Well Game 1 is in the books. Three mistakes made in the entire game. Unfortunately, two of them were made by Dallas Keuchel. Verlander on the hill tonight for the good guys. Rich Hill up for the bad guys. Let’s all pray for another game getting done in 2:30. That part was awesome.
That’s all for sports. The world is going insane so I want to get right into…the links.
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!
What would you expect a bunch of autistic screechers to do on the anniversary of election day? Why, you’d expect them to autistically screech at the sky, of course. Not sure if they’re officially endorsing President Trump with this action or if the temper tantrum can be considered an in-kind political donation to his 2020 campaign. But I can assure you that a lot of Americans will be looking at this retarded act of petulance and will be leaning a little bit more toward the right after it.
Maybe I should have put this in the sports news. But it looks like Harvey Weinstein is a Red Wings fan. Good for him for finding a team and sticking with them even when times are tough for a year. I’m sure this divers…. (reads article) … oh my! Th-, that’s different. Oh my!
Homeless Advocate who makes $120,000 a year is now about to be homeless. I’m sure she’ll land on her feet. But after 20 years of working with Bay Area homeless people, she can’t afford to stay any more. Hey, maybe if you can’t get by on $120,000 a year, the rent is too damn high. Try getting the idiots in city hall to stop all the anti-landlord policies and idiotic housing regulations they have in place so maybe people like you can afford to stay. Oh, and after 20 years of working there with homeless people at a fat salary, you still have $60,000 in student loans? Methinks there’s something else going on here.
Wow. This is a pretty accurate portrayal of how tax money is pissed away in order to get rid of shitty government workers. I hope that writer has a guardian angel, otherwise he might get mugged. And by mugged, I mean killed.
Colluder-in-chief? Close, but no cigar.
And lastly, I bring you: COLLUSION!!!!!!!!!!!! I don’t know what else to call it. A political campaign hires a foreign intelligence agent to work on their behalf to dig up dirt on their opponent and then use that to further their political ambitions. But that’s not the best worst of it.
After the election, the FBI agreed to pay Steele to continue gathering intelligence about Trump and Russia, but the bureau pulled out of the arrangement after Steele was publicly identified in news reports.
You got that? The Obama FBI hired a foreign agent to dig up dirt on the president-elect, who Obama openly campaigned against, in an attempt to discredit him. This coupled with the fact that Obama’s intel agencies and UN Ambassador Susan Rice have admitted to having unmasked several Trump associates for no reason whatsoever and have admitted to having tapped several phones at Trump tower with no named suspect associated with any specific investigation. This is some serious Nixonian bullshit here. In a sane world, you’d have people hanging from lampposts around the DC metro area as a warning against this kind of perversion of our electoral systems. But instead I’m sure you’ll see justifications in Op-Eds across the nation.
That’s it for the links. As for the musical selection, Banjos is at a conference in Balmer. So this psychedelia is for her. But I hope the rest of you enjoy it. I know I did.
Have a great day. Game 2 tonight…GO ASTROS!!!
And lastly, I bring you: COLLUSION!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don’t worry, the Democrats with bylines will sweep this right under the rug. Obama, after all, was/is the chosen one.
Yeah…”But instead I’m sure you’ll see justifications in Op-Eds across the nation.” Nope…silence will be the result.
Meuller is probably in on the investigation to cover it up
The WaPo just breezily mentions “the dossier was published by BuzzFeed” without bothering to mention that no one else would touch it because of the complete lack of substantiation. But now it’s a serious document, the bullshit origins are forgotten.
I don’t know. It appears that Clinton’s lawyers may have committed the ultimate sin of lying to a reporter. In any world where what is written by reporters has any bearing on reality, a reporter who gets lied to by a friendly source should burn the fuck out of them. Just dump all the stuff you’ve been not reporting that is news.
Usually the reporters don’t mind being lied to as long as the liar is a Demo.
Dem, not demo. Demo autocorrect!
I just want to add, that Steele and GPS sat down with David Corn from Mother Jones, provided him with the dossier and he ran a story about it on Oct. 31, 2016, 8 days before the election. I cannot imagine for a second the Steele/GPS go to a media outlet, give an interview and provide the dossier without the entity paying for their work (DNC and HRC campaign) greenlighting it. So, that has to mean that the DNC paid for opp research, that necessarily had to come from Russian Intelligence (at least in part), and despite knowing that, instructed Steele/GPS to shop it to favorable media outlets weeks before the Presidential election. Do I have that right?
Why do you hate women?
Racist yo.
You’re thinking of people hanging from the rafters.
This is some serious Nixonian bullshit here.
Not really. Nixon was a douche. He tried to weaponize the federal government as an agent of his political ambitions. These people seem to have done it. Systematically. Against someone who had already been duly elected to office. In short, Nixon was a piker.
You would expect some of the “government is good” crowd to protest a bit
To them, it is good….when it goes after their opponents.
Must be some o that there vagueness Q was talking about.
Principles are hard!
/Lefty Barbie
The excuse I’ve heard is something to the effect that these are exceptional circumstances that justify any kind of illegal or unethical behavior for the greater good of removing the Antichrist from office.
Sheesh, even right out of college I only had $54k in debt. And I’m literally 43 days away from paying it all off. I suspect you’re right – this person sounds fiscally incompetent. San Fransisco was made for them.
Do you have a calendar where you count the days?
My last payment will be on December 7th. I just did the math to arrive at the 43 days.
My last payment will be on December 7th.
Bad omen. Watch the skies.
Make it in cash. One dollar bills.
Aside from the fact that we’re talking $700 here, I am not going to make a trip out to Missouri to hunt down the offices of the people who bought the paper on the loan to make a pointless show of paying it off.
I’ll let the scheduled electronic transfer wipe out the last of the balance.
Are you sure you’re a glib?
I’m an antisocial sarcastic bastard more interested in not being bothered by the hordes of dumb people in my immediate geographic area.
Whether or not that makes me one of you is up for debate.
I’m an antisocial sarcastic bastard
Good start.
*hugs*
I mean you are road-tripping in than direction anyway. Or did that end already?
It’s not slated to start until May.
The loan will be six months gone by the time I’m near Missouri.
Then just drive by their building and flip them the bird while laughing maniacally.
*pencils in drive past of MOHELA*
*Looks at route on map*
*Scribbles out previous notation*
I’m near Missouri. Visit me.
*sets out wood flavored whiskey, big bag o’ weed, calls hookers, and grabs duct tape and mouth gag*
You know, Apple has an app where you can get someone to go out and make your payments in cash for you to make a big show of things.
Apple sucks.
I like apples. Braeburn are my favorite.
Sweet Tango
Oh, that reminds me, the $0.88 bags of apples hit the shelves because of the harvest glut. I need to make some applesauce.
The apples haven’t gotten cheap here yet and it pisses me off. Bartlett pears are about $.60 a lb but apples…not cheap yet.
I blame the California Air Resources Board. If it weren’t for those cocksuckers, guys could drive Tier 0 trucks from the Rio Grande Valley up with oranges and back with apples. But as it stands, they have to take the long route or drive a new truck, which costs a lot more to operate. And that cost is passed on to the hauler, which is passed on to the purveyors, which is passed on to the markets, which is passed on to the consumer.
So once again, California fucks the rest of the country in a way that grossly violates Article IV Sec 1 of the constitution. And the cocksucking Feds let them.
Breaburn’s are usually my favorite too. But last year I had run of really mealy ones.
If anyone cares, the most popular apple in Romania is called a Jonathan apple
We just harvested our trees about three weeks ago. The apples are a granny smith variant, and are awesome. Crisp, and a little more sweet than normal grannies. Wife has been making applesauce and apple butter. I just pick them off the branch and eat while getting the mail.
We went apple picking week before last. Glorious day and the orchard wasn’t yet picked clean, so there were still a fair number of reachable beauties. Got about ten pounds of Jonahgolds and golden delicious.
Honeycrisp or gtfo.
*Nods in agreement with Zunalter*
I might make an exception for Golden Delicious…
PINK LADY or GTFO here.
Apples are the white people of fruit.
It’s likely she just kept paying the minimum to keep the interest from building all of this time instead of attacking the principle. Although if she works for a non-profit or the government, she should be able to have the balance wiped after 10 years.
I’m in the midst of taking out $45k in student loans myself. I’m cringing, but interest rates are low and my raises/promotions from the degree should more than compensate in a short period of time.
I can’t get my head around doing that. I have a compulsion to attack the principal on a debt. I have to fight the urge to crank up the repayment rate on my 0% loan because I have the hardwired “Long term it costs me less to pay now” instinct.
It’s a gamble. My wife just finished her PhD, and has unbelievable student loan debt as a result. It’s not in an especially profitable field, but she’s a director at a nonprofit and since it’s basically her dream job the odds are good she’ll be there long enough to get the debt forgiven.
“get the debt forgiven”
Is that a term of art for taxpayers paying it off? Or does the school absorb it?
The taxpayers, of course.
No school would eat their losses.
It’s a state school, so, ultimately, the taxpayers regardless.
There’s another scam going on with student loans I don’t think the young think through enough.
The scam is the graduate gets recruited by the employer – typically government agency or similar non-profit – with the bait that if they stay with the employer for 10 years, the employer will pay off the student’s college loans.
My nephew took that bait. His employer is a county government in Illinois. I can only imagine what happens in 5 years when that broke-ass state starts laying off staff.
5 years? Might be less….probably be less.
82) Okay, another Dear Prudie question. This one’s pretty interesting, and as usual, I find Prudie’s answer less than satisfying.
“My husband and I have been married for a year and have a new baby. We were talking about abortion in the context of news this week when my husband casually asked me if I had ever had an abortion. I changed the subject. The thing is, I have had two abortions, both when I was a teenager. My husband is pro-choice, as am I, and I’m neither ashamed of nor regretful about my decisions. I’m not sure why, but I just really don’t want my husband to know. It was during a tough time in my life, and I would rather put it behind me forever. I know this is a big thing to keep from him, but would it be OK if I kept that part of my past secret?”
Prudie’s answer is that married couples don’t have to share everything, and if the lady doesn’t want to talk about it with her husband she doesn’t have to.
And I think her answer’s fine, as far as it goes. But! I’ve been married 19 years, and if I found out my wife had had two abortions as a teenager and never told me, I would find that very strange. Why the big secret? And if she kept that a secret all those years, what else?
Plus, obviously it’s bothering this woman, or she wouldn’t have written in to an advice columnist. Not to mention the fact that the husband already suspects, or why would he even have asked in the first place? My guess is she’s dropped hints on the topic before.
To me, the problem here is that she has a sword of Damocles hanging over her head. Someday, the information’s going to come out, and what then?
I think my answer would be: it’s okay not to tell him, but it’s also okay if you do want to tell him. Just go ahead and do it! The longer you wait, the more awkward it will get. Don’t make a big deal out of it. Just say it, and then you’ll be able to rest easy.
I quasi-regularly enjoyed reading Emily Yoffe as Dear Prudence. Mallory whats-her-face has too little life experience to give advice to anyone past their early 20’s.
She’s best at giving little scripts for how to broach difficult subjects with people. But she does seem to lack life experience.
