ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. RECALL THAT ZARDOZ PREVIOUSLY SPOKE TO HIS CHOSEN ONES OF THEIR “COSTUMES” FOR THE BRUTAL CELEBRATION OF “HALLOWEEN”. ZARDOZ WAS MADE AWARE OF THIS BRUTAL CELEBRANT FAMILY’S “COSTUMES”:
ZARDOZ AND ZED JR
ZED JR HELPS ZARDOZ WITH CANDY GATHERING
THE BRUTAL FAMILY SHOWS ZARDOZ THE PROPER DEFERENCE, AND THUS HAVE BEEN RAISED FROM BRUTALITY. ALL BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS ARE TO LEAVE THEM ALONE. ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
AND FOR HIS CHOSEN ONES HERE….ZARODZ GIVES YOU THE GIFT OF THE LINK. GO FORTH AND COMMENT! ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
That is awesome.
I wonder how many people got the reference:)
Us Chosen Ones do!
I guess you can’t get a hat tip from a large, floating rock-head.
But for the education I’ve gotten here there is no way I would have. Now that I’m in the know… those are great costumes.
#metoo
re: “Fairy liquid”
i believe it is P+G’s UK brand for Palmolive. or unilever. or somebody like that. i knew at one point.
I was just going to ask if “FAIRY LIQUID” is British for mineral oil.
Sounds like they have a branding problem over there.
Whenever i went out drinking with my british colleagues, i’d go into a rant about “All your consumer products sound like they target their branding at 5-year old girls. “Fairy” detergent? “Milky bar”? Lucozade… ok, maybe not that,”. Then they’d be like, “why the fuck do you have a candy bar named “whatchamacallit”? HUH?” And i’d have to buy the next round.
YORKIE- it’s not for girls! (or for civvies if you buy it in a NAAFI)
In the article they refer to it as: washing up liquid.
Even their descriptions are weird. If you mean “liquid soap” then just say so!
+1 carpark
I really think more people should keep swords at hand.
*narrows gaze*
*winces at how many board battles the Blackhawks are losing vs the Wild*
*Insert generic comment about Ohio State-Iowa game here*
(snicker)
Paging you-know-who
Brutus Buckeye is the white people of mascots?
Live look at sloopy
http://i.imgur.com/9T1kgIr.gif
Is Ohio State a 4-year school?
Some people do spend 4 years there.
5 1/2
In my defense – Beer and college chicks.
+1 John Blutarski
has anyone checked on Sloopy yet? Or is he too drunk for polite company?
Oh well back to watching my team get shit kicked
Well, my school managed to blow a 10 point lead in the 4th quarter, but at least THE acorn state community college also had a shitty day.
“A man is facing charges after slicing another person’s hands with a sword early Saturday AFTER police removed him from a neighbor’s DeKalb home.” (emphasis mine)
“After being removed from the apartment a SECOND TIME, Kremsreiter retrieved a sword and cut through two screen windows, the sheriff’s office said”. (emphasis also mine)
Oh, I think I see what went wrong.
The police forgot to shoot him the first visit?
Second visit. First visit was just some stick time.
Hawks and Wild in a few minutes. Is it possible for both teams to lose?
At this point in the second period…yes.
I might have to brew some coffee.
probably funny to no one else but me, but perhaps, ‘illuminating’…
…Emmett Rensin is one of the most widely published ‘new socialist’ millenial literary types
*the other notable one being Freddie DeBoer. Both are known for being super-sharp, and yet still committed ‘socialists’… who routinely ALSO criticize the SJW-left for their shitty mob tactics.
Basically, they’re lefties who often write smart pieces about how both the Clintonesque left-establishment, and the Proggy/SJW culture-warriors, are completely full of shit.
This has made them popular with publishers because, well, they make arguments that older, more-established people are scared to. AND they tend to close their points by saying, “what the country needs is a genuinely socialist movement based around class-interests”. Which, in theory, should protect them with a “more leftist than thou”-armor-plating.
Whoops! Not so much. Emmett got Me-Too’ed, and now he’s accused of rape. And by “accused of rape”, i mean, “his name was put on some random spreadsheet which has no evidence nor names dates/incidents or even identifies accusers.
But don’t worry – all the twitter lefties are still having a carnival dance and beating his memory like a pinata. Because being *accused* is of course instant-criminal-guilt in their world.
Freddie checked into a mental hospital a few months ago. Now emmett is being unpersoned. I hardly ever agree with either of these guys about basic things, but dammit, they were still surely more fun to read than (#*()@)@ Amanduh Marcotte types. My suspicion is that its really all just an opportunistic purge by the Politically Correct brigades. they see they can “#MeToo” anyone and that it will be instantly given credibility, so why not use it for taking your critics down a peg or two.
Ironically enough, they’re purging their own intellectuals. I thought that was a pretty big step towards authoritarianism?
I really don’t want to know what a “softboi” is.
In need of Viagra?
Oh, it gets even better:
Male-Feminist writer for “Broadly”, ENB’s former stomping grounds… Accused of *violent rape*.
I think since regular rape has been downgraded to ‘touched my boob’, ‘violent rape’ is… i dunno.
This is how it looks to me.
I look forward to reading the police reports.
am i bad for laughing at this? because i laughed. Really, if you’re raping someone, are you like, “BABY SNORT THIS SHIT NOW OR ELSE”… else what? You’re already beating them and fucking them. What it sounds like is “i had rough sex while doing lines with some jerk, but then the next day i decided he was a dick”.
Oh, I should have read more. the accuser says exactly that
“i told him i liked rough sex, i never voiced any discomfort, i just, you know, like…{insert shit that makes no sense to anyone except YOU GO GIRL}”
This is really sad.
Was Freddie’s check-in for anything other than BPD?
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/freddie-deboer-checking-in-and-checking-out/
Checkin’ in
I sang that entire score. Well, most of it. My family was screaming at me to shut up.
It’s incredibly catchy, isn’t it? It has always stuck in my head.
Maduro *shifts to low talking* the fat fuck may he rot in hell*resumes normal sppech* is like an obvious spoof of himself. At least Chris Christie has the good graces to gorge in private.
At least you’re not close-talking.
It was in his desk drawer. That was his backup empanada.
I know. It’s like he’s writing the material for SNL.
We all knew this is where this was headed, right? (TW: Gawker)
I posted this in the (possibly) dead beer thread:
The top 250 at Beer Advocate.
Hint for aspirants: make it really fucking strong.
People might as well just drink gin with some of those. Beer that’s super strong just for its own sake I find pointless. Gimme wine or spirits instead.
Replied to that comment that I take “beer geek” sites like BA with a huge grain of salt. My taste in beers is much more “Old World” (English ales, German/Czech lagers, Belgian strong ales and saisons), and as such I’m much fonder of balanced beers than the stuff the “connoisseurs” seem to like. (E.g., I think the Pliny beers are disgusting, and while I admire the creativity at Dogfish Head it rarely translates into beers I actually enjoy.)
This right here
Well, yeah, that was my point. It’s all alcohol delivery and you are on your own.
GOOD
SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT!
*hands SS a nice bottle of Scotch*
OK. Give me a recommendation for a Scotch that won’t make me puke. I’ve always like bourbon, and I’ve really gotten into rye lately. I feel like I should give Scotch another try…the last time was years ago. Preferably something I could find in a bar so I don’t have to buy a bottle to confirm that I still hate it.
Macallan 12.
Everyone has it. Aged in sherry casks, iirc, and really smooth.
heh, I have a glass of it right now.
I also have a can of busch.
I’m starting to wonder if you aren’t my son.
Thanks Tundra. I’ll keep an eye out for that. Will report back at some point.
