I have always laughed at my mother’s living situation, in the Pines of Del Mar Gables Phase II condos in lovely Del Boca Vista; it’s not a place, it’s a stereotype. At the moment, though, as Florida is about the get the blowjob of the century, I’m not laughing so much. She is one of those old Jewish ladies who isn’t going to let a little rain and wind keep her away from canasta, mah jongg, and the condo clubhouse. So you’ll pardon the lack of my usual “he’s not that funny” commentary. That disclaimer given, here’s the links for the morning for all you non-Floridians who are still planted on terra firma.
WaPo points out that there’s a new kind of racism involved in immigration. “Illegal Immigration: It’s Not Just Beaners Any More.”
SP and I spent last night at an upscale cocktail bar where a couple friends of ours were playing a gig. And we found out about this when they played a cover of It Must Be Love. Fuck. Well, at least we still have Lou Reed.
Irrespective of the merits and demerits of the case, I am VERY uncomfortable with the idea of judges inserting themselves into employment disputes. And while I’m at it, fuck the Cowboys and Jerry Jones anyway. On the other hand, I love this, but I’m a sick fuck.
Poor David Puddy, he was born too soon.
And I’ll leave with a link to a song by someone you’ve never heard of, but should have if there were justice in this world. But there isn’t.
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377 responses to “Saturday Morning I’m Worried As Hell Links”
I never heard of this Lee Barber, but I don’t appreciate his making a mockery of a classic.
Was expecting this
Hope your Ma will be OK!
Thanks- she’s huddled up in a condo with several other biddies and a deck of cards.
Not sure if goy prayers work across the lines, but she’ll get some anyway.
She has always been nonreligious. My father’s parents never really cottoned to her because she came from a secular family who were your standard-issue Jewish socialists. Naturally her family eschewed any sort of religious practice (unlike my dad’s family who were overtly observant and deeply loyal to the capitalist state). When I was a kid and didn’t understand those dynamics, I was always mystified at why she couldn’t speak or read Hebrew and why she didn’t really know the rituals and customs, despite being a very intelligent and articulate woman.
So goy prayers are fine. Appreciate the thoughts!
Well, this Christfag is adding his for her, and everyone down there.
I had one aunt bug out a couple of days ago. Another aunt and uncle are staying put in the retirement community. They made that decision when the storm was supposed to head of the east coast of Florida. Now it is headed right toward them. They should be safe but who knows.
The aunt who bugged out probably will not have a home to return to if the storm doesn’t change its track.
For the record good luck to all Glibs and their families who are in the path of Irma and good luck to Vhyrus who skillfully manage to maneuver his stuff into the path of the storm. May all of you stay safe.
Your mom has my prayers. Right now mine is driving me crazy. She says she’s going to a nursing home so she doesn’t have to go through this again because apparently hurricanes avoid nursing homes. The conversation goes downhill from there.
Probably because you’re eating chunky peanut butter in front of her. Poor woman.
Stay safe!
Be strong.
Your mom sounds like a hoot.
Sounds like a good place to be. Hopefully all the Florida folks get through this OK.
Not that she’s going to leave, but is her place at least above any projected flooding, OMWC? Wind’s a bitch, but moving water kills.
I think where she’s holed up, it’s a third floor condo. So there’s that…
So it now looks like it is going to come ashore right at Sarasota where I left all the vehicles. Not only is it going to wreck the house but all of the stuff I tried to save as well.
Where are your folks hunkered down?
Were all gonna be in arizona by the end of the day. This was all a material rescue effort. And it appears to have been all in vain at this point.
We moved the vehicles from the east coast, where they were safe (but we were told they were not safe), to the west coast, where they are now in the direct path of the eye.
I thought the vehicles were in the Keys, which as far as I can tell are in the path of the eye. Of course, at the time you started all this, it looked like Irma was going to go along the east coast.
Not that this provides any solace. I’m glad snow is the worst we get here. The 46 hours we were without power from Irene were a mess.
They were in the keys but we could have simply taken them to miami and put them in storage. We drove them an extra 4 hours west and north, right into the path the fucking hurricane.
You gave it your best shot. With any luck the toxic masculinity of Florida Man will sap her power and your stuff will just get rained on.
Call your insurance company right this minute and change to full coverage. Seriously.
Definitely sucks that way; trying to predict where it ends up going is a futile effort that often ends up semi-comical. Best laid plans and all that. Good you all getting the F out, stuff can be replaced, people can’t.
I really don’t think your efforts were futile. Last I saw, the models had the eye pretty much going right over Cuthbert (sp?) Key. Where your stuff was, IIRC, and had it stayed, where it would have been scattered all over the eastern Gulf of Mexico.
As it is, you moved it to Sarasota, ABOVE THE SURGE LINE. (Though, that’d have to be awfully high, given the geography of the bay, and Irma’s projected path.) Anyway, you’re already doing better than you were. Even if it does come ashore there, your threat is rain-caused flooding, (which can be bad, see Houston), and wind. Your stuff may be safe, even from Hurricane level winds.
Leaving it in that Key, though? Everything there is going to be gone.
I think you did all right, considering what you had to work with. I’m glad that you guys are going to be safe.
“At the heart of the NFLPA’s case is what it believes is a lack of “fundamental fairness,” in the appeals process, noting Henderson was not an independent arbitrator and they were not allowed to question Thompson about the series of events two summers ago.”
Two Summers ago? I never knew the NFL was a government agency.
What does the CBA say?
It never ceases to enrage me how people sign contracts and then wail that it’s not fair because the other party has a lot of money — and how many people agree with this MUH FEELZ argument.
IIRC from the deflategate saga, Goodell can punish any player for any reason, with or without evidence. It’s pretty fucked that Elliot has to abide by this crappy CBA that was signed before he even joined the league.
As far as players signing away major protections, I seriously doubt most players are going to be interested in having to give up money (or medical marijuana use) in a bargain with the owners to limit the commissioner’s power when these sorts of unfair punishments happen to less than 1% of players.
The owners really do have all the cards in the NFL. The careers of players in the NFL are so short compared to the other major sports that they can’t really afford to strike.
All said, it does feel pretty good to see Jerry so enraged about all this unfairness, after telling Kraft to “take his medicine” and accept the punishment for the (unsubstantiated) deflategate crimes.
Unsubstantiated.
https://wellsreportcontext.com
You have your narrative. I have my own! I love how I can be as inconsequentially irrational with sports and not feel bad. But in this case, I’m totally not being irrational…
God am I sick of hearing about the fucking Ideal Gas Law. The Ideal Gas Law is… ideal and doesn’t account for many, many things. Which is why the engineers ran experiments and then determined statistical significance. The NFL behaved like shit throughout the process, for sure. But the scientists/engineers, from what I can tell, did the best they could with experimental design and execution and presented their findings impartially. Didn’t impact the Pats at all in the end, anyway 🙂
I get that. Its tough to replicate exact game conditions. The ball could be wet, it’s getting hammered and pounded. It’s been awhile since I gave it much thought, but I just remember seeing all the dishonest reporting of the data (the measurements of the two air gauges starting at different points on the gauge being one thing that sticks out).
“God am I sick of hearing about the fucking Ideal Gas Law.”
You, sir, are a moron
You, sir, are edging toward a cat butt.
Actually, the Ideal Gas Law will, for conditions in a football, give you a 99+% correct answer unless, like a certain “beloved public intellectual,” you don’t know how to apply it correctly.
It’s not just a matter of MUH FEELZ. Goodell is inviting the courts into the NFL
The problem I had with the NFL’s decision was the only NFL employee who actually talked to the “victim” ended up not believing her and recommended no punishment.
