Signs of the Apocalypse, or we’ll make great pets — Tech company offers free microchipping of workers. I’m guessing the 30 minute constitutional visit to the bathroom is going to get noticed.
It appears a server squirrel got loose in Brooklyn. An even less interesting animal story.
Watching your spouse choke someone to death can get you fired from the Harris County Sheriff’s Office. I’m not hopeful about the arbitration making this stick.
And if you own guns, here’s an app to avoid.
Another big win for the NHS*.
*I don’t know what the chances are of this being missed in the private system, but I actually assume pretty high. This is just kicking them around for funsies. I was surprised and pleased to learn that her relatives could pursue a legal case against the National Trust.
I question both the intelligence and taste buds of anybody who says they enjoy eating avocado.
I’d rather eat avocado dip than humus. And I don’t want to eat avocado dip.
The only way chickpeas are edible is fried, aka falafel. Mmmm. Falafel.
I would try that. Damn near everything is good fried. I would even try fried avocado.
If they’re made properly they are good, if not it’s kind of like eating sand paper with the texture.
My dad and I were hanging out at his house a few summers ago. We had just picked the garden and decided to fry some okra to go with the whiskey we had been drinking. After frying the okra, we decided to fry some squash. Both were excellent. Things went a little off the rails from here. We decided to fry most everything else in the kitchen.
Carrots were edible.
Cucumbers, not so much
Celery was not good
radishes, tasted about the same fried as raw.
Pickled eggs, defiantly the worst.
Fried okra is great, and it’s good in many dishes.
https://www.throwedrolls.com
If you’re ever in the northern Ozarks. Their fried okra is excellent. Or it was when I was a child. I’m willing to bet Lachowsky is familiar with the joint.
Fried okra is great.
However, this is true only if it is fresh. Fried frozen okra is gross.
Fried green beans are the best, yo.
Not sure about cucumbers, but fried pickles are great. Same for fried mushrooms or cauliflower.
Let’s just go ahead and say everything fried is great, but some fried things are better than others. Pickles yes, mushrooms yes, cucumbers that won’t work. Zucchini is another thing that is excellent friend.
Mmmmm falafel! OMWC makes terrific falafel. <-- not a euphemism And I make homemade pita. We are clearly a match made in... well, someplace like Las Vegas, since we don't believe in heaven.
So he puts his falafel in your pita eh? Still going with ‘not a euphemism’ for your final answer?
*studiously avoids glaring at Vhyrus since he’s got good New Mexican creds* +1 Christmas
Wouldn’t that be more like Tatziki?
I wouldn’t want to eat humus, either.
Uh yeah…which is why I said I’d rather eat avocado!
Also; I’d rather not eat hummus either.
You guys should just be thankful that we left the hummus cult back at the other site.
Not a fan of that paste?
That’s pretty funny
Jeez, Remy’s Mom’s pretty hot.
Y’know, if I was into women that age . . . {walks away whistling casually}
She’s doing a belly dance in this one
Yowza.
No, YOU’RE dumb and tasteless!
Avocados have a weird texture thing for me, similar to tomatoes. I like guacamole, and I like pretty much all Tomato byproducts, I just don’t like tomatoes or avocados on my sandwiches.
What? BLT is the shit. Extra B.
BLT’s are one of my summer favorites(fresh tomatoes are key imo).
And I tried avocado on it one time and was not a fan.
Hey, I like BL part, I just dislike the T.
I make a mean BBB
I could eat that.
I believe he meant “Big Booty Bitch”.
Oh, in that case….
Bacon wrapped apples.
Take a tart apple (honey crisp or pink lady works best) cut into slices, wrap slices in thick cut bacon, Sprinkle cinamon and brown sugar over the bacon, bake at 350 until Bacon just starts to become crispy, struggle to resist eating till they cool enough to not melt your face. While you are doing that drain off some of the excess liquid from the pan and stick back in the oven for 10 more minutes, let cool, enjoy Maple Bacon Carmel
Would.
Roasted bacon-wrapped corn on the cob. A staple at one of the restaurants I used to go to in Calgary during the Stampede. Roasted until the bacon’s crisp and the corn-cob’s saturated with the grease from the bacon. Who needs butter? Who needs salt?
Freakin’ awesome.
Dayum, son.
Do you need to boil the corn before it goes into the oven?
Not that I’m aware of. Mind you, these were likely roasted over a grill or fire, not in the oven.
Well, I know what my breakfast is on Saturday…
I feel bad for anyone who doesn’t like tomatoes. What sort of life is that? It’s almost like not liking beef.
I hate raw tomatoes. Salsa, ketchup or pasta sauce I eat all the time though.
You can have them. Tomatoes taste like bitter, watery, cellulose pulp.
But enough about Tammy Faye Baker.
You’re not doing it right — get some beautiful red, locally grown beefsteak tomatoes. We had some last week along with the local peaches-and-cream corn on the cob and steak from the grill — yum.
Damn, that sounds great.
When I was a kid, I’d go out in my grandmothers garden with a shaker of salt and eat the little pear and cherry tomatoes, as well as the many types of big ones.
Since I started growing tomatoes I like them fresh off the plant. Luckily I get them fresh from the yard 12 months a year.
What about guac? You try to take my guac, you pull back only a bloody stump, is all I’m sayin’.
This chick gets it.
+1 “Guac me, Amadeus.”
Hey, I’ve got nothing against guac. I hate tomatoes on my burgers, but I consider grilled cheese and tomato soup as the ultimate comfort food. People are weird that way.
Tomatoes are watery and often bland tasting, they don’t even add a pleasing texture like lettuce does. I am all for leaving them off of burgers.
A lot of people in this thread have never had good tomatoes and I feel bad for them. It’s a crime! Why won’t the government do something about this?
You must have only eaten store-bought tomatoes.
Seriously.
I’m gonna have some nice caprese tonight, in the tomato-haters honor.
Three hints:
1. Summer only
2. Farm stand
3. Summer only
“There’s just two things that money can’t buy, and that’s true love and homegrown tomatoes.”
Addendum:
2b. Grow your own
Tomatoes are a very easy plant too grow. All you need is a bucket of dirt and a deck. Hell, just put it in front of a window.
I made Guac yesterday.
Worst part, I HATE Guac and won’t touch the stuff. Somehow I manage to make it well enough that my wife and kids keep demanding I make more.
Guac slave. Works for me.
They’re the food of the gods and the capital G Gods too.
Guacamole is mostly avocado and it’s great on tacos, so there’s that.
One of my favorite parts of a homemade burrito/taco night is fresh guacamole.
Turkey bacon guacamole burgers at Carl’s Jr. are amazing.
I could eat that.
Turkey bacon is blasphemous but edible.
I hope he just forgot the punctuation, because turkey, bacon and avocado is a glorious combination.
That was my lunch today. And glorious it was.
True dat.
Chicken salad with bacon and sliced avocado, on 12-grain bread. Know it, love it.
Yeah. I find turkey “bacon” to actually be delicious. But I don’t compare it with real bacon, so there’s that.
It’s like veggie burgers, they can be damn good, just don’t think of it as a meat alternative. Think of it as its own thing.
^^ He gets it
+10 How SP manages to live in a vegetarian household
What is wrong with you people?
You want the whole list or the top 100?
I have an avocado tree in my back yard. They take a couple days to ripen so there are always a few sitting on my kitchen counter slowly becoming more and more delicious. Sometimes I just open them up and eat them with a spoon. So yummy!
*makes travel plans*
Omega 3, Suthen.
He has chickens in his yard for that?
Is this how the deep dish thing got started? One person put out a personal distaste for something everyone lese finds wonderful and suddenly becomes ostracized?
We do not ostracize anyone here. We just mock and belittle them unceasingly.
*still crying about pineapples*
You will never earn a Get Out Of Cat Butt Free card at this rate, Doom.
nooooooo
I did make that pineapple dish you posted. it was delicious.
Duly noted
The deep-dish debate had two passionate sides, just like the circumcision debate.
Three sides, really. One side said “delicious pizza.” Another side said, “Abominable pizza.” The correct side said, “Delicious food, but IT’S NOT PIZZA!”
There was a fourth response, which was “gimme,” but it got drowned out in all the PizzaPartisanship.
Gimme.
Splitters!
That is the correct side. Well done.
And THIS is why we’re married, OMWC.
Interesting.
So what you are saying is not to float the idea of avocado as a topping for deep dish pizza?
Avocado on deep dish tomato pie would be fine with me. OMWC wouldn’t eat it, though. But UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES can anything anyone calls “pizza” incorporate pineapple. *gazes sternly at Doom*
This is why SP is my favorite. Well, this and the Get Out Of Cat But Free Card I
kissed ass forearned today.And the typical American xenophobia towards Canadian cultural cuisine continues.
I make burritos with cut up sausage, cheese and one cut up avocado.
very filling, pretty darn cheap, and good for you.
I could eat that, too.
They make for a good quick lunch. It also falls into my “less than $5 for lunches” plan.
Cheap can be good. (And necessary.)
Wait a second. I thought fun was good? … Which is good?! They can’t both be good!
We are inclusive here.
While I generally share your distaste of avocado (and its progeny, guacamole), I will say that avocado is good in tortilla soup. Mmmm….
As long as you put no soapweed anywhere near the soup or the guac or the salsa or the…
Agreed. Ginger is disgusting.
Yeah, I always was partial to Mary Ann, too.
*rolls eyes at Mad*
Me!? What about what Tundra said?
You goaded him into it.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
She’s not wrong.
Are you suggesting I shouldn’t wear this mini-skirt?
Could you at least shave?
I just shaved all the way up to my mohawk this morning! You’re like Mr. Burns with these shaving demands!
Have you ever had avocado tempura?
You can get some when you take your pillow out to dinner 😉
I’m just going to assume you’re basing this on FL-grown “Slimcados” instead of CA-grown Hass avocados and you don’t actually know any better.
I’m usually a defender of all things Florida, but our avocados do suck.
Your concession of this very hard truth just speaks to your good character.
But sadly not good enough to warrant a Get Out Of Cat Butt Free card.
I can’t imagine him ever needing such a thing.
Well, there is that. Florida Man is, after all, known for good sense and restraint.
While it is true that Florida avocados are inferior to California Haas avocados, that’s sort of like saying Treet is inferior to Spam. Everyone knows truly good avocados have to be imported from Mexico.
Hawaii has great avocados, pineapple and mangoes. I don’t touch any of these off the islands, in the US.
The hell is wrong with you?! Anyone who doesn’t like avocado is a fucking commie!
Re: the deputy
Her statement does NOT match the video.
Ha ha!
Since when does that matter?
She made a ridiculous statement that made her sound like the good guy. And then… the video.
Which lead to this:
“They called her in, wouldn’t tell her what the meeting was about, and told her she was fired”
Ha ha!
Since when does getting *fired* matter?
We’ve all been around Balko nutpunches long enough to know two things:
1. Video doesn’t matter. Who are you going to believe, the word of our heroes in blue or a lying video that doesn’t tell the whole story?
2. Getting fired doesn’t matter, since a large percentage of times that officers are fired, the firing is overturned in arbitration, and the cop gets back pay (with overtime!) for the time off.
Last
I figured the NHS link would go here. Charlie Gard’s parents have given up their legal fight because the US doctor told them that this has been dragged out for so long that there really is no chance of helping him at this point.
Damn those NHS bureaucrats, they have even more innocent blood on their hands now.
Government is just another word for the babies we kill together.
Which was their intent in the first place.
Exactly that. You aren’t escaping our wonderful healthcare system, we know what’s best for you.
And so the heretics were defeated by the Holy Church of Rational Right-think, and all was well again in the realm!
This is where a bureaucrat or two need to be assaulted, maybe run over by a lunatic or just someone wanting vengence. Not that i advocate violence but these people need to know its a possibility when they directly harm other people.
I was listening to BBC News on NPR interviewing their go-to specialist in “palliative care.” Of course, all of the Q&A assumed that the parents have no part in making the choices, this is the province of Experts. Yeah, the experimental treatment is likely a dead end, so to speak, but still, I wanted to punch his no-doubt-smug face for his paternalistic authoritarianism that he wears like a layer of skin.
I don’t think single payer fans understand that the ones paying the bills will make the decisions on whether something is too expensive and you must die.
IDK, there are far too many people in comments sections on this story who are all too happy to turn over all decision making power. They attack the parents because obviously the doctors in that hospital know best and have said that everything was done that could be done so why don’t these selfish parents just kill their kid already?
Thanks for the nut-punch there JB. Some of us were getting a bit uppity and needed the beat down.
Fuck that shit. How do these people sleep at night?
They sleep the sleep of the smugly self-righteous. They are certain that they are all on the side of the angels.
Count the emaciated people who may starve without food stamps. Let me know how many you see.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMtTxvvLWEs
I’ve seen a few that are under 400 pounds, but they’re like 8-10 years old.
Thanks for the shout-out about the squirrels. Moar coming.
Here, that doesn’t sound good.
More of my fiction, that is. The last story featured death by squirrel.
Oh, I thought you meant the commentariat squirrels were migrating here.
Dem’ squirrels is mean.
Any Squirrel-Girl?
Tippy Toe goes feral.
Any Squirrel-Girl?
Yes! Hubba-hubba!
Riki “Ridd1e” LeCotey is a cosplay goddess. (And she’s a Canuck.)
While there is some unfinished business in that storyline, I’m working on something new.
Speaking of signs of the Apocalypse
The Justice Department estimates that one in five women are assaulted during college. This number does not surprise me, although plenty of my fellow conservatives take issue with it. I have met so many women through my gun advocacy who felt helpless in the face of sexual assault before they carried a weapon — they felt that no one would listen to them, that they didn’t have any options. It is a huge failing of the conservative movement not to take this seriously. Even if the one out of five statistic is imprecise, isn’t one assaulted woman bad enough?
Female gun ownership isn’t a matter of political affiliation. I’ve met women across the political spectrum who own guns for self-defense or for shooting recreationally. In particular, black women have become a lot more interested in gun ownership and shooting classes.
The rights and values of gun-owning women aren’t being addressed by either political party. While conservatives aren’t paying enough attention to sexual assault, liberals are actively hurting women’s access to self-defense. Many liberals — including many female professors my organization approached as potential sponsors for Empowered — don’t support a woman’s “right to choose” when it comes to her own self-defense. They can’t get behind a vision of female empowerment that doesn’t match their own.
