I *think* that’s what SP called me, but it didn’t seem to sound complimentary. Maybe it was her accent? Or her missing front teeth because her baby teeth just came out (the Tooth Fairy left her a shiny new quarter under her pillow for each one). Well, anyway, I’m hoping that when the permanent teeth come in, they’ll be nice and straight because we can’t afford braces. Enough personal stuff, time for links to various and sundry.
Big news is Fat Boy detonating his own Fat Boy. Do you think he learned something from what Bush did to Saddam Hussein and what Obama did to Gaddafi? Heckuva job, guys. You managed to fuck up the one legitimate task of Federal government while you were busy doing a million things you had no business doing. BBC’s take is, as usual, enlightening.
Texas and California really should get together and make a deal.
Some observations on the death of the wonders that was once Whole Foods. I never understood how they managed to survive in a world with Mariano’s and Wegman’s, but I suppose Angry Liberals need an enclave so they don’t have to hobnob with people who may not be Berniebots.
One of these days, I’ll figure out what the point of this tax-money-pit is. Nice job, Peggy, but seriously, NASA, fuck you, cut spending. This appointment may be a step in the right direction, but really, another fucking drug warrior?
And more Music From OMWC’s Youth:
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Not related to links. Just came across this one in my twitter feed. Not surprising really – but apparently folks are getting more and more lackadaisical in their disingenuousness these days……
A couple years back they would have put some effort in to try and cover up the disparities.
huh?
Oh, never mind… >.>; *listening*
Excellent video, and relevant to my interests are a prospective father. I will admit to a bit of apprehension when all those maternal death stories were breaking.
The general trend of people citing things which contradict them has been going on a long time, though maybe less so in the national news, it has been common online for awhile.
Articles pull bullshit with statistics all the time. Sometimes the headline doesn’t even match the article.
YouTube videos often waste time getting to the point. He could have explained that discrepancy in 30 seconds.
A white cis-man talking about pregnant women? OMG I’m so triggered right now I can’t even.
/retreats to watch that Newsroom video where Jeff Daniels recites statistics showing that America sucks
First the Huffpo or NYT writer, or whoever, had a narrative, something like US healthcare system is bad for women. Then the writer googled for some statistics that appear to support the narrative. She found something and ran with it. The details don’t matter because most people are most interested in the narrative — very few people are interested in the details.
This technique is one of the basics in fake news.
Actually, they don’t even have to do any googling.
places like Center for American Progress and MoveOn.org and other proggy think tanks distribute white-paper/exec summaries of certain arguments every month, and within a few weeks, every media org in America has written some version of an argument saying “Experts say” and citing most of the exact same datapoints they’ve been spoonfed. they’re even provided lists of helpful sources to contact for quotes. (e.g. academics at universities who will sing in tune with the predetermined conclusion)
the proggy-think-tank/media nexus is real and if you realized how little work the actual journalists do on most stories, you’d be shocked. its a vertically integrated idea factory. which is why they all pivoted so quickly from cheerleading Antifa to disowning them, or moving from the confederate-statue panic, back to Russia/Trump accusations.
We need The Yokel Institute *now*
Are the morning links early?
I’m liking this as an early-rising East coaster.
7 am, as usual. Old people get up earlier than you kids.
/shakes fist
Could have sworn on weekdays they’re posted at 8.
*gets off your lawn*
China, wey be North Korea neighbor and wey be like di main friend wey di country get, don also put mouth talk say dem no gree at all for dis new nuclear test.
Dem no gree at all for dis. Wey be killin’ a chick’n to scare dat monkey.
Wat be de odds dey dun try fly bomb dat be big and do blow em own selves klene dead?
Wtf is wid dat articl?
Check the language at top.
I mean, Look ad dem word up top.
But..why?
Because its the most commonly used language in Papua New Guinea and growing numbers of people there are learning it as their first language.
‘Pidgin’ is a simplified mix of two languages – in this case, English and what appears to be whatever they speak in Nigeria – that arises over time to make it easier for people to communicate.
Ah, I didn’t see that it was Nigerian Pidgin. That’s probably why it reads so close to how Caribbean creoles sound.
That the BBC has a pidgin version is a source of endless delight.
Racist BBC
Swiss needs to step up his gaze game.
http://freebeacon.com/culture/obama-service-award-recipient-now-researching-butt-fisting/amp/
“He is a recipient of several notable distinctions, including the United States President Barack Obama’s Gold Service Award for humanitarian work, and United Nations in Asia Letter of Distinction for volunteering,” the website adds.
I’d give him a brown star.
*narrows gaze*
Uh, Swiss…
On it…
Are you saying good people can’t enjoy a little butt-fisting ‘research’?
I thought our motto was “ass-sex, messicans and pot”.
There is a Polak joke in there somewhere but I can’t put my finger on it.
I read Lublin and Lubing and thought it all made sense.
er. and=as.
I’m too boiled over with rage that this tool received money for the study to look into the source of the funding, and that I just read a full length article in a major news outlet about it.
You are right. We should give that money to artists instead.
Only artists living in rural areas can save our nation.
Bonus: Lots of sermonizing on how the National Endowment for the Arts is critical to saving us all. Only a big meanie like Trump would even consider cutting it.
NOTHING LEFT TO CUT
BARF
A sister story to the one above. It is about the attempt to create an “art community” in a town on NW Minnesoda.
If it wasn’t for the NEA grant money pouring in, I think the artists would be in for a hard time.
*makes note to NOT stop in Fergus on way to Mps/StP
Don’t sweat it Mike, they closed the funny farm in 2005. It isn’t a trap.
“Very conservative context” = population distribution with lowwe tolerance for slimebag postmodernist nonsense?
No, it’s because you successfully shook down the legislature for a slice of that fucking environmental amendment.
Fucking thieves.
Uffda Tundra. You gotta give me a trigger warning before you bring up the Legacy fund.
Why do you want to starve Minnesoda Tundra?
