Back to the grindstone. Well, I worked this weekend, so I’m not really “back”.
A Pennsylvania take on the “Honoring the Dead” post below.
News reaches the West that the man who saved us from an accidental nuclear exchange passed away.
Always trust the government to be full of assholes who do not want you to know how they operate. I hope that all lawyers who participate in filing these suits are disbarred for egregious abuse of the legal system.
It looks as if Jason Voorhees might be killing people in the real world. Also, zombies.
John McCain blames gentleman bachelor Lindsay Graham for his poor showing at the Comey hearing. Senator, everyone knows you have a brain tumor. Just retire and spend the rest of your life (long may it be) in the company of your family.
I needed something mellow today.
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*stares at blank page*
*sighs*
*wanders over to Glibertarians*
*sighs*
I shouldn’t be snarking here when I need to get work done.
It’s difficult to break free.
I want to break free from your lies
You are so self satisfied, I don’t need you
True, but everybody here gets it.
Fer example, I’m supposed to be getting ready for a trip to see family in Normandy. Yet I’m dicking about here.
BACK TO WORK, YOU!
*shakes fist*
You know no one around here works.
Have you forgotten?
Why else would we have orphans? I polish my own monocle but that’s a hobby and not “employment” like the riff raff.
Now *that* is a brilliant euphemism. Well done.
2nd. UnCivil cheated.
I start typing in the box after the page loaded.
I have no idea why it wasn’t third.
*started
Yes but you are a professional typist, unfair advantage.
Lul. I can’t type.
Hey, don’t be so hard on yourself I read one of your book I thought it was typed real well.
Don’t start coveting Tundra’s third!
Fuck that. I’m first.
See, even you know that you cheated.
Technically, Tundra is the first. We’re the pre-show chatter.
I needed something mellow today.
Nice choice for a rainy afternoon.
Not raining here.
Nor here. Here, it’s too warm.
Here’s a rainy day track for you, Tundra.
Here’s one for your rainy day and accounting for the fact that its Monday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjFoQxjgbrs
Both beautiful songs – nice job!
Another good one.
How about some Buddy Guy?
I’m not yer Buddy Guy, pal?
Hi friend!
Winner.
What a great song!
Top Men letting the shit roll downhill.
Pfft. Missed this.
$500? What a douchebag.
Anything larger may have had weird implications for Petrov. Just a guess. I have no idea.
It was only three years ago. Maybe fly the dude out to the premier or make a donation in his name to the Human Fund.
Not at all. That was in 2014.
That’s what I thought.
Hey Costner! How about, you know, a little something for the effort?
It’s nice to know Petrov has total consciousness.
$500? What a douchebag.
To be fair, it was Kevin Costner in 2014. By then, his career was washed up enough that he might not have been able to afford much more.
I’ll take $500 over a plaque or desk award of some kind. I’ll definetely take $500 over the jack shit he probably got from the Soviets.
If you want a horrifying, and very well done read on the history of the nuclear arms of the Soviet Union and the US, the guy who did Fast Food Nation wrote, “Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety.” The Petrov incident is covered, as well as a half dozen others that as well could have easily blown us all straight to Hell. The ’95 Black Brant Incident is perhaps an even closer shave. I hope they got rid of Perimeter after that, and I’m really glad Yeltsin didn’t get into an accident or some other stimulus that would trigger that accursed system to play SkyNet.
$500? LOL. Shit, Kevin, did The Postman break your bank that badly? Buy the dude a house already.
That poor tumor, having to deal with McCain
Worse off than the one that had to deal with Ted Kennedy?
It didn’t deal with Kennedy too long. 2-3 months?
He was diagnosed in May 2008 (only remember that because I saw the news while standing in baggage claim at the Vancouver airport on vacation) and he didn’t die until Obama was President, so it was longer than that.
August 2009. Right around time for one of the ACA votes I believe
“How was work today?”
“fine, just fine.”
See this?
You’d think it was worth more than $500. Unless Costner is just a cheap fuck…
Look, after burning $150 million, he didn’t have much left.
For my buddy Q.
Fuckin’ A.
What’s wrong with boobs? They’re a beautiful feminine thing that needs to be celebrated
Did she say that on CNN?
That would probably be an automatic firing on CNN.
Emily R. for president!
Yup. That’s one of the ways you know the fashion industry is not dominated by heterosexual males. I don’t think I know any heterosexual guys who have ever said, “You know she’s good looking and all. But, her tits are just too big.”.
Trump to tell UN to reform
Umm, sorry Uncle TrumpleStiltNaziSkin, but I don’t think the UN wants to talk about your reform. Being a fat lazy stupid bureaucrat with a job with no real work do to is a pretty good jig. I’m thinking they are going to have a problem with your reform. And also, the world will end tomorrow if you do anything to dismantle the UN or even cut one cent of funding they might be getting from the US tax payers.
BY ASSISTING, YOU MEAN RAPE!?
Not just that. It also involved spreading cholera.
I think we’ve found STEVE SMITH’S next job.
Not only is this gonna put a bunch of bureaucrats out of business, but purveyors of rape tourism in Africa and SE Asia are gonna be devastated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8AgOozM8KQ
Maybe we should get some of that reform?
Can Trump just deport all of them?
JESUS HERBERT CHRIST, LADY. WILL YOU JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP ALREADY???
http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/18/politics/hillary-clinton-2016-trump/index.html
Even my wife who voted for Hillary wants her to shut the fuck up and move on.
We should start a .org with the sole purpose of getting her to “move on” from her election loss blather.
Well, a bunch of stupid leftists are going to be relieved of some of their money. It’s Jill Stein Part 2, with more idiots.
Jesus Christ I couldn’t get passed 60 seconds.
She’s sick in the head.
Imagine being that drunk and addicted to power like Hilary. It must be one sad existence she lives.
Her acting as if she woulda done this and that to protect ‘our democracy’ is so full of shit. This from a woman who ran the Global Initiative scam and her scam foundation leveraging ‘democracy’ for profit.
Shut the fuck up already for real.
And there’s ding-a-ling Cooper going along for that pathetic ride.
LOL. No, let her keep going.
I admire her determination to piss off most of the country.
I find it amusing the arm chair psychologists are silent on this one.
She’s fucken nuts.
When I hear someone described as “nuts”, I usually think of people that are more-or-less personally and socially functional aside from some odd quirks. Clinton goes way beyond that; it’s as if she is missing some seriously critical components of her facilities. Her entire reality to date has been meticulously constructed for her by her various handlers, staff, journalists and media who worked tirelessly to feed her delusion. I can’t begin to imagine the kind of high voltage short-circuiting that must be going on in her brain after last November.
She’s her own, twisted Truman Show.
I would watch this. Someone get Tea Leoni on the phone.
I’m with Sean on this one. If she actually shut up and went away I’d be a bit disappointed at the loss of entertainment.
She’s just high off those 5 star reviews of her new book. Amazon apparently deleted most of the one star reviews.
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You either did not read the book or struggle with basic comprehension skills. HRC clearly uses 1984 as an example of how authoritarian governments use manipulation tactics to define realities that don’t actually exist. She referenced this when talking about Trump’s inaugural address, when he spoke about America as if it was in ruins (“American carnage”) and needed to be fixed (“made great again”). Essentially, she was saying that Trump abandoned facts and manipulated his supporters into believing in a reality that doesn’t exist. And she’s right, you don’t need to look further than his cries of “fake news” and his presentation of “alternative facts” to prove it.”
Methinks SC2 didn’t read ‘1984’ choosing instead to accept that Clinton’s take on it.
