I just saw the trailer for the latest Avengers flick, and at one point there are two giant armies running across a wide-open field intending to close with each other and fight with hand weapons. For some reason I guess I’ve just had enough of CGI armies. My eyes rolled so hard I got a good look at my own brain. We humans solved this problem some time around 1915. Gas, nukes, napalm, mines, two or three of those AC-130s that have a fucking minigun on one side and a large bore gun on the other. The enemy monster army is packed together like a Greek phalanx. WTF? I don’t mean to be racist, but if that’s the Black Panther’s idea of martial strategy, he’s not a very good general or king. Tony Stark owns or owned an arms company. If ever there was no excuse in the back story for this stupid, stupid, set piece, its right here!
In better news, Glibertarians.com finally got its shit together and made a Cafe Press store. If we promised you some merchandise, please email and remind us. Big thanks to SugarFree for MGGA!
If you would with either of these, you need to get your Hot/Crazy gauge recalibrated
This person wants the Internets regulated good and hard because… and this is the actual argument… “the tech giants have usurped the role of traditional news media—without assuming any historic social responsibilities”. Usurped. Responsibilities. Sure. In much the same way that the automobile usurped horses for local transportation of goods.
If I was a locked-in patient and they put this thing on my head, it would just be this.
I know we have a couple of rocket scientists here… this NK rocket thing is still bothering me. How can you achieve a height of 2800 miles without achieving escape velocity? I’m just not able to brain how it got that high “slowly” enough to fall straight back down. Although I guess it probably doesn’t take that much fuel once you get over 100 miles up. Meh.
And now I’ll just go put on the whole album this is on, and think about how many times I heard that string tune-up at the beginning.
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ITS TIME FOR A FIRST POST!
They may take our lives, but they’ll never take… OUR TITS!
https://archive.is/AL9CD
7, 34, 35, 39.
9 has definitely had some beaver airbrushed out.
Tits always come first.
Agreed. Q rightfully won the first, due to the fact that he stayed on topic. These pics are always on topic
You have some interesting ideas. Do you have a newsletter….
“Dear Glibs, I never thought this would happen to me but…”
I could tell a couple of great stories from when I was an Orkin guy in the 80s.
Yes. But it’s the Nick Gillespie of newsletters.
Watch it
Vhyrus’s post serves as a cautionary tale about where you stick your penis. I think it’s entirely appropriate to be recognized as a first when followed up by Q.
Vhyrus mentioned Time who are always on topic.
Link fail
https://youtu.be/N2FPQvwhSDY
5, probably 13, 18 and probably 23.
“beaver airbrushed out”
Unforgivable
One of these days, someone is going to comment “holy hell, that’s my __________”. I don’t think it will be Winston.
These girls are all younger than my daughters and could even be granddaughters, if I had started earlier. So, yeah, it’s a bit uncomfortable viewing them.
Still, #5. An old man can dream
…. Hobbit
#40 doesn’t do it for me.
https://hotair.com/archives/2017/11/29/another-alabama-poll-shows-roy-moore-surging-back-lead/
The pervert in Alabama is set to join the other perverts in the Senate.
Alabama is facing the Nick Gillespie of options in this vote
I need to find a way to get you and Nick in a room together. Preferably with a camera in the corner.
Look, if you don’t want to make ‘Nick Gillespie’ an insult again- that’s on you. But, that’s a Nick Gillespie move, if you ask me
Even Nate Silver had to admit that Moore’s better success in the polls had to do with the Dems’ complete hypocrisy (with Franken and Conyers)
It’s an special election for a Senate seat in Alabama. It’s not surprising at all.
If Moore wins this, stick a fork in Dems winning a statewide election in the South for the foreseeable future. I know, I know PURMANENT MAJORATEE! but if ever there was a time for the Dems to pick one up in the South, it’s this one. It’s also a ginormous middle finger to the GOPe since they are trying just as hard as the Dems to sink this guy.
The Dems show no interest in even trying to win. If they were running a guy with Sam Nunn’s politics, he’d probably win. Instead they are running a far-left idiot who sounds like Nancy Pelosi.
That’s the Democrats’ ongoing problem. They’ve been very good at raising money to fight elections. But, their key to doing that is appealing to very liberal interest groups. Running a Sam Nunn would be very successful for getting votes. It would be terrible for getting support for the party nationally.
I think the #MeToo bullshit that started this wave of hysteria is to blame. At a certain point, people have to start asking themselves ‘Is everyone really a rapist?’. It’s the crying wolves thing all over again. Anyone, in my opinion who wouldn’t vote for Moore based solely on these lame accusations from 40 years ago, really has no character and they should be ok if they get the same treatment over some accusation like this. Also, Republicans should no better. If they allow this to work, then they can expect this in every political race, ever, going forward. And all that after witnessing the Democrats extreme hypocrisy when it’s one of their own who is at risk.
“In better news, Glibertarians.com finally got its shit together and made a Cafe Press store”
I like how creative you guys were with the color scheme
We need something cleverer than simple logos. STEVE SMITH jokes, some kind of Zardoz reference, maybe a fuck off slaver somewhere.
FUCK YOU, CUT SPENDING!!!
Put that on a mug and charge $20 trillion for it.
I would go for a shirt with just the flying stone head from Zardoz. Maybe a “THIS IS THE NICK GILLESPIE OF T-SHIRTS” one, too
I think someone else owns the copyright on that.
Damn, those are good ideas
“Glibertarians.com is the white people of libertarian websites”
It’s Good to be White
‘It’s okay to be a Glib’
I WANT ROYALTIES ON THIS!
“NEEDS MOAR TITS”
Pretty sure anything with Nick Gillespie’s name on it will invite a lawsuit.
Make it a “This is the (picture of leather jacket) of T-shirts!”
This is the Cosmotarian Fonzie of T-Shirts?
Give me Gliberty or give you death.
give me Gliberty or STEVE give you rape?
I’m sure some one here is a good enough cartoonist to draw up a Sasquatch raping a hiker. I’d wear that shirt.
Cop Lies Matter
The glibs store is so white, even the black teddy bear is white.
When will the Glib trucker hat meet MAGA prime?
Looks like a Yeti to me.
STEVE SMITH NOT THIS CUDDLY.
Totally fake, there are women modelling some of the clothing.
Many of our readership have mothers, some have daughters. Some of them are grown up.
How much goes to the site and how much goes to CafePress?
It goes into my cost-benefit analysis on buying branded merch versus random unbranded crap.
Where are the woodchippers?
Even toy woodchippers would still be in the spirit.
Besides, shouldn’t some of the site admins have the contacts to get their hands on good bargain chippers for branding?
When it says “More colors available”, do you mean the shirts or the models?
But no temporary tattoos?
The second one is a 9 crazy and a 2 hot. I don’t think anyone will make that mistake.
Yeah, but the first one…
Would.
Sure, now that she doesn’t have kids.
The kid lived, but she won’t ever get unsupervised visitation.
Cause hopefully she’ll be in prison until the kid is 18.
Can the injury impact if he becomes ‘tardish’?
As I understand it, fractured skulls from drops like this are usually not serious as long as the skull gets treated.
Good.
As for her, maybe she was dropped and wasn’t so lucky.
“2” is a strange way to write “six”.
Better One: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVH529nWpDE
The traditional news media is not a special institution. The first amendment has nothing to do with social responsibility. It protects the rights of everyone. Cunts like this need to have it written with fire on their foreheads.
And in the spirit of this chatroom’s theme of ranty links, I plan to make liberal use of cunt in this comment section.
Ken Schulz hit hardest.
How often do the family-friendly-website folks check in on the domains they certify?
Somebody might want to point out that some of the biggest supporters of net neutrality are the same corporations it is supposed to rein in.
I mean if you were pro-life and found yourself on the same side of an argument as Planned Parenthood, you might want to pause and rethink your position.
They’re one of the good ones…
On a side note, stories are circulating that Comcast is considering internet fast lanes in the wake of no net neutrality…to which I have 3 reactions.
1. BS
2. If so, it’s because of their longstanding ideological kinship with dems and the left and being willing to use their own business as the whipping boy. IIRC the big event that kicked off the first net neutrality push in 2014/2015 was Comcast purposely slowed down Netflix in order to extract fees from them.
3. If so, it’s completely misunderstood and blown out of proportion.
IIRC the big event that kicked off the first net neutrality push in 2014/2015 was Comcast purposely slowed down Netflix in order to extract fees from them.
I wrote about this the other day, and that’s not really what happened. Or, at least, if it is what happened, there is not actual evidence of it that has been released. To summarize my thoughts, TANSTAAFL.
Comcast is considering internet fast lanes
Comcast and internet fast lanes don’t belong in the same sentence.
“cunt” is the Nick Gillespie of bad words
At least the comments are not a total cesspool of derp.
I don’t like James Hetfield, he’s a dick and his music is boring, IMO
He hates Marin County, so fine by me.
He got shit from his neighbors for having a Deer tied to his truck, after a hunt of course. I’ll give him that
Agreed.
Also, Black Sabbath > Metallica, by a mile
My parents didn’t hate Black Sabbath in 1989.
That’s cause Black Sabbath sucked in 1989.
Actually, you picked my favorite Metallica song. Good choice
Black Sabbath rocks
Pre-Dio*
Ronnie was pretty awesome in his own right.
He was decent, but Sabbath with Ozzie was better than with Dio.
I agree with that.
Dio was amazing singer just not as good of a showman as Ozzie. Dio can sing. Ozzie made you sing with him.
Yes, made you. I went to an Ozzy concert years ago. In fact it was the first one back after he broke his leg. Anyway, the thing that stuck with me the most (other than him hobbling around) was that he was constantly telling the crowd to sing with him. I swear he must have done it 2-5 times on every song. It got annoying.
Ozzy Sabbath is the only Sabbath.
I’m not a big Sabbath fan, but what would be considered their best song, Iron Man?
One, Creeping Death, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Fade to Black, Seek and Destroy, Master of Puppets, Battery, Harvester of Sorrow, Frayed ends of Sanity, Four Horseman (suck it Megadeath) are all better songs. Sad but True too IMO.
Of course, Black Sabbath never had a St Anger and Lulu era.
Best Sabbath songs: Electric Funeral, NIB, Wheels of Confusion, Children of the Grave, etc.
Iron Man wouldn’t even be in my own personal top ten, although I do think it is still a good song.
Without the first four Black Sabbath albums there would be no Metallica or most metal bands in general. They perfected the sound, in my humble opinion
You’ve got to be kidding me! Are you serious? I can’t believe what I’m reading.
Humble?!
What do you disagree with here, MikeS? Do you deny reality?
*stares blankly at Just Say’n*
*crackles knuckles* *puts on Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath*
*Stage whispers to both Just Say’n and MikeS:
Hey, you two might need this.*
JS; it was the “humble” part I was doggin’ you about. I don’t really disagree with you about Sabbath.
Jesse; thanks for the link. I might have a friend that could use that.
Wizard. Snowblind. Sweetleaf. Children of thw grave. Planet caravan.
Children of the Sea, Heaven and Hell, Sign of the Southern Cross….
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Metallica is the most overrated band in history, and Hetfield sounds like Elmer Fudd.
I will respectfully disagree. I spent a fair amount of time watching M-TV out of boredom. In 1989 I came home for leave from the Marines. My brother is watching MTV and calls me over when One comes on. My jaw dropped. Never imageined them putting on something so dark – then the second half of the song – Holy Shit! I’d heard speed metal – but never that precise and intricate.
Bought the album – might be my favorite ever.
Hendrix
“I know we have a couple of rocket scientists here… this NK rocket thing is still bothering me.”
I don’t even think the North Koreans understand what they did.
I can just see Whoa Fat:
“It went straight up and then almost straight down into the ocean? WTF? Nobody cares if I blow up the ocean. I WANT TO SEE IT GO ACROSS THE OCEAN!”
Legendary don’t mean what it used to, I guess
But now GE faces a different kind of challenge — a nightmare cash crunch that could take years to recover from. GE (GE) has been left in turmoil by years of questionable deal-making, needless complexity and murky accounting.
These problems were self-inflicted. And they are startling because they happened not just at an icon of American business but under two legendary CEOs, Jack Welch and Jeff Immelt.
Legendary, my eye.
Ah yes, trusted Obama advisor Jeff Immelt
You know Jack Welch is going to be blamed for every problem GE has for the next fifty years. The guy has been retired for 16 years (just four fewer than he actually was the CEO) and they’re still trying to blame the company’s woes on him. During his entire tenure, GE had spectacular returns. Now, we’re supposed to believe that it was all just smoke and mirrors and that he, and not his successors, are entirely to blame for their lackluster performance.
I still say GE made the bribes fly fast & furious to get that utterly unconstitutional lightbulb ban enacted. So as far as I’m concerned, the whole company can rot in hell.
NYT incinerates its mask as it turns to outright political advocacy.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2017/11/29/crossing-line-nyt-opinion-page-encourages-readers-call-senators
Their opposition to the Citizens United ruling didn’t age well. Delete your newspaper
No, that’s different. They have special rights as “the press”. They’re not “a corporation”.
