McCullers is good, but I wish this guy was pitching tonight.
When your costume is a little too on the nose
Happy Wednesday. Game 7 of the World Series tonight. I know who I’ll be rooting for, but it’s been a hell of a ride, if not great baseball. Although last night’s game was probably the best game of baseball in the whole series. Hopefully, we won’t get a 10+ inning, 6+ HR derby game — although I think the Astros would win that.
I also discovered a down-side to working from home. If I eat any more Reese’s cups, I’m going to experience acute arterial blockage. Fuck it, I’m going for it. For Science!… and now, the Links
Australia, where not only the plants and animals are trying to kill you, but also your AirBnB hosts.
Somehow I never thought of The Diamond Age‘s distributed states as being implemented by mass-murdering shitheads.
This looks like its going to be a fun story out of Florida. Legislators and lobbyists discreetly surveilled, can’t wait for the dirt to drop.
Why I don’t teach my kids to shout “Stranger Danger!”. Because they would totally do this to me in a store.
Today’s theme music.
First.
Looks there’s no time to actually be first while posting a comment. I mean FOE on TOS was posting those comments 30 minutes before the links were posted. I mean if you have magical powers you can do it, be we peasants can’t.
how did he do that? I always wondered
He’s one of the staff I would imagine. Just not sure which one.
The name “Fist of Etiquette” has “moderator/admin” tattooed on its ass. I always figured he was in-house somewhere.
Since he didn’t migrate with the rest of us he is probably staff.
Me too. The explanations offered online were, well, oblique is probably not too strong a word to describe ’em. Of course, I’m not sure I ever saw all of the messages relating to the explanation, so . . .
I think the RSS feed posted 5 minutes early.
the one that I remember was something along the lines of he’d try every rational link string as a link and find them orphaned until the CMS put them up on the article list
but that seems really variable for someone who would reliably get first
I beat him to the punch once, and only once – it was an “official” first and I’m proud of it, even if Rufus didn’t say “Hello” in response.
I know. If you remember I beat him a couple of times. The links are pre-posted if you know how to look. The reason why he got so mad at Robby is because Robby failed to do his job right and Fist couldn’t post.
Yeah, that sounds like a legitimate reason to be rather mad at Rico Suave, and not, you know, any of the other reasons.
First, schmirst. I have 2 hat tips!
Right on. I was a multiple Hat Tip Recipient as well.
For what it is worth, I feel more proud of the “beloved Pope Jimbo” acknowledgements I have gotten here than from those hat tips from TOS.
TW: Breitbart.
http://www.breitbart.com/tinseltown/
That said, I think Breitbart, while very open about their bias (which I actually respect), is one of the few outlets doing real journalism. This is a long-form journalistic slog, but I think it offers a pretty comprehensive outline of not only how dysfunctional Hollywood is, but also attempts to answer the question why. It’s worth reading if you have the time.
They have it recorded so give it a listen.
This really isn’t new knowledge. In The Godfather (the book, anyway), when Tom Hagen goes to Hollywood to get Johnny Fontaine a job with some mogul who hates him, the setup is that he has to wait because the guy is banging some ten year old girl.
THat scene (or something similar) was in “The Godfather Saga” (a mashup of the first two movies that included deleted scenes and put the story in chronological order)
I respect them because they are open with their bias. Its more honest in my opinion than trying to lend the appearance of objectivity but failing to do so.
Exactly, we’d be better off if “objective” MSM outlets started doing the same.
I agree that all news outlets should be more open about their bias, however stating that they have a bias doesn’t excuse them from some of the outright bullshit they publish, If MSNBC said yes we’re leftist but still printed the same shit I wouldn’t think any better of them.
This was a good read. While I knew about a lot of the shenanigans around the HWNDU livestream, I was not aware of the part about the flag being taken down and replace with MAGA hat and Pepe the Frog. Holy shit that’s funny.
Finally a pill for all you fatties.
https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2017/10/pill-make-exercise-obsolete/
Oh, fine. Produce a pill like this decades after my teenage years when I could’ve really used it.
Looks like I’ll be drinking lots of beer in the future.
That’s exactly what I was thinking…
Watch, it’ll never get approval.
Nope. If you can make people healthy and fit without while they’re engaging in all sorts of unhealthy diet and boatloads of alcohol, no way it ever gets approved. It would drive the control freaks over the edge.
Especially when the only side effect is to increase the libido in females.
Which would of course, make them victims.
And make them less prone to osteoperosis. That’s equally bad. Hip replacement companies would lose a lot of sales.
John hit the hardest. You know, I only miss him a very little.
Next I want a pill that provides a day’s worth of nutrition.
Take your supplements.
I thought disdain for the pleasures of flavorful eating was UCS’ beat.
preëxisting
Multiple times in that article. I’ve never seen that spelling before.
anything I say will be construed as sexist and misogynistic; so I’ll just say scruffle. I said it! Scruffle!
Reese’s cups. I hate ’em, the spousal unit speed-eats ’em. And she never seems to gain any weight, dammit…
All you need to do is strategically place a few Reese’s Cups on your naked body and you’ve got yourself a party.
She’s too smart for that. She’d at least demand chocolate mousse.
Not it!
Nolan could probably kick ass on the mound at age 70.
Those unis, however….
It wasn’t just Houston.
If he hits you, just take your base. Don’t make a fool of yourself like Robin Ventura.
When I used to work in a different office, one of my co-workers had a Nolan Ryan signed photo of that (specifically the part where he had Ventura in a headlock and was punching)
The only thing better than that would be to get Ventura to sign it.
Trump’s call for a “faster and stronger” process to deal with pricks like the Uzbek asshole in NYC yesterday….complete babble.
That’s the bad thing about being POTUS. You have to say something. Even when you don’t know what to say. For Obama, he would just drone on and on and refer to himself a lot. I bet he even does that when he’s alone. With Trump, you never really know what you’re going to get.
You have to say something.
I would have been happy with “I can’t believe they shot him in the ass. Next, just bust a cap in his head and save us all the aggravation. #DeathToISIS”
He’s like a box of chocolates.
Prepare to focus your male gaze.
https://archive.is/m1lLr
You continue to do God’s work, sir. I salute you!
Oh yeah, almost forgot: #31. Sigh.
Numbers 5 and 10 are strong runners-up, although 5 needs to learn something other than duck lips as a facial expression. Mind you, I’d go into my bank branch a lot more often if one of the staff looked like her. Chase Manhattan, you lucky bastards…
Okay, we got the focus, now lets fix the lighting and camera angles…
Don’t ruin it. If you have mice in the house I guarantee they are crawling on you at night. #themoreyouknow
You’re cute when you try to be creepy.
But I know more about Mouse behaviour and habits than I care to.
eeek
I’m cute?! *blushes*
You’re not going to send me your ear in the mail are you?
“Cute” in an annoying kid sibling kind of way. That warrents rodent ears…
awwwwww
*puts saran wrap on toilet seat*
Felcher?
I have no idea what that means, and I knew better than to look it up.
When I have to exterminate something, I do research. I’m currently still exterminating mice.
Safe for work version.
I never get flight attendants like #9 on any of my trips. And I’m always sitting next to some fat old guy.
*sighs, kicks rock, Keane begins playing softly in background*
Well did you ever think that we aren’t too happy to be sitting by you either?
*lifts butt cheek, eases out a silent one*
Now, whyever might that be, Pope?
These ladies appear to suggest as if they know these pictures are going to be gaped at by those with The Penis. Do they know they being exploited?
No doubt their victims, so someone must be guilty. We need a law and I’m sure Congress will be on it quickly.
“they’re”
Q is the best.
Nothing’s better than bacon, but I’ll settle for second.
#18. Something about a hot girl going commando. If there were Chive galleries of that, I’d never leave my bunk.
The ink ruins it.
I think it looks cute. Mind you, that’s a damn fine canvas to put ink on.
That’s the problem, why cover up good skin?
Short workout shorts was about the closest I could find.
https://archive.is/V9lBz
#18
13 is the real deal. Nice.
Completely agree. It’s got a certain something that just drives me nuts.
Nothing between you and the holy land.
29 looks like a fun girl. 13 has killer legs.
1 is the winner.
Disqualified for-
Ink and/or piercings-18,20,21,29
Can’t see face-7,8,10,13-15,24,26-28,
Can’t see ass-2-6,12,16,17,19,23,25,30
Duck face (other annoying posing)-1,22,31,
which leaves-9,11 and 32
9% Sad
It’s just eye candy, you’re not shopping for a wife. (Are you?)
Dayum, #11. #23 has a cute tomboy/your boy’s little sister thing goin on.
I am above this sophomoric ogling.
Having said that: 18
2, 16, 31, and 32
2, 9, 22, 29 in no particular order.
Cosmo goes from writing about culturally appropriative halloween costumes to… incest. http://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/a48526/genetic-sexual-attraction-incest-sibling-relationship/?src=socialflowTW
Ah yes. If there’s anyone on the leading edge of our cultural and intellectual zeitgeist, it’s Cosmo.
They should really just go back to being a mag for slutty teens.
They must be struggling, why else would they be reaching this far.
I mean, to be fair (copyright 2017 Robby Soave, all rights reserved), if you were to go to the front page of pornhub.. over half of it is incest porn. It’s weird.
I mean, not like I go there or anything.
Lots of blended families?
I’ve noticed that too. Not that I click on any of those, of course. *glances around the room*
Yes, I’ve noticed that. Very weird.
When porn is everywhere you do kind of need something to bring the taboo element back into it so you get most porn being Milfs or Teens and within those categories incest is one of the sluttier stories you can tell.
It is also apparently a REALLY common thing in India, especially Mom – Son incest
One-hand arms race
You guys actually think the people in those videos are related?
No and I don’t think the girl at the strip club was really into me or that there is a billionaire industrialist playboy who built himself a flying metal suit that he uses to fight terrorists and aliens.
They are selling the fantasy of the taboo. Very few people actually want to fuck their siblings, a shit ton of people are turned on by the idea of siblings fucking in general
*packing packing packing*
Oh right, you’re moving to Lovecraft country…
turns out i have a bunch of clothes.
Fudge packing?
I’m shoving a chocolate muffin in my face. does that count?
You threw that one right over the plate…I’m going to wait til Jesse replies on this one.
I think sportsmanship precludes you from answering that. Just like you don’t shoot a bird on the ground, Doom just made that too easy.
I remember when I left the People’s Republic of Boulder. Damn, that felt good. Congrats!
The flatirons are pretty dope doe
the view yesterday.
Yeah, but he’s moving to the east coast. Well, almost the east coast and it borders on Massholio.
He may be leaving one hell-hole for another hell-hole, but at least he’s leaving a hell-hole.
It would be like me moving from Balmer to Boston. Only worse weather and probably safer.
Those are my fave. *has Sugah sad*
I’m about to man a phone bank for the general public to call in and get some free legal advice. I hope I get some good ones.
If a conviction gets overturned on appeal because the DA hid exculpatory evidence, is it generally given a retrial, or does the sod get let out?
“I just beat the fuck out of my cousin. Should I post the pictures to Instagram?”
*phone ringing, RBS picks up* “Hey man, like I got this crystal meth from this dude I know and it’s like some real rip off shit, you know, it won’t get a fly high. He won’t give me my money back. Should I just call the cops or can we sue this dude to get my $20 back?”.
“Definitely file a police report. Do it in person.”
You laugh, but…
*RBS picks up phone*
“Free legal advice, how can I help you?”
