The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals set aside an injunction and paved the way for the NFL to impose its six-game suspension of Ezekiel Elliott. The appeal hinged on the complete lack of charges, the evidence of the “victim” trying to convince friends to lie on her behalf and the fact that the NFL’s only investigator to speak to her saying there should be not penalty for the player whatsoever. But when you collectively bargain to let the league commissioner have professional power equivalent the that of Kim Jong Un when it comes to meting out punishment, this is the kind of bullshit you can expect. Of course, Zeke never agreed to the CBA since it was put in place prior to him entering the league. But when you effectively have a closed shop, his options are limited. (Note I said “effectively” before you get into the nuance of the CBA and the law.) Zeke’s legal team are weighing their options as the Cowboys are on a bye week. I won’t go into anything else pro football related. Sorry. I’m still red-assed about the shenanigans going on.
I guess the St Louis Blues aren’t perfect after all. And neither are the Maple Leafs, whose rapid descent to the Wales Conference cellar should start right…about…now! Hey, the Red Wings are looking good in their new arena. Mike Illitch would be proud. The USA Mens National soccer team still sucks ass and Bruce Arena isn’t interested in the WC anymore. Why? Because he’s a dipshit, that’s why. But either way, I hope Panama are proud of the way they got to the playoff game. And I hope the Socceroos beat them.
And then there were four. Sorry Nationals fans. But you have to know a team managed by The Lizard is gonna lose when they have a chance to clinch a series. Its happened nine consecutive games now. The Cubs won what can only be considered a wild game by any measure. Big hits, goofy errors, crucial challenges, and some interesting pitching moves. This one had it all. They’ll head to Los Angeles where their series against the Dodgers begins tomorrow. Meanwhile, on the other side of the playoffs where the games are always four hours and pitchers don’t hit, the Yanquis will be in Houston today. Masahiro Tanaka will take the hill for the pinstripes while the Astros send out Dallas Keuchel. Game time 7:08.
Here we are at the end of the week and I know you want some news instead of sports. So I’ll oblige you with…the links!
Not the best way to go from a legacy standpoint.
What happens in the Dominican Republic stays in the Dominican Republic. Well, at least through the autopsy.
The Wine Country wildfires are still burning as the death toll rises. FEMA offers to help. Again, to our NorCal friends, please stay safe. If y’all need anything please let us know at the submit email address. We’ll do what we can.
Wait, does this count as rent-seeking? Or is it literally the opposite? Either way, the taxpayers are gonna get fucked.
Guess who might kill President Trump’s tax break bill? If you said a brain tumor that had taken control of its host, you may be more right than you think. Seriously, this motherfucker needs to GO. THE. FUCK. AWAY.
Don’t look for too long or you’ll get syphilis.
Three peas in a pod? I don’t know. but I’m sure as fuck grabbing my popcorn. This is better than anything I’ve seen out of Hollywood in years. Meanwhile, the movie mogul was spotted in a Phoenix eatery hours before checking into his sex rehab clinic. Apparently he ordered the manicotti and was said, in unconfirmed reports, to have offered the waitress a really big tip in the penthouse of the nearby W Hotel. Also unconfirmed is whether he recreated Jackie Treehorn’s doodle on the back of the bill.
“Nighty night, everybody. I’m done, warden.” Damn, dude is cold-blooded even as they roll him away to die.
Robert Pruett was given a lethal injection for the fatal attack on corrections officer Daniel Nagle in December 1999 at a prison southeast of San Antonio. Nagle was repeatedly stabbed with a tape-wrapped metal rod, though an autopsy showed he died from a heart attack that the assault caused. Prosecutors have said the stabbing stemmed from a dispute over a peanut butter sandwich that Pruett wanted to take into a recreation yard against prison rules.
Crazy fuck probably liked crunchy too.
Well to finish off the week’s theme of crime I give you the opposite of Mr Pruett.
And finding that link as a lead in was a total fluke. But sometimes God smiles at even me. I hope he smiles on each of you and your family today too. Have a great weekend.
77) I like IPAs fine, but got a little bored with them last year and started getting more into Brown Ales. I think the cooler temperatures in fall and winter especially lend themselves to this type of beer. I settled on three that I really liked, but decided this year I wanted to figure out which one is the best. So I bought a sixpack of each, and this week I made it a point to have one of each throughout the week.
I’m not any sort of connoisseur, so I’m sure there are subtleties of flavor or whatever that I’m overlooking. I probably don’t even have the tasting language right. But here’s what I thought of each:
Abita Turbodog—I have to laugh when I read the bottlecap, which reads “Made with pure spring water.” I visited the Abita brewery a few years ago when I was in New Orleans. We got there about 15 minutes before it opened and my kids played on the playground next door. Behind the playground and brewery ran a little muddy creek, just downstream from an alligator farm. I confirmed during the tour, that’s definitely the creek where they get the water for the beer.
Anyway, maybe clean water is overrated, because this beer is excellent. A rich, chocolaty flavor. In fact, it’s maybe a little too rich for a lot of drinking. But if I were to have one brown ale after dinner just to enjoy, this would be the one.
Duck-Rabbit—This is from Farmville, NC, near Goldsboro. Never stopped there, but it’s not too far out of the way off the highway to Wilmington. Maybe I’ll stop by next time I’m in the area.
Anyway, I’d say this has more of a roasted character than a chocolate character. I’ve liked it fine in the past, but having it the same week as the Abita and Ellie’s, it strikes me as a little thin-tasting. Probably won’t buy in the future.
Ellie’s Brown Ale—This one is from Boulder, CO. It’s probably the best-balanced of the three, mildly chocolaty and some roasted flavor. Easy to drink. This is the one I would go to if I planned on drinking more than one. My kids like the picture of the dog on the bottle, too.
Just a
thoughtinfomercial not a sermon?I KEED! I KEED!
Just a premeditated spam…
Oh snap!
In the future, I’ll provide nothing but the freshest, most spontaneous spam.
I just see something written ahead of time, no reading of, or commenting on anything anyone has posted – just a dump of “I have to get my stuff in, I don’t care what anyone did here!!!”
And it is numbered….how many places/times do you dump this stuff?
If you have an idea worth developing – submit an article. Button is right above us.
Careful now, before he flips that handle and turns on sermon mode. You’ll doom us all.
Too late.
Okay, thank you for actually writing out your concerns, rather than passive-aggressively sniping.
“no reading of, or commenting on anything anyone has posted”
1) I comment nearly every day on the links Sloopy provides, often quoting from the link itself. It’s not as if the JATNAS is all I do, and then disappear.
2) I’m not sure why you’re so concerned that Sloopy have a monopoly on putting up links. I’ve noticed you criticize others for putting in their own links as well.
“I just see something written ahead of time”
3) I spend 5-10 minutes writing something up a few minutes before the links go up. It allows me to correct grammar, make sure things cohere, etc. Not sure why this is a problem.
“And it is numbered….how many places/times do you dump this stuff?”
4) Nowhere else. Feel free to do an internet search if you like. This is all for y’all.
5) I do like things organized. I suppose the numbering is a gimmick, or a shtick, as you’ve put it. Not sure how you can object to somebody having a shtick. *narrows gaze * RAPES STEVE SMITH
I see it the JATNASes as harmless, something I enjoy doing, and potentially contributing to the liveliness daily thread. Some days are obviously better than others, but I think most aren’t too dumb. If you disagree and think this harms the Glibertarians site in some way, let me know and I’ll stop doing it.
Just seems a bit bad mannered, that is all. You will note that you haven’t been edited, banned, catbutted or the like.
I just find it a bit disrespectful of the folks that get up, write up the links and the first thing out of the box is “lookie what I wrote!”…not any recognition of what was posted. Follow the example of Pie, Vhyrus, LT Fish and the like. Put a little more effort into it, link in some material/examples or such and submit as an article.
But, in the end….you do you.
My opinion doesn’t mean dick here, but I often enjoy them and I don’t personally see them as that different than all the other stuff that gets posted in comments that isn’t somehow a response to the posted article. I thought the whole idea was that the two “daily links” articles were intentionally “open thread”. Not sure what the big deal is.
But, as a final reminder, my opinion doesn’t mean dick here. *shrug*
Yea, and more preening about your status as “first”, that’s what the people really want.
I have to second Badolph here. I am not sure what is disrespectful about posting your thoughts in the links threads, They don’t have a topic to be off, so it is not like JATNAS is derailing a focussed discussion. We all owe you (Swiss) and Sloopy and OMWC and the rest of those who put in the time, effort, and money to make this site work, thanks.
That said complaining about someone posting well written and thought out comments, because somehow their posting is “disrespectful”, seems at best overly sensitive. People post their thoughts here, that is what brings us all to the links thread.
I think what Swiss position is, is that if you have something interesting to write about, please do expand on it and submit it in as an article by itself. Nobody is going to restrict anyone else’s free speech here (I hope), and it will add to the site.
I tend to like your JATNAS segments and think they could make a good regular column.
But hey, I do also see the links section as a sort of open forum.
Then again, I’m mostly a lurker here and I already commented once in the last 3 months, so I’ll say sorry and go back into the abyss!
/Canadian
78) I skip comments over 4 sentences long.
My brain only processes things that are 144 characters or less.
Because it was the shortest route to the registers from the last item I was picking up, I headed down the organic food aisle at the grocery store. You know what I passed? Water. “Organic” water.
Big Organic should donate money to fight Betsy Devos. They have a financial interest in the public remaining ignorant of basic chemistry concepts.
Listen shitlord. This is a problem you might be able to wave away, but your children won’t be so lucky. Genetically modified dihydrogen monoxide has to be controlled lest it develop immunities to impurities that free range dihydrogen monoxide can’t. You and Monsanto and Big Charcoal Filter might think unnatural purification is a great idea. But organic water is safer for the environment as well as humanity.
+1amoeba
Skating up to the edge of Poe’s Law there.
As Jim Gaffigan said:
“Organic is a grocery term meaning more expensive.”
Coming as I do from a long line of farmers on both sides of my family, I can say with some authority that the whole “organic” craze is pure, unadulterated horseshit.
I see what you did there.
Apparently, the salmonella outbreak in organic spinach from Salinas was pigshit.
Wild pigs from old Fort Ord.
My wife was presenting at a conference in Nashville last year, and I tagged along for kicks. She has a habit of picking up strays and helping them solve their personal problems/meet a new love interest, and sure enough by 2:00 AM of the first day she’d hooked a local hipster up with our bartender. He became our East Nashville Hipster Buddy while we were there. Nice guy. Anyway, his big thing was that he bought special alkaline water from a local organic grocery and claimed it solved no end of ills. So that’s a thing, apparently.
While I do believe that having an overly acidic body Ph is harmful long term, not sure that alkali water is the panacea of a lifetime. Expecially if you swing the pendulum back too far the other way.
Take the long way home. – SuperTramp(I think? Always get them confused with Talking Heads for some reason)
Was it gluten- and GMO-free, too?
