Well good morning, friends. Hope all is well with you. Which it should be, unless one of you is Ezekiel Elliott. The NFL unsurprisingly upheld his domestic abuse suspension on appeal. Even though the only investigator that spoke to his accuser recommend that he not be disciplined because she found the case baseless. Strangely enough (yeah, right) the NFL refused to allow his “defense” team the right to question his accuser during the discipline or appeal process. And now he will likely miss out on millions of dollars and have his reputation tarnished because the players in the league before he even got there signed a terrible collective bargaining agreement that gave the commissioner the ability to discipline players on a whim. Hopefully the courts will put an end to this madness, but I’m not holding my breath. Meanwhile, the NFL has graciously allowed Zeke to play this weekend as a judge weighs in on the discipline.
In other sports news, the last American man is out of the US Open. In the women’s draw, both Americans won their quarterfinal matches in dramatic fashion. In soccer, the USA managed a draw with Honduras and has fallen into fourth place in their group, which would currently put them in the position of being in a playoff with Australia or someone else from Asia to get to the world cup. I wonder if Trump was the reason, eh Bruce Arena? You useless twat.
And in baseball, the Cubbies lost. The Red Sox and Team Canada played a little more than a doubleheader but it only counted for one game, in which the Red Sox prevailed. I know because I got a notification on my Apple Watch about it. The BIG RED MACHINE took down the floundering Brewers. The Nats beat the Marlins, who are probably looking over their shoulder at Irma. The Twins fell. The Indians stayed hot. The Rockies won. The Orioles topped the Yankees . The Cards won. The D-backs took down the Dodgers once again and tied their team-record win streak at 12. And there Astros continue to impress with another victory.
Well there’s the world in sports. Now its time for the rest of the world with…the links!
Irma: Queen Bitch
Hurricane Irma keeps getting larger and more powerful. And she keeps pointed at Florida. Time to get out of there, Glibs (and Vhyrus’s parents). This is gonna be horrible.
CNN are reeling from the fallout over a couple of fake news stories their crack investigative team put out. I guess that’s the fallout from making things up and not doing any editing while a President who is hostile to you occupies the White House. Here’s a good idea: in that scenario, its best to tell the unvarnished truth. (That advice also applies in all other scenarios, by the way newsmen.)
Remember that book by Hillary’s pastor we all got a laugh about? You know, the one that elevates her to being closer to God and was written by her pastor? Well, funny thing there… I suppose its best for publishers and editors for this publishers to make sure books aren’t chock full of plagiarism. The book is being removed. Shillady said he’s sorry. Clinton was not reached for comment.
In the fight against the spread of AIDS in Africa, Ghana has imported 30 million condoms. But dem no use am. The man in charge, him say is hard to scatter dem all over him country.
Just read the Tinder date story. It’ll all make sense then.
This is more advice than news, but if you go out on a Tinder date and take a huge poop… You know what? I’m not going to even explain what happened. I just…I just…aw, read it yourself.
The first Harvey lawsuit just got filed. I gotta be honest with you, I wasn’t sure why they released the damns either. Did it necessarily relive pressure or merely empty the water and create more flooding than was necessary? I guess we’re about to find out.
I’m takin’ what they’re givin’!
Get out of Florida!!!!!!
Aaaahagh! What the hell is that picture?!?
Damn it. I wanted to be first.
Is that your first first?
Nope.
Mike are you ready to pull the rip cord and jump of the Twinkies bandwagon?
I blame this all on my being in Chicago. The distance attenuates my support waves when they are being needed most.
Is this Chicago thing…temporary, or permanent? If permanent, OMWC and I would be delighted to
abductsee you sometime.But if temporary…we have no time for your kind around here?
😉
In for the week. My “official” office is in Chicago, so i am here at least once a month.
Not sure I would be safe meeting up with you Chicago type thugs. I’m just a simple boy from the Minnesoda prairies.
A simple boy… who likes cat asshole jewelry
We all have our weaknesses. Don’t judge me!
Swiss knows good beer.
Keep the faith Jimbo. Being the Pope and all, you understand that there will be trying times that test our faith. Stay strong!
My son is going off the rails. He was figuring on when we’d take over the first wild card from the Yankees just a week ago. Now he’s convinced that the Twinkies are fucking with him personally.
Ah, he’s finally discovered what it means to be a Minnesota sports fan!
Yep. What’s that religious sect that self flagellates? They’d fit right in with Minnysoda sports fans
Radical Catholics!
Them Radical Catholics are tanner than Minnesoda sports fans. Really the only difference.
He’s preparing for the Vikings season.
“Gonna…*whip*..go…*whip*…12 and 4…*whip*”
Hey, I read this weekend that Club Jager closed. (shocking)
Do you have any other favorite Nazi bars, Jimbo?
This is gonna be horrible.
Yeah, not looking good. Be safe, FL Glibs.
Is that your first second?
Yep, but technically it’s a first, according to the ‘rules’.
Thanks. Had the talk with Mom last night and she says she is staying and asked me to stay with her. So I told her I would stay but if the shit hit the fan that I didn’t want anyone risking their life to get two old biddies out and she agreed. Actually she made some pretty good points. She’s gathering up all the important papers and I’m going to take them to work tomorrow, make copies, and give the copies to my manager to hold on to. We’ve got everything settled and all that is left is to hope for the best. Some of my co-workers are really losing it and I feel bad for them. I am weirdly calm. Stay safe, fellow Glibs.
You’re a brave chick, Carol. My best to you and Mom.
Good luck. Stay safe.
Prayers for you.
Yeah good luck. Be safe.
In the fight against the spread of AIDS in Africa, Ghana has imported 30 million condoms – not big enough?
As a rule, an author should not argue with reviewers. Nothing good can come of it. Sometimes, the temptation creeps in, especially when they bitch about story elements that are conventions of the genre as if I’d just invented them. (Calling the application of these conventions trite would be a different matter). It gets harder to stay my commenting hand when they proceed to fail to recognize the English terms “murder of crows” and “Minced oath” while claiming to have previously been an editor and nitpicking a first person narrator’s use of conversational rather than formal grammar.
I wish I could dismiss this as trolling – but the sad part is, I know it’s not.
Less seriously which word choice works better:
or
?
(Context, this is the opening sentence of a story and it’s Owen’s cat being a pest.)
Pussy made Owen woke
I laughed.
But it doesn’t fit my writing style.
Collin, too.
Not sure it’s technically correct, but awoken seems to flow better.
Hence my conundrum. They’re not perfect synonyms.
Awakened, Owen was awakened by a paw to the face
I second awakened, but if it’s between the two above I guess I’d go woken. There’s a symmetry there with the 2 – 1 – 2 syllables that I find appealing. Although, on subsequent reading, “awoken” has a less lyrical feel which might better suit your purposes.
Owen woke up with a cat’s paw in his face.
?
A paw waked up Owen upon his face.
Owen’s face was pawed until the awakening.
Owen awoke to a pussy smacking him in the face.
This is obviously the best answer.
How did it go? “My girlfriend likes to wake me up with oral sex. One time, I nearly suffocated”
Owen got woke to paw the pussy and save face.
Awakification was pussy pawed.
There’s no subject to that sentence.
I think “Awakification” can be any type of word, at the same time.
As a rule, an author should not argue with reviewers.
You may remember an author named Vince Flynn (RIP). He was a local dude, super cool and a good friend of the family. After his second book came out he told us he wouldn’t read a single review any longer, because even if 99% of them were positive there was always that one that would make you want to drop the gloves.
I’m looking for different viewpoints. Sometimes that leads to having to face words you don’t like.
I like awakened.
Owen woke when he felt a paw on his face.
A paw to the face startled Owen awake.
“A paw to the face woke Owen.”
Pussy paw be wake de Owen up up.
This brings up a good question. Will you have your books translated into Pidgin?
I can’t help but feel something might get lost in translation.
His face recently bepawed, Owen awoke.
^THIS IS A GOOD ONE^
But it would set the expectations for the rest of the prose to a different level!
Have you tried Pidgin?
Kinda gamey.
Of course in your white privilege, you would say such a thing about street eats.
Italian-Scottish is not white.
Owen was roused by a paw to the face.
If a reviewer isn’t familiar with the genre, with those terms, and nitpicks grammar, the credibility of the review speaks for itself.
I know, but… I like to argue, which is why the temptation to respond is there.
A paw batted Owen’s face. He started awake.
I had two jokes to respond to that.
“I get charged extra for punctuation”
“But then how am I supposed to maintain my signature style of almost, but not quite, run-on sentences if I’m going to break little ones down like that?”
Your signature style? Try reading Bulwer-Lytton and other 19th century writers who used lots of semicolons.
But I don’t use semicolons.
Besides, it’s a joke at my expense. At the very least in my initial drafts I’ll often have lines that, while technically not a run-on, are too long and convoluted to be easily read. Breaking these up becomes part of the revision process, just to make the scene less chunky.
A paw to the face was Owen’s wake up call.
Don’t start with the passive voice.
Go write a book.
Plagiarist!
Cat’s paw WOKE.
Owen woke af.
Owen was wrenched from blissful slumber by the feel of claws on his cheek. “It’s 4:30! Fuck off,” he cried, desperately fumbling for something technically non-lethal to hurl at the little bastard.
Oh, wait, I’m confusing my mornings with your story.
I would do “Owen (a)woke to a paw in the face” rather than “was awoken.” Editors hate passive voice. Also, I think it would flow better with the rest of the paragraph.
Owen woke to a paw in the face
works better than either
Seriously, both constructions are wrong: Owen was awakened by a paw to the face.
A friend of mine, a musician, was so angry about Huey Lewis back in the day. “How can an average bar band be so fucking huge?”
Umm. Because they give the customers what they want?
Because they were boppy and non-threatening to the young ladies.
Well I for one like Huey Lewis and the News.
It’s about, you know, the fucking music man!
Oh, I do too, but it was hilarious to watch how mad he got.
I hung around musicians all my life (family included) they can be insufferable twats with their criticisms. ‘Over-rated’ this and ‘over rated that’ and ‘I can’t believe people listen to that crap’ and ‘they had one hit’ and on and on. Except my cousin (may he RIP) great musician and cool.
Shut the fuck up.
Was that your musician imitation?
*stares, wide eyed*
More like me towards them.
Twat: Ugh. They’re soooo over rated.
Rufus: Shut the fuck up and eat your kiwi.
So you’re saying it is ok to like Nickleback now?
Am I going to have to say the obvious?
Their early work was a little too new wave for my taste. But when Sports came out in ’83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically.
This.
Your friend could get a reservation at Dorsia, I take it?
Because they knew they were an average bar band and they didn’t try to be anything else?
Also a good answer.
