You’ve all undoubtedly heard the numerous accusations made by the female members of the staff here regarding my workplace behavior. As a person who was born in an era before women were “people,” my actions do not align with my values, nor represent who I am as a person. At the time I believed that my sociopathic manipulation of the women was consensual, but I was intoxicated at the time, and of course now I realize my behavior was wrong. I’m not saying the victim is a “liar,” I’m just saying “she’s not telling the truth about the thing that happened because maybe it didn’t even happen.”
In conclusion, I will do my best to learn from this situation, without reading anything or listening to anyone’s perspective other than my own. I will get the help I so desperately need because this isn’t actually my fault, I have a problem, so I’m not responsible for my actions. This is a disease and needs to be treated as such.
So that said, here’s the links we all so desperately crave.
Of course, I’m not the only one facing this issue, and the noted intellect Alyssa Milano has deep thoughts on this matter regarding the great philosopher Matt Damon. FTA:
He tried to say that things like being groped on the butt wasn’t as bad as rape and that the behavior shouldn’t be lumped together.
“I do believe that there’s a spectrum of behavior,” he told Travers. “And we’re going to have to figure — you know, there’s a difference between, you know, patting someone on the butt and rape or child molestation, right? Both of those behaviors need to be confronted and eradicated without question, but they shouldn’t be conflated, right?” Umm, WRONG! Thank goodness there are people like Alyssa to help point that out.
Crazy talk! Outrageous! And now, in my hour of humiliation, I finally understand why.
The world of sports is not immune, either. Sadly, the article doesn’t give the important details and you will search in vain for phrases like “throbbing veiny cock” or “creamy luscious breasts.” I mourn the death of thorough reporting and real analytical journalism.
Here, at least, is what appears to be truly consensual workplace genital rubbing. And of course, the excuses seem pretty valid, right up there with, “I tripped, accidentally fell on her, and my dick accidentally slipped into her vagina.”
The “gay community” has its own issues, what with Trump ready to march them off to prison camps, aided and abetted by his spokeschimp, who is clearly a gender traitor. This is as much fun to hate-read as anything in The Root or Everyday Feminism. My favorite comment:
Yar Renhcahcs · Wutsamatta U
YOU SHIT HEAD THATS NOT RELIGUS LIBERTY THATS DISCIMANATION WHT THE FUCK WOULD THE PRESIDENT SUPPORT ANY HATE GROUP INCLUDING RELIGOUS ONES. FUCK YOU FUCK TRUMP FUCK THE PEOPLE WHO THINK THERE BETTERT HAN EVERYONE ELSE. I HAVE NEWS FOR YOU YOUR SHIT STINKS AS BAD AS EVERYONE ELSES
OK, fess up- which of you wrote that?
And another round of Old Guy Music for y’all to ignore. Two of our favorite musicians covering a great Beatles tune.
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374 responses to “My resignation from The Glibertarians- with links”
I, for one, welcome our new (((overlords))) no matter how gropey they are. Provided I can worship at the feet of some (((princess))).
“You’re goddam right I did it. As soon as your backs are turned, I’ll do it again. Now, get out of here, and let me get some work done.”
*if only
Are Private Schools Immoral?
to paraphrase John Derbyshire: “Blackity Black Black Black”
I saw that in last night’s links.
This is a perfect example of the fundamental difference in thinking between us and them. They want people to willingly sacrifice their children on the altar of social engineering and teacher’s unions. They try to guilt people into doing so and cant understand why the response is “You’re crazy”. They see people, including children, as game pieces to be moved around to get their desired outcome. Other people, that is. They want the new soviet man who will stop looking to his own interest. Recently I read the manifesto on one of the commie rags, I dont remember which one. It included the line “We refuse to believe that human nature is immutable.” It’s sociopathic and creepy as hell.
Parents dont care about any of that, at least not sane ones. They want the best possible outcome for their own children. They are going to send their children to the school that has the greatest chance of that. Period.
Spoken like an opressor
“They want people to willingly sacrifice their children on the altar of social engineering and teacher’s unions. ”
Emphasis mine. They want the rest of us to sacrifice our children, but they sure as hell are not doing any of that. Their kids go to the best possible schools and they make us pay for that directly or indirectly. What they are doing is making sure to keep the walls into their inner circle as high as possible, while guarding the gates to make sure only the people they think will help them stay in power while fucking us over get in.
I see now, this woman is mentally ill and intentionally destroying her own progeny in the worship of diversity.
I went to a 60% black inner city high school and segregation definitely existed, but it was 100% due to inner city culture. Because of the school lines, whites usually came from affluent middle-class neighborhoods while most of the blacks came from inner-city ghettos. Only 2% of the honors/AP classes had black kids and these were ostracized for “being white”. Black superintendent and almost all black guidance counselors so there was zero prejudiced except for their own preventing them from getting a better education. The few black students in these class often came from white collar families and no interest in socializing with the thugs and gang-bangers. Similarly, there were a few whites (proportionally) who were from the inner city ghettos and they were part of the inner city black groups. It wasn’t really a white/black color things, but rather a socio-economic class division since whites and blacks could be in either camp.
And yes, they were violent. Very violent. We had 1, usually 2 police officers in the school at all times and at least 8 security guards. Mine was the safest public high school in the city. The others were much worse. When I was in between jobs, I substituted at a different one where security pointed out certain students they weren’t allowed to give any sort of instructions too (e.g., go back to class), because the security guards feared for their families’ safety.
She’s miserable and destined to die with a whypipple chip on her shoulder.
They don’t realize their outlook and thinking is all wrong.
Blame Whypipple Studies at its finest.
Funniest experience I ever had about schooling was when the white mother of a biracial kid on the baseball team I was coaching (my son was on the team and a good friend of his) started telling the crowd before the game that her son was soon not going to join us anymore for games. Curious about it I asked her if everything was all right, or if it was something on the team I had to deal with. She proceeded to tell me that it had nothing to do with the people or the town, but that she was going to volunteer her kid be bused into one of the most miserable Hartford schools as part of an experiment where affluent black or biracial kids would be collocated with the ghetto kids in the hope this would spur these lost causes to do better. Man did she lay on thick here proggie bonafides, wanting to make sure we all knew how great of a person she was.
Anyway, the kid’s dad shows up later on as the game is going on, there seems to be some discussion between the mother and him, it escalates and the mother seems to get visibly perturbed, and she ends up taking off in a a huff. After the game, when I come over to chat with the parents, I end up talking to him and ask about his son soon not being able to play with his friends anymore. He point blank tells me there is no way in hell he is sending his son to that shithole he managed to escape from (he was a ghetto kid from Hartford that fought tooth and nail to get out of that and become middle class) so his white wife can feel less guilty about her progressive whiteness. He then tells me that he is certain not a single one of the white douchebags in the CT assembly behind this program is sending their kids to this hell hole to corrupt them and crush them (I did some research and while I claim not to be totally thorough he seemed to have called that fact the people that created the program were all white proggies, right).
What always stuck with me was how willing this woman was to destroy her kid’s future just so she could feel more righteous about her proggie ideals. She didn’t stop to think for a second that the people asking her to make the sacrifice were cool with the program because they were exempt form even having to make the choice.
Now imagine a child born in the 80s and raised by those parents (the mother). I give you our Millenial generation.
And? Who won that fight?
Good on that father. That’s a man. A responsible man.
The father won. I ran into the kid recently when he was home in our town for Thanksgiving. He just got his accounting degree and is working somewhere down south for a big firm. His dad was with him and proud as can be of his kid. Funny thing was that the first thing I remembered and wondered about was what the poor kid would be doing now had the mom gotten her way.
Beautiful story. They should make a movie.
Are the parents still together? Just curious.
Funny you should ask that Rufus, because I heard rumors there had been trouble but never followed up on it. I think they are, but there was definitely some stress there because he was a vehement prog hater and she was queen of proggtopia.
I think we went to the same high school or something. And my magnet school in the ghetto was also safer than my local lower-class white neighborhood school after all the shifting around. What a shit-show in retrospect.
