I’m ba-aaack. Holy smokes, is it time for more links? Don’t you people work?
This is everything I was hoping for from a Trump administration. Hopefully, we will leave the Trump years with two important proofs: 1) Even a buffoon can (and will!) become President, so allot the office powers accordingly, and 2) libertarians need to invest a lot more time in a Bureau of Sabotage to induce these conditions in future administrations.
Lindsay Graham, angry and hurt at his hopelessly forlorn one-sided love affair with John McCain is more and more certain never to be requited, comes unhinged.
In sportzball, the Miami Dolphins successfully completed a 2 point conversion to defeat the Cowboys 22-10. Wait, that’s a baseball score?
EU still ignoring divorce filing, claims Britain never gave it a chance to change.
Religions that worship impartial natural forces. No, not the organicals.
Now we can remake The Iron Giant with the Feds suspecting the tea smoking hipster of working for Iran. Saw it in the theater with my then girlfriend. Brett walks out trying to keep his eyes from leaking, girlfriend: “That movie was terrible.”
And a little something outside my usual musical metier.
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#winning
I worship electricity. Especially the kind generated by coal.
Welp, I put in an order for a bar, some weights and that book everyone keeps mentioning. Lets see how this goes. (I’ve reached the lower bound of weight loss from the diet, so adding on the next development to the process)
Perhaps.
I’m trying to get healthier, not be skeletonized.
Define “healthier”.
Big tits, big ass, skinny waist.
cs has got it.
I’ve argued that the best diet is the one you can stick with.
If you’re eating Triple cheeseburgers every day for lunch, it’s a hell of a lot easier to take a step down to a double cheeseburger, rather than just going to go to a straight vegan diet.
Ramen and lots of cycling worked wonders for me.
But that might have been a poor student thing.
My latest iteration of dieting has involved more fruits and vegetables and less carbs, as well as walking every evening after work. So far it is working better than my previous diet of stressing out about it and sleeping through my exercise alarm in the morning. We’ll see what the results are after a few weeks. I’m not looking for miracles, just a slow reduction in weight and a slow increase in energy. Hopefully I can eventually get to a point where twice weekly tennis and weekend cycling are doable again.
I finally feel normal-ish after 3+ years of on-again-off-again stress-induced (undiagnosed) depression, so I’m hoping to make healthy choices stick this time around. I was a healthy and energetic person before law school, and I miss that person.
So what’s the diet?
Knowing the reaction of the Glibertariat and the debate it will cause, I’d rather decline to comment (let the kockery begin).
It has worked so far, if only the food were not so flavorless.
Given your reputation for not liking anything, I’d have expected your original diet to meet the same description.
“Give it to UCS. He won’t like it, he hates everything!”
Someones trying the Dr Amphetamine diet plan. Good for you
*side effects may include loss of sleep, peripheral shadow monsters in the wee hours, paranoia, acne outbreaks rivaling that of a fourteen year old boy, loss of teeth enamel, and a general attitude towards the world and everybody in that can only be described as sociopathic. Consume in moderation.
May also cause Gingivitis
Jimmy Tango weight loss
Ride the snake
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/jimmy-tangos-fat-busters/2861295?snl=1
Probably a wise move. The only reason I asked is because my oldest has become very overweight very quickly, and her therapist has sent her to a nutritionist. Mrs. The Other Kevin and I are both into high-fat, but the nutritionist is recommending switching from butter to margarine, etc. I’m trying to figure out how to walk the line on this one.
Count and cut calories. It will work. Higher protein/low carbs has always been the quickest and most effective way to lose weight for me.
Butter > Margarine.
Find a new nutritionist.
Agree.
Thirded. That person is dangerously unwoke.
100% agreed
Fifthed.
+N
Margarine as a diet-friendly alternative to butter is really really 80s
I’m not sure how trading animal fats for vegetable fats works to promote nutrition. But I am not a nutritionist. If it were my kid, I guess I’d see what another nutritionist had to say. And ask them for references. “I want to learn as much as I can to help my kid, what do you recommend I read?” I’m not sure I’d apply the wisdom of random people off the internet to my kids, even though I’m willing to try it on myself.
Walk it off.
Seriously, if she’s gotten so fat that you need to call in a nutritionist, then just walk with her a mile or so each day. Just tell her “Hey, we’re both out of shape. Let’s fix it together.” It’s kind of a pain in the ass, but she will appreciate that your both trying to get in shape together.
Good advice. Also, a jump rope and swimming are excellent full body exercises for burning fat and adding lean muscle. Word of caution though: Many young women may experience an increase to their weight initially as they gain muscle before the fat begins to burn off. Nothing to be alarmed about.
Can’t wait to get our pool put in so I can do laps. Looking forward to it as my main exercise regimen (until it gets cold.)
Everyone’s a little different. But body weight is 80% what you eat and 20% moving, preferably also moving heavy things. Counting calories can work, but it just stresses out some people and they fall off the wagon. My advice is eat things as close to origin as possible. Mostly veggies and protein, fat, and few carbs. Tweak from there as she figures out her body. Most people that get enough fat and move enough are satiated and don’t need to count calories. If that doesn’t work, its usually means the food is fulfilling a “need” other than nutrition, aka a crutch. Not saying that’s her, just that its pretty common. Good luck!
Good for you and good luck. It took me about a year to lose 40 pounds. Now comes the bulking phase.
*does single workout, checks for 6 pack abs*
I’m down between 80 and 90 pounds from a year ago – and am still ~270 (I told you guys I was a fat bastard). I have no idea what the optimal target is, but the gut says I’m not there yet.
Height?
Only 6’3″
Lucky prick.
You can lose weight, but I’ll never put on height.
That’s an impressive amount of weight loss. Congratulations.
Thanks. That’s why I started asking questions regarding starting up weight training (and I knew there were people who knew a bunch who loiter here)
If you’d like, I could type up a stripped down version the power-hour classes I ran at a gym until very recently for you. I’m assuming(sorry) that you don’t keep heavy/double-end bags and medicine balls at the house.
your assumption is correct.
Congratulations! That’s not easy at all. Good for you!
Go, UnCivil! Go, UnCivil!
Thanks.
Keep going! FWIW A couple years ago I went from my peak weight of 220lbs of “new dad” weight back down to my present 180lbs within 6 weeks, primarily by skipping all breakfasts and lunches, and eating whatever quantity I wanted of dinner as long as it was protien-heavy, fat-moderate, and carb cautious. Pork chops, broccoli, and yams/beets/parsnips. @ 6’5″.
That’s excellent!
I’ve been off the site for a while. So, I’m assuming the book everyone mentioned is Starting Strength Basic Barbell Training by Mark Rippetoe. Highly recommended!
You may find these SS podcast episodes useful, too:
Losing weight and getting strong
Nutrition Basics
“Mark Rippetoe”
IIRC, this guy comes recommended by Warty. If any of you don’t know, that’s a good thing.
Nice!
Congratulations, FM!
Thank you.
I already have six pack abs. That is, the kind of abs you get from a six-pack a day.
Do you need a power rack?
Not sure I have space for that.
Mine (not same brand) does take up quite a bit of space in my basement, but depending on how heavy you want to go on squats and benching, unless you have a spotter the rack is pretty essential.
That’s in the category of “Future potential requirement”
I missed the original discussion. Since a lot of guy like Rippletoe around here I’ll assume you are doing Starting Strength, which in a few months should require a power rack.
Dude in the picture at the link is going to hurt himself if he take the bar off the rack like that.
(Yes, I know it’s just a stock picture for advertising. Still…)
re: when you wrote ‘Power Rack’ – I thought you were referring to Sophie Howard. NSFW.
Cool. What did you get?
A generic bar and some plates of the correct diameter. I’m not going overboard, and just picking up what I need as I reach the point where I can make use of it. Having hardware lying about going unused would be sorely demoralizing.
I have a weight bench with adjustable “cradles” so it can be used as a squat rack too. Seat can be inclined or declined.
I also just have a straight bench with no attachments. Good for triceps, shoulder presses, that sort of thing where you just need room.
My latest piece has been a big surprise – a dip / chin-up station. Allows a lot of ab workouts too, like leg lifts. And dips are great for building strength as are pull-ups / chin-ups. Only cost $129 shipped so a good deal.
Good to hear and good luck!
Statement from future senator, Kid Rock. Fuck me, the times we live in are beyond parody.
“During this time while exploring my candidacy for US Senate, I am creating a 501(c)(4) – a non-profit organization for the promotion of voter registration. Not only can I raise money for this critical cause, but I can help get people registered to vote at my shows. Since the announcement, the media has speculated this was a ploy to sell shirts or promote something. I can tell you, I have no problem selling Kid Rock shirts and yes, I absolutely will use this media circus to sell/promote whatever I damn well please (many other politicians are doing the same thing, they just feed you a bunch of bullshit about it). But either way, money raised at this time through the sale of merchandise associated with this very possible campaign will go towards our ‘register to vote’ efforts.
One thing is for sure though…The democrats are ‘shattin’ in their pantaloons’ right now…and rightfully so!
We will be scheduling a press conference in the next 6 weeks or so to address this issue amongst others, and if I decide to throw my hat in the ring for US Senate, believe me… it’s game on mthrfkers”. — Kid Rock
+1 Rock the Vote
Awesome.
