Before we get started, I just want to let y’all know that I’m gonna be seriously disappointed if that story image isn’t one of you.
That soccer game yesterday was pretty sweeeeeet! Liverpool might have scored again as I was typing that, no? Nope, still just won by a touchdown and extra point. Spurs also won, as did Real, Porto (jeez, Monaco sucks this year), and Besiktas. Man Shitty lost, but the game was meaningless to them. And Sevilla drew. On to the round of 16 draw on Monday as the Europa League finishes their group play today as well. In cricket news, Australia won the second test match and are now up 2-0 vs England in the five game series.
On the hardcourt, Xavier and UNC took care of their business. Second-ranked Kansas fell to Washington at home, and Florida, who is inexplicably ranked #5, shit the bed again in losing at home to powerhouse Loyola-Chicago. Perhaps that rockin’ 5-3 record will cause them to fall all the way to 7 or 8 this week.
There were only four games on the ice last night. The Maple Leafs beat the Flames. The Flyers doubled up the Oilers. The Capitals drilled the Blackhawks (somebody get Swissy on suicide watch!) and the Anaheim Mighty Ducks blanked the Senators.
That’s it for sports news, folks. Now its time for…the links! And I’ll do them quickly, since we are apparently in imminent danger of being blown up at any minute since Trump signed a piece of paper formally recognizing a certain country’s capital.
Cargo pants, Matt? Really?
Matt Lauer might be a creep. But the man’s got the whole retirement thing pretty well figured out.
Looks like the House of Representatives grew a spine. I hope they’ve got some curb space set aside in New York for the bodies that apparently will be stacked like cordwood. At lease that’s what their cuck of a mayor and a few other “prominent” people are saying.
Fire officials in Southern California say the worst is yet to come for the region. I can’t imagine how bad it is out there. Please stay safe, area Glibs.
That’s not how you play “smell my finger” dumbass.
More and more Dems are piling on Al Franken to resign. Conflicting stories have him denying that he will and others are claiming that he will, in fact, make the move today. Either way, its a funny ending to an unfunny man’s time in the Senate. Although, I see no integrity in Team Blue’s play here. Its designed to keep his seat safe while at the same time giving them the “moral high ground” to go after Trump and Roy Moore and say they should do the same. I wasn’t born yesterday. I read the talking points. They’re not too hard to find when the same words are posted by 150 different people on Twitter at the same time. Well, good luck with that strategy. And good luck holding the seat in 2018.
When you’re a Chicago cop, you get to act like you’re above the law for the most part. But when you’re on trial for shooting a black teenager and its caught on video, you might want to tell your lawyer that comparing a white Chicago police officer to the three black sharecroppers who were tortured by cops into confessing in the infamous Brown vs Mississippi case might be a bad idea. Seriously, what…the…fuck?
“Do you think the sharecropper line played well, dude?”
Georgia State Police commander gets fired. Of course, you and I would have been in jail for what he did. And we wouldn’t have been paid by the taxpayers for the last ten months for an extended vacation while the feds crawled all over the case.
I don’t give you guys enough good news. I hope this makes up for it a little bit. The police statement is to the point. Somehow I think it might have been different if it happened in Chicago, LA or San Francisco.
Have a great day. If you’re in SoCal, please stay safe. Same as if you’re in a Korean hospital.
Guess what? It seems Pelosi did read a bill to find out what was in it, instead of passing it to find out. Or she might just be full of shit.
The comments are just tearing her apart. I guess Team Blue hasn’t gotten around to printing today’s talking points.
The comments are awesome. I especially liked the guy responding to some dummy saying that the bill would eliminate background checks with, “CCW REQUIRES A FEDERAL BACKGROUND CHECK”.
That was worthy of a “first” post. I’ll miss her when her head finally caves in on itself.
Careful!
Her skull may be the only thing preventing all of us from being sucked into that black hole.
*yawns, stretches*
What the…6:48?? Jeez.
*tries to go back to sleep, fails*
The “heart shape” symbolizing love first appeared in the late 14th century. It’s fairly obvious that it’s modeled after both the shape of female cleavage and the female buttock. But what you didn’t know is that it’s also modeled after the seeds of the silphium plant; a plant that supposed had contraceptive properties. The more you know….
http://archive.is/JLgd7
So many good ones…
7, 18, 22, 25… all of them.
1,2,3,5,10,16, 44 nice dreads, I’ll join the ladies in 55 on the range any day, 60, 61, 66, 70
Extended collection today, thanks man!
That collection makes for some “extending” alright…
Tis the X-mas Season
19.
Just because.
#10, both of them; and #64 of course.
“I wasn’t born yesterday. I read the talking points. They’re not too hard to find when the same words are posted by 150 different people on Twitter at the same time.”
There must be actual talking points. Team Blue is too lockstep. Remember when all of them said “Romney lied!” after that first Presidential debate? Yet, none of them could explain how he lied.
The Journolist was real. Don’t you think those same people just formed another group to disseminate talking points?
They’ve got the talking points and the release time written up at least a week ahead of time. It’s not coincidence that every outlet releases very similar stories all on the same day. And, as WikiLeaks taught us, it’s not just the press, it’s the DNC and the pols themselves involved editing and revising the pieces. As instapundit says, think of them as extensions of the DNC with bylines; they are not news organizations.
If I recall correctly, the term “talking points” even entered the modern consciousness when it was revealed there was a fax distribution of political talking points on the Democratic side during the Clinton era.
Yes. Although I don’t think it has to be anything covert. Journalists have, or at least had, an incentive to cover their bias. I’m thinking there are a bunch of email lists, text alerts, etc. that the DNC and local party groups use to send messages out to their donors.
I’m always amazed to see two or more ‘letters to the editor’ in the paper out here that have the exact same point of view with the same justifications and even the same catch phrases in the same order. There’s no way they could have been written independently, infinite monkeys aside. Happens at least weekly. In addition to the media talking points, do the Dems also send out emails to their supporters giving them outlines for today’s letters to the editor?
I’ve noticed that too. The latest one that strikes me are the letters I see lamenting the removal of the individual insurance mandate in Obamacare. What are the odds that so many would independently come up with the line “13 million people will lose their healthcare”? It requires a triple-step of lying, as you need to first change a CBO estimated number to a fact, then ignore it is health insurance and not healthcare and then realize they would be choosing not to purchase it, not having it taken from them.
Of the 13 million that would lose it, I read close to 12 million are people that are saying “Good riddance” I am fucking healthy and never wanted to buy a product I didn’t need just to subsidize some other douchebags.
There are talking points, they’re just “press releases” like any agency or group or celebrity’s agent types up and sends to news outlets. It’s just that since there’s a political angle there’s added…incentive, let’s say…for journalists to just take them at face value from their preferred side. You can tell which news agencies are doing real reporting because they’re the ones talking about something totally different than what the major networks are leading with. That means they’re either too small to worry about or have too much integrity to sway.
Before I even noticed it in the general news section, I noticed it in the Business section: almost 100% of the “content” was simply a press release from a company with a few words added by the section’s editor. And I stopped buying newspapers at the moment I realized the rest of the paper was exactly the same – because 1) I’m not spending my own money to read press releases, and 2) the damned newspapers kept raising their prices even though they were printing FOR FREE what they used to charge ad rates for. It’s only logical that if the Business section is noting but unpaid advertising, the rest of the fucking paper is going to be the same.
Anyone know what this part actually says?
From what I’ve read, it compels police departments and branches of the military to report convictions in a more timely fashion. It also provides some funding to make sure the database is properly maintained and that requests are processed faster for states that have an (illegal, IMO) waiting period.
Oh you fucked up? Have some more money!
It is the government way.
Thank goodness for the links….sports is bringing no joy to me – every team I like in every major sport is crap. U of IL football and basketball (the rugby team is doing well enough, keep it up lads!) The Bears, White Sox, Blackhawks and Bulls…no escape from the everyday, no hope for playoffs or titles or even competing. Bleah.
*pours Switzy a glass of rectified spirits*
Careful, it’s flammable.
Which is one reason not to follow sports – why pin ones hopes on something you have no control over?
For entertainment value? And you’re more entertained if you have a rooting interest. Plus you have others to commiserate with when your team is doing well or poorly.
The world would be an empty, hollow and boring place full of war and strife if competitive sports didn’t exist. Think: Taliban-ran shithole.
You need more hobbies.
I have plenty of hobbies. But watching and playing sports is definitely one of them.
Few things are sweeter to see than my 4 year old coming downstairs after finding her Buckeyes jersey and saying “Michigan sucks” or taking my teenage kids to the College Football National Championship game a week after going to Nawlins to see the first ever semifinal in the Sugar Bowl, where the tailgating was savage and the shit-talking was incredible (suck it, Bama!) They’ll never forget that experience and neither will I. Few things could have ever brought us together to share excitement and adrenaline like that.
Its not about looking at a tv. Its about sharing the experience with your wife and kids. Or your family or friends. Or the total strangers you find yourself arm-in-arm with in a stadium singing a song together. Few things in the world evoke that level of excitement with human interaction. I don’t understand people who don’t understand that.
You don’t get this going to watching a movie:
Wait a minute, are you guys Ohio State fans?
Through and through!
O-H…
Let me finish that for you Sloop.
**Sigh**
I was there too. In the second row of the corner of the end zone surrounded by Clemson fans because our ticket broker fucked up and put us on the wrong side.
Jesus, that was a long night.
Being an Ohio State fan is basically the same thing as being a socialist.
So what you’re saying is that you don’t actually need the overpriced players on the field for what you get out of the experience, and the fact that it’s sports-related is immaterial.
If that’s how you read that, either I need an editor or you need a cup of coffee.
You basically said “It’s about the relationships with the other spectators”.
That is not what he said at all.
If that’s the case I’m even more confused, because it was making a kind of sense.
The sport part is integral.
Good looking crew, Sloop. You’re a blessed man.
Thank you. I am.
I’ll get one with the little ones this year at the same venue since we got fucked by the CFP committee and we’re sent to the Cotton Bowl.
But you aren’t an UCF fan.
Yeah, last year was a great year fandom wise. I honestly never thought I would be around to see Clemson win another title. I will never forget watching the title game (I missed the semi-final, but so did anOSU…) in my best friend’s kitchen on the smallest screen in the house with a bunch of guys I grew up with that only get together a few times a year.
Really? That’s a stretch. Much of the civilized world has managed without organized sports. And some of the violent civilizations, like Rome, had ’em in abundance.
I don’t mind watching sports but it’s not the main part of my life. If, for example, the Red Wings win the cup, I’m happy for ’em. But if they are knocked out, or don’t even make the playoffs, I’m just not _that_ upset over it. I just don’t get the “super fans” who start shedding tears over something that has little to do with them.
I said competitive sports, not organized sports. I’d be surprised to hear of a part of the civilized world that doesn’t have competitive sports. Who, where and when did/do they exist?
I’m talking history, associating competitive (or organized) sports with a “better” civilization is a stretch. Like gladiator fighting, cock fighting, Ulama, chariot racing… I’m sure ISIS likes a good soccer match too.
The Greek olympics?
Now that’s one on the good ledger.
I think you would be wrong. The Taliban was no fan of it.
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/49688/
ISIS Turns to Soccer for Recruitment
of course some people have been killed under Sharia law for watching soccer… so let’s call it a wash.
Woah – didn’t know this (from the same article)
Another reason to hate Arsenal.
Even if you have no rooting interest, it’s still amazing to watch people who are the best in the world doing their thing. Unlike many other fields, it’s easy to understand high-level sports. If a world class physicist demonstrated his abilities, I’d be completely lost.
