An interesting weekend, wouldn’t you say? Nah, you guys are too geared up for the eclipse. Well hold your horses, its coming one way or the other. But I’m gonna touch on sports real quick.
Of course, the Astros had a good little run going but lost yesterday. The Dodgers lost. Seriously, they aren’t invincible. Well, we all knew that already. I mean, all we’ve had to do is watch them play in October for the last generation to know that. The Red Sox all but put the Yankees out of the AL East race. The Orioles lost. The BIG RED MACHINE went down. The Twins thumped the D-backs. The Indians lost. The Cubbies beat Team Canada again. The Rockies lost. The Nationals won and the Cards beat the Pirates.
In preseason, the Steeiers beat the Dirty Birds and the Saints beat the Chargers. And across the pond, Chelsea beat Spurs in their Wembley regular season debut, and Huddersfield Town win again. The other usual suspects in European soccer won.
That’s about it. Let’s get into day turning into night and other things in…the links!
Jerry Lewis has passed away. He was really old and had lived a full life, not only touching so much on the silver screen, but raising loads of money to fight Muscular Dystrophy. Godspeed. The world is a slightly less good place without you.
Another US warship has collided with a merchant ship. The USS John S McCain collided with the merchant vessel in the Strait Of Malacca over the weekend. Five sailors are injured and 10 are missing.
The Average American saves just 5% of their earnings. How does that compare to you?
President Trump disbands federal advisory committee on climate change. Pants across the country mysteriously filled with shit and the people wearing them scramble for handouts, subsidies, and new work as the lobbying dries up.
Violence and irrationality once again rewarded. This time at the UT-Austin campus. Texas A&M sees their social signaling and raises them. Because that’s more important than upholding the First Amendment for a bunch of assclowns who we would all be better off if they were ignored.
Well I told you I’d mention the total eclipse. And I hope you enjoy reading the dumbest story imaginable that ties the eclipse to America and her history. (Hat tip to Pope Jimbo for unearthing this masterpiece of derp.)
This guy knows what’s up today.
Get outside and see something crazy today. And enjoy those around you.
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Is it sad that my first reaction to the news was “I thought he was already dead”?
Don’t say it that way; say, rather, “It was a pleasant surprise to discover he was alive. Until yesterday, of course.”
You Are Not Alone by KD Lang
Since I blog about classic film I always check Wikipedia’s obituary page to see if anybody important died.
Sad, isn’t it.
I miss the Abe Vigoda tracker
At least we still have Lou.
No, the Sox still have all of September to collapse. See: 2011.
Yeah, but this Yankee team has a lot of rookies and young guys who are less likely to overcome the pressure and make a real run at Boston. This was supposed to be a rebuilding year for the Yankees, after all.
Judge is pretty scary but he’s still adjusting. Pre-Rookie Rafael Devers is looking amazing.
Hey! I didn’t post any gloating comments about my Sox beating the Yankees because it is still August. I think they need to rest Chris Sale for a couple weeks before the playoffs as he seems to be fading. It would be nice to have an even more comfortable lead in a few weeks.
Agreed. I am a Sox fan too, just a pessimistic one.
So there’s a lot of scum among the glibs is what you’re saying?
That, and Villainy.
It’s a regular hive in here.
What happened to the face of baseball Aaron Judge and all that hype? What’s he hitting since the ASB? .170 or something?
Eh, it’s baseball. Young players always have that adjustment period after the pitchers have seen him a few times. He’ll probably make his own adjustments and be fine.
Same thing kind of happened with Benintendi who was supposed to be his competition for Rookie of the Year.
Scouts and coaches figure out that he can’t hit an outside slider or inside curve, whatever, and they get a steady dose of that until the rookie makes a big adjustment and starts hitting his worst pitch. That doesn’t really happen in the minors.
I’m hoping they don’t figure out Devers before the playoffs.
Still gets on base, still hitting some homers. He’ll adjust. It happens to rookies sometimes.
They gotta get him out of the 3 hole. Guys killing me.
Hes starting to look more Adam Dunn like every day.
The guy who hit 40 HR and OBP’d .380 six times? That’s a problem?
No he had a great career. I’d have no problem with that–but after his first half they had this guy in the hall of fame.
Great is overstating it. His Career WAR was about 17 (HoF level is more like 70 or more). He had the worst career defensive WAR of -29.5 (Gary Sheffield was next at -28.5).
The fucking Twinks seem determined to get me to open my heart to them. I know how this ends. My youngest son has already told me that he won’t allow me to jump on the bandwagon, so maybe I am protected from having my hopes and dreams dashed.
When Mike S shows up at the end of September, we may get to watch meaningful baseball with him.
I never thought I’d say this – but I’m average. Once my debt is paid down (4 months to Student Loan Payoff! Woot!) I’ll be able to save more.
They pound interest rates into the ground, funnel everybody into the stock or bond market where they have no clue what they’re doing and “Hey, why isn’t anyone saving money?”
I put away about 17% toward retirement. A little bit here and there, extra when I can, into regular “savings”.
My wife is the financial whiz. I’m vaguely aware of the Ponzi scheme she’s got going. She learned from the best, Morgan Stanley.
I got you beat Swissy.. Been doing the max I can withhold pre-tax for something close to 30 years now, and hopefully when i retire the dollar won’t be trading at the same rate as the Venezuelan Bolivar.
Savings? /trust fund kid
Vice Fund bitches!
” funnel everybody into the stock or bond market ”
I’m pretty sure that counts as “savings.”
You just hope it is still there when, as I am, you retire and start drawing down all the assets you’ve managed to keep away from the looters.
You just hope the fedgov doesn’t find some excuse of a “crisis” to take mandatory control of 401(k)s because “safety and security”.
I will start shooting that day.
Don’t wait, practice today!
Yes, I should be more clear. I will change targets that day.
This is not that far off of a scenario..
One of the reasons these crooks have not batted an eye at the $20 trillion of debt and the over $100 trillion of unfunded mandates, other than their focus being on stealing as much as they can for themselves, is that they are counting on devaluing the dollar, taking the savings of private citizens, the fact that the US going broke would break the world’s economies, or all of the above.
And please don’t think I am kidding. The feds already set the precedent for this when they bailed out Government Motors, and fucked over the creditors/investors there. Iceland also already did this, and the EU countries are all counting on being able to do the same when the crisis gets bad (for the good of everyone, of course), and our socialist nanny staters over here love doing what their idiot fellow ideologues do over there.
Then add up the money you didn’t spend. Include:
Money you put into savings accounts;
Income you put into retirement accounts, such as an IRA or your employer’s 401(k) plan;
Cash on hand, such as money in your checking account;
Any other unspent income.
I’m not sure they count investments as savings unless it’s done through a retirement account specifically. To me this isn’t a true representation of a person’s ability to retire.
Including the 401k, probably around forty percent.
My net worth is tied up in non-liquid assets and children. As such, I’m beholden to the whims of the real estate and orphan markets.
Including IRA contributions, ~35% of net income.
Assuming IRA and 401k count as savings…around 15%. The wife and I prefer to keep a nominal amount in a traditional savings account since its easier to access rather than a percentage of earnings.
So, I recall seeing some people here mention a Virginia Postrel in the past. (I assume she worked at Reason sometime ago based on context). Well, I was looking through the Twitters and saw Shapiro retweeted her retweeting this stupidity. Apparently all the removing statues going on is Trump’s doing? Somehow?
::good edit faerie drops by, shrugs, flies off confused::
Nice link
Is he walking by in robe, too?
I remember her. She’s the one who told me in an email that she feels like she wasted a decade of her life writing for reason because the commenters are pieces of shit.
Was she not paid for her work?
Apparently no amount would be enough if it meant tolerating the comments from the hoi polloi.
I get the feeling she’s of the mindset that libertarians need top men to be the voice of the movement. Because the people that actually follow it are too boorish for her tastes.
In fairness to her, the comentariate at HnR (and now here) is too boorish for just about everyone’s tastes. Heck, we are too boorish for our own tastes. There’s only one real libertarian around here anyway…..
and that is “yours truly”.
Bah. She needs to wade into the hate machine that is the comments section at Slate. Or HuffPo. They routinely call for their opponents to be killed. And I don’t mean individuals, I mean calling for the extermination of groups who think incorrectly.
At least we wait until someone has violated the NAP before we speak of woodchipperd.
Yeah… don’t go to Huffpo. Just don’t.
I followed Balko over there and it was just horrific.
Why don’t you tell people to just go stare into Cthulhu’s eyes while you are at it Sloopy? No fucking chance that I will go to HuffPo: I like my sanity score the way it is.
“What do you mean ‘-2’ on that roll?!”
I thought we were more on the buffoonery end of that scale.
That was what she objected to the most: the buffoonery. When the site was Jennifer, smacky and thoreau pontificating to each other in 35 comment threads, she was fine with it.
The second wave of commenters, coarse fellows like Warty, sloopy, JW and I, who made jokes–JOKES!–are who really twisted her nipples about the place.
You’re saying she wasn’t a fan of Aristotelian rhetoric?
Postrel thinks she’s the second coming of Spooner in couture.
“Spooner in Couture”
Wasn’t that a Smiths b-side?
+1 Vicar in a Tutu
We weren’t glamorous enough.
The problem with the reason commentariat was that it wasn’t mindless jibberish. Having a comment sitting right below her article showing it’s bullshit definitely shows how much time she wasted on the article.
Yeah, I remember she said we were all a bunch of jerks. I guess she saved the “pieces of shit” crack for private communication.
To be fair… aren’t we?
Close, we’re shitlords.
I meant we’re a bunch of jerks. 😉
Also, Nazis.
I am NOT a Socialist!
Yeah, neither an international nor a national socialist here either…
I always thought that the comments at TOS (back in the day) and here were like Gene Spafford’s description of usenet.
So, would she want to go back to Reason, now that all you bad apples left? She’ll only have Hihn and the trolls commenting on her articles.
The hell happened to my link? Again?
Apparently all the removing statues going on is Trump’s doing?
