Nick Gillespie is a total loser. Here’s why:
1) Hangs out with teenagers. 
2) Dead end Editor-in-Chief job in a gas station.
3) His office is in the bathroom at Al’s.
4) Lives in a shitty apartment above the Cunningham’s garage.
5) Dates bimbos like Pinky Tuscadero.
6) Thumbs up + “AAAAAAAAYYYYY” is totally lame. Who does that?
7) His middle name is John… only nerds are named John.
8) Ripped off Al’s by punching the jukebox to play music rather then paying. Dick move.
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263 responses to “The Nick Gillespie of Posts”
Heeeyy!!
+1 jacket.
9) Will cram any event, any movement, any topic whatsoever into a Libertarian Moment™ narrative
There is no Nick Gillespie. There is only The Jacket. Nick donned The Jacket at age 18, and since then The Jacket has been in complete control of all of his motor functions, including every Reason post.
How has SF not had a Jacket and Frooshi Hair vs Hat and Hair, yet?
” i’m going to ask a valid question, but first I’m going talk about me, my cocktail invites, what i had for lunch first, O.K?”
Something something Shark?
I give Nick credit for making Maddow look like the partisan hack she is on MSNBC. That was a long time ago in the world of TDS however.
Yeah. It’s just meant as a joke. Obviously Gillespie isn’t terrible, but it’s so much fun to pick on him
I’m glad to hear you say that. He’s got his foibles but he’s also done a lot of good along the way.
He’s the Just Say’n of public commentators.
Ouch!
He also had one of the best one liners ever or Bill Maher’s show.
Something to the tune of, “You must be so proud”?
That one was great, because he goaded the liberal goon into literally threatening violence in response. Of course the audience swooned for the thug, but that’s to be expected.
Sit on it Mullato.
Heroic Mork-latto, you mean
Nanu-Nanu?
ShaZZbot!
Coke freestyle and Pam Dawber.
Back in the day, those were my life goals.
For our Millennials: This was a thing that happened.
Was everyone in the 80’s on cocaine, or just most everyone?
I think that’s the 70’s
I think the point is I was not alive for it.
Nor I, but I did see re-runs
Fair enough.
I like how Robot Chicken did it better anyway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtsH01ND5ps
Everyone was.
(I grew up in Miami in the late 70s through the 80s, so my perception might be biased.)
I hated Happy Days. I was definitely onto something.
For once I don’t regret clicking your link.
God, I wonder what the current crop of snowflakes and 3rd wave feminazis would say about this scene on network TV if it aired today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A-DCWlLfOQ
My prediction is a Wicked Witch of the West level meltdown made even worse for them in that deep down it kind of turned them on.
Going off-topic already:
The grand jury report in the case involving the death of a FSU fraternity pledge (that caused FSU to shut down all Greek life at the school) says that the dead kid was 6 feet tall, 220 pounds, and that at the time of his death his blood-alcohol level was .558.
I can’t fathom the amount of alcohol it would take to get that high a blood-alcohol level for someone that size. Like… maybe if you chugged a bottle of vodka straight up?
Butt chugging?
And…. If I had to guess, that’s more than a bottle.
I can’t decide which Heathers quote goes best here. Something with “keggers”.
+1 ❤️Dead gay son.
Ah Heathers, that’s fucken fun movie.
Have you seen the trailer for the new one?
Why????
Heh #notmyheathers
Oh they will be, they will be…
I just don’t think it can possibly translate to today.
I’ll take a pass unless it somehow succeeds.
Suicide as a wish and a joke at the same time.
Norwegian’s in the boiler room.
It would look like a snuff film today.
Sweet zombie Cheebus. Running that through some calculators, that’s about 2 bottles of 80 proof liquor in 2 hours. If he wasn’t puking his guts out earlier, this wasn’t his first time drinking that much.
I can’t fathom the amount of alcohol it would take to get that high a blood-alcohol level for someone that size. Like… maybe if you chugged a bottle of vodka straight up?
