I’m not a morning person by any stretch of the imagination. I’m serving up links, but don’t think you’ll get the sparkling commentary you’ve come to expect from the road-tripping Sloopy.
Even though my Cubbies lost, the Orioles did win last night, so it’s a pretty happy morning here at Chez OMWC/SP… which will become even happier as soon as the mimosas are mixed! The joys of working from home are infinite.
Apparently a Chicago Bear is good for something after all.
How to fight breed-specific legislation.
If OMWC and I were to emulate this couple, we’d be about 140.
Seriously? I can’t even.
And what do you all think about this?
Speechless, in a good way.
Comments
558 responses to “Rough-Cut Tuesday Morning Links”
Very devious using Tiny URL’s. Now we have to click on the links to know what articles we aren’t going to read!
Friggin’ sneaky! What if I accidentally give page views to the Washington Post or Salon???
That’s why I decided not to click any.
ditto.
Or Everyday Feminism! Where’s my fainting couch?
You mock us, but we have browsing standards.
No, not mocking at all. That website scares the hell out of me
EF needs the clicks. If it folds, where will we turn for that much concentrated derp?
NPR?
Jezebel?
Twitter?
Mother Jones?
Vox?
CNN?
I’ve never quite understood why giving “clicks” in and of itself is RHEEEEEEEE! bad. Clicks constitute a [very minute] consumption of a limited resource. As long as you use incognito and/or prevent the sites you are visiting from dropping a cookie and/or don’t provide the RHEEEEEEE! bad juju site with some affiliate revenue, then you are not contributing to the increased success of the content provider in any meaningful way.
RHEEEEEEEEEEE!
I really just don’t want to see their page.
I’m using the minute reduction in traffic valume used when pricing advertising as the justification.
Most link shortening sites are blocked at my workplace, so you all will have to fill me in on what’s going on this morning.
what? you think any of us read the links?
Tinyurl has a way to generate a preview link I think.
Great, now the rest of the comments today will read like “green eggs and ham”, right ma’am?
Those hidden URLs could go to pr0n sites. Not very family friendly!
Depends on the family… My kids are out of the house..
Tiny URLs… how could I have forgot about those. Now I can still lure guys to nekked Lena Dunham pages, bwahahhahhaaahhaaa!!!
If possible, it would be much preferable to either not use the URL shortener. There are a number of things that get linked to in daily links that I don’t want in my browsing history on my work computer.
You would think the Bear would be the choker…
<— this guy
A little early for fetish-talk, isn’t it?
Nein!
46) There’s a new movie coming out in August, Bushwick. (As an aside, how can there already be reviews and rating on Rotten Tomatoes if it’s not going to come out for several weeks?) Here’s the description:
“Texas is attempting to secede from the Union, and militia forces have descended upon New York City to claim it as an East Coast base of operations and negotiation tool.”
This is literally what progs dream about. Texas invading Brooklyn, and how badass they’ll be when that happens. Never mind this is the most outlandish scenario imaginable—if Texas did secede, the whole point would be not to have to deal with smug New Yorkers ever again! Plus, a bunch of effete Brooklyn hipsters holding off Texans? Please, son.—But not important, this is pure prog wish-fulfillment. The chance to slaughter some of those backwards deplorables, under circumstances where their actions are morally justified.
Anyway, wasn’t there was already a move about a Texan invading New York and being defeated? And I’d guess that Midnight Cowboy was a much better movie than this one will be.
There are reviewers who get pre-release screenings.
I’d also add that Bushwick would be completely utterly and totally pointless as an objective for a hypothetical Texan army/naval operation. Unless the Texas military has a hankering for organic, artisanal, free-range mayonnaise. A more logical objective would be to secure the Verrazano Narrows, where they’d have effective control over New York Harbor and two established military bases – Fort Hamilton and Fort Wadsworth. Add to that the fairly conservative populations in Bay Ridge and Staten Island would probably make for a fairly congenial climate for the “invaders”.
“Attention Staten Island! You like pickup trucks! We like pickup trucks! You like big-haired women! We like big-haired women! Let us be friends and not enemies!”
I think it would go fine as long as the Texans didn’t confuse “Hey! Fuhgeddaboudit!” as necessarily a rejection of their offer.
“These guys all sound like Katrina refugees from New Orleans”
Fantastic, Brett. I’m dyin’ here.
Bushwick is still a pretty dangerous part of Brooklyn. It’s only in the beginning stages of gentrification, i.e. where the artist types that can’t afford to live in the fully gentrified parts of Brooklyn go. It’s not exactly somewhere I’d walk around at night looking like I had expensive electronics or anything.
LOL that sounds like a completely idiotic premise and plot line for a film. Red meat a la Red Dawn but for progs.
Except Red Dawn didn’t have Wolverines shooting at Californians or whatever.
Think of how much better that movie would have been…
That’s because California welcomed the invasion..
Old time Brooklynites like my grandparents and their ancestors could hold their own – they were longshoremen and shipbuilders, roughnecks and bricklayers. Tough Irish and German bastards. The kind of people who live in Brooklyn now could be conquered by the Boy Scouts.
Texas already has a very large and functional port. Its called Houston There is no reason for them to want new York harbor. If Texas succeeded, the only states that would have to work about agression are those that border it, and I think many of those states may be willing to along with texas if texas would have them. I would mind my state experimenting being a part of the new texas republic, if it was done right.
I believe the hypothetical invasion was as a negotiating tactic. In that case, the point wouldn’t be acquiring NYC, it would be denying NYC to the U.S. In that case, securing the Harbor itself would probably be sufficient for that goal.
Of course, my guess is that the filmmakers never stopped to consider the implications of why a hypothetical Texas invasion would be a bad thing – the imposition of laws against the wishes and values of the populace. If they did, the obvious question would be why the Texans wouldn’t be properly afforded the same consideration.
We’re talking about New York. We call that “Tuesday”.
So Texas, in the Gulf of Mexico is somehow going to put tens of thousands of troops into NYC as a “negotiating” tactic to force the US to agree to the seccession?
You can tell progressive morons came up with the idea because that is about the dumbest idea I have ever heard of from a military strategy standpoint.
Taking over New Orleans, which is MUCH closer and has a lot more people who probably side with Texas and is much more strategically important makes infinately more sense. Sure a tactical strike at New York to take out the media and financial centers might make some sense but you could probably accomplish that with cyber warfare
I’m not saying the premise makes any sense. I’m saying what I understand the premise to be. And, even there, I don’t think they’ve thought it through. Suspending disbelief that such a fight would happen, the only logical approach would be a naval operation. I think they’re doing the story as a land battle.
Also, as Lachowsky suggested, it’s entirely plausible that, in a secession scenario, LA would choose to join TX. That would make the East Coast ports all the more crucial for the U.S.
My Joke wa sunrelated to the Texans. The arbitrary rulemaking by an occupying force wouldn’t be all that distinguishable from the way New York operates now, so we might not notice…
And in this hypothetical, siege would be more effective/efficient than conquest, so the whole premise lacks any strategic thought. If a free Texas were to conquer a city to hold ransom, it would be DC. If they wanted to deny the port of New York, they would take some old tanker ships up there and sink them across the mouth of the harbor.
Taking over LA/Long Beach Harbor on the other hand and a strip of territory along the Mexican border would be a real commercial masterstroke – much more than something like NYC.
The first town the Texans will take over will be Amarillo, and all of the nuclear weapons awaiting disassembly that are sitting there at Pantex. After that, like the situation we are seeing with North Korea, the rest of the U.S. will agree to to just about anything.
A Williamsburg Red Dawn. Sounds like something you’d want Jodorowsky or Gilliam to direct.
Michael Bay.
Because if anything, that movie needs moar EXPLOSIONS!!
Because Texans are the wrong kind of people and they have the wrong ideas, duh!
/prog
Don’t forget, the Left ridiculed the idea of secession and shouted down any proposals as a racist plot to bring back slavery… Until Trump won. Now all of a sudden, it’s totally cool if some people in California feel like the FedGov doesn’t represent them and want out.
That looks hilarious and awful. I’ll probably hate watch it once on a bourbon binge
Texans in black helicopters invading New York.
I guess if you treat it as the inverse of your average Texan’s paranoia about New Yorkers, it makes some sense. Not much, but some.
I can just picture a scene where Brooklynites in their one-speed bikes and flip flops riding to apply essential oils and giving artisinal coffee to their wounded fighters.
This sounds like the dumbest, most unrealistic plot since the time Superman stopped Lex Luther from dropping CA and NJ into the sea.
Maybe it’s a comedy, though perhaps not intentionally.
I enjoyed the use of Hasidic commandoes in the teaser trailer
… all tinyurls… I can’t determine if the sites at the other end are browsable without giving them traffic…
*decides against clicking any, just to be safe*
You deviousness was overcome by your wonderful musical selection.
“And what do you all think about this?”
Eh, he has a point. Chaldean Christians probably don’t have much of a future in Iraq. I’d probably overstay a visa too, rather than go back to that hellhole.
Leave it to the LA Times to leave out some pertinent info
Just because government agents say it doesn’t mean it’s true.
And here is the problem with either illegal immigration or immigration laws. The remedy to that is trial by jury.
I contend that the correct solution is to allow for the option of trial by combat.
If they have been arrested for murder, or rape, would they not get a jury trial? Or are they just scheduled for deportation after arrest? Honest question. That is not something I have thought about. I assumed they received a trial by jury due to the large population of non citizens in prison.
In this case, even if they are innocent, they’ll still be remanded from custody to ICE, most likely. My broader point is that if they have illegal immigrant witnesses or alibis, they might have trouble getting those people to come forward. So it is very possible that innocent people may go to prison for something they didn’t do. They may get away with something horrible like that because their victims are in similar circumstances.
horrible.
This dude had a string of armed robbery convictions under his belt and was not deported because Vietnam said that they did not want him. He then hacked five people to death in a house in SF.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Ingleside,_San_Francisco_homicide
Wood.
