My house is like a plague pit. My kids have been sick for days, my wife is intermittantly ill, and here I am, gliding through on my 18 Constitution. Its funny how your kids can have the same genetic material and raising and be totally different. My older son acts like he’s literally dying when he gets sick, demanding to be carried around and generally making a fuss. The younger one just slows down and cries a little more. Until the medicine kicks in and knocks down his fever, then he’s immediately back to 90% speed.
Michael Ledeen says something interesting about misery and revolution.
Jesus F Christ. This WaPo jock-sniffer of an article about Nicolas Maduro is disgusting. On the other hand, they have full transcripts of Trump’s conversations with foreign leaders. Which I am glad to see in public. If only that happened more often.
This monster scarred hundreds of perfectly innocent women’s breasts. (Fixed because Just Say’n is a whiny little bitch-ass bitch.)
Those geniuses at Apple own $52B in US T-bills. No wonder the government is suddenly quiet on the tax reparation front. 
Misery loves company.
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Why am I still at work? Oh right, shifted shift. 🙁
At least tomorrow I’ll be back to normal and maybe even see the mourning lynx.
Don’t tease a bear. Another cute bear video.
Bragging?
Showing off the prowess of his people to puny humans in order to intimidate, educate and entertain.
It’s working on me!
The rest of the animal kingdom really needs to step-up it’s self-promotional game.
I just had a great idea: what if we assembled a military coalition, went into Venezuela and liberated it? Can you imagine how grateful the people would be to have us usher in a new era of democratic rule? And we’d have access to all that sweet, tasty oil in return for our investment! What could possibly go wrong?
No, no, not, we assemble a clandestine army of Venezuelan ex-pats to do the invading and chicken out with the air support.
Do you mean Glibertarians?
*grabs rifle*
I want to be a colonel in this phony baloney army.
RC Dean is the Colonel.
Fine, as long as I get a bunch of BS medals to pin to my uniform, I’m happy.
I award you the Silver Butthole for bravery in the face of snark.
*stands proudly, single tear*
Now earn those clusters…
They’re dingleberries!
Florida Man after the Great Venezuelan Campaign.
Um, I think you got the hover text and the address mixed up…
AGAIN! Grr…
Yasss! That’s want I want.
Then save your spent brass – we’ll need the material to make the medals.
The link, she no work for me.
+1 Order of SugarFree, with crossed STEVE SMITHS
Emblazoned on the field of dead STEVE SMITH victims?
Sorry, Florida Men are strictly cannon fodder. We pump you and a couple hundred others full of meth and then throw you at the enemy line as an advanced force. Has great results, you wouldn’t believe how many machine gun bullets a methed up Floridan can take.
Meth is a hell of a drug.
So the Gurkhas of the glib army? I can dig it.
Sign me up as “Leftannent Clipboard”! I’ll happily stride about the warehouse complex looking busy and acting cool!
Either way, it will be over in 6 weeks, tops.
+/- 12 Years
For GLIBERTARIA! *waves flag and watches all the cannon fodder charge forward*
*watches Bacon standing alone on a hill waving a flag*
You skipped a step. We don’t have a source of cannon fodder.
My orphans’ middle names are “Disposable.”
Your orphans have names?
Probably
“Orphan Number 37, take your company forward!”
WTF!!11!
Orphans, man, orphans.
Too short to be used as cover. And would you dare arm them?
Arm? Who said anything about arming them? We just tell them there is food and shelter over there and point toward the enemy…stampede!
Unwitting orphan suicide bombers might work
Tell them the explosive vest is body armor…
Gruel is over there minions, make sure you synchronize your flavor-flav clock necklaces and…GO.
I thought we agreed that the preferred country name would be ‘Gliberia’. This is why we shouldn’t give breakfast foods the vote.
So that’s why I haven’t seen waffles since the great migration.
Waffles is around. His/her/xes avatar is a thing of beauty.
Way to not assume gender!
You revive one evergreen credit.
Not even land-owning, tax-paying breakfast foods?
We wanted to avoid the whole Uncle Tom’s Cabin/Charles Taylor association.
In keeping with the breakfast theme, shouldn’t it be Aunt Jemimah?
UTC advocated relocation of the freed slaves to Africa. The freed slaves that did return founded Liberia. Charles Taylor was the President of Liberia.
Glibertarians, you are Operation Get Behind the Orphans! And for God’s sake, don’t get yourselves killed!
Venezuela’s oil sucks. They have to blend it with the good stuff to get it to flow through pipelines.
Scotch?
*fiercely narrows gaze, sharpens claymore*
Just make sure you keep that thing pointed away from you. Those steel balls don’t care about who makes the jokes.
Suspiciously similar to Canada’s oil.
From the Discord discussion, it seems clear that the best course of action is orbital kinetic bombardment. The Rods from God obviously fall under the Glibertarian right to bear arms.
Are the facilities really in such a poor state that it’s cheaper to build new than capture the existing?
It’s socialism. Do you really need to ask?
Well, the commies have had it for under a couple decades… Which means they’ve probably inflicted a century worth of damage.
Will there be raping and pillaging?
Asking for a friend.
Well, otherwise what’s the point?
Let’s all be filibusters!
“Those geniuses at Apple own $52B in US T-bills.”
That’s a…that’s…an ‘interesting’ investment strategy. Or is it leverage?
So instead of repatriating that $52B and paying $20B in taxes on it, they use it to buy T-Bills and we pay them interest? Good deal if you can pull it off.
T Bills are as good as cash.
So I didn’t read in the article WHY Apple owns so much in T-bills. Shouldn’t that money be in R&D, advertising or investments with better returns? Weird.
Time for a new CIO
Apple doesn’t do R&D, they do design integration and branding.
This may have something to do with the gratuitous amount of cash on hand they have – they ran out of ideas for investing it.
They can’t repatriate it to their American parent company without paying something like 30% tax on it. So its parked in European subsidiaries, invested in all sorts of conservative, but income generating bonds and securities.
It’s cheaper to access that cash by borrowing against it than repatriating it. The press acts like Apple just has warehouses of money, but they maintain a healthy amount of debt.
The treasury investment would have a different type of return.
You mean a negative return or political clout?
clout I would think.
Is that the nurse from one flew over the cuckoo’s nest?
Would
Not the redhead. I wood that one too. I was referring to the one at bottom of links.
I stand by my statement. She has that whole retro thing going for her
Nurse Ratched
Thanks for confirmation. That was my mom’s favorite movie.
Actually book.
Both are good.
The movie that cemented Jack as an American icon.
Which is a shame because he had all the acting range and half the personality of Keanu Reeves
Keanu Reeves. WOULD. Why yes I am drinking tonight. It was a weird day.
One of my buddies represented her in a minor auto accident 15-ish years ago. Said she was really down to earth and nice.
She learned her lesson about being a snotnoggin. Was nearly choked to death.
Is that the nurse from one flew over the cuckoo’s nest?
Yes. In fact the photos of both nurses look to be taken directly from an article I penned a month or so ago….I smell conspiracy!
Or I pulled them both from a image search for “hot nurse.”
“This monster scarred hundreds of perfectly innocent womens’ breasts.”
Typically I am opposed to the death penalty, on philosophical grounds, but this cannot stand. An injury to one breast is an injury to all heterosexual men. Give him the chair
P.S.: Grammatically, it is ‘women’s’ and not ‘womens”. ‘Women’ is already plural
I debated, and then panicked. I guess I could have just googled.
An awful lot of euphemisms in that sentence.
Googling womens breasts is always a good idea
Seems that the author doesn’t think that Maduro is the correct top man to be in charge. All would be golden in Venezuela otherwise.
He was the right top man right until he ran out of other people’s money, at which point he was never the right top mam, unlike that hero of the revolution Chavez that the CIA cancered.
And he would have got away with it, if it weren’t for those pesky oil prices!
What a choice!
They chose… poorly…
Death from cancer was the greatest thing to happen to Chavez for his left-wing historical image. Now he gets the Lenin treatment of “oh, it’s the guy after him who screwed everything up.”
Now he gets the Lenin treatment of “oh, it’s the guy after him who screwed everything up.”
Which is total bullshit. All of the following are directly attributable to Lenin:
– Having the Romanovs murdered
– Orchestrating the Red Terror
– Waging war against the Mensheviks
At least this time there doesn’t seem to be a Trotsky figure for leftists to go “yeah, this guy would have done it right, even though he basically started most of the horrific atrocities and abuses of the Soviet government to begin with”.
My favorite indeed.
Yes, the guy who wanted permanent world-wide revolution and was an architect of many atrocities would have done so much better than a middling technocrat who wanted to try and get the Soviet Union working first.
To be fair, that may have had the benefit of making the Soviet Union collapse way earlier…
…Or they could have gotten rolled by the Nazis and things get way worse.
No body remembers those.
Well, maybe they’ll gloss over the forest execution of a well-known family. they gloss over the execution of a few million anyway, what’s six or eight more?
“Just the wrong top man, nothing to see here” is the vibe I got too.
Ok. Beach time. It’s too hot.
Trump has purchased some new beach properties. This time he hasn’t named them after himself, he’s just called the place Sunova.
He’s got a golf course about 10 miles away from here. Best brunch ever.
Oh yeah. Between the Eggs Benedict and the smoked salmon, they’d lose some money on me…
OK, so maybe mine was one of those jokes that was so bad it wasn’t worth acknowledging?
Wait wuh?
For damn close to a year after our daughter started daycare at least one of us was sick, if not all of us. It was ridiculous.
That happens for each kid, which is why I’m not having any more kids.
The people who work in those places must build up incredible immune systems.
When my wife taught elementary school it was like virii were afraid to even begin to fuck with her. On the rare occasions she got sick the only way you could tell is that she’d take NyQuil.
Me? I’m like a goddamned canary. At least I can refer to my misanthropy as a biological defense mechanism.
http://hotair.com/archives/2017/08/03/go-mueller-impanels-washington-grand-jury-russiagate-probe/
IT BEGINS. Mueller has summoned a grand jury
Can you imagine getting that summons? I would put it back in my mailbox, and then pay someone to steal it.
It would be the classiest summons ever, though
“Can you imagine that summons?”
AFAIK jurors are permitted to ask questions. That would be awesome! Pick me, Monty!
Well that’s a hell of a development.
Considering all the leaking that is going on, I’m surprised that evidence of an actual crime has not been leaked yet. Which makes me suspicious.
