Not a good 24 hours for the Glibertarians. Brett’s links go blooey requiring an emergency posting by Playa (who is, let us be generous, not exactly an expert at generating content), and after a long night out concert-going, SP and I have slept a bit later than usual. So I’m only one cup of coffee in and I know I’m going to fuck something up. But hey, the show still must go on.
Much as I think Trump is a dumpster fire disguised as a clown, there are at least a few upsides to his regime.
Here’s another case where I wonder if the prosecution and conviction wasn’t really about the specific charges but more about “Let’s fuck over this asshole.”
When I saw this story, all I could think was, “RED ROCKET, RED ROCKET!”
On the dick theme, here is yet one more guy who sincerely believes that random women want to see selfies of his dick. Now, to be fair, this is how I met my wife, but usually it doesn’t work.
The paleontology geek in me is delighted. Did I mention that my childhood idol was Roy Chapman Andrews?
And finally, a song that goddammit ought to be a classic. Maybe someday it will be.
Much as I think Trump is a dumpster fire disguised as a clown, there are at least a few upsides to his regime.
Meanwhile, in Europe they’re too stupid to adapt, so 150,000 of them a year will bake to death in 2100.
The CBC news this morning also used the “weather is climate when it follows our narrative” line of thinking to link the current heat-wave to the European Commission “study”. Surprisingly, a state-funded study calls for more state.
2100? It’s happening now
The state lets the old people bake to death to that the state no longer has to care for them.
They should add some salt and pepper, and make them into squares.
What percentage of Muslims can they have and still be called “crackers”?
Put in raisins for the Muslims
You just have to add more flour
” combined this with modelling of how climate change might progress and how populations might increase and migrate” lol
Says in little Appalachian girl accent : “And I helped”
The Yahoo! comments are having none of it. You have to view these stories with a skeptical eye.
I got nothing
Me neither.
*crawls back on hot rock*
You should *like* the European heat wave.
Well of course I do. My bosses have already started the terraforming process.
When I saw this story, all I could think was, “RED ROCKET, RED ROCKET!”
I used to sleep in the buff. Many years ago I was pet-sitting my parents’ cairn terrier while they were on vacation. The fucking dog tried to nuzzle my crotch.
(Other than that she was a great dog.)
“I don’t know how that peanut butter got there…I swear!”
Plus Florida woman.
https://www.google.com/amp/amp.miamiherald.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/deadline-miami/article25218676.html
“That’s not peanut butter.”
What do you mean “other than that?”
cairn terrier
*joke about stacking rocks*
A man who caused life-changing injuries to the genital area of his female lover after a sexual fantasy went catastrophically wrong, has been jailed for a decade.
David Jeffers, 47, fled from a Manchester hotel leaving his partner dying on a bed after a loaded shotgun, which was inserted into her vagina, was mistakenly fired, the Daily Telegraph reports.
The 46 year-old victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had informed her partner of her sexual desires via text message a few days prior to the incident, which left her with life changing injuries to her bladder and female reproductive organs, with one message saying: “I can’t sleep, so excited.”
Sometime after, Jeffers, who lives in Harehills, Leeds, inserted the loaded shotgun, which he claims to have found in the toilet of the Wetherspoon’s pub at Leeds train station, into her genital area where it is agreed his hand was on the trigger at the time it went off.
In horror, as his victim lay naked on the bed, Jeffers dressed himself and fled the hotel via a rear exit after phoning reception and informing a manager that a female had been shot before making his way to Piccadilly train station where he caught a train back to Leeds.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11899188
not Florida but England apparently
+1 Jon-Erik Hexum
So this joker was able to get a gun, but English homeowners can’t get one to defend themselves against burglars?
My guess is that there’s a thriving black market for guns in merry olde England, so as usual the people who really want them can still get them while the law abiding homeowners get screwed.
And yes, that is a euphemism.
And everyone else makes do with what they can get their hands on.
See, the british still do actual “reporting”. In the US there’s no way that could make it into print without some editorializing remark along the lines of “WTF YOU DON’T JUST STUMBLE ON SHOTGUNS IN TOILETS”
Isn’t there a scene like that in the Godfather movie? The part about finding the gun, I mean?
That gun was deliberately planted.
Well, yeah, you know what I mean.
I’m not suggesting the guy is lying, just that it’s something a criminal might say on the spur of the moment to avoid disclosing how he actually got his gun “I’ll pretend it was kind of like in that movie…”
Possibly.
Shotguns aren’t easily concealed. Someone would have had to sneak it into the pub. Then after finding a shotgun, no one else using the toilet noticed, sneak it back out.
mmmm, floor pie!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WsDtn-feuI
“When I saw this story, all I could think was, ‘RED ROCKET, RED ROCKET!'”
Apparently, PETA didn’t actually do anything here. An actor refused to engage in bestiality on camera, and PETA issued some kind of press release trying to insert itself in the situation and uttering vague threats.
I would hope one doesn’t have to be a PETA member to be against bestiality.
I hope the movie is unpopular at the box office, so that we will be able to say that the producers screwed the pooch.
*pity laugh*
Unless the animal consents.
There’s a new job in the campus administration – verifying enthusiastic consent in bestiality cases.
“May I scratch your ears? Bark once for yes, bark twice for no.”
But you’re in big trouble if the dog starts dragging its doghouse around campus.
What happens if it answers ‘woof, arf!’? as opposed to ‘woof, woof’ or ‘arf arf’?
I know. I’m pushing it.
Unless consent is clear, you had better not “push it”, mister!
/Title IX coordinator
Title K-IV coordinator
Title K-IX coordinator.
Goddamn Roman numerals.
You’re barking up the wrong tree, Rufus.
Dog gone it! This is nothing to joke about!
Per the Department of Education’s new guidelines, “sex” is regardless of species, so Title IX also definitely covers bestiality.
I do not consent!
“On the dick theme, here is yet one more guy who sincerely believes that random women want to see selfies of his dick. Now, to be fair, this is how I met my wife, but usually it doesn’t work.”
The article suggests this was a few years ago. So why does HuffPo go after him now? What’s he done to them lately?
“Fox News”
My guess is idiocy over stupidity. The “journos” were looking through other news sites to steal and republish news stories like they normally do, saw this sensational story, and didn’t bother to check the dates.
Still not now if troll or moron but strongly leaning to moron.
https://twitter.com/existentialcoms/status/893144060155772928
Seconded. This is what being brainwashed fires to you. All common sense and connection with reality is lost.
Does to you
I’m not authorized to view those tweets. 🙁
Existential Comics @existentialcoms
A famine under communism counts as a black mark because communists actually care about the poor. Under Capitalism, it’s your fault you died.
Revenue collection under capitalism* counts as a black mark because capitalists actually earned it. Under government, it’s your fault you agreed to the social contract.
