ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. ZARDOZ THANKS HIS FRIEND, STEVE SMITH, FOR FILLING IN WHILE ZARDOZ CONTEMPLATED RECENT EVENTS. WHILE ZARDOZ IS RELIEVED THAT NONE OF HIS CHOSEN ONES WERE HARMED BY THE CATEGORY 4 KILLSTORM THAT LIFTED TEXAS OFF OF THE EARTH AND FLUNG IT INTO OUTER SPACE (ZARDOZ ONLY SKIMMED HEADLINES) – ZARDOZ IS A BIT DISAPPOINTED SO FEW BRUTALS WERE CLEANSED BY THIS STORM. IN AN EFFORT TO GET BACK TO BASICS, ZARDOZ GIVES YOU LINKS OF BRUTAL CLEANSING.
- ZARDOZ WONDERS HOW ENFORCERS WITH BLUE HELMETS CAN DO SO LITTLE KILLING? HAVE THEY NOT BEEN GIVEN THE GIFT OF THE GUN?
- ZARDOZ APPROVES OF THIS TOWN. IT HAS SEEN MUCH CLEANSING OVER THE YEARS. NO, IT IS NOT CHICAGO!
- VERY WELL, LET US SPEAK OF CHICAGO THEN.
- ZARDOZ THINKS THESE BRUTALS ARE CAUGHT BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE.
SPECIAL SPORTSBALL LINK FOR THE CHOSEN ONES.
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN!
Active in Mali since 2013, the UN mission, known as MINUSMA, is constantly targeted by jihadists that roam northern and central Mali, and has also been beset by operational difficulties including a lack of helicopters and allegations of abuse lodged by the population.
If I were a leader forced to donate soldiers to a UN cause I would give the shittiest soldiers I could at the least pay allowable since they are not serving any purpose of my own.
If I were a soldier donated to this cause that neither I nor my country gives a shit about, making little money, my objective would be to survive by avoiding conflict and skim or graft as much money as possible from the effort.
Perhaps that’s why UN missions appear to be clusterfucks, staffed with corrupt 3rd world mercenaries.
UN missions are also seen as revenue sources in hard western currency. The UN pays the (grossly inflated) costs of the peacekeepers directly to the contributing country in good old US dollars.
Before Mali completely melted down USAFRICOM was sending missions there to try and help the government get some sort of control along the tri-border region. When I went to visit my troops we were beyond Timbuktu and even Gao. The locals had no conception of a central government. There is nothing there worth fighting for, especially the US.
Jesse is now eating at the #1 restaurant in America. Thanks in advance for the takeout, Jesse!
These euphemisms…
I didn’t know you needed Big Macs delivered.
http://www.latimes.com/food/dailydish/la-dd-yelp-top-100-restaurants-20150122-story.html
You heard me ask for takeout. I have witnesses.
Yelp Top 100 restaurants?
That just means the 100 restaurants that could game the reviews the most.
That and 90% of yelp users live in CA, 5% in NYC and 5% spread over the rest of the nation.
That joint still looks good, though.
He’s only eating at Chipotle as a favor to you.
Ding, ding, ding! Winner!
Hey Playa, I sent an email to Jesse about a possible meetup next month when my wife, son, and I will be in LA.
Do you have any suggestions for things to do in LA with a 16 month old? He loves the fish at Petco, so we were definitely going to the Aquarium of the Pacific. We’ll also do some hikes with him in a carrier. We can go to the La Brea tar pits for free, so we’ll do that.
I can’t wait to see what other people suggest. 😉
Orphan field collecting?
Well, I would like my son to learn how West Coast libertarians run their mines and manage their orphans.
Oh yeah. I raised 3 kids here (or still am. Youngest turned 3 yesterday).
I used to go to the aquarium maybe once a week. It’s huge, more than a 16 mo can process at one time. So just go to the cool stuff. See the giant sea bass, the sea lion, feed the birds, pet the sharks, and maybe see the penguins and otters. You can get all of that done in less than an hour.
If you want to hike in the same day, hike either Trump or Terranea. They’re both about 15 minutes away. There’s a secret parking lot at Trump on La Rotonda drive. Ocean views 2 minutes after you get out of the car.
I’d have to look through my pics to see what else I did with them at 16 mos. IIRC, they really liked trains and boats, which are plentiful in Long Beach.
Thanks for the advice. The hikes look great.
Yea my son loves trains and cars. I don’t think he’s seen a boat yet, but he’d probably think boats are cool too.
The Aquarium is at the harbor. And there’s 2 nice bridges over the channels. Cruise and container ships everywhere.
