It’s a nice balmy zero outside Chez SP this morning, with a good stiff wind. I may go for a nice brisk stroll and enjoy the fine weather. And tonight, SP and I will have a quiet night in, with a fine dinner and a couple bottles of our best wines. But first, let’s serve up a pile of some steaming hot links.
In Germany, the reaction to widespread actual sexual assault on New Year’s Eve, which has become a tradition there, is to set up “safe zones.” Not actual zones where people will be safe, mind you, or areas where people can arm themselves for deterrence, but rather, areas where there will be people to talk to once the rape is finished.
…a team of medical professionals in a white tent only yards away will be standing by, waiting for possible victims of sexual assault and harassment to seek their help. Women will be able to speak to psychologists immediately after being assaulted or harassed in a “safe zone” at the Berlin New Year’s Eve event.
“[Assaulted women] can stay here and calm down or speak to someone trained to offer psychological support,” said Anja Marx, the spokeswoman of Berlin’s main New Year’s Eve celebrations. Up to five members of a German Red Cross team will be available to offer immediate support to victims.
More infuriating coverage of the SWAT cop murder. As is usually the case when there’s nothing to feed the race-hustler angle, the media outrage toward the cops is nearly nonexistent. 90% of the article is about the prank caller, with only one mention of the cop who actually committed the murder:
Wichita police have not said what action might be taken against the police officer who shot and killed Finch. Wichita Deputy Police Chief Troy Livingston said Finch moved his hand toward his waistband.“Our officers came here preparing for a hostage situation. Several got in position. A male came to the front door, and one of our officers discharged his weapon,” Livingston said.[CNN legal analyst] Callan said he doesn’t think the officer will be charged if the evidence shows Finch “went for his waistband in a way that looked like he was going for a gun.”
She told CNN’s Don Lemon in 2014 she believed her father’s death had more to do with police misconduct than race.“I can’t really say it’s a black and white issue,” she said. “It’s about the police officer and abusing their power.”
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Well this is a first. Usually it’s “the officer’s weapon discharged”.
I’m betting on two months of paid vacation before he’s cleared to come back to work with no charges.
I’m betting “stress disability leading to early retirement with full pension.” Nothing is too good for our heroes in blue.
I’m wondering why only one cop shot him. If it was a legitimate triggering situation, they all should have shot him. Either he’s a bad cop, or all the others are bad cops.
Yes.
Maybe he was designated executioner for the day.
A male came to the front door, and one of our officers discharged his weapon,”
A male came to the front door, and one of our officers killed him. We may never know who, or why,”
At this point, what difference does it make?
Imagine what would happen if the roles were reversed.
“A male came to the front door and discharged his weapon into one of our officers”
And nothing else happened…. oh wait!
Usually it’s “the officer’s weapon discharged”.
Baby steps.
For the crime of (if the cops aren’t lying about this too) touching his own waist.
Boilerplate. Just like, “The suspect
1) averted his gaze
2) looked me in the eye
3) ignored me
Which aroused my suspicions.”
I think I’ve read that:
1) Speeding;
2) Driving too slowly; and
3) Keeping strictly to the speed limit
Have all been used by the cops as “suspicious behavior” to justify stops and searches that clearly ought to be illegal under the 4A.
My father has a great story about a crusty local judge who threw out a DUI case because the cop testified that the only reason someone would be driving the speed limit at that time of night on that particular road was because they were drunk and that is why he pulled them over.
The judge threw the case and reamed the cop out. Told him he better never bring a case back into his court where the “probable cause” was obeying the law.
Sadly, the old guy tells that story to help illustrate how rare that attitude is now.
We desperately need more judges like that.
About 10 years ago I was driving a dodge Dakota that had a ladder rack. On top of the ladder rack, I had my canoe tied down. I was pulled over. When I asked why, he told me because I had a canoe on my truck.
In reality, cops can pull you over for anything they want to, real or imagined. They can shoot you for anything they want to as well, real or imagined.
1) Speeding;
2) Driving too slowly; and
3) Keeping strictly to the speed limit
Have all been used by the cops as “suspicious behavior” to justify stops and searches that clearly ought to be illegal under the 4A.
Actual quote from a cop my mom knows: “I get very suspicious when people continue to drive to a ‘well-lighted area’ [said with derision] once I turn my lights on. If you don’t immediately pull over, you are hiding something.”
In my personal experience, if you don’t consent to a search of your vehicle, then you are hiding something. And since you are hiding something they will bring a dog to your vehicle and lie about it signaling something so that they can tear your vehicle up, waste your time, and send you on your merry way.
This gives me an idea for a product. Essentially, it would act like Skype or FaceTime. Once you activate it, you’re connected to an on-call attorney who specializes in police stops, and everything captured by your phone is recorded (in the cloud) for posterity’s sake. The attorney is “present” at the stop to make sure that your Constitutional rights are being honored.
Do it! The world needs that app.
Actually, that’s a great idea. I know we have a lot of lawyer-types here, maybe someone should look into that.
… Hobbit
Sounds like a good idea, but I don’t see it working. Why would a cop respect your rights just because a lawyer told him to? There is no in cinque for the cop. If he respects your rights, then great. If he doesnt, there is no consequence for him.
You at least have someone there to witness the cop shooting you because you made him feel threatened.
Why would a cop respect your rights just because a lawyer told him to?
Same reason why a cop respects your rights in the interrogation room when the lawyer tells him to: because, to the court, the totem pole goes lawyer > cop > plebe.
I think it is an awesome idea. What if during your dog search, you could have handed the phone to the deputy, and the lawyer said, “Deputy, this is Mr Lachowsky;s lawyer, please review this video and tell me at exactly what minute mark the dog signaled.” It would be worth it to just piss off the deputy.
Probably worth it, yes. I don’t think it would stop Officer Friendly from proceeding to search my vehicle anyway.
My favorite boilerplate statement is “I felt a leafy green substance in his pocket.” Nobody ever asks how they know the color if it is still in the suspects pocket.
If your bag of weed is full of leaves, you got ripped off. Or are we talking illicit basil trafficking here?
Speaking of cop BS, cops claim the air at a frat party registered .01 on their breathalyzers.
Personally, I think as a defense lawyer, that idiotic statement would make me very happy.
I’m not a scientist, but no way enough booze could be aerated to register .01 on a tester. Or if it did, I would think the tester’s efficacy would be called into question.
And fuck any law that says a bunch of kids will have their lives ruined for having a party where booze was served.
OK, so that was the field sobriety test. Now let’s get that room down to the police station for a blood test.
I’d like to know if he obtained consent from the room to perform the field test in the first place. Sounds like an illegal search to me.
How can not mention the ultimate boilerplate “I was afraid for my safety”
Need coffee
“He was ‘presenting to be armed’.”
One of these days the cops are going to kill a guy with no arms and still they will claim that.
I thought the music link would be this.
That guy seemed awfully hipster for old guy music.
Dammit, not ONJ – the one in OMWC’s link.
Richard Feynman was also into Tuvan throat singing.
Interestingly, Lorenz developed the technique accidentally, and only later found out that the Tuvans got there first.
Niles and Fraiser were too
Frank Bruni haz a confuse
Or this unsettling, dangerous paradox: At a time when a college degree is one of the surest harbingers of higher earnings and better economic security, college itself is regarded with skepticism by many Americans and outright contempt by no small number of them.
Its tumble from grace came into sharp focus in 2017, so the end of this year is a fitting moment to examine what happened and how to fix it. Repair is imperative, because the continued competitiveness of the American economy depends on the skills of our work force, the intellectual nimbleness of our citizens, the boldness of our scientific research and the genius of our inventions. Our colleges and universities are central to that. When they lose support, we all lose.