‘shattin’ in their pantaloons’
Tis like poetry
+1 President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho
Even this may be too low brow for President Camacho
There were a couple sections of him talkin like a fag and being all retarded and shit.
+1, Monster Energy Drink
Chortle
Probably my favorite part is when he refers to “other politicians.” You can practically hear our Ruling Class grinding their teeth at that one.
Fuckit, I’ll buy a $10 Detroit mansion just so I can vote for the guy!
Election party at Kristen’s bombed out row house!
I’ll run security, but ill need some backup.
I’m toying with getting a suppressed 300 blackout pistol for home defense if the HPA passes. Thoughts?
I’m more of a 7.62×39 man myself, but I can’t disagree with your pick. If it doesn’t pass you could look into 5.7×28.
You mean like the PS90? My reason for 300 is I already have a ton of 5.56 mags.
Just don’t get them mixed up, for your sake.
TBH planning builds around rifle mags is kind of silly. Factory 50 round PS90 mags are about 20 bucks right now. It’s not going to break you to buy 3 of them (and 3 is all you need cause they hold 50 rounds). Also, since you can’t ever ever EVER mix 300 blk with 5.56, it’s pretty much the same as getting rid of a few of your 5.56 mags because you’re removing them from your 5.56 pool. Unless the mags you need to buy are really expensive it’s usually not an issue to just buy a few more.
TRue. I rented the PS90 one time, I didn’t really care for it. Honestly, the cheapest solution is to suppress my Sig 516.
They make 5.7 AR uppers.
They make 5.7 AR uppers
You’ve peaked my interest…
Glibertarians making the run to Kristen’s house in Detroit.
Not enough minorities.
Speaking of, I was watching en episode of Jay Leno’s garage and he went to visit some loonies associated with Wasteland Weekend. It looks like Burning Man, but with lots more exhaust and fewer hippies. Plus it gives me an excuse to weld scrap steel to a vehicle. Where’s Lord Humongus?
You know that is not a terrible idea.
Except for for the $30k in back tax liability that’s due as soon as the ink on the deed is dry.
Easy Peasy. Buy it with an LLC or Corp, then abandon it after the election. Detroit can sue the empty husk of your LLC/Corp.
*Note: Although IAAL, nothing I say in this forum is legal advice, which is generally worth what you pay for it (at best) anyway.
“Clinton Interglobal Initiative LLC”.
I’ll start drawing up the paperwork.
If the figure is high enough, those fucks might pursue piercing the veil.
Which is why I’m making you the president of Clinton Interglobal
Pass. Too busy as Director of Arse Tickler’ s Faggots Fanclub .
Excellent. I have Bobbys Bits LLC locked up.
(great movie)
It’s a little bit over budget, but we could make it work with a GoFundMe
Scroll down to the payment options. If we put $125 down, we can get a 30-year-fixed mortgage for $3 a month. I think we can swing that!
It says move-in ready. I think it’s a keeper.
If we really want to stay in-budget, this is just a lil fixer-upper.
is that “3 bed 1 bath 1546 sq ft” before or after the fire?
This one comes with a built-in “RIP MI” sign. I’d say it’s worth the whopping price tag.
This is a great opportunity for a handy man. Located in the living room you will also find a charming fireplace.
Nice detailed description. Let’s do it!
Here we have 12000 sq feet of gaming/vaping/monocle polishing rooms
14 bedrooms and 2 baths. Sounds delightful.
Oh. Don’t your orphans hold a chamber pot by your side at all times?
Here’s a whole fuckin apartment building, with a 2-to-1 bedroom-to-bathroom ratio
Even at 60K there’s no point. 1908 build means it’s full of the nasties and will cost a shit ton to knock down and haul away.
Creepy looking place, innit?
Good horror movie set!
I don’t see the problem. If you think Senators and Reps are supposed be eloquent and dignified then you really need to pay attention to the one’s who do not appear on the talk shows. I used to work in the House, most of them can barely string two coherent sentences together.
True. But, at least don’t use the phrase: ‘shattin’ in their pantaloons’
Judging from Trump’s success, Kid Rock has a winning strategy.
Yeah, all that’s left is for him to start the tweet triggerin.
Oh! A Hill staffer.
Question: what’s the deal with the chick on the right? Sex toy for the Congressman?
John has been elected to congress?
That chick is not in any way fat, dude.
Look at those gams. She’s at least a Monica Lewinsky.
Maybe in the picture, but I met her in person (I’m the actual fat chick in orange). She’s no more than a size 2.
She’s cute. Probably an intern or some low level staffer
Maybe it is the photo then, ‘cos I’d say you’re easily the thinner one in that image.
Dunno, maybe it’s the clothes or perspective or something, but she looks like she’s got a dress size on you, minimum.
That hair is at least a size 13
Looks like she could be featured on the next episode of Thicc Thursdays.
You can’t fool me! That’s a man, baby!
Mee-ooow?
Intern Season.
THing is, chicks that work on the Hill are almost uniformly frumpy (see the chick in purple). This chick stood out like a sore thumb – she clearly gets her hairs did every day, dressed in designer clothes, full makeup, high heels, the whole nine.
The other weird thing is the lobbyist we were working with asked specifically about her when we got back to the office “Was ___ there?”
Do they all pass her around or something?
Maybe, she’s cute and probably likes to party so she’s a hit on the reception circuit.
If I was a congressman I probably would have tried hitting on that cute black chick on the left.
LOL She’s the President of the Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network, for whom we were begging for money on the Hill.
So you’re saying he has a chance?
Congressmen don’t like powerful women for their sex dolls, generally.
Hey cute girl, not an idiot. I might swing my swing my porktrough her way if you know what I’m saying.
So what you’re telling me is that this isn’t actually fiction?
That has to be a parody.
Ah, I see you’re not a viewer of Veep.
If it’s TV, I wouldn’t have seen it.
All of the Jonah Ryan campaign ads are hilarious
I can’t wait to see ol’ Bob rolling up to his campaign appearances in the pimped-out ’75 Cadillac limo they made for him on West Coast Customs.
Ugh…Goddammit, Kid Rock. I really, really, really don’t care for your music or shtick in general, stop making me smile.
http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9496
Communists accept reality. Portland, OR hardest hit
“Their main support base was middle-upper class white kids who enjoy jogging”
You go to war with the army you have. And then you lose. Badly.
That reads like an Onion piece.
Honest to god that headline could have been copied word for word by the Onion. What year is this?
“History repeats itself, first as tragedy and then as irony”
– Karl Marx
The fall of Rome was tragic, the fall of America is, apparently, farcical
Probably because low-income and working-class people spend all their time tryna make scratch. They don’t have time for that navel-gazing bullshit.
Also, how many POC go to Swarthmore anyway?
The working class in this country has never fully embraced socialism and it has always aggravated the Left. This explains why the only sitting socialist in any American city council is in the richest, whitest city in America: Seattle
The working class in this country has never fully embraced socialism and it has always aggravated the Left.
Uppity proles, thinking they can manage their own lives. They can’t even manage to vote in their own interest! /soc
Well, whitest other than SLC. I was surprised, though, that SLC wasn’t too far ahead of Seattle (75% to 69%).
Not Mama Cass.
I’ve had a few people actually tell me they’re communist. All of them are upper middle class whites.
Exception to the rule: My first subordinate at my new job was a working class nineteen year old from Florida *shakes fist at Florida* who attempted, in his own Buttheadesque way, to preach to me about the virtues of communism. In his mind, everybody deserves gainful/living wages(is their a more arbitrarily defined term on this planet?) in employment by government fiat based on ability, yada, yada. You know the drill.
So I asked him: based on your performance here at work over your first month, do you feel you deserve more pay based on your abilities? His answer, of course, is yes; and he deserves more, so that he may upgrade his living conditions.
This, despite the fact that I’ve had to literally, and I mean fucking literally, fix every single thing he’s ever been assigned to do. And I mean things as simple as taking sanding paper and sanding with, not against the grain on windows and trim. As a consequence, I’ve had to work nearly twice as hard to maintain our deadlines. And I get paid by the window/door, not hourly.
So how did he keep his job? Boss’s wife’s cousin. Fucking nepotism. Over the two month term off his employment he has probably cost them $1600 in lost labor over any semblance of productivity. So finally, they began to reduce his hours every week. Finally to the point that after his last appearance I told my boss that he’s no longer allowed in the shop if he wishes to retain me as an employee. So, thank your chosen deity, they finally shitcanned him.
He’s perplexed as to why. In his view, just showing up is more than good enough.
Communism in a nutshell?
Your ability, his need. Duh.
Portland has a statue of Paul Bunyan. Seattle’s the one with the Lenin statue.
Pretty soon the protests will begin to tear down the statue of privileged white racist, Paul Bunyan. Then they’ll put up their very own Lenin statue in it’s place. And it will be bigger than Seattle’s Lenin statue.
Hmmm… that could account for the scaffolding around it. I assumed it was for repainting it.
Paul Bunyan was a socialist! That’s right, you boys. I went to his house to install two way mirrors, and he came to the door in a Mao suit. Had Bernie stickers on his ox.
Don’t be talkin’ shit about Paul Bunyan, man.
Just because you like to watch your buddies be dialectical don’t make you a socialist.
6% black folks.