I will bet anything that what ends up coming out of this has nothing to actually do with Russia, but rather some kind of shenanigans with trying to hush it all up. Basically, what happened with Scooter Libby.
To be fair, his parents did set him to for failure with a name like that.
@Chipwooder
I noticed the other day that you were in Thailand when I was there.
I’m worried that our penes may have touched by proxy.
How busy were you guys?!
80% sure you guys are Eskimo brothers.
To the EBDB!
I suppose we may have had sweet manlove-by-proxy. I was in Pattaya for about one week in March 2004. On our way back from Uzbekistan, we had stopped at U Tapao for refueling, and the pilots claimed there was something wrong with the plane that was so serious that they had to fly in experts from Boeing. I suspect that the pilots just wanted a little DoD-financed RnR, myself. Anyway, they bused us over to Pattaya and put us up in the Marriott. It was a helluva week – fast as hell go carts, golf, watching children beat the piss out of each other in mui thai bouts, bungee jumping…..and poon. Lots and lots of poon.
Pattaya is crazy. I lived in Bangkok, but I think I might have been there in March as well.
Fuck.
Lucky ass mfer. Our C130 needed some part fixed during a refueling stop in Moron, Spain so we were supposed to be there for 24 hours. In transit barracks. No Marriott for us. Somehow they managed to find a part early and we’re now going to fly this freshly fixed prop over to Gander. All aboard!
Goddamn it. Had the wrong window open and I’m replying to a yesterday thread like a crazy corpsefucker.
Mueller has summoned a grand jury
Indicts Hillary. Heads explode.
That would be the coolest end to a political movie ever!
(pictures the bailiff carrying Hillary out, as she screams at Mueller, ” You’re nothing but a lot of talk and a badge!”)
And then Mueller flings Debbie Wasserman-Schultz off of a rooftop.
“She’s in the car”
Here is a semi-serious question:
Is there such thing as a federal citizens arrest? Not that I know of. Should there be? Probably. I’m leaning towards yes, because it would force congress to stop passing stupid laws.
Under state law, if somebody wrongs me, I can arrest and prosecute them myself. If somebody tries to break into my house, I can zip tie their hands and drag them in front of a judge.
Why isn’t this so for federal law?
It’s almost like they don’t care about individual rights, and federal laws are to protect the government. Almost.
Well, if that is the case, the goose is cooked. And by goose, I mean Secret Nazi President. There is no way they will not drag something out of his shady bizness life. Hell, they could probably do me in, and I am a nobody who strives to be honest unlike SNP. When are we starting a pool for impeachment?
On a related side note, if they don’t also go after the Democrats/Clinton campaign, they are corrupt as fuck and this is a joke of an investigation.
NOW they care about emails.
Amazon product of the day. Have fun with this in your search history!
http://amzn.to/2v18g9G
sweet pink oyster bar
heavenscent even in summer
deep red lips parted
Blind click.
My youtube and amazon are hilarious because of this site.
You don’t know your audience very well, JB.
@Caput
Did you ever send me an email? I know we were talking about research on orthography and its relationship to the acquisition of phonemic awareness the other day and I said I would send you some articles.
I most definitively meant to, but I trust your recollection better than mine, so I probably did not.
You can send them to gwynapnaud @ gmail, our I can dig up your address that you posted earlier and respond to my very untimely mail.
Lesbian sex has been confounding people since the dawn of time. What is it that two women do together exactly?
Thankfully we have the internet to thoroughly research this pressing issue.
I’m expecting HM to save us the work of researching ourselves. With pics no less.
*Waits expectantly*
In a manner appropriate for a family friendly website of course
Two women in bed.
Made me pray for a meteor to hit that bed.
*Makes a note to stop clicking on unlabeled links*
OTOH, my cats might be interested in that book.
Same at our house. We have a girl in the middle that is slightly less whiny than the oldest.
Trailer for the remake of Death Wish. Oh god this is going to generate so many takes from people who didn’t see the movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_I4zqC7GN8
The rape scene in the original was pretty intense. I mean, who wants to have sex with Jeff Goldbloom?
*polite applause*
No Stuart Margolin in the remake? Boooooooooooo
Riven.
Seriously.
110% seriously
You can get that in pillowcase form.
I know exactly where I would rest my head
The second movie is even more rapey. It’s gross.
I remember Red Letter Media guys mentioning that at some con, he heard Marina Sirtis broke down in tears over how well she is treated after ST:TNG on set. He was puzzled about what she was talking about, until he saw Death Wish 3, and found out the director wouldn’t let her cover up between takes, despite laying on cold concrete.
IMDB trivia page claims that the guys in second movie rape scene were terribly embarrassed about it, and every cut rushed to make sure the actress is OK.
I’m pretty sure the guy who made Mad Bull 34 watched all the Death Wish sequels religiously but never the original.
Elizabeth Shue? I’m in.
Didn’t Bruce Willis wear that same outfit in Unbreakable?
On one hand, Death Wish.
On the other hand, Eli Roth.
Hm.
This is the same Eli Roth that gave us the crapfest on Netflix with the cousin-fucking vampire boy and his werewolf buddy. He will screw this up. It is known.
Retconning Paul Kersey as some kind of meat-eating hyper assassin is not gonna work.
They already did that in most of the sequels, much to the original director’s disgust.
Eh, Winner also directed 2 and 3. He’s got nobody to blame but himself.
My mistake, it was the original author who was disgusted.
Which is why the sequels were so bad. Except for 3, of course, but that one was good for an entirely different reason.
When I saw the trailer earlier today, at first I was surprised. Hey, maybe this won’t be so bad…
♫ BACK IN BLACK ♫
Ugh.
I want to complain about the casting choice, but nope, he is an acceptable Charles Bronson equivalent for our day and age.
It’ll still be terrible, but maybe we’ll get the sheer insanity of DW3 out of it down the road.
I hope it’s successful, and they remake Death Wish 4: The Crackdown. With Nic Cage as Kersey.
Death Wish 9
What’s the silliest word?
Cunt.
Vegan Mayonnaise?
Disqualified. No such thing.
I was going to disqualify it as a phrase rather than a word.
And also because it’s not silly so much as stupid.
titmouse
Mickey?
sesquipedalianism
Onomatopoeia
Glockenspiel?
What.
Pantaloon
digitigrade
Guppy
DOOMco
Proper nouns can’t count, Playa!
Arachibutyrophobia: the fear of getting peanut butter stuck to the roof of your mouth
Poon.
Just what kind of name is Poon, anyway?
Comanche Indian
Please. Poon is a perfectly cromulent word.
Intersectionality.
That’s not funny! REEEEEE!
I like to say ‘quark’.
That just gets points because I love calvin and hobbes.
Bunghole
Alternate: scuttlebutt
Trump.
Ukelele
Lake Titicaca
Nictitating
Equality
(depends on context though)
Silly
First coache’s poll is out.
Discuss.
Spoiler alert: Auburn, LSU, and esp. Texas are too damn high.
http://sportspolls.usatoday.com/ncaa/football/polls/coaches-poll/
Auburn always gets ranked higher than they should be.
As a Syracuse fan, I’m very curious as to who the hell gave us a vote. We’re on the rise, but probably 5-7 this year due to an incredibly difficult schedule.
Presumably your own coach
fuck you. Texas is never too high. Sure sure we lost to Kansas last year. But STFU that was like totally reasonable and stuff. Now UT is awesome again cuz we have $10,000 lockers.
Northwestern only #35? We’ll see in January. And thanks, we always have our best seasons when we’re under-rated.
It’s just the coaches poll, so there’s some room there.
Wait other than that season in the 90’s are the Northwestern Mildcats ever actually UNDERrated?
I gotta hand it to them, under Fitz, they have consistently overperformed their talent.
Though the last game I went to was Tech’s bowl game against them in the *sigh* Ticket City Bowl (since renamed Heart of Dallas Bowl).
We (Texas Tech) still won of couese, but NW was feisty.
ewwwww you went to school in Lubbock? WHY!?!?!?!?!
It was 5 hrs away and every douchebag I knew was going to Austin. I regret nothing!
Heart of Dallas Bowl
*shudder*
*flashes back to sitting in the cold sleet in the Cotton Bowl while Okie St completely dismantled a Purdue team that didn’t belong in a bowl game*
I think the top 5 is close to accurate. Florida state should slide down to 5.
After the Louisville Massacre last year, FSU needs to earn their way back into my confidence.
I’m ok with a fluke, but yeah i agree. We shall see.
“Coache’s”?
What kind of monster are you?
Texas, Auburn, and LSU being too damn high is pretty typical for recent years.
TCU is 28th? That’s either far too high or far too low, depending on whether we find a fucking QB (or if Kenny Hill decides to be one).
PSU in the top 10. Nice.
4 of top 10. BIG baby!
Don’t worry, if PSU wins the Big Ten again, they’ll still have the wrong color uniforms, so no playoff for you.
(TCU had the wrong color uniforms in 2014).
Following in the Footsteps of the American Girls Who Went to Red Russia
Violent government oppressionThe biggest social experiment of their eraDramatic social changes – check.
Equitable living – nope. And discounting the nomklatura, not in the way these fools hoped.
Well, I misspelled that…
Nomenklatura
Meh. Women ran off to ISIS, too. Some people are crazy.
Yeah plenty have.
Also English chicks went to France to screw guys in the Jungle near Calais. I thought I understood at least a little about women, until I read that.
The conclusion of which was that operating a country like the Stanford prison experiment was a bad idea.
Sure, a million plus people were murdered, but HOLY SHIT THEY OUTLAWED ABORTION???!?!
…kinda glosses over that Stalin HAD Kirov killed and just used that as a pretext for the purges
That too.
Going to need to replace the losses somehow. More cannon fodder for the 1st Belorussian Front!
Prokofiev married a nice girl from Brooklyn when he was in the USA. Then he moved back to the Soviet Union under Stalin and took her with. She somehow grew disillusioned with life there, and wanted to leave, and started to agitate. So she was put in the gulag where she lived a while longer and eventually died. Prokofiev never visited her even once. I think the charitable interpretation was that he was a bit .. Aspergery. Anyway the lesson is, never date Russians for any reason.
No, the trick is to get the Slavic women to come over here, rather than vice versa.
I recommend a DNA screen for the babushka gene.
Are you for or against?
If you’re aiming for longevity you’ve got to go to the Asian market.
I’ll roll the dice.
Put your fucking oppressive facts away and pay attention to our feelings!
