ZARDOZ SATURDAY EVENING LINKS

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.

  • ZARDOZ IS UNSURE IF THIS IS RELATED TO GLIBERTARIAN EDIT FAIRY.
  • PERHAPS THIS BRUTAL COULD IMPROVE HIS SWORD SKILLS A BIT AND JOIN THE BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS?
  • THIS FAT BRUTAL SHOULD BE ENSLAVED TO GROW GRAIN FOR THE VORTEX.
  • WHO IS THAT BRUTAL?

Comments

444 responses to “ZARDOZ SATURDAY EVENING LINKS”

  1. Gilmore

    That is awesome.

    1. AlmightyJB

      I wonder how many people got the reference:)

      1. Us Chosen Ones do!

        1. juris imprudent

          I guess you can’t get a hat tip from a large, floating rock-head.

      2. Chafed

        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.

        1. Lachowsky

          #metoo

  2. Gilmore

    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.

    1. Playa Manhattan

      I was just going to ask if “FAIRY LIQUID” is British for mineral oil.

      Sounds like they have a branding problem over there.

      1. Gilmore

        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.

        1. Gustave Lytton

          YORKIE- it’s not for girls! (or for civvies if you buy it in a NAAFI)

    2. MikeS

      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. Q Continuum

        +1 carpark

  3. Tundra

    I really think more people should keep swords at hand.

    1. *narrows gaze*

      *winces at how many board battles the Blackhawks are losing vs the Wild*

  4. Juvenile Bluster

    *Insert generic comment about Ohio State-Iowa game here*

    (snicker)

    1. Playa Manhattan

      Paging you-know-who

    2. Brutus Buckeye is the white people of mascots?

    3. Viking1865

      Live look at sloopy

      http://i.imgur.com/9T1kgIr.gif

    4. RAHeinlein

      Is Ohio State a 4-year school?

      1. Playa Manhattan

        Some people do spend 4 years there.

        1. 5 1/2
          In my defense – Beer and college chicks.

          1. MikeS

            +1 John Blutarski

    5. Negroni Please

      has anyone checked on Sloopy yet? Or is he too drunk for polite company?

      Oh well back to watching my team get shit kicked

    6. RegicidalManiac

      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.

  5. Playa Manhattan

    “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.

    1. The police forgot to shoot him the first visit?

      1. Playa Manhattan

        Second visit. First visit was just some stick time.

      2. Tundra

        Hawks and Wild in a few minutes. Is it possible for both teams to lose?

        1. At this point in the second period…yes.

          1. Tundra

            I might have to brew some coffee.

  6. Gilmore

    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.

    1. Mustang

      Ironically enough, they’re purging their own intellectuals. I thought that was a pretty big step towards authoritarianism?

    2. Rhywun

      I really don’t want to know what a “softboi” is.

      1. In need of Viagra?

    3. Gilmore

      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.

      1. Playa Manhattan

        I look forward to reading the police reports.

        1. Gilmore

          “these bruises came from the same guy who physically forced me to do cocaine during sex”

          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”.

        2. Gilmore

          Oh, I should have read more. the accuser says exactly that

          Donahue says she and Hafford were drinking heavily and that, while she does not remember going to Hafford’s apartment, she remembers being in his bed, experiencing physical pain, and aware that she didn’t like the sex. “I’m not sure if I voiced that or if I voiced that loudly enough, but I don’t think that would have stopped him anyway,” she says. (Hafford declined to comment to Jezebel on any of the allegations in this article.)

          Donahue says that prior to meeting up, Hafford had asked her if she liked rough sex, but she says that what she experienced was “not rough sex.” “Michael knows enough to be able to differentiate between what is rough sex and what falls into another category,” she says.

          “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}”

    4. Rope Snake

      This is really sad.

    5. Playa Manhattan

      Was Freddie’s check-in for anything other than BPD?

      1. Gilmore

        http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/freddie-deboer-checking-in-and-checking-out/

        as he elucidates in a recent post at Medium, type II bipolar disorder. The effects of which both drove him to be an incredibly prolific writer and to hate himself for being insufficiently productive

          1. Playa Manhattan

            I sang that entire score. Well, most of it. My family was screaming at me to shut up.