“Mmmmmm…. lawyers….. they turn me on sooooooo much…. I’m completely naked…”
*Receiver slams back down*
nah see, you gotta roll with those.
“Oh really? Let me tell you about my tort law proceedings…”
Oh boy. I hope it’s as good as The Road to Popehat.
*RBS picks up phone*
“Free legal advice, how can I help you?”
I went camping with some hairy jerk named Steve. I woke up with a sore colon and all my stuff gone. Do I have a case for conversion?
I went camping with some hairy jerk named Steve. I woke up with a sore colon and all my stuff gone. Do I have a case for conversion?
“Dunno. Do you find yourself swinging the other way now?”
Winner!
“Hi!”
“Hello there, I’m your helpful telephone lawyer guy”
“Yeah, so…. ok, what’s the deal with kidnapping.”
“Well, that’s a very serious charge. Have you been arrested?”
“Oh, no, i’m just planning ahead. So, like, does it get worse depending how long you keep them?”
“Who are you planning to kidnap?”
“That was actually my second question. is it like, totally different if its a stripper, or like ‘a priest’ or something? Can they potentially cancel each other out? What if i need the priest AFTER the stripper? I mean, as sort of someone to talk to.”
“this is getting sort of complex”
“Do you want to talk to them? I can get one if you want.”
*RBS picks up phone*
“HELLO, RBS, THIS STEVE SMITH. ONE THOSE FUNNY GUYS ON GLIBS GAVE ME YOUR HOME ADDRESS. THEY FUNNY GUYS. I COMING OVER. AND BY COME OVER MEAN RAPE”.
When you answer the phone, introduce yourself as Lionel Hutz.
“Ahhhh herrro”
“Yes, telephone lawyer here”
“Ahhh. I have trouble”
“Where are you calling from”
“Hrong Krong”
“(silence) Look man, i think the accent is a little racist, so could you just dial that back a bit”
“Ahh, ro kay, but i haf ver serrious prorrem. Verry corrocated. Involve sandwich, and democracy“
Why the hell would you do something without profit motive? What’s your angle??
This is billable hours for the firm’s pro bono requirement.
“Hi there, free legal advice!”
“Listen, i’m the best client you’re ever going to have.”
“Technically sir, you’re not my client until we structure a contract, this is just a phone-”
“The best client. Everyone says so. Its incredible. You won’t believe how good its going to be.”
“….uh, mr….. President?”
“You can just call me Sir. Look, these republicans, i don’t know how to talk to these people. They’re useless. How does anything get done around here? Hold on – baby look I’m on the phone… no, you can’t see what the shiny red button does, no that’s a president-only button… look we need to wrap this up, i have a lawyer on the phone. No, i’m not getting a divorce…. – Hey, wait a second – do you do divorces? Because maybe we can circle back to that.”
*RBS picks up phone*
“Free legal advice, how can I help you?”
I have lactose sensitivity. When I drink whole milk, I fart non-stop for the next 6 hours. Can ask my employer for an ADA reasonable accommodation?
“Hi, Free Legal Advice, this is RBS”
“I don’t know who you are. If you are looking for money, I assure you I have none–”
“Yeah man, free legal advice is free.”
“But what I do have are a particular set of skills–skills I have developed over a long career–”
“I think you have the wrong number.”
“I will find you, and I will–”
“Yeah, yeah, yeah, You’re the third guy in the last hour that’s threatened to kill me.”
+1 vote to make “Dear Arbys legal advice” a regular feature
So…. the stranger danger one.
They watched a guy dragging a screaming child out of a store and everyone just watched it happen?
Um… what?
nvm saw the update. That girl needs a whoopin bad.
Kids are evil little monsters. I still don’t understand why anyone wants one.
This man gets it.
My girlfriend works with little kids all day long. She likes coming home to a house with no kids, and I feel the same way.
Nikki?
Just to be clear, the update was not posted when I linked. I just knew how that was going to turn out because I have a three year old. And he would totally get in someone’s van for a piece of candy. And I’m okay with that, because OMWC is several states away.
Police said Tuesday night that the man was the girl’s father.
He was the girls father? Did they kill him or did he kill her?
In a just world, the latter. In Chicago, the former.
That was a common occurrence when I was a little kid. It was of course the parents doing the dragging out.
screaming is one thing. Screaming stranger danger is a totally different thing.
If I have kids I am going to drill into them very very early that if they are screaming it better be for a very very good reason because I am probably going to appear with a gun drawn, and if I have no one to shoot, someone is getting a fucking good beating.
*preemptively calls child services*
(ok probably not)
I learned the Philadelphia Ear Pull courtesy of my grandmother when I was about 4. It’s like in the movies when some Delta Force guy stabs a guard in the kidney so the pain is too much to even scream.
I’ve dragged a screaming 2 year old out of a store.
A couple times there was even a police cruiser sitting in front of the store.
No one, not even the copper, batted an eye.
Yes it was my child.
Well, possession is 9/10 of the law.
It’s a screaming 2 year old.
Who else but the parent would claim ownership?
“He had a character problem,” he said.
Too good for this world.
Pants shitting concern trolls interrupt junior marksmanship activities
Please eat a log of shit, hysterical ninny Andrew Gentes.
I bet they teach Drivers’ Ed at that school.
They should make imbulbitation an Olympic sport.
Bonus style points for blubbering asshattery?
We had our shooing class in the gym when I was in high school. Air rifles, obviously. And archery too. And for a field trip, we went to a nice outdoor range with 800m targets for the rifles and a pretty cool archery range where you walked a trail for about two miles and shot at targets ranging from 10 yds to a whole lot farther (although I can’t remember how far). I put a grouping of ten rounds within 6” at 800m and the teacher and rangemaster about shit themselves. It was the first time I’d ever fired a real, high-powered rifle.
Walking boner Andrew Gentes thinks .22LR is a high-powered rifle.
I’m sure they banned pop tarts in that cafeteria for the exact same reason.
I got a raise… $38/paycheck, net
It’s odd. there was a time when that would seem like a lot and change what I could or could not afford. Now it’s not so much. (I still need it, mind you)
$38/paycheck would have been not scrounging change for gas anymore at one point.
It’s $19/week, but still, that’s the better part of a tank of gas, certainly enough to get through the week*
*YMMV
I see what you did there.
The fuel tax went up 20 cents a gallon here today. $19 will buy me about a quarter tank.
$19 will almost buy me a full tank if I’ve got my Kroger points there to get me a $.20 discount. It’s $1.94 a gallon now. It felt like Auschwitz when it went up to $2.35 after Harvey.
Gas was cheap at Auschwitz. Jeez.
It’s $2.28 here and I’m happy.
yeah, I try to tell my roommate that when he was sad about his lousy raise.
objectively, it was a shit raise. but still. compared to my job at the time, I’d have killed for 40 a check.
Yeah; I’d like to get a $19/week raise.
I just assume my job is going to another state after another round or two of Cuomo’s minimum-wage “increase”.
I’ll still blame taxes.
What’s a “state income tax”?
Yeah, I wouldn’t know either.
The last few raises I got have been similarly depressing. While it feels good for a minute, after I do the after-tax math, the net pay difference has zero impact on my life.
I haven’t gotten a raise recently, but I did get another 5 paid days off a year.
I lost $51 and that hurt. So congrats!
*puts bad review on UCS’s recent novel*
Done for the day.
*checks fridge for beer*
Dammit.
Welp, I just injected the game hens that I’m having for dinner. Time to track down lunch now.
How long does it take for them to pass out?
Heh.
“Welp, I just injected the game hens”
Hey, no judgement here.
beer delivery?
I did that on Saturday. I was just feeling too lazy to go out to get it. Makes about 6 times I’ve done it. Very convenient and always arrives in less than one hour.
I can go out. I just wanted one RIGHT NOW.
These euphemisms…
Why aren’t you brewing your own for just such an emergency?
Hot beef?
Why yes. The injection is in fact called “Make it Meaty”
Lmao. I love this site.
Best. Place. Ever.
Here you go.
“One injection, any meat”
I’m sensing a similarity here between you and Jesse…
drums of lube and gallons of meaty.
You need some James Brown to go with that.
Fucking homophobe! If South Carolinians can learn to live with game cocks, so can you. Your insistence on game hens is embarrassing.
The man is black, 40 to 60 years old and 6 feet tall with a medium build. He is balding and has a medium complexion. He was wearing an oversized black jacket, a light-colored hoodie and baggy black pants.
They’ll find that guy in no time.
My ex-girlfriend’s psycho drama queen daughter used to yell “stranger danger” when I came to the door. I don’t miss that one bit.
yeah that’s when you start giving her ice cream laced with laxatives.
I recently broke up with my girlfriend and am getting back into the online dating thing. Got a date tonight – gonna get some Spanish tapas. Wha-hoo! Back to the weird world of online dating.
Don’t get murdered!
Also, don’t get herpes.
You’re assuming that he doesn’t already have them.
Well, he certainly wouldn’t want to get them twice.
Doesn’t that just cancel out the herpes?
Two negatives make a positive!
Maybe he was already murdered?
Good luck, buddy. Online dating creeps me out for I don’t know why. But I wish my fellow glibs all the best!
Its a little weird. Especially writing what is essentially a resume for potential dates. I imagine it has to be a creepier thing for women. I went on a date last Thursday with a different girl and asked her how many times she gets messaged a day – her answer was that on weekends, she gets over 20 messages a day.
That’s a lot of bullshit to sift through. Most dude are just looking to hookup, too.
Anyway, thanks for the well wishes.
When I was on that scene about 10 years ago, every girl I dated off the internet had like, one or two flaws that pushed them from a 7-8 on their profile to a 5 or less. I was like.. ohhhh. I see now. I started meeting at coffee shops real quick. That way you’re out $5 and 30 minutes if it is no good.
^This. I second the recommendation of coffee/drinks for first meet rather than dinner. You need to have an easy exit strategy.
the dive bar is my setting.
Underground in a west end town?
He IS about to move east….
My bar here is either underground or has a bunch of stuff tied to the roof and pictures lacquered into the bar.
I usually do drinks for the first meet-up. This is our 2nd date, and we both wanted to try this place so I think it works out. She seems sane so far.
Solid advice for sure though.
Meet her for a walk on the beach. It’s free.
Yeah I’ve run into some girls that seemed pretty great at first, but on the second and third date I quickly realized that they were a bit… off. One texted me telling me that I meant “everything” to her a week after we had our first date. Ugh, nope. nope. nope. nope.
“I’d like for you to come over for dinner. I’m having rabbit stew.”
“TK died. This is his sister. Sorry, you missed the funeral.”
What’s wrong with that?
Banjos and I got married just under three weeks after we met.* Then we did it again a couple months later so we could have family and friends come.
*Insurance purposes, but we knew it was gonna happen anyway.
You knew each other on TOS for awhile first though, didn’t you?
Whoa. Sloopy’s balls are not only super-fertile but apparently made of steel.
I heard Banjos makes him wear padded underwear so she can sleep through the clinking when he gets up to pee in the middle of the night.
Yeah. We chatted on there some in the comments and texted each other from time to time. And watched the same movies on Netflix while calling and texting. But the first time we met in person, after the second day I asked her to pack her shit, put in her notice at work and put her house on the market.
Came back 10 days later and got a UHaul, packed it and drove to California. Went to the JOP the next day.
I love stories like that. I was dating Mrs. Tundra’s best friend when I met her. Sometimes there is just amazing chemistry.