It is harder to write a catchy bubble gum pop song than people think or musicians want to admit. There are a million “average bar bands” as your friend says. And every one of them would have given their left nuts to have been as big as Huey Lewis. Yet, they were not. And it was not because they had too much integrity to sell out. It was because writing a song that is musical and appeals to a lot of people is hard. In many ways that is harder than writing a complex and innovative song. Doing a complex and innovative song only requires you being clever and pleasing yourself. Writing a pop song requires you pleasing everyone else.
+1 Achy Breaky Heart
True, being able to write hits is a very particular talent. There are plenty of incredible musicians who could never write a hit song.
The Kpop machine laughs at your feeble pop industry scientists.
The other thing is Huey Lewis was a nice guy who worked hard. Back when he was a nobody he was willing to open for anybody – and he managed to get onto a Thin Lizzy album and get Nick Lowe to take one of his songs.
Because it’s hip to be square, obviously.
Holocaust Museum Pulls Study Absolving Obama Administration For Inaction In Face of Syrian Genocide
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/244567/holocaust-museum-pulls-study-absolving-obama-administration-for-inaction-in-face-of-syrian-genocide
Not gonna comment much on the whole thing but what caught my eye was
“A major United States Holocaust Memorial Museum study of the Obama Administration’s Syria policy was put on hold last night after portions of the study given to Tablet were greeted with shock and harsh criticism by prominent Jewish communal leaders and thinkers.
According to a publicity email sent by the Museum, the study was set to be launched at an event at the US Institute for Peace in Washington, DC on September 11th and was overseen by former Obama NSC and intelligence officer Cameron Hudson, now director of the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide. The paper argued that “a variety of factors, which were more or less fixed, made it very difficult from the beginning for the US government to take effective action to prevent atrocities in Syria, even compared with other challenging policy contexts.” Using computational modeling and game theory methods, as well as interviews with experts and policymakers, the report asserted that greater support for the anti-Assad rebels and US strikes on the Assad regime after the August 2013 Ghouta chemical weapons attack would not have reduced atrocities in the country, and might conceivably have contributed to them.”
Is anything safe from computational models?
The intervention of the Holocaust Museum in a hot-button political dispute—and the apparent excuse of official US government inaction in the face of large-scale mass murder, complete with the gassing of civilians and government-run crematoria—alarmed many Jewish communal figures. “The first thing I have to say is: Shame on the Holocaust Museum,” said Leon Wieseltier, the literary critic and fellow at the Brookings Institution, who slammed the Museum for “releasing an allegedly scientific study that justifies bystanderism.”
The Museum’s exercise in counter-factual history, he suggested, was inherently absurd. “If I had the time I would gin up a parody version of this that will give us the computational-modeling algorithmic counterfactual analysis of John J McCloy’s decision not to bomb the Auschwitz ovens in 1944. I’m sure we could concoct the fucking algorithms for that, too.”
Meh not sure how more intervention would have helped
Why is the museum wading into this at all? Typically museums provide information on historical events. I would expect a think tank to give us an “analysis” of recent events.
And credit where it is due to the critics. Right or wrong they aren’t mincing their words.
Everything is political now.
Terry Gross was interviewing John Le Carre yesterday. I thought that it would be interesting. It took a good fifteen minutes for Gross to stop asking about how he thought the Russians were influencing or bought out Trump.
That’s disappointing. Not surprising but disappointing.
This is is one of the stupidest things i’ve ever heard.
did they run, “Not shipping massive amounts of cash + weapons into the country” into the model?
http://everydayfeminism.com/2017/09/white-people-social-media/
SJWednesday: 10 Things I Hate About
YouWhite People Edition::exit faerie did the best xe could do::
*sacrifices goat, waves chicken foot around, summons edit fairy*
“routinely demanding labor”??
Forget it, spud. It’s SJWtown.
It links to this:
“50 Ways People Expect Constant Emotional Labor from Women and Femmes”
http://everydayfeminism.com/2016/08/women-femmes-emotional-labor/
I love the Femmes labor!
I’m going to make a guess.
This “Emotional Labor” is not actually expected, asked for, or even wanted, and is mostly them being less than fully adult and in-control of themselves.
How’d I do? (I am not going to visit EF)
Does “piss off” count as demanding emotional labor?
404 Page not found
Oh, now it works. I wish it didn’t, after having read that idiocy.
No offense, but I skip these links every time. Because … Everyday Feminism.
LOL.
Followed by:
Hahahahahahaha
She really doesn’t need ten things, she only needs one – I’m Always Right, Because Shut Up That’s Why.
And yet Progs can’t understand why whites are starting to vote in a block against them. If they you want to hate white people, that is like hating any group of people based on their race stupid and irrational. it is another level of irrational and stupid to then wonder why the people you hate won’t support you. And Progs really can’t understand why so many whites are turning against them.
“We hate you, you racist, misogynist, homophobic scum!!! You should cease to exist!!!”
“Now vote for us!”
I really can’t fathom the level of cognitive dissonance that requires. And if that is your dog, that is a noble beast. I love German Shepherds.
Yes, that is my guy. He is a tall, 105-pound silver and black German Shepherd. I must say the best dog I’ve ever owned.
He is beautiful. All dogs are great. There are only bad owners. But, since I grew up with them, German Shepherds will always be my favorite. They are not for everyone. They are wicked smart and incredibly loyal. They are, however, quite Teutonic. They only take orders, never suggestions. And they will happily take over the role of alpha dog from you if you let them. And they love order. The dog I had growing up would notice whenever someone left something on the coffee table that didn’t belong and would pick it up and carry it off to the corner of the room. He didn’t ever chew it up or destroy it. He just moved it because it didn’t belong there. That is such a German Shepherd thing to do. They are challenging to own and I like that. And they are absolutely the most loyal and brave companion you will ever have.
I see you know German Shepherds well. They really are scary smart. I can speak to him in normal English sentences rather than commands and he understands what to do. And incredibly protective of his house and his people. I have had lots of dogs of various breeds over the years, but he is my first German Shepherd, and now my wife and I have decided we can never be without one. I had always wanted a German Shepherd, but I get rescue dogs, and I was never fortunate enough to get a German Shepherd rescue until I got the big guy a few years back. Really incredible dogs if you know how to handle dogs.
I desperately would like to quote a certain old lady from Blazing Saddles, not for the sentiment as such, but because it just seems damned apropos.
Oh, fuck it.
Why did I read that Tinder story while eating breakfast? Stupid.
I know it was a shitty thing to do, but I figured it would get a chuckle or two.
*narrows gaze*
Thank you, TEE. I am a little slow this morning.
Well, I think it stinks.
Don’t give me that crap. It’s topical. Sandi might show up and tell us how her date went.
Do you want to just flush away that family friendly rating we earned?
“We”?
You got a turd in your pocket?
Hey, all of us are part of this movement.
That might leave us in quite a pinch.
I saw the link and decided to pass
Pensioner, 70, paddles across Atlantic Ocean in kayak for the third time
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/pensioner-70-paddles-across-atlantic-ocean-in-a-kayak-for-the-third-time-a3626671.html
Well one must have an occupation of some sorts in retirement, I s’ppose
I say good on the guy. Sailing across the Atlantic has always been a dream of mine. I can’t really imagine paddling it. Guy must have arms that put anyone to shame.
Well, he only meant to cross it once, but he dropped his water bottle over the side on the first trip and has been looking for it.
/snark
Some dudes come up with crazy hobbies to get away from the wife after retirement, but this is a little extreme
right, not saying i condone what he’s doing but i understand it.
/kinison
Wait a minute. By the looks of the picture, the thing he is paddling is closer to a U boat than a kayak. How does one move that thing?
“The unnamed – but athletic – girl ended up upside down inside the window after making a valiant effort to get rid of a massive poo she’d done which had blocked the bog.
Why not just break it up with the toilet brush, like any sane person?”
And what the hell did she eat?
To be honest if a toiled would not flush I would put the lid down and say it won’t flush. It takes creativity to throw shit out the window. At least in allegedly civilized areeas, in some places it may be default.
Almost always when a toilet won’t flush it’s because the chain has come disconnected from that plug thing in the tank. Just take the lid off the tank and lift the plug thing up and it will flush. The only other reason I can think of would be if the water was turned off, but that would be doubtful in this case. This could have been such an easy fix, but she had to be a dumbass…
Could be a transatlantic-ism.
“Wouldn’t flush” could indicate that her deposit exceeded the cistern’s ability to dislodge the said obstruction.
If they end up married, that Tinder couple will have the best meeting/first date story of all time. Great-grandchildren will retell it.
I’ll be pushing for them. I mean pulling.
In Defense of Amy Wax’s Defense of Bourgeois Values
Here are the basic facts. Amy Wax is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She is also a longstanding member of Heterodox Academy. On August 9, Wax did what members of Heterodox Academy sometimes do: she challenged a widely held viewpoint. She published an op-ed at Philly.com titled: Paying the price for breakdown of the country’s bourgeois culture.
She then followed up with the phrase that has elicited most of the objections: “All cultures are not equal.”
https://heterodoxacademy.org/2017/09/02/in-defense-of-amy-waxs-defense-of-bourgeois-values/
Good on her for challenging conventions.
Now, where are they planting the stake so they can burn her?
Isn’t that appropriating French culture?
Bloody Mary would disagree.
I’d say she had a legitimate claim to French culture.
Hmmm. I have trouble finding anything remotely controversial in what she wrote.
Am I toxic or simply a shitlord?
Both probably. Plus a few more things extra
A Toxic Shitlord.
Welcome to the club.
You sure as hell ain’t woke. Maybe you just need a paw to the face
*opera applause*
I thought you were Tundra
Well, it’s controversial because it’s shitting on a postmodernist article of faith. It’s one of the reasons they whine about colonialism so much. Because the colonialist white jerks tried to impose their evidently superior western culture on various indigenous groups, thinking that they were doing the uncivilized a huge favor.
Postmodernist historians are convinced this was unjust oppression because no culture is better than another.
It’s like telling a diehard Christian that you don’t think Jesus makes a very good role model. Expect a strong emotional reaction.
I’m pretty sure even mentioning “The Law Of Cultural Dominance” is a no-no in edumacation circles these days.
“All cultures are not equal.”
It is mind-blowing that this is even mildly controversial.
All cultures are not equal.
Do even the idiots getting their panties in a wad over Wax’s comments not secretly believe this? It’s an absurdity. Everyone wants to pretend that this isn’t true and that they don’t really believe it, but a five year old could tell you is true. There’s nothing racist in saying it. Western civilization includes people from all sorts of different ethnic and racial backgrounds who have participated and contributed to it. It doesn’t ignore the contributions of other cultures. One of the greatest elements of Western civilization is its ability to adopt and build upon other civilizations’ achievements.
But… but… white people!
White people like Frederick Douglas? Like Alexandre Dumas? Augustine? Thomas Sowell?
Oreos
The sad part is that that is the response you’re likely to get. From some kid who grew up in the suburbs, the child of two civil servants, doing an oppression studies major at a decent school.
I notice you left out Obama.
Racist.