As somebody who was 6’1″ 205 in college, I can rule out half a handle of Bacardi Rum as causing that level of BAC. I puked once or twice and watched the room spin for a couple hours, but that was it. (I don’t black out, so I remember all the good, bad, and ugly of being absolutely blitzed)
I love this so much.
You started a movement.
You know who else started a movement?
Roy?
John Harvey Kellogg?
My bowels?
Milk of magnesia?
Nicholas of Cologne?
Fifty people a day walking in singin a bar of Alice’s Restaurant?
Winner!
Really? I mean, it’s good, and all. But, Straff obviously wins this one.
OT: Henry McKenna burbon is smooth.
So smooth it took away your ability to spell bourbon!
smoooth. missing ‘o’ found.
Anyone want to do a Glib game of Risk? I’m looking for a good non Flash version, I found a few, but interest helps, YKWIM
There was at least one game started from TOS here. But there’s also a Google Play version of Risk if you want something tamer.
I have this so far,
https://www.conquerclub.com/player.php?mode=mygames1
Here’s the Google Play version of Risk. But if you want a more evil game, join us Diplomacy players.
I would prefer a PC game
I used to play Cosmic Encounter Online but it’s been Steamified 🙁
I used to play Lux Deluxe. It’s risk with a thousand different boards you can play. It’s been years, but was really fun when I played.
No reference to the abomination that is Cincinnati “chili”?
OT or not considering we’re talking cosmo idiots
The answer to the question is yes, definitely yes
Once you go futanari, you’ll never be sorry…
I don’t know, and I don’t need to know.
Futanari are real chicks with giant, plastic dildos. Bizarre fetish.
So pegging? Whycome there’s gotta be a furn word for it?
A bit more than that.
I don’t know if I want to click that on a work computer.
I made a terrible mistake.
My God, Rick. What did you think you were gonna get?
Garment District wasn’t known for his judgement. Just his fashion sense.
Ugh Garment District Rick
Uh, I’m the Candy Factory owner.
No more Freedom Selects for you!
Shattering the Grand Illusion like Morty shattered those skulls in the citadel boardroom.
How is the one without testicles…
you know what, never mind.
Closely related to newhalfs (newhalves?)
Huzzah for traps!
That made me laugh
“Some women have penises”
No.
Bob’s your uncle!
Punching up or punching down?
I assume down, since picking on the tadries is generally seen as gouache
That’s a nice picture you paint there.
What you did there? I happened to see it.
Beating off.
This should be entertaining
“Black women have done a lot of heavy lifting in the past year. This comes as a surprise to no one, because black women in America have been doing heavy lifting since we were brought here.”
So…. the estate tax doesn’t include victimhood?
Three goodies I found…
2. We need to discuss not only free, or subsidized college (paid for by resetting corporate Trump tax cuts to their Obama levels, and giving lower tax rates to companies that a. offer higher wages b. high a certain quota of people), but scholarships to coding camps, online tech development classes, clean energy installation/maintenance training, etc.
3. A large scale infrastructure bill, with incentives to companies that hire low-income / out of work people.
4. Nationwide marijuana legalization, with a pretty high tax rate. (You know you like that word play. I’m serious though)
Keep the Plebes Pacified, that’s what I heard
LOL yeah they’re totally not just standard-issue leftists
clean energy installation, what does that even mean?
More greatness
8. GUN CONTROL. I personally, believe we should be strict with the 2nd amendment. Every gun owner should have to be part of a militia, and that militia needs to self regulate(with government set guidelines). If a militia sees more than 2-3% of it’s members involved in violent murder/domestic terrorism, said militia should be dissolved and have all its guns commandeered.
9. If a company has more than 5% of it’s workforce on government assistance, haul their asses in for a Senate hearing, and let them know their tax rate will be raised to cover the costs, with 22% interest.