People keep making that claim, but it never pans out that way. It just tends to be even more boring the less connection there is to the people on the field.
Do you find anything entertaining?
I enjoy seeing excellence on the field – I enjoy the atmosphere of a live game, “the drama of human athletic competition”. Not just because I played the sports.
It just so happens that I have been in a funk lately, and at the same time, one of my sources of escapism/entertainment is a bit closed off because all the teams I have an interest in happen to be down, way down or utter bottom crawlers right now. Even Cleveland Browns fans can look at the Cavaliers and see a recent local champion.
I am not a spectator. I will play, and understand why people would enjoy playing. But watching complete strangers play a game holds no appeal.
UCS largely strikes me as a contrarian.
I am not!
C’mon Swissy!
The Army Team is the pride and dream…
And there are two and a butt days until Army beats the HELL out of Navy in football at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia PA!
“Army”…West Point ringknockers?!
I was enlisted first, and didn’t get my commission through the academy. I have no feelings for those folks – unless it was slight annoyance that they got their commissioning dates before everyone else, so they had seniority.
The entire world has spoken.
I don’t disagree with that… but it’s the ephemeral nature of it all. But I won’t disparage anyone’s interest in watching sweaty men do physical things. 😉
Think: Taliban-ran shithole.
Or being in Ohio?
I’d say Michigan is closer to one, but I don’t want to piss off the Somalis that essentially run Dearborn and a few other cities up there.
161 and Cleveland Avenue?
We can always count on good news from the best rugby team in the world.
*EDIT FERRY FIND NO LINK? ASSUMES YOU MEAN ALL BLACKS*
Whoever they might happen to be.
Just for you, Sloop.
Meh. The greatest Kiwi player ever still never scored a try against the Springboks.
You think that might have had anything to do with The ‘Boks kinda being dirty cunts?
Man I can’t get anything to work today.
Let’s try that again.
Jesus. They refuse to let it go.
Also, he played the Springboks 13 times. THIRTEEN!!! With nary a try.
Also, did you mean Buck Shelford?
The SugarFreed links?
Ah god damnit
Ah god damnit
Really, I haven’t made coffee yet this morning.
*squints*
Go brew some, right now!
Hey Swiss, you must know this story, eh –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvy32d-jk4E
Try being a Buffalo fan. You had happiness in the past. Us?
Well, being a Buffalo fan builds character, I’ll give it that.
My former team, the Woke 49ers, even beat your Bears. Sad days indeed, Swiss.
Bah. Quitcher crying. At least you’ve got banners hung throughout your arenas/stadiums.
Imagine life as a Minnesota sports fan.
Superbowls? Yeah, we’ve been there four times. Lost ’em all.
Stanley Cup? Ditto, but only 2 and not even with our current team.
Wolves? Lol.
I think we won a couple baseball things, but…whatever.
But, but, but… The Lynx! Not just for directing your attention to interesting news articles!
Minnesota sports fan.
The Lakers have won a few times?
You know, Northwestern has room for some more fans, and we’re even playing our home basketball games in the Rosemont Horizon this season, which might be easy access for you. We have both good football and basketball teams this year. Heck, I’ll always cheer for the Illini when they’re doing well and NU is having off years, you can cheer for us this year! *prepares for Music City Bowl”
“Better a Bowl Game in Hell, than sitting home in Heaven”.
A few nasty matches with Northwestern, and I could not be a fan of theirs…ever.
I, too, am a lifelong White Sox and Blackhawks fan, and I second your Bleah. But now that I’m playing sled hockey, I have our national team to root for. They’re playing in a world tournament this week, and just beat Canada 5-2 yesterday. Five of my teammates from Chicago are playing, so it’s a lot of fun to follow.
Loyola is playing good basketball. Stomped all over Florida last night.
Newt Gingrich defends Al Franken: ‘Comedians often do weird things’
One clown defending another, no surprise there
Swamp creatures gonna swamp creature. Waddayagonnado?
He was in the entertainment business. He was doing the kind of things people in the entertainment business do
Sure, and people who aren’t in the biz are disgusted by the kinds of things people in the biz do. “Everybody does it” stops working when you get to be oh, I dunno, five years old?
If Al Franken jumped off a bridge, would you, Newt?
*Please say yes!*
He wasn’t in the entertainment business when the groping occurred.
Politician, entertainer, potayto, potahto.
You know, it’s one thing to say that it’s better to wait until the facts are in and that we should try to get both sides of the story before passing judgement. It’s another to say the behaviors described were somehow okay.
STEVE SMITH SAY NOTHING WRONG WITH BEING A LITTLE RAPEY.
YES, IT WRONG TO BE A LITTLE RAPEY. BETTER TO BE A LOT RAPEY!
HAVE TO START SOMEWHERE!
A JOURNEY OF A THOUSAND RAPES, BEGINS WITH A SINGLE THRUST?
Not that I have any faith in their intelligence, but the GOP desperately needs to not fall into this trap and let Moore continue his run. Sounds as though he’ll win if he does. Then you wacky Minnesodans need to get it together and elect someone worth a damn.
The trap is for team blue to boot a few scumbags out so they can point to the GOP and blame them for harboring guys like Moore. BS given they gave Slick Willy a pass for years, but they think it will work.
Also Bravo Sierra because there is no evidence supporting the allegations against Moore.
Every Kennedy has been given a pass for life. Democrats have zero credibility but all their efforts will multiply their credibility by 1000.
Jesse Ventura, Al Franken … there has to be even more weird candidates in their history that I’m missing.
Jesse was by far the best governor of my lifetime.
But yeah, we don’t have the greatest track record.
I think it’s great. KEEP IT WEIRD, MOTHAFUCKAZ.
TALK TO ME WHEN YOU GET TO 5 GOVERNORS WHO HAVE GONE TO THE PEN!
One of the few things to like about Illinois.
NOT. ENOUGH. YET.
#JAILTHEMALL
What did the Mall do?
#MALLTHEJAIL
Commerce + Adventure!
Consumerism is violence, capitalism is murder etc. #jailthemall
It is not within the GOP’s power to not “let Moore continue his run.” The fact that they decided to restore funding, though, demonstrates their deep corruptness, as if it needed more demonstration.
Wouldn’t it be nice to have candidates worth voting for? Ah well.
But I want to win now! Just give me Bill Weld, pleeeease.
“Wouldn’t it be nice to have candidates worth voting for?”
I’ve often thought that politics is a unique field in which the least competent people likely to do a good job are attracted to it and the people most likely to do a good job are repelled by it.
SP always says, “The fact that you want a position of power ought to disqualify you from it.”
You got yourself a smart one OMWC.
Fucking A. She frightens me sometimes.
Hence the delightful term kakistocracy.
How does that demonstrate deep corruptness? I’d say the fact it was originally cut off based on no credible evidence of wrongdoing is a sign of how the Republicans just have a knee jerk reaction to follow whatever the Dems say. The only thing wrong about them restoring funding, is the fact that it was ever cut off.
This shit is a sideshow, distracting from the major issue. His entire career is based on a disregard for the constitution.
You’re right. Semi-Spartan below is also right. I think the Pubs need to stand up to this now, or they will be handing the Dems a truncheon with which they will be beaten forever. I wish Moore weren’t a SoCon authoritarian ass, but I also wish that the Pubs weren’t such pussies when it came to standing up for their candidates; some of which aren’t as shitty as the typical pol. The Pubs suck, but at the moment they suck marginally less than the Dems.
Well, what his political views are, are unknown to me. Based on comments from you guys here, I’d guess he probably holds a lot of views that I’d disagree with. But, to me that’s irrelevant to this witch hunt against him. The Dems are throwing out false allegation after false allegation against him in an attempt to steal an election they otherwise would have no chance in hell of winning. So, like his policies or not, to me that’s now the issue. Do the voters of that state tell the Dems that this tactic works? Just throw out allegations of sexual misconduct, no matter how ridiculously obviously false they are, and you can win the election? Or do they tell the Dems and the prog media that they don’t buy their narrative?
It’s not his views, it’s his actions as a judge. Blatant disregard for the constitution in the name of self-aggrandizement and social signalling.
So he’s actually a Democrat who just went off the reservation.
Wouldn’t it be nice to have candidates worth voting for? Ah well.
Anyone who runs for public office, at some level, has to be a sociopath.
You have recent pictures for Franken vs. a well-coordinated release for Moore that took 4 decades and passed by countless earlier electoral opportunities. As far as I’m concerned, all of allegations against Moore turned to dust once the yearbook signature turned out to be an obvious forgery. That yearbook forgery should be run in every single news story as the front item before going through any other allegations.
That is not any sort of opinion on Moore as a person. The Dem’s are creating a new political bunker buster using unsubstantiated allegations and the GOP would be stupid to bow down before it. It will cost them far more in the long run than this one election.
As far as I’m concerned, all of allegations against Moore turned to dust once the yearbook signature turned out to be an obvious forgery.
I’ve seen at least one story in the last week claiming Moore is a perv that ran a picture of the forged yearbook page. I suspect that most people still don’t know it was forged.
If I was Moore, I’d be suing Gloria Allred for defamation. I actually think he could show reckless disregard, because the slash and initials after the signature are completely commonplace and a good practice whenever somebody signs on behalf of someone else. It was obvious to me that he had not signed the yearbook the first time I saw the signature.
They dont. As recently as yesterday Trevor Noah was pimping the yearbook photo as evidence Moore is lying about being a child molester using the same zoomed out image at an angle where you can’t read it or see that its a different color ink. Theyre actively engaged in fraud at this point
What would the GOP get for bowing out? It would just ensure future unsubstantiated claims being hurled at them. Moore may or may not be a despicable human being, but as long as there isn’t any solid evidence, I don’t think it will be politically smart for Moore to leave the race. Most of the people that vote in these elections have already chosen their side, it has little to do with the actual politician.
I’ll contribute to the Garrison Keilor for Senate campaign/appointment.
My Turn: Examining what it means to be libertarian
Why on earth would anyone ever entrust a
libertarianAnyone with doing what’s best for New Hampshire or our nation?Fuck Chomsky with a rusted tractor implement….
I always laugh when I hear that term.
and the fact that there is not a single successful nation on the planet that uses libertarianism as a basis for its government
I’ll offer 20-1 odds this same asshole will tell you that every communist dictatorship we’ve seen over the last hundred years “wasn’t real communism”.
The reason there is no libertarian nation definitely has nothing to do with certain people’s lust for power and others, like the author desire for authoritarianism.
In any case, if you separate unrelated issues out you can find places with relatively libertarian markets, or legalized drugs, what have you, and see how it shook out, if you want to have an honest discussion.
Exactly. Just because there’s not a fully realized political entity that operates on strict libertarian principle is not an example of its failure. Libertarianism works perfectly well on smaller scales everyday; the same cannot be said of communism. Even on small scales, communes essentially always fail absent some kind of familial bond or religious cult. Libertarian principles of mutually beneficial, voluntary transactions and non-aggression happen daily and work great.
^This.
The most successful nation in human history was founded by libertarians and based on libertarian principles.
It’s of course gotten chipped away over the decades and decades.
But it’s the oldest democratic country in the world because it was deliberately and carefully designed to have weak government.
It’s the richest country in the world because it was founded on principles of basic economic freedom.
there is not a single successful nation on the planet that uses libertarianism as a basis for its government
Exactly. The Constitution is a pretty libertarian document, really. So I would say that the most successful nation in the history of ever had a libertarian basis for its government until, maybe the Great Depression or thereabouts? And traces of this libertarian basis are still around.