Brown Ales to try: Bell’s Best Brown and Short’s Bellaire Brown. Both Michigan breweries and excellent for the fall weather.
Thanks. I’ve liked other Bell’s beers in the past. Highly likely to pick up a sixpack next time I’m at the wine superstore.
I like Old Brown Dog
Bell’s Best Brown is the closest thing to a good special bitter I’ve seen around my parts.
One of our locals, Starr Hill’s Last Leaf Maple Brown Ale, is pretty good.
…”Maple”? Has your beer been infiltrated by Canadians?!
Had some over the weekend, good stuff.
Crazy Muderers Choose Crunchy?
Everyone knows it’s the cashew butter lovers.
Unclear what’s better: the way the theatre selectively quoted the one-star review, or the description of the play
+1 “But we included the ellipses!”
That’s fucking unreal. “Critics compare it to having mind blowing sex.”
I mean those words were in the review. I see no problem
PieInTheSky: “I see…problem…in…those words”
That sounds really interesting! *rolls eyes*
Sounds like a typical SJW origin story to me.
This is probably good for children (and childlike adults) to learn the magic of pricing, production and productivity
Good morning/evening IFH!
That’s a fun link. I forwarded it to my daughter – we’ll see how she does.
I assume you will send her to the mines if she does poorly? Like any good father…
If this doesn’t end in liquidating all humans in order to build more paperclips, I am going to be very disappointed.
There was an AI made of dust, whose poetry gained it man’s trust…
first limerick
Interesting. It looks like “Cookie Clicker” with some simple market logic thrown on top for flavor.
“Prosecutors have said the stabbing stemmed from a dispute over a peanut butter sandwich that Pruett wanted to take into a recreation yard against prison rules.”
That sounds reasonable.
Okay, I hit the enter key too fast.
I wonder if there’s anything else in this that the prosecutor might be leaving out? Is this guy really that batshit crazy that a peanut butter sandwich set him off, or were the guards assholes towards him all the time and this was the last straw? Sounds like he may have targeted one guard in particular, which makes it seem like maybe that guard he had a particular dispute with that individual.
Pruett, who was already serving a 99-year sentence for a neighbor’s killing near Houston when he was convicted in Nagle’s death, lost two appeals at the Supreme Court as his execution neared.
and
Pruett’s 99-year murder sentence was for participating with his father and a brother in the 1995 stabbing death of a 29-year-old neighbor, Raymond Yarbrough, at the man’s trailer home in Channelview, just east of Houston. Pruett was 15 when the attack happened.
According to court testimony from a sheriff’s detective, Pruett argued with Yarbrough and then got his father and brother to join him in attacking the man. Pruett punched and kicked Yarbrough and held him down while his father stabbed the man multiple times, the detective said.
Pruett’s father, Howard Pruett, is serving life in prison. His brother, Howard Pruett Jr., was sentenced to 40 years.
It’ll always be a mystery.
Nice family.
“then got his father and brother to join him in attacking the man”
At least they do things together. It’s hard to get everybody in the family to enjoy all the same activities.
The family that
prays togetherbeats a neighbor to death over a disagreement stays together. That’s what I always say.Quite a family, the holiday season at the Pruett household must have been something else.
“Hold that Turkey down, dammit!
This is one of those instances where I’m convinced the guy could never be rehabilitated.
He’d be a little skippy when it came to bail.
But he’d be out in a jif.
Sigh…
*narrows gaze*
Oh, you must be a fan of Peter Pan.
What are you Goobers talking about?
I only eat freshly pressed artisinal organic peanut butter from Whole Foods.
*Peter Pan is the best peanut butter, obviously.
Don’t be jelly, Swiss.
GUARDS!
Obligatory
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Swiss is just jelly. Wait..
Quite the jam you’ve caused.
Sticky situation to be sure. Hope someone has a tall glass of milk to finish it off.
i suspect my obit will read something similar. spoiler: the murderer is my daughter!
Popbitch is promising a four-part article on the publisher of National Enquirer and something that could damage Trump. Any bets on what that might be? Part 1 is here
Trump is in fact Harvey Weinstein. You heard it here first
Strange. They didn’t mention the John Edwards story at all and how NE had to break it because the major media were sitting on it.
“LIFE’s founder and chairwoman gave a full-throated unequivocal statement saying that “anyone who would demonstrate even a modicum of support for [neo-Nazis] by insisting that there are ‘good people’ among them is not deserving of my personal patronage or that of my foundations […] Therefore, I am recommending to my board that we move this year’s gala from the Mar-A-Lago Club.”
Trump never said there were good people among the neo-nazis, just that there were good people at the same event. Which had around 200 – 300 white supremacists, and a couple thousand counter-protesters.
Retards don’t do nuance though, so can you really blame them?
I mean, it’s statistically impossible for there not to have been at least a handful of decent people on the National Socialist vs. International Socialist sides.
Besides the white supremacists and antifa, there were also various militia groups, BLM, etc.
This seems the way for a media outlet to remain viable these days. If you don’t have ‘THE’ secret about Trump that’s going to finally be the one to take him out, you got nothing.
And I’ll just throw it out there, that over at DU they’ve had that one sure thing about a thousand times since November.
They pulled off something that’s never happened before.
The Indians: We’ll set the record for most unearned runs given up in a single playoff game by playing terrible defense.
The Nats: Hold my beer.
“Crazy fuck probably liked crunchy too.”
So, he wasn’t totally crazy then.
Beer group people – I’m not going to join up just yet, but I can make sure you will be able to get Hopslam in February if any of you are interested. I’ll post again closer to release, but we can work out an arrangement to get whatever amount you’d like shipped.
Silk Road II: The Glibening.
“Suds Road”
Hopslam is a great beer put out by a solid brewery (Bell’s). Thankfully, we get it all over here in the Cleveland area. And to tie this into the dark beers that JATNAS mentioned above, Bell’s has released the Double Cream Stout earlier this year.
To all the non existent female glibertarians on twitter remember today is #WomenBoycottTwitter day. I don’t wanna catch any y’all twittering
“It was just over a phone number! We turned her back on!!”
/Twitter
Rose exposes Afflecks, Damon, Weinstein AND Twitter in a single week. I may need to watch Charmed…
I only know her from The Doom Generation. She’s great in it.
don’t tell me what to do, you patriarchal oppressor! I’ll silence myself if I want to.
Magic mushrooms may ‘reset’ the brains of depressed patients
https://scienmag.com/magic-mushrooms-may-reset-the-brains-of-depressed-patients/
More important they make snozzberries taste like snozzberries.
You are freaking out…MAN.
We are the music makers. And we are the dreamers of dreams.
FOR THE ROWERS KEEP ON ROWING
These make sour taste sweet.
About 10 years ago, A few buddies of mine and I ate mushrooms at a rob zombie concert. It was an enormous amount of fun. I would recommend it to anyone who is young and doesn’t have many responsibilities.
Shrooms and the NYC Natural History Museum for my 30th birthday. It was magical.
Shrooms are the white people of psychedelics. So mellow man.
Oliver Stone Expresses Sympathy for Harvey Weinstein: ‘It’s Not Easy What He’s Going Through’
“I’m a believer that you wait until this thing gets to trial, I believe a man shouldn’t be condemned by a vigilante system. It’s not easy what he’s going through, either,” Stone said. “During that period he was a rival. I never did business with him and didn’t really know him. I’ve heard horror stories on everyone in the business, so I’m not going to comment on gossip. I’ll wait and see, which is the right thing to do.”
Uh. Yeah, I suppose.
I’m still not clear on why this is going on now. Was it the Times story? Did he piss someone off? Is someone trying to get control of the company?
It’s very weird.
No idea why it got legs now. It’s a tragedy for those gals that were perfectly willing to suck a little Harvey for a role. What about them? Moguls will be hesitant to make the quid pro quo after seeing this go down. Sad day.
Maybe Hollywood will finally embrace meritocracy?
Hollywood loves meritocracy: give a good bj, get a good role. And , there seems be a reasonable linkage between your skill as at providing sex, and your potential as a media whore, so is the casting couch really inappropriate?
One story going around is that Bob Weinstein waited until their mother died to shaft his brother. HW’s employment contract apparently had to cover recouping payouts for his shitty behaviour, and if I were on the board I’d be seriously weighing up his value. Even if that is not true, his power is waning, so that could explain why people will go on the record.
Not weird at all. Its the feeding frenzy nature of the media coupled with the attention-whoring and virtue-signaling of celebrities. Once a story broke, everybody felt the need to cover the shit out of it. Nevermind that those media people all knew he had been doing this for decades. They didn’t care when it was only them who knew about it. The started caring once we knew about it. As for all the people coming out of the woodwork now, they have to signal their virtue because that’s the trendy thing to do. They all kept silent as they knew he was sexually assaulting and/or raping women one after another for decades. But it was cool then because, again, we didn’t know about it.
That’s the most reasonable explanation once you look at the character of media outlets and virtually everyone in Hollywood.
It’s exactly like what happened with steroids in baseball. All the lazy journalists knew about it or if they didn’t know were to lazy to bother to care because they were busy protecting their access privileges and palling around with athletes to actually do their FUCKEN JOBS.
Then the story broke and they were all like ‘wha happened?’ and began to pile on. What really annoyed me is gatekeepers like Costas and Wilbon (now there’s a winner) mocking blogs and so on when it took investigative journalists supported by blogs to blow the story open and mainstream journalists with a straight face then began to act surprised and indignant.
Useless they were.
That’s it. Exactly like the Cosby thing. How many people knew about that? Hundreds, a least, over decades. But not a peep until some comedian mentions it in his act?
It’s a very simple formula for these people, and right and wrong is not a part of the calculation. They had nothing to personally gain by making this known – so they didn’t.
They didn’t care when they still needed Harvey’s money. Whore’s gonna whore.
What Stone is saying there is correct, wait for all the facts and for it to go through the courts before condemning the man. However, I’m curious, did Stone say anything similar about Bill Cosby?
Sure. Right up until Bill criticized public schools…
Indeed. Cosby is a wrongthinker, so he doesn’t deserve the benefit of doubt. Weinstein though is a rightthinker, so he gets to be presumed innocent until proven guilty.
“I’ve heard horror stories on everyone in the business”
I’m perfectly willing to believe this part of his statement.
Yeah, I caught that too.
What kind of people are drawn to various professions? What kind of person wants a job that involves a casting couch?
Stone is an idiot. By that logic, we shouldn’t condemn anybody until their case winds through the courts. What about assholes who get killed or kill themselves while in the midst of a crime spree? Should we never condemn them because they never faced trial?
This assclown thinks Castro and Chavez are cool guys with great ideas. He should spend more time reading about communist and socialist atrocities instead of weighing in on that fat, lecherous fuck.
I’m not going to disagree about Stone being a massive idiot. However, I do think in this sort of case we should wait for the facts to come out in court before rushing to judgment. How many thought for sure Cosby was guilty? Then he gets declared not guilty. Rape accusations are far too common these days, especially for what was perfectly consensual. To be sure, Weinstein is clearly a pig, no matter if he harassed and assaulted these women, or if it was consensual. But just being a pig isn’t necessarily a crime.
