Let’s see..Where to begin. Hmmmmmm. I don’t really know. Oh yeah, I do. I’ll start in Florida. Hey, McElwain here’s a tip: if you’re gonna make up a bullshit story about your family and players receiving death threats in order to generate sympathy, at least make sure you have a few buddies go down to the public library and email you a few from dummy mailboxes. I don’t know how many millions from your buyout that dumbass move cost you, but you deserve to lose every penny of it. Oh well, at least they scored and kept that shutout-free streak intact.
Iowa State stayed perfect against top 5 teams, dispatching TCU at home. Wisconsin stayed stealthy to the committee by beating lowly Illinois by a pair of touchdowns. Clemson beat the Rambling Wreck by the same margin. Miami beat lowly North Carolina by five and continues to live dangerously. Notre Dame thumped NC State and continues to impress. Washington beat UCLA. Oklahoma State topped WVU. The Hokies tore Duke to pieces. Northwestern beat Sparty in triple-overtime. USF ch- ch- ch- choked away their game to Houston. USC beat up on the hapless Sun Devils. UCF stayed undefeated while Penn State couldn’t.
Oh yeah, about that last result: it was Penn State 38 and (sorry, but I can’t resist) THE Ohio State University Buckeyes 39. And that’s with JT Barrett IV going 13-13 in the fourth quarter and throwing for 3 touchdowns as the offensive and defensive lines imposed their will late. Saquan Barkley wilted like a flower on the biggest stage of the year and his grip on the Heisman got a little slippery. 8 yards on 20 carries after the first three minutes of the game isn’t pretty. Sure it was a solid three minutes, but the correction on special teams made him a non-factor. Meanwhile, the doubts (I’ll admit to being among those who had them early) should be put to rest on whether of not JT should be the starter. He ran for more yards than the entire Penn State team. He passed for 328 yards going 33/39. And that’s with two dropped balls for sizable gains. Anyway, that game was off-the-charts insane. And the effort and poise shown under pressure when going down 18 twice will be remembered for some time. Now don’t lose your focus against Iowa!
Personally, I don’t know what could have topped that for weekend entertainment. I got drunk and fell asleep during the seventh on Saturday only to wake up confused at 3 am wondering how the Astros collapsed. Then I saw the Giles stat line. Yikes. So I tuned in Sunday with a little bit of hope..which was quickly dashed in the first inning. But shame on those of you who turned it off, because they tied it up in the 4th!. Then shame on you if you turned it off after a three run lead was reestablished in the top of the 5th. Which was erased in the bottom half of the inning as Kershaw was chased. Nothing of consequence happened in the sixth. Then the Dodgers got the lead back in the 7th…only to have the Astros put up a four spot and put a dagger in the game’s heart. Shame on those of you who turned it off then too, because the night went insane. They traded runs in the 8th and then the Dodgers put up 3 in the 9th to tie it and sent Jansen to the mound knowing the Astros closer was a basket case and wouldn’t play. The Astros could do nothing in the bottom of the inning but strand a guy at second. Then the Dodgers had a miscommunication between the runner and third base coach cost them a run in the top of the 10th, which cost them dearly as Jansen lost his stuff with two outs, hitting a batter, walking the next and then giving up a game-winning single to left. Holy shit was that exciting. The Dodgers pitching has been an unexpected chink in their armor and they will have to regroup as the face Verlander in a must-win game 6 tomorrow.
What a fun weekend even though it wasn’t for the faint of heart. I’ll be recovering for at least a day with nothing on tonight, although I believe I’ll take in a hockey game or watch the OSU-PSU game again. I would imagine I could take the ups and downs a bit better knowing that everything is going to work out fine in the end.
Anyway, I know some of you think I’m an asshole for the way I go on about the Buckeyes. Sorry about that. Its not meant to cause any distress. Its just how I was raised. And with that non-apology apology, I bring you…the links!
Speaking of apologies, they keep on coming in. This one from Kevin Spacey apologizing to Anthony Rapp for coming on to him when Rapp was 14. Well, not necessarily since Spacey said he doesn’t remember making a pass at the youth because he was drunk. Spacey was also forced to come out of the closet and give up the privacy he so desperately clung to about his sex life. Not that everybody didn’t know he was gay, but he had taken pains to make sure the world knew what he did and who he did it with was none of their business. Its a shame we’re taking those kinds of scalps over what potentially amounts to an unwanted pass at a 14-year old kid whose parents let him go to an adult party and hang out alone past midnight from a drunk dude 32 years ago. And no, I’m not victim blaming. I’m saying Rapp’s parents should have been more responsible and Rapp, as an adult now, should understand that a bisexual dude who runs in pretty loose circles probably assumes the person he’s climbing in bed with after midnight at a party isn’t an unaccompanied minor.
Let’s spin the wheel of indictment. The easy money is on Manafort for some wire transfers and/or failing to disclose ties (everybody knew he had) on the correct piece of government paper. Kelly and Page are the other potential candidates with Dem bundler Tony Podesta being a wild-card. Anyway, its just the beginning, apparently. And the witch hunt looks to continue with no end in sight.
Look at these scumbag pieces of shit. Looting the houses and towns ravaged by wildfires? I hope they toss these fuckers away for a long time. A very long time.
I know being a public defender is a thankless, shitty job. And I also know a lot of them are so overworked they can’t really offer up a solid defense for the cases they’re assigned. But nobody deserves this. Well, some of the District Attorneys probably do.
Their harrowing journey is over. And no, I don’t mean the 98 days they were lost. I mean the five days and nights they sat on an American naval vessel wondering when they’d run into something.
Trump does what Trump does. Progressive “icon” takes the bait. Its like these clowns are his personal plaything. They’re little more than wind up toys anymore. Or Chatty Cathys whose string he pulls from time to time when he’s feeling a little bored.
I don’t know what direction I’m going in this week, but I’ll start with this.
Have a great Monday, friends!
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*tries to narrow gaze through tears*
What’s an Italian man with hayfever got to do with your squinting problem?
The morning sportsball articles are getting longer.
…and Leon is getting LARGER!
+1 Tylenol with wings
I’ve been trying to watch my weight, but it’s no use. *Runs off and cries about the oppressiveness of scales*
Oh god, awesome movie.
For some reason, I nearly blew out a fucking lung laughing so hard when Johnny takes the newspaper and says, “I could make a hat, or a brooch, or a pterodactyl!”
It’s funny, I was just thinking about that movie before work this morning for the first time in probably two years, and now it crops up in the links.
Protip: search the page for “…the Links!” and then just read everything after it. You’ll never have to read about sports in the mornings again.
That’s what I do and I remain gloriously uninformed about the various gladiatorial events that transpired over the weekend 😀
That assumes I’m even looking for the links.
Or that I read the articles.
Then how would you know what part is about sports and which isn’t?
Well, you have a distinct style. You write about sportsball in dense blocks of text with few blue lines, and have shorter blurbs connected to blue lines for the links. That and the overall text is just plain longer today.
There was a lot to digest from the weekend. The World Series is just unreal, what with the juiced balls and pitching staffs shitting the bed over and over. Plus, if you watched that Ohio State comeback from my vantage point, you’d still want to be talking about it as well.
Thank you for taking the time to write that up and provide links today. It made my crap Monday just a little better.
The thing that makes your damnable Ohio State braggadocio so insufferable is that it keeps being totally justified. I don’t even have a horse in the race, I just get annoyed when people say, “THE” Ohio State.
what with the juiced balls
I thought Congress already had it out with Bonds and McGwire over steroids.
As a graduate of THE University of Texas at Austin, I certainly don’t begrudge tOSU their definite article.
I do, however, begrudge them literally everything else.
*raises double middle fingers in Sloopy’s general direction”
Damn, Negroni. And after we gave you guys a decent head coach and everything.
::kicks pebble::
You make a good point Sloopy. Although he was an assistant coach at Texas first so really we gave y’all an awesome coordinator. But still…
+1 what I already do. Ctrl F for the win. You’re great sloopy, thank you for all you do for us. I just don’t care about the sport things.
I actually got to where I always make that the transition just so people would eventually catch it and know when the sports is ending and the news is beginning. I’m glad someone has caught it.
Also, I thought of you with the public defender link.
Wait, shit, that came out wrong.
I know you’re a lawyer and I thought about that when I put that link in. You and RBS, but mostly you since you’re a female lawyer.
Well that was hardly a better explanation.
Anyway, that link was for the lawyers, especially the female ones, that are here.
Thank you for that. . . . I guess? ha, anyway, I can’t say I’ve ever seen a defendant masturbate in a visiting area. But I do think the jail makes the visits difficult for attorneys on purpose. I try to do video visits (webcam!) whenever I can, but they are limited to 10 minutes.
On another weird defendant note, a friend told me a story of his first jail visit, and it came out that another friend’s first jail visit was to a naked defendant. . . . keep in mind there are three types of visits: glass between you and the client (long row of seats, screen between booths), private room (you and client alone, not much supervision, but someone is standing nearby, windows everywhere so very little privacy), and video visits.
I prefer the type with glass between the client and me, however, depending on visiting hours, this is not always available. I have had a private visit before, it’s a little too personal, and the room is very small, all glass, a tiny table, and two chairs. Not all the rooms have a table.
So the mutual friend gets to a room, waits for his defendant, who enters the room COMPLETELY NAKED. I can only imagine the level of freak out going on here. I mean, why ? Lice? Threat to others? Fear he will harm himself?
Calculated attempt by cops to ruin the interview. This is Churchill’s pin in the cigar x1000.
I’m touched.
#youtoo?
Can you show me on this doll?
*clinks glass in the air to RBS* Cheers (or something)!
What is worse, I still can’t tell who won the baseball game
Halloween can be a really weird concept when you’ve been brought up Christian
That retarded asshole wrote this steaming pile of shit last week. I don’t know how seriously she should be taken.
It is a country which is presided over by someone who calls neo-Nazis ‘very fine people…”
Did this happen?
Not even close. He said there were some good people on both sides of the march in Charlottesville. And the left (and their media lapdogs) took it as him saying there were good nazis without ever giving him a chance to explain his remark, which he did anyway but they failed to report.
I wonder how that investigation into the police being ordered to back away after corralling the alt-right and statue-defending people into conflicts with the bat-wielding antifa “counter-protesters”.
Because race is the only way people are discriminated. It’s not like you could be white, and be discriminated against for your religion, or something else. And no I’m not agreeing with her point that anti-white racial discrimination never happens, just that the broader point is so plainly stupid.
Well that speaks to the weakness of her general argument. Even if I stipulate to the finer details–i.e., “white” people are never discriminated against on the basis of race or ethnicity–it takes no time at all to come up with examples of rampant discrimination, yes, even against wypipo, on the basis of class, profession, education, place of origin, region, political affiliation, ad infinitum, ad nauseum.
Doesn’t affirmative action, by definition, discriminate against white people?
Since discrimination now means lower outcomes by a class of people than the average outcome by everybody, nobody is discriminated against more than short and/or ugly people. I think it was in Blink where the short people thing was quantified salary and position wise.
If you look at the big bosses in any large corporation, you will see tall, good looking white people for the most part.
When my bank merged with another and I took one look at the tall blonde dude who was my counterpart at the other bank, I knew the writing was on the wall.
Let this person go to an urban private university after growing up in the rural Ozarks, then he/she/it can get back to me.
No discrimination my butt…
Meh. We don’t celebrate Halloween like we used to.
Watch Meet Me in St. Louis
Unsupervised children playing with fire; physically and emotionally assaulting innocent homeowners; pranks that could actually kill people. False accusations of assault against the neighbors.
yeah, I still don’t get it when people ask “what night is trick or treating here?”, I’m like WTF happened to this country that we need top men to tell us when it is appropriate to play dress up and let our kids have some fun. Trick or Treat is ALWAYS on 10/31, never when some stupid lackey at the sherriffs office says.
Everything fun is a ‘marketing ploy’ to these morons.
It’s fun for them right up until they realize that someone, somewhere, is making a profit from their fun.
It’s only fun if your taking something from someone else. Be the looter, not the lootee.
I couldn’t figure it out from a quick scan, where is the author from that Christians don’t celebrate Halloween?
From the town of Bullshitville in the nation of Madeupistan.
There are a couple of places in America at least, particularly in some of the more rural areas and suburbs in the south. A lot the same parents who believed D&D was secret occultist rituals to Satan also had rather negative views of Halloween.
I was gonna say, I think the further you get theologically from Roman Catholicism the more prevalent it becomes. It is, after all, the vigil before All Saints’ Day.
