Go Green Bay. Fuck Baltimore because, well, they have Baltimore in their name. Yes I am that shallow.
ArchieBunker
I hope the packers pull it off. The only hope I have of the bills to make the playoffs is if the ravens keep losing games.
AlexinCT
With my Redskins ding their usual implosion comedy routine, I always end up rooting for the Packers. With Aaron down and out for the count and the Packers now having to wing it, I wonder if I shouldn’t sell out like of these fair weather fans up here in the North East….
I hope OMWC and SP enjoy the Lambeau experience. It is a great place to watch a game. But it can only be truly complete when the visiting fans must slink off sighing at their team’s futile efforts to win. But enough Leini’s, brats and cheese curds will fix that.
I will be off to a bar to watch the game. I will look for OMWC’s “Free Candy Here” sign on the TV.
Private Chipperbot
And the giant tub of popcorn in his lap with the bottom cut out.
JetBlue is tolerable if you pay their premium. Never flown Virgin Atlantic.
AlexinCT
Do any of them not suck?
Mythical Libertarian Woman
I hate United. Going into the full reasons why would take a novel, but let’s just say it involves their shitty service causing me to miss my flight and refusing to reimburse me for it or allow me to take a later flight, thus costing me $400 and a trip I’d planned to visit my grandma whom I hadn’t seen in 7 years.
(That part’s okay, at least, because she lives with me now. But it was a gut punch at the time because I wasn’t sure if she’d be able to, and like I said—hadn’t seen her in 7 years at that point. It was 9 overall by the time she moved in with me.)
I’m sorry, I didn’t realize you were lactose intolerant.
dbleagle
Well she looks like how well the Packers offense played today. OMWC got to witness an unfortunate history of the Packers being blanked at home.
AlexinCT
Fugly shit man..
Spartacus
“Packers” is an anti-gay slur, and I demand they change their name to something inoffensive, like the “Trumphasatinydickers”. Totally NOT offensive to anybody I know.
Maybe this isn’t a good idea for my first post here. Anyway, my sarcasm has become entirely too subtle for what remains of the H&R crowd, so I am checking out this place. Could use new curtains but otherwise it looks passable.
Atanarjuat
Howdy.
egould310
????
hayeksplosives
Welcome aboard!
This morning’s links are…atypical.
MikeS
Oh great. Tulpa’s here.
The Late P Brooks
[insert inflammatory vile allegation about the character and lineage of Art Modell]
Russian Kia Drives Yusef
Go Pack! i hate Football now, too many rules, Brett Favre was the best Football Player in history
KibbledKristen
Incorrect!
Russian Kia Drives Yusef
If you don’t have a name why bother? Who is the Best?
Favre doesn’the even make the top 10 in Passer Rating. He does come in at #1 in interceptions, though.
Grumbletarian
Favre gets points for toughness, but that’s about it. Brady, Montana, Marino, Elway, Unitas, Staubach, Manning are all ahead of him, and you could make cases for Warren Moon, Kurt Warner, Steve Young, Troy Aikman, Aaron Rodgers, Terry Bradshaw, and Jim Kelly being better.
dbleagle
Dump Unitas for Bart Starr. Both are top QB’s from the same era but look at the numbers:
Unitas won 2 NFL championships, didn’t start in SB III (loss) and in SB V threw 2 picks before being injured and removed from the game in the second quarter. Yes he won multiple NFL MVP awards. He lost to the Packers in the 1965 playoffs, to the LA Rams in the 1967 playoffs and to the Dolphins in the 1971 playoffs. He finished his career with the Chargers.
Starr won 5 NFL championships, two SB and was the MVP for SB I and II. In his career he went 9-1 in playoffs with his only loss was the 1960 NFL championship to the Eagles. He called the play that won the Ice Bowl over the Cowboys- and didn’t tell his teammates that he was going to sneak it instead of handing off to ensure that nothing would tip off the defense. He was the NFL MVP once. As the Packers coach he was less successful with an overall record of .408 and a 1-1 playoff record.
Old Man With Candy
He lost to the Packers in the 1965 playoffs
Wrong on several levels. First, the game was lost on a bad call on a last second field goal, no fault of the QB. Second, Unitas didn’t even play- he had been injured, his backup (Gary Cuozzo) had been injured, and thus the starting quarterback was… Tom Matte, the running back. Matte had to wear a wristband with the plays on it, and you can see that wristband in the Hall of Fame in Canton.
AlexinCT
Where is Rodgers? I think he was/is a better QB than all of the above.
The Last American Hero
A man named Otto would like a word.
ArchieBunker
OJ Simpson would like a word with you
Russian Kia Drives Yusef
So would Nicoles killers, and David Cassidy has organ failure
ArchieBunker
He was the only 2,000 yrd rusher in a 13 game season. The murders overshadow an amazing career in football
A year after her defeat by Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton says “there are lots of questions about its legitimacy” due to Russian interference and widespread voter suppression efforts.
In an interview with Mother Jones in downtown Manhattan, Clinton said Russian meddling in the election “was one of the major contributors to the outcome.” The Russians used “weaponized false information,” she said, in “a very successful disinformation campaign” that “wasn’t just influencing voters—it was determining the outcome.”
The more revolting part: she still has sycophants that gobble this shit up. What an irritating cunt.
Hyperion
Forward to 2020. Bernie and Elizabeth Warren both have strange unexplained accidents, Hillary gets the nomination again, because this time it really is her turn.
AlexinCT
There is a method behind this madness. The proggies want to make sure everyone knows that if they are not in charge they will not let whomever else was elected be successful, let alone do the job they were elected for. And they would rather burn down the country than step aside. The sycophants on the other side just go along with that, especially since their gravy trains is also at risk with this crazy boorish outsider running the show and showing how pathetic both sides are. That’s our political class in a nutshell.
Spartacus
So, did the interviewer ask her how it feels to be married to a serial sexual harasser (and probably worse)?
I’m going to guess not.
Rhywun
In case one had any lingering impression that there was no difference between the two candidates:
“Justice Thomas’s opinions [on the constitutionality of the administrative state in cases including Association of American Railroads] are the driving intellectual force of the Trump administration.”
Can you imagine anyone in the orbit of Herself uttering this?
Scruffy Nerfherder
Thanks for that. Good article.
Chafed
Yes. A thousand times this. Yes.
dbleagle
The Manhattan Contrarian is a treasure to read. IowaHawk is better (the best?) at the pithy rejoinder but MC is always a thoughtful read.
Not an Economist
It is a good thing Hillary is willing to accept the results of the election, unlike the cretin Donald Trump.
Pope Jimbo
Will someone ask her what was false?
Not one person has ever claimed that something specific in the leaks was false. They just wave their hands around about how it was hacked and that isn’t fair. But unless I’ve missed something, no one has said that the emails or whatever were tampered with or fabricated.
Akira
‘This is just more than the usual standard lie,’ Obama said, speaking at length about Trump’s escalating comments about a rigged election and fraud.
‘I want everyone to pay attention here. That is dangerous,’ Obama said.
‘When you try to sew the seeds of doubt in people’s minds … that undermines our democracy,’ he said.
“a very successful disinformation campaign” that “wasn’t just influencing voters—it was determining the outcome.”
WTF does that even mean? The disinformation campaign hacked the voting machines?
Sorry, nevermind, I was pretending for a second that she was trying to say something sensible rather than just spewing out random crap for the TDS crowd.
kbolino
I dunno, I find it kinda telling. Apparently, elections are not about giving the voters what they want, they’re about giving a veneer of democratic legitimacy to a predetermined outcome.
hayeksplosives
I guess she is sticking with the plan to repeat a lie so often that it replaces people’s memory of the truth.
Remember how, a couple of months after the Supreme Court halted the biased “recounting” of the Florida ballots in Gore v Bush, the press finished their own recount of the ballots and said, “Yup, Bush had more votes than Gore”? Well, it happened, but all Team Blue remembers is that Bush STOLE the election.
Same thing will be said of 2016 in the future. “Russia hacked the election, and Trump stole it from Hillary.” No one will remember it was a snowball of emails and leaks proving careless or criminal handling of classified data (Hillary and Huma/Weiner), taking over the DNC before the primaries were done, Pay-for-Play, Benghazi, fainting on 9-11 and other health oddities, etc etc., and the absolute most important thing, which nobody can claim was a hack or leak: “Basket of deplorables” and “Irredeemable”. She sealed her own fate.
kbolino
The butthurt over Bush v. Gore was epic (it made several lists of “worst SCOTUS decisions ever”, edging out cases like the one where mandatory euthanasia was upheld, or a farmer was forced to destroy his grain instead of being able to eat it). It’s an interesting case, but not for partisan reasons. In 2000, the notion that states could do whatever they want with elections had been null and void for about 35 years. Between the Civil Rights Acts and related court cases, the states, especially southern states, had to give deference to Federal law in conducting elections. Yet, the Gore minority said that SCOTUS should defer to the state.
Of course, the fact that Bush won the most votes in the end is immaterial to people who want to believe Gore won.
hayeksplosives
Living through the exasperating drawn-out post election drama of 2000 was what motivated me to get involved in local politics. Of course, I was young and hadn’t heard of Libertarians, so I joined the GOP. Shortly thereafter, I became familiar with the Republican Liberty Caucus and “signed up for their newsletter.”
When the press recount (I think they got permission through the FOIA or something) was complete, I distinctly remember the results appearing on page 10 of the papers (or deeper buried) and not being on TV at all, but it was all over talk radio. Man, I began to hate the arrogant press and their increasingly obvious desire to influence outcomes, not just through editorial writing.
juris imprudent
mandatory euthanasia
Buck v. Bell – about compulsory sterilization?
kbolino
Yep! Damn, that’s quite a mistake. I knew what it was about, but the wrong word came out.
Juvenile Bluster
How do you confuse a Cowboys fan?
Ask him to point out Dallas on a map.
Fuck Dallas.
Chipwooder
There is no creature more craven or soulless than the East Coast Cowboys fan
Bill Clinton’s history of sex scandals faced yet another new wave of scrutiny Sunday as a trending Twitter campaign — called “Ken Starr Was Right” — rallied behind the idea that the former president should have resigned or been kicked out of office.
The Twitter trend is just the latest example of Clinton’s controversies getting a harsh second look, as the #MeToo campaign against sexual harassment has raised new questions about whether the former president evaded justice.
The campaign on Sunday started after Ross Douthat, a conservative New York Times columnist, wrote a column saying Clinton’s presidency never would have survived the current climate calling for alleged sexual harassers and attacks to lose their positions of powers.
Local story about an 18 yr old driver being shot in the head by police. It could very well be justified but we’ll probably never find out for sure. Supposedly he tried to run over a deputy but no information is given on the circumstances (the last local story where someone tried to “run over” a cop involved a cop that grabbed the doorhandle as the person sped off which also involved cop discharging his weapon into a car). Can we start a charity already to give cameras to less-fortunate police departments?
leonadasiv
He probably tried to run over the deputy after being shot in the head and his body slumped on the accelerator.
ArchieBunker
It wouldn’t surprise me. My experience as s generally law abiding resident is that many/most of the local cops are adrenaline junky thugs.
PieInTheSKy
any reason to riot?
ArchieBunker
Always reason to riot. How could you ask such a question.
It doesn’t matter whether he, in truth, molested a 14 year old girl in his younger days, anyway. The only thing that matters is that we set a precedent that most certainly will never backfire on us in order to gain political advantage.
AlexinCT
I find it hilarious that the left’s puritanical brigade (remember when they told us the right wanted to control our sexual behavior?) never realized where this thing would logically end up taking them when they cried havoc and let loose the dogs of patriarchal sex predatory behavior.
PieInTheSKy
The ruling party of Zimbabwe has voted to sack Robert Mugabe as its leader and has appointed in his place the vice-president the veteran autocrat fired two weeks ago.
The vote by hundreds of senior Zanu-PF officials in Harare on Sunday significantly weakens the position of Mugabe, who has refused to step down following a military takeover last week, despite huge marches demanding that he leaves power.
So, I saw the trailer for The Incredibles 2. Apparently, the events in the second movie follow closely on the heels of the first movie’s, since Jack-Jack is still a baby.
That is a concern I have. Disney just recently fired a sort of SJWish (oooh…that is the first time I have written those particular letters together. Looks like I am referring to ((them))) from its Marvel CU team, didn’t they? That should provide some optimism that the company isn’t completely insane.
Juvenile Bluster
The movie follows directly from the end of the first. That’s the way Brad Bird wanted it, but he didn’t want to do the movie until he had a solid story for it.
A U.S. warship collided with a Japanese commercial tug boat in Japan’s Sagami Bay on Saturday, marking the fifth time this year that a ship in the U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet in the Pacific has been involved in a crash.
With all the diversity and other proggie bullshit training there is now not enough time to teach them how to man a ship… But they sure as hell know how to be good socialist sheeple.
The Last American Hero
There you go again. “Man” a ship indeed. As shown in the documentary “Down Periscope”, women are also quite capable at sea.
Not an Economist
Well based on what we know so far, it may not be the Navy’s fault.
****fingers crossed****
AlexinCT
Even if it is not the fault of the sailors on that DDG, the NAVY currently has a serious problem with both morale and performance because these people are being pushed too hard and not properly trained to do their real jobs.
Some nightmare (or fapping) fuel for your perusal.
Rhywun
The smoking toddler/chicken combo is outstanding.
Vhyrus
I’d be smoking too if I had a huge cock like that.
mikey
Girl on the alligator.
Tundra
Come on, guys – no vote for the monocled, cross-dressing, cigarette-smoking Master E. Garratt (The Little Stranger)?
mikey
There’s really just too much to chose from – like one of Q’s posts.
What really gets me is that studio photos of this vintage took a lot of time and effort to take, develop and print. I can’t imagine what the motivation would have been to expend so much effort on such images. Never mind what was inside the brain if the photographers.
Maybe HM could shed some light on this.
Pope Jimbo
It appears that the mighty Koch’s have been lording over the little guys for a lot longer than we thought.
I could not make it past 30 seconds. It is amazing how america was paradise just one year ago and now it is such a shithole. Sad.
Hyperion
The most amazing thing is that I personally cannot tell that anything has changed at all from a year ago.
PieInTheSKy
thats the privilege talking
egould310
You haven’t noticed the armie of nazi skinheads marauding across the countryside raping and murdering bodies of color?
The Zenome Project
The like/dislike ratio clearly shows that only lefties care to watch SNL anymore. It makes their shot at the Democrats last week all the more surprising.
Wow that was stupid. And the audience applause is weak even by SNL standards.
The Elite Elite
SP knows how to do links. We don’t ever read them anyway, so just put one stupid sports-ball link in there for us to ignore. SP for permanent link poster!
Takeaways: All men are competitive jerks who ruin online message boards.
. All women are just delicate flowers afraid to hurt people’s feelings.
. It would be better if women ran everything.
“It was the early ‘90s, and many were claiming that online, gender, and other social differences that might involve hierarchies—like ability, race, education—all of that would be invisible; you wouldn’t be able to tell who was who, or judge anyone based on their identity,” – uhuh
rancor and gender divisions seemed to thrive in the online discussions – i wonder who is stirring them up
Well, it was kind of aggressive, but as long as the slings and arrows weren’t aimed at me, it was fine,” or “This is just the way online conversation goes.” Some men said it was “kind of fun to go at each other’s throats,” or they brushed it off: “This is nothing; you should see the philosophy list.”
Nearly all the women, however, showed an aversion to the tenor of the debate. Common responses included things like: “The contentiousness made me not want to participate in discussion,” or “It made me want to drop off list all together.” Some went so far as, “People who speak like this are not good people,” and “This debate made me want to not be linguist.”
In general, Herring found, the women cared about
So men and women have different attitudes. where is the sexism in slack? The internet is a tool and quite neutral.
Not an Economist
You don’t understand. We must kowtow to the most easily offended among us. Then and only then we will be free.
AlexinCT
Crap, this sounds exactly like a synopsis of what that diversity training class I just decided to not go to recently was about. Of course, my company’s HR department is all in a huff about that. The fact that I missed the class to take care of a major problem caused by a snowflake I was going to be told I had to just defer to because of her internal plumbing,m sure irks them.
Rhywun
I’m terrified that my company – which has been growing by leaps and bounds – is going to go down this path to madness. Right now it’s just mandatory online multiple-choice stuff, but if HR decides to tighten the screws and make us “participate” I don’t know what I’ll do. I won’t be able to hide my resentment of it, that’s for sure.
DOOMco
that episode was funny.
mr simple
I forgot to mention: Any difference in the sexes is due to socialisation alone.
Akira
Correction: Any difference that is disfavorable to women is due to socialization. It’s perfectly acceptable to say that men are more prone to violence or that women are better communicators.
I believe this is called the Althouse Rule.
The Last American Hero
Ours was set up by a lesbian who is still the go-to person if there are any slack questions.
Do we get bonus intersectionality points or is it just as bad because she’s into chicks just like the guys?
Michael Foster was charged with battery for attacking another customer, Clarence Daniels, at Walmart, 11110 Causeway Blvd, Brandon.
Just before noon Tuesday, Foster, 43, of Lithia, saw Daniels in the Walmart parking lot in possession of a handgun that was in a holster and under his coat, the sheriff’s office said.