I read the article. It wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. I expected the article would praise the Soviet Union in a manner similar to a sloppy, enthusiastic blowjob. Instead, I see they actually talked a bit about the problems Americans that went to the Soviet Union faced. Sure, they minimize the bad stuff, but it was there. So maybe an enthusiastic and somewhat sloppy blowjob.
I still won’t buy the book. Instead, I recommend The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin’s Russia”.
That is an interesting book. It will make you furious.
Something for the reading list. NSFW, depending on your workplace.
Wishlisted.
“(Fixed because Just Say’n is a whiny little bitch-ass bitch.)”
Redundant.
You’re enough of a bitch-ass that it needs to be repeated, bitch-ass.
Maybe. But, let the record show that I am not Canadian, which is humanity’s greatest insult
+1 American Tourist Backpack with an Canadian flag.
Hey Canada, put out your damned fires. They’re delaying planes in Seattle because of all your wood smoke!
That ain’t wood smoke coming out of B.C.
HA!
via that other site, here’s what it takes to put a sign in the window of your Chicago-based business
tl;dr: You’ve got to pay a bunch of money to the city for the permit, and the sign (even if it’s only a vinyl sticker) has to be put up by a professional (read: union) contractor.
When do we replace the word Byzantine with Chicagoan?
FUCK. I hate this state, and I hate Chicago.
If it makes you feel any better, the sentiment is mutual.
We are kindred spirits, Swiss.
(When you coming over for dinner again?)
Totally unrelated, but vermont is the only state that doesnt
Fuck.
Doesn’t understand how vinyl decals work. They dont peel off the clear plastic part, they just leave the whole thing on their cars.
It’s like colorado Craigslist car sales. They cover the license plate with a finger. It would take two seconds to blur or take off the plate.
In California, gun stores are not allowed to show pictures of handguns.
How this does not blatantly violate the first amendment is still up for debate.
Has a lawsuit been filed yet over that??
Colorado pot shops couldn’t make or sell merch with a logo.
I still can’t get stickers.
From the WaPo article about Maduro:
Say what??? Ummm… Okay, go on…
I think there’s something ol’ Nikki Maduro hasn’t been very forthcoming about, though I suspect it might have involved Rob Halford in some way.
This is CNN.
Eventually there’ll be something! RUSSSSIIAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
Breaking news- Witch hunt finds witches
I especially like the part “leads that have nothing to do with Russia” or “the broader and murkier questions of collusion” or “possible financial crimes, unconnected to the 2016 elections”– you know, the stuff it was supposed to look for. yep, I feel like that’s super legit.
If they succeed in impeaching (or worse) Trump, anyone who doesn’t see the two worlds (political establishment vs. rest of us) and the rules they play by, is purely delusional. Hell, it’s obvious to many of us now…
Anyway the lesson is, never date Russians for any reason.
Puts down Sexxy Russian Bride 4 U catalogue.
*sad face*
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/08/03/us-navy-veteran-ordered-to-remove-american-flag-wrap-from-mailbox.html
US Navy veteran ordered to remove American flag wrap from mailbox
A mailbox covered with the American flag is at the center of a dispute brewing between a retired U.S. veteran and a homeowners association in Florida.
Retired U.S. Navy Officer John Ackert says he received a letter last week from the Southwood Residential Community Associate in Tallahassee that asked him to remove the wrapping of Old Glory around the mailbox or face penalties.
He told WCTV he’s not backing down without a fight and has made an appeal.
“I view this as a form of bullying to be honest,” Ackert said. “And I think people should stand up to bullying of any form, and particularly this.”
Can someone explain to my why anyone buys a house with an HOA? You’re PAYING your neighbors to harass you.
Ignorance.
It’s easy not to realize the practical implications and limitations of such an agreement.
Technically, I’m paying a company (it’s a corporation, not neighbors) to enforce standards. I have a good HOA. They only bother people about keeping their homes in good order.
Because in most parts of the country it is very very close to impossible to buy one that does not have an HOA.
Hell I once owned a home in a community where the HOA was for all intents and purposes mandated to exist by the town. The only way the builder got permission to build was if they agreed that all of the homes would come with a deed restriction requiring them to be members of an HOA and the HOA had to agree to be responsible for a good chunk of the road maintenance within the community including snow removal. Oh yeah, get this, it also required all homeowners to agree to hire a management company to manage the HOA. We could vote to go with a different company but we could not vote to manage it ourselves. Finally for the last kicker, we were not allowed to vote to disband the HOA unless we came to an agreement with the city to take over the road management functions, something the city would of course never do unless we paid a ridiculous sum of money.
That said I agree HOA’s need to die
This is extremely common with new developments.
Which makes many HOAs government agencies by default…
Because in most parts of the country it is very very close to impossible to buy one that does not have an HOA.
I’m not sure about that. Most of the country is not in a neighborhood at all. HOA’s might just be in force where most people want to live. Some of us don’t.
yes but most parts of the country are remote areas where 99% of us couldn’t live because there are no jobs and we lack the skills/ability to be subsistence farmers. In places with actual jobs homes that are not in an HOA range from difficult to impossible to find.
It is all about what you want. I have no problem if someone wants to live under an HOA. Personal choice. But I assure you everyone not in an HOA is not a subsistence farmer. If that was the case I would have starved already. Maybe there is no job you would like in some areas but that is still just a choice. Just like I choose to not live under an HOA and or in a city. I like having choices.
Because in certain places (like here in South Florida) you literally have no choice. You’re either living in a HOA or in a terrible area.
I lived in numerous areas in S Florida that had no HOA. I might be one of the people that makes an area “terrible” though. The last one was in Bonita Springs. I wish I still owned that house. Life is full of regrets.
HOAs must die.
+10000000
When the facts are on your side, pound on the facts. Failing that, when the law is on your side, pound on the law. Failing that, wrap yourself in the flag and pound on the table…
Here’s how I would have reacted:
(SFW)
https://s3.postimg.org/cejwi3lpv/HOUSE_OF_GLORY.jpg
I assume you are saying you would paint the flag on the home of the HOA functionary that drew up the complaint. In which case, I approve, even if it does violate the Flag Code.
I’d paint it on my own house, and then draw thousands of dicks on the functionary’s home.
This is just supporting my theory that Thymirus is in fact Frank Miller’s Superman.
As long as I’m not Brandon Routh, I can live with it.
The web of financial ties could offer a more concrete path toward potential prosecution than the broader and murkier questions of collusion in the 2016 campaign, these sources said.
Who allegedly paid whom, and for what?
If nothing else, they’ll get ’em for structuring. Remember, we all commit, on average, 3 felonies a day.
One aspect of the Russia hysteria is that in the minds of the media every Russian works for Putin.
If any person in Russia talks to an American it’s collusion even though it’s okay for American to talk to Russians or anyone else.
Exactly this. After 3000 Americans were murdered and the way of life in this country forever changed, the establishment went out of its way to make it clear that the terrorists didn’t represent Muslims in general. Now, the same establishment got caught red-handed rigging the Democratic primary for Hillary and every Russian is a spy reporting to Putin.
https://www.nraila.org/articles/20170802/michigan-couples-sue-over-state-s-attempt-to-disarm-adoptive-and-foster-parents
Michigan Couples Sue Over State’s Attempt to Disarm Adoptive and Foster Parents
Most media savvy gun control advocates try to insist that nobody wants to ban guns in America and that anybody who says otherwise is either paranoid or guilty of fear-mongering.
According to a lawsuit filed in a Michigan federal court, however, anti-gun bureaucrats at the state’s Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) are subjecting gun-owing adoptive and foster parents to a stark choice: their Second Amendment rights or their kids.
But they aren’t confiscating any guns! These yokels have a choice, see? They can voluntarily give up their guns.
Totally different.
“We’re from the government, and we’re here to help.
You can either relinquish your Constitutional rights, or we’ll abduct your children. IT’S A CHOICE, SEE?”
“You gave our baby a tattoo?”
“No, jeb down at the parlor did. I asked the baby if he wanted food or a tattoo, and then tried to feed him. He was like ‘naaa’. Well, baby, my hands are tied.”
There was similar article out recently, it may have even been here so hat tip to whoever posted it. Basically a grandfather wanted to take in his grandson(?) when the kids was removed from the parents. The grandfather had a CCW or some guns licensed and Social Services told him that he either had to turn over all his guns or the kids would go to a stranger in the foster system.
The article didn’t say it but I have no doubt the social worker made it very clear to the grandfather about the fate that awaited his flesh and blood for not complying. I do not understand how any parent can ever let their children go off with those monsters while they still draw breath.
“The complaint quotes the judge as stating, “We know we are violating numerous constitutional rights here, but if you do not comply, we will remove the boy from your home.” Likewise, the Johnsons claim, MDHHS caseworkers told them “there would not be a power struggle, that they would just take his grandson and place him in a foster home.””
—-
These people are degenerates. Fuck them.
It’s dark in here. And it smells kinda bad.
Undoubtedly, female nudity has become an accomplice to get viewers through bad plotlines and awkward acting. And sometimes it’s just the cherry atop the box office sundae. But why is female nudity so much more ubiquitous than male nudity? And what does this say about the role of women in the world?
According to a 2005 University of Pennsylvania study, 57% of US teenagers, ages 14 to 16, identified television, film and other media as the primary source of information about sex and gender. In a post-#ImWithHer era, are we really still OK with such widespread and normalized objectification of the female body?
Overthinking everything. It’s what we do.
tw- CNN
I was pleasantly surprised to read that her solution is to put more dicks on screen, as opposed to advocating women cover up.
+1 Rome and Deadwood
Spartacus needed bit more dick, to be honest. Even if I stopped noticing naked people three episodes in.
I liked how when Battlestar Galactica was over and they were making the movies they went “wait, what’s our rating? Fuck it, titties everywhere.”
More Dicks, More Labia
HM/SF 2020
“If we’re going to have a bunch of dicks and pussies in government, let’s do it the right way!”
Hmmm what is your policy on pubes?
Cornrows or gfto
Make America Hairy Again!
Objectification is wrong, so let’s do more of it?
–” But why is female nudity so much more ubiquitous than male nudity?”–
Because women are far less interested in seeing men nude than men are in seeing women nude. As a general rule men are sexually attracted to a woman’s physical form and women are attracted to a man’s social status so there is FAR less to be gained in showing male nudity.
