How would you like to be Dodgers pitcher Rich Hill today? Ouch, that was a brutal end to a (nearly) perfect game. Elsewhere, the Orioles won. The Red Sox beat up on the Indians. The dreaded Yankees beat the hapless Tigers. The Cubbies thumped the BIG RED MACHINE again. The D-backs fell to the Mets. Team Canada took out the Rays. The Mariners won. The Twins fell to the White Sox. The Cards won and the Rockies lost. And in the big game, the Astros took down the Nationals to even up that series. The rubber match is tonight.
No real surprises across the pond in the UEFA Campions League play in round. Coutinho is still a Liverpool man. The draw for the aforementioned UCL is coming up in less than 5 hours, by the way. And in other news, that McGregor-Mayweather fiasco is almost upon us. Thank God we will be able to put it behind us soon. Of course, then we will be able to hype up the rematch which will be coming around next Easter.
And we are officially one week away from Ohio State’s season of redemption. 7 days and 12 hours, to be exact. And our weekly installment of the college football column is also a week away. Plan on being wowed every Thursday afternoon/evening. I won’t give anything else away. I’ve probably said too much already.
Well now that we’ve touched all the bases (just like Josh Harrison last night!) on sports, we can get down to business. I present you with…the links!
Man confronts hobos. Hobos not happy about it. I was prepared to make a “Are you employed, sir?” Lebowski joke but I thought it beneath the highbrow humor you’re used to.
::SMDH:: Really, people?
Speaking of highbrow, Nazis vs Jews beer pong probably doesn’t qualify either. How stupid can you get? I mean, the cups won’t even line up right and bounces will be way different than a traditional board layout.
Illinois Democrat gubernatorial candidate socially signals. I wonder if they’ll go very deep into the brutal history of so many tribes that went so far as to eat their enemies? Or will they all be portrayed as these lovable little savages that never hirt nobody as the white devils injected them with smallpox-AIDS and a million other fallacies? One thing’s for sure: the truth will not be setting anyone free.
“Conflicting stories”, according to the paper, in incident where three protesters were injured by a man driving through them. The story also said the driver “pushed into protesters.” Yeah, make sure if you’re gonna report bullshit that there’s no video of it. Because if I had been driving that car, I’d have reacted the same way if a mob surrounded me and started striking my vehicle. Bonus points for the cops not doing a fucking thing to keep these rioters-in-waiting out of there goddamn streets where people are trying to drive their cars from Point A to Point B.
Trump wants this to DIE!!!!!
I’d be remiss without at least one article mentioning Trumputinhitler. He actually wants the people to use national parks as they see fit. I only have one word for that: good. because we don’t need the NPS regulating what the market can regulate better.
Yeah, we’ve got a terrible storm bearing down on us here in the Bayou City. But we’ve got more pressing concerns. Like the he-said, she-said in this legal battle. The question is simple: was the barber stopping the child’s haircut to periodically jack off, or did the kid’s mom falsely accuse him to avoid paying for the haircut? Strange times we live in, friends. Strange times.
No, this isn’t three days late. What happened Monday was a different phenomenon altogether.
A.B.C. A-always. B-be. C-closing. Always be closing. Always be closing.
Look at that girl’s pussy!
+1 grab?
If you like em hairy, that is one for the ages.
Am I first?
Regarding the “get a job” link, I passed by a panhandler standing under a sign at Taco Bell that said “We’re hiring” and I was very, very tempted to point out that irony. But I was late to an appointment and I’m not a total dick. I wish I had at least taken a picture.
Depends on which ruleset you go by.
I didn’t really comment on one of the linked stories, so my post doesn’t count. That was the ruor at the other place, anyway.
Technically it at least pertained to what I had posted. So I’m gonna give it to you this time.
::Raises cavalier’s hand like Apollo Creed in Rocky::
SLABYR
If you didn’t take a picture, then you are a total dick.
I knew as I drove away that I had failed the commentariat.
*commits seppuku*
You definitely should have rolled around a second time and been like “CLIIIIICK!”
I always commit tempura. It’s much more delicious.
Speaking of signs, for years in Oakley, CA there was a large sign that proclaimed, “Oakley is Proud to be a Drug Free Community”. This was placed directly in front of the Whiskey River Saloon. I always regretted never stopping to take a pic.
Signs.
In situations like this, make the extra effort to roll around a second, and make a spectacle taking a picture of a dank meme like that. My favourite within the last year was a “veteran” panhandling in front of an ALDI supermarket supposedly for his family, who I observed jump into his wife/SO’s black Mercedes-Benz. His family indeed.
Also personally I’ve become a little jaded about clearly able-bodied panhandlers over the last several years when I learned just how extensive food stamp programs and Medicaid are in most states, and the enormity of food available weekly at most pantries as “supplemental” nutrition.
At the popular panhandling offramp here, if you like up the shot just right, you can get the panhandlers with four or five now hiring signs in the background.
Romanian team FCSB fought gloriously for the UCL but sadly recorded a valiant defeat. Or so I have heard from people talking in my office. A most dismal subject of conversion to my ears.
Also a team from Azerbaijan qualified which brought back childhood dilemmas about which countries qualify as Europe. Then again Israel is in the CL
The Crimea-Bosphorus line is the south-east edge of Europe. Azerbaijan is central Asian.
I have no idea what the UCL or CL are.
UCL and CL are the same Champion’s League for European teams in the sport of football. They have a theme song and everything. And despite the name, a team needn’t be champions to participate.
Or even European, if Israel is included.
and Azerbaijan and I think Kazakhstan’s FC Astana was in it at some point. so is Kazakhstan in Europe? Who can tell?
Kazakhstan is nowhere near Europe. One could argue if western Russia is, but no one claims Kazahkstan is in Europe.
These are soccer confederations, not scientifically-defined geographical areas. There are teams in other regions that don’t make sense. Unless Australia and Guam are part of Asia now.
Why are they even defined as regional if the geography doesn’t matter?
Australia participated in the Eurovision song contest
Australia really needs to get over that Ex-con inferiority complex.
I’d imagine they’re defined as regional since the overwhelming majority of their members are within those regions.
Ackchyually!
Israel is in Europe because the Arabs are in Asia, and the Arabs won’t play with them.
Australia is in Asia because it got tired of kicking the shit of out of all the little weenies in Oceania, and then being totally unprepared to face decent competition in the World Cup. So a few years ago it switched. (Australian club teams also get access to the Asian Champions League, or whatever they call it.)
Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan etc are presumably in Europe because the Soviet Union was.
I think Israel being in UEFA is a sop to the teams from Islamic nations that refuse to play them. It certainly makes no sense geographically with Lebanon being in the AFC.
If FIFA wanted to do the moral thing, they’d put Israel in the AFC and make anybody that refused to play them forfeit the 3 points and award Israel a 10-0 goal difference for the match.
That’s exactly the reason Israel is in UEFA and not the AFC.
And that’s exactly what FIFA should do. Maybe if Israel slipped someone a few million dollars that’s what they’d do.
“If FIFA wanted to do the moral thing…”
Thank you for the hearty laughter this morning.
Is accepting enormous bribes “the moral thing”? If so, FIFA wins…
When playing a team from the ME, couldn’t you dominate them by having your team cover themselves in pigs blood before the game?
That would not be kosher.
From the third link: “It’s also about raising awareness of the inhumane treatment of Native Americans by European settlers who raided their land, ripped apart their families and nearly destroyed an entire race of people.
So, celebrate losers day, right?
But forget about all the European settlers who had their land raided, their families ripped apart and their homes destroyed by the natives.
The four hundred year war was not a one-sided genocide.
Stop trying to be historical. Now is the time to be hysterical.
As I understand it, the Pilgrims were basically settling on abandoned land–the natives had all died from,disease or moved away.
Which should have been a gigantic red flag to the stupid Puritans.
Given that they were ultra-religious, it’s more likely they took it a sign that God was clearing the land of pagans in anticipation of their arrival.
They arrived to a sparsely populated land and stumbled upon a tribe in which there lived a helpful native who already spoke English who decided to show them how to live and convinced the surrounding tribes to make peace with them. The fortuitousness of their entire circumstances would have easily led them to believe their endeavor was blessed by God.
The Roanoke settlers made camp on an island with no water. The local tribe used Roanoke for occasional hunting but not living. When the Croatoans met them they basically called them dumbasses and took pity on them. Then they disappeared/were murdered by Chief Powhatten/were assimilated into the local tribes/abducted by aliens (it is always aliens). So yeah, Raleigh’s folks weren’t too bright and displaced nobody.
I know it’s a tad on the controversial side as to accuracy, but 1491 goes into that in some detail. The premise is basically that European settlers were able to colonize the Americas because by the time they arrived there’d already been a significant social collapse within the native tribes, caused by disease and socio-political turmoil. Basically the state of native societies could best be described as “post-apocalyptic”, otherwise they would’ve sent the colonists packing in short order. There’s a bit I find particularly interesting in light of all the environmentalist’s romantic ideas of a pristine, untouched, pre-Colombian wilderness that talks about how the early settlers remarked on how clear and well-kept the forests where, claiming that you could drive carriages unhindered through them. The reason being, of course, that they’d been cleared for agriculture and managed by previous generations.
“…how the early settlers remarked on how clear and well-kept the forests where, claiming that you could drive carriages unhindered through them.”
Reminds me of some of the forests in SW Germany. The trees were planted in rows, and the underbrush had been pruned back. They may have raked; I was driving past them pretty quickly, so I couldn’t be sure. The forest equivalent of the patches of fake trees on ‘train guy’s basement railway diorama.
One of the creepier things I’ve seen.
And by ordnung sein, STEVE SMITH mean vergewaltigt.
The premise is basically that European settlers were able to colonize the Americas because by the time they arrived there’d already been a significant social collapse within the native tribes, caused by disease and socio-political turmoil.
That, and the fact that many native tribes that had been on the losing side of conflicts recognized the strength of the Europeans and sided with them. Hernan Cortez conquered the Aztec Empire with an army of 2,000 Spaniards aided by 80,000 native allies. It’s often glossed over the fact that a lot of New World conquest wasn’t Europeans vs Natives but rather Europeans+Natives vs Natives and Europeans+Natives vs Europeans+Natives.
But obviously those European settlers deserved it for squatting on the indian land. Also never mind the fact that if any of a dozen indian civilizations had ships and guns then half of europe would have become human sacrifices.
Well, maybe if they had ships and guns, and a superior resistance to disease.
It also ignores the fact that the tribes fought the shit out of each other. Leftists like to pretend that pre-European North America was some kind of giant hippie commune where all the noble Indians lived together in peace and harmony. That’s not even close to being true. Various tribes fought each other all the time, with the winners often displacing the losers. For example, the Comanches who fought white settlers in Texas and Oklahoma in the mid-19th century? They had only lived there for a few hundred years. They had migrated southeast from around Wyoming and fought a series of conquests against the Apache, pushing them west into New Mexico and Arizona.
-1 Anasazi.
Those burial mounds didn’t fill themselves.
Archaeologists have determined that the Anasazi were practicing cannibalism shortly before their collapse. The Apache were considered as the enemy of every AZ/NM tribe that they encountered since they did “not play well with others” in the same manner as the Comanche. In fact the Apaches so pissed off the Papago tribe that they fought a battle of extermination where the the losing Apache jumped of a cliff to their deaths rather than face torture for losing.
Dying thread, but, what other domesticable meat animals were available in that region at the time of the Anasazi? Did the Euros bring over sheep and goats or were they there already?
Further, do we know if cannibalism was something the Anasazi did normally, or was it a Siege of Leningrad sort of thing?
