After experiencing the joys of the global workplace with an 11pm (EST) conference call, and my wonderful, coordinated 2 year-old who will not be kept in bed just because The Man says so when he wakes up at 4am, I’m a little punch drunk. Or maybe just drunk-drunk. I heard vodka and redbull worked like cocaine, so I thought I’d give it a shot. Or six.
The second best part of the Verlander trade
Florida Man takes semi-pro football pretty seriously. If Coach lived in Seminole Heights, he should be worried. I don’t know much about Seminole Heights other than I drive past it to go to the zoo.
Given that the FBI just dumped files on Adam Lanza, I suspect that we can expect that they don’t have shit on the Vegas shooter.
OMG! FEMA shipped packaged food with a long shelf life instead of Blue Apron to Puerto Rico where they may not have power or gas to cook with. Supplemented with MREs. Now, I don’t have personal experience, but everyone I know who had to subsist on MREs was more than happy to have beef jerky or cheese and crackers for a change.
I love that nutbars can wander into our Capitol and throw Russian flags at the President from close range. I mean it. It gives me some hope that it isn’t as bad as it could be.
When did aging Brit pop assholes become the voice of sanity? First Morrisey then Boy George?
“We have to be really careful with the Internet because people say everyone is talking – it’s like five people, they’re retweeting each other,” he told Israel’s Channel 2 News in an interview this week, “and that doesn’t constitute a revolution.”
Speaking of British heroes, it looks like at least some in England want to land a human on the moon in the future.
Sometimes you just fall into the song.
Oh yeah, Go Astros!
I approve of the Upton.
Yes. Whoever doesn’t like Kate doesn’t like America
I guess you can call me an America-hater then.
Worse than Hitler. Literally.
I knew that was a face of a serial killer.
And don’t you fucking forget it
And America hates you
#MeHateToo
I’m with you Carl. Yes, she has big beautiful boobs, but the rest is pretty meh.
On the other hand, I do love the Cat Daddy
How has Terry Richardson not been called out as an abuser?
Damn straight.
+2
*applauds and nods*
I called dibs years ago!
I thought you had dibs on Mike Rowe.
Yeah, KK! You get Rowe, we get Upton!
I say we force them into a breeding program.
What would the result be?
A reality show called “Dirty Boobs”?
::slow-motion pendulous clap::
Would watch.
You get producer credit.
I just wanna touch her boobs a little bit.
Would watch.
Would pay to watch.
Greedy! You get Mike Rowe and you’ll be happy.
Love this little bloglette about markets & exchange.
From there I found http://yourlifeinnumbers.org/
Pretty cool.
Your aviation story of the week:
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/10/24/air-canada-flight-781-sfo-close-call/
Damn you, Air Canada!
POsted the ATC in the a.m. linx. THey suddenly had “radio problems”, eh? They were in contact with tower just before and just after landing, plus the tower used a visual. My theory is they wanted to save the company a coupla bucks on fuel and time, saw the runway was clear, so landed anyway. Not good.
I agree with you 100%. They are full of shit about the radio – there is almost no way to go completely silent.
Yep – not following ATC has resulted in disaster. The worst one was Tenerife.
Tenerife was a monster clusterfuck Horrifying, really.
For the youngsters.
I had forgotten that it was a terrorist incident that stacked up the planes there.
There were pictures at SFO of just how bad the first Air Canada fuck up would have been if the pilot hadn’t aborted at the very last second. Something like they were at 65 feet and the airliner first in line that the AC airliner would have hit, Air Philippines IIRC, its vertical stab was 55 feet off the ground, something like that. With three widebodies in line after it waiting to take off.
It would have been a slaughter. You had something like 800 people involved with all of the planes that probably would have been run into.
The only scenario I know of where you explicitly don’t follow ATC orders is when TCAS is triggered. And that policy is a result of an ATC/TCAS conflict that resulted in a bunch of Russian kids dying and a controller being murdered.
That policy has always been the case. Russians have trouble following it because… well… they follow orders.
All they have to do is accidentally off tune. It’s not clear from the recording that ATC tried guard which would have eliminated that possibility. And ATC did clear them to land but then changed their mind.
This is what happens when you socialize air travel.
Ironically, Canada has privatized ATC, which is the envy of the world. Allows for quick innovation. NavCanada will soon own a majority stake in Aireon.
Here’s the ATC recording – contact starts at about 21:42
So I’m gone for a week and there’s already some jabroni with Hayek pun username?
*converts to communism*
Get the Hayek out of here. Who the Hayek did that?
Hayeksplosives? She been around for a while
Never seen her, ergo she doesn’t exist and if she wants to fite me irl i aint hard to find
This is why you should have claimed “Rothbardsbitch” when it was still available
I tried “Furry Rothbard” but I assume HM already took it
That’s a good one. I’m not clever enough for such puns
I larfed.
I’ve broken bread with her. She’s real and she’s spectacular!
*blushes*
Why, thank you. I rather enjoyed the company of you other Northern miscreants myself. We must do it again sometime.
Yeah, if Hefe want’s to fight hayeksplosives, he’s gonna have to go through me. I mean, after he goes thru Tundra.
Dammit…Jefe
I never met a Hefeweisen I didn’t like.
I can’t be bothered to put down my Tanq and tonic long enough to find you and fight you.
Can I just drop my collection of Hayek books on you by drone instead?
Switch to Plymouth Navy Strength, you can thank me later.
Duly noted!
I will give you a full report after I sample some…
Wait, what?!? You’re **REAL**?
Man, all this time I thought you were just an extraordinarily-clever bot.
Oh, and Tanqueray? OK, back to me thinking you’re a ‘bot again.
Try this stuff instead. You can thank me later.
Thanks, BEAM. I gotta start a list of these slightly more obscure liquors for pursuing at home.
The think I like about Tanqueray is that I can find it at any airport bar, hotel bar, or crappy restaurant bar, and I know what I am getting.
But it would be fun to try the other stuff at home.
Had a Boodles G&T last night (well, more than one) — pretty good.
Boodles is my go-to.
3oz gin
6-7oz tonic
juice of whole lime
2 splashes of Angostura
fill rest of collins glass with ice
You’re welcome
+1 Boodles. -A lot Hendricks.
So you’re a G&T fan too, huh??? Stop stealing my life!!
*reads you’re a Northerner* *Spits tobacco juice*
OK, now we really have a problem here
*stands up*
Do we?
*feels rage building*
Is this shit gonna happen or what?
*puts on replica Confederate cavalry uniform*
I’ve waited my entire life for this moment
*watches champions gearing up for battle while fanning self*
Would it defuse the situation if I told you I was born and raised in Oklahoma?
Then again, I find the Northern Glibs defending my hypothetical armor in a hypothetical battle to be somewhat heartwarming. Hypothetically.
GAH! Supposed to read “honor” not “armor”. Dammit.
I never met armor I didn’t like. 😉
Oklahoma might as well be Kansas. No dice.
I think, our mutual love for Hayek and gin can help to end this before it gets out of hand.
That said, I still have to do battle with MikeS and Tundra. They’ve challenged my honor, and now only a duel at 20 paces will resolve that issue
Fuckin A.
*drops gloves*
“She’s”
Hayeksplosives has been her for quite some time.
The name is a reference to Hayek’s use of the letter P.
I thought it was from the rap video.
It is in the rap video too, but that itself is a reference to an occasion when FA Hayek was asked by the Queen’s usher how to pronounce his name, and he answered “Hi-yek, as in high explosives,” which startled the usher to say the least.
I am a big Hayek fan, and the fact that I sometimes work with high explosives makes it even more appropriate. I have set off the sniffer machines at the Baltimore airport twice and the Minneapolis airport twice. Good times. Good times.
Sounds like you were just angling to get an enhanced patdown.
Narrowly avoided! The first time was at Baltimore: I had a fractured tibia (proximal end, just a hairline) so I was wearing a brace and on crutches. My coworker made me get in a wheelchair (out of kindness, “bless his heart”) so they ignored the metal detector and swabbed my hands as a matter of policy. When the machine sirens and lights went off, the TSA worker had obviously never seen that happen in real life, so he put my sample swab (like a wetnap) into another machine. It went off too. He called over another agent and they looked at it for a bit. Meanwhile, my coworker had passed through security and was backing up further and further away from me (that chicken). Then the agents shrugged and let me through.
That incident prompted us to request letters from the Army Research Lab that explained that the following employees of {blank company} might have HE on our hands and that it was not a problem. They listed our names, signed it, and we used it as a get-out-of-jail or at least get-out-of-grope free card.
There was still some ‘splainin to do on the latter few incidents, which is actually somewhat reassuring.
I remember seeing her username at the before place. Of course, that was probably just Tulpa.
Aren’t we all Tulpa?
But yeah, that was me at TOS too. It’s also my protonmail handle.
We are all Tulpa but some of us are more Tulpa than others.
– Animal Farm II
Animal Farm II- the animal socks!
“Mooo” said the duck. -NY Times
“Chirp chirp” said the goat -The Wall Street Journal
“Da” said the Trump Admin – Washington Post
Oh nyet you didn’t!
Cool word!
https://thelibertarianrepublic.com/bill-weld-to-speak-at-students-for-liberty-conference/
Bill Weld is set to headline a Students for Liberty conference. Maybe they should rename the organization “Rockefeller Republican Students for State Approved Liberty”. It’s a disgrace to have Weld on the same stage as John Stossel.