          2. Rhywun

            It’s incredibly catchy, isn’t it? It has always stuck in my head.

  7. Chafed

    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.

    1. At least you’re not close-talking.

    2. Playa Manhattan

      It was in his desk drawer. That was his backup empanada.

      1. Chafed

        I know. It’s like he’s writing the material for SNL.

  8. Rhywun

    We all knew this is where this was headed, right? (TW: Gawker)

  9. Tundra

    I posted this in the (possibly) dead beer thread:

    The top 250 at Beer Advocate.

    Hint for aspirants: make it really fucking strong.

    1. Q Continuum

      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.

    2. GSL in E

      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.)

      1. Yusef drives a Kia

        This right here

      2. Tundra

        Well, yeah, that was my point. It’s all alcohol delivery and you are on your own.

        1. Playa Manhattan

          GOOD

        2. SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT!

          1. Tundra

            *hands SS a nice bottle of Scotch*

          2. MikeS

            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.

          3. Tundra

            Macallan 12.

            Everyone has it. Aged in sherry casks, iirc, and really smooth.

          4. DOOMco

            heh, I have a glass of it right now.
            I also have a can of busch.

          5. Tundra

            I’m starting to wonder if you aren’t my son.

          6. MikeS

            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.

          7. MikeS

            Busch is my preferred beer back when I’m sipping whiskey.

          8. DOOMco

            I just look too much like my dad!

            not a scotch, but I also like bushmills black label.

          9. Tundra

            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!

          10. Glenmorangie – smooth, every bar should have it.

            You want a bit fancier, try Dalwhinnie “the gentle spirit”

          11. R C Dean

            Glemmorangie. My first scotch, any of their varieties are very friendly – not too peaty/oily/smoky.

          12. Tundra

            Love Glenmorangie. It’s a real scotch though.

            Highland Park is the bomb, as well.

          13. GSL in E

            Glenlivet 18. Enjoy.

          14. Tundra

            Blends are fine, but can be a little harsh. Try a couple singles and see what you think.

          15. MikeS

            Thanks. I will keep that in mind. And I will seek out the Macallan.

          16. Tundra

            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.

          17. MikeS

            Haha. I’m that way with rye right now…but maybe the scotch will surprise me.

          18. *Tebows at Tundra*

            50+ minutes…no goals. Looks like they both CAN lose!

          19. Tundra

            4 minute PP for your boys. We’ll see.

          20. Tundra

            And a goal.

      3. R C Dean

        Damn, GSL. Just the way I roll.

        I do like sour beers, but That’s also Olde Belgian.

        1. GSL in E

          I respect sours, but they’re not my thing.

    3. Nephilium

      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.

  10. ruodberht

    Holger-da-Dane: any news on Philly meetup? I am still interested.

  11. Q Continuum

    UNLEASH THE TITS!

    http://archive.is/fOlXK

    4, 6, 17 and 33 individually or in any combination.

    1. Ken Shultz

      As I got older, started appreciating women for more than their . . .

      Jiminy Christmas, look at #17.

      1. Tundra

        She wins.

        1. You might be a Wild fan, and I a Blackhawks one…but on this we can agree!

          1. Tundra

            Damn straight.

    2. MikeS

      I’ll go along with the consensus on 17. The science is settled!

      However 30 and 15 are pretty nice, too.

    3. RBS

      2. You’re all wrong. Again.

      1. *finds dried remains of RBS, with smile plastered on his face*

        Dude, she would drain you…or any man!

    4. Chafed

      You are correct sir! Also, no to number 12; not even with your dick.

  12. Ken Shultz

    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/

    1. Playa Manhattan

      That was pretty well known a while ago. A couple local professors and Native American historians were involved. USC and UCLA, IIRC.

      1. Ken Shultz

        Well excuse me for boring you with old news.

        Does anybody know when the second season of Stranger Things is coming out?

        1. Grummun

          We’re watching it right…..

          1. Grummun

            stupid premature submission ruining my joke. ::kicks pebble::

          2. Ken Shultz

            It’s all good!

        2. Playa Manhattan

          I’m not bored. It’s interesting. Our local PBS interviewed one of the historians who was digging around the Channel Islands.

    2. Mustang

      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.

