Since Sloopy is in mustache timeout, I’ll do a sportzball bit. The Firstros are probably 30 wins away from clinching their division, with 62 left to play. American National Communist Football team will play Jamaica for the Gold Cup. After bringing in a bunch of veterans who will probably be too old for the World Cup next year. On the other hand, given how good Tim Howard was in 2014, they should give him a chance in 2018 to be the starter.
Best response to this: “Oh shit, did he bomb a marathon?!”
The Fed says it will start trying to find buyers for an estimated $3 trillion of bonds it is holding “relatively soon”
SEC moves to regulate ICOs — secure currency initial offerings. I’m not for the SEC regulating these, but they have been damn shady a couple of times. Please do your research before participating.
Sheep surfing — a new sport out of the antipodes.
Today’s police blotter roundup.
I think this makes me insensitive. 
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ICOs are causing all sorts of ETH market distortion and it sucks
and another first for me!
I’d rather have thorn market distortion, anyway.
And the BPOs are causing the ATPDs a lot of problems which preasures the QDPRs and the NAACPD.
NTTATWWT, IYKWIM.
YKINMYBYKIOK
Do explain, I haven’t followed crypto in a few years so I am out of the loop.
*Gets stack of Rolling Stone magazine, throws up all over them out of pure disgust over that cover*
That’s about as bad as when the left up here were pathetically fetishizing Obama during the Harper years.
Who needs Rolling Stones when you can get all your music news from Much Music? Do they still have that crappy MTV rip-off in Canada?
Our ‘crappy MTV rip off’ doesn’t spent nearly as much time as yours on ‘woke content’, making it automatically superior.
Fair point, but isn’t ‘much music’ grammatically incorrect? You guys can’t even write the language that you butcher correctly
Much music these days is lacking in melody.
I don’t listen to much music on my MP3 player.
Leave John alone, Just. He’s dealing with some heavy shit right now.
Swiss!
You guys can’t even write the language that you butcher correctly
Pot calling the kettle black there, pervertors of the Queen’s English.
I remember seeing a bit on “Much Music” where they played some video and asked for viewer responses. I think it was in the 90s. There was a clip in the video of some folks checking handguns in a cloakroom. According to the viewers’ responses, this part of the video was highly offensive.
But have you seen his hair? And he knows so much about quantum computers too!
I didnt realize RS was that political.which i guess i understand since theres only one or two news publications out there
I didnt realize RS was that political.
Well, they’ve always sucked at covering rock music, so I guess they figured a new beat was in order. Unfortunately, they suck at covering politics, too.
I never got into reading it read it but it was THE industry publication. Seems stupid to get away from what made it a household name
Naw … Billboard was.
Unfortunately posters in co-op stores or your local library don’t reach the masses quite like Playboy and Mtv does. So you’ll take your capitalist entertainment with a large dose of anti-capitalist culture war propaganda. And you’ll like it, dammit!
Which is something, considering they used to have Hunter Thompson and P.J. O’Rourke doing it for them. Bill Greider wasn’t terrible either, albeit much more of a woke lefty than the previous two.
It’s worth noting that Rolling Some wouldn’t feature Rush on their cover until after they disavowed Ayn Rand. It’s like they didn’t exist for 30 years.
Woke pretty boy on the cover of Rolling Stones. Different day, same shit
His mom was hot, though. And a whore
One of the few good things about Zoolander is that he got both his mom’s looks and brain. If he had Pierre’s cunning we’d be in way bigger trouble.
How could he get Pierre’s cunning? He can only inherit traits from his biological parents.
BURN!
Dad was the Communist Dictator of Cuba.
“Today’s police blotter roundup.”
Where muh pics?
Something tells me they did us a favor by not including pics.
The Fed says it will start trying to find buyers for an estimated $3 trillion of bonds it is holding “relatively soon”
Can’t they just convert them to toilet paper like the confederacy did?
How about rolls of stock like they had on the Simpsons?
Internet company guy (don’t think they gave him a name): Now, Bart, we can’t pay you a salary. But we can give you stock.
Lisa: How is your company gonna make money? Do you have a business model?
ICG: How many shares of stock will it take to end this conversation?
Lisa: Two million.
ICG: It is done.
Confederate money is now art.
That was taken in the Art History Museum in Vienna. That’s not my picture but I have a similar one somewhere in my travel pictures collection.
https://twitter.com/JillFilipovic/status/890288759832530944
Christian missionaries are racist or something. Because colonization or Howard Zinn told me so.
I’m sure all those Africans dependent on AIDS medication from Christian charities are furiously nodding in agreement.
hot take level: just off the surface of the sun
Best response: “I like what they’re doing over what you are not doing”
Oh yes, missionaries in matching gear helping poor people in Africa? Horrible, evil. Women wearing matching vulva hats and screeching about Trump? So woke! #resistance
I seriously don’t think people like her actually care about helping poor people, they just want to feel morally superior, even if it meams demonizing people with different beliefs than them who actually are helping and supporting feel good policies that hurt the poor all while doing nothing but social signal on Twitter
What they’re interested in is tearing down the legitimate achievements of others for their own self-esteem.
Those missionaries save thousands of African lives on a regular basis. Filipovic whines about being oppressed in the most privileged country in the world. Their achievements make hers look pathetic and must be undermined.
That’s a good one…
“I’m outraged that you are mad at the thing I said to make you angry!”
To be sure, there is an issue with mission groups who are a net drain on local areas because they build crappy infrastructure that costs more to maintain or replace than anything it provides. I’d still bet on visceral hatred of happy white people from her outgroup.
What an unpleasant, miserable person. She must be desperately unhappy.
Filipovich. Putting the ‘twit’ in Twitter.
Nothing more hilarious – and depressing – than reading the musings of know-nothing who thinks they’re smart.
To know nothing and be able to express it! Thank God for TWITTER!
Especially when she moved there, no doubt to write some “Whitey goes to live in magical negro land” pieces, full of soft bigotry and great awareness of her privilege.
Your avatar always makes this play in my brain.
Luckily it’s good song.
Twitter and everything related to it should be pulverized into atoms before it further contributes to the decline of Western civilization.
Maybe someone could get ol’ Sam to stay State-side and do his work in Jill’s neck of the woods.
I know I’d donate to see that meet-up.
Has Trudeau ever said or done anything that would justify him being considered smart or a good leader?
/rhetorical
He knows about quantum computers! And…um…computers made of quantums?
And his socks!! Have you seen his socks.. **swoons**
He’s a liberal whi can read a teleprompter and he’s hot?
he’s hot
Meh. He’s a 5. Do Canadians grade on a curve?
He’s a politician 12, though.
This was the last guy in office.
Lots of prog women swoon over Zoolander for his looks and shallow platitudes.
This page has a picture of each and every PM we had. You tell me how PM Zoolander rates look-wise.
I’d do horrible but consensual things to 1993 Kim Campbell.
The Governor-General from 1935 to 1940 was also one helluva writer – John Buchan, ” The thirty-nine Steps”.
I’ve got MacKenzie Bowell for the win.
I’m shocked the SEC didn’t move to regulate ICOs earlier. They meet the definition of securities, and they’re not being sold under a registered offering or under an exemption.
(yay! Finally, something I have expertise in being discussed here!)
Whaddya mean? We talk about jew gold conspiracies all the time.
I saw in another thread that you have a Papillon. Mine is 13.
Still going strong? Our ten year old papillon is basically still a spry little puppy except for his missing teeth.
Ha, same here. He is missing just about all of his teeth on the left side. He can’t keep his tongue in all the way or lick straight.
Why are you shocked? The SEC can’t even do a credible job of monitoring their student athletes. The last thing they want to get involved in at this time is crypto currencies (which I assume is what you call the money that Auburn offers a recruit under the table). Plausible deniability.
Graduates from SEC schools (Vanderbilt excluded) wouldn’t generally be smart enough to understand what these things actually mean, so we’ll go with that.
Shit. I shoulda gone with Dr. Hook.
Nah, yours was timely and the Kinks are awesome.
Kinks are awesome
*high fives Tundra
Dig it.
Nice.
Maybe my fav Kinks tune…maybe
And you’re call yourself glibertarians?
Crap. I was so focused on getting the link rights I messed up the grammar.
Very nice Yeah, I think you win.
The Kinks are awesome. That is the perfect song to throw out there when the tranny discussions make the news. That or some Lou Reed.
First Lana Del Rey, and now this:
“Evan Rachel Wood isn’t taking any risks when it comes to the supernatural.