Also, completely ignoring that the left have gone totally irrational in their claims that American is in ruins. Worse than any time in history they say. We may not survive another day with this Nazi in the Whitehouse. These people have zero self awareness.
Wait, I thought Hillary lost because the Russians were posting fake news on Facebook?
The left completely turned around the “fake news” narrative in remarkable time.
They were desperately looking for an explanation that didn’t involve acknowledging how much the people despised the Dems and Clinton. The “fake news” was an excuse, but it quickly became obvious that RUSSIA!!! worked so much better as a means to minimize cognitive dissonance — that’s why we still have it.
It wasn’t the left. It was Trump supporters who flipped the table on their manipulative phrase and used it against them. One of the things I like about Trump supporters, as opposed to the neutered wimps in the GOP—they’re funnier, and they don’t succumb to those rhetorical tactics so easily.
It wasn’t the left
Sort of. Yes, Trump supporters turned it around on them. Then they just erased their own history and acted like “fake news” was always part of a right-wing plot to discredit the media. They’re shameless.
That’s ACTUAL fake news, not fake fake news.
Wait. I’m confused. What’s fake fake but not fake news again?
The left was actually using the fake news thing as an excuse and then Trump co-opted it.
Weren’t the dems the ones claiming income inequality was destroying the middle class? And climate change is literally turning the planet into an oven?
No. Climate change causes inequality.
Get your narratives straight.
Essentially, she was saying that Trump abandoned facts and manipulated his supporters into believing in a reality that doesn’t exist.
OK, sure. But saying that the message of 1984 is to trust the government and the media (which is what she said) is absolutely a bonkers-backwards reading of the book.
The funny thing is that this narrative itself is a warping of reality. The “alternative facts” phrase was uttered once, in a particular, dubious context, yet the lefty rhetoricians won’t shut up about it. They act like it’s hugely symbolic, rather than a insignificant, poor turn of phrase. And “fake news” was a leftist trope used against oppositional (“alt”) media, until the latter wasn’t gonna take it and turned it around on them.
Can’t persuade progs out of a warped reality that they deluded themselves into, especially when they think everyone else is delusional.
And, of course, as y’all say often, it’s a fine example of ‘everything is projection’ for the left.
It is very much projection. There’s blatant evidence that media figures are in collusion with one another, and there’s ample evidence to an astute observer that they don’t really do much reporting any more, instead favoring repeating and amplifying dubious claims and “hot takes”. They are the quintessential purveyors of “fake news” and yet will portray anyone pointing this out as some sort of crackpot conspiracy theorist.
She is officially a non-person anymore…someone who stuck with her scumbag philandering husband for the promise of political power…and now she has almost none and is completely irrelevant. Why wouldn’t she try to hang onto the limelight in whatever fashion possible while people are still willing to point a camera at her or write down the things she says.
Also, she is on tour hawking a book about how her loss wasn’t really her fault, so what else is she going to talk about?
With the money and connections she has, there are probably a thousand ways that she could stay in the limelight, and keep the grift a-flowing, apart from continuing to revisit the election. But, as noted above, I’m thrilled that this is the path she continue to choose.
The money is just gravy for her. The meat and potatoes she desperately craves is the power to control your life.
“Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large”
‘Analysis’ might be the wrong word.
The hilarious thing about it, is that it’s already been established, there is no grounds on which to challenge the election. It would just be thrown out of court right off. But I’m sure she won’t mind wasting a few million dollars of other people’s money on it. She takes sore loser to an entirely new level.
I don’t think she thinks anything different. But, what she needs to do is keep the narrative of the “Stolen Victory” alive. If she acknowledges Trump won, that would mean she was a loser. But, taking it to court would do the exact same thing. So, she won’t be taking the matter to court. She’s just going to keep pushing the narrative until 2020 (and I don’t think she’ll run then) or until she passes.
She was on Fresh Air today. I heard the intro and switched the station. There’s no way I was going to listen to Clinton licking up that sycophantic drivel from Gross.
It looks as if Jason Voorhees might be killing people in the real world. Also, zombies.
Yeesh, dude, you’re writing an article, not a novel. What a weird way to write that article.
Ok, here’s a town worth getting a government job in:
http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2017/09/18/monroe-county-coroners-lawsuit/
I guess they’re used to working with stiffs.
::eyes go wide in awe::
What, no sex with corpses?
I guess even the contributors don’t read the articles here.
Yes is the only one to pass the test.
Well done, Ted. I shall refrain from demanding this link go on the football preview this week:
http://howmanydayssincemichiganhasbeatenohiostate.com
At least I didn’t get a cat-butt! 🙂
et tu, Sloopy?
It was a test! Vhyrus and JB failed. Ted passed.
I don’t want McCain to live a long happy life anywhere. I want him to die in pain for his abuse of office.
Thank you, now I can feel like a “moderate” for only wanting him to die.
I feel like I should cut my pinky off for voting for him.
That’s weird, V. I feel like I should cut your pinky off if you voted for him, also.
I also agree we should cut something off Vhyrus for doing that. Should we vote?
If you’re referencing the Bushido rule, its only up to the first knuckle rather than the entire finger.
I also voted McCain but thats a lesser of two retards discussion.
Man I must be a bleeding heart for just wanting him to retire.
He won’t. He’s too much of a fucking prick. He’ll probably have a grand mal seizure on the Senate floor. Then during the funeral, Trump will talk about what a great American he was. *barf*
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-09-18/we-didn-t-normalize-trump-we-normalized-the-left-s-violence
This woman at Bloomberg is normalizing people who normalize the normal or something.
To be sure, antifa means well.
Actually they are worse….look at their shit in berkley, boston, portland and seattle.
You’re doing it wrong. You’re supposed to cherry pick the examples that fit the narrative.
I’d have to agree: if antifa hadn’t started the violence in Cville there likely wouldn’t have been any or it would have consisted of minor scuffles. The people who initiated the violence were and are the worst of the bunch and that typically means the leftists. The rightists certainly came ready to fight but, from most accounts, they didn’t start it and if they hadn’t shown up that girl would probably still be alive (not that it absolves the nutcase driver).
if antifa hadn’t shown up
yep antifa showed up to pick a fight…both went at it. That’s on both of them. And it didn’t help the cops were told stand down and essentially forced them into each other after rally was over.
Compare and contrast with what went on the night before. The marchers marched with their tiki torches and their offensive chants, the media watched, and — the marchers eventually got tired, threw their used torches in the trash, and went back to their hotel rooms to sleep. No Jews gassed, no black people lynched, nobody run over by cars.
Has it actually ever been established who initiated the violence?
It seems to be impossible, in fact, to write a column on antifa without noting, at length, that they are not nearly as bad as the neo-Nazis who converged on Charlottesville.
Based on what I have read from the DemOp Media, this is a true statement.
And indeed, they are not.
And the hive mind reclaims one of its own who wandered, every so briefly, off the reservation.
From the asshole government article: “Deshotels, a 72-year-old retired teachers’ union official who authors the Louisiana Educator blog, had spent $3,000 fighting the lawsuit by then. He said the data ultimately helped show a widening achievement gap among the state’s poorest students, undercutting claims of progress by education reformers.”
Somehow this doesn’t surprise me. We now have over 100 years of progressive policies we can empirically study the results. The left acts as if doing so is a crime against humanity taking for granted their policies work. In fact, it’s our duty to examine them. Alas, entrenched interests will make it difficult to do so.
Draining the swamp is hard.
Maybe filling the swamp with corpses is easier.
Ha!
