Slacker!
Its only Tuesday. I feel like I’ve lived a week since Monday.
Here’s a great story about government arbitrariness. The FDA and “expired” medications. My favorite part is that the US military saves $2Bn/year by exempting itself. Also the idea that pharmaceutical grade baking soda is expensive or rare just took me aback.
I guess I respect Chris Cillizza for engaging Reddit, but I’m glad his AMA going like a dumpster fire. Put this up as Exhibit A of why the government doesn’t need to police speech.
Chipotle has brought back it Weight Loss Special in VA. Playa Manhattan hardest hit.
The House of Representatives is thinking of taking the radical step of passing a budget. They also appear to be exploring new and radical ways of fucking it up.
It’s kind of gray here today, so have a Monster Magnet deepcut.
Why would CNN go anywhere near reddit right now?
Hubris. It’s the only explanation.
The comments are a combination of derp, attacks, and sucking up. But this one was pretty good:
“Hi Chris, huge fan of your contemporary political analysis here. I am wondering if you would ever consider writing a history book? I think many historical debates could benefit greatly from your patented “both sides are good” centrist wisdom. For example: It seems like most analysis of WWII paints the nazis as bad because they committed a genocide. But they also vastly expanded the autobahn system, which is exciting to drive fast on. With your probing insights, perhaps you could explain how historians painting them as meanies is harmful to political discourse. Thanks! “
I’m guessing sarcasm.
Highway systems totally wipe out the sin of genocide because…ROOOADDDZZZZ!
Communism’s alleged full employment is OK to use to make excuses for the system.
It’s not OK to use it, or the autobahns, or similar, to make excuses for fascist systems.
Or how about this one: “The USSR was decades ahead of the US on women’s rights!!”
Yep, in the good ol’ worker’s paradise, women starved to death in the same gulags as men! No discrimination there!
Don’t forget giving a serial rapist and murderer massive amounts of power for decades while everyone in the Politburo were completely aware of his proclivities.
Yeah, my favourite derp is the ones going on about “WHY COME YOU GIVE TRUMP SO MUCH ATTENTION AND TREAT HIM LIKE JOKE, THAT’S WHAT GOT HIM ELECTED”.
Comments summary: “HOW COME U SAID MEAN THINGS ABOUT HILLARY!”
are you sure about that
In VA? *checks article* Oh, it was in Sterling, nothing to worry about then.
Is it 0? can it be 0?
In footy news, there are multiple rumors out there that Paris Saint-Germain FC (owned by Qatari oil billionaires) is prepared to spend 222 million euros to buy Neymar from Barcelona.
That’s just his to buy his rights. Doesn’t include the salary, etc. that they’d be paying him.
Leads to the question: What if, in American sports, you could straight out buy players like in Europe? How much would the Yankees pay for Mike Trout? How much would the Lakers pay for LeBron?
Slavery?
Eleventy billion?
I think that underestimates the Yankees spend…
Closest thing to it in the US that I can think of is the posting system by which Japanese players still under contract in Japan come to MLB. It’s the fee MLB teams pay to get negotiating rights with a player. If the player signed with the MLB team, his NPB team kept the fee. If not, the MLB team kept it. It’s capped at $20M now, but it used to be unlimited. The highest was the Rangers paying $51 million for Yu Darvish.
Tim Fortugno was sold for $2500 and 12 dozen baseballs.
Actually you can buy players like that in Baseball at the very least, sure you might have to kick in a couple of minor leaguers and maybe a draft pick or two to get the trade approved by the commissioners office but it is not like there is a rule that says you can’t. And lets face it, taking on dead-weight contracts in the NBA isn’t all that different from outright buying them.
Tuesday, shit. I’m still only in Tuesday. Every time I think I’m going to wake up back in the weekend. When I was home after my first tour, it was worse. I’d wake up and there’d be nothing…
I hardly said a word to my wife until I said yes to a divorce. When I was here I wanted to be there. When I was there, all I could think of was getting back into the weekend.
I’ve been here a day now. Waiting for a mission, getting softer. Every minute I stay in this room I get weaker. And every minute Charlie squats in the bush he gets stronger. Each time I look around the walls move in a little tighter.
I approve of this post.
the horror, the horror
Never get out of the weekend. Absolutely goddamn right. Unless you were goin’ all the way. Brett got off the boat. He split from the whole fuckin’ program.
Tuesday: I sit and type and drink tea and go home at 5:00 PM.
Either I completely missed the reference or W&P completely missed his meds.
Or both.
http://bfy.tw/CuIo
He’s paraphrasing the opening monologue to Apocalypse Now
^his handle being their callsign as they go upriver in search of Kurtz
Bah! I posted a link but it never showed up.
Go rent the movie. Don’t come back until you have watched it.
Oh… Apocalypse Now.
Ive seen it I just didnt recognize the reference.
Glib lawyers:
Curious as to how many of you read this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/15/business/lawyers-addiction-mental-health.html
This business fucks you up. Wish I could get out of it. Guess I’m stuck though.
The only business that doesn’t apparently fuck you up – according to some dude that said that the love of a pimp was very different than that of a square – is the art of pimp’n.
Anything goes when it comes to
hoeslawyers.nice avatar.
I saw that over the weekend. I found it pretty amusing that her solution was “the firm should’ve done more!”
In my line of legal work (the criminal world), I don’t know much about drug use by attorneys. Plenty of problem drinkers, though.
In my line of legal work (the criminal world),
Mafia Don? Butt whore? Car Salesman?
All of those would probably pay better and carry more prestige.
I know this quote is about other lawyers, but it sounds sounds like half of my clients.
Criminal defense?
Um, my post was in response to this quote…
No, Family Law and assorted transactional work.
Ahh, family law. Yeah, no thanks, I’m not wired for that day in and day out.
I know a few and they all tell me the same thing: “I wake up at night sometimes in a cold sweat wondering if something I did 30 years ago is going to come back and bite me in the ass, something I cant even remember doing”
It can fuck you up. It really depends on what you do, how you do it, and what you want to do. I started my career doing criminal defense. I loved it and did it for 6 years. When I got married I realized that to do it well would require the long hours I had put in for six or seven days a week. That was unacceptable. I made a meandering change that ultimately lead me to probate litigation. It can be demanding but took off enough stress that I enjoy it and can live with the downsides.
Could be better. You could be Dean of a Medical School.
Fight on, SC!
Well, I’m safe.
Lone wolfing it?
You certainly have more evidence of your immunity than most.
Sloopy’s theme song.
Shit, I’ve been slacking.
What would I do with the last three weeks of the month?
Start slacking off!
You’ve completed transitioning to a woman?
Found footage of Sloopy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WMZdwDPzAk
When is the “over the shoulder boulder holder”?
That’s for when you throw them over your soldier like a continental soldier.
Sure you’ve got an Adonis of a prostate, but your career as a hand model is irrevocably gone.
What are you talking about? His hand is the firmest and most toned in the tristate area
I would eat at Chipotle more often if they would cut their prices by 20%. And what’s up with Chipotle locations being norovirus magnets? Clandestine sabotage campaign by less tasty competitors like Qdoba or Moe’s?
I like Qdoba better.
And Moe’s.
I’m no food scientist, but I believe the GMO’s actually keep out the harmful bacteria. This shit didn’t happen until they went GMO-free.
What are you, a science denier?
I’ve heard it’s in the manure they spread in the organic lettuce fields, in lieu of chemical fertilizer. Maybe that’s just a bunch of crap though.
