STEVE SMITH FINISH RAPE OF EVERYONE IN RV A LITTLE EARLY. SO HAS TIME TO REFLECT BACK ON PAST FEW YEARS. STEVE SMITH GIVE SOME LINKS TO FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE, AND LET THEM THINK BACK TO PAST YEARS TOO. THEN STEVE SMITH GO FIND CABIN NEAR TRAIL AND HAVE A NIGHT CAP. BY NIGHT CAP MEAN RAPE, IN A CAP. AT NIGHT.
- STEVE SMITH REMEMBER WELL, SAGE ADVICE THAT GOLD GO DOWN TO $600 OZ! ANY DAY NOW, GOLDBUGS!
- STEVE SMITH REMEMBER WHEN FRANCE SAY SOMETHING, WORLD LISTEN! WAIT, NO HE DON’T…STEVE SMITH NOT 130 YEARS OLD! WHY THEY THINK IT WORK NOW?
- STEVE SMITH DO REMEMBER “WHAT IS GOOD FOR GM, GOOD FOR COUNTRY”. NOW, WHO CARES? STEVE SMITH LIKE WHEN TOURISTS DRIVE FIATS TO WOODS. ALWAYS BREAKDOWN AND MAKE IT EASY FOR STEVE SMITH TO GET IN A COUPLE OF EXTRA RAPES.
- STEVE SMITH REFLECT ON POWER OF PROTEST THIS YEAR. WELL, NO HE DON’T. HE MOSTLY LAUGH AT FUTILITY….JUST LIKE FUTILITY IN TRYING TO GET AWAY FROM STEVE SMITH ON HIKING TRAIL! BY GET AWAY, MEAN AVOID RAPE.
First! I’ve never had a Fiat.
You’ve got some fiat currency.
Fix It Again, Tony
Hey, you said you deleted that video of me from the GlibFest!
Who, me?
*innocent look*
Who was it that had just met your sword?
Any who crosses her.
*shivers*
*joins in hop-dance*
You still don’t get a Get Out of Cat Butt Free card. But nice try.
Give the kid a break. He’s my favorite millennial by about a light-year.
Sorry, I’ve got a niece who’s a millennial. She wanted Sanders, but hated Hillary, so I’m hoping there’s at least some hope that I can twist her to our terrible philosophy.
oof so close!
If you want to see one I can show you mine. (no…not that)
A Xena gif? Nice. Don’t hear much about her anymore. Too bad, she was pretty hot in that show.
gold to oil ratio at 20. High end of norma (5 to 20).
There is no gold equivalent to fracking. I think the vast increase in oil supply may have broken that price model.
Yep. The price of oil is probably where it should be and will stay close to that forever. It is cheaply recovered these days. Damn efficiency of the human ape. That’s the breaks for a bunch of us other apes. Oh well.
High end of Norma Shearer?
I had to explain to my wife why I started laughing hysterically when I spotted Steven Smith, Teamaker. I then showed her STEVE SMITH’s posts and she joined me in laughing hysterically.
Apparently we are both pretty fucked up.
STEVE SMITH,TEAMAKER. ENJOY TEABAG AFTER RAPE IF YOU KNOW STEVE SMITH MEAN AND STEVE SMITH THINK YOU DO.
STEVE SMITH HAPPY YOU GIVE PICTURE TO GLIBERTARIAN STAFF. STEVE SMITH ENJOY CUPPA IN AFTERNOON…SO NOW STEVE SMITH RAPE YOU LAST. MAYBE.
Best I can hope for.
*sticks pinky out, sips tea, waits for the inevitable*
Probably best to avoid the woods in the Northwest.
STEVE SMITH SAVE USED TEABAGS FOR PLACE ON EYELIDS AND FUNNY CAMPERS ANUSES. SOOTHING BALM! AND THEN RE-RAPE!
OK, that was pretty good!
*applauds*
Thanks, Swiss! Also thanks for the first! animation the other morning. You’re a good egg.
First animation?
*blank stare*
Nothing like a nice soothing cuppa after being squatch-raped.
Pojama-Camper?
Is it squatch-raped, or rape-squatched? Hmmm.
RIP Steve Smith. Co-founded Stash Tea, Tazo, and then Steven Smith, Teamaker.
Ford #1! Wooooooo! Suck it Bow Tie Boys!
*Waves big blue foam finger around, shakes mullet*
Did you actually go read a linked story?
I read all of them, including most of the ones in the comments.
To be sure, how can a Mustang not read a story about Ford?
*salutes*
I’m still not convinced aluminum is the best thing to make truck beds out of.
I just got an F150. I’ll let you know.
I have a 2013 V8, before the aluminum bodies came out. I love that truck.
2018 3.5 Ecoboost. Absurd truck, but I dig it.
Meh. 2017 Ram 2500 4wd with the Cummins turbo-diesel. And that still isn’t the most absurd truck I personally know of.
Oh my. I had a 2008 dodge 2500 4wd a few years ago. It was the nicest truck I have ever owned. They are a joy to drive and I have driven both the ford and chevy version of the same year range and Dodge wins. I sold it due to why sit on so much equity in a vehicle. They have awesome resale value and I was needing to liquidate. I now drive an old Excursion and it gets me where I need to go and can tow what the 2500 could. It is not even close to the towing power of the Dodge though.
I have a Diesel Grand Cherokee and I would make love to it if that weren’t…. weird.
what year were the JGC in diesel?
Just because it’s not your kink doesn’t mean it’s nobody’s kink. (NB: It’s not my kink, either.)
I totally don’t get an erection when I see this
or this 2002
I’d have an affair with the late 90’s WRX/22b.
I’m driving a 98 Toyota Tacoma, 3.4, 5 speed manual, 4wd. 281,000 miles on it, still runs like a top. Great piece of equipment.
That is a great truck.
Damn! They stopped making the wee ones before I bought mine. It’s a 2008 crew with a six foot box and 4.2 liter. It’s been the best vehicle that I’ve owned thus far. Those little trucks were the cat’s-ass, though.
My perfect tacoma would be the 04 double cab short box.
I had the 05 and really like it, though.
I had a ’98 Toyota T100 that I bought for $1800. I loved that truck. I sold it to a friend when I didn’t need the extra vehicle… and his wife is still driving that thing around.
I wrote that truck into one of books…
*into one of my books
Ecoboost? Is that French for “Bullshit”?
Playa, I love this truck more every minute I drive it. The Ecoboost is a 6 cyl that is like 370hp and 470 ft/lb torque. It pretends to be ‘green’ but gets the same mileage as my old Tahoe with the 5.3 V8.
The best part? It has that retarded stop/start thing that can be disabled by a conveniently placed button n the midle of the dash!
Well played, Ford.
I hate new cars that turn off while I’m at a red light.
The starter can’t last forever.
I hate new cars that turn off while I’m at a red light.
The starter can’t last forever.
That’s part of why I turned down an Audi A6 in favor of a Hyundai Genesis. Price being the next reason.
My uncle got one and loves it. I don’t think its some terrible thing, just might not be the best when it comes to heavy duty uses.
also, fire.
keep us posted!
The beautiful thing is that I don’t need it for heavy uses. The fucking IRS incentivizes us to get work trucks, so we get work trucks.
I spent a huge part of the day reorganizing the garage to get the damn thing in there.
^TAX AVOIDER^ Get him!!11!!!
*grins and peels out*
/provides protection because we need more tax avoiders
Yeah, me either. I also shake my fist at the clouds daily that they haven’t introduced a dedicated two-seater sports car to compete with the Corvette. I’d buy that to add to my garage quite quickly. The GT isn’t it.
Not for a working truck. Too flimsy and prone to catch afire.
Aluminum bed, aluminum motor, aluminum frame. In a crash self-crumples for disposal or burial.
For the large number of people who’s truck beds haul nothing but sunshine, I’m sure it’ll be great. For people who actually use the bed of their truck and *gasp* scratch the paint in it…color me skeptical.
I actually feel for the protestors in Venezuela.
I laughed when they showed Bruce Maxwell.
Out of that whole lot, I do feel bad for them…I wish they could chase off the Socialists, or, if violence cannot be avoided, kill them.
How can you give a shit about Venezuela when American women are literally being chained to bedposts?
Not only that, they’re getting hit by buses and falling pregnant!
Do you not realize that the government not funding a private organization is just a short step to dystopia? WHAT KIND OF MONSTER ARE YOU?
American women are literally being chained to bedposts
Ew, bedposts? Uncivilized creatures, the St. Andrews Cross is so much more refined.
+1 Romanian Fantasy.
Romanian Fantasy.
Excellent.
Sounds like Mozart. It’s lovely!
Did they link to stories of women literally being chained to bedposts?
NO KINK SHAMING.
Mostly the second thing.
There’s a few “protestors” who look to be in way worse circumstances than the “counter-protestors” in those pictures.
great video game music- features organ and choir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQYN2P3E06s
I didn’t hear any organ but I’ll let it slide.
You’re not supposed to hear the organ, you’re supposed to feel it.
I don’t know how true this is now, but i recall back when the Iraq war was in its early years (2003-2006) it was often remarked upon that France had longstanding interests/relations with the country in both the oil/energy sector as well as w/ military sales, other things. French banks have always been balls deep in everything in the Arab world, which is to say: wherever you find corrupt billionaires/dictators stripping wealth out of their countries, french broker-dealer-fixers are not far away.
This story covers a little bit of their legacy w/ Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/07/opinion/ties-with-iraq-french-industry-stands-to-lose.html
There were way better reasons to oppose that war. The US did not end up with with the majority of field contracts. Europe and China did. Russia did not do so bad either.
There is a not finished canal in Sudan that was dug by the French. The White Nile exits Uganda and heads North through S Sudan, which is very swampy, and then takes a shit hook to the East and eventually to Khartoum and the Blue Nile to become the Nile River. At the shit hook turn all the foliage that travels down a river gets stopped up and it floods the southern areas as well as making river travel difficult. To fix this they wanted to dig a canal east of the shit hook run straight south to just North of Juba. They never finished it. The giant trenching machine sits dead where it stopped to this day. The would be canal is visible on Google Earth. One of my pics might even be there. The French were trying to get there why? There is a bunch of oil in S Sudan. They are just too stupid to stop killing each other and make a country of themselves.
