This is a big sports week for me. But as a courtesy to our non-sports fans and to those who are put off by my hatred for ❌ichigan, I’ll try to keep it toned down. But seriously, Fuck ❌ichigan. Worst fucking place ever. ⭕️????⭕️ for life!
Truth!
Federer got bounced by David Goffin in the semifinals of the ATP Finals, so we didn’t get to see him and Grigor Dimitrov face off again in the season finale. So Dimitrov went out and took Goffin down in three sets to win the championship. Good for him. And good for tennis.
Arsenal put a beatdown on Spurs to jump back into the conver…ok, I gotta stop there. It was one game, but Arsenal ain’t going anywhere. Everton drew with bottom-feeder Palace. Man City keeps cruising. Manure won but the world still hates them. Liverpool thumped Soton. Chelski did the same to WBA. In Spain, Athletico and Real drew in a snoozer. And in Catalonia, Barcelona eased to a win. Bayern won big. So did Wolfsburg. Leverkusen was held to a draw. I don’t follow the greaseball league, but I assume Roma are still near the top? Well, they won. So did Naples, who beat former powerhouse AC Milan. Inter won. And Juventus lost to Sampdoria, which sounds like it should be surprising. Meh, who knows how they can play with all that oil on the ball from the headers anyway.
Full slate of hockey Saturday, but I’ll spare you the details other than to note that the battle for Canada was won by the English-speakers from Toronto. Sorry frogs. Your Canadiens will have to try again next time. Also, the Blackhawks won a pretty important game over the Penguins, who are hated by all decent people. The Army, I mean Las Vegas, Knights beat LA. And the Anaheim Mighty Ducks won. Red Wings lose to the Avalanche, although the matchup doesn’t generate the hate it used to.
No upsets in football, although UVa gave Miami a bit of a scare. But this is rivalry week, and the sphincters will be a little tighter as the week progresses. Here’s hoping for some good games. Except one. Fuck _ichigan, I’m hoping we beat the piss out of them.
Right, enough sports. Let’s bring on…the links!
I dindunuffin!
I don’t know who to believe and I really don’t care anymore. But the creature that is Lena Dunham sure has created a shitshow. Maybe molesting her sister, falsely accusing a man of rape and generally being a piece of shit human being are finally catching up to the sloppy, fat hypocrite.
That crazy asshole Charles Manson is dead. Good.
Could somebody please explain what the fuck Kratom is? Because I keep reading about how its fine. Or how its the scourge of the earth. Or something, something kids hardest hit. Anyway, I’d like to know, but I’m pretty lazy so I won’t research it. Instead, several of you will hopefully debate it in the comments.
This seems like a pretty clever idea. Although, if the dude really wanted to get some, he could just falsely imprison them, make them have sexy times and then let them go. Or does that only work in New York?
Ever felt like you were getting raped by the IRS? Well, about that. Looks like one of their agents, who is still on the job, took the phrase a little too seriously.
I laughed.
An EU official says Great Britain must make concessions for Ireland during Brexit. I’m getting a kick out of all these demands the EU are making. Britain can just as easily say “go fuck yourself, find a new business partner” and then go on about their lives. I mean, surely they won’t knuckle under and give the Euros whatever they want in exchange for their freedom back. Will they? Oh shit, they can and probably will. Oh well, I guess that’s what happens when you entangle your nation with others and give up your sovereignty. Good luck, Limeys.
Last but not least, college radio stations are becoming everything they used to rail against. And seriously, your station’s call letters are KUMM. You should probably have more of a sense of humor, even if you have no concept of the FCC and how their “laws” work.
I don’t know a single person that dislikes this song. I hope I don’t find out that person exists in the comments.
Have a Happy Monday! (Hey, I’ll play Happy Mondays sometime. But I’ll do it on a Tuesday to be ironic.)
-1 Helter Skelter
I wouldn’t say that.. He is now senior management down below and likely planning more of that shit… What do you think BLM is all about?
Is the avalanche starting? Woman says Al Franken inappropriately touched her in 2010
I expected you to redact every “m” from the links, Sloopy. Disappointed.
How sad will you be to see the end of JT Barrett’s 15 year reign as Ohio State’s starting QB?
I realized I was at the game where he threw his first TD pass. I hope I’m there to see his last one.
Dude has been a baller at times and hard to watch at others. I just hope he can finish strong and go 4-0 against TTUN.
And I couldn’t have omitted every ❌ like you said. It would create too much anger from people that don’t get it. But I can go back and edit a couple things now that I’m on my phone.
Bigfoot vs. Yeti, a Powerful Game for Cryptozoology Enthusiasts
Cryptozoologist pick Bigfoot’s side to avoid rape. But still raped. The end.
STEVE SMITH GO ON MOUNTING EXPEDITION!
STEVE SMITH RAPE YETI AND BIGFOOT…THEN RESEARCHER.
STEVE SMITH LIKE JERSEY DEVIL – HE FUN TO GET BEER WITH.
LOCH NESS MONSTER GIVE STEVE SMITH RIDE ONCE.
STEVE SMITH NO BELIEVE IN CHUPACABRA. BUT IF REAL, STEVE SMITH RAPE IT.
I heard that is why Chupacara sightings are down.. Steve Smith sees them, and they are raped..
Your week will only get better from here, because this is the dumbest thing you’ll read all week.
The New Republic asks, “Is the Constitution getting in the way of good policy?”
Underpinning this argument is the conviction that, as Barack Obama put it, the government has a responsibility to “get stuff done.” – yes that’s it. So simple. SO elegant. Get stuff done. Why the fuck din’t I think of that
One day I may have to compile a list of things Obama said and we can vote on which is the dumbest. I am not sure I can pick just one. The shit that came out of that man’s mouth…
“You didn’t build that.”
Maybe not dumb, but it the most infuriating thing that I can come up with right now.
“Don’t do stupid shit” ranks up there. Gee, thanks.
“…this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal…”
“WE WILL RESTORE HABEUS CORPUS”
That voice still is, unfortunately, captured in my skull.
Dumb can work, it can galvanize whole victim groups, whether it’s a metaphor on not.
Viz:
“Where the white women at?”
Wait, that was not him, sorry. Besides, he likes wookies and dudes from what I have seen/heard.
Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, The Kim and Castro dynasties, Chavez, and Mugabe, and a slew of other big government types got a lot done. We had over 120 million dead and some 3 billion plus people living in some of the most abject misery ever experienced by humanity. But they did it for social justice!
The problem with these people is that they do not understand the foundational principles on which the constitution was created.
I posit that they understand it quite well and outright reject and hate it because it stands in the way of their ultimate agenda. Omelets, eggs and all that..
The New Republic asks, “Is the Constitution getting in the way of good policy?”
Well of course it is, because the purpose of the Constitution is to thwart government power. So, that’s kind of the whole point, numbnuts.
Exactly what I meant.
Beat me to it. I think it was Coolidge who said something like it is more important to block a bad law than to pass ten good ones.
And its uuuup against the wall technocrat mother
He’s 34 and working for a webizine/Just kickin’ strawmans’ asses and raisin’ hell
He sure likes to drink that Stella Beer. And he chases it down with that artisinal fruit-flavored Bourbon liquor (He gets it in Red Hook at a little place; you wouldn’t know it.).
Nice
Thanks; I think he was a third of my neighbors in Brooklyn.
It’s in the way of commietopia, so yes.
On Kratom –
A friend of mine is working on a proposal for his local health authority to give it away in a capsule formulation mixed with various nutrients. There seems to be some evidence that it is helpful in breaking addictions.
Anecdotally, I took a pretty big whack of it a few weekends ago and it felt like a cross between being baked and somewhat opium-den lethargic. Not sure if I would prefer it to just smoking herb and having a few beers.
I recall this interview on Rogan to be very informative on the subject of Kratom.
The FDA have a ban boner for it, again.
Kratom questions for anyone who may know: If a friend of mine were to want to try growing kratom, does anyone know where they could source seeds/plants? Is growing it still legal according to federal law? Near as they can tell, it’s not illegal in their state (yet).
It’s my understanding that the leaves are harvested from fully grown trees, typically 60-80ft tall, so it’s probably a long-term, high capital outlay proposal to start a proper grow-operation.
Now, if they could find some psychoactive chemicals in kudzu, we could be away to the races….
Ahh, I see. Bummer. My friend will be disappointed.
Then again, I don’t see why you couldn’t grow it like a houseplant and pick a few leaves once in a while…
I’m not sure, it probably likes really high humidity.
you know who else wanted to change the world:
Melinda Gates: ‘Me Too, Me Too, Me Too’ Is Changing the World
Eric Clapton?
Ten Years After?
Alvin Lee?
“In every country and every continent, we have been taught that being born female comes with a cost. That if we are the victims of harassment or discrimination or violence, it’s somehow our fault.”
Who has ever said that? No one, in the modern west, except for the idiots in the Women’s Studies departments.
Ah, the wise words of someone whose bank account wouldn’t have nearly the zeroes after the non-zero number if she hadn’t spread her legs for someone with wealth.
I know a woman who isn’t the victim of harassment, discrimination, or violence. I married her seven years ago. We have a family and jobs and go about our business without looking for grievances and are happy.
I’m not saying this is for every woman, nor should it be mandated, but a good marriage and family to distract these people might take theirs minds off the manufactured grievances that they obviously have all too much free time to imagine.
You totally ain’t woke, you shitlord.
Excuse me, Patriarch is my preferred pronoun..
Not every woman, but expect it within a couple years to be an essential piece of flare in certain circles. Media, academia, tech company corporate culture, you better have a good grope story in your back pocket.
Coca cola?
“to mats spread on the ground in the world’s poorest villages”
Sorry, Melinda, but your metoo bullshit is exclusively a first world problem.
She met Bill while working at Microsoft. I wonder how their relationship started. Would it have been harassment if she had spurned him?
She was a relatively lowly employee, and got a fairly speedy promotion to being the product chief for Microsoft Publisher.
Germany’s Free Democratic Party (classically liberal, sometimes) has cancelled coalition talks with Merkel’s CDU and the Green Party.
Sticking points were immigration, both in terms of an upper limit and the reunification of families, meaning the right of legal residents to ‘import’ immediate family (there have been around 2m immigrants since 2015, you do the math).
A rolling back of the ‘Energiewende’ was also a big issue as was the lowering of taxes, in particular the ‘Soli’. This is an addition to the income tax of 5.5% to finance the costs of reunification and has been in place since 1991 and the FDP sought to end it by 2019.
Lastly, French President Macron said during the election campaign that a German government with FDP participation would mean that he was finished. No prices for guessing why.
New elections are now likely. The witch is (almost) dead.
http://www.dw.com/en/germanys-coalition-talks-what-are-the-sticking-points/a-41401096
Hopefully the German electorate does not go stupid and give CDU a majority due to this
“2m immigrants since 2015”
And more than 80% of them do not work, don’t know the language, have no skills, will not assimilate, will breed like rats, and be on 100% government assistance for their entire lives. And Merkel’s suggestion is to limit refugees to 200,000 a year. 200,000, 160,000 of them to be on 100% government assistance. And the Greens want to allow all of them to bring in all of their relatives.
The working Germans better get ready for a huge tax hike, because there’s no other way to pay for this.
I remember being told once upon a time that immigration would solve Germany’s aging workforce by introducing swarms of hungry young men looking for work.
BY WORK YOU MEAN RAPE?
It did work for a time.
They imported predominantly secular Turks (those were the days, eh?) much as the English imported West Indians in the late 50’s early 60’s to address shortfalls in key areas of the workforce. In the British case, the demand for staff for the NHS and domestic cleaners far outstripped supply, and for at least a generation, the process worked passably well, despite a decade or two’s ingrained soft-ish racism.