    3. Rhywun

      The science isn’t settled?!

    4. MikeS

      The very first sentence of the article:

      It’s been one of the most contentious debates in anthropology, and now scientists are saying it’s pretty much over.

      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.

      1. Playa Manhattan

        Your side note:

        Check Mate.

      2. Q Continuum

        Even in physics, knowledge is constantly changing and observations defy theory. There really is no such thing as “settled science”.

        1. MikeS

          You’re absolutely correct. When I mentioned physics I was thinking of the basics; Newton’s laws, Ohm’s law, etc…

          1. Bob

            When trying to convince people of Newtons Laws, etc. people present the evidence for it not a survey of who believes.

    1. Chafed

      Maduro is the new Castro. Fuck him with ass cancer.

    1. Time for a rerun of the Great Ebola Panic of 2014 we had over at TOS.

      1. Mustang

        Doubt it. I don’t think Trump would have any problem stopping movement from the affected areas if it came to it.

      2. RBS

        PapayaSF is going to need more pants.

        1. *starts to laugh, chokes on beer, flails arms wildly *

        2. Bob

          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!

  13. Mythical Libertarian Woman
    1. Tundra

      IS FUCKING ABSURD

    2. Mustang

      What Hillary supporters actually believe.

      https://youtu.be/jQqz8obYT88

    3. Q Continuum

      The butthurt…. the schadenfreude…. it’s orgasmic….

    4. John Titor

      I’m starting to think Mythical is secretly a sadist who just posts this stuff here to make us suffer.

      1. Mythical Libertarian Woman

        Listen, I just wounded myself from laughing so hard, the least I can do is share with friends.

    5. Ken Shultz

      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.

      In all, governments and corporations involved in the arms deals approved by Clinton’s State Department have delivered between $54 million and $141 million to the Clinton Foundation as well as hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments to the Clinton family, according to foundation and State Department records.

      —-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.

      1. Mustang

        According to that thread, she needed the money to bring world peace but was foiled by the evil Trumputin.

        People actually believe that.

      2. Not an Economist

        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.

        1. Ken Shultz

          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.

    6. Playa Manhattan

      “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.

      1. Mustang

        All I read was “she lived her whole life leaching off the taxpayer and suckers.”

      2. Mythical Libertarian Woman

        THEY JUST LOATHE THE V

        She was just acting like a mother. A good mother, like Livia.

        1. Q Continuum

          Now that’s just crazy. The few bonafide male womanhaters I’ve met still love the V.

    7. You are evil

      @VixMaren
      ·
      21h
      Replying to @KailiJoy
      She gave her whole life to public service, her WHOLE life. She genuinely wanted policies that would benefit the people. It’s not fair. ?

      1. Mythical Libertarian Woman

        You mean a Mom?

        Half the country will never understand that impulse and will always look for some hidden power hungry sinister motive.

        AMERICA HATES MOMS

    1. John Titor

      How fucking high is North Dakota?

      1. MikeS

        The first (funny) one when you do it on DuckDuckGo is “North Dakota is basically Canada.”

        1. Q Continuum

          DuckDuckGo “Colorado is in what time zone”.

          1. Q Continuum

            Bing “Colorado is evil”.

    2. Tundra

      “Better than Wisconsin”

      Low bar, but YEAH!

      1. “Bankrupt”

        Well…they got Illinois right.

        0-0 end of period 2. Bah.

        1. Tundra

          I don’t get the feeling either team wants to be playing tonight.

          1. It IS Saturday night – I’d rather be in a bar, m’self.

          2. Tundra

            Very true.

          3. Tundra

            And there we go.

  14. Q Continuum

    Repost from morning lynx since Mike S is around:

    http://herblue.com/uploads/3/4/0/8/34080277/6310852_orig.jpg

    1. MikeS

      Fuckin. A.

    2. kinnath

      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.

      1. RAHeinlein

        Old data?

        1. Playa Manhattan

          Maybe after Agriprocessors got raided?

          1. Q Continuum

            All those hormones they put on the crops are affecting the size.

    3. Playa Manhattan

      Condoms are for hookers and sailors.

  15. Rhywun

    This sounds like playing Russian roulette but given the array of progs and union shills aligned against it, why not?