Equifax are becoming bigger cunts by the minute
Motherfuckers.
The news is that they included a TOS for that site (in super small letters) that forbids you to engage in a class action against them if you use it. They dropped it once they got called out on it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/09/08/what-to-know-before-you-check-equifaxs-data-breach-website/?utm_term=.186511cc6929
That would not have lasted a New York minute in court, and whoever advised they put that on the site needs to be horsewhipped, naked, through the streets.
I’m guessing they’re trying to act proactive about protecting anyone affected, while still maintaining plausible deniability for any individual case. Similarly, any time you have to enter your info the company is getting something from you.
Is it also possible that they don’t actually know who may or may not have been hit? Very irritating that this happened 2 freaking months ago and they’re just now coming clean.
Very irritating that this happened 2 freaking months ago and they’re just now coming clean.
They had to give their top executives time to sell their shares first.
Uh-huh. Because everyone knows judges are emotionless, purely objective truth seekers. Unlike private organizations who want to suspend potential stars because…. They hate their own bottom-line, or something.
I could understand the NFL suspending players to maintain their image. But this sounds like something few people know about, much less care. It’s not like there was video that was plastered everywhere.
In this climate, I can’t really judge the NFL for being paranoid about something like this coming to light. The NFL may be heading downhill, and they seem confused as to why. The sports media will hound the entire league about questionable conduct on behalf of its players and Goodell certainly doesn’t want to deal with that right now.
“The NFL may be heading downhill, and they seem confused as to why.”
I keep hearing Yuri Bezmenov saying “a demoralized person has been brainwashed so that no matter how much information you give them they cannot draw a sensible conclusion”
There is an awful lot of goodthink around these days. They should have sacked that idiot Kaepernic the instant he brought politics into the sport. Football is eye candy and mindless entertainment for people who are looking to escape the normal stresses of life. Nobody gives a fuck about the player’s politics.
I believe I’ve told you this before, that Bezmenov interview taught me more than the totality of all my Catholic and then Public Schooling.
Everything else I learned from listening to smarter people than me, and reading.
Yup. To be fair, I think there might be something to the “overload” theory – all NFL 24/7 and games 3 nights a week. But a lot of NFL viewers find the signaling to be annoying – pink to support the Komen scam for a month, arbitrarily bringing the hammer down on players for domestic abuse or other alleged crimes, and one doesn’t have to be particularly well-informed or right-wing politically to be kind of annoyed with players giving the black power salute during the national anthem… or doing the (now discredited) hands up don’t shoot thing on the field. I just wanna watch the damn game and maybe eat chili.
Didn’t Bob Costas go off about guns?
Yes, that pompous hairdo did.
And a few other lefty talking points IIRC
I heard, but have not confirmed, that the ratings on this past Thursday’s game were fantastic. The game sure was, other than SP bitching about them paying any attention to the idiot players doing their political preening. Not that she was wrong, mind you.
Nope. The ratings for Thursday’s game were terrible.
Keep virtue signalling to people that hate you, NFL!
I read in a story last season that there’s a very real possibility that they will get rid of the Thursday game once the TV contract is up
Lies, damn lies, and statistics.
Source.
So really, the question is not, why are people watching the NFL less, but rather, why are people watching broadcast TV less overall?
And of course if they didn’t suspend the guy and more damning info later turned up, everybody would be excoriating Goodell. Ray Rice all over again, even though Rice got more punishment from the NFL than he ever did from the state.
Wouldn’t have turned up already?
I was just musing about Plugs Rooney getting the call for Everton this morning despite his drunk driving arrest the other day. I remember when you got sidelined for smoking a fag in the locker room.
It’s not about hurting their own bottom line, it’s about the other 31 teams siccing their dog Goodell onto their opponents. What’s bad for the Cowboys is good for the rest of the NFCE.
“Ng and his sister are DACA recipients who settled with their parents in Los Angeles. Ng’s mother has a green card, and his older brother is a citizen through marriage. His father has since passed away.
After graduating from the University of California at Irvine, Ng worked as a policy advocate at Asian Americans Advancing Justice — Los Angeles, a nonprofit civil rights organization. He lobbies elected officials on policies to protect and expand immigrant rights.”
I’m no lawyer, but it sounds like he didn’t try to get legal status.
Remember when Jeb Bush was a dirty racist for bringing up Asian illegal immigrants during the campaign?
I don’t, but I was thinking about Chinese birth tourism the other day. The U.S. is one of the few countries that has birthright citizenship. While I don’t think it has any negative economic impact — these Chinese will come back here to go to school or to work. I wonder if there are national security concerns.
“Last March, US investigators raided dozens of Los Angeles locations suspected of offering “maternity tourism” services for pregnant Chinese women wanting to gain US citizenship for their children.
Some mothers were paying over $50,000 for packages designed to allow them to give birth in the United States, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency said.”
The U.S. is one of the few countries that has birthright citizenship
30% is a few Yes 24 of those have restrictions of varying degree, but 33 have unrestricted birthright citizenship. 33 out of 196 is bit more that a few in my book.
“A study in 2010 found that only 30 of the world’s 194 countries grant citizenship at birth to the children of undocumented foreign residents, although definitive information was not available from 19 countries.”
So if that’s true, based on “definitive information” it’s around 6%. Regardless, it’s almost entirely in the New World. Although the U.S. is generally terrible at enforcing their own immigration laws, the U.S. and Canada currently have reliable birthright citizenship. While the most important pieces of paper in Latin America are money.
“Some mothers were paying over $50,000 for packages designed to allow them to give birth in the United States, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency said.””
Hmm, this is giving me a raging idea.
Don’t you mean dooty lacist?
Typical BUT MUH FEELZ prog bullshit. Give me principled arguments, not anecdotes designed to tug at heartstrings.
And: Asian Americans Advancing Justice? Sorry, you went and worked for some lefty front group, you’d get more sympathy if you went out and made something of yourself.
Plus aren’t Asians at the top of the food chain economically? Might as well have a Tall Blonde White Americans Advancing Justice org.
Kirk Cameron: Hurricanes Are Sent By God For ‘Humility, Awe And Repentance’
That’s silly talk. As we all know, hurricanes are caused by fossil fuels.
Cameron and the environuts could get along famously if he substituted Gaia for God.
I thought they were caused by Trump.
From reading Twitter yesterday: they are caused by everything besides weather.
That’s what happens when Alan Thicke dies to keep him level.
Nice counterpoint to Jennifer Lawrence’s “MOTHER GAIA IS PUNISHING US FOR THE SIN OF TRUMP!”
Those two should get together.
Sure, both asses. Cameron: Left Behind, JLaw: plump behind.
Why is it these punishment hurricanes almost always target the Southeast states and not the more degenerate Northeast and Pacific states? God sends very mixed messages.
Do you even deplorable bro?
+1 tornados
In the example of Katrina, where the gay district of New Orleans was actually damaged less by it than the neighbourhoods around it, it’s clear that God doesn’t hate the gays, he hates the gay-adjacent.
Old but since I was just reading it: an inadvertently funny article about gentrification in Oakland.
Slate writer feels guilty about gentrifying his neighborhood, does some digging, finds out that before the black people, there were white people! Now what is he supposed to do?
Anyway it is an awfully good article for Slate and has some good history of Oakland.
Wait until he finds out his oldest ancestors were from Africa.
He should feel double guilty because it was white flight then gentrification. Fucking white people.
Get with the program – it’s “wypipo”
Just typing that leached about 15 IQ points from my brain
Buddy, you can’t have a negative IQ.