The 29-year-old “Westworld” actress told Cosmopolitan UK that she always carries sage as well as the gemstone tiger’s eye for “cleaning demons out of places.”
Wood isn’t the only Hollywood star to turn to mysticism in her everyday life; Katy Perry said in 2014 that she used rose quartz to attract men.”
http://pagesix.com/2017/07/25/evan-rachel-wood-uses-jade-and-tigers-eye-to-clean-out-demons/
Fantasy idiots are idiots.
I too spend a lot of time worrying about powerful all-consuming evil entities that can be banished by produce.
Well, I always keep garlic in the kitchen, and I haven’t seen one vampire. The science is settled.
+1 Tiger-Proof Rock
I’d like to buy your rock.
Sure! Ten Bucks! The instruction manual is out of print but I can let you have my slightly-worn one for a million semolians.
Like by hanging it on a chain that disappeared into her cleavage? That’s like saying “Wilt Chamberlain swore by _____ for attracting women.”
Wait, I want a second shot at this. “Is that how she ended up with Russell Brand?”
Proof that stone mysticism stuff is a bunch of garbage?
She ended up with Russel Brand.
yeah really, she doesn’t need any help in that department
Given the new haircut, I think Katy is playing for the other team now.
“Wow! Gender stereotype much? I’m so angry, I’m literally shaking”
– Robbie Soave
To be sure, even though SugarFree’s speech is hateful and problematic, it is still technically free speech.
Of course it is free. Who in their right mind* is going to pay for it?
*The people who would pay for the Hat & Hair stories can’t because they are unable to reach their wallets due to being in a straight jacket.
He’s just terrified that hair can be cut that short. Or that he’ll be called upon to change a tire.
She kissed a girl and really liked it?
she mentioned in an interview she chopped it all off because it was so damaged from bleaching it previously, not that she really wanted to
I believe that was the excuse Kirsten Stewart used… at first.
And next week SF takes a break from political fan-fic (hate-fic?) to take a stab at celebrity fan-fic…
He can do both – Trump is a celebrity anyway!
Speaking of which, are we worried that the Canuckistanis will kidnap Stewart while she is in Winnipeg?
Kristen is pulling in some good tail with that cut.
Wait a second….that’s the excuse my wife used for chopping her hair off, too. Should I be worried?
She put something behind her ears to attract men.
Her feet.
Thanks, I’m here all week!
Heyooooo
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. I’ve seen her up close in a bikini. She was right in front of me in line for a waterslide. She’s a 4 or 5, tops.
She’s a walking advertisement for makeup, push up bras, and personal training. Money CAN buy you those things.
Remember, California 5 is like a Yankee 9.
Rose Quartz + great big juicy titties
Lisa, I want to buy your rock.
I was sixteen and goth once, too.
You know, I’ll take stupid broad nonsense mysticism over these idiotic ‘neo-pagan’ religions any day of the week.
Ah, you an Alistair Crowley man?
*sacrifices goat*
I have a few talismans consisting of steel, lead, copper and brimstone of my own that are also useful for cleaning demons out of places. Now that I think about it, I guess it could be used to attract men as well..
Saw The Rolling Stone cover.
I want to punch someone.
BARF!!!!
How does a manatee drown to death?
The same way as you, it just takes longer.
very slowly
They’re mammals. You figure it out.
That sounds like it should be a daily-mail link to JohnPron.
Why did they need a fire engine?
To squirt more water on the drowning manatee?
Because Snooty was so stuck up, they needed the ladders from the fire truck?
Heh.
They can’t be bothered to swim because lazy?
Not sure who needed the food more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4732624/Olivia-Wilde-sent-sick-Jennifer-Lawrence-soup-bagels.html
SarcasmicPron.
It’s gonna take one hell of a lot of bagels to fix those girls.
Lost the pregnancy fat and just kept going. Wilde at least used to be a bit, um…, fuller.
Kill the bill, don’t kill us! Kill the bill, don’t kill us! Kill the bill, don’t kill us! Shame! Shame!
Durrrrrr. Seriously, fuck these people, god damn coercive thieves. That’s a novel idea though, the robber with a gun to your head shames you while you’re forced to hand over your wallet. Hand over your wristwatch as well.
Did a single one of those protesters realize they weren’t voting on a health care bill yesterday?
You protest when you can, not just when it makes sense to do so.
END THE WAR IN IRAQ!!! OUT WITH BUSHPIGS!!!
SHAME SHAME SHAME
*whispers* you have no what?
What are those jackelopes doing?
It’s the initial stages of a circle jerk. They want to be more like congress.
Says one of your kids.
playing, just playing
It’s almost like they’re in a train configuration, but the lead guy doesn’t know that he’s the engine. Yet.
So I guess not pointing out that rabbits were sheep surfing just made it a random animal groupsex pic. Shit.
Paging Mr. Wolk. Please pick up the animal sex courtesy phone.
How’s Turdeau jr, a guy who can’t remember Alberta going to lead the free world?
Where’s barfman when you need him?
After having discovered a font of derp that would kill derptolgist I decided the best way to survive is to pass along the curse,
Behold!
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/07/19/mcdo-j19.html#pk_campaign=sidebar&pk_kwd=mostread
Unfortunately many of us were already infected when this site was posted a few days ago.
Yes, but that was to the home page, now I will start sharing the articles!
If they want to argue that going green caused those deaths, I’ll listen.
…I decided the best way to survive is to pass along the curse.
So you’re starting a derp chain-mail? I might need to ask the mystics upthread what stones magically repel derp…
Depends on how hard you can throw them.
Any of you guys read up on the rockism vs. Poptimism debate?
Seems like a lot of navel-gazing to justify how the music you like is the greatest and those who disagree suck.
I don’t know what those things are.
^^^ what this guy said. Someome Google this for me
I probably still won’t care even if someone goes to the trouble.
I think they are rival NAMBLA factions.
From the Great Boy Scout vs. Cub Scout Schism?
The battles are never more vicious than when the prizes are so young…
I found this, but after couple paragraphs my brains began to ooze from my ears.
So I stopped.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockism_and_poptimism
Should give you an idea.
As with many things today, this.
I did say I thought it was navel-gazing…
So, in summation : idiots
A fight between Dwayne Johnson and Girls Generation?
Poptimism is woke and rockism is for cis het white males. I received a vinyl subscription service in the mail and they had a podcast that went with it. I listened for a few episodes but they had their heads so far up their asses I just found music recommendations elsewhere. It was vinyl me please if anyone wants to check them out. Music journalism is just about virtue signaling. It sounds like a broken record but it’s true they just don’t let anything not be about politics. TDS has ruined most of the websites I used to go on.
Typical of the Rolling Stone to gush over a no-shit Privileged White Man.
Great hair, excellent teeth. What’s not to like?
I would love it if he were doing the news in San Diego. But he’s not.
Hot damn, he really would make the ideal sportscaster
But how long are his fingers?
And repeal just went tits up. 45-55.
Not replace and repeal. Straight repeal.
Fuck these motherfuckers.
Did anyone here truly think they’d have the balls to straight repeal? Of course they didn’t. I’m figuring at least 15 of the “yes” votes for repeal were from Senators who were only voting yes because they knew it’d fail. There were negotiated votes on this one, who could “afford” to vote no and yes.
I can’t find a 45-55 vote on Thomas.gov yet, so I can’t tell you who voted for repeal during the Obama years, yet turned their coat now.
AFAIK, this was a straight repeal vote, with a promise to put something else in within the next two years.
From the NY Times
I knew McCain would end up fucking us over.
Didn’t Weld endorse Murkowski over the Libertarian?
At this point, I look to see who Weld endorses so I know to support the other guy.
To be fair, the “Libertarian” was the same guy who primaried her in 2010.
Joe Miller is more of a Tea-Party guy than a real Libertarian.
But a lot more libertarian than Weld.
Exactly the usual suspects. Good news is we now have a list. You know what to do.
I would say I’m mortified that I voted for McCain (I am, fyi) but even without him there were way too many never trumpers in there.
Can someone do a welfare check on Ken Schultz? Ken, buddy, we’re here for you.
Raaaaaaannddddd!!!!!
Cuuuuuuuntttt!!!!!
Oh shit, I forgot all about that.
FuckPrimary these motherfuckers.Couldn’t agree more. Although if DOJ were to find they’d violated one of the three felonies a day, I wouldn’t cry too much. Bad road to go down though.