And to be fair Tundra, they didn’t shake down the legislature. The artsy-fartsies were smart enough to get their slice by injecting themselves into the referendum to start with.
All my hunting/fishing buddies were so sure that we needed a dedicated fund to do what the DNR should have been doing, that they assured me not to worry about adding the Arts to the puzzle.
Now they are all ashamed of themselves and admit that the ammendment was the dumbest thing ever.
I’m still pissed about that whole debacle.
Hey, how’s the fishing on Mille Lacs, by the way?
What an asshole.
That is an excellent choice of photo
One of these days, I’ll figure out what the point of this tax-money-pit is.
You of all people, OMWC, should know it is for the science. (whatever that means. Nothing good has came out of the space program since tang and those brown food stick things) Plus, what else are they going to do with that NASA Gulfstream jet if it did not ferry astronauts around the planet.
Apparently, it exists so Florida politicians from both sides of the aisle can bitch and moan when a non-Floridian is appointed head of NASA
Possiblyresulting in a diversion of NASA pork away from Florida.Florida, Texas, and Alabama.
Mississippi, also. Stennis.
and VELCRO!
And pens that write upside down!
Where would you be without pen ink cartridges loaded with a forward forcing function, fucker?
Pencil
Where would you be without Tang, fucker?
At least he can’t drug war from NASA hq.
I do like that Trump appoints relative outsiders to these positions. Last thing we need is another insider bureaucrat who know how to endlessly spend money in ways that look legit.
Relevant.
Although as a kid I did want to be an astronaut.
Hey, in the last forty-some years NASA has taken us from the moon to low-earth orbit.
Nevermind – we can’t even get to low-earth orbit anymore.
http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2017/08/29/hk-head-fired-heckler-koch-chair-ceo-norbert-scheuch-forced/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=2017-09-02&utm_campaign=Weekly+Newsletter
Heckler &Koch fires their CEO. Sounds like they have some serious management problems.
If you can’t sell guns with Obama as President, you have a problem.
Where will the social signaling shopper go now? I imagine there is some truth to the snark in that article.
Open a chain in Venezuela. Some Foods.
Use toilet paper to wrap the food in to make it a two for one
Eventually, if you starve enough, you don’t need TP anymore.
Interestingly, when I lived in the SF Bay area, the real social signal store was Berkeley Bowl. And surprisingly, their prices, selection, and quality of produce were phenomenally good. The people shopping there… well… I remember having my (at the time) 3 year old son in the shopping cart asking me, “Daddy, why does everybody here look so mad?”
It was always great to have someone in a Volvo with the canonical “Visualize World Peace” and “Commit Random Acts of Kindness” bumper stickers flipping me the bird in the parking lot.
Around here they drive Priussss (Prii?)…slowly…
here too, but you see the occasional tesla or audi with a Bernie sticker.
Which always crack me up, because who in the countries he loves so much can afford to drive those?
I do like WF. But only because it’s closer than Wegmans.
Obligatory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UFc1pr2yUU
The social signal store here is Sprouts. They do have a good selection of veges, but I would imagine the majority of it is coming from the same suppliers as the Walmart 1/4 mile down the road. I only go there for flour. It is the only place I can find that has stone ground wheat flour. You always get a sneer from customers though if they see you do not have your own reusable shopping bags.
What kind of social signaling does a a flour purchase make? I’m not familiar with that one.
I social signal poorly. I just go there for flour and to look at yoga pants. They also have giant brussel sprouts that I have bought before that when combined with enough bacon are quite good.
Aha! The truth comes out!
A flour purchase signals that you’re not concerned about glutten, and obviously a food ignoramus.
Most of the BB customers are actually quite lovely, but the assholes are always there and they’re very noticeable. Why are hippies either the nicest people you’ll ever meet or the nastiest? There’s no in-between.
The employees (they usually commuted from poorer cities) and products are top-notch.
There are nice ones, but in my experience they skew heavily towards awful. Some of the nice ones are only nice on the surface.
Notice how a lot of them have this creepy frozen smile on their face when in public? The moment they think they’re alone, their real face comes out. Look through car windows and stuff in the parking lot.
That one is simple. Resume shopping at your local horrible natural foods store that stinks of vitamin supplements and patchouli.
Is the author a lurker here?
The juju curse that binds trafficked Nigerian women into sex slavery
She gestures to her devotees, who sit nervously fiddling with their phones as they wait for her to begin. “The spirit is forcing them to remain in a life of prostitution. When they come to Europe and realise they can’t live this life, they come to me and I help free them of this juju forever.”
She says she has spent the past 10 years battling the juju curses that are potentially keeping tens of thousands of Nigerian women under the control of human traffickers across Europe.
In 2016 its staff registered more than 11,000 Nigerian women at landing points in Sicily, with more than 80% of them victims of trafficking and destined for a life of forced prostitution on street corners and in brothels across Italy and Europe. Before they left Nigeria, many of them will have been made to undergo traditional oath-taking ceremonies involving complicated and frightening rituals often using the women’s blood, hair and clothing. These rituals – which have become known as the “juju” – bond the woman to her trafficker and to any debts she will incur. The rituals make it clear that failure to pay off those debts will result in terrible things happening to the woman and her family.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/sep/02/juju-curse-binds-trafficked-nigerian-women-sex-slavery
well this is a different level of fucked up
Dafuq. Where’s Constantine when you need him
*Scowls at avatar*
Having worked in Nigeria for a few years, I can attest Ju-Ju carries big weight. As do many other superstitious type behaviors. The christian churches there are big on preaching wealth religion where the preachers messages focus on a monetary return to individuals if they donate enough money to the church. It is a strange culture. FGM is a big problem as well. Sick stuff.
“christian churches there are big on preaching wealth religion where the preachers messages focus on a monetary return to individuals if they donate enough money to the church”
There is plenty of that in the U.S.
For example?
Here’s one. Used to see his ads on the subway all the time.
Joel Osteen’s church certainly hints at it. I went to a service a few years back.
