A fifth day of relentless rain sent water spewing over a suburban levee and two dams protecting downtown Houston as Tropical Storm Harvey continued its lethal assault.
Brazoria County authorities tweeted a frantic message Tuesday when the rising water proved too much for a local levee to handle, threatening residents in low-lying areas about 50 miles outside Houston.
“The levee at Columbia Lakes has been breached!!” the tweet read. “GET OUT NOW!!”
80-year-old Indiana couple accomplishes goal of visiting every Cracker Barrel
TUALATIN, Oregon – They finally did it! An Indiana couple has finally accomplished their goal of visiting every Cracker Barrel location.
Ray and Wilma Yoder, 80, of Goshen, Indiana, flew out west over the weekend so the couple could visit their 645th Cracker Barrel on Monday morning at the grand opening of the new Tualatin, Oregon location. The monumental occasion also happened to be Ray’s 81st birthday, and the restaurant even put up a sign to welcome them.
Ray celebrated with blueberry pancakes, and Wilma had eggs and sausage. All expenses were paid by Cracker Barrel, according to KOIN6.
Disaster Socialist capitalizes on disaster: HARVEY DIDN’T COME OUT OF THE BLUE. NOW IS THE TIME TO TALK ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE. -Naomi Klein (Hysterical ALLCAPS in original.)
NOW IS EXACTLY the time to talk about climate change, and all the other systemic injustices — from racial profiling to economic austerity — that turn disasters like Harvey into human catastrophes.
Turn on the coverage of the Hurricane Harvey and the Houston flooding and you’ll hear lots of talk about how unprecedented this kind of rainfall is. How no one saw it coming, so no one could adequately prepare.
What you will hear very little about is why these kind of unprecedented, record-breaking weather events are happening with such regularity that “record-breaking” has become a meteorological cliche. In other words, you won’t hear much, if any, talk about climate change.
The Federal government spends around $100,000 a second. What economic austerity? It’s really difficult to think of a worse Naomi.
Anyway… Let’s have two songs, the obvious one and the one that just makes me happy.
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467 responses to “Tuesday Afternoon Links”
Naomi Klein: Now is the time to talk about ME!
I hate when the Intercept publishes garbage articles by garbage people like Klein. They should just stick to foreign policy and police abuse. Basically, they should just cater to things that I agree with them on
I’d like them better if they published shit like the Daily Fail.
With lots of cheese cake photos.
Agreed. And celebrities in skimpy bikinis
Yeah, but I don’t think I’m all that eager to see cheese cake of Naomi Klein.
“Harvey didn’t come out of the blue”.
Well, actually, it did.
^^^
She’s just trying to save her phoney baloney job.
What’s her job?
Being phony baloney?
I expected Type O Negative or some Swedish death metal.
I thought about Cro-Mags, but couldn’t find the one I wanted on YouTube without it being the entire album.
Without clicking the link, I’m expecting Bobbie McFerrin, because you’re just that sort of monster.
Ooof, I was way off.
Billy Ocean?
“Disaster Socialist capitalizes”
I see what you did there.
Have to question Fraser Institute’s methodology. This says that Canada is economically freer than U.S.
https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/economic-freedom-of-the-world-2016-map.pdf
Freer at being lame. Am I right, people?
I’ll be here all afternoon
A comparison of bacon vs. Canadian bacon is all that needs to be addressed.
There is no comparison.
AS evidence I submit Bacon Magic. There is no Canadian Bacon Magic. Nuff said
Thank you!
You can have Canadian bacon, and you can have bacon magic, but there’s nothing magical about Canadian bacon.
Let’s call that Exhibit Eh.
Get oot, hoser!
THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!
Don’t blame them, they got that crap from the Brits. Only country in Europe with shitty bacon. Well, Ireland has that crap too.
Don’t blame the Irish, oppressed people have no choice.
Bangers are awesome alternative though.
I like my sausage without wheat or bread filling.
In Austria it is prohibited, to put any wheat or bread in sausage. Only meat and spices.
Just one more reason, it’s becoming my favorite European place.
Oh…I had the Illinois version then. It tasted meaty.
In Quebec people don’t have free school choice.
End of discussion.
It might be. Sure, Canada has single-payer and other glaring things that make you think it’s not by first blush, but I find it hard to believe that Canada is as regulated as the US is.
From what I can read, California is on another planet when it comes to regulations and we get many of our ideas from that state.
I would have picked this song.
Or this one.
That may be the most disturbing thing you’ve ever done here
You are a bad, bad person.
Wash away that shit.
Someone had to have posted this already, right? If so, it’s worth doing it again,
Yeah, I suggested that on one of yesterday’s threads. But, you’re right, almost any SVR is worth playing more than once.
SRV’s stuff is even better
😉
I would have picked “Couldn’t Stand the Weather”. It has a tighter groove and the imagery is apropos of these fractious times even though the song is 33 years old.
When it hits L.A. or any prog paradise
I listen to that tune at least once a week, sometimes I’ll even immediately replay it. It’s a good un’.
Thats jammin’.
The best part of the video is Melissa McCarthy in a Bald-wig.
TDS: I’ve seen people complain that Melania wore high heels to Houston.
It’s stupid. She left the WH in heels, then changed into tennis shoes.
Who cares? Is she going to puncture the life raft or something?
High heels are insensitive towards flood victims. You’d probably bring your stilts. Ass.
You call that TDS?
This is what we call TDS in Minnesoda.
Walter Mondale and local prog columnist vent!
(that was a Mondale quote)
You submitted that, right? It was in the links queue. WAS.
Uffda! I did submit it. But when it didn’t get used right away, I thought you guys didn’t appreciate the idiocy of our local prog columnist.
I owe you some lutefisk to atone for my misdeeds.
Fuck you guys even sent me some email about it. I’m sure I can find some reason that I am the victim and this is all your fault, but it might take some time.
Maybe write a book called “What happened”.
There you go. “RUSSIANS!!!”
See? I’m totally the victim here.
“Pope Jimbo is more than a linker. He is an idea, a world-historical hero, light itself. The PM Links are too small for him. He belongs to a much more elite class of Americans, the more-than-linkers. Neil Armstrong, Martin Luther King Jr., Alexander Fucking Hamilton.”
I work with Mondale’s grandson. Good kid.
Does he have a comical nickname like “Skip”?
“Tug Romney”
Skippy or Scooter I bet.
Actually Skip was Humphrey’s grandkid. For some reason I thought it was Mondale’s kid.
I forgot that Eleanor was the progeny of Fritz.
Ah, poor Eleanor. Passed around all those years until she finally married Chan Poling, singer and keyboardist for one of the best Minnesota bands not called the Replacements.
I did sound for a band that played at a frat party where Eleanor was an attendee. Didn’t find her particularity attractive. Then again, never found woman that are stupid drunk all that attractive. Anyway, interesting to see she maintained her reputation as a wild child from her collage days.
He’s been quoted as saying that the White house is a dump.
So did Truman, although to be fair that was before the renovation.
I was hoping for a swimsuit with the stilettos.
If they’re gonna to make people angry no matter what, may as well make us happy at the same time.
But think of the anger that Melania in a swimsuit and heels would cause amongst the Michelle bobos.
