STEVE SMITH UNDERSTAND FRIEND ZARDOZ A LITTLE OFF KILTER RIGHT NOW. SO HE GIVE FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE SOME LINKS. PLEASE EXCUSE STEVE SMITH, HE SEE TOUR BUS STOPPING AT CABINS FOR NIGHT. IT LIKE….RAPE DELIVERY!
- THIS DISMAY STEVE SMITH. HE PREFER TO GET AHEAD BY HARD WORK, TALENT….AND RAPE.
- STEVE SMITH GLAD TO HEAR THIS NOT COUSIN SEA SMITH. HE USUALLY RAPE SHARKS, NOT BITE PEOPLE.
- BOY, STEVE SMITH EMBARRASSED. HE SLIGHTLY MISREAD HEADLINE FOR THIS.
STEVE SMITH WISH FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE A GOOD NIGHT.
Ben seems like your kind of guy, Steve.
STEVE SMITH NO NEED YOU BEN DOVER. STEVE SMITH RAPE YOU STANDING.
*Opera Applause*
Thirst!
Quenched!
drink!
for knowledge?
So… is the media just one pervert after another?
Obvious answer: it’s perverts all the way down.
That’s an interesting image… kind of a pornographic human centipede?
Infinite daisy chain.
It’s a circle jerk.
Fuck off, Erin. If you didn’t quit the first time someone suggested you fuck the boss, you are a fraud.
Or… report it to HR? I find the environment she’s describing less believable at a giant corporation like CBS than in the more amorphous world of Hollywood.
Re: “The Crown” from the previous thread. Wife & I both liked it. It’s slow in a couple of places but otherwise well done.
We’re planning on watching “Victoria” next: originally on BBC America but now on Amazon Prime. Supposed to be better than The Crown.
Thank you, Raven. It’s not my usual fare, but I enjoyed it a lot.
It was a shock to me after a static environment of 17 years of the same!!!!!
I’m sorry, but this is complete horseshit, and a typical representation of the lefty OMG-Europe-is-so-better mindset. I’m guessing they’re comparing the typical American high school with the elite high schools in Europe that are the only ones they know about, if they know anything at all. I went through ‘gifted’ schools in America and a ‘normal’ school in Germany. There was nothing ‘more inventive’ about the ‘gifted and talented’ program other than just learning shit earlier. The article claims to want more ‘field trips’ and ‘enrichment programs’ and at the same time claims it ‘won’t cost more’. Yeah, right. Which is it?
As long as the teachers’ unions are running things, costs will go nowhere but up irrespective of whether there are more or fewer special programs and activities.
Oh, definitely.
I should add that I got the ‘normal’ treatment in Germany because German is not my native language. But it was inside one of the ‘elite’ schools (a Gymnasium) and my Gymnasium friends weren’t getting anything ‘richer’ than I was. If anything, American schools are much more hands-on already. In German schools it’s mostly just being lectured at.
By normal are you implying they didn’t put you in the “college-bound” program?
Well, I simplified it a bit.
I was put in a special class designed for the ‘normal’ track kids to transition to the college-bound track. What I’m calling ‘normal’ is the Realschule, which is general education for the non-college bound (with the understanding that they don’t push college on everyone like they do here). Those kids go on to study trades, take apprenticeships, etc. My class was for kids who decided later on that they wanted to go to college. And it was also a dumping ground for every exchange student.
Gotcha.
We had a number of foreign exchange students at my high school. They pretty much all said the same thing, “I learned this last year.” Except history. Europeans students don’t dabble too much in American history.
I could have said the same thing the year I was in Germany. It was all review for me except history class.
i was an MGM student back in the 70s, it made a libertarian, and i didn’t get better
Wow, that knocked some cobwebs loose. I remember that in school too, so that’s two of us.
Oh wow, thanks – I was in MGM too in elementary school in the 70s, but I could not remember what the program was called. Every so often I hear people a bit younger than me talking about being in GATE, and I would remember being in some sort of “smart kids” program, but “GATE” didn’t sound right.
