A bunch of New England Patriots players must have homes in The Bahamas or something. Because their heads were elsewhere last night as the Chiefs beat the piss out of them to start the season. And of course I have the Patriots defense in my FFL. Meanwhile, Sloane Stephens knocked off Venus Williams (the gracious one of the two Williams sisters) and Madison Keys also won to set up a 15 vs unseeded finals at the US Open.
On the diamond, The Yanks took care of the Orioles. The Nats topped the Phillies. The Cubbies topped the Pirates. The BIG RED MACHINE fell. The Padres beat the Cards while the Rockies beat the Dodgers, who have lost 10 of 11 now, and got a little separation again in the NL Wild Card race. The Twinks did the same while tripping up the Royals and the Indians reeled off their 15th straight win.
That last few weeks of the season is gonna be a nail-biter for some of you (Looking at the Twin Cities and the Denver contingent). I’ll enjoy the excitement as the Astros battle to see who gets home field in the AL now that Cleveland is en fuego.
Nothing else in the world of sport, unless you count hurricane survival as a sport. But that’s not a sport, that’s news. And for real news, we need…the links!
The main story hasn’t changed, unfortunately. There are still a few different tracks, and none of them spare Florida’s Miami-Dade area. Please stay safe out there, Florida Glibs.
Harvey: asshole. Irma: asshole. Actually that couldn’t be further from the truth. (Read this if your day needs brightening!)
A data breach at credit reporting agency Equifax could potentially effect 40% of Americans. That’s right. The breach made 143 million Americans credit info accessible. And if that didn’t concern you, maybe the fact that a trio of executives at the company sold off $2m in their stocks in the immediate aftermath of the breach but before it was made public. The stock has since tumbled 13%. If only they were Congresspeople, then they wouldn’t have a problem. But since they’re not, this could potentially be messy.
An 8.0 earthquake hit a remote area of Mexico. “Remote” being the operative word, otherwise it would have been calamitous. Death toll at 5 so far.
Maybe USAToday could worry less about doxxing country club members and focus their energy on real, obvious cronyism and influence peddling. Nah, that’s like real journalism and stuff. Also principles over principals isn’t their bag, baby.
For Kenya, one witch doctor and three men don enter hot water. Naked witch doctors in the street. One with a snake around his neck. Car thieves. Yeah, this one has it all.
I’m sure there will be no abuse whatsoever with this proposal. This plan sounds worse than the one in the last link.
So many options for the last song of the week. Hope I chose wisely.
Persevere.
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Meanwhile, Sloan Stephens knocked off Venus Williams (the gracious of the two Williams sisters) and Madison Keys also won to set up a 15 vs unseeded finals at the US Open. – women tennis is weak these days
Honestly, it’s been pretty weak for years. The presence of Serena has helped stave off that realization for many, but it’s true. Overall I enjoy it, but given how much ESPN et all want to jam it down my throat like it’s the best fucking thing ever, I’m starting to dislike it. Stop telling me how they’re as good, or better, than the men. I’ve got eyes.
What ladies’ tennis really needs is to call more men sexists. That’ll boost ratings.
There’s some decent young eastern European talent, but they’re 2 or 3 years from contending for majors.
Having watched a ton of the US Open these past few weeks, I find myself continually annoyed at the *huge* and predictable swings in momentum (win first set 6-2, lost second set 0-6) and the inability to hold serve at all reliably. There are good matches at times, and I think this year’s Wimbledon was more exciting on the women’s side than the men’s. Overall though, it’s just not as good as the men’s game and I’m tired of being told it is.
I’ve seen some of those videos… watching them at work would get me fired.
They are frantically trying to stamp out the McEnroe Heresy.
Then they should host an exhibition event featuring a Williams sister vs. some dude we never heard of that always gets bounced in the first round and prove their point.
They would kick such a man’s ass because they’re the best ever!
I forget who was playing, Venus maybe, and she hit a swinging volley winner at the net which they put up on the screen as having a winner speed of 83 mph, roughly on par with the pace a lot of the men hit at. They made a big deal about how hard she hits the ball (which she does), but neglect to mention that the radar is *at* the net, so the ball hadn’t been slowed down by air resistance when it was measured. Meanwhile, Del Potro hit a 105 mph winner from the baseline, against Federer I think, which is faster than a lot of the women on the tour serve. And while he has a forehand of the gods, 95+ mph forehands from the baseline aren’t that uncommon.
Gah, now you have me jonesing to go play some tennis! I need a tennis buddy, badly.
I just moved to Raleigh. On the off chance you happen to live in the area, I’d be happy to play.
I’m about 300 miles too far north (NoVa)
That does seem like a long way to drive to play recreational tennis. Have you ever looked into joining the USTA? The local organizations run leagues and they have some social site for meeting other people looking to play. Good way to meet people and get to build a stable of opponents.
Yup, Karsten Braasch should have put this nonsense to rest once and for all.
Seriously though. If they’re just as good as the men, merge the two leagues and there will be no more complaining about equal pay. Also, there will be no women in the top 300.
The main story hasn’t changed, unfortunately. There are still a few different tracks, and none of them spare Florida’s Miami-Dade area. Please stay safe out there, Florida Glibs.
Maybe not the time for jokes, but staying safe is not a characteristic of floridians.
Uncharacteristically or not, or maybe they are a transplant, but if someone needs a place to stay, I have a spare bedroom and unused couches. I’m in northeast Ohio so there is that. Contact me @ alfordwayne@yahoo.com if intested.
The problem with being pithy is that, unless you are a citrus, it is harder than it sounds.
I have been trying to distill the essence of an observation into a concise line of dialogue, but my construction remains clunky.
The current version goes:
“When you have to tell people you’re smart, funny or in charge, all you do is prove that you’re not.”
I’ve been mulling over the difference, and can’t decide.
Think you’re smart, funny or in charge? Fuck off, Slaver.
Hitler was smart, funny, and in charge.
I think I’m doing this right.
You know who else was wrong about thinking he was doing things right?
Luther Ingram?
Uh…pretty much everybody?
Me, according to my wife?
“When you have to tell people you’re smart, funny or in charge, you’re not.”
^This one.
That one would work better with an if, because you get an “If – then” construction
Just sub the if for when. I still like the abrupt end.
I like the “when”. I think it sets up the “you’re not” better.
+1 “If”
Tundra winz.
Telling people you’re smart, funny or in charge proves the opposite.
+1 Lindy West
Although, in her case, calling yourself shrill is head-on accurate
Does she call herself fat and stupid?
If you have to tell people how smart… you are, then you probably aren’t
“Those who tell people they are smart, funny, or in charge usually are not”?
“Fuck you asshole”
“You think your shit doesn’t stick, but it does.”
stink*
Freaking edit button please or make me a fat fuck keyboard for these sausage fingers.
Stick? Ewwwww
you think it don’t be like it is, but it do?
you tink don be like dis, but it em do
I believe this is apropros
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgYpGBGDsuE
“And if that didn’t concern you,’
If only my credit was worth stealing
I put mine in the “For Free” section on Craigslist all the time. Still no takers.
Anything else you’ve put For Free?
Yeah. Bacterial infections from wading around in floodwaters.
I, on the other hand, spent a great deal of effort building up good credit…
You think your shit doesn’t stink, but it does.
(this might be my motto today)
*waits for first co-worker to axe me a question*
I like “stick” better.
In a funny way it’s great. They think they know what your going to say and out comes stick. Which stick can work in the sentence, but it would throw them off and leave them wondering. Hopefully without bothering to pester you with a work related question on Friday.
*smiles the smile of the idiot savant*
I went through a painful bout of ID theft a few years ago. Some Florida fuckhead got my SSN and opened a bunch of accounts with my stellar credit. It didn’t cost me anything but a shit-ton of time. Each of the creditors I spoke with said “yeah, we see this all the time”.
I’ve heard horror stories from people whose parents took out credit cards in their name unbeknownst to them as teenagers, only to find out later, and apparently it’s damned near impossible to unfuck that situation.
Turnabout is fair play. I hope their kids milk em for all they got and leave them eating cat food in their old age.
My wife had her cell phone number hacked. They ran up a couple hundred dollars in calls to…….. Philadelphia. I would have thought Lagos or Shanghai, but no, Philly.
I got credit fraud insurance once this happened to someone at my work. His mortgage company accidently leaked all of their customer’s info and it impacted him heavily. Now I have a $1,000,000 policy that covers all damages, has staff that can call on my behalf to fix my credit and even pays to fly me out to different areas of the world to appear in court.
As digital tech becomes more pervasive, I see identity theft as more of a “when” instead of an “if”.
I’ll put money that any homes bought by FEMA will be sold at a significant loss to well connected developers.
And if that didn’t concern you, maybe the fact that a trio of executives at the company sold off $2m in their stocks in the immediate aftermath of the breach but before it was made public. The stock has since tumbled 13%. If only they were Congresspeople, then they wouldn’t have a problem. But since they’re not, this could potentially be messy.
I find this strange, I mean they had to expect a lot of shit for a dick move like this. Is the money worth it? 200k maybe it is I dunno
Pretty much the definition of insider-trading. All that money will be spent on lawyers and the ensuing court-ordered penalties.
Yeah this could be shady. But even the linked article said they hadn’t been informed of the incident. While the trades don’t look like they were part of their routine trading plans, executives do exercise stock options all the time. Without more information, it’s hard to make any sensible judgements.
Yeah, they better be able to show they made a large downpayment on a second home they were having built or a large quarterly tax payment or were investing in a new venture or something else that was in the pipeline long before they had any knowledge of what was going down at Equifax. Even so, there will be other shareholders who will line up lawyers to sue their asses.
An 8.0 earthquake hit a remote area of Mexico. “Remote” being the operative word,
Temblor Toll: 1 cat, 1 dog, 2 abuelitas, and a guitarron
Awww. It wasn’t ‘Bwela’s time!
Fucking climate change
Heard that Equifax story on the way in to work and I thought I misheard that about the executives selling off stock. If my mandatory employee training taught me something that’s illegal to trade stock based on information not made public. I would like to think this would be a softball to someone at SEC to hammer someone(s).
And a lawyer representing non-insider stock-holders.
Yes, lawyers are probably tripping over themselves trying to get paperwork filed.
It’s likely that they didn’t know at the time. But….
They sold outside of the 10b5-1 plan, so they’re fucked. This is going to get tried in the media.