Somehow, I’ve never come close to eating at a Chipotle. And I’m on the road a few weeks each month.
I have never even seen a Chipotle in my life, so when you guys talk about this stuff I imagine it like it’s the bar in From Dusk Till Dawn without the strippers or something with a big sign that says “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.”
It is a lot like that. And Playa Manhattan looks just like Selma Hayek too.
*suddenly excited about flying in to LA in a month*
When I visit cities in Canada and I see A&W locations everywhere, I chortle in giddy delight. It’s the way that A&W restaurant distribution should naturally be.
Manure is ok…bovine I mean. It’s the chickenshit that can cause problems. Commercial coops sell their guano as fertilizer but I think the commercial stuff is sterilized before use. Buying local from Hippie Suzie who uses chickenshit from her own chickens…not so safe. Also, the people working in the kitchen at Chipole dont usually have degrees in microbiology.
The problem was inevitable.
Swiss, paging Swiss.
The deadly norovirus bacteria
A zillion calories for seven bucks seems like a pretty good deal to me.
I think it was in Freakanomics where the guy held up the then 99 cent double cheeseburger from McDonald’s and said it was the cheapest food source in history in terms of the cost to calories/protein/fat ratio.
or something like that
Yep.
It’s bizarre bordering on eyerollworthy that anyone would deny that. Okay, maybe you’re one of the jackasses who obsesses about micronutrients, or maybe you’re a jackass like me who obsesses about macronutrients, but either way the McDouble is what peasants only a couple hundred years ago would dream about at the end of their days working in the field.
And you can buy several of them for what most of us make in an hour of so-called work.
Jesus fucking Christ, if you’re not singing hosannas to the wonders of capitalism, you deserve whatever lot made you so bitter.
Oh no. We can’t have that. We can’t have that at all. This thwarts our plan to reduce the world population to 500 million of the chosen ones.
Hell, in college I spent a month-and-a-half one summer biking across the country, and I subsisted mostly on quarter pounders with cheese. When you’re on the road by yourself and need 4500 calories every single day, McD’s is tough to beat.
I’d eat Chipotle more often if there weren’t 300 places in my neighborhood that make better food. As a bonus, all 300 of those places come without a six sigma style assembly line staffed exclusively by 19 year old hipsters giving you what is essentially, an edible core sample.
A bite of beans, a bite of guac, a bite of cheese….
I can’t find the clip, but I want to link to It’s Always Sunny where Frank is making the sandwich in his mouth, one ingredient at a time.
Humblebrag.
Hey, my previous suggestion for (((Tuesday))) was so popular, I’ll make another.
If there was one slight criticism of my prior suggestion, it was that it looked like I was putting a guy forward as a role model, like some dorky teacher.
I don’t think modern educators will be doing the same with this week’s (((historical figure))).
Meet THE FORGOTTEN CONFEDERATE JEW
“When Lockhart finished her routine, redonning her leopard-print brassiere and shredded black dress and joining the half-dozen other ladies working the floor, I asked if she was aware of the [strip club] building’s notable history as the former home of Judah P. Benjamin, the Confederate secretary of state and America’s first openly Jewish senator. She was not. I told her that up the staircase to the lap-dance rooms had once ascended “the brains of the Confederacy,” the U.S. Senate’s whip-smart “Gentleman from Louisiana,” a gifted orator—the most prominent American Jew of the 19th century….
“…In today’s post-Stonewall hindsight, however, the scant historical record would suggest that Benjamin was, if anything, a gay bachelor in the contemporary sense of the word….
“With Louisiana’s secession from the Union in 1861, Benjamin, having turned down the chance to be the first Jew nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court, was tapped by Confederate President Jefferson Davis as his right-hand man.”
Benjamin must have been a very busy man, hey-oh!
“When the war ended, Benjamin fled Richmond posing as a French farmer who spoke only broken English. The short, fat attorney eluded a U.S. Army manhunt through the swamps of Florida before setting sail for London, where he began his legal practice anew from scratch. Soon counted among Britain’s most successful barristers, he built his wife a trophy home on the Rue d’Iéna in Paris and threw a lavish wedding for his daughter. In 1884, Benjamin died a wealthy man. Against his wishes, his wife had him buried in a Catholic cemetery, the famed Père Lachaise, where he rests today in obscurity, ignored by tourists tramping from Marcel Proust’s grave to Jim Morrison’s….
“In 1943, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, an organization whose idea of a fundraiser in the early 20th century was selling primers on the glories of the Ku Klux Klan to schoolchildren, erected a pink granite monument to Benjamin on the Sarasota, Fla., plantation where he set sail to escape his U.S. Army pursuers. As the segregated units of America’s Jim Crow army marched into battle against Hitler’s Jew-hunting Wehrmacht, a UDC official intoned, “While Hitlerites spew lies that tend to arouse anti-Jewish passions … Florida, through the United Daughters of the Confederacy, does well to build this monument … for it will stand as a guidepost and reminder that this nation is still the pillar of freedom and tolerance. It is the south’s personal challenge to Nazism and hate.””
I see no citations so FAKE NEWS.
So a prominent pro-slavery Confederate official was a barrier-breaking Jew and possibly gay. I can see why he’s been forgotten: he fits no one’s narrative. But history is often interesting that way.
WWE thinkis its talent should be attractive, ICW white nights hardest hit.
Man, that chick on the left is R-O-U-G-H looking. Like, “I wouldn’t want to meet that dude in a dark alley” rough.
White Nights hardest hit
If there’s one man in American society who will never, ever comply with social justice groups, it’s Vince McMahon. Only person he takes shit from is his wife.
So they wonder why in a society that hates men, some of them are happy to check the fuck out.
Sometimes I wish I was young and didn’t care about shit.
I blame (((Wall Street)))
Sometimes I wish I was young since the competition for nubile females is apparently made up of pajama boys and the guys from the Big Bang Theory. Drop in one fit, gainfully employed, cis-hetero guy who’s not ashamed of it with his own apartment and it’d be like shooting fish in a barrel.
If you don’t mind Daddy Issues, youth is a disadvantage!
If it wasn’t for daddy issues I’d never get laid.
“Said now baby, dont be sad, in my opinion you werent half bad”
Quagmire has this covered:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX2s-PCDNU8
I really want to know which universe you guys are from where this is the case. The clubs are still populated by dudebros in the one I live in.
Been there TLAH. At first I thought it was great. Later, not so much. I went through a hundred of them before I found my now wife. She is sane. The other hundred were batshit, bark at the moon crazy. Every one of them a disaster, every one of them a future ex-wife. Just find a sane one and stick with that. You will be much happier I promise.
That’s the tricky part.
Any one ever sell their house themselves? I may have to sell, and I don’t think I have enough equity to cover all of the closing costs on top of paying an agent to sell it.
Layoffs and possible moves to a new job suck.
Put cheap bunkbeds in every room and charge $20 for each slot on Airbnb. You’ll have equity in no time.
If I have to move before the big motorcycle festival in September, I’m doing that. Unfortunately, I’m too far away for the home football game crowds.
Lt Fish posted a link to libertarian YouTuber Aydan Paladin yesterday. Here’s my contribution of cute AnCap YouTubers.
**Aydin** Paladin
I subscribed cuz i likes the asians.
A better face for our cause than any of us, that’s pho sure.
Dude, don’t bahn me just because I disagree with some things you say…
I might listen to those German shows she did. Are they any good?
