STEVE SMITH DO SATURDAY LINKS AND GIVE BIG FUNNY HEAD TIME OFF. LINKS ARE SHORT, SO STEVE SMITH CAN GET BACK TO FINDING HIKERS. BY “FINDING HIKERS” MEANS RAPE.
THIS NOT STEVE SMITH’S FAULT.
OZ AIRPLANES SAFE.
STEVE SMITH HELP SCREEN EMPLOYEES. BY RAPE.
STEVE SMITH DO SATURDAY LINKS AND GIVE BIG FUNNY HEAD
There’s a euphemism
well, yeah. It’s television.
Not really as an av coordinator. I mean they should have the right to hire whomever they want, but there’s a lot more there than just that issue.
well I had to try for a hot take!
I imagine television stations are just full of attractive people, not just the talking heads.
Please, Gary. I’m not from Hollywood, I’m not going to fuck your mouth, and my time is EXTREMELY valuable!
Yet they still employ Rachel Maddow.
airplane link
can it be an atrocity yet?
good for them.
Who stole two feet of wire?
which one of you was asking for cable samples??
They drove a steel casing into the high voltage line for the entire island.
I haven’t heard about any deaths, which is pretty impressive.
That really is impressive
Fifth!
Speaking of fifths, I think I need a drink-a-doodle-do
What’s everyone drinking tonight?
I’m supporting my Minnesota neighbors tonight: Far North Spirits Roknar Rye and my beer back is a Revelation Ale Kilowatt IPA. Both made in/near Hallock, MN. Delicious!
Pineapple Sculpin. Same as any Saturday when I’m throwing the kids around the pool.
Truly artistic euphemism there.
Just left a new hipster bar. Say what you will but the hipster is good for bringing back the cocktail. Had a gin, chartruce, and lime with some odd bitters. I followed it up with a bullit rye old fashioned and a greyhound. I’m back home avoiding a DUI and drinking a Moscow mule.
I met my favorite cocktail at a hipster cocktail bar. Tried to make one at home – it didn’t work out well.
I visited Brooklyn last weekend for the Iron Madien show. Sat night I went to a great hipster cocktail bar. Quarter Bar. It’s the local watering hole for several of my friends. Relatively cheap outside of the mixologist stuff.
The gin fizz is a great drink. I had many in New Orleans.
Geez, that might be the same bar. My hipster friend picked it; I never remember that stuff.
It’s a great combination of foofoo hipster and a neborhood bar. I can’t complain.
I had a Bombay Sapphire gin gimlet. Couldn’t find anyone to make me a French 75.
*googles French 75
Interesting drink. I say that in regards to both the the ingredients and the provenance
I enjoy the cognac version. It is a refreshing drink.
I went to Harry’s Bar in Paris once. All excited about Hemingway! history! I was disappointed.
Vodka.
I haven’t started into any alcohol today. Maybe I should think about it.
Making floats with Ample Hill’s Cherry-Lime Riickey Sorbet, ginger beer, and Buffalo Trace Bourbon. Just put the kids to bed and getting ready to walk over to the Y and spend some time in the steam room and sauna.
That sounds like euphemism if I ever heard one.
But the cherry lime rickie sounds delishous.
It is very, very good. We use nothing but puréed cherries, lime juice, and a tiny bit (1oz. per 3 gallons) of Tito’s vodka. It is far too tart, for me, to eat on its own but it floats quite nicely into ginger beer/ale, black cherry soda, white or rose wine. The problem however, is that it’s the location exclusive flavor for our seasonal Riis Park shop and is only available from Memorial Day to Labor Day.
I don’t think the Y has been like that since the late 1970s.
I’m old. It’s always going to be equivalent to a bathhouse to my juvenile mind. Don’t mind me.
I see The Ritz is available on Amazon video.
I’ve nearly bought the Buffalo Trace a few times now. What’s your 5cent review?
Buffalo Trace is a solid bourbon, but I keep going back to the Bulleit myself.
I’ve not tried the Bulleit bourbon, but I do have half a bottle of their rye. I like the rye and from reviews I’ve read their bourbon is supposed to be better. *added to shopping list
I’ll vouch for the bullit bourbon. One of my favorites.
I first tried it this summer and I’m hooked It is shockingly smooth with a light finish (if that makes any sense). My usual Bourbon is Maker’s and that always requires me to have a water or soda back at the ready. The Buffalo I can sip unaccompanied all afternoon.
Sounds great. Next time I will buy it instead of just stare at it.
Speaking of shockingly smooth; if you’d like to have a good bottle of rye around, check out High West Rendezvous Rye. A++
I will second the High West recommendation. Their rye is very good indeed.
Buffalo Trace is worth a try. Surpringly good for the lowish price.
Since it is not yet 2:30 here I am about to enjoy a Coronado Brewing Company “Stem to Stern” with some Tumura’s Poki.
Working on killing a homebrewed Belgian Dark Strong that I’m meh on, and I’ve got some home made wine and mead chilling as well, in case my palate gets fatigued.
Very nice. I don’t homebrew beer anymore. And if if I am honest with myself, I probably won’t get back into it. But I really hope to get into wine in the next year or the year after. The wife and I are in the middle of creating an orchard at our newish farmstead. So far we have planted grapes, raspberries, apples, and strawberries. And the place came with some mature Juneberry (Service berry) and Elderberry bushes. And we have plans to add a bunch more fruit varieties, so making wine from them all could be a lot of fun.
Sounds interesting. I’ve got a mulberry tree in my yard, which I have missed harvesting on the past two years due to weather and vacation. I dropped some blackberry and raspberry plants in one area of the garden, the raspberries all died and the blackberries took over. Anything else I try to grow gets eaten by the deer in my area.
I had a great orchard and garden on my acreage in the Finger Lakes region of NY. We had a couple dozen century-old apple trees of various varieties, pears, raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, and grapes. My dad is a wine maker, so we were, too. We made apple cider, both soft and hard, as well. Great fun!
Köstritzer Schwarz
Coffee. Anyone got Alka Seltzer?
I like the Solveig gin.
Threading fail – Solveig is from Far North. Meant to be a response to Mike S.
I haven’t tried their gin, but I’ve heard good thing. I’ll have to get a bottle of that as well.