In Germany’s case, I think the impetus was primarily for low-skilled industrial workers (a problem Britain didn’t have, it had a surfeit of indiginous low-skilled industrial workers, ), but as I understand it, Germany’s great idea was to send the older, worn-out immigrants back when they’d done with them, which as one might expect, wasn’t a particularly well-thought out policy.
Maybe the Germans should have imported Brits to work the factories?
Would you really have wanted a BMW where all the electric circuitry was installed by Lucas-grade electricial guys?
Or bodywork/brake system, installed by a Ford Dagenham-trained mechanic?
No worries, the Germans are hard at work trying to destroy their world class car manufacturing biz with this green stupidity.
Muhommed the ISIS trained camel driver is better?
Well, that’s the thing. In the 80’s and 90’s, while Turkish immigrants weren’t easily mistaken for rocket scientists, they were seemingly diligent and prepared to live in dormitory conditions and came from a relatively advanced secular society.
Maybe molesting her sister, falsely accusing a man of rape and generally being a piece of shit human being are finally catching up to the sloppy, fat hypocrite. – that is no way to talk about the voice of a generation
Some of my generation are the worst.
She said we had violated FCC law by saying a word that was never allowed on air, ‘tranny.’ So we packed up and left the studio.”
How about Nuts-n-boobs?
She said we had violated FCC law by saying a word that was never allowed on air,
(consults first amendment) “Sorry, no.”
FCC doesn’t make laws sister.
I’d also bet you could pull out a ton of Click and Clack using that word on their car show on NPR.
Golf clap.
UM-Morris was the first college I went to. Yes the students all giggled at the call signs (there was also a dorm called Gay Hall).
A kid I met as a freshman played “Too Drunk to Fuck” by the DK at my request. The manager gave him a talking to, but that was it.
Hey, I played Too Drunk to Fuck on the radio in college too! (90.9 WNRN, in case you were wondering, which you weren’t) I had the 10-midnight time slot, so I could get away with a lot more than the daytime people.
I believe george carlin said it best. how about-
shitfuckpisscuntcocksuckermotherfuckertits.
Don’t touch that dial. It’s got KUMM on it.
I’m sure that’ll go over real well with an actual cop.
Most departments have a policy in place that says if you think the person might not be a real cop to call 911 and ask. If they haven’t pulled you over yet but have lights on, Call 911 and have them direct you to a police station for the stop to take place.
Of course, any movement like reaching for your phone might get you rammed and your tires shot out in the name of officer safety. So take it as you will.
I’m sure that driving several miles to the police station with an a lit up police car in pursuit won’t lead to any negative outcomes.
That’s how you know. If you are shot immediately, the cop is real.
It’s absurd to place Al Franken in the same frame as monsters like Harvey Weinstein
When you start a which hunt …
But that witch hunt was supposed to only hurt my enemies, and not my friends!
I think an Iron Law applies:
“Me today, you tomorrow.”
Zero self awareness.
There were sports at Michigan? /gradstudent
Reloading the page apparently doesn’t reset the reply button. Good to know.
I half agree, Franklin is nothing compared to Weinstein. He may have been creepy, but the best evidence seems to be that Moore didnt step over the line.
Actually just read a pretty good piece at Townhall about all the Moore stuff. https://townhall.com/columnists/joyoverbeck/2017/11/20/roy-moore-the-moms-and-the-yearbook-signature-n2411630
“Let’s be clear: nothing can excuse or exculpate Al Franken’s behavior……now sit back and watch as I do exactly that!”
I got through most of that Lena Dunham article but I’m still not sure what was in it. I can get over differences in culture very easily, but that…what the hell was that? Can derp be a culture?
I’m merely a derp-prentice and rarely deep dive into this stuff, so I can’t imagine what individuals like Derpetologist must go through. *salutes shakily*
It is nice to see them eating their own though. Very satisfying.
And what the hell could the EU even DO to Britain? Embargo? Yeah right.
That Dunham article was nothing but extremely unattractive women speaking gibberish.
Why bother?
“What the hell could the EU even DO to Britain?”
Since our policy for 25 years was to make ourselves dependent on the EU in as many ways as possible, quite a lot.
Pay up, or they’re coming for your daughters.
I don’t know about you guys, but mercy would be off the table; myself and some associates would get medieval on this fucker.
Like, with a couple hard pipe hitting niggas with a pair of pliers and a blow torch?
[EDIT FAERIE CORRECTS SPELLING]
She looks pissed. More like the spelling fairy.
These may be the world’s first images of dogs—and they’re wearing leashes
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/11/these-may-be-world-s-first-images-dogs-and-they-re-wearing-leashes
Carved into a sandstone cliff on the edge of a bygone river in the Arabian Desert, a hunter draws his bow for the kill. He is accompanied by 13 dogs, each with its own coat markings; two animals have lines running from their necks to the man’s waist.
The engravings likely date back more than 8000 years, making them the earliest depictions of dogs, a new study reveals. And those lines are probably leashes, suggesting that humans mastered the art of training and controlling dogs thousands of years earlier than previously thought.
I love how every time someone discovers something old it gets declared ‘the first xyz’.
Bullshit. Humans and dogs have been a team since there were humans and dogs. Hell, I have to throw rocks at the local wolves sometimes to make them go away. Try walking across my place to the bayou while eating a baloney sandwich and see what happens.
There’s wolves in Louisiana? I did not know that. I thought all the wolves in the US were in the northern and western states. What type of wolf are they?
They are Red Wolves in the South.
Huh. I learned something today.
I also learned that the scientific name of the Red Wolf is C. Rufus. Does this mean they are the hardest working wolves? Or they just hang around asking all the other wolves if they work?
The good news about them is that their diet is largely composed of poutine and stale timbits.
As if any Timbit that was near me would survive long enough to become stale…
*googles timbits*
My g-d. To think, I’ve only been blocks away from theses things for a couple years and haven’t yet tried them. I will go to the box and feel shame. And then I’m going to Tim Hortons
There used to be a species known as the red wolf so across the southeastern us. I thought they were mostly estimated from the wild except for some patches near Beaumont but maybe they be bounced back? I kinda hope so.
Did the pics also show them carrying small bags to pick up after their dogs?
If more fuckers at the park did that I wouldn’t have to scrape off shit from my running shoes every time..
%(%^*$(*&%$)()(*%
Those were in the fanny pack.
I hope I don’t find out that person exists in the comments.
If I were that person, I’d just keep it to myself. Because why gratuitously be a dick?
ps- Michigan does, in fact, suck. I probably should have been rooting for them just because Wizgonsun was/is undefeated, but…
I won’t admit to being that person whom does not like the song in question
/lawns, get off of them
Weird porn our readers have looked up on Google
Try to find something on Arthur though…
*applause*
*hoping period sex means dressing up in historical costumes and getting it on*
Hark! Dost thine eyes perceive a saucy wench yonder?
More like salsa wench.
Salsa, sauce, whatever. Call it what you want, but I’m guessing you’d rather skip that wench for a weekend or so.
A true pirate is not afraid to sail the Red Sea!
Never trust anything that bleeds for 5 days out of the month and doesn’t die, brah..
-1 Red Wings
When will Susan Collins make her degenerative brain disease public? That woman ain’t right. Parkinson’s, at least.
I saw her in the news over the weekend and had the same thought – something isn’t right with her upstairs.
It’s called liberalism/progressivism?
She lost a lot of weight. Did she manage to maintain her singing voice?
Oh. That was Susan Boyle,
Nevermind.
*narrows gaze*
The New Republic asks, “Is the Constitution getting in the way of good policy?”
Considering what the folks at new Republic call “good policy”? We can only hope.
A dying vet needed CPR. Hidden video shows his nurse laughing instead.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/11/18/a-dying-vet-needed-cpr-hidden-video-shows-his-nurse-laughing-instead/
Ugh…
I thought ofmposting that the other day but couldn’t bring myself to it. Those nurses are at least out of jobs, but I can’t believe they’re not being prosecuted.
Yeah seems like settlement is a bit light for what happened
Welcome to “single payer”.
Look, it’s unfair to suggest this sort of thing characterizes *all* single payer treatment. If it happened all the time, there’d be more cameras around to catch it. Right?
Government healthcare?
UCS to the white courtesy phone, UCS white courtesy phone please.
I’ll be that person. If you’re going to post rap, post something good like this.
What’s wrong with the word ‘tranny’?
Fucking marxist pieces of shit. What the hell are we going to do with all of these useful idiots?
Soylent Green?
Apparently it’s offensive. Which I can respect. But to kick someone off the air for being offensive to an incredibly small percentage of the population sounds like it could result in no DJs at all, were it consistently applied.
I didn’t know it was offensive. I cant keep up with what words are in or out of favor week to week.
Important question: Do you like your trannies to have a stick?
I didn’t even get the chance to figure out if traps are gay and now a new dilemma…
Man, how bad an article is it for Nick Gillespie to say it’s dumb?
The New Yorker is the Nick Gillespie of magazines.
Is Nick Gillespie the white people of Reason magazine?
Good on Gillespie on that one at least. Frankly I’m surprised TOS isn’t regurgitating the “Rand is a poopy head bad neighbor and this had nothing to do with politics” narrative.
Good grief, the Trumpertantrum people are really getting tiresome. Donald Trump is the POTUS and a lot of people like it that way. Get over it.
I’m pretty sure Trump will be the inspiration of unrelenting autistic screeching for as long as he is in office…..and the cause of all pain and suffering in the world in their minds……say what you will about the left but they are frighteningly persistent
Funny reply:
The European commission is to push for a quota for women on company boards to address the slow progress to gender equality in the senior ranks of publicly listed businesses.
Under the proposals, companies whose non-executive directors are more than 60% male would be required to prioritise women when candidates of equal merit were being considered for a post.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/20/eu-to-push-for-40-quota-for-women-on-company-boards
Ah yes tackling the big problems of the EU… And what exactly is equal merit?
Keep circling that drain Europe.
Shit, I love seeing people do stupid shit like this.. Sorry for your citizens and the coming economic pain as things unravel even faster.
Between the shitshow which is the Daily Fail website and the nonsensical “inside baseball” schoolyard insults (in some sort of pidgin english), I am much dumber for having clicked on that fatty mac fatface link.
Charleston trip report:
Flew in on AA – no delays. Took an Uber – only a 3 minute wait! – to our hotel down on Church Street, overlooking Market, which consists of overpriced tourist traps. But still to look on from the balcony.
Random observations – I didn’t find southern woman necessarily better looking than their northern counterparts. Of course there was some unfair weighting since Charleston is home to a college, which meant a lot of younger woman. I did, however, notice that SC women – broad brush here – work harder on their appearances than your average female Michigander – clothing, makeup, hair – that sort of thing.
There is a lot of money south of Broad Street. I saw several Porsches, upscale BMWs/Mercedes/Audis and even a new Alfa-Romeo. Of course property values in these upscale neighborhoods are outrageous, given the lack of land and your lack of building options due to the historical society/preservation laws.
King Street – upscale shopping with a lot of art galleries. I didn’t, however, find anything that I wanted to add to my modest collection. Lots of “tourist art” – paintings of Rainbow Row, and most of it costing more than I wanted to pay. Also a distinct lack of pottery which I just started buying.
The Church St. Inn – highly recommend this hotel. Full kitchen, two floors of living with the bedrooms on the second floor. Also very quiet – room to room / side to side but there was some noticeable street noise, with the garbage haulers working at 3AM. Or the 5AM street cleaners. Still I slept really well due to the 5-7 miles of walking I was putting in every day.
Most beautiful spot? The Unitarian Church graveyard. They let nature take its course here with only the paths are mowed. The graves are overgrown with bushes/weeds and flowering plants. Just a peaceful place in the middle of the city.
I ate a lot of good food though nothing officially Low Country – just your usual steak ‘n’ burgers and Mexican food (the last strangely hard to find).