I haven’t listened to those yet. Mostly I just wanted to hear her discuss radical libertarianism and shoot guns.
Well this is a load of bullshit.
T
Drat, already corrected.
Low-T? Poor Eddie.
Related; my dad had his prostate removed a couple months ago. He seems to be doing ok, but I will jack it twice a day if it helps prevent me from going through the same.
That’s one hell of a sacrifice you’re making there.
You joke, but carpal tunnel is no laughing matter, man!
Banjos slacking on the job there?
If your pops already had his prostate removed, I’m not sure masturbating him twice a day will help much now. I’m sure he appreciates the gesture though.
I’ve definitely heard the crying, but I’m not sure this “apologizing” thing is something women know about.
“I’m sorry you were an asshole yesterday.”
Ah! You are right!
No they do the crying, and you the guy, needs to do the apologizing. Especially when they are wrong.
I know everyone likes to say that there’s nothing wrong with a man crying, and, you know, I suppose there isn’t…
… That said, I got into an argument with the near-albino I was seeing at the time about how we should break up, and of course he started crying. Most uncomfortable I’d ever been in my life up to that point. Don’t cry in front of your woman, even if she’s not going to be your woman for much longer. I still remember the feeling of the bitty remainder of respect I had for him flying out the window…
We get it. You hate us blue-eyed men. Especially the blonde ones.
I’m just trying to show you the example you’re up against. 😉
At least you’re still afforded a pretty healthy amount of respect!
whew. that was close.
Like most things in life it depends. Is the man crying because all of his kids were just killed in a car accident? I vote tears are acceptable. Otherwise….. I’m gonna vote no.
He just really didn’t want to break up. He went on to cry for another four hours while I felt really awkward. I’d go to leave and he’d just cry harder… So I stayed to console him? The whole thing was weird.
The next day, he came up to me on campus like nothing was wrong, nothing happened, etc. When I pushed him on “what happened yesterday,” he told me he’d had food poisoning, and didn’t remember anything after ~5 pm.
So I stayed to console him?
That guy doesn’t deserve blue eyes.
I do not disagree. He is a discredit to all of the fine, fair men out there.
Well, he is a discredit to all the men, too, in general.
At least he understood what he did was wrong.
he seems a little off.
I’ve done the whole console during breakup, try to finally leave, end up staying longer thing.
it sucked so bad one time. It’s caused me to be much colder now. The breakup after that, I just said it and left.
Lol, Brett xD
And he certainly was a little off, Doom. My only regret is that it took me so long to find my backbone.
My new regret is that I can’t seem to put it down. *wields backbone like some kind of flail*
It’s not easy. I think a lot of it is that we don’t want to hurt another person.
Swinging that backbone around can do that.
It’s usually for the best though.
*ducks*
fuck, stop swinging!
People must understand that life is pain.
You can always patch up pain with a little cement.
If thats the worst thing you are carrying around on your shoulders then you’re doing okay.
Relevant
maybe in 10 years, we’ll both look back on this moment and laugh!
the second one might be funnier.
Otherwise….. I’m gonna vote no.
Well, if his dog just died.
It works like that for men too. Crying can be legit, but it’s sometimes obviously manipulation. This doesn’t make me sorry about whatever you’re complaining about. It makes me sorry I’m in a relationship with you at all.
Crying as a manipulation tactic is just dirty. But then, using manipulation tactics at all on your significant other is a low move.
I mean, if you’re crying to get out of a speeding ticket, two thumbs up!
Oh, to be sure!
How would Robbo infiltrate Glibertarians..?
How would Robbo infiltrate Glibertarians..?
HI der, fellow yokels! Did you see that most recent tractor pull? I luv gunz!
Yeah, exactly. Robbie would be a terrible infiltrator. His milquetoast phrases and idiotic equivocations are too distinctive.
“I wuz out fixing the tire-thing on my pick-up truck, when I saw me one o’ em homersexual types walkin’ by! So I told him we don’t need them faggot types ’round these parts, n’ to fuck off back to Maryland or some shit. Turned out he was just one of them journalist types. Boy, y’all sure are mean to journalist types for no good reason!”
+1 John Turtoro in Miller’s Crossing
I know everyone likes to say that there’s nothing wrong with a man crying,
Maybe on barbarian university campuses, but in civilized society men are allowed to cry:
1. At funerals or at the deathbeds of loved ones.
2. Success of a major project after years of hardwork and sacrifice.
3. While witnessing some profound and beautiful experience.
I’m down with those rules. Leaves room for what wdalasio said above, too.
3. While witnessing some profound and beautiful experience.
Stanley Cup Final?
I will not judge Leafs fans if they burst into tears when they win in 2058.
There sure were a lot of joyous man tears in Chicago last autumn. Go, Cubs, Go!
I actually enjoy Leaf fan tears. Just sayin’….
I’ve been told
-when your father dies
-when your son is born
-when you lose your dog
All acceptable.
Daughter, too, just for different reasons.
May have been “when your first child is born”
Father, mother or child dies but only in private. “Happy” crying is unnaceptable and nonsensical except in females because their brains appear to have some sort of wiring short in the happy-sad areas.
Stay calm for others to cry. Dog is unnaceptable. All births are unnaceptable.
“Happy” crying is unnaceptable
Fuck that, if you land men on the moon or if God shows up you better be ready for a single, manly tear of joy.
Apparently, Bob has never has a dog.
Why do you hate dogs, Bob?
I had a dog die recently. Had to stay up with him. Think he had a stroke or something at night and no vets open. He was in agony for hours before dying. When the kids and wife woke up they were in tears. I think a man should comfort them and get along with business. Crying means becoming so overcome with emotion you lose control over your actions. I suspect men able to suppress that probably fared better in wars.
He was in agony for hours before dying.
The fuck Bob? that is why we have guns/shovels/hammers/feet/chainsaws/pillows.
4. Severe testicular torsion or blunt trauma
Ah! I experienced the torsion thing once, snuggling up to my then-gf on the couch while wearing too-tight jeans.
Now, let me say that usually, I would have to be bleeding out of the eye sockets before I’ll go see a doctor. But that night, I was in such discomfort that I had her drive me to the emergency room. Waiting around there, walking around for several minutes, the problem finally corrected itself, and before I even got in to see a doctor.
And, contrary to what some might think, the pain wasn’t in my jimmies, but on the left side of my torso. I only figured out later what it was.
I think film representations of those scenarios ought to be added to the list. Anyone arguing that a man shouldn’t be allowed to cry at something like Brian’s Song or Saving Private Ryan is a sociopath.
The last movie that made me cry was Homeward Bound and I was a child.
… Then again… Could be a sociopath. /shrug
Movies go under One Tear Exception. Unless a dog is involved.
Unless a dog is involved.
Saying shit like this will get HM posting things that one cannot unsee.
Saying shit like “I like eating ice cream” gets HM posting things that one cannot unsee.
Did someone say ice cream?
What about when Doc Hollywood’s Porsche 356 Speedster got destroyed?
What like this?
Did someone say ice cream?
I’m gonna need your address for my therapy bills, Titor
I like to think of myself as a Heroic Mulatto fanboy who desperately wants to become his apprentice, but he refuses because “you’re not ready for that kind of power.”
Be more like jesse instead.
MORE LIKE JESSE?
That’s partially covered under 3, art counts.
In my personal case there is one to add to it:
4. I’m utterly furious and the tears squeeze out from the pure strain of forcing myself into some semblance of reason.
The tears mean I’m losing the battle.