Who here is from Colorado? How does one go about finding a job there?
Like, what are some of the major industries (besides skiing, which doesn’t pay for shit)? Big companies?
If I’m well-versed in web technology (like, the front-end stuff: HTML, CSS, PHP, JS) and project management (say I had a Level Whatever Scrum Master cert), what would my prospects look like?
I’ve been with my current employer for almost a year, and as neat as it is to work peripherally in the space industry, I don’t see much long term prospect here. Might as well start looking around, I figure!
There are a bunch of tech companies in Denver. 90 minutes to the slopes.
Can you grow pot?
Asking for a friend
I ain’t much of a horticulturalist, and I’d be facing some pretty talented competition! I’m a decent baker, though. Maybe I can engineer some amazing weed snack that no one has done yet.
You could bake some gay wedding cakes, but if you do that willingly, I guess it takes some of the fun out of it for the customers.
Well, we can get you a temporary whoring license. Cuz you’re Government.
-Secret Service Guard
Lived here for 11 years. Hit up indeed and just put in what you’re looking for and Colorado for where. You will find lots of opportunities here if you don’t mind living in Denver, Ft. Collins or Colorado Springs. If you want to actually live in the mountains, that might be a bit more challenging.
The admins can hook you up with my email if you want to get in touch directly.
Thanks Q! I’ll update my Indeed resume and start doing some prelim research. I’ll let you know if I have any questions or roadblocks!
Sounds good.
My sister lives in Colorado Springs. It’s one of those places where everyone wants to live, so the price of everything is inflated. And while there are a lot of high tech jobs there, there are always more applicants than openings.
Colorado Springs means one thing to me: Kenda.
(surprised the prices are so high, though – I thought military towns generally were more affordable. Go down to the Fort Belvoir neighborhood here in Alexandria, and price are more reasonable, at least.)
Front range has tech jobs all over. lots of start ups between Denver and Boulder.
Solid.
Do you already have a clearance? There’s tons of DoD-related stuff in Colorado Springs and around the area with Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, etc – ALWAYS hiring qualified tech folks!
I’m working in midtown now on the east side which means I’m in smelling distance from the UN thing going on, which means I’m seeing people walking around with signs. I’m mocking every sign carrier I come across.
My favorite experience today was when I came across a woman carrying a Liar Liar Pants on Fire sign, so I say hey, nice Hillary sign! I was expecting a snarl or screech, but was pleasantly surprised that she responded with this big, benign smile. So I smiled back.
Bernie Bro for sure.
Hail, neighbor.
Screw you. I’ve got it even worse. Some sub-group of the World Economic Forum is meeting in my building. Even getting to my office is a shitshow.
I alternate between laughing out loud and being painfully embarrassed for this poor fool.
https://twitchy.com/sd-3133/2017/09/18/my-god-did-this-va-dem-make-the-worst-campaign-ad-in-american-political-history/?utm_campaign=twitchywidget
I’m sure all 5000 Naval Aviators living in VA will vote for him.
Sweet jesus that’s awful.
Missed you at FLBP this morning Tundra. Here you go:
http://archive.is/NYZdq
I couldn’t make it past #3
Unfortunately customers take priority over boobs…but I’m happy to participate this afternoon!
*clicks and scrolls, scrolls, scrolls, scrools*
Look how happy they are! And so few tats and hardware!
This is the best field you have posted yet. I give lucky 13 the nod today, followed closely by 28, 39 and 75.
#3, #68 and #91.
68’s just spectacular.
Whoops. Also big shout-out to #2, who looks like a walking, talking dry martini. Dirty.
Yowza.
#5 wins my T H I C C award.
betterthanyourmom
betterthanyourmom
1 hour ago
You need a helmet.
And not for the motorcycle.
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lol
Holy shit.
That was…. wow. I couldn’t make it through.
At what point does NO ONE IN THE CREW, NO ONE IN THE PARTY, NO ONE IN HIS FAMILY sit him down and go ‘hey, maybe we need to work on this a bit more.’
Someone lost his centrist feeling.
So, what does “centrist” mean in this context? The main thrust of his terrible karaoke seems to be that she has done some things that Democrats don’t like in order to appeal to the right wing.
I mean, isn’t that essentially what a centrist is?
TheWildBastet
1 hour ago
I was going to vote Democrat until I saw this, now I want to build a wall and send the illegals back to Mexico
that was too awkward to watch.
youtube has hours of cringe…
Kilgore Trout @KT_So_It_Goes
0:58 — I think he is having a real orgasm this is not acting pic.twitter.com/7cSKMaKBFO
12:52 PM – Sep 18, 2017
He’s running against Comstock? Oh, dear. I’m not sure the old money in Great Falls would even get the reference.
This is Comstock’s district.
Also, ol’ Barb is pretty damn old school GOP slightly right-of-center. She’s no Liberty Caucus member, nor is she a rabid neocon.
I actually love it.
Me too. Ive seen wayyyy worse.
*narrows gaze*
What the hell was that?
So all this “transit oriented development” horseshit was just a welfare program for well-heeled urban liberals to feel good about themselves? UNPOSSIBLE.
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-09-18/not-driving-to-work-is-the-hot-new-high-end-job-perk
Works in Balmer if you don’t mind getting mugged or just plain attacked for no reason a couple times a week.
Spiked Online has a short review of Death of Stalin, my most anticipated movie of the year. God I hope this gets NA distribution soon!
The preview looks great, albeit I hope they don’t turn it into, “Arrested Development: Soviet Edition.”
Them?
Jeffrey Tambor and Iannucci. Probably an overreaction on my part to Tambor’s delightful scenery chewing. I guess if Jason Bateman, Judy Greer, some of the other voice talent from Archer were there, I’d have more of a point.
Surprising that In the Loop was Iannucci’s only other movie. If you haven’t seen it, download it. Now. One of the finest comedies I’ve ever seen.
Spring Break. WOOOO! [lifts shirt for Gray Ghost]
Yet more rolling left and dying.
https://hotair.com/archives/2017/09/18/crash-burn-prelim-ratings-emmys-exactly-youd-expect/
Award, trophy, prize (whatever) ceremonies annoy me so I’ve never watched the Oscars, Emmys, Crappys, whatever.
It’s all so…whatever.
Col-BERT needs a new shtick.
I’m sure the lesson they learn from this will be that they didn’t spend enough time criticizing Trump and were too nice to him.
I can’t believe this wasn’t a ratings winner.
my lord.
I know, right? They really should have hyped the 9 to 5 reunion in advance of the show. I know I’ve been waiting for those three to get back together for gosh knows how long.
Huh, I always thought Dolly had more class than that.
I thought she was dead. Oh well.
No, just her career …
As a Tennessean, I can report that she is a zillionaire and is also probably the busiest person in the world. That lady has more irons in the fire than Game of Thrones cosplay blacksmith.
She apparently didn’t say anything and looked embarrassed.
Apparently Dolly was unwillingly along for the ride:
http://thefederalist.com/2017/09/18/dolly-parton-face-emmy-awards-bashing-donald-trump-says-it-all/
Ok, it’s just shoddy reporting from Vox. Quelle surprise.
My, how IRREVERANT! *fans face*
I think I speak for most sexist bigots when I say I’ve never wanted to grab any part of Lily Tomlin.
It’s mostly women who no one would ever want to grab who have all of these delusions about being grabbed.
She was cute back in the Laugh In days. But that was 50 years ago.
Ernestine was a real hottie, eh?
It was the snorting that did it. As sexy as Ruth Buzzy as Gladys.
