Hey, here we are at the end of another week. And it can’t come soon enough for the Astros, who got swept by the lowly Chicago White Sox after shitting the bed in the ninth last night. OK, guys…get your collective head out of your collective ass and stop this nonsense. Elsewhere, in games with announced Glibs interest, the Nats won, the Yanks lost, the Cards (welcome to the party) won, the Twinks won, the Orioles won (and inched closer back to .500 ball) and the BIG RED MACHINE won.
Hope that satisfies everybody. If I left you out, feel free to excoriate me in the comments.
Elsewhere, the EPL starts today, and I can look forward to early Saturdays and Sundays for the foreseeable future, which I’m sure just thrills Banjos and our kids. And at Quail Hollow, the rains never came…and neither did the hotness of Spieth’s putter which helped propel him to the British Open a few weeks ago. 5 back after the first round isn’t impossible. But in a field this deep it won’t be easy. Phil Mickelson wishes he’d have stayed at home and John Daly had a good round going until he triple-bogeyed the last hole. Maybe somebody swapped out his vodka bottle, accidentally giving him water. Shame on them.
That’s it for sports. Well, for the update anyway. I think they’re already on the course in Charlotte. I’ll know when I turn on the TV after I finish with the rest of…the links!
You want to know who else was sexist as shit? Apparently The Simpsons’ Matt Groenig. Hoo-boy, I can’t wait to see the reactions when they see all of the gay humor in the first few seasons. Also, who the hell colors their hair purple in their 50’s or 60s? (TW: Jezebel)
Talk about your fresh-faced politician. Hey, can he run on “let’s leave the kids out of politics at the debates” and pretty much say whatever he wants? Either way, he’d be better off if he focused his energies on something more productive than lording over a bunch of other people. Also, he looks like he’s prepping for a “fat man in a little coat” skit with that jacket. Don’t you even haberdash, bro?
You think our political system is fucked up? It could always be worse. Oh Argentina. The country full of Brazilians that speak Spanish but think they’re Italian. (Except for the ones that know they’re Nazis. They’re there too.)
Feds tell Cook County, IL not so fast, my friend on their immoral, and likely illegal, soda tax. Looks like women and children actually are the hardest hit.
Looks like I’ve found the locale for the next Glibs Texas meetup. I think this will go over well with everybody involved. Well…almost everybody.
And the last story is about the person with the biggest freaking balls in American politics. (TL;DR: We shit the bed, now you lay down in it.) Un-fucking-believable.
The theme for the week reaches its climax…
I’ll be on the golf course today after a lengthy layoff. I hope each of you has the chance to do something that makes you happy as well. Get out there and make today great!
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640 responses to “Friday Morning Links”
“I want to thank him because we’re trying to cut down our payroll, and as far as I’m concerned I’m very thankful that he let go a large number of people because now we have a smaller payroll,” Trump said. “There’s no real reason for them to go back. I greatly appreciate the fact that we’ve been able to cut our payroll of the United States. We’re going to save a lot of money.”
Couldn’t he have just done that on his own?
You know how hard it is to fire a Civil Servant?
I propose they just take em behind the building and shoot em. It’s cleaner that way.
*shoots PieInTheSky*
It was self defense.
Meh. I’m an ex-fedgov employee and currently a defense contractor. You gotta admit…. we kinda have it coming….
“a bunch of mindless jerks who’ll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes,”
Actually they’ll be fed into woodchippers, not up against the wall.
Up against the wall, fedgov worker
worker who has done so little well
34 and watching porn at your desk
Just cashin in those checks with bennies swell
Well done Brett. A little Jerry Jeff Walker. Of course, now I’ll have that classic in my head all day.
I wouldn’t try it, Romanians have a history of very effectively murdering civil servants.
I propose they just take em behind the building and shoot em. It’s cleaner that way.
Push them down a flight of stairs. It’s more entertaining and it looks like it was an accident.
You would have had a brilliant career history with the 1970s Philadelphia Police Department.
Does he have the requisite bomb-dropping skills.
Sometimes you gotta think outside the box. Sure, he could have started the process of firing some of these career leeches. That process would probably wrap up around 2019 if he’s lucky. But this is even better. It exposes the true colors of everybody involved. And it shows how useless most of those jobs really are in the first place.
Every member of the government is absolutely critical. If even one member of the US Indian Arts and Crafts Board is fired then our nation immediately devolves into an anarchic shithole
If anything we must needs double the Raisin board, Maybe triple the blueberry commision
Listen, mister.. If you think I’m willing to live without the Council on Environmental Policy, Indian Arts & Crafts Board, Institute of Peace, Inter-American Foundation, Interagency Alternative Dispute Resolution Working Group, President’s Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition, U.S. Botanic Garden, U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, Administrative Conference of the United States or Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, YOU’VE GOT ANOTHER THING COMING.
this is hilarious.
OT Sloop. But if you are reporting the GSPN results I humbly beseech thee to add the Mariners.
They’re still getting paid.
They’re just getting moved to different assignments, and the comment was entirely tongue-in-cheek.
It’s amazing that things like the Daily Show would be losing viewers during a Trump admin, but when the president has a sense of humor, and his political foes have sticks up their bums…
Seems like most people think that because they were dismissed by Putin, they’re out of a job entirely. What will happen is they’ll be shipped back to DC for a year or two, put in some bureau doing nonsense work, until another post opens up overseas. It’s actually created more useless bureaucrats doing useless jobs.
There are a significant number of foreign nationals that we were paying that will lose their jobs and save some amount of money.
/very small percentage of one drop in a really big fucking bucket.
My wife was gobsmacked. I didn’t say it, but all I could think was, “Honey, you were the target audience for that remark, and the smoke coming out of your ears was the intended effect.”
But overseas allowances/duty pay, etc?
The pic on the front. you guys must be desperate to get John here.
sloppy likes what sloopy likes.
The cannabilism talk from yesterday must have gotten him revved up…
I thought sloopy was helping me diet – see that, skip breakfast.
Yes but replacing it with beer still means calories
That one will take whisky, Pie.
+1 paleo.
Ardbeg was the drink of the discerning neolithic hunter
I’ve never had it – is it worth the $$?
Depends if you like em real peaty, which as it happens I do. I like Ardbeg, and even if on the pricey side of a good price-to-quality ratio, I occasionally buy it, but then again most decent Islay stuff is pricey. I don’t know what the price is in the frozen wastelands, I usually find occasional discounts which makes it good. I can get the 10 now for 50 of your American fiat, which I find decent. I can get the Uigedal which I love for 72 of the same. Both worth it for me. Though I do spend to much relative to my income on scotch and wine.
Thanks. I’m a big fan of Highland Park 12, but I’m always game for trying something new.
Its like drinking peat…I LOVE IT!
Ardbeg (goes to liquor cabinet, checks) 10-year, is about the best quality/price ratio there is in smoky Scotch. Well, that and Laphroaig. You’d better like smoke and seaweed though in your Scotch.
I’ve seen Ardbeg at 40-ish around here. (Check’s Spec’s website, which looks like it went through a revamp). $46. 41 for Laphroaig 10.
Cheaper than I expected. I like Laphroig as well. I’ll check my local for the Ardberg.
On behalf of my liver, I thank you gentlemen for the advice.
You could also check if there’s a bar in your area that does either whiskey tastings or sells scotch by the flight. That’s how I figured out my preferences.
If there’s a forgotten bottle of Ardbeg “Perpetuum” on the shelves, BUY IT. BUY IT NOW.
NA,
How’re the flavors on Perpetuum to say, Supernova, Ardbog (not a typo), Day, or Uigedail?
Ardbog is about the finest Scotch I’ve ever tried.
Raven, I just spent a lovely evening here, and discovered that I like almost everything! Particularly the 26 year old Highland they gave me.
It’s nice to have a variety on hand, though. I tend to get in ruts and need to try new things.
*Checks Tundra’s link. Collapses in envy*
I prefer less peat so my fav of the last few years has been Jura. Wife prefers Laphroaig. We both like Lagavulin but its more pricey.
You’d better like smoke and seaweed though in your Scotch.
That’s pretty funny. I’ve characterized Bruichladdich as “kelpy”. Glad I’m not the only one who gets it.
Scotch — Like drinking cheap bourbon out of a dirty ash-tray.
Mmm… Whisky pie…
*drools*
the Astros, who got swept by the
lowlyrebuilding Chicago White Sox*sniff, sniff*
Smells like 2005.
I blame you and all your “the Astros will win because X has-been is pitching for the Sox tonight” Serbian Jew Double-bluffing this week.
With the clubhouse in a funk because no moves at deadline, the front office has got to be rethinking making a move for Verlander; especially if they continue to play like the past week.
That. You just got swept by a team that went either 4-24 or 5-23 before your series. You have a problem. What a time for Giles to shit the bed.
Though adding Verlander won’t help them score more than 1 or 2 runs vs guys with 6+ ERAs. Seriously, WTF?
It might help them get their heads back in the game however.
Doubt that Crane is going to spend the money to get Verlander, either in prospects or just the sheer 63 million left on the dude’s contract. And the price for him (or rather, the amount of $$$ Chicago is willing to eat) goes higher and higher every 8.0 IP/1 ER performance he has, and every “worse game this season” the Astros’ starting pitchers have.
Meanwhile the Dodgers got Darvish and continue to roll.
Giles threw an 98 mph pitch right where he wanted – sometimes an up and coming young star is just good enough to hit it. Not like the guy walked the bases loaded and then hit a guy.
It could be worse. Your team could have been shut out by Marco fucking Estrada, who has been a human Jugs machine this season.
You know who else is a Human Jugs Machine?
Christina?
This lady?
Sproinks!
Fernandez was known for interventionist policies and trade restrictions during her two terms in office from 2007 to 2015, as well as generous welfare spending.
So crazy it might just work.
“Looks like I’ve found the locale for the next Glibs Texas meetup. I think this will go over well with everybody involved. Well…almost everybody.” this just proves everything the social justice crowd complains about. This shows the oppression in US society. Now we see the violence inherent in the system
That being said probably would all around
#23 was the best
Yeah, pretty much
““These animals are roughly handled and put into alcohol…”
But enough about the customers.
Maybe I’m getting old. The tits were a “meh” for me, but when I heard live fish shots, I was instantly sold.
And it’s opening just as I leave Texas too. Damn.
I see no ladies of color in that lineup. Is that exclusionary, or would a black girl in lingerie be exploitative? The answer is: yes!
Better look again, she was light-skinneded, but definitely a black girl.
On right, with painted on chest.
Debate Emerges After Native American Woman Tells Black Woman to ‘Keep Hands Off Our Culture’
http://atlantablackstar.com/2017/08/09/debate-emerges-native-american-woman-tells-black-woman-keep-hands-off-culture/
Cripple fight (by cripple I meant SJW if you though something else you are a filthy racist)
You trying to tell me cripples can’t fight, shitlord? Why you gotta other the wheelchair-bound? Why?
Actually back alley cripple fight are quite the things in Romania. It is as sad as it is amusing. Don’t mock my culture
I know for a fact that retarded cripples can get black belts in TKD and in Bujinkan Ninjutsu. That’s right. Retarded crippled NINJAS
Explains the loans they were making.
*prolonged ovation*
Looking at the comments black people were the original Native Americans. They also make the argument that black people are the original people so everything is derived from them and their heritage.
This is factually incorrect. Dacians invented everything, culture, civilization, technology, and you jealous asshole stole it from us . STOLE IT LIKE DIRTY THIEVES!
Tricknology!
Are those the “WE WUZ KANGZ AND SHIT” people I’ve been hearing about?
Yes
WE WUZ CLOVIS PEOPLE N SHIT.
…But yes, basically. Academic afrocentrists at least try to make arguments based on vague historical records. Internet afrocentrists scream about how every cultural and scientific achievement of any other group was actually made by black people.
What about the balkins fossils?
Also, if Person A and Person B have a common ancestor (Person C) 100,000 years ago, Person B has no more claim on anything derived from the works of Person C than Person A, even by the SocJus calculus. And Less so on the works of Person D, who is ancestor to Person A from 50,000 years ago.
Also, Cultural Appropriation and assertions to exclusive ownership of culture are bullshit, so this rambling is moot.
Fuck it. *Donates all worldly possessions to single celled amoeba*
Why Harry Ried?