Joel Osteen, Oral Roberts, and Robert Tilton>
Yes, there definitely is, but I have never seen it like I witnessed it in Nigeria. Advertisements stating stuff like, ‘Sister Mary Ogologo donated X amount and was blessed the next week with XX amount.’ I think if a church here put up a billboard stating if you donated $100 you would receive $1000 the next week would get them some attention. It is close to being a full on scam. To the point the wealthiest/popular Nigerian preachers rent police from the government for protection. Something the government is happy to do because they make money on the rental.
It is close to being a full on scam.
Oh don’t be coy, ‘sloper, that’d get you a subpoena within a month from the consumer protection division of any of the US States and Territories if you had that up on a high traffic billboard within any of said jurisdictions.
MGM is a big problem here. Grr.
Back to the nurse/cops/local story story, The Rigby, ID Police Department (where the unconscious burn victim the cops wanted the blood draw from is a reserve officer) thanked the nurse for protecting him.
Is there any situation that cop fellators won’t defend? Because last night I got to hear a couple fellow nurses (ultra-conservative and cop wife) explain away the Utah RN
“Is there any situation that cop fellators won’t defend?”
When they’re on the receiving end of the cop’s BS?
My wife is a nurse and her and her Co-workers are pretty pissed about it.
Ohio Association of Nurses also defending nurse.
http://www.ohnurses.org/ona-stands-nurse-wubbels/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=Sendible&utm_campaign=RSS
Cop suckers here in Utah be like: well getting a licence means you consent to this.
Some good snark from the comments:
Not sure if this has been covered yet. I watched a long video by a cop that was just hanging out watching the whole thing. Towards the end he witnesses an interesting conversation with the police supervisor that shows up. His whole lecture is amazingly wrong and condescending at the same time. But one line is especially interesting. He says:
WTF?! So it sounds like this hospital has been stopping this police force from doing this sort of thing before. Like, so often that this ass-hole says it’s a “habit.” I sure hope someone in Salt Lake is taking a deep look into this police force.
Oops. Link
The war on cops has seeped into the University hospital!!!!
Cops really believe that they are the law and the final say. They think that no one has any legitimate authority to disobey let alone the then they are wrong.
“There’s a very bad habit up here, of your policy interfering with my law”
Fuck those pigs. Fire them all.
Right? That’s something straight out of the Wild West
I hope this sinks the careers if several officer’s at the SLCPD.
Don’t hold your breath.
It’s going to be interesting to see what happens to that lawless bully cop. Seems like everyone including cops agree he crossed the line.
I think you know what will happen in this world… put off judgements, investigations, trials until the issue is forgotten then BAM welcome back from your long paid vacation
The last I heard, the asshole wasn’t even put on leave during the “investigation.” Which is probably being conducted by the “my law” guy I quoted above. Blue wall, etc, etc,…
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/09/02/utah-cop-put-on-leave-after-bodycam-video-shows-him-cuffing-nurse-for-refusing-to-draw-blood-on-unconscious-patient.html
Wait a minute? Don’t we arrest people on suspicion prior to conducting an investigation? Oh right, that’s for non-cops.
I think cop hubris that they can fuck with whoever they want without consequences may have been exceeded here. Too bad it’s unlikely to carry over to a general skepticism of the unchecked police power.
As part of the criminal investigation, they need to draw blood from Detective Payne.
All of it.
They can’t keep him on.
He’s a derelict asshole. Even police have their limits. I hope.
“Even police have their limits”
Hahaha!
What are you? Canadian?
Was reading through that thread and came across the feminist interpretation:
Got it. It wasn’t (just?) that he was a dirty cop trying to cover his department’s ass. It was that he wanted that nurse to get back to the kitchen and make him a sammich.
“Protesters dressed as dinosaurs gathered on the Capitol lawn on Aug. 30, 2017, to demonstrate against Trump’s budget cuts.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/08/30/dinosaurs-proclaim-stop-national-service-extinction/616275001/
Shouldn’t you be wearing the bucket?
So like the dinosaurs, they are ineffective and soon to be obsolete
You know i just woke up after having slept better than i have in probably a year. After reading just that one angering wrote, yeah…totally reversed my good feelz.
So national service employees have enough time to pull this stunt… I guess we can fire them.
“Daniel, who in a stunt he says was inspired by Donald Trump’s presidential run and subsequent policies, says he spent two days calling small towns in the United States requesting to be their mayor.
Man becomes mayor of town called Hell, bans straight people, gets impeached — all in one day
A popular YouTube personality named Elijah Daniel found out firsthand just how vicious politics can be.
Daniel, who in a stunt he says was inspired by Donald Trump’s presidential run and subsequent policies, says he spent two days calling small towns in the United States requesting to be their mayor.
The effort wound up working. He eventually found a small, unincorporated town in Michigan that would allow him to be Mayor of the Day — something anyone with a little cash to spare can do while visiting Hell — so he traveled there, signed some documents, and it happened:
However, the 72 residents of Hell were probably not expecting that Daniel would begin making drastic changes with his limited time in office. The first thing he did while serving as acting mayor: ban all heterosexuals from entering Hell.
“I love straights, but my #1 priority is the safety of my town. Until the heterosexual threat has been reviewed we cannot allow them to enter,” he wrote on Twitter. “I am the first U.S. mayor to ban heterosexuality but I hope my act of bravery will inspire fellow politicians to ban straights as well.”
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Man-becomes-mayor-of-town-called-Hell-bans-12164576.php
*edit fairy grumbles about work on holiday weekend*
The best part is about the privacy policy and photo credits. ?
*believes in edit fairy harder*
*no longer believes in edit fairy*
The link is fine, what gives?
Sorry, I quoted a bunch of junk in the middle by accident.
I have no idea what you mean.
*blinks*
Andy Sacks takes the best pictures.
Woops! No idea how that happened. Crap.
This guy is so clever and woke he should change his name to Clever McWokeface.
“Todrick Hall is a Broadway and YouTube star with millions of followers on social media, but he has been deemed “not black enough” by what he calls the “woke police” — a group of people who sit in judgement against anyone who sins against political correctness.”