The British East India Company was apparently pretty independent from the British government in 1770, but government still deserves the blame for creating it.
OMWC appears to be hung over more often than me. Yikes.
Not hungover, just sleep-deprived. Our favorite music venue is a long drive from here, we like to hang out with the musicians afterwards, so dawn comes miiiiighty early.
Now tomorrow, after a night in with food and wine, then I’ll be hung over.
“On the dick theme, here is yet one more guy who sincerely believes that random women want to see selfies of his dick.”
“For this story, HuffPost spoke to 14 sources in and out of Fox News and Fox Business, all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity ”
“When asked whether Bolling at any point had sent unsolicited lewd or inappropriate text messages or emails (including an image of a man’s genitalia) to Fox News or Fox Business colleagues, his attorney Michael J. Bowe responded, “Mr. Bolling recalls no such inappropriate communications, does not believe he sent any such communications, and will vigorously pursue his legal remedies for any false and defamatory accusations that are made.””
So if the only source is Huffpo claiming anonymous sources, I’m thinking fake news. It also doesn’t sound like it was his dick.
“Oh, you mean this sac shot?”
“But it could have been real, so it’s still good for starting a conversation.” /prog
“this is how I met my wife”
SP’s parents didn’t monitor their 5 year old’s electronic communications?
England is just trolling at this point:
https://twitter.com/OrwellNGoode/status/893583851511062528
Europeans are passive-aggressive. That’s why they launched The Crusades and engaged in two Great Wars.
My butler told me.
That bin would make an excellent theft target if knives were hard to come by (they aren’t and never will be).
What the fuck does Cookie Monster have to do with knives? Does he want them to cut his cookies with?
Great minds something something
What’s up with Cookie Monster? Trying to appeal to all the 5 year olds who carry?
Maybe all guys should start wearing body cams.
http://hotair.com/archives/2017/08/04/rape-case-usc-student-dismissed-judge-sees-security-video/
The named the student against whom the charges were dismissed, but they still don’t name the accuser.
I can see omitting the names of both parties, but what’s with reporting the name of the exonerated person – so that his name will be linked to “rape” in any Google search – while leaving the accuser anonymous – so that Google searches won’t link her to “her charges were dismissed”?
They named
“Premjee was charged in May with rape by use of drugs and sexual penetration by a foreign object.
Prosecutors had said the woman’s roommate walked in during the alleged attack.
“Premjee went into a bathroom and when he returned, the roommate confronted him and he left,” the district attorney’s office said in a statement in May, when the charges were announced.”
No why he was charged with “by use of drugs”. And the L.A. Times is being all passive voice, writing “it was reported immediately”. So it might have been the roommate that started all this.
“Then outside, surveillance video shows her making obscene sexual gestures with her hands behind Premjee’s back. He says they took an Uber to her apartment where surveillance video shows she signed him in as her guest. Premjee says everything that happened that night happened because the woman wanted it to.
In a Facebook message to Premjee a day later, the accuser says she was told she was with him the Friday before and that “We (expletive).” She goes on to say she doesn’t remember because she was, “very obviously out of it.”
But throughout the exchange, there’s no mention of a rape”
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Charges-Dismissed-Against-USC-Student-Accused-of-Rape-437752563.html
So she was so drunk it was rape, but she was sober enough to sign him in?
There is a reason there are a lot of car cams in Russia.
All the YouTubes videos we get to laugh at?
Now if it also voided all federal gun laws we would be getting somewhere.
https://chriscollins.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/collins-introduces-second-amendment-guarantee-act
If only someone would grow a large enough pair to repeal or nullify part of the 1986 gun bill signed by Saint Ronald, or better yet the 1968 one.
Yeah, I don’t see that happening. NRA still cop fellators
Columnist for the Cedar Rapids Gazette gives his paper a tongue-bath, then expresses concern about Trump endangering the LGBLTs.
“Twenty years ago this past week, The Gazette’s editorial board issued a bold forecast.
““We predict that 20 years hence, late 20th century abuse of homosexuals and denial of their rights will seem as amazing as the earlier denigration of racial minorities and women,” an editorial opined July 12, 1997, prompted by pride parades happening around the globe….
“Sure, the editorial’s use of “homosexuals” is dated, but its message was gutsy for its time….
“Clearly, progress over the last 20 years has been real and remarkable….
“And yet, given our current national moment of cultural outrage, political division and backhanded backlash, The Gazette’s 1997 hope now rings overly optimistic on all fronts, including racial minorities and women. Folks in 1997 might be amazed at denigration’s stunning comeback in the 21st century.
“And those gains described above now seem disturbingly fragile. President Donald Trump [blah blah blah]…
“LGBT Americans still are not covered by protections against discrimination under the federal Civil Rights Act because Congress refuses to act. Opposition to equality remains dug in, in our nation’s capital and our statehouse. Forces pulling us backward have been emboldened by the Trumpian notion of turning back America’s cultural clock.”
Its because homosexuals are already equal, to the point that they can use the courts to ruin someone else’s livelihood.
If your not a protected class then your a regular class and that’s discriminatory.
In the past 8 or so years has anybody introduced or campaigned to expand the federal Civil Rights Act?
They’ve been pushing the Employment Nondiscrimination Act (ENDA) and according to Wikipedia they’ve now shifted to something called the Equality Act.
The Equality Act is more extreme even than ENDA, so if this were a normal political situation I’d say that it was an opening gambit to make ENDA look “moderate,” so that when the finally pass ENDA they can boast of their centrist credentials. But now the Equality Act may be what they actually want.
“OUT OF CONTROL: 43% of All Rapes in Sweden Are Committed Against Children
92% of ‘severe’ sexual assaults committed by migrants”
http://www.dailywire.com/news/19337/out-control-43-all-rapes-sweden-are-committed-joseph-curl
I have no idea how accurate those numbers could be since the issue is so highly politicized.
Cue the Benny Hill chase music
Yeah? Payback for the Vikings’ rampage through villages and monasteries.
I’ve been preoccupied with matters in the mundane analog world, so I don’t know if there’s been any discussion here of this latest episode in the ongoing Clinton/Lynch/Comey sordidity , or if there’s really much of anything to say. I don’t know anything about the org that filed the FOIA requests. Heard some discussion of this yesterday on the Fox Business Sirius/XM channel during a slow day at the office, and I thought, “How much more of this crap can pile up before it all comes tumbling down? Meanwhile, if anyone dares to bring up Clinton or other Dem shenanigans, their response is essentially, “You’re trying to distract from our distractions!”
[Full disclosure: I voted for neither the Dem assclown nor the Republican assclown. I voted for the Libertarian assclowns, hoping for better options in the future.]
Meanwhile, if anyone dares to bring up Clinton or other Dem shenanigans, their response is essentially…
…”Racism! Sexism!”
“FAAAYYKE NOOOOOOOZZZ!!!!1111”
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At this point, what difference does it make?