While I was driving, I was listening to Rush (we don’t have much good music radio in Indianapolis). He had an interesting statement about this, which kind of makes sense.
His take was (paraphrased for an audience of Glibs) that the speakers at the Emmys were basically signaling their political correctness to each other so they don’t get gang-raped by the ‘woke police’.
It makes sense considering how the twitter mob stomped on the Emmys for letting Sean Spicer appear and look like an actual human being.
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Redoing the fuel lines to the new carb today. Finally plugging the air injection ports like a smart person, too. next up, wiring. cleaning up the extra lights and things.
Great news!
Get some pics up over at MU. Did you see Mike’s?
not yet. I really am enjoying that healy come together.
I’ll grab some. I want to get a good “how to wire stuff through a new fuse block” written, because what’s online now kind of sucks.
Incidentally, while visiting the CNN link Michael posted above, I noticed for the first time that CNN actually has TRUMPMERICA as one of the navigation items in their top of the page nav header.
L-O-L.
Krugman was whining how Hillary lost due to extreme tribalism as 47 to 48 pct will elect the republican no matter how bad and no matter how good the dem. And the media by ganging up on her pushed GOP over the edge
Ignore that trump only got 46 percent which is less than his claim… and Hillary 48 percent while 3rd party got 6 percent which was quite a bit better than 2012. Trump flipped 6 states Barry won twice which suggests he got significant Barry support and Hillary wasn’t seen as good by obama voters
I’ve been wondering is krugman sexually aroused for Hillary? He seems to worship her for whatever reason…it is weird.
I forgot to mention he was projecting
Krugman also predicted that the US stock market would NEVER recover from Trump’s win. The man should be ignored.
I knew that the media had lost the plot when I read a headline that claimed the explosive stock market growth immediately following the election was a ‘melt up’. They’re like Jim Carrey in ‘Liar Liar’ except instead of not being able to lie its not being able to say anything positive about Trump.
something something the pen is an immigrant?
Nobel. Prize. Winning. Economist.
Hey man, he has a prize!
He just gets aroused for statists in general.
Specifically, progressive statists.
Not GOP statists which makes his whining about tribalism seem hypocritical
He supported obama but appears to have a special place for Hillary. Does anyone know why?
Like in 2008 primary he was slobbering all over her while complaining about obama
I read a theory some time ago, that Krugman’s wife ghost writes his columns. It sounds loony, but the 2-3 times I’ve seen him in videos debating/discussing econ, politics or whatever, he does seem to have a very different personality from what comes across in his columns.
I remember when he complained about the tribalism when Obama won. Oh wait, no I don’t.
Either Paul Krugman developed a degenerative brain disease or else somebody else started writing under his name at one point.
Maybe those fake aliens he pined for are real, and have taken him and replaced him with a replicant. One whose sole purpose is to test the limits of derp that the public will accept from him.
One theory I’ve heard floated is that he’s generally a sensible person in real life, and that his columns are basically a megaphone for his wife.
My hypothesis – based on what I’ve seen of his writings – is that he is actually a garden variety heterodox economist. In many of his older writings, especially his college textbooks, he usually expresses the view that all economics policies are trade-offs, and there’s no way to give every single person a free lunch. But at some point, he decided to become a partisan hack and started churning out Democrat Party propaganda. I believe that this is a ploy to further his career. Perhaps he wasn’t satisfied with his earnings, so he started kissing Team Blue’s ass in the hopes that he will someday be made Federal Reserve chairman (god help us all) or something.
The podcast Contra Krugman does a great job of dredging up some of his statements from the early 90s that totally contradict his current positions. It’s not automatically bad to change your mind on politics and economics, but it’s the way he insults people who disagree with him. He blatantly states that they’re stupid, evil, or both. It wouldn’t be so bad if he said things like, “Now I can understand having this view; I used to believe it myself. But I’ve come to realize that this position is not good because…” But he doesn’t do that. He just goes straight to ad hominem when dealing with any ideological opponents.
Why is Rolling Stone worth more than Newsweek? Analysis like this:
The gang designation has become an issue that’s brought many otherwise disparate political groups together, even if they disagree about why it’s problematic. Some libertarians recognize it sets a precedent for government overreach that impacts individual liberty. ICP’s music made clear on the album The Wraith: Shangri-La that it was inspired by a God-based spiritual mythos – so some conservatives should be horrified at how easy it is to classify a gathering to celebrate music explicitly based around Judeo-Christian values as a gang activity. The left is already seeing how the actions of a few can be utilized to criminalize the group as a whole with the proposed “antifa” domestic terrorism designation. Even the alt-right, typically more interested in trolling than in seriously discussing politics, should take note – the hatchetman being considered a gang symbol today could lead to Pepe being considered a gang symbol tomorrow.
Juggalo Nation.
First they came for the juggalos, and I said “what is a juggalo?”
I think it’s something like a soccer hooligan, only American with a painted face.
If you imagine a white trash hip hop fan crossed with a hardcore star wars nerd you’re pretty close.
add a dash of gutter punk?
And a quart of mango-grape faygo.
Not a single person posted a link to their song. I am disappoint.
The reason they don’t do ‘troll of year awards’ is that ICP would win every year for the next half century.
When this information is released prematurely, the district’s position is that the employees’ right to due process is jeopardized
What a load of shit. Municipalities are notorious for paying people who never show up because nobody wants to deal with firing them or because they’re just plain old corrupt. Their only concern is to keep it covered up lest anyone be held accountable.
I’m reminded of the six decades on average it takes the US government to declassify materials. They want to make sure anyone who fucked up is dead and can’t be embarrassed.
Redoing the fuel lines to the new carb today.
Stock replacement, or something better?
Weber 38 DGES. maybe not better, but it wasn’t in need of a replacement and I can count the number of parts on this one.
rebuid, not replacement**
I’ve got a 32/36 DGV on the Spit. Purists hate them, but they are reliable and easy.
I was going to ask car or bike, but I’m guessing British sports car. MG or Triumph?
1978 Triumph Spitfire.
How hard is it to sync the carbs? Is it like 4 cyl motorcyle? Vacuum gauges etc?
All you need is a 6′ piece of lumber, some fish tank tubing, and a little ATF.
I’ve used a similar method on a old jap bike. Need to get them all at the same level at a given throttle state. I always wanted to build an old muscle car with Weber carbs with polished stacks. Need a garage first.
and a little ATF.
Ass-to-Fuelinjector?
someone explain what “Black Pilled” means. i’m already clear on red-pilling. i feel like they should stop the pill analogies at some point.
I’m waiting for Pillgate
Doomsday-predicting nihilism.
So you, in a nutshell
Nah, I’m a well-spoken edgelord.
I thought it was pronounced “shitlord”
Look, I’m a straight, white cismale. I’m already the cause of everything wrong ever. There’s no need to call me names as well.
NAZI!
‘Need’s got nothing to do with it.
Look, I’m a straight, white cismale. I’m already the cause of everything wrong ever. There’s no need to call me names as well.
Chicken fucker! Bu-gock!
Once you take the black pill, you don’t go back.
Don’t stick it in crazy.
https://wearyourvoicemag.com/identities/ableism/polyamory-borderline-personality-disorder-not-think
I am polyamorous.
I also have borderline personality disorder.
Add PTSD, depression, and a few other things, and this sounds like a very fun ride.
Broken people.
I’m not going to comment on what kind of relationship someone wants to have. It’s really none of my business. But, something tells me that, if you’re already in need of a psych cocktail to function on a daily basis, screwing around and getting screwed around on is probably not the best choice in life.
