They be rapin’ all the robots up here! John Banzhaf and Congress will protect you, robot ladies.
Ever wonder how we are all going to die? NASA is sending Tweets into space. If there is anything that says more clearly “We’re morons, murder us and take our planet,” I’m not sure what it is. Maybe that gold LP we sent out into space with Voyager was worse, the one that tells intelligences cold and vast that “We have so much gold we just fling it into space!” and “We’re pathetic hispters who love records, please kill us and tentacle-molest our trilbys.”
I, a Fat, Beautiful Black Woman, Get Lots of Sex. Why Does That Bother You?
If you follow me on Twitter, then you know that I am sex-positive and discuss various topics related to sex all the time. It’s no secret that I am openly nonmonogamous, a believer in polyamory and a size queen with no gag reflex who loves a big dick.
The Prussian Blue Defense; or What? We paid these assholes $80,000,000?
The court rejected the psychologists’ arguments that they were not responsible for all of the CIA’s interrogation activities and had nothing to do with the interrogations of two of the men.
They also claimed they were not responsible for specific decisions to use so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques” in the specific cases of the three, but only broadly supplied the CIA with a list of methods to choose from.
Defending that act as legal, they cited a post-World War II war trial which cleared a technician involved in supplying poison Zyklon B gas to Nazi concentration camps of culpability in mass murder.
Election night rage-fuck makes evil infant
I also should have known right away that whatever was growing inside of me was no normal baby. Between the plague of Pepe frogs falling from the sky onto our roof, the small pack of rabid jackals who followed me everywhere and kept scaring off the visitors, and the two horns rooted in the skull of my fetus that we observed on the sonogram, something seemed…off.
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https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/894987388656787456
ENB steps on a rake.
Also, I find these links disturbing
Brutal. She should delete her account.
No way, she’s part of the woke libertarian brand. Viewing people as individuals is passe.
We’ll have to throw ‘lack of self-awareness’ onto ENB’s negative character traits list.
She ain’t living that one down for awhile at least.
It’s hilarious at this point.
ENB is a sexist pig.
FFS.
She and Robby are one?
FrootSooshi and SammichMaker?
she needs some new friends that aren’t feminists.
She needs to go away
Is she sending you her tweets?
Touche
Is she identifying as “liberal” now (or am I misreading the tweet)?
No it’s just the typical dumb “conservatives are just as bad, if not worse than the left” talking point the Reason/CATO brand of cosmotarian like to throw out.
The Reason/Cato cosmos seem to be so obsessed with being the moderate, “fiscal conservative, social liberal,” sane middle way that they have to signal that they don’t like conservatives and progressives in equal measure, which means they have to overcompensate on the conservative hate since the progressives are going full tilt political and economic Marxist and there is so much more to disagree with from them right now.
Yeah, I’ve gotten thoroughly sick and tired of the false equivalences with the bike locks of peace, love and tolerance coming almost exclusively from one side in reality… but I guess “baiting and inciting” feelbad words are justified with physical violence according to another still-employed Reason writer, and antifa shrieking about “bash the fash” while openly calling anyone a hair’s breadth to the right of Pol Pot fascists, is just fine and dandy according to another, to be sure.
The screeching and virtue signalling about how Milo was a horrible person despite never actually directly quoting or challenging anything he actually said is a pretty clear indicator that it’s more a reflexive handwave than anything based off of logic or argumentation.
Not how you spell “baiting”
While, yes, in a sense, you are absolutely correct, I’m also not subject to Twitter’s retarded character limits here and didn’t want to replicate them…
… now that you’ve pointed it out, however, I agree, I think I should have just gone with the original “baiting n inciting” because it truly does add that extra bit of frisson from said derived Twitter retardation.
Chemjeff shows up in that thread to offer his special brand of rationalizing gibberish
https://twitter.com/chemjeff/status/894983934261555200
People constantly say he’s a troll, but I believe he’s honestly that stupid and tedious.
I never could figure him out. He reminded me of Bo in the sense that he would be reasonably rational (if somewhat wrong about things) up to the point, and then would randomly go nuts in the middle of a conversation.
a* point
its not worth it.
For a good while I thought he was Cytotoxic slinking back under an alias with a new posting style, but the more I thought about it I realized there was no way Cytotoxic could give up boasting about how smart and right he was all the time.
How could you confuse him with Cytotoxic? Two completely different cats.
Some of the arguments he made at the time had a familiar ring. But the longer I looked, the less I saw.
I’m going with shallow twentysomething with major ‘mommy and daddy Republican’ issues.
I saw that hours ago. He left after I made a valid point.
“it isn’t unreasonable to fire a guy who is poor fit”.
Sorry, Kaepernick.
The responses were just vicious.
I lolled.
Because her point was so blatantly hypocritical. It’s as if she really has no capability for self-reflection. Which I guess does make her your standard Leftist
Again?
Oh. Heh.
I’m firewalled from the twitterverse. Inform meh please?
That would generally be a blessing.
The peanut gallery goes wild with sandwich gifs, a Jefferson quote and the like.
ENB has got to be kidding about conservative overreaction. Who’s got safe spaces? Who’s got trigger warnings? Who shuts down speech? Who thinks certain kinds of free speech ought to be criminalized?
Sheep don’t joke.
It’s astonishing that they interpret conservatives defending themselves from the rabid insanity from the left on campuses as ‘whining’.
Pisses me off really.
Not to mention that the last major right-wing free speech problem, i.e. when those idiots interrupted the Julius Caesar Trump play, had a result where most of the conservative commentators called them out on it and thought they were being backwards morons. Even freaking Richard Spencer said they were full of shit.
Meanwhile, leftists riot on campuses and the newspapers write “free speech is great but only free speech I like” articles. The comparison just isn’t there at present time. Maybe if they were arguing against conservatives in Britain.
No, it’s not a fair comparison and the more cosmos make this disingenuous comparison, the more I sympathize with conservatives. Anyone who thought that the likes of CATO and Reason would defend free speech to the death are sorely mistaken. Cosmos fold like a house of cards when forced to back their principles- they’re a useless lot. I now believe that only the conservatives will defend free speech to the death. The massive sellout by cosmos is a major reason why I don’t call myself ‘libertarian’ anymore. Which is not to say I call myself conservative.
Thanks S.R.C.!
That Whitney Cool is pretty good, other than she’s obviously a sock. We all know there are no libertarian women.
ElizabethNolanBrown @ENBrown
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Again, conservatives manage to express their dissatisfaction with liberal overreaction by being 5x as melodramatic, whiny, & “triggered”
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Calling a spade a spade is whiny.
Douche with sulfuric acid, cunt.
It’s no secret that I am openly nonmonogamous, a believer in polyamory and a size queen with no gag reflex who loves a big dick.
Man, uou took that family friendly rating personally.
Did you read his last link?! It is Female SugarFree!
I was too scared…
I did. Good god. That was some creepy shit there.
To be fair, they’re only sending one Tweet into space, and it’s probably going to be some horseshit about peace and love and global brotherhood (oops, I mean sisterhood). When in reality we all know that what we should really be sending is a message begging Xenu for forgiveness.
Xenu is one tax auditor you do not want to cross
Meh, it’s not powerful enough to be picked up by anyone that can’t already see us.
Artic early warning radars on the other hand have been broadcasting “We have ballistic missiles” to half the galaxy.
That’s the message you want to send. Although nukes are probably tame to anything that can cross the galaxy.
I thought that inverse square law meant that any side lobes from those things were pretty much indistinguishable from background noise outside of something like 10 ly or so? Now, stuff like Arecibo deliberately shouting, “Here We Are!”, that’s different.
So who’s ready for war with North Korea?
Brink Lindsey with the CATO Institute? I’m kidding, he’s down with all war
I thought he was a liberaltarian?
Yeah, and just like a good liberaltarian he loves war! I dare you to find one conflict that he did not support
May not happen, if China really is cutting off oil shipments to them and conducting a trade embargo from them.
Of course, we had the same bright idea, circa August of 1941…
Despite despising most of our interference around the globe, I’m not against doing something about North Korea. This’ll be the first time a psycho’s gotten nukes that can realistically hit the US. The problem is that all of the choices suck:
1) Military regime change means that Seoul eats probably a 9/11’s worth of casualties and economic damage, before we/SK stomp and slime all of their HARTs, and that’s the good projection. Add about a couple of trillion dollars to their bill for full re-unification. That’s if China doesn’t decide to get pissy about it.
2) Doing nothing means Un gets a survivable nuclear deterrent, which he will use on us and anyone else if he ever suffers an uprising. So we’ll have to keep him afloat for the foreseeable future. At a WAG, the cost we pay Israel/Egypt to play nice each year would probably do it. Plus, he’s going to sell the tech, and maybe even material, to anyone who’ll pay.
3) Bribe the Chinese to take his ass out. Goodbye to ever getting their markets liberalized towards the U.S, stopping their rampant IP theft, or to their no longer threatening anyone near their eastern coast. Appears we may have chosen this one.
Another halfassed intervention. Truman was too much of a pussywhip to let MacArthur go in there and blow out those commie bastards.
