1/250000th of that fajita theft.
I love ZARDOZ. He and STEVE SMITH might be favorite parts of this site, although the edit faery is, uh, exciting at times as well. Great advice, oh floating head. Speaking of floating head, they’re finishing my fence today. I got my raft ready, just need to sell my wife on it. Also, I guess there’s something happening on FB that makes people explicitly write, “Me, too.” Which is also a good 2 word summary of the website.
Looks like the Middle East is going back to a round robin war format as Iraqi forces rolled into the area some call… Kurdistan. I have complex ideas about all of that, but I guess “no longer our business” is the position this libertarian would want a government of Libertopia to take.
Cork stadium topless after Ophelia blows through Ireland.
Florida woman, abducted by undocumented immigrants aliens, now running for Congress. Might improve the delegation.
Scientists discover recipe for gold and platinum: 1) Take 2 neutron stars…
Hurricane or Whisky, you decide!
$1.2M worth of fajitas? That’s a lotta meat! Don’ worry your pretty little head about it.
Have fun with this one.
Thanks for that…now I am hungry for fajitas! Not $1.2 million, but still…
What about $240 worth of pudding?
Awwwwww…. yeahhhhhh!!!!
Ok, what the hell? Is fajitas the new Oregon man?
I love fajitas, but I couldn’t imagine stealing $1.2 million worth of them. That’s dedication.
PS: The whole #metoo hashtag is narcissism at its worst.
#bandwagon
#LOOKATME!!!!
#noideawhatcauseimsupposedtobesupporting
Take your pick!
NFL’s death spiral.
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomasjfarnan/2017/10/16/roger-goodell-killed-the-goose-that-laid-the-golden-egg-n2395496
I haz a sad, but I’m about over it already. I knew that leftist politics were going to eventually ruin football. Honestly the left don’t care, they’ll burn everything to the ground before they’ll ever concede that they’ve always been wrong, about everything.
Are there general spheres of human interaction immune to ruination by leftist influence? If so, what mechanism provides for that resistance and may it be adapted to elsewhere to provide a functional inoculation?
No. They are the worm Ouroboros. Just look at the professor from Evergreen as an example. After they chase off the real baddies, try to shame the normal righties, tear into the apathetic independents, they turn on themselves. It’s like the libertarians and the Nolan chart, but with bike locks.
Yeah that is way too easy of a narrative.
First off, the worship of the Flag and the Anthem is nowhere near as universal as the right wing culture warriors like to think. Between those who actually agree with Kapernick, those who don’t agree but respect his right to protest as being a fundamentally American right, and those who really couldn’t give 2 shits as long as their Fantasy QB gets at least 250 yards and 2 TD’s you outnumber the faux patriots by at least 2 – 1.
Second off, Fuck town Hall and all the other nationalist morons who worship the flag while they wipe their asses with the Constitution and suck on authorities dick. Kneeling during the anthem isn’t disrespecting anybody, it isn’t talking down to our troops and until the right wing culture war assholes created the narrative that it was (a narrative which simply did not exist before Kapernick’s antics) the overwhelming majority of veterans would have told you that they fought specifically to protect the right of someone to protest in exactly that way.
Goodell IS killing the NFL and a small part of that is kowtowing to liberal ideologies but the far larger part is in his idiotic attempts to be the dictator that saved the league. He has utterly destroyed any relationship ownership has with the Union, he botched the Concussion issue, His treatment of the Steelers, Patriots, Dolphins, and Saints have shown that the league has absolutely no integrity to run a fair investigation, to their knee jerk reactions to players committing violent offenses showing that they are more concerned with PR than actually getting things right, and finally and most importantly the wild flailing about player safety and making rule changes just for the sake of making rule changes with no real idea if they will actually help is what is killing the NFL.
Which in no way invalidates their criticism of it. This irrelevant point has been beat to death. If the commies want to protest or have marches that doesn’t mean we have to cheer for them because “it’s a protest”.
They are protesting the flag because it represents the US and they think Americans are racists, the country is built on racist principles, and Americans like it that way. So it is a rather direct attack on American people and principles for some feaux Marxist oppression bullshit. Americans are not so retarded that they can’t grasp that and quite rightly take the protest as a personal attack on them and their values.
Which it is.
Yes but you also don’t demand that they lose their jobs
Or you do, in this instance, by way of no longer paying their salaries with your purchases of their product. It is important to note that a significant portion of the ‘product’ value here is the extent to which the consumer identifies with the brand.
Yeah, actually they can. Players are entertainers, Rasilio. For most people watching this entertainment, they don’t care at all what the player’s personal unstated politics are, just so that it doesn’t interfere with the entertainment being performed. When the player/actor/entertainer breaks that rule, the audience gets pissed, and rightly so. Asking .Gov to can the players would be wrong, but I see nothing wrong with pressuring the Owners to can the protesting players.
In what other field can the entertainers tell a large chunk of their audience that the audience’s values are shit, they don’t like you, and not have said audience turn away from their product? Which then costs the guys who put on the show—the League and owners—a lot of money. When employees cost their employers a bunch of money, and they can’t feasibly recoup it, or alternate workers can be hired that won’t cost their employers as much, said employees get canned.
They are protesting the flag because it represents the US and they think Americans are racists, the country is built on racist principles, and Americans like it that way. So it is a rather direct attack on American people and principles for some feaux Marxist oppression bullshit. Americans are not so retarded that they can’t grasp that and quite rightly take the protest as a personal attack on them and their values.
This.
I would be so happy to see Goodell kicked to the curb for fucking up the gravy train. Actually, kicked to the curb just because he’s a fucktard in $2000 suit – yeah, that’s plenty good enough.
“no longer our business”
Never our business in the first place would be preferable.
“I got my raft ready, just need to sell my wife on it.”
Once she hears about your third companion BBC Jim, she’ll be totally on board.
*Oh, and it is BBC Jim you sell down river, not your wife. The market for second hand wives is totally flooded.
One wife, slightly used, runs good, needs work, make an offer.
I originally read it as “just need to set my wife on it.”
I read it as he’s putting his wife on the raft and then selling it.
That’s NOT what we were bidding on?
Could be. I’m going to need to see the quality of the raft first.
*slow clap*
The Great British Wife Raft Off
Oh, not that BBC Jim.
Universities might start behaving a little better if federal handouts were curtailed.
http://thefederalist.com/2017/10/13/america-campuses-madhouses-paying/
End federally guaranteed loans, make the loans dischargeable in bankruptcy, all of this crap will end rather quickly.
Bingo.
Universities are leftist propaganda machines. There’s no way that shit should be federally funded. Trump should cut it all off now.
“This is getting everything you wish for,” said Syracuse University physics professor Duncan Brown, one of more than 4,000 scientists involved in the blitz of science that the crash kicked off. “This is our fantasy observation.”
What a bunch of pervs
Talk about a money shot.
+1 golden shower
*prolonged ovation*
*If that lasts for more than four hours, consult your doctor.
Ok. So make up a few barge fulls of gold and all of the sudden gold is the same price as iron. Everyone can have bling baby!
Have fun with this one.
Fun? Or just a massive headache from the transitions and apparent focus issues the cinematographer was experiencing?
Chick is kinda hot in a scary ‘better wear a rubber, dude’ way.
I won’t punish you with the ones I didn’t pick. Also, that search started with Manowar and went downhill for a while before coming to that. It was at least a local maximum.
“Grandfather, tell me a story.”
I bid 4 silvers.
200 quatloos!
200 quadroons?
200 Gold pressed latinum!
I’m told that’ll net you something near 28 Ayrians once properly refined.
I’m not trying to bitch Brett, but most of these links have already been covered today. I’ve already snarked all I can on them. I’m gonna need some different material to work with.
Sorry, I had to emergency chainsaw up a stump, which killed my poor little chainsaw. So I had to rent another one and I hadn’t PLANNED to take a half day this morning from work, so…
So, why didn’t you blow it out with dynamite?
Well, if you insist…
White supremacist society made me shoplift
The white devil made me do it.
It was the evil dick.
I felt obligated to read that since you posted it to me. Thanks buddy. I’m 10% stupider now than I was before.
That still leaves you 600% smarter than the author.
Newton Falls says it all.
I come with an offer of free guns.
Enter to win a BM-59 in 308.
*eyes link suspiciously*
What do I look like, HM?
We’ve all been burnt.
*glances around nervously*
I clicks it from work. It got through a .gov firewall. Tis legit.
Way to defend your homies sir.
*fist bump*
Nothing worse than burnt bacon.
I burnt the toast on my blt the other day, still ate it.
Agreed. I didn’t like bacon as a kid because everytime my mom cooked it, she made it way too crispy. Like burned. I guess that’s how she liked it.
I was in my teens before i had bacon that wasn’t burned. It was an eye opening experience.
That’s how my wife likes it. Burned. She calls it “crispy” and smiles sweetly.
Crispy is such a thin definition that most people that ask for it like that will accept it burnt.
Monsters!
*runs screaming from office*
My dad cooked the bacon for weekend breakfast and it was usually right at that point between chewy and crunchy – like it froze at the state transition. That is the standard of bacon perfection to which I strive. My mom cooked porkchops for dinners and it wasn’t until I was married (the first time) that I learned you could eat a porkchop that wasn’t the consistency of shoe-leather.
The gift of the gun!
Why are anti-gunners so violent?
I have a theory that those people know innately that they themselves couldn’t be trusted with a gun, so they assume that everyone else has the same murderous impulses.
^ Exact.
And yet those people choose not to own guns before they go murdering people. Seems to me the system works.
I think they are projecting their own violent urges onto society as a whole, but assume that they have the self-control to not seek out a gun to fulfill them. Urgo, everyone who buys a gun lacks their self-control to stay away from instrument of their fantasy fulfillment and is a mass shooter waiting to happen. Except for cops, who are righteous agents of the state, except when they are evil agents of the white supremacist patriarchy.
What the fucking fuck?
Uffda! It seems as if the Walker Eelpout Festival is moving to Bemidji
Just like them big city folk to come in and snap up a local festival.
I mean, it would be like moving the Worm Gruntin’ Festival out of Sopchoppy!
It’s even known internationally? You mean that one time the guy from Canada showed up?
Walker is closer to Canada than the Twin Cities, you hoser.
Internationally known is like “voted best X”. It’s a pet peeve of mine. Voted best by whom? You family and friends?
That is because you get lots of foreigners coming to your state.
Here in Minnesoda we get a little wet in the panties at the idea that outsiders know who we are.
Minnesota outdoor winter
Nah, I’ll pass.
I think I see why those Paul Bunyon cock suckers in Bemidji want to steal the festival.
I think this will make you rethink your stance on our winters Lach
When is this festival again?
I think my eel just pouted.
Christ, man don’t tell ’em!
Pssst. Tundra this is all a ruse. Now these non-Minnesoda losers will go to Bemidji and we’ll have the eelpout tent girls all to ourselves in Walker.
Woohoo!
Ja
Uffda, Eelpout, Bemidji, Beltrami you’re just making up words now.
BTW, everyone not from Bemidji pronounces it “Brrrrmidji” and it makes them mad. How is that for witty repartee?
A friend’s uncle moved a couple of years ago from Bemidji to Anchorage and said that Anchorage has a much better climate.
You betcha. Brrrmidji is a horrible place.
doncha know.
Try this one: Kawishiwi
For the record, eelpout are disgusting. Like a half fish, half snake. I get totes creeped when you try to unhook them and their tail wraps around your forearm.
People say that they are good to eat, but most people are stupid.
A picture for you
Is it like a lamprey?
It’s like a giant nightmare tadpole.
Sorry. I was busy catching these instead.
http://www.blackwatercharters.com/Florida_charter_beach_tarpon.JPG
Baby Tarpon ?
The giant semen that will impregnate Hillary with Elder dna.