Just going to qualify that Augustine was a white/Semitic guy, not black. Hippo Regius was a Phoenician/Roman city.
Since you probably did not study much history in February, I’m here to educate you: Augustine was every bit as much African-American as the Pharoahs were.
Until the White Man stole him through Tricknology!
I’ve always said one of the core tenets of my culture is cultural appropriation.
Aren’t SJWs calling for a change to culture, therefore implying that culture can get better or worse over time? If so, it follows logically that they believe that not all cultures are equal.
The thing is, its part of their culture to lie to themselves and doublespeak so they can feel morally superior.
Logic is a tool of the cisheteropatriarchy used to justify the continuation of the oppressive status quo. The need for logical consistency can be safely disregarded in the pursuit of utopia by any means necessary.
No the general arguments of SJWs is that ‘white people’ don’t have a culture, or that their culture is purely rooting in oppression and exploitation of others. So they’re cultural supremacists of a different stripe.
“Wax’s advocacy for white supremacy”
Citation needed.
Not agreeing with me = White Supremacy
No citation is necessary. The critics of Wax provided their working definition of “white supremacy” in their condemnation:
[Emphasis added.]
The emphasis didn’t take in the quotation.
We should take progressives at their word: the advocacy of studiousness, diligence, work, faithfulness in marriage, responsible child-rearing, and sobriety is “the very basis” of what they consider to be “white supremacy”.
A progressive’s accusations of “white supremacy” should be interpreted accordingly.
I’ll also add, on a larger note, that Ms. Wax’s critics are pretty should “check their privilege”. If you’re there dismissing bourgeois culture, it’s almost certainly because you’re in a position that you can afford to. You have parents with money, family with jobs, a network of people who you can fall back on. And the odds are that you have that because someone in your family’s background decided it was worth it to live a bourgeois lifestyle so you could have those advantages. Actual poor people don’t really have that luxury. And dismissing bourgeois habits and behaviors to them is one of the most oppressive and vicious things you can do to them. If you actually care about poor little black and hispanic children ™, you’d be urging, begging, pleading and shouting from the rooftops for them to seek to emulate Ward and June Cleaver as much as they are humanly capable of doing.
Link to the Tom Woods Show talking about this.
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/tom-woods-show/the-tom-woods-show/e/51341453
Without actually reading the link, can I safely assume that all of those foaming at the mouth about the heresy are also the first ones to look down their noses at rednecks, southerners, christian faithful, etc.?
“All cultures are not equal.”
It seems to me that Donald Trump secretly torpedoed cultural relativism a couple of weeks ago with his condemnation of “violence on many sides” in response to the Charlottesville melee. The general response from those who likely espouse cultural relativism was “How dare you equate violent antifascists with violent Nazis!”
Hey sweetheart, all cultures are equal, remember?
Volunteers With Supplies Turned Away From Harvey-Ravaged Region by Cop: ‘We’ve Had Enough’
I don’t understand… why didn’t he give them directions to his house?
Just point them to west Houston. I’m sure the Corp of Engineers is gonna flood that part of town again soon.
Papers please.
Okay, I think I waited a respectable amount of time to post my own link…
In, “I’m a bigger piece of shit than Lena Dunham” news:
‘Goonies’ star Martha Plimpton says she had her ‘best abortion’ in Seattle
So brave!
It’s spelled ‘depraved’.
Safe, legal and rare!
That’s not something you should be bragging about. There’s nothing honourable in that.
Was she trying to make some ‘esoteric intellectual’ point about abortions?
The excessive politicization of abortion gone amok. It should be a private matter and stop shilling for big government programs.
But it is something to brag about. If you are a psychopath.
No there isn’t. Either she is lying or is telling the truth but is engaged in some massive psychological overcompensation as a way to avoid dealing with the issue. The ugly truth that feminists will not tell is that no woman has an abortion and walks away unharmed.
There are people on both sides of the abortion issue who see every damn thing in light of abortion. You’ll see them in the comments section of any major news story; no matter what the story, no matter what the topic, they manage to do a lateral arabesque and make it about abortion.
It’s annoying as hell, no matter which side the REEEEEE comes from.
That’s nice Martha. You must be so proud.
If the alternative is her reproducing…
Well, that’s maybe the most fucked up thing I’ve seen in a while.
“And let me tell you about Hoquiam ,” the actress said at the Town Hall event. “Lots of amazing memories there. That’s where I abducted my first smackbag and mutilated him under a bridge before sacrificing his carcass to Baal!”
The 46-year-old followed up her story with a loud “Yay” as the audience cheered her on.
When your primary claim to fame is a film that’s over thirty years old, I guess you’d do anything for attention.
She’s also on some white-trash sitcom. It has Cloris Leachman in it.
Cloris Leachman is still alive?
Yep. And still very funny. Raising Hope is the name of the show I couldn’t think of earlier.
A Beating in Berkeley
Antifa mayhem and malice in Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park
http://www.weeklystandard.com/a-beating-in-berkeley/article/2009498#.Wa2TcaIRu4s.twitter
Very good article.
So the guys not throwing punches get arrested at the end. Good job Berkeley.
Ventusky, using GFS models (i don’t know what this is exactly but its what it says it is) shows Irma going up the east coast of Florida and making landfall somewhere on the Georgia/SC coast.
She’s huge anyway, so the whole peninsula is gonna get it.
Hurricane Irma don come.
https://www.ventusky.com/?p=27.4;-74.2;4&l=wind&t=20170910/18
So almost a repeat of Hugo.
https://www.weather.gov/images/ilm/climate/hugo/Hugo_track2.png
“Unprecedented!”
Pregnant woman says she was body-shamed, denied service at restaurant
Oh fuck off, attention whore.
“no shoes, no shirt, no
servicedice”Learn it. Know it. Live it.
I love me some flip flops, but never in Public
Reference:
https://youtu.be/XKpClZ4HSf0
Whoa!
CNN are reeling
Since when did you become British? Doing a Madonna imitation?
Well every time I typed “CNN are real” my computer autocorrected to “reeling.” Eventually I just decided to go with it.
Why are you typing “CNN are” anything? CNN is a singular entity, so it’s CNN is.
I confess, I enjoy the Brit convention of treating collective nouns as plural. It’s an easy affectation to slip into (into which to slip?).
Especially for socialist collectives like CNN.
Ben Shapiro has a pretty good column on the problem with the Republicans.
Do I have to read it in his annoying voice?
Only if you don’t want (((them))) coming after you.
I hardly ever disagree with him, but that voice and that face make me want to give him a wedgie.
He makes many good points and I enjoy listening to him, but he was cursed with a pretty punchable face.
Combination wedgie/swirlie/suckerpunch for sure.
“In the weeks since the story was retracted, the investigative team has been reshaped and redirected. Its members were told they should not report on perhaps the most compelling political story of the year: potential ties between the Trump administration and Russia. That subject is now largely handled by CNN’s reporting team in Washington. The political whizzes of KFile, a group of Internet-savvy reporters poached from BuzzFeed that was untainted by the retraction, were transferred out of the investigative team.”
So they hired a bunch of people who were good at finding reaction gifs to push a narrative concocted by John Podesta after Hillary lost.
“The remaining team members have resumed publishing, but with a narrower reporting scope; they now focus on topics less glamorous than Mr. Trump’s potential ties to Russia, like the opioid crisis and the environment.”
As long as it’s an imaginary hobgoblin, am I right?
GOP Has a White Supremacy Problem. Dems Don’t Have an Antifa Problem.
Obeidallah has a personality problem. He has too much asshole in it.
He’s more full of shit than that Limey girl in the other link.
Funny how they never list what GOP policies are white supremacist and how?
All of them?
OMG, I can’t even! Just the fact you ask, proves your racism!
The fact that you don’t consider their policies white supremacist makes you a white supremacist.
What amazes me is how things like self-reliance, personal responsibility, commitment to family, and personal sacrifice are now “white values”. Yet, somehow those of us who see those things as universal human values and morality are the racist ones.
According to the Penn critics of the Amy Wax, these “white values” you refer to “if understood within their sociocultural context, stem from the very same malignant logic of hetero-patriarchal, class-based, white supremacy”. Indeed, these critics assert that these “white values” are “are the very basis for white supremacy”.
And one-half of Penn’s Law School professors endorsed this nonsense.
To be fair, I can’t list any GOP policies period.
A year ago I would have said “repeal Obamacare, tax reform, some kind of sensible immigration policy.” Now, I have no idea what the party is for. If it really is white supremacy, I wouldn’t be too worried – they would fuck that up too.
That is true Drake. I am not really sure what is so white supremacist about “take the majority in Congress and then quietly continue steal and hope no one notices you haven’t done anything”.
Maintaining the racist status quo is de facto white supremacy.
If Antifa isn’t part of the Democratic Party, why does virtually every Democratic politician or Democratic-friendly media personality either ignore or defend them? At least Republicans will say that Nazism is bad.
Using the 21st century progressive definition of “white supremacy” given by Penn State students and alumni, which was endorsed by one-half of its law professors, white supremacists indeed are part of the GOP and, more importantly, the GOP does not denounce and often advocates white supremacy. Of course, by “white supremacy”, 21st century progressives include advocacy of bourgeois culture with its emphasis upon studiousness, diligence, hard work, thrift, faithfulness in marriage, responsible child-rearing, and sobriety.
The WSJ editorial board is pushing hard this morning for DACA and “free trade” agreements that are nothing of the sort. I don’t know what they’re thinking by alienating their subscribers. The comments are in an uproar.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-dreamer-debacle-1504654115
I did have a good laugh over this (bold emphasis mine):
Rookie mistake. Also, the WSJ never met a death by cop or police overreach they didn’t applaud. Complete silence about how those victims trusted the government to protect them.
“All cultures are not equal.”
I’ll be on the fainting couch, if anybody calls.
Have a string of pearls to clutch; that’ll help…
These young immigrants have committed no crime and trusted the federal government to protect them.
Which would that be- the “Flounder defense” or the “Blutarsky defense”?
“You fucked up. You trusted us.”
Now that I think about it, it might have been Otter who said that.
I think it was Otter too. Excellent movie.
Otter to Flounder
Wow. Only about 30 minutes late with that one.
*Goes to box and feels shame
Hier
Arena wasn’t the coach who put up an o-fer vs Mexico and Costa Rica the first time around. He got 1 pt out of those games. At a -2 GD instead of -5.
Hey, I’m not saying Klinsmann is any better. But Arena is taking the team backward in terms of originality and excitement. He’s just an awful coach st the international level. The game passed him by two decades ago.
SJWednesday: Intersectional Disability Studies
Further excerpt:
Sympathy for retards doesn’t mandate that we put them in charge of their own course of study, does it?
How can these SJW people be so fucking delusional? Any casual observation and factual analysis reveals that there is exactly no system of oppression of any groups or minorities in the West. With the possible exception of white males.
I look at what you’ve pasted into your comment, and I know there are actual words in there, but all my brain reads is “blah blah blah blah blah blah blah”.