“We’re free within the confines of government created regulations!”
“Now bake that Nazi cake!”
He looks like a Kennedy with the drunkards nose.
So a Kennedy
i larfed.
He looks like the retarded love child of Teddy Kennedy and Walter Mathau.
Lol.
Citizenship is a privilege, not a right, or something.
Mr. Kelly’s statements struck some as offensively patronizing. But they can only bolster the conviction of those among us who believe that reinstating military conscription, or requiring some form of alternative national service, deserves serious consideration — and that the country would be the better for it.
Nothing says, “Land of the Free” like pressgangs.
The left will never be honest. They damn near burned the country down in the 60s to (rightly) end the draft. Now, if it helps the state advance their causes, SIGN ME UP IM A YANKEE DOODLE DANDY BAH GAWD!!
Stay the fuck away from MY sons, vampire. Yours at least went willingly — or without State coercion.
-1 13th Amendment
As a veteran, let me say FUCK NO. There are more than enough useless malcontents who volunteered. Don’t need to exponentially increase their number.
^This^
When I was in, there were still a lot of old Salty Sea Dogs who would tell you how shitty it was when half the people in the platoon were draftees.
Absolutely – I volunteered…I would not want to soldier alongside slaves.
I hate “conscription” with a passion.
fuck that shit.
you want labor? pay enough and you’ll get it.. just like everybody else.
any argument for conscription rests on the foundation that volunteer labor is too expensive.
Friedman also famously countered General William Westmoreland’s comment that he didn’t want to command an army of mercenaries with the rejoinder “Would you rather command an army of slaves?”
Draftees have the problem of slavery and hence poor morale. Short term draftees compound their problems by being both expensive and useless as well. Is the military correctly sized to meet current requirements? That is a metter of debate that can be changed along multiple variables including limiting the requirements.
I entered service shortly after the end of the draft and the implementation of VOLAR. Damn we were fucked up, NATO’s luck was that the Warsaw Pact was even more useless.
https://www.barstoolsports.com/boston/wake-up-with-lucie-jaid-2
Model or………………….
https://twitter.com/YS/status/921438467485290496
…….not a ‘man’
‘”Man” is a term of emotional & intellectual slavery’
This is a prime intellect we’re dealing with here.
Model. (something about a mile of broken glass just to eat the corn from her shit?)
And someone needs to take xis twitter account away, because that is rambling insanity.
I can’t click on twitter at work but yowzah Lucie.
Wow. Your workplace blocks Twitter but allows teh boobz?
Are they hiring?
Model
That’s a Youssef, I’m a Yusef
Hah! Model is always the right answer!
everyone I know who had to subsist on MREs was more than happy to have beef jerky or cheese and crackers for a change
Something with fiber is the best, though. Taking one shit a week, exactly one week apart, and having a the equivalent of a solid hydraulic jack post come out of your ass can get real old, real quick.
Paging Sugarfree to the brown courtesy phone.
Based on this Amazon review, we should ship them these in lieu of fiber.
Better than the Onion.
That is poetry right there.
Thanks for the stroll down brown memory lane.
LEAVE MRE’S ALONE!
…
They got better.
By 2012, when I retired, they were passable (and I mean that in both ways).
But the MRE 1.0 tasted worse than C-Rations and had smaller portion sizes and abominations like “Ham and Chicken Loaf”.
After our first field exercise with MRE’s my soldiers were begging to get C’s back.
Now is as good a time to acknowledge that I totally copied your avatar idea to come up with mine.
Well done, Bob.
Somebody kept trading for jalepeño cheese spread….
What, no mention that Elizabeth Warren claimed to have been sexually assaulted by a man long dead?
This woman is some piece of work.
The fake Indian was fake raped.
Give she give consent then take it back?
How??
Indian Taker?
You mean, she was raped by a ghost?
In Switzerland?
Hey?!
Warren said she kept quiet about her sexual harassment.
“I told my best friend about it and never said a word to anyone else,” Warren said. “But for a long time, I wore a lot of brown.”
Umm… what? Anyway, it’s a good thing she doesn’t have a long history of making shit up, or people might not believe her.
“I kept quiet about it, but now that I have exhausted my Native American privilege I need to find something else and #metoo is trending.”
Also probably a Nazi.
You know who else wore a lot of brown?
Wile E. Coyote?
The Peshmerga?
Kamala Harris?
BOOM!!!!
Peter Mayhew?
Ernst Rohm?
Ernest Byner?
Tony Gwynn?
My UPS driver?
Sheriff Bart?
First time parents?
The Marquis De Sade, sometimes?
OJ Simpson?
It’s so nakedly bull shit it’s astonishing anyone would buy into this crap.
Journalist interviewing friend: ‘Who? The Professor? They were fuck friends.’
Did Elie Wiesel grab her ass, too?
Were you talking about this story?
Anyone want to take bets on whether any reporters asked for the name of Warren’s friend that she supposedly told at the time and went to confirm it?
Also McCaskill’s “MeToo” story was super funny.
I would suggest to her, that 99.99% of men who have had to ask a superior for a favor have heard some form of that question. In fact, this should be a story of how successful gender equality has become. A guy wasn’t afraid to pull his punches when talking with a female.
Does #MeToo mean “have you ever heard a joke before, because jokes are worse than Hitler, you know”. Maybe, ENB can talk about her sandwich experience
If I had know about her sandwich tweet when it happened, I would have replied with this:
http://reason.com/blog/2017/03/01/moral-outrage-is-self-serving
She wrote that mere months before the whole sammich thing…how could she even…I’m confused…
Strangely taboo
Last week, Tom Steyer, the billionaire progressive donor, announced a $10 million campaign calling for President Trump’s impeachment, beginning with a television commercial running in all 50 states. Trump, the spot says, has “brought us to the brink of nuclear war, obstructed justice at the F.B.I., and in direct violation of the Constitution, he’s taken money from foreign governments and threatened to shut down news organizations that report the truth.” Appearing on screen, Steyer asks, “If that isn’t a case for impeaching and removing a dangerous president, then what has our government become?”
It’s a good question. Yet while most elected Democrats probably agree that Trump’s presidency is a nightmare, they’ve been largely reluctant to use the “I” word. The base wants impeachment — according to an August survey from the Public Religion Research Institute, 72 percent of Democrats support efforts to remove Trump from office. But inside the Beltway, calling for impeachment remains strangely taboo.
Maybe those Congressmen and Senators know something the mob doesn’t.
If the President gets impeached, what’s preventing us from getting impeached?
I’m a free speech absolutist so I personally don’t care what absurdities Steyer wants to spew on TV. It’s his money.
…however, “brought us to the brink of nuclear war” and “taken money from foreign governments”; aren’t these demonstrably false and grounds for slander/libel?
Not if he’s talking about Hillary.
He should be forced to PROVE ‘brink of nuclear war’. Once upon a time no one would have thought about trying to impeach JFK. Now? No such thing.
It’s all derp all the way down.
I enjoy watching rich progs set their money on fire. Keep it up, Steyer.
Gut reaction:
“Brought us to the brink of nuclear war” isn’t really verifiable or falsifiable (absent, you know, an actual nuclear war), so I think this is opinion and not defamation.
“Taken money from foreign governments” is a factual statement and could be defamatory. Its super vague, though – when and in what capacity? If I was Trump, I’d think seriously about suing him for defamation just to get him to either clarify he meant “when Trump was a private businessman and there was nothing wrong with it” or even better, double down on “RUSSIA KONSPIRACY” thing and make him prove it in court.
What’s the name of that organization that opposed impeachment? GoOn? It’sOver? MoveAlong? What was that again? It’s a Republican org right?
GetOffMyLawn.org
Good. Do it.
They know it’s not politically feasible or advisable.
“It’s a good question.”
No, it’s not.
Losing all those green sector moneymaking opportunities must sting.
Who said anything about impeachment. Were punching a Nazi here. Assassination isn’t off the table.
/Dem base
Dear government monitors I am not advocating violence against the President.
Tired of every day feminisms short lists of ways to be a terrible parent?
I present 100 ways to ruin your kids.
Just slip out the back, Jack?
Just stay woke….. bloke?
Hit the hashtag…shitbag?
Don’t culturally appropriate, you reprobate?
You have white privilege…that’s why you swing a 5# sledge?
“Ruby June 3, 2016 at 2:33 pm · Reply →
Here’s one I would like some help with. My son is 7 and we have been talking about race and racism since he was about 3. (We are white.) He’s become aware of a lot of the ways that people of color are discriminated against, but I sometimes worry that he will internalize he idea that there is some reason other than race that they tend to have worse jobs, less money, etc.
I think I need more language talk about class and economic justice. Any suggestions?”
JESUS. CHRIST.
WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW?!
I’m right here.
THEN DO SOMETHING DAMMIT!
[God sits back and laughs at the pathetic humans thinking He cares about them]
God doesn’t drink milk still like a baby. Unless he wants cookies.
Debunked.
Not good enough, please send a plague or a large meteor.
Preferably to DC.
Are you his own, personal, Jesus?
“My son is 7 and we have been talking about race and racism since he was about 3. (We are white.)”
There isn’t much else to say after that.
well there’s a kid who’ll be reading storm front in 4 more years. yikes.