Oh I’m not condemning him because he’s a criminal. I’m
Condemning him because he’s a fucking pig.
Legality has little to do with it.
“…communist and socialist atrocities …”
Make no mistake, the people who love commies are fully aware. Thats why they love ’em.
After a certain age, for sure. The kids who style themselves commies or socialists deserve the same mix of pity and scorn I feel for the kids who buy into white supremacy, or think Jews control the world. But after your early twenties, if you haven’t revised your devotion in light of the atrocities these movements always cause, you’re in it for the atrocities.
They should have Academy Awards for best pretend I didn’t know it is happening and am shocked performance by an actor/actress/director.
Where’s the compilation video of all these actresses thanking him at the Oscars? That should be circulating the Facebooks by now.
He forgot to add “But not me, I’ve never engaged in that type of vile behavior.”
Trump to End Subsidies to Health Insurers
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-poised-to-end-subsidies-to-health-insurers-1507865484
I also read a different report where the White House plans on changing the rules to allow small businesses and possibly individuals to group together in associations for health insurance. The restrictions on plans will be lifted for these associations (e.g., pregnancy coverage not mandatory). Also, the restriction on short-term catastrophic insurance for individuals will be lifted. Removing the mandate is less certain but being considered. This is still all up in the air but good steps forward it it happens.
Holy cow, if he keeps this up we may actually, after a period of years, approach something, sort of, vaguely resembling a free market.
It means that this issue is not even close to dead. Congress is going to have to face it again in 2018, while a bunch of them are fighting for their phoney-baloney jobs.
It’s a solid play.
Agreed, and yet the WSJ still can’t bring themselves to condemn the true establishment saboteurs. They have to throw cheap shots at Rand, despite Rand being the one instrumental person besides Trump in getting these potential executive orders done.
Is Ken Schultz writing for the WSJ now?
*applause*
“Bravo!” /fat guy in tux
is that these are all regulations that could be changed by, say, President Bernie Sanders.
And with a special gulag for those found guilty of not supporting the redistributive architecture.
Phony-baloney jobs? Harrumph, harrumph!
In other words, Trump just nuked the ACA.
Trump is the closest thing to a libertarian moment I’ve seen in my lifetime and yet the people who have been saying for years we should do many of the things Trump is doing are freaking the fuck out.
I still have a big problem with Sessions and the WOD.
Yep. This is cause for major celebrations from libertarians and free-marketers everywhere.
And hopefully it’ll get that tumor cranked into overdrive that’s been blocking some other real reforms. Maybe it’ll explode and we can get a human being in that won’t vore solely out of spite.
I’ll keep my
powder dryparty hat doffed until I see what the composition of Congress looks like after the midterms, and what sort of abomination they patch together from the still-moving parts of Obamacare.*Edit Fairy Helps!*
Damnit, “powder dry” was meant to be
struck through.Heh. I half-expected “powder dry” to become
struck through. But the edit fairy is benevolent.Also, why is Paris Hilton doing Navi cosplay?
Dear edit fairy, is there a reward for not fucking up tags? Talk about perverse incentives.
It’s a half step, but it’s helpful.
These subsidies weren’t even allowed by the ACA itself, were they?
It was questioned as illegal when Obama instituted the practice. The Republicans didn’t have the fortitude to follow through on it though.
No, they violated the Anti-Deficiency Act
These subsidies weren’t even allowed by the ACA itself, were they?
Vague recollection: they were supposed to be cross-subsidies within the insurance industry until the market stabilized. I don’t think they were supposed to come out of the general fund forever.
I heard this on the news today, and it made me smile, a lot. First, because I can just imagine all the gnashing of teeth this is going to cause. A president’s executive order overturned by another president’s executive order! Who would have thought such a thing could happen! And second, it seems like he’s addressing almost all of the issues I brought up in that one article I wrote.
It will be funny to see all the “progressives” twist themselves into a pretzel as they try to explain why Trump is an evil racist plutocrat because he stopped giving wheelbarrows of taxpayer money to giant corporations.
All they have to do is point to the piles of corpses on the streets duh.
Exclusive: Even Pokémon Go used by extensive Russian-linked meddling effort
This is all so fucking dumb. Most of Americans who voted for Trumpy did not do so as a result of facebook. This whole facebook and twitter and edgy memes one the election is utter bullshit. Economic concerns and Hillary being a very bad candidate won the election. But this whole facebook Russians thing is getting pathetic and I don’t think it is gonna help em in the long run. The true believers already believe and they won’t convince many others
Economic concerns…
This. A million times this. Normals don’t give a fuck about the inside baseball. As deplorable as they are, they know the difference between a good and bad economy.
“It’s the economy, stupid!”
Oh yeah, well Obama presided over one of the more truly impressive 8 year recoveries we have ever seen.
We can’t have people thinking the Dems lost because the DNC forced a uniquely repellent candidate down the American public’s collective gullet, can we?
The over under on the number of people who’s facebook feed influenced their vote is 5.
I don’t think most people are thinking it got people to vote FOR Trump, so much as stay home or vote 3rd party.
Because it was obviously HERSELF’S turn and she would have ascended if so many of us flyovers hadn’t been duped by social media, damnit!
The Democrats accusing the Russians of exploiting racial tensions. *Head explodes*
Lack of self awareness, projection, or both?
BLM and Russia?
Kahlua would have been a better choice the Pokemon
In Soviet Russia hands up do shoot.
even contacted some reporters in an effort to exploit racial tensions and sow discord among Americans,
No wonder the media outlets couldn’t tell the difference.
The Russians sowed discord among Americans, not the Obama administration or the Democrat party. Got it.
And the same people who are clutching pearls over Russian interference are happily indulging Putin’s agenda. “Russians are trying to seed discord into our national debate, so LET THE FLOWERS OF CHAOS BLOOM.”
Exactly. It’s like RT and CNN are both run by the Kremlin.
The Russians have been trying to exploit racial tensions in the U.S. for decades.
The Left can’t seem to make up their minds about what actually decides elections. In the post-Citizens United period, they were always harping on about how “big money” influences everything and those damn Republicans always win because of the Koch Brothers or something. But after Trump schlonged Hillary while spending considerably less than her, they’re suddenly revising their claims to say that Facebook ads and little-read websites like Russia Today are actually the deciding factors. Weird.
Lapras is a Russian agent!
In the annals of rape culture
Sexual Victimization by Women Is More Common Than Previously Known
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sexual-victimization-by-women-is-more-common-than-previously-known/
For example, the CDC’s nationally representative data revealed that over one year, men and women were equally likely to experience nonconsensual sex, and most male victims reported female perpetrators. Over their lifetime, 79 percent of men who were “made to penetrate” someone else (a form of rape, in the view of most researchers) reported female perpetrators. Likewise, most men who experienced sexual coercion and unwanted sexual contact had female perpetrators.
We also pooled four years of the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) data and found that 35 percent of male victims who experienced rape or sexual assault reported at least one female perpetrator. Among those who were raped or sexually assaulted by a woman, 58 percent of male victims and 41 percent of female victims reported that the incident involved a violent attack, meaning the female perpetrator hit, knocked down or otherwise attacked the victim, many of whom reported injuries
Also surprisingly, women inmates are more likely to be abused by other inmates than are male inmates, disrupting the long held view that sexual violence in prison is mainly about men assaulting men. In juvenile corrections facilities, female staff are also a much more significant threat than male staff; more than nine in ten juveniles who reported staff sexual victimization were abused by a woman.
Disclaimer as usual
Our findings might be critically viewed as an effort to upend a women’s rights agenda that focuses on the sexual threat posed by men. To the contrary, we argue that male-perpetrated sexual victimization remains a chronic problem, from the schoolyard to the White House. In fact, 96 percent of women who report rape or sexual assault in the NCVS were abused by men. In presenting our findings, we argue that a comprehensive look at sexual victimization, which includes male perpetration and adds female perpetration, is consistent with feminist principles in important ways.
Must be a little trump in there
WOMEN CAN’T RAPE, SHITLORD! THOSE GUYS REALLY WANTED IT AND SHOULD CONSIDER THEMSELVES LUCKY!
+1 Monroe scene on “Too Close For Comfort”.
To the contrary, we argue that male-perpetrated sexual victimization remains a chronic problem, from the schoolyard to the White House.
Is there chronic sexual victimization going on in the White House?
Seems like that would push the Weinstein story off the front page, if true.
Maybe the study was done in the 90s?
Swish!
To be fair now that I think about it they may be talking Clinton not Trump
David Brooks stokes the boiler on his derp steam shovel, and lays it on
When you look around today, you see a lot of history-making new companies being created, but you don’t see too many big civic organizations. There are some great social entrepreneurs, like Bill Drayton, who started Ashoka, but the only vast national civic movements I can think of are the charter school movement and the Tea Party.
We’ve got just as many problems as previous generations faced — as many as in the progressive era, I’d say. Why has there been this decline in civic institution building?
Political polarization has got to be a big culprit. The federal government can’t build anything new, even something as obvious as a national service program. The churches have let us down, too. The Christian churches have been behind most of the big social movements in American history, like abolition, poverty programs and civil rights. But for the past generation the church has been fighting a defensive war against the sexual revolution, not an offensive assault for opportunity and human dignity.
Communitarian haz a sad. Why can’t we round up the kids and put them in the yoke of the common good? Individual freedom is all well and good, in theory…
“We’ve got just as many problems as previous generations faced” – looking at all the culture war bullshit, this seems unlikely. A lot of people have a lot of free time on their hands to get agitated over a lot of crap, and sadly they don’t seem to be starving.
and sadly they don’t seem to be starving.
Hold my beer /Bernie
I’m confused. Why does he think this is a bad thing?
He wants to kidnap 18 year old boys?
David Brooks is the Harvey Weinstein of pederasts?
“We’ve got just as many problems as previous generations faced — as many as in the progressive era, I’d say.”
So all those progressive-era programs didn’t actually solve any of the problems they were supposed to?
Maybe if the feds weren’t soaking up half the economy and crowding out private organizations there would be some activity in this sector. Even the private organizations that do exists are mostly dependent on federal grant programs.
What a douche.
Albert Jay Nock noted how the FDR administration’s programs displaced existing private, religious and civic charity and assistance. His observations are near the beginning of “Our Enemy the State”.
Why has there been this decline in civic institution building?
That one is easy. The growth of the welfare state has crowded out civic institution building. If you look at the decline in civic participation documented in Bowling Alone, it coincides perfectly with the New Deal. And it accelerated with the Great Society. Brooks’ proposal would only accelerate the decline even more. Yeah, lets have the government manage “volunteering”. No way in hell that won’t alienate almost everyone with its inevitable politicization.
A better explanation of my point.
Sorry, but the Brooks piece got me peeved enough to need to comment again.
People have traditionally participated in civil society because there was an element of fun to it. Sure the Shriners built hospitals because they’re good guys who care about kids. But they also did it because they got to put on funny looking fezes and ride around in little cars.