OT: I saw you mention once that you grew up in the Grafton area. I live in that area now. Are you still in the area?
No. I’m in NoVa these days. Grew up in Roseau, but spent years in Fargo.
Smirnoff with Perrier lemon on ice.
I’m drinking Mennesodan tonight, too. Standard Lager from Fulton. Local beer chain has it on date alert sale for 7.99/12-pack. I picked up three of them at that price!
$8 a 12’er for Fulton? Damn.
We went out to hear a friend who is a singer-songwriter. We had some wine (they had BOTH kinds), and then went back to hang out with our friend at his crash pad and were consuming Clyde May’s Straight Bourbon Whiskey. Didn’t suck!
The President of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) says says there’s too much focus on Islamic extremism – what about other forms of extremism?
He also complains that the Department of Homeland Security stopped giving anti-extremism grants to his organization.
“MPAC intended to use the grant funding to support broader community-led social services and mental health programs because we believe creating safe spaces where individuals can express their vulnerabilities and frustrations is paramount….
“A young, law-abiding American Muslim who already has reservations about approaching their imam to help work through ideological influences and often legitimate frustrations, is even less likely to do so if they believe that imam will turn around and report them to the police or FBI. This is not to say that the two organizations do not work to educate and learn from law enforcement, to develop partnerships with law enforcement, and/or utilize law enforcement when appropriate for public safety. In rejecting MPAC’s application, the Trump administration explicitly identified this lack of involvement by law enforcement agencies as grounds for our removal.”
Concluding paragraph:
“As individual organizations, we will continue our work to combat hate in all its forms. Islamophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, racism, bigotry, and ideological extremism all share the same root of hate, and are intersectional in their impact. We will continue to raise questions and voice our deep and growing concerns about policies that disregard data, facts and evidence of all national security threats through violent extremism and that instead single out and criminalize communities that themselves are under attack. We will continue to advocate for holistic approaches that create safe spaces for self-expression and dissent without fear of targeting. And we will continue to urge President Trump and Congress to reverse course, confront all forms of violent extremism, and give our communities the support and space to heal and protect.”
Some how I am not convinced that mainstream Islam is concerned with homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, racism and bigotry. My skepticism is based on the actions of every government of an Islam majority country. Even Kosovo, where I once enjoyed a local beer with an imam early in the US occupation, is drifting into wahhabist extremism because of the Saudi funded mosques and schools.
what about other forms of extremism?
Well, once they start consistently beheading and blowing things up, I will be happy to give them a bit more mindshare.
A young, law-abiding American Muslim who already has reservations about approaching their imam to help work through ideological influences and often legitimate frustrations, is even less likely to do so if they believe that imam will turn around and report them to the police or FBI.
I know, why are we being so judgy that we are going to persecute him for wanting to kill infidels?
And what kind of imam would report a “law-abiding American Muslim” to the FBI?
You need to be more specific. Whose law?
And just how many people are completely “law abiding?” Three felonies a day and such.
My point was that Muslims observe their own law, not the one the FBI enforce.
Woko Haram covered this idiotic argument pretty well.
(Also, it’s bullshit that Twitter keeps suspending him)
“The President of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) says says there’s too much focus on Islamic extremism – what about other forms of extremism?”
Well, if anti-fa picks up the pace it might give them some competition for focus.
The woman who was asked for photos before she got an interview is suing for “disability discrimination”. That’s a startling admission.
It says he’s prone to epileptic seizures.
Oops I misgendered her. She’s prone.
She was treated with treated with medication that caused “emotional outbursts.” ORLY?
The whole story sounds fake to me.
Every corporation in the country is walking on eggshells over this stuff – no way any of it happened as described.
Yeah, and then you have a woman who admits to being crazy, but blames it on “medication”.
I personally know of dozens of employment cases that have resulted in mid 6 figure settlements. None were tried in the media. If you read about it in the paper, it’s probably bullshit.
Perhaps you should stop harassing all those employees.
“Speaking of six figures, check out the figures on those six hot mamas…”
/not an actual quote
Being a congresswoman in the world’s safest district = you can be an open Communist supporter and co-sponsor their flyers and your base will still love you.
I wonder what would happen if some right-wing nut started a “punch a Communist” meme while publicly speculating about Democrats being Communists?
Donor to gay-lib causes wants to “punish the wicked” – but it’s OK, says Rolling Stone, because he’s not targeting Christians. No, “the wicked” means “anyone who stands in the way of progress on equal rights for LGBTQ people: politicians, activists, lawyers, some people of faith, and plenty more with no religious affiliation whatsoever.”
People still read Rolling Stone?
Who knows? Obviously, people still *talk* to Rolling Stone – unless they made up the entire interview, which I’m not saying they did, just that their credibility isn’t the best.
So, what we should do is punish and persecute people who take a different stance on certain moral issues?
May they all choke to death on the irony.
No, “the wicked” means “anyone who stands in the way of progress on equal rights for LGBTQ people: politicians, activists, lawyers, some people of faith, and plenty more with no religious affiliation whatsoever.”
Including Muslims, right?
Correction, anyone who stands in the way of LGBTQ and won’t kill us if we rag on them.
The vacant eyes in the Love Island pics that always dominate the right side of a Sun page do mesmerize.
*sigh* After a year of procrastination I finally got the damned room painted
Looks nice.
Thanks man.
Hey, I really like that shade of blue,
Thanks. I can’t remember what criteria I used to pick it.
I think it was “Not the shade of hot pink” that the walls were before.
You had a dream about flying through blue painted in blue?
I came here to say the same.
Me too
well done.
thank, of course my eyes are drawn right to all the little signs that say “Not done by a pro”.
Looks good. I noticed masking tape, but I’m assuming you rolled it and cut it in with a brush. That’s the only difference with a pro: he would have just cut without masking. Paint ain’t rocket surgery, anyone can do it, pros just do it faster. It is also mind numbingly dull work.
If by “cut it” you mean catching the edges the roller can’t, then yes, that’s what I did.
Auto spell. It’s called cutting in
Oh that’s what i said, lol, never mind, carry on, as you were.
Also, you know who else painted houses?
Thomas Kincaide?
Moe, Larry, and Curly?
Okay, Glibs, Which of you snuck through my house?
