SP and I will be heading out shortly for our weekend in Green Bay. She went a bit nuts buying team-branded clothing and accessories, mostly for the wrong team. The weather is predicted to be below freezing, we have researched all the ways to smuggle alcohol past the NFL’s onerous TSA-level “security,” not that we’d ever do anything illegal like that, nossir, and she has mapped out exactly where supplementary beverages, brats, and cheese curds can be purchased. Uber is the Official Ride Sharing App of the Green Bay Packers, and saves us the hassles of parking. We have a 55 gallon drum of lube loaded into the car (purchased at Amazon, using jesse.in.mb’s affiliate link). Drinks are arranged with one of the local Glibertariat (CPRM), and we’ll have some birthday cake in honor of straffinrun-san.
While in the football vein, this story is a fascinating look at what might be a true root-cause of the Browns’ dysfunction,
Most unintentionally funny headline I’ve read this week. Really? REALLY?
I love what technology can do. Though I’m a vocal critic of most of NASA’s “work,” and feel that the majority of it has no business being funded by the Federal government, there are legitimate functions related to defense which are constitutionally justifiable, and this is one of them.
The guy who transformed DHS from an idea to a leviathan is recovering from a heart attack. Normally, I do not wish someone ill, but this is one of the exceptions. Now if only the same thing can happen to James Clapper, Jeff Sessions, Robert Patterson, Diane Feinstein…
I do have sympathy for the neighbors here…
And Obligatory Old Guy music, this time from my favorite ’90s band. Oh, and remember when Dennis Miller was still funny?
So, no Lambeau Leap for you.
I’m trying to work out getting a handie under the blanket over our laps.
Disguise a Fleshlight as a beer cup.
“Officer, see, it was like this, I accidentally dropped a Raisinet in my lap and she was trying to find it for me…”
A Raisinet would describe the size of your genitalia….
Well, I’ll admit to the match in shape and consistency.
Circumcised raisinets are the worst.
*heads to CVS for a box of Raisinets*
*vomits*
The carcass formerly known as Gawker media is encouraging other journalists to commit career suicide
Didn’t a bunch of journalists just get canned like a week ago for this? I know the 24 hour news cycle is distracting but fuck these people are dumb.
Yup ~80 journos lost their jobs after unionizing. Funny thing is that one of the unionists motivations was that they wanted to make this a solid career.
I thought unions were supposed to save jobs.
*struggles mightily to keep straight face*
As much as I enjoy seeing lefties hoisted by their own retard, I’m having a hard time siding against Franken. File charges and let the courts decide, otherwise it’s just immature pictures and he said/she said stories.
That’s the point. It’s their retard. Let them hang by their own stated standards.
Nope. Press charges otherwise he needs to tell them to fuck off. It won’t happen like that, but it should.
Maybe I misread, but I thought I saw that Franken released an apology that basically admitted his guilty? If that’s not the case, then I’d have to agree with you. Press charges and go through the court.
We may be talking at cross purposes. Was the pic criminal? Not at all. If they want to start booting their own people out of senate seats for that, I’m not going to stop them.
Actually it is criminal. It is a straight up assault with photographic evidence. Technically touching someone without permission in any way at all is criminal assault. If you dont believe it try lightly touching a policeman with your pinkie finger and see what happens.
See, now I’m stuck in the middle. Gotta go Weigel and say that he isn’t actually touching her in that picture. Then I gotta say that if he did force his tongue down her throat (that’s a nastier image than SF has come up with) that would be criminal. It’s a clusterf**k of situation where everyone seems to be landing at a different point. My take on it is: You helped create this mob Franken, so surrender yourself up.
I’d think having Franken’s tongue in your mouth, voluntarily or not, should be considered a war crime.
BAM BAM BAM.
STOP RESISTING!
GUN!
BAM BAM BAM
HIGH FIVE.
But they aren’t saying Franken did something illegal, they’re saying he’s a hypocritical creep who is disrespectful to women. Which is true.
Franken asked for a Senate probe into himself.
Wait, that came out wrong…
Hillary has come to his defense. If anyone knows sexual predators it is her. And if she vouches for him, I think we can all just let this drop now.
On a serious note, if Franken survives because the Clinton machine helps him, is it not proof that she wants a rematch in 2020? And with Al owing her, it becomes easier to do right?
““Look at the contrast between Al Franken, accepting responsibility, apologizing, and Roy Moore and Donald Trump who have done neither,” Clinton said.”
And what did Trump do, exactly?
Made some bad passes at women back in the day, and told Billy Bush how to carry a drunk woman home.
Carry her like a six pack.
It’s like this, if a Republican is accused, it’s serious business. If it’s a Democrat, nothing really to see there, they apologized, right? Maybe a week at a posh hotel named ‘treatment center’ is required, but besides that, no biggie. It isn’t what’s being done, it’s WHO is doing it. That’s the rulez, not get woke!
Quebeckers excluded from contest, no criticism of the law that was responsible for this.
That goes for ALL contests. There’s something going on in the background with the gaming commission here run by I think Loto Quebec.
Drives my wife insane.
But she isn’t interested in Michele Obama’s inane blathering.
Sure; that’s why I said there was a problem with the law. But the CBC wanted to spin it as evil private sector organization excluding people.
Yeh, as I read this I was like all ‘wtf?’ You can’t even enter a Disney contest here.
C’mon Quebec… insane control-freakery or empowering little girls. Pick one.
Speaking of Canadian girls….
Hilarious
Did the story about the California town that charges citizens to pay for their own prosecution already get posted?
Here it is, just in case.
very Brazil (1985). I like it.
Beginner’s luck!
And everyone will miss the point on this. They’ll bitch about paying for the prosecution but not question the laws that cause them.
Ooh. That’s…deep, man.
*takes a drink, nods*
Well, the law is the law. It just is. Nobody knows how, but we can’t question it because it’s the law.
Lots of places do that. Pay a $100 fine, or $500 in court costs to fight the case.
This town does both.vyou pay your fine, then get a bill from the lawyers that prosecuted you.
How is that any different than the bill you get for court costs. I know they do that here.
Do court costs normally run into the thousands of dollars?
That I don’t know. Last time I went to court I think it was $150. Thousands suck, but the principal is the same. One is forced to pay for the services of the people that are prosecuting him. I don’t like it, but it’s common.
I’d be rallying with pitchforks and torches to City Hall if that were my town. I’m not exaggerating. Burn it down.
I like the way “costs” have been redefined by the city.
‘In Coachella, a man was fined $900 for expanding his living room without getting a permit. He paid his fine. Then more than a year later he got a bill in the mail from Silver & Wright for $26,000. They told him that he had to pay the cost of prosecuting him, and if he didn’t, they could put a lien on his house and the city could sell it against his will. When he appealed the bill they charged him even more for the cost of defending against the appeal. The bill went from $26,000 to $31,000.’
Wait, does the prosecutor not receive a salary for his services? What is the basis for determining the bill’s total? The judge’s time is also already being compensated for. So what is it? The electricity used during the hearing? Tinny fractures to the surface of the parking lot pavement caused by the defendant’s car? What?!
I don’t advocate violence but in this case I would almost need to make an exception.
Some follow-up questions:
* How much money has been saved by the city due to this?
* Was this money refunded to the taxpayers?
* By how much was every taxpayer’s bill lowered, on average?
* or, alternately, was there some particular “important” public works project that was underfunded because the money was being spent on these prosecutions, but now that the costs are borne by the offenders, the library can afford new books and the soccer field is lit at night and the playground equipment has a new coat of paint or whatever tf cities spend money on?
* Are there any codes or regulations governing the use of woodchippers in your fine city?
Trump was crowing the other day about China investing millions if dollars into the U. S. economy.
It has been a while since I’ve studied the subject, but doesn’t investment by foreigners increase the “trade deficit”?
It’s an identity, trade deficit == foreign account surplus.
I wouldn’t say a change in one leads to a change in the other.