France is the sneaky nephew who weasels his way into more presents from the aunts when the rest of the world is not looking.
as the same story mentions: it was france’s oil firms Total/Elf which were the most intimately involved with trying to help remove sanctions against Saddam in the 1990s, because they expected huge windfall business in exchange
claiming “the americans just want Iraq’s oil” is mildly ironic. we spent (wasted) bazillions in Iraq, and most of it has probably subsidized deals that non-US businesses have since done with the country.
And don’t forget the French government is intimately involved in France’s oil firms. The French government was working hard to remove Iraq’s sanctions so the French oil firms (and connected French politicians) a lot of money.
claiming “the americans just want Iraq’s oil” is mildly ironic.
It is not mildly ironic. It is blatantly asshatterly stupid. The people who say those things need to search out where all European companies and china have oil concessions. They can get back to me on that one. The fuckers are everywhere. Literally everywhere. Especially China. They are indeed everywhere there is oil.
🙂 that’s pretty much what i meant. understatement.
That’s well put.
their historical financial dealings with the world’s biggest scumbags would make fascinating reading. I’m sure there’s a book out there about it, but they have always been “the ones who will deal with the MOST corrupt regimes” not because they were such ambitious risk-takers, but because they had absolutely zero compunctions dealing with mega-scumbags. i think it also made them very good sources of intelligence on scummy dictators around the world
There are four primary causes of breast ptosis (sagging): cigarette smoking, number of pregnancies, gravity, and weight fluctuations. So ladies, for the sake of hetero-shitlord Americans, quit the fags, don’t get knocked up and keep a healthy weight. We’re working on the gravity thing.
http://archive.is/JpVvZ
1, 5, 6, 15, 31 would make bathtime lots of fun.
20 could improve with one really simple step – clean the gloopy stuff off her eyelashes.
Wood them all, and agree that lots of women need to learn they don’t have to do their eyes up like the Whore of Babylon to be attractive.
Shut your whore of babylon mouth. Just something to help them wipe off in the bathroom.
Mrs JI has ridiculously great boobs for a woman well past 40 (and I’m not saying how well past). No cigs, no kids – so there must be some truth here.
Mrs Gordilocks is 19 weeks into pregnancy, and has yet to add to her already substantial 34DD rack.
Maybe they’re already big enough?
Wait until feeding time.
There’s still time.
#10. I’m still recovering but I’m biased towards the Tilted Kilt.
15 can shiver my timber.
15 and 20. I am a sucker for rigging and braids.
7, 31
I went to MSU today – shopping ‘n’ all that stuff, including a stop at an art gallery. Female report: step it up, Michigan State College girls! I only saw one that was a ::wow:: moment.
Also the men all look like poofters.
Feminism.
You don’t dig colored hair and problem glasses? Ah, I misread, you were looking for females. Carry on.
I had a lot of wow moments when I visited a friend that lived in Ann Arbor.
You saying the talent was…
*Dons narrow gaze proof sunglasses*
Spartan?
YEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!
*narrows gaze*
Totally deserved.
Let’s play a game! What famous literary figures of the past 100 years would almost certainly be on the guillotine of #metoo right now? I’ll start with:
-Henry Miller
-John Updike
Don’t kid yourself. All of them.
its sort of like that point that somebody made about statues of people pre-1850s. Basically, you go back far enough, *everyone was pretty racist*, and if they were Americans they probably had something to do with slaves at some point.
similarly: literary people, and, “womanizers” is a redundancy
Word.
Hmm, literary people and womanizers…
EM Forster
Henry James
Percy Shelley
Oscar Wilde
Walt Whitman
George Sand (well, perhaps a womanizer)
etc…
‘heterosexual (and male)’ was implied, you illiterate philistines
Philip Roth, Hemingway, Bukowski, certainly Burroughes ( he blew his wife’s head off on a drunken dare!). Authors are assholes. Sylvia Plath’s hubby seems to be a giant bugaboo for insular girls that study at Radcliffe!
Hey, wait, I’m an author and…
…uhh…
…never mind.
Definitely Updike. Stephen King. I suspect some of his writing is a result of a guilt conscious. I don’t see Hemingway… women probably liked his overtures.
I’ve read lately that he was an overcompensating Gaybo. People make up stories and you can choose to believe them or not.
Hemingway?
I realize that is apparently not appropriate for Libertarians (based-on comments here and TOS) to like Hemingway, but I am a huge fan.
I’ve not read any of Hemingway’s work, but I know a little about his life. I should add his work to my to-buy queue so that there is a chance of me reading his work and deciding for myself whether or not I like it.
#Metoo. I was reading Vonnegut and Hemingway at the same time in my 20’s. Pretty sure I knocked off all of their books. Hemingway was infinitely more palatable than Vonnegut.
The Old Man and the Sea is my favorite book. I also have a book of Hemingway short stories I have never finished but liked so far over the decades when I actually pick it up. I did see the movie where they depict him as a communist supporting Castro which threw me. I would be as crushed about Hemingway being a communist as I was about OJ being a murderer. Life goes on though.
Hemingway is good the same way that comic books are good.
I havn’t read a comic book since the ’70’s.
It was probably an Archie comic book. Veronica…….would. Hell, Betty would.
Adam Smith.
Heh! Chasing the downstairs maid around the pantry!
Think Marx would make the list, too.
He got the maid pregnant, then refused to acknowledge the kid, pay her, or for the child.
Klassy Karl
Klassy Karl, King of the Kucks!
Rousseau also.
Ha, ha, ha! I am really enjoying the proggie meltdown about the tax reform bill. This was one of my favorite comments from SFGate:
greenmtns Rank 317
How about this…the first born in every congressional republican family, to be taken out in front of their home and shot in the face. That is what the republicans are doing to the rest of the country…they are publicly murdering millions. Time to turn the tables.
I’m not the first-born. 🙂
I’m out of luck!
Longer Ted S. ‘It ain’t me, it ain’t me, I ain’t no senator’s firstborne son”
Not a CCR fan.
Sad.
Christ, what an asshole…
Hope that they don’t just leave these piles of corpses all over the streets to trip over and stink up the place.
I remember from the year I lived in SF the proggies encouraging that.
This town is indeed amazingly filthy.
I fondly remember the 50/50 chance of getting on a bus that it would be funked up by some reeking bum. At least here in NYC you can just move to another subway car 🙂
I guess if you have less taxes taken out of your check you are magically poorer and getting murdered.
And people wonder why I own so many guns.
Chrysler is in a world of hurt right now with some big drops in sales. Ram and Jeep manage to keep the brand afloat.
I’ve never owned a Chrysler (FCA) product but I have been a bit drawn to the Challenger R/T. It is supposed to have more passenger room than the cramped Camaro. The Mustang we rented in SC – three years ago – was nice and had enough room for three. *If I was going to get one of the new muscle cars it would probably be a ‘Stang first.
*Really want a BMW 2-series though.
that 2 series with the big engine…
mmm
I approve.
Though knowing my budget, it will be a used 1-series. Ah well – these days I like small cars.
I have a hard time picturing the biggest guy in the Wasteland squeezing into a tiny leather interior to chase people down for their guzzoline.
While I have a fondness for the Barracuda, I will never buy a Chrysler product because of their bailout.
I rented a convertible mustang in Hawaii 2 years ago. Everything comes down to personal preference. That said, the car sucked. I wouldn’t take it for free.
On a business trip back in 2007, the rental car company decided to upgrade me. They didn’t have any econobox cars. They “upgraded” me to a new Mustang. I’m going to guess it was that year’s V6 version. Why? It was more sluggish than my first car, a ’79 Mustang with a four cylinder.
Love the Mustang, too. Unfortunately, my neighbor bought one of these. A couple months ago. Nice eyesore to look at every time I leave the house. Pretty sure it’s existence violates the NAP.
Eyesore?!? Compared to this?
I always assume those vehicles are the result of drunken wagers at the car companies.
Those things and the Tanto. Death traps.
That car was designed by a person who spent their entire life in an office cubicle, and thinks the entire world should look like one.
GT350 has your name all over it.
Wait for the PP2 package coming out this year. Cheaper and almost as effective.
Chrysler owns Dodge, right? They F’ed up had with the new Chargers.
They went from 60-0 in one year
F’ed up hard*
By granting corporations massive tax cuts, Republicans are essentially writing Bernie Sanders’ 2020 campaign speech…
by NATHAN J. ROBINSON
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/12/at-least-theyre-not-even-pretending-anymore
***
What’s refreshing about the tax bill is that Republicans are now barely even pretending that they care about anything beyond making rich people richer. Usually, they make at least some effort to convince the public that their policies come from a Very Serious Concern About Deficits or are Just Basic Economics. No longer: politicians who have spent a lifetime crowing about how government spending is out of control and the deficit is too high have just voted overnight to add a trillion dollars to it. The nice thing about this is that nobody ever again needs to listen to the Republicans when they insist that they oppose social spending because of Principles of Fiscal Responsibility.
…
Republicans have the votes in Congress to do as they please, so there is no longer any need to provide justifications for their actions. Nobody can stop them, so they can be as openly sinister and greedy as they please, punishing low-income people and rewarding the rich. (That “refreshing honesty” is kind of the paradox of Donald Trump himself: though he’s obviously an extremely dishonest person, he doesn’t really try to disguise the fact that he’s a selfish narcissistic plutocrat who cares solely about other plutocrats.
…
Both Democratic insiders and public polls suggest that Sanders is the leading contender for the party’s nomination in 2020. Sanders already came impressively close to winning the nomination the last time around, despite beginning his campaign with no institutional backing or national name recognition. Now, he’s the most popular politician in the country, and even former pro-Hillary partisans like Donna Brazile seem to be recognizing that they need to throw the party establishment under the bus and get on Bernie’s side.