If you see me cry and there hasn’t been a death in the family, you should run because someone is about to get hurt….badly.
I havent cried in…uh…I cant remember. Maybe when I was a kid? I dont even cry at funerals. My marriage is just fine.
I notice we’ve never heard your wife’s opinion on this.
He’d have to unchain her from the basement and bring her up the stairs to the computer, too much work.
From the R Kelly school, eh?
I’ve never been with a woman who doesn’t like it and honestly believe my current starts fights just to have it.
You need to pick better women.
But it might work for us.
No, this is a load of bullshit.
Well played.
That’s a cow.
He identifies as a bull.
You’re so transphobic you’re like the Dark Lord of the Cis.
Awww. You say the nicest things!
“In my culture, this is how we apologize.”
“Well, for the sake of cultural diversity I guess it’s OK.”
Crying? Seinfeld covered it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRKIcafgu-4
RE: Expired medications. Within the last few months I heard from a doctor that you should save all your medications, because they never go bad. So, here’s the corroborating evidence.
In the article, they also mention wasted medical supplies. I’ve seen this recently, when my daughter was in the hospital. When it was time to check out, the nurses told us to take everything that wasn’t nailed down (besides the furniture) because they were required to throw it all away once a patient leaves. I don’t know if that’s hospital or government policy. But we now have a big bag of gauze, pee pads, syringes (no needles), tape, even a stethoscope.
Tetracyclines (doxycycline being the most common) do actually go bad and you should throw those out when they get more than a few years old. Everything else is gravy.
The take home messages from the WSJ piece are:
Most medicines are safe and effective beyond their expiration date a very conservative number, usually one year.
Liquids are much more likely to decompose than solids, so the expiration dates for solutions and liquid suspensions should be taken seriously
A strong smell is an indicator that something has gone wrong.
Dr. Bloom says, Number three is not necessarily true. For example, the antibiotic amoxicillin has an awful, sulfur-like smell. This is a property of the drug itself not an indication that there is anything wrong. Another example is aspirin. We have been told forever that when aspirin decomposes, it smells like vinegar. This is true one of the breakdown products of aspirin is acetic acid (vinegar). Even the slightest decomposition of aspirin will give this smell, even though the aspirin may still be 99+% pure.
RE: Expired medications.
I recall some OTC med that you need to be careful with because at a certain age it will ‘ferment’ and become much more powerful, but I can’t remember what it was.
I definitely throw out liquid stuff, because of the possibility of bacteria growing in it. But pills always seemed pretty stable.
Probably hospital policy, I’d assume, because they can’t guarantee that it hasn’t been contaminated in some way. Now, there very well may be some government policy there, but I’m sure hospitals don’t want to expose themselves to potential liability, either.
Sounds about right. It was a children’s hospital, and they even made every employee use hand sanitizer whenever the entered or left a room. But, there really was a ton of of stuff left.
The hand sanitizer is to cut down on hospital acquired infections in patients which is a huge but not often publicized problem in hospitals. A sizable proportion of healthcare workers were not washing their hands in between seeing patients so up went the sanitizer stations. RC or someone else may be able to correct me but I believe Medicaid will not pay for the treatment of hospital acquired infections, leaving hospitals to foot the bill. There’s also expensive negligence lawsuits for the inevitable deaths.
I believe that’s a Medicare (yeah, same difference) rule but no, they will not pay for “Hospital Acquired Conditions.” It was meant as a way to improve quality of outcomes.
What about syphilis?
Asking for a friend.
Just back from the range.
AR in .300 BLK. Love, love, love that round. Gonna use it for antelope hunting this year.
Mini-14. Many “gun snobs” will pooh-pooh this rifle. It was the first rifle I ever bought with my own money once I was old enough and I have had exactly one FTF with it (and that was due to a bad magazine). Simply the most reliable, best overall firearm that I own. It is my SHTF gun.
don’t get your 300blk mixed up with your 223 or you are going to have a very bad day.
Personally I don’t understand why 300 blk is so popular. It’s essentially identical to 7.62×39 but twice the price.
YES. I keep them on opposite sides of the shooting bench at all times.
To your second point, I see what you mean. However, I wanted something with the ballistics of an AK but could easily switch out uppers on my AR. I still don’t own a suppressor (waiting on the HPA, yeah don’t hold my breath), but whenever I get one I’d like to use it with the .300 BLK. Not saying that all of that can’t be done with an AK, but it just comes down to a personal preference.
I believe .300BLK was designed from the ground up to be easier to suppress, fit in a STANAG mag without, and feeds more reliably with an upper with M4 feed ramps. If you roll with 7.62x39mm you may run into some issues with feeding. because it’s different. This article here goes through what it more or less takes to get an AR to run on 7.62x39mm. Which to be honest, doesn’t sound much different in getting an AR to run anything else as it was designed for the 5.56x45NATO.
Otherwise the only logical reason is because it’s different. I don’t even buy the .30 cal argument because then you just have an underpowered AR-10. So get an AR-10.
*without modification
I know it was designed to run in ARs but I don’t get this fascination with the AR platform, and this is coming from a guy that owns 4 of them. If you want a 30 caliber intermediate cartridge, then you want an AK! Why would you make a completely new cartridge just to shoehorn 7.62×39 into a STANAG mag? Are AK mags hard to find or less reliable? ARs are great guns but it seems like people tie themselves in knots trying to justify using them for EVERYTHING. It’s okay to have more than one type of gun, guys. Really.
I’m with you on that. If you have a need to fill a specific niche use the right tool for it. Then again, it does minimize training, which for many is cost prohibitive.
If only the government can recognize my right to free ammunition……
Here’s what I remember from the initial push.
The AR platform is time-tested, in current production, and pretty darn cheap for what it is. The military and police audience already knows how to use it.
300BLK was designed to use as much of the current 5.56 AR “infrastructure” as possible. All that differs is the bolt, barrel, and muzzle device. It was “born suppressed”, and envisioned as a way to replace the MP5.
The internal ballistics from the original AAC specs are tuned to make it efficient in a 8-9″ barrel. This makes it easier to suppress, and makes really short SBRs useful.
The whole point of the round is to have subsonic, suppressed rounds that are effective at a longer range than 9mm and .45ACP because they are boat-tail projectiles with a good ballistic co-efficient.
Original AAC references for supersonic and subsonic loads were also tuned to make the point of aim as close as possible between them…meaning you could “go loud” with more powerful ammunition and not be wildly off compared to the subsonic ammo.
Of course, that’s basically the marketing stuff from “Ray” (can’t remember his last name) years ago when the company AAC was still cool. In real life, the commonality of parts is nice mostly if you already have your own “AR infrastructure”. The subsonic round is better at range than pistol rounds, which is entertaining at best for sport shooters. The supersonic round is not quite as powerful as 7.62×39. With the pistol option now clearly open, the SBR advantages have trickled down to everyone. The ammo is expensive-ish, but cheaper than .300 Whisper, the wildcat cartridge that AAC shamelessly copied and submitted to SAAMI (standards body for ammo), used to be.
I think Federal put out a 300BLK load for 16″ barrels. That invalidates the main advantage of the round.
Hog hunters like it, so there’s an endorsement =).
Robert Silvers, not “Ray”. Doh.
What range do you go to around here?
BluCore Shooting Center.
http://www.blucore.com
It’s very close to my house and it has a 100 yd indoor rifle range. I’d love to shoot outside, but this is just way more convenient.
