I’m bracing myself for an all-day cooking and football orgy, capped off with a dinner that is threatening to complete the destruction of my liver. We love the holidays! No turkey here, but we shall not lack for ways of increasing avoirdupois. As I write this, it’s a few hours before dawn and the drinking has commenced. And the linking.
First, here’s a shock: if you make a technology better and cheaper, people buy more of it. So there MUST be a downside, even if we have to make it up. We cannot tolerate the wishes of the proletariat, Comrade.
This is the End Of The Internet, accompanied by furious pants-wetting. Why, this could take us back to the anarchic days of 2014, when the dead bytes were stacked like cord-wood at the side of every road. If we can’t regulate innovation, why, people might have more options, and we cannot tolerate that, either, Comrade.
Cook County’s repeal of the transparently money-grabbing soda tax has the inevitable consequence of having to reduce their municipal leeches labor force by a minuscule fraction. This is a MAJOR TRAGEDY- these people may be forced to get actual jobs. Hardest hit is the the board president’s office, which loses 15 workers. Get back to me when you think of a reason that they even needed 15 people, much less a large enough staff that 15 people being laid off can be done without real consequence.
Another shock- in a whining plea to get more funds, the most useless agency in the entire federal government is about to make the most miserable travel days of the year even more miserable. We really need more wood-chippers.
Finally, for Old Guy music, the obligatory Canadian Content. And I hope that you all play the role of the Conservative Uncle Who Must Be Devastated In Political Arguments in a way that makes us all laugh our asses off.
Comments
506 responses to “Thanksgiving Morning Links”
Two sets of links? This is proof of libertarian failure.
I demand restitution. I spent 10 minutes of my holiday typing a post only to see it disappear in the Thanksgiving link snafu of 2017. I assume someone will rightfully be terminated.
Mistakes were made.
the market was corrected.
So do OMWC and sloopy co-ordinary at all?
Co-ordinate at all?
Coördinate.
Apparently not.
::grumbles::
I blame the jews myself
I doubt your sincerity on this matter as I see no evidence of a call to form a pogrom.
OT: Even though I set my expectation low for the Rom bar, it was still mediocre. I never thought I would ever say I prefer Hershey chocolate bars over any European chocolate bars. Why, it was just cocoa powder-laced solid vegetable oil and doesn’t have a correct melting mouthfeel.
Oh well. At least the premium rum chaser was good.
Rom taste better breathing the sweet air of Romania
I wouldn’t mind visiting someday. Same with Prague, Budapest, Novi Sad, and many places in Greece.
You should best tuica, finest whores 40 bucks can buy
I was first on the other post! I de-MAND satisfaction!
THE PTA HAS DISBANDED!
*Jumps out window*
The parent teacher association?
Pianoforte Tuners’ Association?
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority?
Cook County’s repeal of the transparently money-grabbing soda tax has the inevitable consequence of having to reduce their municipal leeches labor force by a minuscule fraction. – even 1 government employee fired is a step towards chaos and anarchy and destruction
AFSCME hardest hit.
We really need more wood-chippers. – why do you support ISIS?
Two links enter, one link leave!
To return triumphiantly in the afternoon!
Planning ahead!
Doesn’t sound very libertarian…
Also reminder to all
It’s Your Civic Duty to Ruin Thanksgiving by Bringing Up Trump
This Turkey Day, consider making life HELL for a few of your relatives.
https://www.gq.com/story/the-case-for-ruining-thanksgiving
I’m getting conflicting instructions. This is kind of the opposite of instructions I got from NPR.
Can’t the TDS progs take even a one day break from towing the lion ?
No
I never know if people use “towing the lion” ironically on purpose or not
Yes, ironically here. Other places… who the fuck knows.
I assume we’re towing a lion to unleash on our Prog relatives who won’t quit bringing up politics on Thanksgiving.
Then you pull the lever, releasing the tiger…
“Any parents still riding the Trump Train at this point have thereby signaled that nothing is sacred. It is time to follow their example. They can’t stand idly by while President Deals tramples every other American tradition and yet somehow expect that Thanksgiving will be normal too. If every other moment of this year is going to be drastically out of whack, nobody should get to pretend that everything is normal for one meal just because that’s what the pilgrims would have done.”
Christ, what an asshole.
Um, what traditions has Trump “trampled?”
Standing for the national anthem? That was a fine tradition until Trump came out in favor of it, thus forcing all good and noble people to begin kneeling during the anthem in protest.
The tradition where proggie douchebags tell us unwashed uppity serfs that value our liberty over their false promise of security if we abdicate our rights and we take it, whether we like it or not…
You’d think they would wear themselves out with the tantrums, but no.
Something out of the ordinary for your listening pleasure.
http://reason.com/archives/2010/01/13/five-reasons-why-libertarians
Well bad government lead to classical liberalism and good government lead to socialism.
If people trust the government then why would they want less government.
Bernie Sanders loves government and so do California, New York, Detroit and Chicago politicians. Libertarians all.
Not to mention the whole “we should start loving government and making it work” is what killed classical liberalism and lead to the current mess today.
Not to mention “making government work” would still require budget and spending cuts and deregulation which are fiercely opposed right now.
You have to try pretty hard to miss the point by that far. Holy crap. I asked yesterday or the day before how long before TOS goes full proggy, I guess I have my answer.
It isnt about loving or hating government. It doesnt have a goddamned thing to do with government.
This is seven years old. Didn’t click the link I see?
Whut? Oh.
*tries to flatten hair that is sticking straight up, rubs hungover eyes and squints at Winston*
Your supposed to sneer something unrelated and then run off. That’s what they teach in college these days.
Check your privilege!!! *Scampers off*
Rasputin might have diddled a nun but he was unfairly smeared!
*runs halfway out of room then comes back in*
I forgot my coffee.
I would have figured you got up five hours ago.
Shouldn’t you be on your way to Kroger?
What the hell. If you didn’t like my contribution to the morning links you could just said so instead of starting a whole other links. I said I liked your NWA link afterall
Your comment was preserved in carbonite and will be thawed out at 3 pm.
Who gets to hold the thermal detonator?
You, apparently.
Okay, but I still think someone’s employment here at Glibs should be terminated
We have selected several editor-orphans for flogging.
Speaking of the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect, before the LED article even starts, they show a pic of South Florida with the caption “the Florida panhandle at night”.
ESPN Crumbling After Losing $1 Billion, Facing More Layoffs After Thanksgiving
http://dailycaller.com/2017/11/22/espn-crumbling-after-losing-1-billion-facing-more-layoffs-after-thanksgiving
Gee, I wish I could unsubscribe only from ESPN but it doesn’t work that way.
You could do that under net neutrality!!!!!!!
Does net neutrality also shit rainbows?
lolololol
Sling TV has a la carte channels
I don’t like streaming.
That’s…an odd dislike. Do you have slow internet?
No. But every time I stream something there are stretches of shitty, jerky video and if I want to watch it on my TV it’s another 10 minutes fiddling with the Apple TV to make it work.
Shorter: the user experience is shit.
Agreed. People that pretend this stuff is close to mature tech are doing so to make themselves feel better about a shitty experience.
Why in the hell would I listen to Jemele Hill or Kate Fagan’s (and others) mindless SJW nonsense?
I’m also tired of listening to smart guys who should know better like LeBatard act as if they’re intelligent while acting as if he doesn’t understand what the big deal is about.
I have not contributed to the decline of ESPN programming because I never watched anything but the actual sports anyway.
The Monday Night Football commentators are awful.
I’ve almost quit watching the NFL entirely, so I haven’t noticed.
They need to prog harder. Millennials approve of their coverage because they are on the right side of history. Give it another thirty years and ESPN will be back in business.
Does ESPN show any actual sporting events, other than MNF? It’s like the MTV of sports channels.
Maybe they’ll start playing Duran Duran videos?
HUNGRY LIKE THE WOLF!
– STEVE SMITH
They show a tiny amount of soccer. I don’t watch the big 3 sports so I don’t watch a lot of ESPN.
I wish they brought back aussie football. It only comes on at like 5 am on Saturdays. Last time I saw it was when I was in the hospital four years ago.
It’s been on Fox Soccer for years. Like four or five matches a week and multiple replays of each often on Fox Sports or Fox Sports 2.
Thanks, I’ll have to check that out. I think Fox Soccer is a premium channel around here, but it might be worth the price. I do have Fox Sports already so I’ll have to check the listings more carefully.
It used to be on ESPN pretty regularly, but that was long ago, when they actually were a mostly sports channel.