Or so the argument I’ve heard goes.
Oh yeah- I forgot that the people who read the NYT are stupid
I would like to draw a composite profile of what the average NYT reader and commenter looks and sounds like.
Ever go to a Starbucks? They look like the person pouring your coffee.
the tech giants have usurped the role of traditional news media
Won’t somebody think of the town criers?
Big tech companies are getting a lot of flack lately. They are today’s target of choice. Probably because they have a lot of money, and envy’s never gone out of style.
Seems to me that the founders of these companies do give a lot to charities. Maybe not the ones I’d support, but they are not keeping it all in a vault.
I couldn’t finish the derp was so heavy,
http://theweek.com/articles/740134/just-say-already-donald-trump-racist
Well, if nothing else, the cunt did lead me in the direction of this link on Trump’s long history of feuding with Indian reservation casinos. So, this may fall under one of Trump’s more consistently held political positions along with his views on trade with Southeast Asians.
If Donald Trump is racist for mocking Warren (admittedly using a fairly weak choice of insult), how the hell is Warren not racist for actually pretending to be an Indian for her own personal gain? Seriously, Warren is one of those people who say that various advantages should be conferred on certain groups because they’ve been oppressed. And she turns around and uses that oppression as a means to advance her own career at the expense of the very people in the groups she’s claiming were oppressed.
Escape velocity doesn’t matter – they are not trying to send those missiles out into deep space, or even to achieve orbit. They are trying for a suborbital flight with enough range to land in the contiguous 48, preferably DC.
Right. They aimed for altitude, not downrange speed.
They are trying for a suborbital flight with enough range to land in the contiguous 48, preferably DC.
When these tests are combined with the statements about wanting to vaporize the US, when does a preemptive military strike become allowable under NAP?
I haven’t reached a conclusion myself. I do know that if someone told me they were going to slaughter my family as soon as they finished loading their gun, had what appeared to be a working firearm in their hand, and was in the process of loading it, there would be no question about eliminating the threat on the spot. Declaring their intention and appearing capable of delivering on that intention would be enough, at least for me. It’s a little more complex though with countries.
I guess you would have to ask yourself what the consequences of action vs inaction would be.
If you don’t act, and the norms never shoot a missile, that’s the best outcome.
If you do act and the Norks never intended to shoot a missile, then you have started an unnecessary war.
If you do act amd the Norks shoot a missile in retaliation, then you have started a war and gotten American civilians killed.
If you don’t act, and they shoot a missile, then you can respond in kind and be justified.
I seem to remember the U.S. making a preemptive strike against another country because of their WMDs that led to an unnecessary war that continues to this day.
I seem to remember the U.S. making a preemptive strike against another country because of their WMDs that led to an unnecessary war that continues to this day.
I think the Norks have, at this point, raised the bar well above where Iraq was in 2003.
Actual nukes plus actual ICBMs. Yeah, that’s a lot more than Saddam was even alleged to have.
If you don’t act, and they shoot a missile, with a nuclear warhead that kills a city . . . . well, that’s pretty muc\h your worst case scenario.
The problem with the Norks is the trend, which has been steady escalation on their side interspersed with limp-wristed do-nothing (that matters) on our side. The smart time to take a hard line was long ago, but that doesn’t mean its too late to take a hard line.
I don’t think an attack on the Nork homeland is a good idea. My question is, why aren’t we using their missile tests to beta-test our anti-missile technology?
My question is, why aren’t we using their missile tests to beta-test our anti-missile technology?
Because if our tech fails, it puts us in a really uncomfortable diplomatic situation.
True. However, a preemptive strike is no guarantee they don’t get a missile off (assuming they have one that can actually get here) and still blow an American city. If that were the case, then the U.S. would be the initial agressor and would have caused the launch of the missile that otherwise might not have been launched.
I like to think that Lil’ Kim is sane enough to know that if he actually attacks the US, his country (and his life) is over. My guess is that this is all showboating to try and coerce more aid from China/Europe/US in exchange for toning it down.
I think they have already passed that point but we also have to consider the consequences for SK. The whole situation is a clusterf*ck.
The Dems would go apoplectic if Trump did a first strike. Even more so if he got rid of the Kim dynasty with minimal casualties.
I’m imagining the irony of NK aiming anywhere in America and hitting Seattle.
I plan to make liberal use of cunt in this comment section.
Cunts for everybody!
Cunts for everybody!
Gonna decline mine, kthx.
Ken is welcome to my helping.
“Ken is welcome to my helping.”
Hey man, help a brother out.
Very kind of you, since Rand Paul schemed to destroy Ken’s own helping.
America! In which other country in the world can you accomplish a regime change for $4,700?!
Putin is the MacGyver of political sabotage.
MacGyver is the Nick Gillespie of spies.
Hillary spent tens of millions of dollars trashing trump on TV in California, and all she had to do was buy some youtube ads.
But then her margin of victory there might have only been 20%!
Was it regime change he was after or was he merely divisiveness. In which case he didn’t really need to do anything. We can manage divisiveness all on our own.
$4700?!! This Russian thing keeps getting dumber and dumber.
So healthcare.gov is using Samantha B for commercials. I wonder who greenlighted that.
Someone blind, I would imagine.
Fuck, what an absolute hag… :shudders:
… two or three of those AC-130s that have a fucking minigun on one side and a large bore gun on the other.
Dammit, not to be that guy, but a Gunship has all its guns on the same side (the left side). The configuration presents a unique set of aerodynamic challenges but it’s done that way to facilitate targeting – the lead pilot sits on the left side of the cockpit and he’s responsible for pulling the trigger, more or less.
He was talking about a different AC-130. You just haven’t heard of it.
The hipster AC-130 apparently.
Huh. I learn something every day. Cool.
Yeah, it’s got an elegance to it that’s not immediately obvious. Hope I didn’t come off as a dick, not trying to be pedantic here.
Yeah, sure you’re not, Tulpa.
Ah, dammit, you finally found me! I’ll be back in three weeks under a different handle.
Not at all.
Good job this Machine…I’ve played enough Call of Duty to know that.
They are trying for a suborbital flight with enough range to land in the contiguous 48, preferably DC.
I, for one, applaud this noble scientific endeavor.
Kk hit hardest.
After they do that, maybe they can figure out threaded comments.
“On another day, he summoned a different female employee to his office, and then dropped his pants, showing her his penis.”
http://variety.com/2017/biz/news/matt-lauer-accused-sexual-harassment-multiple-women-1202625959/
Ummmm… this seems rather pathetic and ineffective at actually getting women to fuck you. Kind of like molesting a potted plant. Maybe these guys just needed to work on their skills with women and they wouldn’t have to harass them?
It could just be they’re subtly aroused by the power-dynamic aspects of exposing themselves to a semi-captive audience and it isn’t about having sex with them at all.
Oh la la! Someone is getting laid in college.
This is why I like to open my phone and send my dick pics to random individuals. It’s like you can read my mind.
Are you an iPhone user on a NY subway?
“…horrifying subway trend”
What else are you supposed to use AirDrop for?
I thought Apple wouldn’t even sell phones to the non-woke!
Let’s be fair; most of those guys are probably Certified POC (TM) and automatically, irrevocably woke. The women offended by the peens are the ones with the problem.
Unless of course it’s a white dick, then the sender must face the breaking wheel.
I unfortunately don’t have the luxury of living in a city with a fancy subway. I use bus terminals, airports, and the local Applebees for my sexual deviancy.
no bathroom stalls? I am disappoint.
He said airports.
Could be. Doesn’t make it any less pathetic.
Jesse is right. I turn my shopping cart sideways in the aisle so that nobody can get by, and then I start whipping it out. It gives me an even bigger high than smoking crack.
I’ve met you. This doesn’t sound as far-fetched as I think you think it does.
I’ve gotten the creeper vibe from playa from the beginning.
The girl in my avatar is actually a silicone doll.
It’s pretty hawt
Oh good…thought she was real and that was last photo of her living.
Matt competed in the sex assault Olympics.
Cool store guys. Can I get one of those glibs tees with the glib logo on the front and RapeSquatch in big letters on the back.
I should have had a trailing stop on my GE.
Iem stoopud.
Ken is welcome to my helping.
I’m not sure if I should be relieved, or disappointed.
It could just be they’re subtly aroused by the power-dynamic aspects of exposing themselves to a semi-captive audience and it isn’t about having sex with them at all.
So… limp-dick losers?
So… limp-dick losers?
That’s why I get a kick out of these idiots talking about “toxic masculinity.” Good gugu mugou, the stories that are coming out about these guys make themlook like some of the weakest (sigh, I’m gonna say it) low-T beta cucks a man could possibly be.
Like, who asks a woman for permission to punch the clown in front of her while she watches, instead of y’know, doing literally anything else to make a move?
No shit. “Would you like to go to dinner with me?” has a much higher success rate than jacking off into a potted plant.*
*discovered through extensive personal research
These are important people with very busy schedules.
And that’s precisely why the feminist efforts to eliminate masculinity are going to have pretty much the opposite effect of what their stated intention is. When you think of a manly man, is Harvey Weinstein what comes to mind? Matt Lauer? To me, these are guys who have long publicly bought in to the notion of masculinity as something to be avoided. They’ve excused themselves from the world of being men who can actively seduce a woman into a willing liaison. All they’ve left themselves is the chance to assert their delegated authority to engage in a pathetic mockery of getting the woman.
Real men get the girl. They don’t jerk off into potted plants or whip their peckers out in the middle of a conversation.
Feminism, on the other hand, tells us that men shouldn’t want to win the girl (“She not a prize, you sexist pig!”). Well, Matt and Harvey are the final products of that.
Well, keep in mind that 20+ years ago, THIS was supposedly a mainstream view*.
*Yeah, he hasn’t been accused, and “eye of the beholder”, and all. Still
One of the things I love about my job (I hate my job) is how much money I could make if, y’know, insider trading wasn’t massively illegal. I’d be rich for about a week or two until I was found out, they made me give back the profit, pay a penalty on top of that, and not to mention having to pay a defense attorney and lose my law license.
(both had that going on this week (with a stock that’s soared on major news) and an ethics training seminar when they reminded us of this poor soul http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/paul_hastings_associate_charged_with_insider_trading/).
Just become a congress-critter; they have their own special carveout.
What’s the Libertarian case against insider trading?
The libertarian case is that it shouldn’t be illegal.
https://fee.org/articles/insider-trading-should-be-legal/
Good article. Without digging too much deeper, I think I agree.
I’m not entirely sure I agree. I’d argue that, effectively, it is a sort of theft. If I’m hiring a lawyer or banker and giving him sensitive information, I’m doing so with the expectation of him acting as my agent. His gains from insider trading usually come at the expense of a higher purchase price (in an acquisition) or a worse decline in stock price (based on negative news) than I would otherwise have. So, I, the principal on whose behalf he’s supposed to be acting on have been harmed by his behavior.
Of course, this leaves open the question of whether he should be prosecuted absent my consent.
This seems to be more a matter of ethics and civil law rather than criminal behavior for the government, from my own libertarian perspective. It stretches the word theft to its breaking point when we’re talking about information that can be simply be used to turn a profit, regardless of third order effects. This doesn’t seem like something we need the government getting involved in.
Then it’s always fun to point out how Congress exempts itself from this pesky little law.
I see your point, but I think it goes well beyond just ethics to at least a civil matter. Your employer has given you something of value to use on their behalf. Using it to your benefit and their detriment is a serious breach of trust.
And they are wrong. I don’t think Martha needed jail time, but there are too many opportunities to defraud the public by institutional investors.
Insider trading is just the application of better knowledge to the problem. Yes, there is a conflict of interest, and that can be addressed through contracts. But making it illegal undermines the whole purpose of investing.
But, the person doing the trading could very much be said to be misappropriating information.
That would depend on the information, and how it was acquired.
But insider-insider trading is okay. So tell us how we can all become rich. Or just tell me, screw everyone else
While it would be insider trading if you were to profit, couldn’t an anonymous poster give hints in the comments section of a certain website?
No, then I wouldn’t profit and we’d both go to jail.
A few people have mentioned noir-heavy reading lately and I saw a StoryBundle that was cross-genre with noir elements. I know neither the authors or much of the genre past old movies and some Raymond Chandler novels, but it seemed like something that might appeal.
Is there anyone who does noir as good as Chandler or Hammet? Serious question.
Not that I’ve ever found. There are other good crime and detective writers, but they own that little sub-genre.
Problem is that everyone seems to have their own definition of noir, close to those guy is Jim Thompson, for a modern writer Ken Bruen but some will tell you he’s just hard boiled crime not noir.
No, but Cain, Thompson and Macdonald are all contenders. Ellroy is tops for a modern dude.
I don’t think so. It’s funny, I got to them going backwards, starting with the Parker’s Spenser series, then finding Chandler, and finally Hammett.
Thanks, Jesse!
The NORKS got it up high enough. Isn’t it now just a question of stabilizing and straightening it out? Yeesh.