I need to find somewhere close. the only friends of mine with guns lives in leadville, so usually we end up shooting up there at the leadville range.
“lives in leadville”
Lucky bastard.
I love it up there. Living there might be hard, but somewhere nearby?
Before I took the job down in the Springs, I actually had an interview for an Operations Research Analyst at the Climax Mine. I would have killed for that job but didn’t get it.
That would be cool.
I have good friends in Leadville, CO. We talking about the same place? I visited there for thier wedding. I remember waking up in the middle of the night to gasp for air a few times.
yeah, it’s about 10k feet.
My first night visiting there, My friend and I brought a bunch of beer and everclear.
that morning was hell.
It’s not shit on for reliability. I always heard that they had absolute shit out of the box accuracy. Either way idk. Never had one and only shot one once.
Never had problems with it, though I’m not out trying to ping silhouettes at 700 yds with it either. It works perfectly for my applications.
That’s what I’ve always heard (accuracy). The Mini’s big selling point was that it was like having an AR that was legal and cheaper. That’s no longer true. ARs can be had for much cheaper and/or far more accurate.
But you can’t make a jeep flip with an AR!
Second the accuracy point, but I’d heard that there’s one model (“Ranch” maybe?) that never really had any problems, and they’ve allegedly gone back and changed some design and tooling issues so that they’re all more accurate than they were. I don’t know. There was an article in American Rifleman about it. Seems to me that three of the pros are also features of AR-15s, while the other two amount to: the gun is more accurate than alot of the people shooting it, and; it doesn’t look like an AR.
I have a feeling the last one is a big draw. There are definitely a number of people who don’t like the “tacticool” image or don’t want to scare the squares, so they avoid guns that look too “military”. And some people just dig wooden stocks, too.
I’m a Ruger fan, and I wouldn’t turn one down certainly, but for that use case I’m going AR every time. I’ve got an SKS for a bigger caliber rifle-grip. Honestly, I think there’s a reason pistol grips are so popular. I really do find that I’m much more accurate, particularly on follow-up shots. Not pooping all over the Mini-14, just not really my cup of tea.
I’ve pondered picking up a Mini-30 from time to time.
I still dont understand the 300 blackout popularity. It is a highly specialized round designed for military application: snipers at close range with silenced rifles. The round is supposed to shoot sub-sonic for quiet. It really has no civilian application. If I am shooting a rifle I want rifle power, not a pistol round dressed up as a rifle. For hunting give me a 308 and up. I typically hunt with a .375 Winchester.
The new Mini-14’s are much more accurate. I have one in the newest manufacture in .223 and can hit a five gallon bucket at 600 yards fairly easily.
*ducks and runs out of the room*
*lays down covering fire for suthen*
RUN! I’LL HOLD THEM OFF!
If someone want’s to put this video in Vhyrus’s comment…
I think most people are in it for the tacticool, which has its own draw. Outside of “look at me, I’m a high speed, low drag oper8r” sort of 101st Chairborne stuff, the civilian application is “I want to shoot my AR quietly.”
I have seen quite a few people say that if you’re willing to go with very heavy bullets and close range, it can make for a very handy hunting rifle even when suppressed (if you’re willing to wait several months and pony up the $400 to get both a suppressor stamp and an SBR stamp). Not having done any hunting with one, I can’t say for sure if they’re true, but I understand the draw of that concept. I don’t want to wear ear protection while hunting, but I also want to be able to hear well in my old age, and hearing damage is both permanent and cumulative so it’s not something I want to ever take chances on. Something that is light, accurate, easy to use, and can be shot without giving myself hearing damage sounds pretty great to me.
Of course, I say all of that knowing full well all but one of my rifles have wood stocks and unthreaded barrels. I’m very bad at being a modern, young gun owner.
The best part about being on here is that when someone says “It really has no civilian application”, it’s not a segue into “ergo it should be banned.”
Okay, that’s the second best thing. The best thing is the piles of Koch shill-money.
I never wore hearing protection and I used to shoot all the time when I was a kid.
Of course, I’ve been deaf as a post since I was 50.
300BLK works very well in 8-9″ barrels. Now that the pistol option has opened that up beyond actual SBRs, it makes sense for regular people.
300BLK is far superior to other rifle rounds in that length of barrel.
That’s all I got.
Insert facepalm Picard here
Buzz kill? Brian Pallister pushes premiers to delay legalization of pot by 1 year
I expect there’ll be no legal pot by Zoolander’s deadline, but never expected his incompetence will get an assist from other people’s stupidity.
*EDIT FAIRY ADDS IMAGE*
“attending the Council of the Federation meetings in Edmonton”
Say hit to the Klingons for me.
hi not hit, gosh, I almost started an interstellar war
Punching is how Klingons say “hi”, we’re still fine.
I was not literally meaning it, but PRAISE THE EDIT FAIRY!
Sometimes the Edit Fairy gets all whimsical.
That’s why we
loveworship her!Possibly the Premier giving Zoolander the middle finger for having to put up with his bullshit?
I wish, but
Nope, looks like regular retardation. But it’s really something that no one in political class wants to do, because fuck, it don’t affect them in any way, and doing something would make them look responsible for any consequences.
AF/BB.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/attraction-evolved/201707/does-testosterone-really-just-make-men-aggressive
Not according to the ads running on the sports radio. I’m no doctor, but I’ve gotta think pumping a man full of testosterone at an age where he is prone to prostate cancer isn’t going to end well.
Frank Thomas hardest hit.
Went to the dentist this morning. Nothing I didn’t already know. I’ll spare you the details.
However… on the “intake form” there was something I had never seen before; a whole section on gender. Male, female, trans, the whole gamut of chromosomal psychoses. My favorite was the question, “Gender (for insurance purposes)?”
And did you have gender insurance, Brooks?
“I identify as poor”
So you identified as Omnigay-Genderfluid right?
Omnigay-Genderfluid sounds like a villain from GWAR’s live show.
*knocks over chairs, staggers up, begins thunderous ovation*
I thought genderfluid was effectively illegal due to the lack of FDA approved containers. Be careful man.
Please say you picked Genderfuck. That’s my favorite.
I’ve seen this one also. What the hell does it mean?
It means they’re bipolar, borderline, or have some other similarly charming quirk.
It means they want to be recognized as a unique snowflake. Same as the other 50.
Wait, that’s a real term?
And did you have gender insurance, Brooks?
I just paid the penaltax. I’m a rebel.
REPORT TO RE-EDUCATION CAMP GAMMA IMMEDIATELY.
Like Jesus and the footprints in the sand, it never left them.
Speaking of shooting- how the fuck does a chunk of lead hitting a rock/tree/dirt clod start a fire? I keep hearing this. There was a story from the Salt Lake City area the other day where the fire chief blamed a grass fire on plinkers. I’m pretty sure lead doesn’t spark, and not many people shoot tracers.
Hot brass cartridge meets dry grass?
Tannerite, maybe?
This, or a jackass shooting tracers.
More likely hot brass in dry grass.
Out here in California lead bullets are virtually banned. There’s plenty of ammo around made from other, sparking, materials.
Sparking materials? You mean, like High-heeled boys?
Fucking. A.
alcohol?
This off-duty cop was using tracers.
if you are using brass cased, lead core, copper jacket rounds, you can’t start a fire. the problem is that there is steel jacket/steel core/steel cased ammo out there that can spark if you hit a rock or a steel target.