You can if you write for The Root.
Tell that to Lena Dunham.
I remember reading an article from some European city about the artists’ district there being gentrified and all the arts types bitching. I wrote back asking if they interviewed any of the now-elderly people the arts types pushed out decades ago.
I had this exact conversation in Potsdam. Some guy told me that Potsdam was better before all the Berliners started moving in, it was just run down buildings and artists. And how did the DDR locals feel when he and his artist buddies moved in after the wall fell? They probably hated them, but this guy was too narcisstic to care. And how did the villa owners feel when their family home was seized by the communists?
Yeah, you can repeat that tale in most every American city.
Blah, blah, blah wypipo are the problem etc. etc. Do progs ever get tired of being so tedious?
Thanks. A good read. I grew up in Oakland and San Leandro. I saw some of these changes – guess my family was a part of it. The author’s house reminds me of my grandparents’ place.
Secret Nazis: Deep Undercover
https://hotair.com/archives/2017/09/08/berkeley-offering-counseling-students-traumatized-ben-shapiros-upcoming-speech/
Burn it down, we’re done here.
Tell the truth – if a resume came across your desk from a Berkeley grad, you’d throw it away, wouldn’t you? Can’t these schools see that they are destroying their brands in the real world?
Most of those idiots are going to end up in government or government-funded enterprises. DOOOOoooommmmm
Counseling is what they need, though. Like Don Corleone slap in the face “you can act like a man!” counseling
The tiny prep school (Cegep which is equivalent to your Secondary 5) I went to (250 or so students) had an in-house psychologist for students. The reason being it was a school where the parents were mostly big shots from the wealthy parts of the city in Westmount, Hamptsead and Outremont. There was a problem with students who felt neglected at home or fears of anxiety of not measuring up to their parents. It was interesting to watch first hand as I ate ice cream with an observant Rufus glare.
One story was relayed to me by my cousin. They were in the lodges at an Expos game courtesy of his friend’s father who was the President of one of the largest paint companies in Canada. At one point everyone put in a dollar (this was before the loonnie) in a jar for a bet and the son (my cousin’s friend) won. The father walked up to him and asked for the dollar back.
No wonder some kids are messed up, eh?
Sounds like these kids over at Berkeley who feel threatened by someone’s opinion needed help before arriving at College.
Where was I going with this?
Cegep which is equivalent to your Secondary 5
Can I get a translation for this translation?
My guess was “high school”.
Yeah, is this English or whatever Canadians speak?
It’s probably the same weirdness as saying “Grade 10” instead of “tenth grade”.
Or “I’m attending University this fall”
Yeah that’s it!
Where was I going with this?
Who cares? You’re just fiffin’. Scattin’ and be-boppin’!
As a manager about 10 years ago, I had this snowflake under me who spent most of the day texting. I tried to reach this kid. One day he tells me that I just don’t understand the pressure he’s under from his rich parents and rich brother to succeed. He lived at home and had a car I’ll never be able to afford.
I almost gave him a you think you have it tough speech, but at that point I didn’t care anymore.
Google crisis map.
I don’t see a warning over Berkeley for Hurricane Shapiro
Puzzled by Irma’s threat to northern Ontario. Or is that some other crisis…?
Trump-caused frost!
Click on the map and it tells you what Trump-fueled crisis looms.
It’s a permanent general warning just in case anyone mistakes it for habitable land.
That made me Google, and I found “What Lonely Planet’s guide to Canada says about your misbegotten hometown” which is oddly amusing
I keep looking at these revised maps with that monster creeping west and thinking “Watch that motherfucker get in the gulf and end up right on my doorstep.”
I better check my water supplies and make sure the canned goods are well stocked.
In the wake of the Equifax breach, I’ve realized that I have no idea how to check if there have been loans or lines of credit opened in my name. Obviously, I check my accounts that I have open with my bank, but if someone were to open a Home Depot CC (as an example) in my identity, how would I know before it’s too late?
You are entitled to one free credit report per year from each of the 3 major rating agencies. If you stagger them that means you can get a report every 4 months and keep a pretty good handle on it. You can get a mail-in form or the online form to request your reports at annualcreditreport.com
A lot of credit cards also include free credit monitoring.
Also, if you’re not looking at opening any new lines of credit in the near future, you might want to consider a credit freeze. You have to contact each of the rating agencies individually to request it, and they charge you for it (up to $10 depending on your state). Prevents any credit from being issued in your name until you call up and remove the freeze (which they also charge you for). Shorter term, you can request an Initial Fraud Alert for free at any of the 3 major rating agencies. It’s good for 90 days (and renewable after that) and requires any credit issuer to verify your identity by contacting you prior to issuing new lines of credit. TransUnion has an option to request an Initial Fraud Alert online, or you can call any of the big 3 agencies. You only need to request the Initial Fraud Alert at one agency – it promulgates to the other 2 automatically.
That’s good to know. Thank you!
Also, Ive heard that requesting that information dings your credit score. Does that mean just after the 3 free annual reports? Like if I check it three times in a year, and then get my car financed and they run my credit, the 4th one hurts me?
No. Requesting your own does nothing. If you go out and apply for credit at a bunch of places that may affect you.
Even then, only a “hard pull” will affect your overall score. Anybody that issues credit does a hard pull. A “soft pull” is usually done for things like, say, getting an auto insurance quote and won’t affect your score.
^Doing euphemisms right^
You said “hard pull”.
Credit inquiries from a third party affect your rating, not you checking it yourself.
You can get your credit reports here for free.
They will show your accounts and inquiries. As to how you would know, it’s tough unless you are monitoring all the time. I had an ID theft years ago where the fucker opened up a bunch of accounts with my info. Racked up over $12k on one credit card alone. It ended up fine – the creditors were good about reversing everything – but it was a pain in the ass.
Starting to wonder if paying for a service isn’t worth it.
I’ve been waffling on getting a service, too. I’ve had a few small ID theft issues over the years (hacked my cell phone account, stole my credit card number and started buying things), but have never had the issue of new accounts being started in my name. That’s the one I seriously fear. When there’s fraud on my existing account, they usually catch it before I do, and I just have to sign a couple papers to get it cleaned up. My understanding is that when there are new accounts, it’s an absolute mess.
It was when it happened to me. I have a file that’s two inches thick filled with correspondence.
I may be a sucker, but I’ve been subscribed to Truecredit from Transunion for a few years now (heard very bad things about lifelock) – it gives notifications, updates, etc and you can lock your credit directly from the site to prevent any requests going through.
I was a victim of potential identity theft thanks to a dipshit at my previous company answering a phishing email. I have a lock on my credit so if I want to open any account, I get a call and I have to answer several questions. I recently did open a Home Depot CC for a new water heater, and had to run a bit of a gauntlet in order to get the app approved.
Repost from late last night, but this guy is hilarious.
https://twitter.com/CaptAndrewLuck?s=09
Ok that’s incredible.
That’s brilliant!
I have to admit at first that meant nothing to me but then I realized that it is about that not-as-good-as-rugby thing you have in the states. The word rams i think ringed some sort of bell.
Somebody noticed Andrew Luck had a Civil War twin brother and is having fun. I first heard about this a year or two ago. I think Andrew Luck actually knows about it and has done nothing which speaks well about him.
Not quite, it started out as a photoshop and fictional missives to home from “Gen. Andrew Luck.” It turned into a meme, and other people ran with it, including the “Capt. Andrew Luck” twitter feed.
http://www.indystar.com/story/sports/nfl/colts/2016/12/29/meet-maker-andrew-luck-civil-war-meme/95766780/
Ol Lauren Southern keeps going on about The Problem With Libertarians
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRV8GCvzUf8
While ignoring that libertarians are no sort of uniform group, the the libertarian party and Reason magazine are not representative of liberarians and that most libertarians just want to be left in peace and are not active in any organised movement.