Her answers to questions involving kids are usually terrible, and she has no problem suggesting people end their decades-long marriages for practically any reason. She thinks polyamory is a legitimate general solution for people in long-term relationships with sex problems, rather than a corner solution that will work for only a few people. And she believes confronting 86-year old Aunt Mildred with complaints about her racism and homophobia is going to be productive, but if it’s not, cutting Aunt Mildred out of your life is an acceptable solution.
But, she does give those nice little scripts.
I prefer advice from an actual Doctor.
http://www.blurofinsanity.com/drzaius.html
I was friends with the art director for that movie! Although that was many years ago, I’ve since lost touch with her.
How did you find that?
Sorry, I don’t remember where I got it.
Which is why I’ve kept this secret for decades and the thought of him knowing makes me write to an internet advice columnist because I’m feverishly searching for answers.
Hah! Same thought I had.
^^This^^
Honestly, I’m not sure I am okay with her answer. It doesn’t seem to me that keeping secrets is healthy for a relationship. I mean, where do you draw the line? Is it okay for a woman not to tell her husband if she’s been married before? Is it okay for the husband not to tell his wife if he’s had a child with another woman? Maybe this is naive, but marriage is supposed to be a relationship based, at least in part, on trust. Keeping secrets strikes me as at least undermining that trust.
So, in most real estate purchases involving a loan then lender will require a Name Affidavit from the borrower(s) to affirm that the person signing the documents is the same person as the various names that may appear on their credit report. Once, husband took a glance at wife’s Affidavit and asked her about a name that he had never seen before. Turns out she had been married and divorced at least once before. The closing was terminated shortly thereafter.
Ouch.
I think it depends on the couple. I couldn’t care less about what happened before I met my wife, and as long as secrets she keeps don’t affect me or our family in a negative way, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with having parts of your life that belong to you alone. She, on the other hand, gets shirty if I get drive-thru while I’m out running errands and don’t tell her, and, consequently, has absolutely no secrets. Shit, she’s told me stuff repeatedly that I’m like, “Dude, seriously, I don’t care. Like shut up about it.”
As for the PragerU lawsuit. I don’t know if it’s been discussed yesterday, but I worry about second order consequences.
A ruling outside of “YouTube should apply its own guidelines uniformly” has the potential for serious unintended consequences beyond the case at hand, and not many of them actually read as good at first blush.
YouTube is a public utility and should be regulated closely if not nationalized outright if you ask me.
A few years ago, I do remember some hard lefties saying that social media platforms should be subject to some kind of “fairness” regulation. One line I remember was, “political discourse used to take place in public squares, but nowadays, our public squares are owned by private corporations”.
Of course, in light of the recent censorship against right-wing and libertarian accounts on these sites, the Left has come around to the belief that private corporations should be able to operate their services however they choose.
I like PragerU for some of their videos, mostly economic subjects. Otherwise, they’re nauseatingly conservative for my tastes.
But take a look at this list. Apparently, Google thinks that certain opinions critical of socialism are not appropriate for children:
This kind of shit rustles my jimmies.
I haven’t heard of this lawsuit, do you have a link to recommend?
Zunalter – https://legalinsurrection.com/2017/10/prageru-sues-google-and-youtube-claims-unlawful-censorship-and-discrimination/
Thanks for that. I agree with your conclusion. How is this not Google exercising its freedom of association?
” But it looks like Harvey Weinstein is a Red Wings fan. ”
As one of my construction co-workers said on the site where I worked the summer after graduating high school:
“I might go wadin’ in muddy water, but I shore ain’t gonna drink from it.”
Wouldn’t that apply more to the back door than the front?
This seems like an area where it makes sense to apply the advice as widely as possible.
The American Left: RIP
They start out sounding not unreasonable before diving headlong into batshit.
That’s…a lot of speculatin’. Also, I find the article’s sourcing…questionable–“Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick in their best seller, The Untold History of the United States, describe the Clinton-style Democratic Party corruption that was used to block Wallace as the vice presidential candidate”
And if the USS Nimitz had actually taken Senator Chapman to Pearl like he wanted….
Splash the Zeros…
Wallace had Communist spies in his office.
Oliver Stone?
Yeah, I’m gonna pass on taking that Hugo Chavez bootlicker seriojsly.
Blood pressure rising…
Would South Korea prefer to have been conquered by their friends from the North? Let’s ask them.
It’s no idea arguing with people who have no idea about history.
Yeah. I think they’re missing the part about President Dewey.
As astute as this observation is, the author is blind to the very same effects of his classical Marxist hatred against capital owners. And that hatred has a century-long history of evidence for bringing entire populations to a state of starvation.
This reminds me of the premise of 11.22.63, wherein the main characters time travel in order to foil the assassination of JFK.
What would you expect a bunch of autistic screechers to do on the anniversary of election day? Why, you’d expect them to autistically screech at the sky, of course. – I mean I hate to agree wit evil alt right meme, but that is some pretty autistic screeching right there
Autistic….or just ‘tarded?
I’mma go ‘tarded. Autism doesn’t preclude intelligence.
Why can’t it be both?
Both and yearning for bukkake.
“I hope that writer has a guardian angel, otherwise he might get mugged. And by mugged, I mean killed.”
Well he is smearing the poor officials:
A top public official in Illinois underperforms or, sometimes, even gets caught misbehaving and what do we do? Too often, the answer has been to give them a six-figure, padded landing. It’s time to stop that nonsense once and for all.
This is nonsense. There is no such thing as misbehaving or under-performing public officials. When you join the government you magically become perfectly hones and competent.
Note that the examples were only University ones and a single, mild reference to a mass transit figure. Mention Mike Madigan or Rahm Emmanuel or anyone close to them…then you might get “mugged”.
I was thinking more along the lines of pointing out the rampant timecard padding that goes on in the govt bureaucracy jobs that are unionized. I wouldn’t be as scared of exposing Rahm as I’d be if I were exposing a Department with 500 dues-paying members of the AFSCME who were scamming the taxpayers out of millions in bogus overtime a year.
…*cough* Streets and Sanitation *cough* CPD *cough*
Running for President?
At the prison, there was this room used for receiving and orientation of new inmates. There were always three or four officers just hanging out in there, usually eating pizza. The bus with the new intakes only came on Tuesdays, and there was almost no inmate traffic through that area, so there was really no reason for all of them to be there. Meanwhile, there was a little walkway outside my office window that was never patrolled, and I’d constantly see the inmates handing off contraband.
Those weird thong jeans have been made into a Halloween costume
I approve for select wearers
Like the one modeling it in the article!
+ ein
Speaking of …
Lili Reinhart Apologizes for “Racially Insensitive” Halloween Costume Photo
http://www.eonline.com/news/888631/lili-reinhart-apologizes-for-racially-insensitive-halloween-costume-photo
Lili Reinhart has apologized for posting what she late called a “racially sensitive” photo of a person in costume.
The 21-year-old Riverdale actress posted on Twitter this weekend a DeviantArt photo she found on Instagram of a woman dressed up as a “demon,” sporting a black bodysuit and black-colored body paint on her face and arms.
“Found my Halloween costume!!” Reinhart wrote. “Inspired by the color of my soul.”
On the one hand lol, on the other would.
DO YOU EVEN YESTERDAY LINKS?
What’s “Yesterday”?
Let me Help.
No, please don’t.
I’ve got an upper endoscopy scheduled this morning and if that earworm nests in my head while I’m in recovery, I’m blaming you.
There’s a reason I have a policy that strongy recommends against following youtube links from Glibs.
No worries. This will kill it.
Jeez Tundra, I thought you would put up “Honesty” by Billy Joel. A stripped down ballad of the same type that also had a different opening. In Joel’s telling, he started singing, “sodomy… is such a funny word”. Never says whether the second line “and mostly what I need from you” was in that version.
There will never be any Billy Joel or Journey links from me.
Ever.
Weh-he-ell, I guess we know who’s not from Long Island.
My parents love Billy Joel. I think everyone born on LI between 1945 and 1965 is required to by law.
apparently I missed that one
I guess we have reached a point where everything that gets painted black by a white person is “racially insensitive”. Someone better tell Hershey’s to stop making Almond Joys/Mounds .
Wait, does this mean I can openly enjoy my Zero bars in public and show off my white pride as well, all in the name of respecting other cultures?
But can I still enjoy a Chile pepper and lime flavored lollipop while doing yard work with a sombrero on?
As long as you salt your beer, yes.
Why would I salt it when I can pour a few ounces of Clamato picante into it?
*projectile vomits*
Dad, is that you?
Liar.
No one enjoys Zero bars.
No those are woke because it is black over white
I’m not sure why it’s offensive; no ethnicity on the planet has actual black skin; it’s just very dark brown.
As an aside, I saw something odd last weekend: I was in Kroger, and the employees had some modest Halloween apparel on (e.g. one girl was wearing cat ears and had whiskers painted on). I saw this African-American manager wearing a gaudy platinum blonde wig, a clownish amount of blue eye makeup, and some kind of white powdery substance smeared all over her face… Was she in whiteface??
Rolling Stones hardest hit.
But I hope the rest of you enjoy it.
It’s exquisite. And the album cover doesn’t convey what a hottie Mariska Veres was back in the swinging ’60s.
Some of y’all might recognize this little tune.
Ahh yes. The band name was familiar to me but I couldn’t put a finger on why. Thanks Sloopy and Tundra for the groovy tunes.
You’re welcome.
Yeah, there’s not enough live stuff of them floating around. She had that Mod look down so fucking well. And the depth of her voice would make Grace Slick jealous.
Anyway, I dug deep for that one today. Glad a couple of you appreciated it.
Great tune, sloop!
Ahh, nice, thanks!
TW: Slate
Bill de Blasio, Populist, Unleashes Police Power on Take-Out Delivery Guys
https://slate.com/business/2017/10/bill-de-blasios-crackdown-on-e-bikes-is-a-truly-bad-idea.html
Though technically illegal to use in New York state, the battery-powered bicycles have helped the city’s more than 50,000 bicycle deliverymen keep pace with perennial demand for take-out food and surging requests for deliveries of groceries and consumer products. The bikes are perfectly suited for the demands of the job: They facilitate affordable, rapid transportation of lightweight goods through a metropolis with virtually no remaining streetspace, without generating exhaust or noise.
On Thursday, de Blasio announced the nation’s largest city would start fining restaurants in addition to operators, expanding and formalizing a style of broken-windows policing favored by the NYPD, which has confiscated 900 e-bikes this year. His justification? E-bikes are “just too dangerous,” the mayor said at a press conference.
Wait, electric bikes are illegal in New York?
When does that damned fool run again? Will slothful NYC voters stir and eject him?
We should elect an E-Mayor
If I am elected….Two e-bikes in every bike rack, and a vape pen in every hand!
Why is Slate so anti-government?
I know, it’s like they are libertarian Nazis.
In regards to legality I found this yesterday:
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2016/02/the-murky-legality-of-e-bikes/426969/
“Under federal law, an electric bike with a maximum assisted speed under 20 miles per hour can be sold as a bicycle, not a motor vehicle. Under New York state law, riders would need to register these as they would a motorcycle, moped, or car. But there’s no clear way to register them. Because of this regulatory patchwork, e-bikes are legal to sell as bikes anywhere in the U.S. but effectively illegal to ride in New York, since they can’t be registered as motor vehicles.”
Wait, electric bikes are illegal in New York?
