I’ll admit to wasting most of yesterday because it’s now reached the part of the NFL season where the entire weekend is wall to wall. Lions-Bears was a classic stinker, but we drank watched it anyway. KC-San Diego was a blowout, but since SP and I are both fans of Alex Smith, we drank enjoyed the spectacle anyway. Every now and then, we’d read each other funny comments from yesterday’s posts, and I’d find news stories that made her go, “WHAAAAAAAT?” We have a drunken happy marriage.
Net Neutrality was last week’s WORLD GONNA END outrage. If you’re still talking about it, you’re not one of the cool kids. To be cool, you have to be talking about TODAY’S outrage, ZOMG THERE’S FORBIDDEN WORDS AT CDC! Of course, as I pointed out yesterday, this only related to budget documents, but isn’t the outrage much sweeter if you can pretend that SERIOUS SCIENTISTS ARE BEING MUZZLED? “Keep political catch-phrases out of budget docs” isn’t nearly as deliciously disastrous-sounding, so make sure that little fact is either not mentioned or buried deep in the news story.
Speaking of outrage, I nominate this as Drama Queen of the Year. FIGHTING FOR HIS LIFE. LITERALLY!!!!
Here’s another shocker: the UN Security Council is about to propose another symbolic toothless resolution about the most important border dispute in the whole world, the one thing with prevents joy, love, and peace from descending on the Islamic world. And a resolution that will get vetoed anyway now that the Obamoids have departed. Can someone remind me what the UN actually does, anyway? And why we send our tax money to them? Well, no matter, here you can see the outrageous massacre of an innocent Arab after he is attacked by filthy Zionists after one of them deliberately runs into his knife. Please, please, please, can we just stay out of this shit?
SP noticed that the pregame, halftime, and postgame TV discussion panels are smaller now and populated by B and C team people. Apparently all the groping stuff has greatly depleted the supply of talking heads. One can only wish this were happening in congress. But hey, we are one step closer. See, sometimes there IS good news.
Amazing, there’s all kinds of bleating when prosecutors do end-arounds for politicos to gather illegally obtained evidence, the same way they do for us Little People.
I was forced to go on a cruise once, which I described as “checking into a crowded hotel with shitty food and expensive drinks and you can’t leave.” I think the ship was called Chicken of the Sea. Our room was infested by bedbugs and I was thoroughly bitten. I was caught trying to lash together some empty drums to improvise a raft to escape TO Cuba. But at least I avoided this.
Old Guy music time. And this is some old guys playing, the original lineup from Jethro Tull from the days when they were still playing interesting music in a British blues sort of vein, reuniting. I played in a couple bands that covered this song- while watching this, my fingers itched and I grabbed my flute to play along, discovering quickly that my muscle memory betrays me when people change the key of a familiar song. Guys, this is supposed to be in G! But still, goddamn, it’s great to see Mick wailing away on that SG.
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One can only wish this were happening in congress.
I have been reading that between 30 and 50 congresspersons will be resigning before the end of the year.
It would not surprise me at all, either, if news came out that Doug Jones is having to withdraw from the Senate before he is even seated, because he was caught on video with a dead girl AND a live boy, and Alabamans have to go through another special election.
Plus Al Franken, eventually. Right?
I actually would prefer that Franken try to stay, since ha apparently never actually rape-raped anyone.
Let the voters in Coldasoda decide to recall him if they are really upset about it.
Agreed. The whole thing is getting way out of hand. Sanity has to be restored even if it means putting up with execrable pieces of cheese like Franken.
Where are you getting this info?
Where are you getting this info?
From no one who is actually credible. I think Cernovich, maybe? But who knows what a credible source is, anymore?
My thinking isn’t that Cernovich, et al, have the scoops on these congresscritters; it is more along the lines of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s prank, where he wrote anonymous letters to his friends stating, “All is discovered. Flee”, and a certain number of them supposedly packed up and ran away. I think people in congress are so corrupt that there are any number of stories on each of them that would warrant their expulsion. It just so happens that the Leftist-Progressives, finding that their fake Russian Collusion story is going nowhere, have turned to trying to ouster Trump by the tried-and-true sexual harassment angle, and that Franken and his ilk are the sacrifices that must be made to get this new tactic to work properly.
What they don’t realize is that regular American Joes most likely see that the “Trump is a sexual harrasser” story has the same level of merit as the “Trump <3's Putin" story.
You say that like the voters had a say the first time around.
“We are short? Ok, hold on, let me check my trunk.”
“We are still short? Let me check my trunk again”
Given the chance to kicks his fraudulent ass to the curb, the voters of MN decided instead to elect him legitimately the second time. And some people wonder why others believe politicians to be irredeemably corrupt.
‘Coldasoda’ is excellent.
Shut the fuck up, Frankie.
Frankie should say relax.
***narrows gaze***
Don’t do it!
My evidence-based analysis indicates there are a vast number of people in Trump’s America who will disappear up their own assholes in the near future. It cannot happen soon enough.
Do you think this is happening over in the alternate universe where Hillary won the election?
Amazing, there’s all kinds of bleating when prosecutors do end-arounds for politicos to gather illegally obtained evidence, the same way they do for us Little People.
Yestereve, I saw some people crowing in Twitter about what scrumptious thing will be found in those emails, but if our court system works the way it has been working, then everything found in the emails will be thrown out by the judge, if the matter is brought to a trial.
And at the same time we’re not supposed to give a shit about Hillary’s emails.
I am not sure what it could be. It was the transition team…after the election. They were expected to begin dealing with furriners like all transition teams. What could they have possibly said that would amount to a crime?
What could they have possibly said that would amount to a crime?
Two words:
“President”, and “Trump”.
In that order.
“everything found in the emails will be thrown out by the judge”
And then will be leaked by Hillary fans in the FBI.
Here’s another shocker: the UN Security Council is about to propose another symbolic toothless resolution about the most important border dispute in the whole world,
The article has a Robby “To be sure”. But no Sheldon Richman blaming Israel stuff as far as I could see.
Can someone remind me what the UN actually does, anyway?
They are perpetually engaged in what was referred to in the olden times as a “circlejerk”.
And cashing checks from US taxpayers. I’d toss their asses out if it were my decision.
Evict the fuckers and turn the HQ into a Trump casino.
And- speaking of my evidence-based analysis… WHERE’S MY FUCKING RESEARCH GRANT?
Those have been put on hold until this Sexual Harrassment thing has been resolved.
Kevin Allred is the Tariq Nasheed of white people.
Everyone is literally Hitler.
https://twitter.com/tariqnasheed/status/942227357334618112
I think he a word
I still think he is an elaborate work of performance art.
That Twitter guy is um…pathetic.
Kevin Allred? Other than some moron mouthing off on Twitter who the hell is he?
Any relation to Gloria?
Academic. Or was one.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/11/21/rutgers-places-adjunct-leave-tweets-he-says-were-based-rhetoric-president-elect
http://www.kevin-allred.com/bio.html
They should have given him his walking papers when he proposed the Beyonce course, the rest is just icing on the cake.
Wow, that guy is in the running for the TDS championship trophy. I find the fact that Rutgers actually charged tuition for his course to be hilarious.
He teaches a a college course about Beyonce. But not next semester, because he is under investigation for making threats.
“and i’m pissed because this is how Nazi Germany happened. this is literally how Hitler rose to power and people feigned surprise later like “and then there was no one left to speak for me.” DUH. cuz you all ignored this shit til the last possible second.”
https://twitter.com/KevinAllred/status/941918244159541248
The number of people who know how Hitler came to power is a lot smaller than the number of people who talk about Hitler coming to power.
This. ^^^
““Trump is a f***ing joke,” tweeted Kevin Allred, a professor famous for teaching a course on Beyoncé. “I wish someone would just shoot him outright.”
Montclair State University had previously hired the professor, but Allred reported that the school fired him after the tweet and before he had even begun teaching.
“It’s funny cuz [sic] in my interview [Montclair State was] super excited about me being young, hip, and calling out power,” Allred said. “Guess not in practice, huh?””
dailycaller.com/2017/12/16/here-are-the-top-five-most-insane-2017-professor-tweets/
How about a reasoned argument instead? Oh, that’s right, the universities gave up on that a while ago.
“I wish someone would just shoot him outright.”
Too bad old Preet ain’t around no more. He’d be on that one like white on rice.
I doubt he ever called out Obama like that.
Do you think this is happening over in the alternate universe where Hillary won the election?
People do not disappear up their own assholes in the Rainbow Puppyverse, you fool.
It’s milk and honey, all the way down.
And anyone that says otherwise is going to a reeducation camp?
I actually would prefer that Franken try to stay, since ha apparently never actually rape-raped anyone.
Yes. I consider that to be the principled stance. If you’re going to expel people from the Senate, expel them for their demonstrated incompetence, not for being touchy assholes.
But, then we would be expelling everyone in the Senate, and…and…
Oh.
Quite.
“touchy assholes“
90’s borderline underage punk chick band?
What about for touching assholes?
I was driving down a city road this morning at about 6:20, on my way to work. It being pre dawn on a Sunday morning, there was no traffic in sight. I was traveling at a highly dangerous 42mph in a zone posted for 35. I was almost out of the zone, when I saw headlights and blue lights suddenly appear in my mirror. Officer Safety McSafetyson was swooping in to stop me.
Jesus, I get that there are speed limits for a reason. But really for a cop to be sitting on a deserted street at 6am on a Sunday morning with his radar gun out looking for speeders is kinda ridiculous. I got a lecture this morning about haw there have been several wrecks on that road recently. I quietly listened because I didn’t have time this morning to get into any bullshit, but I really wanted to tell him, nobody wrecked on this road when it’s abandoned before dawn. You’re just out here looking for people going to work so you can write them tickets and collect money for the state. Anyway. I hate getting pulled over. I have only been pulled over twice in the past 8 years. Both times it has been in that same town and by the same police department.