Stop stealing my achievements. Are you descended from dacians or getae? I didn’t think so.
Keep telling yourself the Dacians invented anything other than the Falx.
Someday you might believe it.
there was also a type of wall.
Give us back your Latin language base, barbarian, and we’ll consider it.
Too bad they didn’t do anything with it.
“Michael Huck Harrison · Destroyer at Self-Employed
Once again, the real native Americans were black people from Africa… They migrated to that piece of the land while the land masses were still connected (Pangea & Gondwanaland). The other so callled native Americans crossed the Barrien Strait into the America’s during the “Ice Age” and black folks were waiting on them…. The shit is so deep and that’s why people hate our guts! We are the original people of this earth… It’s the same thing in Europe, Asia, Antartica and Australia…. This is FACTS and the caucasians scientists know the TRUTH!”
Yeh-k bro. Cool story.
Also, the Indian (I’m calling them that for kicks) looks like she pounds on the Coco Chanel and looks European so…..KEEP HANDS OFF WHITE CULTURE.
Anatomically modern humans didn’t exist when the supercontinents were around.
These people have to be trolling. Anything else is too depressing.
No, they really are that ignorant and really do believe that nonsense.
Mammals weren’t around FFS
They had mammals back then, just not primates.
Oh man, you haven’t dove into the font of derp that is internet afrocentricism. Yes, these people are legitimate. The TL;DR version is “everything worthy of achievement done by the human race was actually done by blacks, and racist whiteys have rewritten history to cover it up.”
Shush! Do not give away the secrets of our tricknology!
damnit
Using the “We Was Kings” argument.
Hey Cheyanne, how about you stop appropriating whities makeup culture?
Seriously, ease up, it’s too much.
It’s stupid all the way down*
*Appropriated joke from Native American culture. Sorry, guys
Really random question – How big of crew compliment did an English exploratory expedition of the mid-1600s tend to have?
wiki says Drake had 164 men
That’s a lot of seamen.
They also spent a lot of their time on the poop deck.
*narrows gaze at both of ye*
How many limes for that many men for a trip that long?
Standardized scurvy prevention wasn’t a thing until the late 1700s. Besides a few off-hand accounts the connection between citrus fruits and curing scurvy wasn’t really widely publicized until the 1740s.
It would really depend on how far they were going and what they were planning on doing (“exploring” was kind of a fuzzy term in those days, you know?) A quick jaunt across to the Caribbean in a single pinnace might have only 20-25.
Oh for Fuck’s sake.
“We’re going to tax sodie-pop.”
“OK, but you have to make sure people on food welfare don’t get charged the tax.”
“No problem, we’ll just implement a bunch of complicated shit to make sure only SOME people are taxed.”
This must be that much-touted efficiency of government that I keep hearing so much about.
I got it. How about we only tax the thin, rich people?
Sounds brilliant. However, since the thin, rich people probably aren’t buying pop that much, we’ll have to mandate a minimum pop purchase with every grocery purchase, with a penalty tax if you don’t reach the minimum.
Saw a similar tirade against poor people having to pay cigarette tax. They’re smoking instead of eating!
Are these the same people who cry bloody murder if a lawmaker proposes limiting the items that can be purchased with an EBT card?
yyyyyyyyep
St. Hillary
http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/07/rebranded-hillary-clinton-sets-her-sights-on-the-pulpit/
I know she’s corrupt, but is she corrupt enough to become Pope?
She’s Methodist.
Who cares? There’s an awful lot of history that shows all you really need to be Pope is to be connected, cut throat, corrupt.
And a Catholic male.
Other than that, there have been good Popes, bad ones, and in-between ones.
Isn’t one commie Pope enough?
That’s great. She can still tell people what to do, and feel powerful, but not hold my fate in her hands. God bless.
*falls out of chair, has aneurysm*
*falls out of chair, has aneurysm*
Hey, just like Hillary!
Do I get my ordination now?
Here you go.
You bet, Pastor!
She’s really named Shill Lady?
Has to be a joke
She and Shadynasty run a jazz club.
She’s an insane sociopath addicted to the public eye.
Clinton asked Shillady not to write about her desire to be a pastor,
When I was glancing over comment, I honestly did think I say “Clinton asked Shadilay not to…”
A pastor of the Church of Kek. Now that would be hilarious.
“Do you see the LIGHT!?”
Jesus H. Tapdancing Christ, I have seen the light!
Church of Satan? Actually nevermind satanists are much better people than her.
Strong for a Moment Like This: The Daily Devotions Of Hillary Rodham Clinton
Sounds like she’s talking about her daily bowel movements.
Based on the normal look on her face, I’m guessing she doesn’t have but weekly bowel movements… and that those are less than satisfying.
Will she be pastor of a black church?
It’s amazing more people don’t make fun of her for that.
YouTube has crap sound quality, but the original 12″ of the dub sounds huge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7V5Ccjc-9A
I never liked “dub” versions
*muffled shriek*
That’s shreek under there? Serves him right.
Meetup place? I figured it was the restaurant in Waco where the cops gunned down those bikers.
No one wants to go to Waco. No one.
Au contraire.
What about Waco?
Except all those people buying the Gainses’ houses. How many do you figure get there, stay for six months, and go somewhere else?
I’m gonna go with all of them. Waco is a complete cultural dead end.
It looks like it was really something, back in the 30s. All I got.
Chipperbot, the Dr. Pepper museum is oddly libertarian, and worth an hour or two. Very good ‘old-tyme’ soda fountain Dr. Peppers, built by a soda jock, available in the gift shop too.
Other than that…? You’re only about 90 minutes or so from Austin.
The kolache destination of West, TX is not far away.
I’ll be in Waco a week from Tuesday to meet with one of my vendors.
Why Donald Trump Needs Muslim Women
What about non brown Muslim women?
“demonization of Muslim and brown others” – brown others? Like Brown Walkers or something?
I think it’s like irregular Oreos or something.
Like Brown Walkers or something?
Shitter is coming.
So now we need a Trailer Park Boys GoT mashup.
Ricky, King of The North
“has been labeled an anti-Muslim extremist by the Southern Poverty Law Center”
Wouldn’t it be easier if they just label who isn’t an “anti-Muslim extremist” or whatever?
That’s a living and breathing thing, ever mutating, on the whims of whomever holds the power to attack the heretics…
““It’s not like I’m living in fear or anything,” Manning says. “I’m so glad to be out and about and walking around.” Here, Manning in a Norma Kamali swimsuit.Photographed by Annie Leibovitz, Vogue, September 2017”
http://www.vogue.com/article/chelsea-manning-vogue-interview-september-issue-2017
Manning will be the first centerfold in Woke Playperson magazine.
Won’t have to worry about the Male Gaze.
Everyone only buys it for the articles. And the literal pop-up ads.
Jesus, that dude looks ugly in a women’s bathing suit.
You’d think glamour models from decades ago who graced the pages of Vogue would be calling their offices and begging them to stop this nonsense. Vogue is where pretty women get shown, not this shit.
Welcome to the new word Sloopy!
^^Photo spreads like this is why Trump will win again in 2020.^^
Keep pushing the narrative. Not only did you choose a weird-ass tranny to shove in people’s faces, you chose one that’s a fucking traitor who dumped shitloads of classified info for no reason and likely got people killed.
Keep picking these people as heroes, lefties. And keep wondering why the right’s majority gets bigger and bigger.
It never fails to annoy me when dolts try to link Manning to Snowden, as if they were the same.
It’s pure politics. Manning isn’t a model or celebrity, or good example of anything.
https://twitter.com/andrealoko_/status/895874164287954946
Spot on.
I told someone at work who thinks Trump will be impeached any day now to be prepared for 8 years of Trump. Who the hell is going to run against him, Elizabeth Warren? (Biden was The most plausible name we could come up with)
If the Dems unfuck their heads and nominate Jim Webb, they will win handily IMO
To steal from Dennis Miller, Jim Webb got 1% more of the Democrat vote than I did, and I didn’t run. I’ve liked the irascible old coot ever since I read, “Fields of Fire,” but he’s 71 now. He’d be 74 by 2020. He’s done.
Damn he looks good for 71.
Since Webb is too old, perhaps John Kasich?
Kasich looks like dried up old used bubblegum.
I think that’s kind of the problem right now. Anyone in the Democratic orbit who would have a snowball’s chance in hell in the general election wouldn’t stand a snowball’s chance in hell during the primaries.
If
That’s a big one.
Oh lord, please please please let this happen. That senile idiot would embarrass himself and his party in a way we can’t even imagine. Remember, this is the guy whose home defense advice was “go out on the balcony and fire two blasts from your double-barrel shotgun” or alternatively, “fire your shotgun through the front door”.
Come here and let uncle Biden hugs ya!
Not clicking.
He probably saved his anal tips for Teen Vogue.
*applauds whilst vomiting*
Google cancels staff meeting after Gamergate-style attack on employees
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/10/google-cancels-meeting-james-damore-memo-alt-right-gamergate?CMP=share_btn_tw
Jesus they still milking this gamergate crap
The media is trying to spin it like only the alt right doesn’t agree with them during the guy. I’ve talked to people across the spectrum who think it was crap.
*firing not during damn autocorrect.
Especially since, despite the accusations, no actual attacks or harrassment were ever actually tied to gemergate. (There were third party trolls that were attributed to the group, but had no record of even using the tag, let alone being sympathetic.)
Wasn’t some of the so-called “abuse” manufactured and self-inflicted in order to gain sympathy points?
And money. Don’t forget the sympathy Patreon Patrons.
Honestly like 99% of this crap, if these so called activists wanted to help they would just ignore it. Now one would have heard of the google manifesto and no one would be exposed to harmless stereotypes.
Like the alt right was probably 100 guys in basements until the left media brought it to the attention of the world due to their constant search for something to demonize.
So Google is admitting that their diversity policies have utterly failed and managed to create a hostile working environment for women, minorities, AND white men?
Failed? Heck, aren’t they outright discriminatory and hence illegal (and I argue immoral)? I mean, I know whypippo have to take it because privilege, but the law is the law, no?
but the law is the law, no?
HAHAHA
They are only discriminating against white males and the occasional Asian male. It is well known that it is not possible to discriminate against white males, and as far as the Asians, well, they are Asians so fuck them.
DOJ to Google: “I Know NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
I’m a little bit baffled about why Asian-Americans tend to vote blue so consistently. First, Democrat hero FDR put Japanese people in concentration camps. Nowadays, Asians are being discriminated against by the “affirmative action” policies of the Left.
I think this is precisely what these policies exist to create: chaos.
“The leak of screenshots to Breitbart suggests that at least some current Google employees may be participating in the campaign. ”
Or it’s the Russians. How many boogeymen can we have a one time? Breitbart, Russia, Kim Jung whoever. It’s hard to keep them straight.
Stick to one narrative!
That’s it for sports.
No, not really.
The Biscuit (QB rating 103) wasted Turkey Boy (QB rating: zero).
Mallett continues to suck, but scoring on the Purple Birds appears to be a challenge so it may not matter.
*confused face*
Highlights from a real sport. SP is already getting herself into Full Game Rage condition and will be sharp by the regular season opening day.
I can barely keep up with the fake sportsball stuff.
What about real tennis?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5gWLtHYn9w&t=4s
FAKE NEWS!
And Nadal lost last night. Federer is getting back to #1 even sooner than I would have thought. (I think it could happen next week in Cincinnati.)
Well, if WWIII breaks out, I think we know whose military will be the first to be destroyed.
We should invade just for shits and giggles.
There was an Aussie unit at Al Udeid when I was over there. They specialize in tits and jiggles.
It’s sad. With this kind of crap taking place in the West we almost need a WWIII to wake people up to how this is utter stupidity. When people see that all women or mixed-sex units get absolutely destroyed compared to all male units when facing a traditional military, maybe they’ll stop and think “Yeah, women on the front lines might be a FUCKING STUPID thing to do.” But, because we aren’t fighting a traditional enemy, and thanks to MAD we likely never again will, this kind of crap is seen as good.
Another way to guarantee women get raped is have them on the front lines and then get captured.
This.
Fighting half-literate and inbred third world peasants has, and will continue to, make Western militaries complacent and weak. Say what you will about 20th century communists at least they put up a good fight.
“Whereas what we have here? A bunch of fig-eaters wearing towels on their heads, trying to find reverse in a Soviet tank. This is not a worthy adversary.”