Well, they aren’t explicitly permitted, so yes.
Well, they aren’t
explicitly permittedmandatory to own and operate, so yes.If the people had prevailed over the corrupt Democratic party bosses, Wallace instead of Truman would have become the first postwar US president. Most likely, there would have been no Cold War, no Korean War, no Vietnam War, no NATO, and no decades of mutual distrust between the US and Russia that today threatens life on earth.
Moreover, in place of today’s highly skewed income and wealth distribution toward the very rich fraction of one percent, there would be an equitable distribution that would support a strong consumer market instead of declining real incomes and debt expansion that threatens economic growth, business profits, employment, and high equity values.
WTF??
Wallace was a commie?
Maybe
Dammit!
Yup. FDR’s Democratic Party was too centrist for him, so he founded the Progressive Party and ran under its banner in 1948….but he turned away from all that before dying:
Oof, adding insult to injury.
“His campaign was undermined by accusations of Communist influences”
It would be nice is modern campaigns could be undermined by accusations of communist influence.
Wallace was a commie?
Probably not. More a dupe. When it became clear that he was the front man for a bunch of commies, he published a book basically admitting he’d been duped.
Trump’s Latest Weird Meal: Rice and Two Slices of Cherry Pie During GOP Lunch
For The Donald.
NBC News reporter Leigh Ann Caldwell broke the story
Go, media, go!
Trump is also obsessed with Diet Coke, despite tweeting back in 2012 that he’s “never seen a thin person drinking” the soda, and can have one delivered to the Oval Office at the push of a button. Really.
The Hat and the Hair (and Tha Hat) fans know this already!
Good God, leave the man alone about his food. I bet if you follow Leigh Ann Caldwell around and see what she’s eating, you’ll find she scoops ice cream straight out of the carton when no one’s looking.
“Trump is also obsessed with Diet Coke, despite tweeting back in 2012 that he’s “never seen a thin person drinking” the soda, ”
I don’t see where he’s wrong.
I bet if you follow Leigh Ann Caldwell around and see what she’s eating, you’ll find she scoops ice cream straight out of the carton when no one’s looking.
Her cats are looking. All seven of them. Every night. They watch her eat a carton and then shuffle off to bed alone.
Actually she’s married.
To an Obama political appointee who has also worked for Harry Reid and was fired as head of the NRC because he was an abusive asshole and because he deliberately hid info from congressional committees tasked to oversee his department.
Why does none of this surprise me?
To an Obama political appointee who has also worked for Harry Reid..
All this is sort of a pattern. You’d think it would only be appropriate to disclose this sort of thing with their byline.
How professional the SS agents are.
Which brings up another question, her only source is overhearing chitchat? How did her editors fact check that article before publishing it?
Haha ha, oh you.
Last night I had plain spaghetti noodles with butter and salt. That’s it. I’m sure many people find that weird, but I happen to like it. Does that make me literally Hitler?
The only way to make that better is to fry the noodles in the butter (or bacon fat if you have some around). Leftover fried spaghetti is a huge hit with my wife and kids. I just thought everyone did that. Always salt, maybe some pepper flakes and oregano.
Yum.
Best ever is same thing but used butter(I know I’m saying it!) and grated mizithra cheese. You’ll thank me later.
I always found it lacked flavor. We tended to add garlic when forced to do that.
When UCS thinks my food is too bland, I may need to reassess my life choices.
*opera applause*
*narrows gaze*
Mussolini more likely
“I love the old spaghett…you bet!”
I thought buttered noodles was a common side dish? My family makes it. Need to add some garlic powder though.
Growing up, buttered noodles were a case of “The cabinets are bare and we have to eat something to make it to payday”. So I have an ingrained low opinion of them.
I started eating it in HS as quick carbs before basketball games. And then kept eating it as lazy bachelor food. Now it’s a “treat” I have once in a while.
That’s what we used to make for kids when I was a line cook at an Italian-ish bistro. These days I make it myself if I’ve got good butter and fresh Parmesan to hand.
I had Italian sausage, sliced up and mixed with roasted potatoes, cauliflower, and tiger sauce.
My mom often made spaghetti with just oil and parmesan. Garlic chili oil – you fry garlic and chili peppers in the oil, then strain them out, toss the oil with the spaghetti and cheese. Tasty.
I think that would be better with a finer pasta such as angel hair or thin linguini. You could also try adding garlic or fresh parsley.
Growing up I always ate spaghetti this way because I didnt like spaghetti sauce. It turns out, I just don’t like meat sauce, but that was the only way my Mom made it. I am back to able to eat meat sauce on pasta now, but I still prefer light meat, not lots of it. And my true preference is meatless.
Barbarian…
And my true preference is meatless.
*squints suspiciously*
Only Italian. It is my one weird vegetarian moment.
Does that make me literally Hitler?
Why would it. It’s relatively close to an Aglio e Olio. Just replace the butter with olive oil and add garlic. But, I’d imagine the butter has a decent taste, as well.
“‘He loves rice.’”
Like Gary Hart?
+1 Monkey Business Crew
NOTE: Any excuse to post a pic of Donna Rice (Gary Hart can go pound sand)
makes me think of the old joke…..”In my heart, I want Bush, but in my bush I want Hart”
Cherry Pie, Red Wings…
There is nothing better than quality student journalism:
Feminism is for everyone
“true feminism” – oh and which is the true one?
+1 Highlander
So we can start lopping the heads off of all the feminists with Samaurai swords in order to determine the one true feminist?
Technical question: if I lop one of their heads off, do I get a bunch of grrrrrrl power in the quickening or do I just go on with my life since grrrrl power is a retarded myth?
You get arrested and put on trial, because lopping people’s heads off is against the law.
Fine. I’ll just say I’m a Muslim and the state will declare me “culturally incompetent”. I’ll just have to do my lopping in Manchester, NH.
Or Manchester, England.
“true feminism” – oh and which is the true one?
Why, the current one, of course. Just until it’s revealed to lead to pain, misery and suffering. Then it becomes a false feminism. See pretty much any other collectivist ideology.
“Coming from a high school in a small rural area, my knowledge and exposure to true feminism was limited, and my perception of the term was misguided.”
I went to high school in a small-ish Southern city where I’m not sure I ever heard the term, and when I got to college and was exposed to real feminists, it was worse than I would have imagined.
And in a perfect world, nobody would steal, nobody would rape, nobody would murder. It’s time to grow up and realize you don’t get to control the entire population.
in a perfect world, everyone would consider themselves a feminist.
No. I see no reason to conclude that a world in which everyone bought into a collectivist ideology predicated to advancing the interests of one particular collective class would be, in any way, perfect.
Leo DiCaprio, 43, has had a busy few months. Since August, he has been spotted with the brunette model Lorena Rae, 23, the blonde model Toni Garrn, 25, the brunette model Alina Baikova, 27, an as-yet unidentified blonde model, age take a guess, the brunette model Candice Blackburn, 20, and the blonde model Juliette Perkins, 19.
https://www.thecut.com/2017/10/leonardo-dicaprio-juliette-perkins-ben-affleck-gossip.html
As an environmentalist, Di Caprio should not consume so much of the globally scarce resource of models. Give African children some.
I bet those models just let Leo grab them.
Sounds like he’ll be taking over Miramax.
E-bikes are “just too dangerous,” the mayor said at a press conference.
If you smoke an e-cig while riding an e-bike? DEATH.
Bigfoot is on the rampage in Primal Rage exclusive trailer
STEVE SMITH GET SAG CARD!
STEVE SMITH COME FROM LONGTIME RAPE FAMILY. GRANDPAPA USED TO RAPE IN BACKLOT BACK IN THE DAY.
GRANDPA ALSO CLOSE FRIEND OF FATTY ARBUCKLE UNTIL GO TOO FAR.
PRIMAL
RAGERAPEK-K-K-K-K-K-KOMBO BREAKER!
Oh, wait. Wrong game.
Uh…that’s embarrassing.
But this is fun: When I was 8-9 or so I rented Primal Rage (fighting game where the characters are different types of dinosaurs…so literally the raddest shit ever for a 9 year old boy) for Sega Genesis from a little place called Movies-to-Go. It was the mid 90s and it was gradually going down due to Blockbuster competition, but I could bike there in about 10 minutes so it was our go-to spot.
I had the game for longer than the week and was afraid of the late-charge. So I didn’t go to the shop and certainly didn’t tell mom. I simply stopped going to the store for a whole summer because I was terrified that I’d be thrown in jail or something.
Then the place closed. I outlasted them! 9-year-old me was so relieved. That game was the dopest dope I had ever smoked.
Outlasted them, or directly responsible for them going out of business?
ZING!
“I was NINE! I woulda been friends with Stalin if he had
a ping pong tablePrimal Rage!in a perfect world, everyone would consider themselves a feminist.
In a perfect world, sammiches would make themselves.
If everyone was a feminist the word would be meaningless.
This “everyone should agree with me” is the ultimate in echo-chamber thinking. Pur–lease people.
Protesters, red carpet … and tsarist sex scenes: Matilda opens in Moscow
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/25/arrests-moscow-russia-premiere-matilda-film-tsar-nicholas-ii-affair
A film about the love life of the last tsar has opened in Russia after months of debate, threats and attempted arson attacks on cinemas showing previews.
The Moscow premiere of Matilda, which chronicles an affair between the future Nicholas II and the ballerina Matilda Kshesinskaya, took place amid heightened security on Tuesday evening.
Seven Russian Orthodox religious activists were detained by police outside the cinema for attempting to stage a protest against the film.
Though the film is a fairly standard costumed romance, the last tsar and his immediate family, who were executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918, were made saints by the Russian Orthodox church in 2000.
Last month, Orthodox Christian extremists attempted to set fire to a cinema in Ekaterinburg that was screening the film, and also set alight two cars outside the Moscow offices of a lawyer for the film’s director, Alexei Uchitel.
See orthodox extremists are just as bad.
Why? Getting shot by Bolshies happened to a lot of people.
So there are a lot of Orthodox saints then.
It’s interesting. Seems to be part of a general effort by the Kremlin and the Church to restore Russian nationalism.
Sean Connery did it better…
Tyler Cowen over at the Marginal Revolution made the point that the reason communism looked so good in its early days was back it replaced Tsarism. But any system replacing Tsarism would have looked good in comparison.
I think communism was rather worse than Tsarism for plenty. Tsarism murdered a lot fewer, and it was reforming itself in the right direction. In think if it continued things would have improved more than in communism.
I think he was talking purely economically. I went over there and tried to find the post in the archives but couldn’t. I did, however, find this:
“In 1912 Russia had only 1.2 teachers per thousand people.”
How do they calculate .2 of a teacher?
How dumb was that teacher?
Were they only 20% as smart?
What gives?
if only Kerensky would have pulled out of WW1, the world would be entirely different today
Yet another reason I wish Eddie hadn’t lost his shit: he could explain this to us.
he could explain this to us
Maybe. He was Catholic, not Orthodox.
Yeah Groovus and I are married to the Orthodox ones I believe. Mine is Russian Orth, not sure what Ms. Groovus is.