Foster followed Daniels in the parking lot and into the store. While in the store, Foster attacked Daniels, 62, of Seffner, the sheriff’s office said.
Foster grabbed Daniels from behind in a choke hold and then took him to the ground, the sheriff’s office said.
While both men struggled, Foster yelled that Daniels had a gun. Daniels also yelled that he had a permit to legally carry the gun, the sheriff’s office said.
There’s a fine line between recklessness and courage.
Count Potato
Micheal Foster sounds like a complete idiot.
Semi-Spartan Dad
And very lucky to be alive. I carry at least at least 1 or 2 knives, in addition to my XDS, just in case someone gets past my guard like this. I imagine many other CCW and open carriers do the same thing.
Many of our spouses also carry and wouldn’t hesitate to engage.
Semi-Spartan Dad
Also odds on Foster remaining alive or not spending the rest of his life in prison if Daniels had been an off-duty or plainclothes cop?
Hyperion
I’d give about a 99% change of not still being alive. But no surprise here, progs are suicidal. They’re like some sort of death cult.
Are sailors not taught navigation skills, anymore? Are they relying on computers to do everything, or something?
“Dude, it’s awesome. The boat just drives itself. Chill out and enjoy the view.”
The Late P Brooks
It’s power imbalances, all the way down.
Count Potato
“If you don’t tow @Twitter’s radical left wing agenda for completely reshaping American into a Marxist totalitarian utopia, they will kick you off the platform.”
well how will others reshare you deep thought if youz iz not on teh twitterz
The Zenome Project
OTOH, they would be completely irrelevant and possibly out of business without Donald Trump’s account, so they can only socially signal so much without destroying themselves.
“The solution isn’t more solemn acknowledgments from powerful male comedians. We have those. The solution is putting people in positions of power who are not male, not straight, not cisgender, not white. This is not taking something away unfairly — it is restoring opportunities that have been historically withheld. And if we address the power imbalance in comedy, in this art that shapes how people think, what jokes they repeat to their families, who they believe deserves to hold a microphone and talk out loud, other imbalances might follow.”
TW: Lindy West
PieInTheSKy
putting people in positions of power – how do you randomly put people in positions of power? maybe certain types of people are attracted to power and end up in those positions. maybe those people tend not to be angels. neah that’s just crazy talk. we just aint got the right peeps in yet
Hyperion
You end this old out dated stuff, like voting and letting people advance in society on merit alone, and just have the most woke people appoint the right thinking TOP.MEN. Get woke!
PieInTheSKy
can I just nominate myself as supreme dictator? I would be quite benevolent and only ask for a palace and a decently sized harem. Also steak and wine.
Hyperion
You mean Supreme Shitlord. You have my vote if I’m made Grand Hedonism Czar. Someone has to manage all the hookers and blow.
Hyperion
“shapes how people think”
There’s nothing Orwellian there.
Rhywun
TW: Lindy West
Whew. Glad I read to the end.
PieInTheSKy
Sarah Silverman: ‘There are jokes I made 15 years ago I would absolutely not make today’
Sarah Silverman’s comedy has always aimed a laser into the dark corners of sexism, racism and religion. But now she’s using her wit to make sense of the huge issues facing America. Sophie Heawood meets her in Hollywood
Mel brooks complained that he probably cound not make some jokes today. Silvermen is probably proud of it.
Not that any of this means Silverman is going soft – she is also speaking her truth to power, rousing her 12m Twitter followers with her daily backlash against the president. – how very brave, no one else speaks against Trump.it is dangerous business
Hyperion
“the huge issues facing America”
First world problems. But it is great that we’ve decided to go back to the days of the Spanish Inquisition. All that freedom stuff was getting really scary. Progress! Forward comrades, back to the Dark Ages!
The Zenome Project
If she took her schtick on the road and went all over the Midwest, maybe she would have a case for being brave. Of course, her latest shows show her bravery in full display:
Apr 29, 2017 Saturday @ 8pm
The Grand Theater at Foxwoods Resort Casino
Mashantucket, Connecticut
Apr 28, 2017 Friday @ 7:30pm
The Wilbur
Boston, Massachusetts
Apr 27, 2017 Friday @ 7:30pm
The Wilbur
Boston, Massachusetts
Apr 25, 2017 Tuesday @ 7:30pm
Heinz Hall
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Apr 24, 2017 Monday @ 8pm
The Paramount (Huntington)
Huntington, New York
Apr 22, 2017 Saturday @ 8pm
The Theater at MGM National Harbor
Oxon Hill, Maryland
Feb 7, 2017 Tuesday @ 8pm
Paramount Theatre (Seattle)
Seattle, Washington
Jan 20, 2017 Friday @ 8pm
Carolina Theatre
Durham, North Carolina
Not an Economist
Why would she go to flyover country? The stupid, racist rednecks aren’t woke enough to get her jokes.
Rhywun
She was funny 15 years ago. Oh well.
Gilmore
The only funny joke i ever heard her tell was =
“If there were blacks in germany during the holocaust? It never would have happened.
…
…
…
… to the jews, i mean. duh!”
John Titor
Not that any of this means Silverman is going soft – she is also speaking her truth to power, rousing her 12m Twitter followers with her daily backlash against the president. – how very brave, no one else speaks against Trump.
Silverman is in the same little club as our good friend Penn; namely, they’ve openly admitted they’re terrified that Muslims are going to kill them so they don’t make jokes about them. So given that they’ve openly admitted to being cowards them playing ‘tough guy’ politics is pretty funny.
The Late P Brooks
Mini Cooper S JCW GP vs. Porsche
Fuckin hell. The guy driving that Mini ain’t afraid to poke his nose in there.
Tundra
No kidding. My palms got a little sweaty watching that.
Count Potato
“A POP star has been arrested over a raunchy video showing her singing in her underwear while eating a banana “suggestively”.
Shyma has come under fire in her native Egypt for the racy clip, which also shows her licking an apple while teaching a class full of men.”
These stories about Egypt’s struggles to join the 20th century are a cottage industry lately. That nice young lady is an inspiration.
AlmightyJB
I approve of that video
PieInTheSKy
I keep spelling water with two t and feel like there should be 2 iu there. why is there just one t in water? goddamn non phonetic languages
peachy rex
It helps us to identify the riff-raff, comrade. [taps side of nose]
Rhywun
Because then it would rhyme with “matter”.
R C Dean
Wait, it doesn’t?
Rhywun
Shh!
westernsloper
Exactly. You only use two t’s in water when typing in a Boston accent.
PieInTheSKy
Brazil’s New Problem With Blackness
As the proudly mixed-race country grapples with its legacy of slavery, affirmative-action race tribunals are measuring skull shape and nose width to determine who counts as disadvantaged.
dunno if this was covered back in april but yey for phrenology
These spots are for people who are phenotypically black,” Mailson Santiago, a history major at the Federal University of Pelotas and a member of the student activist group Setorial Negro, told me. “It’s not for people with black grandmothers.”
Rhywun
Enjoy gitting woke, Brasil. Poor bastards.
Heroic Mulatto
Eat a dick, Santiago.
The Late P Brooks
What this nation needs is more self-flagellation about sex and race.
Hyperion
How else can we get woke and win the race back to the Dark Ages? Wait… Dark Ages, that’s racist! I mean the good old days before the white devils appeared and ruined paradise.
That green grid in there is like an hour of watching CNN.
Count Potato
“Slave markets are springing up across Libya trading impoverished African migrants who have arrived on the Mediterranean coast dreaming of a new life in Europe. A new investigation has revealed people are being sold as modern-day slaves for as little as £300 ($400).”
First black President brought back African slavery?
Hyperion
Has CNN discovered the Trump/Russian connection to this yet?
PieInTheSKy
The question is what is trhe solution?
Slave markets are springing up across Libya trading impoverished African migrants who have arrived on the Mediterranean coast dreaming of a new life in Europe – not to go all rightwing here but there isn’t room for all dreamers in Europe. Not all at once in any case
Hyperion
Racist!
Rhywun
Not my problem.
AlmightyJB
I hope this doesn’t impact the cost of orphans.
Akira
You’re looking at this from the wrong angle… What if some of those slaves WERE orphans? And even if they had parents still living, they may be able to do some of the same work that orphans do. If you could work out the logistics of transporting the slaves to your home, it could be a real gold mine.
Come on man – think like a libertarian!
AlmightyJB
I was talking about the possibility of it being shut down due to the cnn reporting and creating a shortage of free labor.
Bob Boberson
Eagerly await a Ken lecture defending our intervention in Libya and explaining why Libyans are better off…
Count Potato
“White supremacists endorse Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan’s black separatism”
In that same vein, I thought this was a good article about the NYT publishing last week of a black Ivy League lawyer’s idiotic piece on how he is going to encourage his kids not to be friends with whites.
“What sort of monster gives a bad review to a book by someone who was gang raped as a 12-year-old and subsequently goes on to eat herself to over 40 stone? Probably the sort of monster who’s never read a book about fatness as a feminist issue which she found convincing.”
The only solution is to force everyone to like the book, or else. We’ve tried nudging people to think the right way, but it’s failed, so what choice do we have besides force?
Domestic Dissident
Go Colon Paperneck! Oh wait a second, that’s right, he’s already gone.
Heroic Mulatto
While I’d prefer Agile Cyborg to be our poet laureate, at this point in time, we’ll take what we can get.
egould310
Ya still got it, kiddo!!!
The Late P Brooks
TW: Lindy West
NEEDZ MOAR MINISTRY OF KULTUR
The Zenome Project
Seems like the Wimmenz Wing is going to duke it out with the Bernie Wing to see who reigns supreme in the Democratic Party agenda for 2018.
Democratic U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein told party officials Saturday morning that the sexual harassment allegations that have rocked the federal government and state legislatures across the country could lead to a wave of new women lawmakers not seen in decades.
“I predict based on what I see out there that we are going to have another Year of the Woman,” Feinstein said, referencing the year she was first elected to Congress alongside many other women in 1992.
Feinstein, who seldom appears at state party functions, spoke Saturday morning to the Women’s Caucus at the California Democratic Party Executive Board meeting in Millbrae. She’s facing an intra-party fight for reelection next year against state Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León of Los Angeles.
In her eight-minute speech, Feinstein, 84, emphasized the value of her experience and seniority in the Senate in fighting for legislation to protect those who have been sexually harassed or assaulted.
“What it means is that we have an opportunity to really turn this next year into a year of change affecting women,” she said.
For more information, her main primary challenger, BernieBro and “assault weapon expert extraordinaire” Kevin de León, is alleged to have covered up sexual harassment accusations against a fellow moonbat State Senator, Tony Mendoza.
Just a dabbler in derpotology of course, but I loved reading this and watching a few facts float up to a conscious level only to be immediately ignored.
Why not simply raise taxes on the wealthy and use the proceeds to beef up spending on programs that help the middle class and the poor?
Um… because the last sixty years of doing exactly that has left us a permanent underclass?
Christ, I don’t have time for this.
juris imprudent
Oh, but you missed things like this…
The entire burden of funding government can’t be put on the top 1 percent. The “Dream Hoarders,” with their six-figure incomes, are also part of the problem.
Yes, the author is calling out her fellow, well-off liberals – and then can’t figure out why this wonderful idea can’t gain political support, even from those sympathetic to the underlying belief.
Or this…
Of course, the power of that small group’s money in politics makes matters worse, although political scientists who study its effects are less convinced than the rest of us that it is the determining factor in most electoral outcomes, especially at the national level (if it were, Jeb Bush would have won the Republican primary.
Yes, of course the author SEES the evidence – it just doesn’t sink in what that MEANS. This thing is a tour de force of cognitive dissonance.
kbolino
They still can’t decide if the purpose of raising taxes on “the wealthy” is to increase revenue or to level out the income spread. The two goals are at cross purposes, but this is a relatively minor feat in the hall of left-wing cognitive dissonance.
Of course, even increasing the income tax drastically on the top earners won’t close the deficit, so any “beef[ed] up spending” would be debt-funded just like it is now. The last time I ran the numbers, increasing the tax on household income over $250,000 to 75% (vs. 35%) would net around $350 billion, which is an estimate based on the woefully unrealistic assumption that nobody would find a way to avoid the tax. That’s about half the current deficit (an improvement over the Obama years, where the annual increase in the debt was averaging close to $1 trillion).
And if you recognize the existence of the Laffer curve, and have been paying attention to the growth in Federal tax receipts lately, you might put two and two together and realize we are near the peak of the curve. Increase taxes too much and revenues are more likely to go down than up, especially after a couple of years of adjustment.
AlmightyJB
Stupid people are stupid
The Late P Brooks
In her eight-minute speech, Feinstein, 84, emphasized the value of her experience and seniority in the Senate in fighting for legislation to protect those who have been sexually harassed or assaulted.
tl;dr: “You’ll have to pry my dessicated corpse out of that Senate seat. I’m not going anywhere without a fight.”
Has anyone in the history of ever surprised their spouse with a new Mercedes/BMW/Lexus with a bow on top, sitting outside the house, without discussing it with them first?
juris imprudent
Remember, we’re all just millionaires temporarily down on our luck, so even as fantasy it isn’t really out of the question.
Is it because last time you went sweater shopping you got in trouble for suggesting sweaters that were being worn by other large breasted shoppers and not the sweaters on the store shelves?
“Honey, what about that red sweater that the blonde with the huge cans is wearing! I like that one.”
Tundra
It’s like you’re living in my head.
Atanarjuat
“I won’t even pick out a sweater for her.”
I’m terrible at it myself. Got a new girlfriend recently. How do you approach mandated gift holidays?
Atanarjuat
I actually already got an out of print book for her she once mentioned to me offhand. But I was thinking maybe I’d just give that to her at a random time and find something more Christmas-ey.
Tundra
Danger zone! Early in the relationship is brutal. I like the book idea a lot, as it is personal and shows that you are paying attention.
Totally depends on the chick, though. If she equates love with stuff, bail now! Just kidding, but a low maintenance holiday chick is worth her weight in gold.
How about a trip and just fucking skip the whole damn thing?
Atanarjuat
She’s super low maintenance. That’s a great idea.
Spartacus
Jewelry has always worked for me.
egould310
Nope. Unless it’s an engagement ring and a marriage proposal, jewelry is a very bad idea. For girlfriends that is. Once you’re married, jewelry away!
Pope Jimbo
My father once bought my mother a used Gremlin without asking her about it. But there was no bow.
*That was not our Gremlin. Our’s was not so well maintained.
The first car I had was my mom’s old green Gremlin. Wrecked it within an hour of getting my driver’s license trying to light a joint. Had a red front quarter panel after that. Ran that thing until it dropped dead. Hideous.
R C Dean
Does your spouse surprising you with a used Mercedes count?
R C Dean
I should clarify – it was for her to drive.
Gilmore
did that involve “this month’s credit card statement” with a bow around it?
Pope Jimbo
Poor Warren. There are always new and different cars parked out front of him mom’s house. But they don’t have bows and he doesn’t get to drive them.
Mad Scientist
The point isn’t to convince people to buy one and give it as a gift. The point is to convince people that if you buy one, you’re just as good as the people who could afford to buy them as a gift.
AlmightyJB
Why the hell are Browns on? BS
juris imprudent
You’d rather be watching Packers-Ravens? It looks cold in GB, not ice-bowl cold, but cold enough.
There was no expectation of elk in the area; even MO wildlife managers have no idea how the animal came to be there. A Missouri conservation agent said, “Frankly, it’s got us stumped.”
The girl’s father immediately saw that it was a young bull elk rather than a buck deer, and he reportedly called the conservation department right away. At first, they didn’t even believe him.
Doerhoff said he was surprised to get that call and thought it probably wasn’t an elk, noting that animal misidentifications are very common.
“The dad sent me a photo to my phone and it was very clear that, yes, that’s an elk,” Doerhoff said. “You don’t expect to see something like that. I’ve learned to never say never.”
elk deer potayto potahto… the difference is minor anyway
The Latest: GOP Congressman Calls for Ban on Elephant Hunts
A Republican congressman is praising President Donald Trump’s decision to delay a new policy allowing trophies of African elephants shot for sport to be brought into the country but says more needs to be done to protect the animals from extinction.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump’s decision to delay new policy on importation of elephant trophies from two African countries (all times local):
11:30 a.m.
A Republican congressman is praising President Donald Trump’s decision to delay a new policy allowing trophies of African elephants shot for sport to be brought into the country.
But Rep. Vern Buchanan, who co-chairs the Congressional Animal Protection Caucus, says more needs to be done to protect African elephants from extinction. He says sport hunting of the endangered species is “shameful” and calls for a permanent ban.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Thursday it would allow the importation of elephant trophies from Zambia and Zimbabwe, arguing that encouraging wealthy big-game hunters to kill the animals would help raise money for conservation programs.
President Donald Trump says he’s delaying a new policy allowing trophies of African elephants shot for sport to be imported until he can review “all conservation facts.”
He announced the delay late Friday following criticism from several quarters, including environmentalists, animal rights activists and some lawmakers from his own party.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Thursday it would allow such importation, arguing that encouraging wealthy big-game hunters to kill the threatened species would help raise money for conservation programs.
