Wait, what? What time is it?
By no stretch of even SugarFree’s vivid imagination could I be called a morning person, yet here I am filling in at the last minute with links. Why? Because I love you!
Just don’t expect any sports because there weren’t any last night. Football is on *tonight*.
You knew it was just a matter of time. Frankly, I’m surprised it took this long.
It was a biased and sloppy investigation. Whew. For a second there I thought they said “Sloopy!”
It’s only fair.
Because this always works out so well.
And, of course this is what we have all come to expect. So, while not surprising in any way, it’s still infuriating.
Oh, right. I’m supposed to give you music. This is on my mind this morning!
Have a great day! I’m going to go take a nap.
Sweet! SP links. The best kind.
*happily starts clicking on every single link
Mike, you already have a coveted Get Out of Cat Butt Free card. Now, it’s just pathetic ass-kissing. Sheesh.
Wha? Me kiss ass? I…resemble that remark.
She didn’t say “don’t stop” though.
HA!
*stares blankly at Chips’*
I missed some punctuation to denote a pause between the “don’t” and “stop” to make them into repetitive commands.
don’t. stop.
less funny now.
Stop
Don’t
… touch me there
Yay – no sportz. (Hated the Jocks at school)
Don’t start this again….
*dribbles basketball while gazing narrowly at LH*
*tries to bat the basketball away, overcompensates, and rams head into goalpost*
So that Ky rep; there was a mention but no details in another story I read about him claiming he set up at morgue at Ground Zero, but people we calling BS. Anyone know about that?
The ground zero morgue was apparently just a part of it.
Quite a lot of info here:
The Pope’s Long Con
I remember when the Heart of Fire church burned down and that it was arson set by the pastor. I had no idea of a before or after story on that.
If My Future Kids Get My Husband’s Last Name, I Should Get to Choose Their First Names – just go primus secundus etc
Then get them fight to the death where the last one standing gets to inherit everything.
But first you have to get a castle and a ruby.
Primogeniture might very well be an economic invention as great as capitalism.
How they name their kids in Bali.
I guess I would be Wayan!
I think you would be Sugar Free.
Goddamnit.
At this point we may have to change it to Gordilocking the link.
“so it can be quite tricky trying to determine one Wayan from another”
So Bali is like watching In Living Color?
I got ripped on mushrooms one fine evening, sitting in the grass next to a rice paddy, and enjoying a bottle of wine with my wife.
The colors were living alright.
“Wayan John”
Can we get some narrowed gazes over here!?
Yeah, sorry…moving a bit slow today.
*narrows gaze*
I’m so happy my wife isn’t a vindictive cunt filled with faux-self righteous notions of ‘fairness’.
I came up with my daughter’s name and she loved it instantly.
Who gives a shit beyond that? It’s not like I brag about it everyday.
I am guessing Rufusinia
Rufulina
Rufuniqua
It’s a great name. Classic, classy and won’t determine her career path (looking at you, Tiffani’s mom).
If you name your daughter Chastity don’t be surprised if she absentmindedly twirls around poles as a child.
At one point my youngest wanted us to change her name to Sapphire.
She was not happy that we wouldn’t agree to it
In later years I’m sure she’ll be grateful as hell.
I let my wife choose the name, but I had unlimited veto power. I used 3 or 4 vetoes before she settled on a great name.
Ruffinella was in the mix.
That would have cut down on those pesky birthday and X-mas… and Father’s day cards in your future.
My wife kept her last name for professional reasons and out of a sense of familial piety. I honestly couldn’t care less. Our kids have or will have my last name. We came up with my daughter’s name (Eliza) together, and if we have a son he’ll most likely be William Daniel for me, my dad, my grandfather, and my great-grandfather, and Daniel for her father. After that, it’s pretty much throwing darts at lists. If you’re having children with someone and plan on raising them together, making the name choice a territorial struggle is a bad start.
Current feminist doctrine portrays relationships as power struggles, where mutualism and compromise represent defeat instead of what they really are – the healthy path. She’s a product of her indoctrination.
One of the nice things about being a Ted is that it’s traditional, but not particularly common.
And it’s easy to pronounce.
Wynona’s Big Brown Beaver
Smells like seven layers
That beaver likes Taco Bell!
Unironically published in SELF magazine.
In Defense of The Beautiful Snowflake Generation
The battle cry of the totalitarians.
Crybullies.
The elites set the example.
I call parody
I can’t tell anymore.
I went to the home page. All the articles are high-end derp. I really can’t tell.
I’m embracing my transition into grumpy old man. If anyone gave me the lectures those articles contain, I would be swinging an ax handle.
Why only the handle?
I don’t want to clean up the mess. You think some snowflake’s going to mop a blood-spattered floor?
If the alternative is joining the mess…
I read your post and couldn’t resist.
I now have an inexplicable urge to take up residence back at my parents’ house.
At least when Ajit Pai destroys the internet with his evol mad max-style deregulatory scheme, I won’t be able to afford access to sites like wokedaddy.com
If.
^This^
“If being a snowflake means being tedious, narcissistic and pathetically self-righteous: I am guilty.”
We have been denied the abundance we are all entitled to,
If being a snowflake means being a self-entitled little shit-heel, you’re guilty.
That word doesn’t mean what you think it does…
Something to do with xis future career as a two-bit whore.
Two-bitcoin whore sounds lucrative though.
/face palm.
I really hope it’s parody. Or else if the barbarians invade and cross the limes, God help us all.
I’m pretty sure this is real. From the “About Me” page:
http://wokedaddy.com/about/about-me-ludo-gabriele/
“I believe that money has no place in most areas of our life mainly in politics, healthcare and education.“
Excellent, it sounds like he’s against the government putting a gun to your head and forcing you to pay for all three. No way I would think otherwise.
“I believe in the abundance of mother earth and of the universe.”
So… pro strip mining?
No peak oil? Even a blind squirrel etc.
why is everyone analyzing the rantings of an insane snowflake?
It’s a diversion.
Never cross the limes.
This can cause a chain reaction, which may lead to total protonic reversal (or destruction at the cellular level).
If being a snowflake means being a huge pussy, you are guilty as sin.
If being a snowflake means rejecting a status quo that does not contribute to the greater good of humanity: I am guilty. If being a snowflake means showing empathy to oppressed communities: I am guilty. If being a snowflake means being emotionally literate and shamelessly communicating my feelings : I am guilty.
Too bad that’s not what it means.
Being a snowflake means being narcissistic, self-righteous, intolerant, and emotionally brittle and prone to tantrums; for the male feminist variety, it also probably means being a sex offender of some sort. It’s basically the left-wing version of Roy Moore.
What a saint.
FUCK.
OFF.
“profoundly sick society.”
This is where the entire debate rests. I, for one, do not believe we endure a profoundly sick society, but am constantly amazed at the grace and resolve of the human spirit.
These are the same people that bitch about how greedy and selfish American’s are while completely ignoring that American’s are the most charitable people on the face of the earth (if I remember the numbers correctly).
It is 100% projection.
We have been misled to believe that chaos and conflicts are at the core of our nature.
Chaos is not, but conflict surely is. Or maybe I have been misled by literally all of human history.
We have been denied the abundance we are all entitled to…
Yes, the abundance we are all entitled to. It boggles the mind when people say this: it can only be borne out of ignorance of how much work goes into maintaining society and providing for it, or a malicious desire to steal and enslave. I’ll be generous and assume ignorance in this case.
Turning my Grumpy Meter up to max power for the day thanks to this guy. Any snowflake I come across has this asshat to thank if/when I ruin their day.
My grumpy-meter was already close to maxxing out BEFORE seeing that dreck.
Deer Mates: A Quantitative Study of Heterospecific Sexual Behaviors Performed by Japanese Macaques Toward Sika Deer.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29230601?dopt=Abstract
In japan even the monkeys are pervy
SJWednesday: How To Wreck An Argument With Mandatory SJW Argument Inclusions Edition
Yeah, I know, it’s not Wednesday. I’ve been busy, OK?
dadgummit
It’s not entirely wrong. Except the one thing almost all have in common isn’t race, it’s being poor. I don’t see why sjws have trouble seeing it. It’s not like the police arrest fewer people in the trailer parks than the ghetto. These assholes have done more damage to criminal Justice reform than I would have ever thought imaginable
Exactly my point. They take an actual, solvable problem and wreck any chance of reform by beating it with their SJW stick.
Enough reason for me to forever despise sjws
In an effort to be as fair as possible, I want to separate the actual, quality, point being made about cash bail being insane, from the person making the point.
‘80% of women in jail are single mothers’ is another one.’
Stop praising single motherhood for its own sake. The people who become single parents via events out of their control (death for example) and responsibly raise their offspring is one thing, to encourage them to think they could just leave their man because they don’t really need him, is just misguided and wrong. We tend to martyr women who are single parents (and I’m sure there are some who deserve it) but it’s still a situation that should be avoided where it can.
Deadbeats gotta get laid too you know. Quit trying to cockblock
Don’t stick it into crazy…
No tentacles?
I dunno, did the deer have a nice rack?
Coffee….
*wanders off to the break room*
Not sure there’s a delicate way to put this…
Your sidebar is showing.
Ah, someone got it.
slander
“Slander is spoken, in print, it’s libel” – the one line I remember from a Spiderman film.
Really?
No, “With great power comes great responsibility”?
They actually included that in the film version?
Really?
No, “From my point of view, the Jedi are evil”?
Was that in a spiderman film? Sounds more like bad star wars fanfiction.
I thought that was actually a really great idea, but implemented poorly. Developing Anakin Skywalker as a slow descent into villainy with reasonable motivations as he questions the established order would have made for a really interesting tragedy. Instead it seemed like they got to the third film and just flipped a switch and said “he’s bad now”. The build up for that was so poor.
Lucas is a twat. That is all.
That whole series was chock full of stupid politically motivated drivel. I loved the line about only Siths thinking in absolutes, because everyone woke knows nuance to the point of being a spineless cunt that can excuse whatever you want – like the left does – is what makes one righteous.
That’s what happens when posting from my phone and it keeps dropping the connection. Options don’t get saved. You should see how many times I had to add a front page image!
The Weird Phenomenon Of the Weeaboo
Whats weird about it? standard fascination with japanese culture that existed for a long time combined with nerdiness. Also katanas can cut through european longswords.
Also katanas can cut through european longswords.
Nerd fight!
Katanas are made from crap metal little better than pig iron. The whole reason they have to put so much effort into their forging is to work out as much of the failings of the base material to get it closer to modern steel. And against metal, katanas perform poorly, they are designed for cutting flesh and leather.
well i heard they go through full plate armor like a hot knife through butter
So does a Barrett M82.
^^^This guy gets it.
There’s a reason I also laugh at monomolecular-edged weapons being depicted as doing that.
Look at the mechanics of the act. You have a wedge of non-zero maximum thikness, somewhere about three sixteenths to a quarter inch at the tickest point. Regardless of how sharp the leading edge is, you still must deform and deflect the material to either side so as to get that wedge through. Your average steel plate used for armor is not going to just crack on contact and so you will have to bend or compress the steel plate until you get a gap wide enough for the sword to keep going or you’ll stop right at the edge. This is why anti-armor weapons tend to be a lot of force behind narrow points, as it minimizes the amount of material that needs to be crehsed, bent or otherside deformed for it to penetrate.
Well I saw plenty of movies which tell me armor is useless so why would you need anti-armor weapons?
If armor were useless, no one would wear it. That shit’s heavy.
Plate armor isn’t as heavy as you’d think, and a well-made set, especially the later designs, is articulated and balanced such that it’s pretty easy to move in. Armorers figured out pretty quickly that the best strategy was to use thinner steel strengthened by curves and ridges and angled so as to deflect blows rather than just tie 1/4″ thick plates to people and hope for the best.