Contrary to popular belief, there is a place for young, pro-Second Amendment women in modern feminism. And there is a place for them on college campuses.
In the NYT(!)
Commenters are, as you might suspect, almost unanimously appalled.
Commenters: “Young women owning guns? I’ve come down with a case of the vapors!”
Up next on MSNBC. Armed and Hysterical: the false consciousness of self-defense.
Because nothing is more empowering than peeing your pants when someonr tries to rape you.
“I have met so many women through my gun advocacy who felt helpless in the face of sexual assault before they carried a weapon — they felt that no one would listen to them, that they didn’t have any options.”
Ok, as much as I support more people exercising theit 2nd Amendment right and as hot as I find a good female sharpshooter, don’t you think maybe the college girls carrying might have significant overlap with those who feel unsafe/have felt unsafe in the past an resolved to never feel that way again? It’s like signing up for a weight loss program and being shocked a lot of people there have a sweet tooth.
In what way are conservatives not paying enough attention to sexual assault? Every time any conservative dares to suggest that women defend themselves from rapists they are immediately countered with ‘RRRRHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEE VICTIM BLAMING ARGLEBARGLE!’. This isn’t a failing of the conservative movement in any way. You can get handguns in damn near any shade of pink, purple and teal now. The only (and I mean ONLY) people trying to stop women from getting guns ARE FUCKING LIBERALS!!! What planet does this person live on?
Uranus?
MAYBE YOU SHOULD TEACH MEN NOT TO RAPE!
Shooting rapists is an excellent way to teach them.
It’s a deterrent that works every time.
Empirical evidence
Oh my god, you NEVER disappoint.
In what alternate universe would I EVER click on an HM link? I mean, EVER?!
Earth-29.
Wow he was a good shot. Totally worth the click.
I remember this shirt logo being popular in the 90s.
Tiffany Blue. You can also get them in Tiffany Blue.
I want a tiffany blue AR. No joke.
“”The Justice Department estimates that one in five women are assaulted during college.””
Is there a link to that there? Pretty sure that’s not remotely true. justice officials might cite that bullshit stat, but they didn’t generate it. That’s just mendacious attribution
I’m surprised the Obama-era DoJ didn’t estimate that six out of every five women are assaulted during college.
Ok they actually do have a bjs report
I am surprised that bjs would ever “estimate” when their own crime stats undermine those claims
Rough summary of their statistical horseshit = 70% of the assaults are “not rape”… Which can be anything from actual violence to ‘slapped my ass’. It still presumes that a huge proportion of college women are raped yet never report it
I just had this conversation with OMWC. It infuriates me. Patting an ass is NOT equal to rape. The first is boorish and obnoxious, the second criminal.
*takes notes*
Yes, they lump a bunch of things in with rape and call it rape.
Although, to be fair, you better only pat my ass with the hand you don’t need anymore.
Duly noted.
It’s actually perfect for the moral panic on both sides.
One side will blame oppressive patriarchal capitalism, while the other will blame being soft on crime.
They will then agree on policies to expand their own power, for the women and children of course.
The author of this piece should take her gun and her chewing tobacco and go back to her trailer.
Did I nail the gist of the comments?
if colleges have rape statistics that make prison look like pietist revivalism, then the women should be armed.
cue that bullshit stat on armed women more likely to have their firearm used against themselves.
They clearly just need more range time.
Maybe the university should build an indoor range for, you know, inclusion and diversity.
Which makes me wonder. Do colleges still have rifle teams?
Yes. Also pistol teams.
It was more rhetorical. I’m the best shot in my family since my paternal grandmother got arthritis (OK, and then died).
At montana state, we could check in our long guns at the front desk in the dorms.
I think there was a team there.
Mine did, and still does.
Or we could put women in prison. You know, for their safety.
Where they could make movies . . .
*fap fap fap fap*
The sound of the AH-69 Fapache assault helicopter
Women are competent and strong, but also too stupid and weak to safely handle and retain control of a gun. Gotcha.
This is the kind of person I could “have a conversation” with. Regardless of the bogus statistics, she’s at least open-minded enough to acknowledge guns being a useful tool. It’s better than the usual screeching (like the comments).
I’ll take people who mistake anecdote for statistics for $1000, Alex.
Comment:
“I’m sorry that you live in a world that you perceive as so dangerous and that you feel you need to illusion of safety provided by a gun. I only hope that you’ve had extensive training in the use of that gun and its proper care and storage. Every 2 days in the USA a child dies in a gun related accident. (Far more die in suicides and murder.) The blame for this can be put almost entirely on adults who failed to store their guns properly. Ignorance kills.”
No, accidental gun deaths of all ages are around 500 a year total. And that’s including murders, suicides, and police shootings ruled as “accidents”.
Ignorance kills.
Even worse, it breeds.
Comment:
“Yet another argument for guns that relies on emotions, not facts. You are not, statistically, safer with a gun. The other people on your campus are, statistically, far less safe because you (and others) are allowed guns. I understand that you like guns. I understand that you enjoy possessing guns. But you must understand that the law cannot make exceptions. Guns pose an embarrassing public safety risk, exacerbated by concealed carry. Your argument lacks rigor. The Texas law in question is a travesty, and should be overturned as soon as possible.”
SMDH
Analysis shows that people who are unarmed in a time of war are less likely to get killed than those armed. Therefore we should send an unarmed army into war.
Statistics!
I’m pretty sure concealed carriers are statistically less likely than this commenter to pose a danger to others or to commit any kind of crime.
The interesting thing about carrying a gun is that you start taking fewer risks, even in mundane things like the route you take to work, because the consequences could be way worse *because* you carry.
Ugh that commenter.
If the rape statistic were true, like AT ALL, how would you be less safe with a gun than not? Aren’t there rapists around every corner on campus? If rape is so constant and common and so fucking traumatizing that a dude touches your boob, then why the hell SHOULDN’T I wave my weapon in his face to make him stop? Hell, if it’s so horrific that I had drunk sex that one time that I need to file a Title IX claim and ruin some dude’s life, I feel like I should be able to shoot him, just on the basis of their own argument.
In all honesty, if one in 5 women are raped on campus, that would make campuses more dangerous than most cities in third world countries. The only sane thing to do would be to shut them down now for safety sake. Where’s Congress when we really need them?
The rights and values of gun-owning women aren’t being addressed by either political party.
Here we go with the “even” handedness of both sides … blah blah. No, there’s only one political party that is actively trying to prevent you from being able to defend yourself.
Those nasty conservatives taking issue with a talking point just because it’s a lie. And just because that lie is used to strip innocent people of their rights…. we’ll gotta break some eggs etc.
I’ve never seen anyone on the right say women shouldn’t own guns, just the opposite so two straw men down I guess.
Love that Bob. (TM but not a euphemism.)
Another Bob Cummings fan?
So, some of us were talking on discord, and we think Sloopy should convince his daughter to change her name to Glibertarian. #Forthechildren.
Glibertalia sounds better. And has a good historical antecedent.
That sounds too much like a sexual organ
You’ll never keep a girl unless you learn your way around the Glibertalia.
Is that a pro or a con?
Ask any girl named Regina
Rhymes with fun!
Or Mulva.
Or Litoris.
Dolores.
*snaps finger
Delores!
So… it is the perfect way of honoring this place then.
“I think i’ll name my daughter Chlamydia.”
Clammy clam would be her nickname.
I keep teasing my girlfriend that if we have a daughter her name will be Moleste.
Actually seen that. Apparently, dad was upset that mom had it when the baby was born and didn’t get it from him.
“I love names from Greek mythology! If it’s a boy, we’ll name him Testicles, if it’s a girl, we’ll name her Urethra.”
rolled straight into a black clinic
RACIST
By my count, 2 doctors and several nurses missed that diagnosis in the first encounter alone.
RE: The pic out front.
He’s crowning!
Why does it have to be a he, Shitlord!?!
Of course, knowing her audience, she trots out that “1 in 5” nonsense, instead of just saying, “Because This is AMERICA, you dumb bunnies! I want a gun, and I’ve got one.”
To encourage people to click on links, the headline for the NHS story above is
Mother died from flesh-eating disease after sex game injured her wrist, inquest hears
Damn, the competition must be murderous if The Telegraph is beginning to sound like The Sun or DM….
On the story itself, not sure I can fault health system for failing to spot extremely rare form of the disease and letting her go home. I guess in a more panicky and fee-oriented system, she’d have been kept for observation regardless, generating several thousand dollars of insurance claims and not dying? On one hand, apparently the hospital didn’t follow the required procedure, on the other, I’d guess in 99% of the cases the procedure is an overkill…
People die of this disease every year; it’s rare, deadly and causes non-specific symptoms until it becomes a serious problem. It’s also very fast moving. It’s caused by bacteria that’s normal on your skin. If you’re unlucky, it gets into the muscle sheath and causes massive, rapid tissue destruction. People can catch it by stubbing their toe and end up losing a leg. The only reason this is getting any media play is the salacious way she caught it.
Dude I stubbed my toe 2 days ago and now you’re freaking me out
It’s also a little ‘fected. I blame my socks.
Socks? It’s summer.
The only concession Gilmore makes to the weather is to unbutton the top shirt button.
I was thinking the same until this sentence:
By the time you get to the coroner, isn’t any temperature, heart and pulse rate considered abnormal?
Zombies, dude.
Let us hope for you sake Sgt Krueger survives…
The NHS is so efficient they get you to the Coroner sooner cutting all the red tape of looking for heartbeats and such.
Missing it isn’t surprising, but with her vital signs (including a fever) they should have suspected infection.
As FB said, they claimed (after the fact) that there were enough red flags that she should have been kept under observation.
Took the kid to a water park yesterday (gift for getting straight A’s in school last year (dadbrag)). Fun, exhausting day. Plenty of eye candy, plenty of… well, plenty of the exact opposite. Saw two guys with a chest and arms full of prison tats and one with the Nazi Party symbol on his right arm. Good times.
Which waterpark?
I assume that Disney would toss you for that kind of tattoo.
If I had to guess… Adventure Island?
Live way too far south for a day trip to Orlando. Place called Rapids Water Park near West Palm Beach.
Adventure island is in Tampa. Still thanks for saying which one it was, I would’ve been wondering on that all day.
Ah. Couldn’t remember if that was one of the Universal water parks or whatever in Orlando.
When I was growing up there was a water park called Six Flags Over Atlantis in Miami. Now *that* was a weird place.
Island of adventures is a universal park, but not a water park. They just built Volcano Bay, universal water park near my house. Looks pretty cool.
At least he’s signaling his low intellect and asshole personality so you can avoid him.
I’m picturing this massive intimidating ex-con with Nazi tattoos sitting in a tube drinking out of a coconut while floating down the lazy river. Awww he’s not so scary.
Fight fire with fire and go to the park in a Speedo. Make them recoil in horror for a change.
Dude, you realize how many people vacation here from Europe? There’s already enough of that without me adding to it.
In Brazil, you can always find aging speedo wearing Germans on the beach. They’re not the only ones wearing speedos, but they’re the only ones wearing speedos with sandals and knee socks.
Reminds me of the Philippines
*Snaps tooth floss thin spandex string seductively*
When we lived in Florida, my wife had a close friend whose brother was a hopeless addict who had been to prison multiple times. I don’t think he officially lived at her house but he spent a ton of time there. He had a bunch of prison tats and some of them were Nazi tats. He was a very friendly guy who sometimes had friends of various races over, making the Nazi stuff perplexing. So my wife asked him about them once, and he shrugged and said it was just a prison survival mechanism. Said prison’s much harder if you’re not part of a tribe, so he threw in with the Aryans. Makes sense enough, I guess.
This dude pretty much embodied the phrase “Florida Man”. I don’t think I ever saw him with a shirt on, or footwear of any kind.
Yep, that’s how it goes. There’s no “rainbow coalition of good dudes who band together for self protection” in prison. There’s the Black Guerilla Family, the Mexican Mafia, the triads, and the Aryan Brotherhood types. Makes it real easy to sort out who to fuck up in a prison riot.
One of the many reason the current American penal system is a terrible way to actually lower the crime rate.
“One of the many reason the current American penal system is a terrible way to actually lower the crime rate.”
You’re not saying that once someone has had their life ruined and cannot get a job, that they might turn back to crime, are you? Because that’s crazy stuff. We need to build more prisons and make more stuff illegal, that’s the solution.
I took my kid to a water park in the US last year. Eating lunch near us, one mom was clearly with her single sister who had a glow in the dark Tiesto tattoo on her upper back. She was smoking and miffed there was no ashtray at a children’s water park.
I went to typhoon lagoon yesterday and was surprised to see a full bar and smoking at a Disney water park.
Just because they are at a water park, it doesn’t mean that children need to deprived of their second hank smoke. That would be cruel.
She had a glow-in-the-dark tattoo of a house DJ? Did you ask her if she had any pills?
kids don’t use ash trays for their joints.
Friday I went to a Toby Keith concert at the local fair. There was a guy walking around in a Confederate flag t-shirt, and nobody cared. That, and listening the the song lyrics made me think about how different things are here in flyover country. Transplant the scene to either of the coasts and everyone there would be arrested for hate crimes.
Just one guy?
There’s more than I can count flying from houses just within a 10 minute drive around me. A lot of blacks sport the stars and bars too. The coastals and yanks just don’t get it.
Yeah, what really cracks me up is when I go down to Richmond for drill. Every morning on the way in to the station, I pass this massive flagpole flying the stars and bars (right as I cross the interstate). I know it’s visible for miles, especially in winter – guess it’s on private property right next to the street, but there’s no fence or anything around it.
One that I saw from my seat. Plus, about 30 minutes in it poured rain so the concert was cancelled and I was too busy looking for white t-shirts to notice stars and bars.
I do see the flying outside houses too. Nobody really seems to give a shit.
Charlie Gard’s parents have given up their legal fight because the US doctor told them that this has been dragged out for so long that there really is no chance of helping him at this point.
Next up, NHS seizes funds contributed for treating the child in America. Because utilitarians.
You think a little too much like a statist bureaucrat (redundant, I know)
They have determined that, as the funds were raised for Charlie, the money is his, and since people paasing their property to their descendants is evil the money should rightfully fall under the purview of the benevolent state. They vow to use these funds to foil any future attempts for the evil rich* to try to get better healthcare than the proletariat.