The tar pits are fun, plus the museum nearby with the fossilized sabre tooth cats. Griffith Park has a railroad to ride around complete with horses etc, and a live steam club (must be 34 inches high to ride). If you can find a view sport watching the LA Intermodal Yard is great. See the containers be lifted from the ships and placed onto trains. Multiple freight lines serve here so trains are arriving and departing on a regular basis.
I took my kids to the Fullerton train station today. It’s amazing, The ground shakes when the double decker intermodals pass through.
Thanks I wouldn’t thought of the train yards and I didn’t know Griffith Park had mini trains.
“The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres condemned the violence in a statement, stressing that attacks targeting UN peacekeepers “may constitute war crimes under international law”.”
Oh nooooo, whatever will they do? What a waste of carbon.
Wat?
Chicago has a high murder rate.
Not compared to Baltimore and St. Louis, which are in the top 20, not in the USA, but in the world. Chicago ain’t woke.
Doesn’t Chicago have more shootings and homicides though? Or are we talking per capita?
Per capita. Keep in mind, Chicago has about 5x more people than Baltimore. Baltimore actually had a million people until most of them who were not shot, ran away. Now it’s about 600k, and Chicago around 3 million. Amazing that a city could lose almost one half it’s population and still have one of the highest murder rates in the world.
All the blacks and democrats fled to safer cities I presume?
Mostly to the county. Get a civil service gig, move to Randallstown.
One time, someone here told me that Randallstown is a ghetto in training. That’s actually pretty accurate.
Well, yes. But they appear to be blaming it on “not enough cops” which is, how you say, horseshit.
Too many guns is the real issue. They need common sense gun control. Damn Republicans in charge of the place, think 5 year olds should have a gun.
I’m everything will get sorted out there once BLM and NAACP get Colin Kaepernick another job.
That obviously needs to happen before Republicans put guns in vending machines.
“Lets see….I’ll take that one…”
*presses “D4″*
“What the heck? It’s stuck!”
*shakes vending machine, several guns fire. Walks away, whistling*
Must be full of sigs and tauruses.
We all know Indiana is to blame.
Fun fact: Indiana wasn’t named after the Indians, it was named after the state slut, Diana.
In Diana.
10 bucks says the unspecified was S African.
10 bucks says the policeman is also a civilian.
$20 says that even if the peacekeepers had ammo on them the weapons would be inoperable because they would be dirty enough to garden in.
Ha…could be. Why does the UN need civilian contracted security? They are kind of a security force are they not? Big money changing hands in that game.
Well, they need someone there who actually knows how to *use* a gun.
The only reasonable solution to a place like that is to pop in with massive force anytime the situation gets too iffy (like when the jihadis were 24 hours from Bamako a few years ago), and otherwise leave it the fuck alone. To actually stabilise the security situation in Mali you’d have to fix the political, economic and social situations. And persuade the locals to keep them fixed. And probably fix all of those things in the surrounding countries too, to keep their troubles from seeping over the border. None of which is happening any time soon (or ever.)
So Cali is working on becoming even more of a USSR 2.0. Taxing drinking water to pay for something covered under water use charges, banning bad think, wondering how come mountain lions are killing more people after banning hunting, outrageous fuel taxes, and SJW signalling at all levels isn’t enough. They gotta go and kill what little privacy you have left.
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-cell-phone-surveillance-transparency-law-20170827-htmlstory.html
If I ever am in that state again the phone stays off or I invest in a Faraday Cage for it.
Just mentioned this in last thread. I mean what took them so long?, they were already taxing air. Maybe they should put a meter on everyone’s home toilets and charge them for taking a piss? Has any enterprising Cali bureaucrat thought of this yet?
They already do most places. It’s the sewer tax/use charge on (typically) your water bill.
I don’t have one.
Is Mt. Washington in the county? If so, this.
Well, first of all, Mt. Washington is in Baltimore City, not Baltimore County. 2nd, I don’t have a water bill.
Which is sort of worse, despite all of that, because City taxes are 2x what they are in the county. There’s no winning here, OMWC, so let me have my smallish victories.
It’s built into city water bills as well. The city is less than transparent about how they do the calculation.
I don’t pay a water bill, period.
Your landlord does.
The sleazy part:
They meter and bill you for sewer based on your water meter.
Fuck you, I water my garden. A lot. Half of my water doesn’t go into the sewer.
I don’t care. Yeah, for sure, rent is very high here. I can and will leave it behind when I want to, with short notice. And it’s gets shorter all of the time.