But we should expect stories about how the trade deficit with China is growing, right?
If the people who complained about the trade deficit could connect the dots, yes.
Aha!
Yes. One way to think about it is that we are buying goods today with future profits.
Trade deficits don’t amount to a hill of beans.
http://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/chap12p1.html
Of course, they don’t. (Excellent book, by the way)
I used to have this elaborate analogy about two shop owners trading coupons for their respective wares, and one of the shop owners never redeeming the coupons from the other owner, which basically meant he was giving his product to the other guy.
I agree. The book is written well enough that a yokel like me can understand it. It really helped me understand markets.
I bought a copy for my kids. I’m interested to see if they get it.
Lords push for children to be protected against tech giants by law
Cross-party support for an amendment to the data protection bill looks likely to lead to a defeat for the government, which favours a code of practice
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/nov/18/lords-push-for-children-to-be-protected-against-tech-giants-by-law
The amendment to the data protection bill, laid down by Kidron, calls for technology companies to be subject to “minimum standards of age-appropriate design”. She said ministers, who are resisting the move, should not be “put off by tech lobbyists”. – just some minimum standards who could object?
“I’ve spent years in telecoms thinking that competition drives the right outcomes, but it doesn’t appear to be happening. I would love to believe that commercial platforms will move fast enough that you don’t have to regulate, but there is no sign that they are,” she said. – oh and what exactly are the right outcomes? poor politicians they don’t want to regulate, they just have no choice you see.
I am having trouble following her complaint.
Keeping your data secret from the state, however, is not on the cards.
IN the cards, ON the table, you know what I meant.
Kenny Rogers hardest hit.
“I’ve spent years in telecoms thinking that competition drives the right outcomes, but it doesn’t appear to be happening.”
Translation: the market outcome, based off of other people’s desires, Ford not match what I want.
Does not match*
Well if they leave the EU, then they won’t be part of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that is going to go into effect next year. So I guess they are trying to get their own nanny bull shit in now.
Seriously, I have had to deal with the GDPR and other current idiot EU privacy regulations for the last couple years because I have helped develop apps for global companies.
I can never decide if the regulations in the EU are due to them wanting leverage over the companies and their citizens, or if they believe the bullshit themselves.
$3500 for a new electone for my daughter. Not being any sort of musician, when the wife asked me if we could buy her one, I idiotically said, “Yeah, sure.” I don’t think my parents spent $3500 on me my entire childhood. Fuck.
I had to google electone thinking it is a misspelled word
That’s because it’s a trademark.
very un libertarian… or is it?
Someone should make a post on this. Is trademark/copyright protection libertarian?
Me too.
You mean, #MeToo.
Still with the aversion to used hardware, huh? Jesus. I hope she becomes a prolific pianist.
dude, you can get fully weighted MIDI keyboards for under a grand* (which include all sorts of sw sound-modules, including everything from grand piano to esoteric organs).
(*even less provided you go with 61 keys instead of 88)
and for someone still ‘just learning’, its probably better to invest in something usable in many ways, rather than some specialized instrument. just a thought.
She’s got a keyboard already. Thing is she’s been taking lessons for 5 years at a Yamaha school (not sure if you’re familiar with it) and they use the electone every lesson. Evidently, it’s the pedals that she wants. The wife plays and she insists that is what the kid needs. I’d rather just get a piano and be done with it. Then I go to the recitals and am blown away by what some of these kids can do on an electone.
well, i feel your “throw up hands”-feeling then
I appreciate the advice. Being such an idiot with music, I haven’t got much to stand on other than “Damn, that’s expensive.”
i used to teach young kids music
(*not in any sort of suzuki/yamaha method-school; although i interned at one of those for 3 months – i mentioned the story in the ‘youth employment’ thread we had a while back)
i tended to sympathize with the parents more than the kids, because my parents couldn’t afford fancy-stuff for me either. i basically had sporadic instruction/took classes/private lessons whenever i could guilt them into subsidizing my interests.
the problem with kids (*and i was similar) is that they often get $1000s (or 10s of $1000s) thrown at them in their pre-teen and early-teen years in music training, only for their ‘passions’ to change when they become teens, and it becomes a chore/routine instead of a source of personal reward.
the trick (*and in my case, it worked) is to make them own it before it becomes ‘uncool’. Meaning: make them pay for it themselves and stop making it something they do to ‘make their parents happy’. Nothing motivated me to pursue my own hobbies more than my parents not giving a shit whether i did or didn’t.
I tend to agree. We started both kids in piano pretty young and told them that they had to do it until 6th grade and then whatever. Fast forward to high school and both are percussionists in the band. Son is really competent, but doesn’t have the passion. He just loves to play. Daughter, on the other hand, is a maniac. Band, jazz band, choir, drumline, musical, marching band – you name it. She also taught herself the bass and still plays a good piano.
We have a piano that my wife’s dad gave her, but a lot of the other stuff the kids bought themselves, including the drum kit. The school also has plenty of opportunities for them to practice, so I was spared having to spring for a marimba!
I have subsidized a lot, of course, but it’s on her. If she told me tomorrow she was done I’d be grateful she had the experiences and that I got to enjoy watching her learn to love music and get so damn good at something.
The white man’s blunders of ‘explorer’ Benedict Allen feed racist myths
Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff
The story of his Papua New Guinea mission, his disappearance and subsequent rescue reinforced Great British colonial narratives of black savagery
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/17/benedict-allen-explorer-racist-british-colonial
The wider picture is that when we talk about “explorers”, we are implicitly talking about European exploration, and within that (thanks to the patriarchal societies that have dominated Europe for centuries) exploration and adventuring by white men – from Columbus to Bear Grylls. patriarchy buzzword check
here are centuries of misguided precedent behind what he has done, and there’s no denying that exploration is an intoxicating idea. It’s a trap I’ve fallen into myself. When I was 17 I visited Peru with what was then known as the British Schools Exploration Society (BSES) – I have sinned
White men such as Benedict Allen should cease their meaningless, problematic “explorations” and focus instead on the ways they can counter the privileges they inhabit, at home and abroad. – counter the privileges they inhabit is a new one
“No, no; it is a murder of crows, and a,flight of dragons.”
If Columbus would have stayed home and worked out his white privlege, then the noble savages would be living in Harmony in the americas.
but they would be threatened by evil global warming caused by Europe
Would the noble Polynesian savages in Hawaii have to be ashamed or proud?
Does their explorations/migrations count as something to be proud of? I would think so. It is amazing how they were able to explore and navigate across the Pacific ocean. But they were exploring and I think that is now a no-no?
What a bunch of gibberish. If not for European exploration, colonization etc the fuzzy wuzzies would still be eating each other. Hell, in some places they still are…like in Papua New Guinea. Hell, I saw it myself in Bolivia/Peru.
I’m not sure eating a mushroom off some guy’s dick in the Amazon counts as cannibalism.
One of the main reasons why there were thousands of languages and dialects in Papua is that tribes there were usually very scared of other tribes and did not venture past their territory unless it was to raid or engage in warfare. Levels of violence in Stone Age tribes would make the present day south side of Chicago look harmonious.
I agree, the Twilight movies were a crime against humanity. Fuck that guy.
RIP Malcolm Young.
Damn.
That sucks. He was an integral although somewhat reserved part of a legendary band. He will be missed.
RIP. This is the part of getting older that is starting to piss me off.
I know what I’m listening to today.
In my top 5 favorite bands for sure.
Oh Damn, this aint funny any more
Primus is old man music. Shit I’m a classic rock guy now. Guess I’ll drink some pork soda and tend to my big brown beaver.
And Primus sucks.
Thank you.
O C E A N M A N
Politifact wastes an entire article debunking something from DuffelBlog
“Facebook users flagged the post as being potentially fabricated, as part of the social network’s efforts to combat fake news. This story is fake.”
So Is the onion (and satire in general) fucked?