The flight back was a United Airlines nightmare with a 3 hour delay, which meant we missed our connecting flight. Still we ended up in Chicago, had to get new tickets on a AA flight, and staggered back home many hours later than expected.
Where did you eat? Did you ask for any recs? Some of us live in SC, and may have spent a lot of time in Charleston…
Wait I forgot my keys!
Capping off a $700 million theft from taxpayers with a boom.
*Edit Fairy Dun Hep Ya!*
Sorry meant $700 million edit fairie! Please help!
Man, how bad an article is it for Nick Gillespie to say it’s dumb?
It was in the New Yorker, so… low hanging fruit.
Merkel unable to form government in Germany. This is all Trump’s fault!
Go FDP is all I can say for the next elections. But sadly I feel this will work for he lefties and watermelons
Coalition killer: Just who is the @FDP’s Christian #Lindner? Meet the man who torpedoed #Germany’s Jamaica coalition and threw the country’s future wide open.
I wonder if torpedoed mean did not agree to drop all their demands …
I cannot understand how she appeals to German voters. She seems to hate Germany (or at least West Germany).
Well, the left managed to elect a President for the past 8 years who hates America.
What’s wrong with the word ‘tranny’?
Something something gearbox.
Kansas St was a 20 pt dog. Also Duke, but I would rather not talk about that, lets focus on Kansas St.
Based on the uber precedent, doesn’t the IRS agent’s action mean we should call for the whole agency to be shut down? And by “we”, I mean progs. We have already called for them to be shut down.
“But the creature that is Lena Dunham sure has created a shitshow.”
Ran across this story somewhere else, and it’s just layers of hilarity. First, Dunham (moronically, given the current climate) defends some writer friend of hers who has been accused in the current feeding frenzy. Oops, you don’t do that, because you Believe Her (unless she’s a conservative former model, in which case she is probably lying, and sort of had it coming anyway).
This causes one of the contributors to her site to reveal how Dunham has always run in “racist” circles, and that it is time to stop writing for said blog… but the racism was supposed to have happening since been long ago, so kudos on your shining principles there, I guess. Predictably, this attracts attention to the contributor (who certainly is not doing this for publicity, right?), and people discover her twitter… prompting her to write this:
zinziclemmons @zinziclemmons
To all the haters, harassers and abusers creeping into my timeline, remember this: I brought down a major celebrity and her publication with one Facebook post. Try me.
Okay, well, you enjoy your 15 milliseconds there, sweetie.
It’s not very hard to do these days.
Are any these people actually trying to create some form of entertainment that is, you know, entertaining? I don’t find their gossip and drama even mildly interesting.
I tried to read that New Republic article, and my brain seized up. Maybe later.
Maybe.
Good to know that the CINC Pacific has his priorities straight.
Another Navy ship hit yet another Japanese ship? Sorry, bigger fish to fry.
US Forces in Okinawa banned from drinking after a crash.
Uffda. This would have started a mutiny back when I was there. BTW, the story only says that the driver was 3 times over the limit. The limit in Okinawa is .03.
So he could have been days from his last drink?
.09 would get you in trouble here stateside because of the work MADD has been doing. But it isn’t like this guy was .24 driving around which is the only reason you left out the actual reading.
Yeah, too many people would remember when .09 used to get you, “have a nice rest of the evening, sir.”
There’s always dumb shit being foisted upon the suckers unfortunate enough to be stationed in Oki. We went through a spate of this in 2004 after a Marine major was accused of raping a waitress – all of us nonrates were put on Cinderella liberty, because apparently it was our fault that a field grade officer raped a woman.
Problemo solved! Is there nothing Powerpoint can’t do??
I suspect a lot of these accidents happen because instead of focusing on doing their jobs, people spend too much valuable time dealing with these useless but mandatory “good citizen” training sessions now foisted on people so top brass can avoid scrutiny from the puritanical left..
Good morning, Glibs! Let’s get this week started!
https://twitter.com/ENBrown/status/932591035376529413
Ooh – ENB getting all tough.
Subtext: He’s just so… Jewish!
Fuck her. I am so grateful for the existence of Twitter so we can watch as her mask slips completely. If TOS was a legitimate libertarian publication they’d have canned her antifa-loving ass along time ago.
Just goes to show how I haven’t paid attention. She supported antifa?
They’re fighting Nazi’s dude. How could you not?
Not explicitly, her tweets sure indicate that Nazi-punching and suppression of free speech is the direction she’s leaning in. The point being that her Twitter account shows that she she’s a program who could give a shit about liberty for the people she disagrees with.
Damn tablet! *She’s a prog
TOS was only ever marginally libertarian. The old commentariat there was 100X more liberty friendly than the staff, thus all the hate.
+1 Koch bucks
I wonder how long before TOS goes full prog.
What are they missing? Nick Gillespie is indistinguishable from a Blue Dog Democrat now. Welch is full-blown TDS. Riggs and a revived Tucille are the only credible ones I can think of. (KMW is cagier — she might actually be a libertarian)
I’d count KMW as a libertarian. Ed Krayewski as well.
That’s pretty much it though. Remake the site, get rid of ENB and Robby, and replace Welch and the Jacket with Kmele and I’ll go back.
Shackford is good on some issues, less good on others. I think his heart’s generally in the right place.
I think they’ll push further left on the social stuff and continue to worship corporations and weird utopian futurism in the fiscal/tech areas…..
I get the recent shit, but this is not even close to accurate.
But even back in the good ole days when Postrel was in charge, she hated the commentariat.
But it was a more refined, detached hate. We were hated for our lack of style and grace, our lack of glamour and the way we always wore an onion, hanging from our belts.
Happier days, indeed.
It was the style at the time!
She actually said we were a bunch of jerks.
Which is kinda true, I guess.
I’m not going to deny it. I figure laughing at Sugarfree fiction qualifies me for that category (and a few others).
I think what was actually going on is that she got all hot reading our comments and that pissed her off. So she had to pretend she actually hates us.
Can’t we just admit that Postrel was mostly useless? She at least mostly let the writers there do their work, but on her own she has essentially contributed nothing to the libertarian cause – the commenters have done more. “Dynamism”??? In the free market of ideas, even free marketers have rejected the notion that art and fashion have been significant driver of liberty. (if anything they’ve been rolled into into the educational “self-esteem” movement which is the basis of current progressivism.)
Ah, yes, the Ice Queen.
It’s interesting that Gillespie was brought in because, at the time, they were looking for a certain net-savviness and twenty-something-contratrian perspective that Postrel couldn’t bring. (And cancer treatments certainly reduced her work time.)
He succeeded. But now it’s 2017 – net-savviness is a commodity. The keep bringing in twenty-somethings, but most of them aren’t contrarian, they’re just boilerplate young progs, contrarian only to the old strawman of establishment Republicans, a population that Trump exposed as shrinking tin significance.
Now Gillespie, the Kochs, etc. look to be going through a midlife crisis – they’ll latch on to whatever the twenty-something zeitgeist is in a desperate attempt to look contrarian and hip, in complete denial that they have given up on their principle of individual liberty in order to hang out with whatever young crowd will have them.
I’m surprised they haven’t brought in a lot of the Students For Liberty crowd. I met many of them in the first few years of SFL existence and they were sharp and many claimed they wanted to go into journalism or writing.
They probably cannot find enough Students for Liberty who are woke and love cocktail parties.
The Jacket is a limousine (uber?) libertarian. He can’t maintain a 200K income on writing alone, he needs those cocktail parties so he can continue to live in DC and fight for whatever donors consider liberty. God forbid he go back to one residence in Dayton and maintain actual principles.
Agreed. My biggest complaint was the decline in standards. You can’t decline unless you started somewhere better.
She needs some librarian glasses if she’s gonna be calling for muscle.
I’m glad she qualified after the fact what could easily be construed as a call for violence.
I was worried for a second there.
He and Robby.
Master qualifiers.
What was she responding to?
This:
https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/932504794328993797
I think he said that trans women are not women, which is actually true.
So, she thinks it’s okay to bring violence against someone who states a fact she doesn’t like.
Christ what a cunt.
Typical progtard. It’s amusing that she once pretended to be a libertarian.
Know a few like that.. Some even keep pretending they are libertarian after the mask was ripped off..
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What do you get from antagonizing ppl like this.”
“Why can’t you let us just run the narrative in peace?” As if he does it for kicks. This person doesn’t seem to get he’s making a scientific argument. I mean, the left fucking loves science, right?
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Hes biologically correct. Undoubtedly. But why is he so obsessed with something that essentially doesnt matter? Im happy to call a person what they want to be called, and move on.”
The problem is public policy is being written around this.
But why is he so obsessed with something that essentially doesnt matter?
Because we’ll be made to care even if we don’t care. If the argument were about whether businesses should be permitted to accommodate trans customers in a way they feel suits their clientele best, that’s fine. Some people could boycott Target if they like and others would continue patronizing them, and most people wouldn’t give a swut either way. But the trans activists’ opening bid was to compel businesses to recognize what is at best a highly contentious medical phenomenon as the written word of God on the say-so of politically motivated saboteurs. When you stick a pistol into the back of someone you’re trying to extort, that’s not negotiating, it’s a mugging.
I think what we are seeing here is that ENB intimidated some kid and now she’s shocked to find out there are people who will actually stand up to her and tell her to piss off.
I’m sad that no one told her to make a sammich. She should apologize to Shapiro and make his an extra nice sammich, like a good progtard.
I could tweet that to her, if you’d like. Not sure she’ll read it, but if she does fortunately I don’t think she’ll be able to figure out who I am to then hold up my tweet for current/future employers to see.
Oh, it was “hyperbole”. Well, okay then.
I actually remember when the other site used to employ actual libertarians.
Yeh, she tried to swim out of it and it only got worse. They over whelmed her and noticed she stopped replying.
What the hell was she thinking?
And I still don’t know what her counter-argument to Shapiro is because she chose to use the usually progressive tactic of attacking and rolling eyes.
She was just grabbing her turn to punch a Nazi to signal to her progtard friends.
The funny thing is that TOS has joined the crowd looking to drum actual libertarians out of libertariansism. These tend to be the same crowd that insisted that Julie Borowski was always actually alt-right. These are the same people telling us that anything associated with Mises isn’t really libertarianism.
I mention my disillusionment below. One of the things that accounts for my skepticism of these folks’ libertarian bona fides is how quick they are to want to push any actual libertarians out of libertarianism.
I don’t understand. How can they be libertarians if they have so many wrong opinions?
Seriously, nature abhors a vacuum, and woketarians hate it more than most. Libertarianism doesn’t entail a list of preferred policies, and that bothers them.
Forget her making me a sandwich, somebody make her one-she doesn’t look well and it looks like the lack of protein is starting to effect her brain.
Sez you. She has a certificate in nutrition. What credibility do YOU have???
/sarc
Playa suggested her diet consisted of cigarettes and diet coke.
You know who could use a punch in the face? Her proggy cunt of a fiancé.
Whoops, never mind, HM already gave him a rhetorical punch in the face.
Here’s my question:
Look at the string of replies after that tweet. The “discourse” is barely at a junior high level. Why the fuck do people do Twitter? Why would any soi-disant professional broadcast their immaturity, in every sense of the word, to the entire planet? Does ENB honestly not realize that her tweets in that back-and-forth make her look like a fool?
I quit a couple weeks ago. What’s the point of having a constant drip-feed from other peoples’ id?
I had a Twitter account for about 6 months. Used it maybe twice. The brain damage from those two uses is noticeable to this day. Twitter is the Jeff Dahmer of social media.
Social media is devolving in censorship machines.
Facebook has instituted polices to silence unapproved facts. They have been moving much slower than Twitter, which is aggressively going after anyone who disagrees with the Council of Cat Ladies running the place. They have now declared jihad against anyone who is suspected of thinking bad thoughts. That means they will use your search results and surfing habits to police your access to Twitter. Think about that.