Also, “vision” is not a verb, illiterate motherfuckers.
Whoever wrote this was a master word-salad chef.
They all have a PhD.
Eewww, don’t touch me with your gimp hands!!!
I’m just kidding, I love retards.
“Black family lawsuit: School officials did not protect gifted daughter from black student abuse”
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/36302/
All cultures are not equal.
Black on black bullying.
Then they wonder why. They seem to focus so much energy on counter-productive things.
Reminds me of this:
https://twitter.com/nessnitty/status/892902143983792128
Seriously? How does that help anyone?
My mother-in-law works in a Philadelphia high school. There is a segment of the black population that regularly and consistently try to drag any black academic achievers down to the lowest level possible. Most of the parents teach their kids how to work the system and not how to individually succeed from day one.
It’s sad and pathetic.
Just FTR this is at least as common in the rural South.
Plenty of smart kids got beat up and called fags by the rednecks in my school system.
I’m familiar with it. All of my family are from hillbilly and redneck land.
“You think you’re better than us?”
“You’re trying to exceed your upbringin’.”
My uncle accused me of being a queer back in the 80’s simply because I was more into academics than sports. Fortunately, my parents were more forward thinking than him.
I grew up in hillbilly/redneck country as well. But the tone my parents took was to point out some of our neighbors and tell us “…get an education, or you’ll end up like them.”
I don’t know about as common. My wife went to a rural high school in the south and didn’t see anything like that. How rural? A couple kids would a roast whole pig in the parking lot during school hours before a pep rally and the school allowed it, they got 2 hunting days off each year for meat to feed their families, and the whole town shut down for football games. May not have been backwoods Appalachia rural but definitely not an urban experience.
Not discounting your experience at all, but just pointing out not everywhere in the rural South is like that.
I would say, given the academic achievement in the rural South and the stagnation thereof, it’s probably more common than not. That, of course, isn’t the only explanation, but an environment that is positive (or at least not negative) about academic achievement and betterment simply doesn’t produce those results.
That’s a fair point, and it’s certainly possible her school was an anomaly. She actually really enjoyed high school which I still have trouble believing. I hated school so much I started drinking in the parking lot most mornings my senior year to just try to get through the day.
I hated high school, but luckily didn’t resort to drugs or alcohol to put up with it. I just treated the administration with the respect they deserved (and largely got away with it, due to my mom running 1/3 of the school board’s campaigns), and told off the cops when they wanted to search my viola and a classmate’s Stradivarius.
Either that’s an abstract euphemism, or I have to wonder who’d give a high schooler a million-dollar violin.
These two Chinese American girls (sisters) had a lower end Stradivarius that they would only bring in on concert days (for dress rehearsal). IIRC, it cost their parents something like $75K, and mom was a doctor and dad was an engineer, so they could afford it by cutting back on things like new cars and fancy vacations. The older sister is now a doctor, and the younger is a professional musician, using that violin for what it was made for.
Pretty common in many cultures, really – those who are unable to better their station hate their brethren who are. It makes them arrogant, or ashamed of their roots, or inauthentic.
Crabs in a basket.
Just what I was thinking. All the world’s a crab bucket. There’s a reason envy is one of the Big Seven.
There’s variations, of course. There was a fair amount of this when I was in school, but there were enough of us nerds to hang out together, and we put together a winning debate team (in TX, winning washes many sins clean). Plus, I and my nerd buddies would help (read: cheat) some of our more academically distracted pals. So we got by.
In Texas, do they pretty much think of high school debate as something like verbal football? One thing I’ve noticed about native Texans is that whatever it is, even if they think it’s stupid, they still want to win at it.
Perhaps but it doesn’t seem to be an overarching and prevailing attitude. You won’t see the girlfriend of a hillbilly football player Tweeting like Nessa did.
And these are, presumably (I don’t know who she is) successful people STILL acting that way.
Again, disagreed. There is constant policing of attitudes and perceived “humbleness” in small towns. I could find examples literally every day from my hometown.
And as far as successful people from that culture still acting that way. Look at Kid Rock.
And he’s not even from that culture in the first place. He comes from a wealthy family.
I see more of it now than I did growing up.
When I was a kid, every farmer had a bible, a copy of the works of Shakespeare, and a musical instrument. There wasn’t any pride in being ignorant. But that was before Jeff Foxworthy.
Seems like more of a classism thing than racial or geographic.
I grew up in a fairly blue-collar Caucasian neighborhood and used to take occasional shit for academic achievement. But since I was willing to play baseball and basketball I didn’t get it very often.
The kid who took the most shit though – great grades and very unathletic – was, unbeknownst to the assholes who gave him the most shit, the poorest kid in school by far. The house he lived in was surrounded by commercial property so there weren’t any kids who lived within a quarter mile of him and you wouldn’t even know his house was there if you weren’t looking for it. I was assigned a project with him and I had to go to his house one morning – my mom drove me to his house and he invited me in. Single mom, four kids, old/small house, complete mess inside. There was a kid motivated to get the fuck out of poverty – and he took endless shit from working-class assholes for being a brainy nerd, yet they had no clue how much worse off he was than them.
Thomas Sowell wrote about that.
“Black Rednecks and White Liberals
The title essay is based on Sowell’s thesis about the origins of the “black ghetto” culture.
Sowell argues that the black ghetto culture, which is claimed to be “authentic black culture”, is actually a highly dysfunctional white southern redneck culture which existed during the antebellum South. This culture came, in turn, from the “Cracker culture” of the North Britons and Scots-Irish who migrated from the generally lawless border regions of Britain.
Sowell gives a number of examples that he regards as supporting the lineage, e.g.,
“an aversion to work, proneness to violence, neglect of education, sexual promiscuity, improvidence, drunkenness, lack of entrepreneurship,… and a style of religious oratory marked by strident rhetoric, unbridled emotions, and flamboyant imagery.[1]””
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Rednecks_and_White_Liberals
Sorry I don’t have a better link.
The thing that sealed Sowell’s proposition for me was the whole “don’t disrespect me” mindset which came back and clobbered me in an online chat session a few years ago where some punkass kid (who I think WAS a minority) spent 20 minutes explaining to me why he was going to hunt me down and kill me for ‘disrespecting him’. It sounded just like street squabbles between little geordie kids back in Toxteth.
My wife and I have talked about this from time to time. Certain people (not black specifically, foolish) will spend most of their money on items that retain their value the least. $200 jeans, $75 dollar shirt, $250 watch, $175 shoes, drive a 2016 car with another $6000 in aftermarket stuff. Can’t make rent or buy a house.
So…a combine isn’t a slave trade now? I’ll let you do the comparisons and research on your own. But wake tf up.
Apparently being woke means you can’t make the distinction between evaluating the athletic ability of people who you are about to pay millions of dollars to be athletic and the literal buying and selling of human beings.
WOKE
Or voluntary versus involuntary labor, for that matter. Unless I’m mistaken, Roger Goodell (reprehensible though he may be) doesn’t round up college players with a whip and force them to bench press and run the 3 cone.
Sounds like a market inefficiency.
Oh, but he does. The whip is Capitalism, man.
My high school was about 60% black. Honors and AP courses were, at most, 2% black. Those black kids were absolutely savaged by the other black kids… ridiculed for “acting white”, ostracized, and often jumped. They had it easy at my school too, the other city schools were much worse. It was sad to see, all they wanted was to make a better life for themselves.
And those kids do more damage to black people than the KKK and every white supremacist in the country combined.
Chris Rock said it best.
acting white
So, what they’re saying is that the essence of being white, versus being black, is being educated, responsible, and ambitious. I’m sure they could find some folks over at Stormfront who would agree with that wholeheartedly.
But remember, only whitey can be racist!
It was strange. I think it’s less about color though and more about how the entire culture has been impacted by massive entitlements. We had a couple black African immigrants and they were not treated negatively.
African immigrants (at least the ones I’ve known, from places like Angola, Cameroon and Nigeria) tend to view American ghetto black culture with disgust. I think it more has to do with both the Malcolm X style form of black nationalism (i.e. ‘don’t work for whitey or you’re a sellout) and massive cultural insecurity.
My high school was that way too. All the black kids were bussed in from another neighborhood and I can only imagine the shit the achievers took on the bus. A couple of them told me they did after-school activities like yearbook, chess team, etc. just so they could take the activities bus home. Otherwise they’d have to suffer the assholes for two bus rides a day instead of just one.
What did the family see their role as, I wonder?
We believe that in order for disability studies (DS) to be most relevant, it must accurately address the interests of the full range of people with disabilities.
I think they’re too narrowly focused on people with traumatic injuries to the brain’s speech centers. I cannot make head nor tail of that.
“‘Ecosexual’ professor spurs movement: Have sex with Earth to save it
Stephens, chair of the art department at the public university, is set to debut her latest documentary “Water Makes Us Wet.” Its premiere is slated for this week in Germany as part of a large art exhibition.
Over the summer, Stephens also co-led an “Ecosex Walking Tour” in Germany that offered “25 ways to make love to the Earth, raise awareness of environmental issues, learn ecosexercises, find E-spots, and climax with the planetary clitoris,” according to a description of the event on UC Santa Cruz’s website.
In May, she helped lead a two-day “Ecosex Symposium” at the public university. The event included workshops given by professors such as “Decolonizing Settler Sexuality” and “Academic Freedom In An Ecosexphobic World.””
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/36330/
In other news, a tree faces a Title IX investigation.
THAT TREE RAPED ME!
CUT THAT TREE DOWN!
And here I was told that it was Big Oil Reoublikkkans that were raping the earth.
I assume this guy got enthusiastic consent from Gaia.
The earth was not unresponsive.
But it wasn’t “rape-rape”!
Album name if I’ve ever heard one.
STEVE SMITH INVENT ECOSEX!!!
Ecosexphobic
There’s another phobia I have. My god, I am a shitlord of the 1st degree!
I agree. Fuck this planet.
Apparently hugging a tree isn’t enough.
MEILF
https://twitter.com/hashtag/EichenwaldMath?src=hash
LOL
The screen grabs of the original thread that started all of that are hilarious.
If you can look at this and keep a straight face, you’re a robot.
Does not compute.
The extra funny part is that is the easiest triangle to solve.
I find Kurt Eichenwald to be incredibly inspiring – if a functionally retarded man like him can be employed by a major publication (stop laughing!), the sky’s the limit for me!
Didn’t he sign up for a kid porn site?
I thought it was tentacle porn.
he paid thousands of dollars for child porn as “research” for a story he was doing and conveniently “forgot” to tell his boss (and his colleagues didn’t believe him). Even lefty sites were scratching their heads and trying to put distance between themselves and Eichenwald.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/10/19/kurt-eichenwalds-sad-stor_n_69191.html
Oh Jesus, I had to stop reading the Tweets because I was laughing so hard people were asking me awkward questions, such as, “How does this relate to your actual job?”
https://mobile.twitter.com/Heminator/status/905184945815085056
Bill diblasio has gone full commie
His response in an interview starts off bad and gets increasingly worse
Remember. Communism can NEVER happen here.