I always thought the purpose of school was to get an education. You can learn to be a better person without getting screwed on your education. Ms. Hannah-Jones probably could have achieved the same purpose by volunteering at these impoverished communities and bringing her kid along.
And if she really wanted to make her kids “experience” life in the inner-cities she could always move their.
I assume this screaming ninny didn’t consider the other variable. Schools in white neighborhoods are perceived as offering a better education. So, parents with good neighborhood schools want their kids to go to them, while parents with poor schools don’t want their kids in them. *sigh*
Considering these are the same people who whine and bitch and complain that ‘our schools are horrible’, I would certainly hope the white parents would do this. The question is: Why in God’s name aren’t YOU agitating for charter schools too?
if your kid is not transracial by 14 you failed as a parent.
Agreed.
It was always about the Asian fly girl on In Living Color.
well… ehm… yes
There is huge African-American support for charter and private schools. The research is incontrovertible. I’m guessing that’s why you didn’t see any mention of any sort of empirical data on the subject in the article.
Of course not. The darkies might figure out how to escape the plantation, while simultaneously depriving the NEA of much needed shakedown funds. We can’t have that!
Look at all of these people voting against their own interests. Sad!
Remember, the NEA cares about children. Or so an ex-girlfriend who was a public school teacher claims. She’s an ex for many reasons.
Of course there is. If you’re locked into bad schools as a consequence of geography, what are your options? Move to a neighborhood with better schools, which may be impossible expensive. If it is infeasible, the only options that would give your children a chance at a quality education would be school choice and vouchers.
My local school system illustrates this rather nicely. Henrico County is divided between excellent schools in the mostly white, mostly wealthy West End and the overwhelmingly black and poor East End. The West End used to be mostly Republican but has trended left as the prog hordes continue to descend on the area from the Northeast. The one thing these scrupulously proggy rich people are fanatic about is keeping poorer kids (black, white, or otherwise) out of their school district. Repeated attendance at the county school redistricting hearings has taught me that.
Nearly moved down to Midlothian in 2007, looking at a place down just off Hull St. Probably better that we didn’t, given the real estate nightmare.
Our neighbors-to-be were pretty hostile to having a bunch of NooYawkers end up on their doorsteps. The North-of-the-James/South-of-the-James was entertaining too. On reflection, I guess I’m glad it all fell thru’. VA is just too damn socialist for the 2017 me.
We have a system where white people control the outcomes, and the outcome that most white Americans want is segregation,” she says
Something something safe spaces for black bodies.
the outcome that most white Americans want is segregation
Maybe this should trigger some introspection on the author’s part. Either there’s an enormous conspiracy of racial hatred simmering just below the surface, rearing its ugly head in 2nd and 3rd order consequences of seemingly innocuous decisions, or white people, by and large, have different preferences than black people.
As a person who was born in an era before women were “people,”
It’s a (((cultural))) thing, or so I have been told.
That’s the first time I’ve done the ((( ))) thing. Did I do it right?
What is it with Abrahamic stuff?
The oppressive heat of the Levant and Mesopotamia causes civilizations to go mad.
That explains Arizona…
TW: Zero Hedge
FBI Edits To Clinton Exoneration Go Far Beyond What Was Previously Known; Comey, McCabe, Strzok Implicated
Banana. Republic.
USistan as I keep saying but people tell me thats not a word
No kidding. This is the stuff you see in third world dictatorships. I am not sure I could count the times I said that during the Obama years.
They’re not lying when they call it a Swamp. The sad part is that it’s never going to get better.
And people wonder why I firmly stand by the fact that I feel I would never get a fair trial in a country where there is one set of rules for the political elite and their cadre, and the rest of us…
This article implies that this was some sort of hidden conspiracy, and that these FBI types did this without the consent of Director Comey, and the AG, and the President.
I will admit it is certainly possible that President Obama didn’t know what was going on (even though he would have likely approved), I cannot believe it is possible that these people could edit a statement to be made by Comey without him realizing it (at least realizing it when HE PUBLICLY READ THE DAMN THING!!!) So Comey was definitely helped do this (and Lynch too, if the people involved didn’t want to go to jail).
Pardon the shouting, it really chafes my testicles when someone talks to me like I’m too stupid to put two and two together and get four (even in this instance, when it seems that two plus two equals about 175 7/8)
Too stupid to put 2 and 2 together to make 4?
http://imgur.com/53JHKQw
“I will admit it is certainly possible that President Obama didn’t know what was going on”
Considering the way this administration micro managed everything – ask the military – I would be surprised to find out that Obama was not the one behind it all.
If only Comrade Stalin knew …
OT but relevant. Volume 2 of Stephen Kotkin’s biography of Stalin is out. Very much worth the read so far. Kotkin is straightforward about Stalin but even when discussing Stalin in the 30’s he doesn’t fully swing the bam hammer. “Stalin: Waiting for Hitler 1929-1941
About the only optimistic scenario here is that Comey basically realized he was completely surrounded by assholes and couldn’t keep Clinton from running or Trump from being investigated (either due to them holding all the cards, or due to some explicit leverage), so instead he worked to keep the email issue open enough and damning enough (hence, the last minute announcement about Weiner’s computer) that she might lose as a sort of Hail Mary.
When it miraculously worked, he exposed the conspiracy to Trump, Pence, and Mueller and engineered his own firing and the subsequent special counsel investigation, knowing the Democrats would jump at any chance to unseat Trump. Basically, they know a couple of bad apples in the FBI/DOJ, so Mueller puts them in the investigation and trusts them to be arrogant and stupid enough to willfully bring their own co-conspirators into it and thereby identify them. Meanwhile, the flurry of initial leaks is all the justification needed to create a new FBI team that will be focused on finding, exposing, and prosecuting everyone involved in the entire conspiracy — Congressmen, White House leakers, corrupt DOJ and FBI and IC officials, and private sector actors like Fusion GPS.
Or, it’s just a straightforward case of the fish rotting from the head. Occam sez…
Occam’s Razor it is..
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/dec/15/america-extreme-poverty-un-special-rapporteur
L.A. has homeless people, who knew?
also 6th!
We don’t have a GIF for that
I’m usually at work by now, so I’ll take 6th. Good Morning!
Good morning!
Wait, isn’t it like 5:30 for you?
it was, now its 6:12
OFFICE MANAGER MOHAMMED EXPECTS YOU TO TURN TO MECCA, EVEN WHEN OUTSIDE WORKING HOURS, INFIDEL!!
London on the other hand does not. Or would not have it it weren’t for them evil conservatives
also lotsa bullshit there. then again guardian
I had no idea rural whites living in the same areas as rural blacks were doing so well. Somehow the whites do not suffer the same poverty, health conditions, quality of life as blacks living in the same area.
I am trying to remember when we covered white slavery in the South in history class. It would help explain how the whites living in poverty in the Deep South show where the wounds of slavery continue to bleed.
Well Appalachia is given as a place with poor whites and i heard it is in fact richer than Switzerland so all whites are rich, if the poorest whites are richer than the swiss
*narrows gaze*
I grew up in a small sputhern town that was about % 90 white. There are dirt poor rural white people just like there are dirt poor urban blacks.
yes but they have white privilege so poverty is easier on them. Do you thin you would have a job and no debt without white privilege? What do you do to promote increased diversity among electricians? How many black girls do you take as apprentices (wait do industrial electricians have apprentices?? or i dunno interns … )
I have apprentices. The last one that worked under me was a black Nigerian. He is also the only other vocal libertarian in this whole plant. Since he dosent tow the dem party line, I don’t think he counts as a real black and therefore can’t be counted towards diversity.
You found indentured servitude all across the country, actually.
Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffet – owning as much as half of the entire American people. – will lefties ever understand what wealth is and isn’t?
The two officials, senior FBI lawyer Lisa Page and senior counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok, are the subjects of an internal investigation that has roiled the FBI and emboldened its Republican critics who have accused the bureau of political bias. Had Page and Strzok used personal phones instead, people close to case say, it’s unlikely their text messages would have come to the FBI’s attention.
Who trains these people? Haven’t they heard of burner phones?
