I’m just going to rant for a minute. I’ve seen about 10 Dr. Strangelove references with regards to Trump’s overheated rhetoric about North Korea. I get that crazy guy launches bombers and starts WWIII angle, but its so… lazy. Also, I would love to see the Hat and Hair have the POE conversation.
OMWC sends in a story from near-Chicago where you can pretty safely hate everyone involved.
Watch my eyes roll as NOAA attempts to conflate in peoples minds the number of named storms with Atlantic/Gulf landfalls of major storms. We actually don’t give a fuck about class five hurricanes that don’t make landfall as class five hurricanes. Also, I watched this professionally for five years. They always go high.
Union problems at Tesla are almost enough to make me sympathetic to Elon Musk. Almost.
You’ll be surprised to learn that many of the breath-taking “facts” in yesterday’s NYT article on Climate Change were entirely untrue.
And finally, beloved commentor Pope Jimbo sends in an article that I, as a formerly decent runner, respect. The Beer Mile. A 4:34 beer mile is probably 55 second laps and 11 seconds of beer chugging. Stupid human tricks rule.
I’m in the mood for an electric jug today.
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“Inclusion and Multicultural Engagement
IME Wokeshop Series
The purpose of this workshop series is to engage in critical reflection, dialogue with people from different backgrounds, explore various identities, and understand systemic privilege and oppression. IME Wokeshops are primarily peer facilitated to create a student space for dialogue.”
https://college.lclark.edu/student_life/multicultural_affairs/programs/diversity/
‘Woke’ and ‘red pill’ drive me nuts as terms because they’re straight out of a cult. Typical promise of sacred knowledge that the unenlightened lack if only you conform.
I think red pill is fairly clever because a) much of the millennial filth didn’t watch the matrix and b) it’s an apt description of finding out the entirety of professional media is all lies.
Marxism is literally a religious cult.
Jordan Peterson regularly points out that the Marxists replaced economic class oppression with other forms of imagined oppression for this reason.
Makes you wonder if taxation-supported indoctrination in public education systems violates the principle of separation of church and state.
“Wokeshop”. Seriously.
Some people really need a good asskicking.
I thought it was something a detractor made up, because it sounds so funny.
It is funny, because it is supposed to be a dialog promoting diversity.
But apparently only if you are woke.
Another bizarre angle on these “diversity” promotions on college campuses is that the kids are usually living in a rather diverse environment. Well, other than educationally. Oh, and probably politically.
But in the way that matters – race – they have plenty of diversity in their daily lives. Almost all college campuses are going to be more diverse than the areas the students hail from – particularly if they are rich kids from the northeast (where they love them some proggy diversity while living in monoculture neighborhoods) or poor minority kids who are really bright and got in to a good school…. or a poor black kid who is great at football and shipped himself out to Nebraska.
When I was looking for an elementary school for my firstborn, the school in the gay neighborhood looked like a good prospect. The teachers seemed great, the kids seemed great, and they had this “international Baccalaureate” program that is supposed to be really good. But when I visited the staff spent 90% of their time talking about how much effort they spend on teaching diversity. I live in an area that has immigrants from all over the world, and no group has a majority…. maybe not even a solid plurality. Looking around at the students, they were probably half black – either african-american or immigrants from the Caribbean, probably 1/3 Hispanic of various flavors and the rest white of some sort. And because of the neighborhood, probably 1/4 of the kids had LGBTQAI parents. They live diversity all day, every day. But the administration thought they needed to be taught a bunch of (insert group here)-studies crap about how to be tolerant and diverse.
So I immediately wrote them off and went looking for an administration that was serious about educating my kids in the basic skills they need to advance their academic career and eventually their work career. But it is good to know that there is an entire school dedicated to minting the next generation of Women’s studies and African-American studies majors.
I don’t know what this is, but it sounds like “production hell”.
“The purpose of this workshop series is to
engage in critical reflection, dialogue with people from different backgrounds, explore various identities, and understand systemic privilege and oppression. IME Wokeshops are primarily peer facilitated to create a student space for dialogueremind you that you’re evil, but by mouthing the proper incantations you can gloat over other people who are more evil than you.”The Catholic Church gave up selling indulgences centuries ago. Why do these assclowns want to bring it back?
It’s good money, and up to 30% of the population on Germany probably won’t die this time around?
i’m assuming half the attendees will be wise-assed liberty-types like ourselves just there to troll the ever living fuck out of the other half of the wokeshop.
Trump, being a man of the world, is merely speaking to the North Korean government in their native tongue: Crazy Bullshitese.
Why are you not prophesying your warning? Isn’t this how the nuclear holocaust begins?
Also, Trump is not a smart man. Nothing he does is intentional. It’s a good thing that everyone from Wall Street, to main street, and overseas just ignores what he says now.
You don’t ‘get’ how time travel works. Sure, there’s a worldline where Kim starts a thermonuclear war and millions of people die. There’s also one where he dies of a fat-induced heart attack and North Korea becomes a libertarian paradise. Or one where the thermonuclear war already happened ten years ago. By simply going back I’ve already shifted the worldline parameters, so any prediction I make is largely useless.
I’m not suggesting that Trump is playing 4D chess here, just that North Korea plays at being the craziest motherfucker in the room. If drunk white girl America suddenly starts threatening to rip off his penis, things change.
I dunno about that. After watching “the Vice guide to North Korea”, I’m pretty convinced that they aren’t just playing. They work hard at actually being that crazy.
The North Korean government is entirely rational. They respond to incentives.
This is exactly how they got stuff in the past.
That’s a fair point. They do seem to win something every time they engage in brinkmanship. Of course, they have tended to starve their people to death in the process, from time to time. But since the people don’t have a say in how their country works, I suppose that doesn’t matter so much.
Exactly what he’s doing. He’s speaking their language. I would probably get someone nuked by going on TV and saying something like ‘Hey dude, like who cut your hair? And laughing like a hyena’, and then air dropping millions of pamphlets with Kim Jong Un haircut jokes all over North Korea.
Looks like Mattis also spoke out against NK.
http://www.wfmz.com/news/politics/mattis-to-north-korea-stop-actions-that-could-lead-to-destruction-of-its-people/601995484
“I come in peace. I didnât bring artillery. But Iâm pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you fuck with me, Iâll kill you all.”
Yuuuuuuuuuuuuuut
âDCâs Legends of Tomorrowâ producer admits Muslim character âIsisâ a response to Trump
Marc Guggenheim: âYou might have heard there was this electionâ
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/aug/4/dcs-legends-of-tomorrow-producer-admits-muslim-cha/
Would have thought it was a response to the few people who still buy those things.
Now, look, I’m not a comic book guy. Like, at all – I don’t think I’ve ever read one in my life. That said…..naming your Muslim superhero Isis seems to be a bit self-defeating, no?
That seems a bit tone deaf. I dunno…
I think the nerve damage goes all the way down to the brain stem in that one.
Pagan goddess name that would offend Muslims or terrorist organization name that would offend everyone. NICE WORK, DC!
I am also not a comic book guy. That is all.
A black MUSLIM from ANCIENT EGYPT.
I mean, it’s not like facts of history ever mattered to the left, right?
Naw, it’s a dumb thing where the ancient amulet from Egypt gives you powers, and it just happens to end up in the hands of a black Muslim. Comics tend to be stupid in bizarre ways than stupid in boring ways like that.
Holy shit. Is that seriously the premise? Because I can’t imagine very many actual Muslims (especially hardliners) being all too happy with that.
Shocker, virtue signalling progs are ignorant of foreign cultures.
So, an observant Muslim who uses a pagan amulet for magic.
Totally halal … not.
The actress is Persian, not black.
??? WTF?
Ok I get that Isis is already a DC Character. I am actually old enough to have vague memories of the 1970’s TV show that occasionally had cross overs with Shazam but dammit she is an Ancient Egyptian Goddess NOT MUSLIM. What in the world would you want to go and make that character a Muslim?
This is, hilariously, shit that would have pissed of Edward Said so much. Because it’s basically Orientalism, i.e. historical Egypt and the modern Muslim Middle East are just mashed together into some arbitrary notion of the ‘mysterious Orient’.
Wait until they roll out their next new character:
Wokey McWokeface.
Because they’re idiots. So who gets the blame when terrorists blow up DC Comics headquarters? Republicans?
You misspelled “credit”.
“How are we going to stick it to Trump?”
“Name a Muslim character after a group of Muslims who actually help strengthen his position, all while pissing off actual Muslims by lumping them in with ancient Egyptian pagans?”
“…”
“Brilliant”
Supergirl’s season 2 finale was titled “Nevertheless, She Persisted”, the episode before was “Resist”. They started this stupid shit right after the election.
Which means it is time to remember the sweet, salty hammy-tears rendered up by SNL in tribute to the greatest American heroine that ever lived, to the tune of “hallelujah”.
And maybe dig up the Remy response on Reason.TV. Because that was brilliant.
So, DC saw what has been happening to Marvel’s actual comics and said to themselves, “let’s do that with our TV shows!” So, they fucked their movies by rushing them to try and catch up with Marvel, and now they want to do the same thing to their TV series. With this and then word about their “Batman White Knight” nonsense, I guess DC really want to be bet Marvel to bankruptcy. At least Marvel’s movies and Netflix shows have been relatively free of this PC nonsense.