Say what you want, at least it’s an ethos.
That’s pretty funny that she worries about the kid analyzing the situation and having an independent thought in his head.
Your kids won’t be raised right if they aren’t taught to hate themselves by age ten.
Any suggestions
Yes. Drop your son off at a distant relative’s house who works in a blue collar job but has no political views you know of…and then go blow your fucking brains out.
We made little Graham promise us he’d be a good boy
For FUCKS’S SAKE. My daughter is biracial caucasian-asian, but when I asked if he knows the name of the little black girl in her class, she didn’t know WTF I was talking about. I had to describe more of the kid’s appearance attributes for me to understand who I was talking about. Talking about race with a 3-year-old is incredibly fucked up.
‘if he knows the name [of the kid] in her class…for me to understand who I was talking about…”
Reading that I’m not sure it’s your kid’s fault.
God damn that is a botched thought-fart. Celebratory beers night.
Band name!
My son is 7 and we have been talking about race and racism since he was about 3.
Somebody should call CPS on this dirtbag. Obviously unfit to be a parent. Might as well be trying to convince the kid he’s really a girl so they can cut off his junk and jack him with hormones to grow tits.
The world will be a much better place for everyone if we just talked about racism all the time, and made everything about racism. That’s how we’ll finally bring humanity together.
How’d you get a copy of the DNC platform?
“Unity Through Division!”
“Unity Through Division!”
The Children of Atom approve this message.
“We are called White, but it’s confusing …Look. This piece of paper really is the shade of white. Does this look like the color of our skin? But people with a lighter skin color, like ours, are called White even though we don’t look like the real shade of white. And it’s the same with Beba (her Black doll). Look,” (showing a black long-sleeved shirt) “this is the real shade of black. Is this the color of Beba’s skin? …Beba has more of a brown skin color…but (some) people with Beba’s skin color are called Black.”
Fighting racism with semantics! That’ll show the Richard Spencers and Ta Nehisi Coats of the world! /sarc
Just sending them to public school is the only way needed.
Isn’t this promoting an American centered prospective of culture and history?
Even then, some slaves were owned by blacks, some by Mexicans/Latinos, etc. And let’s not overlook the fairly widespread practice of slavery by Amerinds, either.
I’m hoping to tap into the collective wisdom of the Glibteriat for an issue I’m having. The Mother-unit passed away last week, with the Father-unit passing in April. I’m the only thread-spawn they produced and inherited the house. Mother was a collector who liked her treasures, as she called them. This album gives an idea of the type and volume of items I’m dealing with; every part of the house is stuffed:
https://imgrpost.com/album/YKL2
Does anyone have experience or insight with how best to find & hire an estate agent or equivalent to handle something like this? Any common considerations to take into account? The house is on the MO side of Kansas City – I live in Oakland, CA and, unlike all of you except Rufus, have to work. It makes being on-site to handle this problematic.
Thanks!
Sorry for your loss.
My condolences.
At least she collected stuff that might have value. My mom was a hoarder. When she went in the nursing home, my sister came up from Texas to help clear out the back bedroom. 41 of those big garbage bags worth of stuff.
Props for staying in character.
I am sorry for your loss. Contact a probate attorney in the area and see if they can recommend an appraiser or at least point you in the right direction.
Trulia. Just plan on paying a 6% commission.
And don’t feel bad about getting rid of stuff. Just because it was important to her doesn’t mean it has to be important to you.
/licks cookie crumbs from desk. Wipes mouth.
What?
Condolences.
I can’t get the images to post at work, but I’d contact someone from an auction service to look and give you an idea of how much work is involved and what can be sold.
Those places usually work on a commission %age.
Bummer, that sucks.
I’m so sorry on many counts.
Sorry for your loss.
Wow, very pretty things, appraise and cash out?
Theres a good auction house out of boston my family used when my grandmother died last year.
I’ll try to track it down. I know they’ve gone all over for things.
Sorry about your Mom.
My Dad is gone but my mother continues to live in a giant house with tons of shit. My siblings and I dread the massive job it will take to clear that place out when she goes.
I’m a probate attorney so I see this all the time. Do yourself a favor, go to the house to collect whatever items have sentimental value to you. Unless there are antiques I don’t see in those photos, it’s unlikely the remaining items have any significant resale value. Local real estate agents may know of estate sales companies in the area. A Google search might also turn one up. If one is available then use it. They typically agree to take everything in the house. Getting the house cleared out is worth more than whatever nominal amount you will get for the items inside it.
If there are no services then call a charity that will come and take everything. Try to avoid doing this in pieces. If it is unavoidable then have them take what they will and get a dumpster for the rest.
I don’t think MO has professional executors but I may be wrong. You could call a private fiduciary in your area to see if they know anyone in the KC area. You can find one in your area at pfac-pro.org. If they do exist in MO then one can handle everything for you for a fee.
Condolences. Tough year, brother.
Thanks, everyone. I appreciate the kind words and info.
You have my deepest sympathies on the loss of your parents.
I wish you luck in finding a good estate sales place. The reputable ones are worth their weight in gold. Make sure to get one who will also get rid of all unsold items by donating to the Salvation Army or similar so you don’t have to come back and sort out the rejects.
Sorry.
One thing my dad noted when he cleaned out his mom’s and stepfather’s house: If you have a dumpster out in front of the house, assholes will dump their stuff in it even if the house is out in the country.
My condolences. That is a shitty 6 months. You’ve gotten some sound advice here, best wishes that dealing with the estate works out without any issues.
http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/10/senate_president_to_oregon_law.html#incart_target2box_default_#incart_target2box_targeted_
Legislator accuses another legislator of groping. Surprise, it’s a D accusing an R.
I have no idea of the truth, but Kruse dug his own hole here. He talks a good game about smaller limited government (probably one of the better ones in the state) but at the same time falls into the ‘have to do something’ trap of polishing the Democrats’ turds and working together to get X done. He’s also fond of talking about how politics isn’t personal and how he considers many D legislators his friends and so on. How’s that cross aisle friendship working out for you now, Boxer?
More from that impeachment nonsense-
Some commentators fear “normalizing” impeachment as a tool of routine political warfare. But Bill Clinton’s impeachment already normalized its use against Democrats on the flimsiest of pretexts. Had Hillary Clinton been elected, the campaign to remove her would probably be in full swing by now. Democrats may wish to return to a less destructive brand of politics, but that’s not an option while Trump sits in the White House.
“I can make a bunch of random preposterous shit up because facts are, like, patriarchal oppression,” it said.
DRUMPF IS WORSE THAN MY PAN-RESISTANT GONORRHEA!!!
Pan’s not here, man!
No it’s me Dave I got the stuff
“But Bill Clinton’s impeachment already normalized its use against Democrats on the flimsiest of pretexts”
Really? It may not have been the correct course of action, but he did lie under oath. I think ‘breaking the law’ before we begin articles of impeachment is a good standard to maintain.
The NYT is ape-shit crazy
I mean, shit, he even had to surrender his law license. I’m not an attorney, but I don’t believe disbarment is taken lightly.
Perjury is the flimsiest of pretexts?
Nah dude, see if you lie under oath about sex, it’s totally cool, because RETHUGLIKKANS.
Got it, bigot?
I heard a clip on the radio this morning about Hillary trying to get out of attending Trump’s inauguration.
First, I’ll call “stuff that didn’t happen”, because of this.
But I really don’t get what her end game is. If Trump is somehow magically removed from office, well, I got news for her: she ain’t gonna be President. She’s talking about it in the UK: the Brits can’t vote for her. And if she’s trying to sell books, well, the people who are going to buy her book are going to buy her book, and the people who aren’t, aren’t. And, if she’s running again in 2020, I’d guess that people who might be inclined to vote for her (maybe people who did vote for her) are being turned off by all of this. I just don’t get it.
Surely she has handlers, or DNC staffers, or, hell, even Bill, who should be like “maybe you should cool it, sweetheart.” Romney, McCain, Kerry, Gore, Dole, Bush Sr., Dukakis, and on and on … when is the last time a failed candidate stuck around for a year afterwards badmouthing the guy who won? I don’t think it’s ever happened. Between the two major candidates, the lesser narcissist won. Jesus Feathery Christ.
Bill isn’t looking where I expect him to be looking.
Bill’s got years of experience and training. He has 20/20 out of the corner of his FOV.
Do note that you can’t see where Bill’s left hand is.
On his cell phone?
I think they’re strategy is to undermine Trump’s percieved legitimacy so they can run with “Trump stole the election.” I would not at all be surprised if Hillary ran in 2020 with the slogan “Taking Back America.”
After millions of dollars and several focus groups, the slogan is definitely going to have the word “comrade” in it.
Da, da tovarisch!
Counter-slogan: SCRATCH THAT bITCH
I LOVE this shortsighted thinking.
We have a moderate Democrat in office right now. Do they REALLY want Pence?
She’s either running in 2020 or she’s keeping that in people’s minds so she can sell access to a possible future president via the Clinton Foundation. My money’s on the former with the latter being a side benefit.
I don’t know that it’s part of any strategy at all. I have no problem believing that it’s just pure, undying need to spew vitriol in response to a humiliation from which she will likely never recover. From hell’s heart, she stabs at him.
Panned by San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz
I’m really tired of hearing the shit this woman has to say. Fuck her in the ass with a pineapple.
everyone I know who had to subsist on MREs was more than happy to have beef jerky or cheese and crackers for a change.