This is why you don’t fill up your aboveground pool from your hose.
We had this stupid rainwater runoff protect the Chesepeake tax, which was totally retarded like it sounds. But Gov shitlord killed it.
I am so glad I left that fricking state. Although the West Coast Prog infection is spreading North.
You think I piss for free?
The cops are going to to be all over those people failing to follow the law surrounding Stingray devices, right? THE LAW IS THE LAW!
What I cannot figure out, is that all of these countries completely devoid of Nazis and white privilege, have all of these problems. I don’t get it. I thought that no Nazis and white privilege = paradise. What’s the deal?
I was going to comment along those lines………
ZARDOZ THINKS THESE BRUTALS ARE CAUGHT BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE.
Whatever. At least they don’t have to protest Nazis.
I mean it’s not like Trump is their president or anything. Thankfully for them, they don’t have these really serious first world problems.
No Confederate flags either
http://hotair.com/archives/2017/08/27/harvey-hawk-cant-nice-things/
PROTIP:His Youtube channel has videos of his black girlfriend twerking. In case you were thinking of watching a video with some stupid fucking bird instead.
Wait… who’s the Asian lady in the end of the video? This story is incomplete.
What’s wrong with her face? Is that fetal alcohol syndrome?
Now that you mention it…
Her face looks fine to me.
It’s hard not to appreciate a black woman in white shorts
And we still do not know who the Asian lady is. I hate unfinished endings like this.
You prefer a happy ending.
That’s a cute hawk. Too bad he’s being imprisoned and tortured by an alcoholic racist.
Song for Harvey
I…. wha…. is this real?
We’ve now reached the point where a symbol trumps both words and actions.
The pitchforks and torches are getting closer… i can feel it
I blame Google, Amazon, and Apple. They’re creating robots to take our jerbz. Just give the antifa and occutard idiots pitchforks and point them in the right direction.
The ocean?
The drawback to market liberalism is pitchforks and torches are really affordable, as are the smartphones to coordinate, and the selfie sticks used to document the lynching
I was thinking of a cliff, edge of Grand Canyon or somewhere in the Badlands? Edge of a geyser in Yellowstone? Tar pits?
Off the Golden Gate would work for me. They could film The Bridge 2: Progtard Boogaloo
Columbus sailed for Spain but he was from Genoa.
Those comments make me want to go buy a confedarate flag t-shirt and vote for Trump. Neither of which I would be inclined to do on my own Are the SJWs secretly a false flag operation organized by Richard Spencer?
i wonder this as well. makes me also get super pissed at certain publications for participating in this obvious effort to brightline events and people
the new N word is Nazi
When I lived in the south, we all had rebel flags, on our cars, in our yards, everywhere. The whole Southern rock thing was going on, Skynryrd, Outlaws, Molly Hatchet, 38 Special, all of that. None of that was ever about racism, not to anyone I knew. It was just about the south. Is anyone allowed to have their own identity today? Or do you have to be in a special approved group? This is why so many people are so offended by all of this nonsense. Now they’re going after our founders and even so far back as Columbus, who by the way, was Spanish. Maybe they should take that up with Latin America? There’s plenty of statues of dead guys to kill in Central and South America.
I’m surprised Spencer isn’t on MSNBC and CNN every night “debating” the other talking assholes as they tear into him about how horrible he is and what a huge threat ethno-statism is while giving him even more free air time.
Because it worked so well with Trump.
Not too bad. I thought it was going to end up with the feds locking him up for possession of a a forbidden bird.
give it time
“The FBI counts the number of murders solved in a given year — even if the murder took place years earlier — against the number of slayings in the calendar year.”
That seems dubious, statistically speaking.
Technically it should average out in the long run.
One assumes that’s the reasoning. But perp-walkering some ’60s Chicago Outfit hitman doesn’t really do much about the current situation.
Makes sense that they want the current year stats as high as possible.
I hate shit like that. Every time I hear a stat I always have to root through it to see how they got it and what it really says and doesn’t say.
The only thing worse than bad stats, are people using good stats to promote bad conclusions.
Statistics are misused more than they are used.
74.6% of all stats are made up on the spot.
“The FBI counts the number of murders solved in a given year — even if the murder took place years earlier — against the number of slayings in the calendar year.”
Last in, first out. GAAP compliant.
But you KNOW they go back and ‘update’ the old stats too, right? I’m just guessing, but I bet something like that happens so it wouldn’t surprise me that they double-count.
A touching memoir
I am about to travel cross-country in a fully loaded station wagon with my ex-husband. We are taking our only child to college in Colorado, where he will be starting his first year, and we are doing this as a family.
