Freaking Liverpool. How’s about making your penalties and putting easy goals away, huh? And I won’t even go into the first goal you gave up. A draw…while everybody else that was supposed to win did so in fine style. Also, Salah is sooooooft. But I suppose it could have been worse. And there are some soccer-haters on here, and I don’t want to lose them in the first paragraph anyway. (As if they read the first couple of paragraphs anyway.) So I’ll move on.
On the American sports front, all we had was baseball yesterday. And the biggest story of the year lives to see another day, as the Indians tied the all-time consecutive win streak at 21. I’ve made it clear that I don’t recognize win streaks that involve ties, so I’m considering this the record. They’ve got the Royals tonight at home to try and get sole possession of the mark. Elsewhere, the Yankees won and the Red Sox lost, bringing the division to within 3 games. The Braves dropped the Nats again. The Phillies win (since someone showed interest in them yesterday, I felt the need to mention them.) The Orioles stopped their slide by beating Team Canada. The Cubs rolled the Mets. The Mariners clung to their playoff hopes by beating the Rangers. The Brewers kept pace with a win while the Cards dropped one to the Big Red Machine. The Dodgers stretched their win streak to 2. The D-backs put down the Rockies to get a little breathing room in the Wild Card chase. The Astros got thumped. And those Twinks just keep giving Minnesodans hope, as they won again and sit in that last AL Wild Card slot.
Hey, I wish there were more sports things going on during the week, but that will start happening tonight. Its September, what do you expect? But most of you didn’t come here for that anyway. You came for…the links!
Oh, Harvard. Continue your fall from grace at this accelerated pace. I’m sure your alumni are just thrilled. (For added lulz, be sure to read the whole article, especially the last paragraph.)
Cook County, IL delays vote on soda (or pop, or soda-pop, or even Coke) tax for a month. That should give them enough time to preen about how they’re doing for the citizens what the citizens are too dumb to do for themselves. Then it can land in court anyway.
“It’s time to abolish the Electoral College”, says person who lost the most recent event involving the Electoral College. Its strange, since she blamed mysoginy, Russians, Comey, the media, racist voter ID laws, aliens, the weather, flooding, and a plague of locusts for that loss. The old drunk can’t even keep her blame game straight. But she can breathe while sticking a finger in her nose one side at a time. So she’s got that going for her.
All that glorious lecturing about global warming during the telethon for the hurricane victims was great, wasn’t it? I mean, those celebs sure must care about the earth and definitely practice what they preach. Yeeeeeeeeeaaaaahhhhhhh. About that…
American technology company, Apple, don show with new Smartphone. Meesa thinkin’ issa muy muy nice.
Texas AG sues three companies for price gouging in aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. That was some serious price gouging, but it doesn’t look like the customers were paying attention to what they were paying in two of the three cases until it was too late.
The music has been all over the place this week. I may as well keep it going.
Get out there and have a great day, friends!
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63) Donald Trump “https://slate.com/business/2017/09/the-awful-irony-of-obamas-economic-recovery.html”> stole Obama’s economic recovery, using it for his own evil purposes!
A bizarre article asserting that Trump’s campaign in 2016 unfairly benefited from the perception of a lack of economic growth, ironically just as economic recovery was actually getting underway.
First, Democrats haven’t especially suffered from the lack of economic growth—Obama won re-election in 2012 despite his economic mismanagement. If you want an example of someone who truly didn’t receive the benefit of an improving economy for his reelection campaign, you have to go back to George H.W. Bush.
But then the gall of calling this “Obama’s recovery,” as if it’s just bad luck a recovery took six or seven years to materialize, and not because everything Obama did was actively destructive of economic growth. Don’t worry, the author has an answer for that too: “it’s hard not to wonder what we might have been spared politically had Washington managed to engineer a faster recovery [with] a bigger stimulus.”
Yeah, that was the problem. The $831 billion stimulus wasn’t enough! Probably the “Cars for Clunkers” program should have been expanded too. Or maybe there just weren’t Obamaphones.
The stimulus is never enough. As such it can never fail. Like communism. Hmmm just like communism. Coincidence? I think not
Exactly. They just need to stimulus harder. Next time it will work!
Krugabe pointed out repeatedly that the Obama porkulous package that basically served to enrich democrat party special interests and campaign coffers, was not as effective as it could have been because it simply was too small…
To be fair to Obama, I always argue that it should be measured by fiscal years, and the current one still falls under Obama’s watch. Trump’s econ clock starts as of Oct 1, IMO.
But the deficit this year also gets accounted to Obama.
Measuring by fiscal years only makes sense when Congress passes a budget at the beginning of the fiscal year and sticks to it until the next fiscal year. That hasn’t happened much since the 1990s.
Did they ever pass a budget during the Obama years?
Maybe we could do “Cars for Clunkers” except with houses. Just imagine the multiplier!
Didn’t Harvey and Irma get a head start on this proposal?
Freaking cash for clunkers means that to replace my car, I will likely spend ~$4K more than I would have had to in a normal market. I’ve done the research on price history of the vehicles I would likely buy used, and they are all up by about that amount since Cash for Clunkers.
Yep. I bought my first new car a few years ago because the value on used cars just wasn’t there any more.
Only reason I will buy used is because there are a lot of off lease vehicles in Columbus (Honda Accords driven by Honda employees on lease for 3 years) that make it more affordable.
The 3 percent growth is not due to obama…it was due to trump because he doesn’t have a hard on for making business life as painful as progs do
If Hillary had won it would not be optimism like now
The same people who are attributing the 3% growth to Obama were the ones telling us for the last eight years that 3% growth was no longer attainable.
It was bullshit. It always was. The fundamentals of human nature and the underlying structure of the U.S. economy didn’t suddenly change in the fall of 2008. And 3% was something I’d always been taught was normal economic growth. We had a government that was pushing socialism-lite policies and we got socialism-lite rates of economic growth.
If they want to be progressive like Europe socialist shitholes, they shouldn’t be surprised to have the same anemic growth and the horrible unemployment numbers as European socialist shitholes.
Team Blue absolutely has suffered under Obama. Those governorships and congressional seats didn’t lose themselves. Just because the Stupid Team decided to run Mr. Romneycare/Bain Capital at a time when people decided they didn’t like Obamacare or banks doesn’t mean a price wasn’t paid.
Of course, these are the same people who predicted a stock market crash after Trump’s election.
All Obama managed to do was to drag out a recession/recovery for nearly a decade, that without his actions would have been only a bit deeper and longer than usual.
I bet had there been no action from them that this would have corrected rather fast..
“bigger stimulus”.
Next time you meet some self righteous prog, ask them to cite the total amounts of money that the Fed dumped into the economy via QE1/2/3..
Sounds like a net debasement, err, stimulus, of $3.7TT, or 460%. At the Fed level, not including the multiplier by fractional reserve banking. Somebody smarter than me needs to explain why that hasn’t resulted in inflation (yet). I’m baffled, which makes me think I don’t understand finance at this level.
The FED is paying the banks to sit on it as reserves
https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reqresbalances.htm
That keeps it from actually hitting the marketplace and competing for goods which pumps inflation.
Can I get 1.25% on my savings?
So sad.
Damn fine song choice, Sloop!
Gets the blood going!
ditto
restricted here. what was today’s selection?
my contribution is the best song off the Bugsy Malone soundtrack..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FQwA4jyHSc
Secret Agent Man by Johnny Rivers. Bonus Bond bird montage!
Secret Asain Man
or, “Asian”
-1 coffee
No, that’s just Straffin.
Awesome song selection
“It’s time to abolish the Electoral College”, says person who lost the most recent event involving the Electoral College. Its strange, since she blamed mysoginy, Russians, Comey, the media, racist voter ID laws, aliens, the weather, flooding, and a plague of locusts for that loss. The old drunk can’t even keep her blame game straight. But she can breathe while sticking a finger in her nose one side at a time. So she’s got that going for her.
Does this person not have advisers to tell her about the concept of losing gracefully and not making a fool of oneself ?
She has sycophants, not advisors. If she had advisors, they would have told her to spend time in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Ohio, not Arizona so she could “run up the score”.
Memento homo, Memento mori etc
English plz, kthx.
“Remember you are but a man, remember you are mortal.”
Literally: Remember man, remember death.
Just because taxonomic names are based on latin doesn’t make them latin vocab.
Don’t you mean, “O tempora, o mores” ?
No, he actually meant “Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo.”
Catullus: the first gangster rapper?
I recall an aecdote that reported Bill did advise such – and was laughed at.
My theory in that is that Bill was hoping to spend some time in Arizona by himself banging U of A coeds while Hilldog was in the wastelands of Michigan scrounging for votes.
He did run into Loretta Lynch on the tarmac at PHX after all.
Bill was hoping to spend some time in Arizona by himself banging U of A coeds
They’re much better at Arizona State. This is coming from a Northern Arizona Alum.
My vote ranking is UA, NAU and then ASU. Speaking as a looooong time departed Wildcat.
I recall an aecdote that reported Bill did advise such – and was laughed at.
See the link below.
I think she actually did have an advisor tell her that. Probably one of the more astute political operators out there. She just decided to ignore him in favor of a 36-year-old who never actually won an election.
Also someone should help her interpret 1984
https://twitter.com/JamesHeartfield/status/907752206627213312
If this twitter is not fake that is, which I have no idea
Here’s a hand pie chart.
I was hoping for some hair pie. *goes off to pout*
*handy. Wine is flowing early tonight.
Hair pie chart of Hillary?
*barf
I think the chart still doubles the amount of blame HRC places upon herself.
The most telling outtake of her book that I have seen online is about grown women forcing their daughters to come up and apologize to her for not doing enough to get her elected and her purported inner monologue agreeing that they didn’t and she did not accept those apologies.
Her ego is larger than Nero and her depravity beats Elagabalus. Hell, she’d make a Medici Pope blush in embarrassment.
I clearly remember Hillary going all “I’m going to abolish the Electoral College” in 2000 after the Bush/Gore debacle in Florida. However, I don’t recall that she ever introduced such legislation when she was the carpetbagger Senator from New York.
Every time ManBearPig opened his mouth after he lost the election, I thought that we had barely escaped having a fucking moronic lunatic steal the election of 2000 with an army of lawyers. Bush sucked, but ManBearPig would have been worse. I never thought I would feel that way again. Then Trump beats the serial lying crime syndicate boss that shares the same fashion sense as some of the worlds most prolific murderers (Mao, Kim Jong Un/Il, Doctor Evil), and I got a repeat of that feeling.
Pidgin hunting?
NC mom invents a spray she says will attract any Bigfoot within a mile and a half
“a smell that is woodsy enough to keep from scaring him off. But slightly different enough to make him curious”
+ just a whiff of cold, panicked terror
SMELLS LIKE STEVE SMITH SPIRIT
Nice!
Fun Fact: it doesn’t matter whether the lights are out or not.
JUST LEAVE PANTIES ON PORCH. STEVE SMITH ARRIVE SHORTLY.