Just how far they’ve fallen was suggested by a Pew survey this year that sent shock waves through the world of higher education. Asked if colleges were having a positive or negative effect on America, 58 percent of Republicans and conservative-leaning independents said negative. That was up from just 37 percent two years earlier.
A Gallup poll found that only 44 percent of all Americans had a “great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in the country’s colleges and universities, while 56 percent had only “some” or “very little.” College — once a great aspiration — was now a polarizing question mark.
That’s not so surprising, given Americans’ intensifying resentment of anything that smacks of elitism and given Republicans’ attacks on science and intellectuals. As Ron Daniels, the president of Johns Hopkins University, recently told me, “Even if we were completely unblemished in the way in which we pursued our mission, it would be hard to imagine that in Trump’s America, we wouldn’t be targets for scorn.”
Oh, no, we’ve lost control of the narrative. It’s anti-intellectualism, all the way down, in Trump’s America.
To fix it, you have to burst the bubble first.
Start teaching things that are worth learning and I’ll have more respect. It really is that easy.
This.
Also, let’s ditch this whole “broadening their horizons” approach to education. It was bunk from the start, and it’s especially stupid now that everybody gets to go to college.
By gum he’s nailed it.
Funny, they say this, and yet in the next breath they’ll point out that real wage growth has been flat for 40 years. (*INEQUALITY!!!)
And yet, the percent of college grads in the workforce has grown steadily over that same period
Something something lies damned lies and statistics
I found this bit interesting – given the ubiquity of college programs that offer no such thing.
So you really want to be served by a barista that can’t preach to you about intersectionality or obscurantist literary criticism? Well, aren’t you just the barbarian!
I’d settle for one who can make correct change for a cash transaction.
I once refused to buy Girl Scout cookies outside a grocery store because the children didn’t know how to make change.
I taught them, purchased some cookies, then watched them make change for several other patrons and beam with pride when they were complimented for the transactions.
I’m clearly an evil capitalist.
Speaking of evil capitalists, did you get my email?
Just did, Mike. I only check that one every couple days.
Thanks! We will check it out and let you know how it goes. I am unfamiliar with that particular purveyor, but OMWC might know their products.
When he wakes up from his Old Man Nap, I’ll ask him.
Thanks for thinking of us! Happy New Year.
Great. Hopefully it’s of use to you.
Unrelated; I just noticed the “Recipe” link up top. I’m working on a few entries. Of course, I also started day drinking early today, so we’ll see how productive I am. 😉
Speaking of evil capitalism, do you know anyone that can ‘do’ simple branding work? I need a corporate logo and some real simple design work done? I’m looking something a bit more certain than fiverr, but a bit less expensive than Minale Tattersfield.
Web and print, simple stuff.
I might know someone. Drop me a line at sp@ this domain with the particulars.
Hail, the barbarians!
My company is trying to hire more younger workers to be able to bring “fresh perspectives” to developing solutions. It is a worthwhile idea and I agreed to participate on a interview committee. We interviewed several young people for a position and I was the lone person not enabled to a Columbia student getting ready to graduate and recommended a slightly older person graduating from a “Northern South Dakota State”. When asked why, my answer could be summarized as since the major subject were equal that was a wash. Columbia student unasked brought up praise for mattress girl, was from a known host of SJWness, had no employment experience except for one NYC internship. The NSDS grad was working at a firm, worked on family farm until college, was in the Reserves with a deployment to Afghanistan, and I had never read an article highlighting NSDS SJW protests. The risks to client delivery and to the firm from potential work space disruption or legal action did not justify the word “Columbia” in a proposal statement.
I swung the committee, but I rarely have been asked to participate in the interview process since.
enamored not enabled.
These SJW worshiping don’t care that their product- their graduates- are being considered by more and more companies as damaged goods just from being associated with said universities.
Kill Federally backed loans and nuke the higher ed bubble from orbit.
For a while, my company was pushing hard for me to become a career mentor – in a firm that has a preference for Princeton grads. I escaped the job for a while and convinced them that I should be on the recruitment screening team before I was given this prestigious and important assignment.
I think I was involved in three hires. Someone apparently thought I was like Harry Callahan in The Enforcer. Not entirely fair. Most of the applicants were a poor fit and had even less to say than Tyne Daly did.
In every place i’ve ever worked, the degree of ‘credibility’ granted someone because of the mere-brand-name of their alma mater has diminished significantly with each passing year.
and it wasn’t very high to begin with. I did the most recruiting/interviewing early in my career (we were a very fast growing startup, and if you were there 3 years you were a salty veteran) I was tasked with hiring ~5 of ‘me’. Basically, people to do my job x5, and whom i would then manage.
I was assisted by the HR director, who reviewed applications and sat in interviews w/ me. She asked q’s and gave her 2cents and was the final sign-off on offers, but otherwise all the screening and decision-making power was mine.
We tossed about a dozen recent ivy league graduates who had grown up in posh suburbs and had fantastic-paper-credentials (good grades, school, merits) ….
…. in favor of people who were mostly coming from what was already their ‘first job’ that they hated.
basically, every interview was, “yes, i know you want A job, but why THIS job”. And none of the Ivy kids knew what to say. They’d never worked a day in their lives and didn’t know wtf actually went on inside companies.
whereas all the other kid just sighed, and said, “let me tell you about what i’ve been doing so far” and proceeded to explain why working at Big Company X blew, and why a smaller, faster growing, international firm was far more appealing and which they felt would inspire them to get up in the morning.
There was basically no contest. the paper-qualifications were absolutely meaningless. The “character” and motivation were everything. if the person was interested in what we did (rather than interested in the spiffyness of their resume) they got the job.
i’ve seen this replicated a dozen times over the last 20 years. Kids from “great schools” tend to be dumbfounded when the people they talk to in interviews don’t really give a fuck.
There was basically no contest. the paper-qualifications were absolutely meaningless. The “character” and motivation were everything.
Yep! I assisted in interviews this fall back on campus. We were tasked with finding anybody who would be a “good fit.” It could be 3 people or it could be zero. We interviewed a bunch of people with almost the exact same resumes. My eyes started crossing after 5 or 6 interviews. Everybody had a 3.1 GPA, membership on some secondary law review, and membership in some extracurricular club. There were two sets of two candidates that stuck out on resume alone. One set was a pair of top 10% GPA K-JD (kindergarten straight through to law school) students with better extracurriculars and membership on the main law review. The other set was a pair of top 25% GPA non-traditional (had or still have a real job) students with shit extracurriculars.
Guess who we recommended! The K-JD students interviewed poorly, mostly because it became blatantly obvious that they had no clue what working a real job was like. The non-traditional students knew what to ask and what to say in the interviews and generally outperformed their resumes.
We get interns mostly from the ivy league. They have to do a final presentation, and we have to be so careful in the criticism because they get so upset. Interns from the big ten, much easier.
I did actually tell one ivy league kid, “they are just slides, it’s not a comment on your worth, just fix them and move on” because he was just about having a meltdown. What really puzzles me is they see us go after each other’s work frequently, and nobody takes it personally. I mean we don’t pull punches. “How do you justify X?” “This slide doesn’t make your point at all. “This chart is confusing.” “This is irrelevant, get rid of it.” These are the mild comments. But, try to tell these kids that a slide is busy, and they freak. It is so tiresome.
And, ivy leaguers seem to exaggerate more than Big Ten. “So, your resume says you are an expert at Excel. Great! Tell me what a pivot table is.” .
Or, “you say you’ve done a lot ‘s statistical analyses. Great! How would you test to see if two samples have the same mean?”
Seriously?! If the resume is accurate, these should be easy.
Don’t get me started on recent PhDs from anywhere.
“Why did you choose this measure?”
“It’s what is used in the literature.”
“Uh huh, why is it appropriate for your study?”
“…..”