Depends on the MRE. I don’t know what they all are now, but in my day I’d rate the following as decent: chili mac, chicken with salsa, Thai chicken, jambalaya, meatloaf. I’ll throw turkey tetrazzini in there as well despite the entrée being iffy because it was the only one that came with a bag of combos.
Bad: country captain chicken (the country captain could go fuck himself, his chicken sucked), bean burrito, ham steak. Pork chop was OK if you heated it up but revolting when cold.
The worst of all was blessedly gone by the time I got to Iraq – frankfurters, the infamous four fingers of death.
Frankfurters were good, especially with Tabasco on them. I liked the hash too. I missed the potatoes all rotten and dried strawberries (bar) when those went. And wax paper M&Ms. Spaghetti was alright and beef stew > chicken stew. Generally when it went from the dark brown to light tan outer wrappers, there was a overall decrease in menu quality. The addition of jap cheese to the accessories was the biggest improvement.
Now I’m craving some BBQ pork & rice.
One of my favorites was mixing the jalapeno cheese with the chicken and salsa and the Mexican rice. Goopy and delicious.
Beef stew and spaghetti were middle of the pack. Not great, not terrible.
The best (near) ready to eat meals were the Brit’s 24 hour ration boxes. Those things were fucking delicious. Treacle pudding, meat spread with crackers, oat biscuits, boiled sweets, powered tea. Entrees with a soup side. Best of all was the Kleenex toliet paper packs. Far superior to the MRE squares. Oh, and a range card printed on the box.
Wait, regular British food is shit, but they get military food right?
Is it? Of course my tastes are kind of off. I preferred to tear off the long side of the MRE pouch and eat the entree cold. Never really cared for waiting for the heater or wasting the water on it.
Order bacon in London and tell me what they bring you.
Delicious meaty back bacon, along with fried bread?
Placenta after it’s roadkilled.
My hotel in London served real, actual bacon. I was a little disappointed. Edinburgh redeemed the stereotypical GB breakfast, though.
Corned Beef Hash was pretty bad. I opened one once inside my Bradley that was wet on the inside. I bent over to see what was going on and the smell that assaulted my entire crew and I was beyond comprehension.
We stood outside the track for 15 min, heaving our eye-balls out and using our protective gear to remove all offending remains.
The Hockey Pork with apple sauce was a hidden jewel, if you knew how to prepare it.
The old SNCOs told me that there was a tuna casserole thing during the Desert Storm time period that was pretty repulsive.
Even worse was the “Ham and Chicken Loaf”. I did enjoy the MRE “Omelet with Ham” because it tasted exactly like the C-Ration “Eggs with Ham” which was my favorite C.
When MREs first came out the best was turkey n gravy, but that was rare and were discontinued (idk if they’ve made a comeback since). One DI punished us all by making us eat the crackers while we sat out in the sun and wouldn’t let us drink water.
Used to have guys (try to) do the cracker challenge. Crush up the package until it was almost dust and then try to eat the whole thing without using any liquids. Can’t remember if there was a time limit on it or just for best time.
Two minutes was the usual time limit as I remember it. Virtually impossible to accomplish – those things were like eating a desert. It would turn to concrete in your mouth.
Making MRE fudge and spreading it on the pound cake was pretty tasty.
MRE Fudge == Ranger Pudding.
Ah yeah, ranger pudding. Cracker, cocoa, and coffee I think.
We just mixed the cocoa, non-dairy creamer, and a bit of water.
Forgot about the creamer. Also fun to sprinkle over a lighter.
That’s definitely in the Anarchists Cookbook.
These foxhole military euphemisms…NTTAWWT
Don’t ask, don’t tell.
In ’89 our DI’s would make us eat the pork or beef patties dry. Nasty. I just threw it in the woods when he wasn’t looking.
During Desert Shied / Storm spaghetti and Meatballs was good. The Omelette was good if you mixed it with the potatoes and dosed it in ketchup and Tabasco. There was a barbecue pork that was alright too.
My personal favorites were the cheese tortellini and chicken-n-dumplings.
The absolute worst were the breakfast MRE.
No love for the meatballs in BBQ sauce?! I don’t know any of you any more…
Seconded on the cheese tortellini. Good stuff.
turkey tetra
zzinichlorideLooks like DPD’s chief is about to get shitcanned.
http://kdvr.com/2017/10/24/denver-police-protective-association-holds-news-conference/
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weather/hurricane/article179744081.html
Read between the lines and realize how fucked up Puerto Rico was prior to the hurricane.
“Weinstein then ripped out her tampon and proceeded to perform oral sex on her according to the victim”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5013771/New-Harvey-Weinstein-sobs-claims-raped-her.html
The man likes his strawberry Kool-Aid; it ain’t a crime.
Chewing on a handful of pennies.
Saying hello to Aunt Flo.
Gotta earn those Red Wings the hard way.
Celebrating the lunar cycle.
Everyone knows that in order for a movie to be successful it needs blood, gore, and some t & a.
Preferably all at once.
So, somebody stabbing naked Andy Devine?
Devine does a cannonball into a swimming pool in Island in the Sky. Truly a frightening scene.
Oh yeah!
This is getting weird now
Now?
It wasn’t a surprise then, now its weird.
So now that it is perfectly safe to do so you are so courageous to come out and support all those other women raped and harassed by Weinstein, including all the ones he raped and harassed between 2006 and 2017 because you were too chickenshit and concerned about your career to press charges at the time and put an end to his behavior.
Sure Weinstein bears full responsibility for his actions but this shit has to stop and we need to start treating these women as moral accessories to these crimes.
Gloria Allred must have literally passed out from serial-orgasms when she realized the flood of clients this scandal was going to net her.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20171023/18275838465/doj-subpoenas-twitter-about-popehat-dissent-doe-others-over-smiley-emoji-tweet.shtml
Twitter receives subpoena concerning Popehat account, in addition to others
Subpoena? Fuck you. Do you have a search warrant?
“Things twitter would say if the people in question were right-thinking liberati instead of deplorables”
Trying to figure out if this will end in Chinese Ghost City style or just end up a dumping ground for the people Middle Eastern governments don’t like, but don’t want the hassle of killing.
“Denver is a long shot to land the new Amazon headquarters, according to an Irish gambling site. Paddy Power, which mostly takes wagers on sports but ventures into politics and other topics, gives Denver 20-1 odds against winning the competition, putting it in a tie for 15th with Los Angeles. Atlanta is favored at 2-1 to win the competition, putting it ahead of Austin, Texas (11-4); Philadelphia (7-1); Boston (8-1); and Toronto (10-1). Denver also trails Rochester, New York (10-1); Miami and Chicago (12-1); Portland, Oregon and Pittsburgh (14-1); Washington and Dallas (16-1); and Salt Lake City and San Jose, California (18-1).”
http://kdvr.com/2017/10/24/gambling-site-has-denver-as-20-1-long-shot-in-amazon-sweepstakes/
Paddy Power? RAAAAAAAAACIST!!!
Philly odds at 7-1 and the Eagles have the best record in the NFL. Truly a new day is dawning in the City of Brotherly Love!
(My money is still on Austin)
They do seem to have lucked into the best young QB in the league
Rochester? bwaaahahahahahaha…..yeah, I’m sure they’ll have no trouble luring people to live in fucking Rochester.
“win”
Yeah, that’s it. 20-1 for Denver makes me happy.
God damn am I sick of these pathetic attempts to woo amazon.
Every 3 days I see some goddam article about “(insert local shithole city of your choice) thinks they have a real shot!”
Seems like they have a near-impossible laundry list of must-haves. Need to be near mass transit, less than 45 minutes to an airport and have about 2 square miles of vacant land. Seems like that knocks out Atlanta unless they’re willing to bulldoze some bad neighborhoods and displace a lot of people. Also not sure why Atlanta would need to offer additional tax advantages at this point, plus they’d be jacking up labor costs in that market.
With that laundry list they pretty much narrowed it down to 3 or 4 areas and just want to see who is willing to rape their taxpayers.
Phoenix might actually have those covered.
With the distribution center here, it might make sense for them to locate here. I won’t bet on it though.
I’m glad NC is out of the running with the lack of mass transit
Need to be near mass transit, less than 45 minutes to an airport and have about 2 square miles of vacant land.
Unfortunately for the Denver residents, this description makes Denver a prime choice from what I can tell. There is tons of empty land out by DIA, and when I was in Denver last (a year or more ago) they were building a mass transit line along the road to the airport, right past all that empty land.
The airport train is open as of April.
Not sure about zoning restrictions but that area would seem to fit the bill.
You are making me sad. And yes, Denver checks the requisite boxes. There is an article on the Forbes website that polls a few alleged experts, and they mention Chicago as a site. I was in Chicago a couple of weeks ago, and can attest to the fact that two square miles of blighted land seem to be available on the west side because people seem to be evacuating the place like it is on fire.
Austin would be a smart move. Boston would be a stupid move.
Austin cannot handle the traffic. At all. Plus, their light rail is a solid meh. They do have oodles of land, particularly if Amazon feels like heading out towards Bastrop and Elgin.
But I think this is Dallas and Denver’s race to lose. Denver’s awfully pretty, or at least gives the perception of it. Not a lot of natural beauty in Dallas (or Collin County/Plano, which is where I think they’d go.)