Pit Bull On Crack!
http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/britain/pet-dog-ate-crack-then-killed-owner-in-front-of-bbc-crew-filming-drug-documentary-36124898.html
Oh thank God. I thought that rapper was putting out another album.
MISTER WORLDWIDE
So many questions…
Dogs can smoke crack? Dogs have a drug drive limit? I assumed that any amount of crack in your system was illegal in Britain but it sounds like there’s a non-zero threshold, at least when driving.
I think he’s entertaining the possibility that the dog got hopped up on 2nd-hand crack smoke. JFC.
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that regardless of whether or not the dog actually ate crack the kind of dog owner who would allow that to be a possibility is probably not providing a caring, structured, non-abusive home for his pets.
The most beautiful girl in the world?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4881042/Most-Beautiful-Girl-World-Thylane-Blondeau-NYFW.html
Emphatically no
Try this one. She’s all the rage here. Shwiiiing.
Hai
Now that’s more like it.
When did resting bitch face start getting hailed as beautiful?
When done correctly, no can defense.
There is a hint of a smile.
You sound like Kevin Dylan in Platoon.
Did a head come apart?
Now THAT’S how you rbf. There’s got to be a hint of sultry or else you just look like you suspect you’ve just stepped in dog shit.
I have a co-worker with chronic RBF. She’s too too funny, though, and great to work with, so I forgive her – she quickly cracks into a laugh or smile from the RBF.
However, a neighbor I see fairly often, he and his wife both are chronic RBFs. And their kids have it too, pretty much.
Look like a chipmunk to me, but there’s no accounting for taste.
Could you be the most beautiful girl in the world?
It’s plain to see you’re the reason that God made a girl
When the day turns into the last day of all time
I can say I hope you are in these arms of mine…
The hell is someone smoking to call that the most beautiful in the world?
Looks stoned. I’ve seen prettier girls in real life, so no, not even close.
Was she cryin’?
I can go to any community college in this country and find better looking young women.
I see better looking women at work every day.
I see better looking women at home every day.
Of course, once SP hits puberty, all bets are off.
Fuck no? Is that too strong?
Too skinny.
“Chelsea Manning named visiting fellow at Harvard”
Not just a one-time speaker, but an visiting fellow. The article didn’t specify whether this would be for a semester or a year. Aren’t fellows supposed to do some sort of ongoing research project? isn’t that the whole point of the idea? Is there some reason to think Manning, who so far as I know has been a private and a prisoner in her career, might be able to conduct such a project?
Anyway, since Harvard obviously has money to burn, maybe Massachusetts should look into taxing their endowment. You know you want to, Massholes!
It reminds me of Stanford hiring Big Head to teach computer science in the most recent season of Silicon Valley.
Big Head was at least a coder at Hooli at the beginning of that show.
She also speaks on topics related to artificial intelligence through op-ed columns for The New York Times and The Guardian, according to Harvard’s website.
Manning pontificates on AI. WTF has Manning done in AI?
In seriousness, maybe Manning dealt in some fashion with data science as an analyst. Or maybe machine learning. Not sure that makes he/she/it an expert, but probably good enough by NYT standards.
Army E-3s are not usually much on data science and machine learning…
Well, subject of machine teaching.
Wait, isn’t “fellow” a sexist deadname something or other?
The cis-hetero shitlords just can’t stop othering that brave, beautiful, trans woman.
OT, but young Mackenzie who wrote this piece for Military Times –
WOULD.
I imagine xer presentations consist entirely of emojis on a whiteboard.
They do if they look like her Twitter.
The New Republic: Hillary Clinton’s Legacy Is Huge and Lasting
“Hillary Clinton’s Legacy Is Huge and Lasting”
Missing line from a Sugarfree story?
If your Hillary lasts for more than four hours, seek medical help.
Hillary has a bizarre alternative take on what 1984 was all about. Orwell was really trying to tell us to trust the press and politicians more!
These people can”t be parodied in their stupidity.
You know who else had a “huge and lasting” legacy?
John Holmes?
Gengis Khan?
Dolly Parton?
Subaru?
with the lesbians
Tulpa?
You mean MNG, right?
White Indian.
Gambol! Suckaz, gambol!
Milton Berle?
John Dillinger
/+1 Secret Room at the Smithsonian
It is a legacy to be entitled to positions you covet?
“Hillary Clinton is a strong woman with many important accomplshments!”
“Stop trying to make ‘fetch’ happen!”
But she just simply wouldn’t shut up about it during the campaign. It was what made her “qualified,” remember? She’s a woman, therefore vote for her. Oh, and everyone who doesn’t is sexist.
You sure that is a good thing for your electoral chances? Internet culture, which really reflects the preferences of the younger generations (especially those AFTER millennials), is largely against the new brand of feminism.
Internet culture, which really reflects the preferences of the younger generations (especially those AFTER millennials), is largely against the new brand of feminism.
Because there’s not much point to it. American culture, at least in relative terms, is essentially individualist. And from an individualist perspective, there’s not much point left in feminism. There are no legal and few if any social barriers to a woman setting out to do whatever it is she wants to do. Only SJW collectivists feel the need to make up slights to justify their continued existence.
With Hillary out of the way, I think that there’s a high chance that the first female president of the US will be a Republican. If that happens, it will be delicious to see Hillary’s reaction.
Hillary will never be out of the way. Hell, her grave site will probably be in the middle of a major thoroughfare in Manhattan.
Oh yeah, helped to cover up her husband’s many “bimbo explosions,” and stuck by his philandering, raping ass for purely political purposes. What a great feminist.
But white woman who didn’t vote for her were racist.
So she’s got that going for her.
Which is nice.
+1 pitchfork to the throat
Gunga galungala
Big hitter the Lama.
How about a little something, you know, for the effort?
“It’s time to abolish the Electoral College”, says person who lost the most recent event involving the Electoral College.
And the legislature. And the judiciary.
She is hoping to do a Nicolas Maduro?
Two men accused of trying to steal power pole following Irma
Good to see they were thinking safety. They hung one of their shirts on the end of the pole so other motorists would be aware of the large pole on their roof.
Caber tossers?
Now that is how you euphemism!
Once you knock the creosote off a wood pole its useful for a variety of reasons, but a metal pole?
Don’t you Cash for Metal and All Your Recycling Materials, brah?
All of those guys want copper not aluminum, and some of those guys ask too many questions, bruh.
In all seriousness I did work with a TSgt that would collect cable we pulled to recycle. He had to stop because after a couple trips they start asking proof you collected the cable legally. Digging permits, receipts and the like.
You know who else was accused of stealing Poles?
Maria Therese?
The NBA?
Lorena Bobbitt?
Re the price gouging prosecutions, that’s a load of crap. The only issue is whether or not the price was properly communicated prior to the sale or if there was any fraud.
“Amazon deletes one-star reviews of Hillary Clinton’s new book”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/amazon-steps-trump-supporters-trash-130010734.html
“The readers on Amazon, meanwhile, are even more divided – but not all of them have read the book.”
I’m sure all the five-star reviewers have read the book cover to cover, though.
Amazon trolls should do what they normally do when reviewing something absolutely absurd: write a glowing 5-star review about how it changed their life, made them love better, basked in the prose, warped their brain with Cthulhu’s non-Euclidean logic, etc
Since we got into some bluegrass discussion yesterday, here’s a band that I quite like doing a cover of a great Patty Griffin song.
YouTube no longer has size options?
It’s not the size but the motion of the ocean?
I’m old, so all I know is copy and paste.
“…And ball, and rape. Tonight. You.”
A 58-story skyscraper in San Francisco is tilting and sinking — and residents say their multimillion-dollar condos are ‘nearly worthless’
STEM capital of the world.
Yeah, but I’m sure the civil and structural engineers who worked on the project were appropriately woke!
Leaning Tower of (Twin) Peaksa?
Just a little settling, no big deal, all structures do it.
Seriously though,
How are any of the pipes that connect to main lines still functioning?
Because if it tilted 14″ at the top, it would have tilted less than 1/32 of an inch at the bottom. And they’d probably have some kind of fernco fitting at the main supply just due to seismic activity in the area.
As for the sinking, I bet they’ve repaired it a dozen times since it opened but ever told anybody. That amount would be noticeable at street level, let alone in the below ground areas where utilities come in.
It would be interesting to see what is happening with that foundation… they dug all the way down to bedrock, from what I could tell. It really shouldn’t move.
Pretty sure even the bedrock moves in CA.
They didn’t go down to bedrock on this building. The builders are blaming excavation from a nearby building site.
Wow. Just wow.
I had no idea they would allow a 17 story building to be built on pilings in sand – especially not in a location like San Francisco. It seems that this building and others like it are pretty much guaranteed to fail if there is an earthquake. If it settled due to removing water from the sand, what in the world do they think will happen when that wet sand gets shaken by a reasonably intense earthquake?
Here in south Florida, they are really tough on building codes. And it shows. The new buildings since the post-Andrew codes went into effect are pretty much unscathed. Even in the keys.
But there is a major downside to this “protection”. I’m looking at a new front door. The door I’m thinking about costs about $450. The permit from the city…. about $450. Are you effin’ kidding me?
Millennium Tower? Fucking millennials.
‘Shut up, slave!’ Fight outside Loop Starbucks leads to felony hate-crime charges
“If convicted, Boucher will face probation or two to five years of prison for each of the aggravated battery charges, and one to three years of prison for each of the hate crime charges, the state’s attorney’s office said.”
That seems a bit much.
One hour in prison for a “hate crime” is too much. Battery is already a crime, it’s not worse because the victim is black.
(IMAGE: Vincent Miao, Flickr) What’s So Great About ‘Traditional Marriage’ Anyway?
Single women have to take care of their own homes too.
Also, all the evidence contradicts the assertion
Oh it wouldn’t be hard to get that stat. Just make sure to count the millions of woman living in 3rd world countries as part of the “married” category without adjusting for differences in life expectancy and such by region.
” Marxist feminist Silveria Federici argued that housework and childrearing was essentially unwaged labour that the capitalist system very successfully constructed as an act of love” – I am sure marxist feminists said a lot of retarded crap i the last 100 odd years
“I am arguing however, that the institution of marriage should be entirely abolished in favour of all kinds of equal romantic partnerships, including non-heteronormative ones, free of state and religious control. For ultimately, an institution that has been created for the benefit of white cis heterosexual men can never bring liberation to anyone else.”
Ignoring that the purpose of marriage was to protect women and children, and she generally sounds like a kook. I’m not against getting the government out of marriage. But I am against using the government to force the church out of marriage (if that’s what she means by “religious control”).
I am arguing however, that the institution of marriage should be entirely abolished in favour of all kinds of equal romantic partnerships,
Translation: I have a desperate need to become a “use-and-discard” sex toy for a string of men, and possibly women.
I think I’ve seen that movie before…
That is exactly what she means by ‘abolish’. She would use government thugs to tell you what choices you are allowed to make.