When we lived in Pensacola, our neighborhood had quite a few houses that kept the lights off and would not hand out candy. If I had to guess, probably a majority of the neighborhood. Religion wasn’t likely the reason for all of them, but I know it was the reason for quite a few of them – Escambia County FL supposedly has more churches per capita than anywhere else in the country. There was an older couple across the street who used to babysit for us occasionally, and they thought Halloween was a “satanic” holiday. The wife about fainted when had our son, who was about 18 months at the time, in a little devil costume.
It probably isn’t a majority view anywhere in the US, however it isn’t exactly uncommon in the Bible Belt.
When I lived in Gwinette County Ga (upper middle class suburb of Atlanta) the schools were not allowed to even say Halloween because there were WAY too many people who considered it Satanic and did not allow their kids to participate. So instead of Halloween parties they had Harvest parties in the first week of November and a lot of churches had alternative activities scheduled for the kids on the 31st so they didn’t feel quite so left out
Harvest ceremonies are more Pagan than all hallows eve.
My family didn’t celebrate Halloween because my parents were ultra-Christian. They said the holiday was celebrating evil. All I cared about was missing the fun. Shitty articles that Sloop linked aside, the Halloween article is pretty good. Since I didn’t celebrate Halloween as a kid, I really don’t bother much with it as an adult. I’ll throw together a lazy costume at the last minute if I’m invited to a party, but otherwise I’ll just say “fuck it” and watch a scary movie at home or with a friend or 2.
Then again, I also feel the same way about Christmas. Why do I need to buy all the fucksticks in my life presents? Can we just eat and drink together or do I have to guess at what you might want every 12 months?
My family insists on doing presents each year, I don’t get it.
I don’t either. But I’ve gotten people conditioned to accept not bothering to expect to exchange anything with me.
I did contemplate getting my dad a box of asphalt shingles for this year (he’s had some leaks in his roof, and may or may not get the joke)
My family is rather large, so we draw names. This has the added benefit of allowing you to ask everyone else in the family for help in guessing what they want.
Unfortunately, I have been labeled as being difficult to buy for, so I am often traded. Last year, my stepdad got me and he bought me some wood, and a couple bottles of lighter fluid from a Mexican gas station.
I get everybody cheap DVDs off of Amazon, since they know I like old movies. I don’t think I spend more than ten bucks on anybody.
My sister gets me a Dunkin Donuts gift card every year.
The old lighthouse joke doesn’t seem as far fetched anymore…
Louden Swain and Brian Shute approve this song.
+1 nosebleed
DEAN AMBROSE!
+1 Tai Chi Lesson
Anyway, I know some of you think I’m an asshole for the way I go on about
the Buckeyescollege football.FTFY
Also; I keeed, I keeed!
…sorta
I’m in his head!
^^^
And NTTAWWT:
eau naturelle
Tesla’s Production Goals Are Starting to Look Unfeasible
Starting? Didn’t we say it wasn’t going to happen back when they overpromised?
Should have just stopped the article right there.
Well, it becomes slightly more possible if you skip the tedious pre-production testing steps.
Or actually delivering a finished product. My bad.
Oh yeah, I finally saw an electric vehicle using one of those wasteful dedicated charging parking spots.
It was a Mercedes. the driver was one of those rich suburban women whose groceries consisted almost entirely of snobbish produce. (I was behind her at the register, and the cashier had never heard of some of the stuff she was buying).
I felt sorry for whoever that food was going to be foisted upon – then irritated that prime parking spaces were being wasted on people who had no real justification for needing to park that close to the doors.
Listen, Romaine lettuce isn’t so exotic that its being brought in from Italy. Try it, you might like it.
She wasn’t buying romaine. And I said the cashier had never heard of them, meaning they were rarely bought.
Though the funny moment was when the customer herself couldn’t identify turnips, even though she was the one buying them. Hense my pity for the people the food will be foisted upon.
“A cow patty is just a slang term for hamburger, right?”
Grocers don’t stock produce that’s rarely bought since it has the shortest shelf life of everything in the store. (Except perhaps some root vegetables.)
Don’t ruin my judginess with logic!
It becomes less amusing when the story is the cashier is bad at identifying vegetables.
I am going with UCS on this one. I saw a foreignish couple buying some stuff (mostly root vegetables) that I had never seen before and neither had the cashier, who kept asking what it was, and the customers didn’t know either, at least in english.
Meh. Literally every time I buy leeks the cashier asks me what they are and what you do with them. I was also once asked what BEETS were. Bizarre.
Remember folks if you aren’t completely fucking retarded you are immediately qualified for a better job the grocery store cashier.
Beets, the key ingredient in Borscht.
I need to see if I can make that some day.
Pickled beets are awesome. Pickled beets with onions and jalapeños are better.
I’m gonna pickle some beets this week so I can have them ready for the Christmas trip to my parents house. Thanks for putting me in the mood.
My wife adores roasted beet salad, made with arugula, chopped pecans, and goat cheese.
in my experience, no cashier can ever identify collard greens.
To be fair, every few months I have to consult the Internet to determine how many vegetables with which qualities the following terms reference: turnip, white turnip, purple turnip, swede, rutabaga.
Snobbish Produce.
What genre are they? I’m thinking circa 1981 new wave.
Category Five wrecks everything it hits. Just sayin’.
The car industry is stodgy and boring?
*pegs the tach needle, dumps clutch*
So stodgy you can now buy a 707HP Jeep.
My brother is a consultant for FCA. Most of the time his job is boring QA on their test numbers, but occasionally, he gets to go zooming around the track in something like that.
I know it’s just a brand name, but I was sort of expecting something with a body more like the Cherokee. The Grand Cherokee has always looked, well, uninspired.
I had one as a rental for ten days in the wilds of Utah. Uninspiring design, perhaps, but it’s a damn nice ride.
It’s funny because this guy is from the “Lean Enterprise” and must love Tesla for their “application” of lean/agile concepts (hence the rest of auto manufacturers are boring). But it was from Toyota plants that most concepts of lean business were started.
That and the fact that the douchebags are building the cars basically by hand.
Decidedly NOT lean.
Yep. There was an article (last week, I think) where the author described his dismay at seeing massive racks of parts in storage while touring the Fremont plant, which is the exact opposite of the Toyota lean production model.
Lean enterprise is another government funded business cult. I attended a string of business classes associated with George Mason, sponsored by SBA that was pushing that bullshit. I considered everything they taught to be self-evident, but there were plenty of other tards in the class that were lapping it up.
I saw a Tesla in the wild once. It was such a dull, generic sedan that I wouldn’t have known it was a Tesla if I weren’t stuck behind it at a light and able to read the branding on the exterior.
If I were to describe any car as ‘Stodgy’, that Tesla would be it.
The Tesla Model S makes the new Honda Accord look like a sex machine.
I see one regularly on my morning commute. Every time I see it, I just think of what a massive asshole the guy driving it probably is.
I see Teslas all the time here near DC. I have a bias against people the drive Teslas and Priuses.
I’d still love to drop a nasty big V8 into a Tesla body and visit enthusiast meet-ups.
What about people who drive a C-MAX?
Though I admit, I did pick up the rolling pile of toxic rare-earth elements because it was comfortable to drive, rather than out of some misguided notion about carbon dioxide.
There he is! Burn him!
*gets bic out and lights up tiki torch*
James Womack is a douche that probably says “synergy” and “killer app” all the time.
Elon is a genius hell figure it out. I expect production to be double the target.
GOSPLAN, is that you?
+1 Mr. Thompson
Whoever posted the link to FreedomToons a couple days ago…thank you. I’ve been laughing nonstop.
Seconded, I believe it was Doom.
*bows to the both of you*
for those of us who missed it can you repost?
This one was posted. Don’t know if it’s the one Mustang is referring to though.
that’s it 🙂
Is Bigfoot Likelier Than the Loch Ness Monster?
The relative plausibility of impossible beings tells you a lot about how the mind works.
I’m not sure. The first two examples given are just applying reality in a contrived way. To me It’s the same a word problem. There is no train leaving at 10 from Pittsburgh and another at 12 from Chicago, but if there were… . As for the final one, it might be more along the lines of what the author is getting at. They are opinions. There’s no reason for us to believe one probability is greater than the other, assuming as she stated, we know the real likelihoods are equal.
The problem is that they are conflating likelihood to exist with theoretical viability. A creature like bigfoot is consistent with biological and physical laws (it’s basically a smarter upright orangutan), whereas, say, a beholder is…not, but this doesn’t mean that bigfoot is more likely to exist than a beholder.
And, obligatory with any bigfoot link,
STEVE SMITH VERY REAL. PROOF IS IN YOUR ANUS.
There are also more factors to take into account than that.
For example,
In the case of the Loch Ness monster you would need to have a very large predator which has survived in a very low food environment for several million years. There clearly is not a breeding community of them, there simply is not enough food to sustain multiple large predators in Loch Ness so it would have to be a surviving plesiosaur that has somehow survived 66 milion years past the date when the species went extinct. There is no fossil record anywhere to support plesiosaurs surviving past the Cretaceous so you would need to come up with some way for a large predator to survive that long in the wild.
With Steve Smith, you have a creature for which there is no fossil evidence however there were multiple hominid species roaming the planet as little as 30,000 years ago and the places Steve’s family is reputed to exist in are all out of the way and rarely traveled by humans.
It is significantly more likely that a low population species of hominid escaped detection for a few tens of thousands of years than it is that you have a population of very large predators that existed for 65 million years and left no fossil record
However, there’s the potential for Nessie to be real, just utterly boring.
There’s a couple of monsters in Ontario in deep lakes that everyone just assumes are massive sturgeons that come to the surface once and awhile.
Strange video shows hordes of octopuses WALK out of sea
something tentacle something Japan
Are you slowing down in old age? You only have 40% of the first 10 comments as your own links!
🙂
I’m pacing so you don’t bitch too much.
Next time 50% then?
Shooting for the stars!
Climate.
Change.
And the NYT is reporting the lucky winner as Manafort.
Looting the houses and towns ravaged by wildfires? I hope they toss these fuckers away for a long time. A very long time.
In 2011 my place was wiped out by a large tornado. A lot of my family and friend’s places were as well. My sister and brother in law’s house was torn down to the slab. He lost everything, except his bad boy 0 turn mower. It somehow miraculously serviced unscathed. The very next day, some looting piece of shit came by and stile it. We never found out who it was, but who ever it was deserves to have their legs broken.
It would be more poetic if they got partly run over by the mower they stole.
I talk a good game, but I’m not really as bloodthirsty as I might sound. In this case, though, I’m all for shooting looters. There’s the obvious moral disgust with which you’d justly regard someone who would view someone else’s tragedy as an opportunity to steal from a defenseless victim, but there’s also a really, really good social argument to be made. It’s hard to come up with a better example of anarchy than the immediate wake of a major disaster. That’s precisely the moment when you need individuals to voluntarily respect each other’s rights in order to have any kind of functioning community. People who violate that reciprocal trust aren’t buying in anyway, and they’re weakening the very tenuous bonds of trust that hold communities together. If that kind of behavior is allowed to go on unchecked, you rapidly wind up with no community at all but a group of strangers living in mutual suspicion, always on guard against each other. The wounding or killing of a scumbag piece of shit is a small price to pay to avoid that.
I agree. The kind of person who steals from someone after a natural disaster is not the kind of person I want living in my community. If he loses his life while trying to steal from someone who just had their life turned upside down, then I’m just fine with that. You’re correct about the deterrent factor too. A couple shot looters seriously discourages other potential looters.
+ roof Koreans
Yep, it’s Manafort. And some guy named “Gates”.
‘Gate’ has a bad connotation in American politics. If your name is Gates, or if you have to deal with a gate, stay away…
GatesGate!
*Narrows gates*
When I heard “Gates”, I was praying the first name would be “Robert”.
IANAL, but it looks like most of the meat there is basically tax fraud. The support for the foreign agent business seems a little weak.
The article states as a fact that Russia hacked the US to get trump elected. Though it does say there is no proof of trump collusion.
As far as I know, any info that came out as a result of any hacking hasn’t even been refuted. Hillary to this very day won’t outright deny anything. Herself and her lapdogs just say look over there trump.
