The Lynx beat the Sparks! The Lynx beat the Sparks! If you’re wondering if that’s code for something, you’re gonna be disappointed. Apparently its one of the sports headlines of the day. Something to do with women and basketball. Which is confusing, because the NCAA tournament ended months ago. But apparently there’s this thing called a “WNBA” that thousands of people across the country get excited about and watch every year. Huh, lives and learns I suppose.
The NHL season got off to a fantastic start for…Toronto? They scored 7 in grounding the Jets. The Blues beat the Penguins, which probably makes most people happy. The Flyers took down the Sharks in a heated rivalry game (?). And the Oilers doused the Flames. More hockey tonight, as the league completes its opening round of games…on the same night the AL Divisional Series games are both played. Shrewd move, Bettman. You wily bastard.
Speaking of baseball, that was a wild ride last night. Thanks, Archie Bradley. The D-backs will now head to Los Angeles to start their series with the Dodgers tomorrow. The D-backs won the season series 11-8. And they’ve swept the last two series against the men in blue. So it should be interesting. The AL fires their two series up today as the Astros host the Red Sox in a playoff day game. That will be followed by the (damn) Yankees squaring off with the Indians. I’m hoping the Tribe scalp ’em!
One last little story somewhat related to sports: Jerry Rice, one of the greatest receivers of all time, has an interesting hobby.
No mas on the deportivos. Es tiempo for…the links!
Looks like that crazy asshole in Las Vegas was targeting more than people. Fortunately, he didn’t understand how fires work. Asshole.
Tim Murphy: hypocrite
Pennsylvania GOP lawmaker will step down at the end of his turn. Was it because he was tired of the Trump train? Nah, its because the pro-lifer got caught telling his mistress to get an abortion when he knocked her up. His wife was unavailable for comment. Asshole.
I wonder if this is what Team Blue had in mind when they all got giddy about Robert Mueller? I also wonder if he’s really even looking into it. I know the Senate is, as people are willing to go on record there about what they’re doing. Its odd that the guy John McCain and then the DNC hired to discredit Trump isn’t willing to sit down with them and talk about what he did and who it was for. It’d be safer than wondering when he’s gonna get “mugged” while walking down the street, if you know what I mean. (And I think that you do!)
Another day, another pederast teacher. This one arrested after her “victim” tried to off himself apparently. The 17 year old boy apparently didn’t want to live with the shame of having gotten laid and drunkenly telling a couple friends.
Anthony Napolitano: dickhead
Fucking Chicago, man. The greatest place in the country to live if you want to tell constituents they should pretty much fuck off if they want to end overtime abuse by police officers. What are “millions a year” wasted on overtime anyway, when compared to the scratch they burn through settling abuse claims at the hands of their heroes in blue? Those civilians should STFU and count their blessings they don’t get shot by one of these heroes whenever they feel like it, eh Alderman Napolitano? Asshole.
You don’t know me. My name will be Nate. And I want to say hello to the people of Mobile bay. Seriously, Gaia? Seriously, you bitch?
This is my response to the gauntlet Brett threw down yesterday afternoon.
Grab life by the haunches and hump it into submission.
I was going to make a crack about the Lynx finally winning a championship for Minnesota, but then read it’s the fourth one they’ve won. Whatever. Yawn.
*Edit Fairy helps out*
Don’t take our dreams away from us, Mike!
The boy and I watched the second half of the game. The Lynx did their very best to lose at the end, but Moore made a clutch shot to end it.
but Moore made a clutch shot to end it.
Let me guess: it was a 15 ft heave from her chest where she got 3” of vertical leap and the player trying to block it flailed at the ball while getting a whopping 6” off the ground herself.
Am I right? Or was it a similar scenario from 5’ away?
I keep laughing and laughing…
Lay up that managed to roll in, while three players fell down.
Lay ups are fundamental to the game.
I remember reading an article at ESPN.com around 2005-6 about a guy who went to every home game for whatever team payed in
Connecticut (or Phoenix?)the local casino’s arena. He was like a forty something fat guy with a fetish for tall chicks and pretty much all the other season ticket holders were too.Yeah, I’m pretty sure that was written in the first person by Steve Rushin. He wrote for SI forever and then married Rebecca Lobo, who now that I think about it I would love to hear her say “anybody want a peanut”.
Interesting. That pretty much sums up everything I ever learned about the WNBA of my own volition.
Um, the biggest demographic for the Lynx season ticket owners has to be progressive middle aged lesbians.
The few games I have gone to in person were full of real life lesbians*.
*as opposed to the way I like to dream lesbians look like. i.e. Exactly like most of your neighbors – unfortunately.
This is true. I once went with a friend, her daughter and another little girl. We sat behind a Lesbian couple with two kids. They women overheard my friend’s daughter say that she wanted to be a cheerleader. They both turned around and gave us the stink-eye. I thought at least the two kids I was with both wanted to be at the game, unlike their oldest daughter (about 11) who spent the entire game reading a book.
What this guy said. Per the two lesbians I’ve asked in Houston about the subject, Comets’ games are basically a giant meat market for semi-well to do and up lesbians in Houston. The Dinah Shore Tournament, but for basketball.
No idea if Tinder/Grindr/or the Lesbian-friendly version have hurt the WNBA’s gate.
It isn’t called “tip toe basketball” for nothing.
After watching our usual clutch point guard Whalen and other star Augustus lose their minds and turn over the ball 3 times in a row, Moore made a nice cut to the free throw line and made a nice shot on the move. (yes, she only got 3″ off the ground).
Different game, but some times it is nice to watch players who aren’t so physically gifted and have to be smart about what they are doing.
Different game, but some times it is nice to watch players who aren’t so physically gifted and have to be smart about what they are doing.
They don’t have Jr High boys basketball where you live? Because you could get your fix that way too. Plus some of them can even slap the backboard when they do layups!
Thanks thicc edit fairy! You hottie, you.
I’m calling it: Thicc edit fairy > lobster girl
Hey, hey…let us not get crazy now.
Whoa now. No need for a new schism.
Schism?! Phhht. It’s a rift!
Green thicc asian-ish edit fairy trumps purple white-girl-who-I’m-not-convinced-is-not-Amy Schumer edit fairy.
And now that I’ve thought that, I can’t un-see it. Thanks, brain.
Lobster Girl beats both.
Seconded! The best edit faerie
I want to start intentionally making editable mistakes so I can see more of the thicc fairy, but I’m afraid to anger the edit gods and get sloppy drunk tranny fairy instead.
Yeah, I got Barfly Faerie, it’s a dangerous game.
Hell, I got a really nasty looking dude!
I proofread now.
I whole…heartedly approve of this edit fairy.
Thank god that idiot had apparently watched one to many action flicks, or never seen an episode of myth busters
I find it hard to believe, if he had been an engineer, and had allegedly owned light aircraft, that he didn’t know that it takes more than shooting avgas to ignite it.
Sometimes, a couple of rounds fired at a large, unsullied target is just a couple of rounds fired at a large unsullied target.
I think that at that range, he was just basically shooting at the airport hoping to hit anything.
He had to smash a second window and change his firing positing to shoot at them tanks. Not exactly a target of opportunity there.
Not just shooting at avgas, shooting at JP-4 or -8. 100LL has got to be several times easier to ignite than kerosene.
Did they find a bunch of holes in the tank farm or something? I don’t know if 5.56 from (digs out Google Earth—what an amazing time to be alive) >680 meters away will even penetrate the skin on those tanks, and those were the closest to him.
I’d think it more likely they were skips/ricochets from the crowd.
WTF? FIFY
Its open for interpretation.
I mean he did have Montana and Young throwing him the ball pretty much his entire career.
::edit faerie fixes obvious stupidity::
Yeah, I’m just biased. There aren’t many who played at his level, though. Or who had his work ethic. I’d put Chris Carter in there. Maybe a couple others…I’m drawing a blank right now, not enough coffee.
One person who sometimes gets mentioned in that company who absolutely does not deserve it: Randy Moss. Randy could have been that good, but he decided to spend a fair part of his prime acting like a little bitch instead.
Cris Carter was the best, IMO. I’m biased too as I grew up watching him locally and then for the Buckeyes.
We used to go play pickup basketball at Sunset Park in Middletown, OH. I once saw him jump up and place a quarter on the top of a backboard. Then jump up and take it back down. He was the best pickup basketball player I’ve ever seen. And a much nicer guy than his dickhead brother Butch.
Cris Carter YAS
It seems there are a lot of people named Chris Carter.
But only one Cris!
And he could’ve been a Eagles legend if he could’ve laid off the cocaine early in his career.
All he ever did in Philly was catch touchdowns.
Yep, Buddy did say that.
Buddy also released him when the coke/pot/ecstasy/alcohol problem was getting worse. Carter said it saved his life. Who knows if he would’ve been a hall of famer if he wasn’t released.
That was meant as a good-natured poke a Buddy. One of those funny things when taken out of context.
Yes, it’s very likely that the Eagles releasing Carter saved his career, if not his life.
Buddy didn’t give much of a shit about the offense. He had a detailed plan for the defense, and for the offense it was more or less “let Randall make 2 or 3 plays for us and we win”.
But I honestly think he loved Carter. That’s why he sheltered him with the “all he does is catch touchdowns” line. Wanted to give Carter the chance to turn his life around while not ruining his chances with other teams. Thankfully for Carter, it worked.
CC had the best hands I have ever seen. Ran so-so routes, but you could throw it anywhere near him and he’d catch it. In ’98 he also physically abused Deion Sanders.
Randy Moss is still one of my favorite receivers. He got a bum rap about being a diva from Merrill Hodges. FFS, no receiver runs hard routes when the play is a dive to the opposite side of the field. I also knew his old neighbor in Minnesoda and the neighbor raved about what a nice guy he was. He is well thought of around my hometown because of things like this.
If you had one play left and you had to score, I’d take Moss over anyone. Rice might make lots of great catches, but Moss was money. “Straight Cash Homey”
I think the Diva rap came from Randy Moss’s actions:
Anyone who ever watched Moss play for the Raiders would know he was the most physically gifted and laziest diva to ever play the position.
Carter was great, but Jerry Rice had everything. Hands, speed, work ethic, and he was never an asshole to others.
Arguably the best player at any position.
Rice had the better career, Moss at his best was the better receiver than Rice at his best. Peak Moss was completely unstoppable.
I mean he did have Montana and Rice throwing him the ball
Edit fairy time?
And a nice one at that!
Do you get an edit fairy for the on mistake you just made?
Imma go fix that myself, before we get one of the horrid ones!
Better safe than sorry!
Tell me that painting’s on velvet.
Anyway, let’s go to PFR for the receivers:
Per game comparison, Rice vs Moss vs C. Carter
From that: Rice has more receptions and yards per game than either, and is tied with Moss at 0.7 TD/game. This despite playing in a much less pass friendly era. Naturally, Rice played a lot more games than either, (308 vs 213 vs 234) so his cumulative stats are greater. Playoffs per game, the delta is even greater. I don’t think it’s close that Rice was a better WR, compared to his peers, than either Moss or Carter, though all are HoFs.
Peak Moss vs Peak Rice: People may differ, but when looking at PFR’s careers, I’d pick 2003 Moss and 1995 Rice. Weirdly ’03 Moss’s stats are better than when he was with New England, and those were Tecmo Bowl Bo-like. He did have more TDs with NE, and a slightly better yd/recp rate: 23 vs 17 and 15.2 vs. 14.7
2003 Moss: 16 Games, 111 Receptions, 64.5% catch rate, 1632 yds, 17 TD, a few rushes, 1 fumble. Per game: 6.9 recp./game, 102 yds/game. Already mentioned 14.7 yds/reception.
Now Rice: 16 Games, 122 Receptions, 69.3% catch rate, 1848 yds, 15 TD, but with rushing, add 36 yds and 1 TD, 3 fumbles. Per game: 7.6 recp./game, 115.5 yds/game. 15.1 yds./reception.
Over half an additional catch, with 13.5 yds more per game is not insignificant. Crazy that Rice could put those numbers up in that era, where guys like Lott, Atwater, Easley, Fencik were waiting to annihilate you going over the middle.