What’s your feelings on Johnny Walker? The last Scotch I had was Walker. Can’t remember if it was black or red.
Busch is my preferred beer back when I’m sipping whiskey.
I just look too much like my dad!
not a scotch, but I also like bushmills black label.
I just look too much like my dad!
Too bad. I would be proud as hell!
I like Bushmills, too. With just a tiny bit of water. Delicious!
Glenmorangie – smooth, every bar should have it.
You want a bit fancier, try Dalwhinnie “the gentle spirit”
Glemmorangie. My first scotch, any of their varieties are very friendly – not too peaty/oily/smoky.
Love Glenmorangie. It’s a real scotch though.
Highland Park is the bomb, as well.
Glenlivet 18. Enjoy.
Blends are fine, but can be a little harsh. Try a couple singles and see what you think.
Thanks. I will keep that in mind. And I will seek out the Macallan.
If you are a member at Costco, the Kirkland scotches can be good as well. I know Macallan has supplied them in the past.
This could be you.
Haha. I’m that way with rye right now…but maybe the scotch will surprise me.
*Tebows at Tundra*
50+ minutes…no goals. Looks like they both CAN lose!
4 minute PP for your boys. We’ll see.
And a goal.
Damn, GSL. Just the way I roll.
I do like sour beers, but That’s also Olde Belgian.
I respect sours, but they’re not my thing.
If it makes you feel better, I think I’ve only had about 50 of the ones on that list. And I’ve only had 11 on the RateBeer top 50. A lot of those are highly rated because of extremely limited distribution. I’ve had the Westy 12, and while it was good, it wasn’t worth the $30 for an 11.2 oz bottle. I’d rather drink St. Bernardus Abt 12 at a third of that price all day long.
I’m not sure about all of the other shite they write, but I respect Paste for doing the huge blind tastings several times a year. You learn a lot about your own expectations once you do a blind tasting, and have the brands revealed after the fact.
Holger-da-Dane: any news on Philly meetup? I am still interested.
UNLEASH THE TITS!
http://archive.is/fOlXK
4, 6, 17 and 33 individually or in any combination.
As I got older, started appreciating women for more than their . . .
Jiminy Christmas, look at #17.
She wins.
You might be a Wild fan, and I a Blackhawks one…but on this we can agree!
Damn straight.
I’ll go along with the consensus on 17. The science is settled!
However 30 and 15 are pretty nice, too.
2. You’re all wrong. Again.
*finds dried remains of RBS, with smile plastered on his face*
Dude, she would drain you…or any man!
You are correct sir! Also, no to number 12; not even with your dick.
Science is a liar . . . sometimes.
“Most scientists now reject the idea that the first Americans came by land”
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/11/majority-of-scientists-now-agree-that-humans-came-to-the-americas-by-boat/
That was pretty well known a while ago. A couple local professors and Native American historians were involved. USC and UCLA, IIRC.
Well excuse me for boring you with old news.
Does anybody know when the second season of Stranger Things is coming out?
We’re watching it right…..
stupid premature submission ruining my joke. ::kicks pebble::
It’s all good!
I’m not bored. It’s interesting. Our local PBS interviewed one of the historians who was digging around the Channel Islands.
Great. Next they’ll tell us that using boats for anything is cultural appropriation and call for us to be deported back to…Europe or the Caucasus or some other stupid nonsense.
The science isn’t settled?!
The very first sentence of the article:
I get so damn tired of statements like this. This is basically another “there’s a consensus so that must mean it’s fact” argument. I understand it in sciences like physics. But sciences like climate and anthropology seem to my layman mind like it would take an enormous amount of hubris to declare anything “settled science.” “Likely” is about the most confident I would think any true scientist would dare claim anything to be.
Side note; if the debate is “over” than I would expect that no more tax dollars will go towards researching this. It’s been settled. No more need for the gravy train to keep rolling on these tracks.
Your side note:
Check Mate.
Even in physics, knowledge is constantly changing and observations defy theory. There really is no such thing as “settled science”.
You’re absolutely correct. When I mentioned physics I was thinking of the basics; Newton’s laws, Ohm’s law, etc…
When trying to convince people of Newtons Laws, etc. people present the evidence for it not a survey of who believes.
Utopia update.
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2017/11/03/venezuela-teenage-girls-turn-prostitution-fight-starvation/
Maduro is the new Castro. Fuck him with ass cancer.
This is it. This is what is going to kill us.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/875433/Black-Death-plague-2017-madagascar-outbreak-africa-world-health-organisation-virus-uganda
Time for a rerun of the Great Ebola Panic of 2014 we had over at TOS.
Doubt it. I don’t think Trump would have any problem stopping movement from the affected areas if it came to it.
PapayaSF is going to need more pants.
*starts to laugh, chokes on beer, flails arms wildly *
That was the argument that went like this:
“People in country A have an Ebola problem and someone flew here from that country with Ebola.”
“Why not just keep people from country A out unless they are screened.”
“OMG that’s so racist and your shitting.”your pants!
THIS WHOLE THREAD
IS FUCKING ABSURD
What Hillary supporters actually believe.
https://youtu.be/jQqz8obYT88
The butthurt…. the schadenfreude…. it’s orgasmic….
I’m starting to think Mythical is secretly a sadist who just posts this stuff here to make us suffer.
Listen, I just wounded myself from laughing so hard, the least I can do is share with friends.
It’s too much to hope that she ends up in jail.
But is it really too much to hope that people will recognize her for being a crook?
She accepted money from foreign governments while she was the Secretary of State and those governments had pending arms sales that required her signature.
If they want to overlook her embezzling money from the RTC by way of Madison Guaranty, people on the left, even, should at least pay attention to that.
—-Mother Jones
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/05/hillary-clinton-foundation-state-arms-deals/#
That’s not according to Breitbart, Donald Trump, or Robert E. Lee.
That’s not even according to Mother Jones.
It’s according to Hillary Clinton! She reported those donations herself as part of her job at the Clinton Foundation and the State Department.
If Hillary Clinton announced that she was going to rob a bank tomorrow in broad daylight, invited the cameras to come along, and then robbed the bank? No one would prosecute her for it. If you do your corruption out in the open–and the press is on your side–everyone will dismiss as business as usual.
But taking donations from foreign governments while you’re the Secretary of States is not business as usual.
It just isn’t.
According to that thread, she needed the money to bring world peace but was foiled by the evil Trumputin.
People actually believe that.
No. No. No. You just don’t get it. The donations went to a charity she controlled. It is totally cool for a Democrat to do that. Nothing to see here.
I appreciate the sarcasm, but just for the record . . .
“In all, governments and corporations involved in the arms deals approved by Clinton’s State Department have delivered . . . hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments to the Clinton family, according to foundation and State Department records.”
It didn’t all go to the Clinton Foundation.
Some of it went straight into the Clinton family members’ bank accounts.
And that’s the bottom line ’cause Stone Cold Hillary said so.
“She gave her whole life to public service, her WHOLE life. She genuinely wanted policies that would benefit the people. It’s not fair. ”
Well, she got her life back. Sounds fair to me.
All I read was “she lived her whole life leaching off the taxpayer and suckers.”
THEY JUST LOATHE THE V
She was just acting like a mother. A good mother, like Livia.
Now that’s just crazy. The few bonafide male womanhaters I’ve met still love the V.
You are evil
AMERICA HATES MOMS
https://d36tnp772eyphs.cloudfront.net/blogs/1/2014/02/interesting-map37.jpg
How fucking high is North Dakota?
The first (funny) one when you do it on DuckDuckGo is “North Dakota is basically Canada.”