10. Single payer healthcare (paid for the weed tax revenue)
11. Low interest rate loans for vegetarian/vegan centered restaurants ( this will encourage people to eat healthy at low prices).
This is actually not far from how things were in the 18th Century. I’m not sure it would turn out how she envisions, however.
Yeah…
I mean having an actual standing militia would be, I think a curb on federal power. As it was intended.
Here’s the thing. We already have want she wants. As per the Militia Act of 1903, every American man 18-45, who isn’t already a National Guardsman, is, by law, a member of the “reserve militia,” and is expected to serve if called up.
Damn, that’s something.
Let’s pray for peace, I guess?
I got into a scruff over a Facebook post about guns, and somebody asked me what militia I was part of.
I posted a screenshot of my selective service registration, and the post was quickly deleted.
Nice. I approve and have also used the argument before.
“I personally, believe we should be strict with the 2nd amendment”
THAT DOES NOT MEAN WHAT SHE THINKS IT MEANS
“shall not be infringed” is so unclear, and they were speaking some other kind of English anyway, right?
This person is so interested in education, yet look at all those apostrophes with possessive “it”.
I blame public schools, which need more funding, obviously.
Are you whitesplaining spelling!?
giving lower tax rates to companies that a. offer higher wages
You mean like AT&T?
JH Christ, most of the Black women i see couldn’t lift there selves out of a chair,
/First World problems
So black women were always overweight?
I hope some are off tomorrow. I’m treating today as my Friday.
nope, a heating call, and I finally get to fix that fucking Ice O Matic, 800 pounder.
15 Lb. of wasted R 404, and an Oem part that needs to be calibrated, but it’s a restaurant, gotta keep shit cold…
The “V” stands for Ventilation.
I’m working, but in my job getting holidays off is rare. I will for once actually have Xmas off, but right back in the next day.
Yes, we get the big Day off, but Self ownership means there really are no days off, there is good and bad in this
Self ownership?! What would OFFICE MANAGER MOHAMMAD say?
All Ownership is ALLAHs, We merely hold it for Him!
That’s what Saudi Princes say about their supercar collections.
“Early dismissal”. And my boss is WFH so I might duck out even earlier.
I’m using a vacation day tomorrow, and have been drinking tonight as is appropriate.
Agreed. All I have to do tomorrow is get a bowing ball drilled. Not a euphemism.
I’ve been trying to convince the girlfriend that we should join a league for a while now. Her complaint is that she’s bad at bowling and refuses to practice. Me trying to explain that I’ll drink beer through the entire time playing isn’t helping my cause.
I bowl with a bunch of geezers that are all crippled and over weight and 3/4 of them have 300 games. It’s a game that requires practice and consistency.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an attribute, but a habit.
-some fucking white male
This is why I’m fucking excellent at Red Orchestra.
I’m not crippled, but I am overweight. I’d be lucky to be breaking 150 a game though.
meth is like instant bowling practice
I have a half day tomorrow and then 10 days off. WOOHOO!
Working all day.
Me too, brother! I finished writing the annual IRAD report for work (my punishment for being a better technical writer than the rest of the yahoos) for my group.
It took me about 5 hours to write a 5000 word report. Looking back, that seems speedy. So now my brain is in VERBAL OVERLOAD mode and I can’t quit thinking. My husband wants me to quit talking but, man, I am on fire.
Fortunately. tomorrow we take the Amtrack Empire Builder from St Paul to Chicago and let hotels and restaurants work for and worship us for a few days.
I really, REALLY needed this frigging break after the past couple of months and the past week especially.
Merry KwaansmaHannuRammaka! (thank you Joe Soucheray.)
Oh, so you come down to our neck of the woods and you snub us?
I need a narrowed gaze over here!
*NARROWED GAYS*
Oh, I don’t think I did that right.
We are flexible! We’d love to meet you and OMWC (and whoever else) if it all works out. We have no specific plans at all; just wanting to chillax after a stressful year~at least for me.