…
The 2017 elections already provided hints that socialist candidates can be viable, at least locally. If Republicans openly embrace their identity as the party of corporate tax cuts and bankrupting government services, they will only further radicalize the left. The tax bill is horrific, but it’s so transparent in its evil that the arguments for socialism are easier than ever to make.
***
By cutting the taxes, they’re undercutting the effect of that agitating among a large voting block – people who need jobs.
Some people are born stupid. Others come to it later in life.
It’s amazing how many people have never heard of tax incidence.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA – *deep breath* –
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Am I the only person who thinks Sander would be crushed in an election against Trump?
I think he would have done worse than clinton. My peers do not like me for that opinion.
Sanders would have been crushed by Trump. He would have been campaigning with a fraction of her money and black voters liked him even less than they liked her.
Agreed. If Team Blue had put up a full-throated bread-line-praising socialist like Bernie Sanders last year, all the Never-Trumpers would have fallen in line and voted Trump. GayJay would have gotten his normal million votes like he did in 2012, Evan McMullin doesn’t even think about running as the not-Trump GOP dude, and six million more votes fall into Trump’s lap.
I am not sure he would have. There are a bunch of Dems who think Hillary is as a corrupt slime bag as we do. There is also a huge contingent of full on socialists/marxists these days. Melt in a bit of populism and Bernie is your man. I hear socialist populism from so called right wing/conservative people these days. It won’t be long and we will be there. Personally I think it is inevitable but I am a glass not half full guy. A defeatist if you will. To be honest, I wish I could not care anymore but I do.
The democratic coalition appears to be so closely tied with identity politics that sending up a old white male will only guarantee the identitarians stay home again.
Nobody was mean to Bernie because he didn’t get the nomination. When it’s time to get mean, he’s fucked.
The guy has never held a real job in his life. He went into politics because he was too lazy to work a real job. That’s…. not going to play well in most of the United States.
The 3 houses isn’t going to help either, and the college fiasco would have been thrown on every occasion.
His waterfront project as mayor also has some problems for his current image.
I’ve even heard people try to pass off the religious argument. “What would Jesus do?”
My response:
“Jesus didn’t get fired for being a shitty carpenter, forcing him to run for mayor.”
Nope. Multiple factors for it, the biggest being that Sanders is a lame duck who will bend over at the slightest push (his support for Clinton at the convention and the boos that followed is a pretty good example).
Are they really THAT stupid?
Rhetorical question, I’ll assume? Just look at the way the Democrats have done things the last 18 months or so.
“they will only further radicalize the left”
Why wouldn’t they try to do that? At least 50% of the country, probably more already think the left are batshit crazy. Let’s increase that to at least 75%.
Jesus Christ man, he’s going to be 80 in 2020. Eventually you’re going to have to accept the fact that he’s an old man who might not even be around then.
John, I just had an utterly terrible thought: What if he does run, with (ecch!) Kamala Harris as his veep… and two months into the office, he croaks…
*thinks about self-defenestration*
I wonder if Steve Smith remembers a time when the Sabres were any good.
It was less than 20 years ago they were in the finals (and screwed out of a Game 7).
I guess it’s their turn any time now.
Canucks\Sabres 2018!
LOL aaah you silly bugger. Good one.
*slowclap*
I’ll bet he also believes people stop doing things just because you pass a law against it.
***
Could The Libertarian Fantasies Of David Koch Destroy America?
What are the Koch brothers trying to do? Thom reads from David Koch’s platform to find out, and the results are disgusting. No EPA, no protection for you and me, only their amassing of wealth an we all get to suffer.
***
https://youtu.be/eXAZyWO9_5w?t=1m31s
from the comments
***
Libertarians are pot smoking atheist republicans.
A world of libertarians would look like the movie, “Road Warrior”.
And a world run by socialists, would look like the movie, “Star Trek”.
***
Evidence suggests that a world run by socialists resembles Road Warrior, and no world results in Star Trek.
*raises finger, decides not to bother*
A world of libertarians would look like the movie, “Road Warrior”.
There’s something wrong with that?
Venezuela will get their food replicators up and running any minute now.
“A world of libertarians would look like the movie, “Road Warrior”.
And a world run by socialists, would look like the movie, “Star Trek”.
Yeah, that’s fucking hilarious. Every socialist ever “We can’t afford to go to space, people are starving here on earth!”
This argument always infuriates me.
The whole Mad Max franchise is premised on governments that got to big and out of control and started letting rip with nuclear weapons. It is the antithesis to libertarianism.
Jesus Christ those people are fucking stupid.
I mean, if we suspend certain rules of physics and other sciences and are able to make everything out of nothing at no cost … sure, we can have the world of Star Trek.
You know you’re obviously intelligent when you use fictional world-building as a serious argument in real world politics.
I’m waiting a few months, but I went test driving the new WRX’s to compare it to my dad’s 2012 hatch.
Less body roll, quicker pick up, and the seats wouldn’t fit if I was 50 pounds heavier.
for 26-28k, you really can’t go wrong.
I’m waiting for this years to start coming back into the lot to see what those prices look like*
WRX really holds it’s value. Looking at the used ones aren’t worth it – since I see ones north of 100k miles still going for too much money.
The other problem is most of those 50-100k was redline-sideways by kids my age. the wear on that motor is something I don’t need. I’d buy dads because I know he broke it in slow and drives like a reasonable person.
A friend of mine has an ’11 or ’12 as well, and he blew the engine trying to go stage 2.
The new ones have a 6 speed. I could probably afford the W, but the STI is a little much, even if I do want that transmission.
I don’t recall exactly what it it was that goes wrong, but on track they’re always blowing seals and spilling oil. I know a couple kids who brought them to their first track days and blew them up their first few laps out, even with an instructor in the car to moderate. The lead instructor flat out told one kid he probably wouldn’t drive home in it and sure enough…oil everywhere after three laps.
I’m trying to remember what it was that went on my friends.
It was fine, even going hard, until he started adding horses. The gaskets have always been a spot to look at, and his needed new rods.
You can build a good engine out of that block, but you really do need to build it for it. turns out Subaru does just build them at the factory for ~300hp.
The WRX’s other issue, at least for the previous ones, was the 5 speed. it really couldn’t take much more than stock power.
Can Asian-Americans Appropriate Their Own Culture?
https://everydayfeminism.com/2017/11/asian-american-appropriation/
***
2. Asians of the diaspora selling our stereotypes for financial profit
…
Many Bengali men also did this sort of thing in the United States in the late 1800s.
They knew that (mostly) white Americans held all these Oriental ideas about South Asian culture, and so they used that to their advantage to sell silk (much of which their wives made back home in Bengal) in New Jersey, New Orleans, and elsewhere around the U.S.
They would make this money in the U.S. and then send it back to their families in South Asia.
Both of these types of self-stereotyping directly financially benefited the people who participated. So, they were working the system to get something out of it.
***
To what extent is this self-stereotyping problematic?
In my experience, Asians of the diaspora in the U.S. will stereotype themselves because it affords them something — like, social likeability, money, resources, or sexual and romantic desirability.
As I mentioned, this situation exists because of white supremacy.
***
What it’s like to be me as I read this:
https://youtu.be/DadH3KjHZws?t=7m50s
*slides Hoshino Gen’s Yellow Dancer album under the pile*
People should act like what I think they should act like and cultures should never mingle.
Women don’t make silk; worms do.
I picture a white person living in Asia or Africa posting some navel-gazing nonsense like this and the reaction from the natives.
If they are doing it from Asia, they would have to be blind and deaf. There’s a sneaker store near the train station here that has the hip hop theme going strong. Music cranked, posters of rap and hip hop stars everywhere and an all black staff that wears all the gear. Went in there once and the salesman had an accent I can only describe as William F. Buckleyish. Pretty sure that wasn’t how he dressed at home.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2015/08/04/commentary/japan-commentary/kimono-cultural-appropriation/#.WiNVZ60-KHo
I’m confused. Do I get to blame Hawaiians of cultural appropriation for their shirts? They took beautiful kimonos and made them into atrocities.
Really? It’s the shirts and not spam musubi that’s the culturally appropriated atrocity?
I think we could play this game for hours. They are POC, hence, therefore, ergo, it’s oppressive “whataboutism” to point it out.
Whatever it is, it’s the fault of white people and their damn supremacy.
Ford Motor (F) reported better-than-expected November U.S. sales growth Friday, while General Motors (GM) unexpectedly reported a decline. Fiat Chrysler (FCAU) sales fell, though roughly in line with views.
Ford didn’t take any bail-outs, right? They’ve made some decisions I think are stupid (aluminum for a truck bed and the eco-boost shit), but they are making those decisions with their own money.
I could be wrong but I think they took some small loans. They also liquidated Mercury to cover losses.
Ahh… ok.
I must admit I have a soft spot for the Cougar and Marauder.
I owned two mid-80s Town Cars. I like what I read about the new Continental.
Lot’s of violence from people who want more power.
NO MATTER HOW MUCH PROTEST STEVE SMITH FIND A WAY! AND BY FIND A WAY, MEAN RAPE!
today in clumsy satire
5 Life Hacks for Black People Who Want to Leverage White Guilt to Make White People Uncomfortable at Work
https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/5-life-hacks-for-black-people-who-want-to-leverage-whit-1820853574
from the comments
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Tonight, after my Zumba class, I honed in on a white woman telling someone about her trip to NYC, and how she and her fellow husband in white visited “North Manhattan” and how cool and culturally diverse it was. She started talking about taking a tour of the Apollo, and I blurted, “You mean HARLEM???” This heifer was talking about Harlem like it was some fresh Columbused shit no one had ever heard of. She said that it was being built up and it was so exciting, because it had been really dangerous for so long and it’s great that white people can walk around there now. I had to remind her that’s called gentrification, and it would only be exciting if all of that development was happening to the benefit of the original residents. I realized that shit like this took my last fuck and I have no filter, and I’m really glad about that.
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He’s got some fucking nerve, appropriating a Colombian/Brazilian fitness program.
“Heifer”. Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. Fuck that cunt and fuck the Root. He doesn’t feature how safe he is whilst throwing out racist terms that would get him killed in another country.
