train skilled employees, including employees on the production line, to operate our planned high volume production facilities to support Model 3, including at the Tesla Factory and Gigafactory 1.
If one or more of the foregoing assumptions turns out to be incorrect, our ability to successfully launch Model 3 on time and at volumes and prices that are profitable, as well as our business, prospects, operating results and financial condition, may be materially and adversely impacted.
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I can’t find any specific mention of existing battery production related problems in either their 10-K or their first quarter 10-Q. If they knew about an issue, it would seem (at least to me) that the above disclosure is too generic for a specific, known problem.
Disclosures, even if they are ridiculously specific, won’t protect you if you fail to communicate a material event. Unless you are as bulletproof as Musk seems to be, of course.
Today in “Stormfront or SJW”, Jezebel writer comes out against miscegenation
Well I think there are more than enough Mulatos round these parts
Where da white wimmen at?
“In choosing an Asian man, these white women also symbolically reject all the white men who have oppressed Asian men for centuries.”
Everyone is just a stand-in for some group.
I totally picked my wife because of symbolism.
Everyone is just a stand-in for some group
Well, they’re ideologically collectivists. Should it surprise you that they don’t see value in the individual?
When playing that game, you’re not supposed to tell us which it is – just give the statement as uncensored as possible without revealing the speaker and let people guess!
And by earning white love, the Asian man gains acceptance in a society that has thwarted them from the very beginning.
By putting them in the top ten percent income bracket?
“story based on the true-life experiences of cowriters/married couple Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon.”
“Ravi in Meet the Patels,”
“Dev Shah in Master of None.”
Aren’t all of these autobiographical to at least some extent?
Anyway, I think American women are crazy- Indian guys can have ’em imo, good luck!
Where da Desi womenz at?
What, are progressives suddenly okay with Asians again? They’re not the scourge of university enrollment and income disparity after all?
jungle or fancy?
A Pakistani is “Asian”? What is this, England? Geddafuckouttahere
Pakistan is in Asia. So if one insists on sorting people into such silly groups, it makes sense.
In common usage, “Asian” as applied to a person is more about ethnicity than geography. Most people in the U.S. and Canada don’t refer to people from India as Asians, for example. It’s technically correct, but doesn’t match language as actually used. Although, I wouldn’t be surprised if there were people who thought Pakistan was in the Middle East instead of Asia, even though a) it’s not and b) the Middle East is itself part of Asia.
This shit, along with suburban/middle class black SJW types using folk/y’all/etc. to give themselves phony rural black cred, is my biggest non-ideological pet peeve with SJWs. “Emotional labor” and being exhausted from thinking about something pretty much sums up how childish and stupid these morons are.
UGH YOU FOLX STOP MAKING ME THINK. IT MAKES ME EEPY AND NAP TIME AINT FOR 10 MINUTES YALL!!!
Complaining about emotional labor tells me that you’re the kind of person who was told to stop overthinking piddly shit as a kid / young teenager, and instead of using that feedback as a gauge to improve yourself you took it as a challenge and tripled-down.
Mix in feedback loops from social media, universities instilling and validating post-modernism and you have this noxious cultural environment we’re all steeped in.
brown women are portrayed alternately as caricatures, stereotypes, inconsequential, and/or the butts of a joke.
Sounds like the way white men are portrayed in most of popular culture. Does this mean brown women are privileged, too?
I am gonna take a guess before I click that….author is a black woman?
Ok, I missed. Injun.
I watch “loving” and i cry because without them i probably wouldn’t be married right now. This idiot watches something similar and thinks it’s wrong. Fuck you jezebel and your acumbag author.
acumbag author
Now that is some serious objectification.
Golf clap.
That could be the typo of the year, if not decade.
Not John? Hmmm…
the appearance of trash only along the margin more or less where a passenger window would sit from the now open parking spot fills in the details.
Sounds like evidence of police surveillance. They’re on to you!
Coffee cups and Timbit containers?
If Trump’s secret nazi plan is to distract people with silly tweets while quietly downsizing government. Then I’m all for it.
https://www.wsj.com/article_email/could-trump-really-be-draining-the-swamp-1498850264-lMyQjAxMTE3NTA0NjIwMTY0Wj/
That reminds me, I saw this article recently.
I agree. So did Brett 51 minutes ago.
Woops!
It’s ok. At least you didn’t post about that guy in Oregon whose ex-wife helped die in peace.
Local lefty columnist destroys Trump on the Norks issue.
Yup. Trump is a total fraud because he hasn’t solved the N. Korea issue yet. I mean he’s had an entire six months already. He claimed on the campaign trail that China would be so awed by him that they would reign in Kim. Why hasn’t that happened?
I don’t know, what happened to Clinton solving the Nork problem?
Somewhat related, this amused me
Donald Trump and Rob Kardashian essentially just tweeted the same thing.
Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2017/07/06/did-donald-trump-and-rob-kardashian-essentially-just-tweet-the-same-thing-6759950/#ixzz4m9JHBbip
Are a significant number Romanians interested in Kardashian bullshit? Just curious what the reach of that machine is, anecdotally.
I have little idea who the Kardashians really are myself, outside the fact that I am aware of their existence and reputation and the fact that I find Kendall Jenner hot. But we do have tabloids in Romania and US tv channels so I assume there are people interested.
Although I am not the thicc fan people around here seem to be, I can say that Kendall might use just a teensy bit more thicc-ness
There is nothing more infuriating than activists with by-lines suddenly re-discovering foreign policy after an eight year coma
Well, Obama had eight years to fix climate change.
/Wrestles Pomp’s sad trombone away from him.
He should call Madeline Albright and ask her opinion.
Huh. Non-farm payroll number significantly higher than the ADP number. Plus this little nugget:
That lack of inflation has vexed policymakers at the Federal Reserve, which is expected to raise its benchmark interest rate once more this year. Indications from central bank officials are that they believe the low inflation pressures to be temporary, though a continued lack of wage growth could change that perspective.
Allow me to translate: The Fed has no fucking clue how to float interest rates back towards market levels without destroying the budgets of the US, several large states, and a couple dozen large banks.
They don’t have a clue because it’s not really possible, They’re backed into a corner.
Well, that’s peculiar. Under Obama, the forecasts were always revised downward, it seemed. Wonder why it’s the opposite now?
They got a dual mandate. Fuck the US and the global economy.
“He said he considered jumping in a nearby lake, but he can’t swim.”
Way to stereotype dude. Ugh. Someone teach that man to swim.
It’s Maine. He has, like 4 weeks where the lakes aren’t frozen to learn.
I can teach him in 4 minutes.
Suthen I know your heart is in the right place, but in today’s climate do you think the optics of throwing a black guy out of your boat are going to be good for you?
