The Red Sox have punched their ticket to the postseason with a shutout win over the Orioles. The Yankees are well on their way to punching theirs as they topped the Twinks. And those guys need to get their heads out of their sphincters and start winning some games. They can’t keep relying on the Indians to beat the California Angels to keep their wild card lead intact. In fact, both teams holding the final wild card spot in their leagues are trying to back into the playoffs, as the Rockies also dropped one but the Brewers were unable to gain ground. Elsewhere, the Dodgers fell to the Phillies. Team Canada fell to K.C. The Cards, who are still hanging in the wild card race, took down the BIG RED MACHINE. The Rays dumped the Cubbies. The Nationals beat the Braves. The D-backs won. And the Firstros again topped the White Sox.
More preseason hockey, which I caught for a few minutes in the wrap-around coverage last night. It sure was sloppy. And there sure were a lot of whistles for phantom slashing calls. If this doesn’t change, the games will be unwatchable this season. So, based on their track record, I’m sure the NHL will tell the officials to get even more whistle-happy. And then they’ll do another new TV contract with an even shittier network.
BONUS SPORTS LINK! (thanks, Warty!)It’s from the University of Tennessee, so you know its gonna be retarded. Enjoy.
DRUUUUDGE!!!!!
OK, that’s it for athletic endeavours. Time to drop a little knowledge in…the links!
Never change, Media Matters. Just keep that retarded spin machine going forever. (Trigger Warning: obviously its Media Matters.)
I think Glibs should pool our resources and buy Rolling Stone. Of course, it means we’d have to stop penning steaming piles of sanctimonious horseshit like this. But that’s a risk I’m willing to take.
Puerto Rico is in absolute darkness as Hurricane Maria knocks out power to the entire island. Jesus. That seems just inconceivable to me. And fortunately, a lot of people and businesses there have generators. But still…Jesus.
A piece on the “opioid crisis” that completely misses the point. How about legalizing the damn things and letting people medicate to ease pain and at the same time, let recreational users get cleaner drugs? Nah. That would, like, let people be responsible for their own actions. And we can’t have that.
DRUUUUUUGS!!!!!
I’m no huge fan of the GOP’s health care bill. But I did find a silver lining.
I’ve heard of throwing money down the toilet. But dis em gettin’ big time ridiculous!
Crude oil tops $50 a barrel for first time in more than two months. So expect gas to stay above $2.25 a gallon for the foreseeable future.
Go ahead and dance. And enjoy some movie clips from one of the greatest films of all time. How it didn’t sweep the Oscars will be one of the greatest travesties of the modern age.
Have a wonderful day, friends. The weekend is almost upon us.
Any way to do that without getting the liability for their past malfeasance and libel?
Bono is a preening cunt, that is all.
I thought he was a giant turd.
A preening cunt who hasn’t made a decent record since War.
A preening cunt who hasn’t made a decent record
since War.^this guy gets it
I like the Joshua Tree, but otherwise, yeah
Took me a while but I warmed up to Achtung Baby too. Also like several tunes from How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb. But the every-other ’80s albums are the tops. (Boy, War, Joshua Tree)
Anthemic arena rock is the worst kind of music.
Write it into the contract?
“I think Glibs should pool our resources and buy Rolling Stone. Of course, it means we’d have to stop penning steaming piles of sanctimonious horseshit like this. But that’s a risk I’m willing to take.”
It also means we’d have to a “Top 200 Albums to Listen to While Taking a Shit”-style lists every issue.
No, we fire all the reporters on staff. Then we fill it with gun reviews, get-off-my-lawn stories, shit about how when we were kids we used to do a lot more cool shit than the current generation, and general political libertarianism.
It’ll be great…for a few issues. Then it’ll shut down, which is what it deserves anyway.
I’ll do metal reviews
“Mangesium, Potassium and Polonium, the new wave?”
My Granpa drinks milk of magnesia, Granpa.
Manganese or GTFO.
Dylan does make me want to take a dump.
I’ve taken a few epic shits, but never one that would last for 200 albums. Sounds like you should be seeking medical intervention at that point.
(Can you say “Manual dis-impaction?” I knew you could.)
Am I too late for a ‘bear shit in the woods’ joke?
Was he with a rabbit?
Asset-only sale.
But could we maintain our family friendly rating?
Fuck yeah, we can.
Yes, Maria and Jesus had a bit of a spat and broke up, but what does that have to do with… oh.
It does make one ask…
How do you solve a problem like Maria?
I’d like to take this opportunity to pour out a 40 for South Park. I loved you homey, and I’ll miss you.
Oh, is the new season not very good?
I read an interview months ago and they said they were walking away from politics this season.
So I guess it’s a good thing I completely forgot it was back on the air.
Well that’s not the case. The 2 episodes lasthat night were mainly about charlottesville and North Korea
that’s are lulz-rich targets. they couldn’t have been so bad.
Last night’s episode (North Korea) would have been pretty good without the overly-graphic kids’ deaths and the abrupt left-turn of the closing song.
The previous episode (Charlottesville) was a muddled mess, the only good part of it being the Cartman-“Alexa” scenes.
No TV series should ever go past 10 seasons. Most shouldn’t go past 5.
Oh, I don’t know. I think Stargate SG-1 could’ve gone to at least a season 12 with the big changes to the show back in season 9. Would’ve worked much better than just two seasons with the new enemy and then a quick wrap up of them with a rushed and ridiculous plot device in a movie.
Yeah, I mean, I’m a nerd so take this with a grain of salt but I was still pickin’ up what they were puttin’ down when they decided to wrap the series up. I always assumed it was because Harry Dean Anderson wanted to be done with it.
Harry? I think you mean Richard. Anyway, yeah I was still quite enjoying the show when it was ended. The new enemy gave the series some much needed new life. I think the show would’ve been much better served going on for at least a couple more seasons with the new baddies. But, it was sadly rushed to conclusion at the end of season 10 and with the movie. Well, at least SG-1 got a movie, as rushed and ridiculous as the plot to it was. Atlantis still has no real end of any kind.
When you know him as well as Naptown does, he goes by “Harry”.
I also call him “ol’ Hoss”, “Rick”, and “Stinky”.
Got ‘im mixed up with Stanton there for a minute.
Yup, I think they have officially entered Simpson quality
“Quality”
I think the Simpsons has become like Doctor Who. There’s a new generation for whom the current seasons are new territory. Like SNL, maybe. If you grew up with it from the get-go, you passed the 10 season expiration date long ago, but if you’re 21 it’s still reasonably new to you.
I have all of the dvds up until about season 12 or so but I really only re-watch seasons 3-10. Of course, Season 4 has the greatest Simpson’s episode of all time: Homer the Heretic.
I like the cut of your jib.
That’s about where I quit with the DVDs. I realized it was getting to the point where I stopped watching the show on Sundays. Homer the Heretic is a classic.
Homer the Heretic is a pretty good example of how the Simpsons has aged and how much we’ve culturally shifted. That episode would never be made today and there’d be so many articles whining about the ‘intolerance’ of the main theme.
I don’t remember watching the episode, but I did read through the plot on Wikipedia. I didn’t see any reason why it wouldn’t be made today.
That’s true and what with the sliding time scale and all they can keep going for a while longer
I grew up on the Simpsons, loved it until about S14, now when FXX does an everysimpsons marathon I tune in for about a third
It’s been mediocre for a while (although rewatching certain late-season SP episodes years later, I’ve liked them more). I don’t think the take-a-week-to-make process has done it very many favors, though. I miss the more character-based episodes of old. But it’s not horrible on the level of the Simpsons yet.
South Park was good for more than 10 seasons, though. As was King of the Hill—which I’ve heard might be coming back? I hope so.
“During the 2016 presidential campaign, for example, several of the Drudge-promoted articles reported on the contents of emails and voicemails the U.S. intelligence community says were stolen from the Democratic National Committee or former Clinton campaign chair John Podesta by Russian hackers.
Others promoted the claims of WikiLeaks founder and former RT host Julian Assange. Drudge highlighted coverage from Russian propaganda outlets of his attacks on Clinton and his contradiction of the U.S. intelligence community over whether Russia was the source of the Democratic emails he published.”
But don’t mention there is no evidence that is was Russia.
It’s both funny and pathetic how trusting the Dems suddenly are of the “intelligence community” who are oh so well known for their honesty and integrity.
So much this..
I still remember when they constantly declared anyone part of the intelligence community as the very agents of the devil. Then Obama weaponizes government and basically turns it into a tyrannical machine that promotes the stupid proggy dogma, only to hand it over to Donald, and suddenly the left loves them some intelligence community people?
Fuck me. If it was not for double standards…
So he reported the facts of the story and not conjecture on how those facts were obtained?
Wait, isn’t that what they supposedly teach people to do in J-school? Because I thought that was a tenet of good reporting.
No, this is what they teach in J-school as the tenet of good reporting:
https://youtu.be/wfrLkqsEuog
And just skip over the crimes that the emails revealed. If Russia was behind it they did us a favor. There I said it.
The dnc is a crime syndicate, but it is “THEIR” crime syndicate! How dare he call them out for that and point out Hillary is just some charismatic crime boss?
“Drudge Report has linked nearly 400 times to RT, Sputnik News, TASS since 2012”
Just that sub-title alone makes MM uber-retarded.
Well, that was when Hillary started running.
ROOOOOOOO-SHUNNNNNS!!!!
/slap!
The whole Russia thing was started when they realized that Trump inheriting the weaponized government Obama produced would indubitably lead to people finding out how Obama had used the intelligence community to go after political and personal enemies – his admin used every federal agency out there to do this sort of stuff (IRS, DOJ, EPA, you name it) – and needed a distraction.
Now it is a fling shit at the wall and hope something takes while we hope we can destroy as much of the evidence as possible of how bad the Obama administration was on our freedoms and that promised transparency. Can you imagine how much worse things would have been in a Clinton admin? We fucking dodged a bullet getting the clown we did.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen Hillary run.
That’s cause real gangstas don’t run, because real gangsta ass n*ggas can’t run fast (Ghetto Boys lyrics?)
That’s about 70 times a year. And drudge links about 40 articles a day. So over 6 years, Drudfe has linked approximately 87,000 articles.
So he’s dedicated <0.5% of his coverage to Russian media outlets. Yeah, that's quite the propagandist.
Didn’t you see the picture with the article? It’s a hat. Matt Drudge wears a hat. Only evil shitlords wear hats. Therefore, he works for the Russians.
Needz moar pickelhaube!
I was hoping someone had a nice factoid on that point.
I have noticed that British papers are favorites of Drudge. It would be interesting to plot how many articles he has linked from the Daily Mail vs. all Russian affiliated sites combined. I would bet that it is at least 100 to 1 for just the Daily Mail.
Drudge is in the bag for the Brits!
69) A bizarrely good analysis by Slate on Toys ‘R’ US filing for bankruptcy. Apparently, Toys ‘R’ Us went private in 2005 and restructured itself financially, even as it made few changes, if any, to its stores in a swiftly changing retail environment.
I think the store’s problems go way back further than that, though. There’s something fundamentally wrong with the place. Once I got past the age where I was simply dazzled by SO. MANY. TOYS. (say, seven or eight years old) I started wondering why Toys ‘R’ Us wasn’t actually any fun. I mean, shouldn’t a toy store be a wonderful place to visit?