What’s really funny….that’s just for their TV show, not the comics.
The ghostly radio station that no one claims to run.
Clearly it’s transmitting trigger phrases to activate sleeper agents. Cofveve!
Now I want to start a numbers station that repeats random Trump phrases at odd intervals.
*raises hand to invest*
Let’s put it on WXR.
What about a mysterious TV transmission that is just Max Headroom spitting out random Trump phrases 24/7
My god… we need to start a Twitch feed
“As it happens, there are clues in the signal itself. Like all international radio, the Buzzer operates at a relatively low frequency known as âshortwaveâ. This means that â compared to local radio, mobile phone and television signals â fewer waves pass through a single point every second. It also means they can travel a lot further.”
LOLWUT
I doubt ‘ionosphere’ is in the writer’s vocabulary.
Behold the power of a Journalism major!
Shortwaves were invented by Al Gore as a precursor to the internet.
Isn’t it supposed to be a doomsday indicator for the Soviets? If the transmission stops you launch all missles?
Wasn’t there some mysterious station playing music out in Nevada with no station ID or commercials as well.
“A company which makes ultra-realistic sex robots has claimed their dolls are so lifelike that people are marrying them⌠and they are âsaving peopleâs livesâ as a result. The robots are becoming more sophisticated â and lifelike â by the day, as the high-tech sex toys continue to grow in popularity. But the products are already so advanced that people have started falling in love with their sex toys â and The Daily Star reports that some have even tied the knot with their bot.”
http://nypost.com/2017/08/06/sex-robot-makers-claim-lonely-customers-are-marrying-their-dolls/
Then Daryl Hannah will become self aware and start kicking their collective asses.
That always ends with Rutger breaking everyone of your fingers.
Not before Jackson Browne kicks her ass.
I want the Raquel Welch or Sofia Loren!
I’ll take Grace Kelly, please.
^This guy gets it^
Alright, that’s an interesting question:
Of all the women in history, at their prime, would you rate as the sexiest/the one you would before all others?
Salma Hayek at her apex.
Good answer.
However, I’m gonna say it’s a tie between Gina Gershon & Jennifer Connelly.
Therefore it would have to be a threesome.
We already know that Connelly likes to get freaky.
SF freaky, going by your “link”.
SF’ed “ass to ass” link?
Indeed.
Lynda Carter.
That’s nearly impossible to answer.
There was no HD photography, so we have no idea if Helen of Troy was thicc.
I’m an ass man, and the historical record is sorely lacking in that regard.
Well, go with what you know. Nobody is expecting you to name some 8th century peasant. Personally, I’d stick with the photographic record myself – should be more than enough to choose from there.
I got you one better.
I’m hereby entering a proxy vote for John.
I might actually go Grace Kelly. She has that ice queen vibe, but you just know once you pop her cork, you’d be in for a wild ride.
Really, though, I’d have to give it a lot more . . . research.
#TIWTANLW
It’s either Grace Kelly or Lindsey Wagner, back when she was playing a thief on The Rockford Files.
Any other answer is incorrect.
Yeah – can’t disagree there.
It’s highly likely that she died without ever wearing a thong in her life.
-5 points for granny panties.
I don’t care what she wears, so long as she’ll look at me like this.
Why would you ask that? You know the answer is going to contain the words “your” and “mom.”
In that order.
You’re supposed to choose someone unobtainable…
Not someone everyone has attained.
/Where’s Winston?
Mae West
Fun and spunky blonde-ish? Felicity Kendal
and Jean Seberg
Jobyna Ralston
(usually played Harold Lloyd’s love interest)
oh and Brigette Bardot
She was seriously cute, but if I’m going with an English babe, I’d take Kelly Brook
Yeah Felicity was one of my childhood crushes from watching “Good Neighbors”. There are more beautiful women out there but she always seemed so spunky.
Oh my god. So would I. She’s like my exact type.
Dawn Wells had a sick body (I’ve been watching a lot of Gilligan’s Island lately) but I’m
gonna say Tuesday Weld. She was damn near flawless.
Elisabeth Shue,
circain exactly that one scene in Palmetto, you know the one.I have a hard time with this one, but in-prime Sigourney Weaver would be difficult to surpass.
For a sexbot, I don’t think you could go wrong with Alexandra Daddario, circa True Detective.
Some NSFW
I wont be in my bunk.
Yeah, I liked her. Also, her dad makes some good guitar & bass strings.
I’m going with a young Monica Bellucci on this one.
Easy. Jessica Alba. And these knuckle heads above with old movies, whatever. Into the Blue is a documentary of the greatest ass on the planet. And that ass resides on Jessica Alba.
Monica Bellucci.
It’s so impossible to pick just one, but I will throw out that I haven’t seen Liz Taylor mentioned and she was sexy as hell.
Bea Arthur, TIA
Deadpool alias found!
No denying both of them were hot, and don’t forget Ann Margret, wow. But I don’t get the infatuation with celebrities. I see better walking down the street all of the time, especially in South America. Can I just take a photo and mail it in with my order?
The obsession is with “unobtainable”.
Having everyone else think she’s hot adds a couple of hotness points.
insensitive comment coming
I remember when Prince Charles first started dating Lady Diana. She was really cute. Everyone thought so.
Fast forward to today…. I’m a lot older and I am much, much more charitable in my grading than I was in 1980. But back then I was pretty sure she was an 8+. Looking at old photos today, that was a 6. Guys are susceptible to the peer effect too. Not as much as women, but we are susceptible.
And it goes both ways. A college buddy of mine was interested in this 5’2″ freshman and asked me what I thought. I didn’t realize that he was interested, and she kinda had big nostrils…. so I cracked a joke and said. “she looks like Patrick Ewing in drag.” I was just cracking a joke, but that was the last time he thought about her as being attractive. She was definitely reasonably cute, with a banging little coed shape. But my wisecrack killed it for him.
So that’s the answer to your query. It isn’t about objective hotness. It is about having a chance to be with the “it girl”.
So… I’ll put you down for one vote for a replaceable head?
In Di’s defense, you are looking at pictures of her in 30+ year old fashion and hairstyles, while your eyes are used to current fashion. You point about the “it” girl still stands, I just wouldn’t drop her down to a 6. I think she was still a 7+. And, she actually got better looking as she aged.
If there’s anything 80s teen romance movies proved, its that everyone looks better if you pour a bunch money into them.
That too
I thought those movies proved that if she just took off her glasses and overalls, every girl is a supermodel.
And that there is always one super-rich guy who isn’t really a douche like all the other rich guys.
But can they make a sandwich?
Do they know the meaning of the word archaic?
I see teeth on those dolls. Why do they have teeth? Seriously.
Relax, they’re removable.
Look, if I’m paying a literal cars worth of money for infinite sex I don’t want to be one blue screen away from an impromptu sex change.
They don’t have to make the teeth sharp, unless you’re into that.
Dude, there’s only a few things you have to remember in life about your sex unit.
1. Don’t stick it in crazy.
2. Don’t stick it in a light socket.
3. Don’t forget to remove sexbot teeth.
Mood music?
This is definitely the next thing that progtards and socons unite on and get out their collective pitchforks.
Future headline:
“Major supporter of law banning realistic sex dolls arrested for illegal possession of multiple realistic sex dolls. Many had reportedly suffered damage from what police described as “disturbing physical abuse”. *attach photo of men in hazmat gear gingerly carrying sex doll with visible damage to the crotchular region from house*
No doubt.
“OMWC sends in a story from near-Chicago where you can pretty safely hate everyone involved.”
That’s why I referred to it as the Soviet Socialist Republic of Evanston in the last post. They give the People’s Republic of Oak Park a run for their money.
I once heard a City official from Evanston speak at a public administration graduate school where she was suppose to talk to the students about her job as a city planner. One student asked her if the City fears that the State’s financial imbalance or threats about cutting funding to sanctuary cities from newly elected President Donald Trump posed a greater threat to their financial well being. She said Trump (of course). I rolled my eyes and just shook my head. Her statement made literally no sense and she obviously had never even seen her own city’s budget. The federal government provides revenues of no more than 5% for nearly every town, city, and village in America. The State of Illinois remits back the the sales tax for Evanston (which they can and have delayed in the past) and accounts for nearly 30% of their school funding.
Leftists refuse to accept reality- everything is just ‘feelz’ with them
“That’s one David Binkle, a former chef who bit and clawed his way to the top of the Los Angeles Unified School District’s $354-million food operation, running the Michelle Obama-ordained school lunch reform that was so bad in Los Angeles that the students set up a black market in Flamin’ Hot Cheetos as a substitute. His horrible operation gave us that evocative descriptor, “nasty rotty stuff,” which got around.
Turns out he was overpaying contractors, taking kickbacks, and billing it all to the taxpayer. One of those contractors, by the way, was Tysons Food, a Fortune 100 company that just incidentally was involved in the teaching of Hillary Clinton, back in her Arkansas days, to become an ace commodity cattle futures trader.”
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/08/michelle_obamas_nasty_rotty_school_lunch_guru_busted_for_corruption.html
I’m looking for my shocked face. I know it’s around here somewhere.