Oral sex producing unstoppable bacteria
When you’re sliding into third, and you feel something burn…..
When you’re climbing up the ladder and you hear something splatter?
When the moon hits your eye
Like a big pizza pie?
Before you do down, take a good sniff around?
*go
Don’t be a fool, wrap your tool
Milk, milk, lemonade. ‘Round the corner, fudge is made.
The new Marvel movie.
All the more reason to swallow. I don’t want that stuff on my carpet.
Black men least hard hit?
Jewish girls hardest hit?
‘I’m gonna bitch slap Syria and rename it Trumpyria. Then I’m going to grab that little Nork puke and wring his neck and drop a million Nanaimo bars over the country. And then I’m gonna walk into Russia like a King and fuck you to death. All for starters….’
We don’t really care to hear what STEVE SMITH has planned for his summer vacation. But thanks for sharing anyway.
I doubt that DJT knows what a Nanaimo bar is.
I must say that one of the very nice things to moving up here is having easy access to Montreal. And honestly, Quebec City is just adorable It’s like Disney decided to set up a French-Canadian theme park.
Montreal-style bagels, however, are NOT bagels. They are tasty bread-treats, but not bagels.
You must be from NY. Christoper Higgins who played for the Habs said that too about bagels. And you forgot to poke the Pillsbury Doughman after you said adorable.
Having been forced to look up the montreal-style bread ring, I agree, it’s not a proper bagel.
I moved to (Upstate) New York in 2011, but I doubt I’ll ever be from New York. I hope I’ll never pick up the level of unthinking corruption that is endemic here. Not to mention xenophobia that I didn’t even know was possible. The Albany mayor made some comment about how they needed to get more people and businesses to move in so the new people could be taxed and lower the burden on “real New Yorkers.”
The first time I was in the bas-ville There was a guy in a beret playing La Vie en Rose on an accordion. Because of course there was. And then when I was there back in February, all the canuckispawn bundled up in parkas zipping down ice slides… it seems like a good place to have a childhood. I was always jealous of the kids in books that got to play in the snow. That’s probably why I’m not sick of the winters up here yet.
I’m sorry your exposure to New York came from the Capital District. there are much less mentally decayed areas (but not near the atlantic). And the Mayor of Albany is a dipshit. Always has been, always will be.
^this.
I also never think of that part of NY as ‘upstate’ so I may be biased.
This area definitely fits into the stereotype “The more beautiful the location, the crappier the government.”
The local government actually barricaded off the road through town to my workplace. They wanted the jobs to come to their town, but having all those new people just was ruining their small town feel.
The staties removed the barricade.
Saratoga Springs, (at least the merchant class) otoh, do hospitality right. No doubt being 98% dependent on tourism for their livelihood has something to do with it.
Cuomo said that? Moron.
Cuomo was never mayor. He’s still a Moron, but was never a Mayor.
Though if you want to hear something moronic he did say… here’s a Lefty Rag covering it.
https://reason.com/archives/2017/07/07/russias-global-anti-libertaria
Reason has virtue-signaled itself into supporting World War III! Libertarian Moment!
In this narrative, President Donald Trump is like the French nationalist Marine Le Pen, whose failed presidential campaign this year relied heavily on loans from Russian banks with Kremlin ties:
No hyperlinks in there. Did I miss something?
You haven’t been reading the Weekly Standard’s fever dreams like a good ‘libertarian’
Oh, it’s a “It is known” thing. Why don’t I ever know about these “It is known” knowns?
It is known that Straffinrun will always be in the dark.
More like in the yellow. Have you seen my wife?
I haven’t even seen you – too little light.
Pics? Preferably NSFW pics.
You need to spend every waking moment hanging out with woke “journalists” on Twitter before finally taking a few minutes to crank out your daily hot take.
Sometimes you just need to go to war over a political parties furious wet dream.
Libertarians for global conflict. Sad!
Jesus, the comments. It’s just assholes sniping at each other.
Meh, it was just assholes sniping each other when we were there too.
Ok, but some of those assholes were smart and/or said interesting things.
Local asshat abused by local goons.
Sounds like the goons will have to do some fancy tap dancing to avoid paying the asshat a bunch of money.
Lol. Ballsy.
CNN Should Reveal The Name Of HanA**holeSolo
I’d have been ok with that, to be honest. It’s a lot better than blackmail.
I really don’t get how adult human beings are intimidated by 99% of the stupid crap that is anonymously posted on the net. Seriously who gives a fuck?
Firstly, there is nothing to “answer for”. Making silly gifs isn’t a crime.
Secondly, there is plenty of evidence that CNN got the wrong guy.
This is from Federalist? It reads like something that was supposed to be posted on Salon.
Seriously. Wtf?
It’s David Marcus, he’s one of those lace-curtain types who hyperventilate over “civility”
Yeah, I was a little surprised. I don’t read the Federalist every day, but I didn’t think that was their wheelhouse.
That was just Goddamn terrible-worst take I’ve heard on this issue anywhere and that includes the clips from CNN I’ve seen.
https://twitter.com/TheBrandonMorse/status/882750045958885376
LOL
He couldn’t even find a prop AK? Fail.
It’s The Blaze. They probably already had a real AR-15 lying around.
Sure. I’d be fine with that as soon as they name all of their sources.
I don’t know about that. The seriously bigoted are still in the same places they have always been, and some other people make jokes that could be taken that way by over sensitive dim wits who have a superiority complex because they get paid to write “news”. Half of the racially slanted jokes made here would be considered bigoted by people like the author of that piece. Hell, Jewsday Tuesday could be considered anti-semitic by some. I don’t know what HAS so called bigoted posts were and if he was targeting Jews and posting the shit on Jewish center facebook pages, but the CNN meme was just funny. CNN was not going to out him because he was a bigot, they were going to out him because he made fun of CNN. Big difference. When the free press becomes the free speech sheriff, we no longer have free speech. Fuck CNN and fuck them for going after some random guy who made fun of them.
They’d doxx the hell out of all of us if they had the resources and the time, as well as anyone who went against the grain on any of their multitude of pet causes. The author of that article is a short-sighted fool of the highest order.
CNN didn’t know what his history was when they started trying to track this guy down because the investigation was promoted by the gif. That’s all they knew about the guy. His other activities are irrelevant because they have fuck-all to do with why CNN was digging into his background in the first place.
Exactly. This was purely about trying to exact some vengeance. The racist posts are just window dressing.
Ya, that is what I was trying to get at. With too many words.
^^^ This.