With keeping JB’s point about vote-trading in mind, at least Lee, Cruz, and Paul were on the repeal side.
What?! You mean all those votes to repeal Obamacare while Obama was still in office were just for show? They didn’t really mean it?!
In fairness, all those votes were done by the House, not the Senate. The Senate voted for repeal/replace (not full repeal) once, in 2015. I’m disappointed, but not surprised, that the Senate isn’t performing better.
Why are the Democrats being so obstructionist?
http://www.realclearinvestigations.com/links/2017/07/26/memos_detail_improper_obama-era_spying_on_americans_104074.html
Is this new? Memos detail improper Obama era spying
Obama, like Zoolander, is sooo dreamy, he could never do anything improper. You’re just being racist, you shitlord.
Also “Obama-era missteps amount to less than 1 percent of the phone numbers and email addresses intercepted”…
What is 1% of a trillion?
“Missteps”
SMDH
When the (D) president does it, it’s not improper.
Virtuous onerous spying
“It’s different when Obama does these illegal, unconstitutional violations of civil rights, because I trust Obama” /actual (paraphrased) argument I heard from a prog. The second half of the sentence was word for word though
I have a problem near and dear to the cold, black hearts of libertarians: muh roadz.
I bought a house on a private road a few years ago. There was supposed to be something of a road maintenance organization on paper, but it doesn’t exist for practical purposes. I never counted on it and have done quite a bit of maintenance on the road myself as well as plowed portions of it during the winter. That’s all fine, but this spring breakup was rough and we had a culvert get overwhelmed and flooding washed away a good portion of the road.
So far three households have actually pitched in time and effort for some immediate repairs to make the road usable (I put in some tractor time myself). There about 6 households on the road and at least as many empty lots. So the majority have not pitched in any effort or pledged any money to repair the road before winter. So it seems we have a free-rider problem.
Any ideas?
Up at the lake we had a road association, legal doc and everything. Dues once a year and a small group actually tasked with contracting the work. You almost have to do it that way if there are more than three people, I think.
Yep. With CC&Rs, you can put a lien on the properties that don’t pay. You can even borrow against that lien.
Ya, something exists on paper and it was enough for me to secure financing, but as far as I know nobody is actually running the org.
Might be time for a brief chat with a real estate attorney, Hudson.
That’s the impression I’m getting. I’d really like to get a maintenance org running again. The road needs improvement.
But I’d hate to be the FNG that comes in and tells the community how to do shit.
The empty lots aren’t really free riding since they aren’t using the road (presumably).
So here’s the obvious question: who owns the road?
Somalia?
Two men enter, one man leaves!
ThunderRoad?
One of the few things of his I like.
I’m not a big Springsteen fan either, but I really liked the Seeger Sessions.
Probably my fav off the album
I think you meant Thunder Road.
So here’s the obvious question: who owns the road?
Yep and are there any conditions on the easements granted in the other deeds, such as responsibility to upkeep or forfeiture of easement?
Without having the docs in front of me, it all easement, formed by the devoloper.
That is interesting. I have never encountered that with multiple easements. The only true private roads I have seen, or was aware of, serviced one property. Now a days around these parts, the county makes the developer put in a road of a certain standard and then the maintenance is taken care of by the county with the funds they take from us by leasing our property to us.
Have you spoken to the freeloaders?
This is a podunk county in northern Idaho. County won’t take ownership of the road because not enough children live on it according to a neighbor. I’m not sure I would even want that, because taxes.
I haven’t spoken to them myself. I have a couple of good neighbors that I talk to on occasion. There was talk of getting together to discuss things in the spring. Haven’t heard anything since.
I mostly just want a plan together if there are holdouts.
Buy a hovercraft or a helicopter?
Where we’re going, we don’t need no stinking roadz!
Put up a toll both. It’s the only possible solution.
I ran into this issue while looking at homes and scouring the deed to my own property which contains private roads.
The way I’ve typically seen sharing down is the households share responsibility proportional to their use. So someone at the beginning would have much less responsibility for upkeep than someone at the end. If you haven’t taken a proportional approach for upkeep (not dived six ways but by actual use) than that would be an approach I would take.
it is supposed to be equal contributions no matter the location on the road.
Divert the road onto your private property and don’t let the free-riders use that portion of the road? 🙂
Don’t do what this guy said^^^.
It creates an easement, and you don’t want that.
Petition the court to close the road and add the road to your property. Charge your neighbors for use of the road.
I live at the end of the road.
So it’s come to this.
At the parents house, there is an association that owns the road. My mom runs it, but she doesn’t do much. One or two meetings a year. Fees are very small. Dad plows the road in the pickup. Repairs come from that. The hire an excavation/landscape company who’s owner was on my lacrosse team, so they knew him. We usually just take our tractor up and down to grate and keep the road going, but for stuff like that, having an excavation company for a day is very helpful.
Funding seems like the main issue? The lien option sounds like the best way to go. you might have to start a new group to do it if you can’t figure out where the old one is.
If you can get some small landscape company over for a morning, it might be the cheapest option if the volunteers have exhausted their skills and abilities.
I use the tractor to keep the culverts clear, there is a backhoe on the rear of it. You might be able to rent one?
How is Somalia this time of year?
Somalia weather report
President Mustang’s transgender solution: career-field specific physical and mental fitness tests that are standard regardless of gender. The standard can only increase from the current baseline (minus BMI because WTF). If you can’t pass, you don’t work that job. Same benefits across the board. No exceptions. No social signaling. End of story.
Almost universally from my compatriots the issue has nothing to do with certain groups in the military. It has everything to do with standards.
Every leftist will argue that groups can accomplish the same things and then will turn around and argue for lowering the standards to get more of a certain group in.
It’s not about identity, it’s about maintaining readiness. If the military can’t agree to even the same standard between a man and a woman, then why are we even talking about people who don’t know what they are? Of course this can be argued in support of or against a ban, but I guarantee that if Trump Tweeted the above plan it would be almost universally accepted, with the exception being the people who are only using the military to social signal.
We can’t even get that shit set up for women in the military, which is really the far more pressing issue if you care about combat effectiveness.
There’s some resentment there from other factors. If Johnny gets his dick cut off while Jimmy is sitting in the VA parking lot with a gun to his head because he can’t get a mental health provider, it’s not going to help the case.
Also the only people who really care about this issue are the ones that want to socially signal. In the U.S. at least there is sufficiently enough people applying for the military that fulfill the qualifications to never have to hire a transgender.
Pretty sure that’s the last line in my screed.
Yes but my point is that the entire issue as it exists now only exists because of those people. Transgenders in the military are not some pressing issue deeply dividing the population, it’s a vocal minority whining. No answer other than total capitulation will appease them, while everyone else just doesn’t care. It’s effectively an astroturf issue.
“while everyone else just doesn’t care”
Which is what they count on to win
The problem, here, is that it will get political due to promotions. Which career tracks get to be promoted to be the leaders? If you only promote the combat track soldiers to the top (which makes sense to me – you want combat expertise at the top of a military, and right now doctors and chaplains among others can’t get to the top, only the top of their fields), then the non-combat fields, which are likely to be more gender/sex and ability diverse than the combat fields, will complain. I mean, I like your plan, I just don’t see how it extricates the issue from politics.
That’s already the situation. You won’t command a ship unless you’re a SWO (unless you’re an aviator on a carrier). You won’t command an Artillery BN if you’re a commo officer. Obviously some corps/branches are smaller than others and there’s different competition/career paths whether you’re a SWO or an Intel officer – different types of assignments. Fewer high level roles in some cases, but maybe more senior reservists, etc. It’s pretty balanced so far.
One of the big factors pushing the opening of combat roles to women is that a lot of female officers bitched because it was much harder for them to be promoted to senior ranks because they didn’t have combat experience.
Yes, that’s what I had in the back of my mind when formulating my comment…you don’t get to be the boss unless you have combat experience, but women weren’t getting the promotions due to lack of combat experience, and women had (have?) lower physical fitness standards. Under Mustang’s one-standard-per-role plan, you’d still have the issue of disparity in the senior ranks: women would be less likely to pass the standards for a combat role job, so the senior ranks would be mostly men. I’d imagine there would be fewer trans-people represented as well, but who knows. In any case, the single standard won’t end the politics.
And that was still a stupid reason because combat exp. wasn’t going to stop them from being head of MEDCOM or TRANSCOM or anything similar. – maybe TRADOC would be harder to get – but potentially still competitive if you’ve got your crap together.