We are not the winners of our neighborhood’s competition for the best divorce, but we’re on the same page when it comes to parenting. Our son, Johnny, has chosen the route from Minneapolis to Fort Collins; he’d like us to cut through South Dakota rather than make the mind-numbing drive across Nebraska. Johnny, who has little highway driving time under his belt, will not be doing much of it.
Have I mentioned that my ex-husband doesn’t drive? Have I mentioned that my ex-husband is a rock star, in the literal sense? This means that he has successfully made a living as a professional rebel. We’re not yet out of Minnesota the first time he lights up in the back seat. Rebels don’t ask.
I want to hunt these people down and bombard them with flaming bags of dog shit.
“The Replacements” were “rock stars”? Coulda fooled me.
Somehow I don’t see Kid Rock driving his kid to college in a car with his ex.
I have no problem with that assessment.
I wonder how bad the neck strain must be to have your head shoved that far up your ass all the time.
I think I see what led to the divorce.
Her self-awareness is right up there with that single-mother who wrote about how, despite her best efforts, her sons still helped perpetuate rape culture.
I don’t get it, I really don’t. When it was time for me to go off to college it was “See ya. I might be home for Thanksgiving.” But I wasn’t because my buddy and I went climbing instead.
When me eldest went off to college I told her I was proud of her and she could contact me whenever she wanted since I was stationed fairly near to her college. I was told that Boston was off limits. I was proud because we had done good. When the younger went off to school the deal was he would live on or near campus for the year before deciding whether or not to return the 35 miles home for the last three years. He stayed away until his senior year and house sat the empty family casita.
Why have people continued to infantilize themselves and their offspring when adults begin moving out of the house? It makes no sense. If you have done your job as a parent both parties will be looking forward to your child(ren) taking the next step to an independent life.
Yeah, it’s like all those car commercials where the kid is going off to college and everyone’s practically bawling. I don’t get it either.
I was dancing a goddammned jig when I left home. And, judging from how quickly my bedroom turned into the new TV room, my parents did too.
My parents immediately moved to the country after I left. I never had a room to come back to. When I did visit, I slept in the “sewing room”.
Gone at 17, never came back.
Except for that I live a mile from my parents now. “Free” babysitting.
i think the sappy stuff we had in sitcoms and commercials actually informed the following generation and how they should treat their kids
i can’t stand going over to my friend from middleschool’s house because of how he treats his kids. its all negotiation and asking the kids’ permission for things.
White people need to start beating their kids.
+1 !Xoble
Yeah but I’m guessing your dad wasn’t a milquetoast ‘rock star’, and your mom wasn’t a psychotic narcissist?
Dad was a mechanical engineer who taught me how to hunt. Mom was a critical care nurse who thought rubbing dirt into a scrape was sound medical advice. Both were children of immigrants whose parents lost family members to the Holocaust or WWII warfare.
I didn’t really realize at the time how lucky I was at 17 to be permitted to go with one friend to take a bus to Yosemite to go rock climbing for a month. Between being taught basic repair, how to be comfortable outdoors and hunt, how to cook and being encouraged to be independent I was lucky. Of course now I am on multiple government lists with the rest of you.
It’s ok: the government is terribly incompetent.
Went to boarding school overseas starting in 1st grade due to parents work location. (only times I lived with them were 2nd grade and 8th grade when we were stateside). Freshman year of school, my folks were also living in the same town (Chapel Hill) – but I was in a dorm – required for all freshmen at the time. I guess I could see them wanting to spend more time with me after all the lost time, but it was nuts trying to tell them, “Sorry, I don’t want to come over for dinner this weekend – I’ve got too much homework.” – just hard to adjust in some ways…..
Course my mom was also an army brat and my dad spent time in boarding school growing up too – different countries….
Self defense
A small group of right-wing demonstrators who gathered in a Berkeley park Sunday to rail against the city’s famed progressive politics was driven out, often violently, by an army of anarchist counterprotesters in black clothing and masks whose tactics overwhelmed a huge contingent of police officers.
Hundreds of officers tried to maintain calm in and around Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park before the 1 p.m. “No to Marxism in Berkeley” rally, putting up barricades, searching bags, and confiscating sticks, masks, pepper spray and even water bottles. The goal was to head off the type of clashes that sprang from similar rallies in the city earlier this year.
But once again, counterdemonstrators frustrated police efforts. As the crowd swelled, officers stepped aside and allowed hundreds of people angered by the presence of the right-wing rally to climb over the barriers into the park, said Officer Jennifer Coates, a spokeswoman for Berkeley police.