To be clear:
Only a tiny number of things that were leaked to the press over 2016, which may have come from the DNC, were part of any ‘hacking’ effort.
e.g. Podesta’s emails were specifically part of a phishing scam; and some docs that leaked very early on (in Dec 2015) re: the DNC were possibly part of some hack that had happened the previous *summer* (a year+ before the primaries even)
http://www.npr.org/2015/12/24/460851290/answering-your-questions-about-the-democratic-data-breach
huge amounts of the stuff Wikileaks published had no connection to the russian activity. of course, you wouldn’t know this from the media, who purposely conflate all of it because ‘narrative’.
Trump Just Managed to Make Halloween Candy Weird
This is great, though. Might prompt some self reflection among those parents, if their kids come home and ask them why they’re so mean to the President.
He should have harangued their parents on national tv about their diet choices and then imposed on them school lunch regs they hate, causing them to eat even more junk when they get home because the shitty lunches at school aren’t appetizing.
Then he should have joined up with Han Solo, helping Luke blow up the Death Star.
Don’t forget scolding a fucking gymnastics gold medal winner because she said she wanted some McDonald’s after the Olympics.
“Hey big guy, is this Princess Leia yours? Are you going as Jabba to the Daddy/Daughter costume ball?”
“Your wife’s already in her Rancor outfit I see.”
Re: the Spacey thing…. My two cents is that first, I’m glad he hasn’t made a big deal about his sexuality all these years because, like, who cares? No one should. Secondly, and I feel dirty for saying this, but I could see how a drunk 26-year-old could do what he did with a degree of innocence. A reasonable person would not assume that a 14-year-old would be at a party unchaperoned that late at night. Doesn’t excuse it, but it makes his “I’m not a pedophile” defense plausible.
And even if he DID know, having a thing for 14 year olds doesn’t make you a pedophile. There is that other term for that that I can never remember because no one uses it.
Arab?
*golf clap*
Hebephilia is attraction to people aged 11-14, while Ephebophilia is attraction to people aged 15-19.
Hebephilia is attraction to people aged 11-14
Jewish preteens hardest hit?
Swiss you are needed over (((here)))…
(((narrows gaze)))
Toda
I knew you were a pervert….
Actually, that was from a simple Wikipedia search. We beholders used to reproduce asexually by vomiting out a sac of baby beholders, then eating the offspring that looked most different than us. Now though, we simply have incredibly vivid dreams that occasionally cause another beholder or an inferior beholder-kin to spontaneously manifest (stupid edition change, destroying our proud tradition of infanticide).
Why would they change that?
The original makes much more sense (for a floating ball of eyes with magic and antimagic…)
Do the Dungeons & Dragons players endlessly kvetch and moan about edition changes as much as the 40K players?
There are two types of changes – rules changes and lore changes. Rules changes get kvetched about in any game.
Lore changes depend on internal consistancy. There was no reason to remove the puking up baby beholders in favor of dreaming things into existance.
Just like there was no reason a guy in a cave could have possibly improved on the Emperor’s work, or that Failbaddon could have destroyed Cadia.
So much so that some fans spun off their own game after a version change.
Can’t compare it to 40k because I don’t play (I really don’t need another money sink), but there is absolutely edition wars in D&D. Part of it is from nostalgia (e.g. anyone thinking THAC0 is more intuitive than the current AC system, back in my day mages weren’t this overpowered, etc), and part of it is because there are genuinely some really big differences between certain editions that appeal to some people more than others. (e.g. 3.5/PF is very diverse in character and monster construction, but very rules heavy and unbalanced, 5e is much rules lighter and more balanced but much more constraining in character creation, 4e is an MMO on a table). Different editions can in some ways feel like a new game, just with lots of references to the older ones.
Of course, as gamers with internet forums we can’t just admit that different people have different opinions and leave it at that, so we must declare that anyone who does not agree on our system is categorically wrong or simply stupid and explain to them why X edition is awful and the worst thing since cancer.
I started around 2nd edition. I do not miss THAC0 one bit. I still shake my head when reminded of that… odd mechanic.
THAC0 can kiss my ass, and I say that as someone who is back to playing first edition because my group is a bunch of fuddy-duddies.
UnCivil, one of these days I need to get enough motivation to pull
the giant money sinkmy Guild Expeditionary Force (30 Squat trikes w/Multi-Meltas, 20 Vincent Black Shadows w/Multi-Melta sidecars, dozens of Exo-Armored bikes, etc.) out of the attic and schlep up to your neck of the woods to have at you.Ditto. I’m going back and forth with the wife on this a bit. Her position is that he could’ve done a lot to help other closeted homosexuals by coming out, and, as a separate point, coming out after admitting to bad acts is a bad way to do it. My argument is that his personal life is nobody’s business, and he had no reason to expect that Rapp wasn’t at the age of consent given the circumstances. And shit, at 26 I’d take a shot at anyone in my field of vision who seemed to be female and wasn’t hideous after a few drinks. File that under “Shit People in their Twenties Do”.
Eh. Spacey invited the guy to the party, so he knew how old he was. And the kid wasn’t a hot 14-year-old. Cast pics from the time make him look 11.
he had no reason to expect that Rapp wasn’t at the age of consent given the circumstances
Looking at his pic at the time, there is no way anyone not in a coma would mistake him for an 18-year-old. And this shit is like roaches – if you see one, the smart bet is there’s a dozen more out there you just haven’t seen.
I didn’t see the pic, so I’ll take your word. That puts a different spin on it, for sure.
This article has some fairly contemporaneous pix.
Wow, that’s pretty fucked up.
7:18 and I’ve already learned something (and from YT comments no less).
Geddy Lee was not the first bassist/singer of Rush.
Red Ryder guy was!
I thought Tom Cochrane was the ‘guy’ in Red Rider. /wink.
Life is a highway….full of pot holes….and I don’t want to ride it all night long because I get tired fast now.
Don’t read YouTube comments, they’ll crush your faith in humanity.
As far as the indictments go, I’m guessing that nobody of consequence will be arrested today. The swamp critters are all corrupt, all in bed with one another, and can’t afford to start pointing out the illegal dealings of each other. The whole thing would fall apart (one can dream) if the did.
The Wild finally played a decent hockey game and beat the fucking Penguins.
Fuck the Penguins.
All right thinking people have that thought, yes?
Yes. No decent human being would ever cheer for the Penguins.
What if you lived in Pittsburgh circa-1992?
…no, but if you’re into bestiality I think it should be perfectly legal, as long as the penguins are consenting adults.
*narrows gaze*
Given that Penguins will fuck pretty much anything they are probably ok with that
Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and associate to surrender in Russia prob
So hot off the press they couldn’t spell check the title.
Talk about low hanging fruit, this is essentially an admission that they’ve got nothing.
Watch the lefty news, though – it will be bigger than Watergate.
/Al Capone nods sagely.
Mueller was vested authority to investigate what exactly?
Yes.
The World.
Republicans. All of ’em, for anything.
“Show me the man, I’ll show you the crime.”
– Laventy Beria
Good old Lavrenty, a truly sick fuck.
Meh…nothing “COLLABORASHUNZ!” in it…very Martha Stewart-ish.
Hey after all the money spent, someone had to get arrested, or else it would look like a colossal failure. Just because the person who doesn’t want to look like a failure is also the guy who gets to present charges in no way indicates that the system is based.
That was my take. There was a great deal of specificity in tax avoidance and that sort of stuff, but it was pretty small beer when it came to proving some sort of Russian influence peddling conspiracy.
STEVE SMITH NEVER MAKE THAT SPELLING MISTAKE
Sigh. Deer hunting opens next weekend and like clockwork, Minnesoda Public Radio (although, I’m expecting to see this lots of other places too), runs a story about eagles being poisoned by lead from hunters.
1) Most lead in eagles most likely comes from fish or waterfowl. Not deer.
2) No explanation of how the eagle population has skyrocketed in the last 20 years despite the onslaught of lead
3) Suggestion is made to switch to copper ammunition? Huh? Maybe they meant steel shot?
I’ve seen all-copper self-defense ammo. Not sure if it’s any good for hunting.
My load for Thunder Speaker uses 225-grain Barnes Triple Shocks, those are solid extruded copper. Good results on deer and elk.
Long time deer hunter here.
If they mandated steel or copper or whatever rounds for deer hunting, it would make absolutely zero impact on the amount of lead that released into the enviroment. The number of times a hunter shoots at a deer in a year is miniscule. At most a hunter may shoot 10 rounds a year at deer. The vast majority of rounds shot are at targets.
No, no, no Lachowsky. Don’t you realize that for every deer that a hunter shoots and brings home, they shoot 100-200 and just leave them laying out in the woods for the eagles?
Also, if lead in deer was really that bad, why would anyone feed it to their families?
I thought it was all the missed shots from hunting with fully-semiautomatic bump-stocked black rifles with thousand round magazine clips and the shoulder thing that goes up.
yeah. Nobody does that. literally nobody.
I misplaced my sarc tags.
Cheaperthandirt is doing a sale on thousand round magazine clips, but they’re the plastic kind that only fit ghost guns, so…
Because there aren’t any regulations against it!! This is what you get with libertarianism!!!
/statist
You expect gun grabber to bother learning about the subject they want to regulate?
Wait, you don’t just set up a machine gun emplacement across from a salt lick?
Claymores.
Pfft. That’s where the claymores go.
Killing sweet innocent animals is shameful
We’re not talking about sweet, or innocent animals, we’re talking about whitetail deer – a pest species that is so grossly overpopulated that they need to be seriously culled to get down to “too fucking many”. And they’re vicious, verminous devourers with terribly good PR.
I can’t imagine how much swerving I’d have to do on the roads around here if there wasn’t a deer season.
http://imgur.com/ZJ4BGuU
My 5 year old. yesterday morning. suck it PETA.
Did the kid take the shot?
My father in law helped him hold the rifle, but he put the sights on it and pulled the trigger.
At 5? Your boy’s a hell of a shot! Congratulations!
Congratulations! Nothing like the smug grin on a kid’s face after he shoots his first deer.
Is there anything on the front end of that deer? I’d hate to think it bled out from those hits to the hindquarters.
The deer wasn’t shot as badly as it looked. We lost about half of one of the back legs.
The way we butcher deer, most of the front legs are either sausage or what we call “pounded” (as in, you should tenderize the meat before eating it.)
Now with sous vide, those front pieces are fine and dandy as steaks.
Was that your kid? If so, congratulations.
Yup. That was from years and years ago. He’s now a 19 year old kid (who has actually turned out pretty good).
GAY-RON-TEE you will keep that pic of your kid around forever and get a bit misty when you look back at it.
There’s one just like it in the woods behind my house. Last month that fucker systematically killed every young tree I planted over the past 2 years.
But it is so much fun.
Actually deer hunting is the one type of hunting (especially white tails from a stand) that I could give up pretty easily. I still go because my family has a sweet setup on some private land.
Basically deer hunting is 15 minutes of super intense excitement followed up by about 8 hours of drudge work. (I do like venison though).
For my druthers, hunting birds over a good dog is the most fun a guy can have. My dad likes to duck hunt, but he is crazy.
I retired from duck hunting years ago. Too much work in miserable conditions for just an OK payoff. Kind of like walleye fishing.
“Kind of like walleye fishing.”
Blasphemer!
I earned it, Tulip. 15 years of Lake Vermilion rain, sleet and snow.
Lake of the Woods! Lake of the Woods is where true Minnesotans fish for walleye, tasty, tasty walleye.
Mutters “Lake Vermilion, honestly.”
While it’s nice, no way I was gonna drive to LOTW some 30 times a year.
LOTW could be read like “Lord of the World”.
I’m here.
*bows*
I’m with Tundra on this.
Walleyes don’t even taste as good as jumbo perch (which you can catch a ton of on Mille Lacs). And they fight for shit.
If you want to catch a bunch of walleyes go up to around Detroit Lakes and bring a jug of rum. I’ll give you my father’s contact info and if you share the rum with him, he’ll put you on all the walleyes you could ever want.
My mother lives near DL. We have all the walleye, perch, crappies and sunnies we want.
Steel slugs just don’t seem as though they would do much expanding.
On the other hand, a 3/4 inch slug still makes a pretty big hole.
Steel slugs wear out the barrel of a shotgun. In a rifle a steel projectile would be very bad for the barrell. I think a cast steel bullet in a rifle would destroy the rifling very quickly. there is a reason nobody makes steel bullets. They are a bad idea.
None of that would concern the ban lead folks. If anything they would see it as an additional reason to enact a lead ban since it would further increase the cost of hunting and shooting sports.
Yeah, people who advocate for steel rounds are probably also people who don’t understand why you’d collect firearms, or why you’d want to own more than one in the first place.