We floated the notion of meeting a few weeks ago, but never firmed anything up. I will certainly check the glibs board throughout the trip and see if anything forms. We are coming back to MPLS the 26th, so a pretty short trip (hotels ain’t free).
I’ll be here all night, because I don’t get to leave work until 7am.
Me too!
I mean #metoo!
Damn oppression of having a job
I work a rotating shift. Nights one week, then days the next. I prefer the nights. Less chiefs, more indians. We make the same amount of product without all the bosses running around. The atmosphere is more relaxed. It’s better that way.
Nice. I’m full nights ATM, I also enjoy the lack of high up supervision as things seem to run more smoothly. I figure I’l be heading back to day after our peak season ends, but we’ll see.
I’ll be heading into the office tomorrow, but with any luck they’ll cut us loose early. Then I’ll get to join the traffic jam out of town to see family
Hey man…Nick Gillespie keeps getting older, but teenagers stay the same age.
Office Manager Mohammed: Gillespie cannot intrude upon the MOOSLIM turf! all 12 year old are belong to ISLAM!
Not alt right alt right?
I thought this, if it’s ALT right, wouldn’t that make it Left?
/Pedant
Ana and kata?
All mimsy were the borogoves!
“Color me outgrabe.”
/mome rath
The beast eats itself?
Ourobourus
Da fuq?
I guess dishonesty in defense of celebrity is no vice.
On the Hi Fi.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xDAtc4wX-sA
me
(listening to this record because Jazzman Gerald – mentioned in prev thread – shouted them out)
Witch record?
“Broadcast – The Noise Made by People (2000)”
i think the opening tracks, then the one i linked above, were the particularly interesting bits.
a lot of it is psychy and self-indulgent, which… was sort of a thing in those days. everyone was portishead/stereolab/tortoise/etc.
Reminded me of White Rabbit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIyMBuM5AVw
yes, that’s sort of the Psych-Rock world’s “free bird”.
If every genre has its Freebird, is there an Ur-Freebird for music in general?
***
Apple’s top ten most-downloaded iTunes songs of all time:
1. ” I Gotta Feeling” by Black Eyed Peas.
2. ” Poker Face” by Lady Gaga.
3. ” Boom Boom Pow” by Black Eyed Peas.
4. ” I’m Yours” by Jason Mraz.
5. ” Viva la Vida” by Coldplay.
***
Stop the world, I need to throw up.
***
Best-selling physical singles
15 million copies or mor
Bing Crosby “White Christmas”
Elton John “Candle in the Wind 1997″/”Something About the Way You Look Tonight”
Bing Crosby “Silent Night”
Bill Haley & His Comets “Rock Around the Clock”
Whitney Houston “I Will Always Love You”
***
[Kiff sigh]
I’m down with Bing Crosby.
i think every decade has some anthemic reference point, and its just which prior decade people are fetishizing at the moment.
most music-producer people i know are obsessed with the 1980s, early-synth pop composition, and then alternatively, “jDilla”
so, perhaps the freebird of ‘now’ is either “Blue Monday” or …something jdills did
I bowl with a bunch of geezers that are all crippled and over weight and 3/4 of them have 300 games. It’s a game that requires practice and consistency.
The Olympics of the Incompetent At Anything Else
You should dig Nurse with Wound.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nLEi85gpKMk
meh.
i barely dig the Broadcast stuff, honestly. But i do like it a little more/equal to Portishead, which i think they’re closest to. (she sounds nice)
i’m not a fan of ‘weird experimental rock/psych/noise’ in general, tho i do often like the electro/DJ music varieties which were influence by those.
That said, this is cool as fuck for a live music performance
They were on a good record
yeah, that’s one toke over the line for me. if you don’t have a melody or a beat *at all*, i’m not really on board. or, just bored.
my favorite musical experiments tend to be things that take existing structural habits and fuck with them
This article is the white people of Glibertarian articles.
cold
I know. Pretty harsh.