Yeah, same around here but it also comes with BeIN Sports and GolTV so it was worth it for me.
I thought FoxSports had that most recently. Might be on BeIN, which I don’t get because I won’t take the bundle that includes it.
My old man is going to be cooking today – so this is a day of little or no work for me. I shall luxuriate
soakmy liver in alcohol, eat some turkey, and give myself the guilty pleasure of mashed potatoes, which I now only eat once or twice a year.I am thankful for: cars with silly horsepower that can’t be used safely on public roads, the burning of guzzoline, firearms, and whatever transient freedoms still exist in this country of ours.
Let’s all be thankful. We aren’t dead, right?
“We did not get rid of our neurosurgeons, we did not get rid of our prosecutors, we did not get rid of our jail guards,” Commissioner Sean Morrison (17th) said.
Interesting set of priorities you have there.
To do that each of those jobs must cost on average about $623,000 per year.
With benefits, maybe. Or, you know, they’re lying.
The neurosurgeons are needed to patch up all the drug users thrown in jail by the prosecutors and beaten by the guards. It’s the circle of life.
The three essential functions of government.
McGarriggle sisters? I prefer The Great McGonigle myself.
Links and (((links)))! Happy turkey day
Gobble, gobble. See if I can get my wife to do that tonight.
Like this?
That played interesting with the Ministry Stigmata I had open in another window.
Wait, I thought you were supposed to “gobble” her?
Libertarian technocrats think we need a corrupt neoliberal elite to rule us this they do know best despite thes elites being responsible for the problems they are supposed to solve.
https://aeon.co/ideas/the-right-to-vote-should-be-restricted-to-those-with-knowledge
https://niskanencenter.org/blog/public-policy-utopia/
https://www.brookings.edu/research/more-professionalism-less-populism-how-voting-makes-us-stupid-and-what-to-do-about-it/
Any argument involving utopia is automatically self-invalidated.
You’ll never get to paradise with that attitude.
Wilkinson seems think we should stop thinking of utopia and just let TOP MEN handle it:
“You can simply defer to the consensus of experts on empirical questions, or accept that you bear an extraordinary burden of proof when you disagree.”
I don’t see how that framework could be abused at all. Sign me up!
I wasn’t kidding when I said these guys think we should let the elites rule us since they do in fact know best.
I’m tempted to say that Trump getting elected is an argument in their favor, but it was the elite of the other party that made sure to run a candidate and campaign so inept that Trump could win.
You know what will be the wake-up call for these intellectual assholes – when the wealth that supports their sinecures dries up.
So never?
So
Probably never, unless they actually get their way.
Experts are often wrong in areas of their expertise. Plus in many areas, there is no one right answer for everyone so unless these “experts” are everywhere then how can we take advantage of their expertise?
Don’t immanentize the eschaton.
Howabout some Silly Sisters, aka Maddy Prior and June Tabor.
Though to tell the truth, I’ve always been a bigger (huger!) fan of Sandy Denny, here with Fairport Convention
Thank you for the links thread!
Seconded. It’s actually easier for me to goof around online when I’m off work, unlike the many of you slackers.
I know right:)
Is supposed to refer to likes of the gq article?
My review this week is completely inappropriate to the season – but still fun: https://youtu.be/1pCMV8Ag3vI
K-Pop superstar Lee Jung-hyun in a very odd indie revenge flick (black comedy) – shades of Wes Anderson meets Old Boy. Highly recommended. “Alice in Earnestland”. The DVD is marked Region 3, but unless my PC is acting up again, I’m fairly certain it’s region-free. No guarantees though.
Sound like the audio is in only one channel.
It’s set to stereo recording, but seems to be focused on one side over the other when you look at the audio editing feed. I will be looking for a mic over the holidays.
So the NYT is a commie rag now basically?
What do you mean now? That’s been going on for decades.
At least they tried on the past…
They did?
They used to like free speech when Republicans are in the White House…
William Safire wrote for the NYT for over 30 years.
When were they not a commie rag?
From 1851 to around 2005?
Try to around 1916.
They went from yellow to red pretty easily.
Walter Duranty ring a bell?
The NYT isn’t even usable as toilet paper, since it is already so thoroughly drenched in crap.
Any John Prime fans around here?
Who?
A semi truck who can morph into a guy who likes fat chicks.
?
Heh.
Ducking auto correct. Prine
Who?
I knew who you were talking about, but he’s before my time. What’s a good place to start?
John Prine playlist on Spotify then In Spite of Ourselves.
Illegal Smile, John Garfield Blues, Sam Stone (my fav), great compromise, paradise, Christmas in prison are my favorites
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DSl9ZkYViEIs&ved=0ahUKEwiKqdnr9NTXAhVImbQKHRcxBysQ3ywILjAB&usg=AOvVaw13rZJfxIs8aWndhv41BIvU
Sam stone
Hello in There is a great one too
Hehe. Internet winner for today
There’s 3 of him. Also 5, 7, 13…
For a second I thought I had missed a Q post.
Hell yes!
The correct answer. Been on a huge Prine kick for a month and can’t shake it
My first exposure to Prine was Lost Dogs and Mixed Blessings. A lot of great songs on that album.
This is probably my favorite
Love that one too. Really want to see him in concert before it’s not an option anymore but damn his tickets are expensive.
Save up. It is so worth it. I got to see him about 15 years ago. He is so fun to see. He tells a little story between each song. He makes it feel like it’s just you and him in your living room.
Hmm, sounds cool. I’ve pretty well decided to go to one. I think he comes to the Grand Ole Opry first of the year
https://youtu.be/AvvLNv_iAww
Lots of slobbering over WaPo.
The mystery over the attack on Rand Paul deepens
By Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/11/22/politics/rand-paul-kelley-paul-mystery/index.html
There’s a statement by Paul’s wife, but really no questions have been answered.
How many times had Gillespie called this attack proof of the libertarian moment? Two death threats in months proves that libertarianism is winning!
How very L Ron Hubbard of him.
bash the fash
https://youtu.be/p00nBSNIPwg – thanks Les Nessman.
Looks like the Swedes are having there own little perv epidemic. Also, a little further down the page she takes a little shot at ENB on her brothel reporting.
https://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/
So the wiki leaks guy really is a trendsetter.
Will Wilkinson has a sad.
meh dunno what to believe anymore
And a shot at Reason TV.
“And I wish Reason TV would start interviewing more sex worker activists instead of repeatedly returning to Nevada’s deeply-oppressive crony brothel system, which is about as un-libertarian as one can get.”
That point is not wrong. They still bust street prostitutes frequently in Nevada and the hoops they make legal prostitutes is unlibertarian.
The Swedes have several types of perv epidemics apparently. They might address the home grown stuff but the other types I doubt they’ll touch with a 10 foot pole.
Well they may offer those women mandatory training to teach them to not be so racist against Muslim culture.
Lie back and think of Medina.
they should go raping in England like good old times
From further down the page:
In which McNeill eviscerates cop PR
CanCon rues apply at Glibertarians?
Do you even work?
What’s CanCon?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_content
Interesting. Thanks.
This is the sort of thing anti-American leftists support. They do think free trade is another form of imperialism and that libertarianism is a defense of American imperialism.
They support it because they’re inferior so they need the government to prop up their junk.
The CFL has import (ie limits to American players on the roster) rules. I get it’s the ‘Canadian’ football league and you want to give spots/jobs to Canadians but it’s protectionism by other means and the product suffers.
I thought it was like a comic con but with more denim.
Or with more cans.
Does this answer your question?
These links are a real downer, sheesh. At least I got a chuckle out of this:
*tears*
We’ve noticed a nice reduction in our electricity costs since switching to mostly LED. I’ll be looking for LED Christmas lights on sale after the holidays. Also, WTF is light pollution?
Light pollution is a concept for the poors that can’t afford curtains.
It actually can cause harm in one way: along the beach on the Gulf of Mexico where I grew up, and probably elsewhere, when sea turtles hatch, they instinctively crawl toward light. People noticed they were calling away from the beach so laws were passed mandating lights be turned off near the shore.
But then how do you catch them to make turtle stock?
If you can’t catch a turtle, you really need to cut back on the Moon Pies and Mallomars.
Not worth it
Light pollution is too much light at nighttime. In some ways I can appreciate the idea as certain animals are nocturnal. But as usual people want to take it crazy and say we shouldn’t use lights at night.
Once again North Korea is the country on the forefront of science with their light pollution reduction plan fully in force.
In hate not having street lights on dark roads especially when it’s raining.
