And seriously, no shit, sloopy has been busy doing what libertarians do- actually putting his ass on the line helping instead of passively waiting for Big Brother to do something; in his case, doing flood rescue. He managed to extract 40 people from a flooded apartment complex in about three hours. The official fire and rescue people showed up several hours later and yelled at him for running his boat too fast. No word on whether there was a police beatdown.
SP and I watched football.
Since sloop isn’t here to talk about his little league whatevers, I’ll mention that the Orioles came to Fenway, destroyed the Red Sox, and then wisely got out of town. Mike Glennon started and likely saved his job with a not-terrible performance. Brian Hoyer looked sharp and didn’t attention-whore during the Star Spangled Banner. The Ravens first team defense allowed exactly zero points through the preseason- we’ll see how that holds up when shit gets real.
OK, news items:
Every time I think that people are stupid, they demonstrate to me that I had no idea of HOW stupid.
At some point, even WaPo has to say something true. I was startled.
Those of you trying to convince libertarians that Trump isn’t the same kind of authoritarian as his predecessors have one more piece of evidence to try to talk around. As much as I enjoy the TDS spectacle, and as much as I hate being on the same side as the NAACP, the guy really is going out of his way to convince me that he’s a total piece of shit.
Israeli protesters, unlike their American counterparts, have their priorities in order. (Confession: never actually watched that, no regrets)
And finally, some decent music. There could only be one Monk, and America is the only place that could produce him.
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57) I got a call the other night from an organization purportedly collecting donations for breast cancer research. I declined to donate, but was wondering, even if it had been a reputable organization, would a donation really do anything to conquer breast cancer?
I mean, I often hear of pharmaceutical companies putting our new drugs or treatments for various diseases, but never of XX charity doing so. Are there any charities that really work for a cure? If so, what are they doing that a private company wouldn’t do? Maybe cures for minor diseases that a private firm wouldn’t find profitable to pursue? (Although breast cancer would not fall in that category.)
And if these charities aren’t working for a cure in whatever way, what are they doing? Breast cancer “awareness?” I’m not even sure what that is, or why it would be something desirable.
“Awareness” Charities are basically selling good feelings. People who give money to them feel good about themselves.
They do little actual good with a high profile ailment.
Damn, I just Googled this shit, Susan G. Komen’s CEO makes $684,000 per year; Red Cross CEO makes $561,000 per year. Fuck these assholes.
I don’t mind the salaries the CEOs make; they’re running massive organizations after all.
I have bigger problems with Komen than that, especially the amount of money they spend suing any other charity that uses “for the cure” anywhere at any time.
Check out the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation. The CEO of the org, Kathy Giusti, actually has the disease and has been working tirelessly to actively promote and fund research. There’s been an amazing pipeline of drug treatments that she has a lot to do with. The disease as a result is much more treatable than in years past, and while still incurable, there are rays of light at the end of the tunnel.
Donations to the MMRF go to good use — about 90% of their budget goes into research and treatment programs. They get extremely high marks from all the charity evaluators.
Here’s a little bit about CEO Kathy Giusti, who I’ve been fortunate enough to meet on a couple of occasions: Kathy Giusti has earned several prestigious awards and recognitions, including being named 1 of 3 Top Business Leaders Disrupting Medicine by Fortune Magazine and #19 on Fortune’s World’s 50 Greatest Leaders list. Giusti was also named one of the world’s 100 Most Influential People by TIME magazine.
So there are some really good medical charity organizations out there, who really are making a difference and helping research towards treatments and possible cures.
SLD: I have multiple myeloma, which is a bone marrow cancer.
I think the only thing you could actually do to get better treatments for cancer to the market more quickly, would be to nuke the FDA from space.
These charities are an industry just as much as any for profit corporate entity. I don’t remember the name, but there used to be a documentary on Netflix about the “charities” for breast cancer. They exist to make money for their employees and executives, any “research” or “awareness” is incidental to the mission.
Some even take the view that cancer charities will never advance a cure for cancer since actually curing cancer would destroy their gravy train.
^ This. Many are nothing but make work programs for people who want to feel good about themselves and do so at formal dinners at the expense of others. Look at the salaries at the top of some of the larger charities. It is all public info. Much of it is a scam like many NGO’s working overseas.
So the Clinton Foundation is like breast cancer awareness charities, except the Clinton Foundation is the cancer.
I have a new goal in life if I ever win the lottery: I’m going to hire the beset biochemists in the world, develop a drug that cures cancer, and then black market sell the shit out of it until these greedy motherfuckers all die* of starvation. You just know these assholes are the same ones voting for Bernie and advocating for upping taxes on “the rich”.
*figuratively of course.
Oh, so you just want women to die of breast cancer, huh?
He won’t wear the ribbon!
It’s like when the NFL players wear all that pink shit. Ain’t nothing more than virtue signaling. No one with breast cancer is getting cured because you can see Gronk’s cleats from the nosebleeds. Now, the Browns winning the Super Bowl, however…
No, they need to wear the pink because somebody somewhere might still be unaware of breast cancer.
It really doesn’t make any sense if you think about it for even two seconds.
The NFL and MLB painted themselves into a (pink) corner with that shit. Imagine if they stopped doing it? The outcry woud be huge.
I remember a guy on Mother’s Day (I don’t recall the stats) that had a great game at the plate, then in classic superstitious athlete fashion wanted to continue hitting with the pink bat. MLB wouldn’t let him do it after that weekend.
I’m just pointing out these things are stupid and often lead to stupider shit.
Was it Carlos Gonzalez for the Colorado Rockies? Because I don’t think he’s had a hit since Mother’s Day.
Are there any that do patient assistance, meals, housework, that kind of thing.
The Local ACS chapters do patient work, coordinate travel to & from the larger cancer centers and are involved with the local doctors and cancer centers. I have seen other local charities support Dr’s research directly.
There’s a good Bullshit! episode about this. A scientist who actually does breast cancer research said something to the effect of, “If you want to help, donate money to a research laboratory, or give it to someone with breast cancer. Buying a pink ribbon doesn’t help. No one is unaware that breast cancer is a thing.”
If you ever want to donate for cancer research donate directly to a cancer research center near you. They’ve got overhead just like everyone else but more of your money will go to research than if it is funneled through a charity first and the charity takes their cut before passing it on. The other advantage of donating locally is that you can keep better tabs on your donation and how it is being used. If I live long enough to pay off all my bills at Moffitt Cancer Center I plan to start donating to them (although I feel like they should name a wing after me for all I’ve already shelled out).
Dad to a now 18 year old in his 5th year of remission from Osteosarcoma (bone cancer), this topic’s near & dear to my heart.
As you might expect, there are good & not-so-good organizations in this area. Experience tells me the better ones are more a labor of love with much smaller percentages of donations going to run the organization. They tend to be extremely up front about where all collected funds get routed, as well.
I don’t mind seeing CEOs of larger “charities” pulling in big salaries, but I also choose not to donate to them for that very reason.
Cajun Navy arrives in Houston to help rescue flood victims
something something jambalaya
Better not be a bunch of half Cajun bastards come spring!
Just kidding, East Texas is already full of ’em. Seriously, though. Good on ’em. They’re gonna need every boat they can find, because Dunkirk is going to look like a holiday operation by the time the boatlifts are done in Houston.
Well, according to Slate, Texas is full of Nazis. So, makes sense.
French Nazis?! Collaborators!!
Seriously, those guys are heroes. And if they’re bringing boudin with them, they’re saints.
You know, those stories do remind me that the world hasn’t totally been given over to narcissistic sociopaths.
“At some point, even WaPo has to say something true. I was startled.”
“We’re just puzzled as to why people consider violence a valid tactic,” Berkeley resident Kristin Leiumkuhler, 60, told SFGATE.
Kristin there isn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer.
I noticed that WaPo referred to one side as “the far right” and the other as “anti-hate” protesters. Problem is that most of the people on the one side weren’t “far” right and I find it hard to believe that people throwing bottles of piss and beating the crap out of people are really “anti-hate”. My two cents on WaPo’s quality of coverage.
