The Red Sox are back in front in the AL East, The Astros are in a bit of a funk (so its a good thing that they have a huge lead) and the Nationals keep riding that roller coaster (so its a good thing they’re in a dumpster-fire of a division). And the NFL Preseason starts tomorrow. Life is good, sort of. I could still use a dose of college football in my veins. But I’ve got to wait 29 more days until the Buckeyes take the field but fortunately a bit less than that for some games of significance. Hooray, America!
And speaking of football, the J sub D Memorial is about ready to happen again. If you were involved last season, check your email. I sent a notice out yesterday. We’ve got about a week to firm that up and then I’ll be opening it up to the good folks here at our new home. I would imagine there to be some moderate interest as the league enters its seventh season. And if there’s extra interest, we could set up a new Glibs league. I think the comments section would be a good place to start that discussion. So chat away (with apologies to the anti-sports contingent).
And now, without further ado I give you…the links!
Bus seats mistaken for burqas.
An anti-immigrant group got trolled online and the WaPo thinks its hilarious. Left out of the lede: that they’re in Norway. But included in the story: that Norway’s government is right-wing. And that those insane right-wingers are threatening to ban some muslim attire like the burqa from schools. Why would those crazy right-wingers do something so insane? I guess for that answer, you’d need to ask the very left-wing French government, who imposed that very same ban some time ago. I guess WaPo gonna WaPo.
Here’s a story where the words “children and minorities hardest hit” would be an appropriate subheading. But its being done by a benevolent government for their own good, so it will probably fly under the radar. Seriously, who the fuck wants to spend an extra $1.44 for a 12-pack of Coke just to fund the pension plans of overpaid, brutal cops and shitty teachers that care about their union a hell of a lot more than their students?
Such a brave, strong stand! Except it contravenes a lawful order handed down (well, it will be shortly) from the legally-elected Commander In Chief and short-circuits the entire concept of civilian oversight and command of the military. This asshole needs to be removed immediately, as would any officer that doesn’t want to follow perfectly legal and justifiable orders handed down by their commander. We don’t live in a military dictatorship, and this is a bad precedent to let stand.
Man, what the fuck? Couldn’t the libertarian paradise have happened somewhere other than an Alaskan fishing town? Maybe HuffPo should take their mid-America bus tour there (metaphorically speaking unless their bus has Chitty Chitty Bang Bang-like qualities) and see what life is like in a place with no cops and likely a shitload of armed people walking around.
Another good move by the Trump administration. Kudos to the NYT for covering it, although it is sort of slanted in the direction of this being a bad thing. Oh well, it’ll be nice to see colleges judge people based on the content of their character rather than the color of their skin. Hey, that would be a good slogan for a politician that’s against Affirmative Action! Maybe someone could use it someday.
MURDERERS!!!!! (just kidding)
What a bunch of pussies. The correct response is “get off my property, you stupid asshole, or I’ll remove you. But I guess extortion is alive and well if done correctly (as explained in the story).
I hope you’re all as fired up as I am today. Get out there and have a great day.
I’m not going to have any thoughts as good as what George Will wrote in his latest column:
“Fastidious people who worry that the president’s West Virginia and Ohio performances — the alpha male as crybaby — diminished the presidency are missing the point, which is: For now, worse is better. Diminution drains this office of the sacerdotal pomposities that have encrusted it.”
Isn’t there a baseball season that windbag could write about?
My ‘pretentious pundit-to-english translator’ suggests he’s actually saying something we’d agree with = the office of the president is over-worshipped (” sacerdotal pomposities “), and that even if Trump is a bit of a shameless retard, the shakeup he’s giving the public’s imagined-aura of politicians is overdue.
“Worse is better”, because its better that we treat all presidents as nothing more than temporarily-glorified hacks. They don’t need to be “qualified”. They don’t need “experience”. Its a bullshit job where the salesmen-in-chief mostly make vague speeches and play tug-of-war with congress. So it ever was.
*that said, i’m not reading the rest of that argle-bargle
race to the bottom
I raced to the bottom this morning. Gotta say, it was pretty, pretty, pretttttty good fun.
*narrows gaze, arches eyebrow afterward*
Are we talking about George Will?
Uck.
Always liked George Will, and I agree with him more often than not.
Me too. Plus, he stayed at my fam’s beach house in Panama City Beach for a Young Republicans or whatever thing when he was in college. At least that’s the family story, and it would be an awfully strange thing to lie about.
Is it still there, sandwiched in between 60 story condos?
Dear National Review Forum. I never thought something like this could happen to me….
Here’s the link
This is damning with *very* faint praise,
“Trump is a total undignified clown [unlike his predecessors?] and this will at last erode the Cult of the Presidency.”
I don’t think Trump is any less dignified than those who were, until a few years ago, his fellow-Democrats.
Well considering the Trump administration wants to increase the rape crises on campuses which is already massive, maybe getting admitted to college is a bad thing.
That’s wrong-think. Every single American needs a 4 year (or more) degree. Every. Single. One. We just need to pass a law to stop rape. Well, we need to pass more laws to stop rape.
Making rape outright illegal seems a bit extreme though
IF ALL RAPE ILLEGAL THAN ONLY STEVE SMITH HAVE GOOD TIME
That’s true. Prohibition never works as intended.
Sure – in cases like this, it’s more of a minor vagina trespassing violation.
“It’s not like the movie ‘The Purge,’ ” in which all criminal activity becomes legal for a 12-hour period, said troopers spokeswoman Megan Peters.
aww… ::puts down the brick::
FESTIVAL!
Landru, is that you?!
12 hours? My wife’s lasts a couple days.
I don’t like being so near a black hole. Makes me a little nervous.
Did “Trump trolls” get a Beyoncé studies prof fired?
http://hotair.com/archives/2017/08/01/trump-trolls-get-beyonce-studies-prof-fired/
No, his own words and deeds did.
*(Though I would have wished they univserity had issued a statement that said “We’re sorry, but we just realized we don’t need a ‘Beyonce Professor” and are instead looking for people with something worthwhile to contribute to our students.”)
I actually read a book called Monty Python and philosophy based on a college course that was quite good, but that was actual philosophy not politics of pop culture. That being said a course Beyoncé in the title is not necessarily bad, just likely to be
Agreed. A course titled “Beyoncé and a bunch of dancers prance naked for your enjoyment” would be ok. While a course titled “Beyoncé studies” would suck.
Beyoncé doesn’t dance. She does calisthenics.
Monty Python and philosophy
G’day Bruce!
Well, Brian…I’m opening a boutique!
“MP & Philosophy” is part of a series of “X & Philosophy” books that includes Simpsons &, Arrested Development &, Star Trek & and Baseball & (looking at you sloopy) which use their topic to organize a series of articles concerning the philosophical aspects of the topic. The authors seek out trained philosophers to write each section. When my kids were still in school I introduced them to the books. It was an efficient way to get people familiar with the Bluth family (or the infield fly rule) to read and hopefully think. I still have several volumes around.
“Kevin Allred, who describes himself as a “Beyoncé professor” teaching the politics of pop culture and Beyoncé Knowles, announced last night that Montclair State had fired him from their faculty before he had a chance to teach a single class, and offered a sarcastic “congrats to the Trump trolls”
Sounds like the university was looking for an excuse to get rid of him.
And it sounds like he knows how to publicly advertise for his next job in academia: blame the right wing for everything.
Seriously, you’re a professor of Beyoncology. It’s not the President’s fault you’re having trouble holding down a job.
sry, no, Beyoncology is the study of cancers caused by Beyonce exposure.
I think it is pretty clear that there is far too much money in academia.
If colleges were for-profit non subsidized businesses operating in a free market, There would be no such thing as Beyonce studies. People would never pay for a class like that out of their own pockets.
Some people would.
As a night school elective for $20 a credit.
Or because Mommy and Daddy are paying Van Wilder’s tuition for another year.
I think it’s called $13.99 on iTunes.
I can’t decide which is worse, teaching a class on Beyonce or taking a class on Beyonce. I’m also trying to imagine my parents’ reaction had I come from college and announced that I was taking a class on Alice Cooper. I strongly expect that my parents would have invited me to pay for my own classes going forward.
Yeah, same boat here.
I’d like to think that people who’ve taken a class on Beyonce are going to be filled with regret in ten years when they’re paying off student loans with as much money as they can pull down as a barista, but who am I kidding?
I am 100% sure those people will be marching in the streets protesting greedy banks taking advantage of students and demanding free universal tuition.
Eh. Lots of non-majors took History of Rock’n’Roll, Rocks for Jocks (Geo 100), or Physics for Poets (which eschews anything harder than a trig function). If I’m an engineer/CS and I have to take a culture credit, why is this worse than the stupid class I had to take where the woman literally read to us out of the book?
Back up and ask what is the purpose of requiring these unrelated courses if the student does not actually want them and they are not part of the primary subject being studied?
Drop the requirement and put more elective slots in there. You’d soon find out what your customer base actually wants rather than employing the unemployable.
“the Nationals keep riding that roller coaster”
Hey, you mentioned the Nationals! I wasn’t sure you knew they existed. But yeah, pretty worrying what happened to Scherzer last night. He pooh-poohed leaving the game in the second inning. “A crick in the neck from sleeping on it wrong” or something. I sure hope so.
Just because I don’t regularly mention them doesn’t mean I don’t care.
Note: I don’t care about the Nationals.
yeah I’m already conditioned to expect the worst with Strasburg, so I’m pretty sure the teams going to announce his head fell off today.
I don’t get how guys like Walter Johnson or Cy Young or Satchel Paige or Bob Gibson could pitch effectively for years and years and years, with 20 or more complete games each season. I mean, even if pitching was easier then for various reasons, how did they not get injured? Were they just physically lucky, the exceptions we remember because they were exceptional, or were pitchers somehow hardier then?
I have several thoughts, firstly a ton of pitchers were probably injured early in their careers that you’ve never heard of so I’m not entirely sure there was huge difference plus most stuff you would get injured and never play again. 2nd you’re talking about generational pitchers the best of the best in their time spread out over decades. thirdly, development takes much longer these days, you start pitching harder earlier and leagues go year round. Fourthly, guys are redlining much more today than they ever did before, they just throw harder probably due to the amount of money at stake.
I think it’s most likely because they pitched during the season and didn’t do dick the rest of the year. They also pitched off a real mound where the body is generating more of the energy.
yeah I have no idea. That makes sense too.
Actually, the rest of the year they worked real jobs, as baseball didnt pay *THAT* much.
If they were a superstar, the off season job might be a barnstorming all-star baseball tour.
Yeah. I meant they weren’t doing 365 regimens like players do these days. It’s weird to think the off season job was normal until the 70s.
Hell, look at Nolan Ryan. The guy threw 100 mph fastballs in 1969 and in 1989, I think it takes just the right type of ligaments and tendons to be a pitcher who never gets hurt.
Ohhhhh is that why people like Nolan Ryan? I just thought it was because of that one time he kicked Robin Ventura’s ass.
Watch the tape of that – he barely messed Ventura’s hair up. You think he was going to hit a guy on top of the skull really hard with bare knuckles?
I will most certainly not watch tape of that fight, because that would entail watching baseball. That, good sir, is a bridge too far.
*narrows gaze on Sloopy’s behalf*
For every Walter Johnson, there were 40 guys who had a great season or two and then disappeared due to unfixable (at the time) arm trouble.
The answer is simple: they were freaks.
Those guys exist today too, but they are still rare. If you want your star pitcher to last more than 1 contract, baby him, especially when young.
Is it better to get 15 wins a year for 10+ years or 25 wins for 2 years?