I’m guessing they just saw he had a fancy case and decided to take it? They’ll really regret that when they discover the dummy doesn’t like being taken from the human he controls. I’ve seen this Twilight Zone episode.
That is one of the scarier episodes I ever saw.
Yeah, it is freaky. The voice actor doing his voice did an amazingly creepy job
Back i n the late 90s/early 200s when they issued the DVDs with four episodes per disc, the disc with “The Dummy” was on also came with the episode about Talky Tina. Probably the freakiest TZ disc there was.
Oh yea! Talky Tina killed Telly Savalis. Great, super-creepy episode.
It was distressing to watch Kojak get owned by a fucking doll.
True that. But we at least have Kojack to watch as compensation
Who loves ya, baby?
Crocker! Take a memo!
You mean MSG Big Joe?
A pretty bad BtVS episode.
Well, they may believe that the dummy is valuable and they can sell it.
That episode was creepy as hell.
I’ve seen that movie, too.
Did Gilmore do the links this morning? My firewall pisses on your tiny ulrs.
No bullet points = No Gilmore
No disregard for capitalisation rules for proper nouns and random use of an equals symbol in place of hyphens and dashes = No Gilmore
If it had been a Gilmore post it would have been posted as a comment on the last article.
There is so much more to my random internet punctuation (and lack thereof).
So much more.
Feminism Co-opted
“nce “feminists” are re-imagined as liberal Democrats, revolution (sorry Susan B.) and radicalism are done.”
Holy cow, are they allowed to notice this?
It then goes on to talk about militarization of the population. It’s funny to me half the things she complain about are what people do voluntarily (discounts, etc). At least she hits on budgets and policy.
You see, these voluntary actions are what she’s complaining about, because they go to military folks. Military folks are mostly men, ergo these must be stopped. Discounts and praise are only for women, donchaknow.
Okay, I may be exaggerating, but every time I hear a “Patriarchy Feminist” ranting, all they seem to say is how much of a raging misandrist they are, based upon the required presuppositions of all of their statements. Presuppositions that they never seem to make a case to support, and may simply not even notice.
To question their presuppositions is to out yourself as a patriarchal shitlord.
Every time I hear someone talk feminism, I clearly can read between the lines that the objective is to have Uncle Sam (a.k.a the US tax payer) pay their bills so they can claim to be independent and able to look like they can do it all on their own.
“camouflage clothing everywhere”
The girls in my neck of the woods wear camouflage too. My wife has a camouflage Cabellas jacket that she wears every winter. She is breaking stereotypes amd fighting the patriarchy. She’s #so brave
I don’t disagree. Feminists like Rose Wilder Lane and Isabel Paterson are spinning in their graves.
Sounds like it was really swell that Minnepolis hired a Somali cop – except he’s a nervous jumpy asshole who hates women.
They probably assumed he’d fit right in.
Still confused how any model libertarian from the Somalian paradise would ever sign up to be a copper.
“Since then, Noor has refused to be interviewed by investigators”
How is that even allowed?
5th amendment
It applies even to cops.
Sure. And if I fuck up at work and plead the Fifth – I hit the sidewalk unemployed that day.
Exactly.
Is it just the 5th protections? Or is it maybe a police union perk?
I honestly don’t know. I thought it was a police union perk. If it was just a 5th amendment deal I thought the story would be more like “During an interview with investigators, Noor -through his lawyer- declined to answer any questions and invoked his 5th amendment rights”. That is what would happen if you or I shot and killed someone.
Not even being forced to meet with investigators seems like something that the union negotiated.
Probably both. If it was me, I would be forced to go to the interrogation and the could choose to say nothing. A cop I guess gets the perk of not having to attend. Although, I’m not sure they can force you to go to an interrogation sans an arrest.
In FL, LEOs are required by law to have representation during any criminal questioning, and may request up to 48 hours before being interviewed.
The Fifth doesn’t allow you to refuse to be questioned. It allows you to refuse to answer specific questions by going on the record that you are pleading the Fifth.
You too can refuse to talk to the cops after you shoot someone. The difference is, you’ll go to jail until trial or bail.
So why was he on the force at all? Because he was the first Somali Muslim on the Minneapolis police force. He was a symbol of our glorious multicultural mosaic. He was a rebuke to “Islamophobes” and proof that what they say is false.
Well that paid off in spades, didn’t it
I see what you did there.
From the mayor’s statement: “And I want to be very clear that Officer Noor, a fully trained officer in the Minneapolis Police Department, won’t be treated differently than any other officer.”
No, and (unfortunately) yes.
a fully trained officer
didn’t he go through some sort of accelerated program?
For you Ayn Rand fans….
The NYT ran a bullshit article?
No one could have seen that one coming.
if Texas did secede, the whole point would be not to have to deal with smug New Yorkers ever again!
They want that huge storehouse of Joo gold!
I’d be surprised if there’s enoigh gold left in there to make it worth a military campaign.
‘Shrinkflation’ has hit over 2,500 consumer products over the past five years
On the other hand I just get bigger and better with every passing year.
I, for one, am happy that smaller serving sizes are now available.
Fig Newtons used to come in sleeves. That was a serving size.
+1 Brian Regan
Me too. My favorite are the 7.5 oz Coca-Cola’s
This has been going on for decades, it’s hardly news.
Have you been spying on me again?
I seek the secrets of your guzzoline.
Who owns Bartertown!?
It was Annexed last month, and is part of the New Antipodian Administratum District. The adept in charge of that region is…Milieus Minor.
Yup. That’s why when you get cereal, the fuckin’ bag is filled half way even though the box is friggin’ huge. I’m not sure if this is captured in the inflation stats. Do the stats measure by cents per unit of weight? If so, then they should capture this. If not, then the inflation stats are fucked… not that I trust the inflation stats to begin with.
Not quite, the bags are filled with gas to prevent people from returning boxes of cereal crumbs. This does however make size deflation much harder to detect unless you actually look at the volume indicated on the bag.
It’s been happening for longer than five years. And I don’t like it. Instead of being a half gallon, orange juice and ice cream are some arbitrary number of ounces. Tuna has shrunk for 8 to 5 ounces. Tomato paste has been watered down. That screws up recipes dependent on the old quantities.
That screws up recipes dependent on the old quantities.
And that’s what really pisses me off. Just raise the fucking price, but keep standard quantities. All the shelves show what you are paying per unit anyway, so it doesn’t even hide the price increase anymore.
The loosely rolled toilet paper is annoying. You have to constantly change the roll. Just pack it back to regular tightness and charge more.
Always shop by total square footage amount. Scotts is the best for this in both toilet paper and paper towels. It’s on the packaging. It will tell you if you’re getting ripped off by comparing one paper towel six pack (285.6 sq ft) vs. another (703.4 sq ft).
for relatively the same price.
Scotts? The ultra-thin-so-you-need-to-use-three-times-as-much-length-toilet-paper? That Scotts?
I use it just fine. It doesn’t clog the toilet, either.
Is that shrinkflation happening with rubbers too? DAMN! I thought I was still growing.
Yea, my Habanero BBQ almonds are now 14oz, for the previous 16oz price. *cry*
Has anyone seen Rufus? Or John Titor?
Canadian polygamous leader found guilty of having 25 wives
“in the tiny community of Bountiful”
Sounds like the place lives up to its name.
A brood of ~150 children over a couple decades is pretty fucking incredible.
yeah… lot of fucking…
The guy must be miserable. One wife is all I can deal with.
You know, I never had a Nanaimo bar.
If I were Canadian, I for one would feel much safer knowing the government was prosecuting people who entered a voluntary arrangement with each other.
This never makes sense to me. Government makes it clear that you aren’t married until they say you are (and aren’t not married until they say so either) yet then they prosecute people for being in “marriages” that they didn’t sanction. Isn’t this guy actually just guilty of having one wife and 24 girlfriends? Is that illegal?
The wives in those pictures were young and pretty…the husbands, neither. Makes a man consider converting…
How many sandwiches can a man need?
It’s a quiet resting place for the active couple who met at a roller-skating rink in Boston on a blind date.
That’s quite the image.
Good on Mr. Bernthal. I get sick of the hate poor pit-bulls get. One of my aunt and uncle’s previous dogs was a pit-bull, and he was the sweetest dog I’ve ever run across. Completely gentle and loving.
I first read that as:
and he was the sweetest dog I’ve ever run over.
Goodrich tires do an extra good job at tenderizing the meat.
That’s just a bunch of BF.
KO(2))!!
Kegogi?
Pit Bull breeders have had to put German Shepherds and Rotties in the kennel runs to keep people from stealing their Pit Bulls because Pitties are friendly and will typically just go with anyone.
I love seeing stuff like this. I think it goes a really long way towards combating the negative stereotypes they’ve gotten.
My wife and I fostered pits for a number of years, and the biggest issue besides abuse was how wildly misidentified they were. Apparently, if someone calls Animal Control or the police to report a stray dog, the responder has to go with whatever breed the caller reports. No shit. So we’ve fostered “pit bulls” who were quite clearly Aussie Shepherds, Lab mixes (that’s a big one), even a fox terrier mix.
Our two dogs are rescues, one of whom is an AmStaff, the other of whom is a Rhodie-Pit-Something Else mix. They’re both good with kids, but it’s really almost spooky how gentle our staffie is with our toddler. This is an 80-pound bowling ball who rams you with his head to get your attention and does laps around the couch, but whenever my daughter’s around he moves like he’s defusing a bomb. Not scared or anxious, just really, really careful.
My GSD was gentle with everyone, but especially with the kids. It was almost as if she took responsibility for them – sleeping in their rooms, staying between them and the street or pond, etc. It was really cool.
McCain’s going back to work? It’s not like he’ll show any discernible deteroration in job performance. Maybe it will give him some amusing verbal tics.