DuckDuckGo “Colorado is in what time zone”.
Bing “Colorado is evil”.
“Better than Wisconsin”
Low bar, but YEAH!
“Bankrupt”
Well…they got Illinois right.
0-0 end of period 2. Bah.
I don’t get the feeling either team wants to be playing tonight.
It IS Saturday night – I’d rather be in a bar, m’self.
Very true.
And there we go.
Repost from morning lynx since Mike S is around:
http://herblue.com/uploads/3/4/0/8/34080277/6310852_orig.jpg
Fuckin. A.
So Iowa is in the middle of the pack at 25. But since Iowa is like 95% white, we must be pretty well endowed for white men.
Old data?
Maybe after Agriprocessors got raided?
All those hormones they put on the crops are affecting the size.
Condoms are for hookers and sailors.
This sounds like playing Russian roulette but given the array of progs and union shills aligned against it, why not?
How much worse can it get? Don’t answer that…
I’ve seen how much worse it can get as the NYC exodus slowly comes up north to my county.
One of the anti-ads running up here argues among other thing that the convention will be a bunch of crazies. The background is of people holding up various placards including a lefty one for higher taxes, a righty one “Nuke the Whales”, and the libertarian “No to everything”. The ad also argues the NYC types will use the convention to screw over the rest of the state even more.
There was also a news report a couple of weeks back about a forum on the convention. The pro person said it could be used to enshrine equal rights for women in the state constitution, while the anti-person said it would be hijacked by Betsy DeVos money. Shows how far to the left Albany has become.
I have never known what exactly this is supposed to mean. I mean, I’m guessing it involves inventing new “rights” out of thin air but other than the “equal pay” fraud, what else is there…?
But you’re probably right in that a convention would be hijacked by the left.
Especially considering how far left the state has become in recent decades.
>But you’re probably right in that a convention would be hijacked by the left.
Any kind of con/con would end up with a European style “Constitution” with 300 guaranteed rights.
The right to taxpayer funded abortions. Taxpayer funded birth control. Taxpayer funded tampons. Employers must give women two year maternity leave and automatic promotions and bonuses on their return to make up for missed promotion opportunities.
Funny… I don’t get any of that. I don’t think I like the sound of “equality”.
Well you’re just a white male shitlord so you can pound sand.
I see you’ve met my youngest girl cousin.
No….. Should I?
Don’t stick it in crazy.
Sen. Rand Paul suffers minor injury in assault at home
Being that he’s a Republican this means Paul suffered bruised knuckles while viciously beating some minorities who came by for a visit, right?
Does Ken have an alibi?
Heh… first thing that went through my mind when the headline came through my newsfeed.
ditto
Well it wasn’t Ken since he’s posting here now and they arrested the guy.
Ken and the guy arrested are both Tulpa.
They have internet everywhere but the Cal game.
I got ya…I made a phone call.
Cal 37
Oregon State 23
Glad I could help.
Let the season end. OSU is realistically looking at not having a road win for at least four years.
Thank you. You’re a good friend.
No worries….Its not like I was glued to the Illini result… 🙁
That’s kind of a wierd story. The guy was arrested on misdemeanor charges. that leads me to believe that he was in Paul’s home at Paul’s invitation, otherwise the charges should have been much worse.
Fox News is now saying Paul was mowing the lawn when he was attacked
That makes a little more sense. Still, I would think trespassing onto another’s property and assaulting them would be a little more than a misdemeanor.
Also, I bet Paul is the only senator who mows his own grass.
I agree on both points.
LOL, can you imagine Moobs lifting a finger to do anything beneath him?
I can’t imagine him figuring out how to start the mower.
I can see him out of breath and his shirt soaked in boob sweat after about 3 pulls on the engine starter.
With the gas valve turned off.
Moobs has literally never held a job. Ever. He went straight from college to the state legislature, then to state senate, House, and Senate.
He’s a lifelong parasite.
Wasn’t it Moobs who said, “I was born to legislate?”
“Gas? It’s not a car, sheesh.” *tug* *huff* *puff* *tug* *h…
What you gonna let some punk kid fuck up your lawn?
Hmm, the only non-two-loss team in the B1G is Wisconsin. Pac-12 might get back into the playoff after all.
And can they get into the top four even if they win out? There’s the winner of Alabama/Georgia, Clemson, the F***ing Irish, and the winner of Oklahoma/TCU.
Wisconsin is probably in if they win out. Probably.
Lots of chaos happens in the final month.
Even if Wisconsin wins the B1G title, they’ll probably go undefeated against a two loss team=extinction. This is where “strength of schedule” falls apart. There are only so many ”impressive’ teams to go around. They can’t all play each other every year, and someone on your schedule who you calculated to be a ‘quality win’ can always shit the bed. The college game is disorganized, sloppy and arbitrary. And the NFL is failing to that same degree. All the people complaining about tricknology in the economy are wrong, but that is what is happening to football, and it gives me a sad.
Actually, if Alabama and Georgia win out until the SEC championship, the loser has a good case for getting in over some of those teams, especially if it’s a close game.
Patrick Bateman is that you?
https://www.thedailybeast.com/models-lured-women-to-wall-street-sex-dungeon-lawsuit
My internet is down.
Does anyone have the score to the Cal game?
Eleventy skrillion to -12.
Canadian or US?
Metric.
15-Love in the bottom of the 7th inning.
Cal Ripken’s final game ended 5-1, in favor of the BoSox. Your internet must really be messed up.
The Heyward Fault cracked at the point it crosses through the stadium. You ever see the Bane scene in The Dark Knight Rises? That happened in real life. Hines Ward was the only survivor.
Hmmmm…. What was the score when it happened?
If I read my Base 8 numbers correctly, Cal was ahead by 3 tentacles to 1.
Good news everyone! We finally have a set of much needed new emojis!
WTF!? Why is the link broken?! https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/adorable-vagina-emojis-exist-and-weve-never-been-happier_us_561d3ab3e4b028dd7ea54722
I see they left out the “slaps engorged penis on the table in raucous applause” emoji.
Always a killer at dinner parties IRL.
You go to the wrong dinner parties…
I find that one to be best communicated with an actual picture.
western digs dick pix
Just my own. I have several framed in my entry way. Great conversation starters for visitors.
*salutes*
Why is that one vagina blue?
She’s dead. Obvi.
Alien twat. Either that or it is moldy.
Huh. So they’re not reality challenged or anything.
In my phone, the contact for my wife is labeled “My Sweet”, but I also send her emojis of Dick Pizzas.
That is a thing that totally happens in real life.
I got an Error 404: They literally can’t even.
I hate HuffPo so much.
Question: how can an ideology that wants to see male sexuality criminalized call itself “sex-positive”?
Just came out of the bunker to see if Antifa was running wild. Apparently nothing… Unless they took control of the media. Back to the bunker!
News this morning said the black pajama crowd would be staging protests in “major cities,” including Cleveland and Cincinnati, but not Columbus. *snort*
I wasn’t expecting blood in the streets, but I did think there would be some window breaking and trash can kicking. Nothing so far.
How could they tell in Columbus? Or will they wear scarlet and grey with the black mask? 🙂
Penn State exposed as chokers again. Can’t beat a ranked opponent on the road – ten straight losses now. (And I’m a long time Penn State fan.)
Ever since that ass Mike McQueary panicked and didn’t beat the shit out of Sandusky caught fucking a kid in the team shower…and then was too embarassed to tell Joe Paterno what he actually saw…PSU has spit the bit on big games that really counted. Enjoy your 15th ranking and a Nonsense Bowl bid.