Pennsylvania only allows the state police to have radar guns.
And they have to keep their single radar bullet in their shirt pocket, right?
Wasn’t the legislature working on a bill to get rid of that restriction? I remember reading about it, but I don’t remember if the bill went anywhere.
Supposedly the reason for the ban is a bunch of Republican legislators thought the local police would use the radar guns to line the pockets of the municipality they worked for. Those legislators were influential and kept any attempts to change the rule down. Those guys were old, and I think have retired or died by now.
I know they talked about it,but I don’t think it went anywhere. Thankfully.
Dude, you had an interaction with one of ##them##, and you didn’t get shot?
It’s a Xmas Miracle.
It’s my white privilege that keeps me alive.
The cop did ask if I had anything illegal in the car. He suggested maybe drugs or automatic weapons. I told him that since the Hughes amendment passed in 1986 banning the sale of new machine guns, the market supply of machine guns was arbitrarily restricted. Thus arbitrary restriction in the supply has pushed machine guns out of my price range. So, no.
My father had the same trouble in a little tiny town in south louisiana. They have an obvious speed trap. He got caught in it twice, fought the tickets and won.
“you cant see the signs at night” he said.
I said “Yeah, but I have been through there a hundred times and never had a problem. Now you know where it is. Slow down and dont get caught again.”
“I cant” he said.
I lost it. He cant. Apparently his car doesnt obey his commands. He cant. I wanted to strangle him.
Until they move the signs.
The highway that leads to parents farm has a stretch that for no reason whatsoever has a 25 mph sign for about a quarter mile. When I was much younger and less risk averse, my brother and I removed that sign. When it went back up, we removed it again. After about the 4th time we took it down, they quit putting it back up. I consider that a win.
This town is a small town that happens to be situated at a turn off that a lot of people use to get to the larger town on the other side of it. Most people traveling through thus town, especially early in the morning are commuters from the surrounding area heading to work. In other words, people with money. It’s a perfect little place for cops to write tickets to people who have the money to pay them and don’t have the time to fight them.
My father drives around that town now. He wont go through there anymore.
That’s probably wise. It shouldn’t be necessary though.
It shouldn’t be of course. You are dealing with dickheads who have all of the power. Best to avoid them if you can.
There’s a small town out in the country that is known for being a speed trap. There’s a 25 mph sign where the town actually begins. My brother was some distance away from this sign when he got pulled over. The cop told him that the speed limit is 25, and my brother pointed out that the sign is not for another few blocks. The cop claimed that “the sign is there, but the 25 mph zone actually begins back there” (and pointed at some indeterminate point on the deserted country road).
Your dad is Sammy Hagar?
Badly needed laugh on a Sunday morning.
Seconded on a Sunday night.
So, did you get a ticket or a watch your speed admonition?
Both.
Yeah, 42 in a 35 is bullshit. I live in a speedtrap town but you don’t have to worry until you’re 10 mph or greater over the limit. If you’re a town resident you really have to be acting the fool to be cited.
I live near the Manassas National Battlefield, and the main North-South road going through the federal land goes from 50 mph to 35 mph. Ostensibly, this is because there are pedestrian and horse crosswalks in a few areas along the road and a whole bunch of trees blocking the view. However, locals usually keep it at 45 or 50 through the federal lands unless it’s a Saturday morning or a holiday weekend (the only time there is non-negligible pedestrian traffic). The 35 speed limit is even more ridiculous when the leaves are off the trees and you can see far enough ahead to easily come to a stop at a crossing.
Anyway, occasionally they set up a speed trap at one of the crosswalks and pick off every other driver. Nobody is going under 35, so it’s literally every second car that gets a ticket. Usually they set up at about 9:15 on a Tuesday (once the rush hour traffic clears out) and get all the poor folks who drive for a living.
Fuck ’em. All revenue from tickets should go to a traffic accident victims’ fund, rather than to the police department.
I would prefer that all revenue collected from tickets or fines be converted to paper money and burned on the courthouse lawn. I don’t want any group to have a monetary interest in having more tickets written.
*Fed Reserve chairman rubs hands together and smiles knowingly*
The only ticket I have received in the past 25 or 30 years was for rolling a stop sign in the podunk town here. It was probably 6 AM and not a car or person in sight and the cop was hiding. Some cops are dicks.
Only some?
Only some. BIL is a retired cop who was regularly chastised for not writing enough tickets. He stubbornly refused to unless the person was doing something truly stupid.
I’m not trying to make this personal, but unless your BIL regularly exposed the criminal behavior of his fellow officers, then he was part of the problem.
Ask around. Cops in the old days were different.
Here in NYC, we have the NYPD with radar guns, the Commie shit-heel mayor dropped the speed limit to 25mph and there are speed cameras going up all over the city. For extra fun, the Gov. and the Mayor are in a pissing match so the NY State Police have tripled the staff at the NYC barracks and are handing out as many traffic infractions as they can write in a day to take away a revenue stream from the Mayor.
That sounds horrible. A fight between the staties and the NYPD to see who can extract the most money from the citizens.
+8?! How dare you, latch.
I got one for +10 when leaving a small town nearby. It was 3 minutes before 2am, when the cops call it a night. I was maybe 200 yards before it goes back up to 40 from 30. He was sitting in a private driveway at the last house in town.
He even said ‘if you had waited 15 feet, I wouldn’t have done anything.”
15 feet would be 195 yards early. I was so pissed.
Lach*
+8 on an empty road! I could have killed someone.
That’s what the cop told me. There could have been kids in the road at 2am!
Sorry.
You’re just out here looking for people going to work so you can write them tickets and collect money for the state.
Don’t forget fucking up people’s day.
I got a parking ticket at work from the Popo. Between being not in a prohibited area and that the fine and the “administrative fee” to process my credit card would have doubled the violation to $80. Not much to a real ‘Murican but too much for (((me))). I got my court date and showed up. The government lawyer said the ticket was on the wrong form (moving violation v. a non-moving violation form) so I was free to go sans fine. I was happy for me, but immediately pissed off since I realized that they are mining money because most people won’t fight a parking ticket.
“Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel last week reversed seven decades of U.S. foreign policy and drew a swift rebuke from Arab and Muslim-majority countries, who warned that the move could undermine stability in the region.
What’s more, the move also threw into jeopardy future peace talks between the Israelis and Palestinians, which Trump has vowed to broker. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and other regional leaders declared after Trump’s announcement that the U.S. had essentially disqualified itself from overseeing such negotiations.”
It’s not like Trump just tweeted a sovereign nation could choose it’s own capital. The Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995 passed by the Senate (93–5) and the House (374–370) in 1995, for the purposes of initiating and funding the relocation of the Embassy of the United States in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and also called for Jerusalem to remain an undivided city and for it to be recognized as the capital of the State of Israel.
Further, those peace talks have been in jeopardy longer than Alex Trebeck.
Peace talks between the Palis and Israel. That is some funny shit.
Oh come on, any day now, the Israelis and Palestinians were going to achieve peace and embrace each other as brothers with many kind words and tears of joy. Mean old Drumpf completely derailed the peace process. It’s all his fault.
/sarcasm, but not by much
Exactly. Its a shitshow.. The usual idiots give the death worshipers money and concessions, bad concessions for Israel and their people, and shit they would never, ever, ever accept if someone tried to inflict that shit on them, only to watch the death worshipers walk away from any and all deals. And then they do it again, pretending that the problem isn’t that the fucking death worshipers want no deal and only want the extermination of the Jews and the nation of Israel.
I never understood why the Israelis would ever go along with any of this kabuki/bukkake shit foisted on them when it is all but evident that the only solution acceptable is that the blood thirsty side wants to wipe the other out, and the one that wants peace can only get it if they wipe out the blood thirsty death worshipers.
It’s not coincidental that the saying “If the Arabs laid their arms down and acknowledged the right of Israel to exist, there would be peace in the Middle East, while if the Jews laid down their arms there would be a bloodbath/massacre” rings so truthy…
“Insanity Is Doing the Same Thing Over and Over Again and Expecting Different Results” /not Albert Einstein
Doing the same thing over and over expecting different results is called practice.
The source of the quote got the house vote count wrong. There are only 435 congress critters. I’m guessing there was a strong majority in favor.
Whoops. It was (374–37).
0 and ) are the same key.
Zero sum envy
Most Americans know that the Republican tax bill will widen economic inequality by lavishing breaks on corporations and the wealthy while taking benefits away from the poor and the middle class. What many may not realize is that growing inequality helped create the bill in the first place.
As a smaller and smaller group of people cornered an ever-larger share of the nation’s wealth, so too did they gain an ever-larger share of political power. They became, in effect, kingmakers; the tax bill is a natural consequence of their long effort to bend American politics to serve their interests.
Looty McMoneybags done stole democracy. Dark money, the .01%, KOCHTOPUS, et c.
Oh, woe. Where is our Messiah?
Not taking is giving. Your money belongs to us. Pay your fair share, chump.
The sad thing is that we make fun of them for actually not just saying this shit, but believing it is so..
Who is the joke really on then? Is it on us for not realizing we are still getting fucked by a criminal class?
The idea that we shouldn’t give the State as much power, however, seems to be a non-starter.
“Most Americans”
“lavishing breaks on corporations”
They mean those evil corporations that are 80+% owned by pension funds? The ones paying the retirement checks of all of the teachers, cops, firefighters, moms and pops, and probably of the NYT editorial board? Those corporations?
Accounting isn’t the New York Times strong suit. Just look at how their business is doing.
