Also known as the World Series Game 1 Links. or even the Global Warming World Series Eco-killer Links. Or whatever else. Just don’t call it the Yankees Latest World Series. Because it is definitely not that, although I think Aaron Judge did strike out while answering a question about who he thinks will win it all. I believe he was taken aback when the reporter threw him a couple of curveball questions. But I’m not here to be mean. I’m sure he’s going to have a hell of a career. And I mean that in all sincerity. Dude just needs to learn to his curveballs away and occasionally take something off that swing and hit for average.
Now, it is gonna be hot today in L.A. They’re expecting it to dip just below 100 for the start. Tomorrow will bring little relief. And in a series where a few of the absolute best pitchers in baseball will be taking the hill, it will be interesting to see how they are able to maintain. Let’s hope for a fun start tonight.
And oh yeah, the Wall Street Journal does some solid, and truthful, sports reporting from time to time. I enjoyed that thoroughly. I hope you do as well. (It opens for me from the tweet, but if it doesn’t for you, copy it and then open in a private window.)
Right, that’s that with sports. Time for…the links!
Talk about upsetting your narrative. MSNBC gets more yuk-yuks than Saturday Night Live anymore.
This is how modern men become the Unsullied. Except, you know, they probably can’t fight. Seriously though, if you’re taking this class, you should just go have your dick and balls cut completely off and chucked in the Potomac River. Then tie a cinder block to your foot and jump in after it.
Hobos about to be kicked to the curb in Bay Area. But the local denizens have so much compassion, they’re demanding our tax dollars be used for a “solution” to the “problem”. In the immortal words of the Representative from South Carolina “I got a solution. You’re a dick!” They can use their own money. Or at least the tax money from Californians.
MATT DAMON!!!!! Way to take a brave stand, ass.
I’m sure you’re just as shocked as I am. But its true. Chicago residents will face property tax hikes in 2020 and 2021 to try and fund municipal pension funds.
Chicago taxpayers face yet another property tax increase for police and fire pensions in 2020 — and another hike the following year in the tax tacked onto water and sewer bills to save the Municipal Employees pension fund, aldermen learned on the first day of City Council budget hearings.
Following five-year “ramp-up” periods, the additional increases will be needed to honor the city’s statutory promise to keep all four city government pension funds on the road to 90 percent funding by 2048.
By the city’s own estimate, police and fire pension costs will rise by $297.3 million, or 36 percent, in 2020. The Municipal and Laborers plan costs will grow by $330.4 million, or 50 percent, in 2022.
Well, enjoy being fiscally raped for the foreseeable future, Chicagoans. Because rates rising that sharply this quickly will never, ever be shored up. This is what happens when your one-party ruled city lets pubsec unions fund campaigns and then sit across the bargaining table from the people whose campaigns they funded. You have two viable solutions: bankruptcy with the legacy costs being discharged. The other involves nuclear bombardment from a space platform. I wish you luck.
LOL How could she ever have thought this was a good idea?
They better not start calling this cultural appropriation or I’m gonna fucking lose it.
Have a safe trip, Banjos. See you in a couple days. I’ll try not to let the house go completely to shit. The rest of you…pray for me.
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There seems to be a theme with these Hollywood assholes. “It wasn’t my business.”
*Spits
Lol the Oscars are gonna be quite akward next year. I hope a Weinstein film wins best picture, the derp is snowballing.
I wonder if the Oscars host will actually make any Weinstein jokes or just stick to non-stop Trump bashing?
Actually. no, I don’t wonder at all.
But Donald talked about grabbing pussy. And that’s terrible.
Well yeah, and Trump is also racist. Even though nobody can ever point to anything specific he did that is actually racist.
He wants to block mexicans and muslums from entering the country, and deport all of them that have become citizens!
/Prog.
And did you see what he’s doing to the gays? It’s like a holocaust up in here.
They’ll give themselves an out, because the Weinstein allegations are Too Sensitive to Joke About. And their numbers will continue cratering.
“I never talked to Gwyneth about it,” Damon said. “Ben told me, but I knew that they had come to whatever agreement or understanding that they had come to. She had handled it. And she was the first lady of Miramax, and he treated her incredibly respectfully, always.”
That kinda makes it sound like she did what she needed to do to Harvey to become the “first lady of Miramax”.
Don’t understand why Blythe Danner’s daughter would have to whore herself out, but maybe that’s how Blythe got her roles??
It’s not like her dad is a nobody either. So if a hollywood princess felt she had to play along, who wouldn’t?
I bet you if Weinstein had been a republican/conservative, even if the accusations happened to be fake and obvious, douchebags lake Matt would have suddenly felt it was their business then. Funny how without a double standard these idiots have none otherwise.
“It wasn’t my business.”
If only the Hollywood assholes would take that same attitude toward everyone else in the country.
BANG!
You forgot “deplorable.”
*barf*
A good follow up question would have been: how many beds and sofas do you have in your home, Masser?
It’s very easy to virtue signal and grand stand when you expect others to do the paying/heavy lifting…
Damn good tune today Sloop.
+1.
And the Shadows are on Spotify!
And Amazon Prime Music!
Concur. That may be the greatest music video ever filmed as well.
I wonder which version of “Apache” was used for the breakbeat.
The Cubs deserved to be beaten by the Dodges. We just got outplayed—IMO we were just absolutely gassed. Three NLCS+1 WS (*cough…cough….* in a row is damn impressive. I don’t feel any real sadness or withdraw this year, whereas I would’ve been a wreck last year if we didn’t win Game 7.
Now I’m in a really shitty situation.
I really hate LA. Really hate them. Not just for this year, but 2007 and 2008 still hurt, too. However, I detest the DH with a furious passion. My goto has always been to root for the NL if I can’t root for the Cubs. Sometimes this is problematic, especially when St. Louis was involved.
Decision made. I’m going to root for the ‘Stros. There. I said it. They WERE NL not that long ago!
*Deep breath.* And thus shall it be.
Why can’t pitchers just identify as position players?
They can. Sorta. You don’t have to DH for a pitcher, you can use it for any position.
Because then we’d have to have Baseball Identity Studies in the minors and then that’d lead to Position Dysmorphia Disorder and Transpositionality
Which of course would lead to bitter accusations of managers being transpositionophobes and not being sufficiently position-fluid. Queer players just wandering around between outs. Apositionals just laying in the outfield.
CATS AND DOGS LIVING TOGETHER!
Position Dysmorphia Disorder and Transpositionality
You just described the infield shift for the millennial generation.
Fuck off
Sincerely,
A Cleveland Indians fan.
I sure hope someone else shows up today. I can’t keep this up by myself.
That’s what she said…
Well how are we supposed to visit you MikeS when all the bridges in your area are out because stupid people are wrecking them?
Wonder what they did with all the $$ when the oil boom was going on?
This pisses me off a little extra because that is the county I live in. I hope like hell they make that idiot pay for that bridge. And it’s not such a rare occurrence as the deputy makes it sound. Just last year another idiot farmer pulled an air seeder across one of those old bridges and collapsed it.
A lot of the oil money was just straight-up wasted. And the money that was earmarked for infrastructure mostly went to the oil producing counties.
No way they are going to stick that farmer with the bill. I’m sure he has buddies down at the county commissioner and will maybe get a small fine.
I would have thought that the whole state got a bunch of that $$ from oil. I know that they paid shit tons in Western NDak to upgrade cell coverage and the roads (so the tankers could pick up the oil).
I’m sure you’re right. It’ll come out of my taxes instead.
Yeah, the whole state got some. But the western counties did get the lion’s share. Oh, and a lot went into a few special funds (government savings accounts).
I moved to this county after the boom money dried up, so I can’t say for sure what they did with their share. I think a lot of it probably got sent to the townships and was used for graveling township roads that were long overdue. I believe the county fixed a few bridges with it, but they are just so far behind that it’ll take a lot more.
“according to law enforcement and local leaders.”
How many geniuses did it take to come to that conclusion? And how much did it cost taxpayers?
The NHL is gaslighting female fans
And apparently nobody offered evidence that Kane actually raped someone.
I vaguely remember this. Did it seem legit or was it someone looking for a payday? I don’t remember the details.
It seemed legit early on, less legit as time passed.
Shocking that such a thing would happen!
*cough* Duke Lacrosse *cough**cough* UVA *cough* Kobe *cough* Mattress Girl *cough**cough*
But I also know that this is once again proof that the NHL and its affiliates don’t actually care about women
Not the sharpest skate in the rink, is she.
She knows, man.
Hobos about to be kicked to the curb in Bay Area.
Steve Bannon hardest hit!
Okay. I meant for that to be a separate comment.
Bannon stays on a bench in DC, sleeping under a pile of discarded WaPos, right?
He only sleeps under the Times. The WaPo is for wiping.
But I also know that this is once again proof that the NHL and its affiliates don’t actually care about women, they just use them for advertising purposes.
Honestly, this isn’t exactly false. Of course, the same thing applies pretty much to all of corporate America. I just have a different assessment of that fact. That is, they aren’t supposed to care about women. Or men. Or blacks. Or whites. Or hispanics. That’s not their job. And, personally, I’d appreciate it if my sports entertainment provider, the company that makes my breakfast cereal and the company I bank with were to stop politicizing every damned bit of their advertising to satisfy people who hate them anyway.
^this
I was pretty brand loyal to Levi’s and Coca-Cola at one time. But their incessant virtue signalling made me much less loyal (Coke) if not drove me completely away (Levi’s)
What did Levi’s do?
Nothing overt…just jumping on the identity politics bandwagon. Like a long time ago. Probably one of the earlier companies to do it.
Apparently they have decided it’s easier to social signal than to put the work into providing a consistently good product. And judging by the NFL, it seems declining sales won’t affect that decision.
Until the declining sales does affect the decision. Then i’m expecting the NFL to cross promote with Hooters, and Tilted Kilt, and just go full bore “Toxic Masculinity”.
That didn’t save the XFL and until the quality improves, social signalling or no, the NFL is going to be shedding fans.
Never happen, the NFL is too sensitive to the screeching of the SJW harpies. Even if they did at some point, it would be too late. Watching the NFL is a habit that is easily broken after you don’t do it for a while, and realize how nice it is to have that time freed up for other things.
Oh, I don’t expect it to save the NFL, but I’ve got the feeling that all of the SJW stuff is like pushing a pendulum. At some point, it’s going to swing back the other way. ESPN is part of Disney, so they’ve got plenty of backup cash. But how many of the NFL owners are going to be happy to watch the value of their teams decline year after year, and their profits drop before they start trying to push that pendulum?
I don’t know, they’ve already seen significant drops, yet are fine with the status quo. It seems that they are incapable of even correctly identifying the problems and therefore have no idea how to address them.
Jerry Jones seems to have figured it out and it yelling “stop!” at the impending trainwreck.
Yeah, at this point I just listen to Panthers games on the radio. I am always out running errands and stuff on Sunday afternoon anyway.
I thought gaslighting was a fairly specific form of manipulation, where you made someone doubt their own memories. Or has it also lost all meaning?
+1 Decimated
Literally.
Are you sure that is what gaslighting means? You can never be sure you know. Maybe you just don’t remember clearly.
I thought it meant illuminating an area with natural gas flames.