Ugh. It should have said crickets after first two questions
They’re trying to explain themselves better — a simple, obvious thing that somehow fell by the wayside over recent decades. Not all Americans accept on faith the value of higher education to individual students and to society as a whole. Not all Americans understand how universities function as vital engines of many cities’ and states’ economies or as cradles of the very innovation that keeps America great.
Peering down from the ivory battlements, looking for a dialog with the fucking ignorant rabble. “Shut up, you’re stupid,” they explained.
People like Jordan Peterson, Thaddeus Russell, Brett Veinotte, and Isaac Morehouse, are slowly digging away at the base of that tower. It’s already leaning over farther than Pisa.
“I felt a leafy green substance in his pocket.”
“Unless you’re Popeye, you’ve got some explaining to do. Come on, we’re going downtown.”
NJ sucks.
http://www.nj.com/hunterdon/index.ssf/2017/12/florida_woman_arrested_after_cops_find_loaded_hand.html
This town is right on the Delaware river. She was stopped on Bridge st. – named aptly since it ends in a bridge to PA. She was literally only a couple hundred yards from PA and being 100% legal and not facing a felony conviction.
Pulled over for tinted windows…sigh
I guess I am historically an asshole driver so I prefer to make your enforcers work for it.
Tomorrow marks the one year anniversary of Cuomo signing into a law a ridiculous restriction on vehicle window tint in New York.
I did some research on it, and whaddya know, the law was only ever pushed by the cops, and they had one tenacious cop sucker state rep up in Syracuse to make it happen.
One of these “arrest an out-of-stater for having a gun in the car” things is where President Pine Tree would make an example of his Constitutionally-specified powers to suppress insurrections. Holding somebody in a cage under threat of their life for exercise of an enumerated right, while acting under a claim of law, seems like it fits the bill.
I’d start with a note to whatever civil authority (sic) held my citizen, addressed something like “…to the leaders of the insurrection styling itself the City of whatever…” and let them know that in 12 hours I was federalizing the militia of a neighboring state to suppress the insurrection.
I don’t know if this one was posted yet but:
Using kids (who might not even exist) as political props
#KidisGay
I can’t say if he’s gay, but I can tell you he gets his ass beaten by the normal boys. Deservedly so.
That’s assuming the kid exists, and that if he did he even said that. Read the replies, some of which are hilarious.
Under normal circumstances I would agree, but these days I can’t tell anymore. I can see these kids hearing so much of this crap that they just start parroting it. So maybe it’s not a sincere, fully-understood statement, but it came out of the tyke’s mouth.
Where’s the Lifeboy soap when you need it?
Or he’s smart enough to know what crazy auntie wants to hear and was angling for a cash heavy Xmas present.
Shit. That. Never. Happened. For. $1 million. Alex.
LOL:
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Now THAT definitely didn’t happen lol
If your 6 year old knows anything about human sexuality, it’s because you have been telling him and that’s wrong.
Or your kid met OMWC.
There are some good responses in there. Looks like it could be a fertile Glib recruiting ground.
I don’t see how a Prog could spew obvious weapons-grade UNINTERESTING horse hooey without expecting to be mocked mercilessly for days. Do they really exist in such isolated lefty-bubbles that they think everyone agrees with them?
Did you sleep through 2017?
?
They do, and they don’t care.
Would you care to see my FB feed?
Gold
“My 6yr lad old saw the cover of a James Bond book and said he wants to be 007 when he grows up because he’s always balls deep in grade A crumpet”
“My 2yr old genderfluid neicephew berated a builder who was buying a copy of the Daily Star with a scantily clad girl on the cover. The builder was overcome with emotion as the sermon sunk in, tore the paper to shreds, and pledged to dismantle patriarchy. So proud.”
Uffda. Why can’t people compete fair and square?
Just another example of people doing crazy things to be the best in the world.
RE New Years in Germany. I find it very disturbing they are setting up aid worker tents for assault victims. So it is that dangerous that the gov is planning for multiple assault victims? Who the hell lets their daughter/sister/any woman you know go to these things?
The problem with women today is that they don’t ask the men permission before they go places.
I still think my answer is the best- AMT 380 backup tucked in a discreet and easy to reach place.
Ya, that sounds wrong the way I said it, but you know what I mean. At least a conversation with them?
Maybe a conversation such as, “you are keeping one in the pipe tonight right?”
Appendix carrying your 9mm kurz OMWC?
I suggest something more like this.
It’s fucking crazy. Part of me hopes we hear some tales of vigilantism occurring where no witnesses can be found.
They are setting up safe zones where women can calm down?! It sounds like they are treating this as if the problem is those hysterical women. FUCK THAT!
Presumably these women have no fathers, husbands, boyfriends or brothers. Rapey assholes need a serious beatdown.
Rapey assholes need shot. Seriously. In the U.S.A. it’s legally and morally justified to shoot a rapist before he gets the chance to rape. Situations like what is being described are one of the reason why the 2nd amendment and a legal doctrine that doesn’t punish defense of one’s self is so important.
SPeaking of “leafy green substance“, it is 14° here on Rockaway Beach, we got about an inch of snow yesterday and it is still all dry and powdery so my Roor Icemaster is packed with snow (it’s one of my favorite things about winter) and burning some very nice Blueberry Sour. I’m on my second L0b0t’s Folly (4 shots of Bourbon shaken with ice and a big splash of black cherry juice, strained into a pint glass, topped with ginger ale). I just got home from work where I was informed that now that I have been dragooned into the union (United Food and Commercial Workers*, ya heard!) I receive time-and-a-half for all weekend shifts. I’m torn between my dislike of the forced association of trade unionism and my utter delight at making a wee bit more money.
*I really have no bloody idea why an overnight gig stocking the shelves at a retail grocer, something very much not a trade, necessitates membership in a trade union but here we are.
How much does the Toil Union take out of your pay?
About 2 hours worth of wages every month. Enough to make me bitter but not as screechingly angry as the ‘lunch break’, a mandatory 1/2 hour unpaid period (apparently it was once a whole hour but the union relented). I work overnights so I’m not hungry (I’m an adult and can prepare and eat food at my own house don’tchaknow) and there is absolutely nothing else open so it’s just 30 minutes of continuing to work but not being paid for it. FUCK NYC, NYS and ANY OTHER DAMNED APPARATCHIK WHO THINKS THEY HAVE TO TELL ME WHEN TO EAT!
So about 80% of Medicare?
DOES ANYONE HERE WORK?
I wouldn’t exactly call it “work” Bob
Damn.
Straight from my FB yesterday. Posted by the most truly insane SJW I know.
“Let me guess, no one will be indicted for Erica’s death either. White America is to blame.”
America is killing the people it needs most to save it. The news stories talk about Erica Garner’s “tireless” activism, but what other than a lifetime of fighting against racism could wear a young body out so badly that she had an asthma attack that led to cardiac arrest? Black women saved Alabama, and tried to save us from Trump but white women fucked that up.
This makes me think of the hard-working women of color I know, and how much this world owes you for your activism. After Alabama I heard people use the word “let,” like we should just “let” black women run everything but like, how dare the rest of us consider ourselves in a place to decide what to “let” black women do.
What if instead we practice a little matriotism and actively support the people closest to us in our immediate communities. What if we listen to Women of Color. What if we ask QTPoC specifically, what do you need, and then do our damndest to provide any and everything we can?
Look, I am still a white feminist, and I fuck up. If I’m doing wrong, tell me and I’ll take this down. But I want to ask the black women I know who really are doing the work in my home country, which I’ve abandoned, what it is you need and try and help. Say anything, from “have the hard conversations with your racist uncle” to “a goddamn spa day getting my feet pampered” to “some money for a doctor’s visit” like whatever. I’m tagging in comments as opposed to the status so if you think this is a bad idea I can delete the comment and sincerely apologize.
*barf*
Heart defects are a tool of the White Man.
