Happy Tuesday. Its Prime Day for those of you who want cheap shit in July. No pictures for you today.
- Here’s a pearl-clutching take on “GHG Emissions”. It turns out that the companies that extract and refine all of the energy, modern feeder chemical building blocks, and other super-useful stuff are responsible for most of it. No shit.
- Paul Ehrlich, going back to the Malthusian well, hoping to be right one day.
- I think I found the root cause of Mrs. Clinton’s loss last November.
- Genius discovers that if you only have to manufacture every other rocket you launch, you can double your launch rate.
For the weary keyboard warrior.
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448 responses to “Tuesday Afternoon Links”
First!
Second!
Do you even work?
Nope. It’s retirement ALL THE WAY, BABY!
/bites into muffin. Stares back.
I hope you saved one for the Moose!
The Moose get the back of my hand.
These Canadian euphemisms…after knuckling the Moose you going to go down on the seal eh?
This doesn’t comment upon one of the links, so it’s not a true First.
I’ll Second that.
You can’t. It’s not a true first.
*narrows gaze*
“Prime day”? Nerds. Its slurpee day.
711 is composite, anyway.
7+1+1 =9
9 = 3×3
3 = 1+1+1
there were 3 wise men
obviously this is a reference to jesus
illuminati confirmed
Holy shit!
I was expecting you to correct my errors and show me the trulluminati-formula
Now that there is some serious tricknology.
• 7 + 11 = 19
• 1 + 9 = 10
• 1 + 0 = 1
1 Prime
7 + 11 = 19 ??
Well if you’re stupid it does. *walks into traffic*
7 + 11 = 18
1 + 8 = 9
9 = stupid
I won’t even blame my public school education.
bacon-magic doesn’t have enough fingers to count 7+11.
I lost them in the meme war ’17. #neverforget
*shivers*
as I found, much to my chagrin, it’s also dress like a cow for free shit at chik-fil-a day today
Seriously? And people are doing it?
People will do anything for a free meal at CFA….
…..says the guy who has taken his kids to eat at dress like a cow day three years running for free food.
what kind of cow costume would suffice?
I mean, if I were interested.
Moo.
A white tshirt with some sharpie stains. Unfortunately u can only go as a holstein. Herford costumes not allowed
Black Cows Matter!
Cow ears or a tail. They’ll accept even minimal effort. A print-out cow mask. A bunch of people put in a lot of effort though.
I work two doors down from a Chik-fil-A and a buddy of mine wanted to meet there for lunch not realizing it was an “event”
Their food isn’t as good as it used to be *shakes fist at cloud* but they hustle to get orders in and out the door; even when they’re slammed it doesn’t take long.
Huh. I could see doing it when the kids are involved (and there’s a 10% chance that at least 1 of my kids is dressed up as cow anyway), but why on a weekday? Ain’t nobody got time for that!
Yup.
Behold!
Full send.
I am narrow gazin’ the first mo fo that even THINKS “How now, brown cow?”
‘How now brown cow’ is my standard response to my girlfriend.
Actually, I just thought this.
Mmm. Mocha cow.
Brown chikin brown cow!
Why not : “Eat more pussy”?
Yep. We’ve done it the last few years. I wore one of their pre-made cow hats with Mrs. Tree and the kids this morning….
it was honestly about a 70% hitrate at my CFA (which is probably 70% moms w/ kids during the summer anyway)
@#()*@ that’s fucking awesome.
its like the perfect recipe for college kids to drop acid and dress like cows.
don’t give me ideas!
And because it’s on a weekday, that’s what they’re going to get.
If its on a saturday you wouldnt get yourfood until tuesday.
I can’t ever remember. Is Chick-fil-a the pro gay or the anti-gay sandwich shop.
The Cathy family that owns Chik-fil-A is/was opposed to gay marriage.
Put your wife in a fat-suit.
This is why there are no female libertarians….
Looks good to me.
I’ll be in my bunk.
legs are starting to go, be a fatty in a few years.
Yeah, she’s ok.
Thanks for sharing, Sargon of Akkad! This is such a stunning specimen of derp that I can’t help but pass it along here and in the upcoming Afternoon Links. I liked it so much, I’ll transcribe it for those disinclined (or unable) to watching videos :
Well stated, Frannie. Great job.
And the Iraq and such.
Can someone explain ‘global capitalism’ to me?
Yes, regular capitalism is when you privately raise the money to build a factory that makes microscopes.
“Global Capitalism” is when some bureaucrat from Belgium grabs that microscope and crawls up your ass with it.
Global Capitalism means “Jews.”
Gold Star for you!
Oh… I see you’ve already got one.
Never mind.
Ooooooohhhhh
/Edith Bunker
State capitalism == national socialism
Global capiitalism == International socialism
‘Free trade’ agreements and ‘neoliberalism’, it’s a progsplaining for “it’s bad because it means we can control you in ways we want to”.
*“it’s bad because it means we can’t control you in ways we want to”.
I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some people out there in our nation don’t have maps and, uh, I believe that our education, like such as in South Africa and, uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should—our education over here in the U. S. should help the U. S., uh, or, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq, and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future, for our children.
Still don’t see what’s the problem. It’s brilliant.
And makes more sense than anything Obama or Hillary ever said.
You’d better be smoking hot if you’re talking like that.
::Spoiler::
She was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww
Sounds like you’re all making it up.
*Looks at top of post, scratches head, wanders off*
From the Morning Links. I didn’t edit this version.
Cenk Uygur/Left-wing Bill O’Reilly is one of the dumbest and most loudmouthed idiot cunts in the modern political sphere. He’s debating Shapiro in awhile. It’s going to be glorious.
I hope Ben brings up the Ottoman genocide against the Armenians.
I think I’ll make rewatching Young Turks melt on Election Night 2016 a monthly treat until I day/get totally demented. With tea and chocolate pudding.
THAT’S BULLSHIT! THAT’S BULLSHIT! YOU’RE RACIST!
it’s the best video on youtube.
American cops having that mentality is a consequence of firearms being so easily obtainable. Any person they pull over for a routine traffic stop could blow their brains out, or attempt to. Any house they go in could have a shotgun barrel pointed at the door. Any crime they respond to could turn deadly for them.
Great, we’ve got copsplainers whining about gun rights in the comments too.
And yet the Second Amendment is older than modern police forces and didn’t justify blowing people and animals away with panic fire until the last couple decades.
Also, things no rural sheriff has ever said: everybody around here is armed, so therefore I need to show up to every house guns blazing.
Whenever I see people going with this line of argumentation, all I can do is smile and say, “Just wait a few more years for 3D printing to really take off.”
I don’t get it. On one hand, you’re against everything Trump is for, on the other hand, ANTI-TRADE WAS OUR IDEA FIRST YOU STOLES IT
Is there literally no one actually advocating for “more trade, more capitalism, greater wealth” etc? Is there nowhere to get a Fuck The Poor T-shirt?
Is there nowhere to get a Fuck The Poor T-shirt?
If you want cotton, I can accommodate that. If you want a polyester blend or a coffee mug, you will have to wait. I am having issues with that printer.
First Google result, intent not what you want though.
“Do shirt come with pretty lady?”
“Law Prof Found Guilty of ‘Sexual Harassment’ for an Exam Question about a Bikini Wax”
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/449364/law-prof-found-guilty-sexual-harassment-exam-question-about-bikini-wax
*scratches Howard University law grads off of list of potential hires*
The takeaway from this is not to get a bikini wax.
Hehehehe….this reminds me of one of the strangest utterances to ever escape my lips: ‘Am I the only damn person in this basement with pubic hair?!’
Not strange for OMWC
Were you in a basement full of children? NTTAWWT.
“Let’s find out!”
(jingle)…It’s Uncle TH’s Puzzle-Box Basement…*begins to whistle*
Bush is Back!!!
I thought George for s ec……
A multiple choice law exam? At the institution which brought us the Brown v. Board of Education litigation team?
Also – and speaking just hypothetically, of course – I wonder if a Republican student could file a harassment complaint if an exam question sets up a scenario of Republicans passing supposedly horrible laws and then asking what constitutional problems those laws would pose?
My first year property professor gave us multiple choice/true false exams but to get full credit you had to correctly explain your answer. If you got the right answer for the wrong reason you received no credit.
I suppose if you gave open response questions to a bunch of potential lawyers you get a wide berth of responses and have more difficulty grading than if you reign it in.
Yeah, I’m far from a lawyer but I suspect that a lot of contradictory case law might make that a nightmare.
I’m not sure if I could explain answers in that class, but if it were Con Law:
“Fuck you, that’s why”
I had two classes in law school that had some sort of multiple choice component. Had a Corporate Tax class that had a fully multiple choice exam and my Civil Procedure class was about 25% multiple choice.