Example: Frank Smith. In the era where HOFers Ed Walsh and Walter Johnson were leading the AL in innings pitched, he jumped up and led the league in 1909. 365 IP, 25-7 1.80 ERA.
In his 5 seasons before that he won 79 games.
In his 5 seasons after, he won 35. And that isn’t counting 1913, where he didnt pitch at all.
IP by season
1904 203.1
1905 291.2
1906 122.0 (first sign of trouble)
1907 310.0
1908 297.2
1909 365.0
1910 128.2
1911 178.2
1912 22.2
1913 0
1914 174.2
1915 151.2
edit: 25-17 in 1090. The White Sox clearly supplied no run support.
1909. I am not sure who led the league in IP in 1090.
Sir Elton “Slappy” Montague, third baseman for the Gloucestershire Dragons.
Little known fact: They used to pitch from third base in the Dark Ages. They had to change the rules because there were way too many fouls.
“They had to pitch from third base in the Dark Ages.”
Its because the knights insisted on using a lance, even though the bat had been invented in the late Roman Era. You didn’t want to be standing anywhere near the middle of the diamond when the batter spurred his destrier and charged.
On the other hand, Strasburg is called “The Orchid” for a reason.
The others mentioned some of the obvious reasons, but a few others: pitchers throw more pitches per at-bat now because modern hitters are both more selective and less concerned about striking out. There were no sliders or splitters (not that you see many of those anymore anyway), both of which are harder on the arm than the typical fastball-curve-change repertoire of 60+ years ago. Pitching mechanics had advanced to the point that guys can throw harder than their body can handle. I’ve been noticing this kind of thing with the Yankees’ farm system. They draft these college pitchers who are throwing 91-92 in college, and after a year in the minors they’re throwing 95-97. Their natural limits are being exceeded by mechanical adjustments that increase velo. James Kaprielian, for example, the guy the Yankees just traded in the Sonny Gray deal. He sat low 90s at UCLA, but bumped that up to mid-high 90s as a pro. He also immediately started developing elbow problems and had TJS earlier this year. Did the velocity jump cause that? I don’t know, obviously, but this sort of thing has become sadly common.
I think it stems from a bunch of different factors, key of which being that people are just stronger now and throw harder. I’m sure when Cy Young pitching all those complete games he was taking it fairly easy, comparatively.
I’d be shocked if those old-timers could through more than 85.
Also: I think that players are molly-coddled too much*. If you never let a pitcher throw more than 110 or 115 pitches, like that’s just always a bridge too far, their bodies never confront that extra workload and never adjust to it. When some game comes where they really get pushed they don’t have any experience physically doing it.
*Mostly sarcastic. I remember when Dusty Baker rode Kerry Wood and Mark Prior into the ground in 2003. Regularly throwing 120-130 pitches at extreme velocity.
Kerry Wood Strikes Out 20
Obligatory link. Man he did get a generous strike zone but tons of swinging Ks. I remember watching that game. That curve is unhittable.
I’m tired of hearing so much about Cy Young. The real pitcher of that era was Rube Waddell.
He outpitched Cy and dominated the league for years. But because he had a few small idiosyncracies, he is ignored by history.
One of the best podcasts ever. The few small strange things that Rube might have been guilty of.
The Chicago Orphans is a heckuva name for a baseball team.
The National
I’m not sure what it is with the west coast trips this year, but they are killing the Twinks.
Barrerios pitches no-hit for six innings and loses the game?
Animal Liberation Is A Feminist Issue
I agree. Go vegan. Also destroy capitalism, which is in fact the real problem.
I agree, Pie. Curiously the cause for just about any social injustice is somehow “capitalism”, and having less of that is usually the proposed fix.
I don’t think she’s ever met a chicken if she mistakes them for sentient. There is a record of one living for years without its head until it drowned.
These animals wouldn’t exist if they weren’t tasty.
“While women are treated as mere baby making machines or cooks or maids”
I’m sorry, is this author talking about the United States?
Don’t interrupt her feelz with facts, evil mansplaining cis-hetero-patriarch shitlord.
Reality is sexist, I would not mention it were I you
From phrases like ‘that sexy thing’ to ‘what a fine piece of ass’, women have been reduced to mere props that are pleasurable objects for men, instead of sentient beings who have feelings of our own.
Does it ever dawn on these idiots that they can be both? Or do they seriously believe women only have agency if men grant it to them?
Also, I bet the writer has never in her life been called a fine piece of ass.
I am sure no man walking down the street was ever judged by others without the people thinking he is a sentient being with feelings. Never.
Every professional woman I’ve dated loves to be objectified in bed, more so in direct correlation with how successful they are career-wise. Outside of bed, yeah, they demand and receive respect.
When I was in my early twenties, I met a woman in a bar who called me eye-candy. She said I would be fun, but defiantly not dating material. We fucked anyway, and I don’t think I ever saw her again.
I was used by her to satisfy her sexual desires aND she never even considered my feelings. It was traumatizing.
Did you call the cops on her for raping you, seeing as you clearly regretted the sex later? You were in a bar, so clearly some alcohol was in your system. Drunken rape? Or does that only work for women?
My wife considers me her eye-candy.
While women are treated as mere baby making machines or cooks or maids…
I don’t understand her choice of the “or” conjunction in that sentence.
Cooking me dinner hasn’t negated my wife’s ability to get pregnant.
Great Ass Honey, now make me a Sammich!
/one hour ago
Also, after 29 years of marriage, you can get away with saying that, most of the time
Disjunction is inclusive, happy to help.
My girlfriend frequently asks me what she should wear when we go out – not about the specific outfit but general stuff like a dress, shorts, low-cut shirt etc. She wants me to think she’s sexy and wants my eyes on her. It seems to me that a lot of women are demanding that they get called sexy (at any size!) but also demand that no one think about whether or not they’re sexy.
Make up your damn mind.
“Make up your damn mind.”
Changing her mind used to be a woman’s prerogative. Until the joyless scolds ruined it for all of them. Women fighting for more equality are getting it, they just didn’t realize it meant losing the power they always took for granted.
You know, for a while now, I’ve dismissed the notion of “intersectionality”. I’m recanting. The problem is that I was clearly misinterpreting the concept. I didn’t realize that intersectionality was a concept relating to the derpiness of the argument. It’s clear to me now that it is. If a feminist argument is imbecilic and a BLM argument is moronic, a feminist BLM argument will take on a level of derp that not only surpasses that of the feminist or BLM argument, but will surpass the sum of their derpiness.
some kind of intersectional derp synergy?
Exactly.
Wife and I are moving to Japan for a few years today. Sorry when I corpsefuck dead threads due to the time change.
Good luck. We can now get our first international meet up organized.*
*With apologies to the Glibs from America, Jr.
America’s Hat doesn’t count. I knew that before I stumbled in here.
Actually Japan and Korea can be convenient for commenting. The morning links are posted each evening at a reasonable hour. Enjoy your time there and make sure to invite people over for a BBQ on August 6 and 9th.
We prefer the Inbred Son of America and Britain, thanks.
+1 Godzilla! ::with white gloves on, points in Mustang’s direction::
I am hoping to get my hands on a classic GT-R. I don’t even want to buy it, I just want to drive it on track so I can see what all the fuss is about and compare it to my American muscle.
they’re fun, I imported one last year.
Uh oh. This is how Straffinrun got started and you know how THAT turned out
Go on…
Out of curiosity, where in Japan will you be living?
I have relatives in the Kobe area. We plan on visiting next summer.
Just hide in the basement when the giant robots start fighting and everything should be fine.
Don’t shoot. The whole Earth will be exploded!
Cool. Get in touch if you’re in or near Tokyo!
That butcher shop could have done a more successful trolling-and-marketing scheme
Yep. A big BBQ on the sidewalk during the protests would have been my course of action.
There was a butcher shop in the ’90s in Memphis that got into a kerfuffle with the local youths that turned out much differently. The local youths were punkers/vegans/troublemakers and they tagged the butcher shop a few times and broke one of his windows.
After the broken window incident, the butcher and sons waited up and caught the troublemakers one night about to tag his shop again. Butcher, sons and some baseball bats engaged in some hilarity.
There was a small outcry about how vigilantism is never the answer, but the problem was solved.
At least they stimulated the economy when they broke those windows.
It’s funny how vigilantism is never the answer, and yet it usually doesn’t need to happen twice in the same area.
“Couldn’t the libertarian paradise have happened somewhere other than an Alaskan fishing town? Maybe HuffPo should take their mid-America bus tour there (metaphorically speaking unless their bus has Chitty Chitty Bang Bang-like qualities) and see what life is like in a place with no cops and likely a shitload of armed people walking around.”
Man, I bet crime will shoot through the roof. It’ll be like the notoriously underpolice Chicago or Baltimore.
Reminds me of the time I got a ticket in my wife’s hometown of Bartlesville, OK. It was a ticket for running a stop sign at 12:30AM. I thought long and hard about whether a police force is really necessary in a small town like that, checking the police blotter in the newspaper every day for the next two weeks, and came to the conclusion that the Bartlesville PD existed solely for harassment of motorists.
That’s how it is for lots of small towns. The PD is a source of revenue generation.
Century, FL is a tiny town on the state line with Alabama, Route 29 is the main road though it, and it’s fairly heavily traveled because it connects I-65 with the Pensacola/Fort Walton Beach area. As you enter the town limits, the speed limit suddenly drops from 55 down to 25 in the space of maybe a quarter mile. Literally nothing changes about the road itself or the amount of traffic on it. Pure speed trap.
The main drag leading into Ocean City, MD, is a highway that starts in DC and drops down to two lanes a little while after it hits the eastern shore. From there on out there are suspiciously unposted speed limit drops, and the road is infamous for local police who will pull people over for driving four mph above the speed limit. Coincidentally, these are usually associated with small towns with almost no tax revenue.
Lol I live about 300 yards off that road.
In the year I’ve been here I’ve managed to avoid getting pulled over but it has been close a few times.
Worst part of it is Every single town and county from Annapolis through OC uses it as a speed trap, There area always Anne Arundle cops on the western shore side pulling people over, Queen Anne’s County cops practically live on the Kent Island median and then you get the Easton and Talbot county cops and so on all the way down.
There are quite a few small towns that only exist to write tickets. The population leaves, but the police, mayor, and judge keep the extortion racket going.
We have a stretch of highway in independence NJ (about 2-3 miles) where Rt46 goes from 50 to 40. All of the locals know to go exactly 40mph. That town only has a police force to make money off of the highway. Blairstown is similar, it has a stretch of Rt94. With no real crime, traffic patrol and harassing the drivers is their job. The surrounding communities all just use the state police.
It’s funny there are places named things like “independence” and “freehold” in NJ.
Yes well, we have Buttzville too. Much of that NJ culture is covered by admitting that sections of NJ are NYC ex-urbs (and Philly suburbs). But I will say that Patterson, Newark, Trenton, AC and their environs are all ours. The Massholes surround Boston and western mass isn’t the same. LA/SF corrupt California. NW NJ is quite rural and pleasant.
The contrast is essentially the rural/urban divide, and I think we would do better to allow “city states” to form. All of the top tier city areas should be their own sovereign areas with Federal representation, and rules on how outer regions can join the city-state as their population density increases.. or leave the city state as it declines (Detroit, I’m looking at you) Then their city “rules” wouldn’t be forced onto the rural populations.
Areas of NW New Jersey out in Sussex County actually have rednecks and hill billies.