So a decade ago I’m standing on the edge of the DMZ with a middle-aged Korean woman talking about the politics of the flag poles in the DMZ. I guess there was at one point an escalation of flag size and the NORK flag was so big and so heavy that it hung there limply and they had to heavily reinforce the flag pole (think oldschool playground rockets). The South Korean flag was smaller, but used contemporary synthetic materials, was on a more traditional flag pole and flapped crisply in the breeze. My friend and I were just staring at this woman wide-eyed as she delivered the line “What good is having a much larger flag if it hangs there limp? Look at how our flag stands at attention even in a gentle breeze.”
We have no idea if it was scripted or not and whether or not she realized the innuendo.
LOL
Same trip as that wood-sculpture garden? Or have you made multiple trips?
I taught English in Korea for a year. Haven’t been back since then, although I’d love to visit again.
OK, which one of you started this? I’m going with Pie just due to proximity.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-groups-demand-poland-explain-naked-game-of-tag-in-nazi-gas-chamber/
Mohammed Salah is the greatest footballer ever to lace up a pair of cleats.
That is all.
Zidane would like a word.
That headbutting Frenchman? No way.
Have we forgotten the short guy on Barcelona?
Zidane is no way the best ever.
But he has the best name.
What does he play? Linebacker?
Does he play for the Browns?
Salah. The former Roma player?
He’s got pace that’s for sure.
He’s been on absolute fire since signing for Liverpool. 17 goals already this season. Plus two goals in Egypt’s final World Cup qualifier that sent them to the World Cup. He’s been Champions League player of the week all but one week of the CL this year, with a huge majority of the vote each time, because the entire country of Egypt is dedicated to worshiping him.
He was wasteful with Roma but was a really good player.
He was wasteful with LIverpool to start with, but after about a month he found his shooting touch and he’s been deadly.
My neighborhood is like ground zero of NYC’s Little Egypt. They were fucking honking and happy-rioting in the streets that day.
So that was a good win but that non-red card was kind of baffling.
I just threw my name in the hat for the Vice President of Business Development position at my job. If I get it, I’d be the youngest VP in the Company by about 15 years. My boss is 100% for it, his boss gave him a solid “I’ll think about it” after saying that she had also considered me for the position herself. My boss even said that she pulled up the compensation sheets to start working out what my potential pay increase would be.
Fingers crossed. This is a big opportunity for me.
Nice! Buy yourself something from the store. 😉
And wear it to the interview.
STEVE SMITH LIKE PROMOTIONS AAAAANNNNDD RAPE
I’m already looking at new monocles 🙂 I don’t want to spend money that I don’t have yet though. We’ll see!
good luck.
We’re all counting on you.
You could buy a prosthetic leg for your cat!
If the pay is high enough maybe even a bionic one! They have those, right?
If not, you’re the Vice President of Business Development!
Business development is “sales and growth”, Product development is “bionic legs”
It was your paper on the uses of orphan slave labor that did it, wasn’t it?
Good luck
Nice, good luck!
Your boss’s boss is a woman, do you even patriarchy?
I dated a black girl recently that became obsessed with race relations. She was telling me about how all areas in the US are super racist and that people of color don’t have opportunities.
My boss was a black guy, his boss was a black woman. My boss later quit and was replaced by a Filipino guy. Their underlings? All white. I didn’t bother telling her. I just broke up with her instead.
I don’t patriarchy very well.
Ok, but was she thicc?
You may just be the worst* shitlord ever
*in the sense of your ability to shitlord not in your shitlordiness.
I was just discussing this same sort of topic a while back, may have been here. But anyway, typically once or twice a week I am in meeting with clients in which I am the only male. One where there are 5 women and I’m the only male. And I’m sure at least 2 of the 5 make as much or even more than I do. I’m just really having a tough time figuring out where is this under representation of women in the workplace and how they are underpaid and repressed. I mean maybe it exists and I just cannot find it. Yeah, I do find that males dominate STEM fields, but it’s only because women are not applying for those jobs, they pursue other careers in which they sometimes dominate that sector. If people would just leave people the fuck alone and stop trying to social engineer everything, it will all work out fine.
Thanks for all the well wishes, fellow glibs! I’ll keep you updated. I should know within a couple weeks.
Awesome! Best of luck!
Good luck!
Hype
To emphasize the company’s progress, Mr. Ammann said the cars would be ready for consumer applications in “quarters, not years.”
Meeting that goal would probably give G.M., the nation’s largest automaker, a jump on other companies developing self-driving models.
Industry analysts say autonomous vehicles could generate billions of dollars in additional revenue and profit for automakers and technology companies, primarily by selling or leasing them to ride-hailing services, taxi fleets and delivery companies.
For G.M., the self-driving program is a cornerstone to long-term growth that is not dependent on simply selling vehicles to individual drivers.
“G.M. has changed the narrative of the company’s future,” Adam Jonas, a Morgan Stanley analyst, said in a research report on Tuesday.
Any day now, the streets will be clogged with these things. I just know it.
An interesting case in front of the North Dakota Supreme Court
Possible Fourth Amendment violation assessed before high court
“Justice Jon Jensen questioned the justification for not immediately stopping, to which McCabe said it was cold and there was a better place at the time.”
Well, her lawyer just fucked it up.
Geraldo Rivera defends Lauer. News is a flirty business, and, well, maybe Matt was trying to court those young women.
Geraldo Rivera is a tier 1 shitheel. I expect the monster will be coming for him shortly.
Yeah, this sounds like “getting out in front of it” if I’ve ever heard it.
Now c’mon, the guy’s only been married four times. Surely he doesn’t have a problem with his relationships with women!
If there is one person I wouldn’t be shocked about getting busted for this kind of behavior, it is Geraldo.
In his case, I don’t think the accusers are just going to be women.
He does have that twinkle in his eye, doesn’t he.
Bingo
Bet money on it
I heard Bette Middler tell the story of Geraldo forcibly raping her
It’s comin’
He also defended Denny Hastert. He’s an equal opportunity defender of scumbags.
https://twitter.com/notwokieleaks/status/935986282202836993
Just another day in Chicago.
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2017/11/28/son-mutilated-dad-posted-selfies-after-murder-prosecutors/
It says his name is Carlton Edmondson. I was expecting Leroy Brown.
Bad-estt cat in the whole damn town
Just imagining the “baddest cat in Chicago” makes me shudder.
MAH MAN HOTTA THAN XXXTENTACION HE GON BRING GAME UP2018
LIL PUMP NATIONAL POET
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You sir are the Eddie of boobs.
I’ll take that as the highest praise.
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Damn, son!
I would bounce a basketball through a minefield just to smell where this angel peed.
Just curious: how old are you?
In spirit? About 13.
I was going to guess that, but I refreshed the comments before I typed.
It was a serious question, sort of. I don’t know anyone under 55 who’s had a c diff infection, but you act like you’re my age or younger.
The Old Man With Candy job is spoken for.
36. NOW I’M DOXXED!
I have a theory about the C. diff: I got my appendix out last August. When they were extubating me, they tore my trachea and I got aspiration pneumonia. I staying in the hospital for a while and was on Levaquin for 3 weeks. I think I got colonized but asymptomatically at that point. About 6 months later, I took Augmentin for a sinus infection and I think that wiped out whatever was left of the good guys (except of course the C. diff) and allowed an asymptomatic colonization to become a full blown infection. Then I spent half my income on toilet paper and was on Vancomycin for 3 months. Finally now it’s more or less solid.
Your theory is pretty good.
I’m pretty sure that we’re all colonized to some extent. For that reason, I’ve had a small glass of kefir every morning for the last 10 years.
Kefir is disgusting.
But how do you feel about filmjolk, Ted?
I have ~8oz of homemade kefir most mornings. The BF dislikes it because the yeast components give it too much of a buttery/umami/savoriness which he finds offputting in this one context, but no others.
The “grains” look like tonsil stones.
That’s actually a very plausible theory.
You wouldn’t have even needed the initial colonization from the torn trachea (lots of people are asymptomatic/carriers). But I could see that/the extended stay/the Levaquin setting you up.
The usual pattern we see is people getting c.diff without any particular “seeding” event – they get sick with something else and may or may not be exposed in the hospital, but its really the blast of antibiotics that sets it off. Most of our c. diff patients are “Community” c. diff, as opposed to “hospital-acquired” c. diff.
Glad you’re past it. C. diff sucks sasquatch balls.
That is exactly what the hospital’s lawyer would say…
You can’t prove nuthin!
*wipes server with a cloth*
Prophylactic use of antibiotics?
That was my guess. I’ve lost 2 relatives to C Diff while in the hospital undergoing treatment for a different infection, including my grandfather.
I don’t mean to suggest that it doesn’t occur in people under 55; it’s just the youngest I’ve seen it personally, n=7.
Where is the Glibertarians-branded orphan whip!? FAKE NEWS
Ummm, completely superseded by the internal combustion motivator. What kind of protectionist hack are you!?
You don’t force your orphans to craft their own whips out of whatever material scraps they can find?
I can’t find the jar of monocle polish, either.
It’s behind the 55 gallon drum of lube.
Yo, Scruffy Nerfherder:
I believe I owe you a reasonably priced item of Glibs swag for doing up an avatar for me.
So, what’ll it be?
*The thong. C’mon, you know you want it.
Even if he doesn’t want it, we all want him to have it.
Pics or GTFO.
Wut?
http://freebeacon.com/issues/bosnian-croat-war-crimes-convict-dies-claims-drank-poison/
The 72-year old decided to die rather than spend upto twenty years in prison. I mean at best he’d go from prison to a nursing home…
So that story has gotten less coverage than the Matt Lauer thing and I find that intensely bizarre.
I once dated a girl who had a sexual fetish of fantasizing about dying as a result of a political assassination.
I’m assuming you married her.
Sadly, no.
Please tell me this resulted in role playing.
Okayyyyyy
That has some interesting possibilities.
There are no soft people from that region.
I don’t see a glibertarians.com dildo offered.
I think they are still working out some licensing issues with STEVE.
I thought the purple one was trademarked by Sugar Free?
TWTANLW
I forgot what that meant so I googled it. The first two results were from TOS
Since there are no libertarian women, who would use it?
WAGs?
Are we going to get the officially licensed Mr Lizard Ovopositor?
Yes, and they even have it in ‘sex toy pink’ color. For all your filthy inter-speciesiel proclivities
You know why we are all so safe?
Because the government is throwing money at non-profits!
Minneapolis is a complete Utopia because of the non-profits.
So basically they found a socially acceptable way to steal.
“Community outreach” non-profits are a luxury good, and as such are a proxy for the wealth of the country/city, etc. where they exist. How much of that downturn is attributable to what the non-profits actually did, and how much is attributable to the increase in wealth and opportunity across those 20 years.
For a hint as to the bullshit level in that study, note that they are measuring the number of organizations, not the size or expenditures of those organizations. By this theory, it would be better to open 10 non-profits with combined budgets of $1mm, than a single non-profit with a budget of $10mm.
They might as well open a thousand non profits that consist of a single person sitting behind a desk doing nothing.
Uffda. You expect that poor slob to actually have to go to the office to sit at a desk?
Non-profits are there to give trophy wives and rich kids a place to go and pretend they have jobs. No one expects them to actually do anything with the grant money and government subsidies that they get.
Then here you come with your crazy expectations that they will have to show up at work.
That’s just some arbitrary correlation
all those stats went down in 20-years because crime was going down across the board. The mere presence of non-profits is hardly a root-cause of falling crime.
Uffda. The headline says it all.
Son of alleged ‘Northeast Nazi’: My dad’s not a Nazi, he’s a Republican!
No word yet on whether Mueller has subpoenaed Karkoc yet.
“My dad’s not a Nazi, he’s a Republican!”
Oh, come on, everyone knows there’s no difference!
When you fire a rocket the engine will burn for a period of time and the rocket will accelerate that entire time. Then the fuel burns out and it will continue on a ballistic trajectory determined by it’s current altitude and speed.
Given that escape velocity is something like 11km/second and gravity will only be decreasing that by 10 meters/second^2 if you assume that the rocket shuts down with a velocity of just below escape velocity at 10 km/s it is going to continue to climb for another 5000 km before it begins to fall. You can add to that the several hundred to thousand km in altitude it will have achieved while the rocket motor was still burning.
A stat I saw somewhere was that a just sub escape velocity rocket could reach an altitude of ~6500km before falling back to earth.
All I can think of when reading that was “When did I last fire up Kerbal Space Program?” Because I’ve had flights on that very trajectory more often that I wished for.
Huh. 4000 miles. Wow.
You’d have to be traveling about 18,000 mph to escape, but not sure what altitude you have to reach.
Flat velocities are basically an assessment of “if you don’t get more accelleration, gravity won’t kill off enough of your vertical velocity to bring you back to the ground”. In theory, so long as you’re above the atmosphere (not being slowed by air resistance) you can get into an orbit with sufficient lateral velocity.
But for escape, the goal is to avoid orbit and keep going, right? Once you get out that far, even with engines off, wouldn’t you just be drifting in empty space?
Thing is, once you have orbit, it becomes far easier to break orbit and wander off than to escape directly from the surface. Sure, it may take a few orbits with a burn at the perigree, but you’ll eventually get loose.