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We should listen to the experts, unless we don’t like what they say.
juris imprudent
Republican Congressman wants to ban hunting that doesn’t exist in this country? Maybe he should use that to influence elections in those countries where there are elephants, after all, it isn’t foreign meddling when we do it.
Stinky Wizzleteats
If those things’ existence isn’t worth anything they’ll be done in short order. Also, fuck off slaver.
kbolino
Fucking iconoclasts. I think they’re most tendentious and destructive of the anti-humanists.
kbolino
Hmm, it is entirely possible that iconoclasts and anti-humanists are, practically speaking, the same thing.
tl;dr version = tax the rich or the roads will suck
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How Cutting Taxes Makes Life Worse for the Rich
Economic View
By ROBERT H. FRANK NOV. 17, 2017
The Republican effort to cut federal taxes is still underway, and many crucial details are still unsettled. But little doubt remains that the effort has been heavily shaped by wealthy donors.
As Chris Collins, a Republican representative from New York put it: “My donors are basically saying, ‘Get it done or don’t ever call me again.’”
Many affluent people are likely to celebrate if an eventual deal in Washington grants them big tax breaks. Evidence suggests, however, that their jubilation would be short-lived — and followed by deep disappointment.
It is perfectly natural, of course, to believe that extra cash will help them buy the special things they want, such as more spacious homes or better performing cars. But that belief is a garden-variety cognitive error.
The mistake occurs because “special” is an inescapably relative concept. A spacious home is one that is larger than most other homes. A high-performance car is one that outperforms most other cars. Successful bidding for such things depends almost entirely on relative purchasing power. Taxes affect absolute purchasing power, not relative purchasing power. The upshot is that the ability of the already rich to bid successfully for special things is not enhanced by tax cuts.
Why isn’t this simple truth more widely appreciated? In thinking about how taxes affect us, we try to imagine how life would be different if we had less money. And when we recall examples of actual events that left us with less money — think home fires, job losses, business downturns, divorces, serious illnesses and the like — in almost every case, it really was more difficult for us to buy things we wanted.
But such events merely reduce our own incomes while leaving others’ unaffected. They reduce our relative purchasing power. Matters unfold differently when everyone’s spendable income goes down together, as when all pay higher taxes. In that case, our relative purchasing power remains the same as before.
Because virtually every human evaluation depends on context, the category of goods whose accessibility depends overwhelmingly on relative purchasing power is far broader than might appear. Suppose, for example, that you’re driving with your 6-year-old to visit her grandparents and she asks, “Are we almost there yet?” You’ll say “yes” if only 10 miles remain on a 120-mile journey. But you’ll say “no” if that same distance remains on a journey of only 12 miles.
Similarly, someone in Miami knows the answer if someone asks whether it’s cold on a 60-degree day in November. But her answer will be different from that of someone in Montreal who is asked whether it’s cold on a 60-degree day in March.
Little wonder, then, that context shapes our evaluations of virtually every purchase we might consider. The standards that define “special” are therefore highly elastic. When everyone buys larger houses and faster cars, or stages more elaborate wedding celebrations, standards adjust accordingly.
Failure to appreciate that reality has also contributed to the tax resistance that has made it so difficult to restore America’s crumbling public infrastructure. Even proponents of minimal government concede that private cars would be of little use without public roads. And although it’s difficult to reach agreement on the best mix of public and private spending, studies show that the current mix in the United States is strongly biased against public spending.
My research on this issue over many decades has identified the following thought experiment as an instructive way to view this problem.
Imagine that you are a wealthy car enthusiast facing two options: Driving a Porsche 911 Turbo (purchase price: less than $160,000) on well-maintained highways, or driving a Ferrari F12 Berlinetta (purchase price: more than $320,000) on roads riddled with foot-deep potholes. Which would you choose?
It’s an easy question. Suppose that the Ferrari would universally be judged better if both cars were driven on good roads. But since the Porsche already has every design feature that affects performance significantly, the Ferrari’s edge would be tiny at most. No one could reasonably claim that the Ferrari would be more pleasing to drive on pothole-ridden roads than the Porsche on well-maintained ones.
Yet, among the super-wealthy, the actual quality mix of cars and highways in the United States more closely resembles Ferraris on potholes than Porsches on smooth asphalt. That’s puzzling, since the latter combination could be achieved at much lower total expense.
This distortion is in large part a consequence of the cognitive error just described: What happens when any one person spends less on a car is very different from what happens when everyone spends less. In the former case, the buyer feels deprived. But when everyone spends less, the relevant frame of reference shifts, leaving drivers just as satisfied as before. The same logic applies not just to cars and highways, but also to a broad mix of personal and public priorities.
The American tax system is indeed deeply dysfunctional. But the consensus among tax-policy economists from both sides of the political aisle is that the proposals under consideration are not the reforms we need. Rate cuts for top earners would greatly increase budget deficits and do little or nothing to spur growth. Others have objected that they would make a skewed income distribution even more unequal. Fair points all.
But elections have consequences, and Republicans have never hidden their desire to cut taxes. They now have the power to do so.
But it would be a mistake to exercise that power. Tax cuts for the wealthy would not alter the supply of special things to be had. And by increasing government deficits substantially, they would degrade our infrastructure in ways that would harm even the ostensible beneficiaries of those cuts.
In short, cutting taxes for the wealthy is a losing proposition — even for the wealthy.
Robert H. Frank is an economics professor at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. Follow him on Twitter: @econnaturalist.
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Derpetologist
nyt won’t let you copy n paste, but select all still works.
Akira
America’s crumbling public infrastructure
[Citation Needed]
Ken Shultz
I suspect a lot of that is about rust belt states.
If the infrastructure of Detroit or Cleveland is crumbling, maybe that’s because much of that manufacturing base, there, has been largely abandoned since it was built eons ago.
Maybe they’re going for the Field of Dreams theory of economic revitalization–build it and they will come.
Never mind the cheaper labor force in the South or whether you’re a right to work state. If only they had the infrastructure, . . .
Meanwhile, Tesla is building their plant in Reno.
Is the infrastructure crumbling in Smyrna, Tennessee, Alabama, or Texas, where the Japanese manufacturers are building their cars?
Enquiring minds want to know.
Akira
On one of his podcasts, Tom Woods stated that most of the statistics on “crumbling infrastructure” was actually made up of decrepit bridges from the 1800s that may not have any actual vehicle traffic. There’s one like that in my town; it’s a local historic site. It’s probably counted somewhere as “crumbling infrastructure” even though the only people crossing it are on leisure hikes or bicycle trips.
juris imprudent
Our nearby main road has had a bridge out for a few months, resulting in a substantial increase in traffic over an even lower-standard bridge on other road to our house. Fortunately the replacement is nearly done, so when the really bad weather hits we’ll have less traffic passing our house. But one really good flood on that smaller bridge and it will need replacement too. There are lots of these in PA.
kbolino
I don’t think it skews the national stats much, but there are a lot of aging covered and truss bridges in Frederick County, Maryland that are preserved for historical reasons. It’s neat to drive through them, but they’re probably a bitch to maintain.
Rhywun
If the infrastructure of Detroit or Cleveland is crumbling, maybe that’s because much of that manufacturing base, there, has been largely abandoned since it was built eons ago.
I’m thinking it’s more because a high ratio of the money they claim to be putting into infrastructure is actually being funneled into the pockets of public sector workers.
kbolino
See: WMATA (operator of the DC metro)
Nobody can claim that the DC area is lacking for money. They just squandered it for 30+ years. If it was a private organization, the ensuing scandal would bankrupt it. But it’s a quasi-governmental organization (aren’t those just so fun), so it’s going to a clusterfuck for the foreseeable future.
RAHeinlein
Bingo – this and other crony projects. Obama spent billions (trillions?) on “shovel-ready” infrastructure jobs – lots of historic paving stones and extra-long jug-handles when I lived in New Jersey yet major bridges out-of-commission. Here in central Iowa there are infrastructure projects ad nauseam – major routes torn-up for bike lanes/bike paths with no riders, exit ramps that didn’t require changes, parking lot repaving etc.
kbolino
A local favorite of mine, the Stimulus Act was used to build a new control tower at the Frederick Municipal Airport. The tower is empty most of the time, and there was nothing wrong with the old tower (it was already a newer tower, the oldest tower having been turned into a restaurant). Total waste of money, but boy was it covered to the hilt in signage about how Americans were going back to work.
Rhywun
I could easily point to loads of actual crumbling infrastructure around NYC. And believe me, there is no shortage of money being thrown at it. So where’s the new infrastructure already? We have a train tunnel into Grand Central that’s a decade overdue and billions over budget. The state of bridges and highways would embarrass a third-world country. The subways are running – slowly – on hundred-year-old signal technology that isn’t even manufactured any more. But somehow all of these things manage to suck up many billions of dollars every year. That money is going somewhere.
kbolino
That money is going somewhere.
Indeed. There is an interesting bit on Slate Star Codex called Considerations on Cost Disease which delves into this state of affairs. Unfortunately, it doesn’t really reach any conclusions. Alternately, it reaches the conclusion “all of the above” but doesn’t make it very explicit.
kbolino
Translation: we need to funnel more money and power through DC, because clearly the states and localities can’t be trusted to maintain infrastructure.
Rhywun
Because buying status items is the only possible thing that rich people do with money.
…Jesus, how stupid do they think we are?
Ken Shultz
The Redskins have no business being in it this late in the ball game.
Seems like I write that every week.
We were lucky to beat the Seahawks at home. We were unlucky to lose to the Vikings.
Does it make sense that the Redskins would be only the fourth team to beat the Seahawks in Seattle in years?
No.
Does it make sense that the Redskins would beat the Seahawks in Seattle and then turn around and lose to Minnesota at home?
Well, yeah, they should lose most of their games. The Redskins are a mediocre team at best.
Does it make sense that they would now be driving on New Orleans in New Orleans, already up seven, just before the half?
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Last week, my fellow Diamondback columnist Liyanga de Silva wrote a piece about why banning hate speech at the University of Maryland would breach students’ First Amendment rights. Although I appreciate her argument, I must disagree with her conclusions.
Over the last year, a noose has been found in a fraternity house, swastikas have been discovered drawn on academic buildings and a student discovered the phrase “REEEEE” — which is ableist — written over the definition of homophobia they had on their whiteboard.
Although de Silva points out these incidents are acts of vandalism and not protected by free speech, other hate-based incidents have sprung up that are allowed by current university policies.
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Free expression restrictions already exist. Title IX requires all schools receiving federal funds to provide a safe education for all students. Because nearly every university gets federal funds in some capacity, Title IX applies to colleges across the country. This law exists to prevent discrimination on any basis; thus, the Title IX office at our university must be committed to investigating incidences of hate speech, which clearly amount to a violation.
Furthermore, de Silva continues by arguing that “having experiences with hateful people can be important for those of us who are marginalized.” This sentiment is dangerous. Logan Dechter, the student whose whiteboard was written over in the aforementioned incident, was so upset that he skipped one of his classes. To suggest that Dechter should learn from this incident, or that any marginalized student should have to learn from a bigot, normalizes hate. Bigots have nothing to teach us, and we should not allow their hatred to become normalized into our society.
Instead of accepting hate speech as an unfortunate evil we have to live with and learn from, the University Senate should move forward with its plan to ban such hateful symbols across the campus.
This university must prioritize the safety and security of marginalized students and the maintenance of an environment conducive to learning for all students over the free expression of bigots. As the university community continues to seek answers following Collins’ murder, we must prevent any further hate from spreading across our campus.
Mitchell Rock is a senior government and politics and physiology and neurobiology major.
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Ken Shultz
We can’t let them frame the issue like that.
A desired outcome doesn’t justify injustice.
The ends don’t justify the means. Doesn’t anyone on the left believe that anymore?
PieInTheSKy
I say advocating for increased immigration is hate speech against natives and should be banned
Ken Shultz
I think talking to guys about non-football related topics while they’re trying to watch football should be considered hate speech.
I once read a an article in Hustler magazine, where they showed that in seven out of ten cases in which a man uses a handgun to shoot his significant other, the researchers found that, “the bitch didn’t know when to quit”.
If you want to bring an end to that kind of domestic violence, stop talking about gun control, etc. and let’s start talking about that kind of hate speech–when a woman comes into the room and you’re clearly watching a football game, and she starts talking about . . . all kinds of shit–none of which is football related. Show me where it says in the Constitution that this isn’t hate speech.
Whenever I find myself accused of not doing something I promised to do, it’s invariably one of two situations: 1) I never promised to do any such thing, or 2) It was something I said when she was talking to me while I was watching football.
“Fine!” “Okay, Okay, Okay”! These words need to be understood in context. Off the top of my head, “fine” derives from the same root word as “finite” as in “the end”. “Fine!” means “Please God, end this conversation already!”–not “I solemnly. promise to go to your sister’s house for Thanksgiving”.
juris imprudent
We are the knights who say “REEEEE”.
Rhywun
“REEEEE” — which is ableist —
Wut?
Title IX requires all schools receiving federal funds to provide a safe education for all students.
Wrong.
This law exists to prevent discrimination on any basis;
Also wrong.
kbolino
That’s a nice connection to your post above about the administrative/regulatory state.
The original laws (Title VI from 1964, about race, and Title IX from 1972, about sex) don’t say any of that. But the newly revised administrative interpretation of the law does.
DOOMco
i honestly don’t know. what does it actually say?
I want to be able to bring this up because I hear it an awful lot.
Rhywun
All it says is you can’t discriminate based on sex. It says nothing about “safety”; nor anything about any other pigeonhole besides “sex”.
kbolino
Title VI:
No person in the United States shall, on the ground of race, color, or national origin, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.
Title IX:
No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.
DOOMco
how can they have mens or women’s sports or clubs under that?
I suppose if you remove funding, it’s entirely irrelevant. that’s interesting.
Thanks to the both of you.
kbolino
how can they have mens or women’s sports or clubs under that?
Well, that’s a fun one.
Technically, it shouldn’t be allowed. But the end result would be (at least, in some cases) sports programs dominated by men/boys, physical differences between the sexes being what they are. So, to balance that out, the schools were told that they had to set up “separate but equal” (I doubt that phrase was ever actually used, but that’s essentially what it was) programs for women/girls to compensate for those established for men/boys. However, I don’t think it can ever actually be enforced that certain programs are for men and certain others for women. That’s why the dividing line tends to be by sport rather than by sex, and I think that, in the cases where the same sport is played by both sexes separately (soccer, basketball, tennis, etc.), the two programs are actually organized under different rules/affiliations where it just so happens that one program gets favored by women and the other by men.
An interesting consequence of the Obama-era changes was that, if allowed to run their course, they would have likely resulted in effective elimination of this “separate but equal” situation, since FTMs can’t compete with male athletes and MTFs can outcompete female athletes.
DOOMco
How the fuck did it evolve into kangaroo courts out of this????
I can understand (and actually prefer) the separation for some sports, and would imagine that without any law, people would naturally do this in the correct sports.
Spartacus
The NCAA mostly counts up number of scholarships, coaches, funding, etc., spent on men’s and women’s sports and makes its determinations based on that. The NCAA isn’t directly responsible for enforcing Title IX, but there is so much overlap in their rules that one is pretty much as good as another, at least for varsity sports. When I was on my university’s certification committee several years ago, we had to generate reams of reports, most of which were about tallying up gender and ethnic diversity counts. There was way more stuff about proving athletics were diverse and that women’s sports were getting adequate resources* than there was about ensuring that athletes were making academic progress.
*This is on a sliding scale. Schools that traditionally had only men’s sports have to continually be making substantive progress toward equal funding, which is why, say, University of Florida has women’s soccer and lacrosse but no men’s teams in either–and will not, for the foreseeable future. My university started out nearly at parity so we have to stay there, which is partly why we will never have a football team, no matter how loud the boosters squeal.
Rhywun
When I was on my university’s certification committee several years ago, we had to generate reams of reports, most of which were about tallying up gender and ethnic diversity counts.
Madness. Another reason amateur (or pretend amateur) sports shouldn’t be tied to schools.
Count Potato
How the fuck is “RHEEEEE!” ableist?
DOOMco
some people are mute.
you fucking ass hole.
Count Potato
“a student discovered the phrase “REEEEE” — which is ableist — written over the definition of homophobia they had on their whiteboard.”
Well, it reads “written”. Then again it calls it a “phrase”, so maybe the author is doesn’t know what words mean.
Oh wait, here, I followed the link:
“Sophomore psychology and Spanish major Logan Dechter wrote the definition of homophobia on his whiteboard outside his dorm in Anne Arundel Hall after several LGBT-friendly messages were erased from it, he said. An individual later wrote “REEEEE” on top of the message, he added.
The term is meant to sound like a frog but as a scream, and is used to either express outrage or represent so-called autistic screeching, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
“Not only was it insulting to the LGBT community, but it was also insulting to the disabled community, so it was homophobic and ableist in that sense,” said Dechter, who added he was so upset he had to skip one of his classes. “I was really upset by that. I was anxious and angry.””
Which would quite ironic, since /pol is like the McDonald’s of ass burgers.