You don’t have to go all the way to Sussex for that:
http://weirdnj.com/stories/fabled-people-and-places/jackson-whites/
But you could argue that the northern half of Passaic County (West Milford, etc) qualifies, and you would be right. When NJ was being solidified as a state entity, there were too many northern counties vs southern counties, so to keep the legislature 50/50 they merged 2 zones into Passaic Co, and the northern and southern halves are really different, with Patterson and other industrial cities in the south and West Milford, etc. in the north, all forrest and rural land. So the north NJ redneck zone is North Passaic, Sussex & Warren Counties..
Yet Philadelphia is more free than even the most rural part of NJ. Because that urban/rural divide go the other direction in PA.
But you’re probably right, that cities over a certain size should be subtracted from the states they’re in. I’d be careful about giving them separate and full Federal representation based on population though. The coastal elite cities would end up ruling over every square inch of US soil, more so than they currently do.
Doesn’t PA have the cities of the X class generally worded into State legislation? Which allows Harrisburg to give Philly its special rules without burdening the rest of the state. Although it is probably a population % thing… NY, NJ, CA, MA just have too much population by % in the urban areas, so they then wag the rest of the state.
House representation is already by population, so the ex-urbs control that. The question would be senate, would 1 senator be good?… 15 new blue senators, and all of the releasing states go solidly red?.. would that skew the electoral college too much?
It would also mess up gerrymandering as that often blobs urban with rural to get the correct red/blue mix. See NJ’s 5th district which used to be Warren + Sussex +North Passaic, (Some Hunterdon) and solidly red. They extended it to Bergen county and it still stayed red until the NJ Dems specifically did a get out the vote in Bergen to switch it Blue.
You can see how it would be useful with minimum wage, what NYC can bear, upstate NY cannot. Firearms laws, animal handling, etc.
Small town cops are the worst. I grew up in a town of 3500 people with a police dept that was way overstaffed. Their sole purpose was to fuck with people. Tickets for bullshit. Busting underage drinkers. Pulling over any and everything under false pretenses so they could go on fishing expeditions. Tasering 9 year old girls. Being in cahoots woth local drug dealers.
Some of the cops currently in that town are guys I went to high school with who happened to be the pricks who got their asses kicked regularly for being pricks.
I was neglectful of adding this link when I posted the above.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/34014497/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/t/-year-old-tasered-officer-arkansas/
I went to high school with the asshole cop who did this.
The cop is a piece of shit, but what the hell’s up with the mother asking him to tase her kid?
she is a piece of shit too. I didn’t know her, but I went to school with her too. She was a few years ahead of me.
Obama’s Inner Circle Is Urging Deval Patrick to Run
I thought it was time for a woman to be president. I am confused.
Harris/Patrick 2020
throw Steyer in there and we have a rough idea of how its going to look. the other ‘bazillionaire hopefuls’ like Cuban or Zuckerberg will never make it very far.
Whatever happened to Cory Booker? I thought he was the young African-American Democratic pol who was supposed to be presidential material? Or do the Dems just figure they’ve had so much luck with their Massachusetts candidates that they want to double down?
Booker would be great on criminal justice reform. But not much else.
“small-town campaign experience from his 2006 gubernatorial run that will jibe perfectly with Iowa”
I doubt it.
“neighbor-state advantage in New Hampshire”
I doubt it.
“the immediate bloc of votes he’d have as an African-American heading into South Carolina”
Hmm, maybe.
Translation: Barack Obama wants a SCOTUS seat.
ack! I threw up a little there.
I actually think that would be very hard to pull off. He’s not like a judge, that’s obscure yet has a judicial history. He’s a former president. That means everyone will know who he is and have strong opinions from the get go.
As long as the Dems had the oval office and 51 seats in the senate, he would be a shoo-in…assuming he wants it.
Forgot about that change. I get why it happened, but damn it wasn’t good.
Yeah. But even if the precedent hadn’t already been set, you know the Dems would have no problem with “nuclear” options to give the Light Bringer a seat on the bench. He’s a constitutional scholar!!!!11!1!
The magic Negro to complement the wise Latina….
To fulfil the requirements, the actual Justice would have to be white and he’d be at best the janitor or gardener. Don’t you even trope?
Office at Bain Capital. Wasn’t that Mitt Romney’s place?
Jeez, I missed that! I hope he does run just so we can see MSNBC et al. twist themselves into knots explaining how working for Bain is now a good thing
OK. I actually read it (mostly) here’s their road map:
When we do it, it’s different! /prog
Immediately after the Bain capital media assassination to get at Romney, the newly elected Obama administration appointed a bunch of ex-Bain guys.
Deval Patrick is a complete moron and barely won in Massachusetts. If Valarie Jarrett likes him, it’s because he’s another indifferent, malleable dimwit frontman who’ll let her be the real President.
Massachusetts lawmakers probe ex-Gov. Patrick’s reported secret travel fund
If your governor had a secret travel fund worth tens of millions of dollars used to jet set to Japan, Israel and the United Arab Emirates, wouldn’t you want to know about it?
That’s the question put to Massachusetts residents this week after revelations former Gov. Deval Patrick used off-the-record bookkeeping to conceal more than $37.5 million driven to a secret fund to pay for trips to promote Massachusetts abroad.
Democrats and Republicans in the Legislature have begun their probe of the former Democratic governor turned hedge fund manager for Bain Capital, once headed up by his fellow former Gov. Mitt Romney.
As uncovered by the Boston Herald on Friday, the former governor reportedly enjoyed dozens of trade missions abroad at public expense but without legislative approval. His administration is purported to have shoveled as much as $27 million into off-budget accounts from the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority, Massport and the Mass Tech Collaborative, all quasi-independent agencies.
Both Massport, the state’s port authority, and Mass Tech Collaborative, the venture seeking to bring Israeli tech firms to Massachusetts, paid $1.75 million for Patrick’s trade trips.
This amount includes $535,558 for hotels, $332,193 for airfare, $305,976 for limos and more than $175,000 on other expenses.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/06/15/massachusetts-lawmakers-probe-ex-gov-patrick-reported-secret-travel-fund.html
I really expected him to be pushed forward last year to retain the ‘young, urbane black guy’ appeal Obama had in ’08, but I guess it really was supposed to be Hillary’s turn.
I have a question – Aren’t these supposed to be the people who are smart politically? I mean, seriously, this is a guy who, in his last run, couldn’t get 50% running as a Democrat in Massachusetts. His successor was a Republican.
I’m starting to think that these folks aren’t as smart as they like to think, that they just go really lucky in 2008 running against a financial crisis and an unpopular war.
Interesting methodology Personally uncertain regarding the efficacy and accuracy. Needs more study.
the more people associate “immigrants” with “refugees”, the more negative they become.
Trust us, it’s a “sophisticated poll” this time.
Happy #NationalGirlfriendDay! Here Are Your Top 5 Jewish Girlfriends
None of those have ever been my Jewish girlfriend. Where did they get their data from?
Tho be honest the only Jewish woman I’ve slept with was Bar Refaeli
I’ll take my chances with five random IDF gals vs. this group.
How does Sarah Silverman rank above Mila Kunis?
Obligatory whenever Sarah Silverman is mentioned
I want to watch that movie now.
Meh, yes, no, no, yes. Natalie Portman annoys me.
Wait, did you say yes to Judge Judy?
Mila Kunis gets a hell yes. Sarah Silverman strikes me as someone who shouldn’t be attractive but somehow is.
of course.
I’ll say yes to Judge Judy. Don’t you know her net worth?
She did a nude scene in a movie and it ruined all pretense that she’s attractive
What movie?
*asking for a friend
I believe it’s called “Take This Waltz”. But just google machine sarah silverman nude and it will come up (phrasing).
She must wear tremendous bras is all I’m saying
Her panties have to hold a LOT of hair.
“It’s like Cat Stevens’ face down there!”
Judge Judy?
Jefe would be totes down with JJ nude scene.
Her wearing nothing but her lace collar, slowly rapping the gavel on her cupped palm. She pauses for a minute, delicately caresses her pearls and says, “Present the evidence.”
It goes on from there for about 400 pages, but the gist is, she’s way into anal
*wonders if SugarFree has been tutoring Jefe Hayek*
I suspect that the ‘way’ she’s into anal involves a lot of pegging.
I think that link just made me antisemitic.
Do you know who else was anti-semetic?
All their boyfriends?
The Labour Party?
I wouldn’t want any of those girls to be my girlfriend. Portman and Kunis are the only alright looking ones of that list. The other three? *barf*
And where the fuck is Gal Gadot?
Israelite, therefore not “real jewess”.
I’m surprised Mila Kunis made it. She’s might not be totally insane, given her background.
I’m in for Mila Kunis, for sure, but I’ve waned on Natalie Portman. Plus, I feel like there are way hotter Jewish chicks you could include on that list.
Natalie and Mia Black Swan sex scene…I’ll be in my bunk.
More Germans fear climate change than terrorism, poll shows
So, the real headline is “Germans tell pollsters what they think they’re supposed to answer”
More like “Pollsters make shit up”
Wait if you are most concerned, does that not mean on thing per person? As such shouldn’t the numbers add up to 100?
If some people couldn’t even think of more than one thing they were afraid of, I’d take that as a indicator that all their lives are pretty damn good.
taking that sort of polling too-seriously will get you Deutschetrumpf in no time.
*Beifall*
<a href="http://www.news18.com/news/india/climate-change-behind-59000-farmer-suicides-in-india-study-1479995.html" Farmers killing themselves, because global warming duh!
Can we just cut off all federal funding to California.
HTML fail and link fail! Global warming strikes again!
http://www.news18.com/news/india/climate-change-behind-59000-farmer-suicides-in-india-study-1479995.html
Not the fact that they’re dirt poor peasant farmers in India? That couldn’t possibly be a stressor factor, could it?
They’ve lived in a country with extreme heat for centuries and just now they are suddenly committing suicide because of the heat?
Most of the suicides starved to death before the Green Revolution, QED.
Christ. They didn’t kill themselves because of global warming because there isnt any warming. They killed themselves because of the ever imminent warming. I am thinking this might be bullshit.
I am impressed how they can attribute suicides over 30 years to climate change. I wonder how they did it. I see no link to the study or description of methodology.
The suicide rate graph is shaped like a hockey stick, man.
Study is bullshit
“Crop-damaging temperatures increase suicide rates in India
More than three quarters of the world’s suicides occur in developing countries, yet little is known about the drivers of suicidal behavior in poor populations. I study India, where one fifth of global suicides occur and suicide rates have doubled since 1980. Using nationally comprehensive panel data over 47 y, I demonstrate that fluctuations in climate, particularly temperature, significantly influence suicide rates. For temperatures above 20 °C, a 1 °C increase in a single day’s temperature causes ∼70 suicides, on average. This effect occurs only during India’s agricultural growing season, when heat also lowers crop yields. I find no evidence that acclimatization, rising incomes, or other unobserved drivers of adaptation are occurring. I estimate that warming over the last 30 y is responsible for 59,300 suicides in India, accounting for 6.8% of the total upward trend. These results deliver large-scale quantitative evidence linking climate and agricultural income to self-harm in a developing country.”
Oh weather goes to 70 degrees? 70 people kill themselves cause it is too hot.
“yet little is known about the drivers of suicidal behavior in poor populations.”
Oh for fucks sake. Really?
Being dirt poor with no real expectation of an improvement in you station in life couldn’t have a thing to do with depression and suicide rates.
More than three quarters of the world’s suicides occur in three quarters of the world….doesn’t sound as impressive.
Or that one fifth (20%) of suicides occur in a country with 17% of the world’s population.
That’s some great crack journalism work, Rene Marsh of CNN. No reference whatsoever to the nature of the Obama-era rule, if it originated from the legislative branch, or if it originated from the executive branch. How is a reader supposed to make an informed decision about the rule when there isn’t even a sentence dedicated to possible drawbacks of the rule, its origins, and of course ample victory lap quote from a litigious cunt.