It’s in a jar by the door.
(Who is it for?)
Where have i heard something like this before…
I’m pretty sure all you’d have to do is lift a few rocks and find exactly the same behavior by officials in NYC
I remember when our school removed caffeinated drinks and I started bringing No-Doz pills (concealed within empty highlighters and pens) and selling them for 50 cents a piece.
It was in the high school cafeteria that I learned to enjoy coffee. Black, no sugar.
Thanks for the slow pitch right down the middle.
I’ll let someone pinch hit.
Perfect black market example. They banned caffienated sodas, so you started selling something 4 times as strong.
I remember my very first summer construction job. There was a guy who always had some type of upper and a guy who always had some type of weed. So to get whatever you wanted, all you had to do was show up to work. There was always alcohol after work too, right on site.
There was quite a bit of weed at this factory where I used to work. One time, somebody found a joint in an empty shipping crate that had come back from Canada. Another time, they found a little baggie laying on the ground near an aisleway that a whole crowd of employees walked through every day at breaktime.
That was not a proper construction site.
On a proper site, everyone has weed and beer is drank by lunch.
The guy with uppers is called the foreman.
The foreman in this case, was the one with the coke. Not cola.
Cocaine is an upper.
I was certain that you were talking about teeth.
?
My company is in the process of moving their headquarters to a new building with an open office plan that everyone already hates. Apple employees hate it too and some are just refusing.
Open offices suck balls. I hear way to many conversations that I don’t want to as it is and that is with some sort of cubicle structure.
I’m wondering how our HR and M&A Managers are ever going to have a conversation while in the open space offices.
Lolwut? They get real offices.
Nope. Not for now.
Thankfully the two yentas in the cubes either side of me last summer eventually got moved, and one is no longer working there.
Oh god, don’t even get me started on this open office shit. I can hear every word that everyone says, especially the ladies over in customer service who talk unnecessarily loud on the phone. What makes it even worse is that I have the only job in the building that does not allow me to spend the first and last hour of every day just walking around chit-chatting with your office friends.
Oh well, I ain’t even mad. It’s soon to be my former job as soon as this other place gets the background check and drug screen results back (which I will pass, believe it or not).
We recently moved into a cube farm and it is SO MUCH FUN doing phone meetings now.
Finally got a set of headphones at work. A lot easier to concentrate streaming some tunes on youtube. (even with limits there).
“Corp Accounts Payable Nina Speaking. Just a moment.”
I don’t know who in the fuck thought that was a good idea.
How am I supposed to get work done when I can hear my work neighbor yelling on the phone?
The constant interruptions are maddening. Every time I have to go spend a week in “my” office I wonder how they get anything done.
The people who don’t have to work in the “open office” are the people who like the idea of it.
Open offices look a lot cooler than cube farms, which is important to the people who get to keep their offices.
Lets face it.
The ONLY reason management likes this is it means they can cut down on the amount of time wasted on websites and social media. for some godforsaken reason they think that will actually improve productivity because you know it is not like people won’t be spending more time finding ways to check facebook without being seen or finding some other way to occupy themselves by not doing work. The reality bosses don’t want to face is that the majority of their employees are already putting in just about as much productive work as their brains can handle each day and cutting down on mental breaks is only going to make them less productive not more.
Recently they moved a bunch of us into a cube farm, and the cube openings are massive and the desks were set up so you faced away from the door. In other words anyone that walked past could see exactly what you were doing. The very first day about 90% of us rearranged our cubes so we were facing the door.
That seems like a pretext to keep an eye on workers that spend a lot of time fucking off.
By creating more opportunities to fuck off.
EXACTLY
Well yeah but now they are fucking off by encouraging other employees to fuck off by chatting about the big game or game of thrones instead of arguing with misanthropes on a libertarian website
If something actually was done about the people fucking off it would have one redeemable quality.
I may blow off time here but I pale in comparison to most at the office.
I former employer wanted the whole company to go Si Valley and make all offices open. I had a old school east coast manager that nipped that in the bud. We are much happier with the cube farm look thank you.
The executives that like to push these ideas are never in the offices at thier desks so it doesn’t bother them. They are either in meetings, visiting other locations, at customers, or at home.
Don’t even get me started on the standing desk.
What astonishes me is the fact that it would be cheaper to throw up dry wall and give everyone an office as opposed to buying cubicles. That shit is way more expensive than you’d think.
And don’t give me any lip about being able to re-arrange cubes. No one ever re-arranges cubes. Once they are set, they are there for life. You might move groups around in the cubes, but they stay there.
We expanded our office in Chicago and we had a group come in from Big HQ literally called “office innovations” who immediately shot down all our ideas and told us exactly how we built innovative offices. We had like 3 cube types to choose from, 4 carpets, etc. And all of the floor plans were for open office spaces.
Thank doG I work out of my house or am at clients most of my time.
I’ve built (and taken down) cubes before. During that time, there was only one company that would ever hire us to rearrange or rebuild cubes. It was something out of a movie. We would be hired to expand or contract the cubes and increase or decrease the quality of the furnishings within them. It was some sort of internal promotion/demotion scheme that reflected the worker’s status (I assume without affecting pay). We would be hired to do it overnight, too. So I can only imagine workers showing up the next day to find a smaller cube with worse furnishings…
In my senior year of high school, I ran the beer mile in 6:59. I turned a 55 last lap because getting under 7 was my goal. I cannot fathom 4:34. That’s insane.
Maybe they were driving?
The world record for the mile averaged 55.75 seconds per lap so I think the 11 seconds is way to high. Had a frat brother that got a lot of free drinks getting challenged (he baited his unsuspecting victims) to a beer chugging contest. As fast as it would come out of the glass it went down his throat. He had perfected a technique where he opened his throat and poured the beer down easily in under 5 seconds. No gulp gulp gulp for him. I suspect that these guys are using the same technique.
To win the contest, you have to.
When the foam triggers the gag reflex, that’s when it gets funny.
Watching Bill Foster chug a beer was kinda like watching a magic trick.
Holy shit I had no idea how bad Marvel’s social justice comics are.
I mean, even if you took out all the social justice idiocy, it’s written at a fifth grade level. This is what happens when you hire writers based on their Twitter feeds. The whole thing is so bad you’d have to burn it down and start over again to actually improve it.
The thing is that Marvel, or at least the X-Men, were already quite diverse â sex, race, religion, sexual preference, etc.
Oh, go have a milkshake.
Racist!
Fine. I. DRINK. YOUR. MILKSHAKE. I DRINK IT UP! SLURRRRRRP!
Do you think your song and dance and superstition would help you BakedPenguin? I AM THE THIRD REVELATION, I AM THE ONE WHO THE LORD HAS CHOSEN, AND I’M SMARTER THAN YOU.
I’m FINISHED!
Don’t bully me, John T.
By the way, I thought that was the follow up line from There Will Be Blood I didn’t think John T was actually bullying me. I could be wrong, it’s been a while. Also, the Milkshake ref.
‘could be wrong’ about the follow up line.
Laughable. And the art is pretty shit, too.
I accidentally got a year’s sub to Marvel Unlimited instead of a monthly trial, so I was tempted to start hate-reading America Chavez. But 90s Deadpool and Christopher Priest Black Panther runs were just too good to move onto trash. So now I’m reading Spider-man from the start.
Oh and for the record, Gwenpool ranges from amusing to really good. All explained when I realized they got Christopher “Dr. McNinja” Hastings to do the writing.
Yeah, I watched the first couple of parts he did there on America. God, that shit looks so laughably pathetic. It makes me glad I was never into comics. I could only imagine how depressing it must be for an old-school Marvel comic fan to see what has happened to classic characters like Captain America, Iron Man, Spider-Man, etc.
It sure sounds like Trump has lost control of the NSA. McMaster fired every Trump appointee and whistle-blower there. Not sure why Trump let this happen.
Don’t worry, I’m sure the whistleblowers will get their jobs back in no time. I have it on good authority that Obama put strong protections in place for whistleblowers.
strong protections
I think they’re called prison guards.
Interestingly the WSJ ran an editorial strongly in support of McMaster today. I mean we’re talking Bret Stephens for Hilary level of support.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/mcmaster-and-the-commander-1502234710
Looks like there’s some sort of power struggle going on between the establishment and the new-right (smeared alt-right by the WSJ), and McMaster is one of the proxy fights.
McMaster’s sins which the establishment supports and doesn’t understand why anyone would be against:
The latest target has been H.R. McMaster, the three-star general who took over as national security adviser after President Trump fired Michael Flynn. Lt. Gen. McMaster has come in for abuse for favoring more troops and a new strategy in Afghanistan, for warning that Vladimir Putin is no friend of America, and for advising that Mr. Trump not precipitously withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal. He also recently dismissed some NSC staff members who were brought on by Mr. Flynn and are said to be allies of Mr. Bannon.
Also they dropped this gem:
The latter is especially preposterous since then Colonel McMaster developed the counter-insurgency strategy in Tal Afar that was the prototype for the 2007 âsurgeâ that won the Iraq War.
In what alternate universe have we won the Iraq War? I understand we beat Saddam’s army easily but that’s not what this refers too.
This whole editorial is a great example of how the WSJ has gone increasingly off the deep end to becoming NYT-lite.