Well, I have been drinking a lot for Cleveland Beer Week…
FYI: the PBC porter was delicious!
Glad you enjoyed it. The also make an Imperial version, which gets brewed rarely, and is a bit harder to acquire. It’s been good enough to win the Heavyweight Brewer’s Brawl (a high gravity beer competition put on by a local brewery in the middle of summer) for at least three years running.
I’m sure people want to use “gaslighting” as if it has a Zyklon-B shower connotation.
Gaslighting is convincing someone they are paranoid or crazy with false memories. And it’s a dick move.
Bladerunning is convincing someone she’s a robot with artificially implanted memories. It’s a Phillip K. Dick move.
Bravo. ::opera applause::
Need my Membership Number for some program to fill in paperwork. Don’t have it. Try to contact the agency. Agency can’t even talk to me without the Membership Number.
[sarc] I Love Bureaucracy. [/sarc]
Isn’t there a “Forgot your number” button?
You know, Apple devices store passwords and login info in a secured, encrypted app. I’m just saying…
It’s a piece of paper. there are no buttons. And no one can guess your password and leak your nude selfies all over the internet.
Next the Cult of Apple will be telling us that Apple makes the best paper, too.
The white paper is fantastic, but if you want to be a real fan boi, you need to shell out more money for paper in different colors. And yes, red paper will cost more than yellow paper or blue paper. Don’t ask why. Just fork over you parents’ money hipster boy!
The real fan boi will go for Apple Premium, a crisp plain white sheet of paper that’s imperceptibly superior and costs 10x as much.
Is that… linen?
And a watermark?
Oh that is the upcoming Apple Papyrus product which will offer game changing user experience features in analog messaging and information storage solutions
With ultra-low power consumption and indefinite battery life!
Oh, you said “for some program”. I assumed it was a computer program.
Also, Apple makes the best paper.
The classiest paper.
Sloopy, Apple as a good company that makes good products is like saying the NCAA got it right on Penn State (What Should have happened). Literally had the shop cell phone, which we use as a customer contact, and is an Apple iPhone 6, completely go nuts last week. Had to factory reset the sucker and update it to the latest version of IOS to make it work correctly.
Yeah, I fucking hate Apple. All their products suck.
*pisses on Steve Job’s grave*
Hey a lot can happen in 23 hours and 19 minutes.
ಠ_ಠ
math fail 41 minutes, fucking public scholls.
*BOOM*
Somebody needs to go back to scholl for speeling.
Mike with the truth bomb.
*drops gloves, applauds*
OUTLIER!!!!!!!!
So why do all of us here have your nudes then?
Just because you subscribed to the list, you don’t get to complain about the quality.
Why would anybody want to leak my nude selfies all over the internet? And even if they did, what harm could it really do to me?
People worry about shit they will never have to worry about. I’ll take the convenience over the remote fear that something will happen to me that virtually nobody will ever be interested in.
You really have blinders on when it comes to Apple jokes.
We get it, you think Crapple products are the bee’s knees, and their walled garden prison is a neat playground. I’m still going to joke about them and their failures.
::looks at Apple stock price::
Failures?
Tesla stock is looking pretty good, too. Just sayin’
So you’re saying every single thing they’ve touched has been gold?
A company with high stock prices does not mean everything they shat out was a success.
It does argue for the efficacy of virtue signaling to progs. (Until they turn on you)
Because Apple and Tesla are fucking aces in that area.
Which they always will. The Social Justice movement cannot, almost by definition, be satiated.
“Strange game. It seems that the only way to win is not to play.” – Plato
Apple users are much much smarter than the average person and never fall for the same trick twice
NIce try.
Study: Americans are as likely to believe in Bigfoot as in the big bang theory
To be fair, Bigfoot is more entertaining.
Big Bang… Steve Smith rape…
is there a difference?
The truth is out there.
Unless you’re with Steve Smith then the truth is in there
Big Bang… Steve Smith rape…
is there a difference?
You can survive one of those.
Democrats fucking love science!
There surely is a joke in there with STEVE SMITH and a big bang …
STEVE SMITH HAVE BIG BANG EVERY TIME HE MEET HIKER!!
Crap, was beat to it..
I hate the big bang theory. Laughtracks suck.
After being a fan for a few years, I now completely agree with you.
The first couple of seasons were decent, it rapidly went downhill after that.
One of the things that pissed me off the most was that they were supposedly honoring geek culture by having the guys be actual geeks with normal geek hobbies but instead of actually spending 30 minutes learning what a D&D game actually looks like they just had the books around for window dressing and made it look stupid.
The real downfall however came when they all got girlfriends because the show stopped being about 4 quirky guys and rapidly devolved into an updated friends show where none of the characters were really that relatable (anymore) or even likable and the best characters on the show were the girlfriends.
The few episodes I’ve seen, Cooper comes across as an ass that treats his friends like shit. And the tone of the show seemed to me to be more mocking “geek culture” than honoring it.
I confess I’ve not seen many, but your assessment meshes with my impressions. Seeing it made me not want to see any more of it.
That is the theing, in the first season or so it seemed to be a form of celebrating by mocking, kind of like an in joke where members of a community make fun of themselves with over the top portrayals.
Most of the geeks I knew watched saying “I know that guy” where of course they didn’t actually know someone exactly like someone on the show but they did know one or more people who kinda fit the pattern. As the show went on however the geek elements started to deteriorate and the characters became massively less realistically geeky and more snarky towards the geek culture. Then eventually they simply became less funny.
Probably the only character who has actually improved over the years is Wallowitz (or however you spell his name) and that is largely just because I find the kind of cringy uncomfortable humor he was based on to be annoying at best.
The Coomunity Dungeons and Dragons episodes did the job a lot better.
Never watched community but I may have to check those episodes out
+1 “We’ve got to do something about the gnomes guys!”
I like reading the background white boards.
My response is usually something like “Why the hell would a theoretical physicist have the 4 factor formula on his board?”
Remedial lessons on uranium storage?
STEVE SMITH COVER BLOWN?!
75.6 percent of Democrats agreed that positive thoughts could influence the physical world
Well, that explains a lot right there, doesn’t it?
Their thoughts usually involve stealing, coveting, killing. Putting a positive spin on those thoughts doesn’t make them positive.
“Democrats were …about twice as likely to believe in astrology.”
Just like their fellow socialist, Adolph whatzisname.
I’m sure you’re just as shocked as I am. But its true. Chicago residents will face property tax hikes in 2020 and 2021 to try and fund municipal pension funds. – I think this is to timid from the authorities. There must be some other things to extra tax.
Leaving Chicago.
Haha. Yep. Next will be an Exit Tax.
Somewhat related
Teamsters pension plan warns thousands of beneficiaries that the checks may get smaller
http://www.post-gazette.com/business/career-workplace/2017/10/23/Local-Teamster-pension-plan-warning-of-benefit-cuts/stories/201710220064
It is sad you have you pension reduced, but personally I still don’t get how people expect defined benefit pension plans top work, to be honest. There is no guarantee what a plan can pay in the future. The whole concept seems iffy to me
My plan is to expect no payout from either my Pension or my Deferred Comp plans, and treat any disbursement I manage to get as extra.
This of course means I’ll be working until at least 2354
Been on a similar plan vis a vis Social Security. My retirement plan is what i can get in my 401(K) and hopefully I will be long dead and that money all spent before government decides they need to confiscate those to shore up their pyramid schemes.
Yeah….in my retirement planning, I assume $0 from Social Security. If any shows up, it will be found money.
Hope springs eternal
Look up Ponzi scheme.
Always be first in/first out.
Or the dreaded Fonzie scheme.
Aaaaaaaaaa!
*snaps fingers & jukebox turns on*
Minnesoda truckers went through this a few years ago.
The whining that went on and on was incredible based on that stat above. The math doesn’t work. Your union fucked you. Get over it.
What they really want though is for the Feds to step in and bail them out.
Clearly they missed the obvious answer – Teamster hit squads cleaning out the roster of expensive retirees.
How could she ever have thought this was a good idea?
Wood. I’d give her a thorough something-or-other.
*looks sheepishly at “family friendly” logo*
She apologized, but once you go black,,,
I’m reminded of the masterpiece “Quest For Fire” when I see that pic. Pleasantly reminded.
I saw Quest for Fire in the theater when I was ten – with my mom. Awkward!
+1 Rae Dawn Chong
Awesome. I was 12 when dad took me and my buddy.
The popcorn bag came in handy.
Lots of pants adjusting, I would imagine.
My first thought was: is she going as an urn? The way the pic got cut off. I’m still confused at what it’s supposed to be.
Definitely not a good idea but not racist either. Screw apologizing to the perpetually offended.
Why?
No deep moral reason, just an unnecessary hassle (unless drama is your thing in which case it’s a good idea).
To be fair, dressing up in Drowface is NEVER ok.
+1 Drizzt
Hate crime
Calling that “blackface” is ridiculous.
Careful next time you have dinner made by your wife. That might not be spaghetti sauce on there.
That link is miscarriage.
Yeah, but sometimes you just have to go with the flow.
That’s bloody awful!
It worked for the Red Wings.
There was a period in my life when I would have found this humorous.
Roh roh Shaggy..
Sounds like someone did something like this to you already?
There was a period in my life when I would have found this humorous.
The puns are flowing now!
Yes, but it’s cyclical.
It is that time of the month already?
I find this line of thought to be spotty. And it’s giving me cramps.
*stuffs cotton in ears*
These last couple of posts were just padding the thread.
*hovers over link before clicking…reads link…WTF?!*
Hell. No.
Hey, where’s your adventurous spirt? Dig in and enjoy the link!
Page not found. If only the pervs up there didn’t confuse my honest comment with a gross pun.
Huh, it was a normal page when I was on it before posting it. Guess they realized how disgusting it was and removed it?
Maybe you need a monthly subscription.
*narrows gaze*
Doctors urge women to stop using Vicks VapoRub on their vaginas – saying it doesn’t cure thrush
Not sure why, but it made me think of this:
What the fuck is a frush?
-Dudley “Booger” Dawson
Those Mu’s sure can party!
Ah, Revenge of the Nerds, back when rape was playful and fun.
An 80’s movie always needed casual drug use and a montage.
Don’t forget the smart-mouth teen putting on a pair of sunglasses to punctuate his “attitude”.
I think a Revenge of the Nerds character did just that.
DEAL WITH IT.
The program bills itself as a class where men “learn how social constructs of masculinity harm them and the people around them, and work to construct healthier masculinities.” Or, as Hicks puts it, “It was eight weeks of guys discussing how they can address their actions with better self-awareness and less toxicity.”
“We spoke of emotional labor, consent, violence, communication, empathy, and vulnerability,” he adds, noting that the last subject, in particular, was a struggle for him: “[I was] trained and conditioned to be tough growing up.”
Are there chicks?
vulnerability – everyone needs more of that. The kind of Yuts who would go to such a thing are not snowflake enough.
healthier masculinities – something tells me they don’t define this like I would
In other words, they want to make these people more pussified than they already are.
Betas are gonna beta and hope that gets them laid…
I’d say a lot of the fellows attending this class could have done a lot better with a five minute session from Vito Corleone, LCSW
I didn’t even have to click on that. One of the great moments.
So much effort is being put into making people doubt themselves and their capacity for reason. Brainwashing the masses.