Perhaps, given their intimate familiarity with the investigative prowess of their FBI colleagues, hey assumed they’d never be caught.
“they assumed they’d never be caught”
And they assume correctly. Nobody is going to get in any trouble over this. This is business as usual.
“Who trains these people? Haven’t they heard of burner phones?”
When you think your entire organization is in the bag to steal an election for the candidate you politically favor, I can see how you end up getting sloppy and thinking that they will give you cover….
The vibe I get when I’ve spoken to FBI guys socially is that the organization still sees itself as an extension of the Treasury dept. There’s definitely a “We’re Elliot Ness and we’re here to deal with the bad guys” feel to it – it’s about justice, not fighting crime.
All the guys I’ve met that I know are FBI are low-level guys, but I doubt OpSec is something they can even spell, let alone observe. “Plain Clothes” detail to them is wearing an outrageous tie and not carrying quite so obviously.
I have come with good news. We can finally put the Pizza wars to rest. No more bitter disputes about what is the “proper” pizza.
Behold! The One True Pizza Minnesoda Style.
Uffda! Do not cross me on this. I am infallible! Top Men agree:
Nice job on that link.
Uffda….
next time hover before posting, I find this helps
It kinda threw me for a loop.
Loads of cheese with a mayonnaise based sauce?
Hurl
Good grief, I have been doing those all of my life. Thin crust, lots o’ toppings. Not a loaf of bread with a thin layer of sauce and cheese on top.
Havent I posted mine before?
https://postimg.org/image/djo6ykwhv/
That is what pizza is – thin crust topped with everything in the kitchen. Italian pot luck. Italian chop suey. Italian goulash. Every culture has it, this is the Italian version.
As someone who is 1/4 Italian, I’m going to have to ask you to stop appropriating my people’s culture.
But just 1/4 of the culture.
I approve of that pizza suthen. Vegetables are what makes pizza great. The more the better.
*squints suspiciously*
Salads or some sort of crudites platter are where you get that stuff. The only things that belong on pizza are cheese and meat.
If you throw on a few onions and peppers, you don’t have to eat the salads to get your veggies. That means you can have more pizza instead. Hence, veggies on pizza are a good thing.
PS: Veggies isn’t what makes pizza great. Pizza is what makes pizza great.
To each their own. I love diced tomatoes, onions, banana peppers, mushrooms, jalapeños, spinach, and olives on my pizza. Meat is good too, but it gets in the way of the veggies.
Are pepperoni, ham, sausage, bacon, and ground beef vegetables? Cause they sure make a pizza great..
Fruit de la terre
Vegetarian pizza = dead pigs and cows.
Well…they are vegetarians…
Also, Italian Soljanka.
Romanian style pizza is sucking the blood of Italian tourists
Consider this proof that Romanians make the finest Romanian jokes.
I heartily concur!
Tavern-cut pizza in Ohio.
That is a work of art.
That is the hard hitting, fact filled journalism I expect from the four letter.
I have benefited directly from Mr. Richardson’s generosity since he is one of the largest donors to my alma mater. I am interested to see how they respond. Of course, at this point there is zero information about what he is actually accused of.
Fuck Megan McCardle,
“Some of these accusations are both clear enough and credible enough — with multiple sources and good documentation — that the economic death penalty is clearly justified. ”
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-12-15/consider-the-consequences-of-believeallwomen
How long before she or her low-T husband are having their own struggle session? I bet we hear cries of “but but due process!” then. Yeah, fuck her.
Meh, The article seemed fair to me, The very next sentence to your quote ‘But what about cases like Thrush, where it’s not clear exactly what line is thought to have been crossed?’ She’s arguing that the #metoo shit has gone to far and that it’s not good for anybody, sounds about right.
Maybe I should have RTFA.
So the next sentence WASN’T about due process at all. So she’s merely Totalitarian LIte. “Economic Death-penalty.” Christ, what an asshole.
And then there’s the human excrement known as Alyssa Milano. Fer fuck’s sake, when you make Matt Damon sound rational you’ve really gone full-Stalin. Her penchant for maximum revenge for minor transgressions is exactly the same thing that turned the War On Drugs into carte blanche for police and prosecutors to fuck with anyone they don’t like. Thanks for shit-canning sentence reform, Alyssa. May STEVE SMITH find you interesting.
It is a long read, but it is a fairly accurate description of an ice fishing derby.
The writer is a little smug for me to give the story a big thumbs up (the fucker came to a Minnesoda ice fishing derby wearing running shoes and we’re the rubes?) But there are some great quotes from the locals.
I bolded the wisdom of a true Minnesodan.
we do not have ice fish in Romania, how do they taste?
Not bad for sushi, but a bit watery if you insist on cooking them….
Crunchy and cold
*slow clap*
Page and Strzok used their work on the Clinton case as a cover story for the affair, these people said, adding that there was not a separate set of phones for untraceable discussions of the Clinton case. The text had nothing to do with the Clinton investigation, these people said.
“We were just working late. And, no, that’s not lipstick on my scrotum.”
Yet another mouth breathing Harpy, Trump shouldn’t have so much power, no Shit?
http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/14/opinions/congress-article-1-moment-albright-price/index.html
Uh huh. I dont remember her saying anything about Obama having that power.
Me today, you tomorrow, bitch. You should have thought of that before.
Progs NEVER think past today, ironic isn’t it?
Not really, thinking about today is the foundation of their whole ideology.
They were certain they would pass the power from the Obama crime syndicate to the Clinton crime syndicate, allowing them to keep doing whatever they wanted. As I told proggie idiot after proggie idiot (and a bunch of team red anti-Trumpers too), now that they weaponized government and hoped Hillary would turn it on their enemy, how do they feel having Trump (who unlike the other squishes in the loser party will use it) in charge?
Every time I hear Clinton whine about how she should have been elected because she has a vag, I rejoice that Trump now has this weaponized government to fuck the left over with.
When you condemn everything that has come from the past and you plan on how it won’t be the future you have condensed your timescale into a point.
Progs never THINK. Feelz only.
“you know, there’s a difference between, you know, patting someone on the butt and rape or child molestation, right? Both of those behaviors need to be confronted and eradicated without question,”
Patting on the butt to be eradicated, football players hardest hit.
I always saw that in baseball, Should they all sue each other out of existence?
They don’t need to invoke the new American dream (making money from a big lawsuit) unless they blow away the money they make during their career.
A number of years ago, I was bending over in a scrum, and a big, hairy quarterback stuck his head right in the crack of my butt, reached around, and grabbed my scrotum. I thought it might have been an accident, but he did it 10 or 12 times in the game before I felt emotionally strong enough to protest.
#metoo
Hopefully the guy’s name was not Mike Honcho…
I’m just grateful it wasn’t STEVE SMITH.
A guy named Kliff Kingsbury used to do it 50 times a game.
Klandestinely, though.
#rugbyisgay
*narrows gaze*
Well, it is if it is the Chicago Dragons.
My hometown is cleaning up the water big time.
A story about the town where I grew up building a $33M water treatment plant (pop. 9,300).
The main thrust is that the Minnesoda legislature told the pollution control agency to give cities 16 years of grace from new regulations after they build a new treatment plant. Environmentalists got an administrative judge to block that. So if you spend $3,500/person to build a new treatment plant, there is no guarantee that you won’t immediately have to pour more money into it because some bureaucrat decides to add a new rule.
It is also interesting that knowing an area really changes your perception of a story. The writer has never been to DL and it shows in the way the lakes involved in the story are written about. There is also this quote:
Unless Guetter thinks that the old days are between 1985 (when I left) and now, I call BS. When I lived there between 1970 and 1985, the entire area was known for wonderful lakes. Sallie and Melissa were two of the most popular. I don’t remember any algae blooms.
Hmm, I guess Jesus isn’t so special if Minnesotans can walk on water too
*whispers*
The secret is to know where the rocks are
My mom lives near DL. I’ll have to ask her about that.
The effect of Net Neutrality
that looks like some damn fine gruel
At least he has gruel. My family has to dig in the dirt for worms to eat now!
You’re lucky. We dont even have worms. We have to eat dirt!
in Romania we ran out of worms.