Don Hutson.
Tough to choose between Rice or Biletnikoff, but it’s one or the other. No one else even close.
Only because Sterling Sharpe got injured!
‘You shouldn’t have to be a member of Congress just to access your right to abortion,’ said Sasha Bruce
I’m willing to make exceptions for their mothers.
Congresscritters are hypocrites. Water is wet. News at 11.
So with the teacher thing, I’m curious, has this always been an issue or is it a recent issue?
Doesn’t sound like it.
“He said he loved her, he said it happened numerous times, in the classroom, at her house, in her car.
I meant more as a societal issue, are we getting visibility on it because of advanced news cycles that didn’t exist previously or is it something in this generation of teachers
You would think that would deter teachers from banging their students, since it seems it’s rather easy to get caught.
I know what you meant.;)
Its always existed, but they usually just reported when it was a male teacher because that is more sensational.
I think it is more common now. It also might be more likely to be reported, but that wouldn’t account for never hearing about it to hearing a new story almost every day.
Now that you mention it, I remember in my high school days there was a male teacher in his 20s who all the chicks crushed on hard, and rumor had it that he started seeing a senior girl and continued the relationship after her graduation. And there was definitely one female teacher, again, in her late 20s, who ran into a bunch of lacrosse players who’d rented out a room in Ocean City for beach week and spent a lot of time there. Booze was definitely involved. And, if the rumors are true, after the first bottle of Malibu, choo-choo, IYKWIMAITYD.
One of the early Golden Age of Sci-Fi guys (I’m thinking de Camp) married a former HS student of his a week after she graduated.
Did they stay married?
It certainly seems like it happens a lot more now, although there were rumors about a guy in my class banging the young, hot Spanish teacher. That was around 1993.
Pretty sure the female teacher/male student thing is relatively new
Not sure exactly what is driving it but for most women the idea of dealing with a teenage boy was a turn off because they wanted a guy who knew what he was doing and brought something to the table besides just sex
It’s always been an issue. People just didn’t talk about it until recently.
Or maybe it’s just that the nosy people who’ve always existed have more platforms for informing the world of what they’ve learned dipping into other people’s business.
For what it’s worth, in this story the only evidence seems to be his word, and the teacher completely denies it, claims it’s the fantasy of a troubled youth. Also, definitely would NOT.
There’s some pics on line of her on family vacation at a beach. While not a candidate for Q’s FLBP submissions, she looks much better “in real life” than her mugshot.
Also, there are 17-year-old boys who would hump a fence post.
T-post, Chain link, or Cedar? 17 year old Lachowsky could do the the first two. The cedar splintered too easily.
Pilot holes, dumass.
Barstool sports has a great colum grading female teachers who diddle students.
I’m excited for them to find more pics of this one.
I’m starting to wonder if high school aged boys emit some sort of pheromone that drives hot teachers wild. Either that or the teaching profession attracts women with all kinds of issues.
Yes
My first job out of law school was clerking for our local prosecutor. We had a case where this young, married, hot teacher accused this older, pretty ugly dude of raping her. The cops never searched her cell phone and never thought to search his but when we got around to searching, the case was dismissed immediately.
Either that or the teaching profession attracts women with all kinds of issues.
Well, where else are pederasts going to get easy access to underage teens? If a person has such a predilection and decides to indulge it, going into the teaching profession is an obvious choice.
Well, there’s that, but there’s also a combination of the setting, the job itself, and the people who tend to wind up there. It’s usually young women without a hell of a lot in the way of professional prospects, taking a job where they have authority over young men who aren’t much younger than they are in a somewhat stressful environment. A hell of a lot of people don’t work out all their baggage from high school until well into their 30s, so just imagine going back to a high school social environment and being the coolest kid in the room.
I never could get my one hot high school teacher to fuck me. A shame really.
Thinking back to 17, I just can NOT comprehend this.
In fact, when I was in 8th grade, I happened to deliver papers to my homeroom teacher.
As a reader of Penthouse forum at the time, I always hoped she’d give me a special tip on collecting day.
I had a substitute that would feel the back of my head during class (it was shaved). She totally fits the profile but nothing came of it.
I’m sorry for your loss.
74) From the last Dear Prudie:
“A good family friend, ‘Amy,’ recently came out as a lesbian. I found out through Amy’s sister (my best friend), who assured me that Amy was fine with my knowing. Is there a correct way to let Amy know that I know, and that I am happy for her?”
Prudie responded that contacting her and saying, “I heard you came out, and I just wanted to tell you that I’m excited for you, and I hope you’re doing well!” is totally appropriate.”
Is this a normal thing when people come out now? I guess I was under the impression the reason you would come out would be because you might be bringing home a same-sex partner at some point, and you want to prepare your parents/relatives/friends for what would otherwise be an awkward experience. Or because you want shut up Grandma about when you’re going to find a nice lady and make grandkids.
But Prudie seems to think coming out is kind of like having a bar mitzvah, like you should send a card and gift or something. I mean, we all have our preferences in the bedroom, but it’s not something you’d normally announce in public, right? And the only reason for announcing your orientation is to avoid awkwardness and misunderstandings, not because it’s actually anybody else’s business.
I mean, if your kid brings home his new girlfriend from college, you can congratulate him on finding someone, but you wouldn’t say, “Congratulations on liking ‘em blonde and busty!” or whatever. Isn’t congratulating someone for coming out the same thing?
Is Amy hot?
Congratulate them on a successful relationship instead. My response to friends who came out to me that they were gay was always “That’s nice for you, but I don’t really care how you get your jollies. It has no bearing on our friendship.”
I’ve noticed a subset of people who want drama and after making a big deal get annoyed when the response is “so what”.
I’ve known a bunch of women who announced they were lesbians who ended up with guys.
Wow, that’s the plot of my favorite movies!
Which ones? Most of these women were college-aged LUG’s.
Every time a friend came out to me, my response was “um, yeah. I know.”
Hiding ones sexuality from a friend is impossible. Hiding it from family is easier for some reason.
You have to spend time with people to notice.
I think it’s more along the lines of-
One tells their friends about the girls they think are hot or are trying to score with, and the guy who never talks talks about girls with his guy friends is going to be an outlier.
One generally doesn’t share that kind of info with their family.
Also, a lot of family can be in denial.
“He’s just going thru a phase.”
“He’s just shy”
“She’s a tom-girl”
That’s my experience. My buddy David came out to our group of friends a few years after high school. The response was, “yeah David, no shit. We’ve known you were gay since the 8th grade. It’s kinda hard not to notice that you were the only one of us who wasn’t going to extraordinary lengths to try and get some some pussy.”
Yeah that doesn’t quite work.
At no point in my life have I ever “gone to extraordinary lengths to get some some pussy”. A combination of shyness, being a geek, being more introspective than the average teen, and ultimately just assuming the answer would always be no has lead me to never chasing women. In fact my family used to worry I was gay because I never had a girlfriend and spent all my time hanging around with guys playing D&D. My friends however knew I wasn’t gay, I was just weird.
You weren’t the only one like that. I mean, I had friends like that. I didn’t mean me. Nope.
I would think that normal people, as opposed to professionally gay people, would want most of all for things to continue just as they were before. Isn’t that what you would want in that situation, to know that the knowledge that you are gay doesn’t change how people who you know and care about you regard you? Seems to me that’s how I would feel in that situation – don’t want any special treatment, just want to see that people view me as me and not as “gay me”.
Last friend I had that came out showed up with his boyfriend that looked like Ricky Martin’s hotter cousin. He was a 4 that hooked up with a 10, so my reaction was ‘good for him’.
Pat her pussy. Standard greeting I’m told.
I blame video games
Behold the derp and despair…
https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/10-not-racist-at-all-things-white-people-do-that-make-m-1819152214
Welcome to post-racial America. Jesus Christ.
That’s actually really funny. It was supposed to be funny, right?
I would have thought so, but a dead serious prog shared it. It’s as real and racist as apple pie
Yeah, I thought that was supposed to be a joke. Was it actually intended to be taken seriously?
Racist fuck.
10 signs you might be a pretentious retarded bigot.
Interesting. I mean this is obviously click bait, and it’s geared to certain culture. I just wish the culture of racism was confronted in this country.
His favorite hobby is “staying alive”.
See and I thought he was talking about disco.
Disco’s not a hobby, it’s a calling.
“We discussed this already last month, but the amount of American flags within a white person’s vicinity has a direct correlation to the number of times they’ve referred to Hardee’s as “nigger Burger King.””
I’ve never heard anyone say that. If anything I associate Hardee’s/Carl’s Jr. with white people, and McDonalds with black people.
I also though liking dogs was stereotypically Hispanic, and driving a pick-up was stereotypically Latino.
Hispanics are the white people of minorites.
A lot of Hispanics are white.
Wait, was that the joke?
Yeah I thought I would go for the two for one on that joke.
Hispanics are the white people of minorites.
No. That’s Asians. The Hispanics are still on white-people probation.
“We discussed this already last month, but the amount of American flags within a white person’s vicinity has a direct correlation to the number of times they’ve referred to Hardee’s as “nigger Burger King.””
Um, isn’t Burger King the “nigger Burger King”? I always see more black people there than Hardee’s/Carl’s Jr. Because they have the Big Fish, which is their only redeeming quality as a fast food restaurant. Because the Whopper is terrible. Flame-broiled sucks compared to a flattop.
They used to have the best fries next to Jack in the Box until the whole trans-fat scare. Now their shit tastes like baked Ore-Ida.
The only fast food stereotype I’m aware of is that blacks like Church’s chicken.
At least around here, it appears to be true.
I thought it was Popeye’s.
Which I can understand. Popeye’s chicken, and their biscuits, are awesome.
Dem red beans and rice doe.
Popeye’s red beans and rice is fucking awesome! What kind of philistine are you that you can’t appreciate them?
Churchs > Popeyes > KFC
With local chains being superior. I’d put Frenchy’s over Church’s, but you have to be in SE Texas to get it.
I really want to try Jollibee, and see how their fried chicken compares.
Same. If anything, around here Bojangles is the blacker chicken/burger place, not Hardees. Still a whole lotta white people who love them some Bojangles.
Dunno, I’m in the south, everyone drives pickup trucks. Stereotypically, hispanics *fight* dogs, not just like them.
I’m adding this one to my ever growing “things I’ve never heard even from legitimate racists” list. It’s getting really hard to keep up with all of it.
I’m now trying to remember the last time I’ve even heard the word “nigger” spoken in any context whatsoever. It might actually be going on about twenty years now.
So you don’t listen to rap music?
Only a racist wouldn’t have heard that word for 20 years.
Jeeze, how un-woke do you think I am?
I can think of seven ethnic slurs against black people off the top of my head, and those are just the ones I learned from my grandmother. Scottish-American via Philadelphia in the 30s.
On the other hand, it wasn’t until my teens that I heard perhaps my favorite slur of all: potato nigger. I don’t know why, but that one cracks me right up. I’m part potato-nigger myself, so it’s ok when I say it.
The one racial slur that still cracks me up is ‘prairie spook’, which was used to refer to NA in south-west Minnesoda and eastern South Dak.
Hardee’s is a big redneck favorite, always has been, especially at breakfast with those fried pork chop biscuits. They long were a prominent sponsor of NASCAR drivers – Dale Jarrett drove the Hardee’s car for a long time.
Pretty sure Russ Wheeler drove it too.
“I’m dropping the hammer, Harry!”
Hell, Cale Yarborough drove the Hardee’s car.
Yeah. He notoriously wouldn’t have anything to do with Clyde Torkel.
+1 passed out Loni Anderson in a negligee
I need to re-watch that and see if 45 year old Mike thinks it’s as good as 15 year-old Mike thought it was. Or do I not do it and maintain the illusion?
My hick hometown didn’t have any national fast food chain until a Hardees opened up in ’80 or so. It was the place to be. Fucking-A it was cool.
My senior year, they opened a McD’s, so we were real big time then.