I was on a football forum when a guy decided to share a link to the Super Bowl thread on the root because it had funny comments.
Everyone was shocked at how racist it was, especially over a non-racist event. I guess it never occurred to the poster that the casual racism in his world is not something normal people find acceptable
Jews and Italians?
Or the Dutch, or the Lenape Native Americans, or the people who were there before that.
“She started talking about taking a tour of the Apollo, and I blurted, “You mean HARLEM???”
Yeah, sure you did.
Well, in her head she did. When she thought of it 2 hours later.
this is a tell. the author can’t possibly be black.
The story reminds me of several I have read over at DU. They all go something like ‘I was in the grocery store and I overheard this guy say something something degrading to [fill in the blank] people and I really told him off in front of everyone as loud as I could and after that everyone in the store applauded and the guy got down on his knees and begged me for forgiveness! And I’m just so tired now and I went home and cried! And then everyone on the thread replies ‘OMG, you’re such a hero!’. This one is no different, it never happened.
i find the idea of anyone even saying, “North Manhattan” completely implausible. Every neighborhood has names, and there are even names within names for specific clusters of blocks.
I’ve never heard the term ‘North Manhattan’ before and I’ve been to Manhattan many times and had several friends there.
You do realize that you’re their target audience, right?
90% of their clicks are hate reading.
Blast! They tricked me again!
And there it is, the line showing this never happened.
The record I ordered from merry ol’ England today. Johnny Thunders, eh?
I had this on CD but it actually was one of the rare ones where the aluminum rotted out due to a manufacturing defect.
Not my cuppa anymore but two thumbs up! I usedta fringe around Punks and it could be fun. Usedta pretend to like the Clash to get some pussy.
That one’s a scorcher. One of my old bands used to do a cover of Get Off the Phone years ago.
This was one of my college staples. i was in a band w/ a kid who worshipped thunders, all the dolls and the heartbreakers stuff
Was thinking about you last week. Saw Spacy at Tower Records. Unfortunately didn’t have the same cover and was a CD, no vinyl.
I don’t think i’ve listened to the entire record before. my interest has mostly been trying to figure out how to do something new with the break on “Dancer”.
this dude seem to have made the most sincere attempt at chopping it up. i feel better things can be done.
I demand “FUCK YOU, CUT SPENDING” merch!
P..please
We could do a whole Jsub line, proceeds go to homeless and vets?
That’s a great idea, Doom.
This.
I wrote ‘Fuck Off, Slaver’ on the back of an old work shirt, and I wear it to music festivals all the time.
Thirded.
Fourthed actually…. sorry.
100% will purchase. So… fifthed, or something lke that.
I wore a #fuckoffslaver t-shirt to the last Denver meet up. I had Jsub thoughts in my heart when I printed the shirt. I hope that was sufficient. And I never knew Jsub I just heard he was the originator.
Most people stop when they reach the bottom of the barrel. I lift it up to see what’s underneath. Which is how I find things like this:
Trump’s Food Choices Grow More Disconcerting
A new memoir implicates the Filet-O-Fish in a 2,400-calorie dinner.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/12/trump-eats/547355/
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“Trump’s appetite seems to know no bounds when it comes to McDonald’s, with a dinner order consisting of two Big Macs, two Fillet-O-Fish, and a chocolate malted.”
This 2,400-calorie meal is among the details in a forthcoming book by Trump’s former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and aid David Bossie, as described in a preview by The Washington Post.
A dinner of that size would offer caloric energy for a full day. The 3,400 milligrams of sodium more than doubles the American Heart Association’s recommendation of 1,500 milligrams per day. The meal provides almost no fiber—and also offers more white bread than anyone would do well to eat in a week. This is all ominous for the president’s cardiovascular system.
So is the lack of variety. The book’s authors, who traveled with Trump early in his presidency, write: “On Trump Force One there were four major food groups: McDonald’s, Kentucky Fried Chicken, pizza, and Diet Coke.”
Keeping the Coke sugar-free is an interesting line to draw—especially as a man who once said, “I have never seen a thin person drink Diet Coke.”
The food enters the President not only in abundance, but with haste. Ivanka Trump said in a 2015 interview with Barbara Walters, “I wish he would eat healthier and maybe slow down. Sometimes I tell him, like, ‘Oh, you have to, you know, slow down.’ But it’s the only speed he knows …”
All of this could be taken as simple evidence of Trump’s cultural vacuousness. He should know other speeds; he has dined with other people. He should enjoy a wide array of foods; he has been afforded the opportunity to have anything he wants.
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“He’s not as snooty as we are” – they should run with that in 2020.
If Trump doesn’t die of myocardial infarction before then.
Wow, they’re bitching that he eats McDonald’s like most Americans. The people who care for the average person, ladies and gentleglibs.
And you KNOW that if he ate fancier foods, they’d still criticise him…
“Trump gorges himself on five-star cuisine while ordinary Americans are languishing in barren food deserts!”
He’s an old man and the most powerful person on the orb. If President Trump wants to eat a log of shit who the hell are these people to question his decision. He’s the Prez. He could eat Putin’s liver and it wouldn’t make any difference.
To be fair, the author of the article is a medical doctor. It is kind of his job to question people’s food choices.
Yeah, I wouldn’t applaud anyone on that diet. I also don’t care enough to say anything against it. SLD or whatever.
I do. You want the phrase “President Pence” to have to escape your lips anytime in the near future?
oh fuck you’re right.
EAT A SALAD, TWO SCOOPS.
You can’t tell me you’re not the least bit curious to see if he sets up a giant Faraday cage in the Rose Garden with homosexuals being zapped in the nads 24 hours a day.
As an infidel Buddhist, I wouldn’t have the luxury to stick around in Pence’s Gilead to find out.
You’d think it’d be fairly easy to pull a Marrano as a Buddhist.
It’s impossible that I’ve ran into 2 Buddhist libertarians in my 50 something years on this rock floating in space. What are the odds of that? I don’t even see how it could conceivably happen in a billion years. Now I’m convinced this is a simulation and the programmer if fucking with me.
“is” maybe it is possible that there is an edit fairy who’s inside this simulation inside the simulation.
Apparently his government-appointed right, but certainly not via training/knowledge as an MD.
Only his patients’ choices.
If my doctor talked to me like this I’d find another doctor who wasn’t a raging snob.
If speaking truth to power about shitty fat-fuck “food” is snobbish, then call me Duke Amiel du Hardcore.
God, you are good…
I’m fine with “eat a healthy diet but one or two Big Macs won’t kill you”.
This guy sounds more like a haughty chef than a doctor.
Fuck me. I watched three minutes of that. I knew better but I did it.
“everything I do is presidential, I’m the president.”
Or more likely the order was for several people.
I doubt it.
Donald Trump is one thicc azz bih.
2 Big Macs and 2 Filet o Fish is the diet of someone who weighs like 500 pounds. He thicc but he ain’t that thicc.
The second line tells you how he burns all that off.
“Trump’s appetite seems to know no bounds when it comes to McDonald’s, with a dinner order consisting of two Big Macs, two Fillet-O-Fish, and a chocolate malted.”
Holy shit the Prez is doing bong hits in the oval! That is 100% munchies menu right there. I would smash that. Needs fries though.
I’m too lazy to find a GIF of a dog humping a leg to illustrate “American media”, so you’ll just have to close your eyes and imagine one.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/12/02/media/abc-news-brian-ross/index.html
Boooooooooooooo.
https://thinkprogress.org/elizabeth-warren-is-not-cherokee-c1ec6c91b696/
Left attacks Elizabeth Warren for being a fake injun. I have a half chub from just reading the article.
I am not part Cherokee. There is not one member of my family who was Cherokee. I am Cherokee. I am an enrolled citizen of Cherokee Nation and a member of my home and urban Indian communities. We are living, real, and whole people; not fractions of Indians who used to be real.
That Cherokee DNA some potent shit.
“I am Cherokee. I am an enrolled citizen of Cherokee Nation and a member of my home and urban Indian communities.”
Ok, now tell me the part that proves that somewhere in your linage, there was a Cherokee?
I sounds like she signed up for some sort of Cherokee correspondence course and got a certificate at the end.
She’s just mad because she’s about as Indian as Liz and people are featuring. Have you seen the Black feller that’s going after Brown U? I’m at least 1/16th and probably 1/8. I want for nothing you fucking lying crybabies. My Mom got shut out of her tribe because she was mean and couldn’t get her relatives to send on the bonafides. Sucked to be her.
Same here. My paperwork is somewhere, but I never cared enough to send it in (1/8).
I’ve also never applied for any sort of racial set-aside in my life.
I hate that fu**ing bitch Elizabeth Warren. She’s just a scummy excuse for a human being.
Yep. Shame on her.
I’m thinking maybe Irish. Cherokee, no.
Syria: Israeli missiles hit military base near Damascas
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Israeli missiles struck a military base near Damascus early Saturday morning, Syrian state television said.
An Iranian military base was struck around 12:30 a.m. near the city of Al-Kiswa, about eight miles southwest of the capital, the Syrian Arab News Agency said. The “blatant assault” caused material losses at the base, state media reported.
An Israeli military spokeswoman declined to comment on the reports, according to Haaretz.
The Syrian state media and Sky News Arabia reported Syria’s air-defense system also intercepted two Israeli surface-to-surface missiles.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said heavy explosions were heard in the area and electricity was cut off throughout Damascus.
The attack killed and wounded a number of Iranian soldiers, according to Al Qoraish, an Arab newspaper in London.
Sources told Al Jazeera that Israel coordinated the strikes to target military sites and the Lebanese Hezbollah movement
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Anyone else follow Thomas Wictor on Twitter?
He has a wild but interesting theory about the Gen. Flynn situation.
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(2) Trump’s first big “scandal” was Flynn.
It looks like Obama and his people tried to set up Flynn to be the proof that Trump was Putin stooge.
(3) Andrew McCarthy, former federal prosecutor:
(4) “It remains unclear why the Obama Justice Department chose to investigate Flynn.”