The comments are, predictably, horrible.
I’m still waiting for when WaPo equates black-masked Antifa with white-hooded Klan. Could be a sign of the Apocalypse.
“And finally, some decent music. There could only be one Monk, and America is the only place that could produce him.”
Have you seen the Straight, No Chaser documentary? Pretty good. I like the producers trying to communicate with Monk, who responds only in barely comprehensible mumbling. Definitely a man who spoke through his music.
Yes, I have. Monk is Exhibit One in my arguments about intelligence coming in a variety of flavors. He’d have been lucky to score 70 on an IQ test but he was an absolute once-in-a-millennium genius.
intelligence coming in a variety of flavors
So much this. The spectrum of human aptitude measured and enhanced by formalized education is but a slice of the whole, yet it is often mistaken for the whole. The same applies with knowledge: everyone is ignorant of most knowledge, yet often the only ignorance criticized is that of a few favored subjects. The whole realms of human aptitude and knowledge are much wider than commonly acknowledged. A person may be stupid or ignorant in some area yet a genius know-it-all in another.
NSFW Photos: Annual Go Topless Walk Returns To Venice Beach
So is it feminism, or men using feminism to see more naked women?
It’s both. Blew your mind, didn’t I?
They free the nipple by covering the nipple. So brave.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought they were totally missing the point.
Right? I went to look at tittays, not pasties
Missing both points.
Figures you would ignore the Single-Breasted Community.
Anarchy tits, FTW.
“The religion believes humans were created via alien genetic engineering. They were founded in the late 1970s and, naturally, the founder has been accused of sexual impropriety.”
The alien gods demand butt probes!
There’s really no point to starting a cult if it doesn’t get you laid.
Aliens, shamliens. Tits are like pizza; even bad ones are pretty good.
You clearly haven’t seen actual bad tits, or had actual bad pizza. Both can be really bad sometimes.
Well, I understand the Japanese have totally botched the concept of pizza, and I have seen several issues of National Geographic, but I still maintain that the principle stands.
Okay, I just did a google image search for “Japanese pizza”. Don’t make my mistake.
These people have a lot of free time on their hands.
I think I’m dead inside because this was a total turn-off.
Wow, some of them are still using the old Raelian logo of a swastikswastika inside of a star of David
Holy cow, Tobe Hooper is dead! How come I’m only finding out about this now?
Lots of mentions of TCM, as there should be. Not so much love for Eaten Alive, an underrated film. Poltergeist is great too, and in my opinion, the “Spielberg” scenes are easy to distinguish from the “Hooper” scenes.
Perhaps the only guy who could make a made-for-TV movie have one of the scariest movie scenes of all time.
Fucked my shit up as a kid. And led me to start reading King.
There are times I still eye the window a little suspiciously when going to sleep.
Because you didn’t read the Morning Links yesterday.
The official fire and rescue people showed up several hours later and yelled at him for running his boat too fast
Was it marked as a no wake zone? Good on Sloopy.
IIRC, the speed limit sign that was barely above the waterline said 35 MPH.
My bad, it was 30 mph. About a half mile down that road was an apartment complex. It was half underwater by the time we got there. Totally fucking devastating. We pulled 40 people out of it with a little John boat. There were people with other boats and jet skis doing the same. We worked until 8 when the dickheads from fire and rescue showed up in their huge ass boat that six of them rode on with their crash helmets and all the safety gear needed for an ocean rescue. By then, the work was done and all they were doing was yelling at the people that did it.
At least local fire dept appreciated us. Seeing as we kept ferrying them back for three hours before their “brothers” showed up.
Good morning, Sloop.
How’s the family?
They’re fine. My son has done nothing but play video games. It kind of pisses me off. Our house is 0.3 miles from the nearest flooding. And I think we’re on high enough ground to be ok throughout. I say we have a 25% chance of flooding. So pretty decent odds.
The floor is leeching water through the tile in the kitchen though. That’s a little concerning. And we have enough food for a month or more. So a-ok.
Sounds like your son has the right idea. You need to let the government officials handle the rescues, comrade. You haven’t had all the proper training and equipment like they do. It’s still like you’d be rescuing them. Remember, government is just the word for what we do together.
They pretend to save us and we pretend not to drown.
Katrina vs Harvey proves how much better people are than government.
There were people in a canoe pulling a raft out there yesterday. For a couple hours. They’d rotate in and out 2 people so they could rest. They dragged some folks out. The fire and rescue guys were still checking the inventory of their safety gear back at the fucking station.
There are rules, comrade, RULES! Where would we be without rules?! Anarchy, that’s where! Shit, people might start to think a big giant government isn’t really all that necessary.
Back in 2011, a big tornado tore my little community to shreds. By the time first light hit, there were people from all over in my area helping. Guys I had never met helped clear my dirt road so I could get out. That afternoon, a couple of hugh school kids helped me load a deep freeze full of beek onto a trailor Soni couod take it somewhere with power.
Police and fire just blocked the road where power lines were down. People helped, government obstructed.
Not quite the same level of misery as a flood, but up here in Michigan, we’ve experience some blizzards that have shut down most of the city.
And we – I mean the citizens – do the same thing. One ice storm brought down a bunch of trees and soon I was meeting neighbors I don’t even know, who were busy with their chainsaws, clearing roads and driveways. Or the one bad intersection where we gathered to push stuck cars through. I was sweating by the time we sent the 10th car on it’s way. And the local guy who came through with his plow truck and cleared all the roads of the suburb division before the city got there.
Cops in New York will ticket someone who dares plow a public street.
You should see what they do to you in Charlottesville.
Same thing here after we had a tornado- the street was filled with people helping out everyone whose homes were too damaged to shelter them.
Ticket? Cops should be arresting them for theft, they’re literally stealing money from the unions!
maybe if you weren’t busy hogging all the rescues he’d have something to do.
Hoarding is a problem, seek help.
Your lucky the rescue guys didn’t drown you for the insolence of doing their job.
I hope that, as a libertarian, you charged for the boat rides.
This one old Hispanic lady actually did try to give my partner money. Of course he just laughed.
Glad to see you’re OK, man. Don’t beat your son up too much over the video game thing. It took a long time for me to get that maybe I should help the people out who are making it possible for me to sit on my duff. Very few kids are that self-aware. Don’t worry, he’ll feel like an asshole for it by the time he’s in his 30s.
You’re a credit to humanity, sloop. Or maybe humanity is just lucky to have people like you around.
He’s alive! Need a towel?
Well, then I assume you told them to fuck off?
Those were close to my words. It was our last trip in. And honestly I just wanted to get home. Plus I had a really old man in the boat that I didn’t want to offend too much my going on a rant.
Funny story about that guy. He came out of his apartment and had a bag. He said “I’ve got my bible and my guns in there. Those are the things Obama said I cling to, so that’s what I’m gonna do.” I zipped it up for him because he was shaking. There were literally a bible, a few handguns and a couple pairs of underwear in it and nothing else.
Nice!
I love that – “Let’s see, Bible, guns, underwear. Yup, I’m good!”
No Ammo?
This is my rifle, this is my gun…
I assume the guns were loaded, at least.
Ackchyually!!1!1!
” I had a really old man in the boat that I didn’t want to offend too much my going on a rant. ”
These euphemisms…
Story of the day, yo
Well shit, the last thing they want is for citizens to realize they can band together and take care of shit for themselves much more efficiently.
Seriously Dude, good on you.
Agree.
+1 Hero.
+1 helping those in need
+1 stand-up guy
I’ve never been so sad in all my life though. Those people are fucked. Losing everything. It’s heartbreaking, for real.
Me and the random guy I met up with are going to go back out today into another area near here. Those people were flooded to their rooflines last year in the spring storm. So there’s gonna be a lot of them needing to get out again.
The Tohoku earthquake is still fresh in my memory. Just sitting in front of the TV and watching the footage of the Tsunami hauling buildings, cars and people out to sea is forever burned in my memory. Even in Tokyo, people pulled together and helped strangers where they could. The trains were down all day and millions were stranded. One old woman saw my wife walking in her high heels and business suit and offered her some sandals. 20K walk. She’ll never know how much those sandals meant at the time.