Vanity Fair article says Trump isn’t so bad…just kidding
It’s all just now at this point. All they’ve done with all of the overkill is make him completely immune from criticism.
True, I just assume they’re not telling the truth or at least twisting it at this point.
I linked this because prog family members were pushing a Vanity Fair article that TOTALLY DESTROYED Trump. I made the best guess I could, but I may have linked the wrong article, because there are so many possibilities.
“How to Keep Donald Trump from Spreading His Toxic Masculinity to Future Generations
Instead, a nation of children has a bully-in-chief who is such an extreme caricature of toxic masculinity that he focuses on his victories, his blustering power and his wealth even when talking to a crowd of Boy Scouts. Or perhaps particularly when talking to young men. After all, if President Donald Trump is holding himself up as a role model, only privileged white men can follow in his footsteps.”
http://time.com/4877364/trump-boy-scouts-jamboree-toxic-masculinity/
Remember when Time was considered conservative?
Or relevant?
Or solvent?
You know who else wanted to prevent a spread to future generations?…
The Wisconsin dairy industry when it lobbied against margarine?
Oliver Wendell Holmes?
Anti-gambling lobbyists?
Planned Parenthood?
Democrat eugenicists of the early 1900s?
Toxic femininity, however, is just peachy keen.
Haha, nice.
We need to come up with a definition of that.
Behold, the Mighty Trump!
Do these people really think a President has that much power? Cause he don’t
They variously do not understand separation of powers, intentionally pretend they don’t exist, or need a supreme demigod daddy/mommy to symbolically make choices for them.
a bully-in-chief who is such an extreme caricature of toxic masculinity that he focuses on his victories, his blustering power and his wealth even when talking to a crowd of Boy Scouts.
Since when the fuck did it become “toxic” to tell kids they should want to be successful, powerful and wealthy? Since when did it become wrong for someone who is successful, powerful and wealthy to hold themselves out as an example to which to aspire (even if they aren’t entirely honest about how they got there)? And what the hell makes the author assume that wanting to be successful, powerful and wealthy was somehow exclusively a white thing?
Christ, maybe these people really do need free helicopter rides.
Stupid Alison and her logical scientific mind putting a wet blanket on the exciting speculation due to indirect evidences!
She’s at Drexel, which is at best a junior college.
/says the Penn alumnus
Penn students anymore are self-entitled spoiled rich kids who foster the worst kind of elitism and paternalistic proggy statism.
…and they’re shitty tippers too!
Back in the day (I am, admittedly, old), it was an interesting mix. The folks I shared lab space with included some rich kids, but more of us had distinctly middle class or lower middle class backgrounds. My lab included a guy from rural WI, a kid from the Main Line (who, to be fair, was a damn nice guy), two Chinese immigrants, a Czech refugee, and of course (((me))).
But at least Penn is a real college where science is probably about the feels unlike Drexel which evidently teaches that antiquated form of science based on observation.
What’s a Drexel and a Penn? Sound like pencil brands.
one’s the largest private engineering school in the US and the other is just a plain ol’ boring ivy league school
Translation: Drexel is a voc tech cranking out people like Alison. Penn is an Ivy cranking out first rate scientists.
I liked her better when she was with Yaz.
Speaking of Vanity Fair, Michael Lewis has a long thumb-sucker about how Trump is the greatest nuclear threat to the planet since Truman, or something.
I only got a few paragraphs in before I started wretching uncontrollably.
Whoops-
WThere’s no such thing as a Trump Democrat
“But new data, and an analysis by AFL-CIO political director Michael Podhorzer that he shared with me, puts all this into question. The number of Obama-to-Trump voters turns out to be smaller than thought. And those Obama voters who did switch to Trump were largely Republican voters to start with. The aberration wasn’t their votes for Trump but their votes for Obama.
“It follows for Democrats that most of these Obama-Trump voters aren’t going to be persuaded to vote Democratic in future; the party would do better to go after disaffected Democrats who didn’t vote in 2016 or who voted for third parties.”
Maybe true, maybe bullshit. It’s getting harder and harder to tell these days.
Everybody lies about everything all the time.
I lie on surveys all the time.
There ought to be a law against such.
:pens letter to congressman
Are you likely to buy Oreos or Chips Ahoy?
NONE is my answer.
But I buy both!
You can always tell when I’m lying, because my fingers are crossed.
And my fingers were crossed when I wrote the line above.
They might be right over the past five years, but the Left has been alienating working class voters for years. Trump winning West Virginia by 42 points is proof of this: that state is still majority Democrat in voter registration by a ten point margin, and if they really wanted to win back the House they would target all of those districts in WV, KY, and AR that were safely Blue Dog Democrat just 10 years ago.
They need to lay off attacking coal then.
The Left’s War On Coal was the epitome of political malpractice. Pandering to the comparatively tiny enviro nuts to alienate an entire bloc of folks who were loyal to your party for decades.
Didn’t Trump get less total votes than McCain or Romney? I thought that meant that he wasn’t a very good candidate, just that Hilary was worse. Can’t the Democrats figure that out?
the complex part isn’t the truth
the complex part is how they twist that truth to convince themselves that Trump was merely a bump in the road rather than a generational Thelma + Louise off an electoral cliff.
No, Trump got more votes than either.
I just checked: Trump got 3M more votes than McCain and 2M more than Romney. So that narrative is false as well.
Hillary seems to be rehiring former ranking campaign staff so no.
Hillary is a demon villain in a horror movie that won’t die.
the party would do better to go after disaffected Democrats who didn’t vote in 2016 or who voted for third parties.
Well, there’s really just one answer then, isn’t there? Prog harder, guys! Tell us more about intersectionality and how awful cis-hetero-white males are. Be a little more vocal about how you think working class males are trailer trash. Come on! We know you have it in you!
I donno, that picture of prime rib was good for like 100 comments alone. plus, everyone learned something about au jus, and its potential as both a beverage and body-wash
I must have missed that. Sounds like SF was involved.
They’re the assholes that run Hollywood and the banks.
*golf clap*
On the local TV news this morning they had a bit about how 8 guns were found in carry-on luggage at the Dayton (OH) airport over a year period. EIGHT! And it was an increase from the previous year. So, I wondered what that meant in percentages. I looked up the passenger statistics for 2016 and it averages about 85,000 passengers per month or over 1 million a year. So that is 0.0008% and an even smaller percentage increase. In other words – pretty freaking small and insignificant. And seeing as how there were only 8, it should be pretty easy to see how it was handled each time. If there was any arguing or drama, I’m sure it would have been reported. But it probably went something like this:
TSA: Sir, we found a gun in your luggage. You can’t take that on the plane.
Guy: Oh crap! I forgot about that. I’ll take it back to my car.
TSA: Ok.