I’ve been having fun with Ohio State getting pantsed by Iowa, but I’ve been depressed since the end of the Syracuse-FSU game. Both because it’s a game we should’ve won and because Cole Murphy has been a damn good kicker for us for 4 years, and he picked the absolute worst time to have a bad game. And I feel awful for him.
The craziness that MLW linked to above lead me to this. I think it’s new…? Maybe it’s been talked about already. It’s the Hillary campaign calling Donna Brazil a liar.
OPEN LETTER FROM HILLARY FOR AMERICA 2016 TEAM
Hillary Clinton mourns Brazile’s upcoming mysterious suicide.
*Drops beer bottle, stands and begins prolonged ovation*
*picks up beer bottle, sets it upright on SS’s chair, sits down, and waits for hilarity to ensue*
Signed by a list of future defendants (I hope)
I have a working theory on Hillary at the moment and am not sure if others brought it up since I can’t read the pithy comments here as often as I would like. While Hillary is an evil corrupt hideous human being, the one thing the Clintons are not is stupid. I think their whole team knew the Russian thing would come back to them and it is why they started pushing it onto Trump who makes it very easy because he is kind of a shifty fucker in business in his own right. I believe that was revealed in the book about her campaign that they were the ones to first align Trump with Russia by pulling it out of their ass. Herself was also well aware of all the money she and Bill took from Russian interests as well as for the most part rigging the DNC primary. Herselfs book tour is to get in front of it. That is the only reason she had someone write a book and slap her name on the cover. She is touring the world taking interviews to downplay what is coming out now. They knew it was coming eventually and probably even controlled when it came out.
Hillary isn’t dumb. But even smart people have blind spots which are only exacerbated by arrogance and poor judgment.
They have had people covering their blind spots for 40 years. I see no reason to believe that won’t be the case this time as well.
oh, certainly. Why do you think they ran with it so quickly as soon as the election ended? Because they knew they had a window of opportunity to dump their baggage and put it on the other side. it wouldn’t circle back to them for another year, by which point it would be ‘i know you are but what am i’… and politically neutered.
this isn’t even the first time they’ve done this sort of thing. Its like one of the core bag-o’tricks in dirty politics. whatever you’re doing, accuse your enemies of it first.
Rather than this I think it was more of an excuse and a way to delegitimize Trump than anything else. Trump only won because he cheated with the help of the Russians. Takes the blame away from the miserable excuse of a candidate and her campaign. In other words, it wasn’t Saint Hillary’s fault.
I think it is both. They knew their Russian connections/Fusion GPS etc would come around eventually. But yes, calling Trump a cheater also works into it as well as it is becoming news now what most rational people saw during the primaries that she cheated. The DNC is set up with super delegates to ensure cheating. It is a joke of a primary system.
The scary thing?
It’s working.
They are “spiraling the wagons”, if you will…
No one has the heart to tell her that her Baghdad Barbara schtick got old and moldy eleven months ago.
He’s the fuckin’ President. Can’t he fire these hacks?
https://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/no-trump-portrait-embassies-swamp-still-controls/
“Up until last week, the swamp had an excuse – there was no official portrait and the swamp refused to go to the trouble to find unofficial ones.”
We’ve had his official portrait up in my building for months. Not sure what they’re talking about.
Seems like a lot of them have fixed terms that can’t be shortened for any reason that I can understand.
“…Trump has on multiple occasions directly demanded to various cabinet officials that this-or-that holdover be removed “by the end of the week,” only to be told it would happen, but ultimately it doesn’t.”
He has enemies within.
Not good. This is not good.
How can this woman continue to support Dems? She’s way too smart.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/camille-paglia-on-trump-democrats-transgenderism-and-islamist-terror/article/2008464
Her politics have never made a lick of sense to me. I’ve long suspected that she’s a “cultural Democrat” if anything.
She also thinks that Diane Feinstein is the smartest politician ever so go figure.
It’s like there’s a disconnect in her brain that prevents her from noticing that her favorite politicians are making all the problems she writes about dramatically worse.
it’s a mutation in the P60GH4RDr gene.
She claims to be a libertarian, too. I really like her, but she certainly doesn’t understand that voting for Sanders or Stein undermines her supposed commitment to individual liberty.
A lot of people do. One guy I know considers himself libertarian but voted Sanders.
/scratches head.
Freaky. HM’s new fetish.
http://www.newser.com/story/250948/rare-case-involves-1-surrogate-2-babies-2-biological-moms.html
What up dog?!
The suspect told police ‘give me a lawyer dog.’ The court says he wasn’t asking for a lawyer.
I’m strangely okay with this.
Agreed.
But I would definitely get a Border Collie.
No way…if you want a lawyer dog, get a real barrister – an English Bulldog.
Ah Louisiana. When you order dinner, you get crabs. When you get laid, you get crabs. I’m not sure if I’ve ever heard anything good about Louisiana, other thank Marti gras, and that doesn’t really appeal to me.
Suthenboy?
+1 cap full of crab boil
Southern Comfort?
Tabasco Sauce?
Frank’s Redhot is better.
Gator hunting? I have never been, but I would love to.
Britney Spears?
*checks columns*
That goes in “CON”
Pre or post mental breakdown brittany?
I just called them. They’ve agreed to get off of your lawn.
Air Bud, Esq.
Since when did courts start interpreting words and phrases literally? shall not be infringed comes to mind.
The court didn’t. The article is, surprise!, a distortion of the facts.
https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/enhanced/web03/2012/4/16/16/enhanced-buzz-14504-1334608981-16.jpg?downsize=715:*&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto
http://fafsa.ytmnd.com/
wut?
I’ve not seen a YTMND website in a long time. A long time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Leake_(NAAFI_manager)
(NAAFI is the British exchange service and morale & welfare operator, similar to AAFES/Navy Exchange/Marine Corps Exchange)
And the only source of IRN Bru in Iraq, when I was there…and titty mags.
Watching Black Christmas, because it’s that time of the year. Damn Margot Kidder was hot back then.
I’ve wondered how old you are, but now I think I know.
16 years old posting from my parents’ basement, like everyone else here?
*looks around, notices camera on laptop, puts tape over camera*
That’s not the camera he’s using.
I’m in your mom’s basement right now.
These euphemisms.
Fairy liquid eeh? So long as it is extracted from Thicc edit fairy and not moon boot edit fairy I am ok with it.
*EDIT FAIRY HAS LIQUID FOR YOU!*
That was #Uncalledfor
Y’all keep whipping me and whipping me and you never give me any money or any way to do my damn job. I am not going to be your whipping girl!
Huh… historians – and Wikipedia editors – express disbelief that you-know-who was ever a Communist.
“Everyone was at one time a Social Democrat.”[31] If Hitler did support the Social Democrats in preference to the Communists, it was likely “viewed as a choice of the lesser of two evils.”
Hitler and the Jacket debating Walter Block.
It’s time for a difficult night. I’m going to work to kill the keg of New England Pale Ale I brewed up… when I last moved it last week, it felt light, so it should be done soon. Then I get to hook the latest batch of my saison up to carb up. And to tie into the beer thread I missed earlier, the standard for draft lines in professional establishments is to clean them a minimum of every 14 days. Some of the beer bars will even clean them any time they switch a keg, others will do it when they switch the line to a new beer. As for the beer lost, my 10 foot lines will hold ~9 oz. of beer in them (you can always tell what’s been sitting in the lines since the last pour by how it comes out).
nerd
Duke Beernerd Nephilium of Tight Pants to you. Show respect and use his full name.
