Did anything crazy happen yesterday in the world of soccer? Not really, unless you consider Argentina falling out of World Cup qualification with one match left to play “crazy”. They’ve been to every tournament since 1970, so this would be HUGE. In Europe, Germany and England punched their tickets. Its time for the United States to step up tonight against Panama. If they don’t win that game, I don’t see them making it to Russia next year. And that means Trump and Putin will have to find another excuse to have a secret meeting so they can further their world-domination scheme.
It takes one hell of a player to win a Heisman Trophy. It takes a lot more than that to win a pair of them. Archie Griffin is the only man to have ever done so. And after the last few weeks, I can safely say that he will continue to be the only man to have ever done so for at least a couple more years. Sorry, Jefe Hayek and the rest of Louisville fans. Jackson just doesn’t seem to have the goods this season. But you know who did have the goods at Louisville? Rick Pitino. At least when it comes top raking in 98% of the shoe contract there school inked with Adidas. Well, good riddance to bad rubbish. You guys are better off without that piece of shit anywhere near campus. It might not feel like it for a couple years, but you’re better off in the long run.
I wanted to give a recap of the Astros game, but I was afraid if I started it, I’d have to constantly be editing it because Altuve would hit another home run when I was halfway through. Why, he was only one dinger shy of matching Aaron Judge’s strikeout total from last night’s tilt against the Indians. Anyway, while we was possibly locking up the MVP (and yes, I know voters aren’t supposed to take the postseason into account when they cast their ballots, but they do anyway), the Astros were pasting the Red Sox 8-2. Sale was serving up meatballs from the word jump and it never felt like the Beantown boys were gonna challenge the home team. In the nightcap, the Yankees failed to even get a hit until the sixth, as Trevor Bauer was filthy from the hill. The bullpen came in for the last seven outs to finish off the Pinstripes 4-0 (the 4 is for the Indians runs, not Judge’s strikeout total. Which, to my recollection, was also 4). They both go back at it today, as the Astros are relegated to the early game (fuck you, MLB schedulers) at 1, The Yanks and Indians start back up at 4. Then the National League gets their divisional series underway with the Cubbies heading to Washington at 6:30 and the nightcap is the D-backs at the Dodgers at 9:30 (sorry east-coast fans). All games Central Time, as God himself intended.
Alrighty then. You know what’s next. Time for…the links!
Slate goes full retard on guns. (TW: Slate – duh!)
California is now a sanctuary state. Jerry Brown signed the bill into law yesterday and pretty much ensures Trump will cut federal funds at the first opportunity. I’m grabbing the popcorn.
Robert Mueller met with the former british spy who was paid by John McCain and then the DNC to write the Trump dossier. I wonder if he had a stack of immunity agreements as he interviewed the man. Or is that more of a Comey thing?
Who is gonna help NASA destroy asteroids? Why, college students of course! I’m gonna go way out on a limb here and wager they’re the STEM kids. After all, you can’t “art history” or “women’s studies” an asteroid out of the planet’s path. Unless there’s a way to bore an asteroid into killing itself.
Nate is coming for the gulf coast. And as Brett mentioned, if anybody needs help, let us know in the comments or send something to the submit@glibertarians.com mailbox. We’ll help you or get word to someone that can.
And last, but certainly not least, I give you the Harvey Weinstein story. Jesus, what a piece of shit. He’s pretty much been a serial sexual assaulter his entire professional life. Nut its cool. He’s taking a leave of absence from running his studio so he can reflect on his life of debasing women and then focus his energy, I shit you not, on going after the NRA and Donald Trump. That’s how he ended his letter acknowledging that he was a serial abuser of women. By saying how he was going after the NRA. Christ, what an asshole.
Thank you for a funky week!
You guys are the best. Never forget it! Now I’m off to a 7 am dentist appointment. Wish me luck.
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704 responses to “Friday Morning Links”
Those poor progressives, never getting any chance to discuss gun control.
Those poor progressives, forced to live in a world where children can buy M-16’s out of vending machines because we have no gun regulations whatsoever.
I hate the word reasonable. I want to see a clear objective unchanging definition.
Judges love the word reasonable. It means those evil cocksuckers…. Did I mention how much I hate judges, more than cops, it means theu can do whatever the fuck they want. Reasonable = FYTW.
The second amendment doesn’t say “shall not be infringed, except for reasonable restrictions where the government claims a compelling interest, ‘reasonable’ to be defined by the government”.
My response:
It was already discussed in the wake of a disaster called the Revolutionary War. So fuck off, slaver!
I’m gonna steal that line
That’s a million dollar line, man, I’m gonna save that!
I’m starting to see claims that Harvey Weinstein and Michael Moore are actually two different people. Is there any possible truth to that?
Moore wishes he was only Weinstein fat.
I don’t think Moore is all that interested in women either.
Don’t confuse rejection with disinterest
*applause*
Robert Mueller met with the former british spy who was paid by John McCain and then the DNC to write the Trump dossier. – wait the guy got paid twice for the same thing? nice
The most common story is that McCain hired Fusion GPS to dig up dirt on Trump ahead of primary season. Once Trump got the nomination, they were passed off to the DNC, who continued to fund them through the general election.
That would reaffirm my take on John McCain, namely that he’s a shameless careerist with more ambition than talent, intelligence, or integrity. He can’t die soon enough. I wish the VC had done for him when they had the chance.
Careerist? Dude is 80-something. Whatever career he has is it. There’s nothing left to sell out for.
Yeah, unless he figures he can get one last round of temporary applause and approval on a late-night talk show before they go back to sneering behind his back about how he should die. McCain’s desire to be liked by people who fucking hate him…
And last, but certainly not least, I give you the Harvey Weinstein story. – well the whole Hollywood is sexist narrative will get a lot of steam outa this, although there are a few very powerful people who can skew the whole thing. Also the Hollywood SJW thing seems like just a front.
Rob Reiner must be a serial kiddie diddler.
So some sections of the interwebz were all ehm buzzing let us say with this great investigation. TO be blunt, I think both Breitbart and especially old Milo have lost most of their relevance and these topics only exist as boogeymen of the left press. Hell the alt right would still be unknown if not for lefty press imo.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart-and-milo-smuggled-white-nationalism?utm_term=.lqO7gErB5#.yl6rWnP1q
That all being said, I read this so called investigation and what I found out is basically what I already knew – that Milo was a troll, and asshole and general piece of excrement, had a bunch of ghostwriters and he was basically an image guy – the flamboyant gay dude who likes it interracial. Performance art if you will, nothing more. I always took Milo as entertainment really, and I doubt a significant number of people took him seriously.
What I didn’t manage to understand – and I hope one of you can enlighten me – is how exactly Milo smuggled white nationalism and alt right ideas into the main stream. Which are these fabulous (get it?) ideas that were alt right and now are mainstream?
I mean I know it’s Buzzfeed, but most modern journalism is similar, lotsa claims that don’t have any clear resolution.
Also I have no idea who this guy is but throw away claims like this “The boat was the Sea Owl, a 200-foot yacht owned by the hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer, who is a major funder of Breitbart and various other far-right enterprises.” do not make good journalism. Give a few examples, in such a long long article, of all this various far-right enterprises. This may be true about this Mercer guy, but I still don’t like these casual claims being thrown about by someone who calls himself a senior journalist. Anyhoo.
Well you see, what used to be normal conservative or libertarian, is now alt-right, because the left doesn’t want to debate then anyone.
The emails are priceless though, Bannon the great brain behind the alt right…
Also apparently and editor from the great feminist website Vice Broadly was publishing articles against fat shaming and secretly sending Milo emails saying make fun of these fat feminists. So the point is that all these sites may no believe what they are publishing…
Yeah, priceless, alright.
Buzzfeed hitpiece against Milo, Thiel, Bannon et al completely fabricates quotes (and possible the emails) from David Auerbach.
Shocking, shocking, from that paragon of journalistic integrity BuzzFeed.
“Senior Journalist” at Buzzfeed only means they have reached the ripe old age of 23.
They get Logan’s Run’d at age 25, right?
Anyone aspiring to become a Buzzfeed writer should be smothered to death before they leave cathedral.
RENEW! RENEW!
(aka go work for Gawker)
But are they finishing up their degree at Columbia?
Most of the MSM is indistinguishable from Buzzfeed now.
I think the appropriate term for the MSM is dnc operatives with bylines.
meh, watch one of his “Dangerous Faggot” speaking engagements.
he’s far smarter than you give him credit for, and has more original thoughts. that said, someone (HM i think) pointed out he’s basically an average intellect pretending to be Christopher Hitchens, which i think is right. He’s not *that* smart, but he’d like to pretend to be. But he is/was quite sharp when it came to tete a tete, if only because his competition are college-age progressive idiots who all spout exactly the same rhetoric over and over, to which he has a variety of pre-canned retorts.
he’s also less ‘trolly’ than you seem to think. he skewers a bunch of progressive sacred cows, but the arguments are all ones that people here would have been familiar with for years. they’re only “controversial” because they’re the sorts of things you’re not supposed to say on college campuses (e.g. the “wage gap” isn’t real; most trannies are mentally unhealthy; immigration hasn’t been a one-dimensional economic or cultural boon; etc).
Never said he was stupid, and I found him entertaining, watched quite a lot of his stuff. Also highlighted how SJWs lose by taking themselves to seriously and being unable to fight trolling with trolling.
And yes, he made some arguments I agreed with, but he was doing it in a troll fashion. Which probably worked, but still.
maybe i’m not sure what is meant by ‘trolling’ in a non-internet context.
he engages ideological peers in a variety of ways, some of which use intentionally-provocative rhetoric… that’s “polemic”, and serves a purpose. I’d say the reaction he gets is proof of its effect.
the thing that bothers me about milo is that the *reaction* to him by the media is 100X worse than he really is. They basically spin him as Mecha-Hitler, when in fact he’s basically Robby Soave with a little more hair on his chest and a little more wit. His opinions are neither new nor particularly controversial: he just says them in ways that 18-24 yr old kids understand and find appealing. And that’s what terrifies the media people.
Also, the links are early lately. They used to be at 15: 00 or a few minutes earlier.
Our ways are mysterious…
Yeah, I had a dentist appt at 7 this morning. Plus I’ve been getting up early in the mornings. And I figure I may as well do the links after I resolve the “getting up” part and send Banjos off to work.
Good luck, sloop. I canceled my dentist appointment today because I didn’t feel like getting up at 4 am and getting my teeth drilled later in morning. That’s too much shit for a Friday.
Yeah. It’s just a cleaning so no worries about that today. Ill be on the golf course by 11. Any dental work is gonna have to take place on a Monday when the course is closed.
+1 nanananana
Ha, I was supposed to have a cleaning yesterday afternoon. Except, a month ago my dentist’s office caught on fire so they are using space at several other practices in out “general area” which means I would have had to leave work at around 1pm to pick up the kid from school (because there would not be enough time for me to finish my appointment and make it back to Myrtle Beach in time to pick him up from his after school program) then drive out to Conway in the middle of all the school traffic. I canceled.
Somebody send out an APB for UCS. He usually doesn’t wait 20 minutes to comment.
We can set out some unleavened bread and room temp tap water
*symphony applause*
Ooh boy.
https://www.theroot.com/this-is-only-the-deadliest-shooting-in-u-s-history-bec-1819112938
Well…. he’s kinda right….
I mean when people talk about “deadliest mass shootings in US history” I always think about Wounded Knee, Fort Pillow, and Colfax. I didn’t really know much about the Tulsa incident or Bloody Island
Black Wall Street getting wrecked is as huge loss, a black mark on our history but the fact that it’s not taught in schools can be attributed to shitty education and that has a root cause that the writers probably don’t want to confront
Black Wall Street isn’t taught because then people would learn that the African-American community doesn’t need government to be wealthy and successful.
They built a thriving community, white people burned it to the ground. They rebuilt it. It was the end of Segregation that finally destroyed it for,good, ironically enough.
Yep, that’s pretty much it.
When the definition of public mass shotting is
the indiscriminately modifier throws out all the cases they put forward because the victims were targeted because of class or race.
Well, the good news is that if you use that rather narrow definition of “mass shooting” they’re amazingly rare, so hooray for that.