Ooh, David Frum has a new column:
Republicans Exact Their Revenge Through a Tax Bill
Instead of eliminating favoritism, the GOP’s reforms load the costs of the state upon disfavored persons, groups, and regions.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/12/gop-tax-bill/549017/
***
The implications of the pass-through decision are staggering. Not only is it massively disruptive of federal revenues, but it wildly distorts decision-making throughout the private economy. Adam Looney at the Brookings Institution computes:
If a plumber makes $60,000 a year as wages paid by an employer, he or she will pay 60 percent more in income taxes than if that plumber had been a sole proprietor or self-employed and takes advantage of the pass-through rate.
As of 2014, there were already 30 million pass-through businesses in the United States. Under the new incentives, there will instantly appear many millions more. To deal with the ensuing revenue loss, Congress had to squeeze somebody. Upper-income blue-state residents got the chop.
But wait! What if those upper-income blue-state residents organize themselves as pass-through businesses? Won’t they get the last laugh on their red-state plutocratic persecutors? Not so fast. Congress thought of that. Section 1202(e)(3)(A) of the Internal Revenue Code lists the fields forbidden to take advantage of the new pass-through rate: health, law, accounting, actuarial science, performing arts, business consulting, athletics, brokerage services, financial services, or any other trade or business whose principal asset is the reputation or skill of the business owner.
The list tracks almost perfectly with the professions with which the Republican Party has most difficulty. (Good news, engineers and architects: You were originally on the prohibited list, but somebody’s effective lobbying got you omitted at the last minute.)
***
[Nelson laugh]
Ha HA, indeed.
frum is a wonderful illustration of how “neoconservative” intersects so smoothly with “big govt liberal”
yeah, that sounds about right
he seems to gravitate strongly to the worst possible opinion, and latch on to it with the tenacity of a wounded pit-bull.
I didn’t realize that HM was 63 years old.
https://gizmodo.com/man-had-so-many-prostate-orgasms-he-couldnt-stop-accor-1821441931
Black don’t crack.
You’re really Dorian Grey aren’t you?
But in reverse. My avatar gets handsomer and handsomer every time I post.
I knew it!
Is that why I fapped??
Video game music reached perfection in 1992. It’s a scientific fact.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnLAC5AJPuM
Racist is a racist.
http://www.lohud.com/story/entertainment/2017/12/21/white-guys-coloring-book-hits-nerve/949124001/
Aaannnd I saw the pie fallacy
Idiots
Yeah but other than cooking meth, sleeping with their cousins, oppressing women, and lynching minorities, what the hell have white guys accomplished really?
The Snuggie?
You got me there. Just don’t try to cook anything on the stove wearing one of those things, fucking deathtraps.
Says You!
(Immediately lights self on fire while cooking meth for lynch mob and groping minority cousin)
My Snuggie is definitely made in China.
***
“It came completely out of me screaming at my TV, and the way the GOP is taking the country off in a totally different direction,” says Corbett…
…
“Be open to hearing other perspectives or opinion. And don’t be so defensive,” he says.
***
Physician, heal thyself.
Is it an Obamacare appointed physician tho?
“Stop being defensive when you hear my perspective! Your perspective can go fuck itself.”
Did he bag Leather Tuscadero though?
https://lovechrystal.com.au/2012/06/26/loving-leather-fashion-looks/
(1st pic)
I mean, she ain’t thicc, or even thick, but she ain’t bad though.
I so had the hots for Suzie Q when I was a kid. Of course, pretty much every guy I knew did.
She had a nice Joan Jett kind of vibe going on.
What a way To Die
That was damn good.
Quatros could rock
Detroit had it goin’ on in the ’60s
Motor City had such a surplus they exported it to the Southern Hemisphere in the 1970s
That’s pretty good too, it ain’t the New York Dolls but not bad.