When I think of piety, Hillary has it.
Actually, she has always had that fanatical Joan of Arc stare, which I have found creepy as all get-out since she first slithered onto the national stage.
That’s not a stare. That’s a seizure.
Botox, maybe?
It’s the flu!
Oh we’re shaking over here in PatriarchyLand
How Do I Contain My Rage at the Patriarchy?
I say let it out.
You have to mop it then.
These are the things we can do without, come on. I’m talking to you, come on.
“Rage gets a bad rap in bourgeois thought. In June, after a gunman opened fire on a group of Republican congressmen during their baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia, pundits cluckingly deplored all the anger out there, as if it were weird that Americans would be mad at the GOP for trying to take away our health care.”
What an asshole.
The left should really stop promoting violence. They are not going to like the end result.
They think they will, though. That’s what’s funny about it – they honestly think armed conflict with the kind of people who have personal arsenals will go well for them.
They don’t care about this world they will get into heaven, I mean the right side of history.
I’m not even particularly well armed, and with the arsenals on my parent’s community (and likely of our neighbors on the mountain too, and a little borrowing of heavy equipment from the nearby construction company, I could interdict a huge swath of state forest and private lands with less than 100 men, and the remnants of the SJW military would pay in gallons of blood to take back that area. I’ve even mapped it out a few times, to know where my initial and 3 fall back positions would be in each area, and the likely number of people I’d need to assist me in holding the area. The biggest problem would be getting food, since there aren’t many traditional farms very close to the immediate area I’d secure, but if we controlled that swath of land, we could house farmer families and secure them in exchange for food.
On past performance, they’ll go with bombs, rather than shooting it out. BLM zealots aside. That, and they think the cops’ll shoot you for them.
The funny part is that it never occurs to her that the rage might end up a two-way street. Here’s a picuture of Liza Featherstone. Does she really delude herself into thinking she has the wherewithal to hold her own against a mob of deplorables?
Way to perpetuate the stereotype that black women can’t control their emotions and overly aggressive. This author sounds like a total shitlord!
Um, I am developing a rule at work that I don’t accept black female clients. I guess that makes me racist, but so far most of them are 1. unreasonable 2. out of control 3. think their emotion can sway everyone else around them. So yeah, they don’t make good clients.
Here’s the funny thing: A ‘public accommodation’ like a bakery has to take all comers no matter what but put out a shingle like a lawyer and you can say no thanks to any yokel who walks in your doors. I guess it’s storefront = FYTW.
It’s funny…. I’ve never thought about it until now, but in the thousands of people I’ve talked to in the course of my work (clients, prospective clients, dispatchers, drivers, dock managers, etc), I don’t think any of them have been black women. Lots of Russian, Latino, Hispanic, and Eastern European women who work as dispatchers for their husbands.But I can’t say I’ve ever talked to a black women during the course of work. I’ve probably interacted with every single demographic quite extensively, except black women. I guess they’re just not drawn into logistics. Probably not a bad thing since it can be very high stress at times and tempers often flare. Did I just stereotype? Yeah, I did. Sue me.
But what about rage that is rational and justified, like that of young Frederick Douglass as he came to understand his condition as an enslaved person? Or your own, Mad? Why not rage at patriarchal jackasses?
Yes, your privileged life in the imaginary “patriarchy” is just as horrific as Frederick Douglass living as an actual slave. What an idiot.
Yup. Ms. Featherstone belongs to the single most privileged group in the history of the earth: white western women.
This struck me too. What a self-absorbed prick.
She completely missed the point. Another example of dumbasses basted in Marxist critical theory gibberish reading history but not understanding it.
It amazes me they don’t see what they’re doing is unhealthy, pointless and the equivalence of waving their fist at an ever-changing cloud.
At this point, can we just let the cadres have their own country and just wall it the fuck off? Seriously, it’s been too long since the Western world has seen a good, solid example of plague, famine and collapse. We obviously need a reminder for a couple of centuries of where this all winds up leading.
“Perhaps even more surprisingly: When the national data on rape was combined with data on victims forced to penetrate someone else with coercion, bribery, or when they were drunk, high or otherwise unable to consent, the rates of nonconsensual sex were basically equal.”
http://all-that-is-interesting.com/american-men-rape-victims
Which means your definition of “rape” is bullshit.
Wild fucking morning for Liverpool, Sloops.
2 hours ago, owners put out a statement: Coutinho is not for sale. Period. End of story.
One hour ago: Sky news sources! Coutinho puts in a transfer request!
55 minutes ago: Two of the three most reliable Liverpool reporters in James Pearce and Melissa Reddy: No he didn’t
Gods I want this transfer window to end.
Can someone explain the transfer thing with soccer? How is it different from contracts/trades in U.S. sports?
Quick ‘splainer: “Trades” are possible in European soccer, but they’re incredibly rare. The normal way a player moves from one team to another is money. Team A buys the player’s rights from Team B, and then Team A signs the player to a new contract. The actual money involved is insane nowadays (record sale until this year was Paul Pogba moving to Manchester United for 100 million euros, then last week Neymar moved to Paris Saint Germain for 222 million).
It goes on at all levels. In some of the lower levels you’ll see payers move for 4 or 500 pounds. Or less.
Lol – The New York Times filed a motion against Palin’s suit that argued the evidence of actual malice assumes that the people who wrote the editorial actually read the New York Times, ergo the suit should be dismissed. In other words “You can’t prove the editors of the New York Times actually read the New York Times”
Wait, how was this a reply?
Same subject either way. Fake news.
Ask Gilmore.
It’s like buying a slave at auction.
I like that one and sticking to it.
Did he spend the entire training camp with the team? If so, he ain’t going anywhere.
They open tomorrow and have ECL midweek. They’re not going into those without him or his expensive replacement available. No fucking way. If they did and managed to get bounced out of Europe in the qualification round?!?!?! Everybody at FSG would be wondering how their pretty stadium got torn to pieces.
And now he really has officially handed in a transfer request, but Klopp and FSG are saying this doesn’t change anything.
This is going to end up like Suarez. He’ll quiet down, he’ll play excellent this season, and he’ll move to Barcelona next summer.
You left out the hefty pay increase that was probably the motivation behind the whole thing.
Klopp said at his news conference this morning that Countinho won’t play Saturday and is in doubt Tuesday because of injury.
Yeah, I’m getting a little tired of this drama every transfer window. And I love how “financial fair play” seems to have completely backfired, to the point where even Mourinho, Wenger, and Klopp agreed that the money is out of control.
Can You Call Yourself A Feminist If You Work With Woody Allen?
Well, to be fair, who among us hasn’t molested Dylan Farrow?
Hannah and her Sisters?
Sure, why not?
Women never lie.
reality is just sometimes wrong
E=Menses²
I’m ashamed of that and I have no shame to start with.
*narrows gaze*
Sure, just ask the University of Virginia, or Paul Nungesser, or the Duke lacrosse team, etc. etc.
“Can You Call Yourself A Feminist If You Work With Woody Allen?”
Is that a Zen Koan?
“… including Lena Dunham…”
You mean the girl that admitted to molesting her little sister? That’s rich.
And the girl that fabricated a false rape accusation against a Republican?
That too. She’s an absolute piece of shit, and just horrid to look at. I swear to God, she tries to look ugly to make some sort of feminist statement.
Well, you’re not going to get many feminist fans if you’re attractive.
OK
hahahahahahahaha
I can’t even laugh at this one, because I haven’t faintest notion of who she is.
A quick Google shows a redhead with a face that could stop a runaway train.
Hey, now. She’s got the worse show on Hulu, so let’s give her some respect.
Aw, hey now. The first two seasons were fun.
That show is the table of drunk basic bitches that ruin brunch every time.
That’s what I thought, the first two seasons were stupid fun. The third season they decided to go full SJW, and it really sucks ass.
Why not rage at patriarchal jackasses?
Yes, by all means, stoke the fires of your seething impotent rage. Embrace your insanity.
Raging nitwit who lives below sea level complains about climate change and government incompetence. Wants government to fix it.
Louisiana can’t drown. I still need to get there to learn how to shoot gar.
Back after Katrina in 2005, residents of the destroyed Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans heard rumors that Donald Trump was going to buy up the land there for cheap to build a casino or hotel. They were ready to protest and block it. But that never happened. And now, it’s probably too bad because maybe then the president would give a damn.
I bet he spent the past 8 years ranting about Obama not giving a damn, too, because that’s who was President during that entire time when nothing got done.
Well, that was when the sea levels began to recede, duh.
I would think the erosion of coastal areas are being caused by people developing on the coasts and damaging the natural protections to prevent erosion. The obvious solution is to not live in such areas or accept the additional costs of living there. I have no desire to subsidize other peoples’ decisions to live in in high-risk, high-cost areas. Another example of how global warming is just a transfer of wealth scam.
I though the consensus in the US was that Florida underwater is a positive development
I don’t know about pythons, but gators can swim.
Besides, do you want that many fish high on meth?
Meth Manatees.
At least they’d finally be able to get out of the way of speedboats.
Because meth’d-up manatees would AVOID the boats that have been killing their kind?
Manatee Massacre, in theaters this xmas.
Would also be a good title for John Pron.
Band name.
Fun fact.
Last time New Orleans flooded, (katrina) FEMA
damn it it, accidently hit post too soon. FEMA moved a bunch of refugees to a place about 20 miles from me. This place was Fort Chaffee near ft. smith arkansas. They were houses in barracks that were built in the early forties for the purpose of housing Japanese Americans during FDR’s internment program. Never change, Fedgov.
Katrina was 12 years ago.
“the water pumps, still being upgraded post-Katrina”
Fuck you. Drown.
Yeah, if someone chooses to live below sea level in a storm-prone area, I don’t see why I should have to pay to keep them dry.
Corruption-prone is the more dangerous factor.
Trump should go to the top of a mountain, strictly as a marketing shtick, don a cape and put out his hand and shout, ‘I COMMAND CLIMATE TO STOP CHANGING!’
I think that would be fantastic.
Put on a wizard’s cape and wave a Harry Potter wand while yelling “Climatus Staticum!”
All of a sudden, the water pumps, still being upgraded post-Katrina, that were supposed to handle a half-inch of rain an hour were overwhelmed, and a few stopped running due to power outages.
This is the real fucking story here. Our government can’t upgrade these water pumps in over a freaking decade? They are that inefficient?
Sub it out to the pipeline guys who are desperate for work at the current price of crude. They’ll bid it down to probably half what the no-bid guys are at. And they’ll have it done in six months.
I fucking hate government inefficiency. And any smart ppl would be banging on this as a reason to get rid of everyone in government and start over with people from the private sector coming in on two year contracts to fix everything.
In government, failure is success. We failed to upgrade the pumps. All we need is more time, money, manpower, and authority. Then we will get it right. repeat ad infinitum.
I bet the reason they were behind schedule was that the local polls stole the money or redirected it to some vote buying scheme(s) the very idiots that are complaining but keep electing the same inept kleptocratic leadership running that shithole.
Indeed.
a few stopped running due to power outages.
Who designs a pumping system that relies on the power grid?
Fukishima’s engineers, and apparently the Army Corps of Engineers.
No mention of the tons of $$ the Corps of Engineers spends to keep the mouth of the Mississippi from naturally moving?
If you left things to nature, the silt from the Miss would build up and the mouth would migrate to a less built up area. Happened all the time. Because this natural movement would cost New Oreans a shit ton of money, the Corps has been tasked with making sure the port stays right where it is now.
Fuck, what an idiot.
A truly titanic amount of money is spent to make sure the Mississippi doesn’t flow to Morgan City instead of through New Orleans and South Pass. Going to happen anyway, one of these days.
They are determined to prove King Canute wrong.
15 years to complete anti-flooding efforts that only work on 10yr storms. Sounds about right.
Asperitas
/nerd
gezundheit
Stop Equating ‘Science’ With Truth
Unless it suits your agenda.
Google bro would argue that we ought to consider the possibility that white women and racial minorities simply produce lower-quality work
He never made such an argument, you dishonest shit. And I wonder if this jackass holds the same skepticism when it comes to AGW? Actually, no, I don’t wonder at all.