I still want someone to ask these cunts why they are so up in arms and demand emotional heavy handed response to one idiot doing shit like this, but can’t be bothered with the fact that despite the most draconian and idiotic “sensible gun laws” in the nation, places like Chicago, Baltimore, Miami, Washington D.C., and Detroit, just to name a few, seem to have annual murder rates that make the bag count by douchebags like the on that just killed innocents in Vegas look like peanuts.
BTW, the ISIS connection between this guy Paddock just seems to not want to go away, and ISIS is doubling down on the fact that they warned us this was coming a couple of months ago.
Titor hardest hit?
http://www.theroot.com/in-crazy-wypipo-news-police-arrest-drunk-man-who-says-1819189797
The Root is taking over the title of Most Bat-Shit Crazy once held by Everyday Feminism. I have to admit, I’m a little disappointed that my lunatic gender-confused homies aren’t keeping up.
They are truly the gift that keeps on giving. If you mine derp anyhow
So, as a white person, do I have an equivalent to the woke POC’s “wypipo” epithet? “Bad swimmers”, maybe? “Blax”? “Blapipo”?
God, is this what it was like to be a grown-ass man when the hippies happened?
Yeah, I’ve wondered that too. It can’t be long before bell bottoms make a comeback. And then big hair and sanity.
80’s hair was the worst.
If you live in Dallas, big hair never went out.
If anybody ever finds themselves in the far northeast side of Dallas, make your way over to Big Daddys Roadhouse BBQ. It’s where the cast of Dallas would go to get BBQ. Their brisket is fantastic!
McDonald’s manager sold $10,900 in cocaine by hiding it with burgers and fries, police say
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article177127686.html#storylink=cpy
The do you want coke with that joke is so obvious even the cops made it, but can’t think of something better. Our food is so good it’s addictive maybe?
Also „The arrest followed a three-month undercover investigation called “Operation Off the Menu.”
“Guerrero’s conduct was so blatant, it would be comical if he weren’t committing a serious narcotics crime,” Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan told the New York Daily News. “Ordering coke took on an entirely different meaning on the night shift at this McDonald’s.”
If it was so blatant why did the investigation need 3 moths? I would say the great respect US law enforcement has for due process and doing things right, by the book, but …
The do you want coke with that joke is so obvious even the cops made it, but can’t think of something better. Our food is so good it’s addictive maybe?
“I’m loving it!” seems to work. Or “come for the quarter pounder, stay for a gram.”
“I’m loving it!” Was really true for some customers.
Why can’t I buy cocaine in a drive-thru? Guerrero was a visionary small-businessman.
Do we really want you to have that sort of access to cocaine? Your fiction is traumatic enough as is without going on a coke bender.
Daddy wants what Daddy wants.
So, kind of something like this?
Get outta my head, man.
Well there goes Swiss’ mind.
From a topless woman ideally
Served on a naked woman, you amateur!
Drive-thru service is already offered in every hood in America. You drive up to a certain house, honk your horn, and get your drug of choice run out to you.
Guerrero broke the rules by trying to legitimize it.
Next thing you know these dealers wont be even shooting at each other and then start paying taxes, what’s this world coming to, I just cant even with it right now, sheesh
This is what hell on earth looks like, people, consensual business transactions conducted without violence.
When I was in high school the most successful weed dealer I knew worked at a salad bar in the mall. Probably every year I’d hear a story about some area drive-through getting busted for selling coke or weed or whatever. I mean, when you think about it, it’s a perfect venue for retail drug sales, especially now that a lot of drive-through places are 24-hour.
retailing at a retailer. mind. blown.
Without grievances there would be no grievance studies
https://everydayfeminism.com/2017/10/what-the-poor-wont-tell-you/
They’re basically saying they are so privileged they have nothing better to do than become professional griefers.
I’d love to see the reaction to that if it was translated and read to a group of women in sub-Saharan Africa or Saudi Arabia. They’d probably burn the fucker alive who wrote it.
Probably.
I grew up shit poor, like barely functional indoor plumbing poor.
Fuck these griefers. I’ve clawed my way up with work and will power. I’ve earned my stripes. What the fuck have they done to better themselves?
You are just using anecdote to justify oppression and normalize structural inequality you shitlord
Probably. I’m a shitlord, it’s known. I just want to earn a living and leave the world better and freer than when I left.
Well if you want the world freer how come you don’t support single payer government healthcare and gun control huh? What about freedom from icky guns? Check mate
Oh noes! You have defeated me with your flawless feelz!
I must now commit ritual seppeku
The fuck did I just read? When two-thirds of your paragraphs start out with “I’m not going to tell you about…”, your essay is 67% too long.
“And his butthole was never seen again.”
THE END
Is this a Weinstein serial installment?
Have you ever watched a Bigfoot take a shower?
STEVE SMITH PREFER BATHS
AND BY BATHS MEAN RAPE!
Weinstein serial
Rape Nuts?
Frottage Flakes?
Harvey-Berries?
SexualAssaultOMeal?
*rises to begin thunderous ovation*
Similarities to real events are purely coincidence, I’m sure
Good work on the facial expressions though
Read the book that breaks a CRYPTOZOOLOGICAL TABOO!
https://www.amazon.com/TRUE-GIANTS-Gigantopithecus-Still-Alive/dp/1938398408/
If it is all the same to you I’d rather not
STEVE SMITH WONDER HOW YOU KNOW WHAT HANG IN STEVE SMITH’S OFFICE?!
As an art collector this would look good in the privy.
The man is confused and disoriented, while STEVE SMITH is calm and controlled. With his left hand STEVE SMITH is affectionate but contrasted with STEVE SMITH right hand that shows power and dominance.
beautiful piece.
Yes. I was struck with much the same sentiment as you. It says “Come hoo-mon, I will guide you in the ways of forest love.”
Steve smith show you proper way to enjoy wood
I love a happy ending!
“California is now a sanctuary state. Jerry Brown signed the bill into law yesterday and pretty much ensures Trump will cut federal funds at the first opportunity. I’m grabbing the popcorn”
Dang neo-confedertes, think they have “states rights” and can nullify.
I seriously had a poli-sci professor who said, speaking about the supremacy of the Fed gov, “well we faught a way about it, so we know now that the Fed gov has supremacy over the states”. seriously my jaw dropped. Since when is ‘might makes right’ so transparently used as a legal argument?
My con law prof would have thrown that putz out on his ear for trying to argue that. Jesus that is stupid
In my experience, proggies seem to always think as long as they are doing the oppressing, killing, and evul, might does make right…
States rights are fine when the state is on the right side of history.
-modern progressive
Really just a sub-set of “It’s okay when our side does it!”
Right of Conquest was accepted international law for all of the history of international law before the 20th century. The whole concept of sovereignty is basically the fancy name for “might makes right”. The Yankees won the war of Northern Aggression (and more recently the wild card 😉 to sloopy) and ended the voluntary association of sovereign States interpretation of our Union.
But if secession gets a second try via the founding of the United Social States of NoCal and Socal, and, with a little luck Joisey and Manhattan) that question could always be reopened (and hopefully allowed to win by default). (The down side to Might Makes Right is that it is always legal and settled precedent right up to the second the “Sovereign” isn’t the biggest dog in the kennel, at which point it all goes away)
A headline so excellent you will hate yourself
Sloopy’s house when the kids get riled up?
Of course, now I have to go listen to the song that inspired the headline…
So your wallopers are as clueless as ours?
Everybody was poo-fling fighting
Those craps were fast as lightning
In fact it was a little bit frightening
But they flung with expert timing
They were funky chunky poos from funky Poopingtown
They were pooping them up and they were pooping them down
It’s an ancient Britsh art and everybody threw their part
From a slip into a slop, and flinging from the hip
I am drowning in whiteness
Eat a turd, you asshole. You’re so much luckier than the overwhelming percentage of urban black kids being raised by a single parent. And all you can do is bitch about it.
You guys are mining the derp pretty deep today. You might want to pace yourselves.
This… It’s not even 8:30, and I’m almost derped out for the day.
This derp overload is going to make me fall off the wagon 15 days before I get my one year coin.
Yeah, too much derp all at once could reach critical mass and cause a giant singularity of derp that engulfs the world.
It’s Friday and also I’m up for a rare Friday morning so y’all also get my derp, along with everyone else’s.
It’s not the derp singularity to worry about it’s what on the other side of the event horizon.
Well the early links decalibrated the derpmeters and sent the derpmining rigs into overdrive. When the derp avalanche overwhelms us it is you who will get the blame
She’s just mad they always picked her first when playing basketball in gym.
OH NOES she’s drowning. Someone call the lifeguards at prog Baywatch to save her.
They’re all white knights, so it might just add to the problem.
*applause*
In her defense, she’s probably drowning because black people can’t swim. Everybody knows that.
I figured this is as good a place as any to point out the new mermaid emoji from Apple.
No one is stopping you from being ghetto trash except yourself, Emoji. Free the ratchet within!
I think you need at least 10 years of post doctoral study to fully understand whiteness
Or be non-white
Half-black people are the half-white people of mixed-race people.
Learn sumthin new every day
Learning Sumthin New Every Day is the white-people of learning.
What about Asian Black biracial folk? you lacist
Leave Tiger Woods out of this.
Do you hate it because before of the color of people’s skin?
I was raised in “Seattle nice.” I was steeped in the good intentions of this city and I hate it.
OK, move to Kabul. Maybe Paris or Mogadishu?
Lot less “nice” there.
*curses under breath*
It’s not our fault you’re a retarded, narcissistic, malignant pig.
It really must suck to be raised in a nice, upper-middle class family in a prosperous city in a country with one of the highest standards of living in the world. Must make it really tough to come up with a good grievance. She’s a martyr to it, really.
A shitty, spoiled, racist martyr who should spend a year in public housing in Baltimore. She’ll be rid of that cursed whiteness in no time.
Getting murdered rids one of most curses. Cursed items still wont come off, however.
I think there will be a deus ex machina moment once some deep learning systems start applying strict logic/analysis to peoples’ online history- comments/articles. No need for spending all sorts for time critiquing this sort of stuff- an WAI (weak AI) will immediately reply pointing/listing out fallacies, contradictions from their previous comments/social media activities, etc.
This in conjunction with the growing reputation markets (blockchain) will hit these moronic narcissists hard.
I know it’s been said, but kids these day are not tech savvy in general. I remember being concerned about comments back in the Prodigy online days. Shoot most don’t have any understanding of how any of this tech works. If I’m correct it’s going to catch people completely of guard.
*Thinks back to all of my 10,000s of comments… *worry*
Wut?
Not sure if anyone has pointed this out, but there is a monocle emoji coming in iOS 11.1.
Victory!!!
Libertarian
MomentGraphic?close enough!
*insert happening gif*
So Q Continuum, the New York Times is beating you to the punch in writing on the topic of underage consent
I think this was covered before by other media outlets, but the Times is what matters in journalism, right?
Last Tuesday, France woke up to news reports that a 28-year-old man and an 11-year-old girl had had “consensual” sex.
The events, first reported by the website Mediapart, took place on April 24 in the Paris suburb of Montmagny. That afternoon, the child followed a man, who had already approached her twice in the previous days, telling her he “could teach her how to kiss and more.” They went to his building, where she performed oral sex in the hallway. Then she followed him to his apartment, where they had sexual intercourse. Afterward, he told her not to talk to anybody about it, kissed her on the forehead and asked to see her again.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/opinion/sex-consent-france.html?smid=tw-nytopinion&smtyp=cur
Creepy as fuck
She is too young to have babies. Why would one want to have sexual intercourse with someone too young to have babies?
I’m willing to be fairly liberal about age of consent given my own history*, but I’m going to say that a firm limit would have to be puberty. If you can’t crank out rugrats, you’ve got nothing to offer consent to.
*I wasn’t much older than that girl when I first had sex. Hey, it was good enough for the vikings.
Or too old?
You don’t have to worry about knocking her up?
There’s a reason Polanski went to France.
To look in a certain hole in the wall?
Did he chew his underwear, because he just didn’t care?
*narrows gaze*
Also, he is a French citizen and the French won’t extricate their own
He saw London, he saw France, he wanted to see children in their underpants?