All the cheapo Tula 7.62 I’ve got is steel. When I go to the range and clean up, unless the magnet on a stick is lying to me a lot of other folks are shooting steel-cased ammo, too.
Any fuel, preheated sufficiently will be extremely easy to ignite. I get it. But, still…
Hot brass cartridge meets dry grass?
And you can’t stamp that out?
You seem to be unfamiliar with how stupid most people are.
Serial fraudster Jonathon Gruber was on Bloomberg today (not full video). Apparently Republicans just want to raise premiums, as if his law hasn’t been doing that already, and the only reason the law is failing is because it’s opponents have been lying about it and the only thing that needs to be fixed is that they need to spend more to cover more people and remove risk for insurance companies in the market. Now that this is over insurance companies will apparently flock to exchanges.
How is this guy an economist, let alone at a “top school”?
He says things certain people like to hear? See AGW as a reference.
Also, how the hell does an admitted liar continue to get parked in front of a camera as an expert? When someone lies repeatedly in order to get the results he wants, I consider his credibility to be shot. Crazy idea, I know.
Krugman syndrome, or more commonly known as Lysenkoism.
Civil War Hero’s Long-Lost Sword Was Hiding in an Attic
Would be pretty neat if Matthew Broderick was on hand when they put the sword on public display.
“As part of National Hot Dog Day, the company unveiled its new “Chicago dog sauce,” described as “a delicious sauce made with red ripe tomatoes and a special blend of spices and flavorings, to complement to your Chicago-Style dog.”
The company = Heinz
Ba-zing!
I had meant to insert the name parenthetically in the quote, but forgot, so I ended up like Paul Harvey with a “rest of the story.”
I had meant to insert the name parenthetically
(((Heinz)))?
If it’s really made in Chicago then the secret blend of spices must be burnt gunpowder, corruption, and the crushed hopes of minority children.
Hey, the crushed hopes of minority children make everything taste better. I’ve got a whole orphan division working on it.
What? No blood of police executed dogs?
Yeah, that’s going to go over well. They should hawk their sad catsup elsewhere. It doesn’t go near a Chicago hot dog.
is every bike on Craigslist stolen or just mine?
You’re looking in the wrong area. It’s spelled “c a s u a l e n c o u n t e r s”.
“Missed Connections” is some of the best reading on the internet.
Love me some missed connections.
75% dudes mistaking polite retail/food service from a female as interest/flirting.
25% What…the actual…fuck?
I will admit that I do read a lot off craigslist. I find it hilarious.
You walked by and I whistled to compliment you on your appearance, you scowled and pulled your hat lower walking quickly away. I love a tease, and I know you were teasing me. I walked briskly after you, but you didn’t notice at first, then you did and you walked quickly away. I don’t know how, but you just KNEW how much I love the chase. I lost you when you slipped through the crowd of Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence…I’m not sure what you said to them, but they seemed hell bent on making it harder for me to find you. I love how dedicated you are to making this fun for me. I was wearing the orange jumpsuit with the ankle bracelet that was blaring. Include the color of your hat so that I know it’s really you. No flakes, no fakes!
There was a man in the burlington casual encounters that wanted someone to come over and piss in their jeans with him. He had some photos. He insisted it was totally non sexual.
he posted pretty often.
I love how frequently the “everything before the but is bullshit” thing holds true on CL ads.
This is pure gold.
Satoshi Kanazawa posits that the 75% is a form of Pascal’s Wager for female attraction. Basically, the male has a lot more to gain from a False Positive than a False Negative. Men almost always overestimate female interest in them.
Chicks dig me because I rarely wear underwear..
I had never really thought about Pascal’s Wager as it relates to chicks and dudes trying to hook up.
That said, I think most of the men who post those missed connections would be better served just asking the chick out right there. She’ll probably (75%) say no, but then you won’t have to haunt yourself with, “If only she saw my missed connection!”
My division on my first ship did an amazing job with that after the Portland Rose Festival a number of years ago.
One of my GM’s (gunner’s mate) wrote up a summary from a mystery girl’s perspective about his buddy ET’s (electronic technician) drunken escapades meeting her and chilling for the night (basically free drinks if you’re out downtown Portland in your whites – you won’t pay for anything).
Then we showed him the entry and asked him if he could remember anything about this amazing experience.
It was hilarious…..carried it on for a few days and multiple updates.
You’re gonna get caught if you keep selling stolen bikes on Craigslist.
Doubts about Trump’s agenda seen accelerating U.S. dollar decline
of course there are absolutely no other factors involved with a weakening dollar. Nope. Its only a referendum on the president. Nothing to do with other currencies either. and there’s no point looking at 10 year trends or anything, because that would just complicate narratives.
The funny thing is, a falling dollar would actually benefit Trump, as it would reduce the trade deficits he’s complained about for so long. I’m sure he’d count that as a “win”.
its generally good for corporate earnings since most growth comes from overseas
back in nov, there was a short term $ rally, and the moaning about the threat to earnings was accompanied by people blaming Trump for that as well
Trump has often complained that the $ was too high. Trump calls a dollar decline “winning!”
The FDA and “expired” medications.
I had a doctor who told me to save all my unused prescription pain killers, saying that not only would they remain effective indefinitely, but you never knew when you might need them and not be able to get them.
Dang. That’s a good doctor!
Plus, you can always play the market on Vicodin. Or so I’ve heard.
my mom once gave me pain meds that she’d been saving for 18+ years. they knocked me on my ass. if they’d been any more effective i’d have been reduced to a puddle of jelly.
Any Glibs feel like field testing this?
http://archive.is/mZXwc
The celery thing is known.
People say pineapple makes your jizz taste good, but my research has found that it works with pretty much any sweet fruit. My gf basically force feeds me cherries in the summer for that very reason.
my research
Go on…
I know a poor fellow who is not allowed to drink beer due to his wife’s concerns about the adverse effects on the flavor of his jizz.
I think it probably works out in his favor over the long run.
The fact that you didn’t put an ‘L’ in there…
I would imagine he could choose to drink beer instead of making the other choice.
I have found that carbonated beverages negatively affect the flavor of jizz as well.
Not me. My wife hates celery so much that I’m not allowed to have any in the house.
That’s a smart wife. Good thing you locked her down with that ring.
It works with a simple ring!? That seems like less trouble than the chains I’ve been using.
It’ll cost you a bit more than the chains.
What is a chain if not a bunch of rings?
Pure unadulterated genius.
Is celery high in zinc? All the “spooge like superman after a prostate massage” pills on the internet are just zinc supplements.
ZMA for the win!!
Zima sucks, man.
My wife absolutely refuses to swallow, but since she’s the rare wife that didn’t stop with the bjs after the wedding I can live with it.
Does she snowball ya?
I figured that SJWs would have hijacked that definition and turned it into “a gay orgy of Nazi Alt-Right Trumpkins” or something.
Spit, take it on the face, or run out of the room screaming. “ICK! ICK! ICK!”?
See your mistake was not training her properly before you put the ring on. My gf wouldn’t do it either but I very calmly explained that it is a prerequisite to marriage.
A MODEST PROPOSAL FOR A FAIR TRADE EMOTIONAL LABOR ECONOMY
(CENTERED BY DISABLED, FEMME OF COLOR, WORKING CLASS/POOR GENIUS)
Um, sorry you’re sick? Or is it patriarchy that I said that? Or health-ist?