Might be a bit too mainstream for you but here you go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aQTGqqXHw4
i enjoy the dolls and thunders recorded stuff
when you listen to them live, its like, “ok, you’re fucked up on heroin and can’t play for shit – its a ‘style’ but it doesn’t really make the recordings better”
Johnny and Jerry formed my favorite band after they were kicked out of the Dolls
You really would have enjoyed Coney Island High
It was a live music joint in the village which was basically for people who worshipped the leavings of the Dolls/Thunders. it attracted lots of mainstream acts, but the point was to be obescient to the NYC punk rock+roll ethos
the ‘house band’ was Dgeneration
The Heartbreakers were really influential. They were a wannabe pop band that arguably “invented” and indisputably “re-invented” punk rock. At least somebody recognized their pop-genius relatively early on.
Restless leg on a plane is not cool.
Three drunks doesn’t fix it.
I’ll try fourth on the segment to SAV.
I flew from Honolulu to Dallas about 12 years ago. I took xanax bar before getting on the plane. Best flight of my life. I slept great damn near the whole way.
That’s how everyone feels leaving Hawaii.
I had a nonstop from Shanghai to Chicago once. I think I did a sudoku.
I did a London-Sydney back in the 90’s.
By the end of the flight, I had everything with words on it (including toothpaste tubes) memorized.
I didn’t get in on any of the U.N. not recognizing Jerusalem discussion today…
http://imgur.com/rdHLcIk
Heh. You’d think that they’d think before talking shit, but nope, idiots got to idiot.
Wow, sad…..
When you’ve lost CNN….
people praise tapper as some outlier in the journalism world. i don’t really see it.
maybe i’m burned out. when balko went to shit, i lost my faith
I larfed.
***
12 July 2016, Michigan) Stupidity doesn’t get worse than this. Three bikini-clad women were stranded on the banks of the Muskegon River with no food, no shelter, no clothing, when their first river tubing excursion became a “Naked and Afraid” predicament of their own making!
A few hours before, while launching their new tubes at the Maple Island Bridge in Muskegon, they asked a passing stranger how to get back upstream. The stranger told them the river will make a big loop and circle around to take them back to the car. Using this joking advice to plan their trip, they gullible group set off downriver.
As dusk approached, the women realized that the river was NOT gonna circle back. They had been duped! They beached their tubes on a remote stretch of river and began to holler for help, having neglected to bring a cell phone, either.
Twenty hours after drifting away from the bridge they were saved by chance by a drift fisherman who heard the commotion and called 911. Rescued only three miles downstream of the launch point, we wonder why no one said, “Let’s walk back to the car.” What makes this situation even more ridiculous is that they were all local to the area!
Authorities offered obvious advice such as letting someone know your river plans, and packing cell phones and extra food. We suggest the gullible women take a grain of salt, too.
***
That’s gotta be a joke, right?
confirmed
http://darwinawards.com/stupid/stupid2016-02.html
Got dang it, bobby!
Sounds like a Penthouse Forum situation.
More, under “music no one else seems to be listening to”
very good opening track by German jazz/fusion band
has a cool progression + energy to that first bit (before 3:50). everything after that, at your own risk. there’s some cool fake-off-meter grooves at the end. (19:40 fwd)
$50 says “religion of peace”.
This is why Britain’s fucked.
Is there any more news on the car attack in Australia?
Latest I saw was this.
Shorter Version: “Australians treat muslims badly”
Tonight is the 29th anniversary of the Lockerbie bombing.
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was convicted on 270 counts of murder, and the Scottish government LET HIM GO.
Terrorism works, if you let it.
Lost a friend on that flight.
Lost a few over the years, actually.
Sorry to bring up the anniversary. 29 years.
I remember going though UK security the following year as an 11 year old. “Dad, why do they have to do this?”
The poor lady looked at me and apologetically said… “Lockerbie.”
Oh, it’s all ancient history, you move on. Over the years, what with The Troubles, and all the other incidents in other countries, pursuing other, misguided objectives, the sharp edges get worn down and you start to see what Stalin meant about tragedies and statistics.
