“I swear, his dick was like this long! It was horrible! I was farting silently for a month after that rape!”
STEVE SMITH HAVE GOOD WEEK. GROUP OF HIKERS GET LOST AND FIND CAVE TO “SHELTER” IN. MAKE PURSUIT EASY! AND BY PURSUIT, MEAN RAPE. SO STEVE SMITH IN GOOD MOOD NOW. HE GIVE FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE SOME LINKS, SO THEY CAN FEEL GOOD TOO.
- STEVE SMITH TAKE BATH, HIJINX ENSUE.
- HAIRLESS QUARTERBACK WISH HE WAS STEVE SMITH. PITIFUL SUBSTITUTE.
- UNCONTROLLABLE SHAKES MAKE RAPE MORE PLEASURABLE. FOR STEVE SMITH.
- STEVE SMITH NOT TAKE BLAME FOR THIS ONE.
- DEMOCRATS SHOULD TURN THEIR BACK ON STEVE SMITH, MAKE RAPE EASIER.
STEVE SMITH GO NOW, HEAR RV PULLING INTO AREA. OR AS STEVE SMITH CALL IT, A CAN OF RAPE ON WHEELS!
Navy pilot sends entire county dick pic.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/11/17/navy-admits-its-crew-drew-sky-phallus/874808001/
Goin’ up to the penis in the sky
Goin’ up to the penis in the sky
Was the ISS making a pass – maybe it was intended for them?
Highway To the Wanger Zone
That’s funny. Especially when I read it in Sterling Archer’s voice.
Do you want penis? Because that’s how you get penis.
Should Democrats turn their backs on Bill Clinton?
CNN taking a page from The NY Post headline writing book.
Well, don’t bend over!
Williamson’s take:
Oh, that’s exactly right. They want Hillary to stfu and go away so this is very convenient for them. You could say the same thing about how fast the GOP went after Moore.
Turn your back? Maybe.
Bend over too? NO WAY!
Dwayne Wade and Kmele Foster – Twins separated at birth.
I don’t see anything in the Jesse Jackson article about blaming Whitey for Jackson’s Parkinson’s.
Parkinson’s is the white people of diseases.
Surgeons raced to save the North Korean soldier, whose name and rank have not been released, who sustained serious bullet wounds racing across the border while his own troops fired on him.
We don’t shoot traitors. We just take away their blue check mark.
He said the issue can become especially dangerous when debris gathers near the high-voltage third rail.
“The amount of debris is just beyond vulgar to think of,” Sherlock said
See what happens when you try to shave back on social security?
No shit, Sherlock?
Italian doctor says world’s first human head transplant ‘imminent’
This should be interesting…
Meh,
Trannies watching closely
So I’m still going through the queue of sexual harassment stories, I guess Bill O’Neill has decided the fire’s out of control and will no longer #BelieveThem?
He’s just ‘controlling the narrative.’
Huh, Dave Weigel has gone Al Franken Trutherism.
https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/931380491437182977
We need a “missed it by that much” on that twitter thread.
Nice reply:
Not content with driving out the middle class, NY Democrats push to totally destroy the economy for everyone left. Christ, what assholes.
Cuts in carbon-dioxide emissions, he said, “would be achieved either by a voluntary action of the private sector or by mandate.”
If you don’t do it voluntarily, we’ll make you do it.
Who doesn’t want their rent double? Nobody I want living here. I mean geez.
Some people will say this is a grand strategy to get everyone dependent on state largesse. I don’t. de Blasio and his ilk are just so stupid they don’t think their regulations and restrictions end up hurting the poor and middle class. I find that scarier than if it were on purpose.
Nah, it’s on purpose. It always is with these people. They know exactly what they’re doing.
If that’s true, just start the civil war now because that’s pure evil.
Deblasio honeymooned in Cuba and palled around with Daniel Ortega – you do the math.
Cuomo… well, he’s a garden-vaiety lefty in comparison but his world-class assholery is well-known. He is not some Jerry Brown-esque starry-eyed dreamer.
I’m aligned with Rhywun – Black Jesus and his ilk knew exactly what they were doing…
We’re getting fucked in either case. The struggle goes on.
The question isn’t even if they’ll achieve it, but how much damage they’ll do trying.
These are the same clowns who push “affordable housing” i.e. making the rich subsidize the poor and everyone else can fuck off. This is just another variation of the same theme.
It always helps to remember that Environmentalism is a political movement, not a scientific one. Everything begins to make sense after that.
Affordable housing is a bread and circuses giveaway slathered by feelgooders on top.
Remind me again about how Congress approved our military ops in Syria, and why we are there without the consent of the lawful govt?
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/jim-mattis-on-syria-were-not-just-going-to-walk-away-after-isis/article/2176990
They’re not going to be happy until there are multiple, permanent US bases in every country.
FYTW
It’s a sad state of affairs, that’s for sure.On the plus side, maybe we can blunder into an eight way free for all with Russia, Syria, the Kurds, Turkey, Iran, the Israelis, and the Lebanese. Oughtta make for some hellacious footage on LiveLeaks.
You left out our staunch ally. the Kingdom of Sau-ud.
Because pointing out that that the executive had usurped your power and that you didn’t want to wage war might cause you to lose your cushy seat?
Diplomat Dies in a Fall After Celebrating Australia’s Gay Marriage Vote
Newton was a homophobe.
dead at Beth Israel Medical Center
I smell antisemitism.