“When Taylor Swift shared a 13-second preview of her hotly anticipated “Look What You Made Me Do” music video last week, it should have been a celebratory moment for her good friend, the hugely successful YouTube/RuPaul’s Drag Race/MTV/American Idol/Kinky Boots star and recording artist Todrick Hall, who’d had to keep his dancing cameo top secret since the clip was filmed back in May. But instead, Hall was trolled online by haters, who called him everything from “sellout” to even a racial epithet, and accused the openly gay performer of betraying both the black and LGBTQ communities just for associating with Swift.”
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/09/02/taylor-swifts-backup-dancer-is-being-attacked-for-not-being-black-enough/
I”m not really current on pop culture, what is wrong with Swift, from the black/LGBTQ perspective?
She’s white and blonde?
She also refused to take a side in the election, and mostly avoids speaking about politics. And there is this (likely manufactured) feud between her and Katy Perry, who was huge Clinton supporter.
She also beat out Queen Bey for a Grammy because white privilege.
She’s also incredibly attractive. It angers your typical prog, because in order to signal hard enough, you have to gain 50lbs like Amy Schumet.
We’ll have to agree to disagree here. I find her incredibly plain. The above mentioned Katy Perry is far better looking, IMO.
I think both are great looking women. Swift has the edge for me though. Perry’s illuminati schtick turns me off. Also she keeps making her appearance more extreme, i like classier understated looks.
It’s really a testament to modern marketing how a conspiracy theory can be leveraged to market pop music, though.
Well, I’d blame the fact that I generally don’t find white girls all that attractive, and blondes especially. Most just look so plain to me. So I like it when one does some of that more outlandish stuff like tattoos or unnatural hair color, like the blue I see in a lot of Perry’s pics.
Well, that, and the fact that, unlike Swift, Perry displays secondary sex characteristics, like mammary glands.
Aye.
I’m actually partial to brunettes, but there’s something about Swift. Also both thicc and thinn is fine with me. It would be boring if they all looked the same 🙂
Well, showing lots of clevage certainly doesn’t hurt.
Yes. it distracts from the singing.
Playa claims she’s no more than a 4 though.
There’s a difference between thinn (e.g., my wife) and being built like a 15-year-old boy. Swift is the latter.
Playa is wrong. After airbrushing she’s a 5.
“Yes. it distracts from the singing.”
You say that like it’s a bad thing. You first hear that “singing” and you want to kill yourself. But then you look down and Shazam! Suddenly life’s good again.
Them tittays look sweaty and bruised. Small and firm is sometimes better
Slammer, did it occur to you they might be bruised because they’re sweaty?
/Risking family friendly rating
I am Swiss Servator, and I approve of Baked Penguin’s comment.
/The Friends of Swiss Servator, Inc., contributed to this broadcast
Are tittay opinions Objective or Subjective?
Probably this.
I didn’t realize actual Nazi groups had said that, since the only evidence of her “Nazi ties” that ONTD could come up with last week was that Breitbart had tweeted her lyrics.
She like Tom Woods won’t denounce fascism, thus she like Woods is a fascist
/Nick Sawark
Sorry, I used imprecise words and messed that up. Probably a sign I should go to bed
Are you sure you weren’t just speaking Pidgin?
Jesus Christ!
Do I have to brownsplain everything to you people?
Lena Dunham?
Nope. Not clicking.
All you Swift haters has to admit she looks like the most beautiful woman In the world in that pic..
Anyone looking at that pic is too busy puking their guts out to admit anything. Anyone looks good next to that, thing. Shit, even Hillary isn’t as repulsive looking.
Now I’m morbidly curious to see a photo of her next to Rosie O’Donnell. Which one will be less hideous?
Imagine them making out. Naked. In an inflatable pool full of jelly.
http://img10.deviantart.net/b894/i/2011/146/0/a/the_crawling_chaos_by_ryscke-d3h91ic.jpg
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That didn’t work well. Anyway, use instead of [ ] and em instead of i
Dammit! Use this thing < and it's counterpart
If you screw around with your internet any more you’re gonna break it
Right?!
ok
strike = strike through
strong = bold
Genius. What’s the tag for a blockquote?
blockquote
less-than-sign blockquote greater-than-sign This is some quoted text less-than-sign /blockquote greater-than-sign
Bold is “strong”
Italics i “em”
Strikethrough is “strike”
Is that the new Apple iOK?
*runs from room*
Im glad that the sjw crowdv is getting so ridiculous that even celebrities are starting to ignore/push back.
A popular YouTube personality named Elijah Daniel found out firsthand just how vicious politics can be.
Guess what, Dummy. This has nothing to do with “politics”. If you go around gratuitously insulting people and generally being an asshole, don’t bother to act surprised when you’re down there on the sidewalk looking for your teeth.
It’s just a prank bro!
They didn’t, of course, but that was beside the point, because perceived envy and actual envy are effectively the same thing for an envy addict.
Nice.
RIP Walter Becker of Steely Dan.
At least Lou Reed is still around
I mentioned that joke at work and my friend said, “Lou Reed died?!”
A true believer!
Damn. Steely Dan is my favorite group of all time.
+ dibs on Walt’s piasters
What? Damn , I have a big sad now, SD Was a great band RIP
Paul Ryan, fake Catholic.
One line of questioning was particularly devastating—as it revealed Ryan’s startling ignorance regarding not just poverty but the antipoverty programs he seeks to diminish and dismantle.
It came from a local nun and retired educator and school principal, Sinsinawa Dominican Sister Erica Jordan:
Good evening, Mr. Speaker. I know that you’re Catholic, as am I, and it seems to me that most of the Republicans in the Congress are not willing to stand with the poor and working class as evidenced in the recent debates about health care and the anticipated tax reform. So I’d like to ask you how you see yourself upholding the church’s social teaching that has the idea that God is always on the side of the poor and dispossessed, as should we be.
