“My tongue is very sticky, Earthman,” the space frog told him, “You will love it.”
“Are you a male space frog or a female space frog?” Alan asked the space frog. “I’ve been burned on deals like this before.”
“I’m amphibian,” the space frog replied.
Alan thought it over and finally said, “Eh, close enough.”
He worked quickly, but carefully, discarding the nippleless A-cups, feverishly upgrading his robot’s back servos so they would support the massive new sweater hogs he had fashioned for her. For if he didn’t titty fuck a robot with giant yabbos tonight… the Terran Empire would surely fall.
“It is so nice of Rob to bring me a couple of tampons,” Ellen thought to herself. “He is such a woke boyfriend. So sensitive to my needs. Almost like a girl with a dick.”
Rob’s voice came crackling over the helmet speaker: “Hey, sweetie. Do you need anything else?” Ellen’s psionic vagina clenched like a fist in disgust.
“No, dear,” Ellen replied in a dead, flat voice.
“This space caulking job is getting me so space horny, though,” Ellen thought, “And I’m trapped on this asteroid with just him. I guess Rob is getting his red wings tonight.”
“Why would you even build a robot that was attracted to other robots?” the sexually obsolete man asked the demented scientist.
“Some robots are just, like, born that way, man,” Dr. Hippie replied. And then he lit a huge jazz cigarette of Martian hypercannabis and watched his diabolical creations begin to bone only one another.
“Your head is very symmetrical for a white girl,” one of the creatures wheezed.
“No!” she cried. “I hate lumpy creeps whose manipulations are more subtle than my own!”
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167 responses to “(Sense of) Wonder Wednesday”
What’s Kim Novak doing on the June 1959 cover?
Science. Duh.
I just watched Vertigo on TCM, coincidentally
I think Vertigo is overrated.
Brilliant. I’m still laughing
… Hobbit
I had to try to explain it to my wife and MIL…
It’s best that you not even try.
It is the best of the bunch.
Really? I’m curious about the RC Dean SUPER blowjob.
It sounds super, but there’s probably lawyering involved.
There is some paperwork. And a notary has to watch.
Some people would find that kinky.
In my vast experience, the paperwork must be completed beforehand.
If you wait until later, the motivation just isn’t there for some reason.
Me, too.
Working on that “Certified Family Friendly” badge on the corner of the screen, eh?
The Sun (the English paper) is family friendly too.
10/10 Would read all of them!
Except last one is 15/10 and would fap to it instead.
Awesome!
Epic
Robot Boob Job by John Titor
After years of study and experimentation the hu-mons flesh is too weak for my plans (NSFW).
I’m going to be honest… I wouldn’t turn down a forearm blow-job.
Unless that’s dude-arm.
Could be Tim Curry from Rocky Horror Picture Show mouth. Jus’ sayin’
What if it identifies as a chick-arm?
Lurid covers and turgid prose. But also some of the best works of scifi.
The asteroid cover reminded me of a comment from a younger female co-worker on how come her partner was almost 20 years her senior. “Why would I date a young dude? I’m not a lesbian so I don’t want another woman.”
+1 you win internet today
Bless her heart.
When I was 18, I had a six month flong with a woman 25 years my senior. All I can say is, the libido of an 18 year old boy and a 33 woman match up very nicely.
Yes. I got laid in my late thirties/early forties all the time.
You are absolutely correct: a 17 yr old boy has = horniness a late thirties woman
damn it, lachowsky is no good at math at drinking hours. It was 12 years ago and I think she was 40 or 41, so 21 years maybe. fuck I don’t exactly remember. Do you remember details of flings you had 12 years ago?
She screw the Math out of you.
LOL youngster.
I remember 12 years ago like it was yesterday.
Ditto. I remember my flings 12 years ago because I’m still married to her.
this here
I don’t think that math works out.
Mature ladies like ’em dumb.
That’s awfully harsh.
On the other hand, 18 year old me was pretty dumb
I considered adding a wink emoji but I didn’t think it was really necessary around here, hmph.
We only do the wink emoji when we say something nice.
The correct response would have been “30-year-old Lachowsky is pretty dumb, too.”