I would also add that the British government, also until the Great Depression or thereabouts, was a “classically liberal” affair for the most part. So, except for the two most successful nations in the last 300 years, I guess he’s right.
The United States? Libertarianism is its founding principle.
Switzerland?
In some ways. Others, not so much.
I had Switzerland as my backup plan if things got too bad here, but then they went and joined the UN, so I moved on.
Plus, my work contacts are 26 years out of date now.
Will probably be heading there for the first time in January/February for work. Staying in Zurich.
250 years ago there was not a single successful nation that used Democratic Republicanism as a basis for its government.
What a bunch of clap-trap.
I really think it is lack of intelligence. Large numbers of the herd cant tell the difference between appearance and substance. They cant tell the difference between telling the truth and saying what people want to hear. They have no principles because they dont know what having principles means or what principles are. People who do understand those concepts are fundamentally and radically different. So different that it is nearly impossible for the two different kinds of people to effectively communicate with each other.
Here is an idea Mr. Williams; instead of looking at this or that political movement and trying to choose one like you would choose a shirt start with principles. Examine your principles carefully and then follow them to their logical outcomes. Maybe self-ownership would be a good one to start with.
“Given the fact that libertarianism seems to be such an amorphous amalgam of economic and social philosophies”
Yeah, because the PoMo word salad of modern Marxist “intersectionality” is so coherent and precise.
Pinochet’s economic policy turned out pretty well for Chile and I’ve yet to meet a libertarian that agrees with his social policies, helicopter jokes, and they are jokes, notwithstanding.
Libertarianism for the most part = classical liberalism.
If these people are as well-read and informed about history as they claim, they’d know and understand what classical liberalism is and was to Western civilization. As such, they should be able to see libertarian principles align nicely.
But nooooo. They have to act like it’s an obscure sect or cult that operates out of a vacuum.
Actually, libertarianism seems to be the only political philosophy that is reducible to a single principle – non-aggression. We may bicker over the finer points of turning that principle into policy, but compare this to any other political party.
Libertarianism is a continuation of classical liberalism, and it has been pretty much the same philosophy for centuries. That’s a hell of a lot more than can be said for the Democrat Party (I’m assuming this dipshit is a Leftist) who frequently flip-flop on issues within the space of a few years.
Pardon my ignorance, but didn’t Chile turn out okay?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_American_and_Caribbean_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)
Looks like it to me.
“For the past two days I’ve been reading up on libertarianism. ”
Journalist knowledge level = SUPER expert
Shorter Mr. Williams:
“OK, so given *this* set of political principles, how could I build an overarching state that has the power to crush all its enemies and establish a 1000-year politico-cultural hegemony?”
Well first you have to successfully subdue all of Gaul……….
(And even then you only get about 500 years in the western part, but reach and exceed the target in the eastern part.)
This guy is ALL-IN on bitcoin. Good luck to him.
SF’d again
I assumed he was making the two thumbs pointing at himself gesture.
SugarFree? 🙂
My fingers are fucking clumsy this morning.
Dude…go get coffee, huff some paint thinner, and GET BACK IN THE GAME!
Coffee is burning down my throat RIGHT NOW, CAPTAIN!
Kassy Dillon is better-looking though.
https://twitter.com/KassyDillon/status/938753613870100480
A Rafael Palmeiro comeback?
He was the dick heaping opprobrium on the other juicers when he tested positive.
The denial act at his testimony was vintage, grade A Bill Clinton.
Poor Radley Balko. He’s gone completely retarded.
https://twitter.com/radleybalko/status/938253786539323393
I swear, there was a time when he referred to himself as “libertarian”. Well, that time has passed.
Have the cocktail party invites been drying up?
The comments…
I just watched Maddow for the first time a couple nights ago (in a motel room, bored shitless). I’d heard of her but never seen her show. This is someone considered intellectual? She was just sort of ranting in the Glenn Beck connect-the-dots conspiracy mode, all with a weird crooked sneer. Five minutes was all I could take- much like the one time I watched Glenn Beck or listened to Rush Limbaugh. At least Thom Hartmann is entertainingly dishonest and dumb, this wasn’t even entertaining.
Obligatory
Which circle of Hell is that? 7th or 8th?
Well, it’s not like she’s gonna give you a beej.
I’m a lesbian?
I honestly thought Maddow was just Olbermann going through a gender change.
Her mannerisms and diction are unbearable. Plus she permanently fixed to a smug disposition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciCyEmGQ0k0
Rhodes should be proud to have this scholar in their ranks.
I keep hearing the same thing. Maddow is a one woman brain trust. I must be dumb as hell because I just dont see it.
See how long you can stand this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJYxz4prbTU
She was so convinced that Trump is a cheating tax dodge that she apparently didn’t even look at his returns before revealing them.
It’s worth a laugh.
It’s easy to seem smart when you’re a talking head who reads things that other people have handed you and in my estimation, although many disagree apparently, she doesn’t even manage to pull that
off.
Heh. I copied that comment too. And the comments…oof.
Radley should be proud if that’s who he attracts.
Hayes v. Maddow is like choosing between Randy and Timmy – Ti-Meh!
The idealism is gone and it’s been replaced by cynicism.
Is Hayes to one who looks like the most punchable caricature of a millennial imaginable?
He still does some great work on police brutality but, yeah, he’s just another prog now.
And on the board of advisors of the Niskane Center.
“He wants to be a regular Joe; to play golf and stay in the Hamptons.”
I guess we have two different definitions of “regular Joe”.
He also seems to have figured out that he doesn’t want to spend all day with that sour-puss wife. Yikes.
I don’t think that’s fair to her. She was absolutely beautiful when they got married. She’s stuck beside him to raise the kids while he’s been an unmitigated asshole. That wears on a person.
Yeah getting cheated on for 20 years takes a toll. They were going to call it quits a few years ago but patched it up. I’m guessing he had some good lawyers that were going to clean her out.
He paid her $5 mil to hang around.
“She’s stuck beside him to raise the kids while he’s been an unmitigated asshole. ”
Like Hilary, she has essentially become the unmitigated asshole she enabled.
Never would have thought Pam Anderson would be the voice of reason during the Gropocalypse.
“Hollywood is very seductive, and people want to be famous,” Anderson added.
Hell, they’re getting more famous by being put on the victim list. Win Win. Sorry, Harvey, but you lose.
“The Baywatch star has been public about being a victim of alleged sexual abuse herself. “She has said that she was molested from ages 6 to 10 by a female babysitter, raped at age 12 by a 25-year-old man, and then gang raped in 9th grade by her boyfriend,” notes Jezebel.”
Her boyfriend was a gang?
Maybe he was that guy born with two dicks.
Was she dating the One Man Gang?
That’s awful, but it didn’t turn her into a perpetual victim- sounds like she learned that there are bad people and now she takes responsibility to not put herself in bad situations and learn personal defense. I wonder if the #metoo movement makes people who have been violently raped or assaulted feel trivialized?
Hmm, do you know who else was the victim of sexual abuse as a child, who publically stated that the experience doesn’t seem – in retrospect – to have done that much harm? (or am I pitching a slow-ball over the base here?)
Hitler?
“she takes responsibility to not put herself in bad situations ”
Like, one with Tommy Lee, for instance.
‘World’s only’ father and daughter pole dancing duo explain why sexy routines aren’t weird
Does she dance on his pole?
They spoiled the routine by saying stupid like “I love you”.
Hazel?
Hey guys, thanks for the great comments and reception of my trucking article yesterday. I look forward to scribbling more things down for y’all.
Will you be able to make the links work?
I keed! I keed!
This keyboard is no 18 speed Eaton, my friend!
Then it’s time to upgrade.
That article is exactly what makes this place great – the whole misfit lot of us manage to have a variety of experiences, expertise and interests and can share them.
That sounds a little like a dare.
I was going to go with “we don’t ban people for disagreeing”.
But will we ban people for being really, really disagreeable.
On the last Reason podcast (hey, I have to drive a lot) they mentioned the commenters’ response to the webathon.
SPOILER ALERT
The funniest one was SIV’s, read by Nick Gillespie, presumably from the crawling banner: “no bucks for cucks”.
If I heard The Jacket read that while I was driving, there would have been an accident.
There’s something very strange about the life expectancy of people in Scotland
Without clicking, I’m going to guess this isn’t one of those life expectancy figures where the NHS gets credit.
Scottish people stay very healthy because they eat well but gas is so expensive they walk a lot. They the get a good look at how hopeless Scottish life is, decide to get addicted to smack and drop dead early. But they were only unhealthy for a few months. Hence, healthy people dying young.
Fatal errant caber tosses.
One Glaswegian Kiss too many.
This. Why be old and miserable in Scotland?
Which is a complete about-face from ALL the published statistics of the 80’s and 90’s where health and health outcomes in Scotland was dismal; a combination of poor hospital infrastructure in some of the more remote rural areas, generally poor diet, high incidence of alcoholism and drug use. While I love the place to bits, it’s no place to be unless you have a hearty and robust constitution.
Some cities in Scotland had the highest incidence of congestive heart failure in the Western world 20 years ago. The only way I could square that is that they euthanized all the Scots with poor health to tweak their numbers. How do you change a culture that glorifies mutton pies and alcohol to that degree in less than a generation?
OK, rage subsided. Not an about-face, but that article is just craptacular in ways I don’t have words for.
Socialism appears to be working (?)
Wouldn’t this be… obvious? People who die young live a larger of their life healthy. “He was in perfect health, right up until he got sick and died,,, from that bullet”
The sheep fucking catches up to you all at once.
Bad comment to misplace.
Supposed to be a reply to LH
I think it stands on its own.
Christ, what an asshole.
I guess you could say that to the sheep, if backdooring sheep was your thing.
The porn girl who killed herself yesterday was apparently 9th on pornhub’s popularity list and the star of “Titty Attack 8” (much better than the first seven). A true artist has been lost.
In all seriousness, fuck the online hate mafia. Granted she had pre-existing depression and probably wasn’t that mentally well to begin with, but her logic stands. Gay porn production companies do have different testing standards and gay porn stars do have higher rates of STDs. Her objections are perfectly reasonable.
Even if the standards were the same, who the hell is anyone else to tell her who to work with?
Progressives simultaneously say that women should be able to have an abortion because women own their own bodies, while also saying that you can’t refuse to have sex with certain people?
No fucking sense.
My brother’s roommate and I got into an argument about this. He’s a progressive, and I was telling him that we all own our own bodies, and he was saying that was “impossible.” I asked him “who owns your body then” and he responded “no one.” He wouldn’t elaborate why it was impossible for anyone to own their own bodies. A couple of years later and after many, many conversations on this subject with various people I just came to the conclusion that people simply aren’t that bright, which is sad.
Progressives have no logic. They cling to whatever argument fits their narrative at a given moment. The only unifying factor is the lust for power.
+1 freedom of association. She didn’t want to get a gay cream-pie.
Titty Attack 8 is a puckish satire of contemporary mores, with more heart than head. It was a surprise comeback for a franchise that many thought was going limp.
It was good to see some fresh talent thrust into the spotlight to erect a monument of cinematic achievement. Truly the climax of many careers.
*catches self laughing, stops, narrows gaze*
“with more heart than head.”
Citation needed.
That Georgia State Patrol squad car would be hard to find if it was parked in Boise State’s end zone. They trying to go for the thuggish clown look?
Beautiful girl…
The xylophone is a seriously underrated rock tool.
Great song. Great band. Great video.
New statue of Bigfoot in Whitehall drawing lots of attention
Swissy, if it makes you feel any better Deth S’tar is out in cans.
That DOES make me happy!