“The Duffel Blog calls itself “the American military’s Most Trusted news source” but readers will have to find the disclaimer to learn this is fake news.”
Stop the planet, I want to get off. All cultures are special to the left, except the sub-cultures they know nothing about. Then it’s ok to go stomping around like a fool.
This article is the white people of fact checking.
The nick gillespi of fact checking too
They seem mad that they didn’t realize it’s fake right away, and that (omg) that had to look for the disclaimer. That’s….some journalism.
Exactly. “Well the reader has to dig for the disclaimer”. Look bud, if you have to read the disclaimer to know this is fake, you are not the Target audience. The fact that this subculture is so foreign to them is telling. But we’ve seen them blunder into lots of other subcultures and try to enforce homogeneity of thought.
I guess these journ-O-lists with their fancy degrees are still too dumb to realize that a site is satire if it has headlines like “New MRE Literally Just a Bag of Shit” and “15,000 Troops Perish After Ohio Woman Fails to Share Facebook Prayer“.
I dunno man… Between this and the journalist who couldn’t figure out how to make a fake Twitter to view Trump’s tweets after he blocked her, I think they should be suing these universities for fraud.
That’s what I don’t get. One glance at the front page or the sidebar and it’s obvious satire, yet they say they had to go to the “about” page to find out it was satire? Really?
Their next article is going after Santa Clause
“The man known as Saint Nicholas has been dead for many years, yet Coca-Cola continues to insinuate that he exists. We could not reach their marketing department for details”
They should concentrate on the flying reindeer. I’m fairly certain that’s impossible.
Or his frequent use of child slavery to make toys. He cleverly hides his use of children by calling them “elves”
So you’re saying Santa is a libertarian?
While he does get some libertarian points for promoting the use of planet-destroying coal, he loses points for giving away all those toys for free without making any profit whatsoever.
He gets paid in cookies and milk. Just because it’s not cash doesn’t mean he isn’t being compensated.
Nah. No monocle.
Prediction: Rudolph will come out with accusations about being groped by Santa.
“Red Nose” was a vile sex act, not a physical trait.
Libertarian Ron Bishop told PJM his write-in campaign for Senate has skyrocketed since the line of women accusing former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore of sexual harassment and assault started forming.
Sounds interesting, but then there’s this:
What about money? Bishop has very little.
Fake libertarian.
He needs to get in office first before those Koch checks will come in.
So Is the onion (and satire in general) fucked?
Satire is as dead as the Dodo. You simply cannot keep up.
It was extinguished by the sheer determination of people to be parodies of themselves.
The carcass formerly known as Gawker media is encouraging other journalists to commit career suicide
I was going to read that, but was thwarted by their adblock-blocker. Now I’ll never know how stupid they are. Oh, woe.
I’m sure you can get a pretty good estimate of their stupidity.
Just look under any flat rock, and you’ll surely find some organism as smart as the typical Gawker.
Politifact wastes an entire article debunking something from DuffelBlog
Imagine the howls of derision from the enlightened class if somebody from the Federalist expended a blog post debunking a “joke” from Saturday Night Live.
SNL still makes jokes?
He said imagine.
So, there was this Daffy Duck cartoon I remember seeing years ago, in which one of the characters was humming the refrain to some song. I finally, just now, found out what the song was.
For your 1940’s playlist: The Hut Sut Song
I have no idea why, but I’m willing to go on this journey with you.
Be vewy, vewy qwiat…we’re hunting wabbits!
I got up and started dancing.
I know, right?
It speaks to the way I was raised that it’s a song I can immediately identify.
My 6 week old daughter was enjoying the song–smiling and cooing and stuff.
To be sure, Bret, to be sure
As recently as three years ago, Democrats led by President Barack Obama had settled on pushing a national minimum wage increase to $10.10, up from $7.25, which was set in 2009. Since then, a movement working on behalf of low-wage workers has pushed for a $15 national minimum wage in what is known as the Fight for $15. This noble movement has succeeded in several high-cost cities, including New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle, where wages are set to rise on a glide path to $15 in several years’ time.
We’ll raise the working man out of the mire of poverty! A chicken in every pot (or possum, where applicable).
” a movement working on behalf of low-wage workers”
It’s always “the white man burden” with the left isn’t it. They, the self appointed elite, have to come down and aid the working man, by taking his money and spending it better for him. Behold the condescension of the left.
What are their plans for the people who are now living under bridges because their employer couldn’t afford to keep them?
What?!?! Man this is more complicated than I thought. If we just let them die and ignored it, would that work out?
Better to fund a nonprofit who contracts out to crony run food services to keep these these people alive and voting. Don’t you even graft bro?
Oh man I forgot. It’s a good thing we only have to think about a few peoples desires. What if there were 300 million groups with goals that we had to try to appease. How would we plan that?
I truly resent them using words like ‘noble’.
They’ll get to explore the ‘nobility of unemployment’ shortly.
Remember “funemployment”?
“Hey, Honey! The greatest thing happened today! I won’t ever have to go back to work, and we can go fishing every day!”
“What happened?”
“I got fired!”
“(or possum, where applicable).”
^This guy gets it.
When I was a younger lad, my brothers and I would catch a possom, take it to town, and put it in the newspaper machine. Hilarity ensued.
Did sheriff Andy ever catch you?
All commies should die.
+1 Rafal Ganowicz
Now there is a real hero.
We suggest setting this standard to exactly one-half of the median wage for the average hourly, nonsupervisory wage worker in America. In January, that computed to a wage of $10.90 per hour, which would be the highest minimum wage of all time in real dollars. At this level, a full-time minimum-wage earner with two children would surpass the federal poverty level by more than $1,000, even before such federal benefits as the earned-income tax credit are taken into account.
Next, the purchasing power of the minimum wage should be roughly the same across the nation, from Palm Springs, Calif., to Youngstown, Ohio. To do this, regions would be placed in one of five categories based on what the government calls regional price parities, which is a measurement of the difference in prices for similar products between regions. In the highest-cost areas, like New York City and Newark, the minimum wage would be set at 15 percent above the national average, or $12.55. In low-cost places, like Valdosta, Ga., the minimum wage would climb to $9.25, or 15 percent below the $10.90 national average minimum wage that workers in Flagstaff, Ariz., and elsewhere would earn. Each January, the minimum wages would rise based on the new median wage for hourly workers.
Ministry of Plenty, FTW! Surely it will work, this time.
Oops I pulled a swithcheroo on the author; not Stephens, it’s these two bozos: Jonathan Cowan is president and Jim Kessler is senior vice president of Third Way, a centrist policy institute. Third Way; the3re’s a reputable source. Somebody should give those idjits a copy of Economics in One Lesson for X-mas.
“At this level, a full-time minimum-wage earner with two children would surpass the federal poverty level by more than $1,000, even before such federal benefits as the earned-income tax credit are taken into account.”
If that’s the case, then the war on poverty would be over. And we could end all those other federal assistance programs.
Next, the purchasing power of the minimum wage should be roughly the same across the nation, from Palm Springs, Calif., to Youngstown, Ohio.
What’s the best way to reduce the purchasing power of a dollar? Make products and services more expensive by raising the minimum wage.
Also, provided by the racists over at mises –
https://mises.org/system/tdf/Henry%20Hazlitt%20Economics%20in%20One%20Lesson.pdf?file=1&type=document
A free pdf of economics in one lesson. Feel free to link to all your lefty friends. They will be sure to read it.
Then we could just raise the minimum wage again, then everybody would be able to afford stuff! Gosh Lachowsky, this is so simple that even a moron could figure it out. I mean, duh!
Each January, the minimum wages would rise based on the new median wage for hourly workers.
If that’s not a perfect illustration of the concept of the “self-licking ice cream cone” I don’t know what it might be.
So you don’t even reply to your own links? *Mind blown*
Principles, not principals.
Great minds.
Principles.
Principles, or an obsession? We will let Bacon decide.
SNL still makes jokes?