(With a smiley or sarcasm tag, of course.)
18+25=33?
😉
When I was 14 I rode my bike down to my girlfriends house. She was 13. She was also not home, dad had taken her to the store. Hot as hell Mom was home and wearing a wifebeater and very short cut off jeans. She asked me to sit on the couch and have some lemonade. Somehow that became wildly screwing on the pool table. I mean she was churning butter like she meant business. Of course at 14 i could cut glass with that thing and it could party all day long.
*sigh* Those were the days. Yes, I went back for more. And more. and more.
I get pissed these days hearing about guys that get older women and melt into a puddle of useless goo because they feel violated. Pussies.
You were raped!
Lucky bastard!
And then what happened?
Did GF find out? Did dad find out? Did family move away? Are you still scoring with her to this day?
I need narrative completeness!
Dear Penthouse….
50c must’ve been like $173 in 1959.
Actually it is worth $4.18 today. The two quarters (or one Ben Franklin) are worth $6.03 in silver value today.
Unpossible! Prize winning economists say that inflation is not real, it’s just made up by the GOP. Who am I supposed to believe, some yokel or the guys with the prizes?
The interesting thing is that when controlled for inflation gas is essentially the same price as before the 1973 oil embargo. The average gallon of gas cost $0.33/gallon in 1967- or $2.34 in 2017 dollars. All the alternative energy vehicles must compete with an internal combustion vehicles that costs less to operate than in the 1960’s. (flat gas cost/more MPG/less routine repair costs/safer) The only way to compete today is to get the government to ban your competition. Useless statist fucks.
Tacky, yet tasteless. Would collect.
I just learned a lot here. Coincidentally I’m re-reading the Foundation series.
Yeah, there’s a Mule in that, too.
I dug the foundation trilogy. It got very inconsistent after that. The robot books were good mysteries as well.
Me too. Don’t think I’d reread it again, but the big idea plot makes up for some of the cheezy subplots and characters.
I could never make it through even the first book. I much prefer some of his non-series novels.
Sometimes it’s the time in your life that makes a book readable or not. In my early 20’s I read The Monkey Wrench Gang and enjoyed it. Wouldn’t make it five pages into it today.
*wikipedia’s*
Good lord that sounds awful.
It’s what would happen if Captain Planet joined AntiFa.
sounds like this piece of crap:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sick_Puppy
It’s about an eco-terrorist with a trust fund and his battles against strawmen.
The cartoon-evil kkkorporate villain is such a staple of every fucking SF (“science” or “speculative”) novel I read that I just shrug it off any more.
Yesh….compare that to Frank Herbert’s BuSab (Bureau of Sabotage). It’s our job (actual gov’t entity) to make sure government doesn’t get too efficient. Because that’s when the really bad decisions are made.
Hell, I’d work for them.
Ahh 2009 (Hazel link). I don’t think we even had to register yet. Or did we? Is there a way to check if DenverJ was posting in that long ago era?
Search w/ custom dates
Oops
That only searches the text of the articles, not the comments.
I don’t know, GL. I got 3 hits for myself from 2008, and I don’t think they were writing about me.
Looks like you were right – they were H/Ts
Google search will pick up comments, but you have to go into the article and expand them to see if it’s a real hit. Can be tough to find something specific, but you should be able to tell if somebody was posting at a certain time.
Also, brilliant! I laughed. Absolutely brilliant.
USA! USA!
BTW it’s amusing to see CONCACAF’s obvious plan for yet another Mexico home-game in California foiled. By little Jamaica. LOL
“Your head is very symmetrical for a white girl,” one of the creatures wheezed.
And all the girlies say I’m pretty fly, for a white guy.
I’m going to see them in a few weeks. It should be fun.
Responded to this which popped up on my FB wall. Of course a concerned citizen responds, “You give money for roads, schools, police, fire, and military; this is no different.”
My grandfather died on a waiting list for heart surgery because he wasn’t deemed to be a pressing enough case.
Natalie-Ann can go fuck herself, the morally self-righteous cow.