No, Sanchez is saying that Trump managed to change the conversation from a Nazi killing a woman to whether or not the Confederate statues should come down. And he did. But thinking he did it on purpose is assigning him too much agency in the whole situation.
Let’s have a national discussion about the mental illness of a loser, that will certainly be helpful.
Well, it’s helpful to all the people who want to stifle speech in the name of safety at least.
I heard Postrel on an early 5th Column episode. She was TDSing really bad.
I don’t remember that episode and I think I’ve been listening to them since the beginning. I bet that episode was bad thought with Welch kissing her ass.
BTW, this week’s episode of the 5th Column was good. Kmele crushed the other two with a great rant. I don’t think it stopped Welch and Moynihan from continuing to believe Trump is the debbil.
I’ve been Derpbook friends with her for quite some time. She definitely has a bad case of TDS.
Link is awesome!
[Walks by in bathrobe, clutching a cup of coffee. Squints at computer screen, shrugs, walks on.]
You need to practice your *narrow gaze*
*squints suspiciously*
An interesting weekend, wouldn’t you say? Nah, you guys are too geared up for the eclipse.
The homoerotic eclipse
The USS John S McCain collided with the merchant vessel in the Strait Of Malacca over the weekend. Five sailors are injured and 10 are missing.
John McCain screwing up honest merchant activity in the name of brainless military adventurism? Somehow I think there’s analogy somewhere in there.
Well the McCain’s have never been easy on Navy vessels…
Did it get captured?
More like in the Singapore Strait (which is very different from a Singapore Sling)
/pedant
US PAC Command has stopped operations to investigate. Sounds to me, and apparently to the guys in charge, that this is now too many incidents in a single year to be just coincidental, and we might have some foreign agent hacking navigation systems to make ships collide? Sure the NAVY might have a bunch of incompetent douchebags in charge of the ships because in the age of Obama political purity and ideological adherence to the left’s dogmas was more important, but this would imply an unbelievable level of incompetence at command level.
Dean: If You Vote GOP in 2018, Then You Support a Racist in the White House
Good thing I don’t vote Republican!
There was a racist in the White House from 2009-2017, too.
Yeah, but I didn’t support him.
WHATABOUTISM!!!!
-prog
Glenn Beck has been talking about whataboutism. Is it always incorrect, or does it have valid rhetorical value?
A lot of things are being labeled whataboutism that aren’t. So conflating the point of a response with whataboutism gives the other person a way to deflect.
Whataboutism is not acceptable when republicans are in office.
When are they going to realize this is a losing strategy? Even the skewed polling shows a majority of support for statues remaining and for the First Amendment to apply even to assholes. Team Blue have ceded the moral high ground to Donald Trump. Think about that for a minute.
That’s the weird thing I’ve begun to notice. I think libertarians tend to look at pop culture and take it as reflective of general public opinion. Usually that’s a reasonably good bet. But, I think the popular culture has really started to veer off into their own little bubble of opinion. The general public continues to consume it because, “Meh, it’s what’s available”. But, I don’t think the general public really thinks getting rid of free speech is a good thing. They’re not eager to reset to year zero. They don’t get a boner for commie thugs.
Explains Trump…
Think about that for a minute.
The moral high ground is a lowland swamp?
Isn’t he the guy that said hate speech wasn’t free speech?
Is Dean on the secret Trump re-election committee? Only explanation for a statement like that.
Let’s be clear:
That ain’t me.
YEAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH
I just spent 8 years being told I was racist because I opposed the agenda of the big 0.
Guess how much I give a shit about this?
It’s as if the left doesn’t get that continually calling people who don’t believe exactly like you do Nazis doesn’t work, and saying that the Nazis are the only violent evil people in Charlottesville because one nut ran over people means that we can completely ignore leftist violence, because Nazis. And also, I’m a Nazi because I wish to judge people as individuals, which is not woke enough for them.
More and more I’m coming to believe that the progs’ great mistake is not allowing the average Joe any middle ground. The choice they have given people is either being 100% prog or 100% Trumpenazi. I really sense that the reaction of a majority of ordinary people runs along the lines of “You know what? I’m not a MAGA true believer, there are plenty of criticisms of Trump that I would sign of on, but if you’re telling me I have to either pick your side or his? You lose”
“More and more I’m coming to believe that the progs’ great mistake is not allowing the average Joe any middle ground. ”
I think the progs have been very, very clear how much they despise the average man for not accepting the direction set by the marxist credentialed elite class, and actually saying that the giant ass rape they are getting from these people most stop.
“The choice they have given people is either being 100% prog or 100% Trumpenazi.”
You are either an international socialist, or we will accuse you of being a national socialist!
Fuck both of those choices.
Especially when they have made it very clear that unless they are in power they will make sure the people then running the country won’t be allowed to make that work. “Either elect one of us, or you will have hell” bodes really ill for people that put the individual rights and small government over this nasty proggie shit.
That is the number one thing I wish I could get across to my liberal friends.
Of course, any time someone mentions this, they’re immediately discredited with “That never happened because I didn’t call you a racist.” Never mind that the media and the vocal people of the left DID do that, on nearly a daily basis.
And they are still doing so….
The Big O is a Hall-of-Famer.
How in the living fuck is it possible, with all the sophisticated radars and observation systems, to get hit by a big lumbering commercial ship many times slower than you?! Of course I’m sure this has nothing to do with promoting commanders based on SJW signaling rather than competence.
It really seems like this is happening to way to many ships recently… and causing the deaths of tens of sailors.
The Navy is by far my favorite branch of the military (Boomers kick ass), but they really need to get their shit together.
Boomers are as bad as Millennials.
Equally as up their own ass, but less self-aware about it.
I assume you guys are just giving me shit, but just in case: wrong kind of Boomer.
Just because the submarines are prone to becoming manned depth-charges is no reason to give them a derogatory nickname!
Go Army! Beat Navy!
Did we ever hear anything from the investigation into the last collision? Surely it can’t take more than a few weeks to figure out what happened…. you have full access to all of the control inputs, the track of both ships and the entire crew. One would think you could figure out what happened in a couple of days.
Maybe they were doing some secret maneuvers that they don’t want revealed…. maybe screwing around with a Chinese submarine or something?
More like sleeping while on watch, not paying attention, relying on instruments instead of eyeballs, and assuming every merchant vessel will get out of their way even though they are 1/5 their size.
I thought I heard something about doing some odd 360 turns and reversing course a couple of times. Like either they were lost, or they were tracking back over things for some reason.
Maybe just no adult on the bridge to tell them to cut the shit when there’s a supertanker in the neighborhood.
In 2001, A US sub smashed a Japanese education ship off Oahu, Hawaii and killed a bunch of kids.
Why? The sub’s commander was showing off to some visitors by doing one of those Hunt for Red October broachings.
From the always-interesting Commander Salamander’s blog: The Navy’s Supplemental Inquiry into the Fitzgerald incident. http://www.secnav.navy.mil/foia/readingroom/HotTopics/USS%20Fitzgerald/Supplemental%20Inquiry%20USS%20Fitzgerald.pdf
More info than you probably want about who did what when that night. Some interesting points: no collision alarm sounded, and one of the sailors in the berthing area that got flooded didn’t wake up until he was dumped into the water. I.e., the sound of 50,000 tons rupturing the hull and whatever GQ/damage control Klaxons were going off, weren’t enough to wake this guy. That’s how tired he was, and it may be that the crew was similarly fatigued.
Majority in U.S. Say Taxes Are Too High and Tax Code Is Too Complex
A majority of Democrats, 70 percent, say they want members of Congress to work across the aisle in a bipartisan fashion to get tax reform done.
And the Dem leadership will give them a big middle finger and double down on trying to punish rich people and sell it as some retarded ass form of “economic justice”.
No, the Dem leadership will work with RINOs to make the tax code even more punitive and then call it “reform”, and their constituency of idiots and grifters will applaud.
They will try to sell it as coming down on the rich. But just punish the middle class. The Dems make sure that there are enough loopholes so that they and their rich friends can slip out of it.
Well, 70% of Democrats could easily believe that “punishing” rich people is tax reform.
Holy shit, that is a huge number. Republicans should have super majorities based on that alone (assuming the Republicans were not the stupid party).
Or assuming that the republicans articulated any coherent plan for tax reform that anyone believed for even one second that they’d actually implement. They violated that trust in the late 80’s and then completely walked away from the table altogether in the aughts.
Right now they are driving the message home to any bitter-clingers that they are NOT the party of small government or reform.
They certainly are not the party of small government.
Thats what I meant by being the stupid party. They did it again this year with Obamacare, and will also fuck up everything else they said they’d do.
“Hey we got elected to fix the stuff we campaigned on, but then CNN sounded alarmed, so lets break the promises we made to our entire electorate!” /republican
This is why I’m glad Trump is helping to primary some of those fuckers. I hope it works.
I don’t think it will, but one can hope.
The problem is every tax cut is sold as cutting taxes for the wealthy. Americans don’t understand that the wealthy pay almost all the taxes therefore all tax cuts necessarily impact wealthier people more. They just figure it’s a conspiracy by the rich when a tax cut comes up.
Focused undiluted hatred towards the GOPe.
Why do people add the ‘e’ at the end of GOP? I’m clearly missing something.
They better see a doctor for those burns.
It’s a Subfaction – GOP Establishment.
Pretty much all of them except the ones in the liberty caucus.
What’s gonna be awesome is the way Trump reacts to the ultra-wealthy who say they don’t pay enough in taxes.
He will be the first high-profile pol to tell them they are free to write a check to the treasury or to stop taking deductions. And then he will put it into overdrive and tear them a new asshole for something completely unrelated and their whole argument will go down the memory hole.
That would be fucking hilarious to watch.
Now ask them if we should do away with even one current exemption or change present rates and watch the same 90% stroke out over the importance of stasis.
Also a fair point.
The Average American saves just 5% of their earnings.
Ben Franklin haz a sad.
He did say a penny saved is a penny earned, right? He probably didn’t expect people to take him literally.
“If you save a little every day, at the end of a year you will be surprised how little you have saved.”