I’m also thinking if there were a noose, and swastikas, they were another example of SJW hoaxing.
The same way that not being racist is actually racist (failing to acknowledge historical injustices, systems of oppression, institutional yadda-yadda).
Mythical Libertarian Woman
Because it’s also known as “autistic screeching,” I’m going to guess.
Mythical Libertarian Woman
a student discovered the phrase “REEEEE” — which is ableist — written over the definition of homophobia they had on their whiteboard
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A previous Pew study from 2014 revealed that 62 percent of Americans don’t know a Muslim, a fact that makes it easier for many Americans to demonize Islam.
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“The significant increase [in hate crimes] over the last two years coincides with Donald Trump’s racist, xenophobic campaign and its immediate aftermath. We reported a surge in hate crimes and other bias-related incidents—many of them carried out in Trump’s name—in the days after the election,” the Southern Poverty Law Center said in a statement.
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Negative opinions about Islam are from Trump. There couldn’t possibly be any other reason.
PieInTheSKy
What are these hate crimes? And how many of them have been verified? I am sorry but I know longer believe any crime statistics based on polls or reports that have not lead to evidence.
John Titor
It’s the SPLC, which is basically a left-wing propaganda mill that constantly pimps fake hate crimes and endlessly declares people racists and bigots. Anything they say is unsubstantiated and not to be believed.
juris imprudent
Hey, the SPLC is the left-wing version of the Birchers; and like Birchers they can find what they are looking for ANYwhere.
kbolino
Knowing a Muslim isn’t going to affect the terrorists, so that’s a pretty irrelevant detail there.
Derpetologist
I see a picture of a ninja lady shooting a machine gun while riding a dinosaur, I click a picture of a ninja lady shooting a machine gun while riding a dinosaur.
Twitter is like a machine where if you push a button, you’re rewarded with a glimpse of unfathomable stupidity. Like ENB and her antifa-loving boitoi the other day.
Or this identity-politics drivel from Hillary’s press secretary, and then I noticed her background pimping her book: “Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss and the Fight for Trans Equality”. Foreword by… Joe Biden. Oh. OK, then. Should probably push that publishing date up before creepy Uncle Joe runs afoul of the mob for his Roman hands and Russian fingers. That’s right, Russian.
Count Potato
It’s drivel, be she’s not Hillary’s press secretary.
It is time for women of color–black women in particular–to divest from Lena Dunham.
I can’t say that I’m not glad that Dunham’s teflon seems to be wearing thin, but reading sentences like this disgust me.
AlmightyJB
Oh yeah, she’s no doubt the pot calling the kettle black, pardon the pun
Ken Shultz
The Saints just ran a jailbreak on Cousins, but Cousins found the open guy waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay out in space, Touchdown!
The consensus on the Saints had them favored by 10 1/2 points!
They’re gonna be trailing by 11 going into the 4th?
They probably won’t cover, but I still wouldn’t give the Redskins much more than a 50% chance of winning.
The last three weeks all went the same way.
That being said, if we beat Seattle in Seattle and the Saints in New Orleans, then we can beat anybody anywhere on any given day.
And we can get our asses kicked by the worst team in the league in our own backyard, too. It’s just a travesty that we don’t already have Cousins locked up.
I remember when Brees was playing for the Chargers. He wasn’t good enough for them. They kept Ryan Leaf and let Brees go.
That’s what’s going to happen to us with Cousins. We’re a bunch of fucking idiots.
And, incidentally, I don’t think the Chargers ever could have excelled under Schottenheimer. I’ve never seen a coach throw his own players under the bus like Marty did (even when he was in Washington), and I think that’s partially what screwed up Leaf’s head. I’m not sure Marty ever took the blame for anything in his whole life.
That being said, If Brees had been with the Chargers instead of Rivers, in the LT era, it would have been huge.
juris imprudent
Ken, have you been drinking?
Marty never coached Leaf; the Leaf disaster happened under Beathard (GM) and Riley (coach, shortly to be leaving Nebraska). Leaf was chosen 2nd after the Colts picked Peyton Manning. Fun fact, Jim Harbaugh became starting QB in place of Leaf.
Rivers was acquired by trade from the Giants for the rights to Eli Manning, by A.J. Smith (GM – after Butler who had followed Beathard). Smith didn’t like Brees because he was Butler’s guy (much the same as the Bills are doing with Taylor). Schottenheimer was hired by Butler and his relationship with Smith was tumultuous. Smith ultimately re-ran the Beathard/Ross drama and got rid of Marty, bringing in Norv. This is all of course possible (re-living the GM/coach conflict included) because the Spanoses are the worst owners in the league, save maybe the Yorks.
They were also concerned that Brees’ shoulder was wrecked in a meaningless play in a meaningless game against a meaningless team (Denver). It wasn’t a bad gamble to go with Rivers, particularly while LT and the running game was top notch.
Ken Shultz
Bobby Beathard is a gem. What he did with the Redskins, after George Allen had traded all our picks away from generations, was nothing short of the greatest fete in the history of general managers. He may have done it before the salary cap (for the Redskins), but he was pulling people out of baseball and elsewhere. It certainly wasn’t his fault if Leaf went psycho.
It’s hard to believe I forgot about Riley. He really was forgettable.
My observations about Schottenheimer were about what he did in Washington. Everybody was to blame for what happened–except Marty. I find that whole attitude revolting, and I think it really did bad things to his teams. When you’re the boss, you take the blame for what your staff does. Being responsible for your staff’s performance is the job description of “manager”. That’s why, as an employee, you’re supposed to give all the credit to your boss for your success. He takes all the blame for your mistakes, and you give him the credit for your success. Marty wouldn’t have that, and it made his players crazy to be called out and thrown under the bus in the media by their boss.
In my mind, I associated that kind of behavior from Marty with Leaf’s crazy ass behavior–as exactly the kind of thing a 21 year old kid looking to deal with sky high expectations would do under Marty throwing him under the bus.
So, I guess that wasn’t Marty. If Marty had been there, it might have been worse.
Regardless, it’s scary to think how good the Chargers would have been had they managed to sign an injured Brees at the time and traded down for more picks instead of taking Eli and trading for Rivers. As injured as Brees was, they could have locked him in for less than they paid Rivers, too. If they had, Brees would still probably be in San Diego (I believe he still lives in Del Mar), the Chargers would probably have had one or more rings, etc., etc.
It would have been huge.
Instead, the Chargers couldn’t even stay in San Diego. They might still be there today if they’d resigned Brees and traded down for picks. Or if they’d just resigned Brees.
The Late P Brooks
But such events merely reduce our own incomes while leaving others’ unaffected. They reduce our relative purchasing power. Matters unfold differently when everyone’s spendable income goes down together, as when all pay higher taxes. In that case, our relative purchasing power remains the same as before.
I wonder if Thomas Frank has ever applied this dazzling insight to the concept of inflation, or the minimum wage.
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That piece was mindbogglingly stupid, even for him.
juris imprudent
Sir, I give you this article from a website dedicated to the art of mindboggling stupidity.
Microaggressor
A bunch of Marxist True Believers gather to try to make economics conform to their desires. I’d like to see how this turns out. Seriously, look at those headlines.
The Late P Brooks
Logan Dechter, the student whose whiteboard was written over in the aforementioned incident, was so upset that he skipped one of his classes.
Genocide.
Ken Shultz
Anybody can beat the Redskins in DC.
You better hope they don’t come to your town.
Damn!
Seattle AND NEW ORLEANS?!
LOL.
hayeksplosives
Brace for OT! I thought the skins had this in the bag.
juris imprudent
Very clever of you Ken to work a ‘skins bit in behind a post that simply says “Genocide”.
Ken Shultz
My posts sometimes land in strange places.
It wasn’t supposed to be a reply to anything.
The Late P Brooks
Sir, I give you this article from a website dedicated to the art of mindboggling stupidity.
That… made my head hurt.
juris imprudent
Anyone recall the Jeff Foxworthy (I think) routine about guys and smelling something really terrible? There was some ad with raccoons and eating garbage riffing on the same theme.
Well, I believe derp serves the same role in our social milieu.
AlmightyJB
Should have gone out and watched that Vikings game
Tundra
Defense is for real.
AlmightyJB
Didn’t see but was tracking on ESPN Gamecast online. Pretty impressive except for the 2 missed field goals. Guess the first one was pretty long though.
AlmightyJB
I’ll get to see them Thursday I guess which will piss off wife but she’ll get over it:))
DOOMco
will the chiefs win or will andy reid andy reid?
Count Potato
It just went into OT.
DOOMco
and they get the ball.
Count Potato
No idea why the Giants decided to kick on second down, but at least they won.
Juvenile Bluster
The Browns are gonna Brown.
Feel bad for Packers fans. Especially Glib Packers fans who had to sit through that game today in freezing cold.
I had to find myself rooting for the Washington Football Team today. I hate doing that. And I totally know that Brees is going to run a drive right down the field for the tying TD, and the Saints will win in OT.
No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.
I’m squinting as hard as I can, and I still can’t see the part about “Spending on women’s sports must be equal to spending on men’s sports.”
I must need new glasses
idiotic progressives come out of the woodwork trying to rationalize that there’s nothing at all wrong with that, because… uh, cities are expensive, and fairness, and uh, more reasons.
Rhywun
I’m agreeing with a NYT article, at least so far.
But the problems plaguing the subway did not suddenly sweep over the city like a tornado or a flood. They were years in the making, and they might have been avoided if decision makers had put the interests of train riders and daily operations ahead of flashy projects and financial gimmicks.
*falls out of chair*
Rhywun
It’s veering into the “not enough money” derp pit now. *sigh*
It’s like they can’t put 2 and 2 together.
juris imprudent
If they could, would they have majored in journalism?
Rhywun
Finished the whole thing – it’s surprisingly balanced overall for a NYT article. Lots of blame put on vanity projects, political BS, and yes outrageous union demands. But still pining for fantasy funding sources like “congestion pricing” and higher taxes.
The Late P Brooks
Today in HS Teachers gone wild
In P Brooks -topia, only the student would have standing to make a complaint or seek charges.
Count Potato
I’m still not going to defend Marx.
juris imprudent
Picture was inconclusive as to whether or not I would get behind her.
The Last American Hero
Chico/Harpo/Groucho are the holy trinity of comedy.
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A Florida church has a stark warning to all who enter who may wish to do harm–“we are heavily armed.”
The River at Tampa Bay Church regularly broadcasts its services live on social media, and in the wake of the Texas church massacre where 26 people were killed, a leader of the congregation made a splash on social media when he posted a photo of the sign.
“Welcome to The River at Tampa Bay Church — right of admission reserved — this is private property,” it reads. “Please know this is not a gun free zone — we are heavily armed — any attempt will be dealt with deadly force — yes we are a church and will protect our people.” The message is signed “The Pastors.”
….
Associate Pastor Allen Hawes told FOX 13 Tampa the sign has been up for over a year at the non-denominational church, but garnered attention after Senior Pastor Rodney Howard-Browne posted it on his Instagram account.
Hawes has his own concealed-carry weapons permit, and said those armed during services that draw over 1,000 could include parishioners with concealed-carry permits, private plainclothes guards, or uniformed deputies hired for security.
“If you think you are going to come here and do that, this is a deterrent for you because it is everywhere, it’s not like we hide these signs,” Hawes said. “They’re big signs, and it’s going to tell these people, we will protect our people.”
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Ken Shultz
The only thing worse than knowing you’re going to lose and losing is thinking you’re going to win and losing.
I was sure we were going to lose–right up until the last 2:45 of the 4th quarter. I thought for sure we would win–just in time for that god awful intentional grounding call.
We were up by 11 and in field goal range–and the damn Saints had no time outs.
Then there was that 3rd and 1. If we’d made that 3rd and 1 and hadn’t had to punt, . . .
Couldn’t stop a 2 point conversion?
There’s something to be said about the human condition and our susceptibility to hope. There was only one way the Saints could have won that game in that situation, and it was by doing exactly what they did. That happens all the time in sports–to the point where it’s basically expected. Miracles aren’t surprising, they’re more like confirming our preexisting biased belief in miracles.
When the only way to win at the end is if somebody does something that’s highly improbable, it isn’t really surprising when they do exactly that thing. Ask the homeless guy living behind the dumpster at the gas station near you, and he’ll probably tell you that if he could just x, y, and z, then his plan will turn out alright, and everyone who doubted him will all be ashamed of themselves.
That’s probably how the Redskins’ GM painted himself into this corner with Cousins, too. He’s got a plan, and somehow, he thinks it’s all gonna come together–despite either losing Cousins or having to pay him $35 million for just one year and then losing him.
The Late P Brooks
Vaganica comes out, blames the team. We don’t know whose fault it was, but we know whose fault it wasn’t.
AlmightyJB
Is that your pet name for Danica?
AlmightyJB
Yeah, we knew how you did that before all this went down.
I have a vague memory from a month or two ago of people saying they didn’t like the NFL anyway and were boycotting the bastards because of some player-owner kerfuffle and something about anthems or whatever.
that i guess that wore off
Atanarjuat
I don’t care much either way, but… I had a child with a woman from Pittsburgh in the aughts. It is always a guaranteed smile when I surprise the lil’ feller with some Steelers swag. Out of irritation at them using the games as a vehicle for leftist agitation, I think I’m going to switch to periodically buying Penguins t-shirts for the time being.
The Late P Brooks
It’s color and motion; eye candy. I watch the NFL like I watch waves crashing on the rocks, or an eagle soaring.
The Late P Brooks
Same for NASCAR.
Stinky Wizzleteats
Y’all remember that story from way back in May when Apple’s black woman diversity coordinator actually spoke truth to power and pissed the left off when she said white people, men in particular, can be diverse because they have diverse life experiences? Well, she’s done come January. The truth is no longer the ultimate defense it seems.
Well, that was an entertaining day. Lambeau lives up to the reputation as the Mecca of football. The field looks great, the stadium is far less plastered with ads than other places, concession stands are efficient and reasonably priced, the fans are enthusiastic and friendly, and the atmosphere is terrific. Getting in and out is much less of a clusterfuck than any other stadium I’ve been to. It was sunny and below freezing, perfect football weather.
My opinion that ALL Super Bowls should be required to be played here was only reinforced.
Russian Kia Drives Yusef
God Bless Curly
Old Man With Candy
Woo-wooo-wooo-wooo… oh wait, wrong Curly. Never mind.
Russian Kia Drives Yusef
The one ticket I’ll never get, you got a few, don’t dog me Man!
/totally jealous, hope it was as good as it looks!
Old Man With Candy
It was. That was seriously one of the best football experiences I’ve ever had.
After the game was over, I waited outside the Women’s bathroom for SP, and everyone in Ravens gear who walked by high-fived me. There was a surprising amount of purple in that sea of green and yellow.
dbleagle
It is a great venue for a game. I’m glad you two had a chance to experience it. Good luck getting out of America’s Dairyland.
Russian Kia Drives Yusef
OT: In answer Lachowsky and others,
My Racing setup is R/C but not, it’s part slot car, part R/C. they use Light sensors on a 5ms. interrupt to read the gradient printed on the track, and follow it, to an extent.
There are 3 modes so I can race both my Grandsons at once, but I race hard mode, where the sensors only help a bit, you can still go off.
I was/am a slot car fan, have been since I was a kid, so this is a next step in that type of racing. I see it started as a kickstarter project that was bought by Mattel, good on those guys!
Anyway my love for R/C , slots and OCD led me to own the largest track of it’s kind in the World, if you can find bigger, let me know, I put out the challenge because this stuff should grow, it’s Really fun and ain’t that easy http://hotwheels.mattel.com/shop/en-us/hw/advanced-play/hot-wheels-ai-starter-set-fbl83
My Sunday track https://realfxandhotwheels.blogspot.com/2017/11/track-1006-iteration.html
In car barf ride, https://youtu.be/IxFy4JuviOI
Eagles game starts in ten minutes. I have an uneasy feeling that Wentz will have a really bad off-day and Prescott will manage to throw a winning touchdown pass.
If so, the Cowboys can have their 15 minutes of fame but they still ain’t making the playoffs.
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397 responses to “Go Pack Go Links”
SP shares the best links.
I need the Packers to lose. Go Vikings!
Go Green Bay. Fuck Baltimore because, well, they have Baltimore in their name. Yes I am that shallow.
I hope the packers pull it off. The only hope I have of the bills to make the playoffs is if the ravens keep losing games.
With my Redskins ding their usual implosion comedy routine, I always end up rooting for the Packers. With Aaron down and out for the count and the Packers now having to wing it, I wonder if I shouldn’t sell out like of these fair weather fans up here in the North East….
What do you have against gonorrhea?
Penicillin if my recollection is right.
Go Pack Go!
I hope OMWC and SP enjoy the Lambeau experience. It is a great place to watch a game. But it can only be truly complete when the visiting fans must slink off sighing at their team’s futile efforts to win. But enough Leini’s, brats and cheese curds will fix that.
I will be off to a bar to watch the game. I will look for OMWC’s “Free Candy Here” sign on the TV.
And the giant tub of popcorn in his lap with the bottom cut out.
#SKOL
#COPENHAGEN
Back from vacation – more info for tomorrow’s AM links.