Tax breaks don’t go into the corporation and spur growth and increase the stock price, though. They just go straight into the pocket of the CEO.
and that money can’t be given in loans to other people starting companies or anything?
David Angelo, on Twitter: “Not one of you has ever read anything written by the CDC. Caring about this story shows how easily you can be drafted into a public opinion psyop.”
Haha. I love David Angelo. I need to get back in Twitter just to read his stuff.
TEN WAYS THE POPE IS GOING TO REVOLUTIONIZE JOURNALISM
NUMBER FOUR WILL HAVE YOU SHOUTIN’ HILAYLOOYALUH!
Jesus Pope, cantcha just stick to talking about Jesus?
Actually, this is refreshing compared to his economic musings.
First comment on that NYT editorial:
Sam New York 4 minutes ago
Income tax should be abolished for asset tax. There are $250 trillion assets in US, 2% asset tax would be equal to income tax collections. Think of asset tax as association fee in a development, a fair and balanced system that doesn’t depend on definition of “income”.
DIAF, Sam.
Some people say an income tax is immoral. I say an asset/wealth tax is evil.
Asset tax with UBI = proggie wet dream
*Raises hand for stupid question*
Don’t we already have an asset tax since everything we buy is taxed?
Asset tax is a tax on ownership. It’s the progressive elimination of ownership and private property.
*cough* Property Tax *cough*
Yes
I was being a smart ass for a reply to anyone who thinks an asset tax is a good idea. How many times should a person have to pay taxes on something? In CO there is Tabor, which is a law that states any tax increase has to be approved by a ballot question and voted on by the citizens. To get around this the state legislative maggots just raise fees on everything the state touches. It is illegal under Tabor imo but nobody has took them to court yet that I am aware of.
took, taken? fuck it
Tooken, as my stepfather would say.
Better than these people who think there should be a 100% wealth tax beyond $1 billion
There should be a tax on retarded.
That government would never run out of money…
I thought that was going to be a Breitbart feed. Many of the so called populist nationalist cult would be all in on that one.
Yes they are evil, because you have to continue to poor more money to gold on to what little wealth you have it means wealth becomes something only those with high income can have.
TEN WAYS THE POPE IS GOING TO REVOLUTIONIZE JOURNALISM
Number six will Beatify you.
Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program
TW: —(((Zero Hedge)—
Every time I hear the term “dark money”, I imagine it being sung to the tune of Cher’s “Dark Lady”.
It’s an interesting video. That thing’s almost certainly a product of our tax dollars though.
while watching this, my fingers itched and I grabbed my flute to play along
I picture this as OMWC and SP’s first date.
“I’m really not prepared” LOL!
The cop did ask if I had anything illegal in the car. He suggested maybe drugs or automatic weapons.
The scumbag asshole who pulled me over in Iowa on what was a flagrant “Drugz Runnerz” fishing expedition asked me if I had a gun in the car. It took a lot of self-restraint to not reply, “Why? Do I need one?”
I figured you would reply the next time you get pulled over.
I have to go to work in a bit, what happened with the heat pump?
The EM heat is still working fine. It’s Sunday, so I can’t look into buying a new capacitor until tomorrow. I’m thinking that maybe I can get one locally, then I won’t have to wait for shipping.
Thanks again for your advice.
I’m on to you guys. You’re planning some atrocity and I’m reporting you as soon as I crack the code you’re using.
That’s baby making music right there…
WTF?
This comment was made on the Ron Burgundy post and somehow ended here?
Katharine Gregg: How to use #MeToo
NEVER! THE PATRIARCHY MUST PERSIST!
Nevertheless the Patriarchy persisted
When The Patriarchy is finally abolished, and these Warriors for Equality turn and see the horrors that The Patriarchy was defending against, I will laugh and laugh.
Letters to the Local Rag: Down With the Technocracy!
CNN: ZOMG THERE’S FORBIDDEN WORDS AT CDC!
Newsweek: Hold my beer.
“Trump’s Censorship of Science Will Kill People”
http://www.newsweek.com/trumps-censorship-science-will-kill-people-750637
Whoa whoa whoa, hold it right there, skeezicks… I thought Lefties were all about democratizing everything? I thought the Will Of The People™ was supreme in all things? Or is that just when that will happens to align with Leftist political goals?
Further to the subject: headline from a Corey Doctorow piece on BoingBoing:
“The CDC is why you and your loved ones aren’t dead. Trump just banned them from using the phrase “science-based.””
https://boingboing.net/2017/12/16/party-over-pathogens.html
Apparently Corey never heard of Edward Jenner, Dr. John Snow, Ignatz Semmelweis, Joseph Lister, Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch, Jonas Salk….
I give up.
Welp, there goes any thought I had that he wasn’t a complete idiot.
Holy fuck, he’s worse than I thought. Pure SJW bullshit.
Actually, it sounds like the CDC spends a lot of time doing bullshit “studies” on gun violence and obesity, things that are clearly outside of its original purview. What disease-curing work the CDC does do could easily be replaced (with better, cheaper, and quicker results) by the private sector if they would just ease up on the regulations.
Letters to the Local Rag: Passive Aggressive Edition
I could understand someone who is 76 not being able to use a computer.
Well, now you know.
Probably not, considering that nobody reads the “letters to the editor” section of the local newspaper.
“Well, now you know.” Reminds me of this American Cancer Society ad, which our family intensely dislikes, due to a similarly ungrateful tone that condescendingly suggests I owe here something (“I need that stuff like you don’t know, and now that your do….”).
https://www.ispot.tv/ad/wrP0/american-cancer-society-years
Suppose we created a safe place for victims and their abusers to meet on equal footing to honestly exchange their feelings.
“Confess your sins.”
“Will I be forgiven?”
“Of course not. You’ll still be burned at the stake, but if you confess your sins and repent, we won’t flay you alive , first.”
… ‘Well, we’re still going to flay you alive first, but we’ll feel really bad about it.”
The UN is also pretty good at raping and pillaging. They like to “help” poor countries.
Letters to the Local Rag: Trumpus Flāvius Caesar Vespasiānus Augustus Exxonus Edition
If there was Nat Gas under the temple Mount they would have already tapped it. I also wonder if that person has ever been within 1000 miles of either of those so called National Monuments?
In the case of Bears Ears, probably not, since it didn’t exist 18 months ago.
Oops. A year ago.
“The president’s desecration of Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments by reducing their sizes so that private companies can exploit the natural resources under them is the same as allowing Exxon to frack the Temple Mount in Jerusalem to recover natural gas from the ground below.”
I’m sure this person knows how popular those decisions were in Utah. So popular that neither president dared come to Utah to make official statements when they did so.
I tell you what can drive people in the West crazy. When we are told that there is all this land that is resource rich which can’t be used to improve the economy, because easterners want a play area. Look I love nature, but 80% of Utah is owned by the Fed gov. And it’s worse for Nevada.
Yep. Most people who want land to be free from any sort of development do not live in the area that would benefit if said land was developed, or accessed, or whatever. Although some do live in the area. I recently took a job with the County and one of the commissioners spoke at my orientation. He said he thought enough people lived here now and he just wanted tourists to come and spend their money making sales tax revenue the biggest funding mechanism for the county (which it already is). Being a former carpenter that statement pissed me off. Ya, all those trades that build homes, they don’t need to make a living because some rich commissioner thinks there are enough people here and will vote no on new development proposals. No skin off his nose, he already made his money.
“”desecration “”
lol.
i think these sorts of things demonstrate how the lefty-media’s softer versions of the same sort of criticisms translate directly into the most-hyperbolic versions once the argument is out in the wild.
basically, NYT will exaggerate and poo-poo by 10-20%; they’re mostly signaling “this is something we say is bad”
(never mind Trump ‘reduced them’ to the same size the were for nearly 100 years; the 2 years they spent unlarged under obama is their natural, manifest-destiny-size, but NYT will never make that argument explicitly, they’ll just obfuscate around it)
…but then the average reader will then amp that up to 200%, and be like, “HES LITERALLY STRIP MINING AND CLEAR CUTTING EVERYTHING”
Could we even hope to ease the grip of patriarchy
The patriarchy’s viselike grip on your pussy? will never be eased.
What these idiots dont see is us slipping back into a kind of dark ages of social norms similar to the victorian era. The victorian era didn’t give birth to itself. People began acting that way for a reason and I bet that reason is something similar to what is going on now. All of these empowered women are going to end up unemployed, buttoned up to their chins and hanging around the house waiting for their husbands to return from seeing his mistress or hookers so they can say a perfunctory goodnight and then sleep in separate beds.
All of these empowered women are going to end up unemployed, buttoned up to their chins and hanging around the house waiting for their husbands to return from seeing his mistress or hookers so they can say a perfunctory goodnight and then sleep in separate beds.
I’m going to have to rethink my positions on the matter if that’s the case.
I’ll be in my bunk..
Speaking of people disappearing up their own assholes
The story most likely would have resonated with young women regardless. But in this particular moment of cultural reckoning, it gets at a crucial nuance that seems to have long been missing from the conversation around sexual harassment and assault: that consent isn’t always black and white.
Sometimes “yes” means “no,” simply because it is easier to go through with it than explain our way out of the situation. Sometimes “no” means “yes,” because you actually do want to do it, but you know you’re not supposed to lest you be labeled a slut. And if you’re a man, that “no” often means “just try harder” — because, you know, persuasion is part of the game.
It’s a long-winded exercise in navel-gazing and scab-picking, in search of a feminist definition of “consent” or some such thing. Mostly it just comes off as self-loathing.
Here’s a hint, honey; a robust notion of self ownership would go a long way toward resolving your dilemma.
“I don’t know what you mean by ‘glory’,” Alice said.
Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. “Of course you don’t- till I tell you. I meant ‘there’s a nice knock-down argument for you!’”