Somebody brought to my attention yesterday that (a) I have a twitter account and (b) I have never used it. I said, “I’m saving it in case I ever need to make a public apology”
For a long time, I gave the writers at TOS pretty wide latitude. My reasoning was that, I understood I had libertarian blind spots coming to libertarianism from the right. It’s understandable that people coming to libertarianism from the left are going to have their own set of blind spots. And given that the writers for Reason are, well, writers, it’s entirely understandable that most of them are going to be coming at libertarianism from a more leftish view. The thing is their commentary off-site has made pretty clear that I was simply being too generous. Dalmia, and now Nolan-Brown, have tweeted that they support violence against people whose only “crime” is expressing opinions they disagree with. I think it’s safe to say, that’s not blind spot. That’s unlibertarian. Nick regularly tries to superimpose values that have no relation to libertarianism (e.g. cosmopolitanism) as essential libertarian values. That isn’t coming at libertarianism from a different angle. That’s just not libertarian.
I was the same way. I came to libertarianism from the right, and approached TOS as maybe having something to teach me. And it did. However, there blind spots quickly evolved into biases which became core tenets of their writing.
Actually, I found I learned a lot more and had my blind spots revealed more thoroughly in the comments.
An appreciation of any challenging philosophy can only really be developed via the cut and thrust of learned discourse, or the rough-and-tumble of a bull-session.
Not through being lectured, although being lectured by people who believe what they’re promulgating is more effective than people who are just emitting ideas they’re paid to spout until they get a better gig at Mother Jones.
I came to libertarianism from the left (I’ve identified as libertarian for a long time, but viewed myself as more liberal than conservative). But the left that I identified with died ca. 2008. The election of Obama was a major turning point, not so much because of him per se, but because of the change in attitudes that came from the people who supported him. I was never married to the idea that the solution to Bush was a Democrat. So, the election of a Democrat already left me nonplussed. Then, instead of just saying “we elected a black guy, hooray, let’s talk about something else” it turned into this racial pathology. Everything had to be assessed through the lens of race. I grew up in a time where we were told all that shit was behind us. And, foolish me, I believed it. So my attitude was, we have a Democrat and a (half-)black guy in office, so fucking what? What are his policies? How do they affect people? Are we better off than we were before, or not? And, again being foolish, I assumed the people I had looked up to, who had criticized Bush and all of his mistakes, would be criticizing Obama, because he was committing a lot of the same mistakes, and some new ones, too. But they didn’t criticize him. Yeah, some of them did, but weakly. The rest, they turned into Obama fanboys. OMG everything he does is great and if you don’t agree then you’re a racist or a Bush-lover. WTF? I hated Bush. I don’t give a shit about the President’s skin color, sex, sexual orientation, identified gender, whatever. Fuck, let’s have Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams alternate as President and VP, then nominate Janice Rogers Brown to the Supreme Court, and put up Dierdre McCloskey as Treasury Secretary. That would be awesome.
But it started to become clear to me that it was never about ideas, and it certainly wasn’t about libertarian ideas. It was about personalities, and narratives, and pushing the envelope towards the French Revolution/Communist/Academic Marxist left. That’s not freedom, it’s slavery. I’d take ten terms of George W. Bush over one term of Josephine Mohammed Stalin (nee Joseph Smith). I don’t care about the identity of my rulers, because I don’t want to be ruled. Right now, that gives one a temporary home in a niche segment of the political right. But I’ve been burned by that before and have no expectations that, in a few years, if the right feels really ascendant again, they’re not going to fuck and produce another Bush, or worse. Then we’ll start this whole dysfunctional cycle all over again.
Didn’t one of our beloved commenters call her out at the other joint once for writing some pretty proggy stuff before starting there? I remember she waded into the comments to give an explanation, something to the effect of, “I was young and I needed the money.”
I get that living on hot dogs and ramen can be awfully encouraging when it comes to making someone change their stated principles, but I’m not sure much libertarian ethos was ever there to begin with.
“Honey, you should have gone on the game. We would have had more respect if you’d earned that money on your back.”
she and robby learned the origins of Move On last week.
they’re fucking journalists, older than me, and they fucking learned about it last week.
takes 2 seconds online, is constantly brought up by people on their own comment section.
Whaaaa?
Wtf?
Yep. https://twitter.com/robbysoave/status/931306800200249344
I jumped in there to call them on it and apparently they don’t feel stupid.
I’d known about it before I was on TOS, but the commenters there brought it up often enough.
even move on’s tweets or posts on various platforms usually have some troll who brings it up every single time.
I especially like the way textbook workplace sexual harassment (legally defined) suddenly becomes a consensual affair and no biggie.
Christ, what an asshole.
my mistake, robby learned about it this summer.
“I don’t know a single person that dislikes this song.”
Or this one.
I don’t know a single person that dislikes this song
*raises hand*
” But the creature that is Lena Dunham sure has created a shitshow. Maybe molesting her sister, falsely accusing a man of rape and generally being a piece of shit human being are finally catching up to the sloppy, fat hypocrite.”
Who could have imagined that the batshit crazy left would start eating their own? I’m shocked.
#metoo
The Guardian has a shitty little hit-piece up on libertarians. You see, it’s our “visceral dislike of political correctness” that caused us to turn against democracy. Nothing about a principled stand for individual rights and due process, nosiree.
Obvious derp warning: The Grauniad.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/19/trump-russia-fake-news-libertarians-autocrats-democracy
Because democracy is all about total agreement.
Using the word ‘visceral’ suggests there’s no intellectual argument against political correctness.
Which is absurd. And notice how they always frame things as if there’s no room for debate. Ergo, you get logical fallacies like: Your (emotionally) driven visceral hatred of political correctness means you’re against democracy’.
You question public education policy means you hate kids.
You challenge Obama means you’re racist.
And so tiresomely on….
It’s like Bastiat never existed.
All political correctness means is that you must agree with the left, even though their ideology is a total failure and all their ideas are unworkable and most are even harmful.
I’m surprised they didn’t work in ‘wrong side of history’ in there.
Worst. Phrase. Ever.
Very Hegelian. As if history unfolds neatly to be able to see the ‘side’.
And of course, they merely define ‘right side of history’ as agreeing with progressive notions and ideals.
It is the worst phrase, and it covers for the driver of most human misery – the belief that you and your co-religionists represent the vanguard of society and can therefore do what you like, without criticism from ‘reactionaries’.
The left tends to foster their delusion that they were ‘on the right side of history’ by claiming descent from all sorts of people who had nothing to do with them and would have despised their ideas. So for example the Levellers get held up as proto-commies (despite their strong insistence on property rights), and the role of Christian fundamentalists in abolishing slavery is completely ignored. Meanwhile Progressive support for eugenics is nothing to do with them, squire.
You know who else thought he was on the right side of history.
William Manchester?
I was gonna say Francis Fukuyama, but I guess he’d say he’s on the only side of history.
It was on the eighth day that god himself handed down from on high the governmental system that we have at the current time.
And this has been true, at all points in time, since the beginning.
Good points, all, lads. Also, note how they continue to look for scapegoats rather than engaging in honest introspection. And it’s not like we’re powerful or well organized. Maybe three reliable votes in Congress, and lucky to break five percent in an election.
Lads?
Blokes?
You wanna bet?
““visceral dislike of political correctness” that caused us to turn against democracy.”
24K gibberish.
I copy-pasted that into a gibberish generator. When I hit the Generate button it came out unchanged. Maybe that is where the Guardian is getting their articles.
I keep forgetting that the left has different definitions than I do. Democracy to them means straight-up tyranny of the majority, no one is allowed to disagree.
Democracy also meant straight up mob rule and tyranny of the majority to the nation’s founders. Which is why the USA is not a democracy, but a constitutional republic.
Or rather it’s supposed to be.
I’m sure you already this but,
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what’s for dinner tonight.
Yup. And the second amendment is a well-armed sheep contesting the results.
David Frum explains something, maybe
Despair is always a bad counselor. This hubris and haste will not deliver the results that U.S. business wants and that the American public should expect. A normal Republican president would say so. A normal Republican president would enlarge the narrow views of his or her congressional party—if only to win a second term for himself or herself, but ideally because presidents by their job definition are compelled to think of the wider interests of the nation. But President Trump, elevated by the Electoral College on the basis of a Michael Dukakis-sized share of the popular vote, is not only the least public-spirited president in U.S. history, but also the most ignorant and short-sighted. He struck an implicit deal with the congressional Republicans during the campaign of 2016: If they would shield his wrongdoing, he would sign their bills. It’s the one of the rare commitments in his lifetime on which he has not (yet) reneged.
An opportunity to achieve a sensible improvement by broad consensus is being flung away in favor of accumulating special favors for special people. If it succeeds, it will not last. And it probably will not succeed. The differences between House and Senate are real; settling them will take time.
Trump is destroying America.
Jeb Bush probably would have been better, I suppose.
A normal Republican president would say so. A normal Republican president would enlarge the narrow views of his or her congressional party—if only to win a second term for himself or herself,
Isn’t it weird how past and counterfactual Republican presidents are so much wiser and better than actual current Republican presidents?
If they would shield his wrongdoing, he would sign their bills.
What wrongdoing has been demonstrated? Just because you don’t like him or his policies, that doesn’t rise to the level of wrongdoing.
Blah blah Russia, Nazis, bleep blorp
Well, Jerb is a prog, so yes.
If they would shield his wrongdoing, he would sign their bills.
What bills? seriously. Has Trump signed a bill yet?
Yeah, since they haven’t actually managed to get any bills to his desk that I know of.
“No matter how much information y ou give them they cannot draw a sensible conclusion.” – Bezmenov on useful idiots
How many people notice that what the Trump haters say and reality are very different from each other? Trump says “I condemn white supremacists in the strongest possible terms” and they start screaming that he is a white supremacist. Trump says “America’s interests come first” and they say he is the least public-spirited president in history. Trump declares he is president for all Americans (black unemployment now at a 20 year low) and he is called a racist.
Go fuck yourself Frum, you idiot.
“CelerinoSancheese • 3 hours ago
David – You didn’t mention repeal of the Estate Tax. What on earth is a justifiable rationale for that, especially from a Trumpian populist standpoint?”
If Trump would only forcibly repatriate him to Canada, I’d declare him America’s greatest president ever.
Lionel Jefferson.
The other argument is that the estate tax is explicitly double-taxation.
especially from a Trumpian populist standpoint
Umm, family farms?
Jesus, that took all of 5 seconds of thought.
“An opportunity to achieve a sensible improvement by broad consensus is being flung away in favor of accumulating special favors for special people.”
Self Awareness approaching zero.
Maybe covered already, but…Morrissey comments on Hollywood sexual abuse scandal, says some victims are ‘just disappointed’
“People know exactly what’s going on,” he reportedly said when asked about Weinstein. “And they play along. Afterwards, they feel embarrassed or disliked. And then they turn it around and say: ‘I was attacked, I was surprised’. But if everything went well, and if it had given them a great career, they would not talk about it.
“I hate rape. I hate attacks. I hate sexual situations that are forced on someone. But in many cases one looks at the circumstances and thinks that the person who is considered a victim is merely disappointed.”
Bigmouth strikes again.
+1 girlfriend in a coma
Bitchez know how the game be played… Know what I am saying?
I really like when that misanthrope comments on social happenings. Its hard to believe he could be so wrong about sex (its great!) and veganism.
Cool link.
Welp. It’s getting late.
Of course they all knew about it all along. People have been making ‘casting couch’ jokes since the Vaudeville days. They all have always known what a casting couch is.
Yes, but you aren’t supposed to say this stuff out loud in our #MeToo era. If a woman says she’s a victim of rape, even when she agreed to it at the time in hopes of becoming a big star, then she’s a rape victim, damnit!