*Read: non-politically connected middle class
Can’t find Bill Burr’s “Whatever they’re doing to animals, They’ll be doing to people in 5 years.” clip
So my sister did one of those “find your genetic ancestry” things, and her results (which I’d assume would be similar for me, since we have the same parents) were 99.7% European. (86.6% NW European)
So now I’m officially a white cis shitlord!
Anybody here whiter than me? 😉
What’s the 0.3%?
STEVE SMITH?
Neanderthal but close.
Sub-Saharan African.
Dad’s parents both emigrated from Germany; Mom’s father’s ancestry can be traced back to the Dutch who settled New Netherlands and the thinking is that before that they were in Flanders. (Apparently an amateur genealogist vanity-published a book about 20 years ago on the original ancestor who emigrated back in the early 1600s for a family reunion we never attended; some time later we had access to a copy of the book and our section of the family was a bit off.)
How African ancestry got into the family, I have no idea.
Once you go black…
My experience is, you have a really good time unless she is totally nuts.
One drop rule!
I’m 100% European…not even a drop of Semitic or African or Native American blood. 40% British, 46% Scandinavian/NW Europe, the rest Eastern Europe & Ireland.
Whitey.
The Irish don’t count as white. Unclean! Unclean!
69%! Western Europe, 15 percent UK, with a smattering of Eastern Europe/Italy/Greece/Scandinavia
Pretty damn white.
Would you like some sun block?
German, Irish, Scottish & Dutch. I get sunburn through my office window.
I’m too paranoid to do one of those tests, mostly because that tiny lingering conspiracy theory voice inside of me tells me that 23andMe/Ancestry are keeping this stuff for giant government databases (there is one case I believe where the government did get DNA info from Ancestry without a warrant)
You’re one of (((us))) anyway and it won’t test for reptilian humanoid DNA.
I thought it was already proven that they give this information to the government.
Yeah, I keep dithering about that. Curiosity tempered by paranoia.
Fuck, I figure I’m already destined for the camps.
My brother and I both got the Ancestry test. The results were quite different, so it was fun to abuse each other about mom and the UPS guy.
It’s fun and cheap – highly recommended.
Half brother or is the test just bunk?
No, totally normal. Only identical twins will have even close to the same profile. Our percentages were different, not the geographic areas.
Still, you gotta take those opportunities.
Learn something new everyday. Though i think i learned that in middle school biology. I guess that piece of info was replaced with some other piece of information.
Since the Mormons run all the genealogy sites, including the DNA sites, and they are historically the bulk of FBI and CIA agents…
You’ve got some Jew in you. From time to time, anyway.
Only when I can’t avoid it.
Damn, just spewed espresso all over the keyboard . . .
My Dad has a mormon half brother, (had), and I got my hands on all their research some years ago. My family are muts. When I worked with Europeans they would ask where my family originated. My reply was, “One Grandma was from N Dakota, the other from Bakersfield. One Grandfather from Saskatchewan, the other from Oklahoma”.
I agree about the genealogy sites. I would never do one. The less they know the better.
Use an alias.
I didn’t really want to send my dna off, but if the family records are accurate, both sides of the family came from Ireland just before and just after the civil war here.
Yep 2 of my great grand pappies were drafted into the Union Army.
The ladies stole horses from canada and sold them to the union army.
at least that’s the story.
Am I the only one who doesn’t care who my ancestors had snu snu with?
I’m really curious to see if I have any Neanderthal DNA.
If you do, will you demand reparations from those with no/less Neanderthal DNA?
I assume this all went to back hair and a chiseled jaw line.
You do if you have any European or Asian ancestry.
I really like genealogy. I have many lines in the extended family documented back to the 1400s. I’m even eligible for DAR membership and keep thinking it might be fun to join and shake things up.
You *assume* you have the same parents.
I suspect those tests are 95% bullshit. No way they have samples big enough to make such claims.
You don’t have to suspect. You can read all about how they do it here.
10,000 samples. They assumed their controls are pure to the places they got the samples when it’s likely they are mixed and possibly recent mixes making the results not just unknown but possibly inverting origins.
That’s true. Especially since, in reality, there is no such thing as a “pure” sample as there are no autochthonic populations.
*Reluctantly raises almost transparent hand*
Yup. Me.
Stuart Brody is waging a one-man jihad against any sexual activity that isn’t unprotected, penile-vaginal intercourse resulting in female orgasm. Seriously. At least he’s not in the US, so I feel relatively safe that his money is not coming from my taxes.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1743-6109.2009.01677.x/full
Peer reviewed publication so unassailable.
Spooge vs. snot
How’s that for family friendly?
If snot shoots out of his body during sex I am going to wager he is doing at least 1 thing wrong.
Has anyone heard about that Blue Whale Challenge thing? My wife told me about it. To me, it sounded about as legit as jenkum, butt chugging, and alcohol tampons. I did 5 minutes of searching and found that the story originated in Europe, and while some police departments there are warning about it, there don’t seem to be any confirmed reports. The story seems to have originated in Russia, and news outlets here are just passing on a juicy sensational story without doing their homework.
Moral panic. Total BS.
Yeah, looks like nonsense.
Sounds like an urban legend that people are using to blame their child’s suicide on. Either that or we are raising a generation of statist sheep who are easily manipulated.
I’m pretty sure raising a generation of sheep is precisely the governments goal.
It still cracks me up that anyone ever took jenkum seriously.
for real, that one was obviously bullshit, and yet…
summarize it for us?
What is that?
Jenkum is supposed to be Fermented human feces that people were huffing on to get high. Nobody actually does that.
I just spent 5 more minutes reading the Snopes article and already I’m more informed than the average news reporter. In summary, there’s supposed to be this game on the Internet where kids sign up for a series of 50 challenges in 50 days. The first challenge is to draw a blue whale. Then it escalates util the kids have to pick a spot where they will commit suicide, and then the 50th challenge is to kill themselves. According to Snopes, the story did originate in Russia but may have been due to a misunderstanding. Originally a group of kids that were part of a gaming community committed suicide, but they think the community was just a place where already suicidal teens connected, not that it caused them to be suicidal.
In the US, news agencies (as recently as this week) are reporting this as a real thing. To me, it’s really interesting because we keep hearing about “fake news”, yet here is some legit fake news and reporters keep passing it on and other people just accept it without questioning it. Some articles do mention that it’s not a confirmed story, but they report it anyway and say “even if it’s not true this is a good time to talk to your teen about suicide.”
I frequently and repeatedly talk to my teenager about suicide, but you know how headstrong they are. No matter what I say or how I say it, he refuses to go through with it.
Maybe you need to create a hip, PSA-like video so you can really get through to him.
Something with Bill Nye and dancing vaginas should serve the purpose, after multiple viewings.
Letting him read Sugar Free’s stories could move the process along
The clown panic of just before the presidential election last year was fake news.
All for pissing on the wall of a Denny’s?
Isn’t that standard after having eaten there?
No, but seriously. How does Mr. Hero cop feel now? I tell you what should be going through his mind: I killed a guy for public urination? WTF?!
Interior or exterior wall?
But see, you wouldn’t have, because you don’t have cop mentality. You would have just said ‘gross, what an asshole’ and went about your business, like most people. I wonder how many people cops have to murder before something finally gets done? If them gunning down a woman in her pajamas in an upper middle class neighborhood doesn’t do it though, I’m not sure that anything will.
Y’all aren’t going to sell me on avocados. Forget it. They are chick food. Sack up and toss the guacamole to the girls.
“Woebot seems to care about me. The app asks me for a list of my strengths, and remembers my response so it can encourage me later. It helps me set a goal for the week — being more productive at work. It asks me about my moods and my energy levels and makes charts of them.”
Seems to care about you? Children, women, dogs and horses, did they get fed and watered before you started naval gazing? Let’s see if Woebot and that iPhone will fit up your ass as easily as your head.
Why are they chick food? Shouldn’t chick food be phallic shaped?
The word avocado is derived from a Nahutal word that means testicle. Interestingly enough, they are also classified as nuts.
Interesting story about North Dakota starting to adopt some ideas from the Norwegian Penitentiary System.
North Dakota’s Norway Experiment: Can humane prisons work in America? A red state aims to find out.
That actually raises a question I have been mulling over for a while: what should be the primary purpose of prison? Is it to punish people who commit crime, and the threat of such punishment deter future crime? Is it to rehabilitate criminals so they can function in society as peaceful people? Or is it simply to keep people who would commit crime away from law-abiding citizens?
This and this only.
In that case, shouldn’t we strive against having “humane” prisons? Unless it would be better to have a tiered prison system with “humane” for stuff like stealing someone’s car and “welcome to Hell” for people like child rapists?
The number of years that you lose your freedom for is the tiered system. Your stay should be “humane” for its entirety.
I am OK with going straight to crucifixion for child rapists.
I don’t care for the “Welcome to Hell” model. To deprive someone of their freedom is punishment enough.
In his book Popular Crime, Bill James argues for a brand-new model of tiny prisons. It’s an intriguing idea, but hell, we can’t even get marijuana rescheduled, let alone completely reform the prison system. He also discusses the idea of tiers of punishment.
I never have liked the idea of property crime being treated as such a smaller evil than violent crime. Thieves deserve little better than than those who assault others. Stealing is robbing another of their time. Time is all we have in life. A thief is scum in my eyes.
Also, the government is the biggest thief of them all.
The Viking1865 Plan for Criminal Justice Reform
1. Naturally, the only crimes that can be prosecuted are crimes that have an actual victim.
2. For property crimes, the role of the state is to extract compensation for the victim, not to rehabilitate. If someone steals my car, valued at 15,000 dollars, and he totals it, then he owes me 15,000 dollars plus interest. If he’s a worthless layabout, then he can dig ditches until he’s earned 15,000 dollars. When he earns that 15,000, they knock the chains off his ankles. Say that’s 3,000 hours of labor. That’s 75 40 hour work weeks. Or it’s 50 60 hour work weeks. His call. If he’s got usable skills, then he can pay me off faster. Say he’s a scumbag car thief, but he actually is a talented graffiti artist. Cool, he can paint from his jail cell, and send me the proceeds of his art sales. Once again: 15,000 to me, and voila, we’re good, and he can go on with his life.
3. Crimes against the person feature restitution and also punishment. Punishment is corporal. You’re not a billy badass who coldcocked a guy in a bar for eyeing your girl, your just a sobbing bitch screaming for it to stop while you take the 20th stroke from a cane across your backside in public. Trial took an hour in the morning cuz it was all on tape, caning took 20 minutes in the afternoon. Here’s your complementary pillow to sit on, and see the clerk about covering your victims medical bills.
I’m sold – As long as you getting your $15k back doesn’t end up costing the tax payers a ton of money in room and board for the person who stole your car.
Well usually in libertarian conceptions of restitution based justice systems, the convict actually picks his prison and pays for it, or a private company puts up bond for his release.
So if a convict is a carpenter who crashed his car into someones house while drunk, then he’s obviously still needs access to his tools and workshop in order to work so he can pay the person he victimized back. So he’s gonna need to post bond so he can work to pay off his debt.
The whole theoretical system is based on the principle that taxing the victims to pay for the advanced criminal education of people who victimized them is fundamentally backwards. Because that’s how it works right now: someone violates your rights, and then the State violates your rights in order to punish the person who violates your rights.
The state is in no way interested in your property, unless they can find a reason to take it, or tax you for it.
Oh yeah, anyone who’s ever actually called the cops to help them knows that.
Had a gun stolen out of my glovebox once. Called to report it, thinking I’m doing the right thing. Five minutes later there are 5 cops and 3 cruisers there, and all five are circling me on my front lawn, acting like I personally flew in a CONEX of fucking Kalashnikovs.
Yeah. I learned my lesson the first, and only time I called the cops. Saw two guys beating up a third guy close to where I lived at the time.
They told me they couldn’t take a report and come out unless I reported it in person at the precinct. I went to the precinct and they proceeded to treat me like I was lying and possibly had done something criminal myself for about half an hour. They also questioned why I showed up in person instead of just calling it in.
At no point did I get the impression they were going to look for these guys, and it was obviously too late to catch them in the act.
The precinct was close enough that they could probably have caught them beating the guy up if they left right after I called.
Sweet!
“Bob
Bob2 days ago
I can’t drive down a main street without cops hiding behind signs and waiting to ambush their own citizens for petty infractions. As much as the police unions and politicians drill it into our heads these guys are heroes, I think they are sadistic pirates and love bullying the public. Nothing good comes from an encounter with these authoritarian thugs. They think we serve them rather they serve us. Our founding fathers warned against this – yet somehow it’s unpatriotic to call them what they really are. Government thugs.”
I feel the same way. They pull the same crap in the small town here. Aways hidden stealth-like. Moreover, the fuckers are sitting in decoy cars more and more. They’re armed to the teeth for what? To hand out tickets for speeding and not doing stops?
“I can’t drive down a main street without cops hiding behind signs and waiting to ambush their own citizens for petty infractions”
They don’t consider you their own citizens. They consider you ‘you’ and themselves ‘us’. And you is in a war against us, so…
I don’t think cops think they are in a war with everyone else. I think most wholly buy into the “sheep, wolf, sheepdog” thing. The problem is to them everyone who commits a crime is a “wolf” and should be treated as such, and they get annoyed when the “sheep” get uppity.
And that annoyance leads to a ‘war-like’ mindset. Shit, they even claim there’s a ‘war on cops!’
Bob is 100% correct.
Nice work, Bob.
When they say the fine is to protect you they really mean the city needs a fancy new unecessary something.
unmarked cars shouldn’t be allowed to get people for traffic violations.
For sure. I find it a gutless move on their part. I see no honour in that.
Just fucking stand there like men and pinch us if you have to.
It angers me to my core.
I don’t mind if a detective has an unmarked. because they aren’t looking at speeders or people who make a right turn at 1 mph.
How do you expect them to fill their quotas then? If people see a cop car, they’ll slow down. And getting people to drive the speed limit is not the point, revenue is the point.
I don’t even think there should be a speed limit.
But yeah, It’s straight revenue.
why 35? wasn’t that posted in the early 80’s?
hasn’t technology made cars able to handle the road faster than that by now?
My wife’s car was broken into Sunday morning and her purse was stolen. Her credit card was used at the Circle K down the street at 5:02 am. They could just go over there and get the security footage, but sitting in the doughnut shop’s parking lot is a lot more satisfying.
There’s no money to be made by recovering stolen property. That’s why they don’t do it.