For the record: my TSA experiences at Dayton have never been bad. Other airports – can’t say the same. In fact, I can tell a story of how the Dayton TSA let my wife on a plane without any ID.
Serious question-are they really reasonable enough to let you walk it back to your car or do you get charged with something?
An enterprising enforcer would maintain a private ‘immunity’ box to store such trinkets without any fuss or district attorneys involved
I’m not sure. I had a knife found in my carry-on luggage once and they allowed me to take it back. It was one of those tiny Swiss army knives with the tweezers and scissors, so not exactly threatening, like a gun.
If it’s discovered at screening, you’re subject to civil fine and referral to law enforcement. TSA doesn’t charge you directly in most cases. I doubt you’ll get your firearm back directly though.
Not to worry (too much). TSA is pretty incompetent at finding threats so there’s a possibility of slipping right through security. Just don’t throw your contraband away in a trash can in the foreign airport.
“how the Dayton TSA let my wife on a plane without any ID.”
How do you maintain civilized society with such weak enforcers?
I live close enough to the Dayton airport to be annoyed by Air Show noise every year. For various reasons – mostly lack of need or lack of funds – I haven’t flown in commercial aircraft (just in my BIL’s small plane) since 1983. Can I take comfort in knowing that, should I find myself forced to fly somewhere in the foreseeable future, I’ll experience minimum hassle, at least at the home end?
I would say yes, based on my experience and my wife’s. My wife travels fairly frequently for her job. She prefers to fly out of Dayton because parking is easy, the airport is fairly small and the TSA lines/hassle is minimal. My experience is that the TSA folks at Dayton have been reasonable and easy-going.
One hassle about flying out of Dayton: very limited direct flights. All Southwest flights out of Dayton now go through Chicago (there used to be a few direct flights to other locations). Other airlines have similar arrangements – a flight from Dayton takes you to one of their major hubs: Atlanta, Charlotte, Dallas, etc.
Avoid Chicago O’Hare and Atlanta Hartsfeld at all costs. Easily the two worst airports in the country.
My business requires metric shitloads of airline travel, so I see ’em all. (A metric shitload is 1.14 Imperial shitloads, in case you’re wondering.)
+1.14 Conversion
“There’s really no family-friendly way to talk about this so consider yourself warned. A reporter for the NY Times thinks the NRA, in the form of spokesperson Dana Loesch, wants to sexually assault the NY Times. ”
http://hotair.com/archives/2017/08/04/ny-times-reporter-claims-nra-wants-sexually-assault-ny-times-not-kidding/
I never thought I could be jealous of the NYT. Not that it would be assault. But I’m willing to play along if she is into that sort of thing.
It sounds like it’d be fun but you’d have to be into fisting which is a bit over the line for me.
A bit?
It would be hard to get a second fist in, given the Democrats are already in there
Would Dana Loesch
So are corporations people or not? Because a corporation not named Weyland-Yutani cannot sexually assault people. How hard is that to understand?
Ummmm I wouldn’t classify Weyland-Yutani’s activities as sexual assault. Unless you really stretch the STEVE SMITH definition
Temperature: 38.5 ºC
Wind: 0.3 m/s, S
Pressure : 1002.0 mb,
relative humidity: 28%
God damn it its getting to hot to drink even beer.
* according to doctors on tv
38.5 I understand but what’s this ºC shit?
Too hot to drink beer makes even less sense than using cosmopolitan measurements.
Speak English! I’d kill for 28% humidity. You can keep the temps.
102 is still hot, regardless.
I wouldn’t be outside.
What is that in real units of measure?
311.6 Kelvin, I believe.
Then drink odd beer instead.
it’s a dry heat
What’s 28% humidity in Fahrenheit?
Brutality for brutals
Relatively mild here today. 90F and only 70% humidity. Sunny.
“Monochrome magic! Emma Roberts is effortlessly chic in flirty black-and-white LBD”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4763004/Emma-Roberts-effortlessly-chic-black-white-LBD.html
So forced abbreviation for something that isn’t?
She’s playing a French maid in her next movie?
I approve of the easy access. Also can’t wait for AHS. Also Would.
“for the seventh series about reaction to the election of Donald Trump as president.”
Ummmm….what. Oh well they took a dump last season so I guess I’m done.
This politicizing everything has gone too far.
I don’t think it’s going to do well. They were already in niche territory to begin with.
Like, ewww, uggh!
I guess congratulations are in order for Nolan managing to unite high-brow male critics and very annoying people on Twitter under a common bromance, but to me, Dunkirk felt like an excuse for men to celebrate maleness—which apparently they don’t get to do enough. Fine, great, go forth, but if Nolan’s entire purpose is breaking the established war movie mold and doing something different—why not make a movie about women in World War II? Or—because I know that will illicit cries of “ugh, not everything has to be about feminism, ugh!”—how about any other marginalized group? These stories shouldn’t be relegated to indie films and Oscar season. It’s up to giant powerhouse directors like Nolan to tell them, which is why Dunkirk feels so basic. It’s a summer war movie. It’ll make you fear for the future and pray that we never fight again. You might get kind of sick. If you’re like me, a random man will come up to you after and explain why you’re wrong for disliking it. But this war movie isn’t special. At the end of the day, it’s like all the rest of them.
Marie Claire and Teen Vogue, locked in a desperate battle for the hearts and minds of the most vapid, inane and useless members of society.
It’s kinda hard to make a blockbuster movie about marginalized groups
That guy in Braveheart ended up pretty marginalized, but people flocked to it.
Why not make a movie about women in WWII? Simple answer: it’d lose a shit-ton of money.
Yeah, but still could be fun with some choice casting.
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/sex_sadism_swastikas
I thought you would cite this one.
It’s mentioned in the first paragraph
It’s as if there was some sort of illustration distracting me from the text.
Shit, I clinked on some of the links which took me to sado movies on my Amazon page. Can’t wait to see what suggestions they have in store for me now. Hope my family doesn’t get AlmightyJB might like gift suggestions based on that 🙂
They already made “Carve Her Name With Pride”, anyway.
Or not. $9m budget, $30m gross.
“Wasserman Schultz Speaks Out on IT Staffer’s Arrest, Suspects He’s Being Racially Profiled
“I had grave concerns about his due process rights being violated,” she elaborated. “When their investigation was reviewed with me, I was presented with no evidence of anything that they were being investigated for. And so that, in me, gave me great concern that his due process rights were being violated. That there were racial and ethnic profiling concerns that I had.””
https://www.mediaite.com/online/wasserman-schultz-speaks-out-on-it-staffers-arrest-suspects-hes-being-racially-profiled/
What was that about ketchup?
translation = “I was panicking that this guy might rat us out/dish on our dirt”
Ratings are compared to competitors. From what I can tell Rachel Maddow gets 2 to 3 million viewers while that slot on Fox is 1 or 2 million.