Mine was called “MAP”.
Mine was called “TARD”.
… uhhhh, nevermind.
‘I thought I was going to die’: Shoppers in terror as off-duty officer kills armed man at Lenexa Costco
This will be buried ASAP.
Good shoot.
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Oh, man, this is gonna be *great*!
#HatchKids Discuss: #NoHateHoliday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZxZbwA8lcU
By the way, I don’t keep up with these things, as I’ve never been a Christian, but is it time to freak out about what color Starbucks coffee cups are yet?
A couple of randoms on Twitter with no followers posted about it and it was enough for the New York Times to write the yearly story.
Nope, this year it’s the gay guys holding hands or sommat.
What do Buddhists freak out over?
Weed Man, Weed
Satanic Red? or Santa red? Make a choice for Heads Sake
If the Starbucks cups are a greyish fuschia, the Anti-Christ is nigh.
Buzzfeed‘s trying to stir up a Christian freakout about the cups being totally gay, but I’m not sure that anyone is actually freaking out.
You’d think the freakout would be about the quality of their coffee.
It doesn’t have to be any good, because it’s “fair trade”!
I don’t get it… Is it illegal to celebrate holidays other than Judeo-Christian ones? Last I heard, you can pretty much do whatever you want on that front.
You blaspheme more then you are aware of.
I hadn’t seen the full footage of the North Korean defector’s escape until today, and after seeing it I want to bring a television over to the UNC-Chapel Hill square like the pro-lifers do on a monthly basis over here and replay the video to show young people the fairy clouds and golden rainbows made possible with socialism. Maybe some good Venezuela footage for added effect.
“B-b-but that’s state capitalism!!”
To paraphrase Comr. Chomsky, “Kulaks undermine the glorious leader all the time via exporting capital and secretly bartering with China. Therefore, it’s state capitalism!”
Recently purchased “Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea”, which I’ve been putting off buying for years and will read once I get through this busy stretch at work.
But then again, because every single communist country has turned into a totalitarian nightmare doesn’t mean it will happen next time!
Is it crass to wish they had set this to Yakety Sax?
Socialism: so awesome people risk their lives trying to escape.
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Kids React to the Presidential Debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBBKgPurzoU
Ah…the ecstasy of derp!
Saudi Arabia claims a ballistic missile launched by Yemeni rebels was made by Iran.
http://www.janes.com/article/75593/saudis-says-iranian-ballistic-missiles-launched-from-yemen
I really wouldn’t care if Saudi Arabia and Iran get into a war. I really don’t. Hopefully they’d blast each other into bits….
…except that we’d have to stick our noses in it like we always do, and we’d make the situation far, far worse. Because that’s what this country does. If we’re not swinging our military dicks around, what are we doing?
Raping newscasters?
Kids React to the Second Presidential Debate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-6fzgdjjWQ
“Comments are disabled for this video.”
Bigots. That should say the comments have special needs.
This idea people are pushing for politicizing their children is so goddamn retarded. For one thing, it’s blatantly transparent you’re trying to use them as political mouthpieces because people respond positively to children in terms of general psychology. Unless you’re an asshole like me and think kids are dumb. And secondly you’re projecting all your own issues and worries onto your kids, who don’t understand them but respond emotionally to their parents, basically fucking them up needlessly (especially if you’re hysterical about some issue, like say, the President).
So I have finished the Netflix Punisher series. Overall, I’m not a fan of the comic character, and the movies that have come out with his name have been… lacking. However, I appreciated the changes made to this implementation of the character, and enjoyed the whole series. They even had a decent riff on gun control, with a character from other Netflix Marvel shows explaining why she has a gun, and calling out a Senator who hires the Blackwater equivalent to run security for him.
Avoid review sites on any episode after the ninth episode, unless you have built up a tolerance for derp.
I didn’t see this coming.
Susan Sarandon thinks Hillary Clinton would have been ‘very dangerous’ as president
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/11/26/susan-sarandon-thinks-hillary-clinton-would-have-been-very-dangerous-as-president.html
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Actress Susan Sarandon is having a tough time since the 2016 election as the star is now being attacked by the left for refusing to support Hillary Clinton.
