Hi, its me. I’m back again. Swiss, Sloopy, and OMWC are travelling, you’ve made SP feel like her links aren’t welcome, Playa Manhattan must be on a bender, and SugarFree is wrestling with demons. What I’m saying is, you’ll get more of my links and you’ll like it!
If you didn’t hate government enough, you’ll be spitting-blood angry to find out that the US House of Representatives has paid out over $1M/year in sexual harassment settlements. ($15M over 10-15 years). I think the time has come to lock legislators in small cages and let them participate via web meetings.
I poke fun at Alabamans, but if Jeff Sessions or Roy Moore are your “only choices”, just move. But if you move don’t vote the way you always have. Nobody else wants those choices. **glares at California expats**
I’ve got a crazy idea to solve Texas’s prison guard shortage… put fewer people in prison! Start with simple possession charges.
Willie nice
Wow, who could have guessed that adding Aquaman to the Affleck Batman/Superman shitshow couldn’t save the series? More screentime in less clothes by Gat Gadot is about their only hope.
Throwback Willie Nelson. Why not?
Gal Gadot doesn’t help every video she’s in.
3:03?? How the FUCK did three minutes late get first? You bastards are slipping.
I coulda had first, but I was too busy reading the links.
Hey guys! Over here! There’s this real Poindexter-type guy, says he – get this – reads the links!! Let’s laugh at him!
Yeah, that was massively cringy.
Makeup artists don’t get enough credit.
She looks fine to me.
Fine, yes. But as WW she looked better than fine.
I found Wonder Woman hard to watch because Gadot is so distractingly beautiful in almost every moment.
Momma don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys.
… and SugarFree is wrestling with demons.
Naked Crisco wrestling, yeah? I assume it’s part of his creative process.
If only the process were that wholesome.
If you know the details don’t share them. I don’t want to know. I like being able to sleep at night.
I’m gonna guess his process goes a little like this
Not looking.
The only time Sugarfree isn’t wrestling with demons is when he’s taking them out for drinks
The first review I saw was already complaining because they spent too much time lingering over Wonder Woman’s figure.
Unless the movie running time is more than 8 hours, this is not physically possible.
There is no such thing is too much time spent lingering over Wonder Womans figure
If you are an angry fat feminist that hates pretty women and the fact men like them, you ain’t gonna like stuff like this.
Unpossible
There is no such thing as too much time lingering over Gadot’s beauty.
Apparently there’s a big controversy because the outfits (designed by a man (boo! hiss!)) the Amazons are wearing in Justice League are more revealing than the outfits (designed by a woman (yay!)) they wore in Wonder Woman.
What I’m saying is, you’ll get more of my links and you’ll like it!
Nobody reads the links anyway.
The links? What are you talking about? Is that another comment section?
Links are sausage, which as everybody knows is better than bacon.
Sausage is good, but I don’t know about better than bacon.
Yeah, that’s fake news.
Bacon is better than sausage.
^^^
What about…bacon sausage?
*hands Michael another banana*
Thanks…but that’s too close to playing God for my tastes.
what’s next after bacon sausage, bacon women? bacon money? bacon immortality?
Ancient Egypto-Germans buried their dead wrapped in bacon in the hopes of a maple-smoked afterlife.
Oh, I was just making a zinger at the expense of a certain obsessive Glibertarian.
a certain obsessive Glibertarian
That doesn’t narrow things down much.
Fight me milkboy.
*drops oven mitts*
I can’t help but feel responsible for this.
^^^
Should be a proud moment for ya. I’m grateful.
I don’t know. I’ve never heard of a bunch of dudes getting together for a bacon fest….
John could never get anyone else to show up.
The links serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views.
It’s Postrel all over again.
I must confess that she has taken the time to respond to me a few on occasion but I always seem to see it several hours after the fact.
SP, for not responding, I apologize. No ill will was intended…and thanks for leaving me with the image of OMWC getting goat-assed while said goat balances atop him as he’s striking a yoga stance.
I can’t remember if you said yoga was present in the home but the subject of the link was the now frowned upon practice of goat yoga, you informed me goats are prevalent on your property. As a result, I occasionally can’t help but OMWC in the scenario above; then giggle.
Wow. The punctuation is even worse than usual.
No small feat on my part.
Just posted this right before this new thread so I’ll post it here. Facebook has an action plan against foreign interference! Russia won’t hack our next election so easily! https://www.facebook.com/help/1991443604424859?helpref=search&sr=1&query=foreign%20in
Maybe they should just get rid of ads altogether?
Maybe they should just get rid of elections altogether.
/endrun
I’m surprised the left hasn’t turned on Facebook for allowing the Russians to steal Her election in the first place.
If they disowned Facebook, where would they get their news?
The Daily Show?
Colbert? John Oliver? The Young Turks? Rachel Maddow?
I almost said the NYT but that’s just beyond the pale.
They would really have to believe the bullshit they peddle for the obvious reasons first to actually care.
Going to bid you farewell for a few days, Glibs. I am heading to my first sled hockey tournament of the year, in Minnesota this time. This one is only open to NHL-sponsored teams, which will be fun.
Have fun!
Thanks!
I’m a Minnesotan. The fuck is sled hockey???
Cool damn sport for people without leg function (or legs). My buddy plays – he had a bad snowmobile accident and is in a chair.
Can you play if you still have legs? Iceboating sounds fun.
Where are you playing, Kevin? Team?
“Guy who plays sled hockey because he was in a bad snowmobile accident” may be the most Minnesota thing ever.
“…while towing sled full of beer back to the ice fishing shed. Eating a block of cheese.”
“…still getting bit by mosquitoes.” (or is that Wisconsin? same diff. hell, let’s throw in some Canadian eh’s and oots while I’m at it.)
If you didn’t hate government enough, you’ll be spitting-blood angry to find out that the US House of Representatives has paid out over $1M/year in sexual harassment settlements. ($15M over 10-15 years).
I’m surprised they paid anything out at all. Doesn’t the BFYTW clause cover them?
Free Beacon updated the story, not all of the claims were for sexual harassment:
According to The Hill a spokesperson later clarified that figure does not only account for harassment claims. Speier herself said Wednesday it can also include things like racial or disabled discrimination.
UPDATE: Wednesday, 1:44 P.M.: This article was updated to reflect Speier’s spokesperson clarifying the congresswoman’s figure not solely referring to sexual harassment claims.
What did Pelosi know and when did she know it?
What difference does it make at this point?
😉
The real question is why those settlements aren’t made public.
This
The FYTW clause does apply.
Unfortunately it applies to plebes being told about the settlements not to those who were agressed upon.
“Why Jeff Sessions may be the GOP’s only Alabama option: Protest votes for Roy Moore”
I think you guys mean the GOP establishment’s only option. The polling in Alabama seems to suggest the voters of the state still plan to pick him as their option. Judge Nap had a decent little clip talking about this. (Doesn’t ask as many questions as he should though.) http://video.foxnews.com/v/5647924381001/?#sp=show-clips
Yeah, exactly, they mean the only option for the Egg McMuffins and Jeff Flakes of the world.
Cite?
https://realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/elections/
http://www.dailywire.com/news/23581/poll-moore-still-alabama-hank-berrien
Jeff Sessions – way too stupid to be Attorney General – just stupid enough to be a GOPe Senator for life.
Did I miss something, or is Sessions not still AG? They want to draft a guy who already has a job? What, do they expect he’ll jump from AG to take a Senate seat… or that he won’t, and the AL Governor will pick a replacement? How would that work?
I have used my weekly allocation of question marks on this post.
From what I understand, that is one of the plans. Write-in campaign for Sessions, then when he refuses to take the job, the governor appoints someone else.
I have used my weekly allocation of question marks on this post.
-5pts for not-phrasing as a question.
It says a lot that the GOPe is using the Roy Moore witch-hunt to push for Sessions or Luther Strange and not, say Mo Brooks, the guy from the Freedom Caucus that placed third in the runoff and actually has an appealing conservative record w/o any of the baggage. No, they don’t want to push conservatism, they want sycophants.
I don’t think the odds are against Alabama electing a Mo.
Strike “don’t”
If the Senate successfully expel Moore if he’s elected (which I think is unlikely considering you need 2/3rd majority), I think it’s likely that he’s chosen in the special election over whatever person the GOPe puts up.
Judge Judy before she was Judge Judy. Talks about waste, fraud & abuse in the family court system.
Now she just abuses complainants in her “court”.
Meh. I used to watch court for amusement and civic education (dont laugh). I finally got to watch a particular judge that everyone told me was a solid gold ASSHOLE. Afterwards I went back to the people that told me he was such a jerk.
“Y’all are nuts. Everyone in that court should get on their knees and thank god that that guy is on the bench and not me. If I had to sit up there all day and listen to the unmitigated horseshit he has to deal with and the depravity (it was a criminal court) he has to see I would be ten times the asshole he is.”
That reminds me – I could go for a re-watch of My Cousin Vinny
Was it like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTWdP5DMdsM
I actually liked (not loved) Man of Steel and BVS (I did a 3hr cut that puts them both together that works really well). But Justice League looks like a shitshow.
I can’t wait for the scene where we find out that Aquaman and Flash’s mothers’ names are Martha, and that Hippolyta has decided to change her name to Martha as well.
Yeah, that Martha crap isn’t in my cut. That was the worst part besides the shitty CG Doomsday fight, which is how all the footage for Justice League looks.
I enjoyed Man of Steel, up until the Godawful Snyder style fight scene at the end. Same garbage for the BvS fights. So, I’ve given up on the DC movie universe. I cannot stand that guy’s way of doing the fights. It just looks so damn stupid.
I don’t understand why DC thinks that Snyder is the only guy who can make these movies, and he continues to do a shitty job of it. I thought Man of Steel was decent and BvS was adequate, which is pretty low praise for me. I don’t have high standards. Marvel gets relative unknowns to make a lot of their recent movies and they are in a whole different league in quality. Do they simply have shit-for-brains at DC/WB?
JL was 15-20% Whedon after Snyder stepped down (very good personal reason) so maybe better? or maybe a tonal clash?
It’s all Hollywood ego. If they wanted a good movie, they would just stripmine Dini/Timm scripts from JL/JLU series. But no, they want to be “original.”