(5) “There was nothing wrong with the incoming national-security adviser’s having meetings with foreign counterparts or discussing such matters as the sanctions in those meetings.”
(6)
What the Flynn Plea Means
Michael Flynn’s guilty plea is less newsworthy than it’s being made to seem by the mainstream media …
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/454269/michael-flynn-plea-no-breakthrough-russia-investigation
(7) Yes, but try to explain that to people hearing nothing but “COLLUSION! COLLUSION! COLLUSION!”
(8) Flynn closed down Flynn Intel Group–his company–in November of 2016.
He spoke to Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak on December 22 and then FIVE TIMES on December 29, 2016.
(9) December 29, 2016, was when Obama hit Russia with sanctions, based on the US Intelligence Community saying that Russia hacked the Democratic National Committee.
(10) Michael Flynn was a military spook. He knew darn well that his calls to Kislyak were being recorded.
(11) Andrew McCarthy makes a SECOND point that would’ve tipped off Flynn that he was being set up:
(12) “If the FBI had FISA recordings of Flynn’s conversations with Kislyak, there was no need to ask Flynn what the conversations entailed.”
(13) So Flynn knows that they’re setting him up to be Putin’s Boy.
He did nothing wrong, but the press will PRESENT him as a villain anyway.
(14) Flynn knew by December that he was being set up.
After Trump is sworn in on January 20, 2017, Flynn creates his staff for the National Security Council
(15) There’s a HUGE number of Defense Intelligence Agency spooks in Flynn’s picks.
These men and women are the real thing. Virtually NONE of them have ever been photographed.
(16) To be a member of the National Security Advisers’ staff, you need a security clearance.
This is not revoked when your boss is fired.
(17) Why did Flynn assembled a staff of spooks with security clearances?
Because BEFORE Trump was sworn in, Obama, Clapper, and Ash Carter did a smear job on NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers.
(18) The press was told that Rogers ran to Trump Tower to beg Trump to let him stay on.
Clapper and Carter said this was OUTRAGEOUSLY unprofessional, so Obama should fire him.
(19) No way in hell would Obama fire the head of the NSA on scurrilous charges.
BUT Obama and his buddies wanted to ruin Roger’s reputation in order to weaken Trump.
(20) “See? Just kiss Trump’s butt, and he’ll keep you. He sits in his tower like a pasha. What an egomaniac! What a bastard!”
(21) There’s ZERO evidence that Rogers actually went to Trump Tower to beg for his job.
I say it didn’t happen. Rogers isn’t a clown.
(22) So Flynn knows that Rogers is pissed off, AND–as I keep telling you–Trump offers people redemption.
Did Rogers do things he regrets?
I don’t know.
(23) But assembles a team of spooks who have never even been photographed.
Then Trump fires Flynn, and Flynn departs, taking the spotlight with him.
(24) H. R. McMaster becomes the new National Security Adviser, and he fires all of Flynn’s staffers.
But they retain their security clearances.
(25) Go back and look at the alleged leaks about ANYTHING.
It’s always people yapping about REPORTS.
(26) Only one person can provide uncensored signals intelligence (SIGINT) that include phone calls and text messages.
That person is Admiral Mike Rogers, Director of the National Security Agency.
(27) So I believe that Flynn created a team of spooks who hunt for leakers. McMaster “fired” them, but my guess is that they were only hired in order to get security clearances.
(28) Leaks are ILLEGAL.
Therefore I think Mike Rogers provides Flynn’s spooks with raw SIGINT. Rogers also creates barium meals.
(29) Therefore Flynn’s spooks can instantly identify leakers AND confront them with the real story.
That’s why Trump has been immune to the sort of leaks that destroyed George W. Bush.”
I totally did not mean to post the whole thread; I just wanted to paste the last part.
I apologize if anyone feels offended.
TL;DR
not offended but easy there kenlier973
I thought you turned into Ken.
It’s a compelling story with some absolutely spot-on observations – at least in some places.
It’ll be interesting to see how this all falls out.
Well, there is this funny moment in the immediate aftermath of benghazi where feinstein gets to go on at length about her POV, and then they turn to Rogers, and there is some convenient network failure
I don’t get it, having a security clearance doesn’t give you access to all intelligence at that security level. They likely had a security clearance prior to getting hired anyway.
As far as I know the only crime to actually occur so far was leaking the contents of Flynn’s call. It would be nice if the investigation worked harder at solving crimes, then trapping people involved in non-crimes.
he’s somewhere between the “Rods from God” and Lena Dunham on the credibility scale.
About the Protest story. That girl who said she was assaulted in middle school is sending off the alarm bells. I had a science teacher in high school, former navy dude, who was an asshole and he knew it. There was a girl in the class who decided to accuse him of sexual harrassment (looking up her skirt). It was well known that it was B.S. she told everybody she was lying except for the admin. eventually, she admitted it to the admin but the guy was still gone for another six months after that.
fun facts
21 — Number of U.S. presidents who won election to a second term.
13 — Number of U.S. presidents who served two full terms in office.
6 — Number of Republican presidents elected to a second term in office since 1900.
6 — Number of Democratic presidents elected to a second term in office since 1900.
44– Number of men who have been president
You forgot the mostest important stat
0 – people with a vagina elected president.
Shitlord.
Tonight, looking in my beer fridge, it’s full of nothing but big barrel aged stouts, rye barleywines, and Belgians. So I decided to try something new in the cocktail world… the Boulevardier:
1 part bourbon/rye
1 part sweet vermouth
1 part Campari
I modified the ratio based on current web recipes I found (to 4:1:1). And this is a damn fine cocktail. Currently using Bulleit Rye, as I’ve learned that the Ohio liquor pricing is about the same for the Bulleit Rye and the Bulleit Bourbon: ~$35 for a 750 mL, ~$40 for a liter.
Don’t you even Costco Neph? It was 45 for a 1.75 the last time I went.
(Don’t know if CA Costco is differently priced than OH)
We have state run liquor stores here in Ohio. If you want anything above 40 proof (except beer now), you have to buy it at a liquor store. This means we get no Costco booze, nor do we get Trader Joe’s booze.
Dayum. That sucks balls. Liquor laws are one of the very few ways in which CA doesn’t suck (as bad) for liberty.
Now Ohio isn’t as bad as Pennsylvania or Indiana, I mean we can still by beer wherever the hell we want whenever the hell we want (for the most part). There’s some strange restrictions on wine (no Sunday sales without a specific license) and liquor (the aforementioned state stores). The state is slowly changing the restrictions on the alcohol business as they’ve started to realize how much cash it can bring into the state.
I live across the street from a well stocked market and the owner and I are friends. I just tell him what beers I want stocked and they appear in the cooler. God Bless America.
But my booze comes from Costco! No one beats their prices for quality hard stuff.
On the beer side, there are over a dozen breweries within 10 miles of my house. This can make beer shopping difficult at times.
Especially as Ohio does not have any of the stupid growler laws that California had. I can take any 64 oz container that has the magic federal words about alcohol and get it filled at any brewery.
BRAGART!
It’s the Swamp. It’s probably bullshit but so long as people want to believe it will never end. That ABC trip-up made everyone think that something happened that never did. Have you stopped raping your Grandchildren yet, Cavalier?
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So General Flynn lies to the FBI and his life is destroyed, while Crooked Hillary Clinton, on that now famous FBI holiday “interrogation” with no swearing in and no recording, lies many times…and nothing happens to her? Rigged system, or just a double standard?
Sorry, for the squiggles.
I was going to say “what, Trump knows moonspeak now? He trying to capitalize on that alt-right anime nerd base?”
I hate that they’ve made Japan their rallying call for an ethnostate. Problem with their little theory is that Japanese people like other Japanese people for the most part.
Also, isn’t Japan kinda dying out? Not exactly a great role model.
Japan isn’t going to die out. Unless you meant the hair.
Don’t they have a really low birth rate?
Yes. I wouldn’t project future birthrates based on current birthrates, however.
Yeah, but at the rate they’re going, they’ll be the first people to upload their brains into cyborg bodies and then reproduction will no longer be needed. If your robot parts wear out, you just replace them.
スティーブスミス WANT TO HELP WITH THAT! DO JAPANESE LIKE TO HIKE?
Also the fact that Japan is frankly bizarre in terms of historical development compared to a lot of places. Living on an island makes you weird.
HEY! I SAW WHAT YOU DID THERE!
Wow, I just looked at my retirement account for the first time in several months. This is the kind of surprise I really like. I’m not sure if I can not vote for the Trumpet if this continues for the next 3 years. I’ve made made more money in a one year period than I ever have in my life , by not a small margin. I’m a have another beer.
Same here.
Holy shit. YTD performance = 17.5% whaaaa
+18..17% here. Dayum!
17.9%. I’m a have another beer, again.
Mine’s only 14.8%
17.81% here.
+23.43% in my brokerage accounts this year. My 401k doesn’t allow for an easy way to see that… stupid Fidelity.
I had $971 gain in the last week, doing basically nothing. I love capitalism. What sort of moron doesn’t love capitalism?
What sort of moron doesn’t love capitalism?
Socialists, Communists, Marxists, SJWs, Proglodytes. Did I miss any?
I had a significant negative return this week, but still way up on the year.
I would imagine that will continue as the effects of the tax reform kick in over the next few years. I would love to see a sustained 3% (or more) growth happen.
NY FED NOWCAST at 3.93%. Highest ever.
https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/policy/nowcast
Holy hell, YTD of 18.8% for me. I’m going to have another beer myself.
I’ll have to look up the guy who was telling me, ten or twelve months ago, about how Wall Street controlled everything, corporations made obscene profits that benefitted the rich, etc.
i told him if he felt that way then invest in the stock market, get your hands on some of that obscene profit but spend your ill-gotten gains on causes you believe in. He said he couldn’t do that because investing in stocks is too risky!! So, obscene profits, unfair advantages, but too risky for the little guy who can get into the game for a $1,000?
So I was thinking about the whole ‘social justice’ components vaguely creeping into libertarian circles, and I wonder if there’s the potential for a possible Gamergate-esque push back (yes, I hate the -gate use for every controversy, but it is what it is). Social justice is not predominant enough and libertarianism has a much more broad power base than in media groups like video games or comics, but with places like TOS and some of the LP seeming to be interested in that direction I just wanted to hear people’s thoughts.