I was hoping he’d take the opportunity to retire. I mean, “I’ve got brain cancer and need to focus on treatment” is the perfect out from a job he is clearly unfit for.
He has a glioblastoma, which means he very likely has only a few months to live. And he’ll probably be prone to seizures during that time. If he makes it a year, he’s an exception. Most people would just retire and try to have a good time with family while they still can. But McCain, like Hillary and so many other power mad politicians, cannot do that.
Well, it looks like someone secured his fall invites to the cocktail party circuit.
I’m sure Nick Gillespie would have been happier if Trump had signed some bills on a big border wall and trade protectionism.
Apparently. Or his TDS has just scrambled his brain.
Since when did “passing significant pieces of legislation” become a good thing in the eyes of libertarians?
Oh, Reason, I didn’t leave you, you left me.
I’m sure they’d have been pleased as punch if he actually got his healthcare bill through. Right?
Since when did “passing significant pieces of legislation” become a good thing in the eyes of libertarians?
About the time they started openly campaigning for Hillary Clinton?
Long time lurker since Reason. Posted maybe once or twice there. Registered here to say the exact same thing. And this thinking is the same thing that lets the useless congresscritters continue to not fulfill the promises that got them elected in the first place. Just get some idiot like Nick to go in public and say it’s Trump’s fault that nothing is getting done. Definitely not that they’re too spineless to do anything.
Also, how exactly can Trump pass significant legislation if no legislation is ever brought to his desk? Surely the Jacket should know that the president isn’t king. Other people have to pass legislation to him first. It’s not his fault the Republicans have been screwing the pooch on bring some kind of healthcare legislation to him.
At least as far as this point goes, Trump has been quite hands-off as far as trying to rally repubs to get things done. So, while you are correct that a fractured R party and an obstinate D party are ultimately responsible for things not being done, Trump could definitely be doing more than he is.
He’s not a libertarian, but a cosmo. Sometimes it takes a Trump to chase the fakes ones out of their safe spaces.
I don’t know how the first sentence ties to the second in that quotation.
Wasn’t that, “Small people talk about people” a Hihn line?
Nick Gillespie is hihn?
Maybe. It’s just weird. I’m going to talk about how awful this person is, and then say we shouldn’t focus on personalities. Maybe his quote got edited for length and he was making a more cogent point. There’s something to be said for “This is why libertarianism is so important. We don’t have to subscribe to the Great Man theory of governance. We believe that systems and institutions are more important than the personalities that run them. Look at our current President, “He is incompetent. He has passed no significant piece of legislation in 100 days despite his big promises. He is an embarrassment to the American people and around the globe. What we need to do as libertarians is not talk about people, we need to talk about systems and policies,”
That would be a pretty good point.
Yeah, that popped into my mind too. Barring an edit for brevity Nick is full of shit here. Then again he’s quoted by CNN, an organization where intellectual honesty and consistency is a net negative.
“Ultra crazy right wing libertarian asked about Trump. The answer will shock you!”
It’s funny, I thought that was the job of the bicameral legislative branch. I haven’t noticed the executive being a highly productive veto machine since January, Nick.
Look, now that trump is president, libertarians need to get in line with the left alliance.
As I once heard Nick exclaim on the 5th column podcast in regards to his harsh words about Trump, “Um, hello people, I’m a Libertarian, I am going to be skeptical of people in government”
Nothing to see here folks.
Sorry, for some reason I regularly confuse Matt Welch and Nick Gillespie.
Never mind that he has to put up with a) the media and b) activist judges thwarting his decisions.
and a number of Republican legislators who are decidedly #NeverTrump ers
and very small Republican majority in the senate.
Best thing to say about Trump? He’s not Hillary. And his SC pick. If Hillary was in office… yikes.
It’s been an awfully long time since there was a president who WASN’T an embarrassment. Why get bent out of shape about it now?
It’s like the Kid Rock for Senate story. All the huffing and puffing about how unqualified he is…..OK, fine – where were all those stories when Al fucking Franken ran for the senate? At least Kid Rock is actually successful in his chosen field. Al Franken was a second-string guy on Saturday Night Live whose crowning cinematic achievements were Stuart Saves His Family and playing an idiot baggage handler in Trading Places.
You misunderstand. The only qualification you need is a big old ‘(D)’ next to your name.
(D) stands for qualifie(D).
It is known.
More like Credentiale(D)…
Suck my dick Nick and maybe switch to a leather cleaner that doesn’t kill brain cells.
Wow. That’s some nonsense from Nick.
Nick has a really bad case of TDS. To even suggest that Trump is worse for libertarians than Hillary or Obama, is laughable.
Now that libertarian is becoming an almost household word, expect to see more fake libertarians, like Nick, and expect to see lots more dumbshits writing articles and books completely misrepresenting libertarian ideals.
almost linked that quote last night.
Who knew libertarians loved EO’s? Who knew we judge based on number of bills passed?
This is why this keeps happening
It drops off a cliff right around the time of the first Glibertarians post. What an odd coincidence.
A 6:00 News Voice intones, while the video pans across a conference room full of unconscious bodies:
Three people were hospitalized today with what experts are calling “the worst case of Shut the Fuck Ups” since the John Kerry presidential campaign. Sources inside the rooms report that Nick Gillespie’s Hair lectured them for hours about how terrible Donald Trump is, taking short breaks only to reapply Grecian Formula and remind his audience that “What we need to do as libertarians is not talk about people, we need to talk about systems and policies.” But our contacts say that this admonition aside, Nick Gillespie’s Hair refused to talk about anything Donald Trump for at least the last nine months.
We reached out to Mr. Gillespie’s Hair for comment. Here’s what he had to say. “You know, I just don’t have time for this, I need to get back to posting ahistoric, context free articles about Trump with an unflattering photo of him speaking. That’s what a real libertarian does in a situation like this.”
From square one Gillespie was one of the ones saying how libertarians needed to become the ‘vanguard’ of the Resistance. Why he has never acted as sufficiently aggressive when statist career politicians come into office or why he happens to only be this aggressive when it allows them to kowtow to the left is of course left unquestioned.
Game of Thrones Sex Scenes becoming feminist?
Remember kids, we’re not laughing with you, we’re laughing at you.
They seem to like emasculated men on the show.
I was reading someone’s discussion of either this episode or the one before it, and they brought up that Dany Sue’s advisers are mostly women, with the only men being two eunuchs (one of color!) and a dwarf. Funny, when you put it that way.
What’s also funny is that I think the gender-less Prince who Was Promised trick is perfectly in line with Martin’s methodology of deconstructing the fantasy epic; it’s just one more SJW straw on the donkey’s back though at this point.
I am slowly getting to the point of wanting the Night’s King to win.
All of the social-signaling, go grrl, feminist bullshit is really turning me off to the show. They really insist on beating you over the head with it.
In the book, Dany is written as a spoiled stupid teenage brat. If fatso ever starts writing again, maybe she’ll show some character development. But so far she has only been a good argument against hereditary monarchs.
Yeah, the show actually depicts many of the female characters as being older and more competent than they were written in the books. It seems that once the show runners got off-book, they felt free to write in all sorts of ridiculous feminist bullshit. I find it really irritating, and it takes me out of the story.
Yep – there’s a noticeable difference once they ran out of book, or just cut ties with them. Like last week at the end when I just shock my head at the muddled confusion they made of the last few scenes.
Eh, I’m not too disappointed yet. I always figured it would move down more towards the realm of stupid once it started going it’s own way, so I prefer to think of the show as more of a high-budget fanfiction this time around. Watching it that way, it’s easier to overlook some of the virtue-signaling in it.
Except for some of those extraordinarily stupid strategic decisions made in the last episode. That really irritated me.
Nothing can be as bad as the Walking Dead arc… how hard is it to make a series about zombies? Apparently very difficult (if you’re the TWD writers).
Never watched TWD, are you talking about bad strategy or SJW politics?
The long and meandering plot that takes forever to get anywhere…
Because normal people would figure out how to wipe out the zombies and reestablish a normal society.
What was it the late, lamented Romero said about TWD? Something like, “It’s a soap opera with a zombie now and again.”
Doo dooooo-doodoo- doo doo doo doo doo doooo. Dooooooooo-dooo doodoodooooooo doodoo dododooooooooo
Doo dooooo-doodoo- doo doo doo doo doo doooo. Dooooooooo-dooo doodoodooooooo doodoo dododooooooooo
Da da dada DA da DA DA DAAAA! *twinkle*
Sandstorm by darude?
WTF is wrong with you people? Can’t you tell it’s supposed to be Benny and the Jets??
I read it too fast and got Benny Hill.
Not enough yowling
I thought it was the Police and you got stuck on the opening line.
The Police?
Her body is a work of art. She’s stunningly beautiful. However, the whole scene was stupid and overlong.
And by her I mean, Missandei, not Dany.
Way to ruin it for me.
NO SPOILERS GOD DAMMIT. I’m almost done with season 1.
Everyone dies.
Find something else to do with your time.
Like agonize over whether or not clicking through will give a website traffic?
*scratching chin emoji*
Refraining from an action has a much smaller overhead in time and effort.
I just want to add that the actress that plays Messiande (Nathalie Emmanuel) is one of the most viscerally attractive people I’ve seen in a long time. She hits *every* button in my brain in all the best ways.
Good christ she’s hot.
Shout out to ‘dem tittays. Now (and once before like 2 seasons ago) they belong to the ages and they can’t be taken from me!
Oh, I really like episode two. Although I am known to have a pathological (I actually think I might have a sincere problem) affliction where I find it nigh-impossible to actually hate things. Anger/hatred isn’t an emotion that I understand or can express—even in situations would it absolutely should be boiling over. So there’s that.
But UUUUUUUUGH.