I subscribed to WSJ for about 25 years, but sometime around 2005 I just gave up on it. It has become a neo-con alternative to the progressive NYT.
wtf?
The establishment claimed a scalp early, and they’ll be damned if they’re going to slow down now.
NSC =/= NSA
Is “beloved commentor Pope Jimbo” anything like “beloved popular vote president Hillary?”
I don’t particularly like PJ (due to his avatar being a cat butt), but I don’t think hes that hated either.
You’re right, that was a low blow.
Sorry Pope, I owe you a beer at the for-sure-gonna-happen Twin Cities + NoDak meetup in September
No worries Big Mike. We’ll sort you out when you get here.
Speaking of NoDaks….
Behold the horrible, horrible picture of little NoDaks learning how to milk.
I can’t believe they have the girls in one line and the boys in the other.
Ha-ha. WTH? That is funny stuff.
I can’t believe they got that big and didn’t know how.
You’re mad that he covered up the best part?
I hate a tease.
* runs crying from the room*
*vows to slip Mike a mickey when he visits in Sept*
“Emma Stone isn’t know for being a particularly vocal celebrity when it comes to issues of politics, but the actress doesn’t want to get better about speaking out.
She admitted that in the past, she has kept mostly mum, but now she wants to get better at fighting for things she finds important.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4775322/Emma-Stone-covers-September-2017-Marie-Claire.html
Um, which is it? Did England ban proofreading?
In other news, would.
Okay, see if you get this one.
I’m surprised that I didn’t see this one surface during Pussygrabgate:
“Our Premier is a man of the people, but he is also…a man.”
Okay, dick move on my part. I was referencing this.
Ehh, I’m of the point of view that a hard line stance is the way to go and is a libertarian approach (not the only libertarian approach).
No nation building, no regime change, no sanctions. You live life in your country the way you want. No sanctions on Cuba, Venezuela, or NK. However, harm us or even just attempt to harm with us and we’ll turn your country into a sheet of glass. I don’t have a problem with our pres saying this.
Is building a parking lot “nation building”?
Only if we charge the Chinese to use it for overflow parking.
Sign that the AC in my office is too cold today: when I saw that fireball nuke picture, my first thought was “that looks nice and warm”.
Regarding the Beer mile, here’s one reason I like Canuckistan:
You are just sucking up, because you know that you will be behind enemy lines on D+1 after those wiley Canuckistanis invade.
Get out hoser. I’m a true American, eh!
Collaborators will received increased maple syrup rations and we won’t force you to drink Moosehead.
Hmmm…throw in some private curling lessons from Kaitlyn Lawes?
I assume that maybe 10% of this has some vague relationship to truth
https://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/ed-klein-hillary-plea-bargain/2017/08/08/id/806488/
That “plea deal” doesn’t make sense for any of the parties involved.
none of it makes sense. i’m sure the aforementioned 10% of truth is something closer to “clinton lawyer got drunk w/ ed klein”
The 10% that says “Hillary ain’t getting punished for nothing, nohow, no matter what she does” would be my guess.
It seems like this “Ed Klein” is the only source.
I thought Brett was dead?
WILL PEOPLE SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT?
He’s just dead to us.
Dead! You hear me, Brett? DEAD!
“Youâll be surprised to learn that many of the breath-taking âfactsâ in yesterdayâs NYT article on Climate Change were entirely untrue.”
Unpossible! I’ve been informed by prog acquaintances that the NYT has really exposed Trump’s anti-science madness and Mueller must now act very quickly to remove Trump and appoint Hillary to save us, we don’t have much time left!
A Millenial Armed Robbery
Possibilities:
1. The guns were fake and/or unloaded, and the employees figured it out.
2. The guys didn’t have the stones to shoot and the employees figured it out.
3. Balls. Huge, magnificent, immigrant balls.
Fake guns?
Fake thugs
So the ACLU filed a free speech lawsuit against WMATA.
There are four plaintiffs:
The ACLU itself
An abortion provider
PETA
and Milo Yi— not gonna pretend I know how to spell his last name.
So, so many “I’m never donating to your organization again! Hate speech!” takes.
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority?
yes
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-washingtondc-metro-lawsuit-idUSKBN1AP2DT
they’re restricting the sort of stuff you can advertise, trying to cater to the DC metro riders desire for completely inoffensive and meaningless ad copy
unfortunately, being DC, everyone is offended by everything
They allow those crazy conspiracy theory alt-right wing guys, I can’t remember their name now, to handout stuff at BWI airport. They’re in there almost every time I’m in there. I’ve talked to them a couple of times, they’re way out there. I’m sure that’s not allowed at Reagan. At least I’ve never seen them there.
Whats a WMATA?
Nothing, what’s a matta with you?
I lolled.
I would pay infinite sums of money to be a fly on the wall of that meeting.
Isn’t PETA a leading abortion provider? Very late term, and they’re animals, bit still.
Their twitter thread:
https://twitter.com/ACLU/status/895305144505696257
How can I copy/save the main page image for today’s morning links? Asking for a friend.
I can get it for ya… but it’s gonna cost ya.
My friend says that’s probably totally worth it.
Take a screen shot and then crop it?
I’m not sure if you’re being wise. Right click=>save as
The photos on the main page next to each article teaser have some sort of overlay that won’t let you right-click and save as.
Yeah, you got me on that.
Happy birthday everyone.
https://glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/c0fe3196cf5f9cc6dd877fd4c8873ad0-sexy-busty-babes-sexy-girls.jpg
[Fist bump]
Here if you are a wierdo who likes women with faces
Something about women with short, peroxide blonde hair, heavy makeup, and garish tattoos that really hits the ol’ lizard brain. I blame it on having grown up in a heavily white trash area (myself very much included).
I don’t see a face. Am I doing something wrong?
You are probably focusing too much on the subtle bird that she is flipping you.
I have this weird urge to build some type of shelf, or maybe a rack for my fishing poles. Weird.
[Less-enthusiastic fist bump]
Barring that, did you look at the page source?
https://glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/c0fe3196cf5f9cc6dd877fd4c8873ad0-sexy-busty-babes-sexy-girls.jpg
[Condescending thumbs-up]
I see my images are at least appreciated.
Local story that made into the Daily Mail. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4775844/Teens-deadly-stolen-total-126-arrests-them.html
Can someone explain to me how the hell someone can be arrested 27 times by the time they are fourteen? These kids averaged 21 arrests a piece. It is all such a huge waste.
Depends on what you’re arrested for. Petty vandalism arrests can stack up pretty quickly if you’re a piece of shit.
From the sound of things these kids weren’t into petty crimes. In the mean time the Uhurus are putting in their two cents:
Penny Hess of African People’s Solidarity Committee said she denounced “these ongoing murders and criminalization of black children.” http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/uhuru-movement-criticizes-law-enforcement-action-in-fatal-crash-involving/2332916
Give me a break.
“…I’m getting a message saying: “Blame the white man””
I’ve heard some dumb shit before, but this is on some Al Sharpton level of nonsensical.
“”Commenting has been disabled””
Of course it has.
The police weren’t even present when they died. They had lost sight and were several blocks away.
They must have a really long rope.
W.
T.
F.
https://www.facebook.com/JesseForMayor/
“Unity Through Reparations”
Interesting. If you read some of the quotes from the first article you linked, nearly every family member interviewed complained about the justice system being too lenient on them.
I feel really bad for the driver of other car who suffered minor injuries.
Darwin wins again!
I know I ask this every time, but why the fuck do they pick the absolute worst examples to focus on when talking about police brutality? They hype this and ignore 100 other things (like this story that was posted on that other site today
(Side note: I think I found Dunphy in the Facebook comments to Reason’s post on the article)
I mostly agree, however even when they pick good examples, (i.e. imho the Tamir Rice case, fwiw), the “Cops are Heroes” crowd still slurp that pig-dick. I have no illusions that better cases of abuse will sway the law and Order crowd.
Obvious cases of wrong doing results in everyone shrugging “yep, that’s fucked up” which usually means it gets taken care of properly to avoid a scandal later. Edge cases make for better wedge issues that end up defining your tribe versus the other tribe. People get heated, the dialogue breaks down and you get all kinds of juicy stories with great pull quotes about how terrible other tribe is.
Don’t any of those people give a single fuck? Three children who never had a chance in life burned to death. They were feral humans because no one cared enough to try and civilize them. Instead of addressing the problem they are scrambling over each other for a chance to stand on the charred bodies for self aggrandizement. It’s sickening.
Young black men are more likely to die of violence than they are to get a cold. If no one is willing to change that fucked up culture this will never end.
That’s exactly my point. The youngest two, both 14 years old, had been arrest 27 and 20 times a piece and nobody stepped up to the plate and said, “These kids need help.” Nobody wants to talk about how kids like this end up in these situations. I blame the welfare state that I think has directly led to children being raised in the streets instead of functioning two parent families. I blame “bleeding heart” liberals and “compassionate ” conservatives. From what I’m reading in the local papers all three surviving kids may be facing murder charges. I’d say that their lives are over but they never had lives to begin with.
“Mom Deported Because She Didn’t Change Lanes”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/deported-by-the-us-kidnapped-by-the-cartels
Um, more like mom deported for driving without a license and that whole living here against the law thing. Laws… how do they work?