Hence the scare quotes. Try to keep up.
Drinking all night. I need some bass, but not too funky.
Try this.
Smooth.
eeeexcellent
in the pantheon of upright bassists, i think Carter probably remains Zeus. But i like Leroy Vinnegar as Thor. He’s a bit sassier. his older, 60s stuff
…sorry: his older stuff is also nice
Thank you. Daughter is playing a lot of jazz and we’ve been exploring different styles. It’s a weak area for me so keep ’em coming!
The “who’s who” of upright bass is not a very long list. The really, really good guys tended to work with everyone and crowded out a lot of smaller competition for like 30+ years. Ron Carter is on literally
hundreds of2000+ records.in each major ‘post-war era’ (swing, bebop, free jazz, soul-jazz, fusion, etc) you had a small handful of guys who owned it. the guys who crossed over from one to the other were few. Carter, Paul Chambers, Ray Brown, Cecil McBee, Vinnegar appeared on a wide range of stuff for 50s-80s. Charlie Haden and Charles Mingus were also notable, but were also their own composers/bandleaders and leaned towards more-esoteric/free-jazz styles. There’s probably another half-dozen worth mentioning, but those alone cover an absurdly large chunk of 3+ decades of jazz.
i’ve always been partial to the 60s-early-70s soul-jazz, funky stuff. Richard Davis (bass) and Elvin Jones (piano) have this cool record which is ‘bass heavy’.
Totally non-funky. Ryan Gould does one of his patented slap solos about 1:30 in.
And this one makes me weep a bit, I was a regular at those Tuesday night shows.
Enjoy the crowd at Lambeau, it is a great place to watch a game. But as an loooong time Packers fan I hope you are disappointed in the final score. But without #12 the Packers are not nearly as formidable- at home or on the road. It’s kinda like that short stretch from 1968-1993.
I’ll be watching the game from a bar. I’ll look for you holding up a sign advertising free candy.
I’ve got Bobby Bland playing right now.
Tom Petty and Malcolm Young died yesterday.
But at least we still have Lou Read.
I hate to break it to you…. Tom Petty died a couple of weeks ago.
Oops. I was reading another article when I saw that headline and didn’t check the date.
Who’s Lou Read?
A very famous musician, like Alvis Presley or Timmy Hendrix.
😀
The guy who wrote “I, Pencil”.
Lena Dunham defends ‘Girls’ writer-producer accused of raping underage actress
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/11/17/lena-dunham-defends-girls-writer-producer-accused-raping-underage-actress.html
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Dunham — who tweeted last month that men who spoke out against disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein were “more sexually irresistible (consensually, of course)” — issued a joint statement to The Hollywood Reporter with “Girls” showrunner Jenni Konner.
“During the windfall of deeply necessary accusations over the last few months in Hollywood, we have been thrilled to see so many women’s voices heard and dark experiences in this industry justified,” Dunham and Konner’s statement said. ” … But during every time of change there are also incidences of the culture, in its enthusiasm and zeal, taking down the wrong targets. We believe, having worked closely with him for more than half a decade, that this is the case with Murray Miller.
“While our first instinct is to listen to every woman’s story, our insider knowledge of Murray’s situation makes us confident that sadly this accusation is one of the 3 percent of assault cases that are misreported every year,” the statement added. “… We stand by Murray and this is all we’ll be saying about this issue.”
An attorney for Miller accused Perrineau of trying to extort money from him.
“After being contacted several weeks ago by lawyers who — on Ms. Perrineau’s behalf — sought substantial monetary damages from him, Mr. Miller’s legal team gathered overwhelming evidence directly contradicting these false and offensive claims,” Don Walerstein told The Hollywood Reporter. “Only after her demands for money were rebuffed did Ms. Perrineau go to the police.”
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Hypocrisy the name is… modern american culture.
Whatever happened to “I’m going to withhold judgment until more of the facts come out”?
Was it a Democrat? No facts needed, innocent! Was it a Republican? No facts needed, guilty! I mean, this couldn’t be more clear, I don’t know why folks around here don’t get woke.
Only people she likes are innocent until proven guilty. Also, stupid ugly zero talent ho, pass.
But during every time of change there are also incidences of the culture, in its enthusiasm and zeal, taking down the wrong targets.
Thats pretty telling. Wrong targets being lefty creeps.
This was only supposed to take down righty creeps. What happened? muh narrative, I’m losing control of it.
My thoughts exactly. Leftists shocked to see the unprecedented acts of autophagia.
You would have thought Zinn or Chomsky would have mentioned it.
Ah. So now the statistics and due process matter, eh?
Statistics and process, for leftists only.
Like I said, it’s not what someone’s doing, it’s WHO is doing it. For leftists, it’s totes ok, no matter what.
+1 Racist and renowned gay hater Che Guevara
One rapist defending another.
Ringleader of university shutdown wants to be treated better than students accused of rape
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/39124/
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Maybe now Charlie Landeros knows how it feels to be accused of sexual misconduct at the University of Oregon.
The student activist who used a megaphone to take over President Michael Schill’s State of the University speech is trying to turn “their” disciplinary proceeding into a spectacle by demanding UO not use its student code of conduct to judge “them” (Landeros’ preferred pronouns).
The Daily Emerald reports that Landeros wants a “fair and public trial” in which they’re tried by a jury of their peers and “considered innocent until proven guilty, all of which are Constitutional rights given to anyone who is on trial in a court of law.”
As the newspaper dryly notes:
The University is not required to follow the laws of the constitution in this circumstance because it is not a court of law. The UO uses the school conduct code to determine what it will do to decide if a student has violated the conduct code.
The school already found Landeros responsible for disrupting university business, and they were told to accept a “letter of reprimand” and write an apologetic essay. They’re instead going to appeal.
Landeros apparently wants better treatment than anyone else accused of violating the code – particularly students who are investigated for such innocuous behavior as yelling “I hit it first” out of a window – because of President Schill’s recent op-ed in The New York Times about the disruption:
“If we are to use the Constitution as any standard, which our so-called President has recently been using to justify allowing hateful, dangerous and harmful groups on campus, then this entire process that we are engaging in now is far past unconstitutional. It is fascism,” said Landeros.
Landeros, who identifies as a “queer brown local organizer,” actually makes a good point.
Student disciplinary proceedings are often shrouded in secrecy, with no right to see evidence, be given detailed (if any!) allegations, cross-examine one’s accuser or even challenge the neutrality of the investigator and decisionmaker (sometimes the same person).
Even worse, the vast majority of the top institutions in America have separate and less fair procedures for handling sexual-misconduct allegations.
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Landeros, who identifies as a “queer brown local organizer,” actually makes a good point.
Lachowsky, who identifies as a patriarch, thinks Landeros is an idiot.
“organizer”
Uhg
I always read that as ‘bully’. They basically exist to intimidate other people, and we can all see how great a president such people make.
Yeah, I think you’re exactly right.
What the hell does “brown” mean anyway? Middle Eastern? Brazilian? Filipino? Inuit?
Why are they lumping together so many different ethnic groups with brown skin? Isn’t that kind of un-woke?
Not at all. That means they’re not white, and therefore good woke people.
My theory –
They oppressed identities were getting broken down into such small groups that they were starting to approach individualism. When they realized that if you keep breaking groups down into smaller and smaller groups, you eventually end up with individuals, they had to reverse course.
“Brown” means the color of shit.
Not always… Mine is a nice burgundy color after a few bowls of chili or spaghetti sauce. A lot of collards or spinach will make it sort of an army green color.
Also: when my friends and I were 16, we drank a shitload of Hawaiian punch mixed with cheapass vodka, and I had bright pink shit the next day.
Fascinating.
The nice thing about being younger is I get to watch all these people die, the bad part is I have to live longer with their legacy… hm.
Those procedures are so common today, I would not expect him to die from that. My dad had a aortic valve replacement done a month ago at 83 and recovered like a champ. He does walk everyday and goes to the gym 3 days a week so I’m sure that helped.