Funny how the GOP flounders on repeal when they have a chance. It is as if they were full of chit
No wait that is it
I actually wonder if the DNC hand picks up and coming democrats and tells them that they want them to run as republicans and then make the GOP look as pathetic as possible when they get into office.
It just looks like that because of Conquest’s Law of Bureaucracy: “The action of any bureaucracy can be predicted by assuming it is run by a cabal of its enemies”
Sounds like that should be an Iron Law.
Jesus Christ the fucking ghouls in the UK will not stop torturing Charlie Gard’s parents
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-40733491
Yes. The point is to publicly punish the fuck out of anyone who dares challenge the wisdom of the Government. What’s the saying? The process is the punishment.
Quick question, would it be wrong to wish bone cancer on every one of the fuckheads responsible for denying the parents their kid’s freedom?
Just curious.
No. What’s good for the goose….
It depends. Can you think of a more painful and torturous disease? If so, you should wish for that instead.
Crippling boneitis?
Hmmmm. Cluster headaches?
As someone who gets the occasional migraine, I cannot even fathom what cluster migraines must be like.
They aren’t called ‘suicide headaches for nothing.
Personally, I’m hoping they all wind up in Charlie’s position somehow. Promising treatment in the states but totally unable to get it because the almighty NHS doesn’t want to risk looking bad.
Followed by an agonizing but totally avoidable death.
Perfect.
Excellent avatar, btw.
Thanks! Fiancèe whipped it up after seeing that GoT video.
I’m thinking an untreatable gangrene with follow on untreatable tetanus and a follow on amputation without anaesthetic?
Poetic justice would see them developing the same illness the boy had.
I hope they all contract PR gonorrhea, preferably from each other.
PDR gonorrhea. I spelled the hard part right and missed the fucking D.
“PR gonorrhea” does sound like a disease journalists should worry about.
Also, top-notch John-o. Commentariat is on fire today!
Honestly, I don’t so much care how they die. I just hope there’s a hell where they can be sentenced to eternity.
Absolutely not.
I wish any person/bureaucrat involved in this sordid affair eternal pain for their acts of inhumanity. They chose the state over humanity.
Fuck them.
But there are no such things as death panels.
It’s nothing as formal as a panel, more of a bureaucratic death process and work flow.
“His parents and the hospital have until 12:00 BST on Thursday to agree his end of life care and how long he has left.”
No. Fuck you. Come and get him. I’ll be waiting.
If there was ever a concrete case where I would strap on plates and a rifle without question it’s this one. If this were in Canada and not the UK I would seriously consider it.
Yates and Garc dared to challenge the wisdom of benevolent government. They must not simply he beaten, but thoroughly destroyed, every possible hope and desire dashed before their eyes, to serve as an example to others.
Sounds like somebody needs a Woodchipper
This story has exposed just how sinister American progressivism has become. I’ve seen a few articles where they are asserting that ‘parental rights are not without limits’. Crazy shit.
‘parental rights are not without limits’
While this is technically true (abusive parents should have their parental rights limited), it is scary seeing this stated by people who don’t also believe ‘government power is not without limits’.
Fucking hell, Edmunt Dantes was less thorough in destroying his enemies than these assholes.
I have an idea, force them to go on all fours and howl like dogs if they want to see their child one last time. Maybe have them dress in diapers and dance in public square shouting “I’m a dumb baby who thought he/she knew better than my betters”?
This is just so unbelievably infuriating. As others have said, if I were that father, there’s a better the 50%-50 chance I would end up in jail for life. I don’t know how these parent have managed to stay sane. This is pure and simple state sanctioned torture. Unfucking real. How can people in the UK take this?! What the fuck? Ugh. I just cant
Well, they gave up their guns, so the politicians know that their demands are ultimately toothless.
You say that as if incredibly jacked up stuff doesnt happen here in the states.
Fair point
Speaking of the Fed…
It’s a chicken or egg problem: Does low productivity cause slow growth, or does slow growth cause low productivity?
The second possibility is the provocative argument of a new paper published Tuesday by the Roosevelt Institute, a liberal think tank. The paper argues that the United States economy is not actually closing in on its full economic potential and has plenty of room for continued growth — so long as the Federal Reserve doesn’t put on the brakes of the expansion prematurely.
“Oh, no! You can’t let interest rates rise to some historically normal rate, or we’ll all die!”
That’s about as far as I got.
“Oh, no! You can’t let interest rates rise to some historically normal rate, or we’ll all die!”
We being the criminally over-leveraged banks and federal government.
“It’s a chicken or egg problem: Does low productivity cause slow growth, or does slow growth cause low productivity?”
Um, no, it’s not a chicken and egg problem. That’s like saying “Does rain cause wet streets, or do wet streets cause rain?” is a chicken and egg problem. The economy is a measurement of productivity. When productivity increases at a high rate, we call it growth. If there is no productivity there can be no growth, but the reverse is not true. How hard is that to grasp?
Well, it’s the Roosevelt Institute, so pretty hard.
30 year T-bill rates for 2016 ranged from 2.23 to 3.11 percent. Even at that ridiculously low interest rate, Obama’s 2016 budget allocated 283-ish billion dollars for interest on the debt. (I don’t know off hand what rate they used to calculate that figure. It just gets worse if it’s lower than the 30 year rates I mentioned.)
Total expenditures for 2016 were to be 4.1 trillion. It doesn’t take much of a bump in interest rates for interest to be the biggest line item in the budget.
Going back to, say the first year of President Clinton, 1993 30 year Treasury rates ranged from 5.94 to 7.34%. Import those rates into today, and you need to find another 540 to 930 billion dollars in the budget, assuming all of the interest was calculated at those rates, of course. 540 to 930 is roughly DoD plus a bunch of other minor departments.
Good luck.
This reminds of how on Reason some commenters said that libertarians should ally with Republican moderates against Trump. This overlooks the fact that said moderates think Trump and the GOP are too libertarian already…
That is such a dumb idea. To be fair, though, it has come to the point where there is little difference between Lisa Murkowski’s positions and most of the staff at Reason. The kind of mushy moderate Reform Party trash is now what is pushed as ‘libertarianism’ by the Kochtopus (that’s right I said Kochtopus)
Pretty amusing that a magazine with a very Objectivist name like Reason is becoming the sort of mealy-mouthed centrists that they have always complained about…
Drink
Lukewarm tap water?
piss.
Jesus Christ, this site started what, six months ago? We get it, some of you really do not like the Reason staff.
It’s just Winston doing what he did for years over there (or Tulpa pretending to… you get it).
Call it the baggage of a bad breakup. When you only have one legitimate news source that caters to you and that source sells out and shits all over you, it tends to leave a mark.
Also there was an attempt to tar critics of Johnson/Weld as “Crab bucket libertarians”. This overlooked the pesky fact that reformist parties selling out to gain/after gaining power has happened before and is a very legitimate thing to be concerned about. Also this was before Weld’s vouching for Hillary.
I see some of the culinary-types posting on this thread – anyone have an Otto’s O.F.B.? I’m thinking of purchasing for the outdoor kitchen.
Contact their headquarters and find out
Sheep surfing I seem to recall an attorney who did a little “sheep surfing”.
You mean what’s-his-name?
This guy?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Granger
“buggery with a mare, a cow, two goats, divers sheepe, two calves, and a turkey”
The uncensored story of the First Thanksgiving?
So let’s talk about Left-Libertarianism. I’m speaking of the likes of Sheldon Richman here. I notice that they love to accuse libertarians of romanticizing The Gilded Age but aren’t they guilty of romanticizing the critics of Gilded Age? Acting as if they were all proto-libertarians and that socialism didn’t exist until the 1930s? I mean the populists did support the income tax and call for the nationalization of the railroads, telegraphs and telephones.
And the 1924 Progressives, beloved by Mencken also supported nationalization of railroads and other businesses such as cigarette factories.
As I recall, Mencken wasn’t endorsing their platform, just finding them more honest than the crooks they were running against.
Still many of the anti-populist libertarians of today love Mencken who was quite willing to defend people who “stood up to Wall Street”.
please dont start your whines about menken and the fucking Kaiser again
“”they love to accuse libertarians of romanticizing The Gilded Age “”
Pretty sure that’s a strawman tho. Most libertarians point to the guilded age as rife with croyism and fraud (and a few genuine free market successes)
Lefties are just angry that libertarians don’t think there’s anything de facto wrong about capitalists making whopping piles of money – only when they do so via rent seeking / fraud / collusion with govt.