After they went on and on about how buff her arms were, you know they are going to lash out at Melania for being an 11.
Thus further arousing me.
Women should always wear high heels. Right guys?
*pinches stewardess in the ass*
Yes, even when making a sammich. I mean, especially when making a sammich.
High heels and a little apron and nothing else, but I’ll open the pickle jar for you, Sugartits.
That’s where I draw the line. Society needs to promote equality between the sexes. Carry your own bags, open your own doors… but while in high heels.
Sorry, Seinfeld reference.
That was epic. *sends Festus 2 free orphans*
Like Sandy, Harvey is not a unique storm. It’s a storm that got itself into that nice warm water in the western Gulf of Mexico and intensified to a Category 4. That’s something that’s happened before and will happen again, many times.
The destructive pattern of Harvey happened because the upper level steering currents completely collapsed as soon as it touched land, which meant it meandered for a while, which is what caused all the rain, which is what caused all the flooding. This also happens to multiple hurricanes a year, though usually over water instead of over land.
Somewhat unique, or at least highly unusual, are answers 4 and 5 (and, sort of, 7) in this article from Scientifc American.
Kinda the same thing happened in south Georgia and East LA in the early 90’s. Can’t remember the year or storm name, but what was left of a hurricane just parked and flooded the place for a week.
Could Harvey exist as a self-perpetuating rain machine over land?
I’m picturing Jupiter’s big red spot. It would be sort of cool if it wasn’t screwing over the people who live there.
Science!
No, no, NO! Harvey happened because there aren’t enough regulations limiting land use in Houston. Do you even science, bruh?
http://www.newsweek.com/houston-drowning-freedom-regulations-656087
That guy clearly has it all figured out. And a lawyer non the less.
There is some urban design professor who said the same thing, and was quoted on the radio saying something to the effect of “i’m staying home dealing with the emotional toll of being right all these years and leaving rescue workers to do their jobs” which says a lot about his personal views on responsibility (i.e. everyone else but him).
I know a city planner/architect who took advantage of the I-85 bridge collapse to crow on facebook about how now people would have to use MARTA and that they should “just remove the rest of the interstate while we’re at it.”
I screenshotted that shit for whenever he inevitably runs for public office.
Whereas New Orleans literally any other area would be fine getting 4′ of rain in a few days.
I think thats almost half a year’s worth for where I live.
It’s 3 years worth where I live.
You’re advertising for our Enemy.
I celebrated my 6 month A1c checkup Sugar-Free: 5.4!!! Lost 20 pounds to without trying hard. Potatoes are my weakness(cue potato nigger comments).
too*
Baked potato with bacon…
Mmmmmmm.
Damn, that’s great, man.
1 metformin and 1 glipizide in morning and evening too.
I guess now is the time to mention that I’m grill roasting an entire beef tenderloin for dinner.
Yesssss. The diabetes.org site mentions turning vegan. Stupid and not workable. I love veggies but meat is what made us who we are today. Protein has been my go to snack now and it appears to work.
My calories are about 45% protein, 45% fat. Occasionally, I’ll have garlic mashed potatoes or Mexican rice. Very occasionally.
Tonight, I’ll have beef and 3 green things (probably baby broccoli, asparagus, and sprouts).
I don’t do it on purpose. That’s just what I like eating.
“record-breaking weather events are happening with such regularity that record-breaking has become a meteorological cliche.”
It’s weird how that happens when you only have 100 years of records. Science and math can’t explain that.
What irritates me the most is that if they would stop being so extreme about their view they could get more people to listen.
But then it wouldn’t have the fervor of a religion.
That rain? My god did it. That heat wave? That drought? My god also did it. Join my religion or you’re my enemy.
You’re god is a big meanie…seems like anyone who attains power turns into big meanies. I’m looking at you edit faeries.
If you read the written reports of 1875-1890ish, it really sucked to live on the Texas coast. After one storm Galveston Island was described as “submerged”.
Granted, to JB’s point, you can’t compare storms before routine flight to the satellite era.
People tend to live in a lot of places now that 100 years ago they had the sense not to.
Flood plains and what not.
Also the ACOE builds things such that smaller weather events no longer have any effect, but when shit goes sideways, it REALLY goes sideways.
The 1900 Galveston hurricane destroyed the city, killed 6000-12000 people, and is still the deadliest natural disaster in US history.
1935 Houston flood level in Buffalo Bayou was 52 ft, now 36 ft. (Heard on Savage)
According to one of the commenters the high deaths (in Galveston) were connected more to a lack of preparedness and didn’t point to the severity of the storm.
I thought it was connected to a lack of Galveston existing
With hurricanes, we only have about 50 years of records, because anything before the satellite era is worthless.
Yep. The 1938 New England Hurricane was particularly devastating because they lost track of it after ordering all ships to port.
We have records of US hurricane landfalls going back to 1870’s. Highest decade was the 90’s…1890’s. Recent 10 year hiatus was record.
“record-breaking weather events are happening…”
Well it did break a record. You know, the one about not having a hurricane hit the US mainland in about 12 years. These people are fucking stoopid.
Especially when the measuring devices were inaccurate for most of those 100 years. Or when the number of measurements taken has greatly increased due to the recent construction of more measuring stations.
https://twitter.com/JohnStossel/status/901165304788779008
John Stossel quoted notorious ‘blood and soil’ bigot, Jeff Deist.
Take him away for re-grooving
One of the comments says, “That’s because capitalism (imperialism) sees perpetually managed war as profitable.”
Where the fuck do people get this idea? War is profitable for politicians and defense contractors. It’s decidedly unprofitable for every other business that has to pay taxes and see their labor supply shrink due to people joining or being drafted into the military.
They are the same people who think breaking windows helps the economy by providing work for glaziers.
They’re still opening new Cracker Barrels?
As the Boomers age, all restaurants will become Cracker Barrel. Demolition Man was wrong!!!!
Taco Barrel!
Biscuit and gravy nachos! Chicken-fried fajita! Chicken and dumpling crunchwrap!
I… would like to see at least the first two well-executed.
Taco Bell had a chalupa wrapped in chicken fried steak for a while. It was AMAZING!
Biscuit and gravy nachos could work… gravy needs to have green hatch chilies and chorizo or bacon (or both!) instead of sausage, and the “nachos” could be biscuits that are cut into triangles instead of rounds (hey, better efficiency on the dough) and served open-faced with the gravy on top
Hell Yes!
Truly, the restaurant that our multicultural future needs. (For real though, that sounds great)
Baja Blast and the golf tee game. It’s a whole new world.
Mild, Hot, Wild, and Diablo gravy packets.
I want my verde sauce back damnit!!!!
My cheat yesterday morning was biscuits and gravy with 2 eggs sunny side up on top.
Shut up and take my money!!!
I am actually surprised there is not some hipster faux country/taco fusion bullshit around. Or maybe there is…
*furiously begins scribbling out food truck business plan*
The * designates that this is a euphemism.
I hear they have those sorts of “food trucks” in the Seattle area.
We have a place in town. Fried chicken tacos, pulled pork and brisket. It doesn’t go too deep into the concept, but it’s delicious and always busy.
Fried tacos? Jack in the Box has you covered.