    1. Q Continuum

      How much worse can it get? Don’t answer that…

      1. I’ve seen how much worse it can get as the NYC exodus slowly comes up north to my county.

    2. 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.

      1. Rhywun

        enshrine equal rights for women

        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.

        1. Especially considering how far left the state has become in recent decades.

        2. Viking1865

          >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.

        3. The Elite Elite

          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.

          1. Rhywun

            Funny… I don’t get any of that. I don’t think I like the sound of “equality”.

          2. Q Continuum

            Well you’re just a white male shitlord so you can pound sand.

          3. RBS

            I see you’ve met my youngest girl cousin.

          4. Playa Manhattan

            No….. Should I?

          5. The Elite Elite

            Don’t stick it in crazy.

  16. Grumbletarian

    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?

    1. Q Continuum

      Does Ken have an alibi?

      1. Nephilium

        Heh… first thing that went through my mind when the headline came through my newsfeed.

        1. MikeS

          ditto

    2. Mustang

      Well it wasn’t Ken since he’s posting here now and they arrested the guy.

      1. Ken and the guy arrested are both Tulpa.

      2. Playa Manhattan

        They have internet everywhere but the Cal game.

        1. I got ya…I made a phone call.

          Cal 37

          Oregon State 23

          Glad I could help.

          1. Gustave Lytton

            Let the season end. OSU is realistically looking at not having a road win for at least four years.

          2. Playa Manhattan

            Thank you. You’re a good friend.

          3. No worries….Its not like I was glued to the Illini result… 🙁

    3. Lachowsky

      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.

      1. MikeS

        Hodges said Boucher would have faced more serious charges if had he used a weapon or if Paul had been injured seriously.

        “If he was using any type of a dangerous instrument, then it would have been a felony charge,” Hodges said by telephone Saturday.

        1. MikeS

          Fox News is now saying Paul was mowing the lawn when he was attacked

          A second neighbor told local news station WNKY said that the Senator was mowing his lawn around 3 p.m. on Friday when Boucher assaulted him. The neighbor also confirmed that the two share a corner adjacent to their homes and have been embroiled in an ongoing feud.

          1. Lachowsky

            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.

          2. MikeS

            I agree on both points.

          3. Rhywun

            Also, I bet Paul is the only senator who mows his own grass.

            LOL, can you imagine Moobs lifting a finger to do anything beneath him?

          4. Tundra

            I can’t imagine him figuring out how to start the mower.

          5. Lachowsky

            I can see him out of breath and his shirt soaked in boob sweat after about 3 pulls on the engine starter.

          6. Tundra

            With the gas valve turned off.

          7. Viking1865

            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.

          8. MikeS

            Wasn’t it Moobs who said, “I was born to legislate?”

          9. pan fried wylie

            “Gas? It’s not a car, sheesh.” *tug* *huff* *puff* *tug* *h…

  17. juris imprudent

    Hmm, the only non-two-loss team in the B1G is Wisconsin. Pac-12 might get back into the playoff after all.

    1. 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.

      1. Juvenile Bluster

        Wisconsin is probably in if they win out. Probably.

        Lots of chaos happens in the final month.

        1. CPRM

          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.

      2. mr simple

        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.

  18. Playa Manhattan

    My internet is down.

    Does anyone have the score to the Cal game?

    1. Q Continuum

      Eleventy skrillion to -12.

      1. Mustang

        Canadian or US?

        1. Q Continuum

          Metric.

    2. AlmightyJB

      15-Love in the bottom of the 7th inning.

    3. MikeS

      Cal Ripken’s final game ended 5-1, in favor of the BoSox. Your internet must really be messed up.

    4. Juvenile Bluster

      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.

      1. Playa Manhattan

        Hmmmm…. What was the score when it happened?

        1. If I read my Base 8 numbers correctly, Cal was ahead by 3 tentacles to 1.

  19. The Elite Elite

    Good news everyone! We finally have a set of much needed new emojis!

      1. Mustang

        I see they left out the “slaps engorged penis on the table in raucous applause” emoji.

        1. Q Continuum

          Always a killer at dinner parties IRL.

          1. You go to the wrong dinner parties…

        2. westernsloper

          I find that one to be best communicated with an actual picture.