Yeah, I would’ve thought Hardee’s is more of a white people thing. Liking dogs is definitely a white thing, though. Maybe Hispanic, too, but definitely white people. And a pick-up has to be dropped and like iridescent purple to be a Latino ride. Or an El Camino. Growing up we all decided that when our Irish friend bought a ’78 Camino he became Mexican on the spot. Shit was sick, he dropped a 350 in that b. He had to get a stiffer spring to put under the gas pedal so he could drive off from a stop without burning out.
This might be the case where you’re at, but it couldn’t be further from the truth here in Chicago. Most of the trucks driven by Mexicans here are about as hillbilly as you can get, save for the gun racks. The concentration of lifted 4x4s in my neighborhood alone is rather impressive.
Around here the pickups driven by hispanics are at least 15 years old, beat all to hell, and plastered with fake chrome pieces and Virgin Mary stickers/decals. Or maybe have a big air-brushed scene of wild horses in the desert or something across the tailgate.
Around here that’s true, too, but mostly because those are guys who work for a living, especially in a trade. Otherwise, there’s a sizeable chulo contingent.
If it is a small town in Illinois…chances are the only fast food place is a Hardee’s.
…or some flyblown DQ or gas station Burger King.
*shudders at memories of driving all over Central Illinois*
Very, very true.
Come to think of it, I have many fond memories of Hardee’s and DQ growing up in northern IL.
that was a good Onion article
my fav was either having a pickup, watching a show the writer admittedly has never watched, or having a regional accent.
If he wants to stay alive as a black man in American, then I assume he avoids young black men ages 15-30 like the plague since they by far cause the most deaths of black men.
Morherfucker needs to stay away from excess carbs and sugary sodas too. Diabetes is like the Wu Tang clan of diseases for black men: it ain’t nothin’ to fuck with.
It’s really racist of you to point that out. Because reasons.
It is really racist of you to point out that it’s racist that……
“Looks like that crazy asshole in Las Vegas was targeting more than people.”
The Sheriff said he thinks the crazy asshole had help. Also he intended to escape from the room to do more crazy shit.
How long before the FBI gags the sheriff and makes him STFU? He’s gonna kill their ability to completely control the narrative if he keeps telling the world what evidence they’re finding and what he believes were the motives/plans of the killer.
He’ll probably get “mugged” any day now.
Odd that there has been no word on the contents of the suicide note. Or even much said about the existence of the note.
It could be a field sketch with ranges to landmarks, his plan of attack, or his grocery list.
Not convinced it’s his version of “what happened”
Could be, but why not say what it is, then?
Perhaps they wanted to analyze the handwriting to make sure he wrote whatever it was. That’s what I’d do before I released the contents of a note left at the scene of a crime like this.
None of this makes any sense. The untrained, out of shape guy able to pull this off. The ability to go undetected in the hotel but not going to the casino for so long while being comped? Room service for two. A lot of people saying they saw shots from lower floors as well.
I’d be making sure every single thing I released was genuine if I was involved.
Looks like the website ate my comment….
Not only that, but the man’s age. Almost all rampage killers are young men, like most violent criminals.
Agreed, but see the softball game shooter.
Dude’s background gets weirder and weirder the more you look at it. The blog Drake linked to yesterday definitely has a whiff of tinfoil in the comments, but the main posts lay out a really strange situation.
Not that deciding to try and kill thousands with your rifles is the act of a rational human being.
My wife asked me what I thought about the shooting last night. my response-
I have no idea. I think that most of what we have heard so far is likely incorrect. I believe the police and the FBI have a lot more information and for whatever reason are not releasing it yet. Why they aren’t releasing it is a mystery to me. Maybe he has accomplices they want to capture and don’t want to tip their hand. Maybe the guys motivation was political and they don’t want riots kicked off. I honestly don’t know. The whole story is so strange.
Not to screw up any good conspiracy theories, but I think the “4th floor” video that’s making the rounds today is showing reflections of a muzzle brake from up higher.
So all by itself, I don’t think it’s showing any “help”. But it’ll live forever….
Given the absence of additional broken windows that would need to be fired out of, I don’t see it.
Murray Edwards’ decision to accept transgender students threatens its very purpose: to provide a unique space for women to flourish
Right. Isn’t the point of a same-sex school is so that the students can learn without the distractions of having the other sex in the room? Wouldn’t having transgender students be even more of a distraction?
So do we side with the TERFs on this one ? Or do we just enjoys the infighting?
*makes popcorn, opens beer, sits back to watch the fun*
gooooooOOOOOOOO TEAM INFIGHTING!!!
/shakes pompom
Let them slug it out, and then pounce on the weakened survivors.
But I thought in Progland that if you thought you were a woman, then you were actually a woman.
Cause milo is totes the worst
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/~/article-4938912/index.html
Did Jerry Rice make the ceremony?
I larfed
*ceremonial applause*
Milo is just the worst white supremacist ever!
Maybe he married Clayton Bigsby?
Chappelle is hilarious. I really miss that show.
Lincoln trying to land big, hairy event
STEVE SMITH caused Charles Starkweather to snap? It’s all starting to make sense now. Now we just need to tie him into Ed Gein somehow.
NOT PIN THAT ONE ON STEVE SMITH!
STEVE SMITH GO WHERE SALT IS, AND BY SALT MEAN RAPE!
STEVE SMITH: TURNING SALT INTO ASS-SAULT FOR YEARS
Wait isn’t a pederast a male?
Huh. Learned something today. Certainly not what I thought I would learn, but learnin’ is learnin’
How do you separate the men from the boys in the Greek army?
…
…
With a crowbar.
The Greeks don’t like to go to war, they don’t like to leave their buddies’ behind
I always just assumed it was a kiddie diddler. But I’m not gonna correct the post.
See? *That* is how you stand your ground on editorial control.
What’s a pederast, Walter?
9 year olds Dude. 9 year olds.
At least get the age right!
The Dude: Fuckin’ Quintana… that creep can roll, man.
Walter Sobchak: Yeah, but he’s a pervert, Dude.
The Dude: Yeah.
Walter Sobchak: No, he’s a sex offender. With a record. He served 6 months in Chino for exposing himself to an eight year old.
The Dude: Oh!
Walter Sobchak: When he moved to Hollywood he had to go door to door to tell everyone he was a pederast.
Donny: What’s a… pederast, Walter?
Walter Sobchak: Shut the fuck up, Donny.
TW: Vox
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/10/4/16424248/how-is-there-always-a-tweet-trump?utm_campaign=ezraklein&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
This might be Ezra Klein’s closest encounter with self awareness yet.
Women Outraged Over All-Male Panel for Feminist Conference
“The National Autonomous University of Mexico has come under severe criticism for hosting a feminist conference that features an all-male panel”
Grade A trolling.
They would have invited women, but they were to busy making the sandwiches for the event.
So they willingly put the lie to the claim that “feminism is about equality” by bitching about men without discussing the qualifications of the panellists, then go on to prove they are not only sexist but racist by claiming white people are incapable of discussing the topic of racism.
This is a valid point. In my eyes it’s about entitlement, women are entitled to soak about femenisim. Generally I’m fine with that as I don’t care to speak at a femenist conference. And shouldn’t those make femenist professors aknowledge that the will never know as much about femenisim as any woman?
women are entitled to soak about femenisim
Madge!
*raises eyebrows*
Gurrrrrrrrl!
I’m just concerned about the chemical in that stuff getting on my sammich.
The National Autonomous University of Mexico
I thought they were an anarcho-syndicalist commune?
“Help! I’m being repressed! Come see the violence inherent in the system!!”
One of the best lines…ever.
Bloody peasant!!
-You hear that? Dead giveaway there.
National Autonomous
Oxymoron, or regular moron?
Word meanings are an outdated social construct, shitlord.
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that’s all.”.
Let’s assume for the moment that the speakers were selected based upon their competence and availability, and that men and women are thoroughly equal in all respects. Let’s also assume there are two sexes. Under these simplifying assumptions, a feminist conference with exactly 11 male participants and no female participants would occur once in 2^11 conferences, or 0.05% of the time. I imagine that it has actually happened far less frequently, and that this feminist conference is unique in history.
Brazilian police arrest Olympics chief in bribery investigation
Investigators say head of national Olympics committee, Carlos Arthur Nuzman, arranged $2m bribe to win games for Rio
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/05/brazilian-police-arrest-olympics-chief-carlos-arthur-nuzman-bribery-investigation
I did not expect bribes to be involved in a great country such as Brazil and a fine organization like the Olympics committee
I called that shit from day 1. You don’t bring the Olympics to your crime riddled city unless you’re paying the big bucks. I want to say around 75% of cariocas wanted nothing to do with the Olympics.
Yup, this is why a lot of global sporting events go to 3rd world countries, the bribes flow so much more freely there.
*agrees, retires to fainting couch*
I work for a Brazilian company. Our corporate headquarters was raided by Brazilian police a few years ago. apparently the company had been paying bribes instead of taxes.
I understand that my company was doing the same thing that most other Brazilian companies were doing.
You never want to look like the chiseler in that situation.
No way!!!!!!
There’s always one or two guys they nail for corruption, while all the bribery continues. It makes it look like the whole thing is honest if you bust a guy for bribery.
It’s like border drug enforcement. You bust one or two trucks while letting 50 go through.
Japanese woman ‘dies from overwork’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/05/japanese-woman-dies-overwork-159-hours-overtime
Japan has again been forced to confront its work culture after labour inspectors ruled that the death of a 31-year-old employee of the country’s public broadcaster, NHK, had been caused by overwork.
Miwa Sado, who worked at the broadcaster’s headquarters in Tokyo, logged 159 hours of overtime and took only two days off in the month leading up to her death from heart failure in July 2013.
A labour standards office in Tokyo later attributed her death to karoshi (death from overwork) but her case was only made public by her former employer this week.
A bad joke would be “so equality achieved” but I am not going to say it.
“159 hours of overtime”
Even in Japan, this would be a far outlier. The article didn’t mention it, but I wonder how this compares to her co-workers. I bet it’s a lot more. I wouldn’t be surprised if she had some kind of martyr complex.
The image of the “karoshi” is certainly not what I’ve seen.. Sure, there are some dudes that work horrific hours, but most salary men and other company workers just try to look busy. They leave home early and then some of them go catch a few zees, like in their cars, where no one can see them. Others sneak out after lunch and sleep on benches in the park. When they’re done, they got out drinking and then stop off for ramen on the way home. If they’re dying, it’s not from overwork, but rather living extremely unhealthy lifestyles.
^This
Yes, the Nips work long days, but a lot of that day is shit that isn’t work (or that I didn’t consider work when I was there). Drinking after work doesn’t count guys (although I was happy to partake).
The few major releases/migrations I ran when I worked in Tokyo, I was by far and away the hardest worker.
I’ve gotten that impression myself, third-hand. That it’s not so much “work” as “work culture”, which is to say that someone might leave home and not get back for 16 hours, but a lot of that time is doing non-work stuff with co-workers, like eating, drinking, exercising, stuff like that. So, pretty much Google.
That sounds awful.
An acquaintance’s fiancee moved out there to take a job with Google. She loved it at first because it’s kind of the dream job in a sense, but within a year she was sick of it. It’s cult-like. They encourage employees to live nearby, then send a bus to pick them up and drop them off. Which, of course, means you can’t get home until the bus is ready to drop you. They encourage people to stay “on-campus” as much as possible and to socialize with each other so they’ll stay at work longer. None of it’s mandatory, but there’s really, really strong pressure to conform. People who just show up and do their jobs and leave don’t do well; you’ve got to be 24/7 Google to get anywhere in the company.
I would not be saddened if they were humbled and ended up on the road trod by Yahoo.
On thing I saw in Japan’s cities when I was there, working for a vulture fund in the early 00’s – we were buying baskets of bank defaults at auction, and doing some interesting things with the paper. Some of the debtors were brokeass and losses that would recover cents in the dollar, some were real defaults, with assets, prime for stripping except they were yakuza connected, and a few, a very few, were potential relaunches, if the firm I worked for could finance the restart.
We had one deal,where the owner of a small engineering firm with about $30 million in tooling and machinery, had gone tits up in 1998. In the time between that and late 2002, he had left his home and family at 7.30 in the morning, and basically wandered the streets for 14 hours until he returned home in the evening, pretending nothing was wrong. One of the terms of the refinancing deal we made with him was that there would be no co-investment with Japanese partners, no press release that we’d relaunched the business, and recruitment would be done via a shell company.