My parents went on a blind date and got married 6 weeks later. I had to upstage them.
“Most dude are just looking to hookup, too.”
That doesn’t sound like men.
Pics (for the morning links) or GTFO.
It’s both exciting and scary. I always chat with the person online for a while before attempting an actual meetup. It gives you some time to try to verify that they aren’t totally batshit crazy.
I mean when I used to do that, I’ve been married for 8 years now. Will be 8 next month.
Riggggghhhhhht
+1 Ashley Madison
Congrats on 8 years. I use the same tactics, I usually chat with them for a few days before I ask them if they’d like to meet up for a date. I usually just go for something casual that I can skip out on quick if anything gets weird.
“Here, let me show you 50 photos I took of my Dachshund.”
“That’s a lot of photos.”
“Oh, these are just from this morning.”
Dachshund = penis right?
If I’m on a date with a woman and she shows me photos of her penis, I usually don’t stay around after the first 30 or so photos.
NTTAWWT.
B.P. made me LOL. Plus, I wanted to see three 8-bit avatars in a row.
woo!
UHH…”EVE SMITH” GO OUT WITH YOU. LOVE MEETING NEW PEOPLE FOR NEW ADVENTURES OUTDOORS. AND BY “ADVENTURES OUTDOORS” TOTALLY DO NOT MEAN RAPE.
(skips past the “who else makes tapas?” part)
I am pretty sure that every single time i’ve ever eaten Tapas, it was on a date. And interestingly enough, it worked. (at least in the sense that they were generally all good dates)
It was very popular thing in the late-90s/early 2000s in NYC. you’d go to the local tapas place and it was 100% young awkward couples getting sangria-drunk. but it was basically something i’d never do with a bunch of dudes.
“Spanish tapas”, those are the things that make the chick pass out when you drop one in her drink, right?
Good luck! Have fun!
I met the Squeeze on OKC. I messaged him first. He had a pic of himself wearing a tinfoil hat, crouching under a stairwell. Like, how could I not message him?
these euphemisms
“There is no place on Airbnb for such an abhorrent act, which violates everything our global community stands for,” Airbnb said.”
You think?
“…although I think the Astros would win that.”
They did have, what, a .85 team OPS. They can hit.
The Dodgers are, on the other hand, a pitching team. We’ll see tonight if the old adage ‘pitching wins’ prevails.
Oh, Fox. Don’t ever stop being you. Where else could you read two consecutive paragraphs like these?
allow the Army JROTC program to bring in air rifles for the practices subject to certain safety precautions — things like closed blinds, locked doors and secured entry.
For the safety of the students. If someone were to see an air rifle through the window, the SWATters would arrive shortly thereafter.
If someone were to see an air rifle through the window, the SWATters would arrive shortly thereafter.
I take my UMAREX-manufactured Beretta PX4 Storm air pistol to the range all the time. It’s pretty convincing. One of the guys who works the front counter is a cop who does range duty on his off-hours. I showed him the pistol and he immediately said “Yeah, if I saw a kid brandishing this on the streets, I’d probably shoot ‘im.”
I see a bad breakup of the US in the near future. Everything is polarized now. Back in the day a gun was a gun. You had a few people that loved em, a few people that hated em, and the vast majority was like ‘meh, a gun’. People walked around with guns openly, even in New York City. It just wasn’t a big deal. Nowadays you either fellate your ARs or you faint at the sight of an empty cartridge and you have to scream your opinions at people. This is for something as relatively unimportant as guns. Everything is this way. You are either with us or against us, good or evil, saint or sinner. A house this divided cannot stand.
Deep dish as pizza isn’t helping.
Even worse deep dish topped with pineapple.
Served by an uncircumcised waiter.
CANADIAN LIES
Libertarians will bridge the divide…
With cheap cement and hungry orphan labourers.
PROFIT!
If by that you mean we will smuggle goods from the USSA and the Democratic People’s Republican of America to the Christian States of America and vice versa, then sure.
I still see a lot of ‘meh, a gun’ responses. I think the impression of polarization is because of an equal and opposite reaction to the shrieking extremists one-upping the other side at any juncture they can.
When people can ride the subway with 22 rifles on their shoulder like they did in the 50s, and teenagers can carry hunting rifles and shotguns in their vehicles openly at school like they did in the 80s and 90s, I will agree with you.
When I was in high school, there were pickup trucks with gun racks full of guns all over the parking lot. No one ever freaked out and no one was ever shot.
Exactly. Try that now, even in flyover.
The school thing I think you can blame almost exclusively on Eric and Dylan. Not that I think it’s the right course of action.
The difference between two trenchcoat wearing losers and Cody the teenage deer hunter is so stark and obvious that anyone attempting to equivocate the two is obviously being mendacious.
Yeah, right. If Cody just wanted to hunt deer, he wouldn’t need a machine gun!
I completely agree, it was just the fig leaf the Precaution Principle douchebags used to create the “gun-free zones” around schools.
I’m a ‘meh, a gun’ guy but never understood the gun rack thing, why display a couple hundred+ dollars worth of goods right there in the cab of your truck, seems like begging to be riped off.
It’s a very easy place to store guns where they won’t get dinged up from bouncing around on the floor, and they are quickly accessible if needed. Back in the day in flyover you weren’t really worried about someone breaking into your truck.
When you didn’t bother to lock your truck
Here in Boise, people still go into convience stores during the winter leaving thier car running
I get that, when you’re actually going hunting, I never got the everyday, drive around town with my expensive gun in view for everyone. I have expensive tools, and I don’t panic about them been stolen but I don’t store them in plain sight either.
Hunting rifles may or may not be expensive, but as I said storing them behind the seat gets them dinged up and the bed is right out. Plus there are plenty of times when a buddy will come up and go ‘lets go hunting after class!’ or you’ll see a coyote in the field when coming up the drive after school.
storing them behind the seat gets them dinged up
I don’t see why that would necessarily be true, if one can hang a gun safely above the seat I imagine one could hang a gun safely behind the seat.
You still see that in Northern Arizona from time to time. A bored enough cop will stop you and ask questions though.
Back then you could leave your doors unlocked and no one would steal anything. I mean it happened, but it was pretty rare.
My in laws still leave their doors unlocked in their small town. It gets them into trouble though on the rare occasions they leave it.
When my wife and I first started dating, we lived in a bad neighborhood next to an even worse one that was a straight up ghetto. Her parents came with a mini-van packed with presents for Christmas (mostly for my wife who’s there only child). Her dad not only left the doors unlocked, but he left the sliding door wide open all night long on Christmas eve. I’m over here triple checking my car is locked every time I leave it with an aftermarket security system and somehow he forgets to close his door.
I don’t know why, but everything was still in the vehicle. My guess is the local ghetto denizens figured an open car full of presents must be some kind of set-up that would result in a take-down, and we got lucky no crackheads desperate enough for their next fix didn’t wander by.
10 years later and I still check their doors whenever we visit somewhere.
Because behind the seat you need to stop, get out, and fold the seat forward to get your rifle. On the rack you just grab-n-shoot.
And as others have said, in fly-over, nobody was stealing their buddies’ guns.
Also, if we’re talking 90’s and before (and again, in fly-over), guns weren’t that expensive. Not many people would look at a gun rack and get dollar signs in their eyes.
and a truck-stored hunting rifle at that.
I actually feel a little better every day about my choice to hate both major parties.
Black and white is how a communist sees the world. Huh. Maybe this is all signs that commies are trying to take over.
And Sith…
What do you have against oral sex on firearms (granted of course that the firearm has given enthusiastic, on-going consent and has been cleared)?
Even if you cleared it, you should still always act as if it is loaded.
so, butt stuff?
Once more into the breech
*applause with awkward body cringe*
I’ve actually been predicting that for years. I mean if the left keep going the way they are, it’s going to get very ugly and there could be a breakup. About the only way it’s avoided is if the left just devour their own to the extent they completely almost evaporate and most people go back to being somewhat sane. But if the left keep going further left and doubling down again on this identity politics thing and their crazy unhinged attacks on everyone, we’re going to have real trouble.
There’s a silent majority of people who pretty much go along and get along … I would hope that they would help ameliorate any graver divides.
Dammit, if the US breaks up, what the fuck are we gonna do here in the south half of Florida? Everything from Tampa/Orlando on south is more Northeast than Southeast.
Like, can we cut that part of the state off Bugs Bunny style and paste it just south of Long Island or something?
kick the carpet baggers out of course. Do you even gone with the wind, bro?
We’re the carpet baggers down here.
Given how much I hate it here, I’ll get out peacably. But there are no libertarian-ish places I could move to that have my kind of work. Probably just move near the wife’s parents in NC and hope for work.
“no libertarian-ish places I could move to that have my kind of work”
pr0n?
Don’t worry about it, South Florida is going to be underwater by 2020. #sciencebitches
i think things are probably better now than they were in the past, if not more or less the same…
…the only difference being that people now get to hear ALL of the perpetually-bitching voices on social media, 24/7
Those same idiots would have been bitching in the reagan administration, the clinton admin, or the bush admin… its just that no one paid the slightest fucking attention to them.
but now, those bitchy types dominate the ‘airwaves’. because politics has become a form of low-level entertainment. sort of like Jerry Springer for the ‘politically minded’.
So everyone chats in hushed circles with their peers about how “crazy” the other side is.
Maybe we could just elect Jerry Springer President. He does have political experience.
You joke…but I bet the Dems roll out someone similar in 2020.
It will be Hillary, no doubt about it.
Oprah.
And she’ll win.
Which was foretold in that Martin Luther King Jr. episode of The Boondocks.
I would never underestimate Oprah. The woman has verbal judo skills.
She’s basically a cult leader. She has more influence than Obama.
I take back what i said: Oprah v. Trump would be the spark to a civil war.
As long as I get a car out of it and free hotel stays I’m ok with that.
*grabs musket off wall*
A wise man (not me) once said: “People used to lead lives of quiet desperation. Now, there’s social media.”
You are either with us or against us, good or evil, saint or sinner.
Only a Sith deals in absolutes…screw it. You take that as a compliment.
Online dating creeps me out for I don’t know why.
Yeah, I’m going to hafta pass on the “dating service” thing. I just leer at ’em in Target, or the grocery store.
So where are the libertarian city councillors?
Ask your mom.
I missed you Winston.
How long until asking a girl out and getting rejected is sexual assault?
3, 2, 1… ok should be right about now.
Usually about 20 years, give or take. Plus, you have to be ugly.
Oh, I thought you asked how long after asking a girl out and getting rejected does that become sexual assault.
If she thinks you’re too far below her on the social ladder, that’s been sexual assault for about 3 years.
Couple lines short but still good for a chuckle
https://youtu.be/bDk3eaeao8E
Who would have thought one player with a name reminiscent of a character in a German fairy tale could take down an eleventy-billion dollar operation?
What did Papa John’s do?
They changed their name to a more gender-neutral name.
I honestly thought you were being serious there.
We’re all vulnerable to the ZEITGEIST!
Pepe Genes.
Papa Jizz-On’s
Just like my favorite sandwich shop: Jizz-in-me John’s.
But I’m the super-mega homo?
Jimmy Johns is garbage.
They complained that sales were falling because of the NFL players taking a knee.
Everyone knows only football fans eat pizza and then ONLY during a game.
what a shit excuse.
People boycotting the NFL know it’s about ad revenue. they’ve been calling and writing advertisers threatening to stop buying those products as well.