Pfft… that’s nothing. You should see the work that goes into dialing in a recipe for homebrew competitions. Measuring the gravity of each of the sparges, adding up the volumes, calculating the gravity pre-boil, verifying the amount of boil-off at the end. If I would have actually gotten consistently good write-ups for my entries, I may have kept doing it. Since most of the write-ups were… less then helpful, I’ve stopped entering, and wing it a bit more on brew days. It makes it much more relaxing, and if the beer winds up being only 5.5% instead of 6%, I don’t mind.
I can always taste dirty lines.
I swear dirty lines mean worse hangovers. There’s a bar I had to stop going to because of that.
I don’t run with a sophisticated crowd, but any good drunkard knows which bars regularly clean their lines and which ones don’t.
For as much as everyone may hate on chains, I’ll admit to being impressed by the Yard House. It’s owned by the same people who own fricking Olive Garden, and they actually do a decent job at maintaining a huge tap list at all of the ones I’ve been to. It’s not always the most adventurous, or have a lot of rare beers, but it’s solid. On the plus side, if you get any gift certificates for Darden Restaurants, you can use them at the Yard House.
*perks up*
Darden you say?
Yep. The Yard House. Although they have stopped serving yards in all of their locations that I’ve been to in the past couple of years, they do still offer half yards of anything under ~6% ABV.
The most common issues with dirty lines are going to be vinegar and diacetyl (artificial butter flavoring). I don’t think either of those would add to a hangover, but if they’re not keeping up with the maintenance of their lines, where else is the bar skipping steps?
Kind of like a chick who has bad breath: You’re not gonna want to take the elevator down.
*all but sprays bourbon out nostrils*
FOOK, MAN…THAT WAS GOOD.
My coworkers and I used to go to one of our corporate offices on a regular basis. The hotel we stayed tried to turn one of their bars into a beer bar. They were not successful. They had a bartender who complained that all the beers had two names instead of just one. By two names, she meant that Stone IPA or Victory Hop Devil was too confusing, because it had both a brewery, and a style name. They also only cleaned lines when a keg kicked, regardless of how long that keg was hooked up. They had a keg that was hooked up for at least nine months because the line was infected and made it taste like you were drinking a version of bulletproof beer.
If she wasn’t at least an 8, I would have called a cab to go to a real bar.
She was a 6 at best. My other coworkers had a soft spot for that hotel bar. One time they got snowed in and spent the day drinking there, the manager comped their tab. The closest thing nearby was a Rock Bottom and a Fox and Hound, both of which could be hit or miss.
On the keg side, the NEPA is dead. There was about 48 oz. left in it when the night started. It has now been pulled, and the Saison put in it’s place and hooked up to CO2 to carb up. This means the Thanksgiving beers are on point and on tap.
Bud Light throw her for a loop too?.
Never actually thought of this. Now I’m leery of ever getting a beer on tap again.
My local lists the last date the lines were cleaned on the beer menu.
Yes…I spend a fair amount of time there.
i just trained time moves back tonight. Damn it. That means 13 hours at work tonight instead of 12.
realized, not trained. I don’t know how that happened.
lack of training?
*begins to narrow gaze, applauds instead*
As long as you get paid for that hour, it’s ok right?
That’s the bright side. I have already put in over 70 hours this week though. After about 65 hours or so, I only make about 8 dollars an hour. I get moved up into a tax bracket that is much higher than my actual yearly income and I get raped on my tax withholdongs.
“tax withholdongs”
So….appropriate.
I thought you would like that.
I…need to work that in my next meeting with Finance.
Saw the new Blade Runner. Before the movie, they played the national anthem accompanied with some nice America, Fuck Yeah footage. It was kind of like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwGodJTgCwE
When it ended, there was a mighty shout that shook the building. That part was more fun than the movie.
I saw Rambo 2 (?) in a theater in Colorado Springs that was filled with Ft Carson soldiers. There was a line in the movie that I can’t recall exactly, but it was a question about invading Vietnam again. The theater erupted into such an uproar it was surely heard in the other theaters in the complex.
That asshole terrorist looks like John Turturro.
Just for the record, as tired as the rest of you are hearing about how Rand Paul screwed us over and kept ObamaCare alive (not that I even brought him up tonight), I’m even sicker of ObamaCare bending us over and giving us the high hard one.
And just in case y’all haven’t noticed, ObamaCare still hasn’t been replaced, and that’s still, largely, because of Rand Paul’s no vote on the replacement.
“Wow, Ken, that was months ago–are you still complaining about getting screwed months ago?” is kind of an oblivious thing to say–when we’re still bent over and getting screwed like a jailhouse bitch by ObamaCare, right?
Oh, yeah, and if the reason we’re still getting bent over and screwed is because Rand Paul is so principled that he voted with Bernie Sanders and Liz “wampum” Warren, then fuck those principles. How ’bout the principles where you vote to roll back Medicaid eligibility instead–every chance you get?
I’m gonna laugh my ass off if he votes to support the GOP tax cuts–even if they don’t cut the income tax all the way to zero. I’m gonna laugh even harder if he votes against tax cuts “on principle”.
Umm, it was McCain and the 2 fembot Democrats pretending to be Republicans who screwed us over. Rand has been 100% right about this.
Here’s the bill Rand Paul voted against:
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52849
McCain actually voted for this one. Rand Paul voted with Bernie Sanders and Liz Warren against it.
Short summary:
Cuts $772 billion from Medicaid over ten years.
Cuts $408 billion in subsidies to the insurance industry.
Cuts $751 billion in taxes–including the end of the individual mandate.
I don’t see anything in the bill that I don’t like, but we could talk about all the things it didn’t do.
It didn’t . . . um . . . eliminate Medicaid entirely.
It didn’t chase ISIS out of Iraq.
The problem was that the status quo wasn’t neutral. The status quo was ObamaCare. By voting against the bill that was most likely to pass, Rand Paul either a) saddled us with ObamaCare for the foreseeable future or b) is playing 3-D chess.
I don’t see the 3-D chess argument. I don’t think Rand Paul has any plan at all. He kept Medicaid expanded and kept ObamaCare alive for the foreseeable future, and he has no plan whatsoever. His plan is a shit eating grin.
And I won’t forget about it–as long as we have ObamaCare, as long as Medicaid is expanded, as long as we have an individual mandate, as long as we suffer all those stupid policies because of Rand Paul’s horseshit principles that somehow align with Bernie Sanders and Liz Warren. Fuck the socialists, and fuck anybody that votes with them, on principle, too.
His plan is in committee, go read it.
And the Republicans repeatedly voted for straight out repeal–back when that had no chance of becoming law without Obama’s signature. So what?
We could have had an end to the individual mandate, an end to the employer mandate, and relatively huge cuts to Medicaid.
Instead we have a Rand Paul sponsored bill in committee that isn’t going anywhere?
I find his posturing insulting to my intelligence.
If Rand Paul wanted to impress me, he would have voted for the replace bill, chastised his fellow Republicans for not going further, and then introduced even more improvements. Instead, almost every establishment Republican has a better record than Rand Paul on cutting entitlements now–and the only Republicans who don’t are Heller from Nevada, the Republican from Maine (both of whom might as well be progressives on the issue of healthcare), and Murkowski from Planet X.
McCain is pretty much even with Rand Paul, since he voted against repeal but voted for the replace bill that Rand Paul voted against.
Rand Paul should be leading the charge to cut spending, cut taxes, and cut entitlements–not a big part of the reason we don’t have those cuts.
When asked whether he thought God was on his side, Lincoln is supposed to have said something to the effect of, “The question is not whether God is on my side but whether I’m on his” (something only a devout Christian might say). My loyalty is to fiscal conservatism, tax cuts, capitalism, and smaller government–not Rand Paul. Rand Paul is a politician, and I only support him insofar as he supports fiscal conservatism, tax cuts, small government, and other libertarian things I care about. The question isn’t whether I’m on Rand Paul’s side; the question is whether Rand Paul is on the side of capitalism.