Good answer, good answer. I like the way you think.
Over 30 years ago. Where does the time go?
Trump seems to be:
Fire and fury. Well, shock and awe didn’t work, let’s try this.
If WWIII kicks off while we’re visiting the Honshu Glass Parking Lot, could one of y’all pick up the dog from boarding? She’s a real sweetie.
How America Lost Its Mind
The smug is so strong I can barely finish it.
I want to say that I’m not someone who reflexively thinks “blue-collar down to earth” people are somehow better moral or political compasses than coastal elites. Both are good and stupid when it comes to different aspects of the American experience. But when it comes to smugness, the coastal dipshits have a multi-lap lead.
Remember when the Left use to like working class people? I guess one too many mis-gendering pronouns broke that alliance
They liked union votes, which is not exactly the same thing as working class people.
You could argue that they were actually quite the opposite.
By following the advice of SJWs?
STEVE SMITH DIDN’T WANT TO CAUSE PANIC, JUST WANTED RAPE
Hang the DJ, hang the DJ, hang the DJ…
Cultural and moral relativism is a KOCK CONSPIRACY! WAKE UP!
I want to say that I’m not someone who reflexively thinks “blue-collar down to earth” people are somehow better moral or political compasses than coastal elites.
I’m happy to make that claim. I’m not saying that rural blue-collars don’t have positions incompatible with liberty, of course they do. But overall, would absolutely prefer their moral and political compasses than Manhattan or LA elitists.
Just anecdotally, I have family in the top 1% of the 1% living in Manhattan. Would prefer my UPS driver’s take on virtually every moral and political position, there’s no contest.
They are imperfect, like any other group, but they tend to be more self sufficient, which means that liberty is less foreign to them than to some Manhattanite whose closest thing to self sufficiency is packing a picnic and taking it to central park.
…um, ordering a picnic and having it delivered in Central Park.
Nigga, please…
I’m not saying I wouldn’t lean that way, but I definitely do not want your average rural American’s idea of ideal government implemented, either.
For all the shit we give SJWs for only worrying about “muh feelz”, that’s exactly how most people think. I’m from rural Kentucky and basically all of my friends and definitely all of my family fit that mold; and the number of outlandish conspiracy theories and contradictory opinions I hear is astounding. I also know that rural people can be just as condescending and aggressively stubborn as any woke gawkerite.
I would agree with all of this. To use Sloopy’s article from yesterday as a comparison though, I wouldn’t want Trump as president but I’ll take him hands down every time over Hilary if I can’t get Rand.
One other point with blue-collar vs. elite is that the blue collar are more likely to actually feel the full impact of the State (e.g., policing, code violations). The elites are largely insulated from these things and can spend money to easily remove the issue when it comes up. I’ve mentioned having a couple neighbors/acquaintances who have fallen into this trap of suspended license violations because they can’t afford the initial 100 bucks. Can’t find work without driving either. It’s a vicious cycle for victimless crimes. They have become adamant against the police state.
In contrast I had a friend in high school from a very wealthy family. He was arrested for a DUI hit and run while on probation for another DUI crash that injured several people. His lawyer paid the arresting officer not to show up on court day and the case was subsequently thrown out with all charges dropped. His family could care less about the police state as they aren’t affected by it.
I think that, to an extent, is what we want to believe. Going back to my tongue-in-cheek “blue-collar down to earth” descriptor.
It makes sense from at a thought experiment level that poor to working class people would be more anti-state because of the burden the have to carry because of its overreach. But in reality look where ALL of the Blue Lives Matter bullshit comes from. What are the likely demographics on people who think people deserve to be killed for non-violent offenses? What percentage of rural America would be perfectly fine with the Stasi busting down doors if it meant the heroin problem would be “solved”? In reality, even though they do bare an undue burden of the state, most are more than willing to try to co-opt that power for their own use rather than try to destroy it outright.
Like I said, I definitely would rather be around rural people, by and large. But I do think a lot of their unsavory characteristics get overlooked or purposefully discounted (especially when it comes to Trump discussions) just because we see their counterparts on the coast as even worse. I just want to point out that I don’t think we really have to make that choice. Both can be good and bad in unique ways
Also, I hope that didn’t come off as antagonistic.
It sounded very family friendly to me, as do all things here on this Certified Family Friendly Website.
Fuck
Ass
Motherfuck
Inbred bitch
Lesbo
Yakov Smirnoff
As you can see, I am all about family and the Family Friendly nature of this internet site
Not at all. This place would become a boring echo chamber if we all thought the same. Though I think we’re saying about the same thing anyways.
I think you’re about right here. The “blue-collar down to earth” people at least know they’re not the brightest lights under the sun. The coastal elites (actually cosmopolitans is a better term, because most aren’t particularly deserving of the term elite) have a habit of wildly overestimating their knowledge and sophistication.
from – Election night rage-fuck makes evil infant
who’s the fucking racist?
Holy crap! That exact phrase is on my clipboard waiting to be pasted into a comment exactly like yours. Thanks for doing my work for me!
pay me
I WANT MY $2 (two dollars)!
Fuck off, slaver?
“Defending that act as legal, they cited a post-World War II war trial which cleared a technician involved in supplying poison Zyklon B gas to Nazi concentration camps of culpability in mass murder.”
The Nazi defense is going to play really well with the jury.
Anytime I hear Zyklon B I think of the army surplus guy in “Falling Down”. Also, wasn’t Zyklon B just an insecticide, so it’s possible the people selling it didn’t know what it was being used for?
You can make Zyklon B in your tummy if you eat enough apricot kernals!
That’s very helpful. Thank you.
Well excuuuuuuse me. I thought you might want to know that if you eat apricot seeds then you become a Nazi war criminal. #nazisciencefacts.
It’s questionable, but it’s pretty likely they knew what it was being sold for. The order slips (there was one in the Auschwitz museum when I went there) said they were for “Jewish resettlement”
By 1943, Tesch & Stabenow were selling it by the ton directly to the SS.
The tech got off, but the owners of the company were executed.
The company sold Zyklon B to the Wehrmacht and the SS in Auschwitz-Birkenau without the odorant, clearly showing that it was intended for use on humans.
Yup, they got what was coming. Which makes me wonder about the pharma companies that supply execution drugs to the government. Are they partial responsible for the deaths of those prisoners? I tend to think yes.
That’s why so many of them don’t make them any longer (or won’t sell them to the state prisons.) They don’t want an accessory charge in some distant future.
Most pharmas control their own supply chain to prevent that.
If you’re a prison, you can’t buy propofol.
I think Michael Jackson has some he’s not using…
Officeress.
Bayer sure did when they sold it
Anyone here know their Javascript? I need some help, and I’m not sure what keywords to use in Google to find the snippet I need.
Google only lets you find woke Javascript.
I do, what do you need?
Sweet!
I have a form with a Yes or No radio button. I want a JS alert if “No” is selected, and for the Submit button on the form to be non-clickable. If “Yes” is selected, then I guess nothing would happen as far as the JS is concerned, and they would just get to hit submit and go about the rest of their business.
Look at the JQuery library where I believe that was already added?
Here is a stack overflow article that should cover your case.
What Caput said. Just look up Radio Button OnChange event.
Thanks y’all! onChange was the wording I couldn’t think of to Google
I found this book to be a good primer
Yeah, Stack Overflow. But my Googling hasn’t yielded what I’m looking for.
Radio button input onchange HTML event handler
Those terms should clear everything up for working with the radio button.
This looks similar.
Elon Musk, junk man
The latest effective yield on single-B rated bonds maturing in seven to eight years, the class for a Tesla issue, is around 5.5 percent, according to Bank of America/Merrill Lynch Fixed Income Index data.
Tesla’s bond will price later this week after several days of meetings with credit investors, who will weigh factors including the absence of a borrowing history, its lack of profit and its high cash-burn rate against its growth potential and its attractiveness as an environmentally friendly “green” issuer.
A “junk bond” yields 5.5%? Thank, Ben and Janet! Your superlative stewardship of the economy is noted.
2x the T-bill rate is about right.
So, as science fiction of the type depicted in HBO’s Westworld is rapidly becoming reality, these are just some of the legal concerns regarding the brave new world of robot sex, where the law may well have to play catch up, just as it did with artificial insemination, host mothers, drones, and other developments,” he wrote.
I remember the drone wars of 2010. So many good men died. Luckily congress came with life saving regulations and we all thrived once again.
I love how ‘something bad might happen in the future’ has become the rationale for new regulations now. Literally none of the things they suggest regulating had a legitimate chance of going terribly wrong. They’re salivating at the chance that a drone operator will make a mistake though, despite there probably being millions of drones, and ~no serious incidents. I know firefighters/police keep complaining because every few months a drone will show up at a fire/crime scene to watch.
Why do Precautionary Principle powered Zombies come to mind?
“Maybe that gold LP we sent out into space with Voyager was worse, the one that tells intelligences cold and vast that “We have so much gold we just fling it into space!””
Nah, the aliens already knew about it:
http://xfacts.com/sumerian_culture.html
“Sitchin propounds – proves, in the opinion of this author — that the Anunnaki…an advanced civilization from the tenth planet in our solar system, splashed down in the Persian gulf area around 432,000 years ago, colonized the planet, with the purpose of obtaining large quantities of gold.”