Getting the government involved in something is a surefire way to institutionalize and overstructure something. In short, its a way to suck all of the fun out of something.
“Just fill out these 12 forms, and sign up for the three abuse awareness classes you’ll need to attend three Saturdays in a row, and file your $78 filing fee, and you’ll be all set for volunteering!”
“Oh, and we can’t allow the fezes. They’re cultural appropriation. And I might have forgot to mention, but we’ll need three officers on hand to direct little car traffic. It’ll just be an additional $1,148 to cover their time. And since driving is involved, you’ll need to ban alcohol from the event.”
Wasn’t another part of the old civil groups (Shriners, Eagles, Kiwanis, KoC, Rotary, etc.) also that they allowed members to pool up for various insurance purchases and supported other members through tough times through voluntary donation?
Exactly. I don’t hear libertarians talk about it much (especially in the Cato/LP/TOS orbit), but libertopia would almost inevitably have an incredibly robust civil society sector. People would build their safety net through their churches, their lodges, their union halls, etc.). And the culture would evolve to reflect that reality. Today those kind of things are seen as hokey, certainly not cool. And that kind of makes sense. The government has squeezed their role out of society. They’re anachronisms. In contrast, these institutions would become a vital part of a libertarian community.
Accommodation laws pretty much shit all over those types of mutual societies by expanding the number of victimized groups that have to be accommodated. So now a Catholic health insurance plan requires taking in Satanists,
I’ve always wondered where these groups went. The were ubiquitous when I was a kid.
IMHO, it has been the government, progressivism, and feminism, that have atomized men. And western civilization is dying because of it
I remember reading somewhere that they got gutted by the combination of employer provided health insurance (no need to get insurance through a voluntary group, since work was paying for it), forced accommodation (can’t have men’s only clubs, or Christian only clubs, etc.), and then general demographics. I’m 40, and I know of one person who joined any of those club among my friends, and he just did it because they had dirt cheap beer at the club hall. Even going to the big scary Masons, I think I know of three people who are/were members.
Part of the problem is the groups themselves: they nudged their way into government because they didn’t want to remain independent of government.
Sure the Shriners built hospitals because they’re good guys who care about kids. But they also did it because they got to put on funny looking fezes and ride around in little cars.
Well, Coy, how’d you get that big motorsickle up on the high dive?
+43 annual Shriner’s Convention
classic
Damn, I haven’t thought about that in years.
Thanks!
*not being sarcastic
Oh, that’s rich, Brooks giving the Tea Party a pat on the back when his contemporaneous opinion of that movement was dismay.
Catholic churches do good work and Christianity as a whole is under constant attack by prog assholes like you Brooks.
Do these people listen to themselves when they speak?
If you want more civic institutions the solutions are easy:
1: Don’t weaponize the IRS against people who organize to do things in lieu of govt programs
2: Lower taxes, asshole.
3: I SAID LOWER TAXES, ASSHOLE!!!!!
+1 Fuck you, cut spending
There is a stupid meme going around the interwebz called “virgin versus chad” and I do not want to encourage it but for some reason I found this amusing
https://twitter.com/hradzka/status/918505211349610497
Also Chad Warmington is a good name for an oil exec global warming vilan
I don’t get it.
Well do you know the meme to which it is referring?
No.
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/virgin-walk
Venezuelans are told their expired passports will be valid for another two years after country runs out of paper and ink to print new ones
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4972088/Venezuela-runs-paper-ink-print-new-passports.html#ixzz4vOIQunwn
Now given the hassles and bureaucracy queuing etc of new passports, I would say this a good thing, but will other countries accept expired passports?
Not if they used them as toilet paper they won’t
The next step is going to be not issuing any more passports, either renewals or new ones.
Next?
I was shocked they even had passports nowadays, TBH. I would have thought they would have cancelled all of the non-government-employee passports long ago.
DICK AND MORTY! DICK AND MORTY! DICK AND MORTY! DICK AND MORTY! DICK AND MORTY!
DICK AND MORTY! DICK AND MORTY! DICK AND MORTY! DICK AND MORTY! DICK AND MORTY!
DICK AND MORTY! DICK AND MORTY! DICK AND MORTY! DICK AND MORTY! DICK AND MORTY!
DICK AND MORTY! DICK AND MORTY! DICK AND MORTY! DICK AND MORTY! DICK AND MORTY!
DICK AND MORTY! DICK AND MORTY! DICK AND MORTY! DICK AND MORTY! DICK AND MORTY!
Inevitable?
Trying not to picture how they work in the “Burrrrrppp. C’mon Morty…’
“Wait, wait. Stop. Hold it. Not like this. We need a hang glider and a crotchless uncle sam costume, and I want the entire field of your largest stadium covered end to end with naked redheads, and I want the stands packed with every man that even remotely resembles my father.”
Socialism explained in 24 hours:
https://youtu.be/zw-FF6CPmvs
Ha. *Spoiler alert: It works in the end. When everyone is dead.
My favorite comment. “If you didn’t randomly throw the word “penis” in there somewhere. I’m going to be very disappointed in you.”
I liked this one:
Nice…
Well, duh – it’s only twenty-four hours. Everybody knows that to do it right requires five years.
You need generational regimes to really pile up enough bodies to make it work.
Joss Whedon, thinking he’s still some kind of feminist icon.
Many amusing responses there
“I humiliated my wife by carrying on multiple affairs with cast and crewmembers behind her back, exploiting my position and prestige to bed ambitious young women who wouldn’t otherwise give me the time of day, but hey, I’m not a rapist like Weinstein! Not provably, anyway.”
This is how zombie movies begin.
Oh come now, the Black Death doesn’t make zombies- it makes autoflagellants.
Also, why are they not in proper plague doctor garb? I mean you can fit modern protective gear within the plague doctor style constraints.
The only cure
https://youtu.be/IIEVqFB4WUo
Or you could roll with the zombies…
“Guess who might kill President Trump’s tax break bill?”
So this McCain guy…I’m not too familiar with him and all but he kinda sucks huh?
Seriously though, how can an eighty year old with a fucking brain tumor be considered fit for office?
A malfunctioning brain is a requirement for the job.
He’s spent his whole life collaborating with the enemy, why stop now?
Things to Remember When Hanging Out of Your Vehicle Topless
1. Don’t lose your head
Uh…..
“The newspaper cited tourist experts saying 95 per cent of Russian deaths abroad were due to tourists’ “own stupidity” and not the result of terrorism or natural disasters.”
I’ve seen their dashboard videos and would guess the domestic cause of deaths for Russians is about the same.
I live that about the Russians. You see some crazy ssht that here, in the Land of the Free, would cause some OSHA bureurocrat to shit his pants.
Cool story, bro.
::kicks pebble::
Equifax website borked again, this time to redirect to fake Flash update
Malware researcher encounters bogus download links during multiple visits.
In May credit reporting service Equifax’s website was breached by attackers who eventually made off with Social Security numbers, names, and a dizzying amount of other details for some 145.5 million US consumers. For several hours on Wednesday, and again early Thursday morning, the site was maliciously manipulated again, this time to deliver fraudulent Adobe Flash updates, which when clicked, infected visitors’ computers with adware that was detected by only three of 65 antivirus providers.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/10/equifax-website-hacked-again-this-time-to-redirect-to-fake-flash-update/
Related (got to love those no bid contracts):
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/12/irs-equifax-contract-suspended-243732
Facebook and Twitter could be asked to pay for action against the “undeniable suffering” social media can cause, the culture secretary has said.
Cyber-bullying, trolling, abuse and under-age access to porn will be targeted in plans drawn up by Karen Bradley to make the online world safer.
Ms Bradley wants social media groups to sign up to a voluntary code of practice and help fund campaigns against abuse.
She also wants social media platforms to reveal the scale of online hate.
Almost a fifth of 12 to 15-year-olds have seen something they found worrying or nasty, and almost half of adults have seen something that has upset or offended them, on social media – according to the government.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41566833
And this kids is why we need more and more government.
We can immediately make the world safer by blocking Karen Bradley
Big tits are not worrying to that cadre.
“Those kids spent so much time online, our Pakistani rapists barely had time to groom them.”
DIGITAL DYSTOPIA!
Growth becomes the overriding motivation — something treasured for its own sake, not for anything it brings to the world. Facebook and Google can point to a greater utility that comes from being the central repository of all people, all information, but such market dominance has obvious drawbacks, and not just the lack of competition. As we’ve seen, the extreme concentration of wealth and power is a threat to our democracy by making some people and companies unaccountable.
In addition to their power, tech companies have a tool that other powerful industries don’t: the generally benign feelings of the public. To oppose Silicon Valley can appear to be opposing progress, even if progress has been defined as online monopolies; propaganda that distorts elections; driverless cars and trucks that threaten to erase the jobs of millions of people; the Uberization of work life, where each of us must fend for ourselves in a pitiless market.
As is becoming obvious, these companies do not deserve the benefit of the doubt. We need greater regulation, even if it impedes the introduction of new services. If we can’t stop their proposals — if we can’t say that driverless cars may not be a worthy goal, to give just one example — then are we in control of our society? We need to break up these online monopolies because if a few people make the decisions about how we communicate, shop, learn the news, again, do we control our own society?
This reads like one more in a never ending series of “I’m a junkie. I can’t control myself. Save me from myself by banning what I’m addicted to.”
“where each of us must fend for ourselves in a pitiless market.”
If only this were true.
“where each of us must fend for ourselves in a pitiless market” that won’t take our money unless it gives us what we want. The horror.
Ned Ludd is alive and well.
TRUMP IS VISITING A HATE GROUP!!!!!
http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-speak-anti-lgbt-hate-groups-annual-event-first-president-683927
Is there a “respected” group more dishonest than SPLC?
Besides CNN, I mean.
Who respects that Hate group, the SPLC?
Obviously Newsweek does and if you disagree, you probably belong to a hate group.*
*If you don’t belong to one you still should be on a hate list,
Weigel.
“To read the full story subscribe or sign in.” No way am I going to sign up for emails from the hacks at WSJ.
That guy was so scared of Trump’s America, he had to do something!
SPLC was only trying to warn the rest of the country of the tide of hatred and graffiti that was headed for them.
Thank you kindly. Always fun when idiots cite the SPLC as some legit group.
It couldn’t possibly be the case that SPLC plucks low-hanging fruit to give cover for the groups they target for political harassment. I mean, how else do they smear innocents than by cynically associating them with actual violent supremacists?
Sure, Weigel, they keep tabs on extremists. But that’s secondary to their real purpose, using those groups to contaminate their list of innocuous political opponents.
It’s a good thing Glibs is a pretty obscure site or we would all be listed as members of a hate group.
You’re not on that list already?
Slacker.
Until the SPLC puts themselves on the hate list they have absolutely no credibility.
Oh boy…
Two of the many turds Obama dropped in Trump’s lap before leaving office.
The monster.
