Guess what day it is! GUESS WHAT DAY IT IS!!!
Well, no, it’s a day where (unusually) OMWC pinch-hits on links. I was tempted to make them all sports, but the Orioles are depressing me. So it will be the usual mixed bag, starting with…
Proof that Team Red is as worthless of a sack of shit as Team Blue. Wouldn’t it be nice if there were some political party that would, I dunno, FOLLOW THE FUCKING CONSTITUTION?
And speaking of hilariously inept Team Blue, DWS is getting her floppy dugs caught in a wringer. Of course the reason given is “racism.” I’m not making that up. And of course, as always, she’ll skate and low level folks will get hypovehiculated. Which is totally different and not at all racism.
You have to wonder if the Iranians are risking encountering a US Navy captain who is a former MPS cop and is easily startled. They could become deceased. The passive voice in the headline is unintentionally funny.
OMWC predicts tomorrow’s headlines: Listeria Outbreak!
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536 responses to “It’s Wednesday Morning: Rechts oder Links?”
I’ll just repost what I put in the JewDay thread:
So, I guess OCare repeal and replace got shot down last night? After Pence had to break a 50-50 tie to get debate on the bill to the floor? I guess you can add Cotton and Lee to Ken Shultz’s shit list.
How hard is it to just send a repeal bill to the floor? Then worry about fixing problems with a subsequent bill?
Devil’s Advocate, they are worried that a flat repeal can’t pass through reconsiliation.
As myself, however, they’re just jellyfish.
A little hard on jellyfish, don’t you think?
No. those poisonous, stinging, balls of snot can go fuck themselves.
+1 “This bright blue thing on the beach is neat. Wonder what it is…?”
A memorable experience for three year old me.
Jump into the loving embrace of a Man of war – by accident, I add – and spend a week in the hospital with serious burns, then come talk to me about what hell is.
come talk to me about what hell is.
Buddy… I’ve seen bat mitzvahs that could scour a man’s soul and have him begging for death before the end
When was the last time a jellyfish had the power to revoke a terrible piece of legislation but refused?
Have you never heard of the Diet of Medusozoa?
Turns you to stone or Jelly?
I think the straight repeal bill gets its vote today.
Yeah. I think that the message might have gotten into whatever passes for a primordial brain of Senate leadership that they’re going to lose the Senate for sure when their constituency stays home or turns out to vote (against them) in the primaries. Put up a straight repeal vote it out. If it gets shot down by the Parliamentarian, you get to go back to your base and say, “we did what you asked and it didn’t work, give us 60”
Or, you know, use the Harry Reid option and shit-can the filibuster and pass it with 50 plus Pence.
I should go talk to them about repealing Obumblecare. I bet I could even convince Schumer and Pelosi to vote for repeal.
Well, the Democrats in the GOP ‘COULD’ be primaried if their constituents would get some fucking ballz and do it. I don’t even blame the GOP, I blame voters. Get those fucking leftists out of the party and fix the damn problem.
Hello.
Guten morgen
Concerning the sperm story, the reaction will go thusly…
Something cuck, something something cuck, something.
I’ve heard some arguments that it’s the result of the increased use of Soy Proteins in our diets.
Interesting. The whole thing seems like a setup for a joke, but I suppose there are actual implications to it
That doesn’t explain why there’s 2 billion Chinese.
We’re using Soy differently. The way they’re processed in East Asia destroys the estrogen-imitators while we do not.
Not so much; there’s a whole suite of phytoestrogens in soy products, and the Asian diet contains about a zillion forms of soy. Fermented soy products (e.g., tempeh, miso) are particularly rich in aglycone. See the excellent review by Heather Patisaul (doi 10.1016/j.yfrne.2010.03.003).
Which is why so many Asian men can look like a woman with some makeup and a wig. /Thai Lady Boys
It wasn’t my theory, but that does open the question of “Is there an Asian genetic factor that differentiates the way they react to it?”
There would be precedent for a dietary differential in humans (see Adult Lactose Tolerance).
Of course, this is still working off the hypothesis that soy is to blame.
Or BPA! Or glyphosate! The chemical basis is always suspect, but maybe higher insulin rates (on average) are to blame.
Global warming.
You forgot the birth control pill casuing estrogenized waterways.
Shit, with so many extra hormones running around, it’s no wonder we’ve developed dozens of new genders…
Soy? No, avacados.
-2 āhuacatl
I wonder if it’s something simple like high body fat.
Its all due to the easy access of porn. Men get rid,of their sperm more,often than they used to.
Did you insert the extra commas to indicate appropriate places to pause for a quick fap?
It’s, hard, to, type, using, just, one’s, left, hand.
I read that in Shatner’s voice.
Britain following a path laid out by their brave French betters
http://money.cnn.com/2017/07/26/news/uk-bans-gasoline-diesel-engines-2040/index.html
Stiff upper lip, chaps! Remember, Queen and Country!
Fucking idiots.
Somehow they figure that apeing the frogs is a good call, but just like Macron’s proposal, this one will never be fulfilled wither.
I say follow thee money. Someone is going to get stinking rich peddling subpar product because government mandated it. Think of Solyndra or other such Obama era money pits that made some connected people rich, but screwed tax payers and consumers hard.
I predict that a future parliment will very quietly slip a repeal clause in a longer bill and this will go away.
Any mention of how they plan on generating all the extra electricity needed to charge all these new electric motors?
They’ll put a windmill on top of every car so that it generates its own power as it drives! We’ll have perpetual motion! It’s Genius!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WhtKkl0L7Ek
Windmills do not work that way.
We could get rid of runways by putting planes on giant treadmills for takeoff.
Love that idea!
Magic?
Nuclear power? *laughs*
They will receive all the power they need from the orgasms of Gaia.
Earthquakes?
Just where is Gaia’s G-Spot?
*asking for a friend*
Atlantis?
Greensboro, NC.
The math works out! (As long as you round off pi to 3).
And why not round off pi too? That is just some stupid white man relic that makes math too fucking hard anyhow. And as has been proved now, laws of physics can be changed by the right bill passing through a legislature.
They have been doing the same hoping to change the laws of economics for over a century, and have yet to give up on that..
I swear to Zod, that about 3 or 4 years ago, there was a news story about massive brownouts in the UK for 2 summer afternoons, from heavy electrical demand on the grid and very slack wind, stalling the Magic Power Windmills.
Damned if I can find it today. I swear that I wasn’t hallucinating that day!
Winston got around to “correcting” it.
Lay back and think of England folks.
Aren’t their truck drivers all Poles and former ‘Slovakians?
From Soviet Yugoslavia, yep
Oh, and related to the IT staffer story, he’s out on bond with a GPS monitor. LOL.
FTL:
So, how will Awan commit suicide, and when? Place your bets…
He’ll commit suicide by JDAM.
Wait, the dude literally tried to flee the country and you’re letting him out on bail?
No flight risk at all
Democrats need him to die or get away because he probably will embarrass and expose them if he actually has to tell a court what happened.
I know, isn’t it great?
Assuming he still wants to leave, how hard would it be for him to go to the Pakistani consulate/embassy, get them to put the bracelet on something else, get new identity documents, and fly away?
Or I guess TPTB are hoping that letting him run free will attract other people they may wish to talk to.
Probably easier for him to commit suicide if he’s not in jail.
They took away his passport.
Good thing they are impossible to fake.
“Awan was also ordered to turn over all of his passports.”
ALL of his passports. Sexism! I only get one!
Did he pinky swear that the ones turned in were “all of them”?
And there’s no way he could get a new one at the Pakistani embassy.
He will shoot himself in the back of the head. Twice.
I don’t think this one will commit suicide. My current working tin foil hat theory is they are blackmailing House D’s including Greasylocks Schultz, and they know his wife, who is sitting in Pakistan, will release everything that has been stolen should anything happen to him.
I’m still trying to figure WTF happened with this whole IT staff story.
AIUI, pretty much everything that went past DWS’s desk went through their hands. Also, didn’t they provide IT services to a bunch of other Congresscritters, including some on committees like Intel and Armed Services?
That, and hilarity like giving root access to contractors in China, to the database that held the compiled SF-86 questionnaires, makes the handwringing over what Snowden and Manning revealed seem like much ado over nothing.
Jeez, what other corrupt revelations are we going to discover about the Obama Administration?
Shot by a
sniperrobber while walking down the street, nothing stolen.Botched robbery attempt that resulted in a tragic death but nothing being taken, huh? Happens a lot to people that tick of demcorats…
It’s always suspicious when the Dems aren’t trying to take something.
He’ll hang himself on Chester Bennington’s birthday.
So, how will Awan commit suicide, and when?
Tomorrow afternoon he will eat at Chipotle.
The 150 Worst Albums Made By MenTW: Jezebel
I only know some of these, but I would say anything by Bruce Willis is probably crap, along with k-fed. That’s almost a funny joke, if only it was just ribbing bad albums
Judge for yourself.
https://youtu.be/a3vMKSA0OKc
It’s funny Jezebel is all of a sudden putting out a hit piece that has kid rock at the top of it. They gotta direct their base’s outrage at the right targets.
Which is funny. “He’s a horrible artist, therefore we shouldn’t vote for him”. I know nothing about his proposed policies, but most sane people don’t care.
*don’t care about your artistic talent when voting.
You know who else was a lousy artist?
Jackson Pollack?
There is something pretty compelling about his work.
It compels me to roll my eyes and move along.