As someone who has a bedroom yet to be painted and touch painting still be done in the bathroom, very nice! Like that blue color. Might have to think about putting it on the bedroom now.
*touch up painting
I got it at Sherwin Williams. So it shouldn’t be hard to find.
Super nice color!
Gee, when have we heard this before?
Multi-culti uber alles.
You know what, after the last eight years of Obama and the current run of Zoolander I’m just glad that there’s people openly saying “he was an Islamist” rather than running the idiotic “DURR HURR ISLAM HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS NOPE NOTHING AT ALL I’M OBVIOUSLY A QURANIC SCHOLAR” idiocy.
Bah, redundancy. I’m in a bad mood.
Totally random. He could’ve just as easily committed the act at, say, a mosque?
Good lord.
Yes, the germans are so hidebound by procedure that burning your papers prevents them from dumping you out of their country.
Daryl knows what’s up
One would think that a “failed asylum seeker” would be escorted to the airport, rather than left to wander the streets planning villany.
Huh, shoulda read more comments.
That was my immediate thought, too.
Do you know what other German.. oh nevermind, it’s too obvious.
By the way, Glibs having the family friendly cert makes every rape centric post that much better.
How’d the concrete job go?
The mixer was a gift from heaven. I finished 15 bags in 4 hours which included leveling and adjusting each sono tube as needed. 4′ deep footers are a bitch. Dam frost line. I’ll finsh the rest tomorrow morning then get on the bike for a few hours.
Sonic tubes are a life saver. Especially in Sandy loose soil. Or for a million other reasons. And they’re cardboard! Just leave it! I use them a lot when replacing fence posts. Sometimes you can just move the post to new location, over like a foot. But for corners and gates, you have to dig out the old concrete plug. Leaves a hole that would take a few bags at least to fill. Sonic tube!
They make the process much less of a pain in the ass. The rest of my porch posts appear to be in old coffee cans that are less than a foot deep. That explains the frost heaving.
Yes, a coffee can of cement is probably insufficient. Should be easy to fix though. Feel free to email me pics for pointers. Can i make my name a link?
Nope. Ok blainesdaddy@gmail.com
Thanks Denver. I’ve already replaced all but one of these old porch poles.
Hey, I have a project OMWC is too old to accomplish. Wanna come over? We’ll provide food and drink.
Oh, for god’s sake, get your minds out of the gutter.
The worst game ever, made by weirdo English hippie artists.
And here I was thinking it was Dear Esther.
I was expecting someone complaining about Fluxx, LCR, or Monopoly.
/bgg
I hate monopoly. Not only is it not fun and just stirs up fights, but I get the feeling a lot of people think the business world actually functions lik that game.
The game itself isn’t great, but everyone adds house rules to it that actively make the game worse. The fact the game was originally pitched as the Landlord’s Game and was supposed to depict how terrible capitalism is doesn’t help (bonus content: Georgism).
There are quite a few really good economic games out there though. If you’re interested there’s always Medici, Modern Art, Ponzi Scheme, Acquire, and Container (currently Kickstarting a reprint).
My two favorites are Settlers of Catan and Chinatown. The latter in particular is a great capitalist game. Start with some small shops, earn profit with them, merge to make bigger and more profitable shops, and the way to advance is to make completely voluntary trades with other players.
My two favorites are Settlers of Catan
No fuck you, gimme that sheep.
/Severe PTSD
Chinatown is a great game, I love it when there’s a good group playing it. There’s one player in our local scene who doesn’t quite grok economic games. He’ll just accept any deal that gets offered to him, even if it’s a loss/break-even for him and a huge gain for the other player.
Blah, blah, blah. Too little. Too late.
/flips keyboard and storms off
It’s okay, sweetie. Go take your meds.
Today I learned that job application discriminate against homeless people, because they request addresses and phone numbers.
http://everydayfeminism.com/2017/07/jobs-discriminate-applicants/
Oh my fucking god, I don’t even know where to start with that one.
My favorite was the part where the millennial douchenozzle says, “yes, there are anti-discrimination laws, but they’re very difficult to enforce, and employers can just say ‘they weren’t the right person for the job’.”
Wow, it’s almost like anti-discrimination laws are completely pointless and only serve to entangle innocent employers with costly lawsuits when a minority employee thinks that they were disciplined or fired unjustly! It’s almost like such laws might actually serve as a disincentive to even interviewing minorities in the first place!
But that’s not how I want reality to work!!
*Storms off crying into cup of fair trade conflict free non-gmo herbal tea*
Engineers baffled by ‘microaggression’ workshop at conference
http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9504
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Attendees at a recent academic conference on advanced manufacturing techniques spent a full hour learning not about materials sciences, but rather about “implicit bias” and “microaggressions.”
The researchers and professors were asked to write examples of microaggressions on sticky notes and then post them to a bulletin board, prompting one participant to complain about “dealing with snowflakes and trigger warnings all morning.”
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Should I worry about the dielectric constant of the material I’m making or how it makes you feel?
Does the micro aggression affect the fictive temperature of the glass I’m making?
Fuck off slaver.
You are fined 1 credit for violation of the Verbal Morality Statue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rVQGT01Kzg
+three shells that I don’t know how to use.
prompting one participant to complain about “dealing with snowflakes and trigger warnings all morning.”
Guess someone is going to get sent to some more training.
“The researchers and professors were asked to write examples of microaggressions on sticky notes and then post them to a bulletin board”
How about, “People accuse me of being a racist sexist homophobe because I’m a straight white male?”
“write examples of microaggressions”
How about treating me like a child and acting like your my mother here to teach me right from wrong you fucking pricks.
My company just has us complete online multiple-choice questions.
If they pulled this crap, I honestly don’t know how I would respond in such a way that would allow me to keep my job.
I wouldn’t be a dick about it but I would be honest.
No shit. I’d have said something like that and then announced that anybody else interested could join me in an adjoining room to discuss what we came here to discuss. ( Reading that, I understand my preference for being my own boss, or, at worst, The Guy in Charge.
http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9505
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The University of Michigan is looking for someone to clamp down on “students of concern” and “enact cultural appropriation prevention initiatives.”