Women should stage a walkout at their paid jobs as a protest.
“for a start we know that married women have poorer health, are unhappier and do more unpaid work in the home than their unmarried counterparts”
This is really, really crying out for some citations.
Married women are more likely to get pregnant and not have an abortion, which leads to weight problems.
That is really crying out for someone to claim, “Bullshit!”.
Redundant
“Well, for a start we know that married women have poorer health, are unhappier and do more unpaid work in the home than their unmarried counterparts.”
I would say that Marxists live in upside down world but the fact is they are just incapable of telling the truth.
Well, for a start we know that married women have poorer health, are unhappier and do more unpaid work in the home than their unmarried counterparts.
Funny. The actual research says the exact opposite. Must be that cis-hetero-patriarchal science stuff.
*edit fairy flutters off, completely baffled*
SugarFree research?
Unfalsifiable, to be sure.
Okay, let me just try this.
http://cleveland.cbslocal.com/2012/11/14/study-married-couples-live-longer-healthier-lives-than-singles/
Sorry, everyone
Unwaged labor. What happened to a penny saved is a penny earned? Sure, my wife does a lot of unwaged labor around the house, but so do I, because it’s cheaper than paying someone else to do it. And sometimes I even enjoy it.
But how do contemporary women fare in marriage? Well, for a start we know that married women have poorer health, are unhappier and do more unpaid work in the home than their unmarried counterparts.
If I wasn’t on my phone, I’d link back to part one of my “crafting a narrative” series.
Classic use of a bullshit social science study to prop up an agenda.
Does the new i phone offer pidgin as a language option?
My Android doesn’t. I checked. Not woke enough. I was going to translate all my comments into Pidgin before posting here.
In addition, Bloomberg has sponsored mailers backing the tax and pledged to spend “whatever it takes” to help those who voted for the tax survive any reelection challenges next year.
By any green necessary.
French baby boy banned from having name containing tilde
Brittany court rules name’s spelling cannot feature non-French characters (ñ) even though region has its own language
A French court has banned a couple from giving their baby a name containing a tilde, ruling that the character ñ was incompatible with national law.
The couple from Brittany wanted to call their newborn boy Fañch, a traditional name in the northwestern region which has its own language.
“The principle according to which babies’ names are chosen by their mothers and fathers must have limits when it comes to using a spelling which includes a character unrecognised by the French language,” the court in the town of Quimper ruled.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/sep/13/french-baby-boy-banned-from-getting-name-containing-symbol
What is it with the french and language purity
The Canadians are much worse about it. At least in France, the stop signs say “STOP” and not “ARRET.”
Canadians are much worse goes without saying, really
This.
It’s a symbol of how over-zealous they can get about it. The red octagon is an international image but that didn’t stop Quebec from removing the word ‘stop’ because English. It was pretty vindictive if you ask me. Not only that, it’s an insulting kind of paternalism. As if Quebecers are retards and don’t know what a stop sign is.
They truly believe removing English words, making them half as big as French ones, or adding French descriptives to international trademarks enhances and protects French.
It doesn’t. It’s just an insecure way of telling the Anglo minority and the ROC they’re in ‘control’.
The irony is the state of French being taught properly in Quebec is precarious. So whenever they see a problem – mostly of their own doing – they just take to the news and blame the ‘threat of English’.
I used to see stop signs in Moscow that said “STOP”. Everyone understood what it meant.
It’s like that everywhere for the most part.
Except here.
Unique indeed.
Not unique 😛
No Somalia sign, eh?!
NO ROADZ!!!
That is not the sign of a confident and vibrant culture.
Quimper – the sadder queef.
Equifax blames breach on a server flaw it should’ve patched
sudo pacman -Syu
sudo pacman -Syu
sudo pacman -Syu
sudo pacman -Syu
But they had most fabulous hold and elevator music.
Might have helped if Its login and password were not both ‘admin,’
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article173136746.html
It’s awesome that they have a protected oligopoly where they get to collect and retain private information on everyone in America without their consent.
Just slightly less secure than our plotter which is admin and admin123
I walked right by that “boisterous” anti-soda tax rally on Tuesday in Chicago when I was going to get a cup of coffee. Boisterous might be too strong a word.
It was 90% people wearing corporate Coke or Pepsi polo shirts. The other 10% were press and people like me who were just walking by.
The speaker seemed pretty tepid too. Most of the speech was “Don’t gore MY ox”. Not just a simple “Fuck Off Slaver”
The more effective “rally” is all the people not buying the stuff, or going across the county line to get it. I heard a couple of women in our break room saying how they just go across the Cook -DuPage line to buy OJ, pop, etc.
Bootleggers! When will they make a crime to bring soda in over the county line?
Next up, the Chicago wall. Got to keep the tax cattle in place.
Saw a dude on Philly tv yesterday, said he goes across the city line to Jersey to avoid the soda tax but he supports the concept of the tax for others because “I have two kids.” Typical “don’t tax me, tax those other fellows.”
Shit, my Chicago office is also a block away from that h8ter’s Starbucks.
I need counseling! I can barely get out of bed knowing how much hate and controversy I survived in Chicago!
I prescribe a bolus dose of whisky.
/Not a real doctor
‘I’m not a pervert’ Sex robot maker slams critics after live TV appearance with doll
He has now hit back at his critics, saying there is nothing abnormal about his interest.
It actually is abnormal, if for no other reason than sexbots aren’t technologically mature yet. A better answer would be “Fuck off, I can do what I want.” I hate that everybody has to have society coddle them about their every preference.
Meanwhile, women everywhere get to enjoy their dildos and vibraters free of judgment.
The perfect woman doesn’t exis….oh, wait.
I think the possibility of being able to say “not tonight, Honey, can’t you just hump the robot while I watch Gilmore Girls reruns” has to be a huge bonus for her.
For Double-K and her strange obsession with the Vikings.
Vikings hire 18-year-old consultant to connect with Gen-Z.
Gold stars to anyone who can find something right with that story. Looks like Gen-Z won’t be much of an improvement on the Millenials.
If this kid knows what he’s talking about, maybe they will usher in the demise of Facebook?
If the Vikings are involved the demise of anything is possible.
Except the Green Bay Packers.
Or the Bears, or the Lions. Shit we struggled with Tampa when they were still in the division and horrible.
The Bears have demised themselves, thank very much!
Oy vey. You wanna connect with the youngsters? Win playoff games, maybe go to the Super Bowl once in a while.
I’m sure the Vikes have contingency plans for everything (including how to play a game if the Canucks invade), but have no plan at all for printing Super Bowl Champion shirts. That was too outrageous to bother with.
Interesting take on disaster coverage in the modern media
Typical Takimag warning–the comment section is generally cancerous.
Damn, I miss MonsterVision.
Guy who wrote that article was great in Casino.
I commend your music selection. I have been watching some of those old Danger Man shows with Patrick McGoohan. They’re pretty good.
It’s really a shame those people keep dragging Hillary out of her peaceful, quiet retirement to badger her about the election. I’m sure she’d rather the country pull together and move on, and support the man who was elected.
The Federalist hosts an op-Ed from one of my fellow Road Warriors.
Have a look –
Every minute of every day is monitored by Uncle Sam, who takes care that I can never make a decision for myself based on my circumstances. Because let’s face it, I just can’t take on that kind of responsibility. There’s no way I can decide for myself when I’m going to sleep or rest or drive. After all, I’m just a stupid truck driver. What would I know about such things?
Squirrels ate the italics.
This site uses < em > instead of < i > for italics.
Read that earlier. I knew there were a lot of regs on trucking, but I didn’t realize quite how oppressive the oversight had become.
I am currently in “driver status”, instead of “driver-salesperson” status. This means I can’t work more than 60 hours in a rolling 8 day period.
It’s terrible. And once the E-Log mandate becomes a thing for everyone (and not just the cowardly mega carriers errrrr ‘early adopters’) you can kiss the last tiny bit of fun and on-time-delivery from this business goodbye.
I should have stayed in Australia.
The big trucking companies are lobbying hard for the ELD’s and it just makes me sick.
Lobbying for it? The fuckers came up with it. Swift invented e logs is my understanding. What better way to run off the competition than get the Gov to make it unaffordable/not profitable enough for your smaller competition to operate.
Yep, have an independent trucker as a customer at my retail job. He keeps trying out all the Verizon based MVNOs to figure out which one is the best to hotspot from, since he is now required to use e logs by most of his customers and the brokerage services he works with.
One of the reasons my brokerage is doing well is because I trust drivers to get the job done. I don’t have to track them or call and harass them every couple hours. Because of this, more drivers want to work with me.
The Large Fleets are the worst purveyors of corporatist regulatory capture the world has ever seen. They all have 125%+ driver turnover every year and cannot compete for labour at all.
Anyone remember when Ontario decided to impose mandatory 105 km/h speed limiters on truck engines? That wasn’t the MTO’s idea, it was put forward by Challenger Motor Freight, and surprise surprise, received full support from the Ontario Trucking Association.
Tracy Morgan hardest hit.
Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn…
Want to drive an extra hour so as to place yourself on the other side of a major metro area for morning, thus avoiding traffic and adding to the gridlock? Nope.
Find yourself loaded at 4pm, but there’s at least 3-4 hours of heavy traffic to get out of town, so you want to take a nap and then carry on through the night? Nope.
Some jerk off customer took 6 hours to unload you? Nope, can’t apply that towards resting hours. You lose.
And they think they’re going to cure the driver shortage. LOL
Elon Musk is working on that driver shortage.
He is.
I give the van and shipping container guys 10-15 years tops.
Specialized and vocational trucking will either take longer or in many cases will always rely on humans.
Someone will always have to be in the truck to be able to override the computer in case something goes wrong.
When the robot driven trucks take over, I’d be more worried about the unemployed hillbillies who will have no problem using these driverless trucks for moving target practice.
Never forget the human element.
I own my own small logistics company. People have no idea how much ELD’s are going to fuck things up. Barring a gigantic decrease in the price of diesel, there will be across the board price increases on consumer goods.
It’ll be Trump’s fault that we get inflation though, so the Democrats are pleased as pie.
Great article. Thanks for the link.
*Tips Leopard Print Cowboy Hat*
Bret Michaels … is that you!??!?
I try to make the news amusing and not just depressing. So now that Congressional Republicans have adamantly refused to deliver on even one of their campaign promises, it’s amusing to see Trump treating them like the bitches they are and making time with Democrats.
Trump Follows Poon Commandment VII – Always keep two in the kitty – Never allow yourself to be a “kept man”. A man with options is a man without need.
I haven’t read Roissy in a while. He’s kind of a one-note guy. I think viewing Trump through the PUA lens makes a lot of sense, though.