Easier to wear is still heavier than unarmored.
Full plate is 50 lbs, give or take a few.
But it is remarkably easy to move it. There are tons of videos showing people training and moving in armor.
There was one with a guy in full plate running an obstacle course and beating a guy in modern battlefield gear.
The ease or difficulty of movement is actually irrelevent. How many people would carry around 50 pounds of additional weight if it didn’t do anything for them?
I’m carrying about 50 lbs of weight that don’t do anything for me but ward off starvation…
I’d wager you can’t leave it behind and pick it back up later in the day.
Well yeah, there’s obviously a benefit to the armor that justifies the weight, but point the second is that the tradeoff isn’t that steep because it’s not that much of a hindrance to mobility. The saying I see often is that a typical knight of the high medieval period was wearing about the same or a little less than what a modern soldier carries in terms of weight, with the decided advantage that the weight is distributed much more evenly.
‘Plate armor’ is a pretty generic term for a broad variety of defensive gear.
When *most* people think of ‘plate armor’, they’re not thinking of the kind of armor you see in movies about Agincourt and Crecy, which was ‘field plate’ which was about 50-60lb and provided pretty good frontal coverage with chain coif beneath. Hangs badly on the body, and that weight is in addition to all the fol-de-rol of cuir, buckles etc. It was ‘pretty good’ for most combat, but as the French found out, wasn’t particularly good at stopping clothyard arrows with good iron bodkins.
The stuff most people think of as ‘plate armor’ is the ceremonial stuff you see in museums, and runs a fair amount more than 50lb – again, once combined with leather and padding below it – ran to about 80lb. Much more expensive, heavier, with articulated jointing on neck, elbows, wrists and armpits. Almost impossible to fight in, and the last thing you needed was a couple of lightly armored scallywags to get inside your defenses, armed with a 12in filleting blade.
If a katana struck plate mail, it would be immediately destroyed.
I know that the brittle edge would shatter, but I’m skipping ahead to the next argument “but suppose it doesn’t”.
That’s why you go for the monofilament whip implanted in your hand with a prosthetic thumbtip for weight to control it. You know, the industry standard setup.
meh. Hira zukuri was for cutting soft targets, but other sugata (esp anything with niku) was used with armor in mind
Armor in Japan was paper mostly…
Also, there are Japanese who are obsessed with slices of Western culture.
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=japanese+greaser&FORM=HDRSC2&PC=U316
Love the ones with the pompadours two feet high.
“Wawiers, Come out to pweyyyy!”
Another soon-to-be protected class, no doubt.
Steyn wraps up the GOP debacle in Alabama in his witty style.
Oh Jesus, is that true? If it is, I’m going to bust a gut.
“Sure I do darlin’. Now shut up and git to suckin’.”
But this is damned good from Encomium.
Can anyone seriously believe that 60% of wealth was created by slaves in 1860?
https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/941011180063256576
I assume non slaves produces some. How the south lost the war when they produced 70% of wealth …
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_history_of_the_United_States
The chart in this wiki says agriculture made up 59% of employment, but only 30% of output. I imagine she has no idea what the difference is. It would make sense for industries dominated by slavery to be less productive, or else you wouldn’t need to force people to do the work.
Slaves had to be fed and housed. Buying manual labor today may be cheaper. Then there was the cost benefit of using machinery that probably made slaves a negative for investment.
These days owning slaves is a status symbol. The people who do it could afford to pay for the marginal amounts of labor they get, but keep slaves because they want to own someone.
This is why I just lease my orphans. And it’s easier to swap out the broken ones at the orhanarium.
Adorphan can fill those needs!
I’m sure there were some slave owners who thought “You mean I am no longer required to feed, house, and provide for these people for the rest of their lives? Abolition may not be that bad after all. Now I can afford me one o’ them cotton gins.”
Sharecropping turned out to be a lot more economically viable…If it weren’t for a pesky little war and reparations destroying the southern economy, the South would have likely flourished.
Aren’t you doing that regardless? In the absence of a welfare system, who is going to bother working for a wage that doesn’t at least let them feed, clothe, and house themself?
“Slaves had to be fed and housed.”
Manual laborers have the same requirements, but you have to provide those things in the form of wages. And, since you don’t get to decide what minimum acceptable “food and shelter” looks like for your laborers, you have to meet their expectations in order to attract them.
Derp, now I look at the actual claim, and I see that it’s a claim about wealth. I’m not sure about that. Slaves were very expensive. It could be that they made up a large portion of the wealth in the US. However they couldn’t use that to help win the war, as they would have needed the ability to sell them out side if the CSA and the blockade was tight.
Well the plaque said produced not represented.
The Confederate Constitution forbade the import/export of slaves.
Its like a sports team, you can lose money every year, but the asset value doubles in 7 years. I think the Astros were bought at $680M in 2011 and valued at $1.5B today. That’s a pretty good six year double.
http://bradleyahansen.blogspot.de/2014/10/the-back-of-ed-baptists-envelope.html
Read this on some possible origins of such claims
So the North’s trade and industrial wealth was based entirely on trading with the smaller plantation economy of the south?
Robert B. Reich: Why making American corporations more competitive doesn’t help most Americans
I tried to read it but all I got was Derpity derp derp derpity derp.
Their only allegiance is to their shareholders. – that is true wither way. Markets how do they work?
Yeah. I don’t see how cutting taxes makes that more true. Plus it’s a good thing they are beholden the the share holders. Those people actually want the company to succeed, not just blow all the money, like some certain managers have done. Business where management does not own a stake trend to do worse.
Markets how do they work?
Robert B Reich: “Uhhh… you go down to the corner and get your can of chili and bottle of hand-lotion, and try not to look in the clerk’s eyes?”
And by shareholders, you mean a large portion of the non 1%’er hoi polloi who have 401Ks or IRAs?
All I got was oompa loompa doopity do.
If you read it backwards, it’s just saying “Hail Satan” over and over.
If 35% of stocks are owned by foreign investors, that still means 65% are owned by American investors.
That means you’re a bit less than doubling those figures for American investors. For example, American workers with a 401k account.
If 35% of stocks are owned by foreign investors, that still means 65% are owned by American investors.
Math is not Robert Reich’s strong point.
Even if foreigners get a windfall, the windfall is in dollars. What are they going to do? Wipe their ass with them? They can’t all be Venezuelans.
Other people accept dollars. They don’t have to come back here. It is entirely within reason for dollars to circulate entirely outside the US.
Petrodollars.
Well that money should be going directly to its rightful owner, Uncle Sam! Those fat-cat foreigners might not spend it the right way!
Damn those foreigners.
Always… INVESTING IN US.
Bastards.
You mean “Owning us and siphoning off the profits!”
Did he use cutesy whiteboard drawings to convey his, for lack of a better word, idea?
Reich is a fucking idiot.
Where is it written that anyone is beholden to the service of the country? As an ancient proverb proclaims, FUCK OFF, SLAVER.
As a business owner, one of the things I really hated was when foreigners invested in us — inviting me to hire more people, buy useful goods and services in the economy, and grow my company.
Those evil bastards.
“Reich is a fucking idiot.”.
Truth.
Wanna know what’s scary? Look at his number of likes and followers he has on Facebook. Look at the number of people sharing his pseudo-economic bullshit with others.
Terrifying.
Your company? If these foreigners bought in, it’s their company now.
Imagine if I gave them my shares in exchange for money. I would basically be a slave or something.
Please, the proper term is ‘socialized worker’.
If the corporations are American then by that very statement they are, in fact, serving America, assuming that serving America means benefiting Americans. Of course, Reich really uses that phrase to mean handing money over to the government so that Top Men can distribute it to people Reich deems worthy, but that doesn’t sound as nice.
I absolutely loath that pompous little ass. Casting his little turds of “wisdom” like they were pearls among swine.
Considering that most businesses are corporations, most of the jobs, products, services, and profits produced in this country (and I suspect in all other developed countries as well) are produced by corporations. Anything that benefits corporations generally (not just specific corporations) is a boon to the country.
Claim: All tits are boobs, but not all boobs are tits. Debate.
http://archive.is/lrVqg
Special Edition! Massive collection of the best of 2015! I’m not even going to try and pick out faves, they’re all bunk-worthy.
what about hooters?
Hooters, IMO, should be reserved as a pet name for breasts in which you’ve become intimately familiar.
Welcome to the Orgy cult.
While Mia Khalifa’s (#85) breast implants, like all breast implants, make me sad, she is not excluded from the orgy. #58 is Angela White and of course she must be included in a best breasts list. I am sad they did not include Irene Nell.
#48 has an interesting choice of sex toys. I think #80 will be fun outside of the bedroom as well as inside.
80’s got good trigger discipline and I have that exact same quad rail!
After careful consideration…
2 wins.
Careful = using lube this time?
Common sense chafing control.
2, 8, 13, 20, 26, 29, 33, 34, 61, 73, 79, 80, 89 , 91
UK surgeon admits signing initials on patients’ livers
My liver is imprinted with one word: Hendrick’s
i remember a comedy sketch about this. Maybe Mitchel and Webb
Shoot, if a doctor offered me 50% off of surgery, I’d let him initial my organs (at least the fatty tissue around it, since for most organs, it shouldn’t have an impact on function.
In this case, it was an NHS practicioner, so the signature was probably the only thing he got right.
Have you seen doctors handwriting?
Signatures do not need to be legible, just unique.
SjWednesday: Pot, Meet Kettle, You Two Should Blame Whitey For Being Black
One might think this would warrant a mention of what the Islamists do to apostates, but nope, it’s all about how horrible white people are.
What is the link between paragraphs?
Derp
I don’t really understand what point she’s trying to make. However, it’s utterly laughable to put Muslim countries (of which India is not) in even the same galaxy as the US when it comes to women’s rights. Even India (which is markedly better than Saudi) women don’t go around unescorted, not due to law but for safety. I saw it. I was just there.
The feminist Islamophilia undermines their own cause so utterly it’s impossible how anyone can take them seriously. There is literally no movement, no society, no group more oppressive of women today than conservative Islam, yet they defend it all as part of their intersectional brainwashing.
The only point they ever try to make is that whitey is the source of all evil. Everything bad in the world can somehow be traced back to that fundamental truth.
Whenever they pull that whitey is evil bullshit with regards to Islam and our friends who reside in Allah’s Chosen Countries, I always like to bring up two things – William Wilberforce, and the fact that Saudi Arabia didn’t ‘officially’ ban slavery until the 1960’s.
Don’t tell them Wilberforce was a Tory or their heads will *really* explode.
That’s almost as unbelievable as Lincoln being a Republican.
The only point they ever try to make is that whitey is the source of all evil.
Whitey. Or men. Or America. Or the bourgeoisie.
It’s essentially a power play. They think if they can make people feel guilty enough, they’ll hand them the keys to power.
^^^^THIS^^^^
KGB-speak 101
Mind if I ask what your experience in India was?
I briefly dated a fresh off the boat Indian. Being a Florida Man, I asked her if she likes to go to the beach. She told me that at home, if young women go to the beach and wear a bathing suit, they’ll be forcibly groped by strangers.