I can just imagine the lyrics of “Merely Disappointed (After Giving You My Virginity in Return for a Career)”
Tell me again why anybody gives a fuck what blathering smarmy ignoramus ENB says.
Because she’s a “libertarian” woman?
Sometimes it’s fun to point and laugh?
Because she’s friends with Maggie McNeill and I’m afraid Maggie would kill me if I said anything untoward about ENB.
Isn’t it weird how past and counterfactual Republican presidents are so much wiser and better than actual current Republican presidents?
The mists of time, Brett. The mists of time.
*reminisces about Mitt Romney being called a Nazi*
Mitt Romney, as milquetoast and mild-mannered a candidate I’ve ever seen, was transformed into a rabid woman-hater, a Nazi, a bully (via a 50 year old story from high school), an animal abuser, and, of course, a virulent racist.
And the press wonders why a lot of people don’t trust a fucking word they say.
Stop me, oh, stop me
Stop me before I ruin what’s left of my career.
Threading fail? I need my morning kratom.
Release the Kratom.
I’m sad that no one told her to make a sammich. She should apologize to Shapiro and make his an extra nice sammich, like a good progtard.
If I owned a Jimmy John’s franchise, I’d offer her an unpaid internship. I certainly wouldn’t expect her to provide any marginal return from a paycheck.
That would very likely become a very expensive unpaid internship. The only benefit that I can see is the morale bump you get after you fire her. Then come the lawsuits.
Found a nice new edit faerie pic.
Who’s the tranny, another YTer I assume?
Styxhexenhammer. He’s got a good channel, actually.
Not sure he passes the Libertarian Purity Test though.
You should be ashamed of yourself. I know I am.
Punch him in his smug, occultist face.
Occult-American Lives Matter. Until Cthulhu claims them.
I like Styx, the other is definitely him then?
I’m not vouching for that pic. Found it on 4 chan. That being said, I wouldn’t be shocked if it were our coffee cup clanking friend.
YOU LEAVE TARL ALONE! *sob*
Yesterday we got back from my sled hockey tournament in Minnesota. Minnesota is a very frigid place. And it’s very boring to drive through Wisconsin. But my team won 1st in tier 5, and our A team won first in tier 1. We had the president of USA Hockey and a representative from the NHL give us our banner. Our A team got a big trophy that will be on display in the hockey hall of fame in Toronto. This was the first time in this tournament. It was really well done.
Sounds like you had a pretty good time. Excellent.
Yes, it was a blast. I also got to meet a lot of interesting people. I was born with a disability, but about half the players are disabled vets and they are some amazing people. I found out one of my new teammates lost his legs to an IED not even a year ago.
I’ve been to Minneesoda in the winter time. Were I ever to lose the use of my legs (not out of the question)…well, I’ll leave the hockey to you. I will just devote more of my time to shooting rifles in warm weather. My brother and I had quite a good time last weekend doing just that.
Yes, people who overcome that kind of a challenge are a cut above, that’s for sure. I bet that was a blast.
Sitting out in the cold to shoot something doesn’t sound fun to me, but shooting things in warm weather does sound nice. On the drive home through Wisconsin we saw at least a dozen cars with deer tied to them. This one guy had a huge buck with like a 10 or 12 point rack. It was amazing.
I had never heard of sled hockey before. I just looked it up. Thats pretty cool. The first video I saw was two guys beatin’ the crap out of each other.
I too have some physical limitations. I haven’t even made it into the woods to hunt this year. Not sure I am going to. Last weekend the weather in east texas was fairly pleasant so we managed to burn through about 500 rounds of .218 Bee, a couple of thousand 22lr, about four racks of pork ribs, a bottle of vodka and a bottle of gin. Now it has turned cold, well, my idea of cold anyway.
*warms hands by the fire*
Look at Mr. Moneybags here, bragging about burning thru’ .218 Bee, that’ll cost someone nearly a dollar a round to replace.
You’re gonna have to work those damn orphans a lot harder ….
Heavy reloader here. I bought 500 pieces of brass 20 years ago from Black Hills, I think. They were dumping it cheap (who shoots a 218 bee?) I also managed to snag 1000 pieces of 375 winchester (who shoots a 375?) for the same reason. Once you have the brass they reload pretty cheaply. No way I would pay for that ammo off of the shelf.
It gives me great joy to see the 22lr back on store shelves for decent prices.
I’d shoot 218 bee, if it wasn’t so niche.
It’d be like having a cute, sassy girlfriend who wouldn’t throw brake fluid on your car or have your cat euthenased when you had a (rare) disagreement, and who would be in almost all respects, be fun when you wanted to have fun, serious when you needed serious, and classy when you needed her to be classy.
So, basically, a unicorn, but one that actually exists.
How many women know that that brake fluid eats paint? Of those, how many know you need DOT3 or 4?
Well, at least one woman I dated knew, obviously. I did manage to save the cat, but it was a close thing, fortunately years ago.
Well Number.6, I have a lot of odd calibers because I find the guns at prices I cant pass up. I paid $100 for a marlin 1894 brand new in 218B because it sat on the shelf for years and no one would buy it. I have a lot of guns like that. I have a couple of 22 Hornets also. I hate reloading them, the brass is too thin. What else have I got? 32 winchester special, 375 winchester, 450 marlin, 444 marlin, and 45 winchester magnum (pistol). Most of this stuff only gets manufactured once every ten years or so so I keep an eye out for it to come into stock and buy the brass in bulk. Then I cast the bullets for them myself. I end up shooting odd centerfire at nearly the same price as rimfire.
I’m a believer in a relatively manageable number of calibers.
Currently, the modest Dean armory sports the following:
9mm
.45 ACP
.308
.300 Win Mag
.22 LR (of course)
12 gauge
Also a .50 cal muzzleloader.
I have a 22-250 I am planning to sell, as well. I’m convinced those “hot” necked-down loads need to be handloaded for each rifle to get acceptable MOA accuracy, unless you are stupid lucky and a factory load shoots well in your rifle.
I’m more limited than that.
22LR
9MM
308
38 Special/357 Magnum
Next revolver is likely to be 9mm, so the inventory won’t get any more complex.
Hmmm…
12 gauge
20 gauge
30-06
6.5 mm Jap
22 LR
38
40 smith and wesson
45 ACP
I think that video is one of our coaches.
Cool! Do you fight in sled hockey?
There was one fight this weekend but I missed it. I did get a lot of good hits in, especially vs. the LA Kings.
Nice!
Congratulations, Kevin!
Where was the tournament?
It was at the Plymouth Ice Center.
Goddammit. 10 minutes from my house. Earlier heads-up next time, huh? 😉
I mentioned it last Wednesday but I should have looked for you specifically on here. Sorry we missed each other.
No worries. I saw it, but I think you were already gone. I mentioned that a friend of mine plays, so we’ll probably cross paths again.
Glad you had fun! I play at Plymouth all the time – nice rinks.
It was a nice facility. They also had some local hockey kids transport our gear during the weekend. Each team had a designated storage space, and they’d get our stuff to the locker rooms for us.
The national tournament is in Chicago this year. I think it’s in April. (Road trip?) I’ll keep posting when we play out of town. Five of our A team guys are going to the Paralymics this year so I’m going to play a few tournaments with the A team when they leave. So I’ll be in 8 tournaments this season.
What team is your friend on?
Wild.
Uh-oh. We lost to them in our first game, and beat them in the final.
Nice! I’ll make sure to razz him!
http://5newsonline.com/2017/11/19/search-underway-in-johnson-county-for-missing-hunter/
I love waterfowl hunting just as much as the next guy. However on Saturday the we had a cold front blowing in and there were sustained winds of 25-30 mph all day. Going out on the river in a duck boat in those conditions is stupid.
I had two cousins die like that. They both fell out of the boat into cold water. The third and oldest brother said they went in the water and never came back up. They sunk like stones and the cold water paralyzed them. Catahoula lake is a damned dangerous place in the winter time. Most people dont appreciate how dangerous. Yeah, I duck hunt from the bank. Speaking of which I better get a stamp. It’s about that time.
This happened in a backwater off the arkansas river about 25 miles from where I live. There are currents in the river than kill you even if you aren’t laden down with 20 lbs of duck hunting gear. Going out on the water that were present saturday was stupid.
in the conditions that were present saturday
We get half a dozen of those every year. It is foolish as hell going out in water like that. Catahoula lake is about 50 square miles and pretty shallow so A little wind and the waves get pretty high and white-cappy. I have seen it plenty of times look like the south Atlantic out there. I am talking 8 foot waves. No way in hell would I put a boat in that.
http://5newsonline.com/2017/11/18/woman-runs-over-husband-killing-him-after-barroom-brawl/
Witnesses said a fight inside Big Dawg Motorcycle Club, during which the victim was stabbed, spilled outside where she attempted to hit the group attacking her husband. She hit her husband instead, according to a police report.
Sensible car control would have prevented this tragedy
Kratom is about as dangerous as coffee. Hope that clears it up. Oh, and thousands of people have used it to stop taking opiates, including your good friend Archie. The reasoning behind the push to ban has a lot of parallels to the push to ban vaping. It’s clear they want the heron “epidemic” at this point, there is no other explanation for their actions
Frogs and small fish hit hardest.
As I realized my misspelling I looked up and saw a heron flying directly overhead. Wierd
I was just thinking of Jung when I read your comment.
It wasn’t real. It was the Kratom speaking.
Weirder that you know, if you were to believe the way that the Anglo-Saxons are thought to have considered omens and portents,
The Lord of the Hunt just sent you one.
So I was supposed to shoot it?
If I remember correctly, the idea is that there’s no causal link between an omen and an event. An event trembles the ‘web’ of wyrd the same way a fly interacts with a spider’s web, but wyrd is affected, and they thought that those changes influnced the near future.
The heron was a bird associated with kingship (hence the use of the ‘Fisher King’ against Claudius’ troops in the re-invasion of Britain), and its appearance was meant to be an omen of defeat. It’s a shame that the Britons didn’t realize that the Romans’ pantheon of gods didn’t give a shit about wyrd. Probably because there was no ‘Y’ in latin at the time.
So…you are saying that the bird was the wyrd?
The anglo-saxons thought everything was connected. The wyrd was what flowed like a fateful phlogiston, thru’ everything. To the extent that cause and effect were at play, multiple events were simultaneously causes and effects of each other.
In many respects, if that was the case, the Roman conquest saved us from some truly nutty religious theories.
You look in the mirror and narrow your gaze, young man!
*stands for thunderous and sustained ovation*
It made the frogs gay?
Actually, it’s a little disingenuous to put myself into the category of people who quit taking opiates with Kratom. It played a part in it for sure but I ultimately went from Kratom to very very low doses of Suboxone. Had I not needed to function at close to 100 percent for work I would have stayed to course on Kratom and still gotten to where I am today.
Did you buy it or grow your own? And congrats on getting off the opiates!
I think growing your own requires a tropical clime.
Most houseplants are tropical plants.
Yeah, I know, I have a bunch of them. Some of them are hard to keep alive during the winter months and we put them outside until it’s going to get below 32 F. But Kratom is a tree, one that gets huge. Not even sure about maturity as far as the alkaloid content goes. And some tropical plants, even small ones, are almost impossible to keep alive as houseplants because of the low humidity.
Yeah, it could very well prove to be difficult/impossible. But what the heck. It might be fun to try. And just because it’s a tree doesn’t mean you can’t grow it in the house for a few years.
I’m gonna see if I can find more info on growing it after work.
If you are going to grow something that’s a potential felony you might as well grow something worthwhile.
I’ve been wanting to try and grow poppy but haven’t tried yet. Maybe next year
re: your comment above, you are right, it might need high humidity. But philodendrons make excellent house plants and they are native tropical as well. Someone needs to do some research…
Bought it from Apu at the local quicky-marts. About the only place you could get it other than online.