–“And what does this say about the role of women in the world?”–
Um, nothing. 99.9% of the people who watch movies and television shows are perfectly aware that what they are seeing is a fantasy and carry little to nothing out of the experience into their day to day lives nor do they expect what they see to match what they know to be true about their day to day lives.
What is says is that you get more viewers by giving viewers more of what they enjoy. Men on average enjoy seeing naked female bodies significantly more than women on average enjoy looking at naked male bodies. That is it, it says absolutely nothing more about anything.
I could stand to see a little lumberjack nudity now and again.
But how do you know he’s a lumberjack if he’s nude?
That was kind of the point, most women (not all to be sure but most) are not specifically attracted to the general male body but to a specific type of male who they may or may not wish to see nude. I have actually known more than a few completely heterosexual women who had less than no interest in seeing naked men because it wasn’t their physical shape that made them attractive but something else about them that signaled their wealth or status. My wife is kind of like that, she drools all over pictures of Jason Momoa as Aquaman but has little interest in seeing pictures of naked men, even ones who look a bit like Jason Momoa would sans clothes. For men, again as a general rule, they don’t care as much about the fact that Gal Gadot was dressed as Wonder Woman as they do about the fact that the specific Wonder Woman costume they chose is one which showed a lot of skin and the fact that she is gorgeous.
You can make the occasional movie that focuses on male nudity (Magic Mike) and make money off of it but sprinkling nude men throughout something that is about something else is not gonna convince anyone who wasn’t really into that thing to watch it (at least not enough to meaningfully impact the bottom line), you *can* do that with naked women.
GOT is a perfect example. If you took every single scene with a naked man or 2 dudes making out out of the show you would have lost approximately 0 viewers. If you however took out all of the naked women you would have lost my guess is as much as 5 to 10% of your audience
Lumberjack in the way I meant it refers to a purely physical shape, not a profession.
Kristen’s harem apparently.
7/9 – would
I assume those are the kid and the woman in the back, but I’m pretty sure the guy in the middle is a serial killer who wears people’s faces.
Mostly I’d go for the dude to the right of the old lady (not her right – the right on the picture)
My friend… are you not aware of the concept of Yaoi? Google it. Lots of people like watching two dudes having a go.
A picture I took of Riven.
Those guys’ expressions appear to be on the wrong faces.
A scene from the music video for Take On Us by Ahem?
Says who?
#NotAllWomen
Indeed I am well aware of it. And that “lots” of people amounts to a small wing of a small sub group of a small minority demographic.
Trust me, I am a Polyamorous male who hangs out in the BDSM community and plays role playing and board games and has a gay 14 year old daughter that identifies as a Furry and in my first marriage was married to a professional Filk musician I know all about fringe culture groups. I am also realistic about just how small those communities actually are and how far from the mainstream views they are.
Lots of people in this case might mean a few hundred thousand in the US
I’m glad you’ve poled most of those people, so you know. Lol.
you’ve poled most of those people
It’s like John was living among us again *sniff*
Dear Edit Fairy, pls preserve this pls.
I don’t need to pole anyone on the subject, in fact doing so would be highly likely to produce an inaccurate result anyway. Fortunately we have several bodies of evidence that prove my point starting with the actual issue raised in this post.
If including naked men in movies and tv increased viewership marketers would have already done it.
Next look at porn, they’ve been making porn for women for almost 30 years now and it is still a tiny fraction of the overall porn industry. You could combine porn for women with gay male porn and you might just barely get to 25% of the industry. On the flip side there is no male equivalent of a Harlequin Romance Novel.
I don’t have to interview anyone, the proof of what I am saying is already readily available in the revealed preferences of people in the marketplace.
Um, nothing. 99.9% of the people who watch movies and television shows are perfectly aware that what they are seeing is a fantasy and carry little to nothing out of the experience into their day to day lives nor do they expect what they see to match what they know to be true about their day to day lives.
Hey now, everyone remembers the waves of violence following the introduction of video games and all those guys who turned gay because of Dharma and Greg.
The Golden Girls is the prime vehicle for the Gay Agenda. Everyone knows that!
+1 the Orgy episode
I feel sorry for you if this is what you’ve come to expect from most women. Lol. I mean, I personally am not attracted to Mr. Riven due to his social status/pocketbook. We’re home-bodies who get out socially maybe once a month if that; we live within our means but not lavishly (which doesn’t appeal to either of us, either); and I like looking at naked male bodies … and naked female bodies…
Yeah, but you want to fuck Jeff Goldblum, you’re a freak of nature.
I’d fuck Jurassic Park Jeff Goldblum. But not Apartments.com Jeff Goldblum.
Apartments.com Jeff Goldblum is better than The Fly Jeff Goldblum.
There are two kinds of Libertarian women – those who want to f*(^ Jeff Goldblum, and those who don’t.
And neither of them exist.
Ahem. Jeff Goldblum. WOULD.
I once dated a guy because he looked like Joey am one. Mmmreow
Goddamn autocorrect. Joey Ramone
Ditto
Yep.
Maybe you need to look better.
Am I replying to Rasilio? Am I negging Riven? You be the judge.
I have $5 on “yes.”
¿Porque no los dos?
Speak English or get the fuck out!
Das herrliche arische Reich wird wieder auferstehen, und du wirst ohnmächtig sein, es zu stoppen!
/A leftist’s Donald Trump caricature.
*Panics; takes noodz*
Dan Rifin your Bobbie s
Individual exceptions to a general rule do not negate the general rule.
Ask yourself, in your dating days did you like receiving unsolicited nudes from men (assume withing the normal range of height and weight)? How about Mr Riven, not that I think it ever happened but would he have liked receiving unsolicited nudes from women?
Now in your individual case YOU might say yes and he might say no, how common do you thing those answers would be?
You will note I never claimed no women liked seeing naked men, the existance of Magic Mike and the Chippendales dancers proves that to be false. What I said was that it was LESS COMMON for women to like seeing naked men, specifically that it was less common for the presence of naked men to change their perception about a movie or tv show.
Further I was not implying that women were gold diggers when I said that women were attracted to a mans social status because it is not exclusively rich dudes with fat wallets that women are attracted to. Lumberjacks aren’t rich but that is the kind of guy Kristen is into, I’m betting she would not be particularly interested in a rich little pretty boy like say Edward Cullen. For a majority of women the fact that the guy is a hot lumberjack (or artist, or clean cut marine, or whatever type of guy it is that does it for them) is more important than whether he is dressed or not, for most men it is the opposite what she is or does is less important than the shape of her body and how much of it is showing.
Yes. Lol. I’m not including “dickpics” in this, however; did not like getting those. I’ll cast my female gaze on on naked men, though, for days. I assume Mr. Riven was down for unsolicited lady pics. (Got a few of those, too, myself.)
I can’t speak for how common our answers would or wouldn’t be because I’m generally not in the habit of grilling other people on those kinds of preferences. I do know that several categories in pornography exist for the benefit of women–some of them even largely produced by women, see the yaoi referenced above for a specific example.
I wasn’t looking for a whole discussion on this. I mostly* just thought it was funny, you ruminating on what most women found attractive/important, despite probably not talking to most women about it and not being a woman yourself. Just speculating on the speculative nature of your post. 😛 Don’t take it personal; it’s not.
*see what i did there?
What surprised me was that no one took your quote about also liking to see naked women to point out that this trait would result in unclothed female bodies being an attraction for a larger overall (combined male and female viewership) than for using unclothed men.
Since it’s all about agregate viewership in the end…
I’m glad you made that point. I thought about it after I posted, as well.
It was another point I had but left it out for brevity’s sake, my posts already tend to be overly verbose as it is
Men are more interested in female bodies for the sake of reproduction and the potential of both their mate and their offspring surviving.
Women are both about male bodies for their sweet, sweet genetics and their status or abilities allowing for some degree of a stable lifestyle.
Everyone else is weird.
Men’s magazines have women in them. Women’s magazines have women in them. Why? That’s because women’s bodies are beautiful. Men’s bodies are hairy and lumpy and should not been seen by the light of day.
Unless they’re Jeff Goldblum, apparently. So solution is to replace all male characters with Earth Girls are Easy Jeff?
How could you say no to this?
Or this?!
I think I just threw up a little in my mouth.
Well, I can say no to it like this:
“Okay, lemme see.. uuuhhh… no”
Shit, Vhyrus, you’re goldbluming, the infection is spreading!
You are both very welcome for that.
@JT
You are making a good point. Women, broadly speaking, are attracted to professions while men are attracted to outfits. No man says “the way she shelves books is hot,” its about the glasses and bun. No woman says “then he velcroed up hi nomex coat,” its about the risk taking and masculine confidence when shits on fire.
And the test is mass media success, if you are looking at what the mass market wants. There are no carefully lit shots of a dude’s scroat in chickflicks, and there’s no hot unemployed guy winning the girls over. There are quite a few ‘dress a pretty girl up in a costume’ shots in dudeflicks.
No man says “the way she shelves books is hot”
Orderly book-shelving is one of my fetishes.
You know who else liked to go on about what women want?
Donald Trump?
Mel Gibson?
Rickey Martin??
Goddammit HM, I hate the fact that I know what you’re referencing.
You’re not the only one, Titor.
PUA’s?
while men are attracted to outfits
Um….no, What is IN the outfit.
I also guess you were not a big fan of the car washing scene in Cool Hand Luke.
George Kennedy said that when it came time to film the scene of the convicts’ reaction, it wasn’t the woman washing the car.
Well, it wasn’t Joy Harmon, but a 15-year-old girl in a man’s overcoat.
It’s not like he made it up. The reason there’s 500 nudie mags with women for every one with men is because that’s the market.
But why is female nudity so much more ubiquitous than male nudity?
Because boobies.
Duh.
Because men like looking at naked women more than vice versa.
Fucking obvious.
I have another friend doing an Asia-to-Europe flight this evening. Curious to see their Ukraine-related routing (it’s BA, so my guess is they’ll route around Ukraine). And hoping her flight doesn’t show up on the Squawk Emergency Twitter feed.
This routing seems a tad odd if you’re doing New Delhi to London
Looks like they’re just merging into the jet route
Have you booked your Air Koryo flights yet? Only 29 days left!
Totes! Love that Russian aero engineering!
Over two months since the last incident!
As the left continues to put rural hillbillies at the bottom of the intersectional pyramid, more sacreligious Dems realize that being a RINO is more socially acceptable. Anymore questions why Rs outnumber Ds 34 to 15 in governorship?