That comment section is fucked up. From the comments-
“I have posted several videos from Robert David Steel saying exactly that. This ritual Satanic sexual abuse is real. The people who practice it are all the very wealthy J*ws who seem to live forever and their WASP lackeys. They terrorize the child, who is ideally between 4 and 10 and kill it in utterly despicable ways to heighten the terror in order to maximize adrenalin in the victim’s blood. This apparently lengthens one’s life time. The child’s organs are then harvested and sold. I have several books in PDF on the subject, many written in the early 20th and late 19th century. When they spoke of the sins of Gomorrah being too evil to mention, I believe this is what they were talking about. This is the reason Longshanks kicked them out and the reason Isabella kicked them out too. It is a push pull system of bribery and blackmail also discussed in the Protocols and now being run by the Mossad and their CIA lackeys. Jeffrey Epstein is a Mossad asset. This is why nothing ever happens to these guys. Bonds of sin and secrecy this deep are very difficult to break. They coopt the people who would otherwise watch them. I think many of them are in denial much of the time when not playing that evil role, which then induces a sort of fear based psychosis. The entire business is very old and Middle Eastern 3500 to 4000 years old I would guess if not more. This is why they get sweaty and start grinning when you ask tough questions.”
If you only knew….
Good Lord, I followed a link and read the article cautiously. Do.Not. Read the comment s there.
For anyone with an interest in early 20th century America, I can suggest the book My Adventures with Your Money: George Graham Rice and the Golden Age of the Con Artist. Lots of little historical details – and the wild west of mining corporations, the days before the Fed, and the art of the con.
Some background on Rice here: The Best Con Man You’ve Never Heard Of
“Gave $100,000 to college and another 3,000 acres of land”
wouldn’t that fall more under the category of fullonrapathy?
SJWednesday: A Day Late and 160 Examples of Male Privilege Short
These people really don’t sit around all day imagining ways they’ve been “victimized” at all. They’re completely productive members of society.
Browse the list at your leisure.
That would require being bored enough to visit Everyday Feminism.
You’re not automatically assumed to not know what you’re talking about – or subjected to mansplaining.
here is where I stopped.
The phrase I often have to avoid saying is “I told you so.” The same managers who ignored my warnings because they knew better don’t like hearing it.
Also, no one is subjected to ‘mansplaining’, it’s a made-up term to dismiss logic and reasoning. So not being subjected to it isn’t a privilege
We have a mansplainer here, everyone.
more like bland-plain-er, AMMIRITE!111one
I’m so glad you’re taking steps to make a change by reading this article and sharing it with the other men and boys in your life.
That’s not why we’re reading and sharing it.
Somebody should have mainsplained IT security to Equifax Chief Information Security Officer and Music Composition Major Susan Mauldin. Might have avoided a $70 Billion loss.
If only there had been more women in tech…
Listen, shitlord. The University of Georgia school of fine arts is churning out female IT experts as fast as it can.
Meh, I’m able to overlook her lack of a degree int he field so long as her experience make sup for it.
However, that’s where it gets murky. Looking at her LinkedIn profile, her previous three jobs all just say “Professional at (Insert company)” before she magically becomes “Chief Security Officer at Equifax”. This would strongly suggest she’s trying to hide the fact that she’s under-qualified for the position.
“Professional” isn’t a job title.
My job title is “IT Specialist”. I think it sounds stupid, but it’s what my employer uses, and it has classification documents that lay out what is expected of such a person, so I put it on my resume.
“Professional” could be anything from receptionist to chief executive.
For me, it depends on the degree. A lib arts degree in music composition doesn’t exactly inspire confidence in her intelligence or ability. I wouldn’t think twice if it was mathematics, chemistry, etc. and then she decided to switch over into IT.
Yes, it’s a well-known fact that music composers are drooling morons who are incapable of completing the most basic tasks of self-care.
I’ve heard Stravinsky was a bum who spare changed in the subways of Vienna. Or was that a bad dream I had?
Well, he did marry his 1st cousin.
That would be fair if I said that. Unless if you are assuming that 100% of students that major in music composition go on to become accomplished music composers. I’m guessing very few of the students in this major have any real association with composing music once graduating.
I suppose all art history majors are also Picasso’s too?
Yes, let’s take sarcasm via hyperbole as a serious premise and present a counter-argument from that.
That sounds like fun.
It sounded like you were defending music composers, whether through sarcasm or whatever. I’m just saying that majoring in music composition does make one a music composer so I don’t know where your reply came from.
*does not make one
HM at breakfast time “Meoooooow”.
I apologize, I realize the sneer-take at anything not tangentially-related to mechanical engineering is a vaunted Glibertarians tradition.
Carry on.
I know what you’re saying, kinda. But I would consider Music Composition a step up from Art or other humanities, while still short of stem, as far as something that would prepare you for a career in IT. I’m in IT and while I don’t know any Composition majors, a lot of the folks I work with are musicians. There’s definitely a music/math correlation.
I don’t think you have to assume they’re drooling morons to note that there does seem to be a bit of an absence of transferrable skills. I’m sure that a talented Creative Writing major can be absolutely brilliant. They can certainly tell a story better than I can. I think they might not quite be very good at running regressions or building out an asset correlation matrix.
More to the point, we have actual evidence of her abilities. She failed. We wouldn’t know who the hell she was if we didn’t have a situation where her efforts proved inadequate in a pretty spectacular way.
This. She may very well be qualified, but for a position like this, you had better be able to show your customers that the person responsible for safeguarding their data is not only competent, but world-class.
They are fucked.
She may be a great leader who is good at selecting technically competent people and listening to them. The evidence suggests otherwise.
The resume also indicates only fifteen years of professional experience. If she were a MIT or CalTech math or cs PhD with 15 years, okay, that would be one thing. But a MFA in music? I’m sure that she’s quite intelligent, politically savvy, and at least superficially knowledgeable in IT security, but data security is the sine qua non of a company like Equifax. It sure seems likely that gender was more of a factor in her C-suite promotion than IT security and project management proficiency. However, I’m sure that a politically savvy executive can find a scapegoat.
I read her name as Maudlin and thought it apropos.
Should I feel privileged working at a job that is 95% dudes and keeps me away from home week in and week out? Am I supposed to feel privileged by working 14 hours a day?
Aren’t they just femsplaining?
Susan Rice explains why she ‘unmasked’ senior Trump officials
She did it because of a YouTube video?
Because she could not have asked?
Wait, she unmasked the identities of American citizens not under any form of investigation so she could find out why a person with diplomatic immunity was in the biggest city in America?
That simply doesn’t pass the smell test.
How did unmasking them allow her to make that determination? These people are used to spewing any kind of bullshit excuse for their crimes because chocolate jesus had their back.
These people are going to have to start going to jail.
I wish that scummy dude that got thrown in prison because of Rice’s lie would sue her for defamation and conspiracy to violate his civil rights. Discovery would be fun.
Unfortunately, he did technically violate his parole agreement, I believe.
But the middle of the night frog march was a bit much.
With a bag over his head. Can’t forget that detail.
These people are going to have to start going to jail.
So much this. I get why Trump is reluctant to go this route. It looks bad. And you know the media will play it as him punishing his enemies. But, the thing is, sometimes, enemies deserve to be punished. Sometimes, they’ve done things that are just unacceptable. And not punishing them only invites them to continue when given the opportunity.
So an outgoing administration unmasking incoming administration people hoping to get dirt is A-OK. Got it.
hear is the deal see….
She didn’t mean to commit a crime.
no intent…it seems to work for High level Demos.
So she called the CIA and they said “don’t know, don’t care”?
She called the FBI and they said “don’t know, don’t care”?
She called the other 15 intelligence agencies and got the same response?
“Google’s search bias against conservative news sites has been quantified”
Google Search is found to be biased in favor of left/liberal domains and against conservative domains with a confidence of 95%. Further, certain hard-Left domains have such a high PGSTN that their standing raises suspicions that they have been hand-picked for prominent placement. Certain respected conservative domains are blacklisted.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/09/08/a-method-of-google-search-bias-quantification-and-its-application-in-climate-debate-and-general-political-discourse/
Ties in baseball are equivalent to rain outs. The game was replayed, so the tie just doesnt count.
26 is the record.
Texas law prohibits selling essentials such as fuel, food, medicine and other necessities at an “exorbitant or excessive price.” It also applies to services like towing and lodging.
“It is better for people to not have food, shelter and medicine than it is for them to pay too much for these things.”
~Some guy not currently suffering through a disaster.
We ought to change our national motto to “Form an orderly queue”
WAHHHHH seems more appropriate.
Conspiracy Theory Thursday: THE ELECTION IS FUCKING FAILURE OF THE AMERICAN VOTER. WE HAVE TOO MANY WHITE RACISTS ALL OVER THIS NATION AROUND WHOSE BRAINS ARE IN THEIR LITTLE BIGOTED ASSES Edition
This is why we should be thanking God for Hillary. She can’t go away and she can’t not say stupid shit that alienates the average voter. Her sycophants like DU will be pumping out this drivel for years. I hail Hillary as the greatest destructive force to hit american politics in 40 years. Trump is doing his best to catch up, but, at this point, he’s waaaay behind her.
“We know key states were stolen with voter suppression, uncounted ballots and racist gerrymandering on an atomic scale. ”
Is that why no one can see it?
But even with those advantages, Hillary couldn’t come out ahead…
What does gerrymandering even have to do with presidential elections?
Ah yes. That dastardly gerrymandering and its impact on statewide elections.
There are only two states where gerrymandering could even have the slightest influence on a presidential election: Nebraska and New Hampshire. And I don’t recall any complaints coming out of either location for the way their districts were drawn.
These retards can’t even blame something that’s physically possible.
Don’t you know they Gerrymandered the state boundaries!?
I have literally gotten this response as a reason why there are so many Republican governors.
That’s what melted your face off, wasn’t it?
It was a quantum jump forward in corruption.
“one step forward, two steps back” has always been quantized.
Fun Fact: that saying actually led to the full explanation of lasing levels.
“We know key states were stolen with voter suppression, uncounted ballots and racist gerrymandering on an atomic scale. ”
Also, IFLS.
As ever, the Democrats just can’t catch a break with America’s right wing media.
That’s depressing reading: When asked about the Bill of Rights, nearly all journalists deemed “essential” the right of a fair trial (97%), a free press (96%), freedom of religion (95%) and free speech (92%), and 80 percent called “essential” the judicially-derived “right to privacy.” But only 25 percent of the journalists termed the “right to own firearms” essential, while 42 percent called that right “important but not essential,” and 31 percent of journalists rejected the Second Amendment as “not important.”
Apart from the 2A bit, the difference between the free press approval and the free speech approval is quite funny.
SO the worst performing Democrat among journalists in the last 50 years was John Kerry? Even Democrat hacks don’t like the Munster from Massachusetts.
Wait, I thought stealing elections wasn’t a thing? Could these people make up their minds?
How does one Gerrymander a presidential race?
Also the GOP didn’t like trump…but they cheated to flip 6 states obama won twice? But didn’t do so for mitt who they like?