A lot of people I knew lost quite a bit from Ivan in 2004. We had the good fortune of moving to Arizona two weeks before it hit, but friends and old neighbors in Pensacola had it rough.
What’s the insurance situation in those cases?
A lot of these people are gonna be fucked. Basically, you only buy flood insurance if the Feds subsidize it for you. So many of these homes are outside of the 100 year floodplain that there’s no way many of them have insurance. I honestly don’t know what most people are going to do. Hope for the feds to strong arm the insurance companies into calling it storm damage, I guess.
What Brett said. Your standard homeowner’s policy isn’t going to do you a damned bit of good, other than maybe replace your roof due to wind damage. The flooding is ruinous.
Unless you have flood insurance – no go. You have to show wind damage, or any water damage was the result of wind or such (ie. the wind blew my roof off, so the water that came in a wrecked the second floor is covered). Feds cannot strongarm insurance companies over this. The State Department of Insurance and/or any arbitrators/referees/umpires/whatever the state calls them can tilt the field toward the insureds (you should have seen some of the home town decisions we saw from Katrina and Rita).
State and Federal aid might fill in the gaps.
Charity is encouraged too. But my $ will go through my church, as I don’t trust the Red Cross or other siphoners of a high % of donations.
Won’t the Feds step in? I thought this was the kind of government shit we do together. That’s what the left are always saying.
Just kidding. Go see what they’re actually sayin at HuffPo and Salon. Lots of “fuck Texas” and “now we can force them to secede” talk. Despicable cocksuckers.
“Despicable cocksuckers”…..well, it’s not as if you didn’t already know that about them.
The huffpo second headline is “Trump’s total failure of leadership”
A local radio host this morning had a teaser for her later today that she recorded last week. She said “On today’s show, we’ll be talking about Trump’s failure to do something to stop Harvey, or his failure to save everyone… anyway, we’ll be talking about how Trump failed.”
We have friends who lost everything in 1999 when Hurricane Floyd caused massive flooding which destroyed their home. Of course they weren’t in a flood zone, so they had no flood insurance.
sloop, my nearing-elderly uncle got pulled off his roof in SW Houston yesterday by a coupla guys doing what you & your buddy are doing.
A heartfelt thank you to you, him & the others out taking care of folks.
Means a lot to the friends & families of these people unable to actually be down there helping.
+ way more than 1 on you guys
Good work. You should be proud of yourself.
Great job, sloop!
You’re a fucking hero, Sloop. Hope everything remains okay at your own home.
“At least local fire dept appreciated us.”
I’m sure your efforts were greatly appreciated by countless people.
Nice work Sloopy. I’m sure you made quite an impact on many lives.
Why do cops need to be armed like the military? I’m curious, what’s the actual argument(s) made in favor of this?
This, perhaps?
Remind me, how many people did those guys kill?
One cop (or armed citizen) with a half-decent deer or WWI surplus rifle could have ended it with 2 shots.
Oh, but the freak out was spectacular.
That incident should be the first example of Confirmation Bias in the dictionary.
It confirmed that “guns are bad” to the liberals. For me, it confirmed that full-auto is no substitute for accuracy.
Full-auto? That’s were it sprays a thousand bullets a second with one trigger pull, right? Was the thing that goes up involved as well?
Well, the FBI figured it out, right?
“Hey, we need 10mm!!”
Turns out they only needed it for about a week.
Hey, let them have all the radios, first aid kits, stretchers, tents and the like they want. They want to play MRAP – they will break their budget in 6 months just on maintenance.
Of course, by their budget, you mean the taxpayers’ budget.
Well…yeah.
Stingrays?
See: Ferguson, Baltimore, etc, etc
Not that I buy the argument, but when massive riots break out (as they did in my city in 2001), you need more than just some police vans and a couple dozen cops in so-called “riot gear” to suppress it. But that’s what the national guard is for, in my opinion.
That’s also what 2A is for.
And the National Guard.
It is telling that the worst riots break out in places where the people’s 2nd amendment rights are severely restricted.
The cops and local officials looking the other way while their citizens are victimized helps too.
Isn’t this why we have SWAT teams? Aren’t they supposed to be for those really big, really dangerous situations? Not every cop needs to be decked out like SWAT.
They do if it is free shit. I don’t think it is a good idea, but the cops aren’t going to turn it down. Very disappointed with this decision, but I don’t think it is very unexpected with the “law and order” angle Trump ran on.
It’s not surprising at all but it would be nice to see him and Sessions doing something productive like, I don’t know, cracking down on the Antifa goons who are beating the piss out of anyone they disagree with (including a lot of his supporters).
I agree. I think they need to be going after those guys like they have gone after other violent groups. They are not just a band of college kids who meet in a parking lot. Those groups have structure now and I am pretty sure that mobilizing a violent mob to fuck people up is somewhat illegal.
Our county got an MRAP. It was free, but the transportation to get it here and maintenance are not.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_FBI_Miami_shootout
I think this incident is what started it. A couple fbi agents were killed by a dude with a mini 14. The FBI decided they needed to upgrade from their .38 revolvers to a semi auto in something stronger.
After that, it all went down hill.
I think a better question is why do they have to be dressed like the military? What’s the purpose of wearing camouflage?
The only legitimate reason I can think of is to save money on uniforms, since dozens of contractors already make camouflage uniforms for the military you wont have to create the logistics for it, just tap into an already existing one.
Of course, these same contractors also make the same uniforms in olive, blue, black, the new hotness baby-shit Brown and Ubertactical Urban Gray.
Why do cops need to be armed like the military?
To dominate and control those who are subjects of the government.
Emma Watson most influential celebrity for teens
“The research suggested that “feminist” is now the top label for teenage girls (29%), outranking “sporty” (10%) or “bookworm” (19%).”
Ugh. That might as well read “29% of girls identify with useless navel-gazing pseudo-social movement rather than athletic or academic endeavors that might help them with their futures.”
That’s the Zombieland one, right?
No, the Hogwarts one.
Feminism is magic! And Hermione was awesome just because she was a girl, not because she studied more than Harry freaking Potter.
We only know her name because she looked like an 11 year old Julia Roberts. And she’s so brave, taking on microaggressions in the US and saying nothing about how women are treated in the rest of the world, especially the ME.
One participant said: “She’s a big feminist. She frequently speaks out on sexism and other discrimination issues such as racism and homophobia, and what she says really inspires me.”
One participant is inspired by an opinion 9 out of 10 random strangers on the street could’ve given her.
9 out of 10 strangers didn’t fight Voldemort or Zombies. I’m not sure which one it is. But Zombieland- La La Land girl > Hermoine, Belle.
Sure, but they’re not also good looking
Neither is Watson, frankly. I’ve seen a lot of plain girls, and she would disappear among their faces.
Sure (beauty is in the eye of the beholder) but the main point is the only reason she is picked by girls as a roll model rather than some run of the mill femenist, is she’s a celebrity.
In other words, another case where a celebrity’s opinion is given weight, for the sole reason that they are a celebrity.
Would take my wife all day everyday over Emma Watson, even after two kids. And I wouldn’t have to think twice about it.
She’s adorable.
I am glad my daughter would fall in that “bookworm” category (seriously, that was the little award she got at the end of school last year) and will do everything I can to ensure it stays that way.
Some women find those Harlequin novels addicting.
I thought for Teens it was VC Andrews and Stephanie Meyer?
I vote Emma Watson most likely to chisel solid rock with her chin.
Seriously, that thing looks like it could tear up granite.
I’m glad someone else thinks Emma Watson looks like she could poke a hole in a desk if she nodded off.
For my money, I thought the red head who Harry Potter winds up with in the end is more attractive, but I’ve always been partial to the “English rose” look.
I’ve always been partial to the “English rose” look.
+1 Lily James in Downton Abbey
Word. I’ll see your Lily James and raise you one Karen Gillan.