I wasn’t the only one to notice this. My little brother used to change the words to their theme song when their commercials came on TV so it ended “Where a kid can get ripped off.”
And it hasn’t improved since I’ve become an adult. Have you gone in a Toys ‘R’ Us lately? What with the security features to prevent theft, the lack of staff, and the bleached-out glare of harsh fluorescent lighting, It’s got all the atmosphere of a gas station in a bad part of town.
Compare that to the Lego store near us, which is fun, colorful, has activities throughout the day, engaged staff, places for kids to build their own in-store creations, daily prizes, etc. No wonder the Lego store is always full of people, while the Toys ‘R’ Us often feels nearly abandoned when we go in.
Here’s an idea for Toys ‘R’ Us: make it a forest maze, with winding, branching aisles, tunnels that look like tree roots for kids to get from one section to another, wooden flooring in the baby areas, a raised treehouse in the center of the store where parents can order coffee and keep an eye on their children in the various sections. You can even keep the security—just disguise the RFID tag checkers you have to walk through before the registers as knots for bird nests, and move the video games/electronics section at the back of the store, rather than having it in a fortress-like area at the front.
I mighta mentioned this but me and three childhood buddies worked the nightshift at Toys blah, blah. Four immature boys and an immature manager – do the math.
One night, we lowered all the tops from every Barbie exposing her tits. Taking pointless pride in our stupidity we went on to do other things completely forgetting about it until one hour to opening (8am). My buddy in a tuque (not kidding) came running and slipping out of nowhere screaming the bosses from Toronto are here!!!!! The barbies!!!!! I was staring processing what he was saying and just as I began to bolt for the aisle the manager pops out with a fucken POP TART in his asking, ‘what’s wrong?” When I told him what we did he turned white.
Classic. I wish I could be immature again.
Wait a second….that never leaves you.
Oh well. Good times.
in his hand….pop tart in his hand. Coulda been up his ass at that point anyway.
I was wondering where that Pop-Tart was.
Was it chewed into the shape of a deadly weapon? I’d be scarred for life too.
make it a forest maze, with winding, branching aisles, tunnels that look like tree roots for kids to get from one section to another
STEVE SMITH LIKE IDEA, BUT MAKE STORE FOR ADULT HIKERS
*stands to begin prolonged ovation*
Yeah but OMWC likes the idea just the way it is
Oh another thing. There was another group of guys unloading the docks (also guys we went to high school with). When we ventured to see what they were up to they were robbing Toys ‘R’ Us blind explaining to us how they pulled it off. Never forget ‘Paul’ calmly explaining it to us with his pencil nestled above his ear while eating a sandwich.
Oh and yet another thing. The guy in the tuque? Yeh, he works in foreign affairs now.
Now if he’d worn a real hat, he might have gotten a respectable career.
Well, he does get to travel. I do find it funny how governments rarely heed the advice of their foreign officers. Votes come first and the reality on the ground rarely jive with that part of the calculus.
FYI Lego is struggling too they’re laying off people.
don’t look at me. i’ve got a wing at their HQ with my kids’ names on it.
They are ridiculously expensive pieces of plastic.
They are expensive but they are also much better quality than their competitors.
Every lego made since sometime in the 30-40s fits together properly because they keep the tolerances so tight. I’ve never encountered a malformed part that I didn’t malform myself.
Since I re-started my collection about 5 years back, over dozens of kits, I have never once had a missing part. Always extras.
Part of the fun is strategic selection of kits to get the most putting-together action for your dollar, the part count isn’t a great indicator. The Architecture series are about as involved as their part count implies, but Technic not so much because of all the pegs.
Excellent caltrops though ….
Lego is one of the very few toys I think are worth the price (usually). I’d rather spend 3 hours with my kid building a tiny arctic research station than play a game of Pokemon or try to act out whatever the fuck a Ninja Turtle is supposed to do.
And I’m sure as shit not jumping on the trampoline.
Also, they don’t really have a better toy selection than Target, where parents can shop for other crap too. The whole concept of the toy store is probably becoming obsolete, like many other brick and mortar businesses.
Like JATNAS was talking about, rather than making it just going in and buying, they should make the time there an experience and that is what gets people in the door.
Yeah, I like his layout plan. I know I would like it more and I’m pretty sure kids would.
I was just thinking, there was an independent toy store in my town that had a better layout (not quite the maze he was describing, but interesting) and a lot of toys you don’t find at Target or Toys ‘R’ Us. My kids loved going there but they still shut down a couple years ago.
I had almost the same conversation with Mrs Finch last night. The place is dreadful.
It’s definitely more expensive than other places to get toys (Walmart, Target, Amazon), but I hadn’t thought about the boredom aspect—it’s arranged similarly to the toy aisles and Target and Walmart so I guess I thought that was good enough. But Barnes and Noble, for example, does all sorts of events at their stores (I remember going to the Harry Potter launch parties in high school for the last three books and they were a LOT of fun). They also have toys kids can play with in the middle of the kids section. If a bookstore can do it better than a toy store…
“8-year-old Cahokia football team kneels during anthem ahead of recent game
The coach said he spoke to them about that and other situations that have happened in our country. He then explained why former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick started kneeling during the anthem.”
http://fox2now.com/2017/09/18/8-year-old-cahokia-football-team-kneels-during-anthem-ahead-of-recent-game/
Pee Woke Football
The idiot behind this is the supposed coach…
Maybe that coach ought to focus more energy on the native Americans he’s othering by appropriating the name Cahokia for his little bunch of shitlords, rather than standing (by kneeling) with that rag-armed unemployed former football player who nobody will hire because he’s professional cancer.
I guess he doesn’t care about othering those Red Devils though, does he?
Nothing better than using children as props for your political statement. Also, when did they start playing the national anthem for peewee games?
Stop playing the anthem at any sporting event. Problem solved.
Particularly at an eight year old pee wee football game.
Maybe just to fuck with them they should stop playing the national anthem, and instead play gregorian chants and have altar boys circle the field with a one person holding up the cross and another waving an incense jug around.
Its called as Censor!
But enough about Chicago. Do these people not know that there was a study done by a Harvard prof that showed no greater likelihood of police shooting black people v. white people? Or do they know and are just dishonest shits?
This happened about two blocks from my house last night. Since we moved in seven years ago, as soon as the weather gets nice you can bet on at least one gun shot a week, usually weekend nights but pretty much any time except midday during the week. At this point my wife and I are completely used to standing outside on the back porch and hearing gunshots followed by screaming and/or tires squealing. In seven years, I have never heard or read of one of these incidents being interracial. Most of the time it’s a local victim and a shooter from Baltimore, or NYC, or just somewhere in the county, but now and again it’s two people who both live in that housing development (or at least in the city) with beef.
At any rate, I’m not going to say there aren’t serious problems with policing in general and in my area specifically. Nor am I claiming that there isn’t an issue with racism and police. I will, however, say that we had 10 homicides last year, which is an all-time high. It’s a small town. None of the perpetrators were police. So yes, there is a problem with policing, but if you’re really concerned about black lives, you should focus on the problems in lower-income housing.
Medgar Evers Street … I presume this was at the intersection of Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive?
Call me superstitious, but I don’t think anyone with a brain would be anywhere near there, any time of night or day.
Oh, no, in all seriousness if you’re in a part of Annapolis with, say, a mural of Frederick Douglass, or streets or buildings named for civil rights leaders, you’re probably fine until dusk. Once the sun starts to go down, GTFO. In fact, I sometimes wonder if they avoided naming any of the streets after MLK because having seen Baltimore they know that spells trouble.
And, actually, it’s off Frederick Douglass. And I’m not making that shit up.
On health bill: “California would lose $78 billion…”
Yeh, but do they care?
Anyway, aren’t the wealthy supposed to share with the poor? Maybe they can spare some money from their high-speed rail to nowhere fund.
Call Jimmy Kimmel.. He sure would like the opportunity to help his fellow man according to his recent rants..
I love how it’s “lose” instead of “steal less”.
Reading through the coverage of this bill, how in G_d’s name does it do anything to open up the market for people who just want to, you know, purchase some health care? I say kill it or just let it implode on its own.
Oh, they will care when the Feds won’t even answer their calls.
Uffda. It is pretty funny that Gov. Mumbles actually admits that he is such a clown that Tom Price won’t take his calls. And all the venting about how “real” people are getting hurt is fantastic. Wonder why those people are where they are at? Couldn’t be the idiot exchange and proposals your embraced when the ACA was rolled out.
I’ve seen it a million times. A person who thinks they’re smarter than everyone else with other people’s money and wasting it. Then they wonder why eventually patience runs out and no one takes them seriously. Ever stop lending money to a deadbeat? Yeh, I think you know how they react.
You credit Dayton with thinking in the first place?
Silly Canadian.
Conspiracy Theory Thursday: Morgan Freeman Edition
The scariest thing for me with the Russia scare is just how quickly the narrative changed and Team Blue running with it whole heartedly. A mere five years ago they were mocking Romney for expressing concern about Russia, calling anyone who did stuck in the 80s, Obama was promising Russians that once he got elected he could “really get things done,” Hillary promised a Russian reset, and the intelligence agencies were treated with suspicion. Now they want to go to war with Russia, restart McCarthyism, and managed to memory hole all of those incidents that don’t fit the narrative.
It’s the same thing with the transgender issue. It went from unthinkable, socon slippery slope nonsense to dogma, if you don’t support this you’re a hateful bigot in under a decade. The sheer speed that they are able to completely and uniformly pivot on their stated beliefs and values is frankly quite scary.
That’s because they don’t actually have beliefs. They have goals.
That Morgan Freeman shit has got to be one of the stupidest things I’ve seen on YouTube which is saying a lot.
Saying we’re at war with a power that has more megatons in their arsenal than we do is just dangerously irresponsible.
I’m not sure I’d go that far (YouTube does host the Young Turks after all). Actors aren’t exactly known for their nuanced or deep thoughts on current events. It’s when politicians act like we’re at war with Russia that it’s really irresponsible and dangerous.
They’ve shown remarkable agility in these matters since their 12G 180 on the Hitler/Stalin pact.
“Flippy, the hamburger cooking robot, gets its first restaurant gig
Today at Disrupt SF, we got our first look at Flippy in its final form. Miso Robotics has been showing off its burger-flipping “robotic kitchen assistant” for several months now, but today’s food robotics panel marks the first time we’ve actually seen it put to work in a real-world kitchen.
No surprise, Caliburger is the first restaurant to get its hands on a Flippy. The fast casual restaurant has started demoing the robot in its Pasadena location — Miso’s home turf. The company was an early investor in the startup — in fact, according to CEO and co-founder David Zito, the restaurant actually helped inspire Flippy’s current functionality as a burger flipping ‘bot during early conversations with the startup.”
https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/19/flippy-the-hamburger-cooking-robot-gets-its-first-restaurant-gig/
Miso Robotics has been showing off its burger-flipping “robotic kitchen assistant” for several months now
I can’t wait for their sexbot version: Miso Horny.
*fiercely narrows gaze*
So for the cost of two full-time $15/hr workers. Less, really, since I’d imagine health insurance plans for two humans would cost less than the maintenance contract for Flippy.
The cost of two full-time $15/hr workers for one year.