Then again, when you get to the bar exam, the MBE is a major component in every state I know of, and that’s just 200 multiple choice questions.
There’s a whole fucking class just for corporate taxes??
That just added some sturdy reinforcement to my belief that the American tax system is way too complicated.
I have a master’s degree (LLM) in tax law, and all but 1 or 2 of the classes I took for the degree were on corporate tax.
I was told there would be no math.
FIRE is there, as always, complete with their “This is why you’re an idiot, now rescind this before we sue” letter (they haven’t gotten a response yet)
https://www.thefire.org/a-sticky-situation-at-howard-university-brazilian-wax-test-question-nets-professor-a-504-day-title-ix-investigation-sanctions/
“US Post Office spent big OT bucks to cover workers while they campaigned for Hillary”
I’m pretty sure that’s illegal.
Don’t be such a spoilsport!
Actually, its probably perfectly legal, as long as they weren’t presenting as Post Office employees or representatives.
I assume that the USPS workers were taking accrued time off to work on a personal project, which left their employer paying OT to their comrades. Nothing illegal about that.
Fair enough, but I’m surprised given how restrictive campaign finance laws can be, that tax money could be used that way. It’s also a fiscally irresponsible way to run the Post Office.
Were they still fat and lazy? Then yeah, they were presenting as Post Office employees.
My old mailman was pretty ripped, and very tan. And wore sleeveless shirts. You could hear his classic rock before he pulled into the condo complex.
The lady who works my route is a smoking hot Latina chick. Great personality, knows the kids’ names and tries to teach them Spanish, and will hide packages for me if I’m not home. Looks great in shorts in the summer uniform.
If I have to actually go into the post office, there’s a 100% chance that I’ll be dealing with someone who’s the exact opposite of what I just described.
Going to the post office in the middle of the day on like a Wednesday is a miserable experience.
Totally different crafts.
Actually, its probably perfectly legal, as long as they weren’t presenting as Post Office employees or representatives.
Indeed, we had a guy from our national compliance office harp on this all last year. The union is not a .gov agency, its a union.
Does the Hatch Act apply to the USPS? (Not that it wouldn’t be illegal under a different law if it doesn’t apply)
Hmm, headline is misleading. The leave they took was unpaid; the OT is about covering their absence.
You wouldn’t win student council president with Newman campaigning for you.
Good on her.
The woman who had her dogs shot is demanding that the police officer be disciplined because he filed a false report. It doesn’t sound like she’s backing down.
Bad news is that Padden is the lawyer for the family and he sounds like he might be a shady character.
He’s a lawyer; of course he’s a shady character.
How’s Ma Spicer’s case going?
Good for her. But nothing will come of it.
The pant shit handbook says it’s okay for them to shoot dogs because they need to get home safely.
It also says their subjective impression is what matters, so even if what they put in the police report is objectively disproven by video, the police report wasn’t “false”.
+1 “I felt a bag of green, leafy substance in his pocket”
Is that a bag of green, leafy substance in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
To pick on part of her quote, I think the transition in normal-speak from “peace officers” to “law enforcement officers” pretty much exemplifies what went wrong.
The War on Drugs spilled over into becoming The War on All.
Local news had a retch-worthy report on the funeral for the NYC cop who was executed. One of the speakers referred to cops as “peace officers” (Eric Garner probably wouldn’t agree) and another suggested we should all hug a cop.
And this was on at the dinner hour.
Its a blatantly false report, as demonstrated by the video (which the cop obviously had no idea was being taken). No wonder the cops haven’t released the bodycam video.
Confident prediction of consequences when a cop is caught red-handed: None. Zip. Zero. Nada.
No paid vacation? What’s this world coming to?
Shouldn’t having his name on on published paper be complete poison?
He was right, they just need to find the data to prove it.
“Gerardo Ceballosa,1, Paul R. Ehrlichb,1, and Rodolfo Dirzob”
Be careful. There are three of them now.
I actually didn’t see very good deals today on Prime. I got a 5 pack of grill mats. That’s it.
I’ve never been impressed with prime day.
Remember, some stuff like TV’s are unique to prime day, so they aren’t even on sale.
It’s like the drills they sell at home depot, they look identical, but they have a different serial number and different parts inside.
Serial numbers are also prime numbers. Look into it, it’s true.
*explosion noises*
Are you talking shit about Ryobi? You can take my green drill from my cold, dead hands.
And yes, they are rebranded:
http://ryobi.com
“ATTENTION CONSUMERS OF RYOBI-BRAND PRODUCTS IN NORTH AMERICA
Ryobi-brand power tools and outdoor products are sold, distributed and serviced in North America through third-party licensees of the Ryobi® trademark”
Milwaukee 18V brushless.
I also have this. Very nice. I like my makita as well.
I have an ancient Makita 9.6v that refuses to die. It holds a place of reverence in the garage.
Fein and Panasonic, winners of the most exorbitantly expensive, yet incredibly reliable power tools.
Festool should probably be in that discussion, as well.
I love my Festool stuff, but my bank account does not.
Does it have a battery that looks like a 30 round glock mag?
festool is craaaaazy expensive.
Nope. Next gen. I had one of those, too, but killed it long ago.
I had a red one that died eventually. Although I had it a very long time. Then I had the battery replaced. Then it died shortly afterward.
My dad still has a mostly strong one of them. The batteries are just dying to quickly now. I think the drill might be stronger though.
One day, I will own a Festool track saw.
That day is not today.
The track saw is the best. I use that more than anything else from Festool.
I’d kill for the Festool Track Saw. And at the prices they’re selling for at Lee Valley, I’ll probably have to.
I love my Makita impact drill.
That’s a helluva ‘marital aid’!
I was more referring to dewalt. They replace some metal parts with plastic ones, then that serial number gets a -HD at the end.
They are cheaper for a reason.
Some TV’s last year were cheap, but they had a different # than the entire line that I could find from the manufacturer, or even Amazon a few weeks prior. None of the ones from my lists went on sale, but some ones that looked like it did. I can’t tell if they were genuinely different, but it sure felt like they were made just for prime day.
We do the same thing at the hardware store on our ‘tent sale’. It’s all different than what we normally have.
Paslode >> Ryobi
Just go with Bosch. My Bosch stuff refuses to go belly-up. Even the batteries lasted for eight or nine years before they finally wouldn’t hold a charge any more.
Bosch or GTFO, plus the small Makita’s. The little Makita’s are handy itmes. All the replacement batteries suck ass these days though.
*at times
Prime Day is empty out the warehouse day.
TV’s usually are skimping on the extras. Fewer HDMI ports, no component inputs, stuff like that.
“Fee-stool” “Pass-Load” — These power tool names are making me giggle.
Suthenboy on YouTube
I found the follow up video
This was in the sidebar.
You know, at times I almost feel like Walt Disney didn’t have a good grasp on how animals really interacted in the wild.
Nature is fucking brutal for starters.
I was thinking about putting a hive in my yard. What’s the likelihood of being stung to death when I mow?
Get a goat.
Are you looking for honey? or just pollination?
Both. I have a large garden. I guess I’m just looking for one more project to consume my waking hours.
Honey bees are pretty calm, they will only attack if they think you’re going after the hive.
Decent at pollination, but lots of honey. Hives are large.
Another option is leafcutter bees. They are better for pollination. No honey. They also stay a lot closer to home.
I don’t know if honey bees and leafcutters can live side by side.
leafcutters are also practically pacifists.
I’ve looked into this a little -very little- and learned that there are other native options that require less care, but are great pollinators. (Honey bees are a European import) I can’t remember any species off the top of my head, but google “native pollinators” or something along those lines..
Here is one site I somehow hadn’t yet run across and added to my favorites:
http://www.nativepollinator.com
Yeah European bees are pretty much all I would want. If I and my family are likely to get stung every time we stroll through my gardens those bees better damn well be productive assets. None of those aggressive Africanized bees or the middle eastern variants will be welcome inside my privacy fence.
Gross. Communist immigrant bees pushing out better suited solitary local pollinators because of your selectively pro-immigration policies.
Why do you hate American bees?
jesse, I’m sure they’re here on H1-Bees.
Nice work everyone.
vespa mandarinia japonica
Make things interesting.
Surprisingly not an Australian species.
Well, a wise man once said, “Nature is fucking brutal for starters.”
ha ha, astute observation.
Zero. Don’t spend a lot of time close by. Just cut and move on. You’ll be fine.
I’d like to offer you a consultant’s position at Free Society’s Honeyfarm and More. The pay is shit but you can work from home.
holy hell, people in northern wisconsin talk funny. Cracks me up.