72% white and Asian (that’s not including the white international students, who are apparently all counted as one race)
http://www.swarthmore.edu/about/facts-figures
I’m guessing that the 72% doesn’t include very many Asians. They’re smart enough to know a bad deal when they see it.
17% Asian + 42% White + 13% Hispanic
So, 59% white + Asian is what I should have said, but somehow I don’t think many of the Hispanics at Swarthmore are of the Rosie Perez variety.
For the purposes of college admissions, “hispanic” is just a last name game.
Anything Italian, Portuguese, or ending with a “z” also counts as hispanic.
I had a friend whose father was an immigrant from Peru (and a Republican – he was one of my favorite Father o’ Friend. He bought both his kids vintage VW Beetles for $100 each. They had no heat. In Connecticut. How awesome is that?), and she got to put Hispanic and Native American on her college applications!
I think she turned out to be a commie. Like those kids from Swarthmore.
My brother’s undergrad roommate at Yale was a white dude from South Africa.
Yep, you guessed it. He put down African American.
Just like Charlize Theron!
My wife’s good friend, as pure southern baptist as you can get, was born in Alaska so puts down Alaskan native when asked.
A friend of mine from high school Greek on his father’s side, but his father’s mother, a Cypriot, was born in Egypt. Boom, African-American, much to the chagrin of his grandmother, who would routinely lean out the window of their slowly moving car and yell, “Fae skata, negro!”
They have 18 residence halls for ~1200 students???
My alma mater had ~10k students and 10 residence halls.
So Beverly Hills Antifa is basically reality.
There’s nothing left for us to do except keep stocked up on alcohol and popcorn. Just enjoy the left’s self destruction show.
Well, I guess now I can’t say nothing good has ever come from intersectionality.
You didn’t like The Jerk? Steve Martin was an angry nigger in that one.
When lefties complain that there are “too many white people” in something or another, aren’t they implicitly stating that races are inherently different? They’re implying that a group of 100 percent white people would be insufficient in some way that could only be remedied by the addition of some non-whites.
Which is it, are the races equal and the same, or are they different by their very natures? Make up your damn minds.
You mean, like Engels?
In re: the Iran satellite,
There’s a great #thanksObama in there from a Scaramucci parody account.
SugarFree: could you please please PLEASE write a Hat & Hair episode with the Boy Scout jamboree as the setting?
That might get some unwanted attention.
Might get the Family Friendly tag removed.
I’m trusting in HM to do that with the next Thicc Thursdays.
What, Thicc Boy Scouts?
That’s a little creepy… but I’m not judging.
Heh.. No, more thicness revealed, silly, something that might scare the hell out of little Johnny’s mum. “Oh muh gawds look at all that ass!” *covers little Johnny’s eyes* “I… I… if I had an ass like that… I mean that’s obscene! Someone do something!”.
Might get the Family Friendly tag removed.
I’m trying to do my part.
Are you a cop? You have to tell me if you are a cop.
“Religions that worship impartial natural forces. No, not the organicals.”
I think we call them ‘Elongalists’, or maybe ‘Teslans’.
I didn’t see it in the morning or caption contest threads, so:
CIndy Lou Who dies two months shy of her 100th birthday.
With the exception of Rocky, I don’t know what any of those are.
You don’t know Cindy Lou Who from How the Grinch Stole Christmas?
Tweety’s owner Granny?
I haven’t seen kid stuff since I was a kid.
Don’t you have kids?
Yeah, but it’s all Dreamworks these days.
I got them to watch a few vintage Tom and Jerry’s, and they’re a lot more racist and sexist than I remember.
I watched “Dressed to Kill” the other day. Pretty racist who done it.
You say that as if it were a problem.
That stuff doesn’t really bother me because of my white privilege.
I have no problem teaching my kids about that sort of thing. It’s a history lesson of sorts.
The problem is the negative feedback I get when they copy this stuff at school or friends’ houses.
Cindy Lou Who is not dead, you shitlord.
You know Natasha Fatale if you know Rocky. Think Boris and Natasha.
For us young guys, Bullwinkle’s is a pizza place.
That’s it. Get off my lawn, whippersnapper!
YOU SUCK.
She’s probably the most important cartoon voice actor/actress in history. She’s been around forever.
Mel Blanc is up there.
She’s at least as important. Chuck Jones (director of everything Looney Tunes) once apparently said “June Foray is not the female Mel Blanc, Mel Blanc was the male June Foray”
Mel Blanc.
I cannot find them anywhere, but in 2006-2007 sometime GQ had a spread with Lindsay Graham that was described at the time as “pretty gay.” I imagine his people have done their best to rid the internet of the pics but they were hilarious, especially the one with him sitting on top of a bunk bed and the one of him in a canoe.
Why the fuck would any politician/grown man be doing a photoshoot of himself in a bunk bed?
Photos and a bunk are still ok, right? Asking for a friend.
Yes, as long as the photo isn’t of you.
I can assure you that no one is in a bunk with my photo.
Seriously – what do their staffs/handlers even get paid for if not to be the guy in the room who says maybe you, Mr. Effete Male Republican Chickenhawk, should not be taking a picture in a bunk bed.
And, in a story that has to be made up: He nearly proposed to one of the women, a flight attendant named Sylvia from Vienna, but ‘it wasn’t to be’
Yea, Lindsey. You were banging a flight attendant from Vienna.
Well, it was a rather long flight.
Only when his girlfriend who lived in Canada couldn’t get down to visit.
His other girlfriend goes to a school in another county. She’s a year younger so you wouldn’t know here anyway and she doesn’t like taking pictures and she just moved there so she won’t be in any yearbooks.
Totally real, though
It was a threesome, with the third party being Manti Te’o.
what do their staffs/handlers even get paid for
everybody gets days off. these guys come back to gay photoshoots they now have to memory hole.
He’s always there with his teeny tiny war boner, so they had to shoot him there.
This is everything I was hoping for from a Trump administration.
I now hatewatch DC politics solely as irritainment. The Trump administration has been gloriously entertaining.
5 stars, would point and laugh again.
You’ll get plenty of chances.
Yeah, this approach is much better than expecting them to actually do something which is neither stupid nor evil.
It’s like a reality show, but everyone is even more petty and stupid than usual.
I almost want Trump in 2019 to host an “Apprentice: VP” to see who will be his VP running mate for 2020. That would be beautiful.
I just really like the FLOTUS.
I wish she was before Pence in line of succession. She’d be way less shitty president.
hahahahahahahahahahaha no. I wish.
No, see, the problem is the stupid peasants were tricked into voting against their best interest. To preserve democracy, we just need to make sure the elections are more heavily influenced by the party elites so Orange Hitler can never come to power again /prog
Politico left off a pretty important qualifier to what the closeted Graham said. Firing Mueller “could” be the worst thing for Trump. It wasn’t the declarative statement they painted it as.
Is this even constitutional? My gut says…no.
Constitutional? You mean that document written by a bunch of old white cis shitlords?
I would love to see Graham go to war with Trump, cause if I know South Carolina they would throw that fuck out on his ass in a heartbeat.
Good question. Assuming they could actually get this passed with a veto-proof majority (if I were Trump, I would pair my veto with firing Mueller, just to give Congress a big ol’ fuck you), which I kinda doubt, it would run into the somewhat nebulous unitary executive doctrine. Under some versions of that doctrine, the President’s authority to fire members of the executive branch (which would include Mueller) is not subject to limitation by Congress.
You would also have problems using the judiciary to review the firing, as this would likely not be a “case” or “controversy” which the Constitution empowers the judicial branch to decide. Probably the best Graham could do would be to give Mueller a legal claim against Trump for firing him, so that Mueller could file a case and the courts would decide that.
Lindsey also imagines himself a great and brave war hero, so I mean the guy is not living in Reality. If he thinks firing Sessions is going to get the majority of either party on his side with this, he’s fucking stupid.
Sorry, I meant Mueller.
War hero? He was a JAG in the Air Force. I actually know somebody who worked with him and who said he was a very good lawyer, but that hardly makes you a hero.
Yeah, but I bet he’s a beast in Black Ops 3.
My 5 year loves the iron giant giant. I think it’s a good movie. It has a nice, the government is Lee’s than useless theme. When my boy was 3 or 4 he would ask me if we could watch the movie about the little boy and his bb gun.
A Christmas Story? I hate that fucking movie.
Did Unciv jack your handle?
No, I have nothing against that movie. It had its moments.
Careful with jacking, you could shoot your eye out.
and get a hairy palm
The only good scene in that movie is when the little shit gets his tongue stuck to the metal pole.
Almost the entire thing is hilarious.
The kid who got his tongue stuck to his pole later became a pornstar. So what have you been doing with your life?
Well, not that, for sure.
…became a pornstar
Still sticking his tongue to a pole?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cugsup-Ylzg
*wites RBS in hipster book*
*burns hipster book*
Hey! I had two names in there so far. Oh well. I member.
FM, I’m doing research on Orlando hotels again. I’ve been told by Brett to avoid anything Loews.
I’m mostly family with the Disney resorts. Did you end up staying at Gaylord’s last time? I can test out the cocktail lounges of any you’re curious about.
Last time, I ended up going to Cabo instead (no kids).
This time, I’ll be in NY with the whole family at the end of September, so I’m thinking about swinging by somewhere warm on the East Coast on the way home. Gaylord’s is on the list, but I assume my kids will want more waterslides….