No, that’s just my hockey gear.
So it needs some cleansing?
Never ‘trust’ a heterosexual.
On the balcony, at about 1:30 a.m., Mr. Simpson, who served as second secretary to the Australian mission, began to twirl around a female colleague, distressing her, according to the police. A few moments later back inside, he was confronted by her husband, the police said. The two men stepped back out to the balcony. There, Mr. Simpson told his colleague’s husband that his intentions were never to scare his wife, according to a police official who declined to be named because the investigation is continuing.
By means of an apology, the police official said, Mr. Simpson suggested the two play a so-called trust game. “I will prove it that you can trust me,” Mr. Simpson told the colleague’s husband, the official said. “Let’s play the trust game.” In the course of the game, which was not described, Mr. Simpson fell off the balcony, landing five stories below.
Sure.
“Mr. Simpson suggested the two play a so-called trust game. “I will prove it that you can trust me,” Mr. Simpson told the colleague’s husband, the official said. “Let’s play the trust game.” In the course of the game, which was not described, Mr. Simpson fell off the balcony, landing five stories below.”
Looks like someone lost that little game.
Trust, but you better fly!
By means of an apology, the police official said, Mr. Simpson suggested the two play a so-called trust game. “I will prove it that you can trust me,” Mr. Simpson told the colleague’s husband, the official said. “Let’s play the trust game.” In the course of the game, which was not described, Mr. Simpson fell off the balcony, landing five stories below.
The… fuck?
Lamest alibi ever.
It seems like the Glibertariat is slightly suspicious of this whole “trust game”.
I’m guessing it was that “I trust you to halt my fall” thing they probably learned in some bullshit HR retreat. Only the husband didn’t feel like playing.
Uncontrollable Shakes was my HS nickname
I kinda tremble a lot. Makes me wonder whether.
48 today. Just a thought on gift giving: For my immediate family, I always give them presents which would be considered luxuries and not necessities. For friends and relatives, I give necessities like socks, necktie, briefcase etc. Over the past ten years, my wife has given me a cordless iron, a sweater, a belt, a wallet. Hate to complain, but these are all things I needed and would’ve bought them regardless if it were my birthday or not. Practical wife: great 95% of the time, 5% of the time I’m “WTF?”.
Happy birthday, straffin!
Give mama a break – we can be challenging to buy for. Besides, I’d rather pick out the cool stuff myself!
Thanks. Premium beer. That’s all I ask!
Premium beer and a little boom-boom, you mean.
Hoping for a Leinies.
+1 Sunset Wheat.
And happy birthday!
Suntory Premium Malt? It’s got Premium in the name.
Happy birthday!
Hafpy birf*BRAAAP*ay strappin
Someone got a head start.
Staff: “Damn, I need a blowjob.”
Been there for 8 months. When people ask my age I have to reflect on it for a moment first. Yay.
Happy bday oldster.
Maybe you could ask for a steak and blowjob. It combines the luxury/necessity thing.
Happy Birthday!
Thanks for the wishes, guys. May be on am links (your time) posting from the bar.
48? C’mon ya whippersnapper, keep up with us Oldsters!
Happy Birthday!
Really. 48 is ten trips around the Sun in my rear view mirror.
happy birthday man!
Uffda!
Man up Straffin. You are a fucking grown man. No one (especially you) should give a shit about your b-day since you were old enough to get your driver’s license at 16.
Yes, you have to buy your wife nice things every year. She’s a woman. They never outgrow their b-days. Each year you have to fawn all over them. It isn’t fair. Get over it.
Worst b-day I ever had was the one I came home from work and the kids and wife had made a cake. I had completely forgotten it was my b-day and thought I was 36. Then my smart ass kids used math to prove I was 37 and not 36. FUCK. I went from not even knowing I was getting older to aging 2 years in one day.
Best b-day? When my daughter drew me a home made card that said “Happy birthday Dad! I’m hungry, could we make some sandwiches together?”
I may be extra grumpy today because I had my second colonoscopy yesterday this year (now that I’m 50). None of them have been passed with flying colors (unless you call diarrhea brown a color).
So my ass is literally chapped. Enjoy your remaining 2 years of cherry-hood…
You sure do get bitchy about a little ass-play. Fucking homophobe.
Male disposability is real. But, yeah, I love it when my daughter makes the present. Let’s make sammiches is cute. Last Christmas: Papa, I wanna buy you a present. Can I have 2000¥? Okay. Of course the present must’ve cost about 1000¥.
Happy Birthday, youngling! You’d think that after all this time that they’d feature that the best gift is to be left the fuck alone.
If you can only complain 5% of the time, count yourself lucky. Happy birthday old man.
Happy Birthday, straffinrun
Climate Change Ripens Prospects For German Winemakers.
It’s really weird, and almost as if there used to be a wine growing industry in Southern England hundreds and hundreds of years ago. I wonder if there is any way to determine whether that’s the case or not. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Blockquote fail. *sad trombone*
The Finger Lakes in upstate NY is a huge wine-growing region FFS.
Fake news.
Rieslings suck. Ditto Moscato. I like Gewurztraminer if I go sweet. Viognier for dry. Because I’m an ass.
The Rieslings I’ve tried aren’t that bad. I tend to prefer drier wines, and can’t stand Moscato.