There’s another guy on that thread that tells the story of his mother being on pain meds for 6 years because they cover her surgery. Of course the side effects caused massive health trouble and she died. The response from the peanut gallery? “You’re lying!”.
There was a thread on Redddit that went like this:
LiverpoolDude: Yeah, I’m hoping to get it checked out soon. Been on the waiting list for two months for an MRI.
BernieBro: Two months?!?!! WTF, if I need an MRI it takes less than 3 days.
LiverpoolDude: I’m British.
BernieBro: Oh well it’s free though, you’ll never have to pay for it!
LiverpoolDude: Yeah, but there’s not enough MRI machines to go around, so there are long wait lists.
BerniBro: It’s the cuts to NHS spending. Damn Tories.
LiverpoolDude: I mean, you always had to wait. I’m 40, there’s always a wait for scans or procedures. Usually a wait to see a doctor too.
BerniBro: Well clearly its a lack of funding though.
Ahem…
Money is extorted from me for fire, roads, school, police, and military.
ROADZZZZZZ
my volunteer fire department and the county sheriff station along with the roads must be, what, 90% of the budget?
what am i complaining about?!
Basically, the principle underlying his position grants the government total control of every aspect of our lives. Evil douche bag.
You know she’s really concerned about America’s health because she says “fuck” a lot.
Honest question about Trump’s transgender “ban.” Has anyone checked to see if there’s an actual order accompanying it, and not just a tweet? Like, none of the news stories I’ve read even touch on that. It seems like kind of an important detail and question to ask. But I realize we’re just way too far down the rabbit hole of absurdity at this point for it to even matter, anyway.
In this brave new world of current year tweets are legally binding.
Well, either way, it should be an indication that maybe congress should get off their butts and do some legislating otherwise every other pres is just going to reverse existing policies via EO (not that the previous immigration issues were any indication).
Does congress set enlistment standards, or DOD? As to Brochettas question, I think the order would come out of the Pentagon. Maybe it is being written up now, it is just the tweeter in chief likes to tweet about up and coming things because he knows it will piss off the people he wants to piss off. If a president is changing policies with executive order that were put in place by an executive order I don’t see anything wrong with it. As far as I know, Trump has not re-written law by executive order like his predecessor liked to do.
OT: I dunno if she’s really angling for the White House but as always I like this guy’s way with words:
What Socialism Means
It’s not about regulating profit, but doing away with it entirely…
by Fredrik deBoer
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/07/what-socialism-means
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Socialism, at bottom, must entail an alternative to capitalism, not a series of systems to ameliorate capitalism’s deprivations. It must do away with the profit motive and markets, or else it is bound to fail.
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[head desk]
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This is why calls for a “Nordic model” in the United States are misguided. The idea that we can port a Scandinavian-style social democratic state into a country of the size and complexity of the United States has always been questionable, especially given how countries like Norway have relied on vast mineral and energy wealth to provide benefits to small populations.
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As the recent edited collection The Three Worlds of Social Democracy shows, the Nordic model is not only unlikely to occur in the United States, it is currently failing in the Nordic countries themselves.
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[cautious optimism]
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The philosophy is materialist, atheist, anti-capitalist, and in fact anti-statist, though communism is often associated with a vast state apparatus, thanks to the shadow of the Soviet Union. But the word “commune” appears in “communism” for a reason, and it does not do leftists any favors to equate communism with the failed, false version that was advanced in the Soviet state.
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[face palm]
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We can build a better future; the instability and misery of capitalism make our message attractive.
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[head desk]
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Hi, I’m Fredrik deBoer, a writer and academic. I am the Academic Assessment Manager for Brooklyn College in the City University of New York. My research interests include standardized tests of college learning, writing assessment, second language writing, corpus linguistics, and educational policy. I have a PhD from Purdue University, an MA from the University of Rhode Island, and a BA from Central Connecticut State University. I am a member of the American Federation of Teachers, the Professional Staff Congress of CUNY, and New York State United Teachers.
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https://fredrikdeboer.com/
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Contact
freddie7 AT gmail DOT com
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He sounds like someone who has never actually dealt with capitalism in his life.