I haven’t been yet, but they built the Americana (cabana bay resort) on property with Volcano bay, brand new hotel and water park. Disney has blizzard beach which has more extreme slides and typhoon lagoon, more relaxed. No hotel on those properties but Disney has lots of internal transportation. There are also a couple of non-Disney hotels close to the two water parks, but they’ve don’t give you the Disney transport perk.
https://www.universalorlando.com/web/en/us/places-to-stay/universals-cabana-bay-beach-resort/index.html
Thanks. Not even sure that we’d want to do the main Disney theme parks.
Discovery cove caught my eye, though.
Ok. I like the looks of Volcano Bay.
I hope they serve booze.
It’s been years since I’ve been, but it was one of the most relaxing days. Limited number of people, they provide breakfast and lunch as part of admittance. They provide sunscreen, wet suits, towels, lockers. Everything you need. I don’t remember the slides but they have aquariums you can swim in, dolphin encounters and an aviary, which they give you food to feed the birds. My wife actually fell asleep on the “beach” for a few hours. I’ll ask some friends about seaworld hotels.
I get drunk every Halloween horror night. I’m fairly confident any universal resort will have booze.
Come to Myrtle Beach. It’s family freindly and we have several waterparks and the finest hookers in the Southeast.
Those are Ocean City imports, aren’t they? Oh wait, no neck tats, I could be wrong.
6 arrests, but only 3 pictures. I’m disappointed.
Darrin McGavin, bitches. His presence alone makes the movie worth it.
You hate Christmas story? WTF? You’ll shoot your eye out, kid!
I kept waiting for the scene where Ralphie would be lying in bed thinking about shooting Black Bart and then hears Mom and
Dad making the bed shake in the next room.
That was totally uncalled for Scot Farkus. Yeah, i know your real name.
He had yellow eyes, yellow eyes!
I always thought his name was Scot. It’s actually SCUT!
From the office today. We changed the cables on the north 125T meltshop crane. Pretty cool if you’re into that kinda thing.
http://imgur.com/l1DYvdA
What’s the diameter of that cable?
1 1/4 inch.
looking at the guy on the left, big.
That’s what she said.
What’s that cable cost per foot?
What do you plan to do with a foot of that cable?
Bicycle spoke stop?
Do you have any samples of the cable we could take home?
You couldn’t carry it. It’s fucking heavy.
We take the old cable and throw it into the furnace after we change it. Most of our steel goes to automotive, so there’s probably some cable in your vehicle right now.
You could probably carry an inch of it. After all, FM didn’t mention how big a sample he wanted.
I’m thinking Meh, then I notice the guy on the left. That’s some cable. I assume none of the machinery is moving when that picture was taken. It woulda been at a place I worked at long ago and far away .
We do it live. We unhook one end of the cable from the drum and drop it down to the ground. We then run the drum drum down to spool off almost all the cable. We then weld the end of the new cable to the old cable and run the drum up to pull the new cable through all the reaves. When we start getting new cable, we cut the weld and repeat the same action with the other end of the cable. You have to have someone operating the drum who you trust and will do exactly as you say. Everyone being on the same page is very important.
The view from the top.
http://imgur.com/G080XYY
Which one of those did you use to melt Arnie?
Is that a gay steel mill?
So you could say, you fixed the cable?
I laughed.
AS OMWC will attest, I LOVE LOVE LOVE behind-the-scenes photos, or videos of how stuff gets made. It’s always amazing to me what machines and processes humans have created to produce stuff.
Thanks, Lachowsky!
YW. I will do more as time passes. I work on some really cool stuff sometimes.
Yeah, you do. That sounds more interesting than my day, for damn sure.
It’s all relative dean, practicing and understanding law sounds fascinating to me. Machines is what I know, so it gets old sometimes. Law is what you know, so it gets old sometimes.
Still thinking about using GI Bill for crane operator certification. One of the things that killed me on the ship was being tied to an underway schedule – having every single thing prepped on the ship, manning, fire safety, etc, etc. And waiting for the one union crane operator (at a federal facility) to get back from his mandated break to continue swinging ammo while I’m twiddling my thumbs and looking at my watch and watching the wind pick up.
Granted…maybe they didn’t “need” extra positions, but seems like it would be pretty useful to have. I’ve learned a bit about rigging from the different workers who helped us with weight testing and moving other equipment – and yeah…definitely a skill set I will go for if I make it back to the Puget Sound region shipyards.
It’s late and you might not see this, but take my word for it. Operating cranes looks cool, but is actually mind numbingly boring after you learn how to do it. It’s no different than working on a production line at a factory. If you like cranes and want to make money doing something that won’t bore you to death, learn how to troubleshoot and repair them There’s good money in that and crane control technology gets more and more complicated every year. On top of that, there is not a dearth of people who are willing to do that kind of work. A good crane technician is guaranteed a job.
And now it’s even later, so I hope you are still reading. You work in a steel mill, right? I work in a manufacturing shop that takes sheets of “raw” steel and makes different products out of them. Maybe you and I could tag team a article on manufacturing from start to finish?
That sounds interesting. my handle with a k in front of it @ gmail.com. Shoot me an e mail and we can collaborate. I’m about done for tonight, but am intersested. We could probably put something together.
ACLU: “Save Our Health Care”
https://www.aclu.org/feature/tell-senate-save-our-health-care
Remind me again which civil liberty is involved in receiving health insurance at someone else’s expense.
Right to Life. And possibly Pursuit of Happiness if you squint.
Nothing says happiness like rationed medical care.
Not every pursuit is fruitful!
What a disgrace
it’s the 2A in the secret proggy Constitution the ACLU has.
Yeah, the welfare clause. I say that I have a right to a 200 ft luxury yacht, so it’s so. Now give me my fucking yacht, it’s my right!
They’re using FDR’s Bill of Rights.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Freedoms
You are reminded.
Thread on buying a $10 Detroit mansion, and continual lack of sleep, made me ask a question:
Should we have an American version of Dead Souls?
In the original novel, a con artist buys ownership of dead serfs who are still on the non-updated census rolls, for some vaguely defined purpose (presumably take a loan with serfs as collateral, default).
Could we have something with Kid Rock or Trump analogue buying up dead voters in Chicago or Detroit?
All the dead voters in Chicago are already committed. Some of them, twice!
Good thing they keep making more every day.
Well yeah, so the plot would be him going to various ward bosses and haggling over what margins they can spare.
Go for comedy, with everyone deadpan/blase about buying and selling souls.
Eating a nature valley granola bar, My brother walks in “Ah, crumb bar, huh?”
best name I’ve heard yet.
Eating granola: check
Wearing neon glasses: check
Magnificent coiffure: check
I’m gonna need a bigger hipster book.
Avocado toast.
That’ll be $16, sir.
Can I trade artisanal double IPA’s for it?
Hey you’re the hipster, I take cash buddy.
PBR or get the fuck out!
No, just no
Avocados =yum
Toast =Yum
Both =Puke
Toast= Chips
Avocados= Guac
See? It IS good!
Sometimes I’ll put a fried egg on top.
Actually fried, or uncooked fried?
Oh, sunny side up.
Can you deep fry an egg?
Scottish Egg? Fuk YA!
For some reason I’m told that I am not authorized to read AP tweet linked above.
Shrug. On phone? Should I dl twitter app?♿?
And yes my Emojis we’re to suggest I’m a crippled baby if that wasn’t clear
Ugh, that ugly New York handicapped guy.
I thought it was about this
You found the “feed someone to a woodchipper” Emoji?
Preet hardest hit.
to the music link
Who do we know in Wyoming?
i…
.16 bac, 30 cow eyes in his ass, and has ED?
The ‘going green’ is a pretty smooth move, I have to say.
I remember one user months ago, WyomingBob or something else beginning in wyo.
Wypipo?
I’m going to keep this link as a counterpoint to any “Florida Man” stories.
Me
That’s parody, right?
Holy fucking… I don’t even…
So the guy thinks to himself ‘Im gonna get drunk and get in my El Camino, and drive down to the slaughterhouse and steal 30 cow eyeballs to shove up me arse, and then I’m going home to make soup out of em’.
That should be funny, except I’m not sure, I can’t get over the making soup with cow eyes that he had up his ass.
Everyone likes their own homemade marinade.
Euphemism?
1 man, 1 bowl?
“Damn, I lost again. What say we go double or nothing!”
“All right, pal. If you win, we’re even, But if I win, you have to carry the stolen eyeballs home up your ass.”
“You’re on! Beat this pair of 3s!”
And then you have to make soup out of em and eat it!
Kind of sounds like one of those promotions for Rick and Morty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCwcGjsnIw0
Is it the cow eyeballs or the up his ass you’re struggling with?
Really, OK, So here is another
Ugg, fucking Monocle, everytime somebody comes up with a new way to do something, I’m always stuck doing it the old way and bitching about Chesterton’s fence.
Jackie O’s Ricky a Bonde Beer. Quite good. Going to try a Kellerbeir next from Land Grant. Don’t believe I’ve ever had a Kellerbeir before which is pretty astounding.
Not a fan of the Keller. Another blonde never hurts.
Another blonde never hurts.
Fucking hell, you serve this and I got nothing.
Help?