Yeah, but supper is scrumdillyishious!
That it is
You hit-up a Supper Club, Archie?
Wait until they talk about the bubbler.
Is that because the 1988 Hansen Congressional testimony was so compelling and accurate?
It sounds like it was written by a 7th grader pretending to be a lawyer.
China is culturally appropriating Silicon Valley’s funding of startups that make no financial sense:
Hmm…30MM new umbrellas @ $8.82 each = $264MM. Sounds like they’re going to need to raise a B round soon.
So….people steal all 300K umbrellas – and he figures if they dump 30M more out there that this time it will be OK?
“Hey, the first round sated all the thieves!”
I can tell Swissy is getting ready to issue a new policy to a particular Shenzen company.
I see the logic — flood the market with umbrellas so no one needs an umbrella so no one will steal the umbrellas!
I just said what Swiss did but in a totally worse way. I am disappoint in myself.
They should have tried it in Cherbourg.
Alan Gura gets progsplained to about gun rights and the Heller decision by Ezra Klein fan on Twitter.
Lol
That “VictoryRed” is sharp like rainwater.
reading VictoryRed’s twitter feed.. not seeing the prog. more someone pontificating above their weight class mixed metaphors hot sex.
/subliminal man
What the fuck is prime day? Should I be ordering a bunch of stuff?
Also- speaking of Amazon, I bring you a public service announcement.
Lexx is on Amazon
I watched Episode One last night. I had never seen it. Some things were made slightly more comprehensible. Stanley Tweedle is my kind of hero.
It’s stood on its own as high quality cult cheeseball sci-fi. Agree.
I’m already into the 2nd season.
I’m more partial to the mega-cheeseball “Tales From a Parallel Universe” first season from before the modified cast hit SciFi.
Prime Day is deals for prime members. You have to have Prime to get the deals. I do not currently have Prime, so I am not getting the deals. Some of the deals are probably great while the others are probably for dumb stuff not many people need.
Lots of dumb stuff.
I only need one lime juicer, and I’ve had it for 20 years. But OMG 70% off!!!!!
I scrolled through a bunch of stuff and managed to not buy anything. I’m a little disappointed.
Very disappointed. Do they think I’m going to wait for a special occasion to buy light bulbs?
It’s basically overstock day.
How the fuck did Lexx manage to become one of Canada’s major cultural contributions to the world? I’ve seen people bring it up in the most random of places.
I don’t know. Obviously, Canada’s major cultural contribution to world is William Shatner. But Lexx had a totally wtf cast of characters, including a hot sex slave, so there’s that.
I mean, Shat is the man, but… come on.
Hot sex slave was damn fine, and we need more characters like that in Canadian shows. For diversity.
Second City Television was funny, but it was only on U.S. network TV for a short time.
Let’s not forget the Red Green Show.
Lexx?
I need to get out more.
Is that Canada’s answer to Red Dwarf, but with tits?
Not really, it’s more just bloody weird than anything else. There’s some major events in the seasons that make it both pretty unique and WTF.
Red Dwarf, but with tits
This doesn’t exist.
Why doesn’t this exist?
MUH PATRIARCHY!!!!!
An all-girl Red Dwarf. Rimmer is a snippy, bitchy hologram of some hot blonde, Lister is her slovenly ex-bunkmate who dresses slutty and teases Rimmer with bisexual advances, the cat is some Japanese cosplay catgirl played totally straight, Holly is… just chick Holly, and Kryten is Seven of Nine.
That was basically already an episode.
+2 big, healthy, bouncy baby boys.
I haven’t watched the whole series all the way through, and it’s been a couple years… I think I knocked off shortly after they picked up Kryten from the asteroid or moon or wherever he was stranded.
Crowdfunded instantly.
I got a Bostitch compressor and hoses for under $100, but it wasn’t on Prime Day.
Your nut un-punch of the day.
Of course, the union is all in on its “brothers and sisters” not being used as pawns for the administration. Turds.
“Mayor Ginther — who twice spoke about this case, once before the completion of any investigation and without reviewing any of the enhanced video, and again just prior to Officer Rosen’s hearing before the safety director — essentially directed the director, as his appointee, to fire this officer.”
We’re supposed to (a) believe this is true and (b) think it’s shocking if true.
I don’t know about (a), but if it *is* true what’s so shocking about the chief executive of a city firing a member of the city staff?
A city run by a labor agreement with a public-sector union, allowing unelected arbitrators to set public policy, does not have a republican form of government as guaranteed by the U. S. Constitution.
Detroit Tigers superstar Miguel Cabrera voices support for the opposition in his native Venezuela and reveals that he’s been extorted by threats of harm to his mother, who still lives there:
Did he complain about strikes there too?
*polite applause*
He’s got balls!
jesus.
the police or criminals
Given the state of Venezuela now, you’re probably better off dealing with the latter.
WRECKER! KULAK!
and not knowing if they “are the police or criminals”
Is there a difference?
Stepping onto hostile turf and reporting on Minneapolis News again, your Tuesday Afternoon nut-punch
http://www.startribune.com/city-of-st-anthony-officer-jeronimo-yanez-part-ways/433691813/
The officer who murdered Philando Castile is getting $48,500, plus payment for his 600 hours of accrued leave (how much leave do officers accrue?) to “voluntarily” leave his position as officer. He will of course be free to do his pants shitting wearing a different uniform one county over.
Christ…..when I was laid off in 2008, I got one month’s pay. Guess I should have shot someone to death in a panic!
I wonder how much shit like this motivates officers to be extra jumpy. Knowing in the back of your mind that there is very little chance of being held accountable and a very good chance of being compensated handsomely has to contribute to an officers willingness to fire at the first sign of (perceived) danger.
I managed to swamp out most of the sand from my private areas, so I’m not so grumpy today. But don’t go getting comfy reading about our nut punches.
Oh man, the proggies are really going full bore with the Trumputin Treason!!! today. The rhetoric has been kicked up to 11. They are really going to be dissapoint when nothing comes of it.
It doesn’t meet a single part of the definition of treason. But I’m hearing that a bunch as well.
You have to wonder how long they can keep this up for.
I’ve noticed in the comments section of the SF Chron that they have shifted from calling anyone not completely on board with the Russia! narrative traitors instead of just merely dumb rubes.
It’s mind boggling that they’re ignoring the Kushner/Qatar kerfuffle, which actually has merit, and choosing to focus on complete bullshit.
From huffpost:
OoooooOoOOOOooohhh
Kaine is a worthless fuckstick. I can’t wait for someone to challenge him for the Senate.
Good thing he isn’t feeble heartbeat away from being President.
No, it would have been Weekend at Hillary’s.
Uh… one of these things is not like the other.
Perjury and lying to investigators, certainly. In fact, probably. Someone’s going to end up getting nailed for one of those. That’s how the FBI operates, they’ll get you on lying about the crime even if no crime happened.
But throwing “treason” in there tells me the guy is talking out of his ass, and is in fact an ass.
It’s just their new buzzword, and it’s just as well understood as their other buzzwords like “stand your ground”.
Yeah, the dog woke me up to go out earlier and I skimmed Reddit and laughed before going back to sleep. I seriously wonder when the amnesia about the twenty billionth thing that’s finally going to be THE EPIC TAKEDOWN AND IMMINENT IMPEACHMENT OF DRUMPF is going to start wearing off.
At the current rate, at 11:59 AM on January 20, 2025.
Well, it’s only a matter of time. I mean, Samantha Bee literally destroyed Trump’s party with a tweet last year.
Actually this is Canada’s greatest contribution to the world. Rekt.
what has them in a tizzy this time?
Trump laid a log that’s shaped like a Russian bear.
I guess thats better than laying a bear that’s shaped like a russian log.
How about laying a Russian bear hung with a log?
The Trump Jr. meeting with a Russian lawyer last year has finally given them their “smoking gun.”
hm.
Meeting aRussian who says she has dirt on Hillary IS literally treason. We are not permitted to talk with Russkies!
I’m reading the tweets on Donnie Jr’s twitter feed. It is fraking hilarious.
” Erick FernandezVerified account @ErickFernandez 7h7 hours ago
You got so angry back in July of last year (6 weeks after your meeting) when asked if Russia wanted your dad to win”
Do these retards actually think that any of the people supplying opposition research aren’t selling to both sides?
I’ve been seeing the war drums banging more and more at the WSJ about North Korea. I don’t really understand why we should care about NK. Isn’t that Asia’s shitstorm problem?