Marvel struck gold when they decided their movies will be based on the solid comic background, without going full Aspy. Ironically, DC’s current line (Rebirth) is awesome and I’d love to see Superdad up on the screen.
Stuckman gives it a B-. I’ll probably check it out the weekend after Thanksgiving just for the hell of it. Apparently DC mandated a 2 hour max running time. Good for screenings….not good for character/team/plot development.
Also good for increasing Blu Ray sales, since that’ll be the Extended Cut with 35 EXTRA MINUTES OF FOOTAGE NEVER-BEFORE SEEN IN THEATERS! “Oh well, maybe those extra scenes will give the movie a coherent story, like they kinda did for BvS?”
Well, yeah, but if it’s that short – probably closer to an hour of extra footage. I still haven’t watched the BvS blu-ray version. May pick it up for Black Friday.
**glares at California expats**
Standard statement from non-Californians to Californians in California: “I don’t understand how you could stay there? What’s keeping you there? It combines the taxes of King Rehoboam and the loose morals of Gomorrah! You should just move.”
Standard statement from non-Californians to Californians outside of California: “Why did you move here? You’ve driven up home prices in my area to intolerable levels, I no longer feel like my representatives are in alignment with my values, you ruin everything you touch. Why didn’t you just stay in California?”
The only way to be safe is to nuke California from orbit.
I hope you don’t like almonds.
I don’t.
And I much prefer Spanish and Italian wines to California wines. There is no good reason to keep them around.
Have you had much wine out of Temecula? They’re our Spanish-equivalent wine-growing region.
Nope. I am not familiar with Temecula.
It’s one of our three major wine-producing regions, but it’s less well known than Napa and Santa Barbara because they went heavy on Spanish varietals and production methods because of the warmer/dryer climate (it’s near San Diego) while the style was still considered déclassé. The more brash flavors of Spanish wines have been getting hip lately and Temecula vintners were already well placed to cash in on this trend. You can get some solid Spanish-style wines from the region at reasonable prices.
Thanks for the tip. I’ll have to seek one out.
I love almonds, but I’d be willing to make the sacrifice.
I like marzipan, not whole almonds.
The white
peoplemilk of candy.That’s funny, I’m the same way (re:marzipan vs almonds) although I’m getting over minding slivers and slices of almond in things.
The proper fixing of California is through the use of a Neutron Bomb.
Unfortunately, I think it’s something in the water, so you’ll have to kill off the population every 10 years or so.
The neutron flux might transmute the contaminant, so once the resulting radionuclides decay it should be safe.
Also applies to New York here on the East Coast.
This is why I speak jealously of the greatness of California to ever one of them that happens to be in Arizona for whatever reason.
I assume that’s also why AZ cops are monomaniacal about ticketing drivers with CA plates.
No. my uncle is a cop here and says they have “professional standards*” they are required to abide by in dealing with traffic violations.
*Quotas
And your response was?
*opens another beer*
You could have at least thrown your vagina hat at him. You DO own a vagina hat don’t you?
*hands Archie a beer*
WTF, man?
Why not just move somewhere and vote different like I suggest? I don’t give a shit about you overpaying for property.
I’m already voting out of lockstep with the bulk of CA voters, but I’d still likely be out of lockstep with AL voters.
Sure, but boring lp in AL is just as effective as voting lp in CA.
Parts of California are really beautiful and the geographical diversity is a draw. I also like Los Angeles (I’m weird, obviously) because there’s an energy there that I don’t find in other cities.
Fun times, fellow glibs. Got to go to the surgical center tomorrow for a uteroscopy (to get rid of that troublesome kidney stone). Thank fuck for general anesthesia.
UTEROscopy?
Regardless, that’s awful. Good luck.
Damn your nimble fingers!
You said that to your proctologist.
Got to go to the surgical center tomorrow for a uteroscopy
I think you’re missing a couple of letters, unless they’re putting a catheter up your uterus. Seriously, good luck. As I mentioned when you first brought it up, Dad has a history of kidney stones and his last one (actually a bladder stone) was 27mm.
I missed an extra er. Or I’m secretly a woman. You decide.
Why can’t it be both?
Transphobia!
Get well soon.
I don’t like the term Trump Derangement Syndrome – because it’s a lazy recycling of the Bush Derangement Syndrome. It normalizes the behavior of those subject to it by suggesting that it’s similar to how they behaved when GWB was president. It’s much worse now. I recall arguing that we didn’t have anything similar to BDS during the Obama presidency by pointing out the article in the New Republic that appeared in 2003 where the senior editor of the magazine wrote that he hated Bush and hated the way Bush talked and the way Bush walked. There were no comparable anti-Obama pieces in NR, TWS or Reason. But today claiming that you hate the way Trump talks or walks would be considered throat-clearing after which one can say something totally dumb or even reasonably smart. So, yes, TDS is a lame term.
But an accurate one. And we are seemingly stuck with (Name) Derangement Syndrome, just as we are stuck with the -gate suffix for scandals.
I’ve been lobbying for more -ghazi suffixes on things for variety.
Trump Deranghazi?
Nah, more like deflateghazi
Putinghazi almost sounds like a real place.
Now I have a name for my ranch!
I think the -ghazi only works with a one syllable preamble.
deflateghazi < ballghazi
Although Chipoltl-ghazi does roll off the tongue.
Chipotlghazi was the Aztec god of digestive issues.
#metooghazi?
Deghazi Jr. High?
How about -dome for the more retro look and style?
I think we can all agree that politics needs more Thunderdomes.
We don’t need another hero.
I don’t like the term Trump Derangement Syndrome – because it’s a lazy recycling of the Bush Derangement Syndrome. It normalizes the behavior of those subject to it by suggesting that it’s similar to how they behaved when GWB was president.
I was a fan of Trump Acceptance Rejection Disorder. But, that never seemed to catch on.
Because Accept and Reject are too dichotomous to be adjacent acronym members.
Trump Ascension Rage Disorder.
Is this a board game yet? Acronymity?
no no, Boggle^2
Great cover photo. I didn’t know OMWC has his own ice-cream truck.
Mugabe: the first SJW?
Oops no link:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11944516
Pretty sure Marx-inflected anti-colonialism has been a thing since before Mugabe.
You know else took things too literally?
No. Please tell me. I’m very curious.
“I’m very curious”
Amelia Bedelia for one…
Your mom at a wiener eating contest?
calling a penis a “wiener” is speaking figuratively though, isn’t it?
You know who else wanted to kick out recent migrants who improved the economy?
TrumpHitler? / Dalmia
Edward Longshanks?
Idi Amin?
The Sioux?
Montezuma?
The Wampanoags?
Chairman Mao?
“Let’s kill all the white farmers, then blame the white man for our hunger!”
Shit. I guess I won’t be visiting that vacation home anytime soon
So if the state puts you to death, but you don’t die, do you get to go free?
(why is the death penalty a thing again?)
Because FYTW.
Prisons are expensive.
Because people, even some here, love vengeance and ignore the problem of wrongful conviction.
I would greatly restrict the application of the death penalty, but there are some people who just need killing. E.g.: there is no possible reason to keep James Holmes alive. There’s no question as to his guilt and his crimes were truly heinous.
You monster. The girls in those porn movies were all there because they wanted to be in film.
+1 Charlie Manson
Yes, there are people who need killin’, but the state is not competent to decide who that is or how. I am not against the death penalty, just against state imposed death penalty.
Like Charles Bronson in Death Wish?
Don’t you mean Bruce Willis?
/ducks for cover
While I agree that Holmes is clearly guilty and deserves to die, I still don’t trust the state with that power.
And for those who are truly motivated by revenge – prison accomplishes that. If there is no afterlife then execution puts the evildoer out of his misery. If there is an afterlife then the person will surely get his just deserts in the hereafter.
I tend to agree with Chipwooder.
If prison is a place for rehabilitation, then having people who know they’ll be there forever sort of poisons the stew in regards to others who might actually want to get out of prison. They tend to have all the time in the world to clog up the system with frivolous lawsuits, for example, and they have no incentive to not have a negative influence on other inmates. What’re you going to do to them, keep their corpse in prison after they die?
Also, is it cruel to tell someone “See these four walls? That’s all you’ll ever see for the rest of your life”? Is it cruel to tell them that, then leave them a rope with a noose tied in it?
I think guilty beyond an unreasonable doubt would be sufficient, maybe
^^^winner^^^
Isn’t that the way it worked back in the hanging days?
One argument for the justice system is that it needs to provide a certain level of vengeance that satisfies the public so that there is no strong appeal for vigilantism. For some crimes, simply locking away the perpetrator is not enough to calm the mob. At the meta level that can make sense although at the object level, who is actually executed is rather fucked up.
A comprehensive look at Biden’s creepy uncle routine. And this is shit he pulls while being photographed or filmed–in fact, while he is the principle figure in the frame. So the question is, does he behave like this or worse in private? Or does he rely on these women not wanting to draw attention to themselves?
In the one video linked above he is behaving compulsively. He looks like he is drawn uncontrollably to those girls. He cant help himself. I am guessing he is got one hell of a psychosis and leaving him within arms reach of a young girl for any length of time would be…unwise.
Holy shit.
And you can’t tell me Obama doesn’t know something.
Isn’t there a NYT reporter who claims this is part of the ‘alt-right fake news’ meme?
Yep, I mentioned that in the previous thread
Yeh, you linked to Twitchy, right?
What I’m saying is, you’ll get more of my links and you’ll like it!
Whatever. There is little discernible distinction between not reading your links and not reading Sloopy’s.
The main distinction is that Brett doesn’t complain when you obviously don’t read his links.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/ucla-basketball-players-admit-shoplifting-china-trump/story?id=51164270
“The three UCLA basketball players detained in China last week have admitted to shoplifting and thanked President Donald Trump for helping them return to the U.S. “
They’re gonna catch more shit for thanking Trump than the actual shoplifting.
They should’ve been left there. Seriously, why would you travel to a country with a well-known police state like China and shoplift?
Turned out better than the dude who went to NK and stole a poster.
Ahem….who was alleged without any actual evidence to have stolen a poster.
Because they each have athletic scholarships, not academic scholarships.
I’m saying they’re stupid.