Who? Lots of young people. Why? For the lulz. Is this seriously a huge issue? “OMG, some little anonymous bastard posted a fucking meme! We must find this little shitposter and shame him for making jokes!” How can anyone justify this kind of response over such a complete non-issue?
Leave the nature of memes, about which the author is obviously clueless, completely aside. What he’s suggesting by saying that anonymity should be abolished would have made many important works of satire and political activism (including, ironically enough, the fucking Federalist Papers) utterly impossible without retaliation from the powerful. Call it cowardly if you want, but there’s certain things that need to be said that can only be said anonymously. Important things, not just internet jokes.
+1 HanA**holePublius
Kyle’s dad posted it and blamed his kid.
Should we also have the names of the creators of the hundreds of CNN/Trump themed Gifs that have popped up since? Dave didn’t get the memo that the HanAssholesolo guy isnt the origin of the Trump tweet. I think they should dox him. He can then sue the dogshit out of them.
Strange. In his jeremiad to public accountability, Mr. Marcus has neglected to provide his phone number, personal e-mail address, home address and a means to contact his parents.
I’m sure he’ll be delighted when someone takes it on themselves to correct his oversight.
The Short, Unhappy Life of a Libertarian Paradise
~~~magic edit fairy~~~
They would probably literally have an infarction if they encountered plans for a seasteading community.
Saw this one yesterday- no where does it say the word ‘libertarian’ in the body of the article. It is just click bait, and it isn’t even clear besides missing out on the copper wire in the street lamps that anything bad happened. The bias of the article is staggering though, progressive = good, conservative = bad (even when the city is doing quite well).
I wanted to post this when I first came across it. It’s a shit-tastic article.
I was a resident of Colorado Springs while Bach was mayor, and I wouldn’t describe that town as libertarian. SoCon Happy-Land is a better description but other than a few bumper stickers and a few city provided services that are private you really can’t tell. For instance, the zoo is built on a mountain just west of the Broodmoor and is the largest private-owned zoo in the country, and it is fantastic. My garbage was collected by a private company for $75/quarter. That power company should’ve been privatized a long time ago and fact that 3/4 of the population is on Tricare and that CO tried setting up their own ACA exchange I am sure factored in to that hospital fiasco. My wife and I keep tossing around the idea of going back.
BTW, thank you CO for hitting me with an out of state resident tax on real estate sales. They base it off the listing price of the house, rather than the proceeds from the sale so they got to steal around $6000. Thanks assholes.
Bigotry of the type HAS employed has moved beyond the fringes.
That guy from the Federalist can kiss myt ass.
Go back to your fainting couch, Auntie Em.
The best description of a progressive I have ever read, and it was written in 1830 (it is the quotation of the day on Cafe Hayek):
The dream of Top Men has probably preceded the existence of the human race. Calling Top Men worship “Progressive” was newspeak before we knew what newspeak was.
They are puritans.
Watch This Progressive Muslim Activist Call For ‘Jihad’ Against Donald Trump
So brave!
Nothing says “modern feminism” like a chick with a bag over her head extolling the most misogynistic patriarchal religion ever invented.
No shit. I marvel at seeing Muslim couples here in Minneapolis. The man, slacks and a dress shirt. The woman, in a sack.
Love the new avatar.
Why the fuck not? What makes you exempt?
It would hurt her feelings. Hurting is violence!
Hurting Muslims’ feelings is violence. Others not so much.
“Do not criticize me”
Sounds like an explicit invitation for criticism to me.
This reminds me of my and my father’s childhood.
The more you let the other kids know something bothers you, the more they’re going to use it to fuck with you, until they get bored, or you grow a thicker skin. I can only imagine these people have never had the joy of that experience.
I know that if I immigrated to Egypt or Saudi Arabia, I’d be calling the dominant demographic in the country “Arab supremacists” because they hold political sway in a country predominately populated by them.
The funny thing though is that that analogy doesn’t work… because there really are Arab supremacists and they have held political power in the recent past and certainly could do so again.
And they have no qualms about it. They love in-group preference. The peoples that expressed no in-group preference in that region all died out hundreds if not thousands of years ago, giving way to the ones that do.
Suderman is back in the NYT. Surprisingly, he doesn’t sound like a complete idiot
For decades, the health care system has been broken into several distinct layers: Medicare, Medicaid and employer-provided coverage. The first two are paid for directly by the government. The third is subsidized implicitly through the tax code, which does not tax health benefits provided by employers as income.
This tax break is the original sin of the United States health care system. Worth more than $250 billion annually, it has enormously distorted the market, creating an incentive for employers to provide ever-more-generous insurance while insulating individuals from the true cost of care. It discourages job switching and entrepreneurship, and offers an unfair advantage to the comfortably employed.
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The result is an unequal system in which health insurance is understood more as a way of prepaying for medical care than as a protection from financial risk.
Paul Krugman seems triggered by Suderman’s take. Just read the screeching tweetstorm.
https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/883299530980159488
My take is that if someone is numbering tweets, and it isn’t deliberate comedy, they’ve lost their mind.
What about someone who numbers their thoughts that aren’t sermons?
Worse than Hitler – literally.
Those comments tho. I don’t know what people are talking about the need for open debate. Some people are just stuck in there wats and it would be best to tell them to go fuck each other on their own time.
I’ve found Sudernan to overall be excellent on his ACA/healthcare pieces, which seem to be an important niche for him.
There’s worse, but I believe he falls (or fell?) into the camp that cannot imagine simply repealing a failed program, because that’s not “reform”. “Reform” only happens when a bigger, more complicated, more expensive program is put in place.
With “libertarian” friends like these, who needs enemies? Merely slowing the rate of ratcheting is not a long-term strategy.
An observation on cable news:
I was drivin yesterday when the news broke that the government ethics chief was leaving and said part of his reason was because he became exasperated that Trump didn’t completely divest himself of all business ties. CNN played a cut of him giving a lecture before Trump was inaugurated saying that a blind trust was in no way adequate for a businessman to enter public service and that if he really cared he’d have divested everything.
Then they proceeded to bring on two people to talk about it. The first was the ethics chief under GWB, who explained why it was a nothingburger and lined up with the founders’ vision of people temporarily entering public service then returning to their business. The second was Robby Mook, who said it was pure evil.
They then proceeded to let Mook go on and on about Russian-Trump collusion and even let him make the “all 17 intel agencies agree it was the Russians!” debunked lie without challenging him.
It was pretty sad.
Politicians are terrified that businessmen could enter their game for a minute and then leave. Because then people would realize that no one should be a career politician.
Bingo
Get your pants on because the truth has been mindf***ing the world.