That is what amazes me about this shit. How big of a pussy are these guys that when they get together with other guys and no women around, they don’t sit around and bitch about the women in their lives?
Don’t these wimps ever go out with just their male buddies and vent? Or are they always too busy holding their gal’s purse while she shops? Hunting and Fishing still exist because it is a great way to go out with your buddies and get away from the nonsense.
Friends are a privilege not everyone has
Not if you are gonna be a big sissy beta.
I’m proud to be raising a son who is full of toxic masculinity and would never submit to this kind of emasculating brainwashing.
This must explain the reasoning that WrongThink = Violence. Therefore, we must cure the WrongThink.
It’s sort of like curing blood diseases with leeches. They are convinced, due to their religious beliefs, that masculinity is socialized and not inherited. They are not capable of finding solutions outside of this framework, so they will never find solutions that work.
He began attending therapy, which made him realize that he needed to make a bigger change: “I wasn’t doing really terrible things, but I also wasn’t being the most ideal Stephen I could be,” he says. “The bar is really lowered for cisgender guys.”
Mr. Hicks should really be looking at getting a lawyer and suing his therapist into penury if this was his or her suggestion. Because I really can’t see how this doesn’t qualify as malpractice.
He should have seen a therapist who is also an analyst.
Theanalrapist?
STEVE SMITH THERAPY COMBINE EST AND PRIMAL SCREAM THERAPY.
IT AM LIFE-CHANGING.
TW Reason
After their DNA was found on 18-year-old “Anna Chambers” in September, the two Brooklyn narcotics officers who she accused of raping her admitted to sex with the young woman. But they claimed the contact—which occurred after police pulled over Chambers on a traffic stop, found loose prescription pills in her bag, and took her into their custody—was consensual. Now they’re trying to discredit her by pointing prosecutors to her “provocative” social-media selfies and to tweets where she lashes out at someone accusing her of lying.
https://reason.com/blog/2017/10/23/nypd-slut-shames-teen-who-says-she-was-r#comment
I find this rather amazing tbh. One the one hand, I don’t understand what these cops are thinking, even if, and this is a big if, it is consensual. Which I doubt it can be in those circumstances. And it kinda tells what cops in the US think they can get away with.
One the other hand, I mean if you don’t want to be raped you should not have loose prescription pills in your purse.
The story is just mind bending. The cops are be admitting the sex happened. They are under some illusion that it could have been consensual. Seriously these are the kind of people I’m fine with throwing to the mob. They are completely fine with taking Justice into their own hands, let the people deal with them. No benefits of the Justice system for you.
To be fair, what is the point of being one of the king’s own men if you can’t bang the occasional 18 year old?
Some Primo Nocte?
*comes up and William Wallace’s the king’s men*
Even George Costanza got fired for consensual sex on the job.
“Was I not supposed to do that?”
LGBTQWERTY trains with guns to combat “far-right” extremism. Yeah, all those anti-gay people have been coming out of the woodwork since Trump won. So much bigotry and unwokeness since the election. I can’t even.
I mean if Florida had to declare emergency for like 20 guys, you can imagine how dangerous they are
Florida takes FloridaMan very seriously for a reason….and they probably had excess hurricane relief funds to burn through
My favorite part is the state troopers show up in tacticool gear, and even though there are at least 2 black guys on the squad, they still get mistaken for White Supremacist Storm Troopers. They are obviously State Supremacist Storm Troopers.
SF’ed
So much chick lean. C’mon people it’s not that hard.
My plan is to expect no payout from either my Pension or my Deferred Comp plans, and treat any disbursement I manage to get as extra.
This of course means I’ll be working until at least 2354
“Look- you’ve got all that money just sitting there in some “retirement account” doing nothing, when there are deserving hobos in need of tiny houses. What manner of selfish fiend are you? We’re giving you an IOU for it. Stop crying.”
I Don’t Get Intersectionality in Feminism
Live by identity politics … Sorry honey, you are part of the group mind, you must conform and renounce your heresy. Linda Sarsour knows better than you.
I met a girl that I really respected for her work with immigration and within the public service industry. We were having a conversation about feminism and about our frustrations with the movement when she disclosed to me that she’s anti-abortion.
Our previously fluid conversation paused for a few beats. I realized that her experience has been similar to mine. On account of her religious beliefs, she was excluded from feminist groups at her high school, she never felt completely comfortable identifying with feminism, and especially recently, she had started to feel really alienated by the movement.
well at least she didn’t say she was a gun-owning supporter of the 2A!
Putin puts critic on Interpol wanted list after Canada passes Magnitsky law
Russian President Vladimir Putin has placed one of his fiercest critics on the Interpol wanted list in what Bill Browder says is retaliation for Canada’s passage of a bill last week that lets the federal government sanction human-rights abusers.
https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/russia-puts-critic-on-interpol-wanted-list-after-canada-passes-magnitsky-law/article36688143/?ref=http://www.theglobeandmail.com&
Mr. Browder, who has led the international campaign against Russia over the killing of Russian tax lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, said Mr. Putin instructed his prosecutor office’s to list him on Interpol’s wanted list through a diffusion notice on Oct. 17, one day before the Canadian version of the U.S. Magnitsky Act became law. A diffusion notice is less formal than an Interpol red notice but can also be used to request the arrest or location of an individual.
5 Ghost Towns You Can Buy Right Now, If You Dare
“but also plan to do something—anything—to bring the property back to some semblance of life.”
But rest assured, if they do make it, any of the profit they make off of it is evil and they don’t deserve it.
Actually a couple of those look like nice spots. I was expecting Detroit.
Not a lot of ghosts in Detroit.
You must not have been there ever cause the place feels like a grave site.
Do you blame the Ghosts for leaving Detroit? It’s not safe for wight people there.
^This guy gets it.
Dat wraithist yo.
*applause*
There aren’t a lot of ghosts but there are a lot of spooks…
/I’m sorry for that, but I can’t help myself.
Do you get it for free if you manage to spend a night there and survive?
No, its the market working correctly.
We don’t get many instances of it in the housing market, so we should celebrate them when they occur.
Most of those “towns” are little parcels with a few dilapidated buildings on them. I assumed they’d be at least one section each, with most being several sections. I mean, hell, for half the price of the one in Arizona you could buy a couple sections in deep southwest Texas, dig your well and buy all the timber you want to build new dilapidated, but up to ADA standards, buildings on them.
That’s because southwest Texas is too hot for the Devil to want to live in.
Or just buy Ghost Town…
Huh. I’ve been to two of the five.
“a reality that’s been made especially, painfully clear in recent days and weeks, as [insert crime by a woman that goes against the narrative here] to the forefront.”
Hey, it’s fun and easy, but I don’t think it’s too good for society in the long run.
These problems seem to be pervasive mostly in bastions of leftism, don’t they?
That’s exactly what we said, these are pervasive problems that apply to all men #yesallmen.
/prog
One the other hand, I mean if you don’t want to be raped you should not have loose prescription pills in your purse.
Exactly. Bundles of hundred dollar bills would probably have been a more effective deterrent.
May be old but it amused me… I like a good fact check
Did Russia Send Money To Bill Clinton’s Foundation Like Trump Says? Fact-Checking The President’s Claim
http://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-clintons-russia-trump-688592?fb_action_ids=10212608765246606&fb_action_types=og.comments
Assessment: Yes, the foundation received money and Bill Clinton was paid to give a speech, but there’s no evidence the Clintons were paid by Russians to push through the uranium deal.
Yes, they received millions from Russian interests but there is no evidence it was to push the deal. Technically true.
You know what else I don’t have evidence for, but seems odd? How fact checkers sheets seem to be strict with circumstantial evidence when it’s the left being criticized.
They accept broad claims when it suits their agenda and parse the hell out of claims when it doesn’t. Fact checkers are by-and-large useless.
Naturally.
Look at how they react to evidence-free allegations that Trump raped a 13-year old girl – they unquestioningly believe the entire story. Then ask them about Bill Clinton being accused of rape, and suddenly they’ll be shouting, “Do they have evidence?? You can’t prove anything!“
If someone receives money from someone, then gives that person drugs, that doesn’t mean they sold drugs. That’s how the law works for everyone. Right?
Tard Tuesday: Capitalism for Retards
It did not prevent any of those things, it merely provided additional options. It’s as if they think no one uses self reliance and personal networks now that the “new” options are on the market.
I guess when don’t believe in property, it’s ok to straight up plagiarise Marx.
“Instead of extended family looking after children we can just pay for daycare.”
All those people who live far away from family? Fuck em, cause they should be tired to the land the way feudalism was because that was so much better than capitalism.
Serfs up!
I know, right? All that prosperity, flexibility and freedom of movement absolutely sucks.
I’d rather be Dennis the peasant, living in an anarcho-syndicalist commune and digging filth.
The linked discussion concerns a quote by Michael Parenti, noted Nation contributor, Venezuela apologist, and lover of all things communist.
Yes, I read it. It made me run for Solzhenitsyn:
I need to get a copy of books and tread them.
Whoa. Let’s put the brakes on that.
Don’t tread, bro
Gulag Archipelago is kind of a slog. You can get a different, and more readable, version in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.
Is the abridged paperback version any good, or should I be buying the whole set of books?
I am not qualified to answer, as I’ve only read the abridged. Raven had another good suggestion and I would also recommend Darkness at Noon for some sweet, sweet anti-commie lit from someone who lived it.
It’s interesting that all the things that they cite as being lost are actually things that free markets liberate us from.
Extended family no longer is forced to look after children, instead we can just pay for daycare.
If we don’t feel like cooking our own food, we have the option to purchase it from others.
Instead of having to rely on community members in the event of a disaster, we can get insurance.
These people don’t hate capitalism because of how it affects personal relationships, they just hate the freedom it brings.
I see nothing wrong with her costume. Absolutely nothing. What, we can’t say ‘black soul’ anymore?
“bowiegrad Rank 2005
Does everything that is said or printed have to be racist??? When are the Black people in this country going to realize that it’s not all about them? There are other ethnic groups in this world besides the Black race. Chill out people and try to have at least a little sense of humor and don’t play the race card just to make a statement when there is no statement to be made.”
Touche.
There’s a tinge of inferiority complex and slight narcissism at this point that threatens to cloud meaningful issues. From SJW/BLM, to slavery and demanding reparation, to seeing and calling people racists everywhere to claiming cultural appropriation. to dictating language of what can be said. It’s tiresome and boring.
It’s attention seeking behavior in the age of the celebrity whiner.
And I think it’s that at this point. Famous or popular people are making all the noise. I wonder if the average African-American really thinks this way.
I’m sure the smart ones have intellectually rationalized and realized the past is the past and to keep a long memory is unhealthy – as many cultures and peoples have for centuries. After all, blacks – newsflash – are far from the only ones to have faced injustice and slavery.
Knowing your history and protecting it as well as remembering it is not the same as demanding people act on pins and needles around them lest they be insulted. The latter be the work of wicked dumb shits.
Meh. That’s my impression.
And the idea white people can’t comment on black issues can go straight off into the dustbin of fuck off.
It’s pure deception. The logical fallacy at the heart of the progressive stack, privilege, etc.. is right there for everyone to see, but thru sophistry and repetition they have managed to make it stick with a large portion of populace.