Judging him by his votes (and I can’t think of a better standard for judging a politician), he’s not on the side of capitalism. When the most capitalist bill ever created by a Republican majority when a Republican was in the White House was passed by the House, Rand Paul voted against it in the Senate. And we will continue to suffer the socialism of ObamaCare in no small part because of Rand Paul’s vote.
I mean seriously…Ken had to have something to do with Paul getting attacked today. Right?
Ken’s real name is Rene, but it’s ok, he’s just resisting.
I know you are the guy who assaulted Rand today Ken.
I too an tired of being fucked by Obamacare. However, I do not want Rand, or the republicans, or anyone to replace Obamacare. It needs to be repealed, and not replaced. If it is replaced, the replacement will not work either. It won’t work, because central planning doesn’t work. When it’s replacement fails and the political winds shift, as they always do, we will end up with Obamacare mega. The only way to avoid that, is to replace Obamacare with something that does work. The only thing that will work is no thing at all.
Rand voted for straight out repeal.
So did every other dickweed with an R by their name when there was no chance Obama would sign it. But yes, lets all join with Ken and bad mouth the one Senator who has been consistent.
What’s consistent about Rand Paul voting against $1.02 trillion in spending cuts to an entitlement program?
“Seven Senate Republicans broke with leadership Wednesday to vote against a so-called “straight repeal” of ObamaCare
Sens. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn.; Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va.; Susan Collins, R-Maine; Dean Heller, R-Nev.; John McCain, R-Ariz.; Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska; and Rob Portman, R-Ohio, joined all Democrats to defeat the amendment”
How about we focus our ire where ire is due.
They actually had a vote on straight repeal this week? I have not been paying close attention to politics the past few weeks.
No. They had a vote on straight repeal in september. Listed above are the R dick weeds to which you were referring.
Are you talking about Rand Paul’s follow up bill that never had any chance of passing?
Can you explain why Rand Paul voted against the bill he voted against?
I linked to the provisions and outcomes above.
The “Fuck you, Cut Spending” days are over if you still support Rand Paul. Because when the biggest cut to entitlement spending ever came up before the Senate, Rand Paul voted against it.
. . . because of something it didn’t do?!
I’ve long hoped that I was wrong about politicians not being the solution to our problems, and I was one of the people who genuinely hoped that Rand Paul would prove me wrong.
Unfortunately, I was right about politicians not being the solution to our problems–and I was wrong about Rand Paul. Hell, most of the establishment GOP voted more libertarian on those bills than Rand Paul–because they voted to cut entitlements every chance they got.
Rand Paul voted for straight out repeal for the same reason that the rest of the GOP voted for straight out repeal back when Obama was president–because he and they knew that it had no chance of becoming law.
When they really could get it passed and signed, Rand Paul voted against it–and I will not forget it so long as Medicaid remains expanded, the individual mandate remains in place, etc., etc., etc.
Paul didn’t vote against a repeal. He voted against a watered down version of O-care that was also doomed to failure. He voted against hanging that albatross around his party’s neck.
Keep saying that over and over again.
Voting to repeal the ACA individual mandate, repeal the ACA employer mandate, repeal the ACA Medicaid expansion, etc., etc. was not leaving ObamaCare mostly intact–no matter what Peter Suderman says.
There isn’t anything in that bill to oppose from a libertarian perspective. You could ask for more, but there’s no reason to oppose anything in that bill. It was the most libertarian bill that a majority controlled congress has produced in our lifetimes.
Rand Paul voted against it, and that is one of the primary reasons why not only still have ObamaCare, but also the reason why we haven’t cut $1.02 trillion in spending and $751 billion in taxes.
Think financial analysis.
Think good ol’ opportunity cost! Highest foregone alternative, right?
The alternative to any particular investment isn’t a higher theoretical return–certainly not if I’m taking that investment out of something that’s losing money. If I could have a 17% return, but I need to forgo the status quo, which is a 5% loss, well, turning down a 17% return because it isn’t a 20% IRR is stoopid. The alternative to making 17%, in that situation, is not 20%. The alternative to making a 17% return is losing 5%.
The alternative to the replace bill was not repeal.
The alternative to the replace bill was ObamaCare.
If Rand Paul’s 3-D chess genius led him to pick ObamaCare over a far better investment, then he needs to find another profession because the investment industry isn’t for him.
And if he picked ObamaCare over cutting $1.02 trillion in spending and another $751 billion in tax cuts? Well, that’s the very definition of making government smaller, so why would he do that? If Rand Paul’s fiscal conservatism leads him to vote against cutting $1.02 trillion in spending, if Rand Paul’s capitalist impulses lead him to vote against cutting $751 billion in taxes, if Rand Paul’s small government principles lead him to vote against making the government smaller, then he’s much worse than stoopid.
He’s fucking retarded.
It’s not financial analysis, it’s politics. Yes, the replace bill was better than what we have. I agree. It also still leaves healthcare a fucked up over regulated mess. That fucked up over regulated mess would then belong to Rand and his party. This is not 3D chess. It’s really simple.
A lot of democrats lost their jobs after passing a fucked up over regulated mess of a health care bill in 2010. It’s not difficult to see. No 3D chess required.
The senate can not pass aNY law that makes health care better. You know that. You know that only the absence of health care laws will make healthcare better. The moment the Rs start passing healthcare laws, they will own the mess that is the American healthcare system.
Oh come on Ken.
How the fuck are you trying to spin a consistent stance of repealing Obamacare to mean secret support of it?
You’ve completely failed, over and over and over and over again, to engage with the many people here who point out what Rand’s strategy on this whole thing is.
Rand wants the whole thing gone. He calculates, and I think theres a lot of history to back him up here, that if they vote a half-repeal through, that the half that doesn’t get repealed is never going away.
He wants to actually repeal a law. Not fix it, tweak it, update it, amend it, or any other euphemism for “keep it but let the free market take the blame for its failures”.
The goal is the unconditional surrender of Obamacare. Nothing more or less.
I haven’t failed to engage Rand Paul’s strategy–Rand Paul has no working strategy.
ObamaCare is still there.
Do you not see it.
It’s standing right there just like it was before.
Rand Paul’s strategy is to tilt at windmills until the windmills turn into unicorns.
It’d be a hilarious joke if it weren’t for all the socialist suffering his stupid “strategy” inflicted.
He’s not playing 3-D chess.
If I thought he genuinely believed what you’re saying, that he has a master strategy to get rid of the individual mandate, the employer mandate, and slash back Medicaid, and it has something to do with voting against cutting those things–and $1.02 trillion in spending!? I’d think less of him than I do.
I think Kentucky is one of the states with the highest rates of Medicaid enrollment, and he’s worried about what cutting that spigot off would do to his reelection chances in the future. The crap I see repeated here is mostly just deflection to make his saving of Medicaid seem palatable to a national audience and keep his long term dream of being president alive.
Close observation will tell you, however, that he only votes to cut Medicaid when such a plan has no hope of being enacted. When voting to cut Medicaid really mattered, Rand Paul voted against it. That’s what he did. That’s who he is. A thing is what it is and not something else, and what Rand Paul is is a politician.
You people are barking up the wrong tree. Ken is immune to facts.
I have posted bill text, I have posted roll call votes, I have made the case as clear as day that the “Rand Paul fucked us” narrative is complete bullshit invented of whole cloth by Ken.
It doesn’t matter. He has an NYT article he half-read and a CBO report that he picked a number on a graph out of. Everybody knows that misread secondary sources trump primary sources every time.