And you are trying to see the faded and peeled addresses on people’s mailboxes, to deliver their FedEx package.
North Korea is the country on the forefront
Saving humanity, one dead body at a time.
Saw a recent nighttime satellite pic that included the Turkey-Syria border. I’d say Syria is right up there as well.
In a warzone that is light discipline.
Good point. It still makes for a pretty impressive contrast.
Mostly, it means “we’re too rich”.
‘WTF is light pollution?’
This.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e2I-_tIDV-4
I just enjoy never changing light bulbs. Light pollution is when you have too much light, duh! Just look at a night time satellite image of North and South Korea and see how lovely the North is in all that darkness, while the south is all polluted.
Happy Thanksgiving all.
I’m gonna go cut my hair.
/flips a loonie. Get a shave too.
My barber refuses to shave me.
You would be well served to seek that kind of service at a salon that advertises Brazilian wax instead. Sheesh.
Oh.
I guess me walking in and pulling down my pants yelling, ‘COFFEE and SHAVE ME!’ turned him off.
Hot takes
North Korea is terrible, but so is the U.S. actually. Let’s not pretend we are “oh so much better.”
https://twitter.com/SomethingTexty/status/933419888013709312
Wow. The stupidity makes my head hurt.
Moron. We don’t have to pretend.
At least she didn’t have the nerve to post that nonsense today, while we’re busy eating more calories than the poor Norks will get all month.
There are some awesome replies.
“Darwin is a shit White 19th century theorist who understood nothing about genome or epigenetics.”
She also believes there is such a thing as “environmental racism”.
Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers can’t discriminate among content providers trying to reach you online — they can’t block websites or services, or degrade their signal, slow their traffic or, conversely, provide a better traffic lane for some rather than others.
Unless they’re Nazis. Or Russians. Or misogynists. Or hoarders, wreckers, kulaks, capitalists or libertarians.
All internet traffic is “slowed” if you’re not paying for the fastest service, idiots.
Don’t worry everyone will get the fastest service whether they want it or not. And pay for it.
Well that obviously needs to stop.
Agricultural markets in ‘rising’ Africa
http://voxdev.org/topic/agriculture/agricultural-markets-rising-africa
Crop traders have a bad reputation in development circles. It is often supposed that traders enjoy market power, and that they use that power to suppress the prices that they pay to farmers. Dillon and Dambro (2017) recently reviewed the evidence from sub-Saharan Africa on this question. Across various threads in the literature – time series studies of market integration, trader surveys, RCTs intended to improve farmers’ bargaining power, and others – they find little empirical support for the notion that output markets are not competitive. Casaburi and Reed (2017) develop an experimental approach to study competition in the Sierra Leone cocoa sector. Their results also suggest that farmers face competitive traders.
I’m gonna go cut my hair.
You kids and your euphemisms.
<blockquoteObama-era TSA chief Peter Neffenger said the agency has spent almost all of its short lifespan fighting for the resources it needs
LOLOLOLOL
I can’t even see ‘TSA’ without getting angry.
“In government, nothing succeeds like failure.”
Wait, you can use the same internet magic as at the other site?
Sweet.
You can if you don’t fuck it up like I did.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_liberalism
This doesn’t describe progressives…
No it doesn’t. I recently ordered this little pamphlet that compared today’s leftest post-modernism to their traditional Marxist propaganda and it was pretty interesting how the two ideologies aligned.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0979427061/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_5dTfAbPT9CZQM
JUST when I started getting my reading material under control I have to buy another one to add to the pile.
Takes about 10 minutes to read tops:)
Thanks. I’ll read it later.
http://www.stephenhicks.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/hicks-freespeechpostmodernism.pdf
So I could have saved $2? Damn:)
It does contain the seeds of progressivism in that bit about how people should be free to do as, “they see fit, as long as they don’t harm anyone”. That formulation is especially awful because it comes so close to getting it right; however, a society in which people are not free to do anything that “harms” other people is an authoritarian society–because practically everything we do harms someone else in some way. Growing wheat on your own property for your own consumption reduces the quantity of wheat demanded and that harms the profitability of wheat farming. Criticizing people can hurt their feelings and reputations. A society in which people aren’t free to “harm” other people with criticism is an authoritarian society.
A libertarian society is when people are free to do anything–as long as they don’t violate someone’s rights.
Progressivism is using the coercive power of government to force people to make sacrifices for what they see as the common good–and it is often justified as harm reduction. In that sense, progressivism is saying that people can say what they want so long as they don’t harm anyone. It’s just that people often don’t recognize that formulation as the authoritarianism that it is.
It’s all semantics, you can easily redefine rights to include health care as well. This is why the progs wage war on words. It allows them to take broadly accepted concepts and twist them to their purposes.
Well, they can define anything as anything else, but our rights arise as an aspect of our agency (our ability to make choices), and it’s, therefore, absurd to argue that they’re anything but a choice.
Violating someone’s rights is violating their right to make a choice for themselves–whether it’s a violation of property rights (the right to choose who uses something) or rape (the right to choose not to have sex). When we’re talking about rights, we’re really talking about choices.
A libertarian society is when people are free to do anything–as long as they don’t violate someone’s rights–and by “rights” we mean the right to make choices for ourselves. You should be free to harm other people with criticism as long as you don’t violate their right to make choices for themselves.
Difference between harm and rights is meaningless to progs. Harm violates rights and what about those positive rights?
That’s correct.
They believe that our rights are malleable, are created by government, and can and should be subjected to democratic government.
I should say, this kind of goes back to left anarchism and their ideas about how property rights only exist because they’re enforced by government–and without government, there wouldn’t be any property rights.
On the other hand, it goes back to their evangelical roots. Abolitionism, prohibition, etc. are excellent examples. Abolitionism justified subjecting Africans to the authoritarian brutality of British imperialism. Harm reduction justified the authoritarianism of prohibition–you don’t even have a right to make choices that harm yourself.
because practically everything we do harms someone else in some way
Sure, if you use an idiot’s definition of “harm”. Play stupid word games, win stupid prizes.
Use any reasonable definition you want.
When I choose to buy imported goods, it harms domestic competitors. That’s why so many seek protectionism.
It protects them from that kind of harm.
Why pretend otherwise.
Certainly, there are different degrees of harm, but you do have a right to harm competing businesses with competition–as long as you don’t violate anyone’s rights.
That’s not a word game.
No Ken. When you choose to NOT buy something from someone it does NOT harm them. By that standard we are constantly harming everyone in the world that we aren’t helping. It is an idiotic, binary, zero-sum way to think about our interactions.
Say 3 people offer the exact same thing for sale, say even at the exact same price. You then arbitrarily choose one (perhaps the one most convenient to you) – you have HARMED the other two by doing that? Then there is absolutely no action you can ever take in life, including preserving your own life – that is not also harming other people.
Stupid. Pure, unadulterated stupid.
If you don’t think competition harms businesses that didn’t face that competition before, then you’re the one that’s playing word games. Harm is the result of anything harmful, be it activity or inactivity (see the individual mandate as one example of the latter).
Once you buy into the standard that people shouldn’t be allowed to do anything that’s harmful, you’ve (unnecessarily) given it all away. I don’t know that Scientology, selling cigarettes, or preaching communism isn’t harmful, but people have a right to believe, sell, and advocate those things anyway.
Whether something is harmful is not the correct standard. Whether something is actively harmful or passively harmful is not the correct standard either. The correct standard is that people should be free to make choices for themselves–as long as they don’t violate someone’s rights.
IF IF IF it were somehow proven that the Second Amendment is a net harm to any particular individual or society, it would not change my mind. I would still support the Second Amendment anyway because it protects our right to choose to bear arms–and whether something is harmful is the wrong standard.
I am not here for your benefit and neither are my rights. Your rights are there for your benefit. My rights don’t exist or not depending on whether what I choose to believe, buy, or say is harmful to someone else or society. My rights aren’t bolstered if the harm I do is by omission rather than by commission either. My rights arise as an aspect of my ability to make choices, and I should be free to make any choices that don’t violate someone else’s rights–even if my choices are actively harmful (never mind passively so).
Oh gosh, competition produces winners and losers. How un-woke. We all just need to participate.
So what was the point of this whole harm strawman Ken, now that you’ve struck it down?
Well they do think hate speech is harm. So…
“…. cultural liberals are strongly opposed to censorship or any kind of oversight of spoken or written material.”
That is the exact opposite of a progressive.
Glibs pol…
Which gender gets up early at your house?