Not sure what the velocity would be. (I am basing a lot of this on KSP, and I was more concerned about fuel usage than anything else. In my defense, it is a very good simulation of orbital mechanics)
Huh, googled it. Looks fun
It can get strangely addicting. The most frustrating moment was when I fianlly got a lander to Mun, and it tipped over because I landed on a hillside. It was intact, but there was no way for it to get back.
I have Kerbel, got started and was getting into it, but I kept getting interrupted by games that I had to play. I’m going to go back to it some day.
Altitude doesn’t matter.
Theoretically you could reach escape velocity at an altitude of 50 meters (assuming you had a clear path to the horizon)
You’d need to be going significantly faster than the normal escape velocity because of air resistance but we’re only talking about going from like 11 km/s to somewhere around 15 – 20 km/s.
That said altitude does have one impact, your escape velocity decreases with altitude (aka distance to the center of the earths mass), right now you are somewhere in the ballpark of 6300 KM from the center of the earth. Double that to an altitude of 6300 km above ground and the force of gravity pulling your down to the earth falls from 10m/s^2 to ~2.5m/s^2 and your escape velocity falls from ~11km/s to somewhere around 9km/s(iirc)
What I actually meant is permanently escaping, because even if you’ve reached escape ‘velocity’ at 50 meters, as soon as your engines fail, you’re eventually coming back to earth.
Assuming no air resistance, and assuming the earth is the only massive body in the entire universe:
By my understanding, if you are standing on the surface of earth and were somehow able to instantaneously increase your velocity to ~11 km/s away from the surface and then immediately cease all propulsion, you would need no additional propulsion to continue on into infinity.
Of course the earth isn’t the only massive body out there so its of course a bit more complicated than that.
Of course, I understand that. I’m merely talking about escaping the Earth’s gravity well. I’m fully aware that you can drift near and fall into the gravity well of any sufficiently massive object in space.
The altitude is not really important except to note at altitude X you need to be moving at Y velocity relative to earth to escape without need for additional energy input.
So, if you are at the surface and immediately you go to 11.2km/s, you can stop pushing because no more energy is needed to escape.
If you were instead to move away from the earth at a constant 5km/s, eventually you would reach an altitude where you could shut your engine off and earth would not pull you back. That altitude is approximately 4 earth radii above the surface (25000 km)
If you were traveling at 18,000 mph then you would need to be traveling that fast at 3566 miles above the surface, and then you could shut it down.
Numbers are based on this calculator which for all I know could be entirely incorrect
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/vesc.html
OK. What I was trying to say is that there has to be a certain distance from the planet that you have actually escaped earth’s gravity well, where you will be out of reach of it capturing you.
Ok, gotcha
I’d be inclined to say it depends.
At a certain point if you get close enough to the moon then the moon will exert more gravitational force than the earth.
The same is true for the sun.
In a fake universe where the earth is the only massive object, then there is no such distance at all. Even billions of light years away if you stopped moving relative to earth, it would pull you back eventually.
I was just wondering what distance was. I guess it has to be pretty far, depending on your speed, since our well has captured something as massive as the moon.
I think I see what you’re saying and you are repeating a common misunderstanding; go high enough and no more gravity!
The truth is that gravity is there wherever you are. Right now, as a matter of fact, the planet Jupiter is influencing a gravitational force on you, for example.
When you are talking orbital ballistics then you are talking about free-fall. Orbit simply means that you are moving forward as fast as you are falling down. The rocket could have gone much past escape velocity during its boost stage but once it runs out of fuel it starts falling. The angle that it is pointing determines its ballistics (hence: Ballistic Missile). Pointed more or less straight up it comes down a few hundred miles from where it was launched, regardless of initial velocity. Point it in a different direction and it comes down further out..
… Hobbit
Speaking of getting in trouble because of crazy women….
Minnesoda Chief of Police gets caught helping women avoid DUI
This story is from near where I grew up. If the woman who got off the DUI had just kept here mouth shut, there is no way they would have gotten in trouble. Instead she rats the cop who covered for her out.
Reading between the lines, the chief of police guy must be a tool if his brothers in blue won’t cover up petty shit like this for him.
I’m guessing she took a different kind of breathalyzer test?
Not a rocket scientist, but I’ll take a stab.
How it can get that high and not be at escape velocity?
The rocket was powered until it got to maybe 200 or 300 miles in altitude where it would run out of fuel, or the engines would be intentionally shut down. Whichever it happened to be, from that point on it simply coasted the rest of the way up constantly slowing down until the pull of gravity exceeded its forward momentum where it then began falling back to earth increasing in speed until it reached the atmosphere where it would begin to slow down (how much depends on its orientation coming down..sideways it would slow down more than if it remained nice and straight)
Ordinarily (say they wanted to target the US) it would never get anywhere near that high in altitude. For obvious reasons, they don’t want to actually shoot it in our direction to see just how far it goes, so they do the next best thing. Shoot it nearly straight up in the air.
This test is not unlike shooting a bullet straight up in the air.
The farther the gun is from vertical, the farther down range the bullet travels…ignoring horizontal winds of course.
By knowing the maximum altitude it reached, and the distance it went down range, and a few other things, they (and we) can then also calculate how far it could theoretically reach.
[i]The farther the gun is from vertical, the farther down range the bullet travels…ignoring horizontal winds of course.[/i]
Ok, thats not entirely correct either. At a certain point aiming farther from vertical reduces the maximum range.
Its been 20 years since physics.
It gets especially pronounced when you get below horizontal.
Isn’t 45 degrees the angle providing the most distance?
Only in the hammer throw
eliminating all effects like lift and drag, yes
I can’t remember who it was who mentioned or maybe it was an article, about Southern Tier beers. I was surprised to see it at one of my local stores this afternoon, so I picked up the Southern Tier 2X Double Milk Stout. Getting ready to open one now.
Wow, this isn’t sweet or anything, but definitely STOUT. Now off to assemble a hallway table that wifey bought.
This will end well.
What, the table? Of course it will. Even if I drank the whole 6 pack, I would be slightly buzzed and be perfectly within hallway table assembly range.
OK, next task is to slam a bottle of Tanqueray and give it a shot.
Slamming a bottle of Tanqueray, if it’s 750ml you’re talking about, would put me out of range of getting up and driving to office tomorrow. Of course it would also put me out of table building range, so… nah not good. I think I’m sticking with the stout.
I’m disappointed.
Apparently I didn’t drink enough to get more than .02% BAC according to online calculators.
I guess that’s why I’m not feeling anything.
.02 for a avg sized male is about 10 6% all consumed in a single hour.
12 oz beers that is.
it was 20% ABV, and I’m still a fat bastard (though not so much as I used to be)
Hyp, are you claiming 10 12oz 6% beers gets you to .02? You must have the highest functioning liver in the world
Oh FFS, .20 damnit. One beer would get you to .02. Damn decimals!
I think I’d feel it if I got to .20 BAC.
Yeah, definitely, but this is Glibs, I read it wrong and assumed it was sarcasm.
I can’t remember who it was who mentioned or maybe it was an article, about Southern Tier beers.
I mentioned them in an article published last Saturday.
Speaking of stouts I’m consuming a Ballast Victory at Sea as I post.
I just saw the trailer for the latest Avengers flick, and at one point there are two giant armies running across a wide-open field intending to close with each other and fight with hand weapons.
Reminds me of just about any Star Wars battle scene (except Rogue One, maybe): the tactics are pretty much Napoleonic-era massed blocks that would be slaughtered by WWI-era trenches, machine guns, and artillery, much less interstellar-level technology. Few things pop my suspension of disbelief like utterly, incurably, stupid things like that.
The dog fights are ridiculous. Modern navies can battle each other over the horizon, but spaceships need to be within sight of each other to engage?
Look, when you’re firing energy weapons rather than ballistic projectiles, planetary obstructions will block your line of fire.
Oh, wait you mean close enough for the pilots to see unaided.
To be fair, how many moviegoers think about that stuff? I imagine the average person doesn’t know tactics from tic-tacs, but he wants to see fighting and blowing shit up. You make it realistic, and the only people still in the theater are the ones who fell asleep.
This.
The reality of space battles with energy weapons is that they would be incredibly boring affairs. Small fighter like craft would be useless, they wouldn’t be large enough to carry a power source capable of firing a large enough energy weapon to matter more than a few dozen km away and the large energy weapons mounted on a capital ship would melt the fighter to slag in a matter of seconds. Next maneuver of the ships would be largely irrelevant laser weapons would easily be effective out to ranges of tens of thousands of kilometers at a minimum, that piddly little 30 meter per second acceleration you can apply without crushing your crew isn’t going to make much of a meaningful difference so why waste the energy on it, pour every joule you have into offensive output and heat pumps.
Finally most ships won’t even be destroyed, the crews will just be cooked inside them (all that energy being poured into the hull is going to raise the temperature of the interior) so the battle will come down to who suffers the first cooling system failure and then within 15 minutes the crew will be dead sitting inside a 180 degree coffin
In the star wars universe, they have FTL tech. I imagine a small missile going FTL would be impossible to avoid and impossible to survive.
Even aside from the tactics of it, it’s just gotten boring to look at. It’s always staged exactly the same way. I mean, hell, it was the same “one side run at the other side” in Captain America: Civil war (even when half of them can FLY), so it’s even boring within the same franchise.
Not impressed. Though I am gonna enjoy Thanos’ generals curb-stomping a few Avengers.
Ana Navarro is a joke.
https://twitter.com/ananavarro/status/935869957258309638
We need someone who can just fire politicians. Some sort of czar or something.
Nothing could possibly go wrong.
Pro Libertate from the other site has offered to be Censor on a number of occasions for just such occasions.
It’s also ironic that some unabashed statist would write something like this, as well. Private enterprise is more responsive to public shaming than government, even when we’re talking about America’s second slimiest institution – the media. The class of creatures these people want to give more power are the same ones who lack the decency to hold their peers accountable or up to even the slimmest standards of human decency.
Why did I read her twitter feed?
Man I tried to read that, but I kept getting distracted by all the moving goalposts.
Mwahahahahaha!!!
Gentlemen, start your erections!
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/28/health/viagra-over-the-counter-uk-bn/index.html
I think everything should be available OTC, so I’m putting my approval stamp on it.
There has to be like 5 articles out there already screeching how this is proof positive of the patriarchy.
Yeah, I mean 5 out of 4 women are already raped, now it’s going to be 11 out of 1!!!!ELEVENTY!!!
UN Security Council holds emergency meeting over NK missile launch
I can’t wait to see what scary pieces of paper they sign. I’m sure McFatty is quaking in his cankles right now.
If not for evil US cultural imperialism, their strongly worded letters would have achieved world peace by now.
UN resolves to condemn in the strongest possible terms the latest test from the Kim’s.
Like, Kardashian?
I’d wipe her with a cloth iykwim
AP: Fact Checks Videos, Progsplains Why Misleading Details Mean They Fake News
e.g. their idea of a debunking is, “Muslim gang rape child: BUT THEY WERE NOT TECHNICALLY MIGRANTS, ERGO THIS IS A LIE IF CIRCULATED SUGGESTING MUSLIM MIGRANTS ARE BAD”
It’s becoming kind of scary that even the people the mainstream media offload their reporting duties to are themselves not doing much reporting any more.
These guys could put Robby to shame.
Your complaining that they called this instance apparently true? this wasn’t them debunking this them saying ‘best we can tell, this happened’ You might pick some nits with the other two examples but c’mon they are giving you this one.
It’s the equivocating bullshit of the last line that gets me. ‘Uh, yeah muslims did that, BUT DUH NAZIS DID STUFF TOO!’
Well bold that shit then, I can’t read your mind.
Damn, I actually didn’t notice that it was “Anti-Muslim extremists” and thought it read “Muslim extremists” and thus didn’t get the point, either.
Who torched mosques in the US?
“Trump’s penchant for sharing doctored images and making false statements on Twitter means that content tweeted or retweeted by the president should be viewed skeptically.”
You mean Trump didn’t really wrassle some mutant who had a CNN TV on his shoulders instead of a normal head?
Uffda, you can’t trust anything anymore I guess.
That one was real.
I was there.
I saw it.
The headline claims the videos are ‘misrepresenting’ things. But that’s not what the text of the story shows. They’re saying its just unfair that there wasn’t MORE context. But its not any more misleading simply because there’s less context. In fact, the video title is exactly what’s shown. why, exactly is a person murdering a child less offensive when you consider that “it was a troubled time in Egypt”?
‘why, exactly is a person murdering a child less offensive when you consider that “it was a troubled time in Egypt”?’
Religion. Of. Peace.
Report to re-education.
The first example shows the misleading part, as small a nit as it may be it’s there. This is the problem with gilding the lily, if you have a point to make don’t push it or else your opponents will take any opening to invalidate the entire thing. It’s why I caution against claiming that leftist want to destroy the world just to stand on the smoking ruble and rule the post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Is it regular ironic, or just alanis morrisette ironic, that their own story commits exactly the same sin? – i.e. that the story fails to meet all the claims of the headline
they assert “fakery” in the first paragraph too. where was that?