-Sam Clemens
Those ten sailors aren’t “missing”; they’re trans-present
I’m not saluting that. *Secretly adjusts pants*
Evergreen State Offers Course ‘Weaving Feminism And Math’
Should get four credits in gibber jabber.
Well, since proper application of math and reasoning disproves their talking points, they obviously must infest and kill it.
Math must be misogynistic and they will fix that in a jiffy. I for one plan to avoid planes, ships, bridges, cars, or other such constructs that are build and maintained by the new generation of “we have made math feminine” people.
Three instructors for a class about bullshitting? No wonder college cost so much.
They needed three to pool enough brainpower to run a lecture hall.
Just show me where to attach the jumper cables and I’ll be happy to help out.
Here:
Bones volunteered to be the test subject of Kirk’s Toupeematic 4000?
You only say it’s three because you have access to math, and have the privileged knowledge of that number.
The problem is the idiots that pay the kind of ludicrous money colleges now demand and then turn around and take classes like this one. I can’t think of a single such large expense people would engage in while also trying to get the least amount of return on investment than college.
Tithing at church?
Reading, writing and abitchmatic.
*narrows gaze*
Shorter syllabus: “Math is hard!!”
It really isn’t… until you get to the crazy stuff. But I’m guess most of these people not got that far.
Proofs from Feminist Number Theory
A ring is less than a field. The majority of women say so. So, fuck the patriarchy. QED.
It was a reference to this.
Thats just a word salad.
Who the hell is going to get a job with that on their resume?
It’s an easy 4 math credits to count toward graduation. Of course the instructors could never be employed outside of academia.
I needed a basic math credit when I went back for my second degree. Different university so for some odd reason the credits didn’t transfer, so I took the lowest level math course they had. My junior high school algebra course would have been more difficult and still the class was filled with terribly confused students. That was 20 years ago. Can’t imagine it’s gotten any better.
Hey, friendo, I was trying, OK?!
They’d be starving in a ditch as the Free Market intended. And I’d pay children to throw rocks at them.
No, no, no, you charge people for the rocks.
Even better.
“I’ll take the nice sharp one, and a packet of gravel.”
+1 Connecticut
Paying Orphans… I see society has sunken to grievous levels of debauchery.
^^This subthread is what Postrel was talking about!^^
If Postrel couldn’t see the validity of responding to lunacy with humor, then I hope that she never had children.
Word salad:
Whaaaa? This is what you get when you have someone who got their doctorate in some faux-intellectual field instead of the hard sciences. That sentence reveals a deep lack of understanding of what mathematics is, and what science in general is.
Mathematics is as hard science as hard science gets. It comes with actual iron-clad proofs that a given statement is true (or false). I really don’t see how one could legitimately describe this as “becoming legitimized”.
But did a white guy come up with the proof?
No. Probably an Arabic guy.
Sand yts then.
Yes, but per the US Government definitions of the races, Mid-Eastern is white. So math is still taboo. And if you start trying to diversify it by pointing out that Arabic numerals borrow heavily from Indian mathematics, they can always fall back on math being a tool of the patriarchy.
All this Weaving is turning them into horrible spiders
“who had and has access to math”
Everyone. Class dismissed.
It has been dubbed the Great American Eclipse, and along most of its path, there live almost no black people.
Haha, I thought you guys were kidding.
Flyover country finally experiences what it’s like to be black.
We should force black people to move to those areas.
Obama gave it his best. I think he insisted that public housing or HUD houses, whatever they are called, be located in better neighborhoods and in flyover country. A win-win for him; destroy property values and dilute red voting blocks.
Because the only people who will see the eclipse are those who live directly in it’s path.
If only people had some sort of means to transport themselves from where they are to another place where they aren’t yet.
Astrologer Chani Nicholas on Why Monday’s Eclipse Spells Disaster for Trump
etc
Fuck. They’ve really reverted to the point of seeing a solar eclipse as evidence that the Sun God is unhappy with the king and we must repent.
Did these fuckers ever advance beyond the 6th century?
They made it to the 7th century with their support of Arabian warlordism.
+1 its an omen
-1 stability
Shit…so I have to reduce three cities, right?
Interesting take. Can we get a counterpoint from a shitlord astrologer?
A feminist astrologer? We should have a contest to see if we can imagine anyone less useful.
WTF is feminist astrology? My head hurts…
Bring back the nudity on ‘Game of Thrones’
In times of political unrest and uncertainty such as these, we can all benefit from a little gratuitous, egalitarian nudity on television.
What’s the blackout period for talking about GOT episodes. I have some grievances with last night’s episode.
I’m just gonna say it’s gotten predictable and clichéd.
That’s just because they’re saving the real surprise for the finale – guest starring SMOD.
Grrrrrrllll power is getting lame…way to kill a good show.
Until the end of the season when I can binge watch all of it at once.
Or just use *SPOILER* tags.
I always thought the fascinating aspect of the constant complaining about female nudity on Game of Thrones was that it was done by many of the same outlets that argue the complete non-sexual nature of the female nipple when it came to breastfeeding in public.
sld: I support the expose of the female breast in virtually all situations.
As far as Daenerys, the actress said she wasn’t doing any more nude scenes a while back.
She has a rather thicc booty.
This is what makes her so appealing. Although very beautiful, she’s not perfect. So she looks like a real person, which fools your mind into thinking she’s attainable. Unlike a victoria’s secret model who is nearly flawless before they get to work with the airbrush. This effect adds 2 hotness points.
So she’s a Hollywood 8 (which is a real-people 10), but you gotta add two for the attainable illusion. Then you add another two for the strong character she’s playing. Plus 2 for the cosplay fantasy show stuff. Plus 1 for being famous. So on a scale of 1-10, she’s a solid 15.
Wait, are you trying to say a thicc booty is a flaw? Because it isn’t.
In her first scene, she gets out of the tub and walks away from the camera. All her assets are on display, cellulite and all. I thought it quite a brave scene to shoot. No women that I know like the fact that they have cellulite.
Even swimsuit model extraordinaire Tyra Banks wouldn’t let them shoot her booty from certain angles because she was insecure about the cellulite. And this is someone who literally gets paid millions of dollars for being good looking and having a perfect body.
She did one after that, though. And has been nude in a couple of movies since then.
And it was epic! And kinda important to the plot.
Spoiler – It was Hawt!
I dont get it. Anyone can see all the nudity, depravity, sexuality, fetishes they want anytime they want. We have the internet.
GOT is either an engaging story or it is not, T&A aside.
It is not.
Some things are as constant as math.
/The UCS theorem of sucking the fun out of anything
I once watched a season out of order.
I only noticed because I realized one of the characters walking around perfectly alive had been beheaded in the “Previous” episode.
This told me that the show was repeditive and/or severely padded and did not engross me to the point where the discontinuity of seeing events out of order led to any confusion. So, I stopped watching.
South Park?
Game of Thrones.
Realized I didn’t care about the characters, the plot didn’t hold my attention, and neither nudity nor violence were in short supply elsewhere.
UnCivil’s right on this one, particularly if you read the books. The show writers seem to have an obsession with taking anything well-developed or subtle from the book and going “fuck it, that’s the scene we’ll cut and/or screw up, meanwhile, more tits because our audience are morons who won’t listen to exposition unless they’re hard.”
Why people obsess over GoT when Westworld exists baffles me.
Because Westworld isn’t on right now.
This is the same GOT where they showed a black chick get eaten out by a eunuch with mommy issues like 3 weeks ago right? I just wanna make sure I’m on the same page.
Yesa….
Ummm…winter is here? In-universe it got cold, so it makes sense the characters will be bundled up.
You’re not thinking like a pornographer – winter is merely an excuse to have characters share body heat.
+1 Orphan Black
Well, given last nights episode it is clear the writers either don’t know or care how ice works, so who knows their understanding of clothes relationship to cold weather.
They pound interest rates into the ground, funnel everybody into the stock or bond market where they have no clue what they’re doing and “Hey, why isn’t anyone saving money?”
Let’s not forget the incessant cries of “It’s rigged!” by people like Bernie Sanders and (most laughably) Elizabeth Warren.
Why wouldn’t you just live paycheck to paycheck?
“Sure, I’ll have another Patron. And get the ladies at that table in the corner another round, on me. Tell the least fat one I like her hat.”
Plus, almost complete trust in SocSec, etc.
Bitching about statues is so yesterday.
Us real woke folk have moved onto bitching about animals that mascots ride around on. How dare they have a horse named similar to the horse that Robert E. Lee rode!
I guess they don’t have any problem with the Trojan mascot character. After all how could anyone associate a greek with slavery?
Trojan! /12 year old laugh
Not a laugh if it’s OWMC saying it to a 12 year old.
The balloons at the birthday party for OMWC’s favorite 12 year old were very disturbing.
She’s the one who told me in an email that she feels like she wasted a decade of her life writing for reason because the commenters are pieces of shit.
Nice. I’m sure she’s much happier at Bloomberg, surrounded by the right kind of people. Concerned people, who understand the obligations of a truly equitable society.
State Agency That Disciplines Judges Fights to Keep Operating in Secrecy after 56 Yrs.
Yeah, but that’s because they have the correct kinds of bias.
Government agency tasked with holding government accountable doesnt want to be held accountable.
Everyone put on their shocked face.
I lost mine. I think it flew off to the fallow field of fucks I no longer have to give.
For you.
Thanks, I’m copying that.
Wait… 10-15% of your *disposable* income, and thats gonna cover you for retirement and disasters? This lady’s clients are fucked.
25% of gross or go home.
My disposable income is… maybe $1-200 a month, depending upon book sales.
Yup just save $10-20/month and you’ll be set for retirement, loss of job or medical emergency!
What terrible advice. Even for someone with a lot more disposable income, that really isn’t enough imo.
Ann CoulterVerified account @AnnCoulter
More African-Americans support keeping the Confederate statues (44%) than supported @MittRomney (6%).
I’d vote to tear down Mitt.
*opera applause*
So, now she’s crapping over Mittens when five years ago she was saying he’d be the most conservative president since Reagan? Kinda like how she was singing Christy’s praises when he first became governor. How long before she starts dumping on Trump?