That deification problem is entirely a product of lefties wielding the institution like a cudgel to beat over the heads of anyone who differs on policy. Why does he think science-denier is an epithet universally applied to conservatives, and only ever used ironically by conservatives? Because it’s lefties who deified science. And now, when this Dalmore guy actually cites his sources, the left cries foul. Because it was never about science as a process of discovery. It was only ever about science as another inroad against civil society.
Because it’s lefties who deified science.
Not really. They’ve deified scientific institutions. The process of science itself is something they’re hostile to, as the linked article shows. But, to the extent that scientific institutions tend to have more progressive friendly participants, they’re happy to deify the institutions.
Actually they have deified shoddy pseudo-scientific endeavors, paid for by government grants (and hence producing the results that please the political class and keeps the funding coming), producing nonsense that supports some of the most idiotic and evil marxist theory.
Po-tay-to / Po-tah-to
Freaky Friday: Let Your Anger Flow
Hillary the Dove. Lulz.
Exactly.. One would almost believe these people are schizophrenic, if it was not an insult to the people suffering from schizophrenia.
Where are people getting this whole “nuclear annihilation” thing? Because … it’s not really supported by facts.
First of all, China is not getting involved in any sort of attack on behalf of North Korea. We’re worth more to them than NK is.
With that out of the way, let’s say they want to launch a missile at Guam.
First, you have to assume our spy planes don’t spot it as they attempt to launch in the first place and bomb it beyond recognition.
Then you have to assume our missile interceptors in Japan don’t take it down, followed by us bombing NK beyond recognition.
Then you have to assume our missile interceptors near Guam don’t take it down, followed by us bombing NK beyond recognition.
Then you have to assume he actually HITS Guam (it’s a tiny island, and the one thing we know for sure is that while they might have a little more distance, they don’t have the accuracy, and Guam is tiny), followed by us bombing NK beyond recognition.
The chances of NK launching a single missile and hitting anything are minuscule. The chances of them launching a second are non-existent.
Dude, you’re harshing his buzz. Let him have his moment.
Yeah, I had to talk some people at work down off the ledge about this shit yesterday. Just about anything North Korea does in the way off an attack results in either Kim swinging from a lamppost or buried in burning rubble and he knows it. Ignore him unless and until he decides to commit suicide.
NK: “We’re gonna nuke Guam!”
US: “Cool story, bro.”
Right!? What’s the big deal, isn’t Guam supposed to tip over?
And that’s the problem now SF. The historical fact is that we have basically been paying blackmail money to the nork leadership since the Clinton days, under the totally false and erroneous guise that we paid this blackmail as our obligation under an agreement where the norks gave up nukes in exchange for that lucre (and they basically never gave up on anything), so they could keep these evil fucks from ending up with the people rising up against them. Now this crazy new guy is saying fuck you, the gravy train is gone, and no matter how crazy you talk or act, I know you are not crazy enough to do something that leads to the end of your existence. This now has all the morons that still pretend the right thing was to kick the can down the road for the next idiot to hold the job to deal with, even as we find out that all that can kicking now has resulted in nork nukes, because they believe the norks will have to carry through on their threats.
Even the Chinese have realized that the good old days are over, and have told Kim to be careful he doesn’t get what he constantly pretends he wants…
*sigh*
The Norks are just trying to extort money. This gambit has worked for them in the past so they are trying it again. It wont work this time. They aren’t going to bomb anything if they believe there will be actual repercussions. Trump is calling their bluff. Pretty soon they will STFU about it.
Yep to both. Though what happens to them if they don’t get the money? And if they think they’re dead anyway without it? Is their economy in that deep of shit?
Though it might be a good idea to swat the next one of his missiles that he sends winging towards Guam. Or over Japan. The height over Japan that a North Korean-launched ICBM achieves in a trajectory to land near Guam is about the same height that’s ideal for detonating an EMP device over Japan.
And China has very good reason to finally rein them in: a war on the Korean peninsula means Nork refugees flooding into China, and it means US/SK soldiers standing at that border before too long.
And Hillary created this issue with the Norks being more resistant to negotiation through her led and approved kinetic military action in Libya to remove someone who was no longer a threat to the U.S.
Yes, after what happened to Qaddafi, the Norks would really need to be insane to give up their nukes.
The big difference between Libya and North Korea in that regard is that North Korea has had a “nuke” for the last 40 years or so: the ability to cause a large amount of damage to Seoul. No, millions wouldn’t die, but it’d be tremendously inconvenient for the West. I linked yesterday to a Nautilus Institute paper on the topic, but tl;dr: it’d be anywhere from 1-5 9/11s in casualties and economic damages. Which is more than enough to induce most countries to not mess with them.
But it doesn’t cause other countries (besides South Korea, of course) existential dread in the way that those madmen having nuclear weapons does. A nuclear bomb going off in a US city would be, by at least an order of magnitude, the largest public health disaster in US history. WAG, but it’d be probably two orders of magnitude more devastating than 9/11 in economic damages. And it would be the end of our democratic republic.
Consider just how bad this country lost its shit after 9/11. Then consider what’d happen after a disaster with ten to fifty times the dead and economic cost.
North Korea has had a “nuke” for the last 40 years or so: the ability to cause a large amount of damage to Seoul.
Saw an analysis recently that this is probably vastly overrated, which wouldn’t surprise me given the (a) poverty of the Nork nation generally and (b) the propensity of tinpot dickheads to lie and bluster.
This article takes the Norks claims about their capabilities basically at face value, and says – eh, it would be bad but not annihilation/hundreds of thousands bad.
This paper I mentioned from Nautilus, is fairly recent, and somewhat sober in the projections.
My own WAG from reading it and others is that about 1000 South Koreans (and Chinese workers living north of Seoul) get killed before we blast/nuke/slime all of their HARTs into oblivion. Really depends on how good SK civil defense is, and whether Kim starts throwing things like VX/nukes/smallpox into the fray. Large error bars.
Even if it stays an artillery duel, it’d still be really expensive, and nets out at probably a century’s worth of tribute.
I have to wonder if even the Norks are crazy enough to use WMDs on Seoul. At that point, the Chinese might cross the border to finish them off, so we don’t.
WMDs are universally understood to justify a WMD response. I would expect we have some tactical nukes offshore that would immediately eradicate any artillery park or forward military position, precisely because it is a real risk that the Norks might be that crazy.
We take out the threat to Seoul, the ChiComs take out Pyongyang would be my guess as to the sequence if the Norks really lose their minds.
If this happens, the South Koreans would probably be better off to tell China “Its yours now. We don’t the North back. Its been more than two generations, we aren’t part of the same country any more.” But I doubt they would, which would be a shame, because trying to reunify with North Korea would probably do far more damage to South Korea than the bombardment of Seoul.
And this article digs a little deeper and says, well:
Bottom line: the “sea of fire” scenario is a fiction, everyone knows it, but it is a convenient fiction for not doing anything about the Norks.
Additionally, the south has the same basic counter-battery capability as the US.
In Desert Storm we had the capability to detect rounds being fired and issue fire commands to MLRS and Paladin units such that we had rounds on the way before the fired Iraqi artillery had landed.
Not to mention the fact that North Korea’s rocket technology is utter garbage, their rockets have been regularly exploding at their launch sites since they started the bloody program. Not to mention their targeting systems are apparently terrible. So there’s even a non-zero chance that even if they have ICBM capability to hit the West Coast the damn thing explodes or fails before contact.
I would imagine that they’d also just miss the target. more likely to be hundreds of miles off by the end. not that a nuke going off in a small town is better.
The far greater likelihood of a targeting error is for it to splash down in the Pacific Ocean. Of course, dependent on where it hits and if it detonates it could cause all kinds of problems, but it’s still significantly better than a direct strike on the continental U.S.
We’re developing and testing anti-missile technology. Sounds like an excellent opportunity to test it in a more real-world environment. Once it leaves the Nork’s airspace, isn’t it pretty much free game? Start stationing our beta version of anti-missile technology, which has been improving and reasonably successful in recent tests, and shoot the damn things down.
The downside, I guess, is if we miss, but we publicized all the other failed tests anyway, so I don’t worry too much about that.
I’ve no idea why we haven’t been treating the Sea of Japan as the world’s largest SM-3 and -6 skeet range. The Norks aren’t supposed to even have IRBMs, according to several UN Resolutions. Hell, they probably wouldn’t even see them get shot down, if we or China didn’t tell them.
While I agree that, akin to what we later learned about the state of repair for the Strategic Rocket Forces of the Soviet Union (a lot of them were junk), build and shoot enough of them, and a few will get through. They don’t need to be that accurate either; the Norks aren’t playing at counterforce, no matter how many silly target maps get cited, listing things like Barksdale, Whiteman, or other bases in the middle of nowhere. They’re going to go after cities, and cities are kinda big.
Are you that confident that things like GMD or the billion dollar radar barge in Hawaii can knock down even a majority of ICBMs? I wish I was.
Are you that confident that things like GMD or the billion dollar radar barge in Hawaii can knock down even a majority of ICBMs? I wish I was.
All the more reason to refine using the test targets helpfully supplied by the Norks.
If he had the capacity to hit LA or Seattle, he’d for sure be threatening that instead of Guam.
China said, in no uncertain terms, they have no intention of sticking their neck out for the Norks.
I have to wonder if they would have said the same thing to Obama.
That was sarcasm, right?
They were both evil.
Anyone who didn’t vote for Gov Johnson got the president they deserved now.
Gary “Forced Association” Johnson?
No thanks, I’ll take the President I voted for.
There are few issues more central to libertarianism than the idea of voluntary association. He has the wrong view on it. I can never therefore in good conscious call A Leppo Johnson a “libertarian”. He’s just a non-interventionist democrat that likes weed.
conscience*
Gary “Forced Association” Johnson?
No thanks, I’ll take the President I voted for.
Yep. Johnson is just another political insider. Hell, Weld outright endorsed Hilary during their campaign. You don’t get more establishment than that. I think running those two idiots was the worst mistake the Libertarian party could have made.
Austin Petersen was on Jason Stapleton today. He’s made huge steps since he was on Rubin’s show a few months back. He had a terrible vibe (which is important even if we don’t care about) when he was running. He has a chance in Missouri if he can split the dipshit Republican vote among multiple candidates. He would’ve been a much better choice than GJ. At least he has shown he can learn.
Weld cheerleading for Hillary as the vice-presidential candidate for the LP was one of the sorriest spectacles I’ve ever seen. Decent people can have many legitimate disagreements. Claiming that Hillary Clinton is anything other than a soulless font of 100% pure evil isn’t one of them.
a pox on Weld
I saw a headline the other day claiming Weld would seek the LP nomination in 2020, but keep scrolling.
It was pretty obvious that Johnson never intended to be president.
Was it tarran, here, that laid out a convincing case that Johnson ran in order to pay his 2012 campaign debts with 2016 donations?
This is a pretty good tell-all about the 2016 LP race. He gets into Johnsons malfeasance toward the end.
http://tomwoods.com/ep-906-judd-weiss-john-mcafees-vp-pick-on-what-really-happened-behind-the-scenes-and-its-not-pretty/
I’ve mad that claim, yes, based on the documents and commentary that Bob linked to above.
I’m really ticked off by it; not because I feel betrayed personally by Johnson, but because so many people fell for that dishonest piece of shit.
To me, the telling moment was the exchange he had with Austin Petersen, where Petersen gave him a replica gun and pledged Austin’s fealty for the campaign. Yes, it was cheesy and intended to be humorous. What Gary Johnson did with that gun – chucking it in the trash – told me right away that the guy was a piece of shit that was using the campaign for some personal purpose that was completely at odds with the people coming together to support him.
At the time, I had no idea what that personal purpose was. And, honestly, if so many of my friends had not supported him, I wouldn’t have cared so much. But people did support him, did donate time and money towards his campaign in the hopes that he would make a positive impact in their lives, and the selfish piece of shit never even intended to try.
I’m sure he will hang around the liberty movement for a long time – scamming people for money. The liberty movement attracts pieces of shit like that so there’s always an ample supply. I encourage anyone attracted to anything he’s involved in to be mindful of the fact that he is the sort of POS who isn’t above draining the enterprise’s bank accounts and declaring Chapter 7.