I was listening to NPR as I drove to town yesterday. They had on a DOJ attorney? Or maybe SEC, I don’t remember. But she quite because of the perceived corruption and conflict of interest of the Trump admin. She said the Comey firing was the last straw. My money is on, these people hear they are going to be shit canned, so they quit with enough time that they have a soap box moment.
As to the story you heard, I would like to know what business interests Mook is into. He is waist deep in politics in spite of not holding an office. What is that slimy fucker up to behind the scenes.
I thought you quit the habit. If she’s an attorney, she knows the FBI director serves at the pleasure of the pres, and that his dismissal would have no impact on the continuity or progress of any Trump/neo Red scare investigation.
Did George Washington divest? No.
Did John Adams divest? No.
Did Thomas Jefferson divest? No.
I wont go on, because that is enough for me.
God grant us self-interested profiteers wanting nothing more than to make a quick buck and get out ahead of the investigators. Because I don’t think we can survive many more selfless idealists in the mold of FDR or Obama.
a blind trust was in no way adequate for a businessman to enter public service and that if he really cared he’d have divested everything.
Well, that’s going to be news to all the people who have used blind trusts before going into public service. And, just showing how pig-ignorant she is, what does she think happens when you divest? Well, you get a bunch of cash. Which should be invested. Ideally, in a blind trust? Or do we say that since blind trusts are inadequate, its invested directly by the public servant?
Or is she trying to say that nobody in public service should have anything invested at all, and just have a savings account with all their assets in it?
.. except the Republicans, who have to install a huge swimming pool at their own expense, and fill it with $100, and then flounder about in it laughing maniacally and twirling their mustaches.
… more than $100, of course … $100 bills …
I really doubt any Illinois lawmaker is going to lose a job over this budget. They’re part of a political machine that’s been in power for decades.
The untold thing about primaries, though, is that you don’t need the majority to be against you to take you down; just a committed few ready to show up to eat you alive, like what Beat supporters did to Cantor. I bet that even though most of these assholes won’t be primaries, some most definitely will, hopefully enough to scare the rest in line.
Brat*
This is going to somehow be the fault of the Republican governor who vetoed the thing.
Don’t know much about IL, but knowing how mid-terms work I think that unless Oprah runs and promises her free shit brigade, Rauner’s pretty safe. The fact that he’s vetoed budgets for three years means that the entire base will be on his side, and young leftists don’t tend to turn out that much in the midterms.
(Unless IL is like Puerto Rico)
Went out to eat with the family for the wife’s birthday tonight. Middle range yakiniku, Korean BBQ. It’s nomihodai, or all you can drink, for 3000円/90 minutes. Nothing unusual about that except they handed us a mug and said, “The tap is over there. Help yourself.” My God. I can’t imagine what would happen in the states if a restaurant did that. Sued maybe?
There’s a bar near work that I go to for lunch sometimes. They have taps at the tables. They’re monitored, of course, and you’re charged for each and you can be cut off electronically.
I can’t imagine what would happen if people had free reign to them.
You’d have to pay someone a living wage to fill a mug?
I am not sure that wouldn’t even be legal here. It was years ago, but they made them stop the nickel beer nights and the free beer with a cover nights.
In Okinawa there was a buffet place called Jon-Jon that was all you can drink. It was literally open bar – a full bar and you just mixed your own cocktails.
Remnant of when Japan didn’t have a full blown modern government, I’m guessing. The biggest benefit of them losing the war was that it destroyed their ability to control all free interactions among people.
In KY, you can’t sell alcohol at a loss, so you couldn’t do that without monitoring.
Mexican place the other night had 55 cent Margaritas. You can imagine the quality of the Tequila considering the law in the previous sentence.
I love nomihodai! When I worked in Tokyo back in the ’90s I found three different places that had them on different days. No unguarded taps though. You’d have to go Ugly American on them and wave your empty over your head to get more beer.
Literally Wu is running for Congress?
https://heatst.com/politics/congressional-candidate-brianna-wu-says-doxing-is-terrorizing-unless-cnn-does-it/
That little shit is running for political office? You’ve got to be joking! What next, Anita Sarkeesian for President? God help us.
I read up about the district she’s running in. Even though it’s D+10, it’s a long, longshot at best: it’s a super-unionized, blue-collar district anchored around South Boston. If my stereotypes are right, Southies are probably not fans of her kind.
You are probably right. In addition to being the opposite of a blue-collar Democrat:
“Yet Wu was not until relatively recently a woman at all, and her legitimacy as a speaker even for the transgender community is in doubt since, as we can also today reveal, she was banned from a transgender forum after less than a year for unacceptable behaviour–not an easy thing to accomplish in a community well-known for its aggressive online conversations.
Wu was permanently stripped of her moderator status for abusing her position, according to another moderator, in a sign of what was to come in a long internet career of dissembling, bullying, smearing and panicky deletions as Wu has lurched from self-induced digital crisis to self-induced digital crisis over a period of more than a decade.”
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/02/13/the-wacky-world-of-wu-the-tortured-history-of-gamergates-self-styled-feminist-martyr/
A classic narcissitic attention whore. Ignore it and it will scream impotently at the void.
I never really followed Gamergate too deeply (was never a gamer), but I wonder if she’s really rebelling against her gender and not just her “shameful” Mississippi background. There’s something deeper going on there, I’m sure.
Here’s the short of it – Wu was never actually central to the circumstances of GamerGate yet managed to interpose between the nearest camera and the real issues whenever the chance arose. Personality-wise, Wu has an obsessive attitude of “it must be about ME!“, even when it most definitively is not.
IOW, my favorite kind of SJW – squealing, whiny, and annoying, but mostly impotent and easily ignored.
Wu really does not do the trans disorder community much credit. If ever there’s a reason to wonder whether there’s more going on than “gender dysphoria,” it’s because men like Wu are waving huge red flags.
No way Southies are going to send a tranny to Congress.
She’s working the campaign donation scam. I guarantee it.
“You’d have to be a real piece of shit to get involved with politics.”
TITLE CARD
“Brianna Wu Runs For Office”
Donate Here!
(Not Safe For Anywhere)
Then she proceeds to piss on that dude’s proverbial rug in her comments.
The Chinawoman is not the issue here …
Hitler reacts to #CNNBlackMail
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWKgZv7CXD8
Are you comparing reporters to Nazis? Nazis deserve to be punched in the face, so it would seem you are advocating violence against reporters./CNN
It does sound that way! To the doxxmobile!!
Ha ha, great idea! To the doxxmobile!!
Was that already a thing or did you just do that? I like it.
I just did it.
Wife tells me the Facebook is working alive with TrumPutin conspiracy theories. Apparently Trump and Putin are going to finalize their scheme when they meet.
Has anyone ever detailed exactly what Russia is getting out of this scheme? I am curious cuz’ I am just not seeing it.