A job posting on the school’s website seeks candidates to fill the role of “Bias Incident Prevention and Response Coordinator,” a full-time position within the Dean of Students Office that comes with a starting salary range of $46,000 – $57,000.
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Bias Incident Prevention and Response Coordinator
I find this title highly problematic, as if made into an acronym, BI PRC compares bisexuals and likely other LGBTQIAWRXTUV people to male genitalia, which reeks of homophobia and toxoc masculinity. I’d prefer a title that accurately reflects their goals and sensitivity, like the Ministry of Love.
If I had that job, I would write up every student who filed a cultural appropriation complaint as culturally appropriating Hitler youth organizations.
Nice
They could be looking for Chinese bisexuals.
Fuck Michigan
Fuck Michigan, indeed.
That would be hilarious way to make a living for a few months.
—-The Hill
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/344479-trump-threatens-health-benefits-for-lawmakers
At some point, we’ll all have to do some serious thinking about whether Donald Trump is more of a practical libertarian choice than Rand Paul.
I suppose that point will come when and if Rand Paul decides to challenge Trump for the Republican nomination in 2020.
At this point, I think of Trump as being more libertarian than Rand Paul on certain issues–certainly with respect to cutting entitlements like Medicaid.
We all have certain preferences.
I don’t think they’re far apart on gun rights.
Trump seems to be holding Session back, more or less, on drug war issues.
Did I mention that Trump is demonstrably superior to Rand Paul on cutting entitlements?
If Trump refuses to sign anything that bails out the insurance industry until congress repeals ObamaCare (bringing Medicaid entitlements back down), it may be the greatest libertarian accomplishment at the federal level since Reagan and company destroyed the Soviet Union.
If Trump screws with Congress’ and their staffers health benefits until they repeal ObamaCare, it’ll be the funniest thing that’s happened since Billy Carter took a leak in the Rose Garden.
But Chris Hedges says Trump is about to put Christian fascists in charge!
http://www.truthdig.com/report/page2/trump_and_the_christian_fascists_20170723
You know it’s true because of Jim Baker and other things that happened 30 years ago.
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This is an ideology of death. It promises that the secular, humanist society will be physically destroyed. The Ten Commandments will form the basis of our legal system. Creationism or “Intelligent Design” will be taught in public schools. People who are considered social deviants, including homosexuals, immigrants, secular humanists, feminists, Jews, Muslims, criminals and those dismissed as “nominal Christians”—meaning Christians who do not embrace the Christian right’s perverted and heretical interpretation of the Bible—will be silenced, imprisoned or killed. The role of the federal government will be reduced to protecting property rights, “homeland” security and waging war. Church organizations will be funded and empowered by the government to run social-welfare agencies. The poor, condemned for sloth, indolence and sinfulness, will be denied government assistance. The death penalty will be expanded to include “moral crimes,” including apostasy, blasphemy, sodomy and witchcraft, as well as abortion, which will be treated as murder. Women will be subordinate to men. Those who practice other faiths will become, at best, second-class citizens and eventually outcasts. The wars in the Middle East will be defined as religious crusades against Muslims. There will be no separation of church and state. The only legitimate voices will be “Christian.” America will become an agent of God. Those who defy the “Christian” authorities will be branded as agents of Satan.
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Oh no! We’re doomed!
Well, um… I don’t really see what’s wrong with that part.
The horror.
Why can’t Trump be half as evil as these people think he is?
Yeah, when the ridiculous caricature that’s intended to be the epitome of evil has you nodding your head in agreement, it really makes you wonder.
It’s funny, because history demonstrate that it’s only when the left gains complete power that people are silenced, imprisoned, and killed in large numbers.
Sweet Pelor, this guy is delusional. I also get the very nasty sense that he woupd love for his own team unilaterally reshape society and is majorly projecting here…
All that stuff actually sounds like what real apocalyptic fundamentalists believe.
They expect a one world government to be implemented under the guise of the Catholic church–and it’s gonna do pretty much everything you just described.
Seeing atheists fear the same stuff is . . . weird as hell. It means these progressives are now officially as crazy as the true believer fundamentalists I grew up with in the 80s.
At least the fundamentalists were capitalists.
And moral people with a code of ethics that starts with “do unto others”. I grew up pretty Fundy also, and the people may have believed in nonsense, but it was nonsense that taught the golden rule.
You got something to back this up? I happen to know more than a few apocalyptic fundamentalists and while a one world government is certainly part of it, you are the first person I’ve heard say that it’ll be in the guise of Catholicism.
P.S. I won’t bother to tell my loving and perfectly sane parents that you think they are crazy.
Agreed. Most of the ones I know think it’ll be the U.N., though recently maybe endorsed by commie pope.
Does the term VICARIVS FILII DEI mean anything to you?
Here, I’ll do the math for you.
VICARIVS FILII DEI = 5+1+100+1+5+1+50+1+1+500+1 = 666
So some fundamentalists believe that; fair enough.
But you can still fuck off for calling my parents and other people I love crazy
Wow. You really are a pompous asshole, aren’t you?
It’s my family, me, and everyone I grew up with, too.
They’ll say themselves they were crazy back then: D&D, backward masking, and all that other stuff included. I remember them telling me that Ronald Wilson Reagan might be the antichrist because his three names all had six letters.
Anyway, point was that the progressives, in this case, seem to believe all the stuff that *they call crazy*. In this case, they’re emulating the people *they think are crazy*.
In other words, they’re afraid the “nut job” fundamentalists are going to take over–and there they are acting just like the people they’re calling “nut jobs”.
Way to miss the whole point.
P.S. Fuck you, too.
To recap:
1. I’m overreacting because you are calling them crazy only because they themselves would.
2. I’m not getting your point because it’s not you calling them crazy, it’s the progressives.
Makes a lot of sense. You have a good night Ken.
The chances of me not saying what I think–for fear of hurting someone’s feelings for calling them “crazy”–are pretty close to zero.
You can’t follow a simple explanation because you’re offended?
Too bad!
Are you a millennial or something?
College age?
Yeah, so now we are back to, indeed you did call them crazy. But only because you are just such intellectual force that you couldn’t care less if you offend anyone.
I don’t know what makes you think I missed your poorly worded point. I got it. And agree with it. I’m only taking umbrage to your labeling fundamentalists as crazy.