No worms?
So what do you do for legislators?
Romania, The finest in Socialism! We don’t have Worms!
Trouble at Fort Bragg
In the anonymous letter, the “concerned Green Beret” takes on physical fitness workouts — where he claims that instructors are punished for making them too hard — and says there are instances of favoritism and cheating.
The author’s examples of below-standard students and maligned trainers are complete with names, rank, units and dates.
As far as training, the anonymous letter says students can no longer wash out for failing to pass physical tests, ranging from a 5-mile run to a 12-mile march with a heavy pack to dozens of pushups and situps. Instead, these tests became “diagnostic” to determine the student’s level of achievement.
The only way out of Green Beret training is voluntarily withdrawal or injury.
“To say that standards have not been eliminated would be laughable, were it not so tragic,” the anonymous letter states.
Finally, when they can’t dance around it anymore, we get:
The anonymous letter writer claims there is a reason the standards are being adjusted: To bring in female candidates, a view supported by one of the Green Berets contacted by NPR. The Pentagon allowed women to apply for Green Beret training two years ago. Only a handful have tried; none have passed.
What a shocker.
I am not shocked at all. Lots of people will die because the left decided to use the military as a make work and social experimentation project instead of making sure it remained hardcore and able to fulfill its duty of breaking things and killing people to make sure nobody wants to fuck with them. And have no doubt that reality will not bend to the will of the people that want to recreate their fantasy of equality, costing innocent people their lives.
It’s been said before, I don’t have a problem with women being in combat roles per se, as long as the standards are not changed (which they clearly have been). The second question is one of morale and fraternization, but that’s less of a concern than actual capability.
And they’re called “special” forces for a reason; they’re special. They have higher standards, not everyone can do it.
“And they’re called “special” forces for a reason; they’re special. They have higher standards, not everyone can do it.”
That is precisely why the equality movement is so hell bent on getting a woman through it. As long as women can’t pass, the glaringly obvious fact that there are differences keeps undermining their arguments that we are the same.
I read that letter a few weeks ago. I was a SF officer and even taught at Ft Bragg and recognize the authenticity of what the original author(s) wrote. I graduated from the Special Forces Qualification Course in 1986. I was incredibly in shape, thought I knew my profession, was headstrong and lucky enough to graduate. That course kicked my ass physically and at times mentally. I was an 18A and we were looked down as the easy MOS because we had a 16% graduation rate.
A properly qualified woman could be an asset in SF, but only if they can make the standards, including the physical standards. Doing a night jump with all your weapons and gear plus a 100 lb rucksack isn’t done because it is fun- it is what is required. And never forget that the parachute jump is just your commute, your job starts once you hit the ground. The ATO and ITO cultural requirements meant there had to be more female presence for some mission sets. That is why the Special Operations developed the Female Engagement Teams (FET) and recruited strongly professional women to serve on those teams alongside SF and other SOF units. The program was a success. But there is a huge step going from a FET to an SF Operational Detachment-Alpha aka “A-Team”.
The dynamic on every team is unique but all center around competence, working together and harnessing strong type A personalities. If you don’t fit, you move on and not the team. If you have what it takes, but don’t fit the team personality the team leadership will find you a team with a better fit. If you are judged substandard by the team NCOs you are gone from the community. I have personally witnessed a team throw their commander out and all his shit thrown into the parking lot. The chain of command found some other job for him to do that was not on the ODA’s. A fully qualified individual, male or female, will be welcomed. If you aren’t, “buh bye”. The letter was amazing because it named names. I would be interested in seeing how this all shakes out for those names in a few years.
In some ways the worst thing to happen to SF was to make it a branch back in 1987. Before then you knew you were giving up being a Colonel, and all the perks of senior rank, by committing yourself to a career in SF. Once it became a branch the new mentality started creeping in.
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There is an even worse aspect. SOF has proliferated throughout the senior Army leadership, with an attendant and not unexpected bias. Well guess what, commanding an armor battalion isn’t the same thing as running a SOF operation. But what does everyone in the Army look at as a model right now? The question that needs to get kicked back at that leadership is “do you select and train” everyone else in the Army like you do SOF? Otherwise, some really bad decisions are going to be made and embedded into the overall culture and that will get people killed.
The ARMY is not the only one with this particular problem both the Marines and the NAVY Seals are dealing with massive pressure to let women somehow enter the SF community. When as dbleagle points out the success rate for men is below 15% I am hard pressed to believe there is a woman on the planet that makes it. Yes, mental toughness is what determines if you can handle the qualification process for men, because there is a decent percentage (30%) of men can meet the physical requirements if that was all it was about. Pushing your body beyond the point where it is telling you it will quit is mental. But you need to have the physical ability to push it. I will be surprised a woman will make it, and when they do, I am going to be flabbergasted if they succeeded without the programs having either reduced standards for all or a much laxer standard for women. G.I. Jane was a fucking Hollywood movie, not reality.
The (((creeper))) in the picture does very closely resemble a (((dude))) I always see greeting people at Temple Israel in my neighborhood. It’s uncanny, really.
Who was it that was wondering how long before the Libertarians get caught up in #MeToo because it isnt a partisan issue? Fake libertarians maybe. I’ll say it again: When you believe that everyone owns themselves the chances of you committing a trespass are greatly diminished.
So, expect allegations against the Reason staff in the future?
I have Gillespie in the pool.
With or without The Jacket?
What if the jacket made a pass on him?
Libertarians aren’t getting caught because there aren’t enough, and they don’t have power or status to make it worthwhile. That said, Alex Kozinski is in the crosshairs of the Junior Anti-sex League.
Bingo on the power part. These accusations only come up for political expediency. There aren’t any libertarian politicians to unseat, therefore no libertarians will be accused. It costs a lot of money to bribe a girl to come forward. No need to waste that money on a bunch of nobodies.
You called that right…
So if you fondle my genitals and I accept payment (which I personally would, although totally unnecessary), what’s that make me?
$1.15 richer?
One more bag of M&Ms for my SHTF stockpile!
Too late. See my posting above.
Have some of that with your corn flakes.
What an idiotic article. It does however state they could have been discussing the case on private devices. Perhaps they were also colluding to prevent Trump from being elected as some of their other text’s imply. If all their devices are not gathered up under subpoena during a full blown investigation then the FBI is covering for itself and is illegitimate.
According to that article, the FBI has already destroyed evidence found on their devices.
“Also mentioned in the letter are the immunity agreements granted by the FBI in June 2016 to top Obama advisor Cheryl Mills and aide Heather Samuelson – who helped decide which Clinton emails were destroyed before turning over the remaining 30,000 records to the State Department. Of note, the FBI agreed to destroy evidence on devices owned by Mills and Samuelson which were turned over in the investigation. “
Of note, the FBI agreed to destroy evidence on devices owned by Mills and Samuelson which were turned over in the investigation.
W T actual F? Who agreed on behalf of the FBI?
I know they destroyed the Clinton Clans devices and evidence, I am talking about the FBI agents who were having an affair. I imagine they had a hand in deciding to allow Herself and her minions to be interviewed without a transcript being made and or being under oath. That whole investigation is so corrupt anybody involved in it should probably be in prison.
Mk Ruffalo ladies and gents
https://twitter.com/UltraHotTakes/status/941258701729513473
this channel is gold sometimes
https://twitter.com/UltraHotTakes/status/940688001906065409
That man is so stupid that he should have ‘breathe’ tattooed on the inside of his eyelids in case he forgets.
*sigh*
So, expect allegations against the Reason staff in the future?
“Robby borrowed ENB’s lipstick without asking” is pretty much all I can come up with.
That is just as bad as rape. Everywhere else there is a spectrum, but here it is all rape.
the jacket groped robbys hair
I have Gillespie in the pool.
Call the pool cleaners.
Pie Gate II: Pie Harder! The author admits it seems like Sarah Sanders can actually bake a pie. TW: Salon
Heeeey leaver me out of your Americanese politiking
Wait? Are you Sarah Sanders?
Sarah Sanders reminds me of Pam Poovey.