Lockerbie was a doozie though. Knew a young couple on Flight 800, and a guy on the Air India Flight 182 in 1985. We flew a lot back then, and ran up a few air miles.
as below: the consensus, AFAIK, is it was an accident.
which is downplayed because frankly, “terrorism” is easier for families of victims
Here’s the guy from Flight 103 that I knew, and this is the guy who introduced me to him.
I had a close friend die on TWA 800
i am still not sure that there’s any real certainty about why it blew up. but i think the consensus is, “it was an accident, not terror”
which i think is actually a sort of conclusion which NTSB and the airline industry finds far more terrifying than terrorism: the idea that, “hey every now and then our planes are just gonna blow up and fall out of the sky; suck it up”
A kind of mixed message on my part. Air travel remains safer than any other method of transportation, and yet, I’ve been one degree of separation away from a number of fatalities, and then, conflating that violent deaths that I’ve also been one degree of separation away from.
As we age, the dead accumulate like scale in a kettle. What you start to see is a composite of all the losses, and not the detail, and inevitably, the little tragedies that compose the whole start to lose their poignancy.
In the specific case of 800, you’re right, the consensus was a design flaw in a fuel bypass between the tanks, if I remember correctly.
poetically said.
i feel like my own circle has had a weird amount of death at young age. i’ve had at least 10 closely related (friends/family) people die in “bizarre” circumstances. But i think as time passes, the numbers average out. my parents survive, as do my siblings. But i do sometimes think its weird that i’ve had at least 2 pals killed in terror attacks, and 5 people (of my age die) from cancer before the age of 32.
I have lost 3 friends recently, all at 53, I’m 54 and I was glad to make it, in my own way
I thought that it was pretty well established that a short circuit ignited vapors in the empty center fuel tank. I accept that explanation based upon the evidence.
Was it really fucking dumb to explain that to the public with a cartoon captioned “CIA ANIMATION”? Yes. Yes it was.
yes, but i think the most rational explanation was downplayed for years because many (NYC based) families of victims had assumed “terror” .. and consequently, saying, “hey sorry – it was just a ‘whoopsie’” was something no one wanted to hear.
the last time i thought about it seriously was at a memorial for a woman (friend of my mom’s) who died on the flight, where Chazz Palminteri spoke about how instrumental this woman’s life was in his career… and he basically blamed the israeli palestinian conflict. i don’t think any one else thought about it much after that. It was probably an accident: but the point is that, ‘terror’ is actually mentally easier than ‘accident’.
Short circuits cause robots to become sentient, not explosions. The lack of education in this country is terrifying.
There is solid proof that the root cause was formation of an explosive environment in the center wing tank. This is a known hazard.
His middle name is John… only nerds are named John.
Heeeeeeeey!
I’m going to leave this here, because I’m really digging it.
https://web.archive.org/web/20140711060706/http://www.buddhanet.net/budasa4.htm
4 of My Grandkids are sleeping in a fort in my living room, Mooslims don’t like that, we celebrate Christmas, Mooslims don’t like that,
god Bless us all,
Molon Labe
You got some problem with them musselmen.
I read what they said, I didn’t write it, but they hate me, and you so,
MOLON LABE GoatFuckers, Yep
But they saved the Northmen from the Fire Worm!
Great Movie
Of course it is, I like it.
John is a stupid name, however Jon is the name of a total badass.
ORLY?
My musings elsewhere have caused me to get kinda maudlin, reflecting on my youth . Many regards for this Jon, but ‘badass’ he isn’t.
repudiating the silent H is a fight worth many lives.
My grandpa knew a guy named Jon Rambo who fought in WWII. (for real)
I heard about Him, cool for Gpop! and you
I don’t think you’re thinking of the same guy.
hmmmmm… nope
Also
(Jimmy Dean gets a pass for his later awful PT109)
as long as you don’t defend his sausage.