Despite campaigning for Hillary in 2001, she was a supporter of Bernie Sanders in 2016. When he failed to take the Democratic nomination, the actress did not shift her star-powered support to Hillary, which got the attention of the moderates and the left in a very negative way.
“I got from Hillary people ‘I hope your crotch is grabbed,’ ‘I hope you’re raped.’ Misogynistic attacks. Recently, I said ‘I stand with Dreamers and that started another wave,” she told The Guardian in a recent interview. “From the left! ‘How dare you! You who are responsible for this!’”
Since the election, Sarandon’s career has been marred by all things politics. She couldn’t even appear on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” without the host asking her to defend her political position. However, she stands by her decision to, as a New Yorker, vote for third party candidate Jill Stein over Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump. However, it’s the assertion that fans got that she believed Hillary would be more dangerous than Trump in office that’s been hard to shake. The assertion stems from an interview she did with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes on “All In With Chris Hayes” she gave prior to the Democratic National Convention. When asked if she ever made that claim outright in her latest interview, she had this to say: .
“No exactly, but I don’t mind that quote. I did think she was very, very dangerous. We would still be fracking, we would be at war [if she was president]. It wouldn’t be much smoother. Look what happened under Obama that we didn’t notice.”
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She hasn’t really been in anything recent? Not like her newfound Naziism will kill her career.
Cool – that’s a lot meatier than the Post version I almost linked.
LOL
Well, she must be a socialist jacktard if she was cheering for Grandpa Gulag, but I’ll give her some points for actually criticizing Obama. Most “progressives” I know will spend the rest of their lives arguing that every single thing Obama did was perfect in every way.
She does seem like a “true believer”, so… wrong about everything but at least consistent.
i’ll take you more seriously when you play leftie-tea-party and kick schumer out of office.
It’s sobering to remember that it could in fact get worse than Moobs.
‘Simpsons’ compares Kellyanne Conway to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/11/15/simpsons-compares-kellyanne-conway-to-nazi-propaganda-minister-joseph-goebbels.html
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“The Simpsons” compared President Trump counselor Kellyanne Conway to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels in its latest episode.
On Sunday night’s airing of the show, Marge Simpson hires a political adviser to help her beat Mayor Quimby to become Springfield’s first female mayor.
…
“I’ll be the Kellyanne Conway of this thing,” the adviser says in the episode in front of a focus group.
“Kellyanne Conway, I like how she always looks like she just woke up,” one focus group participant says.
Another added, “I think it’s inspiring how now a woman can be Joseph Goebbels.”
Goebbels served as Adolf Hitler’s minister for public enlightenment and propaganda from 1933 to 1945.
This is not the first time the animated series has gone after Trump and his advisers. An April episode portrayed former White House press secretary Sean Spicer hanging from a noose.
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Worst. Episode. Ever.
‘Member when The Simpsons was funny and relevant?
No.
They’re just trying to atone for the existence of Apu.
Nothing says ‘quality show’ like taking political talking points from Family Guy.
The house that sold for nearly $800,000 over asking price speaks to the inequity of California
tldr: People who bought homes in Silicon Valley in the early 60s for $25k can sell them now for $2.5M, which I should be outraged about for reasons the author never quite makes clear.
Also, the author never quite gets there, but seems to be heavily implying that California should lower housing costs by overturning Prop 13 and jacking up the property tax in order to force old people out of their homes in order to increase supply. I guess I’ll have to wait for his promised upcoming column on “how equity wealth could help finance more housing for ordinary working folks” to find out for sure.
Oh I know! We can make a law that people who are 65 and older must move into a center for old people where the government takes care of them in exchange for their social security checks. Then their houses will be for sale and the cost will go down!
Seriously, how dare those old people just sit around in their homes all day while other people have long commutes.
I don’t what the LAT paid him to write that, but it was too much.
don’t KNOW [dammit]
Inflation how does it work?