I guess there is no other reason Kid Rick is #1, none at all.
Exactly, they totally didn’t start with the premise of “let’s put Kid Rock on the top of some List of Shitty Things” and then work their way back from that.
“104. The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”
SMDH
I also wonder how many men are involved in “every 150 great albums by women that get made”.
Anyone who has time to make a top/worst 150 list has way to much time on their hands.
Rolling Stone hardest hit
Spiderland? Only one of the greatest indie albums ever. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot? I don’t even really like Wilco and I think it’s a very good album. Critics loved it. Kid A? AEnima?
TWO NUNS AND A PACK MULE?? Woodchipper time, plain and simple. Wahhhhh, Steve Albini called his band Rapeman so we’ll stick an incredible album we’ve almost certainly never listened to on our shitty list.
I mean, I hate myself for responding to trolling, but even as trolling fuck that cunt. I’m sure she’s one of those Jezzie writers who acts as if shitty dance pop Beyonce is the fucking equal of Mozart.
Beyonce – music by committee
Aenima? I’ll burn their fucking houses down. First of all, the sonic interludes that wove between tracks are fucking magic that there aren’t 150 albums in the world could match. Second, I count at least 4 solid hits on that album. Discounting HWP and Learn to Swim. They have gone too fucking far.
Fuck smiley glad hands with hidden agendas, fuck these dysfunctional insecure actresses.
Yeah one of my favorite albums of all time.
Learn to swim Jezebitches.
Tool. Man, I just don’t get their appeal. Talented musicians, to be sure, but their music is just…bleh. Overwrought lyrics to boot. To each his own, but hard pass from me
Its okay that you’re broken.
Sorry bro. Must be rough being lame.
I stand with Jefe. ::glowering look::
Thank you, Lord Humungus *thumbs up*
Tool is the ultimate “you just don’t get it” band. Naw, I get it; they wank around on their instruments, think never subtle puns and allusions are ingenious, and generally give off a nor as smart as they think they are vibe.
Mark Prindle sums it up nicely:
What, no mention of Dream Machine after those anti-Jezzi comments?
Women never make shitty music
Sure they do…when they’re in love with some worthless man.
The EU doing something sensible? Of course I’m sure there’s a pound of flesh to be had somewhere here.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40714946
This body-positive artist draws plus-size women to teach his daughters confidence
“Body Positivity” hurts the fatties it claims to be trying to help.
Stop feeding your faces and start working out before you get too old to turn things around!
“John walked through his apartment. Hanging on the walls was his treasured collection of fatty art work, which he had arm wrestled Marlon Brando to acquire.”
Epic brah..
I’ve been going out on regular dates with this chick that likes to send me articles about body positivity and posts from people on facebook telling people not to fat shame. She goes on and on ranting about how these people need to eat a fucking salad and do some cardio and they should stop teaching women that its okay to be fat.
I sent her this article and her reaction was “Ew, body positivity so fucking annoying. Its not sexy”
LOL
As long as you didn’t meet her at the Anorexia/Bulimia recovery group, that’s great
Na, she’s healthy. Got a slammin’ body. An enthusiastic participant in the patriarchy. She proudly accepts the label of shitlord, too.
When’s she moving down from Canada?
Shes a home grown American country girl.
Pics or it didn’t happen.
Do we even want to know why you gave her that title?
Well, it is okay. It’s not great, but it’s not inherently bad beyond the attendant health issues. I’m not talking about pretending that a pretty fat woman is 100% every bit as sexy, if not sexier, than Demi Lovato* – I’m saying that the anti-fat concern trollers are coming off like the healthier than thou assholes that used to badger smokers in the 1990s.
I mean, whether I’m fat, a smoker, a drug user, a drinker – who gives a shit? But for some reason, fatties get the OMG YER HEALTH treatment more than other groups.
* Best example I could think of, top of my head. I mean she’s hot, but surely I could have done better.
I don’t care if you’re fat.
I care if you’re annoying.
After telling fat people they should be proud of their flab, “Body Positivity” activists ineivtably start trying to tell everyone else they should be attracted to landwhales as much as they are to healthy people. I don’t want to let them get to this stage, so I mock and deride them while still at the “it’s okay to be fat” stage.
She’s not a anti-fat concern troll. She eats fast food occasionally. She’s a healthy weight and not obsessed with exercise but she does some light cardio. She’s just not okay with the whole “beautiful at every size” bullshit.
Its more about these people that constantly feel the need to shout from the rooftops that being obese is not the obese person’s fault*, and in fact, its society’s fault and EVERYONE needs to conform and pat everyone else on the back and tell each other that they’re beautiful no matter how unhealthy they are.
And I completely disagree on the whole smoker, drug user and drinkers not getting the “OMG YER HEALTH” treatment. They DO get this treatment. There are regulatory requirements for labeling cigarette packs, there is public funding for anti-drug programs schools crusade against all of these things for every kid during for 12+ years. Everyone says smoking is terrible for your health, and its very frowned upon now. Drug use is certainly frowned upon – we make people piss in a cup to get entry level jobs for christsakes. So I call bullshit on your point about that.
Also, its not the drinkers, smokers and drug users out there pumping out articles about “don’t shame my drug use you shitty person” and “smoking is sexy at every stage of cancer, shitlord.” If they were, I’d be pissed about that too.
*obviously there is tiny minority that actually have genetic and thyroid issues. That’s not who I’m talking about.
Wasn’t saying she specifically was.
That’s not good either. It’s almost as if there’s a middle ground between “Fat is awesome, everyone should do it!” and “Hit up a treadmill sometime, you fat fuck.”
I don’t deny that, but that stuff is institutionalized now because the shaming happened a long time ago. MADD and Partnership for a Drug-Free America was 1980’s stuff. Anti-smoking zealotry was huge in the 1990s. But fat-shaming seems to be on the rise.
Maybe they should be. Maybe we were wrong to give people shit about their choices, even if those choices led to bad outcomes. I mean, sure – a close friend, a family member – you don’t want them to suffer and you’ll do whatever you can to help them. But badgering strangers (thanks, internet anonymity) is just stupid.
Let’s say we MUST go to one extreme or the other: praise fatties for being themselves or browbeat them for being fat. I think the worst result from the first is a number of delusional people running around, thinking they all that. The worst result from the second is that the state has to step in to save people from themselves, and we’ve already seen that happen with other vices. I’ll get arrested for possessing drugs. If I want to smoke, I have to pay a fuckload in taxes and can basically only smoke in my own house. What’s the cover politicians are running for all these soda taxes that are gaining in popularity?
There’s a big difference between (1) being bothered by people going out of their way to shame you for not praising someone for being fat and (2) advocating for state control/programs to try to force people to lose weight. I hope that you’re not saying that just because I’m expressing my opinion that this will be some sort of slippery slope to state power/control. That’s the sense I’m getting from you on this.
I don’t think that anyone here is advocating for (2). Getting out there and randomly calling people on the street fat-asses is “fat-shaming” as you like to call it. It’s being a jerk and its not cool.
However, if some fat person comes up to me on the street and calls me a shitty person for being willing to pay to see Jessica Alba naked but being revolted by the thought of seeing Rosie O’Donnell naked, then the proper response is ridicule. They’re free to write all the articles they want on it, and I’m free to tell them that I’ll never find big sexy, and that they need to eat a salad and get some exercise.
As an ex-smoker I have absolutely zero sympathy for the fat acceptance people. It’s one thing if you’re just fat and don’t give a shit and have some people harassing you about it, in the same way just having a cigarette is fine. But smokers don’t go up to people and scream “HEY YOU NEED TO ACCEPT MY LIFE CHOICES AND ALSO I’M JUST AS HEALTHY AND WONDERFUL AS PEOPLE WHO DO TAKE CARE OF THEIR BODIES.’ ‘Fat acceptance’ actively promotes a hatred of fat people because their most vocal proponents just push people too far.
I saw getting after fat people to be the next socially acceptable thing to badger and coerce people about. Perhaps the no fat shaming crowd saw this writing on the wall and are trying to head it off at the pass.
I seriously doubt that, Chips. These are the type of people that would like speech codes and would enjoy throwing people in jail for saying things that give them bad feelz.
I note that the body positive artist still requires his subjects to have a waist smaller than their chest.
Right?! I dig on big girls from time to time, but there’s a difference between a big woman with attractive proportions and a fat slob. Body positivity seems to be a scam to convince the Honey Boo Boos of the world to not bother with getting a little bit of exercise and not eating like a teenager.
This body-positive artist draws plus-size women to teach his daughters
confidenceto be self-indulgent fatties.California May Let People Dissolve Their Corpses to Stop Climate Change
You know who else had a problem with disposing of a large numbers of bodies…
The Plague Doktors?
The Clintons?
Huh, any mention of the chemicals used in this process? I imagine this might be like electric cars, defer the icky stuff out of sight.
Thought it was an aqueous solution of sodium hydroxide, heated to something like 120 C (not sure if they actually get it to boiling or not) and retort for something like 18 hours. You end up with an organic soup and some spongy bone matter, plus whatever inorganics were in the corpse. Sift, throw the bone mush into a ball mill, and no more body.
So they’re dissolving bodies in hot lye? Like lutefisk?
Yep, alkaline hydrolysis. See, e.g., this Atlas Obscura article. KOH at 300F+
Lutefisk is people!