*horrified look*
The triple-helixed horror from a dead universe: gibbering, insane, hungry, lustful.
*laughs at Kimmel’s joke while eating his children backstage*/Her™
I’ve been called worse. They are tasty. Freshwater cod.
eelpout rugby
…go on.
Why the hell would anyone want to be outside in Minnesoda in the winter?
The alternative is being trapped inside with your wife and kids.
You are wise, Holiness.
The two best letters of the alphabet are T and A.
http://archive.is/o7zDy
21
is begging to be deep dishedI’d deep dishThere’s a deep dish joke somewhere in there.
I’d eat her pie.
It would be rude not to eat her pie, which I assume is not only hot, but also moist.
Although hopefully not flaky…
But still golden brown.
Guess where the pepperoni is hidden?
Huh. Cute as all get-out, and turns into a pizza afterwards.
She’s the perfect sex partner.
Emily Barry. HM has linked to her before. Her instagram page is now private, but here is a reddit group dedicated to her.
Oh, pay no attention to the fact that she supports Hillary Clinton.
Siete.
Dios mio!
7.33.41
Weirdest measurements, ever.
I call her my “love pear”.
Bacon wrapped pear on the grill.
IYKWIMAITYD.
Wrapped all up on it. Yaaassssss.
“The two best letters of the alphabet are T and A.”
Yup.
Something is very off about the women in #5. They’re excluded from the orgy.
2,3,14,19,22,25,28,40
*drool*
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/10/12/opinion/ben-shapiro.html
Ben Shapiro – noted coward.
He’s a better defender of liberal values than a lot of commentators. Would trade the entire staff at TOS (with four exceptions) for Ben Shapiro.
Those 4 of course being, Shika, Richman, Fruit Sushi, and the girl that writes about backpage, right?
If he wanted to be genuinely brave, he’d challenge some of the wrongheaded ideas held by his right-wing fans.
The delicious irony of this from The New York Times is a meal almost too rich to eat in one sitting.
curse your nimble and probably foul smelling fingers SF.
Yes, they do smell like your mom.
Let me check… yup, that’s worth a barf.
This is especially dumb because I’ve heard Shapiro go after the alt-right and Trump fans constantly on his podcast, but NYT writers are apparently too retarded to do actual research.
My irony meter just exploded.
“If he wanted to be genuinely brave, he would renounce his heretical ideas and devote himself to the Truth of Progressivism as espoused by its one true Prophet, the NYT (Peace Be Upon It)”
Fixed it for them.
“conservative …. values dominate mainstream American culture”
Wait, what?
Dude, it’s 2017. Have you no been outside? It’s practically the handmaiden’s out here.
That fucking piece of trash beating out Westworld for so many Emmys… well, it’s not like I’ve been expecting impartiality there, but that show is a pandering idiot magnet, written and shot by idiots.
I think this is a really weird thing that conservatives, progressives, and Nick Gillespie do: simultaneously claiming that their views are common sense values held by the majority of Americans and that their views are being attacked by society from all directions because they are an oppressed minority. The doublethink makes my head hurt.
It’s not doublethink…are you attempting to throw red meat to your base to fire them up? Or, are you trying to wring donations out of your base? Two very different arguments for two very different purposes.
Duh.
shapiro and the right in general have a bunch of infighting.
To be fair, so do the progs/SJWs, libertarians, Marxists…actually, I have a harder time finding a political group that doesn’t have a bunch of infighting.
Bullshit, everybody knows libertarians are a united front.
Now who wants deep dish?
*raises hand*
Pineapple on it, right?
Will there be foreskins on it?
Will it be served by Mexicans?
I’m not liking where this conversation is going.
Abort! Abort!
IPA sucks.
I’ll cue the Rush CD.
Only if it’s creamy!
Extra avocado, please
Maybe the NYT could find some space to cover the corruption trial of the Democratic Senator from that state the Bridge & Tunnel poors live in?
That’s no way to talk about Rhywun.
Who dat?
/nyt
Wut? A corrupt Democrat from Joisey? No fucking way!
In a sense, I can almost understand where the author is coming from. I mean, consider the experience of the average Timesman. Going into a room full of libertarians or, heaven forfend, conservatives, what’s the biggest threat they face? Being told that their ideas are stupid? Probably before being offered a drink and a bite to eat. I mean, they may have to get exposed to icky ideas. But, someone like Shapiro would only face getting exposed to noble and enlightened ideas.
How many spittakes can one article generate?
Shapiro getting his just desserts for all that bending over backwards in the name of decorum and civility. Jesus, what a fucking smearjob.
National Review (boooo) addressed that article here, but you’ll have to skip the whole first half to get to it. Not that the first half is bad.
This one’s “fun”, in that we’ve armed both sides of that fight. I’d hope that alone would make us realize that we should probably stay out of it, but this country’s never quite been that smart.
I’ve been saying this for years: Sell arms and ordnance to everyone on the African continent who can afford it, let them fight to exhaustion, do civilized business with the winners.
I don’t think we have armed the Kurds much at all. The Iraqi army yes, and the Shiite militias I am sure get theirs from whoever has them most likely from friendly Iraqi army cohorts, but I think the Kurds have been left high and dry there which is standard US SOP. Probably due to Turkey, and fuck Erdigan who is a slipper slip away from becoming a fundamentalist dictator. I am all for hands off, but we already aren’t by arming half the fight.
Don’t forget that our noble overloads of the swamp have declared their undying affections for the Kurds who’s potential homeland only has to be carved out of the lands held by American friend and foe alike. What could possibly go wrong?
Who in the swamp has said this? I thought the Kurdish independence vote pissed all the swamp off? I don’t think a carving up of numerous countries would be wise as the kurdish factions in N Iraq/kurdistan are a completely different sort than the ones in Syria, and or the ones in Turkey/PKK.
I won’t give them as embedded links so as to not piss off the hosts.
http://nationalinterest.org/feature/why-trump-should-support-kurdish-state-19102
http://thefederalist.com/2017/09/04/u-s-support-kurds-bid-independence-iraq/
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/aki-peritz/why-americans-israelis-je_b_5577225.html
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/02/kurds-turkey-pkk-ypg/470991/
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/445603/kurdistan-us-allies-need-us-suppport
In short, we’ve used the Kurds, we’ve led them on, but when the SHTF we’ll leave them hanging.
Damn, I thought embedded links triggered moderation. My apologies to the hosts.
Spokesman from the Clinton Foundation was unavailable for comment.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/car-bomb-kills-journalist-behind-11352821
Huh, oddly Hillary seemed to be in a particular rage over Wikileaks in a recent interview.
Excellent article at NR today: Getting to Work in Maine
The takeaway is that Maine is racist towards the twelve POC who live there!
12? Did a new family just move there?
They better not have stolen any of ours from Minnesoda!
With Prince dying our population is in crisis!
But you have professional basketball and football teams along with D1 sports to keep numbers up. What does Maine have?
Don’t forget all the half breeds:
“These are guys with the name ‘D-Money,’ ‘Smoothie,’ ‘Shifty’ — these types of guys. They come from Connecticut and New York, they come up here, they sell their heroin, they go back home,” LePage said to a crowd, The Portland Press Herald reported.
“Incidentally,” he added, “half the time they impregnate a young, white girl before they leave, which is a real sad thing, because then we have another issue we have to deal with down the road.”
“After the state reinstituted food-stamp work requirements, incomes more than doubled, caseloads plummeted,”
Well la-di-da. Food-Stamps aren’t as desirable when you have to work for them. imagine that.
I wonder how many more people are actually working and how many have moved from under the table employment to regular employment.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/10/16/taliban-hostage-thought-captors-were-kidding-when-told-trump-was-president/
I’m pretty sure that would be anyone’s response who hasn’t been around the news for the past five years
This is how the conversation went down.
Taliban: President Trump has negotiated your release
Prisoner: President who?
Taliban: Trump- you’re president
Prisoner: Wait- what? The guy from TV
Taliban: Yes, the man with the hair and the orange skin
Prisoner: Donald Trump?
Taliban: Yes, the president
Prisoner: Wha…wha…when did this happen?
Taliban: In the last election
Prisoner: OK, you’re shitting me
Taliban: No, he is your president
Prisoner: I’m going to need a minute here
Taliban: The truck is about to leave to bring you to the airport
Prisoner: Just give me like five minutes. I need to sit down
I larfed.
#metoo
That’s funny. Though in this case the hostage was likely a Taliban sympathizer himself. So, probably he wasn’t completely unaware of what’s going on in the world.
This was hilarious.
I have to admit that election night, for me, is one of those greatest rare moments in life where the prog tear barrels overfloweth and you cannot stop enjoying it. That was fucking epic.
I still enjoy watching Colbert’s reaction.
I’ve watched the entire thing on CNN like 10 times, lol. I can’t get enough.
Such sweet, sweet schadenfreude.
Very good.
“Who’s Vice President? Jerry Lewis?!?!?!?!”
Sort of like the scene in Back to the Future when Dr. Brown asks who is president in 1985.
Ronald Regan, the ACTOR!?
But in this case it would be “Donald Trump, the successful private sector businessman?”
Or “Donald Trump? The guy from the USFL??”
Reagan, at least, spoke out in support of Goldwater all throughout the 60’s and he later became governor (obviously 1950’s Doc wouldn’t know that). But, within five years Trump parlayed a career as a TV heel into a successful run for the presidency. I could see how that would mess with someone’s sense of reality
Especially when you know everything else they told you was bullshit.
Okay I was way late with that. *hangs head in shame*
Was she drunk or is this a manifestation of her mystery neurological disorder?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4984972/Clinton-apologetic-missing-BBC-interview.html
Both. And one of her feet is a squid.
*eelpout swims up suitpant leg*
*Hillary experiences her first orgasm*
*PBR experiences near fatal bout of nausea*
*Cthulhu manifests and decimates all*
YOU RANG?
Look. We’ll take the eelpout back, but no way are we letting that other invasive creature into our great state of Minnesoda.
If the election showed us anything, it’s that she doesn’t even know where Minnesota is.
What I want to know is at what other point in history is the loser of a presidential election getting book deals and talk show invites? Did Bob dole get to go on Letterman after his run? How about Al Gore?
The more she doesn’t go away, the less I hate Trump.
Gore losing the election was an inconvenient truth.
No, Bob Dole peddled Pepsi and Viagra, like an honest loser.
Hold on Vhyrus, B Dole started doing Viagra commercials. Do you really want Hillary to start doing ED commercials?
I’d imagine they’d start by showing some sexy gals dancing in the eelpout festival and then suddenly cut to a picture of an eelpout wrapped around a bikini wearing Hillary’s leg.
After that, who wouldn’t need Viagra to get it up?
Could function equally well as a birth control PSA.
Or I could just hammer a pen into my temple with my shoe.
I’d need Viagra and some scaffolding, actually.
Dole: “Bob Dole wouldn’t do that because that’s not who Bob Dole is.”
Mentioned this in the ZARDOZ thread, but the #meetoo thing seems to be another instance of people watering down a serious issue. My cynical nature makes me wonder how many of those people were legit sexually assaulted or harassed, or were just made to feel icky when a man looked at them. Seems very easy to cross the line from “awareness of a serious issue” to “overdone and nobody pays attention anymore.”
Yes. Women who have actually been sexually assaulted are now being lumped in with the woman who was catcalled once while walking down the street or hit on by an unattractive man in a bar who couldn’t take a hint and had to be told to go away.
well when sexual harassment now includes “hey, you look nice today”, everyone can #MeToo, even me!
I initially read the hashtag as #meetpoo
I blame the Germans.
No, then it would be #meatpoo.
That’s definitely worse.
That can be arranged, ladies…
#metooinprison
Kev, do you really expect some cute girl to admit that she has never been raped? Especially when that slut Kim has been raped and everyone is so totes being nice to her?