As for Sainthood, the “Church” which was practically illegal in the USSR made a strong come back after the fall of the curtain. The biggest issue was the schism though between the rest of the world’s Russian Orthodox churches (who had been practicing and somewhat modernizing the whole time) and the Patriarch of the Russia Church, who went full zealot. They came to some agreement and the diaspora reintegrated to see Russia as the head Patriarch…there were some sainthoods and compromises etc. that went along with that but I am not sure how and when all that played out exactly. I do know that the Bolshies killing kids was fucked up and anything the church does to condemn them is fine by me.
The DeBlasio nonsense reminds me to recommend Bacon and Egg Man, a terrific book with a libertarian bent.
Excellent! Bookmarked.
sounds kind of like 2-Chilli’s High Desert BBQ, which was fucking awesome by the way.
Florida deputy caught on camera breaking into dying man’s home
Deputy Jason Cooke accused of stealing money, jewelry, medications
If anyone thinks that is an isolated incident, I got some land….
Procedures were not followed in this civil asset forfeiture incident.
Exactly. The State didn’t get to dip its beak.
I wonder how common it is for a burglar to get house arrest?
George H W Bush- sex maniac butt fondler
In the lengthy post, Lind said: “We were instructed to call him Mr. President. It seems to me a President’s power is in his or her capacity to enact positive change, actually help people, and serve as a symbol of our democracy,’ the lengthy post went on.
“He relinquished that power when he used it against me and, judging from the comments of those around him, countless other women before me.”
She said that she told other members of the cast and crew on the AMC series about the alleged assault.
“My fellow cast-mates and producers helped me that day and continue to support me. I am grateful for the bravery of other women who have spoken up and written about their experiences,” she said.
“And I thank President Barack Obama for the gesture of respect he made toward George H. W. Bush for the sake of our country, but I do not respect him. #metoo.’
Christ on a diamond encrusted crutch. #DramaQueen
I had a friend in high school who worked as a helper at a retirement home. She told me she got repeatedly groped by the male senior citizens there.
“What are they going to do to me? I’m Old.”
“I’m dying a slow death of physical neglect and psychological abuse at the hands of the orderlies, I may as well grab some candy-striper ass before I expire in a pool of my own filth.”
The idea of ending up in a long-term care home is genuinely frightening to me.
It could always get worse. You know you want to see Bruce Campbell as a bitter old Elvis Presley in a nursing home, teaming up with Ossie Davis as JFK (“They dyed me!”).
Jack “I thought it was LBJ Come to finish the job.”
Elvis “LBJ is dead, Jack.”
Jack “That wouldn’t stop him.”
Saw it once, way back. Great concept (Elvis and black JFK vs. mummies? Awww yeah). My recollection is that movie itself was only okay, but I should probably watch it again.
There was a lot over very subdued humor if you can get through the depressing themes. And of course, Ozzie Davis delivers a top notch performance.
The DVD commentary by Campbell is excellent.
I remember listening to the commentary on Evil Dead 2. During the ‘root rape’ scene:
“Aaaaaaaand we just lost half our audience.”
My wife works in a nursing home. Senile old men sexually harassing her is a part of the job.
Could be worse. My wife has a close friend who worked as an aide at an institutional home for delayed teenagers, some of whom could have been college linebackers. They had the sex drive of a regular teenage boy but without any inhibitions of acting on it. She had to teach them “quiet hands” to stop fapping in front of her. Even with that, she still had cum thrown at/on her on more than one occasion.
Yikes!
The old ladies aren’t much better. Plenty of them get handsy with me when I worked at a nursing home. You learn to ignore it.
Feminism: Empowering women, or teaching them to crumble when a 94-year old man in a wheelchair tells them a dirty joke?
Suck it up, buttercup.
NSA Document Says Saudi Prince Directly Ordered Coordinated Attack By Syrian Rebels On Damascus
https://theintercept.com/2017/10/24/syria-rebels-nsa-saudi-prince-assad/
TW: The intercept.
I like the Intercept. It’s a mixed bag politically, but at least it’s not the Guardian or WaPo.
Fox News now reckon that Radiohead are just a ‘poor man’s Coldplay’
I hope that’s just Gutfield taking the piss. But yeah, the shoe gazer guy from High Fidelity is exactly how I think of Radiohead fans.
I haven’t watched Gutfeld since he left Red Eye, but that sounds like typical Gutfeld humor (which I enjoy).
And Kat Timpf is no Morganisawizard, but she can be on my team any day
“You know, Radiohead is a fine band but they stole everything from Coldplay,”
Maybe he’s joking, but Coldplay sites Radiohead as an influence.
Yeah. I think he knows. Radiohead broke in… ’90? ’91?
On a related note, I never understood the appeal of Radiohead or for that matter, Weezer.
Coldplay I can’t stand due to “Freedom Radio” playing it incessantly during my first tour in Iraq. Imagine hearing Sky Full of Stars everyday for 6 months with no other English radio station.
Oh no! The Canadians are getting uppity.
Niagara Falls sludge infuriates Canada
Ahem “It rained. The cisterns overflowed. Don’t go swimming.”
/Rufus silently waving flag in the background.
Niagara Falls councilman: What’s this sludge there, eh? We demand to know, eh?!
/Rufus waves flag furiously to elicit immediate answer.
I would like to know where the waste treatment plant is located. Because if it’s within a mile or so of the falls, you wouldn’t catch me swimming there anyways. Too much chance of getting swept down the falls.
Is it upstream of the falls, or downstream?
This smelly, discolored discharge has been overflowing
This sounds like a cleanup job for Harvey Weinstein.
https://youtu.be/yBLdQ1a4-JI
My new alarm clock. Always fun waking up confused and scared.
I’ve given a few of these as gifts over the years. Even had one go off while the postman was delivering it.
https://youtu.be/Lg3K5AFhzCo
Florida man with cocaine arrested after slapping Orlando police horse, cops say
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-casey-waldner-arrested-police-horse-slap-20171023-story.html
Mongo only pawn in game of life.
Did the cop tell him he couldn’t park there?
What did the horse do?
“What the fuck you loookin’ at, horse face?”
You talking to me?
/John Kerry
Sarah Jessica Parker hardest hit.
LITERALLY!
I have mentioned this before, but an easy way to tell if housing regulations are the problem in your city:
Typically, new construction is built at ~9:1 building:land value ratio. That is the sweet spot for profitability.
When the ratio has dropped to ~3:1, rebuilding is profitable, adding on a floor, expanding, not necessarily tear down and start from scratch. But at that point, buildings get upgraded back to 9:1.
San Francisco is, city-wide, at something like 1:4. That is the average. There should be 36x the current building on your typical lot. Single family homes should be turned into 9 story condo buildings. Etc, etc.
If you city wise average is below 3:1, you have regulation problems not allowing the market to work. Or, your city is a dump that is withering away. But you know which is which.
San Fransisco is a dump with regulatory problems.
Actually from the public defecation statistics, it’s more accuratly a toilet.
you have regulation problems not allowing the market to work. Or, your city is a dump that is withering away – I hate to go all cliche saying here but can’t it be both?
Yes, yes it can. But I think SF is the former, people seem to want to live there.
I was thinking something like Rochester as the withering away.
Rochester is actually at 15:1 average. They are having the opposite problem, the land has no value anymore.
Checking Detroit now… about 2.5:1 — there is my example, Detroit, forget I ever said Rochester. Although I am sure Detroit is an example of “both”.
My footnote:
http://datatoolkits.lincolninst.edu/subcenters/land-values/metro-area-land-prices.asp
I would do the math for Bucharest but am to lazy to gather the data
<a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-meadow-walker-settlement-20160408-story.html This is ridiculous
Meadow Walker and Rodas’ widow, Kristine, have filed wrongful death suits against Porsche, claiming various design flaws or mechanical failings led to the crash. Investigators with the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department and the California Highway Patrol both ruled that speed was the main factor in the wreck, but the lawsuits contend the vehicle was traveling slower than police indicated.
A judge threw out Rodas’ suit earlier this week. An attorney representing Meadow Walker said Friday that news of the settlement with Rodas should have no effect on her pending suit against Porsche.
“Through his estate, Mr. Rodas, the driver of the car, took partial responsibility for the crash, which Paul Walker would have survived,” attorney Jeff Milam said in a statement. “Our lawsuit on behalf of Meadow against Porsche AG — a $13-billion corporation — intends to hold the company responsible for producing a vehicle that was defective and caused Paul Walker’s death.”
Judge dismisses suit against Porsche in crash that killed actor Paul Walker
In a response filed last year, Porsche said Walker was responsible for his own death, claiming the vehicle was misused and improperly maintained.
Presumably the suit against Porsche boils down to, “Why did you make that car when you know people are stupid?”
Also- I was first sucked into reading about this because there were headlines indicating that Porsche had “settled” the suit. That seems to be completely wrong. The estate of the idiot who was actually driving the car (you know, the person responsible for the crash) settled with the daughter. I certainly hope Porsche continues to fight.
In a response filed last year, Porsche said Walker was responsible for his own death, claiming the vehicle was misused and improperly maintained.
This is important. I can’t remember where I read it, but there was discussion of the age of the tires on the car, among other things. Besides, the 930 probably killed more people than the GT ever could. Part of the attraction of these cars is their willingness to kill the occupants.
Thank you for mentioning this. The purists among Porsche fans hate the current form of the 911 because its too wide, has all sorts of electronic gadgetry that keeps the car straight and worst of all, comes with an automatic.
In other words, they engineered a lot of the danger out of the car.
Dead Mr Rodas took responsibility?
IIRC, that car had sat in a display stand for better part of a year, and they drove it without replacing the tires. Tires rot if you don’t regularly roll them. So basically, they took a car with bad tires, drove it fast and now it’s the car maker’s fault that when a tire blows at speed, the car becomes uncontrollable?
Last night I had plain spaghetti noodles with butter and salt. That’s it. I’m sure many people find that weird, but I happen to like it. Does that make me literally Hitler?
More like Mussolini, I’d say.
We used to call it ‘macaron’ cu’burr’ in dialect.
“You rang?”
Hey Il Duce! Let’s do lunch sometime!
This is beautiful. Punch them back, twice as hard
That’d be nice, but I bet the mayor won’t even get booted off Twitter, let alone pay 100m.
Note he filed in Berkshire County, as far from Boston as you can get. I wonder if the courts will use that as an excuse to throw out the case.
Even if it’s thrown out, at least he filed a lawsuit against a politician trying to use their authority to ruin his life. If more politicians feared this, as well as tar and feathers, we would have a much better government at all levels.
#DramaQueen
In an op-ed for The Post, Flake explains that he decided not to seek reelection in order “to remove all considerations of what is normally considered to be safe politically.”
“For the next 14 months, relieved of the strictures of politics, I will be guided only by the dictates of conscience,” he promises. “It’s time we all say: Enough.”
While some might sulk from the scene, Flake is flooding the zone. He was omnipresent and ubiquitous across media platforms last night and this morning, from CNN to NPR, warning in dire terms about the GOP’s retreat from Reagan-style conservatism.
Of course, there is an underlying sense of astonishment that anybody would walk away from such a sweet sweet gig as United States Senator. Flake and Corker should follow the example of people like Strom Thurmond, whose skeletal remains clung so tenaciously to their Senate seats they had to be pried out with crowbars.
This whole Trump business is very convenient for Flake – it allows him to pretend that his troubles are the result of his #RESISTING rather than his own drift leftward. His approval ratings tanked way before Trump.