Joe Rogan supposedly gets 30 million downloads per month. His latest video has 1.5 million views in 2 days, but that doesn’t count how many downloads it has.
Television news used to be the only game in town. It looks like a dying medium.
It is a dying medium but it’s looking like YouTube might temporarily pull their fat out of the fire by committing suicide (as far as political commentary goes anyway) themselves.
If YouTube commits suicide and new government regulations aren’t implemented, it will get replaced fast. It already has a few competitors, though they’re not nearly as big. My guess is it will start with a few YouTube celebraties making accounts on otuer video sharing sites and linking there in their video descriptions until a critical mass is met to switch over.
I hope you’re correct and I suspect you are. It’s just a matter of finding a functional site that won’t kowtow to the complainers and those seem to be difficult to come by.
And Why We are here? Migrants all
News used to be an essential way to ‘inform’ people. If you didn’t watch the nightly news or read a paper, you simply wouldn’t know what was going on. You needed the news people for things like stock market changes, weather forecasts, sports scores, to follow developments in congressional legislation, etc. There wasn’t some other means to get the same basic stuff. and the “editorializing” role they provided was really just an afterthought that for most wasn’t particularly important.
Now there’s 500 ways to get the same basic information. You have apps for most of the ‘pure numbers’ stuff. And there are 100s of specialists who do a better job reporting on local civic intel. Basically 80% of their mandate has been lost to competing services.
All the news media do anymore is cover politics, and not in a “news”-reporting way, but in a Soap Opera, narrative-generating way. The facts are commodities and they’re effectively worth nothing. what makes news valuable now is how they spin those facts into some titillating narrative. “Stories” arent’ actually about anything significant that actually happened. They’re gossip columns where writers pearl-clutch + Hot-Take over disposable comments made by public figures. No one gives a flying fuck about actual legislative details or stuff that is genuinely in the public interest. You’ll hear absolutely nothing about the contents of the latest Energy or Transport bill, because reading that shit is work. No, instead you’ll hear about the latest sharp remarks made by Lena Dunham or Maxine Waters, because these are
important voices that need to be amplifiedpeople who make readers LOL or fume: cheap thrills, zero substance.I don’t think people fully grasp how ‘news’ has basically collapsed in our lifetimes. Its turned itself into cheap entertainment for partisans. And its pretty easy to demonstrate this point in numbers. Or just look at the value of their ad-revenue from 2000-now. they make ~1/3 the money they used to. No one needs them, so they get more and more desperate in their means to try and attract people.
And its not going to get better before it gets worse. Its going to just get uglier.
You’re right about the tabloidization of the news, just look at the amount of coverage Trump’s Mika tweets got versus his actually bombing Syria.
Spot on, G.
This sounds good
I wonder if there will be prog outrage.
I’m definately checking it out, thanks.
OT: Mrs. Hobbit and I have been married for 45 years today.
… Hobbit
Congratulations and felicitations!
*google felicitations
Yeah! What he said!
It means “Felix the cat”-like, right?
And you came here to get away from that fact?
No, he wanted to celebrate it on a family-friendly site.
Congrats!
That’s great! Congrats!
Wow, that’s remarkable! Well done, well done indeed. And maybe there’s someone here older than I am, he said with relief.
Congratulatuons.
And this delightful cover of a Magnetic Fields song is for you.
I believe that venue is in the Y I lived in when I first moved yo Madison 20 odd years ago.
Was it fun to stay there?
Not for me. Hard times, really.
Congrats! She must be a fine lady.
Congratulations!
Awesome!
Wow! And it only feel like 50.
Only kidding, congratulations!
Congratulations Hobbit.
Comrade Detective, a wickedly funny new half-hour show on the Amazon Prime streaming service
Sounds excellent.
“The New York Times Publishes a Terrible Defense of Campus Kangaroo Courts”
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/450171/campus-rape-allegations-courts-not-schools-best-judge
Although if you go over to the NYT, many of the comments are surprisingly sane.
I think brooks flagged this in the friday PM links. Yes, the comments are like 80/20 against the proposition of the piece. And the NYT ‘picks’ are like 90% against it. Its an unusual example of sanity.
It’s probably because it directly goes after their kids. As opposed to many of of the other things progs support that they feel doesn’t effect them.
Yes.
That’s the problem i have with a huge chunk of proggy arguments and “explainer journalism”. Very often the person asserting expertise on the topic is someone who literally has never ever had skin in the game they’re describing and has no direct experience with the subject matter.
e.g. 20-somethings who are still on mom and dad’s healthcare plan lecturing everyone how the ACA is wunderbar; or launching into a tirade about how repealing Glass Steagel caused the financial crisis when they literally couldn’t even explain how the interest rates on a savings account work; or pretend to lecture people about climate change when they got C’s in high-school physics; and so on.
All the Social-justice mongers who think stripping due process is no biggie have never ever had their family members on the wrong end of a legal dispute, and seen how trivial disagreement can turn people’s lives upside down and destroy their careers + finances. they just think it *sounds good*, and as long as it serves to signal the right virtue-posture, then that’s what they’ll run with.
“the person asserting expertise on the topic is someone who literally has never ever had skin in the game”
People who subscribe to the NYT are relatively affluent. Most of them have no interest in guns, and live in safe neighborhoods, so they are for more gun control. They aren’t struggling to pay their heat and electric bills, so they are for “climate justice”. They don’t see themselves getting in trouble with the law, so they don’t care about asset forfeiture, war on drugs, police militarization, etc. They can’t image a situation where SWAT team breaks into their luxury townhouse and shoots their dog. They already have decent jobs, so raising the minimum wage won’t cut their hours or price them out of the market. They’re for socialized medicine, because if they get sick they could manage the increased cost. I could write a Ken Shultz wall-of-text comment, how almost every policy they ever support from Cash For Clunkers to the war of sex trafficking, only hurts other people besides them.
I would LOVE to throw this quote back in their face at some point.
Title IX?
“On June 9, 2014, the female student in question was visiting with friends in UO’s Carson Hall dormitory. According to the student, looking out of the dormitory window, she spotted a male and female student walking together (she did not know either of them) and shouted “I hit it first” at them in jest. The female of the couple responded with two profanities and the couple reported the student’s comment to the Resident Assistant of the dorm. The Resident Assistant located the student and insisted that she apologize to the couple for her remark. The student readily obliged.
That did not end the matter, however. On June 13, the student was shocked to receive a “Notice of Allegation” letter charging her with five separate conduct violations for her four-word joke. In addition to dubious allegations of violating the residence hall’s noise and guest policies, UO charged the student with “[h]arassment,” “disruption,” and “[d]isorderly conduct.” After being presented with these outrageous and unconstitutional charges, the student contacted FIRE.”
https://www.thefire.org/four-word-joke-results-five-conduct-charges-university-oregon-student/
“I hit it first”
May the happiness of your species be propagated by such accommodating females…
Apart from the stupidity of this whole process, another thing that bugs me is the willingness to take away personal responsibility/response. Let’s assume the couple was really insulted/offended. First step, go to the woman who yelled at you and speak with her one-on-one. But, no, we’re going to get a whole lot of other people involved.