Poor bastard wanted to kiss our feet – and while he was the most extreme case I was closely associated with, he wasn’t an isolated example.
Whoa… interesting.
The guy who managed ‘business’ with the Yakuza had better stories.
I would imagine people worked most of their waking moments throughout human history. Much harder work than sitting in an office too. How does one die from overwork by sitting in an chair in an air-conditioned office?
Deep Vein Thrombosis.
I saw them open for Tachycardia.
*polite applause*
I blame PowerPoint.
PowerPoint Poisoning does account for over 35% of office fatalities.
Yes, and half of them are suicides.
Some form of pre-existing heart disease that was exacerbated by stress and lack of sleep, I would guess.
Reminds me of the high school or college-age girl who died after pounding a couple (several?) energy drinks. Heart condition, but of course the usual suspects come out swinging for a minimum drinking age.
Every May my plant has a two week+ outage for repairs. I work 12+ hours a day everyday in a non climate controlled steel building for the better part of a month repairing/maintaining/upgrading equipment that is used to manufacture steel. I have worked weeks of 100+ hours many times. Eat, drink plenty of fluids, amd sleep when you can amd everything will be alright. I’m not the only person who does this and and every year we all manage to survive.
That’s just your male privilege, shitlord.
Industrial Mechanic, Fuck yes! let’s see a robot replace you,
/Never
Excuse me Yusef. I refer to mechanics as knuckle draggers. I am an industrial electrician, which is a much more civilized breed of folk. I would prefer not to be lumped in with those people.
You just haul wires and electrons.
I will hail your wires and electrons, ghost man. And you won’t like it.
Oh hey, that reminds me – is there a way to make a lightweight high-voltage power conditioning unit?
Sure, of course, it’s somewhat dependent on what you consider ‘high voltage’ and ‘lightweight’.
… and how much current you’re gonna draw.
Supervillain with electrical powers, but the electricity he generates is as inconsistant as muscle power, so if he wants to run gadgets from it, he needs to clean it up. So the though was “can it be ported about in a backpack unit?”
Exact voltage and amperage is variable.
So, you need to store charge too. Is he AC or DC?
I’m pretty sure he generates DC.
Capacitor, some kind of storage/battery or an induction coil. The second and third would be heavy, unless you want to go for far-future science.
The capacitor would probably need some means of limiting the rate of current discharge otherwise you’d be walking around like the tower at Wardenclyffe.
Oops. Induction coil is out if he’s DC.
The reason I’m vague on voltage and amperage is because so far in the story he’s produced everything from small charges to sheet lightning, which would mean the constraint would be the hardware he can realistically haul around.
@UCS. depending on your power supply, high voltage means lots of insulation on your wires. That’s really the only mechanical difference in making something high voltage and low current amd low voltage high current.
W=A×E
Actually thought I read somewhere that people in agricultural societies worked fewer hours in a week. Partly because of light, partly because of incentives as a serf and partly because work didn’t have the endless quality that comes with a lot of modern office jobs. While I’ve resisted it, I’ve had friends routinely put in 60 – 80 hours a week month after month, until their bodies broke down and they ended up getting surgery for repetitive strain injuries.
When I was 20 I once worked 30 days straight doing manual labor. Thank God I wasn’t a journalist, or I’d be dead!
That works out to basicaly 4 consecutive 80 hour weeks?
That is pretty high but there are literally tens of thousands of computer programmers who would see that as taking a break.
I’ve personally exceeded 159 hours of overtime in a month on multiple occasions in the past and those kind of work hours are basically a core part of the business model for most game companies.
What’s the workweek norm? 40? So, if it’s 159 for the month, that’s about 40 extra each week, or 80 hour weeks on average.
That’s bad, but no out of the realm for people like financial associates, non-partner attorneys in BigLaw, accountants during tax season. Hell, a lot of people in blue collar land have to work two jobs to make their nut. (Any correlation to frequency of meth use is purely coincidental).
I guess I’m not seeing what’s so bad about her schedule here.
This is my response to the gauntlet Brett threw down yesterday afternoon.
Brett just got bitch-slapped. I have high hopes for the final three entries.
And by high hopes I of course mean Sly…
When you said high hopes, you didn’t mean this?
Nice.
No . This is the only correct answer for that.
RIP Harry K. Miss ya still.
So I had all my windows open yesterday and I was out driving to the bank to get some cash to pay the guy building my fence. And I am stopped at a light just listening to some music. And a couple of little birds, probably finches or something like that size, fly in front of the window and then one flies straight through my passenger window, in front of my face and out the driver’s window.
What the fuck is that all about? Do birds dare each other and shit? Or was this bird just being a dick? Or was he drunk?
I’ll never know.
What were you listening to?
Something with less than 140 characters.
I don’t even remember. I know “Won’t Get Fooled Again” played at some point on the trip but I can’t remember if it was at that moment.
The bird likes The Who?
I think that’s just owls
I had a Sunday School teacher who had a parrot that loved the Beach Boys and Led Zeppelin, and vacuums. He was an interesting critter.
Free bird
*thunderous applause*
*joins*
*holds up lighter*
Were you drunk?
I would say high rather
I don’t do any of that shit. I’ll drink like a fish but no drugs. And no drinking and driving. I was stone sober.
I don’t know what to make of this.
Most birds are dumb as fuck.
^ This ^
It never fails to amaze me how a bird that gets in my garage will keep banging against the 3’x2′ window instead of flying out the open 7’x9′ garage door.
My grandparents house had big floor to ceiling windows that offered a view the deck. My grandma always had a humming bird feeder hanging on the deck. In the spring, I could watch hummingbirds repeatedly knock themselves unconscious trying to fly through closed windows.
The concept of transparency or a mirror is not something understood by most animals, including several humans…
My high school band teacher ran smack into a fixed glass panel in between two doors. We all laughed until the blood started pouring out of his nose.
Dumb as fuck. Especially baby birds when they are just learning to fly. They’ll fly into/land on just about anything if they are tired out.
Hummingbirds are pretty much fearless because of their speed. And if two or more are sparring for territory rights, they don’t give a fuck about you, your truck, that cat, or anything. Just anger and flower nectar.
And the Cooper hawks circling over my house right now, with Hummingbirds right outside my door,
Sparring hummingbirds are quite a sight.
I do think there’s a risk-taking habit among certain species of bird. I grew up with loads of open-air fields and rural driving, and damned if every spring there wouldn’t be a competition among the sparrows and whatnot to buzz cars driving up the lanes. Just no reason to make such a close shave of it other than for sport. Mom always described it like a game until one unfortunate sap got itself clipped by the driver-side mirror, then she stopped talking about it.
Here is a chart:
https://s1.postimg.org/8zvbmmmbq7/bird_chart.jpg
Fuck you, Geese. Oh, and same to you Pigeons and Mourning Doves and Red-Wing Blackbirds.
It was a government device that was spying on you.
“to pay the guy building my fence”
I thought you were better than that.
He cannot help it if his orphans are miners and monocle polishers, rather than carpenters.
So…you’re the Venerable Bede?
Wait… if there are winter storms raging, why are the hall’s doors open?
Anglo-Saxon building codes were lax, to say the least.
“This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere. Explain again how sheep’s bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes.”
– King Arthur
+1 Proof that the world is banana-shaped.
I had a bee do that (fly in one window and out the window on the other side) yesterday while I was eating lunch in the car. Maybe it was just following its own personal geodesic (shortest distance from one point to another)?
Karl von Frisch nods approvingly.
You’re all racist!
https://trib.al/SmZj9Gh
I’m to the point, if somebody accuses you of being racist, just agree with them. “Yep, you nailed it.”
I’m not one of those people who believe black people can’t be racist, because I, too, felt racism creep into my heart once when a Caucasian co-worker offered me leftover potato salad.
Just that one time, though.
Co-worker offers leftovers.
The horror…
the horror…
Oh my God! She offered me delicious food!! What a RACIST!!!11!!!!
I’m confused. I wasn’t aware of any racial stereotypes around potato salad.
Potato salad is the watermelon of white people.
I hate having to spit out the seeds from potato salad.
It’s the mayo. We can’t resist!
Potatoes are just as racist as pumpkins. Where you been, bro?
Them’s fighting words.
/more than a little Irish
No kidding. A potato rolled in olive oil then sprinkled with fresh cracked pepper and Himalayan pink salt or even sea salt baked for 90 minutes is fantastic.
How can that be racist?
Just the way you said that is totes racist.
Himalayan pink salt…
KULTURAL APPROPRIASHUNZ!!!11!!!!!!!!!
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
Potatoes are white… salt is white… hell, even pink salt is like the redneck of salts. And olive oil is just bougie white-people oil. I bet you get yours extra-virgin, you creep.
…and the walls are painted white, and the chalk is white, and the copy machine paper is white. This, my friends, is a white devil’s conspiracy.
Are you saying he should have gone with rape oil, Commodious?
Rape Appologist!
Hymens for the hymen throne! Rape oil for the rape god!
“I grew up around black people.”
Only a jerk would say that.
fortunately “go fuck yourself” didn’t make the list so guess i’m not racist.
So black on black crime doesn’t actually happen? Huh….I wonder who is killing all those kids in the projects in Richmond lately, then? Klansmen in blackface?
Those fuckers are taking a hell of a toll in Chicago, I hear.
who is killing all those kids in the projects?
The NRA.
FOR HAYEKSPLOSIVES
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I read your discussion about the toxic new hire from last night and had a couple of thoughts I wanted to share:
1) The main thing I would do is completely change the frame of this discussion to focus on the relationship between Toxic Boat Anchor and his co-workers. Ask them how the new guy is working out, listen carefully to what they say. Look for obvious patterns in their feedback. The odds are extremely high that they’re already sick of his shit. If so, then THAT is the conversation from here forward, and you remove yourself as a variable. You have a little checkpoint with TBA to talk about the feedback you’re getting from his co-workers, and if he can identify why he’s struggling to fit in with the team. It’s not about you, it’s about him. Then you follow up on that conversation every few weeks to make sure things are improving — meaning, you start riding him out on a rail. Bring HR in as soon as you have enough negative feedback to start making your case, don’t wait until the last minute. Make them part of the process. If most of his co-workers tell you everything is fine – unlikely I think – then (a) you have a slightly more challenging problem to figure out why the guy has an issue only with you, and (b) you can worry a lot less about having sabotaged the whole team, which is your primary concern. Will it be fun or easy? No. Will you sleep better at night because you’re doing the right thing? Yes.
2) Much less important, but maybe as “plan B” if you don’t get negative feedback from the co-workers, I would have a straightforward conversation with TBA along these lines: Look, Toxic Asshole, let me femsplain how this works. When I give you a document back with requested edits, your job is to make the edits that I requested, not debate them with me. I don’t care if you view them as stylistic, your job is to produce documents that meet my standards, including my stylistic standards, full stop. If I ask you to capitalize every 14th vowel, then your job is to produce that. It’s not a discussion. If you want to pass commentary along separately by all means feel free to do so, as an attachment to the document containing the exact edits I requested. You are welcome to express yourself stylistically outside of you work deliverables, or you’re welcome to find another position that affords you more editorial control? Understand? Good, I’m so glad we had this little chat, now get back to work.
Also, “Phoenix” is the optimal scent of Axe body spray for these encounters
Having read her post this morning, I’d add, is the snowflake arrogant enough to violate workplace rules, and would it be possible to set up a situation where snowflake would feel entitled to do just that? (Without having the guy bust any safety regs that’ll get others hurt, of course.)
In addition to Badolph’s and other’s good advice about documenting interactions/insubordination, getting HR involved early, etc…
Heck, can you offload dipshit on another department?
Per the Crooked Chicago Cops article –
Napolitano acknowledged that the Chicago Police Department is stuck in the Dark Ages with a paper time-keeping system that major companies and most city departments have long since abandoned.
He also acknowledged there are isolated instances when individual officers might put in for “a little bit more” overtime than they actually worked.