Libertarian circles? You mean cosmotarian circles? Or who are those one guys, dumbotarians or dingletarians or whatever, those are progs.
Gamergate, gamers seem to overall hate SJWs with a burning passion, and I don’t even think most of them are libertarian or even know what a libertarian is. Just go on Steam forums and pretend to be a SJW and see what happens.
I think that’s kinda his point. Gamergate happened when gamers realized that game journalists weren’t really gamers like them, just like we all left Reason when it became painfully obvious that most/all of the staff there weren’t really libertarians.
That does seem like what happened.
I wasn’t actually trying to provide a counterpoint, just more of my thoughts on the subject. When you think about SJWs, what real power have they got, outside of what is provided them by the leftist media and leftist academia? While it looks like a lot, gamers for instance are driving billions of dollars in economic activity. SJWs are of no value to society or the economy.
Gamergate happened when gamers realized that game journalists weren’t really gamers like them,
Close, but more that it was gamers realizing that game journalists saw themselves as cultural gatekeepers that held power over them and wanted to meld them/their industry into something different. There’s been attempts at that with some of the attacks on Rothbardians in libertarian circles but nothing to the same extent as in Gamergate.
Well, I didn’t really follow the whole Gamergate mess. I’ve only heard about bits and pieces here and there.
I’m not talking about Gamergate in particular, more just the general idea of a pushback within a certain niche. It happened in video games, but it’s also happened in places like the metal scene and it’s happening right now in comics. I’m just wondering whether libertarian infighting has the potential to evolve into a full blown schism.
Yeah, I get that and agree. But I don’t think there is really much libertarian infighting outside of what there ever was, where we agree to disagree. The LP, though, I guess they’ve always been fucked up. At this point I guess I have to concede that libertarianism is an idea that doesn’t need a political party, maybe it doesn’t really fit with a party. I’m fine with not even being affiliated with them anymore. If political parties all die tomorrow, I can’t think of a problem with that. Maybe it’s time for we the people to turn it around on them and do our own version of divide and conquer. At least best outcome, nothing ever gets done again in DC.
I’m so cynical that I think the libertarian circles will instead destroy themselves.
Hey, the totally non partisan and unbiased SPLC won’t label Antifa a hate group.
I’d label antifa as just another bunch of commie losers.
Someone’s gonna get screwed:
#8 Ohio State is leading against undefeated #4 Wisconsin, 21-7 with 11:34 left in the first half. So they’ll finish 11-2.
#1 Clemson (11-1) is clobbering #7 Miami (10-1), and they’ll stay #1.
#3 Oklahoma (11-1) beat #11 TCU (10-2) today.
#6 Georgia (11-1) beat #2 Auburn (10-2).
If current scores hold tonight, does Georgia leapfrog Oklahoma for the #2 spot? Does two-loss Ohio State go past Alabama, who went 11-1? And of course, no one’s letting in UCF even though they ran the table.
There are five teams deserving of four spots. Me, I’d exclude Alabama, but boy it seems odd to exclude a one-loss team in favor of a two-loss team. Maybe we’ll get an eight-team playoff out of this.
OSU scoring:
Touchdown. 4 plays, 96 yards.
Touchdown. 4 plays, 76 yards.
Touchdown. 3 plays, 82 yards.
Nice defense, Wisconsin. I almost care. Almost.
I think if they put in OSU, the committee will be saying that the conference championship is the most important criterion for inclusion in the playoffs. The problem with this is that’s the opposite of what they said last time they squeezed them inexplicably into the playoffs. OSU already lost to Oklahoma at home and got clobbered by Iowa, a not very good team. Alabama has only lost to Auburn at Auburn when Auburn was playing well enough to beat anyone. I’m not sure of the right answer, but I don’t want to move to the CBB model where the regular season means almost nothing.
Then again, Wisconsin might still have something to say about it.
So, I entered the wrong password on my laptop too many times and it won’t let me log in. Can somebody fix that for me?
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Nupla-6-lb-Brass-Sledge-Hammer-with-28-in-Fiberglass-Handle-75-30-062/205675179
When it shakes it head back and forth, that means no consent, you shitlord.
Even if it’s a bull?
Call 1-800-New Delhi
thanks, log-in fairy
http://imgur.com/a/0Usnr
I got that motherfucker shingled today. I’m on the closing stretch of getting it finished.
Also, when I get done with this, any if you Glibs are welcome to drink on my porch with me.
Thats no way to roof! First you invite everybody over, everybody cops a buzz, then you start roofing.
+1 hold my beer
My uncle helped me today. He started drinking at noon. I, unfortunantly, stayed sober until the job was done. Some one has to make good decisions, and unfortunately, that man was me.
Nice work! Looks like a great spot to kick back with friends and family.
To be honest, I care a lot more about the smoker. Details, plz.
That ain’t no smoker.
That’s my heater. I burn wood in it. The wood heats a tank of water. The water is circulated through a radiator that I pit in my ductwork. I have a thermostat that turns on my HVAC blower. When my house gets cold, the blower turns on and blows over my hot radiator and puts hot air into my house, thereby making my house warm.
So… a whole house smoker. Awesome!
https://m.imgur.com/a/mRye3
Nice, man!
I’m proud of it. My house was built is the 70s. Where that porch is used to be a concrete patio. At some point, a previous homeowner built that patio into a back room. They did it wrong amd that room has had water problems for 20+years. That room was slowly rotting away off the back of my house. About a month ago, I tore that room off and started rebuilding. I have spent almost all my time off work for the past month building what I have shown in the pics. My wife is happy with it and I am happy with it. I still have a bunch of work to do, but I’m in the downhill side of it.
Also, for any if you Glibs who know anything about roofing, making a new shingle roof tie in with an existing shingle roof is fucking difficult. My hat is off to the local Mexicans who hang out at home Depot and make their loving doing roofs. It’s not easy. I have less skin on my knees than I had this morning.
You should be. Arkansas FTW. Also, loving can be a bitch on the knees.
My auto correct makes the best jokes.
I would have hired some of the Mexicans to do it.
Therin lies the difference between you and I
This is my house. I trust no one but I to work on it. I will do a better job than a professional, because I care more.
That’s how I think about it at least
|So Choctaw Bingo?
There are many things I will do myself for the reasons you list, but there are a few things that I detest greatly or are just beyond my skills. I’ll hire someone to do them.
My house needed a paint job when I bought it. The siding is clapboard and the paint was badly peeling. I’ve been here ten years. I’ve had my house painted three times since I moved in. I know my opinion on painting myself and my willingness to do it well enough to know that if I painted my house myself I would still be working on that first paint job.
Understood.
My house has wood siding. It was in need of painting a few years ago. Instead of scraping ano painting, I laid vinyl siding over the top of the wood.
If I had a big painting job like a whole house I would hire a painter. There are only a few things I really detest and one of them is painting. It takes a special person to be a good painter. It is patience I do not posses.
In my early adult years (after 18, not 40 like now), guess what I did? I painted houses. Interior or exterior. I was pretty damn good, especially interior trim work. I had the patience of a saint and hated sloppy painting. I learned to HATE painting to the extent that I still hate it today.
There are thing that I hate to do. I absolutely detest fixing lights. However, I know that when I fix lights, the lights are fixed. I maintain that attitude when I fix shit on my home.
Understood.
I will do a better job than a professional
It’s a nice sentiment but most likely wrong, any professional worth his salt is going to care more about his reputation than you care about your house. And he’s going to have ten thousand hours of experience and knowledge that no amount of care and you tube videos can replace. Kudos to you for undertaking this on your own and you should justly be proud of your accomplishment, but I would have done it better.
Have you had much experience hiring ‘professionals’ today? I find the idea that an avg person watching Youtube today could do as good or better job than a so-called professional today, totally plausible.
“I will do a better job than a professional”
This is a YMMV statement. I work with my hands and have a grand understanding of how things work. Not everyone has that. I’m not bragging, it’s just my particular skillset.
That’s how I pay my rent. find me a weekend warrior that finishes drywall,paints,roofs,or lays brick as good as my subs and I’ll eat my hat. Find one who’s a better carpenter (rough/finish or anything in between) than I am and I’ll eat my hat, your hat and everyone’s hat on this site.
You ain’t met me, Hyperbole. I can do all those things you mention. I am.what one would call a master of all trades, a jack of none
I work with my hands and have a grand understanding of how things work.
And in your area of expertise you have hopefully acquired skills and knowledge that can’t be picked up just because one cares a whole lot. I am very good at what I do but If I had to do your job I couldn’t do it as well as you no matter how much I really wanted to, without putting in the actual time. I could read up on where to put what, and how to adjust this doodad or that thing-a-ma-jig, but there are certainly tricks,skills, and insights one only learns by doing.
Hyperbole,
My point is-
I can do shit just as good as anyone else. The difference between me and a professional is that I care more. It’s my house. I will do a better job because I have a larger incentive.
Incentives matter-
that’s law made out of something ferrous.
Lach, much respect for your confidence but , no you can’t. Can you play the piano as well as Liberace just because you want nice music in your house more than he does? And “Care more” as I said above I (and other professional) often “care more” about our reputation than home owners do about there homes. You can live with or later fix less than stellar results, I have to get it right the first time or suffer, a bad reputation hurts me more than a less than perfect result does you. Incentives matter as you say, my incentives often trump homeowners. I have had to tell clients that I won’t cut corner even if they want me to, it would be wrong and even if they don’t care I do.
Then you would be a worthwhile contractor, if I was interested in contractors. I’m just not.
I trust myself,
better than you,
I know it’s not right,
what can I do?
I’m a damn libertarian
Jesus Christ, Hyperion. Sometimes you are nothing but a fucking cunt, ya know? The guy pleads ignorance and you stamp on his toe. Fuck you!
Just to get in a day late and a dollar short, one of the reasons I had to get good at some tasks rather than trust a professional is the lack of ANY kind of professional to do the job. Chief among these is electrical and plumbing work.