In all seriousness correct me if I’m wrong as I am relatively new to the liberty movement. My story: I was proud to register as a Libertarian about a year ago coming from a SoCon background. I recognized the hypocrisy in the RP and conservative commentators and how small government was given lip service during election time and then quickly discarded once the election was over. I was excited to be a libertarian convert. Since then, based on the actions of the Johnson/Weld campaign, Cato, TSTSNBN, Penn et al., I’ve decided that the LP is to libertarianism what skittles are to actual fruit. As another commenter astutely put it the other day they are more interested in being a Reform Party than actual libertarians. The telling part is they harbor the majority of their rage for Ron Paul supporters (Goobers!), Mises Institute/ Rothbardian types because they are actually serious about liberty and could give a damn about appealing to target groups (ie. collectivist minded progs). The LP seems to be as entrenched in it’s uselessness as the republicans but with 1/50th of the base. I have no use for it. That’s my assessment anyhow. If there is a case to be made for it I’d genuinely like to hear it.
I too have had a low opinion of the LP; I think they are pissing in the wind and are a waste of time.
My viewpoint is that the battle for a freer society is both cultural and political, that the political fight really must be a rear-guard action to prevent further encroachments by our enemies while the advances can only be made by changing the wider culture.
If we do get libertarian laws, it will be a party like the Democrats or Republicans that enact them, not the LP.
Well put. I’m right with you. It’s sad because in my own personal interactions with people you get at best tut-tutted and at worst shouted down for suggesting government non-intervention in my experience. Hopefully what they are saying about the post-millennial generation being more open to liberty and conservatism (the old school/paleo kind) are true.
The only thing I’ll add to Bob’s point is that, after the election, a number of minor LP party leaders pretty obviously in the tank for progressives, even to the extent of alienating a lot of conservative libertarians. Of course, there wasn’t a lot of reporting on it, even on TSTSNBN.
This is just too much. The Norks, enabled by past presidents from Clinton through Obama, have (predictably) developed miniaturized warheads and ICBMs, which they are now overtly threatening the US with, and the response of the left is to attack the President.
And they wonder why they lose elections.
Deconstructionists, Dude. It’s what they do.
I saw wapo trying to blame Reagan lol
Oh, yeah, Reagan was all about appeasing communists.
Hillary would just bribe the norks while they continue to violate any agreement
I find it amusing leftists say the Iran deal is looking good because of North Korea situation
Ummm in then1990s they had a similar deal and cheated anyway. This actually diminishes Iran deal
Did you see the Ben Rhodes tweet from yesterday? In essence, “Trump can’t scotch the Iran deal without compromising any deal he might want to cut with North Korea, so NYEH NYEH *raspberry*”
As if one has anything to do with the other.
Why are you D-Uing? It’s not good for anyone.
folks are really losing their shit.
and i thought we already hit peak schadenfreude.
/ties off cord, taps vein…
oh sweeeeeet schadenfreude
Our condo dissolution passed by 87%. In a mere 2 years, I shall have my payout!
Don’t spend it all in one place. Or on shoes, to cover the stereotypes.
Libertarian tie-in: we already went to the county with the rezoning request and site plans. All were approved after a couple rounds of community meetings. Now we have to go back to the county for final blessings, because, you know, they have to have another shot at getting their power trip on. Don Fanucci needs to get his beak wet some more.
whoa. that’s possible?
I heard of youtubers having patreon but apparently iowahawk has one for his tweeter feed… that’s new
https://www.patreon.com/iowahawkblog
“I believe people should be able to buy tax-free weed and machine guns, with Bitcoin, for gay wedding presents”
Looks like he gets $97 a month. He’s worth way more than that.
@drill has a patreon. That guy *kisses fingers* mwah
I was listening to a podcast yesterday on the way home from work.
https://mises.org/library/repudiating-national-debt-0
It was a reading of an essay from Rothbury about repudiation the national debt. He makes a pretty good arguement for. I think we are around 20 Trillion in the hole at the moment. If the feds declared that our debt is now zero amd they have no intention to ever pay it back, I think that would be a good thing. It would be a defacto passing of a balanced budget amendment. A default that large would destroy the government’s ability to borrow any more money. with the ability to deficit spend destroyed, the fed would have to either quit spending money or raise taxes to a level that would immediately get them kicked out of office. I like this.
The ancillary effects would be huge. I haven’t read the article, but the banking system would be destroyed, not 2008 destroyed, razed to the ground destroyed.
Yep. Plus the Fed would be the buyer of last resort, so deficits would continue unabated
Yeh there would have to be some kind of massive amount of negative consequences.
I don’t see how people would escape whatever impact it would bring.
And if the USA were to do that, it would absolutely impact Canada I would think.
As best as I can tell, the current system is unsustainable anyway. There has been no meaningful effort to stop the raising of the debt ceiling. The fed gov has racked up debts that it can never pay back. The system is going to collapse one day anyway. It collapsing in a way that denies our future government to borrow money would not be all bad.
Inducing currency collapse is probably not a good idea.
How could leave out Rafael Nadal losing to some Canadaian punk in a 3rd set tiebreaker?!
#yellowsportsballmatters
Sorey, I need coffee
It’s Canadese dummy.
That’s one of those tiny islands in the Caribbean?
I love me some soulful brown sugar!
*boogies*
Darnit, Souls interfere with the texture of the baked goods.
Now I have to find soulless sugar.
Now I have to find soulless sugar.
Taylor Swift?
Would?
There is no cannibalism in the Royal Navy.
http://wtvr.com/2017/06/26/andrew-spieles-guilty-plea/
“Spieles admitted that he created all 18 fraudulent forms himself and that no one else participated in the crime.”
That’s a relief, I’m glad they got rid of that one bad apple.
“Dozens Of Female Employees Accuse Google Of Gender Discrimination
Finberg said, “The culture at Google is hostile to women. Women tend to be channeled into what are perceived to be softer positions. User interface positions, design positions. Men get the code positions. Code positions are more highly paid and more highly valued at Google.””
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/08/09/google-accused-of-gender-discrimination/
Warning: Auto-Play
Ahhh, so Google is just subsidizing all their diversity on the backs of the Asian and white males?
Like every other company that preaches diversity.
I used to work at one of the largest 3PLs in the country. For anyone that doesn’t know anything about third-party logistics, it’s extremely cuthroat. After about 6 months worth of training, you had 8 weeks to hit a revenue mark. If you didn’t make it, you were gone. Except for the women. They mostly just got moved from being brokers to being logistics coordinators, HR associates, classroom trainers for new hires, etc… Basically any role outside of actually brokering freight, they moved the women to in order to keep up their male-to-female ratio as even as possible for the whole company. But the reality of the situation was, about 80% of the revenue was being generated by male brokers. The few gals that could make it in the brokering side of the business were really good. They were all very exceptional, and they generally outperformed median for company brokers as a whole (we always joked around that truck drivers on the other end of the phone just liked hearing a women’s voice, since it was so rare to speak with female brokers. They had an advantage. And there probably is some truth to that). But the fact of the matter is, most women couldn’t cut it in the brokering side, and had to be moved to other roles in the company in order to meet quotas, while any man who couldn’t cut it was just let go.
I own my own freight brokerage now so I don’t have to worry about any of that shit. It was quite interesting though.
If nothing you do gets you off of the hook with feminists then why bother doing anything?
Useful idiots are idiots.
Well, nothing short of running your company into the ground.
I think people are starting to realize this. Once you realize you can’t win, you start giving these people the middle finger and telling them to fuck off.
Sigh.
I said when Google fired Damore that the cadres would be right back demanding still more concessions. I wish I’d been wrong. You don’t give into them. Ever. Giving in to them only signals you as an easy mark, as someone they can take their frustrations out on (if you don’t believe me ask yourself who the feminists are more vicious to than male feminists and who BLM hates more than white allies).
Google’s got money. Lots of people that didn’t want to work in that sort of icky tech field anyway now have the chance to make a windfall and go do something they see as more fun…
This is exquisite.
Yep. It’s something I listen to often.
Damn. That’s smooth!
Thanks, I haven’t heard that in a while, great song
Hardcore History has a new episode out – 6 hours on Caesar’s subjugation of the Celts.
The new episode isn’t showing on that page, but it auto downloaded in my podcast app yesterday.
w00t!
Carlin’s other podcast is a bit too lefty for me (although he mostly argues in good faith), but Hardcore History rocks.
“Also, who the hell colors their hair purple in their 50’s or 60s?” – MY better half. She ain’t called “Moshpit Mary” fer nothin’, ya know.
My better half — who recently was elected to public office — has been putting in a small purple streak in the back.
It’s time to start talking about the NHL and my favorite dumpster fire, the Minnesota Wild.
Looks like our best prospect in franchise history is staying in Russia.
That fucking Putin – is there anything he can’t do?
I’m of the opinion NHL teams should avoid drafting Russians. Way too mercurial. And with the KHL there, it’s a real option for them to use as leverage.
Is it worth the hassle and waste of picks?
I don’t understand the Wild strategy. Small young guys, past-their-prime veterans and psychotic goalies. Kaprizov looked like a winner.
I want some big fuckers from Yellow Knife or something.
Saskatchewan. Big, bad farmers.
That’s the only MN team I don’t root for, on account of MN didn’t have a team for 7 years early in my DC residency.
So, C-A-P-S! Caps! Caps! Caps! Caps!
And one of the best young goalies in the world may be coming over soon.
Maybe he can get them past their world-renowned playoff choking.
Shit, KK, the North Stars and I came into existence in the same year. I was a huge fan. So, naturally, when the fuckers left I did what any jilted person would – rooted for the goddamn Hawks.
*feels shame*
I was so pissed off that fucking Dallas – Dallashad a hockey team and MN didn’t, that I just went all-in for the Caps. Also, that was the era of Chris Simon. What a nasty beast that guy was.
It was pretty depressing. Mrs. Tundra and I were just starting our careers when the North Stars had their last good run, but we went to every playoff game (ramen noodles, ftw!). Despite losing to the Pens, it was a glorious time. The Met Center was a fantastic venue and it was really the end of Old Time Hockey.
Isn’t that about the time they changed the names of the divisions, too?
And the fucking Pens. I knew there was a reason I hated them besides their ongoing rivalry with the Caps (I didn’t really pay attention to hockey until the mid-90’s or so)
Yep, 1993.
I too have a deep and abiding hatred for the Pens. I think all right-thinking people do.
Absolutely true. The Penguins are pure evil, always have been.
HA HA HA HA HA
As a Pens fan, FUCK YOU ALL!!!! (Lovingly, of course.) ; )
I still remember Bobby Smith stick handling his way past the Habs in the early 80s on their way to the finals against the Islanders in 81.
He was a blast to watch. That was a fun team, too – Dino, Steve Payne, Craig Hartsburgh, Curt Giles…
Great memories.
Just read about that yesterday.
Could Advanced Nuclear Energy Power America’s Future? Report Suggests Yes.
http://www.insidesources.com/advanced-nuclear-energy-power-americas-future/
Did the reports to talk about how the watermelons will try to block it at every turn.
great moments in psychological warfare
The Battle Pelusium, 525 BC
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Polyaenus, “a retired Macedonian general more interested in novelty than historical accuracy[3]”, claims that, according to legend, Cambyses captured Pelusium by using a clever strategy. The Egyptians regarded certain animals, especially cats, as being sacred (they had a cat goddess named Bastet), and would not injure them on any account. Polyaenus claims that Cambyses had his men carry the “sacred” animals in front of them to the attack. The Egyptians did not dare to shoot their arrows for fear of wounding the animals, and so Pelusium was stormed successfully. This would be an early form of psychological warfare.[4]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Pelusium_(525_BC)
[rubs chin thoughtfully]
[begins duct taping Qur’ans onto humveee]
War is no place for hate crimes
Duct taped Qur’ans – the new reactive armor.
http://5newsonline.com/2017/08/08/franklin-county-voters-head-to-the-polls-to-decide-on-new-jail-taxes/
So, the idiots in my county voted for an increase in sales tax to pay for a new jail with an added capacity. This pisses me off. We don’t need more taxes and a bigger jail. We need less taxes and less things being illegal.
“It is now legal to riot on Thursdays.”
The Purge
Won’t somebody think of the prison guard union!
Vassar teaches freshmen to ‘appreciate social justice’
http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9574
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During the expansive 15-day orientation, which the school has confirmed is mandatory, students will attend three workshops in a “We are Vassar, I am Vassar, You are Vassar” series, which focus “on celebrating identities and affirming belongingness within our communities.”