Chips house; both boys and me up early, while the wife and daughter sleep in.
I get up early
Daughter, the midnight bed-interloper, up first, because she is 6 years old. I’m peeling tubers at the moment.
During the week, the girls are up early. Wife at 5:15, daughter 6am. I scratch my ass and make sure everything is alright and if my daughter has any special requests for breakfast.
On the week-ends it’s reversed, they sleep in, I get up, scratch my balls, dance and ask, ‘what are we doing today?!’
I shoulda added if there are no requests I just go back to bed where I sorta sleep a bit more.
During the week I’m up between 4:30 and 5. Weekends between 6 and 7.
Kids typically get up just before 7.
Wife doesn’t sleep so that doesn’t count.
Wife doesn’t sleep? Did you go on a date with Nosferatu?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFwYJYl5GUQ
Worse, an Italian
Wife up first, except when son goes fishing (the little fucker woke me at 7am this morning all excited about a trophy walleye he caught), daughter soon follows.
I am often last, as I stay up way too late.
Wife is still in bed. When she first moved in, she would get up at 6-7 am and try to wake me up. I’m not a morning person, at all. Now I’m typically up earlier than her. I don’t really know why this is, it just is. Maybe because I have to get up to work and she doesn’t.
The girls go down before I do, and end up getting up before I do. Especially on weekends.
Are we not doing phrasing anymore?
I see nothing wrong here.
I’m up early, she’s not. For me, body clock since I have to be up at 0330 to get ready for work, and on weekends, up early so I can go out hiking before it gets too hot (during the summer, the winter goes along for the ride). SP has her own business, so she works at night by choice. We’re often in the, “Hello Ralph, Hello Fred” mode. Maybe that’s the secret to our happy marriage.
I’m up around 5 am. Seven mile run. Then, coffee and latte gathering. Donuts or pastries. Goof around on Glibs.
Seven miles a day? That’s impressive.
Thanks. I started running about 4 years ago. I was looking at a photo of me and Sloopy at the NCAA regionals, and I thought, “who’s that fat guy?” I quit smoking. I’ve lost about 40 pounds. I consider it a hobby. Seven miles is my weekday run. On weekends i’ll do 10-13 miles a day. Rest days are 3 mile runs with a 3 mile walk back. Plug into Spotify, and take off.
Man, I miss running, maybe this spring I’ll give it another go. I was about where you are three years ago then fell off a ladder and broke my ankle, haven’t been able to run since.
Our whole family consumes excessive amounts of meth. We’re always up. ALWAYS….
My wife tends to get up early on weekdays. The kids usually wake up first on weekends, so I’ll get up and take care of them and let my wife sleep in.
The Thibodaux Massacre Left 60 African-Americans Dead and Spelled the End of Unionized Farm Labor in the South for Decades
In 1887, African-American cane workers in Louisiana attempted to organize—and many paid with their lives
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/thibodaux-massacre-left-60-african-americans-dead-and-spelled-end-unionized-farm-labor-south-decades-180967289/
This is the kind of thing that leftis claim is the fault of capitalism but really it it another case of bad government
Same with Jim Crow. They always leave off the “laws” part
Of course, this is about more than just spite—as satisfying as spite can be in these trying times. This is about potentially chipping away at the ~35 percent of un-budging Trump supporters. Sure, some of them are fully on board with every inexplicable decision, but others may be swayable. They are Fox News devotees who have simply internalized the message that all negative news about Trump is fake news. They know the president is unpopular, but they think his unpopularity is the strict province of haters and losers. It might be different when it’s their own child—who probably isn’t an Antifa supersoldier and who definitely doesn’t have loser genes—weighing in with cold hard facts. Having a son or daughter loathe everything you’ve become is easier long distance; it’s another thing when that kid is staring turkey-carving daggers at you from across the table.
Yeah whatever, dude. Take your meds.
Conde Nast will be lucky to command a market price of a dollar in a few more years, if this is their business strategy.
Ha. Turkey-carving daggers aimed at the provider of the feast is a sure way to end up eating Taco Bell on the big day.
Happy Thanksgiving to all you Glibs.
Oh you’re so glib
You’re so glib I bet you think this song is about you.
I’m thankful for Glibertarians.com.
Me too.
+1
http://spacecoastdaily.com/2017/11/florida-democratic-party-president-sally-boynton-brown-resigns-amidst-sexual-harassment-controversy/
I’m intrigued.
She must actually be a man, because women can’t be sexual harassers
Yeah.
Go on…
Merry Thanksgiving, shitlords, and shitqueens if there were any.
Would that not be “shitlords” and “shitladies”?
That is awfully transphobic of you. I like “shitriders”.
“Shitrider”…
That…works.
What about shitgentry?
Elllll-visss!
Why a leading political theorist thinks civilization is overrated
A new book challenges how we think about human progress.
https://www.vox.com/conversations/2017/11/22/16649038/civilization-progress-humanity-history-technology
To the author of that.
“Is civilization good for us? Has it made us any happier?”
Yes, you stupid dumbfuck. Now go live in a cave and grub roots for subsistence, die in your 20s from some disease or trauma if you’re luck enough to not be eaten by a lion or something before then.
“Show me a cultural relativist at 30,000 feet, and I’ll show you a hypocrite.”
It all just goes back to the noble savages myth. If you can believe that, you can believe that socialism works.
I have to admit….I don’t get it.
Would you fly in a plane designed and manufactured in the Congo?
Are you saying Congolese engineering isn’t cutting edge?
My, have the colonial racists gotten to you!
Conservatives tend to focus on the positive of human progress I’ve observed.
Progressives harp on the perceived bad.
No progress matters if in means the rape of mother earth
Gamboling our lives away…
Those who write shit like that are those that are least likely to have ever hunted, fished or spent much time in the outdoors. I would bet dollars to donuts that ejit hasn’t even done a serious camping trip.
Things I’m thankful for:
Mrs. Tundra
The spawn
Cars
Hockey
Spotify
‘Murica (fuck yeah!)
You people.
Have a great Thanksgiving!
Same here. Thankful for the straffins and the in laws. Took the father in law to the museum today. He’s up and about after getting a huge tract of intestines removed. Cancer. It was good to see him walking and talking and not seeing him with tubes jammed all over inside of him. Cheers, Tundra.
Cheers, straffin. My best to you and your family. Good to hear fil is doing better.
Thanksgiving thankfulness:
Wife
Guitars
Mountains
Beaches
Spotify
Nike
‘Murica (fuck yeah!)
Bourbon
Glibs
Have a happy Thanksgiving everyone! Don’t drink and put up Christmas decorations. You see kids, alcohol and ladders are a dangerous combination. You got a tumbler of bourbon in one hand, the goddam string of lights in the other; where’s the staple gun supposed to go? So rest the bourbon on the rain gutter, climb back down and get the goddam staple gun. Climb back up, take a swig. Drive two staples. Now, alot of guys think they can drive that third staple. You just gotta’ lean a little bit further out. Remember though, you’re 15 feet up a ladder. And you’re awful thirsty. Have another sip. Climb down the ladder. Move the ladder over. And go back up to drive that third staple. But, where’s that tumbler? Yeah, that’s right, it’s still in the rain gutter.
Star Trek tng is libertarian after all:
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Geordi_La_Forge
Oo, how future-y.
A glorious new future when whitey isn’t still ruining everything. We can all dream.
World government is just inherently better. In the same way, if I were to choose what to have for dinner each night with all my neighbours, I’d be better off by definition, and never disappointed.
Trek always has always had a very 1950s utopianism. In this case that decolonized Africa would unite themselves and get along.
And they wouldn’t accept new planets in the Federation unless they were “mature” enough to have a “world government”. Christ, what assholes.
I’m thankful for quilted toilet paper, my family, and indoor plumbing.
You guys too.
I too am thankful for the glibs. As the Stranger said about The Dude, I take comfort in knowing you’re all out there. You make the world a slightly saner place.
I’m thankful for:
Mrs Hyperion
The intertoobz
This website
Electricity
Hillary lost
Oh, and this bottle of scotch and the beer I’ll be drinking today. And the chicken who’s still drowning in some homemade marinade that wifey concocted.
Preach.
I’m also thankful for the recent news stories we’ve seen about deregulation, which certainly wouldn’t have happened with a Hillary POTUS.
Welch had a decent piece over at TOS on Trump’s push back on delegation. I can just imagine the cowardly bastards at the capitol squealing about having to do some actual work.
Thankful for plentiful work, easygoing finals, family in town, and the heater.