          1. MikeS

            western digs dick pix

          2. westernsloper

            Just my own. I have several framed in my entry way. Great conversation starters for visitors.

      2. DenverJ

        Why is that one vagina blue?

        1. Q Continuum

          She’s dead. Obvi.

        2. westernsloper

          Alien twat. Either that or it is moldy.

      3. Playa Manhattan

        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.

    1. Mustang

      I got an Error 404: They literally can’t even.

      I hate HuffPo so much.

    2. Q Continuum

      Question: how can an ideology that wants to see male sexuality criminalized call itself “sex-positive”?

  20. LJW

    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!

    1. Grummun

      News this morning said the black pajama crowd would be staging protests in “major cities,” including Cleveland and Cincinnati, but not Columbus. *snort*

      1. LJW

        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.

      2. Nephilium

        How could they tell in Columbus? Or will they wear scarlet and grey with the black mask? 🙂

  21. creech

    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.

    1. Juvenile Bluster

      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.

  22. MikeS

    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

    We were shocked to learn the news that Donna Brazile actively considered overturning the will of the Democratic voters by attempting to replace Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine as the Democratic Presidential and Vice Presidential nominees. It is particularly troubling and puzzling that she would seemingly buy into false Russian-fueled propaganda, spread by both the Russians and our opponent, about our candidate’s health.

    1. Q Continuum

      Hillary Clinton mourns Brazile’s upcoming mysterious suicide.

      1. *Drops beer bottle, stands and begins prolonged ovation*

        1. MikeS

          *picks up beer bottle, sets it upright on SS’s chair, sits down, and waits for hilarity to ensue*

    2. westernsloper

      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.

      1. GSL in E

        Hillary isn’t dumb. But even smart people have blind spots which are only exacerbated by arrogance and poor judgment.

        1. westernsloper

          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.

      2. Gilmore

        I think their whole team knew the Russian thing would come back to them and it is why they started pushing it onto Trump

        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.

        1. Not an Economist

          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.

          1. westernsloper

            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.

          2. Rufus the Monocled

            The scary thing?

            It’s working.

    3. Festus

      They are “spiraling the wagons”, if you will…

    4. Gerry Rigg

      No one has the heart to tell her that her Baghdad Barbara schtick got old and moldy eleven months ago.

  23. Q Continuum

    He’s the fuckin’ President. Can’t he fire these hacks?

    https://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/no-trump-portrait-embassies-swamp-still-controls/

    1. Mustang

      “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.

    2. Rhywun

      Seems like a lot of them have fixed terms that can’t be shortened for any reason that I can understand.

    3. Rufus the Monocled

      “…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.

    1. Rhywun

      Her politics have never made a lick of sense to me. I’ve long suspected that she’s a “cultural Democrat” if anything.

    2. AlmightyJB

      She also thinks that Diane Feinstein is the smartest politician ever so go figure.

      1. Rhywun

        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.

        1. pan fried wylie

          it’s a mutation in the P60GH4RDr gene.

    3. 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.

      1. Rufus the Monocled

        A lot of people do. One guy I know considers himself libertarian but voted Sanders.

        /scratches head.

  24. MikeS

    What up dog?!

    The suspect told police ‘give me a lawyer dog.’ The court says he wasn’t asking for a lawyer.

    When a friend says, “I’ll hit you up later dog,” he is stating that he will call again sometime. He is not calling the person a “later dog.”

    But that’s not how the courts in Louisiana see it. And when a suspect in an interrogation told detectives to “just give me a lawyer dog,” the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled that the suspect was, in fact, asking for a “lawyer dog,” and not invoking his constitutional right to counsel. It’s not clear how many lawyer dogs there are in Louisiana, and whether any would have been available to represent the human suspect in this case, other than to give the standard admonition in such circumstances to simply stop talking.

    1. Mustang

      I’m strangely okay with this.

      1. Tundra

        Agreed.

        But I would definitely get a Border Collie.

        1. No way…if you want a lawyer dog, get a real barrister – an English Bulldog.

    2. DenverJ

      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.

      1. Tundra

        Suthenboy?

        1. westernsloper

          +1 cap full of crab boil

      2. MikeS

        Southern Comfort?
        Tabasco Sauce?