*so glad I decided not to pursue another degree*
It’s worth mentioning that both ENB and Soave are fans of Freddie deboer
He’s the “common sense” socialist
Wat?! Inconceivable.
Confession = I read deboer too. I just dont cite him as woke bae
You cited him pretty extensively post-election (understandably—his analysis was spot-on)
Yes. I think his frequent criticisms of the left are accurate; the problem is that when he starts talking about what to replace that shitty left with, his “be more socialist” ‘solutions’ are worse.
Shocker. Something something cocktail parties.
Of course, what “it” is, is not an abstract conception, but actual people enforcing these new rules, with whatever threat and violence necessary. And what will that look like? Not a government! No, no!
See, as one of the resident ex-communists here I laugh at idiots like deBoer who pretend that the emergence of a ‘socialist system’ doesn’t require strict and thorough authoritarian management of the economy a la communism. To argue like my commie days:
To level the playing field fundamentally requires the Vanguard of the Proletariat to assume full control of the economy and manage every aspect of the lives of the citizenry in order to promote purposeful correction of the hierarchy. On top of that, the Vanguard must be able to detain and control the personal lives and opinions of the citizenry itself, in order to promote behaviour that benefits the collective in the long run and crafts humanity into something more willing to conform to the Worker’s Paradise.
An individual who promotes a system that is not reflective of this is in fact nothing more that a promoter of bourgeois ‘freedom’, and an active detriment to the socialist cause.
Coming soon to the Democrat party near you.
Wow, that was a lot of words for what was just basically “Big Rock Candy Mountain.”
It must do away with the profit motive and markets, or else it is bound to fail.
So what he’s saying is that it’s bound to fail. He could have just stopped there, and saved a lot of typing.
https://www.amazon.com/Organized-Crime-Unvarnished-Truth-Government/dp/1610162552
any of you Glibs read this? I downloaded the audio book from mises today. I’ll be listening to it on my commute for the next week or so. opinion?
I’m sure it’ll be great. DiLorenzo never disappoints. Is he doing his own reading? I’d much rather listen to him doing the reading.
sounds like an endorsement. I have never read anything from him. If this turns out well, I will probably explore more of what he has written. Thanks
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How does it compare to Albert Jay Nock’s “Your Enemy the State”?
TSA new rules: seperate bin for all electronics bigger than a phone.
Oh boy, adding on to that worthless money pit and jobs program boondoggle. I mean, I’ve worked for a company where our laptops came with occasional explosions as a factory-default option that no X-ray would do a damned thing to help with.
Solution to the TSA.
Sealed cockpit. Build airplanes so that there is no way a pilot can enter the cabin, or a passenger can enter the cockpit. That takes away the ability of any hijacker to ever be able to take over control of a plane and or kill the pilots.
At Lachowsky airlines inc. there would be a 3/8 inch steel plate between the passengers and the pilots.
Except there are no lavs or galleys inside a cockpit. Nor are there crew rest seats/bunks for long haul flights. And the pilot(s) can be the weak link too as in the Germanwings incident.
I had to do that out of denver last week.
fucking sucked. There are a bunch of people pushing their shit into mine on the entry ot be scanned and I needed to go grab an extra bin for my laptop.
then another one for my kindle.
There are way too many comments om these articles, twitter, etc. from people saying if you just get your stuff together and get ready it shouldn’t take anymore time and they’ve been doing it forever and just bend over and take it, as if that was the point. It’s all just security theater and will do nothing to make anyone safer.
no flipping point to it. the girl that was in front of me was also not very impressed. it was useless.
The TSA guy after the scanner was watching youtube on his phone.
Combat loads
It’s been firmly established that the maximum amount of weight a healthy young man can carry continuously while marching 10-15 miles a day is about 50 pounds. And that’s in moderate weather.
An M16 weighs about 8 pounds.
200 rounds of ammo plus mags weighs about 7 pounds.
Armor weighs about 16 pounds.
Helmet is about 3 pounds.
So we’re up to 34 pounds already with just the essentials.
A day’s worth of food and water is about 6 pounds.
That leaves about 10 pounds for other stuff: radio, grenades, first aid kit, etc.