And gin.
I’m having key lime pie (I bought it at the store) for breakfast.
Is this a great country, or what?
What kind of keys you use for that? I can get some limes in Romania but we don’t have keys for baking
Please dont tell me that you haven’t had key lime pie.
Are icebox pies a southern thing? I only saw them while celebrating thanksgiving with some folks from Mississippi. They are great by the way.
Fine I won’t tell you then
Dude, you gotta come visit us in America sometime.
If you want, email me and I will send you the makin’s. I can get the filling for key lime pie ready mixed and in a can. It is pretty good stuff. You just put it in a pie shell and chill. Just tell me where to send it.
How common do you think Key limes are in Romania?
The tree isn’t much more cold intolerant than lemons, which I believe are grown in large numbers in the south of Spain for export to the rest of Europe.
I’m thankful there are people who are willing to do the work and put their ass on the line for what they believe in…..
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2017/11/23/rocket-launch-will-prove-earth-is-flat-california-man-says.html
https://www.henrymakow.com/2016/02/Flat-Earth-Psyop.html
I think it’s great that there is an even deeper and more bizarre conspiracy underneath the the controversy. You can always dig deeper I guess.
I see… *strokes chin*
Do they also control the British crown? Do they keep the metric system down?
+1 Steve Guttenberg
Idea: Start eating goose for thanks giving as it taste better than turkey
Wife and I have made turkey one time on Thanksgiving we spent at home. We’ve mostly had ham, duck last year, and chicken this year. Neither of us like turkey. I don’t remember seeing goose in any stores here. Maybe I just wasn’t looking.
Bowman’s up in Churchville. I haven’t tried their game offerings, but the meat is wonderful, and I did buy a turkey from them a couple of years ago. This year, we’re not cooking – going to a restaurant and letting someone else do all of the work.
Anything to lessen the numbers of the Fucking Hate Birds, the Birds That Hate.
You ever feel like dressing up in full padded K9 training combat gear, and just running into a gaggle of geese for a big fight? I know I do sometimes.
I’m with you right up to just after the “kill the goose” part of the plan. Once the goose is dead, I lose interest in what you do with it.
I fucking hate geese.
We do ribs every year. It doesn’t get more American that
I MAD!
I wonder if he could provide a list of people who don’t ignore him?
“I can’t stand that motherf**ker. I feel like he’s not paying attention to me. I was kind of waiting for him to say something and for some reason, he didn’t say anything.”
Looook at me when I’m talking to you.
Trump better watch out when he morning the lawn. Ignoring pricks is a good way to get attacked.
Euphemism?
I’m sorry, I don’t speak jive.
A cypher is when a group of rappers gather in a circle and take turns freestyling. It’s the vocal version of when people get in a circle on the dancefloor and take turns going in the center to show off dance moves.
A circlewhat?
That sounds awful. When is Lawrence Welk on…?
I can’t believe a 70-year-old Presbyterian doesn’t follow hip-hop.
they literally hired more people in anticipation of having more tax-money to spend
the objective of bureaucracies is to grow subordinates – full stop; not for anyone to actually *do* anything
so the only good and laudable thing is when the bureaucracy expands; when it contracts, something has gone wrong, and people should weep at the loss of potential-government that ‘could have been’ they will no longer be able to admire from afar, and work all day to pay for
Yeah, no matter the original purpose of a bureaucracy, the eventual number one goal of all of them will be to expand and get a bigger budget.
it previously occurred to me that the kids who call themselves “socialists”, and then point to places like Northern Europe and other welfare-state models as what they mean by ‘democratic socialism’, were probably better-described as “Welfare-statists” – they’re not interested in abolishing private property and seizing the means of production…. they simply want more *rules* for everything so that society can be Ordered the way they imagine, and controlled by experts.
They’re not socialists; they’re Bureacratists.
what they admire about socialism is just the top-down control mechanisms, not the essential class-abolishing aspects or glorification of labor. the kids who call themselves ‘socialists’ today actually are decadent as hell; they dream of a life where they have far greater leisure because Top Men have redistributed to them all the ‘excess wealth’ that had previously been hoarded by capitalists like the Koch brothers…. not a world of shared, constant productive labor, run by the lumpenproletariat
Which is why when you point out all these flaws of bureaucracies, they only think “well, then we need to fix that” – the idea that the flaws are inherent to the idea of bureaucracy itself is anathema to them. hence the “democracy in chains” type stuff; an attempt to claim that the very notion of things like Public Choice theory are inherently flawed… because, uh, racism. yeah, that’ll work.
People really, really don’t like the idea of decentralised systems controlling things that are important to them (except where they’re so common that they don’t think about it). If they see a problem or a need, or some sort of service, they want someone ‘disinterested’ to have overall control over it. They can’t or won’t accept that the things they want controlled are so complicated that no top man can understand them, and that there’s no such thing as impartiality anyway.
Emergent order is just not something that people can get their heads round. The idea that climate change (if you think it’s a serious problem) is more likely to be alleviated by individuals changing their behaviour in response to incentives than by Davos Man drawing up a treaty doesn’t compute.
That sounds like a pretty good analysis. The idea is so foreign to me that I might as well try to understand how aliens from another planet think. Or the Japanese. All my life bureaucracy has been poison to me all the way back to the paltry office culture in grade school. Who in hell thinks it is a good idea to have nameless, faceless unaccountable people you have never met make life changing decisions on behalf of people they never see? It is insane.
So apparently showing up to a tsa checkpoint in a wheelchair is a tacit approval to violate the shit out of you. But hey, we gotta stop those wheelchair bombers somehow. Nevermind the fact that it was the airports wheelchair, something must be done!
“You can’t professionalize unless you federalize!” – Something actually said when the TSA was created
Last night, I watched an Ed Wood movie called, Jail Bait.
It featured this horrifically racist vaudeville act. I laughed. I am a bad person. The dance at the end was the best part.
First time I see such an article in La Presse :
http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/201711/23/01-5144566-les-assauts-de-lextreme-gauche-se-multiplient-au-quebec.php
More than $ 1 million worth of equipment burned in one night, serious bottle wounds and sabotaged machinery: attacks claimed by far-left groups have been increasing in recent months in Quebec, while all the projectors are turned in the opposite direction.
I like the expert they quote :
“SIMILAR TO A DJIHADIST BLOG”
According to a national security expert and former Canadian intelligence agent, attacks by the far left are currently escalating.
“The statistics show that it is increasing,” said Michel Juneau-Katsuya in a telephone interview.
“How many bombs have radical Islamists managed to blow up in Canada since September 11, 2001? Zero. How many bombs have jumped into Canada since September 11, 2001? More than 30, “he said, adding that the majority of these attacks were signed by groups of environmentalists or extreme left.
Are the journalists finally getting woke!?
My bet is that it won’t be long before La Presse offices get ungentrified.
I’m so glad to be traveling to Asia on Sunday. Great timing TSA.
I think the TSA and the PA DOT have the same program managers. Let’s patch potholes on the busiest travel days of the year on a major interstate.
And to all you lurkers out there, if you are indeed out there, go make me a turkey sammich.
And a happy turkey day, too.
Happy Thanksgiving! I’m thankful for my family, having a job, this website, and I guess you lot. Also, as said above, thankful Hillary didn’t win, but also quite frankly I’m being legit grateful that Trump won. Appointing someone who looks to be actually undoing net neutrality? We’re actually getting a rollback on government in some tiny way? I don’t think that would’ve happened with any of the other candidates. The rest would’ve just kept that and everything else, because to actually undo something would cause panic and mass hysteria from the media, and well Jeb, Marco, and the others just wouldn’t have been able to survive that.
Two hours before the hoard arrives. Enjoying the calm before the storm.
It’s quiet.
Almost too quiet…
I wish it could stay like this:) I can chill tomorrow I guess.
Happy Fucksgiving
Things I give a fuck about:
Pa & brother
My 3-4 friends
Dog
Upcoming job (if I passed that fucking piss test)
Skiing
Vikes?
I like the Vikes, but my overall happiness is not affected by their success or failure
We call this a “compensating technique”. If you were heavily emotionally invested in the success of the Vikings, you’d have been sucking on a tailpipe years ago.
Well fear not, Michael Jordan is now a believer in Purple Pride!
How can you doubt them now?
86 yo woman takes justice into her own hands.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/11/23/philadelphia-woman-86-charged-in-armed-bank-robbery.html
Obligatory
Coakley was charged with aggravated assault, robbery, terroristic threats and related offenses, according to police, and was released on her own recognizance.