        1. mr simple

          Frank’s Redhot is better.

      3. Lachowsky

        Gator hunting? I have never been, but I would love to.

      4. Q Continuum

        Britney Spears?

        1. Playa Manhattan

          *checks columns*

          That goes in “CON”

        2. Lachowsky

          Pre or post mental breakdown brittany?

      5. Playa Manhattan

        I just called them. They’ve agreed to get off of your lawn.

    3. DOOMco

      Air Bud, Esq.

    4. Lachowsky

      Since when did courts start interpreting words and phrases literally? shall not be infringed comes to mind.

      1. ruodberht

        The court didn’t. The article is, surprise!, a distortion of the facts.

    1. MikeS

      wut?

    2. Mythical Libertarian Woman

      I’ve not seen a YTMND website in a long time. A long time.

  25. Gustave Lytton

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Leake_(NAAFI_manager)

    John Steven Leake DSM (26 October 1949 – 13 February 2000) was an English recipient of the Distinguished Service Medal whilst working for the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes (NAAFI), one of only twelve to be issued to the British forces during the Falklands War.

    Petty Officer Leake originally joined HMS Ardent as a civilian NAAFI Canteen Manager. On the declaration of Active Service he volunteered to enrol as a Petty Officer on 15th May 1982. On 21st May 1982 HMS Ardent came under heavy attack by Argentine aircraft. Using his previous Army training, Petty Officer Leake was stationed as a machine gunner. Throughout the air attacks he remained cool and calm even though the ship was being hit by bombs and cannon fire. He fired large quantities of accurate tracer at the attackers and inflicted damage on a Skyhawk. His courage, steadfastness and total disregard for his own safety undoubtedly saved the ship from many further attacks and was an inspiration to all those in the vicinity.

    (NAAFI is the British exchange service and morale & welfare operator, similar to AAFES/Navy Exchange/Marine Corps Exchange)

    1. And the only source of IRN Bru in Iraq, when I was there…and titty mags.

  26. Gustave Lytton

    Watching Black Christmas, because it’s that time of the year. Damn Margot Kidder was hot back then.

    1. Playa Manhattan

      I’ve wondered how old you are, but now I think I know.

      1. Gustave Lytton

        16 years old posting from my parents’ basement, like everyone else here?

        1. MikeS

          *looks around, notices camera on laptop, puts tape over camera*

          1. Lachowsky

            That’s not the camera he’s using.

        2. straffinrun

          I’m in your mom’s basement right now.

          1. Private Chipperbot

            These euphemisms.

  27. westernsloper

    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!*

    1. westernsloper

      That was #Uncalledfor

  28. straffinrun

    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!

  29. Rhywun

    Huh… historians – and Wikipedia editors – express disbelief that you-know-who was ever a Communist.

    1. straffinrun

      “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.

  30. Nephilium

    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).

    1. Rhywun

      nerd

      1. westernsloper

        Duke Beernerd Nephilium of Tight Pants to you. Show respect and use his full name.

      2. Nephilium

        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.

    2. DenverJ

      I can always taste dirty lines.

      1. straffinrun

        I swear dirty lines mean worse hangovers. There’s a bar I had to stop going to because of that.

        1. I don’t run with a sophisticated crowd, but any good drunkard knows which bars regularly clean their lines and which ones don’t.

          1. Nephilium

            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.

          2. *perks up*

            Darden you say?

          3. Nephilium

            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.

        2. Nephilium

          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?

          1. straffinrun

            Kind of like a chick who has bad breath: You’re not gonna want to take the elevator down.

          2. *all but sprays bourbon out nostrils*

            FOOK, MAN…THAT WAS GOOD.

      2. Nephilium

        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.

        1. 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

          If she wasn’t at least an 8, I would have called a cab to go to a real bar.

          1. Nephilium

            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.

        2. robc

          Bud Light throw her for a loop too?.

      3. Rhywun

        Never actually thought of this. Now I’m leery of ever getting a beer on tap again.

        1. My local lists the last date the lines were cleaned on the beer menu.

          Yes…I spend a fair amount of time there.

  31. Lachowsky

    i just trained time moves back tonight. Damn it. That means 13 hours at work tonight instead of 12.