The series will take a total of five hours to complete, and will begin with the “We are Vassar workshop,” which invites students to participate in “an introduction to inclusive language” where they will “explore what can impact our sense of identity and belonging within our community.”
During the next session, students will learn about people “of particular identities, beliefs, and expressions,” while the concluding session will reiterate the school’s commitment to “celebrating identities and affirming belongingness.”
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We are SJW. Resistance is Futile.
“All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.”
Vassar demographics
7% black, 11% Latino/a
I always love it when super-white schools preach about diversity. Like that SJW 4th of July party I went to with my activist friend, where there was not a single POC. Not one. I told my friend she’d brought me to the whitest party I’d ever been to in all my years in DC.
Belongingness
They just went in dry on the English language this time.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/35419/
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Stanford University is slated to offer a class this fall called “White Identity Politics,” during which students will “survey the field of whiteness studies” and discuss the “possibilities of … abolishing whiteness,” according to the course description.
Citing pundits who say “the 2016 Presidential election marks the rise of white identity politics in the United States,” the upper-level anthropology seminar will draw “from the field of whiteness studies and from contemporary writings that push whiteness studies in new directions.”
Questions to be posed throughout the semester include: “Does white identity politics exist?” and “How is a concept like white identity to be understood in relation to white nationalism, white supremacy, white privilege, and whiteness?”
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[head desk]
I would show up in blackface say that I am abolishing whiteness
By abolishing whiteness do they mean universal interbreeding?
Pretty sure they mean the subjugation of white people as untermensch, as the humane alternative to simply exterminating them.
While liberals genuinely do believe that diversity is good in and of itself for broadening horizons and encouraging harmony (and would therefore theoretically be as good for China or Zimbabwe as for the US or Norway), I’m pretty sure the only thing it means in the mouth of a prog is “less white people”.
Technobabble
Even when no one is hurt, the confrontation causes a toxic distrust of the police and exacts a horrible mental toll on minorities. Before he was killed by a police officer’s bullets, Philando Castile had been stopped at least 49 times by officers. The stress of driving while black has poisoned the roadways for millions of Americans.
One of the most frustrating aspects of this problem is that we already have models for fixing it, whether it is a version of the National Transportation Safety Board, as Mr. Bell seeks, or an empowered citizen review board with strong investigative powers, which Ms. Jameson is calling for.
Michael Scott, a former police chief who is now a professor of criminology and criminal justice at Arizona State University, is a fan of aviation safety-proofing and told me that “we need a parallel system for the police.” But, he said, law-enforcement agencies have a long way to go because they lack the most basic tools for learning from their mistakes.
“We don’t even know exactly how many officer-involved shootings happen every year,” he said, because “we still do not have a single national reporting system that chronicles and documents every police-involved shooting in this country.”
“Of course, it’s important to have a criminal and an administrative investigation of any death” that involves a police officer, he added. But it’s not enough to determine who is to blame; we also need to ask, “Why did this happen?”
Until we can answer that question, innocent people will continue dying at the hands of the police.
The article raises a few good points, but mostly tiptoes delicately around (ignores) the issue of personal responsibility on the part of cops. Also, nothing about training which reinforces the triggerhappy paranoia of cops. Nothing about unions. D+
Until we make cops personally responsible for their fuckups, they will keep killing innocent citizens.
I know why we don’t have systems for tracking police errors. It’s because the police don’t want them.
Just more paperwork they’d have to lie on.
Anecdotal, but a couple of my law’n’order buddies are actually casting a much more critical eye since this spate of Minneapolis shootings. One actually said to me “maybe it’s time to try your idea of private police force” I was astounded.
The smarter ones will eventually come around or they’ll be consumed with anger which then leads to hate. The dumb ones will just cling to that paycheck no matter how bad it gets.
As long as the BLM “IT’S ALL RACISM!!!!!!!!” types are getting constant media attention, any brief moment of realization by the cop-lovers that maybe something needs to be changed will go away with a knee-jerk reaction of disgust.
Also, no me turn of the big one. The WOD is where a lot of this police violence begins. Prohibition creates black markets which then creates violent criminals that cops wet their pants in fear over. Cops are scared of bad guys, so they shoot not bad guys who they perceive to be bad.
Also, no me turn of the big one.
Appropriating Native American English.
great moments in protectionism
Everyone and their granny is a bootlegger in Argentina
Harmless looking old people and expats alike have developed rat-like cunning in a country where imports are all but banned
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Since 2011, the protectionist government has made it almost impossible to import products thanks to a barrage of red tape and incredibly high prices.
Where I live, in Mendoza, what was previously an exciting ‘foreign items’ aisle in the supermarket has dwindled to a meagre collection of tasteless nachos made in Argentina, Italian-style pasta sauce made in Argentina, and occasionally some sea salt (which holds some exoticism in a mountain town).
…
AFIP (Argentine customs) tear into grandma’s suitcases like hungry dogs and, to no surprise, there is a pile of neatly folded clothes all with their price tags on and undoubtedly made in China. Grandma can make a bomb by muling these over from Chile. And when you are retired, an eight hour bus journey through the mountains isn’t unappealing. You have to pay 50 per cent of the value of anything bought abroad if you get caught smuggling it in – but grandma is willing to run the risk.
…
Pity the poor backpacker who forgets about the banana in his bag and has to pay the fine. It happens a lot, despite the customs form clearly stating (in English) that you need to declare any fruit produce. Tourists still fall into the “just tick no” trap. No one really thinks they will care about one measly banana. They do. And it is serious. After getting a banana fine myself, I now declare every half-eaten cereal bar, soggy ham salad sarnie or almost-forgotten-about apple core. What I don’t declare are the seven bottles of wine stowed away in my suitcase and bubble-wrapped between layers of knickers. Fortunately a British passport often buys you a blind eye from customs.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatlife/11478383/Everyone-and-their-granny-is-a-bootlegger-in-Argentina.html
http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/14/technology/argentina-iphone-black-market/index.html
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Apple’s smartphones are still unauthorized for sale in Argentina. In 2009, under President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, the government passed a law to promote local industry and prevent the flow of dollars out of Argentina. Electronics companies had to manufacture in Argentina’s Tierra del Fuego region in order to be able to sell their products in the country. While Samsung and LG complied, Apple (AAPL, Tech30) left.
The Kirchner administration restricted the exchange of pesos for dollars and implemented a 50% import tax on electronics and other foreign goods, essentially designed to block iPhones from entering the country.
Under current president Mauricio Macri, the government lifted the exchange restrictions, but the high import tax remains. A 64GB iPhone 6S Plus that costs $950 in the United States would have a 50% import tax and at least in $100 shipping charges — amounting to around $1,575.
It’s actually cheaper to fly from Argentina to Miami and buy an iPhone in the United States, than to just buy an iPhone in Argentina.
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[head desk]
Nobody needs more than two choices of smartphone.
It is no accident that the commie pope is Argentinian.
When you have Groening money, you’re not obliged to give a shit what some purple-haired ninny thinks.
Speaking of cartoons, Fox may bring back King of the Hill.
Oh fuck me, don’t make it “political”.
I wouldn’t be too worried about that if Mike Judge is running the show. I mean, it’s a FOX CEO idiot saying that. Judge is pretty good when it comes to politics, and I don’t think he’d have a mindless freakout over Trump.
From what I’ve read of Judge’s politics, he’s probably closer to a Trump voter than a standard issue Hollywood proglodyte.
King of the Hill is a criminally underrated show. Who knew animated stories could be more real than live action ones?
The science is settled:
https://twitter.com/KatTimpf/status/895115600904716289
Richard A. MillsVerified account @RAMRANTS Aug 8
Replying to @KatTimpf
I’m gay af, but you’re my type of girl. ?
WTF is wrong with that woman???
*clicks*
Nothing, as far as I can tell. Would eat pineapple on pizza with her.
I don’t get some of yours guys’ obsession with her. The girl’s arms look like damn sticks. I’d be afraid of breaking her arm just shaking her hand. Not to mention her voice. God, I’d cringe every time she was on Red Eye.
“Pineapple on pizza”. You’re all that’s wrong with ‘Merika.
*pumps fist*
FUCK YEAH!!
Last time my extended family ordered a bunch of pizzas, I slipped in an order for a bacon-ham-pineapple – talk about slices of heaven.
I don’t get the Canadian bacon/pineapple pizza hate, but then I like deep dish too, and Costco pizza, so my taste is naturally suspect.
Of the chains (and no, your four store hipster pizza is not a chain), Little Caesar’s isn’t bad. Russo’s and Grimaldi’s aren’t bad ‘chains’ here (though wildly different styles.) There are a few shops here blessed by the VPN, like Cane Rosso, and their pizzas are pretty tasty too.
Little Caesar’s isn’t bad.
*squints suspiciously*
I tend to order the Supreme, which doesn’t have pineapple; when I’m in the mood, I go: pepperoni, Italian sausage, onion, light on jalapenos, and pineapple. Tastes WAY better than it sounds.
It sounds great, actually.
Y’all are makin me barf.
Good pizza only needs pepperoni & mushroom. Anything else is just showing off (and disgusting).
I brought some amazing pizza home a couple weeks ago, and my neighbor said she liked the pizza from the chain restaurant better because it had “more stuff on it”. I told her the reason I loaded the chain pizza with crap is because it’s crap pizza.
No one needs 23 toppings, huh Bernie? 😉
Goddamn right. I’m a pizza commie. PIZZA COMMIE!
Anything else is just showing off (and disgusting).
You don’t get to have an opinion if bacon isn’t included.
Good pizza only needs pepperoni & mushroom.
Mushroom? So you like soggy pizza? And while pepperoni is okay, I don’t like how it tends to get pools of grease. Crumbled sausage and maybe olives for the win.
Sausage and green peppers, but to each his or her or their own.
Good pizza needs pepperoni, mushroom, onions, sausage, peppers, jalapenos, bacon, and ham.
I would eat pineapple pizza OFF her.
Why do you hate science?
Jesus Christ, Little Caesars doesn’t even qualify as pizza.
It’s better than Pizza Hut, Dominos, or Papa Johns. So if you’re in a town without a good local or chain, it’s by far the best option.
I’m *whatever* on pineapple on pizza. I never order it, but I’ve definitely happily eaten it when available.
Would Kat, but she also kinda reminds me of ENB, faintly.
It’s better than Pizza Hut, Dominos, or Papa Johns.
Pretty low fucking bar you’re setting there.
I like Pizza Hut. Yeah, I said it.
Their lunch buffet is a great deal.
CREEEEEAAAAAMMMY ITALIAN DRESSING FTW.
Agreed. Pizza Hut is perfectly fine. Someone point me towards a pizza place that can regularly get me a large pizza with half a dozen toppings for just $10, because I can get that from Hut constantly. The way the onion cooks on their pizza too is awesome.
Costco Supreme pizza in their food court. 9.99 for a (16?) inch pie. Better than the Hut too, IMHO.
Dominos is only good because they put MSG stuff on everything.
That all those places are somewhat popular is a little baffling. Almost any small pizza place has a better pizza.
Depends where you live. In upstate NY where I’m from the local pizza is universally shitty and the national chains are generally as good as it gets.
But yeah in a real pizza town, you’re right.
We have a number of *shudder* artisanal pizza places that are disturbingly good. I want to hate on them, but I absolutely can’t.
Punch or Pizza Luce if you’re in the area.
True. There is something about consistency. 4/10 pizza every time does have its pluses.
Boss Lady is $$$ but pretty darn good here. I prefer Street Legal. I only got that the first time because I read it as Illegal Street Pizza, and figured they were libertarians or something.
You’re not in any part of Upstate I’ve lived in then.
Where are you stuck that the local pizzas suck? I’ve always run into the opposite. (the national chains keep folding because they can’t compete with the locals on quality)
The local place that sells a slice and a glass of PBR for four bucks, it’s like they’re trying to atone for some unpardonable sin by selling amazing pizza for so cheap. I can crush a slice and three beers walk out of their having spent ten bucks.
Buffalo and Rochester. Haven’t lived upstate in 20 years so maybe it’s gotten better. In fact, a “New York Style” joint opened up in Buffalo just before I left that was really good. But when I was growing up in the 80s all the local chains (I’m looking at you, Pontillo’s) were just garbage and there’s really weren’t any independent joints at the time.