“Because how, pray tell, could the world be a good place if middle-class flight attendants are allowed to talk to their friends at work in any way that gives this rich, famous public emoter a sad? What have we become, as a country, if millionaire, private-school progeny of Brooklyn art-scene families can’t have their exact conception of acceptable conversation reflected back to them during every minute of a flight delay?”
The biggest problem with that story it often leads to articles with pictures of Lena Dunham.
Although it also lead to this epic takedown:
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/391348/pathetic-privilege-kevin-d-williamson
You mean wanna be STASI agent Dunham?
One wishes she’d see the state as bullies in all situations, not just one where she agrees with the person the state may be going after.
Speaking of paleontology, if any of youse has an interest in a good doc I would recommend Dinosaur 13. It is about private fossil hunters finding the largest and most complete T. rex and what happens to them after. It really has some great libertarian themes to it.
Something from the impotent rage desk-
The inconvenient answer is that Trump could still be president, but by the grace of the USA alone. In that case. Americans, including liberals, would have to focus on how this could have happened here – and not how “they” from over “there” did this to us.
The answer to this question would, of course, point back to the many well-known yet worsening problems of contemporary America: fundamentally, disruptive inequality producing emboldened oligarchy; the capture of the country’s conservative party by capitalist ideologues; and the shift of the whole political and, as it were, common-sense center to the right.
Add dated malfunctions long overdue for reform such as the Electoral College, making the votes of Americans unequal while not doing its – alleged – job as the last firewall against demagogues. Add also more recent, deliberate absurdities such as the alchemy turning corporations into people and their money into speech.
I have heard three year olds weeping inconsolably about a lost stuffed animal who made more sense.
“dated malfunctions long overdue for reform such as the Electoral College”
Well, it kept Hillary out of office.
And no candidate got a majority of the so-called “popular vote.” A majority of voters voted for Not-Trump, and a majority of voters voted for Not-Hillary. That puts in context the fact that Hillary got more popular votes than Trump.
And who even knows how many votes each candidate would have lost if third parties were more common on the ballot, and people were more comfortable voting for them?
It’s as if progs are preparing a fallback position in case the Russia thing doesn’t work out.
“Add also more recent, deliberate absurdities such as the alchemy turning corporations into people and their money into speech.”
CITIZENS UNITED!!!!!!!111!!!!!ELEVEN!!!!
“All we’re saying is you don’t have the right to pool your resources with others in a corporation and use those resources to pay for speech – how could that conflict with the First Amendment?”
Remember, HRC got that $1.2B all from small donations from working families.
Why are “progressives” so befuddled about why Trump won? It’s really not a mystery at all. Voters are sick of the same old shit from the same two parties, but instead of seizing on this opportunity and presenting someone with different ideas, the Democraps ran Hillary Clinton, the most establishment candidate EVER. I think Bernie Sanders might have won, but it was “her turn” so they engaged in some internecine backstabbing to basically fuck him out of the nomination.
while not doing its – alleged – job as the last firewall against demagogues
Since the point of the EC is to prevent populous states getting to run roughshod over the rest of the nation… then yes, it’s doing its job.
Why would I want the people who routinely reelect the Pelosis and Boxers and Schumers and Waters of Congress to decide our presidency every four years? We’d be Venezuela in two terms. No, as a matter of fact, not everyone’s vote matters as much. If you live within a densely urbanized coastal progressive madhouse, your vote only counts for so much.
Didn’t they love electoral college before due to big blue wall?
Missed alt-text opportunity: “Me so horny.”
ps- whoever it was who paid a dollar for Newsweek got tooken.
Hard times in Trump’s America
In the end, though, basic economics combined with a fear of change may have carried the day. Veteran workers at the plant make about $26 per hour, typically only a few dollars less than veteran workers represented by the union at the major American automakers, and well above the median wage in Mississippi.
Nissan also pays a roughly similar percentage of employees’ incomes into their retirement accounts as do the Michigan automakers.
Before coming to Nissan more than 14 years ago, “I didn’t have a 401(k), I had one week of vacation,” said Marvin Cooke, a Nissan paint technician who was previously an assistant manager at a Shoney’s restaurant. “Now, I have four weeks’ vacation. I’m off on every holiday. Nissan has provided a great living for me.”
Mr. Cooke voted against the union.
Those people don’t just don’t know what’s good for them. They should listen to Robert Reich.
Before I decided to go to college and transition into a “professional” career, I worked at an auto parts manufacturer. It was actually pretty good: Top-out pay (which you’d reach after about 3 years) was $18.25, a yearly cost-of-living raise of $0.20, the possibility of more raises for good productivity, two bonuses a year, a 401(k) with a 6% match, cheap and awesome health/dental/eye insurance, a lot of PTO, holiday pay, discounts at the YMCA, discounts on the brand of cars we produce, the list goes on… Not bad at all for a job that basically anyone can get. I have friends who have bachelor’s degrees and STILL don’t get a compensation package like that.
Sometimes I miss that job, but I think in a few years, I’ll have something on par or better.
she spotted a male and female student walking together (she did not know either of them) and shouted “I hit it first” at them in jest.
Hit me! Hit me!</a.
For a bunch of Blockheads they were excellent musicians.
Great band, thanks!
“They’ve come out with some of the nastiest, most unprecedented attacks I’ve seen in the 20 years I’ve been doing this,” said Gary Casteel, the second-ranking official at the U.A.W. “This issue of threatening to close a facility is the worst threat you can put toward an employee.”
Only the union should be able to threaten to shut down a plant.
“Another manager emphasized in a meeting that Nissan could decide not to automatically deduct workers’ union dues, in which case the union would end up sending workers a regular “bill.”
““It was just to deter people from joining, was what I’m getting out of it,” said Earnestine Mayes, a union supporter. “No one wants to sit there and pay that bill every week.””
Ruthless!
Or just send a yearly bill but then your members might wonder WTF am I paying this boatload of money for?
(or in reality, automatic deduction becomes a bargaining issue and gets added to the labor contract, along with minutiae of other things governing a union-company relationship )
I don’t know why I watch these wrongfully-convicted shows on ID. They make me angry on a gorgeously cool and non-humid Saturday morning. Fcking cops & prosecutors, man. Scum.
Go outside and grab some Vitamin D you pale Girl,
/Burnt to a crisp
And I just Googled the DA and he won re-election in 2016 (the wrongfully convicted guy won a re-trial and had his original conviction vacated in 2012).
So our normal household retinue of one toddler has been supplemented with four more children ages 4-8. It’s a goddamn madhouse.