At least 270,000 Rohingya flee Myanmar violence in 2 weeks, UN says
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/09/08/asia/rohingya-myanmar-refugees-drowning/index.html
So is any sort of foreign intervention warranted in such cases? Not saying the US should do anything, mind…
Also
Aung San Suu Kyi’s long silence over the desperate plight of the Rohingya in Myanmar has been shameful. With tens of thousands now fleeing atrocities in Rakhine state, the Nobel peace prize winner’s aura of moral sanctity lies in tatters.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/07/the-guardian-view-on-the-rohingya-in-myanmar-the-ladys-failings-the-militarys-crimes
Are you saying that a peace prize winner is doing the opposite of what is conducive to peace? I am shocked. Shocked I tell you.
Yasir Arafat was not available for comment.
+1 murderdrone double-tap
Malala condemned what is happening
Are you saying that a peace prize winner is doing the opposite of what is conducive to peace?
The dirty little secret is there is more than one path to peace…and some of those paths are violent. If all your enemies are dead, you have peace. While the prize judges would probably prefer peace through diplomacy, perhaps they failed to specify when they handed out the award.
But…Nobel!
Hey, isn’t Obama about due for another?
He got one for existing. What can he do to top that?
He’s still existing, isn’t he?
I know this really truly makes me a terrible person, but given that Muslims ruin just about any country they live in, I have a hard time feeling sorry for the Rohingya as a class. On an individual basis I could feel pity for them I guess. As always, fighting the pull of dehumanization due to group belonging.
buddha vult is what you are saying
It is always interesting to me that ostensibly pacifist religions can be used to endorse violence.
In the long run, it is probably better for these people to move to Bangladesh. Multi-ethnic states don’t seem to work too well in the Old World. Europe has only calmed down lately after the creation of all the ethnostates after WW2. And that involved quite a bit of genocide to work out. Of course, we have magic soil over here in the New World, so we’ll be fine.
*rises to begin thunderous ovation*
It’s a group of people being persecuted for their beliefs. There are terrorists and violent groups among them, and the media should give more coverage to those aspects, but it’s a pretty disturbing turn of events. I don’t expect the rest of the world to be magic liberal democracy fairyland, but that doesn’t excuse the fact that the first thing the Burmese are doing after getting some freedom from the junta is acting like Germany in 1938.
If you study what happened in Iraq, Syria, etc. It isn’t at all surprising that a little bit of anarchy/democracy unleashes things like this, especially considering the history of the area (the rohinga are only there after a Muslim ruler genocided that part of Myanmar).
FWIW, the linked articles claim the military is doing as it pleases in this regard, but the interview of the civilian leader of myanmar doesn’t make you think she has much sympathy for them either.
See also: Egypt under civilian vs. military rule, RIP copts.
The scramble to give Amazon taxpayer money has begun in Virginia.
How about, Amazon gets a second headquarters without being bribed on where to go? Think we can do that?
Unpossible
JERBS!
Everyone should be in the greatest city in the world.
But those who can’t should relocate to VA Beach.
Bing!
Yahoo!
Yeah, a flood of bourbon came out my nose when I read that line.
VA Beach’s crony subsidy pool competing with LA and probably every other large city is laughable.
Atlanta is gonna bend over backwards to get it here, they’re gonna get a sweet deal that stresses the infrastructure even more with no revenue to offset it, and then Atlanta is gonna have another SPLOST to pay for basic things. Win-win-win.
I’ll bet this ends up in Ashburn. It hits all the requirements for mass transit, airport access, and near a large metro area. Plus, you can’t get much closer to the government teat than that.
‘We didn’t do anything well’
GOAT post-gamer
+1 accurate analysis
The Chiefs always give the Pats a hard time.
So, a while back I know some of us discussed the supposed awakening of one Laci Green. Yeah, about that. I don’t want to say I’m not surprised, but I’m not surprised. Lying bitch was lying. She’s still the same feminist she always was.
I thought the general consensus was that she didn’t change in any major way but got slightly better at least on the surface. Anyway this Betsy de voss outrage from the left is a whole lotta stupid
That was a while back, so I don’t remember exactly what everyone said. What I recall happening was some of us were rather skeptical about it, and others saying that she’s softened her position and become more open. But, maybe I’m remembering wrong.
Being calm and reasonable is no way to get attention. It’s not like she is particularly smart, funny, or informed. That pretty much leaves trolling.
I kind of concur with PieInThesSKy on this one. Honestly, I don’t expect everyone who disagrees with me to change their mind because they got laid. She’s a feminist. I don’t think she ever said she wasn’t. And, by all means, she’s welcome to her opinion. If she can summon the presence of mind to understand that other people have different opinions, even if she thinks those opinions are wrong, without thinking that makes them Hitler’s less kind cousins, that puts her ahead of 99% of SJWs.
I just remember a big deal being made about her “coming around and being open to opposing views!” Guess that doesn’t mean she’ll stop lying and insulting people like Trump and DeVos.
My impression is that the reaction in anti-SJW circles to her comments were in two camps – “She’s seen the light!” and “It’s an SJW trap!”. Both were premised on the notion that she’d somehow or another claimed to have a Paul-on-the-way-to-Damascus moment. But, honestly, I’d never seen any evidence of any such claim. In fact, I recall her asserting that she was still a feminist. For these folks, not considering anyone with an opposing view “like, literally, Hitler” pretty much amounts to being “open to opposing views”. I’m sorry, but hardline feminist opposes Title IX reform is hardly a major shock.
Yeah, I mean, my wife thinks DeVos is too unqualified for the position and she voted for Obama twice, but here we are working on child number two.
“Working”
I’m sure you’re gracious about how wrong she is. 😀
In any case, best of luck on number two.
Like, as we speak?
DeVos is too unqualified for the position
As opposed to all those qualified education bureaucrats who were doing a bang-up job turning a high school diploma into a worthless piece of paper and ensuring that as many Americans as possible had the opportunity to get another almost worthless piece of paper and tens of thousands of dollars in debt.
1) Who?
2) OK, kinda cute.
3) She got appropriately schooled in the replies to the tweet.
1)A YouTube feminist with a fairly large following
2)Eh, really her only attractive feature are her huge tits
3)Yeah, most of the replies I saw were taking her to task
I like where she says shes not sure what DeVos is planning, but she is already against it.
She doesn’t have to know those little details. Afterall, Trump, am I right?
OT but from the replies under her tweet; someone linked to a Reason article and this was a reply to it:
Surprisingly, I don’t disagree
As a reactionary, I resent your lumping me in with Reason!
“With the February 2019 mayoral election still a year and a half away, Emanuel has collected $3.1 million in high-dollar contributions. And more than $2.1 million of it — nearly 70 percent — has come from 83 donors who have benefited from actions at City Hall.
Among the contributors: law firms seeking approval for their clients’ projects or lucrative bond business for themselves, developers needing City Hall permission to build here, an events promoter negotiating the financial details of a major music festival and restaurateurs wanting coveted space at Chicago’s airports.”
Do stories about corruption in Chicago still count as news? It’s like reporting the weather in San Diego.
If they’re sent to prison for it, it’s news.
If it’s merely happening, it’s like puppcide, pointing it out is still required, though no one familiar with the problem will be surprised.
It is almost like giving the government control over the livelihood of people incentivizes bribery.
The article couldn’t seem to decide if it was uncovering corruption for you or simply outlining the mayor’s re-election plans. The tone was all over the place.
Letters to the Local Rag
But those on the western front sure as hell weren’t commies and anarchist thugs beating up peaceful people in the street like brownshirts.
Yup, all those ignorant Fox News watchers! They ought to watch real news, like CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, etc. Also, those stupid climate deniers! Gaia sure showed them!
Epitome of equivocation. Also anyone who knows history will know that the the civil tactics made by the allies on the home front don’t actually vary much from the fascist policies they were supposedly fighting against.
Also anyone who knows history will know that the the civil tactics made by the allies on the home front don’t actually vary much from the fascist policies they were supposedly fighting against.
Shhhh….ours was a benevolent fascism, so it doesn’t count.
I’m not sure everyone on CNN, MSNBC, CBS, etc. is aware that the Nazis were socialists, and that the current “Antifa” are using no-shit Nazi Brownshirt tactics to try to silence those they disagree with.
Antifa behaves like fascists though lol
Even the ones overseeing the concentration, I mean, internment camps?
Inshallah
“Climate change deniers”. What dishonest bullshit. Nobody denies that the climate changes, it always has, and always will. What is in question is whether the recent warming over the last century is part of another natural cycle, or is man made. The fact that the models which were were based on the man made CO2 hypothesis all failed spectacularly, as well as the fact that there have been warmer periods in the past, shows that the “science” is far from “settled”, at best.
“Climate change deniers”.Hereticsnah man we can prevent hurricanes all we have to do is BELIEVE*
* – %20 Believe In Climate Change tax to be deducted from all paychecks
…as well as the fact that there have been warmer periods in the past…
Heck, the best estimates we have indicate that the earth has been warmer than now for ~80% of its existence. Any warming we are experiencing now is just a return to normal (on a geological time-scale, that is). We are currently in an ice age (in an interglacial period), and that’s messing with people’s perspective on what’s “normal”.
We are currently in an interglacial period in an ice age, and have been coming out of an era known as “The Little Ice Age”. Not exactly shocking that the climate would be warmer.
Hey, a single weather event is not “climate”. Do you even science, bro?
But it struck the heretics! That’s proof of Gaia’s wrath upon the unbelievers!
Is that person insane? Houston isn’t even close to the top of that list. In fact, it’s all California.
https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/air-pollution-worst-us-cities/17/
Forget it, he’s rolling.
To be fair, I would bet most things that person says are stupid and wrong.
Inland Empire, not on the list? a Miracle
Proving that there’s no point in us worrying about it.
It was unclear whether their share sales had anything to do with the breach
I thought that line was reserved for People who broke the narrative.
As much as I like Sam Cooke, I’m listening to this tonight. It’s been out a month, but I just heard it.
For some reason I was expecting a Taylor Swift song
Top kek
The Alex Jones one could almost be an Art of Noise track. Thanks.
Man, Alex Smith looked really good. And he threw over five yards more than once!
Chain gangs > penitentiaries
Trudeau watch:
http://nationalpost.com/news/politics/scheer-calls-tax-proposal-crippling-but-trudeau-insists-it-wont-affect-those-making-less-than-150000#comments-area
Truly breathtaking in their arrogant ignorance. This is going to hurt Canada…bad. If it passes.
Just when I thought Justing couldn’t be any more stupid in his class warfare lunacy.
As for Bill, yeh, I’m sure the line of ‘equality for all’ stops at his offshore accounts.
Nothing like a couple of millionaire socialists who didn’t have to build or sweat anything out running an economy.