Ever.
Go fuck yourself Bill you ignorant chooch.
First it is he doesn’t like private property, thinks city gov should decide every plot of land who lives where and rent to satisfy needs of community
Then goes onto wanting a new deal with a very powerful fed gov to deal with day to day needs of people
Yikes seriously scary shit
Ah, a Retarded Cunt, then. A particularly pernicious invasive species.
He’s always been a full-on commie. This is not really news.
I know but damn this a mayor of a major American city saying this how he should be deciding needs
Are you telling me that a man who was a cheerleader for the Sandinistas and honeymooned in Havana has always been a communist? My world no longer makes sense.
And NYC will re-elect him in a landslide.
Thank God for the Electoral College.
Lindy West has what we’ll refer to as “some column inches” in the NYT. No link.
Poor Lindy. Still bitter. Still smarmy. Still irrelevant.
She probably should donate some column inches from her waistline
I’m here all week, folks
I assume the NYT gave her a column out of pity?
Climate change is really a religion
https://mobile.twitter.com/instapundit/status/905404502546763776
I wouldn’t care, but I suspect that we won’t like their choices for sacrifices to the angry sky gods.
Hard to argue when the followers of it refer to the rest of us as non-believers, and they aren’t being ironic about it.
She got savaged in the replies.
I dug down in the comments under her original tweet. Found this gem.
I can only assume that “becoming tangled in their bedsheets” is a euphemism for auto-erotic asphyxiation.
also as it relates to cheese consumption, Wisconsin hardest hit.
“Drink up: Cockroach milk is the protein drink you didn’t know you’ve been missing”
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/27/health/cockroach-milk/index.html
TW: Autoplay
How about no?
“You can milk anything with nipples”
I have nipples Tundra. Can you milk me?
Next Glibs meetup!
*grabs udder cream*
Bag Balm rules all
This. And now they make it in tubes, and bar soap.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/61894/can-men-lactate
Yep probably, might take some medication on your part but there is even the possibility that he could make it work with just sufficient manual stimulation of your nipples
Oh yeah? Try milking a bull.
Where are the nipples on a cockroach? Also, how many would you have to milk in order to get a glass of milk to drink? That’s gotta be a lot of roaches.
I suspect this may be cockroach mulch rather than milk.
You just need one of them high falutin’ fancy miniature dairy pumpers, the roaches will learn to walk right up to it.
I’ve noticed a few things.
For all of these people who say bugs are the protein of the future they proceed to point to primative cultures for which bugs form a significant part of their diet. But people from those cultures, when given the option, drop bug eating like a bad habit. It’s almost as if the bug protein is undesirable and eaten for lack of an alternative.
This + a nice thick ribeye.
Hey, it’s not our fault that cows are efficient at turning cellulose into protein.
Tasty protein. One of their arguments is that bugs are more efficient.
Don’t care. Not eating bugs.
Hey, I agree, I’m just pointing out what the response to WTF would be.
Manchurian-style deep-fried Chinese crickets dusted with confectioner’s sugar aren’t bad.
Other insects are not so tasty.
I love me some beef and lord knows hog is delightful, but chickens are little walking protein shakes. If you’re trying to build muscle, you could do worse than just eat chicken whenever you’re not busy with something else.
I was listening to NPR while driving somewhere over the weekend. One of the segments focused on the trend of automation eliminating certain types of jobs and featured that endearing prog favorite, Robert Reich. He was waxing nostalgic for the jobs lost that required only a high school level education and prognosticating on the steps he felt were needed to address the current situation. One question that remained completely unasked was why the fuck are high schools failing to prepare graduates for the current work environment in the first place? You don’t need a four year degree to become an A/V installer, an automation tech, a sysadmin or enter a whole plethora of other well-paying careers. Will this ever be given any consideration, or are teacher unions and administrative bureaucrats really so free of sin that they’re no longer considered parts of this equation?
Yep. Most jobs don’t need degrees as you learn on the job
Hell even in engineering 60 percent of curriculum was useless for the job
But let’s make college free and like high school!
Schools are being put in a tough spot with the federal regulations demanding certain test scores be achieved or the control (what little is left) and funding of the school is taken from the district. They therefore teach for passing tests to make the superiors happy.
That is a generous explanation of why school districts are doing the kids a disservice.
Yeah, Mike Rowe is already addressing that issue, and damn well at that. Welcome late to the party, Reich.
Automation will bring with it the reminder that the business of business is business and profit seeking. Not to pay employees a ‘living wage’ or cover their life expenses.
Some nyt guy was whining other day Texas who is critical and skeptical of D.C. Is hypocritical for wanting aid even though
1. Support for what govt does isn’t all or nothing proposition
2. That money D.C. Is from taxing citizens…D.C. Didn’t create and doesn’t create wealth. People in Texas pay taxes
3. Small govt and fiscally conservative less tax and spending is not NO tax and no spend
4. Houston is mainly dem supporters
5. Using politics in lieu of this tragedy is toxic and fucked up
6. The premise only makes sense if the federal government scope and spend was purely on disaster relief…it isn’t by any means
7. Small govt and libertarian types when criticizing the govt I don’t see it about disaster relief…ever. It is mandates, taxes and regulations and govt programs that are ineffective and wasteful
Yeah, I’ve seen two despicable remarks from the left on this. One, “This happened because you’re skeptical of CAGW,” and the other, “You don’t deserve any kind of federal disaster relief because you’re skeptical of government spending.”
So basically it’s an all-or-nothing proposition for these assholes. Either you’re totally on board with a heavily-centralized socialist state or you get nothing, despite already being taxed.
I’m skeptical as hell of government spending, but I applied for FEMA assistance (not sure I’ll get any!) because they’ve gotten plenty of my money over the years, and if I can get a little back, I will.
I got unemployment for a few months about six years back. Look, it’s already paid for, and you pay taxes. Just because you get in the lifeboat doesn’t mean you approve of the Titanic’s navigation.
Small govt and libertarian types when criticizing the govt I don’t see it about disaster relief…ever. It is mandates, taxes and regulations and govt programs that are ineffective and wasteful
While I wouldn’t focus on disaster relief specifically, it is not mutually exclusive with “govt programs that are ineffective and wasteful”. Most of the money that gets spent on “disaster relief” nowadays is just typical government slush fund bullshit. You can’t let a crisis go to waste, after all.
Violently temperamental slobby detective Jeff Payne fired from his EMT job.
Good, now if the police dept. would only follow the example.
“The “Patriot Picnic” tour was shown on YouTube as a group of a half dozen or so people gathered around a picnic table that is painted the colors of the Mexican flag on an unoccupied side of the park, sandwiched between a busy road and the freeway. They were eating a pizza lunch. One of the patriots started filming the murals and doing commentary. That’s when the police formed a line along the sidewalk as the mob of counter-protesters started getting increasingly agitated.
Suddenly, within minutes, the patriot group was totally surrounded by hundreds of angry mob members. Many were wearing brown berets and waving Mexican and Communist flags, while filming with phones and trading insults with the pro-Trump demonstrators. After the police formed a human barrier, they were forced to retreat from their own line as the mob surged across the street. Approximately two dozen officers surrounded the patriot group to protect them from the Chicano communists. Good thing, because they could have easily killed someone.”
http://rightwingnews.com/crime/violent-mob-forces-cops-shut-patriotic-picnic/
This is a park paid for by public money?
Obviously, there are no Cubans in San Diego with those murals of Fidel and Che.
So, they wave Mexican and communist flags, while thinks that being sent to those places is a horrible punishment. And this makes sense to them, somehow.
They’re also stridently anticolonialist while fetishizing the Spanish language. Logic ain’t their strong suit.
*Get out of Florida!!!!!!*
I dunno. I’m thinking about riding it out, here in Tally. Oh, you meant get out of America’s wang, not the taint part.
Jesus. My Tallahassee FB is ridiculous.
In what way, panic? Or football related? We certainly aren’t going to get storm surge, and I live south of the Cody Scarp.
Panic. Gas and water runs.
Yeah… according to some of the more panicky DerpBook postings I’ve seen, all the Publix locations from South Sarasota to Port Charlotte are cleaned out of bottled water.
I keep 4 of those big square 2.5gal drinking water jugs on the bottom shelf of my fridge just to keep it cold in there, so I’m good for a few days. Of course being a single guy there’s plenty of room in my fridge. Maybe I’ll set up a trashcan to catch water from the roof to flush with.
There was a bit of a line at the gas station near Southwood yesterday evening. Then I got back to Woodville and saw all the empty pumps.
I don’t have any alcohol in my house though, other than a few souvenir beer bottles from Scotland and Wales, which I’m not going to open. That’s a problem.
A friend wrote on FB, “are people not aware they can just run water from the tap into any sort of container…?”
Growing up, my parents always filled up the bathtub before a hurricane.
I also am mystified about needing water from the store. I just went to Publix to get some beef fat to make pemmican, because it sounds like a fun thing to do while my wife is being anxious. They were limiting customers to 2 flats of water, and people were calling their friends because they had water.
SOP when bad weather is due, one of our baths is scrubbed out, cloroxed and filled with water. Add a cup of non-fragrance Clorox, and bathroom placed off-limits for #1s and #2s.
Saved our asses in 2007 when we were without power for 13 days AND when the power came back on, our well pump had failed.
Greetings from an increasingly shaken JB.
Shutters are going up today, probably starting in the next hour or so. We’ve got a couple of weeks of food and water.
The good news (at least for us) regarding the current track is that all the model guidance is actually further east than the path (over the Bahamas; see http://www.ral.ucar.edu/hurricanes/realtime/plots/northatlantic/2017/al112017/track_early/aal11_2017090612_track_early.png), and the Hurricane Center at least acknowledged that they were west of all the guidance but said they didn’t want to switch the track yet in case the guidance flipped the other way again. But either we’re going to get hammered or it’s going to be way too close a call.
I’m about as inland as you can get for the Southeast part of Florida. Just hoping and praying it goes somewhere else. Preferably hitting nobody. Evacuating, even if I wanted to, is impossible at this point.
This was a lot easier when I was 15 and Hurricane Andrew hit and I didn’t have to worry about half the things I’m worrying about right now.
Be safe, JB. Praying for y’all.
Hey, you and I are about the same age!
Good luck.
Prayers for you. Take care
It was very easy when Andrew hit and I was 7. The only bad thing is that we were on vacation in the Mountains of Western NC, and couldn’t go to the lake that often because of the thunderstorms. But we played a lot of board games that week, and even got permission to play with my cousin’s Gameboy one day!
Stay in touch if you can. Email us at submit@glibs with contact info if you want. I think I may be making a run south and east from St. Pete Monday or Tuesday to check on some people. If you have connection, You can put in an order with me.