****SPOILERS*****
Missandei’s moment talking to Dany about the “mistranslation” was just…..fuck-off brutal. The point of saying that it the prophecy could refer to Jon is all well and good, but I immediately rolled my eyes. Just reflexively. Such shitty, shitty writing.
Is that scene ever in the books? (I know we’re ahead of the books but I suppose somewhere that point could’ve come up and been addressed in the extant canon.)
Not really. The best theory I’ve seen about the book version runs something like this: Azor Ahai is a prophecy. There’s no evidence that said prophecy has a definitive answer, it’s all due to the interpretation. It’s possible one person is Azor Ahai, or perhaps multiple people, depending on how it’s interpreted. But know, it’s “the prince that was promised.” Everyone just automatically infers that that could mean a male or female, without it being explicitly stated.
What annoyed me about that scene was that the term “prince” was used as a neuter term in our own, real, actual history. Elizabeth I referred to herself as being among the company of princes, meaning royal rulers or heads of state. So you don’t have to say “princess”; you can just say “prince” in context is gender-neutral.
It’s just one of the many reasons I prefer the books over the show. Martin may be a Democrat but at least he has a half-decent grasp of history.
Wait, is this saying SugarFree has a ventriloquist dummy? Or is it saying SugarFree IS the ventriloquist dummy?
Damnit, tag fail.
He is a ventriloquist dummy, being run by Chthulu’s tentacle up his ass.
Feminism has also been constantly thwarted by co-optation.
This is why I favor ruthless iron-fisted dictatorship. By me. I won’t lose focus, or get bogged down in petty quibbling about who oppresses whom. I’ll oppress everybody, and they’ll fucking well like it.
#1: Chicago Linebacker Saves Man Choking on Brisket at Busy Airport: “Mom Would Be Proud”
#2: PETS & ANIMALS
‘Walking Dead’ star adopts sweet puppy, encourages others to ‘rescue a pit bull’
#3: Natick, Mass couple celebrates 75th wedding anniversary
#4: John McCain set for Senate return on Tuesday following cancer diagnosis
#5: Detroit judge blocks deportation of more than 1,400 Iraqi nationals
#6: SF man’s ventriloquist dummy stolen in mugging
On that last one…a SugarFree ventriloquist dummy sounds absolutely terrifying.
As for number 2, didn’t know McCain liked puppies. *Too soon, yeah, yeah.
Pretty soon, it’ll be too late to make that joke?
Blog post critical of Kansas tax policies gets national attention
Once again they ignore the fact that the problem with the Kansas tax cuts wasn’t that they cut taxes. It was that they failed to cut spending when they cut taxes. This jackass is getting tax breaks to move to Missouri. That’s the real reason he is moving his company.
Did Gilmore do the links this morning? My firewall pisses on your tiny ulrs.
Not Gilmore. Forrest Gump.
[insert “don’t know what’s inside” reference]
Due to way too many headaches and hassles happening with our upcoming move, Dr. Girlfriend and I decided it would make life easier if we were married. Now we’ve been together for 16 years already so this is no big deal and we want to do it as fast and cheap as possible. To that end we picked up our marriage license so our political overlords can solemnize our union under the one true religion of The State, but we need an officiant. Since we aren’t religious and we despise The State we want a friend to do Universal Life Church ordination and sign our papers with no fuss or hassle. Does anyone here know the legality of doing this in Texas (Travis county specifically). My reading of the statute says this is all good, but I have not been trained in the dark arts of legalese, so unfortunately when I read a statute I actually think it means what it says. Do any of y’all have experience with this?
Danke!
Hmm… I got married at a court house. Took all of 15 minutes and no Big Juju priest needed.
Except the Judge, who is also a Big Juju priest. Also if ULC works I can literally have my friend sign the papers over drinks at the bar nothing is easier that that.
Friends of mine got *(married by a “minister” – friend of their who took online classes. He doesn’t even lead a church.
Justice of the Peace is about secular as it gets, if that’s your worry. If it’s the big government thing, then there’s no real way around it so why not make it as short as possible. I was pretty much in the same boat as you – I was going out with my girlfriend for 10 years before we got married. It wasn’t until she wanted kids that we decided to go for it.
*It was one crazy wedding – women were supposed to dress as faeries while the men were supposed to dress as pirates. I wore a suit ‘n’ tie (corporate pirate).
In Texas, you can take advantage of common law and avoid the whole mess.
http://statelaws.findlaw.com/texas-law/common-law-marriage-in-texas.html
We actually thought about that but we’re moving out of state and I’ve seen some stories where states and organizations just flat out don’t respect it despite the fact that they’re supposed to and then you have to sue to have your out of state common law marriage honored.
According to https://www.traviscountytx.gov/dro/common-law
“You can record a form prescribed by the Bureau of Vital Statistics which is available at your county clerk’s office.”
I thought in Texas you could get that done by the Pit Boss at your favorite BBQ joint. If that isn’t true, well it damn well should be.
Yes. Any reverend, including Universal Life, can sign your marriage certificate. Probably in the presence of two witnesses. May the Invisible Hand bless your union.
Excellent. I don’t think you even need witnesses in Texas. At least the marriage license says Witnesses (optional)______________________________
Get the bartender or waitperson to sign. Maybe they’ll buy you guys a round on the house.
It’s worth a shot…
I love this idea. This is now part of the plan.
Congratulations on your joint decision to submit to Union by State. I can’t help you, we used a complete stranger that functioned in the capacity of Justice of the Peace.
I had a random guy in a furniture store who happened to be a justice of the piece marry me and my wife. cost me nothing and took about 5 minutes.
“justice of the piece”
Vigilante or agent of ZARDOZ?
Why not both?
“justice of the piece”
Cool name for a pimp.
No double “Ds” for the double dose of pimp’n?
Aren’t you the Lazy Boy.
It’s actually a decent story. My bride to be and I had gone to the. our house and got our license. We then booked an appointment in Eureka Springs with a lady who ran a little chapel and married people for 50 bucks. We drove up there and got caught in a thunderstorm that was bad enough that we had to pull off the road because I couldn’t see anythung.
We pulled into a custom furniture shop and decided to hop out and look around while we waited for the storm to abate. This was no Lazy boy shop. It was all hand carved wooded furniture that was brilliantly done and had 5 figure price tags to match. We wandered around for a little while and I got a call from the lady, saying that she couldn’t do the ceremony today due to the storm. (her chapel was outside).
The proprietor of the business eventually came to talk to us and asked what we were doing in town (eureka springs is mostly a tourist town and I assume this shop catered mostly to tourists) We told him what we doing and he offered to marry us right then. We said sure and I got the license out of my truck and we did the deed right there.
Lightning and I think you two may have conceived Kim Il Sun.
You otto stop with the puns, man.
Justice of the Piece of Ass?
Hopefully he didn’t demand Droit du Segnieur.
That’s PRESIDENT TRUMP to you!
‘Justice of the piece’
If you’ll excuse me, I’ll be taking that title now.
Tweet to Justice Willett and see if he’ll do it!
I went to a wedding in TX once. Outdoors. In August.
Anyhoo, the bride’s conservative rural TX family were getting antsy, saying “Where’s the preacher? Bring on the preacher!”
I wonder what they thought when the woman in the judges’ robes showed.
Sounds like as much fun as my cousin’s first wedding. Outdoors at a place outside of Sacramento. Think the high that day was around 104.
(no preacher drama though)
I remember we woke up at 5am to clean up the yard (it was at the bride’s dad’s house) because after 7am it would be too hot to do anything.
I’ve never been up at 5 am after a wedding the previous day. Say what you want about catholics, but they know how to have a wedding.
5am the day of the wedding!
Ok, that makes more sense.
In my teens, I had an older cousin get married in Vegas. In August. I think you can see where this is going…
The Sahara hotel, IIRC, used to have a large digital sign on top of it that showed the temperature. We were standing outside, in nice clothes, waiting for the wedding chapel to expel the couple’s party before my cousin and his bride. I watched that damned thing climb from 104 to 108 while that (expletive deleted) wedding ran long.
After a while, it stopped being miserable and just became hilarious. I have no idea how people lived in S. Nevada, Arizona, or hell, the Gulf Coast, before the invention of air conditioning.
Well, however you do it, congratulations!
Now that^ is Minnesoda nice. Here’s Wisconsin nice. “Where’s the Lienies?”
It will be an open bar reception, right?
Thanks! Now everyone in our families and workplaces can treat us like a REAL couple. Instead of the fake one that’s been together for 16 years. I’ve had friends and family bitch about their marriages and tell me I don’t understand what it’s like because I’ve never been married. *eyeroll*
In Florida you can be married by a notary. That’s what we did.
That was definitely considered, but part of the hassle is moving expenses and reimbursement paid by her job getting screwy when we’re not married. It would be fine if we were moving together, but I’m staying here for a month and then no one is certain that I’ll be covered under the reimbursement schedule if we’re not married and we don’t move at the same time. So screw it. We’re getting married here.
At the time I was a Florida Man, so no moving required!
No pants, either.
I would advise against common law marriage. In many settings where it matters, you will have a hard time getting it accepted, because it is commonly claimed by people who want to be married when its convenient, and not married when its not.
The trap for many people is that they correctly conclude that they will get screwed on their taxes if they file as a married couple, so they don’t. They have now told the federal government under penalty of law that they are not married. When people claim common law marriage in order to assert their right to make decisions for their “spouse” at my hospitals, I always ask “How long have you been married?” They always answer “several years” or somesuch. I then ask for a copy of their last federal tax return showing they filed as a married couple (amounts redacted; I don’t care). I have never once had a common law couple deliver that form to me. I have gotten cases dismissed from trial because of this.
Get a real license, is my advice.
Absolutely. That’s why we’re doing a real license. I’ve read of far too many cases where people have had to go to court to prove the validity of their common law marriage. So we’re definitely doing a license, just trying to have the officiant be online ordained and it appears this is legal in Texas.