After following the link in the story and seeing Flippy in action I have to say that is just a gimmick. I worked as a grill cook a few times in my youth, (and may yet again for that matter) and I can say flipping the burgers is not the most time consuming task. A human could flip six burgers in the time it appears Flippy to take to do one. Plus you still need a human on the grill to add cheese and toppings? One person does that all in many restaurants now. Why clog up the kitchen with a $60,000 gimmick. If you are going to start to replace humans, self order kiosks seems a smarter use of ones money imho.
Making a robot conform to a human working environment is wasteful and inefficient too. As WS says, this is a gimmick, but it’s making people sit up and take notice.
Tomorrow’s burger place should look more like an ATM than an Arby’s, if you take automation seriously.
Somehow, this reminds me of one of the Stainless Steel Rat stories, but I can’t remember which one.
Actually, if the restaurant already exists, it’s a cheap retrofit to drop the robot into the cook station.
A new build shop would be just a kiosk, but this transitional phase makes economic sense (and sends a message).
+1 McSwiney’s.
“Today at Disrupt SF”.
Is this a resistance movement spawned by “The Hat and The Hair”?
45 men dressed as Magnum PI kicked out of Tigers game:
https://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2017/9/19/16333488/45-magnum-pi-tigers-game-ejected-bachelor-party
Seriously?
THIS is exactly why it’s fun – or used to be fun anyway – going to games.
Jesus, all it is now a bunch of corp-heads, get off my lawn types and fair-weather fans at these stupid things.
Once upon a time it was all smoking, fights, drunks and hardcore fans. Not that that extreme was any better but we’ve weeded out the true sports fan out of the equation in my view.
The last time I went to a football game (Montreal Alouettes) a well to-do couple in front of us was eating….sushi.
That was too much for us and was the last straw!
I forgot how squeaky Selleck’s voice is.
“The group were asked to leave because a member of the party was smoking, while other Magnums were catcalling at women”
I’d be pretty pissed if somebody in my row were smoking and the whole row had to go.
I’d have to know more about what the catcalling consisted of before making a judgment on that.
What’s retarded about MLB stadiums is there isn’t even a smoking section, even though you are OUTSIDE
Not to mention the TSA shit you now have to pass through. The last time we went to Soldier Field, it was raining hard, but umbrellas were being confiscated at the security gates.
I’m biting the bullet and going to Lambeau to see the Ravens, but otherwise, I’ve stopped going to MLB and NFL games because of shit like this.
The one and only Twins game I went to in the last couple years was presided over by a bunch of Homeland Security tactical fucks, replete with the badass operator’s starter kit: dark polos, tactical pants, wraparound shades and thigh holsters.
For a fucking baseball game in downtown Minneapolis.
I’m with you – I’d rather just watch at home.
Same experience. The youngest son knew me too well. “Just chill out Dad, it will be over with soon.”
The last T-woofs game seemed pretty chill. You had to slide your trash through a scanner and walk through the metal detector, but I didn’t see the wanna-bees anywhere.
Has anyone tested the efficacy of these clowns? I’m betting they’d be envious of the TSA’s 95% failure rate.
I might be wrong, but I believe some stadiums have banned chewing tobacco. Peanuts are next.
pfffffft……I dip everywhere. I’ve learned well the subtle art of being discreet with it over many years.
In high school we used to dip in class without getting caught by being very discreet. I learned all sorts cool ways to get away with shit at boarding school. Thanks mom and dad!
The Marine Corps was my teacher. Most of us dipped, yet you weren’t allowed to in most circumstances, so you had to learn how to hide it.
Where would you first guess that dip got banned. Yup, exactly right,San Francisco.
Went to family night at Lambeau this year and security was frustrating. You can’t have a regular small bag (purse for the wife), you have to have a clear bag. Saw plenty of people with the clear bag (Packers branded!) lined with a light blanket to totally obscure the contents of said bag.
At least I had close parking for the run back to the car to drop off the contraband. $20 well spent there.
SP is researching the ways to smuggle in high-alcohol-content refreshments. And surely there’s a way to do so, this IS Wisconsin.
Fake colostomy bag.
We’re looking at fake tampons, but because she’s only 8, it may be hard to pull off.
List for OMWC.
I knew my trust in Wisconsinites was not misplaced.
if it’s an outdoor event in cold weather, you can simply sew a big pocket on the inside of your coat that you can slip a bladder from a Camelbak into. I’ve done that.
True story:
Some years ago, EDG repoin LBC and I smuggled a couple pints of liquor into Staples Center for an NCAA tournament basketball game.
I put baby Reason in one of the chest carriers and put the two bottles between her and my chest. The security guard never even thought to look there since no responsible adult would use a 4 month old as a booze-smuggling device.
I think that might have been one of only a few times I ever used that carrier.
Ravens game is late November (firearms deer season, WI holiday week). Unless global warming happens you can wear a big orange coat and blend right in! They don’t really pat you down that well…
Oh, and Go Pack!
Family night is awesome! 70k fans for practice! My kids love it. I agree about all the security now, silly.
Yes, it was lots of fun. Only chance to go see some football at the stadium.
I was surprised by all the non-football people on the field which all made sense upon a little thought. Refs are out there working on positioning to make correct calls, throwing flags etc. Camera crew working on their skills as well.
Last time I went to the arena (for a minor league hockey team), they confiscated my UtiliKey on the basis that it was a knife. It has about a quarter inch of edge, that’s useful for cutting threads and tape. That’s about it.
Oh, and it was a skate night, so you could bring in your ice skates.
I went to a Wild game last year and forgot I had my pocket knife. I had to go back outside and hide it in a plant…
I went to a Warriors game a couple years ago and almost had my Swiss Army Knife confiscated. The guy manning the metal detector was about to take it when a cop came up to me and told me to toss the knife in one of the planter boxes in front of the arena. I could pick it up after the game if it was still there, and indeed it was. The guy at the metal detector was visibly upset that he wasn’t going to get to keep the knife.
Magnum PI was a great show. The Ferrari, Higgins and his dogs, Rick, TC and his heli, hot 80s chicks, and the theme song. I still watch reruns
Yeah, when it was first on Netflix, my son and I watched every episode. He loved it! My daughter, on the other hand, sat down to watch and was horrified by the short-shorts and the luxurious body hair.
You just can’t please some people.
Absolutely. Personal all-time favorite.
The show had charm. Like Rockford Files. Great gum shoe shows.
Now it’s all serious and no personality.
Rockford Files is great. We have COZI and I’ve been recording that and Columbo. Great shows.
Every Rockford episode ever:
Rockford gets a case..he gets warned off the case…kidnapped at the trailer…car chase…gets the bad guy
It sounds boring and repetitive but it was an awesome show.
I am not kidding, our dog LOVES that show. When she hears the car chase starting, she runs over to the TV to watch. No other show, just Rockford.
So a great night for her is a couple of slices of pizza and a Rockford Files episode or two?
It’s all about the lead. James Garner and Tom Selleck were fun and likeable, and unlike most TV detectives, they were portrayed as kind of amiable bumblers. I mean, sure, they usually solved the cases, but rarely in particularly efficient fashion.
They also portrayed the cops as disinterested in doing their jobs until it’s too late.
He always gets sucker-punched, too.
One thing that always cracks me up about old TV shows is how those guys get knocked out cold all the damned time and snap right out it when they wake up, and don’t have long-term aftereffects either. Rockford was concussed like 75 times through the course of series – his brain would have made Junior Seau’s look pristine in comparison!
Naw, they just have an off-button back there. They’re actually androids.
When I moved to California one of the first things I did was drove down to Paradise Cove and wandered around the parking lot where Rockford’s trailer used to be. Not a lot of room in that lot for car chases!
I found Stana Katic pretty watchable on Castle…
+1 “Ivan, did you see the sunrise?”
Magnum is probably my favorite 80’s show. Simon and Simon is pretty good too (and a bitchin theme song).
most iconic scene of 80s tv.
Oh man. That brings back memories. I used to watch all those shows with my dad. Simon and Simon was great. Gerald McRaney is awesome. I should find and watch them again.
See if you get COZI channel. Lots of cool old shows on there
Retro TV used to have a bunch of great old shows like Kojak and Ironside, but their schedule sucks now. I don’t get COZI. I do get Antenna TV, which has a few good shows like Sanford and Son and Barney Miller mixed in with dreck like Green Acres.
I don’t recall seeing that one, but I’ll look.
Yes indeed! Loved it as a kid, still love it today. Hell, the theme song is the ringer on my phone. Selleck makes it work because, even though Magnum is a badass former SEAL who fought in Vietnam, he’s so damned laid back and doesn’t take things too seriously that the vibe stays fun. Plus it’s one of the few shows that my wife and I both like and can watch together, although she just watches to see Selleck wearing tiny shorts.
Wild Bill Hagy looks down from heaven and a teardrop rolls down his cheek.
The main story is prime derp but this nugget is something else.
Deaf man shot dead by Oklahoma police as neighbours scream ‘he can’t hear you’
No TW for a nut punch? Thanks.
The important thing is that he made it home safe.
Until you become a cop you can’t possibly know what it’s like! They put their lives on the line every day for you! With the War on Cops, they have to be super careful, and it’s unfortunate that this happened, but it’s sadly to be expected. It’s not the cops’ fault.
This is what happens when you don’t listen to the cops. Just shut up and do what they say.
I’m glad we live where not listening to a cop nerves you get summarily executed. That should improve their image.
All fixed up!
*EDIT FAERIE*
Looked?
“live” maybe?
Don’t blame my inability to proof read on me. I was made this way by society.
edit faerie his ass!
Does the spelling change which one comes?
We are not really sure…it is kind of like spinning the WHEEL O’ FAIRY and seeing what you get.
I want the thick edit faerie back 🙁
I’ve been mulling over the matter of a character’s attitude towards welfare. To be realistic, I have to accept that the fictional characters will regard things from points of view I do not personally hold, and I’m trying to figure out how certain characters regard government handouts. Both regard themselves as unemployable (one due to appearance and the other for being the defendant of a high profile murder trial without having even finished high school). The latter I’ve more or less nailed down their response. The former, however, is a bit less clear in my head.
He started out joining an ‘eat the rich’ type criminal group in order to impress a girl (who has since dumped him and moved on), and after a lot of awful shit has ended up turning state’s evidence just to make some of his worst problems go away. He’s not eligable for witness protection (because it would ruin the stories he’s in) but has no source of income. So I’m not really sure what he’d do, being less in line with my personal views on the matter.
How does it not get my “CANCEL REPLY” clicks?!
“Society made me what I am, so it owes me, bro”
“This at least, is my *fair* share.”
“Taking welfare is like committing a victimless crime. Who am I punishing really? Nobody’s losing more than a few cents”
On one hand, having a licenced hero who’s on welfare could be an interesting angle.
On the other, he’s living in a neighborhood that’s undergoing gentrification. If he could get seed capital, he could acquire the building he’s living in, rehab it and rent the upper floors to hipsters. Big If though.
It sounds like this character takes the easy way out every time some problem comes his way. He wants to get laid so he becomes a criminal to impress a girl; the heat gets too high so he cuts a deal with the cops to rat out his compatriots. I don’t see any indication that he has any principals other than self-preservation, which would indicate to me that accepting welfare would be an easy choice.
Does this guy not realize his first statement contradicts his second? Well, the penalty for not listening in Oklahoma is death, so you know what you have to do Mr. Police Apologist.
“Crude oil tops $50 a barrel for first time in more than two months.”