Ah, but I heard it on NPR today on the way home, so it must be true! Even Snopes says it was all faked- probably crisis actors.
ESPN lays off another 150 employees.
Maybe insulting and alienating your core viewers isn’t the best strategy.
CNN says its only happening cuz cord-cutting something something.
ESPN MUST PROG HARDER!
Hahaahhaahaaahaaa!!!
Meet the new people of color. And it’s whitey!
Who was it that said once you can self-identify your gender it was only a matter of time before you could self-identify your race too?
Suppose a POC self-identifies as white. Will that person be denied entry for a white person self-identifying as a POC?
It’s going to cause a rift in the derp-time continuum.
I seriously doubt it, because I’ve read several articles suggesting that the majority of Hispanics or Latinos in the USA actually identify as white. And certainly for many that will be true since they will have only European ancestry. Trying to get themselves some of that privilege I guess. But I think most of us already saw the limits of this and how eventually it will backfire. So when they say anyone can identify as POC, that has to include whites. Because there is no legal or scientific definition of ‘Person of Color’. It’s a meaningless label made up by leftist SJWs. They don’t really think ahead. You think Universities are going to court to get POC legally identified as everyone but whitey? And how would they enforce it anyway? Force everyone to take a DNA test? Elizabeth Warren is worried, and I don’t think so. So they are literally fucking themselves here. They should wait until every campus embraces this and then every white on campus should just check the POC box. There’s your end to this bullshit. Same with gender. Just make a new label ‘people of unspecified gender’. Then everyone check that box.
What can Brown do for you?
They don’t call it Brown University for nothing.
I guess they’ll be selling more Brown shorts.
Okay I’m done.
Also, someone call Rachael Dolezal.
I’m going to change my identification everywhere I can to 2 or more races and change my gender everywhere I can to ‘non-binary’ or whatever. I encourage everyone to do that same, it’s time to end this divisive bullshit. The left are the biggest racist to ever fucking walk the planet, they have to be.
Everyone wants a piece of this.
This is all in an effort to normalize Elizabeth Warren.
The scary part is you might be right.
Pocahontas will never be President.
Everyone said that about Trump too.
But I think that Pocahontas is more like Hillary than Trump. Shrill shrew.
The late 1800s schoolmarm/women’s temperance movement member vibe is a bit of a turn off for me.
Nothing can normalize Lizzie.
Whoa. Didn’t someone just post a story recently about how Lizzies are the most viewed category on PornHub? If that isn’t an indicator of normalization, nothing is.
*vomits into mop bucket*
Stop othering the Lebanese!
I was born too soon…
Meh, all your sorority sisters would have just been a bunch of dudes too.
I dunno, it’d be like a museum; look but don’t touch. Otherwise you’d end up in some Kampus Kangaroo Kourt and be run out of town on a rail.
Alaskan Natives are underrepresented in New England.
If only someone had a plausible theory as to why.
Underrepresentation is one of the more retarded concepts Lefties have come up with; and that’s saying a lot.
That one Hawaiian professor had a theory, but no one listened to him because he was wearing a grass skirt (this was way before transexuals were the rage).
The Huffington post hits rock bottom of stupidity and keeps digging.
Keith Ellison Calls Out Proposed Minnesota Pipeline After Keystone XL Wins Approval
I will grant you that if you have a story involving Keith Ellison, you are stuck with a certain level of stupidity. But there were so many errors that it boggled my mind.
1) Geography.
Minnesoda and Nerdraska are not neighbors. Maybe the writer is from on of the coasts and they aren’t sure what the names of all those states in the middle of the country are?
But in any case, the rest of the story is about a letter he sent to Minnesoda regulators. I guess technically Minnesoda is neighbors with Minnesoda?
2) A lot of Indian nonsense
The Dakota Access does not cut through and “sacred” water
The Enbridge line does not cross any reservation land in Minnesoda. In fact, the route was planned to avoid that.
The 1855 treaty said that the Ojibwe would retain hunting and fishing rights in the lands ceded to Minnesoda (most of the northern part of the state). Some activists have used that right to say that the tribe has a say in any use of private land that was part of that treaty. I don’t think it has been definitively settled in court yet whether that is a real “right” or not. Neither side is anxious to test the idea in court for fear that they might lose.
Finally, why is not considered racist to give more credence to the preferences of Native Americans than any other group? Aren’t we supposed to be against treating people differently based on their skin color?
“Aren’t we supposed to be against treating people differently based on their skin color?”
You’re so silly you!
Sigh, I know you think that people should be judged on their cup size Q, but I disagree.
With your system in place, we won’t have Utopia. We’d have President Chuck “Moobs” Schumer.
I WILL GLADLY CHALLENGE HIS AUTHORITY!
*rips off shirt exposing giant hairy moobs*
Wait strip down to just your jock strap. Then we can market your new campaign as: “TWO MOOBS, 1 CUP!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJF7k5cFQEQ
Our new president!
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-F0MXPJjqXz8/Vf8QCuLxSFI/AAAAAAACi4o/WVq0ag88C2c/s1600/Formentera%2B%25283%2529.jpg
Hold on a minute! I’ve given that picture a long hard look. Like Zapruder-level analysis and I don’t see any hair on those moobs. I don’t think that is really Vhyrus!
FAKE NEWS!!!!
It can be Vhyrus if you want it to be.
I’m not gay but if that’s Vhyrus…
Would you do me? I’d do me.
Those tits plus your extensive gun collection? I’m only human.
“Aren’t we supposed to be against treating people differently based on their skin color?”
That’s so decade before last! This is 2017!
Sacred water???? This whole time, I’ve just been drinking regular water like a sucker!
Sacred water. Sucker.
Father Flanagan would like a word with you Playa in the back room.
“Sacred water???? ”
Bourbon?
Yes brother! Rivers of it! I’ve seen it.
Most of the sports ball fan world is eternally indebted to Eli Manning. It’s absolutely baffling that Giants ownership though anyone with even an ounce of dignity would accept a deal like to maintain an active start streak:
Not providing a link because fuck Florio the link aggregator.
Cunts
(i) x 1,000,000,000
Eli Manning will go down in history as the most baffling QB to win two SBs. And to win them against Bill Belichick’s defenses, at that!
He’s just another QB unless he’s playing in a Super Bowl, then he’s the love child of Joe Montana and Johnny Unitas.
I mean, David Tyree, they play that highlight all the time; how about this one from the other time the beat the Pats?
That was under thrown.
You know I used to enjoy TBSF. But the proggies ruined it for me. Ever since he acknowledged allegiance to the mammal with the hat and the hair, I was forced to reconcile my hatred for the ball-throwing mammal with the hot mate and the spawn of another hot mate.
He baffled the most brilliant defensive minds with his stupidity and luck.
Yeah, that’s a joke. And they’re benching Manning so they can take a look at… Geno Smith? WTF?
I don’t get what the controversy is here. Their season is pretty well over, changing QBs isn’t exactly unusual for teams that aren’t playing well.
He’s a two-time Super Bowl winner and MVP. Yea, he’s had many issues, but you’re benching him to get a look at Geno Smith? It’s nonsense. And to go public with the joke of an offer above about letting him start the game and then pulling him to continue his starting streak is pathetic. You want to bench him? Fine. But keep your mouth shut when you take a beating for it publicly. The only logical reason to do this is draft positioning, which they want to deny.
How are we only third on Elie Mystal’s “most hated” list? We need to up our game.
Who the hell is this guy?
Some dumbass
Totally not a fat face loser.
See the mid-afternoon story.
https://glibertarians.com/2017/11/broken-bones-are-the-price-we-pay-for-being-libertarians/
I like how Popehat was the first to reply.
Cisco question: I can ping a router’s ipv6 address, but I can’t ping across ipv4 subnets.
Eg:
Host: 192.168.12.40 255.255.255.224
Router: 192.168.12.1 255.255.255.224
If I assign the host to the router’s subnet, the ping goes through. I’m certain I made a simple mistake, but I checked and rechecked all addresses and can’t find it. Any thoughts?
Why .224?
Hint, I answered your question; only 30 hosts.
Y-e-a-h, I think I mixed up a couple things in the instructions. Going to take another look.
Yep, I’m an idiot. For some reason I thought the host was in another subnet. The project instructions are a little ambiguous, but I should have remembered that, duh, it has to be in the same one.
I blame the hangover.
Is it plugged in?
Did you cycle power to it?…
Noob.
“Have you turned it off and back on again?”
Is there some policy to not allow ICMP traffic out of a local subnet?
Or maybe this is the first shot fired by ISP’s now that Ajit Pai is rolling back NN?
He misconfigured the subnet.
And now I’m qualified to work at Best Buy.
So you can extort people for the unlicensed software on their computer and turn them over to the cops for their porn collection?
Just have to pass the class. I may not even end up doing networking. My brother makes a strong case for doing CAD work. I’m meeting with one of his senior drafters next week to discuss what I’d need to study to get in with their employer.
GIS man. That’s a growing field.
I use GIS all the time! Mostly for boobs.
Make sure to say exactly that in the interview.
I scored a job once because the other interviewee, when asked whether he’s good with computers, told my boss, “Yeah, I can do the Google.” I’m glad he told me that before asking me cuz I’d probably have said something similar: don’t know the answer? Google it.
Google can’t fix momentary idiot, sadly.
You beat out George W Bush for a job?
Thinking I may come back to Cancun in February or March. Loving it h e re.
Be careful.
I’ve been there a LOT of times, all up and down the Yucatan peninsula. I really would not go there today, far too dangerous.
But, most drunken 13 year olds and 80 year old topless women you’ve ever seen at the resort areas in Cancun.
13 year old girls? / Roy Moore & Roman Polanski
Mmmm… Knee boobs
I’ve never been but have heard some nasty shit has been going down there lately.
It’s fine. It’s not part of a trafficking route anymore.
Although, these things change from week to week. Cabo is getting a little unruly.
No kidding? That’s a shame. I went as a teenager fifteen years ago, always wanted to go back.
Cabo? Yeah, it was immune for almost 2 decades. There’s a cartel skirmish going on now for a number of reasons, but it isn’t that bad.
I wouldn’t call it unsafe, but they just had their first murders in the tourist zone recently. Still, I’d have no problem going.
I should find out if I’ll be there for Christmas this year.
Same place?
TBH, I was a little disappointed with the food. “All Inclusive” means I’m going to eat one of everything, physics and biology permitting. In this case, I didn’t want to. They had some good dishes, but I ended up going into San Jose del Cabo and paying for dinner out of pocket one night. The giant, flaming bowl of meat was totally worth it.
I think we were in the Cabo Azul in San Jose del Cabo this past year. Everyone seemed to like it well enough.
Where are you staying? I might go this winter; mostly for the food. I love Yucatan cuisine.
Be Better than The Gap…
Try Oaxaca.
We have gone down every year for the past five to rent a different house on the Sea of Cortez between Cabo and La Paz. I frigging love it there. Super peaceful, great fishing and just relaxing with the wife and kids on the beach. There is a great waterfall out there in the mountains that is worth a visit too.
Is Rick Bayless friends with all of the chefs there too?
Seriously, though. The seafood is entirely different, and both are great. Living in Los Angeles, I’m fully saturated with Oaxacan food, especially the cheese.
So progs are apparently up in arms about Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ response to Trump’s retweet of the Britain First guy today. She apparently said it doesn’t matter if the anti-Muslim videos Trump retweeted are real because ‘the threat is real’
Isn’t that the exact thing they say when every single one of these “acts of hatred” on college campuses turn out to be frauds?
We need to start a conversation.
+1 pile of bodies to pimp for gun control
THE FEAR IS REAL
As noted above, even the attempt at ‘debunking’ them ends up noting that the only thing ‘unfactual’ about 1 of them is that it is labeled “mulsim migrants” when they’re actually native muslim (children of emigres). And in most cases, the thing they’re really criticizing is the tweet-text, not the facts of the videos.
Just like they focused on Hillary campaign info being leaked by Russian hackers instead of the content of the leaks which was collision with the DNC to fix the primary. Half the news, all the time.
Yeah, if Snopes were being honest, it’s only half false.
Maybe a better comparison:
yes, the right uses ‘all muslims’ to create a fake impression that there is a terror-threat far greater than there really is. Perhaps one might say that the “travel ban” is an example of the worst federal policy that might actually follow from that sort of scaremongering.
the left, by contrast, has done *exactly the same fucking thing all year long*, only with “Russians”.
How many stories about “russian interference in our democracy” were nothing more than *speculation* about the origins of…say, a server in Trump tower that occasionally got pinged from somewhere east of the Ukraine?
How many times has the left run wild with some shrieking, hysterical bullshit and had to be debunked by their own peers? because it was *too bullshit* to even try to back it up? because there was zero, none, nada basis to it whatsoever? The “russians hacked the energy grid” The “Pee dossier”? The ongoing attempt to draw things like, Manafort’s lobbying for Ukraine or Flynns lobbying for Turkey into some larger, contrived narrative?