United Airlines sucks – that is all.
Lol. I just flew United and was commenting to my wife about how nice it was compared with Delta.
They all suck.
JetBlue is tolerable if you pay their premium. Never flown Virgin Atlantic.
Do any of them not suck?
I hate United. Going into the full reasons why would take a novel, but let’s just say it involves their shitty service causing me to miss my flight and refusing to reimburse me for it or allow me to take a later flight, thus costing me $400 and a trip I’d planned to visit my grandma whom I hadn’t seen in 7 years.
(That part’s okay, at least, because she lives with me now. But it was a gut punch at the time because I wasn’t sure if she’d be able to, and like I said—hadn’t seen her in 7 years at that point. It was 9 overall by the time she moved in with me.)
Q: How does a Packer fan find a sheep in the vast rolling hills of Wisconsin?
A: Satisfying!
Q: What do you call a 350 pound Packer fan?
A: An anorexic.
Q: How do you circumsize a Packer Fan?
A: Kick his sister in the mouth.
YAS
Relevant
Sexy Packer’s cheerleader!
Hawt.
Well, there goes my idea to start cooking brunch.
I’m sorry, I didn’t realize you were lactose intolerant.
Well she looks like how well the Packers offense played today. OMWC got to witness an unfortunate history of the Packers being blanked at home.
Fugly shit man..
“Packers” is an anti-gay slur, and I demand they change their name to something inoffensive, like the “Trumphasatinydickers”. Totally NOT offensive to anybody I know.
Maybe this isn’t a good idea for my first post here. Anyway, my sarcasm has become entirely too subtle for what remains of the H&R crowd, so I am checking out this place. Could use new curtains but otherwise it looks passable.
Howdy.
????
Welcome aboard!
This morning’s links are…atypical.
Oh great. Tulpa’s here.
[insert inflammatory vile allegation about the character and lineage of Art Modell]
Go Pack! i hate Football now, too many rules, Brett Favre was the best Football Player in history
Incorrect!
If you don’t have a name why bother? Who is the Best?
Colin Kapernick. Duh.
That’s easy.
Awesome
Song of Myself
Just QBS?
Joe Montana
Tom Brady
Dan Marino
Peyton Manning
Favre doesn’the even make the top 10 in Passer Rating. He does come in at #1 in interceptions, though.
Favre gets points for toughness, but that’s about it. Brady, Montana, Marino, Elway, Unitas, Staubach, Manning are all ahead of him, and you could make cases for Warren Moon, Kurt Warner, Steve Young, Troy Aikman, Aaron Rodgers, Terry Bradshaw, and Jim Kelly being better.
Dump Unitas for Bart Starr. Both are top QB’s from the same era but look at the numbers:
Unitas won 2 NFL championships, didn’t start in SB III (loss) and in SB V threw 2 picks before being injured and removed from the game in the second quarter. Yes he won multiple NFL MVP awards. He lost to the Packers in the 1965 playoffs, to the LA Rams in the 1967 playoffs and to the Dolphins in the 1971 playoffs. He finished his career with the Chargers.
Starr won 5 NFL championships, two SB and was the MVP for SB I and II. In his career he went 9-1 in playoffs with his only loss was the 1960 NFL championship to the Eagles. He called the play that won the Ice Bowl over the Cowboys- and didn’t tell his teammates that he was going to sneak it instead of handing off to ensure that nothing would tip off the defense. He was the NFL MVP once. As the Packers coach he was less successful with an overall record of .408 and a 1-1 playoff record.
He lost to the Packers in the 1965 playoffs
Wrong on several levels. First, the game was lost on a bad call on a last second field goal, no fault of the QB. Second, Unitas didn’t even play- he had been injured, his backup (Gary Cuozzo) had been injured, and thus the starting quarterback was… Tom Matte, the running back. Matte had to wear a wristband with the plays on it, and you can see that wristband in the Hall of Fame in Canton.
Where is Rodgers? I think he was/is a better QB than all of the above.
A man named Otto would like a word.
OJ Simpson would like a word with you
So would Nicoles killers, and David Cassidy has organ failure
He was the only 2,000 yrd rusher in a 13 game season. The murders overshadow an amazing career in football
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before…
A year after her defeat by Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton says “there are lots of questions about its legitimacy” due to Russian interference and widespread voter suppression efforts.
In an interview with Mother Jones in downtown Manhattan, Clinton said Russian meddling in the election “was one of the major contributors to the outcome.” The Russians used “weaponized false information,” she said, in “a very successful disinformation campaign” that “wasn’t just influencing voters—it was determining the outcome.”
Dear Brunehildary-
STFO and GTFO.
XOXO
The more revolting part: she still has sycophants that gobble this shit up. What an irritating cunt.
Forward to 2020. Bernie and Elizabeth Warren both have strange unexplained accidents, Hillary gets the nomination again, because this time it really is her turn.
There is a method behind this madness. The proggies want to make sure everyone knows that if they are not in charge they will not let whomever else was elected be successful, let alone do the job they were elected for. And they would rather burn down the country than step aside. The sycophants on the other side just go along with that, especially since their gravy trains is also at risk with this crazy boorish outsider running the show and showing how pathetic both sides are. That’s our political class in a nutshell.
So, did the interviewer ask her how it feels to be married to a serial sexual harasser (and probably worse)?
I’m going to guess not.
In case one had any lingering impression that there was no difference between the two candidates:
Can you imagine anyone in the orbit of Herself uttering this?
Thanks for that. Good article.
Yes. A thousand times this. Yes.
The Manhattan Contrarian is a treasure to read. IowaHawk is better (the best?) at the pithy rejoinder but MC is always a thoughtful read.
It is a good thing Hillary is willing to accept the results of the election, unlike the cretin Donald Trump.
Will someone ask her what was false?
Not one person has ever claimed that something specific in the leaks was false. They just wave their hands around about how it was hacked and that isn’t fair. But unless I’ve missed something, no one has said that the emails or whatever were tampered with or fabricated.
– Barack Obama, circa before Hillary lost
Christ, what an asshole.
WTF does that even mean? The disinformation campaign hacked the voting machines?
Sorry, nevermind, I was pretending for a second that she was trying to say something sensible rather than just spewing out random crap for the TDS crowd.
I dunno, I find it kinda telling. Apparently, elections are not about giving the voters what they want, they’re about giving a veneer of democratic legitimacy to a predetermined outcome.
I guess she is sticking with the plan to repeat a lie so often that it replaces people’s memory of the truth.
Remember how, a couple of months after the Supreme Court halted the biased “recounting” of the Florida ballots in Gore v Bush, the press finished their own recount of the ballots and said, “Yup, Bush had more votes than Gore”? Well, it happened, but all Team Blue remembers is that Bush STOLE the election.
Same thing will be said of 2016 in the future. “Russia hacked the election, and Trump stole it from Hillary.” No one will remember it was a snowball of emails and leaks proving careless or criminal handling of classified data (Hillary and Huma/Weiner), taking over the DNC before the primaries were done, Pay-for-Play, Benghazi, fainting on 9-11 and other health oddities, etc etc., and the absolute most important thing, which nobody can claim was a hack or leak: “Basket of deplorables” and “Irredeemable”. She sealed her own fate.
The butthurt over Bush v. Gore was epic (it made several lists of “worst SCOTUS decisions ever”, edging out cases like the one where mandatory euthanasia was upheld, or a farmer was forced to destroy his grain instead of being able to eat it). It’s an interesting case, but not for partisan reasons. In 2000, the notion that states could do whatever they want with elections had been null and void for about 35 years. Between the Civil Rights Acts and related court cases, the states, especially southern states, had to give deference to Federal law in conducting elections. Yet, the Gore minority said that SCOTUS should defer to the state.
Of course, the fact that Bush won the most votes in the end is immaterial to people who want to believe Gore won.
Living through the exasperating drawn-out post election drama of 2000 was what motivated me to get involved in local politics. Of course, I was young and hadn’t heard of Libertarians, so I joined the GOP. Shortly thereafter, I became familiar with the Republican Liberty Caucus and “signed up for their newsletter.”
When the press recount (I think they got permission through the FOIA or something) was complete, I distinctly remember the results appearing on page 10 of the papers (or deeper buried) and not being on TV at all, but it was all over talk radio. Man, I began to hate the arrogant press and their increasingly obvious desire to influence outcomes, not just through editorial writing.
mandatory euthanasia
Buck v. Bell – about compulsory sterilization?
Yep! Damn, that’s quite a mistake. I knew what it was about, but the wrong word came out.
How do you confuse a Cowboys fan?
Ask him to point out Dallas on a map.
Fuck Dallas.
There is no creature more craven or soulless than the East Coast Cowboys fan
The Capture of Bigfoot
‘Ken Starr Was Right’ Twitter Campaign Gives Bill Clinton’s Sex Scandals And Impeachment Another Look
ugh I Gilmored myself
Interesting euphemism.
http://www.bgdailynews.com/news/teen-shot-killed-during-police-pursuit/article_8428f90c-7bfc-562b-aea4-96d7f1114f3a.html
Local story about an 18 yr old driver being shot in the head by police. It could very well be justified but we’ll probably never find out for sure. Supposedly he tried to run over a deputy but no information is given on the circumstances (the last local story where someone tried to “run over” a cop involved a cop that grabbed the doorhandle as the person sped off which also involved cop discharging his weapon into a car). Can we start a charity already to give cameras to less-fortunate police departments?
He probably tried to run over the deputy after being shot in the head and his body slumped on the accelerator.
It wouldn’t surprise me. My experience as s generally law abiding resident is that many/most of the local cops are adrenaline junky thugs.
any reason to riot?
Always reason to riot. How could you ask such a question.
Riot privilege.
The same way Zachary Hammond tried to run over a cop?
Forgot the dashcam video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=zQ5SeCG4OW8
My money would be on something exactly like that.
Let’s ask the budget director if Roy Moore is a sex criminal. Let’s ask him to explain the President’s statements.
That should be illuminating.
“I have no political axe to grind.” Haha, good one, Andrea.
Well, he’s not a sex criminal yet.
It doesn’t matter whether he, in truth, molested a 14 year old girl in his younger days, anyway. The only thing that matters is that we set a precedent that most certainly will never backfire on us in order to gain political advantage.
I find it hilarious that the left’s puritanical brigade (remember when they told us the right wanted to control our sexual behavior?) never realized where this thing would logically end up taking them when they cried havoc and let loose the dogs of patriarchal sex predatory behavior.
The ruling party of Zimbabwe has voted to sack Robert Mugabe as its leader and has appointed in his place the vice-president the veteran autocrat fired two weeks ago.
The vote by hundreds of senior Zanu-PF officials in Harare on Sunday significantly weakens the position of Mugabe, who has refused to step down following a military takeover last week, despite huge marches demanding that he leaves power.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/19/zimbabwe-ruling-party-fires-robert-mugabe-as-leader
how very brave of them
Dictators throw out another, more decrepit dictator, so that they can dictate to their fellow Marxists. Beautiful story.
The misery, death, and decay is back on track under new leadership!
Dicks out for Harare.
*disapproving frown*
It didn’t do down well when I made it yesterday, either. Hmph.
MAKE GREAT ZIMBABWE AGAIN!
Football https://youtu.be/AWLkXfNg6ek
A classic.
Who is the Best?
Sonny Jurgensen.
“Clean living pays off.”
So, I saw the trailer for The Incredibles 2. Apparently, the events in the second movie follow closely on the heels of the first movie’s, since Jack-Jack is still a baby.
But, then again, trailers always lie.
Hope they don’t social justify it
That is a concern I have. Disney just recently fired a sort of SJWish (oooh…that is the first time I have written those particular letters together. Looks like I am referring to ((them))) from its Marvel CU team, didn’t they? That should provide some optimism that the company isn’t completely insane.
The movie follows directly from the end of the first. That’s the way Brad Bird wanted it, but he didn’t want to do the movie until he had a solid story for it.
Brad Bird is a genius.
US warship collides with Japanese tug boat, latest mishap for the Navy’s 7th Fleet
http://abcnews.go.com/US/us-warship-collides-japanese-tug-boat-latest-mishap/story?id=51242298
A U.S. warship collided with a Japanese commercial tug boat in Japan’s Sagami Bay on Saturday, marking the fifth time this year that a ship in the U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet in the Pacific has been involved in a crash.
“We must toss all of the grog overboard”
Are sailors not taught navigation skills, anymore? Are they relying on computers to do everything, or something?
Something seems rotten in Denmark for sure. This seems systematic, rather than simple one off mistakes.
Something like this?
https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2017-11/collision-reports-reveal-bigger-issue
With all the diversity and other proggie bullshit training there is now not enough time to teach them how to man a ship… But they sure as hell know how to be good socialist sheeple.
There you go again. “Man” a ship indeed. As shown in the documentary “Down Periscope”, women are also quite capable at sea.
Well based on what we know so far, it may not be the Navy’s fault.
****fingers crossed****
Even if it is not the fault of the sailors on that DDG, the NAVY currently has a serious problem with both morale and performance because these people are being pushed too hard and not properly trained to do their real jobs.
Vintage WTF
Some nightmare (or fapping) fuel for your perusal.
The smoking toddler/chicken combo is outstanding.
I’d be smoking too if I had a huge cock like that.
Girl on the alligator.
Come on, guys – no vote for the monocled, cross-dressing, cigarette-smoking Master E. Garratt (The Little Stranger)?
There’s really just too much to chose from – like one of Q’s posts.
What really gets me is that studio photos of this vintage took a lot of time and effort to take, develop and print. I can’t imagine what the motivation would have been to expend so much effort on such images. Never mind what was inside the brain if the photographers.
Maybe HM could shed some light on this.
It appears that the mighty Koch’s have been lording over the little guys for a lot longer than we thought.
Unfunny and Horrid.
Come Back, Barack – SNL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkPSbp3zTfo
I could not make it past 30 seconds. It is amazing how america was paradise just one year ago and now it is such a shithole. Sad.
The most amazing thing is that I personally cannot tell that anything has changed at all from a year ago.
thats the privilege talking
You haven’t noticed the armie of nazi skinheads marauding across the countryside raping and murdering bodies of color?
The like/dislike ratio clearly shows that only lefties care to watch SNL anymore. It makes their shot at the Democrats last week all the more surprising.
Wow that was stupid. And the audience applause is weak even by SNL standards.
SP knows how to do links. We don’t ever read them anyway, so just put one stupid sports-ball link in there for us to ignore. SP for permanent link poster!
It is liberating, in a way, to not have to post some lip-servicing nonsense in order to talk about what one is really interested in.
But what about maintaining standards? What about the character-building process of acquiring information before expressing an opinion?
Directly taken from Pressing Issues from Vice City Public Radio
I guess…you found me out.
*pulls random stranger from his car, climbs in, and speeds away*
SP do you not feel redeemed? #HawaiianPizza4Ever
Your company’s Slack is probably sexist
Takeaways: All men are competitive jerks who ruin online message boards.
. All women are just delicate flowers afraid to hurt people’s feelings.
. It would be better if women ran everything.
TW: “Mansplaining” used unironically.
No idea if my company even has a Slack.
The Slacks.
Damn that was stupid.
“It was the early ‘90s, and many were claiming that online, gender, and other social differences that might involve hierarchies—like ability, race, education—all of that would be invisible; you wouldn’t be able to tell who was who, or judge anyone based on their identity,” – uhuh
rancor and gender divisions seemed to thrive in the online discussions – i wonder who is stirring them up
Well, it was kind of aggressive, but as long as the slings and arrows weren’t aimed at me, it was fine,” or “This is just the way online conversation goes.” Some men said it was “kind of fun to go at each other’s throats,” or they brushed it off: “This is nothing; you should see the philosophy list.”
Nearly all the women, however, showed an aversion to the tenor of the debate. Common responses included things like: “The contentiousness made me not want to participate in discussion,” or “It made me want to drop off list all together.” Some went so far as, “People who speak like this are not good people,” and “This debate made me want to not be linguist.”
In general, Herring found, the women cared about
So men and women have different attitudes. where is the sexism in slack? The internet is a tool and quite neutral.
You don’t understand. We must kowtow to the most easily offended among us. Then and only then we will be free.
Crap, this sounds exactly like a synopsis of what that diversity training class I just decided to not go to recently was about. Of course, my company’s HR department is all in a huff about that. The fact that I missed the class to take care of a major problem caused by a snowflake I was going to be told I had to just defer to because of her internal plumbing,m sure irks them.
I’m terrified that my company – which has been growing by leaps and bounds – is going to go down this path to madness. Right now it’s just mandatory online multiple-choice stuff, but if HR decides to tighten the screws and make us “participate” I don’t know what I’ll do. I won’t be able to hide my resentment of it, that’s for sure.
that episode was funny.
I forgot to mention: Any difference in the sexes is due to socialisation alone.
Correction: Any difference that is disfavorable to women is due to socialization. It’s perfectly acceptable to say that men are more prone to violence or that women are better communicators.
I believe this is called the Althouse Rule.
Ours was set up by a lesbian who is still the go-to person if there are any slack questions.
Do we get bonus intersectionality points or is it just as bad because she’s into chicks just like the guys?
SMOD warning shot?