That’s precisely what it is. Sophistry.
Gee, you would have thought that died when Socrates was born.
Tard Tuesday: Nazis vs Antifa Explained
Wow, that graphic turned me…I’ll see you capitalist swine at the killing fields.
Wait is this notice for real or a joke?
Please remember that this subreddit is a SAFE SPACE for leftist discussion. Any Liberalism, capitalist apologia, or attempts to debate socialism will be met with an immediate ban. Take it to r/DebateCommunism. Bigotry, ableism and hate speech will also be met with immediate bans; Socialism is an intrinsically inclusive system.
It’s real, just like cognitive dissonance.
“Socialism is an intrinsically inclusive system.”
I don’t see show you guys think this is contradictory of what their policy is. Socialism includes all humans. If you disagree you are Sub-human and need to be destroyed.
No, they are serious, and they are just that retarded and dishonest.
I didn’t even see the link, was scrolling up, and know this must be a link to /r/latestagecapitalism, so I won’t be clicking.
Second scariest subreddit, behind /r/incels.
Socialism is an intrinsically inclusive system
Everyone can get a bullet to the back of the head!
Hammers don’t run out of ammo, comrade.
Then why does this page exist?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_the_Soviet_Union
Duh, because the Soviets didn’t do Socialism right
/recurring meme.
Capitalist propaganda! /my mother in law
Are you referring to the Union of Soviet Statecapitalist Republics ?
I think the free speech one is funny because it tries to justify that they are but for free speech.
If your response to free speech is “Yes, except…” Just put a No.
I’m for
freeeeee speech.Not to mention that for them “Nazi” is everyone to the right of Trotsky.
well, when you put it that way.
forgot the obligatory: MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
“Quite right, it’s silly. One is national-socialist. The other is anarcho-communist.”
anarcho-communist?
WTF??
anarcho-communist: Everyone should be free to do whatever the government tells them to do.
Where is my shocked face?
Alarming rate of Afghan trainees in the US are going AWOL
Okay buddy, we’re going to send you to The Future. Try not to get lost there. Train home is at 9:00 sharp.
Linda Sarsour, an organizer of the 2017 Women’s March, explicitly stated in an interview with The Nation that Zionism and feminism are incompatible: “It just doesn’t make any sense for someone to say, ‘Is there room for people who support the state of Israel and do not criticize it in the movement?’ There can’t be in feminism.”
The feminists aren’t objecting to Zionism, per se. They’re put off by the notion of a religion which enforces the misogynistic subjugation of women, and does not treat them as the full equals of men.
Islam, on the other hand, totally feminist!
Israel is the only country in the Middle East where women have equal rights under the law.
RE Damon. And there it is. While disappointing, I think people would dismiss it as ‘Hollywood celebrities being Hollywood celebrities wallowing in a cess pool of degenerate immorality’. But here, we have a guy who yapped on and on about ‘doing the right thing’ and ‘staying up at night’ worrying about his daughters’ as the poster child for the idiotic phrase, ‘what am I gonna tell my daughters!?’ in the wake of Trump’s election and it turns out he’s nothing but a little coward. And this is what people see.
Always out there taking to places like Ellen and The View, fighting, pretending to be something they’re not because when it came to that moment where they (in this case he) could have done something and spoken out, he didn’t. Matt Damon Inc. came first, just like Hillary Clinton Inc. came first.
Progressivism is the Hall of Mirrors of ideologies.
If there were mirrors you’d think they would see their flaws more easily.
Progressives are the most greedy and selfish among us.
He sucks balls.
I never get tired of watching Aaron Judge at the plate.
+1 Jobu
Yeah, me too.
“Yeah, me too.”
”me too.”
How dare you appropriate the suffering of women like that.
How many do you think he’ll hit in the World Se…..ohhh, never mind.
We’ll find out next year. The Yankees weren’t even supposed to make the playoffs this year, it was considered purely a rebuilding year.
Start spreading the news…
So, how many homers did the top guy on your favorite team have?
Ugh. 20 some? Castellanos for the Tigers (which tells you all you need to know about Detroit these days). I actually like Judge, and hope he learns to take more balls to opposite field. With that short porch at Yankee stadium he could give Bonds a run.
Bonds, despite the PED shitstorm, had the quickest hands and fastest, most compact swing of any batter I have ever seen. That’s the real reason he became such a prolific hitter. Look at his younger, leaner years — his swing is good but still long and slow compared to what he was able to do in his later years.
Do you have something against the Three True Outcomes?
It’s the boom or bust way of hitting they coach now. Elevate the ball, always swing for the fence, and they don’t care if you strike out. He should watch film of Miggy in his prime and how he took balls to right field.
Its a result of Bill James research in the 80s. Ks are only marginally worse than other types of outs, mostly because when you strike out, you avoid grounding into a double play.
Take pitches, draw walks, wear down pitchers and hit home runs. And if you strike out, no big deal.
Also, learn to get around on the fastball like Jose Altuve. They said something ridiculous in game 7. He’s like .485 against fastballs 95+. Maybe a small sample, but damn. That’s where his average comes from. Everyone in the world would like to hit every second hard fastball they swing at.
I miss watching near .400 guys like Carew, Boggs, and Gwynn. I much prefer one of those guys up in the clutch than a 30-hr guy who consistently whiffs.
Spicier is dead. Long live Spicier.
This on top of Willett’s absence is almost enough to make me give up on the Tweeters. If Burge leaves, I’m out.
Darn, that is disappointing. And just last week he was quoted in some WAPO article as the real Spicer.
I can understand if he feels like it’s played out. He had a good run.
During the election campaign there was some spoof Hillary Clinton support account, “On Message For Her” or something like that, that had exactly the same brutal, totally on-target mockery. He retired the account. I’m 80% sure it was the same guy. If so, maybe he’ll be back again in a month or two.
“The bar is really lowered for cisgender guys.”
As opposed to all of the gay men women are clamerying to date? Fucking pussy.
Extreme Weather, Climate Change Costing Taxpayers Billions
Except extreme weather events are not becoming more common.
Yet somehow we’re still out those billions.
Relative to GDP? Or are we talking absolutes
Why So Many White Supremacists Are into Veganism
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/evb4zw/why-so-many-white-supremacists-are-into-veganism
If there was any doubt that there are white nationalists among us, it vanished this summer, when the racist fringe of the far right manifested in Charlottesville. – I mean I don’t think there was a doubt there are some white nationalists out there
But not many realize that, strange as it sounds, numerous white nationalists are vegan and vegetarian – well it’s a meaningless factoid so why would I realize it?
And it’s not just an odd coincidence, but an outgrowth of one of the movement’s bedrock beliefs: the concept of “blood and soil.” The slogan—blut und boden in the original German—was popularized by Walther Darré in 1930 (although the concepts behind the phrase can be traced back to the 19th-century Völkisch movement). – I blame libertarianism myself
You know who else? Eh it is in the article lead
” I blame libertarianism myself”
Yes it’s the people against the state that are responsible for the worst State loving groups.
Well, that explains PETA…
“If there was any doubt that there are white nationalists among us, it vanished this summer, when the racist fringe of the far right manifested in Charlottesville.”
All 200 of them?
Speaking of culturally appropriative Halloween costumes, Cosmopolitan reminds you that You’d better not let your daughter dress up as Moana for Halloween, or you’re racist and you’re teaching her to be racist
How many Harvey W. costumes you think we’ll see this Halloween? I’m hoping for many, many.
Hopefully something complex like a naked guy in a bathtub eating out a Asia Argento lookalike
I was thinking of dressing a slutty Harvey Weinstein. In other words, Harvey Weinstein.
“You can (and should) strive to be better than you were 10, 20, or 30 years ago. If you missed the mark when you were younger, maybe think about using this Halloween as an opportunity to teach your kids about the importance of cultural sensitivity.”
Fuck off, that is all.
I’m all about teaching my kids the importance of cultural sensitivity.
It isn’t important and they should mock and ignore anyone who says otherwise.
After all if I don’t teach them that someone might convince them otherwise.
The glamour mags have really gone full retard over the last few years. To think they were more intellectually valuable when their focus was on sex positions and romance novels is pretty mind boggling.
Glamour mags horning in on Tumblr social justice crap, skin mags running ladyboys as centerfolds.The periodical industry is going down in flames.
Good riddance. People can get whatever information they want from the Internet, whether it’s from popular, well-established websites or small blogs and YouTube channels.
I’m leaning on sending this to my sister, as I know my niece is going as Moana. Especially after she said the Key and Peele sketch I showed her was too racist.
Key and Peele was too racist?
Or was it just racist that a white person thought it was funny?
Bing, bing, bing we have a winner.
Wait until after the fact so she can reflect on it and realize how stupid it is to think that way.
The funniest damn thing to me is that Moana is not very much about Polynesian culture (at least to me). Yes, it honors the ancestral voyagers that spread the islander culture across the Pacific, but Lin Manuel Hamilton man couldn’t even bother to appropriate Hawaiian/ Polynesian music for the soundtrack. I had relatives in Hawaii growing up, and my mom grew up there (This was the business my Step-Grandfather co-founded). My cousin went back and lived there for 7 years (until earlier this year), and I’ve been to the Islands a lot. I was probably culturally appropriating Polynesian culture as a 2 year old (if not before, my aunt made me some adorable baby Hawaiian shirts that were later wrecked by my cousin). My belief is that the central theme of American culture is the appropriation of the stuff we like about other cultures, and marrying it to our own in unique ways. For instance, my cousin spent a lot of time in Chicago before moving back to Hawaii, and has a blend of unique cultures in the way she and her husband do things, just like most families do. It’s why the Apple Diversity and Inclusion officer was correct in saying that 12 white guys can be diverse (it ain’t necessarily so, but it is possible).
Too bad Cosmopolitan doesn’t have a comments section. I would to see what sort of person reads their articles.
Here’s the link to the twitter post, where the comments are… less than positive. https://twitter.com/Cosmopolitan/status/922601309173202944
Good one! They will always eat their own, those progs. They’ll dissolve into an endless feedback loop of collectivist bullshit.
It IS a bit odd that gender is completely meaningless and you can be whatever you want, but everyone is locked into their own racial identity forever, and you can’t even wear clothes or eat food that originated with a different racial group.
People like us who hate read them and Goddamned sub-morons would be my guess. Oh, and people waiting to see the dentist.
I stopped reading that shit when I was about 18. Then I started reading Maxim because it was way more fun & interesting.
Relevant:
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/922625640012156928
It would be fantastic if Disney went out of its way to produce only straight up white princess movies in the future and if anyone complained tell them that a big part of their business model relies on them making money selling merchandise related to the movie. If they can only sell Moana costumes to genuine polynesian girls, they will never make any money.
Instead of being happy that a lot of kids like Moana and want to dress up as her, these shrews have decided to take the ball and go home.
This kind of merchandise?
The article states that it’s only a problem for white girls to dress up like her, they have plenty of choices you see.
If they can only sell Moana costumes to genuine polynesian girls, they will never make any money.
Except these people are Marxists. For them, Disney doesn’t exist to make money, but to serve them. Any money Disney is allowed to make is a kindness they’ve bequeathed on them out of their outstanding generosity. Yeah, that’s actually the way these people think. Nevermind that their only claim to authority is their utter patheticness.