“Most conservative president since Reagan” is a really, really low bar. I think she was right about that. And Christy was a very good when he first became governor. The way he took on public sector unions – in NJ of all places – was legendary.
My point is mostly about how she did complete 180s on these guys when she started with slobbering all over them, and how great they were. So when is she going to go from “In Trump We Trust” to OMG what a failure and hack that Trump was. But now X candidate for the Republican nomination is the real deal!
She makes her living by being entertaining and grabbing attention. Not by being a loyal supporter of one candidate or another.
So if her audience prefers hearing about how great Trump is , that’s what they get. And if they prefer to hear how he betrayed them, that’s what they’ll get.
Oh, I agree. She’s a Team Red Party hack. The problem is a lot of conservatives think she’s some big principled conservative voice, rather than a party hack.
It’s almost like Ann Coulter is a shameless hack and attention whore or something.
The Devil you say?!
*fans self*
I would never say such a thing. Ah, who am I kidding, I would say such a thing. Yup, Coulter is an unprincipled hack.
She’s a Team Player. No surprises, there.
While every leftist and virtue signaler (including one in my own house) bitches about how Trump “divides” our country through “moral equivalence” (aka. RACISM!), they ignore stuff like this that they should actually get mad about. I understand that this is the establishment consensus and that the sea of voices probably won out, but it’s still frustrating that people get more worked up about a tiny, irrelevant group of neo-Nazis than with a government putting more citizens’ lives in danger in a war that should be over after almost 15 years.
Maybe wait and see what happens?
True, I probably should wait rather than speculate. But I tend to be rather sensitive to any potential move that gets bipartisan neocons to screech harder.
Since long before he ran for President, Trump has been saying the war in Afghanistan is a waste. So it would be quite a reversal.
I think that Trump’s more realist than non-interventionist (which is still more sane than any of the foreign policy of the last 25 years). Unfortunately, sometimes the chorus of voices in the DC establishment and deep state is too loud for most average people to not cave in. Remember how only 4 (5 if you count Bernie’s protest of Iranian sanctions) people in Washington were against that sanctions package?
Remember how the only positive confirmation Trump has received by the majority of Washington is when he bombed an airfield? Should show you how dysfunctional American politics is.
The class “interrogates mathematics as a field of inquiry, asking what is recognized as math and what isn’t, who had and has access to math, and what privileges it gives access to,” according to the course description. “Through a grounding in feminist critiques (from critical theory, science studies, and women-of-color feminisms), we will examine how mathematical knowledge becomes legitimized and the ways in which power structures influence what counts as knowledge.”
“2+2=4.”
“THAT’S NOT FAIR!”
“A+”
“I’m sorry, you wrote that 2+2=4. The party said 2+2=3 today. You must face pennance and reeducation.”
“How many fingers, Winston?”
How do you not have access to math in 2017?
I dont know what ‘access to math’ means.
Well, you don’t live in a Math Desert, so you wouldn’t understand with your privilege.
It would make sense to me if someone referred to a brain damaged person who cant speak as ‘not having access to language’.
Are they saying that some identity groups are unable to figure math out? Thus they are being oppressed by other people merely by virtue of those people being smarter than they are?
That’s what is sounds like to me.
“I am a dumbshit, you aren’t allowed to be smarter than I am!” or something.
In order to have their equality of outcome, this is exactly what they want. Harrisson Bergeron was an instruction manual, and the Handicapper General was the hero.
She probably meant their schools didn’t properly teach them math. Which is funny given that the kids she’s referring to went to public school, no doubt. YouTube alone provides more than enough material to learn virtually any basic subject you want.
It’s projection, as a white male you don’t have access to intersectionality, they don’t have access to math same thing.
Math is a social construct!
Being forced to balance your checkbook and getting told by the bank you are overdrawn while you still have checks in your check book!
I have to confess I went through this period in my life. I had just switched my major from Journalism to electrical engineering. When I would get a test back, I would do what I always did in j-school: argue with the prof for more points.
I wasn’t so stupid as some of the arguments these goobers are making, but I would argue that getting “4” as an answer to 2+2 wasn’t as important as they seemed to think. More credit should be given for showing that I was thinking right.
It was a clash of cultures because the EE profs weren’t used to students arguing for more points.
One of my AE profs teaching fluid dynamics told the class that while thinking right was absolutely critical for an engineer, the fact that you in the end produced a product that would crash and burn regardless of how well thought out you were when you made sloppy math errors, counted for far more.
The new hate message that TRIGGERs! Howard students – High School girls with Trump gear.
OMWC also “triggered”.
It reads “women”.
Meh, I just read the High School girls description without clicking.
I don’t know how tall they can be before they can’t ride in the van.
If they’re in High School, they’re already too old.
-1 growth spurt
Trump, so racist he gets awards from Jesse Jackson for promoting black empowerment.
Howard University’s numbered tweet response, like most numbered tweet responses, was totally idiotic:
“Today, there were visitors on our campus who were wearing paraphernalia that showcased their political support.”
Because they were wearing a Trump bongs?
Then it goes on to contradict itself.
the lunch counter at Woolworth’s was private too.
Remember her from Attack of the Show?
http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/15/sara-underwood-drops-bikini-photo-immediately-follows-it-with-politics/
Yowza.
https://twitter.com/saraunderwood
Dat flat ass?
I wasn’t going to say it but that was my first thought.
Really? Is everyone here besides me, John?
We’re all Tulpa, remember? Also, just because we appreciate a woman with curves instead of skin and bones, doesn’t make us John.
I’m Poppy
I appreciate thiccness – and beyond, if I’m being honest – more than the average Glib, and I think her ass is just fine. I’m not seeing the flatness.
I don’t do John level stuff. I am an ass-man though and if shes going to write a screed like that, she’d better be packing more than that in the back.
IDK, maybe I’m just spoiled.
She’s hawt. Wood.
Those boobs though…
Wow. Those are some jaw-dropping well-sculpted politics.
Sara Underwood? Never heard of her. Thought maybe Bruce had changed his name again.
She can get away with that gibberish because T&A. Turns out drunken asshole from SNP comics is a wise man. “Yeah whatever honey, mmmm dem titties. Let me see dem titties.”
I am willing to vote for Bernie Sanders for her.
Trump: “Fake titties!”
LITERALLY FIGHTING FOR THEIR LIVES!!!!!
Fuck off, Barbie.
In announcing a decision to take down the statues of confederate figures on campus, a UT administrator explains tautology:
TL;DR: we have decided to pay the blackmail and are sure the blackmailers will now leave us alone.
China’s Great Wall confirms interest in Fiat Chrysler
::studio audience laugh track::
I get my Chinese food from Great Wall.
It’s possible China might be able to make Chrysler relevant again. Besides the Jeep line (which is where their money is made) and the new Pacifica vans, they don’t have much to offer most car buyers (although their sedans have power, their handling and overall fuel performance is shit for a daily commuter, and not luxurious enough for the high end consumer). For instance, my brother, who works as a consultant for FCS (and gets the same employee discount they do) went with a Mazda 6 instead of a Charger, and saved himself $3K for better features (although, again, less overall Horsepower, but the damn thing got 38.6 MPH with me driving from Western NC to Columbus, Ohio, and I drive more aggressively than he does).
went with a Mazda 6 instead of a Charger,
The Charger/Challenger is a status buy, not an economic/logical choice. Same as a Camaro or Mustang.
The Charger/Challenger is a status buy
So’s most every new vehicle sold today. How many people buy a PU or SUV that actually need one? My gut says less than 10%.
If we bought cars for “an economic/logical choice”, we’d all be buying mini-vans and corolla type vehicles.
***
Aug. 21 (UPI) — Statues of four Confederate leaders were taken down early Monday at the University of Texas at Austin, just minutes after the school president announced the plan.
In a statement, President Greg Fenves said statues of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, Postmaster John H. Reagan, and James Stephen Hogg — Texas’ fist native-born governor and a son of a Confederate general — would be removed from the school’s south mall.
“Erected during the period of Jim Crow laws and segregation, the statues represent the subjugation of African Americans. That remains true today for white supremacists who use them to symbolize hatred and bigotry,” Fenves said late Sunday, a reference to protests a week earlier in Charlottesville, Va., where support to preserve a statue of Lee led to protests and counter-protests. A woman died after being struck by a car driven by one of the protesters.
University of Texas spokesman Gary Susswein said the bronze statues on the Austin campus would be removed at night and without advance public warning, for safety reasons.
***
oh fiddlesticks. shoulda read the links more carefully
Expect to see more hysterics like this for about one month before it dies down. It will almost universally be in Team Blue strongholds while the rest of the nation either laughs at them or just apathetically goes on with their daily lives (the latter being rather dangerous, since that’s what the Year Zero cultural warriors are actually looking for)
Can I be honest here? The derp over this is strong, but if I had my druthers we would never be dedicating statues to politicians or military leaders. Ever. Also, with the naming of parks, roads, and elementary schools after political leaders? stop. Just stop. You know it’s just going to lead to a constant barrage of time wasting arguing. Days, weeks, months of it. Blah blah Malcolm X road blah blah blah George W. Bush expressway blah blah blah .. fuck off. Get a life you fucks.
Elementary schools should follow the NYC system of just assigning a number.
For roads, you just pick random pastoral words. Ex: Stoney Brook Meadow Glen Expressway. There you go.
Glen Expressway was a POS child molester! How dare you name anything after him!
Yeah, but he was supported universal health care. That way makes up for it.
“Expressway” EXPRESS? The Von Ryan Express was about NAZIS!!!1!!1! HOW DARE YOU USE THAT WORD E*****S!!!1!111!
DOG WHISTLES!!!1111!!ONE!!111
Put a massive copy of the Constitution on display on the Mall and in every state capitol and call it a day.
The White Men Slaveholders document?
It’s not so much that I’m upset about a few historical politicians and generals getting their statues removed as much as I think that this is only the beginning of a larger leftist agenda of designating all of the cultural figures that they don’t like as racist/sexist/bigoted, then purging them out of society. Nobody other than us “wackos over there” see any issue about lionizing their favorite top men.
Absolutely.