IANAL, but WTF?
Bail isn’t punishment. It’s based on threat to the community and risk of flight. Both are probably low, despite what she’s accused of doing.
It’s the “terroristic threats”. Again, IANAL so the legalese is what’s throwing me for a loop.
It’s something they throw the word “terroristic” onto because it makes it sound scarier.
This is the definition under PA law. This falls under subsection (1), which realistically can be thrown onto any assault/robbery/whatever other crime if the prosecutor wants to do it.
§ 2706. Terroristic threats.
(a) Offense defined.–A person commits the crime of terroristic threats if the person communicates, either directly or indirectly, a threat to:
(1) commit any crime of violence with intent to terrorize another;
(2) cause evacuation of a building, place of assembly or facility of public transportation; or
(3) otherwise cause serious public inconvenience, or cause terror or serious public inconvenience with reckless disregard of the risk of causing such terror or inconvenience.
I’m sure “terrorist” charges/convictions come with federal money and of course less constitutional rights because terrorism!
Thanks. Sounds like a way for the prosecutor to get a plea.
Bail can certainly be punishment. It’s the reason thousands of “presumed innocent” people who are not a flight risk rot in jail for months and months. It’s also why so many people take a plea deal that they might otherwise not
The ‘heart’ symbol ♥ did not render for some reason, so it came out “IANAL”. That sucks.
At least I assumed it was supposed to be “I♥ANAL”
Watching the Macy’s parade with the kids and getting a laugh out of all the performers that aren’t keeping up with their lip sync tracks.
Who’s the turkey flipping off?
If you need to ask it must be you
I was checking out her thighs so…
They’re not socialists; they’re Bureacratists.
what they admire about socialism is just the top-down control mechanisms, not the essential class-abolishing aspects or glorification of labor. the kids who call themselves ‘socialists’ today actually are decadent as hell; they dream of a life where they have far greater leisure because Top Men have redistributed to them all the ‘excess wealth’ that had previously been hoarded by capitalists like the Koch brothers…. not a world of shared, constant productive labor, run by the lumpenproletariat
They have a crypto-religious devotion to the State. The bureaucracy is the priesthood, handing down edicts which define and codify our relationship to the magical anthropomorphic machine which will provide for every need. They have no conception of how wealth is created. The phrase, “Eventually, you run out of other people’s money” is utterly incomprehensible to them. Top Men will guide the means of production and ensure equitable distribution of all life’s treasures.
If you asked them why the Soviets didn’t invent the Walkman, you’d hear nothing but clicks and whirrs.
They have a fixation with being right. The easiest way to be right is if the government declares it so.
Probably because no one under the age of 45 has even heard of a Walkman, much less seen one.
*hides Walkman with Journey tape*
My cousin had a Walkman when I was 9 or 10. That was in the mid-90s.
Yes, but it probably played CD’s, and was actually just a descendant of the real mccoy
No, it was cassettes. I remember because the one we listened to all the time was Snoopy vs The Red Baron.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtJ1Gnh9wPU
Ok, you win.
Here’s my fave version of snoopy-vs. red baron
if i recall, that’s Tommy Bolin (deep purple) on guitar
My Walkman was great. Didn’t have a CD player until 1996.
The phrase, “Eventually, you run out of other people’s money” is utterly incomprehensible to them.
And why shouldn’t it be? We have enjoyed, even with a couple of hiccups, an entirely aberrant prosperity for almost 70 years. Tales of the Great Depression are the stuff of grandpa, or even the great grand-parents, if they’re still alive. And now, it’s easy for them to believe, in their own comfort and leisure, that those with more of each are no more deserving of it than themselves.
“If you asked them why the Soviets didn’t invent the Walkman, you’d hear nothing but clicks and whirrs.”
That is what I hear when they start talking. The shit they say is based on so many false premises and redefined words that it just sounds like gibberish to me.
To me a conversation between anyone under around 25 sounds like gibberish. I know I’m getting old but sometimes I wonder if the language is changing because I can’t understand a word of it.
Happy thanksgiving!
I am thankful for my family and friends, my pets, that I have interesting work to do and this site.
I think 30 Rock predicted Hamilton. There’s an arc with Tracy Jordan pitching a movie in which he plays Thomas Jefferson, and also Martha and the slave women he boned. They even reference Hamilton at one point. So that guy getting credit for Hamilton: we know your shtick. You stole it off Tina Fey.
“Everything is stolen nowadays! Why, the fax machine is nothing more than a telephone with a waffle iron attached!”
Here’s a fun little Thanksgiving song for you all.
Alice’s Restaurant
I hope you all have a great Thanksgiving!
Mrs Time and I had this song as an ear worm last night. We had to put it on the MP3 player and sing along. Our respective local college radio stations both played this song every Thanksgiving.
Our local classic rock station also dusts it off every Thanksgiving. Kind of a fun tradition.
Indictment of NYC truck jihadi treats ISIS as if it were a mafia family, charges jihadi with “racketeering”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/11/indictment-of-nyc-truck-jihadi-treats-isis-as-if-it-were-a-mafia-family-charges-jihadi-with-racketeering
***
More denial and willful ignorance. The Islamic State is not a mafia family, and jihad mass murder is not racketeering. This is a war, and the New York City truck jihad massacre was one battle in that war. Yet authorities continue to prosecute these jihadis as if they were a series of criminals committing separate and discrete criminal acts that are unrelated to one another.
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A federal grand jury returned a 22-count indictment Tuesday against Sayfullo Saipov in connection with the deadly terror attack on Manhattan’s West Side on Halloween.
The indictment treats the Islamic State, in whose name Saipov told police he carried out the attack, like a mafia family. It charges Saipov with murder in aid of racketeering, a charge federal prosecutors typically use in organized crime cases.
“Consumed by hate and a twisted ideology, Sayfullo Saipov allegedly barreled down a pedestrian walkway and bicycle path on a sunny afternoon on the west side of Manhattan, killing eight innocent people,” acting U.S. Attorney Joon Kim said.
***
Joon Kim, just as demented a fuck as Preet. Is it just not possible to get someone other than a self-aggrandizing attention-whore to be the US Atty in that district?
Lol, oh you.
look, i don’t read jihadwatch, but i presume this is a constant blind-spot for the guy. If you’re “prosecuting” these people, OF COURSE you’re going to use often completely inexact and ostensibly inapplicable law in order to achieve the goal of locking them up and throwing away the key.
because prosecuting an ‘act of terror’ has less jurisprudence behind it, and prosecutors being prosecutors, when all you have is RICO, everything looks like the goddamn Mafia.
getting your panties in a bunch because the lawyer-folk are using the laws we have on the books to achieve disparate goals is silly; unless he objects to the goal of ‘locking them up’ in the first place? The fact is that if they were treated as ‘battlefield combatants’ a la the typical GITMO detainee, it actually takes lots of prosecutorial power away from the govt and gives the defendent a whole different toolbox. IOW, “we tried that already”, and it was generally a shitshow with poor-results. Better to throw the guy in Sing Sing or Rikers with the general population and let the prison-raping commence. MURICA
Trudeau plans to “reintegrate” Islamic State jihad terrorists into Canada
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/11/trudeau-plans-to-reintegrate-islamic-state-jihad-terrorists-into-canada
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Conservative leader Andrew Scheer blasted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for the Liberal plan to “reintegrate” Canadians who return to the country after fighting for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
“These are people who got on a plane to fight for ISIS and watched as our allied soldiers were burned to death in a cage. These are people who got on a plane to go to fight for an organization that sells women and girls into slavery. These are people who left Canada to fight for a group of people who push homosexuals off buildings just for being gay,” Scheer told the House of Commons Monday.
“Can the Prime Minister explain to the House exactly what a program or reintegration service would look like for the people who commit these kinds of atrocities?”
The government revealed in late 2015 that some 180 individuals “with a nexus to Canada” had joined Islamic terrorist groups overseas, and an additional 60 had come back to Canada, according to a report by CBC’s Evan Dyer.
Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale confirmed in the House 60 ISIS terrorists were back in Canada and “under very careful investigation.”
“We recognize that the return of even one individual may have serious national security implications,” Trudeau told Scheer, reading from a statement.
The Liberals have launched the Canada Centre for Community Engagement and Prevention of Violence which “helps to ensure that resources are in place to facilitate disengagement from violent ideologies,” the prime minister read.
And the government will “also continue to carefully monitor trends in extremist travel, and our national security agencies work together to ensure that our response reflects the current threat environment,” Trudeau added….