Wait until she finds us. The Problem With Glibertarians will keep her busy for years.
There is no end to that list…
Final solution to the Glibertarian problem?
post catbutt scarcity?
It sounds like she’d like us.
Anyway, I agree with her.
Just like “liberal” now means “progressive”, and “feminist” now means “rheeeeeeeeeeee”, “libertarian” will stop meaning libertarian unless there are prominent libertarians who are actually libertarian.
Someone should direct her to our site. Entry fee: bikini pics. (no tits or GTFO, what are we barbarians?)
Here you go:
https://s26.postimg.org/j9xmo968p/LS_bikini.jpg
OK, good. *waits for Southern to show up*
We need a new side-boob girl anyway.
The Mises-Rothbardian crowd are still pretty good, just less well known in the beltway.
It’s not like libertarian critics are well-known overall either, people like Gillespie are only recognized because he’s a whore who goes on Bill Maher’s show.
The sad thing is that people who make bad arguments like ol Lauren here – and strawmen galore – are immune to any sort of good arguments, not that reason or the Libertarian Party are capable of supplying any of those
Letters to the Local Rag
*cue dramatic music*
Jesus christ Scruffy, in what blue hellhole do you live?
I’m pretty sure I could find this level of retardation in any US city, particularly now when they’re feeling empowered to virtue signal. All things considered, we’re politically right of center here.
Tom Friedman blows his load
Absolutely not clicking that.
Safe and excellent.
That’s awesome.
I never liked Daft Punk, though.
That is creepy.
They’re very pretty, Colonel. Very pretty. But can they fight?
“Fox’s statement today was mum on whether the investigation’s still in progress or, if not, what it uncovered. But the timing is noteworthy: Fox Business host Charles Payne was also being investigated for sexual harassment and, like Bolling, had been taken off the air in the meantime. Payne was reinstated by Fox today whereas Bolling left the network. Draw your own conclusions.
On a day when Fox is trying to send the message that it respects its women employees, it’s weird that they’d rather cancel “The Specialists” than let two women co-host it. The idea, I guess, is that Bolling was the marquee name, the populist conservative who spoke for Fox viewers when jousting with Timpf and Williams, but they could have given the latter two a crack at making it work. Imagine how it must feel to be them today, having gotten a big break and landed a 5 p.m. hosting gig on the most watched cable news network in America only to lose it because of Bolling’s alleged misbehavior. The show was slightly more than three months old when the scandal broke. Geez.”
https://hotair.com/archives/2017/09/08/eric-bolling-fox-news-amid-sexual-harassment-investigation/
It seems around half the people who were on Fox News a year or so ago are now gone.
Given their demographics, around half their viewers are probably now gone too
It doesn’t seem that way based on ratings. Anyway, old people who die get replaced with newly old people.
https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/906260671922266112
LOL
“You are blocked from following this account and viewing their Tweets.”
Popehat blocked you?
Yep. A long time back. I think I had put “deplorable” in my name and he was banning everybody that did so.
I guess he wasn’t much of a fan of people mocking Hillary Clinton. Which strikes me as odd.
I think I may have gotten scammed in a stupid fashion. But then again the con guy was a good actor. This respectable looking old guy who seemed lost and had a discharged phone and asked me to call his son who was nearby. Usually i would never fall for this crap but I my mind was elsewhere so I called the number and got a robot. Something tells me it was an overcharged number – but it looked standard mobile phone, not like any high priced number. Oh well I’ll see the bill tomorrow – my online cost center does not update more than twice a day
I do feel like an idiot I avoided this sort of scams for years
I feel bad for you. Luckily I have a lot of money that I need to get out of Australia. I am happy to give you ten percent of it. Please forward your bank details to me.
*squints suspiciously*
Well….OK. Just this once.
I will need nude pics to be sure it’s you
Meanwhile, on the Russian Front
On Wednesday, Facebook revealed that hundreds of Russia-based accounts had run anti-Hillary Clinton ads precisely aimed at Facebook users whose demographic profiles implied a vulnerability to political propaganda. It will take time to prove whether the account owners had any relationship with the Russian government, but one thing is clear: Facebook has contributed to, and profited from, the erosion of democratic norms in the United States and elsewhere.
The audacity of a hostile foreign power trying to influence American voters rightly troubles us. But it should trouble us more that Facebook makes such manipulation so easy, and renders political ads exempt from the basic accountability and transparency that healthy democracy demands.
Facebook- dupe and pawn of the Red Menace. Ideas are dangerous, and must be strictly controlled by honest, hardworking bureaucrats.
I mean if your political system is so damn vulnerable to Russia maybe your president has a bit to much power.
Does that even begin to compare to this type of meddling>
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jul/12/obama-admin-sent-taxpayer-money-oust-netanyahu/
Shut the fuck up, racist.
-half the country
Just out of curiousity, how do they know that? Has Facebook or NY Times done the research to validate the buyers of the ads did that? Or did Facebook do that for them? Or did Facebook or NY Times figure the target of the ads had to be vulnerable due the content of the ads?
These are just questions I haven’t seen any answers too yet.
I suspect they’re dancing around “old people”.
The story I’ve heard from some Hilarry speech is that someone from the US had to identify those profiles, and that someone had to be the Trump campaign, and there’s your collusion.
The left always eats its own. It will be so delicious to watch those pinko shitheels at Facebook and Google get gobbled up. You can bet your last dollar it’s coming.
The thing I can’t figure out with this is why Putin would support Trump. Hillary already proved her bona fides when it came to corruption, why wouldn’t he prefer her?
Why pay Clinton for what Trump gives you for free?
+1 buying the cow
Basically to avoid intervention in Syria. The logic they avoid mentioning is that Hillary is a crazed warmonger who’s so insecure she thinks military action makes her seem ‘tough’.
Were these paid ads or just posts? Were there also anti-Trump ads? If they were posts, given the population of Russia, I’m not surprised there are a few hundred that both hate Hillary and use Facebook.
You see, the hoi polloi are too stupid to know what’s good for them. That’s why we need our wise, benevolent government to control what they are exposed to in this Wild West world of the Internet. Don’t worry; there’s no possible way that this power could ever be abused.
Jerry Pournelle has passed
in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: those who work to further the actual goals of the organization, and those who work for the organization itself. Examples in education would be teachers who work and sacrifice to teach children, vs. union representatives who work to protect any teacher including the most incompetent. The Iron Law states that in all cases, the second type of person will always gain control of the organization, and will always write the rules under which the organization functions
Once more that goddam First Amendment rears its loathesome head. Will we never be rid of that infernal Constitution?
Unfortunately, the range of potential responses to this problem is limited. The First Amendment grants broad protections to publishers like Facebook.
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Our best hopes sit in Brussels and London. European regulators have been watching Facebook and Google for years. They have taken strong actions against both companies for violating European consumer data protection standards and business competition laws. The British government is investigating the role Facebook and its use of citizens’ data played in the 2016 Brexit referendum and 2017 national elections.
There’s no First Amendment in Brussels. The Eurocrats will save us in spite of ourselves. Silence the deplorables. Democracy demands it.