Yeah I don’t care about the statues or names of streets, parks schools etc but anyone who cares this much about them either way I want far away from power. The statutes have been up for decades if they are to be removed it can just be whenever the parks need new pavement or whatever otherwise it’s a waste of time and money over a big hunk of mostly ignored symbolism and signaling.
Amen.
They should be named after CARTOON characters!
I had a thought. Which does happen very often. So I’ll share it.
Do you think that these people obsessed with identity politics don’t like these statues because it reminds them that white people were willing to go as far as civil war in order to end slavery?
Nope. You’re assuming a rational motivation to hysterical mob mentality. What’s actually going on is “that guy was racist/the Other! Destroy him and we’ll feel good!” It’s modern iconoclasm.
Mugshot reveals what happens when you try to car jack three football players
Lesson: don’t give rides to people acting sketchily.
What about painters and sculptors?
F*** them and the horse they Rodin.
If they rode in on a horse, they can sell it for the Monet.
You have to find some way to bring home the Bacon.
You all need to get in a Van and Gogh away
*narrows gaze*
*narrows glaze*
*sparrows graze*
Did it suddenly get Chihuly in here?
*harrows maize*
Those will have been sketchy as a gateway behaviour. They’re even worse.
Next lesson: football players get sued for brutality.
The beat him into an alien. Pulling a fake gun on someone? Doesn’t seem wise.
That picture is too damn funny. The gun may have been fake but the beating was much less so.
One of the cool side effects of the increasing popularity of guns and the shooting sports; more people who recognize fake guns, and respond accordingly.
Good grief, that is a useless mugshot.
To be fair, he did take a few shots to the mug…
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
“They held him, none too gently from the look of his face, until police arrived…”
lol
Is it terrible of me that I lack an iota of sympathy for the bastard? Sorry, pulling a gun on people to rob them is a pretty clear cut NAP violation. And you don’t have rights unless you recognize them for others.
Watch some lawyer come to this douchebag’s aid because they figure there is a quick buck to be made going after some entity.
Did the Navy think to check the USS McCain for a brain tumor?
He’s on his way towards being a reverse ace with surface ships too now.
+1 “Forrest Fire”
Spelling intended.
Asian-American doctor says white nationalists refuse her care
Ground breaking story. I’m so shocked that racists would do this! I’ve got a better headline. “Racist trash does what racist trash does.”
My grandpa was always frustrated when he would get a doctor that “couldn’t speak english” and would ask to see a doctor he could actually understand. I’m sure by today’s standards, he’d be a considered a fucking klansman even though he didn’t have a racist bone in his body. He just wanted to be able to understand what the hell the doctor was saying.
My grandma — despite being not white — actually was a racist and wouldn’t go to a black doctor. Her argument was that the standards for black doctors were lower because of affirmative action so you were getting the worst person in their class.
Clarence Thomas has a few choice words about that effect of affirmative action.
Well, if the only reason she wouldn’t go to a black doctor was because of fear over the quality of care she’d receive because of AA, I don’t think that’s racist.
Correct.
But .. by today’s standards YOU CAN’T SAY THAT.
However, my family is half-Japanese, and the Japanese from Japan really are pretty racist towards blacks.
The Japanese from Japan are pretty racist toward everybody.
All gaijin are the same, and inferior to Japanese people.
Although they seem to have some respect for the American gaijin who thoroughly kicked their asses in WWII, thereby proving their superiority.
Ah few times a year? That’s what were getting our panties in a bundle over now?
You interact with a wide variety of people every day and few times a year you come across some bad eggs, imagine my complete lack of surprise.
And what are the odds these racists got their tatts in prison?
I am skeptical. I changed docs once for cultural reasons. Indian doc had such a pessimistic attitude that I lost confidence in her ability. “Oh well, you have a bad condition. You are going to die.”
That is not acceptable. I wanted someone from a culture that believes there is no problem without a solution so I looked for a gringo. Instead I found a raghead who is smart and capable. I like the guy and he has done a fantastic job. I will stick with him.
Maybe people are refusing her care for reasons she doesnt want to mention.
huh – the last doctor I had, a woman Pakistani doctor, was horrible. Of course these days there is such a doctor shortage I should have been suspicious given how easy she was to see.
I fired my last doctor because he was old and hadn’t learned how to use the internet/computer. So he was hopelessly out of date on a lot of treatments and he also had a god complex so he would get super mad when I argued with him. How dare I fucking question him?
Now I have an indian doc who I really like.
Please don’t take my shitlord card away. It really is all I have.
My old doc was fat and liked to lecture me about diet. My current doc is my age, an athlete, and all around cool guy. Except I went to college with him so I can’t lie about drinking…
My only problem with my doctor (who is Egyptian) is that he likes the small town lifestyle, so I either drive out 50 miles to his normal practice, or see him when he has his office day in town. I like him well enough that I’ll do the drive if necessary, but it is hilarious that the left asserts there is so much “racism” in small town rural “Trump” country, and he wants to live there.
MY GOD YOU PEOPLE ARE RACIST!
/bangs on pots yelling to pretend it’s not real.
In the late 90s there was a black doctor next town over from me. He and his family decided to move away, but before they did he wrote an article in the local paper that they were moving because of racism. He said no kids would play with his daughter because she was black. Just like a week earlier we had been at a park in town, and my little brother and some other kids were playing with his daughter.
On a side note, new Nurse Practitioner at my clinic is a cute young black woman. I was going to switch clinics but now I’m thinking of giving this clinic another shot. She is really cute.
Yeah, I’ve noticed that most of the “here’s the racism/sexism/homophobia/etc. that happened to me” shit seems to be entirely fictional.
They perceived that there was racism, so there was racism..
Truth being subjective and all that..
“President Trump disbands federal advisory committee on climate change. Pants across the country mysteriously filled with shit and the people wearing them scramble for handouts, subsidies, and new work as the lobbying dries up.”
Once the money dries up how long before scientists start trying to disassociate themselves from that massive scam? How long before many of them start coming foreword with “I never believed it”, “It was flawed science”, “It was those other guys, not me!”?
I give it two years, tops.
Once they start doing that how long before the useful idiots in Europe follow suit? The Europeans are only doing it to drag America into bullshit like the Paris accord because they want us to pay for it. They certainly cant afford to. When our money is out of the game there is no reason for them to continue.
Glorious news.
Sort of related: to some extent, it depends on (a) how long some politicians remain convinced AGW is a real, huge problem and (b) how long they can convince enough voters it is. And, again, related, they probably have to ask themselves if they can afford to let go of the tiger. (Parenthetically, I’m probably in the lukewarmist camp).
Politicians are not convinced it is real. Well maybe some idiots are, but for them it is about the money. Without NASA, NOAA, etc and every university science dept hawking the scam for them and even coming out admitting it is a scam then not very many voters will stay convinced. Only the hardcore useful idiots will remain flat-earthers.
^^^^THIS^^^^
the AGW cult has made a lot of talentless people stinking rich, has allowed government to expand its power and steal even more money, and provided a whole slew of scurrilous scumbags with a platform from which to virtue signal.
I’m not so optimistic. They’ve been digging that hole for so long, it’s going to take more two years to get out.
“Once they start doing that how long before the useful idiots in Europe follow suit? The Europeans are only doing it to drag America into bullshit like the Paris accord because they want us to pay for it. They certainly cant afford to. When our money is out of the game there is no reason for them to continue.”
Here’s the thing. They were never actually going to make their commitments anyway and the commitments aren’t binding. It’s just about pretending to care. So no. They won’t drop out.
This. Paris is kabuki “DO SOMETHING” theatre for low information voter/morons. If they actually believed that they needed to do something immediately to improve the planet’s chances there’s a dozen things they could do by their own logic that would be superior, several of which would be actually cheaper than the stated Paris agreement.
All it would take is for Trump to have the National Science Foundation start giving out grants to study how the science on AGW went so wrong.
As soon as academia sees what grant applications are getting $$, they will all switch sides. Or at least most of them. They were only in it for the money before, so they won’t have any problem writing a big “I fucked up and now I see the light” paper as long as they get research $.
Bingo. They say what they are paid to say.
Also, once the flim-flam is revealed it will be very difficult for the left to turn it back.
The good thing for them is that the science was so iffy they have an easy out.
“Further research by my team determined that solar flares, which weren’t common enough during our earlier studies to measure have now proven to be potentially devastating to the atmosphere and are likely the leading cause for global warming and cooling. More study needs to take place and we will be happy to continue our research in that direction.”
I’m skeptical it will die that openly. I think the more likely outcome will be that the entire topic just gets swept under the rug. At least initially, you’ll see a few real doozies as the everyone involved tries to restart the gravy train by claiming doom. But, by and large what you’ll see is just the climate change stories just start tapering off. And anyone who tries to bring up the topic of the doom predictions being wrong will be that asshole who’s being insulting or who’s committing a social faux pas. And the usual suspects will find some new justification to demand the world submit to them in abject shame and terror.
If you don’t believe me, tell me how many of the academics who’d been cheering on the Soviet Union and communism for decades came out and acknowledged what they’d gotten wrong after the fall of communism? Anyone who even bothered to broach the topic was a McCarthy just waiting to happen.
It certainly didn’t die in Canada over the decade where Harper killed environmentalist programs in the government constantly. Instead it was just one long freakout about how he was dooming the planet, because of course Canada’s emissions are relevant in the face of the U.S. and China.
We’re just addicts, you’re the drug pusher.
Substitute weather girl on channel 21 has one hell of a rack.
I’m still watching the breast exam on channel 9….
+1 “Peter!”
Something I read yesterday, on my phone. So- No linky.
From Foreign Policy, via Business Insider-
Trump is a neo-Nazi racist, and anybody in the administration who does not denounce him and resign immediately is a neo-Nazi racist, too. Everybody in the American government who is *not* a neo-Nazi racist must immediately act to remove Trump from office (the more forcibly the better, one presumes) by invoking the 25th Amendment.
Anybody who disagrees is a neo-Nazi racist.
The End.
I had no idea Foreign Policy was a wholly owned subsidiary of Salon.
FP is owned by the WaPo if that explains anything.