Just a “little bit more” eh? Just a little bit?
See story of Japanese woman who worked herself to death, above, for what these guys are claiming in overtime.
I’m all for cops working themselves to death. And by working, I mean idling their cars in the parking lot at Dunkin Donuts until their arteries are completely blocked.
They could recycle their exhaust and turn off the heater too. Save the taxpayers money in both salary and Equipment operating expense.
Where I work, If I lied about one minute on my time card I would be immediately terminated.
+1 just the tip…
So according to the guy in the room below Paddock, he called in two noise complaints about them the night of the shooting.
Something is fucky.
Maybe there’s a simple explanation, but why didn’t they cut the concert lights after the first few minutes of the shooting? Obviously I wasn’t there, but that seemed like an obvious choice.
No one thought of it? To be perfectly honest, even from my day after quarterback chair, the thought didn’t even cross my mind. Can’t imagine it doing so when under fire.
Yup, also I’d argue it would make it worse. Cut the lights, and you’ll have 20,000 people trampling each other to get out, not knowing where to go until their eyes adjust. Meanwhile, the shooter just has to aim for the big dark spot filled with cell phone lights.
Plus, given he was using essentially inaccurate fire at relatively long ranges for burst/ automatic type fire, it’s not as if he was targeting specific people, he was just spraying lead.
Exactly. There’s no such thing as well-aimed shots with an automatic weapon (and, for the purposes of discussion, a bump stock provides the equivalent to automatic fire, so don’t yell at me because they’re not the same thing). When you have a huge crowd, all you have to do is lay down a shitload of bullets into the crowd. You’ll hit plenty.
They cut the lights eventually, but by then the damage was done. This (warning: graphic content) video shows a guy going from body to body checking for vital signs, and then towards the end while he’s trying to triage, someone cuts the lights.
at that point cutting the lights appears to have hurt the responders. responders turn on their cell phone lights and targets are illuminated in the blackout.
Boo! That video required logging into Facebook. I don’t do Facebook.
Smart man…
Facebook is da evulz.
Stand back, Krugabe
When there’s a deficit, some of that new money can be traded in for a government bond. What’s often missed in the public debate is the fact that the money to buy the bond comes from the deficit spending itself.
What isn’t missed is the fact that the government pays interest on those bonds. Lawmakers are obsessed with this line item in the budget, as if it’s akin to a cable bill that keeps taking a bigger and bigger bite out of your household budget. It isn’t. Unlike a household, the government doesn’t have to trim other parts of its budget to make ends meet. Congress can always create more room in the budget by adding rows or widening the columns to put more resources into education, infrastructure, defense and so on. It is purely a political decision.
Of course, there are real limits to what can be done. No country can commit to large-scale infrastructure investment unless it has the available labor, machinery, concrete and steel. Trying to spend too much will cause an inflation problem. The trick is to adjust the budget to make efficient use of the people, factories and raw materials we have.
Assume a can opener.
I, uh…. seriously- I think I need to just go back to bed.
Socialist monetarist?
I don’t even know anymore.
Lawmakers are obsessed with this line item in the budget, as if it’s akin to a cable bill that keeps taking a bigger and bigger bite out of your household budget.
No, its like maxing your credit cards, and making the minimum payment, then getting a new credit card and maxing that out and making the minimum payment. Eventually, people are going to stop loaning you money, even if your entire household budget got swapped to debt service. Sure, you can print more money as a government, but if people stop buying the bonds that you issue to secure that new money, its value will decrease to paper it is printed on.
its the MMT/Neochartalist argument. The purpose of govt spending (in) and taxes (out) is for govt to regulate the money supply. it assumes a hermetically sealed monetary system. it pretends debt is just ‘borrowing from one’s self’ and has no effect whatsoever on the external money supply or any other economic behavior.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Monetary_Theory
Huge swaths of the proggy journalistic world have swallowed enough of the basic patter that they can repeat the outlines of it, but none of them understand it well enough to see its obvious perpetual-motion-machine problems, or to ask obvious questions about “what happens when non-US trading partners start treating your currency like the dogshit it is?”
(because they don’t understand anything about debt/money in the ‘traditional’ framework, there’s no problem with them adopting the cartoonish neochartalist one)
I suspect it stems from the same root that causes people to mistake money for wealth and vice versa. Money is a record-keeping instrument that makes transactions easier. Wealth consists of less fungible components. The money supply is a closed system only because at its best, it is a metric of measuring relative value.
Modern Monetary Theory has the same initials as Magic Money Tree – not a coincidence. Though apparently Kruguman the Multi-Coloured thinks it goes too far, per your link.
interestingly, the author doesn’t mention the name of her theory in her NYT editorial, but she has no problem pumping it to normies elsewhere as a “new idea”
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/12/stephanie-kelton-explains-modern-monetary-theory-to-you.html
Bernie Sanders hired her in 2015 to be his “Chief Economist”. When the world demands unicorn-fart economics, academia will oblige
Sig line worthy, and stolen.
ah yes, that’s it. I’m just not used to seeing it sold in such a retarded manner.
Transgender metalhead makes historic run for US office
“How do your policies differ from the failed efforts of past officeholders?”
Let me guess, his plaftorm is “Vote for me, I’m a eunich.”
“I am from Manassas,” she says with a justified laugh — the small town in northern Virginia’s Prince William County exudes no particular charm.
That seems like the author went out of their way to attack the town. I’ve never been to Manassas, but when this candidate looses, it won’t be her tactlessness that is blamed.
Other Virginians collectively refer to Manassas as Manasshole for a reason. Still I agree that it’s not a winning strategy for a candidate.
It ain’t called “Manasshole” for nothing. This might actually gain her votes for honesty.
Also, FTA: The Democratic candidate has no time for subtleties as she races to become the first openly transgender person elected to office in this Republican US state.
They’re hardly a GOP state anymore. Especially in NoVa, where she’s running.
There’s a SoCon element to Manassas that’s usually out of view but is there in every off-year election. I have a family member that actually lives in the particular district that she’s running in. There’s an avid but secret group of SoCons there that always show up to vote for their fave SoCon every off year (when nobody else pays attention), which is why Marshall’s been reelected 12 times or so even as the majority of them vote for Dems in presidential years. Kind of like how Corey Stewart can keep getting reelected in the same, nominally Dem-majority precincts.
“Them” meaning the other, usually transplanted residents.
Yup. There are a few pockets of Republicans in NoVa, but a)not many and b)they tend to be Barbara Comstock establishment types. Hardly conservative firebrands.
Cuccinelli was a senator from Fairfax, but then that was a while ago. Place has gone much further to the left since then.
Well i’m doing my part, we are expecting our 1st baby in march. I’m a bit of a softy so I probably won’t send him/her to the mines until at least June.
Wew! Congrats!!!
Yeehaw! Good job. And congratulations.
Nicely done! Looks like the libertarian moment is coming spring 2018.
Or did it already… come.
Thank you, thank you. I’ll be here all week.
Congrats – as for the mining… I saved my kids up to use as overseers.
Fucking nepotism…
Congratulations
Congtratulations Noodlez!
Congratulations. Kids are great for forced labor. If you want any pointers, I can give you my dad and grandpa’s number.
Awesome. congrats!
congrats! they are amazing.
SJWednesday: A Day Late and A Tattoo Short
I’m not a fan of tattoos as a rule, but this whinging just proves the author knows nothing about art.
The color of the substrate is a major factor in how pigments will appear when applied. You will get very different results from the same pigment applied to a Korean versus a Nubian.
“pigment applied to a Korean”
My dyslexia made me read that as a “pig man applied to a Korean” and I thought you were taking a shot at me and my wife.
Upon review, though, no foul occurred. Carry on.
Manbearpigmibop?
Manbearpigmmmbop?
Ah, Nubian. Very nice!
-Watto
As a heavily tattooed biracial Sri Lankan American woman,
That you can add that many qualifiers before “American” and not be shot in the back of the head, shows America’s greatness.
Silly Straffin, we’re letting them tag themselves for the transportation of the disloyal to the penal colony of Puerto Rico. Saves the effort of sifting them one at a time.
Ooh! Our own Little Australia!
You’ll eat Vegemite and black beans and you’ll like it!
There may be some hope I have found in this. Can you even imagine being around people who talk like that all day? Suicide rates must be exceptionally high in those social circles.
“It’s not bad enough that the tattoo industry is itself an enormous money-making enterprise in cultural appropriation”
Appropriated from who? Honey people have been tattooing themselves for millennia.
+1 Celt warrior
I don’t think we can have a dong pic AND be family friendly.
Unfriendly
…the reason tattooing became a thing again was because of sailors from developed countries encountering tribes of essentially stone-age technology who, frankly, hadn’t gotten past the tattoo stage. It’s not appropriation, it’s cultural nostalgia.
“an enormous money-making enterprise in cultural appropriation”
The earliest known tattoo was from Europe.
Che Guevara’s legacy still contentious 50 years after his death in Bolivia
The remote village where the Argentina-born revolutionary was executed is now a tourist attraction but the fortunes of his regional political heirs are on the wane
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/05/che-guevara-legacy-50-years-bolivia
Next Monday marks the 50th anniversary of Guevara’s death on 9 October 1967 – an event which Bolivia’s current left wing president, Evo Morales, will commemorate with a host of events including a “Relaunching of the Anti-Imperialist Struggle”.
But the date is also prompting less triumphant reflections on Guevara’s legacy at a time when the Latin American left – guerrillas and democrats alike – is in full retreat.
The anniversary also comes at a turning point for Bolivia. After a decade of growth and rapid poverty reduction, a plunge in oil prices and a series of political blunders have cost Morales support. – funny how that always happens
“Bad luck”
I assert that punching anyone wearing a Che t-shirt is not a violation of the NAP.
I wonder what the NYT’s tame “conservative” has to say.
He comes out of the gate running strong. And then, when he gets to the turn, he crashes straight through the fence and gallops across the parking lot and over the horizon at undiminished speed.
Nor will it do to follow the “Australian model” of a gun buyback program, which has shown poor results in the United States and makes little sense in a country awash with hundreds of millions of weapons. Keeping guns out of the hands of mentally ill people is a sensible goal, but due process is still owed to the potentially insane. Background checks for private gun sales are another fine idea, though its effects on homicides will be negligible: guns recovered by police are rarely in the hands of their legal owners, a 2016 study found.
In fact, the more closely one looks at what passes for “common sense” gun laws, the more feckless they appear. Americans who claim to be outraged by gun crimes should want to do something more than tinker at the margins of a legal regime that most of the developed world rightly considers nuts. They should want to change it fundamentally and permanently.
There is only one way to do this: Repeal the Second Amendment.
Stick it up your ass, Stephens.
Make them say it. You want to repeal 2a.
“Repeal the Second Amendment” is the actual title of the op/ed.
My revised 2nd amendment read “The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed”.
There’s no need to explain why, so lets cut the cruft.
Make it so!
We don’t control 2/3rds of State legislatures, but we certainly can do this.
Trump is literally Hitler
A fascist regime is in power in Washington.
I got an idea! Let’s turn our guns over to the fascist regime!
Fucking prog logic.
“The 46,445 murder victims killed by gunfire in the United States between 2012 and 2016 didn’t need to perish so that gun enthusiasts can go on fantasizing that “Red Dawn” is the fate that soon awaits us.”
When that’s the premise they start with there’s really no point in talking.
It’s irritating that they phrase that statistic as if gunfire is something like car exhaust fumes. The problem that statistic should illustrate isn’t that there are guns, it’s that there are murder victims. Address the factors leading to those murders. Here’s a “hint” broad enough that these idiots should get it: end the war on drugs and you won’t have a black market for gangs to fight over.
The final sentence was so unexpected that I just laughed. A+.
“most of the developed world rightly considers nuts” – most of the developed world listen to their betters and don’t bother to think for themselves on the issue
To be fair they are awfully busy dodging trucks, acid and rapists.
STEVE SMITH NOT USE ACID, OR DRIVE TRUCK!
And bullets.
And grenades.
Gun (or more appropriately in this case, weapon) control works so well you can buy a grenade on the black market in Sweden for the cost of an ice cream cone.