The comanche like various other terrifying rampage bands throughout history (like the goths in Europe) got as big and scary as they did because they really didn’t displace other groups. They absorbed them. Comanche bands didn’t have any racial hangups like most of history’s other assholes did so when they rode in and killed all the men in another tribe they absorbed the women and children and made them Comanche rather than slaves. They were the Borg of indian tribes.
Or the Mongols.
The Comanche, and other Native tribes were…creative when it came to inter-tribal and interpersonal relations. STEVE SMITH would have fit in just fine.
Reading accounts of their behavior towards settlers on the Texas/Oklahoma frontier, I’m amazed the settlers didn’t end up wholly exterminating them down to the last buffalo-bone gnawing rat.
Illinois is named after a tribe the others got together and exterminated. Go to Starved Rock State Park….where hostile tribes surrounded another one there and let them all starve to death.
Noble savages indeed.
But, none of that does excuse the utterly shameful treatment of the indigines by the US Government.
No, it doesn’t. I just like to see things in their proper context. That’s why I enjoyed “Empire of the Summer Moon” so much. It doesn’t gloss over the fact that tribes committed unspeakable atrocities, not just against the settlers but against each other as well. It acknowledges that many of the conquered tribes had themselves been conquerors in the not too distant past. It does that while still facing up to the undeniable truth that the US government’s dealings with the Indians were duplicitous, brutal, and shameful.
I read a history on the interactions of the Pilgrims and Puritans and the local Indian tribes. What really struck me in the story was that the Pilgrims and Puritans were probably the least versed in the history in the ways of realpolitik. The various native tribes were regularly playing them off against other tribes.
It also ignores human nature that most tribal leaders are/were likely to be Alpha Male Morons who would lose support of their subjects rather quickly if a strong enough opposition came along to challenge them. The world is filled with arrogant fuckups, and they logically can’t all be on the same side.
It’d be like a Buffalo Bills Day. Which is just silly.
But not The Cubs day, anymore, right?
Sadly no.
American public education is to blame for a lot of this. For some reason public schools can’t get beyond a comic book interpretation of history. Either the Native Americas were savages who the European settlers did the world a favor by defeating or they were innocent naifs exploited and murdered by European monsters. Oddly, neither position recognizes any agency on the part of the Native Americans.
That may be taught in high schools, etc., but most college profs who teach the first part of American history don’t shy away from discussing the brutality of many Indian cultures. They will come down on the side of Europeans being worse but it’s not the comic book interpretation. As I said, I don’t know how that translates to high school, etc.
I definitely remember the few times they came up in history classes from my school days, from elementary to high school, the American Indians were talked about in very much the whole “noble savage” way, almost pacifistic. It was all one with nature this, and “counting coup” that. If I just went by what I was taught in the public school system I would think that the native tribes were just a bunch of stoic hippie communes that evil white people destroyed.
What happened to the tribes of North America is exactly the same thing that happened everywhere on the planet when an technologically advanced civilization met another less advanced civilization. The advanced civilization displaces the less advanced civilization through a mix of warfare, disease, slavery and interbreeding. It happens every time. The only difference is that the US permitted the defeated groups to maintain some cultural bonding thinking they would be “island populations” which would eventually die/interbreed out of existence.
You guys can kind of blame your Founders for that, most of them tended to fetishize the shit out of Indian cultures. Franklin is one of the progenitors of American ‘noble savage’ mythos.
I mean to be fair to some hobos, its not like they can just get a job.
Bunch of hobophobic bastards around here.
We should organize a hobo pride parade.
I mean their CV is not exactly up to date.
That’s okay, we don’t need a full CV, just a Resume.
Hyper regulated markets hit those people the hardest.
“Every time I wander into a UPS store to print my resume, they tell me I have to have more than ‘Will Work Fer Food’ on it.”
~A. Hobo
*sets down coffee mug, stands up and begins thunderous applause*
It is up to date, but unfortunately it is saved in WordStar format that HR depts can’t open.
This reminds me of Whitesnake re-recording “Here I Go Again” and changing the word “hobo” to “drifter” because David Coverdale didn’t want people to think he was a “homo”.
My hometown just legalized panhandling and then posted a bunch of passive-aggressive signs at known panhandling spots with the phone numbers for several homeless shelter and crisis centers.
Steve Bannon landed on his feet.
He should watch out when he does that – he’s massive enough that if he has a hard landing, he’s at risk of kidney damage, although by the looks of it, his liver’s probably already shot.
*turns from applauding cavalier to SugarFree, back and forth*
icwydt
They better not sit around, resting on their laurels. Pretty soon we will be able to automate their jobs with a robo-hobo operating 24/7 at every exit ramp in the nation.
Robo-Hobo 2000
“Give your town the character and edginess of a big city, without the bad smells and communicable diseases!”
* bad smells and communicable diseases are available in the ‘professional’ and ‘executive’ option packages. Prices available on request.
I prefer the iRoboHobo from Apple. It is easier to operate. I don’t have to be some social planning expert to operate it. I just plug it in and the iRoboHobo just doesn’t work right out of the box.
* I have to admit, though, that it is irritating you have to pay extra for any colored iRoboHobo that isn’t white.
And the excellent thing is that while the ergonomics weren’t dictated *by* Steve Jobs, the iRoboHobo has a stunning similarity *to* Steve Jobs.
Robo Hobo is the worst Red Hot Chili Peppers album of all time.
U.S. won’t stand by as Venezuela crumbles, VP Pence says
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/venezuela-pence-ortega-1.4259921
I am puzzled. If there is an inevitable train-wreck coming, and there is, why is it you Americans want to be the ones blamed for it? Just leave Venezuela alone.
“We have planes lined up on the runway, ready to airdrop toilet paper and food supplies the moment we confirm Maduro has been hanged from a lamp post by his own people.”
Because the stupid party beloved they v are responsible for every single person in the world just as much as the evil party thinks it’s in charge of every single person.
And they get to make a little coin for their buddies in the process. Win/Win.
Seriously. Stay the heck away.
You didn’t think that Global Force for Good thing was just a slogan, did you? They believe that stuff.
Because “Mericah! Fuck Yeah!”
On one hand, it’s not our burden to bear and a scapegoat is just what they need.
On the other hand, the CIA is already their go-to scapegoat for everything that’s wrong with their economy and that’s not going to change.
Our deep state is afraid another deep state will take over.
From the “masterbarberation” story:
The attorney said that Siqueido was performing routine dryer maintenance that everyone working that time slot in the barbershop must complete.
Their euphemisms are even stranger than the gilbs’.
Easy check for veracity… Was the kid’s hair cut straight, or did it come out ragged?
/Incidentally, sounds like this was right around the corner from my Dad’s house.
That’s not hair gel!
Columbia Journalism School is rolling out a new master’s degree in data journalism. The Ivy League university, apparently unsatisfied with its $9.6 billion endowment, will charge $106,282 for the twelve-month program. Estimated living expenses bring the total price tag up to $147,514.
Many observers, including journalists, were quick to point out that paying over $100,000 for a journalism degree probably isn’t worth it. That would be true if students were actually paying for it. But in all likelihood, taxpayers will foot a substantial portion of the bill for Columbia’s data journalism program.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that job opportunities for reporters and correspondents will shrink by 8% over the next decade. These jobs currently pay a median annual wage of $37,820.
The federal government allows graduate students to borrow unlimited student loans to finance tuition and living expenses. After graduation, borrowers can repay their debt as a share of their income, and have any remaining balance forgiven after 20 years. If borrowers don’t repay their loans in full, taxpayers are responsible for the difference.
Consider a student who takes out loans to cover the full cost of attendance for the master’s degree ($147,514). If his earnings after graduation start at $45,000 and rise 5% per year, he will only end up paying $83,121 in inflation-adjusted terms—repaying barely more than half of what he borrowed. Meanwhile, taxpayers will forgive a remaining balance of $177,857.
http://www.aei.org/publication/columbia-university-uses-trump-to-sell-100000-journalism-degrees/?utm_content=buffera7e76&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
But you get to smugly say on twitter that you have a degree and shame Robby who does not. I wonder if you end up at least vaguely literate after paying 150k
While I was at college, I made $24k/yr on a helpdesk.
When I graduated I got (in a terrible market both economically and geographically) a post that payed $45k, this was on the low end for the industry. (The taxpayers pay me more than that today…)
Anyone who goes to school for Journalism to get a $37K job is too stupid to trust with providing news.
It’s no mystery as to why the media are so fucking awful.
This is what “the emperor had no clothes” was supposed to teach kids. The journalism degree did not worth it, but we must shame Robby who doesn’t have one. Robby is proof that you don’t need a fancy pants degree to be able to write horribly.
Yeah, he picked up the social-signaling equivocation just fine all on his own.
This sounds like another way to capitalize on the “data science” fad. A lot of schools have started offering graduate degrees in data science, which is totally redundant considering that the people going into data science already have the necessary skillset, coming from STEM or economics, etc. Just double major in journalism and statistics and you will be better prepared than a masters in “data journalism,” which is almost certainly fluff.
From Columbia:
One thing you learn when working with data and stats is how to fudge it. The last thing anyone needs is for journalists to become more sophisticated in the ways they distort the truth, backed up by “statistics.”
‘The last thing anyone needs is for journalists to become more sophisticated in the ways they distort the truth, backed up by “statistics.”’
Feature, not a bug.
It sounds like what you’ll have is a whole cohort of journalists with only the most rudimentary understanding of statistics, but think they’re experts. In other words, they’ll be ripe for exploitation by (actual) smart people with agendas (especially if the journalists REALLY want to believe the horse hooey that’s being slung).
Exactly that. They’ll be handed a script to perform Auto ARIMA in R and think they have a crystal ball.
Some of the more astute ones will realize “hey if I just make this a one-tailed test, instead of two-tailed… it’s suddenly significant!”
Incredible undressing of a BuzzFeed writer that I happened to watch yesterday: https://youtu.be/mb7zN_b3GZA
See, I thought that was a clickbait link to a changing room cam of ENB at Victoria’s Secret.
Here’s another one: https://youtu.be/9qrYz7Ul3Z8
Its basically something like “english composition 101” and “Stats for dummies”, both things regular Liberal Arts schools don’t even bother teaching seriously anymore.
maybe a class on “the aesthetics of graphs”
“So, what you’re saying is, that quoting the median for one of these data sets could be misleading?
Tell me more, sensei!”
The Book He Wasn’t Supposed to Write
A best-selling author submits a draft to his editor.
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/08/the-secret-life-of-a-book-manuscript/536982/?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits#article-comments
Interesting article. The writer’s editor used the “Whiplash” method to get him to write a better book.
You’re daily The Root Derp
http://www.theroot.com/for-white-people-who-compare-black-lives-matter-to-whit-1798349198
sorry but asking black people to tell white people what they can do is socially acceptable white supremacism and therefore i refuse to take part by clicking/reading that link.
This all comes the same time the Anti-Defamation League reports a significant spike in cases of anti-Semitism in metro Atlanta and around the country.
If Nazis vs Jews beer pong being played by dumb kids is included, yeah, I suppose there could be a spike in anti-Semitism. I don’t get it.
I think the entire story is bullshit. It happened last year in New Jersey. Before Trump was President. It’s being recycled now as a way to “increase” the amount of anti-Semitism in metro Atlanta as a part of the post-Charlottesville narrative.
Here are the rules. It’s actually quite hilarious, and I would argue the game itself is the opposite of anti-Semitic because there is the potential inherent in the game that the Jews win.
Forgot the 2-link rule! BUT THEY ARE RELATED!
