Sloopy had to go to Oklahoma today, so he has his own hell to deal with.
Houston STEVE SMITH’s the Rangers, scoring 10+ runs for the 3rd game in a row. Last 4 games of the season are against the Boston CheatSox, who have a bit more to play for. A split gives Dallas Keichal and others from the 2013 squad the dubious distinction of having been on a 100 loss and a 100 win club. The Twins were unable to give Cleveland that one loss Houston needed to be tied for home field, but they backed into the playoffs. The Cubbies beat the Cards to get in. Dodgers win, Orioles and Nats lose.
I did not watch hockey or EPL if there was any. And now… The Links
Hugh Hefner dead at 91. Thanks Hef. I really did read some of the articles after I had, er, exhausted the pictures. At least in the early 90s when I was trading them with other guys too young to buy them, the writing was pretty good.
Trump gave a speech on the tax plan, and even the WaPo has to admit that the estate tax portion would radically reform the estate tax to the benefit of heirs.
Usually at Yosemite, people die by falling on granite, not vice versa.
Man, this statue removal as protest is really catching on.
Here’s a little something on theme for my little friends.
EDIT: Totally forgot to announce here: Tampa Bay area Glibs meetup this Friday at Mr. Dunderbak’s Negroni, his new bride and I will start day drinking sometime before 4:00pm and (at least I) will endeavor to stay until at least 10:00.
Sadly, Hugh Hefner is decidedly NOT going to a better place.
Nice. St Peter couldn’t let him in because his pages were stuck together?
In Heaven everything is airbrushed
In Heaven, everything is fine.
Was that the radiator scene?
Of course. God, I loved that movie and I *still* couldn’t tell you what it’s about.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mNKGuF8YeuE
Obligatory.
His old college residence hall he lived in was turned into the residence hall for the Police Training Institute….I am not sure what that means…
I don’t know. The last days of the Playboy Mansion were apparently pretty decrepit.
+1 MR Havisham
So they don’t want to remove the Ray Lewis statue because he was an accessory (at least) to murder?
Who isn’t in Baltimore?
The Colts?
Didn’t they kill Steve Guttenberg?
Not Guilty. Remember those two words.
Not guilty is not the same as innocent. Based on what I’ve read, Lewis most likely was at least an accessory, they just couldn’t convict him.
Not. Guilty.
Also: Not. Articulate.
Short for “Not Guilty Beyond a Reasonable Doubt”.
It can mean “Innocent”, but can also mean “Not Proven”.
I’m not familiar with the case, but it’s entirely possible for there to both be not enough evidence to throw someone in a rape cage while not being enough evidence to convince people of their innocence.
Hey, OJ was also “Not Guilty”. Despite all the evidence to the contrary.
I vaguely remember the case when it was going on, and my impression at the time was that there was a lot of smoke, but nothing definitive. If you can be convicted for Being Involved In Shady Business, he’d have been guilty for sure, but that could be anything from having friends who are no-goodniks to stabbing someone to death and getting off scot free. I’ll put it like this: if it was my son and the charge was murder, I’d say he wasn’t guilty; if my daughter was the victim, I’d say I was convinced enough to take justice into my own hands.
It seemed clear to me that someone in the entourage killed the guy, but nobody was ever going to be able to prove which one.
Then your memories or information are flawed.
There were 2 guys killed not 1, and the ones who did the killing were identified pretty early on they were subsequently tried and acquitted on the grounds of self defense
I’ll take your word for it. Like I say, this is a thing I didn’t pay a ton of attention to that doesn’t stick in my memory, so I’m going on impressions and vague recollection.
According to all witnesses present, both those within Rays possee and those who were just bystanders Lewis was not directly invoved in the fight and attempted to play peacemaker.. Afterwords in a moment of panic he did obstruct justice by assisting his buddies in hiding the knives they used in the fight and ordering his possee to shut up. However before the trial started he came clean, plead guilty to the obstruction charge and was the states star witness.
The simple fact of the matter is that Ray could not have been an accessory to murder because there was no murder in the first place. Those charged were acquitted of the murder charge on grounds of self defense and this wasn’t a case where they got off on a technicality, the evidence was pretty clear cut, the dead guys started the fight and started attacking with weapons, the alleged killers were defending themselves.
He was not.
Ray’s buddies who were charged with the murders were acquitted on the grounds of it being self defense and anyone who actually followed the case at all would have realized that it was the correct ruling.
At the time Ray may have been a thug and he definitely hung out with thugs but that fight was started by those 2 Atlanta morons who wound up dead
I haven’t thought about that case in years. What was the deal with the Atlanta guys? Were they armed? The way I remember it was that it was a fight that got out of hand, but that Ray’s friend was the one who brought a knife into the mix. But like I say, this is going on vague memories from paying half-attention to news reports at the time.
They were armed with broken bottles iirc
I lived in Atlanta at the time and the only thing I listened to was Sports talk radio and the Neil Boortz show so I hears A LOT about the case
Ok, fine, but he still ruined Buckhead and ergo shouldn’t have a statue.
Is is abolition?
I haven’t read the propsal, but death taxes are almost as bad as land taxes. That money has already been taxed many times over, and getting offed should not be a taxable event.
Land taxes are not that bad. Estate taxes are the bloody worst
You only die once, the land taxes bleed you year over year.
Property tax is a crime against humanity. A flogging offense at least. You would have one hell of a time making a case that they aren’t. The estate tax should be a hanging offense.
Death and taxes and taxes and taxes…
It pushes the exemption to $3M. Even by the WaPo’s standards, that only puts about 80 farms and family businesses a year over the cap.
That’s no good.
Death taxes need to be abolished. (I say this as someone with no relatives who have a positive net worth)
Agreed. My only chance of becoming semi wealthy is with an end to the estate tax. Or becoming famous. And becoming famous is a lonnnng shot
(I say this as someone with no relatives who have a positive net worth)
Immaterial, the law is either good or bad regardless of any person’s particular circumstances. Don’t give into the retard narrative.
I thought the estate tax exemption was at 11 million and this plan would completely repeal it.
Yeah, I completely misread it. The WaPo suggests that ending the estate tax would only protect 80 farms and small businesses. Sorry. Morning Links pre-coffee reading fail.
Ehh, I fumbled the standard deduction/personal exemption yesterday. This is all needlessly complicated.
Hence the need for tax reform. I just want them to make it simple enough that I don’t have to worry about being imprisoned for not filling out a form correctly.
Exactly. You shouldn’t need to hire a professional to pay taxes without either being ripped off or going to prison.
Naptown gets to the point. How much money are H&R Block and Quicken willing to spend lobbying to keep their industry alive?
They already tried to get some of that sweet regulatory capture a couple years back, until it got shot down by the courts. Another good win for the Institute for Justice, who have done more good work in rolling shite back then any other group I can think of.
How much money are H&R Block and Quicken willing to spend lobbying to keep their industry alive?
Most of the clientele of H&R Block likely only have a W-2. These people can do their own tax return if they had a functioning brain. H&R Block still benefit from the complexity of the code of course, the irony being that they don’t really deal with the complex areas.
CPA – I am capable of understanding and filing my own taxes, but I took a look at the trade-off in time and irritation. I decided that $70 a year for TurboTax was more than worth the time saved. I don’t doubt that H&RB et.al have a number of customers in a similar situation – could but don’t want to sink the time.
Whether this balance would change with a simplified tax code is unknown from my seat.
So, of course there’s the 1040EZ option, and a number of people will do just fine with that. But again, I think it’s getting the relationship backwards to say that the tax payer has an obligation to provide tax revenue that isn’t at least matched if not exceeded by the state’s obligation to mitigate the effort required to comply. Paying taxes shouldn’t be a puzzle where the reward for solving it is being able to keep the money you’re legally entitled to keep.
Imagine a business that told you to pay them however much you think you owe them that sued you if you picked too low a number and kept mum if you paid too much. You’d never consider that ethical. Why is that acceptable from a government agency?
And can’t those farms and businesses structure in such a way to avoid it completely just like all the uber wealthy do? I always thought the death tax a bit of a red herring because anybody can avoid it with a bit of planning. But I am no tax expert or am in any position where I need to worry about structuring my assets.
Why should that be an administrative and expense burden on farmers and business owners?
It shouldn’t. I just tried to clarify my comment.
The ultimate stupidity being people spend more avoiding the estate tax (for good reason) than the revenue actually collected. A tax so good it costs more to administer than the revenue actually raised.
Not that I am arguing it is not immoral, I just don’t think anybody actually pays it. But it gets brought up a lot because it is so immoral. Most of the US tax code is immoral. The AMT fucks far more people over than the estate tax. I have been burned with that one. All on income not one cent of which was earned within the United States. The US has the most strict tax laws on citizens who make their money over seas than any nation on the planet. That is why people and corps leave their money offshore if they have the means to do so. Thanks to the IRS small fish can’t do that as no bank wants your business unless you have enough zeros on your deposit slip, and or can buy a condo in Singapore to use as an address.
They have to incur expense and take time to avoid it – to me that is the same as paying. Why should Warren Buffet’s insurance company holdings get $ because of a government gun being held to heirs heads?
Repeal FATCA and taxation of foreign earnings.
I always thought the death tax a bit of a red herring because anybody can avoid it with a bit of planning.
That’s true. But also part of the problem. Yes, if you’re fabulously wealthy and have a fortune in relatively liquid assets, the estate tax is easy to get around. You’ll also be amply aware that the estate tax will apply to you. The defenders of the estate tax have tried to name it “the Paris Hilton tax”. The thing is, Ms. Hilton will be amply aware of the tax and the strategies to avoid incurring it.
Now, let’s consider, instead, somebody of much less favorable circumstances. Let’s say you’re talking about a largish farm, a string of pizzerias, or a small chain of local dry cleaners. Neither the founder of the business nor the kids inheriting it think of themselves as fabulously wealthy. It’s a good business that affords them a prosperous lifestyle. Even if they were so inclined, it wouldn’t be easy to ascertain whether the value of their business exceeds the threshold because their business doesn’t necessarily trade on a regular basis. Much more than a “Paris Hilton” tax, the estate tax should be seen as more of a “Lionel Jefferson” tax.
Estate taxes are a travesty.
The thinking is in the mind of a stupid progressive is ‘why should the kids get to be lazy and keep the money? They’re going to hoard or squander it! Put it back into the hands of the government because roads!’
Fuck. You.
They probably hear the word “Estate” and imagine a limo driver pulling through a wrought iron gate with a grey poupon spokesman in the back.
Now all I can think about is the Grey Poupon commercial where Jim Hacker declined to share with Death.
Great. Now I’m in Wayne’s World mode for the day. Thanks for nothing.
It’s Party Time, Excellent!
They are stupid. But it’s the kind of evil that gets but because the average Joe feels justified on taking it, “those kids don’t deserve it”. People forget that it’s not about the kids, it’s about a person’s right to dispense with their property as they want.
Fucking Rawls and his “veil of ignorance” bullshit.
That’s exactly what a prog told me and as far as he’s concerned if you disagreed you’re wrong; that’s where morality begins and ends.
I listened to him explain away and the more I listened (and rebutted to which he would just spin and deflect without an actual argument) the more I realized it’s just regurgitated left-wing gibberish rooted in envy.
It’s exactly that I explained to him. I tried to make him understand it wasn’t the fucking Morgans of this world he was screwing. It was millions of North Americans who managed to cull and build a small fortune. Estates in the hundreds of thousand and low millions fucks families who did actually work for it. I explained to him, for example, my father did it EXACTLY for his kids and grandchildren. Immigrants think along the lines of ‘I don’t want them to go through what I did. At least this will cover the basic expenses’. Along those lines.
Instead, evil fuck twit progs want everyone to be thrown to the back of the line or bus with the rest of them because ‘equality’. Why should YOU get a leg up?
They don’t realize when people are taken care or do well, the entire society benefits. They may not see it because they’re blinded by ignorance and envy, but that’s the case.
Fuck. Them.
It’s pure thievery.
My old man invested, saved, and bought a few acres of land as part of his investments. It turned out pretty good for him, and knowing I will get a bit of that myself for my own retirement has taken a big burden off of my own worries. I won’t be rich, but I won’t be poor.
Same here. My father owned as many as nine properties/buildings finally going down to four. When we got older and we suggested he double that again but at the point he felt he was too old. While it’s a nice little ‘nest egg’ we’re four siblings. So we’re doing it ourselves now thanks to the base he provided.
But according to a prog we’re ‘lazy’ and don’t ‘deserve it’. Even though my sister has been basically running the show for the last 15 years without a single pay and never asked for a dime. As you fine folks know, it takes a lot of time and effort to maintain properties; including going to the rental board.
If families build generational wealth, then they’re not dependent on government. Progs hate that.
Progs love to held the poor and downtrodden, that’s why they’re always advocating for the creation of more of them.
What is a rental board?
And how many were deliberately hamstrung and kept smaller than they otherwise would have been by the owners ensuring that their kids didn’t lose everything to the estate tax?
Punitive inheritance taxes paired with increased Euthanasia would be a progressive’s wet dream.
And with single payer, the state gets to decide when euthanasia is appropriate!
Hundreds Have Vanished from National Parks. Is Bigfoot to Blame?
We had a run of the first three comments being on actual lynx, then – Bigfoot!
STEVE SMITH NOT BOUND BY CONVENTION.
Perhaps a person abducted the boy and abandoned him miles later? But why?
What a stupid fucking question
STEVE SMITH DENY EVERYTHING!
BY DENY MEAN RAPE!
federal-level database tracking how many people have gone missing
STEVE_SMITH_DATE.COM
aka
OKStupid.com
So about 10 – 20 people a year get lost in the wilderness?
I blame Global Warming
and Trump
but mostly Global Warming
Chi Trib actually says something accurate
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-puerto-rico-hurricane-relief-20170925-story.html
Now is the time to gentrify Puerto Rico.
*aplausos*
Latin?
They’re Latin American. It’s appropriate.
Chicago Tribune editorials are usually pretty decent. I don’t understand how they developed the reputation of being left-wing when it is considered to be center-right in Chicago. They endorsed Gary Johnson in 2016. And the first Democrat it ever endorsed for president was President Obama. It’s hard not to endorse the hometown guy (Adalai Stevenson hardest hit)
Finding My Pussy Power
Yeah, Trump is total cock, Amirite?
I’m going to guess this means they’re not skilled enough to be called a potter and had to use molds other people made.
Nah, they just make the best stupid tchotchkes money can buy.
Vagina tchotchkes are not stupid!
Turning something sacred into everyday trash. Great job, ladies.
In what way is this even remotely true?
In the way the feelz make reality.
TRUMP TURNED ME INTO A NEWT!
Well, I got better.
I’m not sure about this one. He definitely looks like he weighs more than a duck.
“We’ll use my largest scales!”
She might (maybe, probably not) have to pay for her own abortions!
In what way is this even remotely true?
Betsy DeVos just legalized rape. Don’t you read the news?
Feminists seem to think that the choice to have an abortion or not is the very essence of womanhood. It’s odd, because that means that a woman IS her uterus, which is a belief that feminists claim to oppose.
Wait, what??? Do different races have different shaped vulvas? Is this woman insinuating the terribly racist and definitely not funny in any way assertion that Asian women have horizontally oriented vulvas is actually true? RACISS!!!
Also “female vulvas.” You can’t make this shit up, folks
Hey, some women don’t have vulvas if they are m-f trans, but then they’re women, so, wait,… maybe men can have vulvas if they’re,….ah, fuck it, this shit is too stupid to try to keep track of.
Have you ever looked at a roast beef sandwich?
yum
Guess who’s coming to dinner?
Dining at the Y?
Be my guest.
So many brave heroes, not enough presidential medals of freedom. Actually, Trump should give one of these knuckleheads a presidential medal just for the head-exploding.
She and her co-creator called their endeavor Vagina China, and began with the belief that demystifying the vulva starts by looking at it. Well, not just looking at it, but inviting it to dinner.
Yeah, I can support this. On one condition. The people involved have to use their “Vagina China” as their formal china set for the rest of their natural lives.