My brother mentioned a BLT Taco™ to me yesterday…in the works.
You need to make the taco shell out of bacon.
Yum.
A wedge of toast in middle…it might work! And lower carb.
My local diner takes a BLT and puts a couple of poached eggs and hollandaise on top.
It is the ultimate brunch dish.
Just had a “421” burger…
Bun
Burger
Country egg
2 slices of pork belly
Pepper jack cheese
Garlic mayo
Best fusion ever: Tex-Indian. I was experimenting with it (“Indian = Mexican + garam masala”), but then discovered Whip In in Austin, who do it very, very well. Or at least did 5-8 years ago when we lived there.
“Turn on the coverage of the Hurricane Harvey and the Houston flooding and you’ll hear lots of talk about how unprecedented this kind of rainfall is. How no one saw it coming, so no one could adequately prepare.”
It was on my news channel for a week prior to the event.
“What you will hear very little about is why these kind of unprecedented, record-breaking weather events are happening with such regularity that “record-breaking” has become a meteorological cliche.”
Washington Post, August 4, 2016 — No hurricanes making landfall in the US for 10 years is terrifying:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2016/08/04/the-u-s-coast-is-in-an-unprecedented-hurricane-drought-why-this-is-terrifying/?utm_term=.762cc278fe42
This like that Cleveland Browns or Detroit Lions drought that any minute now is going to result in a decade of NFL domination. Apparently the upcoming Lions-Browns Superbowl battles of the 2020’s are going to be legendary.
Satan will be there, selling sno-cones.
This is the year, man. Matthew Stafford has dad powers now. TWIN dad powers.
*drinks more blue Kool-Aid*
I personally think on-air people are over-using the term “unprecedented” on purpose as a dig on Trump’s tweet misspelling
GOP Rep’s Proposal Would Defund Mueller Probe After 6 Months
The odds that this makes it through Congress: -50%
Not exactly the point, of course. This is about getting Trump to look at it, signal that he likes the Freedom Caucus, get some Trumpian street cred with the base. It’s like when a Cali prog submits impeachment articles.
No link to Sarah Palin’s lawsuit against the NYT being dismissed?
That isn’t the way I remember the NYT putting it. I think they pretty much flat out said that Palin’s ad caused Giffords to be shot.
I believe the defense was that not even the NYT Editors read the NYT.
Yeah, the judge should be focused more on what they they actually said.
Original:
Correction:
Yeah, the mistake was that they claimed it was people in the crosshairs not districts.
I think she might get this overturned on appeal.
The judge ruled that they were negligent and not malicious because they got a fact wrong that was printed in their own news paper. The editors got up and said, “I had no idea that there was no link between the crosshairs and the Giffords shooting and as soon as someone pointed it out, we retracted it.” There is no way that you can say a jury could never find that claim not credible and find malice.
The judge also said the suit didn’t point out a person responsible for the article she could sue.
The article was published without a by-line.
That is even more absurd. Newspapers do not get a free pass to slander people by just publishing an opinion without a by-line. I don’t think this decision will stand up on appeal.
The quote: “The complaint plainly suffered from several material deficiencies.For example, it failed to identify any specific individual at the Times who allegedly acted with actual malice.”
That is what discovery is for. The Times itself can act with actual malice. Moreover, you can’t expect a plaintiff to know who wrote an article that the newspaper refused to assign a by line for. That decision is a joke.
This is outrageous. The NYT editorial was a Goebells-level lie. I actually purchased the paper version of the NYT on June 14 and 15 (with the “correction”) to have my own copy of a historical document.
Naomi is such an attention whore. She’s found her shtick and she ain’t budging.
From the comments:
“….Now you can absolutely be sure that the average surface temperature of the Gulf of Mexico, 50 years from now, will be warmer than it is now – that is guaranteed. So these storm patterns are going to get worse, not better. And that means there is a major need to build the kind of infrastructure that can resist such storms. For example, pull out of the flood plains, build elevated structures, etc. This is infrastructure on the scale of the Dutch effort to prevent the sea from coming in and will cost trillions of dollars.
But the Trumpsters and the fossil fuel executive and shareholders don’t want to do this, because then they’d have to admit that fossil-fueled global warming and climate change is real, and then there would be political pressure to move all the fossil fuel subsidies over to the renewable energy sector, and then the fossil fuel industry would go the way of the whale oil and kerosene lamp industry, and they wouldn’t realize their expected return on investment. . .”
How can anyone be ‘absolutely sure’ about anything 50 years from now?
“bwog Alberto
August 29 2017, 10:38 a.m.
Here is are examples of respectful ways to comment, for instance:
Thank you for this article Mrs. Klein.
I would like to add the following …”
Quite the smug asshole bwog.
Nah. I’m gonna stick with ‘suck it, Naomi’. You’re shamelessly capitalizing on misery to pimp your crap. You and bwog can now go get a room and piss off.
move all the fossil fuel subsidies over to the renewable energy sector
It is scandalous, how little subsidization there is of the renewable energy sector.
Not as scandalous as how little of the renewable energy sector would exist without the subsidization there is?
I love the term ‘Trumpsters’. It’s a classy way of saying: “those inbred hicks who need jobs in coal won’t let me destroy their community through the power of the state and that gives me the sadz”
Not really. Its a slight cut above ‘poopyheads’.
If she truly believes this, I’d think that it would be making her panties all moist since the Gulf states are red. I mean, fuck them, amirite? They’re just a bunch of racist, bigot, moronic Trump voters so let the Mega-Hurricanes destroy them. Then maybe climate magic can cause Ultra-Tornadoes to destroy the Midwest next and we’ll be rid of all these subhumans!
Seriously. If they’d stay consistent they should be happy deplorables are facing such events. My prog friend drools with hatred for the racists.
I always wondered how a group of buffoons like progressives could believe in the ‘greater good’. They seem to think forcing people to follow their enlightened ways is for their own good but why should they care about them? They’ve made clear time and again how much they loathe them.
I wonder who the real reactionaries are.
They care about the ones who can be re-educated in the camps. The other ones, well we have *other* camps for them…
I always wondered how a group of buffoons like progressives could believe in the ‘greater good’….They’ve made clear time and again how much they loathe them.
Then reconsider your assumptions. You continue to assume that they care about the greater good or the people they obviously hate because they make absurd arguments about how their screwing these people over is ultimately in their own best interest. Yet, you’ve acknowledged they make their hatred clear. Which seems the wrong assumption?
Proglodytes don’t want any good. Not even for themselves (which is oddly why they can honestly say their stances are selfless. They usually really are). What they want is to rule over those other people. To do so in the most humiliating way possible. They don’t want to be happy. They want “those people” to be miserable.
They’re broken people. Their fondest wish is to break others.
+1 foot stomping on a face for eternity
As sad as it would be to see the Gulf coast suffer a massive catastrophe like that, I would find it interesting to see blue states do a complete 180 and try and shut their doors to the new refugees.
“It’s not our fucking problem! Tell those damn hicks to go back to their own fucked up states! We don’t want them here!” – Democrats after a horde of Southerners try to move into their state
“50 years from now, will be warmer than it is now – that is guaranteed.”
No, it isn’t. When someone says something like that, it’s safe to ignore everything else they say.