I’ve seen zinc recently. The brand is Z-Clean. “clean”. i imagine it’s like sandblasting your teeth. sure they’ll be whiter, but also smaller.
I have a rifled slug barrel on my 12 gauge Remington 1100 from back in my WI deer hunting days. I settled on saboted slugs ( the actual slug was .50 cal) because they were the most accurate (consistent 2″ groups at 100 yards, kind of a unicorn for slugs), but it took a lot of experimentation with different shells.
the scavengers eat the gut piles leftover and consume any lead in the entrails. just don’t gut shoot your game.
Speaking of, are there any WI deer hunting Glibs willing to teach a couple of noobs? My fiancèe and I both have permits and rifles (albeit heavy-ass milsurps) but don’t feel super confident just going out and trying our luck somewhere.
Sorry, Maniac – I left WI more than ten years ago. Can’t help. I expect Southern WI is still shotgun-only, so be sure you can use rifles wherever you go. WI is a deer hunting state; the biggest challenge is finding a place to hunt. A lot of the public land is basically overhunted and no fun (unless you go deep into it and scout the hell out of it). Private land is better, but very hard to get onto.
Southern WI appears to have started allowing rifles, based on the rules I’m reading, so at least there’s that.
Worst case we’ll take a trip way up north and stake out a spot in the woods for a weekend and just see how it goes. My main concern is that knowing the theory and having practical experience are two very different things.
Southern WI appears to have started allowing rifles, based on the rules I’m reading,
Yikes. I actually thought the shotgun rule was a good one – there’s just a shitload of hunters in Southern WI – we used to call the farms around us pumpkin patches during gun season because of all the blaze orange, and the vast majority did zip zero nada shooting except during deer season, when it sounded like they were trying to make up for the rest of the year. Slugs hit the ground in about a quarter mile; bullets more like 2 or 3 miles, so it was a lot safer for everyone to have shotgun only.
If you are going to hunt public land, get good topo maps, read up some on what deer behavior is in those kinds of woods, pay attention to wind direction, and walk further in to a good hunting spot than you think you need to. Which will be fun, because you’ll need to be where you will hunt at least half an hour before sunrise. Oh, and make sure you know how to field dress a deer. If at all possible, go up and do some scouting in advance. No substitute for having an experienced hunter, but those are the basics.
Awesome, thanks R C, I’ll keep that in mind for the upcoming trip.
I’ll have to double check the rules, but yeah, I think they’re allowing rifles now. There are definitely a lot of Fudds who show up at the ranges around now to get their rifles sighted in, and while so far none of them have given me too much cause for concern, I do worry a bit. I mean, when my shitty eyes and iron sights outshoot the guy with the 4x optic and sandbags, that’s not a great sign.
Search For “SWAT Team Tactics” Found On Las Vegas Shooter’s Computer
That’s pretty amazing news considering the hard drive is supposedly missing.
It was on a post-it note on the screen “Search for swat team tactics”
Maybe he forgot to log out of his Gmail account before he googled it.
Ahhhh. Soup season is finally here.
I was up early and working on tonight’s supper. Crab cakes and a shrimp gumbo. I will let y’all know how it turns out.
Crabcakes:
1/2 cup white bread crumbs soaked in 1/4 cup of whole milk
2 – 8oz cans of lump crab meat drained, save the liquid for the next recipe
about a teaspoon of mayonnaise – use artisan if you like. I am using Kraft
1 teaspoon of Cajun mustard
a dash of Tony Chachere’s seasoning (pronounced sash-a-ray)
a dash of baking powder
a little sweet basil and a splash of Worcestershire sauce
a teaspoon of lemon or lime juice
a little salt and pepper
1/2 of a beaten egg
After the bread is soaked to a mush I will mix all ingredients and divide into two patties.
Deep fry in peanut oil at 350 F ( about 177C for you uncivilized folk )
Gumbo:
Liquid from crab cans
2 cups Clamato
1 tablespoon of dark roux
1/2 cup seasoning mix – equal mix of chopped onion, celery,bell pepper
dash of worcestershire
2 drops of Zataran’s liquid crab boil
1/2 clove chopped garlic
hefty splash of tabasco sauce (1 or 2 tablespoons)
dash of cayenne pepper
1 handful of chopped shrimp ( or crawfish, I haven’t decided yet)
If I were feeding more than just my wife and myself I would add fried oysters but I cant buy oysters in a small enough amount for just the two of us. Of course the Oyster liquor would go in the gumbo stock and the oysters fried.
While the crab cake mix waits to be fried and the gumbo simmers on extra low I am gonna take the trailer and chainsaw off to the last patch of timber we cut and see if I can find some nice oak tops and cut some firewood. I might just do some plinking while I am there.
Y’all enjoy your day. I hope it is as pleasant as I expect mine to be.
What do you do with the other half of the egg?
Feed it to the dog and then put a clothespin on your nose or just down the drain.
Oh, I forgot. I just poured up some field pea soup in a thermos to take with me.
2 cups field peas with snaps
1/4 cup chopped onion
a teaspoon of garlic
2 cups chicken stock
dash of cayenne
dash of black pepper
pinch of salt
2 drops of Zataran’s liquid crab boil
1/4 cup or so finely chopped salt pork
I simmered for two hours and then used a stick blender to turn into a soup consistency.
I just tasted it. Damn that’s good. It is going to be even better after my wife complains of being cold while she watches me cut wood. That’ll warm her up.
Do you even get temperatures low enough to be called cold? (I’ll accept ‘breath mists consistantly’, even though ‘cold’ is ‘breath freezes to facial hair’)
I was in New Orleans in February of 2016. They had a cold snap and it got down to the mid-thirties. You could spot the locals who looked like they were about to keel over from hypothermia.
Christmas Eve 2004, we got about a 16th of an inch of snow in the French Quarter. It was just enough to have a running snowball fight from bar to bar.
Cold is a relative term. If you are a Louisiana native 47F is cold. If you are an Alaska native, not so much.
I just prepared the trailer. It’s cold outside. A thermos full of hot pea soup will be welcome later.
47 is a worst, brisk. If you have decent sunlight, 47 is comfortable. Of course, below freezing can has been “Maybe I should get a jacket out” weather. One of these years we might get cold enough that I’ll have to put the heavy liner in my “below zero” coat.
On the other hand, seventy is getting hot…
When I was going to school at Memphis State, I was an assistant manager at a video rental place near campus.
The one (sometimes two) day that it would actually snow a bit, the store was swamped with people stocking up to make it through the snownami. All of them were convinced that they would be trapped inside for weeks.
What time of year did you say you were coming through here? You should try mid-august when it gets short sleeve weather.
Early June – I already anticipate requiring extra hydration and hiding in airconditioned locations (even if it’s my car).
+1 95° with 98% humidity at 4am.
In Lake Havasu City, AZ, 70 is chilly. Especially if the wind is coming off the lake
45 degrees, overcast, and windy in October is cold.
45 degrees and sunshine in late March is strip off your clothes and run naked through the streets because the air doesn’t hurt anymore.
^This
Minnesodans put on their jackets when it is 40, then they take them off when it gets to 30.
I sent a video of my kids playing outside in March in t-shirts, jeans and no shoes when it was 38 to my old buddies from Memphis, who just couldn’t figure out how nice that feels after a winter of sub-freezing temps.
Yes – Went to college in Maine. The first time it makes it back into the 40’s in March, everyone is wearing shorts and doing stuff outdoors.
This does not explain the mystery of the missing 1/2 egg
You’ve never heard of an ‘egg suckin’ dog’?
I need to get myself a nice bone-in ham so I can make some ham and bean soup. There is nothing like a soup made with a stock from ham bone.
I made chili last night. Enjoying today.
Made chili, too.
Yum.
You misspelled Old Bay*…
*I keed, I keed! I’ve got a can of Tony Chachere’s in my pantry at all times. That stuff’s great.
I like Slap Ya Mama seasoning because it reminds me of my old radar instructor, born and raised in Lake Charles whose nickname was “the Mama Slappa”.
My in-laws are about a 45 minute drive from Bergeron’s in Shreveport, and we get a few cans of their seasoning every time we go down. It’s the best seasoned-salt I’ve ever had. Lot’s of flavor and plenty of heat without being overpowering.
Awesome. I used to make gumbo with shrimp, ham, and Cajun sausage that I ground, stuffed, and smoked myself.
Today I’m making nikujaga, a Japanese stew of beef, potatoes, onions, carrots, and pea pods.
You misspelled ‘Irish’
Loves me Irish stew…usually use pork though, lamb is expensive.
From The Antiplanner this morning, an interesting data viz tool that shows different land use, property tax, affordability and other interesting things over the US map:
https://placedatabase.policymap.com/
Been poking around some of the maps and one thing that stands out to me is Wisconsin seems to have relatively high property taxes. But, lower housing costs (relative to income).
Oh, look! All the Chicago ‘burbs are in the highest property-tax-to-income space. 🙁
My street isn’t on the map.
While my house is only 6 months old, the street has existed for 4 years now, so that is horribly out of date.
Bet you jackasses are all super jealous of Minnesoda now. Why? Because Minnesoda had its own exchange and budget and can’t be sabotaged by Trump!
Be prepared for me to post another story in a month or two where the person running our exchange holds forth for several pages on why the exchange went so badly. It has never been a shining star of efficiency.
Good for you Federalists. Try out your crazy ideas while the rest of us wait to see if turns into a flaming trainwreck.
If?
Shhh. Let them dream. It makes it all the more satisfying when their hopes inevitably crash and burn in an inferno of “not real socialism.”
Oh, it has already been years of dumpster fires. That is what made me laugh so hard about this story.
Every year, they fuck up royally and spend months back pedaling and trying to avoid being blamed for the state exchange not working again.
You would sort of think they’d have figured out to keep their heads’ down by now.
“if”?
Man, that was some weird ball game last night. It’s hard not to think they juiced the balls or something.
They being The Illuminati.
How do you go from the best pitching team in baseball to just plain suck? Tired arms? Pant shitting? How does Kershaw keep hitting a wall around the 4th or 5th inning? It has to be fatigue.
His curve is brutal, but after seeing several at-bats for 2 games, they can at least fend it off and wait for his other stuff – which is very hittable.
Isn’t that why they’re fed orange slices at halftime?
*opera applause*
They are just absolutely gassed. You’re a good player and you make it to the WS, you started playing games in March and your next is Game Six in November. Same thing happened with the Cubs—three long years in a row. After beating Washington they were just completely spent. We got beat by a better team, but it was just evident that they just didn’t have anything less in them.
Strangely, I took this year’s loss much better than I would’ve accepted a loss last year.
For at least two more days….*cough*…..still reigning Champs.
How does Kershaw keep hitting a wall around the 4th or 5th inning?
I think it’s all mental for him. By then that’s the second time the lineup has seen him and start making contact. A few of those get on base….he seems to take everything as a personal failure.
All of this hollywood shit is a perfect reason why everyone needs to turn to the clock back to roughly 1900 and start treating actors like the carny, vaudeville trash they are. In a more civilized time, actors weren’t allowed in polite company because they are natural sociopaths and their job is to essentially lie really well.
Somewhere in the development of the studio system, the marketing campaign became that they were glamorous and exotic artists who should become objects of adulation and desire. It took, and here we are in 2017 surprised that people one half step above a tilt-a-whirl operated and 3 steps below professional wrestler on the trustworthiness scale are sexual predators, liars, and con artists.
It’s pretty bad when the best people in Hollywood are the narcissists.
The face of Hollywood is attractive though and people want to bang them. That goes a long way.
I would make an exception for the truly talented individuals that made it on the quality of their craft.
Exhibit #1 – The Nicholas Brothers
I mean, yeah, there are some decent people sprinkled in here and there and even the shitty awful scumbags can be talented.
It’s just that people used to admire their talent from afar while also realizing what they (most likely) really were. The past 50 years has been spent normalizing terrible behavior from Hollywood because it’s part of the mystique.
Also, is it any coincidence that feminist sites like Jezebel have consistently been the biggest Hollywood celebrity groupies? Their comments have always been filled with naive/hopelessly stupid “OMG I bet X is just amaaaaaazing to hang out with! Like shes totally just like the mom I never had! Go girl!”
The dumbest among us have been enabling this shit, unintentionally
Hey, there’s a white guy playing the trombone!
Hear hear. Preach it, Brother Hayek
What more, back in the early 2000s (around then) The Economist gave prominent space to Angelina jolie in their Year End special edition.
Right there I knew and realized it was over.