Yeah, I remember that clearly from Sunday School. God commanded Pharoah to impose progressive income taxes on the Egyptian wealthy and the merchant class on pain of death, in order to redistribute the money to the poor. Because that’s what “Christian charity” really means.
“God is always on the side of the poor and dispossessed,”
Im not a theologian, but that isnt quite right. Christianity is about faith and redemption. Temporal charity is commanded but charity is explicitly voluntary.
God is always on the side of the poor and dispossessed,
But, what if the poor and dispossessed are assholes?
Seriously, though, I’ve never read anything that supports this notion. The Beatitudes said “Blessed are the poor in spirit. That last part is kind of important. There’s no sane argument that you can make that says the fact that someone is poor puts them on the side of God. Honestly, I’d suggest the good sister is trying to take the place of Jesus.
I’m surprised the left doesn’t get whiplash going from separation of church and state absolutism to justifying every welfare program in the country as an exemplar of Christian charity.
Render to Ceaser, the things that are Ceaser’s and the things that are God’s so he can properly redistribute it for society.
Because Obamacare reduced poverty. If you don’t want insurance premiums to triple you hate the poor.
Addicting people to the State does not help them and is thoroughly un-Christian.
Warmonger pushes fear over the Norks’ bomb.
Quick reminder, he’s referring to these people.
I thought it was going to be an Austin Bay article,He’s my current go to War Monger, I won’t give him clicks, you go first
http://observer.com/2017/08/donald-trump-north-korea-diplomatic-military-strategy/
After Bolton dies, will his mustache live on?
Well, Red Eye doesn’t need a president anymore, so I’m not sure. *sheds single tear*
The war on poverty had its roots in the administration of President John Kennedy, when he and his aides took an interest in Michael Harrington’s groundbreaking 1962 book, The Other America. In that book, the prominent democratic socialist explained that it was practically and morally wrong for a nation as wealthy as the United States to look the other way while close to a quarter of its population lived in poverty. Kennedy’s successor, Lyndon Johnson, used his January 8, 1964, State of the Union address to announce a war-on-poverty legislative agenda that proposed a variety of education, health-care and community-action programs to address economic inequality and injustice. “Our aim,” announced Johnson, “is not only to relieve the symptom of poverty, but to cure it and, above all, to prevent it.”
Und so weiter
And, of course, the idiot from the Nation uses the Official Poverty Line number to bolster his claim that we’re “losing” the fight against poverty (Or not; I’m not really sure). If we want to end poverty, just lower the goddam arbitrary number. Shazzam! Your problem has been solved.
When I see a panhandler at an intersection with a dog, a cellphone, and a nicer, newer mountain bike than mine, I can’t help thinking I should be asking *him* for a handout.
If we want to end poverty, just lower the goddam arbitrary number. Shazzam! Your problem has been solved.
Even leaving that aside, if 43 years and 20 trillion dollars has resulted in our losing the fight against poverty, maybe there’s something wrong with the strategy we’re using.
But the DoD contractors are sssssssstaaarving!!!!!!!!!
C’mon guys, stop saying that word…you are going to wear the poor guy out!
Yeah, don’t be like the Aquabats when they met Pilgrim Boy.
A lot of times they just define poverty as being in the bottom tenth percent in income making it impossible to get rid of.
Can’t we just Decimate them?
“Our aim,” announced Johnson, “is not only to relieve the symptom of poverty, but to cure it and, above all, to prevent it.”
And, of course, every policy they pursued in the name of the War on Poverty had the effect of slightly masking symptoms of poverty while increasing its incidence and perniciousness. If these guys had been at all interested in actually reducing poverty there’s a lot of things they could have done. They could have abolished the minimum wage, which keeps the poor perpetually locked out of the labor market. They could have put pressure to eliminate occupational licensing, which keeps the poor locked out of opportunities. They could have reduced taxes and regulations, particularly in poor neighborhoods and encouraged higher rates of capital formation. There are any number of alternatives. They didn’t do a single one of these things. They only provided incentives for poor people to live their lives under the government thumb and vote accordingly.
It’s going to be interesting to see what happens to that lawless bully cop. Seems like everyone including cops agree he crossed the line.
My money’s on a couple of “counseling sessions” and a letter of commendation.
At least he got home safe
He’ll get a nice paid vacation like the rest of them. My understanding was that the nurse’s lawyer leaked the videos when it looked as if the whole thing was going to be swept under the rug by the “justice” system.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4847152/Taylor-Swift-shows-support-victims-Hurricane-Harvey.html
“Miley Cyrus announced on The Ellen DeGeneres Show that her Happy Hippie Foundation have donated $500,000 to the cause.”
That doesn’t surprise me. As she has always been extremely philanthropic.
Although, I am a bit surprised, “Leonardo DiCaprio has donated $1 million via his charitable foundation to the newly established United Way Harvey Recovery Fund”.
Gotta upstage the evil right who are literally out in boats saving people and animals.
I hope they’re at least calling press conferences and announcing their intention to go out in boats to save people and animals. Unless people you’ll never meet praise you for it, what’s the point?
A key aspect of the Bridenstine hire for NASA that the GOPe people might not like is that he is a Freedom Caucus rep that probably wants NASA to stay strictly a space agency and not another science wing self-serving to the AGW agenda. Of particular interest to him is untapped natural resources on the moon.
Is this legitimate? Wouldn’t exiting the moons orbit be only slightly less difficult but with the logistical problems of running the operation on the moon?
Not to be too dickish, but “meh”.
Vanity Fair story headline:
Exiles on Pennsylvania Avenue: How Jared and Ivanka Were Repelled by Washington’s Elite
I think any sensible person would find Washington’s “elite” repellent; repugnant, revolting, disgusting, odious, loathesome….
Oh, wait, did the literary giants use that word “repelled” inaptly?
The headline is just looking for a good mocking
You would think that the “elite” would love Ivanka in particular, since she’s basically a casual cocktail prog, but I don’t believe that a fashion mag checks up on their narrative that hard, anyways.