I was in Delhi for 10 days for work and I only had one day off to do any kind of exploring, but I’ll give you the rundown of my experiences:
Young women do *not* go out alone, there are hordes of people out and about all the time and 90% of them are men, the few women that are out are old hags or wives being escorted by family. Pollution is UNBELIEVABLE; thing thick fog (like can’t see to the other side of the street) but it’s all smoke, exhaust, smog and toxic sludge. Traffic is beyond the pale and has to be seen to be believed. It’s life at its most basic and most brutal; people doing anything they can to try and scrape together some kind of life. People literally living in cardboard boxes selling piles of junk for food. On the plus side, everyone I interacted with seemed courteous and pleasant, don’t know how much of that is driven by my being a whitey. The food was fantastic and the few architectural landmarks I got to see were pretty amazing. Beyond that, it’s a big, dirty, chaotic mess.
Young women do *not* go out alone, there are hordes of people out and about all the time and 90% of them are men, the few women that are out are old hags or wives being escorted by family.
Feminist paradise.
“Appeals to white women’s supposed “purity” has long been a tactic of American racism. We see it in the historical use of alleged sexual sleights against white women as justifications for the lynching of black men.”
But cultural appropriation and believe all women.
Seriously tho, if you’re going to post a suicide note to facebook, all-caps are a bad look
Right? Probably wanted to use comic sans, too.
Great Taste of the Midwest has a lottery for out-of-towner tickets.
One year when I lost, my rejection note was in comic sans.
That made it hurt doubly bad.
Welp, the bigwig (at a competitor) who propositioned me with a sweet job offer Tuesday then propositioned me in a very different manner Wednesday. So that’s a big Nope sandwich. Especially since we really dp like each other. Can’t see that ever getting back to normal again.
So I will stay in the land of Tundra and defer to the great Pope Jumbo.
propositioned me in a very different manner Wednesday
buttseks?
#youtoo
I mean that’s never happened to me. Err…
#youtoo
I’m not going to complain. Alcohol was involved, and he didn’t insist or in any way imply it was related to the offer. He just continued a really fun night into an attempted neck kiss and then a poetic attempt at getting me in bed.
2 Live Crew?
The fact that he tried poetry is pathetic.
Not literally poetry (that would have been pathetic), but silver tongued devil persuasion of why it it would be perfectly alright for us to have a little fling, how beautiful, witty, and sexy I am etc. And with the Australian accent, I admit I felt a little southerly sensation that i had to immediately redress with some humor and flippancy so that we could continue our professional relationship without loss of face. But, damn.
(Clarification: Aussie accent and silver tongue were his, not mine)
Obligatory sexy ‘Strine talk.
Ah damn. I was trying to make a funny because I thought the “poetic” was an auto-type screw up and you meant “pathetic.”
Now it’s me who looks pathetic! *runs off sobbing*
My current thang was a co-worker, so I was that guy once. Took a lot of work. Good for you for handling it with tact and grace.
My wife is that guy. She picked me up at an after-work meetup at a bar. She set it up to have a group crash at my place (I don’t drink very often, so I was commonly the ‘you guys can ride home with me’ guy.)
When the bar closed up, everyone else vanished. Still, I was so worried about getting accused of harassment that we just talked for an absurdly long time. Finally she moved in for the kiss herself.
The next morning she said that with all the signals I was missing, she was starting to wonder if I was gay. That is how much I worried about a harassment accusation all the way back in 2003. Today is two orders of magnitude worse.
Cyto, that is a cute story.
And, man, are you ever right about today’s environment. The banter at work could get pretty much all of us blackballed.
I mean, the very fact that in the course of turning this guy down I said “I just don’t think I could work for someone who called me a cocksucker and meant it literally and personally” would get me in more trouble than him. (He was not opposed, btw.)
Fuck. He just LinkedIn me.
#youtoo?
*sigh*
Right? Kinda sad.
Well, it sounds like it was more awkward than intimidating. That’s a plus, I guess.
Well, SD’s loss, MSP’s gain.
Awkward is the right word. I think he might have been tipsy enough to have forgotten most of it, which would be ideal.
I gotta remember that when. People try to keep my drinking pace, they are getting drunk twice as fast.
Well that made your decision easy then!
…but admit it, you were like 97% offended and 3% flattered right?
Dude, I was way more than 3% flattered. I was mostly astonished, as my figure would be John-approval worthy, but seriously, if I were on the market, who knows what might have happened. Hence the Nope sandwich.
Whew!
*goes back to chilled bliss*
There is a typo somewhere in there, but which one it is depends on a lot of things.
It is supposed to be “do”. We have been professional colleagues/rivals for years. Just never been alone together, and that’s When It got weird.
I think I saw that movie.
Lolz.
My Aussie pal is way better looking, even if the age gap is similar.
Ok, here’s another weird one: same trip, Monday night, pre alcohol. I am carpooling with a coworker. He starts asking me personal questions about my marriage and professing his own marriage problems. Earlier that day, I had helped him sort out some personal logistics and had sewn on a button for him. As I was walking away from dinner using my crutch and struggling a bit, he took my other arm in his to help. But then he stroked my fingers for a few seconds
Am I leaking pheromones?? I need a fracking break.i am not flirty. No idea.
“Am I leaking pheromones??”
Don’t forget, people want what they can’t have.
I don’t envy you in this situation.
My husband claims that my face looks phisically different after we’ve had sex, especially if I give him a hummer too. He claims that is why people often come on to me if we go out right after. (My “freshly fucked squirrel” face, as he calls it.) I thought he was full of it, but there is a pattern. Trying to figure out why that would be an evolutionary advantage…?
“Don’t forget, people want what they can’t have”
This could be part of it. I am middle-aged and married, so maybe they feel it’s “safe” to over-flirt because it can’t go anywhere.
What a vixen!
Yeah, me with the button sewing.
My millennial gay hire lodged a formal complaint against me when I brushed a donut crumb off his face seconds before he was to make a huge presentation to the customer.
He can see on his own damned buttons.
For real?! That is beyond fucked up. It’s getting to be that you can’t even be nice to people anymore.
No doubt, Mike! Compliment are harassment, uninvited donut crumb brushing is harassment, “looking at me up and down ” is harassment.
Get a freaking life. My group of cohorts continue the banter (mostly poking fun when somebody says something that could be taken another way), but honestly, I expect that eventually a complaint will be lodged, and probably by the millennial referenced above.
Part of why the offer at Good Old Boy inc was appealing. Til the would-be boss made a pass.
(Might be overcomable, but I’m not willing to risk it)
Go on…
damn it
robc beat us both to it.
Ouch. Sorry to hear this but glad you’ll still be somewhat local and that SP and I will still have a chance at meeting up with you.
I’m straight-laced enough to have never ever made a pass at anyone with whom I’m professionally involved. I honestly don’t understand that mentality.
No, no, no. DP- obviously.
Meant as a reply to LH…
I gotta figure out what dp like is. Sounds potentially interesting…
Don’t Google it on your work computer, unless you want things to get more interesting.
I’m pretty sure crossing swords may be involved.
Eww, ish. Thanks for the warning.
Double Psomething.
So you turned him down since he didn’t bring a friend this time?
Lol.
Weird thing is, next week we are both in the same Podunk town on the east coast for totally different reasons, but we already had made a dinner date.
I’m thinking I will adopt the Mike Pence model from here on out.
Freudian slip. Her subconscious is telling her that it isn’t cheating if Mr. Explosives is involved as well.
Finally home in the frozen north, with Mr splosives hand on my ass. As it should be.
Remember: Coffee goes best with booze.
Get drunk enough and you won’t notice the taste?
To each his own, but I like the taste of coffee.
/looks for the Kahlua bottle
I’d offer you some of mine, but I finished the bottle.
Gross.
/Carollan’s
My wife makes her own. It’s her dad’s recipe. Not being a big coffee guy, I can’t speak to how it tastes. She says it’s great.
Oooh, coffee and bourbon. Especially a nice medium to light roast. That’s what Christmas morning and a day of fishing taste like to me, which, upon reading, looks kinda weird.
you roast your bourbon?
The TRUTH about Santa
Should we tell our kids the truth about Santa Clause?
FFS. Get over it already.
I tell my kids that Yakub leaves his favorite creations presents under the tree each year.
And who is Santa Clause?
The patron saint of ambulance chasers.
Groucho: That’s standard in any contract. It’s called a sanity clause.
Chico: Ah-ha-ha, you canna fool me, there ain’t no Sanity Clause!
It’s been happening a long time so I don’t find a claim about theoretical harm convincing.
“I want my children to know, without a hint of doubt, that what I tell them is always the rock solid truth ”
My parents let me believe in Santa Clause and I don’t seem to doubt everything they say. This is just your insecurity about always being right coming in. And you want to ruin what some would call a common childhood experience, just so you can be ‘validated’ in your belief that you are always right. At some point your kids will stop trusting everything you say, and that’s good.
We let our daughter (damn lucky kid, gets both Hanukkah and Christmas) believe. She figured it out this year at 8. Same thing with the tooth fairy. She doesn’t seem to mistrust us at all.
My son is nine and still believes, or at least does a really convincing job of faking it. I’m fine with that – he has the rest of his life to be devoid of magic and wonder. No harm in a little bit of that in childhood.
I tried to keep that gravy train going for as long as I could, but it ended when my youngest brother spilled the beans and told my parents that I had explained to them that if we kept pretending we would keep getting presents. I was lucky enough that their reaction was relief because they started to think that for an otherwise very bright kid, I was retarded (can I say that because that is exactly what they were thinking, or is some woke SJW gonna be all over me?) in some way.
That’s about the right age to figure it out. I once dated a girl who believed in Santa until she was 15.
You’d think that she would be some Uber sheltered homeschooling Baptist, but she was a non-practicing catholic with an abusive alcoholic father and a witch of a mother. Now that I think about it, maybe it was some escapism on her part.
My aunt apparently believed till 13. My grandparents were both alcoholics, and my dad moved out when she was 11, so I think a lot of escapism was involved there too.
Appropriate <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/583655-hogfather"quote from Hogfather:
#TheresAPratchettQuoteForThat
There is no Santa, but there is government.
Except government only ever seems to take my stuff.
They give you roadz.
– PJ O’Rourke
I tell my grandchildren that Santa Claus doesn’t exist, but the Krampus does.
yes the Krampus does exist.
Ride the Krampus!
Santa was what Odin morphed into after the Christians converted the pagans. One-eyed blood thirsty warrior god, that Santa.
You left out the wisdom.
How did we go from a 6 legged horse and a pair of crows to that carriage pulled by reindeer?.
Just joking…
SJWednesday: How To Make Certain A Potential Mate Knows You’re Crazy Edition
I wholeheartedly endorse this.
10 Things Every Intersectional Feminist Should Ask On a First Date
Sorry for the Schultzing. I got a little carried away.
A link has been posted several times before, so the kenlength makes it different.
You didn’t type that!
I would like to know what Ken’s wpm rate is. It must be impressive.
I figure he has 3 orphans, each getting every third word. Sort of like 3 phase.
Hmmm… porn sounds like a better alternative than dating.
More than anyone else?
You’d better be straight and naturally female.
I don’t.
No one who’d pay for me can afford my rates.
Hell, no.
We abandoned our duties as an occupying power too soon.
Nope.
Yep
No.
I’m not an ally.
*polite applause*
“Can any human be illegal?”
Do they really think that unclever conflation makes good arguments?
Yes.
And in countries that say, have a one-child policy, additional children may be illegal…
“4. What are your thoughts on sex work?”
“I support it 100%! I support it so much, I’ve got a punchcard at the local whorehouse; 12 round the worlds and you get a free threesome! You should come with me next time.”
God rest the souls of that poor family!……and pussy’s half price the next 15 minutes.
Awesome show. And Ian McShane rules.
And they’re finally making the movie!!!!!
When this woman is 40…
1. Over/under on the number of men who have gone on a second date with her: 0.5
2. Over/under on the number of cats in her apartment: 15
1. Under
2. Over
This is the same woman who admitted to hating her mother because if it weren’t for her, she wouldn’t be half-white.