Emails Show How An Ivy League Prof Tried To Do Damage Control For His Bogus Food Science
Brian Wansink of Cornell University publishes headline-friendly studies about food psychology and oversees a $22 million federally funded program that uses his research to promote “smarter lunchrooms” in nearly 30,000 schools. Emails obtained by BuzzFeed News show how he scrambled to spin allegations that dozens of his studies are all just bologna.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/stephaniemlee/brian-wansink-cornell-smarter-lunchrooms-flawed-data?utm_term=.hhQVd0maG#.bt71o3aB8
On one hand, it’s embarassing to Academia.
On the other, it’s Buzzfeed.
My biases are confused.
BuzzFeed: so crappy, even believable things should be questioned.
^This, sadly^
It’s like the inverse of the Onion, where everything you read is probably going to turn out true in the future.
“His experiments have found, for example, that women who put cereal on their kitchen counters weigh more than those who don’t, and that people will pour more wine if they’re holding the glass than if it’s sitting on a table. Over the past two decades he’s written two popular books and more than 100 research papers, and enjoyed widespread media coverage (including on BuzzFeed)….”
Right there any sensible mind wouldn’t even bother to entertain this idiot.
“…Yet over the past year, Wansink and his “Food and Brand Lab” have come under fire from scientists and statisticians who’ve spotted all sorts of red flags — including data inconsistencies, mathematical impossibilities, errors, duplications, exaggerations, eyebrow-raising interpretations, and instances of self-plagiarism — in 50 of his studies.
Journals have so far retracted three of these papers and corrected at least seven. Now, emails obtained by BuzzFeed News through public information requests reveal for the first time that Wansink and his Cornell colleague David Just are also in the process of correcting yet another study, “Attractive names sustain increased vegetable intake in schools,” published in Preventive Medicine in 2012.”
It’s not the first I see journals who should know better posting crap. I go back to the idiot who started the whole ‘vaccines cause autism’ scare which led to the irrational anti-vaccine movement. Years later the person who put it out recanted but by then it was too late. You’re an asshole. Same with the professor who came out with micro-aggressions. Who you think of it, yeh, a lot of things could be construed into being micro-aggressions, but to turn into a social more with rules has been destructive. He too admitted it’s not what he intended.
So, the wine thing is absolutely true, because I know from experience that by glass six of anything, pouring liquid from a bottle in one hand into a glass in the other is a little like playing paddleball with your eyes closed while standing up in a canoe. You’re probably losing a glass per pour by glass eight, easy.
people will pour more wine if they’re holding the glass than if it’s sitting on a table
Who the fuck uses a glass?
You drink straight from the box, don’t you?
+1 Butt of Malmsey
Right, just suspend the bag above my head and let gravity do its thing.
Holy fucking shit. How can I get on a gravy train like that?
Just concoct “studies” that come the “right” conclusions, once you are sufficiently credentialed.
Why Hugh Hefner’s ‘Playboy’ Legacy Is So Problematic
Hef wasn’t a proponent of woke feminism? That’s unpossible.
She was being held by force, against her will? Hef put a gun to head when he told her to quit Hooters? Because if not, then what she experienced was by choice. I mean, I assume she had the ability to speak and say “no” or to walk out the door and go.
No shit, seems like the relationship was a reasonable quid pro quo to me.
The man was pro-gay rights at a time when only libertarians were advocating that position. His magazine was decidedly left-wing in the culture wars (far too left for my liking). And yet, he still is ‘problematic’. Insane
That pig. He just expects live-in girlfriends to have sex with him!
Yeah, he should give them access to his mansion, and fame, and wealth out of pure magnanimity!
Sums up what a lot of these woke (usually also seriously over weight and fugly) ladies out there say life should be like…
The “consent” question was answered when you moved in with the octogenarian billionaire who founded the most famous pornographic magazine in history to join his harem, dumbass. Or did you think the Playboy Mansion was a research facility?
They study human anatomy.
So a 91 year old failing to hold viewpoints that only came into existence in the last decade of his life is problematic?
Of course. See memory holing of history going on now.
If you aren’t willing to immediately redefine your view of what’s right and wrong at the whims of the woke police, you are totes problematic.
Sad to see Hugh go. The man was a living legend, my wife noted the the wikipedia article on him flipped almost immediately.
What do you mean?
That wiki articles seem to have obits lined up, such that as soon as someone dies the page becomes more retrospective
When I looked at the Wiki article last night, it listed his third wife (m. 2012; his Heart Attack from too much Viagra death 2017).
Seemed like someone had a little fun with the edit button. It’s been rolled back this morning, but now it’s showing like he’s still alive (no conclusion on the marriage).
The assumption being that any EF reader have the wherewithal to complete anything, much less a screenplay.
https://everydayfeminism.com/2017/09/trans-positive-script-writing/
This can only be achieved through consciously positive and accurate media representation of trans folks. Which honestly, should first start with giving trans roles back to actual trans people.
If Burt Reynold’s came out of 25 year coma and read this he’d be pleased.
*narrows gaze…but also slow claps*
So.. They are still freaks?
I hear this in King Julian’s voice from Madagascar.
*Biden high-fives Burt*
“Let’s go pick up some hoes, Burt.” /Uncle Joe
Sex robot display model molested so much it breaks before anyone can actually use it
That headline lies – it was used plenty from the sounds of it.
Something Something trains
Soiled Sexbots is a good band name
CORRECT!
Austrians. Whatcha gonna do?
You know who else couldn’t figure out what to do with Austrians?
Burián von Rajecz?
Neville Chamberlain?
Gavrilo Princip?
I think he worked that out.
Aborigines?
The Ottoman Empire
Risk?
John Maynard Keynes?
There it is. OK, we can stop now.
Yeah…didn’t see that one coming. WIN.
The Toronto Raptors?
The von Trapp family?
The term “rode hard and put away wet” comes to mind.
Eating their own again.
http://www.theroot.com/colin-kaepernick-sports-illustrated-and-how-media-comp-1818861875
I swear that cover.
Vomit.
Ironicly, Vox Day is promoting his new book:
SJWs Always Double Down: Anticipating the Thought Police (The Laws of Social Justice Book 2)
Nice of them to go and prove it.
Delanie Walker to fans who boycott NFL over protests: Bye
They just can’t stop digging that hole they’re in. Holy crap NFL, get these people away from the mics if you want to stay in business.
The NFL will be better off without those uncultured middle class white men watching, thank you very much!
You know what other German wanted to lead the world…
German Chancellor Merkel now the leader of the Western world
Never heard of these ‘vindy’ people, but Merkel barely even leads Germany, let alone “the western world”.
Only her small figure stands between Donald J. Trump (who doesn’t like her; nor she, him) on her western flank and Vladimir Putin (who likes her only a little more) on her eastern.
There’s a 3 way for ya. *You visualized it. Don’t deny it.
No, no, no, no, no!
If only popular vote president had been elected, then we would have a respectable 3 way.
See above.
And by “respectable” you mean “vomit-inducing.”
You know what other German leader got bogged down in a two-front war?
pleasing, plump and perspicacious
Wut, I think they may be mixing up words here. Just maybe. Pleasing is the not a term that come to mind for Herr Merkel.
It was because she’s so perspicacious that her party did better than ever in the recent election, right?
WTF does perspicacious even mean?* It sounds like they’re calling her fat, and sweaty.
Half the reason I can’t stand reading this crap is because they try to give the impression they are halfway intelligent by using the word of the day from their word-a-day calendar. And they wonder how it is that anybody identified with Trump even though he talks like the guy taking your sandwich order.
*Yes I have a dictionary on hand.
It is a bad translation of the German word ‘Fahrfremgffüken’
“Nevertheless, she is arguably the leader of the Western world”
Awesome, so will she start footing the bill for the defense of the Western world? (Or even get own country?)
Fredolibs. “We were stepped over! We’re smart! And we want respect!”
^This^
The world’s primary objection to Trump is that he said they are going to have to start paying their own way. So step up bitch, you want to make the rules? Cough up the gold.
“Who pays the piper, calls the tune” is a saying for a reason.
I was thinking “He who has the gold makes the rules”, but yeah, same thing.
Only her small figure stands between Donald J. Trump (who doesn’t like her; nor she, him) on her western flank and Vladimir Putin (who likes her only a little more) on her eastern.
That sounds more like the descriptor of a buffer state than a leader. A middling power between two giants: probably a more accurate picture of Germany than the author intended.
I wonder how much of a buffer Germany would be if the US removed its military presence? I mean, I don’t want to ruin it for service members getting sweet-ass Beemers at Ford Fiesta prices, but I’m just sayin’.
“Extra security placed near Ray Lewis statue after petition urges its removal”
Turnabout is fair play. I think there is an iron law dealing with this.
Something along the lines of “Me today, you tomorrow”.
Underwater Afghan hound
https://twitter.com/GrrlGhost/status/913043072103174144
American league MVP, Judge or Altuve?
Discuss amongst yourselves.
Altuve. First player to ever lead the league in hits 4 years in a row. 4th player ever to get more than 200 hits 4 years in a row. AND hit 25 homeruns. Only tiebreaker stat might be RBI, although Altuve was better at driving in other people.
Altuve for sure. Judge gets RoY.
I gotta go Judge. 4 years in a row doesnt count–MVP is for this year. Its close but
Judge has him in HR, RBI, runs, OPS, on base percentage, slugging.
Also–without Altuve Astros still make playoffs, same cant be said for Yanks without Judge.
Judge. Has the edge in fancy stats – wOBA, wRC+, WAR – as well as traditional stats – OBP, SLG%, homers, runs, RBI. Basically the only thing Altuve leads him in is hits/BA.
The amazing thing is that Trout still has an argument for it despite missing 45 or so games.
TROUT.
Leads in combined WAR by a full point – and he missed significant time. He’d be ahead by two full points if he hadn’t and the Angels would be in the playoffs.
Ah shit, I looked at 2016. Although if he hadn’t missed significant time he would be leading in WAR.
I think this belongs in the great pizza debate.
At least there is no pineapple on it.
Gold is a terrible topping. It adds no flavor and makes your poo sparkly.
Who wouldn’t want to drop a well coiled Golden Back Rattler?
You’ve…tasted gold?
*scribbles furiously on blank bland page*
It truly does have no taste.
So now pizza has joined the ranks of items the rich use to separate themselves from the poor. We ended pizza equity!
So, I made the call last night and I’ll do it again and probably a few more times:
I want to arrange a Kentucky meetup for us glibs in the Bluegrass. I’m based in and pretty much restricted to lexington (Sorry Robc, I’ll getcha next time).
I’m thinking Friday October 6th. At one of the breweries, (probably ethereal.)
I’m on the Glib discord, if you want to chat more about it, or comment here and let me know.
Coincidentally, we’re having a party that night with some of the Chicago and downstate Glibs…
SP and I are nuts about Middle Fork in Lex.
It’s pretty delightful, if y’all pass through again let me know.
Pretty sure the Illinois pow wow is just a trap into Warty’s Dungeon.
*taps nose meaningfully* Some of us in Chicago will be at the opera that night. What a shame, eh?
No sir, I do not have any cocaine.
Lexington? Have you ever eaten at the Blue Door? Some awesome BBQ there.
They catered my wedding, also like redstate.
Nice.
I ate at the blue door when driving through pretty damn good and I’m a loyal KC BBQ fan.
Rick Pitino has some free time, I think.
That seems to be a popular weekend, the girlfriend and I will be in Columbus that weekend to hit up some of the breweries.
I might be interested. Ethereal’s parking situation is horrific on the weekends (I’ve tried to go twice and literally had to back all the way out because there was nowhere to turn around). tho.
Just keep me updated via threads like this and I will definitely try to make it
Will do, ethereal is only one option, let me know if you would want somewhere else, I’m flexible
I like West 6th and, if the group is small enough, the Beer Trappe is pretty nice. I’m flexible too, so whatever you and the group decides is fine by me
Cool. I’ll keep reposting until the day of, so we should get a few.
Rick Flair claims he had sex with more than 10000 women
The most beautiful women, the longest limousines, the most expensive watches, even a pair of 600$ lizard skin shoes. WOOOO
Well anyone can make random claims. It may even be true. Big deal …
After 20 it’s like, whatever.
Anything in excess is just gross opulence for its own sake.
When I was dating, at one point I just got tired of all the effort. Some days it was twice in a night. Then I hit a wall. These guys just keep going and going.
“Wooooh”
Were they all maniacs?
Ted from the top rope. You guys are rolling tonight.
Ron Jeremy said that’s impossible.
Well it is only like 200ish women a year.
Also probably somewhat depends on how you define sex
Nature Boy? More like Nature Man.
Best song of the week.
I’ll play it once an hour for the whole trip.
Aw, I was just trying to keep the theme alive. Seriously, though, always wait at least 10 more minutes than you want to for the next bump on road trips.
Sloopy needs road trip music? OK.
Yes. This is a good theme. Unlike mornings past, though, I won’t fuck things up by linking to a related song.
I have my fingers crossed that you’ll close it out tomorrow with one in particular…
So in response to the NFL, the LFL has announced that they won’t take a knee… at least during the national anthem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6Ox6s1GTSk
Finally here’s some football players I can get behind.
*There’s a legit article announcing this but I thought the youtube link was more relevant.
So brave… Err … Despicable? These brave women are killing minorities…err
Help someone crossed the narratives!!
I could get behind them kneeling.
Hah! First thing that I thought of, too. Glad to see I’m not the only pig here.
‘Merica!
Why Sexual Selection Matters and Why Cordelia Fine is Wrong
Last week The Royal Society awarded the polemic writer Cordelia Fine with their Science Book of the Year award for Testosterone Rex. The central thesis in the book is that the behavioral differences between men and women are better explained by culture than by testosterone and that the theoretical framework that evolutionary scientists regard as the root cause of several of the robust cross-cultural sex differences we see, namely Bateman’s principle and sexual selection, have been largely debunked, at least when it comes to humans.
https://yeyoscorner.wordpress.com/2017/09/27/why-sexual-selection-matters-and-why-cordelia-fine-is-wrong/
So, she’s a feminist psychologist. I guess that somehow makes her an expert in biology, because reasons.
Are there now too many Amazon Echo devices?
The NSA says no.
On a side note we received a Google home and Amazon echo as a gift. The only thing we’ve used the Google home for is a cooking timer and occasionally we listen to music on it. We never plugged the echo in. Im a huge tech nerd, but don’t get the point of these things when everyone already has a portable echo (AKA a cell phone).
I don’t want to talk to my technology.
Actually, I want to be able to freely berate it and say horrible things that it will not act on or respond to because I get frustrated with design choices that strike me as rock stupid.
Voice commands are among the first things I disable.
The way I see it. I could risk the device not recognizing my command, or I can click on my phone and do the same thing, no risk involved.
Largely in agreement, but I got an after-market carplay-enabled car stereo this summer and voice commands are great when you’re driving (music and maps, mostly).
My Garmin GPS unit is typically referred to as the “Stupid Whore”.
Alexa Jones
The clothing and shoe companies, the sports drinks companies, the magazines, the networks, and the Leagues are all gonna turn Woke Athlete into a giant marketing opportunity and turn protesting in a cartoon
Do we know what they are protesting yet?
They don’t know themselves . But that won’t matter to Gatorade or Nike
I saw an “Eco” sticker on snowboard today. There’s gonna be a little “I Kneel for Justice” sticker on stuff for years.
My favorite snowboard sticker: “My other ride is your mom”
“Does my ass make these skis look fat?”
“No one cares that you telemark”
I have one that say’s choking on pow since 1993
No EPL…..or Serie A….or Liga….or Bundesliga….or Ligue Un….Champions and Europe League.
Are you speaking Urdu or something? I’m confused?
I may have missed this is it’s been brought up before, but Matthew Vaughn may get it. I love how the internet is treating this as some evil revelation, instead of just a rational decision.
If you go too far — if movies get political when they’re meant to be fun — then it weighs everything down a bit too much.”
Novel idea.
“And that means not suddenly have half the audience going, ‘That’s not cool, that’s not funny!’ as the other half is cheering.”
The fact that he understands that, means he gets his audience better than most directors these days. And it gives humanity to the deplorables so, he should be executed for it.
Of course it’s a foreign director that “gets it” so well.