The comments on that story are encouraging. If enough people would get tired of this shit, the cops would be held accountable for their crimes.
I was going through louisville a couple weeks ago and saw two cop carsin particular thatcaught my eye. One was a red VW (jetta maybe) and the other a silver nissan altima. Pirates is a fitting name for them
“Signs of the Apocalypse, or we’ll make great pets — Tech company offers free microchipping of workers. I’m guessing the 30 minute constitutional visit to the bathroom is going to get noticed.”
Nothing could possibly go wrong with this plan. And they do know what Christians are going to say about this, right?
Dammit, now I have this stuck in my head. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H833o5lnB2E
Its literally linked there.
Literally.
The micro chipping is pure insanity. Anybody who agrees to that deserves to be tracked down and shot when the state decides they should be tracked down and shot.
The Pets link was great and Brett deserves a round of applause for linking a decent tune in the first link.
Well, I know for a fact that none of my Christian family or friends would allow that, they would be horrified at the thought of it. And I’m pretty sure none of my libertarian friends would allow that either. I’m not religious, but I find it creepy as hell. They’re not putting one of those things in me, I can tell you that much.
Yeah whatever dude. Take your meds.
The grand proposals of the ’60s futurists also faded away, as the Fordist period of postwar economic growth abruptly about-faced. Instead of automation and guaranteed income, workers got austerity and deregulation. The Marxist theorist Franco Berardi described this period as one in which an inherent optimism for the future, implied by socialism and progressivism, faded into the “no future” nihilism of neoliberalism and Thatcherite economics, which insisted that “there is no alternative.”
The fall of the Soviet Union cemented this “end of history,” in Francis Fukuyama’s phrase, and signaled a return to late-capitalist dystopian narratives of the future, like that of “The Time Machine.” Two of the most popular sci-fi films of the ’90s were “Terminator 2” and “The Matrix,” which both showcased a world in which capital had triumphed and its machinery would not liberate mankind, but govern it. The recent success of “The Road,” “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “The Walking Dead” similarly predict violent futures where only small underground resistance movements struggle to keep the dying flame of humanity alight.
Thatcher ruins everything. Even sci-fi.
“The Marxist theorist Franco Berardi described this period as one in which an inherent optimism for the future, implied by socialism and progressivism, faded into the “no future” nihilism of neoliberalism and Thatcherite economics, which insisted that “there is no alternative.””
Right, because nothing is more optimistic than the state owning the means of production, healtcharce, income, etc, in effect fully owning everyone, and holding a gun to their slaves’ heads to prevent counter-revolutionaries of the glorious worker’s paradise.
soviet apologists make me sick.
As a decade, 70s were well-known for optimistic, forward-looking attitude and belief in things progressing in ever-better direction due to technological inventions.
+1 pet rock
It is becoming clear that we need to add update our “pot-smoking Mexican butt secks” with “pot-smoking, avocado-picking Mexican butt secks.”
“Mexican” obviously includes avocado.
Just like how you don’t have to specify “Catholic,” because of ass-sex.
Isn’t ‘avocado picking’ just a euphemism for one of those other three things?
/Butt Sex
The internet just informed me that “avocado” is derived from the Aztec word for testicle, so maybe you’re on to something.
Rant: The hysteria surrounding anything and everything Trump is pushing me to defend him more and more often. I’m almost–almost–to the point where I’m going to drop the “I think he’s an asshole and I didn’t vote for him, but …”
Latest dinner party ruined was last night. My aunt took umbrage to Trump’s foreign aid cuts (what foreign aid cuts … but I digress) and spent a good long while denouncing him as possibly literally the antichrist. The idea of Americans investing in American infrastructure when there is still AIDS in Africa is apparently beyond the pale. And people in the Rust Belt voting for the one person in two decades who at least listened to their cries of “Our communities are dying and we just want to work” aren’t only deplorable; they’re wretched, terrible, execrable intolerables.
I just … I just don’t understand how someone can be such a kind and benevolent person (she has been actively involved in mission trips to Haiti for decades) can be so callous and uncaring toward her own countrymen.
/rant
No politics at family gatherings. Put up a sign if you have to.
Also ask her when she’s organizing a mission trip to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. For some reason, the desperately poor in other countries merit help, but not the ones next door.
That’s a huge pet peeve of mine. Just Sunday I spoke to an elder at the church about my tithes being used to establish churches in Uganda, Peru, Croatia and Russia rather than attempting to mitigate the meth epidemic the next county over. I’m not too pleased about that, and I think the church’s direction needs some adjustment. Everyone totes a telescope when they start thinking about charitable works when all they really need to do is check out the opposite side of the tracks. The generous side of my spirit attributes this phenomenon to the fact that it’s easy to overlook homegrown suffering when you’re surrounded by affluence the likes of which has no historical precedent. The cynic in me thinks it’s because adorable African children are more Instagrammable than tweakers in their mid-40s.
You’re not going to be able to easily track the progress or success of a mission in Uganda.
A friend of mine belongs to a church that travels to Chicago and fixes stuff for nice people in the projects. No permits, no sanction, just experienced dudes repairing pluming, electrical, cars, etc.
Quiet about it, too. Imagine that…
That’s probably some of the issue.
licensing and permitting costs fuck it all up.
Thanks, America.
Eh, my thing is that I just don’t have much patience for people who don’t lift themselves up in this country. Yes, we have a shit load of issues with the State, but it’s nothing like Uganda or Peru or Russia.
Yesterday this motherfucking dude sitting in a gas station in a ~2010 Beamer asked me if I would buy him a bag of chips while I was inside, cuz he didn’t have any money. Fucking go swap your BMW for a Honda, you can buy 10 thousand bags of fucking Doritos.
But some people never had a chance to be anything but worthless. We are our environment.
Oh yeah. Spend some time on a reservation and see what happens when the State takes care of all your needs.
“if you don’t work, you die.”
Yeah I try not to paint with too broad a brush when it comes to progs, but the ones who seem to believe that the majority of the poor are just down on their luck good old honest folks who just can’t catch a break…..they clearly don’t actually interact with real poor people.
That’s what taxes are for!
You know, after we pay exorbitant salaries to congresspeople. and the salaries and budget for all the agencies and departments. and the interest on the debt. and the mandatory spending. and the foreign aid.
but after that. all that tax money goes right to the poors.
Happily, everyone on my side of the family is at least an old-fashioned conservative, if not a libertarian. And, therefore, politics is not the sole focus of our lives and doesn’t come up at family dinner parties. We have other stuff to talk about.
That’s one aspect of the left I particularly despise. They seem to politicize everything in their orbit.
Well, when everything is within the purview of the state, everything is political. If something’s not political, that means it is beyond the reach of the state, and that’s just unacceptable to some people.
They’re not judging Trump by his actions. They’re judging his actions by the way they perceive Trump.
I’ve had “The Conversation” with a number of girlfriends, when it seemed like they wanted to get serious. “The Conversation” is always about how it’s not my job to make them happy. If you decide to be miserable, the chances of me bending over backwards to try to make you happy in spite of your decision to be miserable is pretty close to zero. I’m not the solution to all your problems; I can’t make you happy against your will, and if I think that’s what’s going on, I won’t even try.
Making somebody like what Trump does when they’ve already decided to hate him as a person is like that. You can’t make somebody like what Trump does if they’ve already tied his performance in their minds to an earlier decision to hate him personally. I’ve had coworkers who were really good at what they did–despite the fact that I despised them personally. I’ve had some coworkers who I really liked as people–and were properly fired for incompetence, too. There’s no use talking Trump to people who can’t make those distinctions.
P.S. Apparently some people can’t assess a healthcare bill clearly if they’ve already decided to love the guy who opposes it, too.
P.S. Apparently some people can’t assess a healthcare bill clearly if they’ve already decided to love the guy who opposes it, too.
Christ, what an asshole.
Well, your aunt is right, but probably not for the reasons she thinks.
The venal foot soldiers of the labor mafia have finally reaped what they had sown, and they think Big Daddy Trump is going to be able to push shrugging Atlas’s shoulders down.
Eh, it’s certainly a combination of factors.
The ideal outcome for American business would be
1. Massive tax cuts
2. True free trade
3. Massive spending cuts
4. Sound money
5. Slash regulations to the bone.
All of those together would be best. But any of them separately would improve things.
No arguments here ’bout that.
“____I just … I just don’t understand how someone can be such a kind and benevolent person (she has been actively involved in mission trips to Haiti for decades) can be so callous and uncaring toward her own countrymen.___”
I think your mistake there is the assumption that she is a kind and benevolent person. She’s not. She does these things because they make HER feel good, not because they help others (there’s probably a smug virtue-signaling bit too).
I take it she was a Hillary voter.
(she has been actively involved in mission trips to Haiti for decades),
Send her a few articles about how the Clinton foundation robbed all the money given to them for Haiti, and then ask her to watch Poverty Inc. If she is going there with the fundamental Christian goal of converting people, I have no comment. But if they are going there to “help” by “building stuff”, they would do better by funding a local business to do the building of said stuff. The havoc so called generous people have done to the third world so they can feel better about themselves for traveling to a poor country can’t be calculated. My experience in third world shitholes is people want a job and not a hand out by some do=gooder. Every want to be do-gooder should watch Poverty Inc.
So did Missandei’s “akshually, your grace, Azor Azai can have a feminine penis” line fill anyone else with anticipation regarding that upcoming Confederacy series?
Also the passage of time with some events seems… a little off. Fleetbuilding and travel times seem to feel like they happen instantly… like nobody noticed a gigantic army and armada with three dragons flying overhead leave port to openly invade the west, and not even a token garrison put at Dragonstone in months or whatever it takes for that journey?
That’s always been canon. And that ain’t what she said. C’mon.
Sorry. I’m cranky and probably should be taking yet another decompression break from politics.
Cercei’s army full of allies has been pretty beat up. Every garrison they send elsewhere is one not defending King’s Landing.
So did Missandei’s “akshually, your grace, Azor Azai can have a feminine penis” line fill anyone else with anticipation regarding that upcoming Confederacy series?
*shakes space-alien-to-pidgin-english translator vigorously*
Thanks for doing it so I didn’t have to.
Everyone totes a telescope when they start thinking about charitable works when all they really need to do is check out the opposite side of the tracks.
I was just reading something (I have no recollection where) about some guy who decided to stop donating to charities and just started tipping fifty per cent of the tab. The money goes directly into the pocket of somebody who needs and appreciates it, without being skimmed by some administrator/parasite.
Unless they don’t report tip income, the government gets its cut.
I pay the tab with a cc, but tip in cash. Solved.
Tip in cash. Or, if you really want the bartender to hate you, Bitcoin.
I one had a long discussion with a “progressive” about recent incidents of people asking for healthcare money on GoFundMe and other gimme-some-money sites. He was saying it’s a horrible thing because people might depend on those sites instead of signing up for health insurance. While Googling stuff related to this issue, I saw headlines from a bunch of lefty media outlets, yep, you guessed it, shitting their pants over this development and calling it a “moral crime”.
This is just one of hundreds of signs that “progressivism” has gone off the deep end. When your ideology actually opposes voluntary, person-to-person charity in favor of some hulking bureaucracy that only delivers a small portion of allocated dollars to the people it claims to help, you need to step back and re-examine your priorities.
Berkeley Pacifica Radio flagship canceled a Richard Dawkins speech–because he’s criticized Islam.
—New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/24/us/richard-dawkins-speech-canceled-berkeley.html
There are a lot of ways to go with this. The one that immediately springs to mind?
Individualism and, hence, individual rights–especially on freedom of religion–came to western civilization on the back of Christianity. The First Amendment in the U.S., for instance, implements the principles of the Peace of Westphalia in their most basic form. There is to be no state church, and individuals are free to choose their own religion without interference from the state. It was essentially a concession to protestant ideas about a priesthood of believers rather than having beliefs inflicted on them from above by the church and the state. The freedom to speak one’s conscience is closely related to that idea. It’s basically the same thing.
No doubt, plenty of Christians have failed to live by these ideals–American protestants foremost among them–but don’t count on atheists to reflexively support your right to free speech in the name of atheistic reason either. Whatever negatives Mr. Dawkins blames on religion, he might honestly list individual rights and the freedom of speech as a plus.
In short, I doubt the outright contempt for freedom of speech that seems to permeate progressive views today is completely unrelated to the contempt people like Dawkins show to Christianity. Libertarianism probably starts with the idea that we should treat other individuals and their rights with reverence, but Christianity reaches back further and teaches us why–because Jesus died for those individuals and their right to make choices for themselves. I sometimes see people quote Dawkins and argue for the uselessness of Christianity in the modern world. If the ideas Christianity teaches are so useless in the modern world, isn’t it ironic to see Dawkins’ opportunity to engage in the free exchange of ideas suffer in this way at the hands of pious atheists?
Dawkins is the sort that thinks conflict is caused by religion, as opposed to the forcing of a belief on others. So his belief should be immune because it’s not a religion and can be forced.
He’ll come around when they really start eating him. Maybe he’ll even see them for the religious fundamentalists they are, even without a god.
There is to be no state church, and individuals are free to choose their own religion without interference from the state.
This is literally the opposite of the principle of Treaty of Westphalia. The continental bloodshed was
stoppedstemmed by a simple principle of “He who owns the land, sets the religion” and that other rulers are not to intervene on religious grounds. Sweden, Austria, France, The Netherlands and England, just to name a few, very much had one state church that was involved in all the official rituals, and to whom all the rulers (and those who would have office) must belong. The first Bill of Rights was part and parcel of a rebellion against a ruler who looked to not be favoring the Established Church and thus a more…er…orthodox one was imported (yes, yes, there was a whole slew of reasons for deposing James II, most notably that he was a twat).On Dawkins getting fucked for being an atheist when it comes to all religions, despite my theoretical sympathy for his position, I think of Zinovyev, then I think of Nelson.
—Wiki, Peace of Westphalia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_of_Westphalia#Tenets
The first principle says that the emperor doesn’t determine the religion of the entire state.
The first principle evolved into freedom from establishment.
The second principle says that the individuals are free to choose their own religion regardless of what the prince chooses.
The second principle evolved into free exercise.
Once it no longer mattered to the princes what the emperor’s religion was because they could choose their own anyway, whether the emperor was of their chosen religion stopped mattering and stopped being something to fight over.