I’ll lay the points on #1, because I’m 100% some beta-ass cuck will chase after this chick like she knows the cure for cancer and ain’t tellin’. I’ll take ’em on #2 because I doubt very much she has the persistence or sense of responsibility to care for animals.
Alternate title: “Why I Haven’t Been on a Second Date in Eleven Years”
She’ll either end up alone with a Beta-fish or angry cat or with a lame cuck. Either way, she’ll be miserable.
Yes, please do announce yourself as a lunachick bunny-boiler as early in our interactions as possible.
I liked the Lunachicks. I don’t think I have any of their records, but I’ve seen them a bunch of times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO-qjKEcLZg
I have several. Their rendition of All By Myself is amazing.
#7 seems to be the real doozy. School to prison pipeline can only exist in a capitalist environment?
She’s a keeper.
Look up ‘Lara Witt’.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/266244/lara-witt-hates-white-people-lara-witts-father-daniel-greenfield
https://pjmedia.com/parenting/2017/03/24/teen-vogue-writer-all-white-people-are-evil/
Therein lies a stunning misunderstanding of probabilistic causation.
The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to impose a new fee on development to raise millions of dollars a year for affordable housing as the city copes with rising rents and surging homelessness.
What could possibly go wrong?
I mean, putting a fee on building housing when you have a homeless crisis because your idiotic laws restrict the supply of housing and you don’t understand the laws of supply and demand?
It’s genius, I tell you!
What do you mean?
/developer
All the cool socialist cities do it.
Amber Preserves Tick On Dinosaur Feather
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/deadthings/2017/12/12/dinosaurs-tick/#.WjJu3zRx1aR
3 band names
Amber Preserves
Tick On
Dinosaur Feathers
Speakin of Dinosaurs… https://youtu.be/9–XTVoT1vk
Taken from Bill Clinton’s seminal (hiyo) work “Extremely-Narrow Denials, And The Meaning of “Is”: 10 Headfake Strategies for Very-Guilty People“
In fairness at office parties groping is not inappropriate
“Additionally, I never routinely inserted my right index finger in the pooper of my interns. In fact, my right hand is completely innocent of these spurious allegations”
The left is the dirty hand.
Gotcha!
I grope myself often.
And, of course this is what we have all come to expect. So, while not surprising in any way, it’s still infuriating.
It’s too early for me to find my shocked face.
In the first examination of its kind, the Chicago Tribune and ProPublica Illinois found that 85 percent of disciplinary cases handled through the Chicago Police Department’s grievance process since 2010 led to officers receiving shorter suspensions or, in many cases, having their punishments overturned entirely.
I’m surprised the cops didn’t reply with “Fuck you, you’re getting nothing” to the records request.
Development aid isn’t reaching the poorest. Here’s what that means.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/12/13/development-aid-isnt-reaching-the-poorest-heres-what-that-means/?utm_term=.0c1508257ffc
The good news is that global poverty is falling, according to World Bank data. The bad news? It’s getting harder to reach the world’s poor — 80 percent of global citizens live on less than $1.90 a day, and 75 percent of those living on less than $3.10 per day live in rural areas. – i think this paragraph is wrong.living.
This presents a challenge for foreign-aid donors, and to their goals of eradicating extreme poverty by 2030 and lowering inequality within countries. – those two do not go together
Foreign aid never reaches the poorest. It never did and it never will, because it gets siphoned off well before it gets there. This is a well known fact, yet morons and corruptocrats continue to push for more foreign aid.
It’s to prop up Third World regimes to promote stability.
Foreign aid never reaches the poorest. It never did and it never will, because it gets siphoned off well before it gets there.
The world’s poorest are the world’s poorest because they live in areas with predatory governments. I know it sounds grossly oversimplified, but that one single thing is the major driver of global poverty. No other factor comes close in terms of explanatory power.
^This 100%. Foreign aid is filtered through the very governments whose corruption and ineptitude destroyed their country’s economy to begin with.
Remember the famous Sowell quote: “Foreign aid is taking money from poor people in rich countries and giving it to rich people in poor countries.”
We. are. not. progging. hard. enough!
Side note: I *can’t stand* that the clickbait-style headlines have seeped their way into mainstream publications.
“Terrorists just slaughtered 200 innocent people. Here’s what that means”
“United Airlines flight from JFK to LAX explodes in midair. This is why it’s bad”
Semi-literate, retarded, snowflake journalists who spent college seeing Buzzfeed as something to be emulated in their social justice propaganda crusade. Fuck em. FUCK EM ALL.
Fuck em all to death?
lol
if it was, do you think there would be so much of it?
these sorts of stories infuriate me. It literally takes 5 seconds to learn that “international development/Foreign aid” is mostly a shell game. Yet “journalists” will act like they’ve just shined the light of truth into some hitherto never-before-explored cave the moment they learn that UN/USAID ‘Do-Gooding’ isn’t *actually* run by Sally Struthers types.
My girlfriend spent 4 years first working for a PR firm for UNICEF type orgs, then 2-3 years getting a masters degree in International Affairs, then 3 more years working at the UN…. only to learn that 90% of the international aid game is basically, “Me (US Govt) give you (Foreign Govt) money; you take that money, and spend 80% of it back to one of my crony buddy-companies in Y”, and has fucking nothing to do with saving poor people from themselves. Sometimes the pure-baksheesh type aid – straight up bribery – is among the most *helpful* simply because it has no strings attached. At least then tinpot dictator gets to spread the money around w/ his own cronies.
And the UN is even worse, if you can believe it. Most people can’t; they assume, “oh, some non-partisan multilateral org is surely less corrupted by…BZZZZZZZZ” sorry, next guest. They’re *more* corrupt exactly because the org provides that cover. They’re literally nothing but middle-men collecting and handing out dirty money, while using their various do-gooding initiatives as superficial cover. If you ever want to get a glimpse on how these guys work, just give a quick read of how the Iraq “Oil for Food” program played out.
People think Wall St is some slimy place where evil greedy people sit around in smoky rooms and plot the sytematic exploitation of the poor. The irony is that is literally a more-accurate characterization of the “International Aid” world.
UN, FIFA…what’s the diff?
Somewhat related, a friend of mine worked at a NGO for a bit on trying to prevent human trafficking in Palau and very quickly ran into the problem that everyone with any kind of power there is in on the trafficking. Started at Walmart trying to stop international bribery and can get results simply by threatening to never do business with that person again.
What’s truly amazing is for those of us smart enough to tie our shoes, Phil Hartman explained all of this to us back in 1993.
From the governmental perspective, foreign aid isn’t about helping the poor or any of that crap – it’s public diplomacy. There’s a reason the foreign aid budget shrank dramatically after 1990 and then expanded enormously again after 2001. (My old man was in that line of work, and none of his colleagues had any illusions about their real objectives.)
Watching porn has a really weird, positive effect on hardcore Christians
Ummmmm…. I thought there were a bunch of studies showing regular porn viewing did the exact opposite of all those things? Maybe, just maybe, these studies are all politically driven shitshows with an agenda and have no bearing on real life? No, our intrepid “scientists” would never sully the honor of their profession by doing something like that!
iow, some churchgoers have common sense. *shrug*
Christians who unrepentantly reject the teachings of Christ hold views that are associated with an ideology that unreprentantly rejects the teachings of Christ? You don’t say?
You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
*raises hand*
Even if I’m not married?
No, adultery involves married folks. My pastor would argue that it falls into fornication, though.
I refer to it as the impossible standard. Guarantee everyone’s a sinner by definition, offer redemption.
Yeah, the ludicrous concept of Original Sin wasn’t enough, apparently.
I wish to Christ it would.
“anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart”
I have a serious philosophical problem with this. Lust is a reflexive reaction from our sinful natures right? Shouldn’t the test of sin be whether you exercise your free will and not act on it?
Been a long time since I was a Catholic, but if I recall correctly, this would be an example of how everyone has been corrupted by original sin. By looking at her and entertaining the thoughts (oblig: But father, the thoughts were entertaining me!) you took an action.
Man it’s no wonder Catholic guilt is a thing…
There’s a scene from Family Guy when they were trying to potty train Stewie. Peter is in a book store and told the clerk he needs a potty training book:
Clerk: We have Everyone Poops
Peter: Oh, we’re Catholic
Clerk: Well, then we have You’re a Naughty Child and That Is Pure Concentrated Evil Coming Out Your Back Side
So Q has basically doomed us all to hell. Good to know.
No, you just need to go to confession and pay your indulgances.
I had a Catholic friend who was dating a ((girl)). She took him to Temple, and she wanted to go to Mass once. He took her to Ash Wednesday Mass. The next time I saw her, I had to explain the symbols and what everything meant. At the end of the conversation she said, “I thought us Jews had guilt down. We’ve got nothing on you Catholics.”
Heh, I went to nearly 12 years of Catholic schools, and my sisters all willingly went to Catholic colleges, so they had 16 years of the brainwashing. I haven’t attended church in probably 25 years (unless someone dies, or marries), but still feel the effects. Even the husband says “I know you’re secretly Catholic,” and I just laugh.
Not spending time coming up with something but this seems pretty good.
https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/kevin-deyoung/temptation-is-not-the-same-as-sin/
Google Image Search has doomed us all
Lust is a reflexive reaction from our sinful natures right? Shouldn’t the test of sin be whether you exercise your free will and not act on it?
There’s a huge difference between having a passing naughty thought and seeking out a bunch of pictures of naked women to fap to.
OMWC, this song’s for you!
I thought it was going to be the Teletubbies theme.
Well, I suppose it’s for all of ((you)).
I’m convinced that Dipsy is a crypto-Jew.
(((Laa-Laa))) is the gold one.
Well it’s 10 degrees outside and the driveway needs a-clearing from the six inches of snow we got yesterday. Why do I live in this desolate winter hellhole again?
You wanted a switch from the post-apocalyptic desert wasteland?
Family ties?
Yeah that’s the real reason. Also I love my neighborhood – at least for 7-8 months out of the year.
There are better ways to enjoy the majesty of Michael J. Fox.
I couldn’t get a DeLorean…
On a related note, there was a limited time promotion where Ford had Flux capacitors as an optional accessory – sadly it was for 1.21 gigadollars.
But no better way to soak in the sultry sexuality of Tina Yothers.
*raises eyebrow, squints at Chip*
10 degrees here as well but not snow.
If I have to suffer with cold, I want the snow there to at least make it look pretty.
“Work a one-piece swimsuit by Mikoh like Emma Roberts”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5177085/Emma-Roberts-flashes-assets-revealing-swimsuit.html
Surprised they didn’t call it a “bikini”.
They couldn’t see at least 10% of her midsection.
I find her strangely hot.
Spy satellites are revealing Afghanistan’s lost empires
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/12/spy-satellites-are-revealing-afghanistan-s-lost-empires
Cool.
Now do Canada. The Empire of…..
Great Britain.
You were a Dominion of the crown.
Wow the other aricle blurbs on that page are dripping with igorance. A handful on the sidebar don’t look as bad, but I get the impression there’s a lack of science understanding at sciencemag.
Science is right there in the title. What don’t you get about that?
Scientific American isn’t either.
If you need another sad, visit a library with a long-run collection of Scientific American and compare an issue from 1964 with the current one,
Southern Comfort is neither.
Two sports stories out of Liverpool:
Everton won yet again, 4 Wins and 1 Draw since hiring Allardyce, whose name I can now spell. Although he only has coached 2 Wins and the draw.
Klopp blew a gasket yet again. Big whiny crybaby that he is.
Pictured: Gloria Allred’s next client
Make your own caption in the replies.