/headdesk
Well, I’d consider this a compliment since most of the developed world are either totalitarian dictatorships masquerading as democracies or pacifist bitches who let their children get raped at public swimming pools by “refugees” with no consequences.
There’s a process, Stephens you silly cunt. Get going. We’ll see who prevails.
I think Charles C W Cooke wrote the definitive reponse to this:
An Open Rant Aimed at Those Who Would Repeal the Second Amendment
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/423183/rant-second-amendment-repeal
Goddamn that’s a good article.
Tossing out the 2nd is one of the few things that would really lead to massive violence in this country but it’s easy to advocate for pie in the sky stupid shit when it stands a zero percent chance of actually happening.
The part they don’t seem to understand is that a civil war would start with the targeting of all Federal employees in an area. The Feds would literally have to move all of them and their families onto federal facilities to protect them, since the weak point is the access to the workplace.
“Sure, there is no historical precedent in America for the mass confiscation of a commonly owned item”
Ahem, FDR and the gold confiscation act beg to differ.
what was the compliance rate, i wonder. i’ve read that Australia’s gun buyback had 20% compliance.
The Outback’s a big, big place.
Allegedly very low, and a lot of registered guns were “lost”. Australia’s pretty big, and most of it is rural. Plus, consider that, although Australia’s gun laws are very, very restrictive, guns aren’t banned entirely, which means that there’s still a market for ammunition, even for heavily restricted guns. That means there’s a healthy black market for it.
This is my favorite line:
Let’s stipulate the morality of repeal, that such an effort would succeed, and that it would be supported by all the states. How in the hell are you going to enforce that? You can’t keep drugs out of supermax prisons, but you’re going to find a stash of guns in rural WVA? Pull the other one.
You can’t keep drugs out of supermax prisons, but you’re going to find a stash of guns in rural WVA?
That right there would, in a logical argument, be the torpedo that sinks the whole idea of gun control.
Gun control isn’t about denying evil people hell bent on mayhem and murder the ability to do so – despite what the gun grabbers will vehemently tell you – but about denying the plebes the means to fight back against the ruling class and its whims and edicts. You can’t prog as hard as Europe or China when people can shoot your ass.
I am all for people saying they want to repeal the 2A. I hope the Brady Campaign, et al. make this their #1 priority. Then we can finally stop having the stupid fucking argument that the 2A applies only to militias. By them admitting they want to repeal it, they have to admit they know exactly what it means. Let’s get on with it.
Go ahead and abolish the 2A. See what happens. These gun grabbing nitwits have no idea what would happen if they passed legislation to ban guns. These nitwits get their gourds engorged at the prospect of confiscating guns from local yokels. They have no idea that their scheme would lead to the immediate shooting death of their confiscaters.
For the 3rd time in three days, Molon Labe.
Look, the USA has planes and tanks and missiles and stuff, so those gun nuts can’t do nuthin. Tony said so and he has pictures to prove it. Obama would come back and lead the cleansing of the deplorables and 5 minutes later when it’s all over, he’ll be crowned glorious emperor forever. So take that!
Huh. I hadn’t thought of that.
Every major opponent we’ve faced since the Korean War (Grenada and Panama don’t count) begs to differ.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES.
THE GUN IS GOOD! YOU MUST KEEP YOUR GIFT OF THE GUN!
Look, the USA has planes and tanks and missiles and stuff, so those gun nuts can’t do nuthin.
And if the USA behaved towards its enemies like Genghis Khan, then this would be a salient point. Unless the people who raise this point are also promoting a change in tactical policy to include mass genocide as an acceptable method of pacification, then the point is moot. Area of effect weapons can’t be used in populated areas if you care about civilian casualties, you must restrict yourself to precision weapons (i.e. guns), which levels the playing field.
Given that most of the personnel who would be expected to go and pacify the deplorables would be deplorables themselves? Nah. Ain’t likely to happen.
They don’t say it because they have to at least try to maintain the illusion that “no one wants to take away your guns!”. They know it would be a completely futile effort.
Stephens is right: if you want to ban guns, you got to repeal 2A. I think this is an excellent issue for the Democrats.
The comments on his piece are the height of Derpitude.
https://youtu.be/ffI-tWh37UY
So, senator Feinstein has a bill in ready to ban bump fire stocks. Who didn’t see that coming.
Can we pass a bill banning Senator Feinstein?
Or would that be a bill of attainder?
She has some Republicans champing at the bit to sign on too. God, they are absolutely worthless squishes.
+1 proper use of ‘champing’.
That’s exactly how I react when people type “loose” when they mean “lose.” I’m not a stickler but for some reason that makes me rethink the NAP every time I see it.
I don’t think it is so much typing it, as it is malevolent spellcheck/autocorrect.
You are correct. I can put up with tons of wrong uses, I screw up there/their in a hurry, even though I know better. I screw up are/our because I pronounce them the same so I type the wrong one sometimes.
But there is no excuse for loose/lose.
Bill of awhatnow?
/99% of congresspeople
Followed by: “The constitution? Are you serious?”
She looks old enough that she’ll probably be banning herself soon enough. Maybe her and McCain will make it a twosome.
her and McCain will make it a twosome
*projectile vomits*
Ah, I was just kidding, there’s no way that wouldn’t be a threesome with Lindsey Graham in the middle.
Glibertarians, the #1 weight loss plan in the country.
*projectile vomiting + roaring case of diahrrea*
Roaring Diarrhea
Weren’t they scheduled for Lollapalooza this coming year?
So the new political party that will grow from the ashes of the establishment wings of the Dems and GOP will be the Lemon Party?
Purple Party, now with more xe.
“It’s not bad enough that the tattoo industry is itself an enormous money-making enterprise in cultural appropriation”
NOOOOOOO! People making money offering services in voluntary commerce is like the most horriblest thing imaginable.
So fucking tiresome.
cultural appropriation – im pretty sure European 5000 years ago had tattoos. Otzi the ice man had em
I looked it up. It’s been done since Neolithic times. The idea that this is cultural appropriation is laughable because for 99.9% of those cultures, they don’t exist anymore.
SEE! SEE! THIS JUST PROVES WHITE SUPREMACY EXISTS!
All culture is appropriation.
So…undeniable proof that white people have always been cultural appropriaters
How about this. All of our ancestors were most assuredly black. Really black, like 2x blacker than these fake black people running around in the USA. And they walked a lot, which is like slavery and stuff. So how about everyone just STFU up about this non-sense like fucking yesterday? When you don’t have anything else to worry about except for blabbering on the intertoobz about make believe shit like cultural appropriation, I think you have it too good and should have your ass thrown out into a desert somewhere, naked, and be made to walk for days on end seeking subsistence.
I’m pretty sure our ancestors were aliens with animal heads. There was a movie documentary and running science TV show about it.
I’m so tired of this “cultural appropriation” thing. Every culture’s customs have been borrowed from another culture somewhere down the line. It’s how civilization works. The Romans based their gods on Greek gods, etc. etc. Apparently every culture is supposed to stay exactly as it is, forever and ever, and never change.
Everything can be traced back to Babylon.
Lies.
They did not harvest the potato.
Well, everything except potato growing, then.
Blackadder: No, me; *I’m* the people who do all the work. I mean *look*
at this! [goes to a table at the side of the room and
picks up a small brown thing and holds it up] *What* is it?
Baldrick: Oh, I’m surprised you’ve forgotten, my lord.
Blackadder: I haven’t forgotten; it’s a rhetorical question.
Baldrick: [looking at him] No, it’s a potato.
Blackadder: To you it’s a potato, to me it’s a potato. But to
Sir Walter Bloody Raleigh it’s country estates, fine carriages,
and as many girls as his tongue can cope with. He’s making
a fortune out of the things; people are smoking them,
building houses out of them… They’ll be eating them next.
[shoves it into Baldrick’s chest; Baldrick takes it and looks
at it]
Baldrick: Stranger things have happened
OT but I think my favorite quote always was:
Edmund: Well, it is said, Percy, that civilized man seeks out good and
intelligent company, so that, through learned discourse, he may
rise above the savage and closer to God.
Percy: Yes, I’ve heard that.
Edmund: Personally, however, I like to start the day with a total dickhead
to remind me I’m best.
Way back when, when people had better stuff to do than whining like spoiled toddlers on the internet, cultural appropriation typically consisted of killing all the males and raping the wiminz. So if all someone is doing is eating a burrito or wearing big earrings, I think it’s way past time for some people to shut up and find something productive to do.
Some of my ancestors came here from Parma, so I don’t ever want to catch you fucks stealing my cultural heritage by eating prosciutto, parmesan cheese, or using balsamic vinegar.
I’m an American. The key tenet of my culture is cultural appropriation. I’ll steal whatever cultureal heritage I damn well feel like.
Also, civilizations aren’t like music bands or political parties. There aren’t just a bunch of people standing around Italy saying, “You know what? This Etruscan thing sucks. Let’s us go over there and start Rome. We’ll be into helmets with hair on them, and togas, and roads, and we’ll speak Latin all the time.”
This has probably already been linked, but it’s worth repeating.
Features the always amazing Lily Tang.
The big news in Chicago is that the Vegas shooter booked rooms overlooking the Lolapalooza concert this summer, but never showed up. (Maybe all those gun laws deterred him?)
The jet fuel story, and some other things I read, make it seem this guy was thankfully a total amateur. For example, one thing I read said he used automatic fire instead of actually aiming at individual people, in which case he would have been able to kill a lot more people. So his “meticulous planning” apparently did not include research into the use of weapons.
If you go to Vegas often and stay on the strip, chances are a lot of the rooms you book are going to be overlooking some type of gathering/festival. So to me, this doesn’t mean much.
He was too high on the drugs that the CIA black ops handler gave him to aim properly.
*adjusts tin foil hat, then crosses arms and nods smugly*
+1 MK Ultra
The black ops handler did the shooting in this false flag operation. Paddock was just the fall guy, a body for the cops to find.
*Alex Jones*
How do you give up the game winning runs to a pitcher?
Only one thing that can make us all (except for Vhyrus and Sharpshooter) feel better.
http://archive.is/0ORYb
7 and 32. 12 has a killer body, but why oh why did she have to get a nose job? It looks ridiculous.
Even with all the ink, 37 is smokin’.
But Imma go with 34 and 35.
#34’s dog has that smug “I’ve got peanut butter breath” look
Lucky dog.
Is this your Twitter?
https://twitter.com/TFMgirls
Don’t doxx me bro.
I’m gonna have to ape DEG today and go with orgy.
Except #12…that is/was a dude.
15….yowza. Meh face but that is one helluva body.
38 has quite a shape to her, too.
“How do you give up the game winning runs to a pitcher?”
When that pitcher is Mudcat Grant?
Or Babe Ruth.
More homage to my alma mater.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEeSWrV4WUE
I hate that music. Is there a name for it so I can avoid it?
Crappy remix?
“EDM”
‘German James Bond’: ex-spy Werner Mauss guilty of tax evasion
Former spy given two-year suspended sentence and told to donate €200,000 to charity after shortchanging state of millions
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/05/german-james-bond-ex-spy-werner-mauss-guilty-tax-evasion
The Merkel Foundation?
Does he have a variety of STDs, some of which only occur in sharks?
RE: The teacher banging the student.
The kid was 17 which is over the age of consent in most states so ostensibly the only reason this was illegal was because of the student-teacher relationship between them. On that count, I’m tempted to say that this is a load of horseshit.
OTOH, if the sexes were reversed, people would most certainly look at it all differently. Where’s the line? I’m actually in the planning stages of a contribution involving that exact question; how do you draw a line in a situation like this while maintaining your principles.
” I’m actually in the planning stages of a contribution involving that exact question” – you are about to have sex with a 14 year old?
Shhhhhhh!
I’m going to be all Rick Flair today.
WOOOOO
To that I say:
BOOOOO
Greg Holland completely collapsed after the all star game.
On the unbearable smugness of NGO parasites and western effetes.
It’s time for a change to the “empowerment” conversation. Development organizations’ programs must be evaluated on the basis of whether they enable women to increase their potential for political mobilization, such that they can create sustainable gender equality.