Human race has peaked: Scientists warn this is as good as it gets for mankind
We have now reached our maximum limits for height, lifespan and physical performance
Cyborgs.
Just get me to the Singularity… that’s all I ask…
Leave it to the French to settle for the Status Quo.
They must have Guillotined away their revolutionary spirit.
Tenth grade. Science teacher explains to the class that the human brain cant evolve to be larger because if it got any larger it would not fit through the birth canal. Humans are at peak intelligence.
*facepalm*
I couldnt resist. You should have seen the look on his face.
I’m guessing the faceplam was an expression of the significant error in the birth canal argument – even ignoring C-Sections (which are very common these days). It can evolve to grow bigger by pushing more development post-birth.
It is very common for ‘scientists’ to make the mistake of assuming some factors are fixed and others variable. Look at the global warming fiasco. Birth canals can evolve too. No factors in evolution are fixed and evolution doesnt travel in one direction. If you made a chart of evolutionary possibilities it would be 3d, spherical with our current state dead center.
What I said to him was “Cant birth canals evolve to be larger?”
What I should have said is that birth canals evolve to accommodate the largest part of the body at birth; the human head.
What I wanted to say but didn’t have the courage is “So, we cant have bigger pussies than the ones we have now?”
The main reason I went directly to “post-birth development” was because my mind went immediately to “but human infants are already born premature* and most brain development is done outside the womb”
*by the standards of the animal kingdom.
“So, we cant have bigger pussies than the ones we have now?”
I don’t know how long ago you went to HS, but the answer for me appears to be yes.
That seems like… complete nonsense.
It seems like it for a reason.
I always go the Mirror for my science.
Or to make my browser crash.
– Genesis 6:3
Well that proves the LORD was a proggie, completely bad at math and science.
What it says that after 120 years, he got fed up and stopped paying humans any attention – and knew this would happen from the get-go, so he forewarned them.
120 year lifespan cap. Word of God.
Well, reading is for chumps.
Conyers taking after daddy…
And we wonder why Detroit is a dump.
First time poster, long time lurker, stretching back several years into the before time. I expect to post extremely rarely, because some of us do, in fact, work.
Just wanted to give a big thank you to the braintrust that spawned this site and pulled us all out of the toxic depths of TOS. Special shout out to the lovely SP, first for helping build this beautiful product, and most of all for somehow putting up with her husband and the rest of the degenerates here. Despite her poor taste in pizza.
Special thanks to Q Continuum for doing God’s work. Your links are always good for helping my wife and I get in the mood.
Also, big fuck you to Q Continuum. Your recent sperm chronicles 4 really helped kick things into high gear when I read them with the girl at work who I swear I am desperately trying not to bang.
Welcome Tulpa. And you read the comments with someone else present? That may be the most dangerous game…
Aw shucks. First post and I’m already Tulpa. And yes, a smarter man than I am wouldn’t want anyone else to know he wades into this cesspool.
Everyone is Tulpa, don’t take it personally.
Even Tulpa deserves some boobs.
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/91/bc/bd/91bcbd409c6ea8b8712c0e08dbc2bb97–bikini-babes-bikini-girls.jpg
Not bad, but she’s no Morgan Fairchild.
Fuck me. Morgan Fairchild was Dunphy.
Dunphy, is that you?!
Not bad, but she’s no Morgan Fairchild.
Okay, he’s the real deal.
*lowers assault woodchipper with chainsaw bayonet*
Welcome AMG
Fuck you Tulpa
I swear, I’ve got to do everything around here.
Cat butt him!
It always feels good to upgrade from ‘Lurker’ to ‘Full Blown Mental Case’.
I recommend double checking everything you type before hitting enter. I swear these guys are going to stop calling botched links “SF’d” and rename them ‘Gordilocked’ after this mornings performance.
I’m not even going to attempt html from my phone. I’m bad enough with a keyboard.
Also, get yourself some yohimbine. Nectar of the penis.
Yeah… It’s was the combo with Cialis that was especially interesting.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Tulpa?
Does Tulpa dream of electric derp?
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
(sorry but I couldn’t resist a reference, and I mean no offense to Poe).
More xylophone:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4E1zMLghhY
Someone needs to get that Monster Energy Drink a top hat and monocle. Welcome.
I second AMG’s sentiments.
And as the former owner of a Mercedes E63 (technically – it was in my name, but Mrs. Dean drove it), I have to ask – is your handle because you actually drive an AMG?
Since today is Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, here’s my Pearl Harbor related story. In the fall of 2004, I was a junior in college and was able to go on the Asian Term semester abroad w/ 80 other students and a few profs. The first stop was Japan and we got to go to the Hiroshima Memorial, and hear a presentation from a survivor of the atomic blast. The overall message there was that atomic weapons should never be used again anywhere on earth. Flash foward two months, and we get to Oahu and go to Pearl Harbor. We hear a presentation from a Navy veteran who was at Pearl Harbor on 12/7/1941, and he basically said “those fucking Japs caught us off guard on a Sunday morning but we fucked them up and then some.” The contrast in attitudes about how WWII in the Pacific ended was very stark, to say the least.
I don’t think the nukes were necessary. The threat of Russia is what forced the Japanese to surrender.
Sure it was. They were fine with fighting an invasion by the US, but the thought of fighting an invasion by Russia made them throw up their hands. The nukes had nothing to do with it.
Sure.
The threat of Russia invading was part of what led the US to drop the nukes. It was so they could get an unconditional surrender to the US without Soviet involvement. Otherwise we may have had the Japanese version of the Berlin Wall.
People really believe this? smh
The attitudes you described kind of reminds of some families when a murderous thug gets KIA while assaulting a concealed carry victim. The family is all “my poor baby, he’s a good kid and would never do this. Guns are the problem, the “attacker” (the actual victim) should never have had access to scary guns and my baby would still be alive”.
The Japanese went on a murderous rampage and got the shit kicked out of them when they tried it against someone who could hit back. Sounds like the lesson wasn’t learned.
A+
I dunno – look at them the past 70 years. I think they absorbed the lesson…they just don’t like saying it out loud.
Pearl Harbour? The one the Germans bombed?
….(he’s rolling).
Yeah, the one the Japanese bombed was Pearl Harbor.
HCH: Horrible Commonwealth Habit.
Someday you will need a “U”…and find that they had all been frittered away if profligate Queen’s English spelling.
I will weep for you that day, my friend. The I will UUUUUUlate.
Not a mention in the Yomiuri today nor on the news I watched on TV. Pearl Harbor is just another event that happened in the war. Every year in early August, however, we are flood with stories about the atomic bombings. Just goes to show it’s easier to show sympathy for yourself than strangers.
http://itspronouncedmetrosexual.com/2014/05/dear-white-straight-cisgender-men-privilege/#sthash.k7XuAymM.dpbs
I thought we were going to hear a story like “They said there should be no more Hiroshimas, so I said that’s easy, no more Pearl Harbors”.
Being the 76th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack, I recall a while back hearing some Libertarians say we weren’t justified in going to war. I disagree and believe it’s one of the few justifiable wars. Curious if anyone shares the view that we shouldn’t have entered the war and why?
IMO, if we hadn’t entered the first European war, the second one wouldn’t have happened. Thanks Woodrow, hope you’re roasting in Hell.
Why do you say that?
WW2 was a natural outgrowth of two factors: the US discarding the Monroe Doctrine and setting the precedent of getting involved in non-defensive conflicts, and then following the armistice, the deliberate destruction of Germany and its economy, clearing a path for demagoguery among a destitute population.
Great Britain, France and Italy share the blame.
OMWC is right – the US bears the lion’s share of the blame. Without the sudden influx of US forces in 1918, the two sides likely would have been compelled to come to a much more equitable armistice eventually out of sheer exhaustion. We put the Allies over the top.
Hey, start sinking our ships and killing our people….down you go.
Run your ships through a war zone, then act surprised when one gets sunk.
Well, act surprised when one gets sunk after your government is told that the Imperial Kriegsmarine has been given orders to impose a maritime exclusion zone upon another combattant.
Or rather, not act surprised – because you want a place at the armistice with all the broke-assed winners and losers of the continental war, while you’ve just stepped in and are the only economically healthy participant.
I am not a big fan of letting other nations decide where we can trade or not. If Germany told the whole world – you are forbidden to trade with any part of any of our enemies, do we just tell everyone to dock the ships, stop the trains and wait for the Kaiser to give us permission someday?
Acting surprised has little to do with it. Go ahead, blockade away – but when the AEF comes calling, don’t get all sullen about it, Fritz.
As far as a “Carthaginian Peace” – Germany was left pretty much intact. Look what happened to the Dual Monarchy in comparison.
I don’t think Jersey City was a warzone, jokes about its present state notwithstanding.
I was going to say that. Britain and (in particular France) wanted Germany on their knees and the United States did question this heavy-handed approach. Italy felt it was screwed by the Great Powers and that didn’t help matters.
The cruelty of Versailles was much more the fault of Britain and France, but they never would have been in such a position to do so had the US not entered the war.
If WW I was a bar fight.
WW1 is fascinating. If a driver doesn’t make a wrong turn we don’t get Hitler, Stalin, cold war, etc.
The war would have happened anyway. The specific act that started it would have been something different.
The reparations required of Germany were less than those Prussia demanded from France after the Franco-Prussian war. Both wars took place to a large extent in France, devastating the local area while Germany suffered little lasting damage.
The French paid their reparations in the 1870s. They didn’t suddenly turn into a military dictatorship just because they’d lost a war.
The Germans did what they did because of their own massive shortcomings and because they were terrified of communism – a threat they themselves had magnified by sending Lenin to Russia.
The people to blame for WW2 are the Germans. Nobody else.
Conditions and the part of others who played in this tragic play aside, I agree. Germany at the end of the day chose to go to the war….with the world as Norm MacDonald says.
What Charlie said.
https://www.amazon.com/Perfidious-Distortion-History-Versailles-success-ebook/dp/B01N5HI7NV
That book is very interesting, really makes the case that the Versaille Treaty was neither in theory or in practice crippling to the Germans, that the “Carthaginian Peace” narrative is simply untrue. Which is not surprising if you think about it, because the intellectual lodestar of that school of thought is none other than our friend John Maynard Keynes. Often wrong, but never ever in doubt.
If you want to play that game then you can put all the blame on Otto Von Bismarck for ramming through a unification of German-speaking peoples that most of them didn’t want.
Of course, you can blame the US for allowing German immigrants to flood its shores which only weakened any resistance to Bismarck in the first place.
What OMWC said. I now look at World War Two as just a (more violent) continuation of the First. Without the first, and the conditions it created, you wouldn’t have the second.
Except, the roots of WW1 stretch back to the ‘colonial race’ of the late nineteenth century, along with the rise of German and Italian nationalism who each wanted their ‘place in the sun’. WW1 killed liberalism as we knew it.
If only Gavrilo Princip never ran into Franz and Sophie.
The powderkeg would still have gone off (the situation was too strained). The Ottoman empire was still going to collapse (it had rotted too far).
It would have been better if Nick II withdrew from the war before the revolution and was able to continue the reforms he’d begun, followed by a less contentious armistice between the remaining allies and the central powers. A peace that did not have the fatally flawed Weimar regime and a punitive set of treaty obligations that pushed Germany into the socialist pit.
Yes war was probable but circumstances would have been different. Hard to tell how it would have went down.
Many of the nations involved in WW1 were itchin’ for a fight. Princip was the catalyst, there would have been others if he hadn’t acted.
Woodrow Wilson is the prime mover behind two world wars and the advent of the communist atrocities of the 20th century.
Roasting in hell would be almost to good for him; he deserves far worse.