*The dolphins name is Drift Would*
It’s just mens locker room talk. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ACzR_3JfBOM
AMERICAN GYNO-STALINISM ON THE RUINS OF SHAGADELIC UTOPIA
That sounds as bad as any SJW studies crap
Actually, it’s good satire.
pussycomrades
Merriam-Webster’s 2018 Word of the Year?
” In the new progressive America, pussy eats you.”
I want this bumper sticker.
Tundra et al.
After the Smithereens discussion last night, I realized I had none in my playlist. So I went looking and learned they made a Christmas album. Since it is that time of year, I figured I should share my new-found knowledge…if you didn’t know already.
My favorite (so far) off the album is a little different, but fun.
Thanks Mike! It’s on Spotify – the others in the office are in for a treat today!
Since you brought up the subject of Christmas albums, how about the most incongruous of Christmas albums? I give you Bad Religion’s Christmas Songs
I have their Little Drummer Boy in my Christmas playlist. It’s the best version of Little Drummer Boy I’ve ever heard.
Let’s keep this theme going. If you like hair metal, this is for you. A Twisted Christmas
my go to for christmas
Not metal by any stretch, but a nice Christmas song by one of my favorite bands.
Well, we certainly can’t leave out the Kinks
That’s a good one.
Descendents: Christmas Vacation https://youtu.be/8kSaUZ9maNU
My favorite band has a Christmas song too!
That just came up on my Pandora playlist last week, my girlfriend didn’t believe it was a Christmas song. And I am dissapoint that no one has linked the best Christmas song of all time.
And keeping in with the Irish theme… The Season’s Upon Us.
And so Tundra doesn’t think I’m forsaking anything… Run Rudolph Run .
OK. One more than I’m done…for today…maybe.
Run Run Rudolph by Lemmy Kilmister,Billy Gibbons, and Dave Grohl
The Sonics: Dont Believe in Christmas https://youtu.be/T7XJUeHWePw
There’s no link about how today,
SatanAjit Pai will destroy the internet by repealing net neutrality laws, sending us back to the dark days of… 2015?There’s this tidbit of political grandstanding and retardation.
Doesn’t a law have to exist in the first place for it to be repealed?
And wouldn’t it then have to be repealed by a legislative body?
That’s cute, you guys think the constitution still means something.
At a company all-hands meeting today someone commented in the chat room that 93% of voters favor net neutrality and repealing it makes a mockery of democracy. Please, 93% of voters can’t even define net neutrality, and that’s being generous.
Fracking linked to low birth weight in Pennsylvania babies
In other words your study proves absolutely nothing. Did they take into account income, education and healthcare?
But they did get some funding for the time they worked on the study, so that’s good.
And they have a path to get more funding for further study.
“science”
right: probably co-variant with household income
but I see two issues getting in the way of understanding/progress:
1) Petro exploration is dangerous, and those firms do not bear all the costs of their industry; this has always been true.
2) Petroleum will probably be favored by markets for a long time even after those costs are imposed on the end-users
Sick links, bro.
Will Saturated Fat Kill Your Cells?
https://www.marksdailyapple.com/will-saturated-fat-kill-your-cells/#.WjIBYi3jgYw.twitter
What was this study all about?
First, there’s this. They weren’t dealing with live humans or even whole animals fed butter or coconut oil. They extracted living cells and bathed them in solutions of different fatty acid concentrations to see how it would affect the lipid concentration of the cell membranes.
Seems iffy
It’s too bad he didn’t make a shitty film extolling the virtues of modern feminism before this happened.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/12/14/570717348/filmmaker-morgan-spurlock-posts-online-confessional-of-sexual-misconduct
Spurlock’s an asshole. Film at 11.
I should read further. Spurlock’s playing the pity card. Now he really is an asshole.
Jesus. Your issues don’t give you carte blanche to be an asshole to other people, so bringing them up excuses nothing. It just makes you look like more of an asshole.
Next stop will be a rehab clinic.
Wait – our society doesn’t shun or condemn full-blown alcoholism? Since when?
I’m an alcohol enthusiast, not an alcoholic.
I think, like all his shaky “logic,” he’s going with the “It’s not illegal, therefore it’s being encouraged” argument. Which is the favorite of legal marijuana opponents and Ed Meese.
Aha, the “either ban it or you’re all but forcing me to guzzle cheap vodka from the bottle!” theory
SOCIETY MADE ME!!!
That’s bullshit. You’re a white suburban punk, just like me
Fuck that guy. I’m getting a McGriddle.
From the “It’s only fair” story.
Why don’t you just sit down with this hypothetical husband prior to getting married and explain this to him. If he’s reasonable, he’d probably understand and be okay with it even if he is disappointed. Absolutely no need to be a jerk about it and act like men have inflicted this horrible decision upon you. But, given the way the author writes, I’d be surprised if she wasn’t scaring most men off anyway. The men that do stick around would be spineless and just say “yes” to everything she wants anyway.
I believe she’s already on what is called the “Spinster Track”, so this shouldn’t be a concern that comes to pass.
Why don’t you just sit down with this hypothetical husband prior to getting married and explain this to him. If he’s reasonable, he’d probably understand and be okay with it even if he is disappointed.
Because being a jerk about it is the whole point. Your problem is that you’re thinking like a non-bully. What she values is the disappointment or unhappiness.
Or, you change your legal name but retain your you maiden name as a nom de plume.
You know, like Mark Twain.
Or adopt the Hispanic tradition of having two last names. No hyphens, please.
That’s from the Vandals, no? They traced inheritance and lineage and so forth along both lines, if I’m remembering stuff I’ve read correctly.
Sorta blockchain-y
…holy crap, yes it is. That’s a really, really good way to explain a blockchain, now that you mention it.
The rational part of this argument is why my mom did not change her name when my parents got married. She has a PhD, and her published works are in her maiden name, so she didn’t change it. This was good, because she started her career because the hiring manager had read some of her published works, and wanted her for a specific project that required her particular expertise. And I doubt I’d be here without her having that career, since they definitely could not have afforded to have me without it.
That was my wife’s reasoning. She’s known by her maiden name, has developed professional contacts under that name, and has published under that name. It’s no skin off my nose, but her family ribs her about it from time to time.
From the article about names: “…If I do marry, I am totally going to make sure my husband knows I love him but not that much right off the bat by keeping my last name. But because I plan to be a just wife, I’m fine with our kids taking my husband’s last name as a consolation prize.”
And if the potential husband has any balls, he quietly takes the last sip of coffee, pays the bill and walks away from her.
She’s trouble.
This. Anybody with that much of a chip on their shoulder is bound to be irretrievably unpleasant company.
The good news is that idiots like her make me love my wife even more.
I’m with you, Tundra. Mrs. The Other Kevin and I have had our tough times, but seeing there are people out there like this make me so happy I’m not in the dating pool.
I’m fine with our kids taking my husband’s last name as a consolation prize
It’s just like I said above, what she values is hurting the man. “A consolation prize” in naming your kids? This isn’t someone who looks at a potential husband as a lover, friend or life partner. This is someone who sees her potential husband as someone to be beaten. And, frankly, her kids as well.
Isn’t that the definition of modern feminism? though, Bill
SP kept her name because of the same sort of professional reasons, but her main motivation was that my name is further down the alphabet and she didn’t want to go further back in alphabetical lists and lines.
I honestly didn’t care if she changed hers or kept hers, but my one unbreakable rule was No Hyphens.
“Against Overgendering Harassment
But then is it odd that so few of the recent high-profile victims of sexual harassment have been men, and so few of the high-profile perpetrators women? No. Everyone has made it clear from the start that they don’t want to hear about this. The viral Facebook message that started #MeToo – at least the one I saw – urged women to come forward with their stories of sexual harassment, and men to come forward with stories of times they perpetrated sexual harassment. The slogan “BELIEVE WOMEN” got enshrined into a mantra, pretty ominous if you’re a guy wondering whether people will believe your harasser’s story over yours. The mainstream media strongly discouraged men from coming forward with their own cases, with articles like I’m a man who has been sexually harassed – but I don’t think it’s right for men to join in with #MeToo. Their excuse was the usual – it’s not “structural oppression”, so it doesn’t count.
(The “structural oppression” model is false, by the way. Homosexual male harassment is more prevalent than the percent gay men in the population would imply, suggesting that gay men harass men more often than straight men harass women. The obvious explanation for gender differences in harassment has always been that men constitute 80% of sexual harassers for the same reason they constitute 83% of arsonists, 81% of car thieves, and 85% of burglars. Since most men are straight, most victims are women; when the men happen to be gay, they victimize men. Men probably get victimized disproportionately often compared to the straight/gay ratio because society views harassing women as horrible but harassing men as funny. If this theory is right then it’s men who are the structural victims, which means it’s your harassment that doesn’t count and you’re the ones who shouldn’t be allowed to talk about it. The “it only matters if it’s structural” game isn’t so much fun now, is it?)”
http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/12/04/against-overgendering-harassment/
Meh I do not think I would perceive most of the stuff that passes as harassment as such if it came from a woman. I think this may partially a reason for fewer men. That and men and women are different.
men and women are different
WHAT DID YOU SAY?!
Would you like a brochure for hearing aids?
WRONG THINK!
I’ve lost a couple of jobs when working for a temporary agency after women hit on me, and I declined. One was my boss. Another was another temp who was filling the same position as me. One day she shows up wearing this red dress. On the way out of work that day, we were the only two people in the elevator, she hit on me — bigly. I just sort of played dumb. The next morning the temp agency calls me and tells me not to go back, because as I found out as the conversation progressed, she complained I hit on her.
#BelieveHer
#Liquor
Maybe I’m just ugly, or the fact that my industry is primarily populated by socially inept failures, but shit like this has never happened to me.
IT?
My job title is “Data Scientist”, which basically means I’m halfway between a statistician and a software engineer. I’m the only one with that title, everyone else around me is a coder. 95%+ male. No one cares about politics which is *amazing*. Fair number of ex-military so I can geek out about guns.
Shoot, I was harassed in high school (only guy in a viola section for two years), but I put it down to the ladies trying to make dominance hierarchies (no, ladies, my stand partner is the alpha female in the group, I’m the 1st chair, thanks).
But your reaction might be different, depending on whether it was Ruth Bader Ginsberg or Taylor Swift.
When gay men harass men it’s also structural oppression.
I finally qualify for a #metoo?
Depends; what is your Intersectionality Quotient, comrade? Have you apologized to a POC for being a white male today?
I know it’s parody, but my reaction was a prompt “Fuck that noise, I’ve got nothing to appologise for”
As well it should be. The only reason this nonsense gets any traction outside college campuses is because it’s not adequately derided and mocked. The left has no response to mockery. It drives them even nuttier. They’re mostly subpar intellects who contrive opaque language in lieu of factual mastery or wisdom, so when you pierce the veil and reveal them as insipid frauds, they fall apart. Their entire intellectual edifice is built on shoddy ground and propped up by howling emotional outrage. That requires a state of constant scowling ninnyism to maintain, so when the objects of their ire laugh in their faces rather than respond in kind, their heads explode. It’s why they despise Milo and Shapiro, because they’re happy warriors who refuse to validate progressives’ demands to be taken seriously.
“A rule proposed by TV screenwriter Roger Wolfson in the Los Angeles city council would force all animal shelters in the system to feed dogs completely plant-based vegan meals, the Washington Post reports.
“We have to embrace the fact that the raising and killing of animals for food purposes must only be done if we have absolutely no other choice,” Wolfson said at the council meeting in November. “This is about the long-term survival of every man, woman and child in this room, and all of the people in our lives.”