That doesn’t sound so bad to me at all. I’ve never been enamored with the idea of being preserved, put in a box, and then put in the ground and taking up what could be otherwise productive space. Didn’t bother me on a greenie feelz level, but as an engineer I abhor that kind of inefficiency. But my wife would much rather have a plot to come visit, so if I die first (I will), that’s what I’m going to get. Maybe I can see if there’s any legal (and safe) way to get burred under a tree or in a garden she can visit instead of a big dumb rock.
Chipotle?
Muhammad, PBUH?
Genghis Khan?
So I guess I’ll have to ship all my corpses to California…
SOILENT GREEN!
There’s a memorable passage in Richard Rhodes’s book, “Masters of Death,” where he recounts an instance where the Nazis tried a variant of that method.
Unfortunately, they didn’t make sure the victims were dead first… Even the Nazis thought that method was too much, and no further attempts were recorded.
A great, horrifying read.
Closer to home, I’ve mentioned at TOS, the L.A. Times’s article on the Mexican gangland practitioner of that method, “El Pozolero.” So droll. Evidently it works very well.
So Walter White is running the morgues in California now?
John Wayne Gacy?
Warty, from his rape dungeon?
“Funeral homes reportedly charge $150-$500 more”
*facepalm*
These idiots have no idea what money is. It’s a measure of expended resources.
Space+time is a resource?
Bricktop?
Mistah Wu?
The US before Obamacare?
This is retarded. I told my kids at the first sign of dementia they need to leave me out in the woods somewhere.
“Mr. Trump kept up pressure on the Senate on Tuesday with Twitter posts.”
Huh.
I have the urge to both laugh and weep, for some reason.
SJWednesday: Save the Derp Edition
TL;DR – We don’t make content people want to read, so pay us for the virtue signal.
They should see if the Koch brothers have any spare funds. It think it would be wonderful if the Koch brothers funded EF.
So when they fold, they can blame TrumPutin and Milo, yeah? Can we take any credit?
Half their views come from us.
So at least 50%, I’ll take. We’re this close to a controlling share of damage done to EF
,
::Koo-koo clock noises::
This caught my eye too. Are they saying that their advertisers are Trump supporters which is causing their revenue to go down?
fairly compensates those who write for us
If the compensation were truly fair, they’d get revenue from people paying them to run their shitty articles.
I don’t think you can get more fair than free trade. They must be talking about that other kind of “fair”, i.e. the one that pre-adolescent kids refer to when they want their parents to buy them something.
The one where if you can’t have something you want, someone else – with these people usually government- takes it away from those that have it?
It still fascinates me that apparently large numbers of women in America actually believe they are oppressed. That level of cluelessness is astonishing.
There is a ton of power in claiming victimhood in this country. Why would you not ride that bandwagon and profit from it if so encouraged?
Oh, I get that, of course. But a lot of these women seem to actually believe it to be true.
I don’t know if they really believe it or want everyone else to believe they do. One of the most hardcore feminista types I had the misfortune of knowing always wanted everyone to know how independent and self sufficient she was as a single mom. That she was always wasting her money on crap, ignored her kids, and in general expected someone else to always do the heavy lifting or pick up the bill, was blatantly obvious, but she worked hard on making sure people believed that she believed she was a victim that was fighting the system.
It’s easy to claim you are an independent and capable person when you expect daddy government to use tax payer money to protect you against your own dumb choices, actions, and the general calamities you attract by virtue of your own inability to accept you would never be able to make that work on your own.
And when they’re still around once Trump is no longer around it will be proof they were paranoid buffoons, right?
No it will be proof they fought and beat the partiarchy!
Across the media industry, dropping ad rates are wreaking havoc. Companies are being forced to lay people off and, sometimes, even shut down.
Ya know, it’s a bit like petro-states and low oil prices: it’s all upside.
shorter: “we took the thousands of dollars you gave us and spent it on mani-pedis and mojitos and now we NEED MOAR $.” But a fool and her money, I guess, so you do you, feminists.
(Cry Me a River Plays in background)
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/07/the-ugly-dispute-threatening-snopes/534708/
Crimea River? Are we talking the Salhir, the Kacha, the Alma, or the Belbek?
Which one would piss the russians off most? Lets go with that one.
I was part of an S-corp and got a little screwed. My opinion: don’t form an S-corp if you can’t absolutely trust your business partner (and you can’t). But that’s just my experience.
Who could have guessed that leaving your wife for a hooker might have negative consequences?
It does seem counter-intuitive.
In July 2016, Barbara Mikkelson sold her half of Bardav to these five men, leaving her ex-husband with five new partners in the company.
I hear a couple dudes up in Canada got in trouble for that sort of thing.
The fucked up thing is that it was going around Facederp that it was the ISP holding the site hostage for no reason.
Yeah, I’m not getting in the middle of some couple’s divorce dispute. Let Judge Judy handle that shizz.
I read newish as newsish and almost spit my coffee.
SJWednesday: The Acronomicon Edition
Classic evidence of being a white person?
Evidence, as in a crime?
The whole article is a treat.
That’s just fucking retarded
Seriously, how do you “have benefits” if you also “did not choose to receive” them?
Look at me! I’m tanner in the summer so I’m closer to people of color! But once winter comes, I’m back to being ol’ whitey.
You’re obviously abusing your privilege, shitlord. Report to the reeducation camp for reconditioning.
Alternate Take: “I’m a transracial pioneer! Look at me!”
Trans-racial makes more sense than trans-sexual or trans-gender, since race is supposedly just a social construct but sex has a clear biological basis.
It’s an imitation of life.
We don’t say BIPOC. We say “Not White”.
I guess it’s better than “mud people”.
BIPOC? Really? Really, that’s what they’re going with? Hokay.
The language must churn before people can figure out they’re just talking racist bullshit, so the terminology changes almost daily.
How else can you be at the vanguard of a new science? New hypotheses and theories abound when all you have to do is invent a word!
You test a hypothesis or Theory by attempting to disprove it.
The drivel these people spew is intended to go unchallenged.
Well yeah, but SCIENCE!!!!
They FUCKING LOVE SCIENCE!
CONSENSUS!
+1 Latest Edition Newspeak Dictionary
Other musings from the same intellectual:
Xe’s website is a treasure trove of derp.
“I have never been more in love with myself and my peoples than when I realized that we are capable of doing anything and everything without the “help” or approval of white people.”
I can get on board with that. I think that we should end the welfare state too. It’s counterproductive.
Heshe and his/her “peoples” would probably get a hell of a lot more done if they didn’t spend so much time contemplating the ethnic background of their navels and exploring new and complicated ways to categorize people based on skin tone.
Does that mean she’ll be refusing the help of the American Colonization Society in relocating to Liberia?
Speaking as a white person, I fully support the author’s attempt to get avoid white people. it saves me from having to deal with at least one smug self-satisfied prick.
LOL. All these people see is skin color, its hilarious. I really hope the left just moves further and further towards this line of thinking. This has to be completely unacceptable to 9 out of 10 people.
I have no problem with these actual racists staying the fuck away from me.
This has to be completely unacceptable to 9 out of 10 people.
When plainly stated, sure. That’s why they have to bury it in a word salad of jargon and nonsense.
It’s not so easy to just come out and say “I support segregation”.
There already is a word for that, it’s called “self-segregation”.
So, basically, white relationship divestment means avoid certain people because of their skin color. Yeah, that’s not racist at all. MLK is spinning so hard in his grave he could power Manhattan.
Who needs accurate definitions when you can have paranoid conspiracy theories?
“”BIPOC””
They’re already tired of “”poc””? Just when people started using it without air quotes
I’d say that sentence is classic evidence of “BIPOC” people also saying the darndest things. YMMV.
I listened,to Glenn Beck’s show on Sound cloud last night. He was extremely agitated about what the Senate was doing (this was before the vote to open debate, I think).
He called for people to break away from their parties and form some sort of coalition to do…something…
All I could think was, “There was this guy…Ron Paul was his name, I think, who was committed to Constitutionally limited government like Beck,says he wants, but during the two Presidential runs all Beck and his cronies could do is make fun of him. Not that an endorsement from Beck would have meant much to the Paul campaign. The fix was in at GOP HQ.
I listen to Beck on occasion if I am working in the shop and can hear the radio. He has had a bit of a transformation (so he claims) over the past few years. I would imagine he would back Ron Paul or someone like him now. Of the two constitutional small government types last go around on the R side, Rand or Cruz, he backed Cruz. I think he would have gotten behind GayJ but GayJ is not exactly a constitutionalist. I don’t know what Mr gay Nazi wedding cake is. Beck did interview all the L party candidates. They liked Austin Peterson the most.
Beck is such a performance artist that I really don’t believe anything he says, ever.
Since we’re now allowed to diagnose people remotely, I say the American Psychological Association is suffering from an acute case of TDS.
Politically motivated psychological diagnoses are a cornerstone of the discipline. They shouldn’t be but they are.
Are you saying, :gasp:, that psychology is as much of a science as economics?
Probably less so.
I promise *crosses fingers behind back* this will be the last link of this type until I complete my “The Search for STEVE SMITH” post.
Yellow jackets and ape men
STEVE SMITH VIBRATE IN SOME BODIES!
+eleventy rapesquatch
Since there was no musical link today (statement of fact, not criticism) I’d be happy to oblige:
It gets between your toes
Gotta go with two today
Don’t lose your head
Let’s make it three.
That family friendly stamp o approval openly mocks us and this is our best response?