“But ‘glory’ doesn’t mean ‘a nice knock-down argument’,” Alice objected.
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean- neither more nor less.”
“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”
“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master-that’s all.”
Alice was too much puzzled to say anything; so after a minute Humpty Dumpty began again. “They’ve a temper some of them- particularly verbs: they’re the proudest- adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs- however, I can manage the whole lot of them! Impenetrability! That’s what I say!”
“Sometimes “yes” means “no,” simply because it is easier to go through with it than explain our way out of the situation. Sometimes “no” means “yes,” because you actually do want to do it, but you know you’re not supposed to lest you be labeled a slut. And if you’re a man, that “no” often means “just try harder” — because, you know, persuasion is part of the game.”
Who can figure that shit out? I dont want to play head games. If you are interested, let me know. Until then I will just be polite.
“a robust notion of self ownership would go a long way toward resolving your dilemma.”
No. Shit.
What I am seeing from these nonsense utterings is that the people making these arguments want us to accept these are going to play head games and be emotional and all over the fucking map, but us dudes are expected to stop pointing out they are crazy fucking ditzes when they do this shit.
No Means No https://youtu.be/xrtjTe9ktaE
The scary thing is that people want to make it law.
“When Restating the Law Can Become Empowering the Sex Police
The ALI will vote at its convention this coming week on whether to adopt a model penal code that would make “affirmative consent” when it come to sexual relations its official policy. Affirmative consent — or “yes means yes” — policies have already been adopted by many colleges and universities, and have become law in California and New York.
A letter signed by some 120 ALI members says the group should vote down the changes as a vast expansion of the definition of sexual assault in the legal system.
“The prosecutor need only say, ‘Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury, under the State’s definition, it does not matter whether the complainant actually was willing,’” the ALI members wrote. “It is undisputed that the sex act occurred and there is no evidence in the record that the complainant communicated willingness. There is no consent if the complainant has not communicated willingness. You must convict if you find that the defendant recklessly disregarded that absence of consent.””
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/435412/little-known-powerful-american-law-institute
I learned this earlier in the week. Total eye roll type of situation. The female character was probably mesmerized by the old fat guy’s salami nipples, that’s why she fucks him even though he’s like totally gross and some junk.
When consent is not consent but might kinda be consent. Until the fat old guy calls you a slut.
But what about when “yes” isn’t really an enthusiastic affirmative — or an affirmative at all?
The reality is that no matter how many sexual harassment training programs we enroll in, or how much activists extol the virtues of consent, we are missing something deeper: Our idea of what we want — of our own desire — is linked to what we think we’re supposed to want, with what society tells us we should want. And most of what society tells us — when it comes to women and sex, anyway — is wrapped in dangerously outdated gender norms.
“Women have been taught, by every cultural force imaginable, that we must be ‘nice’ and ‘quiet’ and ‘polite.’ That we must protect others’ feelings before our own. That we are there for others’ pleasure,” said Rachel Simmons, the author of a number of books on girls, including a new one, “Enough as She Is.”
Indeed, women and men learn early that playing hard to get is what’s appealing, and part of that chase is saying “no” — and then ultimately relenting.
Whatever.
That has not been the case for several decades, and in fact, it seems to be the opposite nowadays. I was born in ’87, and as far back as I can remember, virtually every piece of media has featured female ass-kicking characters even if it doesn’t make sense (e.g. a 90-pound woman beating up some 250-pound special forces man). Men are portrayed as one of two things: 1) a bumbling idiot who is saved from self-destruction by his wise and level-headed female companion, or 2) someone who is being useful to women.
These people think we still live in Victorian England (which was still not without feminist expressions).
“An MSNBC spokesman confirmed Saturday the company made a separation-related payment to one of Chris Matthews employees after the woman complained about sexual harassment.
Two sources familiar with the situation told The Daily Caller that Matthews paid $40,000 to settle with an assistant producer on his show, “Hardball with Chris Matthews,” in 1999 after she accused him of harassment. An MSNBC spokesperson contested that claim to the Caller, saying the company instead paid significantly less as part of a severance package.
The woman complained to CNBC executives about Matthews making inappropriate comments and jokes about her while in the company of others.”
http://dailycaller.com/2017/12/16/nbc-made-payment-to-staffer-after-sexual-harassment-claim-against-chris-matthews/
“A liberal editor who bashed the GOP just got fired for alleged sexual harassment, according to a Friday report.
Stephen Henderson, the managing director of opinion and commentary at The Detroit Free Press and a Pulitzer Prize Winner, was fired for alleged sexual misconduct, the outlet reported. Henderson is accused of sexual harassment to women over the years following the results of an internal investigation.”
http://dailycaller.com/2017/12/16/editor-who-bashed-the-gop-just-got-fired-for-alleged-sexual-harassment/
Projection baby..
That’s what these new puritans are all about.
That’s some fine pro-government ass kissing, Lou.
That is some great trolling from Donald. Is there any more tiresome weasel-word than “vulnerable”?
YouTube removed this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFhT6H6pRWg
“Then, as the left often does with content that offends them, they started a campaign to strip the video from the internet.
That happened to us, without warning, on YouTube Friday morning.
Our Pai video was removed because of a copyright claim for … wait for it … “The Harlem Shake.””
http://dailycaller.com/2017/12/15/google-is-using-its-immense-power-to-censor-content-that-doesnt-fit-its-political-goals/
Does an uneven application of terms and conditions give the other party contractual recourse?
Your dad is Sammy Hagar?
*outright, prolonged laughter*
“Shut Up Taylor Swift, Everybody Hated 2017
2017 was not a good year. In the last twelve months, the United States has been plagued by hurricanes, wildfire, gunfire, and a group of meglomaniacs hellbent on dismantling social safety nets so they can get tax breaks on their private jets. Billionaires destroyed media companies. Ice shelves cracked. Tom Petty died. The Great British Bake Off imploded. But it appears Taylor Swift had a super swell time while the rest of us suffered nightly panic attacks, thanks very much, and she couldn’t have asked for a better year!
Swift posted about her wonderful 2017 on Instagram on Wednesday, just a few days after playing a show in London. “I love you guys so much,” she wrote. “I couldn’t have asked for a better year, all thanks to you.” In all fairness, it was her birthday, but on my birthday I blacked out and cried and Taylor should have, too.”
https://jezebel.com/shut-up-taylor-swift-everybody-hated-2017-1821312021
TW: Jezebel
“but on my birthday I blacked out and cried and Taylor should have, too.”
Everyone needs to be a miserable bitch like me.
Who was that insists this is really a parody site? What kind of human being can be that unselfaware? A goldfish, yes, that I could believe, but a person?
I’m with Taylor. 2017 kicked ass.
Suck it, proggies!
Yep, agreed! New job, new child, new house, more prog tears than I could ever imagine, Glibertarians, and the MSM is finally getting their comeuppance. Hopefully 2018 is at least half as good as 2017!
Agreed. I’ve had a pretty good year. I got a lot of things done around my place. I paid some major assets off. Made quite a bit of money. Won a fight with a local PD. Spent good time with my family. All in all, 2017 was one of the better years I’ve had.
I spent the year building a plant; it’s almost ready to go. A hundred people will be employed. An abandoned eyesore will be a thriving player in a technical industry that is almost impervious to imports.
My mom says she was too busy changing diapers and mowing the yard during VietNam to march over to the dean’s office and sit in….most folks are. Most of us are sowing and reaping, building…..designing the future. Her generation was suffering through a pointless, intractable war to defend a place no one she knew could even find on a globe.
In fairness to her, Swift’s moaning will still probably create more wealth than I will next year.
She’s prettier than you, Don.
What kind of product will your plant be making?
It’s a Bubblegum Factory https://youtu.be/NKr7yMw5IXU
Ha! i knew it was RK!
You’re on a roll today, E!
I don’t really want to talk about the technology.
But the business model is this: take a technology that
* will be needed for the next century by many stable companies across many industries
* is difficult to understand…..even its basic science are the very classes everyone flunked in college
* that is extremely dangerous, hard/expensive to tool up, and deeply regulated;
then find a few pros with the right client contacts to cover the various management and engineering functions and buy a brown field situated in the center of the country (economically) within a few miles of both N/S and E/W interstates.
Our first client process goes online first quarter; we’ll break even the first year.
Sexbots then.
Whoopee!
Not regulated – yet.
psssst: “deeply regulated”
Which I don’t mind as a practical matter: if the market had full knowledge, we’d be pressured by social stigma and other competitive pressures to be good neighbors. It’s a petit sort of crony capitalism to know the law, know how and where to file the forms, and to understand the engineering needed to comply, but it’s nothing that any guy with google/theCFR and twenty years’ experience can’t do.
For that matter, I ride the rocket every day; I don’t want to blow myself up; that ass I save might be my own: keeping all the parts oiled is really just enlightened self-interest.
Please tell me it’s personal jet packs.
Noooo. It is obviously a fossil fuel based product recycling plant. ie.. used and discarded dildos.
Disposing of human corpses with huge microwave ovens?
These people are so miserable, nothing could happen to make them happy. Every year is equally miserable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-81WdyD-8Ro
Their deaths would make me happy, does that count for nothing?
My 401k grew by a bit over 18% from 12/1/16 to 12/1/17. By contrast, the average rate of return on a 401k in 2015 was … 0.4%. 2017 ruled.
I hadn’t looked at mine in awhile. I checked after reading your comment. Holey smokes! 25.08% this year.
*prolonged, hearty laughter*
This year’s narcissist in chief is a boot. I wanted the narcissist with the vag to win. 🙁
*boor
I listen to a ton of CSPAN history lectures. Gross generalization: As a Southerner, I’m steeped in the lore of a certain half decade (I noticed during 20 years in the automotive industry that if the graves aren’t in your back yard, folk tend to forget history or never even learn). Anyway, I will listen to just about any lecture on any topic.