If she old enough to pee
She’s old enough for Polanski.
That’s predatory. Sick motherfucker.
Last chance Kentucky glibs.
Myself and jefe will be at West Sixth brewing this afternoon. I’ll be there around 5, if you want to join us y’all are welcome.
I’ll be the redbeard with the rick and morty shirt.
I’d like to but couldn’t do Lexington, not this weekend anyway. In the future I might be up for it, I have grandparents there so it would be a good excuse to go up and see them .
Cool. I expect this to go swimmingly, so I’ll be sure to announce the next one soon
How many ky glibs are there?
Not sure. At least four. Me, you, jefe, robs, maybe SF.
Robc that should say
I’m also of the KY ilk. Vine Grove.
I’d be game for something in the future.
As I said before; that is a little too far to DUI.
I will not be there. I have a prior engagement. If you guys don’t burn West Sixth down, I’ll make the next one.
That’s almost enough people to take over our fair state. SF for governor
Sounds good. I look forward to the brain trauma
SF for governor! A thoroughbred in every yard and an abomination in every pot!
ALL GLIBS ARE KY GLIBS AFTER STEVE SMITH FINISH WITH THEM
Cornholed and drunk?
Steve Smith never messed with a ky country boy. Steve Smith would leave with butthurt. “Squeal like a pig Steve, Squeal got dammit”
STEVE SMITH vs the Harlan Hollar boys? I want to see that movie.
Nobody gets my humor.
KY Glibs, like KY Jelly would be needed after a STEVE SMITH Experience.
Great, now the jokes ruined.
*weeps*
I got it Scruffy! I’m still clenching in honour of your joke!
Jokes are always funnier if you explain why they’re funny right after you tell the joke. Just so you know.
Oh! Sorry scruffy, in my defense I’ve been up since 4am
Kentucky glibs are the white people of glibertarians.
Aw naw, hell naw boy you done up and done it.
-The left has nowhere but to go after the 2A at this point.
-Did Kimmel cry like an idiot about Weinstein?
Hollywood professional courtesy means kümmel can only be outraged when it’s outsiders getting fucked
He exposed himself for the little hypocritical twerp he really is.
All this faux-humanist bull shit is astonishing in its bull shit.
My wife, a committed progressive, sends me a chat message with a meme showing a musket and an M249, with a caption that says “Why are we using 18th century laws to regulate 21st century weapons?” Then she says, “How would you argue against this? I know there are a lot of flaws with this reasoning, but what are the strongest counterpoints you’d make?” Two years ago she’d have said, “Yeah, why do people need machine guns? Nobody should have any guns, period!”
I think it’s a combination of not being able to take the Texas out of the girl and possibly some sort of osmosis as my gun cabinet gets fuller.
And yes, the first thing I said was, “Well, for starters, the M249 is regulated under 20th century law and was invented in the 70s, so…”
Why are we using September 2013 laws to regulate October 2017 problems?
You’re right! All laws should have sunset provisions. I suggest every law expire after 12 months.
Invading forces will have 21st century weapons. How did bows and arrows work out for the natives?
Too easy.
They used to hand ink printing presses.
You don’t see people coming after modern media because the framers of the 1st amendment didn’t foresee mass communication.
Those fuckers think press freedom only applies to the correct news organizations defined and approved by the government.
Because space needs venomous reptiles
In space no one can hear you dijery
That’s s joke right, “ARSE”, “To explore the deep unknown”
‘Tis, I hope. But also: Australia.
STEVE SMITH JOIN!
In space no one can hear you consent?
Oh that is too funny.
Mr. Lizard? Anything to contribute?
Has the John Ringo Facebook post been covered already?
It came out a couple of days ago.
Anyway, he argues that Paddock may have been influenced by prescription drugs. Dingo relates a similar situation where his wife meticulously planned to murder a bunch of people, and it was due to her medication.
If you havent seen the post, I copied it and
pasted it to my personal blog.
You know who else planned to murder a bunch of people…
Anders Breivik ?
Jack the Ripper?
Every antagonist in every Ringo book?
Barack Obama?
Evil Morty?
Nancy Sinatra?
Nice tie in.
*applause*
Sweeney Todd?
Margaret Sanger?
::rousing applause::
Mao?
Holds the record for pure body count doesn’t he? Pol Pot however holds the record for percentage of population, if I recall correctly..
Arnaud Amalric?
I almost buy the “valium helped him do this”. I can take one and little things will piss me off and I’ll find myself infuriated over trivial little crap that I couldn’t even shrug my shoulders over otherwise. Not that valium would make you shoot 200 people but I could see it making you shoot 200 if you were going to shoot two people anyway.
One valium will make you pissed off to meticulously plan a mass murder for several weeks?
Sounds like the drug never wears off.
I keep seeing this floated and I’m not too convinced. The causal pathway seems far, far likelier to be “fucked-in-the-head mass murderers get put on meds even before they kill” than “normal people get put on meds (I guess, for no reason) and the meds drive them to kill.”
Or a little of both. Drugs can do weird shit to your head
Yes, you are on target, sugarfree. It’s really something, it’s comparable to people who are on blood pressure medicine who get heart attacks. It must be the blood pressure medicine causing the heart attacks! It couldn’t be that they have a condition that the medicine was trying to treat.
Look, the DEA wants to get in on it too. Why should War on Guns overtake War On Drugs?
Eh. Non suicidal teens who get depression meds are far more likely to suicide than teen who exhibit the same symptoms and express the same feelings (EDIT: and don’t get an antidepressant prescription). We don’t really put teens who don’t exhibit symptoms of depression on antidepressants, so we can’t say with total certainty that it is the chemical, but the correlation is strong.
That said, you need an every day prescription that stays elevated in your blood or brain serum for this to be effective. A couple of valium don’t meet the profile.
I find white text on a black background very harsh to read.
Racist
Try reading green shit on a black background..
How’s this for a race. Not even Uruguay is safe. Argentina finishes off in Ecuador. Chile has a task in Brazil. Colombia and Peru square off in the last match. Based on this a lot can change and Argentina can still squeeze in. What a mess the AFA is at the moment.
Pos Team v t e Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Brazil (Q) 17 11 5 1 38 11 +27 38 Qualification to 2018 FIFA World Cup
2 Uruguay (X) 17 8 4 5 28 18 +10 28
3 Chile 17 8 2 7 26 24 +2 26
4 Colombia 17 7 5 5 20 18 +2 26
5 Peru 17 7 4 6 26 25 +1 25 Advance to inter-confederation play-offs
6 Argentina 17 6 7 4 16 15 +1 25
7 Paraguay 17 7 3 7 19 24 −5 24
8 Ecuador (E) 17 6 2 9 25 26 −1 20
9 Bolivia (E) 17 4 2 11 14 34 −20 14
10 Venezuela (E) 17 1 6 10 18 35 −17 9
Poor Venezuela at least in football they could be something other than last
The could always cheat. Socialists always cheat and lie. Amirite? /high five.
When? When, oh when, will we have common sense idiot control regulations? 99.936% of Americans want it. I do. You do.
Let’s round ’em up.
Only government should be allowed to have idiots.
I think society would be much better if we got rid of all idiots, even the government ones.
*especially* the government ones.
FTFY
Jeremy Lin: cultural appropriator?
Bigots gonna bigot.
I appreciate Lin didn’t take it and apologize like a wimp,
“Nice Chinese script tattoos, bro” and a mic drop would have sufficed.
*Edit Faerie flutters by*
That would be awesome.
Ooh…speaking of awesome!
Covfefe?
Yeah, that’s an Edit Faerie I could get behind.
I’d rather keep in front
Hearties to the faerie for fixing my slothful mobile proofreading skillz
nice
Best part:
Call me crazy, but I think I’m going with Yao’s translation over K-Mart’s.
I have always assumed any tattoo in a non-Latin script on an Anglophone is an insult
患得患失. I don’t read Chinese, but I know what those characters mean. “Suffer, take, suffer, lose”. Meaning: worry about or swayed by considerations of (personal) gain and loss; worry about what might happen to oneself.
Kenyon is an idiot.
Yeah, he really shouldn’t be appropriating the culture of ancient Greece.
Hey, he nailed him with the Chinese tattoos.
Blacks screaming cultural appropriation are really jumping the shark now as they begin to over rate themselves. Wouldn’t surprise me of some dolt screams ‘cultural appropriation’ sporting an Asian tattoo while eating pizza and driving a Jaguar. They’re a bunch of stupid idiots.
You’re fucken mental if you think I’m gonna watch a second of the NBA.
BlacksAnyone screaming cultural appropriation are really jumping the sharknowas theybegin toover rate themselvesconcept.FIFY
True. I accept.
And listening to the Wu Tang Clan. OK, the artists are cool, but they straight up appropriated that name.
Cultural appropriation is a way for incompetents to taste success they can never attain on their own merits.
“Blues music is ours!”
“Can you play a guitar?”
“No, but someone 100 years ago with roughly the same melanin count did! I’m an awesome blues musician by proxy”
It’s literally always skin color based, too. Eminem is a cultural appropriator because he is a white rapper even though he grew up under the exact same conditions as “authentic” rappers. Rick Ross was a former corrections officer who raps about a falsified drug dealing and hard scrabble past with relative impunity. It’s not about “culture” at all; purely race
I’m going to say that that article it’s one of the worst I’ve ever read. I can’t follow the “story”at all.
The “story” is basically nothing, starting with a troglodyte hurling middle school type of criticism over benign choices of attire aesthetic and adornments. All style and culture is the product of an ongoing cascade of copycatism.
Like a kid that is the first to wear a Pulp Fiction shirt to school thinks he’s “the original.” Who made your shirt, dummy?
At least the other guy isn’t appropriating proper English.
seriously.
*y’all’s, FIFH
Las Vegas shooter tried to buy tracer rounds before massacre
“The official explained that if Paddock had tracer ammunition, he would have had a more precise idea of where his shots were going in the darkness, and could have been more accurate.”
So much derp! Get ready for the let’s make tracers illegal push. He had a scope too, need to ban those.
Imagine if he had a silencer. Completely quiet tracers. You would hear no sound but see bursts of light.
*EDIT FAIRY HELPS OUT, BRAH!*
ehm okay I don’t remember but I assume I had some typos
Yeah, “quite” tracers.
Burning Man has so many edit fairies, every journalism operation in America moves their offices there for the week.
Which doesn’t make sense, since having wings, the faeries are cheaper to relocate.
“a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation tells CNN”
Fake news.
They still know precisely dick about this guy, but somehow they know he tried to buy tracer rounds. Which also doesn’t make any fucking sense since it would only make it easier for him to be located once the shooting started. Nope, this is fake news.
So CNN has someone who was told something tell them. Double hearsay.
One of Murphy’s rules of combat…
#32. Tracers work both ways.
I think it’s more of this speculation that he wanted to ignite the avgas tanks – which I think is also bullshit.
Anyone with half a brain, a car loaded with tannerite and the wish to make something very large and flammable go “kaboom” could have organized something a little more effective than popping off a couple of rounds.
This guy may have been crazy, but he wasn’t an idiot. There’s plenty of evidence he was a planner, and a planner could have obtained and deployed tracer and AP if he’d wanted to.
Or, you know, tracer rounds, which are illuminated by burning really hot, might be ideal for shooting avgas tanks and actually causing an ignition after some gas leaked onto the ground and had some chance to thin out*.
* lots of factors there, how shallow the puddle, how warm the night, how hot the round, how long the contact between the round and the gas — I’m going to guess that it is nearly equally unlikely to ignite puddles of avgas with tracer rounds as with regular rounds, but I haven’t done any research or math.
It would make more sense than the notion that he was aiming. If he cared that much about accuracy, he wouldn’t have been using bump stocks. He was spraying and praying on an area target, not taking precise aim.
Then there’s the fact that using tracers would have allowed the cops to pinpoint his location almost instantly. Whoops.
Lieutenant Bobarian once nearly burnt down Ft Knox while firing .50 cal tracers, and was forced to evacuate an M60 machine-gun range at Ft Riley for the same reason.
“Leftenant” Bobarian would make the story funnier imo.