*Boring local story ahead…*
Today we had our local government elections. Crazily, no-one usually runs on party names in my area – so we have one group of “independents” running on the line that the other indies are fake. Eye-roll, This year, however, one group ran on a party affiliation – the Liberal Democrats. So I had the unusual pleasure of voting for libertarians to all positions. They’ll lose, of course, but that’s all part of the fun. Also, curiously, they were the only group with Asian-Australians (my area has a significant number of Asian migrants and kids of migrants).
*End of boring local story*
Hope everyone is safe, I suppose.
Nice to ‘see’ you ifh!
Local is where libertarians should be focused.
Where are the Asians from, primarily? Y’all have pretty strict immigration laws, no?
Yo yo Tundra!
We’re a migrant nation – about a quarter of the entire population was born overseas – so it’s probably not pretty strict, all things considered. Lots of family reunions and a refugee program, along with the skilled migrant thing, so it’s about 200,000 people a year all up (remember, our population is only 24 million). You might be thinking of the the offshore camps policy, which is a bit of a special case. Where I live it seems to be mostly affluent Chinese, Korean and Japanese.
Ah, got it. And yes, the camps were what i was remembering.
More Australia news.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/2901729/escort-25-who-charges-340-an-hour-and-has-bedded-over-1000-men-reveals-all-in-very-candid-reddit-thread/
Here she is with one of her customers.
Headed to the Famer’s Market to get some heritage breed pork chops and fresh veggies. Good luck to the Florida glibs and extended families.
get Mangalitza pig
Mostly joking off course, but the strongly worded anti OT warning in the hurricane thread kinda makes one want to post something OT .
I. Will. End. You. if you do.
He’ll take it away from you and stick it up your ass and pull the trigger until it goes *click*. Nobody fucks with the Swissy.
Obligatory
I never noticed the spanish Hotel California playing in the background.
I hate the fucking Eagles, man!
That’s a great cover though.
Fuckin’ Quintana…dude can roll, man
*creep
Eight-years-old, dude.
Well as you can see I don’t. As a non USan will stay clear of that thread as there is nothing I can contribute. I don’t do the prir stuff but I did pour a glass of rye whiskey with a dash of bitters and toast it to the safety of Floridian glibs .
Thank you – we will take anything we can get, Pie.
*pray I don’t know where prir came from
I thought it was the rye typing.
*blinks rapidly, begins startled applause*
Does a Pidgin article about the hurricane count as OT?
*narrows gaze*
RE: the Equifax fuckup
I get a monthly “Fico” score from my bank – it does seem to list the number of credit inquiries in the previous 2 years so hopefully that’s got me covered.
??
Credit Karma is also a good resource.
I can get a credit score from my bank and the two credit cards I use. In the last year I’ve applied for an auto loan and home buyer’s loan: in both cases the scores the credit union pulled were 30-40 points higher than the other scores.
Those dogs have got the right idea for a natural disaster.
Well, if i am going to drown…might as well go out swingin’!
Any port in a storm…
*opera applause*
Bow chicka bow wow
*slow clap*
Bitch set him up.
Australian gun laws mean she can’t even the odds if he comes after her:
Better judged by 12 than carried by 6.
That’s evil. It’s also why you can’t give even an inch to the gun grabbers.
“the ISIS safe house located at…”
Good to see ya IFH!
Fucking hell.
13 year old girl helped 8 people with her organs after passing away. That’s a lot of use for her organs.
It’s great that so many people were helped, but this is also the sort of story that gets used to argue for opt-out post-mortem organ donation schemes…
We just need to follow the Chinese example and snatch undesirables off the street to harvest their organs for rich bureaucrats.
Isn’t that how VP Cheney got his new heart?
One of my cousins had an artery in her brain explode and dropped dead this past New Year’s Day. She was 32, I think. Not a fatty, not a smoker, in good health, just had shitty luck. Anyway, her organs saved like 5 or 6 other people. It’s amazing living in the future, isn’t it?
One of my little girl’s pals was killed in a car crash a few weeks back. 15 years old but had already signed up to be a donor.
Amazing is the word.
Shit. Hope Warty and your daughter are bearing up OK.
She is, thank you. We happened to be in Scotland when she got the news, so that was a tough one, but we were back in time for the funeral.
The girl’s parents are really quite amazing. They set a wonderful example of how to celebrate a cool person’s life and really helped her friends through it all. I’m not sure I could be that strong.
Yeah, I’m fine, thanks. I don’t think I had seen her since we were little kids. I have something like 25 first cousins on side of the family that if you count the various halves and steps, so there are a lot I barely know.
If I am unexpectedly killed in the next few years, I have a slightly used liver that should have a few more good years left in it.
I gave at the office.
That made me LOL.
We’re DOOOOOOOOOMED, I tell you!
Friends in Montana report that the haze and the smoke remind them of the recent solar eclipse. Shadows go fuzzy, similar to how it was when the sun was at 25 percent of normal.
Everyone seems to agree that the sunsets have been epic, but that the moons are spooky: heavy peach globes, weirdly portentous. One summer night in Washington, I saw a waxing crescent moon stained a red darker than blood.
It’s hard not to think that these alterations are just a glimpse of things to come. Perhaps this is the new normal of climate change. With all the dust and smoke in the air, the world will begin to look different. The sky will be milkier, less often intensely blue. Every sunset will be hot pink and hallucinogenic. The green trees of the forest will be cast under a rose lamp.
Another poet of the outdoors, weeping at the treachery of nature’s implacable indifference to his need for stasis.
Worst. Boobjob. Ever.
*thunderous ovation*
Still would.
Yep.
Pathetic, really.
Wut – “climate change” causes forest fires now?
*hovers over link, sees NYT* – knew it
Heat and low humidity are contributing factors, but it requires more than just religious dogma to connect those two locally to human activity globally.
I have noticed precisely zero of those strange sights, except for the occasional pinkish sunset, which has been happening all my life and is actually quite pleasant to look at.
I use lifelock. Anyone else use lifelock, and if so, has it done a good job protecting your identity?
Mostly, I just get notices that a sex offender just moved next door, which causes a certain weirdness with the neighbors.
Mission creep?
I am now curious about these outfits, too. How much is LifeLock?
I’ve been using Lifelock for a decade with no complaints.
It’s about $100 p.a.
Not much in the mood for gallows humor. If it were my own, that’d be my choice. Be safe glibs in the path of this monster. Imagine that storm not taking its right turn, but going out into the gulf and then who knows where.
*Looks out the window*
Who knows where? I do.
Asians have been the largest (legal) immigrant group to the US for a while.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-immigration-asians-20150928-story.html
Obviously, details on illegal immigration are much fuzzier, but I’d think it’s still overwhelmingly Latin American.
So, speaking of labor disputes, I’m finally escaping from my nightmare job, and after Friday I will never again have to speak to my boss, who is the worst person I’ve ever met. He likes nothing better than to throw a good tantrum and kick trash cans, punch refrigerators, etc., so the devil on my shoulder is telling me that I need to goad him into taking a swing at me. Any suggestions on how to do that?
Sleep with his wife.
Or daughter.
Or mom.
Or all 3 at the same time.
^^^ This guy gets it.
there’s the future of porn!
Congratulations Warty! May your next gig be full of mellow pleasures and mighty pay raises.
Given he’s a giant fucking baby, isn’t telling him he’s a giant fucking baby enough to elicit the desired response?
“You are the worst person I’ve ever met. you like nothing better than to throw a good tantrum and kick trash cans or punch refrigerators. die in a fire”
He really doesn’t like being laughed at, so yeah, I think that’s a good approach. I’ll report back.
put a fake restraining order on all the things he likes to hit?
^THIS^
Excellent.
“What?! My lunch is in there!”