It also means she knows her efforts won’t change a fucking thing, and she’s just in it for the money rather than trying a different tack to change things.
We could be in another glacial period in 50 years. There’s proof things have changed very rapidly in the past, in just a few decades. Lefties have some sort of abnormality where they have no filter that protects them from making a fool of themselves in public. Maybe it’s a gene pool elimination mutation. I hope so.
I take a libertarian and remove reason and accountability.
“remove reason”
I see? what you did or did not do there.
I am 100% sure that it will cost less to mitigate the effects of climate change (sea walls, dams, fucking disaster plans and all the other shit humans are really good at) than it would be to institute policies to try and stop some global temperature metric from changing a certain way.
*angrily makes another drink*
Especially because we can’t change the temperature. Unless we can put a thermostat on the sun or manipulate the distance from the sun and elliptical orbit of the earth. It’s a scam and the assholes who started it (Al Gore), know it.
The same way they were “sure” that the North Pole will be totally ice-free by the year 2013.
Sure Hildog would win big!
The French aren’t loving their Top Man the way they are supposed to
Why does Emmanuel Macron’s presidential approval rating keep falling?
I had not kept up with France after the election. I did not know Macron has been behaving like a total dickweed to the commoners who elected him. And now his popularity is below Trump. I’ll say this for the French, they can dish out low approval ratings.
http://www.xpautographs.com/32417-28858-large/marion-marechal-le-pen-autograph.jpg
They should have elected the beautiful Marion LePenn. If loving her is wrong, I don’t want to be right. Gaulic beauty conquers all!!
You’re as creepy as I remember, John
Finding leggy blond French women attractive is creepy? Well, if that is how you feel, I guess you can’t help it. NTTAWWT
She is pretty hot.
I’m reminded of the old Seinfeld episode:
George: Did you see the way she was looking at me?
Jerry: She’s a Nazi, George, a Nazi!
George: Kind of a cute Nazi, though.
Marine thought 2016 was prep for her big moment in 2020, but she blew it. Now I think it will be Marion in 2020. She could definitely take it.
I have no idea what her prospects are. She is just gorgeous. Why do all of our politicians look like burn victims? Can’t we let the pretty girls win once in a while?
Politics is Hollywood for ugly people, or something like that.
“She could definitely take it”
Go on…
You beat me to it.
That is the daughter (Grand-daughter of Jean-Marie) , not the one who lost the election for president.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Le_Pen
Marine was the one who lost.
I know. The old lady isn’t so much to look at. The grand daughter is a Gaulic Goddess.
She’s alright, just a bit too much Dad Face
She is pretty in a French way
My work computer blocked access to this link, so I was expecting something rather sexy after getting home. Instead I get a pic of a plain girl wearing nothing even slightly revealing. Disappointing!
In saner times this would be a big deal.
Just last week, Glenn Simpson, head of Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm that handled the Trump dossier, refused to tell Grassley’s and Feinstein’s investigators who funded the effort. But there are other ways to get at the story — and the FBI is the number-one possibility.
That’s because the FBI played a role in the case as it happened. Sometime in the process of collecting anti-Trump allegations from paid, Kremlin-linked Russian informants, Christopher Steele — the former British spy hired by Fusion to dig dirt in Russia — decided to take his information to the FBI. That appears to have been in the fall of 2016, at the height of the presidential campaign. . . .
It was a mind-boggling development: Federal law enforcement agreeing to fund an ongoing opposition research project being conducted on behalf of one of the candidates in a presidential election. In the end, the FBI reportedly did not pay Steele, possibly because of publicity concerns.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/byron-york-next-stop-for-trump-dossier-probe-the-fbi/article/2632711?platform=hootsuite
The FBI funding opposition research on one political candidate to the benefit of another?
This is normal
I am sure if George Bush had used the FBI to do opposition research against Obama, it would have been no big deal. You know, one of those things.
It’ll be ignored and swept under the rug just like the IRS Tea Party scandal.
I have it on good authority that Cracker Barrel, and anyone who goes there, is a Neo-Confederate, racist Nazi who deserves to be sacrificed on the altar of Antifa.
Blue hair is the new blonde!
So hawt.
Send in the GILFs
Don’t bother. They’re here.
Socialists don’t “capitalize” you shitlord.
What else would you call it when they shoot all the hoarders and take all their stuff?
Justice.
Just another day at the office.
To quote John above, this would also be a big deal in saner times:
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/obama-admin-hid-intel-iranian-militants-syria-push-nuclear-deal/
What I don’t get is why they even bothered. They never sent the agreement to the Senate. Everyone knew it was a shame and Obama told them to fuck off. So what was the point of doctoring the intel?
Because FYTW.
It was an historic deal. Why does no one insert the proper nomenclature in that deal name?
This morning’s thread is dead so RC (or HM, Tulip, Tulpa, or anyone else), if you’re around, I’d like to continue. Regulation of research is a valid libertarian interest topic, but much more importantly, I’m not keen on looking like an idiot in my own field. There’s really no argument I can put forth without spending hours digging through regulations, but here’s an example that may better convey what I’m trying to say.
Let’s use a common example (ACL or Rotator Cuff Repair) and take drugs out of it. A surgeon, employed in private practice, develops a new surgical technique. He is under no requirement to gain approval to employ this technique on his patients. After using it on 15 patients, he publishes the surgical technique in a journal, along with 1 year follow-up results of these 15 patients. At no point was he required to gain IRB approval for his utilizing his own technique, and most journals will not require it to publish the results of this case series. You can go look through orthopedic journals and see these techniques with attached case series. These can be incredibly helpful and have greatly advanced the surgical treatment for many conditions. Requiring IRB approval for a surgeon to try a new surgical technique would grind advancement to a halt.
We could make it more complicated and say a physician wants to combine two already approved drugs that are commonly used into one treatment that they believe is more effective in combination. Again, there’s no regulatory approval needed to do this, and it would be considered a case study or series. I think Thiel’s problem is that this drug is not approved. He likely wanted to see if it was worthwhile to justify spending the money to then start the FDA approval process (with IRB approval).
I don’t have a problem with it.
The aggregation of patient data for publishing g seems to fall into the IRB definition of research, though. I am not an expert, though.
Lower taxes make for a more attractive business climate? Unpossible!
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-29/denmark-targets-deep-cuts-to-reduce-world-s-biggest-tax-burden
NB: Even Denmark can figure this out…
The world’s biggest tax burden, and the world’s most generous welfare state. I wonder what they could cut?
I think that Drudge should maybe sometimes read the articles before making a link. Not that this is anything new, sometimes they are hilariously wrong. But in this case, you’ll find that the avg tax load for citizens in Denmark, is 46.5%. These HUGE planned tax cuts will take that down to 44%. In contrast, in the USA it’s 26%. Free stuff costs a lot.
NOTHING LEFT TO CUT
I fucking knew it!
Back when I used to work downtown Minneapolis, a couple coworkers loved going to this bar. I always joked that it was a nazi bar because they had a lot of those funky nazi eagles showing.
Now it turns out the owner gave money to David Duke’s campaign.
You guys are going to have to disown me now, so you can keep the libertarian brand unsullied and pure as the driven snow.