Rochester?! LOL. They’re moving to avoid taxes and high property costs, right?
I just learned that “Libertarian” Senator Jeff Flake won’t run for reelection. Those libertarians sure are an inclusive bunch.
At least libertarian senator John McCain remains. I’m starting to think that whoever has a war of words with the president is labeled ‘libertarian’ by default.
I’m stuck in the Kansas City airport with a cancelled flight watching Flake get his ass kissed on CNN. What an asshole. He’s not running because voters figured out he isn’t conservative.
He’s leaving ahead of a (probably successful) primary challenge.
How do we think he did, all in all?
He’s standing up to Trump by not running. Or something.
I’d much rather see McCain, Murkowski, or Collins go.
I think McCain will go soon enough.
He’d sooner go the the grave than go back to being a private citizen.
The thing about Collins is that I think she represents the epitome of libertarianism that maine is willing to elect.
This is a good thing.
I for one am happy to see Flake throw in the towel.
You an me both brother.
This is so offensive, I can’t even.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4993836/The-ingenious-Halloween-costumes-Amazon-right-now.html
I am going to be the inflatable dinosaur and my son is a dinosaur hunter.
I discussed being the T-Rex with my wife the other night.
She warned me about waving those stumpy little arms around, because somebody might misinterpret it.
Which stumpy little arm is she talking about?
She has been disappointed by your T-Rex antics before.
He didn’t bang a gong?
+1 Marc Bolan
His baby mama was the singer of the original “Tainted Love”.
She killed him, too.
Bowie supported the kid after Bolan died.
A Rolls Royce would’ve been good for his voice after all.
That’s what teeth are for.
No skeleboner there?
As a veteran, let me say FUCK NO. There are more than enough useless malcontents who volunteered.
I laughed heartily.
“New Zealand’s incoming Labour prime minister appears to be some kind of insane person.”
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/blogs/tim-blair/hundreds-of-thousands-of-children-without-enough-to-survive/news-story/64c7ccb7cbe0a9fd39104f5bfd2d9b19
Time to nationalize Lewis Road Creamery! How else will schoolchildren get their artisan dairy products?
Do we have any Kiwis on here who can explain this? On Wikipedia (I know, I’m too lazy to go for other sources) it says that this lady’s Labour party won fewer seats than the New Zealand National Party, but that they are forming a government with the support of the New Zealand First party. What puzzles me is that wiki claims that both NZ National and NZ First are conservative, so why wouldn’t they form a coalition together instead of NZ First supporting Labour, especially if Labour is led by such a batty lady?
https://twitter.com/hashtag/ThingsITrustMorethanCNN?src=hash
LOL
“Bill & Hillary Clinton managing donations collected for disaster victims ”
“Stevie Wonder as an Uber driver”
Wonder if that’s a Woman
Roman Polanski, middle school teacher”
Apparently we’ve gone from “everybody who disagrees with me is a Nazi” to “everybody who disagrees with me is a Russian bot”.
Progress?
I wanted to thank RC Dean for the Never Split the Difference recommendation even though it was not directed at me. I’m trying to pick up some soft skills after finishing my bachelor’s, so I picked up the audiobook and finished it already – it was actually pretty entertaining. I’d be interested in recomendations for any other business skills books.
Also, I am blaming whoever recommended Mindhunter for my lack of sleep today…
That was a good read. I learned a lot from it. Another good one is “Extreme Ownership”, and I also liked “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck”.
I also am listening to that in audiobook based on the recommendation the other day and fascinated by how well it works on my almost 4 year old. Really great book. Maybe I will get to use some of it on adults some day, too.
there was a great little book floating around in the 1990s called “The Bullshitters Guide To: Consulting”
i think it was part of a series. it was maybe 150pp. and mostly jokes, but had some basis in truth. can’t find it for the life of me.
everything in it turned out to be true. except the part about Bow Ties.
Also, you can’t go wrong with one of Cialdini’s books. “Influence” is a classic and it’s a lot like “Never Split the Difference”. I just started “Pre-Suasion” and so far so good.
Mindhunter is so good. Binged it in one sitting. O.O
I just saw the last episode of S01 last night. I felt like the guy hadn’t really been acting until the last few minutes. I guess his ‘shallow, deadpan, characterless’ thing had a point.
Mindhunter is good, but flawed. I went out my way to read some of the few negative reviews and each reviewer actually brought up good points that made me reconsider some aspects of the show.
I liked it, but the whole “the protagonist cannot have a happy relationship” trope is just irritatingly predictable.
I agree with everyone who finds minor problems with it.
i think the issue w all the main characters (tench, holden, wendy) is that their work is slowly revealing all of their respective underlying personality problems
the reason holden seems so emotionally flat, boringly constant, ‘immune’ – as tench put it, shallow etc. is actually because the show is going to expose some really dark, repressed shit of his own.
hence the final few minutes of the last episode, where he basically has a nervous breakdown. its the first time you see any emotions on his face other than ‘minor anxiety’.
i think this made his character seem dull and flat for most of the first season. Its not normal for episodic TV to move that slowly. normally by the end of season 1, everyone is 100% established and everything should be neatly wrapped up. but they sold the show with multiple seasons already committed.
What are your thoughts on the BTK setup so far?
I think for any “normal” tv show, it would be a huge cock-tease w/ no payoff.
But i think, given the abnormal development of the show… it helps function as sort of a “pace-setting device” in the progress of the program, where tiny things are revealed to you about his plotline in each episode. It prepares you for what may be a very, very long story arc.
it also harmonizes with the themes they are learning from all their serial killer interviews. most of these guys did not ‘freak out’ and become serial killers overnight. it was something that developed over the course of their entire lives and was part of their identity. seeing lots of moments of that guy, alone, doing nothing really… forces you to apply what you learn from the other killers.
basically, i like it, and think its a smart device. However, as far as my patience goes, i’d be much happier if it were moving faster.
I loved the BTK setup. The brief scenes of a mustachioed security system guy in Wichita will not register with many viewers.
I don’t think there’s ever been a question that Holden is a serial killer that just hasn’t been exposed to the necessary stressor.
Tench struck me as more archetypal, or rather poly-archetypal. He’s got the Wise Mentor, the Cynic, the Broken Down Old Cop, the Cop With a Failing Marriage, and the Troubled Father tropes all rolling along — Det. Stabler + Hank Schrader, with a bit of Serpico and Mr. Miyagi thrown in.
There has been a bit of Old v. New going on between Tench and Carr, with Holden clearly favoring Carr’s side of things. However, Carr is also the academic figure against Tench’s practicality. That last scene you’re talking about might have just been the first time that Holden realizes on a visceral level what his subjects actually are. Whether that jars him loose from Carr’s theory towards Tench’s application is something I’m interested in seeing.
I don’t know what the point of Debbie is, except (hopefully) to have a steamy lesbian scene that results in complications involving Dr. Carr and the culture of the FBI.
i don’t think they’ve been overly ham-handed about it, but i think it should be obvious to the average viewer that he’s got the “potential” at least.
I think the way every time someone who meets him goes, “Where are you from? The midwest, right?” and there’s this… “uh, all over, but i was born in brooklyn”… that’s clearly going to be something they gradually reveal more and more about: why brooklyn, why did he relocate so often, etc. He is cagey about his childhood. Its what they call “The gun in the drawer” in scriptwriting. its something they keep showing you, which means its going to get used at some point.
I do at least like the casting they did. Holt McCallany (tench) is my fave, and he sort of anchors the whole bunch. I was very down on the Holden character until i saw the last episode, and it seemed like they were delivering some payoff w/ his character. that he was kept ‘closeted’ for a reason.
There was also that assymetric bit about Debbie inviting Holden to meet her mother but not the reverse. Also Holden saying that his father bought the suit that he was wearing.
Some of us are only on episode 4 jerks.
You clearly caught on to their whole “subtle hints about the main character’s fucked up shit” faster than i did.
re: Hyp
don’t worry, nothing in this show is really change by spoilers. if you read the characters for greater attention to the hints they make re: their own internal (not talked about) problems… you probably will enjoy it more than i did on first viewing.
“Thousands of Americans Will Scream Helplessly at the Sky on Trump’s Election Anniversary”
http://www.newsweek.com/americans-scream-helplessly-sky-donald-trump-election-anniversary-690889
This is not The Onion. I repeat, this is not The Onion.
As someone said on Morning Lynx; Newsweek: The Veracity of the Onion Without the Humor.
That was me and I believe I said it on your post actually.
*triggered*
Sorry, he has no hat to tip.
*vague stare*
And I replied that the Onion will turn out to be true someday, but Newsweak won’t ever be right.
Well, now I’m convinced that these are serious-minded people with a viewpoint worth considering!
I wish I could go and Nelson /Ha-Ha them.
SCREAM HELPLESSLY AT THE SKY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv_eOMyhtms
Over under on his sales vs. that of Milo’s Dangerous?
https://pagesix.com/2017/10/24/colin-kaepernick-lands-million-dollar-book-deal/
“One World’s headed by book world superstar Chris Jackson, who also publishes Jay-Z and Ta-Nehisi Coates. ”
I see.
Lands million-dollar book deal, turns down 2.5 million to be NFL backup.
Who on earth would take any advice from this shit-for-brains?