The rule also has backing of other stars, including Richard Hall, better known by his musician pseudonym Moby, who wants Los Angeles to lead on progressive causes.
“If we adopt this, it’s one more thing that proves to the world that Los Angeles really is the progressive capital,” Moby testified at a November meeting.”
dailycaller.com/2017/12/13/los-angeles-proposes-vegan-diet-for-homeless-dogs/
Just put all the animals in one place and let the winners eat the losers.
So, Hollywood proves how much it loves science by ignoring what the word ‘Carnivore’ means.
LA loves fucking science.
Domesticated dogs are technically omnivores, but your basic point holds – they ain’t herbivores.
I know. My mind added in people who were trying to feed cats vegan diets, and they are obligate carnivores.
Canines are canrivorously inclined omnivores. I’m trying to remember what proportion of the plant matter in a wolf’s diet comes from partially digested plant matter in the guts (or more precicely, stomachs) of herbivores they take down. (A shortcut that reduces the energy they need to put into breaking down the plants)
Wolves are much more carnivorous than the modern dog, though. Dogs have adapted to human diets over the thousands of years since domestication. Still, give a dog a dish with meat and a dish with rice or veggies and see which one he makes a beeline for.
Ours would run past a steak to get to pizza. Go figure.
More steak for you?
Deep dish?
Our German Shepherd would not eat carbs. If you gave him a pizza crust he would spit it right out.
Ours would get pissy nowadays if there wasn’t some rice in the bowl with his other food. And no, he’s not a Chow.
“If we adopt this, it’s one more thing that proves to the world that Los Angeles really is the progressive capital,”
I was going to change ‘progressive” to “retard”, but realized that would make the sentence less descriptive.
Nice. I love that progressivism is becoming a byword for lunacy. I wonder what new label the Marxists will adopt once they’ve completely toxified progressive.
“Libertarian.” They’ve already made a start on it by getting “left-libertarians” to support them.
“If we adopt this, it’s one more thing that proves to the world that Los Angeles really is the progressive capital,” Moby testified at a November meeting.”
I’ll go along with Moby on this one. Just one condition. He’s got to agree to run through the pitbull kennel doused in meat drippings after a month of this diet. I’m sure the puppies will be so enamored of their new, enlightened, woke dietary habits that the only attention he’ll get from them is revulsion at how terrible he smells.
We taught a lion to eat tofu.
There is no cannibalism in the Royal Navy.
https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-sues-california-los-angeles-dirty-voter-registration-rolls/
If I do marry, I am totally going to make sure my husband knows I love him but not that much right off the bat by keeping my last name.
“Time out. What makes you think I would ever marry you?”
“Treat ’em mean, keep ’em keen”
“Judicial Watch today released new U.S. Department of State documents showing former Secretary Hillary Clinton and her then-Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin were permitted to remove electronic and physical records under a claim they were “personal” materials and “unclassified, non-record materials,” including files of Clinton’s calls and schedules, which were not to be made public. The documents show the Obama State Department records would not be “released to the general public under FOIA.”
The new records also show that Huma Abedin was allowed to take five boxes of “physical files” out of the State Department that include records described as “Muslim Engagement Documents.”
The documents include a list of official and personal calls and schedules that Clinton removed, which carry a special notation that the documents were not to be made public records. The notation is on an addendum to a DS-1904 signed by Clarence N. Finney Jr., then-director of the Office of Correspondence and Records, who was the reviewing officer. (Judicial Watch has a pending request for the deposition of Finney in separate litigation concerning Clinton emails and the Benghazi terrorist attack.)
“We already know the Obama State Department let Hillary Clinton steal and then delete her government emails, which included classified information. But these new records show that was only part of the scandal. These new documents show the Obama State Department had a deal with Hillary Clinton to hide her calls logs and schedules, which would be contrary to FOIA and other laws,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “When are the American people going to get an honest investigation of the Clinton crimes?””
https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-state-department-made-deal-hillary-clinton-keep-call-log-schedules-secret/
Never.
Remember her screaming at her staff when it began to look like Trump was going to win?
“If we lose this we are all going to all hang from nooses!”
The significance of that seems greater every day. She knew damned well they had colluded with the press, foreign intelligence and the Obama admin to obstruct justice, subvert the law and weaponize political apparatus against her political opposition. Oh, and the selling of her office. She was scared shitless it would all come out. Guess what? It’s all coming out.
It is coming out. Well, much of it was obvious before the election, so it’s been out. But I doubt anything will come of it.
Unfortunately true. The DOJ is so firmly controlled by deep state leftists nothing will be done. And the media will run interference for them.
I used to point out to the usual “People’s Republic of Connecticut” team blue nutjob that while Obama weaponizing the US government so Hillary could provide the final solution never bothered them, basically because they thought they would be spared and it would be the icky team red people getting it, they would not really be so nonchalant if if that weaponized government ended up serving team red instead. Then Trump up and wins despite all the rigged shit, and suddenly the Red Scare and a Manchurian candidate is all we hear about until the criminal activity they thought they could hide by replacing Capo Obama with Capo Hillary starts coming to light.
The tantrums and insanity is because they are worried Trump would do to them what they hoped Hillary would do to the others labeled as enemy of the nanny state.
This, for me, was always Clinton’s real crime: ducking and subverting FOIA rules, presumably to hide records of her pay-for-play schemes with foreign governments and businesses. The obsession with classified documents seemed well beside the point next to that.
Isn’t, you know, destruction of evidence while under investigation a crime in and of itself?
For little people, I mean, of course.
“I swear, if you ask to see what’s inside the box I will scream ‘RACIST!'”
DON’T LOOK IN THE BOX!
Muslim Engagement Documents
“Oh, those were just Huma’s plans for her wedding. No biggie.”
Yoga exercises you can do in a burka.
The establishment has spoken.
http://www.denverpost.com/2017/12/13/andrew-jackson-is-no-longer-the-worst-president-in-u-s-history/
Hah – they screwed up the headline. The column says Andrew Johnson, not Jackson, was the worst president (and it was Buchanan anyway).
Buchanan was worse than Wilson?
The Civil War was the greatest catastrophe in American history, and Buchanan’s inaction led directly to it.
False. Transgender bathrooms are a much bigger catastrophe.
“North Carolina’s law overriding Charlotte’s bill that mandates private business pee pee policy is worse than slavery”
– TOS
I know Pat Buchanan is a fuck, but I don’t think you can put the Civil War on him. Plus, I think he was only in his teens back then.
^ Genius remark.
Buchanan was the most inept. Wilson and FDR did the most lasting damage.
LBJ was a pretty big shitstain.
After reading Path to Power, it’s hard to believe any other president was a bigger asshole than LBJ.
He never was.
He may have been the worst person to be President, but he was pretty successful. Paid off US debt, Ended 2nd Bank of USA. He had some positives to counteract his big negatives (Trail of tears).
That’s the kind of garbage George Will is being paid to write these days? Wow, I used respect that guy a long time ago.
He’s too busy filming the George F. Will Sports Machine now to bother with writing good columns.
This. All he really cares about is “gross national embarrassment”. What a fraud.
Also, I’m getting pretty tired of this “credibly accused” shit.
Fuck the Post with a post. I miss the Rocky.
Details, schmeetails…
Gillibrand now says that Bill Clinton, one of her most steadfast supporters, should have resigned the presidency after his affair with Monica Lewinsky was revealed, and on Monday Gillibrand told CNN that Trump should leave office in the face of “very credible allegations of misconduct and criminal activity.”
“I think when we start having to talk about the differences between sexual assault and sexual harassment and unwanted groping, you are having the wrong conversation,” Gillibrand asserted at a news conference on Dec. 6. “You need to draw a line in the sand and say none of it is O.K. None of it is acceptable.”
This is a person who sits in a legislative body. You know… a group of people tasked with writing laws. You can’t expect her to make a lot of nitpicky distinctions between various types of legal and illegal behavior.
“very credible allegations…
I do not think that means what you think it means.
She is supposedly a lawyer. Philip Morris paid her lots of money to represent them.
Maybe that is why they had to pay a fuckton of money to the states.
Say “credible allegations” again. I dare you, I double-dog dare you.
Due process, rules of evidence, those are just loopholes used to shield the “innocent” from justice.
NO ONE IS INNOCENT
I believe the quote goes: “There’s no such thing as innocence, only degrees of guilt.”
Three felonies a day.
“Give me the man and I will find you the crime.”
Had some blistering Thai food for lunch yesterday. So much so, that on my drive in this morning I had to stop at the concrete redimix plant at 5:45am to borrow their bathroom. That was an interesting conversation. “Hey! Good morning! I’m going to owe you a really big favor!”
May god have mercy on your soul.
That must be something if you have to take concrete mix to firm up the ole stools. I usually start with Pepto and then move on to Imodium.
You know how I know Sloopy’s not really sick? He hasn’t posted once today. That’s the pose of someone playing hooky: “Oh, poor me, I’m so sick I can’t even post.” Yeah, right. Good luck on the back nine!
And that’s only because the men have all died off by then.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/women-more-unhappy-than-men-until-they-reach-mid-80s-j868mxzkv
By the mid 80’s most of they guys are dead. Maybe the guys are happier, we just don’t know it.
alt joke
By the mid 80’s most of they guys are dead, so they don’t bother the women anymore.
After Trump’s tweet about Senator Sorority Girl, USA Today’s response was reported by the NYT thusly:
USA Today, a publication known for the moderation and balance of its commentary, promptly editorialized:
A president who would all but call Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand a whore is not fit to clean the toilets in the Barack Obama Presidential Library or to shine the shoes of George W. Bush.
Oh, my.
“all but”…..so he didn’t call her a whore. Glad they cleared that up.
I all but called you an asshole.
No, but Elizabeth Warren called her a slut.
That was a pretty big overreaction by USA Today (aka The Comic Book of Newspapers). I’m still not seeing what he said that was so offensive and I generally believe that Trump behaves like a clown.
Also, I wouldn’t call USA Today’s editorial board moderate. It’s just moderate in comparison to the NYT or WaPo. These people believe the WSJ’s editorial board is hard right just because they like low taxes, less regulations, and a lot of their columnists are Catholic.
Commie rag supports war on President who openly calls out socialism. Surprise!
I can imagine the impotent rage they must have suffered when he gave his ‘venzuela is what happens when socialism is correctly implemented’ speech. I wonder if their glowing series on the virtues of communism was in response to that? I am too lazy to go look up the timing.
I think the series that glorified communism appeared in the NYT, not USA Today.
I’m watching Dr. Zhivago on TCM – just finished the scene where Rod Steiger says “you my dear, are a slut” to Julie Christie. Thought of Gillibrand.
I’m thinking more like this.
Hah, I knew what that was going to be before clicking on it. A classic…
Buchanan was the most inept. Wilson and FDR did the most lasting damage.
I’ll take a bumbler over an ambitious do-gooder, any day.
Buchanan was the midwife of the Civil War. He was beyond incompetent- he was a disaster. Instead of chastising Southern states for seceding over a legitimate election result that they didn’t like, he seemingly lended support to their cause (much like a recent Democratic president who played footsie with people who were calling the results of a fair election ‘illegitimate’)
“instead of chastising Southern states for seceding over a legitimate election result that they didn’t like”
Not a single county in the soon to be CSA went 50% or more for Lincoln. When they said “he’s not my President” they were speaking a literal truth. They didn’t want him, they didn’t vote for him, and when he won anyway, they said “OK, we’re out”.
Fuck the Yankee Warlord. Sic Semper Tyrannis.
Then I suppose you would also support the Californian effort to secede over an election?
I have no problem with secession, in theory, but to secede over a free and fair election because you lost is the epitome of child-like petulance.