And the trend is heading in the wrong direction. The new armor get-up looks like that anti-bear suit and costs 10 times as much.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WWiPiks1sU
From the CNN article about it:
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(CNN)After an American commando died kicking in a door during a raid in Afghanistan, the top commander of U.S. Special Operations vowed to prevent similar tragedies.
Two years later, the U.S. military is closer than ever to putting Iron Man on the front lines — or at least something that closely mirrors the superhero’s tech-forward suit of armor.
Unlike Hollywood’s, the suit won’t give its operator the ability to fly, but the real-life body armor may have one leg up on the fictional version: The military’s suit will be made of liquid armor that can solidify on command.
Fitted with the protective gear — the Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit, or TALOS — troops would be more lethal and better protected, particularly the vulnerable first soldier to breach a compound.
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[face palm]
for perspective
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Paddy Doyle
Paddy Doyle walked 30 miles along the Grand Union Canal while carrying a 76-pound back pack in 10 hours and 37 seconds.
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Looks like he’s in his 40s too.
https://recordsetter.com/world-record/200-meter-speed-march-along-the-grand-union-canal-while-carrying-76-pound-back-pack/5310?autoplay=false
Smokejumpers have to pack out 110 pounds over three miles in under 90 minutes (on level ground) to pass the test to get in, among other things. It’s not uncommon for them pack out that weight, or more, for much longer distiances over rugged terrain. Sure, they get dropped in, but they have to pack it out! And in this case the women have the same standards. Imagine a 120 lb female carrying her body weight that far.
Sooner or later exo suits are going to have to happen
There is a cartoon from the 90s I desparetly want mad into a movie trilogy, called Exo-Squad.
I even did a mock-up poster.
I loved that show. That or MI from Starship Troopers.
The technology is possible, but not necessarily practical.
Can you imagine how much it would suck to have to wear a fully enclosed suit of armor while fighting in a burning desert?
One of the reasons why many 3rd world armies don’t use armored vehicles is because they can’t get the air-conditioning to work.
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The Russian T-90 tanks bought by India were rendered vulnerable as components showed signs of degradation under extreme heat as they were bought without air conditioners, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) said in its latest report.
The CAG noted that the tanks were procured without the ACs, ignoring the recommendation of the field trial teams.
Most of these tanks are deployed in the Rajasthan desert and it was felt that air conditioners were not required as Indian commanders preferred to operate their vehicles with open cupolas.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-2562365/Lack-air-conditioning-makes-Russian-T-90-tanks-deployed-Rajasthan-vulnerable.html
Imma disagree. The 50 lb number was always considered as the backpack amount. When you add the other things, it comes to around the 70-75 lb range. Above that, things did start to break down. I carry about 75 lbs around now above my ‘healthy young man’ weight and can still walk 10 miles a day (if I actually did that much with regularity, I’d probably drop 25 of those lbs, though).
The other piece is that you should never be kicking in a door with backpack on.
The adding of plate armor was something I never had to fuck with, though, and that breaks the weight limits.
I suspect we’ll never see armor like that deployed until some form of mech assistance is developed.
OK. I was looking at the long term. From Roman times up to about the mid 19th century, 50 pounds was about the max. But that was back in the day when a soldier would be marching 10 or 15 miles a day for weeks.
The problem that got this started was raiding houses. Wouldn’t it be smarter to clear buildings using CS gas or maybe flamethrowers? It’s stupid to send people into buildings that could be full of enemy or booby traps without doing something to soften it up. During the first battle of Fallujah, the Marines stormed into houses and the losses were high. During the second battle, they ended up destroying most of the buildings with artillery, which is what they should have done in the first place. Or use the Israeli method of armored bulldozers.
During WW2, the Japanese often holed in cave complexes. It would have been crazy to send guys in to clear them out, so they just torched them with flamethrowers.
And in Vietnam there were the Tunnel Rats and they died like flies. 30% casualty rate according to these guys:
http://tunnelrats.com.au/aboutus.php
I’m not sure we have flamethrowers still in inventory.
Don’t they still have the gas chamber in basic? It sucks but you can fight through CS, and protective masks aren’t hard to obtain plus the attackers then have to use them as well. Promask in desert sucks big time.