Of course they’re stupid. They broke Chinese laws knowing the Chinese criminal law system discriminates against EVERYBODY.
Here’s my contribution to the links page: <a hrefArizona-based VA contractor collected ‘tens of millions’ in over payment, federal audit says
I’ve met McIntyre personally. He’s a greasy, pontificating turd as you would expect. The flip side to that is that just prior to my resignation the VA had issues with estimating their costs for TriWest coordinated care for the past two years. They have no idea how much any of this cost until it shows up as a bill, which has led to accounting and budgeting issues locally.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-investigations/2017/11/13/va-inspectors-question-millions-dollars-paid-triwest-veterans-healthcare-contract/737341001/
Stupid link.
Medicaid for all!
As long as Moore doesn’t quit, or do something stupid like apologize, he wins.
Given that he’s been calling the allegations BS, I don’t see why he’d do a 180 and suddenly apologize.
Huh initially it looked like this would kill him but now it isn’t? Denials or claims that it was a WaPo hitjob have an agent?
Those Sundays polls have an extreme variation…
Yup, Donald Trump wrote the damn anti-establishment playbook last year. Don’t apologize, don’t drop out, stay defiant, and keep being Trump. Maybe, just maybe, people will elect you and the GOPe won’t be able to do a thing about it.
I think it helps that voters have seen so many of these last minute surprises – including the fake charges against Trump last year – that they just assume it’s bullshit. Dems crying “Wolf” too many times.
Well let’s not forget this was 40 years ago as well. Obama had a convicted domestic terrorist advising him in the Whitehouse and the left is always making heros out of ex-felons who have done a lot worse including murder. I’m not at all trying to justify Moore’s actions if they actually happened but not having any similar accusations for 40 years seems to me to be the definition of rehabilitated. Do people believe in redemption it not? If not, let’s start hanging all of the felons because what’s the point.
Trump was just following the Clinton playbook. I saw it elsewhere, but somebody else pointed out that conservatives spent most of the 90s arguing that character matters, and got their assets handed to them. The same people who spent the last 20 years arguing that Clinton’s sexual dalliances shouldn’t matter don’t get to act shocked that their opponents are now taking the same position when it is their guy being accused.
There was that whole re-taking of the House thing in 1994 for the first time in 40 years…
Drudge is pushing a Dem up 13 points story. Drudge is also a manipulative asshole when he needs to be.
That poll has a clear agenda, as it was conducted by the GOPe’s National Republican Senatorial Committee. Take it with a grain of salt.
Absolutely, it’s just interesting to see Drudge going all in on getting Moore out and, yes, the poll is shit.
My guess is that there was some fallout between him and Bannon about something either related or unrelated to his call for primary challenges against GOPe Senate incumbents like Wicker, Heller, etc. The headlines on the front page all seemed to be grouped in some way to be “I told you so, Steve!”
Double fistful more like. NRSC, NRCC, DSCC and DCCC are incumbent protection 1st, winning new seats 18th.
SP has some of the best links. And cookies.
I agree about the links.
The cookies…I haven’t had the pleasure.
*has a sad*
Best vegetarian meal ever. No kidding.
kinda like tallest midget.
I keed.I keed.
Would be even better with a steak.
Willy?
Willy. Live.
My wife just bought me these socks.
I want you back.
Hudu Gurus for your listening pleasure.
Hoodoo, but great choice. One of my favorite bands!
Another fantastic one.
The power of hoodoo
Huh, I was expecting this, but apparently your link is the antecedent.
In convenient video form. Fun flick with the always wonderful Myrna Loy.
Even more convenient link form!
And an Oscar-winning screenplay from Sidney Sheldon, who would go on to create I Dream of Jeannie and write trashy airport novels like Rage of Angels.
So Rage of Angels takes place in a trashy airport? Is it Hopkins International?
More hoodoos.
Zimbabwe supposedly has 95% unemployment. How is that even possible. No wonder the coup was barely resisted.
Yeah, cause the military was the only people with jobs!
Rufus signal lit.
I wonder what the number is like in Venezuela right now.
Zero. Looking for food is a full-time job there.
According to The Hill a spokesperson later clarified that figure does not only account for harassment claims. Speier herself said Wednesday it can also include things like racial or disabled discrimination.
What a relief. I feel much better, now.
What did you jerks do to SP to drive her off? Rudes. This is what I get for never having time to visit this site before midnight.
She’ll ban everyone and burn this place to the ground before SP is ever “driven off”, but the links weren’t Rainman enough when she did them, I guess. I thought they were great, because i wasn’t doing them. 🙂
/looks at watch. You did it!
I know! I set an alarm on my phone to remind myself, haha.
WooHoo! Beilema shouldn’t be far behind him.
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/reports-jeff-long-out-as-arkansas-athletic-director-julie-cromer-peoples-named-interim/
BERT!
he really is an embarassment.
I got to play 18 holes at Aigusta National as Coach Broyles guest in 2013. We also got to tour the clubhouse and have lunch and make a buying spree in the actual (Not Masters Tournament) pro shop. Among other things I spent $800 on a 4 set of engraved champagne glasses).
It was like playing golf in a church.
So yesterday I get an email full of ads for books and one of them was a YA space opera-looking thing called Zenith. This looked right up my alley, so I decided to add it on Goodreads (this is how I keep track of what I want to read so I don’t forget). I pull up the page and the community rating is ABYSMAL. Dozens of one-star ratings dragging the average down, and the book’s not even coming out until January.
Oh god, SJWs, I thought. And I was right.
You guys will love this one: yes, this book is getting hammered with a targeted campaign to mass-rate it one star. Want to guess why?
It’s not because of the content of the book.
It’s not because of anything the authors (it’s co-written by two) have said or done.
IT’S BECAUSE THE EDITOR IS THE SAME ONE WHO EDITED THE BLACK WITCH.
Now you and your books can get the mob coming after you just because of the person your publisher assigns to edit your book! Something you basically have no control over! Isn’t that fantastic?
I just love this industry.
Wow, that’s depressing. And enraging.
Are they that insane or do they really just want to tear everyone else down so their book gets a shot?
Yes, they are that insane.
They’re using the victimhood complex as a soapbox for instant fame. It’s pure self-indulgence and ego stroking.
Except in this case it’s false humility, a mask of moral superiority.
Did I read that ‘Black Witch’ article correctly? The woman went after the book because characters said racist things about fictional races in a book that sounds like it’s about how it’s bad to be racist?
Yup. I heard from some shitlords at the Libertarian Fiction Authors mailing list that even though the author seems to be an SJW, she’s friends with one of Vox Day’s guys? So they’re possibly punishing her for her friends instead of for her work.
The SJW scourge is unsustainable. They are worse than Libertarians with their purity testing. They will all turn on one another eventually amd destroy their movement. The sooner the better.
Yep.
The issue is how do we keep them from burning the West to the ground as they destroy themselves.
Dozens of one-star ratings dragging the average down, and the book’s not even coming out until January
There are some good ways to clamp down on this shit, but at the very least they could disallow reviews until the damn thing is released.
I don’t think publishers can control that on Goodreads? That would be a good thing for Goodreads to implement, though. People would probably squawk because it interferes with people getting advance review copies, but that used to be for trade reviews instead of general reviewers anyway. Goodreads is owned by Amazon now, and Amazon doesn’t allow reviews on products until they’re released, so it wouldn’t be out of line.
I’m not sure that even members of the Union of Soviet Writers were so vicious.
Err I’m sure they denounced people to the gulag…
I listened to a Joe Rogan podcast with Billy Corgan last weekend. It was really interesting when he got into some of the inside baseball regarding the industry and how it is so stacked against the artist.
How similar is the publishing world? Even with all the self-publishing and ‘non-traditional’ resources, are you really still at the mercy of the publishers if you want to move any meaningful number of books?
It depends on your genre. Romance is so dominated by self-published books now that I have no clue why anyone writing romance would ever go with a publisher. Indie makes up something like 70% of the market share. Books targeted towards kids and teens are harder because, believe it or not, that market still favors print. Kids are one thing, but I’m surprised teens still have limited access to/interest in Kindles and such. Adult sci-fi (especially space opera) does well self-published, literary and historical still do better traditionally. It just depends on the genre.
Of course, there are still plenty of people who think they can’t get anywhere without gatekeeper approval. But as the industry continues to get stupider, I think we’re getting close to the breaking point.
I don’t know how you can work in an industry that is that PC. How do you write a book that won’t get you screeched at by the SJW’s? They are offended by EVERYTHING. I doubt I could sit down and write 5 pages of SJW approved material.
I think I would just go ahead and write a book called “The inferior negro” and be done with it.
It’s really hard. I kind of blundered in right before everything went nuts (books usually take 2 years or so to actually come out, so the book I wrote in 2013 came out in 2015). By mid-2016 I wanted to burn everything to the ground. My publisher is still waiting for me to turn in my sequel… oops. I keep falling back on my health as an excuse (I have some chronic issues) but a huge part of the problem is that it’s difficult to write because I am worried about SJWs coming after me. Once I get this series done I sincerely doubt I will continue to write in this genre.
“The inferior negro”
SPOILER ALERT: It’s about a white guy.
Stories like this one are why the notion that the leftist SJW hordes are just misguided kids with good intentions deep down – they set out to destroy people over complete nonsense.
ENB, Soave, Long and a Richman hardest hit.
So Goodreads (assuming that’s who is hosting the ratings engine, I don’t know) should be pretty aware by now that their rating system has apparently been completely hijacked as a political platform. Is there any impetus to try to address that, or are they just fine with it?
I’m honestly not sure. I haven’t heard anything about anyone trying to address this. They seem to either just wring their hands or actually cave to the SJW demands. If this keeps up that editor will probably be jobless by year’s end.
We need a guide to the recent SF that is hated by the SJWs that we need to plunk our money down on.
One day while on Goodreads, I looked at the one star ratings for “The Black Book of Communism.” One simply said, “Right wing propaganda.”
“The Black Book of Communism”‘s overall rating on Goodreads is 4.11 out of 5.
And that “Right wing propaganda” review is gone. I went looking for it and can’t find it.
Ha! Late comment on this but the co-authors of that book are socialists.
“Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy (Vt.) on Wednesday grilled Texas Supreme Court Justice Don Willett over a tweet he sent in 2015 saying he would support a constitutional right to “marry bacon.”