Thanks, it’s been a rough road. Still think about how great it would be to snort an oxycontin about everyday. Crazy thing is, I couldn’t care less whether I spent the rest of my life taking them, I was functional and nobody could tell it was an issue. Thank God for methadone clinics though
Hang in there man. I can’t imagine what you’re going though, but it sounds like you are doing as well as can be expected. How long have you been off them?
Thanks, it’s by far the dumbest thing I’ve done in my life. Been almost 2 years off opiates and almost a year off Suboxone. Most people have no idea what withdrawal is like, it’s like having the flu x10 andknowing you can get rid of it for $20 or $30.
Even one oxycontin of the lowest dosage will make me sicker than a dog, literally projectile vomiting. I don’t see how anyone can take that stuff. I had a sore back once and a friend gave me one for pain. I was deathly sick all day and half the next day.
You gotta work up to it. When the Tylenol from the dozen a day loratabs starts making you nauseas, that’s when you go to the oxys.
It’s also good for chronic pain relief without the drugged feeling and insomnia. Denying it’s relatively benign use to those who get good results from it really would be a crime. If some use it to get a Benadryl level buzz once in a while who cares?
Uncle Sam, dat’s hoo!
The drug war is big business for poloce/courts/prisons/prosecutors/judges/politicians. Don’t forget that.
Bingo. It’s about the money. It’s always about the money.
Don’t forget the pharmaceutical companies who very well may be leaning on their politician friends in the background because kratom money doesn’t go into their pockets.
You shitlords never think of the children! Kratom is a dangerous narcotic just like marijuana!
Marijuana is much more dangerous.
Kratom is coffee level dangerous at worst.
Probably. The strains that I like best are the ones that give you a very mild caffeine like effect. You have to be careful not to take too much or you’ll get nausea, at least that’s what happens to me. Nothing dangerous though. I’d probably put it in the category of guarana as far as effect and toxicity are concerned. I know some people like the strains that give more of a sedating effect. I don’t care for those, but still the effect is very mild compared to weed or alcohol.
Drug panics don’t ever go away, they just transition from one substance to another. People have cooled down on the weed, but they then obsess about something else, like opiates, or Kratom, or bath salts. The “Libertarian Moment” faction of the movement tends to misdiagnose the growth in support for marijuana legalization as some great awakening of the populace about the War on Drugs, when in reality the public are relocating their fears to a new “most dangerous epidemic!”
(Now, I know that opiates and bath salts are actually dangerous things to get addicted to, but the government’s “solution” to getting people to stop the supply of both is the usual statist crap that they do with marijuana.)
Opiates really aren’t all that dangerous unless you’re a hedonist about it. Most of the deaths were a combo of benzos and opiates together. They are dangerous because they are addictive but then things that curb their addiction are illegal o semi illegal. Want your mind blown, look up Ibogaine and it’s success rate with getting people off opiates. And then realize it’s illegal in this country
The drug war is big, no HUGE business in this country. This is the only country on earth which has actually made hormones illegal.
Yeah, pretty much everyone I’ve talked to about the topic, except here on this website, always have one of two opinions.
1. All drugs are bad! *slams down 23rd beer*
2. Ok, we should legalize weed, but all other drugs are bad! *slams down 23rd beer, takes another hit off bong*
This is where I think our best option is to push hard for alcohol prohibition. Either legalize it all or ban it all.
You won’t get anywhere with that one, too many lushes in our government. Alcohol is far more dangerous than weed, any honest person has to admit that. Which means there are not many honest people, but plenty of drunks.
I say that mostly joking, but if we had a little more political power I do believe it would work because so many nanny staters drink the devil’s brew.
You shitlords never think of the children!
True, for the intended meaning.
Kratom is a dangerous narcotic just like marijuana!
Also true, in the sense that they are equally dangerous substances.
Guys, it’s no big deal really: Chicago passes 600 homicides for only third time since 2003
I think they need more gun control?
I may have linked the non-link part and not linked the linked part. Point it, that’s quite a dumb headline, especially given that 2016 also surpassed the 600 mark.
Ah. So now we understand. 2 out of 3 record years are because of Trump!
I love the excuse ‘its because of guns in a gun friendly neighboring state’. Is it? That must be why they are having a blood bath in Indiana and Tennessee.
Of course, the true heart of that excuse is that blacks should not own guns. It is incredibly racist to for the gun grabbers to point out low crime areas like Tennessee and then complain these places are supplying guns to their almost all black residents who can’t be trusted with them. There was even a study released not long ago that showed Chicago denied firearm permits to eligible blacks at a significantly higher rate than eligible whites.
Gun control laws = modern day Jim Crow. I think it’s the best argument out there to bring the left and progs around on dropping gun control as a platform.
They will never drop it. It is very difficult to get your boot on someone’s neck if they are armed. The proggies are really just commies and getting their boot on your neck is their mission in life.
Understanding this is the key to understanding progs. They have no principles. They have no sacred cows. They have one goal, the aggregation of all political power and social capital into a totalitarian government that governs as they wish. Oh, and they’re not against being told what they’re supposed to wish by the all-powerful government.
I completely agree. I’m just still disheartened though by the recent elections in VA… the governor elect (or lt gov, can’t remember) has appointed the head of one of the particularly toxic gun grabbing groups to his transition team.
Giving up as gun control as a Dem party platform is fantasy, but I do think the argument could make headway with those of the base who form positions based on emotions and identity politics.
With Mark fucking Herring as AG, we were always in for a determined assault on the 2A.
I think Herring being elected governor in four years would be the straw that breaks the camel’s back and prompts me to move to someplace like Oklahoma.
They also don’t like to address the fact that Vermont has the most liberal carry laws in the country yet very low crime.
How has the NRA, NAGR or one of the more principled organizations not jumped on that and sued the state for racial discrimination?
Well that ought to give the police budget a boost. Good work guys!
This is gonna end well…
The Saudis taking on Iran? They couldn’t take care of Assad and they’re having trouble in Yemen for Muhammed’s sake.
World War III? Meh. Y’all fight it out, let us know who wins.
They have skin in the game when it comes to Iran. Syria was incapable of realistically becoming a regional hegemon, and hence a threat to Saudi.
Iran, over the medium- to long- term *is* capable, willing and motivated to do so, especially now it’s on the brink of nuclear capability. There is a credible case to be made that Riyadh could be higher on the target list than Tel Aviv, so the window of opportunity for Saudi is closing. Being permitted to operate in Israeli airspace is unlikely, but you can understand why there have been some recent diplomatic discussions between Israel and the Saudis.
Taking on Iran is arguably in their self-interest, true, but they are woefully unprepared to do so. They might not get their ass handed to them but they’re incapable of outright winning too.
Unprepared to do so … alone.
That is all.
Watching recent news events from a distance, I’d say what was needed in Saudi is a regime – maybe a new regime – that was capable of better cooperation with other regional rivals, maybe even those with different religious beliefs. Maybe the situation is so concerning, that even other regional powers who can be bullied or influenced into the same political views (even sovereign nations with royal families who would normally bridle at being pressured by the Saudis) could be encouraged to at the very least, stay out of the way in the forthcoming hostilities.
If only we could see that happen.
Also, Syria is a relative shithole. I mean, what is there to want in Syria?
There are a couple of things, or were. Maybe there are less now.
* Syria has (or had) its own nuclear program. The scientists are somewhere (probably
Tehran or in a bunker). If were concerned about a regional rival and wondered how far
they’d got and what kind of information they might be supplying to Iran, I’d want to secure
the sites for forensics.
* Geography
* Shi’ite Twelvers, Mohammad Al-Mahdi, and the eschatology of islam, putting the location
of their armageddon within Syria, at D’abiq.
One of the important issues that I think only the muslims themselves can comment on is just how seriously the Iranian leadership believes the whole “Twelver” theology, because one of the preconditions of the eschaton is the destruction of the Ka’ba in Mecca – which is why Mecca is potentially high on an Iranian target list.
And to think, not so long ago people thought the Born Agains in the US, talking about “The End Times” were scary.
I was thinking more along the lines of exploitable resources.
Great. It’s just a matter of time. The Iranian regime is one of the evilest in the world. We need some more western proggies to send them more money.
What Obama did regarding Iran should have gotten him a jail cell.
I normally like Brendan O’Neil’s work and I agree with his take in this article, at least in principle. That said, what do you say when the people in question see the consequences of their rejection of things like the due process, the presumption of innocence or even basic expectations of a modicum of evidence applied directly to them and people they care about and still reject those principles? I mean it’s not like George Takei or, now we see Lena Dunham, is going to see the error of his position through their own personal experience and change their views. George Takei still likely doesn’t see people’s careers being ruined with no substantive evidence as wrong. It’s just wrong that it’s happening to him. Lena Dunham made abundantly clear that she doesn’t think its wrong that people have no protection against false accusations. She thinks its wrong that her friend was falsely accused. And I’ll stipulate that I understand that, as awful as these people are, principle demands good people stand by principles like due process and the presumption of innocence. But, it’s hard for me to put these sorts of cases as particularly high on my list of priorities.
Your ideas determine your character. The people you are talking about dont understand the premise behind the rule of law. They dont know what it is or why we have it. It is a case of stupidity producing low character. Look at Dunham’s admission to sexually molesting her own sister. She made that admission with no awareness of what an awful thing she had done or why she should have kept her mouth shut about it.
Dunham is a dimwitted woman who has been coddled and spoiled her entire life, to the point that I’m sure she truly believes with all her heart that she is brilliant and wise because people kept telling her that all her life.
They’re actors. “Outraged activist” and “falsely accused victim” are just different roles that they can play at different times.
As far as they are concerned, those are just different characters, and gliding effortlessly from one character to another is what actors do.
Zizi was one of the bridesmaids and I was one of the groomsman at my friend’s wedding two years ago. What a fucking small world.
I want to be president!
Heh, this is the first time I’ve ever agreed with Hillary, also wishing she was on another planet, far far away.
She should move to California and patiently wait for it to become a country. She’d have a greater than 50% shot at winning there, most definitely.
She’d lose to the Villaraigosa/Feinstein ticket.
Christ, is that real? Did she really say that?
Wouldn’t the first space colonists have enough problems, without having a dictator that would make Baron Harkonnen seem benign?
Senile Hillary Brags About Bill Clinton Not Using Twitter While President… 5 Years Before It Was Founded
This whole article had me laughing.
“had multiple people murdered for opposing he”
Umm, what?
Not a big zinger — her point wasn’t about the platform but trying to draw a contrast between Bill and what she thinks of Trump.
She’d leave Earth for Alternate Earth which has all of Earth’s problems but also her presidency to contend with. Jokes about compounding the problem aside, what appalling narcissism. While we’re playing make-believe we could imagine alternatives in which a bloodless coup took Kim (or Maduro, for that matter) out of power. One in which Romney had won in 2012 and maybe managed to slow down Obama’s anti-growth, pro-government runaway train. In which Hillary had never touched Libya or Syria, nor Obama greenlit Iran’s nuclear weapons development. But no, let’s make-believe a world in which the only thing that changes is Hillary descending from on high to usher in apocalypse.
She may rival even the lightbringer Himself for unalloyed (and entirely undeserved) vanity.
I was sitting down for dinner last night, and a possum came sauntering up to the sliding door no more than 2 feet away from me and started scratching at the door like a dog that wants in. When it realized I wasn’t gonna feed it any of my chili, it turned around and proceeded to hang out in one of my patio chairs for a few minutes before waltzing off in search of garbage to eat.
I know that possums aren’t the brightest creatures, but this one has to be one of the dumbest wild animals I’ve ever seen.
There was a squirrel yesterday that climbed onto our sliding glass door and somehow scrambled up to the top. My cats were very excited. It lept off and ran in fear.