Here’s a blonde that hurts…
FrootSooshi on the twitters and the Trump Trans message:
Robby SoaveVerified account
@robbysoave
More
Robby Soave Retweeted Peter Bonilla
This is terrible, and represents Trump betraying a key promise to not move the GOP backward on LGBT issues.
Nothing says anti-whomever more than I don’t won’t to use you as cannon fodder.
They just need to identify as soldiers. Sit in their treehouse and pretend to call in airstrikes against ISIS.
I ask for help and you give me Soave?
You also toss life preservers made of concrete to drowning people?
I’ve got the music.
I’ve got the power
I’ve got the magic power of music.
https://youtu.be/rW3WYcnQj8I
WOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOO!
How can that be the same band that rocked out with this?
Elderly, near-blind prolife protester acquitted of bogus charges based on his attempt to protect his property from being stolen
Anthony Scaramucci may actually be insane. But funny insane.
http://www.newyorker.com/news/ryan-lizza/anthony-scaramucci-called-me-to-unload-about-white-house-leakers-reince-priebus-and-steve-bannon/amp
I’m not trying to suck my own cock
Show some ambition, man! You’re on Trump Train now! Choo-Choo!
“Last time I sprained my neck!”
I almost spit all over my cubicle when I read that quote.
Most politicians – including the ones with two-inch peckers – have the flexibility to do this.
When you can already put your head up your own ass, pulling a Ron Jeremy is easy.
Also, Bill Clinton must have been a terrible politician… he had to have someone do it for him.
Will he do the Fandango?
Leaker leaks about leakers.
Young people and their pointless happiness. Get it out of your system kids.
And a little something outside my usual musical metier.
Ah, I figured it out. You have to watch it muted.
Glad I refreshed before posting this.
Shameless self-promotion – I just started a new movie-review youtube channel – primarily focused on dvd reviews. Possibly thematic overlap with Gojira in some cases but probably a lot of titles he hasn’t heard of either.
Aiming for one review a week to start with. Premiere review – Korean blu-ray review of “I am a Hero”. Next week will be the French/Congolese Neo-Noir “Viva Riva”.
I am not a talented man, but it would be freaking awesome if we started a youtube channel.
Definitely a learning process with the editing. This first one was easier because I wasn’t trying to use separate ripped clips – which I probably will attempt next week.
Very nice! Although I don’t recognize any of the flicks on the shelf behind your avatar…
Exactly! I aim to cover most of them – I love sharing cool things that people haven’t heard of yet!
Like Vhyrus and his STDs!
Sounds cool, LT. Bookmarked.
Some people collect pokemon. I go after more dangerous game…
I got two, Delicatessen, and My Name is Nobody (german edition)
Looking forward to seeing Delicatessen in the theater next month – that Violet Crown French movie deal I posted about before – and I’ve seen that there are blu-rays out now for MNIN and the other Trinity flicks. Will add them to the buy list in the future – but any reviews will be on the existing dvds due to hardware limitations.
So any Troma reviews?
I’ll comment on that in future videos…but Troma generally leaves me cold. I love Japanese splatter-core like “Meatball Machine”, “Tokyo Gore Police”, “The Machine Girl”, “Gothic Psycho Lolita”, etc. But I think mostly it’s because I can’t recognize bad acting as clearly in a foreign language 🙂
Fair Enough. I ask people reviewing B movies what they think about Troma, It’s a bit like asking historians what they think of Herodotus or Josephus. You don’t have to like them, but you should act like you’ve heard of them.
Watched “Pterodactyl Woman in Beverly Hills”. The first 3 “Nuke ’em High” flicks (not too bad really, but not exceptionally entertaining).
Lots of clips from Tromeo, and other flicks
Subbed, will check out videos tonight!
+1 sub
Seriously though if anyone has comments/feedback/criticism – please leave a note. Be brutal – I have a lot to learn about the editing and my current mic is my phone (hence the mono).
I checked out the intro – the sound quality was pretty good, and I’m surprised it was on the phone.
Overall I liked the intro, the only complaint I’d have is that in parts it sounds like you are trying to talk too fast and almost running out of breath. Were you reading off paper?
Computer screen. AKA not unscripted. I do need to work on that – kinda like that in real life. It should be easy to speak slowly if reading…not something I do very often though.
Just don’t pull a Jim Hacker.
If you can speak as slowly as this guy you will be a hit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeK5ZjtpO-M
Reading is very very hard to do well as a performance/presentation. Give yourself bullet points to keep you on track, andsemi-wing it . Practice, sure, but it’s the spontaneity people connect with. Even a stumble here and there is relatable.
And now I finished the first review.
Nothing to complain on technical side – your voice performance was much improved over the intro. I was wondering if the video is too short when I saw runtime, but you I think you got the point across.
I am curious – how similar is it to Shaun of the Dead? It seems to have a similar premise, “loser schlub becomes a hero (or does he?) in a zombie setting”, as well as similar social commentary with zombies going through the semblance routine even after death.
Both lead characters in this and Shaun really start from an essentially dead-end life role but this event is actually what propels them to actual personal achievement and development. Some people blossom under pressure (should have said that…..).
And yeah…it’s funny to watch a zombie thinking he’s on the train or another one repeatedly carrying out athletic moves.
Apropos the pic on the front page: Wipin’ off here, Boss!
“Come on, safety pin! Pop!”
BBC has an article titled Does Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk ignore the role of the Indian army?
While the question is in fact not directly answered, the last paragraph made me cheer
Literally everyone bitching about cultural sensitivity or lack of diversity in that movie can all, collectively and individually, piss straight up a fucking rope.
Having looked into it, apparently there were four Indian transport companies at Dunkirk, which means at most there was something like a thousand Indians present. Compared to the amount of overall military personnel present that’s like 0.2% of the entire force. So statistically they’re probably represented accurately.
I haven’t seen the movie, but I’m sure just as many people are concerned about the much greater forces of the French, Dutch, Belgians and Polish.
A dutchman and a frenchman have speaking appearances in the movie. Yes, only one each, but there are only about 20 speaking roles in the whole movie anyway.
I just want my goddamn movie about the Czech Legion, is that too much to ask?
The one that escaped Russia via Vladivostok?
The Czech pilots in WWII were the subject of Dark Blue World.
I did feel like a total wad when I saw the trailer and my first reaction was “Where’re the French?!”
Damn, I had no idea Poles got themselves involved there as well. I always thought the Polish Army was stationed to the south of the sickle-strike.
I saw one Czech guy ironically pointing out how it completely ignores the Czech and Polish roles in the evacuation. He was saying that in response to a USA Today article that complained about the lack of women/POC in lead roles, and saying “they ignore the Czechs and Poles, but that’s totally fine and we’re not bitching, because we can make our own goddamned movies about them.”
As for the film itself, pretty enjoyable. Does a good job at capturing the chaotic nature of the operation.
I’m not sure if this is ironic or just bad – probably both
I got…something
This cover band needs…well, more hair, for starters
Fat Bro Billy Goat Face Hair Cover Bands are my favorite.
Assange throwing major shade at Hilldog LOL
daaaaayyyyuuuummmmm
Hey man, nice shot.
It’s funny how you can hurl all of these accusations at Hillary and never have to even exaggerate, let alone make anything up.
Ouch, That’s a good one.
ZING!
Thinboy Slim?
I believe it was RC Dean in the AM links who challenged me to find something dumber than what he posted.
OK.
Op-ed: Intelligence is an example of ‘cognitive privilege’
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/34905/
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He writes “it is undeniable that privilege itself is a reality.”
“Any of us could have been born the unluckiest person on the planet, which, by definition, picks out precisely one person. But we all have the privilege of not being that person. We are all privileged by comparison,” Williams says.
He adds privilege extends well past the popular concept of “white privilege” and even encompasses the intelligence an individual possesses.
From the op-ed:
There are many kinds of privilege besides white privilege: cognitive privilege, for example. We now know that intelligence is not something we have significant control over but is something we are born with. We are living in a society in which success is increasingly linked to one’s intelligence. This is not to say that intelligence is the only factor that is important. All that is implied is that below a certain threshold of intelligence, there are fewer and fewer opportunities. These opportunities are being shifted upward to jobs that require heavier cognitive lifting or else are being replaced by robots. Thus, the accident of having been born smart enough to be able to be successful is a great benefit that you did absolutely nothing to earn. Consequently, you have nothing to be proud of for being smart.
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Huh. Well, if intelligence is innate, I guess we can shut down all the schools then.
Sorry, Derpetologist. His conclusion
is not derpy enough. He needed to double down, and I expect if this gets any attention, he’ll have to do a Self-Cricisim Session soon.
I don’t recall, but I’ll take credit, but not blame, ’cause that’s how I roll.
Aaaaand that’s basically the premise of the book The Bell Curve, which is regarded as being equal to
in terms of raciss’itude. It’s funny how lefties can get away with saying stuff that, by their own logic, would be extremely racist if anyone else said it.
I dunno. I’ve been thinking for a while that it’s ridiculous that the intersectionality paradigm is limited to the few criteria that it is. To be very stupid and to be very ugly are both much more challenging than to be, say, a black or gay person in most circumstances in America, and especially more than to be a woman. But intersectional morons don’t care about the stupid and the ugly; in fact, those qualities are the bases of their go-to insults for people they hate.