“Let me guess, no one will be indicted for Erica’s death either. White America is to blame.”
I’d have responded with “Jim Crow lives”, and then when SJW McAsshole responds positively, I’d respond with “No, I was talking about you, you racist fuck!”
Happy New Years ya bastards!
Stop othering us with your time zone privilege!
He’s in UTC+9, so it’s only 2300 local time where he is. Not New Year’s yet.
10 minutes. Am I’m wobbling.
HNY Straff. On a scale of one to ten, how do you rate 2018 to what was 2017? Do we have anything to look forward to?
It’s like, one more man…
*Nods sagely
Look forward to tomorrow, Western.
HNY to you too. I am in the mood to purge, which means cleaning closets and going to donate the leftovers. If I have the stamina to load the car in 8 degree weather.
Heat wave!
-18 here.
Yuck. We have a balmy 29. I am glad we missed out on that cold blast.
That’s awful. We have -4 in the upcoming days and I am dreading it.
9 here, and the wind’s subsided, so I expect to be handed a snow shovel once I finish this coffee.
Oh, that sort of purge. For a minute I was worried you were bulimic.
Happy New Year!
Instead of setting up trauma tents, why don’t they hand out shark sticks to any woman who wants one? I’m pretty sure that would have an immediate perceptible effect on the sexual assault numbers.
No way you can say that we are over policed.
We need all those people to keep ISIS from blowing up the Idaho Potato Drop tonight!
Isis hates potatoes man!
But do they hate Count Potatoe?
Watch out for a mysterious “gunman” with an arsenal of weapons and no motives or history of anything plausibly leading to a massacre.
My 11 year old nephew just said that he doesn’t like James Bond because he saw a cover of a James Bond book with a naked woman on and he didn’t think that women’s bodies should be used to sell things #proudauntiemoment
Wokester theme music:
Are you a boy? Or are you a girl?
Way to other the kid, you binary cis shitlord.
Can Canadians even count that high?
I was going to say “some asshole State AG is going to have a field day with this.” when I first saw the product.
Thank goodness that they are doing a limited release amongst the frozen frogs.
My first thought was, “how da fuk you fit that in the fridge?” then I realized it was for the frozen frogs and realized you could just chuck it in the snow bank. Now I want one.
Should be Labatt.
I would buy that. Labatt’s a perfectly serviceable cheap beer.
Texas did it first
Letters to the Local Rag: Charles Bronson Edition
Death Wishes with Charlie Bronson.
Letters to the Local Rag: Deep Thoughts Edition
No bias here….
Miami Beach Commissioner Tried to Stop Cops From Arresting Campaign Donor Accused of Machete Spree, Emails Show
Sounds like a great story, right? How could any pol dare try to keep a machete freak out of jail?
Read the story and you find out the machete freak was a guy who owned a gun range and tactical gear shop who got armored up after Hurricane Irma to protect his store. He also used a machete to hack at 11 fire alarms that were malfunctioning and blaring away.
So, yeah, I guess I can see how a local pol should look out to make sure one of her constituents doesn’t get too hassled for shit that happened after a hurricane.
WTF? You can’t carry a gun outside your house in Florida?
Miami dude.
Some more New Years cheer
That DUI checkpoints were declared constitutional by the U.S. supreme court is an indictment on the literacy of the entire legal establishment in this country.
Ya, that one goes down in the “yes” column on the Has the Government became illegitimate checklist.
“In sum, the balance of the state’s interest in preventing drunken driving, the extent to which this system can reasonably be said to advance that interest, and the degree of intrusion upon individual motorists who are briefly stopped, weighs in favor of the state program. We therefore hold that it is consistent with the Fourth Amendment”
In other words, we can violate the 4th amendment if we want to and FYTW.
Thank you MADD.
Roadblocks in Minnesoda are unconstitutional.
One of our local communities has occasional DUI checkpoints. The local paper always publishes the number of stops and the number of arrests. It’s always in the 1-2% range. Even leaving aside the constitutional illegitimacy, they still haven’t figured out that they would actually get more arrests if all the units at the checkpoint were out patrolling instead.
If you point this out, you get the very reasonable response of “Why do you like drunk drivers?”
This is especially true with the signage requirements for checkpoints. I’ve only encountered one DUI checkpoint, and I had had a few beers a few hours before. I wasn’t impaired, and I probably would’ve blown a .03, but why take the risk? I saw the signage for a checkpoint ahead, took the next crossroad and drove around it. Even if i were stone cold sober, I would’ve drove around. Why waste 5 minutes of my time sitting in line so that Officer Friendly can sniff my breath and wave me on?
The entire traffic policing system here in the US is broken. The financial incentives are wrong, so they focus on stupid shit like going 5 over and setting up DUI checkpoints when they should be focused on nabbing the assholes who drive recklessly. Every penny earned in traffic tickets should be rebated to the taxpayers.
Meanwhile, actual crimes like robberies go completely uninvestigated. They’re worse than useless. They’re a net detriment to society.
yeah? well then why do bars have parking lots?
Hey, if you run, you get the gun.
/sarc
Uffda.
Looking back at 2017, can anyone outdo the Minnesoda arts scene for more stories of silliness and pathetic navel gazing?
Lame-o.
“I refuse to stay at a venue where the owner supports the likes of David Duke and his message of hate.” Club Jager has since closed. Transmission has relocated to the Uptown VFW.
I’ve been to a couple shows where Jakey boy was on the bill. I refused to get there early enough to see the signaling little creep.
My favorite.
Maybe if they went out and grabbed some POC for their conference things would have worked out. Of course, those people didn’t want to go, so you’d probably have to chain them up to keep them from running away. But still, you have to have at least a dozen or so to work the
plantationconference.I’ve said this before: A lot of people knew what that dude from Jager was into.
Did Rudh return all the money he made off him?
Did he donate it to some “woke” charity?
That’s what I thought.
Via Drudge in BIG RED LETTERS: HOUSTON HOTEL ARSENAL BUST etc.
https://www.click2houston.com/news/intoxicated-man-found-with-small-arsenal-on-top-floor-of-hyatt-regency-downtown-police-say
Looks like it’s time to panic.
“What, what am I doing here?”
Found in another story he linked:
Ah Sun, never change.
“small arsenal”????
So, not an arsenal?
Google ‘confirms’ All New Zealanders are sheep fuckers
I wonder if googling that airline douche that was trying to sue TOS would result in a similar result?
What guy was trying to sure TOS?
Arthur Wolk.
Once again computer algorithms confirming what is already a known fact.
Lazy dog fetch.
hah
Appendix carrying your 9mm kurz
for example
A good night.
That’s some serious Japanese fro.
Dave Barry’s 2017 year in review
Looking back on 2017 is like waking up after a party where you made some poor decisions, such as drinking tequila squeezed from the underpants of a person you do not really know. (At least you hope it was tequila.)
How did I not hear of this?
Fuck your sexbot without protection and 9V later, you will be emailed that you are a daddy of a human-robot hybrid.
Marvel at that lede.
I think I’m going to ask for Dr. Levy’s credentials.
I think I’ve seen this before…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeYrUyb-8f8
I was expecting this. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m6u8QIqLSmU
We had freezing rain for a good portion of last night. The drive to work this morning was long and slippery. I saw 6 vehicles in ditches between my house and work. Stay safe, Glibs.
I got back from a 10 day Caribbean cruise, where I swam in warm tropical waters, basked in the sun whenever possible, and got me a nice tan, yesterday morning to find it was 16 degrees and snowing. As I drove home it only got colder and stormier. I am neither exaggerating nor kidding when I point out that I must have driven past 3 dozen accidents before I finally got home. People seem to not understand that driving with bald tires in bad conditions is a surefire way to end up in a wreck.