Brilliant logic
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-40731035
STEVESMITHISTAN?!
How can anyone deny that these are fucking fucked-up animals
According to campus rape activists, you’re safer in rural Pakistan than in a modern American liberal arts school
“To be fair, I thought she was a 12-year-old boy”
Jesus Christ, those people are monsters.
Very far ranging and interesting (and long) article on the domestication of dogs. The basis of it is a decades long experiment domesticaing fox. But it goes into a lot of interesting sidebars on animal domestication in general and man’s best friend specifically. If you are a dog person (or just a curious person) bookmark it and read it later. It’s a very good read.
How We Really Tamed the Dog: A daring experiment builds a new tame species in just 60 years.
I’ve seen a similar thing before. Basically, humans are diurnal pack hunting carnivores, wolves are diurnal pack hunting carnivores, and so far it has been the most productive and far reaching symbiotic relationship in history.
Cats are a similar story but cats were domesticated much later because of the vermin attracted by early civilization. That was more along the lines of “Oh hey, the little furry thing eats our rats and shits outside. Lets not get rid of him.”
Very cool. Thanks, Mike!
Is that the Bilayev (sp?) experiment?
You might also like this guy Ray Coppinger on the subject of doggie evolution.
Yep. That’s the one.
I’ll look into Coppinger. Thanks!
Coppinger is also fun to watch on TV (he’s been on one of the PBS science shows – NOVA or Nature). You can tell he’s immersed in dogs, because he growls and grits his teeth when he talks!
Is that the guy who bred foxes in Siberia until they started barking?
It didn’t say anything about barking, but yeah, Siberia
Think of the first cave dude who decided to get out of the cave and go fuck around with wolves was preferable to staying in the cave and listening to the bitching from cave wife.
Of course, this was the same guy who was willing to take a pointy stick and go stab mega-fauna like mammoths in the hope that cave girlfriend would give him some loving in exchange for food.
Cave dude had a tough life.
Thank god we’ve evolved, huh?
Not sure how much. I spent an hour of hassle today getting my wife’s computer hooked up to the wireless printer in the faint hope that she might be grateful enough to share some loving with me.
I cannot convince my cave wife that it is not necessary to actually print a coupon out anymore. Despite the small print saying that she only had to show the bar code to the clerk (which could be done on her phone) she insisted on a hard copy.
And beer didn’t come ’till centuries later. Poor bastards
Lots of research indicates wolves turned themselves into dogs. So maybe it was the fucking constant howling that drove the bitches to the humans.
That’s a bit over the top
Most wild social critters tame pretty easily
It doesnt take breeding it just takes a little food
Wolves coyotes raccoons deer foxes rats mice squirrels most birds etc easily tamed. Possums and bobcats not.
There’s a big difference between a tamed wild animal and a domesticated animal that is born tame.
Justin Trudeau: Why can’t he be our President?
Help yourselves. Please. Don’t let us stop you.
Stop? We’ll help! What do you need? We’ll even take the Other Justin back!
I am not willing to give control of a superpower to a double digit IQ.
No, we must suffer the consequences of our actions.
Hey, I thought we were done with Bush jokes after 2008!
I would have said that that would raise the collective IQ of both countries except that would imply that Trudeau Jr was smart.
MSM finally reporting on DWS IT guy.
Trudeau is proof that liberals are shallow. He’s done a bunch of crap that progs should find objectionable, but he’s just still sooooo dreeeaaaamy.
As if Americans give a fuck about actual Canadian politics. It’s all just “DURR HURR, HE HAVE LOT OF WOMEN AND MINORITIES IN CABINET, SAY NICE THINGS AND IS PRETTY.”
But even the Canuckistanian liberals are taken in by his beta good looks
Actually I’d argue a lot of Zoolander’s support comes from people who were sick of the Tories being corrupt asshats, and some of the youth vote came from the ‘legalize pot’ promise. Zoolander only has a very small (and predominantly female) cult of personality, even a bunch of the people in his own party don’t like him (during the leadership races there was a lot of mockery of him as a shallow rich boy, and the Old Guard Liberals still do have influence over him).
I find it funny that I know next to nothing about the guy yet every time I see his image I get the urge to punch his nose in
You are talking the same group of people that until a few months ago thought that the notion that the Republicans were being controlled by Moscow was lunacy…
Did he? I can barely think of him doing anything, outside posing and preening.
There was EU trade agreement, but that is dragged on for years and years, plus proggies love them some EU.
He autorized one pipeline, and shitcanned two.
He put women in pointless jobs in his cabinet to get to 50% quota.
He kinda-sorta-almost pulled Canadian troops from fighting ISIS.
The pipeline was one. I thought there was something recently about immigrants or refugees or something.
Far as I remember, the settlement of Adorable Moppets and Their Hard-Working Yet Feminine Mothers is proceeding more or less on schedule, but they didn’t make much fuss about it.
Did he legalize weed yet? You see here, I’m asking if he’s actually accomplished anything good?
Not yet, but his government still holds to “by Canada Day 2018” deadline.
There was an article some days ago about provincial premiers stirring and demanding he not go that fast.
No, I still think it won’t happen, even though he’s personally probably keen on it when he remembers he’s supposed to do it.
Looking forward to a century of complaining about MCBO.
He gave Kkadar $10 million.
Khadar. Whatever? Who cares? Fuckhead family. That’s their name from now on.
Oh, right, progs might not like that he did it to save money!
Anyone remember the American version? And he still won’t go away.
My DVR has a Forged in Fire episode…everybody hush!
I…fuck…why?!
Canada promotes recruitment of transgender troops as Donald Trump imposes military ban
Well, I’d say the photo there is gayest thing I’ve seen this month, but it’s just Navy.
Maybe they can get Eddie Izzard to do a recruitment video.
Bear in mind, the Canadian Armed Forces has the exact opposite problem as the American military does, namely, their enlistment rates are too low to replace all the retiring Boomers so standards are sadly slipping.
Then they should take a page from glorious Imperial history and hire some Sikh and Gurkha regiments straight from India, with promise of citizenship after a term. It’d get us more badass troops with less hassle.
That would require the rare and mythical thing called a ‘decent budget’. Better to make your fighting forces even worse than dare to spend some money that could go to the welfare state instead.
The lefty narrative is the military had no idea what trump was going to do and just pulled out of his ass (ignore this however):
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/06/27/military-leaders-seek-to-delay-transgender-enlistment-policy/
“In addition to the six-month delay, military chiefs are requesting that transgender Americans seeking to join the armed forces be stable in their new identity for at least two years, as opposed to the 18-month standard established by the Obama administration.”
Trump basically said i will take all the heat for the policy you didn’t want
But that has no bearing on military members currently serving. This tweet blast came out of nowhere with no clarification – and pretty much contradicts all the existing policy/discussions for the past 12 months.
The past 12 months that were part obama? Seems straightforward to me. they wanted a delay to the policy that was supposed to take effect july 1 2017. My guess is they really didn’t want this social engineering project obama dumped on them and Trump got rid of it to take the heat.
The policy that was supposed to start 1 July was regarding new enlistees – new accessions – hence the issue with folks graduating from the service academies. The “policy delay” was announced to have no impact on personnel already transitioning in the service after the policy formally took effect 1 Oct 2016.
Even that new accession policy still required someone to have transitioned and been stable for 18 months before being allowed to enlist/go to training.
Yea and he got rid of this policy for new enlistees. So i am not sure how it contradicts anything. This was an obama policy at the end of his term….they aren’t doing it apparently.
The question is – what happens to people currently serving who are transitioning or have completed transition? A blanket tweet clarifies nothing.
“Following meetings last week, the chiefs of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines agreed to request a six-month delay to the previously established July 1 deadline to develop new policies on accepting transgender applicants who have been in their transitioned identity for at least 18 months, The Associated Press reported.”
“According to the AP report, Air Force and Army officials wanted a two-year delay before allowing already transgender Americans into the armed forces, but the request was rejected over fears that such a lengthy delay would stir up criticism from lawmakers on Capitol Hill. The Navy and Marine Corps sought a one-year delay.”
So if i read it right, they wanted a 2 year delay of accepting but were afraid of backlash so they settled for 6 month delay.
And they wanted a 2 year term of stability in their new lifestyle instead of 18 months
And again, this new tweet comes out and basically wipes out everything written in the last week to a year….or is it specific to the accession issue?
Don’t get suckered into her unprincipled, hypocritical bullshit, Rand!