CR’s numerous articles about Mr. Flake put it beautifully: Flake has been unpopular for years because his rhetoric and votes never actually matched with each other. Most egregious was, of course, his role in the “Gang of Eight.”
You aren’t supposed to be the wingman of the guy that got shot down. He might have a knack for leading you into a bad place.
If he is so concerned about Trump, wouldn’t he stay and fight?
Funny. Yesterday I saw reason writing an article praising him as a libertarian leaning representative, and at the same time have another article criticizing Paul and Lee. Seriously I think they hired Hihn, cause anytime they can go after Rand or Ron Paul, they will.
So libertarian is Mr. Flake that he happily voted for the failed Sandy Hook gun grab attempt and the confirmation of Obama henchlady Loretta Lynch for AG. Yeah, Reason.
Speculation in AZ is he is planning to run against Trump in 2020.
A liberal squish not left enough for the Dems, and who placed himself in direct opposition to the voters who put Trump in office?
He’s got less of a Chance than Andy, and I think Andy’s dead in the water.
Who is Andy?
Sorry, Andy Cuomo, current governor of the People’s Democratic Republic of New York.
Andy went to pieces?
So Trump is going to get 80% of the primary vote, not 70%. The more visible that the frothing becomes from the establishment and consulting classes, the more popular that Trump becomes.
In the AZCentral article yesterday he didn’t deny it, but only said 2020 is a long ways away.
““For the next 14 months, relieved of the strictures of politics, I will be guided only by the dictates of conscience,”
BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-yZNMWFqvM
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made,
And crowns for convoy put into his purse;
We would not die in that man’s company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
-4,000–10,000 Frenchmen
I don’t think that is what was being said. I haven’t heard the whole quote from Mo Brooks, but I imagine he was probably saying that, for example, if you’re a smoker — you should probably be paying more for your insurance – since you’re a higher risk.
Who the hell is saying that “people who are ill have no value?” Don’t hurt yourself while you’re building such a huge strawman, Zordel.
It’s the same line of reasoning that gets them from someone saying “I don’t think tax dollars should pay for that” to accusing them of “wanting to ban it and take it away from everyone!”
If you don’t support forcing people to pay for sick people, you must therefore think sick people have no value.
Besides, I thought the American left loves them some NHS, and is that exactly what the NHS says when it tells patients who smoke or are obese that they aren’t permitted to get surgeries?
“We can’t provide you with medical care”
“Why not?”
“You’re sick. It would interfere with the running of the hospital to have sick people around.”
Not to mention babies who were born with congenital disorders like Charlie Gard. The parents thought his life had value, and they wanted to get him treatment that was offered for free in America, but the state decided that his life had no value, and now he’s dead.
So Lefties, don’t tell me that government-run healthcare is some kind of wonderful, compassionate program where everybody gets top-notch care for free.
I should clarify – it sounds like medical science had no cure for Charlie Gard’s illness and he would have died no matter what, but it’s wrong that the NHS wouldn’t even let them try an experimental treatment. Also, I’m sure there are cases where British citizens are denied life-saving treatment either by long wait times or by the state declaring that their treatment wouldn’t be worth it.
Even if the experimental treatment had failed, it would have provided valuable medical information for future cases, and the family had crowdfunded the money required so no burden on the taxpayers. The NHS stonewalling is pure evil, plain and simple.
Show bobs and vagene.
http://archive.is/kvqms
I like that #1 and #2 are the same woman.
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https://www.theguardian.com/law/2017/oct/25/poker-player-phil-ivey-loses-court-battle-over-77m-winnings-from-london-casino
The poker player Phil Ivey has lost his court bid to recover £7.7m of winnings from a London casino.
The 40-year-old American has been fighting to recover the sum since successfully playing a version of baccarat known as Punto Banco at Crockfords Club in Mayfair in 2012.
The hearing at the supreme court considered whether dishonesty was a necessary element of the offence of cheating.
Ivey had challenged a 2016 majority decision in the court of appeal dismissing his case against Genting Casinos UK, which owns Crockfords. Genting said a technique he used, called edge-sorting, was not a legitimate strategy, while Ivey maintained that he won fairly.
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Genting said the technique of edge-sorting used by Ivey, which involves identifying small differences in the pattern on the reverse of playing cards and exploiting that information to increase the chances of winning, was not a legitimate strategy.
Ivey did not personally touch any cards, but persuaded the croupier to rotate the most valuable cards by intimating that he was superstitious.
In the court of appeal, Lady Justice Arden said the Gambling Act 2005 provided that someone may cheat “without dishonesty or intention to deceive: depending on the circumstances it may be enough that he simply interferes with the process of the game”.
WHY IS THIS A REPLY???
Your link can’t compete with Q’s link, sorry Pie.
“I didn’t cheat, I just arranged to have the cards I wanted to be on the lookout for be indentifiable!”
In Ivey’s defense, the casino agreed to all of the terms. If I was in charge there, whoever agreed to the idiotic terms is the one who’s getting fired.
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Cute, but I’d be concerned for the bunny.
Don’t care! She makes me sigh.
Finally, a sane link i can sink my teeth into
I have failed you all. I picked the wrong Oktoberfest photo.
A note written by Albert Einstein on the “theory of happiness” was sold by a Jerusalem auction house on Tuesday for $1,560,000.
The letter, written in 1922 shortly after Einstein learned he had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, says simply “A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.”
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Jerusalem-auction-house-sells-Einstein-letter-for-15-million-508366
The winning bid for the note far exceeded the pre-auction estimate of between $5,000 and $8,000, according to Winner’s auctions.
Someone added to many zeros to the bid on accident?
Somebody had a good day
+1 breakfast with no hog
Bacon-Magic hardest hit.
*Has sad*
Local news
A man shot a grizzly bear on his front porch near West Yellowstone last weekend after it broke into his garage to get a hanging elk carcass.
Andrea Jones, a spokeswoman for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, said the incident happened on Sunday evening south of U.S. Highway 287 and near the Grayling Arm of Hebgen Lake. She said an agency investigation determined that the man shot the bear in self-defense.
“We have a pretty clear case of self-defense here,” Jones said.
Jones said the bear was a sow grizzly likely more than 15 years old. It broke through a metal door to get into a garage where an elk carcass was hanging.
The homeowner heard noise coming from the garage. He grabbed a gun and went onto the front porch to see what was going on.
Oh, that poor bear. Why can’t we all just get along?
That bear was breaking and entering. If it hadn’t torn open the garage, it would not have been shot.
Jesse hardest hit
Bear Lives Matter
“16 Feminist Kids’ Books for Dismantling the Patriarchy”
http://nymag.com/strategist/article/best-childrens-books-teach-kids-about-feminism.html
So you’ll be shipping these to Saudi Arabia?
The saudis have plenty of oil, they don’t need to burn wood fiber.
They wouldn’t make any money that way. Which proves that these books are written by capitalist shills for the patriarchy!
*Edit Fairy Helps Out*
Proves! Damnit…
I think this is my favorite edit faerie yet.
I would be more than happy to let her correct my mistakes until I finally got it just right
I’ve tried looking, but I couldn’t find her. Maybe someone here has better goog fu?
“Mom, Dad, I’m in love with a fairy. No, it’s not what you think.”
They’re making the country flaccid.
Who on earth thought I Dissent‘s title and cover art was a good choice?
Ugh.
Besides, the 930 probably killed more people than the GT ever could. Part of the attraction of these cars is their willingness to kill the occupants.
It seems to me I saw some report that said something like half of the Carrera GTs produced have been destroyed in wrecks.
Pizza Hut in Saudi Arabia has apologized for an offensive tweet that appeared to mock people with a stammer. The fast food chain deleted the tweet which repeated letters at the start of words to mimic people with the speaking disorder on International Stuttering Awareness Day.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/24/saudi-arabia-pizza-hut-apologises-irresponsible-tweet-sparks/
I had no idea there was such a thing as International Stuttering Awareness Day.
God damn it why does idea have only one e? You people double all sorts of letter but the one word with a double e in the Romanian language (idee) only has one in English. It is confusing
We are not responsible for Romanian (mis)spellings.
Besides, “Idee” looks like it would be pronounced ID, and not idea.
Uh…. you wanted people to be aware of stuttering. So much so that you created a day called “Stuttering awareness day”. It sounds like you got exactly what you wanted. What’s the complaint?
Where is my erectile dysfunction day? What color is my ribbon?
Blue.
Duh.
*applause*
It hasn’t come up yet but Premature Ejaculation day is coming soon
It’ll be over before you know it.
It’s on November 13th. But it gets celebrated on the 12th.
Can I get a narrowed gaze over here?
*strongly narrows gaze at the bunch of ya*
I’d buy that for a dollar
https://www.maxim.com/entertainment/taylor-swift-ready-for-it-teaser-2017-10
Taylor swifts legs are much thinner and longer that they appear in that CGI creation. I wonder how they created it? Full CGI model, body double, Taylor Swift is just more curvy than she used to be and they layered it directly over a body suit?
Taylor Swift Unveils Even Darker Persona With New Single ‘Skullfucking Maggot Shit Boyfriend’
https://entertainment.theonion.com/taylor-swift-unveils-even-darker-persona-with-new-singl-1819580257
+1 slipknot
Under the heading of “wasting government money”, Stossel has a nice report about Blackwater over at Reason.
In it he gives us a couple of facts that were new to me. First, the former head of Blackwater says that he did supply missions to Navy ships with 2 helicopters and 8 men. The Navy did the same missions with 2 helicopters and 35 men. That’s why private contractors are cheaper. The money quote: “if resources are free, you use a lot more of them”.
The second tidbit was really interesting. Remember all those stories about Somali pirates? Remember all those ships getting taken and hostages and Tom Hanks starring in a movie? What happened to all of that?
Well, the same former head of Blackwater formed a private army and wiped them out. Piracy went to zero within a couple of years. That’s why you haven’t heard anything about it. The UN condemned it. But the pirates are gone. It doesn’t fit the narrative, so the story doesn’t exist.
Here’s a link to YT.
So a private company did what the fucking US Navy couldnt do?
Makes sense. Since the navy is crashing all over the place.
So a private company did what the fucking US Navy
couldntwasn’t allowed to do?This seems a more appropriate explanation.
On a related note, the Constitution allows for “Letters of Marque,” I always thought that would be a better idea to put a bounty on, lets say Bin Laden’s head rather than get into a multi-decade war trying to find him, replace the government that sheltered him…..
I contacted one my Senator’s offices about getting one, back in 2003. I had an economist friend that came up with an idea to waylay an Iraqi oil tanker and cash in.
I got a call from a staffer, and he wanted to know if I was a family member of any hostages, killed by terror incidents, etc. They took it serious…. I fessed up it was mostly hypothetical and thanked him for his time.
Sounds like they didn’t know what you were talking about.
They did precisely that. $25 million if I recall.