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They should be shot on sight and Trudeau tarred and feathered.
I’ll just zoom right in on the worst part of the video:
https://youtu.be/KcUkgR4Op00?t=3m20s
“Capitalists, the most ambitious, narcissistic and damaged people in any society.”
Tell us what you really think, guy.
That voice is like fingernails on a chalkboard.
Whenever someone tries to justify their desires by saying ‘it would be a small price to pay’ to follow them, I have to wonder if the price of assault charges is worth knocking them the fuck out.
Also what they mean is that someone other than them will be paying that small price.
I investigated this “School of Life” and I was surprised to find that they weren’t Euro-socialist as much as Populist–Nationalist, with a side order of bat-shit insanity.
That having been said, I am sympathetic with their critique of Romanticism in favor of Classical thought, which on second thought, is an odd stance for them to take considering the nation-state is a pillar of the Romantic movement.
However, overall, I find most of their views to be abhorrent and creepy.
“But they have an English accent? That means smart.”
/millenial
^i blame harry potter
John Oliver.
“‘There’s clearly a bump!’ Miley Cyrus sends fans wild with ‘pregnancy’ snap as she kicks off Thanksgiving celebrations
celebrations early to coincide with her birthday, the 25-year-old singer posted a picture of herself cradling her bloated stomach, quipping she had a ‘#VeganTurkeyBaby’. ”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5110987/Miley-Cyrus-kicks-Thanksgiving-celebrations.html
The Liberals have launched the Canada Centre for Community Engagement and Prevention of Violence which “helps to ensure that resources are in place to facilitate disengagement from violent ideologies,” the prime minister read.
Sounds legit.
“Capitalists, the most ambitious, narcissistic and damaged people in any society.”
What the everloving fuck?
Projection at its absolute apex.
Show bobs and vagene.
http://archive.is/BpnE2
17 is pretty damn perfect, but 11 looks more fun.
Bonus! The British Page 3 model to end all Page 3 models: meet Holly Peers. Determined to have the best boobs in Britain by a leading breast surgeon.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/3124278/former-page-3-favourite-holly-peers-recently-found-to-have-britains-best-boobs-following-scientific-study/
Topless photos can be found on your own.
“a scientific study”
It would be harder to create better tits in a lab.
I’ll be… in the sauna.
#31 is the winner! 39 is a close second. If she had red hair she’d win.
#31 is also voted most likely to boil a bunny
Since no one else has claimed #8, I’ll take one for the team.
Honorable Mention to 17, 34, and 38(Yum)
“OPINION: Let’s not be dicks and attack people over politics.”
https://twitter.com/MsBlaireWhite/status/933412753380818944
“OPINION: I’m Glad Blaire White Got A Drink Thrown In Her Face”
http://www.gayrva.com/news-views/opinion-im-glad-blaire-white-got-a-drink-thrown-in-her-face/
What Blair White did sounds like the woman who went around New York for eight hours and got five minutes of harassment.
Except that woman wasn’t physically assaulted, twice, in a short time.
I made a half-hearted attempt to read that Will Wilkenson thing linked above. Holy shit that guy uses a lot of words to no good purpose.
Placing one’s penis inside of Kerry Howley isn’t a good purpose?
Is this when they’re not gang raping the females?
https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/male-dolphins-total-gift-bearing-players-courting-females/
I once watched dogs doing that. Female in heat refused the male repeatedly for about five minutes then the male disappeared. Fifteen minutes later he reappeared and offered the female a bone. She took the bone and while she was chewing it she gladly took another bone.
Ummmm, you might think this would be bigger news…
http://www.khou.com/mobile/article/news/crime/woman-accused-of-mailing-explosives-to-gov-abbott-pres-obama/494079350?scroll=708
I gave up, and skipped to the end:
I think this is what makes Niskanen different. We’ve put misguided, utopian idealism behind us, but retain the moral passion that once attracted most us to radicalism, and have channeled it into discovering and fighting for what is most likely to actually work to make our society freer, more prosperous, and more just.
Learn to love Big Brother. We have.
They’re worse than Dankertarians since they have a patina of respectability.
Maybe we should all chip in and send them a copy of The True Believer?
I found out at midnight that someone rather close to me, a lady that I’ve loved for a while, was diagnosed with cancer.
I’m not sure what i’m even processing right now. could barely sleep last night. She’s a few years younger than me.
That sucks. What type?
cervical, not by hpv.
At least it has a high survival rate. Be there to offer support.
It’s true. I’m trying, but it’s hard on a day like today.
Hang in there DOOM. Focus on the positive and just be there for her.
Thanks Mike. I don’t want to come on too strong and make it worse or something. I’m probably overthinking it by a lot.
I think she’ll just be happy to know she has a friend at the time. Not that it matters, but is this an ex-girlfriend?
ex-ex? I don’t know. we did date.
Just be there and try to act as normal as possible.
Well shit, way to raise the bar there Q. Oh wait, you said “as possible”; okay.
as possible is still pretty out there. but it would work.
I’m guessing you are overthinking it. Jut because I probably would.
Just be there, let her kind of “set the tone.” If she’s a wreck be strong for her. If she’s strong and doesn’t want to talk about, don’t keep bringing it up. Just love her.
my mind will go down some awful paths if allowed. So last night I was all over the place.
You guys have calmed me a good deal. it’s not about me anyway.
God damn.
Sorry. Hope she is better soon.
Thanks everyone.
I didn’t really want to share that. but it’d been eating me up and just typing it and reading responses really got me back to center.
Fatherly words of wisdom – a joy shared is doubled, a sorrow shared is halved.
GQ: It’s your duty to ruin Thanksgiving becuz DRUMPF.
https://www.gq.com/story/the-case-for-ruining-thanksgiving
Christ, what an asshole!
The writer, or the umpteenth commenter to link to it? :-p
This has the makings of becoming the next “Oregon man dies happy after ex-wife tells him Trump was impeached”
Woah, hold on! When did this happen?! This is the first I’ve heard of this story!
I think the Cleveland Browns let hi down on last time.
Good times, good times.
I can’t seem to find the original article.
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/933531436203864064
Possibly NSFW.
Ejaculating; you’re doing it wrong.
http://www.breitbart.com/california/2017/11/22/man-accused-ejaculating-co-workers-water-bottle-smearing-bodily-fluids-computer/
Of course the comment section is full of mongoloids frothing at the mouth about the “spics”!
Stay classy, Breitbart!
At least they’re concentrated in one place so we know where to find them.
If only that were true…
Some, I assume, are good people.
Ladies, he’s single!
Ejaculating; you’re doing it wrong.
Deny them your essence.
“Alex Jones And Laura Loomer Release ‘Revenge Porn’ Video Of Conservative Lawmaker, Could Face Jail Time”
http://www.thelibertyconservative.com/alex-jones-and-laura-loomer-release-revenge-porn-video-of-conservative-lawmaker-could-face-jail-time/
Placing one’s penis inside of Kerry Howley isn’t a good purpose?
If she’s weak-minded enough to be impressed by Wilkenson’s turgid maundering, he can have her.
Sex robotpocalypse proceeding as planned.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/661977/Sex-Doll-Relationship-Robot-April-Harmony-James-Channel-4-Documentary-Pictures-Dating-Love
According to theredpill and MGTOW this just makes these guys beta chumps.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5110647/First-evidence-human-love-related-reproductive-success.html
Well this Surly T-giving pairing guide hits a bit too close to home.
The two boys and I ran in the local 5K. College son has become lazy and finished with me at about 30:00. The youngest still is in great shape and finished at about 19:30.
I get enough exercise just pushing my luck.
I’m an old fat ass, but I can still run a bit.
You can see for yourself how excited the boys are to be up in the morning for a fun run.
We’ve been doing this run for years now and today’s weather was perfect for young ladies to be out and about in their yoga pants, so they cheered up a bit as the day went on.
That made me laugh. The grin on the young man on the right clearly says “Fuck this”
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/11/22/coffee-shop-roasted-for-sign-saying-it-is-happily-gentrifying-neighborhood.html
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A Denver coffee shop located in a historically black neighborhood apologized Wednesday for placing a sidewalk sign outside the establishment that read, “Happily gentrifying the neighborhood since 2014!”
The other side of the sign stated: “Nothing says gentrification like being able to order a cortado,” according to local reports.
ink! Coffee, which advertises on its website that it sells “socially conscious coffee,” posted the sign outside its store in Denver’s Five Points neighborhood, which was once known as the “Harlem of the West.”