You keep on proving me correct that I think you are a pompous ass.
Here’s a weirdo fundamentalist page all about how the EU is secretly the Catholics taking over the continent, so apparently it hasn’t gone away.
It’s probably like the 80s D&D scare, some percentage of fundamentalists believe the dumb thing.
I wouldn’t say it’s dumb.
The beast of Revelation 13 is so obviously talking about the Catholic church, academics will use it to argue that the Book of Revelation was written after the Bishop of Rome had assumed authority over the rest of Christianity–and so it was written long after John had died.
People have reasons to believe the things they do, and if you believe the Book of Revelation is an authentic message from God to the people at the end of time, thinking that the book means that the beast is the pope isn’t stupid. The evidence is so clear . . .
They used to give us all this information about what was going to happen and surprise us at the end by showing us that it–all came out of the Catholic Encyclopedia!
Fear that the church itself will be corrupted at the end of time when the Holy Spirit is withdrawn from the earth isn’t something only non-Catholics worry about. Having a bad pope has happened before. They probably have a rotten one now!
It’s probably like the 80s D&D scare, some percentage of the human population, regardless of group, believe the dumb things.”
FTFY.
Though admittedly some groups are more prone to it than others (looking at you, Commies).
It’s pretty dumb Ken. Less dumb than the percentage of people who believe the English monarchs and U.S. Presidents are lizard people, but still pretty dumb. Arbitrary Biblical prophecy at its core is extremely foolish.
And I bet Eddie has some kind of comment on how it’s not so ‘obvious’ that the Catholic Church is the beast.
@Behold The 80s D&D scare was pretty specifically about Satanism and being pushed by fundamentalist groups, so to say ‘some percentage of the human population’ is inaccurate and basically ignores the core reason why it was a thing in the first place. That is not to suggest that the human race as a whole is capable of believing extremely dumb things, see my lizard people example.
*Is incapable, dammit.
Believing that the Catholic Church is the Beast of Revelation 13 isn’t dumb.
The beast sits on seven hills.
Again, it’s so obviously talking about Rome that academics use it to date the book to long after John died.
Fundamentalists aren’t like other evangelicals or charismatics. They genuinely believe in the text, and they have honest debate–built on that assumption.
They don’t get this stuff rolling around on the ground, handling snakes, drinking strychnine, or speaking in tongues.
And it, of course, is not talking about the Roman Empire, the central core of Western civilization at the time of its authorship, at all. Nope, it must be some mystical prophecy about an opposing modern religious group. Projecting your bias back in time is the central point of history after all.
And of course, this was all throughly studied in its original Greek, right?
Yeah, all our ministers learned Greek and Hebrew in seminary, yeah.
I have no idea why you’re arguing about this. Why would is it important for it to be stupid to think that the Beast of Revelation 13 is an evil pope?
That’s what’s being described.
Because it is? Projecting a modern bias onto a historical text and then declaring that you’re really being objective about it is the definition of dumb, whether it’s fundamentalists with this or Muslims claiming that the United States is Rum.
It’s only a modern bias in the historical sense of “modern”.
Since about the year 1500.
But even before then, it was generally understood that it was a prophecy about Satan taking over the entire earth and deceiving almost everyone into thinking that he was god’s representative–except for God’s chosen people.
That’s what the Antichrist is. Everybody think he’s Jesus–but he’s basically Satan.
The VICARIVS FILLII DEI accusation goes back to the Donation of Constantine, which is where protestants generally believe things got messed up–when the difference between church and state started getting hazy, there became a lot of syncretism between Christianity and Roman paganism, etc.
This is not a stupid belief–if you accept that the Book of Revelation is a real message from God to people at the end of time.
That you’re suggesting it may be about the Roman empire rather than the Universal Church of Rome underscores the point.
We’re talking about a false christ in Rome, and a guy that may wear “Vicar of the Son of God” on his hat and his signet ring. It is not stupid to think that guy might be an evil pope at the end of time.
If it’s stupid to think that the beast of Revelation 13 is the pope, then the cover of the greatest metal album of all time is stupid–and that can’t be!
http://www.billboard.com/files/media/slayer-reign-in-blood-billboard-1240.jpg
Have you seen the band Ghost?
This is pop culture stuff!
I’m expecting the Spanish Inquisition any day now.
Impossible. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
“Agents of Satan”
Great band name
Ha, it’s literally an idiotic repeat of the shit that was peddled when Reagan was elected. That’s where crap like A Handmaid’s Tale came from, Atwood thought Reagan was the start of spooky Christian theocrats.
I do get a strong sense lately that I’m living through the eighties again, only with much shittier pop music and an odd quirk or two esp. wrt Russia.
Where the hell is our equivalents of Aliens, the Terminator, and The Thing dammit? I won’t live through the 80s but with worse pop culture!
Superheroes, superheroes, and more superheroes.
Wait, did you mean good pop culture?
Alien: Covenant, Terminator: Genysis, and The Thing (2011)?
Fuck you EE, you make me depressed.
This exists? WHY?
Oh, it’s worse than that. They actually got a bunch of guys to do a ton of cool practical effects, like the original.
Then they covered them with CGI so it looks like shit.
Rhywun, for the same reason that there’s a remake of Poltergeist, It, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Clash of the Titans, The Karate Kid, and several others I’m sure I’ve missed.
Come on is there anything in movies that was creepier than the effects in The Thing. When the thing was just a hodgepodge of dogs, people, etc. damm
Hey, you asked where the equivalents are. I was just letting you know.
Head Crab.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=15hHUK1lIgk
Oh, I know why. I just reject that reality.
People forget what it was like when there were only three news networks, one or two newspapers in town, and you couldn’t really fact check anything easily–because there was no internet.
People from just after the google revolution judging people just before the google revolution probably isn’t fair.
A lot of the things people believed were tentative, too, but they were trying to keep their kids from blowing their time with D&D. It was like the argument that playing Quake III makes you violent. They don’t want you wasting hours and weeks playing that, so they come up with reasons why you shouldn’t play D&D or whatever.
Not buying it. My grandfather finished his formal high school education at 22 (there was a war going on you know), but was extremely self-educated and was a very accurate analyzer of bullshit. Atwood pimping nonsense about how Reagan was the beginning of a theocracy was fundamentally ignorant and moronic, end of story. I’m not going to ‘judge people by their time period’ if they don’t have the capacity to even pretend to not be blatant partisan hysterics.