You’ll eat your words when the Russian tanks are rolling down Flatbush Ave tomorrow.
It’s going to be like Red Dawn X 911
They get the US to sell ship loads of NatGas to Poland?
Has anyone ever detailed exactly what Russia is getting out of this scheme?
Villainy is its own reward. You know how you suspend disbelief at the movies and don’t ever really question the motives of the pure-evil bad guy? These people are fucking children. Every body they disagree with is Looten Plunder, right down to the pun name.
Trump-Putin Meeting is like the Molotov-Ribbentrop NAP, Poland better be careful?
I’m not sure how this sekret nazi thing works.
Russia has some business interests they want advanced, especially in the oil industry. But enough about Hillary, you asked about Trump.
what Russia is getting out of this scheme
Damage to their core export economy?
Moar sanctions?
Their (ally’s) airbase blown up real good?
Has anyone ever detailed exactly what Russia is getting out of this scheme?
Membership at Mar-a-Lago?
Last night my wife and I signed the “Intent to Adopt” papers. Which means even more bureaucracy – and we even have to be fingerprinted – again. We were already fingerprinted to get our foster license but hey, different bureaucracy, eh? *sigh*
btw, During his last visit, I gave the adoptee an old iPod player. I hope that doesn’t scare him away since it was stuffed with a bunch of MP3s from my collection. Like the Birthday Party.
Wow! Congrats, dude. I’m happy for you all.
I wouldn’t worry about the music thing. My kids seem to celebrate my weirdness.
Sounds like things are moving forward nicely! Have the parents’ rights been terminated? If there are any hurdles, that’s usually a big one.
Yessir – parents terminated their rights over a year ago. Our biggest concern is taking him from “the ranch” (aka a Boys home) to our house, since my wife and I are both working full-time during the summer break. My fear is he will go crazy with sweet, sweet freedom – also need time to build trust before he gets the keys to the kingdom (like a car). But so far so good with no major red flags.
Congratulations, and my respect. Good luck to you all.
I suggest random spot checks in the beginning. You or the missus show up at home in the middle of the day “went grocery shopping over lunch break, have to put the milk away.”
If it’s anything like my state (Indiana), you can’t have just anyone stay with him when you’re gone. It has to be someone with a foster license. Building trust takes a long time, in small steps, and there will be setbacks. Let me know how you work things out during the day. When we adopted our first, my wife left her job and stayed home full time.
Will do. That’s going to be the topic of our next big group meeting – that and school. He wants to go for his GED. My wife and I, on the other hand, think he can repeat a year in high school. I don’t think that idea is going to be very popular since he’s hot to get out of “the system”. I’m also looking at vocational programs for him since the rigidity of school doesn’t seem to be his thing, but again I don’t think he ever had the chance to want to learn. I had my brothers to compete against, and my nerdy friends – along with programs for “gifted” (ha! in my case) children.
he’s hot to get out of “the system”
Haven’t even adopted him yet, and he sounds like you raised him from scratch.
Let’s be fair .. he’s still a ways from overthrow the system, which would be a far better indicator.
Explain to him that chicks like older guys with bad boy appeal. He’ll enroll tomorrow.
*hat tip*
Lighten up, those bureaucrats need something to do, and redundant fingerprint-taking fits the bill.
That’s what’s up, HM. Good luck to you weathering the bureaucracy for a truly noble cause.
LH=HM? O.o
Mind=blown.
Eh, close enough.
Congrats LH
thanks, everyone!
CNN played a cut of him giving a lecture before Trump was inaugurated saying that a blind trust was in no way adequate for a businessman to enter public service and that if he really cared he’d have divested everything.
Leaving aside the fundamental idiocy of this position, how the fuck is that even supposed to work? It would probably take ten years for somebody like Trump to “completely divest” his business interests in any sort of fair market value, arm’s length transactions. If he “sold” his share of the business to Ivanka and Kushner, there would be a vast uproar about it being a sham transaction.
And then, we could talk about the tax implications.
Those people are retards. The notion of the selfless public servant who has taken a vow of priestly poverty and chastity is complete and utter bullshit. Even Bernie Sanders knows you can make a pretty comfortable living in politics.
Many of the Founders wanted to put rich men in office so it would be harder to tempt them with bribes.
They’re not worried about people in politics to make money – they’re worried about the possibility of someone who doens’t need to and actually wants to make things better.
Whether or not this accurately describes the current President is immaterial, the potentiality scares them.
^This^
How’s that even supposed to work? Can’t invest through a blind trust, presumably can’t invest directly, so I guess if you are in public office you can’t invest your money in anything at all?
What dumbass. And count on NPR to surround him with more dumbasses who don’t see what a dumbass he is.
Anyone see “Snowden” the movie? Just starting it. Not expecting pure historical accuracy, but hoping that it can at least reach a few people that otherwise hadn’t heard of him.
Yes, I’ve seen it. It looks like an Oliver Stone film, with stuff to make potheads go “woah”. I have no idea how accurate it is, either.
It took Illinois 736 days to come up with a budget? I’m not good at math and get distracted easily but could probably do it in 3 to 4 weeks by myself. Of course people would complain about the result, why do I hate the poor and elderly, etc.
Hey, it ain’t easy making carve outs for all your cronies, creating pipelines to launder the money appropriately and making loopholes for client groups. Very exacting work.
My IL budget: you get a veto, you get a veto, everybody gets a veto!
Texas regularly goes 700 days without passing a budget, but they are only allowed to legislate in odd numbered years, so…
Is that really true?
Iif so, that is the greatest idea ever- except maybe make it every year divisible by 5.
Completely true. With the exception of special sessions (there’s one coming up this year), the TX legislature only meets for a limited number of days every other year. The pay’s crap too – total pay for 2 year term is $41K.
Still one of the best things about Texas. Give ’em less time to screw things up, and they’ll screw up fewer things.
Alright children, as previously mentioned, I’m currently on the hunt for a new job that will allow me to escape Denver. It appears (knock on wood) that offers for jobs in Colorado Springs and Cheyenne may be imminent. I’m well familiar with the Springs and really like it; possible downsides are that it’s growing *almost* as rapidly as Denver and could possibly been Denverized in the near future. Have any Glibs ever lived in Cheyenne that could provide insights?
Continuum is joining the occupying force
(From Haybob’s post above in case you missed it: The Short, Unhappy Life of a Libertarian Paradise – The residents of Colorado Springs undertook a radical experiment in government. Here’s what they got.)