I want a third movie now. Maybe Statesman teams up with another organization… like from Japan? What would the Japanese equivalent be called?
They already made a cartoon about the Japanese version
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sushi_Pack
trigger finger behind the trigger.
/paging Barfman
POC burden?
http://www.theroot.com/jemele-hill-and-the-social-burden-of-being-a-black-woma-1818867174
They should write a poem about it.
The burden of getting away with shit when white men like Curt Schilling get fired for expressing their political opinions.
No shitlord, it’s the burden of having to educate other people. Of course they already say they won’t enact that emotional labor on my behalf…
I think you mean “re-educate” other people.
What makes me laugh about all this is that their “solution” is for white men to accommodate them, step down for them, defer to them, etc. Confront their privilege by virtue of their birth and what not.
In other words, they are literally demanding they Take Up the White Man’s Burden. But in a woke way.
It is funny but I have actually been mulling over submitting an article on how SJW white guilt is the modern version of the very same impulse that lead Kipling to write White Man’s burden. The difference between SJW’s and Kipling is at least Kipling was honest about the cost.
I think that would be quite interesting, I hope you do it.
Well, I have the draft route of my road trip planned out. My method for planning these – pick a spot more or less at random within a day’s drive of the last spot and walk the route along the map until it loops back home.
Home – Hershey PA – Roanoake VA – Greenville SC – Panama City Beach FL – New Orleans LA – Texarkana – Memphis TN – Bowling Green KY – Charleston WV – Erie PA – Home
Any of these stops can be adjusted provided it doesn’t change the number of days required or lead to >8 hour one day drive.
Where is home for you?
The New York Capital District – aka the area where the Mohawk river feeds into the Hudson and a lot of sludge accumulates (though the two are not related phenomenon)
Right on.
I’m in Albany twice a day, every day during the week on my current trucking operation.
On the weekends I go home to my wife near Ithaca.
Ithaca is a pretty place, as long as you ignore all of the brain cancer amongst the population.
All I remember about Ithaca is “Nothing but hills”.
The town presents a challenge to those of us trying to extract maximum life expectancy out of brakes and clutches.
When is this planned for? Panama City Beach isn’t really all that great. It’s a boring generic beach except for during Spring Break, when it’s a bunch of drunk kids on a boring generic beach.
Could go for Tallahassee instead, especially if it’s on a football or basketball game day. Plus you get the advantage of seeing FSU co-eds, which… well, it’s a sight to be seen.
I start driving the saturday before memorial day, with plenty of time allotted to wastage due to traffic on that first day. That would make the Gulf Coast about June 2nd. (The draft plan has a full day of “visit the area” for each stop)
Ah. Then it’s summer, so Tallahassee’s out.
Yeah, PCB is probably your best bet around there. Just remember that until you get to Tallahassee you’re really in Alabama.
I’m fine with that.
If you want to go to a nice beach in that general vicinity, anywhere around FWB-Navarre-PCola Beach is nicer than PCB.
Depending on far east you go, give me a call.
He may need to orient himself if he’s that far out east.
It would have to be by occident.
*slants eyes*
Depending on the timing let me know when you get near Kentucky, I’m in Lexington, about 2.5 hours away, but is more northerly. There’s some fun things to do here and I can point out some fun things.
Kentucky would be around the 10th of June or so. And I’m open to suggestions (this is the draft stage of the overall plan)
Cool, let me enact some labor and get back with you.
As a general query, what sort of things interest you?
I can do dining, local oddities, museums, breweries, distilleries and the like.
That whole list works. I’m not much of a drinker but I find brewing and distillation fascinating. On my last road trip, museums made up a great proportion of places I enjoyed visiting. Local oddies are a unknown, simply by their very nature and have to be assessed after pointing out. Dining is self-evident. Who doesn’t eat?
Writers? Because we are so busy being starving artists?
Also saw that you were interested in industrial tours, call ahead and you might be able to schedule a few around here, we have a lot of warehouses, some manufacturing as well. Toyota has a large facility in Georgetown, about twenty minutes outside of Lex.
Found it.
Hrm… They don’t have weekend tours
The 11:30 tour on Monday the 11th could fit within the driving day from Bowling Green to Charleston. The distances are short enough for the break.
Roanoke fucking sucks, would not recommend.
What would you recommend?
And why do you not like the area?
I’m not a big fan of Roanoke either, and this is from someone who visits there fairly frequently. I’ve been trying to think of idea there for you but have come up with nothing. The main adult attractions in the area would be the parks and hiking trails.
Since the route is only about five hours on either side of Roanoake according to google, there is a good deal of slack in moving that spot around.
My wife has family in a line from Roanoke to Lynchburg so I can ask them for some ideas.
One area that’s nice is Smith Mountain Lake, right below Bedford. It’s a little expensive but you can rent jet skis or boats to take out on the lake.
I appreciate it. Firsthand accounts beat “Random google searches” hands down. I think I’ll pass on the lake though. (Budgetary and value proposition concerns)
Are you taking 220 from Roanoke to Greenville?
I have not selected roads. (I typically don’t plan that level of detail, not this far out) Are you asking because you have a suggestion?
Yes, if you take 220, there’s a barbecue place in Martinsville called The Checkered Pig that’s pretty good. It’s not worth going out of your way for if you planned taking 81 to 77, but I’d recommend it if it’s on your route.
These guys?
Yep, that’s them. Used to be called Pigs R Us.
It’s not good enough to be worth going out of your way for, but I’d recommend stopping by there if you happen to be close by.
Greenville has a decent strip club and waffle house (not the same building, unfortunately)
That sentence reminds me of “Bubba the Monster Hunter”. Probably because those were two of his favorite places to visit.
if you decide to go through Roanoke, eat/drink/party at Blue 5.
http://www.blue5restaurant.com/craft-beers-on-tap.asp
phenom beer selection on tap, southern food, live music.
The food looks tempting, but crowds don’t agree with me. Or rather, I don’t agree with crowds.
*looks again*
All those events are friday/saturday, I’ll be in the area on a tuesday. *contemplates*
PCB? Don’t stand in one place for too long or else you’ll stick to something.
Also, Erie is one of the dreariest places I’ve ever set foot in that was not once part of the Eastern Bloc.
Gas up in Shreveport if you think it’s even the remotest possibility you won’t make it to Texarkana. If you don’t, get a tankful of water and have to spend the better part of a week in Texarkana, a) stay on the wet side of town, b) there is a no-shit Smokey and the Bandit museum (didn’t realize it until on the way out and no fucking way I was letting Texarkana out of my rear-view at that point), and c) Bryce’s cafeteria is pretty good.
This is two weeks old, not sure if it’s been posted here yet.
Some Big Pharma company has found a novel way to escape facing a patent challenge – Use Native Sovereignty to their advantage.
Generic challenges to lucrative patented drugs are a regular feature of life in the business, but what happened next wasn’t (or not yet). Allergan announced that they had transferred the patent rights for Restasis to the St. Regis Mohawk Indian Nation, for an up-front payment and continuing annual payments to the tribe. Why would one do such a thing? Well, it turns out that whatever patented IP owned by the tribe is protected from inter partes review challenges by their sovereign immunity. The Mohawks are, then, immediately moving to dismiss the PTO’s actions. Let me tell you, on Friday afternoon the sound of people all over the biopharma world slapping their foreheads was echoing through the boardrooms, office suites, and hallways.
We should just finish the annexation. Dissolve these tribal governments, give free and clear ownership of parcels of reservation land to the people who still live on them, end the BIA, and tell the lot of them “You’re US Citizens, you’re governed by state and federal law with the same statuses as your fellow citizens.”
There, equality.
I’d give them a choice.
Normal US citizenship with no benefits or restrictions (your tribe then becomes nothing more than a cultural civic organization with no more meaning or power than you give it)
The tribe becomes a sovreign nation with all that it entails and any who remain members of the tribe lose their US citizenship.
Its a logical service line extension. They already rented their sovereignty to the gaming industry and the tobacco industry, why not to the pharma industry as well?
IANAL, especially not a Patent Attorney, (though I am studying for the Agent Exam), but that’s not how this works.
How does a Tribe’s Sovereign Immunity operate to define a property grant by the Federal Government? Usually, in IP, lesser sovereigns claim immunity from proceedings asserting someone else’s property rights against them. I.e., you have a trademark. A state, or Indian tribe like the Seminoles, wants to use that trademark and not pay you or get a license from you. They do, and they claim immunity from your infringement suit against them.
In this case, OTHO, the action is of the nature of re-examining whether the patent in question should ever have been issued by the PTO in the first place. The Mohawks could infringe the patent if they wanted, AIUI, and claim immunity from an infringement action, (though good luck making, selling, or using the protected property outside of the tribal boundaries, or by a US citizen, or exporting the protected property outside of the tribe.) but just because they hold a patent shouldn’t mean that the patent is immune from being re-examined.
It may mean that the action needs to be refiled as an in rem action against the property, but that shouldn’t be too much of a hold up.
Unless I’m missing something. (Which I probably am: Allergan hires much brighter people than me for patent counsel.)
Replying to Michael’s post last night:
I consider giving unsolicited advice to my younger brothers and sisters a sort of side job, which is why I have been thinking a lot recently about under what circumstances it’s imperative to quit a job. It sounds like you hit the trifecta: no recognition, no path for advancement, no sense of purpose. So yeah, obviously it’s time for you to quit.
Making the decision is Phase 1. When I made that decision about a year ago, literally saying my decision out loud was exhilarating. It was awesome. I made the decision and I gave that decision a time frame and mile markers so I could see progress whenever the job beat me down. “Six months from now I will leave this job. Between now and then, I will pick up one freelance client a month and I will set aside one month’s worth of expenses.”
#decisionsfeelgoodman
That exhilaration is what fueled me through the next phase. In that six months, I did two things: cut my spending to the bone and took any freelance job I could. That one-two punch on income enabled me to save up about a year’s worth of expenses (not income, expenses) because even though I said six months, a year was the level of safety net I needed emotionally.
I got aggressive about networking despite being a total introvert, and I started letting pretty much anyone I met that I was looking for freelance jobs or additional work. I still remember one of the conversations that really flipped a switch for me. I was talking to a good friend who had been fairly successful in the contracting and freelance world, and I was telling him how hard it was to develop a network.
He said, “I think you’re making this harder on yourself than you need to. I mean, you’ve never asked me for work.”
I said, “Yeah, but we’re friends. I really value this friendship, and I don’t want to make things awkward or weird between us.”
Then the money quote:
“If you refuse to ask people you like to help you build your career, you’ll wind up only working with people you don’t like.”
It was like, boom. Light bulb.
After that conversation I started talking very openly with my friends (and even friendly strangers) about what my career goals were and made it clear that if they came across any opportunities that made them think of me, to please feel free to give out my information. I called people and asked for introductions. I bought SO MANY COFFEES for potential clients and contacts. And I did 90% of it on my lunch breaks, while I still had a steady income.
It was exhausting. Six months of 80-hour weeks, only taking Sundays off. An aside: Right in the middle of this, when I was working seven days a week, a pastor offhandedly said to me, “Why do people think that ‘Honor the Sabbath and keep it holy’ is the only commandment that’s optional?” Another boom, light bulb, so Sunday went back to being a day of rest and investing in my family, which probably saved both my relationships and my sanity.
Anyway. Phase 2 was basically growing options. Saving as much money as I possibly could while building relationships with people I wanted to work with.
Phase 3 was sweet. Phase 3 was the point where my side business had replaced about half of my salary, and that was when I gave myself permission to put in my notice. And it was a good thing too, because the exhilaration of Phase 1 had long since worn off and I was running on emotional fumes.
So I put in my notice, worked my two weeks, listened in grim pleasure to the wailing and gnashing of teeth as the Powers That Be realized they were going to have to hire two people to take my place, and transitioned to a life of uncertainty and insecurity but OH MY GOD I DON’T HAVE PEOPLE I CAN’T STAND BOSSING ME AROUND! I took a week off to take a small vacation with my wife, who thank you Jesus was my cheerleader the whole time, then I decided that for a month, I was on vacation. I worked just enough to cover my monthly expenses, then took the rest of my time to hike, go fishing, meet with friends, read books, check out Glibs, etc. I mention this not to brag, but because I think when you’re leaving a toxic job you need to allow yourself some decompression time to re-learn your value and your priorities. That holds doubly true if you’re feeling as beaten down as I think you are.
It hasn’t been a rose garden — check out my post from two days ago where I’m like WTF am I doing trying to run a business by myself — but the (temporary) salary decrease has been worth the increase in life’s livability. I actually wake up in the morning and look forward to opening my computer instead of staring at it with a sickness rising in my bowels. I think you can have that too.
TL;DR: Make the decision, say it out loud, give it a time frame and mile markers so you see progress, build options starting yesterday, give people coffee in exchange for their expertise/connections/goodwill, work with people you like. Live on less than you make. And don’t forget to give yourself permission to decompress at regular intervals.
Great advice!
Replying so I can re-read this a few times.
Wow. Thanks for taking the time to write all of this out – I truly appreciate it. Even though my profession doesn’t offer a lot of freelance opportunity, that is a really inspiring story. I’m planning on working on networking first and foremost as that’s currently one of my major weaknesses.
Nice post. I’m pretty fortunate that I actually like my basic office job that I should be doing right now.
Thank you for this post, xenophon. It’s really resonating with my personal situation.
Michael, I’m going to +1 this and Gilmore’s advice from the night before. Don’t quit without something else in hand.
Use your dissatisfaction with your current job to spur you to get another job in hand before you quit.
Thanks again, xeno. I’m going to try to put your advice into practice.
Trail attacker grabs kickboxing instructor — and she makes him pay
Is it bad that I’m somewhat suspicious of this woman’s claims? She’s been on a media tour the last few days. Just so happens she is a kickboxing fitness instructor. Could it be a marketing ploy, or am I an asshole?
Not mutually exclusive options.
Ok am I even more of an asshole for not buying what she’s saying.
Nah, I’m a cynical asshole about stuff in general. I think most of us glibs are though.
Yeah, without a witness, injuries, or an actual suspect, I’m gonna go with marketing ploy.
You are correct. I like that he attacked her by grabbing her wrist. Every martial art in the world has wrist grab defense as the day 1 self defense technique and it’s pretty much useless. The wrist is a shitty control point by itself (fuck you Aikido queers) and no one in their right mind would use it for a primary attack.
Plus she talks about how cautious she always is, but she decides to stop and give a stranger in a hoodie the time in the middle of a secluded trail with no one else around.
I practiced Aikido for 10 years. If you’re being honest with yourself, you know that a lot of what’s in it isn’t going to work. The wrist grab stuff is candidate #1 for that. Unless you cheat, and lock their hand to your wrist, they are going to let go. I did get to the point where I could fight with it (I was a bouncer against drunks though, so hardly fair, and I had BJJ training as well). It’s a lot different from how it gets practiced though. People don’t react in the ways they train you to react.
Aikido is one weird art. I’ve done martial arts for my entire life and lots of styles have a LARPing element to them, but Aikido and Ninjitsu seem to be the only ones exclusively dedicated to LARPing.
My aikido sensei (he was taught by Ueshiba, so he was OG) was pretty clear that this wasn’t a fighting art. He preferred guns for actually dealing with an attacker.
Aikido teaches you a lot of things that are very useful physically, mentally, and strategically, in my experience. But as far as throwing down in a brawl, its really not for that. The whole point of aikido, after all, is to not actually hurt the other guy.
The problem with Aikido is that it appeals to a lot of granola peace and love people. I got lucky in that when I started, there was one school in town that had a ‘harder’ style. More judo aspects to it, more attention paid to actually generating power with throws. Part of it was the sensei who started the federation in the states (United States Aikido Federation) and part of it was the people who were part of that school (former national judo champions, etc).
A few years after I started another, more hippy school opened. I went to watch a seminar there and the shit they were doing was just…fuck me man. The guy was a 6th degree blackbelt teaching people a technique where you stood there and let someone hit you in the head before you reacted. I don’t know what the fuck that’s supposed to teach, but it sure doesn’t deserve the term ‘martial’ in front of it.
heh – back in school days I remember a kid taking Karate:
Him: “Grab my wrist”
*I grab his wrist – well more like the forearm*
Him: “No, not like that. Like this.”