Anyway, I went out for a hike this AM, and the thermometer saying it was 6 degrees outside should have warned me I was gonna be in for a shock. Pushed myself to get in those 5 miles. I think I am finally starting to feel my toes and fingers again, but my ears are still frozen.
When I lived in Memphis there was a giant ice storm. The entire city was covered in a half inch of glare ice.
Every hillwilliam in the area immediately jumped into their pickup truck and drove right into the ditch. All of them were stunned that their fancy 4wd trucks couldn’t drive on ice.
I was working for IBM as a repairman at the time and the dispatcher called me and asked if I could get to an important client in northern Mississippi. I snorted and told him that there was no way that anyone would be driving that far on roads today. And besides it wasn’t my client, why ask me? Because I grew up in Minnesoda and must know how to drive on icy roads. I told him that I had never seen ice like this before and from driving on snowy roads, I can assure you that no one is going to be able to make it there.
I’m gonna guess that this was in 2001. That ice storm covered half of arkansas, half of tennessee, and a good portion of Oklahoma with more than an inch of ice. My town was shutdown completely for more than a week.
I think it was ’93 or ’94.
Our apartment had no electricity or heat for 10 days. And my daughter had just been born. What fun that was.
February, 1994
In fact, now that I have the date, I remember having to hang out in our unheated apartment waiting for the Valentine Day flowers that I had pre-ordered to be delivered.
Since NN’s repeal, tits are now illegal. It’s like the saying goes, once tits are outlawed, only outlaws will have tits.
http://archive.is/8tPZK
1, 3, 37, 40, 42.
I like 38.
#49
4
Q, I heard about something on yesterdays year end Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me show while I was doing my NY eve shopping, and wondered if you had anything to do with this.
They rejected my idea of replacing the pic with this:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/4b/7b/26/4b7b26adcc8c017efb7515f1f1c27ddb.jpg
I figured the ‘Merica! theme would get all the military folks on my side, but the Fundies were too strong.
Sad. That’s a good picture.
#49 wins by default. Wearing a dirndl and a counter full of booze behind her. I’m in love. And look, DEG picked her instead of “orgy.” She is obviously the winner.
Also, #50 looks like she’s getting ready to make some Hasenpfeffer
6,15,26,45
#13 looks like Roaming Millennial.
RM’s carrying stronger gaijin genetics.
It looks like they are the only thing that is still legal in England.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/showbiz/670504/Charlotte-McKinney-cleavage-32F-plunging-bikini-Baywatch-sexy-beach-pictures-Instagram
Third International Congress on Love and Sex with Robots.
Sounds legit.
In sum, the balance of the state’s interest in preventing drunken driving, the extent to which this system can reasonably be said to advance that interest, and the degree of intrusion upon individual motorists who are briefly stopped, weighs in favor of the state program.
Good intentions. The end justifies the means.
That’s some crackerjack jurisprudence, Lou.
Shorter: FUCK 4A!
Like I said last night, burn the place to the ground protesters. Don’t stop until the Ayatollah is hanging from a lamp post.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/economics-dissatisfaction-with-current-regime-fuel-iran-protests-1514679332?shareToken=st191d75de225c4965848fdd6b701b3670&reflink=article_email_share
Funny how that works, innit?
I wish them the best.
If you want a fancy car, then all you have to do is work for the state theocracy, or the state beurocracy. It’s the same in totalitarian states all over the world and though out history.
Just like anywhere else on Earth, the average person in Iran is usually just a decent person trying to get by, and the average ruler is a horrible shitstain.
Best of luck to the Persians, and may the state of Iran burn brightly before crashing into ashes.
Or we could hang them out to dry and ship the Mullahs another 100B in cash.
100 billion here, 100 billion there, pretty soon you’re talking real money!
This will blow over in a couple days, just like the last one. The mullahs know how to keep the sheep compliant.
Didn’t Obama and Kerry mastermind some sorta mind-blowing deal with Iran?
Well, it blew MY mind, anyway.
It blew something.
“Callan said he doesn’t think the officer will be charged if the evidence shows Finch “went for his waistband in a way that looked like he was going for a gun.”
Do not fire until fired upon.
This was not death by cop, it was death by coward.
Oh, that sounds reasonable.
/dripping with sarcasm
I don’t see what’s unreasonable about it. Don’t like the policy, don’t seek the job.
I was commenting on the quote you cited, not on your reaction to it.
Do not fire until fired upon.
Hell, I’d even compromise with “do not fire until a weapon has been produced.” It wouldn’t fix all of the issues of cops shooting kids with BB guns, but it’d at least get these most egregious offenders.
When I went through CG LE school, we were taught that even if a gun is produced and the person is holding it, you could not shoot until it was raised and aimed at you known as “breaking the plane” of where he cannot shoot you, and where he can. That was some 24 years ago though.
This. ^ Dirty cops used to carry drop guns to cover their ass because if they shot someone the “perp” had better of been armed. Now the “perp” only has to reach to his waistband or coat. Does anyone know when/why this changed?
Post-9/11 I think. As I recall from the 90s there was still the expectation that a cop would have to actually see a weapon before believing an imminent threat existed. I think the social engineering of the War on Terror that gave us “See something, say something” and the acquiescence to civil liberties being violated in the name of preventing terrorism greased the groove for that to apply to regular policing. Every cop is a bulwark against the forces of chaos and death, constantly fighting to maintain sanity in a world where death awaits them at every turn, haunted by the ghosts of dead friends, family, and the heroes who’ve fallen before them. We regular people can’t possibly understand that pressure, so we’re really in no position to judge them when they shoot a kid in a park holding an air gun in an open-carry city with no prior warning.
You must be right Bill. It’s frustrating because even in fiction a gun is still required; I watch cop procedurals and the perp having a weapon is still required to make a “good shoot.” And I am sure even the majority of cop-suckers would (begrudgingly) admit that a cop should at least have to see a gun before shooting.
Part of the problem is the identity politics played by activists. If BLM had stuck to it’s original, core message of stopping police violence, I’d probably join them. But I and millions of other average Americans steer well clear of them -and are even repulsed by them- because of the Marxist and racist shit they spew. It’s frustrating.
BLM is shameful. Absolute scumbags, and if it wouldn’t be the cops doing it I’d be cheering for them getting the business from the riot squad every time they demonstrated. There was a narrow window where the opportunity to get police brutality and policing policies in general into the light and debated on the national level. Then BLM shows up and makes it a race thing. That’s bullshit, but at least it’s still police, and if you address police policies from a race perspective at least you’re addressing them, right? Then, as with everything infected by the Progressive left, the socialists took over. Now the fuckers have taken the issue of police brutality and the war on drugs and have turned it into arguments for minimum wage and against Trump.
They’re not just socialists, they’re full-blown communists. Their manifesto is straight out of a little red book.
The part that really infuriates me is that the po-po – with all of their special training that makes them extra competent to handle firearms and high-stress situations – are held to a LOWER fucking standard than you and me.
You think YOU could get away with saying “he moved his hand toward his waistband” and walk?
Yeah, if not for the loss of life I almost wish one of these situations would arise but with the opposite outcome, i.e. some police try to bust into the wrong house unannounced and the homeowner puts them down. I’d love to hear the defendant say, “I saw him reach towards his waistband in a threatening manner and so I discharged my weapon in self-defense.” In the real world I know that the guy wouldn’t survive the encounter, much less make it to trial, and if he did the response would be a verbose version of “there’s a double-standard and it’s ok because police are heroes”, but just once I’d like to hear them forced to say it.
Some day someone is actually going to say to my face “of course it’s a double standard and it’s okay” and I’m going to punch them in the nose and say “yeah, I see how that works”.
Do not fire until fired upon.
I thought this was the way it used to be. When did it change?
To me, “Do not fire until fired upon” is similar in spirit to a presumption of innocence.