I live in Tampa, Good luck if you make the trip.
I’ll be praying for your safety and for the safety of your entire region.
Hang in there, JB.
*Evacuating, even if I wanted to, is impossible at this point.*
Are the roads clogged? I remember that from Opal. Interstates were a parking lot. Or is there no gas (at least we don’t have to suffer the scourge of price gouging, though)?
Keeping you and all FL Glib holdouts in my thoughts, seriously. Hang in there.
You SURE you cannot leave?
Stay safe. If you’ve got food and water you should be fine as long as you don’t get flooded out.
I hope everyone gets through this OK.
“The left-wing activists behind the anti-conservative riots at Berkeley have ties to one of the nation’s most prominent pro-pedophilia organizations.
The Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration & Immigrant Rights, and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary — more commonly referred to as By Any Means Necessary or BAMN — is one of the militant leftist groups waging a campaign against conservatives and Trump supporters in Berkeley. The group’s planned aggressive demonstrations against conservative commentator Ann Coulter and the students coming to hear her talk led to the cancellation of Coulter’s speech this week due to safety concerns. (RELATED: ‘INFERNO’ — Milo Speech Cancelled After Rioters Set UC Berkeley Campus Ablaze)
BAMN’s parent organization worked directly with the North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) in the years just before it founded BAMN, according to NAMBLA documents reviewed by The Daily Caller. In addition, a member of that parent organization said to have founded BAMN is an admitted member of NAMBLA, which she has described as the victim of a “witch-hunt.””
http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/28/documents-tie-berkeley-riot-organizers-to-pro-pedophilia-group-nambla/
“Public School Teachers Behind Violent Antifa Group”
http://dailycaller.com/2017/09/01/public-school-teachers-behind-violent-antifa-group/
What?! A morally disgusting group has ties to another morally disgusting group?! I’m so shocked!
I’m shocked. Shocked, I tell ya.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/09/05/chicago-reported-thousands-more-votes-than-voters-in-2016-gop-official-says.amp.html
There is no cannibalism in the Royal Navy.
VOTER FRAUD DOESN’T EXIST!!!! Reason told me that.
And there’s no reason to start looking for it!
I’ve been assured by Ron Bailey that this isn’t possible.
And even if it was possible – which it clearly IS NOT, because…err…something – it really wouldn’t be a big deal and you shouldn’t lose sleep over it.
Unless the Russians do it?
Well after all, Sloop, Chicago has some of the liveliest graveyards in the U. S….
One question that remained completely unasked was why the fuck are high schools failing to prepare graduates for the current work environment in the first place?
It would be demeaning to our noble educrats to place such a mundane task before them. They are creating a bold new civilization, filled with inclusive, empathetic citizens who have thrown off the chains of acquisitive capitalism and embraced the true Socialist utopia.
And the public school system is so screwed up that here in Columbus, the teachers have only had increases in their pension contribution, not raises, in the last 8 years, while the administrators (who were caught altering test scores for funding purposes) continued to get (admittedly minimal) raises. There’s a reason I don’t like Unions nor public education, and why school choice should absolutely be the default.
Among the results of a new WSJ/NBC News survey on the widening gap between Democrats and Republicans:
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/political-divisions-are-widening-and-long-lasting-wsjnbc-poll-2017-09-06
There are myriad explanations for this. I maintain that Obama was the Social Justice Warrior in Chief, with much of middle America seeing themselves as his enemy. A big part of this is about Trump’s election, and the white, blue collar, middle class feeling like not only are they no longer the primary enemy of their own president, the guy in the White House actually kinda likes them.
To cite further ( albeit inconclusive) evidence of that, I’d point to this tidbit in the same survey:
At this point, I doubt Trump could lose the Republican nomination for 2020. What will he need to overcome that he hasn’t overcome before?
At this point, I doubt Trump could lose the Republican nomination for 2020.
In 2016, I rather vocally opposed Mr. Trump. If there were another election right now, he’d probably have my vote.
If you recall, Obama dropped like a trill’n in bailout moneys and TARP/ARRA bills in his first 6 months. drunken sailors were aghast
It was always fun to watch shrike try to attribute all of that extra spending to Bush, even though Obama as President signed off on roughly half of it and voted for the other half while he was still a Senator.
I was interested in the 42 point swing between August 2014 and now.
Between 2014 and now, 42% of Republicans went from being pessimistic about their children’s future to optimistic?
That’s not about TARP circa 2009. I think that’s about Trump circa 2017.
They went from having someone they thought hated them for being white, blue collar, and middle class to having a president that seems to care about them and their problems.
Greetings from an increasingly shaken JB.
Good luck, stay sane, and hang in there.
Sorry if that sounds trite.
The political whizzes of KFile, a group of Internet-savvy reporters poached from BuzzFeed that was untainted by the retraction, were transferred out of the investigative team.
paging Barfman..
Ex-Hasidic mom who lost kids for being gay wins them back
I just do not understand people. My grandmother (on the paternal side) stayed married to my grandfather for far longer than either of them should have, then came out when both kids were fully grown. The fact that both were alcoholics doesn’t diminish that them staying together until both kids were in their teens was probably better for my dad and aunt than the alternative. I also know someone from high school (youngest child) whose parents literally got divorced the day after she graduated high school. They put the good of the child ahead of their own wishes, which is what good parenting looks like.
I don’t know, I’ve got a good friend who’s mom didn’t come out until the kids had moved out and on. His childhood was no worse than anyone else’s, but there was a lot of tension between his parents and I think he feels like his mother would’ve been happier not feeling trapped in a relationship she didn’t want, as would his father have been. On the other hand, my wife’s parents divorced when she was young following her father’s affair, and, unfortunately for her, she and her sister were raised mostly by their lunatic mother (who is a fine, kind, generous woman, just absolutely insane) and had a far different (in a bad way) childhood than their brother, who was raised by their father.
I can look to a lot of relationships where the parents were old school and toughed it out even when they absolutely hated each other, and the kids don’t seem noticeably better off than those coming from split homes. As long as both parents are active in their kids lives and can at least be civil with each other, they seem to turn out ok. All things being equal, I think it’s better to grow up in a household without a lot of pent up bitterness and unhappiness.
That said, I think that a lot of people seem to get married thinking that it’s basically just going steady for a really long time. Some people seem to think that it’ll fix a broken relationship, or it’ll be like the first couple of months of a new love, or whatever, and that’s just setting up for failure. I’d argue that the divorce rate can largely be explained by a combination of unrealistic expectations and an unwillingness to work at maintaining a relationship.
That isn’t terrible logic.
If the judge had ignored that clause, I’m not sure that wouldn’t violate free exercise and/or establishment, and if that sort of clause is standard among Hasidic Jews, then I’m not sure that ruling doesn’t discriminate against them–or any other religion that’s concerned about preserving its traditions against modernity.
Yeah, she seems to have violated a contractual clause that she freely agreed to. I don’t see how the initial ruling against her is so bad.
The rent is too damn high, but let’s not go crazy
To make things worse, well-intentioned regulations are often used by neighborhood groups to further delay projects. The California Environmental Quality Act, for example, was written to protect green areas from pollution and degradation from large industrial projects, like new refineries or power plants. Its main effect today is making urban housing more expensive. It has added millions of dollars of extra costs to a sorely needed high-rise on an empty parking lot on Market Street in downtown San Francisco.
The Bay Area’s hills, beaches and parks are part of the area’s attractions, but there is enough underused land within its urban core that the number of housing units could be greatly increased without any harm to those natural amenities. To be clear, we are not advocating unconstrained suburban sprawl like Houston’s, with all its negative environmental consequences. We are talking about building on existing parking lots or on lots with single-story buildings near transit, not in Golden Gate Park.
They toss out some “GDP would be ____ if” numbers, which I always find suspect, but at least they’re on the right trail.
Let’s build more housing to make San Francisco more affordable, but not too affordable, if you get my meaning.
Housing is usually built to approximately 9:1 structure to land value.
When it gets less than 3:1 and zoning allows for it, building get expanded (and or knocked down and rebuilt).
In the city of SF the AVERAGE is 1:4 (IIRC). Which mean some are way worse. Without zoning restrictions, SF would look more like NYC. There probably wouldnt be any single family homes within the city limits.
Usually the people eyeing “underused land” are trying to steal property. If the owners won’t take the shitty government offer, then government will just raise their property taxes.
Owners of neighboring properties see what is going on and know they are the next targets. So they protect themselves by whatever means are available.
I can’t seem to think of an environmental consequence in San Francisco that might get exacerbated by people living in high rises. Nope, can’t think of one at all.
well-intentioned regulations are often used by neighborhood groups to further delay projects
Indeed they are.
we are not advocating unconstrained suburban sprawl like Houston’s, with all its negative environmental consequences.
But let’s not get rid of well-intentioned regulations.
Stay out of Island Lake in Minnesoda. Apparently their muskies have gotten a taste for human flesh
We’re gonna need a bigger canoe!
Possibly a frustrated lesbian muskie? It keeps trying to eat girls, but fails.
Since I’m a shitlord, I’m going to go ahead and say it; They were asking for it because of how they were dressed!
No it doesn’t make sense.
I was going to make some snarky comment about your terrible job quoting. But I won’t.
Or, I could make some snarky comment about my terrible sentence structure.
Whatevs Tulpa.
Good morning shitlord. *paws face*
Aaaand… there it is.
To fix this, the federal government or state governments should keep municipalities from abusing land-use regulations to keep out newcomers. The California Legislature, for example, is debating a bill that would significantly curtail municipalities’ ability to delay urban housing projects that meet certain planning and environmental standards.
Housing constraints also highlight the critical importance of investing in regional networks of public transportation that link high-paying job markets to areas with lower-cost housing. For example, the high-speed train under construction in California will connect cities in the Central Valley — Sacramento, Modesto, Fresno, Bakersfield — to high-wage jobs in the Bay Area. This will allow the number of workers benefiting from the strong San Francisco economy to increase overnight without changing the Bay Area’s existing housing supply.
We can fix this government constraint on economic growth and freedom. We just need to govern HARDER.
People are going to commute from Bakersfield to SF on the train???????? omg that’s hilarious. So many levels of delusional stupidity there, I don’t think I could find them all.
“Cher says she’s ready to provide “sanctuary” after the Trump administration announced the decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that protects roughly 800,000 young immigrants who came to the U.S. as children. The singer tweeted that she will protect young “Dreamers” and let them stay at her home.
She wrote that people who can should take “Dreamers” into their homes and “protect them.” She added that she was ready to do so herself. ”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cher-offers-dreamers-sanctuary/
I’d rather live in Mexico.
+1 The Diary of Anne Franco
Shit, it wasn’t like I could have read up a few comments.
I still find it hard to believe that Hillary’s pastor’s last name is ‘Shillady’. That’s … fitting.
If you made it up for a novel, your editor would throw it back in your face. Possibly wrapped around a brick.