So Venezuela is recovering now that they aren’t being slammed by low oil prices?
I think I read at some point that oil has to be at some huge number, like $90, for Venezuela’s budget to break even.
The excuses never end. Talking to a pinko is exactly like talking to habitual criminals. I suppose that’s because they are the same kind of people. There is always a reason, always someone else to blame.
To benefit immediately from $90 oil, Venezuela needs functioning infrastructure, which has been so degraded over the last decade, that they’d be incapable of doing so.
So they need it at $120/barrel again?
At this point I think even $500 a barrel won’t help much. The key issue isn’t just the infrastructure, but the skilled people to work it. PEDVESA is now basically a hollow shell of what it was, all the skilled people having been replaced with politically reliable cronies. Unless they can find a way to find politically reliable offshore or contract workers with the skills to do all the required work, they are dead meat.
Mad Max: Venezuela Viaduct
With cannibals and zombies….
Anyone up for some more war?
This war will be fantastic! The best war ever!
I’m surprised the Israelis went for this.
Are you kidding? A tripwire like that is exactly what they want. What Arab nation would invade now?
I can see why the Israelis went for it: while having an American base in your territory can be seen as a diminishment of sovereignty it also affirms and solidifies American commitment to the nation. America has bases in South Korea, and are greatly concerned about South Korea’s enemy. In fact, I can’t really think of any foreign nation that we have strong commitments to that we don’t have a base in. And from an American perspective having an AF base in Israel makes sense as it will probably become a replacement for Incirlik and allow America to lessen its ties with an increasingly difficult Turkey.
Incirlik’s done, and it makes more sense to have a sizeable FOB further to the south east as US involvement in the defense of Europe declines.
And sure, like it or hate it, Israel is a useful ally in the ME, if only to be a staked goat that attracts tigers. Having a base there is, as noted, a useful tripwire that future administrations will benefit from.
Not to mention that Iran will now have to think twice about Hezbollah’s planned rocket wars.. A missile lands there and injures or kills an American, and Iran will get it (at least if the president isn’t a douchebag that loves to draw red lines in the sand they then just walk back when push comes to shove)…
So secret Nazi president is putting down permanent roots to defend the Holy Land?
What a shit article.
“The infant section of the Lehi City Cemetery in Utah, where Penny Mae Cormani, a toddler who died after ingesting heroin, is buried.”
Obviously, we need a law to keep one-year-olds from buying dope.
“Eighty-seven children died of opioid intoxication in 2015, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, up from just 16 in 1999. By comparison, gunshot wounds kill four or five times as many children each year.”
What?
“In a state of 3 million people, pharmacists fill some 7,200 opioid prescriptions a day, according to 2015 data. Curious toddlers, Plumb said, are finding mom’s Suboxone strip, grandpa’s OxyContin.”
Because eating prescription drugs like candy is otherwise good for kids?
Because eating prescription drugs like candy is otherwise good for kids?
You don’t understand. The little junkies instinctively seek out the opioids from the medicine cabinet. Not, say, the brightly colored, dinosaur-shaped, cherry flavored children’s chewable vitamins. It’s an epidemic man. What part of epidemic don’t you understand?
I just saw CVS announced they are no longer filling opioid medications over 7 days for acute pain. CVS will be the determiner as to what constitutes acute vs. chronic pain. They will also discourage prescriptions for chronic pain but seem to be grudgingly more willing to fill those. If you dispute their refusal, you may have your doctor appeal in writing. Or better, find another pharmacy.
Refusal to give pain medication to those suffering pain because someone, somewhere might get high, is just plain evil.
I’m just guessing here, but perhaps they’re doing this out of fear of litigation and/or massive federal destructive action.
I agree with that, or at least would agree this constitutes a large part of their reasons. They recently had to pay millions to settle Federal charges that 50 of their stores acted as pill mills.
CVS is also known for strong social signaling. They have tried* to ban firearms throughout all of their stores, regardless of state law, and I believe they are the ones who stopped selling all tobacco products.
*I say tried because although they have made announcements to this effect, they have not complied with posting the necessary signage.
I oc in both walgreens and cvs where I live regularly. Course I live in Arizona where we all walk around with howitzers on our backs.
I think you can get cigarettes at the locations in AZ too, but I don’t smoke so it never occurred to me to look.
CVS is simply reacting to the pressure put on them by cops with sticky fingers.
Creating a financial incentive for the cops and courts to steal is one of the worst ideas since slavery.
Here is a link:
http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2017/09/21/cvs-health-moves-to-limit-access-to-opioid-painkillers.html
And when CVS won’t fill your scrip, street dealers will. So it creates more illegal trade
Democrats call for tougher online ad spending rules
Has anyone been able to find a single person who was swayed by the Russians to change their vote?
What a bunch of horseshit. Anyone who spent a penny on political ads in 2016 just pissed their money away. The country is so polarized that everyone’s vote was set in stone long before the election.
What no one seems to want to talk about are the illegal banana republic thug tactics used by the chocolate jesus.
Didn’t Hillary and the DNC outspend Trump like 2:1 or 3:1, depending on which pot you measure? And didn’t Hillary get free negative ad campaigns from the media that dwarf the spending of both combined?
People have been busy not trusting Hillary since 1991. I don’t think Trump moved that needle much.
That doesn’t measure the evil ruskie dark money. Why, with the Kremlin’s help Trump probably outspent her 10:1
Actually in proggy land its only fair when the democrats spend money to peddle whatever version of lies they want people to buy into and the other side is not allowed to even open its racist fucking mouth.
Has anyone found a single Russian ad?
Some chick that kept changing her name/email address to avoid my SPAM filter and wrote really poor Engrish kept sending me emails telling me if I voted for Trump she would service me. Does that count?
If she was speaking Engrish, then she was probably Chinese.
“how to prevent illegal foreign spending during elections.”
What illegal foreign spending happened? They were not donating. This is the problem when you start saying that someone’s free speach is a donation to a campaign. This is so incredibly stupid. And it should be shouted from the rooftops what a horrible tactic at insulating politicians from criticism this is.
And remember that, the left is currently beating people over the head with the fact that all people have rights on the US. I guess they just think no one has the right to disagree with them.
When they investigate and lock up the Clintons and Obama for their foreign cash sell outs, they can come back to me wiith this shit about Russians and Trump. Before that they can go just get fucked by a donkey.
What illegal foreign spending? You don’t find Saudi Arabia suddenly making generous donations to the Clinton foundation suspicious?
Touche
What illegal foreign spending happened? They were not donating.
Democrats aren’t as picky about illegal foreign donations.
TL;DR: Dems continue to despise the First Amendment.
I’m not a lawyer, but if it’s “illegal foreign spending” wouldn’t that mean it’s already against the law?
Don’t worry about the opioid crisis. The Dream Team is on it.
I’m sure they have a bunch of wonderful ideas in their playbook.
If the industry cooperates, the investigation could lead to a national settlement.
So the end result of this “opioid epidemic” media scaremongering will be a government shakedown and more restrictive rules on getting pain meds? Yeah, the government really has the interest of the people at heart.
The tobacco money has dried up, time for a fresh infusion of cash to be squandered.
Crude oil tops $50 a barrel for first time in more than two months. So expect gas to stay above $2.25 a gallon for the foreseeable future.
Something tells me I’m in for an disagreeable surprise when the propane guy shows up.
Entitled drivers are getting in the way of California’s climate change efforts
The Kulak wreckers strike again.
I’ll take “Deliberate Ignorance” for $200, Alex.
Good luck getting rid of the lowriders
The crappy roads will get rid of those.
THey are getting schlonged in the comments
Good
Amazing.
If the industry cooperates, the investigation could lead to a national settlement.
Which would be what, exactly? Will they agree to a cease and desist order, and remove those products from the market?
That’ll help, Shirley.
Prepare For the End Times: Millennials may be history’s most competent parents. Here’s why.
“single moms by choice,”
…
I’m sure your kids will appreciate your choice, given the sociological studies that show how hard that is on kids.
I am sure every life loser out there says it was their choice to be that kind of loser.
Or they blame the press, the Russians, etc…
They’re missing one reason for the current need to present oneself so well as parents at all times: CPS has been weaponized and will be called at the drop of the hat over the slightest thing. Once the process has been initiated by an anonymous phone caller who does not need to reveal themselves, there is no easy way to disentangle yourself from this Gestapo like agency.
“I don’t have any kids. Stop picking on my brother’s Dwarfism. We’ll sue you for harrassment if you keep calling him a child!”
Good. If you ask anybody what the biggest problem was with new parents of the past, they’ll tell you that they weren’t nearly self involved and narcissistic enough.
From the Puerto Rico article:
He said that as a result of the powerful Category 4 hurricane, no one on the island has power from utilities since the power grid is ‘a little bit old, mishandled and weak’.
I wonder how quickly this will be blamed on the Republican Congress’s unwillingness to bail Puerto Rico out which lead to Puerto Rico filing in bankruptcy court?
When something is decrepit because of all the fund stealing and illegal shit going down, it is always the fault of the shitlords that don’t want to throw more money down that pit..
“Married high school art teacher, 25, ‘had sex with four of her teenage students, including two she took back to her apartment on the same day'”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4905510/Art-teacher-25-arrested-having-sex-four-students.html
Poor husband. Right there in the first picture.
Ostensibly he’s young enough to carry a burning mistrust of women for the next 50-60 years.
He’s also young enough that he might be brainwashed into thinking this is something he’s supposed to be cool with, and that any negative reaction on his part would be patriarchy.
He’s a Cowboys fan. Cuck.
Yes, technically he is both cuckold and a cowboys fan.
Do these 2 things not always go together?
On the one hand, it’s a shitty thing for the DM to do to run multiple pictures of him so that everyone can see the guy whose wife is banging teenagers.
On the other hand, as you say, he’s a Cowboy fan so I have no pity for him.
Marked Tree High School?
A little chunky in the last photo.
She was just helping them with their stroke work. Part of her job as an art teacher.
Why don’t you let your daughter date swimmers?
Because they are brest strokers.
Has Everydayfeminism, Jezebel, or other such outlets started posting articles about how “empowered” these nympho teachers are yet? Or are they coerced into banging their students by the patriarchy? So many narratives to spin from this….
The patriarchy labels these women dangerous, because a promiscuous woman is dangerous to the patriarchy. If women can choose, how and with whom they have sex, what else might they choose?
Yes, we are feminists and we are for pro-choice. Except when we don’t like one of the options in a given choice, then choice is bad.
/Feminist logic
FSU fan. That explains it.
I notice the word rape is never used in that article. Anyone think it wouldn’t be used if the teacher were male?
Yeah. Only one of the boys was under 18 though, so most of it wasn’t rape. They say she’s being prosecuted for sexual assault for that one though.
Still, as you point out, if it was a man, even if all the students were over 18, it would be a big deal and there would be quotes from people calling for his termination despite not breaking the law.
Yay! Shout-out for my home town!
here
Art teacher?
I’m guessing she was tutoring them in face painting.
With hand cranked artisinal mayo being the paint?
Someone just locked up the Timber vote.
We have about a zillion people who will be running for governor this year. A lot of them are people you wonder at. Why would they think that anyone is clamoring for their leadership?
Anyways, one of the suspect ones just rolled out her energy policy.