My bigoted brain is in my bigoted head
I want to get a Twitter account, just to say Woodchippers are going to hell Preet, and it’s all your fault!
My ancestors followed the legal process. I oppose DACA.
I do not like queue-jumpers. No amnesty. In fact, the DACA list should be converted into the “No Cizizenship Ever” list.
My analogy I’ve been working on goes something like thus:
It is a standing principle that we should not let people benefit from illegality (I know this is not always well-enforced, but that does not negate the goal). If this were a case where a parent robbed a jewelery store with the intent to fund their child’s education, we would arrest the parent, but the kid wouldn’t get the keep the jewels or the proceeds of their fencing. This is the same thing, the parent committed the crime of illegal entry. The proceeds of that crime – being resident within the United States, should be taken away to disincentivize others.
When the executive order was announced, there was a documented upswing in the number of illegal entries by minors – becuase it incentivized the activity. If we are to ever expect people to follow the legal processes, we must not reward those who flout them.
This guy went to law school? That is the dumbest shit I have heard all week.
Well, since some of my ancestors were sitting here waiting when the Pilgrims landed, you can fuck off, Prett.
In fact, for my ancestors who came here from Europe and the Middle East, you can fuck off anyway, Preet.
White European colonists who came to America were evil monsters, who stole land from the peaceful natives (ignore the near-constant warring that was going on between tribes, shitlord!), decimated the buffalo to feed their own greedy gullets, and forced their culture upon the peace loving (but constantly warring) natives.
But today immigrants from foreign lands should be welcomed unconditionally with open arms because we now have infinite land and resources, and our culture stinks anyhow, but we’d better not appropriate theirs!
Dances with Wolves was all about the buffalo skinning, but what impact did converting the prairie to crops and domestic grazing have on the buffalo?
These Florida men tried to steal a huge utility pole, police say. It didn’t end well
Do you see how it feels LH? Do you?
I’m guessing this was posted before. Well, sorry. Rufus and I have to work sometimes, unlike you people.
I’m feeling it. *sobs*
Did he find a stranger in the Alps?
THE ELECTION IS FUCKING FAILURE OF THE AMERICAN VOTER. WE HAVE TOO MANY WHITE RACISTS ALL OVER THIS NATION AROUND WHOSE BRAINS ARE IN THEIR LITTLE BIGOTED ASSES.
Surprise, Dummy. Transgender socialists are not nearly as thick on the ground as you have been led to believe.
“A Political Conservative Goes to Berkeley
Ben Shapiro is a 33-year-old who supports small government, religious liberty and free-market economics and opposes identity politics, abortion and Donald Trump. He is, in other words, that wildly exotic creature: a political conservative.
You’d think that the cosmopolitan denizens of the San Francisco Bay Area would have encountered a few, if not in the form of an uncle at Thanksgiving, then perhaps in, I don’t know, a field trip down to Orange County. But to judge from the pre-emptive reaction to Mr. Shapiro’s speech scheduled for this Thursday at the University of California, Berkeley, you’d be mistaken.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/12/opinion/conservative-berkeley-ben-shapiro.html
What is their obsession with uncles at thanksgiving?
Because incest is wincest!
Okay, Ptolemy, whatever.
Are they all related to OMWC maybe? That would be an uncle you couldn’t forget.
“I don’t want the candy, anymore!”
Minnesoda may have set a new record for “woke” actions on campus.
1) We had a campus shooting.
2) Turned out to be a hoax (security guard accidentally shot himself and lied about it)
3) Campus administrators still drug over coals because they weren’t sensitive enough to students who were traumatized
4) Administration also in hot water for not forcing students to turn over their phone information so they could be texted about gun rampage that didn’t exist. Current system is an opt-in system. Students are troubled about that.
I would have expelled the little fucker for not being adult enough to handle college.
I suppose with all the times I have been shot at, I shouldn’t be able to get out bed ever.
Idiot child should leave college and enter a Convent, in a contemplative order.
So you’re saying they should change majors to Climatology?
“It had residents of the Mac-Groveland and Highland Park communities fearful that a suspect was on the loose and they could be victimized at any moment.”
I thought they felt that way anyways.
Proggie strongholds. Makes my skin crawl just driving through.
So will the students be able to muster up the internal fortitude to make it finals by the end of the semester in a couple months? Or should we just give everyone a B and call it a semester?
“It was just hard to get out of bed.”
Isn’t that every day at college?
If you are doing it right.
So, is this the start of the turning on Trump? Trump’s also made a few tweets that seem to indicate he’s turning on DACA.
Tweet here.
If he capitulates on DACA he’s going to be a one term president. For better or worse, it’s the issue that motivated a colossal portion of his base. And they’re all old enough to remember the IRCA of ’86.
Interesting example of the Gell-Mann effect: Last night I am sitting in the parking lot of the restaurant where my wife does her girls night out waiting for her to come out and listening to the Mark Levin show while I eat my fried chicken. He is taking callers, specifically lefties, who want to give their take on single payer health care. The callers are all <60 IQ morons who endorse the idea until the last caller. He is a retired pediatrician. He says he is a progressive liberal with everything except regarding health care. He has seen first hand how spectacularly incompetent, wasteful and outright destructive the government is when it meddles with healthcare. But with regards to everything else he is a big fan of government meddling. I just sat there with my jaw on the floor listening to that tripe. How can anyone be that unaware?
The left is populated exclusively with booger eating morons and evil, power mongering control freaks.
Take that with a grain of salt- callers are screened and if he wants leftists to be drooling morons, that’s what will make it on the air. Thom Hartmann is a master of that- I’ve never heard an intelligent limited-government sort make it through on the phones.
There may be something out there more dishonest than Hate Radio, but I haven’t encountered it yet. Do what I do, use it for entertainment, not for anything you’d take seriously.
The left is populated exclusively with booger eating morons
Yes.
But tell me more about this fried chicken, I am intrigued
Albertson’s deli. Old black woman fries the best damned chicken and chicken livers you have ever tasted. I keep a bottle of Tabasco in the jeep. I buy an 8-piece dark, a half pound of chicken livers and an ice cold Dr. Pepper for about seven bucks. I sit in the parking lot of the fanciest restaurant in town and throw bones out of the drivers side window while I watch all of those fools go in to wildly overpay for shitty food. It is delicious and amusing at the same time.
My wife and I usually have the leftover chicken for lunch the next day.
*drool*
My son and I had dark meat from the local fried chicken place last night, too (Lindy’s).
a half pound of chicken livers
As penance?
Chicken livers are good and full of iron.
I never could stomach them. My mom and sister loved them, though. Mom would order a basket of fried livers and a glass of buttermilk.
Gimme raw oysters any day.
How could you eat snot on a shell yet not stomach something as benign as chicken liver?
With horseradish!
Chicken liver is yummy.
You have to understand the left is all about for thee not for me.
They don’t actually like higher taxes for themselves. Only on others
Anti-racism protesters removed after hanging banner at Fenway Park
So we should love racism and follow it every day?
I wonder what these idiots are going to say in 20 years. Are they going to wax nostalgic about it as they still pretend they were reliving the ’60s? Will they tell their grandchildren how they defeated bigfoot?
(Except for Warty) STEVE SMITH NEVER DEFEATED
Either that or we’ll all be dead piles in front of the wall.
“So, Grandpa, you punched some guy because he was in a group called ‘Patriot Prayer‘? You really were kind of douche when you were a kid. Thanks! I feel a lot better about tracking dogcrap over mom’s new carpet!”
And then Jackie Bradley, Jr. hit a home run and everyone cheered!
I love a good rendition of “Take Me Out To The Lynching” as much as anyone.
30 Days Timelapse at Sea | 4K | Through Thunderstorms, Torrential Rain & Busy Traffic
Pretty friggin’ cool
Neat stuff. Open ocean sailing is a belittling experience (particularly when you’re in a sixty foot boat)
That lightning at ~3:30. Pretty freaking cool indeed.
Damn, I’m curious what other files are in that project, or is 19mb per photo right for super fancy-pants cameras? My phone maxes-out around 6-7mb/pic and my slightly dated nikon only gets em that big on RAW.
Also, this is how I know I’m getting old.
Totally convinced to be a socialist now. Thanks new republic! Check out photo they used
https://mobile.twitter.com/NewRepublic/status/905063206950973441
Apparently I’m not authorized to view that page. Weird.
I got an error right away, too. Did you try a refresh?
and now I am. Comments are good.
Twitter is dicktarded. Just refresh until it loads for you.
If you really want to see it.
Which you don’t.
It will load right away if you aren’t using mobile or the mobile URL (just delete the word “mobile”).
A photo of a Bernie-Bro in a Che t-shirt.
These guys really don’t understand that I can absolutely be a Dzerzhinksky, a Beria, or a Che Guevera if I find it necessary to survive in a new socialist regime. And then I’ll be the one in charge of putting these useful idiots in camps, and kill my way up the regime. It’s not that challenging to be a Robespierre when you accept that your survival chances are poor under a new regime, and killing as many regime supporters and leaders as possible before I die would at least be a noble way to go.
In the comments under it, one preson posted memes of two quotes. One by Margaret Thatcher and one by Thomas Sowell. Twitter covers them with this warning:
The following media may contain sensitive material.
Unreal
And farther down a Che meme with this quote is not marked as “sensitive material”:
“The negro is indolent and lazy, and spends his money of frivolities, whereas the European is forward looking, organized and intellegent.”
Allow me to disabuse of that imperialist propaganda, friend
Now that’s how you apologia
Trump says completely innocent things, ZOMG MASSIVE RACIST! Che said actual, no shit racist stuff, ah he was young and not yet a deep thinker.
Ok, fine. Now explain all the dead people, especially the homos.
What were Che Guevara’s views on homosexuality?
It’s all Fidel’s fault! And besides, after all the homos were dead, he apologized for it!
From the hurricane/AGW story at the Daily Mail…
***Carbon emissions from plane journeys such as the celebrities’ cause the earth’s temperature to heat and the resulting higher ocean temperatures lead to more powerful hurricanes. The higher temperatures over land and sea mean the storms generate more energy.***
I’m not an expert, but I’m pretty sure every bit of that is untrue, except possible the warmer sea temps leads to more storm energy. A storm over land would weaken no matter the temp. Also, greenhouse warming would warm the atmosphere, would that necessarily also warm the land surface and ocean too?
Question for you Garand people. I’ve been cleaning up my old CMP M1 that I’ve had for 10 years and never even cleaned the cosmoline off of. When I removed the action from the stock, it came out without any resistance whatsoever. Since the action doesn’t screw into the stock, that’s terrible for the rifle’s accuracy, correct? So then my options would be to shim or glass bed the stock or to just get a new one from Boyd’s.
Is my reasoning correct here?
All I can contribute is Guns are Scary
then you’re standing on the wrong end.
Glass bed would give you the best accuracy, but that can be a tricky operation. Have you ever done something like that before?
Nope.