What’s the downside to telling NK, look we’re done here… no more sanctions or threats. However, if you ever send a missile close our borders or we find out you supplied nukes in an attack against us, we’ll turn your entire country into a sheet of glass whether the attempt succeeded or not. Then pull out of South Korea and let them handle their own defense. Or let SK pay every bit of the cost, and then some, for our military to protect them. As a side note, I’ve though these kind of arrangements might be the solution to funding the military without needing taxes.
Is NK that strategically important that this soviet-era farce needs to be continued?
I’ve been avoiding the WSJ for a few weeks now. I’m not sure why, but they’re bothering me.
The quality of the reporting has gone down quite a bit. I even occasionally see references to the Russians stealing the elections stated as fact. Not sure what’s going on over there.
I don’t really understand why we should care about NK. Isn’t that Asia’s shitstorm problem?
Basically the same argument as Iran but dumber, i.e. they’ve got a nuclear program and a missile program and they hate America so therefore first chance they get they’ll launch a Taepodong 3 missile with a nuclear warhead on par with the Hiroshima bomb at Seattle because those godless foreigners don’t understand the concept of self-preservation. There’s at least arguments to be made that a nuclear armed North Korea is clearly bad in terms of foreign policy, but instead we get idiot stories by neocons and warmongers about how they’re going to launch a nuclear EMP satellite or something.
Let’s suppose the Norks are capable of launching missiles that will hit the U.S. What exactly are we going to do about it?
We can’t invade North Korea. Even if they weren’t backed by China, they’d level Seoul in the opening states of our invasion.
They’re already ostracized and sanctioned. What will more and harder accomplish?
Do we antagonize China over it? That’s fun but it won’t come cheap.
…?
This. We can readily win, but in no scenario does Seoul survive the effort.
Depends on your definition of survive. For a variety of reasons.
1: the ‘hundreds of thousands of South Korean civilian casualties’ is probably way overstated. For one thing, most of Seoul is not within artillery range for most of the artillery tubes NK has behind the DMZ. Moreover, NK doesn’t have very many of the systems (203mm MLRS, 170mm Koksan gun) that can reach Seoul proper. Attempts to model just how devastating an artillery attack will be, estimate that the number of civilian casualties will be in the 1-10 thousand range. “Uh, depending on the breaks.” Still something the South Koreans would prefer to not happen.
2: Assuming the NK government is overthrown, and reunification occurs, the costs associated with that are estimated (with “Holy fuck these are huge!” error bars) at around 1.5 trillion USD. Basically, take what happened to the German economy over the 90s and 00s and multiply it by 10 to 20.
That said, how much is it going to cost the US when we continue kicking the can down the road, Kim builds up a deterrent of 50 or so road-mobile, single-stage ICBMs and a few of them get lobbed at the US? Or Japan.
A nuclear detonation over a major Western city, even a small one, is going to be a public health disaster on par with the Boxing Day tsunami. Maybe even the 1970 Bangladesh Cyclone. Lots of things are worth doing to minimize the chances that some psychopath has the opportunity to inflict that kind of harm on your country.
Oh, my link is to a report from the Nautilus Institute, a think tank that has quite a few reports on this and other East Pacific geopolitical situations. Worth your time, IMHO, if you’re interested in this subject.
Basically the only option is to try and negotiate a Gaddafi-style deal where they drop their program in exchange for dropping sanctions, not messing with their shit, etc. The problems are that Gaddafi was way more willing to trade his program for other benefits than the North Koreans are, and thanks to the Libyan intervention everyone knows the United States is full of shit when it comes to these deals.
Now regime change has potential, and might further this option as well. I uphold that if it was Kim Jong-nam that was in power now the program would already be scrapped and there’d be at least some liberalization going on a la the PRC. But we’re basically going to go nowhere with Jong-un.
This is Scott Adams’s proposed solution. Quote from it:
Nifty, if you think the Kim’s children will accept that sort of exit strategy. Or trust the US and China to fulfill their obligations.
The impetus behind the current war drums with NK is that he’s perceived to be easily crazy enough to push the button if: he’s going to be deposed and die anyway OR it happens by accident during various rounds of saber-rattling to obtain enough foreign aid to avoid starving enough of his populace that he gets deposed and dies.
First half at least has potential, second half is stupid and won’t work. It’s up in the air whether South Korea will agree to do anything involving reunification because they don’t want to cover the trillions of dollars it would take to fix North Korea. Secondly the North Korean leadership is not going to agree to anything where the South Koreans just take over the government. They’ll want a system that still grants them a degree of power and influence, which means immediately infesting the new system with some brand of Juche-style communism/socialism. That makes Korea worse, not better. Adams is treating it like a company merger when it’s nothing of the sort.
Look at how wonderful Germany’s going due to the influence of East Germans. Multiply that by a hundred if you let the North Korean hierarchy retain their influence.
We’re not disagreeing at all. I was making some of your points above, in a response to Scruffy. 3T USD, now? Wow.
Further, AIUI, the younger you poll in SK, the less enthused they are about re-unification.
That said, this is rapidly becoming an intolerable situation. Other countries with nukes, or thinking about joining the nuke club, are IMHO more stable and respectful of international norms than NK. I don’t realistically expect the Iranians to try and attack the US, even if their regime collapses in Green Revolution 2.0. Attacking US forward-deployed forces, sure—they’ve done that since about ’05 in OIF—but not US cities proper. (Too busy worrying about the Saudis or Israelis attacking them by mistake)
NK is different. Even if Kim doesn’t have the aim of pushing the button, he’ll provoke and sabre rattle right up to that line, if the aid checks aren’t large enough to keep him alive. Accidents happen. How many times have the US and Soviet Union/Russia nearly pushed the button by accident on each other? Even with trillions of dollars of safeguards, early warning systems, massive hardening to avoid a surprise decapitation or successful counter-force surprise attack. None of which NK can reasonably do.
At Seattle? Can we send them back a gift basket?
Yeah I don’t see the problem
I understand Iran better because they are directly tied to terrorist organization actively plotting to annihilate the test. It also forms a core foundation of the leadership’s beliefs and probably also a large percentage of the population though I understand not all Iranian’s feel these way.
The Norks though… I don’t have a deep insight which is why I threw this question out there… but would think they’d be occupied with countries closer to NK. I would also imagine China and some other countries greatly appreciate the pains America goes to keep NK focused on us. I guess it’s kind of like being direly worried about an eight year old kid armed with a baseball bat in the next neighborhood over.
*quite a few misses there. Let’s just stay West not test and leave the rest.
Hold the phone, I’ve just been convinced that capitalism doesn’t work
*orders antifa t-shirt/doo-rag combo from Amazon*
I’m seeing lots of “Your post was removed because it contained a slur.”
That subreddit is literally, explicitly a Marxist safe space. Look at the rules on the sidebar.
Don’t forget your man bun
Lol.. It’s precious how they complain about Apple design decisions, while they have hundreds of other manufacturers to choose from.
I wonder how would they like a computer mouse designed by Kim Jong-un as their only choice, and only be able to get one if they happen to be in the top 100 party members. Meanwhile their entire family are starving to death, trying to survive by eating actual mice in some distant province.
Not going to post the ad because you heartless cut throat capitalist shitlords will undercut me, but what’s fair for a 1920s Winchester 1894 .32WS in fair to sub-fair condition?
Bluing is almost all gone, stock has a decent size chunk out of it, but it shoots and the bore is still in good shape.
I’ll give ya $5 dollars for it.
/pawnstars
Let me call my guy who specializes in $5 offers
This isn’t a particularly rare artifact, but since its in working condition, more likely to be of interest as a museum piece.
Now, I am not one that gets into the question of retail value, but I can confirm that it is a rifle.
I’d guess $50-$75 just because it shoots. The question is what’s it worth to you?
You should ask Suthin’. I think he owns quite a few ’94s.
Are you buying or selling?
That is about 400 – 450 bucks. It is also well worth the money
Buying. And that’s what I wanted to hear. Looking at two now in relatively the same shape. One is .32 one is 30-30. .32 is $600 (he didn’t seem keen on haggling, so I’m probably going to leave that one alone), currently bidding on the 30-30 and hoping it stays below $500
The prices on gunbroker are insane. 450 to several K. And what the fuck does “pre-64” have to do with anything when it’s not describing a Model 70?
Another price guide says 200-450. Your guess is as good as mine.
Give me a day, and I’ll go look it up in one of the dead tree firearms values guides.
pre-64 to denote that it was manufactured before 1964. In 1964 Winchester cut cost across the board on their rifles. I understand they got better in the 80s, but the 60s and 70s rifles are considered of poorer quality.
Oh, I’m aware of the premium pre-64 brings to the Model 70. I had just thought it was a re-design unique to that particular product, not something that held true across all of Winchester’s lines.