Your making shit difficult. If you’re not religious then the demon spirit of religion shouldn’t infect your sole in the ceremony. So just hire whoever is cheapest to do it.
ULC ordination is free and one click on a website. That means the cheapest person is ordaining my friend and having him sign the papers at happy hour for free. Believe me we’re not making this difficult. Universal Life Church is making this very very easy.
Blackmore was married to 25 women at the same time
Egad! One is too many for some people.
Where do you think he found the spares?
So my wife’s best friend is recovering from her breast cancer surgery. She still has to go in to get some reconstructive work done but everything is looking good with no movement of the cancer to the lymph nodes.
But… on another front… my best friend (and fellow audio nut) may have testicular cancer. Further tests needed.
Yep, it’s going around. Best wishes to your bud. Father in Law just tested positive for cancer markers. Find out soon what it is.
Fuck cancer – hard.
Oh man, someone I know?
Nah – he’s the guy, way back when I was in high school, who got me into audio. He was only two grades higher than me, but he had Quad ESL-63 speakers, an ET2 air bearing tonearm on a VPI HW19 Mark III turntable, and “the super” McIntosh 240 that had been extensively modified by the local “guru – also each stage had it’s own outboard regulator. This was back in ’88? He’s a whack-a-doodle subjectivist who can “hear the difference” between different years of Mullard 12AX7s but doesn’t understand the concept of impedance, roll-off, capacitors, etc no matter how many times I explain it. But he does have very good taste in music so there’s that.
*who now makes his own electrostat speakers with the panels driven directly (no transformer) by self-designed power amplifiers. I hear all of this second hand, so kV DC, biased hard class B, tv tubes, etc. I haven’t heard them yet, but apparently he took everything he learned from rebuilding Quad speakers and made improvements.
To clarify – my friend doesn’t understand much about electronics. The “guru” (I won’t name names but he wrote the much hated article on horn speakers in Sound Practices #1) does know his stuff but is kind of an asshole. Like the time he sold me a pair of UREI speakers and tried to renegotiate the price (higher!) even though the deal was already done.
Can you ask him to put me in his will to inherit the Quads?
He doesn’t have Quads anymore – without subwoofers (like the Gradient SW-63s) he was very unhappy listening to rock music. So he sold ’em and got a pair of no-letter UREI 813s that had the time-aligned Alnico magnet Altec 604s. More rock-n-rolla but without the beauty of the Quads. *sigh*
These days – condo living – he’s a headphone listener.
I have a pair of Altec Lansing Model 14 speakers that my wife wants me to get rid of because they take up too much room. I still like to listen to them, though.
I used to own Altec Model 15s that I bought at a garage sale. Don’t recommend them though.
I also used to own these: UREI 813As but their size made them difficult to move. And with the size/layout of my latest house, they had to go. Now being used in a local studio for doing mixdowns.
btw, that’s my old setup from many years back – Threshold S/500 power amp, Threshold FET-10/HL linestage, and a transformer coupled RAKK D/A convertor.
VPI still makes nice tables.
There are measurable differences between runs of Telefunken 12ax7’s, so it wouldn’t surprise me if the same applied to Mullard. Not that he still couldn’t be a subjectivist. Anyway, I hope he’s OK, regardless.
I used to own a VPI Aries 1 with the 25 pound TNT platter. But did I ever hate the JMW tonearm on it.
A single pivot tonearm? Too fidgety, imho.
Cancer, man. Fuck that shit. Hope all turns out well.
I got married at a court house. Took all of 15 minutes and no Big Juju priest needed.
I would think a Justice of the Peace wedding would be an option in Texas.
“Do you?”
“Yup.”
How about him?”
“He does.”
“Where’s my five dollars?”
“…And I never saw the duct tape, ma’am.”
I took the liberty of changing a few famous quotes to suit lefty sensibilities.
OpportunityPatriarchy is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. -Thomas EdisonI’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder
Iyou work the more of it I have. -Thomas JeffersonMoney often costs too
muchlittle. Ralph Waldo Emerson.I can resist anything except
temptationtax revenue. – Oscar WildeEighty percent of success is showing up and demanding reparations. – Woody Allen
I never met a man
I didn’t likethat wasn’t a rapist. – Will RogersIf you tell the truth, you
don’t have to remember anythingmust be a Democrat.All the world’s a stage, and all the men, women, trans, androgynes, otherkin, two-spirits, agenders, and variants merely players. – William Shakespeare
*Dons coxcomb* Well done, My Lord.
Give me
libertyfree health care, or give me death! – Patrick HenryThe Constitution is the guide which I
neverwill abandon. – George WashingtonYou have enemies? Good.
It means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Now go on Twitter and whine about it. – Winston ChurchillAnother British police agency focusing on what’s truly important
Fun fact: In 2001, a solicitor by the name of Adele Weir was hired by the Rotherdam Council to write a report regarding prostitution. She uncovered evidence of the pervasive sex abuse that’d been going on for a decade at that point. She wrote a report, highlighting what had been happening and who was behind it.
The response from the Rotherdam police was, quoting her:
The abuse went on for another decade after that.
The entire part about Adele Weir and how she was treated is truly insane. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham_child_sexual_exploitation_scandal#Weir_report_.282001.29
“At their request, Weir sent her data to the Home Office evaluators in Bedfordshire in April 2002. That Weir did this apparently upset the Risky Business manager.[86] On or around Monday, 18 April 2002, when she arrived at work, Weir discovered that over the weekend her Home Office pilot data had been removed from the filing cabinets in the Risky Business office.[g]
Weir said that the password-protected office computer had also been accessed. According to Weir’s evidence to the Home Affairs Committee, documents had been deleted”
This might be related:
http://www.dailywire.com/news/18724/british-government-denies-compensation-children-hank-berrien
Jesus tapdancing Christ, I’d never read the whole story before. That’s completely removed from incompetence, that’s an obvious, active cover-up.
This is what political correctness has wrought. Well done, dipshits.
Not only that, but Rotherham is a Labour stronghold, because of the votes that the local primitives deliver on demand to Labour. This was planned by Labour, and they had to direct a coverup in order to keep their seat in Parliament. Hundreds of girls were actually sexually trafficked, so a political party could hold a legislative seat.
People wonder why I’m not opposed to the death penalty. This is why. Some. People. Just. Need. Killing.
Anyone found to have been involved in covering this up should be given a fair trial and then executed if found guilty.
I’m flexible as to the method.
Mad props on the avatar, Maniac.
Thanks! The fiancèe (a recently converted member of the cult that wants to take over the world and leave you alone, and a spectacular artist to boot) took my Surface and whipped it up in half an hour after I showed her that GoT parody video.
Naturally, he needed a top hat and monocle to fit in with the Glibs here.
The officials who willfully ignored those reports ought to be hung from the gallows. It was a complete and total dereliction of entrusted authority and responsibility.
“hanged”
Very few things make me reconsider my opposition to medieval execution methods like the rape of children.
You helped cover up a gang of rapists grooming, molesting, threatening, and kidnapping children? Maybe being broken on the wheel is an appropriate punishment.
As for the actual perpetrators… I think the wheel is only the start.
Scaphism?
Now there’s an option.
Sicilian bull!
Back to the murder of Justine Damond in Minneapolis, this may win the prize for best use of passive voice by a police officer:
Also, this doesn’t make sense. The officer who did talk said he was startled by a loud sound “moments” before Noor shot. If Damond slapped the back of the police car as claimed, there would’ve been a few seconds between the “loud sound” and the shot, because she would’ve had to have moved from the back of the car to the side window through which she was shot.
Mind you, it’s not like completely implausible stories haven’t worked for police officers in the past.
Also, wouldn’t it be a very recognizable sound?
For whatever reason, cops are prone to slap the drivers side tail lights of a vehicle they pull over as they approach it. I don’t know why, but they do.
Probably an old wife’s tale, but AIUI, cops did that in order to get their fingerprints on your car. Then, should they die during the traffic stop, at least their fellow officers could show that your car was visited by the dead officer at some point. The taillight is a flat, somewhat protected surface, that should hold a fingerprint for a little while. Unlike most surfaces, which don’t hold prints well at all.
As I wrote, probably a wife’s tale.
Supposedly so if something happens their finger prints are on your vehicle
Well, I don’t know. How long does it take a confused, scared, incompetent person to fumble around with a firearm they have not business carrying before lining up a shot just past a bystanders face? I could see a good 30 seconds there.
That’s astoundingly bad.
She was walking along, minding her own business, and she became deceased. Shit happens, bruh.
Seriously, I mean at we gonna blame our boys in Boots for every person who becomes deceased?
Boys in Boots? Whose blaming the military for this?
You just don’t get it. She assaulted those boys in blue by putting her body fluids all over their bullet’s.
She had a heart attack? Jesus called her home?
Ah, you mean she was unjustifiably shot by a cop in a fucking alley.
I dunno officer. She was wearing a short skirt, I was kinda horny, and the lady became raped. There’s nothing for it. I can’t explain how it happened.
Noor’s shithead attorney floated the idea that she was on Ambien or such nonsense. It looks like it got walked back pretty quickly, but still.
This one isn’t going away. Too many rich folk in that neighborhood. Someone has to pay.
Sure the cop gets in trouble when he’s brown! Brown cops should get to be ruthless too!
Lol. Honestly, I think even if it was a white dude it would be the same. There are a handful of precincts that you can’t just gun down the tax cattle. This is one of them.
Especially when the tax cow in this case was the human equivalent of a Golden Retriever. Seriously, a mid 40s white woman, Reiki practitioner and veterinarian, who had public statements about how much she hated guns. Hard to think of a less threatening person.
And I love how this guy gets to walk around free after shooting someone, while he refuses to give a statement to the cops. The first clause happens quite a bit, provided the police/DA’s office are satisfied the shooting appeared justified. You generally need to talk to them though to get them to see it that way.
Disgusting.