The temptation to be a victim and have everyone fawn all over you is just too great. Of course, they are going to make shit up whole cloth.
Well, there is no way to confirm any of it. I do imagine some women did have to work up the nerve to put this on Facebook, but I think just as many were just doing it because everybody else did.
Seems like they are practically making it a rite of passage.
Victim-whoring
I’ve never heard anyone use that word, so I’m claiming it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0AbbYx4BDs
Not quite Ha-Ha-Holocaust.
So are the stats now going to change to 5 out of 4 women have been raped?
The NY Post ran an “Exclusive!” story from a former waitress in a restaurant in his building which amounted to “he seemed sleazy, ate sloppy, was a shitty tipper, and had drinks with lots of chicks, which other employees suggested he was sodomizing while yodeling, but which there is no evidence/proof of other than this one time he bumped into me and didn’t apologize”
iow, you’re not being cynical. Everyone is piling on with insubstantiated bullshit because there is a bottomless capacity for moral-preening from the Millenial-media
since we’re rehashing it. for anyone who missed it earlier.
#me too
http://imgur.com/kPeMt85
“There are now two credible allegations of sexual assault that have been filed with the NYPD involving Harvey Weinstein says a senior official
Officials are now probing the two incidents, which both occurred over 10 years ago while Scotland Yard is investigating five alleged assaults across the Atlantic”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4986026/Harvey-Weinstein-facing-two-allegations-sexual-assault.html
Now I’m not a professional statistician, but based on this cocktail napkin, 7 out 3 women have been raped by Bill Clinton and Harvey Weinstein.
/spit-take
I can believe that pretty much every woman who’s been to a club has had her ass slapped or her tits grabbed by some drunk dude at some point, so …
Wait nevermind, it’s just some batshit crazy bullshit. Carry on.
Said it before, and I’ll undoubtedly say it again, but my God ‘modern feminism” breeds some weakass women. That last paragraph especially — for god’s sake, WOMAN THE FUCK UP. Have sex or don’t, but take some goddamn responsibility for your own actions.
File under: Ancient Dem leadership suffering from senility. That file is getting awfully full.
http://www.theamericanmirror.com/video-pelosi-stumbles-saying-natural-struggles-recall-obama-appointees-name/
that’s post stroke right there
Brett,
Way to get me on your side with the faerie picture. Great links sir.
When you have bacon on your side, anything is possible.
A side of bacon?
Except he cut off her feet. I’m sure you all noticed. No? Just me?
Dude,
Them toes were meh.
*stares menacingly at bacon*
I’m going to fry some eggs. I’ll be back.
Your eggs are nothing that scares me. I AM BACON-MAGIC, YOU EATING MY SAVORY GOODNESS ONLY MAKES ME STRONGER. I AM IMMORTAL AS LONG AS YOU COOK BEFORE THE EXPIRATION DATE.
*looks for mold*
Green, not white! White mold is ok.
Faerie politician? She’s got a great stump speech…
*braces for incoming narrowed gaze*
Hah! Swissy isn’t bailing you out with his Close Gaze Support.
Now that you have given me an inch, I’m going to take a foot!
These euphemisms…
*bow chika wow wow*
Take a foot? I’m flattered.
*narrows gaze*
Real housewives of ISIS.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/piety-and-porn-in-raqqa-the-laptop-secrets-of-an-isis-wife
Porn is my religion.
Beaming shit tons of porn into these countries would be a good way to put a dent in their religion.
Cheaper and safer too.
+1 Mia Khalifa video
Air conditioning and Netflix would probably keep a lot of them inside. Jihad Mohammed Mohammed? Fuck that Mohammed Mohammed Mohammed, too hot out.
It would be mine too, if I had a religion.
My only response to her.
Hate speech according to Facebook
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/13/technology/facebook-hate-speech-quiz.html
Have you flagged a message as offensive or abusive but the social media site deemed it perfectly legitimate?
The horror!
I think the whole concept of “hate speech” is bullshit, but the answers from typical NYT readers don’t surprise me in the slightest.
Ha! White men are as popular as trannies in bathrooms among the NYT readership.
Actually, the more-revealing datapoint from that story isn’t what “Facebook” considers hate-speech (most of what they do is stupid, but its surprising what they claim *doesn’t*)…
…its what the reader-polls show. Which is that NYT readers considered pretty much every single one of those statements ‘hate speech’. often as high as 90+%
Which should make you realize how fucked people like us are.
Except for the white men are assholes and trannies don’t belong in bathrooms statements. That’s what makes the whole thing very revealing.
Yeah, i thought that was sort of revealing. it was closer to a 50/50 split, which was funny.
i don’t remember what the trannies in bathrooms was, but didn’t they break on “Yes” to hate-speech as well?
Barely
STEVE SMITH UNFAIRLY TARGETED BASED ON SEX. HIKERS HARASS HIM BECAUSE HE HAVE LOTS OF SEX. AND BY HARASS, MEAN RUN FROM. AND BY SEX, MEAN RAPE!
RAPE IS JUST HOW STEVE SMITHS PROCREATE! RUDE TO HUMANSPLAIN TO STEVE SMITH HOW TO RAPE. IF STEVE SMITH KNOW ANYTHING, IT HOW TO RAPE.
Now, how about talking about throwing someone into a wood chipper?
Hypothetically, I mean.
Excuse me while I oil up my wood chipper.
THE only one i got wrong was the Indian one. Funny how the only one the poll didn’t consider hate speech was the one against white men.
The NYT has a weekly race related newsletter? No wonder we’re so fucked up. The media propagates racial animus 24-7.
California just prevented any future school shootings with this one neat trick!
http://www.newsweek.com/guns-banned-california-schools-jerry-brown-685717
TW: Newsweek; Autoplay
Sorry I’m still too busy curing my pancreatic cancer with this one weird trick my doctor doesn’t want me to know.
Is that you Steve Jobs?
Why don’t they just make murder illegal and stop all mass killings ever?
It’s just common sense, after all
What percent Newsweek?
-50%
It’s almost like they wrote the article before they had any data!
Almost…
The numbers don’t matter when “research shows”. It has been shown. By research.
IFLS!
Jesus, this is becoming the “76 cents on the dollar” of the gun control crowd. This “research” is total bullshit.
“Over the weekend, Governor Jerry Brown, a Democrat, signed a bill that overturned the right of local school superintendents to permit some employees to carry guns on a case-by-case basis. Superintendents had been granted that role in legislation last year.”
California governor signs a virtue signal bill that will exactly 0 impact on anything.
Wait, so it’s undoing the California school version of this?
I’m sure people personally authorized in California to pack heat by Supernintendo Chalmers would have gone on a murder spree on the regular, but now we don’t have to worry about that with this magical change in the law. Keep that aura smiling, Brown.
Can I borrow your edit fairy for a weekend?
I got dibs.
Confession: I watched the entire season of Mindhunter in one sitting.
How many Cheetos gave their life to make that possible?
No Cheetos. I think I ate spaghetti at one point. And a Reeses crunchy candy bar thing.
At the same time? Ewww.
Don’t judge me!!!!
Sorry. Channeling my niece, I was.
What was that commercial with the teens girls saying “ew” to that middle aged guy? That was some funny shit.
I seem to remember one where some guy hires three teenage girls to follow him around and exclaim variations on “Ewww, gross!” whenever he tried to eat anything, as an incentive to lose weight.
just started.
It’s really good. The whole season is just laying the groundwork. They subtly introduce BTK around episode 2 or 3. If you don’t know much about BTK, you might miss it.
There’s hope still.
I spoke to a friend earlier today and he asked me if I knew of Ben Shapiro. He’s basically a ‘default liberal’ but he told me Shapiro opened him to a whole different view on things he never heard. To the point he realized the left have no arguments; or at least don’t argue as competently and it really opened his eyes.
He’s asking if there are other guys like Shapiro.
Hug him and bring him here Rufus, you’re not working anyway.
I think the transition from ‘Shapiro isn’t so bad’ to this place might be a little abrupt.
“I had a hit of weed and it’s not as awful as the drug warriors told me!”
“Here, have some heroin.”
I was thinking PCP
“Here, have some Fentanyl-laced heroin.”
FIFY.
Yeah, you don’t just go from Shapiro to Glibs, you’ll scare the poor guy off. He’s not ready!
Sink or swim. Bring him here.
Hug him first before fucking him in the ass?
Be polite aboot it, eh?
Don’t forget to bring along you Mexican and some weed.
That’s just common courtesy. A little reach around is also considered good form.
Have you pointed him to Thomas Sowell, or Milton Friedman? I don’t agree with them on everything, but they sure can put up a thoughtful argument.
Some Joe Rogan videos — maybe the interview with Bret Weinstein.
Jeffrey Tucker, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Kmele, Baylen Linnekin, Scott Adams
STEVE SMITH, SugarFree, ZARDOZ, Heroic Mulatto…
Don’t forget Robby!
*goes back to frosting hair*
*passes plate of fruit sushi*
Ah, thanks!
*sits down on spare tire and chews thoughtfully*
Vox Day.
Tucker can be a little ‘anal’ and reminds me of Les Nessman.
“Tucker can be a little ‘anal'”
Go on…
Pics?
I think that’s a question Jesse and Rhywun should be asking.
Hey I’m not gay but it’s in line with the weed, messicans & ass sex theme.
DON’T JUDGE ME HOSER.
He’s smart, though, and reasoned. Sounds like what your friend is looking for.
My friend needs a slap to the side of the head….but you’re right.
You gotta treat him like a skittish squirrel…entice him in with the easily-digestible stuff first. It’s gotta be tough to realize emotions & intentions do not good politics make.
Skittish squirrel…lol.
*pictures rufus treating friend like a Canadian would do to a skittish squirrel*
“You like that don’t you, eh?
*slaps head*
“You’re all aboot it aren’t you hoser”
*slap*
“here comes the moose caboose all abooooooarrrrrd”
fine
You have an interesting interior life, B-M.
Then skin and grill him?
I’m really not selling the Canadian identity well around here.
It’s the Quebecois taint, d00d. It’s inescapable.
Quebecois taint Taint balls or asshole but smells like both and thinks it doesn’t. And still looks down on you if you don’t speak French.
Scott Adams does excellent live “chats” on Twitter. Highly recommend, even though I put him last on my list.
Scott believes in single payer and expanding the welfare safety net. His analysis of Trump from a psychology point of view is interesting and unique, but he’s no libertarian or even conservative.
He’s pro-gun, anti-Hillary, and has quite a bit of pro-Trump stuff on his Tweeters (well, more like stuff showing how anti-Trumpers were wrong)
Jason Stapleton podcast if he’s got a commute.
friedman clips on youtube.
The Real Uncle Miltie.
Yes. But does he have the same, uhh…”bonafides” as the other Uncle Miltie?
I also like this penn clip where he talks about his path from being a liberal to a libertarian.
YES! Penn & Teller’s Bullshit would be a good primer, too
jeff deist does a good podcast on mises.
Carolla, if he likes to be entertained and isn’t wonkish. Stossel might appeal if he’s a common sense-type.
And Surgery Center of OK if he’s interested in the whole health care/insurance thing.
I enjoy watching Shapiro. He’s very quick and witty and almost never at a loss. He’s too conservative for me, but I still have respect for the guy the way he makes leftists look like complete idiots.
Thomas Sowell’s clips on YouTube, especially his fired up 1970’s stuff.
How about some youtubers? I recently subbed to “Matt Christiansen” and have been enjoying his commentary. Not an intellectual like Shapiro, but I enjoy his humor.
https://www.youtube.com/user/LibraryOfCODRage/featured
I could probably throw in 2 or 3 other youtubers as well. But not sure what you’re friend might like. Maybe The Rubin Report? Dave Rubin does not come across as the smartest guy, but that doesn’t matter so much because his show is more about his guests, which I like.
How’s it feel to be a New York taxpayer?