Might they have figured out where he was easier? I know nothing about them but it sounds like it might make sense
Obviously, he wasn’t trying very hard to find tracers. https://fedarm.com/product/7-62×51-147-grain-fmj-tracer-ball/
He tried calling room service.
“I want some tracer rounds and a liter of cola.”
Just saw the Jimmy Kimmel video. Good God that was fucking full of cringe. I wonder what are Adam Carolla’s thoughts on it.
Link?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruYeBXudsds
Shapiro answers back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxJWVWXOHPA
Watched by skipping around. Each time I landed it was derp.
How he permits himself to be so ignorant is beyond me.
I guess it’s a ratings winner?
Dude, have you seen the attention he’s been getting out of it? The left is eating it up. Fuck, he’s probably going to be the next Al Franken.
“While we know how damaging stereotypes can be for humans, dog owners may not consider just how their conceptual baggage of gender stereotypes affects the animals they live with.”
Go on, read the whole thing
No, I will not.
“They also reported that separation-related distress and food-related aggression increased with the number of human adult females in the household.”
Dogs are pack animals, I bet they knew they are the bottom of the totem pole, and know where food goes to when there are more people around.
When my female GSD is in heat, the male doesn’t let anyone near her but me. He doesn’t care if your male/female/xe or whatever. Your human gender is completely irrelevant to him.
So you’re saying I might be accurate when I call our dog a little bitch, because he is scared of everything?
Oh never mind it’s about how humans identifying as a different sex effects dogs.
My cat keeps telling me she wants to transition but I’m like bitch make me a sammitch.
Things 2 Do: October 6 – 8
“Admission is free for all ages and if you dress like a logger, you get a free beer!”
The biggest trick STEVE SMITH pulled, was too convince humanity that admission was free…
Let’s just say that you don’t pay…money.
We get it, you pay with your soul. /eyeroll
STEVE SMITH LOVE LOGGING! LOVE LOGGING HIKERS IN THE ASS!!
STEVE SMITH BASH ALRIGHT!
STEVE SMITH SADDENED BY THIS ENCOURAGING OF BASHING. STEVE SMITH HAVE RIGHTS AND FEELINGS TOO.
Investment Firm Behind Feminist ‘Fearless Girl’ Statue Allegedly Underpaid Female Workers
It’s almost as if powerful people and large business entities virtue signal to appease the leftist mobs and as a cover for the fact that they can’t possibly hold themselves or their businesses to the impossible standards of “equality” set forth by leftists.
I always find these juxtapositions funny, but I do wonder if these firms just get railroaded for things. Like in this case, how was it calculated that white men were payed more?
Cause no one has that as a blanket policy. See the same jobs being compared?
It was field research into sexism and racism
I am very skeptical whenever I read the word underpaid. Smells like there is some sort of objective value of pay one should receive. That is not how it works. If you are payed the salary you negotiated you are not really underpaid, although you can have a below market average wage for your position.
The delicious schadenfreude.
When did it become accepted for the federal government to dictate one’s salary? It’s insane.
I mean, if you’re in the Army….
I cannot wait for the mass cultural hangover when the Progs burn out on this shit. It’s gonna be like when the hippy communes started to drop off after people started realizing that being a polyamorous subsistence farmer kind of sucks, and it sucks even worse if you don’t know how to farm.
dog owners may not consider just how their conceptual baggage of gender stereotypes affects the animals they live with.”
Go on, read the whole thing
Not
gonna
happen.
New Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work In D.C.
http://dcist.com/2017/10/new_bill_would_decriminalize_sex_wo.php
Libertarian moment?
Weinstein’s gonna be so pissed.
Yeah, but what is the fun in paying and getting it willingly? He probably got as much of a rush from the coercion than the actual boom-boom.
True
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMGVMtnxXEw
Something politicians can really get behind.
Hillary Clinton’s What Happened is a betrayal of feminism
Ohhh….God……derp ….overload…….GAH!!!!!!!
“and the United States – a white supremacist republic in practice”
If it’s white supremacist republic, why does the left want to give it so much power? Unless the left is a hotbed of white supremacists… Ahh i get it now.
To be fair, I assume that Orwell was referring to the 19th century
Sure, but the author claims that this is still the situation.
Sure…nothing has changed since then…
*headdesk*
Well, nothing except the Party Switch where all the racists left the Democrats and became Republicans.
19th century America was a white supremacist republic in practice, but what people like this ignore is that the ideals of the founding of the American republic are not themselves white supremacist. It was a bug, not a feature as the saying goes.
Am I the only one that finds it hilarious that website has a UAE domain?
You know what? Ms Ijeoma Oluo doesn’t look like you could drown her if you wrapped her in chains and tied a 500 cubic inch Cadillac motor to her. She looks pretty buoyant.
*applause*
*checks schedule*
Phew, it’s in the US at least.
Not that it’s helped much. They just haven’t looked good. I have no confidence.
Me neither.
Who is gonna help NASA destroy asteroids?
Why bother?
SMOD 2017!
Let’s go Nats. Also Costas calling the Astros vs Red Sox game may completely prevent me from watching it, but go astros. Heres to Los Doyers getting dad dicked by the Snakes. Go Indians because, fuck the yankees. Also Caps seem to be on their way to hanging another banner up in their rafters, just not the one that matters.
Also Redskins look like they may be good.
I know winners don’t have to talk about “moral victories” and all that, but I don’t think the Skins have anything to be ashamed about after that game. The Chiefs look like the team of destiny this season, and the Redskins still managed to be competitive right up to the end. They didn’t make a whole lot of mistakes and the defense looked great. Pryor the Project is still troublesome, but I think he’s coming along.
Doctson is a revelation, dropped ball and all. Charlie Casserley made the point that when Cousins threw that pass Reed was wide open for a walk-in touchdown, but Cousins does that thing when he’s pressured where he just decides who’s getting the ball before the snap and, hell or high water, he’s throwing that ball to him. Doctson shouldn’t have had to go for the ball, and he still almost had it. Rob Kelley should block, maybe be a checkdown option, but he’s just not very good at running the ball. At least, there are better options at RB if you want to run it, like Chris Thompson.
But yeah, I think they look like a better team than they did a month ago, for sure.
Any guesses on where the Tampa Bay kicker’s body will wash ashore?
Lol, my brother is a fan watching the game with him was hilarious.
We could have kept Roberto Aguayo for that. He might have made the 31 yarder.
Shot by Colombian gamblers, eh?
Fucker made the kick to beat the Giants, though, because of course he did.
I had a flyer on the Bucs to win, and Nick Goddamn Folk blew that shit. I still came out ahead on the hedges, but shit.
Put a (Limbal) Ring on It: Women Perceive Men’s Limbal Rings as a Health Cue in Short-Term Mating Domains.
Limbal rings are dark annuli encircling the iris that fluctuate in visibility based on health and age. Research also indicates their presence augments facial attractiveness. Given individuals’ prioritization of health cues in short-term mates, those with limbal rings may be implicated as ideal short-term mates. Three studies tested whether limbal rings serve as veridical health cues, specifically the extent to which this cue enhances a person’s value as a short-term mating partner.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28978250?dopt=Abstract
This is why men and women, on average, both have a preference for blue/green eyed partners; the limbal rings are more visible with light colored eyes.
Eyeist
Flying across the desert in a TWA,
I saw a woman walkin’ ‘cross the sand.
She’d been walking thirty miles en route to Bombay
To meet a brown-eyed handsome man,
Her destination was a brown-eyed handsome man.
I wish the abstract said how much it matters. I have a feeling it can’t be that significant.
Is drive-by sex toy hacking a wake-up call for Britain’s internet security?
Mr Free, when do we get a hacked sex toy in one of your stories?
Hackers getting better all the time at *penetrating* networks.
I don’t get the outrage about this. If the sex toy isn’t currently in use the worst they could do is turn it on in your dresser and drain it’s batteries. If it is in use most people are probably turned on by the idea of random people controlling it
You don’t hack the DoomCock. The DoomCock hacks you!
Given individuals’ prioritization of health cues in short-term mates, those with limbal rings may be implicated as ideal short-term mates.
*draws circles on contact lenses with magic marker*
Or just Photoshop your tinder pics
Or are you one of those pick up women in bars fogeys?
This is but one of the benefits of the video preview booths at the Midtown DVD stores. The hole is so small as to enable me imagining the lady on the other side has any color eyes I please.
Test
Hmmmm
Fail.
Glibs Herpes?
Glibs Herpes, Space Marketer
Holy shit- the NYT “How Long, Oh, Lord? How Long?” editorial features a clock counting the seconds since the greatest mass murder in history. I wonder if they’ll have it there in perpetuity.
They have a countdown since the great leap forward? Is this part of their ‘celebrating communism’ pieces?
*Politburo applause*
Don’t you dare sit down yet, Comrade!
Currently in Almaty after a 22 hour Soviet style train ride south from Astana. Almost got in a fight. Mountains here are *stunning.* All my friends are on nreak in jungle countries. Good changr of pace for me.
Friend had to back out sadly. Not sure what i’m gpnna do the next 2 days though. Need a plan. Got laid last night to score thay Kazakh flag. Women here have very interesting features and i strongly approve.
Food has been great. Still need to try horse, tho the Green Bazaar had tons of butchers of all types.
Will def share more when I have time and a keyboard.
What the hell are you doing in Kazakhstan?
Korean thanksgiving gave us a crazy 10 days off. Decided to do something new and try oit Cental Asia dor the first time.
Awesome. Go get some more of that exotic pussy.
Pilgrims landed in Seoul?
Just the ones that couldnt see straight.
You kinda breezed over the getting laid part. Glibs have standards and requirements for info 😀
She was very complimentary about my, and this is hilariously 100% true, “power.”
*adjusts cufflunks Bond-style*
Sounds more like John style…
I was thinking of Gilmore.
You think of Gilmore when you have sex? Curious… I daresay he’d be flattered.
I knew it! I was referencing The independents fashion posts.
*pebble kick *
Im off to dinner with a gaggle of Kazakh girls!
I HAVE A CUTE AMERICAN ACCENT, DAMMIT!
to score thay Kazakh flag
Euphemism?
Actually in this case an accurate one!
*swish*
Kazakh wine was the worse I’ve ever had. Just as bad as the fermented mare milk
Kazakh wine keeps longer than regular wine, cause no bugger’ll drink it.
TW: There may be some repeats in here because it’s the top rated of 2016 but I don’t think anyone is gonna complain.
http://archive.is/a3B2p
18, 21, 36 winner, winner, gluten-free, non-GMO, organic vegan dinner.
Also 28 cause even though you can’t see her face, she nekkid (SFW).
11
7 11 38 47 and I stopped.
Give it 15-20 minutes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refractory_period_(sex)
4, 5, 7, 21, 24, 42 46, 61
32 is intriguing. 19 looks fun.
I am sad. I know The Chive has run pictures in FLBP of Aussie porn star Angela White and South African model Irene Nell, and yet I see no pictures of either of them. Hopefully that is because The Chive didn’t run pictures of those two in FLBP in 2016.
In any event, I’m sad. I’ll need an orgy to recover.
Now US porn star Angela White. Sadly, in my opinion.
I know she works in the US now. If that means we see more of her work, them I’m for it.
#7 just for you.
http://archive.is/V6OHG
5 is like… umm hubba hubba ahh-oooooga *heavy panting*
Agreed.
Ashley Greene.
Danke.
I’ll be in my bunk.
21 and 38.
I also think 38 is the bunny boiler, but I just can’t help myself
4, 21, and 32
And if you’re ticked about repeats, here:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BZfNo0Cly5W/?taken-by=sabrinanicholebunny
Note: Times are approximate.
Kaspersky antivirus as crooked as a dog’s hindleg.
http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/354068-russian-hackers-stole-nsa-hacking-tools-using-kaspersky-antivirus-report
those motherfuckers! i sorta maybe didn’t want to believe that Kaspersky was compromised. naive?
Shit, I thought everybody knew Kaspersky was spyware years ago.
I thought the MVP voting was done but just wasn’t announced until after the WS. Is that not correct?
Red Wings looked bad beating up the Wild last night. First game at new arena and the lower bowl look pretty empty too.