Of course, I normally drink red.
Reds are a mystery to me. I like cab sauv with steak, but that’s the extent of my knowledge of reds.
Grab a bottle of Amarone, or this little bargain of high value low cost, if you want a nice full and rich red.
My knowledge of wine is limited to the stuff we used to buy in Boxes as teens. Fun fact – blow up the foil bags and use them as flotation devices when you get swept downriver after the raft sinks! My absolute worst wine drinking experience was when my older Brother invited his proto-biker buddies over when I was 15. “Slinger’s Grape Wine”, knife cuts, head impressions in the drywall and a bathtub with two inches of purple puke. Good times.
I’m wondering if it’s time for an Intro To Wine article… Y’all have taught me a lot about beer, and I feel like I need to return the favor.
Yes please!
You mean NPR didn’t say, “Those sons of BITCHES, the HORROR!”?
I like Riesling. And Global Warming.
Rieslings are the only white wine I’ll drink.
Just read your morning post Gordilocks – sorry to hear about that. Aside from your posts I hadn’t heard too much about the regulation killing stuff. All the Veteran job mags always have truck driving advertising out the wazoo and every logistics/shipping/supply corporate site/mag I read talks about a major shortage (increasing) of qualified truck drivers – but this stuff is killer.
If you can put together a good piece like the Federalist one someone linked recently – maybe we can push the issue a bit more – this is the kind of over-regulation we need to nip in the bud – not just the EPA stuff, but all the interstate commerce stuff too.
I may or may not still plan on driving to Yellowknife next summer – won’t know about schedule ability for a few more months yet 🙁 – but if anything it’ll be in July and I’ll probably have a few more questions before then.
Driving cross country is one of those things I like the idea of in principle – type of job – movement/nonstop travel/etc – but not the idea of maneuvering one of those things in bad weather, heavy traffic, cities, etc.
I’ll be happy to assist in your planning.
I’m going to write something for this joint on the trucking issue. Now that I have extra time not being on the road, it shouldn’t take too long.
UVA snags a tough but satisfying win at VCU. I am content.
Is Religion the Cause of Most Wars?
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/rabbi-alan-lurie/is-religion-the-cause-of-_b_1400766.html
Article says no.
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In their recently published book, “Encyclopedia of Wars,” authors Charles Phillips and Alan Axelrod document the history of recorded warfare, and from their list of 1763 wars only 123 have been classified to involve a religious cause, accounting for less than 7 percent of all wars and less than 2 percent of all people killed in warfare. While, for example, it is estimated that approximately one to three million people were tragically killed in the Crusades, and perhaps 3,000 in the Inquisition, nearly 35 million soldiers and civilians died in the senseless, and secular, slaughter of World War 1 alone.
History simply does not support the hypothesis that religion is the major cause of conflict. The wars of the ancient world were rarely, if ever, based on religion. These wars were for territorial conquest, to control borders, secure trade routes, or respond to an internal challenge to political authority. In fact, the ancient conquerors, whether Egyptian, Babylonian, Persian, Greek, or Roman, openly welcomed the religious beliefs of those they conquered, and often added the new gods to their own pantheon.
Medieval and Renaissance wars were also typically about control and wealth as city-states vied for power, often with the support, but rarely instigation, of the Church. And the Mongol Asian rampage, which is thought to have killed nearly 30 million people, had no religious component whatsoever.
Most modern wars, including the Napoleonic Campaign, the American Revolution, the French Revolution, the American Civil War, World War I, the Russia Revolution, World War II, and the conflicts in Korea and Vietnam, were not religious in nature or cause. While religious groups have been specifically targeted (most notably in World War II), to claim that religion was the cause is to blame the victim and to misunderstand the perpetrators’ motives, which were nationalistic and ethnic, not religious.
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I remember one of the anti-religious groups arguing in a TV debate that WWII was caused by religion. Idiots.
I usually tell my students that the 30YW was the last European war caused by religion. Religion was certainly an organizing factor in future conflicts but not causative.
Meanwhile in sexual misconduct news, Stallone is denying everything:
“Minnesoda nice” indeed. Fucking weirdos.
Videos and a ‘sex goals’ list discovered as Minn. acting teacher faces new charge
So, I noticed today that our little market now carries cheese curds. As a faithful reader of this board I immediately thought “Poutine!”. Got the curds, some frozen fries and a packet of McCormack gravy mix and tried it. I finished the plate (but then i hadn’t eaten all day), but I think that will be my last one. I’m sure that with crispy homemade fires and real gravely it would be better, but I don’t think I’ll bother.
It’s not for everyone, that’s for sure. I like it, but I also don’t seek it out. It’s a fun thing to have when I run across it in a restaurant.
If there’s a next time, you should try baking the frozen fries.
There’s a late-nite drunk Greek restaurant in Buffalo that serves a variation with feta cheese. It was amazeballs.
Why did you ruin curds with gravy and french fries?
Just eat the curds!
What’ll you have?
I’m enjoying a Knob Creek Rye with a back of Revelation Ale’s Blood Orange Wheat
STEVE SMITH GIVE YOU SOMETHING TO ENJOY.
About to pour a Power’s Irish Whiskey.