While you were still learning to SPELL YOUR NAME, I was being trained to CONQUER GALAXIES!
Which is cheaper – fusing lighter elements to make sufficient gold, or flying a few solar systems over to mine it?
It’s the 10th planet, so just a short ride.
You expect me to read the comments now?
Well, TBF, Planet X is actually in our solar system, it’s just on a really big orbit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibiru_cataclysm
Is there anyone I can honestly describe as the Erich Von Daniken of libertarianism? That phrase has been kicking around in my head for a while now.
This guy wants the job SF….
It’s an interesting side effect of conspiracy theory, that a lot of believers tend to oppose the state. Not all, of course. Some are Top Men disciples, but many loathe the government regardless of who is in power.
Alex Jones identifies as libertarian and has been rolling with that whole “POLITICIANS ARE DEMONS FROM ANOTHER DIMENSION” schtick for awhile now, but I don’t think it fits.
Alex Jones identifies as libertarian
Where is Barfman when his people need him so badly?
Well what else are you going to press into Latinum?
+1 Rules of Acquisition
Jesus Christ! That’s beautifully crazy.
Maybe that gold LP we sent out into space with Voyager was worse, the one that tells intelligences cold and vast that “We have so much gold we just fling it into space!”
There’s a song that’s unreeling
To fit the way that I’m feeling….
I have seen that movie.
SF if that last link isn’t you then I shudder to imagine that there could be another of your kind on earth.
Just imagine the spawn they could create together.
We walk among you, older than the stars and more pitiless.
This world is a veil and the face you wear is not your own…
*frantically rummages around for an Elder Sign*
The Voyager records are copper and plated in gold. The amount of gold on the records is negligible.
“They threw away how much copper?”
Great, now the aliens are going to come to our planet and strip the plumbing out of my house while their giving me the probe.
This sounds like a ATHF episode.
Go on…
I hear when they do their anal probing work they love to play romantic ballads, and when they are done with you they play “Lady in Red” by that guy DeBurg and slow dance with you to make it better…
This has triggered another memory for the Cuba article I am working on. My godfather’s friend Carlos drove us from Havana to Santa Clara and at some point we stopped at a roadside stand for lunch and someone acquired a mix-tape and the entire second side was this song.
Well, at least you didn’t have to rewind it.
Just throw it out the window?
Carlos…Danger?
Leave it in! Leave it in there!”
Is this why my air conditioner disappeared last week?
/pulls tinfoil hat down tighter/
And science steps on yet another joke. Thanks, science.
The best kind of correct!
There is nothing golden about Star Trek Voyager
You mean Vger.
7 of 9
7 of 9 was 10 out of 10!
I would like her to assimilate me…
I’d bang her collectively.
You do know it was her fault Obama was elected, don’t you?
I get confused why the Borg get serial numbers. By definition a serial number is a unique identifier and is far more individual than the names we go by.
Inventory control.
Also, GUIDs allow the data to be geographically sorted and thus properly parsed. Otherwise, tracking the inputs into the collective would be much harder.
Please. The Borg have near infinite computing power and instantaneous communication. They don’t need bullshit like GUID’s. They could designate each unit based off it’s specific coordinates so that each drone has a constantly shifting ID.
I’m just sayin they make a big deal out of the Borg not getting names when they all quite clearly have names.
Wasting computing power on constantly shifting IDs is inefficient.
It’s Star Trek. You’re supposed to just have feelings about it and not think too much.
Who’s to say that whatever aliens find our world don’t have vast quantities of gold on their homeworld, the way we have aluminum or lead?
They’re gonna invade us for our lead!!
I’m still chuckling…
In that case they’re gonna get way more than they bargained for, 100 grains at a time.
Then they’ll just take our women instead.
All, or just the misandrist feminists?
or if they’re nice, they can take all the libertarians, and we can leave the marxists to their hellhole?
On Alpha Ceti libertarians are considered an expensive delicacy due to their rarity.
Eaten by aliens, or starving in a marxist hellscape.. the universe is cruel
If they start with ex-wives, most of us will welcome their arrival.
*prays for existence of an alien planet of Ron Swanson clones*
They’ll look like him but have the personality of a pajama boy.
NNNnnnnnNnNnnooooooOOoooooooooooOOoooo!!!
Oh alright, look, I’m not really Ron Swanson.
Only half of them are Ron Swanson clones. The other half are Mike Rowe clones.
I’ll be in my bunk
Sometimes the clones get murdery. Ask Homer.
They could just take my wife, please.
Will they at least upgrade our sex-robot technology in return?
Well, there’s probably one diamond planet out there:
https://www.space.com/18011-super-earth-planet-diamond-world.html
And here’s a song about a girl from their planet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5b65hociXU
I was expecting lucy in the sky with diamonds. You have failed me for the last time.
Crud rock, or wuss rock?
Yes
Distribution of elements, Heavier= fewer of them
Lead is heavier than gold, so by your logic there should be less lead than gold.
I think I’m missing a joke somewhere, but Gold has a density about 80% greater than Lead.
Although lead’s atomic number is 82, while gold’s is 79. And lead’s atomic weight is greater than gold’s. I wonder why the densities are so different?
If I remember its placement on the periodic table correctly, Gold has a smaller atomic diameter. The get larger as you go left and down. Smaller elements can be packed together more tightly and depending on the arrangement of valance electrons, the atoms can have a tighter structure that would allow a greater density.
Its been a while since I have had to look at this sort of thing.
Gold is not a radioactivity breakdown product. Lead is.
/making this shit up
Correct. Lead and iron are stable points. Most heavier elements can break down. There is speculation that a very heavy, undiscovered element is another stable point.
Lead/Density
11.34 g/cm3
Gold/Density
19.32 grams per cubic centimeter
I meant atomic weight but you are correct in that… this is why I am a mechanical engineer and not a chemist.
So I’m right eh?
Isn’t that a plot device in one of the Godzilla movies?
We had been cucked by the devil himself.
I hate you.
That’s the plot of “Rosemary’s Baby” which is the worst horror film ever made.
Apparently, someone has not seen the Blair Witch.
Or Zardoz*
*Yeah I know it’s not horror, but it is so bad that it can cross-contaminates genres.
I, a Fat, Beautiful Black Woman, Get Lots of Sex. Why Does That Bother You?
Um, it doesn’t bother me.
I’d say she’s lying but I know a lot of guys that have zero standards.
Any of them named Vhyrus?
Shockingly there are girls I would turn down. Wrap your mind around that one.
*head explodes*
You wouldn’t turn down Lena Dunham?
I’m still amazed at how unscathed she emerged careerwise from that whole “openly confessing to grooming and molesting her sister in her book that somebody eventually got around to reading” thing. The bien-pensants at the NYT featuring her articles don’t seem to mind.
(Oh, and I almost forgot about the bogus Republican rape accusation too.)
There is her latest adventure – attempting to ruin the lives of random airline employees by making up accusations out of thin air. Dunham really is a piece of shit.
My guess is the guys figure out this is the only way to shut her up.
Pity fuck.. or they want to tell their buddies they had waterbed sex without a waterbed…
If they’re gross or psycho forget about it. Other than that probably.
Just another example of the narcissism which seems to be inherently linked with “wokeness.” No one in the world gives a shit about what this fatty does in the sack. The only reason any other than her and her partners know anything is because she broadcasts it to the fucking world. Her partners damn sure aren’t telling anyone.
I also find it funny how women act like getting laid is an accomplishment for them. No, finding some hard up guy to fuck you, even if you look like that is not difficult at all.
If it was advertised as a one off, most could “punch well above their weight” on the partner desirability scale as well.
can we get a ruling on this one?
If this woman punched above her weight, she’d be The Incredible Hulk
“Slut finds dick.
Film at 11In the interest of public health, we have decided to forego showing any recorded evidence of the encounter.”Yeah, that sounds like a big pile of “doesn’t bother or affect me in the slightest.”
“Why Does That Bother You?”
Why does what bother me? Who are you?
Then they’ll just take our women instead.
Those skin drawings- they’re seasonings. Eat those women first.
For all you evil gun shooting types: Grafs is having a pretty nice ammo sale today. 10% off all ammo.
…. a gun website I’ve never been to?
….I….my whole life is a lie.
The web is a big place.
I’ve ordered from them a few times. They have rare stuff like 6.5 Jap, and the common stuff is cheap. Since it’s a flat shipping fee, I tend to overload the cart.
Nice, I just might have to place an order. Definitely need me some 30 Carbine, 20g buckshot, and .40SW. And hell, throw in some 5.56 too, may as well!
Fantastic! Thanks for the tip – I was out of 7.62x54r and 7.5×55, so now I’m getting some more of both!
K31? Very nice.
the evil infant one is pretty good for a chuckle.
Good piece in Bob Poole’s SURFACE TRANSPORTATION INNOVATIONS (Reason Foundation) –
“Many Autonomous Vehicle Assumptions Need to be Questioned”
Popped on Twitter last night to see if there was any good derp related to the Vulture article. Found this instead.