A fat chick who cooks? That’s crazy talk!
So much this HM…
Because this is clearly the most important question surrounding the FedGov; whether the press secretary cooks her own pies.
For God’s sake. The Huckabee family are genuinely from the cultural of midwest farm families. What would be surprising is if she didn’t know how to bake a pie. The whole Sarah’s pie controversy is just another example of how unselfaware of their own stupidity and bubbleitis afflicted those stupid fuckers are.
It’s funny how they think pies are so complicated to make. They come from stores who in turn get them from pie plants run by men under the careful supervision of top men in the government regulatory apparatus. Some woman can’t just make a pie.
Milk comes from the grocery store also.
My family is as Midwestern farm family as they come, and shit, even half the men could probably put up a halfway-decent pie.
When I was a little tad I used to ask for my Mom’s blueberry pie instead of cake for my birthday. It was incredible. When she took a pie out of the oven and set it out to cool, a beam of light would shine down on it out of the sky and you could hear an angelic choir singing.
Pie really isn’t all that hard. As long as you know the proportions for the crust, the rest is simple.
I’m not really sure why I replied to you, Animal, I meant to reply to the main comment.
So…. when’s your next birthday?
PIE>>>>>>>>>>>>CAKE
“OMG I totally made a pie myself from one of those kit things from Whole Foods. It had all the ingredients in exactly the right quantities, and the crust was there all ready in place.”
You mean, you bought a pie. At Whole Foods. Let me guess, the recipe was “Place in microwave for 4 minutes”
“OMG, yes, have you had their pies?”
No, just a hunch.
“I wonder what went wrong, because it really didn’t taste that good”
Did you press the “Start” button on the microwave?
How much does netflix want to start asking me “Are you still watching?”
Formerly peaceful Palestinians now up in arms thanks to Trump. It used to be so peaceful over there. Then Trump had to come along and ruin it!
Heh heh.. Not surprised that is the spin put on this shit.
For decades these cunts have given everyone the finger, despite being given some unimaginably sweet deals, because their end goal is the extermination of the Jewish people and Jewish state, but Trump is the asshole for telling them to go fuck themselves? Same shit with North Korea I guess.
Trump decided that playing along with a dumb appeasement policy that everyone knows goes nowhere (in both cases), tells the assholes to fuck off and actually stands up to them, changing the landscape and basically putting the assholes on the defensive, and the bad guy is Trump.
The elite ruling class is pissed that a boor like Trumps is exposing them for the inept, corrupt, and stupid fucks they are, and that’s why we got the shit show we have today.
One of the more hilarious headlines of the past year were various ones suggesting, “Trump decision on Jerusalem Embassy Derails Peace Process”
‘derails’.
There hasn’t actually been any peace process since Hamas won elections in Gaza and Fatah had a schism with them, and the 2 have been fighting w/ each other as much as Israel…. for over a decade now. There’s literally nothing to derail. The train is at the bottom of the gully after having jumped the ditch and now has weeds growing through its engine.
OT: I liked the observations you were going over last night w.r.t. crime statistics. Your series of subthreads almost had enough information for an article if you paired some example data with it.
OMCW – got the PSE 1625 amps working – just now! – after adding a handwound inductor wrapped around a 47ohm cc resistor. And the RF weirdness has been dispelled.
Also found out I goofed when installing the gas tubes – replacing the OC3 with the correct OD3 and *magic* the correct voltages are on the screen.
Near zero hum… too much gain… going to be adjusting the plate-to-plate feedback resistor next.
*OMWC
Was that an anode stopper? Or did you put it somewhere else in the circuit? Having that near the anode connection was SOP in ham radio transmitters.
Fun fact: the Marantz 9 only had them on the plates of two of the four output tubes.
yes plate stoppers. Looks like hell and I need to get some shrink tube since I don’t like the B+ just sitting there. But hey at least it works.
Man that sounds so fun, I’m barely competent like LM386 chip amps barely, Valves are cool,
Elon Musk blurts out the obvious
“There is this premise that good things must be somehow painful,” he said onstage at a Tesla event on the sidelines of the Neural Information Processing Systems Conference in Long Beach, California, in response to an audience question about his take on public transit and urban sprawl. “I think public transport is painful. It sucks. Why do you want to get on something with a lot of other people, that doesn’t leave where you want it to leave, doesn’t start where you want it to start, doesn’t end where you want it to end? And it doesn’t go all the time.”
“It’s a pain in the ass,” he continued. “That’s why everyone doesn’t like it. And there’s like a bunch of random strangers, one of who might be a serial killer, OK, great. And so that’s why people like individualized transport, that goes where you want, when you want.”
No shit. This, of course, reminds me of the study somebody did in San Fran, in which they discovered the completely unexpected admission on the part of people who voted in favor of BART that they did so in the hope other people would ride it, reducing traffic so they could continue to drive themselves to work in relative comfort and ease.
The roads have a lot of other people on them. And the city bus catches fire less often than a Tesla.
Mass transit is fine. It’s the government employees union and the government price fixing – which causes a shortage – that makes it suck. Smaller, autonomous buses that came by every 15 minutes would be a bargain at double the current fares.
I don’t think anyone would find that unexpected, including BART-boosters.
Anyway, choice is a good thing, right?
Meanwhile, those creamy white breasts not mentioned in OMWC’s link, I found them!
http://archive.is/6HLLr
3’s eyes and freckles are hypnotic. 5, 10, 11, 12, 14, 21… another high quality group.
He said nothing about “white” you racist!
My secret Nazihood has been exposed!
Oh, and #35 is the Thaiest Thai that ever Thaied. I’m willing to put money on that.
She’s very high quality, and willing to sever your penis if you betray her.
You don’t have to tell me. That’s my lived experience.
Thank god for modern surgical techniques, right?
How are the stitches coming along?
Bonus, my alma mater ladies and germs!
https://totalfratmove.com/tfms-top-10-universities-with-the-hottest-girls/10/
I thought you went to Colorado School of Mines, or was that grad school?
Grad school.
U Arizona – BS
U Miami (Florida) – MS
CSM – PhD
I wandered.
Got it. I almost went to CSM for my Bachelor’s back when I was pursuing Geology. At the last moment, I chose to stay local and go to University of New Hampshire (which was in the top 5 for Oceanography at the time) to stay closer to my grandmother who had just gotten ill. In the end, it was the right choice as I switched gears drastically 2.5 years in.
CSM is also 75% male.
I made the right choice.
Though, at the time, I was really into D&D.
Hot chicks and cultural appropriation; I’d say you did make the right choice!
Too many good looking women to be filmed at UNH unless they flew women in from the South. On the other hand, I notice the Laconia police make an appearance, so maybe they didn’t film it in Durham.
Mine comes in at #8. Acceptable.
Note the parts of the country not represented.
Just a tad bit of geography bias in that list
“creamy white breasts”
Q displaying his privilege.
If El Giro Mexican Restaurant does not have #2’s pic on their menu they are missing out.
An orgy will cure my hangover. That’s how it works right?
Nope. Drinking in the morning cures a hangover.
Drinking *while* orgying.
6,13,20
If you prefer the fiery types: Gingermageddon!
http://www.frombearcreek.com/saturday-gingermageddon-174/
Yes please.
Oh boy!! Now we’re in business!
(hits ‘like button’)
I like everything about 12. The setting, the food, the cleavage.
Well done #12.
Why is #8 posing in front of the garage door?
Shit. I meant #12 instead of #13. Same sentiment. Food, cleavage, setting. Looks like a relaxing weekend with a hot blonde with nice boobs. ???
How about a non political story? Filming for Stargate Origins, the Stargate prequel mini-series, has finished. I hope this is the start of the return of Stargate.
$20 for mini episodes.
Pass.
Women having affairs aren’t always victims
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/women-having-affairs-arent-always-victims-jgt87rs6f?shareToken=2e4002f889ba38f906dd501a2783f7ae
In the Royal Court’s statement on why it pulled a production of Rita, Sue and Bob Too, the theatre notes that harassment allegations against co-director Max Stafford-Clark rendered the play’s “themes of grooming and abuses of power on young women . . . highly conflictual”.