But the hit back has been fierce:
http://www.cfib-fcei.ca/english/article/9607-business-groups-unite-call-on-ottawa-to-drop-federal-tax-changes-for-small-business.html
Fuck Justin Trudeau and Bill Morneau.
You just don’t get out. The government knows when you aren’t making enough (and won’t let you work for less) and when your making too much. You just need to trust our enlightened ones.
Yet, perks for politicians remain untouched. Justin gets to go on pointless trips with his wife and Aga Khan (another one) to play Captain Cool. How about the idea a politician can leverage his popularity into a massive book deal? How is that ‘fair’ to people who don’t have that luxury, eh? Hm?
The hypocrisy is retarded in its scope.
It especially rubs wrong with Justin and Bill.
Bill and Justin’s Big Social Justice Adventure – from the back of their yachts.
GFY.
“Bill and Justin’s Big Social Justice Adventure – from the back of their yachts.”
Sounds like a great starter for a SF story.
Dude, you’re not actually asking for a SF story, are you?
Some men just want to watch the world burn.
“The government knows when you aren’t making enough (and won’t let you work for less) and when your making too much.”
This reminds me of a conversation I overheard online. I was playing games while sitting in a chat lobby with my online Canadian friend and a buddy of his. They were talking about work, and my Canadian friend mentioned something I hadn’t heard about before. He was saying that in Canada if you start working over a certain number of hours the government slaps a huge tax on that, as a way to “protect” workers from “too much overtime.” (Of course, he was saying it like it was a good thing, *headdesk*) Is that really a thing up there? OMG, we’ve got to stop you from earning extra money!
Yeh…http://blog.taxresource.ca/high-tax-rate-on-overtime/
So, it’s just that the overtime might push you into a higher tax bracket, not that the overtime itself is taxed more?
Wow, your taxes are high. 78k CAD is like 5 USD. Then again, does 39.41% include all the incidentals? Like how in the US we have FICA and other things separated form the general federal tax, plus often state taxes?
I think it’s pretty much inclusive of everything.
I’m not sure anymore.
“Then you ARE racist Billy, because you think of Doug as your ‘Canadian friend’ and not just as your friend.”
/PSA
It’s more that I think of him as my online friend. He just happens to be Canadian. Although I wouldn’t be opposed to meeting him in real life. In spite of his being brainwashed, he’s generally a pretty nice guy.
No worries, I’m just mocking an actual PSA from my youth that your comment brought to mind. (I think in the real thing it was “Jewish friend”, but I’m not 100% sure.)
You would bring (((those people))) into this, wouldn’t you Badolph?
I still don’t like the sound of them Boncentration Bamps!
The Liberals, meanwhile, argue it will only affect the wealthy who are using the corporations to avoid paying their fair share of income tax.
Even corporations that sell vacuums don’t operate in a vacuum.
It’s the class warfare rhetoric of this party that enrages me.
Gregg Allman’s final album releases today.
Cool! Thanks for the heads-up!
New AI can guess whether you’re gay or straight from a photograph
An algorithm deduced the sexuality of people on a dating site with up to 91% accuracy, raising tricky ethical questions
Put it in an app and we officially have gaydar.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/07/new-artificial-intelligence-can-tell-whether-youre-gay-or-straight-from-a-photograph?CMP=share_btn_tw
I’m guessing they go by how far the jaw comes unhinged.
What about bisexuals?
Let me know when it can identify gender-queer transfemales who prefer hermaphrodites.
That’s what the TSA body scanners are for
” there was no consideration of transgender or bisexual people”
Male bisexuals are merely gay. Female bisexuals are hot!
If it just signaled straight most of the time, signaled gay on some well manicured men and butch women some of the time, would that get you to 90% accuracy? might.
Isn’t something like 3% of the population straight? I can make an AI for you right now that has 97% accuracy!
Shit, 3% is gay I mean! Damn gay agenda must have gotten to me!
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“While the findings have clear limits when it comes to gender and sexuality – people of color were not included in the study”
Racist computer thinks all you people look alike.
And what would that be? Is there any real chance this is going to be used to round up people and put them in gulags?
It could in other countries.
Thats fair, I think I’d heard something similar out of Dubai or the like ~5-10 years ago.
Found it: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/09/gulf-countries-detect-gays_n_4065927.html
Huff-po warning.
“The GCC is an alliance made up of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman, formed to sustain unity among the six nations based on their similar cultural identities and religious beliefs. They are set to discuss the proposal on Nov. 11, according to the Gulf News.
Homosexuality is punishable by law in these nations. Penalties range from jail time to death, The Washington Post highlighted in June.
Other activists told Gay Star News they are concerned the means of “gay testing” may include anal probes, which have been conducted by authorities in Lebanon to determine criminal suspects’ sexual behaviors. This practice is denounced by the Human Rights Campaign.”
Are these arabs or aliens?
I don’t think it is a coincidence that they picked the gayest possible way to check if someone is gay. Where do they find the job of the guy who has to test if you are gay or not? Does he enjoy his work? What if I just pinched a big log? Does that make me gay?
So many questions.
Put it in an app and we officially have gaydar.
Not really, as they stole a base. The images they used were taken from a dating website, in other words they were images people deliberately posed/selected in order to appeal to their particular affinity for sexy-time. I’d imagine this set-up would create patterns not usually present in normal life, and machines are really good at noticing patterns. If they had run this study on candid shots and got similar results, that would be something, but they basically chose the easiest dataset to test their algorithm on.
If you had a representative sample just guessed straight on every single one, you’d be right 97% of the time.
An algorithm deduced the sexuality of people on a dating site with up to 91% accuracy
up to 91% accuracy?
From the article:
Given that roughly 5% of the population is gay, that means the algorithm… sucks. You could guess “straight” 100% of the time and have 95% accuracy.
Clarity and accuracy of reporting are fundamental to the scientific process. Readability formulas can estimate how difficult a text is to read. Here, in a corpus consisting of 709,577 abstracts published between 1881 and 2015 from 123 scientific journals, we show that the readability of science is steadily decreasing. Our analyses show that this trend is indicative of a growing use of general scientific jargon. These results are concerning for scientists and for the wider public, as they impact both the reproducibility and accessibility of research findings.
https://elifesciences.org/articles/27725
To be fair as science advances and specializes it may become harder to make it readable.
It also lets utter gibberish slip through the process (see Sokal). And it lets people who don’t actually understand the scientific method pretend to be sciencing.
Speaking of science
Self-Storying to (De)Construct Compulsory Heterosexuality: A Feminist Poststructural Autoethnography of a Self-Wedding Ritual
Written from the perspective of a white-settler, obese, bisexual, middle class cisfemale graduate student in Canada, the wedding ritual and bride are explored as sites of ideal female/feminine formation of the subject. Compulsory heterosexuality is implicated. “Single” and “married,” like “woman,” are constituted in discourses. The author explores ways that she, as an unmarried and therefore “single” woman has been positioned as personally deficient as single-ness is produced as an illegitimate and undesirable position for female/feminine subjects to take up. This research uses an autoethnographic methodological frame augmented by feminist poststructural epistemology to open up, trouble, disrupt and interrupt the figuring of the bride in hopes of (re)signification and new practices of the female and feminine self for the writer.
http://ourspace.uregina.ca/handle/10294/7681
See UCS’s quote above. If you have to tell people you are smart, you’re not.
Speaking of pseudoscience
FTFY
We need a new term for this special combination of jargon and gibberish. Jargonish? Gibberon? Fuckwittery?
Do we really need another word for stupidity? I mean other cultures will start to get that we are so accustomed to it that we have 100 different words for it.
It is one step away from a twitter post, just needs clapping hands between every word to round it out.
?This?Mother?Fucker?Knows?Whats?Up?
Clapping is triggering. You need an emoticon of snapping fingers
Too triggering – sounds like gun-shots. Uptwinkles, mother-fucker!
“Hegelian dialectic” sounds like a good term for it. Is that one taken?
When I read “white-settler” I think “Little House on the Prairie”, but somehow I think that’s not where she’s trying to take this.
Science!
http://ronpaulproblems.tumblr.com/post/165092083217
Future archeologists will find these posts and take them seriously.
Fortunately most of the present idiocy is being recorded digitally, which should degrade before future archeologists can uncover our society’s shame.
Chiefs CB Marcus Peters sits for national anthem in season opener
Nothing less patriotic than forced patriotic duty. Love how they made it a point to call him out shortly after the anthem.
Since he’s doing it for the attention, I would assume he expects it to be noted.
Irma’s track keeps nudging westward, which is good for me, and the current weakening trend are both good for me. Keeping everything crossed that I can keep crossed. Like I said, I’ve done everything I have. Have a couple of weeks of food and water, house built to withstand a cat 5 and shutters. Done all I can. Rest is up to Gaia.
For a bit of levity, let me show you the most insane conspiracy theory I’ve ever actually seen written anywhere in the history of anything.
“Oath of Sworn Secrecy”?
I love it!
Good luck down there, JB
Good luck!
Also,WTF? What was it then?
Good luck.
We need you safe and sound to cheer on the Eagles in their opener against the Redskins.
5,280 bodies? Just happens to be 5,280 feet in one mile. Coincidence? I think not!
Being Romanian I have no idea how it would feel to just wait for a devastating storm. Bucharest can be devastated by an earthquake, it was before, but you won’t know days in advance.
Check your Romanian privilege, eurotrash.
It is mostly boring with moments of stupid regret as you try to think about what else you could have done. But boring. OTOH, I got a bunch of boxes out of my garage.
Pretty much.
Just want this to be over with.
Sam Cooke is always a wise choice. Amazing voice.
Sam was the man. I have one of his big compilation CDs and play it all the time.
Breaking boundaries!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InqusPZCoM8
Yes because a bit of grooming is oppression
But, bbbut, cultural appropriation!!!
AAAAGGGHHH!
*runs away*
*grabs caterpillar poison*
Shouldn’t she bleach that thing to the same color as her hair?
That would be one consent too far for me.
She is ugly, and I’m not taking about the unibrow.
You have the right to look however you choose. You do not have the right to require other people to find it attractive.
This!
Honestly, I prefer that to the overly manicured upside-down V’s many women have now.
My favorite is when the eyebrows are just about gone and they have to draw them back in. Usually at goofy angles, as you point out.
My god, it like looking into the face of a wookie.
What is that? is it a Hooman?
Looks like a Star Trek “alien” where they just glue some shit onto the face.
Tim Kaine’s son arrested for antifa violence while Dad can’t say if they meet the criteria for “terrorists”.
At least he did say “but people who do violent things – the law should take care of them.” Which might apply to his son.