It might be true, it might not be. Papa johns isn’t even that good compared to the other chains like it.
Good to see elected reps actually embracing their oversight role with regard to a public institution.
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10077
FTA: The UNL [U of Nebraska-Lincoln] English Department’s website, they point out, states that its core values are “1) Pursuing social justice, 2) Affirming diversity, 3) Engaging with a broad array of real and imagined communities based on empathetic understanding, 4) Fostering a sense of belonging, and 5) Instilling a desire for civic engagement.”
*head desk*
Teaching English is nowhere to be found as a priority.
Odd how the words “learning” and “education” are completely absent.
And teaching, enabling, employable, job, career, success….
That’s because it isn’t important to them. Indoctrination is all that matters. When utopia finally arrives, the sheep don’t need to be intelligent, they just need to obey.
Inmates….. Asylum
When where universities not indoctrination centers?
“labeling her as a neo-fascist ”
Great, another neo-insult.
So has Jeff Tucker endorsed Hillary for being corrupt? That was one thing he liked about Marion Barry.
I mean all that corruption has turned Latin America into libertopia.
So anti-war libertarians here? How do you deal allying with anti-free trade anti-laissez Faire leftists?
I don’t ally with them. They’re totally separate issues. That’s like saying “how do you deal with the fact that my gay friend and I both like beer but have sex with different genders?” Non-overlapping magisteria.
Raimondo, Richman and Ron Paul have a sad.
Being a libertarian necessitates being anti-war in all situations other than pure defense, right? At least that’s the way I’ve always understood it.
Anyways, we didn’t have to deal with them at all for 8 years, because they disappeared during Obama’s administration (except for Cindy Sheehan). Now I just ignore them.
And they are quite willing to Saber rattle with Russia after decades of ridiculing the same.
I know! Did you hear what Romney said about Russia being an *enemy*? He’s crazy!
That’s what the guys in waiting in the anteroom of your mom’s bedroom are doing.
What dictates defense is a sticky subject.
Would we be wrong to initiate war against North Korea?
Were we wrong to initiate war in 42? in 50?
WWII is obvious. We were attacked on one side by Japan, and Germany declared war on us on the other side.
Korea’s trickier. I’d say no. But it’s close. Closer than Vietnam or any of our other entanglements since.
Those fuckos aren’t anti-war, they are anti-Republican.
Has there ever been a real antiwar left?
The antiwar left was just pissed we were attacking the wrong people and that same antiwar left were clapping like trained seals back in the 1990s when we were bombing Serbia.
Has there ever been a real antiwar left?
Yes: the Vietnam War protesters in the early years. They seemed to have some rather unkind things to say about LBJ, who was quintessentially of the left.
What makes you certain they weren’t commies?
No kidding, it’s perfectly ok when their guy does it.
So I’ve got two kids in swim class at this very moment and the pool deck is crawling with wet, nubile, high school aged girls in swimsuits. This is dangerous territory for an adult male.
“Margaret Thatcher naked on a cold day, Margaret Thatcher naked on a cold day….”
Bobbitt
Let me show you my favorite stroke.
Looking ain’t a crime. You’re a married man, not a dead man.
He doesn’t want to get a boner.
Maxine Waters sitting on Rosy O’Donnell’s face while Hillary Clinton goes down on Rosy
And problem solved.
Where’s my puke bucket?
Yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
“Oh yes, my Iron Lady. Lower those taxes…oh yeah, baby. Just how I like it. Oh, you deregulate better than anyone. Don’t stop. You know how hot it gets me when you tell me what you like to do with the damn commies…..”
Wait. How would thinking of that keep you out of trouble?
Young Maggie had tremendous pencil-eraser nips.
So anti-war libertarians here? How do you deal allying with anti-free trade anti-laissez Faire leftists?
You have a degree in “English” from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, don’t you.
The anthem protestors nerd to step up. How about lying totally prostrate with heads on the ground and crawling backwards with their head down?
Let me guess, your mom taught you that one?
My old boss from State Dept is gonna call me later tonight about this job on her team!!!
WOOT!
Congrats!
Awesome!
Network, FTW!!
Hillary?
She was my boss’s boss’s boss’s boss’s boss’s boss, or thereabouts
And she’s old!
No jerb in CO? I haz sad.
Did a Mexican take it?
Not ATM. If this thing falls through, and I pass my CSM certification, I’ll be in a better position to look at CO (also UT, MT, ID…)
Don’t dismiss NM. Some great skiing there too.
Oh yes – can’t believe I forgot NM! I love it there!
Too bad there’s no freaking jobs there.
Come to Texas!!!! Our airports can get you anywhere. And the low cost of living and no statenincome tax insures that you’ll have the extra money to get there in style.
Plus we have the best breweries and vodka distilleries in the country.
And guns. Lots of guns. Get your carry permit though.
I spend the entire summer in DC bitching & moaning about the heat.
LANL and SNL would be your best bet. I have contacts at both if you’re interested. Super sweet pay and benefits if you don’t mind getting a Q clearance (damn plagiarists).
Would LOVE to live up in White Rock (LANL).
I was up at the Santa Fe ski area looking at the Aspens a coupla years ago, and saw a couple with a pug. So I talked to ’em. Guy worked at LANL. Networked a bit, but ultimately couldn’t find anything to suit my skills.
Which one of the mods here is responsible for giving out email addresses? Dear mod: it’s OK to give Q my email.
I sent an message to the mods
I work at LANL. From one vantage point at work I can three ski areas: Santa Fe to the east, Sandia to the south and Pajarito about 15 minutes to the west.
… Hobbit
I push electrons (engineer) but I know some people over in IT. I even coded HTML at one time but that was a long time ago and have lost those contacts.
… Hobbit
*orgasms*
I wonder, maybe not so much the lab, but the parent organization might have stuff in my field. Looking at the web site now.
Helllloooo, Dolly!
Job listing on the LANL web site:
The contract to operate the Lab is up for renegotiation and it won’t be LANS LLC. Just a heads-up.
… Hobbit
Good fortune!
Excellent!
Good for you KK!
YAY
You know Hillary!
What is this new job? Combo mail server maintenance and toilet cleaning?
LOL – it’s a “Digital Communications Specialist” contractor job at USAID. Internal comms. Light HTML & CSS involved. Generous pay & telework.
Right on! Hope it all goes well.
Happy for you! hope it’s all good news.
Not sure if serious…
I Want Allahu Akbar Back
You mean, like “porch monkey”?
(my god that was an awful movie)
Kevin Smith is very similar to Adam Sandler in that he started with his best movie and just went gradually downhill from there.
I thought Chasing Amy was pretty good.
Chasing Amy was, it was also his third movie. He jumped the shark with dogma and never looked back.
I liked Dogma. Mostly because of Alan Rickman.
Don’t think he’s made a good movie since though.
I liked Dogma as well, but it was his last truly good movie.
Going Overboard?
Clerks 2 was great. The only downside was Smith’s wife being cast as Dante’s girlfriend and some of the dialogue was stilted. But no moreso than any of his other movies.
But FWIW, Mallrats was his best without a doubt.
I felt it was very forced and inorganic, and very much the processed corporate dreck that Smith was obviously railing against in the original Clerks, which really killed it for me. On it’s own it was a decent movie but taken with his other works it lacked heart.
I thought it was a fine continuance of the original. I thought he mocked corporate entities pretty well. The only issue I had was too many cameos.
Her performance as Dante’s girlfriend there wasn’t nearly as bad as her performance in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.
Oh my GOD that was straight up offensive.
Oh I had no idea that was her. I was too busy looking at Eliza Dushku to notice.
I didn’t even know that was a slur if not for Kevin Smith.
If Christians were to form a protest praying, say, for something Obama did, progressives and liberals would have lost their shit. When Muslims do it it’s cute and proof of our diversity.
Ma va cacare.
You mean like Deus Vult?
If the writer wants it back, perhaps speaking to a room of Muslims would be more productive than a bunch of bureaucrats.
Exactly. If it means so much to him to take it back, the ones he needs to take it back from is HIS OWN FUCKING PEOPLE!
Eight people dead fucking yesterday, Muzzies hardest hit. Eat a dick Wajahat.
this is what happens when you get high on your own supply
So, just say “God is great”. Means the same thing, doesn’t freak out normals (might even get some positive feelz in Jesusland), and terrorists are too anal about trivial shit not to exclusively use Arabic.
Never knew this
tl;dr: T.S. Eliot’s publishing house rejected George Orwell’s Animal Farm because of its “Trotskyite” point of view, pointing out that the pigs really were better qualified to run the farm and all that was needed was better top
menpigs.Wow. Interesting.
Wow. Signed by Eliot himself. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.
Signed T.S.Eliot. Exclamation point!
tl;dr
Is there a version of the rejection letter that is actually legible?
I posted this pretty late in the am links (twice actually…*sigh*), thought I’d throw it out there again:
The scourge continues…
(Click to see the picture she took. I’m gonna go out on a limb and call bullshit on this one)
Minnesota woman finds pins in Snickers bar
Duluth police said on Tuesday that they have no suspect, since many people donated candy for the event. But Ellestad said she doesn’t suspect anyone locally because there was no sign the wrapper had been tampered with.
Instead, she thinks it occurred during the manufacturing process, possibly because of some sort of mechanical failure or because of someone’s deliberate action.
fake news
Well, at least it wasn’t marijuana. A kid is much better off with a mouthful of stick pins than the devil’s weed because they will be addicted for life after that first bite and will have to steal their mom’s TV and probably the microwave to get their next fix.
Chronic masturbation soon follows.
This shit has been a hoax EVERY SINGLE TIME it’s come up. I’ll lay out $100 right now that “Minnesota woman” is found to have put the pins in there herself, and she did it to “raise awareness” that idiots like her pull hoaxes to get attention.
We have another case in Minnesoda! This time they found a sewing needle in a tootsie roll. (Awesome pic of the tootsie roll by the way).
Last year we had a similar hoax. It took about a day before it came out that it was a hoax. Not sure why we think that there is money in this scam.
That’s not a Tootsie Roll!
It’s no big deal
Minnesota woman finds pins in Snickers bar
Those crypto-Nazi Mars brothers are at it again.
Fixed.
We are not a very clever people.
*shrugs and goes back to trying to fit a mouse into a beer can*
Literally LOL’d. Haven’t seen that in quite a while.
For you.
I believe there’ll be no charge on this 2-4 of beer, thank you.
One of the greatest movies ever made.
You betchya
Why does that goose have the same profile as the ducks?
Duck, duck, fucking hate bird the bird that hates?
My gf has no interest in hunting. However, if you ask if she would like to shoot geese, she’s suddenly very enthusiastic about shooting some critters.
In which a Psychologist uses 1000 words to say “Idiot”
Spurs beat Real Madrid? Actually move into knock-out?
*faints*
If I ever hit the lottery (which is hard to do when you only spend $5 a year on tickets) I would hire every private investigator I could find to follow every single local and state politician that “represents” me and probably a local sheriff and police chief or two just to see how much dirt I could get. Then I would start my own news publication and release it all.
buy every billboard.
I don’t think anyone pays attention to billboards. I Frequently pass by billboards with the ten commandments, could tell you what the hell they say.
in my plan, the pols hate the billboards with their dirt on it and eventually get rid of billboards.
Isnt there a movie coming out like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jit3YhGx5pU
huh, how bout that.
I still think I thought of it first.
I was thinking that we pool the money that we used to give to TOS and hire a PI ourselves to get dirt on the pols of some random statehouse.