What would Andrea Dunbar say, who wrote the play aged just 19, based upon the affair she and her mate Eileen had with a married man? Of course it’s bloody conflictual that bored girls growing up on a 1970s Bradford council estate took turns on the reclined seat of a Ford Cortina with a leery chancer — and enjoyed it.
weird subject for theater though
Like Andrea Dunbar. Pregnant at 15, three kids in her teens by different men, domestic violence, booze. She disdained the London theatre world which acclaimed her, never left the grim Bradford estate of her plays, dropping dead alone in a pub from a brain haemorrhage aged 29. “You write what’s said,” she once remarked, “you don’t lie.”
Well… that’s one way to go I guess
Is it an affair if your clothes accidently fall off?
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/draw-the-line/n9825?snl=1
I was expecting this.
This quote I find rather amusing:
“Finally we have left behind the pornified perception, born a decade ago in the heyday of men’s magazines, that young women are empowered by porn and pole-dancing classes, happy to meet male sexual needs 24/7.”
I figured that this is just an extension of 60’s era standard sexual revolution stuff. I can’t stop laughing at the New Puritans desperately trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube now that they’re discovering their new cudgel is being used on them and their ideological fellow travelers much more than the enemy. They thought they had found this great new toy to bash evil KKKonservatives et. al. over the head with; now they’re finding that they have plenty of pervs in their own camp. Let the Stalinist purges continue!
Someone posted this the other day along that same thought line.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/268710/american-gyno-stalinism-ruins-shagadelic-utopia-oleg-atbashian
the Peoples Cube! it’s been a while
“born a decade ago in the heyday of men’s magazines”
WTF? Forget about the ignorance of magazine history, it’s like the internet of 1999 never existed.
Moral Scolds are gonna scold, and they will change their morals daily as long as they get to keep scolding.
She actually made some good points in her article. Not sure this was one of them.
“Technically Rita and Sue have much in common with the Rotherham abuse schoolgirls”
“I do believe that there’s a spectrum of behavior,” he told Travers. “And we’re going to have to figure — you know, there’s a difference between, you know, patting someone on the butt and rape or child molestation, right?”
THERE’S A DIFFERENCE!??!
I always walk around groping my wife. I grope all the time. I grope in the morning with a bagel in one hand and the other on some tight ass. I grope with sunglasses at night. I grope until it cuts like a knife. I grope like a helpless old man. I grope because I’m taking care of business. I grope because it’s the right thing to do to prove our existence. Above all, I grope because I believe it to prevent cancer.
#Igropetolowermycholesterol
So what you’re saying is that you never stop raping your wife?
I’m groping her right as we speak as I eat a banana and stare at my neighbours daring them to say something.
Same neighbors that park their trucks all over the place and fuck everything up?
What kind of neighbourhood you think this is?
Now that’s some groping. Well written Rufus. Bravo.
I just can’t show my wife. She’ll beat me with a unripened avocado.
But you’ll still be groping her the whole time.
Women having affairs aren’t always victims
YOU TAKE THAT BACK!
Utterly unsurprising.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/12/15/google-is-using-its-immense-power-to-censor-content-that-doesnt-fit-its-political-goals/
This is news? By now anyone that doesn’t know Google is rigged to favor the ideology of the cult of big government in their search algorithms has to have been living under a rock or be part of the group that likes the fact Google does that but plays dumb about it.
No no, all my friends assured me that only ISPs can have the power to censor.
I wonder if ISPs or big bit haulers like Comcast will someday pull stuff similar to what Google is doing, with or without net neutrality (whatever that was).
In some ways, they already are via techniques like traffic shaping. They have the ability to do deep packet inspection too, so in practice, they could probably surveil what a small selection of subscribers are sending and receiving right now.
It’s why I use a VPN, and have done for years.
So Google cat-butted some people, their site, their rules, I can’t get myself worked up over this.
If they are open about it…sure. If they do it stealthily, whilst claiming nothing is going on….eh, not so much.
My Democrat friends on Facebook are all going off on this as proof that Trump is a fascist. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/cdc-gets-list-of-forbidden-words-fetus-transgender-diversity/2017/12/15/f503837a-e1cf-11e7-89e8-edec16379010_story.html?utm_term=.3b428d903026
Apparently, they’re banning words now? Is this true?
Considering the media’s track record I recommend you wait for a few days and check and see if the story was deleted or changed after the fact because this shit was all false without anyone acknowledging they did that.
That’s what I was thinking. Also, it has that release late on a Friday feel to it so that it run for days without anyone getting the chance to counter it and it having to be retracted.
Man, it would be a real damn shame if the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were restricted to just focusing on diseases. What has the world come to?
Although, it’s funny that “evidence-based” and “science-based” are on there. Those two are fine markers of premium-grade bullshit. Of course, banning them doesn’t make people not spout bullshit.
That would be a good reason not to ban them though. Easier to spot the b.s.
Note that even that reporter admitted that this is just for the purposes of budget documents.
If I had to guess Trump is undoing what Obama did. Obama mandated that various agencies start using cultural marxist gibberish lingo. Trump probably just cancelled that order. He should shoot it, hit it with a shovel, set it on fire and then bury the ashes.
Well, for a start, that’s the Washington Post.
For lulz, here’s the CDC mission statement:
Note the enormous gap between “health, safety and security threats, both foreign and in the U.S.” and “CDC fights disease and supports communities and citizens to do the same.” To get those to line up, you need to get rid of “safety and security”. There’s mission creep, in black and white.
It’s always amusing/infuriating to scroll through the list of CDC initiatives. I see that they may have finally dropped the Prevent Date Rape program.
https://www.cdc.gov/stltpublichealth/strategy/index.html
I thought this was hilarious, what a loser. http://people.com/politics/pete-davidson-hillary-clinton-tattoo/
Dear Pete: KYS kthxbai
Looks like henna. We’ll see how long it persists.
I see what you did there.
SNL is not liberal.
SSSSuuuurrrrre.
To think Dennis Miller and Norm MacDonald once ruled the Week-end update.
Well, it isn’t. Progressives, Marxists, and other kratotheists are the opposite of liberals. Liberalism is about freedom and the pursuit of truth. Socialism/communism/communitarianism/marxism/progressivism/fascism/”liberalism”/whatever-it-calls-itself-later-ism are always and only about power. Words like “hegemony”, “privilege”, or “oppression” have no inherent universal meaning, it’s just vaguely moral sounding code for “we don’t have absolute power yet”, whereas words like “reactionary” or “fascist” mean “we want to keep our absolute power”.
Bingo.
Yeh, I broke my own rule about that. They’re not liberal. They’re ILLIBERAL and for all the reasons you state,
Useful idiots are idiots. They are also sycophants and cult members.
That’s some creepy shit right there.
Good lord that’s pathetic and creepy. That’s straight out of the CCCP.
So, 1980s-era Clinton? Not currently Grandma Clinton? Bold choice there, Pete.
Lachowsky posted yesterday about doing this. Seems complicated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GLrOkVZW8w
And the there is this
Funny the utterly different tone of that video vs. the dick one.
Right? And I’m not quite sure about the ending…did she make a shrine?
It’s not that bad. Just make sure you use warm water when you mix up the mold media. Cold water will make your final product somewhat less impressive.
somewhat less impressive
And another round of Old Guy Music for y’all to ignore.
I actually liked that one a lot. One of my favorite Beatles songs.
Thanks, Old Groper!
Foucault has done a lot of different kinds of stuff, all of it quite excellent. Here’s his rock group, with some remarkably good lead guitar. We just saw him live a couple weeks ago with his wife (Kris Delmhorst, she of the stunning voice) and much of the same band, doing their folk/Americana songs.
Williams autographed one of his albums for SP with an inscription that will certainly prevent us from ever eBaying it.
Thanks! Just found some of his stuff on Spotify. It will make some good Saturday listening!
Coffee with Baileys and Kahlua. Let’s see if this helps.
How could it not?!
https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/941022562305347586
Well, he’s not wrong.
… and you could make an argument against the ‘efficiently’ part.