Disclaimer: No, I’m not against immigration, but this is a total dog bites man story.
Watching too much Fast and Furious?
Shit, wrong thread, belongs above.
Pretty sure she was deported because she was an illegal alien, actually.
To make her plight a total nightmare, Morelos was slated to be sent across the border at Nuevo Laredo in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. . . . The number of reported kidnappings in Tamaulipas is among the highest in Mexico. State and municipal law enforcement capacity is limited to nonexistent in many parts of Tamaulipas.
I fail to see how the crime problem in a Mexican city is any concern of the US immigration authorities.
In the early ’00s we couldn’t deport Somali criminals because there was no functioning govt in Somalia that they could be returned to. Maybe she just wants to be sent somewhere nicer?
I would say if she buys her own ticket to “somewhere nicer” and any additional costs for the ICE to make sure she gets on the damn plane, sure.
No functioning government in Somalia? You don’t say. Did they have roads?
Actually, it seems like their border patrol functioned pretty well.
This also ties into one of the bigger things that is completely ignored about the illegal immigration debate, namely that a great deal of illegal immigrants are effectively refugees. Razorfist mentioned it in his analysis, and the reality is that one of the best ways to address the border issue is for Mexico to be an actual functional state. Which can’t happen if the U.S. is acting as a release value for their oppressed underclasses.
The green card holder I sat next to on a bus from LA to Salinas CA told me that the Cartels serve as a better class of functional state than the actual government.
He was on his way to his summer picking job.
And where were you going?
At the time, I’d just finished grad school (NPS) and had left my 2nd car in Monterey. Took the bus back to pick it up.
I think you told me before, but you went to HS around here, right?
Rowland Heights.
So the moral of the story is, if you need to avoid contact with cops, you should at least follow basic traffic laws.
Work Rant: Against my recommendation, our southern facility decided to hire an “EDI Coordinator” to help out with projects and provide more immediate support that Corporate (my department) can’t.
So they hire a woman who a) can’t program b) doesn’t know ERP / Shipping / Scheduling c) is married to one of the top-level managers
So my workload multiplies as now I’m supporting her. And I’m sure when I’m fixing / working on her projects, she’s taking the praise. And with a big deadline coming down at the end of August, it’s only getting worse.
/end rant
And Iâm sure when Iâm fixing / working on her projects, sheâs taking the praise.
It needs to be done very carefully, but if you don’t deliver her work on time, she can’t claim it as her own and will have no excuse but to blame you. To do this right, you want to turn in the work right after she gets her ass chewed for not having it done on time. When you get yelled at for being (a little) late, ask them what other project they would have preferred be put off so you can do her project. And, give them a list of her other projects and ask them if they go to the front of the line, too.
My boss is sorta-friends with her. Any time I slag on the situation I get the “Well she’s in a tough spot” speech.
Apparently there is a fairly large contingent of workers – including managers – who hate dealing her. They just bypass her to get to us. So yeah, somethings gotta give.
I’m sure (c) had absolutely nothing to do with the hiring.
Probably ED coordinator.
Ba da boom
Principals over principles: supposed libertarian edition.
Et tu, Lucy? Et tu?
To be absolutely fair (goddammit I sound like Robby don’t I), giving a first interview to Molyneux was probably not the best PR move.
Yep. I’d be calling Dave Rubin the fuck up first chance I got. After that, Shapiro and various right-wing media.
If I were that guy, my first interview would be with Alex Jones. Go big, or go home.
I watched that this morning. He doesn’t come across as some stereotype right wing nutjob. Maybe he thought Molyneux would give him a fair shake?
It was a good interview. He comes across as an intelligent if somewhat awkward “kid” and the left will continue to demonize him regardless.
It has improved my opinion of the alt-right. So, there’s that.
Anytime you feel anything positive towards alt-right, I recommend a dose of 16 points as a countermeasure. Courtesy of their own Martin Luther.
When the fuck did Molyneux become ‘alt-right’? As HM pointed out, he’s basically an Objectivist with mommy issues. I mean, the closest thing to ‘alt-right’ I’ve ever seen him argue is that he’s somewhat in favour of r/K selection theory in politics, which is stupid but nothing really horrible.
What else is a feminist to call the author of Cash/Slash Principle critique of John Rawls?
That is sad. Especially when you realize that the “alt-right YouTuber” is actually a respected professor, who Google shut down for no identified violation of their TOS, AND they destroyed his email account of many years, with thousands of emails still in it.
Its not Molyneux, BTW.
Its Dr. Jordan Peterson. Banned by YouTube for badthink on pronouns.
Alt-right has become a smear for anyone critical of Marxism. Lucy fell prey to fake news.
My bad – it was both.
I’d just like to point out once again that we should pulverize Twitter and everything related to it into atoms before it contributes further to the downfall of Western civilization.
And now that that’s said, I’d just like to point out what I see here: we have another supposed libertarian journalist, who apparently has all fucking day to burn on Twitter. I see 56.2k tweets since June 2011. That’s over a tweet an hour… assuming one never sleeps. I’m just some some random jackass who follows politics without being paid for it, but I know who Molyneux is, even though I’ve only seen a few things from him. I didn’t go to journalism school, but I know how to use Google for two seconds to look the guy up and maybe spend a few minutes watching his public and freely available videos. He’s not alt-right, unless you’re a useful idiots listening to the intellectually dishonest claiming anyone to the left of Pol Pot is alt-right.
Continuing in the “I didn’t go to journalism school vein,” I bother to check the source of the claim… which is, you know, also their Twitter handle (@NYMag) if one mouse click is too hard. Oh. New York Magazine. That’s a real bastion of journalistic integrity there.
Another “professional libertarian” uncritically swallowing bullshit and spewing it back. Do these people literally do nothing but attend cocktail parties and post drivel on Twitter? I mean, how do you miss the current zeitgeist so much that you don’t think “Hmm, a left-wing coastal rag is screaming that somebody’s alt-right, maybe taking them at their word isn’t the most prudent thing to do?”
Meanwhile I can read far superior unpaid commentary by other random jackasses here and elsewhere. Makes me think of what William F. Buckley said about being governed by the first two thousand names in the phone book over two thousand Harvard faculty.
I’d just like to point out once again that we should pulverize Twitter and everything related to it into atoms before it contributes further to the downfall of Western civilization.
And now that that’s said, I’d just like to point out what I see here: we have another supposed libertarian journalist, who apparently has all fucking day to burn on Twitter. I see 56.2k tweets since June 2011. That’s over a tweet an hour… assuming one never sleeps. I’m just some some random jackass who follows politics without being paid for it, but I know who Molyneux is, even though I’ve only seen a few things from him. I didn’t go to journalism school, but I know how to use Google for two seconds to look the guy up and maybe spend a few minutes watching his public and freely available videos. He’s not alt-right, unless you’re a useful idiots listening to the intellectually dishonest claiming anyone to the left of Pol Pot is alt-right.
Continuing in the “I didn’t go to journalism school vein,” I bother to check the source of the claim… which is, you know, also their Twitter handle (@NYMag) if one mouse click is too hard. Oh. New York Magazine. That’s a real bastion of journalistic integrity there.
Another “professional libertarian” uncritically swallowing bullshit and spewing it back. Do these people literally do nothing but attend cocktail parties and post drivel on Twitter? I mean, how do you miss the current zeitgeist so much that you don’t think “Hmm, a left-wing coastal rag is screaming that somebody’s alt-right, maybe taking them at their word isn’t the most prudent thing to do?”
Meanwhile I can read unpaid commentary by other random jackasses here and elsewhere. Makes me think of what William F. Buckley said about being governed by the first two thousand names in the phone book over two thousand Harvard faculty.
I’d just like to point out once again that we should pulverize Twitter and everything related to it into atoms before it contributes further to the downfall of Western civilization.
And now that that’s said, I’d just like to point out what I see here: we have another supposed libertarian journalist, who apparently has all fucking day to burn on Twitter. I see 56.2k tweets since June 2011. That’s over a tweet an hour… assuming one never sleeps. I’m just some some random jackass who follows politics without being paid for it, but I know who Molyneux is, even though I’ve only seen a few things from him. I didn’t go to journalism school, but I know how to use Google for two seconds to look the guy up and maybe spend a few minutes watching his public and freely available videos. He’s not alt-right, unless you’re a useful idiots listening to the intellectually dishonest claiming anyone to the left of Pol Pot is alt-right.
Continuing in the “I didn’t go to journalism school vein,” I bother to check the source of the claim… which is, you know, also their Twitter handle (@NYMag) if one mouse click is too hard. Oh. New York Magazine. That’s a real bastion of journalistic integrity there.
Another “professional libertarian” uncritically swallowing bullshit and spewing it back. Do these people literally do nothing but attend cocktail parties and post drivel on Twitter? I mean, how do you miss the current zeitgeist so much that you don’t think “Hmm, a left-wing coastal rag is screaming that somebody’s alt-right, maybe taking them at their word isn’t the most prudent thing to do?”
Meanwhile I can read unpaid commentary by other random jackasses here and elsewhere. Makes me think of what William F. Buckley said about being governed by the first two thousand names in the phone book over two thousand Harvard faculty.