As I said, I’m sure the timber industry will back her plan to start clear cutting all those polluting trees in Northern Minnesoda.
The stupid burns!! Then she dropped this turd:
Um, that’s not how a free market works, sweetheart, but thanks for stopping by.
C’mon Tundra. Isn’t your neighborhood already littered with lawn signs for Otto? Minnesoda needs the leadership of a state auditor.
I’m baffled at some of the people getting into this race. Did aliens invent some ego ray that they beamed into these mediocrities brains?
Between the retards in the Minneapolis mayoral race and the fuckwits running for governor, election season is shaping up to be a perfect time to sell the house and gtfo.
Isn’t most of the power from fossil fuels so how does all these citizens just choose clean energy?
“that the vast majority of scientists who study the issue say is causing global warming”
Actually, I’m pretty darn certain I watched a video where they explicitly said that it’s just a part of the process, not really the cause, but I could be crazy.
Why dont they just look to Spain and Germany for a spiffy renewable energy plan? Really, if someone has done it before you just emulate them.
I’ve got it!
In order to recieve any migrant benefits, foreigners must spend tweleve hours a day pedalling a generator bike to make up for the shortfalls of the wind and solar facilities.
Why not just yoke them in mass and harness them to generators? Your suggestion gives people too much leeway to choose for themselves.
Heat island. That is why you don’t bunch them up.
No, you want them in agregated facilities so that the uneven power output can be fed through a smaller number of power conditioners before being distributed. It also makes it easier to secure when phase two begins.
Do you even Conan?
If the first batches come in voluntarily, it makes it less of a lift to round up the remainder.
The program can be altered once they’re in the facility where they can be monitored.
If you got all of the foreigner-born in Minnesota (approx. 450,000) to peddal on generator bikes for 12 hours, you would have just enough kWhs to power about five typical American homes. Per standard green energy calculations, that is a fantastic and incredibly efficient use of resources and labor.
You need to harness the energy expended while digging holes, then filing them back in.
-Krugabe
You guys joke, but months ago I linked to a comment on some article from a self described retired communist that called for just that. Put the unemployed and those on government assistance on power generating cycles. She wasn’t making a joke though. I thought it funny she was all for forced labor like all good commis.
Germany has less wind and solar and more fossil fuel use percent than we do in terms of percent of 100 for electricity
so increased taxes are a winning campaign message? who knew.
Wolves in the Throne Room are back to making real metal, not ambient shit. For a couple of eco-hippies who wear hobbit boots, they make good records.
And in classic millennial fashion, they have made parenting a little bit their own with an impressive array of sub-identities that reflect not just their status as child-rearing adults, but also their personal, political and social ideologies. Make way for the crunchy moms, free-range parents, babywearing dads, single moms by choice, positive parents — just to name a few.
I hate to break it to you, but the child-as-lifestyle-accessory crowd has always been with us.
But to the millennial writing the article, it’s brand new.
+”Baby on Board” sticker on a Volvo in the 70s
Every 25 – 30 years, everything under the sun becomes new again.
I forget who posted this originally, and sorry for the repost, but this is absolutely brutal.
I am having some cognitive trouble understanding why HuffPo would publish this takedown of Hilldog.
“Reading What Happened induces a horrifying claustrophobia, the feeling of being pent up in a small room as someone delivers an unending lecture about how much better they are than everyone else. “
I cant understand why that repulsive person is getting so much attention. She cant get elected Dogcatcher in Roosterpoot, Arkansas at this point. The Clintons are done. Give it up already lefties.
I guess they just dont have anyone else and they have deluded themselves into believing there is some chance that she will be installed as Empress. This is what happens when the lunatic fringe takes over a major political party. Listening to their party leadership these days is like a visit to the dayroom in an asylum.
Sam Kriss is a mansplainer
He’s obviously a sexist, because any opposition to Hillary Clinton is, by definition, sexism
Whoa-oh here he comes,
Watch out girl, he’ll interrupt,
Whoa-oh here he comes,
He’s a maaaaansplainer
LOL
“Sam Kriss is a writer surviving in London.”
Well, it is horrible writing. So there is that.
“At 2 in the morning after Election Day in 2016, the absence of Hillary Clinton walked onto a stage at the Javits Center in Manhattan. The absence of Hillary Clinton is vast. It pullulates like slime mold across the internet; it screams from TV screens; it peers dim and terrified from behind Clinton’s own eyes.”
Perverse. How can anyone’s brain be so cloyed by politics that they’d even admit to thinking like this, much less advertising their polluted thoughts in terrible prose?
I was gonna post that. That’s SugarFree-level stuff of nightmares. The only difference is that in a SF story it’s not a metaphor.
Jimbo, I finally got around to reading the article about Excel energy splintering to make both NoDAk and Minny happy. I love how Xcel is basically saying, “It’s all the fault of those rubes in North Dakota!”
No asshole, what you should be saying is “we can’t let the progs in Mps/StP dictate to people in 5 fucking states what type of power they consume.” They absolutely should spin off the NoDak operations. In fact, I wish they’d just sell all their NoDak assets to one of the co-ops based here. The fact that they aren’t shows that their whining about how much it’ll cost is bullshit. If it was cost prohibitive, that wouldn’t be their “preferred” option. Fuck Xcel and double fuck the Minny PUC.
*Drops mic
MikeS, if what you say is true, you are saying that there are real economic consequences to dumb decisions about energy policy.
That is just too terrible an idea to even be allowed amongst our good thinking people here in Minnesoda. You rubes in NoDakville better get with the program and start sending us money.
Besides I drove through a shit ton of wind farms between Dickenson and Bismark last week on my hunting trip.
Yeah, our flat + windy state makes for great windfarming. There’s a huge one north of Valley City and another large one northwest of me. If the co-ops can make them work without raising rates, I think everyone here would be all for it. But until then, we love that bountiful, beautiful lignite.
+1 Falkirk mine NW of Bismark.
I drive by that on my way to hunt pheasants in Newtown. Insanely huge with giant equipment that is the wet dream of every kid who ever drove a Tonka truck around his sandbox.
Open pit coal mine porn
That ugly eco-crusifix in the page background spoils it.
Those things are an utter hoot to sit in while they operate them.
What’s the over/under on this guy’s life expectancy?
http://nypost.com/2017/09/20/mob-boss-sammy-the-bull-gravano-released-from-prison-early/
Longer than I expected – he’s still alive.
Judging by his face in the picture, he looks like he’s telling you to take the under.
A linked story in the article from 2003. Surprise! James Comey makes an appearance. http://nyp.st/1lFPKVF
Cool, they let him out. I’m sure he’ll move on to the lucrative human trafficking industry. It is AZ after all.
Giving credit where it’s due, ENB may be on to something with her crusade against sex trafficking hysteria. The only “independent verification” in this article appears to come from a group that might not exactly be an unbiased source, and the figures cited stretch credulity to the breaking point. Then again, it is CNN, so I should probably temper my expectations accordingly.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/10/americas/freedom-project-mexico-trafficking-survivor/index.html
She’s definitely on to something.
Can we have a prog cover every issue until Jann Wenner is dead?
Cleavage is the only thing that you can look down on and approve of at the same time.
http://archive.is/yePht
1, 31 and 37 have passed the test.
#1 is Charlotte McKinney.
I put #37 into Google Image search. This is the first hit. Appropriate.
#40 is Kate Upton.
Lots of good choices here. I’ll go with….. orgy.
14 wins.
7 places.
40 shows.
Honorable mentions for 14 and 12.
I have spoken.
Reminds me, why does ZARDOZ never chime in on these?
ZARDOZ TAKES HIS BRUTALS. NO NEED TO CHOOSE.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CURIOUS CHOSEN ONE. ZARDOZ WILL QUOTE THE ETERNAL CONSUELLA:
STARING AT BRUTAL FEMALES IS LIMITED TO THE EXTERMINATORS THAT ZARDOZ HAS CHOSEN.
*respectfully bows*
Lots of bunny boilers, duckfaces and Miley-tongues in that one.
Sad.
37 wins going away. 43 deserves some attention.
4, 6, 14, 15
I hope those aren’t ages.
Who do you think he is, OMWC?
Of course not. Two of those ages are over the hill
14.23.33.42 hut hut hike
42 is very patriotic.
That’s part of the reason…and tittays.
I am amazed I can access this link at work.
Poor Gail Collins. She’s in a quandary.
But about the “totally destroy North Korea” part: I believe I am not alone in feeling that the best plan for dealing with a deranged dictator holding nuclear weapons is not threatening to blow him up.
We tell ourselves that the president is surrounded by men who are too stable to let him plunge us into a war that will annihilate the planet. But Trump’s U.N. speech was a read-from-the-teleprompter performance, not a case of his just blurting out something awful. People in the White House read it and talked about it in advance.
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Maybe we would be better off with Pence in the White House. Even though he won’t drink in mixed company unless his wife is present, or dine alone with a woman he’s not married to.
Really, there are some choices we just shouldn’t be required to make.
Trump said he’s going to destroy North Korea. And he called that nice young dictator a silly name. How much more of this can the refined thought leaders of America be asked to withstand?
” Even though he won’t drink in mixed company unless his wife is present, or dine alone with a woman he’s not married to.”
I hate how this once fairly common, and for a politician, quite astute practice, is derided. Look that’s how he chooses to live. You think it’s somehow sexist?
Let’s take a look at this from her perspective. She sees one option as a deranged, unstable maniac who is probably in collusion with Russia and might result in the nuclear destruction of America (hey, I never said it was a sane perspective), and the other option as…a man who insists his wife is with him with dealing with other women. And she treats these two as if they’re equivalently awful.
The unthinkable impudence of some people…
Yeah, that little twink armed up flew a helicopter to Pakistan all alone, stormed Bin Laden’s compound without any assistance and strangled the terrorists one by one with his bare hands.
What a disgusting POS he is.
And he had this song cranked at the while.
Lots of complaining about Trump standing up to Porkchop. Not a whisper about Porkchop threatening to annihilate the US or of his shooting missiles over Japan.
I am waiting for the TDS to become so complete that they openly and explicitly side with Porkchop.
I doubt you will have to wait long. The media lords are already siding with Iran. Soon they will chant “Death to America” on the nightly news.
they’re siding with Zimbabwe apparently. Porkchop’s not far behind.
Or holding millions of South Koreans hostage contingent on our good behavior.
This same schmuck who had his girlfriend and several of her colleagues executed by being strapped to anti-aircraft guns and obliterated, their remains then crushed under tank treads.
No, see, we’re the bad guys.
Your problem is that you’re a cultural chauvinist. Who are you to evaluate the morality of a vibrant, non-Eurocentric nation and its traditions?
Democrats just nuke without warning.
Actually, you are. That’s literally the definition of Mutually Assured Destruction, which has been SOP since a country other than America got nukes (though admittedly the “mutual” part of that equation is lacking in the Nork case.)
Had the US and USSR not had nukes, we probably would have been in all out war sometime in the 50’s or 60’s.
The only question is whether or not Kim is actually a lunatic.
The only question is whether or not Kim is actually a lunatic.
He’s probably not any more insane than the rest of North Korea after the better part of a century of mass indoctrination & brainwashing. Considering he grew up under his father & grandfather, I’m not sure it indistinguishable from insanity. I doubt any of his tutors, childhood interactions, or family was telling him the whole thing is just a facade and a means for the Kim family to personally profit.