Link
Eat what we feed to you, asshole.
What the hell? If these ‘regulations’ originated with the executive branch then the executive branch can simply change them. Is the court saying that Obama can issue edicts because ChocolateJesus but Trump cant change them because ChocolateJesus? The courts dont have an army. All they have is credibility. If they behave like the press and piss that away I dont think they will like the result very much. Of course I am speculating because the article doesnt give much information.
If these ‘regulations’ originated with the executive branch then the executive branch can simply change them.
Most enabling laws specify some kind of process. So, the executive can enact a regulation after such and such body of such and such agency commissions a review and holds a panel, yada yada. Then, in due government time, they make a recommendation and the head of the agency either decides to enact it or not. Once that decision has been made, the same or some similar process has to be worked all over again to change it.
Of course, most such laws also grant wide discretion to the heads of the executive agencies to make temporary changes as circumstances demand. The key factor here is the invisible ink that only the courts can read which stipulates that only Democratic administrations get to exercise this discretion. There’s apparently also a part that says only Democratic-aligned causes get to have standing in court. Because normally, the average citizen does not get standing in cases about regulations, since FYTW.
How is a reader supposed to make an informed decision
They’re not supposed to make an informed decision. If she gave the back ground, that in fact it is an EPA rule…..
A person might conclude that the court pulled that ruling out of their ass. So now once a rule is written into the federal register, I guess it can never be reviewed and it must be on the books forever.
Background on the review.
Thanks for doing Ms. Marsh’s job for her, ‘sloper
It seems Pruitt needs to take a page from the Greens to deal with these idiots.
Have an external group challenge the law in court for some silly reason. As an example, make the argument that the rule should be struck down because it was made in improper collusion with specific lobbying groups. Then simply instruct his EPA not to show up to defend it. Bang, end of rule. Such crap works for the enviros, why can’t it work for him ?
The bigger problem is that there are enough courts in this country which are willing to toss precedent and prudence aside in order to go after Trump. There are enough of them that they can clog up the system faster than SCOTUS can smack them down.
You say the EPA can choose not to enforce the rule, some crackpot judge issues an order compelling them to, …
SJWednesday: Here We Are Now, Just Pay Us
But saying one half of the population can go fuck themselves is A-OK, right?
What world are these people living in? All job applications have some bullshit like that added by HR for reasons I cannot fathom. No one cares.
Stop for a moment and observe your surroundings, there is technological creativity all around. Engineering is a creative process in which abstract ideas are transformed into reality. Do you want to shape the world of tomorrow ?
I mean yeah and bla bla teamwork bla bla proactive bla bla passionate
“cheerful and energetic disposition, and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment”
Every company posts this, because they think it will make their company sound more exciting. But if you can do the job (granted that it’s a skilled job that can be a hassle to fill)most companies are willing to look over you being a crotchety unhappy person. But these are SJW’s do they probably miss the “skill” qualification.
Lol. Being able to lift 40 lbs and stand for 8 hours shrinks the pool, but their mythical grandson still can’t get a job.
The company for which I work includes many of those forms of ‘discrimination’ in our employment ads. We process bulk amounts of coins into rolls of coins that are delivered to banks. You have to be able to lift 60 pounds easily because that’s about how much a thousand dollars worth of dimes or quarters weighs. Yes, it means we don’t have quadrapalegic people on staff, but that’s because if we had an automated way of opening bags of coin and feeding them into machinery we wouldn’t have a need for entry level workers at all.
And we require people to pass criminal checks and credit checks because we our business insurance wants us to avoid people who might be a high risk to steal money. And since we’re a federal contractor, passing random drug tests is a requirement for employment.
And we require people to have an address and reliable transportation. For the first: we mail things to employees, like their health insurance enrollment packets and paycheck stubs, from an out-of-state corporate office. We don’t have them delivered to the local buildings in which we work for privacy reasons, because we don’t want to be held responsible if someone else opens an employee’s pay stub and see what they make.
For the second: We need to have employees at work on time and at specific hours because we can’t exactly tell banks not to give out money to customers and stores because nobody showed up for work yet because the bus routes or subways were down
TL;DR: Fuck that stupid fucking comic and the idiot who came up with it.
So, some of the horrible awful requirements so unjustly imposed on job applicants:
1. You must have the physical ability to perform manual labor for a manual labor job.
2. You have to be able to show up for work on time.
3. You can’t be the sort who will treat your customers like crap.
Are these people for real?
“It wasn’t that acrimonious,” he said.
For his part, Bacon told the KUCB Unalaska radio station that “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say it.”
Then they all went and drank beer together. This is how to not be assholes pols.
Little-known Rep. John Delaney launches a very early 2020 presidential bid.
Get Hyped!!!!
He looks like the quintessential Maryland Democrat, white, bald, and pudgy.
Maryland appears to have a lock on ‘pretentious democratic presidential candidates with zero chance’ for the near future.
Oh we’ve got that market cornered, alright.
Sacerdotal Pomposities would be a good band name, if your band is a string quartet.
A string quartet that plays death metal covers.
APPROVED.
Is this close enough?
No, but they were the inspiration for my post.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9StTLSBheHo
String quartet that’s knows what’s what.
“Our initial ask was an end to the violence, to sell veggie burgers or something like that,” said Johnson, who emphasized that “this is not an agreement we intend to comply with forever” but rather “a temporary understanding.” Johnson also called the negotiation “something of a historic first” for animal rights.
1. “We intend to break this agreement”
2. Ask is a noun now? Fuck.
3. What a fucking cunt. The only way to deal with these people is with pure scorn. You don’t win friends with salad, as the sage said.
Use of the term “Veggie burgers” is a microaggression.
Cultural appropriation of omnivorous people’s food names by the herbivores.
Yeah, “ask” is being used as a noun now in the kind of environments where people say “liaise” a lot. I’m hearing it be replaced by “lift”, as in, “I realize this is a big lift, but I need you to get the database migration finished by 2:00 today.” I’ve got a little less of a problem with that. It’s still pretentious and lazy.
Also, I would smoke a brisket on the sidewalk while these fuckers cried. It’s possible to be a vegan without being an asshole.
“It’s possible to be a vegan without being an asshole.”
Is it? My Mom tried to vegan pretty hard but she just never got all the way there, I assumed it was because she wasn’t an asshole. Certainly not because meat is awesome.
Using “lift” or “ask” as a noun is actually a cry for help. Or a cry for a punch in the face. One of those.
Wait was that a pun?
This was supposed to be a reply. Oh well shit happens I guess
*narrows gaze*.
“You just stepped in a big pile of dog shit!”
Forrest, “it happens”
“What? Shit?”
The rest is history my friends
Speaking of “ sacerdotal pomposities“
related = he may be asked to answer some questions soon
I’ve met multiple people who have interacted with that guy, and I got to say every one to a man/woman said he was a raging douche-bag.
I’m up for it. I think I actually won the league a few years ago (I put Manziel on my roster in the playoffs so he could at least win one championship).
Who hese is Stephan Patsis?
Rat confirmed for Glib
Good thing Milenials don’t newspaper.
That rat would make a fine avatar, too…
If nobody beats me to it, imma grab it tonight
SJWednesday: Profit Kills
Business for profit.
*grinds teeth*
Incentives matter. The profit motive is what makes the world go round. Fucking communist apologists are worse than holocaust deniers.
You should have seen the pristine wonderland Romania was during communism. If you wanted to cut the toxic smog in some industrial cities with a knife, a butter knife would have been sufficient, not even a sharp one.
Got it. Individual actions don’t make the world a better place, only getting involved in politics can do that.
Your actions are never the problem, it’s always the other people
Do not resist the collective.
Its is always the same with these people. Some commie hell-hole is falling apart and they ignore it while preaching their pinko bullshit.
I understand Maduro rounded up and disappeared opposition figures last night. Who could have seen that coming?
In today’s edition of the Red Star there is a story titled: Trend of drinking hydrogen peroxide can be deadly, Minnesota doctors warn — Six people have been treated at Hennepin County Medical Center for injuries.
It is a panic story about how crazy people are drinking hydrogen peroxide for health reasons. Local docs think it is a really bad idea. Not so interesting a story, unless you actually read it and can think.
So no one was hurt by intentionally drinking hydrogen peroxide. If you dig into the story even more, it doesn’t look like anyone anywhere has died from it either. Just a lot of docs concern trolling.
The bleached esophagus look is just a fad.
I blame porn.
Bleaching the asshole from the inside out?
Top To Bottom
Given this story about a “Dangerous, silent reservoir of gonorrhea in the throat”, more people should probably be gargling with hydrogen peroxide or something.
Hmm… my planned retirement as a hermit looks better and better.
So, Michael Douglas wasn’t kidding when he said his throat cancer was from cunnilingus?
Politics without accountability, and business for profit, is making life hell on this planet.
So- more like Venezuela. Got.
I had an interesting discussion yesterday with a Mormon. He was surprised to find out that as an atheist I had an appreciation for Christianity. I explained to him that most of the ideas I hold sacred originated in Christianity and eventually evolved into secular ideas. Even if Christianity didn’t invent many of those ideas but borrowed them from various pagan religions that predated Christianity at the very least Christianity popularized them and spread them around the west. These secular ideas I consider the foundation of true civilization and civil society. Christianity deserves a great deal of credit for that.
He was puzzled because the atheists he has had experience with were quite different and he didn’t quite understand why the difference.
“You look through one lens, I look through another but we both see much the same thing. The people you are talking about reject what we see. They reject those ideas. Their goal is to see something different so they reject your lens. They forget about my lens. They are working from conclusion backward to premises. It really is dishonest.”
Anyway, I think I made a new friend. Just thought I would toss that up for no reason in particular. Now I am going to make Eggs Benedict.
Good morning everyone.
Wait, surly curmudgeon is just a role you play on our website? I am disappoint.
Bah, humbug.
Yes I am but a reasonable one.
“Anyway, I think I made a new friend. ”
Just wait till you ask him to join you for drinks.
Why do you always take two Mormons with you when you go fishing? If you just take one, he’ll drink all your beer.
I’m here all night folks, tip your waitress
Thats a Baptist joke.
Also, Baptists never make eye contact in the liquor store. That isn’t a joke, I have lived it.
I always heard it as the difference between Baptists and Methodists – the Methodists speak when they meet at the liquor store.
Was this after he rode up to your house on his bike?
Ha. No not one of those kids. Just a local guy I ran into.
Yeah, I think I was one of those smug atheists for about 2 or 3 years until I had a conversation with a Jesuit priest who was way smarter than me. This was at my Catholic high school. He pointed out that without God or some kind of higher authority, morality was subjective. I let that stew for a bit and came to the conclusion that he was right. Not that it led me back to believing in God, it basically just led me to nihilism. I kept searching over the years for some argument that would convince me there was an objective morality, Sam Harris claimed to but ultimately I found his argument unconvincing. Most of the people I know who proudly call themselves atheists believe that religion is everything that’s wrong with the world and they are morally superior because they don’t need fear of hell to compel them to do the right thing. Never mind that their definition of “right thing” came from thousands of years of evolving religion.
Even with a god, morality is subjective. It just depends on your god and/or sect.
I don’t know. I think that’s an atheist’s view from the outside. For the individual within the religion, it’s objective.
But religions don’t exist in a vacuum. There are many to choose from with varying fundamental principles. You’re not bound to the religion of your birth (unless your family beheads you for apostasy).