I’ve got time.
Actually, Bret Stephens isn’t too bad today
The temptation is especially great because the influence comes without responsibility for the consequences, much less any suffering from them. The development expert proposes a five-year plan, but goes home to Washington at the end of her two-year assignment. The visiting economist calls for heavy deficit spending or a currency devaluation, but collects his speaking fee in dollars and doesn’t live through the eventual default. As things get worse, he can always say: They took my advice the wrong way.
Zimbabwe has been charting a dark course for so long that it would be unfair to blame anyone except Mugabe and his circle for the pass it’s now reached.
But Mugabe also had his apologists and admirers, and Zimbabwe’s tragedy is just a fuller version of a post-colonial story of disastrous ideological experiments accompanied by foreigners who cheered those experiments and then looked the other way when they failed. There needs to be a reckoning with them, too. The world’s poorest countries deserve better than to be the petri dish for Western experts who know too little and a field of fantasy for Western progressives who dream too much.
Comments are, as one might expect, chock-full of whataboutisms and “I know you are, but what am I?”
But during every time of change there are also incidences of the culture, in its enthusiasm and zeal, taking down the wrong targets.
It goes in the omelette, or it gets the hose, Lena. Is this really so difficult to understand?
The left’s morality is based on feelings. Slaying one of their own feels bad, so it must be wrong. Slaying anyone else feels good, so it must be right. Their utter lack of principle is a feature to them, not a bug.
(Landeros’ preferred pronouns).
“It” would be a more appropriate pronoun in these cases, and no, I don’t give shit how that makes it feelz.
Leftists shocked to see the unprecedented acts of autophagia.
These are the same people who think it clever to refer to themselves as Jacobins.
😀
Somehow I always took that label as more of a threat against rightists, but you have the right measure of it. The derp is strong in them.
I find it hilarious, in a cosmic way.
“Trump risks hypocrisy charges with Franken attack”
Maxine say that mean ol Trump gonna git impeach cuz name callin. It’s like we’re all back in kindergarten again.
It’s like we’re all back in kindergarten again.
Some of us never attained escape velocity.
White person claims to be ‘transracial,’ identifies as Filipino
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/11/17/white-person-claims-to-be-transracial-identifies-as-filipino.html
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Ja Du, a transgender white person from New Orleans, also claims to be transracial and identifies as Filipino.
Du was born Adam Wheeler and grew up loving Filipino food and culture — so much so Du now identifies as Filipino, even driving a purple motorized rickshaw Du called a Tuk Tuk, an Asian-derived vehicle used for public transit in the Philippines.
“Whenever I’m around the music, around the food, I feel like I’m in my own skin,” Du told WTSP. “I’d watch the history channel sometimes for hours, you know, whenever it came to that and, you know, nothing else intrigued me more but things about Filipino culture.”
The comments make Du a member of a small, but growing, community of people who consider themselves transracial — meaning to be born one race but identify with another.
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Many members of the Filipino-American community, however, are not pleased, with some even expressing outrage at Du’s assertion, saying Du is overlooking the hundreds of years of struggle Filipinos have endured.
“For Filipinos, who don’t have the luxury of making the decision to identify as another race in a society where whiteness as a default places real constraints about how people of color can decide to move in the world, this smacks of white privilege in the worst way,” Ben de Guzman, an executive committee member of the Filipino Veterans Recognition and Education Project, told Huffington Post, adding some of Du’s references are not authentic.
He said Filipinos more commonly refer to motorized rickshaws as “trisikels” not “Tuk Tuks,” a description used more commonly by the Taiwanese community.
In a video commentary, Filipino-American journalist Jackie Fernandez said Du’s comments highlight the “thin line between cultural appreciation and appropriation being crossed.”
“Ja Du says he feels like himself when he’s around Filipino food and music and that is fabulous, but to then say you are that race is both unrealistic and problematic,” she said. “Being Filipino means enduring racism, discrimination and micro-aggressions all the time.”
Du hasn’t come out to family members as transracial, believing they will laugh at the notion of a different ethnicity.
“I believe people will [take advantage] just like other people have taken advantage of their identity to get their way, but the difference between me and them…is that I don’t want that,” Du said. “I think that we all have the freedoms to pursue happiness in our own ways.”
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I say microaggressions deserve microapologies.
In 30 years, those Filipinos will feel bad about being on the wrong side if history.
Oh, Jesus Fucking Christ! Not Taiwan, Thailand! This must be the geography-culture version of “Muphry’s law“.
When will Du join the rest of his fellow countrymen in moving to Alberta and getting a job making me coffee at Tim Horton’s?
Is that what the men do? The ladies all seem to become hotel maids.
When Christians Defend Predators
Blessed are the cherry pickers.
Christians are hypocrites for supporting Trump rather than supporting our criminal for president.
Roy Moore totally did that bad stuff. Saying that you don’t believe his accusers is unconscionable, and is the same as defending pedophilia.
C’mon. Let’s be honest here. Roy Moore is the White OJ Simpson.
The glove didn’t fit
I just want to know who is Moore’s Kato?
here’s a combination I never expected to see:
Climate Change is Intensifying Gentrification — Here’s How
https://everydayfeminism.com/2017/10/climate-change-gentrification/
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So… build it back, but not too nice. Leave it just enough ghetto so the white folk don’t pounce on it.
^^^Making ghettos? that’s the government’s specialty.
Department of Slum and Ghetto Creation, aka Housing and Urban Development
When white people move in, that’s gentrification and is bad.
When white people move out, that’s white flight and is bad.
When white people stay where they are, I don’t know what that’s called, but it’s bad too.
White people are the white people of white people.
I think that is called white people being alive (toxic whiteness), and some of these types will tell you that is a bad thing.
So Wisconsin teachers get over 20k a year in health care and pension benefits. The horror.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/17/news/economy/wisconsin-act-10-teachers/index.html
Ah, welcome to the real world! This is what pretty much every private sector worker does: constantly looks around for the best deal they can get. It’s a big more work than just whining to the government for more money, but you’ll get used to it!
weakeningAligning with fiscal reality of pay and benefits that Wisconsin’s teachers have experienced.These types desperately need to be taught a lesson about who is paying their fucking salaries. They seem to think the money just falls out of the sky or something.
That’s not one-sided reporting at all.
So the kids are performing about the same as before. But you are spending way less. Should be a good story right?
Nope:
The poor union is hurting. The Teachers’ Union would be just happy with a plan to lock all the kids in a box each day as long as they got paid. Fuck those snotty kids.
I sat at about the same spot when I went to Lambeau!
it was very cold.
It’s 70 degrees at my place right now. The wind is blowing hard though. I believe we’re supposed to be in the 30s by tomorrow.
We’re almost at 40 here in VT. Still have snow on everything, so there should be ice tomorrow. I have to get the tractor out to move the sand pile that was dropped off last night into our shed we store it in for plowing all winter.
I ordered about 3 yards too many.
It’s Wisconsin Lachowsky. You don’t measure Packer games in degrees, you measure it in proof.
Prediction? Normally with a High Expectancy system in the area it would be about 90proof. With Rogers out, a big time Artic Depression has moved in and they are forecasting 125 to 130 proof.
everclear looks like water. It might melt camelbacks, though.
Pffft. Everclear is what teen-age under-aged girls drink in Wisconsin. The adults in Lambeau are going to be slurping down paint thinner.
this made me laugh. I assume the boys drink gasoline?
A Wisconsin boilermaker is a glass of gasoline with a shot of stabil in it.
Ok. I get it. At my place it is currently light beer, by tomorrow we should be transitioning to whiskey and coke.
Same here and lots of rain on the way.
Hey DOOM! I just saw your lock-picking reply from last night. Thanks for the advice! I’m headed out the door to a coin show (and then a brewery) right now, but tonight I’ll look around Amazon and see what they have.