Then use the dirty photos as the pics on the front page of the site (although I will miss those great pics myself). Don’t publicize them at all. Just wait to see how long it takes to blow up.
That’s actually a damn good idea, I’d definitely chip in on that.
I would chip in for that. I think it would need to be a red state though so there’s a chance the constituents might actually get outraged
I like the new avatar. Freaks me out just a little, though.
Of course it is a good idea! I’m infallible!!!!
Once I’m re-employed, I’m good for some scratch.
Get someone going through their trash, that should be good for plenty of entertainment.
Good idea. What do you have planned for your late nights over the next couple months?
Well, if you win the lotto and start that site, I can be your web developer and we can go through politicians trash at night. “Hey look, it’s one of those chicks with dicks magazines!”.
It’s a date
–runs down to spend paycheck on powerball tickets
Why You’ll Never See a Hybrid, Self-Driving Rolls-Royce
Priorities. I approve.
Fucking .00001%
Makes you wanna tax the shit out of some folks doesn’t it
Nobody needs more than (my income * 1.05) !!
anything above my income *1.05 should be taxed at 100%
for the children.
There’s a theory going around that self-driving cars are being invented by SV rich folk who are too embarrassed to hire a human to drive them around. Robot maids and chauffeurs, electronic personal assistants and delivery drones for the special venn diagram of oodles of money, finds human interaction terrifyingly stressful and believes service professions are demeaning.
SV? Salvadorians?
Silicon Valley
Fucking 1%er SV’s and their fucking cafe dinero.
Shit the site isn’t coming up at work. They may have finally cut me off.
nvm spoke too soon.
*goes back to pretending to work.*
It’s funny how our deepest fears reveal themselves in moments of panic.
Is it the page cannot be loaded error? I get that every once in a while. Refresh and Im back to fucking off.
Is it time for a Phoenix area Glibs meetup? I mean, it’s not 1,000 degrees outside anymore. PLUS… I’m finally through taking the exam to become an actual Professional Engineer (it takes them 6 freaking weeks to grade a ScanTron exam, so I won’t know results until early December, but that’s a rant for another time).
Yes. Weve been talking about it for months. Lets go shoot guns in the desert.
So this sounds like a Saturday or Sunday afternoon type of thing, huh?
That sounds like fun.
We’d probably do it by now if not for families, jobs and the fact that most of us are antisocial.
I live somewhat close to where you work (or at least I believe you’ve referenced working at a facility near 7th St and Indian School), so if *you* happen to live somewhat close to there we might be neighbors, heh. I’m in the same boat with the job, wife, 6 year old, etc, but I can for sure carve out a happy hour or early/mid evening thing.
Is cool, everyone here knows I work at the VA. I’m actually a bit north of that near Lookout Mountain. In 12 days I start work somewhere else though.
*twiddles fingers*
Good luck on your quest to get PE and expose yourself to additional liability.
Thanks! I actually work for a GC, so I don’t even really “use” my engineering. Our company doesn’t have any current PE’s on staff, and so this whole PE pursuit is a personal/life goal thing that I’ve had ever since I enrolled into civil engineering as a freshman way back in ’97.
So I walk along the 8th ave bike path/walkway everyday and just noticed today the giant flower pots that line it so u can’t drive into people.
Mika and Joe were outraged this morning on msnbc. Outraged at trump. How dare a president politicize a tragic mass killing.
Not one person I came across today even brought the event up. While the media and pols are going full bore, new yorkers do not give a shit.
“Mika and Joe were outraged this morning on msnbc. Outraged at trump. How dare a president politicize a tragic mass killing.”
Facepalm
Joe and Mika then made out like teenagers in the back seat of a car. Mike Barnicle made sit-com audience hooting noises. The other guests made sternly worded calls to their booking agents.
If there’s anything that reliably defines what it means to be “alt-right”, it’s people that believe in giving the left a big dose of their own medicine.
I’ve been reading a book about Al Qaeda and Bin Laden. There is a lot of bathos.
History according to Bin Laden: Most people don’t know that the Americans have been trying to invade the Middle East since 1801. That is the year they tried to conquer Algeria, but were repulsed by the heroic mujahideen, which the filthy infidels called “pirates”.
According to the will of 9/11 high-jacker Mohamed Atta: My body should be properly washed by upstanding Muslim men before burial. Furthermore, they should wear rubber gloves so they may wash my privates without defiling me or themselves. Under no circumstances are women to visit my grave.
(He apparently believed his body would somehow be recovered intact despite hitting a building at 600 mph.)
From a companion of Bin Laden: He always says to stop using things like ice cubes and Tabasco, not just because they are sinful western things, but also because mujaheddin must become accustomed to hardship.
From the will of Bin Laden: My wives- you are forbidden to wear make-up like the infidel whores or imitate mannish infidel women.
“(He apparently believed his body would somehow be recovered intact despite hitting a building at 600 mph.)”
Or that we would give 2.37 fucks about his burial wishes.
And that chicks would be knocking the door down to sneak in a visit to his grave.
No shit. Here are your remains, pal, stuffed inside the body of a pig since we dumped you into their feed. Oh, and by the way, he had three different homos touch your dick while you were in rigor.
In case you thought they were faking it:
DNC staffer under fire over job ad
I don’t see why would this staffer be “under fire”. They all explicitly believe and actively espouse this viewpoint. Are they not supposed to say it out loud? Whyever not?
I think some of the saner people behind the curtain realize that this identity politics bullshit is snake oil for their base and that actually believing it for real is bad for business.
Lawsuit?
“Madeleine. Girlfriend. You know it was the right thing to do and I know it was the right thing to do. But, you know, lawyers and shit . Sorry girl.”
Next time, save some typing and just say “shitlords,” Madeleine.
I don’t know what this issue is.
This is just a different way to describe affirmative action.
Exactly my point, what’s the commotion for?
and I think the answer is, “if you say it THAT way, our intentions don’t sound entirely pure!”
They’re fine with the policy, but the optics must conform to standards lest someone see behind the curtain.
exactly.
For a tech job? That explains a lot about their email server security.
And now you know the REAL reason Hillary needed her own private server.
/paul harvey
today’s wacky musical mash-up:
Greensleeves – viking metal version – featuring double neck electric ukulele.
https://youtu.be/DsE2OUpzW_I?t=59s
Rooster attacked my daughter again. Then it went for wife’s eyes. Missed but left a scratch down her face.
Took five .22 bullets before it stopped moving and every one went home. Tough son of bitch.
If it takes five .22 bullets that aren’t perfect kill shots to take down a large rooster, I’m definitely not understanding why semiautomatics are overkill for self defense per the media and democrats. I blame Hollywood where the protagonist kills 10 bad guys with 10 shots every time.
A vivid re enactment of the attack
That’s funny and my wife laughed hysterically while yelling “that’s what happened!”. It really did ambush her on her way from the car to the door.
We plan on getting emus in the couple years so that clip may not be far off if I end up with an aggressive one.
I can’t imagine anything meaner than geese, and emus look like big geese.
Cassawary. Basically a living dinosaur.
Must be, with those big ol’ testicles hanging from its neck. I’d feel pretty rotten, too.
I had 5 Toulouse geese at one time. They all ended up male and were the meanest animals I’ve ever been around. I ended up getting rid of them because they were just too vicious and not useful without some females in the group. I’m going to try again with another batch soon.
I used to have a big Tom turkey that was fine around people but would attack my Doberman. She could have killed the turkey but just let it be.
I’m willing to consider and even enthusiastic about potentially adding most types of animals to our homestead that I can legally acquire with minimal effort, but I won’t even consider Cassowaries. Not for a second. They make geese seem gentle and can disembowel a human.
Swans.
No shit. Swans have actually killed people.
oopsie
*read in the voice of Ralphie’s mom*
+1 mommy’s little piggy
I was expecting this .
Seriously though, what rooster is this? Yours?
He was my rooster (1 of 2). He’s been attacking my 2 year old daughter lately. I’ve responding by bringing her right back to the rooster with a stick in her hands to beat it until it runs from her. Good life lesson there.
I need them a little aggressive to fight off hawks and owls, but going for the eyes crosses the line. I hated to do it because he was beautiful special breed and a good caretaker for the hens, but can’t risk him getting eyes. I put him down immediately.
So how did you cook it?
With pleasure, I imagine.
It’s dead so it’s not his any more.
(I’ll be here all week. Tip the veal and try the waitress.)
Well I’m certainly not having the chicken.
Thank God roosters aren’t human size. We would be screwed.
Chickens in general can ruin your day. Feathery little bastards are far more predatory than people think.
Which is why properly raised chickens (and their eggs) taste so much better. They’ve been eating A LOT of protein.
Chickens don’t eat corn. They eat bugs, worms, and yes, lizards. Motherfucking lizards.
Paging Mr Lizard, Mr Lizard to the cream-colored courtesy phone.
Chickens, cats, and space squids…yes there are plenty of species that try to eat us. Unlike you puny mammals we don’t get bent about other creatures trying to feed on us…that’s why we have plasma rifles
And snakes.
We get eggs from a local farmer who has about 300 free range chickens. Cleaning them is a pain, but they taste so much better.
Yep. It’s funny, my kids have become complete egg snobs. A store bought egg will get a WTF every time!
https://youtu.be/bBFXzyp3sks
Birds are assholes
I have a very good friend who ran the bird show for Busch Gardens for years. Her hands are permanently scarred from the ill tempered parrots.
Zardoz bitches about the evil cock all the time. He should finally stop his bitching now.
You’re transparent attempts at getting Zardoz’d are beneath you, don’t you think?
Are you joking? You’ve met me – I have no shame.
Guilt and shame are for losers
Touche
I’m sick of these constant rooster attacks.
Let the roosters pay the rooster tax!
*goes for eyes*
For human targets, there are plwnty of stories floating around the internet where insurgents needed to.be hit that many times or more with 5.56 to stop the threat.
*Insurgents in Iraq
Guess the Russians have a Philly branch.
https://hotair.com/archives/2017/11/01/philadelphia-four-charged-election-fraud-never-happens/
Da. Fuq.
Wow. That’s commitment to the bit.
My uncle split his knee cap in half with a chainsaw in under a second. I wouldn’t recommend it as a suicide method, but I guess it would work in a pinch.
I bet the pinch would be the least of it.
Aspiring juggler?
Aspirating jugular.
+eleventy. That is a damn good…pun? Is it a pun?
That’s a good question. I wouldn’t call it a pun. I don’t know that it even really makes sense, since one aspirates when one chokes on else than air, and the jugular isn’t in the business of being an airway. That aside, I don’t think 11th-grade AP English ever covered it, and we covered a ton of literary devices.
It would be over so fast you’d barely have time to feel pain.
Yeah, the tweeter does Crossfit. What’s up with that?
Its a cult that combines light weight training with cardio…
Proper response. Nice.
There isn’t a married guy who hasn’t at least considered it.
http://imgur.com/v5Ut3qm
Winter is a coming and I spent today getting ready.
*tips touque*
Arkansas “winter” isn’t real winter.
Last year for a couple days it got down to 4. If that ain’t cold as fuck, I don’t know what is
Three winters ago, my sister in Massachusetts got a big blizzard — 30something inches. She took a picture of all the snow and messaged it to my other sister who lives near Dallas. That sister responded with a screenshot of the smartphone showing 78 degrees.
Lol.
Correct. You do not know.