I don’t think he is insane and is running a protection racket
I believe I am not alone in feeling
At least she’s honest in giving it little actual thought.
I was going to say the same thing. MAD is orthodox American doctrine, as is the US reserving the right to first strike with nukes. That people are upset with Trump for articulating these standard doctrines (albeit in a forceful way) is mindboggling.
Fun fact: My mother just sent me ANOTHER frantic email about getting the fuck out of SoKo. She wants me to outline an escape plan to Busan and from there to Guam or Hawaii or whatever. It was very feverish. An Escape Bag was mentioned.
Something tells me that I can’t assuage her fears and will just have to fake alone with her game.
Everyone at work thought that Rocket Man was hilarious. No one gives a shit. On the English newspaper I read online, the new review for the new Kingsman is the second headline. Nothing mentioning NoKo until about the 20th.
Going to take the Train to Busan?
I don’t care for zombie movies too much.
I have plenty of middle school students as it is.
Since my wife is from Korea (Daegu), my family and coworkers are always bugging me for her take on all this stuff. When I tell them that she is pretty serene about things, they instantly discount her views and tell me that I should be working on getting in-laws out of the country.
It’s very annoying.
I had been here for 3 months when the Cheonan was sunk by the NoKos and 47 sailors died. I was freaked the fuck out. All the planes overhead that you could hear but not see on exercise were very scary.
I learned very quickly to ignore everything.
You couldn’t pay me to take that piece of shit. It’s a pathetic Boomer relic whose bloated, stinking corpse should be left to rot in the sun.
So woke they’re broke.
They send me their magazines for free, I assume to boost readership numbers. They are not the only publication doing this.
What if I told you it comes with 1999 Kirsten Dunst as an intern?
Well the good news – my friend with the lump on his testicles found out that it was just a “natural abnormality”, not anything cancerous. So he got stressed out and panicked over a big nothing. I guess there is a lesson to be learned here.
Fondle your balls early and often?
STEVE SMITH MAKE HIKER FEEL ABNORMALITY ALL NATURAL.
Also, glad to hear that your friend’s junk checked out okay.
Trump’s Straight Talk At The United Nations Disturbs Global Elite
Good.
Elite, my ass.
Most inept, useless and corrupt class of credentialed douchebags ever, and they are ticket off that the rabble thumbed their nose at them by sending a guy they feel is inferior because he thinks they are a bunch of worthless cunts.
We are back to the old days of the middle ages with the aristocracy looking down on the stupid serfs and feeling indignant because the serfs will not just shut up and kiss their asses.
… I am officially dead inside.
I just made the following statement unironically:
Out of context that doesn’t sound as bad. The sentences immediately preceeding that declaration were:
“I don’t take a dump without a Work Order”
It is always #1, but the supervisor will lie and say that the problem is with the system. The users always lie and think we (the designers of the system) are too stupid to know.
Not really, the Business approver is another person in their unit who has to sign off on access, and has this habit of letting these tickets accumulate, unaddressed, for months. Both #1 and #2 are human error possibilities. Possibility #3 is that the help desk routed the ticket to the wrong group, which also happens with some frequency.
I have to make statement like that all the time.
The worst is: “we don’t support client customizatios”, followed by: “we can’t fix what we gave you because it’s the way it was designed”
The thing is, it was too easy to slip into the bureaucratic tone. “Your forms have not been countersigned and filed in triplicate”. And technically, this i something the guy needs to do his job. I just get in trouble if I don’t follow procedure.
The best part is that now you’re the annoying IT prick who wouldn’t give him access. You can’t win.
“I was just following procedure” doesn’t work out so well at your war crimes trial.
No war crimes, just wasted taxpayer dollars as the guy sits around unable to do the job he’s being paid for.
Sounds like a war crime to me.
I can do a little salesmanship to soften the blow. That helps when your on either end of the transaction. I run into a lot of situations where I want to do something that’s technically in violation of our IT security policies, and the conversations usually go like:
“Hey man, I need access to production to check on this one thing.”
“Why production? Shouldn’t it match staging?”
“Yeah, but it doesn’t. Can you hook me up?”
“No, man, I would, but I can’t. All of that stuff gets logged, and if they found that in the next audit…”
“I just need to make sure this file is actually the same, because it’s behaving differently than it does elsewhere.”
“What if I just send you a copy of the file?”
“Yeah, cool, that works. Thanks man.”
It helps to keep things as casual and light as you can in situations like that, just to remind the person that you’re not just a soulless functionary.
But UCS is functionally soulless.
It’s a ticketing system. The data in test will never match prod. Plus, the guy’s a helpdesk schlub. He doesn’t even get to see test.
Problem with UCS is that when he watched Brazil, he thought it was a recruiting video.
I mean the guy gets a partial desk and a door! That’d be an upgrade.
You sir will get no where in the field of production operations with that attitude!
No leniency! No flexibility!
Funny coincidence, I just had to chat with the network guy to get him to send me logs from the server so I could figure out why mail isn’t sending. Totally pleasant.
NYT commenters are special. Such wise. How insight.
Steven Gabaeff MD Sacramento 14 minutes ago
If Trump’s election is declared fraudulent or illlegitimate, Pence has no standing to be President. The election should be invalidated and a special election held. Maybe Hillsry can still be our President since absent the fraud by Trump and Comry’s bizarre mention of her investigation and not Trump’s sedition investigation she would be President.
Just keep telling yourself that, Doc. Maybe you’ll wake up tomorrow, and it will all have been a terrible, terrible dream. Hillary will be your President, and the UN will be sending money and humanitarian aid to North Korea. And the Clinton Foundation, guided by Bill and Chelsea, will be supervising the reconstruction of large swathes of the Caribbean, because they have a proven track record of success.
Fuckin’ constitutions, how do they work?
I’ve honestly never once in my entire life met a physician whose opinion or reasoning I respect outside of their extremely limited field of knowledge. And I’ve met precious few who were competent even within their extremely limited field of knowledge. The hero worship that physicians get disgusts me.
To be faiir, o’le Doc Gabaeff seems uniquely stupid.
You’re assuming that he actually is a doctor.
But I’m with Pat. Here’s a little anecdote – several years ago, my mother started having breathing problems. She could barely walk ten feet without being out of breath and stopping to rest. Sounds like someone should check her lungs, right? Wrong. The doctor decided on that first exam that she had a heart problem, and put her through test after test to identify what was wrong with her heart. Months pass, all the tests and scans have found nothing, and she still can’t breathe. Finally, after she badgered him over and over, he grudgingly agrees to check her lungs. Lo and behold, her lungs were riddled with blood clots and they had to rush her to the hospital. She could have dropped dead at any time because the fucking doctor was a pigheaded asshole who refused to consider all possibilities, because HE was the expert and us peons who thought that trouble breathing sounds like a lung issue should just shut up and obey. Asshole.
I had the same issue. SP said, “You have a pulmonary embolism, we’re going to the ER right now. No arguments.”
Several examinations and scans later, the ER docs said, “You have a pulmonary embolism.”
SP >>> MD
Did she check WebMD?
Finally tired of WebMD, I picked up a few years old copy of the Physician’s Desk Reference for like $6. I look forward to it arriving any day now. I look forward to incorrectly diagnosing many illnesses at a much lower cost than if I had seen a doctor.
That was how my mother died, except that the NHS doctors couldn’t diagnose the problem.
And of course, I lacked the benefit of having the most remarkable woman in the world nearby.
The NHS scares the shit out of me. One of many reasons I am reluctant to set foot on airstrip one.
You’re right to be reluctant. Most of the malfeasance is given almost no publicity.
And now a large number of Americans have been conned into clamoring for our own version of the NHS. I weep for the future.
When my dad broke his back in a motor-cycling accident, the ER doctor damn near paralyzed him.
My dad was on the stretcher in agony when we got to the ER. He complained of numb spots on his legs. To me that screams potential spinal injury.
The fucking ER doc told him to roll on his side, and when my dad couldn’t do it, grabbed him by the hips to roll him bodily.
That’s when I started shouting at the guy that my dad had a spinal injury and not to touch him. I told my dad to stay still. The doc turned white and ended up storming away. Later the X-Rays showed two vertebrae had been pulverized. It’s a miracle my dad isn’t a paraplegic. No thanks to that fucking quack.
BTW – I’m convinced that the elderly woman who came in on an ambulance and was minimally treated for an hour was having a stroke. An older me would have done something, but 16-year old me was scared they’d kick me out and then paralyze my dad, so I stayed quiet.
I have gotten into loud arguments with doctors and staff about refunding my copay because I didn’t get the treatment I should have gotten. They are absolutely stunned when you demand a refund.
From my point of view, why shouldn’t I? I didn’t get the service they advertised and every other merchant out there will give refunds in that situation.
The staff was actually OK with the idea, but their issue was that there was no way to issue a refund in their system that wouldn’t be rejected by the insurance companies.
True. But what’s especially annoying about a lot of physicians is that they get automatic deference so often that they come to expect it and buy into this superiority complex. Medical school qualifies you to fuck around with the human body like ASE certification qualifies you to fuck around with a fine automobile. But it isn’t intended to, and doesn’t, confer some mastery of facts and logic outside of that sphere.
Doctors also tend to make shitty clients.
True that. Once had a doctor demanding that we use regular wifi (and how to configure it) for an IoT app that connected to test equipment in a hospital.
I kept trying to explain to him that wifi is not as reliable as you could want for that type of app and that there were all sorts of better, more reliable wireless protocols out there.
Nope. He was a fucking expert. Demanded that we use wifi. Then when they had all sorts of problems because hospitals are saturated with wifi devices and his test equipment would drop off, he never ever acknowledged that he had fucked up.
I think that everyone who becomes a libertarian has had an experience where an “expert” demonstrates that he’s a complete fucking moron. Tends to amp up the skepticism muscle, which is usually pretty strong with us.
I worked for a managed care provider. They had the bright idea of putting doctors in charge of the company, and letting them run it. Naturally it went bankrupt very quickly.
Maybe I’m mistaken, but isn’t the election of VP separate (in the electoral college)? So pence would still have standing either way it then goes to Ryan or ( if they claim the whole election was tainted) Hatch, who didn’t run last election.
Delusion. I wouldn’t want this guy treating me.
I’m sure this is somehow Lane Kiffin’s fault…
Don’t you mean Joey Freshwater?
Without a properly approved SR, I cannot grant a user access
“I can’t let you in without a pass.”
“My pass is in there. I just need to go pick it up.”
“I can’t let you in without a pass.”
“My pass is in there. I just need to go pick it up.”
“I can’t let you in without a pass.”
*gunfire, screams*
It looks like Obama did spy on Trump, just as he apparently did to me
Who’d have thunk that this was possible?
Didn’t Enemy of the State come out in 1998?
Holy shit, that movie is almost 20 years old??? I truly am zipping along towards the grave.
My wife’s watching the Scott Peterson documentary and there’s some part where they show a news cast from 2001, and I swear to god the chick’s hair look like the mid-80s in terms of antiquity. I still think of the early 2000s as recent, but I’ve got adult cousins who were born in ’99.