Blackhawks looked GRAND beating up the Yinzers last night – stadium sold out as usual.
Niemi should just pack his gear and head to Scranton.
No. Scranton is depressing enough already, heyna?
Meanwhile, the Rangers lost their home opener to probably the worst team in hockey. Really bad night for the fan of NY teams.
I noted before the game they went into some detail about what an awful keeper Colorado has – and after the game it was a different story….
As I understand it, the Rangers are basically fucked until Lundquist’s expensive contract runs out. And they went and traded a pretty good backup keeper to… AZ? *shrug*
Eh, not so sure about that. Hank isn’t as good as he was 5 years ago, but he’s still good. It’s the rest of the team I’m not so sure about. Thin at center, still toting the corpse of Marc Staal on the blueline, still lacking in top-shelf goal scoring. They have a lot of skilled forwards but no elite forwards. That can win you a lot of regular season games but it’s hard to go far in the playoffs without a forward who can carry a team on his back like a Crosby or a Kane.
I’m a hockey newbie but the opinion I read said that Hank’s salary makes it difficult to afford an elite forward. I should add that by “fucked” I meant “no chance at the Cup…
The way hockey is structured, it’s pretty much impossible to sign a truly elite forward as a free agent anyway without crippling your team. The salary cap is ridiculously low and the real stars’ salaries are huge. Guys are rarely still in their prime when they hit free agency. Look at all of the recent Cup winners – virtually all of them are led by players they either drafted or traded for:
Pittsburgh: Crosby, Malkin, Letang, Kessel (acquired for picks and prospects)
Chicago: Kane, Toews, Keith, Seabrook, Saad
LA: Kopitar, Quick, Doughty, Carter (trade)
Boston: Thomas, Krejci, Bergeron, Marchand, Chara (trade)
You have to go back to 2007 Anaheim to find a Cup champion whose best players were free agents (Selanne and Niedermayer).
Makes sense. I’m used to (non-American) soccer where almost everyone is a “free agent”.
It’s more like they mismanaged their draft. They went FOUR consecutive years without a first round pick. In a hard salary cap league that is just world-class stupid.
Theory as to why late night TV sucks (there was a time when it didn’t?).
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/oct/5/inside-the-beltway-why-late-night-got-grim-and-pol/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=socialnetwork
JOhnny Carson
I was a Letterman fan way back in the day.
Me too, then he decided to let the prog fly.
Pretty amazing new football video game that simulates anthem kneeling.
https://www.superdeluxe.com/fantaknee
Wow, that is problematic.
I chose to kneel for the national anthem.
“Oh you showed the world what a defiant hero you are. Uh oh. Trump just tweeted about something else. The news cycle has moved on. Also, you have CTE.”
Then I chose to stand.
The result is basically the same.
I just kept bobbing up and down and got bored about half-way through.
All I know about Kaspersky is they sponsor a couple of F2 cars. So they can’t be all bad.
“Vegas Shooters Girlfriend: He Would Lie In Bed Moaning and Screaming”
https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/las-vegas-shooting/vegas-shooter-s-girlfriend-says-he-would-lie-bed-moaning-n808156
That means you’re doing it right sugar.
Oh wait…that’s not what you…carry on.
*slow clap*
Time to purge “adulting” from the vernacular.
YES. Fucking millennials.
I think it’s funny. The article complains about how millennials asking for the older generation to hurry up and die is dehumanizing. But treating young people’s like a slush fund through social security is A-Ok.
Neither group (as a whole) wants to see the system die though.
True. I just see a slight bias in the way millennials are portrayed. I get it. I don’t love everything about ‘millennial’ culture, but I don’t think boomers or gen-x are stunning examples of great culture too. In general I hate the collectivism of generational thinking, but if we are going to talk about generations, let’s remember that millennials have had (until recently) almost no political power. The current state of government has little to do with them as a group.
I guess if I cared it would matter.
*resumes slacking*
Team Gen X unite! Or not, whatever.
Grunge music came from Gen X. Therefore, superior to both generations. QED biatch.
Millennials and Boomers are working hard to demonstrate to Gen X that they are, in fact, the worst. And its a neck and neck race.
I’d like to see them both put on a barge and kicked off to sea.
We need another Vietnam to thin their ranks.
North Korea should do just fine.
There’s a lot of flag burners, who have too much freedom
I wanna make it legal for policemen, to beat ’em
My sister, who is in her mid-30s, is going back to school for an Associate’s. One of her classes involves group presentations. Her group, all late teens and early twenties, wanted to do a presentation on why “adulting is hard”. My sister’s jaw dropped and she told them she wanted no part of it.
This is why I won’t be setting foot in a college classroom ever again.
The adult commitments of marriage and children are increasingly regarded as a burdensome imposition, synonymous with conformity and unwelcome obligation.
Well, why should these kids opt for adulthood? What’s the advantage? Are they going to be taken more seriously by popular culture that dismisses “bourgeois values”, praises people for being “woke” and insists the adults in the room need to “check their privilege”? I watch clips of students talking to their professors in ways I wouldn’t talk to a panhandler on the street. Is this what young people should be lining up for?
Adulting became a thing about the same time that personal responsibility for kids went out the window.
To all the married Glibs, sorry.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-06/married-americans-are-more-unhappy-than-ever
I blame yoga pants. Girls walking around in yoga pants reminds you what you’re missing out on once you’ve promised to be faithful. On the upside, all you have to do is buy your wife yoga pants and suddenly marriage isn’t all that bad again
My wife wears them 80% of the time. Ours is a happy marriage.
I’ve noticed in my life, I’m always happiest when I’m 100% single. After my ex died, about a year later, I woke up one day and realized how motherfucking fantastic everything was.
*winces*
Married people are happier than single people overall, but it’s unclear if that’s causal or just because happier people get married.
Or their wife is watching while they fill out the surveys…
I also recall reading somewhere:
The most common stated cause of unhappiness among single people: not being in a relationship
The most common stated cause of unhappiness among people in a relationship: the relationship
You always search for it, but you’re never gonna perfectly obtain it.
The grass is always greener…
For me, it’s because I generally hate people and want nothing to do with them. So, I’m happiest when I’m on my own.
You’re here. You may be an introvert but you still need social contact.
She’s not here for social purposes, she’s actually a paid representative of Big Ski.
I think of myself as happily single.
What were you saying about married glibs now?
I no longer have extreme political views. The world shifted around, I stayed where I was and suddenly I’m a centrist. And that really sucks, man.
any mention of autistic tendencies?
Do economics students behave more selfishly than other students? Experiments involving monetary allocations suggest so. This article investigates the underlying motives for the economic students’ more selfish behavior by separating three potential explanatory mechanisms: economics students are less concerned with fairness when making allocation decisions; have a different notion of what is fair in allocations; or are more skeptical about other people’s allocations, which in turn makes them less willing to comply with a shared fairness norm. The three mechanisms were tested by inviting students from various disciplines to participate in a relatively novel experimental game and asking all participants to give reasons for their choices. Compared with students of other disciplines, economics students were about equally likely to mention fairness in their comments; had a similar notion of what was fair in the situation; however, they expected lower offers, made lower offers, and were less willing to enforce compliance with a fair allocation at a cost to themselves. The economics students’ lower expectations mediated their allocation decisions, suggesting that economics students behaved more selfishly because they expected others not to comply with the shared fairness norm.
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0183814
Read this article. Its important to note all the ways the author’s biases bleed into their analysis. What does “fair” mean? Just because someone has an unstudied, naive view of fairness doesn’t make them more right.
Probably makes them less right, actually. Our monkey brains evolved in tribes of ~150 people and operated on a social model that couldn’t take advantage of economies of scale, market transactions, cash-money, or peaceful transactions with people you don’t see every day. The economics students are operating in a way that is more in tune with large scale markets that have been in place for the last couple hundred years.
Different definitions of fair. One based on reality, one based on biases developed for a different world.
A couple weeks ago, I posted a story about how the local progs were very upset that people were abandoning the public schools for charter schools. Worse, the progs were being betrayed by the black students leaving at higher rates than anyone else.
Well, they have a fix (or maybe the cause?) for that.
https://www.minnpost.com/education/2017/10/amid-push-ethnic-studies-classes-high-school-obama-elementary-starts-them-kinderga
I also giggle that the elementary school is named “Barack & Michelle Obama Elementary School”. That poor fucker can’t get a school named after just himself? His wife also gets top billing?
*EDIT FERRY FAILS*
Well black students don’t know whats good for them, that’s why they go charter. Then again cant be to many of them in Minnesota
“Hey Joe, how do we get these uppity negroes to go to public school?”
“Let’s name it after some other negro they like!”
“Great idea!”
The Left is totes not racist.
edit faerie, aisle 58 for link cleanup.
Nice link. Your a moron
wtf cant you get you’re contractions correct?
Right their. Ive seen what you did
Morons.
Were
Everywhere
Shit. Trying again.
is this the book where the kids learn that taxes are theft?
The Little Rock Airport is also now named “The Bill and Hillary Clinton Airport.” Like, damn, can’t a president get his own airport?
I mean. James wasn’t trying to get all up on that “Dolly Madison” label was he?
Also, people around here call it the “Hillbilly Airport.”
The Blackhawks looked amazing last night. Sure, the Penguins seem to be sleepwalking through the beginning of the season, but if the Hawks play like this all season it’s at least going to be a lot of fun to watch.
*opens hands, palms upward*
Insh’allah!
The Flyers might’ve gotten shut out, but goddamn that Pens game made up for it.
http://time.com/4971738/donald-trump-calm-before-the-storm-military-white-house/
“We’ll have the classiest nuclear holocaust ever. The best. Believe me, the bombing of Nagasaki will look so tacky in comparison to our nuclear bombing.”
+1 ICBM with TRUMP painted on the side
Good marketing promotion
Tactical Ranged Uranium Missile Platform?
With a bayonet lug, pistol grip and bump stock.
painted Black, Flat Dark Earth or Uber-TactiCool Urban Gray?
Kimber “Sapphire” anodizing on the fittings, Magnum Research “Tiger Stripe” TiN finish on the body, of course.
Fabulous.
Gold lettering right?
Commie Pope no likey smut.
https://apnews.com/09009a6b3934453187fba0ad9c04f40b/Pope-denounces-porn-and-corruption-of-kids'-minds,-bodies
“Commie Pope”
That remarks going to cost you four Hail Mary’s and an Our Father.
I’m not Titor, I have no problems with Catholics in general; however, I do think the current Pope is a joke.
The Jesuits are a strange bunch. Mainly because they’re part of a covert conspiracy to control the world. I’ve said too much
Fuck the Jesuits. Christian Brothers FTW.
Hey. I went to a Christian Brothers high school. Those guys are old school. And they make a pretty sweet brandy
St. John Baptist de La Salle…..
Pray for us. Live Jesus in our hearts…..
Forever.
I think we can skip the recitation of the Prayer of St. Francis
Did that used to be a thing? Because I can’t recall any “Prayer to St. Francis” when I was at my Christian Brothers high school (2001-2005).
I went to high school 1998-2001. We use to begin each class with the pledge of allegiance (Catholics are overly patriotic) and then “Lord make me an instrument of your peace, where their is hatred let me so love, where their is injury pardon, where there is doubt faith, where their is despair hope, where there is darkness light…..” etc.
Then it would end with “St. John Baptist de La Salle- pray for us. Live Jesus in our hearts- forever”.
I was raised Catholic, am a product of Catholic schools, and am no longer Catholic. I agree with Q: I have no problems with Catholics but the current Pope is a Commie and a joke.
Ditto. I still go to church, mostly because I want to raise my daughters in the church so that they can go to the same schools I went to (which were phenomenal and very affordable if you’re a parishioner).
That said, fuck this commie Pope. I know of not a single Catholic in my parish or in my family that likes him. My paternal grandparents are hardcore uber Catholics, and they fucking hate the guy.
Same here, except for the Catholic schools. And Commie Pope is a joke.
I’m kind of in the same boat. Here’s the thing I’ll say about the current pope – whether you agreed with the Catholic Church or not, one of the things that they did have going for them they were intellectually coherent. If you accepted their premises, their conclusions followed. A lot of Commie Pope’s pronouncements seem much more guided by feelings. I can’t imagine that’s a particularly good thing for their long-term authority.