Stopped my subscription on the spot.
I just think we need to nationalize Hollywood. There are lots of reasons:
1. Power: the current concentration of power in producers allows them to sexually and financially prey upon the weaker actors.
B. Efficiency: isn’t it inefficient to have 2 comic book movie companies? If the free market was so efficient we’d only need one and they would always get it right. That’s why we need to the government in show biz.
III. Propoganda: directors like Michael Bay put in propoganda and fake news into their stories. If it was run by the government directors would be accountable to make sure the truth was shown.
Does James Cameron qualify as a propaganda directing.
No, just a retard.
Also, the movie industry is pretty much a public utility*, and should be regulated as such.
*Evidence? We don’t need to stinkin evidence!
Exhibit A:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Singer
Indeed. I’m sick of going on Facebook and seeing someone shared a story about “ZOMG, X Celebrity released a POWERFUL message about Trump/Rape/Bullying/etc.” These are people who are paid to pretend for a living. Why the hell should I care what one of them had to say about Trump? Just because this person played President in a movie or TV show doesn’t actually give them intimate knowledge about the presidency.
I usually lead with: “Attention — Tom Hanks did not actually fight in WW II.”
The sheriff lobbied for legislation that would have created increased penalties for indecent exposure inside jails and prisons, making the offense a felony requiring lifetime registration as a sex offender — a status that carries a stigma inside prison and creates a host of problems for offenders after they’ve served their time, Smith said.
Look at his hands. He’s got stigamata. Or something.
This strikes me as pointlessly punitive punishment for someone who’s not even a verified pervert. “Indecent exposure” in a prison environment just means an inmate had their pants down at the wrong time in front of a guard.
indecent exposure at the women’s prison was a daily thing.
The girls on suicide watch would often strip their clothes off, sometimes taking a shit on the floor and smearing it on the wall as well. One girl was standing there in front of the glass window butt-naked holding her hand up to her ear like a phone and apparently having an imaginary conversation with someone. Another woman (who had some severe perversion issues) ran out of her cell completely naked, laid down on a table, and started masturbating furiously.
But yea, that law sounds stupid.
Sorry, but I’m choosing Walking Dead over links tonight. Carry on like nothing is wrong.
Somebody still watches that show?
Actually, it’s the biweekly zombie outbreak. It alternates with the Kaiju attacks.
I stopped watching when they stopped showing zombies. So about three years ago…
Shockingly, someone at Vox wrote a pretty good article about why TWD pretty much sucks now. Basically, they have made entire episodes out of what should only be several scenes. So the show just sort of plods along for 16 episodes until something happens.
I’m with Romero. It’s a soap opera with the occasional zombie.
Shouldn’t have bothered watching it. Pointless.
Link? I can’t find anything on Vox about this.
This might be it.
Ah, thanks.
I still enjoy it but I agree. The zombies are just props now… remember when there was a danger of people hiding that they’ve been bitten? Yeah, that doesn’t happen anymore. Zombies basically aren’t even a threat anymore unless they’re used by the main characters to kill other groups of people.
Fodder for Double-K and her strange desire to hang out at airports
*reads article*
Paging Swiss!
So I open Glibertarians at 15:00 as usual should I not be quite busy at the time, and already think 100 comments? What the hell? And then I realize that you Americans can’t even get the date of daylight savings right. Sad.
What’s Daylight Savings Time?
Daylight savings time needs to die a horrible death.
Pick a time and stick with it.
Yes please!
THIS.
You are on fire this morning.
I would like to subscribe to your newsletter
Indeed. Yet another reason I’m eyeing Arizona as my escape from California.
To hot and deserty wouldn’t if I were you
Flagstaff isnt hot. And the desert is beautiful. On highway 93 from phoenix to kingman is a couple of miles of both saguaros and Joshua trees. In the desert, there are no cameras. In the desert, you can remember your name….
Northern Arizona is gorgeous. Southern Arizona is hideous.
Highway 93 is a pretty good drive. I take that route every time I go to Vegas, I just hope I never breakdown on that route.
Point is the hour changed two nights ago.
Sunday morning here in the US. Congress decided to fuck with the dates a couple years ago to piss off all of us who work with computers.
This can’t be true, can it?
I fly Southwest a lot and really like them. They seem to have figured out the right blend of economy and comfort.
The idea of having a pop up concert in the plane seems way too dumb for them.
Evidently they’re unhappy with United and AA hogging all the bad publicity.
As if it’s not annoying enough to have to listen to someone I didn’t willingly want to listen to, I can just imagine it getting worse when they go full interactive. Awkward.
the fact that my southwest ticket should be ten bucks cheaper because of that makes me angry.
My favorite reaction
If I was Trump, I would tweet approvingly of stupid shit like goat yoga.
Imagine the shame of these saps if they woke up today with Trump tweeting “Goat Yoga. Love it.”
Look haven’t these people suffered enough?! First her takes the presidency from her, and now you want to take away the healing goat yoga?!?!
*He takes the presidency from her
Whatever.. I don’t even care anymore.
Wait, they do yoga around goats or they force the goats to do yoga? Those words don’t really go together and I don’t get it.
Click the link and find out. I dare you…..
Healing acres. Uh huh.
My great grandmother owned a hotel with natural hot springs on the grounds. People would come from all over the US to be ‘healed’ by the waters of the spring. There is nothing there now but a hot spring with a small roof over it, a gravel spot to stop your car, a plaque and pine timber for miles. I asked many old family members about this and heard lots of stories. I wanted to know where the exact location was. Finally I put all of the puzzle pieces together:
Hotel my ass. It was a whorehouse.
So there was some real actual benefit to stopping by to be “healed”?
That would explain a lot about FDR…
There is a town call Hot Springs in southern central arkansas. It’s famous for, well, it’s hot springs. There are lots of bath houses there. If you read about the early history of the town, those bath houses were the places that many of the gangsters who later helped build Las Vegas spent their time. The bathhouse were known for prostitution. The bars were known for gambling.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Springs,_Arkansas
Isn’t that where Bill Clinton grew up?
pretty close. He is from Hope, a smaller town very close to Hot Springs. Also, as an arkansan, I offer my state’s sincerest apologies for producing the man whose coattails gave us Hillary.
There’s a building in the downtown area of my town – currently a used book store – that used to be a “house of ill repute”. You walk up the stairs, and there is a big hallway with about 15 individual little rooms.
Oscar winning and Goop boss Gwyneth Paltrow is hardly known for taking the p*ss out of herself, but Halloween brought out the best in her it would appear.
http://metro.co.uk/2017/10/30/gwyneth-paltrow-basically-wins-halloween-with-her-head-in-a-box-seven-costume-7038127/
Ugh that one picture of her, she’s basically a head on top of a skeleton draped in skin.
I never got the appeal of that movie. But I’m not a big scary movie guy, so maybe my taste buds are just off.
It wasn’t a scary movie. More of a police procedural.
Ditto.
I wouldn’t really call it scary either. But the main appeals are Morgan Freeman as a wise mentor, Brad Pitt being young and brash, and David Fincher directing yet another dark film. Somewhat related, the director’s commentary on Fight Club is one of my favorite audio tracks ever. It has everyone making fun of David Fincher for the movie being dark, and Brad Pitt ripping on Ed Norton for not reading the book.
From The Antiplanner this morning
I had never heard of that site; bookmarked for later.
Thanks.
Crazy
https://youtu.be/XOxxPcy5Gr4
Wait- what time is it? Am I late for school? Oh, no, now I have to give my book report nekkid!
But Harvey Weinstein is your teacher, so now you’re a shoe in for an ‘A’.
I had a wacky dream that I was in some kind of opera or musical, and several of us forgot our lines, but somehow made it through the entire production. Then I took off my suit and bowtie, laid them down somewhere, and forgot about them. Then I was running around the backstage area in my underwear frantically trying to find my clothes. When I finally got them back and got dressed, I tried to leave, but the only way to exit the building was through an elevator behind a soda machine (like a revolving door).
I have some fucking wonky dreams.
I have a recurring dream where an old band of mine wants to do a reunion show. I tell the guys I can’t remember the songs. They say, “It’s cool, we’ll get together a few times before hand and practice.” Of course they keep cancelling the practices and I find myself on stage the night of the show with a guitar– and no clue what to do. I turn down my amp and pretend I’m playing. The crowd catches-on and starts booing me. And throwing shit. Then I wake up. I have that stupid dream at least once a month.
I have these annoying dream-like experiences where I wake up in the middle of the night with this unshakeable feeling that I’m supposed to be doing something, usually work-related. I’m awake and looking around, but my head is filled with thoughts like “oh no, I didn’t do what I was supposed to” and “oh shit, I’m at work in my underwear”. Sometimes, I even get up and walk around trying to figure out what I’m supposed to be doing. It usually takes two or three minutes before I realize that there’s nothing going on and I can go back to sleep.
It usually happens during periods where I’m stressed out about work. I started a new job in August that is much less hectic, so it hasn’t happened lately.
The Blackhawks are really shitting the bed lately. Good thing it’s still early in the season.
LULZ!
-Rangers fans
*sighs deeply, nods*
Full Manafort Indictment:
http://www.newsweek.com/read-full-text-robert-muellers-indictment-paul-manafort-and-richard-gates-696026
Nothing about conspiring with Russians and nothing about the Trump campaign or election at all that I can see. He didnt’ pay tax on a bunch of income from lobbying for Ukraine, then ran it through off shore (and unreported) bank accounts so that he could spend it in the US without paying tax on it.
Yeah, it appears to be all about tax evasion.
I see a couple obvious ways to read that:
1) They’re trying to turn a witness.
Testify against the real targets, and the pain goes away Mr. Manafort. This is just the beginning.
2) They’ve got bupkis.
This is the first time Mueller has to show us one of his cards, and the big reveal is a deuce?
If this were a poker game, I might raise big at this point just to chase him out of the hand.
I think its the 2nd also and agree with your poker analogy. If Mueller had ANYTHING on Manafort WRT Russia and collusion, it would be in here. Maybe he thinks the threat of putting Manafort away for the rest of his life (he’s almost 70) will get him to flip on a bunch of others?
It’s a public credibility display.
The Republicans want to shut this down and open a serious investigation on Hillary, and the American people are looking to see if this is just a witch hunt.
This is not the time to show you’re weakest card!
The DNC and Hillary Clinton campaign publicly admitted to worse last week than he has in this indictment.
When Congress finally beats the bank records out of Fusion, it will become almost impossible for the FBI/DOJ to pretend there’s nothing there.
But they’re probably up to the job.
IOW, this looks to be a failing witch hunt that makes Trump smell like roses. There’s nothing in the indictments that has anything to do with the Trump Campaign, let alone Russian collusion.
Even the dates don’t line up with anything that might have given the Ukranians, or anyone else, leverage on Trump.
And, of course, it works out to, what, half what the Clintons were paid by Russian principals? I don’t remember anyone complaining about undue influence of the Ukraine over Trump (though the DNC did use them for their own oppo research efforts).
Going to be interesting to see how the media spins this. And I have to wonder at Mueller’s gambit here. This was predicted by nearly everyone who wasn’t a blind partisan, and for the reasons presented in the indictment: Manafort was a greedy idiot. So why leak the story on Friday for what on Monday is revealed to be a predictable nothingburger (sorry)?
Yeah, that is the way it looks. I expect Flynn, Page and Stone will end up indictments that look fairly similar
Let’s not forget that leaking a pending indictment is a federal crime.
Think about that. There can be absolutely no doubt that someone on Mueller’s crack team is violating federal law. And he’s a federal prosecutor. Who does nothing about it, because leaks from his team have been near-constant since he was appointed. Based on an illegal leak by Comey. This stinks on ice, and always has.
I think it’s going to become clear soon that the entire Mueller fishing expedition was geared towards protecting Comey and the FBI first and foremost, and the Dems involved in Uranium One second. The Trump stuff was just a distraction from the main purpose.
Imagine the shame of these saps if they woke up today with Trump tweeting “Goat Yoga. Love it.”
Trump should announce he’s converting Michelle’s office into a goat yoga studio.
A paraplegic man who lost the use of his legs following a motorcycle accident is standing and moving again after doctors stimulated his spinal cord using electrical signals.
The 32-year-old was paralysed from the waist down after completely severing his spine in the crash, and had made no progress despite 80 sessions of regular physiotherapy.