“Jonathan, a tortoise on the British territory of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic thought to be the world’s oldest living land creature at 186, is also gay.
The governor of St Helena was presented with what they believed to be a female tortoise, named Frederica, in 1991 as a possible mate for Jonathan.
For the past 26 years, the pair have been inseparable but a recent examination on Frederica found out that she was probably a male, according to The Times.”
http://www.towleroad.com/2017/10/worlds-oldest-living-land-creature-discovered-gay/
So… prison gay. He had no choice.
He talks a fag and all his shit’s retarded.
Its cool though, his sister was ‘tarded and she’s a pilot now.
Benson Dubois dies at 89
The less said about Sports Night the better.
Underrated Robert Guillaume movie – Seems Like Old Times. “This is a government agency, you know we don’t have a sense of humor.
“Love that chicken pepperoni!” “Don’t start with me, Fred.”
And kooky Goldie Hawn too.
You’re not supposed to be outside! ……you’re not even supposed to be in the country.
Ah, Paula Marshall… and Sabrina Lloyd.
They don’t make black butlers like him anymore.
I was like, “Fuck you talking bout Kelly, Bitches just be tricks and hos”, and he’s like, naw man, they Holy and shit. ppppt.
I gleaned enough from the byline to understand what you’re trying to convey before the WaPo told me to fuck off.
How many commentators exist in 2017? It’s like Mormonism, everybody’s a prophet now.
Copy URL, open private browsing window on whatever browser you’re using, paste URL and hit enter
right-click, open in private window
the gist of it was basically, ‘women in the military are not “sacred” and saying so is misogynist”
my point was that, on one hand, she decries this ‘hypermasculinized culture’ which women had no hand in creating
on the other hand, she demands that women stop being treated differently
which seems to be arguing for some, unstated, ‘3rd ideal’ – which is basically a completely gender-neutral and bureaucratic ‘culture’ which aggressively polices anything that might offend people.
basically, if you join the marine corps, and then expect to never hear bad-words or hear guys talking about sex… welllllll i think you can write all the pissed-off editorials you want, but i think you’re still doomed to disappointment
i don’t really understand your ‘prophet’ point
Just an observation on the plethora of instant expert commentators in the age of Trump. All you need is a grievance with the Twitterer in Chief and any of these rags will publish you.
The Mormons ascribe to the “anyone can be a prophet” philosophy.
By scriptural definition, a prophet is anyone who has a testimony of Jesus Christ and is moved by the Holy Ghost
“women should be held “sacred””
Don’t put the pussy on a pedestal.
“implies they need protection because they are weak”
Ummm…. Like every college campus and every feminist.
If they desire to be treated equal then why are they not fighting for equal standards?
There’s a few things these people should understand.
Men finding women physically attractive is not “culture.” It is biology and will remain that way forever.
As long as women have lower standards they will never be respected as a group.
She’s serious
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kate_Germano_as_Penelope_Pussycat.jpg
Background on Lt Col Puddytat
and here’s where it gets irontastic
So she used to be cool then.
How is there not a damn barbecue restaurant in the KC airport? WTF is wrong with you people?
You are now in flyover country…be glad the tarmac wasn’t dirt.
Steer clear of the rape gangs and religious cults.
Lol, I remember a Scott Shackleford article talking about the nazi skinheads at some clear water river vacation spot in Missouri. As many times as I’d been down there you’d think I would have run into them.
Oh, but you did. Look in the mirror.
I’ll have you know I have a full head of hair.
I do look like a fat hitler though…
Somebody should tell the dog, because she thought you were black.
Lol,
I loved da puppy too. My puppy would’ve been in heaven up there.
My Irish last name literally translates as “blackie”.
Schwartz?
It’s usually not tarmac anywhere.
I had some good food last night in Kansas.
Fucking United dickbags waited until I got to the airport and returned my rental car to tell me I was fucked for getting home tonight.
At least they didn’t beat you and pull you off your flight first.
Instead of flying directly home, I’m going to Chicago then on standby to Newark. I assume I’ll get my beatdown there.
Other than the smell, I really like Newark. Especially since LaGuardia is fucked for the next few years.
Every dam time I have a problem getting back there. Now I’m flying to Denver so I can take red-eye home. I m going to be a cranky bastardized at work tomorrow.
Oh… You were TRYING to go to Newark.
Still, no complaints here. 2 weeks ago: curbside to gate in 7 minutes.
Oh Newark? Did you tell the Rain God that he’s a pussy before you left?
Denver is one big airport.
Was just there Saturday. You in B concourse?
Yes – the thing goes on miles!
Because KC doesn’t know how to BBQ? Next time make your connection through Memphis
/Memphis BBQ snob
Dude take that vinegar douche water back and bring me some St. Louis style ribs with Maul’s bbq sauce.
What are you talking about? Memphis is the home of the dry rub (Warren’s mom notwithstanding) BBQ. Don’t need any of that shitty sauce.
I thought Memphis bbq sauce was vinegar based? Or is that another fake easterner bbq sauce?
Carolina
^^^
Thanks you’in westerner.
Ah maybe that’s Carolina or something. WHATEVER you’ins easterners all look alike.
*takes a toke off corn cob pipe loaded with hash*
Western NC is vinegary. And delicious. Still have some chopped port BBQ in the freezer.
chopped pork
It is…not bad on pulled pork. Memphis rub is good stuff on ribs. I like to put a rub on my ribs and sauce later.
Maul’s bbq sauce is a basting type sauce best with pork steaks but I have cooked ribs after they were close to done with a rub then finish with a hour of cooking in sauce.
I like that mustard based sauce on chicken.
The correct answer is Texas.
There’s a time and a place for chicken. And it’s not at a BBQ.
I think that’s S. Carolina sauce. Eastern NC is tomatoey. Or maybe I have those backwards.
Chortle
None of you know how to BBQ except those in western NC. Especially Texas. Y’all suck.
I went to Rendezvous in Memphis and achieved nirvana
I JUST WANT TO SAY I AM A BARBECUE WHORE. I WILL SMOKE ANY MEAT.
I’ll do Texas, Memphis, KC, STL, North AND South Carolina, Alabama. Whatever.
^^This^^ Much like Suthenboy not getting all the Hitler hate, I don’t get the regional food wars, well cooked pig is fucking awesome regardless of the particulars.
Thirded….I’LL EAT IT ALL! BRING ME ALL THE BBQ THERE IS!!!
And in KC get the burnt tips. Ahhhhh those were goodness.
There’s a place in Newark, OH (Nerk!) that serves a burnt ends sandwich. Damn Tasty.
This Place?
meant for Grummun.
Aye. They smoke on site, there’s little piles of hardwood in the back hallway when you go to the head. They’ve only (?) got 12 taps, but they (usually*) only serve from Ohio breweries.
* Apparently on Mexican-July-4th-for-Gringos they bow to crass commercialism and serve Corona.
There’s a Salt Lick in DFW.
Excellent euphemism.
They’ve made it all the way there? Damn. Good for them. I did a lot of underage drinking at their original restaurant back when the county was dry and nobody cared what was in your cooler as long as you didn’t make an ass of yourself.
That’s one place where I wouldn’t drink. Beer takes up too much room. Salt Lick is for eatin’.
Oh, FWIW, they have most of their sauces at Whole Foods now, especially the spicy mustard.
College freshmen have different metabolisms. Now they have a wine tasting room adjacent. It’s very Noveau Texishe but I hope they make huge stacks of cash because it’s great food.
I thought about getting some wine at that tasting room when I was there several years ago. Instead, I just contented myself with their food. Excellent.
Good for them. A long time ago, we had an impromptu Zinfandel tasting while eating at the WImberley location. Ridge Zins go great with Texas ‘cue, who knew? There are much better places to eat barbecue in the Austin area, even before Aaron Franklin showed up, but there was something about wheeling a cooler (or carrying a Styrofoam shipper) into the Salt Lick and sitting down for a couple of hours of eating, talking and fun.
Just in case some of the fine folk here haven’t heard of Salt Lick:
I think all you foodies are whack jobs, but holy crap I need to touch, smell, and taste that!
I need to build one of those.
That looks yummy.
I wish there was scratch and sniff
*suffers crippling homesickness*
Una cerveza mas por favor.
http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2017/10/24/drinking-alcohol-foreign-language/
Mais uma cerveja stupidemente jelada, por favor!
IT WORKS!
I put blackface on my character in the new “South Park” game, and PC Principal didn’t say anything about it. He even took a smiling selfie with me!
You just can’t trust cis straight allies. *shakes head*
I was reading the article you linked to the other night about several liberal bloggers internet forum history and it linked to this article written by a Marxist lamenting the identity politics takeover of the Marxist cause. Thought it was kind of an interesting take down of them. Evidently he’s committed suicide since writing it.
http://www.thenorthstar.info/?p=11299
I wonder how much of that article (the one that linked to the article you posted) has merit. It’s taken me down a rabbit hole of SJW internet forum culture.
Have these people really been so influential as to bring social justice topics and terminology mainstream? Academia certainly couldn’t have done it alone, so what catalysed it? It sounds so dubious and ridiculous to think that shitposters on SomethingAwful and RationalWiki could have such outsized influence, but stranger things have happened. Internet-obsessed troglodytes certainly can use the medium to ‘meme’ and build topics to a point that they’ll eventually metastasize spontaneously. It’s not like the Bolsheviks or German Workers Party were much of anything for many a year.