    1. Lachowsky

      realized, not trained. I don’t know how that happened.

      1. lack of training?

        1. *begins to narrow gaze, applauds instead*

    2. Gustave Lytton

      As long as you get paid for that hour, it’s ok right?

      1. Lachowsky

        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.

        1. “tax withholdongs”

          So….appropriate.

          1. Lachowsky

            I thought you would like that.

          2. I…need to work that in my next meeting with Finance.

  32. Derpetologist

    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.

    1. westernsloper

      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.

  33. Rufus the Monocled

    That asshole terrorist looks like John Turturro.

  34. Ken Shultz

    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”.

    1. Hyperion

      Umm, it was McCain and the 2 fembot Democrats pretending to be Republicans who screwed us over. Rand has been 100% right about this.

      1. Ken Shultz

        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.

        1. robc

          His plan is in committee, go read it.

          1. Ken Shultz

            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.

    2. MikeS

      I mean seriously…Ken had to have something to do with Paul getting attacked today. Right?

      1. Hyperion

        Ken’s real name is Rene, but it’s ok, he’s just resisting.

    3. Lachowsky

      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.

      1. Hyperion

        Rand voted for straight out repeal.

        1. westernsloper

          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.

          1. Ken Shultz

            What’s consistent about Rand Paul voting against $1.02 trillion in spending cuts to an entitlement program?

          2. Lachowsky

            “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.

          3. westernsloper

            They actually had a vote on straight repeal this week? I have not been paying close attention to politics the past few weeks.

          4. Lachowsky

            No. They had a vote on straight repeal in september. Listed above are the R dick weeds to which you were referring.

          5. Ken Shultz

            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.

        2. Ken Shultz

          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.

          1. Lachowsky

            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.

          2. Ken Shultz

            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.

          3. Ken Shultz

            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.

          4. Lachowsky

            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.

          5. Viking1865

            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.

            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.

          6. Ken Shultz

            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.

    4. kbolino

      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.

      1. kbolino

        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.

  35. Hyperion

    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.

    1. Rufus the Monocled

      Useless ranking.

      1. straffinrun

        Yum. Cherry picking.

      2. Gustave Lytton

        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.

        1. westernsloper

          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.

          1. Gustave Lytton

            Pondering: “Make me a braaibroodjie!”

    2. Rhywun

      gender equality by analyzing women’s participation rates

      Or maybe it means fewer men are having babies.

      Rwanda is 4th. Really? Who takes this stuff seriously?

      1. Rufus the Monocled

        Nicaragua is in the top 10.

        Like I said…

        /pours bowl of cereal.

        1. Q Continuum

          Rwanda is 4 and Nicaragua is 10?

          BWAHAHAHAHA!

      2. straffinrun

        “Would you rather be a woman in Rwanda or a woman in Tokyo?”

        “It’s not that simple!”

        1. Rhywun

          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.

          1. straffinrun

            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.

          2. Q Continuum

            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.

          3. Derpetologist

            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.

  36. Derpetologist

    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

    1. Q Continuum

      But Republicans are the homophobes…. ok….

    2. kbolino

      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?

  37. Derpetologist

    World’s most expensive whiskey revealed to be a scam

    [Nelson laugh]

    ***
    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.
    ***

    A fool and his money are soon parted.

    10 grand buys a lot of Guinness. And even more PBR.

    1. CPRM

      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.

      1. Derpetologist

        wiki says +/- 80 years, depending on how long you measure

        ***
        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.
        ***

        1. CPRM

          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.

          1. Derpetologist

            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.

          2. CPRM

            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.

    2. straffinrun

      He ended up with a free shot.

    3. Rhywun

      I normally assume the world’s most expensive anything is a scam.

  38. commodious spittoon
    1. CPRM

      As a non-lawyer, I advise you not to tell anyone why you were looking at that.

    2. commodious spittoon

      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.”

      1. CPRM

        I still advise you, do not say WHY you were checking that.

        1. commodious spittoon

          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.

          1. CPRM

            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…

          2. commodious spittoon

            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?

          3. commodious spittoon

            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.

          4. CPRM

            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.

          5. MikeS

            Good job CPRM. Now explain to him where Eddie went

          6. commodious spittoon

            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.