Um… OK
Dispatches from the Fifth Column: Matt Welch refers to himself as a “LINO” (I assume at least partially tongue-in-cheek) and claims to always have MSNBC on in his house.
I had to take a month off after the Weigel episode. I am considering listening again, but hearing Welch try to defend Weigel’s baseless Trump attacks really depressed me. And that they let him shill his stupid Prog Rock book.
It’s sad when someone who you enjoy listening to gets infected with TDS.
Kmele has remained level-headed on Trump and race through all of it. It’s still the right thing to get me through long distance drives, which I do every week for work.
Kmele’s “special” episode was excellent.
I always liked Kmele, maybe I should start listening again.
I quit watching and listening to a lot of things after the election because of TDS and the Democrat’s sycophants forgot how to understand English.
I like how sheepish Welch and Moynihan sound after Kmele gives an evenhanded response to whatever TDS news item is blowing up, or whatever supposed racial incident is whipping up the usual suspects into a frenzy.
Yeah, lets have the government manage “volunteering”. No way in hell that won’t alienate almost everyone with its inevitable politicization.
There is a local program which “encourages” high school students to volunteer in the community by withholding their diplomas if they don’t. Needless to say, not all “volunteerism” is created equal. Your charitable works must be approved by the gatekeepers, and the students are taught that anything which might in some way be peripherally of benefit to you, even if it’s just because you enjoy it, doesn’t really count. Service is suffering and penance.
People are crazy.
Forced volunteerism is just a euphemism for forced labor. Fuck that.
We have a word for that at work.
Voluntold.
As in, I was Voluntold to cover x’s shift.
A helluva lot of schools have a “community service” requirement for graduation. I did, ours was 80 hours. It’s bullshit.
My high school had a service requirement as well, but it was a Catholic one, so it kind of goes with the territory there.
Mine was nominally Episcopalian, though they really didn’t take that bit too seriously.
Mine was only like 8 hours. Naturally, I did the bare minimum.
What do you think of someone who does the bare minimum?
The step-daughter’s public high school REQUIRES 20 hours of community service to graduate.
How is that even legal?
Probably because nobody challenged it in court yet. And maybe a court would uphold it because an elected school board enacted the rule? School boards are usually the training ground for people who’s goal is to become a corrupt public official.
“The Wine Country wildfires are still burning as the death toll rises. FEMA offers to help.”
Donald Trump doesn’t care about white people.
French MPs have overwhelmingly voted in favour of a new counter-terrorism bill, despite criticism that it undermines civil liberties.
Several of the measures put in place under the state of emergency declared after the 2015 Paris attacks will now be made permanent.
The bill will become law before the start of November when the state of emergency will finally end.
http://news.sky.com/story/emergency-terror-measures-become-law-in-france-11066206
So basically state of emergency after 2015 terrorist attacks, don’t lift it until 2017, and before you lift it make it law. No emergency to waste. But government is good. Kepp saying that. Government loves us. They do they do
First!
Ah, one of those sharp and witty first comments Los Doyers was reminiscing about….
I’m disappointed in the length of this post.
Joe Biden visits New Jersey to stump Phil Murphy. Sets up a straw man about corrupt NJ politicians and knocks it down by denying it exists. In the same speech he denies that Murphy will raise taxes, endorses his plan for free community college, and likes the idea of a $billion “investment”.
I have to get the fuck out of here. Anyone want to buy a nice house? Only $1k a month in property taxes, 6% income and 7% sales tax.
$1K a month just in taxes? Hell, that’s almost an entire mortgage payment for me.
It’s totally worth it, I’ll thrown in my stereo as a special glib discount.
Throw in a dozen orphans and you’e got a deal.
Same for me in Long Island. Cant wait to retire and GTFOH.
Good point – my grandfather lives in Massapequa and his taxes are probably about the same. His house has been paid off since at least the ’80s, and yet he still has $10K+ in housing costs every year. Insanity.
… My property taxes are $3k a year, and New York isn’t exactly cheap in that department.
But my mortgage payment is only $650 a month. Admittedly it’s got no lawn and is the size of a two bedroom apartment…
I thought New York City was all set up as a big playground for rich assholes like Corzine and Murphy. Why do they keep showing up here in NJ and running for Governor (with zero actual qualifications)?
I still don’t understand how the hell Jon Corzine stayed out of prison.
Don’t ask me about the city dopes. I’m strictly an upstate guy.
But a lot of the downstaters commute from Jersey for some reason.
Da fuq??? I pay $1000/YEAR in real estate taxes.
Same here.
It’s time to be patriotic
I’m sure Murphy won’t raise taxes! And when he does, what are the chances Joe Biden will admit he was wrong and/or offer to help pay for said tax increases out of his own wallet?
Ya’ll are all crazy. ~$650/month for a nice size house, detached 4 car garage, and 30+ acres with a shooting range and fishing pond. Property taxes are ~$350 year.
Of course, I live out in the boondocks so I realize that’s unappealing for a lot of people.
Thus is me. I have a house, barn, shop, other shop, and 20 acres. My property taxes are due this week. My wife is taking an $800 check to the revenue office thus morning to pay them.
$800 is still to much. You guys living in the cities are getting fucked.
Where in NJ if you don’t mind me asking? We live in Monmouth county and I used to sort of rationalize it because the school my kids go to is really good. But the curriculum just changed this year and it’s awful.
Have to get the house sold before the next bubble pops.
Warren County – Allamuchy. Easy access to the traffic jams on Route 80.
My sympathies. I try not to go above Middlesex county.
I still don’t understand why a state that constantly needs tax money doesn’t allow every restaurant to serve alcohol.
Hell I was back home in Alabama this summer and was at a fast food BBQ place that sold beer.
Bringing my own booze to dinner is one of the few things I like about this place.
So pumped for Astros Yanks tonight. This team looked like a .500 team at best in the spring.
I dont see them pulling this off, but its going to be fun to watch them try. I might have more confidence, but the Astros looked like they were onna mission against the Red Sox.
The Yankees never cease to amaze. Dramatic HRs are in their DNA. And do they make it a point to draft and/or develop hitters that go deep in the count?
Yes. It’s been that way since Stick Michael was the GM in the early ’90s – work counts, get on base. Billy Beane gets all the credit for prioritizing OBP because of Moneyball, but Stick was doing that a decade prior.
That game between between the Eagles and the Panthers was closer than it had to for Philadelphia. They ran them off the field but those penalties.Yikes!
The refs gave Philly 10 (including a couple of iffy ones) and one to Carolina. ONE!
The Panthers running backs averaged about 2 inches a carry according to some upset fantasy footballers.
Well. He is….
dons sunglasses….
White.
YEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
The issue is that they weren’t calling at all consistently. If you call those two pass interference calls on Jalen Mills, then the play where Alshon had his arm pinned down was pass interference. That block in the back penalty was horseshit.
And even when they called the ONE penalty against the Panthers they fucked that up and didn’t even ask Coach Pederson if he wanted to accept or decline the penalty.
Last four games reffed by Pete Morelli involving the Eagles:
Eagles – 40 penalties for 396 yards
Opponents – 8 penalties for 74 yards
Holy shit!
Yeh, that was blatant last night. Even the roughing the passer penalty – there was no whistle apparently?
The Eagles almost did themselves no favours either when they called a TO on a 3rd and 7 Wentz converted. Next play they get sacked and Carolina manages a FG thanks to the resulting good field position.
They should definitely have given a foul on that late throw down of the Philly RB before the first touchdown.
Yeah. That was on Blount.
I couldn’t believe it.
The New Republic sees the future
Worth clicking if only to see the photo they chose to accompany the twit.
Gah!
*Documentary, February 2025, on “The Era of President Trump”*
“If you want to explain Trump’s 2020 re-election, you look to the Democratic Party’s reaction to 2016. Democratic media heavyweights, such as The New Republic, pushed Elizabeth Warren as the 2020 candidate…”
Shouldn’t she be brandishing a tomahawk? Or would that be cultural appropriation?
Campaign theme song?
Schoolmarm powers activate!
Trump would just have to call her Pocahontas ALL THE TIME.
Also. What in God’s name happened to TNR? I remember it being such a fine liberal publication.
Now it’s just pure unhinged prog garbage.
Was bought by some Facebook billionaire kid whose name I can’t be bothered to look up, one of Zuckerberg’s pals from Harvard. The guy who bankrolled his boyfriend’s rather pathetic run for Congress. Anyway, he bought it from Marty Peretz several years ago and proceeded to turn it into a clone of Salon.
Every single thing progressives touch turns to shit.
::looks at photo, contributes breakfast to Porcelain God::
There are some actual raised voices in the office this morning. You’d think DC sports fans would be used to this by now (that, and it’s motherfuckin baseball. Who the fuck cares?)
Baseball is the sport of the gods, woman!
And yeah, miserable failure has been the hallmark of DC sports teams since 1991. I for one am looking forward to Bryce Harper’s eventual exit to the Yankees.
A little inspiration for Sugarfree this morning
SFW
I’ll be in my bunk.
How many of our motorsports enthusiasts have seen the movie “One”? I had seen part of it, and I watched it from beginning to end the other night. Excellent. A documentary on the history of Formula One, with an emphasis on safety improvements. It was a truly lethal sport, in its golden age.
They manage to make Bernie Ecclestone and Max Mosley seem almost human. Also features modern interview footage with Mario Andretti sitting outside at his winery, which is quite possibly a smouldering ruin now.
Definitely worth watching, even if you’re not a fan.
Sorry. I only watched ‘Two’.
/nervous dead pan look.
BOOOO!
Well I watched ‘.5’ I can’t recommend it. It seemed…I don’t know…unfinished.
Are you German?
“Of course, Zeke never agreed to the CBA since it was put in place prior to him entering the league. “
If he willingly entered the league after the CBA was in place, then he effectively consented to the terms of the CBA.
If he’d entered the league before the CBA was put in place, that might be different.
You are making an assumption that the market for football labor is a free market. Given the fact that there is for all intents and purposes a cartel, that’s then you can’t say that he consented to the terms of the CBA.
There are other pro leagues. But nobody gives a shit about them so the market rate for labor in them is in the hundreds of dollars per year.
Also on tax reform, Republicans continue to show they are worthless:
GOP lawmakers may be close to compromise on state, local tax deduction
Legislators from high-tax states and districts are loath to let the century-old deduction — targeted for elimination by Hill GOP leaders and the White House — slip away. They’re trying to sway leadership to leave it alone or limit it to a degree so voters back home — particularly those in the middle class — don’t see their overall tax bills increase because of tax reform.
Bernie Sanders latest book becomes YA bestseller
BAARRRFFFFF
Makes perfect sense. Who else would take him seriously other than the physically, emotionally and intellectually immature?
Is he a dreamy vampire, or does he just die young?
How many books don’t become a “NYT Bestseller”? Practically every book I see has that on the cover. Seems like a rather meaningless “achievement” to me.
YA = young adult.
Are you saying YA books don’t tend to become NYT bestsellers?