NYC school staff salaries up $555M, ‘Occupy’ teacher gets over $300G, report says
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/10/16/nyc-school-staff-salaries-up-555m-occupy-teacher-gets-over-300g-report-says.html
Don’t feel too bad, they can write it off against their federal taxes.
Piker, UCLA’s dean of diversity is bagging true 1%er dough, 400K+ a year of sweet California tax-dollars.
[Why no, what would make you think I spit every time I speak of my homeland?]
When I was a lowly barista at a major bookstore chain during college, I had a coworker who would always accuse men of hitting on her. Anyway, we were pretty cool at work until one day the manager gave me a compliment for taking the initiative to clean the back room because I saw a roach or two. I guess she felt like I made her look bad or something like that. But what really did me in was when she was telling me how she wanted the cafe supervisor fired because she and this other guy thought that she would be much better for the job. My response to that was that I wasn’t comfortable with this conversation and that we should give the supervisor a chance to get better at the job.
I went out of town for a week after that conversation and when I came back, I was slapped with a sexual harassment accusation. Her witness? The guy who was conspiring to help her get the job. My boss told me that they would get to the bottom of this but I knew that I have already lost my job because no one wants to be accused of harboring a sexual predator. I ended up losing my job but oddly enough, all the black women at the job hated her because to them it was this lily white blond girl who lied accused a black man of sexually harassing her. She ended up marrying the guy who helped her with the accusation but they divorced like two years after getting married.
Oh yeah, my point is that the whole #metoo hastag should be looked with a skeptical eye.
That hashtag is pure, unadulterated bullshit. I maintain that if an incident wasn’t serious enough for someone to call the police, nothing happened.
CAll the police?!? And get panic shot. No thank you!
Hmmm. A quandary for sure, and from Florida Man no less!
You mean to sociopathic liars couldn’t maintain a lasting relationship? What are the chances?
The lives your people lead. It’s like the Days of the Week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmYT_e2m1JQ
What a bitch.
I rented a room from my best friend in my twenties. He was dating this crazy chick for a while that he worked with (at a bookstore). When they finally broke up, she told everyone he worked with that we were gay lovers and sucking each other off behind her back. We thought it was hilarious. We played it up every chance we got.
I was pretty good at staying clear of crazy and flakey in university. It’s a fine line between nuts and eccentric. My buddy less so and I would always tell him to heed the warning signs.
Just say no to child psychology majors
Do not make eye contact with anyone wearing long-stockings who carried into class their bike seat posts and ate nuts during class. Nothing good can come out of that.
Hawt
FLAX SEED IS NOT HOT.
I had two female stalkers in Uni. Not cool. Not. Cool. At. All.
The only way I managed to dodge the inevitable bullet was that both of them moved on, the crazier of the two to an acquaintance whose subsequent professional life she made a living Hell.
I hate false accusers. Hate ’em.
So you weren’t gay lovers?
Keepin’ it on the down low, shhhhhhh
It taught me a valuable lesson. At all my jobs after the bookstore, I tend be much more guarded with women because of my fear that my career could at any moment be derailed by a woman with an ax to grind. I feel shitty because I don’t want to be like that but the moment you are accused of sexual harassment, the HR (with their hands tied) you’re fired.
I work in a place that is %98 dudes. (b/c Patriarchy!) It’s refreshing not having to worry about anything like that.
I’ve worked in female dominated fields and never had any issues. Then again most people in work world would probably describe me as “professional”. The truth is I don’t want to interact with coworkers any more than necessary, because I don’t like most people.
Also, you’re black?
Get out of here. Next you’ll be telling me there are female libertarians.
Sounds like she crossed some borders and that you were quite noble.
No, she was just an amazon out for blood.
Here’s the thing that bothers me – what would happen if she were proved a liar? My bet is nothing. Even if HR could prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that she was lying her ass off to get you out of the way, it would still probably be considered retaliation to fire her. Meanwhile, her lying got you fired. And labeled a sexual predator. In effect, the rules say her behavior is acceptable.
Wait, you’re a libertarian black man?
“Have fun with this one.”
Poppy?
Take Poppy and then add every horror rock cliche.
But is he actually a porn star?
http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2017/10/16/man-with-im-a-pornstar-tattoo/
Man, Johnny Manziel has really slipped.
A tattoo on his forehead reads, “I’m a pornstar,” with a second line that reads “& I f*** teen s****.”
Teen what?
Snatch would be my guess.
Oooh. Adds to cart.
Teen seals. #LoveKnowsNoSpecies
“I farm teen shark”
Shittons of emergency squawks in Europe today – cabin crews are reporting smoke smells. Smoke is actually from wildfires in Portugal and Saharan sands. I suppose if you smell smoke, you have to declare an emergency even if you’re fairly certain it’s not aircraft-related.
Wonder how many people are taking advantage of that and lighting one up it plane’s bathroom.
That would set off alarms on top of the smells.
(It isn’t even that long ago that smoking was banned on planes, but it seems forever ago, doesn’t it?)
anyone know if you can secretly vape in an airplane bathroom?
I don’t think you can secretly vape anywhere.
No. I had to wait 2 hours on the ground cause some asshole thought it would be cute to go on the plane and vape in the bathroom. Fuck him and everyone that ever held a vape within a mile of an airplane.
I’m guessing he didn’t try to do something small and ghost it… was he dumb enough to exhale a giant cloud and set off the smoke alarm?
He was a bro from Scottsdale. Fill in the blanks.
I’d say fuck the airline for making a big deal out of someone vaping.
If the smoke detector goes off, you don’t fly the plane. I’m not going to fault the airline for following federal law. I am going to fault the guy that could not have, oh I don’t know… VAPED IN THE AIRPORT BATHROOM 5 MINUTES BEFORE HE WALKED ON AN HOUR LONG PLANE FLIGHT?!
I remember being able to smoke on Korean airlines until 1998 or so.
Fuck Korean Air used to keep the last 4-5 rows of the plane open so people could go back there and smoke.
I liked it because I could go stretch out for a bit and take a nap for a while since smoke doesn’t bother me.
On KAL Flight 007, Russia smokes you.
I was only able to smoke on a couple of flights after I started smoking in ’93. And those were international flights.
The first time I ever flew, they allowed smoking. Trapped in a tube full of disgusting smoke for 4 hours. I wished cancer, emphysema, wrinkled skin, and early death on all you.
I remember. Going back to use the lav and walking through the smoking “section”. Or the smoking booths inside the airport. I can also remember being able to walk through a metal detector at any airport and go all the way to the gate to drop off or pick someone up.
While I have no love for John McCain, this is just… yeah, seriously, just never speak again, person.
OMFG. And other acronyms.
Jeopardy needs to have her picture as the answer to the question “what is denser than a black hole?”.
Are you kidding? That might be the year’s best trolling.
Great response: “With all those accrued @HiltonHotels rewards points, he must have a lifetime’s worth of stays at any property.”
That’s still smarter than this person.
Heaven help us if they were able to breed with one another.
That is a troll. That has to be a troll.
That’s the Normalcy Bias talking. I know it’s hard to fathom the depths of human stupidity it would take to spout off about something like that, but I would never bet against human stupidity.
Troll or Idiot. Who knows these days?
My favorite part is how they reply to every smack talker with a link to the Hanoi Hilton wikipedia article.
The only two Hilton properties now are the Hilton Hanoi Opera and the Hilton Garden Inn Hanoi. Marketing opportunity lost.
Those tweets be protected, yo.
Florida Woman Needs Your Vote
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article178813586.html
Florida has a U.S. senator who once flew aboard the Space Shuttle.
A congressional candidate from Miami can go one better: Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera says she’s been aboard a spaceship too. But this one was crewed by aliens. As in extraterrestrials.
Three blond, big-bodied beings — two females, one male — visited her when she was 7 years old and have communicated telepathically with her several times in her life, she says. (Sen. Bill Nelson served as payload officer aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia in 1986. All seven people aboard were from Earth. As far as is known.)
I am 100% sure that Bill Nelson likes his name tied to hers, even tangentially.
Any press is good press
Well, and this IS Florida we are talking about, after all.
For random reasons, a google reverse image search of our great edit faerie gives a treasure trove of smilar pics from the same woman. Page is in Vietnamese, but hey. http://www.vietgiaitri.com/game/cosplay/201605/chiem-nguong-bo-anh-cosplay-quyen-ru-cua-san-pham-game-mobile-moi-tai-han-quoc-2435320/
And of course I misspell something. I call upon my edit faerie waifu to fix that. http://i.schoolido.lu/cards/transparent/815idolizedTransparent.png
She has feet in those!
AND HOW!
Korean. Better than bibimbap.
My brother has been badgering me to rethink going into systems admin and instead study construction management. One of the major components of his work is Building Information Modeling, or BIM. And the connection I can’t help but make with it is bibimbap.
She is by far my most favorite edit faerie due to her thighs, but the edit fairy in the moon boots is pretty awesome on the total drunk off his ass dork scale which I appreciate as well.
You are a scholar and a gentlemen.
EDITORIAL: What I Said When My White Friend Asked for My Black Opinion on White Privilege
Black female Harvard student enlightens white man his privilege.
1. When I was 3, my family moved into an upper-middle class, all-white neighborhood. We had a big backyard, so my parents built a pool. Not the only pool on the block, but the only one neighborhood boys started throwing rocks into. White boys. One day my mom ID’d one as the boy from across the street, went to his house, told his mother and fortunately, his mother believed mine. My mom not only got an apology, but also had that boy jump in our pool and retrieve every single rock. No more rocks after that. Then Mom even invited him to come over to swim sometime if he asked permission. Everyone became friends. This one has a happy ending because my mom was and is badass about matters like these, but I hope you can see that the white privilege in this situation is being able to move into a “nice” neighborhood and be accepted not harassed, made to feel unwelcome, or prone to acts of vandalism and hostility.
If this is all you got when someone asks for examples of white privilege, then your arguement is pretty damn shallow.
So what do you call it when the black kids beat up the Asian kid in high school?
Intersectionality or whatever? I don’t really follow prog stuff.
reparations
Clearly the black kid is resorting to bullying because our racist society is making him poor and underprivileged, so this is just another product of white supremacist society.
Oh gee, last year we moved to a new neighborhood. Upper middle class all the way.
None of the neighborhood kids will play with my youngest daughter (the older kids are too old to fit in) and the routinely tease and pull pranks on her. You can’t even say it is cause she is the new kid on the block because several other families moved in after us. The sole difference is we rent the house and everyone else owns (which explains why we were explicitly not invited to the neighborhood block party that was literally held directly outside of our front door but the kids wouldn’t know anything about that) .
Problem is we are all white. There are no blacks in the community and only a couple of Asians.
So now where is my daughters white privilege?
like most of the white privilege nonsense I’ve seen, this is a perfect example of someone reducing a complex situation to the only variable they give a shit about. In the case of BLM fucktards every bad thing that has ever happened to them is due to race and nothing else. They neglect all other possible motivations and completely ignore the fact that pretty much everyone sucks and most people are assholes. In this story she also neglects the corollary that ALL kids suck and are assholes.
When I was a kid I moved into a new suburban rich kid neighborhood. There was a group of 5 or so boys a couple years older than me and they tormented the shit out of me. They beat me up. Vandalized my bike. Stole my toys and broke them or threw them into the woods. etc etc.
They did this because:
1) they were assholes.
2) they were an established group and I was an outsider on their turf
3) they were fucking bored because suburbia in the 80’s was a miserable place to be a kid.
4) they were older and bigger than me so there was little I could do about it.
Whatever. That’s part of growing up.
BUT if I had been black, then I could see how I might become convinced that the racial difference was more important than the age difference, the size difference, and the pre-established group dynamic. I could easily convince myself that these kids acted like they did because they were RACIST and not because they were just assholes.