*and then he can finally do the move*
I remember doing this to somebody too. I was practicing Aikido, and I was like ‘grab my wrist!’ And he did. Then when I started to move he let go. I realized I had some work to do before I could make this thing useful.
My son does Tae Kwon Do. Since I saw them practicing the move the day before, when he asked me to grab his wrist I grabbed him by the shoulder. It confused him, but he responded by kicking me in the side of the knee and running away.
That shit hurt.
Your kid has it right.. improvisation is where most people stuck in rigid martial arts instruction fail.
I took TKD from a guy who inadvertantly lived the life of Snake Eyes (other than the horrible scarring etc). Went to Korea to fight, stuck around for the martial arts. It was a really useful class. The only places we learned to punch someone was the throat or orbital bone. The only place we learned to kick was the side of the knee or groin. As a 9 year old, I was too young and stupid to appreciate it, but I do remember one great lesson.
It was grappling day (see really not your strip mall ATK). Teacher said “Every class always teaches you how to break a wrist lock. Here’s how we do it.” He called up another instructor, a woman, and had her hold his wrist. He then proceeds to grab her wrist back, and slam his knee in her groin three times. “We aren’t going to practice that,” he said with a grin.
I never should have quit that class, but I was young and stupid.
Everyone knows you go for the bicep.
“Could it be a marketing ploy, or am I an asshole?”
These are not mutually exclusive.
It reads like bullshit. Also, the kick to the balls defense doesn’t require kickboxing training. Everyone knows that one by the time their five. It’s in every movie.
Punch to the balls?
Not just punch. There are a variety of attacks you can aim there.
Is she trying to become an Instagram model too?
Ugh. The article tries to make it sound like the seedy (white) male tried to grab her, but as a strong independent woman with kickboxing training she was able to turn the tables and soundly defeat him. If you tune out the narrative and tone and look just at the facts presented, a guy grabs her by the wrist, she kicks him in the balls once, then she immediately hightails it out of there. There’s a reason the police didn’t arrive to find her triumphantly standing over an unconscious assaulter While definitely the smart move, the article’s trying to make her sound like Bruce Lee with tits. Which, admittedly, is also a smart marketing move by her.
The article doesn’t answer if she got a Hot-N-Ready or not.
Whoa, Trump lifts Jones Act for Puerto Rico. I guess they’re gonna have a hard time hanging that Katrina narrative around his neck.
So when’s the injunction against this order coming out?
The proggies want it to be Katrina soooooooo badly. It’s fun to watch them suffer!
The only Katrina they’ll find.
The waiver will be in effect for 10 days and cover all products being shipped to Puerto Rico, Department of Homeland Security spokesman David Lapan said in an email.
Dump it forever. It’s like how the waive Obamacare requirements or minimum wage laws for some people. If it sucks, drop it.
He’s not going to drop it forever (and neither will Congress), but it’s one of the worst crony capitalist protectionist laws we have. It should be launched into the sun.
Can he do that without legislation?
I guess they’re gonna have a hard time hanging that Katrina narrative around his neck.
Also given the fact that Puerto Rico’s governor has praised the Trump Administration’s response.
They had the governor on NPR a few days ago, the reporter was trying really, really, hard to get him to say he thought the disaster recovery was going poorly and that Trump hates them. He didn’t fall for it, which must have been difficult for the reporter to explain to their boss.
CNN alerts on my phone the other day:
1) Trump tweets while Puerto Rico faces looming humanitarian crisis
*five minutes later
2) Trump leaves for Puerto Rico tomorrow to meet with hurricane victims and relief workers
No mention of Obama and Hillary completely ignoring disaster victims in favor of swanky fundraisers and rich donors
it was obviously the Jones Act rap Cabotage that swung his decision.
AIUI, it’s not going to do shit, as the rate-limiting step in getting stuff to PR isn’t the lack of ships, it’s that their ports are all jacked up.
Xenophon-
Nice.
Someone made a good point on the radio the other day. Before I begin, from what I gather anecdotally from reading comments and listening to talk shows, the vast majority of people don’t agree with virtue-signalling athletes protesting by kneeling.
Anyway. The person asked how many of these athletes railing against Trump actually voted?
Voting is for plebs, so very few?
Too many.
Open up a new tab on my phone, and find 6 of the 10 stories from the Google News feed are political. In order of appearence:
*”Not what I asked:” MSMBC’s Stephenie Ruhl repeatedly nails GOPer’s butt to the wall for repeatedly dodging tax question -Raw Story (which I’ve never visited before)
*Trump’s Massive Tax Cut…for the rich -CNN
*Paul Horner, writer of fake news about 2016 election, dead at 38 -CBS
*Fact Check: did the Clinton Foundation donate $7.1 million to Antifa? -Snopes
*John Stossel: the incredible threat to free speech no one is talking about -Fox News
*Lindsey Graham on the Obamacare repeal: I had no idea what I was doing -The Intercept
For the love of Venus, Google, could you at least pretend not to be in the tank for the left?
Hey at least you got a Stossel article. I only get leftist news. I thought Google was supposed to soy on you and cater articles to your taste?
Spy fucking autocorrect
It’s pushing you to the left!
Google selling soylent green is people!
Yeah, it’s all Voxsplaining, Trump, Russia, and the like to me, too. Google either is too incompetent to figure out I’m not a communist with years and years of ample data, or doesn’t care and wants to force their fellow travelers down people’s throats for the clicks if nothing else.
Hey, they managed to slip a Stossel story in there at least. I was expecting all of them to be on the left.
They throw in a few Fox News articles to create the illusion of balance. But I still see Salon pop up more frequently than could ever be warranted.
“Don’t (get caught) be(ing) evil.”
Why would they do that?
For the love of Venus, Google, could you at least pretend not to be in the tank for the left?
No, they can’t. I removed the google news widget from my browser home page a couple months ago for exactly this reason. Their “feed” was 70% WAPO and 30% CNN.
Trump lifts Jones Act for Puerto Rico.
What an asshole.
This reminds me of the stories about the Ascended One’s administration turning a Dutch(?) oil skimmer away from the gulf after the BP skill for some sort of moronic niggling administrative detail. Trump will be the ruination of the rule of law.
Well, I think a temporary waiver for a specific disaster area might be more like calling out the National Guard to keep peace. It is, at least, limited in time and space. Ideally, Congress would remove the thing all together, but if politics is going to blame Trump for failure, it is feeding the idea that this is his to do. Again, maybe least wrong decision rather than right.
The act allows for the granting of waivers. Each request is reviewed by homeland security, and granted on a case by case basis, but the Secretary, and by extension the President, can order that waivers be granted to all ships for a time period. So, this isn’t really a subversion of the rule of law, as this particular law allows for exceptions. The case with Obama turning away aid during the BP spoil was just Obama being an asshole and using the Jones act as cover.
Uh, could the President not just pardon anyone who violates the Jones Act for a certain period of time? That’s within the President’s constitutional authority.
If you are a shipper are you willing to take the risk that the pardon will come through? How much are you willing to spend in legal fees in the meantime?
Here we are-
Crucial offers to help clean up BP’s oil spill “have come from Belgian, Dutch, and Norwegian firms that . . . possess some of the world’s most advanced oil skimming ships.” But the Obama administration wouldn’t accept the help, because doing so would require it to do something past presidents have routinely done: waive rules imposed by the Jones Act, a law backed by unions.
“The BP clean-up effort in the Gulf of Mexico is hampered by the Jones Act. This is a piece of 1920s protectionist legislation, that requires all vessels working in U.S. waters to be American-built, and American-crewed. So . . . the U.S. Coast Guard . . . can’t accept, and therefore don’t ask for, the assistance of high-tech European vessels specifically designed for the task in hand.”
The law itself permits the president to waive these requirements, and such waivers were “granted, promptly, by the Bush administration,” in the aftermath of hurricanes and other emergencies. But Obama has refused to do so, notes David Warren in the Ottawa Citizen. Instead, Obama rejected a Dutch offer to help clean up the spill, noted Voice of America News:
“The Obama administration declined the Dutch offer partly because of the Jones Act, which restricts foreign ships from certain activities in U.S. waters. During the Hurricane Katrina crisis five years ago, the Bush administration waived the Jones Act in order to facilitate some foreign assistance, but such a waiver was not given in this case.”
I did not remember it as having been specifically over the Jones Act. I was thinking it had something more to do with the EPA saying, “If it won’t remove 100% of he oil from the water, why bother?”
During the Hurricane Katrina crisis five years ago, the Bush administration waived the Jones Act in order to facilitate some foreign assistance, but such a waiver was not given in this case.
So there is also some precedent. Again, recent enough that it doesn’t completely undo your “rule of man vs. rule of law” argument, which I respectfully acknowledge as a problem, even if this particular case is not the best example of Trump extending the government by whim.
I thought P. Brooks was being sarcastic about rule of law, etc
Huh. Maybe. I get so used to him being a crusty anti-authoritarian.
I’m all in favor of scrapping the Jones Act. But Trump can’t just strike through the Jones Act as if it were some sort of administrative rule scribbled out by the EPA, but if he can suspend it for now, he can then say, “Hey, look- we went without this for a while, and the world didn’t end. Maybe it’s just not necessary.” Let the horse trading begin.
Wait, doesn’t the law have waivers built into it, for just these kinds of situations? As far as I understand what he’s doing is perfectly in accordance with the law.
36-24-36, only if she’s 5’3″.
http://archive.is/Tted3
17 is cooking me dinner, 33 is for dessert.
Not a thicc fan.
I choose 3.
Apologies. All tits all the time tomorrow.
Don’t apologize. Your show, your choice.
Besides, there are many, many fans of the overly-juicy here.
Carry on!
14, 21, 42
Easier to say which ones I don’t like. 41 and 36 get special mention there, because they’re trying to cheat (I think).
5, 8, 33
28 win.
3 place.
36 show.
By the very nature of the selection, I had to break my one rule pretty drastically.
One of these days Q, you’re going to get me in a lot of trouble.
11.36.41
Mo azz please.
17 and 41
Madrid pulls out all the stops to block independence vote
Freedom is so problematic.
In context, the two most productive regions of Spain are those most inclined to break away. Then Madrid would be stuck admitting that what’s left is a third-world country. So nothing they do to keep their tax farm going will surprise me.
Gotta stop the vote to preserve Democracy!
Aren’t there similar movements in Northern Italy, who are sick of being the tax cattle supporting the Southern part of Italy?
I don’t think they have the same level of support as the Catalans do though.
You are correct.
And
It’s funny that pretty much everywhere you look, the productive are tiring of supporting the parasites.
That’s why the parasites are so desperate to hold onto the reins of power and keep control of the men with guns.
Oh cool, thanks for the link. I had no idea they were moving ahead with votes. Will Italy abscond with the ballots like Spain did/tried to do? Sounds like they already went through the legal challenges to pose the watered down version of the referendum.
I guess the one place I can think of that isn’t a net contributor, but was still agitating for a vote was Scotland, but then, they had their chance to leave and decided not to. I wonder to what extent the vote was allowed because the central government in London knew that they wouldn’t mind losing an area which take sin mroe than it gives.
Neverforget the English-Scotch animosity. I think they were disappointed they didn’t get to say “Good riddance” and rebuild Hadrian’s wall.
Scotland is also redder than Moscow in 1955. An England/Wales/N Ireland UK would tilt right hard enough that even May couldn’t blow an election. Probably.
But I’m sure a Tory government wasn’t thinking in *those* terms.
If a state in the US, or a county within a state (e.g., California), were to do likewise, is there any doubt that the superior government would do likewise?
This was all settled by the Civil War, or something, and can never change. Same goes for Spain in the opinion of European elites.
Sarcasmometer batteries, on sale in aisle six.
[insert friendly emoji]
We had a golf outing for work yesterday. LOL.
“I hear this place is restricted, Wang, so don’t tell ’em you’re Jewish, okay?”
“Now I know why tigers eat their young”
“Oh! It looks good on you, though.”
Great form there. Had you considered trying to hit the ball fungo?
My brother’s former workplace had a golf outing once…
Two guys got way too drunk and drove a golf cart under a low tree limb, which ripped off the roof. The club manager turned to two other guys and said, “are you guys sober enough to drive this thing back to the clubhouse?” They said yes and drove off, but they crashed the cart off a bridge into a creek.
That company was permanently barred from having any more golf outings at that course.
One of my 30-something, hot, female Facebook friends referred to Hefner as her “favorite feminist”…
She also referred to this exchange as “the height of misogyny” :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRwfsdnULxo
I don’t think I will ever understand (some) women…
How long until CNN tells us Trump is secretly buying up property destroyed by the hurricane on the cheap for a new luxury resort in Puerto Rico?
I only wish he would.
I’m pretty sure I saw something on DerpBook about Trump cutting off aid to Puerto Rico because he owns real estate there or something.
Can we drop Lifetime too?
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/371747.php
I’m nearing the point of cutting it all. We watch very little TV now as it is. I really only have cable so I can watch hockey.
A Roku and whatever paid services you prefer beats the hell out of cable.
^This.
You won’t regret it. We cut the cord maybe 6 years ago and never looked back. When I’m at a hotel for work, I can’t even watch cable now because of the commercials and not being able to select when and what I want to watch. I end up bringing a book or my laptop to pull up Netflix.
That depends on where you live.
We tried cutting the cable, found out there was literally no way for us to even get the local broadcast of Baseball and Football and the Caps (my wife is a huge fan, she even named our Corgi Holtby) aren’t even available over the airwaves so we ended up going back and getting Dish just so we could watch sports
I don’t .have the bandwidth to do streaming.
Agreed that sports is the last holdout. That and King of the Hill, though that can at least be purchased.
I think we’re going to start seeing sports shift to online distribution soon though, especially as ESPN is intentionally destroying its ability to maintain the bundling status quo.
The most valuable sports television never even moved to cable: NFL Sunday Afternoons, NFL Playoffs, World Series. All on broadcast TV.
Hulu’s latest update basically is completely broken on the roku. I had only started with them a month ago, but I’ve already canceled.
Not that I’m disagreeing with you. I just want to bitch.
I’d have to agree with that…it worked great and had a good user interface but they just had to “improve” it and now it’s a mess.
It’s basically broken for me. None of the images load for anything. If I go to watch a TV show, I either have to figure out what the show is based on the episode name or just play stuff and see what happens.
That’s before getting into the criticism of just how shitty the new UI & organization is.
Hulu is the worst piece of garbage streaming service out there.
Completely aside from their idiotic streaming selection and rules, the buffering is insane (likely due to onerous DRM), to the point where I can’t even sustain a low quality stream on Hulu when I can stream 1080p on Amazon Prime. No idea how they screwed that up so badly.
^^^This. I had Hulu for one month and couldn’t wait to get rid of it. It is a complete piece of shit. Their selection is crap, their buffering reminds me of the days of 56k dialup and their search feature returns nothing close to what you are looking for. Utter waste of money.
Not to mention the arbitrary 5 episode-only running list, or the fact that even if you pay to get their top tier “commercial free” plan some shows still have commercials.
Hulu is good for binging old tv shows that are no longer in production, some current tv shows (depends on the network) and low budget horror sci fi and some animee.
I actually watch it far more than I watch Netflix
Roku’s are awesome. If not for live sports I wouldn’t have cable at all.
Since living on my own, I’ve never paid for cable TV. Right now, we get by on OTA, Netflix, and individual other services for brief times (such as HBO for Game of Thrones, and Starz for American Gods). Other options include Google Play rentals (especially if you install the Google Opinion Rewards app which gives you credit for surveys). The two TV’s in the house both have a chromecast hooked up to them to allow streaming, and the phones to work as remote controls. If Amazon would decide to work with Google for streaming, I would be tempted to look at Prime for more video options.
In my experience Prime is not worth messing with for streaming, there is never anything worth watching on it
It’s OK as a freebie with free shipping if you order from Amazon a lot. As a standalone service you’re correct. Also, they have a surprising number of good documentaries on Prime if that’s your thing.
Man in the High Castle, The Americans, Suits, The Grand Tour, The Expanse, Vikings, Sneaky Pete,…that service is full of good stuff. Though, to be fair, it does cater to a different demo.