It does. In order to maintain credibility (haha) publication owns smaller less credible publication that it uses to float crazy trial balloons.
The left is good at this. Use people with less notoriety to move the overton window. If it sinks then TOP. MEN. dont lose credibility. If it flies then TOP. MEN. start parroting the line.
All these neo-Nazi policies Trump has put into place have been a real drag.
FP is pure garbage now.
It used to be really enjoyable.
TDS ruins everything.
FP is owned by the WaPo if that explains anything.
Huh.
“Eventbrite and Mailchimp are the two latest online services to join the offensive against free expression on the Internet following last weekend’s bloody events in Charlottesville, Va.
This Friday, the two services terminated their relationship with Milo Yiannopoulos, citing “terms of service violations” that neither platform has clarified. The conservative firebrand is infamous for his politically incorrect views, which have literally inflamed the left — members of Antifa rioted in the city of Berkeley to protest his appearance at UC-Berkeley in February.”
http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/19/eventbrite-and-mailchimp-attempt-to-silence-milo-yiannopoulos/
Oddly, there is nothing about it on Milo News. Regardless, this whole “we need to censor because nazis” thing is getting way out of hand.
The funny thing is, the actual neo-Nazis and white supremacists hate Milo for being a “degenerate nigger-loving faggot kike”.
You know, whenever I read these sorts of stories, I really begin to think ideas like IP reform and domain deregulation seem like strikingly good ideas.
https://www.nationaljournal.com/s/656915?unlock=GZTW3EZ94OLSYW8J
Good article on how Trump is winning the political fight over Charlottesville and statues. I understand why people disagree with Trump’s policies. I don’t agree with all of them either. What I can’t understand is how even after he won the election the media cannot admit that he is an astute politician and a master media manipulator. One week after what appears to be an incident of no kidding radical right-wing violence, Trump has maneuvered Democrats and Never Trump Republicans into calling mobs of anarchists and communists throwing bottles of urine at police freedom fighters. And Trump is the dumb one.
Yeah….. and nobody cares.
Nobody is going to hear how the anarcho-communists were there specifically to initiate violent confrontations. Nobody cares because the narrative is set and all the pieces fit perfectly.
If the murdery idiot with the car hadn’t shown up, you might have had a shot at making some sort of nuanced argument. But he did show up. So “people died!!” trumps anything you have to say on the topic. Nobody who isn’t already well motivated to do so is going to dig any deeper than that.
Nobody cares is Trump winning. You have to understand that Trump’s opponents wanted the conversation to be about how Trump is associated with the idiot with the car. Now it is about whether they are associated with Antifa. And RTFA. It shows that the Democrats are the ones taking a loser position here, not Trump.
When politics is your religion, you’ll constantly overreach and do stupid shit like compare Antifa to the Pointe Du Hoc Rangers.
I can’t believe how people are saying that just because you claim to be fighting “Nazis”, whoever they are, you are automatically good. Don’t they understand how counter to reality that is? How stupid they sound?
No they don’t.
And they don’t sound stupid to the casual observer either. Because the casual observer has no idea who antifa are, no idea that they really were there to initiate violence and no idea that there could actually be more than one villain in a story.
So they don’t realize that they sound stupid. They are fairly confident that you are stupid. And racist. Because someone died at the hands of a racist Nazi while protesting against racists and Nazis. That is all they need know.
The casual observer knows exactly what Antifa is. They were all over TV throwing urine at cops in Boston last week. If they didn’t and the media could control the narrative the way you seem to think they can, Trump wouldn’t be President.
Republicans like to tell themselves that they get stuck being associated with right-wing violence and left is never get associated with left-wing violence because of media bias. That is bullshit. Republicans are stuck being associated with right-wing violence because they don’t understand how guilt by association works and think if they deny it they will somehow not be associated. No, the point of guilt by association is to force the person to have the debate. By denying it they are admitting there is some association with it. The left gets hat. The right until Trump never has.
I can’t believe how people are saying that just because you claim to be fighting “Nazis”, whoever they are, you are automatically good.
I don’t want to ascribe bad motives, but I think a lot of the people in the media bubble don’t see Antifa as bad. They wouldn’t acknowledge, even to themselves, that they support totalitarian political violence, but they fundamentally have a soft spot in their heart for it, just as long as its people on their side doing it to those people. Don’t believe me? How many of these people condemned Chavez’s Venezuela when the regime was setting mobs on opponents five, ten years ago?
I think you are right about that. They have gotten away with it because they have never come out and said it. Trump forced them to come out and say it. And that isn’t good for them. Leftist violence is only effective if the politicians it is supposed to benefit have some kind of plausible deniability for it.
And while the left is whipping itself into tiger butter over secret nazis Trump is disbanding the global warming scam. And killing more and more regulations.
I’m not totally convinced of that. It looks to me like few people get their news from the old guard major media. At least in comparison to the other sources. Even derp book has more variety in perspectives.
What the major sources choose to talk about no longer has much impact an what people hear.
My barometer on this has been, can you discuss other aspects of the story with people who are not already in the Trump camp. And for the most part, the answer is no. Anything approaching “the antifa people started it” is an immediate turn-off. It sounds like victim blaming.
Until CNN or Today starts running stories exposing the “Violent side of left-wing politics”, you aren’t going to see a lot of interest in expanding the discussion on this topic, outside of preaching to the choir.
You have the wrong barometer. Politics is binary. You either support someone or you don’t. If you don’t support them, it doesn’t matter if you don’t because you like them but like the other guy better or because you think they are the spawn of Satan. The result is still the same. This is another thing Republicans before Trump never understood. They think that people who don’t support them saying nice things about them mean anything. It doesn’t. Those people still don’t support you. At the same time, your opponents going crazy hating you don’t mean anything either. They still don’t support you and that still means the same thing.
So the opinions of non Trump supporters really doesn’t matter. If they now are frothing at the mouth and saying they think he should resign, they still don’t support him and Trump is no worse off. What matters is the people who support Trump and even you point out, they still do. The people who didn’t have more reason to not support him don’t matter. Democrats have always understood this and thus never cared about Republicans saying nice things or mean things about them. Talk is cheap. Trump is the first Republican to understand that.
That’s true. I think the narrative was set on the murderer at NAZI rally. But then it quickly veered into should we tear down statues and is ANTIFA bad.
I guess I’m seeing as separate issues the last two being part of normal people’s conversations and the murder at the rally gets less attention now than the other two.
Maybe I’m reading it wrong but I think that’s what’s getting the most attention.
I’m wondering if we’ll ever see another president with approval ratings above 50%. Even something like another 9/11 would probably result in more intensity of attacks on Trump or whoever is in office.
Trump won the election with very high personal disapproval numbers. It doesn’t matter whether voters like you. It matters whether they support you over the other guy. Republicans never understand that and are forever trying to get Democrats to like them.
The entire culture is fracturing alone race, religious, sex, gender, class, geographical lines. The Rs just need to capture more of the subgroups and if, as you say, they do it by getting or allowing people to hate the Ds more, so be it. I’m not sure a two party system can handle the stress that puts on the democracy, at least over the medium to long term. Possible option is Spanish civil war splintering into multiple parties viciously defending their own purity. Or, maybe an end to the duopoly and then who knows.
And the flip side – the Obama administration saw a brutal collapse for his party, but his numbers stayed strong all the way through.
I was always of the opinion that Obama had a built-in 20% approval rating. About 94% of black people voted for Obama, and I’m damn near certain at least 90% of them would have “approved” of his presidency, so that’s about a built in 10% right there (.94 x .9 x 12 pct of voters). And then another 10% from white guilt and moderates who just want to feel good about themselves by saying nice things about a black man.
Nobody who isn’t already well motivated to do so is going to dig any deeper than that.
I’m not so sure I agree with that. Outside of the media culture, I think there’s a lot more skepticism of the media narrative than they think. I’ve found even a few people I consider pretty hardcore liberal acquaintances agreeing that Antifa are not the good guys.
I’m going to make a prediction. Ed Gillespie is going to win the Virginia gubernatorial election. And Democrats are going to lose their shit.
I think the comparison some people have made of Trump being the guy using the laser point that the media cat chases is a good one. These idiots in the media really think that if they get all their attacks as the top comments for his Twitter posts that’ll get people to their side. They’re too used to past Republicans that bend to every stupid accusation they send their way, and they don’t know how to adjust to someone who doesn’t bend to their will.
Meanwhile, Trump’s cabinet is killing something like 16 regulations a day. He has authorized the building of the pipelines Obama tried to kill. He pulled us out of the Paris accord. He killed the EPA’s attempt to regulate CO2 as a pollutant. He reinstated the transgender ban in the military. He has done all kinds of things that would have been the subject of the usual media jihad had any other Republican done them. But, the media hasn’t launched the usual jihad because they are too busy talking about his tweets and there is only so much they can talk about. The cat chasing the laser pointer is exactly the right analogy.
And which one of those things did they make the greatest stink about? By far the least consequential one.
I guarantee more than 90% of the idiots have any idea that the others even happened.
Also, I read that according to ICE illegal immigration is down 70% and that the manufacturing index is up 33%.
All I know is that business is up for me and all my customers. Take a wild guess how they feel about it.
What industry?
Mechanical/Electrical/Industrial. I manufacture, my customers are distributors.
Basically, all kinds of building projects are happening, across the country. Amazing what happens when you remove uncertainty.
“Hypocrite! Joss Whedon’s ex-wife just NUKED his feminist credentials
In summary, she accused Whedon of pretending to be a feminist so he could bed other women while lying about it to Cole”
http://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2017/08/20/hypocrite-joss-whedons-ex-wife-just-nuked-his-feminist-credentials/
It amazes me that it surprises people that sociopaths who hate women pretend to be feminists to justify and cover that fact up.
Kinda like the story of the male feminist who went and killed women a while back. They use feminism to cover up their scummyness.
You don’t have to pretend to hate women and still be a feminist.
Those are known as “female feminists”.
Ahem:
Jordan Peterson on male feminists.
Peterson, Steyn, Carolla, Norm MacDonald. My male orgy fantasy.