Students from an Atlanta private school are facing disciplinary action after a photo posted online shows them playing a game of “Jews vs. Nazis” beer pong at an off-campus house party.
I really hate the idea that legal, non-destructive activities not involved with the school or on school grounds could get people in trouble with the school, but why would you take pictures and post them online? Don’t you know that grievance mongers have nothing better to do than drum up outrage over nothing from nobodies?
“The fact that someone could even conceive of such a game, and then play it and think it’s funny is beyond words,” Berg said.
Get the fuck over yourself.
So Facebook is full of people trolling PETA. Seeing a lot of pics posted of hunting kills with the shoot selfies not animals banner.
If we were not supposed to shoot animals, they would not be tasty and made of meat.
Meat is murder… Tasty, tasty murder.
My uncle has that T-shirt, which is doubly ironic, since he and my aunt have had over 40 rescue cats and dogs during my lifetime (peak was 13 cats, 1 dog, and 1 cat called a dog, since my uncle didn’t want anymore cats at the time). Best one is Shadow, who we think was abused by someone my height and build (he won’t come near me), but will use a toilet if you leave the seat up. Smart kitty.
Yeah, I saw that too, good for them. PETA can get fucked.
PETA doesn’t give a flying fuck about animals. It’s just the issue they use to raise money to pay their executives and staff. It’s an organization that exists to exist.
I feel sympathy, no really, I’m not laughing…
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-41028024/hillary-clinton-my-skin-crawled-in-trump-debate
I forget, is the sensation of crawling skin typical for a robot in a skin suit or a lizard in a skin suit.
Either? We should ask Mr. Lizard. Or both.
The latest 5th gen Intergalactic Security systems mammal incursion suit breathes quite well. And it has plenty of pockets. They fixed the ant crawling sensation with the Gen 3 models. Unfortunately not in time for the alleged mammal known as Goebels
Ha, nice. So you are disavowing Hersel from your plans then?
Reminds me of this porky high school girl that was waddling up the station stairs in front of me. She looked back and saw me and only me behind her. So presses her skirt to her butt so I wouldn’t get an upskirt view. I actually did let out an audible chuckle.
I’ve had similar things happen back in college. I’d just shrug it off, I wasn’t perving and I suspect no one was, but the fear was real, since you know 5/4th of all women are raped in college.
It’s down to that? Last I heard it was 3/2!
Well with Trump in teh WH you can’t expect all victims to come forward.
Every woman is a rape victim just by virtue of Trump being in the White House.
And here I thought it was because they were now being taken to the White House for their raping and thus the rapes didn’t count as college rapes.
Picture a young Lord Humungus in college. Back in the days before the Wasteland, the burns, my hunt for guzzoline
Me in a crowded CS111 class. There is one really tremendously hot girl who is so near my dream perfection that I can’t keep my eyes off of her. Sitting next to my dream girl is this big ol’ heffer of woman. So I’m staring at the cute chick, but the other woman notices my attention. Given the distance and angle, she thinks I’m looking at her. So the heffer starts staring back at me and begins flirting. *GAH*
I spent the rest of the lecture paying attention to the instructor.
Wow. When I was taking those classes, they had to import a token girl for the photographs.
Back then the need for programmers was heating up so a lot of people, who weren’t very good, were flooding the early classes. They didn’t last long.
I was on the subway across from this chick who had a huge rack and wearing a low-cut top. When she noticed the homeless bum openely staring she huffed and puffed and rolled her eyes, and pulled her light sweater closed to block the view. The bum said, “Aww, whatchoo gotta go do that fo’? You know I was starin’ at them tittays!”
Random Drunk Asshole confirmed ?
+2
I can’t imagine why that guy isn’t gainfully employed.
I find that sternly ordering, “MOVE IT, FATSO,” while waiting at such standstill helps them regain their cognitive facilities.
Why would her skin crawl? She should have felt a lot lore comfortable than Trump at the debate seeing as she probably had all the questions a few days in advance.
And she was The Most Qualified Candidate Ever ™
This from a woman married to Bill Clinton. I am calling bullshit.
Hillary Clinton is so narcissistic, she virtue signals to mirrors.
Good call.
She truly is Stacy Flick without the charm and intelligence, isn’t she?
We definitely dodged a bullet with her, didn’t we. If nothing else, we should be thankful to his Orange-ness for saving us from that.
I saw this on the “news” this morning. I’m in awe of how batshit crazy these people are. They think they’re hurting Trump, but they aren’t.
If HC couldn’t cope with someone she disliked on a debate stage, obviously not the right choice to cope with icky leaders on a World stage…
Even The Atlantic can see what KMW and Charles CW Cooke have pointed out — any anti-hate speech laws will be enforced by Trump and Sessions until at least January 2021.
You know, some people might say that if you think a law is a good idea only as long as your team gets to enforce it, you might be advocating for something arbitrary and tyrannical. But who am I to call most people horrible thoughtless swine…
The British Tories stupidly disagree.
“Hate is hate’, says Alison Saunders, director of public prosecutions, explaining the new Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) guidelines on hate crime.”
Thank you. No please explain how you took that vacuous tautology to arrive at the conclusion: some speech must be banned.
Next year she’ll be saying “War is Peace; Slavery is Freedom…”
I call them Will Roper.
There was some articles from lefty publications that were all for google policing speech that suddenly feat the “Silicon Valley Bros” will be in charge
It isnt like we can know if thought and feelings police are a good idea or not. We have to try to find out because it has never been tried before.
Public education cant die fast enough.
Public Education has been dead for some time. The zombie just doesn’t go down like in the TV show.
Cooke and Kevin Williamson debated that in their most recent podcast, and I think Williamson has the better take: progressives aren’t worried about politicians like Trump or Sessions enforcing speech codes because progressives hold the bureaucracies that do the actual enforcement. A Republican executive is a minor speedbump relative to instantiating new rules that will inevitably be wielded by heavily lefty-biased agencies.
‘The new Obama’: Abdul El-Sayed – America’s first Muslim governor?
The 32-year-old charismatic Muslim doctor is running for governor of Michigan and in the process trying to change US politics
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/24/next-obama-abdul-el-sayed-first-muslim-governor-michigan
There be a lot of mixed up nonsense in an excessively long article. But this amused me
Many of his staffers are veterans of the Sanders campaign, and his funding structure is remarkably similar. He’s also running on his conscience, not trying to “reverse engineer” a candidate with poll testing opinions or policies.
Where Sanders failed, though – he never broke from a laser focus on economics or really addressed inequalities brought by race and gender – El-Sayed embraces those challenges, represents them even.
“The electorate [in Michigan] doesn’t know what it wants, but it wants something different,” his campaign manager, Max Glass, said. “I wouldn’t have taken this race if I didn’t think we could win.”
The other, less comfortable, comparison is to Trump. El-Sayed is an outsider candidate who speaks his mind, with no elected political experience aside from his appointment as health director of Detroit. In many ways, he’s the other side of the same coin, a populist candidate in a populist time.
So he is Obama-Berni-Trump
Health Director of Detroit? Are we in newspeak now, where words mean the opposite? Cause Detroit’s not looking too healthy these days, nor are its teetering denizens.
How the hell is a Health Director of anything? 32 is a baby in doctor years. Most 32 year old doctors still have an attending watching and critiquing their every move. Worse yet, I’m assuming he was appointed tot hat position at 30 or 31.
Dammit Jim, he’s a doctor, not a magician!
These personality pieces seem to come out for the democrats to check the public’ reaction to the guy they want to push.
They realize that if Obama won because he was black, there must be gold in them thar identity politics mines.
This right here tells me everything I need to know about this guy’s campaign.
I don’t know what I want
But I know how to get it
I want to destroy!
Wait til they find out he’s a FGM surgeon.
*chokes on coffee, splutters and tries to applaud*
Where Sanders failed, though – he never broke from a laser focus on economics or really addressed inequalities brought by race and gender – El-Sayed embraces those challenges, represents them even.
Yeah, the guaranteed means to win over rust belt voters is to tell them that their economic concerns are irrelevant and they all need to check their privilege. The last three races they lost with this strategy while spending a ton of money were just a fluke.
What did I tell you? WHAT DID I TELL YOU?! When America makes stupid, Canada takes stupid:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/john-macdonald-school-1.4259643
“As U.S. legislators mull the removal of statues seen by many as painful reminders of the darker moments in American history, a similar debate is playing out in Ontario over whether public schools should bear the names of Canadian figures associated with this country’s legacy around the treatment of Indigenous communities.
That debate hit the floor of a meeting by the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario days ago, ending with a resolution to urge school boards across the province to consider removing the name of Canada’s first prime minister — Sir John A. Macdonald — from public schools.”
I smell a rant coming!
Are you sure that smell is not some left over poutine rotting in your desk?
I don’t eat poutine.
It’s for the déclassé.
/opens rhubarb yogourt.
“rhubarb yogourt”
I gagged a little.
Don’t worry. It was cherry!
Even worse.
DON’T YOU EVEN WORK? Or do you just write book length rants and publish them as articles?
You don’t even know how to do it.
/shoves TEE aside.
DON’T ANY OF YOU WORK?!?
I wasn’t asking if any of you worked. I’m asking if you work. Or is writing novel sized rants your work?
/licks tip of pen. TEE not a dan of Rufus’s kackbof brevity. Please direct criticism to the rant itself. I’m here to play morning links.
Lack of. Ugh.
Huh. Play morning links. Euphemism?
*squints inquiringly*
On the one hand, I’m from an area that viewed MacDonald as a drunk motherfucker who killed the great Louis Riel. On the other hand, I lived in an area in my teenage years that loved the shit out of him for being an important local figure. On the gripping hand, MacDonald’s the asshole who saw the American Civil War and went ‘yeah…let’s not try that whole American model’.
I have conflicted feelings.
Why does he propose to replace Columbus Day?
Just choose another day asshole.
Because it’s not about celebrating whatever they’re proposing, it’s about burning down what is already celebrated.
See French revolution: this is typical of the totalitarian left. See also the Russian revolution.
Yep. They may say they want to celebrate Indigenous people, but their actions say something along the lines of, “I want to destroy stuff”.
I hate parades.
And marshmallow.
And clowns.
You sound like UCS
Hey!
There’s nothing wrong with Marshmallow!
Well, it is pretty bland.
*jumps on UCS blandwagon*
Yeah, marshmallow is rather disgusting actually. I don’t get how anyone enjoys Peeps.
Oh come on, TEE – you have never armed them with toothpicks and had them joust in the microwave?
By the way, I read your story opening from yesterday’s lynx. As a Scifi fan from way back, I quite liked it and want to read more.
That’s good to hear. I’ve got the cast thought out and some idea of where the story will take place, but the main adversarial aspect is missing (but since I’m still introducing the cast, and getting them to the planet, I have time to work it out)
Yeah, I read it as well, visit the dead thread for my full review, but I enjoyed it
Obligatory pic: (SFW)
https://funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/2254089/Stripper/
He’s right, though. All of those things suck.
I’m beginning to think we’ve got this whole representative democracy wrong. People from other parts of the country should be the ones electing local mayor and city councils. You live in Butte, you get to vote for the mayor of Boston. Throw a little prisoner’s dilemma into the mix.
I think everyone gets to vote for their local races (same as it currently is), but you also get to cast one vote in any national race you want to. So you could help defeat Pelosi if you wanted.
It would be great because pols would avoid the national spot light in order to avoid becoming the target of these extra votes.
Um, that’s pretty much how State Governments work. You live in Springfield, Chicago picks your governor.