Was she Lady Rose? Yeah, she is a cutie. Sybil was rather attractive, too.
You people know nothing. The correct answer for Dowton Abbey is Rose Leslie.
Wait, there’s a redhead in Potter? (Female, not whoever the hell that guy friend of Potter’s is) How come this is the first I’ve heard of it? Why is Plain Jane Emma getting all the attention?
Yep, here she is.
A propos.
She was Ron’s little sister, one year behind Harry/Ron/Hermione.
She and Harry end up falling in love and getting married and having like 7 kids. Because you know everyone marries and lives happily ever after with their high school sweetheart
Speaking of parasitical “non profits”- FUCK THE RED CROSS. With a red hot poker.
What happened this time?
As someone who used to work at Goodwill. Never donate there, it varies from region to region because it isn’t run centrally but many of them are just grifting programs.
Salvation Army won my heart during the 1992 floods in IL. They went everywhere, helped everyone and didn’t pat themselves on the back like some who didn’t do as much *cough*Red Cross*cough*
*notes Swiss’s background*
SWISS FLAG, NOT IRC!!!!!!!
*foams at mouth*
So where do I take all my old shit?
The dump.
That costs me money. No thanks.
Burn it all and bury the ashes I think that’s what they call returning things to nature.
You know honestly I don’t care what they do with the donations. As long as they take my not quite garbage junk that I no longer need or want cluttering my house and give me a tax deduction certificate for it I could care less if they were selling the stuff and then spending the proceeds on hookers and blow for their executives.
Seconding this. After Katrina, I went to Biloxi with a small group from my church and partnered with a church in the area that was helping people rebuild their homes. The church served as a hub for a bunch of different volunteers and volunteer groups coming into the area, and I met a guy who loaded up a horse trailer with tools and he was going to just drop it off at the closest Red Cross checkpoint. The Red Cross wouldn’t accept his tools, saying “we’re only accepting monetary donations at this point.” So he kept driving and thats how he met with us.
This was when Home Depot/Lowes/etc. was sold out. The issue wasn’t a shortage of funds, it was a shortage of supplies.
No, the Hogwarts one.
I hate her.
I wanted the giant three headed dog to eat that prissy annoying little bitch. The fact that it never happened ruined the whole movie for me.
The character or the actress?
Casting her in the live action reboot of Beauty and the Beast was a miscall. Disney got some hot profits though.
FIFY
No kidding. The college girl playing Belle at the Disney Princess Breakfast I took my daughter too looked more like Belle.
Jeremy Corbyn says Government must fight for ‘society free from racism’
Where some people are free to live their lives.
Yeah but they’re the righteous ones though.
Can we fight for a society free from nanny staters?
Racists aren’t people. Only a racist would argue something like that.
I thought England was, like, not racist.
What happened this time?
Same old shit. “People are in distress! Quick, send us money so we can spend it on more fundraising and our massive overhead. Also, gala events for our society friends.”
Yeah, Red Cross sees every disaster not as an opportunity to help but as an opportunity to raise money for themselves.
New tax reform measure – a non-profit organization may not use paid labor, nor pay a salary to any person.
But then, how are people supposed to make a living while bragging about working for a noble Not-For-Profit?
Like NFL athletes. The more people realize that non-profits are just businesses that don’t pay taxes, the better.
Easy tiger. There are a lot of nonprofits that do a lot of good work, and the employees don’t get great compensation. The problems generally occur when the organizations scale up. I’ve done a lot of work with NFP’s over the years, and if we’re going to have an income tax, we are going to want nonprofits. Even some of the bad actors are still more efficient than the government agencies they subcontract from.
This here. Non-profits have to pay market rates for what they use, including people.
Hating on all non-profits because of a few high-profile bad actors is like hating on all corporations because of a few high-profile bad actors.
Bigfoot Days romps into Willow Creek Sept. 2-3
STEVE SMITH SHOW HIKERS TRUE MEANING OF “MISERY WHIP”!
Misery Whip. Wish that was in blue, not bold.
Misery Whip?
Too droll.
Here. Misery Whip.
Can’t be any worse on a sandwich than Miracle Whip.
*narrows gaze*
The government allows “Just Mayo”, which contains no eggs, to be called mayo, but does not allow Miracle Whip to say the same.
Just sayin’.
Listen, if we’re gonna have this fight again, have the decency to wait until Sloopy is off emergency duty.
softball tournament.
STEVE SMITH PITCH, HIKERS CATCH
*prolonged applause*
“Best Bigfoot Call”
STEVE REALLY HAVE THING FOR SCREAMS FOR HELP.
Trump seems to have some weird “Escape From New York” view of crime levels in America which shape his law and order mentality, like he thinks David Dinkins is still mayor of New York. Maybe he got mugged on the street in 1975, and never got over it.
I agree. It’s a major cock move.
It’s a way to say “See, I’m addressing crime” without actually doing anything difficult or meaningful. This will play great with his base.
Policies that actually help ruin the talking points for everyone else.
Couldn’t he do something like crackdown on these Mayors that are telling their cops to stand down and do nothing while Antifa goes and physically assaults people? That would play well with the base, be him addressing crime, and actually doing something.
I asked the same thing yesterday.
So what you’re saying is that he’s a typical 71-year-old white guy.
*opera applause*
Like this guy.
New tax reform measure – a non-profit organization may not use paid labor, nor pay a salary to any person.
I have met people who actually seem to believe this is how non-profits work. You tell them the head of the American Red Cross gets paid a half million dollars and they refuse to believe you. “They spend all that money on blankets, and hot cocoa!”
Run awaaaaay!
Berkeley Police Chief Andrew Greenwood said officers were told not to actively confront the anarchists. He applauded officers’ restraint, saying it forestalled greater violence. Six people suffered injuries, including two who were hospitalized, and one officer was injured while making an arrest and several others were hit with paint.
There were 13 arrests on various charges including, assault with a deadly weapon.
“The potential use of force became very problematic” given the thousands of peaceful protesters in the park, Greenwood said. Once anarchists arrived, it was clear there would not be dueling protests between left and right so he ordered his officers out of the park and allowed the anarchists to march in.
There was “no need for a confrontation over a grass patch,” Greenwood said.
Stand up to a mob? Are you crazy?
…anarchists…
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
Exactly.
“An anti-hate rally was disrupted when scores of anarchists wearing black clothing and masks stormed the demonstration in Berkeley and attacked several supporters of President Donald Trump. But police were able to head off any wider violence.
Thousands gathered Sunday in response to a planned anti-Marxism protest that was canceled amid concerns demonstrators might be attacked.”
People who would counter-protest an anti-Marxist protest are Marxists.
There were a lot of Bolshevik “Anarchists” running around 100 years ago, and in the vernacular it’s probably a more common understanding of the word than in libertarian circles.
To be fair, douchebags have called themselves anarchists for the last hundred years or so and not meant what most ancaps or your garden variety glib do.
it would help to refresh.
At one point, an anti-rally protester denounced a Latino man holding a “God Bless Donald Trump” sign.
Man, I need a flow chart to follow this stuff.
” “no need for a confrontation over a grass patch,” Greenwood said.”
Especially when they are going to clear out the icky people for you.
Which leads to a question, could the Sessions Justice Department plausibly make a case that the Berkeley government is engaged in a conspiracy to deny the civil rights of some citizens and take over the local government?
It would if Section 1983 applied to Nazis. But it doesn’t.
I dunno about whether the Berkeley government with a conspiracy to take over the local government, on account of they are it already, but conspiracy to deny civil rights? They easily have enough to investigate and issue warrants and subpoenas – the mayor is a supporter if not a member of antifa, and he orders the police out of their way so that they can engage in violent crime in pursuit of their political goals.
Read that statement – it is easily paraphrased as “Once we knew antifa was there to attack the right-wing protestors, we ordered the police back to allow them to do so, as we do not think defending the civil rights of some people (“a patch of grass”) is worth doing. We have a policy of not actively engaging with antifa in spite of their known propensity for violence.” It only makes sense if the mayor and administration are on antifa’s side.