The Hellburner: The ‘Nuclear Weapon’ That Shocked the World (In 1584)
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/the-hellburner-the-nuclear-weapon-shocked-the-world-1584-23241
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Hundreds of years before the Manhattan Project, an Italian weapons expert in the pay of the English government created the 16th century equivalent of a tactical nuclear weapon. After Federigo Giambelli’s offer of services to the Spanish court received a lukewarm reception, he moved to Antwerp and settled down.
In 1584, Dutch separatists began a bloody 80-year-long war of independence from the Spanish Empire that England was only too happy to encourage. The Duke of Parma besieged the rebel city Antwerp with all the might of a superpower. Imperial troops lashed together ships to make an 800-foot-long wooden bridge barricading the Scheldt river.
Antwerp would have starved, but Giambelli determined otherwise. As he prepared the city’s defenses, he offered his talents to Queen Elizabeth I and came to the attention of her spymaster and private secretary, Sir Francis Walsingham.
To break the siege of Antwerp, Giambelli needed to destroy Spain’s wooden ship-barrier. His genius combined two newer technologies — clockwork and gunpowder — with a vessel into a terrifying new weapon.
It was the hellburner.
To begin with, think of a hellburner as a really big and exceptionally dangerous fire ship. Since ancient times, combustible wooden vessels feared the fire ship like no other weapon. Fire ships — worked by skeleton crews, set aflame like giant torches and set adrift upon wind and tide — could burn entire fleets and waterfronts.
But the hellburners were more than that.
The city fathers of Antwerp gave Giambelli some 32 vessels to work with. Thirty of them became conventional fire ships. The final two became the biggest bombs Europe had ever seen to that point.
Within the holds of the ships Fortyn (“Fortune”) and Hoop (“Hope”) Giambelli built giant, massive bunkers — forty feet long with brick floors and walls one to five feet thick. After filling them with two and a half tons of the finest gunpowder Holland could make, Giambelli’s workers roofed the structures with rows of recycled tombstones.
On top of that, they packed millstones and scrap around around the bunkers, decked over the giant bomb and disguised the vessels as “regular” fire ships.
The Fortyn used a conventional chemical trigger and timer — a slow-match which burned at a steady rate. The other hellburner, the Hoop, introduced a quantum leap in technology. An Antwerp clockmaker named Bory created a mechanical timer which triggered a wheelock firing mechanism. The Hoopbecame the first known pre-programmed and remotely-triggered weapon of mass destruction.
On the night of April 4, 1584, the Antwerp separatists released their fire ships into the Scheldt’s current. The Spanish troops showed little concern for the vessels approaching their positions. As the burning ships drifted onto the riverbanks and bumped into the great barricade, soldiers fended them away with pikes.
The Fortyn ran aground short of the barricade and failed to explode completely. Mistaking it for merely a noisy, unsuccessful fire ship, the Spanish forces jeered the Dutch attack. But the Hoop collided with the barrier near where it connected to the shore. Soldiers, not knowing the danger inside, boarded the vessel to put out its fires.
Then the clockwork reached its set time … and triggered the wheelock firing device. Boom.
The gigantic explosion instantly vaporized a quarter of the barricade and nearly 1,000 Spanish troops. Timber, shrapnel, rocks and body parts rained down for miles, the river surged out of its banks and the noise woke people 50 miles away. It was likely the loudest man-made bang in history up to that time.
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Cool.
Pfft. People were using nukes thousands of years ago: https://www.amazon.com/Weapons-Gods-Ancient-Civilizations-Destroyed/dp/163265038X?tag=askcomdelta-20
I have intelligent friends who are into that ‘ancient aliens’ crap. *shrug*
Yeah, I find it amusing but harmless.
For some reason, I’m always enthralled by “wrong science” from centuries past. I enjoyed Edgar Allan Poe’s stories that involved some kind of scientific theory like hollow Earth or flying to the moon on a hot air balloon. I also like reading about phrenology.
has this made the rounds yet?
Dem candidate boasts of ‘hayloft’ romp, sex with 50 women in bid to preempt oppo
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/11/17/dem-candidate-boasts-hayloft-romp-sex-with-50-women-in-bid-to-preempt-oppo.html
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In a textbook example of why Facebook users should pause for a moment of reflection before they post, a Democratic candidate for Ohio governor sought Friday to get ahead of any potential sex scandals by announcing the details of his relationships with 50 women.
The sexcapade diary was in response to the Al Franken scandal, and included a hayloft romp with a “gorgeous blonde” and a fling with a “red head from Cleveland.”
“Now that the dogs of war are calling for the head of Senator Al Franken I believe it is time to speak up on behalf of all heterosexual males,” Ohio Supreme Court Justice Bill O’Neill posted on Facebook. “As a candidate for Governor let me save my opponents some research time.”
O’Neill went on to say: “In the last fifty years I was sexually intimate with approximately 50 very attractive females. It ranged from a gorgeous blonde who was my first true love and we made passionate love in the hayloft of her parent’s barn and ended with a drop dead gorgeous red head from Cleveland.”
According to Cleveland.com, the initial version of the post provided more specific information about the women in question.
The post was met with a cascade of stunned criticism, with users offering commentary ranging from “Mother of God” to “What did I just read” to “Dear god please tell me your facebook account was hacked.”
The candidate apparently later deleted the more personal information about the women, responding to commenters: “Hey I do listen. I have deleted all references to the women involved. That was disrespectful.”
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And besides, they all live in Canada so you wouldn’t know any of them, but seriously they were all super hot, like 9s or 10s.