” bizarre ‘fake conservative’ narrative
after she removed the page- RPB went on twitter rants about how the people that were criticizing her about this are “fake conservatives” and how they are “acting like liberals” again, cringe. this whole “LIBRULS” thing when it comes to this topic is fucking retarded. there were hundreds if not thousands of her own fans, conservatives and anti-sjw’s in general, giving a shit about this. anyone who believes in liberty and the right to anonymity was mad. if anything this proves that their beliefs are consistent (anti-doxxing) and they don’t engage in tribalism. just because RPB is “one of them” should not exclude her from criticism. i don’t know why she’s pulling the “im one of you” guilt trip. people are even saying i’m infighting. this woman is a conservative youtuber. me talking about her is on the same level as me talking about PJW or stefan molololololue however the fuck you spell his name. so no. but that’s honestly irrelevant. i would never want someone to hold back criticism of me just because they agree with some of my political beliefs. that’s the stupidest shit. especially when the topic at hand has NOTHING TO DO WITH POLITICS. although RPD dropped the SJW thing, she’s still holding on real tight to the tribalistic mentality SJW types are notorious for having.”
https://shoe0nhead.blogspot.ca/2017/10/redpillblack-social-autopsy.html
Ehm okaaay… kids these days i swear
The problem, in a nutshell
Federal officials are proposing more than doubling entrance fees during peak times of the year at Yellowstone National Park and more than a dozen other parks to deal with the National Park Service’s maintenance backlog.
The National Park Service has proposed raising the per-vehicle fee at Yellowstone to $70 from May 1 to Sept. 30. The current vehicle rate is $30.
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Theresa Pierno, the president of the National Parks Conservation Association, panned the proposed fee hikes in an emailed statement, arguing that the cost of park repairs “cannot and should not be largely shouldered by its visitors.”
“We should not increase fees to such a degree as to make these places — protected for all Americans to experience — unaffordable for some families to visit,” Pierno said. “The administration just proposed a major cut to the National Park Service budget even as parks struggle with billions of dollars in needed repairs. If the administration wants to support national parks, it needs to walk the walk and work with Congress to address the maintenance backlog.”
Make the people who use a resource responsible for paying for it?
NOT
FAIR!
I keep reading the name of that site as the Booze Man Daily Chronicle.
For some reason, it doesn’t talk about Alcohol as much as I was expecting.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiyEtIT7mk5xjv_J63rVb2A
I am a big National Parks fan. I am totally willing to pay more.
Next question.
Absolutely we should pay more for user fees. Shit, it wasn’t that expensive to go to Sliding Rock this year ( I think $10 per car), and that’s something my younger cousins will do 5-6 times each time we go there.
I was at Crater Lake last week. $15 for 7 days!
Yes, and!
If you are collecting fees via parking, how about have someone around to collect the parking fee. Lots of National Parks I go to have a little box where you drop your parking fee. But maybe they check. Maybe not.
If a little 20 space lot in the city can pay an attendant, You’d think that a national park with a thousand visitors a day could come up with a way to collect fees.
It has the perverse effect of making it feel arbitrary and unfair when they do manage to show up to collect fees.
Oh, and if you are “Shutting the government down”, how about not paying someone to guard the parking lot that you don’t pay someone to go and collect parking fees from?
The parks have fee stations at every major entrance and are staffed during the day, usually between 6AM and 8PM…but it also depends on season.
After hours you are supposed to do a self check in.
Likewise.
Every vacation I’ve taken, except for one has involved at least one national park.
The notion that $10 a day per car for the fee would make it ‘unaffordable’ is laughable.
Camping within Yellowstone is 20-30 a night for tents(not a terrible price at that). Cabins and hotels are 150 to 300 a night. Food is likely to cost 30-50 a day if you eat out.
Outside the park the prices for hotels and cabins (if you can even find one) are not much lower.
And of course the overwhelming majority of visitors will either be flying in to the closest airport (which is very expensive since its not a major hub airport) or driving in excess of 1000 miles round trip to get there.
Fuck these fees. Thats why i pay taxes.
Only unfair in the sense that half of the Park Service employees should be fired for incompetence in allowing such a maintenance backlog to build up and otherwise failure to appropriately supervise and the other half should have their pay cut to match revenue, rather than blanket increases in fees. But it’s the usual Washington Monument strategy of budgeting.
And volunteers should do a lot of it. The community (wealthier than my parents’ community, and more exclusive) across the US highway from my parents’ place has 26 miles of trails, all maintained by volunteers, and they are fantastic. I was lucky enough to go with a family friend who lives there to hike 6 miles of them last year, and unfortunately this year they were on vacation when we were there.
Whoa! Whoa! We can’t have untrained unpaid non-professionals doing work in our glorious National Parks. Only qualified approved contractors can bid on that work. Why do you hate creating good American jobs?
https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/791263939015376902
HA HA
Hubris! Your Downfall is glorious.
bahahaha. Love it.
What kind of person wishes herself happy birthday in social media and brags that they’re going to be elected president?
Only a sociopath.
No fucking lie.
God! The eyes in that picture! How much do you want to bet that she was bullying the other kids?
the young Hillary Clinton was Tracy Flick from Election.
There’s also that old movie The Bad Seed.
The replies are savage. I loled. Out loud.
Worst three-way ever?
https://twitter.com/finy06/status/919660376479928320
That whole article reads like a communications undergrad’s branding assignment.
…Project Homeless Connect, the city’s one-stop shop for homeless people to receive services…Lava Mae, the nonprofit that provides mobile shower services for the homeless…HandUp, which runs online fundraising campaigns for individual homeless people…Replate, which facilitates the donation of extra food from events and offices to the needy…Simply the Basics, which provides hygiene products to homeless people…
Amanduh Marcotte: Ayn Rand escaped from the USSR to the US so she could be racist because all libertarians are racist
Yep, that Ayn Rand is just a regular David Duke!
When debating someone in good faith, it’s best to know and understand your opponent’s positions in detail so you can rebut them. That is why I’ve made it a point to understand, at least in the broad strokes, Marxism, intersectionality, labor theory of value etc. Progs never bother to do this which is why they are incapable of arguing in good faith. All they have are logical fallacies.
how can one understand labor theory of value? it is so easily debunked
Point in case, you can’t debunk it if you don’t know what it’s arguing. It’s not difficult to understand where Rand stands on racism, Akira posted two sentences that disproved Amanduh’s claim, yet she was too lazy to go even that far.
As I suggest below, I don’t think it’s even laziness. The entire concept of individualism is so foreign to her that the Rand quote would read like nothing but a word salad.
she was too lazy to go even that far.
Entirely possible it was laziness, but I wouldn’t rule out bad faith, either.
He did just say understand, not believe in. I can understand various conspiracy theories people spout, it doesn’t mean that I have to agree with them, or even think the rational behind them is plausible.
Yup, of libertarians are known for anything, it’s for treating people as a collective.
You know, I don’t even think this is projection. Marcotte is a collectivist. The truth is that I don’t think she’s even capable of thinking in terms of individualism. If you don’t buy into her preferred collectives, it means you’re inherently their enemy and in support of opposing collectives. When we talk about things like individual rights or believing that people should be judged on their personal merits or the worth and dignity of the individual, people like Marcotte hear roughly the same thing I would hear from someone speaking Farsi. Actually, even less. There’s English translations for Farsi terms that I might be able to figure out. For collectivists, the concepts themselves are foreign.
“What is water?” asked the fish.
Alright JB I was gonna lurk today but that…I dont know the words for it. Amanduh can produce some of the most stunning derp that can possibly exist. How can anyone be so wildly wrong about everything? I read that feed with one hand on my forehead and was asking out loud to no one over and over “What in the fuck are these people talking about?”
You got me off of my lurking ass and made me respond with that link.
I have you ever seen some of her earlier writing where it just breaks down into schizophrenic word salad? I don’t mean regular post-modern gibberish. I mean arrangements of words that had neither grammar nor meaning. I know people throw around accusations like “crazy” towards people who disagree with them. In her case, I think she actually has something medically wrong with her brain. And the people around her enable it just to get clickbait. Sad.
“And lastly, I bring you: COLLUSION!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Honestly, I’m surprised the WaPo even published this. I figured this was a local story; local as in Moscow.
There’s some bad shit coming. Better to get some of it out now, so when everything comes crashing down you can pretend to be a serious news organization.
Closing the barn door and all that…
Furthermore, I always thought the narrative that Putin somehow preferred Trump to president to be bogus and illogical from the beginning. Who better for Putin to be POTUS than someone who he knows can be bought? Tinpot dictators the world over would have much preferred Hildebeast cause she was so eager to sell influence.
Well, it appears that she already had peddled some sweet, sweet influence.
And how!
Yeah right. The deep state has its tentacles into everything and has dirt on everyone who could do some damage to them. The only way something serious happens isnof those people risk their comfortable jobs or personal security/safety to take a stand against the deep state.
Fat fucking chance that happens.
I was certain Hillary was gonna get charged. The case was a slam dunk. Hell, halfway through the Comey announcement, I was giddy because he was literally laying the evidence of her crimes out in public. Then he said he wasn’t doing shit and my faith that these deep state cocksuckers had any scruples went out the window. I mean, when they literally lay out their entire prosecution of a slam dunk case and then say they’re going to just ignore the Law, what hope is there anymore?
Q, just saw your request for new binges from last night. If you haven’t watched it, and you want something lighter, I’d recommend the Good Place. The first season is on Netflix. It’s about a women who dies, and wakes up in the “Good Place”. She gets introduced to her soul mate, and they go over how the point system works, and only 1% of humanity makes the cut. At this point, she confesses to her soul mate that it’s a case of mistaken identity, and she’s not the person everyone thinks she is. The first season is only 13 half hour (televised length, so 22 minutes) episodes, with each ending in a cliffhanger. It’s the same production company who did Parks and Recreation, Master of None, and Brooklyn 99. I’ll also warn that looking into it to much can reveal spoilers.
Otherwise, if you haven’t watched Babylon 5, do that.
Thanks, I’ll check it out.
Check out Gomorrah, it’s on Netflix.
Fuck that. If you have Xfinity, you can binge watch Diff’rent Strokes and the A-Team.
Do yourself a favor and do the latter at least. That show is pure awesome.
I PITY DA FOOL!
I would have thought, however, that these guys would be better shots…
Some things from the 80’s aged well… such as Max Headroom. Some things have not aged so well, such as the A-Team.
Excuse me?
,he says while emptying entire magazine without hitting one target.
You’re saying you wouldn’t want to watch this:
To this day, I’m still surprised that a dystopian, black humor, anti-government, anti-TV station show like Max Headroom ever got made.
What exactly WAS Max Headroom? I remember the character because of the Pepsi commercials when I was a kid but I’ve never seen it. I thought it was some kind of fake talk show?
Chipwooder:
I was writing something up, but it started getting too long. The short version from wiki:
Amanda Pays was totally hot.
And the A-Team will always be awesome.
Some things have not aged so well, such as the A-Team.
+1 Full auto Ruger Mini-14
“I love it when a plan comes together!”
Lava Mae, the nonprofit that provides mobile shower services for the homeless
Just like the shower Bruce Willis got in Twelve Monkeys, I hope.
OT:
Just got the mail, and there’s some junk mail from the New York Times begging me to subscribe. They must be really scraping the bottom of the barrel for revenue if they’re spamming horrible racist libertarians like me!
They’ve never been opposed to taking your green – be it by taxes or the desperate measure of attempting direct sales like a filthy capitalist.
I did the only thing I could do the day after the ball and chain hurled a full beer can at my head. I stopped off for a few on the way home.
Did she have a good reason for throwing beer at you?