Isn’t this the bill about no bail for anything? Perhaps i am getting things wrong….but don’t you typically get your bail back when you show up for court date. If you remove bail, why would a criminal especially for serious offenses show up to court if no bail needed?
Am i missing something or operating on incomplete information
I think that it’s meant to reduce hardship on the poor. I bailed a guy out once because he’s been sitting in a jail for about a month because he could’t get $50 for bail, over something that probably wouldn’t even have cost him $50 in fines. The justice system is corrupt as hell, rotten to the fucking core.
As far as serious crimes like murder or anything else that carries lots of prison time are concerned, I doubt that bail is going to deter someone from fleeing the country if they take a notion to try it.
Bail bonds is a sort of racket.
I agree with non serious offenses like the 50 thing.
I saw an article from last year will try to find. Cali did something similar and the governor’s office admitted if you read it yes you could argue things like assault and domestic violence wouldn’t require bail
California did try, and still has it, IIRC, the ‘genius’ idea of making theft below $1000 a citation offense, and not jail-able when caught.
You can imagine what this has done to the petty theft rate, assuming you can find a cop to show up to take the report.
It can become a vicious cycle too.
I have some neighbors/acquaintances that have had their driver licenses suspended for bullshit reasons, typically failure to pay some small unrelated fine that’s unrelated to driving. They don’t have the $100 for the fine. Some continue drive anyway because they have no choice in order to earn money to feed their children/pay rent/save towards the fine which has now become $1000 (or whatever) for lack of payment.
They inevitably get busted driving while on a suspended and the judge throws either jail time. They can’t pay the bail, which is less than $1,000, and sit in a jail for a month which destroys any sort of employment they had.
Ugh, I somewhat butchered this.
When they get busted while driving on a suspended, they have the option of posting bail and not rotting in jail until their court date. They don’t have the money and spend a month in a jail waiting to see the judge. At sentencing, the judge will either give a fine or jail time. They may have been able to save money for the fine if they had been able to be out working but they couldn’t post bail and have no choice but to take additional jail time.
Meanwhile, their family has been evicted and they’ve lost employment opportunities. It’s sad to see and this is all over non-violent crimes with no victim.
Spartan,
Their time already served doesn’t equal or exceed their sentence? What sort of penalties for driving while suspended do you guys have?! A lot of people here in Texas will use jail time in lieu of paying their fines. I forget what the conversion rate is.
I totally agree with your primary point. The system is brutal, incompetent, and flatly does not care. It’s worse if you’re broke.
It depends on the offence. It’s easy to start racking up higher level offences as the cycle continues. Someone recently did a write-up on bad VA is about the suspended driving cycle and the devastation it causes.
It’s happened to a few neighbors/acquaintances, multiple times so starts to blur together. On the last occurrence i remember, it was the guy’s 4th violation. I think he spent 3 weeks in jail waiting to see the judge and was facing up to 2 months in jail as punishment. IIRC, he ended getting 10 days sentence which was all considered time served so he was very happy with that.
If it weren’t for policies like this. Tom Wolfe’s wonderful A Man In Full couldn’t have been written.
-1 Daunting.
You do, but many people don’t have the scratch for the bond. So they hire a bondsman, and they don’t work for free. 10% of the face value of the bond is the standard fee, though I’ve heard of it down to 7-8% in some places. That money, you don’t get back.
So, per Hyperion, a lot of the broke just sit in jail. And sit, and sit.
Bonding companies, along with drug testing companies, companies that manufacture ankle monitors, and court-appointed psychologists, all frequently are among the largest contributors to judicial (in Texas) and Sheriff’s office election campaigns. You do the math.
That said, Kamala Harris is just about at the, “If she’s for it, I’m agin’ it,” stage for me.
I agree with stoopid offenses no bail….but if arson, assault, domestic violence etc not so much.
Kamala Harris and Justice reform in the same sentence? Bullshit, she’s more likely to be aligned with Jeff Sessions.
DNC told her to go get some cred on justice reform to counteract her bullshit here in Cali. It’s all positioning her for 2020, IMO.
Aaaah, I hadn’t thought of that. I just thought she was full of shit.
Every time I go to get alcohol, you guys post links. Great Glibertarian conspiracy!
Huh? You leave your alcohol stash? Uffda! How do you know some dirty swede isn’t in there drinking it all up while you are not paying attention.
There was an awesome BBQ place in Fort Lauderdale that closed a couple of months ago. The original owner died in the 1970s. He was a full on libertarian, and up until the place closed there were all kinds of libertarian messages on the walls (about taxation being theft, fiat currency, and the like)
Anyways, rumor had it that when he ran the restaurant, he had a quarter million dollar stash of booze in the Bahamas (Bimini allegedly), and he’d take a boat back and forth to stock his restaurant so he could avoid liquor taxes.
When I was in Okinawa in ’87, you could buy booze for astonishingly low prices on base. Because the military can sell booze with no state/fed taxes on it, you could pick up a fifth of Bacardi for $1.85. A case of beer was $5. There were some restrictions on how much you could buy because of black market, but it was the first time I started drinking decent booze.
Links only come up 2-3 times a day, so clearly the onus to improve is on you! Get it more often and you won’t have this problem.
Or less often, in greater quantities. A keg by the desk would seem to solve his problems.
Man, I could go for some brewskis right now. Interview first thing in AM so guess I’ll put it off a night.
Hey, look! Justin’s on a Rolling Stone! Just like his mom!
BANG!
Viral video on FB claiming some guy invented a motorcycle that can run off water. The story is that he uses a battery to split water into hydrogen and oxygen and then burn that for fuel.
“Oil companies have been suppressing the technology.”
These people vote, and there’s a lot of them. Even when the problem of it taking more energy than it uses was explained by someone they could not understand.
If a politician had said they’re granting 500 million to develop water fueled cars they probably could have got majority approval for the idea.
Don’t give Elon Musk any ideas.
Well, he’s gonna need another distraction shortly.
The “x person invented an engine that can run on water and the oil companies are suppressing it” conspiracy theory goes back decades. I know I heard it growing up in the 80s. Figure it must’ve started sometime around the oil crisis in the 70s.
Well before that. There was a magic high-mileage carburetor that was also supposedly suppressed. I actually may have a copy of a conspiracy newsletter that did a story on it (my wife’s crazy uncle was a cryptographer and no-shit conspiracy nut).
Is that this one:
1. Guy buys a new car
2. New car has magical carburetor. Gets like 60mph
3. Two options for the ending:
3a Car company tracks him down and gives him enough money to buy three cars
3b Guy mysteriously dies in fiery, car totaling auto wreck
*edit for 3a: …in exchange for the car back
Haha! No, just the technology. I like your story better!
I told an old Baby boomer that jerks older than him tried to feed me that line 20 years ago
I heard that when he brought it in for maintenance and told the dealer about it, lo and behold when he got it back, the car was getting crappy mileage again – the dealer must’ve swapped the carb out.
My father was a sucker for these stories.
Another story I had, which could be true, was some dude buys a car and brags about it to his coworkers. Everyday, one his coworker would add a gallon or two of gas to his car (the days before locking gas caps) for about two weeks – the guy couldn’t believe his incredible mileage – he told his dealer about it who laughed it off – and then suddenly his buddies stop adding the gas.
I think this is one of those conspiracies based on a tiny nugget of truth – the 1958 Chrysler electronic fuel injection cars. Here’s a link. All but one had their systems replaced due to reliability issues (the wax capacitors would degrade quickly).
This is my father. He is horrible at math and science but believes that the oil companies are big time hiding this technology. Won’t listen to me when I try to explain why it is embarrassing to believe that shit.
He’s lucky he has so many other redeeming qualities, or I might have to cut him loose on the basis of that conspiracy belief.
The Fish (guys name) Carb . I inherited two from my FIL. Carter and others refused to sell to any dealer that sold it. A really simple device. Ran one on a Hillman for awhile liked the added performance but I could never get the mixture right.
Mike wins! I couldn’t find the crazy newsletter, but I found a brochure for an updated Fish from a company in Kentucky.
Yep. When the magical water engine has its own Keanu Reeves movie that should tell you something.
Oh shit, I forgot about that movie.
How about 1935?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water-fuelled_car#Claims_of_functioning_water-fuelled_cars
This is the biggest problem I have when speaking to non engineering people about things like climate change or energy. They have no fucking clue where to start. Even a basic chemistry class would teach someone why this simply does not work. I remember there was an argument I got into about why solar cars won’t work and I explained that with our current technology you can’t get a solar car to do what gas cars do. Immediately 2 or 3 people chimed in with ‘but muh TESLAH!!’ to which I explained that the electricity that powers your wonderful tesla came off the grid which is powered by coal and natural gas. They were totally clueless. To most people electricity is just one step below pure fucking sorcery.