Only takes one woman to come forward and claim it wasn’t consensual. What a dope!
interesting
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Total Deaths During the 20th Century
Carl Haub, “How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth?” (Population Today, November/December 2002) [http://www.prb.org/articles/2002/howmanypeoplehaveeverlivedonearth.aspx]
From Haub’s chart, it looks like there were 9,801,490,715 births between 1900 and 2002. Added to the 1,656,000,000 alive in 1900, it seems that 11,457,490,715 people lived during the 20th Century. With only ca. 6 billion still alive in 2000, the century probably saw about 5.5 billion deaths.
That means that the 203 million multicides I’ve counted in the 20th Century would account for 3.7% of all deaths, or 1 out of every 27.
Smallpox in the 20thC:
Mannfred Hollinger, Introduction to Pharmacology: Half a billion people worldwide in the 20th C.
John Campbell, Campbell’s Physiology Notes for Nurses: smallpox killed 300 million in the 20th Century.
Michael Oldstone, Viruses, Plagues, and History: 300M
Albert Marrin, Dr. Jenner and the Speckled Monster: 300M
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http://necrometrics.com/all20c.htm
See, communism isn’t so bad after all.
Communism: slightly better than the plague!
I’ve owned this house for 18 months, and I am not finished unpacking my boxes from the move. Just got shelving units for the kitchen – then had to start pulling stuff out of boxes and away from the walls, which made the place look awful, but it looks much better (and is more accessable) on the shelves. Plus, I don’t have the fear that I’m providing more mouse habitats with those boxes, since they’ve been broken down and will go to the curb later this week.
I still have unopened moving bins from 5 years ago. They make decent platforms here and there around the apartment.
My (computer) mousepad is on top of a pair of boxes because they happened to be at the perfect height.
You’re up past beddy bye time.
Wild man.
It’s only 11pm here.
In 18 months I replaced all the floors, painted everything, stained baseboards, and installed them.
Doesn’t sound like so much when put that way. *is slow*
I had to get out of my apartment before the end of my lease, or they’d bill me something close to thrice the already overblown monthly rate. So everything got boxed up and I got out of there – so there’s no access to a lot of the walls. And I definately couldn’t redo the floors (not that they needed work)
We’ve been in our house 11+ years and tomorrow we plan to peel up a corner of the wall-to-wall carpet in hopes of finding hardwood we can finish and banish the carpet forever. The house was built in 1960 so we hold out hope for decent hardwood, and the kitchen already has it (kitchen was remodeled in the 90s we think, so if the livingroom and bedrooms are the same type, we have it made. Aside from the labor part…)
Here’s hoping for good flooring under there.
my parents place had beautiful hardwood under the carpets in the living room. why anyone would cover it is still beyond me.
they just replaced the pergo or whatever was in the dining room with matching wood from the same lumber company in town.
I guess the point was I hope there’s beautiful hardwood in your home!
Thanks! We shall see…Either way, that horrid carpet needs to go. I’d just prefer hardwood with some oriental rugs here and there to another wall-to-wall carpet.
I like wall-to-wall carpet only because my cats like it too.
I liked it in my apartment. it was warmer on my feet.
here I have to have socks or slippers. The wood stove keeps half the floor upstairs nice I suppose.
If I didn’t have the cats I would LOVE to have hardwood floors. It just looks so much better.
Loose rugs. Perhaps with a friction mat if it doesn’t want to stand still.
We do have wall-to-wall in the basement (we are on a hill, so one side of the basement gets natural light) which is our rec-room/office and usual evening dwelling space. Makes sense because in Minnesota, a hard floor on the foundation would be pretty cold. And the cats do love it.
But the main floor / upstairs has got to get redone.
Seriously though, just throw out or sell everything in the boxes you haven’t opened. Clearly you don’t need it.
Me, I totally intend to do that myself next time I move. I left a shit-ton of stuff at my last place, too.
People tell me I have a ‘spartan’ place. Granted, most of my friends are horrific pack-rats.
I think a Spartan living situation is much more worry free. Things are cancer.
I have a friend whose girlfriend literally moved her entire apartment into his living room – which was already crammed with his shit since before I moved out. First time I visited I just laughed it was so comical.
Makes me wish I lived alone, just a little.
Needs got nothing to do with it.
There’s also this problem – the better solution to a great many things is in those boxes – I just can’t find them because they’re one cubic yard each, and I find annoying workarounds after giving up.
The fact that I didn’t find it doesn’t mean I don’t need it. I’m going to unpack and organize my crap. The stuff I unpack and decide I don’t need gets trashed. (I’d planned to do that during the packing stage, but the time ran out)
Woot! I found the key to the lockbox with my lockpicks in it!
yay!
And that damn practice lock still has the low pin near the entrance that binds first… 🙁
is the practice lock a real lock or a cutaway/plastic thing?
I, or any locksmith really, could repin the thing!
It’s a cutaway, I can touch the pins from the side.
I’ve been thinking about getting into lock-picking as a hobby. Can either of you two recommend a decent, inexpensive pick set to get me going?
Doom is probably the better person to ask – I’ve never successfully opened a lock without the key.