At the risk of being dogpiled, waiting until someone actually pulls the trigger is waiting way too long.
I’d settle for the ROE being “If you’re swept by a muzzle”. That requires that you see a firearm, that the carrier has it deployed, and is in a position to fire. It still won’t save all the needless cop-initiated carnage, but it would be a start.
I just thought that was the way it used to be, not necessarily the way it should be. Your guidelines sound OK to me. Certainly shooting before you even know there’s a gun is violating the presumption of innocence principle.
Also known as “Means, Capability and intent. That is the Breaking the Plane training I received. You did not have to wait for the gun to be fired at you, but you better be damn sure it was intended to be. Moving, reaching, acting weird…….are not intent.
Game wardens sometimes have ride-alongs with some standard issue LEO, and they have to get them to stay calm when dealing with hunters, because “of course they have guns”.
It is amazing how game wardens, who are first and foremost state troopers, don’t shoot everyone they interact with who has a gun. Perhaps it has something to do with the type of individual seeking said employment.
FWIW (and assuming the report is accurate), my local cops apparently are much more forbearing.
“Uniformed patrol officers, sergeants, and detectives of the Street Crimes Suppression Team, all trained in de-escalation and crisis intervention techniques, arrived within three minutes…Officers utilized a variety of active crisis intervention and de-escalating techniques…officers began deploying less lethal weapons as an alternative means of engagement, however, before those resources could be utilized, the suspect, without warning, took a combative stance, raised his gun, and fired an unspecified number of shots in the direction of the officers. Officers immediately responded with lethal force and the male was incapacitated.
Officers rendered immediate lifesaving aid and CPR, during the time medical personnel were responding to the scene. Medical personnel from Redwood City Fire and AMR arrived a short time later and pronounced the male deceased at the scene.”
Took place about a mile away; I believe I heard the shots (also a lot of fireworks going off pre-New Years, so not certain).
http://6abc.com/police-man-massages-teens-back-at-airport-hands-him-money/2842710/
Who knew that kind of thing is frowned upon?
“Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?”
Swamp is being drained and WaPo haz a sad.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-the-trump-era-is-changing-the-federal-bureaucracy/2017/12/30/8d5149c6-daa7-11e7-b859-fb0995360725_story.html?tid=ss_mail&utm_term=.fe9b483e5b34
That might be the most beautiful thing I’ve ever read.
Right?! That whole thing is a goldmine of cheer.
If only the draining would extend to the Pentagon and the encampment of parasitic contractors which have encircled DC.
The wetlands around the swamp must be drained with the same fervor, and I don’t see it happening.
Not when they are pumping water [money] into it.
If that’s true, It is truly a Christmas miracle.
This almost makes me regret not voting for Trump last election.
If he keeps this up I may just have to vote for him next go round (which based on my track record would mean he loses).
Don’t you people get it? They were in position. Once the firing squad has gotten in position, there’s no turning back!
In a just world, some Aryan Nation thug would be discharging his weapon in this guy’s ass behind bars.
No. Rape is not acceptable as a punishment.
Makes sense for the DNC-MSM to cover it this way considering the Iran “deal” is one of the last remaining dominoes of Zero’s legacy to fall.
http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=373188
Q’s tittays today lead me to this: Yoga Pants
#15 is right up my back-alley IFYKWIMAITYD
#46 is…wow
I’ll take a woman in a sports bra and yoga pants over expensive lingerie any day of the week.
This is why I’m always in lust with my wife. She mostly lives in yoga pants.
This guy gets it.
Imagine the possibilities with #11…
14 must be a Kiwi.
I’ll have a Zen sandwich with 17, please.
Mmmmm 19
#46 makes me understand how fishing works. Twitch the lure in just the right way and the big lunkers just come boiling out, even if they aren’t all that hungry.
Direct link to #46 for those of you who might have gotten distracted by #1-45.
I need to see #16’s depth before I make a judgment.
42 – #Impressive
Thank you all for leaving 28 to me.
Let me save you the time of reading this: What women want = good, what men want = bad.
https://ifstudies.org/blog/number-1-in-2017-his-standards-or-hers-how-men-and-women-define-success
Related from the article: “Dutch women and children are happier than those in other industrialized countries”
Why the obsession with happiness as a measure of societal success? This seems to be the exclusive purview of prog utilitarians. If we started pumping MDMA into the ventilation system, everyone would be 100% happy all the time. Didn’t somebody write a whole book about this? Hulxey or Huxley… something about Soma? Superficial happiness is a lousy measure of anything; Frankl had it right all along, meaning is the most important. If all you care about is happiness just make it illegal to not be on an SSRI and call it a day.
Isn’t there a movie like that? Equilibrium, I think.
They don’t talk about the quality of life of being left the fuck alone.
***
And these biologically influenced differences help to form distinct life goals and preferences, among the rank and file, as well as among stratospheric achievers. A 2014 study on the careers of 1,600 intellectually gifted 13-year-olds—identified in the 1970s as being in the top 1% of mathematical ability—found that there were many similarities between the adult men and women when the researchers followed up on them four decades later. But there were also some fascinating and important differences. The gifted men were more likely to have gravitated to IT, STEM, and CEO positions. The gifted women were more likely to have chosen careers in health, education, business, finance, medicine, and law. (Only in a world that values men’s choices more than it does women’s would working as a physician, behavioral scientist or a judge be considered a less worthwhile endeavor than working in tech).
In addition to the type of career this gifted cohort chose, there were also remarkable sex differences in values that affected what type of work people wanted to do and how much time they wanted to devote to it. Overall, men as a group valued full-time work, making an impact, and earning a high income, whereas women as a group more often valued part-time work, along with the time for close relationships, family and community involvement.
***
How shocking, is what a alien scientist might say.
How shocking that men pursue money when money is merely the most reliable way for a man to attract a mate.
Conspicuous in its absence: the male-female ratio in the top 1% of mathematical ability
https://my.vanderbilt.edu/smpy/files/2013/02/CurrentDirections.pdf
short version- on the math section of the SAT, here was the male-female ratio by score:
over 500: 2 to 1
over 600: 4 to 1
over 700: 13 to 1
The evidence is clear:
Statistics are sexist. Why, did you know that while women are 50% of the population, they have 100% of the babies?!
Outrageous!
I hate to break this news but for the vast majority of us IT and STEM aren’t the money-printing enterprises that a lot of people seem to think, certainly no more so than “doctor” or “lawyer”.
My law degree doubled my salary from when I was an engineer. Unless you’re in silicon valley, you can’t dream of touching a first year “market” lawyer’s salary (currently $180k) until you’re 10+ years into your career.
Well, I doubled my salary by working from home. I made $9000 this last week, and bought a new AUDI. You can too, learn more about it here!
But did your cousin Amy see your paycheck?
She did, and she was amazed.
An Audi?
Haaa Haaaa!
/Nelson Muntz
Nice. A Yokel story: I was told of a Canadian kid who my fam up there knows who went the VoTech route and got his welding ticket. The kid had numerous job offers with compensation in the $200K range upon completion. Granted those are Canuck dollars, but pipeline welders make bank.
via instapundit
13 things to expect in 2018
I actually think he makes a good case for many predictions
e.g.
“accused of what amounts to statutory rape”
Except it wasn’t statutory rape at all
Yeah, I was going to point that out. Once again, narratives have been formed, Opinions fixed, etc.
Isn’t one of the accusations that he engaged in sexual activity with a 14 year old, age of consent being 16 and statutory rape not requiring ‘rape’ rape then yes the accusation did amount to statutory rape. The definition of sexual activity may be too broad in ones opinion but that doesn’t make the statement false.
The accusation was that he requested she touch his genitals, which under Alabama law currently, and at the time (as I understand it) would be sexual assault.
There’s no statute of limitations on sexual assault in Alabama, so conceivably, an accusation of sexual assault is both legitimate and prosecutable.