I get similar clueless reactions when I try to explain people that if we truly want cleaner energy, we’d build more and more nuclear plants.
When I read (over 17 years ago now) that Germany proudly announced that they were going to phase out nuclear power to be good for the environment, it was a major facepalm moment. Then I saw a pie chart of where they would be getting power in the future, and much of it was “imports”. Where were the imports from? Why, the former Soviet states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, of course! And what were those power plants fueled by? Soviet-era nuclear and inefficient coal.
I should look up whether they implemented that crappy plan or if cooler heads prevailed.
Wiki sez Germany still gets 14% of their electricity from nukes, 42% from one form of coal or another, 9% natural gas, and the rest a combo of BS renewables. (Well, and 4% hydro.)
Former Chancellor Schröder was in the pay of the Russians and one of their energy companies for years.
Wow, what aren’t those dastardly Russians behind?
Schröder was an effing corrupt commie sumbitch.
They did shut down their own plants.
And thus they use more coal than anything! Why people think nuke plants are evil is beyond me. Yeah, maybe don’t build them in seismic hotspots, but I don’t think Germany is known for its high mag quakes.
Introducing the 2018 Tesla Saurumon
ONE TESLA TO RULE THEM ALL!
I think Nintendo already trademarked that.
When President OMWC is crowned Supreme Dictator, his first act will be to require any congresschimp voting on any legislation involving energy to correctly explain the three laws of thermodynamics. Especially the first two.
Sorcery.
Vhyrus nails it
I have an idea for a windmill that spins a generator that powers a fan to blow on the windmill so it can spin the generator….
I had a coworker who ran an idea by me one day:
A water pump hooked to a windmill pumps water up to a tank. Water in the tank pours on a waterwheel on a generator. Free electricity!
He is an interesting guy.
The correct formula is:
pump to spin water wheel
Water wheel turn generator
Generator runs light bulb
Light bulb powers solar panel
Solar panel powers fan
Fan powers windmill
Windmill powers generator
Generator powers pump
Now that I’ve revealed that Exxon will be after me.
Hooray for severed efficiency loss due to numerous unnecessary friction sources.
Just remember, a fair portion of the populace thinks chocolate milk comes from brown cows. /facepalm
I worked with a dude who claimed he was building an engine in his home shop that could do that. He claimed he was able to contain a sufficient amount of hydrogen to almost blow himself up. Said he stopped drinking in the shop after that. I just nodded and said, “ok”.
Speed kills, baby.
If that ever took a direct hit while charged it would be like a small nuke went off.
Not really; if the direct hit were to some of the capacitors, there’d be some arcing and arc blast, but it wouldn’t spread to the rest of the system. If the gun itself took a hit while the capacitor banks were charged, nothing would happen at all, and the system would “soft dump” the energy from the capacitors harmlessly into the safety resistors. Well, the gun itself would be toast, but it wouldn’t explode. We are more concerned with if the barrel were to be struck by lightning; gotta make sure that doesn’t propagate back to the power system!
If the capacitor banks were hit that energy would have to discharge somewhere. It would be like the worlds largest lightning strike. I promise there would be a crater.
If all the caps were somehow hit at once, yeah you’d have a heckuvalot of flying metal and vaporized metal (copper expands 64,000 times in volume when it turns into plasma, and aluminum about 34,000 times). But my point is that the capacitors (and the modules that control them) are somewhat distributed and are individually switched and controlled (sorry I can’t go into much more detail). So if some sort of incoming shell hit a dozen caps, there would be a mess made right there, but it wouldn’t affect the rest of the system, which would go on operating at a slightly reduced energy capacity.
To give an idea of that, the one in the vid above is operating at a fraction of the intended capacity simply because the capacitor modules are still being built and integrated bit by bit.
If the “direct hit” the system took were some huge thing in itself that affected all the modules, then it’s game over for sure, with the system contributing to its own demise.
I want you to know that your intuition is absolutely right; that’s a ridiculous amount of stored electrical energy. But only if all that stored energy takes the low impedance path to the gun is it super high current. All the integrated safeties are totally able to dissipate the energy at much lower current through various resistors, and there’s a pretty robust controls system (and design for passive, non-controlled problems) that can deal with disruptions.
In other words, I ain’t fightin’ with ya, I am just trying to inform you that the inherent dangers you mention are forefront in the minds of the designers.
Very nice.
I wanted to see it hit something
Ask and ye shall receive.
It has some silly artist animation in the middle, but the opening and closing segments are very satisfying. This was the prior prototype.
Yeah Vavy, that would be a blast to test. Thanks:)
Why in the world does the projectile cost $25k?
That’s the hypervelocity projectile. Lots of onboard smarts and steering. A plain slug is cheap. Most of the videos show a plain slug or a simple “dart” with sabots. But the great hope is the HVP eventually.
The thing to remember is the RG would be able to replace million dollar missiles, with its range and kinetic energy impact. Plus, if your ammo pile takes a direct hit, there’s no explosion. It’s inert. The Navy likes that a lot.
OK. I thought it was just an inert piece of CNC machined metal. If it’s sporting electronics to steer itself, that explains the cost.
The narrator is almost Tony Stark like.
Wish I had time to take the tour when I was stationed there – just didn’t work out.
Until this year, there wasn’t much to see outdoors. The so-called Lab Launchers of the past 10 years didn’t look so gun-like (no recoil, no autoloader, no train or elevation) and just fired into catch boxes. Still some mighty fine Youtube vids of those though–take the virtual tour! Just don’t believe anything you read in the comments; they’re good for a laugh though!
And thank you for your service, sir.
Swiss have a different kind of immigration problem than the one we hear most about.
Spoiler*: Italians ruin everything.
*totally not a spoiler, we knew this
I remember meeting a German years ago who said, ‘Switzerland without Italians is like a garden without flowers.’
Take heart, DNC, some people have worse IT problems than you.
How an IT debacle left Sweden’s government on the brink
Not Russia, but hey, all Slavs are basically alike, right?
Just wipe it with a cloth.
It’s actually a point of debate whether or not the Rus are slavic.
I’m not familiar with Canadian politics but I heard that one of the reasons why Justin Trudeau is Prime Minister, was because Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party really mucked things up by being corrupt and fighting the Pyrrhic culture war.
You heard wrong on the Culture War part.
The corruption….yeah, nothing out of the usual. But mostly, they were out of ideas, and NDP voters jumped back to Liberals. Conservatives actually got higher vote percentage than in 2010, it’s just that NDP collapsed after St Layton died and Justin hoovered up the votes by, yes, fighting the non-existent Culture War.
Harper actually didn’t give much of a shit about the culture war, he kept the few anti-abortion or gay marriage Tories in line and didn’t push for anything, but he did try to roll back as much of the environmentalist policies as he could. What happened in the last election is that Zoolander took the Liberals from the ‘moderate’ position to a further left one and got a bunch of support from the typical NDP voter, our far left party, which was the opposition from the previous election. Harper had to deal with a similar scenario to Trump where the same people who eat up Pierre Trudeau’s autocratic tendencies were accusing him of a ‘soft dictatorship’. Basically Zoolander was elected because the left leaning united to kick the Tories out.
Exactly what JT said.
There was a , though and I might add, ‘we need change’ (aka weary of Harper) vote.
LA cops start brush fire at shooting range. Live now.
Oooohhh!!! They may be switching to a liver pursuit!
Errrrr…*live
Damn, I was hoping that was euphemism for “happy hour”.
LOLz
They won’t have any problem catching mine
The brush was making furtive movements.
A tumbleweed slapped the car’s hood
And then it became deceased
heh
Urge to punch…growing.
May he find another five hundred hobbies to posture on, so it cuts into his ruling time!
Hey, maybe we need to get him into WH40K so can go bug GW about whycum there ain’t no female Spess Muhreens?
We need to get him a WoW account, we’ll save the country.
… He welcomed them into neighborhoods in which he does not live, and “resettled” them using money that was also not his.
Also, a year after resettlement they have an unemployment rate ten times that of the rest of the country, but who gives a shit about them now?
Gotta cite for that? I’m interested.
Toronto Sun’s not the best source, but it’s the quickest I could find.