Well, that’s the get-out clause. When the Pope says something stupid, he’s not making an ex cathedra declaration that can be considered infallible. He’s just a religious Argentinian dude.
Incidentally, as I understand it, very few Papal pronouncements enjoy the status of an ex cathedra declaration unless they’ve also been considered by an ecumenical council.
But you’re right, the flock in general isn’t particularly discerning and don’t tend to be ‘up’ on the distinctions between what his Holiness *the man* might pronounce, and what his Holiness, the Vicar of Christ might pronounce.
Cultural Change Over Time: Why Replicability Should Not Be the Gold Standard in Psychological Science.
By continuing to focus on the necessity for replication, psychological science misses an important and all-pervasive psychological phenomenon: the impact of social and cultural change on behavior. Or put otherwise, our discipline misinterprets failure to replicate behavioral results if we do not consider that social and cultural change can produce systematic shifts in behavior. Data on the connection between social change and behavioral change point to a new role for “replication”: not to show that results can be duplicated, but to reveal behavioral effects of sociodemographic and cultural change in the intervening years between original and replicated procedure, whether those be surveys, standardized behavioral procedures, or intelligence tests.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28972841?dopt=Abstract
I dunno if you can’t replicate a finding how do you know it is accurate so you can use it to reveal cultural change?
Reason #1 skrillion why social “science” isn’t science.
Replication is literally the foundation of the scientific view of the world, which has led to the most successful expansion of humanity, and the greatest reduction of gross, net, and median suffering of humans in history. But sure, fucking burn that down because of your feelings.
This is just like those lefty professors who argue that logic and reasoning are phony constructions devised by evil white men to oppress minorities and women.
Judging from the other titles in which that author’s name appears, I’m going to guess that he’s some lefty social science dingbat. I just wanted to point that out since every non-leftist is painted as an “anti-science” dunderhead who probably believes in divination and Tarot cards.
Menendez meeting request was ‘unusual,’ Sebelius testifies.
Latest on the most ignored story in the world.
Rookie NYT Writer: A US Senator on trial for corruption? Why have I not heard about this?
[Sees (D!) on the side, promptly shuts his mouth]
I’m still so curious if my friend will have anything to do with this case. I’m-a ask a mutual friend if she knows anything.
So mutual friend says someone in her office (she works for an exec branch department) got called, and he’s only tangentially related to Menendez. She said she would not be surprised if our friend got called, given she worked for Menendez for so long, Yikes!!
The Feds seem to be going the route of massive amounts of evidence – so I wouldn’t be surprised if she’s caught up in that wide net.
The head of the department got called in for a billing dispute, that’s smoke billing out of the building.
How many of these are Venezuelan Surgeons flown in and getting paid in food?
http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/colombia-sex-island-holiday-youtube-video-advert-removed-good-girls-company-prostitutes-cartagena-a7986291.html
Price seems excessively reasonable to be honest, there must be a catch
Yeah. Starting at $600? Someone here needs to do some investigative reporting.
Hey, like I said, when you’re paying the whores in bread and water that reduces the price a lot.
From the comments:
“Highly recommended, by the US Secret Service.”
What’s hiding under Krugabe’s bed? A new chairman of the Federal Reserve, and that spectre is scaring the bejabbers out of you-know-who.
By all accounts, Rex Tillerson has demoralized and degraded the State Department to the point of uselessness. Tom Price did much the same to Health and Human Services before jetting off. Scott Pruitt has moved rapidly to eliminate the “protection” aspect of the Environmental Protection Agency. And similar stories are unfolding throughout the executive branch.
Donald Trump has, in short, been like a Category 5 hurricane sweeping through the U.S. government, leaving devastation in his wake. And one question I don’t see being asked often enough is, will the same thing happen to the Federal Reserve? And if it does, how disastrous will that end up being for the world economy?
The Fed, which sets monetary policy, is by far our most important economic agency; its chairwoman (or chairman) is arguably the most powerful economic official in the world, more than the president himself. Its institutional status is peculiar: It isn’t exactly part of the executive branch, but it isn’t exactly independent, either. Its board members are appointed by the president subject to congressional approval, but have traditionally been technocrats expected to distance themselves from partisan politics.
[praise and bootlicking of Fed Chairmen throughout time, vilification of Republikkkinz one and all, et cetera, et cetera, blah blah blah]
Now, I don’t know who Trump will actually pick to head the Federal Reserve. It might actually end up being someone smart, knowledgeable and honest. Hey, there’s a first time for everything.
But surely it’s possible, even probable, that the Federal Reserve, like other government agencies, is about to get Trumpified, that one of American policy’s last remaining havens of competence and expertise will soon share in the general degradation. And won’t that be fun when the next crisis hits?
Poor Krugabe. He’ll never get over seeing Hillary’s Mao suit coattails yanked out from under him.
He’s just afraid he’ll never get to see that trillion dollar coin.
The guy who is leading the 5-way race actually thinks that rates are too low and that the Fed not only needs to accelerate dumping all the bonds it bought, but also raise rates. Of course Krugabe and other socialists want to do battlefield preparaation to paint that as a horrible idea. And it is, if you’re trying to give everyone free shit and spend your way to prosperity while also destroying private savings vehicles.
https://twitter.com/bdomenech/status/916138886228860928
ENB can’t even right now
Soave can comfort her with his hair.
The one question that I never see being asked when the gun control debate flairs up from time to time is, “should one person’s freedom be contingent on the behavior of another?” That’s what it all really boils down to once you get past all the signaling and talking points.
And if they answer in the affirmative, what other freedoms can this logic be applied to? After all the only two places where you’re security is guaranteed is in a cell or in the ground.
They at least seem pretty consistent on that count.
“Let’s repeal the 1st amendment because you say things I don’t like.”
I don’t think cells are that safe. My BIL did a week in jail and had to pay people not to kick his ass anymore and the sadist guards couldn’t care less what goes on in there.
That sock is missing a top-hat and monocle.
Police chase in Miami starts with a carjacking, has another carjacking in the middle, and ends with the perp in the water in a standoff (he’s in custody now).
Florida Man is the gift that keep son giving.
*Edit Fairy thinks for a bit…leaves*
You cant tell me this isn’t proof videogames cause crime
Interesting – they killed him. They initially said he was in custody. The shooting was 100% planned, and not a reaction to a momentary threat – they had the news copters move back to 3 miles minutes before the standoff ended.
That’s what they’re calling it now?
Funny. I know lots of people who will be de-escalating some deer this weekend.
He’s not standing up anymore, is he?
The comments are… well, you know…
Chris Herbert Manchester, NH 6 minutes ago
We need a true Central Bank. One that works within the government with the Treasury. One that does not create debt, dollar for dollar, for net federal government spending. Modern Monetary Theory economist Bill Mitchell explains how ‘independent’ central banks like the Federal Reserve needlessly hobble national economies by issuing unnecessary debt. We need to upgrade our financial literacy when it comes to the fiscal powers of a monetary sovereign like the United States.
MMT, FTW! Why expend a lot of time and energy needlessly pretending we’re “borrowing” money, when we can just print it? It worked for the Kaiser.
*bangs forehead on desk*
Regarding that Hollywood bigwig: In public, he presents himself as a liberal lion, a champion of women and a winner of not just artistic but humanitarian awards.
I’m not surprised. This is the same type of behavior that was exhibited by all those game “journalists” during gamergate – the most zealous people against the gamergaters turned out to be pedophiles or serial sexual harassers. “I respect wamen, they owe me.”
It reminds of closeted homosexuals being the biggest gay-bashers.
Wasn’t there some woke ass LGBTQWTF shitty mall punk band that pulled this same shit recently?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PWR_BTTM
Yup, that’s it.
Who knows if those allegations have any substance.
Yeah, I was thinking the same. The band, and perhaps the individuals’ lives, have been pretty much destroyed on the basis of an allegation against one of them? Something seems missing.
Live by the feelz, die by the feelz.
Holy crap. Allegations made on May 10th. By May 17th, dropped from label, removed from all online retailers and Spotify.
Yup… it’s the classic “doth protest too much”.
Also relevant: Jerry Sandusky would never harm children! He loves them so much that he’s dedicated his life to running a charity for at-risk kids!
This is why I am so cynical of people who wear their virtue on their sleeve.
This is likely not a coincidence.
Sneaky Male Feminists
Peterson is of the opinion that people who cannot compete in the traditional dominance heirarchies try to gain sexual access to women by presenting themselves as allies to the women.
In light of that observation, it seems to me that a predator who just wants sexual access and otherwise has contempt for women would prefer to go the deceptive ‘ally’ route since it provides them with a target rich environment of women who lack the confidence and attractiveness to appeal to men competing in the merit based heirarchies. Basically, they can shoot fish in their own dedicated barrel without having to worry about other men giving them the beatdown that they would receive in other settings.
Hugo Schwyzer hardest hit
Nice. Peterson talks with Paglia about how men can argue with men because they know there is a limit due to the threat of violence. Men can’t argue with women because the women can just keep pushing without limit. Paglia chimed in with something along the lines of that’s why men and women are happier when they’re kept apart.
That’s a fair point. Before they bemoan the patriarchy and “traditional” conservative values, third-wave feminists should remember that the notion that men should never under any circumstance strike women comes from a very old-school idea of masculinity. You’re supposed to take it on the chin because of chivalry, basically, and that allows for a society where generally smaller, weaker women can exercise some sort of influence over generally larger, stronger men. With the caveat that nobody should hit anybody, men typically find hitting other men perfectly acceptable if the circumstances justify it, so there are built-in limits to our interactions. When an ass-whoopin’ is on the table, you tend to tread a bit more carefully.
Any man who declares himself a feminist, is not a man a woman should be alone with. If forced to be alone with him, make sure you have pepper spray and a tazer. In my experience, such men are creepy predators.
Justin Trudeau calls himself a feminist and asked Canadians to raise their sons as such.
He’s retarded.
“Any man who declares himself a feminist, is not a man a woman should be alone with.”
Or a child.
The comments rip him.
It’s one guy making the comments. One very angry guy. 😀
Qoobo is an adorable, headless robotic cat
That’s just sad.
Two words you don’t usually see in conjunction.
Unless you’re Jeffrey Dahlmer.
Japan, never stop being you.
I want one to place it under my wife’s front tire.
Me-WOW!
I read that as “Qdoba” and thought people would be petting a burrito.
Now that’s a euphemism!
mmm…. cat burrito
Apparently it can purr, too. But I prefer when our cats choose to get on my lap.
The leftists who lead Europe keep pushing for a single state, while the people seem to be pushing harder the other way – for the break up of the European nation-states. This should be exciting.particularly if the U.S. decides a break-up is in order too.
Are we headed towards a great break-up along ethnic, cultural, and ideological lines?
The men in Europe will either vomit a deluge of estrogen and force their women to start making sammiches again, or they’ll embrace the mother of all abominations. I’m going with the latter.
Are we headed towards a great break-up along ethnic, cultural, and ideological lines?
Would this be a good thing? I think it would generally be a bad thing, since Europeans tend to get into wars with each other. Maybe mutually assured destruction will be enough to deter that.
That depends. Small countries = small wars?
It would probably mean the end of immigration into most of Europe. Maybe bad stuff like expulsions, maybe avoid something much worse?
These euphemisms…
I blame white women.
https://twitter.com/ABC2NEWS/status/916035181995347969
David Brooks fearfully pokes at America’s scary, dark, hateful gun-loving soul with a stick.
The populist revolt is about halfway through taking over the Republican Party. It is winning victories on gun, immigration and trade policy. The way to fuel this populism is to feed the elites-versus-common-man narrative, as so many have self-righteously done this week.
The only way to make progress on guns control is to forge some sort of synthesis on the larger postindustrialization/populism war. Over a century ago, industrialization brought on a culture clash between agrarian populists and the genteel Victorian aristocrats. Theodore Roosevelt transcended the fight by inventing a new American nationalism. Meanwhile, the progressives cleaned up elite corruption and nurtured a square deal for those being left behind by technological change. Cultural leaders introduced new institutions and community forms, like the Boy Scouts and the Settlement House, that drew from both cultures and replaced them.