See, now that’s interesting to me because I often feel the opposite – in many ways its seems to me that things look pretty much the same from the end of the ’90s onward, at least compared to the huge changes from decade to decade that characterize the rest of the post-WWII era. The 1950s looked very different than the 60s, which looked very different than the 70s, and so on. For example – Oceans Eleven is sixteen years old now. I see it periodically because my wife loves that movie. Aside from the technology, and the fact that I know the actors look older now, it could plausibly be from the last few years. But if you go sixteen years prior to 2001, any movie from 1985 would look incredibly dated in 2001. Same thing with a 1969 movie in 1985.
It’s kind of an “uncanny valley” thing for me. Like I’ll watch something from the early 2000s and it’ll be close enough that it’ll bring back memories and seem normal and contemporary, and then I’ll see like someone wearing Jncos or something and it’s just…off…enough to be jarring.
I have a great deal of respect for Atkinsson; she’s one of a dying breed (honest liberal) and a near-extinct breed (trustworthy journo).
Documenting Bigfoot’s small-town footprint
Are they doing paternity tests that all come up STEVE SMITH?
the fact that the world as it stands today is so crappy, that there’s something very appealing about going out in the woods and looking for something
THINK WORLD IS CRAPPY NOW? STEVE SMITH HAVE BIG SURPRISE FOR YOU.
STEVE SMITH’S GREATEST TRICK WAS CONVINCING HIKERS HE NOT REAL.
After decades of hysteria bout kids drinking and having sex, now there’s hysteria that they’re not? Make up your damn mind!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4898600/Todays-US-teens-three-years-70s-generation.html
For the record, I got my first W2 job (not mowing lawns or things like that) at 16 and lost my virginity at 17. Does that make me behind or ahead of the curve? I haz confuzed.
I’d say you first got fucked when you filled out that W2…
Battle of the bra
Women shed their brassieres for ease, health and freedom from social expectations
Sounds more like she was wearing the wrong size.
My GF is a crusader on this issue. Get her started and listen to her go off on how 95% of women are wearing bras the wrong size, which is why they’re so uncomfortable all the time. Bands that are too loose, cup sizes that are too big. On and on. It’s weird that knowing how to buy a properly sized bra is esoteric knowledge in the world of women.
Probably analogous to the disproportionately high sales of “super-gigantic-no-really-you-gotta-be-kidding-me” size condoms to men.
Sure, it’s fun now, but she’ll be regretting it when she’s 45.
Or maybe not, since Asian woman don’t tend to be particularly top heavy.
I won’t google this when I’m at work, but wasn’t there some study that showed wearing a bra actually led to more sag?
As an aside, my wife sez that working out with weights – esp chest exercises – makes her (rather large) breasts perkier.
Pix or it didn’t happen.
Make sure she keeps them adjusted, or at least help her with it.
That movie – it will never die in my heart.
Rachael Ward … mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Pics?
Let’s at least get a cup size here LH, what are we amateurs?
I’m a 3gentleman and a scholar. I would never 8divulge such information, even under Cpains of torture!
Let me just get out my secret decoder ring…
Yeah that’s what I was thinking. Asian, so not likely to be busty, so not much for a bra to hold up. So, there’s not really much of a reason for her to wear one.
Coming soon to China, bellybutton cleavage!
Now I know that this is all nonsense, the not-wearing-a-bra-is-a-brave-protest-of-the-patriarchy and all….but I just don’t get it. Moreso than usual.
Is not wearing a cup when you play baseball a political message against the patriarchy? Or is it toxic masculinity to assume you’re so good that you don’t need a cup because you can glove? I guess not wearing a tie is a statement, but that’s much more of a statement against your employer rather than culture itself…
It’s just all really so stupid. It saddens me, but I take solace in that people are wasting their time and capital on this BS rather than on shit that actually makes a difference.
Dude, wearing a tie is total patriarchy. Look where it points.
I always wear red ones. With a full sized Windsor knot.
It’s symbol of my individuality and my belief in personal freedom
A feminist AND a sociologist.
I’m gonna need a Q continuum link to Chinese Tittays before deciding
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All. All. All. To late to make my horseracing choices. I shall merely waft and enjoy.
1 3 7 12 19 22 29 32 34
12 wins hands down. Can’t be bothered to rank the rest. They are all too good. Sigh.
7 airbrushed out an areola, looks like
Trumps position on North Korea is excellent. He has correctly realized they are running a protection racket and used by China to keep countries from going after china economically
The obama admin would just pay them cash to pretend to not violate the agreement like Iran is doing
Looks like Lauren Southern deleted the original tweet, posted in yesterday’s afternoon links.
https://twitter.com/ObscuredLeg/status/910599737052626944
(That’s Lauren’s sister, and Lauren dressed up (as some anime character?))
She deleted, or Twitter deleted?
I don’t know, but as far as I can tell Twitter tends to suspend accounts rather than delete individual tweets. Also, even though Twitter can be ridiculous, I don’t see why they would have removed it.
It was gone pretty quick. By the time I caught up and tried to see it it was gone. What did it say?
It read “RT if you prefer trad” with two pictures: “What Girls Think Guys Want” with selfie of some young woman showing off her butt, and “What Guys Actually Want” with a photo of another young woman in a long dress.
Japan was cool with Trump’s speech..
“We greatly appreciate President Trump’s approach to changing North Korea’s policy stance, denuclearizing the country and calling on the international community, including China and Russia, for their cooperation toward strengthening pressure on North Korea,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-trump-reaction/south-korea-says-trumps-warning-to-north-korea-firm-and-specific-idUSKCN1BV0DQ
Cnn ran a story saying trump is the creepy dad trying to sound cool by using rocket man. Serious journalism there
And they said the name didn’t make sense…just ignore he likes to tests missiles which are rockets
I’ll take lack of self awareness for a thousand…
And I think it’s gonna be a Jong Jong time
Lol
*thunderous ovation*
Are the missiles guided? At which point they wouldn’t be rockets? Maybe? It’s damned hard to be the devil’s advocate for CNN.
The term “Rocket” can be applied to guided missiles propelled by a rocket engine. While the military definition for ordinance makes it clear rockets are unguided, in the language as a whole, it’s a distinction without a difference.
GENIUS
The result is a market failure in which neither side is motivated to fix the problem. State and local policy makers can’t unilaterally opt out without potentially negative consequences for their constituents, while businesses have a fiduciary obligation to pursue these short-term direct incentives. Competition for jobs should not be seen to hinge on which government can write the biggest check to an employer but on the kinds of things that officials in Delaware and other states spend so much time on to make their communities places worth living in: the quality of schools, work force development programs, the transportation grid and other infrastructure, and the overall quality of life.
The solution is straightforward: Congress should institute a federal tax of 100 percent on every dollar a business receives in state or local incentives that are directed specifically to that company. This would not include investments in public infrastructure, work force development or other investments that can attract employers while also providing a significant long-term benefit to taxpayers.
How does that work? State and local governments make direct cash payments to corporations? And that revenue should be subject to confiscation by the feds? I might have to go lie down.
I’m getting dizzy.
Government incentives the author doesn’t like are a market failure.
Just scanning over it I got ‘market failure’ in the beginning and then lots of jabbering about government meddling.
“Market failure” is one of those keywords that tells me there’s a 99% chance that what follows is going to be illogical gibberish.
And someone demanding some government force be used to institute something that favors and enriches them..
Progs are totalitarians
And other items we deem socially necessary…. You can’t parody these assholes.
Saying a market has “failed” is like saying that a photograph or the climate or the concept of dogs failed. It isn’t an agent, it’s a phenomenon.
Also, nothing says, “I don’t know what a market is” like saying that parties acting according to incentives and making decisions based on their estimations of value is an example of the market having failed.
“Our ability to direct the market in idiotic directions has failed”
Actually, climate does fail. It consistently fails to reach the predicted apocalyptic conditions.
Goddammit.
I went out to feed the cat, picked up her bowl and was instantly bitten by a spider that was under the rim of the bowl. I didn’t even get a good look at what species it was.
I am off to the hardware store to buy 100 lbs of insecticide powder and foggers. I am gonna kill every goddamned bug within a mile of my house. I love my home but Jebus, it’s almost as bad as Australia around here.
One thing that’s nice about living in a place where you get cold winters is that the first good freeze kills just about all the bugs. That gives me about six months when I’m not getting bled dry by mosquitoes.
What is the joke about Louisiana Mosquitos: They come in two sizes, small enough to fit thru the screen door, and large enough to open it.
That isnt a joke.
The difference being that if you were in Australia, you’d already be dead by now.
Australia: The country that’s proof that God exists and has a message for mankind: “DON’T FUCKING LIVE IN AUSTRALIA!!”
“Who should have the right to define rape: survivors who have experienced sexual violence or those who are accused of perpetrating it?”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/18/opinion/campus-sexual-assault-devos.html
So rape is whatever a woman says it is.
False dichotomy
So rape is whatever a woman says it is.
Rape or rape-rape? Maybe we can give the womenfolk some time to reach a consensus on it.
Democracy dies in a court of law?
So postmodernism as a legal standard? Sounds like a great idea. I’m sure nothing could go wrong.
Nice false choice there. You could use that one for an intro to logic class.
And good lord, the recommended comments…are actually pretty reasonable. Even NYT readers ain’t buying what they’re selling.
I’ve noticed that on the last few articles as well. They are realizing that their sons are the ones who go to these schools.
There is also this three-part series in The Atlantic, which is hardly right-wing.
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/09/the-question-of-race-in-campus-sexual-assault-cases/539361/
The section is closed now, and the top to comments lament how a bunch of MEN!!! Dare disagree with this article.
The state legislatures?
Can we redefine murder the same way?
“He just all of a sudden became dead, but it’s definitely not murder.”
Seems to work for the cops.
“Who should have the right to define false accusations: survivors who have experienced false accusations or those who are accused of perpetrating it?”
the Russian comments cited by the WaPo to demonstrate Trump is unhinged are funny:
…Trump’s speech was “disappointing,” said Kosachyov.. particularly for “the extremely dangerous statements about the readiness to ‘totally destroy North Korea’ and exit the Iran deal as ‘one of the worst for the U.S. and an embarrassment.’ Plus Syria, Cuba and Venezuela as though they were the worst dictatorships in the history of mankind.”
I know, right? Those may be in the top 10 worst dictatorships on Earth right now but in the history of mankind they’re maybe top 100. Therefore, Trump is not a serious statesmen.
Also, most of this article is devoted to China’s reaction while the title talks about Japan and South Korea.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/russia-calls-trumps-korea-remarks-a-dangerous-step-toward-instability/2017/09/19/1a6d9b56-9d69-11e7-b2a7-bc70b6f98089_story.html?utm_term=.fbb08ea9b5e5
So now the Russians are back in vogue no longer trying to undermine our institutions?
“‘Stupidly politically correct society is the death of comedy’, warns veteran comedian Mel Brooks”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/21/stupidly-politically-correct-society-death-comedy-warns-veteran/
Interesting piece on the value of college football teams.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-much-is-your-college-football-team-worth-1506000030
I wonder how much the athletic departments as a whole are worth once all the money-eating Title IX programs are added to the equation.
Also, look and see who’s at the top of the list. Hint: it sure as fuck ain’t TTUN.
I can’t see it, but usually Texas is #1.
If sloopy is bragging you know who is near the top.
I
resentresemble that remark.Exhibit A as to why state pensions should never get bailed out. Let these football programs be sold to the highest private bidders.