While I managed to get a specialist to upgrade our power to the panel, and fit a transfer switch, finding a competent ‘sparks’ was nigh on impossible in the run-up to 2008 when I needed one. If you weren’t rebuilding from a chimney and pad, they weren’t interested. Same with plumbing, although for things like boiler, radon, well and septic systems, we have maintenance contracts, so we can get professional fitters there, but again, want a radiator moved, a bidet fitted? You’re on your own.
In those cases, whenever I’ve had inspections, the town asks who the contractor was. They’ve stopped asking now, so, after a degree of skepticism on the town’s part, my inspections are perfunctory. It’s not hard to do electric and plumbing in compliance with code.
Millwork, sheetrocking, flooring, painting. Same deal. I can get an average-grade job done of having a new door fitted and hung, complete with trim if I’m prepared to pay about $75/hr with a 30% risk of being underwhelmed. I’m prepared to spend 3-4 hours of my weekend doing that job that has a 10% risk, and, if it’s fucked up, I will be far better off blaming myself for, against beating myself up for paying $300 every time I see the scarred hinge caused by the so-called ‘pro’.
Really, there are very few maintenance or build jobs in a wood-framed house that *need* a pro in order to get a good result, if you value your time at $2/hr and/or you can’t get help at any price.
That pride is rightly earned. Nice work!
Edit fairy please. I wasted the Hyperbole and not Hyperbion. Sorry, Pal.
Ouch, I may come off as a jerk but I don’t think I deserve that. To be clear I wasn’t trying to insult Lach’s abilities, just the idea that professionals don’t care and would do sub standard work due to lack of interest is mistaken and has shades of ‘corporation will kill their costumers is they could get away with it’ I am certain Lach is doing just stellar work but so would any professional with any sense and chances are good that through their years of experience know a few things about their craft that the lay person can’t just pick up because they care.
TL/DR I meant no offense Lachowsky, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Festus.
There are significant business opportunities in your field here in Fairfield Co., CT if you were prepared to do something other than just rebuilds, and put up with it being – well – Connecticut.
The dearth of competent artisans is both real and infuriating.
Nice work!
Thanks DEG, I have been working on it so hard that I haven’t been glibbing as much as I would like to.
Looks good Lach. It’s nice that you have some land, I would love some. It is City living for now, but one day I am cashing it in and headed to where I can’t see my neighbors.
do it.
I live in the backwoods, you see.
The woman and the kid and the dog and me.
And we say grace
We say ma’am
If you ain’t into that
I don’t give a damn
‘Cause a country boy can survive.
if you’re into that genre
https://g.co/kgs/QewrGK
I’m not a big country fan. Especially the (mostly) garbage of the last 10-20 years. But I do like me some Chris Ledoux.
Ha! Good on ya.
random thought
The most effective forces in the Middle East are organized along sectarian lines. In most countries, one ethnic group dominates the military. The British and Ottoman empires segregated units by national origin. Today, India’s military is dominated by Sikhs, who are 2% of the population, but 50% of India’s military.
The US military is one of the few effective forces that is multi-ethnic and fully integrated. That is rare historically.
compared to europe (or anywhere else in the world), we’re remarkably integrated and ‘flat’ in terms of gender/race/ethnic equality
the fact that Americans moan about it the most as tho we’re some horrifying hellhole of racism and sexism, etc. is actually a sign of how incredibly *liberal* we are about these things. anywhere else, you’re not allowed to talk about it because people will stop doing business with you for trying to fuck with the status quo.
Or maybe that integration doesn’t work as well as we thought. The reason the people in the US moan about all sorts or racial tension and angst might just be because it’s diverse. And Europeans don’t moan about because they’re not.
They literally have racist/separatist political parties. that in certain places have come close to actually winning office.
by contrast, we have ‘david duke and richard spenser’. who are taken seriously by no one except a teeny minority of internet trolls.
Okay, Vox would never call anyone racist without hard proof. But that’s not my point.
You gave the example that America moans about it the most.
If you buy into the model that more diversity equals more racist white people then I guess it looks like some anomaly. But if you think more diversity equals more racial tension and “moaning” and grievance mongering then it doesn’t seem unusual at all that more occurs in America.
I picked that article just because it was convenient. If you weren’t already aware of austria’s political situation, (or say, France‘s?)…. or the huge gains the ADF made in germany recently?
… iow, if any of this at all is new information to you, you’ve been living under a rock for 20+ years.
Europe has far far smaller “minority” populations, and they have far far more political / social discord over it.
The US, by contrast, has hugely diverse populations across a vast geographic area, and the majority of our ‘problems’ are mostly boring and unexceptional and the HURR DURR light+heat you hear on the internet about racist-america genuinely struggles to find any real examples of bigotry. Hell, they have to *fake* the majority of hate crimes.
Have you looked at a SF unit before?
SF, SEALs, etc do not have a policy of excluding certain groups. I am aware they are more white than the military at large.
Does India have a policy of only including Sikh? That was your example.
No, but they still have an all-Sikh regiment:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikh_Regiment
Sikhs are not to be fucked with. They are like Nepalese. Totally insular and fuck you very much. Like Scots.
Oh, not this bullshit again:
Pentagon’s elite forces lack diversity
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/08/05/diversity-seals-green-berets/31122851/
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Many of the Pentagon’s elite commando units — including the Navy SEALs — are overwhelmingly led and manned by white officers and enlisted troops, a concern at the highest levels of the military where officials have stressed the need to create more diverse forces to handle future threats.
Black officers and enlisted troops are scarce in some special operations units in highest demand, according to data provided by the Pentagon to USA TODAY. For instance, eight of 753 SEAL officers are black, or 1%.
An expert at the Pentagon on the diversity of commando forces said the lack of minorities robs the military of skills it needs to win.
“We don’t know where we will find ourselves in the future,” said Army Col. Michael Copenhaver, who has published a paper on diversity in special operating forces. “One thing is for sure: We will find ourselves around the globe. And around the globe you have different cultural backgrounds everywhere. Having that kind of a diverse force can only increase your operational capability.”
Special operations forces, including SEALs and the Army’s Green Berets, are often the face of the American military in foreign hot spots where they rescue hostages, raid terrorist camps and train local troops. SEAL Team 6 famously raided Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan and killed him. As the military sheds conventional forces — the Army will pare 40,000 soldiers in the next few years — special operators’ ranks continue to be filled as demand for their unique capabilities remains high.
The diversity of special operating forces is closely held information. U.S. Special Operations Command, which oversees all the services’ commandos, declined to provide data on the racial makeup of its forces. USA TODAY had to obtain that data from each service individually, a process that took months. The Marines did not produce the actual numbers of their special operations forces, only percentages.
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I can’t believe this bullshit, can you? Here in Canada we care about other things like physical strength and whether or not you’d fall down if someone shot at you. Shame.
I’m not really sure what the point of this is. Am I wrong, or is the main point of a defense to defend the citizens of a nation from harm against outside forces. Is everyone cut out to be a soldier, and does everyone want to be a soldier? Certainly not. I’d admit myself that I will fight if necessary, but I wouldn’t much like the discipline of a career in the military. I’m perfectly happy to leave it to those who actually want to do the work.
Do there idiots actually think that adding some ‘diversity’ to the military actually has some added value to the main mission of the military, which is to protect the citizens from outside harm? No one can possibly be that stupid.
“harm against outside forces”
Damnit, FROM outside forces.
I sat through a lecture by a general that started off with “there’s too many white people in this room.”
Of course they know damn well that the military wants that diversity so bad that even abject morons and incompetents of minority status will get selected when they submit the request. The problem is they don’t submit a request.
We were told to go encourage minorities to apply.
I would be very interested in hearing the colonel list which skills wypipo don’t possess.
Rhythm?
Being able to say “nigger” without causing a shitstorm?
Uh…can’t think of anything else.
African Camouflage
We used to call those brazil nuts “nigger toes” and small black licorice candies “Nigger-babies”.
Who else baked a blueberry muffin cake to make blueberry muffin cake french toasts tomorrow? If you didn’t you are not even trying to make a good Sunday breakfast/brunch and I am sad for you.
All of those carbs will kill you, bro. But I will fight to the death to defend your right to kill yourself via carbohydrates. And you know, well, that will probably only kill grumpy old fucks like me, you’ll probably be fine.
Meh. Not a difficult thing to whip together in the morning if I generally ate breakfast. And considering you don’t have a full pound cake to serve, I’d call that a failure for a brunch.
/drops mic
/grabs another drink
” full pound cake ”
Pound Cake
Well this is my base recipe.
And are you missing the drinks?
Sounds delicious. Kudos for planning ahead, and making nice bread the night before.
I’ve got leftover prime rib from tonight, leftover braised pork butt from yesterday. Just bought some thick cut (3/8”) bacon at Marconda’s today. Will fry all that up on the griddle, along with eggs over easy. Served with hash browns with onions and peppers. Greek yogurt drizzled with honey and cinnamon. And a Ballast Point Sculpin IPA, because why not? Breakfast will be glorious.
From time to time, I hit a new derp mine.
http://bmoreantiracist.org/white-people/29-stupid-things-white-people-do-and-what-we-can-do-instead/
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Believe you used to be a racist, but are no longer.
Instead: Unlearning racism is a lifelong process. Our racist programming comes from people in our lives, from media, from many forces. It is a huge amount of effort to unlearn it.
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I have the solution. PISS.THE.FUCK.OFF.
Replace the various race based concepts with various New Age nonsense and you basically have Scientology. Throw in a line demanding money and you’re all good.
Goddammit. Ohio State’s going to win this one close and they’re going to put Alabama in the playoff.
Wisky is getting close. Wish I could watch it instead of just listening to it.
Wisky! Heh!
When the wisky starts talking to you it is time to hit the sack for the evening.
I am the liquor. https://youtu.be/zWCBghizQUs
The H is important.
Punt? Hmmm.
A kick or a boat? Please let it be a boat.
OK. Good call.
I’m okay at math but really good at English.