On the global stage, a return to this original model of empowerment requires a moratorium on reducing non-Western women to the circumstances of their victimhood — the rape survivor, the war widow, the child bride. The idea that development goals and agendas should be apolitical must be discarded.
The concept of women’s empowerment needs an immediate and urgent rescue from the clutches of the would-be saviors in the development industry. At the heart of women’s empowerment lies the demand for a more robust global sisterhood, one in which no women are relegated to passivity and silence, their choices limited to sewing machines and chickens.
Of course, I can only assume this “political empowerment” involves marching with banners on which a hammer and a sickle are prominently featured.
“sustainable gender equality.”
Wow, if that’s not the buzzword of the week. Give that person a prize or something.
They want to make women recyclable? Or wind-powered?
Take the ones who have nothing better to do than write non-sense, on giant hamster wheels. Probably need to burn off all those bagels and jelly donuts anyway.
As long as we keep a few of them around, we can make more. Take the surplus ones and just burn them for the steam generation.
Aren’t they already wind-powered?
Powered by blow jobs.
Development has always been dominated by political hacks.
See: “Water politics”. Its not enough to simply help people get clean drinking water: no, you have to inject women’s politics into it. because women are the ones who usually carry the water in africa, it should be the job of the UN to also reshape cultural norms.
Its been going on for decades
http://www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/gender.shtml
British writer Kazuo Ishiguro has won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature.
The novelist was praised by the Swedish Academy as a writer “who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world”.
His most famous novels The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go were adapted into highly acclaimed films. He was made an OBE in 1995.
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-41513246
Can anyone translate this into English?
“I’m a pretentious snotnoggin; try and prove I’m not!”
Emo Git?
Depression at finding yourself in the matrix
Must have been very strange to be Japanese in Britain in the 50s. The machine his father built to predict coastal storm surges is in the Science Museum in London.
I thought violent political rhetoric was supposed to be bad?
https://twitter.com/NancySinatra/status/915180442667462657
That links out to this piece of drivel where bizarro logic is exactly backwards.
The burden of proof is squarely on the NRA: How the hell are you making us safer?
So, she cares more about security than about liberty.
Ben Franklin has a message for you, Miss Sinatra.
Ugh, this is tiresome.
Civilian firearm ownership isn’t about safety, or muder stats, or duck hunting. It’s about keeping a tyrannical government at bay.
Never mind the fact that as gun laws have loosened over the past 20 years, the rate of violent crime has dropped precipitously.
my point is-
even if violent crime was rising, that’s no justification for banning firearms. The violent crime rate is immaterial. Governments kill far people than criminals could ever dream of. The most important purpose of firearms is to keep the government away.
https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NOTE1.HTM
Totally agree, just pointing out that their basic premise regarding “safety” is completely wrong on its own merits.
But it’s obsolete because the government has planes and tanks and missiles. So we should just ban it, since it doesn’t apply today. I bet you think citizens need stealth bombers and missiles, don’t you?
I know you know better, but for anyone who doesn’t see-
Afghanistan 2001-present
That’s been my point forever. ROE aside, terrain aside, granted it’s a totally different situaiton; but, we can’t even defeat a band of illiterate goat herders armed with 30 year old AKs. Proof enough that small arms in the hands of the populace at least makes it more difficult for the government to stomp on your face forever.
Those were some noble savages trying to protect their noble savage ways against evil empires. You guys, you’re just a bunch of angry white males who want to play army guy. It makes all the difference!
Kos? How about a fuckin’ trigger warning, shitlord?
It’s not the NRA’s job to disprove that, it’s the writers job to prove it. And I can guarantee they can come up with a study which proves it. Unless you read the study, in which case you’ll see there’s no proof. The title will be something like:
‘Do background checks reduce gun violence’?
Then you’ll have a bunch of data and some sort of lazy attempt to cherry pick and piece the data together in a way that verifies the conclusion they like, but nothing convincing, at all.
‘Do background checks reduce gun violence’?
Do background checks keep totalitarian governments at bay? That question is a little more important to me.
Government = Good
People = Bad
Government != People with too much power
Glad to clear that up for you. You people still living in the 17th century…
Do background checks serve any purpose but to invade people’s privacy and make it more difficult to exercise their constitutional rights?
Yes, it gives a bunch of no talent corrupt assholes in DC a chance to pat each other on the back and say ‘We did something! And we’ll totally make more laws and ban more stuff which will have no effect on us at all, peasants, don’t forget to vote!’.
Certainly in their current form, no.
If, however, society demands that there are some categories of adults who shall be legally deprived of the constitutional rights enjoyed by most adults, they’re a necessary evil.
But again, the current implementation of a policies to ensure such protections do not meet the objective. I personally know of a former felon, who served his time, who owns a firearm. I don’t feel unsafe or intimidated by him personally, but he got thru’ at least two 4473 filings, where he was given immediate feedback (i.e. he didn’t pass the 4473 because the feds couldn’t respond in time).
Should former felons be deprived of constitutional rights? Different issue.
I’m ok with part of a sentence for a violent offense, especially where a gun was used in the commission of a crime, to be that a person is forbidden from owning a firearm for a set period of time, or even ever again barring a successful petition some time down the road, but that’s it. There’s no logical reason to believe that a person convicted of a nonviolent offense would get out of prison, go buy a heater, and kill a 7-11 clerk in a robbery.
Hell, there are old radio towers on a peninsula in my town that were used for submarine comms during WW1. They’re technically in a city park, but you’re not supposed to get up to them. Naturally, people climb up them and take pictures. Well, one guy last winter got arrested doing it. The police claimed he was attempting to commit suicide, despite his repeated denials and no evidence of suicidal thoughts prior. The prosecutor said something to the effect that doing something that dangerous indicated a cavalier attitude towards risk that had to indicate mental illness, so they stuck him in a psych ward for evaluation. He got out, but now that’s on his record, and will show up in background checks.
Jesus. There’s your “let’s turn our attention to the mental health problems in this country!”
10 years later: “Comrade, you believe the People’s Revolution was a mistake? You are crazy! Lock him up!”
Careful what you tweet back, she might have your legs broken.
It’s bad that the first thing I thought about this was, “Wow, those boots ARE made for walking.”
She should have started with her dad and his armed bodyguards
She’s trying to walk it back by insisting that “murderous” denotes a specific subset of NRA members rather than a generally applicable epithet. At best, that’s unconscionably lazy writing: if she meant “murderers given tacit cover by the NRA,” she dilutes her point but avoids coming across as an evil old biddy.
At worst she meant exactly what she wrote, and didn’t realize until her bubble was pierced that not everyone freely associates NRA membership with flagrant murderousness like an irrelevant richer-than-God Hollywood has-been.
“The greatest place in the country to live if you want to tell constituents they should pretty much fuck off if they want to end overtime abuse by police officers.”
Allow me to defend Alderman Napolitano. Police in Chicago are forced to work overtime, because the City cannot afford to hire new police (increasing the total police force). Chicago currently has less police per capita than LA and NYC. The murder rate is proof of that.
In this case, the police are not to blame. The City’s poor financial management is to blame
I imagine that if the city would mandate that all residents carry a firearm, the murder rate would plummet, even without extra police.
BULLSHIT.
Chicago is 4th in police per capita, behind DC (for obvious reasons), Newark, and Baltimore.
Basically, the more police per capita you have, the more of a shit hole your city is.
NYC holds up a finger, thinks better of it, takes finger down.
the problem with tying staffing to crime levels, according to the ICMA analysis, is that it essentially incentivizes poor performance.
http://www.governing.com/topics/public-justice-safety/gov-cities-police-officers-hiring.html
Perhaps. But, never underestimate the ability of union workers to pad their time.
Click. Bait.
http://archive.is/xcyH1
… a recent study found that women remember penises as being larger than they really were.
All my ex-girlfriends told me my penis was huge. They also all changed their minds once we weren’t dating.
I had a twisted nut when I was 16. It hurt….. A lot
BAN EVERYTHING!
http://www.saysuncle.com/2017/10/04/we-must-ban-springs/
Calling RIck C-137,
What time are you going to be at West 6th tomorrow?
I’m free most of the day, I had planned for 530 but can do sooner or later.
I work in Frankfort so it will probably be close to 6 before I get there if that’s cool
That’s fine, I’ll get there a little early to hold down a table. Would you mind more like minded company? We can keep this straight glibs if you want but I know a libertarian or two who would enjoy a chat.
The more the merrier. As long as they aren’t a bunch of nerds. Can’t take a chance on ruining my reputation as the local Really Cool GuyTM
I can probably stay for about an hour so I’ll plan on having 6-7 beers
Lol.
That’s a good plan.
Alright, so I’ll be at w6th, probably outside with a table.
Look for the ginger beard and rick and Morty shirt
I was reading that Daily Mail piece above about Manassas being some charmless nothing, so I’m going to defend Manassas a little bit here. It’s sort of on the border between where the NoVa virus ends and true Virginia begins, and it really shows when you contrast the locals and the transplants. The locals (IOW, the kind of family that my brother married into, who are lifelong Manassans) are usually very warm, culturally Southern, community-oriented, religious, and pretty conservative on average. IOW, what the rest of Virginia is like. The transplants, OTOH, well-deserve the Manasshole reputation: they’re the NoVa bureaucrats, usually without any sort of roots that bind to a particular place or culture, who can’t afford to live closer to DC but share all of the rudeness and virtue-signaling habits of their richer Leftist buddies in DC. It also shows up a lot in the elections: prog-leaning in presidential years, conservative-leaning in off-years.
100 Greatest One liners… After the kill.
Bond is the king of one liners, Arnold in a close second.
“Good…bad… I’m the guy with the gun.” is my favorite.
+1 Bruce Campbell’s Chin
“Wait… shit. I had something for this.”
“I’ll kill her! I’ll blow this whole place up!”
“Go ahead. I don’t shop here”
Was waiting for Tuco’s bit. Nice.
Interesting inside look at Venezuela’s situation and how it got there. Spoiler alert: socialism.
https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2017/10/03/2194217/how-did-venezuela-get-to-this-point/
IT WAS STATE CAPITALISM! STOP LYING, YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT SOCIALISM IS!
Exactly, they don’t punish the kulaks and wreckers like they’re supposed to do. That’s why Venezuela is failing, not socialism!
You know, heretic, if it was REAL socialism you wouldn’t have a choice to go somewhere else to do business. That’s what Venezuelans do in Colombia all the time! (That was an actual argument that Chomsky tried to make to Stossel this year)
Try this if paywalled:
http://archive.is/2b1wk
But I am an advisor to the government of Albania, and I like my relationship in Albania because Albania had for 45 years Enver Hoxha in power, as the North Korea of Europe. They spent 45 years under Communism, and when Communism collapsed the economy collapsed even further. A third of the population left and so on. But it’s been 20 years of recovery, so now I like Albania. It’s a pleasant place, and to me when I think of Albania I think that it’s a hopeful message for Venezuelans. It says: Look, you can have a horrible period but societies can recover. They can put themselves together. And it’s a belief that I like to have because it makes life much more liveable.
Hope.
Here’s my all time favorite funk groove. Only the J. Geils band could weave rhythm guitar and harmonica in this tight a groove – live! Saw a sell-out crowd in the Worcester Centrum dance to this. Best show ever.
Moar click bait.
http://archive.is/qmEXR
And if you’re feeling down, at least you can say you don’t have a micropenis (unless you do and if so, sorry).
Speaking of Australia being in the news. They just drew with Syria…
Drew? Drawed? Tied? Whatever.
When you said drew, I was thinking pistols at dawn.
Unpossible. There are no guns in Austratopia.
I was thinking the venue was Syria, so AKs at dawn.
Well, in that case, the Australians would just show how woke they are by allowing themselves to be mowed down rather than touch an evil death machine.
That explains Gallipoli.
Murderdrone in the pre-dawn gloom.
What? I don’t see anything smart about letting the other guy have the chance to shoot my first.
Did they confiscate the Syrians’ guns?
They didn’t win.
That means they lost.
Syria also didn’t win, and therefore lost.
What a bunch of losers.