This is why i can’t stomach even the slightest claimed-“fack-checking” gibberish which turns out to be nothing more than ‘well, it needs ‘more context’. Oh, so NOW you’re going to demand context. suddenly the *whole* truth is your new mandate. Get the fuck out of here.
Snopes rates this comment mostly false: the pee dossier hasn’t been *totally* proven false.
I don’t think “context” is really something that is in the realm of fact checkers. At least, 99% of the time when I’ve seen that word used, it’s editorializing masquerading as objective truth. So when we’re talking about video of a child being murdered in Egypt in an elevator shaft, the idea that context should be added in isn’t even remotely in the realm of fact checkers. It’s something up for public debate, sure, but it doesn’t make something objectively misleading.
But to me it all circles back to how these people live in a bubble where they think they alone know the one real truth. Their ideas are beyond reproach. All right thinking, good people should agree with them. Those who don’t are wrong and must be acting in a nefarious or mendacious manner. They don’t have to debate as they’re the adults in the room.
I also think we’re pretty close to the point where people in the modern left just shun the notion of elections completely. When you have such religious zeal that you’re right that you refuse to even engage in debate, it seems like a pretty short mental step towards direct authoritarianism. It doesn’t mean I think civil war is imminent or something, but just that I can easily see that idea gaining traction among these dolts. We saw a bit of it with the Brexit, frankly. And Russian conspiracy talk is a symptom, as well.
At its heart progressives value democracy only as far as it allows them to achieve their agenda. It’s a means to power. If it stops serving that purpose for them, there’s going to be a lot more ugliness coming out into the open.
As I suggested in a previous post, if you want to understand progressives, think about a bully. Progressivism is a political ideology that gives moral sanction to bullies. Naturally, bullies are attracted to it. How would a bully see democracy? Well, probably as a means of legitimizing his or her authority when the majority sides with them and just something to be gotten around or thrown away when it doesn’t. The progressive view in a nutshell.
But not the story of bullies who will fist fight you. They’ll call in a tip to your employer, or incite a mob to lynch you, or blind side you with a tackle and break several of your ribs.
Absolutely. It’s essentially the story of bullies who lack the ability to be bullies on their own merits. They need to outsource the enforcement of their bullying. But the fundamental impulse never changes – “Do what I say or else”. And no matter what you give them, no matter what you do at their behest, the demands only ever get more severe. This is because, like any other bully, what’s demanded isn’t really important to them. It’s the act of demanding that motivates them.
They’re already there: see #notmypresident, and the whole kerfuffle (and even creation of) the CFPB.
They do not believe in democracy, they believe in TOP MEN.
i don’t think anyone ever says the phrase “all muslims are terrorists”
If you think president tweeting videos of muslims smashing statues of the virgin mary, and throwing kids off roofs, isn’t intended to suggest exactly that, you’re retarded
Then prove the claim. If Trump’s video meant the thing you think is obvious show me all the politicians who see it that way.
If the news shows a video of someone committing a crime do you accuse them of saying “all” the people with similar characteristics are criminals?
If not apparently you’re retarded by your own logic. This is just an incredibly weak argument. If the president tweets a video of something that happened he’s calling all Muslims terrorists. Just a ridiculous jump to a conclusion to try to save your argument.
The only reason you had to make such a stupid claim was to save an equivocation between feminist claims of “all men” by trying to find athe same on the right. Maybe there isn’t any equivalent. Maybe leftist thought about the world as oppressor vs oppressed causes them to group people into categories to facilitate that world view which is why identity politics drives modern leftism.
yes bob, the president’s twitter account is just like “the news”
If I watch the video on YouTube does this secret “all Muslims” context come attached or is it only a context invisibly applied to a twitter video?
I can’t possibly imagine how dumb you are, bob
if you bothered to actually understand the root of my original comment, it was actually more to do with why the media tries to *COVER*
(sigh)
sorry, i fucked up that last comment, but its not worth fixing or continuing. bless you, bob
Well, there’s PapayaSF from the old site, but I don’t think he’s elected to any office. And his argument was not “all Muslims are terrorists” (which is not what Gilmore said, anyway), it was that all Muslims are called to violence by their holy book, and thus any number of Muslims in an area results in a nontrivial risk of Islamic terrorism.
This, or a similar argument, is a common theme among many (but not all) right-wing commentators. I don’t think any elected politician at the national level has espoused it, the President’s tweets notwithstanding, but that’s not what Gilmore said, either.
Is there any flaw in PapayaSF’s argument? I’d like to hear a smart counterargument. I don’t think the counterargument is out there, but it would still be interesting to see what the opponents can offer.
I don’t typically involve myself in the muslim-apologia business, but salafist-jihadist muslims are about as prevalent in Islam as the Amish are within “greater christianity”.
Erasing distinctions between salafist jihadis and “the rest of Islam” is stupid, because there’s a few billion of them.
I don’t know how much more sophisticated that argument needs to be to be compelling.
For fun:
try considering that you have ~30million or so gun owners in the US (10%)
(im using rough numbers for the sake of illustration)
a tiny number of people are spree shooters who randomly shoot up groups of people
(refer to the fbi for the numbers – its a few dozen over the last few decades)
spree shooting random people is super-uncommon. But it represents something like 90% of the national dialogue about ‘guns in america’
if you haven’t yet grokked the issue by this point, …
Okay, I see. When I think about violence coming from Islam, I don’t necessarily think of another 9/11. This kind of violence is far from the only concern. I think about the Sharia law, incompatible with the Western values, which is widely favored among Muslims around the world. And the idea that the Sharia law should apply only to Muslims is not particularly strong.
yes, which actually makes a lot of sense for *muslims* because many/most live in horribly corrupt countries where the alternative isn’t ‘western liberal democracy’, but horrifyingly corrupt autocracy/and-or-corrupt socialists’
also: most polling data is bullshit-useless as single-point pieces of info.
The argument is that Islam calls for Jihad, and Sharia law, and a whole host of beliefs completely incompatible with western civilization. Not only are terror attacks overwhelmingly done by Muslims but polls show that support in Muslim countries for terrorist groups, for draconian laws, for unequal treatment of sexes, for blasphemy laws, for apostasy punishments and a host of other beliefs and views incompatible with freedom is quite common and often the dominant opinion. Those are not trivial beliefs shared by a common physical trait, or characteristic (like owning a gun). They are beliefs from an ideology, just as socialism is an ideology who’s adherents will share a commonality in their beliefs. Except you can criticize socialism around here but people become irrational if you criticize Islam.
The Islamic theocracies, Boko Haram, the Taliban, Hamas, Hezbollah, Al Qaeda., etc. represent millions of people and hold up Islamic interpretations for their actions that are frankly quite plausible.
Maybe all those Muslims are too stupid to understand their own religion and keep misinterpreting it the wrong way, and usually the same way but I doubt it. Anyone making that claim is really making the claim Muslims are inherently stupid which I don’t believe.
Obviously that doesn’t mean anyone who is Muslim has to believe anything or everything just as people could claim to be socialists and hold no beliefs in common with socialism as most understand it. But the fact that most socialists didn’t run gulags doesn’t mean I can’t criticize socialism. Same applies to criticizing Islam.
yes, and out of a few billion its still roughly “amish to mainstream Christian” proportions
pretending the bible is what makes amish … oh, sorry – pretending that its “islam” that is responsible for the terror groups, rather than the specific ethnic-conflict and regional-political origins of each group (e.g. pashtun tribal, palestinan territorial, lebanese liberation, etc) …. is stupid.
The main sticking points for me are:
1. Non-Muslims don’t get to say what Muslims actually, or are supposed to, believe. Substitute any belief system in for “Muslim” and the statement is still true. We can observe, infer, and even judge, but the only true authority on what a Muslim believes is himself. For every ISIS/al-Qaeda/al-Shabaab/Boko Haram member who agrees with PapayaSF on what Islam is, there is at least one Muslim who does not.
2. It is a statistical argument with no actual statistics. Moreover, it is extremely coarse. For example, there have been almost no Persian terrorists abroad, even though practically all Persians are Muslims and the Persian diaspora is quite large. Never mind the Sufis who abhor and denounce violence in the name of Islam.
3. Whatever the proportion of Muslims that engage in or directly support terrorism, it is well less than half. For some groups of Muslims, for example those living in the U.S., it’s below 1%. That means that Islam is not the cause. It may be a contributing factor, but it lacks the strength of a causal mechanism.
In other words, it is a collectivist argument. Yes, there is ample evidence that many Muslims do support terrorism even if they don’t engage in it, that many Islamic religious authorities call for it, and that there is a disturbing propensity for young Muslims in peaceful societies raised by families that don’t support terrorism to join or support terrorist causes. Given those facts, it is understandable for one to be skeptical about taking on Muslim migrants or refugees. The problem for me arises when and if this semi-rational skepticism morphs into something more aggressive than just a moratorium on immigration/asylum/refuge.
Hezbollah would like to have a word with you regarding the lack of Persian terrorists. And if you count that simply financed by the Persians in Iran, the number gets bigger, but some of those might not be ethnically Persian.
I was specifically talking about the Persian diaspora, which mainly consists of people who fled the Iranian Revolution, and their descendants. The Iranian government and its proxies are a different matter entirely.
This hypocrisy game confuses me. Are they wrong because they are doing something that they attacked the other side for doing or is the other side wrong for attacking them for doing something that they once did?
Let’s just go with hypocrites for being sycophants for communists despite insisting on continuing living in the wealthiest capitalist country on the planet. All the little hypocrisies are just gravy in comparison.
They’re both full of shit, but about different things: the difference is that the Left gets to “Fact check” the right, while the right has “Conspiracy theories” of left-wing media bias
Rapist, rapist, everywhere.
https://hotair.com/archives/2017/11/29/california-capitol-rapists-building/
https://youtu.be/fCPnwSFN0ZM
I just wanted to spend my career in politics so I could control people! It’s not fair that other politicians had the same idea about me!
I wonder why they’d pick a stock photo of women’s shoes for that article.
Jazz Shaw probably has a foot fetish in addition to his cop fetish.
“Rapist, rapist, everywhere”
EVEN STEVE SMITH NOT VIOLATE 1ST LAW OF MATTER. BUT GLADLY VIOLATE EVERYTHING ELSE
Would with either, but I’d double-bag it for the baby hurler.
You could do her than throw her down the stairs.
IMO, the flask necklace is the piece of swag that most exemplifies this site.
I’ll drink to that!
Haven’t really seen the coverage today because working but hearing some of the coverage this morning it seemed like it had a different feel to it than coverage for other accused men. Not denial so much, but sympathy. Everyone prior is an ugly, old creeper who deserves no forgiveness no matter how long ago it was. But poor Matt Lauer, such a great guy. Is it his looks?
Or Savannah and Hoda wished Matt had wanted to bang them?
I don’t know who these people are.
Was Matt Lauer really considered handsome? I don’t see it. We need some of the gays or at least one of the commenters that claim to be female around here to weigh in.
If I were a chick, I’d be all over Scott Pelley. That continuous look of holding in a giant fart is so hawt.
What this site needs is more fuck, marry, kill discussion.
Some of the dudes here would get the order wrong.
Don’t judge
That New Avatar, high school yearbook photo?
It looks like Gilmore in a noose
It’s a picture of a guy getting mental health “treatment” in early 20th century New York.
That’s crazy
So, your old highschool yearbook photo
Yep, I was voted “Most likely to Cut Spending”.
fwiw, if you recall there’s a famous picture of a black guy in the electric chair in “early 20th century NY”. Reason.TV used it in a video last year or the year before.
i recall digging into that, and it turned out that photo had been staged. a guy took a series of pictures in prisons, and had people pose in the electric chair.
this
“‘Strapping the Victim into the Death Chair’, United States, 1898. The operation takes only a couple of seconds to perform, each keeper being thoroughly trained to draw, adjust and buckle his own particular strap. Photographic illustration from Death by Electrocution by James S Metcalfe, (1898). (Photo by Oxford Science Archive/Print Collector/Getty Images)””
keyword being ‘illustration’.
Gilmore going Snopes on my avatar. My old avatar with Hillary and Natalie Portman wearing nipple clips was fake, FWIW.
No! i have no idea about your pic. I just thought it was interesting that a widely-used historical image (esp because of its racist overtones) of electrocution turned out to be staged.
It’s interesting. Just giving you the biz.
Taking French lessons
Hey, the word is “identify” not “claim”. Take your cishet-privilege out of here!
But to your question, the answer is no. He’s not a pig-dog like Franken or Weinstein, but no, I don’t find him handsome or hot. or would want to spend any time in his Office of the Secret Button for Locking Me in With him. shudder.
He’s rich and famous and pretends to be smart. All he has to do to be attractive to women is not have a tumor growing out of the side of his face to be considered handsome. And if he did have a tumor he would just be downgraded to cute and still get laid everyday.
Was talking to a young guy about this last night. Boring millennial that tut tutted men for not being as woke a single he was. “I blame the whores that accepted or even initiated the cock sucking that lead to roles. These guy should were deceived into thinking all women wanted it.” Meatspace trolling is under rated.