Columbus opened the door for evil Western Civilization to take hold in North America.
Those noble savages were better off without things like the axle and wheel and safe water storage. They were one with nature…when they weren’t killing each other and wearing skinsuits of their enemies.
What did the Romans ever do for us, right?
Well, there’s the sewers.
Reg: All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
It’s the same as allcrhose people that would say “the problems in the rest of the world are pretty much all due to European colonialism from the 16th to 19th centuries.
Necermind that some of those places euros went didn’t even have a basic understanding of the wheel, food cultivation or water storage. And that the lifespans of people from those cultures have probably doubled, let alone the quality of their life increased exponentially. It all comes down to this:
white man: bad
brown, black, yellow, red man: good
I’m not saying all colonialism was good. But it’s been a net win for the cultures that were exposed to it.
There is another pattern worth noting.
Post-colonial political history generally reflects precolonial patterns for the people involved.
India might be more centralized, but it has had several large Empires, so aggregation into one state is not something they are unaccustomed to.
China was never fully colonized, but did get messed with a lot. It went right back to massive, centralized, authoritarianism when no one was bothering too much.
South and Central America started as local strongmen, warlords and iron-fisted authoritarians, and to that it has returned (though the Spanish were not exactly liberal in their rule…)
Africa started as a tribal shitshow, and to a tribal shitshow it has returned.
The only places fundamentally transformed were those where the Europeans moved in larger numbers than the surviving natives and decided to stay – North America, Australia, New Zealand.
You’re still coming dangerously close to a pedantic Titor-lecture
I’ve visited plenty of former British colonies. They all brew nice beers, so…
I will simply point out the French and Belgians in Central Africa, The Germans in SW Africa and leave it at that.
I have a colleague (for once, not a cow orker) who came to the US as a kid in the 60’s.
When the occasional ‘colonialism is bad, mmm-k?’ starts, he usually takes the opportunity to explain a working railroad system, a literate efficient civil service, elimination of suttee etc on one grand masterful monologue about how lucky India had been, being conquered by the gora.
I just stand there and add “English gora”, at that. He’ll usually answer “Yes sahib”.
It’s not really pedantic to point out that mass starvation, oppression and slavery are not good things. If the ends justify the means we might as well let the commies take over until they stack enough bodies to make something close to their utopia.
Well, you can count me in the colonialism was awful camp.
Why should John Bull have had to piss away tax dollars trying to civilize third world shitholes? They could have just bought the resources a shitload cheaper than wasting their blood and treasure on people whose grandchildren would spend their entire lives bitching about what awful people they were.
From locals without the expertise nor infrastructure to extract them? They would already be investing heavily to get the shithole to a state where it can produce what they wanted, the effort to civilize them was actually a risk-reduction effort for the investments more than the primary goal.
This is why European colonialism was driven mostly by effort and influence of the mercantile organizations, such as the East India Trading Co.
I don’t think it’s fair to categorize it as a ‘net win’ when all the benefits derived from it could have been produced without brutally subjugating them.
Thailand, despite never being colonized, somehow managed to develop along the same lines as most cultures without having the white man starve a couple million of them. Most post-colonial African countries are not magically better off than Ethiopia, despite the fact that it’s a shithole on mostly terrible land that no one should really live on. Japan, of course, is the greatest success story, but they seemed to learn the wrong lessons from their resistance of colonialism, i.e. “these colony things are great, we should get some”.
Thousands of Atlantic salmon may have escaped into Pacific waters after a net pen holding 305,000 of the fish was damaged at a farm in Washington state, leading wildlife officials to call for anglers to catch as many of the fish as possible.
The fish farm’s owner, Cooke Aquaculture, said on Wednesday that several thousand Atlantic salmon may have ended up in the waters around the San Juan Islands after part of a net suffered a “structural failure”.
The billionaire behind the world’s first genetically modified salmon
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The Canada-based company – which purchased the 30-year-old farm last year – blamed Saturday’s incident on “exceptionally high tides and currents coinciding with this week’s solar eclipse”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/24/thousands-of-atlantic-salmon-escape-from-fish-farm-into-pacific
Canadians, always destroying the environment.
There is already a pacific population of atlantic salmon. This is not going to be a big deal.
““exceptionally high tides and currents coinciding with this week’s solar eclipse”
Perhaps the first thing I’ve seen blamed on the eclipse, that is actually a possibility.
So pissing blood is not caused by the eclipse? I’m asking for a friend.
Depends on how one would choose to celebrate the eclipse.
Well, that sort of alignment of Earth, Moon, and Sun does give the tidal maximal, so, yeah, it is the first plausible thing accredited to the eclipse.
You dummies got it all wrong. Global warming cause the eclipse, which caused the containment failure.
Lol. Oh noes! GM salmon will breed in the wild! We must catch and eat them all!
An interesting twist on the Jurassic Park plot.
The salmon can’t see you if you don’t move.
I smell a SyFy original movie in the works: TSALMONAMI!
So….do you have an agent yet?
FRANKENSALMON!!!111!!!
Have you seen “Night of the Lepus”?
That story sounds fishy to me.
Ah, no need to carp about it.
Gah! You can’t bass a whole pun thread on a single ling like that!
But just this once, I’ll let you skate.
Walleye never claim to be above a pun or two, this thread is getting kind of crappie.
Cod, clam down, there’s no need to be crabby.
Robster craws!
-Asian glib
These damn puns give me a haddock
Sigh…
*narrows gaze*
All those puns..Swiss must have a steelhead by now.
I just don’t get why he needs to tarpon it all the time.
Et tu, Gustave?
/Collapses to ground
Gar! That was terrible.
I learned something this morning. I had no idea that Nancy Pelosi’s father was the Mayor of Baltimore and he actually dedicated some of those Confederate monuments.
The Democrats really do not want to talk about their own history.
Yes they do, because Team Blue evolves, team red regresses. That’s how they always spin it, and are allowed to spin it.
The racists switched parties!!!
(This is what the left actually believes)
“I’ll have those niggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.” Lyndon Baines Johnson
Yeah, he baldly stated the true goal of the Great Society entitlement programs, and everyone pretends not to notice.
LBJ, the guy who held meetings on the shitter with the door open and regularly whipped out his cock to show people. And somehow Trump is considered too boorish for the White House.
The Jefferson-Jackson Dinner is still a thing, isnt it?
Yes, but a number of state D parties have changed the name to something else.
Do you guys even prog?
Here’s how they view stories like this.
‘Hey, yes that’s true but all the more you need to listen to us! We know what it’s like to be racist liars!’
Not that anyone gives a shit, but I’m going to take a break from the rage-o-meter boner contest. It’s going to be a long birthday weekend and i need all the rest and relaxation I can get considering the damage my liver is about to receive. Amen.
Before I leave, it’s time for one parting gift: Sasquatch the Musical – with scintillating production, beautiful acting, and sets that are so real that you feel like you are there.
“so real that you feel like you are there.”
Sounds traumatizing…
Pass.
I don’t need to feel proximity to Mr. SMITH.
so real that you feel
like you are thereyour colon prolapse.My birthday is Friday, long weekend for me as well, 54 years is a long time, looking back,
That’s el-freaky. That’s my b-day too.
Was it also 54 years ago?
I’m not _that_ ancient.
Hey!
Happy Birthday to you LH, BTW are you still the Ayatoholla of Rock and Rolla?
And the same to you, amigo.
And of course I’m still the Ayatoholla of Rock and Rolla = listening to AC/DC Black in Black right now (first pressing – hey yo!)
It was probably the same last year, too.
Today’s mine. Turned 46 at 7:30.
Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday, you young punk!
Leave? Whose going to give us the STEVE SMITH and feminism links?
I think Derpetologist will more than satisfy on the feminism front.
Damn I’m about to take a small vacation and the plotters begin their character assassination.
It’s what happens when you don’t enforce your authority over the wasteland.
Happy Birthday! Enjoy not getting rained on for the next five days. (Unlike those of us in South and East Texas.)
Happy Bday, LH!
STEVE SMITH LOOKING FORWARD TO SURPRISE PARTY!
BY SURPRISE PARTY, STEVE SMITH MEANS RAPE PARTY!
STEVE SMITH CHECK MAIL, BUT NO INVITATION?! STEVE SMITH CRASH PARTY. AND BY “CRASH PARTY” MEAN RAPE PARTYGOERS.
Happy BDay, shitlord! May the guzzaline flow for you and the raiders quake!
Happy birthday! Hope you have fun in the wasteland.
Happy birthday, brother!
May you receive plenty of guzzoline for your birthday, LH!
sets that are so real that you feel like you are there.
Wait. If I’m in the theater looking at the sets, then I am there, right?
….um. Yes.
Happy Birthday, Lord of the Wasteland!
I’ve taken a four-day to celebrate mine, as well.
I hate the Dodgers, (2007 and 2008 got me….) but good god that poor poor man.
Rich Hill used to play for the Cubs and I’ve always had a soft spot for guys like him. How in hell do you go to the locker room with that man after *that* fucking L? Reminds me of my dad who told me about listening to the Harvey Haddix game on the radio.
Haddix had a perfect game through 12 innings. TWELVE. Ended up the losing pitcher.
Jesus. I’d be too ashamed to show my face to that man afterwards. Talk about letting your guy down.
Fun fact on the Haddix game. It should have ended 3-0, but Hank Aaron thought the ball hit the wall, so he left the field instead of rounding the bases and touching home, so Joe Adcock passed him and ended up with a 1 RBI hit instead of a 3 RBI home run.
Looking at the Wiki entry for Haddix’s perfect game that wasn’t, I stumbled across this shocker:
Fred Haney had Eddie Mathews lay down a bunt. Eddie Mathews!
With Aaron and Adcock coming up, it was probably the right move.
Do you have a link on that robc? There used to be a rule where all “walk-off” type hits were scored as the minimum number of bases needed to end the game? (This rule was later amended to let game-ending hits over the fence to be scored as home runs.) I’m wondering if Aaron screwed up of if he was just following the old rule.
But rumor has it that, after he left the ballpark, Haddix spent hours wandering the streets of Milwaukee by himself.
Yeeeeeeeep. Gonna need some alone-time after a nutpunch like that.
It’s the ultimate showcase of what makes the W/L stat for pitchers so stupid. Clearly Haddix’ offense lost that game, not his pitching.
Pitcher has 1 job — give up fewer runs than the opposing guy(s). Some days that means 8, other days that means 0.
That’s how you define it. If we need to score 9 runs to win, it’s because the pitcher sucks and isn’t doing his job.
The 2008 Angels had 100 wins, but they did so by setting a record for come from behind wins, so the starters tended to get screwed in the stats and middle relievers got lots of wins.
So the offense has no jobs?
meh not as bad as losing a perfect game like this. Fuck the dodgers and their destiny, this is the Nationals year.
Funny, Josh Harrison was the final batter in that game, too.
That’s a crappy way to break up a perfect game, but this one still takes the cake. At least this led to allowing managers to challenge bad calls.
In news the national media ignores, a sitting U.S. Senator is about to go on trial for corruption.
I liked the way the Judge slapped down a potential juror for testing.
Party affiliation doesn’t fit the narrative…
“I liked the way the Judge slapped down a potential juror for te[x]ting.”
Given this—“…the New Jersey trial, which [Judge] Walls told jurors Tuesday he hopes will conclude by the end of October, with the possibility of spilling over into early November…” I don’t blame that juror one bit. A little tongue lashing from the judge beats confinement in that circus until November. (!) Any bets they won’t end up sequestered as the media circus heats up?
How in the blue fuck does it take over two months to show that some shitbag took a few bribes?