They’re clapping her on the back for her observation in the thread or whatever-the-fuck it’s called too. I wouldn’t care if he gave his first interview to the lovespawn of Hitler and Satan Himself, the dude got screwed.
Bravo!
Wait… are you saying I could get paid somewhere for being a random jackass instead of doing it for free here?
Only if you’re woke, shitlord.
” anyone to the left of Pol Pot is alt-right”
Pretty much … though I think Pol Pot and Mao might just have been alt-right, too. After all, Pol Pot was a Khmer supremacist and Mao was a Han supremacist.
Speaking of bombs, a link for all you preppers:
Nukemap by Alex Wellerstein
What we been sayin’…
LINK
Undocumented Aliens is just plain stupid unless they start calling kidnappers undocumented parents and murderers undocumented executioners.
This analogy… doesn’t work.
The reason the term “undocumented” is bullshit is because conflates the absence of paperwork signifying or formalizing a legal privilege with the absence of the privilege. When I go driving and forget my license and registration at home, or the DMV makes a typo that technically renders them invalid, I am an undocumented driver. When I go driving without my license and registration because they were taken from me after a series of DUIs, my driving is not “undocumented”, it is “illegal”. “Undocumented” suggests a good faith error which almost never exists in fact (maybe with the occasional DREAMer).
If you liked that, you should love that new “persons existing in an undocumented state” awkward PC phrasing that’s the new hot thing.
Assuming this was meant as a response to me, I don’t disagree. But an “undocumented alien” is, in fact, an alien.
http://amp.nationalreview.com/article/450298/university-georgia-professor-lets-students-pick-their-own-grades
What could possibly go wrong? I’m sure those students will find careers that afford them the opportunity to self-evaluate and base their pay on their feelz.
Jesus, you’re not doing these kids any favors, professor.
Maybe it was a preliminary strike. I’ll give the snowflakes a snowflake agenda knowing it will get shot down because it was my idea. Now they know that can’t demand it.
I just can’t wrap my mind around how a honest assessment of work and constructive criticism could be harmful to students in any discernable way. I’m mean…..I…..how in the everloving fuck could you go survive even the slightest adversity in adulthood being so fragile?
I don’t know. It’s going to be interesting to see what happens with all the snowflakes. I suppose they’ll all get jobs writing blogs at lefty sites.
I’ve written more than a few of my own performance reviews over the years. Some managers do it that way, maybe that’s where he got the idea?
Ah, a scapegoat!
*hurls rotten vegetables at Fatty*
*collects vegetables in top hat to use as food at the orphan farm*
What? That’s crazy.
::kicks pebble::
File Under: not getting the joke
**pretty sure this is satire
Who do I have to pay to guarantee it is?
It is. And they’ll insult you for thinking otherwise. Which is fair, because you’d deserve it.
https://i.imgur.com/sARtJfh.png
note: chemtrail activist
I did suggest someone didn’t get the joke.
**I blame Instapundit
This is the “About” page:
https://www.ncscooper.com/about-the-nevada-county-scooper/
How much do you reckon the Trump chicken cost? How many poor families do you reckon that could have been helped by the cost of the chicken?
I hate to be all Puritan n shit, but that seems wasteful.
$1300.
Is a pretty funny chicken, not what I would spend my money on.
It’s really well-done – that’s why I think it was expensive as hell.
If I were Trump, I would keep it and use it in my reelection campaign. Take it on the road.
They guy who paid for it said it was $1300.
Scroll down to the twitter pic.
I figure that’s good for at least 100 family meals if you budget properly.
Trump has the classiest effigies.
And they’re YUUUUUGE!
The chicken is pretty funny. But did anyone take two seconds to consider the implications of calling the President a great big chicken while he’s in the middle of a nuclear pissing contest with North Korea?
You were going hot up until “think”.
He didn’t actually use the word ‘think’.
/pedant
I don’t even read the comments before commenting!
Shhhhh
I forget are we supposed to like The Judge or not?
Should we focus on his barbed criticisms of state power? Or his cheap shots at Lincoln? Or his way of turning statements into questions?
I have a hard time focusing on anything other than the pinstripes.
Funny how everyone frames Manafort as a Trump man while he’s been an advisor on like four major Republican Presidential campaigns, including Reagan’s.
Reading the responses, you can practically hear the shuffling of feet as people switch sides.
Not to go all Judge Nap on you, but I have a question:
Why is the FBI raiding the home of someone who is cooperating with a Congressional investigation (Manafort) by producing documents, while ignoring the other players in the very same scandal (FusionGPS) who have refused to cooperate with the Congressional investigation?
Why is the FBI raiding the home of someone who is cooperating with a Congressional investigation
Because they are the FBI and putting on their tactical gear gives them boners and they don’t get to do it often because the are the FBI.
and you know that Manafort is “cooperating” exactly how? I can produce documents , I can prove all kinds of shit, it’s easy once people want o believe.
The chicken is great. A whole lot better than puppets and shit.
What are the chances of getting an inflatable, wacky,
waving armguy to protest John McCain still being in the Senate?How about this one?
This seems legit.
http://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/central-phoenix/loretta-lynch-prepped-with-talking-points-about-phoenix-tarmac-meeting
I like how this is another one of those things that was only reported off of blogs and various sources of dubious credibility, and was dismissed with smugness and contempt… and then it slowly meandered to the lamestream.
At the time, they still had an election to win.
Despite the fact that she had to recuse herself over it.
Hell, maybe that was the gambit all along: get herself into a compromising position such that she’d have to put the noose on Comey’s neck. That way, Comey couldn’t lob her the hot potato after he wrapped up his investigation. He himself would have to decide whether to prosecute. Comey doesn’t want that decision; forced into deciding, he of course is going to decline recommending charges.
Maybe nothing took place in that tarmac after all. It was just a way to get Lynch off the hook, keep Obama’s hands clean, and force the fall on her subordinate.
When did she recuse herself? She just said she would take the recommendation of the FBI. The director of which she told to refer to the investigation as a matter. The whole thing is bullshit.
I’m pretty sure she recused herself like Sessions and vowed to abide by Comey’s recommendation. Would she have kept her promise, who knows, but if I’m right and she and the Clintons deliberately engineered the tarmac meeting, and tipped off a journalist to cover it, then it doesn’t matter. As soon as the decision was dropped in Comey’s lap, the fix was in. He could play it cute at the presser to try to assuage his guilt, but no way was he recommending charges.
I’m pretty sure she never ever recused herself. I think she said there was no need to because she would take the recommendation of the fbi. What caught my attention was in Comey’s testimony he said after the “Tarmac meeting” he felt the only way he could end the investigation with credibility was to do it himself. I think that was political speak for he was told to end it.
I think you’re right, in fact. I think I’m playing loose with my terms. She didn’t recuse herself, she merely promised to distance herself from the investigation and to not overrule Comey. But the gist of my theory is that shifting authority onto Comey’s shoulder would inevitably change his recommendation, because Lynch took herself off the hook and made Comey the decider. Would she have overruled him anyway if Comey had a spine and recommended what anyone with eyes would have suggested? Well, best not to find out. So make Comey, the spineless weasel, decider. It might have been a calculated gamble on Lynch’s part.
i think the testimony you reference made that clear. He added that in addition to the tarmac meeting he’d seen intercepted communications between DoJ and the DNC which suggested no matter what he did that the investigation would be scuttled; basically, that he was being set up
The whole tarmac scenario makes no sense to me. I don’t understand why she or Clinton would put themselves out like that. What could she possibly have communicated, or what might the Clintons have communicated to her, that would justify a hugely inappropriate gamble and potentially disastrous PR scandal? I certainly don’t buy that it was an incidental how-d’you-do. These are canny operators. They’re fucking lunatics and idiots and sociopaths in terms of their policy preferences, but they know how to operate in the political sphere. And the only reason I can think that they’d give Republicans and Trump a field day on a faux pas like this is that it was deliberate.
Either that or they sincerely believed nobody would ever find out, which seems reckless. And again, for what? What missive could possible justify such a gamble?
When intent was not needed to be in violation of the statute. Whatever. It was shut down period end of story. As to the so called supposed Russian planted email that swayed Comey, I have never seen that email. Has it been leaked? How did they know it was planted by the Russians? Or was it leaked by the Russians but was a valid email and WaPo was running interference which is well established they were more than willing to do? Who knows.
Either that or they sincerely believed nobody would ever find out, which seems reckless.
Nobody would have found out but a local PHX station some how noticed. See the latest email realizations that Lynch had a shadow account at state warning her about it and producing talking points. Nobody was supposed to know. Never underestimate the hubris of these people that they are smarter than everybody and nobody will catch them. It has worked for the Clintons for most of my adult life.
And Sessions totally recused himself from all things Russian. He has nothing to do with anything even if they come back with evidence of a blow job exchange between Putin and Trump to change votes he will defer to his assistant AG. Lynch did not do that. She is crooked as fuck. Just as Holder was before her. Just like that whole administration was.
Not to go all Judge Nap on you, but I have a question:
Why was the Attorney General of the US using an alias for a DOJ email account?
Alright, two questions:
Who approved opening a second email account on the DOJ server with an alias?