Since Mr. LPB mentioned motorsports, and F1 particularly, I thought this ad was totes adorbs. I started watching racing at the tail end of his career, but one of my elementary school classrooms had a picture book about him that I was obsessed with.
Definition of vicarious living.
(not that I would enjoy the conditions ATM, but a bad day of skiing is better than…you know the rest)
There were various dude-bros in chicken suits and such being interview on my morning news, all queued up, beers in hand, about to board the chairlift on day 1 at A-Basin.
And those early/late season days at A-Basin are pretty fun, actually. The weather is nice, throw down a few turns, beer and grilling, dogs wrestling, etc.
Woman accused of leaving 9-month-old girl in middle of road to bite man during argument
http://myfox8.com/2017/10/12/woman-accused-of-leaving-9-month-old-girl-in-middle-of-road-to-bite-man-during-argument/
Why does she think the baby will be able to bite the guy if she’s left in the middle of road?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EnZi8C_VYE
Apparently the dove ad was cut by someone to remove the third person. Another racism hoax.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GJssvw1LQbI
The biggest issue I have is that as they progress through the women, the tits get smaller.
I guess they’re leaving to the imagination what the flat-cheasted Chinese broad at the end is gonna look like.
I’m bringing this over from the thread from late last night ’cause it’s kind of a big deal:
—-Wall Street Journal
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-poised-to-end-subsidies-to-health-insurers-1507865484
Yesterday’s move meant that the ACA was no longer viable in the long run–not even with insurance subsidies, bailouts, whatever you want to call them.
Today’s move means the ACA and the exchanges are no longer viable in the shorter term.
And Trump makes the pain go away if Congress passes healthcare reform?
The fuse is lit.
Congress^(Harpsichord) = Played by Trump
The Democrats are already set to make their push for single payer. About 40 million people will die in the streets between now and then. Maybe 100 million.
I don’t see how this could possibly go wrong. A bipartisan health care bill=something none of us will like.
Where are all the women in economics?
We hear a lot about the under-representation of women in so-called STEM fields – science, technology, engineering and maths.
But the proportion of women in economics is by some measures smaller.
In the US, only about 13% of academic economists in permanent posts are women; in the UK the proportion is only slightly better at 15.5%.
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-41571333
Gaps everywhere.
“Representation is just something that does affect me because I am subconsciously looking for role models or someone where I can say you know, ‘oh that could be me standing up there teaching this lecture’.” – this sounds like bullshit
Clara Starrsjo, a second-year student says she notices that her male and female classmates approach economics problems differently – which often leads to better, more comprehensive answers. – if the answer is not get the government the fuck it aint right. And that answer already exists.
Women’s primary view of economics is ‘Just give me a credit card with no limit’.
Math = patriarchy
The stats I saw on engineering showed that . . . only 40% of the women who graduated with engineering degrees went into engineering as a career, and of the number who did, a large portion of them left engineering within the first four years.
Rather than being driven out of engineering by their male coworkers, I suspect a lot of them are hired on management trainee tracks straight out of college, and women engineers with experience may be even more attractive to head hunters as potential managers–especially if they’re coming from a field like civil engineering where the engineers are already relatively fit for human cohabitation.
It wouldn’t surprise me if women with economics degrees and some quantitative skills are likewise siphoned out of the profession by companies looking for female management trainees. It could be that the society-wide mandate to hire women in management roles (or face discrimination, harassment lawsuits is depleting various professions of the women who would be in those professions if they weren’t being so aggressively recruited for future management roles. Gotta have women on the farm team, and where else would you look for them but in econ, engineering, etc.?
—-Harvard Business Review
https://hbr.org/2016/08/why-do-so-many-women-who-study-engineering-leave-the-field
That study blames a lot of it on gender roles resurfacing through internship programs.
Honestly, internships are a time to be aggressive. A summer program may take on four interns with the intention of offering one a job at graduation.
People who are ultimately assigned filing and copying work are typically interns who haven’t shown a lot of initiative or ambition. It may be that the female interns don’t realize they’re competing until it’s too late, or are conditioned to not show too much ambition so as not to come across as pushy, bossy, or bitchy–but I don’t know how engineering programs or firms are supposed to respond to that.
Some situations aren’t given to being nurturing and supportive, and some professions feature a lot of those situations.
I know assertiveness training is a real thing. Maybe engineering programs should encourage women and timid others to enroll in assertiveness training.
Or they could teach guys to be like women. I don’t see why that wouldn’t work.
Everybody knows chicks can’t do math.
Yet somehow they can calculate your exact net worth in one glance.
*flashes Rolex*
Yeah, baby, I can make some time.
“you have to know a team managed by The Lizard is gonna lose when they have a chance to clinch a series”
We tend to lack the attention span for such a pedantic activity
Things are moving along briskly – earlier in these comments, people were discussing Oliver Stone’s words of support for Harvey Weinstein……and now it seems obvious why he feels that way.
Jabba The Stone supports Jabba The Weinstein
Stevens, not Fisher. also, RIP.
Is there any need for someone who doesn’t really care about Weinstein?, because I’m available should the need arise.
YOU WILL BE MADE TO CARE!!
Carrie Stevens is just pissed that Stone got a freebie.
I she was really pissed she would have just retaliated immediately with a knee in the groin.
My question on the Nats is how the Caps are going to match this kind of ineptitude. Going to be epic.
Match?? The Caps have perfected that kind of ineptitude since the Nats were still in Montreal.
Is this some kind of thing now? I have a friend that posts the exact same combination of thoughtfully-arranged items with some sort of “inspirational” quote all the time.
I’m going to guess that means ‘I got no talent so I’m going to say something that makes me look smart’. Or something.
Yeah, I think it is. I have a few people on Facebook that occasionally post that kind of random nonsense. “Quick, post something that looks like it’s supposed to be meaningful and deep thinking!”
Thank God nobody would do that on our site!
*looks in mirror*
Hey….
Post back at her a picture of some weed, a sombrero, and a tiny donkey statue on top of another with the words “The BEST things in LIFE aren’t FREE – they come from MARKETS #fuckoffslaver #freeyourassandyourmindwillfollow “
I would, but Patrice Lee Onwuka really couldn’t be described as a “slaver”.
No, but what about your friend? Or have I misunderstood something (it’s nearly 1am so that is entirely possible)
My friend is more conservative that Patrice.
This wasn’t a political commentary. I just didn’t know it was a “thing” to post pics of high heels and electronics with some sort of pithy quote.
We live in an age of wonders
Fuck you, cut spending?
Just the new variation of the early 2000s inspirational office poster propaganda.
I prefer these.
My screen background for every job until this one (which requires we use the corporate one).
I haven’t looked at those in a long time, just killed a half hour of a slow day.
Thanks
The hand at the bottom right makes think the picture should be used as a prompt for a murder mystery short story. Heh, that even goes with her inspirational quote.
sigh. …makes ME think…
You guys. Talking about foozball while Trump is starving Puerto Ricans and taking away healthcare from the poor!
The missing links between galaxies have finally been found. This is the first detection of the roughly half of the normal matter in our universe – protons, neutrons and electrons – unaccounted for by previous observations of stars, galaxies and other bright objects in space.
You have probably heard about the hunt for dark matter, a mysterious substance thought to permeate the universe, the effects of which we can see through its gravitational pull. But our models of the universe also say there should be about twice as much ordinary matter out there, compared with what we have observed so far.
Two separate teams found the missing matter – made of particles called baryons rather than dark matter – linking galaxies together through filaments of hot, diffuse gas.
“The missing baryon problem is solved,” says Hideki Tanimura at the Institute of Space Astrophysics in Orsay, France, leader of one of the groups. The other team was led by Anna de Graaff at the University of Edinburgh, UK.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/2149742-half-the-universes-missing-matter-has-just-been-finally-found/
“made of particles called baryons rather than dark matter”
I always have thought it would be baryons and dark matter making up the Obamaverse.
JK, it’s pixels really, we’ll figure that out eventually.
The Celestial Aether!
That’s accounting for half the missing matter/energy?
My understanding was that dark matter/dark energy was supposed to account for some 95% of the gravitational forces we were observing. Once they can say more about half of it than just that it exists, I’ll feel less uncertain about what’s being said about the universe, the forces in it, how it works, . . .
I guess this dark matter wasn’t really “dark” at all. If it interacts with x-rays, it interacts with the electromagnetic spectrum.
Meanwhile, the deeper we look inside the atom, the less matter we see.
If you ask me, materialists still have a lot of explaining to do–and this observation decreases how much explaining they need to do by less than 50%.
I read it as they found the missing half of normal matter. They still haven’t found the dark matter.
Yes, matter is just constrained energy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSKzgpt4HBU
TW: misuse of “begging the question”
You know who else emitted hot, diffuse gas?
Thomas the Tank Engine?
This…person:
My dad?
Almost every politician?
It’s an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us; it binds the galaxy together.
…
…
So, I’m stupid. What does this mean if I’m not that kind of nerd and don’t really care about actual space science? Are we talking aliens? FTL spaceflight? Where does this get us in terms of Star Trek?
Nowhere. We’re still stuck here with the progs until someone gets the source code.
Well, shit.
*kicks pebble*
I have it on good authority that my metabaryions are off the charts.
*force cures bacon*
“Crazy fuck probably liked crunchy too.”
Crunchy Jif is the One True Peanut Butter.
Heathen.
Infidel.
They laugh at us today, but future generations will look back on smooth peanut butter in much the same way as we look back on bloodletting or lobotomies. Our great-grandchildren will be shocked and horrified by the barbarity of smooth peanut butter.
I remember when I was studying abroad, and one of the people in our group went to New York for spring break. We begged her to bring us a gigantic jar of peanut butter back from her trip. She brought a jar of crunchy Skippy. Crunchy.
We were plotting ways to have her murdered in her sleep.
Las Vegas security guard Jesus Campos disappears moments before TV interviews
Dafuq?
TW: Autostart Tucker Carlson
Damn my slow fingers
He would have showed… but then he got high.
“In the most recent police timeline, provided Monday, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said Paddock fired about 200 bullets from his room at the resort starting at 9:59 p.m. on Oct. 1 — the volley in which Campos was hit — and then began opening fire on the music festival crowd six minutes later.”
None of this makes any sense.
I could buy a few rounds. The general rule of thumb is that you can get away with one loud noise, or three medium ones, before people start to react. 200 rounds of automatic rifle fire would have been clearly audible throughout the hotel.
Most likely, the sheriff was playing things up for the media. But I don’t blame anyone for being skeptical. Too much of this shit isn’t making sense.
Las Vegas security guard Jesus Campos disappears moments before TV interviews
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/10/13/las-vegas-security-guard-jesus-campos-disappears-moments-before-tv-interviews.html
This is strange. Anyone else feel the aftermath on this one has been odd?
Anyone else feel the aftermath on this one has been odd?
You mean like the shooter’s house being burglarized? Or the girlfriend? Or the timeline? Or the 200 rounds down the hallway?
The whole story stinks.