They can’t find it because it’s Dark? how do people live in such places that actually get dark? are they morlocks?
STEVE SMITH SEE HUNDRED NAKED MOONS A NIGHT
“HE’S GOT A GUN!” FLORIDA MAN TACKLES CONCEALED CARRIER, IS ARRESTED FOR BATTERY
http://weaponstricks.com/index.php/2017/11/16/hes-got-a-gun-florida-man-tackles-concealed-carrier-is-arrested-for-battery/
Michael Foster was charged with battery for attacking another customer, Clarence Daniels, at Walmart, 11110 Causeway Blvd, Brandon.
Just before noon Tuesday, Foster, 43, of Lithia, saw Daniels in the Walmart parking lot in possession of a handgun that was in a holster and under his coat, the sheriff’s office said.
Foster followed Daniels in the parking lot and into the store. While in the store, Foster attacked Daniels, 62, of Seffner, the sheriff’s office said.
Foster grabbed Daniels from behind in a choke hold and then took him to the ground, the sheriff’s office said.
While both men struggled, Foster yelled that Daniels had a gun. Daniels also yelled that he had a permit to legally carry the gun, the sheriff’s office said.
There’s a fine line between recklessness and courage.
Micheal Foster sounds like a complete idiot.
And very lucky to be alive. I carry at least at least 1 or 2 knives, in addition to my XDS, just in case someone gets past my guard like this. I imagine many other CCW and open carriers do the same thing.
Many of our spouses also carry and wouldn’t hesitate to engage.
Also odds on Foster remaining alive or not spending the rest of his life in prison if Daniels had been an off-duty or plainclothes cop?
I’d give about a 99% change of not still being alive. But no surprise here, progs are suicidal. They’re like some sort of death cult.
‘chance’
Wait… isn’t punching a Nazi legal now?
Completely off topic but fascinating.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKtVpvzUF1Y&t=198s
Hard to believe this was almost 50 years ago.
Wait, there’s a topic?
Have fun you guys!
SC looked not great, but they did beat UCLA.
Mini Cooper S JCW GP vs. Porsche
*clicks*
sweeeeet.
Are sailors not taught navigation skills, anymore? Are they relying on computers to do everything, or something?
“Dude, it’s awesome. The boat just drives itself. Chill out and enjoy the view.”
It’s power imbalances, all the way down.
“If you don’t tow @Twitter’s radical left wing agenda for completely reshaping American into a Marxist totalitarian utopia, they will kick you off the platform.”
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/932101388926144512
#freebunty
https://twitter.com/hashtag/freebunty
So why stay on it? Fucking quit.
well how will others reshare you deep thought if youz iz not on teh twitterz
OTOH, they would be completely irrelevant and possibly out of business without Donald Trump’s account, so they can only socially signal so much without destroying themselves.
Who’s Bunty?
he’s like some guy you know
Vintage WTF
YESSSS!
“Why Men Aren’t Funny”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/14/opinion/louis-ck-not-funny-harassment.html
“The solution isn’t more solemn acknowledgments from powerful male comedians. We have those. The solution is putting people in positions of power who are not male, not straight, not cisgender, not white. This is not taking something away unfairly — it is restoring opportunities that have been historically withheld. And if we address the power imbalance in comedy, in this art that shapes how people think, what jokes they repeat to their families, who they believe deserves to hold a microphone and talk out loud, other imbalances might follow.”
TW: Lindy West
putting people in positions of power – how do you randomly put people in positions of power? maybe certain types of people are attracted to power and end up in those positions. maybe those people tend not to be angels. neah that’s just crazy talk. we just aint got the right peeps in yet
You end this old out dated stuff, like voting and letting people advance in society on merit alone, and just have the most woke people appoint the right thinking TOP.MEN. Get woke!
can I just nominate myself as supreme dictator? I would be quite benevolent and only ask for a palace and a decently sized harem. Also steak and wine.
You mean Supreme Shitlord. You have my vote if I’m made Grand Hedonism Czar. Someone has to manage all the hookers and blow.
“shapes how people think”
There’s nothing Orwellian there.
Whew. Glad I read to the end.
Sarah Silverman: ‘There are jokes I made 15 years ago I would absolutely not make today’
Sarah Silverman’s comedy has always aimed a laser into the dark corners of sexism, racism and religion. But now she’s using her wit to make sense of the huge issues facing America. Sophie Heawood meets her in Hollywood
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2017/nov/19/sarah-silverman-interview-jokes-i-made-15-years-ago-i-wouldnt-make-today
Mel brooks complained that he probably cound not make some jokes today. Silvermen is probably proud of it.
Not that any of this means Silverman is going soft – she is also speaking her truth to power, rousing her 12m Twitter followers with her daily backlash against the president. – how very brave, no one else speaks against Trump.it is dangerous business
“the huge issues facing America”
First world problems. But it is great that we’ve decided to go back to the days of the Spanish Inquisition. All that freedom stuff was getting really scary. Progress! Forward comrades, back to the Dark Ages!
If she took her schtick on the road and went all over the Midwest, maybe she would have a case for being brave. Of course, her latest shows show her bravery in full display:
Why would she go to flyover country? The stupid, racist rednecks aren’t woke enough to get her jokes.
She was funny 15 years ago. Oh well.
The only funny joke i ever heard her tell was =
Not that any of this means Silverman is going soft – she is also speaking her truth to power, rousing her 12m Twitter followers with her daily backlash against the president. – how very brave, no one else speaks against Trump.
Silverman is in the same little club as our good friend Penn; namely, they’ve openly admitted they’re terrified that Muslims are going to kill them so they don’t make jokes about them. So given that they’ve openly admitted to being cowards them playing ‘tough guy’ politics is pretty funny.
Mini Cooper S JCW GP vs. Porsche
Fuckin hell. The guy driving that Mini ain’t afraid to poke his nose in there.
No kidding. My palms got a little sweaty watching that.
“A POP star has been arrested over a raunchy video showing her singing in her underwear while eating a banana “suggestively”.
Shyma has come under fire in her native Egypt for the racy clip, which also shows her licking an apple while teaching a class full of men.”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4946725/pop-star-arrested-in-egypt-for-dancing-in-undies-and-eating-a-banana-suggestively/
she could drink some Nile water to make amends
These stories about Egypt’s struggles to join the 20th century are a cottage industry lately. That nice young lady is an inspiration.
I approve of that video
I keep spelling water with two t and feel like there should be 2 iu there. why is there just one t in water? goddamn non phonetic languages
It helps us to identify the riff-raff, comrade. [taps side of nose]
Because then it would rhyme with “matter”.
Wait, it doesn’t?
Shh!
Exactly. You only use two t’s in water when typing in a Boston accent.
Brazil’s New Problem With Blackness
As the proudly mixed-race country grapples with its legacy of slavery, affirmative-action race tribunals are measuring skull shape and nose width to determine who counts as disadvantaged.
http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/04/05/brazils-new-problem-with-blackness-affirmative-action/
dunno if this was covered back in april but yey for phrenology
These spots are for people who are phenotypically black,” Mailson Santiago, a history major at the Federal University of Pelotas and a member of the student activist group Setorial Negro, told me. “It’s not for people with black grandmothers.”
Enjoy gitting woke, Brasil. Poor bastards.
Eat a dick, Santiago.
What this nation needs is more self-flagellation about sex and race.
How else can we get woke and win the race back to the Dark Ages? Wait… Dark Ages, that’s racist! I mean the good old days before the white devils appeared and ruined paradise.
https://twitter.com/Lauren_Southern/status/931919945092308992
LOL
That green grid in there is like an hour of watching CNN.
“Slave markets are springing up across Libya trading impoverished African migrants who have arrived on the Mediterranean coast dreaming of a new life in Europe. A new investigation has revealed people are being sold as modern-day slaves for as little as £300 ($400).”
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/starved-mutilated-blackmailed-migrants-auctioned-off-slaves-by-smugglers-libya-1647428
First black President brought back African slavery?
Has CNN discovered the Trump/Russian connection to this yet?
The question is what is trhe solution?
Slave markets are springing up across Libya trading impoverished African migrants who have arrived on the Mediterranean coast dreaming of a new life in Europe – not to go all rightwing here but there isn’t room for all dreamers in Europe. Not all at once in any case
Racist!
Not my problem.
I hope this doesn’t impact the cost of orphans.
You’re looking at this from the wrong angle… What if some of those slaves WERE orphans? And even if they had parents still living, they may be able to do some of the same work that orphans do. If you could work out the logistics of transporting the slaves to your home, it could be a real gold mine.
Come on man – think like a libertarian!
I was talking about the possibility of it being shut down due to the cnn reporting and creating a shortage of free labor.
Eagerly await a Ken lecture defending our intervention in Libya and explaining why Libyans are better off…
“White supremacists endorse Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan’s black separatism”
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/white-supremacists-endorse-nation-of-islam-leader-louis-farrakhans-black-separatism/
SJW/Stormfront redux
“Stormfront or Social Justice?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-ZX5V4Qft4
In that same vein, I thought this was a good article about the NYT publishing last week of a black Ivy League lawyer’s idiotic piece on how he is going to encourage his kids not to be friends with whites.
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/yankah-whites-violent-racists-new-york-times/
“What sort of monster gives a bad review to a book by someone who was gang raped as a 12-year-old and subsequently goes on to eat herself to over 40 stone? Probably the sort of monster who’s never read a book about fatness as a feminist issue which she found convincing.”
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/07/is-roxane-gays-relentless-self-analysis-compounding-her-problems/
The only solution is to force everyone to like the book, or else. We’ve tried nudging people to think the right way, but it’s failed, so what choice do we have besides force?
Go Colon Paperneck! Oh wait a second, that’s right, he’s already gone.
While I’d prefer Agile Cyborg to be our poet laureate, at this point in time, we’ll take what we can get.
Ya still got it, kiddo!!!
TW: Lindy West
NEEDZ MOAR MINISTRY OF KULTUR
Seems like the Wimmenz Wing is going to duke it out with the Bernie Wing to see who reigns supreme in the Democratic Party agenda for 2018.
For more information, her main primary challenger, BernieBro and “assault weapon expert extraordinaire” Kevin de León, is alleged to have covered up sexual harassment accusations against a fellow moonbat State Senator, Tony Mendoza.
Source: http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-state-senate-leader-shocked-at-sexual-1511038347-htmlstory.html
Just a dabbler in derpotology of course, but I loved reading this and watching a few facts float up to a conscious level only to be immediately ignored.
https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/46/post-redistribution-liberalism/
Well, I made it all of six sentences.
Um… because the last sixty years of doing exactly that has left us a permanent underclass?
Christ, I don’t have time for this.
Oh, but you missed things like this…
Yes, the author is calling out her fellow, well-off liberals – and then can’t figure out why this wonderful idea can’t gain political support, even from those sympathetic to the underlying belief.
Or this…
Yes, of course the author SEES the evidence – it just doesn’t sink in what that MEANS. This thing is a tour de force of cognitive dissonance.
They still can’t decide if the purpose of raising taxes on “the wealthy” is to increase revenue or to level out the income spread. The two goals are at cross purposes, but this is a relatively minor feat in the hall of left-wing cognitive dissonance.
Of course, even increasing the income tax drastically on the top earners won’t close the deficit, so any “beef[ed] up spending” would be debt-funded just like it is now. The last time I ran the numbers, increasing the tax on household income over $250,000 to 75% (vs. 35%) would net around $350 billion, which is an estimate based on the woefully unrealistic assumption that nobody would find a way to avoid the tax. That’s about half the current deficit (an improvement over the Obama years, where the annual increase in the debt was averaging close to $1 trillion).
And if you recognize the existence of the Laffer curve, and have been paying attention to the growth in Federal tax receipts lately, you might put two and two together and realize we are near the peak of the curve. Increase taxes too much and revenues are more likely to go down than up, especially after a couple of years of adjustment.
Stupid people are stupid
In her eight-minute speech, Feinstein, 84, emphasized the value of her experience and seniority in the Senate in fighting for legislation to protect those who have been sexually harassed or assaulted.
tl;dr: “You’ll have to pry my dessicated corpse out of that Senate seat. I’m not going anywhere without a fight.”
how to run away from your problems
Has anyone in the history of ever surprised their spouse with a new Mercedes/BMW/Lexus with a bow on top, sitting outside the house, without discussing it with them first?
Remember, we’re all just millionaires temporarily down on our luck, so even as fantasy it isn’t really out of the question.
I’ve never got one, and I have a sad about it.
I won’t even pick out a sweater for her.
Is it because last time you went sweater shopping you got in trouble for suggesting sweaters that were being worn by other large breasted shoppers and not the sweaters on the store shelves?
“Honey, what about that red sweater that the blonde with the huge cans is wearing! I like that one.”
It’s like you’re living in my head.
“I won’t even pick out a sweater for her.”
I’m terrible at it myself. Got a new girlfriend recently. How do you approach mandated gift holidays?
I actually already got an out of print book for her she once mentioned to me offhand. But I was thinking maybe I’d just give that to her at a random time and find something more Christmas-ey.
Danger zone! Early in the relationship is brutal. I like the book idea a lot, as it is personal and shows that you are paying attention.
Totally depends on the chick, though. If she equates love with stuff, bail now! Just kidding, but a low maintenance holiday chick is worth her weight in gold.
How about a trip and just fucking skip the whole damn thing?
She’s super low maintenance. That’s a great idea.
Jewelry has always worked for me.
Nope. Unless it’s an engagement ring and a marriage proposal, jewelry is a very bad idea. For girlfriends that is. Once you’re married, jewelry away!
My father once bought my mother a used Gremlin without asking her about it. But there was no bow.
*That was not our Gremlin. Our’s was not so well maintained.
I had forgotten how hideous those things were.
This was a thing.
Oooh…I want one.
Here you go!
The lack of interior pictures is not a good sign.
The first car I had was my mom’s old green Gremlin. Wrecked it within an hour of getting my driver’s license trying to light a joint. Had a red front quarter panel after that. Ran that thing until it dropped dead. Hideous.
Does your spouse surprising you with a used Mercedes count?
I should clarify – it was for her to drive.
did that involve “this month’s credit card statement” with a bow around it?
Poor Warren. There are always new and different cars parked out front of him mom’s house. But they don’t have bows and he doesn’t get to drive them.
The point isn’t to convince people to buy one and give it as a gift. The point is to convince people that if you buy one, you’re just as good as the people who could afford to buy them as a gift.
Why the hell are Browns on? BS
You’d rather be watching Packers-Ravens? It looks cold in GB, not ice-bowl cold, but cold enough.
Some people like watching the Packers turn the ball over.
I, however, am not one of those people.
I’d rather be watching the Viking game. Guess I’ll be productive instead.
anyone have mel tillis in their death pool?
Interesting article about CTE in NFL players.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/16/health/cte-confirmed-in-first-living-person-bn/index.html
Scary. I guarantee you there are a ton of old hockey players living with it as well.
14-Year-Old Girl Bullied for Shooting an Elk
http://www.alloutdoor.com/2017/11/16/14-year-old-girl-bullied-shooting-elk/
There was no expectation of elk in the area; even MO wildlife managers have no idea how the animal came to be there. A Missouri conservation agent said, “Frankly, it’s got us stumped.”
The girl’s father immediately saw that it was a young bull elk rather than a buck deer, and he reportedly called the conservation department right away. At first, they didn’t even believe him.
Doerhoff said he was surprised to get that call and thought it probably wasn’t an elk, noting that animal misidentifications are very common.
“The dad sent me a photo to my phone and it was very clear that, yes, that’s an elk,” Doerhoff said. “You don’t expect to see something like that. I’ve learned to never say never.”
elk deer potayto potahto… the difference is minor anyway
Apparently some people it’s still OK to bully.
Shoot, shovel (or leave it to rot), and shut up.
Elk Chili is wonderful, try it some….. oh yeah Romania,
/giggles………
Sportzball links. Ugh. This is why people are leaving the site 😀
If they let Dalmia pen a weekly guest column will you stay around?
What a tantalizing offer! Can we get Suderman on board too?
Aim higher – Richman.
People? / looks around, I don’t see any people here
We’re Godz
https://youtu.be/D-t4hU3hhc8
My theme song in High School
https://youtu.be/wFaEJMEEmFA
The Latest: GOP Congressman Calls for Ban on Elephant Hunts
A Republican congressman is praising President Donald Trump’s decision to delay a new policy allowing trophies of African elephants shot for sport to be brought into the country but says more needs to be done to protect the animals from extinction.
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2017-11-18/the-latest-gop-congressman-calls-for-ban-on-elephant-hunts
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump’s decision to delay new policy on importation of elephant trophies from two African countries (all times local):
11:30 a.m.
A Republican congressman is praising President Donald Trump’s decision to delay a new policy allowing trophies of African elephants shot for sport to be brought into the country.
But Rep. Vern Buchanan, who co-chairs the Congressional Animal Protection Caucus, says more needs to be done to protect African elephants from extinction. He says sport hunting of the endangered species is “shameful” and calls for a permanent ban.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Thursday it would allow the importation of elephant trophies from Zambia and Zimbabwe, arguing that encouraging wealthy big-game hunters to kill the animals would help raise money for conservation programs.