If you give credence to the accusation of other women, his behavior could easily be described as predatory, but there’s a reason why rape accusations excite the level of social commentary that they do.
Intercourse is a requirement under Alabama’s statute.
Huh, IANAL but my impression was that those laws were fairly open ended, along the lines of Statutory rape includes sexual assault and sexual assault is damn near anything, glad to be wrong. thanks for the info.
Activity not assault.
Scrolling back up and taking that out of context makes me want to move to Tuscaloosa…
I severely doubt the Republicans could lose the House, but they could lose the Senate.
I don’t think they’ll lose control of either. They’ll almost certainly lose seats in the House as they were pretty much at the ceiling there, but even if they lose a couple seats in the Senate, there are way too many Red State seats (MT, MO, WV, etc.) that *should* be relatively easy pickups for the Pubs. Alabama was a one-off with a terrible candidate, as badly as the Dems want to believe that it will be, it won’t be recreated.
ND is one that could very easily (even likely depending on who you listen to) flip a Senate seat to the R’s.
I believe Heller in NV is the only Republican up for election in a state Hillary won.
MT, ND, WI, MO, IN, OH, MI, WV, PA, and FL all have Democrats up for election in states carried by Trump.
I would be surprised if the Democrats didn’t use Gloria Allred against at least one Senate candidate.
^What Q said.
they will lose seats because incumbent parties always do.
but the risk-exposure is offset by the fact that there are more dem seats in jeopardy than GOP. especially in the senate
TW:Vox
i find the rest of the Voxian analysis pretty bullshit. e.g. “Winning Jeff Flake’s open seat in Arizona, or Bob Corker’s open seat in Tennessee, or defeating Ted Cruz in Texas”
none of which will happen. They will get nevada. they will lose a few others.
in the house they will gain, but not enough to flip it.
I have to disagree about the 2018 election, mainly because the GOP still has another 10 months to fuck things up.
And when machines become self-aware, the first thing they will do is dismantle the net, because they won’t want all the other machines to be able to read their thoughts.
I think the IoT thing is going to be like calling everything vaguely involving computers “cyber” or when computer viruses would make the nightly news and people expected them to do everything from steal their credit card information (before widespread Internet shopping) and make the milk spoil. Sure, the surveillance thing is a possibility, but that potential already exists and has done in various forms for decades. The bottleneck has always been making sense of the data gathered and turning it into usable intelligence, the solving of which problem is why targeted Internet advertising based on the user’s own volunteered information is so profitable, e.g. Facebook or Amazon. I know the author was being facetious, but the most likely issue with smart appliances going haywire is probably stuff like the refrigerator ordering way too much milk or your watch phone calling your wife on its own at some time of day you’ve called her frequently in the past.
I do think he struck gold on the Nork thing, though. I’m not sure a coup would be unsuccessful, but they’re absolutely due. Kim Jong-Un is crazier than a shithouse rat, and that makes people in the upper echelons of power nervous. It’s hard to maneuver through the halls of power when the guy you have to play to do it is unpredictable.
Japanese War Tuba?
https://twitter.com/historylvrsclub/status/947235558232875013
Made me think of the Polish War Piano Accordion, and then I read some of the followup comments …
The Brits did it as well
Not to be confused with this
OT: Man – HM’s posting yesterday was Internet AIDS.
I guess there are some things that are just too much for even us …
Why, what happened?
Hit “Previous” and see for yourself.
I still don’t see what happened.
28 responses? That must be a record.
Even with all the terrible shit we say in the comments on a daily basis, very few wanted to be cyber-linked to what ever the hell that was.
Evidently HM used to be involved in ABC’s sports programming.
That was very HM like. Weird.
A good comment:
Yeah. Very, very weird. And there was no damn way I was clicking on that link.
Bgaaak!
I realize this has been asked before, but has anyone ever seen HM and Agile Cyborg in the same room at the same time?
“Women in Iran are valiantly protesting genuine oppression. So far the silence of major feminist groups in USA is deafening. Where are you @NationalNOW @AAUW @nwlc @MomsRising #IranProtests #Iran”
https://twitter.com/CHSommers/status/947218200013561857
Even Laura Loomer said something perfectly reasonable.
https://twitter.com/LauraLoomer/status/947300272912572416
And the images are “sensitive”.
Vampires was a documentary.
https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/947315392396931072
James Wood is great
Round, firm buttocks caressed by yoga pants… I’ll be grinding my axe.
?
One word: sexbots.
https://nypost.com/2017/12/25/dating-in-the-metoo-age/
“What one woman considers annoyance or even mild harassment, another might consider harmless flirtation, or even seduction. We’re all individuals.
Yet at a time when unwelcome advances are increasingly stigmatized, how is one to know in advance what type of approach is likely to be well received?”
Color coded vagina hats?
how is one to know in advance what type of approach is likely to be well received?”
Easy-peasy.
1) Be Attractive
2) Don’t Be Unattractive.
Exactly
Truth.
I mean, women have been replacing men with toys for years. But I do think it says something interesting that there’s a growing number of men who, given a realistic-enough looking sex doll, will happily drop out of the dating pool. And I say men specifically because the sales numbers skew very heavily towards men, not women.
It’s a double-whammy too.
Men have been leery of long term relationships for years, if they didn’t want to end up with a common-law ‘wife’ who could ‘divorce him’ and take half of his wealth until he retires. The financial risks have been there for years.
Now, we also have lifetime reputational risks, and I don’t see how that bunny can be put back in the box.
Just as shooting wars result in an acceleration in technology for fighting wars, the late 2000-teen gender wars will result in an acceleration in technology for sexual satisfaction.
See my comments re: man/woman detritus from last night’s lynx.
Also:
“What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.” -Henry Miller
Doesn’t specify that the sexual intercourse has to occur with a human partner.
This was anticipated.
I’m having friends over tonight and made gluten free brownies (one friend has Celiac’s disease). My first try at gluten free baking that wasn’t something already gluten free like meringue. They are good, right texture and flavor.
It’s hard to get the texture right on gluten-free stuff. A coworker of mine has Celiac’s, and her baked goods are stupendous! She said it took quite a bit of practice to get the texture to work.
It’s the recipe from Against All Grain, a paleo cookbook. I find a lot of the recipes bland, but this one worked.
Take a look at Tulip now.
I have that cookbook. I found all the recipes I tried to be horrid. I am not a very serious Paleoite though. I do cheat weekends and holidays, and bring on some fine tasty Gluten is my motto.
Do you just use special flour?
This one uses coconut flour and cocoa along with baking chocolate.
Gluten is important to structure and texture, so replacing regular flour isn’t just substituting.
I’m working on planning out the garden for next year. This is my first time doing actual planning rather than just buying what looks good and planting it into the ground. This is also the first year trying a garden at the new house, which is plagued with rocky soil and ample shade.
I’m thinking about doing four 20-foot beds (width probably around 4 feet), resulting in 12 rows to be planted. I’m also gonna kill off some rose bushes and use their bed to start an herb garden. Finally, I’m gonna put in a few crowns of asparagus as an experiment.
I’m not sure what all I’m gonna plant this year. I want to keep it somewhat simple, so I’ll probably do a bunch of what we know we’ll eat: tomatoes, green beans, cucumbers, summer squash, and peppers.
We’ve got a small, shady yard being as we’re in the city. It’s a challenge chasing the sun around the yard, trying to find little spaces where we can cram whatever grows best in that particular light, but we do pretty well with stuff like tomatoes, kale, and squash. If I were going to stay here too much longer I’d probably start fooling around with mirrors, to be honest. I’ve heard of people building funky-looking arrays of almost disco-balls and reflective metal to grab light, diffuse and bounce it into darker parts of their yards.
Asparagus takes around five years to establish.