I’d think that forbidding your child from dressing up as Moana would do more to promote racism than the reverse. If you tell a child they can’t do something because of their race, that fosters a racist mindset, by implicating that there are defined roles for the races. If you tell a child that they can’t dress up as a person of another race, that has a high risk of being interpreted as meaning they can’t admire people of other races, as dress-up is often a form of imitation and admiration. This whole anti-cultural-appropriation thing stinks of segregationism.
“So earlier this year, Hicks signed up for the pilot Rethink Masculinity class, a partnership between the Washington, D.C., Rape Crisis Center, Collective Action for Safe Spaces, and ReThink, an organization that works to prevent sexual assault.”
Toxic Masculinity.
This in a segment called ‘Science of us’.
/face palm.
A winter storm by any other name will still snow-in your car
The Weather Channel, as it’s been doing for five years, will again name significant snowstorms this winter. It’s done to hopefully generate more
public awarenessfear and social mediabuzzderp about the storms, despite opposition and apathy from rival weather firms (such as AccuWeather) and the federal government.Lol. Who the hell watches the WC?
Daily, for at least a couple hours.
So, TWC and airplane YouTube videos?
And car crash compilations.
Me too! (Oops, not supposed to say that.) I am addicted to car crash compilations.
What about pimple popping videos?
Mrs. Whiz goes for those… it’s a good thing I don’t get pimples or she’d be coming after me.
russian dashcam insanity, always a time-sink
Their criteria for naming storms is also laughably low. In order to name a storm it has to “affect”, I think, 2 million people. So, not even 1% of the U.S. population.
So why aren’t they naming every snow storm to hit northern Utah?
It’s possible that winter storm warnings are relative to the region they affect, like severe thunderstorm warnings are. A severe thunderstorm warning in DC would hardly even cause concern in OKC.
Here are the official WC criteria:
So, pretty much every single storm in the Northeast.
So any storm no matter how minor that happens to hit even 1 moderate sized city?
“The other involves nuclear bombardment from a space platform. ”
Well actually it’s a kinetic bombardment from an Imperial Dreadnaught. Unless of course you don’t care about occupying the territory you just bombed. (And you don’t want a crater to fill in to make valuable waterfront property). Then any old nuke will do.
Professor Claims Math, Algebra And Geometry Promote ‘White Privilege’
http://dailycaller.com/2017/10/23/professor-claims-math-algebra-and-geometry-promote-white-privilege/?utm_campaign=atdailycaller&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social
So I think linking this is superfluous as it is the 100d such case this year but …
A University of Illinois math professor believes that algebra and geometry perpetuate “white privilege” because Greek terms give Caucasians unearned credit for the subject.
Funny story: I had a friend who cheated on exams with a small earphone in his ear and someone else dictating answers to him. Once the guy dictating confused greek letters and my buddy flunked
Her twitter: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/918492168955850752
Maths…..
Schools also teach us the correct way to say math..
She took her beatings in the replies.
It’s beyond retardation to claim that.
I guess the good thing about cultural Marxists is that they’re dumb enough to talk about it openly, and reveal themselves.
Unless the scary thing is that they’re confident enough to talk about it openly, and reveal themselves.
Unless you’re a limey, stick to “math” or “mathematics.”
Also, WTF is this dingbat talking about? Prior to the twentieth century, math beyond basic arithmetics was mainly the domain of the gentry. Most everyone else was toiling under the burdens of subsistence farming or early industrial work or starving to death.
Yep, me and my fluent ancient Greek, which I learned in the womb from being white! PRIVILEGE!
If Greek terms make something racist and oppressive, I guess medical terminology is literally Nazism.
Algebra is Greek? I didn’t know the Greeks spoke Arabic.
“Are we really that smart just because we do mathematics?” she asks, raising the question as to why math professors get more grants than “social studies or English” professors
Very simple. Math has value for things that actually create value. Investors, software companies, firms that create products can actually take the results of the work of math professors and use it to make products or perform services that people are willing to spend money to obtain. There isn’t a market for the products of intersectional grievance studies.
So why do Asians do good at math then?
Not one Florida Man was quoted in this story about a teacher throwing an x-rated party for a former student. Only Floriday Moms were quoted and they were all pissed.
I’m sure the dads were all “lucky bastard….”
Oh, for fuck’s sake. Get over yourself.
“Whatever happened is a scar that’s already there. You can’t undo what happened,” said the mother.
Oh big business, never change your scummy cronyist machinations: Truck Engine Companies don’t like rule that lets owners use old parts in newer bodies
You can blame the companies all you want, but the real bastards here are the CARB and the Obama/Bush EPAs who let the CARB set guidelines that totally violate the commerce clause and reciprocity agreements between states IRT licensing and registration of vehicles.
Those OEMs spent a fortune complying with the bullshit laws California essentially imposed on them. I’m not sure I blame them for being pissed that people want to retrofit their trucks with non-coompliant motors now.
The bigger travesty is that a Mexican trucker can park his pre-emission rigs overnight in TJ and run into California every day to work, even though the loads generate and terminate in the USA, while a trucker in California is forbidden from driving and pre-emission truck and a driver from another state can only make two trips a year into the state with a pre-emission truck.
Work in trucking. Can confirm everything sloop says is true.
California’s virtue signaling has cost the trucking industry hundreds of millions. Fuck that shitty state. I really do want them to secede.
Don’t get me wrong, I hate CARB too. But I also really don’t like when businesses go out of their way to approve of and “improve” upon existing regulations.
My brother’s brother in law had a brush clearing business in CA. He worked a lot during fire season creating fire breaks. The ever-stricter regulations got to be too much so he sold off his equipment and moved out of state. The recent fires would have been damaging regardless, but having a few extra guys clearing fire breaks sure would have been nice and perhaps would have saved some property. These kinds of costs never make it into the discussion of regulations.
Well intentioned legislation never has second or third order effects! – team blue
Funny penalty kick in soccer.
I can empathize with the goalie. Pretty much how things have gone lately in Minnesoda.
That’s along the lines of the people who celebrate before crossing the finish line, and then trip.
There are some fun Youtube compilations of early celebrations in sports.
Here you go.
My favorites are the racing ones – bikes and speed skating and such.
Ok. This one has everything.
More, including snowboarding.
I never got the guys who drop the ball before the endzone. That is just the dumbest.
Or, as we call it here in Cleveland: The Fumble.
Fumbled link….
Which is oddly appropriate.
*hangs head, tries to kick rock, misses*
That’s hilarious.
Here’s my shocked face.
Woops. This is one of the ‘racist’ graffiti incidents plaguing our schools of higher education.
And campus police are debasing themselves to appease student activists for having nailed one of theirs. Gross.
RIP George Young
Bummer. Godspeed George
Seriously? Damn.
“She concludes her argument with the claim that all knowledge is “relational,” or is, in other words, relative. “Things cannot be known objectively; they must be known subjectively.”
Aaaand there it is: Relativism.
It’s amazing that the stupid have managed to reach the halls of academia.
“To resolve the intelligence gap, Gutierrez calls on math professors to develop a sense of “political conocimiento,” a Spanish term for “political knowledge for teaching.”
There’s an intelligence gap to narrow people! in Spanish!
It’s one thing to claim moral relativism as that has philosophical underpinnings. But all knowledge is not relative unless you exist in multiple dimensions simultaneously.
When she gets paid ten cents on the dollar for her State Of Illinois pension, I can claim that she was made relatively whole.
A Satellite Chunk Could Fall on Your Head at Any Moment. Get Used to It.
Well, at least it’s not one of my company’s! Ours burn up before they get to Earth, I guess.
It’s more likely to allow you to retire then the lottery…
If I sued the Chinese government for it hitting my property or me, could I request payment in U.S. debt bonds? And if so, could I then turn around and ask Congress if I could eliminate let’s say $1 Billion in Debt for a discounted rate of $100 Million?
Professor Claims Math, Algebra And Geometry Promote ‘White Privilege’
They provide a framework for a way of thinking which prioritizes truth over emotion, so… close enough.
Oh, wait- is “white privilege” bad?
If noncollapsing bridges and noncrashing planes are wrong then I don’t wanna be right.
We’ve gone through phases of PC assaults before, but I’m starting to think this time it’s permanent.
Maybe it’s that anonymity is no longer really possible.
Maybe it’s that everything we write online is permanently searchable.
Maybe it’s the willingness of educational institutions and employers to enforce PC culture.
Maybe it’s that social media is making it harder to hear opposing voices by cracking down on so called “hate speech”, bullying, etc.
In the past, none of that was an issue.
It used to be that if they wanted to know whether you were or ever had been a member of the communist party, they had to drag you in front of a congressional committee under subpoena and ask you in person.
I’m not sure free speech will ever mean what it used to mean. The “chilling effect” is permanent, and it’ll go all the way down to elementary school kids scrubbing their own social media messages.
When does that end?
Someone describe the sequence of events necessary to reverse that trend, and then tell me that’s likely to happen.
Someone describe the sequence of events necessary to reverse that trend, and then tell me that’s likely to happen.
* The U.S. incurs a major natural disaster or loses a major global conflict.
* A dramatic increase in real human suffering results.
* In retrospect, people recognize that the elements that would have protected the public from the consequences were precisely the elements that were undermined and weakened by the rise of social justice.
* Starved for resources in the new environment the colleges heavy social justice influences attempt to assert authority.
* Said attempt fails miserably.
The rest is pretty straightforward. It isn’t very pretty. And it isn’t anything any libertarian should really be hoping for. Maybe there’s a “soft” version of this. But, the general forces at work will almost certainly reverse the PC Culture.
” In retrospect, people recognize that the elements that would have protected the public from the consequences were precisely the elements that were undermined and weakened by the rise of social justice.”
The evidence of this is everywhere to see. If they choose to delude themselves otherwise at this point, what chance is there that they will allow themselves to ever see the truth?
The people pushing this aren’t really concerned with their policies working. It’s about establishing their dominance. And the stakes of their polices, so far, have been relatively modest. Some poor people don’t get jobs. Traditionalists in Middle America (who they detest anyway) get put out. Some guys get thrown out of college. Social conditions deteriorate outside of the select enclaves. Ethnic relations among the poor and middle class deteriorate. Most of it is stuff that a lot of people can ignore. There’s still a lot of wiggle room. And, really, barring a major shock to the system (lost war, natural disaster, etc.) there’s never that “moment of truth” where people have to make the call of whether they’re willing to tolerate social justice at their own peril. And you get the slow, steady, deterioration.
I’d also ask, white privilege? My guess is that the good professor spent a lot more of her education around El Ed majors than anyone in mathematics. Because the plethora of Asians I’ve ever been around in math would laugh their asses off at this shit.
I’d like to tell her that pensions are white privilege too.
“deconstruct[s] how masculinity is socialized as a performative mask rather than a biological imperative.”
Reading this makes me want to punch this pussy in the throat.
British Airways apologizes after passengers say bedbug-infested flight left them ‘covered in bites’
If only there were some cheap, highly effective and relatively safe pesticide that could be used against them…
Cosmopolitan is tackling The. Most. Important. Issue. Of. Our. Day.
This Woman Knows What’s Wrong With the Current Emoji Selection: meet the woman behind a proposed ballerina flat emoji.
http://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a13081264/ballerina-flat-shoe-emoji/
Two years ago today.