“Take care of” has a different interpretation when applied to his son.
Trump should pardon his son lol
Kaine’s head would fucking explode.
Yeah, since he’s programmed to automatically oppose Trump, he’d have a meltdown like the android in that Star Trek episode trying to process a logical contradiction.
What is it called when you deliberately create a Streisand effect?
His wordpress blog from 2013. Lots of blather about the juxtaposition of natural and unnatural spaces and privilege.
https://woodykaine.wordpress.com/
And now, for the weather. It’s a bit chilly in New York.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4865180/Suki-Waterhouse-rocks-blue-flares-New-York.html
Did she steal that opening wardrobe from the 1970s?
I have the perfect song!
Did I mention I saw them on the tour for that album?
You didn’t, but I recalled discussing it with you the other day. I’ve listened to it several times since. Great record!
“70’s Off Duty Model Cool”. So, basically the same look you can get today at Goodwill for $5?
The high-waisted pants are an embarrassment to western civilization and I’d suffer a thousand jihads if the last one was to eradicate them for good.
I burqua is more attractive than high-waisted pants.
-1 artificial old lady ass
At least she’s not wearing the high-waisted short-shorts that look like diapers.
I don’t get it. This I get.
Whoa.
The ’70s had some perfectly acceptable fashions, though, too.
+1 Cleopatra Schwartz
She was six feet of black dynamite….he was a short Hasidic Jew. She fought a savage battle to survive in the ghetto……he studied the Talmud at night. While she burned the ghetto to the ground, he kindled the Sabbath candles.
There’s nothing like a Samuel L. Bronkowitz production.
Nice
Wow. She looks like an average girl walking around in average clothes.
But with 10 times the attitude.
Yeah, average clothes from the 70s.
The author explores ways that she, as an unmarried and therefore “single” woman has been positioned as personally deficient as single-ness is produced as an illegitimate and undesirable position for female/feminine subjects to take up. This research uses an autoethnographic methodological frame augmented by feminist poststructural epistemology to open up, trouble, disrupt and interrupt the figuring of the bride in hopes of (re)signification and new practices of the female and feminine self for the writer.
Oh.
Goddammit with that Harvey & Irma link! Something in my eye…
How sweet was that? Fucking Sloopy, throwing us a curveball like that…
People who open their homes to foster care and to help the mentally disabled are angels.
Especially 120 of them
Every now and again it’s good to read about wonderful people. That story is quite amazing.
Defending Western History From Political Propaganda
http://quillette.com/2017/09/06/defending-western-history-political-propaganda/
History, Rudge tells us in Alan Bennett’s 2004 play The History Boys, is “one [bleeping] thing after another.” Yet history as a discipline is not solely concerned with facts, or, in other words, with what [bleeping] happened. It also involves interpretation, or, in other words, why things [bleeping] happened, why they [bleeping] mattered and what [bleeping] lessons can be taken for the future.
Such interpretations can be controversial. Classical Studies—as Sandra Kotta detailed in these pages—have been subjected to violent fits of politicisation. Donna Zuckerberg (yes, she is Mark’s sister) edits the Classical Studies journal Eidolon. In a recent essay she announced her desire to “model a Classics that is ethical, diverse, intersectional, and especially feminist”. “Classics as a discipline,” she wrote:
…has deep roots in fascism and reactionary politics and white supremacy, and those ideologies exert a powerful gravitational pull on the discipline’s practitioners. If we want to fight those forces, we need to actively work against them.
How Classical Studies has “deep roots” in fascism when the field predates the dogma is a mystery. More interesting is Zuckerberg’s reference to a “gravitational pull” that draws classicists into depths of toxic racialism. In an earlier essay on the Alt-Right and its attraction to the Classics she wrote:
When you hear someone…say that they are interested in Classics because…Classics is “the foundation of Western civilization and culture,” challenge that viewpoint…Engage them on their assumed definitions of “foundation,” “Western,” “civilization,” and “culture.” Point out that such ideas are a slippery slope to white supremacy.
Classics are the foundation of Western civilisation. No amount of scare quotes will obscure Aristotle’s impact on science and philosophy; the Homeric influence on literature; the Athenian origins of republicanism and the Roman promotion of Christianity. The belief that this is true does not make one a white supremacist. The Chinese think Confucius, Laozi and Sun Tzu built the foundations of their culture but this need not make them Chinese supremacists.
Great, more rich fuckwits
The Romans used the fasces as a symbol they inherited from their Etruscan ancestors, therefore facism?
The Fasces?
The Romans used the fasces as a symbol they inherited from their Etruscan ancestors, therefore facism?
Uh oh…
Just proves that Congress is fascist.
Voter fraud in New Hampshire is greater than Hillary’s margin of victory there. That’s also 5 times higher than the Democrat Senate margin of victory there.
Unpossible, TOS assured me that voter fraud has never been seen by all the studies that were never conducted to look in to it.
Looking at who is funded to do the studies, and having read a few excerpts, I don’t doubt that all the studies have found ‘almost no fraud’.
Typically they do that by only looking at convictions for fraud, or completely hand-waiving it away. I think it would be trivial to do some fraud the way the system is now, and even worse since they’re making the system electronic. There should be a revolt over any completely electronic voting system, it is an invitation to fraud/corruption.
“The newest version is a dream – we just put in the ratio we want and it spits out the right number of votes per candidate. There are a few bugs to work out though. Last time it said someone voted Libertarian.”
That is their dream, yes.
There is no cannibalism in the Royal Navy.
Sodomy, rum, and the lash, on the other hand…
Ron Bailey hardest hit.
I like Ron, I really do. He’s not a mendacious twit like Robbie or ENB…..but he really chooses to be willfully blind on some subjects.
Hurricane Andrew hit suddenly with no warning whatsoever
Oh, did he, now?
That’s what Fergie said.
OT: Watching Rep. Jackie Speier on CNN repeating the claim 20% of college students are sexually assaulted. Of course, DeVos is the devil for revisiting how Title IX applies to the schools investigations. The department continues.
Their entire morning is hurricane coverage and bashing DeVos. Now they have the head of End Rape On Campus on. Still waiting for the interview with FIRE or anyone else with a different view.
Or how about one of the guys who was fucked over by a kangaroo court?
They have their white/male/cis privilege, so they will be fine.
The real victims are the people whose lived-experience you’re denying right now.
Like that poor victim Emma Sulkowicz! Did her amazingly thoughtful and incredible mattress piece not get the point across to you?!
I liked the video she made about it, does that count?
They don’t exist, they are simply lying to further victimize their rape victims with the connivance of the patriarchy.
Jackie Speier is one of my most detested Congresscritters.
She does what she’s supposed to do. Have you seen her district?
1/3rd Asian? she should be fighting affirmative action then.
It’s related to her Jonestown experience and how that has not affected or informed her political career. Pretty abstract. But I don’t like her.
“A data breach at credit reporting agency Equifax could potentially effect 40% of Americans.”.
Awesome looks like I’m one of those according to their website.
https://www.equifaxsecurity2017.com
Yes, and if you may be, they tell you to enroll in their monitoring system.
Sure, what could possibly go wrong….
At least they don’t ask for additional information.
I’m starting to lose track of how many “free identity theft protections” I’ve qualified for.
For once I managed to miss this one. I was one of the unlucky ones in the Target hack, Verizon, the VA….it’s about time I slipped through the cracks
Based on the information provided, we believe that your personal information was not impacted by this incident.
phew
Looks like my data got leaked too. Luckily I already have insurance for this and watch my credit like a hawk.
“The First White President
The foundation of Donald Trump’s presidency is the negation of Barack Obama’s legacy.
It is insufficient to state the obvious of Donald Trump: that he is a white man who would not be president were it not for this fact. With one immediate exception, Trump’s predecessors made their way to high office through the passive power of whiteness
It is often said that Trump has no real ideology, which is not true—his ideology is white supremacy”
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/10/the-first-white-president-ta-nehisi-coates/537909/
So except for Obama, all of Trump’s predecessors “made their way to high office through the passive power of whiteness”, but he is the first one who is white?
Coates is a third rate intellectual who somehow managed to capture the attention of the media for using recycled and dumbed down ideas.
On the one hand, I kind of admire him for carving out a nice career by playing on the racial guilt of white leftists. On the other hand, he’s a relentlessly mediocre writer who gets held up by the literati as a second James Baldwin because they think lauding him absolves them of their imagined sins.
TNC is a racebaiting idiot, or a very clever cynical man cashing in on idiot liberals.
Fuck all of them and The Atlantic.
If I have to listen to one more stupid NPR interview on the guy I’m going to go buy a woodchipper.
#tellingyouhowireallyfeel
You Have to? Why?
I know I don’t *have* to. But I like to hear what the other side is thinking, I have been having a harder and harder time putting up with it lately, and shit like this doesn’t help.
Plus if it is anything like his last article that everyone went gaga over, it will be linked just about everywhere. Including places like TOS, hell it was already linked in our very own comments section. My only saving grace is that I never read the links. 😉
Racist writes about race.
Trump is Voldemort? Whiteness is the Black Art?
I’ll give him credit for distilling the prevailing criticism of Donald Trump into its purest, most unadulterated form, thus laying bare the arguments of the left so everyone can see their inanity and petty vindictiveness.
Donald Trump, so racist, he’s been lauded by Jesse Jackson for empowering and promoting black people.
Yeah, but Jesse said the other day that Donald won’t get into heaven.
I guess he’s gonna go to hell with all those people from Hymietown, eh reverend?
And Kid Rock got an award from the NAACP just five years ago, but now he’s a racist shitlord.
As soon as anyone chooses to become a political candidate in opposition to the Democrats, they become the biggest racist EVAR! This is known, no evidence needed.
WTF is the passive power of whiteness? If I said the president of an almost entirely black African country got his job through the passive power of blackness, or that the premier of China was selected due to the passive power of yellowness, everyone would see how that is both breathtakingly stupid and vaguely racist.
Yes, shockingly, most communities trust people who are members of the community to look out for their interests more than they do people who are or seem like outsiders. Apparently white people now are solely responsible for a near-universal aspect of human nature.
China on course to become ‘world’s most Christian nation’ within 15 years
The number of Christians in Communist China is growing so steadily that it by 2030 it could have more churchgoers than America
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/10776023/China-on-course-to-become-worlds-most-Christian-nation-within-15-years.htm
You Americans are falling behind both in industry and church.
Let us know when they have guns to cling to along with Bibles.
Whenever I go to church, I hear about mission trips to other countries. I don’t ever hear about mission trips within our own.
Thats for Mormons and JWs.