“I also have borderline personality disorder.
Add PTSD, depression”
People with conditions like this are typically very unpleasant to be around for very long, especially unmedicated.
BPD is a diagnosis I’m never sure of. It, at least at one point, was a diagnosis therapists put on patients they didn’t want to deal with. My original therapist in college had me diagnosed BPD, but every subsequent one’s laughed at that.
(still, the depression and GAD are bad enough)
I’ve been around a couple of people diagnosed with bi-polar disorder. I’m not sure if the diagnosis was correct, but there was definitely something wrong, I got away as quickly as possible and stayed away.
One of the guys I worked with in college was diagnosed bi-polar. It was really easy to tell if he was on or off medication – almost scary how big the differences were. Great guy, but if he was off meds you could set him off just like that – not good in retail.
The one person I knew would just explode in anger without warning, out of nowhere. She called me on my cell one day and just started screaming at me. Yeah, I know it was because I was going to go out with her friend and she didn’t like it. But holy fuck, I did not expect that and we were not friends anymore about a week later.
Who here is from Colorado? How does one go about finding a job there?
Lots of tech stuff in the Springs (or used to be) H-P, Kaman Sciences just off the top of my head.
Weber 38 DGES.
Is that the synchronous 38/38? That’s what I put on the 914. Works good. I should drive that car more often.
yep! everyone seems to think the progressive one doesn’t do enough. and how often are you WFO on a tractor?
It seems to be a solid replacement.
Works good? Works GOOD?
*focuses grammar lasers*
Yeah. Runs Good. Jeez.
My phone just reminded me that hockey preseason starts tonight. Being a Minnesota sports fan, the beginning of the season is the best part. No mid-season swoon, no drama, everyone healthy…
Oh, wait.
Well, at least we only have him signed until 2026.
Fuck.
Urinating Tree doesn’t have a video on the Wild, yet.
I would have thought your angst would center more on having the NHL’s preeminent playoff loser as a head coach.
I’ve actually had this argument over and over with an acquaintance who is a big Boudreau fan, and he makes some good points, but at some point you’ve got to win something if you truly are one of the game’s best coaches.
I tend to agree, but coaches can’t score goals. Parise is hoovering up a ton of money and can’t stay healthy. We desperately need some guys who can scrap in front of the net. The GM seems to have a disturbing fetish for small Euros when we need some big Canadian farm boys.
Is his contract frontloaded? Can he just pretend for a few more years and then suddenly
retirego on long-term injured reserve like Hossa?Otherwise known as the Chris Pronger strategy. You know his contract just expired this spring?
I’m a Flyers fan, so yes. But Hossa is just the most recent example.
I think Hossa’s the last, because they banned frontloading contracts that obviously.
Parise was a guy I actually liked when he was on the Devils. Thought he’d do more in Minnesota.
Yeah, but cap hit is flat.
A bad deal.
Hey, sounds like your team could use a big Canadian farm boy like Marc Staal!
Pass. We have the right Staal now.
The more you know…
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/you-it/201601/what-determines-womans-favorite-sex-positions
Doomsday-predicting nihilism.
Sign me up.
In Montana news: This is how government works. All but a few wacky libertarians are SHOCKED.
http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/feds-admit-harassing-small-butte-meat-plant-but-take-no/article_8f449074-f663-581d-b1bc-f913f4c3cfbd.html?utm_content=bufferaa875&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=LEEDCC+
we’re crazy!
I didn’t read the entire thing, but for some reason, this sets off my cronyism alarm. There’s a reason why this guy wanted to close those businesses.
My God – you are not insinuating that tireless and underfunded USDA officials could be corporatists in an unholy alliance with meat packing monopolies set up under Woodrow Wilson?
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/regina-weiss/ninety-years-on—will-th_b_698921.html"Dammit…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/regina-weiss/ninety-years-on—will-th_b_698921.html
(sigh)
Yes, exactly that.
I don’t think it had anything to do with cronyism but everything to do with a government inspector feeling his oats and deciding what is best for the meat industry.
*image of someone rolling up their sleeves and getting elbow-deep in a big barrel of oats*
Well, the part where he said that the businesses need to close is what really tipped me in that direction.
” A former front-line supervisor in North Dakota, he had then been promoted to regional headquarters in Minneapolis as a deputy district manager.
“Now, he had apparently decided to head back into the field, supervising the inspection of dozens of federally inspected plants in the Billings circuit, covering Montana and part of Wyoming.”
No civil servant decides to “go back into the field”. He was canned from his cush desk job and was taking his frustration out on the packers.
Hmm… I’d like to read it… but then I’d have to give the Billings Gazette clicks.
The other article is in the Missoulian
That’s not better!
Lol. I’m kidding. I read it. What a shitshow; what an enraging shitshow.
I don’t know why, but it make me think of sausage grinders.
Like the doomcock grinding up Simon’s junk?
They’re like woodchippers for meat trees!
Don’t be afraid to give them clicks when they get something right. It let’s them know you want more of that and less of their regular fare.
That’s a good point.
*clicks it a bunch, like, wow, just so many times*
everyone seems to think the progressive one doesn’t do enough
I had the 32/36 progressive on it before, and bottom/midrange response is hugely improved. Better all round.
What is this weird green box thingy that’s floating near the edge of my screen by the Monocle bar? Anyone else seeing that?
It’s something called shareaholic.
Just click it. You know you want to.
Monocle has a *bar*?
It shows up in at the bottom of the screen. unread comments, hide old threads, top of comments, mark comments as read, and options over on the right.
So why is the green thing there? I mean, why is it a thing?
SP claims it’s always been there but a lot of people just noticed it, updates to browsers or add blockers or something must of changed who sees it or not.
I heard that it irradiates our genitals.
“Our Genitals”? Lookit Mr Collectivist over here.
Finally. The genitals of libertarians have been radiologically inert for too long.
“I call it my control rod.”
Easier to find in the dark with it glows.
*when* it glows. *sigh*
Joke’s on them! I already irritated mine today!
No more than your average SF entry.
Wasn’t there for me before today, I swear! There’s no way I don’t notice some mysterious green thing floating around in my cyber space.
Pruritus ani.
http://archive.is/hcVr5
“Pruritus ani”
I immediately thought of Winston
I love these medical articles that offer sage advice like, “Change every single food and beverage item you consume until you identify….” Right. Like that’s going to fucking happen.
or they’re like, “On one hand, it could just be a mild skin irritation; on the other hand, you could have AIDS.” Wow Doc, you’re such a help.
I’ve got a 32/36 DGV on the Spit. Purists hate them, but they are reliable and easy.
Put some flat-slide Mikunis on it. That’ll send ’em into a tizzy.
Lol. I was just reading an article about that.
It would be funny as hell.
That’s the thing about Healey people – they’re pretty laid back about originality. Some are really into “factory perfect” and some aren’t and no group really hassles the other. If you do good work it’s appreciated either way. Toyota 5-speed? Cool the stock box really does suck. Alternator? Fine. Small-block Ford/Chevy? They’re welcome too.
Land Cruisers seem to be the same way. Original is respected, but a good looking one has no one caring about what’s in the driveline or why they chopped up the cab to make a extended cab pickup.
This seems like a winning strategy.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/sep/18/hillary-clinton-mulls-challenging-legitimacy-2016-/
Burn the whole thing down. Let’s just get this over with
More, more! [rubs tummy and burps contentedly]
Would monsieur like a wafer-thin mint?
[boom]
ohmygod do it do it do it do it.