Idiots
“But another part of the government’s job is income distribution and too much of it has gone to the super-wealthy.””
Sorry, what? Since when?
I’m going to take a wild guess and speculate that zoning prevents turning those million-dollar houses located in areas that everyone wants to live in, into smaller houses or apartment buildings – you know, like was the norm back in the day.
Oh, I’m sure this guy would tell you that the housing business is “completely unregulated” and the few regulatory bodies that exist are “strapped for cash after constant budget cuts”.
In my neighborhood you can see multiple waves of construction – like one street will be all 1910’s era rowhouses, another street will feature 50’s era apartment houses, and another street will still have big old single-family houses here and there. I would never be able to afford to live in my part of Brooklyn if the original housing* was still here.
*which certainly goes back several more waves than is visible today. Like farmhouses ‘n’ shit.
It’s weird how things in Las Vegas are so cheap.
Well, they have oceans of land to spread out on. NYC or Silicon Valley, not so much.
There’s plenty of land near Silicon Valley. It’s just not “available”.
So yeah, your point stands.
The small-ish Ohio town where I live kind of has that too, only it’s very spotty. There’s a certain block that contains 1) a tavern built in 1808 that was the very first building of this town, 2) some Civil War-era mansions, 3) a bunch of 1920s homes, and 4) a couple 1960s-style ranch houses that were built where older buildings had been burned down or condemned.
On my street from corner to corner 1917 Craftsman, @2001 Spanish style, my 1957 apartment, 1917 Craftsman, 1914 Craftsman, 1957 apartment building, 1929 apartment building in a Spanish style, 1917 Craftsman, 1914 Craftsman converted into a trendy restaurant. That is pretty typical for my neighborhood 20 blocks in both directions. Affordable, safe, pretty nice place to live.
Are you still near the Attic? If so, high five.
I haven’t had a meat garnished cocktail since.
Yep. That place is popular as fuck. They also built a bar on the patio outside. I always seem to get drunk there.
If we were playing the game “drop me off blindfolded”, I would guess it’s somewhere in the Hamptons. They did a nice job on the decor.
California does every possible thing it can do to make housing more expensive and its politicians and pundits pretend that they don’t know what is going on. Many of them are so terrifically stupid that they may not. Some know exactly what time it is. It’s designed to have a wealthy elite and a dependent class. They have made great strides toward this goal.
It will crash into dust, like every other Socialist plan, hang tight,
I am hoping it will be after we make our exit. I was born here as well and am pissed about what they have made it. I figure it will be 15 years before I can get out. It will likely crash hard before then.
I’m too old to start over, so it’s crash and burn for me, I might be able to escape to AZ, but right now I’m stuck
Suthen, the timing was Perfect, My 50/50 Burgers were great on all accounts, thanks, /Burp
Possum/squirrel?
Anything you can grab out of a woodchipper with a catcher’s mitt.
Mexican/weed
I was intrigued.
I like my burger rare, but I don’t want half of it playing dead.
Pork/Beef You imbeciles 🙂
Did Thanksgiving Turkey dinner tonight. And it was good. With stuffing in the bird.
I was thinking of doing another one. Turkeys are on fire sale for some reason.
I was 90% of the way to perfect. I know what I did wrong, but…. my family is tired of turkey.
turkey Sandwiches Rule for Work, game day, whatever
The Irony of the home page is something to Behold,
FFWebsite next to STEVE SMITH
Oh lord, if they put this on TV these days…
Christmas!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9ukmV5aY8Y
Sargon can suck my dick!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47zOcR3uHb8
Derpy’s extra early links
Macron pushes to criminalize gender-based insults
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Nov. 26 (UPI) — French President Emmanuel Macron said he wants to criminalize gender-based insults as part of a push towards gender equality.
During a speech at the Elysee Palace to mark the International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women, Macron said he wants to “seal a pact of equality between men and women.”
“Gender-based insults will be punishable by law. Offenders will face a deterrent fine,” Macron said, adding that forms of street harassment, including “wolf whistling,” could also be subject to criminal action, Sky News reported.