However researchers at the University of Louisville, in Kentucky, US, have to re-awaken his nerves using spinal cord epidural stimulation (scES), where an electrical device is implanted in the lower back, below the injury.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/10/26/paraplegic-man-standing-moving-legs-scientists-rewire-spine/
Somebody should point out to that British paper that people like that are put on the Liverpool
Pathway in jolly olde England whereas they get a chance to walk again in the states.
Does this spell the beginning of the end for paralysis culture?
*signs “narrowed gaze”*
The problem with the hurricane of apologies hitting Hollywood is that it seems to confirm the social justice warrior narrative, where every man is a sexual predator, it’s just that some don’t have positions of power to exploit.
Doesn’t that further suggest that every caucasian is a racist, every Christian a homophobe, etc.? I mean if the SJWs were right about the patriarchy using their positions of power to exploit women sexually at any given opportunity, maybe they’re right about other things, too.
When we’re talking about the rape epidemic on campus, how hate speech isn’t free speech, and forced association for homophobes, we’re really talking about the same thing–whether the government needs to get involved in preventing this stuff from happening in the first place.
Oh, and ultimately, the SJWs are making this about Trump.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/maxine-waters-womens-convention-donald-trump_us_59f3a79fe4b03cd20b81b721
“Maxine Waters To Women’s Convention: Trump Is ‘Most Dishonorable And Despicable’ President Ever
The congresswoman led attendees in chants of “Impeach 45!””
Do these drones calling for Trump’s impeachment even know what impeachment is? I think they all think it means Trump would automatically get the boot. (Remember, Bill Clinton was impeached, but he didn’t leave office.)
It means that Trump would get the boot, the election would be declared invalid, and Hillary would be declared president.
^^^That right there.
They don’t have the middle part worked out, but a lot of these people think that if you start by impeaching Trump you wind up with a President Hillary Clinton.
They do have the middle part worked out, it’s just ridiculous. It was in Newsweek, and it goes like this:
1) Impeach and remove Trump because ROOSHIA
2) Remove Pence before the Senate can approve a new VP (just because, I guess)
3) Paul Ryan becomes POTUS, names Madame Felony VP, Senate approves; Ryan resigns because ‘it’s the right thing to do’.
4) PROFIT!!
I’m starting to think some of these leftists are actually deranged (not just using it as a debate tactic)
The process I heard had the house naming Felonious Madam Speaker before starting impeaching people, saving the resignation step.
Well, never let it be said they lack ambition and imagination, that’s for sure.
If they remember Bill got impeached, they probably think it was for carnal impropriety with an Intern, instead of perjury.
“Do these drones calling for Trump’s impeachment even know what impeachment is?”
Who knows? We cant understand that old dusty document written more than 100 years ago in a language no one understands written by old white slave owning patriarchs.
Oh, and the electoral college isnt based on the constitution, they know that.
“every man is a sexual predator” – not really just social signaling lefty showbiz men
I’m not arguing their position. I’m just describing it.
The reason men use their positions of power to exploit women is because they have positions of power. It isn’t about some men being good and some men being bad–it’s about what happens when men have power. The government needs to address this–because it’s about power. The power imbalance cannot be addressed without government intervention.
Waters is a brilliant and brave woman of color.
I know this is true because she said so.
I read a report about her yesterday saying that after some 30 years in congress, she’s only sponsored three bills–and one of them was to rename a post office. I’m sure she gets awards for her “accomplishments” as if being . . . associated with an identity were an accomplishment.
I’ll never forget her questioning of Mr. Toyoda when he was dragged in front of her committee over Toyota’s supposed manufacturing defects at the time. She was castigating him for suggesting that Toyota’s cars were of high quality according to industry standards, as if high quality cars couldn’t be manufactured in America.
He explained to her through an interpreter that all of the cars in question were manufactured in the U.S.
She kept going on and on about how American made cars were just as good as any his Japanese workers made–it became painfully obvious that she had no idea whatsoever that Japanese auto companies manufacture cars in the USA. She was clueless!
It was one of those times when you’re so embarrassed by something someone else is doing that you just can’t watch. How’s she going to face herself in the mirror after embarrassing herself like that?
She’s not even smart enough for self-analysis and the resulting shame would be my guess.
I don’t think so. Hollywood has been known for a long time of having a very, shall we say loose view on things like drug use, sexual promiscuity, and so on. Actors also have a bit of a reputation for being attention whores obsessed with pleasing the crowds and, at least in recent years, very prone to virtue signalling and spouting platitudes. It’s just that in the past the left and the media ignored them because they were part of their tribe. Now the SJWs are starting to take over and find the casting couch problematic, and suddenly Hollywood’s gotta pretend that it is shocked and appalled by this behavior that they absolutely had no idea about, lest they be outcast for wrongthink.
No. Even a broken clock is right twice a day, and in this case it’s been well known that some people who get into power tend to abuse it (see LBJ, Genghis Khan, etc). That doesn’t mean all men who get into positions of power abuse it for sexual advantages*, and it doesn’t mean their cultural appropriation rhetoric, white guilting, infantilizing minorities, college rape paranoia, and other collectivist trash any more likely to be right, any more than finding out that the platypus was real doesn’t make it any more likely that stuff like Feejee’s mermaid are.
*You know who else didn’t abuse his position of power to take sexual advantage of women?
Chairman Mao?
Steve Smith?
Laventri Beria.
Joseph Goebbels?
Warty’s Scrotum
Calvin Klein?
STEVE SMITH?
Barney Frank?
Liberace?
*shit my trip to the woods called off
He-Man?
Once again, I’m not arguing what the social justice warriors are arguing, and I don’t agree with them.
Because I disagree with what the social justice warriors are saying and doing doesn’t mean they aren’t saying it or aren’t doing it.
This is what they’re saying.
This is what they’re doing.
. . . even if we don’t like it.
. . . even if they’re wrong.
And I think it has a tremendous amount of resonance with people who lean left–especially millennials.
It’s issues like this that make them lean left. How many millennials do you imagine support men using positions of power to exploit women, racist speech, or fundamentalist homophobes discriminating against LGBTQI+?
This is a powerful narrative to encourage people to support the kind of social engineering SJWs want from government–even if we don’t like it.
I will give them this, SJWs getting the media to publicly acknowledge and call out something that’s been an open secret for a long time will probably get them some credibility with people who lean left and are too young to know about the open secret.
Manafort: MAKING FALSE STATEMENTS
The crime is failure to kneel before the awesome might of government.
Wanna see something stupid?
https://twitter.com/primalpoly/status/924728774486237185
Ungendering language by removing the letter group men. E.g. not statement statemynt
It looks very Welshish.
So it’s no longer important to teach kids how to read and write. Now we need to teach them the wrong way so it furthers a political agenda. Hell in a handbasket.
It’ll make sorting through resumes easier.
That looks like NR or Free Beacon level satire. But it’s not?
Well clearly she didn’t engender well enough. I mean, she used “hegemony” instead of “xergemony.”
Transphobic cis-heteronormative bigot.
Transphobic cis-heteronormative bigot.
ruh-roh.
WTF is an “aspiring feminist scholar”? Like, she wants to go study things, but hasn’t bothered to do it yet?
Working on a way to make “feminist scholar” not an oxymoron?
Useless among useless
A starry-eyed appendix
anxious for bursting
*throws garlands, applauds*
Aspiring to be a feminist scholar is like hoping one day to make it all the way to fry cook at Hardees.
For his 2012 PhD thesis, the sociologist Chris Platts surveyed and interviewed more than 300 young footballers — aged 17 and 18 — at UK club academies who were hoping to pursue a career in the game. He told the newspaper The Guardian this month that just four of them currently have gained a professional contract. That’s a drop-out rate of 99%.
For our Careers section this week, Nature surveyed more than 5,700 early-career scientists worldwide who are working on PhDs. Three-quarters of them, they told us, think it’s likely that they will pursue an academic career when they graduate, just like Platts — now a senior lecturer in sport development and sport business management at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. How many will succeed?
Statistics say these young researchers will have a better chance of pursuing their chosen job than the young footballers. But not by much. Global figures are hard to come by, but only three or four in every hundred PhD students in the United Kingdom will land a permanent staff position at a university. It’s only a little better in the United States.
http://www.nature.com/news/many-junior-scientists-need-to-take-a-hard-look-at-their-job-prospects-1.22879?WT.mc_id=FBK_NatureNews&sf125708598=1
Well maybe just maybe due to credentialism to many phds are being given. Back in the day you actually had to do something special to get the PHD. I know, at least in Europe, a whole bunch of mediocre at best people who god PHDs by researching nothing of particular note.
Decided not to go to the office today to update my resume and deal with finances. I haven’t been without work in 15 years, and back then I paid my bills manually. Now I gotta go through my automated payments and switch them off and go back to manual.
The power went out in the middle of the night last night, and apparently woke me up from a scary dream. In the pitch black, thinking someone was lurking in my house, I shot out of bed and grabbed….my tablet? Apparently so I could use the light from the home screen to see? WTF is wrong with me? There’s a 45 revolver in my nightstand, for cryin out loud!
Probably a better idea to wave around the tablet in the dark rather than the .45, given your state of mind at the time.
Imagine if Pistorius had grabbed his tablet instead.
Then he would have strangled his girlfriend for cheating on him instead of shooting her?
Oh, is that what it was about? I hadn’t heard that. Sad.
This is probably true. Took me a good minute to fully wake up and realize the only thing wrong was a power outage.
I went TDY once and came home to my XD (I have since sold it) on the coffee table with a half dozen loose rounds strewn across it. Apparently, my wife had a similar evening and couldn’t remember how to clear the pistol at the time.
I missed the resolution of your mysterious meeting – assume it was bad news. Hope everything turns out ok. Keep us updated.
I got shitcanned. “Budget”. They gave me two weeks, but this will probably be my last week. No sense in prolonging the misery & awkwardness.
Bummer.
Hope this lets you move into a more ideal state.
Also, if anyone hears of any webmaster/web PM positions in the DC area or any state with mountains (except CA), let me know. I’ve done both agile & waterfall.
We have an opening in our Reston office but it is for a Sr backend developer
Thanks! Probably too technical for moi.
45 revolver? Long colt?
Yep – Taurus Judge.
*Knocks a bit too loud on door and watches the door explode into splinters*
Updated my resume on Indeed, Dice, Monster, and LinkedIn. Anywhere else? I’m not in a highly technical part of the web profession. I’m more of a content/structure/frontend/PM type person.
ZipRecruiter is pretty good, but you have to let the software know what your preferences are and if the announcements it finds for you are a match for your skill set. During my search “Phil” seemed to think I am a financial advisor.
Thanks! Signing up now…
You gotta get with actual headhunters. The websites are all fine and dandy, but they’re passive marketing at best. Everyone who is serious about finding staff with some urgency has a headhunter working for them.
Call the recruiting agencies that excel in your field. Tell them what your skill set is and what you’re looking for/willing to accept. They’ll work like hell to get you interviews and a job. The websites? Hiring managers are gonna find the first ten or so that pique their interest and the rest wont even get looked at. So good luck being one of the first few he/she happens to come across when he/she opens up the search.
Recruiters are where it’s at. Hiring managers are too damn busy to identify qualifications. They let recruiters do that and they only have to pay them if they’re the one who brings them the person they hire. The ones who fail get jack shit.
My companies HR department would beg to differ
But then again they are still calculating Payroll by hand
Thanks sloop! I actually have been in touch with a headhunter/recruiter who works exclusively for liberty-oriented organizations. I’ll contact her again (only prob is these are pretty much all non-profits, so the pay is for shit)
I’d expand it into the private sector and even pubsec/consulting firms focused on govt work. Working for a liberty-minded NP would be great, I’m sure. But sometimes it’s better to pay the bills.
There’s gotta be a shitload of recruiters out there focused on DC metro with a few odd clients elsewhere. Home in on them and see what’s up. Being willing to live in the boonies/off the beaten path for the profession will be a big plus. I’d play that up often.
And be persistent with them. They want serious people looking for jobs, not people that are fishing for something better but only if the pay is astronomically more. Be frank with them about your expectations and they’ll be frank about your prospects.
I’ve always had success with recruiters in my field. On both ends of the equation.
How does one even find an actual headhunter? I assume if I Google “headhunter”, I’ll see all kinds of mixed results?
Yeah but think of all the cocktail parties you could get invited to
All of my most promising hits have been from recruiters finding me on LinkedIn. I’m interviewing for a job this week in Charm City on the basis of my LinkedIn profile and a positive prior history with this specific contractor.
This. The job offer I got last Friday, I found on LinkedIn.
Interesting! The job I’m leaving was via Indeed.