President Donald Trump says he’s delaying a new policy allowing trophies of African elephants shot for sport to be imported until he can review “all conservation facts.”
He announced the delay late Friday following criticism from several quarters, including environmentalists, animal rights activists and some lawmakers from his own party.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Thursday it would allow such importation, arguing that encouraging wealthy big-game hunters to kill the threatened species would help raise money for conservation programs.
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We should listen to the experts, unless we don’t like what they say.
Republican Congressman wants to ban hunting that doesn’t exist in this country? Maybe he should use that to influence elections in those countries where there are elephants, after all, it isn’t foreign meddling when we do it.
If those things’ existence isn’t worth anything they’ll be done in short order. Also, fuck off slaver.
Fucking iconoclasts. I think they’re most tendentious and destructive of the anti-humanists.
Hmm, it is entirely possible that iconoclasts and anti-humanists are, practically speaking, the same thing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/17/business/tax-cuts-rich.html
tl;dr version = tax the rich or the roads will suck
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How Cutting Taxes Makes Life Worse for the Rich
Economic View
By ROBERT H. FRANK NOV. 17, 2017
The Republican effort to cut federal taxes is still underway, and many crucial details are still unsettled. But little doubt remains that the effort has been heavily shaped by wealthy donors.
As Chris Collins, a Republican representative from New York put it: “My donors are basically saying, ‘Get it done or don’t ever call me again.’”
Many affluent people are likely to celebrate if an eventual deal in Washington grants them big tax breaks. Evidence suggests, however, that their jubilation would be short-lived — and followed by deep disappointment.
It is perfectly natural, of course, to believe that extra cash will help them buy the special things they want, such as more spacious homes or better performing cars. But that belief is a garden-variety cognitive error.
The mistake occurs because “special” is an inescapably relative concept. A spacious home is one that is larger than most other homes. A high-performance car is one that outperforms most other cars. Successful bidding for such things depends almost entirely on relative purchasing power. Taxes affect absolute purchasing power, not relative purchasing power. The upshot is that the ability of the already rich to bid successfully for special things is not enhanced by tax cuts.
Why isn’t this simple truth more widely appreciated? In thinking about how taxes affect us, we try to imagine how life would be different if we had less money. And when we recall examples of actual events that left us with less money — think home fires, job losses, business downturns, divorces, serious illnesses and the like — in almost every case, it really was more difficult for us to buy things we wanted.
But such events merely reduce our own incomes while leaving others’ unaffected. They reduce our relative purchasing power. Matters unfold differently when everyone’s spendable income goes down together, as when all pay higher taxes. In that case, our relative purchasing power remains the same as before.
Because virtually every human evaluation depends on context, the category of goods whose accessibility depends overwhelmingly on relative purchasing power is far broader than might appear. Suppose, for example, that you’re driving with your 6-year-old to visit her grandparents and she asks, “Are we almost there yet?” You’ll say “yes” if only 10 miles remain on a 120-mile journey. But you’ll say “no” if that same distance remains on a journey of only 12 miles.
Similarly, someone in Miami knows the answer if someone asks whether it’s cold on a 60-degree day in November. But her answer will be different from that of someone in Montreal who is asked whether it’s cold on a 60-degree day in March.
Little wonder, then, that context shapes our evaluations of virtually every purchase we might consider. The standards that define “special” are therefore highly elastic. When everyone buys larger houses and faster cars, or stages more elaborate wedding celebrations, standards adjust accordingly.
Failure to appreciate that reality has also contributed to the tax resistance that has made it so difficult to restore America’s crumbling public infrastructure. Even proponents of minimal government concede that private cars would be of little use without public roads. And although it’s difficult to reach agreement on the best mix of public and private spending, studies show that the current mix in the United States is strongly biased against public spending.
My research on this issue over many decades has identified the following thought experiment as an instructive way to view this problem.
Imagine that you are a wealthy car enthusiast facing two options: Driving a Porsche 911 Turbo (purchase price: less than $160,000) on well-maintained highways, or driving a Ferrari F12 Berlinetta (purchase price: more than $320,000) on roads riddled with foot-deep potholes. Which would you choose?
It’s an easy question. Suppose that the Ferrari would universally be judged better if both cars were driven on good roads. But since the Porsche already has every design feature that affects performance significantly, the Ferrari’s edge would be tiny at most. No one could reasonably claim that the Ferrari would be more pleasing to drive on pothole-ridden roads than the Porsche on well-maintained ones.
Yet, among the super-wealthy, the actual quality mix of cars and highways in the United States more closely resembles Ferraris on potholes than Porsches on smooth asphalt. That’s puzzling, since the latter combination could be achieved at much lower total expense.
This distortion is in large part a consequence of the cognitive error just described: What happens when any one person spends less on a car is very different from what happens when everyone spends less. In the former case, the buyer feels deprived. But when everyone spends less, the relevant frame of reference shifts, leaving drivers just as satisfied as before. The same logic applies not just to cars and highways, but also to a broad mix of personal and public priorities.
The American tax system is indeed deeply dysfunctional. But the consensus among tax-policy economists from both sides of the political aisle is that the proposals under consideration are not the reforms we need. Rate cuts for top earners would greatly increase budget deficits and do little or nothing to spur growth. Others have objected that they would make a skewed income distribution even more unequal. Fair points all.
But elections have consequences, and Republicans have never hidden their desire to cut taxes. They now have the power to do so.
But it would be a mistake to exercise that power. Tax cuts for the wealthy would not alter the supply of special things to be had. And by increasing government deficits substantially, they would degrade our infrastructure in ways that would harm even the ostensible beneficiaries of those cuts.
In short, cutting taxes for the wealthy is a losing proposition — even for the wealthy.
Robert H. Frank is an economics professor at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. Follow him on Twitter: @econnaturalist.
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nyt won’t let you copy n paste, but select all still works.
[Citation Needed]
I suspect a lot of that is about rust belt states.
If the infrastructure of Detroit or Cleveland is crumbling, maybe that’s because much of that manufacturing base, there, has been largely abandoned since it was built eons ago.
Maybe they’re going for the Field of Dreams theory of economic revitalization–build it and they will come.
Never mind the cheaper labor force in the South or whether you’re a right to work state. If only they had the infrastructure, . . .
Meanwhile, Tesla is building their plant in Reno.
Is the infrastructure crumbling in Smyrna, Tennessee, Alabama, or Texas, where the Japanese manufacturers are building their cars?
Enquiring minds want to know.
On one of his podcasts, Tom Woods stated that most of the statistics on “crumbling infrastructure” was actually made up of decrepit bridges from the 1800s that may not have any actual vehicle traffic. There’s one like that in my town; it’s a local historic site. It’s probably counted somewhere as “crumbling infrastructure” even though the only people crossing it are on leisure hikes or bicycle trips.
Our nearby main road has had a bridge out for a few months, resulting in a substantial increase in traffic over an even lower-standard bridge on other road to our house. Fortunately the replacement is nearly done, so when the really bad weather hits we’ll have less traffic passing our house. But one really good flood on that smaller bridge and it will need replacement too. There are lots of these in PA.
I don’t think it skews the national stats much, but there are a lot of aging covered and truss bridges in Frederick County, Maryland that are preserved for historical reasons. It’s neat to drive through them, but they’re probably a bitch to maintain.
I’m thinking it’s more because a high ratio of the money they claim to be putting into infrastructure is actually being funneled into the pockets of public sector workers.
See: WMATA (operator of the DC metro)
Nobody can claim that the DC area is lacking for money. They just squandered it for 30+ years. If it was a private organization, the ensuing scandal would bankrupt it. But it’s a quasi-governmental organization (aren’t those just so fun), so it’s going to a clusterfuck for the foreseeable future.
Bingo – this and other crony projects. Obama spent billions (trillions?) on “shovel-ready” infrastructure jobs – lots of historic paving stones and extra-long jug-handles when I lived in New Jersey yet major bridges out-of-commission. Here in central Iowa there are infrastructure projects ad nauseam – major routes torn-up for bike lanes/bike paths with no riders, exit ramps that didn’t require changes, parking lot repaving etc.
A local favorite of mine, the Stimulus Act was used to build a new control tower at the Frederick Municipal Airport. The tower is empty most of the time, and there was nothing wrong with the old tower (it was already a newer tower, the oldest tower having been turned into a restaurant). Total waste of money, but boy was it covered to the hilt in signage about how Americans were going back to work.
I could easily point to loads of actual crumbling infrastructure around NYC. And believe me, there is no shortage of money being thrown at it. So where’s the new infrastructure already? We have a train tunnel into Grand Central that’s a decade overdue and billions over budget. The state of bridges and highways would embarrass a third-world country. The subways are running – slowly – on hundred-year-old signal technology that isn’t even manufactured any more. But somehow all of these things manage to suck up many billions of dollars every year. That money is going somewhere.
That money is going somewhere.
Indeed. There is an interesting bit on Slate Star Codex called Considerations on Cost Disease which delves into this state of affairs. Unfortunately, it doesn’t really reach any conclusions. Alternately, it reaches the conclusion “all of the above” but doesn’t make it very explicit.
Translation: we need to funnel more money and power through DC, because clearly the states and localities can’t be trusted to maintain infrastructure.
Because buying status items is the only possible thing that rich people do with money.
…Jesus, how stupid do they think we are?
The Redskins have no business being in it this late in the ball game.
Seems like I write that every week.
We were lucky to beat the Seahawks at home. We were unlucky to lose to the Vikings.
Does it make sense that the Redskins would be only the fourth team to beat the Seahawks in Seattle in years?
No.
Does it make sense that the Redskins would beat the Seahawks in Seattle and then turn around and lose to Minnesota at home?
Well, yeah, they should lose most of their games. The Redskins are a mediocre team at best.
Does it make sense that they would now be driving on New Orleans in New Orleans, already up seven, just before the half?
Hell no.
For those in need of a head desk:
UMD should ban all hate speech
http://www.dbknews.com/2017/10/26/umd-hate-speech-crime-first-amendment-bias-ban-racism/
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Last week, my fellow Diamondback columnist Liyanga de Silva wrote a piece about why banning hate speech at the University of Maryland would breach students’ First Amendment rights. Although I appreciate her argument, I must disagree with her conclusions.
Over the last year, a noose has been found in a fraternity house, swastikas have been discovered drawn on academic buildings and a student discovered the phrase “REEEEE” — which is ableist — written over the definition of homophobia they had on their whiteboard.
Although de Silva points out these incidents are acts of vandalism and not protected by free speech, other hate-based incidents have sprung up that are allowed by current university policies.
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Free expression restrictions already exist. Title IX requires all schools receiving federal funds to provide a safe education for all students. Because nearly every university gets federal funds in some capacity, Title IX applies to colleges across the country. This law exists to prevent discrimination on any basis; thus, the Title IX office at our university must be committed to investigating incidences of hate speech, which clearly amount to a violation.
Furthermore, de Silva continues by arguing that “having experiences with hateful people can be important for those of us who are marginalized.” This sentiment is dangerous. Logan Dechter, the student whose whiteboard was written over in the aforementioned incident, was so upset that he skipped one of his classes. To suggest that Dechter should learn from this incident, or that any marginalized student should have to learn from a bigot, normalizes hate. Bigots have nothing to teach us, and we should not allow their hatred to become normalized into our society.
Instead of accepting hate speech as an unfortunate evil we have to live with and learn from, the University Senate should move forward with its plan to ban such hateful symbols across the campus.
This university must prioritize the safety and security of marginalized students and the maintenance of an environment conducive to learning for all students over the free expression of bigots. As the university community continues to seek answers following Collins’ murder, we must prevent any further hate from spreading across our campus.
Mitchell Rock is a senior government and politics and physiology and neurobiology major.
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We can’t let them frame the issue like that.
A desired outcome doesn’t justify injustice.
The ends don’t justify the means. Doesn’t anyone on the left believe that anymore?
I say advocating for increased immigration is hate speech against natives and should be banned
I think talking to guys about non-football related topics while they’re trying to watch football should be considered hate speech.
I once read a an article in Hustler magazine, where they showed that in seven out of ten cases in which a man uses a handgun to shoot his significant other, the researchers found that, “the bitch didn’t know when to quit”.
If you want to bring an end to that kind of domestic violence, stop talking about gun control, etc. and let’s start talking about that kind of hate speech–when a woman comes into the room and you’re clearly watching a football game, and she starts talking about . . . all kinds of shit–none of which is football related. Show me where it says in the Constitution that this isn’t hate speech.
Whenever I find myself accused of not doing something I promised to do, it’s invariably one of two situations: 1) I never promised to do any such thing, or 2) It was something I said when she was talking to me while I was watching football.
“Fine!” “Okay, Okay, Okay”! These words need to be understood in context. Off the top of my head, “fine” derives from the same root word as “finite” as in “the end”. “Fine!” means “Please God, end this conversation already!”–not “I solemnly. promise to go to your sister’s house for Thanksgiving”.
We are the knights who say “REEEEE”.
Wut?
Wrong.
Also wrong.
That’s a nice connection to your post above about the administrative/regulatory state.
The original laws (Title VI from 1964, about race, and Title IX from 1972, about sex) don’t say any of that. But the newly revised administrative interpretation of the law does.
i honestly don’t know. what does it actually say?
I want to be able to bring this up because I hear it an awful lot.
All it says is you can’t discriminate based on sex. It says nothing about “safety”; nor anything about any other pigeonhole besides “sex”.
Title VI:
Title IX:
how can they have mens or women’s sports or clubs under that?
I suppose if you remove funding, it’s entirely irrelevant. that’s interesting.
Thanks to the both of you.
how can they have mens or women’s sports or clubs under that?
Well, that’s a fun one.
Technically, it shouldn’t be allowed. But the end result would be (at least, in some cases) sports programs dominated by men/boys, physical differences between the sexes being what they are. So, to balance that out, the schools were told that they had to set up “separate but equal” (I doubt that phrase was ever actually used, but that’s essentially what it was) programs for women/girls to compensate for those established for men/boys. However, I don’t think it can ever actually be enforced that certain programs are for men and certain others for women. That’s why the dividing line tends to be by sport rather than by sex, and I think that, in the cases where the same sport is played by both sexes separately (soccer, basketball, tennis, etc.), the two programs are actually organized under different rules/affiliations where it just so happens that one program gets favored by women and the other by men.
An interesting consequence of the Obama-era changes was that, if allowed to run their course, they would have likely resulted in effective elimination of this “separate but equal” situation, since FTMs can’t compete with male athletes and MTFs can outcompete female athletes.
How the fuck did it evolve into kangaroo courts out of this????
I can understand (and actually prefer) the separation for some sports, and would imagine that without any law, people would naturally do this in the correct sports.
The NCAA mostly counts up number of scholarships, coaches, funding, etc., spent on men’s and women’s sports and makes its determinations based on that. The NCAA isn’t directly responsible for enforcing Title IX, but there is so much overlap in their rules that one is pretty much as good as another, at least for varsity sports. When I was on my university’s certification committee several years ago, we had to generate reams of reports, most of which were about tallying up gender and ethnic diversity counts. There was way more stuff about proving athletics were diverse and that women’s sports were getting adequate resources* than there was about ensuring that athletes were making academic progress.
*This is on a sliding scale. Schools that traditionally had only men’s sports have to continually be making substantive progress toward equal funding, which is why, say, University of Florida has women’s soccer and lacrosse but no men’s teams in either–and will not, for the foreseeable future. My university started out nearly at parity so we have to stay there, which is partly why we will never have a football team, no matter how loud the boosters squeal.
Madness. Another reason amateur (or pretend amateur) sports shouldn’t be tied to schools.
How the fuck is “RHEEEEE!” ableist?
some people are mute.
you fucking ass hole.
“a student discovered the phrase “REEEEE” — which is ableist — written over the definition of homophobia they had on their whiteboard.”
Well, it reads “written”. Then again it calls it a “phrase”, so maybe the author is doesn’t know what words mean.
Oh wait, here, I followed the link:
“Sophomore psychology and Spanish major Logan Dechter wrote the definition of homophobia on his whiteboard outside his dorm in Anne Arundel Hall after several LGBT-friendly messages were erased from it, he said. An individual later wrote “REEEEE” on top of the message, he added.
The term is meant to sound like a frog but as a scream, and is used to either express outrage or represent so-called autistic screeching, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
“Not only was it insulting to the LGBT community, but it was also insulting to the disabled community, so it was homophobic and ableist in that sense,” said Dechter, who added he was so upset he had to skip one of his classes. “I was really upset by that. I was anxious and angry.””
Which would quite ironic, since /pol is like the McDonald’s of ass burgers.
I’m also thinking if there were a noose, and swastikas, they were another example of SJW hoaxing.
my response
The same way that not being racist is actually racist (failing to acknowledge historical injustices, systems of oppression, institutional yadda-yadda).
Because it’s also known as “autistic screeching,” I’m going to guess.
a student discovered the phrase “REEEEE” — which is ableist — written over the definition of homophobia they had on their whiteboard
I want to write “REEEEE” all over this article.