Oh fuck, I read more of the story and the nazi also contributed to Ron and Rand Paul’s campaigns.
The jig is up guys. I guess I don’t have to be disowned anymore.
Well, the NYT tells me that libertarians are Nazis so how is this is a surprise?
Some dodgy content in Ron Paul’s little-read newsletters from 30 years ago invalidates anything he ever said or did. /liberaltarian
Did you happen to catch the freakout in the comments.
The story said that he rents space to the HUGE Theater improv group. It must be a prog group because the commenters at City Pages are mortified that they are being painted with the nazi brush because their landlord turned out to be a Duke supporter.
Fuck it is wonderful to see the cigar explode in their mouths.
Hey! Can we go there when I’m in town?! I mean, if it hasn’t been burned down by an angry mob by then.
It’s full of proggies, but sure.
So… wear your Reason t-shirt and you’ll be welcomed with open arms.
Or even better, your Reason beanie. Nothing says prog like a Reason beanie.
I’d be down with that. It is pretty easy to get to. It is on the north end of town. Looks like the Twinks are out of town that weekend too, so parking should be easy.
I was kidding, but I’m up for whatever. Wouldn’t mind going to one (or more) of your awesome breweries. Dangerous Man’s Peanut-butter Porter is fucking amazing.
F-dat. You wanted nazis, you are gonna get nazis.
Make sure you shine your jackboots up before visiting. Me and Tundra don’t want you embarrassing us in front of the white supremecists. We have to live here after all.
Ja voll!
“You wanted nazis, you are gonna get nazis.”
Trump 2020?
Ummm…. Your friend thought the owner was just really proud of his pre-Nazi German heritage?
What is great is that the people who liked going there were uber-progs. They said I was a crazy paranoid for thinking that it was a nazi place. I can’t remember if they liked the place because they knew someone there or if it was the back patio they liked.
Peak Purity is a myth!
A guy has a bar with a German name and Iron chickens everywhere and you just now figure out his schtick? Oh…kay.
It’s got Umlauts… you don’t get more nazi than that. That’s like death-metal nazi.
Has the flooding of the Texas location slowed down article review times?
So selfish. Shame shame.
Well, we confirmed that the Texas People were still alive. The next question was how long they will be out of commission.
SHAME
What do you want from me?
WE WANT THE LAST 10 YEARS BACK!
But… Then I’d still owe ALL of my student loans!
Relevant. (my wife has ruined me by putting Friends on a loop
Shame?
You cold-hearted capitalist. I salute you! *grabs wallet so UnCiv can’t take it*
You might say… he’s stewing about it.
That is an awful pun they won’t remember…
I regret nothing! 😉 I’d do it again!
But we are working on it, diligently, like fish swimming upstream.
Avoid the sasquatch at the falls.
As long as he doesn’t go all Eddie on us.
*phhsh*
I throw together articles for the fun of it. I’m not going to get worked up overmuch.
Profs bully student tabling for her club on campus.
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9649
She should have known that wrongthinking clubs have no place on today’s woke campuses. Expel her.
Those people flipping her off and yelling obscenities are professors. Just think, students pay thousands of dollars per credit hour to be taught by those animals. The academic left is beneath contempt.
the money quote
“Mullen told Campus Reform that a university administrator eventually came out and told her she could not table because she was in a free speech zone. Campus police were called, however, and after assessing the situation they informed Mullen that she had the right to stay and table.
“I was honestly shocked and scared. I was there for a couple hours and had no real issues but a couple debates,” Mullen told Campus Reform. “They came with posters screaming profanities at me and people passing by.””
You can’t speak here. This is a free speech zone.
I’m shocked when these kids are shocked when this happens.
Apparently, she actually believed the bullshit in the recruiting brochure. What a rube.
It’s not even funny how vile these progressive Marxists are. That professor was acting like a stupid child and makes me wonder about her actual intelligence; and the school for hiring such idiots.
The black graduate student in that video is actually kind of sad. She has been habituated by her white prog professors to act like a trained animal. She doesn’t think for herself. She just performs like a circus animal for her Prog masters. Whatever intelligence or potential she may have had when she started out in life has long since been extinguished thanks her sick political mentors.
She’s performing for her white superiors.
I looked up Courtney Lawton:
http://www.unl.edu/english/courtney-lawton
Access denied to public information? /raises eyebrow.
See my response above: They’re broken people. Their fondest wish is to break others.
What about the other obvious one?
For the record, I’ve played both of those obvious songs in the last week. Here. Let’s play the theme song.
They could have picked this obvious choice.
She had a nice voice.
Or this one
Or this one!
Question for the tech Glibs:
Any ideas why Adobe flash is not detecting my usb microphone? The mic is recognized by the computer and it works just fine on tests using the control panel.
This is the second brand I’ve bought after the first had the same problem so I’m not suspecting it’s not the mic. I need it for a class and Googling is not helping.
I’m not sure Flash is trusted to access USB devices in modern versions of Windows. Especially from the browser.
That’s it, thank you. I feel like an idiot since it was so simple and I spent at least an hour troubleshooting, but this is okay since it’s not my field (a joke about my other post).
I had to check a pop-up box allowing permission so I thought that was sufficient but it’s not. To get it working, there’s a microphone specific setting inside Chrome that I had to activate and then click through two different pop-up permission boxes each time it’s used. But it’s working now so thanks.
Glad I could mumble my way to an answer.
Adobe refuses to record Nazis and the unwoke. Guess you’ll have to go and buy an iReich.
(((Adobe))).
Agreed. I think this is my punishment for refusing* to complete the sexual assault prevention training issued by the Title IX office.
*Ended up just completely forgetting about it until a week past the deadline anyways.
And you haven’t been exiled yet?
I’m counting on ZARDOZ to extend his divine protection. Either that or Mr. Lizard will have successfully enslaved us all by then anyway.
The HR women are all afraid to bring him into their office for a reprimand because he hasn’t been trained not to rape.
They just need one of these.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/11/04/ar_wear_these_anti_rape_shorts_update_the_chastity_belt_for_the_rape_culture.html
TW: Slate
Bet they’re not vodka proof. Also, isn’t that victim blaming?
You can’t be too careful in Trump’s America (TM).
Geez, you’d think I was a migrant in Germany.
The best corners are right after the 11 minute mark.
Reminds me of that side road I took through the Dolomites last week.
Good race. Will show to son.
Rally drivers are amazing. That is just insane shit. Speaking of insane, the old Targa Florio was the definition of insane. Imagine driving a Porsche 917 on mountain roads that were not shut off to traffic during practice. Guys were out there dodging goats and nuns on bicycles at 150 miles per hour.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF_oF-ZMhD0
This is crazy.
I LOVE the sound of a dog box transmission. And damn, those guys are nuts.
In the rain, as well.
Insanity.
Them fuckers are nuts…on a side note, this was standard road trip for rural mid westerners. *chugs another and tosses can out window*
Most impressive part is the dude riding shotgun reading Sugarfree stories to the driver.
this made me laugh.
Bad ass Thanks!
Real intersectionality; “there’s nothing left to cut!” intersecting with “shoot the dog!”
http://freebeacon.com/issues/feds-spending-379500-mindfulness-cops-prevent-unjustified-shootings/
You thought that Klein article is dumbest Canadian mainstream can produce today? HA! Our Beloved State Broadcaster is way beyond her league.