I’m on the clock, soooo…..
Same here. 15 more minutes. Beer o’clock.
My wish for your Hump Day is that this guy is on your commuting route.
Fantastic, simply fantastic. How come I never see any of these cool peolpe IRL?
That is great.
Ha!
I’d give him money.
I wish he was my neighbor.
Well, that may be taking things a little too far…
Should post on CL that he has “free metal” available curbside.
However, the failure of imagination that occurs when we let guilt and shame rule us prevents us from seeing the opportunities that come with occupying a place that is neither here nor there.
Ostentatious piety and self-flagellation. How else will we know how saintly they are? I say again. The sooner these people disappear up their own assholes, the better.
Ahhh, the fine dining food topping of choice for many a stoner on a midnight 7-11 run. That will turn things right around. Cheese by Dupont.
Study: 90 Percent Of American Men Are ‘Overfat’
90% of men also have pussy beards.
Quite simply, if the circumference of your waist measures more than half your height, you’re overfat.Because BMI wasn’t bad enough as a bullshit metric for physical fitness, we’ve now have a metric that is even stupider and more bullshittier.
Uh blockquote not strikethrough *slinks away*
Yeah I’m 6 foot and 155lbs. Not anywhere near what people would consider fat. My waist size is 34. That means I only have two inches to be considered “overfat”, which would imply that I’m fat now.
Damn Dude! I’m 5’10” and 140Lbs, skinny people or what?
The two of us are proof why this is bullshit. I am the same height and have the same waist as you, but I weigh 215lbs.
6’3″, 240 lbs., and my waist is a 36, although I wear 38s in a lot of off-the-rack pants because I’ve got big ol’ thighs. So, yeah, I’m in the same boat. I don’t have a six-pack, that’s for sure, but my body fat percentage was something like 18% last I checked.
And I agree that BMI isn’t the best metric for fitness, nor is waist to height ratio. Body fat percentage is better, but still not perfect. Really, the best indicator is physical fitness, i.e. how much you can deadlift, how many pull-ups you can do, how long it takes you to run a 5k, stuff like that.
The slavering devotion to “one-size-fits-all” metrics really burns my britches. Our “wellness” overlords look at the population as a whole, and pronounce that “all healthy people will fit into this box,” nevermind that there are a crapload of factors that go into being healthy, and there are lots of outliers away from the mean for all of those factors. But judging healthiness on a case-by-case basis would require actual work, like understanding individual and family medical history, and tracking the change of biometrics over time, you know, like your GP does.
6’2″ – 215 to 220 pounds – 33″ waist. No 6-pack abs but definitely not on the fat side of the ledger. Weightlifting 3x a week gives a different body composition than my born skinny dude look.
When I was a “healthy” 180 pounds, I looked like a stick with a big Dutch melon on top.
BMI is not a bullshit metric. Yes, there are outliers. If you are an NFL RB with a 30 BMI, you’re an outlier.
99.9% of the people who are overweight by BMI are fat fucks.
The only health ratio that remotely stands up to analysis is waistline circumference. Once you go over 38 for both sexes, health outcomes go down in rough proportion to how far beyond 38 you are. There’s a hard bottom on healthy waist circumference, too. But its like 24 or 26 for men. That doesn’t mean that the second you start wearing a 40″ waist pant you’re fucked, but you’re definitely courting what now gets lumped as “metabolic disease” (diabetes, congestive heart problems, kidney and liver problems, etc).
Not according to my doctor, who told me according to the BMI index both of us where fat for carrying so much muscle…
If you lift heavy and regularly, you will join the BMI outliers club. But if you grab me 100 Americans with a BMI of 30, 99 of them will just be fat.
Shh. Even libertarians need narratives, and you’re destroying theirs.
Are these beards that smell like pussy, or beards that look like pussies, or something else.
They do say the thing gets in the way of whatever you’re eating…
I just notice that a lot of
overweightmen get these little beards that outline their mouths, looking more like pubic hair. Hence “pussy beards”.My own theory: they are trying to distract from the jowls
Oh yeah when I was a fat fuck I grew a beard, because I was “big lumberjack guy” No I wasn’t, I was fucking obese. Lost all the weight, shaved it off a few months back. Turns out having a jawline makes your face look better.
Yeah, that’s not a good look on anybody. It’s like a comb-over, but for fat dudes.
Don’t be like Francis
The last time that dude had pussy is when pussy had him…
“Where’s Francis?!
-oh.”
Wade Wilson.
When I was an active duty Marine with a decent PFT (3 miles in 22 mins, 15 pullups, 100 crunches in 2 mins) I was about a 33 waist at 5’7″.
Medicaid: The Snag in Obamacare Repeal
Some good points in this one about the farce that Medicaid has become.
*Tundra lights the Ken signal
This has been a bitch of mine for awhile. (I just can’t articulate it as well as a Catoid) Too many people think they can sit on assets and stick the tab for their care to everybody else. It is immoral to steal from others when you or your family could probably pay for your care.
I had this discussion with my very conservative father just the other day. He says he would have no problem taking whatever he can get from the Government now if he can qualify. He sees it as the assholes have been stealing from him his entire life, and he is due. Hard to argue with that, and I am sure he is not alone with those feelings.
He’s not alone, I’ve heard it frequently. Medicaid needs to die. If cities or counties want to put something together for the truly needy in their midst – have at it.
He sees it as the assholes have been stealing from him his entire life, and he is due.
I am not unsympathetic to that view.
That’s why medicade is so hard to kill. The fuckers have been stealing from me and I want my money back. However, if they give me my money back they can’t pay for all the other people whose money they stole. Ponzi scheme, pure and simple. same with SS.
Same applies to SS for sure sir…
) Too many people think they can sit on assets and stick the tab for their care to everybody else. It is immoral to steal from others when you or your family could probably pay for your care.
But, unless you gut any kind of state-provided healthcare, you wind up with Ant and Grasshopper situation. If you are responsible and save up, you will be forced to spend those savings to pay for care. If you piss it away on vacations and hookers, someone else will pick up a tab.
Yup
Which is why I believe that any state funded care should be bottom of the barrel, economy seats, quality.
NEEDZ MOAR NAVEL-GAZING
No wonder many voters distrust institutions and the establishment. Their engagement with the party mostly consists of receiving fund-raising emails intended to enforce programmatic conformity while activating fear of and resentment toward the other party.
Republicans have already suffered the costs of feeding their supporters a toxic diet of anti-Democratic Party propaganda. They wound up with Mr. Trump as their standard-bearer. Democrats should not make that mistake.
Yeah, that’s how we got Trump. It’s all clear to me, now.
And yet it’s the BernieBros who shot at congresscritters…
Let me guess…krugnuts wrote this?
That is in no way reflected in how they actually vote.
They still have no idea where Trump came from.
I call bullshit. This isn’t at all why the GOP wound up with Trump at the helm. But keep believing that, Democrats.
Sloopy shaved off his mustache.
Did he go full Amish, and leave the chin whiskers? You’ll have to get him a straw hat.
He’s very plain.
A google search for “Imran Awan” still turns up almost nothing in the MSM. The brave souls at the Washington Post did finally run an AP snippet about it, headlined “Wasserman-Schultz fires IT staffer following fraud arrest”, though.
The Mental Gymnastics of the Prog: apparently Amash and Massie are now agents of the RUSSKIES! Hang the Traitors!
Yup vote for peace makes you a traitor.
If these folks were real progs they would be on Team Bernie and protest the sanctions, but alas they’re just run-of-the-mill hacks.
Who tweeted it? They have me blocked.
Was it Weigel?
Random nobody @MattMurph24, but made the top of my search fees because he got a bunch of retweets and likes from other insane progs like him.
Sad to see Matt “Guitar” Murphy sink so low. What would Jake and Elwood say?
This article is your typical “The only real way out of high pill prices is price controls” tripe.
However, the subject does raise a question. To what extent is the US drug market subsidizing other countries’ price controls?
To quite a large extent. Given price controls in other countries, the only way to recoup the enormous costs of trying to actually bring a drug to market is to charge what they can in the US. If the US adopts price controls, it would essentially kill innovation and R&D, because there would be huge cost and little payoff in developing a new drug.
That is my thought as well. I’m wondering if anyone has actually quantified the problem (outside of the drug companies themselves, who probably don’t want to talk about it)
The political class knows this but doesn’t care much that is where we are at.
I just got a wapo alert that Trump banned trannies from the military. That should make today interesting.
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/890193981585444864
His reasoning is sound.
Holy shit that is hilarious
I just saw the first one, this dude is Charles dickens of tweets, by which I mean he maximizes word count
I get not paying for surgery or whatever, but the only qualification that should be considered is ability to do the job. This is government enforced bigotry and shouldn’t be supported.
How is it bigotry? Every person is able to serve. They just can’t do so as a person of the opposite sex.
That’s like saying “every person is able to serve, they can’t do it if they are attracted to the opposite sex.”
My condition would be that if the person requires medical care, including medications, in order to facilitate or maintain their transition then they have no business being in the military. I don’t care who or what you choose to entertain your junk.
Arguing that they aren’t healthy enough could be valid, but I’m not familiar with what those restrictions are.
Otoh, cisgendered women require more medical care than men.
Attraction to a sex and and being confused about your sex is not the same
People get kicked out of the military for all sorts of shit that would cost time and money while being a distraction. People are blocked from certain career paths for far less. The notion that the transgendered should be some special protected class there is absurd.