And what about the people living extremely fringe lives. People with extremely rare disorders that change the way the think, look and behave—with next to no one to relate?
But, well, if those persons are straight, white, ‘cis,’ male, even if they’re obscenely destitute… fuck ’em anyway. They’re privileged.
More than anything, SJWs exhibit Asshole Privilege
Holy shit, put it back on
found about this lovely verse today:
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Deuteronomy 17:12-13
12 The person who acts arrogantly, refusing to listen either to the priest who stands there serving the Lord your God or to the judge, must die. You must purge the evil from Israel. 13 Then all the people will hear about it, be afraid, and no longer behave arrogantly.
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If you read the full context, it’s about contempt of court and the punishment thereof.
You say “context” and the communist says “that wasn’t *real* communism”.
The Jews turned the capital crimes in the Old Testament into a “holiness code” in which nobody could be executed because the rules of evidence were so strict as to make the ACLU look like Judge Jeffreys.
The Christians – except for the occasional Protestant oddballs – don’t enforce this code either, on the grounds that the law being fulfilled, it doesn’t have to be applied the way it was before Christ.
But imagine, for example, that a modern court says the house some guy is squatting in isn’t his, and orders him to get out. But he doesn’t. So they send the sheriff to get him out, and he comes out with his rifle…
would the result be significantly different from what it says in Deuteronomy?
“would the result be significantly different from what it says in Deuteronomy?”
For starters, it would not involve being stoned to death.
If your own full brother, or your son or daughter, or your beloved wife, or you intimate friend, entices you secretly to serve other gods, whom you and your fathers have not known, gods of any other nations, near at hand or far away, from one end of the earth to the other: do not yield to him or listen to him, nor look with pity upon him, to spare or shield him, but kill him. Your hand shall be the first raised to slay him; the rest of the people shall join in with you. You shall stone him to death, because he sought to lead you astray from the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery. And all Israel, hearing of this, shall fear and never do such evil as this in your midst. (Deuteronomy 13:7-12 NAB)
The analogy at the time was quitting your country’s army to join some other country’s army, or enticing others to do so – the Christian counterpart is excommunication.
And the Muslims?
In other words, smarter people realized later how stupid the original rule was and then made up a face-saving excuse for ignoring it.
See “socialism with Chinese characteristics”.
Even in our enlightened modern era, it’s inadvisable, from the self-preservation point of view, to defy a court order.
And yet somehow, there is no official policy of immediately killing people who talk back to the judge.
I’m not sure that’s what it says – here’s the NABRE translation of Deuteronomy 17:8-13 –
“If there is a case for judgment which proves too baffling for you to decide, in a matter of bloodshed or of law or of injury, matters of dispute within your gates, you shall then go up to the place which the LORD, your God, will choose, to the levitical priests or to the judge who is in office at that time. They shall investigate the case and then announce to you the decision. You shall act according to the decision they announce to you in the place which the LORD will choose, carefully observing everything as they instruct you. You shall carry out the instruction they give you and the judgment they pronounce, without turning aside either to the right or left from the decision they announce to you. Anyone who acts presumptuously and does not obey the priest who officiates there in the ministry of the LORD, your God, or the judge, shall die. Thus shall you purge the evil from Israel. And all the people, on hearing of it, shall fear, and will never again act presumptuously.”
So this is about not obeying the court’s order.
“I’m not gonna pay damages for that guy I stabbed, and if they send the sheriff to take my property I’ll take them down!”
It’s not the same legal system, but can sort of see the logic.
At some point, under most systems, persisting in defying a court means a certain risk of death.
The main difference is that supposedly our system gives people a few extra chances before laying on the deadly force, but the deadly force is still available.
Derp desperately wants to believe the Bible says the same things as the Quran and just tens of millions of Christians overlooked it over the last 2000 years. He’s gone from a connoisseur of derp to a creator.
It does say many of the same things as the Quran. The story of Sodom and Gomorrah appears in the Quran and Muslims interpret it the same way Christians do. The difference is that modern Christians and Jews decided to ignore the violent teachings or hand-wave them away.
Ever wondered why gay marriage is a political issue in the US? Do you think maybe, just maybe, it’s because the Bible says homosexuality is a sin?
Where do you think those god-fearing Christians in Salem got the idea that witches should be put to death?
Talk about hand-waving away….
Robert Ingersoll, the famous American agnostic of the 19th century who denounced the Bible, kept the sex-binary definition of marriage. So do the Confucians, who to my knowledge don’t rely on the Christian scripture.
Anyway, the relevant Bible passage is this one, from Jesus who “totally never mentioned gay people derp derp” –
“[Jesus] said in reply, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female’ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, no human being must separate.”- Matthew 19:4-6
Other reasons to oppose “gay marriage” – the rights of small businesses to choose their own customers and employees, and to decide for themselves which services they will provide.
Truth in lyrics
I’m not saying this is good, I’m saying you won’t want to miss it
Okay that was epic
He’s just as good as Free Metal guy!
Warshin Machine Rock?
I’m saying this is good.
But will they give you sanctuary from the song itself?
That’s a really good cover. You go, girls!
“Girls”
Did you forget this “?”
If not, ask Iron Maiden.
Whoa. Nathan J Robinson wrote something and I couldn’t find a single stupid thing in it!
Academic Language and the Problem of Meaninglessness
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/07/academic-language-and-the-problem-of-meaninglessness
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But, and this should go without saying, if people are actually trying to communicate with one another their words need to have meaning, and we need to have relatively fixed and identifiable definitions for concepts and actions. That’s always going to be elusive, because the usages of words will change over time and vary among users, so it will be impossible for any definition to stay truly stable and universally agreed. Yet while their boundaries can be fuzzy and contested, words ultimately need to be something more than meaningless mouth-noises. When nobody agrees on the definition of a word, when it contains so many possible connotations that it’s impossible to know what anyone who uses it actually means by it, the word is no longer able to effectively communicate.
…
Infamous academic terms like “phenomenological,” “intersubjectivity,” “embeddedness,” “hermeneutical,” and “discursive” are not bad because they describe complicated concepts, but because it’s often not clear just what an author means by them. It’s not that they’re meaningless, necessarily, but that they could mean lots of things, and people don’t seem to have a very precise shared idea of how to interpret them. (That’s one reason why Current Affairs mostly shies away from using the word “neoliberalism.” It’s not that it has no meaning, it’s that because people mean different things by it, it ends up being somewhat ineffective as a tool for communication.)
…
Vagueness allows an escape from responsibility in several ways. First, it allows me to evade accountability. I can never be “wrong” about anything, because I can always claim to have been misinterpreted. (This is how Slavoj Zizek always defends himself.) If you ask me my prediction for what will happen in 2018, and I say “the state of California will break off and fall into the ocean,” it is fairly easy for my proposition to be either proven or disproven. But if I say “the people of California will develop a greater sense of their own intersubjectivity,” almost nothing that happens can clearly disprove my assertion, because it could mean many things.
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“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper names.”
-some fucking white male
I saw what you did there.
Any man who takes a potshot at Slavoj Žižek, no matter how low or vile otherwise, still retains a glimmer of goodness within him.
You’re getting soft in your old age. I still want to parachute Robinson into a North Korean concentration camp.
Oh to be sure, he should be. I’m just saying, he at least indicates that he’s not an alien robot from another dimension.
No need for such an extreme measure. I think forcing him to sit through this would be enough:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmnHwQXJP8M
Wow, that guy sounds like he was born stoned.
A really cool video of a prototype sonic weapon.
Not even one wall fell down. Weapon fail!
Shaka, when the walls didn’t fall?
Darmak and Jalad?
I confess to owning this T-shirt.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha….
Looks like a real-life version of Edgar’s noiseblaster from FF6…
Germany: Mayor tells citizens angry about Muslim migrant rapes “Don’t provoke them”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/07/germany-mayor-tells-citizens-angry-about-muslim-migrant-rapes-dont-provoke-them
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A video of a German town meeting in which the new German reality dawns on desperate citizens has been revealed by conservative commentator Amy Mek via social media. In it, one may discern the watershed moment when the bureaucratic leadership breaks news to the incensed constituency that the familiar concepts of German sovereignty, borders, and culture no longer form the stabilizing center of government priority that had kept them safe in the past. From the video it is apparent that until this town meeting, the citizens in it still believed, perhaps logically, that their government exists to protect them, their loved ones, and their interests.
Grandfather: My granddaughter, she’s under ten – and it also happened in a nearby town.
Citizen: That’s right!
Grandfather: The girls have been harassed by the “refugee children” … the asylum seekers … and they get harassed from the windows of the shelter and things like that. How will this be in the summer, when the school girls wear less clothing?
Mayor: That’s easy. Just don’t provoke them and don’t walk in these areas.
(Audience uproar): In your own country! You can’t even walk in your own city anymore! Oh boy! In your own city! Yeah! Let’s all keep a one meter distance! So easy! You’re not allowed to walk in your own city anymore! Go home, boy! Who the hell elected you? They come here and we’re not allowed to walk here anymore?! Boy, oh boy, you’ve got some nerve. What kind of mayor is this? He should step down!”…
Grandfather: My grandchildren are supposed to go to school here! This is the way it is?
Mayor: Well, it’s technically not necessary for the girls to walk there. There are alternative routes for going to school….