This is what happens when something is instantly politicized; the trust level in our “institutions” is so low that even if all of this really is garden variety incompetence and they’re telling the truth, their credibility is shot and no one believes them. I’m no Alex Jones acolyte, but I’m beginning to sense some kind of cover-up.
IT’S GOING TO TURN THE FRIGGIN FROGS GAY!!
It’s by far the strangest case like this I’ve seen in a long time. I just keep feeling that something is not right here.
I’m not one to jump on conspiracy theories at all, but yes, this one has been very strange and a major departure from how virtually every other shooting of its kind has played out. I can understand why some people would grasp at straws in such a circumstance.
Like for instance, the guy seemingly has zero online history, no one knows anything about him, and there’s no motive. I don’t buy it.
Just a thought. Did anyone see this guy from the time he checked into the hotel, until he started shooting? I haven’t heard anyone mention that. Surely he was down in the casino gambling as usual, right? If not, wouldn’t someone have wondered why not?
I can’t imagine an area with more video surveillance than a major hotel casino. Then the guy set up his own cameras which I assume were recording. But somehow the FBI can’t even piece together a coherent timeline from all that.
Here’s a wild Alex Jones type thing. Paddock didn’t do it. A group of people kidnapped him in his room and held him there, pulled off the shooting, killed Paddock so it could be pinned on him, and then escaped. If no one was in his room all of that time and no one saw him, this could be a real possibility.
That isn’t that wild. It’s so obvious I have to think the police would look into that.
Since he owned the guns, and I think some sellers have confirmed that he is the one that bought them, that would be quite the coincidence. He randomly goes on a year-long gun-buying spree right before someone else uses those guns to waste a crowd? At minimum, he had to be involved in some way. And it’s not like he didn’t have a shady background himself. Still wondering if the guard was an accomplice, though.
They couldn’t even get the date he checked in to the hotel correct.
Also, almost all rampage shooters are young men.
WTF.
They also just changed the timeline again. Now the security guy was shot at the same time or right before Paddock started shooting up the crowd.
If Paddock and the cops were working together to help create conspiracy theories, they couldn’t have done a better job.
Where is Harry Reid in all this??
The loony left continues to eat their own, this time their fellow Chavez-lover Oliver Stone, as the Weinstein panic causes more and more leftists to find out that their Hollywood heroes were using leftism to hide their odious, piggish behavior. Couldn’t happen to a nicer fellow, really.
I think the left’s biggest mistake was identity politics. They took it way too far. Now they have people divided up by not only race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual preference, but several levels of micro divisions of all that, and more. What is happening then is that all of those groups start vying for position and when one of them gets some attention, others may feel envious. I think that there are times, some of the lefties wish they could be rid of this, but it’s too late. They should have stuck with free shit, that was working out pretty well. I mean the point was always coming when we run out of money for more free shit, but that would have never become really toxic for the left like identity politics is quickly becoming.
Bernie was in many ways a lost visionary until he too had to pander to intersectional people after Hillary lost. People forget all about this, but not only did he love to peddle a free shit agenda, but he was also in favor of more border enforcement and likely would vote for a border wall today if his constituents didn’t go insane.
How can the Democrats possibly come up with a cohesive campaign strategy. They’re going further left and at the same time they have to pander to all of these different identity groups vying for the spot light. They’ve really fucked themselves.
Lucky for them the Republicans are allergic to accomplishing anything.
Call me optimistic, but I think that’ll be fixed after November 2018, I’m sure of it. Alternative media like Breitbart have changed the game, and have really energized the primary voters in ways that I have never seen it before.
Phil Murphy catching lots of flack for his planned fundraiser with Weinstein.
Unless his opponent pulls an Archie Parnell, Murphy can do whatever he wants and he’ll be governor, since Christie is less popular than rat poison.
It’s the cycle here. Republican Governor to keep things at least somewhat under control for a term or 2. Then it flips back to the most leftist ding-bat the Democrats can find. After reality kicks in and the State is an even bigger mess (or the Dem Governor has to resign to avoid indictment), a Republican will be elected to fix it all.
Wait are you from Michigan?
You would think that the average resident there would learn after numerous electrical shocks that the NJ Democratic Party is basically a mafia organization, but no. The danger that the Dems are having right now, though, especially in Virginia, is that minority enthusiasm is still quite anemic, IMO because more and more are slowly realizing just how racist leftist identity politics actually is. If minority turnout craters or, heaven forbid, a small but crucial percentage of them move to Trump’s coalition, that’s could spell major trouble for the left. I think that they’ll be spared punishment in NJ barring major catastrophe, but as Hyperion points out, as the progs double down on intersectional politics, more and more average people will be redpilled.
Dunno anything about Murphy. I assume he’s another crook in the Corzine mold?
Almost to a tee. Same path, too, Goldman Sachs to token ambassador position to buying a gubernatorial nomination through handshakes and machine politics.
Awesome. I can’t wait to open up my wallet for him.
And you just know he’s getting tons of money from all the other pigs in Hollywood too. If the MSM doesn’t put a lid on the flood of allegations coming out, that could come back and bite him in the ass.
Sex Worker Treated as Sex Worker; Outrage Ensues
“using leftism to hide their odious, piggish behavior.”
Pretty much the reason behind ALL leftism.
4/10 on the hangover scale today. Only the female form can help.
http://archive.is/kPc2u
8, 26 and 39.
9 providing something for our Canuckistani contingent.
28, por favor.
53 makes me smile. 13 does too.
15 is the bunny boiler
15 is Kendra Sunderland, Oregon State library masturbator and later porn star. Go forth and enjoy her work!
Maybe a little. Just for research purposes…
WTF?
I eventually left the business when I was 19 to pursue a doctorate in neuroscience at the University of California, Los Angeles. I craved being around people who valued me more for what was inside my brain than what was inside my bra. After 12 years away from Hollywood, I returned to acting, largely because I had no health insurance and missed performing and making people laugh.
A “My Life in Hollywood” tale from some actress I have never heard of. Apparently, getting paid a shitload of money for playing dress-up and parroting somebody else’s words pays well enough to take the sting out of abandoning your dream of becoming a Nobel Prize winner.
Never heard of Blossom or Big Bang Theory?
*clicks back to Q’s link*
I’m just going to have to assume that the neuroscience career never really took off if the person couldn’t afford health insurance. Maybe what’s inside that bra > what’s inside that brain after all?
“I had no health insurance”
Gotta slip in the prog talking point. It’s like saying a magical incantation to ward off the evil eye.
She couldn’t focus on her job because MALE GAZE AT MUH TITTIES.
As someone whose wife just completed a PhD program, I’m going to call bullshit. The university offered insurance to students, and pretty much the moment she became a PhD candidate her advisor started finding jobs that would allow her to get at least a modest stipend as well as get the good employee insurance. Everyone in her cohort either got subsidized coverage as part of their candidacy or had a part-time job as a research assistant or teaching assistant or the like which included fully-subsidized insurance. My understanding is that that’s pretty typical. I’m gonna say that if she really didn’t have insurance it’s because she opted out.
I’ve been there and I completely agree with you. I think she just couldn’t resist that little virtue signal dopamine hit.
Or washed out.
Most schools I know of require graduate students to carry health insurance, and will tack it onto your tuition if you don’t have proof of coverage.
“I had no health insurance”.
Sure, cupcake. You had your own television show for five years and then went into syndication. I’m sure you lacked the money to buy health insurance.
She’s actually a pretty successful actress in The Big Bang Theory, and a practising Orthodox Jew, which might explain this part of her article which will not go down well:
I still get pissed that “culture” is the excuse rather than “nature”. None of them can find a culture where males aren’t horny.
Shorter Mayim: STEM doesn’t pay.
STEM too difficult
Saving people just doesn’t have the same panache as being an attention who’re.
I had respect for her until she was a guest judge on a cooking competition recently and revealed that she is a… ugh… vegan.
Those shows are infested with that nonsense. And the vegan who cooks a chicken and won’t taste it winning is a freakin’ cliche at this point.
“I had no health insurance”
Given that she’s an anti-vaccination loon amongst other anti-science views (as the former spokesperson for that organization), that really shouldn’t matter.
Not surprising she couldn’t cut it in a STEM field.
Never heard of Blossom or Big Bang Theory?
Who banged what, now?
Big Blossum gets Banged? Good pr0n title.
I think I’ve seen that one. I especially enjoyed the orgy on the snowbank at the end.
At that point, Stone “reached out and…honked it like a horn,” she said, describing him as “an immature guy in elementary school who snaps your bra.”
Come on, who hasn’t wanted to do that?
“Are those things legit, or have you been shoplifting soccer balls?”
Christ, that was every day in junior high.
But kind of dumb for adults.
Heh
Nice. On a similar note, I see that Hillary has added the “Rodham” back to her name for the book jacket.
Investigators concluded the male was not Harvey Weinstein.
http://www.theleafchronicle.com/story/news/crime/2017/10/12/couple-caught-having-sex-bar-then-again-portable-potty/754417001/
Nothing more romantic than a nice hump in the shitter.
I can’t even shit in one of those things without gagging. I don’t know how you can have sex in one. That’s just gross.
Drunk will do what sober will not.
She’s actually a pretty successful actress
Well, she’s got the holier than thou part of the routine polished to a mirrorlike shine.
OK, McCain’s torpedoing healthcare was out of spite toward Trump and to get invited to cocktail parteez; but what possible benefit is there to torpedoing tax cuts? Outside of the foaming mouth Far Left, tax cuts are pretty popular and undoubtedly a benefit to the economy. Is he that petty? Don’t answer that…
I don’t think he’s petty. But I also don’t think he’s a Republican, nor in any way a conservative, nor has any principles whatsoever.
Yep, his claims of supporting various conservative causes, excepting the MIC, were all BS platitudes to get him elected. It’s not so much pettiness, it’s that he never believed in tax cuts to begin with.
He’s Dianne Feinstein in drag.
I actually do think he’s petty enough to kill tax reform out of pure spite. He is the very model of a modern establishment Republican, and they loathe any outsiders (TPers, Trumpalos, you name it) with the white hot fury of a thousand suns. These are the people who would rather see a Dem win than a non-establishment Republican. Killing tax reform because it doesn’t come from the right people is exactly the kind of thing he would do.
“Maverick”
The political class hates Trump because he owes no political favors to anyone and nobody owes him any. They simply can’t comprehend how such a thing can exist, much like how birds cannot comprehend the concept of windows.
He’ll claim he’s worried about the deficit, which of course is a crock because he would give the DOD eleventy kajillion dollars a month if he could, but it’s the fig leaf he’ll use.
He’ll claim he’s worried about the deficit, and point to all the budget resolutions and bills he’s supported to cut spending, right?
He’s a major league dickhead. That’s all there is to see.
Let us not forget for a moment that this is the guy who wanted to ban nutritional supplements. I’m not even talking roids here, I’m talking about fucking vitamins. There’s not a hell hot enough for McCain, and please no pain killers for that fuck, mr. Devil.