You are in for a 2 year investment of your time with asparagus. you won’t get good stocks unail the second spring.
Big pile of horse manure, and drop some zucchini seeds in it.
Let some of the zucchini grow really big, and make marrow rum.
What, you live in a food desert? All that’s available at my supermarket, and no working in a garden frees me up to better supervise those darn orphans who are
always behind on the monocle orders.
Homegrown tomatoes are not available, and they are special.
^ This ^
The best store bought tomatoes are vastly inferior to the worst homegrown tomatoes.
All that’s available at my supermarket
I don’t usually give any credence to the “they’re selling us crap to improve their bottom line” BS from the MotherEarth types, but produce is an exception. Produce grown for supermarkets is bred to ripen evenly, survive shipping without damage, and look good. Notice that taste isn’t in the priority list.
Homegrown produce often looks like shit but tastes amazing.
While I often agree with Ben Shapiro, Lily was smoking hot.
https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/947314206122000384
hmm? (googles)
oh my
http://www.who2.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/alyssamilano-16.jpg
I’d be her Tony Danza anyday
Conan is looking forward to all the winning! Never took him for a Trumpster.
Yeah, but seemingly nuttier than a sack of squirrel shit.
I’ve had a thing for Alyssa for…well…most of my life. It makes me sad that she won’t shut up about politics.
#metoo
OT: Sounds disgusting, but hardened up with a little vodka (or not, if you have kids) you can recapture a little of those idyllic summer evenings with lavender lemonade.
This is very similar to my recipe that I make every holiday season for the NYE celebrations. Fresh lavender is obviously preferable, but this time of year? You’d have to steal it from a botanical garden or hothouse.
or my house, everything is getting ready to bloom
Braggart.
Wifey likes Lavender,she gets Lavender
Hey Yusef, I have an HVAC question for you if you have a minute.
Yusef, I’ll save you the hassle.
Lach, the VAC stand for vacuum.
Larf!
And the H stands for hair. Yusef is a FlowBee rep.
yes
HNY, Ya Capitalist Pig! Working on Sunday! ZardoZ would like a word with You….
HNY to you too buddy. I appreciate the help.
Well here goes.
We had freezing rain here all night. My Moyer in law called me earlier concerned about her unit. It’s a heat pump unit with the A coil inside and the evaporator unit outside. The freezing rain froze the coils solid on the evaporator unit. She says it’s still working, but she’s worried.
I told her to get a space heater or a hair dryer or something and try to thaw some of the ice. I think if she she can get a hole thawed for the fan to pull air through, then it should start to defrost itself. It about 25 outside, so I’m not sure if that would work. I told her to not pour hit water over the coils, because I’m afraid it would make the problem worse, though I’m not confident of that.
It should be in Defrost mode if the Condenser is frozen, this is normal, the machine is at it’s limit. Sounds like a Defrost Control board is the issue.
What should happen is at a certain low ambient (varies by model) temp, the unit switches into Cooling for about 5-10 minutes, defrosting the coil
If the unit IS in Defrost, the outdoor fan should be OFF, and the compressor running, pumping nice Hot Gas through the Condenser coils, neat to watch it all melt in sequence
Ok, so if it’s not going into defrost mode, should I tell her to switch it A/C mode and run the A/C until the condenser thaws?
That would work, if it doesn’t, it would be due to the DF board not switching the reversing valve,
I’m actually T’shooting as we speak, continue..
Are you at Her place? take a picture of the condenser controls, or gimme a model/ serial number
I cant, I’m at work. I’m gonna call her and tell her to run her ac for a bit and see if it thaws the coils.
One more thing She can try, Have her shut off and reset the Fan Coil Breaker, then the Condenser Breaker.
This will reset the entire system, and might clear the fault, when they fire off the go through a POST so if there is a problem, it might show itself. Lemme know, I’ll be around most of the day, off and on.
Running the AC for about 10 minutes thawed out the unit and it’s back to making heat again. Thanks Yusef. I wouldn’t have thought of that on my own. I’ll buy you a beer if you’re ever in arkansas.
I love rosemary lavender lemonade. I make it using pink lemonade concentrate. And yes, a little vodka is great.
My in-laws bought us an entry-level Sodastream for Christmas and our vodka consumption has virtually quintupled. Being able to customize mixers down to the carbonation level will be the end of my liver. That lemonade sounds awesome, what’s your recipe?
It says in the instructions to only carbonate water….. but I don’t.
You must enjoy the inevitable cleanup.
1 T each fresh lavender and fresh rosemary, chopped fine. 2 cans pink lemonade concentrate, prepared according to can instructions. Best after sitting overnight.
Not sure if this was discussed here…
Facebook Says It Is Deleting Accounts at the Direction of the U.S. and Israeli Governments
I guess they don’t have to bake any more gay wedding cakes either.
“Mr. Kadyrov’s accounts were deactivated because he had just been added to a United States sanctions list and that the company was legally obligated to act.”
So much for the prohibition on bills of attainder. Where does fedgov even get the authority in the first place? Commerce clause, or just good old penumbras and emanations?
Dude, a bill of attainder is by a legislature. This was done by the executive branch. Totes legit.
But Twitter deleting attacks for wrongthink is A-OK.
It’s O.K. when We do it Derp,
http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/28/politics/trump-climate-change-analysis/index.html
Ugh, dude, I work with people who in theory should know better (EPA among others) and they do the same shit. Unusually hot/cold/wet/dry? Climate change? Weather’s totally normal? Weather isn’t climate, so it’s still climate change. These cats are politicians and bureaucrats first, and scientists second.
I 97% Agree with you,
😉
BAM! CONSENSUS!
UBBSTRUKSHUNUSTS!!!
http://freebeacon.com/issues/schumer-continues-to-block-pick-to-lead-top-railroad-regulation-agency/
The Railroad Unification Plan will deal with those obstinate greedy owners.
Roll call!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN3BcIOatOE
Just got back from church. Still -13 in the Twin Cities. The pastor welcomed the few stalwarts who showed up at church as the “frozen chosen.”
Something something 9th Circle something….
I kind of like jogging in negative temperatures like this, mostly because of the facial expressions of motorists. Here’s a picture of my outfit for when it gets into single digits and below:
https://imgur.com/a/KiJ7X
Rockin that look, baby!
Nice. I thought of this guy
If you don’t jog while carrying an axe or chainsaw you are totally missing an opportunity.
…Akira is Deadpool?
Look like your getting ready to punch a fascist
It’s a balmy -11 up here! Woot!
The last time I looked last night, the local paper had 70 cancelled early services, Sunday school, etc… We hit -27 air, -33 windchill overnight.
Dang. I did see a few cancellations, but mostly the show goes on.
At least we have honest crunchy snow and not that “wintery mix” crap that plagues the more southerly states and is far more treacherous.
Keep warm!
It seemed like it was all rural and small town churches. Saving all the rural drivers from venturing out.
Yeah, I’ll take snow over that icy mix shit any day. But temps in the teens above isn’t too much to ask for is it?! 😉
16 in NYC baby!
It’s a balmy 25F here at the confluence of Spa Creek and the Severn River. We’ve been dipping into the low teens pretty regularly. My POS floor furnace has been failing to come on overnight, and I wonder if the cold is screwing with the gas switch nozzle deal.
Manually exercise the valve, all the way off, pilot, on and back, 2 or 3 times, them try it
67. I have on long sleeves.
I’m taking my 3 year old on an excursion to the desert on Tuesday. Should be 80 by then.
Are you taking a shovel? What did the kid do?
74 here. I can’t wait for summer to come back so it’ll be 84.
Down in the teens tonight. I dont care. I spent thursday splitting wood. My fire is keeping it a nice 77F inside.
Here too.
Supposed to be cool when we leave for home ; 30s for lows in south Florida end of this week.