I’m curious about the Tick, as an old fan. And I enjoyed the first season of the Man in the High Castle… but after that, I’m meh. I’m more annoyed that they refuse to support Chromecast streaming.
Hey! Listen to us! 1% of Metro riders demand these things!
I’ve ridden the Metro a few times.
My wish list –
Cleaner stations and cars.
Fewer Track Fires.
Turnstyle ticket systems that work.
No sleeping soldier?
I’ve never had issues with any of those things in my 27 years in the DC area.
What I would like is impossible – a third track, for express trains and to be able to get around disabled trains without holding up the entire fucking system.
if they would just legalize the murder of the hoards of obnoxiously loud high schoolers on the red line, i’d be happy.
I avoid Gallery Place like the plague between 2pm and 5pm.
I prefer to hoard younger orphans.
Why is it whenever someone on the left says something demonstrably untrue, they still pat themselves on the back for “sparking discussion”?
Wow. The pseudo-intellectualism is unhinged.
lol
Chloe Davis @chloerdavis12 11m11 minutes ago
Replying to @DraperRobert @tanehisicoates
Ah the soft bigotry of low expectations…
The Grand Unified Theory of Strong, Weak, EM and Gravitational Forces is solved by tiny worker gnomes pulling the strings of the universe. I’m just starting a national conversation.
The gnomes ride turtles.
+1 All The Way Down
The alternative is to admit they were wrong about something and cede anything at all to the other Team, which is ungoodthinkable.
Claims to have read Sowell “for decades” and intellectually rejected him… for such luminaries as Coates.
Then he gets triggered and blocks the people asking about Sowell. So tolerant, open-minded, so progressive.
Also, Twitter delenda est.
This can’t be said enough. Maybe I’ll start ending all my posts with it.
—-Minneapolis Star Tribune
http://www.startribune.com/court-put-state-law-above-first-amendment-in-wedding-video-case/448345943/
The interesting aspect here is that the court isn’t ruling on First Amendment free exercise or establishment religious rights.
The court is saying that Minnesota’s law supersedes this couple’s First Amendment free speech rights.
Apparently, they wanted to put a statement on their website stating that they will not make videos for same sex weddings, and, if I understand correctly, the court is saying that First Amendment free speech doesn’t protect a sign that says “No [insert race, orientation, etc,] Allowed”.
This shit is getting old.
I’m reading about the non-binding referendum on SSM in Australia, and people keep citing these cases (and cases in Canada) as reasons to vote against SSM.
To whatever extent SSM was popular in the U.S., I suspect it was in no small part due to people assuming that their free speech and religious rights would be protected.
Ultimately, SSM in the U.S. had nothing to do with popularity, but last I saw, a majority of self-identified Christians favored the legalization of SSM. Poll them on whether it should supersede the First Amendment, and I bet there’s a different response. The assumption that the First Amendment will protect the rights of intolerant people, in other words, probably makes our society more tolerant.
It’s time for the Supreme Court to set things right.
To whatever extent SSM was popular in the U.S., I suspect it was in no small part due to people assuming that their free speech and religious rights would be protected.
Of course it was foreseeable, even predictable, hell, even actually predicted, that it wouldn’t play out that way.
The court has already decided that a “public accommodation” can have the right of free association violated, in spite of the constitution granting the government no power to do so, so I expect that public accommodation doctrine will also be found to supercede first amendment rights.
“The court is saying that Minnesota’s law supersedes this couple’s First Amendment free speech rights.”
So, DOA if (when?) it gets appealed up to SCOTUS?
I don’t know the details of past court decisions.
Has the court ruled in the past on a distinction between putting up a sign that says you won’t serve people of a certain race, on the one hand, and actually refusing to serve people of a certain race on the other?
The other free speech question to me is the distinction between refusing to serve a certain group of people, on the one hand, and compelling speech on the other. Maybe the state can bar you from refusing to sell them a cake, but they can’t compel you to write something on it. Maybe you can’t put a statement on your website stating “No gays allowed”, but the state can’t compel you to make a video against your will.
Defaulting to free speech pretty much leaves free exercise swinging in the wind, though.
How so?
Free speech: we can make a Christian service events that violate their religion, as long as their service doesn’t involve the Christian actually speaking/writing in favor of the event. “You have to make the cake, but you don’t have to write “Woo-hoo! Gay Marriage is Da Bomb!” on it.
Free exercise: we can’t make a Christian service events that violate their religion. “You don’t have to make the cake. Period.”
I really wish we could get the courts to take a more expansive view of what constitutes religion, given that for many people, politics is now their religion, but none of the rules protecting them or protecting people from them have followed it.
Vla-DEE-meer Poutine
Why can’t I stop watching that. Mesmerizing.
Steve is not looking well.
Shit. Someone get me some autotune and we’ll have a viral sensation!
/facepalm.
I have no words.
My initial impression of the details that have been released of the Trump tax reform package are wildly enthusiastic. Cutting income taxes makes a ton of sense, and so does cutting the corporate tax rate from 35% to 20%. It’s an excellent proposal.
http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-tax-plan-details-corporate-rate-individual-brackets-deductions-cuts-2017-9
I’m also impressed by the proposal to eliminate the deduction for state taxes–the existence of which, now, basically means that federal taxpayers are subsidizing high taxes in places like California. Why should the federal government protect high tax states from the consequences of their bad decisions?
On the other hand–thanks to some of you–I’ve learned some things in recent days that have me thinking I should reject Trump’s tax proposal on its face. For instance, cutting the corporate tax might seem pro-capitalist–but it doesn’t cut corporate taxes all the way to zero–so, obviously, we should oppose cutting taxes on that basis.
Even worse, even if the proposal had cut the corporate tax all the way down to zero, it still doesn’t get rid of the healthcare exchanges, and, obviously, we shouldn’t do anything smart or good unless doing it also gets rid of the healthcare exchanges entirely. That’s what being a libertarian is all about.
You seem a tad worked up, Ken.
I’m always worked up.
I’m just making a point.
Every time Rand Paul votes for something that doesn’t solve 100% of the problem and doesn’t also get rid of the exchanges, I’ll point out to everybody how impressive that is from a libertarian perspective.
Once Rand Paul’s brilliant plan to cut Medicaid eligibility is enacted, the pain goes away–and I’m sure that will happen any day now. Obviously, he wouldn’t kill cutting entitlement eligibility unless he knew he was going to cut entitlement eligibility anyway in an even better way.
I know that because he is Rand Paul.
I’m losing a bit patience with you on this one Ken.
The Republicans did not run on completely abolishing federal taxation in its entirety. They promised to cut taxes, not eliminate them.
They did run on repealing Obamacare, full stop. Not reforming it, fixing it, tweaking it, or any other bullshit cop out that means “The socialists get their three steps forward, one step back.”
Rand Paul is doing what he said he would do. He’s keeping his word. He’s not allowing worthless slime like John McCain to break his promise to his voters. If this Senate won’t repeal Obamacare, then Rand will come back in the next Senate, with a bunch of new Senators who will vote with him, not with the Sainted RINO Caucus.
I am a bit conflicted at this point because Rand Paul and John McCain are on the same side of this issue, if for different reasons.
Not to mention, any half-hearted attempt by Repubs to roll back Obamacare but not kill it will only give them the blame when the inevitable collapse happens, so maybe Rand Paul is right to make this play.
Unless we can get spending under control, none of this matters anyways, the economy will collapse well before the worst horrors of socialized medicine take root.
Rand Paul and John McCain are on the same side of this issue?
Rand Paul, Bernie Sanders, and Liz Warren are on the same side of this issue.
All four of them voted against cutting Medicaid eligibility when it really mattered.
Screw them all for the exact same reason.
Screw Rand Paul twice over because he’s supposed to be a libertarian.
Rand Paul, Bernie Sanders, and Liz Warren are on the same side of this issue.
Show me the pro-Medicaid bill that Sanders, Warren, and Paul all voted for.
Oh, that’s right. There isn’t one!
Hitler had a dog, therefore all dog owners are Nazis. That’s the level of argumentation you’re engaging in here.
Rand Paul, Bernie Sanders, and Liz Warren are on the same side of this issue.
This is like, 3 different fallacies going on.
Why does the name Michael Hihn seem to echo in the back of my mind when I stumble onto these threads?
Ken’s never forgiven Rand Paul for declaring that Obama’s illegal war in Libya was a bad idea.
I opposed what we did in Libya on constitutional grounds and supported it within the context of an argument about whether Congress should declare war.
I still think it was a good idea–over the long run. Libya was a giant Jihadi factory and would have remained so as long as Gaddafi was in power. That the French and British were going in with us or without us–with Qatari troops on the ground–made it an easy decision to coordinate air support.
I still think what we did was unconstitutional and opposed it on that basis.
I should say, I opposed putting boots on the ground in Libya even if Congress had authorized doing so. Bugging out of Libya was the easiest thing we ever did–since there were no troops to bug out. Staffing the embassy during the aftermath was a mistake, which just underscores why not putting troops on the ground was such a good idea.
A huge chunk of the world’s Jihadis used to come from Libya. It’s easy to see why, since Gaddafi made it practically impossible for a young man to thrive under his authoritarian kleptocracy–so many of them turned into jihadis. That so many of them returned to Libya now is a good thing. Otherwise, they’d be fighting us instead of fighting over the future of Libya.
Deposing dictators is a messy business, but that doesn’t mean they should never be toppled–certainly not from a libertarian perspective.
P.S. I don’t give a shit what Rand Paul did about Libya. I care that he crushed cutting millions of people off of Medicaid.
Libya was a giant Jihadi factory and would have remained so as long as Gaddafi was in power.
I had the vague impression that Gaddafi was actually fighting the jihadis (that is, at least some of the people trying to overthrow him were Islamist nutters), and that Libya became a much worse problem on that front after we turned on him and he was killed.
This is a vague impression, though. Got a decent source for jihadi activity in Libya pre-overthrow, and jihadi involvement in the overthrow?
It’s not about Jihadis in Libya.
It was about Jihadis in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and elsewhere.
For a long time, an outsized portion of the jihadis in those countries were from Libya.
Many of them went back to Libya at the outbreak of the Libyan Revolution. And that’s a good thing.
They were starved out of having a decent life in Libya under Gaddafi–oppression breeds revolt, and Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and other anti-American terrorist organizations were only too happy to recruit them. The solution to global terrorist jihadis is not only to deal with the ones we have now. It’s also shutting off the machine that makes more.
Libya was really good at doing manufacturing jihadis–albeit unintentionally.
When people have a decent shot at finding employment, getting married, starting a family and having a life, they have more important things to do than rob banks, join gangs, sell crack, or become jihadis. I’d have to spend some time looking forthose numbers again–but they ain’t what they used to be. Libyan nationals used to make up a big portion of the foreign born jihadis in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Iraq, and elsewhere. Nowadays, many of them have gone back to Libya.
Meanwhile Gaddafi isn’t there to make young Libyans lives impossible and chase them out of the country anymore.
Libya was a giant Jihadi factory
And still is. I would guess its worse than before, in fact. Maybe they aren’t currently being exported at the former rate.
Meanwhile Gaddafi isn’t there to make young Libyans lives impossible and chase them out of the country anymore.
No, they have jihadis and warlords for that now.
I’m not saying that overthrowing Gaddafi to create a jihadi flytrap in Libya is necessarily a bad idea, but I haven’t notice much of a down tick in jihadi activity since it happened.
Really?
I don’t know whether this is an article that requires a subscription, but it’s a good one.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2011/05/12/bogged-down-libya/
If Libyan jihadis have largely gone back to Libya, then that is a good thing.
I’m not saying there are no more jihadis coming from Libya, and I’m not saying that there are no jihadis in Libya. I’m saying that Gaddafi’s regime was a huge impetus for creating jihadis, and that impetus is gone. Whatever Libya becomes in the future, it was never going to stop being a breeding ground for new Jihadi recruits out of country so long as Gaddafi was in power. Oppression breeds revolt–and Gaddafi’s oppression was breeding a special kind of revolt that had been flocking to Afghanistan, Pakistan, and elsewhere for more than decade before 9/11–and was waging a terrorist war against the United States. If we can shut down a big source of fighters before they even mature and get to Afghanistan, without putting any troops on the ground in Libya, why wouldn’t we want to do that?
No doubt, it’s a long term strategy. The Cold War wasn’t won in a day either.
Anyway, that spigot may not be shut off completely, but isn’t anything like it used to be. And if Libyan nationals have flocked back to Libya, as has been largely reported, then that is a good thing for American security. That is not evidence that we shouldn’t have provided air support with the British and the French, with Qatari forces on the ground. Those jihadis are not much of a threat to us in Libya.
If an opportunity to help a revolutionary movement overthrow an oppressive government that’s manufacturing jihadis for the Taliban, Al Qaeda and others, like that, presents itself, and we can make a difference without putting any troops on the ground (in a place like Libya), why wouldn’t we want to take advantage of that situation?
I can think of two good reasons:
1) It’s unconstitutional.
2) Obama might be tempted to put troops on the ground.
I am not of the school that thinks that if only we were nice, maybe the terrorists would leave us alone. I opposed Iraq. Afghanistan was a war of self-defense and the two (Afghanistan and Libya) were related–just like Rommel’s adventures in North Africa were related to (believe or not!) defeating Berlin.
Here’s a pretty good reference:
“Al-Qa’ida’s Foreign Fighters in Iraq”
A First Look at the Sinjar Records
Source: United States Military Academy at West Point
https://ctc.usma.edu/posts/al-qaidas-foreign-fighters-in-iraq-a-first-look-at-the-sinjar-records
These statistics were gleaned from an analysis of what amount to captured Al Qaeda personnel files. They give a snapshot of a particular point in time, but the statement, “Most of the Libyan recruits came from cities in North‐East Libya, an area long known for jihadi‐linked militancy”, I believe, refers to the fact that this area of Libya has been a steady source of new jihadi recruits going back to the time of the mujaheddin in the 1980s. Al Qaeda, of course, emerged as a conduit for foreign fighters to enter Afghanistan and fight against the Soviet Union.
I think you’ll find that Libya has been a large source of jihadis, probably since Gaddafi went bad circa 1975. It’s really not a hard connection to make. You take a viciously oppressive Marxist and authoritarian government, where the kleptocracy is so bad, an oil rich nation ends up impoverishing its people–it became one of the most corrupt nations in the world, much worse than its neighbors. The opposition to Gaddafi’s government trends more religious than most, and then there are rich sheiks from Saudi Arabia who are willing to send you to Afghanistan or Pakistan for both religious indoctrination and military training to fight against the Soviets, or in Bosnia or Algeria or Egypt or later the Americans in Afghanistan or Iraq. Sounds like an excellent recipe for making jihadis by the dozen.
I wouldn’t have supported invading Libya with troops for the express purpose of deposing Gaddafi–just to stem the flow of jihadis. But given 1) the fact that the French, the British, and the Qataris were going in with or without us, 2) that the rebellion and its aftermath was going to happen (much like in Syria) with or without us, 3) that we didn’t need to put any troops on the ground, and 4) That the costs in terms of both risks to our troops and treasure were so low–helping the Libyan people rid themselves of Gaddafi was the smart thing to do. We got away with shutting that jihadi machine down for a song.
And no American casualties!
. . . not from the war, anyway. Setting up an embassy in that mess of an aftermath was a big mistake.
Someone’s feeling extra
cuntysalty today.That’s not salty. It’s just a fact.
The excuses people have made for Rand Paul saving Medicaid eligibility are ridiculous.
I’m just following their logic.
Cutting taxes is wrong unless we cut them all the way to zero, and doing smart things is stupid if it doesn’t also get rid of the exchanges.
That argument is what it is.
The excuses people have made for Rand Paul saving Medicaid eligibility are ridiculous.
“I don’t think cutting Medicaid eligibility is enough of a benefit to justify saving most of ObamaCare.” doesn’t strike me as patently ridiculous.
Most of ObamaCare?
That’s nuts.
They were getting rid of the individual mandate, the employer mandate, knocking 6 million people off of Medicaid, getting rid of the Cadillac plan tax, the medical device tax–that’s getting rid of “most” of ObamaCare.