If I was dropped into this situation knowing absolutely nothing about American politics, I’d likely come to the conclusion that the establishment wing of the Democrat Party is purposefully trying to lose more Congressional seats in 2018 and to get Trump re-elected in 2020.
I’ve got a feeling that it’s the establishment Democrats and Republicans who forgot all they ever knew about American politics.
What she is saying is pure gibberish, but it plays well because the entire purpose is to continue to spin this wheel where they pretend they have “overwhelming evidence” that there was something that made the election illegitimate, but, sadly, they are prevented by ‘legal roadblocks’, like reality, the constitution…. oh, and the complete lack of evidence, etc.
Gilmore, you don’t need evidence where there is consensus. Haven’t you learned by now?
Remember was the worst person in the world when he suggested he might not accept the results of the election?
As I note above, I don’t think Clinton is that stupid. At least her husband isn’t. A court challenge would get shot down almost immediately. If that were to happen, her claim of being the Right and Proper Heir is dead. It’s a lot more valuable to her to have the narrative that she should have been the president, but for that awful, icky, Trump guy and all his racist Russian friends alive and kicking. .
She’s not talking about an actual legal challenge, she’s just planning on declaring the election illegitimate.
Is Stockholm Syndrome the appropriate armchair diagnosis here?
http://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20170918/woodlawn/barack-obama-presidential-library-center-community-benefits-agreement
Much more along the line of Battered Wife Syndrome. “He treats me bad, but I know he really loves me deep down.” [spits out broken tooth]
Idiots is more like it
Either that or religious devotion.
People’s reaction/treatment of Obama is a pretty good illustration why the biblical prohibition on idolatry is still relevant.
My stepdad on top of his day job was a community activist on the Southside and I heard stories of how Obama didn’t really do that much. Obama reminded of a guy I was in a program with in high school who was great at convincing people that he is the most intelligent guy in the room.
Him and his wife could give two shits about the black community because they always viewed the community as a stepping stone to power and riches.
It’s interesting that when he decided to become a politician, he went to directly to Chicago’s South Side. I can almost picture him looking at a map and thinking “hmm…which congressional district has the most black people?”
He was the State Senator for the Kenwood area which has the University of Chicago (Hyde Park) and poorer neighborhoods such as Gage Park and South Shore and the affluent South Loop. When you look at his record as State Senator, he didn’t really do much nor take a strong position which was politically wise because he was a blank slate when he ran for US Senate.
The guy may be an incompetent asshole but politically and campaign wise, the guy was sort of a genius.
My impression is that, more than being a community activist for the black community, he “played one on TV” for his audience in Hyde Park and such.
My impression of Obama was he wanted to be President because that was the only job which might challenge his vast intellect and skills. For the record, it didn’t at least according to him and his supporters.
Of course he didn’t do much, other than curry favor with people that would help him get elected. A community activist in Roseland that lives in Hyde Park is properly referred to as “fraud”.
I can’t say I object too much. I’m not an Obama fan, but on the first read, good for him for not submitting to blackmail on putting up his library. I do wish he’d have the presence of mind to see the underlying principle doesn’t solely apply to him and his library.
Yep. Obama knows how this shit works.
A bit of trivia about Petrov I learned from this wonderful book:
The World’s Worst: A Guide to the Most Disgusting, Hideous, Inept, and Dangerous People, Places, and Things on Earth
At least I think that’s where I read it.
Anyway, some of Petrov coworkers felt bad that he didn’t get any official award, so they pooled their money together and bought him a vacuum cleaner. Being a Soviet vacuum cleaner, it quickly broke.
oopsy- here’s what really happened
***
In 2004 Petrov himself was finally given a World Citizen Award and a cheque for $1000. He is said to have spent it on his grandchildren and something he had always wanted, a vacuum cleaner. It subsequently turned out to be faulty.
***
From History’s Narrowest Escapes, retrieved from Google Books
link
Still more than he got from Costner
bought him a vacuum cleaner. Being a Soviet vacuum cleaner, it quickly broke.
“Everyone enjoyed it as an apt analogy for communism.”
So, was that fumbled pass by Rodgers really a fumble?
I also think that TD throw at the end of the USC Texas game was a catch. Either way on that call, I’m glad they went for 6 first.
“So, was that fumbled pass by Rodgers really a fumble?”
Only if you’re Tom Brady.
I mean only if you’re not Tom Brady.
/curses tuck rule
Was at my mom’s house this weekend. Left the kid with her, then drove my grandmother up to Boca back to her house post-Hurricane, to get her stuff and return back to my mom’s house for a few more weeks (or forever, which I’m hoping at this point. she shouldn’t be living on her own).
Anyhoo, when i got back, mom was watching Guy Fieri’s show on Food Network, and he had Kid Rock on with him. I mentioned to my mother how great it’s going to be in a couple of years when he’s officially referred to as Senator Robert Ritchie (R-MI).
She didn’t find that amusing at all.
If it happens, I expect to spend a week or two at work watching proggie meltdowns on the internet. Again.
Mmmmmmmm….prog tears.
“We’re surrounded by death, so let’s celebrate life!”
bow-chicka-wow-wow
http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2017/09/18/monroe-county-coroners-lawsuit/
Oh, I guess Sloop already linked this. Disregard. Carry on.
And, you know, Brett. Up in the lynx he toils to provide.
cant. stop. laughing.
People read the links?
I mean, I always took that as a joke. I didn’t realize it was a statement of fact.
Being a Soviet vacuum cleaner, it quickly broke.
“That’s just a figure of speech. You’re supposed to suck on it.”
It’s Mega-Maid. She’s gone from suck to blow!
+1 “now”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AioVDsXidh0
So it was a Soviet copy of a British vacuum cleaner?
It was the Fiat of vacuums
They make knockoff Dysons now?
Lucas made a vacuum once. It was the only thing they ever made that didn’t suck.
The left is eating their own…..Dreamers take over Pelosi’s press conference
https://twitter.com/KurtSchlichter/status/909881989720707072
Excelsior! The wolves devour each other.
Remember how over the last couple of weeks, the leftist media has been writing all of these dreamy articles about how Trump is going to work with Democrats to give them everything they want and the season of bipartisan love is upon us? For some reason, I don’t think all this is going to work out well for the Democrats. I just read somewhere today that Pelosi admits that Trump does not see eye to eye at all on DACA with the Dems. Somehow I see Trump playing them as fools.
Yea and another benefit of DACA and appearing to work with Dems (also debt ceiling) is now republicans have more shame and embarassment
It was clear they didnt want to do anything and were going to make excuse and drag their feet. By Trump going around them, it makes them look really bad since they have all 3 branches yet Trump is going to minority party.
Trump has correctly realized the GOP is worthless (like with tax reform) and is doing it to light a fire under their ass
An article that I posted yesterday referred to a real problem that Democrats having a real problem right now in the Virginia governor’s race, mainly that a key “useful idiot” bloc, African-American voters, are no longer useful idiots anymore.
Now, in a poll that came out today, the two main contenders are tied 44-44. The reason I’m interested in this race is because Clinton won VA and I had originally thought that this was going to be a cakewalk for the lefties. But apparently not: could November be another prog tear collection month like the hilarious Handel/Ossoff race? Only time will tell.
But according to nate silver some special election for a no name state rep (not national) in New hampshire last week flipping dem is an ominous sign for GOP. Ignore the guy who won before was a republican had to resign due to some scandal in may (hence the reason for election). And the turnout was 80% less than Nov 2016 for the same district
The races that Democrats are doing well in are either low-turnout, low-coverage special elections where a few crazy leftists make all of the difference, or the one where the outgoing Chris Christie is less popular than overcooked spinach. So yeah, I think Silver’s a bit optimistic.