There is never a good reason for such appalling alcohol abuse.
Wrong.
“You’re missing out on your daughter’s childhood.”
“I’m not missing out on anything.”
“Our kid’s childhood isn’t anything?”.
Working woman. Waddayagonnado?
Go get some strange. You’re already in the dog house, might as well go all out right?
Which person has which lines?
I did the only thing I could do the day after the ball and chain hurled a full beer can at my head. I stopped off for a few on the way home.
Did you get a helmet, too?
Helmet? I caught the thing out of midair, popped it open and took a big swig. Wish she would’ve tossed a cold one. Room temperature.
“Honey, cold ones fly straighter”
I had a friend who used his ability to catch a thrown beer as a litmus test for drunkeness. As long as he wasn’t getting beaned, he was still functionally sober.
Unless they can’t speak English at all, don’t really know how this is a problem…
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/census-bureau-446-california-dont-speak-english-home-356-texas-345-nm
Well, they could just end up like Puerto Rico and forsake English in public too…
Oh that didn’t turn out so well for participating in the national economy.
I was standing in line at a store in Puerto Rico and the women behind me starts talking to me in Spanish.
“I’m sorry, but I don’t speak Spanish.”
She replied, “Fuck you, I can speak English too.”
This was over 15 years ago and I’m still confused about the exchange.
I fielded a call at work from a Puerto Rican complaining about the VA there. She requested I dial in translator. Certainly, a reasonable request until she explained through the translator that she could speak English but requested the translator because she didn’t want to speak English. She also thought the VA was out to get her personally, and wanted a third party to record the conversation…a third party that is under contract with the VA to provide translating services.
Now hold on.
Anyone that’s ever spent much time in Puerto Rico knows that the Boricuans have forsaken both English and Spanish and instead have replaced each with a melange of incomprehensible gibberish spoken faster than John Moschitta and about as clearly as Bob Dylan.
I’ll defer to your greater personal experience. I’ve never been to that particular third world territory.
That’s also the official language of Miami.
I’ve spent some time in Puerto Rico. There are people who speak Spanish and/or English well. Just like there are people in the U.S., England, etc. who speak English poorly, even though it’s their first and only language.
Anyway, I don’t think speaking Spanish in public is what wrecked their economy.
One of the stupider ads that I’ve seen in a while. It’s as if the Virginia Democrats actually want Trump voters to unite and do a “fuck you vote” for the establishment candidate when they approve ads like this.
“Virginia Gets to Stand Up to Hate”
It sounds like Virginia already did that, seeing as how the white nationalist dicklickers with their tiki torches were vastly outnumbered by counter-protesters.
I initially read that as “Vagina Gets to Stand Up to Hate”. I wonder how that would work?
I encourage the D’s to continue insulting voters.
Also, WTF is the deal with fucking Dems and Helvetica? I hate that fucking font.
Appropriating Swiss Neutrality.
As the “Stuff White People Like” author puts it, Helvetica is essentially the unofficial font of Portlandia.
Helvitica is the white people of true type fonts.
To hell with that, gimme some Baskerville any day!
That’s Gotham. Extensively used Obama-era DNC font.
It’s a nice face, but now overused and nearly ubiquitous.
The Northam campaign comes off as if they are getting a bit frantic about the election.
The internals for this race have been near dead-heat, actually. Part of the problem is that Gillespie’s establishment enough to hold much of the outer NoVA vote (IOW, West of Fairfax), while at the same time making MS-13 and protecting Confederate statues keystone issues after a low-money insurgent guy nearly primaried him over these things. The key spot for him (if he does win) is the 10th District. If he wins this district, he wins the race.
God I hope the Democrats just keep going with YOU ARE ALL BIGOTS!!!!!!!!!!!!! as a campaign strategy.
One bright spot in the Madrassa of Boulder.
http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/38174/
“Things we already knew, for $100, Alex”
The study, released on Oct. 24 by Harvard Business School, Accenture, and Grads of Life, is called Dismissed by Degrees: How degree inflation is undermining U.S. competitiveness and hurting America’s middle class. Says the report: “Over time, employers defaulted to using college degrees as a proxy for a candidate’s range and depth of skills. That caused degree inflation to spread to more and more middle-skills jobs.” It adds: “Most employers incur substantial, often hidden, costs by inflating degree requirements, while enjoying few of the benefits they were seeking.”
Those guys at Harvard Business School, they’re some smart fellahs. You’ve got to get up pretty early to put one over on them.
Let me know when Accenture replaces degree pedigree with actual experience in an industry they’re consulting to.
“Things We Already Knew”, indeed. It seems like a lot of these high-falootin’ studies are just proclaiming common-sense propositions as though they’ve just discovered the human genome or something.
Not too long ago, someone posted a “study” on sexual behaviors that declared that there’s no sex maneuver that is guaranteed to please a woman or man, and the best way to have good sex is to talk to your partner about what works for them… When anyone who is past junior high and not a member of the “pickup artist” community could have told you that.
I can think of very few jobs which strictly speaking require a degree and all of them require specific technical training which is difficult to impossible to acquire outside of a university setting and some of the ones which used to exist like lawyer are rapidly being threatened by computers
I’m just coming from an IT background, but I tend to agree. I think there are benefits to having a general, well-rounded education, and there is something to be said for having a formal background in more specific principles of your field, but most of the things I see people doing or that I myself do are things I either learned on my own or learned on the job, and the remainder are things you can be taught in the field. Really, I don’t think you need a degree for anything; it’s the education that you need, and there are all sorts of sources for that that don’t involve a traditional education.
The Internet has increasingly made the traditional university irrelevant. Basically, any field that is not hands-on like surgery or mechanical engineering can be learned online either through independent study or a guided online course. Even in those hands-on fields, most of the lectures could be given online, and the students could show up somewhere for “lab” sessions a few times a week.
I think if we ditched occupational licensing laws that mandate degrees and legally clarified that skills testing for jobs is not racist, we would see a decrease in the demand for degrees, which would result in easier movement into new careers (you know, that whole upward mobility thing that lefties are always talking about).
But skills testing is all over the place in IT. Anything from formal technical questions you are expected to answer prior to getting an interview to white board sessions in the interview itself.
What companies have largely found is that they don’t help a person who can solve a white board technical question is not significantly more likely to succeed at a technical job than one who can’t and it is unlikely that skills tests would be any better at identifying talent in any other field. Some people just test better than others and some people are able to study for the test without really learning the underlying skill and more important that than in a lot of cases personality fit is a more important factor to success than technical skill anyway.
“Woody Allen’s new movie, “Wonder Wheel,” doesn’t open until December, but he’s already at work on his next project starring Elle Fanning, Jude Law, Selena Gomez, Rebecca Hall, and Timothée Chalamet. The movie is reportedly called “A Rainy Day in New York,” and its story could end up resulting in another controversy for the director. Page Six reports the movie stars Law as a middle-aged married man who “makes a fool of himself over every ambitious starlet and model.” The 44-year-old character allegedly has a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old “concubine,” played by Fanning.”
http://www.indiewire.com/2017/10/woody-allen-elle-fanning-movie-adult-teenager-sex-scene-1201890099/
Remake of Manhatten?
Or Lolita. Woody Allen just makes the same movie over and over again. If you’ve seen Annie Hall, you’ve seen everything.
Not quite. Crimes and Misdemeanors and Radio Days are both quite different from his other movies. They’re also two of my favorites of his, along with Bananas and Sleeper.
I’m loathe to defend him nowadays, but yeah, what Chipwooder said. There’s a lot of variety in his works. He did start repeating himself in the late 90s, though. Celebrity borrows a lot from his older stuff, and Match Point is a dumbed-down version of Crimes and Misdemeanors.
Match point has both young Scarlett Jo and Emily Mortimer. I’m sorry, what was the question again?
This.
After a certain point, all of the characters in a Woody Allen movie just sound like him and appear to be aping his mannerisms, especially in his most recent movies where he doesn’t star.
I agree that this is true of his more recent work, which is why I haven’t watched any new movies of his in a long time. The films of his that I don’t like tend to be the ones that are at least semi-autobiographical. That’s why I kind of liked Small Time Crooks – it’s not a great movie, but it’s fun to see him playing a lowlife criminal rather than his stock tortured intellectual.
I’m stunned that Woody Allen would make such a movie. Why won’t he make movies like he used to, like Manhattan for example?
I have to admit I like a lot of Woody Allen movies. But the old guy young chick thing can be ehm, creepy
Related to cyto’s link above about Blackwater I ask the Glibs with military experience:
Is there any reason why the armed forces need to be agents of the State? If we accept the notion that the Market can supply essentially any good or service at lower costs and higher quality than the State, why are the armed forces an exception? I realize that defense of the homeland is one of the few explicitly laid out responsibilities of the FedGov, but let’s put a pin in that for the purpose of this thought experiment. The FedGov already contracts out the bulk of its intelligence apparatus, why not contract out warfighting as well?
I don’t have military experience, but since nobody else is biting I’ll offer up my two cents.
Historically, states, kingdoms, whatever, have been uneasy about mercenaries since, by definition, their loyalty is limited to the client’s ability to pay. The last thing you want is for your national defense to be dependent on an army that your enemy can buy out from under you. Or, God forbid, have an unaligned standing army traipsing around your country waiting for a bidder.
And, even for foreign wars, I’d suggest that on some level you’re going to want the bulk of the actual combat to involve your national army. It’s a tremendous advantage to have a battle-tested professional army with veterans that have combat experience.
This is what I think too.
I would reverse the question and ask why our military can’t be funded by contracting them out.
Letters of Marque and Reprisal were brought up above. That and returning to the original means of defending the nation by a US Navy and State Militias would be my preference. The Air Force should be folded into the Navy, with the idea that the purpose of the Navy would be to make sure that all global commons are made safe for use by Americans. This would include everything above, below, and on the surface of the oceans outside of the generally accepted 12 mile limit – to include space.
The War of 1812 so thoroughly delegitimized state militias that they’re never coming back. Horrible discipline, incompetent officers, massive problems with maintaining any decent standard in interwar periods, etc. The only thing they were ever good for was catching slaves.
Technically speaking, contracting certain services to Blackwater, or Academi I think they are called now already meets this to some degree. I do have to agree with Naptown though, it seems less problematic to have a standing army loyal to the state rather than who can pay. The US military I think gets around a lot of the downsides to this by having the enlisted swear to uphold the Constitution and follow lawful orders, which gives them some ability to act upon their own conscience.
Yes I know, any idiot can swear an oath without it meaning anything.
Machiavelli’s point always has merit, that mercenaries are dependent on funds (opening up the potential for bribery as well) and have less incentive to keep fighting when the going gets tough, whereas citizens actually tend to have some skin the game other than monetary benefit. On top of that, in modern warfare, joint command and being able to hand down orders efficiently and quickly is extremely important, and could easily be undermined by competitive PMCs and the nature of their operations in general (i.e. it’s a lot harder to coordinate thirty airfields operated by six different PMCs that might have completely different protocols, equipment, etc.). It’s one of the reasons the Chinese don’t militarily scare me that much, they have no joint command structure because they’re worried the generals will plot a coup, so instead their branches are balanced out between political rivals that hate each other. Technological innovation is another factor. Sure, the F-35 is an utter horseshit boondoggle, but paying say a private airforce that uses last generation fighters is basically throwing your money in a pit if your opponent is willing to invest in more modern equipment.