I picked up a set from Toool at Defcon a couple years ago. I think it’s the Tremendous Twelve set they have here. While I was there they had some of their training locks sitting out to practice on, but then once I got home I just bought some cheap Master locks to practice with.
for a cutaway, there might be a piece of flat brass that is peened on top. you can tap that and slide it out, and access the springs and pins from up top. careful, they will jump.
Mike! I’ve always been a fan of more simple, basic kits. I used a 6 or 8 piece for years. Find what shape works better for you. I should really write something short up on the subject.
I prefer the metal handled ones, the rubber and foam handles give less feedback, in my experience, but some people swear by it. HPC is my brand, but again, people like different stuff. Avoid the gimmicky “fits in a credit card” or “swiss army knife” stuff. This one has a practice padlock, but i’ve never actually had that one. HPC’s looks pretty similar. There might be a locksmith in town willing to order you a set from a supplier. Most states treat them like burglars tools if you have them at night in an alley, so tell the locksmith you just want to use them as a hobby.
There was another metal set on amazon I saw that was something like $6, with no lock. just grab a cheap master padlock like JFP, and practice while you watch tv.
Sue also might have some good advice for people trying to pick it up.
I’m only at two months next week, so I feel a lot better about my state of unpacking now, thanks!
Luxury Socialized Medicine*
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/11/single-payer-health-care-medicare
*no examples from socialist countries
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And yet the US, with the most capitalist, market-driven health care system of any developed nation, can’t boast of France’s postnatal vaginal rehabilitation therapy, Japan’s state-of-the-art elderly care robots, or Germany’s government-subsidized spa vacations for a ten euro copay. And with our raging opioid crisis, shocking infant and maternal mortality rates, and incidences of death from treatable illness, the private insurance-based system is already caught in a death spiral.
Luxury socialism isn’t just a meme — it’s a working theory that holds that social care, among other things, isn’t a zero-sum game. Marx and Engels saw that a society divided by class and driven by the profit imperative produces an abundance of resources alongside an abundance of unmet needs. Socialism, if it’s about anything, is about matching our resources to our needs, to improve our collective quality of life. Socialized health insurance — and the comforts it provides — would be a pretty good start.
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Oh sure, just about every new medicine and medical device came from the US, but the French have govt subsidized cunt muscle-therapy.
Mr. President, we cannot allow a Cunt Muscle Gap!
thigh gap.
I’m sorry, but when they miscategorise a live birth as a stillborn just because they died a few days after being born, I can’t take their infant mortality numbers as anything but lies.
If I was on my computer i could link it, but the u.k. infant mortality is actually about the same as the u.s.’s.
I think I remember that.
It was a video where some guy pointed out that American “infant mortality” is defined as a baby that dies before it’s 365th day of life, but the UK define it as dying before the 46th day of life. However, the UK has another category called “late maternal death”, which is defined as dying between the 46th and 365th day of life. If you add the UK numbers together – thus creating a metric that is equivalent to that of the US – you see that the UK actually has a slightly higher infant mortality rate than the US. Yet, we’re always told that the UK is head-and-shoulders above the US in every health-related metric.
I can’t find it now. I think his channel had “plebian” in the name somewhere.
In a similar vein, I read an article 3 or 4 decades ago my father had lying around. The article was about the differences in the math scores between the US and some European countries. This was during one of the periodic our school system sucks compared to Europe panics we have. The article pointed out the European countries only tested their top students while the US tested everybody. And if you used similar ways of measuring students, the US students did as well or better than the European ones.
It would be nice if people consistently compared apples to apples instead of cherry picking metrics to make their point., but then they wouldn’t be human.
Took me a second to find it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rluh1gQ4GpM&feature=youtu.be&t=4m10s
Or else.
*shudder*
WE all know pineapple on pizza is an abomination against god’s will, that deep dish is delicious, and IPA’s taste like monkey ass… what about light beers?
Easy way to avoid beer bellies or spit in Bacchus’s eye?
I love Hawaiian, double IPA’s and cheap light beer.
well, maybe not in love with light beer. I do like it on a hot day or during sportspuck.
Cleanse the heretic.
Deus vult.
*hipster dance*
Hhhhh Iiiiii Ppppp Sssss Ttttt Eeeee Rrrrr…
You can hipster dance if you want to.
You can leave your friends behind.
Because if you friends don’t like Hawaiian pizza
Well, they’re no friends of mine
The fun part is that hipsters dancing is like a train wreck of skinny limbs and chin stroking.
But Light? Beer? Why God why?
Pineapple is acceptable on deep dish Thing, but not Pizza,
IPAs are the Budweiser of the now Time, But no, not Monkey ass, you Troglodite, look around for better beer
/Love ya!
Light Beer? Like a helles? Yeah, those are fine.
Get me a light beer!
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/17/564784724/sarah-silverman-asks-can-you-love-someone-who-did-bad-things
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Comedian Sarah Silverman confronted one aspect of the wave of sexual abuse and misconduct revelations that have come out in recent weeks: the anguish when the perpetrator is a friend.
“I wish I could sit this one out,” she says in a monologue for her Hulu show I Love You, America. “But then I remembered something I said on this very show: that if it’s mentionable, it’s manageable. So I’m going to address the elephant masturbating in the room.”
She means, of course, the comedian Louis C.K., one of Silverman’s best friends for more than 25 years.
“This recent calling out of sexual assault has been a long time coming,” she says in the episode that aired Thursday night. “It’s good. It’s like cutting out tumors — it’s messy and it’s complicated and it is gonna hurt, but it’s necessary and we’ll all be healthier for it.”