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So disgusting how that mob is collectivizing and not listening to a simple, effective solution with long, proud pedigree.
I prefer this solution.
Ah, Mongolian Khans, the great shit talkers of the Middle Ages.
You know who else liked solutions?
Business?
Chemists?
John McClane?
Sherlock Holmes?
7 %, baby!
Euclid?
Laudanum users?
Them fuckers throwing acid in peoples faces?
Cossacks had better rhetoric but not nearly as effective follow-up.
Whew, I was kind of expecting some Vlad the Impaler, and defender or Christendom.
What a fuckin douche. Hope they get booted out on their Arsche.
If they had run that guy out on a rail I might still hold out hope for them.
Don’t the Krauts do pitchforks & torches?
A riot iz an ugly theeng…
“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper names.”
That’s crazy talk!
So, highly-principled Bernie voted “Present” on instituting single payer. HIGHLY principled.
Hah. Of course he did
Just lookit how principled he is! More principled than Rand Paul, by golly!
If Bernie was principled, he wouldn’t be socialist.
I had to google that. Seems nobody voted for it, and all Dems voted present. Can’t go on the record when the evil R’s propose that. They have to wait for Bernie to propose it next week……fuck me I can’t believe I pay taxes that support these people.
OMFG I’m not doing anything more this week but I still have to be here for another hour. Kill me.
Catholic men’s conference in crosshairs of left-wing activists
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/07/27/catholic-mens-conference-in-crosshairs-left-wing-activists.html
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Christine Niles, a Vietnamese immigrant who helps run a parachurch organization in Michigan that promotes Roman Catholic teaching, expected to spend this week preparing theological materials and getting ready for the group’s annual conference for men.
Instead, Niles, who is editor-in-chief of Church Militant, has been in consultations with local law enforcement after learning that a left-wing group is drumming up support to shut down the conference, which will take place on Aug. 4-6 at locations in Ferndale and Sterling Heights, Mich.
“Police have reached out to both sides and will have patrol cars observing,” Niles told Fox News. “But we don’t know who the activists are associated with and we don’t know what will happen.”
The theological conference causing controversy, titled “Strength and Honor,” is billed as “offering talks on the essential role of sacrificial masculinity of Catholic men to be good husbands and fathers” and to equip attendees with tools to “gain the spiritual and mental tools to be strong leaders among the faithful.”
But according to the Michigan People’s Defense Network (MPDN), since the conference run by Church Militant — which adheres diligently to centuries-old Roman Catholic teaching — is exclusively for men, it “promotes a hateful, anti-woman message.”
And therefore it must be shut down.
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Church Militant? Someone’s been watching Game of Thrones.
More like Martin is really lazy with his world building a rips off everything from medieval Europe.
Martin has pretty much admitted that the books are pretty much based on the War of the Roses. So accusing Martin of ripping off Medieval history to fuel his novels isn’t really an insult.
But Fuck Neil Gaiman, Martin is my bitch, and it’s been 5 years. That fat bastard owes me a book.
I think there’s a difference between, say, how Dune is based off of Lawrence of Arabia but becomes this weird thing with giant worms and super high abortions, and Martin ‘basing his books of the War of the Roses’ and going “HEY LOOKIT THIS MERCHANT REPUBLIC THAT TOTALLY ISN’T A LAZY MIX OF RHODES AND VENICE”.
Fuck Rothfuss while you’re at it. 10 years since book one, six since two and no sign of three in sight.
Yep.
His books are really good though. Just needs to finish that series off. My God I loved it.
That they didn’t name themselves “Ecclesia Militans” proves that the Church is truly sede vacante.
The Church doesn’t even allow them to call themselves Catholic or use Church facilities.
I’m not sure if it’s a *Catholic* men’s conference.
They’re in the Detroit Archdiocese, which, according to this, has not given its approval to the group:
“Church Militant started as Real Catholic TV in 2008, with airings on local television. The Archdiocese of Detroit issued statements indicating the organization was not authorized to promote itself as “Catholic.” Real Catholic TV is now off the air, and Church Militant is the name of the online effort.
“Archdiocese spokesman Ned McGrath sent the Free Press a number of links to blogs and articles depicting the friction between Voris’ organization and the Catholic Church. He also sent the transcript from a video of Voris, with text bolded on the parts where he describes Voris’ previous sex life.
“After a Church Militant subscriber told us that Voris was banned from speaking at Catholic parishes, we asked McGrath about it.
“”We have a consistent policy in the Archdiocese regarding speakers in church property,” McGrath said, adding that presentations must be “in the spirit and the law of church teaching.”
“”(Voris’) ministry, his work is not approved or endorsed by the Archdiocese of Detroit, and that would be why.””
Video from the last Glibertarians meet-up.
Okay, which one is me?
Trick question, they’re all me.
More video just came across my desk. I’m going to show it to you, but it may not be suitable for immature audiences.
Technical difficulties.
I worked as a bouncer at a strip club back when I was younger. And after watching that video I’m glad I didn’t try to secure that as a career path.
Must be the day crew.
Damn, man, even the Aborigines? That’s cold.
Teen Vogue is woke, yo
Yet, when it comes to slavery in America, much of that qualitative recognition ceases to exist. While the recently opened National Museum of African American History and Culture has memorialized the bodies and souls of black folks trapped, tortured, and killed by the trans-Atlantic slave trade, there has been no genuine reconciliation regarding the effects that slavery has had on its descendants — and black Americans as a whole. And there definitely hasn’t been any financial repayment to the families whose ancestors literally built the entire country on pillaged labor. In Germany, saying the Holocaust never happened is an extremist position (actually punishable by law there). In America, saying that modern policing grew out of slave patrols is viewed by some as an extremist position, and tearing down a Confederate flag can actually get you arrested.
The idea that the show will attempt to display “a nation in which slavery remains legal and has evolved into a modern institution” is almost laughable in a country in which mass incarceration exists as exactly that. In America, a nation with 5% of the world’s population, and about 22% of the world’s prisoners, many of whom are people of color, how exactly is the modernization and industrialization of slavery some kind of crazy, artistic risk? What we’ve learned from Ava DuVernay’s brilliant documentary 13TH, which connected slavery to our current system of over-incarceration of black bodies, is that slavery was never truly outlawed, it was just given a loophole where blacks are incarcerated at disproportionate levels, and there are now more black men in jail than there were black folks enslaved in 1850. If slavery is America’s original sin, willful negligence is America’s ongoing sin.
Stick to buttfucking how-tos, Teen Vogue.
Seriously.
Nothin’ wrong with that drug war! It’s all about racism!
Sshhh. We like to keep the elephant in the room under rebel flag.
and based on what we know about the show so far, Confederate doesn’t have the feeling of any of that. It feels like a gratuitous and pointless exploitation of our current racial divide, and something that will likely lack nuance and thoughtfulness. In truth, my reaction to this news was simply that Confederate may be the most unnecessary series ever created.
In truth, my reaction to this statement is that Lincoln Blades may be the most unnecessary human ever created.
Now I feel bad for my pointless exploitation of Lincoln Blades. I will, from now on, only exploit him.
Hell, it’s Weiss and Benioff, neither of them really ‘do’ nuance or thoughtfulness.
And there definitely hasn’t been any financial repayment to the families whose ancestorsliterally built the entire country on pillaged labor.
That was supposed to be bold, not blue. Blue is the new bold.
Methinks the author might throw a hissy fit if they ever did that honesty, i.e. a lot of white people will be getting cheques from the government. Hell, Obama was connected to slavery through his white side, not his black.
Justice demands that we solely focus on the wrongs inflicted on certain groups and not other groups in history. It’s not hypocrisy to dole out justice on the basis of skin color when I do it. I’ll get it right this time.
Well, in their defense, their target audience is teenagers. And by default teenagers are dumb and don’t have a clue about history. I like Glenn Reynold’s idea that some of us should sell off our monocle mines and buy some magazines.
In America, saying that modern policing grew out of slave patrols is viewed by some as an extremist position, and tearing down a Confederate flag can actually get you arrested.
Uh, because the first statement is entirely incorrect and the second is destruction of property.
Well, it actually is sorta true. (Skip down to p. 4) It would be more accurate to say that in America, modern policing in the South grew out of slave patrols and in the North grew out of the Keeping the Drunken Irish in Line Squads.
My point is more that what we call ‘modern policing’ grew out of the concept developed by the British, primarily in northern urban centers in the United States. ‘Modern policing’ at its core is not based on, nor it did magically ‘grow out’ of slave patrols, which is what the author suggests.
If the author instead said something along the lines of how earlier slave patrols had an influence on how police in the south later operated, that’d be a factually correct statement. But they just couldn’t help giving edgy teenagers a new stupid talking point.
That’s a given.
The whole idea of explicitly race-based reparations is a bit screwy to me because:
– A huge portion of white people in America today are descended from immigrants who came here after slavery had ended
– Even among the descendents of white people who were around during slavery, not all of them owned or rented slaves
– Freed black people sometimes owned black slaves themselves
It gets even more muddled up when you consider all the racial intermingling that has been going on. It seems like “you’re black? here’s your check” is a pretty sloppy way of making amends for slavery (not that you can really make amends for something that happened generations ago and nobody who actually participated is alive anymore).