Not every government can live up to the standards set by the Third Reich.
From the gay thing:
LOLOLOLOL
I dont know what any of that means
The first commenter’s avatar was the Israeli flag. Apparently that’s a big no-no among the Advocate crowd.
DERP FIGHT!
I gotta go into work today. ?
Payback for sending us pics of an unfiltered sculpin in the middle of the day.
Fair enough. Might have to take a sculpin into work.
My wife had to go into work today too. So it’s time for my son & I to watch Police Story with Jackie Chan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMlG-EVoqFw
Police Story with
Jackie ChanMaggie CheungFTFY
I feel your pain. I’m on call to support some work at a customer site.
Polar bears and Al Gore hardest hit.
It looks like global warming is going to be removed as a national security threat on Monday.
“Climate policies will continue to shape the global energy system,” a draft of the National Security Strategy slated to be released on Monday said. “U.S. leadership is indispensable to countering an anti-growth, energy agenda that is detrimental to U.S. economic and energy security interests. Given future global energy demand, much of the developing world will require fossil fuels, as well as other forms of energy, to power their economies and lift their people out of poverty.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/12/15/breaking-trump-to-remove-climate-change-as-a-national-security-threat/
But what did Trump tweet? How many scoops of ice-cream did he have? How many diet cokes?
Trump drinks more Coke than Obama snorted.
U.S. leadership is indispensable to countering an anti-growth, energy agenda that is detrimental to U.S. economic and energy security interests.
Ahhh, setting up the foundations for supporting an attack on Europe, specifically France & Germany. Excellent!
Today in Dishonest Reporting:
NFL ratings down 9% this season amid Trump attacks
I don’t actually think Trump has ever said they don’t have the right to protest during the anthem, just that they should be fired if they do. Of course, to the weak-minded, if doing something is expensive or inconvenient or has consequences, then your “right” to do it is being denied. As I asked people during the uproar over whether excluding contraceptives from health plan coverage was a denial of the right to contraceptives “I have the right to own a Bugatti. If someone doesn’t buy one for me, does that mean my right to own a Bugatti has been violated?” Of course not.
I have the right to stand on the sidewalk in front of my hospital with a big sign “This hospital sucks. If you go here, they will kill you.”* Is my employer fires me for this, are they violating my right to free speech? Of course not.
We are talking about simpletons here. They think that having a right to speak your mind is the same as having a right to use someone elses property as a forum for doing that. They cant make that very large distinction so it’s no wonder they cant make finer ones.
It’s like the last administration just set up softball pitches for Trump to hit out of the park.
https://hotair.com/archives/2017/12/16/nlrb-just-blocked-one-worst-union-abuses-obama-era/
I like it. I would like it better if the NLRB were nuked from orbit.
” Portugal’s radical drugs policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it?
Since it decriminalised all drugs in 2001, Portugal has seen dramatic drops in overdoses, HIV infection and drug-related crime. The opioid crisis soon stabilised, and the ensuing years saw dramatic drops in problematic drug use, HIV and hepatitis infection rates, overdose deaths, drug-related crime and incarceration rates. HIV infection plummeted from an all-time high in 2000 of 104.2 new cases per million to 4.2 cases per million in 2015. The data behind these changes has been studied and cited as evidence by harm-reduction movements around the globe. It’s misleading, however, to credit these positive results entirely to a change in law.
Portugal’s remarkable recovery, and the fact that it has held steady through several changes in government – including conservative leaders who would have preferred to return to the US-style war on drugs – could not have happened without an enormous cultural shift, and a change in how the country viewed drugs, addiction – and itself. In many ways, the law was merely a reflection of transformations that were already happening in clinics, in pharmacies and around kitchen tables across the country. The official policy of decriminalisation made it far easier for a broad range of services (health, psychiatry, employment, housing etc) that had been struggling to pool their resources and expertise, to work together more effectively to serve their communities.”
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/05/portugals-radical-drugs-policy-is-working-why-hasnt-the-world-copied-it
I vaguely remember a commenter at TOS relating his experience visiting Portugal. He claimed that there were dope heads ever-present on the streets haranguing people for money, picking pockets and outright mugging people. That is just the impression I got from his account.
Maybe he visited years ago?
Looks like they accidentally decriminalized crime along with drugs.
There’s too much money involved for the government to end the drug war. Fuck everybody who dies from fentanyl overdoses because they could get prescription drugs. Fuck everybody who rots away in prison for committing victimless crime. They have money to make, and destroying people’s lives is a small price for them to pay.
+ Must punish the sinners
I just gave my 13 year old brother my copy of Capitalism and Freedom.
Just finished it (for maybe the 3rd time) – excellent book, as you know – although if he’s a TV watcher, point him at “Free To Choose” on Youtube.
He is. I should do that. I have sent him some Learn Liberty videos, which I also think are great at explaining things to most ages. right now he’s been sending me liberty themed memes on instagram, which makes me laugh. I picked him up from school yesterday and we talked about gun rights and NN. He’s mostly just curious as to what I think because the opinion he gets at school and from my mom are not close. Dad is probably a rand or cruz fan more than a libertarian, but we agree on a lot.
My son picked up The Road To Serfdom at about age 14, because he had heard of Hayek in relation to totalitarianism. He’s pretty smart and the subject interested him – and he found it a tough but not unmanageable read.
Last month, I caught him reading “The Constitution of Liberty” but I suspect it’s going to be put down so he can concentrate on Metal Gear Solid. He needs a a few years of before I un-hide my copy of “The Open Society and its Enemies”
My plan was to provide excerpts of Popper to my son when they started Plato’s Republic in class. That way he could annoy the teacher much more effectively.
Oh, #6.2 has already mastered that. Between ‘normal dinner table’ conversation, and his sister doing moral philosophy (YAAAAASS!, a college that does the same course as Mr. Dubois!) he’s had as much debunking of that old fraud as he’ll ever need.
Second the Free to Choose series. I especially love this clip of a young Thomas Sowell going off. Classic. Unfortunately we are still having this debate with leftists that should have been obvious decades ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-eDkEVG4qg
Princeton University to Host BDSM Sex Tutorial Workshop
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/12/15/princeton-university-to-host-bdsm-sex-tutorial-workshop/
they say that like it’s a bad thing
Oh, what hath #meetoo wrought!
Brings a whole new meaning to ‘perverse incentives’.
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Stockholm authorities have moved a step closer to banning racist or sexist advertising from public spaces in the Swedish capital.
The city’s Traffic Committee voted on Thursday to introduce ethical guidelines on outdoor advertisements in Stockholm, including digital displays and information boards.
Stockholm deputy mayor and head of Stockholm’s traffic division Daniel Helldén told The Local he believed that the measure would be passed by the next city council meeting and come into effect within two to three months.
“The city has a responsibility towards its citizens, to ensure that advertising they are exposed to is not offensive or upsetting in any way,” Helldén told The Local. “We need to make sure that sexist and racist advertising doesn’t appear.””
https://www.thelocal.se/20171214/stockholm-moves-towards-ban-on-racist-or-sexist-advertising
Not showing scantily-clad Swedish hotties is an affront to God.
“The city has a responsibility towards its citizens, to ensure that advertising they are exposed to is not offensive or upsetting in any way,” Helldén told The Local. “We need to make sure that sexist and racist advertising doesn’t appear.”
Cuckistan…
The Brits are not going to be outdone by the Swedes.
https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/gender-stereotyping-in-uk-adverts-to-be-banned-next-year-1-4638851
“Harmful gender stereotyping”
Harmful.
Gender.
Stereotyping.
Forward, comrades!
They are going to remove sex from advertising? They are racing towards the cold, grey, soul crushing wasteland that was the USSR at a breakneck pace. How long before they forbid their citizens from escaping?
“You like potato? We have potato. Usually. If you make line. “
Have y’all seen this? Commies win in Nepalese elections, no bullshit communists at that.
https://www.economist.com/news/asia/21732584-two-left-wing-parties-are-set-form-next-government-communists-win-nepals-first-elect
What a stupid mistake, and I thought Asians were supposed to be smart. I wonder if they’ll crack down on Buddhism.