I’m looking forward to Pan’s Pizza when I get to South Hero. NOM!
Well, I specifically said if you live in a town with only chain pizza joints. So yeah, it’s a low bar, but not an uncommon one
Little Caesar’s doesnt make pizza. They slather a little sauce and paltry toppings on loaves of bread.
Little Caesars with pineapple and ranch? She’s lucky she’s cute. Her taste isn’t going to get her anywhere.
amusing if true:
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Twice a day since the beginning of the Trump administration, a special folder is prepared for the president. The first document is prepared around 9:30 a.m. and the follow-up around 4:30 p.m. Former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and former Press Secretary Sean Spicer both wanted the privilege of delivering the 20- to 25-page packet to President Trump personally, White House sources say.
These sensitive papers, described to VICE News by three current and former White House officials, are not top-secret intelligence or updates on legislative initiatives. Instead, the folders are filled with screenshots of positive cable news chyrons (those lower-third headlines and crawls), admiring tweets, transcripts of fawning TV interviews, praise-filled news stories, and sometimes just pictures of Trump on TV looking powerful.
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http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/trump-so-needy-he-has-staff-prepare-special-folder-him-twice-day
Alternet , vice and current former officials. Doesn’t seem legit to me
Trump is a narcissist who craves adulation and publicity? HOLY SHIT, WHAT A SCOOP!!!
No other President has ever been narcissistic!!!11!!!!!
Does anyone really believe any of the BS the media says about Donnie Twoscoops? If you answer yes shoot me an email. I have a deal on a bridge you cant say no to.
So, has anyone else watched Comrade Detective? Did Amazon make it available in Romania?
I was a little concerned there would be some Commie apologia, because Hollywood, but it’s actually pretty good so far (though it also has the benefit of being ostensibly propaganda, so any apologia could be excused that way regardless).
That show is fucking awesome.
I’ve seen one episode. It was ok, could end up being great, or very meh. I was expecting something a good bit more over the top, so I need to recalibrate my expectations.
I felt that way too, but the start of the second episode, the part about his “first bust”. Yep, it gets better.
“The YouTube stars known as “Diamond and Silk” say 95 percent of their videos are no longer monetized because their pro-Trump content has been deemed “not suitable for all advertisers.””
“We’ll soon be applying tougher treatment to videos that aren’t illegal but have been flagged by users as potential violations of our policies on hate speech and violent extremism,” the company announced Aug. 1 on its official blog. “If we find that these videos don’t violate our policies but contain controversial religious or supremacist content, they will be placed in a limited state. The videos will remain on YouTube behind an interstitial, won’t be recommended, won’t be monetized, and won’t have key features including comments, suggested videos, and likes.”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/aug/10/diamond-and-silk-rip-youtube-say-95-of-videos-demo/
More:
https://twitter.com/thetaclaire/status/895858321235861505
LOL
https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/895736901323202560
It’s totally nuts:
https://twitter.com/Lauren_Southern/status/895313443699310595
Wouldn’t it be much simpler for YouTube to say “If we don’t like your content, you’re not making one red cent from us. Be glad we let you post here at all, you right-wing sexist assholes.” I mean, they’re a private company, they can do whatever they want – so why couch everything in this official language?
But see, they also know that turning away customers so blatantly is bad for their business. That’s why the obfuscation and the dishonesty.
Sort of like when Google announced that they welcomed people of all political views to express themselves as part of the Google family, as part of the speech announcing that they were firing someone for expressing the wrong political views.
Public accommodation laws will finally come to their pre-ordained ‘unforeseen’ consequence solution
Yeah, sure, right around the time that a Muslim baker has to bake a gay wedding cake.
They want to be respected as fair and balanced, they want their censorship to be buried in terminology like “safety”, and god damn it, they want to get as much mileage out of the skin suit they’ve put together out of the carcass of this company as possible.
Because that just sounds like they’ve got a specific set of values that they want their content producers to conform to, not that they’re simply defending a universal set of values held by all right-thinking, good people.
Start saying that YouTube is “racist” for demonetizing two black women because they think differently from orthodoxy, and watch them re-monetize in an instant.
I see a lot of people getting this treatment. One guy was a ‘live off of the grid’ type. He lives in the middle of nowhere and makes videos on how to work land, build your own house, tool reviews, how to, etc. He lives with his wife and children who are often featured in his videos. He was de-monetized for being not family friendly.
Goddamned creepy progs.
Wow. That doesn’t even sound like remotely political content. Then again, from the above links the people making these decisions are batshit SJW’s.
That doesn’t even sound like remotely political content.
Absolutely everything is political to these people. Their motto for 50 years has been “The personal is political”. Its of a piece with their totalizing authoritarianism:
Everything within the Narrative. Nothing outside the Narrative. Nothing against the Narrative.
A self-sufficient nuclear family (and I’m sure they are white) is absolutely outside/against the Narrative.
or supremacist content
Yeah, two white supremacist black ladies.
From the “broken clock” files, an actual fair and honest Op-Ed on James Damore and Google from the New York Times (David Brooks). https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/11/opinion/sundar-pichai-google-memo-diversity.html
Bull. Shit.
I work in IT and this is pure fantasy.
Nope. This is fantasy.
Junior high flashbacks
Yep. Awesome, innit?
This is Double Fantasy
He let the harpy ‘sing’ on that one, didn’t he?
Sadly, yes.
Is brooks talking about the media here?
No, but the part of the article I liked did call out the media on their bullshit here.
Conor Friedersdorf is like a perpetually clueless detective in a TV mystery show. He always has all the evidence in front of him and yet he never is able to draw the right conclusion from the information he’s gathered.
The media is actually interested in narratives in telling you how to think rather than reporting news?!
That still makes him better than about 98% of the mainstream media though.
Tallest dwarf.
Or he’s a very smart detective who knows what happens to detectives who draw the right conclusions and make trouble for the wrong people.
I work in IT and it happens to me sometimes. Of course, I’m a straight white dude, so, you know, maybe I’m not germane to their point…
Heh. I was talking about women specifically in case it wasn’t clear 😛
I figured 🙂
Just made me think of a conversation I overheard at work the other day where two women were complaining about a meeting where a guy in authority was rude, boorish, and interrupted a lot. Notably, they didn’t blame it on sexism; they blamed it on his being an idiot, which is in fact the case.
So, at this point, what has been more harmful to women in tech: the dying breed of aging holdovers who still genuinely believe women aren’t equipped for tech work, or feminists who insist that college programs in tech and the tech industry itself are rife with abusive men and sexist attitudes?
“A member of the mostly-Muslim Newcastle sex grooming gang, which preyed on teenage girls, once told a female ticket inspector: “White women are good for only one thing – for people like me to f*** and use as trash.”
Badrul Hussain, 37, (pictured, right) was found guilty of four drug offences Wednesday as part of ‘Operation Sanctuary’, the UK’s largest investigation into grooming gangs since Rochdale and Rotherham.
Mr Hussain made the expletive-laden comment after being caught travelling without a ticket on the Tyne and Wear Metro in 2014 by a white female rail employee, The Times reports, laying bare his contemptuous attitude to non-Muslim women.
Many other defendants claimed that their victims were liars and Habibur Rahim, 34, (pictured, left) who was convicted of human trafficking and rape, claimed, “the police were racist”.”
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/08/10/newcastle-groomers-white-women-are-trash-police-are-racist/
TW: Breitbart, don’t read the comments.
From the “broken clock” files
Yeah, I was surprised. I think Brooks’ reasoning is suspect, but at least he admits Damore’s analysis is not just a bunch of anti-woman hate speech (unlike many of the commenters).
David brooks will have to make up for it next week by bashing trump since the readers aren’t happy
Bret Stephens made that mistake by questioning their religion
I figure that “wypipo like sorpressata” bilge from last week ought to keep him in good graces for a few more weeks.
Capicola, man. Cmon, you’re better than that.
Meh. I couldn’t be arsed to look it up.
https://mobile.twitter.com/DiamondandSilk/status/895979941489147904
One thing about this that I thought was funny was this response:
Is that any worse than taking foreign policy advice from failed novelist Ben Rhodes?
Lying to the media? Yes Ben Rhodes was good then
So my daily job alerts just came up with this. Can only imagine the interview
http://www.indeed.com/viewjob?from=appsharedroid&jk=59ba66a2118ff1b6
Well that was a fail here is the correct link.
https://www.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=59ba66a2118ff1b6&from=serp&prevUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.indeed.com%2Fm%2Fjobs%3Fq%3DUfo%26l%3DLenexa%252C%2BKS%26from%3Dhome%252Cwhereauto
4 Promoting commercial products related paranormal world and mysterious phenomena
That’s really the only skill that mayters. The rest is all BS
A search on Glassdoor for salary info turned up nothing. I assume they pay nothing. Damn.
Seriously I think trump should be appreciated more especially since he dropped that border tax. He has a ways to go but we really dodged a bullet with Hillary
– courts
– regulations
– taxes
– energy
– scope of EPA
– agency payoffs to progs
– covering up their crimes (I think Russia shit is really trying to outrun prosecution for thinks like spying, also think there is more to Benghazi than meets the eye
– number of federal employees
The prog view is to regulate jobs out of existence, themselves get rich and pay off the population by getting them dependent on welfare
I don’t think the market increase is a bubble here, it was being held back by progs essentially
Agreed on all counts. I think the decline of the regulatory state in the executive branch is the biggest pleasant surprise out of them all. I knew that he talked about it a little bit on the campaign trail, but I never thought that it would be such a focal point in the administration.
Trump knows how much he’s paid out in legal and lobbying bills over the years to be in compliance and get favorable treatment. I think it likely that he resents having to spend some of that money.
Gov shakedowns
Big govt progressivism results in things they claim to hate. A few giant firms dominating the market via cronyism and political connections. Big gov incentives big biz to get in bed with each other….it is rational on biz part while the gov acts like the mafia
See Dodd frank. Wait the biggest banks got bigger and a bunch of community ones went under? Like no way!
Great piece on sex differences in industry. The author took issue with a recent article, published in light of the Google memo, that purports to show why sex differences are in fact very minor. They aren’t, he contends. His response is rather long (and the response to his response, and his response to the response to his response), but it’s well worth the read.
“Silicon Valley was supposed to be better than this. It was supposed to be the life of the mind, where people who were interested in the mysteries of computation and cognition could get together and make the world better for everybody. Now it’s degenerated into this giant hatefest of everybody writing long screeds calling everyone else Nazis and demanding violence against them. Where if someone disagrees with the consensus, it’s just taken as a matter of course that we need to hunt them down, deny them of the cloak of anonymity, fire them, and blacklist them so they can never get a job again. Where the idea that we shouldn’t be a surveillance society where we carefully watch our coworkers for signs of sexism so we can report them to the authorities is exactly the sort of thing you get reported to the authorities if people see you saying.”
Obama apparently wants a few more state governorships and legislatures to flip red, doesn’t he?
As much as I hate GWB and the neocons, at least he knew how to actually stay away when Obama was fucking up. Even a “delicate dance” gives Trump the foil that he needs, but clearly Obama is this narcissistic and stupid. Keep it up, Obama.
Trump approval falling fast? To 40ish where it has been?
Also I don’t really buy these approval polls. They appear to be self fulfilling prophecys where poll places get answer they want
Like that wapo poll that had dems +12 over GOP
It reminds me a lot of all of the recent Virginia governor polls that are, on average, D+6. It’s as if they don’t bother to check out Virginia’s actual PVI score (~D+1) before they actually do the polling. This is why Hyperion jokes that whatever the margin in the polls are, add 5 points to the GOP side.
Rasmussen was the poll that got the Trump-Clinton popular vote margin the closest of the major poll sites, so that’s the poll that I generally check. There was a period last week post-Mooch and Senate incompetence where the approval rating went down to 39%, but then it zoomed right back to 45% by today. IOW, it actually hasn’t changed much at all from the start of his presidency. It’s all wishful thinking from the Left.
They need to lie to themselves. No wonder they lash out when confronted with reality
I also tend to think it is really 10 higher than being told
Since left likes to guilt and shame support for trump
This is true, there is a lot of “social desirability bias” that probably come from any poll about Trump. I believe that either much of his support is hidden or that a lot of his detractors are casual, soft types that care more about rhetoric than policy and don’t actually show up to vote in midterms.