The masked counterprotesters, often referred to as antifa or antifascists, significantly outnumbered the people who had come for the rally, many of whom wore red clothing supporting President Trump. The anarchists chased away the right-wingers, in some cases beating them with fists and sticks. They also attacked reporters who documented their actions.
Those Nazis had it comin’.
“No to Marxism in Berkeley” rally
How objectionable.
BTW, Berkeley police are the bottom of the barrel.
I’ll never forget my one encounter with them. I went home from the local watering hole with a (Berkeley) attractive lady. We went to her place, and she showed me her skills. She was halfway (I’m assuming) done, when the front door opened. Her fiancé walked in, on duty. He fell on the ground, crying. I took it upon myself to jump off the balcony and on to his patrol car below, mostly because I didn’t want to get killed.
I asked around. This was apparently the 3rd time this had happened to him.
Good times.
I don’t use the term cuck, typically… but what a fucking cuck.
There’s no coming back after the first time. You ditch the bitch. Even for a pig, have some self-respect.
If you’re a loser (who allegedly still lives with his parents) with a badge and a gun, a 19 year old Rhodes scholar with a cute face and an awesome rack is probably something you’re going to cling on to. In spite of the fact that she likes the taste of other penis.
Sorry, penii
What’s (Berkeley) attractive? She trimmed her pits and washed her hair?
An actual student. A 9 at Berkeley is a 7 at UCLA.
” She trimmed her pits and washed her hair?”
So we’re obviously not talking about Debbie Wasserman Shultz.
That’s fairly even-handed for an SF media outlet. I’m impresses.
So they disarmed the right-wing group, then stepped out of the way and let the masked left-wingers attack? And they straight-up admitted that’s what they did?
“Just following orders.”
This is how you get real no-shit street violence. And also how you persuade the normies that the government can’t be trusted to deal with it. The history of the Weimar Republic is a *cautionary tale*, not an instruction manual.
And you have a problem with that…Nazi?
The mayor of Berkeley is a associated with antifa.
“But once again, counterdemonstrators frustrated police efforts.”
Bullshit. Police have guns. And it’s damn near impossible for a regular law-abiding citizen to get a carry permit in northern California. The entire city of San Fransisco doesn’t have one gun shop. If a bunch of people are committing assault. You arrest them.
I forgot about that. It does explain a few things.
I saw 2 black Nazis in those pictures! What gives?
In Berkeley on Sunday, some observers derived satisfaction from watching the counterprotesters beat up and chase off a young man who was apparently at the rally in support of Trump.
“It’s a good time,” said Tom Martell, 70, of Crockett, who was at Civic Center Park with his girlfriend, Lisa Argento, 53.
“They’ve got to be chased out,” Argento said. “I moved to the Bay Area and pay good money to live here. I don’t want these people here. They need to leave us the f— alone.”
Argento said she has mixed feelings about the idea of ignoring members of the political right who rally to drum up support for their views.
“What are we waiting for?” she asked. “They already hold the White House. They are already dragging people away in the middle of the night.”
Trumpista death squads? Where do I sign up?
I’d like to see a queers against Marxism rally in Berkeley.
They won’t allow Milo in Berkeley. I mean since they’re so tolerant you know.
These people that I followed to the park need to leave me the fuck alone.
Lol
Jesus that’s funny. Just so.
Funny, I don’t seem to recall the left ever being willing to leave anyone else alone.
They are already dragging people away in the middle of the night.
Citation fucking needed.
Here, have a photo of a young Hispanic boy being dragged away by government thugs.
Headline from the google news:
“Violence Breaks Out at Berkeley Protest”
Punches were thrown. Skulls were cracked. Blood was spilt.
GIZAME OF THRIZONES BITCHES
Lost interest after season 1. I had already read 4 of the books and the story wasn’t going anywhere so I gave them up too.
I got back into it this season, mostly because I’d finished the books and was waiting for the series to catch up. And it’s total piffle but still fairly entertaining.
“”still fairly entertaining.””
Yes.
but a number of people who are the biggest fans of the series seem to have a point re: this season being sort of a complete reversal of what made the show good in the first place: its attempt to inject “realism” into a fantasy universe. By realism, meaning: “make war dirty, make people die in ignominious ways, make heroes into amoral monsters, make monsters into sometime decent people who feel compassion, make magic ‘complicated’ and flawed and unpredictable” yadda yadda yadda. Basically take the standard fantasy template, and pretend “what would it be like if it were *real*”? If it were more like historical drama?
this last season seems to have dropped all that shit in favor of “advancing plot structure as fast as possible”. so suddenly people can run 100 miles in a day, then a chick can fly 1000 miles on a dragon in a few hours, and the same cold that kills a person overnight can’t even freeze a lake, and… literally every single plot element is just deus ex machina. Oh and jon and Dany fall in love in 4 scenes even tho both have far more pressing issues, and 2 sisters who’ve been separated for years suddenly hate one another in 5 seconds, because convenient drama.