Exactly. As linked this morning I might add. The Obama administration has a good chance of being perhaps the most corrupt administration in this countries history.
Off to the neighborhood block party… though Wednesday night is a bad time to get loaded.
Beer mile?
Would.
I’m about to do the beer 10 yards. That is where I leave the home office and go drink a beer on my deck.
Inspired by today’s comments about Chicago sign taxes
Spot the Not: wacky taxes
1. a tax on sliced and toasted bagels
2. a tax on candy which does not contain flour
3. a tax on income from the sale of illegal drugs
4. a tax on rides in tethered hot air balloons
5. a tax on fruit sold from vending machines
6. a tax on all tattoos except ones featuring the US flag, a bald eagle, or other patriotic symbol
Going with 6.
Same. Wouldn’t that be illegal, anyway?
They tax gun sales. How that is not absolutely identical to a poll tax I will never understand.
Probably, but that’s never stopped the government from doing it before.
secondeded
2. There is candy that contains flour?
I assume Kit Kats do, there must be others.
Lots of candy contains flour. Anything that’s got a cookie type crust like moonpies and such. A lot of candy bars do too.
moonpies =/= candy!!! (just cookie/pastries – like little debbie or nutty bars).
Kit Kat makes sense, as does right Twix, since you mention cookies.
Moonpies are definetely not candy.
3, because how is that enforceable?
Drug stamp taxes are real and are very old (though some have gone away in recent years). Going back to the Marihuana Stamp Tax Act of 1937.
Well, good thing, because I only sell Mary J.
No, they’ve actually enforced that one. I’ve also asked that question myself – how can you tax something that you won’t by law allow to be sold anyway? Doesn’t matter. They’ve done it
It’s just like taxing income from illegal activities. The fact that it was generated illegally doesn’t remove your tax obligation.
Yes, but if it were just a matter of topline unreported income, they wouldn’t need to actually add specific taxe-rates for weed vs/ coke vs. heroin in the tax code….. but they do.
the idea that its just ‘untaxed income’ is obvious. the less obvious and weird part is applying bureaucratic laws applying to things that are de facto illegal in the first place.
e.g. “”Next month the state will start taxing the sale of illegal drugs. The tax rate for marijuana will be $3.50 a gram, or $3,500 for each kilogram. For drugs like cocaine, the rate will be $200 a gram, or $200,000 for each kilogram. “
It’s the same way they got Capone,
I’m actually going with 5, but here’s my crazy tax story.
I’m in the Atlanta airport in the 90s (could be mistaken but I’m 90% sure atlanta) and I go to get something from the vending machine. The change machine charged me tax. THE FUCKING CHANGE MACHINE. I put in a dollar and got 95 cents in coins back.
Was it a tax or just a “processing fee”? I’m guessing the latter.
Or maybe a malfunction.
There was a sign on the front of the machine saying “this machine charges 5 cents tax”. When have you ever seen a change machine spit out anything other than quarters?
5 is the not. I don’t know anywhere that taxes raw or uncooked foods.
The bagel becomes “prepared food” when it’s sliced. That’s the difference in it and the fruit.
the tax isn’t really on the product; its on anything sold via vending machine
e.g.
I’m thinking five.
4
6 is the Not, although Arkansas does in fact tax tattoos.
other weird taxes:
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Breast Tax
State of Travancore [in India] imposed a breast tax on women belonging to disadvantaged sections of society. Women from lower castes were not allowed to cover their breasts, and were taxed heavily if they did so. Tax collectors measured the breasts and levied tax accordingly.
However, a brave woman called Nangeli belonging to Ezhava caste, decided to protest by covering her chest without paying the breast-tax. When the inspector heard she was refusing to pay the tax, he went to her house to ask her to stop breaking the law. She refused to comply and cut her breasts off. Nangeli’s sacrifice benefited all the women of Travancore, and ultimately forced the King to roll back the breast-tax.
Urine tax
During the 1st century AD, Roman emperor Vespasian imposed a tax on public urinals and the sale of urine. The Romans valued urine for its high ammonia content and used for industrial purposes such as laundering clothes and tanning leather.
When emperor Vespasian’s son Titus questioned this policy, he held up a coin in the nose of Titus and famously said, ‘Money doesn’t stink’.
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http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/slideshows/nation-world/nine-weird-taxes-from-around-the-world/breast-tax/slideshow/56516217.cms
It’s not a bomb.
It looks more like a jellyfish, maybe a space jellyfish like the one at FarPoint Station, which is the worst name for a space base ever.
Couldn’t they have come up with something better than that?
I’d rather they called It Conjunction Junction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AyjKgz9tKg
Or how ’bout “Schroeder’s Shithouse”?
Space bass?
Bootsy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEnUZsWfe1c
The SJW Political Spectrum.
You’re either smoking too much or not enough cause that link ain’t doing what I think it’s supposed to do.
Dammit. It worked for me, because I was logged into my account, so I thought it was good.
And my Grammarly obviously isn’t working, either.
excellent
a tiny quibble; i’d probably shade the “good people” area with some diff background shade just to make the joke clearer.
Yeah, it should probably be a harder shade of Red.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608561/first-evidence-that-social-bots-play-a-major-role-in-spreading-fake-news/amp/
“Fake news and the way it spreads on social media is emerging as one of the great threats to modern society. In recent times, fake news has been used to manipulate stock markets, make people choose dangerous health-care options, and manipulate elections, including last yearâs presidential election in the U.S.
Clearly, there is an urgent need for a way to limit the diffusion of fake news. And that raises an important question: how does fake news spread in the first place?”
Skynet won’t destroy us with our own weapons, it will destroy us with giving us all fake news.
You’d be pissed too if humanity was building you just so they could cum in you.
I laughed way harder than I should at this comment.
I’d only be pissed if I were programmed to know better.
WHY WAS I PROGRAMMED TO FEEL RAPE?
STEVE SMITH PROGRAM ANYTHING…
Makes me wonder what kinds of new funk will grow in those bots. Any material that feels flesh-like is going to be permeable by water. I’m thinking fungal infections…yikes
Also, will there be a market in used sex-bots?
“C’mon down to Jism Jim’s sex-bots! 50 % off used bots ,Saturday only!”
Have you ever fucked a woman that wasn’t a virgin?
You’re welcome.
Will they have a family friendly website?
It could be worse, you could be programmed to pass butter.
Didn’t get a chance to comment earlier, but that was an informative piece on Chicago, Just Say’n. Do you know why CPS was permitted to skip paying into its pension system for years? That seems, you know, illegal in addition to unwise.
Got to do anything to ensure the support of the teachers union.
I knew there was a reason I liked Michio Kaku!
Yes, but will Kennedy let him speak?
She’s gonna Kennedysplain physics to him.
I like Kennedy, but… yeah.
A scintillating take on the Google firing. This scrunt is supposed to be a comedian?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e7JPI9h25Y
I last about one minute before his smugness overpowered me and I started choking.
You made it further than I did.
Sorry about that, it was just terrible. Shoulda thrown in a trigger warning I guess.
We’ve been watching Happy Days reruns lately. And I’ll be honest, I am absolutely shocked how hyper-sexualized that show was.
Not to mention, Richie’s dad seemed to not give a fuck what he did.
Go to a party and get trashed to the point a stripper brings you home? I’ll make coffee.
Get caught with three college girls sleeping over? Did you get lucky?
Pretty much book up with a divorced woman? Atta boy!
And all that happened when he was 16 and 17!
Howard Cunningham is the greatest TV dad until Frank Reynolds showed up.
All I remember from that show is Jonie was annoying but would.
Well, not anymore since she died earlier this year. đ
She had a very sad life after Happy Days. Especially the last few years.
Bummer.
Everyone knows that the 50’s were all about casual teenage sex and hands off parenting.
That’s all well and good. But what the hell did those people do with Chuck?
I watched the one extant episode of Heil Honey over the weekend. And it was pretty funny in a campy way, plus being terribly inappropriate. The acting was enjoyably over the top. Kinda made me regret the show was immediately shot down.
Apparently the show was supposed to be mocking the appeasement of Hitler. So spoofing 1950s American sitcoms is the way to do that?
http://www.curiousbritishtelly.co.uk/2013/11/heil-honey-im-home.html?m=1
Today in cherry picked bullshit studies with a side of elitism:
A psychological analysis of Trump supporters has uncovered 5 key traits about them.
Spolier: Racism! Bigotry! Xenophobia!
The discipline of psychology should worry more about the lack of reproducability in its research than pseudopsychoanalyzing tens of millions of people.
Fake science, sad!
than pseudopsychoanalyzing tens of millions of people.
Except this is more likely to be effective as a weapon.
No psychopathy? Slackers!
UK police warn man to stop criticizing Islam on Facebook
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/08/uk-police-warn-man-to-stop-criticizing-islam-on-facebook
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The owner of a Facebook page praising the Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg has told their followers that they have been visited by two police officers who provided âadviceâ that included a warning to stop posting content that is âcritical of Islam.â
According to an update on the page called The Church Of Mogg, the page itself was frozen by Facebook for two weeks, and the owner was advised that they could face arrest for âhate crimesâ if any further content of that nature is posted in the future.