Once it no longer mattered to individuals what the prince’s religion was because they could choose their own anyway, whether their prince was of their chosen religion stopped mattering and stopped being something to stage a peasant revolt over.
This is the general form of the First Amendment. This is why Madison, who wrote the First Amendment, credited Luther with “showing him the way”.
If the First Amendment and those principles were effective in heading off religious conflicts, it’s because they were in harmony with natural rights and natural law. If those sorts of conflicts rage continuously in societies that don’t have something like it every time the authorities violate people’s rights, it’s because violating those rights disregards natural rights and natural law. Like other social adaptations, our First Amendment didn’t materialize out of the ether full bodied from rational discourse. It arose out of a religious conflict–religion itself being an evolutionary social adaptation.
The two great mysteries of public intellectuals over the last 20 years.
1) Why did Christopher Hitchens, who wrote “Why Orwell Matters” reverence Orwell and yet ignore everything Orwell wrote about imperialism? Why doesn’t “Shooting and Elephant” matter?
2) Why does Dawkins, who knows so much about genetics and evolution, seem to know almost nothing about social adaptations, specifically in regards to religion? Sometimes, it seems like no one’s ever told him that religion is an evolutionary adaptation.
I think Hitchens emphasized personal liberty over all. So, even after his transition away from the New Left, he denounced American actions during the Cold War. But he saw Iraq and Afghanistan as necessary to bring liberty to people.
Here’s Hitches, 6 months before he died supporting intervention in Libya for similar reasons:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2011/04/go_after_qaddafi.html
Some quotes:
“Quite obviously Col. Muammar Qaddafi has joined the list of deranged dictators whose acceptability is at an end, and it is unimaginable that he should emerge from the current confrontation with control over any part of the country. Equally obviously, we shall have to go to Tripoli to remove him.”
“What is utterly lacking in Libya, still, is an entrance strategy.”
That’s the point, though. We thought we were spreading democracy and enlightenment at the point of a gun.
The British thought they were spreading civilization and enlightenment at the point of a gun. British imperialism in Africa was launched on the back of abolitionism. Not satisfied with having abolished slavery in the British empire, they sought to kill off slavery at its source in Africa.
It all ended in tears.
Meanwhile, “Shooting an Elephant” is all about how having presented yourself as the harbinger of civilization, you end up being compelled to do all sorts of awful things–you end up in a quagmire you don’t want to leave.
Point being, Orwell was as much against imperialism as he was against totalitarian communism and someone who thought so highly of Orwell, and knew his writing so well, for him to just completely disregard all that stuff and embrace the neocons–just goes against half of everything Orwell wrote about.
Hitchens wasn’t the first former Marxist to go neocon, but holding those ideas in his head about spreading democracy at the point of a gun–even while he was writing books about why Orwell mattered? That’s some serious contradiction going on in his head somehow.
I’ve seen it happen before, where people believe two mutually conflicting ideas. Darwin synthesized some of his ideas while trying to reconcile Malthus and Adam Smith–but he recognized the contradiction. Hitchens seemed to go on like his ideas and his heroes weren’t in conflict.
Point being, Orwell was as much against imperialism as he was against totalitarian communism and someone who thought so highly of Orwell, and knew his writing so well, for him to just completely disregard all that stuff and embrace the neocons–just goes against half of everything Orwell wrote about.
Ah, but Orwell also volunteered to fight in Spain against Franco (and probably would have been down with France and UK intervening in 1936). Hitchens could have seen removal of the Taliban or Baathists as the same as fighting Fascism (and I can’t disagree there). He didn’t want US to set up a colonial administration under figurehead local princes in order for an East India Company equivalent to have a (literally) captive market.
Not sure if that’s what he was thinking but plausible enough…
As I recall, Orwell’s famous quote about the real difference not being between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians was in reference to the communists in Spain attacking and destroying an anarchist outfit (like the one he was fighting for) because the Russian backed communists in Spain wouldn’t accept any dissent or competition from the likes of anarchists.
I suspect Orwell might have seen a difference, too, between individuals voluntarily helping the Spanish people fight a fascist group of generals who overthrew a democratically elected government, on the one hand, and the United States government invading Iraq, uninvited, on the other.
Yes, Emperor cannot dictate policy, religious or otherwise, to sovereign princes. It is not about religious freedom – it’s about individual states of HRE becoming sovereign, with Emperor unable to force internal policy on them, be it tariffs or Catholicism, and certainly can’t get half the Empire crusading against another another half.
Princes, however, can dictate religion to the populace, up to a point:
This does not prevent religious tests for government service, an official state church, or authorities muzzling the priests who get off the plantation. It enforces religious conformity on a governmental level as a price of allowing accepted religious minorities to exist in private life. Over time, population slowly drifts into government-approved religion, and faith itself becomes less important, finally atrophying as in Europe today.
First Amendment is far more revolutionary, and it does not necessarily follow from the principles of Westphalia. Various state-official churches of Scandinavia, Germany and France, where taxes are given to them in exchange for full support of the sovereign are closer to those principles.
Decoupling religion from officialdom while not going head-first into secularism of French Revolution is a unique development that Americans can justly be proud of. 1st Amendment is probably the main reason US had so many religious revivals and strange movements, and why its Christian population seems to be more lively and religious than the one over in Western Europe. Shit, Evangelicals have been pulling in lapsed CoErs in UK for decades now…
I didn’t say that the Peace of Westphalia was exactly like our 21st century modern implementation of the First Amendment.
I wrote, “The First Amendment in the U.S., for instance, implements the principles of the Peace of Westphalia in their most basic form. There is to be no state church, and individuals are free to choose their own religion without interference from the state.”
And I stand by that. The First Amendment uses terms like “establishment” in regards to the federal government determining everyone’s religion, and it uses “free exercise” in regards to individuals being free to choose their own religious beliefs.
Although the Peace of Westphalia does not elaborate religious rights as fully as we would (to include all hours of the day and all religions), the basic principles of the federal state not determining everyone’s religion and individuals being free to choose their own are present.
And I hope my larger point is still coming through–that our rights as respected in the First Amendment are descended from the Peace of Westphalia. The reason we don’t have religious upheavals here is largely because we abide by those basic principles from the Peace of Westphalia, and the principles themselves didn’t arise ex nihilo. It was the solution to a religious conflict, religion itself being an evolutionary adaptation–like language.
And I’m saying that Peace of Westphalia literally established state churches in swathes of Continental Europe (England was a trend-setter there), that those churches for next couple centuries ensured that government officials had to past religious tests, that there were no religious upheavals despite the lack of First Amendment protections for religious minorities in public life, and that decoupling of state from church came organically over time, mostly due to state’s embrace atrophying the vitality of the state churches, leaving a dry husk that eventually fell off, which you can see in most of Western and Northern Europe today.
Ability to choose from a list of approved religions in your private life is nice. As is knowing that, while you have to pass the religious test to teach, command a regiment, practice law or run a post office, it’s not an onerous test, no one will burn you if you don’t follow every part of the dogma and, if you really have to go to Chrismas Eve mass, we’ll pretend not to notice, just don’t do it every Sunday. It’s a vast improvement on previous 200-ish years (from Hussite revolts at least), but it is not a direct, or most important antecedent of the First Amendment. Stuart Restoration, Glorious Revolution, Muh Persecuted Puritan Predecessors, Continental Enlightenment, its Island counterpart, King being also Head of Church and Defender of the Faith added at least as much each, if not more.
Again, I didn’t say those ideas were fully elaborated under the Peace of Westphalia. Forcing fundamentalist Baptists to cater gay weddings in the 21st century isn’t a great example of upholding those ideas either–but the idea is still there, today.
Because violations of people’s rights continued doesn’t mean they weren’t violations of people’s rights or that those rights didn’t exist. We point to the police, the NSA, the president, etc. violating our Fourth Amendment rights all the time. That doesn’t mean the idea of the Fourth Amendment isn’t real or that it doesn’t address a real thing.
Likewise, because the law continued to evolve after the Peace of Westphalia to be more in harmony with the natural right of religion doesn’t mean the essence of the idea wasn’t there in the Peace of Westphalia. It was. And the principles of our First Amendment descended from that, the two kingdoms doctrine, etc.
If you like freedom of expression and freedom of religion, thank a Christian. Hell, looks like Christians, in general, may be more tolerant of Dawkins’ anti-religion message than his fellow atheists, at least those of the anti-Christian SJW variety. And that isn’t ironic if by ironic we mean unexpected. The Sermon on the Mount is explicit about how we should treat each other–even our enemies–and Christianity is pretty explicit about Jesus dying so that each of us can make a choice.
People became protestants when they started reading the text for themselves. Yeah, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, freedom of speech–thank a Christian.
I’m a big fan of Roger Williams and his writings on religious freedom/choice. In the 1640s, he recognized that the problem was not arguments over religion but the ability of the state to use violence to settle arguments over religion.
I remember he was one of Gillespie’s heroes. Apparently, he did right by the Indians, too.
Like really!
Maybe it happens more than I know, but when was the last time a bunch of Christians shut down a speech by Dawkins?
Regardless, if they shut him down, they did so in violation of texts like “If you have done so unto the least of these, you have done so unto me”.
If Jesus died for Dawkins and his right to make choices for himself about what to believe, then Christians shutting him up is a form of faithless blasphemy.
I don’t think they do it very often. If wanting to shut people up like that comes naturally to people, it doesn’t necessarily arise naturally from their religion, and I guess atheists engaging in that sort of behavior might underscore that point.
It’s no wonder that totalitarian communists want to shut down religion. Can’t have people thinking there’s a power greater than the state or, much worse, that the power greater than the state sacrificed himself for each of us individually. Put that all together, and people might start thinking that their opinions are important!
This is probably true.
Since there are no sportsball links. Los Doyers tiene un problema
Warty?
His name is Harry Harrington. Stick a fork in me, for I am done.
Also, STEVE SMITH THINK THEY PICKED RIGHT HOUSE…. FOR RAPE.
Security cam footage from the house.
Fake news
http://www.snopes.com/two-burglars-predator/
Since I’m taking a karma story away, I’ll go ahead and leave one.
http://nbc4i.com/2017/07/24/active-shooter-situation-reported-in-newark/
Well, you have to give credit for the entertaining writing, at least: “They broke in my front door, so I broke in their back doors!”
Paging switzy.
I don’t think a narrowed gaze is going to help what ails ’em.
Oh joy, the microaggression bandwagon is coming to my campus. From the promotional material:
“Micro-aggressions (instances of indirect, subtle, or unintentional discrimination) occur all around us, including in the workplace and in our classroom environments.”
“oh, fuck off”
I’ve always thought that reporting endless microaggressions should be the strategy to combat this.
Yeah, except if I reported microaggressions against me, I’d probably be charged with a micro-aggression.
Yes, not all microaggressions are created equal. We need a declaration of independence for microaggressions.
Luckily, victim-groups are now so numerous that you can claim membership of one without too much effort.
Maybe your parents were divorced, or you wear glasses? Maybe you identify as something else sometimes?
like that email.
did it even come with a trigger warning??!
Did you open it outside of a safe space???
You should go an demonstrate some macro-aggressions. Remind them that are worse things than words.
I got microagressed on today. I had to do what my white male boss told me at work. It was traumatizing.
It never stops. I saw my alma mater establishing new sexual consent policy based on idiocy coming up from the US.
I’ll give it to the fuckers, they are persistent. It doesn’t matter how many times they fail, they succeed once and it’s set in stone. Then it’s immediately on to the next objective.
I’ve seen some complaints cropping up about trainers being mean during basic recently as well. Guys (but let’s be real it’s mostly women), ‘being mean’ is those motherfuckers’ job. They are there to treat you like shit (and frankly I don’t think they treat you like shit enough) so you’ll get the fuck over it and come out tougher than when you went in. The entire fucking point of basic is to break you of your shitty little civvie habits.
But apparently we have to take this shit seriously in Zoolander’s military.
Maybe someone needs to show Tropic Lightning to PM Zoolander?
Not only would he learn more about military matters, he’d learn to not go full retard.
Tropic Thunder, because that was the joke, goddamit!
You know I moved out of the Midwest for a reason. But this…
http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2017/07/24/severe-weather-queen-annes-co/
(EF-2 Tornado) decided to pass within less than 1000 feet of my house last night. I had an F3 pass about 3/4ths of a mile away when I lived in Louisville but that was noting compared to this storm last night. Somehow we got through it with no real damage to speak of though
You moved to Maryland to get away from Tornadoes?! AHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
I swear to god we had a tornado scare I think every year of my life that I lived in MD. We almost got sucked away by one when we were camping one year.
If you ever get taken away, say Hi to the Munchkins for me.
Actually I moved to Massachusetts to get away from the Midwest (Tornados weren’t really all that big of a factor in the decision), I moved to Maryland to get away from Massachusetts.
If anyone knows of any place that has plentiful software test automation or QA management jobs that does not require living in a progressive shithole I’d love to hear about it but I got tired of the mid west where one job ending always means either 9 – 18 months on unemployment or relocating to a new city
Washington is not completely a progressive shithole, but the part you’ll be living in is.
Might be able to find something in Phoenix or Denver, or Texas.
I moved out of the Midwest to get away from the shitty climate. I got used to Tornadoes, but when you can’t have 2-3 sunny days without it coming an apocalyptic storm and then you freeze you ass off 6 months out of the year, that’s just too much.
I’d try Atlanta or Austin, TX if I were you. Those two places are where my recruiter was getting me offers from, along with MD and DC, when I took a contract here in MD and then found other clients. I really with now I would have considered one of the other places. I really want out of here now.
He explicitly requested a non-progressive shithole, Hyp.
If you think there are storms in MD, you can never live in the Midwest. I’ve been here for 10 years and I’ve never even seen anything I would call a storm. Thunder shower maybe, but storm? No.
Damn, it was quiet here last night, rained a little. When I lived in the Midwest, we called a F3, a dust devil.
No tornado but the lightning strike was way too close.
I’ve been busy all day with either work or bailing water out of my basement like it’s the goddamn good ship Essex, but what’s this garbage about Glibertarians being ‘Family Friendly’? Am I going to have to start posting pictures of the brave new genitalia the good folks over at BodyMod make?
It’s a vicious lie, spread by our enemies.
Wait, what happened to your basement? Pics please, we want some schadenfreude.
Crank up the boiler and strip down to your skivvies, then take pics of you bailing out the water.