Tell him exactly what you just said here. Or – better – let him overhear you tell someone else. Temperamental people don’t usually like having their temperamental nature pointed out.
Or, is there a pattern behind what sets him off?
You might say he has a low frustration threshold. Not formatting a document in the way he likes will often cause it, and showing a real or imagined lack of respect is guaranteed to cause a tantrum.
That’s really fucking stupid.
I know you’ve written about him before, but it’s amazing how similar he seems to be to an ex boss of mine. ie if you sent him a document that wasn’t formatted to print just by hitting print he would send it back to you in a nasty email. Also, if you cc’d a bunch of people in an email and didn’t list him first, he’d get pissed.
After I had given up, I tried to bait him. The closest I got was when he told me to calm down, and I stood up and said I am calm, you’re the one jumping around like a monkey and spitting all over everybody.
The one thing that really gets people like that riled up is being calm as hell in the face of their lunacy. Combine that with talking down to them and you have the perfect recipe for a complete meltdown.
Wait you want an excuse to kick his ass or an excuse to sue him for assault?
I don’t know. Yes.
This is the guy who thought it was hilarious that the 22 year old kid who he berated all day every day started to cry in the bathroom most days I think his record with that poor kid was 11 hours of beration in a day.
Oh, and when he’s in a good mood, his favorite jokes to tell are Catholic boy-rape jokes and Holocaust jokes. Seriously. His favorite one is that his grandfather died in Auschwitz – he fell out of his guard tower. So, yes. It would be nice if he decides to lay hands on me.
Just walk away. You will barely remember the asshole.
I was gonna suggest that.
That, or, “Hey , bud, wanna have a go?”
“I’ll be waiting in the parking lot, if you would like to continue this conversation.”
meh. Walk away. People like that aren’t worth it and you cant fix him.
Go to your new job and have a happy life.
I am glad to hear that you are out of there, really.
I’m with Suthen on this one. Not worth it. My usual attitude toward assholes is that it is a self-punishing condition – he’s trapped in his own head with a raging asshole. Can’t be pleasant.
Another vote for walking away. I would however send an email to HR, or his boss, or his boss’s boss explaining exactly how big of an asshole this guy is.
The most effective exit interview I ever had was a couple of jobs ago. My asshole boss wasn’t violent, just a complete weasel.
During the interview, I refused to answer any questions. I mean none. I just kept saying, “I don’t think I want to answer any of that.” Our HR person liked me and really wanted to know why I was leaving. I honestly didn’t want to answer because the company was fucked, my boss was fucked and I just wanted to walk away.
A fellow worker and I started joking around and laughing in my office later. The plan we came up with was for me to call the HR person back and offer to talk, but “you have to promise me that my box XXX will never know.” She agreed and set up another appointment. Of course she scheduled it in Outlook.
So I went to the second interview and told her that since XXX would see our second interview in Outlook, I didn’t feel safe talking at all. No way I could go on record now that XXX knew I might be the rat.
The buddy who helped me with this plan told me later that there was a giant witch hunt by HR to find out why XXX is terrorizing so many people. The fact that he was a back stabbing wimp somehow became proof that he was a 2-faced guy who sucked up to management and ran a sweatshop.
Just quit doing your job and make him fire you. Then be a real asshole when he’s escorting you out. You might goad a swing if he’s as volitile as you say.
Dress up as a trash can and put a “kick me” sign on the front.
Cultural appropriation!!!!
At the opportune time, simply hold and maintain eye contact. He’ll either initiate or spinelessly back down.
Show up early and start deadlifting in his parking space?
Valerie Elverton Dixon East St Louis, Illinois 44 minutes ago
Think about the billions of dollars in damage caused by fire and flood and hurricanes and earthquakes. This is caused by climate change and, in the case of some earthquakes, by storing toxic water from fracking.
Climate change is an issue of national defense. If any country or coalition of countries were causing such devastation, we would be at war.
Now is the time to put solar panels on every rooftop, build high speed rail, encourage more urban green spaces and pedestrian zones, reduce the consumption of meat. Some of this We the People can do personally and locally. Money for the solar panels nationwide will require national spending. Let us call it defense spending.
We need leaders with bold vision to help us catch the vision before it is too late.
We get the government we deserve.
Sacrifice a
goatvirgin to the Volcano God, so the corn will grow straight and tall! Paint yourselves bright colors, and bow down before Him.No, no, no, you got it all wrong. The proper ritual is to give an ever larger piece of your paycheck to Gaia’s one and only prophet, the US government. That and buy a hybrid.
Any suggestions on how to do that?
Steal his stapler.
Just walk away. You will barely remember the asshole.
This is, of course, the correct answer, and ultimately the most satisfying. Why sink to his level?
Just remember. When he dies, he’ll come back as himself.
Reggie WA 1 hour ago
The good thing about this miserable Summer of 2017 is that it has given us all visible, non-deniable proof about our global warming, our climate change, humanity’s impact and influence upon the planet. With the hurricanes, flooding, fires, smoke, smog, haze, drought, heat and the usual suspects of tornadoes and maybe an earthquake or two, we have experienced the natural and man made and Act of God elements that are and will determine humankind’s future and/or lack of it.
This “big blue marble” is not very big after all. The smoke all over The Great Pacific Northwest has managed to travel great distances to impact a large area of environment. I have witnessed the colours and effects that other Commenters have also described here regarding this article. At least this year, we had had a long, wet hard Winter last year, so there was not as much drought in Whatcom County and the tree leaves did not start turning colours at the end of July. At least we got to just about the end of August for that to happen and we still had good snow on Mount Baker thru August 2nd.
It has looked darn weird up here though with days of misery of smoke, smog, haze, heat, and that orange or orange-red tint or colouration to the sun and the sky. There is no doubt that our environment and atmosphere has, and is, changing. For the time being many of us are living to see it. It can truly be said that we don’t need a weatherman to tell which way the wind is blowing.
Doomsday Cultists, fapping to their Armageddon fantasies.
These morons need to get religion. Like, real religion. Since we’ve more or less proven we can’t eliminate the urge toward religious thinking; It’s more productive to direct all that effort to something that at least holds a kernel of real human compassion than Marxism masquerading as conservation.
Maybe we could start one. Get in on the ground floor.
Do we get to have sex with the members’ wives and daughters? Cause if not count me out.
How about daughters but not wives? We’re going to need married men to join to bring in money.
Well sure. Giving their wives to us is how they get on the gods’ good side. They commanded that all our followers must provide us with sexual access to their women as a show of devotion. Do you even cult bro?
Global warming is so catastrophic it has even destroyed the need to show numbers or long-term trends. Just look deeply into that smoke, smog, haze, heat, and that orange or orange-red tint or colouration to the sun and all will be revealed.
That and goat entrails.
I remember listening to people tell me how all the signs in the Book of Revelations were visible and we were in the end times. That was 5-10 years ago, and yet we’re still here. The CAGW people are no different, although they’re probably more dangerous, since they hold, or have influence over others, who hold positions of power. If you really believe it’s all due to global warming, then why help your fellow man when a disaster occurs? It’s all the oil companies fault and thus the real change comes from nationalizing them or regulating them out of existence. Bailing somebody out of a flooding house? Well, they probably deserve it because they burned fossil fuels!
“The CAGW people are no different, although they’re probably more dangerous”
They are because they keep screeching “science!!” and there are a fair number of idiotic/rent seeking/corrupt scientists to lend legitimacy to it. The masses just nod along and say “well they *are* scientists so they must know what they’re talking about!” Fortunately, I think people are wising up to the fraud as more and more of their predictions crash into the mountain.