The company suffered a ferocious backlash on social media shortly after local writer Ru Johnson posted a photo of the sign on Twitter.
“My first reaction was, ‘Is this real?’ because it’s just so mind blowing,” Johnson told The Denver Post.
“Their sign was almost like a poke in the eye for the people who have worked to make the community what it is, and a lot of those people have been pushed out,” Johnson said. “Who created this sign, sent it to manufacture and put in outside your business?”
Johnson said in a tweet later Wednesday that a “magician on a skateboard zipped by and jacked” the sign in an incident she described as “WACK.”
Hundreds of users have rushed to criticize ink! Coffee on Facebook, Twitter, and Yelp.
“Doesn’t even deserve the single star,” wrote one reviewer on Yelp. “They’re proud of their blatant racism and disregard for the local community.”
The NAACP sharply criticized ink! Coffee as well.
“Your sign referenced above has been flagged as mocking of and hurtful to those, especially African Americans and other (People of Color), who have been forced to surrender their homes and businesses to deep pocket gentrification efforts in Denver’s central/downtown communities,” Rosemary Lytle, president of the NCAAP’s Colorado, Montana, Wyoming State Conference, wrote in an email obtained by The Denver Post.
In a series of tweets, emails, and Facebook posts Wednesday afternoon, the company repeatedly apologized for the sign.
“We clearly drank too much of our own product and lost sight of what makes our community great,” the company said on its official Twitter account. “Our (bad) joke was never meant to offend our vibrant and diverse community.”
***
Five Points was a shithole until about five years ago. Now it’s just a hipster mecca. Not sure which is worse.
There isn’t much that makes me angrier than this “MY neighborhood” shit. Fuck you, segregationists.
I had a similar thought at the line “Their sign was almost like a poke in the eye for the people who have worked to make the community what it is”
You mean, a worthless shithole?
I’m going to buy stock in a woodchipper company.
You can come to Baltimore and that will be your only 2 choices, either your neighbors are aging yuppy douche nozzles, or you’re afraid to leave your fortress without full body armor and scary gun which is illegal here.
I’m glad there’s little of that rot in my part of Brooklyn. I’m kind of surprised the hipsters haven’t found us yet, in fact.
Happy Thanksgiving to all you true blue Glibertarians, and even to all the professional fake libertarians over at the Magazine that Shall Not Be Named!
ENB hardest hit.
Slappy Blankspittin’ to you too, DD.
Fappy Spanksliving to you, egould.
Nailed it. ?
Is this the Donald Trump of white tail deer?
All white with a completely fake hair piece. And if you look at the pic, it has a dumb look on its -dead- face.
Alright, since the Americans are now busy stuffing themselves and voiding the warranties on their mobility scooters, this Secret Cabal of Evil Foreigners can now commence. As the Canadian representative I’ll post my findings on our attempts to destroy America:
1. We continue to maintain our ban on exporting our best comedians to the south. No more will they have the talent pool to produce quality films like Ghostbusters.
2. Instead we have continued to accelerate our celebrity psyops, including expanding our obnoxious teen celebrity program. Unfortunately we’ve discovered that our younger weapons have a popularity expiry of two to three years after their eighteenth birthday. We’ll have to produce units within a half-decade period and terminate the ones who become useless.
3. ‘Operation Mangina’ is going well, with the majority of the world believing Justin Trudeau actually runs us. They’ll never suspect he’s actually a collection of beavers.
4.. As many of you know, our attempts to install Secret Canadian President in America has failed largely due to the efforts of Secret Nazi President. Fortunately the boys at the cloning lab have been hard at work making a copy that we will eventually switch out with the original. To avoid confusion this version of Trump has a large orange fur hat.
A solitary butthole wafts a nearly silent toot into the noontime breeze.
P.S. the scooters bullet point: ?
You’re the first person I’ve seen call Ghostbusters a quality film. I’ve heard that it was utter trash.
80s Ghostbusters? You need better friends.
You were clearly talking about 2016 Ghostbusters. Don’t even try to deny it.
No Canadians were involved in the production of that monstrosity. That is what happens when we don’t ship our talent south.
Who will run Jeopardy then smart guy?
Wolf Blitzer?
So you’re basically admitting you’d make it worse without us.
If by worse, you mean infinitely more fun. How much better would it be to have a host who gets all the questions wrong and the contestants have to correct him?
Art Fleming was born in New York.
You’ve heard? You’ve never seen it?!
No, I have not seen Feminist Ghostbusters. Why in God’s name would I go and watch that?
I don’t even know what the hell you’re talking about. There are two Ghostbusters. First one released in 1984 and Ghostbusters II released in 1989. That. Is. It.
What about the Ghostbusters cartoon?
OK. There were 2 movies and a cartoon. That. Is. It.
Secret Canadian President is a fate no one deserves.
It’s like the SPECTRE briefing at the beginning of “Thunderball”. I like it.
“1. We continue to maintain our ban on exporting our best comedians to the south. No more will they have the talent pool to produce quality films like Ghostbusters.”
Hasn’t saying things that are actually funny banned in Canada yet? As far as I know, it’s been banned here, which is why I don’t watch comedians. The same Trump joke just isn’t funny anymore.
“‘Operation Mangina’ is going well”
Hasn’t Zoolander already declared himself Chief Feminsta, with his sons to follow?
Our secret weapon is that we’re exiling Hillary to Canada, where she will NEVER go away, you’ll be listening to her mummified remains forever, bwahahhaahaaahhhaaa!
*declares victory*
Clinton would have never got anywhere in Canadian politics, we prefer our politicians’ wives to be dumb and quiet. And in Trudeau’s case being tag-teamed by hockey players.
Didn’t his mom bang the Rolling Stones?
If you’re asking the question ‘Didn’t Trudeau’s mom bang *insert person here*?’ the answer is always yes. Trudeau is real-life Winston.
“To avoid confusion this version of Trump has a large orange fur hat.”
With large ear flaps instead of the comb-over look?
3. ‘Operation Mangina’ is going well, with the majority of the world believing Justin Trudeau actually runs us. They’ll never suspect he’s actually a collection of beavers.
Funny you should mention the famous Trudeau Beaver. Does Justin have a sister, and is her beaver as photogenic as her Mama’s?
Hundreds of users have rushed to criticize ink! Coffee on Facebook, Twitter, and Yelp.
“Doesn’t even deserve the single star,” wrote one reviewer on Yelp. “They’re proud of their blatant racism and disregard for the local community.”
The NAACP sharply criticized ink! Coffee as well.
“Your sign referenced above has been flagged as mocking of and hurtful to those, especially African Americans and other (People of Color), who have been forced to surrender their homes and businesses to deep pocket gentrification efforts in Denver’s central/downtown communities,” Rosemary Lytle, president of the NCAAP’s Colorado, Montana, Wyoming State Conference, wrote in an email obtained by The Denver Post.
In a series of tweets, emails, and Facebook posts Wednesday afternoon, the company repeatedly apologized for the sign.
Fekkin pussies, one and all.
I dont see anyone likable in that story. It is a giant clusterfuck of stupidity.
I hate signalers, every single one of them.
“Libertarian was a phase I went through. Like blowing each other when we were 12. It wasn’t all wrong but we realized it wouldn’t work in the long run. Can someone put that on my WIKI page?”
https://twitter.com/DougStanhope/status/933561532109094912
I hope to not go through “phases” as a grown adult and later into middle age. Steady as she goes.
It wasn’t all wrong but we realized it wouldn’t work in the long run.
Alcoholics don’t get to have a say on what works ‘in the long run’.
OK. I’m going to my brothers to eat and drink and be merry. I hope all you glib folks have a delightful day!
Libertarian was a phase I went through.
I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t give a shit even if I knew who he is.
“One of the highlights of our Thanksgivings is when my wife brings the turkey to the table wearing a Mrs. Claus costume. She has done it for years and the table is always full of smiles! A couple weeks ago I accidentally walked in on my daughter and her boyfriend, and he was wearing the Mrs. Claus costume. I haven’t told my wife because she would freak, but I have talked to my daughter. I’m not upset with her being active—she is 17 now—but I am losing sleep thinking about how tense Thursday will be when my wife brings out the turkey since he will be with us, especially if I have a bit too much to drink.”
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/dear_prudence/2017/11/dear_prudence_i_walked_in_on_my_daughter_having_sex_with_her_boyfriend.html
Involuntary sterilization or post birth abortion?
Altered Carbon on Netflix in 2018. I hope they’re putting some decent money into effects.
https://www.netflix.com/title/80097140