This is the kind of stuff that attracts me to the Springs; it’s an oasis of what I have always considered the “real” Colorado before OMG AMAZEBALLS Millennial progs started flooding in from the coasts to live in Capitol Hill. Aside from the SoCon element, Colorado Springs fits my personality very well. I do worry, however, that state politics driven heavily by Denver will eventually screw over any local control initiatives like the ones outlined above. On that account, Cheyenne would be the better bet.
Canon City was fun 20 years ago, and I could work out of Peublo
They Pronounce it Pee Eb lo,
as opposed to Pu eblo
Well as a European with Wikipedia at hand I can say Cheyenne looks small, boring and in the middle of nowhere
Feature, not bug.
I’ve been there a few times. Nice town, actually. Home a the world’s largest rodeo, I’m told.
Cheyenne Frontier Days. I have been a couple of times, bigger and more rowdy than Sturgis.
I call bullshit. The Calgary Stampede is the biggest rodeo on Earth. Rodeo performers go out of their way to compete there — there’s over $2 Million in prize money to be won, approximately twice the total take for Cheyenne Days.
There is a town there that is actually just a gas station. The owner lives there and incorporated his property as a town with a population of 1.
My brother lived in Laramie for a number of years and loved it. Cheyenne seems like a good compromise between Denver madness and Laramie tinyness.
Only passed through Cheyenne. Good place to buy things to you can’t buy in CO…like fireworks and assault clips.
It is close enough though to ‘civilization’ in case you want to Denver for anything, the airport for instance.
It’s scabs like these two hurting profitability in the porn industry.
http://www.capecodtimes.com/news/20170705/police-arrest-teens-after-report-of-sex-at-dennis-beach
I certainly hope they get at the very least a lifetime on the sex offender registry, teach em a lesson damn rotten kids these days
Hey-yo!
Wait, their evidence is that they were drunk and stumbling around in the water while kissing/hugging? Unless they’re being euphemistic I feel like you’d need more than that if we’re using reasonable doubt here.
Also, would- but not in the water/public.
I can only guess that they may have something more solid than that, or they wouldn’t be prosecuting. Perhaps the Cape Cod times is too genteel to print “We saw defendant #1’s penis entering defendant #2’s vagina while she squealed with drunken, exhibintionistic pleasure.”
Salt water has a way of drying ‘things’ out…
I’d fight the charges. There is no proof that they were doing anything wrong.
They were just hanging out in the water and kissing, not against the law, and they couldn’t hear the lifeguards over the surf, it’s not their fault perverts on the beach assumed they were doing inappropriate activities under the water. Not to mention that it went on long enough that someone could leave the beach, go find a cop, and get him out on the beach before it was over? I call shennanigans, no way 2 teenage boys lasted anywhere near that long. They might have had sex out there but it was probably over before more than a handful of people noticed it
Also…
–“A man with two small children said, “this is disgusting, why is this allowed to go on here,” Turner wrote.”–
Fuck you dude, your two small kids couldn’t see anything and short of your making a big deal over it never would have questioned what was going on as they played in the sand and water.
He probably called it to his kids’ attention: “Oh my God, do you see what they are doing out there? No, not them, those people over there. Yes, them. See what they’re doing? Isn’t that disgusting?”
CNN’s Kirsten Powers: ‘People do not have a right to stay anonymous’
Double down on the stupidity, seems like a good plan.
Meh I don’t think doxxing infringes on rights. It’s a dick move, but still. Then again CNN reporter could use to shut the fuck up a short period of time
Well, here’s the thing: CNN has been talking up decorum and presidentiality and the sanctity of the office wrt Trump; in fact, I heard specifically this argument being used to justify CNN going after the shitposter, because Trump imputed guilt to the sucker by retweeting his gif and so CNN has free rein to out him.
But for some reason, CNN isn’t asked to play by their own rules of professionalism. Somehow it’s perfectly acceptable for a huge media entity to bend its powers to persecuting some anonymous nobody, and the power differential between the two is no big deal.
So Trump, who has never pretended to be anything other than an obstreperous ape, is bound by the imaginary rules of his position to respect the preferences of CNN, but CNN, which presents itself as a high-brow condescending defender of the little guy, gets to act like a troop of baboons going after a pseudonymous redditor.
Bullshit. They wanted a scalp and the Trump administration is unavailing, so they scalped some nobody and claimed victory.
“They wanted a scalp”
Yes, and they also wanted to chill any criticism of their reporting. They are none too bright, however, and are apparently unfamiliar with the Streisand Effect so now we see a tidal wave of anti-CNN memes to the point where #CNNBlackmail was #1 on Twitter until Zucker probably called up his bestie Dorsey and said to put a stop to it.
Yep. For a network that loves to go on about some “chilling effect” or another, they sure had no problem chilling the fuck out of anybody who might think about posting a video mocking them.
Meh I don’t think doxxing infringes on rights.
Kinda depends on why its done, like a lot of things. And keep in mind, they haven’t doxxed him – they have threatened to do so, in order to force him to do what they want. Which actually is, and I think should be in some circumstances, a crime.
Try posting Ms. Powers’ home address, phone number, personal e-mail, etc. and see how much agreement you get.
That’s where she went? She was dumbest person on Fox for a while – and that’s saying a lot.
And by moving from Fox to CNN, she raised the average IQ of both organizations by a point.
That’s a shame since I always considered Powers to be principled and relatively rational for a liberal. TDS is a hell of a drug.
Oh hell no. She would start on the right track, then at the last moment have a brain-fart and revert to standard lib talking points.
Would?
“People do not have a ‘right’ to stay anonymous so they can spew their racist, misogynist, homophobic garbage,”
And how exactly was that gif racist, misogynist, or homophobic?
Well the obvious subtext is that underneath the crudely pasted CNN logo, the person he’s beating up is a black, transgender, disabled, queer, POC, intersectionalized otherkin with 13 fingers. Additionally, Trump is wearing his invisible KKK hood. So, pretty clearly, worse than if Hitler and Satan had a baby.
I thought it was the guy whose wife got appointed to the small business administration…
He apparently posted a lot of other memes that were racist and anti-Semitic, which is what CNN was attempting to blackmail him with. Nobody would have probably given much of a shit if he got outed for the CNN thing. But it sure would be a shame if your boss found out you’re a secret Nazi racist on the internet…
Again, how could CNN know about his other alleged memes until after they doxxed him?
Oh they didn’t, of course. They doxxed him just to be assholes. Smearing him as a racist just gave them leverage.
There’s a couple wrinkles there. Chances are, Trump never retweeted the shitposter. The shitposter never tweeted it in the first place. The version Trump tweeted was a cropped version of the shitposter’s content, which had the audio resynced from the source video.
Kinda looks like CNN went after the most convenient target.