You can give it a shot, watch a lot of youtube videos first. If I were you, I’d probably have a gunsmith do it; I’d never risk screwing up my M1. On the plus side, that should significantly increase the accuracy.
I’d shoot it some before changing anything. A loose stock fit certainly won’t help your M1’s accuracy, but it won’t automatically make it shoot like garbage either.
If you have any thoughts of entering a CMP John C. Garand match, be aware that glass-bedding your M1 bumps you into Unlimited class.
I’ve started planning my next road trip. I’ve determined that Vegas is too far afield – it’d take too much leave time. So I’ve changed the turnaround point to New Orleans. I’m looking for suggestions between Greenville SC an NOLA, as well as ideas for the return trip, which is liable to be by way of Tenn, KY, WV
I hope you don’t have a purty mouth.
Are you stopping in Western NC for the scenery? I can suggest a lot of places to go near Asheville that have beautiful hikes.
While I can understand why people might appreciate the natural beauty of the region – these forays out of the abcess that is the northeast are to regain sanity and experience American Culture without the rot. Also history and industry. (I actually like factory tours).
There is Sierra Nevada’s brewing facility in Mills River, NC, near Asheville, if you like that sort of thing. Neat Factory tour and tasting, but book in advance.
Thanks for the suggestion. The route is nowhere near set in stone yet, so I don’t know how much time I’ll be spending in that area yet.
I’m really enjoying seeing Trump buddying up to the democrats. I think it’s brilliant. I hope he brings up Obamacare again. “So, Mitch, don’t worry about sending me a health care bill. I’m sure my friends Chuck and Nancy have some good ideas. No, no, you go back to doing whatever it is you do, I wouldn’t want to bother you.”
I’m sure there are more than a few GOPe type heads exploding. “He can’t do this, doesn’t he understand how things work here? This is against the rules, he can’t! System. Error.”
That’s the whole idea. It wouldn’t be happening if they just did at least some of the shit they repeatedly promised for 8 years.
Yup
But that would require them to take responsibility for whatever they did and the consequences for that thing! So much easier to do nothing.
If you’ll just give us
the house the senate the presidencya blow job and then STFU.Special edition: No souls and ready for action.
http://archive.is/SBtmo
I’ll be in my bunk. All. Day.
TOO MANY!!
But I like 7 and 33
#9 LOL
#22, #33, yes
#28 is beautiful
#13, #28. #25 isn’t too shabby either.
#3 frightens me. Those bolt-ons look like the work of Herbert West.
Lordy.
7 wins. Then 28 and 6.
I’m done with work. I very legitimately may be in my bunk soon.
I doubt #7 is a true redhead.
Like I give a shit.
#24 is the bunny-boiler
Oh yeah.
What is this “bunny boiler”?
That just makes me think of the Hosenfeffer episode of Bugs Bunny.
Fatal Attraction
Here.
7, definitely
27 by a county mile. Hot dang I love freckles.
+r
Don’t you mean -o?
Don’t be silly, he was adding read permissions to the comment.
22 and 27
I’ll take the redhead.
Your soul will be *consumed…
*died smiling
buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuunnnnnnk all day
Yesterday, Bernie Sanders; today, Joe Biden. The NYT clings to its status as Democratic Party newsletter.
When Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson said that it was important to “understand the difference between policy and values,” he wrote off the very thing that makes the United States exceptional. And at a time when democratic values are under siege around the globe — from populist attacks that undermine confidence in democratic institutions to leaders who try to bolster their power by closing the space for civil society and rolling back citizens’ rights — the world cannot afford to have America cede the field to illiberalism and intolerance.
Placing American democratic values back at the center of our foreign policy does not mean we should impose our principles abroad or refuse to talk with nations whose policies run counter to them. There will always be times when keeping Americans safe requires working with those whom we find distasteful. But even when we must make those hard choices, we can never forget who we are and the future we seek.
They happily publish this vapid whimwham. What is the likelihood the NYT would publish my ruminations on liberty?
What democratic values are under siege? Oh yes anything liberals like!
Biden is a master of bullshit. And that’s exactly what that is, bullshit that says nothing, means nothing, and can’t possibly be used against him later.
It takes talent to be a scam artist for 50 years running.
Rolling back citizen rights? Aren’t they the ones that want to get rid of at least the first and second amendment
I am curious what rights are being rolled back here
The right to tax-payer funded abortions and birth control!
The right to pee in 39 bathrooms at once.
A comment from the Biden thing:
Bruce Rozenblit is a trusted commenter Kansas City, MO 16 minutes ago
The problem isn’t donald Trump. It’s the people that continue to support him. Trump is a reflection of them.
Trump has no plan, no core, no moral compass. He just responds to whatever makes the crowds cheer. He learned that very early on. When he would make racist statements, the crowds would cheer, so he would make more. When he spoke of isolation, the crowds would cheer, so more isolation. When he blamed big Democrats for shuttered factories, the crowds brought the house down.
We have a problem in this nation of extreme misinformation, hate, and fear that dominates the public square. We have a problem of rampant ignorance and the inability to grasp logical thought. To merely mention this condition will get one branded as an elitist.
Leadership has been replaced by emotional stimulation. Whomever gets the biggest rise out of people’s blood pressure gets the most votes.
If we want to reclaim American values, we have to reclaim America’s minds. Good luck with that so long as they continue to watch Fox News and listen to Rush Limbaugh.
I know you are, but what am I?
Good grief, these people are utterly unselfaware.
Holy shit, I know that guy. I think Lord Humungus does as well. My opinion of his professional incompetence is now reinforced by his apparent personal stupidity.
Yes, but ignoring his systematic bias, is he wrong about the current state of American demagoguery?
There are two true statements.
Trump has no plan, no core, no moral compass. He just responds to whatever makes the crowds cheer.
We have a problem of rampant ignorance and the inability to grasp logical thought.
The rest devolves into the usual Team Blue idiocy and slogans as if to unintentionally reinforce the latter statement.
From my perspective, here in the faculty lounge drinking a cocktail while an illegal thicc Latina housekeeper polishes my shoes, I’d say that’s true as well.
When pointing out the rampancy of this condition on the left, one gets branded as a Nazi.
His point is undermined by the last statement inferring he views it purely through a partisan viewpoint of ‘those ignorant right-wingers are just stupid’. If he, say, shat on MSNBC and Fox at the same time it would come off as an actual point and less masturbatory groupthink about ‘the other tribe’.
He’s wrong if he thinks this is something new.
He’s not wrong, but his special retardation comes from his complete blindness to the cult of personality that was King O! the First. If anything launched the current side-show spectacle we see, it was Barry Himself.
His name sounded familiar but I still had to google it – ah, OTL amps.
He’s also the guy who marketed a “grounded grid preamp” which was not a grounded grid preamp. His books are remarkably bad as well.
Ah yes I remember that now. Once – many moons ago – I was looking at his preamp to build thinking it really was a grounded grid circuit… and then found out it wasn’t. My one slap dash attempt at building a grounded grid circuit (or was it something else – gah, my memoty!) – under a slab of much used aluminum – led to nothing but hum hum hum. I didn’t bother to try again as I had moved on to some other ideas.
When you think of measured intellect and logical thought, the first person that comes to mind is Joe Biden.
+1 This is a big fucking deal
Lol so much projection
Also I missed all these racist statements trump has made
Didn’t Hillary win the most votes?
Not sure, the margin of fraud makes it hard to be certain.
This is good
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/11/23/nytnow/23commenters.html
No wonder why he has no friends
Mr. Rozenblit doesn’t use Facebook or even have a cell phone. “I’m old fashioned,” he said. “If you want to talk to me, then talk to me.”
“Some people like to solve crossword puzzles and they can’t have enough of them,” he said. “Well, I like to write, and it’s incredibly rewarding and incredibly expressive, and I go on the website looking for problems to solve.”
He said he believed that his comments help fulfill his civic responsibility to contribute to a democracy.
“I’ve lost most all my friends as I’ve gotten older, and I don’t have people I can engage in deep conversation with like I used to years ago, and this gives me a platform to do that.”
A confident, powerful male does not openly flaunt his abilities. He doesn’t proclaim his strength at every opportunity. He holds his strength in a sort of quiet reserve. He doesn’t start trouble. He doesn’t even act tough. He doesn’t have to.
– Bruce Rozenblit
Funniest damned thing I’ll read all week
Apparently nyt commenting is problem solving and preaching to the choir is for democracy
Wow, what a rogue’s gallery that was. I’m absolutely shocked that all of them hate conservatism, are fixated on disliking Republicans, and seem to love phrases such as “income inequality”. This is why Trump won.
“I’ve lost most all of my friends”
Somehow, I find this completely unsurprising.
Turns out this was one of those really weird cases where the problem was everybody else.
Also, there is exactly one of those people under the age of 30 and the average age is north of 50. I thought Repubs had all the demographic problems?
I like the 95 year old guy. Makes me feel young.
If the economists prescribing austerity as a cure-all were licensed professionals in a reputable field, as opposed to handsomely compensated charlatans hawking a bogus ideology at the behest of a tiny corrupt elite, they could now at least be sued for malpractice.
– Matthew Carnicelli
Krugabe hardest hit.
FTFY
I mean, seriously, did you get a load of that guy’s picture? I’ve seen homeless schizos sleeping in doorways that look like they’ve got it more together than he does.
You just gave Steve Bannon a sad.
I dont know how they can lose in the next round of elections. They are going to insult their way to victory.
For Vhyrus – The NOAA site updated and has imagery of Big Pine Key and area now.
And just talked to one of my colleagues down in the keys. Most properties gulf side had little damage in the keys, ocean side had 1-3′ of sand if not on stilts.
–“The average price for a queen or king room was $108 per night on the two weekends prior to Hurricane Harvey making landfall, according to the state’s complaint.”–
Sp it’s gouging when there is a disaster but not when Hotels at the beach raise prices through the summer or any hotel raises prices when a major convention is in town? Is there like some disaster magic that suspends the laws of supply and demand to make it gouging?
I don’t agree but the only explanation I have heard that didn’t rely on ‘Mah Feelz’ is that in disasters/aftermath buyers don’t have the option of not purchasing, like they normally do.
Preparing = the option of not purchasing
Do you know what separates Protestants and Catholics? Many Protestants seem not to.
Well, we Protestants don’t follow a commie pope for one.
We have our our own commie ministers and church councils!
Yeah, but that only reflects on those particular churches. I don’t have to endorse the minister of a church I don’t go to the way Catholics have to endorse the pope.
I’ve never endorsed a pope and the church still lets me in without donating.
Nailed it, but they didn’t even bring up transubstantiation.
Q: What do you find with every four Catholics?
A: A fifth!
/former Catholic who will be here all week
Ding!
Catholics aren’t too sure about this neither. I was raised Catholic and the big difference to me was that Catholics think the communion host is transformed, Protestants do not.
Messiah cannibalism… I thought (((we))) were supposed to be weird!
The difference between catholics and protestants is that catholics say hello to one another at the liquor store.