One two punch of the power being out and a lot of rain, so it flooded. I spent the first ten minutes desperately trying to save any electronics down there as the flooding happened, then I got the generator set up to run the pump, THEN the power came back on and I’m pretty sure the only reason why I didn’t get electrocuted was because I was wearing rubber boots. So I shut off the main breaker, get all the extension cords out of the water, set the pump up to run on the main, and…it doesn’t drain the water. Instead it just stops it from getting worse, so it’s about an inch and a half deep. So I get some guys and we bail the place out over a period of two hours. Then I check my insurance and I’m not covered for ground water damage, so fuck my life.
So I get some guys and we bail the place out over a period of two hours.
All that and no pics?
As Telltale would put it: jesse will remember this decision.
The locals here are less ‘gay steel mill’ and more ‘dad bod ex-miners’.
That sounds like a “bear” to me, and I’m told some gentlemen (and ladies) on this very sites are quite intrigued by the concept.
You’d think a time traveler would be less surprised by future events.
‘but muh wurld lines!’ in 3…2…1…
We live in those dumb Jetson buildings in the sky in the future, ‘flooding’ is something we think happened to cavemen.
I feel for ya, guy. I spent the late summer of ’05 in Calgary bailing out my basement from the century storm we had and then demolishing the entire thing (all 11 metric tonnes of material!) and hauling it away in four 40-cubic-yard dumpsters. Took me six weeks. Eventually I re-built the basement (a DIY to my specs) after getting it thoroughly waterproofed, but the spousal unit and I spent several years without a basement. And of course, no ground water coverage.
It was a special time. (We’d just bought the house the year before.)
How does one remove a basement while leaving the rest of the house intact?
Ancient Canadian secret, ain’t going to tell the white man.
How does one remove a basement while leaving the rest of the house intact?
Slowly and carefully, which was a significant part of the problem.
Demo’d it all the way back to the bare concrete (the raised floor was a write-off, and most of the sill plates and lower studs for the walls were covered in black mold, so down the walls came — at which point the ceiling started to collapse . . .). It sure doesn’t take a lot of water to do a stupid amount of damage.
The only good part of this was that I discovered all of the Code violations in the installed electrical and plumbing. They got fixed, too. Along with a new panel.
I thought tonnes (pronounced “tunnies” of course) were by definition metric.
I am nothing if not redundant (I am nothing if not redundant (I am nothing if not redundant (I am nothing if not redundant))).
Install a sump pump.
Alright have one, it didn’t do shit because the power was out, and then when it was running again it couldn’t handle all the water.
See, this is why nobody reads all the comments before posting. 🙂
Thankfully, our generator doesn’t involve ridiculously long extension cords. And I live close enough to the top of a hill that whatever flooding we get is only a couple of inches max. Even when hurricane remnants hit.
Seriously, though, I feel for you. We were on the generator for two days after Irene hit, and Mom, being in the mild stages of dementia at the time, couldn’t understand why the AC didn’t work.
There’s no pump in your basement floor? Sounds like a good time to put one in. I mean after you get the water out.
See above, I have a sump pump, the power was out at my place for most of the day while I was at work so I obviously didn’t think to hook up the generator.
Great goals, bad ideas.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/democrats-attempt-to-rebrand-themselves/
“A Better Deal.” It’s like a New Deal, only better, get it?
New slogan: We’re repaving the road to hell.
Libertarian Moment!
comments are great.
Here is the part I don’t think they are missing. That slogan, that close to the last president, kind of implies he didn’t do a good job. And wasn’t he a member of their party?
A tax credit for hiring and training new workers sounds like a tax credit for firing long term employees.
They’re clearly fucking idiots. Not that this is something everyone here doesn’t already know. But really? People love what we stand for, we just haven’t explained it right? They’re clearly fucking hopeless. I see more losing headed their way.
“we just haven’t explained it right”
By which we mean we haven’t explained it in a way that convinces people our policies will be all benefit and no downside for them while we accrue more power.
So really, nothing new from them.
According to anonymous sources, of course, Tillerson may resign because he is “frustrated” about Trump criticizing Sessions in an “unprofessional” manner (Who TF cares?). Of course, this is from the Fake News Network, so take this story with a grain of salt.
So what are the odds of the US getting socialized medicine by 2021-22? The Dems out to be salivating.
And how quickly will the Republicans and libertarians cave in?
And isn’t socialized medicine a deathblow to libertarianism? Rather hard to argue that Big Guv is bad when they give you “free” healthcare. And if libertarians accept it like Social Security then aren’t they admitting that libertarianism is a failure?
There’s little to no chance that single-payer is anything but an annoying prog talking point for at least the next 20 years, IMHO. If the one-party progtopia in California can’t ram it through a super-majority because it costs almost their entire GDP, they won’t get it here.
Costs more than their entire GDP, as far as I heard.
But, that won’t matter, because cost savings! And government will be so much more efficient!
That’s true… The Democrats – and Republicans, too – don’t really want to fix any problems; they want to campaign on fixing them so that we’ll keep voting for them.
If we do get single payer I genuinely believe it will be the deathblow to the democratic party. There is absolutely no way it will not be the biggest clusterfuck in American history and people will not forget what happened to their parents/siblings/children that suffered under their malfeasance.
[Blockquote]There is absolutely no way it will not be the biggest clusterfuck in American history [/blockquote]
No doubt.
[Blockquote]it will be the deathblow to the democratic party[/blockquote]
How optimistic. And who will repeal it?
Darn how do you blockquote?
Use < > instead of [ ]
Or, what Vhyrus said.
use < instead of [
It works!
Thanks Vhyrus! For some reason (drink?) I thought this site was operating differently from err…Reason.
It is operating differently: have you seen any server squirrels?
The biggest problem we seem to have is that no one in Washington has the balls to do what needs done. I don’t think it’s long before Canada’s system implodes. Everyone there knows how f’d up it is, even the liberals.
Optimistic. The NHS continues to be a disaster and it’s defended by all and sundry – all they need are the right Top Men.
No, it’ll make them stronger. They’re already getting millions of guaranteed votes because of Medicare and Medicaid, and no-one is seriously talking about getting rid of those.
So what are the odds of the US getting socialized medicine by 2021-22?
Better than even, I should think.
And how quickly will the Republicans and libertarians cave in?
Immediately. Kate McMillan at smalldeadanimals.com was right when she said that “Not showing up to riot is a failed conservative strategy.” So is trying to be the adults in the room. Conservatives, classical liberals and libertarians need to internalize Alinsky’s Rules now and use them mercilessly. But we won’t, so that’s that.
And isn’t socialized medicine a deathblow to libertarianism?
No, but libertarianism in Canada is on life-support, and has been for a long time.
Rather hard to argue that Big Guv is bad when they give you “free” healthcare.
Yes. Yes it is.
And if libertarians accept it like Social Security then aren’t they admitting that libertarianism is a failure?
All but, yes. It’s part of the reason I’ve become resigned to living out my remaining days trying to keep my wife happy and both of us comfortable. I’m sad for my nieces and nephews, but there’s precious little I can do for them, particularly since their parents aren’t teaching them to be wary of the State or to think critically.
My generation outside of the prog echo chambers are a lot more libertarian than you might think. I’m pretty optimistic that there’s enough opposition to single-payer that it won’t happen in a very long time.
No, but libertarianism in Canada is on life-support, and has been for a long time.
Libertarianism has never not been on life-support in Canada, the decline started before the concept even existed, the Liberals started dropping market liberalism over a hundred years ago. At least our Party’s vote count increased by like 500% last election.
Going from one Canuck to six Canucks on this website really isn’t that much of an accomplishment, John. 😉
One of the advantages of being Canadian is that minor, unspectacular accomplishments are more likely to be celebrated!
There’s still more of us than there are Romanians.
Suck it, you Ceausescu-loving Nazi-sympathizing wannabe Romans!
I think it would be very hard to get rid of if it were passed, especially if they managed to keep it in place for more than a generation.
That’s probably why almost everyone in Britain loves the NHS despite all its problems – it’s hard to convince people that it would be better to pay for a service yourself when they’ve been told their whole lives that it’s free (we all know they pay for it through higher taxes).
It’s a weird combination of wanting to help the poor and living in terror that the moment single payer is off the table, you won’t have any kind of healthcare beyond OTC medication that won’t impoverish you, no matter the circumstance.
Lots of people in Canada truly believe that everyone in US is one illness away from bankruptcy, except for the super-rich. No matter how many Americans they might personally know.
Are these the same people who are under the impression that you can’t walk down any street in America without dodging machine gun fire?
The only thing I accept about social security is that no matter how much I pay into it, I’m not getting a dime back.
But in five years seems a bit far fetched. Most of these stupid ideas recycle themselves on a longer cycle than that. I could be wrong.
Here is the problem with fully socialized medicine.
The takings clause of the constitution.
See even adopting single payer a’la Canada and not going all the way to Britain style NHS means that you are basically legislating away several multi billion dollar corporations and the freedom of association of several others. Logically the takings clause of the Constitution would require that the owners of these business be compensated the the destruction of their equity in that operation.
Were it just normal little guys getting fucked over then the Supremes would have little difficulty coming up with some rationalization for how it was somehow constitutional under the super secret FYTW clause Hamilton snuck in on the back in invisible ink but hitting billionaires like that is not gonna go over so well and it is highly likely that they are gonna get the Supremes to rule that fedgov has to buy the companies they are legislating out of existance and compensate the ones they are barring from doing business with anyone but fedgov.
Forget being too expensive to operate Single Payer would be too expensive to actually implement.
Did the U.S. government compensate breweries, wineries, distilleries, liquor wholesalers, etc. when prohibition was imposed? I think it is just tough titties when you are found to be operating an “illegal” business. Asset forfeiture anyone?
At the time Breweries, wineries, and such were not multi billion dollar corporations (or multi million for that era) and even today there is not a single company on the fortune 500 which makes it’s money primarily or entirely from alcohol, there are at least a half a dozen companies in the 50 largest in the US including one in the top 10 which make their money almost entirely from selling health insurance.
Like I said, if it was just little guys (and for purposes of this even a billion dollar company counts as a little guy) getting burned it would be thrown out under the FYTW clause. Eliminating a half a trillion dollars worth of business value and taking another trillion dollars worth of companies and telling them that they can only conduct business with the US government and are required to do so at prices dictated by said government is going to be way too big for the Supremes to just ignore.
There’s zero chance of it, because of the reality that it takes ginormous tax hikes. It’s not happening.
The Dems out to be salivating.
Or they could just be rabid.
What do you mean? It’ll be fine, you’re just paranoid. We just need to make sure your fellow tax
cattlepayers won’t be on the hook for your bad decisions. Therefore we must regulate everything. But it’s for your own good.It’s unfortunate that Rand doesn’t seem to have the Temperament for a presidential campaign
http://thehill.com/regulation/administration/343218-trumps-doj-gears-up-for-crackdown-on-marijuana
Fuck. Off. Slaver.
Yeah, Grahams a little bitch
Small amount of pot!!
Totally unrealistic. In real life he would have just walked up to the car and shot the dog, then planted the pot on Peter, and then shot Peter.
true.
I got caught years ago, before a friend and I went to a dead prez concert.
We pulled into the worst spot to try to smoke, a catholic church parking lot.
The cop was actually pretty ok. Asked what we were doing, and then told me he’d make sure we got to the concert on time. He looked disappointed when I handed him the smallest bag of pot. He took it and my pipe, I assume he got high that night.
Sessions is sort of on thin ice right now. It’s about time for him to get fired, me thinks.
So as an a alternative to sportsball links, here is some folks trying to stab each other with swords. Some of them are good at that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGZoImIAKVo
That would be fun. Crowd is annoying though.
Extreme stabbing
Keith Ellison Wants American Health Care to Look More Like Cuba’s
http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/07/24/health-care-cuba-keith-ellison-congress-obamacare
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Rep. Keith Ellison, (D-MN), would like to see the American health care system become more like Cuba’s.
“The countries like Cuba or Canada or Russia or a lot of places in this world spend half what we spend per capita and they got better health outcomes than we do,” said the deputy chair of the Democratic National Committee in Washington D.C. last Monday.
Former spokesperson for George W. Bush Mercedes Schlapp recalled the experience of her Cuban parents, who fled Cuba under the Castro regime.
“The ignorance of these Democrats like Keith Ellison is just, it’s astonishing,” Schlapp told “Fox & Friends.”
She explained that party elites, the military and foreign tourists get the best medical care, while the Cuban people are left with “unsanitary hospitals in disarray.”
Cuba’s quality of health is diminishing under the nationalist government, which only shows visitors the best of their hospitals, she stated.
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[head desk]
Fuck Michael Moore especially for perpetuating this myth.
Seriously, Russia?
A place whose life expectancy for men is 8 years less than US (70 vs 78), and this is a vast improvement from 10 years ago, when it was 67?!
I mean, I know lots of progs can’t wait for old white men to die, but really?
Well, the US rate is decreasing so we will catch them in not time.
is it?
Pretty Google Graph stops in 2015, but it seems to be more flatlining, which is what I’d expect to start happening.
(hopefully the graph thing works)
It was not a big change, but ya it dropped by the 2016 stats. H&R had something, as well as most right leaning sites pointing out how well Obamacare was working.
Are they sure it wasn’t just people dying because Trump won?
So he wants us to have no modern medical equipment and our hospitals to look like crumbling 3rd world hotels? Great idea.
“The countries like Cuba or Canada or Russia or a lot of places in this world spend half what we spend per capita ”
Once they’ve made up a huge lie, they can never let go of it, can they?
You get what you pay for. The fact that a myth like “healthcare is healthcare” is not questioned is amazing to me. There is a fucking difference between “leeches” and “Magnetic Resonance Imaging”.
Yes, modern Cuba where you have to bring your own towels to the hospital! sounds lovely, Keith. I too want to live in a third world banana republic, what a utopian vision.
Progressive writes USA Today article about how progressives need to be less condescending to conservatives, still manages to be incredibly condescending.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/07/23/liberals-listen-conservatives-andrew-redlawsk-column/413243001/
Though to be fair, it’s less condescending than most people of his ilk would be.
That post only gave me a little cancer
mostly. I hate that they think it’s religion based. I’m not religious, I am white. calling me something for being white seems… I don’t know, racist?
u can’t be racist against white ppl racism = power + privilege u shitlord
The family who lives in the trailer park down the road sure is privileged.