Dude, the orphans don’t live in the house.
I certainly don’t mind their adoptive mother walking around the house in panties and a tank top and no bra.
Sit them in a circle like they’re gonna play duck, duck goose.
Place a single cupcake in the middle and yell, “There can only be one!”
Apparently besides jacobin there is also jacobite magasine
https://jacobitemag.com/2017/08/04/why-liechtenstein-works-self-determination-and-market-governance/
I did not know the prince of Lichtenstein wrote a book on political philosophy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AXBX3e1T64
“Jurors did not find him guilty of one serious charge: That Shkreli had looted a pharmaceutical he founded, Retrophin, of $10 million, to repay investors.”
Let’s face it. That’s why they went after him.
When the Obama administration refused to let the investment banks pay back their TARP funds, it was specifically so he could keep them from paying high executive salaries, too. This is the level on which they operate. If it never hits the media, it doesn’t matter, but if it gets press–hello bonfire of the vanities.
I understand if your business involves marketing your personal success story as a brand image to the general public–that was the case with Steve Jobs, that was the case with Colonel Sanders and Orville Redenbacher. That was originally the case with Shkreli, too. Hedge funds market themselves as having the whiz kid with the hot hand. But if I ever make a billion, no one will ever know about it.
Before Obama recreated Wall Street in his image, the investment banks were the agents of creative destruction. Now they’ve largely been regulated out of that role as risk takers and been replaced with private hedge funds. In the 80s, it was about going after the corporate raiders, LBOs, M&A activity, junk bonds (which was ingenious), S&Ls, etc. These days they go after hedge funds for making big bets–and winning or losing.
The only successful strategy I’ve seen to making yourself both truly rich and famous and not having the media and the government come after you is the one adopted by Warren Buffet, who taught the strategy to Bill Gates after he got in trouble for being rich and famous–remember when Microsoft was supposedly a monopoly? Warren Buffet’s strategy was buy yourself an interest in every major media outlet you can and project yourself as being on the left. The left won’t come after you if they think you’re one of them, and the media won’t come after you if you’re in their club.
Otherwise, there are thousands of people in the government watching the news, every day, reading the papers, staying up late at night, trying to think of new and better ways to throw some public figure like Martha Stewart in jail–and get their own names in the media.
There’s another Preet Bahara born every minute.
Blech!
I challenge you to read this entire article without eating your own face. It starts like this:
“A few weeks ago, I waddled across a backyard in suburban Pennsylvania with a ping pong ball between my knees. After 20 feet, a woman I’ve never met snapped photos of me squatting over a metal saucepan. I opened my legs and released the ball, which tinged off the edge of the pot and bounced into the grass. The group of women behind me let out a collective “Nooo!” and applauded my effort. I was the last member of a relay team in a game called Tinkle in the Pot, which pokes fun at an expectant mother’s near-constant urge to pee.
This game was the piece de resistance at a friend’s baby shower. If you’re like me—a woman in her early 30s—your weekends are increasingly planned around these pastel celebrations and their games. And, if you’re like me, you swallow your feminist pride long enough to eat fetus-shaped cookies, finger-paint bibs in gender normative colors, and support a pregnant friend. I’ve accepted that, when it comes to the baby industrial complex, there are some things I’m better off embracing…no matter how antiquated or absurd.”
Then it gets worse….
http://www.marieclaire.com/culture/features/a28016/gender-reveal-parties/
Irrespective of the feminist argument that baby shower sounds ghastly
There was recently a trend of inviting guys to baby showers.
It was the worst.
It’s worse than going shopping with your girlfriend in a fabric store and being asked to hold her purse.
Real men don’t do baby showers. There is nothing about what goes on there that men need to be a part of or know. It brings out everything men like least about women.
If there are places where I belong, then there must be places where I don’t belong. I do not belong at a baby shower.
I’d rather go to the dentist. The dentist may drill my teeth and make me feel like I’ve been punched in the jaw 20 times, but she won’t make loathe the company of women for a couple of weeks.
A week after the baby shower, and she’s sitting quietly next to me in the car, and I’m still thinking, “I’ve heard enough out of you”. And she hasn’t even said a thing.
It’s worse than going shopping with your girlfriend in a fabric store and being asked to hold her purse.
Hah. Holding the purse is for beginners. You’re the mule for the cloth bolts unless you can find a cart.
And, if you’re like me, you swallow your feminist pride long enough to avoid losing every single one of my long-suffering normie friends, and be forced to only ever spend time around other ghastly feminist harridans.
For any of you who haven’t seen it, MundaneMatt discusses Elizabeth Nolan Brown
AFL spoliers…
Tough two weeks for the Dees. Personally, I think losing to NM is going to cost more than being flogged by GWS.
Carlton, meanwhile, continues the close, but no cigar, season.
Yeah, there’s a reason my AFL posts have become conspicuously absent…
You say that as if it is likely any one has seen that
ENB doesn’t seem to have a sense of . . . decency when it comes to identifying the people she writes about, the things she says about them, using pictures of them, etc.
I went after her once for apparently using a facebook picture of some . . . I think it was a sex assault victim–and for what reason? Why contribute to this person’s humiliation? I don’t know if it’s legal to use someone’s facebook picture–but as a libertarian, whether something is legal is a secondary consideration. I don’t need the law to keep me from contributing to a victim’s humiliation.
On the occasion I’m thinking of, she then posted a comment that appeared to be making fun of the victim’s rednecky/porny name. I asked her in comments if she was proud of what she wrote, and she responded something to the effect that she wasn’t denigrating the victim, which came across like . . . a denial that seems like a confession.
Nixon says, “I am not a crook!”
Robby does the same thing. I remember when he posted video of a mentally handicapped kid being beaten on the subway (AIR) with his face fully visible, etc. It was so hideous, YouTube eventually took the video down themselves. What’s wrong with somebody that needs to be told that posting video of a mentally handicapped teenager being beaten and humiliated maybe contributes to the victim’s humiliation?
I remember when ENB went on that other journalist’s twitter feed and started claiming that she’d, I guess, smoked out with him at a party–which wasn’t on topic, and, for goodness’ sake, is really bad form.
Humiliating people on purpose is awful. Actively humiliating people without any consideration or realization that’s what you’re doing would be a special kind of awful.
For above, trump got more than both McCain and Romney by about 2 million plus
Also trump took a lot of counties or came close where Romney was beat soundly
You don’t flip 6 states obama won twice without significant crossover support
I pointed that out, but the real losses are long-term. So many of those Southern and Midwestern states are still Dem-majority in voter registration because of family tradition. Many of those Freedom Caucus districts (like Mo Brooks’s one in AL or Rod Blum’s one in IA) were safe Blue Dog territory until just around ten years ago.
I’ve done the analysis several times, and people are probably sick of hearing me talk about it.