Send him to Detroit!
NO NO, NOT DETROIT!!!!!
Trade me right fucking now!
Hey Chip, have you ever seen this series?
Now hang up the phone.
+1 Fistful of Yen
Don’t let anybody accuse me of being somebody who doesn’t hate ol’ Woody, but calling him the prime mover might be, uh, overstating it a tad.
“NEW BIDEO: a rant about TERFs. the gatekeepers of feminism. no men shall take our gold, sisters.”
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/938542480118702085
I gotta say, she’s not exactly genius material, she’s not really a knockout to look at, but she’s funny as hell.
She looks better in regular photos than her videos, not that it matters.
Yeah, when she told her audience we was going to get a better webcam there was a revolt. The potato cam is part of the charm.
I started watching this while I got ready for work this morning. I love shoe0nhead.
Mayor breaks down and cries when a council member refuses to admit to white privilege.
“That statement is one of the most racist things I’ve ever heard”
What in the ever loving fuck.
People living in a bubble.
Worse. New Brighton.
She won reelection since this came out, too
https://www.hometownsource.com/sun_focus/new-brighton-city-council-mayoral-election-results/article_aea1a25e-c4b0-11e7-b97c-836af464f990.html
But of course she did.
/headdesk
i’m assuming this was done “for the lulz”.
If that is the most racist thing you’ve ever heard you need over to Coon Rapids and see how they talk there.
I get that there are crazy people in our society. But for others to foist her upon a whole town as its mayor? That sort of irresponsible behavior by voters is unacceptable.
If only the House of Reps grew a spine. I fear this is just the start of federalized concealed carry, and it won’t be moving towards constitutional carry.
I don’t think so. It just advances the Full Faith and Credit clause a little bit more. Which should have been the case all along.
“Porn star August Ames dies after backlash to controversial tweet”
http://www.news.com.au/finance/work/at-work/porn-star-august-ames-dies-after-backlash-to-controversial-tweet/news-story/02f6071201d946c52c18372401a4239b
This is a good illustration of what happened:
https://twitter.com/Banned_Ali/status/938576594104475648
That account was banned?
It’s hilarious.
That Jaxton Wheeler character sounds like a real piece of shit.
Yes.
https://twitter.com/Acute_Aphrodite/status/938516664286621697
https://twitter.com/MRsmithersMD/status/938580377584717824
Not the stupidest hot take from Zinnia Jones, but wtf?
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/938741608853381122
“Pro-Gay Online Hate Machine Leads to Suicide of Porn Actress
According to the Blast, Ames’ death was confirmed by the Ventura County Medical Examiner’s office today. Her friends suspected that she committed suicide due to the bullying on Twitter. Sources told the publication that Ames suffered from long-term depression and that the incident may have contributed to her decision to take her own life.
Per the International Business Times, The Ventura County, Ca. Health Care Agency confirmed Grabowski’s death Wednesday evening as a suicide. “Mercedes Grabowski died of asphyxia due to hanging. Manner is suicide.”
https://www.dangerous.com/37985/porn-star-august-ames-may-have-killed-herself-over-twitter-bullying/
I’m certain that charges will be filed and the dude who told her to eat cyanide will get 10 years in the slammer, because there is definitely not a double standard or anything.
This is the same platform that has permanently banned Glenn Reynolds and Milo Yiannopoulos so as to protect their users from dangerous words, keep in mind.
Reynolds was not banned for good.
The sheep fucking catches up to you all at once.
Truer words were never spoken.
If only the House of Reps grew a spine. I fear this is just the start of federalized concealed carry, and it won’t be moving towards constitutional carry.
Agreed. I don’t want representatives from New Jersey and California authoring “sensible compromise” gun laws for Montana.
There’s nothing in the bill that would allow this, so why spread the FUD?
I get the instinctive paranoia, but I don’t see any hooks in this bill that would allow the feds to impose restrictions on state CCW issuance. Recognition of CCWs from other states? Sure, I get that, but even if the feds starting putting real burdens on recognition under this bill, I think the states could just go back to where they are now – they could adopt their own lists of states that they have reciprocity with.
I just don’t see much of a downside to the feds mandating that the states recognize each other’s licenses.
On a micro-level though, there are gonna be some complexities.
If I carry to NJ? I’m legal, but the hollow points in my mag make me a felon.
Nephilium comes in from PA? Gets busted at the CT State Line for having a 15 round mag in his glock.
I just can’t see individual states giving up on their local pet, retarded laws without a fight. And a bit of me says that I agree – states rights’ in general shouldn’t be eroded.
The state does not have the right to infringe on the peoples rights to keep and bear arms. So it’s not an erosion of states’ rights to enforce compliance with the 2nd amendment.
I have the right to keep and bear arms. If 38 passes, I get the right to keep and bear arms in CT and NJ.
What I don’t have is the right to use anything other than ball ammo in NJ.
Nope. Your pistol, ammunition, and magazines are all legal if they’re legal under your home state laws. You do have to pay attention to the local laws regarding where you can carry; for instance, if I traveled from Virginia to Texas, I would have to respect Texas 30-06 signage.
This is (and it chokes me a little to say it) a good law. The people who wrote it knew exactly what they were doing.
That is good news. I’ve been reluctant to waste time reading the minutiae of a bill that had “no chance” of getting thru’.
The issue of course is what if I’m carrying mags that aren’t compliant with my home state laws but are compliant in the visit state laws.
Let’s say I just happen to ‘borrow’ some 21 round mags for my CZ75 SP01 from a friend of mine who has a few spare at his house 2 miles over the state line in NJ ….
Pretty major BTC hack/breach
I was just coming to post that as well.
I hear a bubble popping.
Bitcoin is at $15k right now. This isn’t going to pop the bubble. Something else will.
Launched up to over $19.5k earlier today. With a 24 hour low of $12.8k someone is making a killing. The crash is coming…
Not that any of you care but I continue to make progress on my DIY tube amplifier: pic
That pic is a few days old – my spaghetti wiring has been cleaned up a little, along with placing the panel in a chassis, and doing the speaker and power connections. Last night I got to test the filament supply and light up the tubes.
Due to lack of time, it probably won’t be until the weekend that I will be able to listen to it, or watch it explode into a ball of molten steel.
or watch it explode into a ball of molten steel.
Do try to catch this on video, would ya?
Serious question: Is there any compelling reason *not* to pee in the shower? It seems so much more efficient.
Multitasking at its finest.
And environmentally conscience or something
Your significant other is in the shower with you at the time.
Q asked why NOT
Everyone denies doing it thinking everyone else finds it gross.
Since I do it all the time…..no, there isn’t.
IT’S ALL PIPES, WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?!
“Is there any compelling reason *not* to pee in the shower?”
Progs do it.
As long as there isn’t standing water and you hit the drain, I’m good with it. Pissing into a puddle that you are standing barefoot in seems inadvisable, though.
https://twitter.com/JulieBorowski/status/938446910754566144
I saw this and immediately thought “please don’t let it be John Stossel”.
Well, if a certain former editor at a certain magazine is to be believed then a certain current editor may be one of those people.
That’s a kick in the pants
I’ve come to the conclusion that politics and media just seems to attract these sorts of people.
Attention whores?
Attentionwhores?The elites in our society are immoral and self-centered. Also, water is wet
People seem shocked that power and prestige attracts sociopaths (or at least very narcissistic, unempathic people), like we expect authority to weed out those types. It’s weird.
I dislike the “not my story to tell” line. You’re a reporter. If sexual assault is a real problem name names. Lose friends.
Exactly.
It’s like lobbing accusations just to lob them. And then saying “not my story to tell” because she:
doesn’t want to lose friends or
doesn’t have the balls to lose friends or
has nothing to back up her claim.
Then when somebody does step forward, she can swoop in and say “I’m glad I laid the groundwork for people to come forward.”
She’s put herself in a can’t-lose situation. What an asshole.
His mustache was asking for it. All the women wanted a ride and wouldn’t take his “No, I’m married” for an answer. #StosselToo
You know who else had a mustache and was asking for it?
Charlie Chaplin?
John Holmes?
Curly Bill Brocius?
Winston’s mom?
Winner
Bennett from Commando?
He should let off some steam.
Freewheelin’ Franklin?
How fringe are we going? Libertarians are a weird bunch. John McAfee had been accused of sexual assault, and worse.
Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee is a Showtime Networks documentary about the portion of McAfee’s life spent in Belize. It began airing in September 2016.[75] The documentary contains allegations of both the sexual assault of McAfee’s former business partner, Allison Adonizio, and the murder of his neighbour, American expat Gregory Faull. [76] [77] In an interview with Bloomberg’s Pimm Fox and Kathleen Hayes on September 8, 2016, McAfee claimed that these incidents were fabricated, saying that “Belize is a third-world banana republic and you can go down there and make any story you want if you pay your interviewees, which Showtime did.” [78][79]
McAfee had a personal harem of 16 year olds in his compound. Then he killed his neighbor. Then he fled and he’s still wanted by Belizean authorities. Then he ran for president. What’s not to love?
Not a real libertarian. They weren’t Mexican.
Probably lots of juicy stories within LP. For one, a former LNC member is spending life in prison for killing and dismembering his wife.
Pearl Harbor is just another event that happened in the war.
They wuz askin fer it.
All I get from that Julie Borowski tweet is that she feels left out.
*Who the fuck is Julie Borowski?
Yeah, I was wondering who this gal is too. Anyway, yeah, she’s just wanting to attach her name to this fake movement. “Why hasn’t #MeToo exposed some evil libertarians!?”
Cathy Reisenwitz’s arch-nemesis.
Ah that…doesn’t clear things up at all actually.
Kyle’s mom.
Julie’s been a Youtube Libertarian for some time. She’s had network airtime too.
I know a number of ‘young people’ who have become more libertarian-acceptive due to her stuff.
She’s the second half of a lesbian movie with Lauren Southern that I would pay good money to see.
Lauren’s first on my list when I get that delivery of yohimbine.
Slate publishes something in the ballpark of sanity:
“The Upside of Office Flirtation? I’m living it.”
http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2017/12/where_is_the_line_between_office_flirtation_and_sexual_harassment.html
Wow, that’s gonna generate some hatemail. But it’s nice to see someone have the stones to write something in the places these people read that makes sense.
Hey Evan from Evansville – hope you’re alright man, keep us posted as to your situation.
Evan, If they diagnosis you with ulcerative colitis. Feel free to hit me up. I made a gmail: my handle at gmail.com that you can hit me up at.
Hopefully, you have something acute and minor and don’t need my insight
TaT
And now there is a reasonable op-ed in the NYT:
“Of Course Jerusalem Is Israel’s Capital”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/05/opinion/jerusalem-capital-israel-trump.html
Israel bears the honorific of being just about the only country ever asked to give up land gained in a defensive war, or a war in general.
It does seem odd that, in today’s world, winning a war you didn’t start is a greater crime than starting a war in the first place.
If I told a woman, “Please stop talking to me. You’re not very bright, and the sound of your voice makes my head hurt.” would that constitute sexual assault?
Given that everything counts as sexual assault against women, yes.
No, but it seems kind of mean.
Probably not, but the kick in the balls she gives you, might.
If I told a woman…
You can stop right there. Yes.
Any interaction by a man with a woman is sexual assault if the woman decides it is. Get woke, shitlord!
Shawn and Gus may solve a crime tonight. These are the times that I wish I actually owned a television device.
My wife loved that show.
I don’t know about Gus, but I’m sure Longbranch Pennywhistle or Gee Buttersnaps will play a role.
“This is my partner, John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt. His name is my name, too.”