President Donald Trump has nominated Willett to serve on the New Orleans-based United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.”
http://freebeacon.com/issues/leahy-berates-federal-judicial-nominee-joke-tweet-marrying-bacon/
Sen. Leahy better get started baking a bacon wedding cake.
Bacon a cake.
Bacon-Magic hardest hit
It’ll be two hits…me hitting you and you hitting the floor.
*flexes bacon curls*
Do we need a mediator for you two…or a 55 gallon drum of lube (currently $1,458.35 and Prime eligible) and a fleabag motel for the night?
I self lube.
Untrimmed, eh?
Only a monster trims the fat from bacon
I don’t even want to know what that statement is about.
*swats jesse’s hand*
Sorry sir, I’m bacon and I’m taken.
From Durex:
“Beavis, there’s gonna be two sounds…my hand hitting your face, and my hand hitting your face again.”
Another entry from the Yes, This Really Happened file: Some work friends and I were swapping funny bits from TV, movies, stand-up in the break room and I passed along that one from Beavis & Butthead. Another guy in the break room heard that and thought he could improve the joke:
“Ha ha ha…more like, my hand hitting your face and you hitting the floor!” (laughs heartily)
^^^
huh huh
I once worked with a coworker who was absolutely the most humor impaired person I have ever known.
One day we were all sitting in one of our big 4 people cubes and a Filipino guy was talking to her about something and the Newhart show came up.
She asked him if he had ever seen it and he said he hadn’t. She said, “It was so funny. There were these three brothers on the show. Their names were Larry, Daryll and …. Daryll. Isn’t that a hoot? The only difference in the two brothers names were that one had a pause before it.”
The other guys in the cube took about two beats to process what we had just heard and then burst into laughter. She thought we were laughing with her.
For the next months, the rage was to tell jokes where the pause was important. Just saying “knock … knock” would get people giggling.
Daryll and Daryll are our codenames for special customers.
I once dated a Filipina who’s sisters all had the same name. So maybe it wasn’t even funny to the Filipino guy.
Brazilians (mostly the poor ones) just love them some fucked up names. I once met two brothers there and they both introduced themselves as Michael Jackson. I asked them why they had the same name. “Não. Eu sou Michael Jackson, ele é Michael Jeckson.”
“Hi. I’m Larry, this is my brother Darryl, and this is my other brother Darryl.”
… there was no pause
or what he said
You are right, I wrote it down wrong. But she did put a pause in.
It isn’t like she was being sane at this time.
Uffda.
I wasn’t trying to bust your balls, just pointing out that the whole thing was bizarre.
Their names were “My brother Larry, Daryll and my other brother Daryll”
all three of them were trained stage-actors, tho 2 of them never said a word on the series.
How awesome would it have been if Willett would have channeled Nick Naylor and went after Leahy and Vermont cheese.
Thank You For Smoking is highly underrated.
Yup. I liked that movie much more than I expected.
Yesterday I linked to an article about the local mass transit workers voting to strike during Super Bowl week in Minnesoda. I think the thought was that they had some leverage.
HAH! HAH! Jokes on them.
Only people with tickets to the Super Bowl will be allowed to ride the light rail train.
The plebes who normally take the train will be put on special buses. Oh, and for some reason you still need to pay $30 to ride the train if you do have a SB ticket.
There are times I wonder how the people who run our mass transit systems manage to find their way to work. How fucking dumb are they?
Part of their thinking is that letting anyone onto the train would be a security issue. It seems like they are going to set up some sort if Baghdad Green Zone around the stadium.
You know who else isn’t allowed in the Green Zone? Homeless people.
The icky folks will be moved from their current shelter to somewhere far enough away that the VIPs won’t have to see them.
This is another example of how these events cost all of us a shit ton of money in support costs, while only a few will make any $$ from it at all.
Of course the pols who voted for the stadium $$$$$$ will all be getting invites to all sorts of VIP rooms and soirees. So I guess it was worth it.
I have a couple friends on the MPD. They are among the ones who will clean up on this fiasco. The money that the league (yeah, right) is putting up for security is insane. We could probably bring Academi in for a lot less money.
There is good news though.
Argentina won the bid to have the next World’s Fair (Minneapolis was the other choice).
No Wigsphere for you!
When the Super Bowl was here a couple years ago I got inside the security area because my train station was at the edge of the perimeter. I got off the train and rode my bike down my usual route which me through the security zone, because I had to get to work. As I was coming out through the perimeter I got my ass chewed out by some douchebag from Homeland Security who demanded to know how I got into the secure area. I think mainly he was trying impress the lady cop who was with him. So what I’m saying is, I might be to blame for this.
Of course you rolled on in. I’ve been horrifyed by what passes for government security. Once in the AF I held up my toolbag to a camera and security let me in.
Code enforcement Nazis everywhere can go fuck themselves. “Just doing your job” wasn’t an excuse in Nuremberg, nor is it a good excuse now. Either get a respectable job providing a service voluntarily or fuck off.
Sorry, needed to get that off my chest
Never forget: Dennis Rader, the BTK killer, was a code compliance officer. Clearly, they’re evil people.
I didn’t know that. When I see the assholes again tmrw I’ll have to fit that tidbit in the conversation somewhere.
The best tidbit from his Wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Rader
That right there is how you do rent seeking.
That’s not a bureaucrat job.
“Sweden’s justice minister has rejected a proposal by the Moderate party to record the ethnic backgrounds of sex attackers saying the only thing that matters is that they are men.”
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/11/15/swedish-justice-minister-rejects-proposal-record-ethnic-background-sex-attackers/
TW: Breitbart
This is one of those conspiracies that’s actually true.
I guess it is OK to assume the gender of the attackers in this case?
Way back when, I remember that a local TV station in Memphis got some guff because they decided that they would no longer add race to the description of the perps in any crime story. So it went from:
“Police say that the gas station was robbed by two black men and are asking the public for help identifying them.”
To:
“Police say that the gas station was robbed by two men and are asking the public for help identifying them.”
They also made a stink about the change to prove how liberal and fair they were. The public rightly made fun of them.
Here is a link for ya.
My day has been a screaming shitshow because of it.
“Milley said the Army had done a “terrible” job explaining the policy. He credited USA TODAY for bringing the issue to his attention. “
What I think this really means is “Tom Vanden Brook should be beaten with a knotted plow rope, but I have to play nice with reporters”
This is rather hilarious: the ADL presented the Air Force Academy with an award for their outraged response to the racist graffiti that turned out to be a hoax.
Money quote:
How the fuck are we losing to these Goddamn people?
Because they use guilt as a weapon.
People are shallow morons?
I’d probably characterize it as infuriating. Everybody’s a race hustler now.
Once again, the Air Force manages to embarrass itself in front of the other services.
Can I win the Nobel Peace Prize for stopping an imaginary war?
This story seems like it is going to end up costing me a lot of money.
Hack press release about how wonderful it is to start putting solar panels on schools in Minnesoda. Fucking sunshine hits those babies and turns into greenbacks!
Read the story. Bonus points for anyone who can find any data about the costs of these installations. There are plenty of nebulous claims about “savings”. Like this one:
Does save mean that their electrical bills went down by $7.7M? But is that before or after they pay for that installation? And how much subsidy money from Uncle Sugar went into that installation?
exactly. I took a class on alternative energy as part of my masters program. It is a fucking ponzi scheme, plain and simple. If it were cost effective, every single parking lot and flat roof in America would be covered in solar panels.
Eh… it’s right on the line for us. If I could get a solar system that could ground out excess when the transformer up-line is down and had a battery system that was good for 36 hours of summer draw at my house, I would probably be good at 48k for the system. Definitely worth doing at 40k. Those are FL power rates. At CA power rates solar is totally worth it.
What’s that stuff that falls from the sky in winter months called, again?
What’s the actual life expectancy of solar panels (or anything on the rooftop, for that matter), again.
Get your checkbook out, Holiness.
What’s that stuff that falls from the sky in winter months called, again?
Human ash. And Hillary finds it to be delicious.
My buddy Jeff Johnson tried to embarrass them on the solar panels on the Medina public works building. Didn’t work. They built it anyhow to the tune of $900K.
he’ll be dead, his fifth-grade son will be 71 and ….
Exactly. Think of the children.
Somehow I think the new employee who’s job is to brush the snow off the solar panels is going to be making more than $15,000 a year.
“At the same time, looking back at the smear campaign against the Clintons shows we can’t treat the feminist injunction to “believe women” as absolute.
Writing at Crooked.com, Brian Beutler warns that in future elections, right-wing propaganda will exploit the progressive commitment to always taking sexual abuse charges seriously. It’s easy to imagine an outlet like Breitbart leveraging the “believe women” rallying cry to force mainstream media coverage of dubious accusations.
The Clinton years, in which epistemological warfare emerged as a key part of the Republican political arsenal, show us why we should be wary of allegations that bubble up from the right-wing press.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/13/opinion/juanita-broaddrick-bill-clinton.html
Too bad the ONLY charges proggies take seriously are teh sex charges and teh racism charges. Theft, abuse of power, corruption, etc don’t matter a whit to scum-of-the-earth progressives.
“Climate Change Is Turbocharging Growth of City Trees. And That’s Really Bad News”
http://www.newsweek.com/city-trees-are-growing-faster-because-climate-change-might-not-be-good-thing-711177
TW: Newsweek
tl;dr, but I assume this is just a heat-island effect? And how is that related to global warming (or climate change, if you must)?
I also didn’t read but I’d assume it’s the increased carbon too.
Yet no mention of the increase in carbon sequestration by way of increased plant growth
Anybody in Texas that has the guts to primary this squish in 2020? I’d personally chip in if I could, as well as for a challenger to the pro-amnesty Tillis in my home state.
Good Lord, I thought all of that had blown over.
I sure hope that’s the kiss of death for his career.
Worthless GOPe is worthless. And what, exactly, is Cornyn going to get from the Democrats with this? Have Democrats ever had to compromise on anything? And no, “two steps forward, one step back” is not compromise. Fucking turds, all of them.
I doubt this will go over real well with his voters. Hopefully this is his last term.