The level of bullying that has been reached, and effective (unintentional) reductio-ad-absurdum and self-parody (say, of gender theory), isn’t just the result of IRL PC tendencies and proselytizing, or slow-paced seeping academic influence. It happened because of the internet and because of outsized voices.
And yeah, it’s a good article. There are a lot of leftists (usually communists) who abhor the social justice shaming, recognizing it as essentially bourgeois and elitist. That’s what is so funny about it.
I knew I was gonna SF it.
http://www.reaxxion.com/6209/leaked-chatlogs-from-gamerghazi-reveal-depression-social-isolation-and-confusion
>a href=”https://glibertarians.com/2017/10/exploration-of-philosophical-vagueness-aka-principles-are-hard-lets-go-shopping/?replytocom=317429#respond”>Similar conversation from last thread.
In a business class we had to analyze different crises of businesses. Several of these amounted to “something benign happened, twitter warriors went crazy.”
It’s was taught that doing something was necessary. I pointed out the protein company that got harassed about beach body ads. They just told the twitter mob to fuck off and their sales increased.
My point is I don’t think the world in general has understood that a few thousand passionate tweets means close to nothing. It used to be a few thousand picketers meant something because for every one there were more that didn’t bother, but tweets are simple and largely easy to ignore. These sorts of crazies are exercising more influence than they should.
Copper Mountain is entering the 21st century and installing RFID gates at all their lifts. I am pleased.
I’ve heard of Irish pubs that use them. You walk in the door, your drinks already on the bar and everything is automatically linked to your tab.
Now that is civilization
Except when the NSA uses your drink order against you!!!
That sounds expensive.
I’m all good…already got my $42 lift tix!
42 for Copper? good deal
Yep – it was a special they were running back in the spring. Those are almost 1980’s prices.
Thanks for the Kate Upton pic. She doesnt have any hips but who cares….. Boobs
She’s a babe
I regularly eat peanut butter M&M’s and Pepsi as a meal (I am right now), and I guarantee you I’m in better shape than Caitlin Dewey.
First BBQ, now peanut m&ms and pepsi. You people are killing me.
Shocked I am.
https://hotair.com/archives/2017/10/24/another-graffiti-hate-crime-solved/
What is it with these white supremicist being to lazy to do thier own hate crimes?
They just believe in affirmative action, that’s all.
I have yet to see a single example of the “graffiti” style hate-speech (esp if its in a Bathroom, or on a school building)… e.g. swastikas, kkk, ‘niggers go back to africa’, etc sort of thing….
…where the perp actually turned out to be one of the imagined “white yokel supremacist”-types.
I’m not saying those idiots don’t exist: they obviously do. like Larry, Darryl, and his other brother Darryl here
but it seems to me that these guys who harbor genuine, bona-fide racist beliefs? Don’t waste their time energy doing shit like vandalizing schools in mostly-black, or mostly rich-white-suburban areas. they’re too busy posting racist shit on stormfront or twitter. sure the occasional morons deface a synagogue… but i just don’t think they’re as into the “sloganeering” shit that lefties inherently prefer. (drawing statements on walls)
I remember hearing that in almost all the rape accusations where the victim had writing on their sling the accusation turned into a hoax.
There seems to be a difference in what people think a rapist would do and what they would do. I expect “hate crimes are the same.”
Why would anyone bother with such a pointless thing as writing a swastika anonymously? I can understand why a prankster would do it. Watching people lose their shit over nothing is fun. I can understand why the hoax perpetrators do it, they get plenty of attention. But an actual Nazi gets nothing.
Macron’s dog pees on fireplace during on-camera meeting
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Oct. 23 (UPI) — French President Emmanuel Macron’s dog upstaged an on-camera meeting at Elysee palace by urinating on the fireplace.
Footage recorded by French TV station TF1 during a meeting between Macron and three junior members of his government captured the moment the president’s Labrador mix, Nemo, lifted a leg and peed on the fireplace in the background.
“I wondered what that noise was,” Brune Poirson, junior minister for ecology, remarks as the participants take in the scene.
Macron quips the canine has done something “quite exceptional.”
“You’ve triggered completely unusual behavior in my dog,” Macron says.
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[Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, French accent]
Ah, zees ees a fine fireplace…FOR ME TO PEES ON!
Fucker can’t even housebreak his dog but he’s supposed to run a country.
Don’t all Frenchman pee in the fireplace?
I wish I had 10,000 bricks
To build my chimney higher
To keep those goddamn neighbor kids
From peeing in my fire!
/song my grandpa sang
Huh. The Drudge headline is not surprising to anyone with a brain.
Get on that, Mueller.
Recommendations for my next binge watch?
Not Mindhunter. I tried, but I can’t get over the guy who plays the lead. Like nails on a chalkboard.
Planet Earth 2
Same as Earth 2?
Westworld.
Great freaking show.
Babylon 5 – oldie, but a goodie. I just introduced the husband-unit and now he is hooked.
It’s been out,so maybe you’ve seen it but Longmire is a solid show.
Oh and if you have Amazon Prime Bosch aint too shabby either.
This is just too much:
On Safari in Trump’s America
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/10/on-safari-in-trumps-america/543288/
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Third Way, for its part, announced in January it would spend $20 million on what it called the “New Blue” campaign to “provide Democrats with a path out of the wilderness.” Like many of their peers, the think tank’s brain trust had been stunned by the election. On November 9, too devastated to work, its staff had simply sat together and cried.
…
“You’ve got all these parasites making a living off the bureaucracy,” the farmer declared, “like leeches pulling you down, bleeding you dry.” We had been in the state for just a few hours, and already the researchers’ quest for mutual understanding seemed to be hitting a snag.
…
We sped from town to town in the rented Yukon, watching the exotic Middle American landscape fly by. At one point, a gaggle of bikers roared past us on one side. On the other side of the road, a bright-green field dotted with hay bales passed by. Looking at the bales, Hale mused, “Don’t they look like shredded wheat?”
…
Third Way, while not officially affiliated with a party, is an organization with a policy agenda, from gun control to entitlement reform, that it seeks to advance within the Democratic Party and with the broader public. Most of its funding comes from corporations and financial executives.
…
“Isn’t this underwritten by the DNC?” a local cafe owner asked Watson after his just-here-to-listen opening spiel. “I read somewhere you’re spending $20 million,” another man said. Another participant asked about corporate donors.
This was all pretty much true—Third Way, not the DNC, was paying for the project, but the “New Blue” campaign was hardly a nonpartisan effort. But Watson tried to deflect. He acknowledged that the session was “part of” the $20 million project, but he insisted it had nothing to do with any political party. “This is not about Democrats or Republicans—it’s about what’s going on beyond the Beltway,” he said.
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“On November 9, too devastated to work, its staff had simply sat together and cried.”
https://media.giphy.com/media/n8LOaQyDyiEhi/giphy.gif
When that stupid useless fuck Obama was reelected, I was bummed. But I didnt cry. I went to work the next day too.
You know, thinking about this and election day in general, I wonder that none of them seem to blame the media for raising their expectations of Hillary’s victory too high. I realize CNN and Co believed what they were spewing, but I’d think at least someone on the D side would be pissed and say “you guys screwed it up and made all those voters believe something was a slam dunk when it wasn’t”. But instead the worst that ever happens is that Dems accuse the media of supporting Trump before the election, which is so laughable you can’t even argue with those people. Maybe there are or were those posts after the election and I just didn’t see them, but it feels odd that there wasn’t at least some blame being tossed at the MSM for bad projections from that side and some demands for house-cleaning when they flubbed it so hard.
I thought a lack of self awareness this acute would certainly have been fatal but I guess not.
Police officer sexually abuses underage girl.
Local police: Well, gosh darnit, we totally forgot to record anything or take any notes! Just a coincidence though. Had nothing to do with the perp being a police officer
And, like always, this was a model officer with all kinds of commendations, so surely he couldn’t have done anything like this. http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/crime/2017/03/24/sex-scandal-tarnishes-kenneth-betts-louisville-metro-police-department/99528448/
Local news here today had a story about a cop shooting a “pit bull” that was allegedly coming right at the cop. The bullet ricocheted or something and hit the cop’s K9 “officer”, killing that dog.
The local news bought the cop’s story hook, line, and sinker.
Reminds me of Ralphie and the icicles.
Actually, now that I think about it, the cop claimed the pit bull was “attacking” the K-9.
Sounds like poor leash control on the K-9, though.
today in bathos
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Just because the DNC was wrong for rigging the primaries against Sanders doesn’t mean Sanders is right today for not acting in good faith toward the Democratic Party.
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https://www.salon.com/2017/10/24/sanders-betrays-democrats-announces-reelection-run-as-an-independent/
Yeah the nerve of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) running as an independent.
Also, a perfect case of projection that the selfsame organization that rigged an election so their preferred candidate won the nomination would accuse the other party’s candidate of rigging the election via a nefarious 3rd party.
It’s 102 outside. What fuckery is this?
I pay extra to live near water. I’m not supposed to have these shenanigans!
3 days a year.
Maybe on the coast,I fry a hell of a lot more than that, 36 miles inland,
102 today, 9% humidity
Yeah. That’s why the coast is the coast.