If it were like this since the beginning it would never have lasted more than 1 season.
They gotta hurry and finish up so they can get to their absurd and obvious alternate history tripe
I want Danaerys to die. Don’t know why. Maybe all the “bend the knee shit.”
Anyway the show seems the same to me.
Well, Dany is a good example about how you can spout off a bunch of flowery rhetoric about breaking chains while demanding people serve in or they and their entire family die horribly, and still get a bunch of idiots to go along with it. Sometimes I feel like the writers are only half-aware of this.
It’s like they think the echoes of the Mad King are a *good* thing. Barristan the Bold is spinning in his grave.
i’m only interested in the show now to see how they resolve Dany’s character – either they are going to make a point about power and tyranny with Dany doing something obviously terrible, or they’re going to let everything slide and have everything she’s done up till now be “okay” because she’s the *right* kind of violent dictator
The teleportation is pretty annoying. Spend all this effort setting up a world with distances of thousands of miles with the best transport being horse or sail barring, well, a dragon, and ravens carrying fast messages.
Now? Massive armies that are the largest or some of the largest the world have ever seen somehow leave a city and march for months without any spies reporting and relaying on this movement. Maybe if they were in the field, you could assume trickery…
Sigh. At least it’s not at later-seasons True Blood level yet. Can’t wait to see that “Confederacy” series or whatever they’re calling it, heh.
Huh, I bailed on that half-way through too.
Once True Blood got into the “pandering to middle-aged Wiccan women” stuff it was all sharply downhill from there. Shame.
True Blood was awesome until the last season, after Alan Ball left.
Just skip to this season if you want to watch dragons burning up armies and undead and shit.
I took it upon myself to jump off the balcony and on to his patrol car below
I hope you took a giant dump on the hood before you scrammed outta there.
When it was time for me to go off to college it was “See ya. I might be home for Thanksgiving.”
No kidding. They dropped me off at the airport.
“There’s your gate. Let us know how things are going. Bye”
I’ve seen a half dozen reports on the rioting that took place.
Not one of them actually mentioned the name of the ‘rally’. Just referred to them as “right wing” and “white nationalists”.
Not even “free speech” in scare quotes? Sheesh.
Anyone to the right of Mao is a an actual Nazi.
It’s almost like the Trump and Sessions DOJ don’t really want to address the violence in places like Berkeley.
They should. I’d love to see how the MSM tries to spin “legally arresting violent communists” as a bad thing to the majority of Americans.
I saw some viral video about someone complaining that congress won’t hire more school teachers.
I know someone who wanted Devos to make school vouchers national.
My mother wanted to know why Trump didn’t evacuate Houston.
There’s a million other examples. People do not realize we aren’t ruled by a king. None of those things are within the power of the Federal government. I don’t know if you can shrink government when our schools have failed so bad for so long that people don’t even have a basic understanding of it.
i’ve never met a progressive who actually knew “who paid for what” and what the actual responsibilities of the Fed Govt are vs. state/local municipalities, etc.
Never mind wtf “bond issues” are. They seem to think if we just raise taxes, we can have lots more free-stuff. when in fact higher taxes will probably just barely pay the vig on existing debt/pension obligations
Hey, look, it’s something awful that Trump is doing that will get almost zero press.
If I were President, I’d totally give military equipment to the cops. Like original model M16s that haven’t been cleaned since pissed-off doped-up draftees brought them back from ‘Nam. Or all the spare Stryker MGSes. And I bet there are some prototype Ospreys sitting in a hangar somewhere.
Imagine it: the Bradley Protest Pacification Vehicle
Exactly. But only Bradleys that have been through two or three wars, maybe been reconditioned after an RPG or IED. Then dumped into a swamp for a few months.
https://www.engadget.com/2017/08/26/discord-chats-may-help-charlottesville-lawsuits/
“In a conversation with Wired, far-right extremist and organizer Eli Mosley validated the accuracy of the Discord materials but insisted that he’d taken sincere steps to discourage violence, including banning 80 people from the Charlottesville server. However, that defense might not stand up in court: the American Civil Liberties Union says the chats show that the white supremacists were itching for an excuse to respond with violence. And of course, it’s not clear that the organizers were sincere in their attempts to discourage bloodshed.”