But . . . reality. Whaddayagonnado?
“Half the people in this story are named John or Mike. The other half have names that look like your cat walked across the keyboard.”
“It’s an autobiographical story. Half the people in that office were named John or Mike. The other half were foreign.”
Is it any more implausible than Bernie Madoff, Rand Paul, Max Boot, Carrie Underwood (is there a more obvious stage name for a pre-op transexual?), Robby Mook, Linda Stasi, Wesley Mouch, Robert Reich, Don Trump, Hiro Protagonist, or Anthony Weiner?
Don’t forget the coven of murderesses in Hillary’s State Dept: Anne Marie Slaughter, Samantha Power, and the ironically surnamed Susan Rice.
Here’s an interesting link.
Cher to provide her house to protect illegals
As some of the commenters on that article mentioned, I would love to have it on film when a bunch of illegal aliens show up at her door.
David Gest is dead now so… oh, illegal aliens…
Nazi paranoia’s gonna get you, gonna knock you right on the head……
“13 Things Men Think Are Compliments but Are Actually Just Sexist”
http://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/a10223146/not-a-compliment-just-sexist/
About 10 of those were the exact same thing.
How did you end up there?
Clearly, he follows Hannah on Twitter – there’s a handy link right there at the bottom!
That probably should be re-titled ’13 things that men never say that were just made up by a girl writing silly article’.
“I like how you don’t freak out about little things.”
At least, the author *assumes* guys sometimes say that to girls. She’s certainly never heard it.
Actually, I avoid women that “just like guys so much more,” cause it usually means that they’re attention whores and they’re eventually going to annoy the fuck out of you.
I like my women to act like traditional women. Drink “~cHiCk DrInKs~”, please. Also, make me a sandwich occasionally. In exchange, I’ll go out and buy you ice cream and food you crave in the middle of the night.
Of course, I’m totally cool with it if women want to act like one of the guys (live your life as you see fit), but its a turn off for me.
Sounds legit: House flippers triggered the US housing market crash, not poor subprime borrowers
Who knows, maybe they’re right.
Four states were the whole problem. Everywhere else was a blip.
Flippers or subprime or banks? I think we can take it down to the individual level. If you bought a house for more than the fundamentals supported or you gave a loan on one of those, you were part of the problem. Unless you paid it off anyway, then nevermind.
Who wears flippers in their house? That’s just silly.
A lot of people in Houston. (Too soon?)
Not for those out west! There’s a stretch of Beltway 8 still under water. All the poor bastards on that side of town are having 1.5-2 hour commutes.
Honestly, this should be fairly testable. All you’d really need to do is look at the payoffs on subprime paper. If subprime wasn’t a contributor, you’d have seen recoveries roughly in line with longer-term history. If that were true, buying subprime during the crisis would have given a massive return (it was selling at pennies on the dollar).
Of course, any discussion on the crisis that omits the Fed’s very low for very long policy is just pissing in the wind.
Ah, the old communist tacting of blaming “speculators” for the failure of government policy. How about, when you restrict the factors that banks can use to determine whether or not to hand out a mortgage, people will find ways to exploit it?
So I started a new job about a month ago and, as I am wont to do, refused to fill out their intrusive and unnecessary questionnaire about my race/ethnicity etc. I now have HR up my ass asking me to fill it out with the following caveat:
“If an employee chooses not to self-identify, the regulations require (company) to conduct a visual determination.”
What the everloving fuck? Is this a new Obama, identity politics thing? I never fill those things out and this is the first time I’ve seen that.
Just tell them that you are Scotch-Romanian.
Vincent Ludwig *offering cigar*: Cuban?
Frank Drebin: No, Dutch-Irish. My father was from Wales.
First time I’ve heard that one.
“If an employee chooses not to self-identify, the regulations require (company) to conduct a visual determination.”
Doesn’t this sort of go against the entire I can be gender fluid thing? Tell them you’re outraged at their insensitivity and make them refer to you as xe or something equally stupid.
“As a member of the Undisclosed Tribe, I find your refusal to accept my cultural identity… troubling.”
I went through something like this two years ago; I went to the ER three times in five months, and every time they asked very detailed questions about my ethnicity.
I was so tempted to answer “mongrel” or “human”.
If they can ring you up as a special snowflake of whatever type, they increase their social signaling position.
I was sick and needed care. That really stayed my hand (I didn’t want them booting me to the back of the queue as a ‘problem’ patient).
On two of those occasions, I was struggling to breathe (really bad drug-resistant bronchitis), so single word answers were about all I could muster and scathing retorts were beyond my means.
Which was a shame, because the response that I really wanted to use was to reply with the question “Is my race or ethnicity going to affect the medical care I receive?”
I can sort of see how that might be applicable in a medical setting, as certain conditions tend to affect some races/ethnicities differently than others. I’m really scratching my head over how this is relevant to one’s employment though.
“how this is relevant to one’s employment”
It’s not. It’s government forcing companies to do demographic research for them. You know, those troublesome people that won’t fill out their census form honestly, maybe we can get them at their place of employment.
Also, it’s a back door way of doing racial quotas. Complete horseshit.
If “mixed” is an option, pick that. It’s probably true in some sense, and you might even get bonus points.
Then pander to their desires. Say you’re part Roma, and it’s your understanding that your great-grandfather was Armenian. With some luck, his first name could be an anglicization of a traditional minority name.
None of this is being collected under oath, and being a bit specific effectively insulates you from any truly intrusive questioning.
My kids are fortunate, they already got that “drop of blood” working for them, but all you pure-bred honkeys gotta get a bit more imaginative.
It’s totally true. I’m (((fertile crescent))) on my dad’s side and Scotch-Irish/American Indian on my mom’s side (though I would never claim to be “Native American” like Fauxcahontas).
I routinely get mistaken for Mexican/Central American and when I cut my hair short, some people ask if I’m half black/half white. Basically, I think racialism is crap. I’m human, mutt, mongrel, American, whatever; the new obsession with race and ethnicity is one of the most destructive preoccupations in modern life.
Well, the Roma part for me is true, and there’s good anecdotal evidence that one of my 4-generations back was a Circassian emigre, and they’re Polish mutts on their mom’s side, so they have some potential victim status, without having to lie,
But if I move from this job to a new job instead of my migration to self-employment, I’m going to identify myself as gender-fluid, somewhat minority on my job application.
And I’m gonna lie and feign horror that they think I might own guns, asking why they would even think such a thing.
Recent ‘developments’ have eliminated any residual respect I have for honesty on these forms. I’m going full ‘rational anarchist’ on their asses.
Are they going to come over with a Sherwin Williams color chart and to scale your minority status?
I think there will need to be a genitalia inspection as well.
Yes, plus they will use calipers to measure the dimensions of the skull. I believe this technique was pioneered in Germany a while back.
Q, you need to tell them that you are nervous about revealing your ethnicity, since you are part of a very marginalized group.
And then when they tell you it’s OK, that you no longer need to hide who you are, you let them know that you are a lesbian, left-handed midget albino.
What regulations?
That’s what I wonder. Seems like an Obama thing.
My only advice: pick your battles.
Maybe everyone should start wearing armbands, or patches.
Something to signal everyone else
Maybe I could get a (((yellow star))) to help my colleagues know where I belong.
I’ve noticed a lot of intrusive questionnaires recently. The doctor asked if I own guns. When I activated my replacement credit card they asked me if I was a legal US citizen. I have a feeling employers will soon start asking if we own guns
Just do what I do. Lie.
Federal reporting requirements and EEOC compliance.
If an employee chooses not to self-identify, the regulations require (company) to conduct a visual determination.
Ask for a copy of the regulations. This isn’t my day-to-day work, but that’s the first I’ve heard of it. Sounds like a complete trap to me – somebody doesn’t self-identify, you assign them to a category, you guess wrong, you are fucked.
EEO-1 required filers:
https://www.eeoc.gov/employers/eeo1survey/whomustfile.cfm
That’s what I figured. The company has to prove they’re meeting EEOC regs.
Like I said.
Gender-fluid, Roma-Armenian-American.
Not to go all P Brooks here, but in a new reply, answering a few questions from above:
1. Roads are completely clogged, and it’s only going to get worse. If the forecast holds and this thing heads straight up the state, the roads are going to get even more clogged and there’d be really nowhere to evacuate to anyways. There’s gas, but the gas stations are war zones.
2. Don’t expect to get flooded out unless we get Houston-area levels of rain, which seems unlikely.
3. Will try to keep in touch as much as possible. There’s still a real possibility this only brushes us.
Thanks for the concern all. Getting the shutters up at this point.
4. Thanks Brett L. Will be in touch, but hopefully won’t be necessary.
Don’t ever go full P Brooks.
Would need more italics for it to be full P Brooks
“even though Obama as President signed off on roughly half of it”
*Peak Brooks
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I am at a costco in Nc and there is a run on gas and the longest cashier line ive ever experienced here
“Men who accused Gamergate of misogyny; where are they now? … (In jail)”
https://ageofshitlords.com/men-accused-gamergate-misogyny-now-jail
This is from April 13, 2017, but worth reading. Seems to be part of a larger trend. Leading me to believe that perhaps women should avoid male feminists for safety reasons.
perhaps women should avoid male feminists for safety reasons
Generally, yes. The one piece of advice I’d give to women dealing with guys is that, if he’s not willing to say you’re full of shit, if he’s not willing to tell you that he thinks you’re wrong, you probably should look somewhere else. In general, if guys respect someone, if they consider them an equal or peer, they’re going to be willing to argue with them. They won’t refrain from holding their point to someone they genuinely respect. He might be diplomatic about it. He might hedge a little, but he won’t indulge you if he has an opinion on the subject. If a guy is willing to go along when he knows better, it means he thinks he can get something by flattering you.
Not surprised. In my experience, if a man makes a big deal about how he is a feminist or an ally – he is an asshole. If someone objects to his behavior (because asshole) he insists they are wrong because he is a feminist.
https://twitter.com/BasedMonitored/status/905170725773987841
This can’t be real. No one actually that stupid could use a computer.
A sitting congressman thought that Guam would tip over if too many people were on it. Yes, she could be that stupid.
Looking at this from another way….Commie apologists excuse the Holodomor because “Stalin couldn’t control the weather”, yet Trump can apparently direct a hurricane? Advantage: Trump.
“We will do an investigation and talk to the department of science and technology on what is the cause of the lightning, and if it only happened to the previously disadvantaged as I have never seen any white people being struck by lightning”
http://www.news24.com/MyNews24/Lightning-doesnt-strike-White-20120510
Lightning doesn’t strike white people? News to this guy.
***He was avoided by people later in life because of their fear of being hit by lightning, and this saddened him. He once recalled “For instance, I was walking with the Chief Ranger one day when lightning struck way off (in the distance). The Chief said, ‘I’ll see you later.'”