Meanwhile, what Rand Paul did was save 100% of ObamaCare.
Meanwhile, what Rand Paul did was save 100% of ObamaCare
When did Rand Paul get appointed God of the Senate?
what Rand Paul did was save 100% of ObamaCare.
No, what he did was decline to vote for a reform he didn’t like.
What did they leave intact in their reform (just the big pieces):
(1) The DHHS apparat for national control of insurance,
(2) Community rating and no medical underwriting
(3) The exchanges, including, I believe, the machinery for subsidizing exchange losses (pending funding, of course)
(4) An expansion of Medicaid – not the whole expansion, but a big part of it (Medicaid enrollment grew by more than 12mm)
I think it falls way short of the repeal that was promised, and leaves plenty of fertile ground for the regrowth of the original law.
Whether the smart play was to take a half a loaf and full responsibility for future problems, or postpone it for a better deal with a better Senate and Congress, is a strategic play that reasonable people can differ on. But the idea that Rand Paul singlehandedly saved OCare and stabbed his voters in the back, and that this bill was such a redhot deal nobody could oppose it, is tendentious at best.
Where are you getting your facts.
This is where I’m getting mine:
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52849
Instead of focusing on what it didn’t do, have you looked at all the things it did?
Are you aware that there are other bills that fix everything at once, too?
Trump’s proposed tax cut won’t cut the corporate tax all the way to zero, but lowering it seems like a good idea anyway.
Do you oppose cutting the corporate tax from 35% to 20% because it doesn’t legalize marijuana nationally?
Plus the whole refusing to consider the larger picture.
The establishment, the slimy oozing parasites of the Democrats and the RINOs are very very eager to solidify Obamacare with a grand “bipartisan fix” so they can shriek about how “TRUE PATRIOTS SUPPORT THIS BIPARTISAN GOVERNMENT PROGRAM”. They desperately need this out, because Obamacare is a death spiral, and as long as Rand and the actual conservatives refuse to save the Dems and the RINOs from themselves, this is a winning issue for the new breed of right wing politicians going into the 2018 elections. The Establishment desperately needs all the Dem Senators in Trump states to be able to go on the stump with “I WORKED WITH PAUL AND THE DONALD TO REFORM OBAMACARE” in Indiana and Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and Ohio.
The establishment stooge in AL lost. Bob Corker is retiring. The map is incredibly favorable for the Republican Party. They can hammer Obamacare and a unified pro growth message into a Senate super majority with Rand fucking Paul setting the legislative agenda for the nation. That’s the goal, not to bail out the statists by papering over their latest stupid fucking boondoggle and giving them the political cover to save their worthless hides so they can return to power and come up with the next giant theft.
You are shrieking, pounding the table, calling for Rand Paul to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. This is the winter of ’44. This is their Battle of the Bulge. This is all they’ve got, this desperate attempt to use the same old trick of “bipartisan deal to fix socialist program” and Rand Paul isn’t going to budge. It’s repeal now, or repeal with a new Senate, and if he gets his new Senate, then Obamacare is just the beginning.
Do you have any idea what Rand Paul would do with a Congressional supermajority and Donald fucking Trump as President?
I’ll be in my bunk.
Both you and Ken are right, in a way. Rand Paul refusing the half-measure reform does entrench the law further (as Ken claims), but he may be taking the gamble (as you claim) that the favorable map in 2018 will pay dividends. And the more I think about it, the more I think that waiting for after 2018 is the right move. But if 2018 comes and they still can’t get a better law, then Paul and his compatriots will need to fold and take what they can get. Many people on here are saying that by not touching it the Republicans aren’t responsible for it, but that’s not how people will see things. If the law fails on the Republicans’ watch, they will be blamed for Obamacare even though they never supported it. The party in power gets blamed for any disaster that blossoms under their supervision, even if they did not plant the seed. And when Obamacare fails, the starting point for reform won’t be pre-Obamacare, it will be whatever is left of Obamacare. If Obamacare fails without having been improved at all by the Republicans, then they will have wasted an opportunity to set things on a firmer footing. If Obamacare is allowed to remain intact and fails, the result will be even greater government intervention into the healthcare market, not less. I am firmly convinced that you can only reduce government in times of stability, and that waiting to reform until a time of crisis can only produce a more authoritarian result.
Dammit, Gadfly, this is the internet! This is no place for calm, rational analysis!
You don’t cast a deciding vote against cutting Medicaid eligibility (effectively) twice in the hope of there being a better bill next time.
This is the first chance in 50 years to cut Medicaid eligibility.
The next vote won’t be about cutting Medicaid eligibility. It’ll be about bailing out the insurance industry, and no one will need Rand Paul’s vote to get that done. They’ll do it over his objections.
Keep repeating it, Viking. Even if it doesn’t sink into Ken’s head, other people (like me!) will read it and be convinced.
Relax Ken, I was just tweeking you a little.
You know who else made breathless arguments about libertarians being unwilling to compromise and hated anyone w/ the last name Paul?
Some Cleveland Indians fans, circa 1973?
For Tundra, he has earned enough reward points for one free FLBP.
http://archive.is/gdqbD
Hooray!
28 and 1 are the winners.
16 will kill you in your sleep, chop you up and boil you with the bunny.
I’m going to give 10 the edge in the bunny boiling department.
Gratuitous pussy in 14.
29 wins. Wow. I’M GONNA NEED SOME WATAH!
20 places with a subtle innocence that says “Fuck all of me.”
1 shows me the power of a smirk.
1 and 37.
10 is disturbing.
Florida Wo Man
So basically the real-life consequences of if a particular genre of porn were true.
There’s still opportunity for them to make up and follow a more extreme porn plot. Also she now has the opportunity for a prison plot.
Sewanee activists organize ‘Alternative Factual Feminist’ panel to counter upcoming Christina Hoff Sommers lecture
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/sewanee-activists-organize-alternative-factual-feminist-panel-to-counter-upcoming-christina-hoff-sommers-lecture/article/2635872
The Women’s Center is also working with the school’s Women and Gender Studies department, the Sewanee Young Democratic Socialists, and Queer & Allies House to host a panel titled “Alternative ‘Factual Feminist'” immediately following Sommers’ lecture next week. According to the panel’s Facebook event page, participants will focus on “the importance of intersectionality, inclusivity, and safety.”
I posted this cause I am amused of all these different clubs US universities have. There was nothing like that in the old Bucharest Polytechnic
True story: At U of Arizona (my wonderful alma mater), we had a film school of some national repute. One upper level elective course was the Structure and Themes of Adult Film. Yes, they sat around watching porn in class. Unfortunately, enrollment was limited to film majors.
So…they are bragging about having Alternative Facts? The MSM has told me those were trademarked by Secret Nazi President Trump!!1!
That’s a much better way to protest than trying to break up CHS’s speech.
So, pretty much anything by Nickelback?
http://nypost.com/2017/09/26/your-favorite-song-could-reveal-if-youre-a-psychopath/
“Gimme Danger” by Iggy & The Stooges is a long-time favorite. Hmm…
Gimme danger, little stranger
And I feel with you at ease
Gimme danger, little stranger
And I’ll feel your disease
There’s nothing in my dreams
Just some ugly memories
Kiss me like the ocean breeze
Now, if you will be my lover
I will shiver and sing
But if you can’t be my master
I will do anything
There’s nothing left alive
But a pair of glassy eyes
Raise my feelings one more time
How about this one (Butthole Surfers, Dog Inside Your Body)?
https://youtu.be/_8fHcfiGmMY
Goodbye Horses?
That’s funny, I had “No Diggity” in my head yesterday…
Yes Diggity
$750,000/year to be a part of a sex club? WTF? I could procure a $1000 prostitute everyday of the year and still have enough left over to buy a house.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4565367/astonishing-tv-show-delves-into-exclusive-snctm-sex-club-where-punters-pay-750000-a-year-to-take-part-in-wild-orgies/
catering exclusively to punters? Reggie Roby aside, that sounds racist. i’ve been convinced by idiotic commenters at the Minneapolis Star Tribune that if you decide to start a public business, then you can’t discriminate.
Or procure *two* thousand dollar prostitutes every day, with sometimes a third for, you know, special occasions. “Buy a house”? C’mon.
Comment says the actual price is $75k/year but I have no idea if that is correct.
Bruce Bartlett– “I once was lost, but now am found.”
The Reagan tax cut did have a positive effect on the economy, but the prosperity of the ‘80s is overrated in the Republican mind. In fact, aggregate real gross domestic product growth was higher in the ‘70s — 37.2 percent vs. 35.9 percent.
Moreover, GOP tax mythology usually leaves out other factors that also contributed to growth in the 1980s: First was the sharp reduction in interest rates by the Federal Reserve. The fed funds rate fell by more than half from about 19 percent in July 1981 to about 9 percent in November 1982. Second, Reagan’s defense buildup and highway construction programs greatly increased the federal government’s purchases of goods and services. This is textbook Keynesian economics.
Poor Bruce, he’s wracked with guilt over his misspent youth. If you want the economy to grow, give more money to the government, and let them spend it.
aggregate real gross domestic product growth
Not sure exactly what that is, but if like regular GDP it includes (debt-fueled) government spending, its not really telling us much about actual economic growth.
I thought GDP was already an aggregate.
https://blogs-images.forbes.com/mikepatton/files/2014/12/US-GDP-Components-from-1929-to-2011.jpg?width=960
The fed funds rate fell by more than half from about 19 percent in July 1981 to about 9 percent in November 1982.
Well if that is such a significant driver of growth, why did the economy under Obama stagnate at less than 3% growth for his entire two terms with far lower interest rates?
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH! Obama was doing the very bestest he could to get the car out of the ditch that BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH! had put us in, thank you very much.
I just double checked that and i don’t think its right. or if it is, he’s using some adjusted figures. i get something like 32% (70s) to 33% (80s)
70s growth is almost entirely due to labor force expansion in the 1970s, when baby boomer generation entered the workforce.
e.g. the size of the labor force expanded about 30% in the 1970s. It expanded ~15% in the 1980s.
if his implication is that economic policy of the 1970s were better (and not just demographic coincidence), it would be more useful to look at figures other than GDP – e.g. unemployment,real household income/purchasing power growth, etc.
of course he’s probably just making one of these “this number is bigger”/”this one goes to eleven”-arguments
37.2 percent vs. 35.9 percent
That is what we call a statistically insignificant difference.
The fed funds rate fell by more than half from about 19 percent in July 1981 to about 9 percent in November 1982
Ok, and what about the rates throughout the remaining 95% of the time period you’re analyzing? What is so special about 1 year?
Second, Reagan’s defense buildup and highway construction programs greatly increased the federal government’s purchases of goods and services.
Paid for with… taxes.
Especially when you consider all of the estimates, assumptions, guesses, and outright measurement errors that are inherent to those statistics.
Probably paid for with borrowing, but your point still stands.
Whew, WaPo saved me from myself.
Sloopy had to go to Oklahoma today, so he has his own hell to deal with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbrnXl2gO_k
Wait, doesn’t the law have waivers built into it, for just these kinds of situations? As far as I understand what he’s doing is perfectly in accordance with the law.
My point was that Trump cannot “repeal” the Jones Act unilaterally, but- having suspended it he should then go to Congress and ask them to get rid of it.
And- Obama was an asshole who refused to suspend the Jones act in order to accept assistance with remediation of the BP spill. Because politics.
But his empty-headed worshipers declined to see that.
Comic book death watch update.
https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2017/09/27/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-comic-writer-tweets-death-gop/
i pine for the days of Rom/Starshine cyborg love.
If I had a magic button I could push that would tank the comic book industry, I wouldn’t need it.
Oh please. As if anyone stays dead in comic books.
*Reads article*
…oh
As I’d tried to comment yesterday before technical difficulties sidetracked me, when offered a modern Marvel title for free, my response was “no thanks”.
I’m waiting for some bean-counter at Disney to point out that shareholders might not appreciate the severe underperformance of the print division at a time when it whould be booming.
The Mouse is just using the prints for material for their films. This way they get the woke points from the far lower selling prints without it hurting the much higher revenue of films, and if any of the woke become popular they can import them to the big screen. They’ve already got a Captain Marvell movie in the works, and I expect to see Kamala Khan and Ri Ri Williams at least mentioned on big or little screen within 5 years (assuming superhero movies don’t get run into the ground by then.
Ri Ri Williams would surprise me. They’re either going to keep RDJ as Iron Man or drop the character in Phase 4.
I’d be stunned if we don’t see Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel in the Captain Marvel movie, at least in a cameo role.
I’m also expecting Steve Wilson to die in either Avengers 3 or 4 and Sam Wilson to take over the mantle.
er, Steve Rogers, not Steve Wilson.
Steve Rodgers!
Williams has the personality and backstory to be a superb villain, and Little Miss Fascist Kamala is not far behind.
Ri Ri would make a fantastic supervillain. Pity Marvel’s too racist to ever make her one. I truly believe she could be one of the greats if done right.
I’ve seen at least one prediction that they’re going to kill off Tony Stark, but keep RDJ as Iron Man through an AI/holographic projection in the suit. That way RDJ just has to do the mocap work, and they can have some stunt man in the suit.
I’m also on board that Steve Rogers is most likely a dead man in one of the upcoming films, and either Sam or Bucky picks up the shield.
And on the Disney side, reports are coming out that they forced ABC to keep Agents of Shield alive for some reason.
Huh, I must be the only person left alive that actually watches that show.
Wait, it’s real? I thought it was a joke title created by the internet like “Discovery”
*growly Christian Bale voice*
Now… we’re two.
You’re not alone. Need to catch up with last season though.
Agents of Shield are all in Infinity War, would probably not look good if the show got canceled before the Infinity War movies came out.
My guess is it sticks around at least until slightly before the first Infinity War movie is released possibly until after the second one is no matter how bad the ratings.
That’s new information to me. I thought that the TV/Movie split had grown more pronounced with Disney splitting of Feige’s department. Not to mention bringing Coulson back would need at least some attention paid to it (in a film that is probably already getting long).
I’d much rather there be some connection built up between the Netflix shows and the MCU before bringing Shield back into the mix.
This is not a sound business plan and fails at the duty to shareholders.
That is what I am saying. When you could get a higher readership and revenue by hiring me to write these books, you’re going to start annoying the people who own the company, no matter how addled the management is.
speaking of Marvel..
Cate Blanchett as Hela in the new Thor???????? wowsa.
Ecotastrophe!
The condor population could not have rebounded if the California Legislature had not bucked the National Rifle Association and passed an enlightened bill to control what experts found to be the main threat to the condor’s existence — the use of toxic, lead-based ammunition by hunters. It’s a lesson in resistance that lawmakers in Washington should learn.
The state banned lead ammo near condors’ nesting grounds in 2008 because, there and elsewhere in the country, tons of fragments were poisoning millions of animals like the condors that fed off gunshot carcasses.
Wait- Californians are allowed to indiscriminately slaughter thousands of animals and leave them on the ground to rot? Why wasn’t I informed of this?
tons of fragments were poisoning millions of animals like the condors that fed off gunshot carcasses.
I have been all over duck and deer leases and can’t remember seeing dead scavengers from any lead poisoning other than those suffering the effects of high momentum transfer (also called acute single-dose) lead poisoning.
it’s been illegal to hunt water fowl with lead shot since (googling) the early 90s.
I am under the impression — maybe wrongly — that lead from bullets into the food chain were at least as overstated as DDT. As in, there might be a couple places where it happened, but the idea that it was happening everywhere was a giant stretch.
that would not surprise me if the risks were overstated. but bismuth and the proprietary shot are serviceable albeit pricier. personally, i like the idea of zinc centerfire if it means no lead particles in the blowback. especially for the young ‘uns.
and yep, i’ve read at least one study critical of lead shot where the risks from DDE and DDT were downplayed (almost dismissed) because they were considered “local” factors.
Your impression is correct, but the control freaks have the law on their side.
and leave them on the ground to rot
not the whole carcass, just the intestines, i.e. gut pile.
Pure fucking lies. They want to get rid of lead ammunition because it is cheap and effective, thats all.
Fuck you assholes. you cant have my guns.
it will be a much harder slog for the eco-dipshits if they turn their sites on bismuth and tungsten once lead is replaced. they’ll have to really fabricate the data to justify that ban.