It’s also a case of completely perverted incentives. We’re going to take in the transgendered and shell out tens of thousands of dollars on time consuming transition procedures while they have a contract? That policy was a fucking disgrace.
On a similar note, if one develops a disease while in the service, even if it is not caused by being in the service it is covered for life under VA benefits. So, if they can assert a claim that their gender-dysmorphia only came about while they were in the service, then all costs after they leave the service are covered.
Sorry, the purpose of the military is to kill people and break things. If the military experts think something will interfere with or diminish that mission, and the reasoning in this case is sound, then so be it. The military is not for social experiments.
Yes, this is what it comes down to. Do transgendered individuals pose a detriment to combat efficacy?
It doesn’t matter why or how or feelings. If the answer is yes then they shouldn’t be allowed in. It’s not bigotry that people with chronic diseases and other conditions that can impede the efficiency of a unit are banned from service.
+1 Flat Foot
-1 Women Marines in combat units.
I agree it shouldn’t be a place to experiment, but when the Marines ran a bunch of tests that proved that women couldn’t keep up (in general) in combat units, they were told to shitcan the study and go ahead with the integration.
I watched a doc about a group of British soldiers going door to door in Iraq. They were ambushed inside a building and it devolved into hand to hand combat. One of the Brits won by physically picking up his attacker and beating him into pulp before being able to slip his knife out. He was then able to help his comrades.
There’s no way a woman would have been able to do this. She would have been killed and allowed her attacker to go help his fellow ambushers, possibly leading to the deaths of the entire British squad.
These people have always seen the military, which most of them despise anyways, as a great vehicle for social experimentation, and consider it to be primarily a place for them to force society as a whole to accept whatever trend they want to push. So it is no surprise that they would rather have the military end up both hamstrung and wasting valuable resources to push some social agenda. That the military would then also have trouble in times of conflict and be practical guaranteed to incur heavier casualties due to the inefficiency introduced by the social engineering agenda, is considered a big bonus as well, because that allows them to use military losses as a means to attack a president they don’t like.
I think that the military is a victim of its own success. The military when told to integrate racially went ahead and integrated to an amazing degree when no one else was even close.
The progs think that integrating women would be the same. They won’t admit that the physical differences between men and women dwarf those between races.
That’s it exactly. There are a great number of institutions in our society that make efforts to include people that need accomodations. The military need not be one of them, at least not in any kind of combat roles.
You mean like the study in the 50s that “proved” that the gay lifestyle is incompatible with the military lifestyle? You don’t get to make bigoted proclamations and have them hold the force of law. No one (here) is saying the military is for social experiments, but whoever wants to join the military should be able to as long as they can perform the tasks required. If none of them make it, then so be it. But you can’t exclude people from government service because some people think they’re icky because of percieved possible issues that are easily solvable or not applicable to the entire group.
There are a shit ton of medical reasons already that prevent people from service in the military.
I agree that if they can do a job, they shouldn’t be prevented from joining. If, though, they need a lot of additional support (medical or otherwise) then they should be banned. Just like we ban other people with physical conditions that might be an issue if we went to war.
I’ve seen people kicked out for bad body acne. Lazy eyes. Laser eye surgery can get you banned from certain career paths. But we’re here arguing about people who are being pumped full of expensive hormones. The level of accommodations a transitioning individual would need is well beyond those involves with other conditions that the military discriminates based upon. That’s before we even get to the massive risk they pose from a mental health standpoint.
This isn’t government enforced bigotry. It’s reality. This isn’t segregating the races or banning the darkies from combat units.
Right, it’s definitely not bigotry to exclude individuals based on group status, it’s the default libertarian position. Other than that you’re just assuming facts not in evidence. The same arguments have been made about allowing gays or other groups in our integrating the armed forces. I’m among the first to say what’s shouldn’t be changed or AA words put in place for any situation, but if some dude wants to put on lipstick, grow his hair long and have people call him ma’am, it shouldn’t automatically preclude him from service.
I think some people here hate progs and their crusades so much that they’re willing to support anything that the progs would be against.
Military training is expensive. There’s good reason to exclude people from training. Blowing 10 million dollars to train 100 soldiers where only one will pass is stupid. That is why medical conditions disqualify people. It’s not there may not be asthmatic who can pass, it’s that it will waste millions to find them, and that time and money is better spent on people likely to fail.
Anyone who thinks they are something they are not is delusional. There’s no reason the military should expend anymore effort finding, training and arming a transgender then they should on a transracial or someone who thinks they are Napoleon.
Because Twitter does some odd things it took me some effort to get the three twits the statement was spread over.
Oh my.
“with the tremendous medical costs”
I’m sure those are insignificant compared to the military budget.
So what, I’d rather not have the military spending even more money and time on bullshit to affirm someone’s mental delusion rather than on actual military effectiveness.
I was swinging with the wing in the Marines and lived high on the hog when in the field, but even then it was pretty apparent that real operations in the field are a lot different than normal ops.
If people in your unit need all sorts of medications to function, they won’t do well in the field. I don’t know, but my guess is that people who need insulin are probably barred from a lot of billets in the service too for the same reason.
These days, with the military having far more people than they need/want looking to sign up (for the benefits, mostly), the admission standards/threshold for acceptance have gone up drastically. My son was basically disqualified from service because his medical history showed that he had had a seizure as a kid during a bout of high fever. He was bluntly told that they were not going to take the risk he ended up with some medical condition even though the chance was all but non existent. I know a super smart kid that tried to join as well but was denied because he was overweight (in the past this was never a problem and the weight issue was always fixed by the time the recruit finished basic or they were gone). Spending a ton of money, even when that money is comparatively peanuts in the grand scheme of defense spending as whole, on people that have special needs above and beyond stuff mandated by law, is not happening these days.
What’s next? The ADA will be used to demand the military accommodate paraplegics?
It isn’t fair that those trenches don’t have a wheel chair ramp built in them! How are our brave soldiers supposed to go over the top?
I know you are joking Jimbo, but considering some of the arguments I have heard from people that like the idea of making the military a social experimentation playground, I will not be surprised this exact scenario actually plays out in earnest. Lets prey we will have enough people that remember what the military is supposed to be for if we ever get in a situation where the military will actually have to fight a near-peer or peer opponent.
Don’t you see, all we need to do is to complete the neural interface, then we can wire the cripples into walking armored fighting suits. Send them in first to draw the fire and have the more agile regular people knock out the enemy position. Given enough armor, they can soak a couple of hits and possibly survive.
UnCivil don’t be silly. No one would ever suggest that we put gimps into armored suits.
No, gimps get their brains transferred to large blue alien bodies. Simple science dude.
Don’t you see, all we need to do is to complete the neural interface, then we can wire the cripples into walking armored fighting suits. Send them in first to draw the fire and have the more agile regular people knock out the enemy position. Given enough armor, they can soak a couple of hits and possibly survive.
I see you have well understood the precepts of Codex Astartes. Only in death does duty end!
Come now Jimbo Large, blue ARMORED Bodies!
It’s not “bullshit to affirm someone’s mental delusion” it’s that gender dysphoria is a mental illness where transition might be the best treatment. And I’m not using “mental illness” pejoratively.
The military doesn’t take people and kicks people out for all kinds of “mental illnesses.”
My nephew’s first wife got kicked out of the Army right after boot camp. The powers that be didn’t want to deal with a vegetarian who didn’t like being shouted at. Or at least that’s how I heard it.
Sure, if it’s something that prevents them from doing their job.
Which, despite whatever delusions you have, includes being transgendered.
What delusions I have? I don’t see why a MTF couldn’t do the same things cisgendered women are doing in the military now.
gender dysphoria is a mental illness where transition might be the best treatment
Based on what? The rate of suicides among transgenders is just as high or actually higher after “transitioning surgery”. If someone is suffering from a mental illness convinced they are a dog trapped in a human body, we don’t “help” them by grafting on floppy ears and a furry fucking tail. This is actually worse than bullshit, it’s destructive lunacy on behalf of social signaling.
And none of this has anything to do with whether it makes sense to force the military to accommodate this.
Except there is no evidence of humans having dog brains.
Yes, there is a lot bullshit and social signaling. Anything become retarded when taken to the extreme. Saying that a woman doesn’t have to built like a fashion model to be attractive, does not mean that women are “healthy at every size”.
And there is no evidence that transgenderism is anything other than a delusion, so my points stand.
I don’t think cost here is limited to hormone therapy, gender reassignment and whatnot. There’s likely a much greater cost associated with the sheer risk posed by allowing transgendered individuals serve in combat roles. Isn’t suicide already disproportionately high among trans people? They’re not exactly the type that you want to send off to war.
I am certain that the cost from damage from bad publicity from a whiner claiming the military was abusive for demanding they do their job instead of just being there to make the tax payer finance their pet peeve, factors in bigtime there as well.
Serious question, but how many trans folk are there? And how many of them want to serve?
My gut feel is that there really aren’t that many trans people out there, but now that fucking middle america has gone ahead and accepted the homos, progs have to find some other group to use as the recipients of their virtue signalling.
Why did those squares have to fuck up the whole gay thing? Shit now that most people don’t give a shit, you might see them start voting GOP too.
I’ve heard figures that put it at .3% which sounded ridiculously high to me. One transgendered in school claimed there were a couple of dozen in a school with about 14,000 students. So, my guess is that we’d have to move that decimal over to something like .03 or .003%.