“It’s puzzling that the plaintiff is staking part of her lawsuit on the alleged falsehood of the statement that she is a “serial Title IX filer.” Kipnis mentions in the book that the graduate student was a complainant in six Title IX complaints; in the suit, the plaintiff acknowledges two, one against Ludlow and one against Kipnis. But days before filing the defamation suit, in May, the graduate student joined four Northwestern faculty members and five other graduate students as a complainant in yet another Title IX complaint against Kipnis, this time based on the publication of “Unwanted Advances.””
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/laura-kipniss-endless-trial-by-title-ix
“Yes, you can get brought up on Title IX complaints for writing a book that’s critical of Title IX procedures.”
https://twitter.com/laurakipnis/status/910557472989093893
STEVE SMITH WROTE THE BOOK ON UNWANTED ADVANCES. AND BY WROTE I MEAN RAPED.
The Chocolate Nixon Administration – in for a penny, in for a pound
and those unmasking requests are in writing. ostensibly maintained by some FISA-mandated procedure. should be not impossible to prove the claim.
Glenn Reynolds today linked this comment he made back in March, and it’s looking pretty prescient now:
Welp, I’ve lost a valuable ally here at work this morning. Blonde, six-foot-one, hilarious, and damn good at her job, she just up and quit this morning. This happened just about two weeks after we brought back the Tales From The Crypt guy to work alongside her. Granted, though he’s a right asshole, I don’t think he had much to do with her quitting. Whatever the case, my job just got less fun and there’s sure to be a lot more headaches coming along thanks to her absence.
Again, what cup size we workin’ with here?
We need to know how sorry for your loss to be
Q, I found a book club for you:
https://twitter.com/ToplessPulp
Before click, SFW?
decidedly no.
I will check it out once I get home fo shizzle. Always looking for new boobie resources; thank you my Tuber friend.
Well, it is pretty clearly a feminist organization, so enjoy the melange of arousal and disgust.
Nope. It’s full of naked boobies.
No. Exposed tittays.
One thing I like with Q’s tittay links is the tittays are visible but nipples are covered. I find that more tittilating
Thanks for that, tho. Will follow
Goodbye, leggy blonde.
I am glad that is what I though it would be.
Odin called the Valkyrie home?
What’s the difference between a View host and the retarded guy who bags your groceries?
The retarded guy who bags your groceries is providing a valuable service to society and is probably good natured about it.
http://thehill.com/homenews/media/351620-the-view-co-host-trump-making-phallic-reference-with-rocket-man-reference
“Antifa Professor Called For Killing Police Officers”
dailycaller.com/2017/09/20/antifa-professor-called-for-killing-police-officers/
“Nazi Professor Called for Killing Jews”
See how fun this could be!
Except there aren’t any Nazi professors.
I’ve been assured by many hosts on MSNBC and CNN that Nazis are lurking everywhere.
They’re behind and underneath every Russki!
I’d like to see some hard data to back this up, but if it were true it wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/09/20/alarmed-by-islam-europes-gays-are-moving-to-the-right/
I was thinking this morning about how strange it is that the left is all about gay rights, but also about encouraging Muslim immigration. Those two things are in total conflict with one another. The only thing they do have in common is that they are both opposed by some on the right. Which is pretty much all politics has come down to anymore: “Is the right opposed to it? Then I’m for it wholeheartedly!”
Everything the left does is all about sticking it to the bourgeoisie. Sounds trite, but it’s the truth. That’s how they can advocate so many things that are so contradictory.
The problem they’re running into now is that the left is the bourgeoisie.
You’d think that after a while, lefties would tune this asshole out; but I guess the masochistic sexual thrill of white guilt is just to sweet to turn down.
http://archive.is/ur0xA
Sick burn
Also, calling this guy a “polemicist” is a great disservice to the term. He’s a hack. Screaming “RACISM! WHITE SUPREMACY! REEEEEE!” as the cause of everything wrong with the world does not a polemicist make.
Coates has extruded lots of stuff but none of it comes within a country mile of polemic. Hell, you’re guaranteed a near-constant firehose of far better on any given day if you click here (almost SFW).
Hey! It’s “Certified Family Friendly”!
The media slobbers over Coates like he’s the second coming of DuBois.
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She missed out on being able to fellate Bill Clinton by a few years. She should have set her sights on Podesta.
She’s 35 years too old for Podesta.
How much older is she for Wiener?
::raises index finger and opens mouth::
::closes mouth and lowers hand::
::calmly walks away::
Bob, word of advice, wear protection.
I’m thinking HazMat suit.
Bob, word of advice, use sex pants, take prophylactic antibiotics and wash your junk with lye afterward.
FIFY.
Won’t she have a sad when her new beau comes up with Manafort, Obama, Power, Clinton and Wasserman-Shultz as defendents …
Power is a piece of work. She was involved in pretty much every bad foreign policy decision Obama made.
She’s one of those celebrities whose fame is utterly mystifying, like Joy Behar. Who is she? What has she ever actually done?
Never heard of that one either.
You wouldn’t like her.
She’s all class:
http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/chelsea-handler-jason-biggs-peed-on-my-face-20141610
Possibly, NSFW.
I think 2016 has proven to be a very significant election. It was the election in which a major portion of the electorate was convinced to drink the Kool-Aid. I remember during the election noting how absurd some of the Democrats’ contentions were (e.g. that a politician who had made millions while in office was going to a champion against corruption). I remember thinking at the time there was a logic to it. If you could get people to say that the sky was green with purple polka-dots, they’d surely sign off on lesser lies. And things have panned out that way. You’ve got a significant portion of the population prepared to believe, on no real evidence, that Matt Drudge and Julian Assange are Russian spies. You’ve got that same group prepared to say with a straight face that thugs who beat people up in the street for their political opinions are unquestionably the good guys. You’ve got a significant portion of the population prepared to agree that after years of improving race relations, we’re only a step away from Nazi Germany. I don’t know if the people parroting these lies believe them. Really, I don’t understood how they could. But, it’s insane enough to me that people would actually expect anyone else to believe them.
Silver lining: it didn’t work.
I think one good result all of this is that the “progressives” are just alienating more people. They might be galvanizing their hardcore devotees, but those people were never going to change anyway. For decades, the Democrats have successfully cultivated an image as “the adults in the room” and the “moderates who are just looking for a compromise”. But they’re tipping the scales the other way by tacitly supporting Antifa thugs, putting out wackadoo bullshit conspiracy theories about Russians, and doubling down on identity politics.
I hope they keep doing exactly what they’re doing.
I watched DMT: The Spirit Molecule on Netflix last night and found it to be pretty good. It was nice to hear first hand accounts from Strassman’s study. I read the book back in college (much better than the movie) and actually wrote a philosophy paper on it. Ever since then I’ve always wanted to try the stuff but would have no idea how to go about getting it. If you’re at all interested in psychedelics and entheogens you should at least watch the movie, but I recommend the book.
I did some superficial research on the stuff and it looks like it’s fairly easy to extract it on your own, not that I’d recommend doing that of course. Seems like it’d make for an interesting ride.
The P/TiHKAL books are ridiculous. A badass chemist basically made and dosed himself with several hundred (thousand?) analogues of psychoactive chemicals and recorded both how he prepared them, what doses he took, and what effects he experienced and then made that available for everyone else.
Wait for the asset fire-sale after they’ve been devastated by lawsuits, then do it. Re-launch the magazine as “Glibertarians presents: Rolling Stone”. First-issue cover should be the hat & the hair, just to fairly warn the public at large what they’re in for. Or maybe see if you can get SF to do an interview with some celebrity (Bono?) before people realize the change in ownership. And if you want success instead of just entertainment, get QC to run a “Page 3” feature. You already have enough contributors on obscure culture to give the magazine a “cultured”/”artistic” tone. I think there’s a workable plan here.
Something fun in my inbox at work this morning: VA Removes Former D.C. Medical Center Director
Its a short press release. The TL/DR version is this guy sucked at being a director who was removed, then appealed, reinstated upon appeal and now removes again. What were they able to throw the book at him this time? Any guess?
Apparently he’s not important enough to break the “laws are for little people” threshold Hillary took advantage of.
A great Carl Reiner tweet (thanks Ace of Spades HQ):
https://mobile.twitter.com/carlreiner/status/910368406112735237?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Face.mu.nu%2F
Delusion – an idiosyncratic belief or impression that is firmly maintained despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality or rational argument, typically a symptom of mental disorder
Like, men believing they are actually women.
I particularly liked this
For the life of me I can’t imagine what a “stolen” election would look like, other than actual tampering with voting machines, which nobody is talking about. Influencing public opinion is not “stealing” an election.
Armed guards at polling stations scaring off the opposition voters would also count.
Not if they’re Black Panthers in Philly, though.
Carl Reiner is still alive? Whaddya know……
Probably should wait for afternoon links….. but you guys need to read this article about how SpaceX is forcing the Air Force to become lots more efficient.
Reduced costs by over 50%…. because SpaceX forced them to.
There’s got to be at least 10 libertarian think-pieces to be pulled from this one article.
Competition and Public Choice Theory, how do they work?
Muhammed and its variations found to be most common boy’s name in England. I’ve never understood naming your child after the figure central to your faith. Apostles, maybe. But hispanics naming their boys Jesus? That’s a bit sacrilegious, innit?
It’s because nobody fucks with the Jesus
Joshua is a pretty common English name.
Yes, but Joshua = Yeshua is used for the successor to Moses while Jesus = Yeshua is used only for Christ, so English translates Jesus’s name differently ’cause he’s special. So Joshua in English is a different name, for a different person, than Jesus, even though both names are used for essentially the same Hebrew name.
Well, there are very few ‘approved’ muslim names, and many of them are islamicized versions of judaic names.
Anecdotally, I can’t think of any Pakistani kids back in Britain when I grew up that had such names – I may have known one ‘Yusuf’, and maybe a ‘Daawid’ – far more common were ones that didn’t seem to have a Hebrew cognate, like Azam, or Omar .
Combine that with the variety of Anglo/European names parents can choose from, and it’s not surprising that pretty quickly, Mohammed floats to the top.
Doesn’t help that ignoring the statistics of names, Asian immigrant families win the demographic war too.
It’s called “idolatry”.
The editors of Princeton’s student paper dissolves the editorial board, which was independent of the rest of the paper’s staff, due to too much doubleplusungood wrongthink.
Well, they’re wrong about intersectionality being a liberal value.
with these names, that Editorial Board was obviously just a shadow group of nazis:
Members
Megan Armstrong ‘19
Allison Berger ‘18
Jacob Berman ‘20
Cole Campbell ‘20
Paul Draper ‘18
Theodore Furchtgott ‘18
Richard Furchtgott ‘20
Rachel Glenn ‘19
Dee-Dee Huang ‘20
Carolyn Liziewski ‘18
Caden McLaughlin ‘20
Gabriel Swagel ‘20
Jack Whelan ‘19
Sakha, when the editorial board fell.
Better marriage through chemistry.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/marriage-is-driving-some-to-drugs-and-it-may-not-be_us_58a4e76ce4b0b0e1e0e20668
TW: HuffPo
As with THC, It’s ridiculous that MDMA is on Schedule I, when it clearly has potential medical use.
Twerk like she from Russia.
I think this song inspired the conspiracy theory. Very subtle, guys.
I’ve never understood naming your child after the figure central to your faith.
“And this is my son, Zoroaster.”
And his little brother, ZARDOZ.