Nice stack! My Pa used to pay my brother and I a dollar an hour to stack wood. I was 8. Never made it a full hour (it was Vermont – too many frogs and salamanders to catch)
You got paid?
I hated stacking wood. Hated it. Now my wife wants to burn wood in the fireplace and I’m all “natural gas or GTFO”.
We had to drag wood from the woodlot to the pickup truck for Dad to bring to the house and cut, before we could stack it.
Worse, it reminded me of the year my crazy mother freaked out over gypsy moths and made my sister and me go out to the woodlot and scrape as many egg masses off the trees as we could.
We would have gotten paid if we stuck out the full hour!
Right? Paid for chores? Check out Rockefeller overe here.
yeah, no kidding. I got paid in not getting beat for doing my chores.
Niiice.
I still remember the little sinking feeling in my gut when you’d swing that axe and get a soft “thud” from a thick, wet trunk piece.
We used a wedge and a sledgehammer, because mom never ever got the ax sharpened. Looooooooooooved when that fucker got driven down to the head and the log still hadn’t come apart.
Yep. We kept the wedge as backup for the pieces that the axe wouldn’t handle.
And yeah, once you got that fucker firmly embedded into a piece that didn’t give, you were starting to run out of good options.
Good times.
Do like the vikings and BURN IT OUT.
Damn my non-viking upbringing!
*shakes fist whimpily*
It’s dark here now. if it wasnt, I’d take a pick of my log splitter and show it to yall. I built it myself 5 years ago
It’s a beast
I don’t mind sweet beers on occasion.
Oh, log splitter…
I wouldn’t usually describe a five year old child as a beast. Maybe a wee beastie.
You don’t have artificial light down there? :-p
He uses a flash-powder camera that he built himself 6 years ago.
mostly emergency flares. My stock runneth low at the moment.
My Pa hooked up some kind of belt mechanism thing to his tractor and automated the splitting process. We had a wood-burning furnace, and if the oil backup kicked in, even in the dead of night, he could hear it, and would go down to the basement to feed the wood burner. At any rate, we had to sock away a lot of wood.
Dads can be so aweome.
“Oh HELL no, I’m not paying for that fancy-ass OIL heat! This isn’t Buckingham Palace!”
Jesus Christ I’ve been up since four and spent the day carrying heavy shit around, I wasted a glorious hour downing cheap beer at my favorite watering hole, and now I’m in class having material poorly explained for a career I’m not sure I’m going to pursue, and I. Do. Not. Want. To. Be. Here.
That makes it perfect training for a job you’re going to hate!
Today on ‘completely missing the plot’:
Why was Joshua Tree hiker carrying a gun?
Christ, I sure hope so.
You’re right. It would have been so much better if they had painfully died of dehydration or exposure.
Please kill yourself. Don’t use a gun though. You won’t understand it.
Might I suggest – chainsaw?
Of the rusty variety?
“Why didn’t that person do exactly what I would do?”
That’s some mighty fine journalism.
Good for him. STEVE SMITH was sick that day.
That is exceptional derp.
Used to go hiking in northern Arizona with some buddies. We’d have an AR and a couple revolvers between us just in case, openly carried. We emerged from the desert after a few days to get a burger at the end of our hike and nobody batted an eye except for the visiting tourists with a heavy accent from somewhere in New England. The extremely fat husband loudly proclaimed he didn’t need a gun to whoop somebody’s ass and the son began talking about how his Call of Duty guns were better. The wife just babbled about…something.
They were asked to leave because they wouldn’t shut up about it.
COD? Thats cute.
I don’t need a gun either, I’m just lazy.
Stupid people love proving their stupidity.
In “Awwww, that’s so CUTE!” news:
Twins’ Mauer wins Halloween with adorable costume involving his twin daughters
How do we know it’s him?
It’s on the internet, it has to be true.
They should have gone as The Shining twins and he as the crazed caretaker with an axe. That’s how you do Halloween.
Just talked to my old boss. She wasn’t even calling me about the job that I have been talking to my old colleague about. It was a totally different job! She joked that they might have to fight over which position I end up filling.
So, again.
Nice! Good for you, KK!
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/EmNPxW-8qD4/hqdefault.jpg
Congrats!
Very nice KK!
Nice. Link courtesy Stinky Weasleteats
Bah. Gilmored. Meant for KK.
“I’ll teach you to be happy!!!”
I got a slap on the wrist for sending that to people at work. I guess the VA doesnt want people to be happy.
Maybe send this song next time?
My sister on her first day out, got a deer.
IL made it legal for anyone to use a crossbow this year, so she was taking advantage of the new law.
Reminds me that I need to actually get my bow out and actually learn to shoot it.
So maybe you’re wondering “say, I wonder where Official Libertarian Jerry Taylor spends his time when he isn t running the incredibly libertarian Niskanen Center?”
Well, wonder no more! He’s been meeting with the likes of Bill Kristol, Egg Mcmuffin, and Max Boot in a sort of NeverTrump Superfriends:
Libertarian AF, yo
“With our powers combined we can create the perfect opposition to Trump!”
Taylor, McMuffin, Kristol and Boot pointed their magic rings in the center of the room. A brilliant flash of bright light materialized
“Its beautiful.” Shouted Kristol.
“I don’t know why I’m here.” McMuffin yelled.
Suddenly the light collapsed upon itself and exploded in a shockwave knocking the opposition on their white asses. The air reeked of day old ceviche. They all looked to the center of the room as ther champion emerged from the ether.
“What the fuck was that? Who summoned me?” Hillary asked.
Nice.
Like her crevice?
The fact that a neocon warmonger is named Max Boot is one reason I’ve decided that our reality is actually some sort of political satire set in the 21st century.
Zeigler has spent the last three years proclaiming Jerry Sandusky’s innocence. He’s stalked Sandusky’s victims and claimed they fabricated everything.
Alright, it’s Glibs after dark. Nothing but us failures left around here. I’m celebrating my new place, finally got to move out of my shithole pseudo-motel and got a place right down the street from here:
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/26391/87008/
Roll call!
I’m way too wound up to hit the sack anytime soon!
I sent you an email btw. What are you looking for specifically?
Cool! I’ll look for it (haven’t gotten it yet).
I’m basically a Webmaster/Web Project Manager. Since I plan on getting my Certified Scrum Master, I suppose my milieu would be agile, though I’ve also worked a lot in waterfall.
My tech skills are somewhat limited – I am great with HTML & CSS, and middling with PHP/MySQL and JS.
OK, rundown in Colorado and New Mexico, the areas I know best.
Colorado: Denver has a SHITLOAD of tech. Everything ranging from startup to dinosaur companies like IBM. Colorado Springs has lots of IT but almost all of it is military/defense related. If you don’t mind getting a clearance and getting hooked into that culture, it’s a great bet. Ft. Collins is mostly millennial-type startup “I wanna make a company that will put weed in your waffles while sharing it on social media lol rofl omg!” companies. Pueblo is… just no. Outside of the front range Grand Junction has a bunch of oil/gas companies that probably have opportunities. Mountain communities… *you* let *me* know if you find anything cause I’d love to live up there but it’s either minimum wage or retired zillionaire.
NM: One of the weirdest economies in the US. As I like to say it, there is no educational middle class. Either you have an advanced degree working at one of the labs (or a university), or you’re on food stamps. This is my home state and it’s a great place to live. IMO, outside of Alaska, it’s the most beautiful state in the union, but it’s also highly dysfunctional. That said, if you can land a lab job, you’re golden. The cost of living in NM is very low and the labs pay DC-type govt salaries so you will live like a queen. Naturally, there is a lot of demand for IT in the labs. However, there is a pecking order with the scientists on top, engineers below that and lowly support staff (like IT) at the bottom. If you can handle being condescended to by PhDs and PEs, you’ll love life.
Where the fuck are you?
Roll call:
Alive. Listening to the daughter practice for a drum audition.
Monument (Colorado Springs).
Best of luck to young Miss Tundra. What’s she auditioning for?
Drum line, I think.
Here. Having a nightcap, likely hitting the hay soon.
Beats Dukakis After Dark…when SNL still mocked Democrats
Watchimg my son and three other boys get confused grappling with the only girl in the class.
How old?
Asking for OMWC?
Trying to accurately define “grappling”.
a martial art I assume.
Its martial arts. My boy is 9. The girl is taller than all of them so I assume shes 10-12.
Kick in the ba!…. oh wait….
Mulling over the Harvey story part seven. Sent part six to SF earlier today.
Present. Blew the leaves off the roof tonight before the rains start later.
Before…. the rain washes the leaves away?
Nah. Rain doesn’t wash these leaves (big leaf maple) away. It just turns them into a big slimy mess that clogs the gutters and wrecks wooden desks. Much harder to move them with a leaf blower afterwards too.
OK, time for discussion stimulation. Standard libertarian disclaimers apply; I don’t care what choices people make with their life as long as they don’t hurt anyone else.
MGTOW: valid reaction to social trends or misogynistic losers looking for a justification for the loneliness they would have experienced anyway.
My take: I lean toward the former. I can see how the institution of marriage as it is currently structured could be considered a raw deal. I think there is at least a sliver of libertarianism sandwiched in there because on of the cornerstones of MGTOW is a rejection of the government. I could never live that way personally. The need for vaginal intercourse notwithstanding, I find a feminine presence in my life smooths out the rough (ok, jagged… ok, razorlike) parts of my personality. I believe in the secular aspects of complementarianism in which men and women, when it’s right, fit together both spiritually and physically (yowza).
Another aspect of MGTOW that tends to annoy me is the neglect of any kind of gay perspective. Perhaps there will be down the line as gay marriage becomes more and more of a “thing”. I joked with a gay libertarian minded friend about how the courts will handle gay male divorces. They won’t know who to screw over! We concluded that definitely the top is the one that gets his proverbial ass handed to him in court, but what if they’re versatile!??! Quite a conundrum.
Throw darts plz.
Not sure I completely understand the whole movement. But, within the family structure is the only place where I think communal thinking can work, and works quite well. People taking care of each other is a nice reciprocal validation of worth and purpose. As long as a relationship is an actual partnership, it is rewarding in it’s own right. The problem comes when people replace all the meaningful aspects of a relationship and worth of a companion with just wanting to fuck the other person. When sex (or in the case of the result of sex, children) is the only tie that binds, it is only a matter of time before everything implodes.
I think it’s a little bit of both and then something else. A number of MGTOWs are divorced.
I think the breakdown is roughly:
guys screwed over by divorce/child custody/rape accusations
the sexually/romantically frustrated sour-grapes types
never married guys who are fed up with modern day feminism
Not libertarian, because it’s collectivist. Even if it was right in its bizarro-feminist theory that men are inherently disadvantaged by the institutions of society, so what? The opposite has been (and in many places is) true, and yet women have managed to thrive and have happy and fulfilling relationships with men. Yes, the current state of affairs means that finding a woman who can be trusted for that sort of relationship is simultaneously more critical, and yet more difficult. But that doesn’t mean it’s impossible. It just means that assholes are able to get away with far greater assholery, and thus are more likely to try to pull assholery, not that everyone is an asshole.
Let’s all get into a big pile and get gay with each other. Discussion will follow.
I don’t understand how a group of men who avoid women could lack a gay perspective. It’s a bizarre complaint.
some quick math
this year’s federal deficit: about $670 billion
spending: $3980 billion
revenue: $3310 billion
If spending was frozen at $3980 billion, with a constant inflation of 2.2%, the budget would balance automatically in about 8 years.