And it’s the story I’ve seen pretty consistently: privately sponsored refugees are way more likely to find employment because they tend to be better educated, have some knowledge of English and have jobs ready for them when they come here, while government sponsored ones were giving a year of financial support, no English or French training, and a bunch of them are illiterate.
WHy does he have to ruin Douglas Adams?
Beer for tonight. It’s OK.
What I am drinking now. Not bad, but I think I just don’t like Goses. Community Beer Co., though, is usually excellent in whatever they brew.
Should the GF and I make it up to Nova Scotia/New Brunswick, where it seems most of your beer choices come from, which breweries/distilleries should we visit? I can tell you that, if you haven’t already tried them, the Alchemist’s Heady Topper, and Lawson’s Finest Liquids’s Sip of Sunshine are some of the finest beers I’ve ever had. Both from Vermont. Probably easier for you to get than me. I have to rely on a relative in MA.
Allagash in Maine is also worth your time, if you like oddball Belgian-style ales and lambics.
I’ve had Allagash. They make good stuff.
I have a lot of stuff from the Canadian Maritimes because I was recently up in the Maritimes. Gahan House beer is a good choice. They have brewpubs in both Halifax and Charlottetown. I did not have any Breton Brewing beer this trip, but I had some on a previous trip and I liked them. Picaroon has some good stuff. The Pumphouse in Moncton has some good beer and the food was only OK.
Oh, and Goses are an odd style. I like them, but only more traditional ones and only in small quantities (i.e. one bottle and done).
“I have gone out of my way to accommodate the parents’ wishes.”
What a piece of human refuse.
Describing him as a “human” is too kind
I certainly don’t want him in my species.
Scum. Read the letters to the kid’s parents too. Bootlicking statist scum prattling on about how dare they criticize the glorious NHS.
My ray of hope today comes from the commenters at PowerLine.
The PowerLine neo-con statists have posted a couple of articles about how horrible Trump is for being mean to Sessions (example here).
The commenters don’t seem to be having much of it. Most of them are solidly anti-Sessions. Some for reasons that may not be as good as others, but of the several pro-Sessions posts made over there, most of the comments are against them.
Whycome commenters won’t go along with the bloggers’ will? They need to learn how to follow better.
It might be a lack of sleep, but seeing PM Zoolander called “The North Star” makes me wish for an FoTN parody with him as the star.
*stares at a cishetero shitlord*
*preens suddenly*
“You don’t know it, but you are already woke.”
*shitlord bursts into rainbows and syrian refugees*
What pisses me off is the galling, ignorant arrogance of proclaiming him – this progressive know-nothing – a great hope for the West.
He’s exactly what we DON’T need.
Might well be what we deserve, though.
(Dark Knight was a shit movie and Gordon being shitty liar for no need was a shit moment! There, I said it)
You and your opinion are dumb.
FotNS dammit.
Not worth waking up edit fairy for one letter, though. May as well look stupid.
He’s a Soviet peasant? Sounds about right.
Don’t ruin “Fist of the North Star” by associating it with PM Zoolander.
The willingness of imbeciles to fuel narcissists never ends.
Ha. Watching a stolen vehicle pursuit on KTLA in California.
what car>?
Boh. Looked like a Toyota Corolla. Whatever. It’s over. Heck, the cops even apprehend the guy professionally and without incident.
Unrelated, Conte trash-talks Spurs: http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/40736388
He’s on point I reckon.
Pffft! Stu Mandel (CBS LA) is the only way to go!
*Mundel
I finally broke my work computer this week. It was 8+ years old. I get to spend the next couple days transferring all my stuff over to new one. Yay.
Rich liberal Debra Messing thinks raising taxes on the rich is DISGUSTING
Isn’t this the essential platform of the left? Was she disgusted when Warren et all were pimping this crap? Where has she been?
On one of his recent podcasts, Tom Woods mentioned some business owners in Washington state who described themselves as “proud progressives” but were expressing frustration about the new minimum wage hike. They were giving some surprisingly rational statements:
“My business can’t afford this; I’ll have no choice but to cut my workers’ hours or raise prices!”
“I’m all for living wage, but this one-size-fits-all approach is just wrong!”
Lefties love this kind of thing until they find out that they’ll be the ones paying for it.
Fits in with my theory of progressive Mable from Massachusetts who was a hippie back in the day and decided to go into business for herself suddenly have an epiphany. When I said ‘living wage’ I didn’t think it was literal and i had to pay for it!
Washington Post has an interesting take on this Imran Awan guy getting arrested.
Nothing to see here. Move along…
No mention of all the HD platters the guy had in his rental property. Which are now in the FBI’s possession, assuming they weren’t destroyed in processing. LOL.
No disrespect to Jamaica but if USA loses to them….
Close it up. Take up ping pong.
I like a good USA! USA! moment, but I don’t think I can bring myself to watch Euroball. I will stick with Cubbies v White Sox. (GO CUBS!)
Baseball is fine to kill the time until hockey starts, but for the love of God, please don’t tell me you are a Hawks fan..
NO MID-WEST HOCKEY FIGHTS!
DON’T TELL US HOW TO FIGHT!
All hockey fights amongst neighbors can be soothed with the gifting of this great device:
The Budweiser brand Wi-Fi synched hockey klaxon that will sound off and light up with every goal your (programmed by cell phone app) team scores. You can follow as many teams as you like. It’s battery powered and supah sweet.
I bought one a couple of years ago as an anniversary present for my husband (a great excuse for buying something for me).
The coolest part to me was that to program it into your home WiFi, you hold up your smartphone with corresponding app installed, facing the “eye” of the device, and your phone strobes the wifi login and password to the klaxon. It is superfreaky, but cool. After that, the klaxon doesn’t need your phone, just the wifi.
That. Is. Awesome.
I KNOW, RIGHT?? In early fall when the hockey season is just starting but Minnesota is still lovely outside, we’ll put the klaxon in the back window while we are outside at the fire pit, drinking. Whenever the klaxon lights up, we high-five and keep going about our relaxation.
(not a paid spokesperson)
But I have to add that it is metal, not plastic as I had assumed before I ordered. It kicks ass.
I don’t believe you. Who do I talk to to make sure you get your commission?
I might be buying one of these. They are COOL.
True story, DOOM! I just want to spread the gospel of WiFi hockey klaxons. My only hangup is that it’s BUDweiser, which is a respectable brand but not a good beer! But that’s ok in the mancave, and the Budweiser placard could be removed if you wanted to ( i think it looks kinda cool). The product quality is top notch.
Some teams (but not all) have given Bud a recording of their actual local stadium klazon sound, instead of the cool but generic hockey goal sound. So you can choose generic sound, or Chicago Blackhawks klaxon. Love it.
That is really cool. I’m glad it’s real metal, too.
Yeah, the brand is meh, but I don’t really mind if its a good product.
Thanks for the link!
Agreed about baseball being hockey filler. And I will not tell you I am a Hawks fan. And I won’t tell you I cried when Marian Hossa had to retire due to health issues. ~sniffle~
Yeah, I get it. When that fuck head Norm Greene took my team I was a Hawks fan as well.
I am a native Oklahoman (no local hockey because it is rare for the ponds to freeze hard enough to skate on), but I became a hockey fan when I lived in Sweden. Then I moved to Minneapolis and eventually married a Chicago native. Thus the Chicago team love.
But over the 18 years I’ve lived in Minneapolis, I have developed a deep sympathy for the locals who love/loved the North Stars and try really hard to adopt the Wild. I think the Wild are on their way to great things, and all the youth hockey I attend is full of enthusiastic kids who are too young to remember the North/Stars and just wanna play for the Wild.
When we have our meet up, I’ll bring you an autographed picture of Tom Reid. He played for both the Hawks and the North Stars!
That’s a deal! Would love to see it.
How many current Minnesotans do we have here? Seems like at least a half dozen. Should meet up at a wild game.
glib sporting events??
Thanks for nothing KK.
Check this cripple fight between Messing and Trump:
https://twitter.com/i/moments/715353551170625536?lang=en
Messing doesn’t seem to grasp grammar does matter.
Jesus. What a mess.
Barf. Funny that they think their hysterical (yes, I said it) semi-literate rantings are wise and influential.
Here are the 5 members of the GOP Senate who voted to NOT repeal Obamcare like they promised.
I take back what I said about McCain, just die you piece of shit, and suffer a lot on your way out.
Well, since no one else is gonna say it:
THIS is what that cop gets for his “Tits or GTFO” policy.