Hot blonde with money:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/11/15/caption-this-steven-mnuchin-louise-linton-pose-newly-printed-bills/867490001/
She’s pretty hot. Why does twitter exist?
Kinda Cruella DeVille thing going on there.
Would.
On a puppy skin blanket.
A trophy wife excited by large amounts of money? What are the odds?
BOLD FUCKING JOURNALISM FROM USA TODAY!!!!!!111!
They’re literally holding up $50… people really are stupid.
Was just about to say the same thing….i guess most of their commenters can’t do math.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5086055/Alison-Brie-reveals-hasn-t-weighed-years.html
Would.
Her or Brie Larson?
Yes.
Yumm
ayup
I have always missed out on the Alison Brie thing. Not saying she’s not pretty, not saying wouldn’t, but the hype about her has escaped me.
Ditto Blake Lively, except Blake Lively is trailing Alison Brie by a few lengths.
Now one actress who should have blown up but never really did: April Bowlby
would
Lovely.
Boobpedia says Bowlby is a D cup. No information on implants vs. natural.
POOF! Get super fit, no more boobs.
I actually liked Batman vs Superman. Could just be that my expectations were so low.
Is your mother’s name Martha?
Nope. It’s Mom.
So’s mine!
Let’s be buds.
Bro!
I actually defended that plot point. It finally allows Batman to see Superman as something different than just some otherworldly immortal figure. It humanizes him and forces Batman/Wayne to understand that Superman has always longed to be seen (as Clark Kent) as a regular person. It is a little convenient, but it’s not untrue — both of their mothers ARE named Martha (which is interesting on a different level) A young Wayne lost his own Martha and the mention of her name at such a tense time breaks him down, takes him off his game.
I hated the CGI shitshow, though.
Seeing Lois run to his aid does the same in a better visual fashion. And is not as clunky.
FL appeals court upholds ban on veggie gardens in front yards.
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/fla-appeals-court-says-govt-can-ban-private-veggie-gardens#.WgypNIiMk-A.facebook
Ah, I see that you posted it. I don’t know how we can get the courts to overturn decades of precedent, established by leftwing judges, that subordinate property rights to arbitrary legislation and regulation. Private property should be a fundamental right under the Constitution, and therefore the court should employ strict scrutiny when a law affecting PP comes before them for review, not the rights-denying rational basis test.
Infuriating.
I don’t know how to fix it in any way that doesn’t involve wood chipper. Starting to think this is more of a control freak problem than anything else. Maybe we should all pitch in on a bunch of billboards that just say “live and let live”. Best idea I have
In case you think Mugabe’s probable successor will be a good guy…
https://www.google.ca/amp/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5084379/amp/Deposed-Zimbabwe-VP-75-London-educated-ex-spymaster.html
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gukurahundi
I was told by a very reliable source that the coup was actually commanded by ex-Rhodesian Special Forces Colonel S. Hyde.
I don’t get it?
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/sam-hyde
?
That’s the one
There may be some redeeming feature of #metoo.
See this rather pretty artwork.
Did you whiz all over the link, or is that the joke?
Oops, miss one quote character and all hell breaks loose.
Try this.
there’s no url for me to add.
While pretty, the #MeToo network looks awfully influencer biased with pretty strong bubbling effect while the #UniteTheRight network looks awfully messy. Isn’t messy a pretty good way to identify content itself as viral rather than users themselves forcing a meme?
Since artists tend to be proggish, another example of progs eating their own.
I haz a job offer! No interview, even, because 2/3 of the players already know me.
Congratumalations, we always knew you were a team player.
Nice!
Congrats!
Congratulations!
Congratulations!
I hope it’s a good one.
They have very low turnover, so I’m very hopeful!
That’s usually a good sign.
Congratulations!
So Mugabe reminds me: how many Decolonialists weren’t authoritarian shit heads or Marxists?
Does Mugabe prove that Ian Smith was right or that if had not fought back then a better black leader would have arisen?
Florida appeals court upholds city ban on growing vegetables in front yards:
http://ij.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Miami-Shores-opinion.pdf
From the opinion, you can see how evil the rational basis test is:
“Under this test, a legislative choice is not subject to courtroom fact-finding,
because such laws “‘may be based on rational speculation unsupported by
evidence or empirical data.’”
In other words, courts are perfectly fine with the FYTW approach to (not) protecting property rights from the state.
James Underwood Crockett hardest hit.
*scratches head, Googles “James Underwood Crockett”*
Ur old.
Since Bacon called me out this afternoon – more Hot Rods
https://youtu.be/ooRmb8oKp9I
Some local news for y’all: Attempted mass shooter is thwarted by ‘civilians’.
What they’re not saying is that one of the locals ran the shooter (who had a bullet proof vest on) over with his car. Guessing this one hasn’t made the national news for some reason…
“I think he just got fed up,” Viola Green said. “He’s a good kid.”
Yeah, we’re gonna have to agree to disagree.
I bet you they wanted a gun at that very moment. I would have never thought of rolling Sterling SMG style (side grip). In a NY compliant rifle that’s almost clever.
That article is fucked up. There were normal people that stopped a potential mass murder and the article goes on and on about how his mom said he’s a good kid who snapped, the police chief saying that these are the times we live in and how his guns weren’t safe act compliant.
Article is awful. This:
The shooting in Cheektowaga occurred as the pace of mass shootings in America seems to be picking up.
Seems to be? What the fuck is that doing in the article?
There’s a link to a second article that details the citizen involvement.
Lol my ex just called me hysterical because her 9 year old daughter is googling porn. I told her at least she knows her kids are straight.
Depends on the porn:) At least she knows their normal.
naked men, according to the ex. Some of them are naked men together which muddies the water a bit, but I figure that’s a lot closer to straight than naked women.
Some of them are naked men together which muddies the water a bit…
Uh-oh. Sounds like your ex may have a blossoming yaoi fan on her hands.
Like you needed to add that link around here.
Without knowing the girlfriend I’d assume she’s upset this happened before basic sex ed in 5th grade. Not only does she have to have a porn talk, but she has to have the birds and the bees talk as well.
apparently they had the talk a year ago, but the kid is still doing it. She lost her virginity at 12 so she is rightfully freaked. I told her:
1. It’s not a big deal.
2. If you want to fuck your kid up sexually, make it a big deal.
3. Pictures aren’t going to hurt her, but real humans will. Make sure you and her both understand that.
8 seems a little young to be giving the talk.
Yeah, my son is 9. He seems to have zero interest in girls or anything that isn’t Captain Underpants/Dogman related.
Welp, girls mature faster, and this one was looking up porn at 8 apparently. I told her that theyre definitely her kids.
8’s a tad young.
I’d say mom’s in for some rough years ahead. Physically maturing and googling porn are two separate things. Somebody is obviously telling the girl what to look for. That would be more my concern. Some kids get exposed to all sorts of weird shit and they pass it on to others.
Watching porn doesn’t necessarily make you straight.
My brother and I found a Penthouse in our parents’ closet about that age and called the 1-900 phone sex lines advertised in it a jillion times. We were punished for the phone bill, boy howdy!
Brother and sister sex action. Kinky!
(It’s like Richard and Karen Carpenter fucking.)
I… ugh.
I…tug
/Ted S
New Hampshire Hotel?
We didn’t pull punches. All 3 boys knew what sex was before they found it on the internet.
They knew it was a penis…nit a dingle, wally-whopper, or any other name.
Same with a vagina.
Normalize it and teach them and unsurprisingly they learn and not go ape shit nuts one da pron.
Though we did catch one of them looking up Superhero Porn. That was a fun night if ribbing.
So I signed up for health care for next year today. Life insurance premiums for me doubled and to cover my spouse went up 50% anyone know why life insurance premiums would go up so much? Trying to help offset health care costs? Just wondering if anyone else experienced that.
Being on this site reduces your life expectancy.
I’m like what do they know that I don’t? Lol.
The Rise In Your Health Care Costs, Explained
Medical insurance went up less than 7%, dental went up about 5%.
My answer would have been “more like sausage”
https://hotair.com/archives/2017/11/15/pat-leahy-grills-trump-judicial-nominee-think-gay-marriage-like-marrying-bacon/
I don’t think I’d marry Bacon. He seems like kind of a creeper.
Don’t you want a spouse that carefully catalogues your obsessions?
You don’t need to … you’re already related to him, at least by six degrees or so.
That’s Kevin Bacon. Not the magic one.
Dont know if this got mentioned. attempted mass shooter (well armed, armored, and apparently not a very good shot) thwarted by bystander dude who used his car as a weapon
cops, meanwhile, got lost
I blame GTA
The police never get lost in GTA.
One dangerous assault vehicle used for defense cannot forgive a history of vehicular manslaughter. We merely dodged a bullet this time with the car coincidentally hitting a victim in the alleged act.
Look above, #54.
*sad face*
my bad. i’ve been real busy.
This made me smile.
9Gag buries monument to memes in the desert to puzzle future generations
***
Working with Lola MullenLowe, The Hong Kong-founded content platform asked its global audience of 150 million people (most of whom are located in the US) to vote for their favourite memes.
More than 650,000 responded voting for: Dick Butt, Friendzone, We need AIR support, World vs USA, PPAP, Doge (shiba inu), Salt Bae, Shit just got real and Hardest name in Africa.
The top nine were selected and have been engraved on a 24-tonne, 4-metre high limestone monolith by sculptor, Antonio Soler. The edifice was then carted out to a secret location in the middle of a desert and buried to be found and puzzled over by future generations.
…
Jokes aside, 9Gag has a serious message for its fans in creating this monolithic tribute to humour.
“Most people think that ideas online don’t last. That they’re ephemeral. But we think totally different. We believe the internet is the new platform for the new generation. We don’t think that the lives lived online are fake or unreal. So we turned it into something real for everyone to see, forever,” said Leong.
***
Someday, a future Indiana Jones will use the Staff of Keyboard Cat to find the secret location of the Ark of Dickbutt.
Jesus Tap Dancing Christ they’re going for the trolling world record.
This brings to mind something I think about every time I read a story about archeologists being positive that they now know how “Civilization _____” lived. I think about what if some catastrophic event happened and nearly wiped out humanity and . Let’s say the following happen:
Virtually all historical records are destroyed or lost.
The vast majority of structures from our age are destroyed and buried.