I heard that one as Methodists vs Baptists. Down south, if you’re throwing a party with liquor and inviting Baptists, you’d better have red Solo cups for them
if Monty Python taught me anything, it’s condoms.
You’re just not hitting it hard enough
The Fed missed the crisis in part because it has a dual mandate to keep unemployment and consumer price inflation low — and both were low before 2008. Real reform would add a third mandate: maintaining financial stability, and in particular stabilizing prices for assets like houses and stocks, which are not counted as “consumer prices” but now have a bigger influence on the economy.
*clutches head, moans*
I don’t even disagree with a big chunk of what the guy says, but the idea that if the Federal Reserve Bank would just cast their all-knowing eyes on financial asset prices, we will have stability forever is too much to take. How about if we abolish the Fed, and use a set mathematical formula to regulate the growth of the money supply?
The fed should have a single mandate…
Keep the money supply in synch with economic growth.
Yes yes I know the Fed shouldn’t exist but as a practical reality that isn’t going to happen this would be the next best option and is actually conceivably achievable.
The Fed should have a single mandate….
Seppuku.
Bingo.
Oh and that’s what she said
The Fed missed the crisis in part because it has a dual mandate to keep unemployment and consumer price inflation low — and both were low before 2008.
Yep, you just stop counting half of the unemployed as unemployed, switch to a chained CPI overweighted for declining prices and where hot dogs and beef tenderloin are subsitutable goods, statutorily force banks to hold massive reserves of the trillions of new dollars you are creating, and ignore M3 and M4, and hey presto, you’ve got low unemployment and low inflation. Just the sort of strong economic foundation that can sustain a booming housing market with 30:1 DTI mortgages. Wait a minute, you mean that caused some unintended second order effects? Well, the problem is we need another mandate!
without clicking.. Krugabe?
Real reform would add a third mandate: maintaining financial stability, and in particular stabilizing prices for assets like houses and stocks
that is pure fucking lunacy.
RIP, Grant Hart. One of the best tunesmiths in the punk genre. I’m a big fan of Bob Mould, but I always liked Grant’s songs in the Husker Du days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTjfl0yhyRk
Aw fuck. Sad news.
My favorite of his.
One from Nova Mob.
One of my favorites too, I had about 6 or 7 that popped into my head to post. I decided to go with the first one that ever made my ears prick up and say, “Hey, this is really cool.” I was a freshmen in high school getting a ride from a senior who had Zen Arcade in his cassette player. Been a huge fan since.
Oh you’re kidding! Man…rough week, first Frank Vincent and now this.
I always loved the Warehouse album
Nashville woman stretches the hot-crazy matrix to a breaking point. In fairness, she may not be lying about fearing for her life. But the whole thing reads like a Tom Wolfe synopsis.
Shooting bums is illegal?
Depends on whose bum it is and what you’re shooting it with.
As long as you’re using protection…
I don’t know why, but I’ve always been like instantly attracted to chicks with the sleepy eye thing going on. It’s like an automatic +2.
You and Cosby
Hey Hey Hey
Shot a man and once assaulted a woman with a pint glass. This woman might just have a bright future as a country singer.
I loved that game when I was a kid.
Dammit. Unintentional Brooks-ing
I wonder whether Brooks has ever unintentionally not Brooks’d.
Then it would be a Reverse Gilmore.
I’m losing track of all of these commenting deviations.
–“All that glorious lecturing about global warming during the telethon for the hurricane victims was great, wasn’t it? I mean, those celebs sure must care about the earth and definitely practice what they preach. “–
So this is literally the first I heard of that fund raiser but a few notes on the pictures
Damn Cloony is starting to look like Anthony Bourdain’s long lost brother
And Daniel Craig is starting to look an awful lot like Stellan Skarsgard, especially from the second Thor movie
Cher can’t be human, she doesn’t look a day over 50. Even as a 70 year old still probably would
When did Kate Hudson get chemo?
How in the Hell did Selena Gomez make herself look like a 12 year old refugee? More importantly who told her that was a good look?
Gwen Steffani somehow is the same age as me but doesn’t look a day over 30. She also looks better in these shots than anything I’ve seen her in before. Definitely would
RE: Ageless women.
1. Hundreds of thousands in surgical procedures
2. LOTS of makeup
3. Camera filters
not Gwen. vampire, that one.
Hillary Duff has aged well.
Selena Gomez – kidney transplant.
Oh. That’s…actually quite touching.
I wonder whether Brooks has ever unintentionally not Brooks’d.
If he had, he’d pretend he hadn’t. Or blame it on vindictive skwerlz.
When Brooks Gilmores an SF’d link, the stars will align and squirrelpocalypse cometh.
*it’s happening Ron Paul gif*
Don’t know if this has been posted yet. Good god, are they just trying to lose? Couple of things here: 1) I hope all these people lose their jobs to hispanics. 2) Didn’t we just have a election that was impacted by evil foreign nationals and it was the worst thing ever?
That is a major fuck you to property tax payers in the city. They’ll be lucky if they don’t a have a full scale revolt.
That’s assuming property owners there aren’t suffering full-bore battered wife syndrome.
Property owners are hugely outnumbered by students. And it shows.
YES!
i can’t wait to hear the tax increases proposed by newly elected council member Che Guevara.
And rent control. Gotta have rent control.
will they also be allowed to run for City Council ?
I vote to just let the undocumented of CP do whatever they want in full defiance of the law 24/7. I don’t live in CP, but that doesn’t matter, right?
Those who say ungoodful things and wrongthink have no place here. The BOR was written by slave owners anyway.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/36663/
How many times do they have to get free speech cases broken off in their asshole by even the most wingnut leftist courts in this country before they just give it up?
They will never give up of their own volition, they must be stopped. They are relentless.
in The Daily Egyptian?
Check yourself, Southern Ill.
Wow. They are begging for someone to take them up on that.
So I got my review and has been had hinted to me it was quite good. But, just as we were finishing up, I was told that the review wasn’t over and that the CEO will be meeting with me today to complete the review. Why? I got a raise with my review so what is going on? Am I getting a bonus? A promotion? A bonus, promotion and a pony? The CEO has never spoken to me in conjunction with a review before. They wouldn’t give me a raise and then fire me, would they? No, the CEO doesn’t fire people. I don’t think. Sheesh, I’m dying here. If I get up there and he says something like, “Good job” and that’s it I’m going to be so let down.
Take a deep breath and calm down.
It’s going to be all right – and probably a whole lot of nothing.
Either way, let us know, you’ve got me wondering.
good luck. If he gives you a pony, tell him to keep it. They are a pain in the ass to take care of.
No shit. And they bite. And poop.
My pony bit my brother. I like ponies.
To be fair, I can’t think of an animal that doesn’t poop.
I got a pony for Christmas when I was ten. I like ponies.
When I was a little girl in Poland, we all had ponies. My sister had pony, my cousin had pony… So, what’s wrong with that?
Nothing! Who wouldn’t like ponies?
That depends – are we allowed to slaughter them for food and hides?
Who wouldn’t love a pony? Who wouldn’t love a person that had a pony?
*raises hand*
Who leaves a country packed with ponies for a non-pony country?!
They didn’t accept his transition from little girl to old man.
Who figures an immigrant’s going to have a pony? Do you know what the odds are on that? I mean, in all the pictures I saw of immigrants on boats coming into New York harbor, I never saw one of them sittin’ on a pony. Why would anybody come here if they had a pony? It doesn’t make sense. Am I wrong?
Wait, I’m confused. When you were a little girl in Poland you had a pony but now your an old man? I can never keep up.
Age and gender are just social constructs.
“Carol, we need to discuss this ‘glibertarians’ website…”
Oh, crap!
It is funny because the websites that I can visit at work are pretty much limited to Slate, Salon, etc., because of this being a supposedly “progressive” workplace. I don’t know how I’ve been able to sneak Glibertarians in under the radar.
They think it’s a Canukistani Family Friendly Site.
Glibs is blocked where I work. (I’m not at work now.)
It’s pretty random. Anything related to “games” is blocked but other time-sucks like youtube are not blocked.
For years I got “promotions” without the, you know, raises. Hope you fare better.
How many plaques did they give you?
A good review and raise, then a talk with CEO means relocation with promotion. My 2 cents.
Does the CEO enjoy peanut butter?
He must. He gave me a raise on top of my raise, a bonus, and a small promotion. The promotion was just making my unofficial title official because I’ve been doing the work all along but it is nice to be recognized. Next year I’m going for the pony.
I told you it was going to be all right, didn’t I?
*clinks glass*
Mazeltov!
Go you!
Instead of a pony, ask for the right to fire the lazy and incompetent.
That’d work so much better atop a pony though.
Congratulations!
WOOT!
To be sure, it’s no pony, but a positive outcome nonetheless!
Congratulations! You deserve it after dealing with the lazy tellers.
Congrats, Carol!
Maybe he has a… “special” project for you.
Unless you are a VP, the CEO isn’t meeting with you to beat you up. I’m thinking they want to talk about a transfer/promotion. You know
Special recognition for keeping the fires burning in the hurricane aftermath while other people were having breakfast with their family.
Pidgin don be same ting ass jar jar poo poo.
Sanders is an idiot shocker
https://www.sanders.senate.gov/download/options-to-finance-medicare-for-all?inline=file
He claims that by eliminating exemptions on tax for employer healthcare plans this will raise 420 billion a year in revenue.
However his plan Medicare for all eliminates these plans so where would the tax come from ?
Retroactive, of course.
People Never change behaviour as a result of laws – unless the law was intended to make them change behaviour, then they immediately snap to compliance.
/Progic
From private health plans. All socialized medical systems have two tiers; a shitty publicly one for the plebs and a adequate privately funded one for the nobility/ The kind of people who are paid $500,000 per annum to ‘teach’ woodworking can afford it.
If the employer is no longer exempt from health care plans, that means the employer is going to cut my wages to make up for that. Fuck you Bernie. And anyone stupid enough to not realize this.
We just taxing the rich employers, not the exploited workers. /proglogic
A significant contributor to the mess that is the health insurance industry is the tax exemption of employer provided plans, an exemption that is absent for individual plans.
Treating both the same would be very helpful. A lot of employers would be very happy to get out of the game. I prefer ending the tax exemption entirely, because otherwise the govt, through deciding what properties a plan needs to be tax exempt, would still be meddling in our health care.
Agreed but under his plan there would be no employer plans anymore essentially. Fiction can’t be taxed despite what socialists think
It is actually worse than that…Medicare for all means those employer plans go away and are replaced. Getting rid of exemption is meaningless here
So Bernie is raising 0 revenue on those since they no longer exist…you can’t tax nothing
420 billion is a significant sum of revenue needed that is not real and will have to be made up in other areas which will hammer the middle
I see your hammer and raise you one sickle.
Yowza. He managed to make even dumber the already terminally stupid idea that people will work harder if they’re taxed more.
Never go full Sanders.