TRUMP’S SPEECH CAUSES MORE ANTI-MUSLIM HATE CRIMES THAN TERRORISM, STUDY SHOWS
http://www.newsweek.com/trump-speech-anti-muslim-hate-crime-terrorism-study-713905
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A previous Pew study from 2014 revealed that 62 percent of Americans don’t know a Muslim, a fact that makes it easier for many Americans to demonize Islam.
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“The significant increase [in hate crimes] over the last two years coincides with Donald Trump’s racist, xenophobic campaign and its immediate aftermath. We reported a surge in hate crimes and other bias-related incidents—many of them carried out in Trump’s name—in the days after the election,” the Southern Poverty Law Center said in a statement.
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Negative opinions about Islam are from Trump. There couldn’t possibly be any other reason.
What are these hate crimes? And how many of them have been verified? I am sorry but I know longer believe any crime statistics based on polls or reports that have not lead to evidence.
It’s the SPLC, which is basically a left-wing propaganda mill that constantly pimps fake hate crimes and endlessly declares people racists and bigots. Anything they say is unsubstantiated and not to be believed.
Hey, the SPLC is the left-wing version of the Birchers; and like Birchers they can find what they are looking for ANYwhere.
Knowing a Muslim isn’t going to affect the terrorists, so that’s a pretty irrelevant detail there.
I see a picture of a ninja lady shooting a machine gun while riding a dinosaur, I click a picture of a ninja lady shooting a machine gun while riding a dinosaur.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEruOj5uMCQ
I like it. Has a definite Iron Maiden feel to it.
Twitter is like a machine where if you push a button, you’re rewarded with a glimpse of unfathomable stupidity. Like ENB and her antifa-loving boitoi the other day.
Or this identity-politics drivel from Hillary’s press secretary, and then I noticed her background pimping her book: “Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss and the Fight for Trans Equality”. Foreword by… Joe Biden. Oh. OK, then. Should probably push that publishing date up before creepy Uncle Joe runs afoul of the mob for his Roman hands and Russian fingers. That’s right, Russian.
It’s drivel, be she’s not Hillary’s press secretary.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Rights_Campaign
Frumpbucket may not get out of this unscathed
https://twitter.com/zinziclemmons/status/932200880975286273/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fsamj-3930%2F2017%2F11%2F19%2Ftime-to-take-her-down-lena-dunham-writer-quits-comes-out-against-her-in-a-big-way%2F
I can’t say that I’m not glad that Dunham’s teflon seems to be wearing thin, but reading sentences like this disgust me.
Oh yeah, she’s no doubt the pot calling the kettle black, pardon the pun
The Saints just ran a jailbreak on Cousins, but Cousins found the open guy waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay out in space, Touchdown!
The consensus on the Saints had them favored by 10 1/2 points!
They’re gonna be trailing by 11 going into the 4th?
They probably won’t cover, but I still wouldn’t give the Redskins much more than a 50% chance of winning.
The last three weeks all went the same way.
That being said, if we beat Seattle in Seattle and the Saints in New Orleans, then we can beat anybody anywhere on any given day.
And we can get our asses kicked by the worst team in the league in our own backyard, too. It’s just a travesty that we don’t already have Cousins locked up.
I remember when Brees was playing for the Chargers. He wasn’t good enough for them. They kept Ryan Leaf and let Brees go.
That’s what’s going to happen to us with Cousins. We’re a bunch of fucking idiots.
They kept Rivers, not Leaf.
Either one.
And, incidentally, I don’t think the Chargers ever could have excelled under Schottenheimer. I’ve never seen a coach throw his own players under the bus like Marty did (even when he was in Washington), and I think that’s partially what screwed up Leaf’s head. I’m not sure Marty ever took the blame for anything in his whole life.
That being said, If Brees had been with the Chargers instead of Rivers, in the LT era, it would have been huge.
Ken, have you been drinking?
Marty never coached Leaf; the Leaf disaster happened under Beathard (GM) and Riley (coach, shortly to be leaving Nebraska). Leaf was chosen 2nd after the Colts picked Peyton Manning. Fun fact, Jim Harbaugh became starting QB in place of Leaf.
Rivers was acquired by trade from the Giants for the rights to Eli Manning, by A.J. Smith (GM – after Butler who had followed Beathard). Smith didn’t like Brees because he was Butler’s guy (much the same as the Bills are doing with Taylor). Schottenheimer was hired by Butler and his relationship with Smith was tumultuous. Smith ultimately re-ran the Beathard/Ross drama and got rid of Marty, bringing in Norv. This is all of course possible (re-living the GM/coach conflict included) because the Spanoses are the worst owners in the league, save maybe the Yorks.
They were also concerned that Brees’ shoulder was wrecked in a meaningless play in a meaningless game against a meaningless team (Denver). It wasn’t a bad gamble to go with Rivers, particularly while LT and the running game was top notch.
Bobby Beathard is a gem. What he did with the Redskins, after George Allen had traded all our picks away from generations, was nothing short of the greatest fete in the history of general managers. He may have done it before the salary cap (for the Redskins), but he was pulling people out of baseball and elsewhere. It certainly wasn’t his fault if Leaf went psycho.
It’s hard to believe I forgot about Riley. He really was forgettable.
My observations about Schottenheimer were about what he did in Washington. Everybody was to blame for what happened–except Marty. I find that whole attitude revolting, and I think it really did bad things to his teams. When you’re the boss, you take the blame for what your staff does. Being responsible for your staff’s performance is the job description of “manager”. That’s why, as an employee, you’re supposed to give all the credit to your boss for your success. He takes all the blame for your mistakes, and you give him the credit for your success. Marty wouldn’t have that, and it made his players crazy to be called out and thrown under the bus in the media by their boss.
In my mind, I associated that kind of behavior from Marty with Leaf’s crazy ass behavior–as exactly the kind of thing a 21 year old kid looking to deal with sky high expectations would do under Marty throwing him under the bus.
So, I guess that wasn’t Marty. If Marty had been there, it might have been worse.
Regardless, it’s scary to think how good the Chargers would have been had they managed to sign an injured Brees at the time and traded down for more picks instead of taking Eli and trading for Rivers. As injured as Brees was, they could have locked him in for less than they paid Rivers, too. If they had, Brees would still probably be in San Diego (I believe he still lives in Del Mar), the Chargers would probably have had one or more rings, etc., etc.
It would have been huge.
Instead, the Chargers couldn’t even stay in San Diego. They might still be there today if they’d resigned Brees and traded down for picks. Or if they’d just resigned Brees.
But such events merely reduce our own incomes while leaving others’ unaffected. They reduce our relative purchasing power. Matters unfold differently when everyone’s spendable income goes down together, as when all pay higher taxes. In that case, our relative purchasing power remains the same as before.
I wonder if Thomas Frank has ever applied this dazzling insight to the concept of inflation, or the minimum wage.
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That piece was mindbogglingly stupid, even for him.
Sir, I give you this article from a website dedicated to the art of mindboggling stupidity.
A bunch of Marxist True Believers gather to try to make economics conform to their desires. I’d like to see how this turns out. Seriously, look at those headlines.
Logan Dechter, the student whose whiteboard was written over in the aforementioned incident, was so upset that he skipped one of his classes.
Genocide.
Anybody can beat the Redskins in DC.
You better hope they don’t come to your town.
Damn!
Seattle AND NEW ORLEANS?!
LOL.
Brace for OT! I thought the skins had this in the bag.
Very clever of you Ken to work a ‘skins bit in behind a post that simply says “Genocide”.
My posts sometimes land in strange places.
It wasn’t supposed to be a reply to anything.
Sir, I give you this article from a website dedicated to the art of mindboggling stupidity.
That… made my head hurt.
Anyone recall the Jeff Foxworthy (I think) routine about guys and smelling something really terrible? There was some ad with raccoons and eating garbage riffing on the same theme.
Well, I believe derp serves the same role in our social milieu.
Should have gone out and watched that Vikings game
Defense is for real.
Didn’t see but was tracking on ESPN Gamecast online. Pretty impressive except for the 2 missed field goals. Guess the first one was pretty long though.
I’ll get to see them Thursday I guess which will piss off wife but she’ll get over it:))
will the chiefs win or will andy reid andy reid?
It just went into OT.
and they get the ball.
No idea why the Giants decided to kick on second down, but at least they won.
The Browns are gonna Brown.
Feel bad for Packers fans. Especially Glib Packers fans who had to sit through that game today in freezing cold.
I had to find myself rooting for the Washington Football Team today. I hate doing that. And I totally know that Brees is going to run a drive right down the field for the tying TD, and the Saints will win in OT.
And LOL Bears.
Go Eagles
See? Told you.
Oh, it’s worse. McCarthy benches Mays after the fumble but won’t bench Hundley after four games’ worth of ineptitude.
Who else does he have that he can go to at QB? The only other QB on the roster is Joe Callahan, and he’s not exactly going to help.
Today in HS Teachers gone wild
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/11/19/substitute-teacher-23-indicted-for-sex-with-two-teen-boy-students-and-sending-them-nude-pics.html
I’m tired of these dream-makers getting punished!
/Stanhope
Is that a zit or a yellow bindi?
There we go. She had no idea she was doing anything unethical.
https://www.duffelblog.com/2016/09/sailor-who-missed-mandatory-training-becomes-drug-dealing-sex-trafficking-spy-for-russia/
No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.
I’m squinting as hard as I can, and I still can’t see the part about “Spending on women’s sports must be equal to spending on men’s sports.”
I must need new glasses
Someone points out that NYC subway managers are paid a quarter-million $+ a year
idiotic progressives come out of the woodwork trying to rationalize that there’s nothing at all wrong with that, because… uh, cities are expensive, and fairness, and uh, more reasons.
I’m agreeing with a NYT article, at least so far.
*falls out of chair*
It’s veering into the “not enough money” derp pit now. *sigh*
It’s like they can’t put 2 and 2 together.
If they could, would they have majored in journalism?
Finished the whole thing – it’s surprisingly balanced overall for a NYT article. Lots of blame put on vanity projects, political BS, and yes outrageous union demands. But still pining for fantasy funding sources like “congestion pricing” and higher taxes.
Today in HS Teachers gone wild
In P Brooks -topia, only the student would have standing to make a complaint or seek charges.
I’m still not going to defend Marx.
Picture was inconclusive as to whether or not I would get behind her.
Chico/Harpo/Groucho are the holy trinity of comedy.
No info as to whether or not they found drugs
http://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/family-says-man-who-shot-officer-thought-it-was-a-break-in
Awww, poor Vaganica. Spectacular exit, though.
“She’ll have to go to the infield care center to be checked out.”
For smoke inhalation.
A church sign we can all enjoy:
Florida church warns at every door ‘we are heavily armed’
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/11/19/florida-church-warns-at-every-door-are-heavily-armed.html
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A Florida church has a stark warning to all who enter who may wish to do harm–“we are heavily armed.”
The River at Tampa Bay Church regularly broadcasts its services live on social media, and in the wake of the Texas church massacre where 26 people were killed, a leader of the congregation made a splash on social media when he posted a photo of the sign.
“Welcome to The River at Tampa Bay Church — right of admission reserved — this is private property,” it reads. “Please know this is not a gun free zone — we are heavily armed — any attempt will be dealt with deadly force — yes we are a church and will protect our people.” The message is signed “The Pastors.”
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Associate Pastor Allen Hawes told FOX 13 Tampa the sign has been up for over a year at the non-denominational church, but garnered attention after Senior Pastor Rodney Howard-Browne posted it on his Instagram account.
Hawes has his own concealed-carry weapons permit, and said those armed during services that draw over 1,000 could include parishioners with concealed-carry permits, private plainclothes guards, or uniformed deputies hired for security.
“If you think you are going to come here and do that, this is a deterrent for you because it is everywhere, it’s not like we hide these signs,” Hawes said. “They’re big signs, and it’s going to tell these people, we will protect our people.”
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The only thing worse than knowing you’re going to lose and losing is thinking you’re going to win and losing.
I was sure we were going to lose–right up until the last 2:45 of the 4th quarter. I thought for sure we would win–just in time for that god awful intentional grounding call.
We were up by 11 and in field goal range–and the damn Saints had no time outs.
Then there was that 3rd and 1. If we’d made that 3rd and 1 and hadn’t had to punt, . . .
Couldn’t stop a 2 point conversion?
There’s something to be said about the human condition and our susceptibility to hope. There was only one way the Saints could have won that game in that situation, and it was by doing exactly what they did. That happens all the time in sports–to the point where it’s basically expected. Miracles aren’t surprising, they’re more like confirming our preexisting biased belief in miracles.
When the only way to win at the end is if somebody does something that’s highly improbable, it isn’t really surprising when they do exactly that thing. Ask the homeless guy living behind the dumpster at the gas station near you, and he’ll probably tell you that if he could just x, y, and z, then his plan will turn out alright, and everyone who doubted him will all be ashamed of themselves.
That’s probably how the Redskins’ GM painted himself into this corner with Cousins, too. He’s got a plan, and somehow, he thinks it’s all gonna come together–despite either losing Cousins or having to pay him $35 million for just one year and then losing him.
Vaganica comes out, blames the team. We don’t know whose fault it was, but we know whose fault it wasn’t.
Is that your pet name for Danica?
Yeah, we knew how you did that before all this went down.
“Not all men should be judged the same.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/what-happens-when-you-like-or-even-love-a-sexual-harasser
I wouldn’t call it a “pet” name.
Yeah, I was being jokey
I have a vague memory from a month or two ago of people saying they didn’t like the NFL anyway and were boycotting the bastards because of some player-owner kerfuffle and something about anthems or whatever.
that i guess that wore off
I don’t care much either way, but… I had a child with a woman from Pittsburgh in the aughts. It is always a guaranteed smile when I surprise the lil’ feller with some Steelers swag. Out of irritation at them using the games as a vehicle for leftist agitation, I think I’m going to switch to periodically buying Penguins t-shirts for the time being.
It’s color and motion; eye candy. I watch the NFL like I watch waves crashing on the rocks, or an eagle soaring.
Same for NASCAR.
Y’all remember that story from way back in May when Apple’s black woman diversity coordinator actually spoke truth to power and pissed the left off when she said white people, men in particular, can be diverse because they have diverse life experiences? Well, she’s done come January. The truth is no longer the ultimate defense it seems.
http://fortune.com/2017/11/16/apple-executive-diversity-deloitte/
The truth doesn’t matter when you have an agenda.
Different ethnicities, races, genders, and sexual orientations working together and thinking and acting exactly the same. Sounds wonderful.
The agenda is the truth, and all who deny it must fall. /derpie catechism
Crawfish bisque. Yum.
That is all.
Yours?
yes.
butter/flour blonde roux, sauteed onion, garlic, cayenne, zatarans liquid crab boil, crawfish tails.
simple and freakin’ delicious.
Well, that was an entertaining day. Lambeau lives up to the reputation as the Mecca of football. The field looks great, the stadium is far less plastered with ads than other places, concession stands are efficient and reasonably priced, the fans are enthusiastic and friendly, and the atmosphere is terrific. Getting in and out is much less of a clusterfuck than any other stadium I’ve been to. It was sunny and below freezing, perfect football weather.
My opinion that ALL Super Bowls should be required to be played here was only reinforced.
God Bless Curly
Woo-wooo-wooo-wooo… oh wait, wrong Curly. Never mind.
The one ticket I’ll never get, you got a few, don’t dog me Man!
/totally jealous, hope it was as good as it looks!
It was. That was seriously one of the best football experiences I’ve ever had.
After the game was over, I waited outside the Women’s bathroom for SP, and everyone in Ravens gear who walked by high-fived me. There was a surprising amount of purple in that sea of green and yellow.
It is a great venue for a game. I’m glad you two had a chance to experience it. Good luck getting out of America’s Dairyland.
OT: In answer Lachowsky and others,
My Racing setup is R/C but not, it’s part slot car, part R/C. they use Light sensors on a 5ms. interrupt to read the gradient printed on the track, and follow it, to an extent.
There are 3 modes so I can race both my Grandsons at once, but I race hard mode, where the sensors only help a bit, you can still go off.
I was/am a slot car fan, have been since I was a kid, so this is a next step in that type of racing. I see it started as a kickstarter project that was bought by Mattel, good on those guys!
Anyway my love for R/C , slots and OCD led me to own the largest track of it’s kind in the World, if you can find bigger, let me know, I put out the challenge because this stuff should grow, it’s Really fun and ain’t that easy
http://hotwheels.mattel.com/shop/en-us/hw/advanced-play/hot-wheels-ai-starter-set-fbl83
My Sunday track
https://realfxandhotwheels.blogspot.com/2017/11/track-1006-iteration.html
In car barf ride,
https://youtu.be/IxFy4JuviOI
Gilmored the Barf ride, this should work
https://youtu.be/FXdRPyvCCbg
Ayinger Altbairisch Dunkel für heute abend.
Who was telling me last night the change in QB would be good for Buffalo?
The one thing the Chargers seem to be able to do is get after the QB, and Buffalo starts the rookie.
Some video of today’s track
https://youtu.be/xLF6dlpqrSE
/shameless promotion
Eagles game starts in ten minutes. I have an uneasy feeling that Wentz will have a really bad off-day and Prescott will manage to throw a winning touchdown pass.
If so, the Cowboys can have their 15 minutes of fame but they still ain’t making the playoffs.