Well there’s nothing better than dropping your drawers and having a *prostate exam done by an attractive Middle Eastern doctor.
*Everything is normal with my favorite gland.
And yes she was a woman before anyone asks. You weirdos.
Did you ask her to use three fingers?
3???? I hear it was a lively fisting*
*stolen from Parks & Rec
Hey, isnthat is what LH is into, I am not going to judge.
Stop. Okay. Keep doing it…
Was there another Male in the room while this happened?
ah no.
In my twenties I had the worst hernia exam done by an intern/resident. She treated my balls so roughly I couldn’t walk straight for the rest of the night. And she did this while another woman doctor watched on.
Go on…
LH, if the intern/resident was wearing a lot of leather and little else while insisting you call her mistress, she wasn’t an intern/resident.
That probably would have been cheaper, too.
https://vimeo.com/234751031
NASA now confirms ocean levels have been falling for nearly two years.
See, Obama told us he’d get the oceans to stop their rise. It just took them a few years to get the memo.
Little Petey Suderman is back in the NYT. What’s his message? BOOOOOOOOSH!
National security fear-mongering and culture war controversies, especially over same-sex marriage, were employed to rally the base and ensure its loyalty, even as dissatisfaction with Mr. Bush’s governance continued to grow.
The Bush presidency, then, was both a failure and a fraud. Instead of foreign policy restraint and modest conservative governance, the Bush administration delivered a pair of endless deficit-financed wars, cynical posturing over social issues, soaring federal spending and, eventually, a large-scale emergency intervention in the economy.
Rethuglitards are bad. Bad bad bad. Bring back Obama.
smdh
Not surprised that Mr. McArdle is trying to relive the glory days of proglotarianism. Those were glory days for a cosmo to be alive. You got invites to all the cool cocktail parties. You didn’t have the base whining when you played fast and loose with libertarian principles to appeal to progressives. Now what have you got? Spend a few years trying to derail a rollback of the government’s takeover of a sixth of the economy and people start questioning your libertarian bona fides.
Wait, so Bush was president for 16 years!? That’s got to be some kind of record! The Democrats really need to work on breaking the Republican party’s monopolization of the presidency.
Groundbreaking stuff from Mr. McArdle. Bush sucked? HOLY SHIT, WHO KNEW??
He’s been out of office for eight years, sparky. That well has long since run dry.
More:
Republican voters weren’t voting for any policy outcome. They were voting for chaos. And that, more than anything, is what the party has come to stand for.
Republicans- bad people, doing bad things. That’s all you need to know.
GODDAMMIT
That’s some primo-grade horseshit.
The left media have been saying the GOP is falling apart for 10 years now. And all that time they managed to make historic gains against Democrats. I’m starting to not believe anything the media says.
The hits keep comin’.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/amazon-tv-producer-goes-public-harassment-claim-top-exec-roy-price-1048060
New Study Claims American Millennials Are The Most Useless Population In The World
Again with a Japanese tentacle porn reference. Is this a recent trend or am I just out of the loop? I’m sure HM has a good knowledge of the history of weird fetishes.
Ugh html fail oh well the link still works
Well, doesn’t this look like a barrel o’ laughs?
I will be there tomorrow. Bask in envy.
How much are they charging for one lift and one run and hour-long lines?
I’m thinking the people at the end of the line just need to walk up a few steps, and they don’t need to bother with the lift!
Got my season pass, so I’m not sure what a one-day ticket is, but whatever they’re charging it’s too much. Mostly going up for the beer and the fun of skiing in mid-Oct.
I do admit, one of my favorite things about skiing is knocking off around 2pm and having a beer at the base and watching all the young folks with legs that can ski til closing.
Everest base camp? 😉
From the sidebar. Haha!
Nice.
Bitch needs to shave her legs.
STEVE SMITH NO SHAVE AND BY NO SHAVE MEAN RAPE!
http://5newsonline.com/2017/10/11/death-row-inmate-in-dismemberment-case-walks-free/
I’m not quite sure about this one. Apparently the guy was. ray when he committed his crime, but the prosecution didn’t factor in his craziness and eventually lost the case in the supreme court.
If you commit murder, I’m not so sure that just being crazy should get you off the hook in the first place.
Good sportsball news : Arena is gone.
Bad sportsball news : UNC skates. Apparently, it’s totes cool to give athletes bullshit non-courses to stay eligible if other students can get them too – then they’re not an “impermissible benefit”, see? I can’t wait for some enthusiastic SEC booster to test the limits of that interpretation. “Ah, but for every Escalade I gave to a football player, I gave one to an ordinary schnook!”
Resigned. Well, good on him.
So we’ve tried Klinnsman’s way with mostly Euro players and tactics, and Arena’s with mostly American players and tactics. Not sure where we go from here. Nuke it from orbit?
It is the only way to be sure, Rhywun.
I’m watching some of the under 17 World Cup – this bunch of Americans is playing better than the men did the other day.
“OK, we are promoting the U-17 team, en masse.”
So what were the classes that were offered? I haven’t been able to find that info in my 3 minutes of looking for it on Twitter.
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/unc-scandal/article167574222.html
I just assumed this happens at every school. The novelty here is someone snitched.
They were more brazen, and did it for longer than anyone outside of maybe..U of Michigan (used to steer groups of athletes into various “General Studies” courses back in the day).
Just in case anyone needed to see the uncensored video from the Russian woman with big fake tits hitting the pole in the DR.
https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2c0_1507775239
(Obviously NSFW, unless your work is cool with big fake tits and women hitting poles in a bad way.)
Tits: good.
Death: not so good.
I think there needs to be a new episode of SNP and it should feature Q saying ‘Titties, mmm, titties, let’s see em’.
How do you know RDA isn’t me eh?
The hobo intellectual? I’ve always imagined those exist, there’s Bannon, but I’m not sure I would qualify him as intellectual. I guess we’ll have to research this Zenu thing to discover the truth.
Why can’t something like this happen to John McCain?
I’m starting to not believe anything the media says.
Whoa, whoa whoa. You can’t just wish away reality.
The NYT sure thinks you can.
That was the ultimate sarcasm I could think up.
I think the NYT are tired of watching Freidman and Bruni being beaten like red headed stepchildren by the uneducated peasants.
Ok, that’s weird, where’s my link?
NYT New Social Media Policy
http://imgur.com/3S0h4Wj
I laughed unreasonably hard at this. Probably because I know someone like that.
Kinda pissed off my boss yesterday. She is a hardcore partisan Dem. We were looking at some PowerPoint slides on hospital reimbursement, blah blah. One slide showed that hospital reimbursement from Medicare was on a downward trend under ObamaCare, and one showed that the insurance companies were making bank under ObamaCare. The hospitals had agreed to pay cuts up front in OCare, on the theory that they would make it up in higher (paying) volume. The insurance companies took their money up front with the various mandates (even the benefits mandates are money in the bank for insurance). I pointed out that no one should be surprised that a law written hand-in-glove with insurance companies invited to the drafting table would work out very well for them, but the American Hospital Association should be embarrassed that they agreed to a deal where they fronted the money.
As a big OCare supporter, this was not well-received. I decided I had made enough career-limiting gestures for one day, and passed on the opportunity to point out that our slide on Medicaid expansion didn’t include the payment we make to fund it in our state, so it presented our gross pickup without netting it out. Punch line – the net number is around 1/10th of the gross number.
I know plenty of big time ACA supporters. Not one of them has even been able to say how they or anyone else they know has benefited from it or why it is good. I tell them how it’s hurt me, mostly must higher deductible and out of pocket. But none of them ever has anything better than ‘But the poor losing their healthcare!’.
I know a bunch of ACA supporters who are still complaining that their health insurance is too expensive. When I tell them that I was recently in an $11 per hour job and forced to pay $135 for a “marketplace” health plan, they hem and haw before replying that “It’s better to spread the costs of healthcare to all of society. That’s what would happen anyway!”
No, it would not fucking happen if I were not forced to purchase health insurance that I don’t need or want when I was in a low-wage job and having trouble paying all my regular living expenses. It would not happen if insurers were not forced to give out the equivalent of car insurance for a car that is currently wrapped around a tree. It would not happen if the government did not do everything in their power to cement this fucked-up relationship between employment and health insurance.
It’s makes perfect sense to spend trillions of other peoples money for zero or negative results, because social justice. *barf*. None of these supporters are capable of a rational debate, it’s all about feelz, because there are no rational reasons for getting government more involved in anything. Thus they pander to emotion, it’s all they have and they’re wrong even then.
There were places in our area before the ACA which would treat you on a sliding pay scale according to your income. If you had none, it was free. Now, if you have enough income and don’t have employer subsidized care, you had to have an ACA policy or if you didn’t have enough income, you were forced into medicaid. Medicaid is where most of the newly enrolled wound up. You cannot discuss any of this with these people, they don’t want any facts, they want to feel good because they’re saving people from dying of having no health insurance, which of course is a giant lie.
Oh yea, I was forced onto Medicaid for a while as well. Not fun.
To make matters worse, they fucked up all the tax papers they sent me. Fortunately, my tax guy is a bro and he took care of everything. He mentioned that since Obamacare, he’s seen a huge amount of insurance-related tax papers that were riddled with errors.
I think the NYT are tired of watching Freidman and Bruni being beaten like red headed stepchildren by the uneducated peasants.
Don’t forget little Timmy Egan. He makes the pinheads from Freaks look like towering intellects. I haven’t seen any Lindy West excrescences recently. She’s probably just taking a well earned vacation.
Bruni penned almost as many Hillary puff pieces leading up to the election as Brian Beutler over at New Republic. And that’s one hell of an accomplishment.
Or eating a Costco size gaylord of cheetos
Here’s a long-winded chin-puller on the Pruett death penalty thing. I found it interesting, anyway.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/10/the-autobiography-of-robert-pruett
Dovetailing with the Malim Balik story…. Aspiring actress fails to have her intellect validated by sleazy Hollywood mogul, gets PhD instead, takes frustrations out on college students
http://www.denverpost.com/2017/10/12/harvey-weinstein-harassed-colorado-college-professor/
Dead thread humping!!
I was at Reagan National this morning waiting to return to the paradise known as the Midwest, sitting at the bar and looking at the array of TVs.
The CNN giant ticker tape at the bottom read “TRUMP CUTS FUNDING TO MEDICAL CARE TO THE POOR.” I shit you not.
That’s pretty hilarious.
Allowing more competition raises prices dontchaknow.
Yep, selling insurance across state lines is gonna make poor people SUFFER!!
oh i love CNN. i hope you guffawed loudly after reading that.
Guffawed and has another screwdriver (it was almost 8 AM after all!).
It was their invoking the term “THE POOR” that was the best (worst).
Sounds like they are all-in for Trump 2020.
Awwwww snap!
Any other Illinois Glibs live close to Kildeer? Could be some entertaining confrontations over there tonight.
http://www.dailyherald.com/news/20171012/protesters-expected-at-gun-raffle-hosted-by-lake-county-republicans