So it goes with the vast majority of these stupid fucking stories about racial bias.
If that’s the only variable you give a shit about then it’s remarkably easy to create a reductionist paradigm where everything negative that has ever happened to you is due to that variable.
well said.
No way. Everything is free when you’re white.
Yeah, I grew up in a shitty two-bedroom apartment in a lower-middle class mixed-race neighborhood with just my mom (since my parents divorced when I was about 3 or 4), so pardon me if I don’t have a lot of sympathy for her tales of woe.
Yeah seriously, fuck off.
“What I Said When My White Friend Asked for My Black Opinion on White Privilege”
These people need to get a fucking life.
The article is roughly on the same intellectual level as Michelle Obama’s masters thesis.
why, why, why, why…did I read that?
The guy asked for her opinion. He wants to be an ally. Now myself? I’m not her fucking ally. In fact, you might say I’m part of the axis.
Wh…wh…what did they just say?
Must be a euphemism I am unfamiliar with?
I dunno – it sounded filthy when I erad it
*read
You’ve been spending too much time here.
As have I.
Could you believe I have not been back to VT where the pizza parlour you suggested since I asked?
Every year we went up until that point. Typical.
Been to VT but not around there.
I’m ready!
more fun with codes
Here’s one I’ve been playing with:
-first letter indicates number of letters in following word
-word letters shifted ahead according to number of letters in the word
ATTACK AT DAWN
FGZZGIQBCVDHEAR
It resists frequency analysis by letter, but not by word. Omitting very common words like “the” and “of” would improve security.
It has the advantage of being simple and not requiring special equipment or complicated formulas.
Have you read The Code Book. The history in this is great. Very interesting read.
https://www.amazon.com/Code-Book-Science-Secrecy-Cryptography/dp/0385495323
If you want to crack a code try this one:
https://twitter.com/JulianAssange/status/919671345855762432
It’s obviously hexadecimal but I’ve run it through some hex to ascii and I get nothing… nothing readable anyway.
Probably need a key to decrypt that.
But I’ll bet the NSA is hard at it.
Technically that is a cypher
A code would be something like
(which is not a very good code if it is meant to be uttered by a Japanese spy in the 1930’s, and lets see if anyone gets that reference)
That has a predetermined meaning which could be anything
Codes are less breakable (possibly unbreakable if they are single use) but far less flexible as they can only deliver predetermined messages
“Louis Cypher. Even your name is a dime store joke.”
My favorite Mickey Rourke line.
Angelheart is arguably the greatest shitty occult noir film in history.
+1 Lisa Bonet
+100 pints of chicken blood raining down on their sweaty steamy miscegenation
Lol my misspelling of the word ciper was not the movie reference (although it was intentional I was more thinking the Matrix) the code was.
Apparently I am the only one around here who remembers cheesy 80’s chevy chase comedies
Denise Richards is the Charlie Sheen of real estate.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4986434/Denise-Richards-slashes-price-mansion-1-3-MILLION.html
Those are going to be some screwed up kids.
Yes, but I can affirm that I am fully adult enough to handle that grotto.
I want a place with a grotto. Not so much all the red velvet banquettes everywhere. But the outside is nice.
The Kitchen’s okay but all those other rooms…Uffda! (did I do that right?)
You mean you don’t have a fireplace in your closet?
Yup. A guy could do a lot worse than what you did there.
Yeah, pretty fugly. For $7M, I’d be buying a lot more land than 1 acre to start with.
I have an ex-friend who makes a pretty decent living. He’s self employed. He makes more money than I do, but thanks to all kinds of accounting tricks, he’s able to make it look like he makes barely anything for tax purposes, so he’s got a pretty low to non-existent tax burden in the end. And he’s currently standing on every soapbox he can yelling about how terrible the tax reform plans are and how taxes should be raised. And the Koch Brothers are scum for supporting tax reform and trying to get it passed.
Fucking hypocrite. I can’t rant about it elsewhere, so I’m going to do it here.
Why ex?
Internet-only friend whom I purged from my FB when I pulled FB back to family only. But my wife’s still friends with him and because of FB’s algorithms I see his posts occasionally.
Also, this is what he said of my support for tax reform. I’m not sure it makes sense, but maybe one of you can explain it to me.
Are you friends with Hihn?
What’s a better solution? Less regulation?
Yes. Ok, now that that’s decided, let’s move on to the next issue.
/learned that move from RC Dean this morning
I would’ve stopped at the Fallout reference and told him to fuck off. You don’t communicate with people through misrepresentating their ideas unless you want them to hate you. Zero tolerance on that kind of shit.
I don’t get the Fallout reference. I assume it is a game or a movie I am not familiar with. I would tell him to fuck off with the previous statement of a finite sandbox. The only thing making the sandbox finite is government, and yes less regulation would lift the limits on that. And damn right balanced budget. Reduce gov revenue to next to zero and we get close to what the should be regulating.
So I take it that his family drags unwilling members to Thanksgiving dinner under threat of imprisonment and deadly force?
“…We live in a finite sandbox..”
Wait. I thought they prefer pies.
“…but we can make it perfectly equitable, and I would think a Libertarian would agree….”
Liberty and freedom is not about equality and if making things ‘equal’ comes at the price of government coercion, it’s worthless and condemned to fail.
“…If that doesn’t make sense, use the analogy of a family. We’re all citizens and thus, family members…”
It doesn’t. And let’s just add some empty platitudes and commie-it-takes-a-village jargon wrapped in a blanket of appeal to emotions.
“…What’s a better solution? Less regulation?”
He says this as if it’s a bad thing.
He’s not even a coherent sophist and living in an ‘alt-reality’.
***
A student columnist at an Ivy League university claims that the school is suffering an epidemic of “lukewarm” sex from men who are “bad at listening to women.”
“Men at Yale are overwhelmingly underwhelming in bed,” Amelia Nierenberg writes in The Yale Daily News. “Far too many Yale women have a few good conversations with a guy and feel a real connection, only to be repeatedly disappointed by oomphless coitus.”
This “oomphless coitus” is “not a permanent state of affairs,” Nierenberg claims: “It’s something the men of Yale can fix with a little effort. But, at least right now, it’s an epidemic with a simple cause: Men at Yale are bad in bed because they are bad at listening to women.”
Nierenberg’s advice? “Step one: Listen to your partner. Step two: Act on that.”
“That’s it,” she writes.
Nierenberg offers several theories for why Yale men are such underwhelming partners: one is that “the men of Yale truly do not know how sexually mediocre they are.” The other is that “they know but just don’t care.”
As part of the solution to fix this campus-wide problem, Nierenberg advises Yale men to “be more conscious of how gender dynamics impact conversations about sex, in and out of the bedroom.” In order to “have constructive conversations about sex,” she writes, “men have to encourage real constructive criticism.”
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https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/37929/
It’s totally inexplicable that men who not want to hang around women like this.
So now the question is, does “oomphless coitus” violate women’s Title IX rights?
Obviously the way to better sex is to nag your way there.
Yeah, I can’t imagine why anyone would want to bang this broad and not give a damn about her orgasm.
What the fuck does talking have to with sexual performance? I suspect the sex is bad b/c she is fucking liberal wimps. She should try riding a glib. I expect she would be more satisfied with the sex.
What I find absolutely hilarious is that these harpies look at porn with super aggressive men and timid submissive women and come to the conclusion that the world is filled with toxic masculinity and rape culture, when the obvious fact is that the vast majority of men want to man handle a woman and the vast majority of women want it that way as well!
“She should try riding a glib.”
I would hope like hell none of us would be stupid enough to be alone in the same room with some sjw harpie. That’s a good way to end up in prison.
So they cut the balls right off of college men, tell them to be pussycats or they’ll be ostracized, and then bitch that they aren’t getting raw dogged?
I take it that the author has fucked a statistically significant portion of the Yale student body?
Bend over.
I’ll show you lukewarm.
Nierenberg offers several theories for why Yale men are such underwhelming partners: one is that “the men of Yale truly do not know how sexually mediocre they are.” The other is that “they know but just don’t care.”
As part of the solution to fix this campus-wide problem, Nierenberg advises Yale men to “be more conscious of how gender dynamics impact conversations about sex, in and out of the bedroom.” In order to “have constructive conversations about sex,” she writes, “men have to encourage real constructive criticism.”
The sexy talk sucks and she’s critical of her partners. I can feel the blood draining already.
Yeah, no idea at all while men who have no problem finding women to sleep with do not want to sleep with someone who does nothing but bitch about everything constantly. I mean even if she is super hot, her behavior and attitude would take her from a 9 to a 2.
If she were super hot she wouldn’t be bitching about men all the time because she’d just find a new one.
True that.
Ho-hum cat lady.
So Nierenberg‘s defense is that the men weren’t just following orders?
*STANDING OVATION*
Yeap, shut it all down and turn iff the lights. Fat lady has sung.
How did I Nazi that coming?
Once they figured out that she wasn’t going to stfu about femderp even after they got naked, they were just in a hurry to gtfo .
Think you could “oomph” this?
What even in the fuck is that? The missing link?
Per Google search on images, that is the authoress.
That’s . . . an androgynous person. You could have said that was a dude, and I wouldn’t have batted an eye. Mostly because a lot of young men these days seem more effeminate than young men used to be, to my eye.
She’s like a less-fuckable version of Shrek.
WAIT A MINUTE, STEVE SMITH NEED GO GET VIAGRA.
She looks like Kylo Ren
I am not sure there are beer goggles thick enough for that. And I have contemplated moving after a few of those episodes.
I don’t think Belgians could brew beer strong enough. You would at least need tequila goggles for that.
She needs mascara and eyeliner. I don’t mind eye brows on a chick but they shouldn’t look like magic marker so those need fixed as well. Needs to let the hair down to fem it up as well.
I wouldn’t be surprised if she’s got the reason why Yalies are bad in the sack exactly backwards, by the way. Maybe the sex would be better if the men acted more like men, you know, strong and assertive, rather than like mewling little dinks constantly begging for direction and approval.
Maybe, but it could also just be that feminist men are creeps.
Maybe she just has a big vagina
The only thing I got from this is that she’s easy and hard to satisfy.
Whales, dolphins form ‘human-like’ societies and cultures, scientists say
“Unfortunately, they won’t ever mimic our great metropolises and technologies because they didn’t evolve opposable thumbs,” said researcher Susanne Shultz.
Suck it, Flipper.
Dolphins are the STEVE SMITHS of the animal world.
Male dolphins are the white people of aquatic mammals.
Spoke too soon.
“One of the evolved dolphins, whose opposable thumbs have struck fear in the hearts of humankind.”
Um, wut? Lol. Is that the ancient aliens site? I’m not saying it was dolphins, but it’s dolphins!
Oh wait, it was the Onion, same deal.
Meh. I hear too many people talking about how intelligent other species are and humans aren’t all by themselves. Well, yeah, we are. You know why? When I see another species creating tools, let’s talk. No, I don’t mean monkeys who pick up rocks and use them for tools. That is not tool making. Tool making is when you chip that rock into a spear point and then tie it to a stick and make a projectile weapon out of it.
The argument is that dolphins could do it if they had hands.
Our brains are not unique. Neither are our hands. It’s the combination that makes the difference.
Well, give them some artificial hands and let’s see if they have computers soon.
Do you want an interspecific war? Cause that’s how you get an interspecific war.
At one time we weren’t alone, but then we killed all the others. It’s what we do. I mean they were all hominids, but still. I’m sure we’d have no problem killing the fish people too.
And then there’s the Japanese… Fuck a you dolpheeeennssss!!!!
Simpsons did it.
Considering the best way to unite people is with a common enemy, I propose we give robot hands to the dolphins in the name of world peace. All humanity will be united once they share a common hatred of the dolphin hordes ravaging the seas!
Where’s my Nobel Prize? I think with this idea I’ve done more work for peace than Obama ever did.