Donald Trump is operating straight from the white supremacist playbook
The entitlement system was created by FDR and LBJ primarily. Does this mean we can tear down the FDR statue on the Mall? Burn down the LBJ Library in Austin?
I’m going to start investing in tin foil.
That is exactly what I would expect a white supremacist to say.
That is exactly what I would expect a white supremacist to say.
You can always tell the white supremacist by who is accusing people of being one.
I have a black friend!
Now THAT is what a white supremacist will always actually say.
She’s (((Canadian)))?
“a system that grants whites huge entitlements. And that system is known as white supremacy.”
Can someone tell me where to find the white supremacy entitlement office? I’m a little low on cash and beer.
Did you lose your keys to the treasury again? You can borrow mine but you’ll have to send your chauffeur to pick them up. All of mine are out fetching whores and blow for me.
Some of my orphans are headed over.
I just unfollowed a guy on FB today who posted a screen shot of his own rant about how anyone who still supports Trump is racist, and there can be no debate about it. The screen shot had some some back and forth comments with someone who disagreed. That guy was, of course, labeled a racist by other commentors.
SHUT UP RACIST
Good lord, people…only follow all the mild mannered, hot trim you made an acquaintance with over the years and any necessary visits to FB will be pleasant ones.
Where can I get this playbook? Is it on Amazon?
The “Obama was not born in the US rumor” got started by Obama? In a biography about his book it claimed he was born in Kenya. The claim almost certainly came from Obama but he says the publisher made it up.
Vhyrus, since yesterdays video didn’t have any subies, this one is just subies.
The people standing on the side of the road are idiots
Everyone and everything associated with Rally Driving is nuts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyGRy7OmnDo
Luckily, the technology will improve to the point that Rally will be completely autonomous, resulting in zero injury or damage.
Can’t wait!!
Who doesn’t want to watch automated electric bumper cars race around a closed course?
Preview.
Crazy wankers
Lets see, what does rally need? Large, open expanses of unpaved roads, plenty of local infrastructure to support the races, nearby food and lodging adjacent to wide open spaces, and a fan base willing to get a little dirty in order to enjoy motorsports. What country could POSSIBLY have all of these things?!
In a just world, rally would be the #1 motorsport in America and NASCAR would be this weird little cult operating in mall parking lots on the weekends.
life isn’t fair.
The WRC does have a race in mexico this year. and Peru, I think
It does seem sort of perfect for NASCAR fans. They couldn’t see the whole track, but they could camp out in the woods in large RVs, drink heavily, cook things on the grill, hoot and holler, and tell their friends “hold my beer and watch this” while they stand as close to the track as possible.
I wish the rally culture would infect the American hot rod culture a bit. I am so tired of every car having bus suspension put on it and lowered to 3 inches to improve its “stance”, whatever that is. I would love to see older cars lifted and given knobby tires and beefed up suspensions and crazy fog lamps and turned into rally cars. It would just be such a refreshing change of pace to the Aaron Kaufmanization of hot rodding.
Who cares what other people do, John? Build your own hot rod just the way you like it.
I have neither the time, the money nor the skill. So I wish those that did would do something different once in a while.
The average age of the hot rod dudes has to be 75. Time for the young fuckers to stop putting wings and cans on their civics and build a proper car.
*waves*
You’re the exception in most things, Doom.
Speaking of which, anything new on Bridger?
I never put a wing on a car. The Tacoma did have a louder exhaust, but it wasn’t over the line.
not really. trying to save for back seats.
You know who else wanted to have more rallies?
Serena Williams?
This is madness:
https://youtu.be/ZG-S5Z38Ens
oh my god.
Wow!
The puppy one was great. The guy going two wheels along the wall was absurd.
I would adopt that dog and name him lucky.
They only did two of these but they were epic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kllUCq7yPxM
I’d love to be able to drive to Patagonia. Even just to Argentina would be great.
That’s really cool. Thank you.
This likely won’t be covered by the MSM: the current 115th Congress is the most productive pre-Labor Day one in 10 years, despite no healthcare or tax reform. Most of the enacted laws have been on regulatory reform:
IOW, they’ve been sort of useless, but not in a historically unprecedented way.
When we say ‘productive’ we mean adding, not subtracting.
“Disaster Socialist capitalizes on disaster: HARVEY DIDN’T COME OUT OF THE BLUE. NOW IS THE TIME TO TALK ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE. -Naomi Klein (Hysterical ALLCAPS in original.)”
Yeah, while people on the right are out spending their own time and money, and risking their own lives to save people from the flood waters, the left seize the opportunity to crow about fake science and hope that this time they can fool enough people to get those crony bucks rolling their way. Disgusting human trash.
Best line from Van Wilder:
“‘Naomi’ is ‘I moan’ backward.”
Naomi Wolf and Naomi Klein are the twin Naomis of stupidity. I am honestly not sure which one is dumber than the other or if measuring that kind of stupidity is even possible much less comparing it.
Don’t forget Naomi Oreskes who has made an entire career out of forging evidence that the fossil fuel industry has been trying to corrupt scientific research into climate change.
Is there something about the name Naomi that makes you stupid?
Don’t forget Chavez-lover Naomi Campbell!
No clue if she’s stupid, but…
Well, Zenome answered that.
But… she knows how to link?
But when it comes to links, you are?
Godammit.
WOOF WOOF!
Don’t forget Naomi Harper
I can’t think of a better line from that movie.
Not a line, but IMHO the funniest part of the movie
That’s no bong, that’s for my schlong!
https://apnews.com/3eed860055624231bec15e75b5ae3290/Tillerson-to-abolish-most-special-envoys,-including-climate
Tillerson abolishing all of the special envoys including the one for Climate. Where is the capital of climate anyway? Where would the enjoy to the climate serve?
You sneer now, but when the Gaia goddess burns you with the warmy warmy you’ll be singing a different tune.
Probably something by Jimmy Buffett.
Does that mean we all get boat drinks? Awesome!
So . . .hawt?
The ambassador is named “Harvey”.
Based out of Brussels, I would imagine, with the occasional vacation in Davos.
Dude, like Harvey was hacked by the Russians or maybe Iran or even the Norks, and they directed it straight at Houston. And you don’t think we need the special envoy of climate? Hey, BTW, where was the envoy of climate all of this time? Trump could have stopped the rain, he didn’t want to!
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2017/08/it_s_dangerous_to_leave_so_many_government_positions_vacant_we_re_starting.html
Similar news, as brought to you by hysterical Slate.
“…of the six slots for undersecretary of state, he has nominated only one. Of the 22 assistant Secretaries of State, he has nominated just 3…he has nominated two of three undersecretaries of defense..and just four of 12 assistant secretaries of defense.”
THE HORROR
Trump doing more awesome Trump things.
I didn’t vote for him last time (though I spread more than my fair share of Pepe memes), but I may next time round if things keep up this pace. The writers of these mags are clearly just made they or their friends haven’t gotten a cushy mid-6-figure government job yet. Its ‘dangerous’? Bah.