I like the set you linked to. I think it might be nice to have a see-thru lock while I’m figuring out what the hell I’m doing. And yes, I think you should write a short article up for here. I think a lot of people would be interested in it.
You aren’t the first to nudge me to write one. I’d be happy to. The practice cutaway or plastic locks really do help with some “what the fuck am i even doing in there” thoughts.
and you never know, some locksmiths are pretty friendly in the hobby community.
I was checking out a bunch of coins on my drive across to VT, I wish I knew more about them. I never know if the price is good or bad. I should start buying silver coins.
http://www.capricorn.org/~akira/home/lockpick/
This might help you Mike.
Today’s brain fart brought to you by the Atlantic:
What’s Missing from the Museum of the Bible
The case for including Arabic—and Islam
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/11/museum-of-the-bible-arabic-koran/546224/
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In the Museum of the Bible, a new state-of-the-art institution dedicated to the world’s bestselling book, you can stroll through a recreation of first-century Nazareth, take a break in the biblical garden plotted with sage and hyssop, have a falafel at Manna restaurant, or grab a quick snack in the Milk and Honey café.
Visitors with Middle Eastern roots might find comfort in these familiar themes, and rightly so, since the Levant region is where the Holy Book originated. But that’s where the association ends. Throughout the 430,000-square-foot museum in Washington, D.C, Arabic script is rarely seen outside the temporary exhibits on loan from Jerusalem, although there are a couple of texts in Judeo-Arabic, varieties of Arabic spoken by Jews and written in the Hebrew script.
The museum centers on the Bible’s influence, so the absence of a dominant language of the region from which the book emanated seems jarring. Arabic is also the language shared by millions of Arab Christians.
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In the building, I found three references to Islam: In a multimedia experience based on the Hebrew Bible, in a plaque that highlights the Bible and Koran as different texts that share some stories and characters, and in an exhibit on long-term loan from the Israel Antiquities Authority, which mentions Islam as part of the three Abrahamic religions.
“There’s a couple of placards that deal with Islam,” Green explained. “Obviously some of the characters in the Koran, like Abraham and Jesus, are mentioned. But [this museum] is not about the Koran, it’s more about the Bible.”
The near-exclusion of Islam contradicts the museum’s claims about inclusivity and non-denominationalism. The prominence of evangelical Christians on the museum’s board and its initial mission statement to “inspire confidence in the absolute authority and reliability of the Bible” also lend credence to criticism that its message is not purely educational, as Green now claims.
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Arabic script did not exist when the Bible was written. The earliest examples are from the 7th century AD.
There are parts of the Bible written in Aramaic, a language which is related to Arabic, however Aramaic script looks like Hebrew.
“…the absence of a dominant language of the region from which the book emanated seems jarring.”
The absence of my vehicle’s owners manual is equally as jarring.
Islam didn’t come along until nearly 500 years after the bible was written. Islam’s place in a bible museum? Zero.
I wonder if they have exhibits on the Jewish Torah in Koran museums.
I don’t know. However, I do know that in the Pakistani knock-off of James Bond, the villain gets killed by flying, talking Korans that shoot lightning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8NteiuKLfw
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Paranoid PAKISTANI Lollywood fantasy about assassinating Salman Rushdie (circa 1990) complete with disco and batsuits and fulfill ayatollah khomeni’s fatwa. Salman Rushdie, played by Afzaal Ahmad, is depicted as plotting the downfall of Pakistan, the stronghold of Islam by opening a chain of casinos and discos in the country. The hero of the story, played by Mustafa Qureshi, learns of this plot and quits his day job as a police officer to recruit his brothers and create a mujahid (Gods soldiers) to pursue Rushdie and slay him. Rushdie is protrayed as a smug, bespectacled butcher in a double-breasted suit, living in palatial splendor on his own island, slaughtering his enemies with a huge blood-soaked sword. In the end, as the trio of brothers and their mother are being crucified by Rushdie, Allah frees them with bolts of lightning and attacks Salman Rushdie with flying holy books (the Koran, Tawrat, Zabur, and Injil) that shoot laser beams into his skull until he bursts into flames, a scene that evoked shouts of approval nd applause from Pakistani audiences.
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Hey, if the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments can melt Nazis…
Seems legit.
It’s more accurate to say Classical and Modern Hebrew looks like Aramaic. Originally, the Hebrews used an alphabet that was a close variation of Phonetician. This alphabet still evolved into Samaritan Hebrew. By the time the Hebrews had contact with the Persian Empire, Hebrew had ceased to be the everyday language of the culture and the lingua franca Aramaic was spoken. As such, the Hebrews adopted the Assyrian script used by the Persians for both Aramaic and Hebrew. Aramaic ceased to be the main language of the Jewish diaspora, but Hebrew remained as the liturgical language, so the Assyrian Aramaic script got locked in. The cursive form of Aramaic eventually developed into cursive Hebrew….and Classical Arabic script.
Yeah, but some Christians speak Arabic, therefore it should be represented, along with the koran, in a bible museum.
*headspolsion*
Did they also exclude the Tao te Ching, Mahabharata, and others?
I’m guessing they don’t understand what Christians mean by non-denominational? Or they are under the delusion that all the Abrahamic Gods are the ‘same’? Doesn’t really wash.
Considering the scholarship behind this museum is about as rigorous as those Creationist theme parks with the models of humans walking next to dinosaurs, if I were Muslim or even Greek Orthodox, I’d be happy I was excluded.
That may be so, this is my first hearing of the museum.
Really? They’ve been flooding my area with commercials like every half hour on the hour for at least the past 3 months.
Yup. I don’t live near DC or in a major metro, or watch broadcast or cable TV, so it seems unlikely I’d see an ad for it, unless they got a billboard.
Gloria Allred might be engaged in something shady?
SHOCKED!
There is some more background on the charges in the story. Moore’s team actually has some half-assed defense that might explain how the year book was gimmicked with his signature.
Uffda! Looks like Gloria is now going after Al Gore.
Why a Senate hearing instead of a trial court?
*I actually know why
Because she’s doing this (like with her representation of a porn-star during the campaign) entirely in the service of DNC political interests, and not anything to do with her client’s?
This is a hit job on Moore. Unverifiable 40 year old ‘she said’ claims? We will buy that. Examination of evidence that can be verified? No. Way.
Didn’t Allred pay someone to claim that Trump molested them and got caught? She is a fucking liar. All I had to find out was that Allred was representing this woman to know whether it is true or not.
And the Republican establishment are stupid enough to have fallen for it. Seriously, what kind of a man declares their fellow man guilty over a mere accusation? Spineless cowards. Or did the Republican establishment not actually fall for it and it’s just that they want the Democrat to win? Either way, it really shows their lack of character.
Indeed. How anyone finds this Moore shit believable is beyond me. (Especially usually bright people like Ben Shapiro, seriously, WTF!?)
If the glove don’t fit, you must acquit!
Seeing anybody use Allred is the exact equal to seeing anybody use Sharpton. At my most kind I say both are fabulists and their clients have no integrity and nothing that comes from their mouths should be believed. At my more blunt they and their clients should be run out of town on a rail as oxygen thieves.
Sure, but all lawyers are fabulists. That’s their job. Moore may or may not have done it, and the charges may or may not be politically motivated, but let’s not pretend that the allegations are some wacky conspiracy theory less believable than fucking Pizzagate. It is fully within the realm of possibility, if not most likely, that a D.A. is a fucking scumbag. In fact, I would be surprised if one wasn’t, as being one seems to be a requirement of the job. And as for the timing of the allegations, let’s remember that until his Senate run, Moore owned the state judicial system. He was the fucking Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Taking him on is not something that could be done lightly and without a hefty amount of financial and political support.
I prefer those who at least are honest enough to say Moore’s a son of a bitch, but he’s our son of a bitch. It’s embarrassing to weave an ever more complex conspiracy theory. Lex parsimoniae is fully in effect here.