Simple rule: If someone isn’t willing to argue against your views or call bullshit on your arguments, they probably aren’t with you out of respect or friendship, but because they want something from you.
She says he has been diagnosed with PTSD because her husband slept around. PTSD.
OK.
*1000 yard stare*
1000 ho stare…
You know who else faked beliefs in order to get laid. Just about any person around.
Sure… I just love metal music. Or hippies. Or the communist worker manifesto.
Classical music.
*shudders*
What kind of chick where you trying to bag there dude?
Interesting list of comments. I’m not sure how “he cheated on me and our marriage fell apart” equals not being a feminist. But then, I clearly don’t understand what it means to be a feminist, because I thought it had to do with treating men and women as equals.
I think the charge isn’ that he just cheated but that he is a serial womanizer.
Which strikes me as odd. Why in the world would an otherwise average-looking guy who becomes a rich and famous writer and director in Hollywood who suddenly has access to hundreds of smoking hot young women who are eagerly pursuing him want to have relations with more than one woman?
https://twitter.com/RealAlexJones/status/899518238228336640
WTF??
That account has a blue checkmark. SIV and Mikey have assured me that blue checkmarked twitter accounts are evil socialists. FALSE FLAG!
Genius
I know who Steven Bannon is and understand why I know who he is. Bannon was the head of Breitbart, which is a pretty significant organization. I cannot, however, for the life of me figure out who the hell Alex Jones is or why I or anyone else know his name. Where the hell did this guy come from?
A performance artist that has been around for years. I dont know how you missed him. He made frogs gay or something.
Oh, he is the InfoWars guy.
What is the story behind the gay frogs things? Apparently I missed that one.
I DON’T LIKE THEM PUTTING CHEMICALS IN THE WATER THAT TURN THE FRIGGiN’ FROGS GAY!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ePLkAm8i2s
“Alex Jones Gay Frog Press Conference
Big pharma chemicals creating homosexual biosphere”
https://www.infowars.com/live-alex-jones-gay-frog-press-conference/
https://strategypage.com/military_photos/20170820225437.aspx
Awesome photo.
Three or so years ago, we had a *B-17 fly over the house. It was a rather awe inspiring sound, and could only imagine the fear of hearing a whole fleet of them coming in.
*my boss’s father was a bomber pilot in WW2 and before his death got to ride one last time in a B-17. His comment? “That engine on the starboard side doesn’t sound right.” After all those years – heh.
There is something incredible about a big propeller driven plane. They have something even the largest jets don’t.
Propellers.
There are those. Smart ass.
You what else has a propeller?
*I’m no Scruffy, so cut me some slack*
Guided by Voices?
My fave GBV album
Saw them on Saturday. So, so good!
+1 Uncle Bob
I just checked this out. I might have to scrounge up 60$, I can walk/stagger to the venue
https://www.octfest.co/
Do it.
Doug Gillard is back in the band, so they did a lot from Mag Earwhig and Under the Bushes. This lineup is really solid and they were just having a blast!
Gbv is awesome. Also, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart are pretty good. Combined with beer? Dounds like a decent Saturday. Do it.
Six turning and four burning at the 1:15 mark. Stupid mobile YouTube doesn’t give option for starting midway.
+2 Propeller Planes.
Nice. Those heritage flights are cool. One year at Oshkosh I got to see Chuck Yeager in a P51 fly formation with a couple F15s. Such an amazing difference in just a short few years!
I use the sounds for sleep quite often.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ujr5ld4I_Xo
All of the planes in that photo were built within about twenty years of each other and the youngest possible frame is at least 55 years but is still in active service amazing.
White people, here are 10 requests from a Black Lives Matter leader
Apparently, the original “article” spelled reparations “reperations.” I’m sure that’s just wypipo colonizing her spelling, yaw. That’s what they be doing
Thought about not posting the whole article for space and effect, but all 10 are so stupid that they need to be presented at once. Plus the fact that she has a venmo she expects people to send money to.
BLM leader, here is a request from a white person: Go fuck yourself, racist bigot.
Good. I would go with something a little more traditional. Something like, “Fuck off, slaver!”
BULL SHIT. BLM is about LOVE!
Man. Reading this really puts into focus Obama inviting them to The White House.
That piece of shit knew what he was doing.
Racial healer my fucken ass.
Obama was the most intentionally divisive President in my lifetime. He set race relations back 50 years.
Yaw? What about pitch and roll? Why are they left out in the cold, forgotten and lonely?
Chanelle – “Pay us!”
Me – “No.”
This reminds of when people like Buffett and Gates who say they don’t pay enough taxes but don’t volunteer to pay more. It’s a faux-moral play where they try to get or shame others into enhancing their moral public virtue.
I can totally see them taking this mantra up. Including clowns like Sanders and Warren.
‘How dare you squat on your own property! The right thing to do is to listen to us and give it away’
Of course, they get to keep theirs.
I’m going to go ahead and think the vast majority of people see through this.
Of course they do. Only the hardest-core of progs is dumb enough to buy into this nonsense.
LEt me sum up these points:
1: Gimme Gimme Gimme
2: Gimme Gimme Gimme
3: Gimme Gimme Gimme
4: Be racist in your real estate dealings
5: Gimme Gimme Gimme
6: Gimme Gimme Gimme
7: Ruin lives over offhand remarks to virtue signal!
8: Be Racist!
9: Snitch to the gestapo
10: Gimme Gimme Gimme
Quite vile, really.
I’ll take things that “will never fucking happen” for $200
Request declined. I only have yellow, mauve, and chartreuse family.
Request declined.
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Request declined. Unless the occupant is unable to afford the 1st issue property taxes, in which case, hilarity ensues.
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Request declined. What’s a they ass?
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Request declined. Sorry, I only knit and sew for yellow people.
on the white supremacy pyramid, black people telling white people what to do is socially acceptable but still considered white supremacy.
https://66.media.tumblr.com/183f3ea64aaa8b9856b11231bc4ea5c0/tumblr_obr13kZDFN1u1ofgwo2_540.png
OT: Shut up and take my money!!”
I love that guy.
#sheetcaking
https://twitter.com/MrFrexit/status/899403401951313926
I found their building.
I laughed at that more than I should have.
“So let the bombs fall, cause buddy I don’t care.
Kill ’em fucking all man, kill everybody each and everywhere.”
ZARDOZ approves of that message?
That is simply sublime.
That has to be a joke/parody. Please, it just can’t be real that so many people are that fucking stupid.
I bet they don’t stop at the cake. Come back in ten minutes and that entire table will be gone.
Well, to be fair, some of the icing got smeared on the table top.
The left has done such a good job at destroying parody that their followers can’t even tell it when it’s shouted at them through a bullhorn with a big neon ‘PARODY’ sign above it.
“Kendall Jenner chose an emoji one shade darker than she should have. Now she is paying the price”
https://twitter.com/TheSafestSpace/status/899453522000961536
Everything about that sentence… fuck this gay earth
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2636157/Timid-cat-blinded-left-dead-bin-thugs-looks-like-Hitler.html
Anti-nazi hysteria is nothing new, I guess.
The cat’s meow was violence, so a violent response was appropriate.
~Antifa derp.
That is a horrible story. Anyone who is cruel to animals is beneath contempt.
Reminds me of that story I read a while ago about thugs in the UK that opened a little girl’s rabbit hutch and decided to cut off her pet bunny’s ears.
#sheetcaking
I, uh…
“And Emilia Clarke puts on sexy display as she graces the cover of ELLE Australia’s September issue.
The 30-year-old is pictured wearing a sexy black bodice with floral print showcasing the brunette’s ample cleavage.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4808296/Game-Thrones-Emilia-Clarke-talks-sex-scenes.html
“Feminist Icon”? Really?
Would we say ‘ample’?
She is plenty hot but has no boobs. To the extent she has them there it is entirely the result of the bra she is wearing. She is a 32A. Who writes these headlines?
1) Music to eclipse by
2) The correct way to deal with racists
Nice.
Another option.
2) Doesn’t have any violence. That’s the same as endorsing them.
Huh. I was going to go with Bonnie Tyler or Len…
Big change here in Michigan regarding the school year – it’s getting longer.
Next year our local school will end June 15th, but will start up on August 20th. Which will give the kids a ~8 week (+ a few days) Summer break. Is this the equivalent of doubling down on stupid?
Back when I was a kid, we got something closer to three months off.
Babysitters.
I dunno. If I had chilluns, I’d be looking into school districts with year-round school.
That would kind of screw up summer vacation plans.
Typically there are multiple times during the year when school is out for a couple weeks. You could get a vacation in.
As Chips said – usually there are 2-3 week breaks in between sessions.
Kind of makes it tough to get away from work when everybody has the exact same two weeks.
Nothing to see here please move along!
http://amp.dailycaller.com/2017/08/20/democrats-office-approved-120k-write-off-linked-to-awan-brothers/
This happened in early 2016 by the way, he was finally terminated in July 2017
The chaos of the trump admin seems to me being a cheese in the maize type thing and press can’t help themselves
Also the left appears to be pissed he made them write puff pieces about antifa violence and now defend them. Every other republican would have been Charlie Brown and look to kick Lucy’s football
Kind of a corny comment, as.
That comeback left him an empty husk of a man.
me gusta mucho
Ditch the parsley and fully shuck the corn before cooking.
Mira, gringo, no vengo a donde trabajas y golpeas el pene de tu boca, ¿que?
/apologies to actual spanish speakers
Speak American!
/stereotype.
I don’t know what you just said, but it reminds me of this.
cheese in the maize type thing
Don’t be so corny.
Rand Paul says ‘fuck FACTA’, 6th circuit says ‘nope’.
This made me laugh, though:
Pretty good tinfoil-hat stuff.
Sorry if it’s been covered before (been out of the loop for the last few days). What’s everyone doing for the Trumpapeclipse? Mrs. Shpip and I drove north from Florida on Friday and Saturday. According to this handy little tool we’ll be at
36 10 16.35 N
86 47 13.80 W
for 1 minute 56.1 seconds of totality.
I’m at work – covering for everyone else’s vacation.