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/08/all-clear-decisive-trial-ecstasy-ptsd-patients
Finally going to do a real trial for using MDMA to treat PTSD. If it works, it will be a very good thing. It will also mean a whole lot of people will suddenly realize they have PTSD.
Then they’ll be a national MDMA epidemic and call for action ( meaning some new taxes) to
force the victims into treatment centers owned by political croniessave the poor victims.Tim Ferriss is a big supporter of this kind of research, and he’s got a lot of rich friends. I would imagine this will get funded soon. And it is a very good thing. There are way too many veterans committing suicide.
Or we could just skip this entire circus and end the drug war.
But then people might use MDNA to have a good time. And we can’t have that.
I am glad they are doing this but at the same time, it is totally artificial. Why is taking this stuff to get over watching someone get blown up in Iraq somehow okay but taking it because you are bored or depressed or have some other problem not? it is a completely artificial distinction. Who is to say that it is harder living in one person’s head than it is another?
I don’t see why you should have to have PTSD to get the benefits of a psychoactive wonder drug.
Harvey, Harvey, Harvey the Wonder Hamster
He doesn’t bite and he doesn’t squeal, he just runs around in his hamster wheel
Harvey, Harvey
Harvey the Wonder Hamster!
Hey Harvey!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPZk-i-vUSk
Sometimes I just want a little vapid pop culture gossip in my life. The place I used to turn to for that was Oh No They Didn’t. I was an active poster back in 2008-2009, after which emerging SJW culture started to infect them and I backed away slowly. I do pop back occasionally, though, whenever there’s any Taylor Swift gossip (my weakness). They’ve gotten so much worse over the years it’s not even funny. Look at the comments on any of those posts under that tag. At least half of them are something to the effect of “she’s dead to me unless she eventually starts responding to her criticism in a real way—ie being a nazi icon, trump supporter, and acknowledging her white feminism.” It’s so tedious! It’s Taylor fucking Swift! Just shut up and spill the gossip already!
Since when is T. Swizzle a Nazi icon?
Since November 8, 2016, apparently.
In all seriousness, is there a bigger victim of no kidding sexism in celebrity culture than Taylor Swift? Women hate her guts because she is hot. Then she also hated because she is rich, hot and gets to bang a lot of attractive men and then write breakup songs about that. You know, the exact same thing that male musicians have been celebrated for doing for decades.
I can’t say I am a fan of her music. But it is not like she is the worst out there. I really don’t think she is treated fairly at all.
The shittier people are to her the more I like her.
Well, if she’s a Nazi then the reason you like her is obvious.
Does she prog hard enough? No? Then Nazi.
Reasons.
I use to to feel that way about Lohan when everyone was giving her shit about her partying. I’m like party on bitch.
She was just a crazy bitch who hurt herself. I never understood why people hated her. Feel sorry for her sure, but I never saw any reason to hate her.
She is by far my favorite pop singer. She comes off as having some class, plus shes hot and I like a few of her songs.
“When will she speak up? she hasn’t even denounced tramp yet…”
And she has that responsibility because? Just more bullying is all that is.
That’s the thing that’s pissing me off so much. Basically every celebrity is going to have “problematic” fans. That’s not their responsibility? As far as I know, she’s always been very non-political and has always wanted to distance herself from politics, and even that now is the sign of a Secret Nazi. A bunch of them were calling the font on her new album (looks like Cloister Black or a similar “medieval” looking font, like what newspapers use but also frequently used by rappers—like Kanye, which, frankly, I assumed is what she was going for, since her lead single is the Kimye drag) a “Nazi font.” It’s out of control.
“they had writing on their newspapers too!”
As far as I know, she’s always been very non-political and has always wanted to distance herself from politics,
Progressives are totalitarians. That means every aspect of life exists for the purpose of promoting the proper politics. So to them, there is no opting out. You are either part of the hive and advancing Prog politics or you are an enemy. There is no neutrality.
This proves conclusively that these people would rather watch sweaty half-naked men and are, therefore, gay.
http://archive.is/H9uH8
SCIENCE!
And I would click that why?
I guess they simply wanted to watch someone else punch the irishman for a change.
That’s hilarious.
Pornhub Viewership Absolutely Plummeted During the Mayweather-McGregor Fight
Huh, that’s why the site was running so well the other day. Noted.
I like how it plummeted during and then went above baseline after. Conservation of pron!
Been learning Russian to pass the time. Some neat things:
The words for things like “big” and “more” come from the same root. Bolshoi means big; bol’she means more, bol’shintsvo means majority, bolshevik means majoritarian.
The word for Sunday comes from the word for resurrection. Makes sense.
It really helps in language learning to learn groups of words related by sound rather than topic. Most language courses are organized by topic, so if the topic is weather, you learn words like rain, wind, temperature as a group. However, that method sucks for retention. It’s way better to learn groups of words that are similar in sound and meaning. That way your memory of one word reinforces the memory of the related words.
I suspect the Russian word bolshoi shares a common Indo-European root with the Latin word pluralis.
Its also a UK slang term for “cocky + argumentative +dyspeptic”. “Bolshy“
” “cocky + argumentative +dyspeptic”.”
which is probably from having met drunken russians
my favorite British idiom is “tired and emotional” = “drunk”
If you can show how it’s connected to “bigly”, you will have finally found evidence of Russian collusion.
When you’re done with that, you can figure out what the hell Russian Collusion means.
That’s huuuuge.
Огрооооооооомно!
Here at the Defense Language Institute, there is a rumor that graduates of the Russian course receive congratulatory letters from the Russian intelligence service. I have not seen the letters myself.
We also have a T-34 tank. I don’t know how it got here.
Took a left at Greenland?
I suspect the Israelis captured it from an Arab army and gave it to us. It may have been captured during the Korean war.
You know, that thing probably still works. Just get some diesel in and you can have a graduation prank that will be hard to top!
today’s language trivia
Many English city names have the form -ington/-lington. The “ling” part denotes possession and the “ton” part means “town”.
So Washington means Wasa’s town. Wasa is a form of Vasa which comes from the Greek word for king (basileus). So Washington means King’s Town.
Earthling could be translated as “belonging to the earth”.
Dumpling.
“a reconstituted and re-consumed turd”
but seriously, possibly my single favorite food-item on earth: crab+pork Joe Shanghai’s soup dumplings
when i meet hipsters who insist on referring to them by their correct, chinese name (“xiao long bao” – or worse, “XLB”) i mentally stab them repeatedly in the face
Holy shit, they better be good!
A recipe.
I’d never in my life waste time making them myself.
for fucks sake, @ Joes you can eat 2 boxes of the things for like $10. plus, there’s the whole atmosphere of the crazed waitstaff trying to hustle you in and out ASAP so they can process more customers. taking your time while everyone around you is spastic is part of the fun.
Chinese hipster punks explain I have stabbed them a million times already.
Chinese hipster punks explain
they sound black.
funny, my reaction is that they actually sound ‘white’ …. e.g. “what ‘white teenagers trying to sound black sound like’”
basically = the speech pattern you call ‘black’ here is an imagined patois entirely invented by white insecurity, adopted by chinese hipsters.
e.g. “what ‘white teenagers trying to sound black sound like’”
I agree.