BTW engadget is now a political commentary site, and the ACLU is now submitting amicus briefs for the state.
So imparting violent intentions to people who are denying them and ignoring violent intentions (and later violent acts) by people who are espousing them. Huh.
this explains a lot:
Millennials believe George W Bush killed more people than Stalin, finds survey
One third of younger generation respondents believe that more people were killed under the Republican’s tenure than the former Soviet Union dictator
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/communism-george-w-bush-joseph-stalin-survey-millennials-younger-generation-death-killed-a7366131.html
The anti-war idiots have been raving about absurd numbers for years. Basically anyone who ever died of natural causes in the Middle East was murdered even if they were killed strapped with explosives yelling Alahu Akbar. All peaceful dirtfarmers of course, CNN interviewed their neighbor/conspirators to confirm it.
The inevitable consequence of this bullshit of complaining about “the longest war ever!” Is that a generation of morons who have no concept of what an evil ideology that kills millions is, versus a low level war against some crazed but relentless goat fuckers.
I’d like to say there isn’t an overlap between libertarians and the purveyors of that bullshit but we know that isn’t true.
I haven’t seen tonight’s episode, but this is a spoiler from last week’s episode . . .
GoT SPOILER ALERT! GoT SPOILER ALERT! GoT SPOILER ALERT!
Can an undead dragon spit fire?
It’s presumably a physiological process, of course, that creates fire breath. So whatever the process that creates walking and screeching in the undead, I don’t think the undead need to eat or sleep or use the restroom. All those physiological processes shut down with death. I doubt the undead can get pregnant or impregnate either. Whatever it is that animates the dead doesn’t use physiological processes. Physiological processes shutting down is what makes them the dead part of “undead”.
I don’t think there’s an ATP process going on in the undead at all. It’s a freeze ray, not a biological agent.
If you’re gonna show me an undead dragon spitting fire, I’m calling bullshit. I know dragons aren’t real. I know the undead aren’t real. I can assume either one for the sake of a story, but show me both–an undead dragon spitting fire? And I’m calling bullshit.
Like Mussolini said, “If it bends, it’s funny. If it breaks, it’s not funny!”
Maybe an undead dragon blows a freeze ray or acid. Whatever that substance would be if it weren’t ignited, that’s what it should blow, that or a freeze ray.
I’m just sayin’.
Oh c’mon. You can imagine a zombie dragon but you can’t imagine a zombie dragon spitting blue fire?
No.
You’ve gone too far.
My understanding is that the elves or whatever made the white walkers to wipe out the humans. Wouldn’t it be easier though just to play the different human factions off each other? They fight a lot anyway.
And why is it that the orc armies from LOTR never seem to be carrying anything? Where are the wagon and baggage trains? How about orc camp followers? That’d make for an interesting movie.
I doubt the Children of the Forest had any knowledge of the politics of the First Men. They wanted a tactical nuke.
But they have magic powers sufficient to erase a land bridge and raise the dead?
Why not just make trees grow everywhere? That’s what started the war in the first place.
This is why I can’t enjoy fantasy.
That was one of the few things I found to dislike about the Star Wars original trilogy movies (the prequels/sequels don’t exist as far as I’m concerned).
The Empire has all this awesome technology, but the AT-AT and AT-ST walkers explode with the slightest impact?
I guess Tolkien didn’t believe it when he was told that amateurs study tactics, but professionals study logistics.
This has been answered before.
There are no wizards in GoT.
The end of Sam’s arc will end up with him being a wizard, mark my words.
It would take someone with a lot of balls to tell Varys that.
The guy who cut Varys’ dick off was a wizard. Sorcerer. Same thing.
Ahem, they are totally different Wizards have to prepare their spells ahead of time, while Sorcerers can use any spell from their list a certain number of times per day, with bonuses to Charisma. Totally different classes.
(Yeah, I’ll NERD!!! myself out.)
Screeching requires air moving through something that vibrates. In mammals, even undead ones, that means lungs without holes in them. Because lungs with holes in them collapse as the chest cavity is pressurized. Or, if the chest has a hole in it as well, there is no means by which to pressurize the lung.
So… the Army of the Dead somehow is comprised of all the zombies that didn’t get any holes in their lung or chest?
Just… bullshit? Totally impossible bullshit?
I’m eating sushi and drinking beer. Sloopy is out rescuing hurricane victims in a boat.
We’re both heroes in a way.