New Zealand media confused. Killer in “mass*” shooting didn’t have license but owned guns anyway:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11896052
tl; dr version: man in NZ shoots three, killing two. Gets into shoot out with cops, house catches fire and he dies. Buried in the story:
” Patterson liked guns despite friends saying he did not have a licence and was not a hunter. Neighbours would often hear him shooting in his backyard.
“He just shot in his back lawn by the sounds of it, you could hear it from here, you could hear it from everywhere,” Walters said. “They were big guns. we’re talking automatics, semi-automatics, big calibres. They sounded like cannons, you could hear them going off with, like, 16 rounds.”
*NZ has a small population so mass killing is a relative term.
They sounded like cannons, you could hear them going off with, like, 16 rounds.
And 30 goddamn dicks!
Only one who has never heard a cannon would say that small arms fire sounds like a cannon.
And 16 rounds?!?!
That’s not very many.
And automatics and semi-automatics.
I doubt the author knows the difference between the two.
Big calibers? I have never heard anyone familiar with firearms ever refer to large bore rifles as big calibers.
You’ve got to remember that we’re dealing with people who think a .223 Remington is some kind of heat-seeking, nuclear warhead-tippped Armageddon device.
I don’t know where to draw the line, but I would consider any rifle round over 30 caliber (because that’s the most common medium bore rifle round) to be large bore. There would have to be disqualifiers though. I.e. a .357 lever action rifle wouldn’t be large bore because it’s a pistol round. However a .375 H&H Is a large bore because it’s a rifle round.
A couple of years ago I heard a nearby shooting. A bunch of other aural witnesses naturally gathered to discuss the matter. One of them said, “I wonder what kind of gun that was? It sounded like an AK-47, or something.”
I replied, as levelly as I could, “It was a semi-auto handgun, probably 9mm.” Of course, what I was thinking was, “This is the South Side of Chicago, you dipshit, not motherfucking Grozny.”
It’s funny. My wife is very much anti-gun (which makes my gun cabinet feel very awkward indeed) but grew up in rural east Texas. So when there’s a shooting in the nearby public housing projects, she’ll calmly pause a second and then say something like, “…oh, just Black Cats,” or “Two shots, then three. Definitely a pistol.”
The Democrats are a lost cause.
*TW: Ted Rall
I’ll take ways to turn a thriving economy into a depression for $500, Alex.
Lol wut?
You don’t want to know what kind of tax reform she has in mind…
And whose wasteful spending.
Goddammit people, I hate Atlas Shrugged, stop making it real.
I worked while learning a valuable traffic for many years before I ever eclipsed 25 dollars an hour. What motivation would anyone have to learn a skill useful to the economy of they could just go get a WPA job for 25 an hour. The answer is none.
trade, not traffic
I figured you learned how to traffic in orphan labor.
Wow, I thought I had read a lot of philosophy, but I never heard of the logical axiom that says that being the only nation to do something means it’s 100 percent wrong and must be changed right away.
For some reason the awesome power of being a boss doesn’t drive people to being bosses. If the purveyors of this BS believed it they would remove barriers so anyone can start their own business, yet they somehow always do the opposite.
Font nerds claim another scalp.
Oh Wow, Pakistan has an excuse to go apeshit. Let’s watch that happen over a corrupt Pakistini official because that’s a new thing that has never happened before.
You couldn’t link to a text version of the story?
This man could have been the Libertarian candidate for President, but you assholes had to fuck it all up.
He was my first choice precisely for his knack to tap into the zeitgeist like that. I had this playing on low volume as I watched that. Sounds like him and a nice match.
Come on! The video literally starts with “America is not ready.” We all knew he couldn’t win….
…last year.
OH MY GOD! Even top comments aren’t trash!
America will never be awesome enough to have him!
Hey, I had no influence on the LP in the 2016 election. If I could make McAfee God Emperor of Canada I would.
Only one who has never heard a cannon would say that small arms fire sounds like a cannon.
I had a neighbor (he moved) who was seriously into black powder shooting. It sounded like he was shooting a goddam cannon up there.
Go listen to a cannon Brooks, and you will change your mind. There is a lot of difference between a cannon’s boom and a rifle’s crack.
A massive new WPA-like program, in which the federal government hires millions of Americans to rebuild our crumbled infrastructure, would create jobs. A $25/hour minimum wage — that’s about what it would be if raises had kept up with inflation — would guarantee that a full-time job yields full-time pay. Abolishing America’s inhuman, archaic “at-will” employment, which gives employers the right to fire you without a good reason, would restore balance to labor-management relations. The U.S. is the only nation with at-will.
CARAMBA!
I’m a bit dismayed that both the left and the right fall into this canard about “creating jobs”. Yes, people starting businesses and hiring people is essential to the economy, but that’s not what they’re talking about. They’re talking about government-funded busy-work.
Shit, *I* can come up with a great plan to create jobs – ban computers. Think of all the jobs they destroyed! If we got rid of them, banks would have to hire an army of people to sit at desks and make calculations with a pencil and paper.
Let’s outlaw refrigerators too. Did you know that before refrigerators, people had to keep their perishable foods on a block of ice, which had to be delivered daily by a highly-paid individual called an ice man? Even a small town would employ quite a few ice men. Let’s bring back those jobs!
Let’s ban pesticides, herbicides, GMOs, and anything else that makes agriculture more efficient. After all, there would be more jobs if we brought down the productivity of the farming sector.
/sarcasm
Efficiency is what makes us rich, not the total number of jobs.
You’re correct, Ludditism is a thoroughly discredited ideology
It is possible to create jobs but only by destroying wealth.
broken windows, etc
America’s inhuman, archaic “at-will” employment, which gives employers the right to fire you without a good reason
“I don’t need/want you here, anymore,” is a good reason.
There is a lot of difference between a cannon’s boom and a rifle’s crack.
There’s a lot of difference between a black powder rifle with a bore you can stick your thumb in, and a 9mm Beretta or Glock.
Why was there no Thicc Thursday? This site is really going down hill.
thicc?
thicc?
Fat≠thicc, CPRM.
Not fat, elephantitis! It’s a disease SHITLORD! Check your privilege!
I was going to go with diabetes, but you’re probably right.
I specifically googled elephanitis skinny woman, just to shit with you, so I am right. HA!
That may have been wrong of me. I blame the beer.
Drink!
No wait. This crowd, don’t drink!
Drink? I done drunk.
building a chat bot/Turing machine
I think the principles involved in a chess-playing program could be applied to a chat bot. Conversation both boil down to input and output in a feedback loop.
My understanding of chess program is that it work by compiling all the possible moves a picking the best one according to a set of rules such as “don’t expose pieces” and “move pawns ahead”. Once it selects a move, it predicts the human’s move by playing as the human and the cycle repeats. It will look ahead different numbers of moves according to the difficulty setting. The reason a program can beat a human is because the it systematically searches hundreds of possible moves whereas even the best players may only consider a few dozen.
Now suppose we apply these principles to a chat bot. When the chat bot receives a message, it first compiles all the possible responses based on a database of human-human conversations sorta like the Terminator: https://i.stack.imgur.com/wvP0l.jpg
That is, it would search for statements containing the same words as the input and then compile the responses. It would then create a response using the words common to the human responses.
Now here’s the trick- every conversation the chat bot has gets added to the conversation database. In this way, the chat bot can “learn” new responses.
If you wanted to speed the process up, you could just let two seasoned chat bots exchange a few million words with each other. I wonder what the result would be. I’ll post a video of that next.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpw_FB2QrjQ
Those robots got had some deep thoughts.
So, instead, I present a convergence of Thicc and Derp in link form.
Amanda Marcotte on Charlie Gard
http://www.salon.com/2017/07/27/watch-is-the-right-to-die-the-ultimate-freedom-did-charlie-gards-parents-get-justice/
long story short: mercy killing is merciful! pay no attention to the parental rights behind the curtain!
and not letting Charlie go home for his last days? What kind of mercy is that? grrrr, this makes me so angry. When my son had to have surgery at 18 months I was so grateful it was comparatively easy compared to the kids we saw at the Children’s hospital. I can’t even imagine having to be there, knowing my child was dying, and then not allowed to take him home for his last couple of days, but sent to some strange place to be tended by strangers (it’s a fucking hospice, I doubt set up for babies anyway). WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE? HE’S DYING YOU MONSTERS.
I’m dead serious. If the state decided to murder my child (as the state has done in this story) I would be murdering representatives of the state. Tic for tack. easy peasy. I wouldn’t feel the least bit of remorse.
I felt the UK was lucky they banned guns…maybe not lucky, just planning ahead for when they shit on their citizens.
planning ahead.
a totalitarian government can’t exist with an armed population. disarmament is a means to an end
When the fall comes, what’s the secret handshake I can give to you gun guys to prove I supported you? Me, personally, I’ve never fired a gun, have no interest in doing so. But I believe in the A2, so I better get a secret handshake.
Right below is a quote from alexander Solzhenitsyn. it makes no mention of guns.
And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.
Why The Persians Should Be The Good Guys In ‘300’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naPUYTKEMc8
I larfed.
The way he uses ‘federal government’, I don’t think he knows what that means.
Another teacher-student relationship
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07/26/female-physics-teacher-28-banned-drunken-sex-pupil-plane-toilet/
Not only did they have sex, but it was unprotected sex.