He’s just pissed cause his pussification isn’t going to get him more pussy. I mean, man up, anyone can get laid, you just have to put your standards in perspective and further enhance and perfect the natural attributes you do have going for you. Sure, being really wealthy or really good looking puts you at an advantage, but not being either of those sure as hell does not mean you cannot get laid. Being a pussy is NOT a good plan, OTOH.
Be interesting and try to understand (not necessarily agree with) her. You’re right.
Well, you know, the ‘whores’ accepted this ‘cock sucking’ and the guys liked it because of basic biology. They both liked it! Social engineering is for losers. If the guy wants to be a pussy and still wants to get laid, he needs to start understanding where his opportunities lie, which is not with the women who like masculine men. Why do people try so hard to be unhappy? I don’t get it.
Ugh. Autocorrect + fat fingers= ^that.
Yeah, not having the fingers of teenage Asian girls makes your smartphone not as good for posting.
Overheard conversation at the bar: “Oh, so they can get Matt Lauer, but they can’t get Donald Trump?”
And: “He admitted to molesting women on tape!!”
And: “Oh, but Franken has to resign because of a joke photo.”
Hero worship of politicians is not a flattering look for anyone.
No branded shell clips in the store?
I want a Low rider style Ball cap, I do “trucker” hats, makes you look like a fivehead
I Don’t do truckers hats
I want some branded ammo magazines.
And a thing that folds up.
And a chainsaw bayonet.
This guy is a perv? I’m shocked.
Why you don’t play hard to get with Matty “Icewater” Lauer.
I still don’t believe her. Needs one more stroke of evidence.
re: the Glib merchandise store –
how did you know about my illegitimate black children? (narrows gaze)
Man are you kidding – that pompadour just screams brown sugar.
Really? None of you are on tho this yet? Tundra? Pope Jimbo? I’ve known people who worked at MPR who said he is a total fucking prick. This is no suprise to me:
http://www.twincities.com/2017/11/29/garrison-keillor-says-hes-been-fired-by-mpr-over-allegations-of-inappropriate-behavior/
Too local
Also, it was covered in the am links. I believe Chipwooder broke the story
Lake Hebegone
(((really)))?
That robot is a racist!
Geesh I didn’t know hebe was a (((thing))) until your comment and a quick query to Urban dictionary.
It’s Lake He-Be-Gone, and it’s downright funny!
Although, if Kiellor is Jewish, the joke’s even more better
This sexual predator panic based on moral shaming on Twitter is the American left’s Cultural Revolution. You can’t expect us to keep up with every purging.
Every time I’ve read or heard him talk about politics he has always come across as being a smug prick.
Keillor claims that he is a victim of crazy times. If his version of events is true, I almost agree with him.
Who knows if he is telling the truth. I said in earlier links that my sister worked for Minnesota Public Radio and she said it was crazy how devoted people were to his show. She never got the popularity of him and said the few times she met him he was sort of snooty.
I wonder if this accusation was fueled by his defense of Franken yesterday in the Washington Post?
Long term, I think the most damaging thing to Keillor is this comment:
Us Minnesodans are forgiving, but if he snubs us to move east, that is it. He will be dead to us.
Its possible he is. But they are crazy times created by the batshit people he’s empowered over decades.
the not as lefty-as-the-most-left are always the first victims of the purge. because the leftiest know they don’t fight back.
Too local
ugh
What was that again? Anyway. I was at work during the AM links. Missed ’em.
I didn’t mean to suggest it wasn’t worth covering again, tho. I’ve never liked the smug bastard. Spread the news far and wide.
Also, thanks for validating my Brooks’ed comment. That is Minnesoda nice! Jimbo and Tundra could learn from a nice man like you.
Hey!
But a fair cop.
Bastard.
I’m not even a native Minnesodan. The shit just rubs of on you after awhile. And as to Keillor. I thought he was a pretentious asshole when I still lived in PA.
“off” shit Mike S. “tho” I could be wrong.
Hey, you made it back to NoDak alive.
Not many rubes from the western prairie survive an encounter with local toughs from the mean streets of Maple Grove. I bet you are still getting the locals up in Lake Agassiz to buy you drinks in return for telling your tall tales of the Twin Cities. How we have roads 3 lanes wide filled with traffic all going in the same direction.
I was in the Twin cities a few years ago for my cousin’s wedding. Not only those of from Wisconsin out-drink the Minnisodans, but we out drank the entire reserves of the place had and had to move on to find more alcohol. Was not impressed. The Twin Cities get a rating of 1 Nick Gillespie.
Um, thanks?
I’m not sure you meant it to be a compliment, but I think I can speak for the rest of us Minnesodans when I say I am glad you don’t think we are as big a bunch of drunken idiots as Wisconsinites.
Oh, so now I’ma an idiot! So much for Minnesoda nice.
Wisconsin is the modern day Sparta, if a child can’t survive in the cold with nothing but a beer and a foam piece of cheese he has no right to exist.
Thinking of getting the Glib onesie for my kiddo, whenever he gets here, would be baller.
So… when are republicans going to defund NPR?
You can’t be in control of a government, and fund the fucking opposition’s propaganda. Christ, they really are the stupid party.
How many republican congressmen you bet have paid subscriptions to the New York Times AND the Washington Post? I’m going bet 80% minimum.
You should be paid if you’re forced to read their dreck, not the other way around.
Well, we know that Sarah Palin did.
“So… when are republicans going to defund NPR?”
Why do you hate the children? Before NPR, 40 million children died in the streets from lack of NPR.
So the courts stopped the ban on Transgenders in the military. Apparently that’s a human right even though the policy was only in effect for a month before it was cancelled.
Not sure how the courts have any say over the commander in chief’s policies with the military.
All I want is consistency. If transgenders are now OK, they need to stop telling people with asthma, colorblindness, and other minor ailments to hit the bricks.
On the other hand, if physical fitness is the most important thing, everyone who can’t do a pull-up needs to shape up or leave.
You already have consistently. Whatever Trump does, leftist judges appointed by Obama will block it. Or try to until they’re overruled.
As in, civilian courts? Where do they even get the idea that they have jurisdiction? How does somebody even get standing?
Yes civilian court.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/policy-and-politics/2017/11/28/16709494/judge-trump-transgender-military-ban-recruits
No idea how it’s possible.
Well Christ on a cracker, apparently our system of government has a fourth branch, that of the President emeritus, currently and indefinitely held by Barack Obama, which is superior to both the legislative and executive branches. Who knew?
I assume this means free boob jobs too?
Only if you phrase it as “bust-affirming”.
“I want to transition into a woman with bigger cans. It will, uh, affirm my femininity.”
“I’ve always identified as a 44DD”
There’s a whole load of bullshit to unpack there, but just at the basest level, the military has a purpose, and that purpose is not provide free treatment to all comers.
Um… Have they seen the suicide rates for people who DO have the surgery?
random thought
Americans tend to worship technology; all the more so in war.
This overlooks an important truth: the goal in war is to make the enemy suffer and die until they surrender. That means killing people and destroying things. Whether that is through smart bombs or sharp sticks is merely a matter of cost and efficiency.
There is this idea that is we just show-off with our high-tech toys, our enemies will be so awed that they will give up without a fight. It doesn’t work that way. The Zulus had spears and the British had machine guns. The Zulus fought anyway.
And won.
Looked at Africa lately? i don’t think they won that War
Depending on what you consider ‘war’. That was more than 100 years ago. And we’re only talking about one people, not the whole of Africa.
O.K. it was a War, the Brits lost a battle but where are the Zulu now?
Sadly, where are the British now?
MEN OF HARLECH, STAND YE STEADY!
One of my favorite films.
Point well taken. Shock and Awe taken to the extreme makes no sense if we aren’t willing to deploy said “super weapons” to, you know, actually kill the enemy.
Watch the Men Against Fire episode of Black Mirror.
If you’re bored this series is great. https://mises.org/library/christiana-resistance-first-shots-civil-war
This might’ve been posted earlier, but look who’s writing for the New York Times!
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/29/opinion/matt-lauer-sexual-harassment-nbc.html
The NYT’s were about to break the story, and now they’re angry they didn’t get to lead the lynch mob. Film at 11.
ENB sold out, as well.
At least there’s a slight libertarian bend to it with talk of the market forces involved. Though, really, Tweets aren’t market forces and any business making decisions off of them is just knee jerk and stupid. Which basically describes the media.
Compared to the typical NYT tripe that’s pretty damn good.
Reading the just-published details of Ms. Nolan Brown’s alleged behavior, failing to burn her as a witch seems unthinkable.
So, prostitution IS legal in New York.
It is shocking to learn about Matt Lauer’s…. salary of $25 million. Steve Smith deserves big raise.
It’s STEVE SMITH, you cunt.
today’s derp award goes to:
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10207
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A California State University-Los Angeles professor is urging Americans to participate in “Black Xmas” by boycotting “white corporations” and fighting “White Capitalism.”
Arguing that “White-supremacist capitalism” is responsible for “state-sanctioned violence against Black people,” the Black Xmas website urges people to patronize black businesses “rather than lining the pockets of Trump.”
…
In her op-ed for The Los Angeles Sentinel, Melina Abdullah, a Black Lives Matter activist and the chair of the school’s Department of Pan-African Studies, explains that “Black Xmas” is “an economic divestment from White corporations and an investment in building Black community through support for Black community organizations and businesses.”
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The official website of the initiative provides additional instructions to participants, asking Americans to stop “spending with White corporations” between November 24, 2016 and January 1, 2018.
“Donald Trump embodies White capitalism,” the website states. “If you are anti-Trump, you should hold back your resources from him and the like.”
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Abdullah also recently explained her stance on “white capitalism” during an appearance on KPFK-FM radio’s “Beautiful Struggle,” where she noted a connection between race and economics.
“We say ‘white capitalism’ because it’s important that we understand that the economic system and the racial structures are connected,” she argued on the program. “We have to not only disrupt the systems of policing that literally kill our people, but we have to disrupt the white supremacist, capitalistic, patriarchal, heteronormative system that is really the root cause of these police killings.”
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They’d have my support if they boycotted paying their taxes, but that would require real consequences. And they’re probably simultaneously trying to fight any attempt at lowering the tax rate.
Ah, shit. That reminds me, I haven’t made my daily tithe to the Church of White-Supremacist Capitalism. If I’m not careful, Pope Trump will excommunicate me!
And don’t forget to visit your local office of white privilege to get your monthly supply.
Silly goose, I get white privilege automatically. The office is just there for us to plan the next way to keep the people of color down.
“by boycotting “white corporations”
What’s a white corporation? What does that mean? Is it a corporation where only white people work? Are there any of those? If there are, what is the point and what is to be gained here? If you have a goal, shouldn’t it have a point or a goal?
My coke supplier is Black so I will be supporting a Black and who knows how many Hispanic businessman but will still be having a very, very White Christmas.
If I were a pussy college student, having a college professor say something like that about all white people would actually be pretty much the definition of “hate speech” and “speech violence” wouldn’t it?
In all seriousness, it says a lot about the state of our society that such a mental midget is literally employed by the state to teach young people.
Cool. I’ma have a “White Christmas” and boycott any store/manufacturer that cares what color I am. And any racist black professors, definitely gonna boycott those bitches. Seriously, it’s just straight out racism with the left, now, they don’t even try to hide it anymore.
My wife wants a White Christmas. And I’m having a hard time deciding between what she wants and what some racist retard that I don’t know wants. The tough decisions.
“No remorse for the Sheriff, in his eyes I ain’t right. Imma paint this town red, then paint his wife white!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bhqKLGeqpk
and the runner up
Student op-ed calls white people ‘an abomination’
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10206
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Texas State University’s student newspaper published an op-ed Tuesday telling “white people” that “your DNA is an abomination.”
The op-ed generated intense criticism from readers who felt that it was simply designed to inflame racial tensions and should have raised red flags for the paper’s editors.
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TSU, for people that wanted to go to UT, but couldn’t graduate in the top 10% of their high school class.
“your DNA is an abomination.”
Is that like being a climate change denier? I really want a sciency explanation for that.
“your (((DNA))) is an abomination”
FIFY.
“rather than lining the pockets of Trump.”
Trump, the Phenomena
not a Man,
A Movement
all hail the Trump!
Fucking Morons
College spending $60k to turn computer lab into ‘safe space’
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10204
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Santa Monica College is preparing to spend $60,000 to “update” a popular computer lab in order to make way for a new $500,000 social justice center.
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God damn California, you’re already number one in derp. You can take a break.
not until they run out of OPM
WTF? So, what, they’re giving up on … computer science facilities to make way for social justice? LOLOLOLOLOL, nothing can possibly go wrong. The left are imploding like microwaved poodles.
Well, they clearly weren’t doing any work with the computers.
When I tried to lurnt to run the computer, it didn’t do wut I wanted and it’s not fair cuz I’m sposed to be smart too.
Same story, more details
Student columnist defends his op-ed celebrating ‘white death,’ says it isn’t racist
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/39459/
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A Texas State University student is standing behind his recent controversial op-ed published in the campus newspaper that argues “white death will mean liberation for all.”