I fukken love Psych.
Could you people suggest some good intro to libertarianism books? I’m shitty at explaining it and I know a couple of people who might be open to it.
Thx
The Law
Good one, but hard to get a legible copy
The Liberty Fund publishes a collection of his works that includes The Law as well as many of his other essays. I found it used on Amazon.
Download here
Should have known they would have it. Thanks.
I’ve read through the thread and I think this is my pick, too.
“Don’t Hurt People and Don’t Take Their Stuff” is pretty good, too, although it gets a little bitter about Progressivism, which may or may not be a good persuader.
While he’s not necessarily a libertarian per se, most things by P.J. O’Rourke are good to get someone thinking about libertarian stuff. Maybe since he says some classically liberal things but stays very much within the paradigm of the political status quo he’s a good gradual introduction. You don’t have to make a huge leap to read something he’s talking about and see some merit in it. I’d go with “Parliament of Whores”. Also, he does a sort of Reader’s Digest version of “The Wealth of Nations” which is pretty good, too.
True story: I brought “Parliament of Whores” to my wife’s citizenship ceremony. The guards got a chuckle out of it.
The Road to Serfdom & The Fatal Conceit – Hayek
The Anti-Capitalist Mentality – Mises
Economics in One Lesson – Hazlett
The Anti-Capitalist Mentality is available for free download from the Mises Institute.
Atlas Shrugged. Libertarians worship Ayn Rand, I hear from people who have no idea what libertarians think.
Or what Rand thinks.
It’s all of a piece: government is bad because it helps people, poor people should be mulched to feed the gardens of the rich, we all worship at the altar of capitalism, and our currency should feature Adam Smith, Milton Friedman, and the Koch brothers.
Thanks to everyone, duly noted. I’m responding to this post because Atlas Shrugged was my first taste of “there actually are people who kind of think like me”, though it’s a book I’d never recommend.
The foundational principle is self-ownership for everyone. Follow that to its logical outcomes.
Your mind, body and conscience are your own property and no one else’s. The alternative to that is you are someone else’s property and there is a word to describe that.
I’ve gone that route with my father, and for the first time ever I left him without a come back during a discussion. He’s one of the people getting one of these books for Christmas.
These are only for the couple of open minded people I know who I’ve seen the light bulb go on.
On ‘movement libertarianism’ in the US and a general overview, Jason Brennan’s Libertarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know isn’t bad.
If you’re trying to demonstrate that it makes sense economically, Economics in One Lesson
Economics in one lesson by Henry Hazlett
The issue’s like trying to open an old paint can. You have to figure out where you can cram a screwdriver blade to open the can. Are your audience receptive to principled governance, minimal governance, freedom of the individual, the connection between economic and personal freedom, the non-aggression principle, the right to suicide, back to prime-source constitutionalism?
Are they interested in maximizing their Mexican Ass Sex and Weed consumption while maintaining personal liberty outside of the American Prison-Industrial Complex?
The list is long, but USUALLY, the initiator for the search is one or a few specific topics. And in a few cases, I’ve known people who just thought about the ramifications of “Who owns you?”.
So… we need to shank ’em with a screwdriver?
… only the cosmos.
Nock’s Our Enemy the State
Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia is a good one, too.
That is a hard read for an intro. I have that book on my bookshelf and it makes me dizzy reading through it. Maybe I’m just dumb (gets distracted) Oh, look a butterfly
Good point. The question wasn’t asking for favorites, but for good introductions to the concepts.
Honorable mention to “Freedom to Choose” by Milton Friedman, which was ALSO a series on PBS in the 70’s. And is available on Youtube.
I’m going to say that a bunch of suggestions in this thread suck ass, while this suggestion is very good.
Mises, for example, wrote some great books, but they are not into-level books. The language is incredibly dense. The arguments are are like a clockwork mechanism. Anyone suggesting Rothbart or Rand is just, IME, wrong. These are excellent books, but not the opening gambit.
Economics in 1 lesson is probably good, though I haven’t read it.
The point about “Free to Choose” is that while it’s from an economist, it’s not really about economics in a theoretical sense.
F2C was – I think – one of the pivotal elements in LSD‘s evolution into this stuff, because it’s accessible and relatable.
One last thing – there’s also Economics is Fun on Youtube with the ever-elfin Madsen Pirie. This *is* economics, but every vignette is short, and explodes leftist tropes about how the economy works.
Economics in 1 lesson is probably good, though I haven’t read it.
Have you read Sowell’s Basic Economics? They’re pretty much the same book, but Sowell’s is 5x as long.
No, I haven’t read either. I don’t expect that there’s anything wrong with them, but by the time I had heard of them, I was past the stage where I needed introductory texts.
Ain’t Nobody’s Business If You DO
A little long but written in a very readable style and broken into manageable parts. Focused on consensual crimes but makes some good overall defenses of liberty. Also has a liberty themed/humorous quote on each page.
For an amusing easy to digest intro I agree with Hyperbole. Plus ANBIYD is available for free as a pdf from multiple sources.
I also agree with the recommendation about Econ In One Lesson.
Defending the Undefendable for the system shock. I went into it a ‘bama-voting prog in my early twenties thinking What the Christ is this nutty old man on about?, and by the end of it I’d been swayed that maybe there’s something to this liberty business after all.
Swissy, or one of the other founders, could you please create a permanent link to these resources? This question comes up frequently and might be helpful to visitors, lurkers, etc.
Thanks.
There is this:
https://glibertarians.com/faqs/
Oh, well ain’t I a moron.
Thanks!
Anatomy of the State by Rothbard. Quick read- sums up what we oppose
anything with The Tuttle Twins
The Olson Twins reading an abridged version of Lysander Spooner’s Natural Law, or the Science of Justice.
What I recommend:
1) For people who are seriously interested: Economics in One Lesson
2) For people who really aren’t seriously interested: The Declaration Of Independence and The Constitution Of The United States
3) For people who are lying sacks of shit: The New Testament
“HYPOCRITE: Pelosi Condemns Trump’s Jerusalem Move. She Voted For It In 1995”
http://www.dailywire.com/news/24419/hypocrite-pelosi-condemns-trumps-jerusalem-move-hank-berrien
God, I hope that leathery windbag is still around in 2020. Hearing her stump for whatever other leathery windbag the DNC props up can only help Trump.
“100 Years. 100 Million Lives. Think Twice.
Walk around campus, and you’re likely to spot Ché Guevara on a few shirts and button pins. A sophomore jokes that he’s declared a secondary in “communist ideology and implementation.” The new Leftist Club on campus seeks “a modern perspective” on Marx and Lenin to “alleviate the stigma around the concept of Leftism.” An author laments in these pages that it’s too difficult to meet communists here. For many students, casually endorsing communism is a cool, edgy way to gripe about the world.
After spending four years on a campus saturated with Marxist memes and jokes about communist revolutions, my classmates will graduate with the impression that communism represents a light-hearted critique of the status quo, rather than an empirically violent philosophy that destroyed millions of lives.
Statistics show that young Americans are indeed oblivious to communism’s harrowing past. According to a YouGov poll, only half of millennials believe that communism was a problem, and about a third believe that President George W. Bush killed more people than Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, who killed 20 million. If you ask millennials how many people communism killed, 75 percent will undershoot.”
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/11/20/nicolae-one-hundred-million/
What fucking stigma? It’s a mainstream political position, and it pretty much dominates the news media and Hollywood. I don’t get it.
Victim cred, dude.
Online hate mob descends in 3, 2, 1…
I started watching Dark, a German import dubbed in English, on Netflix. The voice acting sometimes misses a beat, but otherwise it’s off to a good start. It’s a lot like Stranger Things (I hear, I haven’t watched it), but the general premise is a kid goes missing and an unsolved disappearance from three decades prior seems to be repeating itself.
It’s much better subtitled. I hate dubbing in general.
I’m really enjoying the show and I’m about halfway through it.
Related to office party fun:
Fun is now mandatory. Happiness is mandatory. Remember, commie mutant traitors are not happy, and do not have fun.
You made that up.
I wish I could make up something like that. I can’t even wrap my brain around the concept of requiring people to go to another venue in order to be paid. The fact that the establishment in question serves alcohol just makes this seem an even more idiotic idea.
Seriously. If someone gets lit up and runs over a toddler on the way home, the company is gonna be crucified.
Because getting paid to waste time around your coworkers while sober is just work.
Wow, what if the person is struggling with alcohol abuse? Whoever made that decision is a fucking idiot.
I have a feeling that if I ask, someone will say that since it’s a mandatory company party, the corporate policies are still in effect, and anyone consuming alcohol at the establishment can be fired for drinking on the job. Thankfully, my management is in a different line then the person running this party, so I can just avoid the whole shitshow.
“There ain’t no party like a Liz Lemon party ‘cuz a Liz Lemon party is mandatory.”
You’ve got to be fucking kidding me. I guess that’s how HR justifies their bloated existence these days, by harassing employees into attending holiday parties.
I once worked at a factory who had this safety coordinator who seemed to be doing the same thing. Every week at the general meeting (e.g. 20 minutes of wasted production time) we would have to sit through dumb PowerPoint presentations about eating healthy and exercise. I should mention that this woman was morbidly obese.
Around the holidays, she did a presentation about food safety and said, “And don’t eat steaks rare; it’s not safe. Cook them until they’re brown all the way through.” You could hear barely suppressed laughter from the crowd.
So, don’t eat steak.
I’ve been to this meeting. The HR person giving the “healthy eating” spiel was is as big as a house.
I was at a venue once that had a meeting of Registered Dietitians going on at the same time. I have never seen so many fat people in one place.
I have an aunt who is a dietician at a hospital. She is not a light woman.
The same rule applies for child psychology majors, never ever ever date one.
Hey Scruffy, I have a couple of product ideas I want to bounce off you. Is there any way I can contact you off-forum?
My Grindr profile is at….
outofgum@hushmail.com
Kicking ass on Grindr, eh? Nice.
If it didn’t start with “Please do not make the same mistakes I did” I don’t think I’d believe their sincerity.
Our holiday party was going to be here:
http://www.pbrbaltimore.com
Perhaps a bit questionable for office workers, but we were told the “Buckle Bunnies” were not going to be there, so it was really just a bar with enough space for people to spread out, and a mechanical bull for those dumb enough to ride on it in front of coworkers.
Well, enough people (around 5) in a place with 180 decided that the usual scene was degrading to women, so 3.5 days before the event it has been moved. I don’t expect a raise next year.
Slate publishes something in the ballpark of sanity:
“The Upside of Office Flirtation? I’m living it.”<
I read that. It was surprisingly reasonable. Her husband should probably put her on suicide watch. The Twitter vigilantes will be forming a posse.
There was a little tidbit in there about the ubiquity of Tinder dating profiles saying, "Likes to be chased."
Yeah, fuck that. If I had one (Hahahahahahahahaha!) it would say, "Grownups only, please."
I have a couple friends doing the Tinder circuit after re-entering the single world, and they tell me it’s pretty much what you’d expect: maybe one or two regular women looking for something like a normal relationship, a few more who are adults looking for flings, and a metric shit-ton of crazy. Also, where we are, they trend heavily left.
“Australia won the second test match and are now up 2-0 vs England in the five game series.”
Thanks mate!
“alleviate the stigma around the concept of Leftism.”
Good luck with that. Scrub as hard as you like, and they’ll still be murderous thieves.
Apparently no one told them that blood doesnt clean up. That evidence is there forever.
The head honchos of a religion that claims north of 20% of the population of this planet deny that the Holocaust took place. Over a third of the US population believes that 9/11 was orchestrated or foreknown by the US government. Evidence means nothing in the grand scheme of things.