I went to Palm Desert in August. 70 here, 114 there.
Also, if anyone in Japan in a few weeks/months sees a Subaru commercial featuring a small silver car making a turn nearly into a couple crossing the street, that was filmed near my kid’s school. I guess it’s cheaper doing it here, but it was kind of funny watching them film it, with the car all Left-Drive having to reset to *almost* run into the pedestrians each time.
TV or internet commercial? I watch about 2 hours of tv a week.
Don’t know, they only said it was for Japan.
It was funny also since they still had to dress the corner (there’s a small roundabout, though I don’t know if that’s visible) , and put up high hedges so the couple comes out of ‘nowhere’ into the street.
True Fact: when I was nine or so I went camping, and mom had packed a couple MREs that my uncle gave her. No idea why, or where he’d gotten them. And I’m pretty sure I’m not supposed to have liked it as much as I did, but to this day my second favorite breakfast besides biscuits and gravy is corned beef hash. It was probably the setting: sitting in a tent with mom and my sister and cousin, all of us ripping open and emptying out these strange brown plastic-packaged envelopes, poring over the contents, and cooking the entrees by some inexplicable alchemy.
Never found a plate of corned beef hash I love half as much as I enjoyed that meal. But I still like it for breakfast.
The level of awesome of a corned beef hash plate is directly proportional to the horror that comes immediately afterwards in the bathroom.
But a couple soft-boiled eggs over the hash, with a good portion of hash browns on the side… that’s some good goddamn shit. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck. I want to take up getting fat and hypertensive as a hobby.
I’ve had a similar experience with pancakes. When I was ten we went to a pancake breakfast at church. One of the dads made pancakes that were the best I’ve ever tasted. 35 years of attempts but I haven’t been able to recreate it. You can’t step in the same river of syrup twice. It was the time, location and ingredients coming together just right.
I feel like gustatory adventures are more quest than reward.
I tell myself, after ever mildly disappointing plate.
That’s because he came in the batter.
You’re slipping.
Like I didn’t see that coming.
When we went camping, my parents bought those travel-sized multi-packs of cereal. Loved Froot Loops, hated Corn Flakes.
You ever watch Crazy Russian Hacker’s MRE unboxings on Youtube? If not, you might get a kick out of them.
My favorite was the French one (leave it to them to have the best food)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_1zZuc7IaU
That was great
He’s just *so* excited by the little holder device for the heated containers… it’s adorably hilarious.
CRH rocks. I’ve also found I like this guy’s MRE videos
See upthread. You’re alright commodious spittoon.
I’m finding the guests on Finding Your Roots this season insufferable. Bernie? Janet Mock? Uggghhhh. He used to have on a broader spectrum of folks.
Oh, and also the Coates guy. Can’t stand him.
LOL Coates’s ancestors were free black people, rich land owners, even before emancipation. The host was ribbing him about not being able to write about reparations anymore.
Could he resist not saying “black bodies” during the whole segment?
Thankfully I didn’t hear it, if he did say it.
The great thing is his father was a Black Panther that believed strongly in black gun ownership. I have no idea if he himself is anti-gun, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he were.
Coates has been testing the waters lately on vaguely implying that the left should go full French Revolution, so I assume guns factor into his plans for chaos and mass murder somewhere.
Oh that will end well. He’s smart enough to know what happened to Danton, Marat, and Robespierre, right?
Briton who fought Isis killed in Raqqa a week after city liberated
Mother of Jac Holmes, 24, who left IT job in Bournemouth to volunteer with Kurdish fighters in Syria, says he died on Monday
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/oct/24/briton-who-fought-isis-killed-in-raqqa-a-week-after-city-liberated
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In a statement on their Facebook page, the 223 YPG sniper unit paid tribute to Holmes, saying: “We are so sad today. Yesterday we lost our brother and Team Commander Jac Holmes. He tried to deactivate an explosive device and it exploded directly next to him. Jac was a real badass. A hero with so much kindness. He was funny and compassionate. And he died way too early. We will miss you, brother. You will never be forgotten!”
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War sucks; people die.
Well, at least it wasn’t via Russian airstrike
This fucking bullshit with the World Series weather. No, it’s NOT hot for this time of year. We get Santa Anas from September through Thanksgiving. I even remember a Christmas when it was 95 on the beach.
january 1981 102, same as today. I was reminded
October is usually hot in coastal CA, but I don’t remember LA usually getting to 102 the last week of October. First week, sure.
My internet is down. How long is 447 feet?
About 27.1 rods.
…. 447 feet is 447 feet, or .08466 miles.
2/3rds of a furlong + 7ft.
53 feet short of my restraining order.
that depends. did you chop them off of children, or grownups?
Its 5364 inches.
It’s like 3 times the length of my dick. Should we make this a new unit? I mean like HperDickUnits?
You will have to specify a temperature.
I guess with all of this penis talk, I’m the only one watching the World Series.
They should do a World Parallel instead. It’d go faster and be less prone to outages.
Laughing hard!
I’ll be here all week. Try the waitress and tip the veal.
I am watching too, but still talking about male anatomy.
Actually, I am just biding my time until the puck drops in the blackhawks v knights game
reported to FBI as a communist
I’m already on all the lists there are. Even light digging would refute the communist possibility. Deep digging would destroy it utterly.
The Blackhawks look decent this year, but holy crap the Lightning look better than I would have ever imagined.
(Also, don’t mind Playa, he thinks any sport played in frozen conditions is evidence of Russian involvement. I’m surprised he hasn’t narced on Kristen and westernsloper)
4.41542e-15 parsecs
I saw Jonathan Gruber on MSLSD the other day. I guess he decided it was safe to crawl out from under his rock. Couldn’t find that clip, but found this one:
https://youtu.be/CPJkQw0bVYk?t=1m04s
This clip of Tucker Carlson grilling him is old, but amusing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvDlBIaZV9w
So, I recorded one of you clicking one of my links.
Me after blindly clicking HM links</a href.
No way HM, I’m on to you, (not on you, frisky)
That’s not Cricket!
You have to play the game. That’s part of how this all works.
“It was a weenie”
Classic.
I put my dried Reapers in olive oil. A colleague suggested putting some in vodka to make bloody marys, so I’m-a try that also (if I can remember to go to the liquor store)
The media isn’t evil or anything.
“We have record breaking heat at the World Series, but no fires. WHY NO FIRES, viewers???”
Because the Pressure Wave God has spoken,
I had salad. I don’t feel like I’m winning any friends.
Gotta have a whole roasted pig to win friends, my man.
When pigs fly
how about Doves?
‘He also made a startling statement. In electing Donald Trump, he said, “the country made a mistake and I think the next mistake might very well be the gas chamber and what happened to Jews [under] Hitler is not too far from our door.”’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/21/harry-belafonte-we-shall-overcome-trump
Old people are funny.
We lost Guillaume, but still have Belafonte?!? What’s with this shit?
How does somebody like me end up voting for Donald Trump?
I didn’t have the answer until Tom Steyer’s ad during the World Series tonight.
And that’s how you get more Trump, Jeebus Christ
That was one of the most cringe-worthy things I have EVER watched.
Did you see the Bloomberg-funded ads supporting the Cook County “Sweetened Beverage Tax”? About a month after they started airing, it was repealed.
*runs to Youtube*
ahaha, nope. That was a garden-variety “for the children!” ad. we get those constantly during election season for various ballot initiatives.
no the Join Us ad. which I just saw was actually posted four days ago and has 782K views. But LOL, comments and likes disabled. you know it’s well-received when they do that.
I am actually kind of hoping that he runs for governor here. I would love to see him waste some of his fossil fuel derived fortune doing that. It is almost guaranteed that Newsom or Latin Newsom will be the next guv here.
Join US!
Granted, they weren’t anything really remarkable in themselves. But the whole thing was pretty hilarious – even with Bloomberg splashing millions on those ads, one of the local Dem power brokers had to shit can her signature legislation to avoid getting her ass tossed out in the next election. Just a massive miscalculation.
well. at least it “started a conversation” right? lol Couldn’t happen to a better group of people!
I have been assured numerous times by sooper smart journolists that it’s the Republicans destroying themselves.
It is a very sad day for the city of San Francisco as it learns that it will soon lose one of its most diligent advocates for the homeless to rising rents, lack of affordable healthcare and loss of a beloved partner (he divorced her).
“Zordel said that despite her $120,000 annual salary, she’s in dire financial straits. Even with good health insurance, she’s racked up $30,000 in medical bills on top of the $60,000 in student loans she already owed.
So she’s packing it all in to move, at least for a while, into a cheap rented flat in Alicante, Spain, a beach town that she says has a big expatriate community with access to affordable health care. She plans to write about her work with the homeless, and, for the first time in her life, just slow down.“
She is 43. What a catch, even without her taxpayer funded job.
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/One-of-SF-s-biggest-helpers-for-homeless-people-12300462.php?t=fa3c9f229e
The late night linx have been kind of quiet.
Sorry if this was covered already; but Stossel is getting a worse deal at TOS than he had ABC (or maybe he just got lazy being old and after his cancer scare) . Youtube allows for almost unlimited time to spend on a subject, but all his videos from TOS are like 6min. And now the new video, in favor of private military, is one interview? On a subject most people find disgusting, and even from a libertarian perspective can get very nuanced. And that one interview is with Blackwater? Fuck.