Yes, I remember the gas chamber well.
I hadn’t thought about them using gas masks. Using gas would work as a surprise tactic, but in the long run, they’d problem adapt to it.
Yeah, fighting a war effectively would be best done by destroying or bypassing homes and buildings.
Problem is we stopped war-fighting in Iraq after about the first week, and started doing COIN or whatever the latest name is for ‘ineffective use of military forces to conduct policing actions’ is.
semi random: according to this article, my favorite weapon, the Mk 19 grenade launcher was banned in Iraq. There were concerns about collateral damage. Meanwhile, another dozen JDAMS are dropped…
http://www.businessinsider.com/these-are-25-of-the-most-effective-weapons-in-the-us-arsenal-2015-6
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No. 14 — The MK-19 Automatic Grenade Launcher
Range: 1,400 meters
Round: 40-53 mm
Weight: Any grunt who has carried it will say, “Heavy as hell.” He’d be right — it’s about 73 pounds.
Analysis: Great for general mayhem and destruction. The MK-19 Automatic Grenade Launcher is by far the most specialized crew-served weapon in the infantry.
It’s also one of the deadliest, which is why it was banned from the battlefield in the final years of the Iraq War.
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As a former Cav guy, the MK19 is actually kinda frowned upon. The time of flight on using it at range and the fact that it is no more effective than the Ma Deuce for mounted engagements. In an urban enviro, it takes 30M to arm and collateral damage is exacerbated.
The mounted .50 is effective to 1800 m and you don’t have to wait 10 seconds for the rounds to get there.
Catching troops in the open, though? Hell yeah.
I’d like to point that Boy Scouts hiking around in Philmont regularly hike around with 70 to 90lb backpacks for 10 to 15 miles through semi-mountainous terrain every day. Even just a basic hiking kit with a basic backpack. A change of clothes, a tent, a bedsheet, some rope, a poncho, fresh socks, and a basic first aid kit. All that little stuff adds up and trying to keep the necessities under 50 lbs is actually really difficult.
Toss in 3 days worth of food and water and the Boy Scouts just roll with it.
Those weights are about 2x too high. They have (or at least did when I was there) a weight cutoff of 25% of your body weight, and there ain’t that many 360 lb boy scouts hiking in Philmont. Actually, at the time, they had dropped the permissible weight from the previously acceptable 30%, and I can’t imagine that they’ve gotten more hardcore in the years since. One quick point: You don’t carry 3 days of water (that would be like 24lbs by itself), you carry two one liter/quart containers and fill them as you go.
Good news and bad news
good news: Afghan police in Kabul caught a truck loaded with about 2500 pounds of explosives. It was likely on its way to blow up in rush hour traffic.
bad news: The Taliban overran a govt base near Kandahar, killed 26 govt troops, and captured a ton of weapons and supplies.
About 40% of the country is under the partial or complete control of the Taliban.
UK Jewish school risks closure for refusal to teach LGBT issues
http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/British-Jewish-school-risks-closure-for-refusal-to-teach-LGBT-issues-498177
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These failures stem in large part from the school’s refusal to teach about a range of LGBT-related issues including homosexuality and gender reassignment.
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Neil Levitan, director of programs at Jewish LGBT+ charity KeshetUK, told The Jerusalem Post, “We know that young people of faith are more likely to have tried to take their own life than those that aren’t, and that pupils in faith schools are more likely than those in nonfaith schools to say that teachers and school staff never challenge homophobic, biophobic and transphobic language when they hear it.
“[E]very Jewish institution, particularly those working with young people such as schools, needs to find a way to ensure young LGBT+ people feel safe and loved, to keep them safe from harm and ultimately to create a world where no one has to choose between their Jewish and LGBT+ identities.”
An Ofsted representative said the standards “actively promote fundamental British values such as democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and respect, and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs.”
The representative continued that “Children living in England deserve the best. The law expects schools to demonstrate that they are encouraging pupils to take a respectful and tolerant stance toward those who hold values different from their own. Ofsted acts robustly and impartially to ensure children in England receive a good education.”