I’m not sure I wouldn’t take the dolphins side. They seem a lot cooler than most people.
I’ve also heard the argument that dolphins have language and that we’re going to crack it soon and be able to talk to them. Well, awesome, I’m waiting.
Oh, yeah… language. That’s the one thing we do have that no other creature can do. We can literally make a wider variety of sounds than basically any other creature, which means we can impart detailed and specific information to one another.
Ranged weaponry, fire, and language, and it was all over. We were unstoppable. Next think you know we rapin Gaia for fun and profit, then Glibs on the intertoobz!
Already happened.
Do you even SeaQuest, bro?
Um, Crows and Ravens do this.
Nowhere near to the extent that humans do but they fashion tools to the size and shape they need, not just using what is available at hand
Link?
Hold my beer
https://youtu.be/DDmCxUncIyc
I completely missed the tool making part. I see the part where they’ve used what they found already that was created for them, but didn’t see any evidence at all of tool making.
Here’s one trying to lift the food basket with a straight wire, then quite deliberately making it into a hook to finish the job.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYZnsO2ZgWo
That’s still not tool making. On the way to getting there, but still no.
Really? Then what’s your definition of tool making?
Crows are cool.
Republicans in the Mist
I Went Undercover at a Boot Camp for Young Conservatives—Here’s What I Learned
https://www.alternet.org/investigations/undercover-boot-camp-conservatives
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I am (pretty) sure there are conservatives lurking in the corners of Bobst Library, but I am yet to knowingly encounter any. I’m also pretty sure this makes me what a conservative might call “a coastal elite.” I’ve gone all 21 years of my life without hearing unbridled conservative outpourings, and I badly want to know what is said by these people behind closed doors. What on earth are these young conservatives thinking? What are they exposed to that causes them to think that way? Are they real? Are they for real?
…
But surprisingly, given the casual bigotry and white supremacist rhetoric, the group is not as homogeneously straight, white and male as you might imagine. The group I attended training with had a few women in the mix, was not all white, and as my gaydar indicated, not all straight. Instead, the positioning and the subsequent catharsis that can occur over common ground comes when the question, “Who has ever been called a fascist?” is posed.
Every hand in the room shoots up. They all laugh, and I do my best to laugh along inconspicuously.
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I love it when hardcore progs do these deep dives and have their little ‘it was earth all along’ moments.
I just watched that episode two nights ago, It’s a telephone pole!
Yeah, for some reason, the whole “Deplorables In the Mist” routine never gets old.
http://imgur.com/PjiIQCh
10 year old Lachowsky would be revisiting the house that handed those out with a dozen eggs.
We had a dentist in the neighborhood who handed out toothbrushes one year. One year.
I got a rock.
https://twitter.com/JamesIacobus/status/917549177210466305
Oh HELL no!
Eggs, soap, rocks, flamethrowers. Anything and everything would be done to that house.
That’s got to be shopped.
Yo military peeps:
Cousin is currently in Qatar for a few weeks before he goes back to Afghanistan for his fourth tour there. He posted his address. Wanna buy him a gift. What would y’all have appreciated?
Hashish.
From my experience, there is plenty of that in Afghanistan. I wasn’t wearing a uniform though so different experience.
When my brother was in Iraq, he wanted magazines and razors.
I sent my brother deer jerky while he was in Iraq. He said he appreciated it.
Discharge papers.
Nice. That or a copy of “Going after Cacciato”.
My colleagues and I sent a care package to a bunch of coworkers who were stuck in Iraq for several months. They wanted kool-aid packets to make the water taste better, a football, a soccer ball, jerky, and some other stuff that now eludes my memory. I’ll add more if I remember.
As others said, beef/deer/animal jerky, Gatorade type drink packets, (I always packed the sugar free electrolyte things), sweets (chocolates, skittles, anything really). A flask for sipping? Depends on where he is going. The bases, from what I saw have all the comforts of home including Burger King and Pizza Hut with stores containing all the snacks you would want. Maybe send newspapers if he is remote post. We loved reading a newspapers/magazines when cut off from the world. Again, I was not there in a uniform but lived in the field away from civilization.
Send NO chocolate. By the time it arrives it will be a pool of brown junk spread over every surface of the package. All the other advise is good above and below is good.
My sister sent a box of DVD’s that was a huge hit. Not the newer movies which are easy to get at the various “Haji Marts” but older comedies/westerns/war flicks. Some hits that got huge numbers of watches were: anything by Monty Python, The Big Liebowski, Groundhog Day, Snatch, the Dirty Harry series, Spinal Tap
Hmmm. Because the Canadian government sent our guys & gals over there with inadequate facilities, a popular item was antibacterial wet wipes (basically the only personal hygiene they sometimes got for weeks on end). Other than that, I’d imagine any small, high-value (or “high-value over there,” if you get my drift) item would probably be good, even if he doesn’t like it (you can always trade for something you do want from one of the other folks around you).
Anti bacterial wet wipes are a must in any third world shit hole. I never left home without them. I flew into Afghanistan with a plane load of Canucks. Molson Air cracked me up.
Not sure if Dip is still worth its wait in gold as a trade good. Not 2003 anymore.
Maybe some good coffee and a french press.
The cheapest dip on the planet used to be able to be obtained in the Dubai airport. About 2 or 3 bucks a can when I used to travel through there.
My family sent me a large U-Haul box full of bags of Doritos and car magazines. It was the best care package ever.
Batteries were huge back in 2003-06, but probably not much that runs on them anymore. Jerky definitely a good choice.
A lot depends on if he’s front-line or in the rear. Front line guys have different needs.
Fuck. Back in 2010, there was a shooting at UAB – crazy woman who was denied tenure shot up a committee meeting. BIL of one of my colleagues was shot in the head and miraculously survived and returned to work. Just found out he died from a heart attack last night in his late 50s. Never met him but, still, shit.
Late 50s is way too freaking young.
I remember that. I’m sorry to hear about your friend. I assume it was Leahy.
Yep.
Smallest of silver linings, but did it happen in his sleep?
Not sure, just got a brief e-mail this afternoon.
Sorry to hear that, Raven. That he survived the shooting and was able to have more time with his loved ones is important to remember. I imagine he felt a new lease on life after that and appreciated it more.
Sorry.
Sorry.
Thanks for all the kind comments.
Totally not a shakedown:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/black-members-of-congress-push-for-more-diversity-in-silicon-valley-hires/
Schwarze Kinder statt Inder
They do a bang up job in my diamond mines.
I don’t get the problem. If someone wants a job in coding, why don’t they just learn coding and go get that job? This is not the government’s fucking business.
They’re perverts who get their rocks off bossing other people around.
Thanks for the X-Large pic of my favorite fairy. She can oxford my comma any day.
I know upthread we are talking about how unfair it is that a sexual harassment claim can ruin an innocent person’s life, and it also burns me up because it makes people less likely to believe the real claims.
In about 2005, I was harassed by a creepy guy at work who had been assigned to be the mechanical designer on one of projects. He always made sure that nobody was around when he made his icky comments, but in front of others he acted perfectly normal. It started with unprofessional but semi-tolerable stuff like “If you weren’t married…” followed by a narrowed gaze, made very explicit comments about the connector we were designing (because it involved “female” parts and “male” parts), and when I told him he could choose a day for the design review, he grabbed my forearm and said “I choose you.” And there was far worse, but the physical contact was the final straw.
One day I wrote down all the things he had said to me and when (it was over a single week!), and finally went to my manager seeking his advice. He said “Let me cogitate on this for a bit.” When he called me back in a few hours later he informed me that now that I had made the complaint, there was no choice but for him to escalate it to HR. He said he could either come with me for moral support or go it alone. I took him with me. That manager absolutely did the right thing by taking it out of my hands. If he had asked “What do you want to do?” I probably would have waffled and said not to make a big deal of it, thus prolonging the agony. So, if you are ever a manager and an employee comes to you with a credible harassment complaint, my advice is to do what my manager did.
I just don’t understand why some managers ask an employee who makes a complaint “What do you want to do”. Its not their decision or responsibility. A complaint has been made, if it is substantiated, then the decision about what to do next is a business decision. The employee who made the complaint should have zero input into any discipline or sanctions. Its just a category error (made by people who want to dodge their own responsibility).
Exactly. Seems like it should go without teaching it in Management 101. The kicker was that after my statement to HR, the HR guy asked me “What to you want to do?” My manager said to him, “Wait, don’t put this on her. It’s your job.”
Funny that even someone as thick-skinned as I am could be reduced to dreading coming to work because of a dick like my harasser. That’s why your manager has to have your back when somebody is messing with you like that.
Your manager sounds like he gets it.
Which makes me wonder, how long until they fired him?
Hah! He still works for the company but moved to an out-of-state division to take a promotion. Our loss.
He might be too straight talking to get much further.
Is Dan a really short guy?
I feel like I remember you saying you worked for a defense contractor.
‘Tis true about the defense part. Not true about Dan being short. He’s over 6 feet tall and fairly broad shouldered.
I still remember being out drinking with him on a business trip and he told the hotel bartender “Tall, double Tanquerey and tonic. And don’t be Jewish with the Tanquerey.”
I still use that line with my husband (2% Jewish) when he offers to make me a drink.
Ah. I used to work in that field, and had a manager named Dan who was really good. I was wondering if it was some sort of cosmic coincidence. I think my Dan was maybe 5′ tall on his tip toes. I think ~8/10 people in the department were over 6′ tall, with two being over 6’6″. It was a funny dynamic.
Also worthy of mention is that after the creep got assigned to another department, rumors spread and next thing I knew, people were telling me about how he was a known creep who had been moved over and over for his bad behavior with women (including trying to put the moves on newly widowed gal) and that he would even call perv lines from his desk phone! Turns out that NONE of that had been officially reported to HR, so they said they couldn’t fire him based on one complaint alone (mine). Lots of women and even male witnesses had gone to their managers to complain, but not one manager did the right thing by elevating it until mine did so. (Thanks, Dan!)
Good on your manager for sticking by you rather than trying not to make waves.
Also the lesson here, as with line of duty injuries or coworkers that try to throw you under the bus, is document document document.
I was really hoping that story was going to end with you burying him alive and dancing a jig on his grave.
I was afraid he would be waiting for me at my car so I made sure I happened to walk out with another employee for a couple of weeks afterwards.
Creep finally did get canned a few months later for pulling the same shit.
That’s good that you didn’t have to put up with that anymore. What a douchebag.
Was it true that your boss had no choice or was he saying that to protect you?
A little of both, I think. He could easily see my anxiety for even having to talk about it, but he also researched our official policies and cited chapter and verse about how this was going to have to happen. I don’t think he had to offer to be with me when I went to HR. That was just him being awesome.
“followed by a narrowed gaze”
Who would do that?
Perverts and those who serve masters from neutral Alpine countries.
I had a similar experience with a creepy guy at work when I was in high school. I was a 15 y/o boy and he was a late-30s guy. He was rather . . . “touchy.” It started with him putting a hand on my shoulder. He defended himself as just being a “friendly guy.” However, it escalated to the point where he came up behind me and tried to wrap his arms around me without my noticing. I got out of the immediate situation, but I really didn’t know what to do. It’s really weird thinking back on it, because it’s so clear in hindsight what was going on, but back then I was more concerned with not making a big deal out of nothing and not being disagreeable.
Anyway, I ended up mentioning it to another coworker in passing, and she was the one who pulled the security camera footage and showed it to the manager. Of course, she probably did it because she wanted to get rid of some competition. She tried to get me alone in the breakroom more than once. I was too caught up in school and home issues to notice the cute 22 year old making eyes at me.
Reminiscing aside, I sympathize with people who don’t know what to do with unwanted advances, but I also think that the excuse wears thin after you have some time to process the situation. You don’t need 20 years to process the situation.