I just emailed you a link to my Swiss Overseers North America opportunities.
Thank you!
I’ve been trying to get a work from home gig for a while now. I just found Remote.co. That’s given me some quality leads.
Nice! I’ll sign up there as well…
Signed up for a Certified Scrum Master class next week.
You’re gonna be fine. Look at Indeed for positions in Denver and your cup will runneth over. Like I said, if you want help with Colorado jobs, have one of the admins give you my email.
OVERWEIGHT GERMAN MAN WHO JOINED ISIS SAYS THEY USED HIM AS SEX SLAVE
The young man, who had converted to Islam in 2014, had pledged allegiance to ISIS hoping to become a full-fledged soldier in its war against Western civilization.
Instead, he was rapidly turned into a sex slave for ISIS combatants, spending most of his time in captivity chained to a bed, dressed up as a Western-style woman and performing sexual services on ISIS soldiers daily until his recent escape.
Sounds sort of like the joke “you’re not really here for the bear hunting are you?”
LOL
Excuse me this one time, but, yeah, I’m blaming the victim.
Ha! Ha! HA! ha ha ha!
LO freakin’ L
It’s hard to believe that an organization devoted to murdering innocent people for their beliefs would mistreat someone this way.
P.S. When they’re going on about “gays”, they’re talking about bottoms, not tops.
You’re right. If a woman wants to move to Syria and marry an ISIS jihadi, I have no sympathy when she ends up the sex slave of the local commander. Same with this dude. You joined an evil organization. Don’t be surprised when it turns out to be full of evil people.
Something something lying down with dogs. Something something fleas.
Wow. Reading his account, its even worse than I imagined. And I read SugarFree.
“Once, I must’ve sucked at least twenty dicks and got sodomized by maybe 40 guys in the same day after a major ISIS victory,” he recalled in horror.
Well, it sounds as though he picked up some valuable skills that will serve him well whilst serving out his treason sentence in prison.
*applause*
Hey, that’s only 60 virgins!
Cover story to avoid prosecution?
Yeah, this sounds a little unbelievable. If it’s true, ISIS is clearly not in a good place.
I can’t wait for the film-adaptation of his story
I can only write so fast, OK?
*gags, turns green*
Ok, I call shenanigans.
Way too many biases being confirmed on a little known site with an obvious bias and no links to credible news sites carrying the story.
Yeah – It is probably fake but too fun to pass up.
The big money is coming into cannabis. This is the same company that bought Ballast Point a couple of years back for $1 billion (no typo, billion with a b). I was figuring the tobacco companies would be moving this direction instead of the alcohol industry. This does bode well for legalization as Constellation has said:
I wonder if the Chicago Public Defenders would like Joe Arpaio to run the detention center.
I really wish we would prosecute some of these Swamp Creatures for obvious instances of perjury (like Comey). And I honestly think the penalty for federal officials committing perjury should be double that of an ordinary citizen. I’m tired of paying people to uphold the law, yet they don’t give a damn about the law themselves.
There should certainly be a loss of pension.
On sort of the same note, I think ordinary citizens should face guaranteed jail time and a loss of social security benefits or access to public assistance if it is proven beyond reasonable doubt that they committed perjury.
I was a jury foreman once in a case that involved an alleged armed robbery with a gun charge. I watched as the alleged victim told lie after lie after lie on the stand. We acquitted the defendant, but the damage was done. This 18 year old just missed his senior basketball season while he sat in jail for several months awaiting trial, unable to make bail. Every college that had offered him a scholarship – including a couple Division 1 schools – pulled their offers. As for the asshole that got up there and lied on the stand? No ramifications for him.
And the shame of it is that the 18 year old basically has no recourse if he doesn’t have the money to back a civil suit against the false accuser.
I’ve always thought a fitting punishment for perjury in such cases would be to give the perjurer the same sentence they were trying to inflict on the person they falsely accused. Perjury should be difficult to prove, but when proven it should have heavy consequences. The entire judicial system is undermined if perjury is tolerated.
I’m not seeing it ever happen. Everyone up there is dirty. They can’t start prosecuting each other. They would never be able to stop.
^This. They circle the wagons when the power elite is involved. It’s business as usual and everyone knows that rules are for the little people. If there’s anything we learned from Hillary’s email “scandal” (more like Hillary’s multiple felonies under the Espionage Act) it’s that once you get to a certain level in govt you can do anything you want and never be held accountable.
For a simple politician or political appointee it should be double.
I can honestly think of no good reason why perjury being committed by anyone in law enforcement should not be facing a minimum sentence of 50 years and the death penalty should be on the line in serious cases.
What the fucking fuck?
Navy criminal authorities are investigating whether two members of the elite SEAL Team 6 strangled an Army Green Beret in June while they were in Mali on a secret assignment, military officials say.
Staff Sgt. Logan J. Melgar, a 34-year-old veteran of two tours in Afghanistan, was found dead on June 4 in the embassy housing he shared in the Malian capital, Bamako, with a few other Special Operations forces assigned to the West African nation to help with training and counterterrorism missions.
His killing is the latest violent death under mysterious circumstances for American troops on little-known missions in that region of Africa. Four American soldiers were killed in an ambush this month in neighboring Niger while conducting what was initially described as a reconnaissance patrol but was later changed to supporting a much more dangerous counterterrorism mission against Islamic militants in the area.
The story, unsurprisingly, is an indecipherable mishmash of sketchy details about the death of Melgar mixed in with random bullshit about American activities in Africa.
Bottom line: apparently two seals killed a green beret, and nobody knows (or will say) why. Trump is more likely than not behind it.
Obligatory:
DRUMPF POOPYHEAD! HE WANT AMERICA GO BYE-BYE!
/Shorter NYT
I was still thinking seals as in the Alaska runway story from earlier.
Clearly, Melgar was just about to reveal some nefarious detail of Trump’s war on Africa when Secret Nazi President Trump activated his own hand-groomed agents to silence the hero.
The Army-Navy game is going to be extra emotional this year.
Takes two Navy guys to bring an Army guy down.
*salutes*
Do the Trump tax cuts address the tax on boobs? If not, I cannot support them.
http://archive.is/Kt7TK
I’d say 10 and 22. What is going on at 35 looks off to me for some reason?
It’s the lips. She’s had collagen injections to the point where they look like plastic.
Also Pie, are we converting you to the American love of big boobs yet?
Neah. I mean they look good in cleavage, but set those puppies free and they probably hang way to much which ruins the shape. Unless they have silicon and I hate fake boobs. There are some women with large beasts with nice shapes, but most are not like that.
Give it time….
Are huge boobs gonna stop hanging low in time? Cause if not …
9 & 16. And 15…wow.
45 is the bunny boiler. 32 is dishonorable mention
34, uh, busts out from the pack!
34 is awesome and I will take 30 everyday and twice on Sunday.
25 is just so fucking cute-hot. It’s very hard to get that balance right. I would like to melt with her.
2 has also got that innocent-hot look which is a lot of fun. *Aflutter*
10 gets third place. She looks stuck up and too much work for my time. But I’d love to give it a try.
Honorable mentions to 13 and 43. Former looks very fake but I admit that it’d be fun. Latter looks absolutely insane and made-up, but that figure is very alluring in a Kate Beckinsale sort of way.
At least 40 of these women would be happy to screw O’Reilly’s eyeballs out for a trip to Grand Cayman and a tennis bracelet. So why does the vaunted pundit and “Kill whomever” writer not use his researchers to find chicks who are a heck of lot cheaper than $32 million??? I guess it is about power and not about sex.
From the “I don’t think the believe the victim mantra will be used here” files:
Woman accuses Neil DeGrass Tyson of raping her while she was a grad student
Here’s the problem with all of this:
Hollywood is a well-known wretched hive of scum and villainy, so it’s easy to believe that Weinstein et. al. are assaulting women left and right. However, with all the #metooism and the ever changing definition of “rape” among lefties, I get very uncomfortable about this stuff. Why do these women not say anything after the incident in question? Not only that, it waters down actual cases of violent rape and sexual assault.
On the one hand, she made the accusation as well back in 2014 and 2016, before the #metoo campaign started. OTOH, I haven’t seen any corroborating evidence, and the alleged victim says when she confronted him he was “totally confused”. On the gripping hand, no major news sites are covering it right now aside from Twitchy, and I have yet to see a response from Tyson. So I’ll join with skeptical, but considering the accusations were made quite a bit earlier than the #metoo campaign and are simply only now starting to get picked up I’m willing to give this one a sliver more credibility than ones like from Elizabeth Warren (which is admittedly a very low bar to clear).
That, plus this #metoo business is also being used to make a big deal out of relatively minor boorish behavior, like a wheelchair-bound nonagenarian grabbing a woman’s butt briefly and making a lame joke. The notion that GHWB goosing someone caused her long-term trauma is utterly ludicrous, yet it gets reported as a “sexual assault”. No, it isn’t.
exactly. they’re turning ‘something touched my butt’ from decades ago into malicious intent to cause trauma.
its fucking retarded and i hate everyone involved.
A lot of accusations flying, I wonder bout the evidence. At least some of them are bound to be fake
Some guy on Bloomberg just said, “It’s a pretty juicy indictment.”
Conspiracy against the United States! Conspiracy to do what, exactly?
Conspiracy to not pay taxes, the worst sort of conspiracy imaginable.
“Conspiracy to not release tax returns”
FIFY.
I’m guilty of that everyday
I just haven’t gone through with it.
BakedPenguin asked for some Japanese movie recommendations.
GOOD MORNING is Ozu, but a lot of fun and very light-hearted. Not static and highly emotional like his other ones. (Although I like those too for different reasons.)
GIANTS AND TOYS is a fun film, about a rivalry between big candy companies, one of whom hires a pretty girl with bad teeth as their new mascot.
If you like way-out violence and weirdness in a modern film, anything directed by Takashi Miikie. But his films can get seriously weird, sometimes in a non-linear way.
SEVEN SAMURAI. Greatest film ever made. But, you’ve probably watched it already. ~3 hours, so hunker down.
What else?… I’m crazy about any samurai films from the 1950’s & 60’s. Well, the more lighthearted ones. Some of that genre were really grim. It’s often hard to know what a film’s going to be like until you watch it.
There’s more, but I’m going off the top of my head. If I stay away from the genre for a while it all kind of leaves my forebrain.
“Audition”
Haven’t seen but sounds like it might be good for Halloween in that uniquely bizarre Japanese way.
I watched Audition… won’t watch again.
Man, Audition is in my top five. God damn that’s a good movie! It’s definitely a movie for people who like horror movies and aren’t particularly squeamish.
Psychedelic Yakuzai Films of the 1960s – Youth of the Beast
http://criterioncast.com/reviews/blu-ray-reviews/scott-reviews-seijun-suzukis-youth-of-the-beast-masters-of-cinema-blu-ray-review
Sonatine was quite good.
TESTUO The Iron Man — haven’t seen it in years but thought it was crazy.
The researchers weren’t interested in finding the right dose of the antidepressant (generic name fluoxetine hydrochloride) to treat anxious or depressed crabs. Rather they were interested in seeing how the drug, which makes its way into the crabs’ ocean home through contaminated runoff, might affect the animal’s behavior, the study researchers said.
In particular, they found that the bay shore crab (Hemigrapsus oregonensis) stops hiding from its predators when exposed to low levels of fluoxetine hydrochloride, the researchers wrote online Sept. 30 in the journal Ecology and Evolution.
https://amp.livescience.com/60766-crabs-on-prozac-take-deadly-risks.html
First the frogs turn gay, now the crabs suicidal …
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The mobility of elite life scientists: Professional and personal determinants
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29058845
Scientists appear to be unwilling to move when their children are between the ages of 14–17, and this appears to be more pronounced for mothers than fathers. These results suggest that elite scientists find it costly to disrupt the social networks of their children during adolescence and take these costs into account when making career decisions.
Damn kids affecting careers
This is anecdotal, but my friend’s dad commuted from the Cincy area to Columbus every day for two years, before getting an apartment and commuting for the work week. Then they moved as soon as my friend hit sophomore year of high school.
My dad did the opposite. We moved before my freshman year in high school, and my father commuted from Arkansas to his business in Indiana on alternate weeks. Some times he would fly, other times he would drive. There was a small apartment above the store where he would stay during the week. He did this for five years until he sold a share of the business to his store manager, at which time he mostly retired.
Forgive me if I’m unfamiliar with the academic vernacular to phrase a proper response, but: um, duh?