As to the last paragraph, being liars and fear mongers is actually a worse position that if they just believed something foolish.
So he is asserting, without any evidence or historic background in US history that the Trumpalos might try and do what numerous Muslim countries already practice? But at the same time the US and Europe should open our borders to muslims from those self same nations because their entry will only enrich our societies? I think there are a host of fearful Swedes, Germans, Italians and Frenchies who might offer a bit of a counterpoint.
“without any evidence or historic background in US history” is not at all accurate. We can start with the Puritans, always fearful that somebody, somewhere, was enjoying themselves. Salem witch trials. Mormons and the attempt to create Deseret, etc.
Salem witch trials resemble the left of today. Only instead of witch they call everyone they don’t like racist or rapist.
There is no trial though. You’re automatically guilty and they will try and destroy you.
And they don’t have the excuse of potentially tripping on LSD by accident.
Fair point about the persecution of the Mormons but to try and place the blame on the US for the Salem witch trials of 1692-1693 in the British colony of Massachusetts is a bit of a stretch.
Trial in the Kafka sense. You’re guilty until proven guilty, the only purpose of the trial is to break you psychologically.
So the Christians are going to take over the White House from the KKK? It’s so hard to keep up on these things.
I hope to hell Trump puts Congress and their staffers under Obamacare just like the law intended. Any law good enough for the proles should be good enough for the residents of the big house. Let Jackson and Buffy explore the wonders of O’care websites and have their applications lost several times. Let the Congresscritters not on Medicare have to deal with the same issues, or more likely listen to their staffer explain why their application is missing, they can’t see their doctor or they lost their drugs because it was not in the formulary. Kick all of them out of the military medical care facilities of the greater DC area.
The best part is that the proposal is already being threatened to be taken to court. I look forward to drinking a beer and eating a big bowl of popcorn to watch the shitstorm that will ensue across the states, even the blue ones, when Congress’s legal team gets in front of a court and are argues that yes the law says they should be part of O’care but really they shouldn’t because the Obama administration said they did not have to be. Even the bluest states like HI, CA, CT and MA will sit up and go WTF?!
I always disliked Wellstone, but during the HillaryCare debates in the 90s, he kept insisting it had to apply to Congress.
This is what I want more than anything. It’s something no one (except the opportunists in Congress themselves) should be against.
I liked Billy.
http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9507
Michael Bonesteel says he resigned from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago after a “small cadre of militant LBGT students with an authoritarian agenda” created a “toxic environment” that led to him losing his health insurance.
Bonesteel claims that several transgender students took issue with the materials he presented in class, as well as his lack of trigger warnings, and filed formal complaints against him for harassment.
The school allegedly responded by cutting back his course-load to the point that he no longer qualified for health insurance benefits, and forced him to get rid of all controversial subject matter in his remaining courses
***
The first complaint, Bonesteel said, arose during a discussion of Henry Darger, a Chicago artist known for depicting representations of young girls with penises in his comic books, whose work Bonesteel has studied extensively.
Bonesteel recounted presenting a theory—which he claims is considered plausible by many scholars—that the shocking images might be related to possible childhood sexual abuse.
According to Bonesteel, a transgender student objected to the discussion, arguing that “there was no proof that Darger was sexually abused, and therefore I was wrong in proposing the theory.”
When Bonesteel defended the theory, he claims that the transgender student filed a complaint with the administration, resulting in Bonesteel needing to meet with a diversity counselor and post an apology on the school’s website.
***
Ah, Darger, aka the guy who wrote a 15,000 page novel.
It’s like a Frankenstein monster was created that turned on its creators. Fabulous.
That is profoundly insulting to Frankenstein’s monster.
By the way he has a badass last name. He should be a Viking or a pirate not an artist.
If I recall correctly, Darger spent a great deal of his youth in creepy ‘special needs’ quasi-eugenics schools where historically it’s known that there was some possibility of sexual abuse. So there’s certainly no proof of sexual abuse, but there is the potential for it to have occurred in his formative years.
The other (more likely) option is that Darger’s very isolated upbringing and extremely celibate lifestyle lead him to have some weird views of female reproductive organs.
OT: After my tasso ham came out great, I made some Canadian bacon. I brined it with salt, sodium nitrite, and a lot of brown sugar, then I hot smoked it over apple wood for about an hour. It came out pretty awesome. It’s great on sandwiches or fried up with eggs in the morning. It would probably be good diced up and cooked in a big pot of baked beans as well.
Do any of you ever cure meats?
Do any of you
workeven cure meats?Damn you’re making me hungry
What’s great about this pork loin I used is that my butcher leaves a bit of the belly attached when he cuts the loin, so on every slice, there’s this little corner that is extra crispy and lip-smacking.
Damn that sounds delish.
He should cut the bland and dry loin off, and give you the belly. He obviously id’s keeping the best cuts for himself 😀
I’ve mixed up my own sausage filling before, but I haven’t gone the route of home curing yet. The girlfriend bought me a make your own bacon kit a couple of Christmases back, and I didn’t have the heart to tell her that she probably payed too much for it.
I found this book about sausage and meat curing a few years ago. I made many of the recipes. It’s a comprehensive book and I recommend it if your interested.
Rytek Kutas
Great Sausage Recipes and Meat Curing
He is polish American from Chicago. The book is from the 1970-80s originally.
I made the chorizo out of the “great book”. No screwing with casings if you don’t have the gear. It’s great for tacos and breakfast burritos.
I used to make my own sausage all the time. I’d get two pork shoulders and de-bone them (the bones would be roasted in the oven and stewed in the crock pot overnight to make broth) and I’d usually end up with about 10 pounds of meat.
My favorite was this Cajun sausage out of the book Charcuterie. The recipe had you mix in a bunch of spices along with about half a cup of chilled red wine, which gave it a really amazing flavor. I’d usually smoke them over mesquite.
They were awesome in gumbo and all kinds of other stews.
So the “massive anti terrorist action across Australia” resulted in four attests and zero zip nada charges.