Now, is there enough of a paper trail to prove collusion and conspiracy? Who knows? That’s what the subpoenas and warrants are for.
Dude, i keep saying, the ChiComs let the Red Guards run rampant making people terrified that they couldn’t be good enough Maoists, right up until they started to piss off the Party, at which point they set the army on them. Antifa is the Red Guard for the Progressive Left. They will be mollycoddled and ignored right up until they start going after CNN or a Dem Congresscritter.
It’s just coincidental that the people governing Berkeley happen to agree with the politics of said mob.
So, let Antifa beat on people they disagree with which they did. I’m not a big law and order guy but this bullshit has got to stop.
When I read stories like this, I have to ask, would it still reasonable to morally fault “right-wing” protesters for going to protests armed to the teeth? The police are basically announcing that they have no intention of providing protection. In effect, they’re denying them the most basic right a government is there to ensure.
Not at all. Standard “I’m not a Nazi and I abhor Nazism” disclaimer, but when the leftist media shits itself over right-wing demonstrators showing up to events with ARs I can’t help but think, “Well, no shit, dumbass! There’s a huge mob of masked shitheads with a history of political violence and a knack for not getting arrested clamoring for their blood!” It’s the Nazis today, but it’s going to be people against raising the minimum wage or in favor of an ACA repeal tomorrow, mark my words. And *believe* I will be strapped if I’m foolish enough to go to a rally for one of those or, God forbid, answer the door to a pamphleteer who thinks minimum wage is a moral obligation.
Remember the Tea Party were branded as racists for protesting the ACA.
would it still reasonable to morally fault “right-wing” protesters for going to protests armed to the teeth
I don’t think you can fault anyone for going anywhere “armed to the teeth”. Something something shall not be infringed, you know.
It’s the Nazis today,
Not really, Its Trump supporters today, so they are already assaulting people for being “against raising the minimum wage or in favor of an ACA repeal.”
Not good when your Police Chief views protecting people with a word like “Problematic”.
That is not OK?
Feminism and the refusal of work: an interview with Kathi Weeks
Say what you want about Lenin and their ilk but they weren’t busy gazing at their navels – they had kulaks to kill.
Shorter version: “I’m lazy as fuck and others should be forced to support my navel-gazing.”
“One is that the refusal is directed not to this or to that job, but to the larger system of economic cooperation that is designed to produce capital”
Sorry boss, but I’m not going to fix the north crane today. It’s not about this job, just the larger capital system. It oppresses us, you know.
Boss, “Ok, Lachowsky. Then pack your shit up and get the fuck out of my plant.”
*oh, kicks pebble*
So, you’re promoting feminism by getting women out of the workplace? Will you be protesting the political system by getting women to stop voting next?
Do you have a newsletter?
We should all appreciate that this retard put it out front that they’re a Marxist.
Most feminist and fellow travelers won’t admit it so openly.
So, I’m trudging through the annual IT security certification required at work, and one section on the dangers of internet searches featured this tidbit that I found hilarious:
Another reason to hate Amy Schumer. Also, Carson Daly??? Did we time-travel back to 2000?
Rick Astley I’d understand, but why these people?
Who are these people?
Some of them are singers and then there’s Bieber, Miley and Rihanna.
Yeah, outside of Will Smith, none of these are people I actually know. Other than Amy Schumer being the bitch that launched an unprovoked attack on Steven Crowder on Red Eye several years back.
If you are going to target people to scam, you pick dumb ones. And the people searching for Amy Schumer, Justin Bieber, Will Smith, Carson Daly, Rihanna, Miley Cyrus, Chris Hardwick, Daniel Tosh, Selena Gomez, and Kesha are therefore considered dumb.
I’m probably dumb because that makes sense.
that’s Penis Pills 101 stuff, duh
Not Rick. He’d never give you up, let you down, or run around and desert you.
Probably nudie searches – at least for some of those names.
Carson Daly?
Amy Schummer? I know there are a lot of sickos out there, but really?
There’s a lid for every pot, John. /yikes
God knows the Internet proves that.
Thought you liked the roomier ladies?
Abbastanza stanza
Schumer (Amy, not Chuck) is perfectly serviceable.
I sometimes get the tits mixed up.
Anyone searching for nude pics of Amy Schumer deservers to have their identity stolen. Maybe someone else can do a better job of it.
worth clicking on for the photo:
VietJet has promised its flight attendants will be properly clothed on maiden route
I suddenly am struck by a desire to take a flight to Vietnam.
Also laughed at the link at the top to a story titled “Beachgoers Flee Toxic Gas Mist”. Even the beaches in Australia will kill you.
I don’t blame Indonesia. They probably though Jane Fonda was still the spokeswoman.
20 million Dong too bookoo
I’ll trade you some ARVN rifles for em. Never fired and only dropped once.
“Five women, all candidates in a local beauty contest, performed the three-minute Hawaiian-themed dance ”
Cultural appropriation!!! And that’s an American thing, so double cultural appropriation!
“when it hosted a mid-flight dance by bikini-clad beauty pageant contestants without first gaining permission from the nation’s aviation authorities.”
Dancing without a permit from the authorities. Well that’s another thing I didn’t know was against the law.
+1 John Lithgow
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF.
I don’t have any interest in Viet Nam, but I think I’d like to fly there. Back and forth. Repeatedly.
Sometimes I think Twitter is worthwhile.
Dammit. Now I have that fucking shitty song in my head. Boogerfucker.
Get the popcorn ready!
So this year, the GOP actually held firm and did about as well as they could with a big surplus to deal with here in Minnesoda. The legislature and the governor both compromised. At the last minute, Gov. Mumbles got mad because he wanted to renegotiate and used his line item veto power to zero out the budget for running the legislature.
A lower court has already ruled against Gov Mumbles. Today the appeal goes to the supreme court.
I actually wish the stupid legislature had gone along with the cut and in the next budget zeroed out the budget for the governor. Our legislators are supposed to be citizen legislators anyhow, so they shouldn’t need a salary anyhow.
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Masked-anarchists-violently-rout-right-wing-12041287.php
The SF Gate covers the Antifa violence like it is the Mayweather McGregor fight. They routed the protestors? More like they viciously attacked a peaceful demonstration and committed multiple felonies which the Berkely Police ignored. The media is just disgusting. You can’t have a Republic or a civil society if mobs are out rioting and beating each other over politics. While this was one way that is why the Gate thinks it is so groovy, it won’t stay one way. The other side is going to retaliate. People are going to end up dead. One woman in Charlottesville already is dead. And these dumb bastards don’t care.
“What hypocrites,” said Linda Fuentes Rosner, 69, a Spanish-language interpreter from Vallejo, who glared at a group in the park chanting anti-Trump slogans. “They don’t know what they’re talking about. You think it’s OK that a Trump supporter gets beat up? It’s embarrassing. The left has prevented the right from speaking. That’s not American, that despotism.”
That’s about the only sensible thing in the whole article.
As I understand it, patriot prayer is not a white nationalist group. They are a liberty leaning conservative group who strongly oppose marxism. Lefty politicians supporting marxists using violence to shut up a group of fairly reasonable people is not a good thing.
No it is not. Anyone who thought the left was going to confine its violence to just white nationalists was a fool of the highest order. And they are not going to stop in just places like Berkely. They are going to do this more and more until either the police put a stop to it or someone shows up with a gun and kills a few of them, in which case it will all be about the “right wing violence problem”.
I’ve already seen posts on Facebook about the lead organizer of the Patriot Prayer event being seen enjoying himself in the company of neo-Nazis. They’ll never stop fighting fascism, they’ll just find it in more and more places.
those hot skinhead girls, y’know.
I actually went to high school with a guy who was absolutely smitten with this skin chick who’s boyfriend was this big fuckoff hammerskin in Baltimore. She was pretty cute, no doubt, and the Chelsea haircut looked good on her.
Ah yes, Melissa Goldstein. Boy, when she rebelled against mom and dad, she didn’t pull any punches.