On the morning of September 28, 1983, Sullivan died at the age of 71 under mysterious circumstances from a gunshot wound to the head. Officially, he shot himself over an unrequited love[5][1][2][6][7] lying in bed next to his wife who was 30 years younger and allegedly did not notice his death for several hours.[8]***
…wow.
“after the fourth strike he began to believe that some force was trying to destroy him and he acquired a fear of death”
And he supposedly fought of a bear 22 times?
And he died of a suspicious “self-inflicted gunshot wound” in fucking DOOMS, VA??
My mind goes to that Far Side cartoon with G-d and the “smite” button on his PC.
Celebrate hump day with women you wouldn’t mind humping (if you’re into that).
http://archive.is/wyYY3
There’s something weird going on with #1 – her body is heavily freckled but her face isn’t? It looks like her head was photoshopped onto someone else’s body.
10 and 37
Lots of makeup?
Most likely. Just looks odd.
37 and 47.
Have to go with 32. She’s bringing me beer. I bet she’d even bring me a sammich!
Twin Peaks is OK, unfortunately there are none in the Northeast.
I thought I recognized #46. I put her picture into Google Image search, and this UK government site was the first hit. A little more digging shows that I was wrong about #46, she isn’t whom I thought she was.
#12 looks intriguing, but I have to go with my standard answer of orgy.
Well, even in an orgy it’s ok to have a favorite, right?
Good point.
#2 and I’ll give some props to #6 because she looks like a real girl with a great smile.
#57 cuz’ she looks strung out and easy.
Don’t ever go full P Brooks.
Don’t tell me what to do.
You could do worse living in Montana, enjoying skiing and cars and having an aversion to threaded comments. We would all probably be better off if we went full Brooks occasionally.
Replace skiing with having sex with farm girls and going shooting, and it sounds like the life.
Like Brooks comments, I enjoyed this comment. Brooks comments are a fun puzzle… what is being commented on? Lets find out!
From FB:
Doomsday cult
Right side of history canard
Need right top
priestsmen to save us!Oh wildfires and hurricanes wouldn’t happen if in the Paris agreement?
What does wildfires have to do with climate?
Idk but it’s science
Hot weather, and drought especially would increase the chance of wildfire.
As well as letting land get overgrown because you don’t want to disrupt its natural beauty (or those tourist $)
I’ll show you the science paper about it.
I ran some wildfire calculations.
#ChipsnSlasamath
Remember when it was stupid to say that normal, temperate weather made you skeptical of climate change because climate is a pattern over time, not just individual weather events?
Walter Williams says “Black Leaders Should Focus on Lifting People Out of Poverty, Not Purging Statues.”
http://dailysignal.com/2017/09/06/black-leaders-focus-lifting-people-poverty-not-purging-statues/
…racist.
It’s easier to tear down a bunch of statues then actually helping the black community achieve economic prosperity because it requires lots of work, confronts us with some uncomfortable truths, and takes away the chance for certain leaders and asshole groups to make money and gain power.
Wait, how do you know that the lives of black Americans won’t magically improve when large pieces of metal are removed from public spaces?
I’ve been posing that question to everyone losing their shit about the statues. How will those who suffer in the inner cities with poverty and crime benefit from statues in the South being torn down?
“How will *anyone* benefit from statues in the South being torn down?”
FIFY.
Then they would have to start embracing property rights, and we know how ridiculous that sounds.
Walter Williams is fucking awesome.
He spoke at my high school way back when. He was indeed awesome – I interviewed him for the school paper.
He taught at my college.
How game theory is improving dating apps:
So why don’t they be like bumble where woman contacts you first?
I found my current girlfriend through a dating app. She contacted me first.
Bumble was a waste of time for me. Maybe I’m ugly, but I didn’t have much luck at all with it even though I put a little bit of money in. I’ve had fairly good luck with women in general (all found in the real-world, except the current GF) , so I’m inclined to believe I’m at least average-looking.
Yea I get that. But above was the article was worried about guys just messaging at no cost to them…bumble does is prevents this
I dunno, it takes just as little investment for women to message men en masse. There is some research I’ve seen showing that women are more selective when it comes to sending messages via dating app, but then again, there is also research showing that slightly half of women on dating apps have accepted dates solely for the sake of getting free meals even though they know there’s a 0% chance of the them actually being long-term interested in the guy.
slightly less than half of women*
Women love cats. Just rub against her legs and purr and she’s yours.
“she’s yours”
Who – the cat or the woman?
It won’t work for you as you’re (presumably) a human.
Then show her your butt hole.
I did include a picture of my 3-legged cat, which was a conversation starter for a lot of the women that reached out to me.
This is my cat, Tripod. Get it? I think you do.
Play your cards right and you will.
I have a friend who back in his bachelor days, had a cat name “Merkin”, which was also a useful conversation starter.
It’s mentioned. I haven’t tried it (or any app–I nearly signed up for one before realizing I have no recent photos, and I’ll be damned if I take a selfie). I wonder whether it works, or if it’s just a playground for a handful of remarkably attractive men.
It’s just another weapon in your arsenal, so to speak. I don’t know if your goal is a long term relationship or hook ups, but in either case it’s a numbers game. Dating apps just provide another avenue for meeting potential mates. Give it a shot, it can’t hurt.
I highly suggest OKCupid if you’re going to go this route. You get to actually write a profile as short or extensive as you see fit, and answer as many questions as you want (while also indicating what answer you’d like from your partner, and how important it is for them to answer in a particular way), and you get to see how other people answered the questions (there are thousands of questions, you can answer as many or as little as you want). The algorithms were pretty damn good at coming up with decent matches.
Have a friend take a picture or two of you. Also, include some pictures of yourself with friends.
Can’t emphasize the ‘photos with friends’ angle too highly. There are some very good reasons why some of the people on these sites are on these sites.
Demonstrating that you’re socially competent is a virtue in its own right. Even if you have to fake it.
*heavy sigh*
*googles “friend-finding websites”*
Tucker Carlson (already a hero to neo-Nazis) promotes a social media app dubbed “a haven for white nationalists”
https://twitter.com/mmfa/status/905261088140353538
“It has served as a place of refuge for online racists who get kicked out of more mainstream platforms, including Milo Yiannopoulos”
https://thinkprogress.org/tucker-carlson-promotes-white-nationalist-social-media-site-f5d1bb156d1d/
If there’s a more reliable, unbiased source of information than Media Matters and Think Progress then I can’t think of it!
If you needed another reminder the media are pure scum
Here it is…wapo fixating on trump properties in path of hurricane
https://mobile.twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/905451064257904644
Just landed in denver waiting for my connection to ft Lauderdale. Might not hear from me for the rest of the day. It’s going to be a long night. I only got about 3 hours of sleep so hopefully I can sleep on the plane. New models show the storm tracking more to the east which is good for the keys but bad for my return flight.
Ouch. Sorry. Best wishes.
Go to Boulder Beer and get drunk.
Boulder Beer is good but unless they have a branch at the airport, I doubt Vhyrus will have time.
they do. its only a buck more than the boulder location.
They do!
Excellent! I did not know that. I’ve flown through DIA before, and I never saw a Boulder Beer location there.
*waves toward DIA*
Find some bath salts in FL, that will help keep you up.
Walter Williams says “Black Leaders Should Focus on Lifting People Out of Poverty, Not Purging Statues.”
“What does he know?”
I know right? He only grew up in the projects of North Philly and worked his way into a nice professorial job and nationally syndicated columnist. That’s what talking and acting white gets you.
+1 Uncle Tom
Collapse of Western Civilization Update:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/sarah-champion-mp-i-d-rather-be-called-a-racist-than-turn-a-blind-eye-to-child-abuse-96s0fbm22
It’s a sad reflection upon the world when the likes of Sarah Champion start to sound sane.
The fuck is this about?
Susan Page
@SusanPage
USA TODAY ID’ed 4,500 Trump golf-club members through social media & a website golfers use to track handicaps, then researched who they were
8:18 AM – Sep 6, 2017
“Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of Trump National Doral?”
Next up,”Truth and Reconciliation” hearings.
I used to think USA Today was relatively moderate, they have shown their true TDS colors the past year.
I just don’t know what possible justification they could even attempt for this.
Trump gets millions from golf members. CEOs and lobbyists get access to president
But not the first time they’ve had “a chance for close and confidential access to” the Secretary of State
First time? I thought money and power find each other was an iron law. My world makes no sense now.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha……sure, keep telling yourselves that.
*blank stare*
You expect us to buy that?
Just notoced this at the very end:
They forgot to add their Twitter handle: #Resist
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY!
Got that?
wealthy people with interests before the government have a chance for close and confidential access to the president as a result of payments that enrich him personally.
Later on:
thousands more in annual dues to his companies, held in a trust for his benefit.
There may well be a defamation case here. The statement that payments to his companies enrich him personally is a statement of fact, which may be false, because the payments go to a trust. It is not generally the case that payments to a trust are said to personally enrich the beneficiaries of the trust.
The Palin vs. NYT case has shown us that under the new #RESISTANCE definition of defamation, there is no such thing as defamation, as long as the public figure has an (R) after his/her name.
For example: A journalist could print that Rand Paul rapes German Shepards on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and cannibalizes newborns on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays with Sunday for rest (because he’s a Christian bigot who hates gays and minorities) it’s NBD. Conversely, if same journalist (not that they ever would) prints that Hillary Clinton, maybe, perhaps, might, under some circumstances, stretch the truth a little… career over.
All part of the script: No person who ever made their chops in the private sector should ever hold high office, because potential for personal gain from the office and stuff.
Texas woman, arrested for shoplifting, slips cuffs, steals cruiser, flees, loses control, attempts to unholster shotgun, finally rearrested.
Would, barring meth mouth.
She’s resourceful.
An ex of mine was arrested shoplifting beads from a crafts store when she was a teenager. She slipped the cuffs, then held them up for the cop to see and asked “Was that supposed to happen?”
“Uh, no.”
I like her style.
some good gangster style handgun holding by some police at the end.
KILLSHOT
Uh, no.
Live a little, Coop. She’d be fun!
Fun like 50% chance she’ll smash a beer bottle over your head midcoitus. I like those odds!
Who knew that CM was actually Rex Kramer – Danger Seeker
Dayam *CS*
I love the mug shot with the airbag imprint.
life imitating Reno 911
-1 naked guy
I’m enjoying VDH’s stuff more and more.
https://amgreatness.com/2017/09/05/virtual-virtue/
He is great. He is the last sane writer left at NRO. I can’t believe they have not fired him.
One of VDH’s virtues, and I feel, one of the reasons he’s still at NR, is that he has a core competency and he stays on message, within that area of competency.
It would be difficult to do a ‘Derbyshire’ on him if he doesn’t stray from his beat.
I’m not sure these people have any losses due to government action. From my understanding, there was a real possibility of the dams being destroyed if there weren’t releases- meaning there’d be no neighborhood left to salvage. I’d also be interested to see how the homes would have fared if the USACE never built a dam there…