Is northam the full bernie guy? or clinton?
Clinton. Tom Periello was the nutjob.
He’s a center-lefty, a lot like their two senators, Warner and Kaine. The problem was a true-believer proggie pushed him way over to the left in the primaries, and now that he’s trying to tack back to the center, those same progs are getting mad that he’s in favor of some pipeline and are threatening to not show up. Kind of hilarious.
That gas pipeline has got them all fired up. “Progressive” send to be an anachronism, since natural gas is so much cleaner than coal and they’re fighting it tooth and nail.
Well they also hate nuclear.
And they will turn on wind and solar.
This is what they really want.
Mark Herring, on the other hand, is a full-blown proggie piece of shit. And, since his margin of victory was all of 165 votes (which rose to 907 in the recount because of course the Dem gained votes in the recount), his election was undoubtedly due to vote fraud.
Clinton guy, pieriello was the Bernie guy
I think I mentioned this weeks ago but my parents who are both ardent Democrats while still never voting Republican for the foreseeable future made an observation that the Democrats never cared about the black community and saw them as a means for votes.
And think about it. As much as we hear stories about the racist South, where are all the police brutality bullshit happening? In cities under Democrat rule. The woke black folks and their white progressive friends may not see this but a lot of average ass black folks are starting to and that isn’t good for the future of the Democratic Party. Along with selling their children’s future to the teacher’s unions, black people are slowly but surely starting to see that perhaps the Democrats do not have their interests at heart.
My mother in law was a life long diehard FDR Democrat. Even she had to give up on Clinton.
Yea see i don’t think blacks should necessarily vote republican (as for the most part i dont think looking to politicians is a good way to improve your life)….but think it would be a good thing to at least not court democrats or maybe try the GOP just to at least demand some accountability. Where politicians can help people really is getting themselves and govt out of the way…is the only way for actual improvement driven by those pols.
The problem for the dems if they have gone in the really elitist we give people stuff and we are the reason for their success…so love us. Modern liberalism and progressivism is everyone else is too stupid to manage their own affairs so that is why liberals in gov need to run all aspects of your life
I think (once in a while) they should vote R, just to send a message that those districts that the Left thought that they could win by Pol Pot-like margins aren’t so reliable anymore.
The black community are starting see this with school choice. School choice is overwhelmingly supported by black folks in the cities but yet have to hear from Democrats that they aren’t capable of sending their children to the right school and that’s why we have to kill choice. Because of course they would love for you to be able to make your own choices but what if you pick the wrong choice?
A lot of people, black or white, if given the choice, would send their kids to good religious schools* rather than crappy public schools. Without getting into union opposition, school choice is already a hard sell to suburban blue voters who think the French Revolution had the right idea about dealing with religion. As much as the Democrats are played up as being united, in reality they have as much disunity as any political party.
* = Many of which are not really all that religious, being just good schools run by religious people
Ah, a libertarian moment on the horizon?
The way the Democrats treat black people is sickening. It’s the drunken, philandering, abusive husband feeling totally comfortable treating his wife like shit because he thinks she’s either too stupid or too cowardly to ever leave him. I sincerely hope that black people do wake up to how poorly they get treated by the Dems; nothing but empty promises and contempt.
Yea and look how angry they get when they leave the democrats. They really cared for them!!
To be fair, they treat everyone that way. Look how badly they hate women or gays when they don’t vote the correct way. They’re vile and hateful.
The Racist Party doesn’t switch faces so easily when votes are on the line. See how Twitter leftists treat black conservatives like Clarence Thomas, Tim Scott, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, etc.
black people are slowly but surely starting to see that perhaps the Democrats do not have their interests at heart.
Hence, Trump’s “What have you got to lose” might be more prescient than racist. I’ve wondered at times how a libertarian-leaning Republican would actually fare with working class black voters if he or she went out and made the pitch. If someone actually ran and delivered on, say, vouchers or charter schools, criminal justice reform, removing barriers to starting businesses and boosting economic growth, I can’t imagine that wouldn’t have a decent amount of appeal to poorer voters, white or black.
The GOP are too dumb to do justice reform, outside of Rand or the handful of other libertarian leaners. And seeing who the AG is right now, not happening. The war on drugs was actually started at least in part because of racism. It’s probably the most racist laws on the books. And the biggest cause of police brutality, especially in poor black neighborhoods. But the idiot left ignores this and instead decides to tear down statues of dead white guys and burn their own neighborhoods down. Not exactly a workable plan, instead making sure nothing is done.
So the Republican is up by 8 pts.
That’s about the over and under on Nate Silver.
Trump has put the two parties in a bind haha….just by doing what should have been done (good for him rescinding overreach)
https://twitter.com/ByronYork/status/909886796754014208
Shaping up: Dems under pressure to strip any border security from DACA bill. GOP under pressure to add wall/RAISE/E-verify. Standoff.
Police pursuit happening now. SUV w/ trailer. May not end well if Twitter chatter is right (seems the driver has threatened suicide by cop)
OK, never posting about a pursuit again on here. Every time I do, it ends quickly.
every time you link, I get there too late!
That must have been one badass dude with all those cops following him. Let me guess, that trailer is full of illegal mareejuaner?
South Park is making fun of Trump voters and Salon has a hard-on that could knock over a card table
http://www.alternet.org/culture/why-south-park-perfectly-armed-fight-alt-right
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In the season premiere on Wednesday, Parker and Stone set their sights on a big sector of Trump fans — the kind of white, blue-collar voters who blame everyone but themselves for their economic status. The episode, which Deadline called a “subtle takedown of white supremacists,” had two narratives: the town’s Confederate flag-waving rednecks protesting Amazon’s Alexa for taking their jobs, and Randy’s feud with the protestors for disrupting the set of his HGTV-inspired TV show, “White People Renovating Houses.”
Randy concocts a plan to replace all Alexas in town with the aggrieved white nationalists, thereby ending the Confederate-themed demonstrations. When one of the protestors refuses, calling the labor demeaning, Randy fumes, “Sorry you didn’t go to college so you have to take the jobs you can get. Coal mining and truck driving are not exactly jobs of the future. You’re stuck in another time.” The protestor runs off, yelling, “Muslims trying to kill us, black people rioting, Mexicans having babies – I say, ‘Kill ’em all!’”
The political satire was admittedly muddled, but it succeeded in crystallizing the absurdity of white, blue-collar entitlement. The target of the premiere was older Americans, those who have seen the new economy pass them by. Yet “South Park” has an unusual opportunity in future episodes to use its comedy to enlighten young, disenchanted white men who have embraced the alt-right ideology.
Parker and Stone did not create “South Park” to push a political agenda. The self-described libertarians are in it for the jokes. They also likely despise liberals as much as these new-age conservatives — a healthy, fair position. But because “South Park” spares nobody its scorn, Parker and Stone can — and perhaps should — do the country a solid and employ the alt-right’s tactless humor against them. As a Trojan horse, “South Park” can finally demonstrate to members of the alt-right just how pathetic and ultimately self-destructive their dead-end worldview is. They’re watching, after all.
***
Brain damaged partisans have never been able to pigeon-hole South Park, that’s why it confounds them.
You’d think the Giant Douche/Turd Sandwich bit would make their views clear, but no.
My favorite anecdote from them was the premiere of Team America. At first, the audience of liberals loved it. And then when the movie started making fun of Michael Moore and Alec Baldwin, the audience started to trickle out.