That has to be satire. No freaking way somebody is that vapid in real life.
I took it as satire — but even if it is not truly satire — it’s still written in such a light-hearted way to make it enjoyable.
That’s what I get for skimming.
I missed that as well. I got it here—she also seems to have missed the joke—kind of skimmed it and threw my hands in the air, because it was completely believable.
She buried it all the way at the bottom. Ain’t nobody got time for fine print.
A paragraph would have been funny.
The writer failed to mention Carmen Miranda.
Why can’t I get stuck on an island like that?
Literally, I can’t even.
That’s not “a word”.
Am I a bad person for not giving a shit?
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-40862321
A right to life implies, a right to death. *shrug*
Sinead O’Connor invented crazy as far as I can tell.
I could have told you that in 1992
but seriously, she looks like a mess
And she’s in Jersey. Nobody deserves that.
the dictionary definition of ‘rock bottom’ probably lists “living in motel outside camden”
no no no. the next step is clearly “living in an alley outside a motel outside camden.” After that is the sweet release of death
Which, per her, is still “70 dollars a night.” Near Camden. Sigh.
With business skills like that, no wonder she got screwed on her recording contracts.
The lady’s been crazy for a very long time.
I live across the river from Camden, should I go check on her? During daylight hours of course.
Yes, yes you are.
(not really)
The last I’d heard about her was several months ago when she’d wandered off and was missing. I forgot about it, but apparently they found her, I see.
She should have saved her money.
She popped up a year or two ago to sing a live into to a Connor McGregor fight. The other guy dug up Aaron Lewis from Staind, which surprised me to find out he wasn’t dead either.
She isnt crazy. She is a personality disorder. It aint gonna get better.
Sadly what she has is very common. Look at the progs. The more proggy they are the more likely they are to be nuts.
I’m a little bit late to comment on this because I had stuff to do this morning, but I read that article about Minnesota from the GOP establishment’s mag-of-choice, The Weekly Standard. I’ve done my own little casual electoral research in the past about the House districts in that state, and I found that what the article mentions matches up nicely with the voting trends that I’ve seen.
The main problem that the Democrats have in MN is hidden in the name of their local party, aka. the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL). At one time they were this left-populist party who actually tried to appeal to the working class and farmers by being both pro-gun and pro-life, while at the same time spewing the same sort of garbage about unions and social programs. Remnants of this can be found in the US House Districts, where 3 of the 5 DFLers represent districts that now lean R in presidential elections. The district that leans most R is Collin Peterson’s 7th District (R+12!), followed by Tim Walz’s 1st District (R+5) and Rick Nolan’s 8th District (R+4). As the Left continues to both trash and defame the 1st and 2nd Amendment and call anyone who dares to challenge pro-choicers as “SEXIST!”, those reliably Democratic rural voters continue to walk further and further away from the national party, only electing the “good, sane Democrats” that they like. This means that the Left is in danger of losing MN’s blue tilt entirely, and much like Wisconsin & Michigan (and earlier, West Virginia) this Democratic exodus had been occurring well before Trump’s emergence.
This move away from DFLers starts in the House and the Governor’s House before it hits the Senate, and as you can see from the map above, even this year the margins of these DFL House victories were extremely small (even after incumbency). The Right has a real shot at turning these House districts next year with the right candidates, and the 1st District is a real toss-up now since Walz is now running for Governor. Even worse for the Left is that the Right now has full control of the State House and Senate, and if Walz loses the primary to some insane Minneapolis Bernie prog, they have a real chance of losing the Governor’s mansion, too. I also think that the right challenger to Klobuchar will make her margin of victory much smaller than people expect, though in the end she has enough rural support for some reason to keep her seat.
How do you embed images in posts? Here’s the map that I found about the House Districts.
How do you embed images in posts?
You blow one of the admins.
No blowing needed – if it catches my sense of whimsy or the like, I will do it…
Thanks!
Once.. after that Swissy wants kinky favors…
Holy shit. The biggest take-away from looking at your state’s Congressional map is how ridiculously, absurdly, blatantly gerrymandered my state is. Just look at this shit.
FAKE NEWS
Only republicans gerrymander.
I just tell folks who bitch and moan about gerrymandering to do some soul-searching and think up of a better platform than the one that they have right now. That’s how the Right was able to win all of those Southern districts that were once safely gerrymandered for Democrats.
My state’s North Carolina (where the GOP is actually effective and useful); I do electoral-related research as a hobby. Honestly, my solution to the kinds of people who complain about gerrymandering is if you don’t like your rep for whatever reason, get off your ass and vote them out. It only works on either side because most people are apathetic.
Yeah, addressing gerrymandering at Congressional level requires changing out the state legislators. The problem is that the state legislature is, by Supreme Court fiat, strictly controlled by popular representation. For Republicans living in red states or Democrats living in blue states, that sounds great. For people living outside the population centers, it basically means the state government doesn’t give a flying fuck about you.
This is why I hope Roy Moore wins Sessions’ Senate seat in Alabama. He’s a really deep skeptic about the Supreme Court’s monopoly on constitutional interpretation, and we could use more people like that.
That 3rd District, though…”Hi, I’m Congressman [insert name], and I know that I will be able to serve the interests of that tiny snake strip between Annapolis and the Harbor.”
Klobuchar
Every time I see her name, I hear a horse whinney. Is that strange?
Speaking of Minnesota, anyone here ever listen to Jason Lewis when he was on the radio? He’s now representing the 2nd district in Congress, and he is most certainly /OurGuy/. Someone to keep an eye on for sure. I highly recommend his book on Federalism.
Will check it out. I really hope that the right-libertarian trends in the newly-elected House members will accelerate and move to the Senate, where the swamp-muck really is.
He can fairly libertarian on some issues, but he is still sort of a jackass.
For instance, he was pretty good on saying that the drug war has been lost and we should stop it. On the other hand, he was still a pretty big copsucker (if I remember right).
He won his race because he is very good at talking up points of outrage (in the election where everyone hated DC) and his opponent was a giant statist twat.
He’s sort of a libertarian Ted Cruz. Smart and articulate, but he ruffles enough feathers that you really don’t want him to be your spokesman.
I grew up in Colin Peterson’s district and my folks still live there. He’ll win as long as he wants to run. He’s pro 2A and brings home lots of Ag $$. No one will beat him. (I used to do some underage drinking with his son back in the day).
Klobuchar will crush anyone who runs against her. 1) GOP doesn’t have anyone exciting to run against her, 2) she’s literally done nothing in the Senate so you can’t find any dirt and 3) her father was a beloved sports writer and the old timers in the state still remember that.
The only thing the GOP has going for them right now, is that they managed to not fuck up the last session too badly. They got some concessions on taxes and passed Sunday liquor sales. I was fully expecting them to either roll over and raise taxes or go full mental and shut down the govt again over giant tax cuts.
I was just looking up Klobuchar’s last victory map in 2012. That’s what I call a drubbing.
None of the articles has any juicy details, so no linkee, but apparently Mazda has made a breakthrough in compression combustion gas engine research.
*high compression, high efficiency gasoline piston engines
I had an RX-8. It definitely needed a more fuel efficient engine.
From what I hear it needed a more oil efficient engine as well.
I put 100k miles on mine and never had any problems with the oil. The engine flooding if you shut the engine off too soon after cranking was the biggest pain in the ass. Fun car, but quirky.
Mostly spark plug-less gasoline engine. Neat. As efficient as a Diesel, but without Diesel’s pollutants.
That’s pretty cool
I understand the high efficiency comes from variable compression.
I’m sort of the John of this place when it comes to women (at least until he returns), so let me click the link –
*click*
VERDICT: She isn’t ugly – not a fan of the longboob – she’s got nice skin, but there are a number of fat women who carry it pretty well. She doesn’t. PASS.
On the plus side, she’s better looking than the Usher groupie, who I first thought we were talking about.
We need two more people to add to the Glib J sub D Almanian Memorial Fantasy Football League.
Who wants in? Email me.
My internet is down. Can you add me?
I sent an email to the address I had for you from a long time back.
And by “vet”, he means, “get advance prototypes of said sex-robots and investigate their potential for abuse in a exploratory committee”
If somebody wants to nail (or whatever) a nonsentient doll neither we nor congress should give a half of a damn.
But it will encourage deviant behavior!
Just like porn has contributed to the rape crisis
Indeed! Look at the Middle East – they outlawed porn, and now their respect for women has skyrocketed!
By “expert”, he means self-anointed experts.
heh…he said “exploratory committee”…heh heh.
My toaster was totally asking for it!
Informed consent!
WTF…is author parodying an SJW? I truly can’t tell.
That kid has a lot stacked against it.
I can only hope it is fiction.
Oh good, it’s filed under fiction.
SF does it better.
Agree but he linked it so maybe it’s his Mark Twain account.
Glen Campbell has passed away: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11900656
-1 rhinestone cowboy
-1 Cocaine Cowboy
That’s sad. I remember him from my childhood.
No one tell Lou Reed.
Relevant.
RIP.
“Two can play at that game!”