Much like the oft repeat LGBT = 10% of the population BS, I’m sure you can divide whatever number they give you by 10 or more and get something close to accurate
Bisexual women are hardly rare. But coming up with an actual number is very difficult because it’s mostly based on surveys, which are terribly unreliable.
“”how many trans folk are there? “”
Depends how you define it.
If you include everyone from post-op, pre-op, and ‘in therapy prior to becoming pre-op’ (often required by law), it’s about 0.3%- 0.5% of the population, or just under 1m-to1.5m people in the us
Interestingly, about 15-20% of the us tranny population lives in the DC area.
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1530.html
In the opening section there they go through the various methods of quantifying the tranny pop
OK, that makes way more sense. Because if DC was like Bangkok or Sao Paulo, someone would have noticed.
What do you call it when someone Gilmores a reply to Gilmore?
Anyway, tranny pop:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmDtfblPfCU
15-20% live in the DC area??
No that’s wildly off. It’s like 2-5%
The # in my head was something like 20% higher than any other city.
Also, on my phone while eating.
Depends, if free surgery is involved it’s likely to be quite high.
Trump to Ban Transgenders from Serving in Military
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-administration-to-ban-transgender-individuals-from-serving-in-u-s-military-1501075174?tesla=y
The president made the announcements in a series of tweets
I’m in the camp that these tweets are deliberate to distract and draw attention from the actually important shit going on. His tweets are crafted to ensure maximum rage from progs over things most sane people don’t really care about.
The big story is DWS. I hope he doesn’t draw attention from that.
If they are putting together a case then I would say so
Case needs to be quietly worked and then boom
Oh, I doubt there will be any leaks. Those are reserved for the WH goings-on.
It’s a minor story in the MSM, and they’d like to keep it that way. DWS fired a staffer after he was arrested. See, she’s handling it. No big deal. His lawyer says he’s innocent, we’ll let the legal system sort that out, let’s move on.
I still don’t remember any of them reporting when she all but threatened to cut off funding for the Capitol police if they didn’t give her laptop back.
Oh, well, that was, um, just a hyperlocal law enforcement issue. Yes, that’s it. Hyperlocal.
They barely reported on her being fired by the DNC for favoring Hillary, and then taking a job with her campaign the next day. Why would we report on a little insignificant threat like that?
That is information your unwashed plebes, but especially those horrible deplorables, don’t need because they are not smart enough to understand the nuances of this complex issue and realize how great what Debbie did was for the cause of justice and humanity as a whole. Shit, these people might all get the wrong impression from those facts and we end up with more Trump!
Healthcare repeal vote is today
I will say, by making Twitter the official gateway of new information, Trump is doing then a huge favor. Maybe this Trump is in the pocket of Jack Dorsey.
I’d grown to like the Trump tweeting quite a bit. It’s a much more effective bully pulpit tool than I expected.
Donald Trump just keeps gluing extra dimensions onto his extra dimensional chessboard.
He really does know how to suck all the air out of the media fires. They’ll spend two days shouting about this while the Senate votes on repeal.
Sanity prevails.
To what extent is the US drug market subsidizing other countries’ price controls?
A lot.
From what I have read, it is almost to the tune of 99%.
Finally!
PURIFY YOUR SYSTEM
WITH THE SEVEN-DAY
CHILI DOG CLEANSE
Some of us don’t want to die on the toilet.
-1 achey brakey heart
That and some Natty Light will be sure to clean you out.
McSweeny’s is awesome. Here’s my favorite:
How You Can Still Have Your Pudding If You Don’t Eat Your Meat
Dude, just go to Chipotle
Find some smoked all pork wieners in natural casing. Fry them on a pan, make sure they’re heated all the way through and slightly greasy.
Slice open a hotdog bun, add ketchup on one side and mustard on the other, spoon in raw onions and french fried onions. Add one of the wieners to the bun. Now add a home made remoulade (half sweet relish, half mayo, a dash of curry powder, and a bit of salt) on top of the sausage, or tartar sauce in a pinch, and finally put thinly sliced cucumber salad (just cucumber in vinegar and sugar, not dill pickles, you heretic!) on top.
Now you have a hotdog as Thor intended. Tak for mad!
Concerning the one with the unwashed hair:
“On Tuesday, an IT staffer who worked for House Democrats, including former DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), was arrested at Dulles International Airport for a bank fraud charge.”
Yep, elections have consequences. If Hillary was president *shudder*, this guy would have probably been given a ride on Airforce One.
They get wooly.
My exhaustion with the idea of “Confederate” is multiplied by the realization that this show is the brainchild of two white men who oversee a show that has few people of color to speak of and where sexual violence is often gratuitous and treated as no big deal. I shudder to imagine the enslaved black body in their creative hands. And when I think about the number of people who gave this project the green light, the number of people who thought this was a great idea, my weariness grows exponentially.
This show’s premise highlights the limits of the imagination in a world where oppression thrives. These creators can imagine a world where the Confederacy won the Civil War and black people are still enslaved, but they can’t or aren’t interested in imagining a world where, say, things went in a completely different direction after the Civil War and, say, white people are enslaved. Or a world where slavery never happened at all. What would happen in a show where American Indians won the conflicts in which they were embroiled as the British and French and other European nations colonized this country? What would happen if Mexicans won the Mexican-American War and Texas and California were still part of Mexico?
It is curious that time and again, when people create alternate histories, they are largely replicating a history we already know, and intimately. They are replicating histories where whiteness thrives and people of color remain oppressed.
Your perpetually aggrieved whining wearies me.
Also, I an unaware of any restriction (aside from artistic talent) on your ability to scribble out a black supremacist narrative and peddle it to a studio. When one contemplates the vast tsunami of execrable movies which get made annually, the notion that yours somehow will be kept out of production by the vast White Wing Conspiracy is silly.
But I guess that show on Netflix (I forget the name) about SJW protesting is okay, right honey?
It feels like the people who ‘muse’ and have a job at the NYT are the idiots in college classes who waxed gibberish in class while everyone rolled their eyes behind their backs.
The marketplace of ideas is a foreign concept to idiots like that.
Spare me the bullshit. You’re so exhausted that you’re writing an article for NYT.
There’s that “black bodies” shit again. So tiresome.
Do they not realize how dehumanizing that is? They are people, with personalities, and emotions, not “bodies”. I guess collectivists always gotta demean individuality.
This?
Or a world where slavery never happened at all. What would happen in a show where American Indians won the conflicts in which they were embroiled as the British and French and other European nations colonized this country?
Reminds me of the King of the Hill episode where everyone learns John Redcorn’s ancestral tribe were cannibals and not the ‘noble savage’ envisioned.
It’s been done.
it’s like the prog who was upset about it and tweeted something like, “Why don’t they ever think of a story where the Nazis won? HUH? WE KNOW WHY don’t we?” and then about a billion people answered, “uh, Man in the High Castle ring any bells, sweetheart?”
You would think they might have sense enough to do a quick google search before they spew in ignorance. But then I guess they wouldn’t be proggies.
Effective temperature = retard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_body
A lot of that stuff has been done in literature as well. For example, Thomas Harlan’s Sixth Sun series.
Or a world where just as the North is about to win, talking apes with advanced military capabilities time-travel in from the future and enslave ALL of them. Now THAT’s a series the people deserve.
Other 2018 Election Shenanigans, this time IL: Their governor Rauner faces a difficult re-election because he obstructed a bunch of Democratic tax hikes, but he likely will lick his lips nonstop if this Pritzker guy is his opponent.
Ah yes, the Obama-bankrolling Pritzker family. Should be said in the same manner as “the Gambino family”
I know the name Penny Pritzker, she ended up getting some cozy Obama Cabinet position, I think Commerce Secretary. I’m sure that family is knee-deep in the Chicago machine.
Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. Thank you
Wait, what?
It has to be a feint.
So DC lost another gun case – slapped down for their “Good Reason” requirement for CCW. When will one of these rulings apply to New York and New Jersey?
I don’t know. But the NYPD ignores federal law in NYC airports.
How so? Not disagreeing, just haven’t heard if this.
If you are traveling with a legally checked and your flight ends up in NYC because of weather … they will arrest you.
I’d have to google examples, but this is the law:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearm_Owners_Protection_Act#.22Safe_Passage.22_provision
And I remember that entry being much longer…
hopefully asap?
Whenever SCOTUS decides to take up a case to reconcile differing circuit decisions on the issue. So far they have refused to do so and let the disparate decisions stand.
One more Trump Justice and hopefully they’ll take it up and issue a forceful ruling.
I gave up hope when they allowed the 3rd Circuit’s ruling in Drake to stand, which basically said that New Jersey prohibiting citizens from bearing arms does not burden the right to bear arms.
It doesn’t even matter in DC. They’re going to do the same disingenuous bullshit they’ve done multiple times now and just slightly tweak the wording and force people to litigate for their rights all over. They’ll keep doing this until they get a left majority on the Supreme Court.
Sounds like what’s needed is for some wealthy conservative/libertarians to bankroll a suit against DC on civil rights grounds for big bucks, and sue the actors making the decisions personally because they don’t get qualified immunity when knowingly violating civil rights.