Thanks, learned something new today.
“Paul Ehrlich, going back to the Malthusian well, hoping to be right one day.”
Is that the well that has arsenic in it instead of water?
No, it has lead, which stunts your mental development.
A senior citizen friend posted on Facederp one of those hyperbolic rantings by someone about “kids these days” – about how they’re not independent and they have no problem being dependent as long as they get more fancy stuff. I replied “It’s hard to teach your kids independence when the threat of being locked in a cage by the government is ever-looming” and posted Google results of parents being arrested for letting their kids play outside.
She said “yeah, nobody is allowed to spank their kids anymore!”
That double boom was my point breaking the sound barrier over her head.
I didn’t know Bender had Facebook.
The other factor is that is it’s fucked up Boomers and Generation X raising said kids. Lena Dunham is a product of her idiot prog parents.
Gas the Millennials!
Generation war now!
I guess Titor and I have to play the french resistance in this war?
Who else is one? Los?
Don’t worry, the Boomers will tucker themselves out after the first two hours of genocide and need a nap, and Generation X will be too busy listening to oldies stations and remembering the Smashing Pumpkins song they lost their virginity to. That’s when we strike.
It was the Offspring, actually.
BILLY CORGAN had kids !!!??? Must be with Courtney Love he is just a sucker with low self esteem.
*pages Swiss to the courtesy phone*
The offspring are playing this in a few weeks close to where I live. I’m considering attending. That would be fun. They are playing with Sublime. I don’t know who they have singing for them.
Zombie Bradley. Should be epic.
I was never a huge Offspring fan, but I saw them at, I think, a Warped tour , or something, in the mid 2000s. They were probably the tightest band I’ve ever seen. You could tell they played together a lot. I was impressed.
Meanwhile Millenials will be so engrossed in posting memes about the war that all the other generations commence to opening cans-o-whoopass upon them.
Ah, but see, that’s to our advantage in the long run. The Millennials who are posting memes and starring at their cellphones will be purged as the more competent thrive and strike back.
And from the fires of war will be forged a new Millennial race, one of courage, intellect and strength, to make the world their own!
The Millennials who are posting memes and starring at their cellphones will be purged as the more competent thrive and strike back.
And from the fires of war will be forged a new Millennial race, one of courage, intellect and strength, to make the world their own!
Well, Thirty Tyrants has a nice ring, even if we end up having to round up.
You meant to write “And from the depths of the basement their will rise a new Millennial race, one of cravings, ineptitude and stupidity, to ask someone else to make the world theirs.”
*there
The upstart breakfast thinks Millennials are defined by upper middle class spoiled urbanites. But those of us in the rural and lower classes are made of sterner stuff.
The Millennials disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing Boomers and Xers. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Millennial revolution. They have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.
If you start singing “We shall overcome” dubstepped it will surely help.
Do not underrate the potential of weaponized dubstep.
Thanks for giving up the strongest and healthiest 60% of the armed forces, we appreciate it.
Hah, I clicked that expecting a clip from The Breakfast Club.
Big companies to slow down internet tomorrow in protest of other companies being able to charge them for services they use.
I seriously can’t believe how big this scam has gotten and how they were able to fool so many people into thinking this is some free speech issue. People are basically saying “This internet is fine now, we don’t need it improved.” This is the most even handed article I could find.
Who do I talk to at google or whatever to get them to not do this stupid shit?
BWHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAAAAAAaaaaaaaa…. ha
That’s funny.
This is for you.
Nice. Good one.
I was half expecting
“Oh, you were serious.”
Net-neutrality was a brilliant PR move by those seeking to impose government control on the internet. Take something that sounds good (“protect the internet from favoritism”) and use it as a stalking-horse for the government getting its claws into the thing. It’s sad that so much of the content-side of the internet has lined up to use the government as a club with which to beat the infrastructure-side. Once the government get’s to define “neutral”, it will of course define it in such a way as to advantage its favorites.
When talk of “net-neutrality” first came down the pike I was so confused who were the statist assholes and who wasn’t. I think it was just being explained poorly form the start. For one thing, I didn’t know whether being “pro-net-neutrality” meant supporting the government sticking their dick into it or just the opposite. For another thing, the people crying about ‘muh internets’ were describing a scourge of ISPs all around the world seizing and controlling everyone’s internet access to dictate content et cetera, except that it’s never happened anywhere.
tyrannical despots notwithstanding
Google? That’s ok; I use DuckDuckGo anyway.
I do use Amazon, but I don’t believe I’ll need to order anything tomorrow, and even if I do and the slow speeds bother me, I’ll just use eBay instead.
Hey, remember when I praised Canada’s Beloved State Broadcaster for having that one not-retarded article?
Back to business as usual
Not pasted – a passionate “Muh Hilary did nuffin’ wrong”.
Woke as fuck, you’d think Democrats gave them extra $50 million a year, not PM Zoolander.
You know, Ms. Urback, passive aggressive whining is not widely considered a good form of journalism.
That’s your opinion. I follow the rising star of Robby “The Hair” Soave.
Motherfucker’s so egotistical he actually lists ‘part of Forbes’ top 40 under 40′ on his Twitter.
“Forbes Magazine: The Industry Leader In Barrel-Bottom Retrieval”
And this isn’t fake news.
Not taking to give is the same as taking. Or something.
John McCain has some answering to do. Sen. McCain Faces Questions In Trump Dossier Lawsuit.
I was going to hope this ends his career but being one of the Keating Five didn’t so this won’t come close.
From your link:
McCain has been trying to throw a monkey wrench into Trump’s attempts to forge a working relationship with Putin since Trump started campaigning on the issue months before. Once Trump was elected, McCain went into overdrive, and he gave the dossier to Comey.
Comey has publicly stated that he went public with confidential information in the hopes of getting an independent prosecutor sicced on Trump. Listening to McCain say that he gave this information to the head of the FBI because he wasn’t sure about its veracity is like listening to someone claim he wasn’t trying to shoot his wife–he just meant to take out a fly that landed on her head.
I’m just an innocent, bystander! Just a little ol’ honest maverick from Arizona. I had no idea Comey was out to get the president! I was getting tortured in Vietnam while you were crapping your diapers, m-kay? You can’t handle the truth!
John McCain has been interrogated by worse than plaintiff’s attorneys in a defamation lawsuit, and I have always had respect for what he did for his country.
But no matter what John McCain says, I do not believe that he and Comey didn’t have a conversation about what the dossier said and what Comey was going to do with it.
The guy is a rat and always has been.
Entropy will end his career before this.
The Donald Trump, Jr. emails are highly explosive.
The one that’s got everyone up in arms:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/07/11/donald-trump-jr-s-emails-about-meeting-a-russian-government-attorney-annotated/?utm_term=.d33c8119459c
I have to admit that this looks . . . damning.
I can think of a couple of ways to answer it–just off the top of my head:
1) An email informing the Trump campaign of what Russian intelligence has done in regards to Hillary Clinton is the opposite of evidence that the Trump campaign was colluding with Russian intelligence before the fact. If you send me an email telling me that you robbed a bank as if I had no idea you’d done such a thing, that isn’t evidence that I knew beforehand. To the contrary, it suggests I didn’t know anything about it until after you’d already done it.
2) That campaigns get offered unsolicited dirt on the opposition probably isn’t unusual, and since there’s so much dirt floating around about Hillary Clinton, they may have had to set up a phone bank just to handle them all.
If you’re calling to report Hillary having taken money from a foreign government through the Clinton Foundation, please press 1.
If you’re calling to report the Hillary Clinton campaign sending thugs to instigate violence at Trump rallies, please press 2.
If you’re offering to hand over all the missing emails from Hillary’s server, please press 3.
. . .
Regardless, it does appear that Russian intelligence offered the Trump campaign dirt on Hillary, and considering that this email was turned over by Donald Trump, Jr. himself, arguing about its provenance is a dead issue.
The interpretation of what we’re reading remains key. This could be considered evidence of collusion, but it’s circumstantial evidence; i.e, this doesn’t show the Trump campaign colluding with Russian intelligence before the fact.
Is it evidence that the Trump campaign has been bullshitting us about what it knew and its contacts with Russian intelligence?
Answer: prolly
Option 3: This was a setup by Hillary/DNC as insurance in case she didn’t win, so her Russia collusion bullshit actually had traction. I can send anyone an email claiming anything I want. My understanding is that they actually got nothing out of the deal when push came to shove.
Option 4: They were offering Hillary shit on Donald Trump too.
It appears that Putin went on a rampage and had everyone in Russian intelligence associated with the dossier assassinated, murdered, executed, whatever you want to call it.