Except Custer. Wars are interesting; economics is fascinating. But arrogant bastards ripping around the wild west in an area where they’re greatly outnumbered but enjoying a lovely dose of genocide at the expense of some stone age drifters is boring; those same bastards making a few tactical mistakes and then getting set on fire was bound to happen a time or two in a half century of otherwise unpunctuated success.
I can listen to Civil War stuff endlessly. But who cares how Custer could have been saved….if only this…if only that. F’em; forget him.
There is something to that. I find the Civil War to be a snooze fest. On the other hand, I am fascinated by the Revolutionary War. Living on Gen. John Stark’s farmland has something to do with that.
Our Revolution was amazing stuff: reading through the Enlightenment, colonists acting out and not paying taxes, burning shit, shooting guys who wear red….a giggle a minute….what’s not to love.
But it’s all the same, really, in history; I think I learned this somewhere between Heller and Vonnegut. Bureaucracy, incompetence, good intentions, weather, randomness, technology, logistics. I learned that history matters while sitting on a canon next to a slit-trench gravesite eating my tunafish lunch on Sunday after church…..deep in the South: what if Buell hadn’t crossed the river that night while we had Sherman and Grant cornered because, luckily, a simple plan and order was misunderstood and poorly implemented and we swept the field anyway……
Which is not one whit different from Cornwallis or Tony de Santa Anna getting surrounded or Jackson’s turkey-shoot in New Orleans or Nappy and Adolf bogging down in Russia. This is all war stuff, but I see the same patterns repeatedly.
Even at work I’ve known something wouldn’t work in that don’t-ever-get-involved-in-an-Asian-land-war sort of way, but I couldn’t save them; they wouldn’t listen. The battles had to be fault; the bankruptcies had to be filed.
It’s all a snooze fest; it’s all a train wreck I can’t take my eyes off of.
Indeed, technology has advanced, but the human limbic system has not. The same cognitive biases lead to systematic error that is predictable once you understand just how a particular bias skews our perception of a certain situation and its context. Dan Ariely calls this “predictable irrationality“.
Exactly.
I’ve moved on: engineering is easy and straightforward; people are the variable. From materials and dynamics and statistics, I’ve long-since moved on to perception, cognition, planning, communication; Deming seems trivial compared to Kahneman and Tversky: oh the lies we tell ourselves, how we can’t see the very things before our eyes, how we bypass and misinform each other.
All’s a hopeless shitshow; I content myself by outwitting traffic, building equipment that works perfectly, and shining my shoes. I don’t even trust the girl on the speaker to push the right button for BigMac anymore. I don’t even have anyone to have an intelligent conversation about this with…..so I’m here, drinking coffee, listening to CSPAN, hitting refresh every two minutes, and trying to figure out what to get my parents for Christmas.
I confess, i have never understood the appeal of Jethro Tull.
that said, i have also never understood the appeal of Mattress Girl, but national review wrote an few paragraphs about her latest hijinks:
Sugarfree seems to be an unacknowledged influence.
That’s good stuff. Maybe she can protest capitalism by burning all the money she has made from her attention whoring.
Oh, that was written back in May. No idea what Jethro Tull has to with it.
“that was written back in May”
(looks)
so it was. funny, it was in the 5 highlighted stories they sent out in an email today.
This might help you understand.
LOL!
Don’t ever change.
There are some freaky fucking people, man..
Perhaps she’ll draw attention to inequality by turning up in a gallery wearing a costume made of dollar bills and having a snickering fellow done up like the Monopoly Man peel them off her.
I was hoping Matthew Lesko would be the pervert.
So who makes good Windows laptops? I haven’t had one for years, but i’m considering getting one for the kid – something he can take to nerd school. i7, 16G ram, decent graphics card, etc.
Thoughts?
I’ve been happy with the Lenovo’s I’ve had over the years, but they tend to be pricey. My next laptop will have an aluminum frame.
Pricy is relative. I have a fucking Mac.
Why Al?
Durability. My current laptop is having some hardware issues that aren’t entirely unrelated to the use and abuse I’ve put it through over the last 4-5 years. I’m not stupid with my laptop, but I also don’t want to have to treat it like it’s fragile.
I liked my MacBook Pro I was issued at work back in 2013. Apple’s hardware is good! Thankfully, I was remoted into Linux servers all day so I didn’t really have to mess with the abomination that is iOS. I’ve never really had the interest in owning a Mac for personal use, though.
I didn’t really have to mess with the abomination that is iOS
*gasp* take that back.
I am not a computer geek so I like mac because you turn it on and things work. Unlike the years I messed with windows machines. I find a mac to be more user friendly for us normies.
What you’re interacting really isn’t IoS. Underneath that cutesy and ‘friendly’ GUI is a snarling, herpes-infected mustelid.
I had a friend in college with a Mac, and he was so proud that it was “unbreakable.” He challenged me, the resident computer guy, to break his Mac. It took me about 10 seconds to knock him down a notch.
I full-screened the terminal and typed “cat /dev/random”. That was enough to freak him out. It really helped that the Macbooks at the time were underpowered, so the strain of keeping up with the stream of output slowed down the computer’s response time to inputs.
Mac OSs have horrible leakages. There is a reason Apples stopped building servers, and the most important one is that while they used to make fun of the Windows people telling you to just reboot to solve your problem, Macs require frequent reboots before they turn into bricks/anchors.
My uptime is currently 25 days and 13 hours. Other than certain updates (much, much rarer than Windows) I think I’ve “had” to reboot a Mac maybe twice in the last five years.
You must not use that thing a lot then man, cause the ones I have to deal with at work, and they are all top end units, end up needing a reboot on average every 2 days.
As many developers say. Windows machines are like high end motorcycles. They can let you drive real fast and dangerous, but if you fuck up you are going to get hurt or killed. Mac devices are like tricycles: you are restricted in what you can do precisely because they want to make sure you don’t fuck things up.
Note that I love Unix systems and use them just as much as I use Windows devices, just don’t like what Apple did to their machines. These devices are built for rubes that have no clue about computers. I guess there is a market for that.
These devices are built for rubes that have no clue about computers.
Or rubes like me who don’t need them for much more than surfing, email, spreadsheets and interface to my online accounting software. MacBook Air is perfect for that (and especially travel).
I would go bananas Tundra having to work on a computer that limits what I can do, but you do make a valid point that not everybody has the same needs/wants as me. We are lucky that Bernie has not pointed out that like nobody needs 23 brands of deodorant, nobody needs so many different brands/types of computers.
Way back when, we would intentionally break our windows machines just to learn how to fix them, good times
The one scenario where Bastiat was wrong.
not everybody has the same needs/wants as me
Exactly. I am a rube like Tundra as well. I could not give one flying fuck what herpes infested mongoose lives under the hood. Also, back when I had to do presentations and the like, Mac’s Keynote is so far superior to Power Point they are not even in the same realm. I also found navigation software that was more user friendly and combined with AIS transponders it took me five minutes to teach a watch stander on an offshore job to keep track of our anchored boats. These are guys with about a 4th grade education and you do not want them to be able to get into the OS at all. And they will try. I also understand for the music types Macs have some way cool stuff but I don’t have a musical bone in my body.
i used a macbook as my road computer for 4 years. the thing that continually drove me insane was the shitty implementation of Excel for mac. They might have improved it since 2012, but the version i had 2006-2010 or so was almost unusable for anyone doing anything more than the most basic stuff.
it was like 80% of the quick-keys and right-clicking options were simply ‘gone’, and much of the core-functionality of the advanced features was changed/handicapped in odd ways that made swapping complex workbooks between machines a constant nightmare. shit just didn’t work right.
I get it, Alex, but I’ve been fucking around with computers since Tandy and just don’t care anymore! I like just firing the fucker up, visiting Glibs and taking care of business.
Oh, and Spotify!
Perhaps you’re referring to iOS.
MacOS is not “restricted” unless you choose to make it so (just like Windows). And you can do all the Unixy stuff you want, since it is Unix.
Geez you guys are buzz kills. And I had to look up mustelid.
I’ve always associated mustelid with musk in my head, so I know it’s some kind of furry woodland creature. I believe ferrets, mongoose and the like?
*goes to google for the answer*
If I’d said wolverine, y’all wouldn’t have had to do any work at all!
Nah, Mac is fine for general purpose interactive desktop use, but as I said, it’s the GUI that you’re giving your devotion to, and the Apple GUI is nice.
But as one of my great-aunts would put it “fur coat, no knickers”.
I’ve always got mine from HP. They’re ok.
I’ve been using a Toshiba laptop as my only computer for 3 1/2 years now. No complaints.
After a string of Toshibas, I just gave up on the cheap components: the case and keys got so flimsy they’d barely make two years (speaking of five machines, none of which ever went on the road).
So I went Dell this last time: appears equally flimsy and too new to tell. That said, my work Dell has held up physically well; all the bugs are probably because of anti-virus and underfunded IT support.
Last true road warrior I had was a Lenovo, but I think that employer paid top dollar for the NATO, full auto magnum with folding stock version….something I don’t do at home: I pay $400 and just throw them away every two years.
How about an iPad?
DOA 2+2 https://youtu.be/mkWkjNcU-Kc
Wow. Haven’t heard that in awhile! Thank you!
I got an Acer a year ago. Lots of bang for the buck. Metal frame, big screen. No complaints about performance.
I have not personally bought from them, but a coworker recommended Aorus.
I can recommend Asus or HP Envy.
Thanks, y’all!
I’m 100% Mac, but use a Dell Latitude E7470 (client-provided) and the start-up is rapid, durability reasonable.