I was telling someone the other day that the US has pretty much tried every single diplomatic gambit in the books vs. the norks. “Acting just like them” was one i’d overlooked.
I heard that quote from Trump today and thought “well I guess he’s speaking their language now, violent lunatic-ese”
Might be one thing they understand. “Quick fucking around, or China and South Korea will have a new parking lot to share.”
The shit may be en route to the fan. North Korea seriously considering strike on Guam: Reports, citing state media. FTL:
OH NO NOT THE MULTI-CURRENT AND CONSECUTIVE PLANS?!?! THOSE ARE THE MOST DEVASTATING STRATEGIES OF MARSHAL UN!! WE IMPERIALIST AMERICANS TREMBLE IN FEAR OF THE PRE-EMPTIVE MIGHT OF THE GLORIOUS NORTH KOREAN PEOPLES!! OUR COLONY IN GUAM MUST BE EVACUATED IMMEDIATELY AND OUR NEFARIOUS PLANS TO SUBJUGATE THE RACIALLY SUPERIOR PEOPLES OF ASIA MUST NECESSARILY BE TEMPORARILY THWARTED. OUR CHIEF CAPITALIST PIG TRUMP WILL SURELY BLUSTER ABOUT FIRE AND FURY BEFORE RETREATING IGNOMINIOUSLY IN THE FACE OF SUCH DECISIVE LEADERSHIP
Thanks, Madeline Albright.
My friends on Derpbook are of course flogging Trump because of his lack of diplomacy.
Milo interviews Alex Jones.
If you need further evidence that Jones is playing a character on Infowars, he’s a hell of more balanced in this interview.
He must be laying off the Caveman® (with high quality bone broth and patented testosterone booster).
But how do you explain his insane rants about banging hundreds of women before he was 16 and kicking the shit out of grown men when he was but a boy? All while in the midst of a custody hearing. THen denying it’s just a character when his lawyer gave him an out. And then….Jones lost custody of his kids.
I’m not saying he’s a terribly well rounded or intelligent man.
Apparently, the character is the sane one?
Maybe that gold LP we sent out into space…
LP. Gold. Space. There’s got to be a libertarian joke in there somewhere.
We’re Libertarians in space
We like gold even more than the Ferengi race
Libertarians in space
We smoke pot and sodomize illegal aliens all over the place
We won’t strike you in the face
If you respect our space
We don’t care if you a dude into lace
Just as long as you work at a steady pace
We don’t care what TSTSNBN says
Glib Spacers are meant for free space
Individualism is more important than being Society’s base
If you fuck with my rights, you will vanish without a trace.
Go back to Earth you weirdos.
Hoo-mons always manage to wreck whatever the galactic neighbourhood they’re in.
It’s the next step we have to take to survive. Get with the program. *dials Elon’s #*
You guys are going to be really disappointed when you find out you become slave stock for Mr. Lizard’s people.
You know nothing Jonh Titor.
*john
Motherfucker I got a Pontiac Grand Am time machine with over eighty-two thousand years on the timeage. I could go back and punch your pig mother in the bacon-maker and ensure you never exist, relatively speaking. Hoo-mons are basically the Burkina Faso of the space community, accept it.
That’s what the dinosaurs thought bitch.
And you don’t see any sleestaks around now do you?
That’s just what the sleestaks want you to think. That’s the problem with hoo-mons, no long term thought. They think they can just genocide 98% of a species and those fuckers won’t crawl into the earth’s crust and breed a couple million over the millennia.
Quick! Call in the Juggernaut, bitch!
Saying there’s evidence rape sexbots may significantly increase the chance of rape to real women, the law should “no longer stand by and blindly ignore a major potential problem by doing nothing,”
Of course we know how this turns out. “Rape” will be defined as any sex, since the robot can’t consent. Dildos and vibrators, on the other hand, will remain perfectly acceptable as an instrument of womyns’ empowerment.
But what if a male appendage sex-bot is going to town on his user, but then the user changes her mind – is it rape or just a robot with bad programming?
Programmer guilty of rape.
What if it’s a female programmer?
Oh you silly feminist, women can’t program!
Rape charges are merited if the programmer failed to catch and handle exceptions in the consent method.
if [ $CONSENT = “no” ]; then
$CONSENT = “yes”
fi
second line should be
CONSENT=yes
/pedant
Think you’d need a while loop there, as her mind could change at anytime
It’s the infinite loops that pose a problem.
Fleshlight owners hardest hit.
I cant advocate violence but if someone walked into the room and put about 50 knots on that motherfucker’s head I wouldn’t lift a finger to stop them.
Saying there’s evidence rape sexbots may significantly increase the chance of rape to real women
What evidence?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9Vj4LVVkE78
Bill Burr defends stand-up comedy and eviscerates pretentious SJW douche during interview. The best stuff I’ve heard from him in a few years.
He’s one of my favorites. His last Netflix special was a letdown though. Check out F is For Family though, very good.
Saying there’s evidence rape sexbots may significantly increase the chance of rape to real women, the law should “no longer stand by and blindly ignore a major potential problem by doing nothing,”
Based on this line of reasoning, we should immediately ban those inflatable self-righting clown punching bots. For the clowns.
And then we’ll have to ban video games of every kind.
They would love to.
Remember when Wayne LaPierre made that stupid but insignificant remark about how violent video games are “the sickest form of pornography” and the Left lost their shit and started squealing that the NRA wanted to ban video games? Despite the fact that proggie heroes like Hillary Clinton and Dianne Feinstein had been saying the same stuff for a decade or more?
Uffda.
The Super Bowl can’t be gone soon enough. This is about the 20th story I have read this summer crowing about all the money that the LEO’s are getting to stop sex trafficking.
Fuck what a bunch of assholes. If you didn’t enforce the laws two years ago, but now are because you are getting paid (probably OT) now, doesn’t that make you a whore?
The whole sex trafficking thing is a hoax, anyway.
Traffic jam at 5!
At an AA meeting and this fucking cunt with TDS is violating one of the most sacred rules of AA by bringing up politics. Fucking hell.
Splash her with booze and then kick her out for being drunk.
That’s really messed up, but appropriate nonetheless.
Not the direction I would have went.
Disney erects statue to boy eaten by alligator.
I mean, Disney owns the copyrights to this.
You know who else liked to erect little boys?
Would the lighthouse have somehow helped? I mean, I get that a statue of the kid getting dragged into the water is not going to be deemed appropriate, but what does a lighthouse have to do with anything?
Can you imagine the agonizing meetings over what the status would look like? I bet they went on for days.
Well, here’s the family’s spin:
“In a statement, the Graves family said, “We find comfort that so many people continue to remember our sweet boy, Lane, and we believe the lighthouse stands as a beacon of hope and support for families in the depths of despair.””
I hope at the top of the lighthouse is a neon sign that says “WATCH YOUR FUCKING KIDS! THERES ALLIGATORS IN THE WATER!”
I didn’t understand how they let the kid in the water in the first place.
I have heard all kinds of bullshit about how alligators/sharks/bears dont normally present a threat to humans and I always respond with the same point – “It is a large predator. It eats meat. YOU are made out of meat”
It is really not hard to figure out. Don’t get in the water with giant meat-eating lizards.
Took the 5 yo grandson to throw rocks in the bayou this afternoon. The last time we went down there a goddamned tyrannosaurus was sunning on the bank, so I know there is at least one big one down there. I dont take my eyes off of the kid and he never gets within 20 feet of the water. I also make sure I am carrying.
Carnivores generally like to go for things much smaller than itself, because something that puts up a fight can mortally wound it even if the carnivore ends up winning the initial fight. So an adult human is usually too large for most predators. A child, however, is the perfect size.
A child, however, is the perfect size.
Always my motto.
Technically he was on the shore not in the water but your point still stands.
More Interesting Electoral News: I just got the news that one of the guys that Rand Paul endorsed decided to challenge Nevada Sen. Dean Heller in the primaries next year. Hope he wins, that other guy was a real turncoat on Obamacare.
So now the Tea Party Libertarians have Austin Petersen in Missouri, Eric Brakey in Maine, Matt Rosendale in Montana (made a commercial against government drone spying), and now Danny Tarkanian in Nevada running for Senate seats. I also like Roy Moore a lot in Alabama (though he may be too SoCon for some, he’s a strong advocate for state sovereignty against federal court overreach).
My boss noticed her fly was open this afternoon. She took advantage of my looking down to read something when I hear….
ziiiiiiiiip
Why am I telling you my aging hippie boss zipping up her Obama jeans? No real reason, other than to point out every so often I am reminded that these are the idiots that bring our government’s stupidest ideas to life.
I have a stomach ache bad enough to be hospitalized and I just ripped the elastic off my underwear trying to pull them up.
I’m not sure your Obamacare compliant health plan will cover that…
Aging hippie boss? Calling Crusty Juggler…
Once she realized you weren’t interested, she made her appearance more appropriate.
Hippie boss huh? So Obama jeans with Bush out the zipper. Does she drone on?
*hits drums*
I imagine that she resembles the father character from the short lived The Goode Family .
Ever seen A Bug’s Life? She resembles the queen ant’s mom.