There was a big purge in the Russian security services after the dossier came out, and key people kept turning up dead under the usual circumstances.
It’s all tea leaf reading, here, but it isn’t it likely that Russia has a deep state, too?
I can dig up the story if you need to see it, but Putin has had it out for Hillary on a personal level ever since his last election. Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State publicly questioned the legitimacy of Putin’s election, called out election fraud, etc.–which was stupid and foolish and very, very, neocon.
Putin hated her for questioning the legitimacy of his election, and it appears to be personal.
Long story short: It may be that there were two operations ongoing. One by Putin himself, who genuinely wanted to see Hillary Clinton lose, and another operation that was going on by elements within the Russian intelligence services–who wanted to see Hillary win.
Putin may have killed every intelligence officer associated with dossier inside Russian borders. He almost certainly killed the guy in charge. When Putin assassinates or murders these guys, he usually does in such a way that it’s publicly known that Putin did it.
What’s the point in making an example out of somebody if no one knows you’re making an example of him?
That’s why you use polonium or whatever.
The motivation I could see for Putin wanting Hillary to lose is two fold. First, Hillary seemed determined to use foreign policy strife with Russia to distract and deflect from her gigantic domestic corruption issues. Which is fine—the Reagan Administration deliberately tried to provoke the Soviet Union throughout the 80s as a way of keeping the Soviets off-balance—but does Hillary strike you as competent enough to do that? Without ham-fistedly going about it in such a way as to provoke a no-shit shooting war? Me neither. Tl;dr: Hillary could easily start a brush fire war with Russia to try and cover up what a shit bag she was at home, and Putin didn’t want a war with the US.
Second, Hil was likely to double down on supporting whatever rebel group in Syria kicked out Assad. Which is neither here nor there, but it would allow the construction of that Qatari pipeline to Europe that would undercut Gazprom. Which would undercut Russia’s economy, since they don’t sell much else. As Putin running Russia has been analogized to a Mafia boss running his family, what happens when the boss’s screw-ups cause everyone else to stop earning? A bad steak dinner, a lot of the time.
Sure has a ‘Nigerian Prince’ vibe about it, though…
Politician lies, dog bites man. News at 11.
In this morning’s links I put Iowahawk’s reaction, which was basically “Who’s going to shoot themselves in the foot more over this: The Trumps or the media”? So far it’s the media, again (though not without effort by some on Trump’s side, especially Trump Jr for putting that e-mail up. And I don’t care if he did it because he thought the NYT was going to do it instead. It was still stupid.)
I appreciate the sentiment that politicians lying during campaigns about what they know is standard stuff.
I’d like to think people take me more seriously if they see that I call it straight even if it makes someone I like look bad.
. . . I should add, what I like about Trump is his foreign security policy moves (so far) and his deregulation, promise to overhaul the corporate tax code, and his attempts to cut Medicaid.
I can point out reasons I like him because the reasons I don’t like him are generally clear to anybody that knows me, too. The stuff I listed above is so awesome, it’s like nobody’s had the balls to even talk out loud about some of them since Reagan.
It’s so weird that a subpoena wasn’t required to produce emails like this.
Well, it depends – what came out of this meeting? Did Trump Jr. offer anything in exchange for said information? Did they actually use anything from it?
It’s a big nothing. No info was delivered, no quid was pro quo’ed. All Trump Jr. did was agree to a meeting about opportunities sourced from a Russian criminal investigation.
But it will give Mueller license to continue his witch hunt.
I think the people who have been shitting their pants about Russia all along will shit their pants over this. That includes the DNC propaganda machine’s social media operations and the major media networks and newspapers ie the same folks who didn’t care about the Clintons and China. I think everyone else will shrug and say so what. Unless they can show that there was some sort of quid pro quo going on and Trump offered Russia influence on his administration’s foreign policy for their help, then I don’t know why most people would care.
Oh yeah, the Democrats are all going ape-shit over this.
Smoking gun! Smoking gun!
The ceasefire in Syria? Not seeing much coverage of that. It hardly gets a mention.
If I’m running for office and somebody offers me dirt on my opponent, I’m going to take it. Full stop.
Doesn’t matter who is providing the info; the truth is the truth. It’s not “collusion”.
And yes, Hillary did it too. Probably even more so.
It might be collusion if they did it before the fact.
That’s always been the Democrats’ allegation. That Trump and the Russian intelligence services worked together to hack Hillary Clinton’s email server, the DNC server, etc.
And this would seem to shoot down that narrative.
In fact, they’ll often cite Trump’s joke during the debates. Remember that time someone asked about the missing emails, and he joked that instead of asking the FBI, maybe they should ask the Russians?
It was a joke. It was meant to highlight the fact that Hillary was so reckless with her email server that if the FBI can’t find her email, maybe the Russians can!
The Democrats keep throwing that out as evidence that Trump knew the Russians had her emails and they must have been working together.
this is literally evidence of absolutely nothing.
they’re offering full disclosure and everyone’s names involved because they know (as should anyone with a brain) that this is a big dumb dead end that has nothing at the end of it
if anything, the person who met with them will be exposed as an oppo-research for-hire flunky, and it will throw shade on Clinton.
its stupid, and if this is the best that the “hurr durr Russia!!1!”-narrative has going for it, its on its last legs.
It may not be conclusive evidence that the Trump campaign was getting information about the Russians and has lied about what they knew for months, but it is evidence.
Evidence doesn’t need to be conclusive in order to be evidence.
Circumstantial evidence is evidence.
Anyone who says there is evidence that the Trump campaign knew the Russians were digging up dirt on Hillary is not lying.
Ken, isn’t it more likely that Trump Jr showed up (hopefully to get dirt on the other campaign) and was subjected to a diatribe on adoption instead. So obviously the woman (and agent guy) are liars about the entire meeting. They didn’t have dirt. So why would they then believe that the other claim that the Russkies were on their side also be true?
Look, I’m not saying that Trump Jr. is guilty of anything.
We’re all reading tea leaves here.
What we can see, however, is that there were attempts by the Russians to get dirt on Hillary to the Trump campaign–and the Trump campaign must have known about that.
They’ve denied this repeatedly in the past.
I’m just being honest, here.
Then–from my initial post on down–I give all kinds of explanations for what we read in that email. In fact, I point out that the email appears to be exculpatory in terms of showing that whatever it is the Russian intelligence services did here, they did it without the Trump campaign’s knowledge.
This isn’t a message saying, “We followed your instructions, Don, and we’ve got the dirt you asked for!”.
I’m calling it down the middle just the way I see it.
Circumstantial evidence that suggests the Trump campaign knew the Russian intelligence services were digging up dirt on Hillary is what it is.
Because I admit the truth? People, hopefully, will believe me when I say that Hillary Clinton was accepting donations from foreign countries while she was the Secretary of State.
For people to call me a Trump freak, or whatever, they have to look past all the times I acknowledged the truths that make Trump look bad.
I went door to door for Ronald Reagan when I was a kid, but I condemned Oliver North. Reagan made some huge mistakes in Central America, and that’s just the beginning. I condemn Reagan for everything he did that is deserving of condemnation.
I also credit him with slashing income taxes, deregulation, and winning the cold war–freeing hundreds of millions of people from the yoke of communism, all without ever having fired an ICBM.
I support Trump for the policies he advocates that should be supported. A return to pragmatism and realism in foreign policy is a godsend. I support his withdrawing us from the Paris climate accord. I support him for wanting to sign a bill that will kill the ObamaCare Medicaid expansion.
And I condemn Donald Trump for whatever he does that deserves our condemnation.
If he bullshitted us about knowing that the Russians were seeking to dig up dirt on Hillary, then that’s what he did. If I don’t acknowledge the bad things he does, why should anyone listen to me talk about the good?
I don’t think it makes him look bad for it, lying or not. I don’t know what political culture everyone else inhabits where they think it’s a ghastly crime against democracy because 1) opposition research runs afoul of universal norms and 2) that lying about Russian contacts to avoid playing into the demonstrably bullshit yet seemingly immortal story about the Trump-Putin alliance to deny Hilary her rightful throne.
i think you need to re-read statements like this to realize how tortured your reasoning is.
– ” the Trump campaign knew the Russians were digging up dirt on Hillary”
1) one person who reached out to them isn’t “The Russians”; its one person who claimed (perhaps falsely) to have had inside dirt
2) they turned out not to have any dirt – so what does that mean for “what the Trump campaign knew“?
If this is the ‘evidence’ that ‘the russians’ were ‘digging up dirt on Hillary’…. its a big empty 0. It literally says the opposite of what you’re claiming.