Kino MacGregror yoga video
Among the youtube comments complimenting her yoga or her appearance, this one stands tall:
“By the looks of her, I think Floyd Mayweather is going to win.”
SEXIST!
Well, color me confused.
Hah! How do you say, “I would like to lick your thighs” in Scottish? Or is that the same as English? or is MacGregor even Scottish? Fuck it who cares. Nice drumsticks. If the Yoga Primary is the beginner edition I am hosed. That would put me in traction.
However you say it, no one will be able to understand it
A google search indicates that the MSM blackout on the Seymour Hersh tape is still in full effect.
Busy crafting narratives, or hoping it will just go away if ignored? Maybe they’ll dip their toes in tomorrow, they love to bury bad news on a Friday. Need to push that tape into the “old news” category as soon as possible, one way or another.
Hersh harshes the narrative and InfoWars loves him, so he MUST be a conspiracy theorist!
Yeah, what serious reporting has he ever done? Just some nobody crackpot.
Comments are outstanding!
Yeah, it’s only their agenda that’s keeping Trump in office. Not that he was elected to a four year term.
Well, clearly if the truth got out everyone would know the election was invalid and they’d have to give the office to HRC.
Popular Vote President FTW!
Of course after her being disqualified for the use of black arts they’d have to go find whatever smoke tent in New Mexico Gary Johnson is hanging out in.
“Gary’s not here man.”
That is a bit harsh. I know for a fact GJ is not in a smoke house but rather camping along the banks of the upper Rio Grande in his custom built VW Aleppo pop up van with the required Grateful Dead stickers as well as the ever enduring Grass, Cash or Ass, Nobody Rides For Free.
#vanlife
I think “the Presdency” is his new hotel, actually.
Bleeding heart libertarian Steve Horwitz (Cato) calls anarchocapitalist Jeff Deist (LvMI president) a Nazi … the squabbling continues.
https://www.facebook.com/steve.horwitz/posts/10154742367150334?hc_location=ufi
https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/real-libertarians-seem-understand-appreciate-idea/
http://tomwoods.com/ep-966-left-libertarians-and-their-endless-moral-outrage/
http://www.thelibertyconservative.com/the-libertarian-split-continues-as-blood-and-soil-speech-triggers-another-racial-witch-hunt/
We must settle this… I DEMAND TRIAL BY COMBAT!
Two men enter, no one leaves! TWO MEN ENTER, NO ONE LEAVES!
The TL;DR verison
That is one of my favorite things on the internets.
Brilliant!!!!
Libertarian Purity Ring Powers Activate!!!!
Form Of: Guy Who Uses The Term “Blood and Soil” But You Know In A Totally Not-Fascist Way!!!
Form Of: Guy Who Thinks Lucy Is Really Going To Hold The Ball Down This Time And Also The Left Will Really Deal With Us In Good Faith!!!
Two Will Fight. Noone Will Win.
The only correct answer is “Glibertarians.com”.
Are cage matches certifiably family friendly?
Only if the men are fully-clothed.
As is written in ancient Orthodox teachings.
*raises Patriarchal authority by 5*
“Libertarian Purity Ring”
If anything ever had an impure ring to it..
From the comments on the Tom Woods podcast link:
“I think the idea of liberty, of free will, is Christian in origin. This explains the implacable hatred of the materialist-atheist Left. These people dream of a new world free of Christians. They consider violence in pursuit of this goal not only justifiable, but “redemptive” in some perverse way.”
Good lord.
“When it is all said and done, libertarians will need to decide whether they are going to choose leaders who want to form common bonds with ordinary people or leaders who want to collect paychecks in Washington D.C. and promote degeneracy. The choice should not be very difficult.”
Those good old blood & soil regular folks, salt of the earth, are just waiting to be picked up for libertarianism if only it weren’t for those stinking degenerates and their drug culture. By fucking God, in a libertarian society, every community will be just like small-town Iowa in 1955!
What the hell…? Was there some dog whistle in there that I missed?
It always annoys me when Christians act like they invented morality or the concept of freedom and limited govt. Modern day conservative Christians owe a lot more to Enlightenment thinkers than the Bible when it comes to their basic world view.
Individual rights, checks and balances, enumerated powers- none of these ideas came from the Bible. They came from guys like Montesquieu and Locke. Ancient Athens and the Magna Carta influenced the US constitution way more than the Bible.
Communists want to tear down religion because they want to make themselves gods on their earth. They will not allow people to have loyalty to anything other than the almighty govt.
I actually listened to the talk. It was completed unobjectionable.
“All of a sudden, a little bird circled three times around me, stopped on a wooden beam, and began to sing a pretty song,” Maduro said. “Then I, too, began to whistle,” he said, whistling like a bird as he talked. “The little bird looked at me in a strange way. He sang, circled me once and flew away. And I felt his spirit. I felt him giving us a blessing, saying now the battle begins, go to victory.”
You could just replace ‘Maduro’ with ‘Hillary’, and this article would sound almost exactly like every other article from WaPo or NYT in 2016 leading up to the election.
Link to a livestream of the webcam in my backyard here in NH.
Too many blacks for NH.
It’s the drug infested den part of NH.
West Virginia’s Governor is switching teams, known to us as Thursday.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/08/03/west-virginias-governor-is-switching-parties-and-democrats-just-hit-a-new-low/
If the joke wasn’t obvious, it’s because there’s so little difference between R and D that it isn’t even worth covering.
In fact, maybe it’s the opposite, said Carolyn Fiddler, a state politics analyst with the left-leaning blog Daily Kos. “I’m surprised he’d opt to align himself with a party with such a damaged brand right now,” she said.
Delete your account.
Huh. Thats an interesting take.
They really arent looking at themselves are they?
Hey, maybe the Republicans will commit some colossal fuck-up that the voters actually care about and then the Democrats can pretend they were winning along when voters punish the Rs.
The r’s are fucking up on plenty.
And yet…
Leftism is far less palatable to me than incompetence. I’ll take what we have right now, thank you very much. Primary the scum, however.
That quote made me very optimistic for the future of our country. If the dems have their head so far up their own asses that they can spin this, then there is actually a chance to turn this ship around.
I made this point above, but one thing that this switch does prove is that the Right is far more open to diversity of opinion than the Left is. Because they view anyone who’s pro-gun, pro-coal, or pro-life as utter heathens and traitors to the cause, they chase away all of the people that may even agree with them on other things.
very related
Ha, it’s true, libertarians hate everybody equally.
I hate all statists, period. Good to see other libertarians are the same.
The libertarian right almost universally hate the authoritarian left. And the republicans hate them more than the lib left, which i thought they would hate.
The nu-right is far more open to liberaltarians like Dave Rubin than the Left is. I’m not terribly surprised that they can converse and agree with each other from time to time.
The far left despises the ancap area.
They don’t only chase them away they want to burn them at the stake. Mention in just a whisper that the climate might not be effected by man to the magnitude the likes of Al Gore claim and you will be stoned in the street of public opinion. They are so far out of the mainstream it is ridiculous and the R’s are too dumb to move on it because as Vhyrus points out above there is no difference between the two parties. Big gubmint for all!!!!
There is a difference in the two parties, especially at the state level (I really like my home state’s legislature in NC). There’s no difference between the two parties’ leadership. It’s cocktail party statists all the way down.
Here in CO we are split at the state level at the house and the senate. Half the state is for the most part not represented in my opinion. But the large metropolitan areas are represented just fine and that is the way they like it. Between the house and the senate, there are 100 of the mutherfuckers doing what they do. It should take about 20-30 people if it was honest. If you get 100 people who think they need to do something, they are going to do something and it will usually be a bad idea but god damnit, they did something.
A lot of people on both teams (but especially the left) don’t understand that doing nothing is a virtue.
The GOP is so damaged that it has full control of over half the country.
I think that they now have enough governors to start talking about constitutional conventions, which is the interesting part to me.
They are very close. There are 34 Republican governors, and an independent in Alaska. I think it takes 36 states to call for a convention.
Are there a few govs up for election in 18?
Yes. CO, NM, KS, NV, FL, MN, MI, ME, and CT have open seats. RI and PA have rather unpopular Dem governors running. If Gillespie wins in VA (growing more and more likely b/c Dems are fracturing over pipeline) and cancels out the likely NJ flip, the GOP may be in good position to get more governorships. The problem Dems have is that their voters don’t turnout very much outside of presidential elections.
I should look into our election here in colorado…
The Reps, including those at the state level, talk a good game but don’t want to do any of it when they have the opportunity. Even if they could call the CC they’d either refuse to do it or would intentionally fuck it up.
See the recent healthcare debacle and the upcoming tax reform debacle-they’re as worthless as the Dems.
I have more faith in the governors and state govs. Maybe that’s misguided.
A lot of state legislatures are generally better than the federal legislature at actually getting conservative stuff passed. The ones in NC have managed to cut both spending and taxes and have enough unity to override the Dem governor’s vetoes.
Meh, it would still take 3/4ths of states to actually ratify any proposed amendments, so in all likelihood nothing would come of a convention anyway.
That’s some serious whistling past the graveyard.
I thought this was about more evidence for the Gay Agenda.
Just once I’d like to see a governor become a libertarian.
We have had a few. They just do it after they leave.
Weld and Johnson?
Close, but they became Libertarians, not libertarian.
Weld has the dubious distinction of both being a RINO and a LINO. At least Chafee and Crist were honest with themselves and joined the correct party.
What embassy was he up for?
Jessie Ventura, the crazy uncle libertarian governor we all deserve.
+1 elbow drop from the ropes
The glib store should sell only hipster things!
Hipster Hunt 2017 is still on you know.
Is that where people hunt down hipsters?
Open season started last week here. I think they’re protected on TOS.
Don’t you have back copies of ‘The Stranger’ to read?
You know, i haven’t read that.
I opened the westernsloper store on etsy today. finally. I am kind of embarrassed at my first offerings. I have no furniture at the moment to pedal.
Who was it that was saying that they where going through opening an online business with their brother? Whoever that was seemed way smarter than I am as to the business sense. I just filed a few docs with the state and figure I will figure it all out later if I ever sell something.
Links!
My massive online business venture
Tomorrow there will be a new shirt:
#SinglePayer
The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else.
-Frederic Bastiat
Bookmarked.
Do you actually have to fill out papers? When does it transition from hobby income to being a business?
The song that my daughter will walk down the aisle to: Cello Tendency.