And one of the guys who bribed him has flipped on him and will testify.
And our weekly installment of the college football column is also a week away.
Actually, isn’t it tonight? Although only an abbreviated version since week 0 is so virtually non-existent?
And here I go and give something away.
Is Knute Rockne still playing?
India’s top court has unanimously declared that privacy is a fundamental right, in a landmark judgment that could derail the world’s largest biometric identity card scheme.
Privacy advocates hailed the decision by the supreme court on Thursday, which they said could have far-reaching implications including for the decriminalisation of homosexuality and bans on the consumption of beef or alcohol.
A nine-member panel of the court in Delhi found that a right to privacy was intrinsic to article 21 of the Indian constitution, which declares that no person can be deprived of their life or liberty without a procedure established by the law.
The identity programme, first announced in 2009, aims to issue every Indian with a 12-digit “Aadhaar” number, corresponding to records that include a citizen’s fingerprints and eye scans. More than 1.13bn Indians have been registered so far.
The government says the database, which began storing identity records in 2014, will allow it to streamline social programmes in a country where one study has estimated about 84% of every rupee paid as welfare is lost to corruption. It said in March that 490bn rupees (£6bn) had already been saved as a result of the scheme.
Critics have raised concerns about possibility of breaches in a database that could eventually store enough information to create a comprehensive profile of a person’s lifestyle, purchases, friends, financial habits, and more.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/24/indian-court-rules-privacy-a-fundamental-right-in-battle-over-national-id-cards
so, Google, did I win?
What is that? like 5% of their population? hard to tell with that country, any number seems unreal.
25 years ago today, Hurricane Andrew hit south of Miami
At the time I lived right where the northern part of the eyewall hit. About 3 or 4 miles north of us, at the National Hurricane Center, their wind instrument broke at 168 MPH. One of 3 category 5 hurricanes to hit the US at that strength.
Weirdest thing is that none of our windows broke, but the winds were strong enough to bend the sliding glass doors inward.
You Americans with your guns and hurricanes. In civilized Europe we have hurricane control, and there hasn’t been one in a long time.
2015 is a long time?
I thought Ireland was just hit by one this month?
Oh come on those are just leftovers, and Ireland does not count.
You know those continentals don’t regard the Islands as European.
When I lived in Louisville, I knew tornadoes and floods were possibilities, even an earthquake when New Madrid lets go again. But I would be safe from hurricanes. Then Ike knocked my power out for a week.
But it’s never a hurricane when it gets to us, just a shit-ton of rain.
The pressure was evenly distributed across the panes, and there was no glaring defect in the glass to initiate a failure. So each and every square milimeter stayed below the fracture point.
That was a very good time for my uncle as a contractor in Palm Beach County. He had more work than he knew what to do with.
And Dade County made damn sure no one but Dade County licensed contractors could do jack or shit.
President Obama, where are you?
The old grey lady trying to take the batshit insane reins from WaPo.
“Frank López Yonkers 16 minutes ago
Excellent piece, I crave for his words too.”
replace all confederate statues with obama statues. problem solved.
The fallout from Charlottesville has rendered my call to you a tired and heartbroken whisper.
Totally not a cult. Not at all.
We are not worthy. We are not worthy. We are not worthy.
“President Obama, now is the time to start talking.”
He stopped? Doesn’t he do a weekly Facebook post?
Obligatory: titles in the US and not permanent, stop treating them like they are.
“Dennis Maher Lake Luzerne NY 21 minutes ago
Obama may or may not “come back.” I am guessing he will become more engaged, maybe this fall. But the current situation does not belong to Obama. The Trump presidency is not his fault. It is the fault of the American people who elected him. The American people own this mess. ”
“SallyBV Washington DC 20 minutes ago
I hear you, sister. And I long for the pragmatic sensibility of Michelle, who could speak volumes with just some side-eye. How could we have fallen this far from grace?”
“The Trump presidency is not his fault. It is the fault of the American people who elected him. The American people own this mess. ”
We just aren’t good enough for him.
Nope. Totally not Obama’s fault. Or his sanctimonious sycophants, not theirs either.
Yeah, totally not a creepy religious cult.
Dear God, what the hell is wrong with people that they look to damn politicians in such a way? The absolute worship over Obama is absolutely disgusting and sad.
Especially considering his actual fucking record of disaster and corruption.
Scary as shit if you ask me. Thulsa Doom lives!
You rang?
I’d like to see Obama come back but only if he would open up death camps. Not because I want to see death camps, I just want to hear his cult try to explain them away.
You mean the Environmental Load Adjustment Farms?
“It’s only right to send Nazis to death camps. Because Nazis.”
“Daniel Zimmerman Connecticut 10 minutes ago
Those of us whose love and admiration for our former president is in concert with Caroline Randall Williams need to respect him, still. To suggest that he is remiss is to forget the magnitude of his intellect and sensibility. Those that say his entry to the fray would be helpful speak from fear I share. But doesn’t that ignore what he, beyond any doubt I have, has considered?
I am sure Barack Obama is with us… that he understands, certainly better than I, the precipice that has replaced the ground we thought we were standing on. I trust that he will do and is doing what is needed – publicly or more likely privately in circles I have no access to.”
*barf*
Just suck his dick already.
One night I dreamed a dream.
As I was walking along the beach with Obama.
Across the dark sky flashed scenes from my life.
For each scene, I noticed two sets of footprints in the sand,
One belonging to me and one to Obama.
After the last scene of my life flashed before me,
I looked back at the footprints in the sand.
I noticed that at many times along the path of my life,
especially at the very lowest and saddest times,
there was only one set of footprints.
This really troubled me, so I asked Obama about it.
“Obama, you said once I decided to follow you,
You’d walk with me all the way.
But I noticed that during the saddest and most troublesome times of my life,
there was only one set of footprints.
I don’t understand why, when I needed You the most, You would leave me.”
He whispered, “My precious child, I love you and will never leave you
Never, ever, during your trials and testings.
When you saw only one set of footprints,
It was then that I carried you.”
Signed Epstein’s mother?
I don’t believe I’ve ever heard a Republican waxing poetically about their love and admiration fo Bush or Trump. I guess there’s just something bizarre about democrats where they worship the state and the brace knights who defend her.
Not Bush or Trump, but you can catch stuff like that for Reagan.
Not to this level. And obama shamelessly referenced reagan for his purposes. Yeh like reagan was totes his favorite. Please.
Yep. There’s a whole lotta Reagan worship in the GOP.
The same GOP that fought him becoming president tooth and nail? Back then we had our ‘Never Regan’ crowd just like now. They didn’t put up their altars to him until he was out.
Reagan is venerated by GOP rank and file for:
1. Winning the Cold War.
2. His policies ushering in a decade of explosive economic growth.
Obama is venerated for:
1. Fucking up the healthcare system.
2. Reading a teleprompter real purty.
Doesn’t matter – still a cult of personality.
“Doesn’t matter – still a cult of personality.”
But it’s not the personality of Reagan that rank and file Republican voters liked. They liked the job he did as President. It’s why they kicked Bush out on his ass, because as soon as that RINO fuckhead took over he raised taxes.
Forget the cretinous hero worship, dude’s writing is an overwrought pseudo-intellectual mess.
“KFree Vermont 5 minutes ago
I think we will hear from Obama when the time is right. But right now Mitch McConnell and the Republicans need to sleep for a while longer in the bed of their own making. Trump is doing his best to destroy the Republican party, and that is not such a bad thing. After the mid-terms we may be looking at a new congress with a new mandate. That will be the time for Obama to lend his words of encouragement.”
Who writes these things? Tweeners?
Oh, I think Obama should step into the ring. After all, he is a large part of why we have President Trump. Let the Dims double down on the stupid. We need more “You didn’t build that” lectures from the chocolate jesus.
I wonder what Obama’s long term plan is. The asshat was done being President before he was 60 years old, so he still has plenty of time left to do something for the Democrats, himself, whatever (hopefully he doesn’t do anything of note, but I doubt that happens). I just don’t want Obama to get nominated by a democratic President for the Supreme Court. That would be truly awful.
Some kid at the gym had a t-shirt that read “Obama is my President”. I laughed and laughed.
At the kid i hope.
But of course!
paging Barfman
When Trump causes the nuclear war for hundreds of years after these people’s ancestors will hide in their caves and worship idols of the great Lightworker who could have saved them all.
Newsflash: government schools suck.
http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/article/quiet-exodus-mass-schooling
If you have the right teacher… which sadly I didn’t
I read this as “The Exodus from Mass Shooting.”
At least with homeschooling, your kids may not be trapped in a gun-free zone.
re: Jews vs Nazis beer pong..
Oy vey, Rabbi Berg! You just lived up to every stereotype about whiny Jews who all too often stick their nose in other people’s business.
I mean seriously, they’re fucking high schoolers. Shouldn’t we be more upset about the fact that they’re drinking alcohol? Jesus fucking christ. Nobody is going to be hurt because a few high schoolers are trying to be edgy by arranging solo cups in the shape of a swastika. However, the chances of something really bad happening when dumb high schoolers binge drink? Exponentially higher.
I know I heard about something exactly the same like a year ago. Maybe 2.
Teenagers are idiots. Drunk teenagers are … well, bigger idiots.
I hung out with a lot of Jews in college (lived next to the Hillel House at OSU for a year). Used to joke around a lot because I have a very German last name. Every time we played a drinking game, an inevitable “Nazis vs. Jews” comparison came up.
What are you talking about? Dumb high schoolers binge drinking makes the chances of something awesome happening exponentially higher. Sure sure we had the occasional dumb dead kid too, but you have to weigh that against the tens of thousands of man hours of awesome partying.
I’m extremely lucky to not have wrecked a car or to have knocked up a girl. I had a high probability of doing both when I was in high school and college, yet came away unscathed. And I have no idea how.
Yes to #1, not really (sigh) to #2 if we’re talking about high school years, but primarily I’m lucky I lived this long. Among the drunken things I did that I can actually remember was running and trying to jump over a bonfire, not quite making it which ignited my clothes, yet somehow only ended up with minor burns. I also remember hanging upside down off a third floor hotel balcony railing, almost certain to be fatal had I fallen.
The worst I ever did when binge drinking was 2007 Mirror Lake jump, which I was totally gone for. I lived on Northwood at the time, so we had a high school friend of a friend DD us (she was on some meds and couldn’t drink at the time, but very cool about chauffeuring us around) to near the lake using our roommate’s mom’s A pass (she works at Wexner Medical Center). Then, I met a Sikh kid from my high school, jumped in the lake at least twice, and lost the car’s parking spot, where my warm clothes and towel were. That was one of the years where it was like 20 degrees out, so I started running back home in wet shorts, shoes and a wet shirt, all the way back to Northwood. When I finally got out of the shower, I was so out of it I turned around and took another shower. And I only know that because other people told me about it.
2007??? I was there…. Luckily, I lived on Indianola.
I wouldn’t be shocked if that’s the fastest mile I’ve ever run.
Yep. To combat that, my aunt and uncle have always let their kids have a sip of what they’re drinking, just to try it, unless that kid has a friend present. Thus, the irony, this summer, of our family reunion, where you see the 13 year old drinking from Dad’s beer and Mom’s wine, the 10 year old trying Mom’s wine, and the 16 year old not drinking any of it, since he brought his girlfriend. I also have a beautiful photo of the two of them squeezed into the same rocking chair, both oblivious to one another, staring at their phones (and no, they couldn’t have been texting one another, because my aunt and uncles’ cabin is a cell dead zone, and they don’t have WiFi.)