Maybe the possum is evolving. I mean it worked for cats and dogs. I’m just thinking the possum needs to get some more cute on it to be man’s other best friend.
“Man’s worst friend” is still a friend.
relevant
Also relevant.
Lou Reed gets it. https://youtu.be/8oFBkWRXvTw
Possum are dumb. If you find one in the wild they are dead easy to catch. Advance on it and it will play dead. Pick it up and it’s yours.
I have no idea how they survive in the wild.
My little brothers and I used to catch possum for fun. Taking a lobe possum to town and depositing it in the newspaper vending machines was a source of joy in my youth.
“I have no idea how they survive in the wild”
Would you eat a possum?
Also very filthy, nasty creatures. The sheer number of fleas on a single possum is staggering. My grandfather joked about them”If you want to find a possum just find a dead cow in the woods and kick it.”
most are immune to rabies. they eat literally everything. they keep the woods cleaner by being garbagemen.
“already dead” means “likely rotting”. Most predators want fresh kill because it is less contaminated.
Because that tactic works with typical predators. A few years ago I let my two dogs out into the backyard and there was a possum that leapt off the deck and ran, just as the dogs were about to catch it, it went completely “dead”, and the dogs stopped and kind of looked at it all puzzled. As soon as I grabbed the dogs by the collar and started to drag them away, the possum jumped up and climbed over the fence to escape. One of the odder things I’ve seen with animals.
My dog “caught” a possum when he was young – completely baffled.
You have never looked at a possum’s skull? The brain cavity is about the size of your thumbnail. A raccoon’s brain cavity (similar size animal) is about the size of a small apple.
Sentence I didn’t expect to read today: “You have never looked at a possum’s skull?”
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/20/politics/al-franken-inappropriate-touch-2010/index.html
“I’m sorry that you feel this way.”
Franken has said that he isn’t going to resign his seat (as expected). Considering that there’s photographic evidence (unlike Moore), I do think that the Democrats might want to start putting some pressure on him to leave if they want to make enough gains in the House to overtake the chamber. The kooky left is going to be energized no matter what, of course, but protecting his seat is the kind of stuff that turns off those prized “moderate” voters that they need to actually win swing districts.
I suspect the idiots are going to try and run Joe Biden. It will be hilarious watching them defend his proclivities.
Biden always calls to mind the Buck Henry child molester character on the old SNL
Ha! I thought I was the only one that remembered that character.
+1 game of ‘glass bottom boat’
The hair-sniffing is a total creep-out.
I take thousands of photos at the state fair surrounded by hundreds of people, and I certainly don’t remember taking this picture
Also consistent with grabbing a lot of ass while at the state fair.
He’s famous, they probably just let him do it.
“Anti-Racist Role-Play: Preparing for the Holidays.” By those fun folks at Standing Up for Racial Justice.
Apparently this is an actual thing.
um…wut?
This #metoo business is getting out of control
. Just today, stevie wonder was accused of being a peeping Tom.
*narrows gaze*
Now Gillespie, the Kochs, etc. look to be going through a midlife crisis – they’ll latch on to whatever the twenty-something zeitgeist is in a desperate attempt to look contrarian and hip, in complete denial that they have given up on their principle of individual liberty in order to hang out with whatever young crowd will have them.
I’d say, at this point, reason should just agree to be taken over by Bleeding Heart Libertarians, but nobody currently writing at reason has the faux-philosophical background to pull off the sort of pretentious “freedom is all well and good, but civil society demands” chin scratching that would require.
Soccer update: Pulis sacked at West Brom.
Not exactly a shock.
Moyes debuted yesterday in a very Moyes way. At least the teams fighting at the bottom of the table know they only have to escape two slots, because West Ham’s assured relegation.
It’s hard to see Palace recovering from their start either.
Ah, my old local team, back to its historical position of strength.
At the bottom, holding the rest up, saving them from relegation.
Pulis stunk up Stoke, too.
I just started to read an article somewhere, that was comparing the GOP tax cut plan with North Korea as a threat to America. I think it was The Atlantic, but I didn’t get far, it was too stupid.
I like this woman.
Meh, bumper stickers and window clings are the height of “look at me” narcissism. The more flamboyant, the bigger the inadequacy there’re trying to mask.
A relatively small bone?
I find that a given driver’s politeness is usually inversely related to the number of bumper stickers they have on their vehicle.
I would too if I didn’t suspect that she’d be screaming “RACIST!!!” at the top of her lungs had she seen the exact same sticker with Obama subbed in for Trump.
Yeah, my thought was that I bet she is the type to vandalize someone else’s car if they had that same sign only with Obama.
I wagged my finger at ENB on Twitter for admitting to using “hyperbole”. Not very libertarian of her (not that I ever thought she was one to begin with, but everyone could use a KKsplaining once in a while)
Maybe you should have punched her in the face. Might have gotten her attention more.
Just because she doesn’t subscribe to the #1 libertarian principle (NAP), don’t mean I’m-a wallow in the dirt with her!
As this video clip from Daily Kos shows, this is a brain that’s been inflicted with leftism.
#resist #dotard
What happens if I loose my job?
Well, you better run and tie it up again!
Seriously, though, FOAD kissy kissy.
I’ll never understand why so many people cannot properly distinguish “loose” and “lose”.
Their just stupid.
Irregardless, that’s just you’re opinion.
I accept better from you people.
I could literally care less.
… whatever.
For all intensive purposes, this discussion is mute.
If health insurance was actually fucking INSURANCE, instead of a shared payment plan, would we have these issues?
Healthcare is not a “good.” You do not buy insurance the same way you buy a car or the same way you buy a house. This is the point—health insurance as a for-profit business is immoral. When I’m drowning and you insist I pay before you will save me? That’s immoral, Sir!
I was not aware that lifeguards were slaves who are not paid for saving people from drowning.
You do not buy insurance the same way you buy a car or the same way you buy a house
I do. Am I doing it wrong?
I see the opposite here. I cannot buy health insurance the way I buy a car or a house, but I wish I could. It’s ridiculously easy to buy affordable car or homeowner’s insurance that has real value for the cost. I can have a multitude of insurers competing for my business, sign up anytime I want, and drop the insurance with the click of the button.
Buying health insurance on the other hand costs quadruple my monthly mortgage payment (no exaggeration) but has no real value, along with a maze of rules and regulations that makes a trip to the DMV seem downright pleasant.
Let me retract my opposite since we’re on the same page. Just meant it’s not even possible right to do right now no matter how beneficial it would be.
Except for catastrophic coverage. I signed my family up for that for a few months. $80/month and worth every penny. Just like car or homeowners too in terms of convenience and competition.
But, see, with that coverage you aren’t paying hundreds to thousands every month to subsidize birth control.
Monster.
“I do. Am I doing it wrong?”
Yes, you should be out ‘resisting’ right now, maybe breaking some windows, setting a few things on fire, at least screaming helplessly at the sky, to fight for the free utopian healthcare we’d all have right now if Hillary would have won.
Look, you need to be more like that person, who is going to go get an education in medicine and then work for free. Everyone in the healthcare industry is going to start working for free, right?
And this is how you get gulags and firing squads. Disagreeing with them on any issue is life or death so they are justified in introducing violence. This guy works himself into a lather laying the rhetorical groundwork for killing people that disagree with him.
8 years of the Democrats ACA fucking up healthcare and making it more expensive, and fools like this blame Trump for not fixing it and believe that somehow, magically, the government getting even more involved in healthcare is going to fix it. Is is just willful ignorance or true stupidity?
I’ll go with true ignorance and willful stupidity.
I actually blame CNN for years and years of preaching how European countries are blissful utopias and everything is free, people just riding around on rainbow colored ponies of happiness, while in the US millions of poor children dying in the streets because no healthcare. I guess I should also blame a lot of Americans for being so dumb and naive as to actually believe that garbage.
This is why I despair that we will ever be able to do more than throw a little sand on the slippery slope to communism that we are on. We’re never really going to tilt it in the direction of real freedom and liberty. That would require people to take responsibility for their own lives, and that is a bridge too far for most people.
Remember the tears of joy and relief when they passed Obumblecare? It was supposed to be the dawn of a new age. A big fucking deal. Yes, now that it is revealed to be a scam and a dumpster fire they are trying to blame it on Trump.
The thing I remember most is talking to a few college age kids and one of them saying something like ‘who wouldn’t like free healthcare!?’. When I explained to them that they were not actually going to get free healthcare after graduating and getting a job, but instead paying for other people’s healthcare, they were quite shocked to learn this. One of them started to say ‘but helping poor people…’, but that didn’t win over the friends and the mood became quite sullen. Funny the effect on people of learning that free shit isn’t actually free.
I hzve had that before, the ‘who wouldn’t want free health care?’ routine. I usually answer with “Fredrick Douglas for one.” Of course then I have to explain who he was and why he didn’t want free shit.
You know who else got free everything? You know what you are going to be if you start getting free everything?
Some of them can actually make the connection.
Yup. This is the glorious future you wanted, Mr. spittle-spewing health professional. Enjoy.
Exactly this – I thought ACA was the ultimate solve? Trump (sadly) has barely been able to touch healthcare…
I saw a poll recently where a majority of people think Obamacare is now the GOP’s fault because they are supposedly responsible for fixing that turd.
Takeaway – many people are extremely stupid.
So, the great wise genius Obama couldn’t fix it in 8 years, but Trump was supposed to do it in 1? I mean at least he tried, to get rid of it. And that’s the only possible fix.
Meanwhile, the FDA holding up or limiting all sorts of experimental therapies, drugs, and treatments because maybe dangerous is totes moral.
Have some “tax analysis”
Both the Senate and House bills would move the United States in the direction of the European “territorial” system: Under the House bill, American companies would pay a mere 10 percent rate on the income of their high-profit foreign subsidiaries; under the Senate version, they would pay 12.5 percent on profits derived from intangible assets (i.e. intellectual property). Republicans have framed this as an “America First” policy — one that eliminates a source of competitive disadvantage for U.S. companies.
But if this quasi-territorial system looks protectionist from the standpoint of owners, it appears to be the worst kind of globalist from the perspective of workers. After all, if American companies need to pay a 20 percent tax rate on domestic earnings — but far less on those of their overseas affiliates — then the incentive to shift investment and earnings into foreign operations becomes even greater. As Rebecca M. Kysar, a professor of tax law at Fordham University, explains:
Faced with a 20 percent rate at home and a 12.5 percent (or less) effective rate on income earned abroad, companies would still be encouraged to move jobs and profits offshore … Other dynamics worsen the shifting problem. Because of the mechanics of the formula for calculating the minimum tax, the tax can be reduced by moving assets overseas … So, rather than paying 20 percent or even 12.5 percent on income earned in the United States, companies will move investment offshore to a tax haven until the global foreign tax rate is blended down to the minimum rate, avoiding paying American taxes altogether. In other words, the United States loses out on revenues and investment.
Apparently, those countries where American corporations will relocate their factories have a tax rate of ZERO. Also, building factories is costless.
“Apparently, those countries where American corporations will relocate their factories have a tax rate of ZERO”
LOL
Sentence I didn’t expect to read today: “You have never looked at a possum’s skull?”
Vivisection of Matt Yglesias is verboten, so it’s the next closest thing.
*polite applause*
And the progs say that we can’t find common ground…
lol, that’s fucking hilarious! There are shitlords everywhere!
Holy shit, that’s hilarious.
Apocalypse is coming
I guess not everyone is as terrified of tax cuts as most on the left are.
They just spent 8 years doing everything they could to stifle the economy. Of course they dont want any kind of beneficial tax reform.