That entire formulation is the most vile collectivist bullshit I can think of. What they’re saying is white people are one giant collective and minorities are one giant collective. And the white collective is uniformly more powerful in all situations than the non-white collective (feminists play the same game replacing race with sex). I’ve always wanted to ask people trying to palm off this garbage why, if their premises are accurate, I should refrain from being a racist or sexist. If only collectives exist, what moral claim does any collective but my own have on me?
Especially with sentences like They’re afraid of losing their (yes, white and Christian) America in the tidal wave of cultural shifts that have occurred over recent decades.
They flip from a racial and religious concept to a cultural one in one sentence. So which is it? Does ‘whiteness’ infer some kind of inescapable cultural values? Does Christianity? If the latter is true and not the former, then wouldn’t immigrants from Christian Africa be fine? If none of this actually fits with reality, just maybe you’re focusing on superficial bullshit you constantly project rather than the actual problem?
They are so fucking clueless. You want to win elections? Don’t worry about what Trump is doing. Just stop being corrupt, stupid, American hating douchbags and learn how fucking economics work. Keep your hands out of other people’s pockets too. That would be a good start assholes.
But they never needed any of that stuff before!
I think they really shot themselves in the foot railroading Bernie when they didn’t need to. A lot of younger people not going to so easily fall for their bullshit after that. That’s why their so pissed about the dnc hack. It exposed them for the corrupt little shits they are no matter how the media spins it for them.
“They’re not racist, just naive and stupid and stuck in an imaginary past. It’s important for those of us who are enlightened and forward-looking to understand this.”
“those of us who are enlightened and forward-looking”
Yeah, that doesn’t want to make any normal person want to kick your ass.
it’s a paraphrase
I’m sure it’s accurate
Looking all the way forward to the 1930’s.
“The only way The Resistance succeeds is if we fundamentally change our tactics. We must realize that the way into these hearts is to respectfully suggest that the causes we fight for actually align with their deeply held patriotism and love for America. That yes, our marginalized communities may look different and speak a different language, but” etc.
They’re not racists, they just don’t care about minorities and immigrants like we do!
“If we’re waiting for people who hold a different view to change their minds without being guided through that process [etc.]
“To summarize: Progressives, stop insulting, stop shaming, and stop condescending. Start listening. Start teaching.”
They only believe those silly things because we haven’t educated them about the wonders of progressivism!
Up yours.
And you’re not the Resistance, you’re the opposition political party in what is a more or less free country (no thanks to you).
You’re not French guerrillas courageously hiding Jews from the Nazis, sending intelligence to the Allies from inside your occupied country, or assassinating collaborators, worried all the time that you might get caught, tortured and shot.
The voters took your snouts out of the trough for at least a brief time, and you’re squealing at the top of your lungs. I hope you keep acting stupid so as to prolong your own political marginalization.
a family friend was going on about that on facebook before I made chrome forget the password.
I responded with something like “My political party has never held elected office since they were founded in the 70’s. not one. what the fuck are are you even talking about? less than 10% of the population even respects my philosophical foundation. get over yourself and get some sense of perspective.”
it didn’t end well, but it felt pretty good.
A lot of them aren’t intolerant, but you are intolerant of opposing views.
Robespierre, Lenin and Mao were pretty about how they supported free speech… as long as you didn’t oppose them.
Yep. He starts right out of the gate with the “WELL DUH CONSERVATIVES ARE ALL RACISTS AND BIGOTS AM I RIGHT?” and then immediately starts pretending that he wants to try to empathize with the right when in reality he’s just projecting and engaging the exact demonization tactics he accuses them of. And he wonders why people call him a smug, elitist hypocrite.
I know people like this unfortunately. The right is racist is axiomatic, they just want to teach you not to be. From what I can tell there’s no point in engaging them.
I asked one of them to try a Turing test and summarize the conservative position on immigration and it was basically exactly a sign stated above. “Don’t want no non-white, non-christians owing to muh cuntry!” I pointed out that essentially nobody makes that argument and there are other races and atheists on the right but they were confused. No matter what you say, that’s what they hear.
So what do y’all think of the Libertarian Moment? Is it upon us? Is Trump so bad that people will become Libertarian because Gillespie and Welch say so? Or is Trump less worse than Romney and Hillary would have been? Are smartphones proof of the Libertarian Moment because John D. Rockefeller didn’t have one?
Trump probably is less worse for libertarians than Romney or Hillary would have been.
That’s a REALLY low bar.
But it’s probably true.
I know, even if you agreed with that it pretty much is the definition of damping with faint praise.
Trump’s, in his short time in office, has been the most libertarian-friendly president in 25 years. That’s a pretty low standard considering that the presidents in that timeframe were Bush, Clinton, GW Bush, and Obama, but still quite notable. From a regulatory perspective he’s been especially good, and he’s at least trying to create a realist foreign policy that keeps us from war with Russia.
I’m not certain about Romney, but I’d bet my last nickel that President Trump is much less worse than a President Hillary would have been. That’s the only metric that counts because they were the only two realistic options.
We should still bitch about the statist crap that people like Sessions pull, but always while remembering that it could have been much…MUCH worse.
I’m pretty sure that Trump’s better for libertarianism than any 2012 or 2016 nominee that wasn’t Ron Paul, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, or Scott Walker. Rest of them were all spineless, establishment hacks, including Romney, who was lefty enough for MA folks to elect him at one point.
Everybody probably knows I think Trump is more libertarian than Rand Paul on the issue of cutting Medicaid eligibility, and to me, that’s a fundamental libertarian issue.
When I say I’m libertarian, in addition to whatever else it means, it also means that I want meaningful cuts in Medicaid, Medicare, social security, cuts in taxes on income, profits, and capital gains, and I want those cuts to be meaningful moves towards phasing them out entirely. I also want deregulation of just about everything.
That’s what being a libertarian capitalist means to me.
When we’re talking about Trump compared to someone like Rand Paul on those issues, we should define what we’re talking about. If we’re talking about rhetoric, Rand Paul’s got that down pat and Trump is bad on issues like free trade. If we’re talking about what these two actually do, Trump is kicking Rand Paul’s ass on his willingness to cut Medicaid.
If we’re talking about who we’re going to support in the Republican primaries come 2020, if I can’t tell between Rand Paul’s and Liz Warren’s votes on Medicaid and he’s going up against Trump–I’m going with the one that’s actually willing to cut Medicaid.
No doubt, Trump could blow it and probably will, but so far? I’m impressed with his competent foreign policy, his deregulation, his promise to sign legislation cutting Medicaid, his tax proposals, etc.
And I see Rand Paul giving me the finger on Medicaid. I was not a Trump fan, but he’s impressed me so far. I didn’t expect to be impressed, and people who judge him by his tweets are . . . missing the big picture.
You think I’m trolling or something?
46 doesn’t cross into 45.
Sorry this new format is still a bit confusing.
Or was this not a reply to me? Ducking threading!
You’re really taking that family friendly rating personal aren’t you HM?
I have failed all of you.
Not at all. Unlike that stupid white ho.
Now, now. We all deserve blame.
Why don’t we turn it into a positive? Take a page from Jesuits and start teaching Glibertarianism to children until they are 7?
Something maybe like this?
Or this?
(sigh, one link rule)
2:26 lol
Maggie speaks, eh? Not the voice I imagined. Was hoping for Homer’s voice, with Marge’s sensibilities.
It’s a story told by Marge, so non-canonical.
Wikipedia says she was voiced by Jodie Foster, which now makes me want to see her in a Rand biopic!
I thought she was voiced by Elizabeth Taylor.
Why not, OMWC already meets the main qualification the priests have.
[shows HM a dick that puts his to shame]
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But enough about Queen Victoria.
I’m forced to hate you now. Both for that monstrosity of a post and for getting a song from a Nickelodeon show in my head.
Also, this.
Turbo Mini 255BHP
Just doesn’t do anything for me.
*shrug* Always impressed by what an engine from the 50’s that’s a liter and change can do.
the power to weight is pretty darn cool.
I like it. Why all the hate for Minis? If I could fit in one, it would be my next car.
I don’t know. I like cars. That’s just not my favorite style.
that’s fair. Style is different for people.
I like that in the time it took me to leave work in disgust after speaking to my boss, gather my kids and drive them to the dojo, you guys put up your family friendly creds on the website.
Now I can show these stuck up parents, “See. Its a family friendly site, mkay?”
I read the comment section to my 5 year old every night. It helps him sleep.
Hmm.
My yougest detests bedtime. I may try that.
Read SugarFree stories to them, they will pass out very quickly.
i have my 3 year old yelling you need to earn it at people.
We have a Lucy sighting.
Glad to see she’s not living under a bridge.
Basically, it means that if there is even a tentative federal involvement in an investigation, the state agency can keep 80 percent of the profits, and the feds get 20 percent.
Profits, lucre, booty. Same difference.
So we’re allowed to talk about Lucy here?
For firearms enthusiasts, Great War channel today put up a special on WW1 British Rifles, covering short and long Enfields, as well as that most notorious of WW1 firearms, Canadian-made Ross rifle!
Sorry, Nobody Wants Your Parents’ Stuff
Or they’re written by Orwell or Hayek.
Garage sales are a waste of time. Better to take stuff to goodwill or salvation army and get the tax deduction. I do prefer to give old books to the library then if I ever want to read them, they’re there.
I hold on to my old books. My daughter picked up an old Henry Miller I had in the bookshelf. “Can I read this, Papa?”. Mmmm. I’ll wait until she’s 15.
I know what you mean. We have literally hundreds of books. Occasionally I’ll look them over and pick 3 or 4 to take to library. I need to let go and clean house. I like my collection though. I’m usually pretty thoughtful about buying books I know I’ll like.
Hold on to them. When the grid goes down and everyone else is reading shampoo bottles, you can curl up by the dumpster fire and read about alternate dystopian realities.
That would be my wife’s collection:) Most of mine are non-fiction.
Not romance novels?
If you’ve never read Henry Miller, I’m jealous. You get to read him for the first time.
By romance you mean porn right? Not novels per se.
I did a book report on one of the Ian Fleming Bond novels when I was in sixth grade.
I read a bunch of those when I was younger. I liked Ludlum as well.
“I do prefer to give old books to the library then if I ever want to read them, they’re there.”
Some libraries just sell off donated books if they can’t find space on the shelves, which is often where I am.
Those book sales are great sometimes. My local library has a sale where you go in, grab a large paper grocery bag at the door, fill it up with books, then pay a dollar for the bag on your way out. My friend and I went there once and filled up the entire trunk of my Accord with books.
It’s mostly stuff like “How to Access the World Wide Web” from 1997, but we found a lot of classic novels, history, and philsophy books as well.
One of our neighbors doed this cool little thing where she keeps books in a box on her porch and kids can drop off a book or borrow books whenever they want so they can all share.
Well, we can’t have that, can we?
http://www.kmbc.com/article/leawood-shuts-down-boy-s-little-free-library/3683035
Of course.
For the movie fans out there – IF you live in Charlottesville, Santa Fe or Austin – you’ve got to check out the special “Summer in Paris” program through Violet Crown cinemas next month.
8 movies – Alphaville, Classe Tous Risques, Delicatessen, Le Samourai, Eyes Without a Face, Diva, Obscure Object of Desire, and Panique. Two movies a week – two screenings of each of those every week. $9/ticket or $36 for all 8.
Hot damn, bought a full set of tickets and reserved my seats for each film in the series yesterday afternoon. I’ve got 5 of those films already (the other 3 will be new for me) – I’d almost be willing to pay $36 to see something like Le Samourai large screen – but for all 8 – remastered, large screen, in a theater that lets me get a couple beers and snacks while I watch. Hell to the yes!
The fact that it’s $4.50/movie for a 7 PM screening (ie. less than half of normal prices – is awesome too). (and free validated 4 hour parking).
I just recently saw Le Samourai for the first time. What a fantastic film.
Told the kid to get ready because we’re leaving in 10 minutes to go to her swimming class. 5 minutes, we’re leaving. Get ready. Alright, it’s time to go. “I haven’t done my hair yet”. She goes to the mirror and starts brushing. Leave right now or we aren’t going. Fine, we’re not going. Now she’s pouting in her room. If children were adults, we’d be punching them in the face all the time.
Reminds me of Nikki arguing kids shouldn’t be told what to do by their parents because freedom.
Not that you said that, just your story reminded me of it because the stupidity was what makes the internet worth having.
Didn’t actually tell her what to do. Just told her what she couldn’t do. Nikki is the worst. That is known.
I can’t make you do anything, but I can wish you had.
Well technically the child shouldn’t even exist by Nikki’s logic.
I let my toddler do more or less what she wants, provided she isn’t going to permanently injure herself, break our stuff, be impolite, or screw up our schedule. That’s enough freedom for her to figure stuff out for herself, such as how to use her tablet, how to get off of a chair without falling, and why you shouldn’t bother the cats. More than enough for a person who hasn’t quite gotten the concept of a toilet down.
The ancap childcare thing is interesting to me. I like some of the broader principles, but I also think it’s ridiculous to say that setting boundaries that curtail a child’s absolute liberty makes you a hypocritical tyrant. My kid thinks that the refrigerator spontaneously generates milk. As far as she’s concerned, the microwave is a shiny box that beeps, and the stove has these really cool dials that make her parents get uptight when she turns them. If I let my kid do whatever she wanted to do all the time she’d, you know, die of malnutrition. Assuming she didn’t set the house on fire or knock herself unconscious by pulling power cords until something fell down. And she’s smart.
Trying to explain, but it doesn’t work.
My daughter’s hit the “my X” stage, where everything she sees belongs to her, everything she wants to do is a concept that belongs to her (“My down!” means she wants to get out of her high chair, for instance) and everything she can touch belongs to her. I keep telling her, “Actually, no, that’s mine, but you’re welcome to use it if you say ‘please’.” About 10% of the time this works. The other 90% it triggers a meltdown, but whatever.
Mine lit a tissue on fire once to see it happen. Saw a candle, saw the tissue, made fire. Then screamed as we ran downstairs and said she didn’t know it would catch fire.
Oh, man, I was a huge firebug when I was a kid. I desperately hope my kids don’t inherit that shit from me.
If you have boys, you’re fucked. It’s evolution, I think.
My dad still reminds me of the damage I did with a propane torch when I was 10 or so.
There’s a burn mark on the garage from my bee killing flamethrower.