Suffice it to say, Trump won the primaries because of his support in states with open primaries. That is, Trump won the primaries because registered Democrats could vote for him in states with open primaries.
Over the first, I think it was, 17 open primaries, there were three that he lost. One was to Cruz in his native Texas and one was to Kasich in his native Ohio.
People don’t change their registration as often as they change their minds. You can call up blue collar workers who voted for Al Gore way back when but now identify as Republican when you ask them on the phone. That doesn’t mean they changed their party identification on their registration form. Most people have better things to do with their time than go to the DMV (or wherever) and change their party identification. The only time they might do so if they move or have their drivers’ license renewed.
A lot of those white, blue collar, registered Democrats (who identify over the phone as Republican) voted for Trump in the general election in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, as well. All the focus on Russian meddling, Trump personally, etc. is partially about Democrats whistling past the graveyard. If you’re not a feminist, LGBTQI, BLM, a radical environmentalist, an illegal alien, or an SJW, the Democrats have nothing to offer you–and aren’t even trying. And let’s face it, the swing voters out there aren’t feminists, LGBTQI, BLM, radical environmentalists, illegal aliens, or SJWs.
Larry schweikart has been saying registrations have been trending GOP in most swing states since the election
Did you see the dems a better deal?
They ripped mostly off trump lol
The Republican almost have absolute control of enough state legislature to propose an amendment to the constitution without any help from any Democrats in any state legislature.
That amendment could then be ratified without any input from Congress.
My dream would be to have a balanced budget amendment. I’m not sure we’ll ever get the federal budget under control any other way.
But if the Republicans called a convention to nominate amendments, they’d almost certainly screw it up by making it about gay marriage or abortion. Because that’s what they do. They finally get the power to do what they promised, and then they shoot themselves in the balls.
If Tom Coburn has his way, there’ll be a balanced budget amendment. The kind of people interested in State Conventions are wonky policy types, anyways.
Yellow Peril
The new owner of San Francisco’s historic Anchor Brewing is undecided about whether it will follow through on plans to build a production facility and visitors center at Pier 48, a project city officials have long hoped would not only attract beer lovers but also bring blue-collar jobs back to the waterfront.
“The short answer is they are currently considering any and all matters and have not made any decisions with respect to ongoing projects,” said Sapporo Holdings spokesman Gino Colangelo. “Nothing has been decided outside of the initial acquisition.”
The Japanese group Sapporo announced this week that it had purchased Anchor Brewing, the craft-beer pioneer established in 1896.
Oh, no, the Nips are back, buying up America’ icons.
Fun fact. Long ago and far away an Anchor Steam (on tap they didn’t bottle it until much later) was my first legal beer. Spaghetti Factory in North Beach.
So Loretta lynch was using an email alias under Elizabeth Carlisle
http://media.aclj.org/pdf/Clinton-Lynch-Flag.pdf
Search for Liz
This was around time of tarmac meeting
Whoops this
http://media.aclj.org/pdf/Clinton-Lynch-Documents-1.pdf
That link freezes my browser. What lists did I just get put on?
It is 400 pages so maybe that is why?
Go to this and try first link
https://aclj.org/government-corruption/doj-document-dump-to-aclj-on-clinton-lynch-meeting-comey-fbi-lied-media-collusion-spin-and-illegality
https://mobile.twitter.com/polNewsForever/status/893679417200914434
Chances that the NYT/WaPo will ever pick this up? nil
“Um. A woodchipper just pulled up outside @reason”
https://twitter.com/kmanguward/status/893540891012481025
I think it’s a little too late at this point to close the barn doors.
http://nypost.com/2017/08/03/salon-struggling-to-pay-its-rent/amp/
“If you’re large-chested or getting kinda older like me, the gals don’t sit up as high as they used to. Trying to cool down after even a mildly hot shower in the dead of summer means boob sweat is a constant issue. Forget trying to dry your hair and do your makeup in the nude (which many people who lack the luxury of central air conditioning have to do). Sweat. Just. Drips. You end up putting on an in-between bra, continuing to sweat, and having to change again.
Enter: the Ta-Ta Towel!”
http://www.marieclaire.com/fashion/a28640/ta-ta-towell-for-keeping-your-boobs-up/
Your a towal!
I am starting to wonder if this whole Russia shit from anonymous sources is CIA and FBI along with obama admin like Rhodes trying to outrun trump gobbling them up in prison
For example they repackage and rehash stories, add some new flavor that can’t be corroborated
Heck if you listen to anonymous sources mueller is all over the place which doesn’t make sense. And they seem to be trying to goad trump into shutting him down
Me wonders if bob isn’t what it seems…especially seeing how they met a day before appointed to interview for FBI director. He is 72 years old and a 10 year term he already has done
Yes, because there’s just as good if not better chance that any real* investigation will unearth dirt implicating democrat misconduct
(*of course, the degree to which the investigation will be ‘real’ is always in question)
also, trump shutting down mueller would just result in a defacto assumption that he’s guilty, which is the main political objective.
Trump Trump Trump
When even Donald Trump thinks you look like a “spoiled brat”, you know you’ve achieved something. Martin Shkreli possesses one of the most slappable faces in America and, over the last couple of years, he appears to have been doing his best to ensure everyone in America wants to slap it.
On Friday, a Brooklyn jury did just that, and found the 34-year-old entrepreneur guilty of securities fraud. He now faces up to 20 years in prison, but is likely to get much less.
————
Harassing women. Shameless behavior on social media. A voracious thirst for the spotlight. An apparent disregard for basic propriety. Any of this remind you of someone? The president of the United States, perhaps? Shkreli is very much a younger, paler version of his idol, Trump. It seems apparent from Shkreli’s behavior that he has modeled himself on the president, and is attempting to replicate the way in which Trump manufactures fame through a constant conveyor belt of controversy that makes irresistible content.
So
fucking
tedious.
Totally OT : and something I know no one will read since it is too late in the day and the rest of the Glibs have a life: I have been bringing work home for the past three weekends over the.same.divorce case. I am so very very sick of it. But the worst part is that the attorney on the other side is 77 or older, and thinks he can bully me into folding. We supposedly have a trial on Monday morning (worst time to have a trial!) and so I sent him my trial exhibits last thing yesterday (going with a play from his playbook, service at the last possible moment. I even had a courier pick up get it for me at 3:40pm so it might be the last thing he sees on a Friday before he leaves). I am sure he thinks “stupid woman on the other side, she has no idea what she’s talking about. I’ll send her a shit-ton of cases to scare her that she’s on the wrong side of the argument, and she’ll give my client what he wants.” Instead I have just held on, waiting for him to fold.
Sounds like a challenge. The Friday afternoon data dump is a tried and true challenge Good luck!
Step 1: Get him to write you into his will.
Step 2: humiliate him so badly that he keels over.
Profit!