The Case for Not Being Born
The anti-natalist philosopher David Benatar argues that it would be better if no one had children ever again.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/the-case-for-not-being-born
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David Benatar may be the world’s most pessimistic philosopher. An “anti-natalist,” he believes that life is so bad, so painful, that human beings should stop having children for reasons of compassion. “While good people go to great lengths to spare their children from suffering, few of them seem to notice that the one (and only) guaranteed way to prevent all the suffering of their children is not to bring those children into existence in the first place,” he writes, in a 2006 book called “Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence.” In Benatar’s view, reproducing is intrinsically cruel and irresponsible—not just because a horrible fate can befall anyone, but because life itself is “permeated by badness.” In part for this reason, he thinks that the world would be a better place if sentient life disappeared altogether.
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Undoubtedly, Benatar is a private person by nature. But his anonymity also serves a purpose: it prevents readers from psychologizing him and attributing his views to depression, trauma, or some other aspect of his personality. He wants his arguments to be confronted in themselves. “Sometimes people ask, ‘Do you have children?’ ” he told me later. (He speaks calmly and evenly, in a South African accent.) “And I say, ‘I don’t see why that’s relevant. If I do, I’m a hypocrite—but my arguments could still be right.’ ” When he told me that he’s had anti-natalist views since he was “very young,” I asked how young. “A child,” he said, after a pause. He smiled uncomfortably. This was exactly the kind of personal question he preferred not to answer.
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People, in short, say that life is good. Benatar believes that they are mistaken. “The quality of human life is, contrary to what many people think, actually quite appalling,” he writes, in “The Human Predicament.” He provides an escalating list of woes, designed to prove that even the lives of happy people are worse than they think. We’re almost always hungry or thirsty, he writes; when we’re not, we must go to the bathroom. We often experience “thermal discomfort”—we are too hot or too cold—or are tired and unable to nap. We suffer from itches, allergies, and colds, menstrual pains or hot flashes. Life is a procession of “frustrations and irritations”—waiting in traffic, standing in line, filling out forms. Forced to work, we often find our jobs exhausting; even “those who enjoy their work may have professional aspirations that remain unfulfilled.” Many lonely people remain single, while those who marry fight and divorce. “People want to be, look, and feel younger, and yet they age relentlessly”:
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I wish my lawn was as emo as this guy so it would cut itself.
“David Benatar may be the world’s most pessimistic philosopher. An “anti-natalist,” he believes that life is so bad, so painful, that human beings should stop having children for reasons of compassion.”
TDS to the next level? Or too much soy even for a girly man? Drink a beer, brah.
Pretty sure the idea that to live is to suffer(and the corollary that not existing may be preferable) has been around for a long long time, not every stupid idea has to be related to TDS.
Well, I did suggest at least one more option, you’re welcome to throw in your own. Maybe an organism after reaching a certain amount of retardation, decides to self destruct for the good of the species, reaches out to see if other equally retarded units need to join in? I mean, anytime these miserable cretins need to jump off a cliff, I can at least refrain from trying to stop them for my part of the greater good.
Hell, they have an entire religion associated with it.
Beer tastes yucky. He wants to wear his Moms high heels.
Item #378275 in the ‘Nietzsche was right’ series…
You caaan’t always get what you waaant. No, you caaan’t always…
Hell is for children. /David’s cousin Pat
Game over.
The eternal struggle of “game over” vs “insert coin”.
The cosmic ballet…goes on!
So long as it is “Defender”.
you misspelled Galaga.
Touche
Not proud of it, but when I was 10 or so we figured out we could slide the panel screen up on most Arcade games, reach down and push the credit button. Sometimes a screwdriver was used.
Yep. Older than that but we figured. What was the point? Cheating ain’t no fun.
https://youtu.be/A_j8W-SDefU
Every time I check in on the alt-right and hear them going on about Nazi Germany or Jews or whatever I just remember that episode of Black Lagoon where they massacre a bunch of neo-Nazis because they’re a pack of incompetent shits.
The alt-right are a bunch of assholes. THIS IS KNOWN.
I think the thing that pisses me off the most about them is the blatant historical inaccuracies and lies. I mean, sure, be a collection of racist assholes, but don’t pretend you’re some sacred group of higher people because your grandx81 grandfather was an illiterate moron herding cattle while the Romans built a system that defined European society for centuries. And don’t you dare claim their achievements as your own.
“This sad little lizard told me that he was a brontosaurus on his mother’s side. I did not laugh; people who boast of ancestry often have little else to sustain them. Humoring them costs nothing and adds to happiness in a world in which happiness is always in short supply.”
-Heinlein
There’s certain degrees however. A minor appreciation for your ancestry is basically irrelevant, but these guys seem to think they’re greater humans because of some kind of vague connection to the ‘glories of the white race’, a concept that’s fairly arbitrary in how they define it. Their ancestors could be idiot barbarians but they still pretend like they’re descended from Caesar himself.
It’s fair to assume that a lot of white people are descended from Caesar. Not that it means anything.
It’s like “Uuuugh” no more, please. Most of us are yelping,”Enough!” Most of us are at least a tiny bit Indian. Some of us are a lot.
What are you, Haida? I’ve got a fair amount of Metis blood, but that’s only a product of one side of my family being in this country for four centuries (the farthest we can trace back is one Jesuit priest who decided it was a better option to fuck the native girls than continue on with the whole ‘celibacy’ thing). Never had an interest is trying to apply for native status though.
Cree about 75 years ago. Mom liked being Indian, Grandma said no way, no how.
today I learned
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In the United States, there have been several controversies concerning the word “niggardly”, an adjective meaning “stingy” or “miserly”, because of its phonetic similarity to the racial slur “nigger”. Etymologically the two words are unrelated.
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“Niggardly” (noun: “niggard”) is an adjective meaning “stingy” or “miserly”. It can be traced back at least to the Middle English word nigon, which has the same meaning, and is related to the Old Norse verb nigla, which means “to fuss about small matters”.[1]
“Nigger”, a racial epithet in English, derives from the Spanish/Portuguese word negro, meaning “black”, and the French word nègre. Both negro and noir (and therefore also nègre and nigger) ultimately come from nigrum, the accusative case singular masculine and neuter form of the Latin masculine adjective niger, meaning “black” or “dark”.[2]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_about_the_word_%22niggardly%22
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Shortly after the Washington incident, another controversy erupted over the use of the word at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. At a February 1999 meeting of the Faculty Senate, Amelia Rideau, a junior English major and vice chairwoman of the Black Student Union told the group how a professor teaching Chaucer had used the word niggardly. She later said she was unaware of the related Washington, D.C., controversy that came to light just the week before. She said the professor continued to use the word even after she told him that she was offended. “I was in tears, shaking,” she told the faculty. “It’s not up to the rest of the class to decide whether my feelings are valid.”[10]
The student’s plea, offered as evidence in support of the school’s speech code, instead struck an unintended chord helping to destroy it.
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Welcome to Head Deskers Anonymous. My name is Derpy and it’s been 6 weeks since I last head desked.
“Ms. Rideau, I trust that you wish to continue to advance your appreciation and understanding of the English Language?”
“Yes Professor Dawson …”
“Then shut the everlovin’ fuck up, sit down and read something written by a guy who lived so long ago, in a degraded culture that knew as little about the world as you seem to know about the English Language, and didn’t even know Africa existed, let alone Black Oppression.”
Shit yankees can’t do
What the fuck was wrong with that?
it was not disapprobation; it was acknowledgement that yankees aint got any funk
-If you have some similar, vibrant, kitchen-dancing examples in … Saskatchewan, or wherever you are from, please share.
Kitchen dancing.
haters gonna hate
not Thicc enough?
I likeum svelte. Ballet dancer type. You guys can have your fat-asses.
You should watch Brazilians dancing to any type of music. Doesn’t matter what the fuck it is. County, Polka stuff, I don’t care, they don’t have normal joints and bones like normal North American people. You Know what I say? Yeah, well I got a real first world country, fuckers! Top that shit!
No, i’ve seen it. All americans are yankees compared to that.
My only point of sharing that vid was just admiration for the ‘normalcy’ of that sort of talent, which is basically everywhere in that region of the country.
i suppose you could show videos of super-talented irish-dancing kids in … minnesota or something. but it would still be a depressing comparison, style-wise
Shorter Glimore:
There’s not enough brother-sister dancing.
not really. I was going through my old youtube “favorites” and being slightly surprised by the content.
here’s one of my other favorite dance tracks
Add this.
1964? wow.
it took a number of years before MDMA made that the normal
The footwork is good.
The apparent seizures are bad.
its definitely a sign of rock+roll corrupting the kids morals
someone should do something about that
Funky!
also: I keep forgetting Roy Buchanan, who was basically SRV before SRV, but more than that. he could also do more advanced jazz stuff that blues guys normally would play shortcuts. he was one of the most advanced dudes of the late 20th century, but mostly overlooked.
Kind of a fun scene from kind of a fun movie.
https://youtu.be/nXi7mCd7JAQ
i tried to find some connection there, but all i saw was brendan frazier acting, badly
Yeah, the Swing is cool. Fuck I wish I were young.
Tonight, seen on a Covered California (our Obamacare exchange) bilboard in big letters:
“Because Elon hasn’t gotten to healthcare yet.”
“Elon, take me away“
Ancient healthcare secret, huh?
snake oil is a good business
Billions of taxpayer dollars wasted with no results?
I think the billboard might be wrong.
Buckeyes won the Big Ten Championship which is cool. Like my Buckeyes but not sure they deserve to go to the Final 4. I’m not going to be disappointed if they don’t. I think they’ll be better next year. Unrelated, not sure why I allow myself to be talked into buying Coke. When I was single it was great, now I just end up sitting at home while awake when I should be sleeping. I’m sure I could have have stayed out at the bar and partied with the hot blond bartender all night when she got off but I’m married so that is not an option. It was fun up to this point though:) Home safe which is good. I don’t wonder out more then a mile because I won’t drive more than that after partying.
Your enthusiasm for Ohio State makes a lot more sense now.
shoulda bought caffeine free Coke instead.