Seriously, read the CBO report that Ken linked. Find where it says Medicaid eligibility was scaled back to pre-ACA standards (i.e., end the Medicaid expansion). Spoiler alert: you won’t find it. Why? BECAUSE IT’S NOT IN THE FUCKING BILL.
John McCain has never voted to end the Medicaid expansion. He voted for a reduction in Medicaid funding. Rand Paul voted against that bill and for an end to the Medicaid expansion. Then, to appease asshats LIKE JOHN MCCAIN, Rand Paul also voted for the “skinny repeal” that left Medicaid mostly alone. But McCain, Murkowski, and Collins (+50 Democrats) killed that bill, too.
But somehow, a bill that failed 43-57 that didn’t even end the Medicaid expansion but was the only thing standing between us and the Medicaid apocalypse was undone by Rand Paul’s one vote, whereas a bill that failed 45-55 (that’s 2 more votes for those of you who can count) was a purely symbolic gesture on Paul’s part.
So… playing ELEX. My Steam account shows close to 80 hours. But it’s really closer to 60 hours because I got a little drunk and left the game running all night. Anyway, great game.
Japan drops by three to 114th in gender equality rankings by World Economic Forum
Really? 114th?
Useless ranking.
Yum. Cherry picking.
Holy shit yes. Rwanda is #4. That’s gives it away right there.
I’d rather be a woman in Japan than in Rwanda any day of the week.
In the backwards uber tribal parts of the few African countries I have visited the men think they should sit under trees and ponder things and women should be working, so that may explain the numbers of women in the workforce skewing the statistics. The men are pondering some important shit that is not accounted for.
Pondering: “Make me a braaibroodjie!”
Or maybe it means fewer men are having babies.
Rwanda is 4th. Really? Who takes this stuff seriously?
Nicaragua is in the top 10.
Like I said…
/pours bowl of cereal.
Rwanda is 4 and Nicaragua is 10?
BWAHAHAHAHA!
“Would you rather be a woman in Rwanda or a woman in Tokyo?”
“It’s not that simple!”
These are probably the same people who oohed and ahhed over the supposed gender equality in Communist countries – never mind that it was a complete fraud.
Yep. When “equality” means that you can place women living in shithole countries above women living in a prosperous society, you’ve jumped the shark. It is nice that they make their position perfectly clear with rankings like these.
It can’t bear enough repeating: the NYT thought that Soviet women had better sex. If that’s not enough reason to stop taking them seriously, nothing is.
I’m sure Soviet women really appreciated the lack of cosmetics, tampons, chocolate, stylish clothing, and all the other symptoms of capitalist decadence. In addition to exercise, all that standing in line for bread gave them plenty of time to reflect on their good fortune to be citizens of the USSR.
Looks like youtube’s thought police deleted most of Memri TV’s videos. It’s not hard to guess the reason why.
From an Egyptian TV show
Homosexuality a U.S. Plot against Our Society – Homosexuals Should Be Killed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcRi7p6-yIQ
But Republicans are the homophobes…. ok….
Looks like youtube’s thought police deleted most of Memri TV’s videos
What fig-leaf of a reason did they offer? Or did they just do it quietly, hoping no one would notice?
Blind squirrel meets nut.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/11/04/david_brooks_those_of_us_trying_to_rebut_trump_have_the_disadvantage_that_our_elites_really_do_stink.html
World’s most expensive whiskey revealed to be a scam
[Nelson laugh]
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The world’s most expensive whiskey has been exposed as fake – after a Chinese businessman paid $10,000 for a single shot.
A dram from the unopened bottle of “Macallan 1878” sold for the four-figure sum at a Swiss hotel in July – making it the priciest glass of single malt ever flogged.
But whiskey experts smelled a rat after news of the sale broke and Sandro Bernasconi, of The Waldhaus Hotel in St Moritz, called in investigators to examine the $300,000 bottle.
The high-end grog was sent off to be tested by boffins at Oxford University – with shocking results. Carbon dating showed the booze to be a near-worthless blended Scotch dated no earlier than 1970 – a hundred years younger than it was claimed.
The label was also riddled with mistakes, while the cork looked too new and the bottle was made of modern glass.
The unsuspecting victim of the scam was Chinese tourist Zhang Wei, 36, who has now had his cash refunded. Bernasconi flew to China to apologize and personally pay back the money.
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A fool and his money are soon parted.
10 grand buys a lot of Guinness. And even more PBR.
Carbon dating has a hit/miss of hundreds of years. Not quite the silver bullet. But, people have come to trust it. Don’t want to be anti-science after all.
wiki says +/- 80 years, depending on how long you measure
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The reliability of the results can be improved by lengthening the testing time. For example, if counting beta decays for 250 minutes is enough to give an error of ± 80 years, with 68% confidence, then doubling the counting time to 500 minutes will allow a sample with only half as much 14
C to be measured with the same error term of 80 years.[64]
Radiocarbon dating is generally limited to dating samples no more than 50,000 years old, as samples older than that have insufficient 14
C to be measurable. Older dates have been obtained by using special sample preparation techniques, large samples, and very long measurement times. These techniques can allow measurement of dates up to 60,000 and in some cases up to 75,000 years before the present.[52]
Radiocarbon dates are generally presented with a range of one standard deviation (usually represented by the Greek letter sigma as 1σ) on either side of the mean. However, a date range of 1σ represents only 68% confidence level, so the true age of the object being measured may lie outside the range of dates quoted.
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you didn’t quote the whole wiki, and I don’t care to look it up. But the way it is written the +/-80 means a 160 year span off the bat; on top of that the confidence level is only 68%, which adds another 54 years to the deviation. So best case scenario within 200 years.
The 68% does not refer to the year; it is a confidence interval. It means there is a 68% chance that the age of the sample lies between +/- 80 years.
http://onlinestatbook.com/2/estimation/mean.html
I don’t know why you multiplied 68% by 80 years and then added it to 80 years.
If you measure a sample of American men and find a mean weight of 160 lbs +/- 50 lbs for a 95% confidence interval, that means if you picked 100 men at random, 95 of them would have weights between 110 and 210.
And for a sample with a clear date, it is safe to disregard the older limit. If something is dated 1880, it’s unlikely it’s really from 1850. The scams are always trying to pass off new stuff as old stuff.
I didn’t math right. My fault. The drink. I’m not trying to debunk this case. But the infallibility people give to carbon dating just annoys me.
He ended up with a free shot.
I normally assume the world’s most expensive anything is a scam.
http://nesn.com/2011/06/bruins-157000-bar-tab-broken-down-with-impressive-graphic-shawn-thornton-reveals-who-helped-pay-bill/
Another very expensive libation.
Jesus tupping Christ, is this why ZARDOZ rids the world of brutals?
As a non-lawyer, I advise you not to tell anyone why you were looking at that.
I was expecting twelve of thirteen would be the youngest.
Now all I can think of is Graham Chapman as Sir Arthur: “You make me sad.”
I still advise you, do not say WHY you were checking that.
A man has needs, man!
I mean, curiosities.
I mean, interests.
I mean, questions.
Yes, a man has questions, the answers to which google has in spades.
Terribly depressing answers.
As a non attorney spokespman, I urge you to write a ‘fictitious’ story about a a character who would need to know such a thing, rather than…aw fuck it…
Seriously, I don’t know what I googled to get that hit, but my god, five?! What in God’s name? Is there a God that allows that to happen?
Where is Eddie anymore? He used to post here. Eddie, how is it a God would permit a five year old, or for that matter anyone south of twelve, to be impregnated? To be raped, and carry a child to term, as a child? Fucking hell.