College hoofball is so much more exciting than the NFL. Too bad I have no team to root for.
We are low on alumni in general and women in particular, so are happy to have any fans we can get.
Plus we do stuff like that.
Plus our coach is an ass to the media, so we have that going for us.
He really doesn’t like stupid questions.
If I rooted for any college hoofball team, it would be perennial favorites* Golden Gophers or Catamounts or Wildcats.
This is why I prefer NCAA basketball to all other college sports – even crappy little teams like my alma mater have a chance to get the tournament.
*facetious
I don’t get the Hannity types of the world saying they’re done with the NFL and will only watch college football. If you’re against vapid virtue signalling, why would you support Universities.
As a representative for all Bama fans, welcome!
Tech overpromotes that so much I don’t even have to click.
Yea, it was fun as shit to see live and the only goddamn highlight of that season but at some point you need to act like you win on a regular enough basis to not hang your hat on that play.
We do, other than that year.
That season broke our long bowl streak, but it was the only good win that year.
As it is Clemson hate week, here is a fun one, Megatron’s breakout game.
Link fail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JL6YQsw7Y4
And there is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hSd5ScKZ9U
Which led to (see next post)…
One of my favorite photos of all time:
http://airbornecombatengineer.typepad.com/photos/gt_football/gt31cu28pumpkins2000goldtimer.jpg
And for wins over FSU, I prefer this one, as I was at it. This play happened right in front of me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqLZxquKglc
That goddam WaPo article about trucks is so poorly written I cannot even tell what the fuck is or is not being done. Are they putting new bodies on old chassis? Are they putting old motors in new chassis? Are they rebuilding motors and sticking them back in the original chassis and plopping a new body on it? Who knows? Who cares?
but this:
When the rule was issued last fall, the EPA estimated that gliders and trailers using engines manufactured before 2002 produced emissions that were 20 to 40 times as high as those of trucks built today. In addition to greenhouse gases, exhaust from these heavy-duty trucks contains more nitrogen oxide, a component in smog, as well as fine particulate matter, or soot.
“They don’t have modern pollution controls on them,” said Paul Billings, senior vice president for advocacy at the American Lung Association. “This is like a straight pipe.”
Is just straight-up bullshit. The marginal change is negligible compared to a “straight pipe” diesel from pre-Nixon America.
Navistar took a big hit with their new emissions trucks, which didn’t – if I remember correctly – meet the mileage they promised. Fleet buyers got pissed and started buying other brands.
/work for a company that makes heavy truck parts.
The part that makes me laugh is that this was a rule the Obama’s EPA issued in their last month and (I think) has yet to go into effect. However, repealing the rule now would result in the downfall of Civilization.
If these engines were so horrible, why didn’t Obama’s EPA chief issue the rule back in 2008?
When did “lied on” someone become a thing? Both Rep Wilson and Maxine Waters keep saying it. Just gross. I don’t want to imagine Trump on top of either of those two.
Like, “Donald Trump lied on ______” as in Trump told a lie about ______?
Here. She uses “lied on me” repeatedly just as The cowboy hat lady does.
That link doesn’t link to what you think it does (or does it?).
Uh……no.
She would be cute with a a cowboy hat on.
Here ya go. Not as visually pleasurable as the first link, though.
Everytime I see Maxine Waters, I think of this
I’m at work. You got meh.
*bows and heads to bunk*
Just another bit of AAVE. She forgot to code-switch.
Something euphemism something…
It’s been around for awhile, it’s ghetto speak.
What’s better than boobs?
Nothing. The answer is nothing.
http://archive.is/Ddk7B
Interesting field. Not much in My Type.
22 wins an odd one for me. Very make-upy I know but a really nice ’50s Hollywood feel to it all.
35 gets a rare red-head mention from me. Very naturally sexy.
1 certainly gets my cockles heartened.
8 is def my type but again too much makeup and vapidness.
30 and 28 honorable mentions.
20 bunny boiler. Hard. Not a euphemism.
There are only a few times I can click these links at work. Now is one of those times.
I like 22, even though she looks really expensive.
On Safari in Trump’s America.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/10/on-safari-in-trumps-america/543288/
By the title at least they’re being honest with themselves about being clueless about the country they’re supposed to be covering.
That article is funny because it is exactly the shit that makes all of us deplorables hate the establishment even more. “Why do these rubes get their backs up when we show up and tell them that we are Margaret Mead 2.0 and are here to study their stone age culture?”
It was also amusing that the lefties in the brush were also not impressed by the intrepid adventurers and called them capitalist sell outs.
Another thing I find amusing is how the article frames Killary as this moderate, sober-minded, neo-liberal, when all of her public policy positions were a continuation of Obama’s identity driven leftist socialism. These people are incapable of any self-reflection; maybe, just maybe, your platform is why you’re not winning.
It was full of nausea-inducing bullshit, but I liked this:
It never occurs to these dolts that the Constitution lays out a pretty good path.
Exactly. They see gun control, socialized medicine and Wall Street cronyism as “moderate” and “Third Way” and wonder how, oh how, can people possibly disagree? Ummmm, your policy prescriptions are not moderate in any way. Like it or not, Trump is way more of a moderate than Hillary; it’s just that the Dem party has gone so far of the socialist deep end that she looks moderate to your insane Berniecrats.
Yep. Next time my friend’s mom posts something about gun control. I’m going to literally quote Solzhenitsyn (using the passage quoted by Tundra earlier).
I am not completely certain that Trump understands and I am certain that the left hasn’t the foggiest idea. He won, to paraphrase Ben Shapiro, not because of his brilliant policy positions, he won simply because he would punch back. And the left is only feeding this more with their endless screeching.
Article containing a brief review of the Atlantic article. Basically they found the opposite of what they said they found.
Last weekend we went to the Covered Bridge festival in southern Indiana. It’s basically a bunch of flea markets and craft fairs. At each flea market I saw a few Confederate flags, and shirts/plaques that talked about standing for the national anthem. The whole time I kept thinking that I and my companions didn’t think twice about it, but there are some people out there that would shit their pants and think they were in Nazi Germany.
This is a fundamental misunderstanding of how politics works.
Politics is mostly tribal. people will cluster into tribes defined by what they are Not. They don’t really formulate policies based on consensus, so much as they know what the other tribe wants is wrong.
I live very near Viroqua, WI and frequently visit, the Atlantic correctly identifies the community as “a bunch of back-to-the-land organic farmers and artisanal small-businesspeople”. If you are a coastal lefty and you can’t find common ground with those people in Viroqua, pack your stuff up and take it back to the coast. Because it’s only getting more conservative from there.
The mother of three was reportedly breastfeeding her daughter when she came up with the first spark of inspiration for a “Women’s Flat Shoe” emoji. As she put it to the Atlantic, “I just think it’s one of those things that, at the time, to whoever designed it, it seemed like a sensible thing that women would immediately gravitate to. But with a bit of hindsight, you realize that [this absence] is systematic — and symptomatic of a greater problem.”
Truly, we live in a Paradise on Earth.
“Professor Claims Math, Algebra And Geometry Promote ‘White Privilege’”
Yes… Al-Jabr promotes “White Privilege”.
Look, they weren’t doing anything with it.
Because the Ottoman advantage over the Christians, that lead to the fall of Constantinople had nothing to do with Algebra and Trigonometry allowing a better estimation of shot placement from their siege engines….
That requires Calculus rather than mere Algebra, and the city was taken by brutally costly Infantry assaults after a protracted seige that failed to substantially damage the walls beyond a token section.
I don’t see the calculus there. I think you just need trig.
I don’t think you need math at all. Just guys who know how to watch the shot fall and adjust their aim accordingly. This wasn’t modern artillery, where you can’t see the shot. They were throwing big rocks in the air.
Yes… Al-Jabr promotes “White Privilege”.
Well, the US government has culturally appropriated Middle Easterners as white, so yes?
After rereading my comment, I feel I should’ve added some /sarc (or maybe /snark) tags, as the tone doesn’t quite come across as intended.
On Safari in Trump’s America.
That article is hilarious.
Math is racist.
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10005
Could it be because, I don’t know, math has concrete applications in the universe while English oftentimes has the same benefit to society as a Harvey Weinstein hanging out with your potted plant?
Definitely no advantage to being able to reason abstractly.
I wonder if she thinks her statement is objectively true.
‘Gutierrez stresses that all knowledge is “relational,” asserting that “Things cannot be known objectively; they must be known subjectively.”’
This is key to the Marxist project. Tear down objective reality and make life so confusing and frustrating that only Marxist philosophy can solve it. It’s Rules for Radicals applied to metaphysics.
Doesn’t a “solution” imply an objective truth?
Post-modern self-contradictory bull. If you are dumb enough to buy into it, you are basically admitting “I don’t want to engage with reality as it exists, I want to be able to mold a fantasy world of my choosing and I don’t want to be mocked for it.”
Trump unloading on Bob Corker in a series of tweets:
“Bob Corker, who helped President O give us the bad Iran Deal & couldn’t get elected dog catcher in Tennessee, is now fighting Tax Cuts….Corker dropped out of the race in Tennesse when I refused to endorse him, and now is only negative on anything Trump. Look at his record!…Isn’t it sad that lightweight Senator Bob Corker, who couldn’t get re-elected in the Great State of Tennessee, will now fight Tax Cuts plus!… Sen. Corker is the incompetent head of the Foreign Relations Committee, & look how poorly the U.S. has done. He doesn’t have a clue as…..”
Also, he mentioned the CFR… holy shit the Madman… (/puts on tinfoil hat)
IOW, he needs a new way to get attention.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4753962/human-ken-doll-rodrigo-alves-barbie-surgery/
Fattie could have at least invested in some liposuction!
I’ll take “Shit That Never Happened” for $300, Alex.
No, I could see it. Someone far sighted, not paying close attention:
“Excuse me, miss?”
“Yes?”
“Do you know where thGAAAAAAH what is on your face?”
Saaay, remember that guy who shot up that concert in Las Vegas? Did anything interesting ever come of that investigation? Or can we just assume at this point that it was a bored, deranged guy with no outside affiliations hoping to establish a lasting impression or something?
We’ll never know because means and motive don’t matter to the media…..they had their chance to beat the drum for more gun control and American’s got their chance to virtue signal on social media……and the details will get lost in the shuffle and the media moves on to other things like the schizophrenic toddler that it is…..I’m generally pretty skeptical about conspiracy theories but something smells all wrong about this one.
And our Hero’s in Blue won’t divulge must because best case scenario they were slow to respond if not down right negligent…..so I would count on obfuscation coming from that quarter too
That guy must have had zero online or social footprint, because surely some enterprising independent journo would have sniffed him out by now?
Agreed. There were a few very brief snippets about his life that dribbled out a couple of weeks ago, but the whole thing has just disappeared.
According to the report, the community’s “biggest frustrations” are “laggard government and partisan squabbling.” “The idea that such bickering can be tolerated in D.C. is appalling to most,” it states. The good people of western Wisconsin, Third Way found, wanted nothing so much as a society where people could put aside their differences. The report quotes a man who said, “We come together on projects and solve problems together.” It doesn’t quote any of the Wisconsinites we met who expressed partisan sentiments or questioned the prospect of consensus.