Student Rudy Martinez has come under fire for his Nov. 28 column in The University Star titled “Your DNA is an abomination.” The editor in chief of the campus newspaper has even issued an apology over its publication.
But Martinez, in an interview Wednesday with The College Fix, doubled down on his arguments.
“The article speaks for itself,” he told The College Fix via email. “… Though my language, especially when I claim to have only ever met ‘12 decent white people,’ could be deemed as hyperbolic (just barely), it has accomplished its goal: starting a conversation and outing racists.”
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“Ontologically speaking, white death will mean liberation for all … accept this death as the first step toward defining yourself as something other than the oppressor,” Martinez wrote in his column. “Until then, remember this: I hate you because you shouldn’t exist. You are both the dominant apparatus on the planet and the void in which all other cultures, upon meeting you, die.”
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I am reminded of the monty python sketch where the guy goes, “OH! you were looking for an argument? That’s 5C! this is 5A, Abuse. Cheerio!”
It did indeed out one racist.
I don’t know if he’s racist, but he’s an idiot. saying, “you shouldn’t exist” is basically ignoring one of the core lessons of marxist ideas… which is that power-relations are permanent and everywhere, and always exist. “Someone” is always the ruling class. He’s just pissed its Wypipo.
The thing the idiot SJWs and the Alt-Right have in common is that they think its some magical, special thing that White Europeans happened to be the people who stumbled upon basic ideas like, the Scientific Method, and the Enlightenment (call it, ‘devaluation of superstition and rule-by-culture’), and Capitalism… and managed to reap enormous collective rewards as a consequence.
the difference is that the SJW/lefties think its because white people must have done something evil to prevent others from learning these basic ideas…. and the dumbass racist Alt-Righties think white europeans must have been specifically blessed by god to have lucked upon such wonderful wealth-generating stuff.
Treating all whites as a group rather than as individuals is pretty much the definition of racism.
-Of course. Because slavs and the irish are clearly mongrel, nonwhite races
**which was actually the predominant POV about 100+ years ago. this idea that everyone on the low-end of the melanin spectrum is “white” is a relatively historically new-idea. Hell, “white” was limited to a narrow slice of *protestants* less than 100 years ago, and they were still pretty picky about which denominations, too.
during Thanksgiving My MIL law asked if I was racist against Italians or Irish, I’m like Huh? Why? aren’t they white?
Was it an AND or an OR?
I’ve heard this idea “white” applying to all Europeans is new. It appears that it is not and I see close to zero historical justification for such a claim. Europeans of all stripes seemed to have little trouble distinguishing African, Asian, or native Americans from whites.
What evidence do you have that whites were somehow incapable on a mass scale of an inability to recognize different racial characteristics including their own?
Irish need not reply to bob.
i assume that’s because you’re an idiot and you don’t actually look
mine was pithier Gilmore.
the most common aspect of intellectual dishonesty is when people reply to a perfectly sensible and simple statement, and reply with a question which pretends you said something completely different from the argument you just made.
yes, if i could have +1’d your wit, i’d have done so, but we’ve ended up in the shitty right-hand gutter of threads, and there was no way for me to post my approval beneath you.
How many Polacks does it take to answer bob’s question? 3! one to read it, one to write the response and one to understand the joke!
unless those funking Gypsies come along, we don’t have to worry about our whitness being besmirched.
“White” was for nearly 200 years just a term for anglo-protestant snots
huge swaths of eurepeoples were “squareheads” (nordics) or Polacks (anyone east of Paris) or “greasers” (italians or spanish), or “greeks”*
*you don’t even need to say “hairy sodomite”, because greek means that.
Maybe a fucking guido can answer bob? Hey, fuckin guidos, answer the white man when he’s talking to you!
in Pueblo CO it’s Guineas against Bojohns, I’m like what? Italians vs. Polacks, only in America
“The thing the idiot SJWs and the Alt-Right have in common is that they think its some magical, special thing that White Europeans happened to be the people who stumbled upon basic ideas like, the Scientific Method, and the Enlightenment”
Well, that might actually be sort of true. That they left Africa and wound up under a special sort of pressures, or that they found themselves in an advantageous environment where they found abundance, or whatever. None of this really matters as far as ‘fairness’ or ‘racism’ is concerned. If anyone thinks that the Mayans or Egyptians would not have been the ones to conquer the world and be the dominate culture on earth, if they could have, that person is very stupid and naive. The fact is that there has never been a time on this planet like now, where almost everyone, no matter where they come from, or their ancestry, have a chance to grab a piece of the pie and lead a good life, should be enough for anyone, and retarded ingrates like this guy are not helping anyone.
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Historical coincidences aren’t the same as genetic manifest destiny
the fact that the sequence of events leading to the “dominant culture” happened where it happened (and to whom it happened) is no different than the sequence of events which led to the Turtle outlasting the Dinosaur
It wasnt because turtles were ‘intrinsically superior’ to the dinosaur (e.g. the racist argument); its that they were in the right place at the right time with the right set of features. which is to say, genetic superiority is entirely a product of accident and changing context; what is “superior” in one historical epoch might turn out to doom your species in another.
When yokel paleskins wave around Plato and Goethe and try to pretend their greatness is somehow infused in their blood, they’re turtles pretending they could have kicked a Triceratops ass.
*that’s not really accurate, but i’m leaving that there anyway because its funny
How precisely were advancements in science and technology some event that happened to white people? These things are not earthquakes or droughts. People have agency, they made those things happen.
Bob, i’m starting to get the impression you’re not really that bright.
on·to·log·i·cal
ˌän(t)əˈläjək(ə)l/Submit
adjective
adjective: ontological
1.
relating to the branch of metaphysics dealing with the nature of being.
“ontological arguments”
2.
showing the relations between the concepts and categories in a subject area or domain.
“an ontological database”
Am I missing something here?
No, rather you have something, and that something is called sanity, which this nut lacks.
Stupid people often use big words in order to appear smart. Interestingly, it always makes them look stupider.
Stupid people can only imagine what intelligence is, and they always imagine the same thing: long, complex sentences full of big words.
I think the word makes sense in context, it’s just that the context is utterly deranged.
Put another way, the writer seems to know what ontological means, he just doesn’t seem to have otherwise connected with reality.
In other words, “conceptually” would have been more stylistically appropriate.
He really ought to consult an ontologist just to make sure that his stupid isn’t caused by a tumor.
I f your stupidity lasts more than 4 hours, consult you’re ontologist
Stephen A. Smith hardest hit.
“You are both the dominant apparatus on the planet and the void in which all other cultures, upon meeting you, die.”
Maybe you should be nicer then
I mean, to me, it sounds like whiteness will be just fine once natural selection does its thing.
I AM BECOME WHITENESS, THE DESTROYER OF WORLDS
If that’s a threat,which it sounds like, I’ll take him up on his proposition, We meet up, you die, Clown amateur
*Martinez*
Well, at least we’re 100% positive that guy has no whitey in his DNA, nosiree.
Just another self-hating Caucasian. He clearly doesn’t understand his own DNA.
If hateful idiots like this want to eliminate themselves from the gene pool, where can I donate to the cause?
Absent people like this ever getting real power and making good on their threats, I actually pity them. Being filled with hatred like that is far more poisonous to the vessel than the target. His life will continue to get smaller and more miserable the longer he holds onto it.
Yeah, if it only were a few individuals who were not having an entire national media and political party backing them up and trying to give them that sort of power. But that’s not the case.
That’s fucking brilliant!
Damn your nimble fingers, I remembered this bit, but forgot the name of the character.
Oswald Bates
Well, he’s convinced me; I’m not gonna be white no mo’.
I actually think it’s a good thing that the Left has tossed the mask and is proudly letting their racism flag fly. It’s the same with the corrupt media; the battle lines are demarcated now. No more pretense, it’s Enlightenment values against Marxist hate.
^this^
No more pretense, it’s Enlightenment values against Marxist hate.
Well that, or mommy and daddy pull the plug on asshole’s financial support.
pull the plug on asshole
Okay, that’s not at all a euphemism.
They go brown, we go white.
Rhetorically yes, But it’s more Western Civ vs Barbarians to me, color means nothing
Guessing game!
I’m taking the low hanging fruit. Charlie Sheen?
Seems like she’d (he’d?) have come forward in 2014, or whenever Sheen was in the news.
So It was reported that Linda Sarsour was invited to a discussion on anti-semitism, and most people thought she was invited to give a how-to speech.
And she pretty much did. http://dailycaller.com/2017/11/29/linda-sarsour-blames-jewish-media-for-her-unpopularity/
She blamed the Jewish controlled media for people thinking that her and Louis Farrakhan were anti-Semitic.
At a certain point you reach fractal derp. No matter how much you try to make sense of derp, there is always more derp.
If I had to guess who would be the most heartbreaking sex pervert to have allegations unearthed against him, I’m going with Rowan Atkinson. He is perhaps the only celebrity I’d truly feel some regret if his theoretical improprieties came to light. Not just because he plays such an aloof fellow, but because, honestly, that last scene in Blackadder Goes Forth cemented him as one of comedy’s greatest.
I watched the whole series through with an ex. At the end of it all she stood up and punched me in the shoulder, and walked out dewy-eyed. It’s a rough climax for a series. Maybe not as rough as what our boys and theirs endured during the real deal, but my ex was pretty shook up. After all the joking and gallows humor, after all the schemes and ploys drew nothing, to see our dubious heroes make their way out in such an ignominious fashion is upsetting, to say the least.
Commodious, you are my brother in spirit. Not only do I admire Rowan Atkinson’s comedy, above all Blackadder, but I feel exactly the same way about the finale of Goes Forth. Man, I was upset at first at the way they ended it, but hell, how could you end any tale about WWI trench warfare any differently? It was a tragedy all around, of a scale we can hardly comprehend. That damned Blackadder episode led me to read more and more WWI history and then 20th century history, and “Diplomacy” by Kissinger, and “The Clash of Civilizations” and before I knew it, I was a libertarian.
Totally related, I watched Four Weddings and a Funeral with a (then-) girlfriend, and she got angry at me for (SPOILER) the death of the gay character. I replied that I thought she would enjoy it, and of course she did. She just wanted to blame me for doing so.
Side note, Atkinson is like super-wealthy, in the hundreds of millions category. I don’t quite see how, given his body of work. I know Mr. Bean is internationally popular, but hundreds of millions? It seems like several other British actors have larger or more popular bodies of work, and aren’t nearly that wealthy.
$130 million.
For someone with the body of work he has who was a wise shepherd of funds, that is not an unrealistic amount. I mean, some people are better savers and investors.
I am very upset you have not used my Hat and The Hair artwork without my consent to sell merch. It’s like you don’t even libertarian!
I agree. I was ready to go on a buying spree, but all the products have exactly the same logo on them. you’d sell more shit if you had steve smith, “hat and hair”, Glib-logo, and Zardoz-related merch rather than the absurd panoply of product that 1-logo can be attached to.
Well, Zardoz is someone else’s property, and I haven’t done Steve Smith art, so we have nothing original; but not only did I do The hat and the Hair, but I also did the Hat and the Hair and tha Hat artwork. Although, OMWC told me Sugarfree is working on something…special…that I may be asked to collaborate on for the merch.
I’ve been rewatching content from Homestarrunner.com, and this just made me think of Glibs.
Glad I’m not the only Homestarrunner fan around here.
You’re video of Mr. Splosives band made me think of this Country-Western-Polka! Wisconsin!
Listen to this Lindsay Shepherd interview in full, it’s great. And I found the comment here worth singling out.
Shepherd on “the culture of coddling and comforting students and protecting them from, you know, ‘harm’”:
Why on earth don’t more people get this? Anyway, there’s more good stuff in the interview.
” cause I never want to be infantilized, and I never want to be, you know, people to condescend to me, so I don’t know what they get out of it, really.”
That’s a great question and worth resurrecting in a daytime thread. I remember as a young child when some adults would condescend to me and I didn’t like it. I didn’t know the word, but I knew it was different from other adults.
One day as a <10 yr kid, I brought something, a drawing or painting, to show Mom when she had an artist friend present over coffee. Mom pointed out what I had done right in the execution and composition and what I could change to improve it. I happily ran off to improve it, when I heard the friend complain to Mom that she had even criticized her daughter's art! Mom very practically explained that she complimented all of it commensurate to its merit so that I would continue to get better and more discerning of my own work and not settle for mediocre.
Mom's friend didn't get it. Would it surprise you to learn that she spoiled her own child rotten?
” My child is the bestest ever, after all, I raised her”
you mean like that?
Kind of, but more like, “How could you ever say anything less than it’s a masterpiece to your child???” Thing I learned was, when I did something pretty good, the parents were complimentary. When I did something REALLY good, they were wow’ed, and all the levels in between.
I have seen some teachers/therapists who subscribe to the EVERYTHING YOU DO IS THE BEST THING EVAAAAAHH! philosophy, and the kids can see how fake it is. They know when they do better than other times. and to get the exact same level of praise for any level of effort is extremely discouraging and confusing.
I might have been over-served last night and ended up crashing too early. I am sorry I missed out on the thread.
*scrolls up*
Never mind. My time was better spent snoring.