Science time: A girls body hits puberty when the ratio of body fat to hormones reaches a certain point. This is why gymnasts usually hit puberty late, not enough body fat. On the other hand, when you got a porker living in a world that has free hormone pills being flushed down the toilet, other things can happen. So, when do I get paid the salary of all the teachers that failed to teach you that at this point? I accept pay pal.
Good job CPRM. Now explain to him where Eddie went
Right, I’m not really objecting to the biological potentiality of it, but the fact that it happens at all.
Most of those on the list were impregnated, ostensibly, much prior to the advent of the pill, and likely prior to modern notions of sustenance.
I wonder if Lina Medina of 1939 Peru was being fed like a foie gras duck prior to her giving birth at the (ostensible) age of five.
I really didn’t look at the list. I was just freaked out that you linked it; but I did watch this video before. So I’m not much better. Humans be weird.
Oh, and Eddie went to a farm, where they love him and rub his belly all day long.
The reason I have to love thee doth much excuse the appertaining rage to such a greeting.
And I, for winking at your discords, too, have lost a brace of kinsmen.
5 years old? Put a fork in humanity, we’re done.
Met the President briefly today. Got a good laugh from the cheers that went up when FLOTUS was introduced as well.
Personal politicis aside, it was a cool opportunity and he does connect really well on the ground. Even his unscripted remarks were quite funny.
You are in Hawaii? Or was that yesterday? Did you look at their hats closely?
Which hats? There are a lot of hats outside.
Oh…wait…I’m dumb.
yeah, was it The Hat or Thu Hat? Sugarfree needs to know, for writing and masturbatory reasons.
The hair, actually.
Every time I see him speak in front of the military the crowd seems really enthusiastic. How does this compare to Obama?
I watched him give his speech in Japan this evening. Really had kind words for Japan.
Monster.
Yeah I thought it was quite diplomatic actually.
I never got to hear Obama speak so I don’t know.
Are you kidding…when teh Lightworker spoke, you could count the glazed over looks by the dozen.
Cause he sounded like an egghead.
And cause they could see through his bullshit.
Oh, and Sugarfree, might I suggest adding the bomber jacket? Maybe as side fling?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41825577
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The driver emerged holding what appeared to be two handguns and made a statement “consistent with a terror attack”
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Top notch reporting, BBC
TCU beat Texas tonight 24-7. While the game never felt in doubt, there was a feeling hard to describe while watching it. It sort of felt like being an bit player in a Warty Hugeman story.
You had this feeling you were about to get fucked, even though there was no reason for it to happen, and no evidence that is was going to happen.
(as an aside, I sort of feel bad for the Texas quarterback. Texas couldn’t run the ball at all, so the game was a 3-hour long beating for him. I’m sure he’s going to be one large bruise in the morning)
A Miami cop celebrated the U’s glorious beat down of VPISU by decking a drunk girl.
Meh, she hit him first, that’s covered under the NAP
That’s going to leave a mark. Jesus.
That’s my alma mater folks.
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http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/11/25/13/2ECBFF0200000578-3333361-_There_is_more_to_me_than_blonde_hair_and_boobs_After_being_prem-m-1_1448459161735.jpg
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You have a problem, this is an intervention.
wow. One of those alone is bigger than her friends head.
WIN.
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No souls and ready for action.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BsqoRq4CAAEv4vy.jpg
(NSFW, Glibs after dark)
https://thehostages.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/strutt-bikini.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/fb/77/d6/fb77d6483e9f4d9dbda187096ed373e8–redhead-girl-beautiful-redhead.jpg
(NSFW, Glibs after dark)
I think I’ve found a soul brother.
Yessir
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(NSFW, Glibs after dark, and Mike S’s ideal woman)
Woudn’t say no, but boobs are bigger than ideal.
Yes, I’m with Pie on boob size.
You know, if you’re going to link things, videos exist on the internet. Quit acting like you’re on a 56k modem.
Gotta leave something for the imagination, man!
“I’m with Pie on boob size”
I would never judge my soul brother.
“Quit acting like you’re on a 56k modem”
Keep that up and I’ll go 28k.
28k.
http://i.imgur.com/egOEsIA.png
(NSFW?)
“I see a forehead! in 25 minutes I’ll see the crest of the nipple!”
for years I kept a link a friend sent me of an ASCII animated porn. Same guy sent me 2 girls 1 cup years later. Best friend I ever hated.
Alright… I’ll be in my bunk.
I’ll leave this comment from the Internet here. I’m going to sleep and dream about whores so I expect some answers when I check back in:
“The states that fully implemented the ACA at a state level like California and Massachusetts serviced their voters, they kept their doctors, their premiums went down, insurance became available to people who could never get it before, and everyones policies got better.
I kept my doctor, my premiums went down $3000 a year. People who lost their doctors and watched their premiums go through the roof should wonder why they blamed the black guy when it was a fat white local republican politician who boned them.
And yes, I’ll play the race card because it applies.”
That’s pathetic.
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(NSFW, Glibs after dark, sweet dreams Rufus)
Damn…Damn
“What is best for me is best for everyone! At the point of a gun!” Sounds like a fun fella.
That’s funny, I live in a state that “fully implemented the ACA at a state level” and none of that is true. Premiums went up, deductibles went up, the plans are shit and the networks are shitty, and the only people who got something they didn’t have before were either forced onto Medicaid or into buying insurance they didn’t want.
It’s possible that the person who wrote this really did see their premiums go down $3k/year–as a result of subsidies paid for by all the people whose premiums went up.
Absolute horseshit. I live in California. When Obamacare was implemented rates for my small group plan increased 67%.
I’m gonna go out on a limb and say his premiums didn’t actually go down. He just got a subsidy to cover the increase plus 3k. Meanwhile, the rest of us suckered are footing his bill by paying full boat.
Commodious! If you wanna study Mech. Eng. at UNM, lemme know, my dad teaches in that dept. The admins can give you my email.
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(NSFW, Glibs after dark)
Jeeze, just stop it already.
I’ll be in touch. I’ve very serious questions many things. Admins permitting.
I think Q likes tits. Just a hunch.
Your spidey sense doesn’t lie.
Alternet appears to be suffering from selective amnesia again.
Trump Is Racking Up an Appalling Civilian Death Count
https://www.alternet.org/world/trump-killing-record-numbers-civilians
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Under the new Trump rules, targets would no longer be limited to high-value terrorists, but could also include foot soldiers with no leadership roles.
During the Obama administration, targeting decisions were made at the highest levels of government and the president reportedly had the final say about who would be assassinated. Under the PSP, however, these determinations would not require vetting by top administration officials, and could be made by commanders in the field.
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The horror!
Ummmm… Obama drone struck like it was going out of style.
Reading the article itself, it seems like it was shoe-horned into being anti-Trump. It mostly focuses on the Obama administration.
I really liked the new Blade Runner. That is all.
So I’m watching Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet. It’s brilliant, by the way, and beautiful, and if you want to bone down with your woman, you’ll put it on. It’s a masterpiece even beside the masterpiece which is Shakespeare, obviously.
But there is what I think is a bit of lyricism written for the movie, sung by an excellent soprano (I think??) and it has what I’m certain is meant to be taken as a bit of entendre: He sings “Cupid, he rules us all,” but I’m certain it’s meant to be taken as “Cupidity rules us all.” I can’t say that for certain, but given the nature of the play, and given how superbly the movie pulls off the most heart wrenching deaths, by whom I mean Mercutio’s and Tybalt’s, I think “cupidity” fits the bill quite nicely.
This movie is the essential treatment of the subject. Yes, we’ve all seen the play. But if you haven’t seen this film… well. All are punished.
All are punished!