FWIW, I’m aligned with Gilmore regarding Mac’s and Excel.
“Media outlets sue for access to Las Vegas shooting search warrants”
nbc4i.com/2017/12/13/media-organizations-sue-for-access-to-las-vegas-shooting-search-warrants/
It snowed all day, yesterday (probably close to a foot), and then the wind kicked up last night. I wonder how bad the drifts are on the way down the hill.
This inspires me to offer up my Snow Tire Review: General Altimax Arctic. I now have them on all four corners of the Honda. The other day, there was heavy, thick freezing fog in Bozeman, and the road was icy. Those tires were great. Even when I tried to break them loose, they had good traction, cornering, accelerating and braking. So there. The snow is too deep to drive it today, so no fresh snow performance report.
I also drove it in the rain, and those tires do an excellent job of squeegeeing the water away.
It got foggy here on Thursday afternoon between about 3:30-4:30. https://youtu.be/1Z9iUdiS3hI
I still put Michelins on my 17 year old Expedition. They aren’t too pricey if you get them at Sam’s, and Sam’s then services them for free if you get a nail puncture from a construction site or some such thing.
I grew up in a Goodyear town and learned a ton about tires from our Yankee overlords.
I learned to buy Michelin. The durability is unmatched, they’re quiet, and they perform in anything. I throw my G35 around like a teenager and can’t wear those out. I keep a Chevy HD crewcab that’s dragged tons of equipment through every wash and canyon and over every ridge, rock, and mesa I could find between Beaumont and Boise; I’ve never been stuck; I’ve never been let down.
$1000 is chicken scratch for good equipment; I only get 50k out of mine, but normal people get 60k. I see no upside in further experiments with tire vendors.
I’ve had good luck with these for snow.
https://www.goodyear.com/en-US/tires/wrangler-duratrac
I’ve had sister version of those, the SilentArmor, on my truck for the last 13 years. 230,000miles and the third set later, still going great. Snow is usually a couple days one to three days every 2-3 out of 4 years, but did have one year where I left it in 4WD for a week and chains for several days. I’d buy another set in a heartbeat.
The wife’s VW has had Nokkian WR2’s but she thought they were too noisy so put Michelins back on. No problems with either one.
That’s something I meant to bring up the other day when we were discussing Southerners and their ability to drive in the snow. It’s not that somehow they’re genetically predisposed to become shitty drivers when the ambient temperature falls below 40 F, but how many of them have even all-season tires on their cars, much less winter tires? Though they aren’t as sexy as engines, exhausts, etc., tires are hands-down the most important piece of kit for your car. Everything else, power, handling, fuel economy, etc. depend on the quality of your tires.
Nobody buys winter tires around here. I don’t have any on my vehicles. It snows enough to matter about once every two years here. I’m not even sure if tire shops stock winter tires.
Exactly, because why would you?
, tires are hands-down the most important piece of kit for your car.\
Yes.
I have a rear-wheel drive car. I use Nokian Hakkapeliitta tires in the winter. I’ve had no problems with getting around in the snow as long as the snow isn’t too deep for my car. The few times I’ve slid, it was easy to regain control. I’ve used X-Ice, all-seasons, and studded tires in the past during the winter, all with rear-wheel drive cars. X-Ice was better than all-seasons, studded better than X-Ice, and the Nokian non-studded Hakkapelittas rival the studded tires for traction in snow and ice, and are better on bare pavement.
I’ve bombed around in Michigan in a RWD BMW 325i – completely horrible in the winter time on all-season tires. But once I put on a set of Blizzaks, I never got stuck. And it’s not just the traction, you AWD oweners, it’s the braking and the handling that will save you when you’re driving in the slippery stuff.
Southerner is my least favorite collective….because I’m so guilty.
At the risk of further generalizations, I’ll just recall from my two decades in automotive that some governors have snowplows, some don’t. I never missed a day of work at my offices across Detroit, but lots of seasoned Yanks just couldn’t make it in to the office for some reason.
Whereas, when I was a teen in the middle South, we could never dream of salt or plows. It snowed, it iced (I could drive from my highschool to Illinois in 60 minutes) where I was, but it stayed….on the ground….for weeks. No one was coming: you and your beany weanies were on your own. Work closed; schools closed.
And we went deer hunting…where there were no roads…and we drove down the icy roads past our schools and our jobs to do so.
So folks can manage whatever they set their minds too.
But yeah, even in that town where everyone worked at the tire factory, most of the goobers on the road had crap tires.
I spent the year building a plant; it’s almost ready to go. A hundred people will be employed. An abandoned eyesore will be a thriving player in a technical industry that is almost impervious to imports.
NICE.
“Just Say ‘Yes’ to Prosperity”
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/454718/walmart-prosperity-freedom
Nobody in Washington understands what it takes to make an iPhone or a pound of upland cotton, but they do know how to get in the way, how to hold up one hand and say “No!” while holding out the other hand and saying “Pay!”
They’re gangsters. They know how to run shakedowns. That’s it.
Sunday morning boobies.
http://archive.is/dYoMD
Don’t forget to vote on best rack of 2017, if you haven’t already! Link on last night’s links.
And if you don’t vote for the asian chic in the pool you are a loozer. (I am her campaign manager for the contest)
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I’m sold!
I like 30 today. She looks smart.
28 – Holy creepy insane woman batman
36 Tits and guns ftw
27 is a solid Columbus “9”; go Bucks!
41 is pretty much my type. Not too much makeup. Smiling. Cute. Rippin’ set.
Orgy.
#13 looked familiar but I couldn’t quite put my finger on her name. I ran her picture through Google image search. The first hit? Workweek and weekend.
I haven’t voted on the best rack because I can’t vote for all of them.
Hot asian chic in the pool or GTFO
*This ad was approved by the hot asian chic in the pool.
Erroneous.
Beautiful woman in white dress is clearly 2017’s best in class.
Disqualifiers for me:
Silicone
Tats
Duckface and/or weird selfie head-tilt
Heavy makeup
So my vote: none of the above.
Not double-digit age?
Ten is OK.
“Maureen Dowd Praises #MeToo—After Years of Slut-Shaming Monica Lewinsky
This Sunday, The New York Times’ saucy city aunt Maureen Dowd wrote on the #MeToo movement’s effect on Capitol Hill, offering tepid encouragement and optimism for the women who are finally stepping forward.
“There is rough justice in this initial barrage of j’accuses, before people work out a hierarchy of sins and due process,” Dowd writes sagely. “That may stem from the decades when so many women accusers—from Anita Hill to Bill Clinton’s inamorata and prey—were treated as collateral damage, smeared and pushed aside so that the careers of powerful men could be preserved.”
That anybody who was a working opinion writer in the 1990s would passivize the abuse hurled at women who accused Bill Clinton of misconduct is obtuse. That Maureen Dowd of all people would do it is downright brazen. Bill Clinton’s “inamorata and prey” weren’t “treated as collateral damage, smeared and pushed aside” by an invisible assailant. They were abused by a complicit news media, of which Dowd was a gleeful participant.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/maureen-dowd-praises-metooafter-years-of-slut-shaming-monica-lewinsky
Irony alert. Logic, reason, and consistency never gets in the way of these people’s projecting. It’s not accidental that the left has spent years trying to convince people that the truth is subjective…
the left
has spent yearswas founded on the premise that trying to convince people that the truth is subjective would gain them total powerSitting in the back of a black sedan, Jeeves at the wheel, riding to the airport for the final business trip of the year.
I will have to drive at about 5 pm. Thinking I can have a bloody Mary or two this morning and be fine by then.
Last business trip of the year! Whoo hoo!
I like to think of it as “brunch, light on the food”
^ this guy gets it. Food just ruins the gains achieved when having a liquid brunch.
Also, 5 pm is like 8 hours away so you are good for at least 8 bloody Marys.
I opted for a Tanq and tonic, but the elaborate bloody Mary the bartender just whipped up for someone else looked like a meal in itself.
Boarding is in 25 minutes so I might just finish the T&T and then hold out for the freebies in first class for the duration. Yay, upgrades!
I believe celery and carrot garnish allows the bloody mary to technically qualify as ‘wet food’.
Wet food. Yes. I ask for extra garnish when the bartender goes with pickled asparagus, and or pickled green beans,
Tundra, you need to get over there and sort these people out.
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10278
My alma mater, comrade!
A uniform grey, sad existence. Forward!
No comment on whatever colors are used for Festivus or Kwanzaa.
Fucking racists.
Gee, I wonder who would have a problem with both Christmas and Hanukkah?
Hindus?
No, they liked Hanukkah so much they plagiarized it.
Looks fun. There is a beautiful temple down the road. I’ll try to wrangle an invite for next year!
An Indian friend invited me to Diwali back in college. It was a crazy, great time. Music, food, skits, costumes, lights. At the end, one student suggested we close with the American national anthem, but nobody knew how to start it so I stepped up and led. Those were good people, the immigrants we want and need.
Agreed.
Laveyan Satanists?
But Kwanza is ok right?
If this #metoo bullshit takes out Chris Matthews, it will all be worth it.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/12/16/nbc-made-payment-to-staffer-after-sexual-harassment-claim-against-chris-matthews/
I have a boner just thinking about it.
+1 tingle up the leg
There is just not enough popcorn in the world, is there?
A woman?
^ #32
So is anyone going to answer that guy’s question? Is Joe Flacco an ELITE quarterback?
He’s getting paid like one, so yes. He’s elite.
If he does another stretch run like 2012, yes.
“‘I will eat mum on Christmas day’: Grieving daughter to sprinkle mother’s ashes on turkey and pudding dinner”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/i-eat-mum-christmas-day-11706456
Once you hop on the useful idiot train no idiocy is too far. England is et up with em worse than we are.