          7. commodious spittoon

            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.

          8. CPRM

            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.

          9. CPRM

            Oh, and Eddie went to a farm, where they love him and rub his belly all day long.

          10. commodious spittoon

            The reason I have to love thee doth much excuse the appertaining rage to such a greeting.

          11. commodious spittoon

            And I, for winking at your discords, too, have lost a brace of kinsmen.

    3. Q Continuum

      5 years old? Put a fork in humanity, we’re done.

  39. Mustang

    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.

    1. westernsloper

      You are in Hawaii? Or was that yesterday? Did you look at their hats closely?

      1. Mustang

        Which hats? There are a lot of hats outside.

        1. Mustang

          Oh…wait…I’m dumb.

          1. CPRM

            yeah, was it The Hat or Thu Hat? Sugarfree needs to know, for writing and masturbatory reasons.

          2. Mustang

            The hair, actually.

    2. Rufus the Monocled

      Every time I see him speak in front of the military the crowd seems really enthusiastic. How does this compare to Obama?

      1. Rufus the Monocled

        I watched him give his speech in Japan this evening. Really had kind words for Japan.

        Monster.

        1. Mustang

          Yeah I thought it was quite diplomatic actually.

      2. Mustang

        I never got to hear Obama speak so I don’t know.

      3. Are you kidding…when teh Lightworker spoke, you could count the glazed over looks by the dozen.

        1. Mustang

          Cause he sounded like an egghead.

          1. Q Continuum

            And cause they could see through his bullshit.

    3. Mustang

      Oh, and Sugarfree, might I suggest adding the bomber jacket? Maybe as side fling?

  40. Derpetologist

    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41825577

    ***
    The driver emerged holding what appeared to be two handguns and made a statement “consistent with a terror attack”
    ***

    Top notch reporting, BBC

  41. SimonD

    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)

  42. Chipwooder

    A Miami cop celebrated the U’s glorious beat down of VPISU by decking a drunk girl.

    1. CPRM

      Meh, she hit him first, that’s covered under the NAP

    2. westernsloper

      That’s going to leave a mark. Jesus.

    3. Q Continuum

      That’s my alma mater folks.

          1. westernsloper

            wow. One of those alone is bigger than her friends head.

          1. Q Continuum

            No souls and ready for action.

          2. Q Continuum

            I think I’ve found a soul brother.

          3. MikeS

            Yessir

          4. MikeS

            Woudn’t say no, but boobs are bigger than ideal.

            Yes, I’m with Pie on boob size.

          5. CPRM

            You know, if you’re going to link things, videos exist on the internet. Quit acting like you’re on a 56k modem.

          6. MikeS

            Gotta leave something for the imagination, man!

          7. Q Continuum

            “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.

          8. CPRM

            Keep that up and I’ll go 28k.

            “I see a forehead! in 25 minutes I’ll see the crest of the nipple!”

          9. CPRM

            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.

          10. Nephilium

            Alright… I’ll be in my bunk.

  43. Rufus the Monocled

    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.”

    1. Q Continuum
      1. AlmightyJB

        Damn…Damn

    2. CPRM

      “What is best for me is best for everyone! At the point of a gun!” Sounds like a fun fella.

    3. kbolino

      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.

    4. Chafed

      Absolute horseshit. I live in California. When Obamacare was implemented rates for my small group plan increased 67%.

    5. Scruffy Nerfherder

      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.

  44. Q Continuum

    Commodious! If you wanna study Mech. Eng. at UNM, lemme know, my dad teaches in that dept. The admins can give you my email.

    1. commodious spittoon

      I’ll be in touch. I’ve very serious questions many things. Admins permitting.

  45. Lachowsky

    I think Q likes tits. Just a hunch.

    1. Q Continuum

      Your spidey sense doesn’t lie.

  46. Derpetologist

    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

    ***
    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.
    ***

    The horror!

    1. Q Continuum

      Ummmm… Obama drone struck like it was going out of style.

    2. kbolino

      Reading the article itself, it seems like it was shoe-horned into being anti-Trump. It mostly focuses on the Obama administration.

  47. This Machine

    I really liked the new Blade Runner. That is all.

  48. commodious spittoon

    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!