Religion offers a moral framework with a unifying tenet, that the moral principles have descended from on high and are immutable. My realization was that those morals are not in fact immutable and have been changed over time in order to maintain popular acceptance and accommodate political needs. In that sense, I find most religions to be naked emperors.
For the record, I’m not an atheist.
“But religions don’t exist in a vacuum. There are many to choose from with varying fundamental principles. You’re not bound to the religion of your birth (unless your family beheads you for apostasy).
Completely irrelevant if it happens that one is objectively true.
“My realization was that those morals are not in fact immutable and have been changed over time in order to maintain popular acceptance and accommodate political needs.”
To the extent that statement is true, is it the fault of humanity or the “religion”? If morality was indeed framed by God objectively, and yet humanity chooses to apply it subjectively, that is a commentary on the people, not the morals themselves.
Then please tell me which particular sect of which particular religion is objectively true.
🙂 Therein lies the crux. I would say protestant christianity, but I could not make an empirical case. However, my belief or yours in no way effects whether it is objectively true or not. Either one religion is true, or none of them (philosophically excluding universalist religions as they make claims of ‘mutual truth’ about religions who claim exclusivity)
Boris Grushenko: Murder’s immoral.
Sonja: Immorality is subjective.
Boris Grushenko: Yes, but subjectivity is objective.
Sonja: Not in a rational scheme of perception.
Boris Grushenko: Perception is irrational. It implies immanence.
Sonja: But judgment of any system or a priori relation of phenomena exists in any rational or metaphysical or at least epistemological contradiction to an abstracted empirical concept such as being or to be or to occur in the thing itself or of the thing itself.
Boris Grushenko: Yeah, I’ve said that many times.
Um, morality need not be universal to be useful nor does it need to be universal to be grounded in something much firmer than whims of fancy.
At a bare minimum you can point to moral systems which foster successful communities and state that they are in fact better than those which do not.
I don’t buy your criteria The Aztec moral system seemed to foster a successful state for a long time. I don’t consider sacrificing prisoners moral.
And neither do I. But I can’t prove that it is not. What I can prove is that their moral system did not make for a society which was capable of adapting and surviving. The Aztecs were is significant decline long before the Spaniards got there and wiped them out. Contrast with the Jews and how their moral systems allowed them to not only adapt and thrive through good times but to even survive being captured and subjugated multiple times.
That’s essentially utilitarianism, which was Sam Harris’s case for an objective, scientific morality. And I agree that I’d much rather live in those societies. The problem is “better” is subjective. More useful to more people != objectively moral.
And no one claimed it was objectively moral, what I said was superior.
I do not need an absolute standard against which to judge if water is hot or cold, having that standard certainly helps judge HOW hot or cold it is but I can stick my hand into 2 bowls and tell you which is hotter.
Similarly I do not need a universal standard of morality to judge which moral systems are superior I can observe the effects of those moral systems and judge them by other standards (internal consistancy, balance, etc.) and determine relative rankings for them.
Okay. But it’s also not objectively superior.
Good to see they left Bourbon off the more tax list.
Gales of laughter from the Cook-DuPage, Cook-Kane, Cook-Will and Cook-Lake county lines as the stores on the other side post signs saying “NO COOK COUNTY TAX HERE.” Indiana continues to shake its collective head.
Indiana continues to shake its collective head.
Last gas before higher taxes.
Yep! I LOLd at the drastically downward-revised income that is now projected over how this was initially sold.
I continually wonder why anyone not forced to would live in Cook County.
Graft, I assume.
Wait until they start stopping you at the county line for contraband inspection.
One taxi driver’s story of trying to survive in the age of Uber
A 15-hour work day can’t even cover his daily costs
http://www.salon.com/2017/08/02/one-taxi-drivers-story-of-trying-to-survive-in-the-age-of-uber_partner/
“The value of the medallions that they bought from the city years ago, largely on bank loans, have virtually been wiped out with arrival of ride-share competitors. Medallions are licenses that taxi drivers are legally required to have. Imagine stocking a store on credit, and then discovering that you will never earn enough to pay off the loan.”
– Yup it is exactly like that. Also, when you stock with a products and a new better one appears, you sometimes go bankrupt.
Six years ago, taxi medallions sold by the city were running as high as $254,000, according to public Chicago figures. The latest figures from the city show that peak has disappeared. Many are selling between $50,000 and $70,000, recent data shows.
Yeah it was totally okay to need to pay 250k just to be allowed to transport people.
So it’s wasn’t the inability to cover costs, it was the inability to cover costs plus the deadwegith of a tanked investment.
That just tells me the medallion system needs to be scrapped.
Buggy makers having hard time paying equipment notes
1908 – Buggy-maker Jebediah Allison complained today that the resale cost of wheel-shaping equipment has fallen off dramatically with the rise of the automobile and pneumatic tire.
Palanquin-bearer’s Union Protests Surge in Wheeled Transport Use
Tetrapods outraged over bipedalism trend, Women and Minorities Hardest Hit
This is a micro-example of the lock that minimum wage and fixed overheads (pensions) put on the economy. Deflation becomes a disaster and cannot be allowed at any cost, so inflation is pushed until the economy cannot tolerate it anymore and deflates anyway, wiping out whole sectors that would have survived if they had been allowed to fluctuate normally.
Buggy whip maker works his fingers to the bone, gets bony fingers.
While the guy wasn’t entirely innocent, since he joined up on a cartel scheme to skin the consumer, I do have a little bit of sympathy for the guy. The government did con him into throwing an enormous amount of money into the scheme.
peak snowflake plus python on the loose
‘Emotional labor’ payments sought for female student activists
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/35109/
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‘please pay J—– and K—- for their labor, preferably over 30$. The community is watching you and holding you accountable’
Students at Sarah Lawrence College, a posh, private liberal arts college in New York consistently ranked one of the most expensive colleges in the nation, recently called on peers and others to pay female campus activists for their “emotional labor.”
A Facebook post that went viral among the campus community listed 17 Venmo accounts belonging to Sarah Lawrence College students, most of whom were students of color.
It was posted once on March 26 on Facebook in honor of Women’s History Month, then reposted in April as students exchanged heated words on Facebook over a campus controversy.
“In honor of Women’s History Month, and the labor that women and femmes of color do for Sarah Lawrence every month of the year,” the post states, then lists the student Venmo accounts. Venmo is a payment service app. The post, which includes a brightly colored poster declaring “Give your $ to Women & Femmes of Color,” was inspired by the #GiveYourMoneyToWomen hashtag created by prominent feminists.
It became fierce fodder for students the second time it was posted as they debated on Facebook a student’s release of her pet snake on campus. The student has claimed she was only given an hour by campus officials to get rid of the baby python, which she had purchased for therapeutic reasons. She told peers that, in a panic, she let it loose into the wilds of Sarah Lawrence near a student dorm by the North Lawn.
As word spread that a python was slithering around the school, it prompted students in droves to weigh in online on the controversy.
But then some students expressed anger that their peers appeared more upset about a python on the loose, as well as another controversy regarding a popular tree on campus slated for removal, than racism and alleged hate crimes at the school, which costs $65,550 annually in tuition and other fees.
“How about we talk about the systemic racism, poor treatment of laborers, sexual assaults, anti-Muslim hate crimes … ?” one student of color chimed in. A discussion about white students’ lack of interest in problems facing minorities ensued.
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The market rate for “Emotional Labor” is negative – pay us to appologize for your whining, now.
People pay actual money for racism. That is interesting. And, in New York, too.
The kinky stuff is always extra.
Sounds awful really. I will pass the hat round the office
Sounds like an extortion racket to me.
Also, can “chicks” with dicks get into Sarah Lawrence?
Not a women’s college so, yeah
Not up on my East Cost elite school stuff apparently.
I only know that because a guy from my high school went there, which surprised me because at the time I too assumed it was a female only school.
That is a horribly written article.
At least it was written by a student journalist and not someone who gets paid enough to rent an unplumbed studio on the ungentrified edge of Brooklyn.
I disagree. This sentence is awesome:
Yeah, that’s good, but the whole thing is very muddled and too reliant on what someone said to said one else on some internet board. It’s like listening to two Beckys talking.
She buys a python for therapy? And then she just sets it loose in Yonkers?
I feel bad for the python.
They should be paid in the exact amount of the value they have produced.
Same here. No way does it survive an NY winter.
So, wait, if they don’t get paid, are they going to go on strike and leave everyone alone? Please?
Even POTUS appears to be trying to impress his four-star handler, picking up his game by acting sharper in meetings and even rattling off stats.
I bet that’s hilarious to hear, too.
Still, it looks like Trump is building a better team. I heard Press Secretary Sanders do a back-and-forth with the press over Donald helping with Don Jr.’s statement about some Russia thing, and she held her own really well.
I just wish he would get his head right about some things.
Looks like a Dark Helmet cosplay.
Hillary will really go to bat for her money launderer – unlike Ambassadors, SEALS, CIA or Secret Service Agents.
Bangladesh is not that tiny, 160 mil population
Wonder who won’t be posting today….
For my next trick…
“Hey Rocky…”
“Again?”
I can’t believe the cops stole his dildo
“Interstate Pleasure Session” is an awesome band name.
Seconded.
Their first album ‘Coming Soon’ was a huge hit.
Their cover of Interstate Love Song is very unique
Where was “Free Society” from, again?
old, but a good read
https://www.wired.com/2011/07/afghanistans-insane-fight/
important conclusions
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Military successes stimulated reconciliation and population mobilization. The population-centric COIN that preceded the Marines had relied on political outreach and economic development to convince Sangin’s residents to abandon the insurgency and join the government side. Military force was minimized based on the theory that violence would create “accidental guerrillas,” kill off potential negotiating partners and alienate the insurgents so much that they would never consider reconciling with the government. This approach accomplished little. In fact, the counterinsurgents’ aversion to the use of force and their eagerness to negotiate most likely discouraged a political compromise because they suggested that the insurgents could win a complete victory by waiting the foreigners out. As it turned out, the Marines made much greater progress in reconciliation and population mobilization because their military successes raised the costs in lives and property that communities and families paid for supporting the insurgency and convinced the opportunists that the coalition would prevail.
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Counternarcotics took a back seat to stabilization. The Marines decided that they had too many enemies already to engage in large-scale counternarcotics activities. Much of the population depended on the opium industry for its livelihood, and could be expected to cling to insurgency more strongly if that livelihood were at stake. Counternarcotics could wait until the government had enough personnel and adequate security to undertake robust counternarcotics measures. Marine COIN operations did, however, have a large impact on the narcotics trade because many of the insurgents they captured or killed had been involved in it. Nevertheless, the narcotics industry continues to thrive in Sangin, and it now poses a vexing problem across Helmand, for the power brokers required for reconciliation, and at some level the officials of the Afghan government, are deeply invested in it will strongly resist actions that would harm the narcotics business.
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The magnitude of the IED threat forced the Marines to patrol in a fundamentally different way than infantrymen patrol in most counterinsurgencies. As they had learned from Marines with prior experience in Helmand, the Taliban prepared ambush zones by emplacing IEDs in all the places where soldiers were likely to move when under fire. As a consequence, the Marines had to be much more cautious in employing traditional fire-and-maneuver tactics. They had to maneuver more slowly, or not at all.
One observer commented, “All the conventional Marine Corps tactics of enveloping and closing with the enemy are impossible in this environment. Your only choice is to fight from current location due to threat of IEDs.” Accuracy and potency of firepower became paramount. So did the ability to make creative use of cover, since the best cover was most often rigged with IEDs.
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the #GiveYourMoneyToWomen hashtag created by prominent feminists.
Sammich first, money after. That’s how it works, Toots.