I’m still wondering how Australia ended up in the AFC. I know it makes sense, given that Oceania was more or less worthless as a football association, but it’s still weird.
They (and the OFC) lobbied for it so they could have better competition and so that the other OFC teams might actually have a shot (though now they just get dominated by NZ).
And the AFC is pretty weird since half the ME are in it, grouped together in the “West Asian Federation.”
Yeah, Australia should have done better but the away goal makes them favs to make the next round of playoffs.
How dimwitted is Tim Kaine, you may ask? This dimwitted:
Pretzel logic, the best kind.
So I went down to my local firearm purveyor and they said they got word from high up in one of their silencer distributors that the HPA/SHARE act is DOA. So, if you were waiting on that to buy a silencer, don’t bother. I was waiting, but now I’m just going to bite the bullet now and go through the NFA BS.
Well, time for some public-spirited primary voters to rid us of that nauseating shitstain, Paul Ryan.
Wait it out. A few months tops and it will be back on the agenda.
And there’ll be yet another shooting the day before it comes up for a vote?
Not necessarily saying there’s a link, but it’s a pair of interesting coincidences, if the timing I’ve heard on the congressional baseball practice shooting/HUSH act and now LV/SHARE is true.
Soft Pretzel logic or hard preztel logic?
Right now I’m in the mood for some soft pretzels. Sadly, I’m at work and can’t go get any.
Yeah, if he had a silencer, he’d still be up there, and nobody would have a clue there was a massacre going on!
If Paddock was still alive, I wonder what sandwiches he would have ordered for yesterday’s lunch?
I’m amazed by how many progs still insist on repeating this nonsense. All it takes is a few clicks on YouTube to learn what a firearm equipped with a suppressor sounds like.
Well, they’d find a video with a guy shooting subsonic .22 from a Ruger 10/22 and claim it’s almost silent. “Especially from that far away”
A 5.56 rifle without a suppressor couldn’t normally be heard over a concert 500 yards away. They were hearing the snaps from supersonic rounds and maybe the echoes off the building.
And the ricochets from hard objects.
sonic boom.
fuck i hate Tim Kaine.
At least you haven’t had to put up with him for two decades the way we have in Richmond. Still blows my mind that a charmless hack with little accomplishments and zero personality used the Richmond City Council, one of the most corrupt and incompetent governing bodies on earth, as a springboard to higher office. Pays to marry well, I guess – his father in law is former VA governor Linwood Holton, who pulled a lot of strings and called in a lot of favors to get his idiot son in law elected.
I mourn for Virginia. If it can’t fix this trend, it will end up like New York.
My parents have said the same thing – they fled NY to come to VA 30 years ago, and now it’s looking more and more as if they’re going to go somewhere else soon.
When your Republican options are the likes of Ken Cuccinelli and Ed Gillespie, you are well and truly fucked. At least a nobody almost primaried Gillespie out.
“Pays to marry well”
John Kerry sez “yaaaaaaaaassssss……”
John McCain gurgles in the affirmative ….
Something I just read on twitter which had never occurred to me: American defense spending pays for universal healthcare around the world.
American consumers also heavily subsidize drug costs in the third world via disparate pricing models. Go to wikipedia and look at nearly any common drug, the cost of treatment in the US is typically 500-1000% more than in developing countries. But we are a bigoted, shitty, racist, horrible place nonetheless.
That’s awful! We’re causing these people to be stuck in government run healthcare deathtraps!
Fair enough, but it’s a point I’m making the next time I hear about how much more enlightened Europe is for freeloading on our good graces.
It pays for a hell of a lot everywhere. And they know it, which is why they’re terrified of Trump pulling troops back.
Tell you what, we’ll abandon Europe to the Ruskies and invest that money in Medicare for all.
Oh, suddenly a lot of pompous, America-hating European kleptocrats are wailing about maintaining civil order?
It pays for a shitload of those wonderful Euro social welfare programs that progs love so much.
Are there any actual sources for that claim?
Cato lays it out here. Admittedly, it’s a bit of a counterfactual: if the United States hadn’t prosecuted the Cold War, would the Soviet Union have gobbled up all of Europe? Would the countries reliant on our defense umbrella have spent lavishly to defend themselves, rather than pumping cash into indulgent welfare programs? And if we don’t now stand behind eastern Europe against Putin, would these countries be forced to slash their teetering welfare budgets to build up arms against Russia gradually annexing the old Warsaw countries?
Background checks keep criminals from obtaining guns
Background checks keep pedophiles from working at daycares… oh wait….
https://thegoldwater.com/news/7109-Pedophile-Day-Care-Employee-Charged-with-Raping-Multiple-Children-and-Child-Porn-Production
Background checks prevent future crimes uses the same logic as believing that I will win a professional MMA match tomorrow because I took jujitsu ten years ago.
A bayonet lug and a pistol grip turn a semi automatic rifle into an assault rifle
A penis and hormones turn a woman into a man.
Touche
I gave my wife some penis and hormones and she didn’t turn into a man.
*opera applause*
Except in New York. Here a Pistol Grip is sufficient to transition a SAFE hunting rifle into an unSAFE “Assault Weapon”
Let’s not forget that adjustable stock, bucko!
WaPo with some foreign political cartoons on guns in ‘merica..
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2017/10/05/how-the-worlds-cartoonists-view-american-gun-violence-in-the-wake-of-las-vegas/?utm_term=.bf5804b4ec7e
they’re worse than i expected. there’s a fast food lineup with fat Americans, Uncle Sam having his revolver blow up in his crotch (?) because he pulled the trigger when the barrel was tied into a knot. there’s some about the gun lobby buying Congress. the worst is Trump crying bullets. WTF is that supposed to mean?
surprisingly, no “here, hold my beer” with a redneck handing his Budweiser to a jihadi.
I wish I could draw so I could make some cartoons about UK children being raped by Muslim immigrants.
Judging by those entries, the ability to draw is not a prerequisite for making political cartoons.
Were any of the artists Basques? Or Catalans? Or Irish? I’ll bet they might have a certain perspective on private firearm ownership vis a vis the relationship to a national government.
UAE (monarchy), Austria (Hitler), Canada (America-Lite), Australia (criminalized 80% of gun owners who didn’t comply with mandatory gun buyback), Netherlands (Geert Wilders’ party finished +5 seats in that election a few months ago)
playing in acid would be another appropriate cartoon for the UK.
This is supposed to be the erudite social commentary of our intellectual betters on the contemplative, data-driven left?
Can’t think of much that matter less to me when it comes to civil liberty than “world opinion”
waiting periods on the purchase of firearms will keep mass murderers from abstaining multiple weappns
Waiting periods on marriage will keep philanderers from obtaining multiple divorces.
(this is fun!)
Well, all the ones that don’t have excellent impulse control, anyway.
It’s like these people never watched Oceans’ 11 and saw the meticulous planning that goes into a heist!
The people who make knee-jerk gun-grabs are people who have poor impulse control. They don’t trust other people with firearms becuase they know they themselves cannot be trusted with them. The concept of long-term thinking is lost on them.
Yep. If I want to kill someone so badly that I plan on spending hundreds of dollars on a gun I’ll have to use once and then ditch, waiting eight days after I spend the money isn’t going to make me change my mind.
ie: The trolls at OTS. And all of the commenters on WaPo, HuffPo, and NYT.
Universal registration will result in all firearms owners declaring their weapons to the federal government
Universal sexual orientation registration will result in TEH GAYZ in ovens. (wait, that one’s not so funny)
Australia’s compulsory gun buyback had an estimated 19% compliance.
http://www.foaa.com.au/buy-back-statistics-and-australia-stock-of-firearms-compiled-in-1998/
This is why I have never purchased a firearm nor do I have one registered in my name. Someday, maybe, but not until I find a good place to stash an innocuous, sturdy, lockable container.
THey make sealed plastic tubes you can bury a gun in the backyard.
I used to own several firearms, but every single one of them was lost in a boating accident.
+1 “Sorry, they’re somewhere in the Hudson.”
The usual qualifier is “tragic” a tragic boating accident
How bout some emo rock to cheer everyone up?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE_0m5OkyN4
Magazine capacity limits will force all the deplorables to turn in their 30 round p mags
My first handgun purchases were just before CT’s mag ban was put in place.
Fortunately, I never owned any mags larger than 10 rounds and therefore I had nothing to register,
Sure. Just like everyone in NJ turned in their M1 Carbines.
Expect sales of 6in diameter schedule 40, pipe caps and cement to soar.
You know what else? I was shocked when I just happened to look up how much Cosmolene costs nowadays.
prohibition works!
Here glibs, enjoy your red meat. These kind of stories make me more sad than bloodlusty.
CHAOS DURING SOCIAL JUSTICE AND FEMINISM DEBATE AT MILWAUKEE ATHEISM CONFERENCE
80-year-old man talks to boy in public, gets questioned by police – twice.
God that’s depressing. But not at all surprising.
Which of you fuckers is into cross stitch?
{meekly raises hand}
I have a framed one on my desk at work with a nice floral border and pretty lettering that reads “Bitch, please.”
I have one that says “Behold the field in which I grow my fucks, and see that it is barren”
Is it the one that looks vaguely like the Bayeux Tapestry? I’ve liked that one.
http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/10/04/michelle-obama-people-dont-trust-politics-because-republican-party-all-men-all-white
TW: Fox news (got linked to it from yahoo so don’t blame me.)
I’m not sure Mrs. Obama was paying attention to the last election. It wasn’t the Republicans with an all old and white stage.
Good to see my home state in the news, even if it is for pederasty!
That said, the only thing notable about that story is that she wasn’t related to him. Child molestation is one of the quiet horrors of Maine. What can you expect from a state where the two top selling liquors are different sized bottles of Allen’s Coffee Brandy?
I have to go to bed glibs. work awaits soon.
https://youtu.be/MT3nrkPdbG4 because free speech matters.
OMG CNN just had a headline that said “Obama’s ATF Declined to Regulate Bump Stocks”. How did that make it through their editorial process?????
Looks like voters in Albuquerque shot down the paid sick leave effort that was merely a stalking horse for organized labor. (The ordinance included a carveout for unionized workplaces. Real subtle, guys.) Sadly, the decision came down to only about eight hundred votes of the fifty thousand ballots cast. Pathetic, and no doubt we’ll see the question raised again in a couple years. For the moment I’m just happy that the sad-sack commercials commissioned by these commies are no longer being aired.
The mayoral race otoh is down to the shitbag Dem who managed to court the police union endorsement, and a Republican whom I can only assume will be a bigger disappointment than Mr. Plinkett’s son.
Funny how unions used to fight for worker benefits, now they fight to get themselves exempted from them (I assume that’s what you meant by “carveouts”)
Actually, I should be clearer: the real clincher, what makes the ordinance laughably unfeasible for businesses, is a provision that would make any disciplinary action taken against an employee within ninety days of taking sick leave would carry the automatic presumption of retaliation. That’s what unions exempted themselves from. So if you don’t want to give your employees license to use your company like a cash pinata in labor disputes, you’d better unionize.
Could you imagine how fucking infuriating it would be to watch that slackass jerkoff who constantly phones in sick get away with murder when he does show up because management can’t do anything about it, lest he bleed the company like a stuck pig? And there you are showing up to your scheduled hours and doing your job, like a complete chump.
I’d imagine it’d feel awfully French.
one of the most common behaviours of bad employees is abusing the sick leave system (ie calling in just because), and you’re not going to get a whole quarter without them having called in once.
Fitting Samuel Adams quote of the week:
Never saw anything like this in a ROTC unit where you have cadets actually drinking and partying at a normal college. Is this an Academy thing? Spring excepted since they’re not actually people anyways.
https://www.scribd.com/document/360708005/Heffington-Sworn-Statement-18-Nov-2015-Signed-2
Michael Moore, Constitutional scholar:
http://www.newsweek.com/change-constitution-and-restrict-gun-rights-says-michael-moore-678634
They have the numbers in state governments to ratify an amendment, right?
And DPRK News cracks another one out of the park:
https://twitter.com/DPRK_News/status/915972246388305920
Michael “totalitarian Cuba is heaven on Earth” Moore has both the look and the moral high-ground of a hagfish.