Believe me, I’d be thrilled to learn Podesta signed off on an order for Sid Blumenthal to go shoot the kid. I want to see progressivism ruined and their moderate front, the DNC, burned to the ground by scandal.
Wow, I Gilmore’d myself.
DAMN IT, GILMORE.
I think racist, misogynist, or homophobic is just a standard opening now for progs. It doesnt matter who, what or why the conversation is they just automatically hang that on everyone. It really has no meaning anymore.
So she wouldn’t mind having here address floated out on the intertoobz then, right? You can bet they’ll find out where he lives if his name gets leaked.
I suspect 4chan is on the case, having already threatened to doxx CNN people. How stupid do you have to be to stick your head above the parapet when 4chan has already targeted your organization?
4chan posted a bunch of phone numbers and addresses of CNN people.
I’d argue that “the right to stay anonymous” is a derivative of “the right to privacy,” but whatevs, d00dette. You do you.
Loretta Lynch seems to be getting in deeper. Apparently Comey confronted Lynch about communications with the Clinton campaign staff and got kicked out of her office. Also has some nice digs in there about how the DNC still won’t let the FBI look at the server
Seth Richthe Russians supposedly hacked.The Seth Rich thing really sticks in my craw. That whole incident seems highly suspicious and the more people try to shout down any inquiry into it by screaming “KUNSPIRASY THEERY!!!” the more I think there might really be something to it. I don’t understand why the family isn’t taking more of an interest in it; they seem to just be shrugging and accepting the official explanation of “random violence” unquestioningly. Perhaps they were threatened too?
Fox won’t even let Hannity talk about it.
Some combination of:
1. They are die-hard Progs and don’t want to rock the boat
2. Whoever assassinated their son threatened to do the same to them
3. They got paid off
4. It’s a ghoulish hypothesis based entirely on Assange’s innuendo and (more recently) a flagrant self-promoter’s unevidenced assertions.
Maybe Johnny Cash killed him just to watch a man die.
Not what I read on info wars, commodious. If you can’t believe them, then who can you believe??
HE DISCOVERED THE DNC SECRET PLAN TO TURN PEPE THE FROG GAY!!
I would be willing to accept that if the official explanation addressed any of the oddities of the case. Why was he shot execution style in a safe neighborhood with no evidence of robbery? Unless the work of a serial killer, people don’t just get killed like that for no reason. If they think it is the work of a serial killer and want to keep it hush-hush pending an investigation, I’d accept that too. It just seems so strange the way the story was buried in spite of these inconsistencies.
That neighborhood is anything but safe. Some crackhead panicked and shot him in the back and proceeded to panic again and run away. My buddy lives like three blocks from where he was shot it’s a shithole dude.
There were two assailants, not one.
They were caught on video, yet it has not been released to the public.
No physical description of the perpetrators has been released.
Conspiracy or no, the handling of the case has been quite odd.
I’d also be interested to know why none of the video recordings (and there are a number of cameras around the crime scene) have been referenced or used to try to identify perpetrators. You know, like you see all the time in other crimes, where they show grainy footage of a suspect and ask the public to help identify them.
From what I have seen, there should be plenty of video of the near area to the crime scene that would show passersby, cars, etc. But . . . nothing.
Dude, if you woke up and found your dog’s severed head in your bed you would shut up and accept the official explanation too.
Also, the whole thing doesnt seem suspicious to me at all. It looks pretty clear cut.
Yeah, just saw this: Lynch refutes reports she spoke with Clinton campaign about FBI probe
There’s more, she’s denying that she or her office had any contact with anybody from the DNC about the email investigation. Her lawyer inserted some “best of recollection” weasel words, of course, but it’s basically a flat denial.
So her word against James Comey’s? Let me make some popcorn.
So frustrating how the media buried that so quickly. Lynch meeting Clinton on a private airplane is more evidence of corruption than they have provided in almost a year of muh Russia.
If that had been a product of the Trump presidency they would still be talking about it today. The double standard is appalling.
“CNN reporter punched by WWE meme creators father!”
https://twitter.com/SmugWendys/status/883034834456768514
Wait, what? They won’t release his name (ignoring he did not make what Trump retreated), but they sent a reporter after his dad?
Also, I think this is FAKE NEWS, because I can’t see the wheelbarrow carrying his balls.
I think it’s a ‘fake’ as in repurposed video.
I think that is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen.
“Yeah, and I’m gonna punch you again.”
You couldn’t actually think it’s real, could you?
Fuck, if that was real it would be the top story on CNN, NYT, WaPo, MSNBC, LA Times…
stay out of that guy’s bubble.
^bubble as in personal space, not bubble as in echo chamber
More fun from the diplomatic left.
body armor is so hot right now.
It’s National Bikini Day?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4674190/Liz-Hurley-52-shows-model-figure-red-bikini.html
Liz Hurley will be entirely fuckable well into her 70’s. That woman has been smoking hot for over 34 years at the very least, and no end in sight.
My wife gave me a hall pass for Liz Hurley back in the 90’s. Fat lot of good it’s done me.
Have you even tried man?!?
Commas are important. NTTIAWWT.
This beautiful creature will be 59 next month.
Whoa.
STRONG BLACK WOMAN.
I still fantasize about her from her one appearance on “The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones” (a TV series that was cruelly cut short, BTW). Can’t remember another actress (yeah, I said “actress” — so sue me) who combined the qualities of “pure English Rose,” “highly intelligent” and “smokin’ hot” in her portrayal of Young Indy’s love interest while he was in Britain. Just spectacular. **HEAVY WISTFUL SIGH**
Thought that was yesterday.
Here’s my favourite young ginger, Lisa Foiles, showing us what National Bikini Day is all about.
I salute you, young ‘un.
Gary Numan has a new single out
Album – I was one of the initial PledgeMusic donators – is out in September.
I wish he’d tour here again. One of my favorite musicians.
Diversity is our strength!
https://twitter.com/bbcasiannetwork/status/883340874603802624
I’d be her cousin, if you catch my drift
Racist – let’s go back the West Virginia jokes, that’s much safer.
You can see her problem. Only a cousin would marry such a hideous creature, no doubt.
We used to colonize the world. Now we are being colonized – strength!
Um…. something something settled science?
The best part is the NHS doctor proclaiming that inbreeding is just hunky dory. I’d love to see how the single payer sycophants here in the US would try to square that circle.
Just wait a few years. We’ll get there.
We’re already working on that here in Canada. It should be leaking southwards any day now . . .
It’s the NHS. If they say otherwise, the Royal Family might get upset.
I think the doc is off in his math and/or using stats from native brits and assuming the risks are the same for pakistanis.