“It sucks, and some of our heroes will be taken down and we will discover bad things about people we like, or in some cases, people we love.”
Multiple female comics have accused C.K. of sexual misconduct, including masturbating in front of them. Last week, C.K. admitted that “the stories are true” after previously declining to comment on the rumors about him. One of the women told The New York Times that for years afterward, she felt angry and betrayed and that the interaction was a factor in her deciding not pursue comedy.
“He wielded his power with women in messed-up ways,” Silverman continues. “I could couch this with heartwarming stories of our friendship and what a great dad he is, but that’s totally irrelevant, isn’t it? Yes, it is.”
After the Times story broke, HBO cut ties with C.K., the distributor of his upcoming film canceled its release, and FX canceled its deal with his production company.
“I love Louie. But Louie did these things,” Silverman says. “Both of those statements are true. So, I just keep asking myself, can you love someone who did bad things? Can you still love them? I can mull that over later, certainly, because the only people that matter right now are the victims. They are victims, and they’re victims because of something he did.”
Silverman says she is at once very angry — “for the women he wronged and the culture that enabled it” — and also sad.
“I believe with all my heart that this moment in time is essential,” she says. “It’s vital that people are held accountable for their actions, no matter who they are. We need to be better. We will better. I can’t [expletive] wait to be better.”
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Happy, well-adjusted people do not become comedians. There is a reason why they aren’t any good Mormon comedians.
A Mormon comedian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8OTlsfCDt8
Mormon Grandpa – “Pull my finger!” Mormon grandson obliges yet nothing happens.
Mormody? i like the ironic part
This feller gets it! An extra wife for you!
I’ll say it – I like her and I think she can be funny.
That said, I know absolutely nothing about this C.K. person & I’m struggling to understand what he did wrong. Are women really so powerless that they can’t avert their eyes from… that?
Eh. Who the fuck whips it out and starts stroking the pony except for weirdos and malcontents? He’s a moralizing douchebag and this behavior comes as no surprise to me. He nearly raped that one chick on his show for comedic effect. “Oooh, I’m such a loser that I have to physically overpower this chick to make her love me!” So meta! Turns out it’s just what some of us expected. Fuck his preening ass with a cattle prod.
Meh – people are weird. Not defending him, mind you – I’m only going on what little I’ve cared to read about it.
Festus throwing down the unvarnished truth. CK takes pervy waaay over the line in his stand up. Not shocked at all that he’s pervy in real life. It’s like Bernie Madoff talking about Ponzi schemes.
Faie enough. Like I said, I am completely ignorant of the guy.
You’re better off not knowing. I’m far from being a prude, but when someone seems to have such intimate knowledge of creepy as fuck behavior and psychology, they better be a psychologist and not a comedian.
It only took them 37 years to grow a spine:
Zimbabwe ruling party says Mugabe should step down
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/17/africa/zimbabwe-unrest/index.html
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Harare, Zimbabwe (CNN)On a day Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe appeared in public for the first time since his nation plunged into political crisis, his ruling party is reportedly calling for him to step down.
“ZANU-PF provincial structures in all the country’s 10 provinces met today and called for the resignation of their First Secretary, President Robert Mugabe. They also called for the resignation of women’s league Secretary and First Lady Dr Grace Mugabe from the party,” State newspaper The Herald reported Friday
Mugabe emerged from house arrest to attend a university graduation ceremony in the capital, Harare, in a staged public appearance that belied the reality that he is no longer in control of the country he has ruled for 37 years.
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Dicks out for Harare!
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erm, wrong one?
Marxists say Zimbabwe proves capitalism doesn’t work. How shocking.
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The Western imperialists were very quick to brand the recent elections in Zimbabwe undemocratic, but there is no shortage of undemocratic and rigged elections in the African continent. Jordi Martorell takes a timely look at the history of the country since independence in 1980; its relations with the IMF, and why the imperialists have switched their support from Zanu-PF to the MDC. He says the main lesson to be drawn from the history of Zimbabwe in the last 20 years is precisely that genuine national liberation cannot be achieved simply by winning formal independence and democratic rights, but only by the overthrow of the capitalist system itself. Capitalism has sufficiently proven its inability all over Africa to solve any of the problems facing the masses. It is time for a socialist alternative, based on the democratic planning of the continent’s vast resources by the workers and peasants themselves.
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http://www.marxist.com/zimbabwe-failure-capitalism.htm
LOL – whatever they’re practicing seems to work out very well for the ruling classes.
It would be better for this planet if that entire continent just sank into the sea.
It’s like max derp… tons, of socialists are totally running Africa into the ground using capitalism. Right.
Problem being that the Evil Chinee have got their bound feet in the door. Africa is well and truly fucked now that they’re dealing with the “dollah” people.
The fuck?
Hyperbole. The Chinese have had a growing influence in the sub-continent and generally give no shits about anything except making some lettuce.
At least they’re honest about it.
The Chinese have a very practical approach to foreign aid in Africa. They build a road or stadium over a couple of months and then they leave. No multi-year development projects.
They also export foot-powered sewing machines to Africa. Simple, practical, profitable.
Yeah, I’m guessing that China will do more to aid Africa by just trying to trade profitably with them than all the western aid has done in the past 50 years.
Worked in Somalia.