I have to assume they were sponsored by the ChiComs.
That’d be a safe assumption. They also seem to have capitalized on the outgoing government’s bungling of the big 2015 earthquake cleanup.
That’s not very surprising. There have been basically two factions in Nepalese politics, communists and monarchists. After the monarchy degenerated into something out of the late Roman Empire, that left basically one faction: the communists.
Also, that link just goes to a redirect loop.
The first free election in a “formerly” authoritarian country is often won by either the commies or the Islamists – they’re organised, and they’re untainted by connection with the previous regime.
Now let’s see how the next election goes, if there is one.
One party communist states have a record of producing candidates that win elections 100-0.
“Speaking of breasts, you can’t pick up a magazine, turn on a website, or watch television without seeing boobs. They’re everywhere. From selfies to profile pics to advertisements—they’re on full display. Why do you think that is? It’s because a man is drawn to a woman’s feminine beauty, and a woman wants to lure him in with her most sexual traits.
Do you think the women taking these photos were chained up and forced to have their boobs plastered all over the Internet or television? Do you think the women you see on the news with their legs glossed and their dresses tight are being coerced into dressing seductively?
Do you think the women in Hollywood who show up on the red carpet with plunging necklines, revealing side-boobs, and sheer gowns had a gun pointed at their heads while they dressed? No. They want to do it. They want to dress up in revealing clothes and spend billions of dollars a year on make-up, cosmetic surgery, clothes, and shoes, not because society expects this from them, but because they want to be beautiful.”
http://thefederalist.com/2017/12/12/can-honest-women/
They also do it for the attention and the power it can bring.
It’s a really good article.
Careful, Count. Just linking that article can cause you to spontaneously combust.
Or be fired.
“A top lawyer resigned from his job at the Office of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Thursday just hours after posting a Federalist article criticizing aspects of the #MeToo movement.”
Wow.
You know who wears shapeless, concealing, unflattering clothing? Trigglypuff and her ilk. You seen Anita Sarkeesian lately? You think she wears makeup because she just likes how it looks in the mirror? How many feminists in the public eye do you see wearing burqas or mu-mus? I don’t care if they’re straight, gay, bi, whatever, women (and many men) dress themselves and groom themselves to be attractive to other people. And most people, if they are physically attractive and know they can use that attractiveness to give them a leg up in interactions with other people, will absolutely take advantage of that fact. And that’s perfectly fine. That doesn’t imply that sexual assault or harassment or anything is ok, it’s just acknowledging that human beings are, among other things, sexual creatures, and we’re influenced by the attractiveness of other humans.
“Helicopter ride, aisle 7!”
Why limit it to the media? I can’t walk through the office, a restaurant, or a grocery store without seeing boobs.
I know! I went through the meat department and breasts everywhere!
Explain the Kim Kardashian creature then. She can’t be doing that willingly.
[rubs thumb and fingers together with meaningful look]
Unfunded Liabilities of State Public Pensions Top $6 Trillion in 2017
Cost of unfunded pensions totals an average of $18,676 per person in the U.S.
http://freebeacon.com/issues/unfunded-liabilities-state-public-pensions-top-6-trillion-2017/
you people need to work more. look at all that debt you have
If I could pay a couple of lump sums to pay off my kids’ future debt in exchange for a ‘principal only’ tax scheme, I’d do it in a heartbeat.
No shit. Stop the ride, some of us want to get off.
That, or, since that is *state* debt, we could just move to a state that understands compound interest. Per capita federal debt is FAR higher.
“A well-known women’s rights lawyer sought to arrange compensation from donors and tabloid media outlets for women who made or considered making sexual misconduct allegations against Donald Trump during the final months of the 2016 presidential race, according to documents and interviews.
California lawyer Lisa Bloom’s efforts included offering to sell alleged victims’ stories to TV outlets in return for a commission for herself, arranging a donor to pay off one Trump accuser’s mortgage and attempting to secure a six-figure payment for another woman who ultimately declined to come forward after being offered as much as $750,000, the clients told The Hill.
The women’s accounts were chronicled in contemporaneous contractual documents, emails and text messages reviewed by The Hill, including an exchange of texts between one woman and Bloom that suggested political action committees supporting Hillary Clinton were contacted during the effort.”
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/365068-exclusive-prominent-lawyer-sought-donor-cash-for-two-trump-accusers
Whodathunkit?
It’s always been about money and power.
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Code of Federal Regulations
# of pages added – last 6 presidents
•Obama: +23,222
•GWB: +18,399
•Clinton: +9,182
•GHWB: +9,392 [one term]
•Reagan: +19,591
•Carter: +23,754 [one term]
[GW Regulatory Studies Center]
How can this be? All my Romanian coworkers tell me that US is where savage unrestricted capitalism happens ..
I would (and still do) lose my shit when people talk about how GW Bush deregulated everything.
Fucking disgusting.
Remember: George W. Bush was a deregulator.
“Facebook and Twitter Are Too Big to Allow Fake Users
They should be regulated in the same way as TV stations and newspapers, which vet the information they publish.
Social networks should be obliged to ban anonymous accounts. If they refuse to do so voluntarily, government regulators should force the issue.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-08/facebook-and-twitter-must-ban-anonymous-users
I think Bloomberg should be held responsible for any bad financial data or opinions they provide and the losses it creates.
Newspaper comment sections might be held to the same standards.
Hell, newspaper columnists might be held to the same standards. No journalist may assume a nom-de-plume in order to publish an opinion.
So much for the First Amendment.
Not a bad idea really. It would kill FB and twitter and that wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world.
Wouldn’t be a bad *idea*. Would be a bad *law*.
If they had a verification status that indicated that the subscriber was a ‘real person’ that people could trust, that might achieve something of value. You want to be Mary Stack? Go ahead, but everyone knows you’re a sock puppet.
The problem is, of course, that the Twitter verification program as it stands is simply a worthless credential that everyone knows is worthless, and nobody believes Twitter will hesitate to ban you based on whatever criteria they feel like applying, whenever they feel like it.
Wait, newspapers are regulated?
First amendment, bitches. Fuck off.
Monorail! Monorail! Monorail!
http://www.msnewsnow.com/story/37079891/lubbock-restaurant-defending-controversial-sign-some-are-calling-racist
Also, fried chicken.
Take me off to the racist reeducation camp now. I recognized the sign before I read the story.
And I’m hungry for fried chicken and pie.
Holy shit. Have you seen how much it is to rent a house-move size truck for a trip from Connecticut to Lubbock?
Government is just the name for all the people we (forcibly) move together.
“CBC Caves to Pressure From SJWs, Pulls Documentary on Transgender Kids”
https://www.dangerous.com/38918/cbc-caves-pressure-sjws-pulls-documentary-transgender-kids/
Of course they did.
“It is possible that kids who have a tendency to get obsessed or fixated on something may latch on to gender.”
Gee, I wonder why that might be?
I can’t walk through the office, a restaurant, or a grocery store without seeing boobs.
Boobpocalypse.
Boobpression.
And I thank God for it every day.
For whatever reason, I’m currently watching the ‘Celebration Bowl’ on one of the ESPN networks. It features two Historic Black Colleges (HBCs) Grambling St & NC A&T ‘celebrating’, I suppose, the historic blackness of their football programs and/or schools or some such. Sorta interestingly, the game’s play-by-play announcer is a white guy with the color commentary (snicker) provided by a historically black person (HBP).
Having watched this for the greater part of an hour by now, I’m somewhat distressed to report that the PC/SJW crowd is having a larger effect on me than I’d realized. I’m finding myself hanging on & analyzing every word out of the white guy’s mouth for examples of ‘whitesplaining’ or something similar. More than once, I’ve more or less willed him to cease speaking when it involves something other than describing the on-field action.
Yeah this is all in my own head & I should stop overthinking it & just watch the game, yadda yadda. I bet, however, that i’m not the only one of the (500 or so) folks actually watching this thing thinking the same thing.
Happy Saturday, folks.
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Big fan of Denise Milani (column 1, 5th down), but that’s not one of her better pics.