CCTV or it didn’t happen?
Sorry you had to deal with that. Must have been extra tough since you were only 15 (presumably not yet a cynical libertarian) and probably trying to just do your job. Even if your female coworker didn’t have the best motives, at least she sent it up the chain. It really is important to have an advocate in situations like that, since the “harassed” person is usually embarrassed and reluctant to linger on it any more than they already have to.
CCTV or it didn’t happen?
You definitely don’t want to see that. He was an crack-addict looking effeminate wisp of a man, and I was an awkward kid who hadn’t grown into his body yet. Now there may be video of that 22 year old hooking up with the assistant manager in the backseat of his car.
I’m sorry to hear about your workplace harassment, too. I find it so repugnant when guys act like that in the workplace (or anywhere, really). Truly messed up people.
It can’t be good for the company to have a creep going around killing morale. Competent managers spend a lot of time and effort trying to keep people motivated. There are a few people who feel that way without much effort, but mostly you don’t get motivated employees by accident. It takes takes effort.
Having somebody undermine all that hard work as a manager by some creep going around killing morale, that would tick me off.
Being able to decide who you work with may be the best thing about working for yourself.
Very dead thread by now, but yes on all counts!
Only 16%? needs more RAPE
Infidels!
Don’t know if anyone else has listened to S-town, but here’s Uncle Jimmy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAZINaHu2RY
Got shot in the head 20 years ago and it’s too dangerous to remove it.
I only listen to H-town. Because i’m smooth like that.
Gilmore is the Quiet Storm of white people.
I had no idea you could declare a state of emergency because of a speech: http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/355668-florida-gov-declares-state-of-emergency-ahead-of-richard-spencer-campus
With Florida Man roaming around, everyday should be a state of emergency there. Also, Rick Scott seems like a pussy.
I dig your avatar. Is that some kind of Crusader heraldry? Looks like a Jerusalem cross. Or Georgian.
*sempai noticed me*
Yes, it is from the Order of the Holy Sepulchre.
Sweet! Thanks for the education.
Trump to reform welfare
Considering his stellar record at reforming the other tentacles of Leviathan, I am sure this will be a rousing success as well.
Oh, I have no hope of any reform. I’m just wondering how repubs will justify it.
Typical elitist tripe. So the blond twirling her gum on her finger is the non-graduate? Too educated, too fat. First world problems.
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20171013-the-surprising-damage-smart-workers-can-cause
So my movie review this week is for a film that’s actually playing on amazon prime streaming (amazingly enough frankly given the origin)…..anyone interested in checking it out based on recommendation alone before the review on Thursday?
Ah, fresh derp. And strong too.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/10/could-death-be-a-bad-thing
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Personally, I would not like to live forever. Instead, I would like to live for as long as it takes me to complete all of the projects I would like to do, and have all the experiences I would like to have. That will take a long time. Probably several thousand years. But currently, it is not an available option.
….
I am a strong believer in the right to life. I believe we should all have as much life as we possibly can.
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I wonder what he thinks about abortion. Actually, I don’t.
I wouldn’t want to live forever. I also wouldn’t want to exist in a manner where my choice to die could potentially be taken away from me. Don’t think It’s a problem I need to worry about:)
I read that if no one died of natural causes, the maximum lifespan would be about 600 yrs. The odds of dying of homicide, accident, or suicide after that much time is basically 100%.
Come, JB. Sit in this comfy chair and watch this pastoral scene with soothing music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOV8mBjHHYg
This doesn’t make a lot of sense to me, seems like many people would live a lot longer. Some are more careful than others, and most homicides/accidents are of younger people, iirc.
Yeah, I knew which video that was without clicking:) lol
I saw an SNL sketch with Heston once. It was called Soylent Green 2. He runs in and yells “it’s *still* people!”
I larfed.
Came across this one being passed around on FB:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/margiewarrell/2017/10/02/fierce-and-feminine-mayor-carmen-yulin-cruz-role-models-leadership-for-women-the-world-over/#318a89da2b15
How long before she is outed as being a Nagin-or-above level of corrupt? I’d guess at least another month once all the woke people have completely forgotten who the fuck she is.
I still don’t have an answer to how she got t-shirts & hats printed in the middle of a disaster.
A few days after the hurricane hit, I saw photos of stickers featuring Trump’s face with “pendejo” printed beneath it. People were claiming that they were popping up all over the island.
Based on some of the stories that were coming out, she should probably be under investigation. Will never happen though.
Can’t we sell Puerto Rico to someone? Even if we take a loss?
I say we just make Mexico take it while we’re making them pay for our wall.
ROFLMAO…oh, Boeing! My sides hurt! Stop making gme laugh so hard!
Wow. That’s some balls.
Damn, that is funny. I imagine that their social media manager is really dreading walking into the office tomorrow.
They’re gonna ratioed, hard. They’re almost at 1:1 already.
More Robinson
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Brief aside: talk of “dividing the pie” versus “growing the pie” is very common on the libertarian right. The argument is that while the left wants to divvy up existing wealth more equitably, the right wants to make more wealth for everybody by “growing” the economic pie. This rhetoric is misleading for two very obvious reasons: first, “growing” the pie doesn’t necessarily make all people better off. The economy could be growing, but with the benefits only going to a small group of people. Just because there’s more “pie” in the aggregate doesn’t necessarily mean that I am getting more pie, and distributional “slicing up” questions always matter. Second, because money is power, in certain ways it’s actually impossible to make “everybody” better off, just as it’s impossible to give “everybody” more votes in an election.
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https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/10/the-sad-spectacle-of-cities-groveling-to-amazon
*to the tune of a children’s song*
The Politics of Envy! The Politics of Envy!
There’s nothing so unfriendly
as the Politics of Envy!
If money is power, then power is money, and since growing the state represents more de facto power in the hands of the few who directly control the state day-to-day rather than the many who possibly have the ability to change out elites once every few years, then leftism is obviously inherently opposed to economic equality. Excluding the genuinely anarchic versions, I suppose, which only have the problem of not working.
They raise this as a hypoethetical, as if we don’t have data to show that when the pie grows, no…all people do end up better off. If not instantly, than always over a longer period of time. And it wasn’t because of government policies.
They’ve done nothing but circle back to the same bullshit zero sum argument. It’s not just about money, but power. And if one guy disproportionately gains in power, well, then you’ve lost. Do they even attempt to justify how “power” is the predominating factor in being better off? It’s actually a pretty fucking revealing look into the minds of progressives.
Instead of saying government policies, I should say regulations/redistribution.
And now they came for Lincoln. Honestly, you have to have been some kind of naif to think it wasn’t going to come to this.
http://reason.com/archives/2017/10/16/not-even-lincoln-is-spared-the-wrath-of#comment_7000843
Please take special note of Tony’s comment:
“There is a moral argument to be made that, as there remain victims of European colonization, we are compelled to give the country back to them from whom it was stolen. This imperative would be even stronger among natural property rights advocates who also support inheritance rights. I.e., we’re all living on stolen property. Say what you will about Indians, they didn’t take the Americas from anyone else.
But we don’t wanna, so we’re not gonna. We’re still gonna believe in stupid natural property rights bullshit though, aren’t we?”
Because the natives acquired their land through peaceful free market capitalism.
+84000 heads rolling down the steps of Tenochtitlan over a four day period.
Perhaps at some point in the future, the progressive mind will show itself capable of entertaining the notion that a black man held power and used it to murder various shades of brown people in foreign lands. And they lived through it and yawned. But probably not. They have an obsession with symbols, but don’t actually have any clue what they mean. There’s no actual reflection taking place that can even be used to shape the present.
“Say what you will about Indians, they didn’t take the Americas from anyone else.”
I see Tony is just as ignorant of history as I’d expect him to be.
Actually, pretty sure the Cherokee ran the Shoshones off of their land. Or one of those groups. Either way, they were running and killing each other off long before Europeans showed up.
Huh. WaPo has published Robinson and he comes close to saying something sensible.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/11/13/police-can-shoot-your-dog-for-no-reason-it-doesnt-have-to-be-that-way/?utm_term=.90ef6fbe4fe9
I don’t care who’s saying it or where they are saying it as long as someone, somewhere is saying it. Great op-ed.
Yes, it does have to be that way because whenever a movement gets started to do something about it, you retards make it about race, thus ensuring nothing will be done about it. The most wonderful thing about retards is that they have no idea they’re retards, because you know, they’re retarded.
Some pinko mad that Ken Burns noticed that the commies weren’t all sunshine and rainbows.
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There’s the question of false equivalence. This pertains specifically to atrocity and violence on each side. Your points in your blog were two. The first: Whatever atrocities the North committed, they don’t justify an imperialist invasion. Your second point: There was no equivalence anyway in the matter of civilian casualties. I’d add a third: You can’t judge the conduct of any revolution without taking into account counterrevolution — a word I was very pleased to see you use. Can you elaborate on this question of false equivalence?
As you point out, the film is very careful. Every time there will be a war crime committed by the United States side, they’ll very carefully point out a war crime committed by the other side. You can just predict it. Even in Episode 1, they said, “. . . but the Viet Minh were every bit as ruthless as the French.”
A preposterous observation.
In the case of the United States, you have the most powerful and richest nation in the world coming from 10,000 miles away and bombarding this small country from offshore Navy vessels, from seven airbases in Thailand, from Guam — never mind the airbases in South Vietnam itself — with more bombs than had been dropped in all of World War II, times three. And suddenly, the communist side is every bit as ruthless as the American side. It’s totally apples and oranges.
And even if there were equivalence, in the cause of what? You had one side fighting for an indisputably honorable cause: independence, sovereignty, pride, self-determination.
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https://www.salon.com/2017/10/15/making-history-safe-again-what-ken-burns-gets-wrong-about-vietnam/
Yes, but what do the Hmong have to do with anything?
Excellent.
Is this some kind of zen koan?
Clearly he means the bombs that will be dropped in WW VI.
heavy metal Vivaldi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txwlKqt01TQ
There’s quite a few of those out there now – like the videos showing them playing: https://youtu.be/bWx_GyTLGmQ
Sorry, but that’s just awful.
This is just epic stuff.
WE’LL GET HIM MY PRETTIES! HIM AND HIS LITTLE DOG TOO!
Man, America dodged a bullet. She is pure evil.
Ditto.
It’s an old story that the media just dismissed as a harmless joke without second thought. As if Hillary and the Obama administration didn’t actually have legal arguments readied to justify killing an American citizen on American soil.
Killing an Australian citizen on American soil.
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This is the heart of the issue, and it was most clear to me in the objections invoking sex and rape. Some expressed concern that the boys will engage in violence against the girls. A columnist at TheBlaze wrote a very popular tweet: “Liberals: ‘Men are dangerous rapists.’ Also liberals: ‘Men should go in girl locker rooms and girls should go camping with Boy Scouts.’”
But these so-called liberal claims are not contradictory. The idea is that the solution to sexual violence is not to separate men and women, but for people not to commit sexual violence. That will involve cultural change that begins with small policies.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/10/gender-fluid-scouts/542847/
These people are so retarded I have no idea how they even get dressed in the morning, let alone write.
In the days of yore, you had to be smart, strong, or lucky to survive.
The curse of prosperity – so little filtering.
A mental illness of affluence.
In the past I really didn’t comprehend what a blessing that is, but I’m really starting to get it.
The males defending it are something else. It fucken pisses me off how flippant we’ve become and I especially don’t appreciate the insulting arrogance that somehow it’s backward to think it’s bad to want to keep the BOYS in Boys Scouts. One asshole told someone ‘scared a girl is gonna beat your son’? Fucken cuck.
If girls don’t have the same opportunities as Boy Scouts THEN change Girl Scouts. Why do they have to co-opt Boy Scouts?
I agree wholeheartedly. However, from previous discussions, I believe there are some here who would disagree.
On what grounds?