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Oh, nut up. I didn’t get “a range of LGBT-related issues including homosexuality and gender reassignmen” in school and somehow I thrive.
And get off my lawn!
surprise, surprise, surprise
Far-Left Activists Force Jewish Bookstore to Close Down Over Workshop on Thinker They Don’t Like
https://heatst.com/culture-wars/far-left-activists-force-jewish-bookstore-to-close-down-over-workshop-on-thinker-they-dont-like/
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Two Israelis been forced to close down their bookshop in Berlin following threats from far-Left “anti-fascist” activists.
The two men, grandsons of Holocaust survivors, started receiving threats after launching a study group of Italian philosopher Julius Evola, who was involved with the fascist movement, Die Welt reported.
The pair tried to keep the bookshop open, but the constant threats from far-left activists have made the business unprofitable and it was forced to shut down.
In a Facebook post, both men claim the so-called “anti-fascists” in Berlin were outraged that the bookshop would dare to hold a study group on an intellectual involved in the fascist movement in the area with a high number of immigrants.
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Did the
antifascists threaten to break the windows of the bookstore?I’m pretty sure the Mall Ninjas could be easily goaded into holding a book BBQ.
As explained by this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AhGYo9TExU
This made me think I should post a throwback-thursday link for anyone who missed this artwork for the Warty Hugeman story ‘The Girl With the Nazi-ray Eyes’ over on the other site. Since on the east coast it’s Thursday. These are the kinds of magazine covers that artwork.
that the artwork was inspired by.
military ephemera
I was reading about the effectiveness of SAMs during the Vietnam war. Here’s the progression of number of SAMs fired per US aircraft lost.
1965 18 SAMs fired per kill
1966 35
1967 57
1968 107
The US got really good and electronic countermeasures and evasive maneuvers.
Adjusting for inflation, each of those SAMs cost about half a million and the launcher/controller cost about $8 million.
The real kicker is that 66% of US aircraft (fixed wing) losses during the war was from flak cannons largely unchanged since WW2.
When it comes to low flying aircraft, the best tactic is just fill the sky with lead.
They Wanted to Make it Better: Americans Killed By ISIS In Syria Wanted To Stop Islamic State
http://www.newsweek.com/they-wanted-make-better-americans-killed-isis-syria-635194
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The Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) announced Tuesday the deaths of three foreign volunteers, two from the U.S. and one from the U.K., amid the U.S.-backed force’s campaign to defeat the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) in its de facto capital of Raqqa, Syria.
The YPG’s press office said that 28-year-old Robert Grodt of California and 22-year-old Luke Rutter of Birkenhead, U.K. were killed during an ISIS ambush late Wednesday in the suburbs of Raqqa, while 29-year-old Nicholas Warden of New York later succumbed to fatal injuries sustained the same day, according to The Guardian. The YPG is a major part of the Syrian Democratic Forces, a Kurd-dominated coalition of Arabs and ethnic minorities that serve as the U.S.’s primary partner in the more than eight-month-long campaign to eradicate ISIS in northern Syria. The YPG eulogized the trio in three separate videos and commemorated their deaths, along with four native militants, in an official statement.
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So universal basic income. How do people feel about it? Or the advocates who think that we need it cause robots will eliminate all jobs except for the CEOS?
Quite a few lefties are suspicious of the libertarians advocating for it so I am dubious of any real reductions of bureaucracy or other benefits…
Good idea if it actually replaced all other transfer programs. Since that is unlikely to happen, UBI is a bad idea.
The notion that leftists will actually agree to fire their one of their biggest backers and devoted supporters or to cut people who vote for them off the dole is very doubtful…
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/23/universal-basic-income-ubi-welfare-state
Jesus, it really is “We think you’re evil so even when we have the same idea, yours is evil.”
Yes. They’re well beyond any logical engagement.
If it replaced all other welfare programs (including SS!), if it was accompanied by a drastic scaling back of the regulatory state to reduce cost of living, and if there was a strict mechanism to keep the amount minimal and prevent an inflationary feedback loop, then… maybe.