I am glad the gods and goddesses have not seen fit to punish me by sending me to live in Alabama. If I were a resident I wouldn’t vote for either major candidate. I don’t doubt Moore did skeevy fundie things back then either. But this stinks of pure politics. Allred’s I won’t let you see the evidence unless it is to the Senate is pure grandstanding as well.
I agree with HM though. I have heard few people say “He’s an SOB, but he’s our SOB.”
Might Moore have done quenstionable things in his past? It’s very possible. I’d also like to think that after 40 years a human being has matured and changed. I sure hope I’m a better person 40 years from now than I am today. But, I’m sorry, when Gloria Ambulance Chaser Allred is involved I instantly lose the ability to believe these accusers. Has that woman ever been on the right side of a case? This is all a chance to steal a seat for the Democrats. On top of that, how many stories have there been of false rape or sexual assault allegations in recent years? I’m sorry, but unless they provide some solid evidence of what they claim happened, I am going to believe Moore did nothing wrong.
A pretty good collection of Al Franken memes.
The Al Franken bayonet one is my favorite.
Those were funny
In the link to the Browns story, the caption on the picture says the rebuild is being led by “Sashi Brown-Hue Jackson”. Not being a follower of the Browns (other than for the schadenfreude), I read that as one guy, middle name “Brown-Hue”. Heh.
Wisconsin teachers get over 20k a year in health care and pension benefits.
So hard, they work. And for what? A niggardly pittance.
You are trying vey hard to get the SJWs to descend on us like so many locusts.
STEVE SMITH WOULD ENJOY SJW HORDE TO COME DOWN ON GLIBERTARIAT
A pretty good collection of Al Franken memes.
The Al Franken bayonet one is my favorite.
I like the one of him grabbing the Wall Street little girl statue’s boobs. Extra credit for intersectionality.
Yeah, some of those are pretty funny. Anyone else notice that the flurry of accusations involve almost exclusively lefty dudes? I find it completely unsurprising.
I have to believe that the left are just completely clueless in every way, including thinking about the repercussions of their own actions and ability to think ahead. Did they really believe that they were going to start up all this MeToo hysteria and that none of them were going to get caught up in their own trap? Surely they would have to know that the metoo crowd, who are only looking for attention, are not going to care about anything except that someone famous tried to rape them. They are astonishingly stupid.
There are two issues with sabremetrics that I see. One, is it can be extremely hard to find metrics that truly measure the worth of a player. And secondly, they measure for the long haul, so they can’t always predict short term performance.
I sort of like what the Browns are doing. They have a good offensive line and a decent defensive line. But their skill positions on offense suck (to put it politely) and their secondary on defense is average. They are about where I expected them to be.
I could understand their reluctance with drafting Goff or Wentz. Both of them had major question marks that usually lead to more misses than hits. Kizer has all the physical attributes you want in a quarterback. He can make every type of throw and can run as well. But in college he had a tendency to fold under any pressure; whether a good pass rush or playing from behind. And that is continuing in the pros. Maybe he can grow out of it, but I doubt it.
There are two issues with sabremetrics that I see. One, is it can be extremely hard to find metrics that truly measure the worth of a player. And secondly, they measure for the long haul, so they can’t always predict short term performance.
You seem to be speaking of football, and I’m not really conversant in that when it comes to metrics, but as far as baseball: a.) Wins above replacement, Slugging, and Walks plus hits per inning pitched do a pretty good job in my opinion and b.) all statistics are better on the long haul, that’s just how they work.
“”Fragile Femininity”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6Vso14TuwI
In other news, Sargon made a video less than seven minutes long.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0fjzDUAas0
The browns should start just going for it on 4th no matter what.
what’s the worst that could happen, they lose?
I was thinking. There is a market opportunity here for sexual misconduct accusation insurance. Somebody is gonna get rich off this.
That’s pretty clever but would only ensure that the accusations continue forever. Like I keep saying, the accusations will end when we run out of millionaires.
If you’re still around, what do you think about .223 for deer. I let my boy shoot a buck earlier this year with a light load out of a muzzle loader.
I want to take him again now that it’s modern gun season, but the only modern gun in own that he could handle the recoil is a break action .223.
It’s illegal to hunt deer with a .223 in many states.
It’s legal in Arkansas, I just don’t know anyone who does it. I have always used 30-30, 30-06, 25-06, or .308. Any of those are more than enough for a clean kill. I’m thinking a .223 would do a fairly decent job, but I don’t know anyone with any direct experience.
25-06, the rifleman’s rifle. Ruger M77 here. Easy to reload and strikes like lightning. I’m telling you, that bullet gets there right fuckin’ now.
It’s as close to shooting a laser as you can get. I have a rem 700 in 25-06. I love it.
I am kicking my own ass right now. Remington 700 in 30-06, my first rifle. I busted my 16 year old ass getting the money to buy that gun. I worked all summer digging forms. Then when I was 19 I got pussy-brain and sold the rifle for money to go see her when she moved to Tucson. I cant even remember her name. Red headed Irish chick with great tits. What I wouldn’t do to have that rifle back.
That sucks. Those 700s are really nice rifles.
Yes, it was one of the older ones with the claw extractor.
*wipes away tear*
Sigh… I lost a couple three firearms to the pawn shop during some desperate times in my early 20s. I truly feel your pain sir.
Ouch. Whenever I get around to drinking today, I’ll pour one on the ground for your loss.
In Louisiana .223 is the least powerful round legal for hunting deer. I have taken deer with my mini-14 but I wouldn’t go after a hog with it. Hogs are a bit more solid than deer.
It depends on the load. A FMJ side to side through the ribs (most people’s favorite shot) will collapse the lungs just as well as anything. The deer will get 100 yards max before collapsing.
If you are baiting the deer and using a scope…let me put it this way: my brother once harvested a deer with his .17HMR. He hit it between the eyes and the deer dropped in it’s tracks and was dead before it hit the ground.
.223 should be fine. In a couple of years you are gonna need to get that boy something in 30 cal.
You would go with an FMJ over a soft point. I would have thought the soft point would be the way to go.
And to your other point, there have been a shit load of deer killed with a .22 mag. Shot placement and all.
You saw the photos of the .218 bee bullets recovered from water bottles? Some of those were fmj. At that speed every bullet is an expanding bullet. Anything you hit with a 3000+fps bullet is going to fall down. Try heavier bullets but test them first. After 60 grains some rifles dont have a fast enough twist to stabilize the bullets and the accuracy can go to shit. I made some 55 grain cast bullets for that 218 bee and they wouldn’t stabilize. At 50 yards they were landing sideways and we couldn’t get better than a 10 foot wide group. .223 can handle the heavier bullets a lot better but you will want to test to make sure for your individual gun.
I did see the pics and what you’re saying is making sense.
This may interest you.
http://www.chuckhawks.com/bell_elephants.htm
Karamojo Bell was a 20th century great white hunter.
He shot exactly 1,011 elephants; about 800 of them were shot with Rigby-made 7x57mm (.275 Rigby) rifles and round nose 173 grain military ammo.
That makes me cringe. I dont think I could shoot an elephant. I would have no trouble shooting nearly every damned thing in Africa, but not an elephant. Damned things are smarter than most people I know. As for the seemingly wimpy round he used elephants bones are spongy, not hard like most animals. Bullets go through their bones fairly easily. I saw some video of an elephant cull once where a guy was using an 8×57 mauser. The bullets went through the elephants heads like they were nothing. Also saw an elephant shot with a 375 H&H. I could see the shock go through every inch of that animals body trunk to tail. I have a ruger No.1 in 375 Holland and lemme tell ya, that’s like throwing a freight train at your target.
As for appropriate rounds here is a bit of info: I haven’t kept cattle since I was in my mid-20s but when I would slaughter one (hogs too) I used a 22 short. I tried 25 auto once but it damaged too much brain tissue. Yes, for all of you non-deplorables, brains/eggs/cheese with tabasco is freakin’ delicious.