I assume this is after you defeat the Aztec vampires by exploding them into orbit.
That’s what you get when you play my daughter’s leg like a guitar.
I don’t know if I favor sanctions at all. Question though. Where does Maduro and Chavez’s daughter keep their money? I bet it is not in Venezuela.
Chavez’s daughter converts her money to calories and stores it on her hips.
pix or it doesn’t happen.
I didn’t mean in the good way.
I’ll take your word for it and not search.
CFB Pre-season top 25
Reposting for some reason I mistakenly posted the original on the last dead thread. Anyways Texas doesn’t belong anywhere close to the top 25 until they can go a season without losing to KU.
Go Trojans!
Utah at 25, they will find a way to screw it up.
I ALREADY POSTED THAT EARLIER YOU SON OF A BITCH!!!
I’LL KILL YOU!!!!! I’LL KILL YOUR FAMILY!!!!!!!!!!!
*tries to hold Gojira back*
So Mueller was BOOOOSH’s FBI director and couldn’t find the guy who mailed the anthrax. Obviously the guy who will get the bottom of things….
Looks like Mueller is admitting he can’t find any evidence of collusion but he is going to find something shady and nail someone for obstruction or lying or whatever.
Isn’t that how it usually works?
Yeah, nice they admit it up front.
Video from this evening’s Glibertarians meetup.
They never found her body did they? That kid murdered her I know it.
That led me here.
So how long until Trump is forced out? Mueller is going to find something even if it is not Russia related or true. Or Trump could try his own Saturday Night Massacre which would make things worse.
I think it’ll still take a lot.
So I guess this Death Wish series is pretty brutal, huh?
Isn’t it weird that we still produce revenge fantasies, but the stakes are tons lower? Now Liam Neeson’s daughter is abducted, at least in the first film, and while there’s intimations of rape and worse as Neeson tracks her down, her own virginal purity is lampshaded by a convenient plot contrivance. Which is kinda fucked up, at least as far as his daughter’s travel buddy was concerned: drugged, raped, and left as a sort of hitching post for other rapists.
John Wick was better in that regard, anyway. The stakes are low, at least inasmuch as attempting to recoup anything from the ensuing slaughter. Instead, it’s all about the mayhem and the weird culty underworld Wick inhabits. No hostages, nobody to save. That one Clive Owen movie was pretty good in that sense. I mean, sure, you had the baby McGuffin, but that made the movie all the more ridiculous because of course they’re not killing the baby. It was a send-up of the whole genre.
I don’t think I’ll watch Death Wish. I’m pretty squeamish about simulated rape.
Again. Deadpool.
Pure revenge, cold anger.
Some implied rape, i suppose. Or at least an attempt for it.
I recently learned (SPOILER ALERT, KIND OF) that the rescue scene at the climax (as it were) of Birth of a Nation is different from the book on which it was based. In the book, the Klan is racing to the rescue, not of a young woman who is about to be forcibly married to the mulatto guy, but of a young man who is about to be hanged by the U. S. military for some outrage against black people.
I guess Griffith was like “if we’re going to ride to someone’s rescue, it better be a hot chick and not a dude they’re rescuing.”
Interesting that Thomas Dixon didn’t like the 1920s KKK for their anti-semitism and anti-catholicism.
Interesting. Dixon focused his persecuting energies on a single group – black people – so maybe he had no energy left over for inter-white hatreds.
Or maybe he was sentimental about Judah Benjamin and Fr. Abram Ryan.
Judging by the Fall of a Nation Dixon didn’t like what the Pilgrims did to the natives. Though they were Yankees after all.
I get the feeling that Dixon felt the blacks were an alien race who didn’t belong in America as their ancestors were brought over against their will as slaves whiles the natives were already here and the Jews, Irish and Italians immigrated of their own free will.
Oddly enough many “antiracists” would describe the blacks in the same way.
Deadpool is now one of my favorite movies. I might watch it again tonight. Good stuff.
I’ve watched so many movies, from the good to the bad to the “I can’t believe I watched that,” that I’ve generally developed a good deal of distance from them. “Oh, yeah, more violence.”
A really good movie, featuring a protagonist you root for going through some serious problems to overcome, can still move me, though I could do without the theme music which proclaims “OK, it’s time for you to be moved now.”
NRO had a piece up about Unforgiven, which shamefully is one I have not watched. And I like westerns. Well, I like the westerns I’ve seen. I’m not like a genre fanatic.
Here we go.
Well, that was even less cheerful than the movie it reviewed.
Despite much-ballyhooed efforts at nuance and complexity, when Hollywood attempts it it generally just ends up as an equally-simplistic appeal to cynicism and violent instincts.
Which is why I don’t necessarily mind a well-executed melodrama like 12 Years a Slave – yes, it points you to the bad guys and the good guys and tells you who to cheer for, but at least it doesn’t take your money and give you nothing but vicarious violence slathered all over with shrug of “life sucks.”
Like the Lord Chancellor said in a routine for the British comedy group Beyond the Fringe: “I go to the theater to be taken out of myself. I don’t want to watch a lot of rape, sodomy and incest, I can get all that at home.”
The only part of *Pulp Fiction* which really engaged me was that boxer who was trying to escape the mob – it was genuinely tense for me because I knew that Tarantino was perfectly capable of killing of any character, no matter how sympathetic. So I could genuinely root for the boxer while hoping he escaped.
Killing *off* any character
from the good to the bad to the
I watched The Good The Bad and The Ugly last week. It still holds. That is a good movie. You never know who to root for. They are all pricks in the end.
Saying the North were pricks is a hate crime these days…
One of my favorites of all time. I used to watch it a couple times a year. Been awhile.
I hadn’t seen it in who knows how many years when I watched it last week. Great movie.
Avoid the hell out of Death Wish II then. It’s a good movie but Jeez.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_the_Army_(Japan)
So is the US in a situation where the intelligence agencies have a veto over the civilian government? Also see Watergate and the JFK assassination conspiracies…
Thanks for reminding me of Bill Weld. For a supposedly pragmatic move couldn’t you at least get at guy who would support his own party in that election cycle?
The 2016 election showed me that “Republicans who smokes pot” is not an inaccurate depiction of the LP. I mean as soon as you adopt a “big government is bad but we can’t do anything about it now” position how different are you from a Republican?
I am saddened that they didn’t pick austin, even with his problems.
I hope he does better in his senate run as an R.
I think Austin can do much better in the Senate race. He’s quite yokel-y, similar to my own libertarian philosophies, but with a cosmo look.
as you adopt a “big government is bad but we can’t do anything about it now” position how different are you from a Republican?
You are no different than most Republicans and a whole lot worse than some Republicans.
2016 LP campaign showef some really stupid things for a pragmatic campaign.
Nazi cakes and religious liberty being a “black hole” wasn’t not dying on some hill but retreating from hills that were still defensible. And Nazi cakes was one situation where the progs would support freedom of association.
Then there was the whole “no litmus tests for SCOTUS but Kelo kind of is one and the preferred judges who voted for Kelo”.
Also calling Hillary a good public servant when the goal was to appeal to Republicans and Democrats who don’t like Hillary as well as Trump.
I wonder sometimes if Weld also had some of Gary’s stuff, since he basically still campaigned as if he was running for a deep-blue state governor position, like he was in MA.
I think if they had focused on some purple states, or went all in on a state they could have won (i know, stop laughing) there could have been a way to keep the big guys from 270. Not that theyd have won the house after that, but it would have been a giant wake up. I think the LP thinks they can have a say in all the states. Im glad they fight to get on all the ballots, but think they wasted some effort on a few places.
But I’m not a pol or a campaign manager, so who knows
Seems both Weld and Johnson forgot they were running on a third party campaign where they really needed to show why both parties suck and why third party is better rather than running as a Republican in a blue state.
So judges. I’be never been too comfortable with the notion that laws and rights exist solely at the whim of some unelected judges.
Five SCOTUS judges could either repeal a century of big government or allow POTUS to make himself dictator.
And who pray tell will appoint these libertarianish judges?
Well, technically judicial review in the sweeping way that it is done today shouldn’t even be allowed, since it isn’t even in the Constitution. However, since judicial activism has damaged liberty in such a sweeping manner, I do hope for more originalism in the SCOTUS in the future.
It would not matter so much if things where not as they are. As mentioned above about Convention of States. One of the amendments I have heard tossed about it is ending lifetime appointments. Where did this even come from? It is not in the constitution. Why should we have to be ruled by RBG who defers to European law as well as the dumbest woman to ever get a judgeship her excellency Sonia Sotomayer? It is beyond dumb they sit for life.
Is this the part where we beat on Johnson (phrasing!)
His supporters were like some autistic dudes who realized that libertarians might have to make some compromises on purity to gain more support – but they decided to surrender some of the very points where libertarian “purity” was popular.
I mean, Gary could have said “I want all lifestyle choices to be equally legal, man. Cops shouldn’t hassle you over the ganja, or because you have a wedding ceremony with your same-sex lover, or because you have a business which only caters to opposite-sex weddings. Whatever floats your boat, man.”
Instead, his message was “freedom for stuff I think is cool – like the ganja – but not for stuff I think is uncool – like Christian bakers.” Yeah, that’s pragmatic for a libertarian – attacking the liberty of traditional Christians!
Apologies to my Welsh friends, I’m reminded of the line in A Man for All Seasons – “It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world … but for Wales, Richard?”
Really, Gary, you’d sell your soul for cocktail-party invitations?
SJW derp spreads from humanities to STEM
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Donna Riley earned her B.S.E from Princeton University and her M.S. and Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University.
My scholarship currently focuses on applying liberative pedagogies in engineering education, leveraging best practices from women’s studies and ethnic studies to engage students in creating a democratic classroom that encourages all voices. In 2005 I received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation to support this work, which includes developing, implementing, and assessing curricular and pedagogical innovations based on liberative pedagogies and student input at Smith, and understanding how students at Smith conceptualize their identities as engineers. I seek as an engineering educator to be part of a paradigm shift that these pedagogies demand, repositioning concerns about diversity in science and engineering from superficial measures of equity as headcounts, to addressing justice and the genuine engagement of all students as core educational challenges.
I currently teach traditional courses in the areas of chemical and environmental engineering, as well as elective courses on engineering and global development, science, technology, and ethics (cross-listed with SWG) and technological risk assessment and communication. I seek to revise engineering curricula to be relevant to a fuller range of student experiences and career destinations, integrating concerns related to public policy, professional ethics and social responsibility; de-centering Western civilization; and uncovering contributions of women and other underrepresented groups.