I’m at my Atlanta office and the place is empty. Everyone is driving up to S.C. for the totality (and it’s going to be cloudy).
“Hat tip to Pope Jimbo for unearthing this masterpiece of derp.”
It looks like American Socialist posted it first. Not that it matters.
I thought I was going to be somewhere between Minneapolis and Chicago this morning, so I submitted the lead Sunday night. Then in the late posts Sunday, I saw Juvenile Bluster make an oblique reference to the story and I felt bad about possibly piling on.
So I will
happily return the h/tcall for the cat butting of CP for casting shade on my achievements.I just cant get worked up about the eclipse. I have seen it before. It’s a shadow.
Me either. I have a meeting at one. I think I am going to miss the entire thing. But I really don’t see the big deal. I will see plenty of pictures of it that will be a better view than I would have had in person. It’s going to get dark outside. it does that every evening. I can’t figure out why that is so neat.
It’s the effect of a full eclipse on the environment around you that’s interesting. It gets really cold and all the animals start to freak out. Makes you understand why people would flip out about them historically.
I could see that. I am not getting the full one here. That would be interesting to see but not enough to take the day off and drive to it. I am told in seven years the east coast is going to get a full one. So, I should get my chance to it then.
Look very closely.
…”is it front wheel drive or rear wheel drive”
…”well, that depends”
Vanity plates: “Caitlyn” on the front. “Jenner” on the other front.
Its not trans, its bi. it goes both ways!
https://mobile.twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/899367335949090816
http://amp.dailycaller.com/2017/08/19/exclusive-anti-trump-ag-raked-in-campaign-donations-from-an-oil-tycoon-with-ties-to-putin/
NY ag here
I talked a little bit above about a potential troop surge in Afghanistan that will be announced some time tonight. It’s interesting how the raging neocons at The Weekly Standard seem to look at this as Trump playing the middle ground between the non-interventionists and the military/DC establishment, which implies that he’s going to end up pissing off everybody. One interesting note: our “favorite” crusty drug warrior Jeff Sessions is against an increase in Afghan troops. Why he doesn’t get the cognitive dissonance is a mystery that the world may never understand.
Real Link
Well, good, but then why the fuck are we still there? Why not declare victory and GTFO?
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/BostonAntifa/photos/a.1312871942084794.1073741828.1312402372131751/1497664996938820/?type=3&theater"
Ugh.
Ah, so their “fighting racism” mask didn’t work out very well, I see.
psssst: That’s a parody account.
Though Poe’s law does apply.
Got me. Eh, good on whoever made it, anyways.
That’s a pretty funny account.
All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state. You are either with us or against us. And they have a commie flag.
They really really really want a glorious revolution. Is there any question anymore about who these people are? I would like to know who is funding them. I have a pretty good guess who that is.
I think it rhymes with “George Soros”.
Image above from hier.
My kind of car show.
Because of course they’d think such things…
I present to you the most insidious type of racism, via the Sergeant’s Benevolent Association of the NYPD: Blue Racism
https://twitter.com/SBANYPD/status/899425128232226819
Smurf the smurfing smurfs.
dems equal party of the rich
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/19/business/moral-voice-ceos.html?referer=https://t.co/eI1HibF9RP?amp=1
“What we watched this last week in Charlottesville and the reaction to it by the President of the United States concern all of us as Americans and free people,” the younger Mr. Murdoch wrote in an email to associates. “I can’t even believe I have to write this: standing up to Nazis is essential; there are no good Nazis. Or Klansmen, or terrorists.”
Actually, you didn’t have to say that. Trump already did.
Yep. Nice big old straw man they got there.
Since when do CEOs speak for rest of America?
Murdoch is so so brave
There are no good Commies either. Square that circle, motherfucker.
So, to be clear, he’s saying that George Soros is irredeemably evil?
I don’t watch Game of Thrones. Herman Edwards pulled the greatest spoiler ever this morning on Mike and Mike. Apparently, Mike Golic Jr. who was co-hosting didn’t watch the big episode last night and was desperate to avoid a spoiler. Just before his segment ended this morning Edwards says “let me just tell you one thing; the bad guy has got himself a dragon” and then immediately it went to commercial. If was one of those rare moments that was truly mic drop worthy. Golic Jr. spent the rest of the hour as far as I could tell whining about it. It was just awesome. I love Edwards even though he was kind of a lousy coach.
“the</em bad guy"? I thought the show's schtick was that there were no good guys.
That is what I have heard. But saying “the bad guy” was enough to spoil it. It was awesome.
Could have been mysterious and said “Brandon got a dragon”.
It’s medieval fantasy, UCS. You can’t have medieval fantasy without an ultimate magical evil. Ergo, ultimate magical evil.
The show’s shtick is that the bad guys often win, not that there are no good guys.
Listening to Pearly Gates Smoke Machine. Mind blown. Need coffee. Time to be productive.
Now this was funny.
I don’t get it.
Probably because I don’t know anything about sportsball.
The one in the middle grows up to be murderous cross dresser.
Norman Bates?
You just created a wonderful punchline. “What do you get when you cross Caitlyn and OJ?”
Always looking for a one good zinger to end the night on. Well done.
I saw that. I don’t think people who are not old enough to remember the 70s and early 80s have any idea just how big of celebrities OJ and Bruce Jenner were. They were huge. In the late 70s there were only three athletes in this country that everyone, sports fan and non sports fan alike, knew who they were; Muhammad Ali, OJ Simpson and Bruce Jenner. That is how big they were. They were not as big of a celebrity as Ali world wide but they were every bit as famous as he was in this country. And now one is a murderer and the other is a woman. Wow.
The murderer and the chick were both on steroids. Very debatable how much that influenced both their situations.
It’s been well known within elite track and field circles that Bruce Jenner was pioneer for steroids in track. He used them before anyone had any fucking clue what they were doing with them, and it’s very likely he pumped himself so full of that shit without cycling his usage that he shut off his natural testosterone production.
Today in things that are going around on liberal twitter:
https://scontent-ort2-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/20953652_2027932000771526_6576152772661253395_n.jpg
Oh, fucking A.
Basically this: “YOU BELIEVE SCIENTISTS WHEN THEY SAY THAT THE ECLIPSE WILL HAPPEN, WHY DON’T YOU BELIEVE THEM WHEN THEY SAY CLIMATE CHANGE WILL HAPPEN?”
The track record on predicting eclipses is much better than that in predicting catastrophic climate events.
Orbital Mechanics is more of a “Settled Science” than Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Catastropocalypse
Hey, a complete explanation of how the planets and moon moves that has resulted in the successful prediction of eclipses for 400 years is totally the same thing as a theory that has yet to successfully predict anything. You just must not fucking love science man.
The eclipse is based around the observable movement of celestial bodies, which humans have analyzed on at least some scale for over three millennia and has developed a solid understanding of the layout of the near Solar System and how orbital mechanics function? And that because of this their predictive data has been highly successful? Whereas ‘climate science’ has been a very recent field that deals with an extremely complex chemical and environmental system that is in no way fully understood and is filled with examples of questionable or limited data. And for some reason it’s predictive data has been absolute garbage in comparison to eclipses, not to mention some truly outlandish, absurd ones?
Oh right, “I fucking love science” crowd. Means you just need to bellow the word ‘science’ until everyone agrees.
Celestial bodies? I’m a fan.
Fuck you. Science == Science == Settled Science == Embrace wealth distribution & schemes to retard market capitalism
OK, this is a very bizarre story.
Had an accident, immediately buried at sea. Just like Bin Laden. Sounds legit.
But he said he had dropped her off on land at first? This is gonna be an amazing episode of Dateline
I’d start my investigation by questioning Mcafee. He has to be part of that.
You’re going to believe a Scandinavian with a sub?
Believe what, though? That she had an accident and he buried her at sea? Or that he dropped her off on land and he never saw her again?
Nautilus?
Dollars to donuts it was the giant squid.
It’s Sweden, so if it’s murder he’s staring down what, 2-5 years confinement in a sparsely appointed hotel room?
A Holiday Inn with a black & white antenna TV and no WiFi?
Oh, God no. Nothing that harsh! Access to color TV and WiFi internet are human rights, you know.
I think I’m gonna keep wearing my Eclipse Monocle even after today. It looks sharp.
“Billy” from 48 Hours and Predator died last week. Dude was Libertarian candidate for Senate and ran for Governor.
*Ahnuld hears scream, pauses for 3 seconds and continues on his way*
He finally got to the Choppah.
Not My Faul;t
Naturally, food and beverage work is accompanied with an easy access to alcohol. But with the addition of late-night hours, long shifts without meal breaks and dark rooms full of people drinking, it is no surprise the environment often nurtures addiction.
Continue reading the main story
According to the report, the industry currently has the highest rates of substance use disorder, at nearly 17 percent of its workers. That percentage is especially jarring when you consider that the restaurant industry is the second-largest private-sector employer. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, jobs in food service will soon outnumber those in manufacturing.
But without union representation, these jobs are usually accompanied by poor pay, inconsistent schedules and no medical insurance. High turnover means that when substance abuse behaviors do interfere with job performance, workers can be easily, and immediately, replaced.
Boo hoo hoo. Work is haaaard, says Waitress Barbie. Where’s my shop steward, I haz a grievance.
The endless litany of evils and oppressions reminds me of a Mencken quote, which cannot be thrown into the conversation too often.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
Restaurant margins are so wafer-thin, there’s no way the industry could survive even a minute under unionization.
Thanks, commies, for ruining my date night!
The eclipse is based around the observable movement of celestial bodies, which humans have analyzed on at least some scale for over three millennia and has developed a solid understanding of the layout of the near Solar System and how orbital mechanics function?
There is no difference whatever between a plotted trajectory based upon observations verified by multiple trackers in multiple locations for centuries and saying, “Well, we’re pretty sure it’s up there somewhere. It should come by any minute.”
Have you no science in ye?
The “woke” SJWs on Tumblr are just now finding out it’s legal for cops just about everywhere to fuck whores as part of their “professional duties”. So very “woke”.
Anyhoo, Michigan just made it ILLEGAL for cops to fuck whores.