Those head honchos are concerned about their marketing. They only deny the holocaust publicly; in private, they’ll tell you the fuhrer was too moderate.
Ummmm, ok?
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/forcing-kid-to-masturbate-for-cops-in-sexting-case-was-wrong-court-finds/
Not all bad news:
Abbott committed suicide in December 2015 when officers came to arrest him on separate charges relating to pedophilia.
This is my surprised face.
“separate”
OK.
In a 2-1 majority opinion, the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals found Tuesday that the initial warrant against Sims was an “obvious, unconstitutional violation.”
As much as the cop in that situation was well worth hating and did the world a favor by offing himself, warrants don’t write themselves. What about the judge who signed off on it?
Absolute immunity. In their munificence, the SC has decided that judges (this was a magistrate with no legal training IIRC) are, for the good of the nation and the Republic, completely immune from any sort of liability for their official actions. No matter what the facts on the ground are.
They can still be impeached.
Was it the same judge who didn’t agree it was unconstitutional to force a minor to masturbate?
I mean holy shit how is this not a 3-0 case?
I’m going to guess on the dissenting opinion.
“We can’t let the peasants think there’s anything their betters are not allowed to do.”
I would have thought “Wait, forcing children to masturbate is wrong? I did not know that. When did that change, anyway?”
Its designed to keep his seat safe while at the same time giving them the “moral high ground” to go after Trump and Roy Moore and say they should do the same.
The window of opportunity to take the moral high ground is short. It closes when you don’t enthusastically Do The Right Thing. When you wait until you are pressured into Doing The Right Thing, you’re out of luck. I don’t think anyone who isn’t a hardened Dem partisan will give them much credit at this point for eventually forcing him out.
The Dems are starting in a hole on the whole sexual harassment thing – they burned their moral credit to the ground with Bill Clinton and Anthony Weiner and all their creeptastic big money Hollywood supporters. Running off the black guy (Conyers) in a few days while hemming and hawing on the white guy (Franken) is not a good look for them, either. Having Conyer’s son running for his seat after being busted for domestic violence earlier this year also . . . complicates their narrative.
I think the right thing for the Pubs wrt to Moore is to permit the election to proceed. The ‘cost’ of the adverse publicity is baked into the polling already.
Once elected, the official line should be “The people have spoken. Rep. Moore’s behavior and views are a matter of public record now, and while it’s understandable that in the current climate that there are some who feel this renders him ineligible for office, his constituency have spoken”.
If he isn’t elected, you suck it up, and when asked for comment, you say “The people have spoken”.
Agreed, but I would have thought the whole “War on Women” thing would have been a nonstarter after Slick Willie and the drag $100 bill through a trailer park stuff. People really aren’t that bright. After all, there’s still a pretty big contingent of people saying “DRUMPF MAKE RAPE ON WIMMIN” for his crude comments about groupies a decade ago. The Dems will find a way to spin this in which they still look like the intrepid defender of “women’s rights”.
Dean is right. Appearing to be and portraying yourself as are two very different things.
Their narrative doesn’t matter. It’s not going to turn off anyone who is already a Dem. Case in point, our “discussion” at Thanksgiving at my parents’ house. They are still convinced Moore is the only sex offender, and that my health insurance premiums have gone up for the past 5 years because of Trump messing with Obamacare. Partisanship is a black hole, which logic and facts cannot penetrate.
Heard an interview on a local radio news show this morning talking to a NoVa representative (a Dem) about Al Franken. I don’t recall her exact words but she didn’t say anything I thought was especially unreasonable, and I think she mostly just didn’t want to come out on one side or the other of Franken resigning. Without missing a beat, the reporter said, “And of course ten women have accused the president of sexual assault as well. Do you think he should resign?” And her reply was even more noncommittal, but it had the subtext of “I really want to get off of the phone with this bitch and not have to talk about this shit any more this week.”
“and FCKH8 CONTINUES to indoctrinate little kids. All the Girl Scouts in this video range from ages 8-12. Just let them be kids instead of doing shit like this. My god.”
https://twitter.com/Audacious_Leaf/status/938499856515194880
Parody? Please tell me that’s parody.
https://pussyscouts.com/ is an actual website.
And I thought I hated mom for dragging me into her tiff with dad after the divorce. At least she was personally hurt and grieving. Draggin your children into your dumb political fights with strangers…
“Antonia Okafor, a Second Amendment activist and NRA commentator, was scheduled to speak this evening at Hampshire College on “Women Empowerment and the Second Amendment.”
Just two hours before Okafor’s approved speech, an email was sent to a member of Junoon, the club on campus that invited Okafor, explaining Hampshire’s reasoning behind cancelling the event.”
https://loneconservative.com/2017/12/06/breaking-second-amendment-speech-canceled-hampshire-college/
De-fund all colleges
Good god, this needs to be done.
The university is a ridiculous anachronism. Universities used to have a monopoly on knowledge because books were hella expensive before the printing press and mass-produced paper, and the only way to learn certain things was to go hang out in a big building with a bunch of smart guys. That’s not the case anymore. We have the Internet; you can learn almost anything you want from your own home, much of it from free articles and videos.
Quit propping up these bloated institutions and let the free market provide lean, modern alternatives. I’m sure we would still see campuses with classrooms in a free market college system, and that’s OK – some people learn better that way. But there would be a lot more room for online study (possibly supplemented with hands-on instruction once a week or something) which would be much cheaper and a million times easier for people with other responsibilities like jobs and children.
They’re basically taxpayer funded Lefty madrassas with a side gig as a brothel. They serve no purpose anymore.
My son has no idea what he wants to study, but he has asked to visit Hillsdale College next summer. He likes the no public money, no leftist BS thing – and the college website landing page has a video of a student shooting skeet.
Hillsdale is great. #6.2 and Mrs #6 did a college visit 2 months ago. High on my son’s “probables” list.
It’s a cool option. Had the spawn not gravitated to hardcore nerd schools, i would have pushed him in that direction.
If I could go back to age 18, I’d go to Hillsdale or George Mason University.
Don’t ignore Grove City.
““What really happened is this,” wrote Antonia Okafor on Facebook. “Someone failed to do a Google search on me and then started freaking out once professors, students and the media started calling in, demanding that I don’t speak tonight.”
Okafor is an advocate for concealed carry on college campuses. She founded EmPOWERed, a movement of women on college campuses who feel empowered to use a gun for self-defense.”
http://www.gazettenet.com/antonia-okafor-14190029
Nice picture!
Would
+1 And I own the blued version of that Kimber. Great pistol.
Yes. All three.
And the guns raise her a few points in the bargain.
Oh yeah.
“Do you even know what alt-right means? First I’m a “white supremacist” now I apparently identify as “alt-right” bc I have the audacity to want to empower women & students thru a natural right.”
https://twitter.com/antonia_okafor/status/938750950780690433
How can a black woman be a ‘white supremacist’? This is getting so dumb. Ben Shapiro in a yamuka is a Nazi, a black woman is a ‘white supremacist’- none of this makes sense.
Because “white supremacy”, “Nazi”, etc., has become shorthand for anyone who opposes the far left.
Funny, I thought Nazis were the far left.
That comes off sounding like I am criticizing you. I am not. Just pointing out what Just Say’n was just say’n is the heart of it. Post modernist gibberish and marxist clap-trap result in nonsense.
You are correct.
“Just Say’n was just say’n”
That’s meta
And pro-shariah Linda “I wish I could take their vaginas away” Sarsour headlines women’s marches. It’s brain-dead partisanship all the way down.
“How can a black woman be a white supremacist” is easy to explain, when the Frankfurt School and Marxists have prepared the way.
False Consciousness explains all wrongthink. The only question is whether the victim is tolerated, incarcerated, deracinated, re-educated or exterminated.
If lovin’ her is wrongthink, I don’t wanna be rightthink!
Nothing pisses of Lefties more than minorities who don’t support them in lock step. When that happens, it chips away at the Democrap Party’s claim of being the only choice for minorities (as though the said minorities belong to them as property).
Must have gone ok, I dont see anything about the speech itself. At least the school apologized and allowed the speech to go forward at a later date.
https://www.hampshire.edu/news/2017/12/06/statement-and-apology-to-antonia-okafor-on-hampshire-colleges-decision-to-cancel
sorry, not sorry
Just two hours before Okafor’s approved speech, an email was sent to a member of Junoon, the club on campus that invited Okafor, explaining Hampshire’s reasoning behind cancelling the event.”
“We cannot provide a platform for a race- and sex- traitor to spew hateful and unmutual opinions.”
“Unmutual”? Dear Dog, I’m so far behind, my NewSpeak dictionary is still only the 8th Edition.
This could be interesting… no details yet as the records are currently sealed.
Lol.
“Commenting has been turned off for this article.”
I’ve been to Cleveland many times. Their local government (both the City of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County) are constantly under Federal investigation/indicment/arrest. They have officials get sent to the Federal pen regularly.
This is basically just an ordinary weekday for them.
“Unmutual”? Dear Dog, I’m so far behind, my NewSpeak dictionary is still only the 8th Edition.
You, of all people, should get the “unmutual” reference.
I am disappoint.
I did, but decided that all you kids only know the show as a legend.
My shocked face in the shop still.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/12/06/tidalgate-climate-alarmists-caught-faking-sea-level-rise/
What is wrong is the way that the scientists at PSMSL have adjusted them. In every case, they have revised them in order to make them produce a sharp upward trend in sea level rise – despite the fact that global records do not support this.
The global records don’t know what they want!
The global records were asking for it. They shouldn’t have worn that skirt if they didn’t want to get revised.
You anti-science dunderheads don’t get it – the sea levels are rising at an alarming rate, but it’s obscured by the fact that the extra water is hidden in the oceans!
/sarc, but probably not too far off from what they’ll really say about this
One day I’ll regale y’all with the background on some of the other standards that have been misunderstood, mis-calculated, gerrymandered and outright falsified over the years. PSMSL is just the start.
Just about every hard number that gets quoted about anything Earth Science related, is compromised to some degree.
I’ve been independently studying statistics (with some books and Khan Academy) for this very reason. I realized quite some time ago that almost every statistic you hear in politics is questionable at best and a total fabrication at worst. I want to know how to debunk this bullshittery.
Short precis. Often, it’s not even a matter of statistics.
Some of these ‘standards’ are based on single, arbitrary data points selected for convenience, and subsequently used in appropriate ways. way beyond their original domain.
Stealing my own thunder here, back in the 70’s marine hydrochemistry was often undertaken with experimental data calibrated against Standard Mean Ocean Water (SMOW). The problem is that SMOW was basically a tank full of seawater collected in the Skagerak (a part of the Baltic Sea) in the 1950’s by a university vessel. IIRC, about 200 liters were collected, and the water was subjected to very detailed chemical and isotopic analysis.
The primary purpose for collecting this was for isotopic analysis of salt- and fresh- waters, but it ended up being embedded in a lot of other academic work. Everyone wanted some of the water for their own calibration for research. And so, supplies ran low, so a new standard was introduced in the 80’s, (Vienna SMOW) and the game continued.
One of the problems (see the lightbulb illuminating now?) is that one of the early ‘forks’ of the use of SMOW was measuring dissolved carbon dioxide in the water. I don’t know when the first assay of CO2 was made in the water, but despite the SMOW being maintained at STP during collection and storage, I think it’s unlikely that a component of the water – which – at the time of collection – wasn’t of interest to the researchers, would have been carefully observed.