In EGR 330 (Engineering and Global Development), we critically evaluate past and current trends in appropriate and sustainable technology. We examine how technology influences and is influenced by globalization, capitalism and colonialism, and the role technology plays in movements that counter these forces. Gender is a key thread running through the course in examining issues of water supply and quality, food production and energy.
In EGR 205 (Science, Technology and Ethics), we consider questions such as who decides how science and engineering are done, who can participate in the scientific enterprise and what problems are legitimately addressed within these disciplines and professions. We take up racist and colonialist projects in science, as well as the role of technology, culture and economic systems in the drive toward bigger, faster, cheaper and more automated production of goods. A course theme around technology and control provides for exploration of military, information, reproductive and environmental applications. Using readings from philosophy, science and technology studies, and feminist and postcolonial science studies, we explore these topics and encounter new models of science and engineering that are responsive to ethical concerns.
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https://www.smith.edu/swg/faculty_riley.php
I think this is more a case of “SJW picks STEM field to make statement – enginerds oblivious.”
A computer science major I know said something to me one day: “Did you know that the first computer programmer in history was a woman? And that historically, there were more women than men involved in computer science, but the balance has shifted in recent decades?”
It sounded highly implausible, and a Google search showed that it was not in fact true. The “first computer programmer” tidbit seems to be in reference to Ada Lovelace, whose role as the first computer programmer doesn’t seem to be supported by historical evidence at all. Involved, yes. Influential, maybe. But not “the first computer programmer”. And I couldn’t find anything to substantiate the claim that computer science has historically been a majority female field.
The whole thing sounds like something a professor made up (or was told to say) in order to further the narrative that there are “not enough women in STEM” and that the government has to “do something” to correct this horrible injustice.
The first programming language was created by a woman.
She was probably talking about the time when computers were people who performed large sets of (usually repetitive) calculations. They were usually women.
Maine becomes 4th state to raise tobacco smoking age to 21
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2017/08/03/Maine-becomes-4th-state-to-raise-tobacco-smoking-age-to-21/6801501742031/?utm_source=sec&utm_campaign=sl&utm_medium=17
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Aug. 3 (UPI) — Maine will become the fourth state to raise the tobacco smoking age to 21, after lawmakers voted to override the governor’s veto that would have kept the age at 18.
Gov. Paul R. LePage derided the bill as “social engineering” and argued that if 18-year-old people are old enough to join the military, they should be allowed to smoke.
“I’m not going to strap a gun to their shoulder and go fight a war if they can’t go buy cigarettes,” LePage said in July when he explained his veto. “I’ll tell you, this is just sinful, it is absolutely sinful, and I believe that at 18 they are mature enough to make a decision and I’m tired of living in a society where we social engineer our lives.”
State Sen. Paul Davis criticized LePage’s argument.
“People who join the military don’t have 15-year-old kids following them around and being impressed by their actions,” he told WMTW.
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[face palm]
It’s a hell of a day when LePage is the voice of reason.
““People who join the military don’t have 15-year-old kids following them around and being impressed by their actions.”
You see, this right there is what you call evidence of the Red-Blue divide in America.
Or maybe it’s just the Davis/Reality divide.
Paul Davis calls himself a “Republican”. Someone needs to primary this guy, since he might be senile.
Perhaps he fancies himself as Susan Collins. So kind. So caring. So compassionate.
See, this is why I hate saying that Red and Blue are the same: they simply are not. Team Red’s establishment is shitty and statist, but their voters and their non-establishment are usually not shitty and statist. Team Blue’s entire core is authoritarian and statist from top to bottom.
Motive, means, and opportunity.
99.9997% of the American populace is indistinguishable from gibbering shaved apes.
I tend to agree. I know the Republicans have their share of religious fundies, economic illiterates, and straight-up cronyists.
But at least the average Republican voter does not immediately write off the entire idea of reducing the size and scope of government.
Yeah, when I got to that part, I rolled my eyes so hard I thought I’d sever my optic nerves.
Social tolerance!
Jesus. He actually makes sense there.
What are the temps in hell??
LePage has actually been doing great work on the vetoes. For example, there was a bill that banned handheld cellphone use that passed around the same time as the smoking bill that got vetoed.
I’ve always said that tobacco prohibition will follow marijuana prohibition. It looks like I might just be right.
We should be able to smoke pot or tobacco while drinking beers at 18.
And buy machine guns from the same store we bought our pot, tobacco, and beer from.
ATFDEA MART!
Pot legalization is motivated by people no longer believing it is bad for you but people believe tobacco is bad for you
Why would something being bad for you matter in any other way than the feels? I think that both pot and tobacco are bad for you, but it doesn’t stop me from thinking that every legal adult should be able to choose to buy and smoke as they please.
People don’t believe in self-ownership?
People will claim to believe in self-ownership, but most can’t follow it up with stuff they don’t like. Very frustrating.
I’m guessing he was not a G.I. Joe fan as a kid.
Speaking of social tolerance society still likes to ostracize people who have unacceptable views. How is that socially tolerant?
Also thanks to the Internet you can now be ostracized all over the world rather than just in your home town!
So what do we think of “the living constuition/living tree” attitude? Problem is it means that rights depend on public opinion and/or the whim of some judge. And it means that there is no such thing as inalienable rights. On one hand it has given gay marriage but on the other hand it gave us “freedom of speech has limits” since times habe changed.
file under: knock me over with a feather
British survey finds ‘booty’ is funniest word in English language
The findings showed men tend to find sexual words funnier than women.
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Aug. 1 (UPI) — A new scientific survey suggests “booty” is the funniest word in the English language.
Humor mostly eludes scientific analysis. But while formulas fail to render new jokes, science can identity what people find funny — like words.
Researchers at the University of Warwick used an internet survey to identify the funniest words in the English language. Psychologists presented 5,000 randomly selected words to 800 online volunteers.
Survey takers rated each word’s hilarity on a scale of one to five, five being the most humorous.
Researchers shared the results of the survey this week in the journal Behavior Research Methods.
After booty, the next nine funniest words include: tit, booby, hooter, nitwit, twit, waddle, tinkle, bebop, egghead, ass and twerp.
Each survey participant shared their age, gender and highest level of education. The findings showed men tend to find sexual words funnier than women. Men also found words such as weld, prod, corn and racoon more humorous, while women were more likely to appreciate the humor of words like ennui, holder, momma and sod.
Younger survey participants, ages 18 to 32, thought goatee, joint and gangster were especially funny, while older respondents were more likely to laugh at words like squint, jingle, burlesque and pong.
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https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2017/08/01/British-survey-finds-booty-is-funniest-word-in-English-language/1531501602635/?utm_source=sec&utm_campaign=sl&utm_medium=17
I was conducting my own study above
“After booty, the next nine funniest words include: tit, booby, hooter, nitwit, twit, waddle, tinkle, bebop, egghead, ass and twerp.”
The survey respondents react
I’ve said this before but a big problem with libertarians is that many of them engage in this reactionary appeal to an idealized non-existent 1960s-1970s past where they got this idea that libertarianism is a combination of Democratic social policies and Republican fiscal policies. This can be seen in the “fiscally conservative socially liberal” slogan and the Nolan chart.
Problem is reality shows that Republicans aren’t very fiscally conservative and Democrats don’t care about civil liberties.
If the Republicans were like their House chamber, they could actually be more fiscally conservative. I think a few more Senate purges and an abolishment of the 17th Amendment could do wonders.
Conversation I just had this morning:
Company : “We wouldn’t not be more than willing to listen to your company’s proposal at 1 pm, if you wouldn’t mind.”
Me: “I understand. Great I’ll see you at 1. Looking forward to it.”
Company: “Great. From 1 to 3 is the time that wouldn’t be inconvenient for us. Wouldn’t that be a problem?”.
Me: “Okey Dokey. 1 to 3. See you then. Thanks.”
Company: “We are glad that isn’t going to not be a problem you don’t think. Thank you very much.”
Me (Inside my head): “It isn’t going to be a problem for me not to beat you senseless for not speaking like a lunatic.”
“I did have absolutely nothing to do with it.”
“That was non-non-non-non-NON-Heinous!”
Sou janakunakunai yo. “That isn’t not not the case”. A grammatically correct statement you hear from time to time.
I know you believe you think you understood what you thought I said, but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
Also I see the LP making a real effort to win in DC. They manage to occasionally get 10% in some city council seats (with no Republican natch) and just under 6 % for delegate ahead of the greens (again no Republican) so they are nothing more than protest votes.
One year they ran Jon LeBeaume for city council. This is the guy who has written in Reason that the LP had a chance to win Georgia 6 (spoiler: couldn’t field a candidate), seems to think fedgov employees are a libertarian constituency and described libertarianism as having to “balance” social and fiscal freedom which sounds like he thinks we need to give up fiscal issues.
FedGov bureaucrats are a libertarian constituency? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA…whew…HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
The actual remarks he made was about how he would rather be with the “ringing cash registers” of DC than CPAC. Said registers are ringing thanks to fedgov employees.
They should pour all their effort (money?) Into state house races in states that might stand a chance. NH. AK. WY?
2 tons of illegal ivory crushed in Central Park
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2017/08/03/2-tons-of-illegal-ivory-crushed-in-Central-Park/1521501784878/?utm_source=fp&utm_campaign=ls&utm_medium=2
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Aug. 3 (UPI) — New York state and the Wildlife Conservation Society on Thursday partnered to crush nearly 2 tons of confiscated illegal ivory in Central Park.
Wildlife advocates used a rock crusher to obliterate delicately carved elephant tusks and figurines “to send a strong message to the world that New York state and its partners will work tirelessly to end wildlife crimes that threaten to wipe out African elephants and a host of other species around the globe,” a release from the WCS said.
New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation, and Tiffany and Co. also took part in the event.
“These actions make it clear that in New York, we condemn the depraved, violent and illegal industry that is ivory sales,” New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said. “The ivory crush along with our vigilant enforcement efforts take us one step closer to ending this senseless slaughtering of animals — I urge other leaders across the nation and across the globe to join us is working to protect these magnificent threatened species for generations to come.”
In 2014, Cuomo signed a law to prevent the trade of illegal ivory by strengthening criminal and civil penalties for buyers and sellers. The law targeted elephant and mammoth ivory sales, as well as rhinoceros horns. Antiques at least 100 years old and containing a small amount of ivory were exempt.