If 3% of births are of paki origin, and 30% of genetic anomalies are associated with that 3% of births, doesn’t that make the increase of risk not 2x, but 10x?
And that is assuming all Pakistanis marry their cousins, which I don’t *think* is the case.
Unless they’re also marrying their brothers or something.
Not all, but a significant proportion. IIRC Mark Steyn wrote a piece about this a few years ago, and caught a lot of ‘muh feelings’ pushback about it, but I don’t remember ever seeing a well-sourced rebuttal of it.
My (Indian) wife always says they marry their cousins, but I always took it with a grain of salt, for obvious reasons.
I mean, at least some of them must be intermarrying with Brits, right? Unless they’ve all been reading Jezebel. 😛
Even within Pakistan, there’s a lot of inbreeding, but it is in fact especially pronounced in Britain. I am very surprised the BBC reported on it.
It’s where cultural sensitivity and publicly paid healthcare collide.
Often, a young man will be sent off to Pakistan wen he’s in his early 20’s to “stay with the family” and comes back with a bride 2 months later.
Clearly an arranged marriage. Where did the young man stay? With uncles and ‘close family’. What’s (at least a plausible) explanation for how his parents set up the marriage? The parents are cousins … during the run-up to the wedding festival, how do the bride and groom’s parents get that final chance to vet their new In-law? In a stratified and formalized society like rural Pakistan, that’s only going to happen if the parents-in-law-to-be know each other. With one family in Britain, what connections with the old country can they possibly have?
I’m not an anthropologist, but this doesn’t sound *unusual* for tribal societies that have arranged marriage. It only seems weird because the tribal loyalties are a ‘web’ of homes that span the world. After 20 years, who are you going to have kept contact with in the Old Country? Family. That’s who.
I’m getting a weird feeling of deja vu.
GILMORE’d it. I blame Monocle.
“We’re shocked and appalled!”
– Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt
for Jesse
http://media.al.com/business_impact/photo/Blankenshipp.JPG
from this story…
http://www.al.com/business/index.ssf/2017/07/alabama_roofing_company_giving.html
More lefty racism.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Jezebel/status/883064343272751104
MEh. Yes it’s funny coming from Jezebel, who are all too happy to push Trotskyite race theory most of the time. But they’re saying it because of their disdain for whites in general, which is perfectly in line with Trotskyite dogma. But at the same time, advertisers and movie producers seem to bend over backwards to over-represent the frequency of whites, particularly women, dating and marrying outside of their racial category. Almost as if they’ve got an agenda too…
I swear to God, it’s been almost a decade since I’ve seen the word “nuance” used by somebody who wasn’t in the process of pissing down someone else’s back and telling them it’s raining.
My money is on 4chan.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/07/06/4chanpol-declares-the-great-meme-war-of-2017/
This was linked in the article: This Is The Single Most Complex, Greatest Political Prank In History. Talk about “weaponized autism.”
That’s amazing.
Yet, 70% of Chicago murders remain unsolved.
How they solve murders in Venezuela.
God damn, I really enjoyed reading that blockquote.
Oh, it gets better. Shia then moved the flag overseas, and it took 4chan about a day to steal it again.
Shia then decided to hide out in the most remote location he could. Guess what?
Amazing.
The casual, and apparently justified, claim that they can find a cabin in the Arctic circle from a picture with a few pieces of wooden siding in it is . . . frightening?
Check out Internet Historian’s videos on youtube for a full breakdown of the HWNDU events.
I hadn’t heard this:
After shilling the Clinton/Podesta RUSSIA COLLOOSHUN myth for months, you’d expect CNN would be raking in the eyeballs.
Well, not quite.
I feel like the buried the lede a bit: I am honestly gladdened to learn how few people connect with cable news.
I did not know that MSNBC had overtaken CNN. When did that happen?
They simply prog better than CNN and while hyperbolic, aren’t as phony and weird about it.
They have also hired non-lefty talent recently. However, one of them (Greta) has been dumped.
Remarks by the Vice President at Kennedy Space Center
Phrasing…
It’s really not that hard. Lunar colony -> Mars mission.
Boots on faces…
American boots on the face of Mars
This aspiration can’t die soon enough. Idiotic fetish. At least the moon is a more cost-effective pointless fetish.
Meh. We need something to reach for. If were going to waste money we should at least get something out of it eventually.
/me reaches for another beer.
The Mars habitation fetish is something I just can’t get into. Long term? Sure, I guess. But the recent high aspirations like “human boot on Mars by 2025” are stupid.
We’re not getting anything out of landing humans on Mars that we couldn’t do with unmanned missions for a tenth of the price. All we get out of it is the symbolic gesture and a bunch of engineering problems to solve. ‘Getting something out of’ space travel would require a focus on things like asteroid mining and orbital solar power platforms and the like.
All we get out of it is the symbolic gesture and a bunch of engineering problems to solve.
Following the traditional norms of exploration, we also get title to the whole planet.
Not according to the Outer Space Treaty, you can’t claim national ownership of celestial bodies, they’re ‘collectively the property of all humanity’ and what not. There is, however, a gray area for private companies because they didn’t plan for that.
FAKE TREATY!
What the hell were we thinking when we ratified that?
You didn’t want the Soviet Union to own the moon and build weapons platforms on it?
When we ratified it on January 27, 1967, we were 18 months from the first moon landing. Russia was 40 years and counting.
The N1 program was still around and their lunar program only really started to fall apart in 1968.
When I say ‘get something out of it’ I don’t necessarily mean the primary objective. Solving engineering challenges like this often cause a trickle down effect where the technology finds a real world purpose after it is developed. Maybe they invent some awesome new insulation that lowers our electric bills by 20%. I agree that space exploration could and should be more profit driven but people are going to blow money on it anyway so why not go for the gold and get people on other planets.
Because that’s not ‘the gold’, that’s a pointless waste of money for a symbolic gesture. Engineering solutions with a ‘trickle down’ can be made far most cost effectively than spending billions on what is, at its core, frivolous. Hell, you’d probably make more innovations trying to colonize the bottom of the ocean, and cheaper too.
I can agree here. Look at where the past 20-30 years of human navel-gazing have led us.
Mars right now is a pointless fetish, the Moon and other permanent space habitats however are not.
Then once we have permanent manned stations on Luna, in geosychnonous orbit at at L4 or L5 and have at least prototyped asteroid capture and mining we can look at the feasability of a manned mission to Mars
More Wyoming Knotts, Less Valentine Smiths.
I, for one, wouldn’t mind seeing a boot on Bruno’s face.
This is the Mars I’d like to see get the face-boot.
If he’d said “NASA, get your ass to Mars”, I would vote for him and Trump in 2020.
What did Cydonia ever do to us?