Sure, they’ll confine their violence to white nationalists. They just have an extremely expansive definition of “white nationalist”.
“White Nationalist” will come to mean anyone who is white and not a member of Antifa.
They’ve already broadened the definition of “white” to include black people, since they have shut down speeches by black people and assaulted them.
Anyone who thought the left was going to confine its violence to just white nationalists was a fool of the highest order.
They already made that clear when they threatened to attack a parade in Portland over the participation of the local Republican party.
“someone shows up with a gun and kills a few of them, in which case it will all be about the “right wing violence problem”.
Yes, it will be portrayed as a right wing violence problem by the MSM. I don’t think people will buy it though. I really think most people see through the bullshit the MSM spreads these days. Most people I know would look at the situation and say, “well those fucks had it coming. Don’t attack armed people.”
The media will certainly be hysterical, but your average American won’t buy it. Most people think these antifa goons are idiots and deserve whatever happens to them.
It’s as if Antifa doesn’t understand what actually happens when the armed people, or those who control armed people, have enough of violent rioting. Have they heard of the “revolutions” of 1848 in Europe? Or the “revolutions of 1830? Les Miserables is based on the 1832 July Rebellion. How’d that one work out? Eventually, they will end up with Empty Chairs at Empty Tables.
What was it Napoleon said, “I gave them a taste of grape[shot] and they had no stomach for revolution”?
Expecting those idiots to have a historical perspective is about as realistic as expecting a chimpanzee to be good at quantum physics.
More like they viciously attacked a peaceful demonstration and committed multiple felonies which the Berkely Police ignored.
John, you’re a lawyer, so maybe you can answer my question here. The City of Berkeley does seem to be saying, in effect, that conservatives don’t have a right to protest unmolested in the Berkeley city limits. Does this count as a conspiracy to violate the civil rights of conservatives? If so, doesn’t that give the DoJ the authority to take over the local government?
That is a violation of 42 USC 1982. Basically, the Berkely PD is engaging in a conspiracy to deprive people of their right to assemble and free speech. This is no different than the Southern Police Departments who stood around and let the Klan attack civil rights protestors. Also, most states have a misprision statute which makes it a crime for a law enforcement officer to fail to make an arrest for a felony committed in their presence.
42 1982 is property rights. You meant 1983?
Yes. My mistake.
Thanks for the explanation. I’m probably going to sound stupid here, but does the violation have to be based on some protected class?
“Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress, except that in any action brought against a judicial officer for an act or omission taken in such officer’s judicial capacity, injunctive relief shall not be granted unless a declaratory decree was violated or declaratory relief was unavailable.”
No. It is usually associated with protected classes but it can be anyone.
It’s the usual route for filing federal civil rights law suits against law enforcement agencies and/or individual officers. Anytime you see federal lawsuit by a private party against a cop in the news, it’s probably a 1983 lawsuit.
Thanks Again.
As much as I’m not a fan of his policy inclinations, I do have admit that there would be something delightfully ironic about Berkeley’s eagerness to punch
Nazisconservatives leading to the city being governed by…a Jeff Sessions appointee.Just out of curiosity, is this the same John from the old site that has sadly devolved to the level of a cesspool?
Yes it is. It is the same notorious poster from the old site. Promise.
“Now with fewer hilarious typos!”
As I said upthread, doesn’t apply because they’re Nazis. Move along now. *joins media in handwaving away reality*
Not that I expect more from Joy Reid, but…
All three of those positions are filled.
Be a bit of surprise to William Long, Paul Doremus and James McCament.
Remember how brave the mayor of Minneapolis was in firing the police chief because she didn’t bother canceling her vacation after the cop shot Justine Damond?
Maybe she wasn’t all that brave. turns out mayor Betsy Hodges was gone too. She left to go attend a fund raiser for her campaign in Los Angeles.
Why do LA idiots care what idiot is running for mayor in Minneapolis?
She is gonna get crushed. Problem is, the replacement proggies might actually be worse.
Yeah, she is the sanest one running. I think that she actually understands that mayors cannot simply wish reality away and that all the recent laws mandating $15/hr minimum wage laws and paid sick time for everyone won’t work well.
It’s the Weimar Vibe, get used to it,
There’s a bit more to it, I think. The violent crime rate has been falling for decades, anti bullying, no tolerance, etc… I’m beginning to think people need to get punched or mugged every once in a while to be reminded how violence used outside of self defense makes for a pretty shitty world.
Ben ShapiroVerified account @benshapiro Aug 25
If you have no children this sounds nice. If you have kids you know this is patently insane.
Kamala HarrisVerified account @KamalaHarris
Children are our nation’s future. We must listen to them about what they care about and give them a voice in our government.
Alright, folks, enjoy not wearing pants and sharing jars of peanut butter with the dog. Oh, and we’re going to watch Moana four times in a row while painting our faces with apple sauce and mac and cheese.
So, pretty much Tuesday for Kamala Harris?
Willie Brown had some odd fetishes, man, you have no idea.
Alright, folks, enjoy not wearing pants and sharing jars of peanut butter with the dog. Oh, and we’re going to watch
MoanaSing four times in a row while painting our faces with apple sauce and mac and cheese.My kids have evolved to higher levels of insanity.
You need to get them hooked on older Disney movies then. I saw about 10 minutes of Sing, and would not be able to stand it for more than that.
They watch what they can find on Netflix and Amazon. I’m surprised Disney hasn’t made their own version yet.
Disney bought a streaming tech company. Expect a Disney streaming service within the next 18 months.
Read that as ‘steaming’.
My kids got hooked on Ghostbusters and the 1938 (Errol Flynn) version of Robin Hood. Decades later the dialogue is still drilled into my head.
That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever read.
I believe the children are our future
Teach them well and let them lead the way
Show them all the beauty they possess insiiiiiiiiide…
Randy Watson!
That’s the version that goes on it my head.
It wasn’t for me, until now.
That boy’s good!
-Hmph, good and terrible.
Yeah. I’m gonna take advice from the crackhead that sang that.
She snorted coke. Crack is for poor people.
I’m pretty sure she loved some crack as well.
Yeah…once she spent all her money on coke.
Crack is Whack!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEbxIbBvQYY
Plenty of children already have a voice in our government. I consider the whole free shit contingent to be very childish in their ideals.
As a father of three…
BWHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHA
*wipes tear from eye*
Thanks, I needed a good laugh this morning.
You may have to scroll a bit because I can’t access the specific tweetstorm (sorry), but this fellow breaks down the Houston situation in terms of flood logistics and infrastructure, and the decision of whether to evacuate. Something I didn’t realize that seems obvious in retrospect: all those freeways we see under dozens of feet of water are designed to flood like that, to take pressure off other parts of the city and flood control diversions. But that makes evacuation orders doubly tricky, because you don’t want tens of thousands of people stranded on the highway when the storm hits and those highways start filling with water.
Does Houston also have LA-style drainage systems?
No idea. The analysis is very broad-brush. I think the freeways are meant to act in that capacity, but there must be drainage ditches for normal rainfall. Part of what he described is the ongoing effort by the city to replace asphalt roads with roads on top of concrete storm drains, but it’s a slow process and patchwork given that not all roads need replacing at the same rates.
This sort of thing always makes me a little furious, because it’s a perfect example of the normal operation of government, infrastructure work, that you know is stymied and underfunded by the city’s commitments to social projects like absurdly expensive K-12 education. Maybe Houston isn’t terrible about that sort of thing, but you know it’s a factor.
They just didn’t have time to evacuate the place. Remember, Harvey wasn’t even a hurricane, what, 24 (maybe 36) hours before it came ashore. The stalled out/meandering path that creates the flooding is highly unusual. When would you have given the order, and for what areas? Mass evacuations are pretty much disasters all by themselves, so you don’t order them lightly.
You simply cannot evacuate millions of people in a matter of hours, especially over major roads that are actually designed to be your secondary drainage system (we have the same concept here in Tucson for flash floods).