Yea, you’re telling me. Back in 2006, a girl’s father forbade her from seeing me anymore because I’m non religious and he thought the rapture was coming “very, very soon”. I’d like to track him down and ask him if 11 years and counting is “soon”.
I was so fucking close to hittin’ that ass.
Thoughts and prayers.
Jesus Christ.
It looks like Trump is cutting their water off. When the money stops this idiocy will dry up.
I figured it out. Irma is a lesbian.
https://www.womenfest.com/?utm_source=TOD&utm_medium=banner&utm_campaign=tropical%20heat
She’s just pissed about the lesbian bed death.
“UC sues Trump administration for shutting down DACA, which UC’s president helped create
The University of California sued the Trump administration Friday for rescinding protections for immigrant students without legal status, saying the action unconstitutionally violates their rights on “nothing more than unreasoned executive whim.”
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, is the first legal effort by a university to block the Trump administration’s decision this week to end protection from deportation for nearly 800,000 young immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as minors. Known as “Dreamers,” the young people were given a reprieve from deportation and access to work permits if they arrived in the U.S. before age 16 and stayed in school and out of trouble.
The 10-campus UC system has about 4,000 students — along with teachers, researchers and healthcare providers — who are in the country illegally.”
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-uc-daca-lawsuit-20170908-story.html
In a just world, the judge would instantly throw this out for lack of standing.
In reality, some lefty man in black will waste millions of tax dollars on a completely pointless exercise.
I love it – enforcing the law as written in an unreasoned executive win.
Naturally the 9th Circuit will spooge out an opinion supporting this.
… says the university that’s – right this second – doing it’s very damnedest to make other students jump through fifteen hoops just to listen to a dude talk on campus. Not to mention how many cases UC has lost and are fighting in court for Title IX due process violations. I would love to challenge them on why the university feels free to violate some students rights with impunity, but requires nonsensical protections for those in the country without approval. Like, no, you get your house in order before you come whining to the fed, that’s justice.
https://twitter.com/hashtag/StopBetsy?src=hash
“Robby SoaveVerified account @robbysoave Sep 7
Before you tweet #StopBetsy , consider that every crazy Title IX case she referenced actually happened.”
Wow Soave. You said something not completely retarded. You get a cookie.
To be fair, he has been critical of Title IX in the past.
To be
fairsure, he has been critical of Title IX in the past.FIFY
To be sure, he has been critical of Title IX in the past, but it still has it’s merits.
FIFY
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/906365889989283840
Wow.
Here is the screenshot:
http://archive.is/qhu6c
Of course he went to Dartmouth. Of. Course.
“The sad reality is that lady justice is not blind on campuses today. This unraveling of justice is shameful, it’s wholly un-American,” DeVos said during a speech at George Mason University in Virginia . “There must be a better way forward. Every survivor of sexual misconduct must be taken seriously. Every student accused of sexual misconduct must know that guilt is not predetermined.”
“Instead of working with schools on behalf of students, the prior administration weaponized the Office of Civil Rights to work against schools and against students,” she said. “The era of rule by letter is over. Through intimidation and coercion, the failed system has clearly pushed schools to overreach.”
http://time.com/4931796/betsy-devos-title-ix-sexual-assault/
These fake antfag accounts are comedy gold:
https://twitter.com/VaticanAntifa/status/906530828909514752
I see the retard is still strong with the Tony character over at (“Reason”).
In response to:
“But if ‘society’ is required to bail them out with monthly checks, then ‘society’ has every right to tell them what they can and cannot do”
Tony said:
“If you choose to impose moral busybody nonsense as conditions. You could just choose not to and trust people to make their own decisions anyway–something you people claim works best anyway.
People with a little more money make better decisions than those who are scrounging for basic needs, don’t you think?”
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I mean, how do you communicate with people who think it’s fine to forcibly take your stuff and give it to somebody else, while at the same time saying people should be free to make their own decisions?
At least that post did have the positive effect of leading me to pour some Jameson in my coffee.
I don’t understand why this point is so controversial. Everyone knows that human beings will settle into idleness if given the chance. This is especially clear in parenting; parents often have to force their kids to get a job and move out to prevent them from becoming Pajama Boys.
I think that IF scrapping the entire welfare system is not an option, there should be a non-negotiable mandate for the recipients to do some kind of unpaid work until they find a regular job. Cleaning highways or other public areas could be an option. The UK used to have a program where they would place recipients at participating businesses. And if they slack off and fuck around on these assignments, no more benefits.
Listening to Scott Adams live discussion on twitter about the Kid Rock “campaign” performance seen here.
Good stuff.
Probably a step up from some career Washington type like Schumer, or whoever.
https://twitter.com/katbeee/status/906376369918980101
WTF??
Someone said, ” So…she’s arguing for an American invasion to liberate Cuba?”
The replies are splendid
I like this response.
I’m partial to the first one:
And, inevitably, a no-shit commie useful idiot shows up:
ERDMAGHERD NERT RURL CURRMURRNISM!!
Hitler wasn’t true right-wing either. True right-wing has never been tried.
“Professional Latina Sadgirl”
Who or what is this person? Is this a social media thing? Is she like the Twitter version of a YouTube “celebrity”?
OT image from the comments
7. You’ve Got What It Takes
But you say he’s just a friend….
Ed FTW:
random thought
Once people’s immediate needs are satisfied, they usually turn to status competition. Since status is a zero-sum game, the competition gets intense quickly. Among the Indians of the Pacific Northwest, status competition consisted of Potlatch feasts where chiefs competed to be the most generous. In later stages, this morphed into burning food and goods to show off their great wealth. One ambitious chief listed his many possessions before an audience before stuffing them in his house and burning it down.
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Potlatching thus generated rivalry between status-seekers (typically the big chiefs) as each one tried to outdo the other in their capacity to give everything away. At times these contests would escalate to the point where the distribution of property became inadequate for the expression of a chief’s disregard for wealth and property. The next step would be to actually destroy property, often by burning it up. He might burn up his canoes, or his house, or the entire village. He might break his coppers and throw them in the sea. He may cut the throat of his slaves. All this he would do in full view of his guests, and usually with the complete approbation of his clan. Throughout the goal was to flatten his rival’s rank and enlarge his own. The “winner” of such a contest is not just the individual potlatcher, but also the dead from whom the potlatcher claims hereditary title, as well as the living clan of the potlatcher.
***
I think things like virtue-signaling over gay wedding cakes and gender neutral bathrooms is basically the same thing as that. People show off how tolerant and open-minded they are by defending increasingly absurd things. So now you end up with people who spend all their free time protesting statues and posting things on social media. It’d be great if status competition was centered on something more useful.
This guy says riots are modern-day potlatches, although at least the Indians only burned their own stuff:
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With the knowledge of the gift and the accursed share, it seems reasonable that the gift economy is a far more preferable mechanism for our material activities. It offers the advantages of individual autonomy, a flexible market for exchange, but without all the problems that come with commodities, like work. Going from here to there will certainly be tricky, but I suggest we start with a lesson from the Kwakiutl. The big chief is not made so by force, nor by right. He is made by rank and status, which he acquires through a demonstrated superior disregard for material wealth. On those grounds I suggest that the twelve-thousand or so people who were arrested for rioting, and especially looting, be made into potlatch chiefs. Furthermore, I suggest that an obligation to reciprocate is incumbent upon the rest of us. The South-Central potlatchers threw a grand maxwa. Who will throw the next potlatch?
***
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/neal-keating-rioting-looting-as-a-modern-day-form-of-potlatch
“In later stages, this morphed into burning food and goods to show off their great wealth. ”
Ha the more things change….