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Great work, guys. This is just like that time Carrie Nation smashed all the those whiskey bottles and no one ever bought alcohol again.
[head desk]
Why is mammoth ivory illegal? They’re already extinct.
They are undertaking a noble tusk.
Please trunk-cate your corny attempts at making puns.
It’s almost like elephants might be better preserved if people could cultivate them on their own property as a valuable commodity instead of just banning the trade of said commodity and thinking that poachers won’t just kill them and sell the commodity on the black market.
Great work making ivory more valuable by reducing the supply of it. That’s some nice crushing, Lou.
NC State admin proposes exclusive housing for ‘women of color’
http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9538
Less than one month into the job, North Carolina State University’s new Director of Multicultural Student Affairs has big plans, including a new housing option exclusively for ‘women of color.’
Nashia Whittenburg plans to submit the proposal by next February, describing it as a refuge for female minority students to “deal with some of the microaggressions you might have had to deal with throughout your entire day.”
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The new Director of Multicultural Student Affairs at North Carolina State University recently pledged to create a segregated housing option for “women of color” only.
Nashia Whittenburg, who was hired by NC State less than a month ago, shared her plans to create the housing option for female minority students in a university news release published Tuesday, adding that she plans to submit an official proposal for the housing option by February 2018.
“The point and purpose is if you are a Latina and you are an engineering major, with a very specific specialization, you may not ever see anybody who looks like you,” Whittenburg explained. “But when you come home, here is your opportunity to get some support and to deal with some of the microaggressions you might have had to deal with throughout your entire day when you’ve been at class.”
While NC State already has two housing options for racial minorities—one exclusively for black males and another for Native American students—the school does not currently have one for female racial minority students, hence Whittenburg’s proposal.
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[Kiff sigh]
Why stop at residence halls? Why not entire colleges where black people can feel even more comfortable?
Because the point isn’t to feel comfortable, it’s to feel “special”.
Works in prisons.
So when did NC State having segregated housing becime a good thing?
Rich Evans is best Evans.
For the New Far Right, YouTube Has Become the New Talk Radio
Black Pigeon, Molyneux and Watson all reach more people than NY Magazine, but they are “Far Right”. Fine, what does that make you?
I never heard of Black Pigeon, but if the article’s description is accurate, he sounds like a raging asshole. Watson is a lunatic. But Molyneux? I wouldn’t describe him as far right. He’s a quite milquetoast unorthodox Objectivist with creepy mommy issues, that’s all.
[Molyneux] has civilizational, apocalyptic fixations — .
Pot meet kettle.
I would say Watson is less a lunatic, and more “a very spirited weirdo”.
Theres no lefty youtubers, nope! None at all.
It’s like they try to forget that Secular Talk, The Young Turks, Humanist Report, and Pakman exist because they’re taking all of their proggy readership away.
Things are on youtube besides Honest Trailers and Red Letter Media?
They’re not “lefty”, merely “normal” or “sane”. Why else would YT promote them in curated trending lists, despite plunging views?
Just so you know this isn’t a simply a random article on the “Far Right”. Check out YouTube’s own words on it’s upcoming policy changes:
YouTube is currently run by an uber-feminist lunatic, so this comes as no surprise.
I’ve had a youtube account since 2006, the one video I uploaded that got bounced out is a clip I can probably post a hundred links to but I’ll just do this one. NBC Universal is shitty.
Forcing comments off is brilliant. People have been questioning for a while why left leaning content often voluntarily turn off comments, while right leaning channels allow open discussion.
What’s to stop the major right wing YT channels from creating their own forums and posting them in the description box? More importantly, what’s to stop them from finding a friendlier outlet to post their vids, now that they have the subscriber clout to do so?
Fuck them.
I’ve been starting to use vidme.
One of the channels I’m subscribed to, Penguinz0, started using it when they got angry about the monetization and censorship. He’s not political, as far as i can tell anyway.
Hoping others go that way as well.
YouTube killed a bunch of sites back in the day, they can die too.
Imagine if you owned a cafe and a large portion of your sales came from Marxists that held regular meetings at your cafe. That is how YouTube execs feel.
Then apparently Youtube execs don’t read Youtube comments. Those are’t very Marxist.
I’d be laughing all the way to the bank, myself.
Marxists are gonna Marx: if they like my coffee and pastries, why does it matter what their beliefs are? That’s probably why I can’t relate to most people.
Many of the channels turned to Patreon to get “monetized”, but turns out that place is also run by a prog, who in turn suspended Lauren Southern’s account. It’s as if everywhere you turn in tech, there’s some progs gatekeeping it.
HM is a prog? We need a new Glibkeeper.
Lies. I have video evidence to prove otherwise.
Great (or deranged) minds..
They’ve demonstrated a willingness to go after any form of monetization. Loads of youtubers started patreons after being demonetized, now patreon got the Kultur Krieg memo and have started closing people’s accounts based on political bias.
I’m not prone to conspiracy nuttiness, but wouldn’t be surprised if there was a journolist kind of thing happening. Tons of social media sites suddenly opened “safety councils” and the like in rapid succession. If nothing else there are gatekeepers in all these organisations who think smothering viewpoints they don’t like is great.
examples?
Lauren Suthern was kicked off patreon. They opened an investigation into Sargon, but couldn’t find anything damning.
YT, Twitter, FB all started departments to deal with “hate speech” and “extremism”, except they’ve been used at various points to go after political activists. Or worse. FB has been helping Pakistan “fight” blasphemy by supporting identifying information about apostates.
I’m sure its not intentionally evil, but rather some kind of misguided principle that just happens to have evil consequences.
Not doubting; but I didn’t see no citations or links. I’m always looking for info.
A bunch of creators have started their own platforms. Either alone or in groups. Mug club or full30 are examples.
Luckily something like patreon is a lot easier to create than a vid site. They’ll need more than culture war to take that down. Like getting banks to stop providing services to the company. But noone has ever tried that before..
creators starting their own platform is not evidence they were blacklisted from others.
Except where they’ve come out to say so? Also a soft blacklist, rather than actual blacklisting. So far most have been allowed to keep content up, they’ve just been barred from earning anything from them.
Yet other channels are constantly violating YT’s terms and retain monetization while being actively promoted by the platform (see TyT and their use off language.)
I’m sure the political fault lines all this happens across is just coincidental though.
I’m not doubting, again, something I haven’t heard of or looked into. So just want to see the evidence.
This is kind of like hearing of gamergate or the attempt to take over ‘react’ videos, but without ever seeing any evidence. (from my point of view)
One loud critic who started his own platform exactly for the stated reasons:
https://m.youtube.com/results?q=mug+club+demonetization
where is the proof he was demonitized?
Lack of commercials on a lot of his videos? His word? I don’t know what you’re looking for here.
I suppose he could have intentionally demonetized his own videos in some crazy scam to deprive his family and employees of income.
playing cynic here; but what evidence is there besides him saying youtube demonitized the videos?
You’re right, there is none. Maybe he just wanted to run with all the cool demonetized kids on YT? Like pewdiepie or philipdefranco.
Could be Lauren Suthern shut down her own patreon account too. And Sargon could have forged the investigation letter he got.
Maybe the people who went on full30, demonetized their own videos on YT, because they like to be part of a smaller, tight knit community with less earning potential?
People do crazy shit all the time, so without iron clad evidence, that’s perfectly within the realm of possibility 🙂
I mean, in this day and age, to cry you’re being mistreated is the best way to get money; and although I’ve found him entertaining, I don’t think he stands on principles more than he wants revenue.
If you really want revenue, why bank on pity and then having to manage and run your own infrastructure, find advertisers, etc. when your current platform does all that for you?
Why not try to get income from both places at least?
Just to play the cynic here..
And how likely is his average viewer to buy into the victimhood pity party mentality?
Even if you plan to never use YT again, why risk pissing off Google, the biggest ad game in town?
The same company that owns the search engine you probably need for a significant portion of your site traffic.
Isn’t that what the French banks basically did to Le Pen and the National Front earlier this year? And those basically were glorified nationalist Bernie-ites.
I didn’t hear about that. But I’m sure it’s a one off. A fluke.
It certainly couldn’t happen here, what could compel banks to not do business with certain kinds of customers?
Watson is reasonably sane (for InfoWars) and hates perpetual war, so overall he’s a net good.
That’s a hell of a parenthetical, my dude.
Sort of my point, lol. On the other hand, I’d rather people be lunatics because they are skeptical of government than be lunatics because they love government (like The Young Turks)
Agreed, though he could be a bit more skeptical of Putin’s government as well, imo.
I think that InfoWars’ over-defense of Putin is more about protecting and defending paleoconservatism and bitchslapping the neocons and globalised than it is about protecting Putin.
This is where Winston steps in observing that paleos have had a long and storied history of apologetics for the various dictators of the world provided they were sufficiently anti-American .
globalists*
OK, so I’m at an odd situation at work(well, not odd, just one I’ve never dealt with before). I started a new job coming up on a year ago. It is at a small town radio station. Prior to that, I was only self-employed for almost a decade. When I was younger working manual labor jobs, the lowest raise I got was 10 cents per quarter. I have yet to get a raise in my almost year at this job; however, a few months after I got the job, they dumped a guy to save money. I’m now one of their go to guys, and am training guys that are starting at my wage or perhaps even higher. But do to the way radio stations work, only making money selling ads, and my job doesn’t bring in ads, I’m not sure how far I can press. (I’m not on air talent) However, I do have the same degree from the same school as others there who are on air talent and make more than me, and I’ve made sure to learn everything I can about operations outside my purview. I’m just not sure how far to push negotiations in this situation.
I don’t know what things are like at your place, but as a boss, I can say that for salary negotiations, I appreciate when an employee takes the time to outline what their current job duties and expectations are, and then provides evidence as to how he or she is surpassing those duties and expectations. I try to be upfront with my staff that if the budget allows for it, I will raise wages commensurate to their contribution to the success of the department. If there is no money to do so, I’m honest about that.
Thanks, as a self employed person, this is the same way I feel about my contract workers. It’s just given the fickleness of this field, ie the station only profits from ad revenue, and I’m not connected to that, but they seem to be doing a shitty job at selling ads (a problem with a client in my self-employment as well) I’m just not sure how to approach it. It’s not a giant kkkkkorperazion!!11!! It’s a small town radio station and I’m not sure of their revenue.