Civilization reverts and takes many centuries to recover back to where we are now.
Future archeologists find Disney figurines in various locations around the globe.
Future archeologist dig up a surprisingly intact Disneyland.
Future archeologists state a fact that what we know as Disney characters were our “gods” because they have been finding miniature Mickey and Minnie statues all around the globe. They also state as fact that Disney Land was some sort of global church.
You don’t worship at the House of Mouse?
Motel of the Mysteries.
That looks like a fun little read. Thanks DEG!
A chemist buddy of mine reminded me today, that unless alcohol is 200 proof, it is indeed a solution.
That is the nerdiest joke ever.
Yes!
That is stolen and will become a sign hanging above my bar.
today in bathos
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for many, many young people, the economy has become brutally unfair. I share Harris’ anger at those who have built a system in which people who work incredibly hard can barely even subsist. One of my smartest friends works at a movie theater where an hour’s wage can’t buy her one of the larger-sized bags of popcorn. Another friend who works in retail spent nearly a year trying to pay off a minuscule payday loan. I see brilliant people having to work numbing and stressful jobs, with zero say in how their workplaces operate, subjected to the constantly shifting expectations of dim-witted and cruel managers. To the extent that Kids These Days is reacting to criticisms of millennials by saying “Excuse me? You have the gall to blame us for this? Fuck you!” it is dead-on and extremely satisfying. It’s also a comforting book, because it correctly tells young people that, contrary to what they’re hearing constantly, what they’re going through is not actually their fault. With so many of them depressed, tired, and hopeless, that’s a vital message.
***
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/11/why-millennials-are-the-way-they-are
If you want a say in how your workplace operates, get purself promoted…wait that requires work.
No, no, no. They’re just not dim-witted and cruel enough for management. That’s the ticket.
We literally have millions of people on welfare who have standards of living equal to the hard-laboring middle-classes in many other countries
and the people she’s talking about are kids who were gifted half-million dollar educations, only to blow it on shit no one in the marketplace needs, so they complain.
there’s literally hardly ever been a better time to be alive, with easier opportunities, and zero barrier to success. And all they can do is bitch, it because bitching is the language they studied in school.
I’d be happy if they just pointed the blame finger where it belongs. Instead, they advocate for more of the policies that make the situation worse.
WTF?
Maybe… you shouldn’t still be selling movie tickets in your twenties?
Maybe there’s a reason that pimple-faced dweeb works all the scrub jobs in The Simpsons?
Because maybe those jobs are intended for retards and teenagers?
My BIL asked me for help on his resumé about a year ago. I asked him where he’s been working. Apparently after a 2 year gig in the Navy the best he could do was the local theater chain. He now works produce at a Kroger.
That is… brutal.
So he learned nothing in the Navy?
If he only did 2 years – he was either a screw up or a cook or supply person. Most technical jobs require 4 yr enlistments minimum and most I worked with needed at least a 5 yr commitment. He should look at Reserve options (unless he got kicked out).
There’s a tell. Pure ego.
We’re so smart we can run everything far better than those older folks. Our education is better, our sensibilities are better, we’re just better.
Do these guys have any clue what they’re talking about?
I’ll answer myself – no, they clearly do not, which could largely explain the drivel they produce. Case in point:
Bass-ackwards. If this was Zimbabwe or some other subsaharan African hellhole I might buy it, but this is America. If you have no money its because your terrible with it.
Entry level McDonald’s employees make jack, but plenty save up and eventually open their own franchises. People do still buy homes in their early 20s when they’re making somewhere in the $30k range, but to do that you had to forego blowing all your money on partying when that’s all your friends want to do immediately upon getting paid. “Being social” is not a lide requirement like food or shelter and is often expensive to those who believe it’s indispensable, since nobody wants to appear to be the poor one of their circle. But that’s why you have no money, not because you’ve never had any to learn with, but because you’ve never learned how to manage what you’ve had.
“One of my smartest friends works at a movie theater where an hour’s wage can’t buy her one of the larger-sized bags of popcorn”
Yeah, sure.
Suthenboy, if you’re about . . .
Saw your post about hydrostatic shock.
For those of you who haven’t participated in these discussions in the past, we were talking about this phenomenon:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrostatic_shock_(firearms)
At one point, we were talking about how the ol’ timer’s with their .45s and and everybody else with their 9mm go argue back and forth like pirates vs. ninjas or whether the Millennium Falcon could beat the Enterprise.
I know hydrostatic shock is real. My questions are often about whether its effect really outdoes the punch of a larger bullet. They say .45s don’t move fast enough and 9mm do, well .380 goes fast, too. In fact, you can find pretty much any caliber loaded the way you want it. Does a hot as hell .380 give you the same hydrostatic shock while being even easier to fire repeatedly and on target in a tiny ass concealable gun?
Everybody always says they wouldn’t go lower than 9mm if they can help it, and when you press them on why, they’ll say all kinds of things. The width is the same. Usually, what it boils down to is that the police and the military use 9mm handguns. I think the main reason they went away from 1911s was about the limited number of rounds. Regardless, I’ve looked for data on hydrostatic shock with various calibers, and it seems to be more about the way the bullets are loaded more than anything else.
I find the argument that the FBI uses persuasive, that penetration is the most important thing. Yeah, they’re worried about liability from over-penetration, but I am, too! Their argument is that it needs to go more than 12 inches and less than 18 inches in ballistic gel (I forget whether that’s with or without however many layers of denim).
People are used to thinking about how much damage an expanding bullet will do once it hits the target, and the problem with most .380 loads is that if they expand to create a large wound channel, then they don’t penetrate deeply enough (minimum 12 inches ballistic gel.). They’ve got new loads now for these .380s from Glock 42 to Ruger’s LCP2, that are so small and light, you’ll hardly notice them in the front pocket of your gym shorts.
I’ll post a guy testing one of those specialty .380 loads into balistic gel. It’s using a unique shape on the top of the bullet–rather than a hotter load to achieve that kind of penetration.
My point is that besides shot placement (obviously), a bullet being able to penetrate as deeply as a 9mm is what’s important. You don’t want it to go straight through the person you’re shooting at and hit somebody else. You also want it to be able to penetrate deeply enough to hit a critical organ–which is what that minimum 12″ is about. If the diameter of a .380 and a 9mm are the same, the you should expect a similar wound channel. The only question I have outstanding is hydrostatic shock. Is a .380 going fast enough to initiate that–without over-penetrating?
If something happens hydroshock-wise because of the speed of a 9mm that doesn’t happen because of the speed of a .45, then a .380 that moves as fast as a 9mm should do the same thing hydroshock-wise.
Meanwhile, as I said before, if shot placement is the most important thing, are .380s easier to put on target in a rapid fire situation? Isn’t the correct answer “Hell yeah”?
Sometimes I think the 9mm thing is about a) the police and the military using it and b) a question of a .380 seeming unmanly.
It’s like showing up to a hot rod show with a four cylinder engine in your 71 Charger.
Here’s the video I was talking about:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7_C6kNfjiA&t=497s
Lets simplify this. Shoot the largest caliber you can shoot accurately. Keep shooting until your target drops. Everything else is internet posturing.
Accuracy isn’t like pregnancy–especially in a fire fight, right?
You can be a little bit accurate, but everybody’s even more accurate in a lighter load, amirite?
I’ll simplify it even further – shoot a 9×19. Practice a lot.
Oh, and here’s a ’71 Charger.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/63/19/00/63190043b230864d1145bbb4bc3ebd63.jpg
I had a ’72. Thing was a tank.
You also have to consider clothing penetration as well. Especially if you’re in the north. I know Hornady Critical Defense has shown some pretty impressive results with there .380 ammo and certainly, a .380 in your pocket is better than a .45 that you leave at home. Modern 9mm and up ammo has been demonstrated over and over to do more than enough damage to be viable for self-defense. The 9mms are starting to get pretty compact as well. Look at the Sig 938 for example.
Yeah, but because they’re compact, they’re harder to put on target.
A big, giant, go to war pistol, non single stack, is easier to shoot accurately.
Unless I’m backpacking, I expect to be a self-defense situation at under 7 yards. Cops miss at short range all the time.
Having less muzzle means better accuracy, right?
And, like I said, I understand this is like a pirates vs. ninjas thing. . . . but I find it interesting. And I’d like to understand if I’m really compromising my safety by packing something that’s easier to shoot.
Doesn’t everybody have a subcompact, single stack 9mm out now? M&P Shield, Beretta’s Nano, the Glock 43, Sig’s P938, Ruger LC9s, little tiny hand cannons that kick like a mule.
They all have .380 versions, too. Everyone thinks they’re supposed to be for girls.
How much fun are they at the range compared to a shooting a box of 9mm out of a tiny little gun?
I have a Walter PPK .380 and I wouldn’t want to get shot with it:) I think the Italian police use .380s if I’m not mistaken. People die getting shot by .22s all of the time, in fact, that was very popular caliber for mob hits although those were often point blank range. The only caliber I’ve ever had recoil issues with is the .40. I own 2 Glock .40s and it may just be the triggers. I get a real snappy recoil and my trigger finger actually gets sore shooting even the full-size Glock 22. I have a Glock 21 .45 and a Colt Officers Special .45 and I love shooting both of those guns. My most accurate handgun is my S&W .38 revolver. I just think revolvers are more inherently accurate than autos and are of course inherently more reliable. You just have a little bulk from the cylinder which may inhibit carry a little. Those are getting pretty small as well. My 9mm is the Subcompact Storm which is I think a good compromise although certainly not a pocket pistol. As I said before if smaller means your more likely to carry it than go for it.
Depends on the gun more than anything else. My Walther PPK/S would leave me a bloody mess after one magazine. On the other hand, my Glock 42 .380ACP is much easier to shoot than my Glock 43 9×19, despite being almost exactly the same size. Neither one shoots as well as my Glock 19, which is what I carry day-to-day.
I use a simple test to evaluate the ‘shootability’ of a gun. I put a 3×5″ index card out at 7 yards, with my shot timer set to a 3.0-second par time. Whatever pistol I’m testing starts holstered and concealed, however I’d normally carry it. On the beep, I draw and shoot as many shots into the 3×5 card as I can, in the 3-second par time.