Whoo boy. Me and my wife had my boy stay with my parents yesterday. It’s our 6 year marriage anniversary. We drove up to the town we got married in yesterday and got a hotel. We went out drinking in bars (I haven’t been to a bar in more than 5 years) and got tore up. We went to a fancy ass restaurant, ate steak and scallops, and pounded whiskey and cokes. we went to a bath shop and bought some expensive ass bubble bath. We went to our hotel room and spent a lot of time in the bathtub doing what married people do. Damn that was fun. I think I spent about 700 bucks, but fuck it. That’s the best time I’ve had in a while
spent a lot of time in the bathtub doing what married people do.
Arguing?
Surprisingly, the was no arguing this time. rare, but it happens.
Yeah, you gotta do shit like that now and then.
Arguing?
You have a point, and yes, normally when me and Mrs. Lachowsky get shut faced there is discord. It worked out well thus time. No fighting, just raunchy, inhibitionless, we don’t have to clean this place up afterwards…you know. stuff.
I was just goofin’ with you.
I was more astounded to see that Titor and I posted almost the exact same comment at exactly the same time. That there Glibertarian hivemind, I tell you hwhat.
Cliche, hive mind, or whatever, there is a lot of truth to it. It’s amazing how much more easily me and the mrs. get along when the obligation of keeping our boy happy, healthy, and safe is temporarily removed.
I think it says more about our childhoods than anything else.
I uh….
You just jizzed all over the place?
That’s not even a euphemism
I hope you tipped the cleaning lady really, really well.
They had a babysitter, so they were obviously catching up on sleep.
Good for the both of you.
But I must admit to some confusion. You posted this 2 hours ago and no one has asked for pics yet.
Congratulations! Fun is good!
I don’t know who this lady is, but she’s probably gonna be on the dem ticket with that attitude
http://www.theroot.com/people-are-butthurt-because-angela-rye-refused-to-say-t-1797065984?utm_campaign=socialflow_splinter_facebook&utm_source=splinter_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
“Can you hear that? That was the moment the Caucasian levees burst, causing the Great White Tears Flood of 2017.”
The Root. We go high.
Is awesome how one can lose but still somehow think they won. I blame participation trophys.
Technically the President is “President of the United States of America.” Not President of me and you, not president of people who get good feelz from him/her.
How do we get to “this guy is *my* President and this guy *isn’t*”?
This cult of personality crap is part of the problem.
More deep derp
https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/the-post-obama-democrats-1501106486
It’s aggravating to hear Hillary supporters wailing in agony about how “someone with no political experience” beat someone with “a lifetime of public service”. Next time I hear someone say that in real life, I’m going to tell them, “You just answered your own question, dumbass. The voters are fed up with the same old candidates from the two major parties. They DON’T WANT another Washington insider who’s going to offer up the same tired old shit warmed over for a new generation. They wanted someone different, and the Democrats didn’t listen.”
Look at how Kid Rick is polling. Hey maybe you don’t have to be an idiot lawyer with zero connection to the average person to represent a constituency? Stuart Smalley though? That’s just sad.
I hope Kid rock runs and wins. I don’t know shit about his ideas, but the more non Washington type politicians get elected, the better. There is a deep rot in Washington that can only be cure by a wholesale replacement of the people there. I’d vote for damm near anybody that has no past in politics.
Now if we could get some people outside of the entertainment industry as well 🙂 I think most people don’t want the attention or the media inserted fully up their ass.
I would make a hell of a good senator. No way it will ever happen, but damn, I could go in there and vote no on everything just as good as anyone esle.
Being in the entertainment industry (and obviously this includes Trump) seems to get people used to public exposure and better able to exploit it.
A lawyer accustomed to winning with juries would kind of be like someone in the entertainment industry – there was a time when lawyers were better known to the public, which would attend trials on their days off, or recruit the better lawyers for 4th of July speeches, etc. This is how Lincoln raised his profile even when he wasn’t running for office.
Nowadays, if you want take some time off from the farm or the office and get some entertainment, you don’t have to drive down to the courthouse and watch the latest trial, or listen to some rising lawyer’s lyceum address – you can watch or listen to some actor or musician.
What surprises me isn’t that nonlawyer entertainers get into politics, it’s that more of them don’t, it seems a natural development.
Would Reagan have been elected governor of California if he wasn’t already famous?
Its celebrity. People who’s names are out there are the ones likely to able to get elected. A nobody with great ideas stands no chance against a famous person who has horse shit between his ears.
I think it also has to do with knowing how to communicate – how to at least *seem* to be competent and sincere and concerned about the stuff that concerns the voter.
(Obligatory quote about “the important thing is sincerity; if you can fake that you’ve got it made”)
With Trump, yeah, you get the idea that he’s crafted his public persona, but I think he’s crafted it for his own benefit as well as that of others. So he comes across as more sincere than other politicians – which is perhaps the lowest bar to clear in the universe.
The “public service” line aggravates the shit out of me. These are people who took jobs that pay handsomely to wield power over their fellow citizens while living off of their taxes. Public service my ass.
I thought Perot’s line about “I don’t have *experience* in [list of govt screw-ups]” should be stolen by every candidate going into politics from business, etc. who’s accused of lacking experience.
Blocked, but…
At least they got part of the answer within the first three words.
Hang on…. If you follow the link from social media, it lets you past the paywall. I was able to read this article earlier without using my login.
looks like they locked it down. I had to put in my password.
I think it’s your local machine. They put a cookie on it. I think. I’m a construction guy, what do i know? But I’d bet that if you clear your browser history, etc, it’d load.
https://twitter.com/chairmanedcox
click on his second tweet and i could read it too
still never found a perma-fix for WSJ website. they have paper copies in the office so i never go there but its annoying when i want to read somthin’ right now and its all Nuh Uh
Manedcox? *clicks on link with one eye closed*
It’s worth paying for. It’s the only news worth paying for, actually.
The thing I find amusing about this ‘A better deal’ nonsense is Trump’s administration has been around a mere eight months. The country is just coming off eight years of Obama’s “deal” and one could reasonably presume large swatches of his policies remain. Two years in I would take it seriously. But eight months? Yeah right.
The Democrats need better ideas.
And fast.