If you asked Don Jr what he “knew” about “the russians” on the day following the meeting, his answer would have been =
– “some crazy lady with vaguely russian credentials lured us into a meeting, where she started yapping nonsensically about a law barring Americans from adopting Russian children” – we determined there was absolutely nothing useful there so we moved on to the next item in the crazy “let’s get my dad elected president” game
It’s not evidence Trump got anything from the Russians. It actually points the other way – there was no established channel, and there was no info from this meeting.
The Crown prosecutor of Russia
The Tsar lives?
Tsar Putin I.
The way he clings to power he may as well be. Russia is clearly organized more along aristocratic-autocratic lines rather than communistic lines or republican lines these days.
The interpretation of what we’re reading remains key. This could be considered evidence of collusion, but it’s circumstantial evidence; i.e, this doesn’t show the Trump campaign colluding with Russian intelligence before the fact.
Define collusion? I thought the base definition of collusion included implications that the cooperation was intended to deceive. In this case, it seems targeted at letting people see truths that they normally wouldn’t. Now, if they offered to help make up a bunch of stuff about Hillary that would be another thing, but Trump accepting REAL Russian information that showed that Hillary was a dirtbag should be fair game.
Collusion the way I was using was like in a conspiracy charge or an accessory charge.
The charge being made against Trump was always that his campaign and the Russians perpetrated the hacks of the DNC servers and Hillary’s servers.
If someone unexpectedly drops a bag of money in my lap, that doesn’t make me guilty of conspiracy to commit armed robbery.
I might be guilty of receiving stolen property. I might be guilty of perjury if I lied about it afterwards and said, “No one dropped any money in my lap”.
But I’m not guilty of conspiracy to commit armed robbery–because not only did I not help plan the robbery, I didn’t even know about the robbery until after it had happened.
The email may suggest collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians, but it’s exculpatory regarding the Trump campaign colluding with Russian intelligence before the fact.
Reading that email, it doesn’t look like the Russians went and got this information at the Trump campaign’s request. The Russians already had this information–they just wanted to give it to the Trump campaign.
Why did you make me read any of that?
There is literally nothing out of Don Jr’s email except “Thanks [arrange time to meet]”
that ‘campaigns are willing to meet people claiming to have blockbuster inside dirt which would destroy their opponent’ should come as a surprise to no one.
the real story here seems to be “someone tried to set them up”
These weren’t really Junior’s emails–these were emails sent to Junior? You really want to get into semantics?
This is the email people are reacting to.
—-Washington Post
Ibidem
That’s what they’re saying about the email.
Why wouldn’t I include the text of the email in question?
“Semantics”? That’s all the difference in the world. Nothing Jr says provides anything except “he was willing to meet”. And why the hell wouldn’t he be?
That is a claim by the person proffering the intel which is being passing on. there’s nothing actually providing any validation of that claim.
It has no more merit than an email from a Nigerian prince offering millions in his family fortune. If Jr said, “K prince meet me @ 3”, that neither makes him an accomplish of the claimed prince, nor does it validate the Prince’s royal status.
that neither makes him an accomplish of the claimed prince,
John lives in our hearts!
*sniffs, tips a 40*
“accomplice”
i was running to dinner
Canada’s tech sector not woke enough, needs more Social Justice. PM Zoolander, pls!
We asked 31 Canadian tech companies how they measure diversity. Most had little to say.
Company HR response: “we’re not even going to touch that with your 10 ft pole”
If you open the article, 15 out of 31 companies declined to or did not reply.
My company actually employees a “Diversity Director” for the express purpose of answering that question with some much pc psycho-babble that the media goes away.
More meaningless metrics
Meh, they virtue signaled, and now they’re getting held to account. Not much sympathy to those who sell the rope to hang themselves.
I am pretty sure they dont give a shit about diversity. Productivity on the other hand…
[Deutsche] Kinder statt Inder was horrendously racist. Schwarze Kinder statt Inder, however, is so woke.
OT: Google Home or Amazon Alexa?
I shall also pre-acknowledge all of the “Neither” privacy-advocate crowd. I will also pre-acknowledge the “I told you so” when I am one day rounded up to some camp.
If you’re going to do that, Alexa.
I’ll spare the lecture since you already know.
Will they both talk dirty to you?
My roommate had a decent quote
“Eh, your phone’s got a mic already, doom. Same with our computers. Even the TV remote.”
That said, do you use amazon a ton? Is google what you use for calendar and email?
Yes, and yes.
Hm.
Flip a coin?
Think how smug you’ll feel knowing that the assholes that would stick you on the train will be the same assholes staring down an orbital bombardment followed by complete enslavement
Super Smug.
Just don’t ask Alexa to play Digger Digger
Lol
No.
Alexa has all of the skills I need, for the most part. My light switches are insteon, I have some Phillips hue bulbs, zwave locks and deadbolts, nest smoke detectors, and a few other things I’m probably leaving out. Alexa can handle pretty much all of it.
I’ve never tried google home.
We use Alexa for most of our lights ans some plugs and Amazon and Padora music. Works real well.
“It turns out that the companies that extract and refine all of the energy, modern feeder chemical building blocks, and other super-useful stuff are responsible for most of it. No shit.”
Ever notice that the photos for these articles never have anything to do with the article? That photo looks like cooling towers and they are emitting steam. The global warmers are just as mendacious as the gun grabbers.
To be fair, they’re probably too stupid to know what a cooling tower is and that it doesn’t emit pollution.
Although, it does give off water, which is a greenhouse gas… so right for the wrong reasons?
Dang, should have read both sentences.
To be fair, water vapor accounts for a much larger percentage of greenhouse gas than CO2.
I’m not a big comics reader, but it’s fun to watch videos about Marvel SJWing so hard. But then I run into absolutely charming video with a guy having his daughter review a bunch of comics she read.
Maybe not a coincidence, she could easily remember and explain what happens in each DC comic she read. With Marvel ones, it’s harder and she has to go back and admit she didn’t quite get everything.
I assume you saw Larry Correia and Correia 2.0’s breakdown of the 50 state Avengers thing.
It was pretty cool too, but Correia’s daughter is a teenager, right? This girl is maybe 9, which is what made it so charming.
Paul Erlich? Why is this person employed?
On the Clinton link: I used to work for state government. Any political advocacy was strictly forbidden. I wonder what the rules are at the Post Office.
#1 = Don’t kill your co-workers
#2 = Pretend the internet doesn’t exist
They have a thing on the Internet where you can track your packages. Not efficiently, if efficiency is your bag, but they let you do it.
https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction_input
In my area, their “tracking” will insist a package is delivered if it reached the nearest large post office. Not your door step.
Packages inexplicably go missing a lot after “delivery.”
Also don’t expect any packages to reach you until the following Monday if they arrive at the post office on a Thursday or later. A friend of mine who works with mail (and therefore USPS workers) claim USPS employees get OT for coming into work when there’s a large package load on a weekend.
SCOTUS precedent says that as long as you’re speaking as a private citizen (e.g., not using your governmental office) and the expression doesn’t “hinder the effective and efficient fulfillment of responsibilities to the public” (say, Facebook posts from a cop saying how much he hates black people), it’s protected speech and you can’t be disciplined for it.
Any political advocacy was strictly forbidden.
You obviously were not a Union member.
Gather ’round children it’s range report time!
Took my Ruger LCR .327 Fed Mag out for a test drive in drawing from concealment today. Holster is a DeSantis Nemesis pocket holster. Everything worked like a dream. Even though I got this setup specifically for summer carry, I think this may become my daily carry even in winter.
Holster: The Nemesis does not have any clip or mechanical attachment to the pocket or the pants/shorts. It is covered with a dotted, rubberized texture that grips the sides of the pocket. That, combined with the shape of the holster, meant that there were no instances in which the holster came out with the gun, or got the gun hung up in some way. Worked exactly as designed and advertised. 5/5
LCR: This little dood kicks! I was firing full .327 Fed Mag rounds since that is what I plan on using for self-defense, though this will accept a number of other .32 caliber rimmed cartridges. .327 Fed Mag is really a super mag based on the .32 H&R Mag. It is a high velocity round designed to approximate .357 ballistics with a smaller projectile. IOW, in a 17 oz gun, this round packs a wallop. Gun points well and feels comfortable in the hand in spite of the short grip; I have average sized hands, those with very large hands might have trouble with the grip size. Trigger pull is very smooth and surprisingly light for a DAO revolver. Accuracy is superb, especially for a 1.8 in barrel. I was shooting at 5, 7 and 10 yds. I’m docking half a point for how hard the little bugger kicks and the grip size, though that’s kind of a soft reduction since those issues are kind part of the deal for a compact revolver. 4.5/5
Conclusion: Awesome concealed setup, I love it and feel very secure carrying it. It is so comfortable I forget it’s even there. It will be glued to my hip.