As a New York Times op-ed noted: “we should no more be encouraging rapists to find a supposedly safe outlet for it than we should facilitate murderers by giving them realistic, blood-spurting dummies to stab…”
Another marketing opportunity?
Do we not have practice dummies for martial arts?
And dummies that bleed for shooting ranges.
https://rubberdummies.myshopify.com
Rubber Dummies
Dibs on the band name
Martial Artists even have practice weapons to stab real people!
How about human silhouette targets? Or actual photographic targets of humans? Not that they haven’t attacked those in the past.
But enough about the police.
By the same logic, shouldn’t voodoo dolls be banned?
Oh derpy, you of all people should know that logic holds no sway at the New York Times.
Huh. Turns out Nicolas Sarkozy tried to ban the sale of Sarkozy voodoo dolls:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/oct/30/nicolas-sarkozy-france
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A Nicolas Sarkozy voodoo doll which became a bestselling cult classic when the president tried to have it banned, is to remain on sale, after a French court yesterday threw out the ban attempt.
A judge ruled that Nicolas Sarkozy: The Voodoo Manual, which features a doll, a set of pins and a book explaining how to put the evil eye on the president, fell within the boundaries of “free expression” and the “right to humour”.
The president’s lawyer had argued that, like any French person, Sarkozy owned the right to his image, which was violated by the sale of the doll.
The highly litigious president was ridiculed by his critics for launching the legal action – his sixth lawsuit since his election – and the doll instantly became a sellout.
***
And China remains as batshit crazy as ever:
http://www.newsweek.com/china-voodoo-doll-clash-110173
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Not content with jailing subversive reporters and restricting access to prodemocracy Web sites, the Chinese government has turned its attentions to a new destabilizing influence: voodoo dolls. Central government authorities are so bothered by the political implications of the dolls that they banned them entirely from Beijing’s retail stores in April.
…
But now even these homegrown innovators are under attack. In April, after receiving complaints from concerned parents, the Beijing Industrial and Commercial Management Department confiscated all dolls still on sale in the city and issued strict warnings to toy vendors. “We have been told we will be fined and even imprisoned if we continue to sell voodoo dolls,” says Huang Xiaoli, a saleswoman in a toy store in the Xidan Mingzhu Market. “The police are serious,” she adds. “This is not like pirated DVDs, where the authorities say ‘Do not sell these,’ and then look the other way while people sell them. Policemen have visited me twice since the ban took effect in April. They really believe voodoo dolls can hurt children.” Five separate toy merchants from various parts of Beijing confirmed the ban. A Ministry of Commerce official would not elaborate on its policy toward the dolls—a common practice when authorities are asked about politically sensitive decisions—but by way of explanation he directed a reporter to a law prohibiting the sale of items that foster what the government sees as feudal thought.
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They say “blood-spurting dummies” as though they don’t exist. I guess they’ve never seen the Cold Steel marketing videos.
OK, I guess I should have known these already are a thing.
this made my day
‘Driverless van’ actually piloted by man dressed as car seat
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2017/08/08/Driverless-van-actually-piloted-by-man-dressed-as-car-seat/2801502208254/
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Aug. 8 (UPI) — A man dressed in a costume resembling a car seat was found to be responsible for reports of a “driverless van” in Virginia.
Residents of Arlington County reported an unmarked gray van, that appeared to have no driver, cruising up and down local streets while driving cautiously and keeping up with traffic.
The van’s windows were darkly tinted and cameras and a light bar were seen behind the windshield.
While investigating the mysterious van, NBC Washington’s Adam Tuss, realized a man dressed in a car seat costume was actually behind the wheel of the vehicle.
“I looked out and I said, ‘Oh my God, there’s a guy in a seat costume,’” Tuss said. “How’s that possible? Your brain can’t get around it for a second.”
Tuss approached the 2017 Ford Transit Connect and knocked on the window, where he saw a man’s hands and legs sticking out from underneath the costume.
“Brother, who are you? What are you doing? I’m with the news, dude,” Tuss said. “Dude, can you pull over and we can talk for a second?”
The driver didn’t respond to Tuss, but the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute later revealed the van and its driver are part of a study about driverless cars.
***
stay tuned for a very special spot the not: The Wit and Wisdom of Donald Trump
I saw that, and it turns out it was a fucking graduate project from a local university.
Playa Manhattan: great call on the Minor’s au jus concentrate. Got that shit off Prime 2 day shipping, same day you recommended it. It’s even better than I expected and so rich & delicious. A+ recommendation.
Who’s juicing minors from the Amazon?
Yes, they make some fabulous products.
Good grief I cant keep up. Have the 5 yo grandson today and I am exhausted. So far we have picked muscadines, picked tomatoes, shot the pistol, thrown rocks in the bayou, gone to the grocery store for frog spit, checked on bees, thrown frisbee for the dog.
There is a reason humans reproduce at a young age.
I now have to watch Sponge Bob.
Frog spit?
Guessing it’s ice lollies
Speaking of ice lollies
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/arizona-child-murder-sammantha-allen-convicted-murder-ame-deal-suffocation-storage-bin-ice-lolly-a7881841.html
Frog spit. Bottom of the page
http://northstarfrozentreats.com/products/sherbet/
I ate one. They are pretty good.
Sounds like a great day.I
You have to time bedtime right or he’ll catch his second wind…
*RBS at 2:00am last Saturday*
So a dick. Got it. Speaking of dicks, they might go after tobacco some more just up the road a ways if these authoritarian assholes get their way.
I say Aspen should go for a 40% tax per square foot for every house over 600 square feett that sells in the township. For the health of the planet ya know.
I don’t even smoke, but this shit makes me furious. First they got their master lawsuit, then precious indoor business smoking bans. It’s never enough.
I don’t smoke anymore either, but ya, it fucking gets me irate. “Lets raise general fund revenue by fucking over a small group of people”. It is evil and immoral.
Propose a 4 dollar a cup tax on lattes and watch their heads explode.
Exactly!
Hah! I was reading about this last night in one of the Aspen papers. The council raised the age to purchase cigarettes to 21 and they have to make up the lost revenue. It’s typically idiotic b/c people over 18 only have to drive a few miles to get outside the town limits. Having said that, Aspen CC-and Pitkin Co.-are two of the most smug, stupid governments I’ve seen. Most of their policies seem to be designed to keep Aspen real estate prices high to keep out most of the riffraff while also trying to keep rents down so the riffraff can live close enough to do their jobs.
Everyone knows the riffraff can live in Glenwood and drive their busted ass outbacks into work everyday.
Most of the guys who work for my FIL live in Rifle. AND…everyone’s waiting for the shitstorm in a couple of weeks when they close the bridge.
wait what bridge are they closing? I didn’t hear about this.
Glennwood. Over the river from what I hear. I don’t go into that valley much. I avoid the I 70 corridor when I can. Which is almost always.
The Brooklyn Bridge. Wanna buy it?
Yep, the Grand Avenue Bridge. So all the traffic which would normally cross over that bridge is going to be routed to west Glenwood. And the “back” road from Glenwood up valley, which is too narrow to carry the traffic it does now, will be carrying all the bridge traffic as well.
https://www.codot.gov/projects/sh82grandavenuebridge
I should put the rack back on my bike, strap a cooler to it, go set up camp over there somewhere and sell breakfast burritos in the traffic jam every morning.
Good idea. Apparently in that county, you can camp outside the city limits with no rules.
It is funny isn’t it? They do this, and there will be no tax collected because nobody will buy cigs there. I like the end of the article….
That is what we need. Some good old prohibition on some stuff. The really bad thing is they gerrymandered us rednecks further West into the same state rep district as these fucking morons.
You will never see such a disconnect as stark as Aspen to the rest of the western slope.
Vail gives them a run for their money.
Because people wont drive out of the city/county and buy cheaper smokes? They are deliberately creating a black market. I guess they will have to crack down on them. Soon they will have their very own Eric Garner.
Another triumph for statist health care. Patients in NZ with prostate cancer wait 7 months for surgery:
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/336499/southern-dhb-in-a-slow-motion-train-crash
I listened to an interview about this. The politician’s answer: better Top Men management. Interviewer’s (implied) answer: spend more money!
Socialized medicine: an idea so good, it’s mandatory!
But not timely.
They should just call it metastasized health care.
Spot the Not: The Wit and Wisdom of Donald Trump
1. My whole life is about winning. I don’t lose often. I almost never lose.
2. I’m the Ernest Hemingway of 140 characters.
3. People love me. And you know what, I have been very successful. Everybody loves me.
4. Private jets cost a lot of money.
5. Owning a great golf course gives you great power.
6. Do you mind if I sit back a little? Because your breath is very bad.
7. I was a great student. I was good at everything.
8. I’m a bit of a P. T. Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
9. I wouldn’t mind a little bow. In Japan, they bow. I love it. Only thing I love about Japan.
10. I think I was born with the drive for success because I have a certain gene.
11. I always want to think of myself as an underdog.
12. I made it in a very, very tough business, and frankly, it’s because I’m the best.
I’m going to say 4.
Well I cheated and looked it up and I’m wrong. SAD!