I know. They know exactly who shot and killed the woman. How has he not been arrested? This is stone manslaughter unless he can prove up self-defense. A serf would have already been arrested, booked, charged, and had their bail hearing. And this guy walks around free as a bird, hasn’t even been questioned, for fuck’s sake.
I will bet even money he never does any time.
You want a war on cops? Because this is how you get a war on cops.
Even if convicted. Remember that asshole cop Peter Liang, in NYC, who shot a guy in a public housing stairwell because he was patrolling with his gun out, the guy startles the cop entering the stairwell, and the cop NDs right into the guy’s chest? Then has the sheer balls to call his Union rep before performing first aid or calling an ambulance? Caught a manslaughter conviction. Normally, per US News & World Report, that’s good for up to 15 years prison time.
The judge (not capitalizing for reasons that shall quickly be apparent) knocks it down to criminally negligent homicide, then knocks the sentence down to 5 years probation and 800 hours community service. I quote:
DA was, of course, on board with the no-prison sentence reduction, though I guess they quibbled at the charge downgrade. Article here, in case you aren’t outraged enough.
This of course would totally happen if you or I shot some dude minding his own business, walking in a stairwell in his building.
Damond is a saint who saves baby ducks!
Uffda, you couldn’t pick a worse person to shoot PR wise than that gal.
It was a matter of time before they shot someone who didn’t have an even questionable situation or background to attempt to bring up.
I always hate the “well ten years ago he had pot!” or whatever they do to justify it.
Ambien use would have made it okay? It’s fucking sad that presence of drugs is someone’s body makes many people think that it was ok for the cop to murder them. People who think like that should move to the Philippines.
Constantly harping on the fact that Philando Castile was “on pot” at the time of his shooting helped get Jeronimo off. Why not try that defense again?
I know Castile had THC metabolites in his blood. Was it ever shown that he was intoxicated when he was shot? I do remember one of the EMTs disagreeing with Yanez’s claim that the inside of Castile’s car smelled of marijuana.
The dashcam video of the shooting was instructive. And crazy. Amazing how fast Yanez went from Officer Friendly to shooting.
To quote Repo Man…..”It happens sometimes – people just explode. Natural causes.”
Upon police arrival, a female ‘slaps’ the back of the patrol squad.
BULLSHIT. Makes no sense as to why Justine Damond would do such a thing.
“And what do you all think about this?”
Funny how these asshole judges who are undermining a sitting President didn’t defend human rights when Obama deported more people than any other administration in history.
The hypocrisy is through the roof.
Obama deported more people than any other administration in history.
My understanding is that is not quite accurate. The Obama administration changed how deportations were counted by counting anyone turned around at the border as being, “deported”. Before Obama, one was only counted as deported if they were removed, not just turned around. They would spin that change differently depending on the audience who was questioning the increase in numbers.
at the very least, it didn’t get magically better under him. people just can’t admit that he wasn’t great on civil liberties.
I got in an argument with my mother last night. It started with how evil trump admin has been.
It ended with me asking who raided the most pot shops in the last decade and who bombed 8 countries for 8 years.
I don’t mind saying trump is a bad pres. But do not ignore what your guy does.
Will he run for Senate?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4726108/Matthew-Perry-goes-shirtless-vacation-Mexico.html
Well I feel better about myself now.
Hey hey, I’ll be in my bunk!
Could I have let myself go anymore?
Jesus Christ, dude, pick up a barbell once in a while.
Looks like he became “friends” with his belly.
No one told him it was gonna be this way.
Career’s gone flat, he’s fat
His love life’s (looks at Daily Mail pic) not so bad, I gotta say
It’s like he always will be Chandler Bing
Even Matt LeBlanc is still on TV headlining
He’ll be there for food
When the Kraft truck pulls in
He’ll be there for food
Every helping’s a win
He’ll be there for food
what a fat fucking duuuuuuuuuude
Awwww
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4726032/Miley-Cyrus-parents-grocery-shopping-Malibu.html
I’ll say this. I think the nekkid/twerking/tongue out/genderfluidtothemax Miley wasn’t totally the real Miley. I think it was calculated to put a ton of distance between Miley and Hannah Montana. I think from here on out you’ll see more “Jolene” Miley that will seem grown-up and a bit more serious.
She doesn’t look anything like her dad.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4727696/Make-free-Paris-Jackson-puffs-cigarette.html
Considering Lysenkoism has been disproven, definitely not his kid.
She probably looks a lot like her dad, whoever he is.
She was walking along, minding her own business, and she became deceased. Shit happens, bruh.
“It happens sometimes. People just explode. Natural causes.”
It seems like my theory about Virginia being a super-establishment and milquetoast state may be correct. Because the pollsters are a bunch of leftists, they have to beat up on Trump while polling these folks, but it’s notable that even they have Gillespie tied. If Hyperion’s fake poll theory is correct, we can then add 5 points to the GOP side.
Virginia has become a weird place.
You mean Hyperion’s fake poll theory about them oversampling Democrats? I believe that has been verified, not by Hyperion. But if you watch the polls, it appears obvious.
Didn’t Nick Gillespie say trump was authoritarian and big gov?
Why is he complaining an authoritarian is not passing major legislation? Wouldn’t this be a good thing
Sounds like it is strictly about personality and team
Also why would anyone team up with left if concerned about authoritarians?
This is about personality and TEAM Cosmo. Gillespie should be seeing that the net effect is that Trump has made the presidency much less authoritarian than at least Obama or Bush, probably Clinton too. He’s been able to cut at least 800 federal regulations without the legislature’s help, and his administration is ending such insane foreign policy as arming Syrian rebels.
Yup
The WSJ editorial board, who is no friend to Trump, has stated he’s done more to cut down the bureaucracy and drain the swamp than any other President in their memory. Johnson is a political animal and I doubt would be doing close to half as much, especially when you throw in the SC picks. Reason has lost it.
Nick’s too invested in “Trump is terrible” to acknowledge any of the good things Trump has done, even when they’re there for all to see.
He’s essentially handcuffed himself-acknowledging Trump’s positives would hurt his credibility as much as not acknowledging them does.
Gillespie is still in the “I can change them, I know I can” stage of woman-in-bad-relationship psychodrama he’s playing out with the Reasonable Left. If he shits on Trump, then, his theory goes, they might listen to what he has to say and find common ground for his precious Liberaltarian Alliance.
That might have been a thing to try fifteen years ago, but not today – they’re purging bona fide leftists for not thinking correctly enough, what chance does a Randian shitlord have?
they don’t want to admit how far gone the left is. They’re eating each other trying to outprog themselves. how the fuck re we going to convince them the minimum wage or occupational licensing is wrong?
You lure them in with pot, ass sex and Mexicans. Once all their appetites are thus sated, their minds will be pliant and you can make headway on other issues.
Don’t forget the avocados!
Let’s talk Sessions’s inevitable firing.
I hear names like Giuliani and Cruz thrown out there. Why can’t this guy pick a fuckin decent AG? Jeezus.
(BTW, I had dinner with one of my old State Dept colleagues last night, and she said things are actually going really well under Tillerson. Every new Sec and Deputy and whatnot that comes in always wants to do a reorg. In my 10 years there, we had at least 3 reorgs that I can recall. Every one of them was just pushed through without input. Tillerson actually has a working group set up to make recommendations on any reorgs.)
Sorry, I’m out of the loop. What did sessions do? (I’m no fan, I’m genuinely curious)
I think recusing himself on the Russia nonsense was a pretty big thing.
Maybe this. Or this.
I know Giuliani, but what would be particularly bad about Cruz? (surely can’t be worse than Sessions)
Cruz would be a decent AG, I think. He’s generally very constitutionalist in his approach in the Senate, it would probably translate well to AG.
Agreed. At least he seems to have read the damn thing.
I see a Statist drug warrior like most of the rest. Trump has done a lot with his appointees, but he has sucked with the AG post, staying firmly “inside the box”.
I think Cruz would be open to slowing down the WoD, if not end it entirely. He’s like an improved version of a mainstream conservative, sort of like a stepping point to actual libertarians. He wouldn’t be a terrible choice IMO.
Cruz wouldn’t be ideal, but he’d be a hell of a lot better then Sessions or or Giuliani. Unless he’s a major supporter of civil asset forfeiture, which I don’t know.
Cruz used to be a federal prosecutor. Fuck no. We don’t need that as AG. We need a former defense attorney.
Ah, didn’t realize that. I rescind my earlier comment.
.
Has a former defense attorney ever been elected to higher political office, or appointed to a judge or justice position? I really can’t think of one. We had a crackhead for a judge in Harris County for a little while. He didn’t last long.
Hell, it’s rare enough when a former criminal law practitioner like Sotomayor gets to the bench. And really illuminating when in doing so and writing their opinions, they point out just how rarefied, theoretical, and disconnected from reality most appellate judges are when looking at how criminal law gets applied.
From Cruz:
Question is, does he really mean that?
It would be interesting to see how much pre-conviction civil forfeiture he signed off on as a US attorney. I’ll bet its not zero.
TX might do something stupid like appoint Dan Patrick to fill his seat?
Better him than Olbermann.
I don’t think sessions is going anywhere. This is kabuki theater.
I think trump uses the art of war as a manual
Deception, appearing weak, and irritating opponents
You may be on to something. Every time he starts one of his ‘unprofessional’ and ‘unpresidential’ twitter wars, something else is going on in the background.
It’s 30D chess. Or whatever number we’re up to now.
It isn’t 30 degree chess, or 4 degree…
It is trump realizes the media and D.C. Politicos are that stupid
Third degree checkers and he’s winning because his opponents are absolute morons.
Just as long as they don’t King him.
The analogy I use is 6D Chutes and Ladders. When you’re watching, you can never tell if the guy playing it is a visionary genius, a retarded mental case, or some combination thereof.
Agreed. Also, the MSM narrative is that his administration is super unstable, so everyone MUST be resigning because Trump! Take most of this with a grain of salt.