“Also I don’t really buy these approval polls.”
Hillary has a 98% chance of winning against Trump.
Two thoughts:
1. TBF: who are the leaders for the Dems – if not Obama.
2. With the hints that Hillary is thinking of running again in 2020 (however unlikely that is), Obama may feel he needs to reassert himself in order to kill off the Clinton faction for good.
What, precisely, is he able to do from behind the scenes? Honestly: he was only ever a papier mâché puppet head put on a disastrously progressive agenda. He was a smug-smiling, creased-pleated, urbane, articulate talking head with no real history and no major controversies (prior to his administration, anyway). He read off the teleprompter and let his spin doctors and dewy-eyed media hacks do the rest. All he is is a snake-oil salesman. So what does he expect to do if he’s not giving speeches hectoring conservatives and flattering the sentiments of other empty-headed progressives?
A lot of DNCers still think that the race-centered Obama coalition is a viable strategy for a majority, which is why many still idolize Obama and want either Kamala or Booker to continue that momentum. The major flaw was that rural, union/working class voters were a key, underrated aspect of his base, and nearly all of them have found common ground with Trump’s center-right coalition. Doubling down on race-baiting and intersectionality will only make their problems worse.
Maybe it’s wishful thinking on my part, but I think the Obamas may be a bigger cancer for Dems than the Clintons. They’re younger, more incendiary, their one gambit–race–is toxic, they’re liable to split their party over pigshit identity politics, Barack’s legacy, such as it is, is more recent and much more inflammatory than the Clintons’, and his hidebound progressivism is much more worrisome than the Clintons’ opportunism.
Despite their myriad faults, the Clintons at least built a machine that could get Dems elected Nationwide. And they have Bill, who is one of the best retail politicians of all time, on their team.
It’s amazing Hillary has learned nothing from him over the years.
This has been the plan from day one. The house in DC, Organizing for America, etc.
There is not one single piece of our political culture that he isn’t going to shit on. The tradition of ex-Presidents quietly retiring is next on his list. Carter kinda hung around, but it was mostly in the non-profit/NGO world. Clinton pushing it a little further, but Obama is going to leave a steaming pile of Barackshit on this one and the results will not be pretty.
In many ways, I hope that Obama and Clinton continue to meddle, because all it does is further increase the odds of a Convention of States becoming reality. Many states have already signed off on a desire for a balanced budget amendment, and a few more governorships and legislatures increase the odds of an Article V Convention.
I truly believe he’ll run for president again.
If polls worked, Trump wouldn’t be President.
If I left you out, feel free to excoriate me in the comments.
I’m actually happy you left out the Dodgers-Dbacks game. Last night was just another example of the Dbacks going out of their way to shoot themselves in the foot in a game they could’ve easily won against the Dodgers.
I’ll concede they won, but I’m not convinced the Dodgers are unbeatable.
I don’t believe in the “peaked too soon” theory in most sports, but I think it’s more likely to be true in baseball because the season has so many games. A football team can play over their heads for just 19 games and win a Super Bowl. In basketball, it’s rare that a championship team wins less than 70% of its games. But I’m skeptical that a baseball team can play like this for 162 games and keep it up through the playoffs.
162?! And I thought hockey has too many games.
The 1998 Yankees could.
The fun part about the ’98 Yankees is that they coasted in the last few weeks of the season, resting a bunch of guys, went 16-12 in their last 30 games, and STILL won 114.
But I’m skeptical that a baseball team can play like this for 162 games and keep it up through the playoffs.
It probably doesn’t help the Dodgers made a habit out of taking a dump in October.
When the Twins were in LA a couple weeks ago they lost one game in walk-off fashion, and gave up a two-run lead in the eighth inning in another game. Both were winnable if their bullpen hadn’t been worked like an orphan in a salt mine all season.
On the other hand, really good teams seem to always find a way to win late in the game.
Dbacks are 5-8 against them. One game was a meltdown from their closer. Another game could’ve been chalked up to Puig winning a round against Greinke (apparently they didn’t get along in LA). Yesterday the Dbacks called up a guy from AAA Reno to pitch in Robby Ray’s spot that got knocked around and had fielding errors resulting in 3 runs (they lost by 2). But they’ve had a lot of looks against Jensen. Its easier to find a way to win late when you catch a lot of breaks.
Lefties butt hurt NFL won’t sign kaepernick. Ironically espn is the reason I think mainly….don’t want a big distraction for a mediocre qb
Would be funny if a gm (especially if supports trump) said they won’t sign him cause he said mean things about Hillary. Tie them into knots
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/opinions/the-nfl-cowards-who-arent-signing-colin-kaepernick/2017/08/10/eff49632-7d14-11e7-83c7-5bd5460f0d7e_story.html
ESPN turned him into a show
mediocre QB with PR baggage and high risk for a good portion of football watchers
or
literally any other QB.
How many teams needed a QB during the off season, four? Jets, 49ers, Texans, Bears, maybe the Rams if you don’t think Goff is any good? The Browns had 3. The draft had that many solid QB’s coming in, and there were other vet QB’s that were either better than Kap or at least didn’t have any PR baggage on the market.
Could he be taken as a backup? probably, but from what I’ve heard Kap doesn’t think he is a backup.
Hasn’t it been outed that he’s turned down multiple offers for backup because the pay isn’t high enough?
I still contend all the kneeling and pig sock crap was a cynical gamble to get into the spotlight despite his flagging career.
Yep. He was going to get cut I think and his stunt earned him a year because 49ers would look like a holes to the woke progs
That happened in Seattle. They brought him in and made him an offer appropriate for a backup QB. He turned it down.
What, sign with a team & lose all this attention?
Heaven forbid..
So if this happens, I may have to finally get an Amazon Prime account.
And fuck Ticketmaster.
I’m not sure I understand why selling tickets would be tied to Prime but given the way they push it so relentlessly gives me the heebie jeebies.
no “convenience” fee?
I always loved when Ticketmaster offered to let you print out your ticket at home, for the low fee of $3.
Fuck you! Mail it to me for free.
OK. I’m not really Prime’s target audience I suppose. Just compete with TM without the stupid subscription hooey and I’d be happy.
If I had to wager, I would say it’s because Prime provides both a predictable revenue stream, as well as ties the consumer more into the Amazon world. If anything you order is going to get to your house in 2 days, it’s a lot easier to just order online.
I’ve already seen Amazon put some DVD’s as available to Prime subscribers only.
Megan McArdle manages to shake her Beltway catatonia long enough to come out against Google and in support of Damore.
Based on her personal experience in tech and finance The epiphany came when she was asked what she did one weekend, told the tale of a busted date at a concert, got nothing back, but when a colleague said he spent the weekend doing some kind of techie thing and got all the love, she realized she would never be as good at teching as people who loved it enough to do it seven days a week. So she switched careers.
She’s still a cosmo beltway shill, but I have a little more respect for her now.
She’s better than he husband, that’s for sure.
Yep. You look into the history of someone like Steve Wozniak (who, admittedly, is the top 1% of techies) you see a guy who spent all his private time putting soldering circuit boards and building personal computers. Then he wouldn’t like something about it or realize an improvement could be made and start all over. A guy who is that into what he does is always going to be better at his job than someone who treats it as just that, a job.
He only worked so hard and loved PCs so much because of his abiding hatred for women and a desire to keep them out of the tech world.
Well, he IS a Freemason, and they’re known for their horribly sexist males-only organization…
Listen, all this pre-natal testosterone secretion and risk-taking tolerance and affinity for machinery and orderly, abstract systems and preference for things over people, it’s just a conspiracy among men in tech to keep women out.
It isn’t a waste. That sort of tinkering is part of the career, the basement server, home network, the tech world’s continuing education. Depending on your starting era you would have built S-100 systems from kits. Later you would have assembled PC’s from parts. Some of that is getting harder these days, so much of the tinkering is in software systems.
Progs trying to turn Chicago red
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/evanston/ct-evanston-cotillion-ends-20170809-story.html#nws=true
A colleague and I were just discussing whether proms would soon be banned in the near future – looks like well on the way.
money to be donated to the Polish Museum of America, the Polish American Association and other resource groups aiding local Polish immigrants.
All the way at the bottom. Of course. Polish immigrants. The worst kind of immigrants.
Stop making everything about everything, please.
Also, start your own shit. Build something new. Something better. Stop complaining.
“the Cards (welcome to the party) won”
Thanks, Sloopy! Up to 6 in a row.
Fuckity fuck fuck. I usually get lunch on the early side (like, before noon). Crush just came in my office and asked me if I had already eaten (yes). Goddamn it.
… and you said, no and went out to join him, right?
… and then you nibbled on something light and inconsequential while you chatted, right?
Right?!
did you say next time?
“Yes, but I haven’t had dessert, yet.”
No, sadly..the remains of my lunch were scattered on my desk when he came in, so the game was lost before I could say yes.
“I’m not hungry, but I’ll keep you company if you’d like.”
Do you not bro, bro?
Yeah, was literally not gonna say that with two colleagues sitting right next to me. Hello, gossip mill!
(and no, I don’t Bro, bro. People in general make me uncomfortable, and people I’m attracted to just turn me into an awkward, stuttering mess)
That sounds a little like
meprobably most of us here.I’ve been with the same woman since July 10, 1992, so I have been off the grid so to speak for quite awhile.
I’t easy to be relaxed and casual and funny when there’s nothing at stake. We all get a twinge of stage fright when we’re talking to someone we’re interested in.
I said I’d keep Monday open for him
I’ve had lunch, but I’m still pretty hungry, ifyouknowwhatimean.
Comment on a story from gawker BLM site about likely fake racist note left on black woman’s car.
This definitely not racist person just happens to have “theories” about the genetic inferiority of an entire race. Again, definitely not a racist
They probably don’t want to take that route, what with the whole ‘proven indicators that Neanderthals had larger brains and likely had a higher IQ than homo erectus” thing.
Not to mention the fact that if the ‘Neanderthal genocide’ theory is proven correct white people now have the earliest victim card in human history.
Liberals Are Terrible at Arguing With Conservatives
You’re still bad at arguing this. If you are going to concede that I earned it morally and that it is mine to use as I see fit because I did work for it, it makes no difference if the people I leave it to earned it or not–I decide where it goes. You are still using the power of the state to legitimatize your sense of morality, which you think justifies stealing from others to fund your pet issues. I remain unconvinced.
I also find it hard to believe you would ever use an estate tax to offset a tax on lower income earners. There simply aren’t enough wealthy people to balance these scales.
Maximilian Kasy is an associate professor of economics at Harvard University.
Why do they all look like this? Would it kill them to at least try to be an individual?
Such a person is not “deserving” in terms of the ethics of rewarding work; to not reward such immoral behavior, we need to tax bequests.
Which punishes the parents, whose wishes are thwarted, and begs the question of whether that money will be used only for deserving/moral ends when in the hands of the State.
A bequest tax (used to lower taxes on lower earnings) would benefit the majority of people who will never inherit much
Would it now? How? Most federal spending outside of the entitlement programs does not benefit the majority of people, etc.
We should evaluate the policy based on its effect on individuals
By making generalizations about groups of people, and applying a utilitarian analysis which utterly disregards individuals and looks only at the net impact across the population as a whole.
ProTip: to persuade people, it helps not to be stupid and self-contradictory.
I said I’d keep Monday open for him
Euphemisms, we haz ’em.
Bow chicka wow wow
Who is Monday? Is she hot?
LOL
Such a person is not “deserving”
Yeah, just stop right there.
Your opinion of who is “deserving” is irrelevant. It’s not your money. It’s not “society’s” money.
Fuck off, slaver.
anyone watch Earthlings? holy fucking animal snuff film.
We should evaluate the policy based on its effect on individuals, and assign a higher weight to the majority of less wealthy people.
Utilitarianism, FTW!
“We’re not stealing from everybody. Just the ones we don’t like.”
Just so long as they get to steal. All they really care about is the power to take your money.
This tickles me as an individualist & contrarian.
that’s pretty good.
Regarding the photo accompanying the morning links – to paraphrase Bernie Sanders “Who needs twenty-three different kinds of fuck hole? Am I right, People?” Good Heavens, I could fit two “Little Festii” into her navel and still have room for a spirited match of lawn darts.