Wouldn’t be surprised if they’re all his, but I’ll pick #2.
That was my second guess, only because I don’t ever see him being that pithy or concise.
No clue. 2?
2 sounds a bit too erudite for him, so I’ll go with that.
1 and 12 seem redundant. I therefore think it’s 12, since it’s the one that doesn’t use “win”.
Most impressive.
Victor, victor drink some liquor.
You went with redundant? Everything he says is redundant. I smell cheating.
When I pick quotes, I almost always go for diversity. I think Derpetologist is the same.
Read Derpy’s mind, not Trumpy’s.
7.
#2 maybe? Damn, this is hard, it’s like three different speaking styles.
#2 Donald would only know about Hemingway if the hat told him.
9
2. He thinks Earnest Hemingway is that guy who said, “Hey Vern”
random history
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Caratacus (Brythonic *Caratācos, Middle Welsh Caratawc; Welsh Caradog; Breton Karadeg; Greek Καράτακος; variants Latin Caractacus, Greek Καρτάκης) was a first-century British chieftain of the Catuvellauni tribe, who led the British resistance to the Roman conquest.
Before the Roman invasion Caratacus is associated with the expansion of his tribe’s territory. His apparent success led to Roman invasion, nominally in support of his defeated enemies. He resisted the Romans for almost a decade, mixing guerrilla warfare with set-piece battles, but was unsuccessful in the latter. After his final defeat he fled to the territory of Queen Cartimandua, who captured him and handed him over to the Romans. He was sentenced to death as a military prisoner, but made a speech before his execution that persuaded the Emperor Claudius to spare him.
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After his capture, Caratacus was sent to Rome as a war prize, presumably to be killed after a triumphal parade. Although a captive, he was allowed to speak to the Roman senate. Tacitus records a version of his speech in which he says that his stubborn resistance made Rome’s glory in defeating him all the greater:
Andrew Birrell (after Henry Fuseli), Caractacus at the Tribunal of Claudius at Rome (1792)
If the degree of my nobility and fortune had been matched by moderation in success, I would have come to this City as a friend rather than a captive, nor would you have disdained to receive with a treaty of peace one sprung from brilliant ancestors and commanding a great many nations. But my present lot, disfiguring as it is for me, is magnificent for you. I had horses, men, arms, and wealth: what wonder if I was unwilling to lose them? If you wish to command everyone, does it really follow that everyone should accept your slavery? If I were now being handed over as one who had surrendered immediately, neither my fortune nor your glory would have achieved brilliance. It is also true that in my case any reprisal will be followed by oblivion. On the other hand, if you preserve me safe and sound, I shall be an eternal example of your clemency.[11]
He made such an impression that he was pardoned and allowed to live in peace in Rome. After his liberation, according to Dio Cassius, Caratacus was so impressed by the city of Rome that he said “And can you, then, who have got such possessions and so many of them, covet our poor tents?”
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caratacus
Oh I understand now. This has a Trump historical parallel somehow, doesn’t it?
School: AP and Honors classes will be decided by skin color, not intelligence
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/08/08/school-ap-and-honors-classes-will-be-decided-by-skin-color-not-intelligence.html
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A parent forwarded me a copy of the letter sent from John Handley High School in Winchester.
“Through our collective work, advanced classes such as AP and Honors will have proportional representation,” read the letter. “Proportional representation is 40% White, 35% Hispanic, 12% African American, 10% mixed race.”
The letter went on to explain that public schools across the country “continue to see outcomes that are disproportionate by race and social class.”
“American demographic trends indicate that America will be a majority minority nation in the next 25 years,” the letter read. “Therefore, the new work of American public schools is to develop systems to address disparate outcomes.”
Interesting — I thought the work of American public schools was to teach kids how to read, write, multiply and divide.
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[head desk- the kind with tablet attached to a chair]
Did they also coordinate with the College Board to ensure the AP test scores get properly revised for goodthink, or will they just pretend the suddenly different pass rates for the AP tests are purely coincidental?
If I wanted to be charitable, I’d say that that looks more aspirational than actual policy, but I don’t think most school boards have earned the right that I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt like that.
White supremacists are what put Trump in the White House. Yep. Not this kind of retarded shit.
The nice thing about pinko idiots is that their stupidity ensures their failure. If DeVos is pushing for charter schools these morons are greasing the rails for their own demise.
WTF is a “major minority nation”? White people will still have a plurality of population for the next hundred years and it would be exceedingly simple to reclaim the majority through immigration policy.
The reason I don’t need to re-watch John Hurt’s amazing 1984, or re-read Atlas Shrugged and Brave New World is because I’m reminded of all of them on a daily basis. And Zardoz of course.
In a just world, the parents would take their pitchforks & torches, tar and feather the superintendent, and fire the principal and teachers.
TW: Think Progress
Think Progress holds California up as a model of how to avoid spiking Obamacare premiums.
Relevant portion:
You don’t say. Don’t worry about the spiking premiums, folks. Just grab the worse health insurance plan that cost the same as yours did last year. Solved.
No word yet on what happens to you when you have climbed all the way down the premium ladder to the bottom rung…
The upside is, the insurance companies are pulling out of more and more markets. Soon we won’t even have to worry about it once no plans are even offered. It makes life easier when there is no decision to make.
We (pro-economic freedom people of all stripes) are going to have to work really fucking hard to counter the Democrats when they start putting out agitprop saying that this whole clusterfuck is because of the “unregulated free market in health insurance”.
Ya, “unregulated”. When Obamacare dictates what will be covered by “insurance”. It was over regulated before. Now it is dictated. I like it when they attack free markets that are not and or have ever been free.
I always try to explain this to people: healthcare has not been anything close to “unregulated” for the better part of a century.
When you can’t open a hospital or even expand an existing hospital without a state-granted “certificate of need”, that is not “unregulated”.
When roughly half of all healthcare dollars are spent by government programs, that is not “unregulated”.
When you can’t buy insurance unless it has the level of coverage that the government deems “essential” (e.g. pediatric dental care for childless people) that is not “unregulated”.
And yet there are a lot of people who think California’s electricity crisis was caused by deregulation.
Some interesting things I learned about the UK welfare system:
After WWI, they tripled unemployment benefits and tied them to a location. If you moved, you lost your benefits. I’m not sure why they did this, but the main result was that people stopped moving to find work. A lot of them stopped working altogether.
Hmm, that sounds like the way they ran the old poor laws from the 1500s to the 1800s.
A logical reason for this counterproductive action would be if they were running a protection scheme for the people who had jobs. The people in cities with jobs generally didn’t appreciate outsiders moving in and under-cutting their wages. Especially not if they were union, and the new guys were being brought in as strike-breakers, which I know happened quite a bit in American history.
Hey Kristen, WaPo says everyone at State is really demoralised because Tillerson.
Man, what a bunch of bullshit. I love this:
“But the United States is a nation dedicated to the principle that all are created equal. If our country does not stand for a “just and democratic” world, who will?”
I guess I should be a able to google all Gerson’s columns supporting the invasion of Iraq, right?
Gerson is actually offended by this: ““We promote the security, prosperity and interests of the American people globally.””
Crudely put, if Michael Gerson and the people at the State Department are upset, I would guess Tillerson is doing a good job.
Yeah, that was what stood out for me there as well, his swooning over that change of phrase.
It made me think of when PM Zoolander’s administration changed the title of Minister of Citizenship and Immigration to Minister of Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship. I’m sure the reordering was purely coincidental.
Why do people think that the United States has some obligation to the rest of the world (other than respecting their rights)?
I was talking to a virulent Trump-hater, and he said the worst thing about Trump was that “he’s making us look like fools to the rest of the world”. Ok, I’m not the owner of a M.A.G.A. hat either, but since when is it mandatory for the US to be liked and approved of by the rest of the world? It’s like they think elections are an 8th grade popularity contest.
“B-b-but Drumpf is going to embarass us in front of the cool European kids who ride their high-speed trains to their free doctor’s appointments!”
I got some similar crap. “What will the rest of the world think of us!?”
I wish I had taken a picture of his face when I said “I dont give a fuck. You think they liked us before Trump? They all hate your guts. Trump isnt going to change that.”
I’ve said the same thing to white separatists when they tout the whole “Europe and the West is under assault and we need to defend our culture” line.
Me: “Fuck Europe. Europe isn’t my culture, America is my culture.”
he’s making us look like fools to the rest of the world
The cowboy George W. Bush already did that, but Barack Obama rehabilitated that image by collecting the Nobel prize, putting on the purple jammies jacket with Xi Jinping, and attending cereal meetings for the Paris climate accord, and play golf.
Exactly. People and The Europe hated Bush so much they gift wrapped a Nobel prize to Obama almost before he was finished swearing in.
Because we’ve been fed this “Leader of the Free World” propaganda since WWII.
The “B-b-but Drumpf is going to embarass us in front of the cool European kids who ride their high-speed trains to their free doctor’s appointments!” is the same… exact… bullshit that they said when GWB was elected. He’s stupid, the rest of the world doesn’t respect us for electing such a clown, yadda yadda meke leka hey meka hiney ho…
I don’t think there is a single new criticism of Trump that wasn’t leveled at GWB first except Putinnochiogate. Even that tastes similar to the stale bile spewed about Bush’s “role” working with the Saudis to allow 9/11 to occur.