Ross From Friends: the musical group
That’s gonna break the internet. Gilmore pulling a SF
Ross From Friends: the shitty fake-lo-fi-80s musical group
I’m more confused after the corrected link.
Here, this might help
RAPE. PILLAGE.
While Congress is on recess, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke is continuing his “review” of national monuments across the country. A thinly veiled step towards selling out some of our country’s best wild places and historic sites, the review threatens not just the national monuments on Zinke’s list, but parks and public lands across the U.S.
The Trump administration has made it clear that dirty fuel development and other extractive industries are the top priority of the Interior Department. At a recent speech before the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council, Zinke noted he sides more with Gifford Pinchot than environmentalist John Muir. That’s not surprising since Pinchot, a Muir contemporary, favored extracting resources from public lands.
We have to keep nature pristine and unchanged. Because how it was yesterday is exactly how it should be forever.
Dirty, extractive industry inserting its long, powerful machines….I’ll be in my bunk.
I would love it if they would dynamite Mt. Rushmore.
I love the ND Badlands just to the north of the SD Badlands. The big difference is that the SD version is swamped because of all the dumb fuckers who want to look at a big statue. If it was gone, you’d be back to a few thousand visitors a year who would be there to look at cool scenery.
I love the Black Hills. Except during Sturgis.
Good Trump. My favorite negative take about this is the whiny Establishment Republican take:
IOW, we don’t want those little puny businesses competing with us, so let’s virtue signal to pretend that we care about the environment and block out competitors.
Last i checked, all they were doing was undoing Obama’s big federal land-grab from december.
This is the exact reason that they are so upset. How dare anyone try to undo what the Lightbringer has called into being.
Aww, Michael Moore, you’re not fooling anyone, you know you secretly love Trump and voted for him last year. You want 8 years of relevancy instead of 4, aww…
“The angry white guy is dying out, and the Census Bureau has already told us that by 2050, white people are going to be the minority.”
I’m not so good with numbers (ie: White people will still be the majority.) Seriously, do these fucking retards not understand that you can’t just lump all minorities together and call it the majority?
“he believes the National Popular Vote interstate compact, an agreement between states to award all of their electoral votes to the candidate who wins the popular vote, could succeed as a workaround if we can convince enough state legislatures to pass it in time.”
You fucking rubes should just shut up and do what you’re told by your betters on the coasts.
From last night’s thread:
Too funny not to throw it into the morning
linkflood waters.Kamala HarrisVerified account @KamalaHarris
Children are our nation’s future. We must listen to them about what they care about and give them a voice in our government.
She’s got the antifa tantrum-thrower vote sewn up.
(ACLU agrees, tweets picture of child)
[Autistic screeching from Kamala Harris-fans]
who didn’t see this coming?
‘Gone With the Wind’ screenings pulled from Memphis theater for racially ‘insensitive’ content
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/08/28/gone-with-wind-screenings-pulled-from-memphis-theater-for-racially-insensitive-content.html
Just re-dub it with woke dialogue.
“Frankly, my dear, I withdraw my enthusiastic consent.”
“As an indifferent universe is my witness, as an indifferent universe is my witness they’re not going to perform cunnilingus me. I’m going to live through this and when it’s all over, I’ll never live in a food desert again. No, nor any of my extended, carefully multi-ethic and queer family-unit. If I have to apply for assistance, fight for $15, or punch a Nazi. As an indifferent universe is my witness, I’ll never live in a food desert again.”
“I don’t know nothin’ ’bout performing doula services for water birthin’ no babies!”
Perfect amount of incomprehensible, meaningless twaddle.
Say… you do that lefty-talk pretty good for a supposed lie-ber-tar-i-an. You from around these parts, boy?
Dude, your shit’s all retarded and you talk like a fag!
Maybe they should show Glory instead. Then they might stop complaining about Gone with the Wind.
Gone With the Wind- edited for seniors
“Frankly, my dear, I love you. Let’s get married.”
THE END
old people: daaaaawwwww!
Hans Moleman: Didn’t this movie use to have a war in it?
Orderly: Come on, get up. You’ve been warned.
College tells students to ‘rub one out’ to prevent rape
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9651
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The Rochester Institute of Technology recently encouraged students to masturbate as an alternative to sexual assault during one of its freshman orientation programs.
As part of an “Alcohol and Chill” session during orientation, students discussed “awareness, prevention, bystander education, and risk reduction,” according to a statement from the school’s senior vice president for student affairs.
An image obtained by Campus Reform shows that during said session, participants were told to “Rub One Out,” with a notation at the bottom of the slide explaining that “self-gratification can prevent sexual assault.”
“Think of Roo!” the slide adds, offering students an acronym for “Rub One Out” and a picture of the Winnie the Pooh character of the same name to help them remember the lesson.
***
[head desk]
Eeyore= “Every Educated Youth Ougghta Reject Erections”
“Teach men
not to rapeto rub one out!”Women are sweet
and girls are honey
but beat your meat
and save your money
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbJG0oRpaBM
White male privilege in Stephen King’s ‘It,’ scholar says
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Heroic underdogs too ‘white, straight and able-bodied’
“It,” a horror film launching Sept. 8 about young boys in a fictional Maine town who face up against a creepy, child-killing clown-entity named Pennywise, is expected to be one of the highest grossing movies of the year.
Even the trailer for the film — an adaptation of the 1986 horror novel of the same title by Stephen King — broke industry records, prompting the entertainment industry to eagerly anticipate a break in the box-office slump.
But as the film’s drop date nears, one Boston University “Master Lecturer of Rhetoric,” Regina Hansen, has suggested a different storyline to focus on: the dominance of straight, white masculinity that pervades the tale.
In an article published this summer for Science Fiction Film and Television that delves into King’s novels, “It,” and additional on-screen depictions of his work, Hansen argues that his “white male underdog characters” achieve their heroic qualities “at least in part through the marginalisation of female characters, black characters, gay characters and characters with disabilities.”
“It,” a horror film launching Sept. 8 about young boys in a fictional Maine town who face up against a creepy, child-killing clown-entity named Pennywise, is expected to be one of the highest grossing movies of the year.
Even the trailer for the film — an adaptation of the 1986 horror novel of the same title by Stephen King — broke industry records, prompting the entertainment industry to eagerly anticipate a break in the box-office slump.
But as the film’s drop date nears, one Boston University “Master Lecturer of Rhetoric,” Regina Hansen, has suggested a different storyline to focus on: the dominance of straight, white masculinity that pervades the tale.
In an article published this summer for Science Fiction Film and Television that delves into King’s novels, “It,” and additional on-screen depictions of his work, Hansen argues that his “white male underdog characters” achieve their heroic qualities “at least in part through the marginalisation of female characters, black characters, gay characters and characters with disabilities.”
“While this heroic underdog character is in some ways a challenge to traditional concepts of hegemonic masculinity,” she continues, “the challenge is incomplete, in that he remains white, straight and able-bodied.”
Though Hansen admits there is much to admire in “King’s allegiance with socially marginalized people,” she adds the inclusion of mostly Caucasian, heterosexual, and non-physically disabled protagonists “can be vexing, especially for non-white, female or queer readers.”
Admitting such stories as “It” intentionally surround characters serving as substitutes for King himself–a white, nerdy male in his own right–she nonetheless critiques the focus on those forms of identity.
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Maybe, just maybe, the reason King whites about white males in New England is because he is a white male from New England. Isn’t the rule of thumb with fiction to write about what you know? And if King did decide to write from the perspective of a black woman or a gay man, these same idiots would be screaming about cultural appropriation.
oopsy- King writes, not whites
typos- I make them.
No, it was John-O. worked perfectly
That’s not just a typo. That’s a johno.
The group of protagonists are a white stutter, a white fat kid, a white kid who is legally blind with out his glasses, a white asthmatic gay kid in a munchausen by proxy situation, a Jewish kid and a black kid (the only ones with a normal family life) who have both been the victims of attacks due to race and religion and a white girl from an extremely abusive home who all become best friends in 1958.
Regina Hansen is a moron.