I always think its hilarious how these people need to emphasise “what” they are in order to have credibility. Mainly because the ‘shit they say’ is such meaningless gibberish, its only by asserting their “IMMA CRIPPLED PoC ARTIST THING” that it achieves significance
OK, I did the avatar thing. So now everybody can change back to make me paranoid that I’m slow on the draw.
And that’s no photoshop. I had to go old school with my Bollman.
First rate. Well done.
it looks like you were born to wear a top hat
you really need the monocle-finisher tho.
And that’s no photoshop. I had to go old school with my Bollman.
Same here. The monocle is on backorder?
Male circumcision is ‘violation of bodily integrity’ and should be banned
“A ban on male circumcision should be put on the political agenda, say Wouter van Erkel and Koen Sijtsema of D66’s youth wing Jonge Democraten….
“A parent who wants to remove, say, his child’s earlobe based on a decree of God would soon be dealing with police and child protection services. So why should the removal of a boy’s foreskin be any different?…
“Freedom of religion implies that every person is free to adhere to any religion they like. That freedom must under no circumstances include the infliction of a religious, permanent marker on another person. Then one person’s freedom curtails the freedom of another….
“Our proposal is to discourage circumcision by increasing the minimum age for circumcision step by step and to legally oblige parents who register their child to be circumcised to adhere to an informed period of reflection.
“This will allow the realisation that circumcision is not right to take hold in religious communities. A future total ban will then be easier and safer to impose. A woman is boss of her own belly; a man should be boss of his own penis.”
(from the Netherlands)
This is not the first time I have heard this reasoning and it is not entirely batshit. Being snipped myself myself, however, I find that the more you freak out over male circumcision the crazier you probably are.
Pretty much in agreement. On the one hand, from a philosophical standpoint, I can see the argument against it. On the other hand, never for a second have I been overtaken with grief over my missing foreskin, and men who get worked up into a frenzy on the subject strike me as lunatics.
Not *entirely* batshit, but by analogy with the RFRA test in the U. S., there are less restrictive means of affirming guys’ right to a foreskin, like letting them avail themselves of modern foreskin restoration techniques if they grow up to become anti-circumcision. It’s better than banning an entire (((religion))).
I decided not to snip my own kid. This was the beginning and the end of all my thoughts about the matter of circumcision.
Yes, for all the talk about a diminished sexual experience, I am able to climax just fine, thanks.
You know who else wanted to ban Jewish religious practices?
Bobby Fisher?
Emperor Heraclius?
The Jewish Pork Producers?
Abū Bakr?
Jesus, man, do you have ANY idea who is really, really into circumcision? Other than the (((obvious))) answer? You sure you want to side with Wilders on this?
It was never a question for me, it’s in the (((contract))). This is the highest quality meta-analysis showing it has essentially no effect on sexual functioning.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23937309
Still, there is a libertarian case to be made that you are altering someone’s body without their consent and that would violate the NAP.
(shrug)
I guess I just don’t really care that much.
FWIW, parents violate their children’s natural rights all the time, it’s called parenting.
Not sure if there is a direct correlation to circumcision, I would have gotten my male child circumcised should the occasion have arisen,
So, don’t cut the umbilical cord either?
Clearly, they are Islamaphobes, dissing khitan.
Men almost always overestimate female interest in them.
I’m doing it wrong. As usual.
CNN contributor Marc Lamont Hill loves himself some murderous Marxists:
Twitter is such a wonderful tool for identifying retards.
So are they saying she didn’t do it, or are they saying she was a heroic revolutionary who shouldn’t be punished for her heroism?
OK, they say she was framed and her trial was unfair. Which is a plausible-seeming claim, though I won’t listen to it from the Cubans, who don’t care a fig for fair trials.
But she was some kind of commie who believed in Revolution, and after an encounter with her and some of her buddies, a cop was dead, and a jury convicted her…each factor makes me a bit more willing to believe the cops’ version over hers.
And there’s the tendency of the Left to adopt Innocent Martyrs who turn out to be guilty, like the Haymarket bombers, the Rosenbergs, etc.
I thought the consensus was that Julius Rosenberg was guilty but Ethel probably wasn’t.
The FBI wasn’t as confident about Ethel as they let on, doesn’t necessarily make her innocent.
Nobody denies she was involved in the shooting, as far as I can tell. She was wounded in the shootout where the officer died, tried and convicted, thrown in prison (tortured, according to her defenders… I can buy that given what usually happens when someone kills a cop), escaped after a couple of years and got political asylum in Cuba.
*reads Lamont-Hill’s timeline*
Well I’ll be damned.
This is like one of the key judo moves of the uberprog = claim that the very act of defending their position is causing psychological stress and harm, while simultaneously lashing out at their opponents.
“I REFUSE TO STOOP TO YOUR RHETORICAL LEVEL, YOU SHIT EATING HOLOCAUST DENIERS”
Sorry, Mr. Hill, if your position is “the jury got it wrong and she’s totes innocent,” then despite your emotions, you have the burden of persuasion of showing where the jury got it wrong.
Oh, and also the burden of showing why fleeing from justice is a good substitute for a more formal appeal of a jury verdict.
Fun fact: Assata Shakur is the Godmother and step aunt of Tupac.
Please say you picked Genderfuck. That’s my favorite.
Heterosexual male, all the way. My penis is a deadly weapon of oppression, and I wield it proudly.
Coming to an adult theater near you!
Not particularly deep, but I enjoyed it.
Sargon mainsplains feminist jokes
12 minutes, so over HM’s tolerance limit, alas. After 4:30 is when he wades into comments, though.
pretty funny.
I thought he had already said his piece on Sarkeesian?
“Not particularly deep, but I enjoyed it.”
That’s what she said.
The Spectator desperately attempting to explain the obvious.
The tax trap: why a £70k family isn’t much wealthier than a minimum wage family
“the family on minimum wage has fully 75 percent of the net income of the £70k family, as shown in the chart below:”
WTF are they bitchin about. They got wayyyyy more room to Prog on the 70k family
The takeaway is obvious to anyone: the minimum wage family isn’t being taxed enough.
anyone in CO use these guys for the CCW license?
I used this guy.
http://www.tacticaliron.com/
He was really good, but if you can get it for free who am I to judge.
I almost don’t believe it. But if it works, and I can just donate money…
I like the philosophy there, It shouldn’t cost extra money to be able to defend yourself.
I bookmarked your site in case.
I Googled Milo Yiannopoulos and found this link from the (((Forward))):
“…as we hit the six-month mark of the Trump administration, Yiannopoulos has accomplished a quick comeback, once again commanding the attention of conservative fans and outraged foes.
“Yiannopoulos re-emerged in May, when he slammed the singer Ariana Grande and headlined a protest against activist Linda Sarsour’s commencement address at CUNY’s public health school….
“…now that he’s back in the saddle again…”
Phrasing!
“He also hired dwarfs to don yarmulkes at a New York book launch party to mock Jewish right-wing pundit Ben Shapiro, an old rival from the days when both men worked at Breitbart.”
Milo seems like a classy dude.
But let me point out that the correct term is “dwarves,” especially given the Jewish-dwarven connection.
Every time you reply to one your own comments, an angel falls from heaven.
I think the ones who were going to fall did so already – but putting everything relevant into a single post is too much like writing an article.
But I’ll try to do better.
Oops, off to a bad start.
But seriously, I’ll try to do better.
Eddie is now entirely responsible for the influx in Satan’s army.
Well, bless your heart!
He was breeding a dwarf, but he wasn’t done yet.
Did he have a Rodger Daltry cape on?