You would think that the “elite” would love Ivanka in particular, since she’s basically a casual cocktail prog,
You’d think. I’d think. But, libertarians have that pernicious habit of thinking of people as individuals. For progressives, Ms. Trump is “literally the daughter of Satan”. As such, she can’t have any redeeming qualities or have any merit.
“Texas Governor Abbott, who is wheelchair-bound after a freak accident when he was 26: while out jogging, a tree fell on him. ”
Wow
link to pictures of Trump,
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/09/the-ultimate-photo-op-for-president-trump.php
“Such a racist…huh, no wait, don’t release those pictures!”
/CNN
*Paging SugarFree*
Some good shots of The Hair.
Some better shots of FLOTUS.
Yowza.
And a “Texas” Hat….this could be good.
Yeah. It’s hard not to think of what an upgrade that was.
Im guessing he had a bough-t of bad luck.
Woodn’t you know it? Someone decides to get punny.
What an ash-hole.
I’m root-ing for more
Is this what you’re looking fir?
You guys really need to branch out to different types of humor.
If you don’t like the puns, just leaf.
So I come back from vacation, do a search for Wubbels on Glibertarians, and there’s no results? Please tell me y’all have been discussing this, at least in the comments somewhere?
Oh yes, it has been linked several times and discussed heavily over the past bit.
Look no further than comment #9 above
Yes, we have, but I don’t recall anyone writing her last name.
They haven’t made those in 20 years.
Wait, that’s Weebles.
Started here: https://glibertarians.com/2017/09/friday-morning-linkses/#comment-245582
Welcome back!
Nice to “see” you again. Where did y’all go?
KK just wants to uphold the ski bunny sisterhood.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Shaffer_(alpine_skier)
Goddamn right!
KK goes on vacation, Nurses hit hardest, yes it has been discussed aplenty
Out of all of the recent Trump nominees, this is the one that I hope gets a confirmation along with Bridenstine. My question is whether the Democrats will be united in opposition, since it’s a very McCain/Graham-unfriendly hire. I know the Bernie wing likely wants this hire, since they all believe that they’re anti-corporate welfare, and I’m pretty sure Bernie will vote for confirmation. My question is how many proggier Dems will join Bernie to confirm him.
The compromise between keeping the agency and ending the agency is to keep it.
Primary more RINOs out next year, then they’ll have to compromise with actual conservatives, hopefully.
Half the Republican Party wants Ex-Im dead. The other half wants Ex-Im alive. A good compromise is to keep Ex-Im, but then reform it.
Go King Solomon! Cut that baby in half!
(actually that would be a better outcome because then the Ex-Im baby would be dead)
Small business only accounts for 20% of Ex-Im — cutting it back to just that would be a major improvement. Let Boeing fend for itself.
From that long-winded rambling hit piece in Vanity Fair
A former associate said of the couple, “She was always the one with the personality, the one with a much stronger presence. He was a pretty quiet, soft-spoken, nice guy, and there was a certain formless quality to him.” As noted, Ivanka organized the social schedule. Kushner himself had few friends. Since his father-in-law’s election, he has talked in an interview about “exfoliating” those who are not supportive of his work with the president, perhaps not the most congenial way to talk about people you no longer need or want. He reportedly told one former associate, who had brought up the ugly rhetoric of the campaign Kushner had helped run, that he did not “give a shit” if the associate didn’t want to do business with Kushner anymore.
“I haven’t had anything to do with them since they moved,” said one New York friend, “and it is because the day that man gave an inaugural speech, what am I going to say? ‘What the fuck is wrong with you?’ ” When they lived in New York, Kushner used to remind Ivanka that “we’re in the zoo, but let’s try hard not to be part of the animals.” He often would add, “You want to be watching.”
It’s like they’re trying to get me to like Kushner.
The image fairy has been busy this morning. Very nice.
Indeed, there are a lot of fairies at Glibertarians.com.
I want more contributions from the cleavage fairy.
Ok.
Never change, HM.
Tasty.
Nasty.
Hey all, anyone looking for one more fantasy football league before the season starts?
Well you’re in luck, because we still have room in the unofficial, official Glibs Discord League! Let me know if you’re interested, and if you haven’t already, you should check out the Discord itself, where our drug and alcohol fueled rambling makes this place look sane!
Only by Degree
Other forays into the work of Washington society have been equally dismal. The couple recently attended an off-the-record dinner at the home of Atlantic Media’s owner, David Bradley, the sort of soirée Bradley holds on a regular basis with newsmakers and prominent Washington reporters and columnists. “They were terrible,” one attendee told me. The couple kept to platitudes and pabulum, as they often do in public conversations. People close to Kushner and Ivanka say that they have come to Washington for a limited time to work, not make inroads into the social scene, much less put down roots.
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But outside the White House, a key problem seems to be, as one Washington veteran told me, that Kushner and Ivanka don’t have the necessary self-awareness—don’t understand how to behave when you roll into Washington as the creature of someone else. Most such people take a seat a little off to the side, at least until they get their bearings. “What is off-putting about them is they do not grasp their essential irrelevance,” this veteran told me. “They think they are special.”
UPSTARTS!
And, of course, the complete lack of self-awareness of the anonymous snipers goes unremarked. Just like Paris Hilton, they are important because they are important. They whine about “nepotism” in the Trumphouse, but they rode into town on somebody else’s coattails, too.
off-the-record dinner
Geezus H. Christ. Other than weirdo world that those people inhabit, why would an off the record dinner be so special as to distinguish it from just dinner.
“They were terrible,”
Exactly how were they terrible, because they didn’t immediately denounce their father/father-in-law in private at the first opportunity?
Kushner and Ivanka don’t have the necessary self-awareness
What exactly were they supposed to do? Other than the denouncement above, beg the popular kids to be able to sit at the cool table? Trade katty gossip and slur the right people?
If I’m reading this all right, the essential message of the story is “Damn Ivanka and Kushner! They’re not sufficiently seeking our approval so we can snub them!”