Chortle
I’m sorry, I just can’t help it. I imagined that being read in a British accent.
Keith Richards would like a word.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/apr/04/drugsandalcohol.musicnews
Stefihoopolus is on, braying about how the tax bill will fuck over any- and everybody whose net worth is less than 50 billion dollars. Also, “This bill is incredibly unpopular.” No kidding? A full court press from the MSM about how those evul Rethuglitards are stealing from the poorz to give to the rich, and people don’t know what the effect of the new rules will be?
I haz a surprize.
WHAT THE FUCK??????!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
When you’ve lost the Mulatto…
Once you go half-black?
“5 Gender-Neutral Alternatives to ‘Boyfriend’ and ‘Girlfriend’
5. Goyfriend
If I’m not mistaken, “goyfriend” is a mash-up of the words “girlfriend” and “boyfriend.” ”
https://everydayfeminism.com/2013/12/gender-neutral-alternatives/
TW: oy gevalt, no mas, Jane get me off this crazy thing!
I swear, 2/3 of the traffic to that site must be from Glibs.
It would be tragic if they went under and we lost such a treasure trove of derp.
No matter how sad I am, one visit and I am rolling on the floor busting a gut laughing.
Goyfriend, the new, friendlier alternative to “shiksa”.
A friend of mine used to introduce me as her ‘goy toy’.
Because words are magic.
“Goyfriend”
story of my life
Saw a commercial this morning for tonight’s 60 minutes. They have a member of a white separatist group they say is responsible for more violence in America then Islamic terrorist. I’m sure he’s quite the douchebag but really? They’ve killed over 3000 people? Fake news.
They probably mean more acts of violence. Who cares that Islamic terrorism kills more per instance than other terrorists
I’m guessing that most of the violence committed by white supremecists happens inside prison walls.
Another interview with Bill Ayers?
Yawn.
The cops?
Well that was out of the blue – but no surprise. My wife got a call from her mother this AM. Her 79yo dad reported “stomach pains”. Ambulance was called but by the time they got there, it was too late. Unable to resuscitate. The poor guy has been suffering heart problems all his life – triple bypass surgery at age 42! – but this last one was too much for him.
Honestly I’m surprised he lasted as long as he did – past few years have been one thing after another, heart-wise. But lately it seemed like he was getting stronger, doing PT and whatnot.
Sorry, LH. Please pass along my condolences to your wife and MIL.
I’m sorry.
Sorry to hear about that. I know what that’s like. One minute there, the next minute not. Sounds like aortic rupture. From what I understand, unless you’re already in the ER when it happens, you’re probably going to bleed so quickly that you won’t make it to the hospital.
Condolences, man.
That sucks. Sorry to hear it.
Sorry for your loss, LH. While this doesn’t make your loss right, I often remind people that going quick is sometimes a blessing. My dad took a year to pass away and knew nobody, had lost every ounce of dignity, and suffered horribly because of Alzheimers. After watching a strong independent and self sufficient man turned into a weak baby, I hope I get hit by a beer truck and die on the spot when it my turn to go.
Yeah when I’m going to go, I would like it to happen like this – quick!
Better that way. Earlier this year my best friend died in the hospital from a massive heart attack. Over in a matter of seconds.
My sympathy for your loss.
Ditto.
My mom had dementia and thankfully died of a heart attack before becoming a complete vegetable.
Thanks, everyone. He was an eccentric man, to say the least. From the Michigan UP, and still very, very FInnish in outlook/humor. A real “character” in the old-fashioned sense of the term.
Awww, sorry, sounds like someone I’d have really liked, too.
Sorry to hear it. This will make for a tough Christmas.
Remember the good times, and hug a lot.
Sorry 🙁
Condolences LH. That sucks.
Sincerest condolences. 🙁
I am sorry to hear that LH. Condolences
Damn. RIP
Condolences.
Condolences LH. Even if not totally unexpected it hits hard. My parents are getting up there and have had some scary moments but I don’t even want to think about it
Horrible news – condolences to you and yours.
Sorry for your loss.
I’m sorry LH.
Of course it’s because they’re not progging hard enough…
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/brown-women-democratic-party_us_5a31a32de4b07ff75b001456
Heh heh. These people just can’t help but show how stupid they are.
That was a depressing read. So much focus on identity.
Not a creepy zealot at all, no sir.
Lol ok whatever.
“I realize now that the love has been one-sided, unrequited. You’ve never recognized me, as a brown woman. You’ve taken my love, my money, my tokenism, with nary anything in return. You married the white woman and hooked up with me on the side.”
Has it been 100 years already?
Whatcha wanna bet she votes D next time?
To be fair, she’s absolutely right about the Dems taking the “brown” and “black” bodies for granted.
Constant wolf-crying.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/12/on-the-left-it-is-all-hysteria-all-the-time.php
Krugabe’s on.
“WE’RE DOOOOOOMED!”
Also, jingoistic but-foreigners-will-benefit-from-tax-reform whine.
I actually had a chat with a couple of hard core lefties yesterday about their complaints about this tax plan, and after about an hour of back and forth – me with facts & logic, them with their feelings – they both finally admitted their main objection was that they seriously feared that this tax cut would end up doubling the economic boom we have seen since Trump was elected, further eroding the left’s claim Trump was a horrible president (the left absolutely needs him to fail), and more importantly, making it blatantly obvious that the SJW bullshit the left peddles is damaging to the economy and economic growth. Basically their objections come from people finding out that their envy drives their support of policies that punish success and government picking winners and losers spells economic stagnation or doom, and a desperate need to prevent Trump from having any kind of success, but doubly one that discredits Obamanomics.
They are all about power, nothing else matters. They would burn the world down if it meant they could be king of the ashes.
The. Worst. Kinds. Of. People.
You know, I wish I could say its funny that you made that comment, but I have actually had a few of them in the middle of their rage induced rant accidentally admit that they would much rather the country burn down than allow someone other than e member of their team, regardless of how bad that person was, be in charge. When I pointed out how dangerous the situation we were in was – a country where the government bureaucracy is in the pocket of one political party and willing to use any and all offices of government to deny power to anyone else, is nothing but a banana republic – they told me they could care less. Either they ra the country, and did whatever they wanted, or the country would be destroyed.
Frighting shit.
Like I said. I wasn’t trying to be funny.
The left is always and everywhere the same. Think about what that means.
Fuck bro. Nailed it. ?
LOOPHOLEZ!
“This is a NIGHTMARE Bill.”
What a preposterous notion- letting people keep more of their income, instead of taking it at gunpoint.
I also find it funny that people can’t comprehend that corporate taxes are baked into the price they pay for things. Nor do they comprehend how corporate taxes make the companies they work for here less competitive therefore providing them with less job security.
The lefties claim that the tax cuts will just go into the pockets of the big corporations. They have no clue how the market works. Even if ninety-nine out of one hundred companies would like to pocket the extra cash, the one hundredth will see it as an opportunity to increase their market share (and make more money that way). The other ninety-nine will be forced to match them or suffer.
I blame George Lucas ‘don’t think…feel’.
I have no idea who she is.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5188173/Alexis-Ren-puts-eye-popping-display-LOVE-Advent.html
Oh good Lord have mercy.
Oh C’mon. Every community college in the land has better looking girls. I really dont get the hype over celebrity types, but then I am not qualified to tell you what to like.
The thing is though, that the girls in the community colleges most likely won’t let us watch them work out in lingerie.
You need to come to my gym, then.
Location?
Do they have a bar and a viewing area?
Butt why?
She needs to stop dressing like a hobo.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5187583/Kristen-Stewart-gives-rare-peek-toned-tum-crop-top.html
More old people music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HTVMh7fur4
No Keith Moon, it’s not The Who.
THIS is The Who.
Just for you, OMWC. Some nice jingly-jangly BritPop from the early ’90s. Young People (You Turn Me On)
that sound he gets on the lead bit there is pretty much exactly why i love teles w/ humbuckers. they still keep that super-edgy fender twang on the attack, but the harshness of the top end is completely changed, and it has more body to it.
Albert Lee agreeing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-T6Dp2UAZo
I’m on the fence: twang comes at a cost, and some bites one learns to love (I don’t put sugar in my whiskey, for example).
I had an SG for years, fairly fat….but all that while I missed what I didn’t have: twang.
All this guitar talk has made me realize it’s time to change the strings on my acoustic. A little morning cocktail, some Big Drill Car, and a fresh set of Ernie Ball regular slinky’s. I got some ebony bridge pins from Amazon a couple weeks ago. It’s gonna be a good day.
Donald J Trump stole the Presidency From Hillary in order to Jedi-mind-control the Republicans into rewriting the tax code in order to reduce his personal tax burden.
That there is some major league 4D puppetmastery.
HAIL, TRUMP! BOW DOWN BEFORE HIM.
But he is also a demented Alzheimers patient with the IQ of a slug!
So I had only ever heard of that Brian Stelter guy via Twitter (because he’s an idiot and people like to reTweet his retardation). I was just flipping through my channels, and flipped past him on CNN. How did that guy ever get an on-camera job? His voice is annoying, and he looks like a penis. If anyone should stay behind a typewriter, it’s that guy. Couldn’t listen to him for more than 10 seconds.
“…he looks like a penis.”
Goddamit Kristen.
*wipes screen off*
How is the new job going?
Other than the paperwork problems & no timesheet access & no badge & no computer login, it’s pretty great. I have been “shadowing” a couple colleagues, and everything is pretty straightforward, and despite it being Drupal, the CMS is decent. It’s almost as if some thought went into its construction!
Number one issue– Are they paying you? Everything else is secondary.