Fuck, wrong song, Well in my defense I was very busy then
I wonder if his stereo is four-way.
I just loved it in her room.
If they’re jewish why do they have a scottish accent? Excepting of course that Scots and Jews share similar stereotypes about money.
Oh my GOD IT’S NOT EVEN 4:00 YET?! THIS DAY IS NEVER GOING TO END!
YOUR IN THE WRONG PART OF THE COUNTRY.
Did anyone else get told some version of this story in school? I remember it more than most of the things I was supposed to learn.
I remember in boy scout camp one year an older black man told us a story about a hunter eating a monster’s tail and that monster coming after him for it, although I don’t remember him using that name.
I remember it in school as an African-American folk tale, but on Googling it the sources say it’s more general Appalachian folklore.
In any event, I think you’d remember the name if he’d used it.
No, we had a clown that haunted a highway for some reason.
Like this?
No, I think it would jump in front of your car, or turn into a tornado like the tasmanian devil or something. Probably just how kids explained to themselves why so many people got in accidents on that road. (the real reason being it has lots of drunk driving accidents)
The Tailypo story was from an Official Storyteller, not other kids.
My recent research shows that it’s a popular story to tell to kids.
I thought this was a common occurrence.
But apparently it’s cause for a round of pants-shitting the likes of which is rarely seen.
Imagine the heads exploding if he had sent a secret planeload of cash to a nation on the terror watch list in the middle of the night.
SF’ed.
SF’d links can be problematic.
Maybe for the hoi polloi.
If I were one of the moderators I’d re-SF it. :-p
The comments are the reason he will win again in 2020.
What year is it?
Tonight I’m gonna party like it’s 1999.
Does that answer your question?
So per CNN (I know, I know), Trump is going to spend upwards of $10 million to primary Jeff Flake next year.
This is not good news for libertarian-leaning Republicans. And Flake isn’t even really libertarian-leaning any longer.
Ahahahaha! Flake is my senator. Molon fucking Labe you big orange douche. I like you Trump, but you better stay in your lane on this one.
Trump, the RNC, or some PAC?
Apropos of not much, The Russians! now seem to be a renewed battle-cry amongst the legions of turd-polishers at CNN and elsewhere.
Does this matter? Should I as a Canadian give a rat’s ass?
Unless major news media outlets are dedicating three times as much time to how the PRC have too much influence on Western politics and society, the answer is no.
You’re sandwiched between Russia and the U. S. Thanks to Trump and Putin, you’re the meat in an Evil Sandwich.
…you’re the meat in an Evil Sandwich.
So, pretty much the same as most of my sexual experiences in Uni. Got it.
Life is freakin great. You can start feeling like your moving forward and then all of a sudden you get kicked in the nuts and pushed back down by the wife doing something uncharacteristically stupid.
“…uncharacteristically stupid” can be forgiven. Both I and the spousal unit have been there several times. As the French would say, Courage!
And it is. But takes a bit before my hands to stop spasming into a choking motion.
Go on.
Well it all started when me and Edith and Meathead were all showering together….
Did Mike put a sock then shoe then sock then shoe on?
He said it was cause he would have one dry foot if there was a fire. Dumb Polock. Normal peoples dont do that
RLM uploaded a video talking about the Han Solo spin-off. Time to pour a drink and give it a watch.
Bits like this are why I love those hack frauds.
Hack frauds? The guys who brought you The Grabowskis?
Learn the lore man.
Fandoms are the worst.
I sent them a DVD of my short films, along with a copy of “Robot Ninja“, but the hack frauds haven’t reviewed it yet.
412 comments. Don’t you people
workpost Tuesday Titties anymore?Tuesday is a tit.
I laughed.
A fucking “loud sound” is why that woman in Minneapolis is dead? Fucking snowflake cops. Send that guy back to Somalia, then he’ll really hear some goddamn “loud sounds”
That’s been my working theory for many these police shootings: the cops are pants-shitting pussies.
Maybe if we stopped telling them how dangerous their jobs are (they aren’t), and constantly making tv and movie heroes about loose cannons, and actually held them accountable…. Sigh. Nevermind.
You know who else heard loud sounds?
Archer?
It’s called tinnitus.
Then Hunchback of Notre Dame?
The bartender at a metal venue?
The really funny thing is, ok, it’s not funny, it’s fucked up, about that article is the part about how police officers are citizens and have the same rights as other citizens. Ok, no, not even fucking close. Anyone else here would be facing a murder trial. But this guy will get paid vacation and nothing else will happen.
Shit, he doesn’t even have to talk.
How long before Harrity is run out of the force for snitching?
And that’s what gives the lie to the whole “bad apple” argument. If it’s only a few dickheads making the Good Guys look bad, then the Good Guys should be on point re weeding out the Not-Good Guys.
But that’s not how it works. The Thin Blue Line, or the Brotherhood of the Shield, or whatever crap they want to glorify it by, is nothing more than “he’s on my team, so I’m going to cover for him no matter what a piece of shit he is, how many laws he breaks, or how many innocents die because of his bad judgement/physcopathic tendencies.
Over the years, I have worked with people who were cheating the customer, engaged in practices that endangered others, and just flat out lied. I called every single out publicly, and certainly never covered for somebody whose panic resulted in another person’s death.
Fuck the police.
I had to go to the local Wal*Mart to get a prescription filled. On the way out I saw some cops in the parking lot who were apparently there because someone complained he left his dog in the car, all I could think is that some asshole would put a person’s life in jeopardy of being shot dead because a dog might get hot, and 1 in 1,000 it would die.
No shit, I saw five cops, four EMTs and three security guys in the mall today, standing around a woman who fainted. Walked by a half hour later, she was being wheeled out to the bus and four cops were still there sauntering out while the fifth cop was looking over the menu at the pizza shop.
I’m pretty anti cop, but, you know, the job takes you right next to a pizza place? I’ll give him a pass on that.
It’s too bad both the body-cams and the camera in the patrol car were turned off, they might have backed up that story.
Yes, Eddy, I noticed, also, as well, that unfortunate fact.
*Takes off tinfoil hat ’cause it’s not really necessary*
driving in an alley
loud noise (that never happens near trash cans or any other alley stuff)
“well, gotta shoot the next person i see i guess.”
And, get this, he’s sitting in the passengers seat, firing out the drivers window.
If I was sitting in the drivers seat… Well, i wouldn’t be covering up for Mr. “Thanks now I’m deaf and probably blind and you stupid shit you just discharged a gun aimed in my direction”.
What’s the distance between the two seats? I’d be pissed.
In these reports they (the police, I assume) keep saying that no weapons were found at the scene — so my first thought is that the cops ditched their guns. I guess police guns aren’t weapons.
Guns kill people. Police are the government. Government can control guns.
Therefore: Police guns can’t kill people.
If you haven’t tuned into Forged In Fire, I highly recommend it.
My little brother is to smithing . He actually wants to convert my grandfather’s old slaughter house on my property in to a shop. I’m not so good at making things, so I mostly involve him in my plots for DIY mischief.
He should apply for the show! They have 4 different smiths per episode, so he has a good shot of being cast!
I don’t know that he’s even done a blade yet. He’s married to a crazy leftist, so even though he collects swords, I don’t think he’s ‘allowed’ to make them.
by the way, slaughter house was not my way of making any points, he was a butcher. The building has meat hooks, a scalding pit and blood trough. Fun to play in as akid.
“slaughter house” was my nickname in college.
we both went to this a few years ago though.