Milo tearing it up…
https://milo.yiannopoulos.net/2017/07/jk-rowling-false-trump-tweet/
“I finally saw the full video. Sorry about my tweet.” How hard is that? She’d get a little credibility back and not lose any support among her fans. But, nope.
Love the Maya Angelou quote – my god she (JKR) is such a parody.
It’s disappointing when authors wax political. I was a big fan of Stephen King–still am, though not so much of his more recent stuff–but I’m so worn out by his Progressive bile I have a hard time bringing myself to read any of his work again. Never read any of the Harry Potter books, but I’ve seen all the movies and I like the general tone of the stories. It’s a shame that Rowling is such a “limousine liberal”, because her characters demonstrate some very admirable qualities.
I just cannot for the life of me figure out why celebrities think I give a shit what they think about anything of substance. I pay you to entertain me. That’s it.
And… British celebrities? Even less fucks given.
Didn’t someone offer to pay for travel for a bunch of refugees, if she would put them up on one of her mansions recently? After she was harping on about how they should be helped.
How did that shake out? Are they still living with her?
Man is she an idiot.
I just don’t get these idiot progressives.
for dinner this evening,
Sliced sirloin steak and baby shrimp pan fried, mixed with spaghetti noodles and an Alfredo pesto mix.
I like the first 2 things.
1st, 3rd, and 4th here. Sea bugs, not so much.
Fresh grilled ahi with pesto, sliced cucumber in dill sauce, cous cous and a nice petite syrah.
What kind of a monster doesn’t like spaghetti noodles?
What the fuck is a spaghetti noodle?
Those are those foam noodles floating around in pools that anybody can pick up. Haven’t you ever had a noodle fight in the pool?
I’m a foodie. I LOVE food. If I ate pasta, I’d be a fatass.
“Sliced sirloin steak and baby…”
OMG you monster! /j k Rowling
Shark week is meh. Time to put an end to it.
how I feel about shark week in year 15
Ha, ha! I was checking out the Milo site from the above link and caught this little gem about a guy putting forth an initiative for the Washington state ballot that would rename Evergreen College to “Social Justice Warrior PC Indoctrination Compound”. It would also change, “The school’s seal, if the measure passes, will display a masked anarchist in a brown shirt trampling on the Constitution and Declaration of Independence.”
Awesome troll job 10/10
https://milo.yiannopoulos.net/2017/07/evergreen-college-rename/
I’ve been reading Milo’s book. It’s better than I expected. It’s written in a conversational style that occasionally drifts from entertaining and approachable to sometimes feeling a little like a cover for a lack of experience as a writer, but so far I’m digging it. It’s entertaining, and he makes some interesting points. He’s no Christopher Hitchens, but maybe with some time, experience, and maturity he could be.
I just finished it. I love rally-the-troops books by conservatives (including the eccentric ones, or especially the eccentric ones).
Plus in his case I figured that there must be something good about his ideas to inspire fear in the right people.
He discussed how he isn’t actually in favor of child sex abuse, and I’m inclined to believe him simply because the people calling him names have no credibility.
I don’t like how he celebrates his particular sexual lifestyle, but I *do* like how he doesn’t feel obliged by his lifestyle to become a thuggish SJW fascist.
And really, if his side wins there’s a better chance of rolling back some recent bad cultural developments than if his side loses.
From what I gather his defense of sex abuse was somewhat similar to people defending 14 year old boys nailing hot 30 year old teachers. Intellectually, we can admit it is wrong, and any 30 year old banging a 14 year old probably has a few screws loose. But if I was a 14 year old banging my hot teacher, I wouldn’t exactly say I was abused. There’s a bit of a double standard because it was man-on-man, but there’s a similar double standard when the teacher is a guy and the student is a girl.
As for him celebrating his sexuality, given the usual SJW complaints I can’t blame him for flaunting it. A flamboyantly gay man who celebrates his love of black men preemptively shuts down the usual accusations of homophobia and racism.
Milo needs to get readin’, basically. Hitchens, for all his faults, was the closest thing to a classical journalist outside of the better works of Mark Steyn. Give him some time with Aristotle, Plato, Tacitus, Machiavelli, Locke, Bastiat and Nietzsche the man would become a force even without a libertarian influence.
Somebody I knew in high school just posted this video on Facebook with the comment: “This woman is EVERYTHING”
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1644640888900728&id=908009612563863&refid=52&_ft_=qid.6448415718175612085%3Amf_story_key.-5164770949993583286%3Atop_level_post_id.10214197195433397&__tn__=C-R
I don’t know how to barf hard enough.
gross.
*sigh*
wi’ll??
It’s a common contraction among the mentally unstable…I assume.
I let a lot of punctuation and grammar go because I am pretty loose with it while commenting, but damn.
he who is without sin or whatever.
I guess being the face of the resistance is an easier grift than trying to help her constituents.
To elaborate. Maxine Waters is one of the most corrupt politicians in Washington. She used her position to on the financial services committee to get rich and buy a nice new mansion, miles away from that poor black neighborhood she is supposed to represent.
If Trump wanted a to create a poster child for the swamp in DC, he would be hard pressed to imagine someone like Maxine Waters, or that others would believe it. A corrupt, venal, career politician with no accomplishments beyond getting rich in office. To say she sounds like she suffered a stroke would be an insult to stroke victims, since I’ve known a few stroke victims that sound like freaking MLK when compared to Maxine Waters.
I’m not a fan of Trump or the two party system. But you know what sucks worse than a two party system? A one party system. Make Maxine Waters the face of the resistance and you’ll just get more Trump.
If Waters is the candidate in 2020 it’d be a rout. She’d win the deep blue states because tribalism, but lose every single swing state, and lose badly.
Your content is a goddamn progressive idiocy without the benefit of it disappearing shortly afterwards.
I’m sure to get Riven hate for this, but honestly:
Who else saw this as the beginning of their ‘libertarian moment’? At least in Canada it’s the proto-start.
I wrote a whole scene in a children’s play based on The Trees Everyone loved the scene, didn’t get the message.
Then of course, there is the end of SLC Punk, which seems like a slice of life from at least 80% of Glibs.
Somewhat obligatory at this point. Damned drunken Canadians. Posting your Rush links, thinking that makes you cool and libertarian. Neal Peart was just an OK a as a drummer.