And so, early climate researchers – of whom many are clearly not very good experimental researchers OR statisticians) glommed onto SMOW and started relying on the published composition. This isn’t a crime. A datum need not be a representative sample, but it does need to be a properly audited and carefully considered standard, and that’s hard to establish for SMOW. It wasn’t designed to be a dissolved CO2 standard.
Now, SMOW has been surpassed as a practical calibration datum – there’s none left – but the deficiencies it exhibits as a datum for many oceanographic studies are still present, and still influence studies which become public policy wherever anyone uses ANY study from before the 80’s, or any that in turn, rely on data from before the 80’s.
Lastly, a qualitative issue. Earth Scientists often display precisely the same pathologies and insecurities that Economists display. A desperate desire to turn their chosen field into a real, hard, quantifiable science. And in order to do that, they must be able to generate properly falsifiable hypotheses. This pursuit of a quantum-physics-like precision is, and will remain their downfall, because the best we can hope for is a set of descriptive principles.
Both Gaia herself, and the 6+ billion economic (wo)men who inhabit it have far too many degrees of freedom for that level of certainty and/or precision.
That’s all very interesting, but why do you hate science, denier?
Kidding aside, has this deficient standard been addressed in the literature, or is it glossed over? Because that seems like a pretty major problem. I can’t imagine sciences in less politicized fields getting away with it.
This particular issue isn’t so much political as ontological.
I think it’s in the same category as saying “the sea is salty because there is salt in the sea”. It’s an inbuilt and unconsidered issue for many academic researchers because “it’s a standard, innit?” is both the justification, and the excuse.
If you build a society upon flawed precepts, eventually, the deficiencies will force a readjustment that models human nature better. That readjustment may be later, much later, or very much later. But it will happen.
Same with flawed science. Aside from the true believers, I suspect that (at least newbie) AGW researchers want to stop the world from turning into a burned out husk, so they go to college which supports this view, and rewards them for piling on and creating a greater mass of evidence, even if they don’t do this with malice.
If all your calibration tables are either from the 1960’s, or are derived directly or indirectly from data from the 1960’s, and that base data is wrong (either accidentally or maliciously) – how can your work (which may in turn. provide calibration data) – be any more useful than everything that came before it?
If I were in Climate Science when the UEA information became public, I would have probably thought about spending the rest of my life punishing the people who had willfully destroyed my future.
“He would lie if the truth served him better” is a saying that certainly applies here. The ice age is ending and the seas are indeed rising. All they had to do was hype that, but noooooo, they just cant help themselves. Tell a big fat lie.
I thought the ice age is overdue to begin. And something about a solar minimum, and carbon sequestration in the deep oceans, and Antarctica calving ice shelves at an alarming rate, and, and…
I am making an educated guess based on the history of the cycles. If this cycle is like the last three then we are still coming out of that last one. That doesnt mean it is set in stone…so to speak. We could also experience a fair number of fluctuations in the trend, it isnt a smooth curve.
The warmistas are right about one thing; humans do affect the climate. They affect it in the same way I affect the Pacific Ocean if I take a piss in it.
I know you are, but what am I?
Many Democrats continue to have little understanding of their own role — often inadvertent, an unintended consequence of well-meaning behavior — in creating the conditions that make conservatives willing to support Trump and the party he is leading.
I asked Karen Stenner, the author of “The Authoritarian Dynamic” and no fan of the president, for her explanation of the political dynamic in the current struggle between left and right. She emailed back:
Consider some of the core features of our ideal liberal democracy: absolutely unfettered freedom and diversity; acceptance and promotion of multiculturalism; allowing retention of separate identities; maintenance of separate communities, lifestyles and values; permitting open criticism of leaders, authorities and institutions; unrestrained free expression (of what many will consider offensive/outrageous/unacceptable ideas); strict prohibitions on government intervention in ‘private’ moral choices.
We should take up a collection to buy these people a mirror.
“absolutely unfettered freedom”
So when can we expect NYC to allow sales of AR-15s with no restrictions?
The entire post reads like a plaintive cry for reducing the pervasiveness of executive power, but I’m sure he doesn’t support federalism in the slightest.
At the heart of their conundrum is that the liberal sobriquet no longer meshes with liberal philosophy. They’re in no danger of losing out to “authoritarians” due to their overwhelming respect for liberal values, because they’re thoroughgoing authoritarians themselves. For fuck’s sake, we have a case being presented to the Supreme Court this week to settle whether a man must be forced to supply cake for an event with which he disagrees on moral and spiritual grounds. Which side do the supposed liberals occupy? The side calling for his head. The people who aver to being anti-authoritarian. Because it’s not about the liberality of the matter, it’s about collecting scalps in service to accruing political power.
They’re anti-authoritarian when the wrong guy is in power. Otherwise, they love themselves some top-down control.
Nikki Haley casts doubt on U.S. going to Olympics in 2018.
I hate the news and crappy reports. The story contradicts the damn headline. And this is NBC reporting on a Fox News interview. Not even first hand reporting.
No news, so make up stupid news.
It’s not even really a government decision, right? The government can insist/pressure/demand but, in the end, isn’t it up to the USOC?
There is no way that the USG would insult a treaty ally by saying the ROK government is incapable of protecting the Olympics.
you kids
So very droll.
Not sure if serious.
Eric Schnurer, a writer and public sector management consultant who has worked for many Democratic politicians and presidential candidates, addresses what he sees as the lack of recognition on the part of liberals of what motivates conservative voters.
“Both sides of this increasingly polarized divide see the other as trying to extirpate their way of life — and not inaccurately,” Schnurer wrote in “War on the Blue States” in U.S. News and World Report earlier this month:
Blue America spent the last eight years dictating both economic and cultural changes invalidating virtually every aspect of Red America. Liberals see all that as both righteous and benevolent — we’re both promoting better values and willing to help train them to be more like us.
Schnurer elaborated on this line of thought in an email:
The prototypical Trump voter sees a changing America leaving him behind; part of this is economic, part of it demographic, part cultural. I think liberals tend to see this as a thin cover for racism, a reflection of troglodyte viewpoints, and in any event unwarranted as the world these folks are resisting would be better even for them if only they’d let it, by giving up their benighted religious views, accepting job training in the new technologies, and preferably moving to one or the other coasts or at least the closest major city.
I gots ta know. Will the trains run on time?
“we’re both promoting better values and willing to help train them to be more like us”
And they fail to live up to our expectations, we’ve got the ovens preheated!
“Senator Franken is scheduled to deliver a speech from the Senate floor at 11:45 AM ET.”
https://twitter.com/SenFranken/status/938774239477403648
I’d love to see him come out swinging and exposing a whole lot of Congressional dirty laundry, but he won’t. He’ll resign with some bullshit sorry/not sorry speech and nothing else will happen.
Paraphrasing from his speech – “admission of…doing things I did not do.”
“I’m sorry for being accused of false actions and I deeply regret how these women feel, wrong as they are.”
And quickly – enough about that, let me bash Trump/Moore, talk about holding the administration accountable, how hard he has worked…my God he just won’t stop talking….
“I dearly hope that with my resignation, the country can move past this unfortunate distraction and I can continue my work against the NRA. Please love me.”
I think this is transparently politically motivated to try and claw back to moral high ground, but I still am getting some sweet schadenfreude watching that smug asshole go crawling under the rock from whence he came.
Too bad all those “harassed” didn’t come out in the open when Franken was first running for Senate. The seven month recount with Coleman wouldn’t have been needed.
Don’t know if Coleman would have been better in Senate or not.
CNBC is reporting that Sen. Al Franken will resign at the end of the year – live address coming-up…
Michael Slager (South Carolina cop who shot a man in the back) sentenced to 19-24 years. This is federal time, so he’ll actually serve it.
An actual punishment for an on-duty murder. I never thought I’d see the day.
Oh boy… Best of luck to him. Cops are about on the same level as pedophiles in the prison hierarchy.
We had a woman at the prison who actually used to be a corrections officer at one of the men’s prisons, then she purposely ran over her boyfriend with her car.
I suspect those things were related.
people with some modicum of power over others tend to develop hubris which makes them capable of some incredibly stupid decisions
*see: everything in the news over the past 18+ months.
My less refined sense of justice wants to give him a pair of sweatpants and a tshirt and let him try to outrun a bullet in broad daylight, but I suppose that will have to do.
Oh look, Arabs freaking out about something. Makes me wonder if they ever do anything else.
https://apnews.com/8ddae4b406ed471c93dd2732b617727b/Protests-across-Palestinian-areas,-Mideast-after-Trump-move
Well, they throw handcuffed people off of buildings
That is shocking. Did they all take a day off from work and get a parade permit?
Oh no! Trump has disrupted the peace and goodwill that has existed for decades on the Israel-Palestine border area!
Shapiro had a pretty good rant about all the times Israel has offered concessions to Palestinians, only to have the offer rejected and a civilians attacked in response. Palestinians may want peace, but their leaders and terrorist groups want anything but.
Israel has shown remarkable restraint in its treatment of the Palestinians. Given all the constant aggression, Israel would be completely within their rights (IMO) to steamroll over all the disputed territory, push the Palestinians into Jordan, Egypt and Lebanon then build a new wall and say if you attack us again, we’re going to take even more land.
I think the problem Israel has is that the more land they take, the more Palestinians they have to deal with. Now either they toss them in camps or ghettoes–not a good look–or they incorporate them as citizens–hello, potential enemy within–or they kill them in the invasion–alienating themselves from their allies and fueling their enemies.
I don’t know that this is a problem Israel can fix. Really, it’s the bordering countries who support Hamas as a cat’s paw against Israel who need to get out of the Palestine business. Until that happens, either as a result of a local Palestinian resistance or the more likely result of international pressure, nothing’s going to change.
Notice that Syria, Egypt, and Jordan have given up on wars with Israel. I’m sure if there was another real war, the aftermath would include Israel shoving every “Palestinian” Arab in the Gaza strip and West Bank into the neighboring countries before Israel lifted it’s foot off their throats.
http://morelibertynow.com/libertarians-somalia/amp/
Not sure how this isn’t going to end up as some sort of libertarian colonialism…
And comparing yourself to Che and Castro is what we need…
I wonder how Evan from Evansville is doing. He was supposed to go to the hospital today right?
That was my understanding.
BTC is up over $6k in the past day.
I still don’t understand what gives bitcoin value, but this has to be a bubble that’s going to pop hard. I’m shocked there hasn’t been profit-taking yet.
What it does tell you is just how much of an asset’s price is based on ‘psychology’.
I wonder if there’s a way to short-sell that…
I was lamenting the fact that there’s no volatility instrument for BTC I can invest in.
i hope someone other than me found the caption on the “Matt Lauer enjoys his ‘fuck-you’ money”-story picture amusing
“Yes, i retired from the Today show, but middle-aged bitches still love me, yo“
Enlightening immigration statistics with which to torture your friends, coworkers, and family:
—-Wall Street Journal (archived)
http://archive.is/d1wBB
The article makes a number of observations.
1) Fewer people are trying to cross, coinciding with Trump’s election, which suggests would-be illegal immigrants are staying put because Trump was elected.
2) Arrests are up–even though deportations are down.
3) Trump may be in trouble with anti-immigration people–because his deportation numbers are so low compared to Obama’s.
yeah but O only deported killers
is how they’ll respond. which obviously is bullshit.
#6.2 just made it onto the A Team for state-level Premier Tier Volleyball.
Height hath its privilege.
And in other news, Reasons to be cheerful, 1,2,3
In other happy news:
Harold Ford out at Morgan Stanely –
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/nation-now/2017/12/07/report-former-rep-harold-ford-jr-fired-alleged-misconduct/931897001/