Also, does Venmo accept donations denominated in pennies?
I read that as ‘penises’ and larfed.
Calexit leader drops the mask and admits why they are glad the middle class is being destroyed and/or fleeing.
Joel kotkin has nailed California and what the leadership wants done for years
You know who else wanted to replace a native born population with immigrants…
Cecil Rhodes?
Ouch?
Barack Obama?
The Weyland-Yutani corporation?…
Nice.
Ya only stoooopid mammals would think a zenomorphic species is both the key to enternal life and a controllable bio weapon.
PICK ONE RIDLEY SCOTT! Or just hand off to James Cameron
Theodor Herzl?
King James I?
My mom was watching this last night while on the phone with me and laughing hysterically. She was like “DO IT! DO EETT!! PLLEEEASE LEAVE!”
They can fund their social programs with unicorn forts.
Will they have canons?
I liked how he admitted that it is a goal to get them to move to CO and TX to turn them blue. When a non prog says that they get called a conspiracy nut.
He won’t be so glad when all the money flowing to Sacramento dries up because of it. God, can’t get out of this state soon enough.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2017/08/02/Teachers-union-asks-Trump-Saudi-govt-to-stop-beheading-of-college-student/2351501652030/?utm_source=sec&utm_campaign=sl&utm_medium=3
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Aug. 2 (UPI) — The president of the American Federation of Teachers has asked a Saudi ambassador to stop the beheading of 14 Saudi nationals sentenced to death for protesting the government, including a young man who was planning to attend college in the United States.
“As I know you are familiar with our family and community culture in the United States, I am appealing to your compassion as a father and son to intervene with His Majesty King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud to suspend the sentences,” AFT president Randi Weingarten wrote to Prince Khalid bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, the Saudi ambassador to the United States, on Monday.
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Huh, Weingarten does something decent for once.
And you weak mammals thought US college kangaroo courts were bad
Question if mr pen and phone can just implement rules via agencies. Why is it illegal to just rescind them via fiat?
Thinking of above EPA and Pruitt thing
Because it’s not goodthinkful. Honestly tho I don’t know the merits of the case, but lately there have been a lot of judges with hard on for overreach.
They probably have to go through a process which requires some amount of time.
Per disciples of the Lightbringer to whom I’ve spoken, the issue isn’t that the office is too powerful, it’s that the wrong people get elected. It’s only overreach if the person doing it isn’t the person you voted for.
You know who else wanted to replace a native born population with immigrants…
Rattus Norvegicus?
Andrew Jackson?
Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
The goddam Mongorians?
Some sense from the State Department
SEE!!!!! TRUMP IS LITERALLY HITLER! HE HATES DEMOCRACY!!!
If we can’t bomb other countries into democratic bliss then why even bother?
+ 1 Cytotoxic
I Haye this American obsession with democracy. Democracy is not a good thing. Democracy is the imposition of the will of the many against the few. Two wolves and a sheep voting on what’s for dinner.
And nor has it ever been an important American value until recently.
They sign a constitution which you’re obliged to follow despite not signing. Odd.
Excellent gnus.
“Wilsonianism……Realism….. then back again”
= history of US foreign policy
Cops: Bride Pulled Handgun On Her Groom
Who amongst us didn’t get in a gun fight on their wedding night?
Euphemism?
I call mine “handgun”, too.
Negroni has been doxxed.
*whistles innocently*
Gell-Mann effect cuts in for me with this one. Revolver or semi-auto?
“Placed a round in the gun”?
Who the fuck in Tennessee carries in condition two if they meant ‘chambered a round’?
If revolver, where did she keep her speed clips?
I just figured she had one loose cartridge that she put in.
It referred to the gun as a 9mm, so I’m assuming it isn’t a revolver. Not that there aren’t 9mm revolvers, they’re just comparatively rare.
Besides, if it was a revolver, she would need a moon clip, not a speed loader.
The unloaded bit threw me. Who carries a gun without a mag in? Or with no rounds in the cylinder?
It sounds more like she carries without a round chambered, forgot because she was drunk, and then chambered a round and fired.
Noted public intellectual Lindy West scolds Democrats for lack of ideological rigor.
I relate to the flailing panic that is no doubt undergirding such a morally putrescent idea. Nineteen hyenas and a broken vacuum cleaner control the White House, and ice is becoming extinct. I get it. I am desperate and afraid as well. I am prepared to make leviathan compromises to pull us back from that brink. But there is no recognizable version of the Democratic Party that does not fight unequivocally against half its constituents’ being stripped of ownership of their own bodies and lives. This issue represents everything Democrats purport to stand for.
To legislatively oppose abortion is to be, at best, indifferent to the disenfranchisement, suffering and possibly even the death of women. At worst it is to revel in those things, to believe them fundamental to the natural order. Where, exactly, on that spectrum is Luján comfortable placing his party?
Democratic candidates are perfectly welcome to refrain from terminating their own pregnancies. But to be anti-choice on a policy level is absolutely indefensible from an economic justice, racial justice, gender justice and human rights standpoint. And if the Democratic Party does not stand for any of those things, then what on earth is it?
Abortion is not just a right, it’s a duty. Or something.
Even by NYT opinion standards, that’s a pile of gibberish. I don’t give a shit what your politics are, who honestly reads the kind of tripe that Lindy West shits out and is so impressed by it that they hire her?
‘I was born with GIGANTIC boobs so it’s hard to exercise’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4753404/Sofia-Vergara-45-goes-completely-NAKED.html
She must have been an awfully weird-looking baby.
Woops, Gilmored.
The photo at the bottom indicates a significant amount of PS.
Look to the knees.
I mean, I would every day and twice on Sunday, but I noticed the knees too. Also, “gigantic”? They’re nice, sure, but they’re a far cry from gigantic.
What’s the first right listed in the Declaration of Independence? Oh that’s right, the right to life. I understand that abortion stances are controversial, but is it that sacrilegious to have a little diversity of opinion in your team?
Why does the NYT keep publishing that fat idiot? It’s not like they have a shortage of breathless progressives.
Exactly, they have lefties who can at least write a coherent sentence.
You too can have your own column in NYT. Just go on NPR crying about how you can’t stop eating and exercise is a sexist Nazi plot so everybody should just accept your fatness.
Democratic candidates are perfectly welcome to refrain from terminating their own pregnancies.
Democratic candidates everywhere are thanking Lindy West for her permission.
Seriously, who the fuck wants to spend an extra $1.44 for a 12-pack of Coke just to fund the pension plans of overpaid, brutal cops and shitty teachers that care about their union a hell of a lot more than their students?
Nobody, which is why the gas stations just over the border in Indiana will now sell more cheap soft drinks along with the cheap gas. They might as well start selling guns at gas stations too. I think I just came up with a good idea for a business.
Gas, Guns and Goodies. Fun for the whole family.
It’s been said that Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms should be a convenience store chain, not a government agency.
My wife and I were driving through Hammond and she commented on how weird it was that there were so many fireworks stores all around. I told her that the rest of the state probably didn’t have a fraction of how many there are on the border because they pretty much exist for the convenience of Chicagoans.
re-run
Since I couldn’t post in the rights thread, here are a few thoughts:
Most people don’t spend a lot of time thinking about what a right is. At a minimum, a right means someone must be allowed to do something even other people don’t like it. Some people extend the concept of rights to mean that someone must be given something even if other people don’t want to give it.
Basically, rights are just the things we wish other people would let us do or give to us. I see it as a kind of bizarre arrogance. Laws can’t get people to drive the speed limit, but somehow they can make people kinder or more tolerant? It’s insane.
My view is that laws are just a fig leaf for might makes right. The intellectual equivalent of might makes right is consensus. Fortunately, most people have some sense of logic and empathy which usually keeps the laws reasonable.
Most disputes involve the infringement of perceived rights. However, most disputes are not about damage to life or property. Most disputes involve someone doing something that annoys someone else or someone being insulted by another person’s failure to do something. In my mind, there is no right not to be annoyed or offended nor is there an obligation to modify my behavior merely because someone else wants it.
Regarding wedding cakes for gay weddings, many people believe that conservative Christians are bad people who deserve to be hassled for badthink. It has nothing to do with equal rights. The purpose of lawsuits against businesses that refuse their services to gay weddings is to humiliate those business owners and intimidate others. It’s a very bad precedent for something that is merely unpopular to become a crime. Not so long ago, gay/lesbian bars would lose their liquor licenses because of the powers that be thought that gay people were bad and deserved to be hassled. The Stonewall riots happened because NYC threatened to strip liquor licenses from gay bars.
http://reason.com/archives/2015/06/28/how-liquor-licenses-sparked-stonewall
School Named After Vince Lombardi Cancels Football Season Due to Lack of Coaches
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2725170-school-named-after-vince-lombardi-cancels-football-season-due-to-lack-of-coaches?utm_source=cnn.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=editorial
I’ll coach for them! I’ll use the techniques I learned from watching “Hoosiers”.
https://www.texasobserver.org/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-freest-little-city-in-texas/
Another Libertarian failure? Our no true scotsman? Lack of state capitalism?
Lots of problems off the top, why did they need the police department? Wouldn’t there have been a fire district already?
Bedroom communities can’t live off of sales taxes, or business property taxes. You didn’t need to go to zero taxes, just be a good margin less than the big city competitor.
Well, at least they’re in good company.
And then I bet they rounded up and mass-murdered everyone with any money, while all but a small cadre of rulers lived in stinking abject poverty.
Man, it always sucks when libertarianism fails.
Insurance companies didn’t pay for fire and police protection?
A town of 1300 is proof that Libertarianism doesn’t work? Companies move in where demand exists. I doubt 1300 people caught the eye of a big box store. Same applies to the sewer system. If a private company saw the potential for profit surely they would have come in. I think this article just shows how a free market works.
No real Libertarianism?
Some people wanted a proper municipality with all the goodies on the cheap. Some people wanted to be left alone and not annexed by the big city. Starting from zero with small numbers makes it really easy to turn minor incidents into legal issues. Both sides played hardball and a lot of money was spent in the process. No political philosophy is really responsible for the madness. More that there were some severe differences of philosophy and a really shitty resolution.
Tom Friedman, rhetorician extraordinaire
I have a simple view of governing today: We are in the middle of not one but three climate changes at once to which government must help citizens respond — and Donald Trump doesn’t have a clue and China does.
Here is what I mean: We are in the middle of a change in the climate of the climate. We are going from “later” to “now.” In the past you could fix any climate/environmental problem later or now. But today later is officially over. Later will be too late. At some point, the deforestation of the Amazon is not reversible.
tl;dr- THE END IS NIGH
Friedman’s answer to everything: China
I thought it was just unaccountable Top Men in general.
the deforestation of the Amazon is not reversible.
So I take it Tom has never planted a tree.
When I was in first grade the hot environmental issue was the rainforest, Fern Gully having just been released. Our teacher showed us an educational film of strip mining and decimated forests, which I didn’t realize at the time, but must have been from the 1930s or so judging by the black and white photography and quality of the images. And also was in North America, not the fucking rainforest. Being too young to pick up on those subtleties, I simply asked “can’t they just plant more trees”? Whereupon I was informed that once a forest is strip mined it can never grow back because of the soil damage, and that the rainforest especially could never grow back because the ecosystem is so delicate that if even one animal, insect or plant were destroyed it would throw it out of equilibrium.
Here i am, 30 years old. More acres of forest land in North America than any time in the last century and the rainforest still standing. Oh, and full environmental recovery from disasters like Chernobyl and Mount St. Helens. You know, because you can’t regrow trees.