Very nice!
Thanks for the review!
Thanks, Q. The Nemesis sounds like the Remora.
Any challenges getting ammo? What do you carry currently?
Tundra! 9mm carry ammo?
I’ve used FED HST AND hydra shock. Currently loaded with Hornaday critical defense
Everyone has a strong opinion. I just shot a bunch of each to make sure the gun liked it.
I didn’t have any issues getting ammo; they had some at the gun shop and I also bought some online. (NB: for those of you in permissive states, if you’re not already buying ammo online, start doing it! http://www.ammoseek.com) I have been carrying a Kimber Pro Carry II commander-sized 1911. I *love* 1911s and that gun in particular, but I was looking for a smaller, lighter summer carry. I like this one so much, however, that I think I’m going to start carry it year ’round.
Cool, thanks. Wouldn’t mind an actual pocket gun when it’s so fucking hot.
You’ve already bought your new pistol, but if you like the 1911 platform, and want it smaller than Commander-size, the SiG P238 and P938 are awesome. The 938 can be a touch snappy. The 238, in my experience is ridiculously accurate and fast. Like dump the mag into a paper plate at 7 yds within 2-3 seconds fast. Not something I was used to doing with my old Glock.
Question for pocket holster people:
It seems to me that back pocket carry would be a real natural–since drawing would come naturally like grabbing for your wallet.
Would you ever sit on a pocket holstered gun?
I imagine going into a restaurant (or anywhere) and not wanting to move it from the back pocket to a front pocket in public. I suppose I wouldn’t really want to fumble with it while getting out of the car in the parking lot either.
But I’d feel awful dangerous sitting on pocket holstered gun.
For all I know, maybe sitting on a gun would be painful! The guns we’re talking about are only about an inch or so wide, but maybe that would still hurt to sit on. I’ve never tried it–because it seems like a great way to shoot yourself in the ass.
Still, I see back pocket holsters, and I think that would be a great way to carry–if I never had to sit down. They look like a wallet.
Maybe my fears of shooting myself in the ass are overblown. It took a while to get used to the idea of not having a safety, too, but reason prevailed.
Back carry in general is frowned upon. It sucks to sit on, and if someone happens to push you backwards not only are you now firmly sitting on the gun you need to defend yourself but you just landed very hard on a chunk of steel. Not only that but it is a bit of an awkward draw (although you can feint like you’re going for a wallet) and you’re damn near guaranteed to muzzle some part of yourself on the draw. Either front pocket or fanny pack carry (in the front) is the only way to really go.
The chance of you shooting yourself from sitting on your gun is basically zero assuming you have a drop safe gun and you’re using a proper holster, but the issues mentioned above make it less than desirable.
I have not ever carried in a back pocket. The Nemesis is designed for a front pocket. I have carried SOB with my 1911 on occasion, depending on what clothes I’m wearing and that’s a little bit like sitting on the gun. You know it’s there, but I wouldn’t necessarily say it’s uncomfortable. Though maybe not best practice, I did not carry it cocked-and-locked when SOB. I would not have a round in the chamber which allayed those fears of accidental ass shots.
I’m not a gun guy but I’d recommend the spring loaded forearm thing that slings the gun into your hand.
Try IWB with something like a Remora? Or front pocket if your slacks can accommodate that. Draw/presentation’s going to be slow from the pocket or from the Remora, IME.
I would not do back pocket. Retention would seem to be a problem. I do stick my mag carrier in my back pocket (a little clamshell pouch, holds 2 .380 mags) and (crosses fingers) so far, so good.
I wouldn’t even look to askance at you for pocket carrying an LCR, sans holster, as long and heavy as that trigger pull is. Glock, OTOH, fuck no.
Just wear khakis/cargopants (large/deep pockets with easy access) and carry it in your front pocket on your dominant side. Make sure nothing else is in your pocket. You can get little pieces of kydex that is tied to your belt with a string, which then snaps around your trigger guard – the moment you pull the gun out, the cover snaps off because of the tether. The same device would probably make back pocket carry pretty safe, but most guns are not comfortable to sit on.
You can carry a full size pistol comfortably this way with the right pants.
A holster that sits inside the waistband on your side or 4/5 o’clock is pretty comfortable too. But you really need loose fitting top that isn’t tucked in, or a suit with a jacket to pull this off. And if you have to wear a suit, just stay classy and get a shoulder holster.
Behold the tuckable IWB holster. I love the Comp-Tac Minotaur or MTAC. Really comfortable, if bigger than the Remora option. I found it worked really friggin well, provided you had a good belt to hang the clips off of. You could easily tuck a dress shirt in the slacks and over the holster, with very little problem drawing. (Use your off hand to grab your shirt on the opposite side and pull up hard, while your gun hand grabs the butt and begins your draw.)
May fuck be upon the asshole JH/HS student who kicked in my apt door and took it and the Glock 30 it was holding. At least HPD actually came by (and dusted for prints!)
I am glad you are pleased. I have a Ruger in 32 H&R Mag. It isnt an LCR, it is a Single-Six. I love shooting that cartridge. The ballistics are impressive. Shoots fast and flat and a surprising amount of penetrative power.
Sorry, I’ve been real busy today. Have we covered the story about Trump being sued by people he blocked on Twitter?
““The First Amendment applies to this digital forum in the same way it applies to town halls and open school board meetings. ”
No, I dont believe it does. Not only that but if they are successful can people who have had content removed from their own accounts sue twitter and Facebook? I dont think this is a precedent that they want to set.
Long standing fued
https://youtu.be/VEXqA1UUcxo
Fraud News Network.
What happened to News from OMWC’s Van, or whatever he calls what he posts on Tuesdays?
Patience, Eddie, patience.
Whoomp, there it is.
Too soon
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40566547
I know, let’s be jackbooted thugs in response to ironic references to fascism! That will show everyone how not fascist we are!
/headfuckingdesk
This is Italy, the place where they tried to put scientists in jail for manslaughter because they didn’t magically predict earthquakes.
And the cops tried to get that chick convicted of murder because of Satanic rituals or some shit.
Amanda Knox? What I found illuminating is how the US media treated her as this doe-eyed innocent, while the British media treated the other roommate (British) as the doe-eyed innocent, and Knox as a monster.
If he organizes a tractor pull, it’s the official Glibresort!
At least now Larry Craig knows with bathroom to use.
Given the Left’s history of, and ongoing, antisemitism, I still marvel at my (((peeps’))) undying devotion to the donks.
http://hotair.com/archives/2017/07/11/covering-ejection-jews-chicago-pride-parade-reporter-moved-sales-desk/
I never quite understood that either. Is it a case of keeping your enemies closer?
Nonreligious Jews in name only concentrated (I know, I know) in large left-leaning population centers would be my guess.
What does IowaHawk say about the Left killing a respected institution? I think we’ve reached the wearing its skin stage with the NFL.
https://sports.yahoo.com/viagra-wont-advertise-nfl-games-signaling-softening-ad-market-121745226.html
Do you know who else wore someone’s skin?
Hey Suthenboy*, if you’re still around, a friend gave me a jar of canned venison, other than just heating it up and throwing it on some mashed potatoes, or noodles**, do you have any recommendations?
* or anyone, this just seems like a SB kinda thing
** what all my intertube searches have resulted in.
Canned venison? Home canned or commercial? Home canned – feed to the dog. A local restaurant owner here got hold of some of that once and ended up nearly dying. Commercial and in-date you can do anything with it that you can do with beef. I used to do a lot of venison with red wine/ mushroom sauce – thats something that would go well over mashed potatoes, rice, or noodles. Its pretty easy to whip that up. Sear the venison in a skillet then add in a can of cream of mushroom soup, half of a cup of red wine and some garlic. If you are cooking for a woman go all out and make the gravy from scratch.
So you want me to nearly kill my dog? Also making gravy from scratch is one disgusting euphemism.
All kidding aside, thanks for the reply, I’ll probably do a Stroganoff-esque thing, its home canned but the dudes been doing it for decades and no one has died as far as I know.
Inject it into your wife’s frown lines. I hear botulism of the face is all the rage right now.
Wife? I’m a true libertarian – socially awkward loser with a serious drinking problem. Wife ain’t in the picture. Hell i don’t even actually have a dog to kill with my botulism infected venison, there’s a sickly looking cat that hangs around outside, but that’s about it.
If you start having feelings, it’s time to slit your battle-hardened eyes and walk off into the trackless wastes.