My daughter has sampled everything i drink. Wine, bourbon, sambuca, averna, beer, espresso etc.
I disagree with a lot of things my aunt and uncle think, but I think that’s a healthy way to teach your kids about alcohol. Unfortunately for me, when my parents let me try some I either was not interested, or what they were drinking tasted awful.
And it’s not even lunchtime!
Rufus doesn’t work.
Flying into LA last week we shared a shuttle to the rental car place with a portly Jewish man in a yarmulka who spent a couple minutes laying into the driver for showing up so late. Rather obnoxious, considering the driver a) doesn’t set his own schedule, b) can’t do anything about it now that he’s finally shown up, and c) distracting him from loading up our luggage is prolonging the goddamn trip.
By all means, dude had good reason to be upset. But, you know, save it for the desk staff at least. They have email and supervisors whose bosses bosses might be able to do something about it.
The irony. It burns.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-canada-politics-trudeau-idUSKCN1B32CO
Like being afraid to fly and in a plane crash?
More like rain on your wedding day.
Either way, who would have thought it figured.
It’s a free ride when you’ve already paid
Like quoting Allanis Morrissette when your mother should have drowned you at birth.
So, no real numbers, not a single named source, no pending legislation or slated discussions in parliament. More top shelf reporting from the oh-so-vital 4th estate.
Google Will Now Ask Users: “Are You Depressed?”
Perfect the government can tap into that data. Makes it a lot easier to take away guns.
Photos Of People Watching The Eclipse Is More Entertaining Than The Actual Eclipse
The video clip is LOL
That last Gif was very funny, no racism there
Yasiel Puig and Justin Turner of the Dodgers did the same thing.
Posting here instead of in a dead thread
I’ve worked for left wing think tanks that pump out reports widely cited in national and local media outlets. Being a primary author on these, I’d get asked by reporters for context and info from the reports. As in, its obvious in most cases the reporter didn’t read our publication past the headline or maybe the executive summary. They come to these groups knowing their worldviews will be similar, ask questions which are already directly answered in the report they’re ostensibly writing about, and basically expect the think tank people to write the majority of their article.
Then they editorialize around what was given to them in order to make the context fit the narrative they want. Its so bad we’ll give them paragraphs of text with data supporting a conclusion, and they’ll cherry pick that data and the words in the conclusion to say something completely different.
Shit like that was very annoying.
You wrote CFAP-esque reports and you can still form words into sentences? How did you escape permanent brain damage?
I was a libertarian and worked for the Kochtopus before moving over to the left. They knew what they were getting into when they hired me and appreciated having the opportunity to “rehabilitate” me. Just because my writing is still coherent doesn’t mean I didn’t suffer permanent brain damage.
You poor poor man. But your take seems to confirm what many have observed; around here anyway. That it’s the narrative stupid!
I think one of the biggest problems in media is that reporters basically interview reporters. Or they have panels and talk amongst themselves.
Couldn’t you have just written a press release for the reporter to copy and paste?
A bit of tech, a bit of (to me) alien culture.
The techy bit
OK, somewhat perturbed about the whole withdrawal of service issue when it comes to web hosting, and a few sites, most notably stormfront, being dropped by DigitalOcean, I decided that – subject to a credible alternative being available – I’d look at some alternatives. Bolstered by certain recommendations from OUR Top (Wo)Men, I went over to Dreamhost to see what they had on offer. Turns out they have a cloud offering based on OpenStack which gives me what seems like the same features as DigitalOcean for approximately 75% of the cost. So I can save a few bucks a month. No big deal, but alternatives are always good, and if DigitalOcean start being dicks (insert private company caveats here), I can exercise MY rights and vote with my feet.
Why is this relevant? I billed my first client yesterday, so my new business venture is real, and I’ll end up being persecuted (more) by an oppressive tax system. So, yay free market capitalism, and by reflection, yay me.
The Culture Bit
So, I built out my test cloud cluster on DreamCompute (Dreamhost’s cloud offering), set up all the basic security I needed, set up an A-record and a couple of CNAMEs, and decided to ping the machines to prove-out name resolution. So, I pinged my load balancer, and instead of getting my server back in the ICMP message, I got mysql.ampedasia.com (a wee bit concerning, but we’ll we what happens once DNS propagates properly). Hmm, I thought. Wonder what that is – and visited the website.
And Immediately thought of some of you guys, although probably, the people I’m thinking of know about it anyway. While it’s really just naff pop culture, I did think this was funny, because I’m confident it happens in the West, but it wouldn’t be reported this way:
Safe for work, if work’s OK with bubblegum-pop photos
That j-pop stuff creeps me right out.
Some of the j-pop perpetrators are rather cute, although in general, I’m biased towards white meat.
Although this sentence, taken out of context, does provide entertainment:
A lot of web hosting services will host multiple small sites on the same IP address(es) with name-based virtual hosting, so don’t be greatly distrurbed if the IP resolves to someone else’s name on reverse lookup.
Well, that name itself doesn’t respond, and this being a cloud service where you are assigned IPs from the cloud’s resource pool, means this is anticipated. I’d be interested to see how long the TTL is for this. I always scratch my head a bit when people name their machines in ways that virtually invite third parties to try and exploit them.
Calling a machine ‘mysql’ makes me want to try and connect to a phpmysql admin url, although I never would, no. Not ever.
I’d put static content on a box called ‘mysql’.
But that’s just my sense of humor talking.
Me? I had a tarpit once named “mytestweb” with IIS on it and a whole bunch of logging enabled. It was surprising how hard people were trying to bust into it, and, given that it showed no indication of having mysql or postgres on it (also not very likely given it was an IIS box) , it was very surprising how many attempts were made over an 8 month period.
By far, the most common were attempts to hack into Ubiquiti devices.
I have better things to do with my time nowadays than scan huge log files.
You just reminded me of a cybersecurity lab I was in at college. One of the teams had a setup that was wholly impractical outside of the isolated sandbox environment but was interesting enough. They had their logs teed to a line printer with a continuous feed of green bar paper, so that anyone who got in would not actually be able to destroy the logs. (You were supposed to treat the other stations as if you didn’t have physical access, so stealing their output was not permitted – not that it actually stopped one of the teams. My team bought a hardware keylogger and installed it on another team’s box… I guess we all had pretty good second-story people.)
in-addr.arpa. records don’t have to match the forward records.. Without knowing the exact shared IP I couldn’t give a complete analysis, but I suspect that this is re-used shared IP space that has old legacy in-addr data in it.
It won’t cause any problems, but a good vendor should have mapped it to “sharedIP12345.dreamhost.com” to be clear for debugging purposes.
Just checked and Dreamhost manages their in-addr space manually:
https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/218672068-How-To-Setup-PTR-Reverse-DNS-Records-on-DreamCompute
Thanks for digging that out. This isn’t a deal-breaker for me at the moment, I’m just kicking the tires to see if there’s even a fair comparison with Digital Ocean. So far, doing some pretty standard benchmarking, there’s no significant difference in performance between the two offerings (except the DreamCompute instance has 2Gb RAM), but hardinfo, and a handful of other tools are delivering numbers that are so close that whatever difference there is can be attributed to background processing.
One thing that does appeal is that DreamCompute doesn’t hide the fact that it’s simply their instance of OpenStack.
Nothing. Left. To. Cut.
http://freebeacon.com/issues/feds-spend-199665-analyzing-tweets-e-cigarettes/
During the BLM “protests” here in ATL, they marched right out onto 75/85, which is an immense hazard at any time of day. It was astonishing that the cops didn’t nip that right in the bud. Absolutely nobody would’ve blamed them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/23/business/media/wall-street-journal-editor-admonishes-reporters-over-trump-coverage.html
Wall Street Journal editor reminds reporters that they’re not writing opinion pieces vis-a-vis Donnie Two-Scoops.
New York Times’s take on the situation: suggest that perhaps the editor is a little too chummy with the White House, including Ivanka.
Anyone who doesn’t hate Trump and his entire family is a Nazi.
I want to like the new season of Rick and Morty more than I actually like it. It’s missing the profundity of what’s come before. The sense of existential anguish. The dexterous handling of big issues. The episodes that keep you thinking for days. They may have jumped the shark with pickle Rick.
I like the new season of Preacher more than I want to. Jackie Earle Haley was a big part of the first season. That guy dominates every scene he’s in, and he’s been doin’ it since the ’70s. Just when you think it couldn’t get any more sacrilegious, Jesus takes a piss on you ’cause he’s a . . .
The Mist has people doing such absurd things since the first episode, it’s ridiculous, but Alyssa Sutherland without makeup still looks like ten miles of scenic highway–she’s got legs all the way up to here!
GoT had a couple of excellent episodes, but this season was laggin’ before that. At this point, it’s not like you can just stop watching it. I don’t think they’ve ever done a bad battle scene.
The Sinner is done really well, but so far it’s kind of . . . predictable. I’ve kinda guessed right so far. Maybe I’ve got it wrong, but I even think I know the identity of the guy in the mask–it’s one of two people, and I figure it’s likely to be the most unexpected person possible. Even so, a great detective story is great even if it follows conventions–like a great Western.
Anyway, if your favorite TV show is in a first run right now and I didn’t mention it, then your favorite TV show sucks. I’m just sayin’.
You have clearly not watched People of Earth. That show is hysterical.
I’ll check it out.
Rick and Morty never really appealed to me. The last time I tried to watch it something in the credits stuck out which may explain why: John Oliver is pretty heavily involved in its production.
Game of Thrones is awful this season. The writing is completely lazy.
Pickle Rick was one of the better episodes in the series history.
The Mr. Meseeks episode was an explication of existentialism by using the opposite of a human being.
Existentialism holds that a person exists before he has an essence. Meseeks are the opposite. They get a purpose as soon as they exist, and once they accomplish it, they cease to exist. When Meseeks get stuck in this world because they can’t fulfill their purpose, they experience anguish, just like humanity. They start complaining about the situations beyond their control–a la Heidegger’s “thrownness”. “Well he dragged me into this!” “Well that guy dragged me into this!”
I’ve never seen that handled so well. Sartre and Camus never covered the idea so succinctly and thoroughly.
SPOILER ALERT!!!
The episode where Rick and Morty change worlds and bury themselves in the backyard is so fucking eerie, it may be one of the eeriest things I’ve ever seen on television. When Morty sits there with his sister, mom, and dad–knowing that they both are and aren’t his real family–it makes you sit there and think about what these things mean. If the people around us aren’t interchangeable with exact duplicates of themselves, why is that? Are we talking about souls?
What about the episode where Unity takes control of an entire planet? What is the value of freedom? What if totalitarianism–controlling not only people’s actions but thoughts–made the world a paradise without crime, misbehavior, immorality, etc? Is a perfect society without freedom really a total hell?
I’m getting none of that from this season of Rick and Morty. That’s the stuff that makes the show great.
The interdimensional TV is even missing, and there are profound inferences from that galore. All gone so far.
A: Its early.
B: those are like the best episodes out of like 45 episodes.
Haven’t they gone through all of the books and are now doing new material? I don’t watch it but it has been on so long, I would think they have filmed all the books by now. If they have, then it really is no longer Game of Thrones. It is TV writers doing fan fiction.
I’m pretty sure they passed all the books by the beginning of last season. It shows. I’ve gotten sick of the social justice pandering. Never mind tossing all concepts of time and distance out the window.