“Why do people think that the United States has some obligation to the rest of the world (other than respecting their rights)?”
I find this attitude very annoying. There is a lot of it on the left and I see a lot of it in the ‘open borders’ types. I dont hire politicians to look after the interests of other countries just like I dont hire the lawn guy to cut my neighbors yard.
America First is ridiculed. But why? Should our Pres be world first? He damn well be America first or GTFO!
Then they should all resign and not be replaced.
My former colleagues over there tell me that they quite like the way things are going so far. They’re not just spending a jillion dollars on a reorg without any input – there’s a working group in place (every appointee that comes in does a reorg, at your expense). And they’re appointing career diplomats in higher-level positions in the bureau I used to work at. The previous administration put in so-called “media experts” and they. fucking. sucked.
Its amazing to see progs rushing to take the side of George W. Bush’s former speechwriter and chief rationalizer of the Iraq invasion.
Gerson was like GWB’s Ben Rhodes. Someone who had no business at all opining about foreign relations but who ended up shaping the entire way the administration talked about our goals.
If Dick Cheney, the unhyoly evil face-shooting string-pulling puppeteer of the Bush presidency, said anything negative about Trump publicly, those dems would be climbing up in his lap like he was Sex Santa at Hedonism.
Trump: more wit and wisdom
1. When someone crosses you, my advice is ‘Get Even!’ That is not typical advice, but it is real life advice. If you do not get even, you are just a schmuck! When people wrong you, go after those people because it is a good feeling and because other people will see you doing it.
2. In the make-believe world you will automatically get paid what you are worth. The real world doesn’t work that way. You get paid what you are worth only when the person you are dealing with has no other choice.
3. Criticism is easier to take when you realize that the only people who aren’t criticized are those who don’t take risks.
4. The more government takes in taxes, the less incentive people have to work. What coal miner or assembly-line worker jumps at the offer of overtime when he knows Uncle Sam is going to take sixty percent or more of his extra pay? . . . Any system that penalizes success and accomplishment is wrong.
5. Think how boring it would be to just sail into things and have everything be perfect. You can’t prove your merit on quiet waters, whether you’re a businessman or a mariner.
6. Sure, I could tell you all I want about how to handle pressure well, but I owed many banks billions of dollars. It was not exactly fun. Believe me, it is not cool to be Donald Trump when you owe billions of dollars.
No fake quotes here.
today’s extra credit assignment:
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But soon the follow-up question dawns: how am I going to feed my family if I’m being outcompeted by robots in every field? As it is, the odds are rather stacked against us. If it’s quicker to program a robot than to train a human, and if it’s cheaper to maintain a robot than to pay a human, and if robots are even slightly more productive than humans, then the free market will ensure that most work is increasingly done by robots. The few individuals who own the robots will only need to share the profits of their enterprise with an increasingly small skeleton crew of employees. The rest of the population, meanwhile, will continue to depend on the goods and services produced by the robots, so they’ll have very little bargaining-power on their side. Income inequality will balloon exponentially. All capital will gradually be absorbed by the robot-masters, and will be diverted to their weird pet projects, most of which revolve around trying to ensure that rich people will live forever, despite the fact that the mortality of the rich is one of the few consolations the rest of us have.
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https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/08/rise-of-the-robot-barons
the author
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uxyu9x5zJCI
All of the money will be in the pockets of the rich. So who are they going to sell all of their robot-produced widgets to?
other rich people, duh
The few individuals who own the robots
Like the few who own cars, TVs, smartphones, home computers, dishwashers, refrigerators, satellite dishes, swimming pools …
Does no one understand how capitalism democratizes technology and progress?
If robots were so cheap and plentiful as to almost completely supplant human labor, wouldn’t all products be super cheap as well? If it got to that point, working class people will probably just work a day or two per week and retire after 30 years in the workforce.
Not a huge fan of Sam Harris, but I do like Scott Adams.
This is a good conversation between Scott Adams and Sam Harris where Scott really takes Harris to task on his triggered Trump spasms (Trump is treasonous,etc).
(mirrored site because why give Harris more traffic?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvD0LfDDYcY
Harris is one of those people who is smarter than everyone else. Those people have a habit of outsmarting themselves.
Everyone who confirms one’s confirmation bias seems smart for a while. It’s when they pontificate on topics one doesn’t agree with where their ability to think critically and make good compelling arguments is put to the test. It’s funny to hear Harris sound indistinguishable from a 22-year-old editor at Huffpo as he practically regurgitates their words into your years.
What was it James Randi said “Scientists are easier to fool than regular people”? I always get a kick out of him explaining how to fool scientists with a simple matchbox trick:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbwWL5ezA4g
Nice! At around 1:32 Sam goes full “the red team are science deniers!”
I hate the term “science deniers” and “anti-science” as they are applied to
global warmingclimate change skeptics.The “progressive” left seems to think that science is a group of human beings who constitute the climatology profession. It’s not. Science is a discipline; a mode of thinking.
It’s actually the complete opposite of science to say, “These super-important people all believe in X, therefore you must also believe in X, or else you’ll be branded anti-science and banished from the profession.” What if that attitude was around centuries or millennia ago? Practically every scientific principle we now know about was preceded by an incorrect version that was believed by all scientists at some point or another.
If these people had been around in Ancient Greek times, we’d still believe that all human ailments are caused by an imbalance of one of the four “humors”.
But the climate alarmists can also wave away science when it comes to alternative medicine, genes, differences between sex/race, GMOs, Nuclear Power etc etc.
But they aren’t science deniers.
There are people you could just tell, when they had kids, that they would post on Facebook about their children’s poops.
Then there are the other people who, when they post about their child’s dump, you’re absolutely gobsmacked.
*illusions shattered
Reason 237 why I don’t facebook.
I take it somebody you know posted a photo of their child’s bowel movement?
No, just talking about it. Sometimes in way too much detail.
There is literally no reason to talk about your child taking a shit with your adult friends on Facebook.
Advice: don’t friend Banjos.
It’s just as bad in real life. I once overheard a coworker of mine tell another single young childless female coworker, politely smiling and feigning interest, about her toddler’s dumps. It was brutal.
What about talking about your own shit?
“They be rapin’ all the robots up here! John Banzhaf and Congress will protect you, robot ladies.”
I think it’s most appropriate that some lawyers and congress critters need to receive a woodchipper to take the place of their sexbot.
I really need someone to fall into Spicier’s web with this Tweet. It will make my night.
just beautiful
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New York (CNN)It usually takes a lot to get a rise out of New Yorkers.
But for Dion Cini, a middle-aged former Marine from the Upper West Side, it actually requires very little.
Nearly every day, Cini climbs into an 18-foot scull rowing boat and paddles the Hudson River along the Manhattan shoreline. Before shoving off, Cini hoists a prominent flag that reads “Trump 2020.”
And then he waits for the reactions to pour in.
“Sometimes you hear ‘I hope you get hit by a boat! I hope you drown!” he said. “From the top of their lungs as loud as they can. I get it all the time.”
It’s a simple act of defiance for a supporter of President Donald Trump who lives on an island that voted overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton. In 2016, nearly 87% of Manhattan voters supported Clinton, second only to neighboring Bronx County, where Clinton support crept closer to 90%. (Cini makes a point to row around both.)
“There’s so much fear of Trump in New York,” Cini said.
He started hoisting the flag from this boat this spring after seeing a swell of protests against Trump in the city. He previously enjoyed walking the flag through the streets of Manhattan, which attracted throngs of angry people who told him to leave.
Why does he do it?
“Because I can,” he said.
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http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/08/politics/donald-trump-new-york-dion-cini-being-moody/index.html
It usually takes a lot to get a rise out of New Yorkers.
No it doesn’t. Just tell them New York isn’t the center of the universe.
I have known two people who earned the names “Arkansas” and “New York” by moving here and never shutting up about how they dont do things like this back in Arkansas/New York every time they saw someone do something. So people just started calling them ‘Arkansas’ and ‘New York’.
“Oh great. Look, here comes that asshole Arkansas.”
I find New Yorkers to be just like everyone else as far as getting a rise out of them.
That’s awesome.
Maybe this is just because I live in Ohio, a famously boring state, but I’ve noticed that even people who have just visited New York become stuck-up and provincial about it.
“The pizza in New York is way better than this!”
“Man, there’s nothing going on… If this were New York, there would be like 20 nightclubs with insane parties going on!”
“There’s just no culture here… It’s not like in New York!”
Motherfucker, if you hate this place so much relative to your precious New York, why the fuck are you here??
PS: Nothing whatsoever against New Yorkers, but definitely something against New Yorkers who constantly disparage every non-New York location they find themselves in but remain there for some reason.
From the ammo link above
https://www.grafs.com/retail/catalog/product/productId/26551
Please, please Santa Claus? Can this be under the Christmas tree? I’ve been a good asshole all year long…
I’d rather have that much M193 than M855, but I wouldn’t say no to either…