LOL, I read the line “the condor population could not have rebounded” and I thought, “what, to 200?” Open the article, and it says an estimated 450, with 270 in CA, AZ, UT, and Mexico. The last four being the only places they actually count the things. ‘Estimated 450’: LOL.
The American Alligator is a success story for the ESA, maybe the Whooping Crane too. I can’t think of any others. The CA Sea Otter?
On the other side of the equation, how much are the economic costs of that Act, not to mention the governmental overreach it normalizes?
Even when it comes to measures that can harm humans, Republican representatives tend to be equally servile toward the gun lobby. In the House, they are selling what amounts to a marketing favor for the gun industry, proposing to repeal controls on the sale of gun silencers to civilians. Silencer controls were enacted as a public safety precaution in the gangland rat-a-tat of the 1930s, when law enforcement officials wanted to make it harder for killers to escape detection. The nation at that time also cracked down on easy civilian access to machine guns and hand grenades.
A chicken in every pot. A Tommygun in every violin case.
What percentage of people who are against this measure think that silencers/suppressors cause guns to make a silent “thwip” sound when fired like in the movies?
opponents are going hard against the SHARE Act’s suppressor deregulation. LAT has an op-ed that starts out with that ex-cop dipshit Christopher Dormer and how hard it was to catch him because he was using a suppressor.
The Keystone Kops would have been able to catch Dorner alive and in less time than the LAPD – and would have shot at fewer chinese ladies,.
Probably most of them, a few who know the reality are just being dishonest. There’s a reason they are properly called suppressors and not silencers.
100%. Even back in the day when the 1934 NFA was passed, the motivation was allegedly to make it more difficult for union strikers to arm themselves against strikebreakers, blacks to arm themselves against, well, anyone, etc. That’s why it’s a stamp, and why it cost $200 when $200 was a prohibitive sum of money; if you’re connected or you’ve got the dough, you can get around it. The St. Valentine’s Day “Massacre” was used as an excuse to push the ban through. The original included pistols, btw, but even then it was clear that wouldn’t fly past the 2A, so they just tried to get as many “scary” guns as possible on the list. Silencers got on there because, even then, pearl clutchers who didn’t know what they did thought they made guns “silent”.
Incidentally, who was president in 1934? Hmm…
It’s not Constitutional-Constitutional, is it?
So a president has the power to pardon as long as he is not usurping the court’s authority. All righty then.
The executive should have all the powers except the ones given to it in the Constitution.
Yeah, that’s gonna fly.
I assume this is about the Rivera pardon because the Democrats would never be such flaming hypocrites, right?
This was probably already posted but who doesn’t like a good headline?
Appetite for Graphic Corn Dogs Climaxes in Moral Outrage
“I am shockingly sheltered” Yingsak Chonglertjetsadawong said.
OH MY GOD BE MORE CHINESEY
Carol?! Carol?! ugh.. Cheryl!
I always prefer my climaxes with a healthy dose of moral outrage.
” If a girl aged 7 or 8 was eating it on the street, is that something you’d want to see?”
Paging OMWC; OMWC to the courtesy phone.
Does anybody else watch Inkmaster?
The had the grande finale to the season the other night–it was live. Anyway, they start off the show with Dave Navarro, one of the judges on the show, playing the Star Spangled Banner like he’s Jimi Hendrix.
One of the other tattooer judges is a denizen of Miami’s Cuban exile community, and the third is a tattooer whose known for being one of the country’s big proponents of American Traditional tattooing a la Sailor Jerry, et. al.–about as World War II patriotic as you can get.
They brought all the contestants back who had been eliminated earlier in the season for the finale, and the thing was, the African-American tattooers wouldn’t stand for the national anthem–like they were in the NFL or something.
Usually, when people are talking about “the politicization of everything”, they’re talking about everything we see on TV or in the media. I think this might be getting bigger than that.
This might be coming to your kid’s little league game.
Here’s the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA-gFApgGb4
[Jay Cutler]
Doooooooon’t
Caaaaaaare
[/Jay Cutler]
Did he really say that? That gives him a point or two in my book. Which brings him to a total of a point or two.
It doesn’t relate to this. Dates back a few years.
http://uproxx.com/webculture/a-very-jay-cutler-encounter-with-jay-cutler/
He never confirmed it happened, but he didn’t deny it either.
This is an appropriate response. You don’t talk to the guy in the urinal next to you. Even looking away from the stain on the wall immediately in front of you is questionable
I have no objection to shallow, self-absorbed lightweights self-identifying as such. Not standing for the national anthem provides me with valuable information.
Some good news out of Indiana cops can’t steal your cars for a while.
Here’s an issue I’m on the fence about.
http://freebeacon.com/issues/disability-groups-lawmakers-condemn-assisted-suicide/
I agree that the ability to end your life is part and parcel of self-ownership. However, the expansion of assisted suicide from situations of imminent death from disease to “emotional anguish” opens a can of worms. To a person in a deep depression, reality is skewed. At that moment, suicide may seem like the best option but that perception could be transient. Permanent solution to a temporary problem and all that. Thoughts?
Given that I once spent time in a hospital after a suicide attempt, I don’t know. I’m compelled to say no, because suicide really is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. But.. what’s the line on what constitutes “assisted suicide”? Let’s say that I have a benzo scrip for anxiety. If I hoard a couple months worth and swallow them all along with a bottle of vodka… has my doctor assisted my suicide?
I’d say no since those pills were prescribed ostensibly for anxiety, not for the express purpose of killing yourself. It’s different going to the doc and saying, “I’m beyond depressed, life has no meaning, I want it to end” and instead of him giving you SSRIs (or something) he gives up a big cup of Sodium Pentothal dissolved in Kool Aid and says “drink up and your pain is over!”
A few thoughts:
Suicide isn’t actually against the law. Only attempted suicide is. Its the only (I think) crime where a failed attempt is illegal, but a successful attempt is not.
If you really want to kill yourself, you can do so without any “professional” assistance. Unless you are pretty significantly disabled. So, assisted suicide only really makes sense for people who are physically (or mentally?) incapable of killing themselves. I’m pretty hesitant to sign on to something that facilitates killing disabled people, because I don’t trust that it won’t be abused.
For people who are in comas, etc. and are terminally ill, well, you don’t need to actively help them die – put ’em in a hospice program or withdraw care, and they’ll die soon enough.
Its just a line that I’m not excited about crossing. Sure, there’s a few cases where it might be the right thing, but I see a tremendous potential for abuse.
However, even if I’m physically capable of killing myself I’d still rather I have a doctor manage it. If I had terminal cancer I’d prefer my doctor administer a cocktail rather than a DIY solution. I want to mitigate the risk of suffering as much as possible.
You don’t need a prescription cocktail to kill yourself very quickly and painlessly, and I’m not even talking about shooting yourself in the head. I get that from a pure personal choice perspective, its a “why not?”
I’m just very reluctant to open the door to doctors actually killing the disabled and those who can’t be arsed to do it themselves.
I would much rather keep it illegal and let people make their case to jury. Seems the safest way to keep it rare.
Sometimes freedom is painful. If someone wants protection from their own actions, then self ownership is not a path to take. Once a right can be removed from someone not involuntarily committed, how long to do you think it will take to expand? Soon it will be anyone who was prescribed Xanax once in the past 10 years. If they are too crazy to be able to decide about assisted suicide, surely they shouldn’t be able to buy a gun or vote either, right? (*in “reasonable” prog voice*)
We’ve already seen this happening in other areas. 15 year old couples are now being put on sex offender registries for having underage sex. Certain misdemeanors now carry the some of the same restrictions on rights that just felonies used too. Obama’s admin just recently tried to ban gun ownership for an entire class of vets.
Agreed and I’m willing to go along with that. Playing Devil’s advocate, however, most libertarians cede that contracts can only be entered into voluntarily and with sound mind (or some other such variation). Many (most?) libertarians will say that consensual sex with a 6 six-year old is invalid because the 6 year-old is incapable of giving consent (yes I am aware of libertarians who don’t make such distinctions). One *could* make the argument that someone in a deep, acute depression is incapable of making such a decision and lacks sound mind.
I’m well aware of the slippery slope that inevitably comes along with this type of thinking and I tend to agree with you that the cost of some people “wrongfully” ending their lives is worth the benefit of complete self-ownership. However, from the practical side, where is the line drawn (if at all)?
I assume in libertopia you could undertake to create a contract that specified the terms of your desired end-of-life ahead of time. Like an affirmative section of current living wills. It would describe in what states and for how long and how many opinions were necessary before you wanted to be helped into the beyond. Taking that decision power away from an individual and giving it to your doctor on your behalf (or frankly, your next of kin or medical power of attorney) has always been the step that concerns me. In my eyes at the point where you become ward of someone else, their primary duty is to act on behalf of your rights not necessarily as you would have done, but in the most conservative way possible. Even if you will never exit wardship.
Mrs. Lacky and I often discuss this, partly because she worked with people who were in nursing homes who would literally just say ‘kill me/let me die’ all day, everyday and seemed to be in excruciating pain. The family would not sign off on removing care/helping them to the great beyond for whatever reason (and the nursing homes liked having them because, $). You might say the person was mentally ill and incapable of making the choice, but I’m not convinced. That said, I think the best thing to do is make your red lines quite clear to your next of kin, probably written out is best.
To extend on Q’s point:
Being suicidal is actually squarely in the current legal definition of not having the capacity to make decisions for yourself. But needing/wanting a doctor to actually do the killing is a different level of decision-making/capacity. You only need a doctor to carry out your decision to kill yourself if you are too disabled to kill yourself (which is pretty fucking disabled).
And, if you aren’t that disabled, if you aren’t capable of managing the mechanics of killing yourself, are you capable of deciding to kill yourself?
Someone with certain severe degrees of paralysis or loss of limb would be unable to prevent people from feeding them, and incapable of actively taking their own life, but could at the same time be mentally capable of deciding to not want to exist.
That said, I’m not in favor of assisted suicide. I think it’s too easy to abuse and kill people who did not actually want to die.
No question, if you look around hard enough, you can find a few anecdotal cases where it would be the right thing. Once you open a loophole or start making exceptions for one-offs, though, it can get out of control.
What are you talking about Dean? They haven’t experienced the slippery slope effect in Europe, have they smart guy?
*I saw a while back where the Dutch let some woman kill herself because she was ‘feeling down’.
Using that definition then, I assume that person could be involuntarily committed then and have all of their rights restricted? That falls in line what what I was saying about removing rights without involuntarily committing someone.
I guess the bill in the article would overturn that?
Those are good questions and probably aren’t easily answered. One difference with the 6 year old example is that it’s not subjective. We say no 6 year-olds are capable of giving consent. With the acute depression argument, that is relying on the government to subjectively determine who is mentally defective and who is mentally competent, with what I assume would be minimal oversight. That potential for rife abuse concerns me.
On the practical side, I share some of the concerns RC mentioned with doctors administering it. I think the natural consequence of allowing doctors to have a monopoly on health care, especially if single payer happens, would be the slide into more active “death panels” if assisted suicide is loosened up.
Just soem quotes and my rebuttals to them:
Correct, the patient should decide if they want help, and a doctor should be free to refuse to administer or otherwise be involved.
Maybe doctors shouldn’t be allowed to recommend it, if there is a real risk. Let people decide to do it on their own.
Fair enough, why bother paying doctors big bucks for their signature? The drugs should be freely available with instructions and everything, maybe I could start up a suicide booth company?
I sure hope she enjoyed her 15 minutes of fame. She’s gonna have a long time to think about it behind bars.
http://freebeacon.com/politics/accused-leaker-reality-winner-nsa-report-pantyhose/
Reality Winner is a strong contender for Name that Most Indicates Your Parents Hate You. Also, her motivation was to make her coworkers change the channel? This is a very sad person.
I’ll be very interested to see if she gets an actual prison sentence, or a pat-on-the-head probation.
The whole Reality Winner fiasco is probably the first moment that I started to believe that “The Matrix” is real, but the aliens are retarded.
One more thought: Shouldn’t that headline be “Admitted Leaker” rather than “Accused Leaker”?
She was working in such a hostile workplace, though. She even filed a complaint about how they played Fox News in the SCIF, y’know. It’s enough for her to give up on her life.
This is why we need assisted suicide.
Jesus christ its like a mashup parody of millenial self-righteousness+hubris+incompetence
you hear versions of this same sort of thing from ‘young employees’ at corporations all over america. “i took it upon myself to assume my bosses job”, and “immediately demanded my workplace conform to my own ideological biases”, “i expect to be forgiven because like, i had a hard day, and like, I was tired, i mean god take it easy”
One of the nice things about working in a hospital is that there is pretty much zero tolerance for that kind of crap from employees. Try running “I expect to be forgiven because like, I had a hard day, and like, I was tired, I mean god take it easy” past a battleaxe nurse manager after you nearly killed someone, and the reaction will be . . . not supportive.
As the millennial son of two such battleaxe nursing managers, I think I understand my aversion to stereotypical millennial horse-shit a little better now.
…”by undoing things the head surgeon had done because you felt that the treatment being given was [‘sexist’/racist/classist/unwoke]”
“…and then demanding leniency because your intentions were good”
trying to think of some analogy for the hubris of an NSA junior-level flunky deciding that some rando intelligence she reads should be public-information because… well, because it fits some crazy bullshit narrative she thinks is important.
what’s pathetic is that the actual details of the story she leaked? Were chickenshit.
She apparently misunderstood the significance of the material entirely, assuming it was some big scoop about ‘Russian cyber activity’ when it was in fact a giant fucking nothing. Sam Biddle @ intercept tried to spin the stuff into suggesting that it hinted at more-goings on that the MSM was reporting… but the nut of it was =
“a few people who had barely tangential connections to state election processes got some similar malware on their machines”, which compromised zero actual data of significance, and even if it had, would have had zero impact on elections or provided any intel to Russia.
in fact, some of the stuff they were claiming was attempting to be ‘stolen’ by the Evul Russians was shit that was actually available on public databases elsewhere.
Also, this evil russian hackery *targeted many thousands of people*, only some of whom were govt-politics-or-election-related
cherry picking a few targets and pretending that these were supersignificant, while the bulk of the rest were trivial and incidental, is misreading the entire activity.
basically, she fucked herself disclosing ‘intelligence’ that didn’t really fucking mean anything. if it were classified in any way, it was likely because it was an assessment made by NSA staff, and was opinion rather than significant raw-intel. (or at least that’s my superficial impression)
with the exception of Greenwald and Jenna-somebody, The Intercept is laughably terrible.
yeah, the quality curve drops off sharply from “principled left wing critical journalism” to “bullshit progressive hackery”
greenwald does a great job when he’s exposing the mendacity and ethical lapses of the mainstream media.
his peers, however, mostly pump similarly mendacious bullshit. like the way they continue to act as though the Koch bros are secretly plotting the takeover of the american govt, when they actively opposed Trump and still fund many anti-trump political initiatives.
or that ‘trying to lower taxes’ is some evil, shadowy behavior that hurts regular americans
I’ve stopped trying to read the others.. even just for the lulz.
Are you really that weak-minded that you cannot ignore the TV, or is there something, like totally compelling you to check out what Greg Gutfeld is saying?
Bluntly, if it was on within hearing at my workplace, I’d be lobbying to change it too.
I’m more impressed by the fact that these bozos think cable news is worth watching. It’s like discovering an office full of biologists & ecologists have Captain Planet videos playing in their office. Makes you question their competence and knowledge.
The warfare/surveillance state needs someone to beat the drum while they labor. Fox is pretty reliable in that sense.
Are there enough Glibs in the Northwest/Mountain West to do a meetup at some point?
Meaning mostly places like Oregon, Washington, Montana, and Idaho areas.
You appear to be alone there.
I’m in Utah. I know a few make it out to ski every once in a while.
Utah’s not bad. I’m in Southwest Montana so within range.
Boise here
Oregon here, if we do a meet up can we do it here ?
Joel Ward (hockey player for the San Jose Sharks) with a pretty good take on kneeling for the anthem and how the original meaning has been completely lost
how the original meaning has been completely lost
Submission to your beloved monarch?