Another source of irritation to me (from that New Yorker tax piece):
The Trump tax cuts’ primary, first-order effect will be to make the idle rich even richer. This is because the lion’s share of these cuts will go to corporate shareholders, owners of closely held firms — who don’t work at those firms — and the heirs of opulent fortunes. In other words: It is a plan to radically increase the share of economic growth that accrues to people who don’t have to work for a living.
Every single person who has an insurance policy or a pension has a major stake in the goddam stock market and the success of “Wall Street”.
Everyone is better off if Wall Street goes belly up and they lose all their retirement money in 401ks, etc. Then can we finally get utopia?
I love how the people who complain about imaginary Scrooge McDucks and evil corporations react when I explain to them that ‘big oil’ is majority owned by public pension funds.
They are right about one thing; a lot of that money will be going to the idle rich, i.e. retired public employees.
CORPORASHUNZ ARE NOT PEOPLE!
Do the scales fall from their eyes and the light of clarity shines through as the years of half-baked propaganda and economic illiteracy crumble into dust?
You are a funny guy.
“Once they are demoralized you cannot fix them. You are stuck with them forever. No matter how much information you give them they cannot draw a sensible conclusion.”
Bezmenov was dead on the money. He cant be repeated enough.
WTF? I haven’t followed this shit that closely but what I’ve stumbled across I’ve heard almost nothing about cuts in capital gains taxes.
the idle rich
There is no such thing. Yes, there are people who lucked into fortunate investments and the like. But the vast majority of people who make money primarily off investments cannot be “idle” or else they will stop making money off those investments.
And even if they were “idle”, their invested money is not. The other half of investment is putting the invested money to work. Yes, the investor gets a (hopefully) positive return on his investment. But the investee gets money in the bank that he uses to (again, hopefully) grow his business.
It’s absolutely dumbfounding to see people decry investment because they only look at half of the picture.
https://twitter.com/petejohansson/status/932600522397356032
But is it smooth or crunchy?
The K E R N ING is killing me.
Even the announcers at the Wisconsin game were beginning to question why Wisconsin, which is undefeated, is rank fifth, while two teams ranked above it have losses.
The party line is that its “strength of schedule”, but it seems to me like that should be a tie-breaker (as in, you only look at it to rank teams with the same record). Mrs. Dean is getting kinda cranky on the subject . . . .
It’s funny to hear the SOS argument while Clemson and Alabama were taking a week off from football to play FCS teams. Wisky and the B1G don’t play FCS teams anymore.
I forget which game I was watching on Fox this Saturday, but the announcer went off on Alabama, Auburn, and Clemson for scheduling patty cake games at the end of the conference season. It was awesome!
Alabama’s schedule is nonsense.
Fresno St.
Colorado St.
Vanderbilt
Ole Miss isn’t good recently
same with Tennessee
Mercer?
It’s the same story every year. Everybody over rates the SEC, the SEC teams beat up on a cream puff non-con, and 2/3 of the league is ranked when conference games start in earnest. Then, as the normal sorting happens, the top teams have an amazing SOS because they’re beating soon-to-be 6-loss teams ranked in the top 25.
They might as well just publish the short list of teams deemed worthy of playing in the BCS before the season starts. Its not like that’s not already the deal, and everyone knows it.
The thing is, if the top five win out, the rankings won’t change. I don’t see them moving anyone down below Wisconsin at this point unless they lose.
The top 5 can’t win out. Clemson and Miami play each other in the ACC championship game. The loser of that should be out and Wisconsin should be in if they win out.
This is why giving a fuck about college sports is idiotic.
Kennedy on Fox just now: “Franken is just a warm meat sack, he’s just a vote for them. If they can find someone to replace him they will get rid of him. They dont care about him.”
I’m not going to link to it, but Cass Sunstein has a piece out there about how Trump is “obsessed” with Hillary Clinton. She is his “Goldstein” and he is just a deranged banana republic authoritarian who wants to punish his political opponents.
No mention of her ceaseless shrieking about the election having been yanked out from under her like a magician’s tablecloth.
Cass Sunstein is an idjit. Even his name screams ‘douchebag’, his parents must have hated him.
Husband (puts down article): I told you not to name him Cess! /slap!
Wife: Yeh, like Josep was any better! /slap!
Husband (picks paper back up): ….Cass….take out the ‘C’ and what does it spell?
Wife: It spells cuck. Which is what you are! I hate you!
cass – fuck you auto-spell!
So, your auto spell corrected ‘Cass’ to ‘Cuck’? That’s even better than the joke!
Sometimes the best things come in error!
It’s a new app called Alt-writer.
“cess” is apt
Christ, what an asshole.
The difference is that Goldstein was a fictional threat to people, constructed by the ruling party.
Clinton is a real threat to the people, created by the opposition party.
That is the ‘nudge’ guy who wrote an entire book literally saying that people are too stupid to decide for themselves. Top Men like Cass will do all of the deciding.
He truly is a vile person.
Let’s not forget his wife is Samantha Power. You can tell a man by the company he keeps.
I think I remember seeing a photo of those two shitheels grinning like hell in a photo with Obama in front of the whitehouse christmas tree…you know, the one with the chairman mao christmas decorations.
Let me guess, the tree was red and there were little hammers and sickles hanging from it?
Was just going to say that – he’s a loathsome man who wants to use the state’s monopoly on force to compel people to make decisions that he approves of. Fuck that guy with a rusty meat cleaver.
Whatever happened to Leon Kass? Another total fuckwit who thought he knew better than everyone else.
Went away when W did, I guess.
Look, Cass is one of the nice guys on the left. At least he wants to try nudging first instead of going straight for the gulags.
Grandstanding jackass calls media to his house so they can film him destroying his terrifying black rifle with the shoulder thing that goes up.
“I am a gun owner myself but even I think…”
Bullshit.
Well, their own sheep will believe it. If they think anyone else will, they’re dumber than I thought.
Because that gun is going to get up and walk out your door and shoot up some public venue.
It’s like he’s never heard of lockable rifle cases.
Next week, is he going to burn his car for the cameras? Because it could also “easily become part of another [mass killing]”.
“LOOK AT ME!!”
-Chad Vachter
I AM NOT AN ANIMAL!
The crapstorm on Franken continues to swirl. New thinking is that he is dispensable because he has a safe seat and the Dem Gov would appoint a chick to replace him.
The only problem is, Minnesota went for Hillary by what, 1%? That doesn’t sound like a very safe seat to me.
Franken presents me with a dilemma. He got the seat by blatant voter fraud and is a party-line proggy seatwarmer. Good riddance.
On the other hand, I hate to encourage this mass hysteria by giving the hysterics a high-profile scalp. Except that it is one of theirs getting scalped.
On the gripping hand, I don’t see this stopping until the hysterics start feeling some pain, and this might be one way to do it. I don’t want the hysteria dialed back only for proggies, I want it dialed back for everyone.
This witch hunt is going to result in civil suits and shit-tons of settlement money. Until that runs out the hysteria will continue.
Q -“Why hasn’t anyone accused me of sexual harassment? I feel left out.”
A -“Forget it. You dont have any money.”
gripping hand
*raises eyebrow ala Spock*
He got the seat by blatant voter fraud
Don’t worry, the upstanding people of Minnesota punished him for this by voting him in legitimately the next time.
… and people wonder why politics is corrupt.
The left have no problem with making omelettes out of their own. There is no honor among leftists. Look at history. It’s all about power, even in their own ranks. They’ve already started purging their own and it will continue until they crash and burn. And then one day, they’ll come crawling out of the woodwork again as if history never happened. They’ll be a new name again after progressive loses all it’s luster.
Everyone is insignificant when the Party’s interests are at stake.
The left have no problem with making omelettes out of their own.
Traditionally, don’t they wait until they have absolute power to start the purges? “No enemies on the left” and all that, at least when there are still non-commies on the field.
“The left have no problem with making omelettes out of their own. ”
Requires more evidence, at least within the confines of the modern Democratic Party.
1987: “Listen you repressed, Moral Majority prude. Sex is natural. Keep your laws out of my bedroom!”
2017: “You’re asking me out for coffee?! Listen you lecherous, heter-cis shitlord. You’re trying to control my body using your male privilege. Keep your predatory behavior and male gaze away from me!”
Frank Bruni wants to ban fraternities:
Surely, huh? Can’t be bothered with having an intern do the research on that one?
As someone who never had even a faint flicker of interest in joining a fraternity, go fuck yourself, Frank.
Ban freedom of association among any groups of which we disapprove…problem solved.
Across decades, the toll of deaths related to fraternity revelry and recklessness is surely in the hundreds.
or any time young men get together… some of the dumb things I did when I was young, I’m amazed this old wreck of a body is still moving.
OT (other than it happened in college) – I saw Bobby Steele And The Undead at the FSU Student Union back in 1994. I kept hollerin’ for them to play 1984, but they never did.
Very cool!
the toll of deaths related to fraternity revelry and recklessness is surely in the hundreds
Ima guess its more like in the single digits over the last couple of decades. On account of its actually very rare, and getting more rare as fraternity initiations get more and more tame.
The first time I saw Animal House, I thought it might be based on Pater Dean’s frat hijinx, only with the x-rated stuff edited out. When I joined a frat, it was the animal house of the school, and our pledge process was pretty milquetoast compared to his. And I can’t believe it hasn’t gotten more tame.
Any discussion there on the origins of fraternities? Fraternities were originally formed for the purpose of defending students who were under physical and political threat. From what I have seen lately that need is still present.
Oh. The NYT. I see a story linked there entitled “The Climate Crisis? It’s Capitalism stupid!”
Shorter NYT – “We are commies”
“The Climate Crisis? It’s Capitalism stupid!”
Let us consult the stellar environmental record of communist countries…
*crickets*
Global warming has always been about redistribution, eugenics and money. It has been an obvious scam for 20 years and yet people keep buying into it. Hell, the people that came up with it planned it out with full knowledge that it was “a fake climate crisis” in their own words and “We have to get the scientific community on board to convince people.”
I cant help but face palm every time I see that kind of gibberish from the useful idiots.
I raised the issue of environmental destruction in the USSR with one of my grad school friends once. She replied, “but that was due to the capitalist components of the Soviet economy.”
Let us consult the stellar environmental record of
communiststate-capitalist countries…Its like you don’t even NYT, bro.
Ah, yes. True communism. Like Cambodia.
“Across decades, the toll of deaths related to fraternity revelry and recklessness is surely in the hundreds.”
Yet, it doesn’t phase Bruni and his idiot comrades when leftists slaughter and starve millions.
I’m getting this idea for a dystopian novel where in future America, society as a whole has collapsed and all people have reverted to small, deeply divided, warring tribes. I’m not sure where that’s coming from, but there’s a vibe coming from somewhere…
Should sell well until it stops being .. you know … fiction
*Orders sandbags, long term storage food, medicine, and of course, more ammo*
Speaking of dystopian futures, TLD wants to take the NRA Basic Pistol Course, so, after faffing around for a few years being reluctant to hold a real gun, she’s had her Come to Jesus moment.
However, since she’s still TLD, and this is CT, there’s no practical way for her to take the live fire test and get the certificate yet 🙁
TLD = The Learning Disabled?
Top level domain?
Teenage Libertarian Daughter
I think
I enjoyed People’s Republic.
Looks interesting. I might give it a read.
Back here in the real world, if Cali ever actually secedes, how long would it be before they defaulted on debt? How long until they become a full on dictatorship like Venezuela and Zimbabwe?
Always stay away from people who want to ban things under the guise of (insert whatever BS).
They’re dangerous.
Across decades, the toll of deaths related to fraternity revelry and recklessness is surely in the hundreds.
Fraternities have been a thing since 1776, so maybe 2-3 deaths per year attributable to Death Fratz!!!!
YES! The next lefty to go down from #metooism is the self-described total hack Glenn “Hillary’s such a badass” Thrush and his stupid fucking fedora.
TW: Twitchy