“But the more I think about it, the more I realize that this wasn’t about issues at all — and that in fact, politics seems to be less and less about issues every single day. It isn’t about finding solutions anymore. No, it’s all about ramped-up, hyper-partisan rhetoric, where you’re either on one side or the other, and must see the people on the other side as if they’re not “people” at all. It’s all about either unconditionally hating or unconditionally supporting your side, an approach that pretty clearly leaves no room for any sort of discussion.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/449819/katherine-timpf-fox-news-man-dumped-water-targeted-attack
She should have brought along the gorilla-like wrestler she sits next to on that show I surf by sometimes.
Only now NR understands that progs play by Alinsky’s Rules and not the establishment R Japanese Tea Ceremony Rules? It only took 10 whole years.
We must destroy Man Bear Pig!
http://news.trust.org/item/20170726060325-colqn
There are plenty of easy ways to cool off a planet. The problem is our planet isn’t overheated.
We’re still in an ice age that began 2.6 million years ago. And CO2 levels are very near the historic low of the last 500 million years. Of course, a lot of those people who “fucking love science” would have no idea what I’m talking about.
Yeah, we are not currently even in a warm period, we are in an interglacial period within the current ice age.
It’s gotta be the Onion.
Right, Q?
Right?!?
In a saner world…
They are calling you out Swiss!
So suck all the CO2 out of the atmosphere, and dim the sunlight. Got it. Wouldn’t it be funny if they lowered CO2 levels and sunlight enough to kill all the plants causing mass starvation, and then in a rush to fix their error, they try to increase the amount of sunlight but instead they destroy the atmosphere and we all die in a fiery burst like an ant under a magnifying glass. That would be hilarious!! Hah!
Maybe some things should be left alone.
There’s no way in hell I trust climate zealots to engineer the world’s climate over their doomsday prophecies. They can go right to fucking hell.
These are the same people who bitch and moan about GMO crops. Can’t play god with our food! That is too important.
Climate change? Sure, go ahead with whatever plan you had on your mind.
Democrat is the part of inclusion and tolerance and loving poor people! Not at all elitist or racist!
Kristen, when we say tolerance, we don’t mean all the time! I mean, the Mayor was coming! We’ll let ’em back in after he goes, but we’re talking about the MAYOR here!
Homeless people are not a problem for DeBlasio. Unlike dead people and illegals, they don’t tend to vote.
The fucking irony.
“Rep. Trey Gowdy opined on the craziness inside the Trump administration where the prezzy is attacking the attorney general endlessly.
And he says that if he were in Sessions’ position, he would leave.”
http://therightscoop.com/trey-gowdy-if-i-were-sessions-i-wouldnt-stay/
We can only hope.
HHmmm…all you people who picked Gowdy as the next AG may be onto something.
That’s like the colleague who wants your job pulling you aside and whispering “Why do you put up with that? I’d quit if I were you”
I don’t think Sessions is going anything IMHO – I know that civil asset forfeiture and the WoDs are unconstitutional garbage and should be protested to death, but the reason he is there is because of illegal immigration and sanctuary cities. Right around the time of Trump having his “feud”, the DoJ started to further crack down on the sanctuary cities. All of this seems like kabuki to distract the media.
The puzzle pieces to the lower sperm count are all falling into place…
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/34858/
“Men’s Engagement Manager”
It’s not for you, Jen.
They’ll be playing the wokest version of D&D ever all over campus soon.
+1 Level 26 Gender Creative Cleric
*unsheathes Dildo of +9 Inches*
That really sounds more like a Warhammer (Slaneeshi) character.
Oh FFS
Gotta keep the SJW self-licking ice cream cone going somehow right?
That will be defined by who?
I like the men-identified students part.
Now just identifying as male means you’re a shitlord.
But identifying as a woman (while still having a penis) will not entitle you to the grievance rights a woman would normally be able to swing.
I think I got that right, hard to keep track.
“The refugee wave that buffeted Germany in 2015 is now crashing down on the nation’s courts, as migrants seeking relief from the Syrian civil war challenge efforts by one of Europe’s most welcoming states to limit their rights.
Some 250,000 asylum appeals are pending across Germany, according to estimates from an association of administrative court judges. Nearly 13,500 are ongoing in the capital alone, part of a tenfold increase over the past year.
Stephan Groscurth, a spokesman for Berlin’s administrative court, said the appeals — filed by the growing number of migrants who have been denied protection or given less than they were seeking — make up two-thirds of court business. “This will paralyze us for years,” a judge told Der Tagesspiegel, a German daily based in Berlin.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/merkel-welcomed-hundreds-of-thousands-of-refugees-now-some-are-suing-her-government/2017/07/20/2d9e13aa-68a7-11e7-94ab-5b1f0ff459df_story.html
So about 3-10% of the migrants?
I wonder how often the Washington Post describes, say, self-defense as a right? The word doesn’t mean what they think it means.
They use the word “Rights” when they mean to say “Entitlements”
she slapped the car??
(bolding mine)
you know, apart from the murder weapon.
FUCKING NO.
You just knew these pigs would find any way they could to blame the victim and say “good shoot”.
How dare she put her hands on a cop car!
They had to shoot that bitch to protect the tax payer from her damaging their property!
As soon as the officer’s race became known, they could count on the mainstream press to throw on the retrothrusters. Now it’s just a matter of inventing some millimeter-thin excuse to allow them to paper over the shooting. “He was startled! Can you blame him, what with all the anti-black, anti-Muslim violence going on?”
“hey, dispatch? I heard a noise in the alley over here, could you sent that one Somalian cop you hired?”
They certainly took fingerprints to verify that, right? Or did the car just magically get on the wash list?
They send a car for detailing after any incident comes close to it.
In my head, I can’t think of a reason she would strike the car in any angry way. I’m thinking it was the normal “I’m here/out of the way” tap, like how I tap the roof of my friends cars when they drop me off. its half “thank you”, half “it is now safe for you to drive”.
Or it was hands on the roof as I lean to the window, because that’s a comfy way to talk into a sedan for some people.
Or possibly, they had driven past where she was waiting and she let them know she was there.
But even with all that, he shot through the opposite door which means he came close to killing his partner.
that too.
“It’s certainly reasonable to assume that any police officer would be concerned about a possible ambush under these circumstances,”
Nope. Not in that neighborhood.
Vhyrus called it last night – this is their last hail mary. They searched her house, ffs, and came out with nothing.
If they are afraid of ambushes, they:
shouldn’t be cops.
should never leave the station.
should never stop moving when they do leave the station.
Police reform debate surges in Minneapolis mayoral race after Justine Damond shooting
DON’T SHOOT THE TAX CATTLE!
Uffda. Imagine the hurt Minneapolis would be in if the rich, white prog ladies all get scairt and move to the suburbs. I doubt that Little Mogadishu will be able to pick up the slack in tax revenues.
I should also point out that this mayoral race is really shaping up to be quite the deal.
Already uber-prog mayor has to fend off crazies that even further to the left than she is. There is no one in this race who is even moderately sane.
Minneapolis appears to be thoroughly and completely fucked. Look for a productive class exodus, particularly when they enact the $15/hr minimum wage lunacy.
Fuckers. I used to love that city.
They searched her house
What in the fucking fuck is the basis for a search of someone’s home who is neither suspected not accused of any crime, and for which there is no probable cause?!
If they found anything at all, they could use it to justify murdering her!
FYTW, section 27, subsection b, paragraph 6
“LOOK AT ME!!!”
http://awarenessact.com/this-woman-is-fighting-rape-by-allowing-strangers-to-touch-her-vaginaa/
Not gonna touch that even with your browser.
Hey, CS. You feeling any better about the car troubles. Was rereading Crime and Punishment today and thought, “Man I hope CS doesn’t kill a pawnbroker.”
I was looking up pawnbrokers in the area when I heard Jordan Peterson discuss it.
I got it taken care of. Wrote off the Subaru, sadly. It’s likely fixable, but not for what it’s worth and not for what I can invest in it. Bought a nicer beater instead. Just need it to last me a year or so!
If you got the cash, how about this?
What blew my mind about C and P was how the kid goes from just having a fantasy about the crime to dwelling on it to unconsciously carrying it out. Blunt truth from the Russian genius.
A lot of schlumpy dudes taking her up on the offer I see.
Ewww…sloppy seconds
Some of her other “work”.
https://vimeo.com/139219694
NSFW.
Question: Do these performance “artists” get their entire income from govt grants?
Also, would.
Other than the horrible bolt-ons, she’s quite attractive.
Depends if she’s actually crazy or just trolling. She’s conventionally beautiful. So I also suspect that she might not be a feminist.
“Naked Selfies”? I thought that, in a selfie, one of the people in the picture is taking the picture. I don’t see that there. /pedant
With everything bad out there I just wanted to share a story to reaffirm that there are good people out there. Good Samaritan
And hoping that the html worked.
link worked
welcome?
Thanks. I’m mostly just a dirty lurker, I think this might be my first meaningful post.
That is a nice story.
It’s also fun imagining what progs would say about it:
“Stupid Christfags should remember their Sky Man gave the woman Parkinson’s in the first place. Some benevolent deity He is!”
Yeah it’s my uncle and family. They are actually going to be interviewed on NBC news tonight as well.
I can only image the hoops they would have had to go through to help this woman through a government charity.
Two posts now? Lay off the Whiskey, Jack. 😉
Very cool!