“Many women have said that the first sexist violence they meet is in the street,” Macron continued. “And many harassers practice wolf whistling and other types of verbal stigmatization — and for a long time people reacted with indifference. This is unacceptable. Women must feel comfortable in public spaces. Women in the republic must not be afraid to use public spaces. This must be one of the priorities of the police.”
According to France24, a draft of a law to be introduced next year could include these measures, as well as extending the statute of limitations for the rape of minors from 20 years to 30 years. Macron also said he favors creating a minimum age of consent in France, to be set at 15. There is currently no age of consent in the country.
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Avoid Europe at all costs, got it.
Seriously, how long before some poor American trying to get some strange winds up in jail and we get some sort of weird international sexual incident?
That came out wrong…or so very right.
These euphemisms, etc.
The left really wishes they could do that here, but the damned first amendment keeps getting in the way.
I occasionally wonder if the people who greeted Macron as if he was the second coming will learn anything from his inevitable decline in popularity, and failure. The Economist had a cover with him walking on water, for some reason.
Obviously I don’t wonder very hard – the answer is, of course, no.
New York Times says it regrets offense caused by ‘Nazi sympathizer’ story
http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/26/media/new-york-times-nazi-sympathizer-next-door/index.html
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A New York Times editor on Sunday said the paper regrets how much a controversial article about a white nationalist offended readers.
The memo, written by national editor Marc Lacey, was an attempt to address backlash to a piece posted online Saturday. It describes an Ohio man as “the Nazi sympathizer next door.”
“We regret the degree to which the piece offended so many readers,” Lacey wrote. “We recognize that people can disagree on how best to tell a disagreeable story. What we think is indisputable, though, is the need to shed more light, not less, on the most extreme corners of American life and the people who inhabit them.”
He continued: “That’s what the story, however imperfectly, tried to do.”
The story describes the everyday life of Tony Hovater, a man who identifies as a white nationalist. It discusses his wife, his “innocuous pop-culture” tattoos and a love for TV comedies like “Seinfeld.”
The piece was criticized by people who called it an attempt to “normalize” white nationalism and other extremist ideologies.
Quartz culture editor Indrani Sen said the story lacked “any explanation to the reader of why exactly this story exists, and what the writer expects the reader to glean from it.”
“Without that we have, essentially, a puff piece about a Nazi sympathizer,” Sen wrote.
Lacey offered an explanation in his memo.
“The point of the story was not to normalize anything but to describe the degree to which hate and extremism have become far more normal in American life than many of us want to think,” he wrote.
He also said the article refers to Hovater as a “bigot” and a “Nazi sympathizer who posted images on Facebook of a Nazi-like America full of happy white people and swastikas everywhere.”
Lacey added that editors and the story’s author, Times reporter Richard Fausset, “agonized over the tone and content of the article.”
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“The Times piece does little to describe the online ecosystem that has helped white nationalists, neo-Nazis and the Alt-Right organize, amplify its message, and thrive in recent years,” Warzel wrote. “And, simply put, any attempt to answer what exactly led Hovater to ‘gravitate toward the furthest extremes of American political discourse’ is incomplete without it.”
Not everyone was so critical. Ira Glass, the host and producer of the popular radio show “This American Life,” said the article “captured something real and worth documenting.”
“Yes, the reporter could’ve argued with him more,” Glass tweeted. “On our show we’d have done that. But I think it wouldn’t change the overall story here very much.”
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I saw a tweet about that article. It compared the article to one written about Michael Brown, the guy who died after attacking a police officer (claimed by some witnesses and activist to be killed with his hands up but evidence showed otherwise). I haven’t read the original article, but from what I understand the article profiling the Nazi did not claim he had done any physical violence. So the activists are upset about someone who hold loathsome beliefs but doesn’t really force them on anybody. I bet many of these same activists are sympathetic to Antifa.
Prince Harry is marrying a black chick. Too bad he’s not closer to the throne – I bet the Queen would have a stroke.
Anyone have Nationwide insurance? Cancel immediately.