3310*e^(0.022*8) = 3.947
8 yrs of constant spending. That’s all it would take.
This assumes that revenue grows at the rate of inflation, which I think is safe assumption in the short term.
If only our elected officials weren’t crooks…
For the most part, they’re just responding rationally to incentives. Politicians who cut taxes and raise spending tend to get re-elected more often then ones who don’t. If the voters demand impossible things, the only people who can promise impossible things are liars and fools.
The reason pot holes don’t get fixed in big cities is not a lack of money. It’s because politicians are more likely to get re-elected by using money to pay off cronies instead of fix potholes.
I amend to:
If only our elected officials weren’t crooks and the electorate wasn’t a morass of semi-literate, useless idiots…
Here I am starting to sound like a Democrat!
But a balanced budget is pretty much just making the minimum payment on a credit card.
Hold it steady for 8-12 years and there’s a sizeable payment. As if everyone sucking off the Feds would allow their gravy train to slow just a little.
Wouldn’t inflation also affect the spending value, and so both spending and revenue would grow at the rate of inflation. Unless, you’re saying the budget should be capped at $3980 of today’s dollars, which would nominally be $3932.24 after the first year, $3885.05 the second, etc, which means some politician is going to look like they’re cutting spending.
Or am I missing something…?
I meant hold spending flat in nominal dollars. So yes, after adjusting for inflation, the same nominal amount would be worth less.
I can do you one better.
In 2007, U.S. government outlays were $2.73 trillion and revenues were $2.57 trillion. CPI was 208 (September) and U.S. population was 301 million. While this year was marked by the start of the “Great Recession”, Federal revenues and outlays were still up over the previous year.
In 2017, CPI is 246.8 and U.S. population is 325 million. That’s 7.5% inflation and 8.0% population growth over 5 years. CPI+Pop adjustment factor would be 16% (1.075 times 1.08, minus 1).
Given your numbers, Federal revenues increased by 29% in those 10 years and Federal outlays by 46%.
If Federal spending had only increased by 16%, in other words in proportion to the population growth and adjusted for inflation, then it would be $2.98 trillion. We would have a balanced budget and a surplus of $330 billion to either pay down the debt or lower taxes.
I think this, more than anything, is what irks me about Obama apologists/defenders and GOPe shills. The world they’ve built over the past 10 years is one marked by utter fiscal irresponsibility. A balanced budget was imminently feasible. Instead, we are left with ridiculous levels of debt and perpetual $500 billion+ deficits.
That’s not 7.5% inflation; it’s more like 19%. So that would add up to inflation + population-adjusted spending of about 3.51 trillion.
Ugh. I shoulda made a spreadsheet. I started with 2012, then figured 10 years would make a better illustration, but didn’t fix all of the numbers.
So, a deficit of $150 billion instead of $670 billion.
OT late to links. (no I didn’t read the links or any comments I am venting)
I just did my late radio recap political fix for the day after work and decided to tune into Kennedys show. The first segment was on the truck terrorist fucker. She had Welch, and Sexton who spealed their usual shpeals. Then a couple of writers I have never heard of and I yelled at my screen. Dude said the thing ISIS should know is we have hospitalized the terrorist on the same hospital that the victims are in and that shows our humanity. Seriously? This idiot thinks that will change their minds? Jebus H christ on a pitch fork. Ya, they will stop killing people as soon as they hear that. They see that as weakness and to think otherwise is just dumb. I find it infuriating that people write and give analysis on these things when they have no idea what drives these people. Then the writer chic said our problem is we don’t teach enough civics. I am not the smartest person who comments here, as you all know, but I thought civics was a class on how our government worked, and or structure and processes if you will. Did she mean civility? Or is she just an idiot? This person makes a living as a writer in DC (I assume). Ya, civility and or civics classes will erase religious zealotry that calls them to kill us. Spot on analysis there. Go spend a bit of time on the streets of any number of places around the world and get back to me on your theory there girl.
It’s more idealistic BS. A rejection of the unfortunate truth that sometimes only violence can solve a problem. ISIS, and ilk of their type, believe that non-believers are subhuman. They see killing us as we see stepping on bugs. There is no reason, no compassion, no middle ground. It’s kill or be killed. That whole idea punctures their shaky world view that all people, without exception, have similar views and can be reasoned with on nonviolent grounds. Not always true. The Jews could not have reasoned with the Nazis. Some ideologies cannot and will not respond to reason. Muslim extremism is similar to Inquisition-era Catholicism. It must be destroyed with fire. That doesn’t mean extinguishing Islam or genocide against Muslims; it means Islam must be dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century.
it means Islam must be dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century.
That could very well take several hundred years. It is weird. I have, who I would call good friends who are muslim. Guys I have worked with over the years, They are some of the best people I have met. I also have come across individuals who would have loved to have murdered me because I am an american infidel if there was not some guy who would have shot them first next to me. They have two worlds that I do not think will be reconciled for a very long time.
“Some ideologies cannot and will not respond to reason.”
+1 Terminator
People who get paid to give opinions don’t get paid because their opinions are well-informed. They get paid because they tell people what they want to hear. Hearing an opinion you agree with stimulates the pleasure center of the brain in a manner similar to food, sex, or drugs.
There is a willful blindness about what motivates jihadis. This is peculiar because they have spoken at great length about their reasons. The problem is these reasons throw a lot of cold water on the people who think the song “Imagine” describes attainable goal.
Islam teaches that it is a duty to wage war on non-believers until they convert or surrender and that martyrdom (death while fighting) is the only sure way to heaven. Some Muslims believe that dozens of the closest relatives of a martyr are also guaranteed to go to paradise.
This isn’t my opinion. It is in the Qu’ran, the hadith, the pronouncements of Islamic scholars past and present, and in the words of the terrorists themselves.
For the people who say groups like ISIS are perverting are misinterpreting Islam, you may have noticed they never explain which part they are perverting. There is a reason for that.
Don’t they wonder why tens of thousands of people from all over the world are “perverting” Islam in exactly the same way? There have been almost 5000 suicide bombings since 1981 and almost all of them have one thing in common.
+5000 suicide bombings
On a personal note, as one of (((them))), I know that I am particularly irredeemable. This is a Starship Troopers scenario. Radical Islam must be so overwhelmingly destroyed, so crushed, so demoralized and its adherents so thoroughly exterminated that it makes genteel Western stomachs turn. They thought all that nastiness ended in 1945. It didn’t. It never will. Evil exists. It must be destroyed in order for humanity to thrive.
As I mentioned, I work at LANL but in a different area from what KK might be interested in. You probably have better connections but if there’s anything I can help with contact me at jemezhobbit at gmail.
… Hobbit
Hey man, you’re actually there! I’m a pathetic sellout who went to work as a “Data Scientist” (whatever that means) in biotech, you’re living the dream doing real science. Cheers to you! If you don’t mind, I’ll send your email to her.
How long you been at LANL?
I started as a contractor in Nov 1986, hired on direct ten years later. I’m hoping to retire next June.
I started on Monday, Nov 10th. I’d never had a job where I got Veteran’s Day off. I got home that night and the wife asked how my day went. “Fine.” I answered. “They told me to not come in tomorrow.”
… Hobbit
Nuh uh. True Islam has never been tried.
No, it was tried, but those damn Crusaders wrecked it!
… just ignore all of those Muslims invasions of Europe, and don’t look too closely/think too deeply about how a religion that got started in Arabia in the 600s was in control of the entire Middle East, North Africa, and Asia Minor by the time of the Crusades.
Dude said the thing ISIS should know is we have hospitalized the terrorist on the same hospital that the victims are in and that shows our humanity.
Yeah, the sort of people who would think nothing of entering a hospital and murdering anyone who can’t or won’t get on their knees and pray, are totally going to be moved by this display of humanity.
I don’t really get how people who will so easily resort to calling anyone that disagrees with them “Nazis” can fail to actually get that people did and do act with that level of inhumanity and institutionalized sociopathy, and that the Nazis were merely one example.
Spot the Not: Bullwinkle, that trick never works
1. These rebels practiced exercises that they believed would make them immune to bullets.
2. These warriors wore magic shirts and performed a dance that they believed would make them immune to bullets
3. These warriors believed a shaman who said they would be immune to bullets.
4. These rebels applied a potion they believed would make them immune to bullets.
5. These warriors believed a shaman would said he could cast a spell to make them immune to bullets.
6. These rebels believed a shaman who said the appearance of comet would make them immune to bullets.
#1.
#6
For one thing, outside of fantasy wargaming, the notion of “spell” is not very distinct from a ritual, which means there is a lot of overlap between #2 or #4 (and possibly #1 if there was a spiritual element like harnessing Qi or whatever) and #5. And #5 implies #2.
Whoops, drunk. #5 implies #3, I mean.
6. Comets have never made anybody do or believe anything that is stupid. Hey, check out my new Nikes!
6 is the Not. The rest in order are:
The Order of Patriotic and Harmonious Fists (Better known as the Boxers in the Boxer Rebellion)
Ghost Dancers of the Ghost Dance Movement
Maji Maji rebels of the Maji Maji Rebellion
Simba SImba rebels of the Simba Simba Rebellion
Xhosa warriors of the 5th Frontier War
more info:
http://www.reall.org/newsletter/v06/n06/bullets-into-water.html
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October, 1987, witnessed the invasion of Uganda by a Voudon priestess, Alice Lakwena, with an army of six thousand, called the Holy Spirit Movement. Many in the army were soldiers driven out of Uganda after their military government was overthrown by the National Resistance Army. Lakwena smeared her followers with an ointment to grant them protection from bullets. Her poorly armed warriors threw themselves into battle launching suicide attacks. Lakwena combined Christianity with African sorcery and told Holy Spirit troops that their rocks and sticks, when thrown at the enemy, would explode like grenades.13 According to Associated Press and Reuters dispatches, several thousand of her loyal followers were mowed down by modern arms, with local Ugandans running into the streets to help the military kill the hapless, crudely armed Holy Spirit warriors. Fortunately, in December, 1987, Lakwena was arrested by Kenyan authorities at their border, as she fled Uganda. This put an end to her nearly year-long campaign that convinced thousands that spirits spoke to her. Of special interest are reports that Lakwena kept a heavily armed bodyguard with her at all times, but armed her suicide warriors only with rocks, sticks, and a dab of magic ointment on their chests!14 The prophetess seemed to favor the AK-47, not her own magical abilities.
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/11/01/dnc-white-men-shouldnt-apply-for-tech-jobs.html
DNC: White men shouldn’t apply for tech jobs
Fine but then we should all be allowed to discriminate in our hiring practices. Also DNC this is not how you win over blue collar whites.
At this point, being white and voting Democrat is about as stupid as being black and voting KKK.
Moment of silence for his dead Senate run:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bhqKLGeqpk
I am drinking a Hello Kitty white wine. I suspect grape juice and vodka would taste better, but I’m a sucker for novelty drinks and I don’t want to dump it, so I chilled it down and it’s … er, drinkable.
But other than that, things are better. I don’t think I mentioned it here, but my dad had a stroke a month ago. He went in for a very cool heart valve replacement which went really well, but the morning after, while still at Cedars-SInai, he had the stroke. It was unfortunately a known, but very rare possible side-effect of the surgery. Well, he hit the suck jackpot. It affected his speech/throat and right side. Yesterday he was finally given clearance to start eating (he has a stomach tube), and today he managed a few steps (with lots of help). he’ll stay in the facility where he’s at for another week for more intensive rehab and then to a nursing/rehab facility for… however long is necessary, I guess. But it was great to see him eat (baby) food, and he seemed to enjoy it too.