So, here in CO, we had a big pine-beetle epidemic in Summit County that killed ~80-90% of mature Lodgepole Pines. It started in 2006ish and continued up to about 2013. On top of the global warming hysteria we were assured that our children would never see another subalpine forest and the mountains would be damaged beyond repair. Fast forward just four years after beetle populations have returned to normal and the juvenile trees that were unaffected (the beetles will only attack beyond a certain diameter trunk) are growing up very fast due to more sunlight and nutrients, and most of the blank spaces are being filled with fast growing Aspen. In another five years, you won’t be able to tell that anything happened. Oh, and global warming did NOT cause it. The trees were stressed due to a century of overzealous fire control causing the forest to become much too dense. Top. Men.
Only you…can prevent…forest fires…and…simultaneously…facilitate pine beetle…infestations.
“So I take it Tom has never planted a tree.”
Safe bet.
Reading that horseshit, what kept running through my mind was that you could replace all references to China in the article with Japan and it could easily be a column from 1988.
That, and the fact that Friedman’s panic about “TRUMP HASN’T EVEN NAMED A SCIENCE ADVISOR!!!!!” is hilarious.
Or the USSR in 1935.
The only difference being that Crichton is no longer around to write a novel about it.
He sounds like Big Helmut confused at when “now” is.
Prepare to fast forward!
He thinks China is on board with “fixing” climate change? They’ll fix it by blowing all that smoke up your ass Thomas.
Meh; the rhetoric is flat.
That makes no sense. none whatsoever.
It’s absolutely uncanny. That is utterly indistinguishable from something the Tom Friedman op-ed generator would spit out.
Friedman himself uses it, now.
More China fellating? Go fuck yourself Tommy. Authoritarian little shitstain.
More Friedman-
Governing today is all about how you prepare your society to get the most out of these three climate changes and cushion the worst. Sadly, that’s not our society’s priority right now. In the age of Trump we are treating governing as entertainment.
Some conservatives argue that’s fine. The less D.C. does, the better. Let the market rule. I disagree. What actually made America great was a government that prepared the right soil in education, regulation, immigration, research and infrastructure, and a dynamic private sector that grew all kinds of flowers in that soil.
It’s Top Men, all the way down. Without a wise and benevolent Mandarin class to guide us, we’d be an anarchic horde of savages killing each other with sharp sticks.
“Student”-athlete.
https://pilotonline.com/sports/columnist/harry-minium/unc-s-arrogance-over-academic-scandal-has-tainted-the-school/article_18fc6af4-f808-53e6-b107-ca46fb2a1e6a.html
My solution to this: give high level athletes the option of simply majoring in their sport. It won’t award a degree, requires no coursework and they won’t graduate, their NCAA eligibility will simply expire after 4 years. If they really are banking on a professional career, just dispense with the BS academic requirements. Of course, the athletes would have the option of majoring in something real (and degree granting) if they want to, but there would be no special treatment, fake courses or “tutoring”. They’d do the work like the commoners.
Or go one step further in abandoning the shitty pretense and just put young prospects into the minor leagues for development.
I like the college baseball method. You can go pro straight out of high school, but if you go to college you have to wait 3 years. It makes college baseball better and allows talented high school kids the opportunity to immediately monetarize their talent.
I love the baseball system, personally, but the problem is that there’s little history of minor league sports outside of hockey and baseball (the NBA is in the process of developing one). Having minor leagues in every other league would be ideal, however.
The NBA could make the D-League into a true minor league, but they don’t want to spend the money to do it.
I think the baseball draft system is a good one, too. It allows high school kids who are good enough (or who just don’t care about college) to go pro.
In Britain, most of the professional football teams run academies starting with kids at high school age (I think). You sign a contract with the club and spend your time both doing football training and regular studies.
In Australia, most kids play junior leagues in order to make their way into the professional echelons. They may also play at high school and college but the college teams play in club leagues. If you want to make sports a career, you go through the juniors.
you go through the juniors
I thought that was OMWC’s job.
You sign a contract with the club and spend your time both doing football training and regular studies.
Actually, no, as you can’t legally sign a contract until you are 17 in Britain.
There have been a few 16 year olds playing in the premier league who weren’t under contract, they got a per game rate. And could have, in theory, signed with anyone upon turning 17.
Got it. Yeah, I was getting ages wrong.
Many (most?) clubs do run junior teams – though as you point out, they can sign anywhere. For example, here’s Colchester United, who play in League 2:
https://www.cu-fc.com/teams/u18s-academy/
They run teams down to Under-8.
Senior level African studies course?
Jesse Ventura (during Gopher scandal) said that the athletes should be able to play full time for four years and then when they were done, they’d have 4 years of tuition left to use if they didn’t get a big time contract.
Much of the problems would be fixed if other leagues just drafted everybody out of HS (like the NHL) and gave the players the autonomy to decide whether they go to college, a minor league system, or straight to the big leagues.
Basketball player should go play in Greece or Italy or Spain for a year after HS. Make a bunch of money, then come back for the draft.
“But Kristen Stewart, 27, has admitted she remains open-minded when it comes to her romantic life, using cheese sandwiches as an analogy to express her duality.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4753272/Kristen-Stewart-open-different-sexual-exploits.html
TL, DR; LOOK AT ME!
i wouldn’t be surprised if the real relationship were between their respective agents.
i have one celebrity friend. he has told me that he’s had ‘fake relationships’ w/ other celebrities simply for the sake of Tabloid news. Its free marketing.
She was with Robert Pattinson before that, so technically I think she’s always been into girls.
Also, imagine having sex with someone with literally one expression. Those Japanese animatronic sex dolls have more range of expression.
Also, there is literally no good analogy involving cheese and sex. None.
Smegma?
See what I mean?
“imagine having sex with someone with literally one expression.”
Ok. Seems ok. Not gonna complain.
That depends on the expression.
something something doggystyle
I hereby declare ‘Britney Spears Syndrome’ to be a thing, and diagnose Kristen Stewart as patient 1.
Patient 0 was, of course, Britney Spears.
cribbing a Lou Gehrig joke from Denis Leary (who’s been known to steal a joke or two)….poor Britney Spears. Had a bad case of Britney Spears Syndrome – how the hell do you not see that coming?
No idea who Kristen Stewart is, but I just wanted to point out the Residents t-shirt she’s wearing in the second photo.
I don’t know what noticing that says about me.
One of these situations, I’m guessing.
I’m constantly surprised that there really are a lot of people who give a shit about things like this. I barely give a shit about the things my family and friends do.
Isn’t the “S” for sports?
““[M]ost white people deep down they know [Kaepernick] is right,” Bayless told co-host Shannon Sharpe. “They know Colin Kaepernick stood for something he should have stood for. And that he had national impact that needed to be had at that moment. He created dialogue. He opened eyes and ears to a growing conflict between white policemen and unarmed black men and women that needed to be addressed.”
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2017/08/01/skip-bayless-white-people-deep-know-kaepernicks-protest-right/
TW: Breitbart
Can’t we just have have a dialogue about militarized police forces in general? Why does it have to be a racial thing?
if the problem is made a practical one, 1) its too easily solved by policy and 2) the left doesn’t get any moral-superiority buzz out of it.
re: 1 – no one wants to solve the problem of militarized police because it requires elected pols to take on powerful local interests, and kills the whole federal-to-local-subsidy market which DC has been milking for years for state support
re: 2 – really, the only thing the left cares about is lording over moral inferiors. its their everything. you take that away, and they’ve got nothing. hence the slathering of everything in racist-ketchup
I like that guy more and more.
This is what we should be having a conversation about.
He’s right. Nobody had heard about police brutality against black people before some third string QB made a cock out of himself on national TV.
From UNDISPUTED: MushMouth and Skeletor debate sports.
Meth or crack?
http://thesmokinggun.com/buster/jersey/garden-state-pleasure-session-840236
Marijuana gummies.
Hey Tundra, Pope Jimbo and any other Twin Cities Glibs: I’ll be in Plymouth for work in late September (26-28) and would love to have a meet-up if it works out.
Just don’t drink any Hydrogen Peroxide.
http://www.startribune.com/minnesota-doctors-warn-trend-of-drinking-hydrogen-peroxide-can-be-deadly/437873213/
Isn’t this just Darwinism in action?
Pope Jimbo beat you to it. (The story, not actually drinking H2O2)
*hangs head in shame*
*mumbles something about how even though we don’t live more than 5 miles from each other we can’t be bothered to meet IRL*
OK. I’d be up for that. We’ve got more than a month to get organized.
*goes back to shouting at passing clouds*
Look at it as your opportunity to “prove” that Minnesota Nice is nicer than North Dakota Nice. Welcome the NoDak with open arms, buy him food and drinks all night long, etc., etc.
Cute.
“Boobs are back in a big way”
nypost.com/2017/08/01/boobs-are-back-in-a-big-way/
Sarcasmic hardest hit.
Uhhhh, hate to break it to this “journalist”, but boobs never, ever, went out of style.
Was I living in an alternate timeline the last few years cause I don’t remember any point in which the general consensus was ‘boobs? eeeewwwww!’.
I’ve seen a few stories along this line. Big-titted women as the new victim class. FFS.
Yeah, that must be rough. They should start a support group with men with huge dicks.
http://www.lpsg.org
Potentially NSFW.
according to my work it is.
I’m not just a member, I’m also the president.
/Tommy Lee
Heh heh…you said “member”.
Did they leave? I know there are some gentlemen in these forums who are into the adolescent gymnast look (I keed!) but I’ve always looked at tits of virtually any size as a permanent “Get Out of Jail Free” card.
Williamsburg, Brooklyn – Future Rabies Paradise
Isn’t it illegal to not get the rabies vaccine?
Ah, it’s right there in the pull quote. They’re still idiots.
On top of that, I’ve never been to a vet that would even treat a pet without a rabies shot.
Ironically enough, there’s substantial overlap between the idiots who won’t get their pets a rabies a shot and the idiots who demanded mandatory registration, licensing, and microchipping of pets.
Liberty for all, except when I think it’s icky. Another day in the life of the prog.
While this may account for small portion of pets, the article misses the bigger picture. The mandatory vaccine is a pure racket for vets and they are pissed pet owners aren’t paying their cut to have pets.
I have several dogs and give them the multispectrum vax from the farm store. Exact same as the vet gives and it costs me $7. By state law, I have to get rabies from the vet. I can order it online and give it myself but it won’t be recognized. Fortunately, I have a farm vet that will give it without requiring any other services.
However, most other people don’t have an awesome farm vet. So they have to see their regular vet who will not give the mandatory rabies vaccine unless the petowner also pays for:
Yearly exam
All other vaccines at very high mark up
Heartworm pills at a massive markup (I treat my dogs monthly for 25 cents each with the same active ingredient)
Yearly heartworm test
Usually some other shit too
Thus it costs about $500-1k /year to get that mandatory rabies vaccine from your vet. I’ve always thought if it’s mandatory to get by a vet then vets should not be allowed to place any conditions on giving it.
Shit. I hope you see this. Can you give out the ways you locate the meds for your dogs? We have 160lb newfs and heartworm medicine costs a fortune.
We obtain ours from Fleet Farm.
For heartworm prevention, I use liquid invermectin for cattle. It’s injectable for cattle but given orally to dogs. Same as heart guard. You can get it at any farm store or online. A bottle for $40 will dose 10 newfs monthly for 3 years.
I use 1/10th of one cc per 10 lbs body weight up to a max of 1 cc. I usually put it in a slice of bread or something absorbable. My male GSD is a 120lb prima donna and require gravy on top but the rest will just eat the bread.
Note: Invermectin can be lethal to certain dog breeds, especially collies. I’m not advising this, just providing what I do for my own dogs.