Getting a 404 on the link, btw.
I somehow missed an l at the end i see
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/10776023/China-on-course-to-become-worlds-most-Christian-nation-within-15-years.html
They happen. For example, the Southern Baptist Convention has both a Home Missions Board and a Foreign Missions Board.
Although looking them up now, they are apparently called the North American Missions Board and the International Missions Board, so they are apparently including Canadians in “home”.
The names changed in 1997, I am only 20 years behind the times.
Including Canada as home? Remind me to never go to a South Baptist church.
For example, the Southern Baptist Convention has both a Home Missions Board and a Foreign Missions Board.
Which would probably explain why they are the second largest denomination in the US, behind the Catholics.
A lot of churches do mission trips to large America cities. I used to work with a group that took youth groups to places like a soup kitchen in the South Bronx for example.
My church has about 40% US missionaries and 60% international. Usually the US missionaries have a specific niche based on their personal interests.
Bob Menendez hasn’t lost his trial yet, but he did lose MSNBC. His case Doesn’t Look Close, It Looks Overwhelming.
Well, the Menendez coverage is more bias via suppression than bias via defense. I think the NYT wrote an article this week that went a few thousand words without saying the word “Democrat” in it.
Hey, if he was a Republican I’m certain they wouldn’t have a banner headline about the “Republican Scandal!!”
For Kenya, one witch doctor and three men don enter hot water. Naked witch doctors in the street. One with a snake around his neck. Car thieves. Yeah, this one has it all.
Don’t mind me. I’m just testing the BBC’s new HTML formatting specification.
Damn stupid joke failure.
[blackquote] Don got ta member dem tags [/blackquote]
Buckwheat say otay!
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<s></s>Watch, I’ll have screwed something up in typing it all out…
Oh, I forgot
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You’re ruining the crappy joke I already ruined!
UCS’s work is done.
Good on Harvey and Irma. A little worried about how Jose fits in the story.
He’s the pool guy?
Probably one of their foster kids.
Why do you think Irma is grinning like that?
Jose went straight up Irma’s cone of probability.
bowchickabowwow
Burn them, obviously. Burn them all, like Sherman burned Atlanta!
What Are We to Do With Cinematic Monuments to the Confederacy?
Absolutely, I am certain that moralizing twats lecturing the viewers on the subject matter like an obnoxious niece at Thanksgiving will go over great.
Scruffy it is ‘evenhanded’, not obnoxious.
These people really are up their own ass.
That’s fine with me. Just make sure the lecture is after the movie so I can leave.*
*after using my phone to photograph the twats that stick behind so I know who to never associate with in the real world.
I’m all for it if SF is giving the lecture.
And in case someone is trying to watching it home, an overtrack lecture during the entire movie that cannot be turned off.
“so much privilege in this scene, I can’t even….”
+1 anti MST3K
I was thinking of another useful gesture.
I’m fine with a lecture about it, as long as they point out that the Democrat, former slave holding aristocracy are the ones who became the early KKK, and, as depicted in the film, attacked freed black people and took weapons away from them. That’s what gun control is about, and that’s a main reason for the existence of the Democrat party.
Slate, of course. DERP!
Over/Under of the percentage of these people lecturing who have never seen the film?
You know, it’s funny – somehow I can watch and appreciate a movie like The Battleship Potemkin despite the fact that it is propaganda for a horrifying, murderous dictatorship.
So, funny story. You know the famous scene with the woman screaming on the steps? There’s a local restaurateur who asked a guy to do a mural on the side of one of his restaurants, and the guy did a mash-up of her face with a golden Buddha. It sounds pretentious, and it is, but it looks neat. Well, our useless goddamn city’s “Historical Society” decided to sue him because it was ahistorical (unlike the brutalist post office directly across the street, I guess). Now the guy’s running for mayor, and will almost certainly win in a landslide.
What will progressives of 2065 say about the enlightened moral leaders of today?
Of course it must go down the Memory Hole, it shows that the Democrats were the ones promoting slavery and fighting to maintain it.
As a patriots fan, that game was hard to watch (at least the second half), but at least I won’t have to hear about 19-0 bullshit anymore.
18-1*
Being a Giants fan is the greatest thing in the world sometimes – we are the only football fans on earth who Pats fans can’t say a damned thing to.
Eli fucking Manning.
He’s the guy who really owns the Patriots.
At this moment in time, Pats derp from my relatives would’ve been a refreshing change from FB political derp. Oh well.
No, I meant to say 19-0. A lot of people were talking about how this is the year the pats would go 19-0. I’m aware 18-1 will never go away. Incidentally, I know quite a few old timers here in mass who are giants fans because thats all they could watch back in the day.
I am in such a Melvins mood this morning.
“A laptop that Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz has frantically fought to keep prosecutors from examining may have been planted for police to find by her since-indicted staffer, Imran Awan, along with a letter to the U.S. Attorney.
U.S. Capitol Police found the laptop after midnight April 6, 2017, in a tiny room that formerly served as a phone booth in the Rayburn House Office Building, according to a Capitol Police report reviewed by The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group. Alongside the laptop were a Pakistani ID card, copies of Awan’s driver’s license and congressional ID badge, and letters to the U.S. attorney. Police also found notes in a composition notebook marked “attorney-client privilege.””
http://dailycaller.com/2017/09/06/exclusive-did-imran-want-capitol-police-to-find-wasserman-schultzs-laptop/
YouTube’s radical leftism hits new, uncharted depths:
I don’t know everyone on that list, but censoring Christina Hoff Sommers interviews is pretty damn blatant. I don’t think of “if you want higher pay, maybe get a degree in a high-paying field instead of feminist literature” as radical alt-right preachings.
Interesting comment:
More than any American film about the Civil War, Gone With the Wind reveals the cunning skill with which white supremacy creates its own myths.
Good grief.
As a personal aside, to say I found Vivien Leigh’s character character “unsympathetic” barely scratches the surface. I found myself rooting for a gang of hobo cannibal rapists to mete out the fate she so richly deserved. Does that make me a bad person?
Still would tho.
The funniest part about that movie is that the character I rooted for the most was Mammy. Scarlett and Rhett Butler were singularly unsympathetic characters, and I wanted Mammy to have the best life out of all of them because she had to put up with Scarlett’s bullshit.
This has to stop. I feel racist reading it.
I suggested that they have a white newscaster in blackface read it on the TV. That would be perfect.
Just picturing that in my mind made me laugh.
I made the mistake of turning on the tv.
Hillary Clinton is on there squawking about how it is everyones fault but hers that she lost.
Christ. Shut the fuck up and go away lady. You aren’t going to be president. Not today. Not tomorrow. Not ever. Thank god. Now fuck off.
Grifters gonna grift. It’s all she knows.
I am beginning to rather enjoy it; it just prolongs the schadenfreude.
If I were running Amazon’s search for a new/second home, I’d be looking very closely at Salt Lake City. But what do I know?
Mormons aren’t woke?
I’m curious why you say that.
“Court OKs Barring High IQs for Cops
Jordan, a 49-year-old college graduate, took the exam in 1996 and scored 33 points, the equivalent of an IQ of 125. But New London police interviewed only candidates who scored 20 to 27, on the theory that those who scored too high could get bored with police work and leave soon after undergoing costly training.”
http://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/story?id=95836
Old article, but worth noting.
Didnt Dunphy claim to have missed questions intentionally to avoid that problem?
“Have you ever been married to Morgan Fairchild?”
“Who’s better at guitar shredding, you or Eddie Van Halen?”
Dunphy IS Eddie van Halen?
DON’T TALK ABOUT EDDIE!!
*sheds tear for our missing papist friend*
Missing?
Serious question: what happened to him?
He got in an argument with JT that went sideways, the admins got involved, Eddie left.
Is there a link? I was out of pocket due to traveling for a week or so and it must have happened then.
That sucks. I liked Eddie.
Upon further thought I remember Eddie having a change of tone on his commenting in general prior to the blow up. Seemed more angry / frustrated.
While it’s best for cops not to be stupid, especially detectives, I think emotional stability, self-control and personal integrity are probably more important attributes to select for.
A tragedy is that courts said this was OK.
Nostalgic hat tip to Jennifer from The Before Place, this specific topic – and I believe this specific police dept – was one of her favorite hobby horses.
I believe that she later went on to disavow libertarianism because it didn’t embrace the idea that employers can also control your lives just like government (except that employers can’t force you to work for them, but whatevs).
What is with you Florida people? My sister lives in Palm Beach Gardens. She figures she’s far enough from the coast to avoid the storm surge, and her storm shutters will handle the rest. Plus they’re not exactly sure where it will hit. So she’s not budging. We texted last night and she seems annoyed at the rest of our family for worrying and telling her to get out of there.
We have the entire joke of Florida Man to prove what is wrong with those Florida people.
Honestly, we talked about leaving this morning, and we have two problems (besides telling Vhyrus he had a place):
1) We could be on the road for 10 hours to get somewhere not materially more safe
2) There’s no damn gas in N. FL. I can get to Tallahassee, but if I have to keep evacuating, with all the Tallahassee people… The relative danger is within the margin of error. At this point, we have food and water.
Leave a post it on the door
Dear Vhyrus,
We GTFO, key is under the flower pot with the brown recluse.
Best of luck,
Brett
Do we have fiddlebacks in FL? I might have to just go with the black widow.
Florida is outside of the normal range for brown recluses, but they aren’t unheard of there. Fortunately, the invasive and far deadlier Chilean recluse has been found in Florida, so feel free to substitute.
with the brown recluse
That is no way to talk about your shy Pakistani friend.
I think she waited this long because she wasn’t sure it would hit her, but just like you, she realized that now she doesn’t have the gas or the time to get out. She does work at a hospital so I hope she panics and goes there to ride it out. Sure they will put her to work, but at least they should have a generator and a lot of supplies.
They are doing mandatory evacuations of flood zones by zone. We are a non-evacuation, so getting on the road also takes someone’s spot who is in more danger.
Good point. She’s not in an evacuation zone either.
Hide from wind, run from water is the old saying.
Feminism is the belief that profanity and name-calling are substitutes for facts and reason.
https://twitter.com/Amy_Siskind/status/905935425503711232
To a rational person, that is her admission that she lost the argument. To the nitwits on the left, it is the entire argument.
Ouch.
“Hacknyed due process talking point” – I’m convinced that she’s a sharp analyst who knows what she’s talking about now.
DON’T LOOK UNDER THE BED, THERE MIGHT BE AN IVAN DOWN THERE!!!!