Rock On.
Jimmy Dean himself slammed the quality of the sausage later, just like Col. Sanders and his chicken and mashed
potatoespaste.Assistant YUSEF: Time for bed eh?
Office Manager Mohammed: NO! one more post!
I wish all INFIDELS Good Tidings and Joy this Season,
AND MAY YOU ALL BURN IN FIERY HELL!
Assistant YUSEF: I think that’s a bit much(doses OMM with Ketamine)
OMM: Ahhhhhhhhhllahhhhhhh
You know who else liked to wear a leather coat…
Max Rockatansky?
That guy in Raiders of the Lost Ark?
I like Nick.
Nick brought us together and built the site that we all loved.
I know it’s a meme to say the place went down hill ever since Virginia left, but it really is true with Gillespie–the place seemed to have gone down hill once he gave up editorial control.
My main problem with Reason is that their standards have slipped. There was a thread over there yesterday about how the Glibertarians all left because we love Trump and we can’t take people criticizing him–which is absurd. I’m not here to speak for a hundred other people and the handful who built this site, but I feel safe in saying that it wasn’t about Trump.
Over the years, Gillespie, Welch, Cavanaugh, Sullum, Doherty, and others built up quite a reputation with me for solid reporting that was unusual for being intellectually honest. That isn’t to say they were never wrong–but just because they were wrong doesn’t mean they weren’t giving us their honest take.
All that has gone out the window with the new breed of journalists they hired. This new breed seems to be of the opinion that anything and everything is permissible so long as its conclusions are pro-freedom somehow. I once rhetorically asked Robby why anyone would think his piece was libertarian, and he replied in comments that you could tell it was libertarian because of the masthead. I’ve seen ENB do things I thought weren’t just intellectually inappropriate–but damn near unethical. If enforcing immigration laws is in any way right, Dalmia would rather be wrong. Intellectual honesty is about acknowledging facts that seem to go against you. Not trashing the constitution, the separation of powers, and democracy in its appropriate place–all because you’re pro-immigration.
Reasonoids used to spend their spare time on the site criticizing each other’s libertarian arguments. That was one of the great things about Hit & Run, the tone set by the intellectual honesty of the staff created an environment where I could subject my own views to the intellectual scrutiny of my libertarian peers. Surviving scrutiny makes my ideas better, and losing ideas that couldn’t survive was part of the process. I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things over the years because of that scrutiny, which is to say–Hit & Run made me smarter.
I suspect for a lot of you guys, it was about the community, and you come over here now because this is where your online friends hang out. It’s more than that to me. I love having a place where people committed to the principles of Reason can talk about things in a way that you can’t with family or people you work with at the office–because all they know about libertarianism is what the kooky kid down the hall in the dorm said one late night and what they’ve heard in the media. Gillespie (and Cavanaugh) built that place, and the fact that we cared so much when it fell apart is a credit to him. I give Gillespie a ton of credit and respect.
I saw that thread the other day. I hope you posted this there as well.
You guys remember how Dalmia once wrote a piece comparing deportation to enforcing the Fugitive Slave Act?
Yesterday she compared trump giving congress alternatives on immigration to “Sophie’s Choice”.
I stay away from telling Jews what should or shouldn’t offend them, but I lived in Mexico for more than a year, and it was nothing like what I’ve read about Auschwitz.
. . . and Trump giving congress alternatives on legislation simply isn’t like the Nazis forcing a woman at Auschwitz to choose which of her children goes to the oven, either.
It’s a joke. Obviously, Gillespie isn’t terrible, but it’s so darn easy to pick on him.
Also, Welch > Gillespie
For me, the story is simple. They let good writers go, held on to crap writers, and hired some even-more crap writers. And HyR gradually became overrun with mendacious trolls & socks (which is saying something, if you were around for the rather/m*** shitstorm). It became a simultaneously frustrating and tedious place to visit, with little redeeming value.
Except for KrayKray.