The researchers had somehow found their premise perfectly illustrated. Their journey to Trump’s America had done nothing to unsettle their preconceptions.
It’s almost as if they are working backwards from conclusions reached long ago.
I’m getting really fucking sick of this term. It seems to be a way for leftie hacks in the media to make any problem about Trump, no matter how far removed from politics it may be. All they have to do is begin the article with, “In Trump’s America…” and readers will finish with the assumption that everything bad was Trump’s fault.
Poll reveals anxiety over Scottish smacking ban
The Scots voted in a nationalist, socialist government, and now they are passing undemocratic laws! Who could have seen that coming??
Just what Scotland needs– an even less disciplined generation of children.
As someone whose great-grandfather left Kilmarnock for the comparatively sunny shores of the US of A, all I can say is, “What the fuck happened to you, Scotland?” Seriously, it seems like there’s a phenomenon whereby cultures that were previously known for being tough and/or independent overcompensate in the postmodern era. Sweden, lookin’ at you too, here.
I think it’s because the tough and/or independent members of the society get the hell out of there.
That would explain things. It’s also hard to believe that America’s fondness for independence/liberty was a natural outgrowth of British sentiment, which at the time was distrustful of government but now embraces it with slavish obsequiousness.
I hate to break it to you, but its like an appropriation gang-bang out there
So that answers my earlier question.
Hey, at least he’s not a racist rapist like Harvey Weinstein.
Too bad.
http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/356840-kid-rock-f-no-im-not-running-for-senate
🙁
Well, from the lulz standpoint, this is disappointing news.
Funny thing about the left and the right…generally, when someone on the right says they’re not running, they aren’t running. When someone on the left says they’re not running, smile and nod patronizingly.
Just Say’n hardest hit.
Oh well.
Once again:
Burn. The. Fucking. System. To. The. Ground.
Context: http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/10/23/felony-charges-dropped-against-former-oakland-police-officer-in-prostitution-case/
Hey! They put their lives on the line for us EVERY DAY. They have an incredibly tough job and you should be eternally grateful. As long as they get home safe who really cares if they coerce or rape prostitutes, they have it coming anyway.
/Police One
“they have it coming anyway”
Your average pig is no diffetent than Gary Ridgway, ‘cept body count.
I do have to wonder if coercing young, reasonably attractive prostitutes into quid pro quo sexual liasons is pretty common among police in places where prostitution exists. You’ve got the whole above the law mentality coupled with ‘I cover for my bro’s’ culture and almost no oversight…..and very little incentive for a prostitute to come forward in most cases…..I’m guessing the actual number of occurrences would shock people if it could be known.
Per Maggie McNeill, who would know, it happens all the time.
I’d believe her. I’ve overheard LEO’s swapping war stories about sleezy shenanigans….from my anecdotal perspective it seems like they have no moral or ethical hang ups with passing around women who chase uniforms.
Judges are the worst. If a big collapse ever happens, i want to hunt them down
^ Must have a strong VPN 😉
I hesitate to give you a +1 woodchipper; feet first, for fear of a roving federal prosecutor.
I didnt say what id do with them. Maybe ill give them a big blow job they think they deserve.
Just in case you are unaware.
That was an awesome read. The two-paragraph flourish at the end had me seeing red.
Thanks, Chips!
Do not stand between a man and his strip club.
http://kdvr.com/2017/10/22/employee-shot-after-group-denied-entry-at-shotgun-willies/
Doesn’t really live up to its name.
I know the owner…she is pretty cool.
OK, so is anyone interested in continuing the Harvey story? I can send you copies so you can get a head start.
The Daily Beast is now going after David O. Russell. Despite claiming in the start that he supposedly has a troubling history of sexual assault and harassment…the lone incident they can come up with is an accusation he groped his 19 year old transgendered niece.
In short, the entire article is about his extremely dickish behavior on set – often, but hardly exclusively, directed at females. I mean, they outline multiple physical altercations with men to include Clooney and Christopher Nolan. But they make it all about the poor, overpaid females who choose to work with him. Usually repeatedly.
So, it only took a month for this to devolve into a complete witch hunt.
Yes, it’s not exactly a revelation that Russell is a difficult-to-work-with asshole.
David O. is a talented piece of shit.
He is one of my favorite directors, glad I don’t have to work for him.
From the Costume article gallery of other “insensitive” Halloween costumes:
Back in my fraternity days (2001-2005) one of our pledges dressed up as OBL then went around town running errands. If he tried that today he would probably be expelled and national would revoke our charter.
Mommy State, to the rescue!
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Monday signed a bill to ban vaping anywhere cigarettes are already prohibited, like workplaces, restaurants and bars. The ban goes into effect in 30 days.
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“These products are marketed as a healthier alternative to cigarettes, but the reality is they also carry long-term risks to the health of users and those around them,” Mr. Cuomo said in a statement. “This measure closes another dangerous loophole in the law, creating a stronger, healthier New York for all.”
Stupid peasants.
“These products are marketed as a healthier alternative to cigarettes”
That’s because they are a healthier alternative to cigarettes.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/jphp.2010.41
Long-term risks for a product that hasn’t existed but, what, 10 years? In medical terms, isn’t long-term more in the 30-50 year range?
This:
And this:
Can both be true. The dishonest use of “but” implies that vaping isn’t a healthier alternative.
Why do nanny-staters want to squash the most effective way to get people to stop smoking? It wouldn’t have anything to do with the tax revenue from cigarettes, would it?
Doesn’t oxygen carry long term risks to the health of users?
Vaping saved my life. True story. Even the scar tissue in my lungs has mostly healed.
Congrats.
My mom refuses to try vaping while she is losing weight. With amphetamines from a shady doctor.
I’m frankly shocked that I turned out ok.
One habit at a time I guess. I did gain weight after vaping but that has leveled off. Matter of fact I was diagnosed with diabetes type ii about a year after quitting smoking, I’m not a doctor but maybe vaping/quitting smoking could have some correlation with the sugah.
More proof that this kind of thing ain’t about health.
“and those around them”
Complete horseshit.
For the avgeeks
Ignored go-around at SFO.
ATC contact starts at ~ 21:42
Must have gone to the same go around school that the Asiana pilots went to.
Harsayani:
10 Times CNN Told Us an Apple Was a Banana
I pray that CNN withers and rots to nothing in my lifetime.
Harsayani was always my favorite at TOS. The fact that they could publish he and Chapman in the same place always kind of boggled my mind.
Actually, it was when they’d have BOTH* the occasional ‘right of center’ and occasional ‘left of center’ writers that i felt more comfortable.
The thing that changed my view toward their editorial stance was when they started allowing (nay!: mandating) the Robby-esque, mealy-mouthed double-standards…
e.g. where in every single piece about some batshit culture-war incident, they’d fall over themselves saying, “this right-wing view is absolutely disgusting and deplorable… BUT, you know, free speech is important and stuff”…. and when the roles were reversed, “This left wing position is noble and well-intentioned, but, you know, their anti-free-speech posture must (unfortunately) be rejected”
where the net-net libertarian posture on the issue was “technically correct”, but where they’d go to absurd lengths to ensure the rhetorical posture was clearly indicating their preferred side of the issue.
*some might argue this is still the case; that they do still occasionally feature token acknowledgements of a conservatarian view (e.g. see: stephanie slade and her occasional defense of religious libertarians). i’m unconvinced. or at least no longer interested enough to where it matters.
I enjoy his headlines and really shows who his target audience is:
“Right wing Snowflakes”
I don’t like the alt-rightish, meme-trolly types much… but they’re correct when they say, “the left can’t meme”.
The only way lefty types seem to fight back against the often-correct criticisms of their humorless, virtue-signalling nag-culture… is to just go, “Uh, I Know You Are But What Am I?”.
i.e. their ‘best’ digs are simply to go, “uhm, well you’re the snowflake” and then hi-five like they just scored some rhetorical coup de grace.
Its like… really? can you genuinely not find any possible angle to hit back with other than to simply pretend that X is the same as Y?
its cheap whataboutism; yes, sure – there are some examples where the populist right acts *just as silly* as the left about some pet-issue.
but to pretend – as Reason sometimes does – that the Right presents a *greater threat to free speech* than the censorious, ‘hate-speech’-screeching left? Is absurd.
one uses a bully-pulpit, and the other literally uses institutions to crush and destroy people. but they want to pretend that this makes them the same. they can certainly both be ‘not good’ without drawing false equivalence.
Yes both sides do it, but it tells a “journalist’s” true bias in how they present it.
The desperate attempt from people like Soave to scream “SNOWFLAKE!” at various right-wing complaints or whatever is absolutely hilariously hypercritical when they all fall on their fainting couches about the ‘disgusting’ things Milo says, that they can never actually quote.
Harsanyi covered my campaign many moons ago. I like the guy, as close to a Libertarian in old dead tree media that we had (well and Reggie Rivers but he was sports).
Speaking of Soave, I ran across this article yesterday and it has all the preferred narrative hallmarks you’re talking about. The money shot:
“Robinson is indeed a hateful and loathsome person. If I were a member of the College Republicans, I would have implored my friends not to give him a platform.”
http://reason.com/blog/2017/10/23/columbia-law-professor-letting-a-rightwi
I hadn’t been back there for a while and I won’t be going back for a while.
TW: It’s Soave, who is a pathetic mealy-mouthed fuck as you know.
I guess I can see your point about balancing right/left libertarian viewpoint…..the thing with Chapman is some of his articles sounded more like DNC talking points that left-libertarian, he still seemed like he is at heart a statist….but I’m admittedly much more right-libertarian oriented so I’m certainly not objective.
Chapman is pure tribal leftist, he’ll flip out about Trump being the possible cause of a world war and then completely ignore Clinton saying she’d shoot Russian planes down over Syria. He’s an utterly unprincipled hack that just makes his own side look worse by comparison.
Reason’s actual leftist advocate is Brendan O’Neill, who’s a Marxist with plenty of big state economic beliefs but at least recognizes the fundamental contradiction of the modern left (as he puts it “they claim to liberate when they’re really interested in control”).
I recall Soave posting in the comments from time to time in an effort to convince people that he’s just trying to make common cause with the Left.
I used to also think that libertarians could pull some people in from the Left, but not anymore. I’ve realized over time that even where the Left seems to agree with us, they actually don’t. For instance, I think gay people should be allowed to get married, and I used to think that was a belief that I shared in common with Lefties. But their belief goes far beyond gay people being allowed to marry; they want to force every wedding-related business to cater to them whether they want to or not.
Whereas libertarianism prioritizes individual liberty, “progressivism” prioritizes free shit and culture wars.
The Left’s true motivation is the Conan motto….any pretense of ‘common ground’ is just them employing Fabian tactics
Excellent article. Although I doubt most of the people who choose to watch CNN are interested in facts. They want drama. Soap operas, about missing planes and Russian conclusion, that never amount to anything.
http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2012/03/the-25-hottest-women-in-telemundo-telenovelas/
Mark Dice (fairly humorous YouTuber for those not familiar) on the Halloween costume controversies.
Pretty good stuff if you’ve got three minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcBmkEv5J9c
After ‘cheese pizza’ post, officer arrested for child porn.
Pizza? This rings a bell.