Today we need another grand synthesis that can move us beyond the current divide, a synthesis that is neither redneck nor hipster but draws from both worlds to create a new social vision. Progress on guns will be possible when the culture war subsides, but not before.
C’mon, you dumb fucking hicks; get with the program. Civilize yourselves. If only it were as easy as handing out frock coats and top hats.
Earth to David- You need to get out more. Just because everybody in your social circles agree on something, that doesn’t make it true. America has no “soul”. America is an agglomeration of wildly different individuals who just happen to reside in a geographically contiguous region. Your precious New York City doesn’t even have a “soul”; ask your
“friend”housekeeper, next time you take her to lunch.He calls out to his homey Frum as well.
I always thought they should go on tour, Brooks and Frum: Cuck-Sucking Boogie
For the second time this morning: you’re saying those are actually two different people? Huh.
Sometimes I think Frum and Brooks are sock-puppets for Krugman attempting to understand (albeit terribly) conservative perspectives.
And that’s exactly the problem he wants to fix I guess. We must
stamp outtranscend individuality and cultural differences.Okee-dokee David, we’ll get right on that.
I wish Ayn Rand were still alive so we could lock Brooks in a room with her and videotape what happens.
That cunt just glosses over the argument over the right to self defense. He characterizes gun ownership primarily as an exercise in partisan political virtue signaling. What a piece of shit.
I complained about exactly this a day or two ago. One of the things I find most annoying about the discussion is that the right to self-defense isn’t even acknowledged as a factor worth considering. Nope, the ONLY reason anyone wants to own guns is because they’re a “gun nut” with no regard for the lives of others. Anyone who thinks self-defense is a real thing is just delusional from watching too many action movies and/or NRA videos or something.
I want to smack every retard – and there are a lot of them – who I see smugly proclaiming that LV “proves” that people can’t actually use guns to defend themselves, because nobody scaled the fucking 37 floor hotel from the outside to stop the shooter.
America would be so much more harmonious if people weren’t afraid of exotic lunch meats (which aren’t actually exotic at all).
Monkey brain.
“America is an agglomeration of wildly different individuals who just happen to reside in a geographically contiguous region.”
And the only way to possibly allow that to function without it collapsing into a Yugoslavian nightmare is to respect people’s basic rights, one of which is self-defense. So back off and fuck off slaver.
epidemic of mass shootings
there’s no epidemic. the shootings are just more deadly.
Peggy Noonan has always been full of awesome, and she’s at her most awesomest bestest when she’s excoriating elitists for their elitism. Her piece in the WSJ today is an excellent example.
From the part where she asks why so many Americans have so many guns:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-culture-of-deathand-of-disdain-1507244198
Nuts with nukes, terrorists bent on a mission. The grid will go down. One of our foes will hit us, suddenly and hard. In the end it could be hand to hand, door to door. I said some of this six years ago to a famously liberal journalist, who blinked in surprise. If that’s true, he said, they won’t have a chance! But they are Americans, I said. They won’t go down without a fight.
Wolverines!
C’mon, you know you were thinking it.
Honestly, I was thinking of the LA Riots, which I was in the middle of at one point.
I was thinking of the Koreatown, when the LAPD stood down, and the merchants of Koreatown organized and armed themselves against the rioters, who were coming to burn their stores down in retaliation for the Latasha Harlins shooting by a Korean store owner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUQhs-UzYgU
I’ve seen that shit happen, and I’ve seen people successfully defend themselves and their businesses.
The rioters burned down 1,000+ buildings and looted many more. Calling the cops doesn’t help in that situation.
Hmm. Weren’t the rioters also Americans?
What are you talking about?
Are you suggesting that the merchants of Koreatown should have read the looters and arsonists their Miranda rights?
In the first days of the riot, Daryl Gates told the LAPD to stand down. There was no rule of law.
Of course not. But I excerpted her bit about Americans fighting our foes, and you brought up the LA riots, which were perpetrated by Americans.
I read the part you quoted and the bit after it as being about defending ourselves against our fellow Americans.
The purpose of North Korea detonating an EMP over America would be to cause massive civil unrest. When the grid goes out, the water pumps stop working. In the Southwest,that means the grocery stores get looted until the water is gone–then what?
I think we just read that part differently.
To my mind, that’s as much about us defending ourselves against our fellow Americans as much as anything else. “The Road” is about people defending themselves against fellow Americans who have resorted to cannibalism in the aftermath of devastation.
*something, something, all enemies, foreign and domestic*
We have met the enemy and he is us?
When they’re swarming around your building, angling to burn it down, they won’t seem like “us” so much. They’ll seem more like “them”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgCiC6qTtjs
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/roof-koreans
600 million screaming Chinamen
“I thought there were a billion screaming Chinamen?”
Throws whiskey in campfire.
There were
is it just me or as the libertarian left has drifted towards social justice, doesn’t it seem like the right has drifted more libertarian?
That’s Ronald Reagan’s speechwriter!
This piece could have been posted over at the other place back in the day–back before the other place drifted into outer space.
as the libertarian left has drifted towards social justice, doesn’t it seem like the right has drifted more libertarian?
I think the latter element of that explains why so much of the libertarian establishment has pushed toward the libertarian left. Yes, the right has moved to a more libertarian place. And, while it’s great for libertarianism, I think that scares the hell out of “professional libertarians”. They have careers being the voice of libertarianism. If the right were to become significantly libertarian, they’d be second or third tier voices. Hence, they want to push libertarianism to the social justice schtick to preserve their relevance.
I think this is a great point. They feel the need to differentiate themselves from Dems and Repubs rather than embrace the fact that Repubs are moving in their direction. The social justice direction in which they are moving is going to have the opposite effect to what they seek. They will be one of many voices saying the same shit that doesn’t make any damn sense. They will become completely irrelevant.
Peggy Noonan has always been full of awesome
Like in 2004 when she was “tired”… from so much history! It wearied her. I came back from an all day patrol in which I almost got blowed up real good, read that and wanted to punch the old dried up bint in the snoot.
Can you believe she was only 54 in 2004? I would have sworn she was a centenarian by now, based on her writing.
I don’t know the piece you’re talking about specifically, but I’m sure she’s made mistakes over the past 40 years.
When she’s good, she’s very good, and when she’s excoriating elitists, she’s full of awesome.
I haven’t read a better defense of why average Americans might want to own so many powerful guns anywhere.
And I’ve seen plenty of elitists go after gun owners as if they’re a bunch of stupid rednecks who have no other reason to own their guns than because they’re stupid rednecks. The ultimate suggestion in this piece is that many Americans own so many powerful guns because of the provocations of elitists–directed against the rights and interests of average Americans. And given what else is out their in the media at the moment, that is a beautiful thing.
“Weinstein’s lawyer and counselor is Lisa Bloom, Gloria Allred’s daugher. Lisa Bloom represents women’s rights unless she’s being paid gobs of money by Hollywood bigwig pigs like Harvey Weinstein. Then, her sensibilities lean to the crassly money and power side. In this way, she’s a lot like feminist hero Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton, the recipient of Harvey Weinstein’s largesse, found that her grabby hand’s nerves fired more quickly than her crawling skin nerves. Funny how that happens to feminists.”
https://spectator.org/harvey-weinstein-clinton-friend-fundraiser-sexist-pig/
“Malia Obama was an intern for Weinstein earlier this year”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4953450/Harvey-Weinstein-right-wing-conspiracy-sex-shame.html
All I learned from that story is that Katie Holmes is banging Jamie Foxx.
Hard to believe that Jamie Foxx can’t do better than Katie Holmes
It’s the thetans.
I thought she renounced it. Or is he one?
He quoted Jay Z. This one just keeps getting better.
I predict full Weinsteinian implosion before it’s over.
Got 99 problems and a bitch ain’t one – they’re more like 95 of them.
Even better – he misquoted Jay Z.
https://twitter.com/NonWhiteHat/status/916297868968853504
Related: The VRWC is back and it’s out to get Harvey Weinstein!. Led by that arch-rightist crazy Ashley….ummmmm…..Judd.
My take on Weinstein isn’t that Hollywood liberals are a bunch of elitists.
It’s that we’re being suckered into acting like a bunch of feminists.
A producer had a casting couch. Big deal. Was he accused of rape?
What I’ve read is that he’s been sued repeatedly for sexual harassment. He admitted he’s acted inappropriately.
What do they want us to do?
My reaction to that story is: Why is this news?
I’m not about to go all social justice warrior and insist that his movies not be financed, distributed or attended anymore. That’s the difference between me and a social justice warrior.
If Hollywood is hypocritical in this case, good for them! They should be hypocritical in this case and many more until that stupid, knee-jerk SJW shit goes out the window entirely. I’m not about to complain because they’re treating Weinstein like they should be treating everybody else.
A producer had a casting couch. Big deal. Was he accused of rape?
Not rape. But, in any other industry, a company that allowed a manager to engage in this behavior would be liable in a major law suit. And Hollywood demanded that this be the case. And, ultimately, it is a sort of theft. Weinstein is simply a manager, an employee of the owners of the company. He’s using the position the company’s actual owners gave him to benefit himself, and not the owners.
He’s been sued repeatedly and he’s settled out of court.
This isn’t as it should be?
I’ve been reading that he’s paid out hundreds of thousands of dollars for propositioning women.
Yeah, the casting couch has been a real thing since forever.
Why is this news?
Because Hollywood is being hypocritical?
Hollywood should be hypocritical on this!
Their stupid overreactions to SJW issues are stupid.
He gets sued, he pays off the people who sue him, he’s a slime bag on the casting couch, and everybody knows it . . .
What more do you want?
New laws against sexual harassment to include speech prohibitions? Blackballing people who’ve been accused of sexual harassment?
Let’s not play into the hands of the SJWs, here, by making their case for them.
What more do you want?
Personally, I’d like to see him liable to the shareholders. I’d like to see the people in Hollywood who’ve lectured the rest of us about how awful the rest of us are answer for why they didn’t make this public knowledge earlier.
A shareholder’s meeting is the most democratic thing I’ve ever seen. It’s a democracy where the rules that are made don’t even have to apply to you if you don’t want–you can just sell your stock.
Weinstein is known for making low-budget blockbusters. I would be shocked if the shareholders didn’t want to keep him.
Last night I watched part one of a three(?) part art history series on Prime, about Renaissance art. Very good, especially the stuff about the Flemish painters. Worth a look.
who was the presenter?
NH legislators receive hate mail
Police said they are looking into anonymous postcards sent this week calling two pro-gun rights Republican legislators “NRA vermin” and threatening their children.
They’re going to win the civil war by hoping the other side accidentally shoots themselves in the head. So crazy, it might just work.
“Love Trumps Hate”
“When they go low, we go high.”
You don’t do oral?
He does, but in the wrong place.
Nah, I just do it the way they do it sometimes in pornos where the dude stands up and holds the chick upside down.
Inverted 69.
The hot 96.
My cousin, who’s in the Air Force (alright, get your jokes out of the way) is leaving today for Afghanistan, again. Fourth tour, I think. Maybe fifth.
Why the hell are we still sending soldiers there?
Because eventually the Afghans will stop being glorified tribal goat herders and transition to a halfway functioning modern democracy.
I needed that laugh.
I watched some congressional hearings about Afghanistan the other day.
Without trying to summarize them or their various answers to your question, i’d just point out that you didn’t hear a single goddamn thing about these hearings on the front pages of any newspapers.
Which is itself a way of answering your question. We’re still sending soldiers there because the press helps keep our small, perpetual wars quiet.
With all that has been going on with the NFL players kneeling who could really blame the press for not covering our endless war?
I was surprised to hear that we had ‘advisers’ in Niger.
we’ve been all over africa since …. forever. in small quantities, but we’re there. my air force SF buddy did a tour in africa during what he called “the Toyota Wars” of the 1980s. Anywhere shit is popping off, we probably have some ‘advisors’.
US ‘advisors’ pop (or used to pop) up in the most interesting places.