Realistically, we’re never going to see any of those conditions met. If we had that kind of political sanity, we wouldn’t be in the mess we’re in to begin with. It’s a pipe dream. I might see UBI implemented in my lifetime, but it will be implemented by non-libertarians and will be disastrous to the budget and the currency.
A parting thought:
I think the main reason people don’t favor limited govt is because most people never run afoul of the law. They either are lucky enough not to get caught or are not involved in anything illegal. Since most people rarely run afoul of the law, they assume there is nothing wrong with the law.
At a given time, about 1% of the USSR’s population was in the gulag. If you kept a low profile, you were unlikely to get in trouble. North Korea has about 24 million people and about 200k in gulags, so again about 1%. About 1% of US adults are in prison.
Of course, the US is nowhere near as bad, but the statistics are troubling.
Here’s a counterfactual, the people most likely to run afoul of the laws are poor minorities. Yet they overwhelming vote for Democrats.
Of course they do. Everyone knows Democrats have pure intentions that always work as planned.
This meets my needs.
*wrings hand, grins*
Excellent work!
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Is it too early to start rioting?
The first – a late AM Links. *shakes fist at the gods above*
That Dawkins guy sure is a smug asshole, but maybe he’s right? And you’re shaking a fist at nothing. Why would a benevolent god forsake our morning links?
Can’t a man have theatrical license to shake his fist (or scream) at the void?
Have breakfast first.
*flips keyboard*
These aren’t links. RIIIIIIIIIIIOOOOOOOTTTTT!!!!!!!!! *flips keyboard*
Why do people keep abusing their keyboards? The hardware did nothing wrong!
This is what happens with Sloopy shaves his mustache.
LH give us some links. I know you have ’em
Following a link from “Kristen Stewart and her supermodel girlfriend crashed a lesbian wedding. Sorry you missed it”, were these real tweets, or is SNL just trying to be funny?
https://www.someecards.com/entertainment/celebrities/kristen-stewart-trump-creepy-tweets-robert-pattinson-snl-monologue/
They are dragging up 5 year old tweets? What, he doesn’t say enough stupid shit in the present for them?
Maybe the Am Linkses pinch hitters got fed up with the bitching about the sports and said fuck em.
Here is a link. Cops serve warrant at wrong house. Person becomes deceased.
The Daily Mail goes New York Times:
“Family fury after hospital denies mother-of-five’s Christian-faith-based healthcare plan in the middle of her CHEMO and hands her a $41k bill”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4734068/Cancer-stricken-woman-s-treatment-stopped-health-plan.html
Then after several paragraphs bashing health co-ops, at the very end of the article:
“The Alleys are no longer under threat of losing Laura’s cancer care and currently have a zero balance because Medi-Share paid it in advance.
Northside sent another statement confirming that Laura’s ‘billing issues have been resolved’, adding that she’s receiving care with ‘no delays, interruptions or cancellations’. “
Why people are leaving the Northeast
Last year, three states in the Northeast — New Jersey, New York and Connecticut — landed in the top five places people were moving out of fastest, according to 2017 data from United Van Lines. (The other two states on the list were Illinois and Kansas.) And data from Pew Charitable Trusts found that while people are all about moving to the South (their population grew by nearly 1.4 million people from 2014 to 2015) and the West (866,000 more people), the population growth in the Northeast is “sluggish.”
“For Zoë Barry, feeling attractive in New York was an impossible feat. The 32-year-old, who grew up in Stuy Town and attended an all-girls private school, says her self-esteem was slowly sapped by the city’s sky-high beauty standards. “As a woman, you’re never enough,” says the sporty 5-foot-6 CEO. “I was never tall enough or slim enough. It grates on you after a while — that pressure to be a walking mannequin.”
So Barry pulled a confidence-boosting move that more and more New Yorkers are considering lately: She fled NYC for a city that actually appreciates her.”
http://nypost.com/2017/07/26/i-left-new-york-city-so-i-could-feel-hotter/
Meh, models look weird IRL. I guess it’s what you’re used to, but to me NYC is not that dense with attractive women. There are a lot of women, but the south definitely had more attractive women. But skinny doesn’t necessarily mean attractive to me.