DAmnit, I used the wrong code word!
What did ‘deep dish’ end up getting you?
Fat girls?
Scientologists are the Muslims of white people?
https://twitter.com/MsBlaireWhite/status/922303548754313216
Muhammed ascending to heaven on a pegasus is actually more believable than the Xenu bullshit. They’re less prone to violence though, I’ll give them that.
I thought Islam was the “white Islam”, you know, like Albanians.
One of the best provisions in the evolving GOP tax overhaul plan is the elimination of the state and local tax deduction.
For an anti-tax guy like me (the only thing I want more than an end to entitlement spending is an end to the income tax), that may seem an ironic statement, but if you look at the consequences of that deduction, there’s a huge moral hazard issue with the rate of taxation in Democrat states.
The states with the highest state taxes, New York, California, Illinois, Massachusetts, et. al., are cushioned from some of the negative consequences of high state taxation–because taxpayers can deduct those taxes from their federal taxes.
Why not jack up the rate of taxation in California if the people paying it are mostly writing it off of their federal taxes anyway? I’m sure people in California are suffering higher taxation rates than they would without that deduction.
Another way to put it–Why should federal taxpayers in low tax states subsidize high taxes in states like California? And that’s what’s happening–if the taxes in California would have gone into federal coffers are being spent on California’s bloated pension system and its bullet train instead, then federal taxpayers in low tax states are effectively subsidizing California’s pension system and bullet train.
From the GOP’s political perspective, its’ a big win, too, because it means they can lower income taxes federally with this bill; meanwhile, the high tax states are pretty much universally deep blue. The GOP wasn’t poised for big wins in California, New York, Massachusetts, etc. anyway. Where’s the downside for them?
And the high tax, blue states will need to respond to the end of that deduction by lowering taxes, spending, or both. Certainly, they can float more debt, too, but that also puts more upward pressure on borrowing costs than there would be otherwise.
Certainly, waiting around for Sacramento to cut taxes because it becomes popular isn’t about to happen. If my tax bill goes up in the short term to iron out a major distortion in the tax code, I’ll be glad to see it–if state taxes weren’t about to be lowered in any other way.
I presume Rand Paul opposes any income tax cuts that don’t cut the income tax all the way down to zero. That’s an idea that seems ridiculous to me, but, of course, if Rand Paul is against something, logic, reason, common sense, and my own lying eyes all go out the window.
Whenever Rand Paul does something that doesn’t make sense, just sit in a cross legged position, straighten your back, breathe in through your nose, out through your mouth, close your eyes, and start chanting the following mantra over and over again . . .
Aqua Buddha Aqua Buddha
Buddha Buddha Aqua Aqua
Aqua Paulie Aqua Paulie
Paulie Paulie Buddha Buddha
. . . and after a while, it’ll all make sense.
*hihn giggles*
Maybe, just maybe, he’s taking the principled libertarian stance that individuals (like my parents) who live in one of those states don’t deserve to be punished for the actions of the collective. He’s on record saying that he opposes any tax cut that helps one group over another which is, maybe, just maybe, is a principled libertarian position.
You can’t cut any taxes without benefiting one group over another because every tax benefits one group over another.
How do you cut a tax that benefits one group over another without benefiting one group over another?
Name a tax that doesn’t benefit one group over another.
Sales taxes hurt retailers and consumers over insurers and employers.
I’m not going to argue that any particular tax increase, decrease, new tax etc. doesn’t have second and third order affects that benefits one group over another because we all know that they do. That being said, I see nothing wrong with cutting taxes equally across the board especially when contrasted with a plan that is intended to punish those whom already pay too many taxes as it is. Much like your ACA arguments to me it seems that you put more onus on strategy than principle…..I understand the logic but it seems to me that that is how R’s ended up being what they are today.
Additionally Ken, if there is anyone who seems to be blinded by religious fervor in relation to Rand, it’s you. Your default position increasingly seems to be ‘I oppose anything he supports and support anything he opposes.’ Don’t turn into Hihn, you’re better than that.
I didn’t say I was against cutting taxes universally across the board.
But I will say that refusing to cut any tax unless everyone else agrees to cut every tax universally across the board is absurd.
Do you oppose the legalization of marijuana if it taxes marijuana higher than other things–and also oppose eliminating taxes on marijuana unless we eliminate taxes on everything else, too?
You know what’s better than our present government?
A smaller government than it is now.
You know what’s better than smaller government?
Even smaller government.
No reason we have to get there in one giant leap.
Would you oppose getting rid of communism if what replaces it isn’t 100% capitalist?
Surely this absurd “principled” argument breaks down at some point. Opposing tax elimination, tax cuts, marijuana legalization, cutting Medicaid spending., and getting rid of communism is not being a principled libertarian. Those things should all be supported by libertarians on principle.
You can’t cut any taxes without benefiting one group over another
I tend to agree with this, as any change to the tax code is going to create relative (to the status quo) winners and losers, short of a massive across the board tax cut (which also change the relative tax burdens of different groups, which also seems to create a different kind of winners and losers).
I give you people an Aqua Buddha Hari Krishna mantra–at no cost to the taxpayer, mind you–and the only one who appreciates it is bacon-magic.
I give you people gold.
The downside is it will increase even further the flood of blue state refugees to my state, who will then vote for the same policies that made their home state uninhabitable.
I don’t know.
If it helps make California’s economy grow like it should, that might stem the tide.
After all, those are economic refugees we’re talking about.
It is a savvy move, but one of the outcomes may be that it accelerates the migration of morons who helped build the high-tax governments in blue states will move to red states to avoid higher taxes and repeat the destruction.
If only secession was a more popular idea…
Same thing I said to British Petroleum: Those are economic refugees–regardless of whether they realize it.
Fix the cause of the problem in California, and they won’t inclined to leave.
Why should taxpayers in Texas subsidize high tax policies in California that are driving California residents to move to Texas?
Little California’s are springing up or growing like mad all over the place.
Asheville, NC
Austin, TX
. . . and that’s just starting with the “A”s.
“Fix the cause of the problem in California…”
Therein lies the problem. I don’t think California’s reaction to this will be to reduce state taxes.
If they’re hurting tax payers, there will be inertia for that.
It may just lie in not taking on such ambitious plans.
The reason to cut taxes is because of the negative consequences to taxpaying voters, and if California could tax at higher rates than they could otherwise because of that deduction, then it’s reasonable to assume that taxes will be lower in the future than they would be otherwise–without that deduction.
It’s possible that taxes may simply not rise as high as they would have otherwise–and that’s a benefit.
Sacramento feeling more pain because of its bad behavior can only be a good thing.
Right now, they’re shielded from some of the most immediate negative consequences of their misbehavior. When high income Democrat voters (and donors) start feeling the pain of high local taxes, we have a better chance of rationality taking hold.
Perhaps so. It also might be the case that CA’s leaders are willing to commit economic suicide to perpetuate good feelings.
It’s much easier to deny the reality that people don’t want to pay all those taxes than to admit that they might have been wrong to impose them.
Property taxes are evil.
that’s a devilishy crafty move by the secret nazi president.
so what’re the odds it will be passed?
OK, first…
The Feds taking less of anyone’s money is not subsidizing anyone. Stop using that terminology as it is inherently ceding the battlefield to progressives. You would not say someone paying taxes on $100,000 of income in California is subsidizing someone paying taxes on $60,000 in South Carolina even though they probably have roughly equal incomes once cost of living is taken into account would you? Unless people in Carolina have a line item in their tax bill for a “State Income Tax Offset” and the revenues for that are then sent to higher tax states then there is no subsidizing going on and you should know better than to claim there is.
Second, The impact of this is massively overstated in similar ways that other deductions are. For the overwhelming majority they get very close to none of their state tax refunded to them in this manner because they were already able to reduce their tax burden to very close to 0 without this deduction in place (somewhere around 60% of the population would see their tax bill go up by $100 or less if this deduction were removed and no other changes were made). However even for very high earners they would be recouping at most 1/3rd of their state income taxes. So on average they are paying ~3.5% in State income taxes and they might get 33% of that back. A nice chunk of change for a high earner but nowhere near enough to stop them from setting up a residence in a low tax state.
Listen here — I’m trying to get my dander up about something and I don’t need to be stumbling over any facts along the way.
The Feds taking less of anyone’s money is not subsidizing anyone.
True. This is a little bit of a special case, because the deduction reallocates the total tax burden in favor of the high-tax jurisdiction and away from the federal government. That’s not true of other deductions. If anything, this is a “subsidy” for high-tax jurisdictions.
You would not say someone paying taxes on $100,000 of income in California is subsidizing someone paying taxes on $60,000 in South Carolina even though they probably have roughly equal incomes once cost of living is taken into account would you?
I wouldn’t, but I also don’t care about cost of living, so this statement kinda goes off the rails at the end.
I tend to be in favor of not letting people deduct other taxes they pay (even including property tax). Most people can’t deduct a big chunk of the taxes they pay anyway, because those taxes are in the form of sales, gas, etc. taxes and/or they take the standard deduction. The “I shouldn’t pay taxes on my taxes” thing just doesn’t resonate with me. If your tax burden is so high that this is a real issue, I think you are missing the real-real issue – taxes are too damn high.
I’m not hearing much else out there in terms of this tax reform getting rid of a lot of tax breaks, etc. Why is nobody talking about getting rid of the stupid $7500 tax credit for electric cars, etc. The tax code mostly needs a massive liposuction to get rid of the crony deals. I’m hoping that’s in the works, but regardless, getting rid of the deduction for local taxes would be consistent with the approach I think we need to take anyway.
Oh don’t get me wrong.
I have no issue whatsoever with getting rid of that particular bit of the tax code. It serves no legitimate purpose and actively encourages states to balance their tax structure more towards income taxes than sales taxes and income taxes are by far the more damaging.
I am just pointing out that we need to be careful how we discuss these issues because we can’t be ceding battleground to liberals
Sales taxes can be deducted, if itemized same as property or income tax (although you have to choose between income or sales tax deductions).
I’m with you on your intent. Too many carve outs for special circumstances along with extra cost (record keeping, tax prep, etc). Broad and thin taxation should be the goal.
“The Feds taking less of anyone’s money is not subsidizing anyone.”
Under the scenario I described (with the deduction), the money is still being taken–regardless of whether it’s the feds or the state of California.
If federal taxes (and borrowing) are higher than they would be otherwise because federal taxpayers in California are financing California’s bloated pension system and California’s bullet train and writing it off against their federal taxes–then federal tax payers are, in fact, subsidizing California’s pension system and bullet train.
They’re doing that pension system and bullet train with money that would be going to the federal government.
I really need to book that trip to Iceland.
Your tax $$ at work, totally not being used to harass and intimidate people.
WTF??
So the current US Attorneys are just as incompetent and criminal as that moron Preet is? I’m shocked.
they subpoena Popehat? a former AUSA. i imagine the monkeys at DOJ and FBI are the best fed monkeys on the planet.
Oh I definitely want to see the DOJ wrangling with popehat. I don’t know if there’s enough popcorn in the world for that.
We are no longer a nation of laws, but of some top men.
And in the case of Popehat, it’s utterly ridiculous, since you can just Google the fuckin guy.
You can’t google private records, so why not go on a fishing expedition?
Lookit this little fucker.