I was visiting Windhoek in the late 80’s and was quite surprised to hear some US accents among all the South African english speakers; this is at a time when there were still Cuban-backed ‘advisors’ and stood-down military personnel in the north of what would become Namibia,
They were the toughest-looking, most dangerous ‘aid workers’ I had ever met.
Why the hell are we still sending soldiers there?
Um…He’s an Airman. Don’t confuse the two.
In all seriousness do you know what his AFSC is?
“Um…He’s an Airman. Don’t confuse the two.”
Oh no he diddn!
Any man who declares himself a feminist, is not a man a woman should be alone with. If forced to be alone with him, make sure you have pepper spray and a tazer. In my experience, such men are creepy predators.
Are you implying All Men Are Liars?
Do all men declare themselves feminists? If not, then not all men are liars.
Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby, Lena Dunham.
Is there an industry that harbors more hypocritical creeps than Hollywood? (I don’t consider government an industry.)
“(I don’t consider government an industry.)”
Yeah that would’ve been an obvious example. Just yesterday or the day before we learned a pro-life Republican tried to get his girlfriend to have an abortion.
Cosa nostra?
GM Exec Calls Out Musk
you and me both, Scott Miller
Where is our Obumblecare repeal? Tax reform? We get gun control instead?
Goddamned motherfuckin’ pieces of shit need to be fired, every worthless one of them. Jesus Christ they piss me off. Worthless sacks of shit.
At least I’m relieved that we can get rid of bump stocks and retroactively solve that single incident from ever having happened again.
Ryan’s out pitching tax reform right now, for what it’s worth.
Americans have so many guns because drug gangs roam the streets, because they have less trust in their neighbors, because they read Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road.”
And you can fuck right off, Peggy.
Female reporter forgets the internet is forever.
Woops.
Watched the video of Cam in that story. Was he drug tested after the press conference? wow.
who was the presenter?
Some limey with a central European sounding name.
“Georgia sheriff, deputies indicted after body searches of 900 high school students”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/10/06/georgia-sheriff-deputies-indicted-after-body-searches-of-900-high-school-students/
you want a call-in campaign armed with screeching harpies?? you trying f’ing with the PTA.
Don’t make cops in the school the default. example # (I’ve lost count)
“Malia Obama was an intern for Weinstein earlier this year”
No problem. One look at that scowling wookie, and you’d tow that lion but good.
Well, he needed at least one intern that he wouldn’t proposition
for fear of having his arm ripped off?
/dammit i promised myself i’d never stoop to make that joke
http://vaguntrader.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/1261698/Searchpage/1/Main/297002/Words/ruger+7mm-08/Search/true/Re:_Ruger_No_1a_7mm_08_w/extra#Post1261698
so this pops up right after i’ve mentally written off this year’s season and started saving some money. this is my favorite boutique caliber in the action (falling block) that Magnum shot in Quigley Down Under.. for about $300 under retail and about $150 in ammo included as sweetener. 7mm-08 is a low-recoil whitetail serial-murderer.
WAIT HOLY SHIT SHUT THE FUCK UP SLOOPY I CHALLENGE YOU TO A DUEL I AM NOT A MOTHER FUCKING LOUISVILLE FAN OMG TRIGGERED BEYOND BELIEF.
I’ve seriously never been more offended on this website than reading that sentence. I will forward my demands to the Glib staff via my attorney and expect them to be met post haste. Vile libel.
If not, then not all men are liars.
I just like the song. Any excuse, et c…
The Orville SPOILER ALERT!
If destroying the wormhole means Charlese Theron never comes through the wormhole from the future, then destroying the wormhole doesn’t simply make Charlese Theron fade into the future. It also means she never saves the Orville and the crew of the Orville are all dead.
I know it’s not a true story being told here, but Seth McFarlane ruined “The Sawshank Redemption” for me over a similar observation . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWGlE5Kv6ZQ
This is payback, bitch!
You don’t do oral?
He’s not a very good speller. He thought they said, “aural sex.”
Aural sex is where you yell “Fuck You” at your lover?
Even more than Weinstein’s obvious hypocrisy, I think this story reveals the utter corruption of the entertainment industry. I mean, it’s pretty clear that none of this is in any way news to these people. And what did they do for the last thirty years? Nothing. They turned a blind eye and let him continue with it. Ashley Judd is now telling everyone about how she’s a victim of this horrible monster. Yet, she never said a word about it to anyone until now. Never said a word, knowing full well he could logically be expected to do this to any number of other women. Hell, I’ve no doubt she’s shared the stage with him excoriating anyone who questions whether convents should be required to provide free abortions as a sexist pig.
speaking of Milo
Milo Yiannopoulos Wins First Round in $10M Lawsuit Against Simon & Schuster
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/milo-yiannopoulos-wins-first-round-10-million-lawsuit-simon-schuster-1046027
good. honor that contract. still bummed about the ghost-writer revelation.
From the comments on David Brooks’ article:
The amount of gun violence in America is exceptional in the world
I suspect there are some people in sub-Saharan Africa who might be surprised to hear that. Possibly even Mexico.
Brazil, Trinidad, Venezuela and Jamaica have a sad.
Brooks left out the “developed” qualifier.. which probably pisses off Brazilians more than anyone else.
Gun violence by government goons is okey dokey.
It’s also mendacious. The “amount of gun violence” in America’s depressed and decaying inner cities is “exceptional” compared to arbitrarily selected “other first-world countries”. If you step outside of Baltimore, Chicago, D.C., and other murder-happy cities, the murder rate is as low or lower than Europe and Japan, never mind South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia.
And don’t dare point out that Baltimore, Chicago, D.C., and other murder-happy cities have all been run exclusively by Democrats for at least half a century.
And they all have excessive amounts of police.
He meant the civilized world, the parts of the world filled with uncivilized brown people don’t count. (yes, this is their actual logic although they don’t state it quite so obviously)
The White Prog’s Burden™
Putting on by Robby hat…..to be sure, much of the violence in Mexico is machete-based.
Here’s some USDA prime virtue-signaling:Phoenix Man Turns Guns Over to Police in Response to Las Vegas Shooting
Best part is that one of his two guns is a lame as hell tacticool Ruger 10/22. DEADLY ASSAULT WEAPON!!!!
I hope some criminal sees the social media posts, says “I know which house is safe to rob” and then proceeds to burglarize his home.
Even better is his response to that notion:
The modern British version of “the old-fashioned way” is to curl up into a fetal ball and beg for mommy.
I think they made every other option illegal over there.
he’ll be knee deep in pussy after this one
The PK380 could do some damage though if he dropped it on someone’s foot.
I have to tell you though – I’m embarrassed to be a limey having read that.
Somewhere, the queen is sobbing.
So brave. So woke.
Good. A real man will now have a chance to own these guns.
Would a real man buy that ridiculous rifle, though?
Tacti-tards are real, yo.
Fair point.
Well, I guess I might…after I bought the other 243 firearms ahead of it on my wish-list.
So he could teach his kids to shoot.
anyone else wishing for a NIBIN false positive?
It’s not that he turned his firearms in, I couldn’t give less of a damn really, it’s that he parlayed this into a newspaper article so people can know how awesome he is.
Fuck you guy!
it’s great marketing for his coffee shop if you’re going for the “robbed at gunpoint” angle.. then imagine the outpouring of support and gofundme free cash.
Plus it was a completely empty gesture, since the Phoenix PD is just going to sell the guns themselves.
Why did he turn his guns in, in “response to the Vegas shooting”? Was he afraid he might start shooting people? Involuntarily when the guns exercised their magic voodoo power over him? What an idiot.
Prediction.
The only time those guns were fired was when he wanted to make his friend, on vacation from the UK, think he was cool.
I think this guy got hosed at the gun show.
$300 will get you a PK380 and what? $450 for a tactical 10/22? Add in 500 rounds of 22 for $80 and 200 rounds of 380 for another $80.
I have a bridge in Lake Havasu he might want to buy,
re: Sibelius / Mendez meeting
I’ve been in a few of those. I’m normally the guy who gets tired of the political insinuation and ends it by saying, “tell me what you want”… or starts spelling out what i assume they’re asking. which is usually a bad thing to do, because then they will deny they were asking for what they were really asking for. I broke the rules: you’re not supposed to say it out loud.
but i’ve also seen a bunch of these firsthand, where people would just “imply” things in each others direction and hope that the outcome would be some telepathic political transference, whereby one person would eventually realize that they were being asked to do something, if not ‘criminal’, damn close to it. “Make this issue go away; you figure out how”, basically.
Its when you’re in those sorts of meetings that you start thinking, “i should really work somewhere else”.
^This
I’m with you Gilmore. I do the same thing. “Oh, you want me to 3D print some enclosures with our company’s logo on them and put in some crazy 3rd party hardware inside and pass it off as ours? You realize that if I do that we are just as liable for the results as if it really was our hardware? And that one of our quality gates literally asks this question and I will answer honestly on that document.”
At that point, they are falling all over themselves denying that they meant any such thing.
Sounds like the meeting went just as planned with Sebelius. They got their point across and she can testify that they never actually asked her to do anything.
I haven’t followed this scandal closely. Did the original briber get his billing dispute fixed up the way he wanted?
Thank you for a funky week!
And thank you, Sloopy! I knew you’d come through.
Alright, just popped one of these:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabergoline
Expect a field report in the near future.
I assume it’s for this reason:
…and not because it is also used to suppress lactation.
Yarp. We shall see if it lives up to its reputation. Several erm, “alternative” forums can attest to its efficacy.
Today, in Tim Egan watch, Timmy wonders why there are no laws against randomly shooting people. It’s baffling.
A majority of Americans — indeed, a majority of gun owners — want laws to keep lunatics and terrorists from committing mass homicide.
I shit you not, that’s in the article.
NEEDZ MOAR MAGIK SPELTZ!
That’s what, the forth or fifth editorial calling for the removal of the second amendment?
They never know what their limits are.
This is good. Dropping the mask allows easy refutation of this “it’s ridiculous to say we want your guns, we just want reasonable restrictions” bullshit. No, go read the multitude of op-eds at your major proggie outlets calling for confiscation and repeal of 2A. Fuck you, you can’t have my guns.
What percentage “weren’t sure”, though?
government registration lists and prohibitions are some of the worst illiberal ideas but words have no meaning anymore so what the fuck do i know.
Expect a field report in the near future.
Assuming you ever escape from the Colombian sex island.
I’d say having sex with 16 women at once is worth a measly 1400 bucks. Besides, all the booze is included!
Let’s just hope it’s not another Fyre Festival.
Is it really even possible to have sex with more than 3 or 4 at once, though?
That’s why you get the Cabergoline.
Don’t exceed ten pumps per woman and you should be fine.
More from Timmy Egan:
It’s a no-brainer to pass a law designed to keep people from turning their AKs into machine guns with the so-called bump stocks. But it was also a no-brainer to restrict people on terrorism watch lists from buying guns, as was proposed after the Orlando slaughter of 49 people last year. It failed. A healthy democracy, reflecting the outrage of its citizens and the common-sense will of the majority, would have done right by the Orlando victims in a heartbeat.
But we’re no longer a healthy democracy, thanks to the cancer that has grown out of the Constitution.
When did they start teaching that “democracy” was fundamentally equivalent to the sort of mob rule exemplified by the Reign of Terror (or a good old-fashioned prison riot)? Maybe I skipped class to go skiing that day.
This “common-sense will of the majority” never can seem to cross the threshold of passing a new Constitutional Amendment.
Maybe they don’t have nearly as many people who agree with them as they think there are?
The common-sense will of the majority thought it was peachy to shovel (((them))) into ovens.
But the people who agree with them are really loud, so there must be a lot of them!
Denying constitutional rights without due process, which you don’t get before you’re put on the terrorism watchlist, is a dangerous road to go down and these mendacious scrunts are well aware of this as well as the implications.
Sebelius said she couldn’t recall exactly what was said, but said she thougt Menendez wanted her to do something differently than her staff had done in handling the dispute.
Too focused on trying to decide which new couch she was going to order for the living room, and whether it should complement the color of the walls, or the drapes.
I just watched a video on a “minimally invasive” surgery to correct scoliosis.
I might have a different idea of minimal invasiveness.
God I hope mine never needs surgery.