Exactly…so, I have timesheet access for the sub that’s paying me, but the prime hasn’t sent me a login yet. I told the prime that my sub pays weekly, so I will need to reconcile this timesheet thing ASAP. The prime told me to track my hours “on paper” until it’s resolved. They also said they would contact the sub to let them know what was up. Since I don’t trust them, I contacted the sub myself.
Tomorrow is going to be a whole lot of dealing with this bullshit. I also have a security briefing on Tuesday that’s required for me to get my badge. But nobody has told me anything other than to attend the briefing, so I’ll need to pull some teeth to find out if I need to fill out any additional forms, etc.
Needless to say, life without a badge in a Fed building is not fun. Can’t even go outside for a smoke.
So… smoking inside is ok then, right?
unsurprisingly, he has a personality to match
he’s one of the shittiest hacks that CNN has, but he’s worse than Acosta et al because he has a triple-dose of “defender of truth”-posing-smug
i thought, in particular, when he was ‘covering’ the fact that Donna Brazile got fired from CNN after it came out she too was a shitty hack, he often acted like this was some crazy, unexpected oversight on the part of some other news-gathering institution, and not his own.
he tries to pretend he’s not actually defending CNN whenever he’s constantly defending CNN…. like, “that’s interesting, lets talk about why that point of view might be driven by….” basically, acting like he’s some objective 3rd party only interested in “good journalism” rather than a partisan hack in service of protecting his institution.
in fact its the entire point of his show; the whole ‘reliable sources’ shtick is to pretend they’re “critics of news” when what he’s really doing is desperately trying to spin the news of the week in favor of his own institution’s absurd lies.
some of his most-absurd exchanges are when he spars w/ Glenn Greenwald, who repeatedly owns him. e.g. here he is basically trying to pretend that Wikileaks didn’t expose many CNN journalists as hacks in service to Clinton campaign. Suddenly, he’s like, “isn’t it unethical to steal private emails!?” and “this could be interpreted many ways” and getting all legalistic
*does DuckDuckGo image search*
By god, he DOES look like a penis!
And why does he smile like that? His smile is simultaneously fake and creepy. Boy, the body language experts would have a field day.
My god a TW would have been welcome
OK, snowflake:
TW: CORN FEARS THIS MAN, AND YOU SHOULD TOO
He looks like a human woodchipper.
He has a smile just like Jared Fogel’s but, for some reason, even creepier.
(his inner thoughts: “want. to. strangle. kittens.”)
Ouch.
I thought you liked penis.
Eek.
http://ktla.com/2017/12/15/woman-mauled-to-death-by-her-dogs-while-taking-them-for-a-walk/
Animals be animals, brah..
We need sensible dog control.
Lot of unanswered questions in that article.
“she had received death threats” ?!1
“dogs were trained – by her! – for fighting” ?!
There’s a lot of mostly young women who go out and get pit bulls because they don’t understand science it don’t believe in it. They’re usually the same women who “fucking love science”.
Like everything else in this life, the folk who know the least will be the loudest.
Ugh….to finish that thought:
More folk have dogs than understand dogs. Luckily, most of their mistakes are survivable.
She “raised” them from pups…..whatever that means. It might mean she let them lick her in the face, crawl all over her, bark when they like, jump up on humans, answer the door, mark where they wished, and do all the other things that independent (alpha) dogs do….and they later decided to kill her for whatever reason.
What is almost impossible is that, after her being their pack leader for year, putting them in their place, treating them like the subordinate, obedient pets that they should be so that they were in a perpetual state of looking to her for guidance, that they suddenly decided to test her for leadership of the pack…..that almost certainly would not have happened.
We now return you to your normal viewing schedule……..and the wider world which is utterly “dominated” by people who don’t understand dogs.
Used to have a neighbor like that. Had a pit bull boxer mix that they never disciplined (as in made get down from couch etc.) They always claimed he misbehave because he was a rescue unfortunately for them, his littermate lived across the street and was an excellent dog because those neighbors trained it. Then it became that everyone was against the bad owners because they were lesbian. This was after the dog had twice gotten out of the backyard and attacked other dogs walking past on the street. Their excuse was that he figured out how to open the gate. My dog can open my gate. I fixed that by spending $1.99 at Lowe’s for a hook and eye. They moved out of state months ago and I am still furious at them for being such shitty owners.
I think the presence of the family, while disruptive, probably saved this guy’s life.
(it’s a long video – at one point, after the cops do a PIT maneuver on him, it seems like family members show up and try to talk him down.)
Final 747 flight by an American carrier is this week.
I didn’t realize the 747 was on the outs. Apparently the Koreans still use them a lot though.
There are a number of carriers that have embraced the 747-800 (I think Lufthansa may be be the biggest -800 customer). BA will retire their whole 747 fleet by the 2020’s. KLM is retiring theirs. The twin engine model is the future. The A380 is much younger than the 747, and it won’t be around much longer.
The 777, 787, A330, and A350 are the long haul jets of the future. Hell, even 737s can go really far these days. Back when I first moved to DC, you could not get a direct flight from DCA to the west coast, because those flights would required aircraft that were too large to operate on the runways and with the noise regulations. Now I can fly direct to LA on a 737.
Boeing’s long term plan was (might still be, I read about this when the 787 was going through trials) to come up with a passenger jet which can connect any two airports in the world. I think they hit it with a long range version of the 777.
The 747-800 wasn’t all that popular from what I read because it is not as fuel efficient as twin engine planes. However, freight haulers still like the 747.
I think the Dreamliner is going to go head-to-head with the A350 for long haul supremacy in the net 10-20 years.
Aircraft with two engines have a little less wetted area than aircraft with four engines. Therefore less drag and better fuel economy. Not much but when you fly hundreds of thousand or millions of miles it adds up. Bigger bypass engines also have slightly better fuel economy than smaller bypass engines.
I saw a graphic recently about engine size & efficiency. I’ll see if I can find it.
747-8 😉
Indeed! I get my Boeings mixed up. The 737s are -800
It’s Boeing’s fault for changing the dash nomenclature from a hundreds to a single digit start with the 787-8.
The perimeter rule has more to do with DCA’s lack of transcon service back in the day. Though your point about the 737 still stands. Amazing that it’s still around, albeit slight to very different from the original design in term of avionics and engine. Never thought they would still be around today. Or that there would be brand new birds still in production.
I remember when flight decks still had flight engineer positions.
When will the NFL come into the 21st century and allow everyone to watch all games a la carte? I’d pay maybe $25 for a season of streaming all the games and letting me choose which one(s) I want to watch. I’d even pay that much and have to choose a team and could only watch that team’s games. From what I can tell, NFL is charging $50 for game replays, highlights, etc. FIFTY DOLLARS, and you don’t even get live games.
The broadcast deals they’ve made over the last 40-50 years are outdated as shit. Unless I have Direct TV, and pay a premium, I have to watch the games in my market, and who wants to watch the Redskins every fucking week?
(yes, I know I can watch the games via less-than-kosher methods. I’m not really into that – I like quality picture & sound)
What happened to blackouts? Am I misremembering something or didn’t local games used to get blacked out? Here I am with Jets and Giants games again that I have no interest watching.
I think nowadays it depends on how many tickets they can sell. If the team has less-than-stellar attendance, they’ll black out the games locally. Redskins are never blacked out, because they inexplicably sell a lot of tickets.
I wouldn’t be surprised if either the Rams or Chargers were blacked out at some point.
I think that blacking out games now is a fairly rare and extreme measure, though.
Speaking of hoofball, a former colleague’s son-in-law just got signed to the Vikings’s active roster from the practice squad. Hurrah!!!
they inexplicably sell a lot of tickets
Not so inexplicably. Bought by lobbyists and handed out like party favors would be my guess.
I need the Gaints to win today
Yeah I know. If I want to watch one here, I’m stuck with Minnesota giving Cincy the STEVE SMITH special.
Oh well, more time to play on the computer.
amen. I assume that smaller (to the US) sports will go to this strategy first. Lacrosse, Rugby, Hockey, WRC maybe. soccer?
I’d pay to watch my team all year, no matter what.
I see a few trends in soccer. All involve pushing content onto streams that charge extra over cable if you have that.
1. Cable networks moving everything that isn’t bandwagon-team popular (e.g. Manchester United, Bayern Munich) and which used to be “free” off to paid-only streams.
2. New subscription plans popping up (e.g. fuboTV) which show a lot of games the price adds up quickly if you want the same shit cable has (or had).
3. Teams offering their own streaming plans. E.g. most Scottish teams started it this year so Fox said fuck it, why bother covering that league any more.
MLB has wonderful packages along this line. When you travel out of the franchise area, you can still buy as much or as little of the game as you like: audio, video, stats, whatever you want to pay for. When my beloved Cardinals are in contention, it’s great to be able to watch an important game on my phone from a thousand miles away.
The MLB nowmeasures everything, so that’s what people will focus on…the next step forward in MoneyBall. Acceleration and route to the ball are pretty cool: now we know as much as the scouts. Still, what’s missing, is a DAF (DumbAss Factor): how many bad decisions a player makes cost runs or squander opportunities. Basic base-running is now, apparently, mastered in the third grade and forgotten by high school; you can pay $5M a year for a guy who routinely gets thrown out trying to take an extra base in a pointless scenario….or, worse: who fails to advance when he easily could have had he been alert and ready.
Other MLB considerations for libertarians:
1) Are you shocked that the American and National “Leagues” haven’t been split up like the baby Bells already?
2) What a shame that demographics means no competing leagues will ever arise.
3) Anyone can immigrate from anywhere if he’s got a great junk ball.
There will be no NFL in 25 years.
The NFL Game Pass (which I paid for back on August 1) wanted me to buy a half-year subscription today. Took half an hour to get it fixed.