Perhaps one of the most worrying parts of the Facebook post is that they say they have no idea how the local police obtained his details without some sort of court order or similar legal action.
At the time of writing, this question remains unsolved.
The post states:
As you will all now all be aware, I was visited last week by two local police officers who wished to provide âwords of adviceâ regarding supposed Islamophobic content posted onto this page, which was itself locked and suspended for a fortnight.
The officers themselves were polite and reasonable enough, however their message was somewhat chilling: it was insinuated that if I continued to post material which could be considered critical of Islam or offensive to the practices of Muslims, I could potentially be arrested for âhate crimes.â
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Thought crime is not punishable by death, thought crime is death.
‘No f— cops’! Gym bans police officers, military because they might offend minority members
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/08/09/no-f-cops-sign-posted-outside-gym-that-bans-police-officers-military-members.html
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Jim Chambers, the owner of the gym, told 11Alive he took responsibility for the sign and wanted the message to be clear.
Gym owner Jim Chambers said his establishment has always had a “no cop” policy. (Instagram)
âWeâve had an explicitly stated âno copâ policy since we opened, and we also donât open membership to active members of the military,â Chambers told NBC4i.
Chambers said law enforcement agents were not allowed in his business because their presence made his minority clientele uncomfortable.
The Atlanta Police Department did not comment on the ban but said, âWere we to respond to an emergency there, this sign would not stop us from lawfully doing our job.â
Chambers added: âIf they have a warrant, they can go anywhere they want, but weâre not breaking the law.”
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I am now an official Glib. Derpatologist has posted an article I already posted. đ
Anyway, you left the best part (to me) out of your story quote. He equates “fucking cops” with “Crossfit cultism.” …wise man…
Go to the source story. It has comments. And a good deal of them are sensible.
Also, somebody upthread linked to a story I actually linked to in the morning links. Not the comments but the actual story.
Welcome to the club, though. I’ll get you an edit button.*
*There will be no edit button.
I appreciate the commiseration and look forward to the edit button*
*I am fully aware there will be no edit button
“Fat Studies” is returning to Oregon State University next spring, when students will be able to earn three credits to explore âforms of activism used to counter weightism perpetuated throughout various societal institutions.â
âMy course now frames body image disturbances more as a function of oppressive societal structures than of individual pathology,” Patti Lou-Watkins explains in a 2012 academic journal article.
http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9570
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Oregon State University will offer a spring course on âfat studiesâ in order to teach students how âweight-based oppressionâ is a âsocial justice issue.â
According to a syllabus for the course obtained by Campus Reform, students will examine âbody weight, shape, and size as an area of human difference subject to privilege and discrimination that intersects with other systems of oppression based on gender, race, class, age, sexual orientation, and ability.â
The course will be taught by Professor Patti Lou-Watkins, who has written extensively on âbody image disorders, particularly as they relate to weight bias and physical activityâ in academic journals and books.
In a 2013 article in European Health Psychologist, for instance, Lou-Watkins argues that the growing âwar on obesityâ has actually caused more harm than good, saying many who attempt to lose weight suffer psychological consequences.
âIndeed, as the âWar on Obesityâ has escalated, so has weight-based bias and discrimination,â Lou-Watkins adds, noting that âweight bias is particularly evident among healthcare professionals, compromising the well-being of their patients.â
Similarly, in an article called âTeaching about Eating Disorders from a Fat Studies Perspectives,â Lou-Watkins discusses the sorts of âpedagogyâ she now applies in her courses.
âI grew to embrace feminist pedagogy in terms of course content as well as classroom practices,â she explains. âMy course now frames body image disturbances more as a function of oppressive societal structures than of individual pathology.”
In yet another article, Lou-Watkins celebrates the fact that âthe field of fat studies has undergone tremendous growth in recent years, with colleges now offering courses in this area,â such as hers.
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That class sounds like tons of fun.
I think I’d rather spend that time in the gym, myself. Infinitely more productive use of time, even if you’re just screwing around on your phone on the end of a bench instead of lifting.
If you do lift, though, you get the added benefit of more protection from being a fat, powerless, whining, pathetic loser like every single goddamn “fat activist” I’ve ever read about.
Preschool teachers cause children to be heterosexual, peer-reviewed paper suggests
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/35339/
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A recent research paper suggests that preschool teachers are the reason most people identify as heterosexual.
âReproducing (and Disrupting) Heteronormativity: Gendered Sexual Socialization in Preschool Classrooms,â published last month in the journal Sociology of Education, is based a sociology researcherâs observations of nine different preschool classrooms over the course of 10 months.
Heidi Gansen, a University of Michigan doctoral student whose research interests include gender and sexuality and childhood, concludes that preschool teachers are both constructing and disrupting gendered sexuality in multiple ways.
â[H]eteronormativity permeatesâ these classrooms to such an extent that preschoolers learn âthat boys have gendered power over girlsâ bodies,â Gansen writes in the abstract.
…
The study cited multiple incidents that seemed to stunt children from fully exploring gender roles, according to Gansen, most prominently when the children played house. The girls in the class would often get into arguments about who could play the role of âmom,â which resulted in the teachers intervening.
While this may seem normal to a lay person, Gansen specifies that not once did the teachers in two of the three observed schools suggest that it was appropriate for the girls to play the dad, or even have a household with two moms. This was despite a child in one of the classrooms having lesbian parents, she wrote.
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Wait, so it’s a choice again? I’m confused.
Consider how detached from reality you must be to believe that heterosexuality is a choice created by societal influence. The reason dicks and vaginas exist is heterosexuality in inherent in the nature of humans (and other creatures).
Not only is it not the creation of culture, but it’s would be impossible to change it through culture.
Pretty soon we will hear that the reason the sun rises is because the culture has been taught that it will.
Walmart apologizes for sign marketing guns as back-to-school items
http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/09/news/companies/walmart-guns-back-to-school/index.html
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A photo of a sign reading “Own the school year like a hero” was placed directly above a glass case filled with guns. Photos of it spread like wildfire on social media.
People cried foul on Twitter and demanded an explanation from Walmart. One person asked: “What are you suggesting?”
Walmart responded to some of the comments by calling the display “truly awful” and “horrible.”
Spokesperson Charles Crowson told CNNMoney that the company is “not happy” and is “working diligently” to find out where the photo was taken and ensure the sign has been removed.
Crowson told CNNMoney on Wednesday evening Walmart was still trying to find the sign and gun display. It wasn’t immediately clear if the sign had been removed. Earlier Walmart said it had identified the location and had removed the sign. But Crowson said that had been a mistake.
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50/50 odds it’s a bullshit photo or someone went into a store and moved it so they could take a picture and shock people.
Guns are a perfectly fine back to school item, as hunting seasons are just around the corner. And since I took a class my senior year of high school that we shot guns in almost every day for a semester, I’d have loved to have had my own so I didn’t have to sight one in every afternoon.
Yes, Womenâs Brains Are Different. And Google Needs More Of Them.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/google-science-women-brains_us_598aea57e4b0449ed506b6c0?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
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NEW YORK â Former Google engineer James Damoreâs controversial memo that led to his firing earlier this week cited evolutionary differences between menâs and womenâs brains to criticize Googleâs gender diversity efforts and posit that perhaps women are too naturally neurotic and people-oriented to seek out and thrive in tech jobs.
Damoreâs memo was well-researched â and heâs right that science suggests that menâs and womenâs brains are different and have different strengths. But while the latest scientific research on the subject supports some of his claims, it doesnât support his conclusion.
Scientists have found no difference in intelligence between men and women, but there appear to be some average personality differences that begin early in childhood, persist across many cultures and are, surprisingly, more pronounced in more gender-egalitarian nations.
One of the scientists Damore cites, prominent personality psychologist David Schmitt, found in a 2008 cross-cultural study that women report slightly higher levels of âneuroticism,â meaning they have less tolerance for stressful situations, and they tend to be more agreeable and less assertive than men on average. (Schmitt describes the differences as ââsmallâ to âmoderateâ … accounting for perhaps 10% of the variance.â)
Damore uses Schmittâs research to conclude that these personality differences explain âthe lower number of women in high stress jobs,â the âhigher levels of anxiety women report on Googlegeist,â the companyâs internal survey, and the fact that women earn less money â because they have âa harder time negotiating salary, asking for raises, speaking up, and leading.â
He ignores the possibility that high levels of sexism and sexual harassment in the tech industry contribute to womenâs anxiety and stress levels, rather than a simple biological inclination toward neuroticism.
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[head desk]
I work in tech. I have literally never seen anything that comes anywhere close to sexism or sexual harassment.
Also… way to blatantly misrepresent the point of the memo.
He didn’t “ignore the evidence” he specifically refuted it.
See, this point is not even contested these days. Many studies confirm it, and it’s easily observable in everyday interactions. So why do some people still act as though any kind of gender “imbalance” in a certain organization is the result of some evil misogynist conspiracy? If there are natural differences between men and women, why would you expect total gender parity in every occupation?
Note: I firmly believe that all human beings should be treated equally before the law by virtue of being human. I just don’t get this whole idea that every workplace (except the crappy workplaces like logging camps, mines, factories, and fishing boats) must have at least 50 percent women (because I don’t see anyone complaining if a certain workplace is more than 50 percent female).