“Then I suppose you would also support the Californian effort to secede over an election?”
Yes. Secession is a good thing. It leads to more liberty, because centralization of government authority is what kills liberty.
Like, you are aware that that this nation was founded through secession, right?
“a free and fair election”
It wasn’t a free and fair election. Lincoln was not on the ballot in North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/RepublicanPresidentialCounty1860Colorbrewer.gif/1200px-RepublicanPresidentialCounty1860Colorbrewer.gif
All the red colored counties couldn’t just let the white colored counties form their own polity, they had to force them to remain.
I know that discussions about the Civil War are like a blood sport within the libertarian community and I’m not trying to say that the secessionists were worse than Hitler or something, but their initial move to leave the union was asinine. If you are going to have a union, states cannot just decide to leave that union because they don’t like the results of an election. There was no attempt to say “let’s see where this goes and behave rationally”- they went straight to secession, which I think was an overreaction. Why have elections at all if the loser is just going to secede? Why even have a union?
“If you are going to have a union, states cannot just decide to leave that union because they don’t like the results of an election”
Why not?
If the union is truly a voluntary union, then it can be dissolved, shrunken, enlarged, or changed by the member states. I see that argument as the same argument as “you opened the bakery, so you have to bake the cake.”
“I see that argument as the same argument as “you opened the bakery, so you have to bake the cake.””
Not at all, as this is an argument between governments and not a dispute between the state and an individual
They can leave for good or bad reasons, but that really isn’t the call of anyone but the residents of that state.
If CA wants to throw a tantrum and leave because of Trump, they should go for it.
And if 1/2 the counties of CA want to leave CA and join the USA, good for them, we can form a new state or two.
Fine then, the perpetual union theory is the same thinking as the social contract.
I never endorsed the perpetual union concept. I’m saying that their argument for leaving was nonsense and an overreaction. We can’t criticize the rationale for secession?
Sure, that is fine. But that isnt what you said.
That is wrong. They CAN do that, its just stupid.
“We can’t criticize the rationale for secession?”
You can criticize the rationale for it, but if you’re arguing it should be illegal and overturned by force, then I find that hard to square with libertarian principles.
But I am curious how exactly “Hey my new President is a guy literally no one in my state voted for, I don’t think this government represents me.” is an overreaction.
There are millions of Trump supporters in California. There wasn’t a single Lincoln *voter* in a majority of the Confederate states. There’s a huge difference between the two cases.
I will say this about the perpetual union argument, though, if we live in a federal system (whereby the state and federal government are equal) and a state can secede than can the federal government expel a state? If not, than how are both layers of government equal?
Off topic, but seriously these esoteric arguments about secession and the Civil War I find to be some of the most enjoyable among libertarians. I hate the fact that some ‘respectable libertarians’ hate these conversations and dismiss all people who engage in them as ‘neo- confederates’. What nonsense
“I will say this about the perpetual union argument, though, if we live in a federal system (whereby the state and federal government are equal) and a state can secede than can the federal government expel a state? If not, than how are both layers of government equal?”
Well I am trying to think of a scenario where a central government would remove a source of tax revenue from their grasping greedy claws.
Because that’s really what it comes down to, in the end. It’s about the money.
I’d be okay with it simply because I’d like California to be gone.
Is there something wrong with seceding?
Is there something wrong with criticizing the rationale for secession? We must endorse every secession movement?
Well, I support the right to secede, regardless of how much merit the movement has. After all, “If you aren’t free to be wrong, you aren’t free.” Sure, I think it’s silly to secede over the election of Donald Trump, but if that’s what they want, fine.
Great piece by John Bloom (aka Joe Bob Briggs) on the 1st Amendment:
http://takimag.com/article/first_amendment_101_joe_bob_briggs/print#axzz51F3hfWlk
That is a good article and reminds me how pro-state so many supposed libertarians have become. The initial reaction from so many ostensibly libertarian commentators after Charlottesville was to announce how much they opposed Nazis (so brave), even while the ACLU was already accusing the state of purposely orchestrating the whole incident in order to declare an illegal assembly and stop the Nazis from speaking. I’ve come to realize that most ostensibly libertarian people are good on Uber, food trucks, and that’s about it. Conservatives are now more likely to be better defenders of individual rights.
Too long fu
JK
The takeaway is that because John Bloom got to work for money at age 13, he became an enemy of the left. The left cannot allow 13-year-olds to seek employment.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/do-black-students-need-white-peers-1513125052
Critics of charter schools says that they are bringing back segregation. Amy Wilkins who basically comes from civil rights royalty fires back. The money quote for me.
“The problem is the mindset of revanchists who peddle stories like these — professional anti-reformers who go nuts when approaches other than those they sanction and control deliver results for the students whom they insist cannot learn at high levels.”
Full article here.
https://www.the74million.org/article/response-an-off-target-analysis-of-schools-and-segregations-is-yet-further-evidence-that-charters-are-gaining-ground-and-opponents-are-getting-desperate/
Yeah when I think of the American public school system, I think of how schools are diverse mixing grounds for people from all walks of life. I definitely don’t think about how home prices being a proxy for a good educational system traps poor blacks in a decaying, corrupt, monstrous institution full of lefist zealots preaching dogma and careerist union hacks marking time until they can collect a fat pension check.
Liberty will come after the teacher’s unions are broken into a million pieces and scattered to the winds. They are evil, in the truest sense of the word. They enslave and brainwash the youth of the nation, sapping their individualism, their creativity, their free will.
Malcolm Gladwell had an interesting take on Brown v Board of Education on his podcast. He says that that prior to the decision, students in black schools were doing well, and liked their schools. In fact, studies show that black students do much better when they have at least one black teacher (i.e. a teacher they can identify with).
The point of the lawsuit was just to allow a student to go to whatever school they wanted to. But the supreme court decision went much further and declared that black-only schools were all inferior and were harming students, and so they forced integration of all schools. When that happened, the black schools were closed, students were brought into the white schools, and almost all of the black teachers were fired. (Integration did not include teachers). As a result the black students started doing worse.
I see charter schools undoing some of this, which can only be positive.
The same thing has happened continuously over the Louisville school districts. There have been multiple supreme court cases challenging (and overthrowing) the plans, each brought by black parents whose children want to go to local schools, primarily Central High.
But the busy bodies in the school district keep trying to come up with plans that balance the racial mix without using the word race.
The core functions of the Supreme Court:
1. To uphold monstrous institutions, in the name of democracy;
2. To undermine democratic outcomes, in the name of fairness;
3. To debase fairness, in order to protect power.
My junior high and high schools were integrated when I was in 7th grade, the teaching staff was certainly integrated. About half my teachers were black, a few were very good, some where terrible, just like the white teachers.
Same here, and elementary too. All the smarty-pants programs were held in schools in the worst neighborhoods too. In most large cities it’s easy to get “integration” if you have enough programs to interest different groups of kids. If all the schools are the same, not so much.
I worry that the successes of charter schools are being unintentionally exaggerated. It seems like there’s a huge selection bias involved: charter school students are the sons and daughters of parents who take enough of an interest in their education to undertake finding another school for them, so charter schools concentrate students from homes with parents more likely to be involved than those at conventional public schools.
What I’ve heard from people familiar with the literature is that the primary factor for student success is parental involvement. Not schools with expensive computers and AV equipment, or a lower ratio of students to instructors, or more integration, or more spending per pupil, but parents at home who set standards and participate. That spending tracks with success is incidental, successful parents will instill in their children some of the discipline and goal orientation that made them successful.
That’s not to say charter schools aren’t a great thing, but to my mind it’s not charter schools qua charter schools that are great but the opportunity (and obligation) they place on parents to do right by their kids. It gives them skin in the game that automatic school enrollment doesn’t provide. That and the competition, of course.
You are correct. Spending per pupil is not a good predictor of academic achievement, in fact, spending in inflation-adjusted dollars has basically tripled since the 1970s with no increase in academic outcomes or achievement. The best predictor of academic success is parental engagement.
Florida Man has developed cold resistance and is moving North.
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Naked-Man-on-Route-28-Causes-Cars-to-Crash-Near-Dulles-International-Airport-463740643.html
What sorts of corruption would be everyday fare in a brazenly corrupt Ministry of Sport, Culture and Tourism?
Would you be our inside man?
I’m writing stories. A paper candidate got elected unexpectedly, and his presence gave his party control of the government (barely), so they go “here’s a useless ministry as a reward.” and I was trying to decide what he finds there.
Tourist visa’s handed out for cash
Funneling money through art exhibits that are actually fronts for the mob
Look to the IOC and FIFA for inspiration
One of the items already mentioned (in a different story in the same universe) was that the national museum exploited a fire in their records department to begin laundering antiquities where they sold artifacts ‘found’ in their warehouses…
Ooooh. I like that.
I need to read your books. I bought them, but they have been sitting in my Kindle waiting for a cold, honey-do-list free weekend. Haven’t had that yet…
On one hand, I already have your money.
On the other, I could use more word of mouth advertising…
So read the books already, and tell anyone you think might like them.
Promoting tourism to a remote resort village complex, owned by cronies of the previous ruling party. Designed to lure innocent, yet beautiful foreigners to the complex, where they are subjected to mind shattering drug experiments, GILF depravity, children in clown masks, midgets dressed as babies, disco music. And cannibalism.
That seems rather… specific.
???
I read that in Alex Jones’ voice.
Always worth posting.
Holy shit! First time listener. That was hilarious.
Although, no mention of gay frogs gave me a little bit of a sad
DO YOU KNOW WHAT TAP WATER IS? IT’S A GAY BOMB, BABY!
What’s even funnier is how successful he trolls the shit out of the left. They cant figure out that he is a performance artist? It’s an act for God’s sake.
How about something simple like for a certain amount they can get you front row seats at a sold out sports event. But grease the right palms for a few dollars more, and they’ll make sure your team wins. Maybe with some sort of game interference system like in that one Buffalo Wild Wings commercial. And of course the bureaucrats are betting on those games on the side
I don’t think I saw the commercial you’re referencing, but I get the idea.
found it: https://youtu.be/cIVtwjdfb2M
I take it that option costs white a lot.
*quite
Same thing.
“Sport” as in professional soccer, basketball, etc…?
So many opportunities to locate teams based on the highest briber. Skim money on the stadium construction – zoning, right-of-ways, etc. Put the overpaid players into a government union. Require government approval (bribes) for team ownership sales. There are probably ways I’m not thinking of to get a taste of the TV and advertising money.
I should probably mention – this is a small island country. One major city, used to be a vital coaling/victualing stopover, but no longer of any importance to trade not directly involving them.
In most countries fitting that description the corruption is rampant, everyone knows it is there but doesnt care because they live out of the system. The officials that take bribes and kickbacks are taking amazingly small amounts of money. It is only the top man that gets the lion’s share.
In pre-Castro Cuba Batista apportioned to his own brother the money from the parking meters in Havana. Peanuts. That is the kind of top heavy corruption you can expect in a small country without solid income.
Also, all minions are expected to pay Presidente a portion of their bribes. Anyone caught holding back or even becoming too successful gets a new pair of shoes. Cement shoes.
+1 Tropico
WHEEEEEEEEE!
It is too late for policymakers to do much to prevent bubbles from forming. However, it’s not too early for them to start thinking about how to respond in a manner that might free us from the boom-bust cycles that we seem to be experiencing every 10 years. They could, for example, create a program that in a severe downturn would give every citizen a cash grant to be spent at their discretion, what Milton Friedman called “helicopter money.”
Not everything he says is completely wrong, or crazy, I guess, but… if this is what passes for economic analysis we’re fucked.