Case in point, Littlefinger’s gone from being a cross between Cesare Borgia and Markus Wolf to one of the dumber characters on the show. Has Tyrion had a decent thought or line in the last season? Contrast with how DragonSue, I mean Dany’s portrayed. Or that Cersei’s not only still around, but inexplicably still has one of the largest armies in Westeros still loyal to her. Can’t wait ’til Jamie ends up snuffing her. And this “bring back a wight so we can convince the most untrustworthy monarch in Westeros to kinda-sorta be on our side” plot is pants-on-head retarded.
I’m just about at the point of hoping, “Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies, Let’s Welcome Our New Night’s King Overlords.” Amazing spectacle though.
Can’t blame the TV guys for writing their own shit though. How long has Martin kept us all waiting for Winds of Winter? Four years now?
So, given Martin’s rotundity, and seeming lack of desire to ever finish the fucking thing, who do we like to finish the Song of Ice and Fire? Brandon Sanderson? Kevin Anderson? (Ha, ha, ha.)
If you want to read some decent rants about the most recent season Timely Game of Thrones Griping has been entertaining.
And a big thank you to whichever one of you reprobates linked to that site originally, it has been a really good read.
NO SPOILERS, ALL SPECULATIVE
If it plays to form, the people who should be on the throne won’t be.
In the song of ice and fire, it should be about John Snow and the Mother of Dragons getting together.
I’ve always wondered about John’s true parentage, and I wouldn’t be surprised if he turned out to be the Mother of Dragon’s sister–a la Star Wars.
If John and Mother of Dragons should be on the throne but aren’t, then who? The Dwarf would make an excellent candidate, but that’s the problem. It’s always the wrong person who ends up on the throne.
It’s gotta be the conniver who’s latching himself on to John’s older sister. My guess is that the series ends with John the Mother of Dragons sacrificing themselves in the battle against the White Walkers, and the throne is usurped by the bad guy who’s connived his way into league with John Snow’s older sister.
That’s how I’d think Martin would write it.
And hasn’t John’s older sister joined the dark side of the force already?
SPOILER ALERT!
When she sent that gigantic woman knight to King’s Landing, she did it to so that she wouldn’t be around when she makes her move against her little sister. I don’t think there’s another explanation.
Like I said, that’s the way Martin would have written it.
How the producers write it is anybody’s guess.
The show has confirmed Jon’s parentage. Bran’s warg last year, and the book that Gilly was reading that Sam ignored. The final episode for the season is Sunday, and looks to be basically set in King’s Landing. My speculation is that either Cersei or Dany are going to die in it.
I’m here for Clegane Bowl, Cersei getting her comeuppance. and (hopefully) Dany going full fire-crazy Mad King . Plus, seeing how the Others manage to traverse the Wall.
The whole thing with the wight drove my wife and I crazy. When Dragonpants flies up there to rescue the gang, my wife and I were both like, “Hey, dummy, notice anything interesting and relevant about what dragon breath seems to be doing to the undead horde? Do you think maybe you could cut out the middle man here? Or, to put it bluntly, go breathe fire on everything until it dies.”
They burned through the first three books in the first four seasons. Then books four and five were happening at the same time with a different set of PoV characters for each of them. Seasons five and six used new material that wasn’t in the books, and all of this season (and next) are completely new material.
Supposedly, GRRM shared his overarching plot lines with the producers of the show, so that both will eventually end up in the same place. However, the world building is pretty much dead in the show, as well as the sense of scale. As an example, the last episode would only be possible with either teleportation, or instant communication.
I’ve made it through this long, and I’ll watch it to the end. Besides, it gives me a good reason to sell the girlfriend on the 1-2 months of HBO, which means I get to catch up on Veep and Silicon Valley.
Instant communication and teleportation–exactly.
Those Ravens are fast–and the dragons are even faster than that!
They should have had Bran Stark warg the message or something.
You are exactly right. And it shows.
Game of Thrones is awful
this season.FIFY
In seriousness, I had no idea if it’s awful or not. Never watched it because fantasy stuff isn’t my cup of tea.
I’m hooked on Ozark right now. It’s nice to see the dumb hicks aren’t so dumb.
I actually watched an episode of Nova last night on the Voyager Program. The history, pictures and soundbytes from Carl Sagan, all interesting. That and at the end the usual, “this episode of Nova is made possible by: the David Koch foundation …” was good for a laugh.
Moderation? Is it because I changed my avatar?
re: Rick & Morty. I agree, with the exception of this last episode. I felt it was definitely the best of the season, and one of their better episodes, what with the immortality field and all…
“Your comment is awaiting moderation.”
Huh? Why? I’ve posted here before…
Rick and Morty got new writers this season. It shows, and not in a good way.
Holy fucking shit… The Madman!!!
https://i.redditmedia.com/MZGvWuqftXyjB2kl2JVLcP1XE7Pu-rF1Men30ynZt1o.png?w=739&s=0ff8f57de8f98651cff9d8a8cde85d5a
That oughta keep the talking heads busy screeching all day.
Wow. That’s a Shaolin Master level of trolling.
Now that he’s whipped out the laser pointer again, what should we expect to happen while the cats excitedly chase the little red dot? Arpaio pardon? Transgender military ban rules? Something else?
Tax reform has to be getting close to ready.
The Absolute Madman. Love it.
Damn. The freakout should be impressive.
So racist.
I’m usually fairly pessimistic about the freedom of driverless cars. I don’t see my freedom to pilot my own motorcycle as having a long life in that world.
Today I’m liking driverless cars more than usual–if it means the end of the DMV.
I’m having a dispute with the DMV right now. They’re claiming I had a day with no insurance back in April. It was when my insurance rolled over. Turns out, the insurance company lags when you use PayPal. I keep track of things with precision.
When I was doing Coding QC and support for the Health Information Management software company, we used to have problems with people being too responsible. You see, most IT managers are late installing their quarterly updates on CCI, which used to check against a database of conflicting codes. You can’t bill for both a finger amputation and an amputation of the same hand–stuff like that. The database is updated quarterly, but so many IT managers are so freaking lazy in installing the codes, some of the Medicare intermediaries started purposely running the database revision a quarter late. They found they had fewer rejected claims that way. So, if it’s Q3 2017, they purposely run the database for Q2.
The problem is that there are a few people on the ball out there, and they get their claims rejected because they aren’t lazy. So they’d end up calling me and telling me my database was wrong. It was a file straight from the horse’s mouth with no changes. It can’t be wrong. Even if it’s wrong it’s right. Call your intermediary, and find out what version of the database they’re using.
I’m dealing with one of those kinds of things with the DMV. They want me to pay my insurance company early. Why should I give them a free loan? Do they want to pay me the overnight rate? No one’s paying me early. Meanwhile, the insurance company is being unhelpful. They say that my coverage would still be in effect on the day I paid the bill at the time I paid the bill, but they only report to the DMV the first full day of coverage–which is the day after I paid.
Even if they’re right, that pisses me off. But as unfree as the regulated insurance market is with an insurance mandate and everything, I can still change insurance companies.
I can’t change DMVs.
If driverless cars ultimately erase the necessity for the DMV, I’ll have to concede that point, and make my case on others. The idea of seeing all those DMV employees jobless and unemployable would make my day, and they would be unemploy8able. Who wants to hire someone whose spent the last ten years working at the DMV? What did you learn there? Personal initiative? Creative problem solving? Customer service?!
I don’t think so.
The only thing such government employees are good at is being meticulous in repetitive tasks, but that just means thousands of them could be easily replaced with a really short shell script.
Don’t be silly, the DMV for the driverless cars would still cover registration, licensure of automobiles, inspection licensing, and certification of algorithms as fit for purpose.
It won’t do this any better than it does now, but it won’t go away just because the drivers did.
Those tasks seem to be manufacturer or dealer driven.
I see the DMV being like the post office–only more so.
We invented the fax, email, etc. so that we wouldn’t need to depend on the post office anymore. We even found ways to use electronic signatures.
Now the post office needs to RAISE rates in face of declining demand in order to keep people employed. The only legitimate people who use the post office anymore are government agencies–when they send you tax notices, licenses, etc. Everything else in the mail is junk until Christmas. Your mailbox is now a physical spam filter.
They’ll disappear altogether. It’ll happen in your lifetime. They’ll need to spend money to hire people to track where every individual is going in his driverless car and where they can be found at all times–while they’re carrying their cellphone, from video camera to video camera, etc. They won’t want that tax revenue going to an old technology that doesn’t do anything the government can exploit anymore for control and surveillance purposes anymore.
*resolves never to admit on Glibs that he works at the DMV*……goddammit!
Driverless cars will not end the DMV. The DMV is one of the best examples of where Libertarians are right about government. The DMV accomplishes nothing. It doesn’t even raise that much money when you figure the cost of operating it compared to the fairly small revenue generated from car registrations. The DMV also doesn’t make the roads any safer. Having to renew your license plate every year doesn’t make your car safer and neither does passing a safety inspection, which thankfully many states have eliminated.
All the DMV does is provide a source of aggravation and excuses for cops to write tickets and harass people for having expired tags. That is it. The world would be a hundred times better off if you registered your car once, got a plate and that was it until you sold the car.
Collector plates here are like that. $75 to transfer and no tabs.
All of the rigamarole at the DMV isn’t about licensing cars, it’s about controlling drivers. It is an attempt to use overlapping methods to keep the driver record with addresses up to date, so that the catch and release penalty system works.
When there is an accident or moving violation the police want a reasonable probability that when they write the ticket, and then release you on recognizance that if you don’t show up for the court date the data on file has a good chance of being correct. A register once system gets stale fast.
the FAA aircraft database used to be register only on sale. They switched to a 3 year renewal cycle about 20 years ago for $5. All it does is confirm that the airplane is still in active use, and hints as to an owner and address. Pilot’s licenses are for life and don’t need to be renewed, but they have a medical certificate that is renewed every 2 years (5 if you are under 40). that serves to keep that database up to date.
I would think that the insurance companies could replace the address verification data. Make as part of the policy that you are bonded for XXX$ and it is the insurance companies job to find you if you skip on your ticket/accident requirements. They would quickly learn what sort of drivers need to be tracked well, and which can be found without an issue.
The police write the driver the ticket not the car. The car registration doesn’t identify you. Your license does. You don’t have to have car registrations to enforce traffic tickets. If you get a ticket driving my car, I am not responsible for it. You are.
Unless it’s a red light camera or a speeding ticket camera. Then they just mail the owner a ticket and hope you pay it.
It is overlapping layers and history. Back in the day there were no databases and this new level of infractions with catch and release. So they had to trust the physical papers, and VIN#’s and plates.. If you were going to commit fraud you had to do it at multiple levels with each a chance of getting caught.
License plates were originally issued every year. That morphed to the inspection/registration/license plate trio. Some states added stickers to the plates so the police could make sure you were keeping your data up to date without having to stop you. It was mostly a way to confirm that “this thing has touched the state records” within the last year, and you the remote policeman on the side of the road can have confidence in that. Today?… they aren’t going to let you go if their computer doesn’t say “ok!” They trust the databases and don’t have to trust the paper/metal things.
The officer is going to be questioning you on the vehicle if the addresses don’t match from your DL to the registration. The Inspection station, checks the insurance cards, DL, VIN, registration and plate. I think in this day yearly isn’t required, 3 years would sound like a good compromise, but with the older yearly inspection requirement, yearly registration dovetailed into that.
I bought a utility trailer on Black Friday a few years ago. Awesome deal and drove it straight to DMV to get registered. Those lazy, shiftless bureaucrats* were closed. I understand being closed on Thanksgiving, but the day after too? I loathe all of the bureaucracies, but it’s especially pronounced with the ones we are forced by law to deal with.