With my somewhat worked-over Glock 19, carried AIWB, I’m good for 4-5 hits in 3 seconds.
With my Glock 42, I can usually get 2-3.
With my Glock 43, I struggle to get 2.
It’s all a matter of compromises. I carry my Glock 19 when I can, and my Glock 42 when I’m someplace I shouldn’t be carrying (or when I need to sneak a gun past security.)
Ken, I think you got all of that about right. You have the concepts and yes those are the arguments related correctly. Terminal ballistics is kind of like climate science; there are so many factors to put into the calculations that you cant come to any conclusions with 100% certainty. My understanding of hydrostatic shock is this: every bullet causes shock waves when it strikes a target. The speed of the bullet determines the wavelength of those shock waves. When you get to around 2.5X the speed of sound, or about 2500 fps the wavelengths of those shockwaves are capable of disrupting cell membranes. The result is not like slower bullets that just crash through the body cutting, tearing and breaking but rather large amounts of soft tissue is turned into liquid. The individual cells are destroyed rather than just damage to multi-cellular structures like muscle. This is fairly easy to demonstrate and verify and any hunter using a rifle knows exactly what the effect looks like. I have dressed a number of deer which, when I cut the abdominal muscles to remove the organs, the liver or lungs or heart poured out on the ground in liquid form having been struck directly by bullets going far faster than any pistol can muster.
I am not sure what you are referring to when you say hydrostatic shock from pistol rounds. Only the fastest pistol rounds ( 454 Casull, 460 S&W and that class) even come close to the speeds needed. What you read may be using the term to refer to something other than what I am referring to. It is possible that a bullet striking the heart or Aorta could create a pressure wave inside the circulatory system that could cause brain hemmorage. Again, there are so many factors it is impossible to say.
Since hydrostatic shock, as I understand it, also has a marked effect on the bullets themselves I used those photos and our tests last saturday as an example of that shock. Those bottles were plastic one quart bottles laying on their sides with the bullets entering them at the base and traveling towards the cap. They did not manage to penetrate more than a few inches and were trapped inside the bottles. A slower round (any pistol) would have easily penetrated the entire length of the bottle and exited with plenty of energy left to probably penetrate another bottle.
If your question is really just about what is the most effective pistol round I can give you some pointers. Flat nose bullets are much more effective at dumping energy into a target than round nose bullets. The larger the meplat is (that is the flat surface of the front of the bullet) the more effective it will be. Full metal jacket round-nose bullets are the least effective bullets. They are made to function smoothly in the action of a ramp-fed semi-auto pistol, not for terminal ballistics. They tend to punch smaller holes and penetrate too much. Hollow point bullets are supposed to compensate for this and they do, somewhat. The larger the bullet, the larger the meplat the more effective it is going to be. Most effective bullet: 44 magnum with heavy hard lead wadcutters. That is going to cut cookie cutter fashion a very large hole all the way through. An animal would bleed out like a five gallon bucket kicked over.
Ah, but now we have to start trading off. In order to have more than 6 rounds on hand you need an auto with a higher capacity magazine. Now we are looking at round nose bullets, the least effective. You see where I am going with this….you have to find a middle ground.
Now, after all of that jibber jabber I will cut to the most important aspect, the legal aspect. I have seen people prosecuted for murder or manslaughter because they used magical super duper bullets. “This guy bought black talon bullets to do maximum damage because he sits around dreaming about shooting someone all the time.” That is no bullshit. I have seen that argument made and people go to prison over it.
Buy yourself a nice smith and wesson J-frame revolver either in 22mag (six rounds) or 38 spl (5 shots). The 22 mag, even 22lr is more effective than people give it credit for. If you get the 38 buy cheapo target rounds – 158gr lead semi-wadcutters. They are very effective and cant be construed as you shooting magic dragon killer bullets. Buy the most basic, simple target rounds you can find. Trust me, they are plenty effective and in most of the situations you need a gun in 1 round is all you need, or even none. In the 40 years I have been carrying a gun I have only ever had to lay my hand on it once and even then I didn’t have to fire. The sight of the gun caused my attempted carjacker to turn into a ghost. A very large, very aggressive man who was trying to force his way into my car disappeared in an instant. I didn’t even see which way he went.
BTW the gun I had was a smith and wesson 357mag. A six shooter.
And yet, I4 Offys would dominate the Indy 500 until the early 80s.
Those cars were a helluva lot lighter than Chargers.
But yeah, 4 cyl will absolutely do the job.
Good god the Offy. 270 cubic inch twin cam fours. Seriously i would murder someone for a Kurtis 500 with an Offenhauser in it.
Tomorrow, I will have a 1000 pink fluorescent dots.
Legendary?
Don’t take them all at once.
I knew a guy that did that back in the ’90s.
He’s still truckin’.
I will glue them to strings to impress a Tesla owner from New Jersey.
Oh, those kind of dots?
I was thinking of this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LSD/comments/59diu6/purple_microdot/
I still don’t have a clue.
A grid, man. Pink dots make a grid.
Make a grid Pop!
Good, Ken’s here. What say you now Ken?
http://thehill.com/policy/finance/360287-rand-paul-seeking-obamacare-mandate-repeal-in-senate-tax-bill
I said it yesterday.
I’ll copy it here:
That was before I knew anything about what Paul said, and I’m standing by it.
How absurd is it that Paul would vote against a replacement bill *on principle* that repealed the individual mandate–plus a bunch of other things–because of what it didn’t do, only to turn around and support doing even less?
Again, what I want is cuts to entitlements.
I stand by my statement from Monday.
I want cuts to entitlements too. Who in DC is with us? Not the President, not the Democrats, and what maybe 2 or 3 Republicans?
This is the bill Rand Paul voted against.
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52849
It largely corresponds to the bill that the House of Representatives had already passed.
It cut $772 billion from Medicaid.
Donald Trump was lobbying for it so he could sign it.
The reason it didn’t clear the Senate is largely because Rand Paul voted against it.
There isn’t anything in that bill not to like.
He said he wanted more, but now he supports a bill that does even less.
Just to recap…
The bill that Ken’s CBO link is talking about failed in the Senate by a vote of 43-57.
The bill that Rand Paul sponsored, which went further than this to abolish Medicaid expansion entirely, failed by a vote of 45-55.
So great is Rand Paul’s secret commitment to preserving Medicaid expansion that he managed to manipulate the facts into looking the exact opposite. He’s just that good a trickster.
So, you’re not saying Rand Paul didn’t vote against the bill?
He did.
And it’s indefensible from numerous perspectives, especially from a perspective of fiscal conservatism.
Rand Paul voted against cutting spending on an entitlement program–just like Bernie Sanders and Liz Warren did.
Oh, and Rand Paul refused to support Graham-Cassidy, which is why it never went up for a vote. Graham-Cassidy would also have cut Medicaid, albeit later and not by as much.
Again, the pattern is that Rand Paul votes to cut Medicaid for the same reason that the GOP used to vote for repeal when Obama was in the White House–because he knows it won’t become law.
When Rand Paul’s vote is crucial, and it will cut Medicaid, he’s against those cuts.
Repeal never had a chance, and if Rand Paul thought it did, then he’s the dumbest politician in Washington. It was just a CYA maneuver on his part.
Replace did have a good chance of passing. The maybes in swing states fled the ship once it became clear that Rand Paul’s vote was “no” and there wouldn’t be enough votes–so why stick their necks out?
Even John McCain voted for the replace bill.
Even John McCain.
Since you read absolutely nothing of what I actually write (or the CBO, or the NYT, or …), this is mostly about laying out the facts for an observer to decide.
S.A. 270 (aka Repeal and Replace), voted on 7/25/17, fails 43 to 57, McCain for, Paul against
S.A. 271 (aka Straight Repeal), voted on 7/26/17, fails 45 to 55, McCain against, Paul for
S.A. 667 (aka Skinny Repeal), voted on 7/28/17, fails 49-55, McCain against, Paul for
I’d link the details for each but I’m limited to 1 link per post, so I’ll just link the House bill amendments list, which includes links for all of the above: Amendments to H.R. 1628.
Once you start with contradicting or misinterpreting the facts, everything else you say is irrelevant.
Correction: misrepresenting, not misinterpreting
Are you still saying that Rand Paul didn’t vote against cutting $770 billion in Medicaid spending?
Because he did.
I know it eats you up inside that Rand voted with Bernie Sanders and Liz Warren against cutting $770 billion in Medicaid, but that’s what did.
. . . and that’s what he will have done–for the rest of your life.
For the rest of your life, Rand Paul will have voted against cutting $770 billion in Medicaid–and there’s nothing you or anyone else can do to change that.
I remember when people were claiming that Rand Paul was playing 3-D chess, and what we were going to get was going to be even better than that bill!
Still waiting.
All we have is ObamaCare.
And all the links in the world won’t change that.
Maybe if the bill comes before Paul again, he’ll change his vote next time–but he’ll still have voted against cutting $770 billion from Medicaid.
That’s what Rand Paul did. That’s who he is.
He’s a politician.
To address some of what you said, at least the relevant parts:
John McCain single-handedly killed the skinny repeal. The numbers don’t lie, it was 49-51. One more vote, and the bill would have passed, since Pence can break the 50-50 tie. You could blame Collins or Murkowski if you prefer, but regardless, Paul is not the one who killed it.
Graham-Cassidy came after the failure of the skinny repeal. The same 3 GOP members (McCain, Collins, Murkowski) , any of whom individually could have pushed skinny repeal over the line, were opposed to Graham-Cassidy. Rand Paul also opposed it because he felt it left too much of the ACA intact. Regardless, it was not going to pass even with his support, for the same reason the last bill he did support failed to pass.
There is absolutely no evidence to support the claim that any of McCain, Collins, or Murkowski was about to flip sides. The only vote that could potentially swing was McCain’s, and he showed his true colors when a bill that could actually pass came up for a vote.
All the repetition, rhetorical tricks, guilt trips, and long-winded bloviation won’t change the facts, Ken. Your posts on light on facts and heavy on misrepresentations and innuendo. That about sums about the state of your argument.
Ken, KB is right. If you would read everything he wrote you would get it. Yes rand declined to vote for a bill that would shrink government.