Excellent. Thanks. We live in a farming area so this is good news for us.
Glad to help.
Here’s a link for invermectin:
https://www.southernstates.com/catalog/p-2477-ivomec-injection-for-cattle-and-swine-50-ml.aspx
If I have to deworm for round/hookworms, I use safeguard dewormer for goats. It’s the same active ingredient as the dog specific dewormer but a fraction of the price.
I guess they never watched that documentary that explains that dogs are basically wolves with down syndrome.
Can someone please drop a few rabid raccoons off in their dog park?
Prepares for Cujo to come to Brooklyn.
There is a libertarian case for not vaccinating your children. There really is. Mandatory vaccines violate the shit out of the NAP.
It’s just incredibly stupid to not vaccinate. Thoughts?
In Libertaria I suspect it would end up being a non-issue, because property and association rights would make it feasible to more or less socially quarantine the un-vaccinated.
There is a good libertarian case for anti-vaxxing, but I don’t personally agree with it, mainly because you’re putting other people’s lives in danger for not accepting shots such as rabies (it’s a similar reasoning for why I think DUI should be a crime). I think it’s neglectful, at least. Maybe I’m wary of the hardcore libertarian position because of my personal fears.
IHMO, DUI shouldn’t be a crime. Ones culpability in the cause of a traffic accident should be what’s punished.
Should one who causes a traffic accident due to lack of ability, distraction, anger, etc. be less liable for the consequences of their actions than one who is chemically impaired.
War on Drugs is equivalent to War on Drunks. DUI shouldn’t be a crime and the ever-decreasing BAL’s are a license to steal.
There’s also a legitimate libertarian argument that not vaccinating violates the NAP, though I wouldn’t say I agree with it.
Vaccines are only mandatory in that they’re required for school entrance, and even then you can get around the requirement, even in states like California, which did away with religious and personal belief exemptions. And yes, it’s profoundly stupid not to vaccinate your children.
There’s also a legitimate libertarian argument that not vaccinating violates the NAP, though I wouldn’t say I agree with it.
It’s a statistical-technocratic argument, though, which to my mind ought to be weaker (by a sort of epistemological Occam’s Razor) than the deontological-empirical argument that mandatory vaccination violates personal bodily integrity and requires the direct application of force to implement.
Put another way, you have to follow a chain of probabilities and second-order effects to justify mandatory vaccination. Whereas, the argument against depends on certainties and first-order effects.
But while “we don’t want that little disease vector on our property” might have relatively complicated reasoning behind it (eg. herd immunity), I think schools, churches, etc. are perfectly within their rights to ban people for things idiots can’t understand. And without exemption.
Indeed, but only within the property they own.
And what about public property? This anti-vax thing seems rather localized. The majority of these children live in a few counties in California. So banning them from playground in a park owned by the city of Santa Cruz would be pragmatic.
And what about public property?
If it’s not open to the public, then it’s government property, and I don’t see any reason for governments to run parks.
Except we don’t live in that world. Governments do run parks.
You said what about public property. Government-owned parks that restrict admission are not public property. I’m not sure what you’re driving at here.
Agreed on both points.
It’s not a black or white issue. Put aside measles, polio, etc.
Not directed at you Lachowsky but at the whole “the science is settled” bullshit about questioning any single vaccine at all.
What if I’m pro certain vaccines but anti others? Polio, check. Measles, check. It’s unclear to me why I need to give my hours old child a vaccine that will protect her from a disease that can only be spread through sexual contact or intravenous drug use. Anyone who claims I am putting their children in danger by delaying this vaccine for my child is a fucking liar unless their newborn is a rapist or druggie.
The advisory board that votes on whether vaccines should go on the schedule are often split, sometimes very divisively so. Presumably, it’s okay for the experts to question against making certain vaccines mandatory, including voting against such, but a lay person becomes a wacko for agreeing with them.
The vaccine discussion has been turned into the global warming bullshit with anyone daring to question any vaccine being labeled an anti-science denier or skeptic. The truth is most anti-vaxxers aren’t anti-vaccine. They absolutely think their kids should get certain vaccines but question the need for others, especially at such a young age.
I am not convinced to have my kids get the HPV vaccine.
There have been outbreaks of whooping cough in CA.
Hell, I had the vaccine, and still managed to get a different strain at age 5 (little brother caught it in the hospital at 2 weeks old, stayed in hospital for 2 months, and managed to pass it to me). It fucking sucks. The HPV vaccine can probably wait till the kid is 8-12.
Exactly – I cringe every time a new vaccine is added to the mandated list. It takes at-least one generation (and often longer) to determine risks for a new vaccine.
“Our rabies is totally locally sourced, free trade, organic and artesinal.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-moG6JDmJdc
“The increased skepticism towards inoculating pets is likely the result of a national movement that claims vaccines can cause autism in children”
Even if that claim were true, and it isn’t, dogs can’t get autism.
There’s a lot of evidence that autism (or its milder sister, Asperger’s, which I have) come more from family genetics than anywhere else. We’re highly suspicious, for example, that my grandmother has it as well, though she’s never been diagnosed and would likely fight any kind of testing with us.
The difficulty lies in the fact that autism is more a definition of symptoms than a diagnosis.
I was diagnosed aspie in my 30s. When I was a kid… I was just the weird, awkward, shy kid. The diagnosis didn’t exist.
But even in severe forms of autism, same thing. It’s where the “look at the rise in autism diagnoses! It’s because of vaccines!” argument falls apart. The rate wasn’t really any lower when we were kids. There just wasn’t a diagnosis in a lot of cases because it’s not what doctors were looking for (or they were diagnosed with whatever fit the symptoms at the time).
My son received an Asperger’s diagnosis right about the time they discontinued the use of it. It was just a “Congratulations, your kid is an Aspie” type thing.
The reality was that he had a systemic yeast infection and was suffering from aluminum poisoning from vaccines. He has a genetic defect that prevents him from generating methyl folate, which in turn prevents him from expelling most toxins from his system in an efficient manner. As such, every time he was vaccinated, his total aluminum load increased and he became sicker and more susceptible to infection, nevermind the mental side effects from aluminum poisoning.
I still haven’t forgiven the doctors who once they diagnosed him as an Aspie, turned their backs on his general condition and just treated it as “all Aspies are like that”.
Are you sure the elevated aluminum levels came from.vaccines? I’m not trying to be a dick, I’m genuinely curious how you know that the aluminum levels from came from vaccinations.
Curious how they found that “he has a genetic defect that prevents him from generating methyl folate”?
There’s no other reasonable point source of aluminum where he could have gotten it. If it were general exposure to metals in the environment, then the other common metals should have been more elevated than they were. Mercury was above normal, lead was above normal, but within tolerable ranges. Aluminum was off the chart.
Children’s vaccines switched to aluminum as an adjuvant in the early 2000’s because of the uproar over thimerosal (mercury). It was just substituting one toxin for another.
That said, it was my son’s specific inability to expel the metal that caused the problem. Most children can expel it. However, I still have issues with the vaccine schedules and the growing tendency to vaccinate for everything under the sun, with almost complete disregard for the potential side effects (and they definitely exist).
We found a pediatric doctor who specializes in autistic kids. She literally saved his life.
She ordered a variety of tests to determine what was actually going on with him, but she had her suspicions based on experience. The MHTFR test was one of those along with the yeast testing.
He takes a pharmaceutical grade methyl folate supplement daily and will continue to do so for the rest of his life. His anti-fungal treatment is drawing to a close, we’re just waiting on his new lab work to show the infection is gone.
That said, it was my son’s specific inability to expel the metal that caused the problem. Most children can expel it. However, I still have issues with the vaccine schedules and the growing tendency to vaccinate for everything under the sun, with almost complete disregard for the potential side effects (and they definitely exist).
You and I are on the same page with this.
But even in severe forms of autism, same thing. It’s where the “look at the rise in autism diagnoses! It’s because of vaccines!” argument falls apart. The rate wasn’t really any lower when we were kids. There just wasn’t a diagnosis in a lot of cases because it’s not what doctors were looking for (or they were diagnosed with whatever fit the symptoms at the time).
I know this sounds good but just isn’t true. Multiple epidemiological studies have shown a significant increase in incidence of autism that cannot be explained by a change in diagnosis. The change in diagnosis certainly accounts for some of the increase but not the majority.
Because the owners already have autism?
Regarding the Sarah Lawrence kerfuffle above: I’d pay good money for a bumper sticker with the hashtag #GiveYourMoneyToWomen and the stripper silhouette.
Disappointed that none of you reprobates didn’t think of that already. [cuffs nearest orphan]
Close enough
Based on the complaints, women, children and minorities hardest hit.
http://nypost.com/2017/08/01/residents-fuming-over-sex-crazed-hotel-guests/
All the complaints are coming from public housing… Eff off
I see a future story about a grandma bitching because her grandkids no longer come to visit her anymore.
“They were just wantonly having sex in that hotel room, right behind the curtains with the 1/4″ gap just large enough for my telescope to see through…”
I’m not seeing the problem here.
“Super orgasms will blow your mind
How can some women climax more than 100 times?
Experts reckon that the climaxing state is possible with a mix of relaxation, yoga and bonding.”
nypost.com/2017/07/31/super-orgasms-will-blow-your-mind/
Be honest, CP. You were looking for porn and accidentally hit the ‘news’ tab on google. It’s okay, we all do it.
100 times? That’s not that impressive. I have made my wife ogasm at leat that many times….
this decade.
How does one become an expert in this field and where do I sign up?
I keep clicking that link, but it never cums.
Experts reckon that the climaxing state is possible with a mix of relaxation, yoga and bonding
What is they say? Women need a reason, men just need a place?
“The oral sex gender gap is real, and it’s not okay
It’s a small issue in the grand scheme of gender inequality. It’s not as important as the gender pay gap, or rape culture, or honour killings.
But we need to talk about it.”
Possibly NSFW:
http://metro.co.uk/2016/08/26/the-oral-sex-gender-gap-is-real-and-its-not-okay-6092821/
The oropharyngeal cancer gap might have something to do with it.
Strange that guys are reluctant to go down on woman who can’t count the number of dicks she’s blown.
-My girlfriend sucked 37 dicks!
-In a row?
Who are these women and where can I find them?
Mr. President, we must not allow a
mineshaftoral sex gender gap!Aside from tweenie girls who reads that crap?
Also, full of shit. I have eaten so much pussy I walked around half my life with my face looking like a glazed donut.
Now we know why your wife is smiling.
69 is the ultimate equality.
Russian gal. Needed a dentist chair sink. Turn your head and spit. No, I let her mop that shit up.
lrn2snorkle?
Even if that claim were true, and it isn’t, dogs can’t get autism.
How would you even know if a dog is “autistic”?
He hits a hard 17?
He keeps counting his balls and sniffing butts.
“Senior EPA Official Quits Over Concerns About Trump Admin’s Deregulatory Agenda”
—-Town Hall
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2017/08/02/top-epa-official-resigns-because-of-trump-admin-n2363362
If Donald Trump is forcing 30 year EPA officials to resign in protest because his “administration is seriously weakening EPA’s mission by vigorously pursuing industry deregulation”, then he can’t be all bad.
The EPA is a huge example of mission creep.
Burn
I can’t think of many headlines that make me as happy as “Senior EPA Official Quits”
True, but the “and goes on to live off a phat government pension the rest of her life” takes some of the shine off of it.
OT: There was talk of a Houston area meetup a while back. I don’t recall seeing anything on that, but I do miss threads from time to time. Any update?
In for the league.
Pfft, it’s like Sloop doesn’t even discord with us.