Oh, that reminds me of a critique I heard of this sort of disparate impact study: men have no issues marrying down in status, but even high-status women want to marry on parity or up. As a result, while high-status men (like elite scientists) often have spouses who plays a supportive role in the marriage, high-status women tend not to.
I got all y’all beat. When we moved from VT to CT just before my freshman year of high school, my dad promised we wouldn’t move again in the middle of high school.
He ended up leaving IBM for another company, and started commuting between CT and San-Fucking-Diego. This was for 2 years until I graduated.
Don’t bl-ink! Thousands of fans strip down to bare skin at the Sydney tattoo festival to have all parts of their bodies adorned – even their EYEBALLS!
Pass.
Uh…
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Whoops!
Pretty, though.
Reminder from a couple weeks ago
This Ottawa woman got an eyeball tattoo and now she could lose her eye
https://globalnews.ca/news/3774736/eye-tattoo-botched-ottawa/
Also I mean let your freak flag fly I guess if that’s you thing… Just don’t complain employers discriminate you or some such.
I wouldn’t get a tattoo myself, but I wonder are there tattoo artists who don not have themselves any tattoos? Can you trust them? Like you wouldn’t go to an ophthalmologist who want wearing glasses right?
I have one. When choosing the dude, I did the research like any other product – I saw several examples of his work and wouldn’t have cared at all if he was inked or not. Of course, when I met the guy, he had a tattoo of Ronald Reagan on his leg and a Glock on the shelf behind his chair, so I felt even better about the decision!
It’s like the old chestnut about the town with two barbers, one of them unkempt with a terrible haircut and the other immaculate with a great haircut.
I assume this has to do with each barber being groomed by the other?
Yep. Maybe your theoretical tattooist won’t have his body sullied by lesser artists.
With regards to medical professions where operating on yourself is a bad idea, I’m not sure lack of evidence of having undergone treatment is that much of a red flag. If I needed surgery, I don’t think it’s that important that the surgeon have gone under the knife at some point so long as they know what they’re doing.
A tattoo artist without tattoos is different, because it implies a lack of appreciation for the art…
Personally, I think ink is ugly, and had better be hiding something uglier. If you have good skin, it’s a travesty to ink it.
But honestly most those people don’t look good they look trashy. Also there is value in moderation
Sometimes a lightning bolt is just a lightning bolt…..just not in this case.
Also, that guy doesn’t look remotely elderly, unless your local life expectancy is around 50.
I was at Walmart once and saw a pretty grizzled dude shopping school supplies with his little girl. It stuck with me – cute little kid in a nice dress and dad with a wolf and swastika tattoo on his forearm. He looked a lot like that ‘elderly man’.
Although it COULD be just because the guy was in prison. I think I’ve mentioned this story before, but the brother of my wife’s best friend has been to prison a couple of times on drug charges and got a couple of swastika tats as a means of protecting himself – as he said, “Hell no I’m not a Nazi, but in the joint you have to belong to someone’s crew because you are like a chicken waiting to get plucked otherwise.
I assumed it was prison.
re: Spacey, Iowahawk:
Gabriel Mallor is worth a follow for his evenhanded and informative digestion of politics and law news. On this, he got pretty animated: you don’t just get to decide that homosexuality is your fig leaf for (alleged, attempted) pederasty.
Oops, ^Malor
@gabrielmalor
He used to contribute over at Ace of Spades and run their podcasts back when that was a thing, but I believe he and Ace split over a difference in temperament and Ace’s rabid anti-establishment bent.
Yes. It actually pre-dated Trump. Ace went full-on anti-GOP establishment years ago over immigration and Gabe was pro-Gang of 8.
Maybe it’s schizophrenic of me, but I still follow both of them. If there’s anyone who can put a patina of credibility on Trump’s populism, it’s Ace: he writes well and is forceful and unsparing. But Malor puts things in context and has the legal training to tease apart complicated stories that Ace typically bulls through, in more than one sense of the word.
I’ve been an Ace reader for over a decade. I really enjoy him because he’s funny, but in recent years I get the sense more and more that he’s playing to his audience quite a bit.
The Cobalt Cliff Will Cap Tesla’s Model 3 Production Capacity At 250,000 Units Per Year
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4115479-cobalt-cliff-will-cap-teslas-model-3-production-capacity-250000-units-per-year
The cap on Model 3 production per year is much lower than that, and due to not having a fucking clue how to run a car factory, not due to raw materials shortages.
I would say the the invisible bitch-slap of the market is in there, too.
When Tesla goes tits up, they gotta have something to blame besides Elon.
A third Mueller indictment has been announced, of George…..Papadopoulus? Seriously? Does Webster know?
I read that as George Stephanopoulos and got my hopes up.
Here’s the leaked document regarding Papadopoulos. This one seems a little more damaging than Manafort, but also far less certain: it sounds like he secretly pleaded guilty to making false statements to FBI agents. Sounds like he was trying to set up some meeting between Trump, members of the Trump campaign, and Russian agents, but it was rejected by the campaign.
it was rejected by the campaign
Its like the Trumpistas don’t even know how to collude.
Maybe it’s a made up name so they can figure out who’s their leaker. Haha Who am I kidding?
That looks completely phony. Is anybody legit reporting it as fact yet?
Daily hypermasculine derp.
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10049
I love the fact that being gay isn’t protecting the homo-crackers.
“But I’m gay, my victim class is +2!”
“Shut up whitey! The victim calculus has been changed and you are now an oppressor +10”
Only in Trump’s America: Homeowner shoots trespassing grizzly: you won’t believe what happened next. What happened next is Montana FWP declined to charge him with anything, citing self-defense.
God only knows whether the feds will step in and correct this egregious mistake. Justice for Grizzly the Bear!
I guess it would be hard to follow the normal 3 S’s: Shoot, Shovel and Shutup!
Burying a griz would take a bit of work.
Shoot, Skin, Shut up.
So I’m reading that if Trump pardons any of these people, they can be compelled to testify because they forfeit some of their 5A rights.
But having said that, couldn’t he urge them to announce their intention to plead guilty at their arraignment and demand a speedy trial, and then let him commute their sentence immediately upon the sentences being given? That would accomplish the same thing and drive the assholes nuts.
Then he could point out the literal terrorists who had their sentences commuted by Obama and compare them to this witch hunt.
It would be lulzy.
The purge continues
Hamilton Fish, the president and publisher of The New Republic, is taking a leave of absence pending an investigation into complaints by female employees at the magazine, according to a letter sent to its staff on Sunday night.
In the letter, Win McCormack, the magazine’s owner, said he had asked Mr. Fish to “remain on a leave of absence,” effective immediately, pending an independent investigation into recent complaints from women concerning interactions with Mr. Fish.
“I have been made aware that a number of employees have come forward in the last few days to express concern about certain workplace interactions that have created an uncomfortable environment for them,” Mr. McCormack wrote. “As I understand them, these concerns relate specifically to interactions between Ham Fish and a number of women employees.”
Mr. McCormack added: “I appreciate the candor our employees have displayed in coming forward with their concerns, and I take the concerns very seriously.”
Mr. Fish could not immediately be reached for comment.
Wheeeeeeee!
Something smells fishy.
His hand?
McCormick is all over it.
That’s what he said!
Ham Fish
This seems like one of those times when I would go by my middle name if I were that person.
His middle name is Harry.
But then he wouldn’t get name recognition inherited from his forebears, and without that who the hell is interested in Hamilton Fish V?
Did this get covered yesterday? Bears’ Miller needed emergency surgery which they hope will save his leg:
http://www.bbc.com/sport/american-football/41805844
Saw it this morning on the FF reddit. Yikes.
Yeah, when they start talking about doing vein transplants, its that or lose the leg (sooner or later). It looked bad on TV, but not that bad.
Napoleon McCallum comes to mind here.
An elderly man shows off a tattoo featuring two lightening bolts atop his head
Chargers fan?
Twitter nobly stands up to a bully
Roger J. Stone Jr., an ally of President Trump and a self-proclaimed political “dirty trickster,” has been kicked off Twitter.
In a series of tweets on Friday, Mr. Stone insulted several CNN news anchors and contributors. The messages appeared to be in response to reports that a federal grand jury had approved charges in the continuing investigation into the Trump campaign’s possible connections to Russia.
Mr. Stone’s posts were littered with expletives. He said Don Lemon, the host of “CNN Tonight,” “must be confronted, humiliated, mocked and punished,” adding that he was a “buffoon.”
He said Bill Kristol, a conservative pundit and a former columnist for The New York Times, was “packing on the pounds,” and used the hashtag #porky
You go too far, Sirrah!
Quick – to the fainting couch!
So, Keith Olbermann’s getting kicked off Twitter as well, I take it?
Twitter is just a protocol for threshing outgroup people from the ingroup, and maintaining those distinctions.
28-year-old Long Island woman arrested after robbing bank, attempting to escape in cab in which her six-year-old daughter was waiting. It was the perfect crime, except for the planning and execution and getaway.
Oops- cut that off.
used the hashtag #porky.
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There is a gaggle of women in my office who are giddily speaking in loud tones about the Mueller indictment, quite sure that the Trump Administration is going down for sure this time. I almost feel bad for these people who bathe in the bad counsel of moron talking heads. In the past 13 months I’ve been assured that Trump is toast because of some audio where he said unsavory things, an election recount, unfaithful electors, getting the boot for not being mentally fit for the job, the emoluments clause, Russian collusion, impeachment proceedings based upon the “just because” clause in the Constitution, and another dozen or so reasons that escape my mind at the moment. At some point these people need to seek other sources of entertainment.
Suggest an Impeachment peach cook off. Make it a contest to see which one can make the peachiest concoction. After all the tasty treats are consumed break the bad news that IT STILL DON’T MEAN SHIT. Win win.
I’m expecting the same around here; our CEO and government relations people are rabid partisan Dems and Trump haters.
I’ve learned to keep my mouth shut about it, since I said before the election that there was no doubt Hillary committed multiple felonies with her private server, and got a helping of STFU mixed with DemOp talking points in return.
i’m surprised your company openly employs a nazi like you. how tolerant.
Its a bit of a wash in that regard with the VA. Most of the medical staff and a fair number of the admin/leadership are obvious team blue. The MSA, social workers, and lower level admin types–people who actually talk to Vets are mostly Trumpinistas. But because everyone here is afraid of the Hatch Act they try to keep that to a minimum.
From what I’ve been reading, after the Manafort indictment was trotted out to a big collective yawn, the Papadopoulos revelation is the Big Stinking Dumpster Fire of today’s news cycle… and herein we’ve got the campaign resisting efforts by what appears to be a grifter to hook his buddies up, and ultimately being rebuffed.
Oh, that and exhibiting a willingness to air out Clinton’s dirty laundry via Russian sources, which might be more damning if Clinton hadn’t been revealed to have done precisely that herself. And then lying about it through her campaign surrogates for months. I’m supposed to get excised because scumbaggery on Trump’s part in some measure balances out scumbaggery on Clinton’s part.
exercised
I like “excised”
Tony Podesta stepping down from his own lobbying group amid Mueller probe: http://archive.is/RuKJM
Holy shit… Is… is “it” really happening?
fuggg… reply fail.
Has it been commented yet how in light of all the sexual harassment in the news, including some probably spurious claims, that Pence’s much mocked policy of not spending time alone with women who are not his wife could have saved these people a lot of trouble? If not, I’m going to comment on it: it’s amusing to me that in the space of a year the media narrative goes from “what a prude for avoiding unsupervised contact with women” to “harassers/rapists are everywhere”. Consistency is not these people’s strong suit.
Um, how am I supposed to jack off into a rubber tree planter while Angelina Jolie watches if my wife is in the room?
-Hollywood mover and/or shaker
“You know, I don’t know the exact pronunciation, but I believe it’s ‘menage a trois.’”
I’m sure you wife couldn’t give a shit. Actually, I bet she is happy that you have someone there to give you encouragement because frankly she is tired of always being the one who has to compliment you on your accuracy.
“Pay attention to me until you make me feel uncomfortable, then stop”
Consistency is not these people’s strong suit.
They consistently act in their own self interest.
Pence’s much mocked policy of not spending time alone with women who are not his wife could have saved these people a lot of trouble
Pfffft. What would some deranged bible thumper know about the subtleties of human interaction?
Tony Podesta stepping down from his own lobbying group amid Mueller probe: http://archive.is/RuKJM
Holy shit… Is… is “it” really happening?
Tony Podesta is the white people of Podesta’s. he’s also not Hillary’s Podesta.