I’m sorry to hear that. How is his attitude/mental state?
Pretty good right now, I think he also sees the progress he’s making. When it first happened it was pretty difficult – he didn’t want to be a burden on my mom and me, and didn’t really believe all the cheery phrases everyone kept trying to shove at him. But now that the progress is more obvious, it’s better. As his speech/communication improves, I’m sure his mood will too. It’s terribly frustrating to have your mind intact but difficult to communicate.
He actually worked at LANL, and I grew up in Los Alamos before I went to CA for school. Funny that ppl are talking about the old homestead, today.
Small world? Other commenters have mentioned a New Mexico residence (RC Dean comes to mind).
… Hobbit
Oh, and sorry to hear about your dad.
BH
Born and raised.
I see above you came in ’86, so we definitely overlapped both in town and at the lab. My parents both worked there, and I spent a few summers as a student there. The parents retired awhile ago now, though. My dad came in ’67.
Christ goddamn. Sorry, mang.
Hope he’ll make a good recovery! Will be thinking gof you
Very sorry to hear about your dad, hope he’s through the worst of it and continues to improve from here.
Thanks, y’all. Thoughts appreciated!
A SIGHT FOR SORE EYES, TO THE BLIND, WOULD BE AWFUL MAJESTIC
IT WOULD BE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING THAT THEY EVER HAD SEEN.
IT WOULD CAUSE SUCH SURPRISE IT WOULD MAKE ALL OF THEIR MINDS ELECTRIC
HOW COULD ANYONE TELL THEM THAT SOME THINGS ARE NOT WHAT THEY SEEM?
It’s a New Mexico party! Bearded Hobbit is at LANL! Let’s have some sopapillas and get hammered.
Sounds good. Where and when?
Now I guess? I dunno. I’m in my sad pseudo-motel drinking beer. Next time I’m visiting the folks in ABQ I’ll drop a line. You at UNM?
Jeez, tell me you’re nowhere on Central. Some goddamn sad motels up this way.
I’m at CNM, pretending I’m a real college student.
I’m actually in Colorado Springs. Just 4th generation Land of Entrapment-ian. Folks and sister in ABQ, I go back all the time.
What you studying?
Systems admin. Kinda liking it, actually. I like subnetting. I like the CLI stuff. Dunno that I’ll end up pursuing it, but I’m enjoying it so far.
That’s a good field. Learn as much code as you can, that’s the direction everything is going.
Something else, learn infosec. Get a Security+ cert. If you can lock that down, you’ll have no trouble finding a job.
My daughter is teaching Biology at CNM.
We still have to get around to that beer one of these days.
… Hobbit
Dating, these days, I’m pretty sure is like that episode of Seinfeld when George borrows a photo of Jerry’s girlfriend, and passes her off as his dead wife, thereby gaining access to reaches untold for a man of George’s nondescription. You’re either in, or you’re not.
Dunno if you’re going for a world record on bed post notches, but it only has to work out once.
Way late to the comments, super early and long day, and I just reassembled my PC/Music system after a Great Halloween!
We had something like 250+ kids, went thru 500 odd pieces of candy, scared the kids and impressed the Adults.
The Q played a lot of Theremin, which really freaked people out, and the Scene looked Awesome!
VA Democrats are getting ridiculously desperate after their boo-boo, and the mask is slipping even more.
“They’re evil, we’re the good guys” state Sen @BarbaraFavola on Virginia Republicans to a packed hall of Arlington Democrats #VirginiaWay
So they admit they see politics as a struggle of good vs. evil…
That’s kind of true.
Except for the “good” part.
Replace “good” with “stupid” and you get a slightly more accurate statement.
I think, for each politician, party, or movement, you get a fixed number* of points to divide up between the attributes of “good”, “intelligent”, and “politically effective” (or is that WIS, INT, and CHA?)
*That number is negative.
I really fuckin hate Gillespie’s old-school cop loving, but I’m being driven to vote for him! But the LP is running someone, so I’ll probably end up voting for him.
I think you should vote Gillespie, if only to send a message to the Latino Victory Fund. Also, the LP candidate isn’t great, he’s an anti-pipeline guy that’s trying to suck progressive voters away from Northam.
That reminds me, I really need to get my name corrected on my driver’s license so I can buy a gun or ten.
I applied for a job at LANL, hobbit!
(maybe you could sniff around and see what the marketing & communications team is like? Is it a good team to work for? Collaborative or competitive? Good management? Good planning & execution?)
I’ll see what I can find out.
Marketing & communications team?
“Fuck you, it’s classified, NUNYA bidness!”
Seriously, you might need an L to work there. Probably not a Q. Probably.
They’ve pretty much done away with the “L” clearance.
Most of the technical people require a Q. I work in one of the few unclassified areas. Marketing is probably unclassified as well.
… Hobbit
^^^ Listen to Hobbit.
I’m mourning the Dodgers and I may or may not have been drinking.
I had a lady friend call me a hobbit once; you seem to use it with much more affection. (although, this was before the LOR movies, so she did prove she was geekery than she let on)
Cool!!
So, thinking a little about Google (etc.) and their alleged censorship of anyone to the right of Stalin, and the conflict on the right over letting the market sort it out versus treating them as public utilities (along with the viewpoint discrimination lawsuits filed by PragerU).
While I lean strongly to the market side of things, I wonder if the DMCA lets us have our cake and eat it too. Despite the generally pro-IP aspects of the DMCA, the fledgling internet companies managed to shield themselves from the IP industries through a compromise, whereby companies that acted as middlemen for users to communicate would have “safe harbor” protections against being liable for IP violations committed by their users, provided that they provided a mechanism for removing infringing content and banning repeat infringers. However, my recollection is that safe harbor protection only applied to entities which didn’t exercise substantial editorial control over the content posted on their site.
So, I’m wondering whether a finding that YouTube enforced its TOS in a way that discriminated against ordinary political views would jeopardize its safe harbor status. If it did, it would basically be a death sentence for the company, as millions of IP lawyers descend on it like a swarm of piranhas. That said, I’m no IP lawyer. Anyone knowledgeable want to correct me on whether I’m overstating the extent to which editorial control affects the safe harbor protections?
Wait. Isn’t there a game on?
There were a few, mostly hockey. Also, Houston won the World Series.
World Series? was there a team from another country involved? I want to watch ‘Mr. Baseball’ now.
Oh man, so Snoop Doggy Doggy Dogg is out with a new album, Make America Crip Again.
What a fucking asshole.
Isn’t he the one that executed Trump in one of his music videos? Expected behaviour.
Yup, at 3:02 – https://youtu.be/E4i3bAtEuJE
See, this is what happens when you surrender your Constitutional right to have a duel pistol wielding Chow Yun-fat.
For those that are still up, I was just thinking about this today. Maybe I’ll repost tomorrow morning.
Reason’s webathon is coming up soon, and I’ll be watching it closely. I HOPE that they will finally get the message and make some changes, but I’m not holding my breath. They got destroyed on web traffic this year, but IDK how much revenue they get from ads.
I’m hoping that they get less than half of what they got last year, or hell, maybe they’ll even cancel it.
As far as I’m concerned, my donation last year was a waste.
I saw some good ideas floating around earlier, and if we can find some good ways to put the Glib momentum to use, I’m all ears.
Reason’s not going to go anywhere good until their online editorial standards, which are absolute garbage, change. That means either fixing or replacing Gillespie, which is highly unlikely.
I actually wouldn’t be surprised to see Gillespie go. His performance has been absolutely atrocious over the last 2 years, and he’s grossly overpaid.
I’m 100% certain it will happen; it’s just a question of when. I became convinced right after his live coverage of the RNC. He came across as a lazy, entitled dickhead, and I’d be surprised if he was sober.
I’m wondering whether they can really do “serious libertarian policy wonkery” stuff and at the same time do “snarky libertarian counterculture” stuff. I mean, it might be possible — people did legitimately read Playboy for the articles. But it’s a difficult balancing act at the best of times. If people want a right-leaning version of Vice, it seems like you would have better luck pulling Gavin McInnes out of the alt-right than pulling Reason out of their own asses.
The .org side of Reason does a lot of wonkery. Very little of it seems to make it into the blog or the print magazine.
I’m not saying the .org side is any better, because that’s where Shika Dalmia works.
And Bob “Let’s Raise Taxes in New & Exciting Ways so that Governments have More Money to Spend on Bikelanes and Other Wastes!” Poole.
It’s enough to make me avoid even using the “libertarian” label these days, mostly. Though in honesty part of that is getting older, more cynical, and more comfortable with an increasingly liberal and sensible “conservatism”. I can even sometimes read a David French article without wanting to punch my screen, which feels weird (no, seriously, even noted copsucker DF occasionally sounds semi-libertarian on police abuses or drug policy these days).
But my dream is still to somehow reclaim “liberal” from the progressives, and the right-wingers who effectively conspire with them to let them appropriate the label.
Of course, it doesn’t help that the LP itself is more of a dumpster fire than usual, especially at the national level. Which obviously isn’t Reason’s fault.
I’ll take Gillespie’s Job for $10 less than any offer they give him. I’ll bring jewels like this.
We were never the money donors.
I donated some small amounts to Reason and get large amounts of mailers as a result. Hopefully they get the message that they have lost a lot of readers. I will switch my donation over here. Maybe some kind of Jewish Christmas webathon?
I gave them a big chunk of cash in 2014, which I regret. They sent me a couple of books Overruled, Declaration of Independents, and a mag sub which I still get. I haven’t sent them jack since, and won’t until they become a libertarian mag again, although I’ll say the long form magazine is much better than H&R. (Reason TV is somewhere in the mid)
Huh. I donated about the same time. Overruled and Bailey’s book were sent. They did cut off the print mag after a year or so.
Several years back I bought a few subscriptions for friends and one of them still gets it even though I didn’t pay again. I stopped getting even the mag until I paid up again last year.
They sensed your friend was their otherkin, a leftist, and felt the need to pay your charity forward like the proglodytes they are.
I get shit from them every week.
I just got an invitation to their web awards thing. 500 bucks a ticket. Strong pass.
I liked the Art Deco invitation but also had to pass. So tempting, only 500.
Man is Verlander ever gonna get some of that sweet Upton snatch toni…. uhhh… I mean congratulations to the victorious Astros on their first championship. Huzzah!
I won’t watch pro baseball until they allow indian tags and ghost runners!
Baseball is a super weird sport. For years, people will justifiably think that a guy like Charlie Morton is a “scrub” for years. Then, a team like Houston tweaks the mechanics a bit, and he becomes the lights-out Game 7 closer in his mid-30s. Only sport that I know is like that.
I had 50 bucks on the Giants to win at 20 to 1 a week before the season.
At least the Astros won in Dodgerland.
The Giants are a football team, look at this guy that don’t know sports.
Ay, ay, ay.
Gotta love the proposal there. Breaking into jail.
Judging from reactions elsewhere the Dodgers losing in this fashion seems to be making Giants fans as happy as they would be if they won the WS.
It is a bit of good cheer for Houston, and the Dodgers did not win.
Congrats, Dodgers!
Well, my schedule this week for reading/posting absolutely sucks.
That said – here is my review for this week. Been pimping Mind Game for a while now and with the new Blu-Ray release, I can’t recommend it highly enough.