XLB? Really? Fucking bai gui
Just call them jiaozi or bao. Bao is also slang for boobs.
Boobs is slang for tits.
I thought it was jugs?
No, that’s slang for knockers.
Why not physically stab them in the face? I regularly bury bodies of white people who pronounce all spanish-based names with their politically correct, exact accent-rich native pronunciation, but mysteriously Americanize every other foreign name in the language.
Pah-pee-ay mah-shay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0zr2sXszYM
Google etymology says dump is an old word for dough, so dumpling means doughy or dough-like.
Dump comes from a Norse word that means to fall. It is related to the word thump.
OTH, dumpling could mean trailer trash.
I knew you wouldn’t disappoint.
San Francisco means “Saint Frank”.
And San Diego means ‘a whale’s vagina’ in German.
Holy Frenchman if you want to go full Germanic.
Los Angeles means “The Angles”.
How obtuse.
booooooooooo
I’ve always thought that Brazilian cities have the weirdest names. They seem to just be named after things. Like Rio de Janeiro literally means ‘River of January’ and Recife just means ‘Reef’. Natal means ‘Christmas’. I mean you have the several cities named after saints of course, but otherwise…
Some of the beaches in the North for example:
Praia dos Carneiros – Beach of the sheep
Porto de Galinhas – Port of chickens
I guess the Portuguese didn’t really care for fancy names and had not much imagination, or something.
Or they were too busy trying to stay alive to fuck around with clever names.
Uruguay has that beat
Montevideo – Sixth hill from east to west.
I assume they have the colorfully painted houses also, like in most Brazilian cities. I guess a long time ago, they didn’t have actual street numbers, so to give someone direction to your friends house, you would just say it’s the green house on that street.
In parts of Appalachia, you have lots of little towns ending in ‘berg’ and ‘ville’.
That happens in southwest Ohio as well. There are also a ton of towns around here with odd pronunciations:
Houston, pronounced “HOUSE-ton”
Russia, pronounced “ROO-shee”
New Berlin, pronounced “New BUR-lin”
Versailles, pronounced “ver-SALES”
Bellefontaine, pronounced “bell-FOWN-ten”
“Earthling could be translated as “belonging to the earth”
Terran
“The plucky little ball of water and dirt, which is where it gets its name, is dominated by seven billion primate-descended natives who love to eat spaghetti and pray to kangaroos.”
mostly harmless
Except for when they decide to chimp out and go on a rampage to kill a few hundred million other hairless monkeys.
I thought it was Gustavus Vasa’s town.
neat
samolyot means airplane in Russian- literal meaning is self-flier
samovar means kettle- literal meaning is self-boiler
In Russian the only things you need to know are:
Woman, feed the sled dogs.
Woman, bring me my vodka.
What’s the admin password to the DOTA2 server?
Razor’s Arpaio video is up. Prepare for a rant…good stuff.
I don’t think he exculpates Arapio for being a general douche (he is), but he does really clarify how he became a political target for the Obama admin, and how everyone in the media played along with a very one-dimensional narrative about the situation. Nowhere in stories about him over the years was there any attempt to explain why he was repeatedly elected 5 times in a row despite his apparent douchery. Phoenix AZ was basically a flashpoint for the entire national immigration issue, and the fact that people there were fed the fuck up with the cost and damage it was causing their communities basically needed to be silenced/politically squashed. Its a very good explainer for why so many people have gotten fed up in general. Its not that they “hate mexicans” and are racist xenophobes… its that the entire national political establishment has basically conspired to fuck them over and refuse to allow them to run their own cities the way they want to, depriving them of their own political voice.
People will tolerate a lot of awful behavior in someone if that person gets them what they want.
+1 hot crazy girlfriend.
If our education system was really serious, the first thing that would be taught in sex ed is ‘don’t stick it in crazy’.
If they did, I was sick that day.
Back when Trump won the GOP nomination and he started surrounded himself with some ‘loyal’ ones, I specifically remember Sessions and Sheriff Joe and I’m thinking ‘oh shit, this guy is going to be president and drag all of these douchebags along’. It hasn’t turned out (yet) as badly as I thought possible. But there’s still 3. 5 years for Trump to do very bad anti-libertarian things.
All that aside, the illegal immigration story is not the story painted by the media. About a month ago, there was a story in the NYT, typically calling Trump a racist bigot for his hard line on illegal immigrants. I was pretty much shocked when a majority of the NYT very own echo chamber commenters were saying that they were actually opposed to illegal immigration and that something had to be done. What I’m saying is, that issue is one of the reasons Trump won, the majority of the public do not approve of open border immigration, no matter how much CNN and NYT spin it, and that includes Democrats.
The Democrats were in position to ram through whatever legislation they liked about whatever issue they liked during Obama’s first two years. So if they didn’t pass a law dealing with a particular pet issue, I assume that means they don’t *really* care about it. Immigration is a case in point.
Razorfist denies that having a race selection box on a job application makes you literally Hitler.
Razorfist is literally Goebbels.
MikeS: attempting to atone for my typo up page, here’s SRV doing Texas Flood live with BB King: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9S-4ab14sk
Excellent. It’s wonderful to see SRV, (one of) the greatest guitar players in history, giving BB king his space and not stomping on him.
That is a treat for the ears, for sure.
Damn…AND Albert Collins! Man, I would have loved to been there that night!
Uff-da! And I am seriously necro-posting.
Moving on…
There is a guy in my office that laughs just like Nigel Fucking Thornberry and he’s obviously having a hilarious conversation on the other side of the cube wall. I want to cram a trashcan down his throat.
This is why cubes suck. In an open space, you can just punch the guy.
Basically every problem in the US economy is because companies have too much power, new research argues
Best quote from the article, because clickbait:
Ah yes, all that deregulation we’ve had in the past 8 years, just strangling the economy.
If they would just replace companies with ‘government’, they’d have something worth discussing.
I’m pretty sure the share of public traded companies in the US vs actual “small businesses” is at least an 20/80 ratio. not in terms of capitalization, but in number. basically, when people try making statements about the economy based on public-company data, they’re basically ignoring the lion’s share of what the economy is really about.
Uber Under Investigation for Bribery
Why should it be illegal to bribe foreign governments? I get the general argument that their corrupt practices could spread here, I’ve never seen it demonstrated that they actually do. Also, considering we’ve basically legalized bribery (but only of politicians) in the US it is kind of silly to punish companies for doing it abroad.
Uber is apparently not a favorite of the left. They have to prog harder.
Try doing business in India. The term for it there is “grey money” and it’s apparently a way of life. If you want a driver’s license, be prepared to pay a bribe or know somebody.
Jordanian TV: “The Rothschilds Rule the World” & “Jews Withhold Cure for Cancer and AIDS”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOlEPD-Z-Mg
The US does not do a very good job of countering this propaganda.
“Jews Withhold Cure for Cancer and AIDS”
Well, they actually could, if they had it. So you know, how can anyone say they ‘wouldn’t’ do it? The Jews don’t seem to be at the top of the favorite groups of the left. They aren’t victimy enough.
http://www.google.ca/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/29/hurricane-harvey-manmade-climate-disaster-world-catastrophe
Prove it.
Metal show for me tonight:
Abysmal Dawn, Incantation, Marduk