The only legitimate monarchy was the Hapsburgs and not the bastardized monarch whose lineage is from Hanover that you bow before
Some monarchs actually managed to maintain their position in the modern era.
Incompetent, inbred losers were not among them.
Some monarchs choose the winning side in a war and some do not
Some monarchs don’t try to invade Serbia and start world wars.
Oh God, why not falsely claim how much you love Belgium now too.
I’m a half-Dutch. That is our land, not filthy Flemish peasants’.
Walloons or GTFO
Everyone knows the Netherlands rightfully belongs to the Hapsburgs.
Eighty years of blood and sweat indicate that they do not.
Jeez you two, get a room already.
Eddie is my one true Papist hate-fuck.
I’d rather share a room with Lena Dunham than a Canadian
Legitimate monarch is an oxymoron.
Not so sure.
Does legitimacy come from process (how you got to be the ruler) or does it come from results (how you rule)?
If its process-based, then its hard to argue a monarch is legitimate. Of course, its also hard to argue that the Venezuelan regime isn’t legitimate, seeing as its all democratically elected and shit.
If its results-based, then anyone can be a legitimate ruler by discharging their duties as sovereign (however those are defined by the residents/subjects/citizens).
so are racist cops to blame for this whole fucking bullshit social signalling phenomenon and the ruination of comic books??
Racist murdery cops were the reason Kaepernick kneeled in the first place.
And the message of this protest has been completely lost. If anything, it has become counter productive
I would argue that there’s always been a certain amount of social justice in comic books. I mean the X-Men were an alegory for the civil rights movement for christ’s sake.
But I think the current run of SJWism is because they got beat the fuck down by gamers and retreated to places they were already partially involved in.
Another security breach endangers millions
Meh.
They know, UCS!
Russian-linked Twitter accounts stoked NFL anthem debate
This is currently on the front page of Reddit. Are people honestly supposed to believe this stuff? It’s gotten to the point where it feels slightly unreal–if it was in fiction I’d be rolling my eyes.
Russians are not allowed to enjoy American football.
No 11am article? So, I got to work instead?
Time to riot.
I have today and tomorrow off, thankfully.
Today is the HIPAA audit, and the last time we had one six months ago, the bosses removed a couple of spare pens from my desk, because apparently the pens get up overnight and steal protected health information (PHI) or something. This time I made it a point to take my box of tissues home with me, telling the woman in the next cube that the bosses would probably remove that since the paper gets up and walks off with PHI, too.
You probably were writing PHI with those pens, and they had to hide the evidence. Also, isn’t it weird to not work when they do the audit? Isn’t that like the health inspector coming when no one is actually making the sausage?
I had the vacation time scheduled long before the auditor’s visit.
And now I just keep a pen in my pocket. (I’m not happy to see you.)
So you’re saying they stole your pens…
How Late Night Comedians Hurt America.
Think there should probably be some quotes around ‘Comedians’.
They started sucking once “their guy” got into office and they had to put, y’know, being funny on the back burner in lieu of protecting rightthink. I’m curious if you have a similar effect with Zoolander?
Our only real equivalent to the American political-commentator-as-comedian phenomena is stuff like This Hour Has 22 Minutes (which has sucked and generally been unfunny for a decade and a half before Zoolander) and Rick Mercer (who is a flaming lefty, but is at least pretty good at mocking the shit out of everyone). Mercer’s retiring his show this year anyway, and that’s less to do with politics and more he just wants to do other stuff.
That video was factually untrue. The “comedians” usually spout their idiocy around 4 or 5 PM. It just airs at 11:30.
Just popped by to say I love all of you. I’m enjoying my first day off in 3 weeks from my new overnight part-time job and about to get into a bottle of Knob Creek Rye, make shrimp & grits, and steam up a couple lobsters. May all of you have a wonderful day.
Stop looking at my butt like that.
I didn’t know you were a cat.
Trump nominates Don Willett (TX Supreme Court) for the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals
He’s gone again and done something good. Except if this makes Willett have to stop tweeting. Then it’s less good.
I’d trade Iowahawk tweeting for him being in charge of the DMV and being allowed to do whatever he wants.
OMG YAS
Let any self-professed libertarian write out a wish list and ten years ago almost everything on that list would have been considered completely unrealistic. Many of those same libertarians are deeply afflicted with TDS, and yet Trump is actually doing most of that wish list.
It makes no sense. I suppose that is why it is a derangement syndrome.
The courts are the only good thing that Trump will have produced. Along with some minor deregulation
Which is basically all I expected. Unless he does something brilliantly mad like go after the CIA or something.
Oh, I think he’s doing a dandy job of using his bully pulpit to mount Culture War counteroffensives, too.
Whining about kneeling at sportsball games when the country is twenty trillion dollars in debt is not the most productive use of one’s time.
Yes
Seeing as there is zero chance that this Congress is going to do dick about spending, I would say its not the worst use of his time, either.
Creating space for normies to push back against the crypto-Marxist locusts is actually, IMO, a pretty important thing.
But, the American consumer was already pushing back. The protests were dying down before he re-litigated the matter.
Creating space for normies to push back
TOP MAN-thinking. Trump has nothing to do with it, the consumers are the cause, as Just Say’n notes.
Fair enough: the protests were dying down, I think.
Personally, I’m glad he picked this fight. It was an excellent battlefield to push back on the SJW locusts – a very high-profile industry, with a consumer base that is strongly on his side. Draw them out onto hostile ground, and pound them flat where everyone can see it happen. Either the NFL caves to Trump/their customers, or we can all sit back and watch an American institution get destroyed by SJWs in real time.
If you want to put some spine into other businesses confronted by SJWs, this was a good way to do it. Much as I would like a President who wasn’t fighting a culture war, unfortunately, we have a culture war anyway – Trump shutting up about it won’t make it go away, and will only clear the field for the SJWs to continue their destructive rampage.
If the consumers had already beaten the SJW out of the NFL, why did the NFL allow, hell, encourage, the rash of protests over the last week or so?
Trump shutting up about it won’t make it go away
Uh, considering the kneeling is a desperate and pathetic attempt at screaming “PAY ATTENTION TO MEEEEEEEEEE”, if you do ignore it, yes, it will go away.
Maybe because a certain blowhard was telling them how to run their organization?
Maybe I am allowing my enjoyment at watching the suffering of people I loathe color my take on this, I will admit. The NFL kerfuffle is shaping up as a nice piece of political theater for Trump (a mixed bag), but its also shaping up as an unalloyed defeat for the left.
Oh, and some of his department picks are great too.
Jeff Sessions even gave a good speech the other day when he said that the Justice Department was going to join lawsuits against public universities that stifle speech
Sessions is such an establishment tool that I’ll believe it when I see it. Still, credit where its do: it was the right thing to say, at least.
Not a fan of Sessions. But, if he follows through, that will be a huge win for liberty
The best part of the Sessions appointment is that it got him out of Congress.
I’m not sure taking Sessions from a mostly symbolic part of the government and putting him in the part that exercises real power is a plus.
I get what you’re saying, but Congressmen can’t be unappointed.
Let’s see what happens to the Republican Party. Don’t forget Trump’s election was a finger by the electorate to the establishment. So far, we’re seeing trends that many of the establishment jackals may be replaced by more freedom party types.
On a less important scale, I can think we can mostly all agree that the epic meltdowns by the progs, especially on election night, has been enjoyable to behold.
My salt mines portfolio is up 350% since the election.
Knocking out establishment douchebags like Murkowski and McCain is great, as long as it leads to more liberty minded people. If it leads to dems taking control back (and consequently thinking they have some kind of mandate), not so much.
There’s Trump Derangement Syndrome, and there’s a recognition that Trump marks an incremental slide towards something very dark.
TDS = painting everything the man does as being an unprecedented bad thing.
TISOSD (Trump is a symptom of something dark) = argues that Trump’s anti-left populism is sucking the oxygen out of the classical liberal opposition to government overreach.
I count myself in the latter camp. I see Trump as a variant of the problem solver/doer of things that Hayek described in the Road to Serfdom. His most ardent supporters in my social circle (school chums, neighbors etc) are fed up with the left’s long march through institutions and the lack of an effective opposition to stop them. They are tired of being looted. They are tired of seeing the things they care about (i.e. the national anthem) treated like shit.
In the meantime, the economy has been lurching from crisis to crisis since the 90’s, and the entire Obama presidency was a fucking depression (no matter what the paper measures of GDP say). And alot of people just want the pain to stop. They want a strong guy who will make things work, who won’t tolerate failure, who will kick the asses that need kicking.
And that’s what Trump portrays himself as.
And, as any student of Mises or Hayek can tell you, the guy who will smash through the red tape and make things happen can’t actually end the crises. The socialist calculation problem doesn’t care if you are Margaret Thatchter, Auguste Pinochet, Benito Mussolini, Vladimir Lenin, or Kim Il Sung. In the end single person or group of people can rationally allocate resources. In the end, their efforts to manage crises and problems created by political interventions in the market by further interventions will create even more problems.
The danger that Trump represents is not that Trump is some new higher level of bad person that is unprecedented. Rather it is that he is the nucleation source for a very seductive, collectivist world view that is traditionalist and illiberal. And this movement won’t go away once Trump is out of office. It will continue to look for a doer-of-things/kicker-of-butts who is even more effective.
If Trump is doing some of what we want, that’s great. But in the end he’s actually doing much less than it appears he is doing. The intelligence organs are doing their best to destroy him, and if he does defeat them, he is not going to dismantle them anymore than Khomeni dismantled the Savak. The law enforcement arm is not being restrained in any way. The military is going to be expanded and continue to consume unsustainably large numbers of resources. The entitlement programs are not going to be reformed lest they eat into his popular support. He’s attacking America’s Mutawalli (aka the Environmental Protection Agency) and the educational establishment. These are good things, yes, and if he does neuter those institutions, the economic benefit will likely way outweigh the damage from his other policies. But those areas are being attacked as part of a war on the left. And certainly some of the stuff coming out of the Commerce department (e.g the 220% tarriff on Bombardier jets) are just as psycho as Obama’s war on coal. Only the seals on the wall issuing the disastrous rules is different.
This. Trump is a bump on the Road to Serfdom. The end is either collapse or totalitarianism, the bump doesn’t change that.
See, this is the kind of Trump critique that should matter. Good points, t.
Not to get all dialectical on you, but Trump is the antithesis to the leftist/globalist/establishment. Both are collectivist and anti-classical liberal. We got a Trump who is out of whack because the establishment got so far out of whack.
What I think is funny is that, on paper/policy, Trump is basically a mainstream Democrat from 20 – 30 years ago. And now, that’s too far right for even the Republican establishment.
They don’t like when you point that out to them.
I went to a speaking engagement where Rod Dreher and Ross Douthart gave a talk. Dreher said it best in his opening remarks: “Donald Trump is not a cure for the disease, but a symptom of the disease”. The crowd applauded loudly. Mind you this was a room full of very conservative Christians who were discussing threats posed to faith by the government.
Dreher is very much correct
I’d rather determine the cause of the disease.
And I think I have. The choices we have for the two parties are:
1) The party who wants a lot more taxes and just a few more victimless crimes.
2) The party who wants just a few more taxes and a lot more victimless crimes.
I think I can safely put “very conservative Christians” in one of those two blocs.
Thanks for putting words to what I’ve been thinking for a while. Agreed.
It really happened?!?
But yes to the tweeting, that would be a loss.
If Willett has to stop Tweeting, my world will come crashing down.
Glibs reaction
Pretty much!!
Librarian explains why she rejected books donated by Melania Trump.
What a bitch. Just politely refuse the books or take them to another more needy library. No need to be a smug cunt.
“…marginalized and maligned by policies put in place by Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos?”
Marginalized and maligned how? Which policies exactly?
Demanding evidence for claims made by a woman?!?
You just can’t hide your white supremacist views for even a second, can you?
I saw that article too.
My first thought was “If you know of a school whose library is so shitty that 10 books, most of which are Dr. Seuss, just take the goddamn books and donate them yourself. Or you know, maybe instead of boasting how you have over 9k books in your library you should cut that in half and donate them to an underprivileged school in Cambridge.”
Damn, I completely left out a chunk of that comment.
“…that 10 books, most of which are Dr. Seuss, would be a great improvement maybe you should…
What a pretentious cunt. After making sure we all know she has a graduate degree in librarology, she uncorks this one:
You’re running an elementary school library, not the Oxbridge Uni library. You want kids to read, give ’em stuff they’ll read. I doubt there is a six year old anywhere who says “Oh, Dr. Seuss. A bit of cliche, don’t you think?”
The condescending “you may not be aware of this” is just the cherry on top. I bet 99% of her customers and their parents aren’t “aware” of it either, because its total bullshit outside of certain very narrow circles. She’s probably filling her days trying to get first graders to read “Doctor, Please Cut Off My Pee-Pee”.
Dr., Mommy’s Sad, Please Euthanize Her
“Brought to you by Glaxo Smith-Kline. When you want to put someone’s lights out, ask your doctor about GSK’s Euthanozol!”
Edward G. Robinson approved!
wtf is library science?
It’s a way to accrue a lot of student loan debt.
It’s the education program that spat out Sugarfree. That tells you all you need to know.
I’ll bet the kids just love her. She sounds like a very patient, pleasant, stable person.
Victim of police chase that resulted in Alex Wubbel’s assault and false arrest died earlier this week.
RIP.
The police union is focused on what’s important, even after the man’s death. They’re pissed off that the video became public.
The victim was a cop too. So now the union is coming out only in favor of bad cops?
The union really punched the shit out of that tar baby didn’t they.
Best line:
Yeah, I bet you do, “our system” being the one run by the union to protect its members. Sucks to be thrown into the system the rest of us have to use, doesn’t it?
I actually saw an interview with Hef a couple years ago and he confirmed this. His entire hedonistic philosophy was catalyzed by being cheated on and jilted by his first wife who he was, by all accounts, completely head-over-heels for.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4565862/hugh-hefners-first-wife-cheated-playboy/
Apparently this utterly destroyed his faith in monogamous relationships and drove him to eventually build his empire. Considering that Hef and Playboy are largely agreed upon as serious drivers of the sexual revolution I’d say that was one of the biggest consequences of stepping out since Helen of Troy.
I watched some of the series about him on Amazon. Sure made it sound like he was a really straight-laced guy until his marriage collapsed.
Oddly enough, in more recent interviews he comes off almost as conservative. I saw him interviewed about the rise of internet porn and he was arguing against the cheapening of sex and degradation of traditional romantic love. It was bizarre to hear the man who stood as a symbol of promiscuous, hedonistic, bon vivant arguing for bourgeois restraint and delayed gratification.
I think he probably just hated it since it cut into his bottom line, and that was the only justification he could give. But who knows, people are weird.
The Glib MN meetup went about like you would expect
Titties!
PW; DR.
Sitting in the hospital +1 hour from when my dad’s surgery is scheduled and word is they won’t even call him for prep for another hour. So glad we arrived early…
It would be nice to get this show on the road, but I suppose at least the wait had overwhelmed everyone’s anxiety.
Good luck to you and him.
Hope all goes well!
One of my pet peeves is that the doctors (and we facilitate this) demand that all their surgery patients for the day show up at 6:00 am so that they can start their day in surgery at 7:00 sharp. Not the first patient – all of them including the one scheduled for 1:00 pm.
Health care has the worst customer service of any industry. And I include telecom.
You mean it isn’t good service to wait several hours to speak with a doctor for 2 minutes?
If you actually got to speak with a doctor, that counts as good service in the medical biz.
Well, we did have an appointment with one, specifically. But yeah, I’ve found that you can still get good service, just don’t go to big corporations/medical groups. Every lone wolf/doctor owned business I’ve gone to has been significantly better in these regards. Same holds for dentists as far as I can tell. I went to a specialist for something and it was cheaper than going to Dentists R Us, plus moderately better service.
This retarded Tweet really got my goat.
I always wanted to know how these Glib meet-up go.
Witnesses said, “all I heard was people screaming ‘crunchy, ‘ ‘smooth, ‘crunchy, ‘ ‘smooth, ‘ then fist started flying. “
Something like that but with deep dish pizza/”pizza”