I know this story has been posted several times, but I just love this quote:
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/25/debbie-wasserman-schultz-aide-arrest-240960
‘”This is clearly a right-wing media-driven prosecution by a United States Attorney’s Office that wants to prosecute people for working while Muslim,” Chris Gowen, Awan’s attorney, said in an email declaring his client’s innocence.’
hah
I totally thought this was the Minnesota cop. “I TOLD YOU GUYS!!”
So I sent a testing list to a bunch of my colleagues to test a new web site. I included a page that I knew was broken, just to see if they would catch it. I got a reply from one tester so far of “everything worked!”.
FML.
ENTRAPMENT!
You should do the links sometime. Bet you get the same result.
Why are you trying to make your colleagues enact your labor? (or however that goes)
Amateurs. I always hedge my bet:
“Kristen, I haven’t had a chance to go through the whole thing, but what I’ve seen so far looks great. Nice job!”
Peter North Hardest Hit.
I lose at least 50% of my sperm damn near every day.
Rolling Stone features Justin Trudeau on new cover.
Best twitter take: “oh shit did he bomb a marathon?”
Oh man, that’s the funniest thing I’ve read all day. I seriously just burst out laughing at my desk… thank the gods I work at home, or I’d be getting some funny looks from coworkers.
Possible good news on the police front:
http://www.omaha.com/news/crime/former-omaha-police-officers-charged-with-assault-in-death-of/article_00e522f0-717f-11e7-a0f4-67a158462d9c.html
“Charged with assault” should not be connected to a case that involved death.
Which would make the appropriate charge manslaughter.
But read further – the “assault with a weapon” charge carries the same sentence as manslaughter, but with a lower burden of proof. If I didn’t know better, I’d think the prosecutor was actually trying for a conviction here.
Interesting, and unusual.
“DWS is getting her floppy dugs caught in a wringer.”
That’s poetry, I tells ya, poetry.
Speaking of poetry, did anyone invite Agile Cyborg over here?
There’s no need. Agile left a little bit of himself inside of us all. Seeds, if you will.
Space jizz is mighty.
I haven’t seen him in a while over there.
I also don’t go there very often.
Saw a documentary on Tupak last night. What a fucking narcissist. And all of his shit sounds the same (and I like rap).
I thought he was fantastic in Gridlock’d, though.
I am also a pac hater
Never did anything 4 me
Not even when he got shot and became one pac?
An urgent warning for all Los Angeles-based glibs
top reply.
Inbetweeners for the win.
That show is like girlfriend repellant, at least for the women I’ve tried to introduce.
for most i think so.
My wife actually loves it, but she has a pervy sense of humor
I guess the reactions posted depend on the postee’s physical location.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/07/26/trump-announces-ban-on-transgender-individuals-serving-in-military.html
“After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow…Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military. Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming..victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. Thank you.”
I see a shit storm of epic proportions on social media.
Checking conservative Twitter, MAGA World and NeverTrump both seem to agree that this is a distraction tactic, but for different purposes. NeverTrumpers are saying that Trump might be trying to amp up the conservative/nationalist base before he “unprofessionally” fires Sessions. A couple of neocons are bickering about why Trump announced the policy and not Mattis. MAGA World is saying that this is a media distraction tactic from the DWS investigation and the HC vote. I’d rather just watch and see where the pieces fit.
Some guy I follow, partly for the insight and partly for the borderline-conspiracy theorizing lulz, insists that Trump deliberately makes himself the magnet for abuse, then abuses his cabinet members to make them sympathetic figures among his opponents. So Sessions, only a few months ago considered a reprehensible racist by Dems who get all of their knowledge of the world drip-fed by MSNBC, is now the only thing standing between America and Russia’s imminent annexation. And, I suppose, by that logic, Mattis is free to dump water on the PC brush fire moving through the DoD while Trump takes the heat for his inflammatory tweets.
I’m a little weary of the derp coming from liberal Twitter, so someone else may need to give a synopsis. Dave Rubin’s objections are well-reasoned and sane, but that’s a tiny minority of the left.
“Trans ban makes no sense and is red meat. Ironically, my DM this morning was about a gun toting trans woman I met…”
“Argument can be made about govt paying for surgery. But anyone who has passed mental/physical requirements should be 100% equal.”
So, Dave Rubin is TK?
“The left left me, I didn’t leave the left!”
Passed the men’s or women’s physical requirements? Because those requirements are tied to promotions.
Luckily, she doesn’t look like her dad:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4731438/Lily-Collins-takes-stylish-stroll-New-York.html
Scientism Symposium
Alternatively, how to miss the point.
Yeah, because the scientific method and history both clearly show that whenever consensus science was challenged it was by heretics that needed to be brought low.
They always tout consensus because the scientific method doesn’t support their CAGW hypothesis.
But they FUCKING LOVE SCIENCE!!
A thought regarding the transgender-while-military discussion:
What roles will these people be serving? If a guy wants to wear a dress to Ranger School, I don’t think that’s gonna work out well for anybody.
But there are also a lot of accountants and floor sweepers and graphic designers. Even intelligence analysts; I’m sure they’re not poring over still-damp reconnaisance photos with a magnifying glass, but whatever they do, what difference does it really make? So what if the guy in the next cubicle is reading Hillary’s e-mails while wearing silk stockings and a garter belt? I’m sure there are people right now on the “Don’t tell” plan.
Once they get out of basic training, I’m guessing a major part of the headache goes away. BUT- not all of it, and why can’t they find a way to offer their services to the nation via an alternate path? In short, if they’re grandstanding in pursuit of a political agenda, fuck ’em.
Back in the DADT days, the military was desperate for Arabic translators, but they discharged a bunch of Arabic-speaking gays. Smart.
As far as I know there’s no ban on cross dressing or being effeminate or masculine. There are physical requirements, and those are tied to promotions. If a man took a female physical training test they would likely blow it away and the score would give them an advantage for promotions. There’s also separate uniforms, separate regulations for hair, separate living quarters, etc.
My guess would be this ban will come down to the fact that trying to do anything which requires uniform, hair, physical requirement accommodations will be the line. Going out dressed opposite sex on Friday nights will not be over the line.
I think people are asking the wrong question: “Can we accommodate trannies in the military?”
I think Trump answered the right question: “Why should we accommodate trannies in the military?” If they have to be accommodated (and they do), is the juice in military effectiveness worth the squeeze? His answer was “No”, and I don’t see anything yet that makes me think its the wrong answer.
MAGA World is saying that this is a media distraction tactic from the DWS investigation and the HC vote.
Why the fuck would you do that? Why would you want Rachel Maddow whipping her dozens of faithful followers into a frenzy over Trump’s plans to round up the gays and ship them off to death camps, when she could be hemming and hawing about what a giant nothingburger it is to have the former DNC chair under investigation for massive security breaches?
It’s possible that the FBI is investigating more people in her circle and they don’t want the media to talk about it yet. DNC is a bit like the mafia, I think.
I don’t think the DWS stuff plays into it, because Trump/Bannon/etc gotta know that’d be buried as much as possible anyway. Especially if the dude’s out on bail, there’s probably nothing going to happen for awhile anyway. The Obamacare stuff though, I can see why they might think it’d be good idea to have all the leftists chasing the rabbit of trans in the military, and not crying about Don’t Take Away Muh Healthcare And KIll Me Dead.
and of course, the best part of Trump doing it by tweet, is that they can “clarify the policy” later. and when there’s a shitstorm over that clarification, they get to “clarify it some more”. it’s a perfect rabbit that’ll run whenever they want it to.
Especially if the dude’s out on bail, there’s probably nothing going to happen for awhile anyway.
The Dems desperately don’t want this investigation to go anywhere. I think that’s why a foreign national who is part of a criminal organization (according to the FBI) who was arrested trying to leave the country got released on bail; the fix was in with the trial judge.
He wouldn’t even need to go to the embassy to get a passport. He’s part of an international crime ring, remember? Even if he did turn over all his passports, he can get another one fedexed to him any time, would be my working assumption.
The odds are this guy rabbits out of the country, and the investigation dies.
The MSM is (ironically) inherently conservative and wishy-washy. The only way this DWS story is going to get into the MSM is for smaller outlets to keep hammering it, and Tweeting it, and Facederping it. At some point, it will gain critical mass and the MSM will be embarrassed not to have reported on it.
More on DWS (as a shoe hound, I keep wanting to type DSW). These people.
T-Mass uses the phrase “squad goals”. IFL him.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/im-a-scientist-the-trump-administration-reassigned-me-for-speaking-up-about-climate-change/2017/07/19/389b8dce-6b12-11e7-9c15-177740635e83_story.html?utm_term=.87268a81da81
a week old but still LULZ worthy..
On Wednesday, I filed two forms — a complaint and a disclosure of information — with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel. I filed the disclosure because eliminating my role coordinating federal engagement and leaving my former position empty exacerbate the already significant threat to the health and the safety of certain Alaska Native communities.
NOOOOOOOOOO NOT THE COORDINATOR FOR FEDERAL ENGAGEMENT!!!!!!!!!!11
swamp draining continues…
I didn’t think I’d ever leave the CIA. But because of Trump, I quit.
related, i didn’t think i’d ever vote GOP but because of Trump…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-didnt-think-id-ever-leave-the-cia-but-because-of-trump-i-quit/2017/02/20/fd7aac3e-f456-11e6-b9c9-e83fce42fb61_story.html?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.3ec4cd4369f8
Clarification: This column should have included a disclosure of donations made by author Edward Price in support of 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. In August, Price gave a total of $5,000 to the Clinton campaign and the Democratic Party.