That doesn’t mean that mercenaries can’t fulfill some roles for the military, but basically if you actually have to fight a major war (which is what your military should exist to excel at), top-down volunteer force is the best we’ve got so far.
Amazon wants to get into my house.
Yeah, thanks, but I’ll pass.
Yeah, that’s a no for me, too. But you gotta love how Amazon’s willing to try just about anything.
Absolutely. I’m sure my brother will do it. He’s already got amazon in the house with those stupid echoes.
Maybe if you have a lockable porch area…
That’s a big pass for me too.
Not just your home:
There is no way someone will figure out how to hack this.
Also, whoever delivers for Amazon doesn’t even both to knock or ring the doorbell. They just toss boxes on my front steps and drive off.
I think they only knock if there are perishables, or the order includes a tablet or something like that.
The call’s coming from…inside the house!
Seriously, though, Amazon can fuck right off. I live on a public street and I don’t like it when people park in front of my front gate. There’s no effin’ way I’m letting some stranger let himself in to my house to drop off a bag of socks or whatever. Besides which, my dogs would eat him. Or take the opportunity to make a break for it and run through the neighborhood chasing squirrels, more likely.
Dogs escaping is a real concern. Maybe saying you don’t have them loose in the house is a requirement by Amazon? Dunno.
Besides that, and a general suspicion of strangers turned loose in my home, I’ve got a bunch of guns. They’re locked up, but they’re still there, and having some delivery guy salty about his job, maybe planning to walk at the end of the day, with access to them is worrisome to say the least. I’m immediately thinking of liability issues.
I’d be worried more about my dogs biting the delivery guy and me then getting sued.
Is there any reason why the armed forces need to be agents of the State?
If one were to allow the people to believe there is no monopoly of force by the State, they might come to believe they have the right to defend themselves from it. And we all know where that leads. To freedom and self-ownership.
Punching back.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/prageru-sues-youtube-google-for-intentional-censorship-of-conservative-speakers/
Though, again as a free speech absolutist, I support google’s right to censor (they are a private organization after all). But it’s good to let them know that they’ll get pushback when their mask slips.
Harsanyi, while not really a dyed in the wool libertarian, is one of the few people left that TOS published I really liked (along with 2-chili).
http://thefederalist.com/2017/10/25/find-democrats-really-care-russian-interference/#.WfB5bIjpfnY.twitter
He mostly shows up at the Federalist now though.
Are you sitting down? Another case of racist graffiti on a college campus has been discovered to be bullshit
Sorry, my shocked face is in the shop right now.
That phrase is why keyboard macros exist.
EMU’s chief of police, Robert Heighes, did not offer any motive for the vandalism, except to say that “it was not driven by politics, and it was not driven by race. It was an individual item done by one individual,” Heighes told the campus newspaper, the Eastern Echo.
Huh? I guess the motivation must have been something like this, then:
Phase 1: Fake KKK vandalism
Phase 2: ?
Phase 3: Profit
yeah, just because it wasn’t on behalf of an organized group does not mean it was not political
Dumb fucking peasants
Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire media mogul and former mayor of New York, has said Brexit is the “single stupidest thing any country has ever done” apart from the election of Donald Trump as US president.
Bloomberg argued that “it is really hard to understand why a country that was doing so well wanted to ruin it” with the Brexit vote, in a series of outspoken remarks made at a technology conference in Boston a fortnight ago.
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“We are opening a brand new European headquarters in London – two big, expensive buildings. Would I have done it if I knew they were going to drop out? I’ve had some thoughts that maybe I wouldn’t have, but we are there, we are going to be very happy.
“My former wife was a Brit, my daughters have British passports, so we love England – it’s the father of our country, I suppose. But what they are doing is not good and there is no easy way to get out of it because if they don’t pay a penalty, everyone else would drop out. So they can’t get as good of a deal as they had before.”
He added: “I did say that I thought it was the single stupidest thing any country has ever done but then we Trumped it.”
How dare they try to throw off the yoke of Brussels in favor of self-rule? They must be punished.
It’s such a marvelous institution that only the threat of major penalties prevents other countries from fleeing it as well!
So Brexit is stupider than implementing the Final Solution? Guess we know where he stands on the (((Question))).
Michael, have a large Coke, and a smile, and shut the fuck up.
Michael Bloomberg is staggeringly idiotic. How did he wind up rich? He seems like he’d need a life coach to tell him not to stand in the middle of a busy street.
So when are these reporters going to post their #metoo
“It is really hard to understand why a country that was doing so well wanted to ruin it,” Bloomberg said of Brexit. “It was not a smart thing to do and getting out of it is going to be very difficult and is going to be very painful. It will hurt industries. People are already taking space in other cities over there [Europe], us included.”
London will be a ghost town in a few years. They’ll have to sell it on ebay.
What some of my conservative sources in TX call the worst RINO in Texas state government just ran away, which is probably more good news for an already business-friendly state. Just keep the check on those Cali transplants for me whenever I decide to move over there (probably 10 years from now).
“But instead I’m sure you’ll see justifications in Op-Eds across the nation.”
CNN was playing at the gym this morning with Carl Bernstein on. I wasn’t really paying attention but his take was “why should we care – Hillary Clinton isn’t president.”
So, I guess the new take is that Russia may have colluded but since it didn’t work, don’t worry about. Look over there – Trump has a weird diet.
DRUMPF NO GOOD BADDIE! HILLARY AND OBAMA HEAP BIG GREAT!
/Shorter CNN 24/7
How anyone can consider CNN a news organization is beyond me.
The “two scoops of ice cream” story was ample proof that they’re just childish, partisan hacks throwing a temper tantrum because there’s a big mean poopyhead buttface in the White House. But I guess people like to watch heavily biased news that they agree with.
I saw the other day, maybe posted here, that Tucker Carlson re-runs have higher ratings than all of the other networks combined.
They also attacked and threatened someone over a silly internet meme.
What I find more astonishing is that these pundits clearly believe they are offering impartial, consistent insight. They truly don’t believe how people can call them biased.
So can somebody who has been paying more attention tell me what’s really behind WaPo reporting on the Clinton/Trump dossier connection? I don’t believe they suddenly decided to turn into a credible news outlet again. Was it about to come to light anyway, and this is them getting out ahead of it?
At the risk of being Pollyanna-ish, I’d really like to think that this is some of the savvier members of the editorial staff getting wind of something big about to go down and trying to tack towards being on the right side of history. I’m sure it isn’t, but I like to dream big.
I think some of it is still wanting to be the one who broke a big story. They may do damage control but if it’s coming out, everyone wants to be the next Woodward and/or Bernstein.
At a guess, they are trying to redirect the collusion and corruption away from the Dem Party to Hillary and her campaign. She’s old news and has no future, the ideal sacrificial scapegoat. But if this turns into a scandal/criminal investigation of the Dem Party itself, well, that they want to avoid.
Makes sense, but I checked the article and it specifically mentions the DNC in the headline and first paragraph. So I don’t think that’s it.
Headlines that say, “Here’s What It Means” are attempts to take ‘bad facts’ and reduce their impact by suggesting they are incomplete, don’t suggest what they obviously suggest, and to re-order the “key takeaways”, where you emphasize less-damagine aspects in order to frame future conversations
in the WaPo’s case, the thing they seem to be doing is casting all the blame on the ‘DNC bad apples’ and attempting to limit its scope away from Clinton ….and (most importantly) Obama
^^ This. It’s them trying to take control of the narrative and voxsplain what the news *really* means.
Spoiler alert: It means that Clinton and Obama were helpless victims of already-disgraced DWS and her cabal of corrupt goons.
Makes sense, and that’s similar to what P Brooks said below.
So, push the blame to the already disgraced DNC leadership, prepare to throw the now worthless Hillary under the bus if necessary, but protect Obama’s legacy at all costs.
It all makes more sense when you think of newspaper editorial-boards as risk-management experts for the left.
e.g. “cover the story. with a pillow. until it stops moving.”
speaking of which…
https://twitter.com/ebruenig/status/923247247751606272
Fats Domino has died.
My favorite Fats song, in a live performance circa 1985 according to the comments
Great, now we all lost our thrill.
Slate. When you’re lookingfoe nuanced, thoughtful media criticism
Like the president whom they rush to flatter, Fox & Friends ultimately believes in nothing except itself and co-opts traditional symbols in order to bolster its own status and that of its patron. The show is toxic in the way that it sets its viewers up, right at first light, to see bad faith in everyone they meet thereafter; to assume that their ideological opponents are stupid or insincere or malicious or all of those things at once. Fox & Friends is the most cynical show on television. In lockstep with Trump’s reactionary agenda, it yearns for the past while destabilizing the present and future. It is a witch’s mirror, showing you only those things that you hate most in other people, preventing any meaningful self-reflection. It is one of the few shows that actually matters right now, and we are all screwed for it.
Slate, on he other hand, would never characterize those who differ with them on ideological grounds as insincere or malicious. Never, ever. That would be wrong.
believes in nothing except itself and co-opts traditional symbols in order to bolster its own status and that of its patron. The show is toxic in the way that it sets its viewers up, right at first light, to see bad faith in everyone they meet thereafter; to assume that their ideological opponents are stupid or insincere or malicious or all of those things at once.
But enough about Last Week Tonight with John Oliver…
Pure projection.
The horror! The horror!
We are on the edge of winter here, and the basset hound is shedding great clumps of undercoat. What the hell, dog, did you wake up one morning and decide “fuck evolutionary advantage”?
I think it’s a climate control thing. My cat has the same problem.
How old is this dog?
Ihave a 20 yo labrador that sheds so much hair that I collect it and use it for erosion control. No shit. I have covered a couple hundred square feet on a hillside that was trying to wash away. It works pretty well.
She’s 15. Going grey all over and losing muscle mass. We put the collected dog hair amongst the spruces along the property line, hoping the smell will dissuade the deer.
I checked the article and it specifically mentions the DNC in the headline and first paragraph. So I don’t think that’s it.
Maybe this is phase one of the Rehabilitation. First comes “Mistakes Were Made” followed by some navel gazing and humble self reflection. Then, they assign all blame to those already purged (D Wasserstein and her helpers), laying the foundation for…
A Bold New Day for Democracy!
That fits something I just saw from the DNC:
DNC Communications Director Xochitl Hinojosa said in a statement, “Tom Perez and the new leadership of the DNC were not involved in the decision-making regarding Fusion GPS, nor were they aware that Perkins Coie was working with the organization.”
Looks like they’re happy to throw DWS under the bus. She’s damaged goods anyway thanks to the Imran Awan scandal.
and everyone will think the new and clean DNC would never try anything like that again!
Honestly, the DNC was owned and run by the Clintons going all the way back to when Bill Clinton was in the White House. It wasn’t until Wasserman-Schultz was ousted that this started to change. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if the new regime at the DNC genuinely didn’t know what was going on. Wasserman-Schultz probably knew where all the bodies were buried. That’s why it took Hillary all of two-minutes to announce that she was coming aboard the Hillary campaign.
Before and during the campaign, however, realize that the DNC, The Clinton Foundation, and the Clinton campaign were more or less all run by the same people. Those are three different aspects of the same god.