Horrific Flesh-Eating Parasite Called “The Next Plague” Could Spread in U.S., Spurring Vaccine Effort
Refugees make us stronger. Or else we die from communicable diseases.
Another case against pure open borders? Disease control before entrance.
I have the perfect Harvard Alum/socon to forward this to, and ruin his morning. Thanks Sloopy!
Interesting point. How many of Hah-vahd’s alumni donors would be offended by this appointment? My guess is a good number. I’ll be curious what their donation $’s look like this time next year.
Oh boy, another chance for the GOP to look foolish and fail miserably.
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-09-13/graham-cassidy-bill-is-the-latest-dim-hope-for-health-reform
“Yes, let’s pass a complex, long-term plan to gradually shift power from one level of government to another. That’s the same as repeal, right?”
I especially love the “well, it’s clear the FedGov can’t afford this, the states will have no problem!”
At this point, the answer is a perpetual bailout of the insurance companies.
The insurance company bailout will be a perpetual excuse to move to single payer.
They Democrats already have the single payer bill ready.
The Republican don’t have the will to stop the bailouts. Donald Trump has expressed more opposition to the bailouts than the Republicans in congress.
Donald Trump may be the most libertarian force in politics right now–our best hope.
And I should add, it was a legitimate reason why a libertarian might have voted for him in the last election. If Hillary were in office, we might already have passed single payer legislation.
I wonder if it’s occurred to Rand Paul yet that the alternative to replacement was not repeal.
Last I checked Paul had a pretty solid and reasonably libertarian replacement plan available
War, war, war, war…
Fuckers.
“You get a war, and you get a war, and you get a war…!”
Can’t shut down that gravy train. Nothing give better opportunities for graft than war!
At least he got them on record.
Good god what is it good for
Cue scary music
As legislators in Texas, Florida and Washington, D.C., begin to set the course for the recoveries from Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, they should avoid the allure of easy fixes that maintain inequality or policies that make it worse. Instead, they should use federal and state recovery aid to encourage more equal communities.
I’ve got a baaaad feeling about this…
tl;dr- RACISM
What the fuck is a more equal community? Funny how this doesn’t apply to the folks who endorse these things
It means putting poor people into expensive neighborhoods, paid by tax dollars.
+8 sections
Not if Trumphitler has his way.
Until the next Dem prez gets in office…
I mean what’s the point of paying a boatload of property taxes and too much for a house if I can’t keep the riff-raff
poor peopleout of my neighborhood? Why move there?Maybe some trains could be used to transport people from one location to another /Hitler the Community Planner
“Hurricane Aid Provided. Women and Children Hardest Hit.”
What about the minorities Naziboy?
“tl;dr – RACISM”
So, typical Thursday at NYT?
People simply can’t recover with legislators.
Fuck. “People simply can’t recover without the heroics of legislators.”
They are shameless and they will destroy if you let them. You must fight back.
http://nypost.com/2017/09/13/democrats-latest-bid-to-rig-election-rules/
Err, it seems to me that concentrating the voters of one party into a handful of districts creates permanent safe seats for that party. The only time gerrymandering is a problem is when they get fancy and draw district maps so that the voters of uone party are split up into many districts bit never enough in any single district to have a reasonable chance at winning.
I guess I’m failing to see the problem with the maps
maps
It results in too many republican seats, donchaknow.
That means it must be racist.
Yeah, that’s not even remotely bad. I’m sure the Dem proposal is a map that isn’t as “tight” as that one to existing boundaries, etc., and has a bunch of spaghetti districts that combine inner city precincts with suburban and urban precincts to try to swamp more districts with 110% voting from 120% Dem precincts.
Can anyone track down the Dem proposal?
So brave and woke.
Such courage. A true rebel.
I swear, boring bourgeois are the new punk rock.
Mostly harmless
Mr. Shkreli’s lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, argued at the hearing that Mr. Shkreli was not violent and that the post had been “a momentary lapse in judgment.”
Mr. Shkreli, he said, deserved another chance.
“Stupid doesn’t make you violent,” Mr. Brafman said, adding that his client’s Facebook posts had shown “immaturity, satire, a warped sense of humor.”
But Judge Matsumoto was unmoved.
“What is funny about that?” she responded. “He doesn’t know who his followers are.”
I guess he should be thankful Preet got shitcanned.
You cannot be allowed to say hurtful and disrespectful things about America’s Royalty.
I say this judge becomes the one overseeing the conspiracy and RICO cases against antifa and their supporters.
New York Judge? They’d flip to “Actual violence isn’t violence”
In that photo, Chelsea Manning looks like she could be in a new wave band from the early ’80s.
Talk Talk, The Human League, Flock of Seagulls, even early Duran Duran–she’s got the look.
Communards more likely
She’s Got The Look was from the 90’s wasn’t it?
Andrew Ross Sorkin haz a confuze
On its face, the very idea of price gouging, especially during a natural disaster, feels outrageous. Indeed, 34 states have anti-gouging laws meant to protect consumers.
However, in a small slice of the world of economists and businesses, there is a fascinating debate about the topic — with many arguing that price gouging is actually a good thing.
Yes, you heard that correctly.
———
Of course, these arguments may make sense in the most theoretical context, but when it comes to trying to protect the poorest among us, who can’t afford the most basic of goods, they seem like an inhumane affront to our sensibilities.
Of course they do.
I presume he secretly wants black marketeers to be summarily executed by military tribunals, to encourage fairness and compassion.
If he works for the New York Times, I’d wager there’s also a chance he wants all marketeers summarily executed.
During a natural emergency, do newspaper advertising rates go up? I think they do.
IT JUST FEELS ICKY, THAT’S MY OBJECTION
So he’d rather have price fixing where the poor can afford the most basic of goods but the goods aren’t available.
Anti-price-gouging only makes sense in the most theoretical context. Naturally, its supporters lie and say that the natural economic occurrence of supply and demand only makes sense in the most theoretical context.
How does he feel about shortages–when it doesn’t matter how much money you have, you can’t get a thing?
Speculators, hoarders, Kulaks, wreckers, etc.
when it comes to trying to protect the poorest among us, who can’t afford the most basic of goods
Naturally, they also can’t get basic goods that aren’t available at all, either.
Liberals and NBC don’t understand Florida has two senators one of which is on ballot next year…a dem named bill Nelson
https://mobile.twitter.com/NBCPolitics/status/908349522954280960
That’s hilarious. What’s truly disturbing is the people who keep spouting the talking points even after its been pointed Trump was talking about unseating Dem Senator, not a Repub Senator.
He gave me a raise on top of my raise, a bonus, and a small promotion. The promotion was just making my unofficial title official because I’ve been doing the work all along but it is nice to be recognized. Next year I’m going for the pony.
NICE. Congrats.
Razorfist’s latest thing
something to do with the legacy of Gamergate. if that sounds bad, it…. well, its not as bad as i thought it would be. He makes an interesting point about the decline of Hollywood as a social-influencing force, and how it basically explains why activists decided that video games needed to be the new medium to ‘shape’ perceptions.
Proving once again the evergreen IowaHawk observation about leftists, respected institutions, and skinsuits.
https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/664089892599631872?lang=en
David Burge
@iowahawkblog
1. Identify a respected institution.
2. kill it.
3. gut it.
4. wear its carcass as a skin suit, while demanding respect.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/450700/espn-marvel-missouri-university-they-all-turned-left-and-hit-rocks
Notice that the progressive-minded revolutionaries in these three cases did not seek to found their own university in Missouri, their own cable sports network, or their own line of comic books. That would require a great deal of patience and effort and risk of failure. They moved into preexisting, relatively apolitical institutions and steered the ship in a new direction, aligned with their political and social goals.
And then they hit the rocks.
That’s cause they are a cancer. They’re incapable of building anything on their own, all they can do is infiltrate and destroy, then metastasize elsewhere.
^^Yup.
Schumer, Pelosi on Trump Dinner: ‘We Agreed to Enshrine the Protections of DACA Into Law Quickly’
Well, first you have to assume they aren’t lying.
I suspect that a disinterested observer would likely have said the meeting was more “IF you want to enshrine the protections of DACA, you need to pass a law quickly.” That’s consistent with what Trump has said in the past, more or less. I think his plan is probably to put the Repubs in Congress between a rock (the Dems who give them their marching orders) and a hard place (the voters who put them in office).
Not to get all 9th dimensional chess on you, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he was thinking “If the Repubs pass a DACA statute, then they were never going to give me anything useful on immigration anyway, and this should set them up for some housecleaning next year. If they don’t pass a DACA statute, then that’s what I want anyway. Win. Win.”
You also have to assume the president isn’t just a-okay with selling out the voters.
I don’t think he is. He seems like one of the few to actually pursue what he campaigned on.
– stricter enforcement and deportations
– travel ban
– pipelines
– Paris and cpp withdrawal
– cutting regulations
– not sticking it to coal or nat gas
I don’t see this passing on its own as GOP critters would be annihilated in primaries if they voted on this especially over tax reform
The way this gets passed if there is additional border security measures
I think trump has the leverage here since dems want it more than he needs border security since there appears to be an effective wall up now
The last time there was a trade of Amnesty for Stricter Border security, we got Amnesty and no border security.
This looks a lot like history repeating itself.
Yep, and since DACA doesn’t apply to anyone who arrived after 2007 I think it is, we’ll be doing this again in a decade or so. Unless the new DACA is just another blanket amnesty.
This looks a lot like history repeating itself.
If you think Pelosi and Schumer are telling the whole truth, sure.
Interesting how all the DACA-lovers out there completely ignore the fact that the Obama admin deported more people than any other admin.
I don’t actually think this is as big an issue with GOP supporters as Dems want to make it out to be, Wasn’t the last amnesty done by Reagan? It’s usually seen a a cheap ploy to get more Hispanic votes at the cost of fewer votes from “the base” who simply won’t vote rather than vote for the other side.
In other words, this is really a dumb hill for anyone to die on, and it’s the Dems more than the GOP that want to die on it. It’s the typical racist approach of Democrats: “Hispanics are too dumb to know that a DACA law passed by Congress requires GOP support.” There’s plenty of hard-working Hispanics that want the lazy shitheel Hispanics stopped at the border because it gives them a bad name.
I couldn’t have said this better. The Dems are killing themselves with identity politics and they’re not smart enough to know it. Not that the Pubs are any smarter or they’d be doing a helluva lot better job capitalizing on it.
RC, that was exactly my reading on it as well. You should be ashamed of yourself.
*checks*
Nope. Looks like the consciencectomy took out the shame gland as well.
So it’s been annoyingly hot up here for the past month, practically midsummer weather. I get up today and it’s been foggy/cloudy, raining all day, and we’re due for snow.
Goddamn, I love Montana.
closing line reminds me of Sgt. Apone from Aliens.
Wooo, made it through the morning links, first time in weeks. Only took 11 hours. You fuckers and your prolific annecdotery, argumentation and boob links.
Needs more preamp discussions.