Tillerson seems good – the kind of organizational leader who’ll get shit down and trim the fat.
Sessions is an asshole and I’d love to see him gone. I wonder of Trump winding up for a really big house-cleaning that includes Sessions and Mueller. I would love it if Judge Napolitano replaced one of them.
Judge Nap as AG would be one of those things that would get me to vote Trump in 2020 (assuming he didn’t go on some rant and fire him beforehand)
Judge Nap would be a fabulous outside-the-box choice. Gorsuch would have been great, too, except he’s way more effective on SCOTUS and will outlive the Trump Presidency.
Are any of the Congressional Liberty Caucus members lawyers?
Justin Amash is.
Well, my, my, my!
How about Gowdy?
I’m not keen on that guy, after seeing him on several episodes of Forensic Files
To be fair, Forensic Files really does cover some disgusting human beings, since it’s mainly about murderers.
Forensic Files also favorably covers junk science and debunked forensic techniques.
The dude ran Exxon. He’s not going to be intimidated by a bunch of Ivy Foreign Policy PhDs bitching about what he’s doing. He’s had actual smart people form cabals against him.
He’s actually brought in Foreign Service Officers as managers in a lot of bureaux, whereas Obama appointed his buddies. And those buddies brought chaos and a fratboy culture with them.
My guess is that it’ll be Gowdy. Then again, I was thinking (all right, wishing) that Milo was going to be the new Press Secretary.
That would have been gold.
If I were president, I would want asshole like Sessions as AG. I would tell them to prosecute everything to full extent of the law. Then every week I would go on TV, point out all the horrible shit my AG is doing, and explain to the people “I don’t want to be doing this, but the President doesn’t write the laws. It’s those dickheads in congress you need to take it up with. Until these shitty laws are repealed, they will all be enforced to the maximum extent of the law.” To get it through the people’s head, congress is the seat of power of law, don’t just count on a President to show favor, which the next guy can reverse.
you have a point.
Apparently Tits McGhee is up there in the Senate defending Sessions. That’s how you know something’s stinky.
I would think Gowdy would make sense.
This is really great to hear about. Some of his Senate confirmation hearing is extra cringeworthy if you go revisit. Like Lil’ Marco trying to “catch” him covertly supporting Duterte’s extrajudicial death squads because reasons, and a more sympathetic Senate douche (I forget who) lecturing him and wishing him well on his tenure practicing “Statecraft.”
The chumps in Senate should have been happy to simply bask in his presence and drink in his unique qualifications for the job. Of course, he’s got nothing on how qualified Clinton was as SoS.
This is the most childish and also the most hilarious bill I’ve ever seen introduced in a state legislature (PDF warning)
Highlight:
LOL
I would have made it a nursery school.
LOL!!
Okay, I had to highlight this other part.
Jeezus, that’s all kinds of awesome. I prefer “Arbeit macht Menschen Sklaven zu den Unternehmensinteressen. Ich würde lieber auf meinen Arsch sitzen und den ganzen Tag wütend pontifikieren” for the motto.
That’s an accurate motto for a lot of Universities these days, but especially so for Evergreen.
Part of me now wants this to pass.
What part of you doesn’t want it to pass? That is awesome, and exactly what people should be pushing for to humiliate and ostracize these foul, toxic people and the institutions they have wrecked.
I hadn’t read the whole text when I posted that, and there was that part asking “what else is in the bill?”.
I’ve now read it and am in favor.
My German is failing me as to the meaning of “Böhmer”. Anyone have a good explanation for the motto?
Per google translate, Bohemian.
That’s what I kept finding too. It makes sense now I’ve had some time to think about it but doesn’t seem to fit with the book-burning and jackboots in the new seal.
That’s so racist, I can’t even.
God damn, this will never pass, but praise Kek, hopefully we see more fine legislative shitposting like this.
That is bloody brilliant.
If trump tweets inane things, you can bet there is something going on in background
A good example of this: Mika and morning Joe tweets….what happened that night as media covered tweets? Travel ban went into effect, passed 2 sanctuary city bills and approved a pipeline to Mexico
So the media is being defeated, not by a chess grandmaster but by a backyard magician. Like children, they focus on the seen hand, and miss the hand that is pulling the trick.
Well, in a contest against any given backyard magician, the media doesn’t stand much of a chance.
I am not sure that mueller is going after trump. I say this because look who he has hired? Folks with intimate knowledge of dnc and Clinton foundation
One of trump’s lawyers Saturday said mueller is doing a good job
The anonymous sources appear to be trying to goad trump into firing him. Why?!
After he gave an interview to nyt partly about going after family is a line….next day anonymous sources said mueller is investigating this this and that about his family
Hmmm
Oh and mueller and Rosenstein met with trump the day before appointed special counsel to interview for FBI director which is a 10 year term (he is in 70s)
Hmm
You’re delusional.
Mueller’s team is leaking anti-Trump crap constantly. They are all long-time supporters of the Dems and Hillary; saying they have “intimate knowledge of dnc and Clinton foundation” is like saying anti-abortion protestors waving pictures of aborted fetuses are “well-acquainted with the abortion process”.
You may be on to something. Every time he starts one of his ‘unprofessional’ and ‘unpresidential’ twitter wars, something else is going on in the background.
I hate to give him this much credit, but it’s like a magic act. You divert the crowd’s attention while your assistant leads the elephant onstage.
“I’m at Union Pool in BK, about to speak at my friend @BenKissel’s campaign event, a guy walks in, dumps an entire bottle of water on me …”
https://twitter.com/KatTimpf/status/889639892870995969
Fuck that guy.
More here:
http://www.redstate.com/prevaila/2017/07/24/becoming-fox-news-kat-timpf-assaulted-campaign-event/
Yep. It’s the alt right that has violent tendencies.
But they wrongthink violent thoughts, so they must be violent!
/prog
someone dumped an entire 1.5L bottle of water on her head? i’m not doubting it happened (public event, easy to corroborate) but at what point does instinct take over and you grab the fucker’s testicles and rip them off? or maybe take a step back and kick him in the testicles? or slap his face? it takes a long time to dump out a 1.5L bottle hence the term “bottleneck”.
Yeah, it’s like in a movie when someone gets something sprayed on them and they stand there yelling rather than moving out of the way.
“how old is 15 really?”
she wrote that lengthy 18-part tweet manifesto while the water was still be dumped on her.
It doesn’t say what kind of bottle it was. Maybe it had a wide neck like a Nalgene? From what I read, it sounds like he just dumped the water and ran off, without making any kind of statement indicating his motive.
Also Kat looks like she weighs 90 lbs., adorable but not formidable.
OK, yeah he could’ve had a Nalgene bottle. in which case i have no doubt a 90lb woman could whoop the shit out of that man.
What’s wrong with Nalgene? Besides that this guy wasn’t out hiking somewhere.
Seriously, fuck that guy! Why couldn’t he dump the water on her shirt?
Now, THAT’S the proper glibertarian response.
Exemplifies the family-friendliness.
I love Ben Kissel.
Him and his crew at Cave Comedy Radio are great. Roundtable of Gentleman just today had me actively bursting into laughter walking down the street and I absolutely adore Last Podcast on the Left. Abe Lincoln’s Tophat is pretty solid too. (Sucks that his partner Marcus Parks in the latter can be a bit of a shitty NYC leftie, but he’s usually fairly reasonable and I really like the other work he does.)
“For opponents of President Trump, finding out that a friend supports him can be shocking and difficult to deal with. But to spread their message, liberals should listen, not condescend…
My typical response to conservatives who see me as a smug, elitist hypocrite for not being tolerant of their beliefs is that I’m “intolerant of intolerance,” but I’ve realized that that mistake is the issue. No, we don’t have to accept and respect others’ bigotry or ignorance”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/07/23/liberals-listen-conservatives-andrew-redlawsk-column/413243001/
Yeah, don’t be condescending towards those ignorant bigots.
Progs really are the kings of passive-aggressiveness.
I posted that in yesterday afternoon’s links. He talks about how progressives need to be less condescending, and then goes on to be incredibly condescending.
It’s because argumentation is irrelevant in the era of feelings.
Sorry, if I missed/forgot that. Anyway, if the condescension doesn’t work, they could just use witchcraft:
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/yeah-i-did-it-singer-lana-del-rey-admits-using-witchcraft-to-place-a-hex-on-president-trump/
In other news, Lana Del Rey is a retard.
There was a nationwide call to action for all the witch covens to cast spells on Trump. It was pretty damn funny.
Party of Science!
A retard who can sing really well.
I was totally on board with giving her the next Bond theme gig, despite my slowly growing realization that her public persona is crazier than a shit house rat. Anyway, I think her singing a Bond theme would have turned out better than that Sam Smith turd of a song.
Having Sam Smith sing it was possibly the worst decision ever made about a Bond film.
Bond themes are best sung by a woman with a sultry voice, and any deviation from that had better be darn well thought out. Smith’s was… not.
Makes perfect sense…thought vibrations…yeah.
The comments… they burn….
The Germans fought against Hitler? Interesting. Sounds like someone’s been attending the Joy Reid School of History.
Related:
https://twitter.com/CounterMoonbat/status/888516664727392257
Soviet Yugoslavia. That’s tremendous.
Even if you want to bend over backwards for poor Joy and her addled little brain and say “Well, she meant the Eastern Bloc in general”, it’s remarkably stupid because Tito’s Yugoslavia was the one Eastern European communist nation that was NOT a Soviet satellite. Nor was it a member of the Warsaw Pact.
Trump’s taste for Eastern European women is literally his best quality. Of course he’s importing better quality mates!
Yeah, it was us who whipped the Nazis right after they bombed Pearl Harbor, the bastards.
– Germans?
– Forget it. He’s rolling.
“liberals should listen, not condescend”
YOU MIGHT AS WELL ASK THEM TO PLUCK THE MOON FROM THE SKY!