Yeah, TEH ROOSKIEZ are sure interested in preserving our Constitutional rights. If there were a horde of people arguing *for* campus kangaroo courts, I’d say that would make more sense as a Russian disruption tactic.
That’s just what a Rooskie would say….
Describing due process as “hackneyed” is a special kind of je ne sais quoi.
It makes me marginally less cynical today to see her (and her useful idiots) getting savaged in the replies.
While there was a version of feminism that was focused on the specific application of the ideals of liberalism to the case of women in society*, modern “feminism”, like most forms of identity politics, is simply a wedge issue used to advanced the socialist agenda of totalitarian control. Eliminating due process in the name of protecting rape victims isn’t some unfortunate side effect of their agenda, it is their true agenda, in order to weaken due process in general. Restrictions on freedom of speech in order to protect snowflake feelings isn’t an unfortunate side effect of their agenda, it is their true agenda, in order to work from there to silence all political opposition.
*it still exists, of course, but as a cultural norm rather than an activist movement to change cultural norms.
Marxism with tits. I cant remember who came up with that one but it does nail it.
Judge requests sheriff investigate, prevent suspected “judge shopping”
Why aren’t Mexicans, beer, ass-sex, or peanut butter topics? Shouldn’t Sugarfree go under the hygiene topic?
The first non-pornographic google result for “Mexican ass sex”.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Mexican%20Mule
I learned something new today!
i think the biggest story no one’s talking about these days is the weakness of the U.S. dollar.
The headlines are blaming it on turnover at the fed and fall out after the hurricanes–I think those short term explanations are masking bigger long term trends.
Turnover at the fed is about questioning its commitment to rate hikes. Trump is likely to appoint people he thinks are unlikely to raise rates. That isn’t only about getting himself reelected–a strong dollar may have arguably done as much in recent decades to hurt U.S. manufacturing as anything. If his economic philosophy is all about helping U.S. manufacturers export, he probably wants a weaker dollar.
The other big deal is the outlook on fiscal reform. Along with rising rates at the fed, the markets expected a Republican president to be on board with the Republican leadership on fiscal reform–especially in the House. Now that Trump has demonstrated he’s perfectly willing to deal with the Democrats on raising the debt ceiling, all that anticipation of fiscal reform to come is being dialed back–and that’s showing up in the currency markets.
Inflation used to be a household word. Average people still use the word, but few of the have only a vague idea of what it means. Millennials, certainly, have no real world experience with the stuff. It’s a boogeyman to them–a scary story that old, white, racist, homophobes tell their grandkids. It’s to be given about as much concern as that story about how the communists were once trying to take over the world.
It’s gonna get a lot weaker.
No one? I’ve got a trip coming up in november and I’m noticing the weaker dollar already. F me.
Figuratively “no one”!
The best TV show no one’s watching . . .
The best movie no one saw in the theaters . . .
Figuratively “no one”.
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/figuratively
Seriously, do agile cyborg and warty post any here?
warty sometimes.
I believe AC transcended
Warty occasionally, Agile Cyborg no
Ty
AC posts here through astral projection that can’t be perceived in meatspace.
There are mysterious entries in the server log, attempted posts from alphanumeric IP addresses with timestamps based on a 47hour clock.
NPR interviews fisherman about escaped Atlantic salmon. It’s a very bad thing.
What does it look like on the scene where these fishermen are trying to retrieve the salmon that have escaped?
It’s sort of a carnival atmosphere. There are small boats — mostly small boats. But you know, fishermen love to fish. And so there is a certain sort of joy in it, but it’s like a Fellini movie, there’s the overshadowing despair that underlies it.
This made my day. Who could have seen that coming?
That was great. However, overshadowing AND underlying? That’s some serious despair.
thank you
Never fear, boobiez are here!
http://archive.is/EhYs5
5 and 44 for me. Also, I guess 10 is Antifa’s morale booster?
7 and 9. 6 looks nuts.
all them tittays keep staring at my eyes
Definitely a bunny-boiler.
I’ve never been much of a boob guy, but these titties posts are converting me.
Half of them look like they would steal your credit card and go on a shopping binge while you were asleep.
Might be worth it for a night with some of these girls.
True story: When I was working as an engineer, one of the VPs visited the offshore plant I was at and took a hooker back to his hotel room. Dumbass fell asleep with his wallet on the table. By the time he woke up, he had bought major appliances for several families.
In an asinine attempt to cover it up, he came into the plant and bellowed out an accusation that someone there had stolen his wallet and he was going to find out who.
Yowza, what a dummy. “My wallet was stolen. I think it was taken by someone I met at a bar.” How hard is that?
1 wins, but 40 looks fun!
I’m curious why you say that.
The greater Salt Lake metropolitan area is probably large enough to absorb an enterprise of this type, I think. Educational quality is good. General workforce quality is good. Housing prices are not ridiculous. It’s a desirable location. It’s accessible.
Beats the hell out of Chicago.
I was there this summer, and my friends there said the SLC area is attracting lots of tech companies, for the reasons you state above. The place is growing like crazy. But housing prices have started to go up.
I’m really curious as to what the dynamic will be with a big influx of tech people and the Mormons. I’ve never been, but I remember my aunt telling me when she lived there for several years in the 90s that she’d get dirty looks walking around with a Coke. I can’t imagine a bunch of coastal tech workers are going to be in a hurry to adapt if that’s still the way it is.
On the other hand, I think there’s probably a solid argument to be made that the quality of life out there is at least somewhat related to the social and civic cultures promulgated by the Mormons. I think I’d be willing to swear less and not flaunt my coffee consumption in exchange for mostly being left to do as I pleased and having really nice neighbors.
Way back when zip drives were a thing, Iomega was based out of SLC and their CEO complained that they had a tough time attracting tech workers because of Utah’s liquor laws.
Not even a thought, just a question:
Has anyone noticed that all the criminals in advertisements for security systems are white?
In a Ring commercial, one of the would-be thieves is an attractive young white woman.
It’s called “propaganda”.
It’s called fear of reprisals and bad publicity.
For failing to push the desired propaganda.
I was laughing about that the other day. TV commercial has some attractive 20-something white girl breaking into a house. And she was wearing a black watch cap.
Now, now, they might be “White Hispanic”.
They look like Portland hipsters trying to LARP as burglars.
ANTIFA after hours.
As opposed to Antia after dark, something no one should be subjected to.
I will say that the distribution network is about 100x better than it used to be. I showed up at Home Depot 10 minutes before they opened at 6:00, they had two aisles ready to go for plywood, with several squares worth on both sides. The manager had given the 20 or so people in line at closing last night cards, and he let them in first and had them line up in one aisle and started serving them, then let everyone else in and started us (probably about 20-30 of us also) down the other. I spent more time waiting to checkout than waiting for plywood. I was home before 7:00 and that was after the fuckery with rearranging kids seats and finding out that the back of the Expedition is only 7’3″ from seatback to doorseal. Then going back in and getting rope and standing in line again. I took the rope and tie straps out last week to clean and forgot to put them back in. Because of course. State Troopers are escorting gas tankers to stations and while canned goods are getting thin on the ground, water has been constantly restocked. Also, protip, it comes out of faucets in your house!
But I’m really impressed with the logistics of delivery here in Tampa/St. Pete.
Fill your bathtubs now. Drinking water is important but if you are married you will find that being able to flush the toilet is vital. Fill your tub/hot tub/buckets etc.
We got a pool for flush’n water. We even invited the neighbors on either side to fill their buckets as necessary. I have a 100 gallon water bladder with handpump that fits in a standard bathtub that I will fill tomorrow afternoon. We also have about 20 gallons on-hand. I will probably start getting squirrley and filling random shit and putting it in the garage fridge and freezer.
Oh, and I got a bunch of beef fat from Publix. Going to render it down and make pemmican. Got the meat and some blueberries drying in the oven. We have plenty of food without that, but (a)its a good use of some beef cuts that were near to freezer burn and (b) its something to keep my oldest son engaged today as he is definitely starting to pick up on the weird behavior of the adults in his life
Irma’s not going to sit in one spot and dump like Harvey did. How long do you think you could be out of power and basically just locked down?
Since I have elevated power lines in my back yard, power could be out for a week. I don’t expect to lose water for more than a day or two — but everything in Pinellas is so low-lying, I’m not sure about that. If they fuck it up, it could be down a week, too. Assuming not all the bridges wash out, by Tuesday we’ll be recovering and resupplying at least. That’s with 100 mph sustained winds and 10 foot storm surge and a shitload of rain. The real problem is that the path essentially cuts off over the road resupply until Wednesday if it it a worst-case scenario. So Sunday early morning until Thursday morning, resupply may be hard to come by and we may be cooking in the dark. Toilets will probably flush and water will probably be available for some of that time.
Here’s one of the local weather guys who has been an honest broker of information as he knows it:
2. With this track, I would expect hurricane, or near hurricane conditions across our entire viewing area. However, I expect the majority will be winds of about 65-85 mph. Nasty, disruptive, but ones that usually don’t do major damage. Trees down. Power outages for a few days. Older roofs may fail and start to leak. Not fun, but not devastating either. We have seen this before. Polk, Highlands and Hardee, however, will see more wind. They should be closer to the center. I suspect they will see 85-100 with higher gusts. Category 2 strength. In fact, similar to what they experienced in 2004. I remember a lot of blue tarps back then. Unfortunately, we will see that again with Irma.
3. I don’t believe surge will be a major issue. Areas that flood will definitely see flooding, and higher tides, but a major surge doesn’t appear likely on the West coast.
…
5. People are asking me if I am evacuating my family. I am not. I live in Pinellas, and while winds of 65-75 mph are scary, if you take the proper precautions, you will be ok. If you have a chance to cut back trees today, do so.
6. Make sure cell phones are charged. During a storm, TEXTING is the best way to get information out to friends and family. It requires much less band width. Facebook check-ins are helpful too.
7. Rule #7. I am not freaking out, and neither should you. This won’t be fun, but it won’t be catastrophic either. This might be the first time in history the entire state sees hurricane force winds, minus the panhandle. However, this track would take the worst of it in the rural areas of the Everglades, and Irma will quickly weaken as she moves up the state. Bad, absolutely. But a West coast track would be 1000 times worse for everyone.
8. We are gonna have some cleaning up to do. No AC in Florida for days is pretty terrible. Check on your neighbors. There will be trees down. Help folks out. I’ve chased hurricanes where areas were hit by 4’s and 5’s. Neighborhoods grilled out together afterwards. The pooled resources. They helped those without. We’ll get through this, together.
Both of these are good advice. My parents always filled the bathtub before a hurricane, and I just assumed everyone did. Looks like a lot of people don’t though.