I have heard you bring up the 3D cheese thing several times. It’s not 3D chess. It’s 1d checkers. If the watered down repeal that you advocate for would have passed with Paul’s vote, then the fucked up system it left in place would be an albatross left hung around the neck of rand Paul and the Republican party.
If you want a bunch of democrats elected into office in 2018 who will send trump a single payer bill (which he will sign) then the best way to do this is to put the failing obamacare scheme on the republicans and rand Paul’s shoulders.
Here’s the essence of my argument:
Rand Paul voted against a bill that was about as libertarian as any we’ve ever seen in our lifetimes.
It even cut entitlement spending!
He voted against that.
The only reason I’ve ever support Rand Paul is because I expect him to vote to get rid of the individual mandate, the employer mandate, and cut $770 billion in spending on entitlements.
I thought being a libertarian meant I could count on him to vote for those things on principle.
If his “principles” lead him to vote against all that with the likes of Bernie Sanders and Liz Warren, then fuck Rand Paul.
When it’s between cutting Medicaid or Rand Paul, I side with cutting Medicaid.
When It’s between any capitalist issue, be it spending or taxes, I side with cutting spending and taxes if Rand Paul lines up on the other side.
I’d side with deregulation over Rand Paul.
I’d side with gun rights if Rand Paul were on the other side.
In fact, there is no issue on which I would side with Rand Paul–only because Rand Paul is on that side.
I guess that makes me a principles over principals kind of guy.
Vote against cutting $770 billion in Medicaid and you’ve earned my criticism.
Vote against cutting $770 billion in Medicaid and give me a bunch of bullshit about how you’re doing it because of libertarian principles or capitalism–and you’ve earned my wrath.
Occam’s razor?
Don’t judge politicians by what they say.
The most likely explanation is that Kentucky is among the states with highest number of Medicaid patients per capita, and they’re currently in the middle of an opioid epidemic. Rand Paul voted against cutting Medicaid for local reasons in Kentucky, much like his dad voted against NAFTA because Ross Perot was kicking ass in Texas and Texans were afraid that all their manufacturing would disappear across the border for lower wages.
But you’re really gonna throw the backbone of your principles out of wack if you keep trying to defend the indefensible.
Rand Paul voted against cutting $770 billion in Medicaid. He’s a politician. Of course he sold us and our libertarian principles down the river to keep his senate seat. That’s what politicians do. Don’t let that screw with your head. You trying to rationalize his betrayal in capitalist and libertarian terms will only lead to some seriously twisted logic. And why, because of some politician?!
How is repealing the individual mandate, the employer mandate, and cutting $700 billion in Medicaid spending “watered down”?
Do you not understand that the problem with our healthcare system is socialism, and by socialism, we’re talking about Medicare and Medicaid?
There’s nothing watered down about cutting $770 billion in Medicaid spending. An honest libertarian takes that every chance he gets.
If socialism is “from each according to his ability, to each according to his need”, then cutting $770 billion from Medicaid (to each according to their need) is the most capitalist thing we could do about the healthcare system.
Killing taxes is about fighting “from each according to their ability”.
There is no magical, fourth dimension where something else is going on. There’s spending money on Medicaid or not. There’s cutting taxes or not. The rest of it relatively inconsequential. Medicare and Medicaid are the primary cause of our healthcare problems, and cutting those programs is the ultimate solution.
Ultimately, there is no working solution to our healthcare problems that doesn’t include cutting Medicaid–and Rand Paul voted against doing that.
Fuck him.
P.S. Note this part of the linked bill that Rand Paul voted against:
—CBO
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52849
Wouldn’t it just be awful for the Republicans and Rand Paul to have to take the blame for that?
You’re not getting it Ken.
The bill Paul declined to vote for left the regulatory structure of ObamaCare in place. It also killed the individual mandate
In its current form, Obamacare is barely keeping it’s head above water, largely because of the individual mandate.
If the individual mandate is repealed and medicare is cut yet the regulatory structure of Obama care is left in place, then health care in this county is going to remain the same fucked up mess that it is right now.
If health care in this country remains the same fucked up mess that it is right now, and the republicans are then the owners of this fucked up mess, then we get democrats to replace them in 2018.
Democrats will give us single payer. That’s my point. Please refute that without bringing up Rand Paul.
Rand Paul didn’t “decline to vote” for the bill I linked. He voted against it.
That’s worse than “mistakes were made”. What, are you Obama’s new press secretary?
Rand Paul voted against a bill that cut $770 billion in Medicaid spending, a total of $1.02 trillion in total spending, cut hundreds of billions in healthcare related taxes besides that, and repealed the individual mandate and the employer mandate. It didn’t leave the regulatory structure intact anymore than it was before ObamaCare passed. And to what ever extent it didn’t go further, all of those things were still excellent.
In fact, if Rand Paul succeeds in getting the individual mandate attached to tax reform, that will do far less to “the regulatory structure of ObamaCare” than the bill Rand Paul voted against.
In fact, Medicaid expansion is the central component of ObamaCare. ObamaCare might be accurately defined as an expansion of Medicaid eligibility, with a bunch of things, like the individual mandate, attached to cushion the blow of that expansion to insurers. Any healthcare bill that doesn’t slash spending on Medicaid isn’t really repealing ObamaCare, and Rand Paul attaching a repeal of the individual mandate to tax reform is an excellent example–not that he should vote against tax reform for that reason.
Single payer is an expansion of Medicaid so that everyone is covered.
Cutting the number of people on the program is therefore “privatization”.
Why would privatization lead to the same mess?
Why would having millions more people in markets lead to the same results as socialism?
The CBO doesn’t even see that happening. The see downward pressure on insurance premiums in 2020–leading to a reduction in the average premium for individuals of 30% from the law as it stands now.
Hello Ken, no the Repubs in general have no stomach for cutting entitlements, but thanks to folks like you, they get to stay in power.
Again, you seem to have ignored the fact that the Republicans in the House passed that bill, more or less, which cut hundreds of billions from Medicaid, and Rand Paul voted against it.
What this has to do with me and how I vote is immaterial.
I assure you, choosing between Trump and Clinton, neither of them got a vote from me.
The two Democrat senators vying for my vote didn’t get a single vote from me either.
The Republicans aren’t in power because of me–or because of my vote.
But ObamaCare is still there in no small part because Rand Paul voted against replacing it.
If the Republicans didn’t cut $770 billion from Medicaid, it wasn’t because of the establishment. It was because of people like Rand Paul.
And that’s regardless of whom I did or didn’t vote for.
Looks like the tax bill is now in trouble as the Wisconsin Senator is pulling out. I will be shocked if they pass that thing. It is pretty weak, but at least a step in the right direction. Fucking useless Elephants.
Did you see KDW’s take on it? Classic!
Há! That is about it. Man, I hope that some of these RINO’s get frigging primaried. What the fuck are they good for?
We all know, if you don’t want to take responsibility, you pull your Johnson out.
Cutting corporate taxes isn’t useless.
It’s the opposite of socialism.
Absolute communism is when the tax rates hits 100%. The country becomes more capitalist as the tax on profits approaches zero.
The Republicans are useless. Cutting corporate taxes to 20% is a start. I’d like to see it go down to nothing. But even that meager start looks less likely now.
If they fail to cut corporate taxes, that will suck.
This guy is flat out saying that he opposes cutting corporate taxes more than other people’s taxes, which is populist horseshit.
But he’s in Wisconsin, and that is not a hardcore Republican stronghold, that’s a swing state. I’d expect Republicans there to sound like Democrats.
Certainly, if the Democrats were in power, we shouldn’t expect to see corporate tax cuts on the agenda at all.
It’s like my problem with Rand Paul–the alternative to replace was not repeal. The alternative to replace was ObamaCare and continuing on the road to single payer.
The alternative to the Republicans isn’t corporate tax cuts either. The alternative is probably higher taxes and regulation.
But I wish we could get corporate tax cuts, too.
It’s like my problem with Rand Paul–the alternative to replace was not repeal. The alternative to replace was ObamaCare and continuing on the road to single payer.
You nailed not Ken. And that’s why Rand didn’t vote for it.
Really?
“However, this yields some odd results, so I will make some adjustments. Basically, in very small ancestry groups, a single terrorism case can blow out the results. So I will take average of three estimates: the core average propensity estimate, a recalculated propensity where I increase the ancestry-group denominator by 100,000 people, and a recalculated propensity where I increase the number of alleged terrorists by two.”
http://thefederalist.com/2017/11/15/calculated-ethnic-groups-rates-u-s-terrorism-results/
So update in that FOIA for the Oct 1 shooting. They specifically want to know what helos were in the air.
They are getting 2 hours of data….about 45,000 pages to sift through. Good luck!
Probably missed it this weekend, but….I’m Poppy.
I’m Titanic Sinclair.
No, I’m not. I’m drunk.
I’m sorry
dont let them down
http://nbc4i.com/2017/11/15/paperwork-filed-with-city-of-cleveland-for-browns-perfect-season-parade-2-0/
The best part of waking up
http://nbc4i.com/2017/11/15/factory-infuses-coffee-and-cannabis-together/
The only Keurig available to me is in the office. Shit.
Now THIS is how you do home town commentary. From the New Zealand Herald live blog of the second leg of the World Cup qualifier:
“Peru in the lead…A draw is now enough to ensure the All Whites advance to Russia.”
What about cunt, porch monkey, towelhead, shit-for-brains, and fag. I also notice spic, wop, and mick aren’t on the list.
http://www.mcall.com/news/breaking/mc-nws-saucon-valley-hate-speech-banned-words-20171115-story.html
High school bans words, apparently knows nothing about high school age children.
Chuckles Manson on his death bed. Good. Riddance.
Even with that there’s retards who can’t help commenting on Trump.
83. Why do assholes live so long?
Congrats on the job offer, btw!
Thanks, man!
Who the fuck is Tom Steyer and why is he on my teevee?
I see Super Cringe Man has taken his show on the road! We’ve been inflicted with his ad for weeks now in CA because of course Team Blue needs SO MUCH encouragement to call their local partisan hacks to demand they impeach trump.
If SNL or any of our other sketch “comedy” shows had any balls at all, they’d be parodying the shit out of that commercial.
Ok – Film Festival round-up review for this week: https://youtu.be/Gc39xXZrYUc
Winner: Hitchcock
Loser: Miike