That little sisters are tagging along anyway, so what could it hurt?
With all due respect to the fine folks around here but….that’s ridiculous.
That was me, for one anyway, and I stand by it. At least with Cub Scouts, which my son is still in. I may very well feel differently in the future when he’s a Boy Scout, but there already is a coed group in Boy Scouts, Venturing, and as far as I have seen they do fine.
In any case, I will NOT send my daughter to the leftist indoctrination outfit known as the Girl Scouts.
The issue is freedom of association.
the point isn’t whether one troop or another WANTS to be co-ed. Its that the goal of the social-pressure on the organization is to make co-ed status *mandatory*. That having any single-sex troop by intent is de-facto wrong.
people are free to voluntarily join any groups and engage in any activities they want. as rufus says: there’ nothing anywhere from stopping people from voluntarily creating their own co-ed “Scouts” and encouraging people to join. But that’s not what they’re doing: they’re targeting the self-identified “Boy”-scouts and insisting that they stop doing what they’ve always done.
their objective – contra their bullshit claims that there are girls otherwise being prevented from camping or skinning rabbits – is to eliminate institutions which reinforce notions of male identity being independent of the broader social pressures.
Harvard went after all the men’s social-clubs for the same reason. It wasn’t that there weren’t any co-ed options available. The “problem” was that the men-only clubs existed at all. The intent is to make the very-idea of excluding anyone others a forbidden and shameful one.
I’m not disagreeing with you as a matter of principle. I merely was explaining why I didnt think there would be much of a practical impact, at least at our level. So much of scouting seems to vary by pack/troop, anyway.
CW, practically yeh. I see the point. But Gilmore is pointing to the heart of the matter. We should be concerned. Boy Scouts should be for boys.
C’mon man, thinking that boys and girls have certain innate group differences is the foulest form of sexism. It’s also correct but you shouldn’t let that stand in your way.
Well, to start, because it’s not about having their own thing, but forcing their views on others. Second, no one would actually care if they created their own. Finally, everything they create based on their ideology fails with a whimper on its own. The only way to accomplish their goals of signalling to others how great they are and forcing people to pay attention to them is by co-opting already successful institutions. It’s the same with everything else the social justice left wants.
Simpler form:
1. Identify a respected institution. 2. kill it. 3. gut it. 4. wear its carcass as a skin suit, while demanding respect.
It certainly looks that way.
The same reason they have to co-opt anything…they’re parasites and need a host. They can’t create it on their own so they have to take it from someone else. Whether it be health, successful education, an identity, or basic fucking survival skills a la the Boy Scouts. They have never changed and yet they claim to be progressive.
These dumbshits believe that culture is magic, or mind control (or, at least, they hope it is, kratotheists that they are). No culture, no matter how totalitarian, has ever gotten people 100% on board with following its laws, much less its mores, so what is your fucking plan for the people who don’t act the way you prefer? Wish them away?
This time, we’re going to create the perfect New Man! Where tends of millions of years of evolution have failed, our policies shall succeed!But first, we’re probably going to need a new gender neutral name for him.
The solution for stopping something from happening is for people not to do that thing! Brilliant!
Teach men not to rape!
One more comic video – seriously, if you live near Charlottesville, this is a great deal.
I’ll go fill up one more box tomorrow. Hopefully that’ll do the trick.
Wolfenstein III: when art imitates life! GET IT!! BECAUSE WE LIVE IN A PERIOD OF NAZI REVIVAL. LITERALLY HITLER IS PRESIDENT.
apparently they’re marketing the game using references to ‘charlottesville’ and trump.
i also can’t tell why the hell people keep using the term “leaning in” …because it doesn’t actually seem to fucking mean anything at all. It just sounds ‘new-ish’
note the Rolling Stone interview method: Ask the same question 3 or 4 times to force the subject to expound at length, repeatedly.
e.g.
I would probably have punched the guy at some point between 4 and 5
Lean Forward is an MSLSD slogan. Lean In is the name of the Ban Bossy lady’s book.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_In
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Bell Hooks wrote a critical analysis called “Dig Deep: Beyond Lean In”[10] on Sheryl Sandberg’s book Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead. Hooks calls Sandberg’s position “faux feminist” and describes her stance on gender equality in the workplace as agreeable to those who wield power in society – wealthy white men, according to hooks – in a seemingly feminist package. Hooks writes, “she [Sheryl Sandberg] comes across as a lovable younger sister who just wants to play on the big brother’s team.”[10] Mass media along with Sandberg, tells us that any woman willing to work hard can climb the corporate ladder all the way to the top. The article further argues that Lean In ignores “the concrete systemic obstacles most women face inside the workforce.” Hooks reasons that instead of the “Lean In” campaign inciting social change, its purpose is to provide women advice on how to become successful within existing conditions. Effectively, Lean In does not consider the reality of intersectionality, which has been a growing subject in the contemporary feminist movement.
The main elements in bell hooks’ lengthy article – such as race, class, and sexuality – are centered off her work Feminism Is For Everybody. In bell hooks’ book, she describes how not all women are made equally – there is not a homogenous identity for women.[11] Hooks states that privileged white women know that their status is different from that of black women/women of color (pg.10); reformist white women with class privilege want the freedom they see men of their class enjoying (pg.38); and heterosexual women appeal more to men and society (pg.97).
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Excelsior. The wolves devour each other.
You capitalized bell hooks, you shitlord
“I would probably have punched the guy at some point between 4 and 5”
You mean you would have leaned into him?
http://imgur.com/o105L68
Merica bitches!
Good use of the heel to close out the submission-escape
It’s important to use proper form when attempting a rear naked choke on a ungulate.
Leonard Reed never considered the wild world of pencil sharpeners.
got a chuckle
But, now we expect the Spanish Inquisition. It’s a paradox!
Holy shit.
HOW HILLARY CLINTON STILL CAN, AND SHOULD, BECOME PRESIDENT AFTER THE TRUMP-RUSSIA INVESTIGATION
BY JULIA GLUM ON 10/16/17 AT 4:00 PM
I didn’t agree with the Dems that Trump should be impeached until yesterday, when Donald Trump broke Aaron Rodgers’ collarbone because Trump racist against Collin Kapernick.
I don’t want to look. I assume someone has written that the packers should get Kap now?
As I hear it, a lot of people.
He is from the area; but I’m guessing he now disowns his white family here.
but if i buy 1500 lottery tickets…
Glum is a synonym for glib…perhaps this is infiltration…
These people need to get a hobby that doesn’t involve politics. They can get together with other people and maybe focus all their energy on something that doesn’t involve their abject misery. Might help to lower their blood pressure after all the wailing they’ve been doing.
But Obamacare makes blood pressure meds so cheap! How can you not take them?
I have multiple hobbies that keep it low enough instead of relying on Skype daddy government.
Damn, Skype daddy? Should have just been sky daddy.
These euphemisms…
If you have good BP, and you take meds to lower your BP, it’s prolly a good rush! C’mon man, get on the pill path! *swallows two water pills expecting to get high* *runs to the bathroom*
It’s basically like Ancient Aliens at this point . . . or science fiction.
People like reading stories about what could happen, what might have happened, what will happen.
Some people like reading about the space elevator, the hyperloop, or interstellar colonization.
Other people like to read about an alternate universe where Hillary Clinton becomes President.
We’re probably more susceptible to that kind of thinking than most people–being libertarians. Libertopia doesn’t seem crazy to us. It seems rational as hell.
Bailey wants to upload his consciousness. Doherty writes about seasteading.
Hillary replacing an impeached Trump probably seems more likely to other people than Libertopia or digital Shultz.
I don’t know. My dreams are getting more realistic, I guess. I want a new motorcycle. I want to teach my dog to sing and play the piano.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6nhSDAKRj8
Incidentally, I grew up with a beagle that could sing that same song. It’s about when everybody goes out to eat and you’re left at home all alone.
She couldn’t play the piano though.
I’m glad you separated Ancient Aliens from that stupid Science Fiction. One is fiction, the other is on the HISTORY channel!
I’m sure some people watch that show because they think it’s genuinely educational.
It tells people what they want to hear. It tells people that the world may be a confusing place and you may not understand what people are talking about half the time–but for all those know-it-alls know, maybe ancient history was all about aliens.
If that show gets 3 million viewers, that’s only 1% of the country. I can’t even watch it to make fun of it.
On the other hand, some people read about how Hillary will be the President when Trump gets impeached because they think it’s educational. If only the rednecks and hillbillies knew what they know!
It’s ancient aliens all the way down.
Walker says it’s all about conspiracy theories. I think people just like a good story. They want to hear something fantastic told in a way that they can believe is real. And they want to be the ones who knew it all along. Of course Hillary is the real President, I just knew it!
P.S. Once the Singularity comes, digital Shultz will be unavoidable–and digital Shultz never sleeps.
I can only be in awe at how long digital Shultz posts could be; thus digital CPRM will be found instead at the digital brothel.
“I’m not saying it was Russians, but it was Russians.”
– Giorgio A. Progoukalos
I mean, point #2 is correct, and #4 is probably correct.
But. Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but the current state of “help from Mother Russia” is roughly ” ‘Russians’ bought some ads on Facebook (many of which were supporting BLM)”, right?
I’m guessing this thread is nearing is death, so I’m gonna post this here again just to see if people want to hear the next chapter. SF inspired.
He brushed aside the Pringle’s crumbs from his Addidas jumper, pulled the coffee table as close as his distended gut would allow. He would show that therapist that could treat himself. Pen in hand, he began to scribble on the complimentary notepad the facility had provided:
“Sure, I like pussy. Sue me. People look at me like I just won the Oscar for Best Supporting Pervert, but why am I to be judged by losers?. These girls come from across the globe, hauling around the only talent they have. Sucking a mogul’s cock. They want me to make them a star. Make them a shit load of cash. Make them famous. Yet, they don’t want to pay the price of admission. This isn’t a fucking charity.
You may think this is immoral, but you aren’t an artist (and yes, I am an artist. I pay the motherfuckers). My cum is the lifeblood of this entire industry. My cum is the fertilizer that causes tremendous growth. You call me a degenerate, but you don’t understand. Call me “sick” if you want because I have no choice. I have this magic elixir inside of me and I have to let it loose on any living organism within arm’s reach.
And that bitch, Hillary? I helped her get millions of women to pull the lever for her and she can’t overlook having a few pull mine? My jizz has created more stars than the big bang. I’ve put the wood in Hollywood and you motherfuckers judge me?”
Something didn’t feel quite right to Harvey. He hurled the note pad at the wall. Something was wrong. There it is; his cock had been rock hard the entire time he’d been writing his manifesto. The Arizona sunset coupled with his pent up rage had resulted in a purple, throbbing pecker. He got up, went into the bathroom and shed his clothes. The complimentary cotton robe beckoned him to slip into it. Perfect. It only circumnavigated three quarters of his bulging gut.
Semi robed, Harvey peered out into the hallway. Where the hell was that Mexican maid? Panic washed over him as he realized he would be wasting his life enhancing potion on the cotton robe. He burst into the hallway, pecker ramrod hard, searching for something alive to squirt into. “There! By the elevator!”. He ripped his robe off and ran toward the elevator. There was the fern he had eyed on his way to his room earlier in the day. As he rigorously pumped the juicy nectar from his shaft, he reached down to stroke the luscious plant. A giant howl of soul crushing pain escaped Harvey’s mouth right as he shot his load. “Nooooooooo. Fucking plastic.”
read it earlier, now skimmed it again, and I’m about to go to sleep, so fuck you for the fucked up dreams I’m about to have.
So that’s one “yes”.
I’m paralyzed by the thought of a Glib anthology series, working title Deviant Visions.
This should really be its own article.
James Dunmore died yesterday.
No more Jim Lahey.
Dunsworth.
yes. turns out i suck at thinking at that hour. edit fairy?