It’s the NY Times. Nobody reads that rag.
Starts off with a bang.
Hey Queenie, there were quite a few people who did. Too bad the mainstream economists treated them all like loons.
And they’ll do so in the run-up to the next bust, deriding them as anti-prosperity economic anarchists or gold bugs. And in the scramble after the bubble bursts they’ll deride the prognosticators as do-nothing economic anarchists or gold-bugs.
If academics really were searching for truth and looking for the right view of how the world really works, then people who successfully predicted outcomes would be lauded and listened to. The fact that they are not tells you all you need to know about academia. It is a tool for the powerful to find new reasons and rationales for further control and further theft of the wealth of the productive. Academics are just like a barbarian wizard or soothsayer.
Heh. Helicopter money.
He probably coined that term when he was doing that consulting gig for Pinochet.
The other point is that Friedman coined that term strictly with respect to monetary expansion, and
If Des had read wikipedia properly, he would have seen this:
And then he could have saved himself the ignominy of confusing it with “People’s QE”.
“This Is The Daily Stormer’s Playbook
A leaked style guide reveals they’re Nazis about grammar (and about Jews).”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/daily-stormer-nazi-style-guide_us_5a2ece19e4b0ce3b344492f2?m3a
TW: HuffPo
Propagandists take much care in the presentation of their propaganda – who knew?
*chuckle*
But….it’s not actually defunct, unfortunately.
…nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation
Fuck, at least when government steals private land to give to another private owner it’s usually paid for.
They should have used the traditional Philly method of redevelopment — firebombing the whole city block.
Cannibalism in the Royal Navy?
https://twitter.com/IWillRedPillYou/status/941231298223443970
I don’t get it.
I have it on good authority from someone at TOS that voter fraud is a myth.
I’m clearly missing something about that picture
It’s a video. News footage of Doug Jones voters saying they came in from out of state to vote for Jones.
I only get a still image for some reason.
That’s because you are using MS-DOS.
Not my fault, it’s a work computer.
Do you have a script blocker running?
Always. Never browse without it.
There you go
There’s a really good idea in the comments:
“Audit 10% of all voters who registered in the past 6 months.”
That would be eye opening I bet.
“A schoolgirl was murdered by a fast food shop owner who joked that she had been “chopped up” and put into kebabs, a court was told yesterday.
The prosecution alleged at Preston Crown Court that Charlene Downes, 14, was killed by Iyad Albattikhi, 29, owner of a food shop in Blackpool, who had sex with her.
Charlene was one of a number of young girls who visited an alleyway in the town to have sex with older men who worked in the fast food shops, Tim Holroyde QC, prosecuting, told the jury.
Charlene, from Blackpool, was “well and happy”, the court heard, but had a “chaotic” home life. Expelled from school, she spent her time hanging around shops on the Blackpool Promenade. She was last seen on the evening of Saturday Nov 1 2003. After kissing her mother goodbye she left alone – and vanished, Mr Holroyde said.
A missing persons inquiry began but police later launched a murder investigation after receiving information that Charlene had been “killed and chopped up”, the court heard.
No trace of Charlene’s body has ever been found.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1552482/Missing-girls-body-put-into-kebab.html
I was told the rumors about British teeth is a canard perpetuated by dumb Americans.
It takes all kinds of critters to make Albattikhi’s fritters.
Import savages, you get savagery. This isnt rocket science, y’all.
And some of them, I assume, are good people.
What would you call a family whose 14 year old daughter turns tricks? Civilized?
Fuck.
I am not blaming this girl nor her family for her death.
Nothing in my comment was meant to construe that this wasn’t a terrible crime, nor that the perpetrator is anything other than a monster who deserves the noose.
I’m just getting annoyed at the level of one-sided nativism getting thrown around.
TOO LATE, YOU’VE DONE IT NOW
*rips pull cord on woodchipper*
…is that how it works?
In addition to savagery you also get blowback from natives in the form of nativism. It is very similar to the #metoo liars creating circumstances where genuine survivors of sexual abuse aren’t believed.
That is what due process is there to prevent. That is what vetting of immigrants is there to prevent.
England has done neither. They let them in wholesale. This is what they get – children eaten by cannibals.
Brutal murders are not exactly unknown in British history. And this one is being prosecuted.
Importing? No, they’re assimilating completely and adopting British habits such as Sweeney Todd.
Charlene was one of a number of young girls who visited an alleyway in the town to have sex with older men
Charlene, from Blackpool, was “well and happy”,
Pretty sure it can’t be both.
I would like to have a little more background, as the conjunction of teenage British girls being whored out and immigrants is something we have seen before. Was this part of yet another Paki child sexual predator gang?
As I noted, she was probably a victim of a pedo ring when younger.
Once they’re older, they’re harder to control. Makes sense to let them go freelance, they’re past their market prime anyway.
Where is Hat Hard pt3?! Did the Basque steal it?
No, Preet did.
With net neutrality going away, we may never see it again.
I think the hysteria over NN actually exceeds the hysteria following Trump’s election. It’s hilarious. The NY Giants board I frequent has a typically overwrought bunch of caterwauling about it.
I guess it’s better than talking about this season.
🙁
That graphic again… *sigh*
People who stream and torrent shit all day *should* pay more than Uncle Rhywun who just uses the internet for email and Glibs.
I looked at the Portgual example and thought: A grandmother on a fixed income could spend a lot less for email and social media. In fact, all of the categories added up were less than half of my monthly bill.
maybe if you leave for lunch Juvenile Bluster it will get posted.
SugarFree’s masturbatory habits have left him partially blind, so he hit the wrong button and didn’t post it correctly. I blame Trump.
It’s up now. There was a scheduling SNAFU.
It’s because you touch yourself at night. Admit it.
SHUT UP! [runs off crying and touching self]
With net neutrality going away, we may never see it again.
I did not read the article (NYT), but apparently, we are adopting the ChiCom internet model by “repealing” net neutrality.
So we got that going for us.
*Tom Friedman’s ears perk up*
So wrong it’s not even wrong. How does one fail to recognize the obvious parallels in restricting content based on government edicts? Pai makes a great point when he clarifies that ISPs are not being deregulated: the regulations pertaining to business practices are being returned to the FTC, which has taken the historical role of governing potential abuses of customers and infrastructure. Transferring regulatory power to the FCC was always a backdoor effort to control, not just business practices, but content. Net Neutrality was Chinese censorship by other means.
They have alleys dedicated to this sort of thing in England?
They’re not marked, so be careful or you’ll become kebab.
Sweeny Albattikhi?
Asking for a friend?
I was in Sunderland in the early nineties. Everyone I knew had had their houses broken into, sometimes in the middle of the day while they were home. Calling the cops was a waste of time. They might show up two weeks later to take a report. I never saw any cops on the street. The local police station had a strong door with heavy mesh over the windows. It was locked up and empty most of the time. The only time I saw cops was if some high ranking official was out and about and once when an ambulance showed up to pick up the body of an old man who had died from heart attack in a shopping center.
It may be different in southern England but in the north the cops are an occupying army whose job is to protect the interests of the government. A government that largely treats the people with contempt. I have no doubt they have alleys there devoted to child prostitution. Kbolino has a point. The English themselves are not nearly as civilized as they think they are. Still, young girls from troubled homes turning tricks is a long way from roasting children.
The issue is that Charlene was probably handed around for free from about 8 years old and became convinced that being a sexual partner was a shortcut to social acceptance. She may even have been given gifts that – to her mind – confirmed that what she was doing was ‘good for her’.
Fast forward a few years, she can sell herself and her customers are still paying a pittance, but they’re reasonably sure they’re not going to be swept up as co-conspirators in a pedo ring,
Southern England – somewhat better, but really, there are some areas that never see a blue uniform unless some blood and a corpse are found on the street. The difference between ‘bad neighborhoods’ in England and in the US (or at least, NYC) is/was that you can go from Utopia to Mogadishu in the US by crossing the street. In the UK, there’s usually a transitional zone of about 1/4 mile.
Many of the older homes in the UK’s northern cities still is row-housing that faces onto a street, and backs onto an alleyway where the trash was put, the outhouses were located and the coal was delivered. Retail properties were often put up in the same way, so you have these wonderful dark no-go areas that run straight thru behind maybe 20-30 retail stores. It takes a brave man to walk down those things at night if it’s a bad area.
Hinden in Sunderland was such a place. The first time I ran into some toughs alone they heard me speak and the ‘leader’ said “Meh. He’s a yank. leave him alone.”
I still knew better than to go walking around there after dark. Like you say it was one street over to several popular pubs where you could walk around all you liked.
typical yankee accent
Shit, we’ve got a whole city dedicated to it. Apparently they also make films there.
For Kristen, wherever she’s been.
That ad reminds me of the doctor who would implant goat testicles into men to make them more manly. I cant remember his name but I think it was back in the ’20s.
*shivers*
Oh, look. I didn’t think it would be that easy to find. They even made a movie about him.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8gk7k5/the-doctor-who-implanted-goat-balls-on-men-and-tried-to-become-governor-of-kansas
They even made a movie about him
*clears schedule*
Ditto Jesse.
Paul Ryan is quitting – according to Drudge.
Is this a chanukkah gift or an early Christmas gift?
Depends who replaces him I guess.
For those Glibs that go to work everyday at the Government Center https://youtu.be/RI5okqUxi2k
A quick primer on the ACA and how the premium subsidies work.
With a household income below 400% of the federal poverty level, out of pocket cost for health insurance premiums is held to a maximum percentage level of income (a sliding scale of 2 to 9.6%).
Above 400%, the subsidies that hold down the premium costs disappear entirely.
The maximum out of pocket premium cost for health insurance premiums is the same regardless of the coverage under the plan as long as the plan is either bronze or silver.
I’ll give an example using actual numbers from Virginia markets.
400% of federal mpoverty level for a family of 5 = $115,120
Assuming a household income of $110,000, the maximum out of pocket premium cost for a plan is $10,560 or $880 / month.
Bronze level plan – Roughly $2500 / month – $14,500 deductible, eligible for subsidies of $1600 / month
Silver level plan – Roughly $3200 / month – $11,500 deductible, eligible for subsidies of $2300 / month – We’ll take that one.
So let’s say you are a small business owner who pays themselves $90K / year. The tax incentive to keep the pass-thru profit to $25,120 or less now becomes $27,600, because if you pop the cap of $115,120 you have to pay all of the subsidies back at tax time. (IRA contributions can offset the income).
Perverse tax incentives, courtesy of Obama.
And Rand Paul
I can’t wait until this system is applied to housing and food. Utopia!
My family is sorta-kinda running into this problem if I left my job to go solo as an IT consultant. My wife’s (solo lawyer) income is going up every year but she uses my insurance.
The monthly insurance payments would blow a hole in our finances, especially during those first few bare months. So I plod along at my job instead of taking a risk and trying something different.
It almost makes me wish for single-payer – just for a chance to be a lazier yob.
Roughly $3200 / month – $11,500 deductible, eligible for subsidies of $2300 / month
That’s still $900 month. Damn… you could buy one helluva nice car for that… or a moderately priced house.
An exchange on bitcoin that popped up on my facebook feed:
A: As of today, I could cash out all of my crypto for $2,400. I am not sure at this point if I should cash out now, or hang onto it and see what happens.
B: Sell half. Take a profit and let the rest go.
A: That sounds like a pretty good option. I have been thinking of purchasing some new guns, and that would go a long way toward that objective.
I have the best facebook friends.
It takes a brave man to walk down those things at night if it’s a bad area.
You gotta be wearin’ the right hat.
You’re a braver man than I am, Gunga Din.
Hint: A MAGA hat is not the correct one.