Throwing hundred dollar bills at someone is about the biggest insult you can dish out among blacks. There was a shooting in a NY club several years ago over this.
Ha I found it. It was 1999 – damn I’m getting old.
http://nymag.com/news/features/scandals/p-diddy-2012-4/
They were leaving when Combs, carrying a bottle of Champagne, accidentally jostled one of the club’s patrons, knocking a drink out of his hand. The man, Matthew Allen, a street tough known as “Scar,” responded with a shove. Things escalated—one of Allen’s companions allegedly threw a stack of money in Combs’s face—and shots were fired, leaving three people injured.
This can’t be right. Only white Americans had slaves.
“EXCLUSIVE: Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner walk son Jordan to his first day of $40k-a-year kindergarten
He agreed to register as a sex offender back in May, and could be prohibited from being within 1,000 feet of a school under New York state law”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4866066/Huma-Abedin-Anthony-Weiner-son-Jordan-school.html
Much as enjoy watching Huma and Weiner suffer, I don’t like having pix of their kids in the mix.
They could have much better parents. Glass half full, the son gets to go to $40k-a-year kindergarten.
More like glass half empty. I have a feeling the sort of kindergarten that charges $40K is filling the kids’ heads with awful propaganda.
I feel pretty bad for their son. He has to deal with his parents being fucked up and the media bullshit.
Yes, like having the last name “Weiner” wouldn’t be bad enough…
It’s also fucked up that he can’t drop off his kid at school.
I have a question:
Where’s the money coming from? They live a very high-dollar lifestyle. I can’t believer Weiner is pulling a paycheck. I guess Huma is still Hillary’s gofer, but what’s that really worth? Do they have an inheritance or rich families who don’t mind funding their poshy Manhattan thing?
According to Google, in the fat years they were pulling in close to a million a year, and she is still making a few hundred thousand a year (he’s lost the lobbying and writing gigs). So they might be able to cover current expenses while hoping either returns on investments or new future income streams will allow the lifestyle to continue as the kid graduates to an even pricier school
$40k-a-year kindergarten
Do they plan on having him in kindergarten for more than one year?
I larfed.
Looks like she got dress:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4867686/Suki-Waterhouse-flashes-underwear-sheer-dress.html
Who?
I posted her yesterday. Some people didn’t like her outfit.
Some tart. She’ll be even more of a trivia question in a couple years.
I think she’s a witch in Louisiana or something.
SLUT
“A Connecticut councilman is resigning after his profile on a website catering to “furries” appeared on social media — but the outgoing first-term Democrat insists his animal costume fetish has “nothing to do with sex.”
New Milford Councilman Scott Chamberlain, who was up for re-election, is stepping down after a town resident posted several screenshots on Facebook of the lawmaker’s profile on a private website for “furries,” a subculture of people who don animal costumes, sometimes for sexual gratification.”
http://nypost.com/2017/09/08/councilman-resigning-after-secret-furry-life-revealed/
How very broadminded of him. For some reason I think this is a bigger problem than donning a sweaty old costume
Real life rape? Or Furry rape Art?
The 130 year old recurring stock market curse.
WaPo points out that there’s a new kind of racism involved in immigration. “Illegal Immigration: It’s Not Just Beaners Any More.”
Isn’t this what more serious-minded critics of our open-borders immigration policy have been saying for years? You know, the folks criticizing Trump’s “build the wall” fantasy as an unserious, unhelpful proposal?
Unnh unnh unnh unnh Oh, Armageddon, I’m so wet, make me come…
As if all this were not enough, there’s the threat of a storm-caused nuclear meltdown. The Turkey Point nuclear power station sits on an exposed island in Biscayne Bay, about 25 miles south of Miami. Built in the early 1970s, the aging plant depends on similar vulnerable backup systems to prevent a meltdown as those of Japan’s Fukushima plant, which is still leaking radiation. Although Turkey Point’s main reactors are 20 feet above sea level, the plant’s diesel-powered backup generators, which keep cooling water circulating through the reactors when power is knocked out, are less elevated and less well insulated, according to Phil Stoddard, the mayor of South Miami.
Florida needs to confront the reality it faces as a state in the front lines of climate-change-related disasters, including the folly of coastal development. The state needs to begin exploring managed retreat from areas that are particularly threatened, offering buyouts to homeowners with properties in low-lying areas so that their land can be turned into flood-absorbing wetlands or aquatic parks. Maximum care should be taken to ensure that this retreat does not siphon funding to the rich while ignoring the needs of low-income homeowners.
One way or another, Florida is due for a reckoning. We can only hope that it will not be too grievous, and that whatever happens it will help transform the political culture of a state whose governor is a climate-change denier despite Florida’s extreme vulnerability to natural disasters, a place where solar power is essentially banned despite its fame as the Sunshine State.
Doomsday comin’!
And of course, Maximum care should be taken to ensure that this retreat does not siphon funding to the rich while ignoring the needs of low-income homeowners; I guess that means she does not advocate paying market prices in this completely phantasmagorical eco-buyout. I haz a surprise.
What does a hurricane do to windmills and solar panels?
Hitler?
Ok, I just spent about 15 minutes of my precious Saturday time reading the rather boring article that was given as support for that statement. Surprise surprise – there’s nothing in there that supports the claim that solar power is “virtually banned”! It sounds like there was opposition to some bills that would require power companies to pay customers for solar-generated power that they put back into the grid. Furthermore, the Wikipedia article “Solar Power in Florida” says that they are numerous government incentives for investment in solar power equipment.
In other words, not subsidizing and mandating something as much as I want = “virtually banned”. PROG LOGIC!
I think Hawaii is one of the few places where solar power is actually a viable, economic alternative for the average consumer.
But that’s ONLY because the Jones Act drives up fuel transportation costs so much that fuel costs are at least 2x as much as the mainland (on average).
My tiny 1 br apartment (one unit in a 20 floor complex) with a single window AC unit regularly had power bills over $100/month even when I was on deployment for 6 months with everything turned off but the fridge.
They really do see the world as a giant boardgame, where they get to move the pawns and pieces around.
Humans are inanimate objects to them
Florida is due for a reckoning. We can only hope that it will not be too grievous, and that whatever happens it will help transform the political culture of a state whose governor is a climate-change denier
https://www.openbible.info/topics/repentance
Ummmm… South Miami is nowhere near Turkey Point. Why the fuck is he chiming in on this?
WIll all the people who said we should believe the climate models because the Harvey models were pretty accurate still say that we should believe climate models now that that models for Irma have been all over the place?
I’m still trying to figure out if hurricanes are filed under “weather” or “climate”.
Yes.
File under: Eating their own
Progressives’ frustrations with Feinstein spark talk of 2018 Senate challenge, report
Oh God. As if she isn’t already bad enough, let’s replace her with someone even more batshit insane. This state will probably do it too.
Honestly, that might be for the best in the sense that things sometimes have to get worse before they get better.
Let them replace Feinstein with someone who will prog even harder, and more of the population will see what the Democrat Party is really about. A lot of people support them because they (understandably) think the Republicans are shitheads, and these people see the Democrats as moderates who just want to help people. I hope the Democrats come out of the closet as commie totalitarians so that they can’t get away with this moderation schtick anymore. People need to see them for what they really are.
As if she isn’t already bad enough, let’s replace her with someone even more batshit insane. This state will probably do it too.
Oh, come on. I’m sure Feinstein will be replaced by a sensible moderate. Probably some self made millionaire with a deep understanding of wealth creation and markets and the functional limits of government policy. Tom Steyer, for example.