BUT MUH WHITEWASHING
I think putting lots of blacks and out-gays in 1960s Maine would be less plausible than “an omniscient, alien shapeshifting demonic entity that takes the form of whatever children fear the most” (aka, ‘the clown thing’)
This is just weird
I’ve just spent a third of this story telling you why I think pistol grip shotguns are little more than “stunt guns” best saved for Hollywood sets rather than defending your home in the real world. In most scenarios, you’d be better off with a full-size shotgun, a carbine or a legitimate handgun. So when the new Mossberg 590 Shockwave model surfaced at the 2017 SHOT Show in Sin City, I rolled my eyes. Today, however, due to a few parallel inventions, my rather strong views are…evolving.
The Mossberg 590 Shockwave is a shortened version of Mossberg’s venerable Model 590 pump. Its action is battle-proven-reliable and needs little explanation. Like always, the thumb safety is located on the tang so it’s innately ambidextrous. The gun features Mossberg’s trademark deeply grooved fore-end that allows easy cycling, even when the hand is made slippery by the sweat of battle. The fore-end features a nylon strap that prevents the hand from slipping in front of its stubby muzzle. I like it
I generally peruse the google news “spotlight” section. The overwhelming majority of news articles puked up by the “algorithm” are stuff like Teen Vogue’s take on the First Amendment as it applies to the cultural appropriation inherent in handbag design. Or a vast array of TDS screeds.
This extensive review of a new Mossberg home defense shotgun (including a fairly detailed explanation of why it’s not an illegal sawed-off shotgun) is definitely out of the ordinary. I did not finish it; maybe they talk about getting a Hermes purse to carry it in.
(faps ferociously)
I have one of these. I like it. There was a guy at the range this weekend that had one. Some random old dude wanted to shoot it, and the guy gave him a fucking SLUG to shoot. The whole gun flew out of his hands when he fired it quite spectacularly.
Hmmm… ‘Little King’ sized ammo? Or a broken wrist?
My 500 with 18″ barrel and full stock already can be miserable to shoot with hot rounds.
Firing slugs with the rifled barrel gets old after about two or three.
“Frankly, my dear, I withdraw my enthusiastic consent.”
*chokes on popcorn*
http://5newsonline.com/2017/08/27/two-children-robbed-at-gunpoint-in-their-home/
Arm your children.
Arm yo kids, arm yo wife.
FACE DOWN, PUNK! WHERE DO YOU KEEP THE PANTS!
a rare victory for common sense
Judge tosses lawsuit claiming Subway subs aren’t a foot long
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2017/08/26/Judge-tosses-lawsuit-claiming-Subway-subs-arent-a-foot-long/5821503780156/?utm_source=sec&utm_campaign=sl&utm_medium=11
Lionel Hutz hardest hit.
*starts development of go / no-go gauge for bread*
But now, thanks to good, old-fashioned American capitalism, a few new products have emerged that, when used in conjunction, have rescued the Shockwave from the stinking paws of ridiculousness.
First, the Aguila Ammunition company of Morelos, Mexico, began selling 1 3/4-inch shotshells it calls the Minishell. Aguila offers 7 1/2 shot, slug, No. 1 buck and No. 4 buck. In limited situations, it’s a viable concept for home defense. Here’s why.
Driven at 1,205 fps, a 5⁄8-ounce load of No. 4 buck delivers seven, .24-caliber pellets that combine for roughly 875 ft.-lbs. of energy at the muzzle. That’s more than twice the energy of a .45 ACP. Yet, because of its reduced payload, a Mossberg 590 Shockwave fully loaded with these shells produces about 10 ft.-lbs of recoil energy compared to the 30 ft.-lbs. of a 2 3/4-inch No. 4 buck (1,205 fps, 1 1/2-ounce payload) fired from the same gun. Sure, it also produces less than half of the 2 3/4-inch shell’s energy, but keep in mind that shotgun shells were originally designed for hunting and are therefore more powerful than needed for ranges merely spanning the bedroom.
As proof of shotgun shells’ original purpose, I remind you of the term “buckshot.” Most deer are not taken at 2 yards, but rather closer to 50. Slugs are good out to 200 or so. At these hunting ranges, the shells need to hold as much powder and lead as practical so they can deliver lethal energies across a wheat field. They also kick like hell. But at 7 yards and closer, Minishell energies are ample. And, as a byproduct of the shells’ length, shotgun magazines can hold nearly twice as many rounds. The Shockwave holds eight in the mag plus one in the pipe. I like that.
You learn something new every day. I think I’ll buy a box of those midget shotgun shells for my Winchester 1300.
That’s really cool. Nice find!
Wait… ya’ll didn’t know about minishells?
I have failed you all *commits ritual seppuku with a mauser bayonet.*
Dude. Every week your column emphasizes how little I know about guns.
Keep it coming.
This!
“Good old American capitalism”
Immediately starts talking about ammunition from a Mexican company.
You should use an adapter for best results feeding those short shells:
https://www.amazon.com/OPSol-Mini-Clip/dp/B01F5REBUM
Slugs are good out to 200 or so.
Umm, no. I have a very nice slug barrel on my shotgun, experimented with a lot of slugs, etc., and can print 2″ groups at 100 yards all day long.
The useful range of a slug gun runs out somewhere short of 150 yards. The slug just nosedives somewhere around 125 yards (and I use saboted copper slugs with the flattest trajectory available).
I don’t recall the recoil being unusual, either, even with 3″ magnum shells.
Regarding the “diamond rain” on the ice giants (Uranus is probably full of giant diamonds), it sounds more like sleet or hail to me…
So… the MTV… whatever… Awards were interesting last night.
Unless Kanye kicked T-swifts teeth in and then teabagged her, i’d find that hard to believe
I love the Black Hills. Except during Sturgis.
Ah, yes. The annual Festival of Dirtbags. I have had the misfortune of driving across South Dakota while that was happening.
” However, our sympathy should also extend to the caretakers. If one of their residents wants to be called “ze” and “zir” — or really anything else, according to the law — they had better think twice before refusing. While New York City threatens all employers and landlords with large fines for refusing to use an individual’s preferred pronouns, California’s politicians are going further — they want jail time for dissenters.
If the law passes, misgendering a transgender nursing-home resident could result in a fine of up to $1,000 and a year in prison. It also requires nursing homes to allow residents to enter the bathrooms and showers of their chosen gender. Grandma, it seems, will not be allowed the common courtesy of a women-only bathroom. California will no longer tolerate her “discrimination,” if the Left gets its way.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/450806/california-law-threatens-jail-time-dissenters-transgender-dogma
“The body of a missing pregnant woman was found wrapped in plastic in a North Dakota river, ending an eight-day search and raising the macabre possibility that “womb raiders” forcibly removed her baby before she was killed, authorities and reports say.
Fargo Police Chief David Todd told reporters late Sunday that kayakers found the body of Savanna Greywind, 22, hanging from a log in the Red River. Todd, who spoke to the media from the Minnesota side of the river about six miles north of Moorhead, said investigators found suspicious material at a nearby farmstead that may be a crime scene, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports.
Greywind, a nursing assistant at a senior care facility, disappeared on Aug. 19 from the apartment she shared with her parents in north Fargo. Five days after she went missing, a 2-day-old baby girl was found at a neighbor’s home.
A DNA test proved the baby was Greywind’s daughter — leading investigators to suspect labor was somehow induced, or that the child could have been removed from the mother’s womb.”
http://nypost.com/2017/08/28/pregnant-woman-found-dead-may-have-been-victim-of-womb-raiders/
Aw, jeez. That’s awful. And some real Twin Peaks shit.
Stuff like this is why I just can’t quite come out unequivocally against the death penalty.
“Hotpants-clad Miley Cyrus fondles an elderly dancer’s BREASTS as she leads the MTV VMA performances”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4828940/Miley-Cyrus-fondles-elderly-dancer-s-BREASTS-MTV-VMA.html
Thanks for the verbal description so I didn’t have to see that.
I don’t even know where to find MTV on my cable any more. They ran this crap against the GOT season finale last night? I would love to see the ratings compared.