British cops gotta SJW. Replies are generally magnificent.
Nobody looks at my links. 🙁
Nobody looks at
myanybody’s links.Because you’re not a girl!
You post links?
They need more boobies.
Wait, you mean the British authorities are finally going to crack down on Muslims calling for jihad or spewing hatred of Jews?
Oh.
“This person is head of corporate development at Northamptonshire police. He’s spreading the absurd notion of rape culture in Britain.”
https://twitter.com/Supt_Foskett/status/870241229887463424
“If 9yo Taleah can report a hate crime, we all can do it. What a superstar.”
The Stasi is alive and well.
Their entire twitter feed is hate crime this and hate crime that.
“Roombas have been busy mapping our homes, and now that data could be up for sale”
https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/24/16021610/irobot-roomba-homa-map-data-sale
What a good reason to never let an IoT device into your house.
Except for you smartphone, you know I can’t give you up.
Just put it in the microwave when you are plotting and/or fornicating.
Should I turn the microwave on?
If it needs a chargesure.
Microsoft is all over it.
Public Service Announcement: if anyone wants to get glibertarians marked as not family friendly, it looks like this website is where you would do it. That family friendly rating site bases their initial rating off of an aggregate of four other sources (Norton, McAffee, Google SafeSearch, and Web of Trust), so it looks like the easiest way to move the needle would be to leave a review on Web of Trust. It requires registration, though, so I’m not going to do it. Alternatively, you could also use that rating site to reinforce the illusion that this is a family place…and not a hive of scum and villainy.
My man McAfee can save us!
The DC Circuit just blocked DC from enforcing its “good reason” requirement for public carrying of firearms (PDF Warning)
Gura FTW! motherfucker’s a super lawyer.
HAHAHAHAHA the list of amicus briefs supporting the defendents-appellees (DC) is a who’s who of AGs and Bloomberg anti-gun PACs. suck it, slavers.
Awesome. I <3 Alan Gura.
See? I read your links!
The local Fox station had a reporter a couple years ago do a story about the frustrations in trying to obtain a permit. She did not last long in the DC news market.
I remember that, but forgot her name. She was cute too.
EMILY MILLER!
(not tryna yell – her name just came to me in a flash)
A good day for 2A.
Did it order DC to start issuing licenses to everyone who had been denied for not having “good reason”?
Nope. Prediction: there will be no increase in license issued by DC because of this ruling. Funny how even pro-2A decisions never actually order the loser to remedy their past wrong-doing, innit? Compare and contrast with other civil rights decisions.
I mean, its better than nothing, but its still incredibly weak sauce.
wouldn’t that be the default?
Nope. By not specifically ordering that licenses be issued promptly to all applicants who meet the permissible [spit] requirements, DC can continue to “slow-walk”/deny applications (although not for failing to show good reason!) until they get sued again and a court issues an order that they actually issue the fucking permits.
I just gave the decision a cursory read. If I’m reading this right, and I think I am, the DC Circuit Court just ruled that a ‘good cause’ requirement for a carry permit would fail *any* level of scrutiny. IOW, carry permits must be shall-issue.
This is a pretty big deal.
If you haven’t seen this tumblr artist before, it’s worth checking out: Tragedy Series. The Victorian-esque cartoons are great.
best for Glibertarians
I don’t need any monocle insurance. My orphans know that not breaking them is their only insurance.
also a STEVE SMITH related one: link
Speaking of hot cosplayers:
http://www.craveonline.com/girls/1053060-jessica-nigri-is-a-cosplay-sex-kitten#/slide/1
TW: Slideshow.
You are stalking her aren’t you?
Define “stalking”…
…
I am probably way out of line from the other male Glibs, but wouldn’t she be a lot more attractive if her implants were a size or two smaller? Not that she’s Pandora Peaks by any stretch, but her’s just seem a bit out of balance. Then again, doubt she’d be the cosplay Instagram hit that she is if they were smaller.
Heretic. Go back to DU, troll.
/kidding
I don’t like fake boobs either.
YOU GUYS ARE THE FAKE ONES
Not a fan, although hers look more natural than the typical bolt-on.
not a slideshow.
My typical response to conservatives who see me as a smug, elitist hypocrite for not being tolerant of their beliefs is that I’m “intolerant of intolerance,”
In other words, “You’re goddam right I am, you mouthbreathing ignoramus.”
I’m intolerent of tolerance.
Especially mandated tolerance.
So who gets the honor of making a “That’s not a Toomah” joke re sessions?
I did a little more sleuthing on Gillespie-Northam (I’m looking to make elections my speciality on Glibs), and I think I might understand why the Virginia Governor race is so close according to the poll that I posted above. Because Northam’s a center-leftist, he supports something called the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. I don’t know much about this pipeline, but a significant portion of Perriello progs are livid about this, for some reason. IOW, when combined with other things, he doesn’t prog hard enough.
(I’m looking to make elections my speciality on Glibs)
Nice. I’m just gonna stick with hockey and evaluating Q’s FLBP submissions 😉
Ah yes, the ACP. That project has riled all of the viewshed and enviro loonies across the northwestern part of the state. The ignorance and argumentation in bad faith on display is astounding (I know some of these people personally).
They have been doing everything humanly possible to stop it, including hiring biology grad students to find rare salamanders in the path of the pipeline so they can get a regulatory block on its progression.
Nevermind that natural gas is cheap and clean. Nevermind that pipelines are far safer than the alternatives. Nevermind that unemployment in that area is endemic and any source of revenue should be welcome. The landowners who have cut deals with Dominion for easements have kept their mouth shut because the environuts have been constantly railing against it.
including hiring biology grad students to
findplant rare salamanders in the path of the pipelineThese people are religious fanatics. Lying to advance the faith is what they do. Like the moron “animal rights activists” who killed thousands of mink recently, I fully expect that these people are willing to kill endangered species by taking them out of their natural habitat to block this pipeline.
Oh God, they never stop prattling on about the pipeline.
Quick primer – the pipeline will carry natural gas from West Virginia to eastern Virginia and North Carolina. The wealthy prog types who live around Charlottesville are showing how much they care about poor people in rural areas by opposing it, because the main aim of the pipeline is to boost the economy of struggling areas in eastern NC. Many of the anti-pipeline shitbags are DC leeches who own weekend homes in Albemarle County.
Don’t discount the poor people who are protesting as well. They’ve bought into the bullshit up there. It’s sad.
IOW, progs don’t #resist, they #fracture.
Tanzania Hands Mining Company $190 Billion Tax Bill
Tanzania sent Acacia Mining Plc a tax bill equal to almost two centuries worth of the gold producer’s revenue.
The government issued the company, which mines all of its gold in the African country, with a $40 billion tax bill and another $150 billion in interest and penalties, Acacia said in a statement Monday. The charge covers alleged under-declared export revenues from the Bulyanhulu and Buzwagi mines over periods between 2000 and 2017.
Acacia reiterated that it has fully declared all revenues. The stock sank as much as 17 percent on Tuesday to the lowest since December 2013. In just three days, the company has lost 42 percent of its value
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-24/acacia-gets-190-billion-tax-bill-it-would-take-centuries-to-pay
Go big I always say
The government is just going big, and hoping to get a decent sized settlement I would think.
I predict they settle for $1B.
Tolerance: Sarah Huckabee Sanders called “butch queen” by Daily Beast writer and the left is silent
Madison’s intolerance of intolerance is dizzying.
For Tundra:
http://archive.is/jdkEW
Grazie! #1 leads the field today, with 34 coming in a close second.
Number 11 has a nice pussy.
I think I may actually know #9. If so, she’s single, guys.
Bipolar or herpes?
Look at those eyes. She’s a bunny-boiler.
California cops try to troll lifestyle weekly, get trolled harder.
That is beautiful.
I like the contempt dripping from that article:
Gee, it’s almost as if it’s one big crony scam…
http://www.theenergycollective.com/gail-tverberg/2409208/researchers-underestimating-cost-wind-solar
Just shut up and take off your clothes.
http://nypost.com/2017/07/19/this-stripper-will-inspire-you-to-start-hustling/
“Women are always going to be treated like a commodity and an object — we are never going to be able to stop the male gaze and objectification — but we can subvert it and use it for our own gain. When I realized I can channel [the male gaze] into money, my life got so much easier.”
She knows that the SJW community is the biggest threat to her livelihood, so she parrots their own jargon to defuse them. Clever girl.
“Who are those other rogue homos?”
http://ijr.com/opinion/2017/07/266339-democrats-meet-gay-republican-try-figure-party-went-wrong/
The answer is simple – political opinion is unrelated to sexual orientation.
‘Get in line, faggots’
That was actually a pretty good article, coming from the #1 demographic Democrats should be listening to (voted Obama twice, now a Republican/Trump voter).
I still don’t get the whole thing where people vote based on who says nice things about people who share my race/gender/personal fuck preferences. The writer goes on about how Trump is good because he panders to the group he identifies with.
I find that whole reasoning just as off putting as feminists who vote for candidates because vagina.
Just wait til he finds out about libertarianism!
Ron Coleman, 1A super lawyer, pens a tale about fucking “SCOTUS ELITE” lawyers that come out of the woodwork to take over your case if it’s high profile but disappear when the gritty little guy needs pro bono counsel.
http://www.likelihoodofconfusion.com/that-great-free-first-amendment-thing/
“SCOTUS ELITE” – sounds like some fancy new 1911 pistol with extra bells and whistles.
RAAAAAAAACIST!!!
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/science/news/article.cfm?c_id=82&objectid=11894688
STEVE SMITH NOT GHOST SPECIES, HE FULLY CORPOREAL!
Shocking news! Government-mandated retirement fund fails to deliver, women hardest hit (links to summary with option of non-auto-play audio):
http://www.abc.net.au/newsradio/content/s4704921.htm