Uffda!
HBO passes on a show about Minnesoda Somalis
Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate
by Zoe Quinn
“refused to be a victim”
I think being a victim was the definition of what she and sarkeesian did.
How is this guy and Anita still relevant? How are these clowns still taken seriously?
I’m pretty sure Zoe Quinn is cis-gendered. Maybe you meant Brianna Wu?
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/02/13/the-wacky-world-of-wu-the-tortured-history-of-gamergates-self-styled-feminist-martyr/
Ah you’re right. Sorry, I get these nobodies drawing out their 15 minutes of infamy mixed up sometimes.
Even more reason to fucking hate Wil Wheaton.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZGBdSQ1xyw
I really want to like him actually. He’s reasonably funny, a giant nerd, etc. He just makes it impossible unfortunately by progging harder and harder.
To be honest I agree with you: his Tosh. O-like clip show he had a few years ago was actually pretty funny. Everything I’ve heard him say since, though, makes me want to punch him, metaphorically of course-NAP and whatnot, in his mouth. I recall a few years ago he decided to grovel and apologize for something he said and he hasn’t stopped since.
Not Tosh specifically right? I’ve never heard Tosh apologize for anything….of course that might also be why I haven’t seen any new projects or shows by him in the last few years….some of his stuff was amazingly inappropriate (esp stand up) and of course – hilarious.
Wheaton had to grovel for something but I don’t remember the specifics. I think he pissed off some feminists, they jerked his chain, and he folded like a lawn chair.
Possibly not the incident you’re talking about, but the SJWs went after him back in January after (tldr version) he disagreed with a Muslim woman who implied he wasn’t woke enough.
What? She’s made a total of 1 “game”.
Yup. She is way better than… What’s his face, that Notch guy.
Is she the one whose only game got any attention because she fucked the reviewer?
I mean they did say “critically acclaimed”
Yes. For those who don’t know, it was basically an HTML-linked ‘choose your own adventure’ story.
Only instead of an adventure, it was about suffering from chronic depression.
Only instead of an adventure, it was about suffering from chronic depression.
Oh, more fun than man should be allowed.
“Zoe Quinn is the creator of Depression Quest, a text based game that seeks to present the experience of someone suffering from untreated extreme depression.”
Now doesn’t that sound like fun?
You are in a psych ward of twisty little corridors, all alike.
Games that are fun is an expression of cis-hetero-normative oppression by the patriarchy. Games should have messages; like how capitalism is slowly killing the environment with climate change, or people through lack of free healthcare.
Here’s the thing about the modern internet culture wars (call it the “SJWs vs Alt-rightish” if you want) =
all the self-proclaimed “Good Guys” are such awful, boring shits…
….that you can’t help but feel yourself instinctively siding with the “Bad Guys”. even when those bad guys are hardly any better. at least they have some sense of humor.
Honorary Glibs?
“ran naked with a pair of scissors”
I thought we were dealing with sane people til read this. Who in their right mind runs with scissors.
Who in their right mind runs with scissors.
We won the War Against Running With Scissors. That’s why the world is so infested with imbeciles.
I found this via Ricochet.com they want to take down Cecil Rhodes statue, AT Rhodes College,this guy ain’t havin it
https://rosebyanyothernameblog.wordpress.com/2017/09/01/too-good-to-not-quote/
Me-ow
Damn. That was really good.
Epic, even. Reminds me of Hitchen’s better single malt infused diatribes!
What’d he do? oh, right, racist.
someone said the other day on twitter (can’t remember who) something like: “Name 5 figures from before 1840 that are utterly faultless from a modern POV”
iow, ‘find me the ‘innocent’ ones’.
Sargon made a good point about the reason why this is hard: By definition, everything in the distant-enough-past is morally flawed. History is a constantly changing moral landscape. demanding that the past adhere to current standards is a fools errand to begin with.
who wrote that quoted letter, btw?
Wait, is this guy implying that UVA is not a “revered institution”? Fuck him, I’m riding with the piggies on this one because of him. Wahoowa! We can still beat Bill ‘n’ Bitch in football *cheering slowly shifts into uncontrollable sobbing*
When you wrote ‘Bill & Bitch’, I first thought you were making an oblique reference to the Razorbacks.
We disowned bill and bitch a long time ago. Also, I believe I speak for all Arkansas when I say, We are terrible sorry.
Apparently a fake, was originally printed @ Breitbart
http://www.snopes.com/oxford-letter-to-students/
Snopes? OK
Still a good read
Too bad – thought there was at least one person in official Britain that still had their cojones. Guess I was wrong.
Not only a fake, but poncy brit amateur-linguists say its clearly written in american vernacular rather than oxfordian eng
sorry Oriel at Oxford or some such
This happened on my vacay. There were actually two, but I look 1/2 way decent in this pic, so…
Nice.
Also, I ate poutine for the first time, and it was fucking delicious. It was more of a shi-shi version, with lighter turkey gravy. So good.
Noooooooo! The Canadians got to her. Damn you canukistan!
Well, everything in it was VT-made. Does that count?
It just means they are exporting their terrorism.
I’ll not sit here and let you bad mouth poutine! It is a gift from God, through Canada, to the world!
Yes. Let the gravy flow through you.
– “The Great White Hunter Stands Astride Nature and Says, “Your Spoils Are Mine”
Tasty!
Here it is moments after the catch. We used the Deeper fish finder (highly recommend this product!!!!) to find a hole and set bait on the bottom. Caught two within 30 minutes.
Here’s both together. Both about 2.5 – 3 lbs.
“SACRAMENTO — After a violent weekend of suspected gang-related shootings, Tuesday the Sacramento City Council took action to reduce the bloodshed.
It approved a controversial program called Advance Peace, which offers cash stipends to gang members who remain peaceful.
The program is already in use in Richmond and is also being considered in Stockton. Some believes it can help curve violent crime.