Keep up the good work. If you have the chance, try drinking some sake out of a masu. Beer works with sushi, but once you try this, it’s hard to go back.
Hmm, I think I’d rather be your kind of hero.
I make sushi at home sometimes. It tastes great, but it looks like shit. Seriously, it looks like a stoned gorilla cobbled it together.
Could you do me a favor? Suggest that if Sloopy rescues a family tomorrow with three little redhead girls, please expound on the virtues of spontaneous order vs. control by Top Men, and point out all the non-governmental actors rescuing people. I know it’s kind of a dick move to interject politics into everything, but you can tell her that her brother put you up to it.
I’m shocked. Shocked I tell you.
Confederate flag sales surge after Charlottesville violence
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/08/27/confederate-flag-sales-surge-after-charlottesville-violence.html
Geez, you’re telling me that people reacted with a “F*** you* attitude to being told all their ancestors were evil?
Wait wait wait… Does this mean that all the race-bating and hate-mongering by the Left is not bringing about racial harmony and actually inflames racial tensions??
Don’tSpeak ill of the dead! It’s the new mantra of The New Soviet Man and your collective guilt goes back to a point in history that we say it does. Go no further and ignore what other people were doing at that point in history. Original sin. Wear it. Polish it up. Carry a sign proclaiming it from the streets.Tony Bellew is one of the few people out there saying what more people should be saying about Mayweather/McGregor. Basically, Floyd could’ve ended it anytime he wanted to and that Canelo or Triple G would have made mince meat out of Connor within the first round or at best the second. If you have the chance to watch Canelo/GGG go at it next month, don’t miss it. Watch a serious match and you’ll see the difference between that the sham that Floyd and Connor perpetrated.
Link to Bellew’s comments.
It will be interesting to see what McGregor does next. Does he believe his own hype? Or does he understand what really happened? Because, yeah – if he steps in against a guy with genuine power, who isn’t giving up twenty pounds and a decade-plus, and who has no interest in dicking around to make the rubes think it isn’t a farce… he gets flattened fast.
Maybe he’ll go after Paulie instead. Now *that* would be the end of civilisation as we know it. /Sir Humphrey
I understand why the people who promoted the fight would go on to gush how great it was, but why boxing people that had nothing to do with it (and should have seen that fight for exactly what is was) are jumping on the bandwagon is weird. The uniformity of opinion *Mad Props to Connor* shows how the fish rots from the top down. The money and power in MMA and boxing want you to endorse the stinker and you did.
It was beyond obvious to anyone with eyes that Mayweather could have ended the fight at any time, and chose to let it go as far as it did for entertainment purposes only.
I remember a fight on tv back when I was in college or right after – 02 or 03…can’t recall. It had been hyped for a while, PPV and all the usual – then there was a knockout something like the beginning of the 1st or 2nd rd and everybody was pisssed. Cost a lot at the time, and the additional fights on the ticket were pretty crappy/or had ended super fast as well.
So, I did not fall off the roof today. I went to help my buddy with dread in my heart. Imagine my joy when presented with a brand new shiny harness and rope! Now, that’s the way to do a 6/12 pitch!
“”Imagine my joy when presented with a brand new shiny harness and rope! Now, that’s the way to do a 6/12 pitch!””
A 5.12 pitch
my friends have a recurring joke where we talk up the 5.7 in public as obnoxiously as possible. It’s spread into just really being into that number.
So, it’s weird. I’ve been repelling. Climbed all kindsa shit, too. But hights scare the Bejeebuz outta me. I can get vertigo from scenes on the TV.
The rope makes all the difference in the world. Strap on that harness and you’re safe. If you’re a dumbass, you can still slip and fall off the edge so you dangle helplessly from your back while everybody laughs at you and you soil yourself, but you won’t die.
And if you’re not a dumbass and keep your strap set at the right hight, it’ll be impossible to slip off in the first place. Gotta trust your equipment, and know how to use it properly. Then you feel much safer.
I turned on the TV for the first time this week, and the MTV awards were on. What a disgusting pile of garbage.
That’s still a thing?
What, TV? Naw, just old farts like Playa still watching TV. I watch Netflix streamed to my TV, but is totally different.
When was the last time MTV played music? What are they giving out awards for now, best screaming match on a “Reality” show, best wokeness by a transgender PoC?
Most Hardest To Say Handles. You’ve been nominated.
Also handle least likely to already be taken. Although I’ve had it already be taken on a few other sites. On the plus, side I usually don’t have to deal with A through I already taking my preferred handle.
So a nice compare and contrast between Texas and Berkeley.