On the other, our septic tank broke and it took 5 days before it could get fixed. My family (wife and kids) came down with Norovirus and it hit bad just as the septic went out. To call those 5 days unpleasant would be an understatement.
Race Traitor
https://hotair.com/archives/2017/09/07/reed-college-left-clashes-free-speech/
“Freshmen crowded the lecture hall at 9am for Humanities 110, the first class of their college careers. Elizabeth Drumm, the head of the programme, made some introductory remarks, her voice quavering. As some faculty members moved to take their places at a panel discussion, three demonstrators emerged from the wings of the auditorium. “We’re protesting Hum 110 because it’s Eurocentric,” one began. “I’m sorry, this is a classroom space and this is not appropriate,” Ms Drumm said, immediately cancelling the lecture.”
Students should start demanding refunds.
“I’m sorry, this is a classroom space and this is not appropriate,” Ms Drumm said
So far so good. Better than most, in fact.
immediately cancelling the lecture
Thus completely reversing course and conceding that their protest was appropriate and their (implied) demand that the class be shut down. WTF is wrong with all these people? Why not say “I’m sorry, this is a classroom space and this is not appropriate. You can either join the class as student who are here to learn, or cancel your enrollment in the class.”
Related:
http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2017/09/08/fewer-americans-value-college-degree.html
I spent (wasted?) the first 29 years of my life in higher education and I’m not sure I’d go to college now if I were 18 again.
I still owe a bunch of money for student loans. I was never cut out for college and I shouldn’t have gone. Everything I do for a living I learned either online or through trial-and-error. If there had been a viable “tech camp” or vocational school for web dev in the 90s I would’ve saved a ton of time and money.
https://twitter.com/StefanMolyneux/status/905982447245983744
WTF Libertarians?
I just saw KMW on Tucker’s show claiming how great it would be if immigration boosted America’s population to a billion.
WTF? Since when is population a substitute metric for quality of life?
Evidently the US would be unstoppable.
Just like India
Did you check out the comments on that video? KMW didn’t impress the riffraff.
I usually avoid Youtube comments like the plague, but….
*checks comments*
Yeah, that’s why I avoid them.
To be fair, smug and unsubstantiated really doesn’t become her.
I think the LP is selling out to try and capture disaffected Bernie Bros. That’s the only explanation I can come up with. Doesn’t come off real well for an entity whose slogan is “The Party of Principle”.
Dumb way to go about it if so. Bernie bros want more free shit….1 billion people would not be good for this
Bernie bros want more free shit….1 billion people would not be good for this
Actually, importing enough lifetime welfare recipients to overwhelm the productive members of society in any election is the best way to get more free shit. For awhile, at least.
Libertarianism and “Gimme Dat!” doesn’t really work together so well, unfortunately.
My theory is that the libertarian leadership, like that of Reason, totally misinterpreted the “libertarian moment”. Personally, I do believe that there was one. Within conservative circles and the Republican Party. I mean, only a few years ago, you had Allen West, of all people, recommending books by Bastiat. Libertarianism was poised for a major win or at least to draw in a lot of converts. Instead, they interpreted the libertarian shift on the right as evidence that somehow they needed to differentiate libertarianism from the right. So you get the bullshit like this.
The libertarian shift is still happening quite strongly in intellectual conservative circles, with the exception of foreign policy, which is a harder sell. What they need to do next to get to the next level of relevancy is tie themselves to the cultural wave of conservatism. Really work to get people like Milo on your ideological team, and make the libertarian brand all about rebellion and counter-culture.
Not going to happen. All they seem interested in doing is doubling down on their past fuck-ups.
It really is insane. You’ve got this massive group of people who are wandering their way to libertarian conclusions, a trend that could really energize libertarianism. You’d think libertarians would be putting out the Welcome mat and helping them navigate the additional intellectual steps they need to get there. You’d think they’d be doing everything possible to show them that libertarianism is the logical conclusion of their complaints. Instead, they’re doing everything in their power to alienate these people and everything they know to say that they think these people are icky and that they don’t want anything to do with them. And this has been going on since the Tea Parties.
I used to be somewhat more optimistic about the LP, but I think the only path forward now is entryism with the Republicans; basically pull the same shit that socialists did with the Dems.
Personally, I do believe that there was one. Within conservative circles and the Republican Party.
If there was one, or an opening for one, that’s really where it was. Unfortunately, the libertarian “intellectuals” had been thoroughly captured by the leftists during the culture war, and could not bring themselves to work with Those People.
If there was one, or an opening for one, that’s really where it was.
Like I said above, you had Allen West recommending books by Bastiat.
When the history gets written, I think the story will be that libertarianism was killed by the Tea Parties. A more accurate description will be that libertarianism was killed by the libertarian leadership’s reaction to the Tea Parties. Seriously, Rick Santelli’s Rant Heard Round the World should have been the beginning of a libertarian surge. As Zenome points out, many conservatives are still fumbling in the dark toward libertarianism. Hell, large parts of Trump’s 2016 win was co-opting complaints libertarians have had for years (albeit with a different agenda). The libertarian leadership had just one job – help all these people through the last few premises and welcome them in. And they utterly failed at that.
You saying that GayJay wasn’t a great ambassador to conservatives?
Unofficial slogan:
“Bake the cake bigots!”
Maybe they should stop trying to capture people, pull their heads out of their asses and just stick with principle. Just a thought.
Hey Suthen
I’m headed to Nola this eve for a few days to basically get drunk w/ old buddy
wondering if you have any suggestions for hot-spots/eateries/anything worth checking out
thanks
I’ve always done pretty well at this spot.
https://yelp.to/qTKq/h9Sdt2gehG
Disclaimer: it’s owned by a friend of the family.
thanks, will check it out
Conquest’s second law in action
I’ll take “Brand Destruction” for $200, Alex.
More masks getting melted, wonderful. If only there were actual libertarians in the Libertarian Party.
Seth MacFarlane’s Star Trek spoof. It seems… just godawful.
Hmmm… made by Seth MacFarlane, yep terrible.
For the record, hopefully I’m not offending anyone here, but Family Guy is one of the worst shows ever made. I’d have to think really hard if someone held a gun to my head and said “You can watch 24 hours of Family Guy, 24 hours of Keeping up with the Kardashians or I can kill you.” I think in the end I might choose the Kardashians because then at lease I can look at Kim’s ass.
Family Guy has its moments. American Dad may be the worst show ever made.
I dont get Family Guy at all. My wife likes it, though. If she starts watching it on Netflix, it’s headphones and Spotify for me.
I mostly can’t stand it. American Dad is much better, probably because it’s not as free-rein wanky as FG.
That said, I would binge an entire season of FG before enduring another episode of The Cleveland Show.
Count me in on the not particularly caring for Family Guy. It kind of always struck me as The Daily Show of animated comedy. It isn’t particularly smart, but it preens its audience on their faux sophistication.
I saw it as a cheap imitation of The Simpsons, but with more pop culture references and less meaningful storytelling.
I don’t really agree. Although there’s no doubt that Matt Groening is a lefty, the show didn’t masturbate in its own presumptuous sanctimony the way Family Guy does. Lisa wasn’t always the wise and insightful one and her bullshit was occasionally acknowledged as bullshit. Watching Family Guy, you’d get the impression that the only problem with cosmopolitan progressivism is the failure to faithfully practice cosmopolitan progressivism.
Also, Family Guy had a lot more worthless filler that had nothing to do with anything.
Cartman had those motherfuckers pegged
I don’t think anyone will top GalaxyQuest.
+1 Grabthar’s Hammer
First off, naming it “The Orrville” is terrible. If you know little about the film, and flip through Fandango or something, and it pops up as “The Orrville” you’re skipping that shit for sure. Space Dicks would be a better name if the movie has anything to do with detectives in space or anything.
I don’t understand why MacFarlane insists on doing live roles. That Western spoof he did was intolerable because of his smarmy, douche-chill inducing acting. I don’t hate the guy, but he ruins everything he appears in.
I enjoyed him as Peter Griffin as a teddy bear.
It’s almost wasted effort to pile on Hillary anymore, but here’s a clip of her from 2014 that she’d send all kids of illegals back to their country of origin.
So it was on CNN in 2014, but then CNN made no mention of it in 2016.
Science!
https://twitter.com/bjportraits/status/905770592267329540
I’m not even sure what she’s trying to say.
She is a Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist trying to blame the hurricane on transsexuals.
*barf*
Navel-gazing self-important asshole.
Yes, psychiatry is a type of science.
I saw BJportraits, and clicked the link, what a mistake.
Is it what it sounds like?
What the hell? I mean, I’m sure she’s pretty stupid, but I’ll give her the benefit of the doubt and say she was hammered when she wrote that because that’s stupid even by radfem standards.
The Onion: Clinton Already Working On Follow-Up Book Casting Blame For Failures Of First.
The Onion: MSM was doing our job for us so we had to bring our A game.
“I stopped taking prenatal vitamins the day Donald Trump refused to denounce the Charlottesville white supremacists”
http://www.salon.com/2017/09/04/things-to-do-to-get-pregnant-why-i-am-afraid-to-bring-a-black-child-into-this-world/
“I was looking for a reason to split up with the man I’m secretly cheating on, and now I can blame it on Donald Trump.”
Yup, not racist at all.
Also, do you need to ‘learn’ how to make baby food (organic or otherwise?), it is just mashed up food, right?
Started baby trshmnstr on food this Wednesday. Literally steamed a carrot, tossed it in the food processor and added a few tablespoons of formula.
Evidently that makes me a white supremacist. Is it because the formula is white? Should I have used chocolate milk?
Chocolate milk would have been cultural appropriation. You already proved your Nazihood by reproducing instead of preemptively committing suicide to atone for your whiteness.
Congrats on the kid. I may soon have my own little crusader around here. Good to know it is as simple as I thought.
Also, I am reliably informed that (cow) milk is a white nationalist symbol, so that is the last thing I would use.
Congratulations on the upcoming offspring! Parenthood is simultaneously better and worse than you could ever imagine.
Thanks, I was starting to get worried if I’d be okay, but this made me feel prepared. 😛
Congrats! You’ll do fine.
Raise a goddamn libertarian, though, ok? We are still a few short.
Thanks!
RE: Raising a libertarian, I will try, without brainwashing the kid or anything like that.
Preparation is irrelevant, resistance is futile.
Seriously, the bad parts tend to be self generated. Babies cry, sometimes for no intelligible reason. You have to realize that you’re interacting with an irrational will, not a rational will or even a baby doll.
Sometimes, walking into the other room and cracking open a beer while the baby screams is good parenting.