Also I used to read a lot of outdoor/adventure magazines when I was a kid. Do we even have those anymore? Anyway I cant remember the guys name but one of the early elephant hunters in the black powder days used a 1″ smoothbore and round lead balls. He would sneak up to within 20 or 30 feet of the animals and each shot would knock him flat on his ass but it would do the job.
I have no desire to hunt elephant either. The stories are interesting. I read a book several years ago called death in the long grass. It chronicles Peter Capstick’s hunts in Africa in the 60s. I think tjere was one section per animal hunted. Croc, leapord, lion, cape buffalo, elephant. It was a very well written and interesting book and a good insight into how the locals and the foreign hunters interact.
My father worked in South Africa and Zambia for about 20 years. He said one time he and some Limeys got drunk as hell, stayed up all night then went out when the sun came up to hunt. They managed to knock down a very large eland with about 20 shots from a 22lr. When they got to it one of the guys had a 12ga and shot it right between the eyes at point blank range. He said it just took the skin off down to the bone and the shot bounced back at them, one of the guys catching a few pellets in the face. In his words “everything is Africa is just tougher than hell.”
While they were field dressing it an African just showed up out of nowhere. He had a black powder musket and “the biggest goddamned spear I have ever seen. It had to be ten feet long and the iron blade on it had to be two feet long.”
They gave him the guts. He gathered them up in his arms and was the happiest man on the planet. He thought they were giving away the best part of the animal. Stupid whities. He offered for them to come back with him and choose one of his wives for fucking but they decided they were too drunk and tired for that.
Good times I am sure.
Bill Maher: Al Franken is not like Roy Moore, Kevin Spacey, Donald Trump
The late-night comedian said Franken “did a bad thing” but shouldn’t be “lumped in” with other high-profile figures
https://www.salon.com/2017/11/18/bill-maher-al-franken-is-not-like-roy-moore-kevin-spacey-donald-trump/
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In the season finale of “Real Time” late-night comedian Bill Maher made a case for his friend Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., who was accused of sexual harassment on Thursday, and said he shouldn’t be “lumped in” with other high-profile figures who have been accused in other recent sexual abuse scandals.
During his monologue Maher joked that when the “very disturbing” news broke about Franken he was so shaken he “called Bill Cosby to see if he had anything that could calm me down.”
But Maher appeared more serious and said that Franken “did a bad thing” when a picture of him was taken of him “mock-groping” his accuser, radio host, Leeann Tweeden during a USO tour in 2006.
The late-night comedian also slammed Franken’s sketch in which he allegedly forced a kiss on Tweeden.
“If you write a comedy sketch where you, Al Franken, kiss a model and the next line of dialogue isn’t ‘get off of me creepy’ it’s not comedy, it’s science-fiction,” Maher said.
Maher acknowledged that the condemnation for Franken’s behavior has been “universal, which he deserves” but that he doesn’t deserve to be “lumped in” with Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, actor Kevin Spacey, Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, or President Donald Trump, who have all been accused of sexual harassment or otherwise misconduct.
Trump has called “his accusers liars, threatened to sue them, did long riffs at his rallies where he’d say they were too ugly for him to assault,” Maher said. “Plus, with Al Franken we’re talking about one incident. Trump has 16 accusers, Roy Moore has nine.”
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Ah, it wasn’t “grope grope”. I see!
“Bill Maher: Al Franken is not like Roy Moore”
Yes, we know, Billy Bob, he’s a Democrat. Makes all the difference.
RIP Malcolm Young. One of my early favourites from the band.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-0Oa5wvARSc
I don’t know about you motherfuckers, but I only listen to real music.
Like Mongolian throat-singing covers of Linkin Park?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmI0lheiZIg
So, why did Trump reverse the elephant trophy thing? Does he really think the ‘Elephant’s are people too!’ crowd is going to vote for him? I was really looking forward to that Ivory bed frame and some good ol elephant ear soup.
It’s just dumb. the facts say hunting and high price tags keep more animals alive.
a few words. just say it over and over.
I found this to be a good read on the subject from way back in 2014.
I don’t know why he did it. To troll the left probably. It is however a very sensible thing to do. Bug game hunting dollars is what is keeping those elephants alive.
What a cuck.
“Anti-gay married Republican resigns after being caught having gay sex in his office ”
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2017/11/17/anti-gay-married-republican-resigns-after-being-caught-having-gay-sex-in-his-office/
Look, it’s ok. It’s not wrong when he does it, only when other people do it. This is why you libertarians are so out of touch.
Because one’s views on when life begins and if one has a right of self-defense are inextricably linked to one’s sexuality.
Fuck you, gays.
Wait, I didn’t mean it like that!
You know what I meant.
Manna for Pink-os who hate all of these things.
“A WOMAN was punched in the face when she asked a passenger to stop ‘manspreading’ on New York subway – and claims cops weren’t interested.”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4940085/woman-punched-new-york-subway-manspreading-police/
A white male (rightly) came to her defense. Patriarchy! It would be delicious if it turned out she was a writer for some femi-blog and called for the end of the term ‘white knight in shining armour’.
I’m pretty sure if it was a white guy who punched her and not a black man it would be all over CNN.
Don’t worry, I’m sure it will be all over the Breitbartosphere with all of the vile racial contextualization.
isn’t the race war fun?
I abuse myself daily.
“abuse”
We already see it in that Sun article.
There’s certainly been a lot of that too in general.
Man oh man.
Good times?
“Twitter to neo-Nazis: you have until December 18
This new rule closes a loophole that Twitter’s critics had long pointed out: That known white supremacists and others affiliated with hate groups could still use the platform to send a sanitized version of their message and use their followers to bolster their overall profile.”
http://mashable.com/2017/11/17/twitter-hate-speech-symbols-december-18
You know, us.
Yeah, I saw that. Amazing how they are getting away with anyone right of Mao being collateral damage in their war on non-existent Nazis.
What is even more puzzling is that Nazis are their fellow travelers.
I assume somewhere in their disclaimers there is a proviso excluding black-flag/hammer+sickle-handled antifa leftists who make hysterical violent demands for people to rise up and destroy the enemies of socialism.
True tankies are the nuttiest of the nutty. They really are.
“Several US universities have shown that Maos Great Leap Forward plan was extremely successful in addressing famines.”
That is true. It was nothing if not that.
“Apple’s diversity chief is stepping down after only six months on the job — after causing an outcry by saying that being a minority or a woman are not the only criteria for diversity, according to reports.
Denise Young Smith, who was named vice president of diversity and inclusion in May, made controversial comments last month during a One Young World Summit in Bogotá, Colombia.
“There can be 12 white, blue-eyed, blond men in a room and they’re going to be diverse too because they’re going to bring a different life experience and life perspective to the conversation,” the inaugural diversity chief said.
“Diversity is the human experience,” she said, according to Quartz. “I get a little bit frustrated when diversity or the term diversity is tagged to the people of color, or the women, or the LGBT.””
https://nypost.com/2017/11/17/apples-diversity-chief-lasts-just-six-months/
Literally worse than Hitler.
https://twitter.com/ParisHilton/status/930922692550815745
“That’s hot!”
Thinn.
Diversity.
And I, for one, celebrate it!
HM never disappoints. Never. You Sir are the link master.
*BARF*
What an unusual orgasm noise.
Emetophilia is more common than you think.
I don’t even know what to say. The girl is a stick. I mean, look at that picture. What is even remotely attractive about that? I can’t think of a single redeeming feature. Just, *BARF*.
Everything Paris does is hot. And then she opens her mouth and I do a facepalm.
Why oh why did none of y’all degens tell me there was a Letterkenny Halloween Special?
“Diversity is the human experience,” she said, according to Quartz. “I get a little bit frustrated when diversity or the term diversity is tagged to the people of color, or the women, or the LGBT.””
BURN HER!
Oh, and remember when Dennis Miller was still funny?
Saw him live in the mid-90s in DC; I can still feel the face ache.