If I could please also rant:
1) My wife drove to ABC after work to get some gin, the only ABC in a 20 mile radius from her work, and found out they close before 6pm every single day. Can you imagine running the only liquor store in a county and closing before 6pm every day?!
2) I called my local circuit court to find out how much money to include when I mail in my concealed carry renewal, only to be told that I had to come in person (in violation of state law). I explained they were in violation of state law but the woman said she didn’t care, thems the rules. Our state 2A group called to put a stop to it, only to be told that of course I could mail it and they have no idea why I thought I couldn’t. I’m just going to go on my day off and take my 2 year old so she can see the futility of dealing with the state.
*Chipwooder excluded
Oh, I’m plenty lazy and shiftless. Being serious for a minute, I am embarrassed by where I work, which is why I’m in the process of applying to business school in the hopes of being able to leave for something more respectable. I’ve made some bad choices in my life. Until then, I have to content myself with doing everything in my position of modest influence to push policy away from overbearing nannyism. I don’t succeed very often, but I do what I can.
I don’t have a say in policy.
I don’t interact with the general public.
I deal with back-end systems to support bureaucrats who support bureaucrats.
I am definately in the unnecessary side of government work.
I work in policy analysis/legislative affairs. I don’t make any policy decisions, but I work on the studies and write reports that are supposed to guide policy decisions. In reality, of course, the people with the power tend to do whatever the hell they were going to do anyway.
I keep track of things with precision.
Ken, I find this . . . plausible.
Shot-to-the-nuts guy speaks out!
https://twitter.com/MicroChunkyChip/status/900493170743574529
Mike Rowe unimpressed with left ‘intellectual’.
He’s mistaken.
There isn’t anything celebrities don’t know.
Otherwise, how’d they get to be celebrities?
Kristen…
…is in her bunk.
The posterboy of white nationalism is an articulate intellectual who attended private schools and graduated universities. He was a doctoral student at Duke. He’s not merely wrong but wrong in such a way that is difficult for his critics to grapple with. And yet for all that bourgeois elitism, he’s displaced David Duke as spokesman for supremacist whites. He isn’t hated for it, he’s beloved. And the same goes for others fairly or unfairly associated with the movement: the urbane, flamboyant Milo Yiannopoulos, whose gayness is only outshone by his polished Britishness. Academics like Jordan Peterson and Charles Murray, whose work is popular within these groups despite both men heatedly disavowing racists and racism. Steve Bannon: you might hate the man for his influence over Trump, but he is not plagued by Trump’s shallow, tepid pool of knowledge and weak rhetoric and myopia.
There’s a reason the left wants these people silenced rather than debated, because they make a hash of the left’s dumb white hicks narrative. The truth is more nuanced and much more dangerous than they let on.
2Chili remains about the only writer at TOS worth reading:
Tony dusts off a golden oldie in the comments
Who doesn’t love a good purge every now and then?
Somehow Strom and Byrd didn’t get the message.
The democrats continued to have a lock on the ‘racist’ south for another 2+ decades.
oh, and fewer dems voted for the CRA than gop. i don’t know how they’ve convinced themselves of this narrative, but the repetition is tiresome.
The Southern Strategy is horseshit anyway. The South was moving towards the GOP in the 1950s, long before the CRA and even as a Republican president sent in the army to enforce Brown v. Board of Education.
Truth is malleable and hinges on expedience rather than veracity.
I wonder whether there’s any close-held shibboleth a solid progressive couldn’t be talked out of if you peddled enough grievance horseshit. They’re supposedly anti-racist but will redefine prosaic words to excuse the bigotries of minorities. Supposedly pro-woman and pro-gay, but strangely silent on Shariah. Supposedly anti-corporatist, but willing to shill for CEOs who parrot the right lines and suddenly very concerned about Trump nixing corporatist trade groups. And so on.
Wow. When you put it that way, it’s almost as if they have absolutely no principles at all.
They do have principles, it just turns out that Marxism trumps everything else.
They also tend to ignore the fact that black churches tend to be rather vehement in condemning homosexuality.
I didn’t read the articles when I commented over there.
I’m not about to start now that I no longer visist the site.
Eh, I saw it linked elsewhere. Since it was a Tuccille post, I read it.
Besides, the comments are spellbinding in the way that a 25 car pileup is. You have multiple comments by shriek, Tony, AND Hihn, plus a bunch of their recent addition trolls spouting idiocy like this:
“Libertarian Marxists”…..no matter how many times I read that gibberish, it never stops making me laugh.
fuck. that’s who replaced us?
The endless virtue signalling in the posts left them with nothing but new trolls and a few desperate clingers. Do CATO articles have the same level of incessant virtue signaling?
That side is in opposition to the violent, authoritarian thugs of the right and of the left.
Could someone fill me in on the alt-right groups that have tried to shut down speakers and riot in the streets outside of gatherings they disapprove of?
Honestly, I can’t recall this ever happening.
Is there some other kind violence that the more or less organized alt-right perpetrates? What is it? Why do I keep seeing the alt-right equated with antifa? Honest question: am I missing something here?
A schizophrenic boy rammed a car into a bunch of counterprotesters at an event.
Of course, nobody on the right is anywhere near as inattentive or flippant about it as lefty commentators are about their zealots, but that doesn’t stop the left from painting everyone on the right as complicit in that girl’s death.
Yeah, that doesn’t count as violence perpetrated by the more or less organized alt right, to me. There’s a difference between violence committed by an individual sympathetic to the alt-right, and violence organized and perpetrated by the alt-right. It can be a fuzzy line (see, e.g., ISIS v “lone wolves”), but the organized hard left is jammed full of people calling for violence. Is the alt-right? The organized left goes to events with the express purpose of shutting them down using violence or the threat of violence. Does the alt-right? Alt-right leaders ask their followers not to go armed to events. The hard left salts event venues with weapons before the event. And so forth.
Help me out here – I don’t follow the garbage DemOp media, so maybe I’m missing these activities of the alt-right.
If they had anything remotely implicative, they wouldn’t be running with the “peaceful counterprotesters were instigated!” line.
“Well, then, it’s pretty obvious that Mr. Tuccille is an alt-right Nazi”
– N. Gillespie
Someone help me. I’m at my mom’s house because she had dental surgery this morning and her dentist said someone should hang out with her for a couple of hours afterwards, and she’s watching The View, and it’s a repeat talking about TrumpRussia and Bernie Sanders is going to be on.
No alcohol in the house?
Are you entirely certain that you haven’t died and been sent to Hell?
Well, he’s still commenting here, so…
shit.
No.
Though that would mean you’re there too.
And everyone else here.
Unless you’re all figments of my imagination.
Your mother hates you so much you can’t request compromise content?
can the dentist give you a bottle of nitrous oxide?
Slip away for a second and cut the power.
I once got stuck watching The View while I was coming out of anesthesia after surgery.
I kept yelling, “Change the fucking channel” but it just came out as “blugh blah murph blugh”.
I could hear what they were saying, but I couldn’t do anything about it. It was like a hell.
I kept waiting for the show to start. They started taking and talking and talking and talking.
So when’s the show start? That was it. The whole show was these women talking.
I’d say they should use that show to make Al Qaeda operatives tell them about ticking time bombs, but I’m sure forcing people to listen to The View is against the Geneva conventions.
phone + ear piece??
Obviously the dentist is a quack.
Oh, Oh, Oh! I forgot to mention . . .
Robby is going to be a regular guest on a new News show.
http://reason.com/blog/2017/08/23/watch-robby-soave-on-se-cupps-brand-new
So clear your calendar. You won’t want to miss a thing.
What’s that we used to say?
“Independents Assemble!!!!
SE Cupp? I’d at least watch it with the sound muted. She fine.
She does that thick glass frame thing that’s kinda played, but she do look good, dat’s true. She’s got a little bit of a Lynda Carter thing going on.
This isn’t really a tenet of libertarianism, right?
like pot and mexican asses.
RE: Biffisms
In Back To The Future, Biff Tannen showed us how not to turn a phrase with his suggestion, “Why don’t you make like a tree…and get out of here.” And I seem to encounter Biffisms fairly often in real life. Granted, not all of these are so on the nose as the example from the movie, but all involve mangling common phrases.
“I could care less” – It is understood by most that this is intended to mean the same thing as “I couldn’t care less”. Sucks, but I give up. This particular Biffism is too far gone.
“He’s got more money than sense” – This is supposed to be a play on the phrase “dollars and cents”, but when you swap out “dollars” for “money”, it completely loses steam as a useful phrase.
[person signing a document] “Let me put my John Henry on it” – this one boils my blood. John Henry was the steel drivin’ man, John Hancock is most famous for his huge signature on the Declaration of Independence. Goddammit!
Hah, John Hancock….everyone knows it’s Herbie Hancock!
Your John Henry is clearly your junk, so he was planning to teabag the document.
“He’s got more money than sense” – I always thought this person is a rich idiot. For example, Paris Hilton would be said to have more money than sense.
Right, but the phrase “He’s got more dollars than sense” is a more clever way to say that.
This must be that there false consciousness I keep hearing about
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-laguna-arrest-20170823-story,amp.html
And the video
https://youtu.be/xLqrSVrcKhQ?t=96
In the video, Maxwell is surrounded by a crowd of counter-protesters, some with bandanas covering their faces.
“There is a problem with illegal immigration, I speak out against that, that doesn’t make me a Nazi,” Maxwell says.
“You’re a traitor!” someone shouts over him.
“People want you in chains, dude,” another voice says.
“If you want to keep the peace, you should leave,” someone says.
Shortly after, Maxwell is knocked to the ground.
“knocked”? he was sucker punched.. in the face. hard.
On top of everything else, the cowardice of those fucks hiding behind their goddamned bandannas pisses me off something fierce.
#UnmaskTheCowards
Tracking for NOAA’s hurrican hunters
Watching the sampling once it reaches the storm. Strengthening pretty quickly right now.
You may notice difficulties commenting…
Is it just coincidence that my last comment went to moderation or did I trigger some internal review 🙁
What did you do?
We’re getting purged, aren’t we. You’re inviting Tony and Shriek and John because you miss the old fights.
*shifty look*
Whatever are you talking about???!
This particular Biffism is too far gone.
That train has sailed.
Phoenix PD released a few details on the protesters they detained from Trumpfest Tuesday.
He’s lucky to be alive.
Via The Root:
So refreshing when they doff the mask altogether.
He brushes up against a good point, though: celebrities should just shut the fuck up and quit expecting to be taking seriously simply for being celebrities.
Of course, Harriot tailors this principle to black conservatives alone. Something tells me he has no problem with Kaepernick shooting off half-baked, incoherent drivel.
Related, because why not
Barkley isn’t even a conservative, really. He’s just a cranky guy who has never given a shit what anyone thinks of him.
Joey Gibson, organizer of the Patriot Prayer rally in San Fran’s Crissy Field, said he’s not a white supremacist because he’s Japanese.
https://nextshark.com/joey-gibson-controversial-patriot-prayer-leader-identifies-as-japanese-american/
San Fran is going to be very hostile. latest updates: guns prohibited, big protests planned, Oath Keepers will provide private security
my prediction: San Fran law enforcement kill a Berkeley Antifa
“We won’t let any extremists speak. We’ll let moderates speak. It’s a big part of the goal. We have 10 speakers now, and out of them, we have one white male speaking. There’s guy named Jake Von Ott, with Identity Europa, we tried not to let him in. There’s nothing we can do about [him attending]. We don’t want him there. We made signs saying we don’t support Identity Europa. I’ve literally disowned white supremacists [in his videos]. It’s getting old. We will not let them in. We’re not going to let the flags in. I give you my word, it’s a promise,” he said.