The program targets key gang agitators, offering them cash stipends to graduate school and remain peaceful. It already claims success in dropping crime rates in Richmond. But the city would still have to pay half the cost of the program, $1.5 million out of the city’s general fund.”
http://fox40.com/2017/08/29/sacramento-city-council-approves-advance-peace-program/
So all I need to do to earn some extra cash is agitate the cities of Richmond, Stockton, and Sacramento?
“Go shoot them in the next town over”
Who here is a hardcore aviation geek? Can’t remember if I posted this before I went on vacation, but this is essentially a plane spotting talk show. They do two shows a week (Wed & Sat). It’s hard to catch them live, especially on Saturday, as they start early in the morning UK time.
https://twitter.com/oopsiedoodler/status/903766230045270017
LOL
https://twitter.com/naosoumario/status/903983948677697536
That’s even better than this one:
https://twitter.com/MsBlaireWhite/status/904141245726867456
Yeah dove hunt was/is good. The dove was better
http://imgur.com/zUdMJBi
Tummy growls
“Mayor Jesse Arreguin has learned exactly the wrong lesson from violent protests.
On Monday, Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin said he was so “concerned” about Antifa violence at a scheduled speech at the University of California–Berkeley that the school should cancel it altogether.
In other words: His strategy for stopping Antifa violence is to give the group exactly what they want, and to let them know that the reason they’re getting what they want is because of their violence — and there really just aren’t enough desks in the world for me to smash my head on when I think about how dumb that is.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/451054/berkeley-mayot-antifa-violence-berekeley-cancel-speeches
She’s right, except the mayor hasn’t ‘learned’ much, if anything. He’s a far lefty, and was chummy with some of the BAMN dickheads (or used to be, anyway).
” The decision not to indict Hillary Clinton was not made by then-FBI Director Comey. It was made by President Obama and his Justice Department – Comey’s superiors. If you want to say Comey went along for the ride rather than bucking the tide (as he concedes doing when Lynch directed him to call the Clinton probe a “matter,” not an “investigation”), that’s fair. But the fact that Comey already knew in April what he would say in July has long been perfectly obvious. The Obama administration was going to follow its leader. What Comey ultimately stated was just a repeat of what Obama was openly saying in April, and what Obama’s Justice Department was leaking to the press in May.
Bottom line: In April, President Obama and his Justice Department adopted a Hillary Clinton defense strategy of concocting a crime no one was claiming Clinton had committed: to wit, transmitting classified information with an intent to harm the United States. With media-Democrat complex help, they peddled the narrative that she could not be convicted absent this “malicious intent,” in a desperate effort to make the publicly known evidence seem weak. Meanwhile, they quietly hamstrung FBI case investigators in order to frustrate the evidence-gathering process. When damning proof nevertheless mounted, the Obama administration dismissed the whole debacle by rewriting the statute (to impose an imaginary intent standard) and by offering absurd rationalizations for not applying the statute as written.
That plan was in place and already being implemented when Director Comey began drafting the “findings” he would announce months later. But it was not Comey’s plan. It was Obama’s plan.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/451053/not-comeys-decision-exonerate-hillary-obamas-decision
*fiddles fingers* These are not the Changes you were Hoping for…
It may not have been Comey’s plan, but he chose to carry it out. Nobody else got the Clinton treatment from the FBI, so why should Comey be off the hook for implementing a double standard?
a controversial program called Advance Peace, which offers cash stipends to gang members who remain peaceful.
“Nice city you got here. Shame if sumptin wuz ta happen to it, ifya get my drift.”
The decision not to indict Hillary Clinton was not made by then-FBI Director Comey. It was made by President Obama and his Justice Department
INCONCEIVABLE!
Ok, looking for a bit of advice. After having experienced life in Tampa for the past few years, the wife and I have decided that we are entirely too much of Northern Europeans to live in the heat and humidity and absolutely flat land of Florida. We’re looking at options for relocation, and I have applications out in a number of places, most of which we’ve never lived in but seem to fit the bill pretty nicely. Right now we are looking at Colorado Springs, CO; Winchester, VA; and Manchester, NH areas. Also have an application in for the DC area, but we won’t be moving there unless the agency is insane and actually promote me to a GS-15.
Anyone have experience in these areas? Main thing we are looking for are 1) actual seasons (and the wet/dry we have here in FL don’t count) and 2) topography.
I live in Manchester. Love it here. Half an hour to the ocean or one of many lakes, half an hour to a couple different mountains for skiing or snowboarding. More of both further north. Four distinct seasons, autumn foliage is phenomenal if you’re into that. No sales tax, no state income tax, decent gun laws. The only major problems are high property taxes, and you have to deal with Massachusetts proggies moving up here to fuck the place up with their shitty politics.
3) Gun rights – they are a decent gauge of liberty, even if you don’t care about guns.
The way things are going in CO, with all the Californians migrating there, I wouldn’t pick that. And VA is getting dicey too. With the FSP in NH you might have a shot at a relatively free state. If you plan to move there anyway, pledge with FSP to boost their numbers?
Also NH has the 2 things you’re looking for.
If we end up in NH, I would definitely be pledging with the FSP. The job would likely be in MA, but there would be no way in hades that I’d live there. I’d have to pay MA taxes on my income (so much for no taxation without representation…), but I kinda doubt that I’ll get offered either of the jobs I’ve applied for up there. I think the most likely job offers will be DC, Winchester, and Colorado Springs, in that order.
I think NH would be my first choice of locations, followed by Winchester. Have no desire to move back to DC, but if I can get a 15 there and have an opportunity to change my agency, I feel obliged to take it.
I lived in Colorado Springs for fifteen years or so. Last time I was there, I did not like it so much, but that was because of the changes I saw. If you’re looking with fresh eyes, you might think it’s awesome. It’s certainly not bigger or horribler than Tampa. You can get out into the mountains pretty quickly. Cost of living back then was pretty low. Downtown is a whole lot nicer than when I was in college.
You might like it. No guarantee, expressed or implied.
ps- I’d live in the Springs before I’d live in Boulder, for what that’s worth.