I also once tried to make a flaming arrow by tying a kerosene soaked rag to it. I tried firing it into a dirt embankment by the lower garage (Dad’s office and old car/tractor storage) but I shot over a bunch of uncut grasses/ thorn bushes. the rag fell off the arrow after about 5 feet, so right into the brush. I’ve never ran so fast in my life. I had the hose there in what felt like 5 seconds. My friend that was with me picked up a large flat stone and threw it onto the fire. We had to tie it to the tractor to pull it back out after. adrenaline can do some crazy stuff. The fire didn’t get too big, but damn. I felt very stupid.
It’s one of the reasons I loathe the ‘wonderful child’ and ‘inner child’ tropes in fiction.
No, fuck you. Kids are assholes, they’ve always been assholes, and when you were a child you were an asshole. Yeah, we keep them around for the continuation of the species and whatever, but they’re what happens when you take away rational and accountability from human beings.
Hmmm..
https://youtu.be/wse_hgca220
You beat me to it goddamnit.
Yup, one of the most unforgettable lines ever.
Yeah just like Jack Nicholson said in that movie!
True, the size advantage of adults over shildren is necessary to keep them from murdering us the first time we say no more ice cream.
Who can kill a child?
The pure “inner child” is an admission by the people who use it that they haven’t acquired wisdom. If you think experiences and proper reflection upon them make you corrupt, you an amoeba. That being said, I usually like kids. They have an excuse for being fuckheads, unlike most adults.
“they’re what happens when you take away rational and accountability from human beings.”
I could have sworn that was women.
But you are right, kids are not some innocent little angels, once they reach school age, they are far meaner and crueler than adults are with their peers. Do none of us remember just how fucking mean we were to each other in school?
My wife loves it when I give her this quote from the Godfather.
But it’s true about kids. They’re angry drunks when they’re young, then they’re horrid little shits until they get out of puberty. Shit, the early twenties aren’t much to write home about, either.
Whoever says kids are not a pain in the ass is full of shit.
When I lived in Sweden in the 1990s, I was in a grocery checkout line behind a few others. The little girl in front of me repeatedly rammed her shopping cart into the man in front of her. He eventually turned around to face the ramming girl’s mother and asked “Madame, would you kindly restrain your child from ramming me with a cart?”
The Swedish mom said (paraphrasing) “Oh, no. My daughter was raised in the anti-authoritarian model of living.”
The man opened a jar of marmalade he was purchasing and dumped it over the girl’s head, saying “So was I.”
I wanted to have his babies at that moment.
Still afternoon eh?
It’s really dark for afternoon. I mean in July.
So, after a slow build of annoyances followed by a few sharp eruptions of downright shitty treatment, I’ve decided to find another job, and I’m focusing solely on positions with companies that allow for full remote schedules. I’ve got a few interviews lined up and some nibbles that might pan out at some promising companies where I’d be doing UI development, full-stack development, web application development, or some permutation of those things. A couple of the companies are larger, one’s a startup, and the rest are sort of mid-sized, but they’re all tech companies first and foremost–in contrast to companies that are in some other industry and have an IT department that handles web stuff.
So far I’ve gotten a lot of positive interest, and at the risk of getting cocky I think it’s not so much if I get a new gig as which I offers I have to choose from. Which means I’ll be going from a regular 9-5 office job to working from home for the first time. Any advice from Glibs with experience in this regard? My kid’s in daycare and I’ve already got a room that I use as an office, plus a pretty nice computer that I use for working on personal projects.
Apparently, you’re expected to have your clothes on while Skyping.
I’ve definitely Skyped in a nice polo shirt and yesterday’s camo shorts, for sure. I mean, they can’t see what’s under the desk, right?
I don’t work full-time from home, but I do a lot of freelance writing which is still “working from home”.
If you’re the kind of person who can switch into “work mode” and just focus 100 percent, I’d imagine it would be pretty easy for you. My biggest issue when I’m trying to write at home is that there are so many distractions, mainly the Internet and the impulse to go get a snack (which can turn into making a giant meal).
Something that helps me a lot is using the timer on my phone. When I start an article, I’ll estimate how long it should take me to do it, then start a timer. Just knowing that the timer is running seems to have some psychological effect for me. If I completed it on time, I’d take a little break, then go back and write some more.
I have a day every two weeks designated as a telecommuting day, and the only real pain in the ass is that at some point during the day a three or four hour block will happen where the dogs decide every fifteen minutes that they’d rather be inside or outside, depending. They’re getting older now, though, so it’s not as bad as it was.
I definitely get fixated on screwing around on the Internet, or making interesting snacks, or spending an hour finding just the right movie or tv series to put on in the background, or putting a load of laundry in, crap like that. Unless I’ve got a project that I’m actively working on and interested in, I’ve got the attention span of a squirrel. In the office, this isn’t a problem, because it’s a government job, and let’s just say that productivity is not a huge part of the work culture there. It’s the kind of place where my immediate supervisor would rather I be in the office waiting for something I can work on than at home waiting for something I can work on because it’s more important that asses are in seats for eight hours than that any actual work is getting done.
I’m working most of the time from home. But I’d like to work full time from home. It’s totally possible to do so with my work and I know several people doing what I do and they rarely visit clients, maybe a few times a year. I could really go for that about right now.
Working independently from home in some way or another has been my dream for a long, long time. I’m willing to accept a much lower salary if it means no commute, no workplace bullshit, and no bosses chewing me out over stupid shit that was their fault in the first place.
My freelance writing is the most profitable activity I’ve come across so far. I’m working through a content “broker” website and making some nice extra dough, but I need to 1) find more sites, 2) find private clients since they pay more, and 3) find a part-time job or other sources of income so that I can quit my full-time job and focus more on writing.
Full time telecommute has some huge advantages.
1. No need for extra car if you’re married.
2. No commute.
3. You can live anywhere you want.
3 is the biggest.
Besides that, there are of course a lot of minor advantages.
I’m not in IT, but I quit my job at a large company about 15 years ago and went purely with contract work. Love having the flexibility to accept work if I feel like it or dumping a job if I don’t want to do it anymore. It’s been awesome and I’ve never dumped a job because the people I’m working with know I don’t need them, so they treat me a lot better than their full time employees. They treat me well and I treat them well.
I seriously thought about trying to switch over to contract work (I’m full-time regular now) because I like variety and the money’s better, but I don’t have the balls to lose the job security. Besides which, all the contract stuff that’s in my field and in my region is on-site and I share a car with my wife. She has to travel pretty frequently for work, so it wouldn’t really work unless we bought another car, and we can’t afford to buy another car until I get a better job…you see the problem.
Get one of your clients to hire you as a full time employee knowing that you have other clients, but securing a good chunk of your time for themselves. It can and has been done. I’m not even sure if it’s uncommon, although not the norm.
My job is still mostly 8-5 conventional, but we have lots of flexibility for working a couple of half days or a day at home a week.
When i had adolescent stepsons in the house, I explained to me that when I was wearing my badge and lanyard around my neck, I was at work and thus shouldn’t be disturbed unless it was something that couldn’t wait, that worked really well. When I was done for the day, I’d announce, “It’s quittin’ time!” and they would pull my (breakaway–thank goodness) lanyard off my neck like it was a wishbone.
So with kids, I think you should make up a lanyard or office door sign or something, for them and for you. Because when it’s quittin’ time, you really should quit and go paint or play legos or read books for them. But when you are at work, the lanyard reminds EVERYBODY that you’re at work.
“I explained to THEM” not to me.
sheesh.
For me, not being able to work at home now at least half the time, as I’ve been doing for the last 10 years, would probably be a career ending thing. I’d just retire, say fuck it, and find myself somewhere in rural TN or SC with some land where I can raise part of my own food. Then I’d find some part time work on the intertoobz. I’m not going to an office 5 days a week, fuck that shit.
I suggest that you open a Chaturbate account and stream live sex shows with your wife. Use the money to buy weed and play video games during your time off.
Glibertarian Foundation 2018 business plan?
wouldn’t you suggest that to any of us?
“There has been no backlash at all. The story of the moment is that the notionally conservative ‘Doctor Who’ fandom has utterly embraced that change completely — 80 percent approval on social media, not that I check these things obsessively. And yet so many people wanted to pretend there’s a problem. There isn’t.”
Apparently somebody interrupted an even where Kat Timpf was due to speak, emptied a water bottle over her head, then ran away. I’m betting false flag: it wasn’t piss or something caustic, so probably not a lefty.
“It is not only that China’s censors will not tolerate ridicule of the country’s leader, they do not want this beloved children’s character becoming a kind of online euphemism for the Communist Party’s general secretary.”
“If Republicans do not wish to be remembered (and forgotten) like the German conservatives of the 1930s, they had better find their courage – and their conservatism – fast.”
Maybe the Trumpet can lend them some ballz, because the GOP are seriously lacking in those. Does any of them have a pair outside of Rand? Ok, Amash and Massie. I guess maybe one more set when Kid Rock comes to town.
If Petersen can get elected too.
That would be awesomeness, progs will have the meltdown of all meltdowns. And Lindsey, now already lacking his neocon mentor, will probably jump off the dome of the Capital Building. It’s a WIN/WIN.
DON’T ANY OF YOU WORK?
I do sometimes work at this time of night, but not tonight.
You’re a male prostitute?
It’s something like that, only I whore out me coding skills for money. Less scarier and more disease free.
Anyway, that’s Maan haar! Land lubber!
Re the cop who choked to death that guy for pissing at Denny’s. Do they look dazed and confused or what?
http://abc13.com/news/deputy-and-husband-out-on-bond-after-murder-indictment/2071281/
What the fuck is she wearing? She was going to Denny’s dressed like that? White trash all the way.
Crikey, and look at her husband in his wife beater. Fuck. Pure thuggery from trailer trash.
For me, the video was preceded by some kind of car ad which showed people passing out at the dealership and getting dragged out.
I think Toyota’s advertising staff should chat with the station’s advertising staff.
Death penalty? That would be manslaughter, right? Is there death penalty for manslaughter in that state? 3 questions, yeehaw!
I’ve been fighting a full-body panic attack all day. Fucking rotten feeling, part hopelessness and part dread and all over nothing more than car problems. Granted, major problems which are avoidable and thus all the more aggravating, but problems which will be resolved with a loan from a family member who offered the money and can afford it. I am blessed with good people and I have nothing to worry about.
But somehow that doesn’t quell the trapped rat feeling while I prowl around the house like a lunatic envisioning having to quit my job because I can’t make it to work and withdrawing from classes because I can’t make it to campus. And now being unable to sleep because my body feels wired and pinched.
Anyway, rant over. I feel better seeing how ridiculous it looks on paper.
The ancient stoics said: it is not the world that disturbs you, but your beliefs about it. Realize that you are not your emotions and you will have peace of mind.
I need to make time for the Stoics. I’ve been trying some CBT exercises, but that’s a little like trying to get invested in a car manual. Technically useful, but doesn’t answer Why questions.
Car problems suck, man. I just put all new brakes on my car, the entire thing. The thing that I got all pissy about and my wife hates it when I get like this, is that the retards… ok, they’re not retards and they’re actually good guys, which is why I keep going back there. But anyway, I put new Yokohama tires on my car 2 weeks ago, I’m talking the best Yokohama money can buy, and I love them so far, but the TPS light came on my dashboard after that and wouldn’t go off. So I noticed that my computer is showing that there is zero pounds of air in the RF tire. Only that’s not right. So when I got my brakes all done on Saturday, I told them about it. So they told me they checked all the sensors and they’re all good, but the RF tire was low, so if I drive a while, the TPS light will probably go off. Which it didn’t. Also, there’s no way the RF tire was low, not enough to turn that light on. So then I figured out on my own that the reason the fucking light is on is that the fuckers failed to reset the TPS after they changed the tires. I’ve yet to chew their ass over it, I’m counting to 1000…
Anyway, about panic attacks… do you drink very much? Because the only time I get like that is when I’ve drank too much the night before. If that’s not it, you might want to ask your doctor, because panic attack are not normal, and they aren’t good for you.
It’s definitely an issue and I’m swearing it off for awhile. More of a contributor than the main show, but I can certainly see it becoming the central issue if I don’t take care of it now.
I know the feeling commodious.
It’s not a good time. It will pass. sounds like you have a family that’s there for you. know they will be there tomorrow, no matter what.
Sucks, doesn’t it.
Anxiety disorder sucks. Makes no fucking sense sometimes when I have my worst panic attacks. I can rationalize how things are going to be fine all I want and it still happens.
is it the head gasket of the subaru?
I decided to compare the 2016 platforms of team red, team blue, and team porcupine in top hat humping a pile of money.
Team Monocle’s platform fits on a single page- 40 short statements.
Team Red’s has 8 sections which each take up a page or two. Each page is about as long as team tophat’s platform.
Team Blue’s is so long I was expecting a preview of the next Marvel movie at the end. At least 200 multi-paragraph policy statements.
And Team Blue California is even worse. It has a section on world peace for some reason.
https://www.cadem.org/our-california/platform/2016-platform-world-peace-and-international-relations
But CA are the only brave ones who are fighting climate change on their own, despite Trump’s evil agenda to destroy the planet just for the fun of it.
We’re already doomed. I was having lunch at a place along the beach the other weekend and I could see the water rising the whole time I was eating! Some denier told me it was something called “high tide”, but I know the truth.
Oh yea? Well, I’ve noticed that the average daily temperature has increased by about 60 degrees F since January! If this trend continues, the entire world will be uninhabitable by December!!
For the record, if California wants to team up with a bunch of other states to fuck up their economies in the name of global warming, more power to them. Those evil states’ rights and all.
What I’m listening to: Italian power metal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKfI-b8XXZE
good news: my brother and the rest of the guys at his base are now allowed to shoot back at the Taliban. That should cut down on the rocket attacks.
Also, my dad took my brother’s 4 yr old son to the fair to play whack a mole. Sadly, he scored zero. The carny felt bad for him and gave him a prize anyway. But that just made him more upset. “Not fair! I didn’t win” he shouted.
He’s off to a good start.
Another British police agency focusing on what’s truly important
Fun fact: In 2001, a solicitor by the name of Adele Weir was hired by the Rotherdam Council to write a report regarding prostitution. She uncovered evidence of the pervasive sex abuse that’d been going on for a decade at that point. She wrote a report, highlighting what had been happening and who was behind it.
The response from the Rotherdam police was, quoting her:
The abuse went on for another decade after that.