I kind of wonder if the wave of sexual assault accusations against famous people was contrived to erase the Clintons and clear the path for the next annointed Democrat. Any trend of accusations against famous lefties would inevitably pivot back to ol’ Bill and the way they’re throwing him under the bus just seems too easy.
Then again, I think Hillary created the Russia crap to systematically target and remove Republicans once she ascended the throne, but turned it into a scorched Earth campaign when she lost, so my tin foil hat might be a little tight. It’s more likely that they’re just a bunch of sheep following the rest of the herd and bleating what everyone else is.
I love a good conspiracy theory but there’s no way the Left couldn’t have foreseen this biting them on the ass real quick.
That’s the idea. It clears out the old guard and makes way for a brand new Democratic party, one that has atoned for its sins and proven it by removing those nasty people. The only ones left are the true believer.
Ah, a good old-fashioned purge. This time it’ll work.
Robespierre furiously blinks his eyes!
It’s fun to think these things up but I don’t think anyone could actually manipulate things that well. People are too dumb.
I don’t think it’s a conspiracy so much as the Democratic party has lost control of the SJWs,
I live in the suburbs and I can tell you that most of us have zero fucks to give about a SJW platform. Gay marriage? Knock yerselves out! Abortion? Don’t ask the wife. Taxes? Too high. Everyone around me cares nothing for this preening bullshit.
Maybe. Except you don’t win elections by becoming more selective in your appeal. Whatever their sins, the Old Guard realized that no matter how many likes your demands for socialized medicine apportioned based on the principles of intersectionality gets on Buzzfeed or Tumblr, it’s a pretty sure path to a Republican majority.
Inmates Are Using Masturbation as a Weapon. Female Guards Have Had Enough.
Two lawsuits allege rampant (and gross) sexual harassment at a Chicago-area Jail.
http://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2017/11/inmates-are-using-masturbation-as-a-weapon-female-guards-have-had-enough/
Let’s allow women to work around violent, impulsive men. What could possibly go wrong?
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A pair of class-action lawsuits filed recently against the sheriff’s office in Cook County, Illinois, allege that the office has failed to protect female workers and female public defenders against frequent and egregious sexual harassment—by male inmates at the Cook County Jail in Chicago.
Inaction by Sheriff Thomas Dart has left the jail “an objectively abusive and hostile workplace for women,” but not for men, claims a lawsuit filed in federal court last Wednesday by five female guards. The second lawsuit, filed on Sunday by attorneys at the Cook County Public Defender’s Office who visit their clients in the jail, makes a similar claim. Dart’s neglect, both lawsuits say, amounts to sex-based employment discrimination under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Illinois Civil Rights Act and violates the women’s constitutional right to equal protection.
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The guards’ lawsuit says male supervisors have responded to complaints of harassment by telling the women it’s what they had “signed up for,” that the harassment was a “compliment,” or that the masturbation shouldn’t bother them because they have likely seen a penis before. When one guard reported that an inmate had threatened to rape her, a male superior allegedly responded that “men can be raped too.” Male colleagues often don’t intervene when the abuse is happening, Willenson told me, because the jail has a policy against touching inmates—a rule aimed at preventing excessive force lawsuits.
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Looks like there will be lawsuits no matter what they do.
Everytime I read a story about consensual sex between a female guard and a male inmate or about harassment or rape, I marvel at who the heck thought getting women to work a men’s prison was a good idea.
Or vice versa.
I occasionally look up prison officers on Facebook and see that they are now married and fathering children with a recently released inmate.
I had a friend who became a prison guard (it’s one of the few growing industries in upstate NY) – it changes people.
I worked as a physical care aid for profoundly disabled clients for a couple of years when I was young and strapping. The experience nearly broke me. They used us as bouncers. Not what I signed up for.
I was at the women’s prison for 15 months, and on my last day, one of the nurses told me, “You’re doing the right thing… If you stay in this place too long, you won’t be able to work anywhere else. I tried other jobs for a few months and I just couldn’t make it work, so here I am. I’ll be here forever.”
Just for the record, I found women’s prison to be the UNsexist environment in the world. It was a combination of the mood, the smell, and the disgusting way that most of the inmates live.
Unsexiest… Meaning the least possible amount of sexy.
Derpbook is saying Charles Manson is finally dead. Can anyone confirm?
I’d wait three days for any confirmation.
Can’t we just tap his forehead with a miniature silver hammer? And by that I mean, bash in his skull with a huge sledgehammer?
as of 3 hours ago:
Charles Manson’s condition remains a mystery, though he is still alive
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-charles-manson-illness-20171117-story.html
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Mass murderer Charles Manson remained alive Friday, authorities said, but details of the illness that brought him to a Bakersfield hospital remain unclear.
Vicky Waters, a spokeswoman with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, said only that Manson was still living and that the department could not provide any further details.
Kern County Sheriff’s Lt. Bill Smallwood told The Times earlier this week that Manson was at a local hospital.
In January, Manson, 83, was rushed to Mercy Hospital in Bakersfield for what authorities at the time would describe only as a serious medical problem. He was returned to prison a few days later.
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Zombie Manson. Calling it here.
Norm Macdonald
@normmacdonald
A good reply, too:
Humans are Fucking badass!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=334ifiuFxKg
I could do that but I just don’t wanna.
Is that special agent Johnny Utah?