My mom got her vacuuming done whenever me and my brother had crying fits. Put us right to sleep.
Nice! Another couple of weeks and that baby won’t be where you left it if you turn around for a minute.
Warning: Diaper changes are about to get much, much worse.
I had a ricer laying around for mashed potatoes (it’s the only way I’ll do them any more) and when the varmint hit about five months I steamed some veg and riced the hell out of it. Then my wife was like, “You know that comes in pouches and packs and stuff…” and I was like, “Well, shit.”
If you ignore his multiple statements where he did in general and specifically denounced them…then this quote is correct
“I’m mentally unstable so the world should thank me for not reproducing.”
^Ding ding^
Weathermen still wearing windowane suits with heavily-patterned ties
*it says something that the hurricane itself – in its rolling, “tie-die that destroyed America” representation- is less-tiring on the eyes
Canadian band Alvvays new album dropped today. Here is an upbeat, jangly little number “Plimsoll Punks”. https://youtu.be/VXZx19uN4MQ
Spotified – gracias!
She’s got a little Sugarcubes vibe going there. I like it!
news alert on my phone:
Congress Passes Trump Pelosi Schumer Spending Deal.
The NeverTrumpers must be ecstatic.
The Art of the Deal. LOL.
Its negotiation 101, honestly.
You can’t negotiate with someone unless you have an alternative, a fallback. If you don’t have a fallback position, you aren’t negotiating, you are begging. The Repubs thought Trump had no alternative to them, that they could stymie his Presidency in the service of limiting him to one term. And they just learned different.
The Repubs have proven time and again that they don’t understand negotiation at all. When the Majority Leader throws a press conference at the beginning of budget negotiations and says, essentially “Under no circumstances will we fail to raise the debt ceiling or pass a spending bill”, he has just told the Dems he will give them everything they want. And lo and behold, that’s exactly the bill that came out of Congress.
I have a lot of deeply moderate people in my immediate circle, and there were all cheering about this deal, because “Trump finally gave up on those do-nothings and got something done!” I get the sad face, because nobody yet understands that it’s a good thing for us when nothing gets done.
Side note: yes, RINO voters do exist in the real world, it’s not just a DC quirk.
Well I think it wasn’t putting GOP on notice since they clearly don’t want to do anything on tax cuts and reform.
Trump proposed a bunch of budget cuts to agencies and the GOP house said he wasn’t getting it.
I have a lot of deeply moderate people in my immediate circle, and there were all cheering about this deal, because “Trump finally gave up on those do-nothings and got something done!”
How many of those people were saying a week ago that they were disturbed about Mr. Trump’s extremism?
These people find me “radical” because I read the Constitution before I make political opinions. That says it all, frankly.
Nice article about “Rugged Communitarian” IOW decent people help others out without the need for government.
http://www.newgeography.com/content/005730-hurricane-harvey-a-view-a-rugged-communitarian
Twitter bans Mom for criticizing Teen Vogue anal sex guide.
https://pjmedia.com/parenting/2017/09/06/twitter-bans-activist-mommy-for-tweeting-her-dislike-of-teen-vogues-anal-sex-guide/
Just to reiterate, that’s *Teen* Vogue.
Man, Roman Polanski’s friends just don’t give up, do they?
Uh, apparently NAMBLA is an affiliate of BAMN/antifa, so is this a shock? I guarantee you that unless progressivism is reined in or destroyed, you will see a push to normalize pedophilia within a decade. Hell, they already dipped a toe in the water with Pareene.
Whut? I am not sure what it means to be an affiliate of antifa. Also, I dont know what Pareene is.
The people behind NAMBLA were important(?) members of the group that founded BAMN and antifa. Along with the usual commies and crypto-Marxists.
I had no idea. Not surprised though.
Goddamned, could the left get any creepier?
Insight from a Top Man
The Republican vow to significantly reduce the size of government is a foolish pipe dream, Larry Summers says, not because of liberal policy aspirations but because of structural economic realities.
At a lunch on Wednesday, Summers, a former Treasury secretary and a leading Democratic economic-policy thinker, explained the substantive as well as political impracticalities of cutting entitlements and defense spending in the years ahead.
“If we want to maintain traditional American values, government will need to be significantly larger,” Summers declared at the event, hosted by the liberal Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Shorter Summers- “Nothing left to cut!”
Why on earth does anybody care what Larry Summers has to say?
We are spending ourselves into oblivion. Oh, it’ll be cut eventually; it may not be voluntary but it’ll happen. Anything that can’t go on forever, won’t.
This! People will be confident in government growth up until the day that they aren’t. It will come in the blink of an eye, and then the suffering begins.
Why do you hate the children?
It’s not too late though to do it voluntarily, though. As I said above, you just have to make it culturally cool to be a fiscal hawk. Washington can be the trailing indicator.
Traditional American values, like the welfare state.
What American values would be preserved by a significantly larger govt ?
Free shit, and putting the boot into people you don’t like. Its right there in the Constitution.
Summers don’t give a shit because he will be long gone once everything goes to shit.
That isn’t shorter….sounds like he wants MOAR and is using liberal policy aspirations which he claims he isnt
Who is stupid enough to think that the Republicans want to reduce the size of government?
+1 party system
Nice article about “Rugged communitarian” IOW decent people help others without government.
http://www.newgeography.com/content/005730-hurricane-harvey-a-view-a-rugged-communitarian
Digital blackface.
So they want more black people in movies and television, but want white people to ignore them?
Incidentally the same thing white racists/segregationists want.
So…segregation, basically, except more than has ever before happened in this country, including during slavery. Got it. Very progressive.
White people using black emojis is a form of cultural appropriation…
*facepalm*
This whole backlash against Betsy Devos’s rollback of the previous administration guidelines on campus sexual assault is concrete proof that progressives absolutely hate due process and will do anything to get rid of it. Colleges should be on their knees thanking DeVos for taking away this nonsense if only because it will save them millions upon millions from lawsuits.
Absolutely. That was the whole point of it, a direct frontal assault on due process.
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There’s a concept in pricing where consumers can be channeled to a certain product in your product line (for example, the premium product) by offering another product that is objectively worse value than your premium product. With the “foil” product in place, more people will buy your premium product than your base product (relative to the market without the foil).
This also applies to political discourse. The media is great at using the radical left as a foil product, knowing full well that people are turned off by it. However, they know that people will flock to the progressive left (the “premium” product) in droves.
I cant really tell the difference in the radical left and the progressive left anymore.
The shit that Hillary was spouting during the campaign was straight out of some shithole banana republic.
There is no difference. The ideas are identical, it’s just a question of tactics.
This. It doesn’t matter what the reality is, but the perception is that commies and antifa are radical, but progs and SJWs are mainstream. Without a constant radical left foil, the media wouldn’t be able to keep up the incessant march leftward.
Did you guys and gals see Lauren Southern’s takedown of the TOS?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2Q87dI0H5s
I would love to see a debate between Reason staff members and Southern and Molyneux.
…guys and gals…
Lol. Good one.
Southern’s still a little baby, though, so she’s probably lacking on the policy stuff. It’s Reason staffers we’re talking about here, however, so she could take down folks like Robby or ENB at least.
+1 one catfight between ENB and Southern?
I’ll be in my bunk.
I wouldn’t go to my favorite restaurant with ENB, not even if she were buying.
Ethical cluelessness is not a turn-on, and, in my opinion, that’s what we’re talking about.
Agree 100%. She’s repellent.
I’ve seen that linked here before. We’re not the only people who’ve noticed them selling principles down the river.
Did anyone else get an invite from The Jacket on Linked-in or other social media?
No, but I try to avoid self-doxxing too much in libertarian circles, because I’d be canned in an instant if i were outed to my employer.
lol good one.
Nick vs. Walter Block wasn’t the best sales-pitch for wokertarianism
I can’t believe a few things.
One, I clicked on TOS again.
Two, you seemed to be the only one who brought up that an EO isn’t something to cheer for or benefit libertarians.
If only there were a third party offering liberty-based alternatives… well, there used to be. Not anymore apparently.
http://www.worldtribune.com/codevilla-gop-is-dead-and-americans-need-a-true-alternative-to-the-ruling-uni-party/
I don’t know, man. The LP put forward a blue dude once. Now they are playing footsie with commies.
How about the Glib party? We’ll never agree on anything, never get any actual work done, but we’ll be principled about it!
A THICC ONE IN EVERY POT
^^ AND WE’VE FOUND OUR CANDIDATE!!
Congrats, Scruffy!
A BAR IN EVERY GARAGE
Can FLBP be Vice Pres?
No. Rotating FLOTUS from the Chive lists.
I can get on board with that.
You got my vote!
This dovetails from the thread above. I think the only future for principled, liberty-minded folk is entryism in the Pubbies. Model the tactics used by socialists infiltrating the Dems for the past few decades. JFK, shitbag he may be, would not be welcome in the Dem party now.
“JFK, shitbag he may be, would not be welcome in the Dem party now.”
I am convinced that if you could get any of the top democrats to drop pretenses they would fully endorse having a soviet style totalitarian government in the US.
I agree. It’s all about power.
We’ll never agree on anything, never get any actual work done
You’ve got my vote.
We get more than that. You’ll be the new head of ATF!
Fix it.
Fix it as in get rid of it?
Sure, once they return all the shit they’ve confiscated.
Or privatize it as a really cool convenience store.
BMW’s X7 iPerformance Concept Looks Like Three Rows of Stunningly Luxurious Dog Crap
Not hyperbole.
Disgusting effort from BMW.
It looks sort of like the Volvo XC90.
Also hideous.
We used to have a 328. I’m continually amazed that people buy their ludicrously priced shitty SUVs. I would get those $50k shitboxes as loaners, I’d rather drive a Camry or Accord. If people are buying them, why not an even more ludicrously priced SUV?
Its like an Escalade raped a Hyundai and its mongrel offspring baby wore fancy jewelry to try and distract you from its deformities
Gah! those rims
I know. Each time I look at it I’m more offended.
Those are some pimpin’ rims. *spins cane*
I do want to know why BMW thinks you want to ride in a solar oven with all that glass up top though.
“The Padres beat the Cards while the Rockies beat the Dodgers, who have lost 10 of 11 now, and got a little separation again in the NL Wild Card race.”
Now they only have to play the Dodgers and Diamondbacks seven more times in seven days on the road. Ugh. Methinks the race for the second wild card position will be upside down this time next week.
You’ll be the new head of ATF!
Fix it.
I’ve got some old rusty tin snips around here. I’ll “fix” it good.
And by “fix”I mean “neuter”.