That was a great movie. The premise seemed so progressive too at first… then… surprise. Progressives are morons.
What was the on were they sang something about ‘Uncle fucker’ about 1000 times?
South Park: Longer, Bigger and Uncut
(or something along those lines – supposedly MPAA did not complain about the title)
It’s the one where US Army deploys part of the force as “Operation: Human Shield” and the rest as “Operation: Hide Behind the Darkies”.
I remember watching that movie in the theater. There was this older couple sitting behind my wife (well, fiance then) and me; they walked out about halfway through with the strangest look on their faces. I don’t know what they were expecting.
Sounds like they were NOT expecting South Park.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrh5YOQHvFw
They spoof the left far more than anything.
Salon knows this to be true I trust. But the second the ‘alt-right’ and those icky deplorables are parodied South Park is totes cool and smart.
“I hate conservatives, but I really fucking hate liberals.” – Matt Stone
South Park makes fun of everyone. Salon is going to be really disappointed soon.
See: that whole season devoted to trashing PC culture.
One of my favorites in the Sea World one. Fuck a you whaaaaarrresss and fuck a you, dolpheeeens! That really freaked out my wife when the Japanese killed all the dolphins. The look on her face was priceless. First time she saw South Park. I was literally laughing so hard almost fell out of bed.
I was watching Always Sunny, and my mother walked in here.
I love that show.
It’s like they didn’t watch PC Principal or noticed Mimsy, Timmeh and Jimmy.
And Nathan.
I was in line in the supermarket one day and a black couple in line in front of me were laughing about some episode with Token. I don’t think nearly as many people have a leftist PC stick up their ass as the left thinks.
Mr.Mrs.Mr. Garrison?Drugs are bad, mmkay.
the kind of white, blue-collar voters who blame everyone but themselves for their economic status.
Yea, like when white, blue-collar voters blame their economic status on 500 years of cultural oppression and white supremacy…
Oh, wait.
Now it’s the left scorning the poor’s alleged mentality of entitlement? When did the left stop pretending to care about the poor and become rich, snobby elitists? Was it when a bunch of rednecks voted for W?
At any rate, it’s that smugness that made me loathe leftists even when I was apolitical.
And to this day, actually far more so, I’m hearing shade thrown at southerners, rednecks, the ‘uneducated’; how they’re holding back progress, how progress is happening in major cities, and the backward hinterlands are the ones ruining it for everyone.
It’s such a turn-off.
How ’bout some more ’90s nostalgia?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4QL0L9fgbg
That’s not All Star by Smash Mouth.
Thank God
Hey, now.
*tapers stare*
*Glares with naked contempt*
The best kind of contempt, really.
Better ’90s nostalgia.
Kindly put some clothes on.
I was recently rereading Deuteronomy and think this will be instructive: An yea, for any who lies down with links made of Smash and Mouth will be beaten with rods of hyssop until they bleed from every pore, and their lands shall be distributed to Juggaloes, and their children shall be distributed to (((Old Men With Candy))), and their asses shall be violated under the careful cinematography of Heroic Mulatto.
I like Smash Mouth.
Meh. They were better than Live.
Pls expand for Jewsday Tuesday.
Nobody in their right mind would guest post for Jewsday Tuesday.
Since when is a “right mind” requirement for the articles? One would think it a hindrance, in fact…
/goes back to meta-textual analysis of Hat & Hair
You’re in luck. There are two episodes this week, the first in a just a couple of hours.
I guess for a chronicler of the absurd, Trumperica is a time of plenty. The man reminds me of Collin “Bomber” Harris…
“You got to spend money to make money!”
Gov Scott Walker Throws $3bn @ Foxconn: ‘Makes Jobses’
If only there were a mechanism by which companies could make business decisions based on what is most economically viable.
What a disappointment Walker is. But then I don’t know of a governor who wouldn’t fall over backwards to give taxpayer money away if it meant he could attach his name to a “jobs” project.
As a business owner, this sort of stuff doubly ticks me off, since they often use my tax dollars to fund my competition.
The only argument that the left has which most of the GOP-right has no answer for is the whole “Corporate welfare” nonsense.
Except they usually make a terrible version of that argument, calling out oil+gas industry “tax breaks” instead of this ‘literally bags of taxpayer money’-incentives.
Fuck them both in the ass. Its rare you’ll find anyone other than libertarians who say, “Fuck that, let them go to mexico” (or wherever). Or better yet: Cut WI taxes by $3bn, how about that, brainiac?
Except they usually make a terrible version of that argument, calling out oil+gas industry “tax breaks” instead of this ‘literally bags of taxpayer money’-incentives.
Well, only of those triggers the economic multiplier!
But! Brownback! Kansas!
/prog
Walker’s quite inconsistent: his stand against the teacher’s unions was one of the best things that a state government figure has done in a very long time, but he also panders to the “Mexicans are taking all of our jobs!” types with insane stupidity like this.
Minnesota isn’t doing that with Amazon’s proposed second campus (which will totally be in Austin), but that’s only because they don’t want to piss off Target and Best Buy.
Why are you against jobs, Scruff? Do you hate the working man?
I dont support spending for these things. I can at least support more than throwing cash…. benefits such as not paying as much tax as you would have as that would be new revenue and wouldn’t mean there needs to be new spending. However that is cronyism as well.
The best outcome I support is low rates across the board and No goodies. Unfortunately the government whether it be local, state and federal is set up to incentivize against this.
If only there were a mechanism by which companies could make business decisions based on what is most economically viable.
Tax loopholes?
Crony handouts?
Kickbacks?
/politician
the government set up makes this possible. Politicians love it.
Who could have guessed that funneling vast sums of money through an institution full of petty people with little accountability was a bad idea?
The problem’s bipartisan, unfortunately. It’s just run-of-the-mill BS that state gov’ts do to show constituents “See? We care so much about adding moar jerbs!”
Who can fuck up cheese-dip? No one, right? GUESS AGAIN.
Look, does it have e.coli or not? Because if it doesn’t, what’s the point?
No, there’s no e. coli, but it will make you throw up.
Just norovirus then? LOSERS.
Do you want Playa Manhattan in your links? because this is how you get Playa Manhattan in your links.
Assuming he remembered to take a computer into the bathroom with him.
Gotta culture the cheese dip somehow.
“Chipotle queso is probably the most disappointing thing I’ve ever experienced in my life,”
Nice life.
Being left at the altar was actually a relief…
Since last week’s Rick and Morty I’ve had Evil Morty’s theme song stuck in my head.
This week’s ep was kind of a disappointment, except for the end with Summer.
Next week we get an adventure with Beth(!) and then I’ll assume the final ep of the season is Rick C-137 and Morty C-137 vs Evil President Morty.
I don’t know what made me think of this, but wasn’t there a commenter here named Papaya SF or something like that? Or was that at TOS?
That was at TOS.
PapayaSF was an actual racist and was a copsucker that could make Tulpa blush. Fuck that guy.
He posted here for a bit, but wandered off in *checks dashboard* June it looks like.
He said something once, Jesse, that made me think he’s either a fraud or a troll. I can’t remember what it was right now, but it seemed highly suspicious to me. But then it seems he actually knows people here or was making it seem like he knows people here. I don’t know what made me remember it right now, just popped into my head.
I believe he’d been involved in some Bay Area meatspace meetups, so he may legitimately have known meatspace versions of people here.
I see. I knew the SF stood for SanFran. I wish I could remember what he said. I’d have to go searching for it. Maybe I just took it the wrong way.
You people have a *dashboard* on us? I often wondered about that.
I watch you breathe when you are asleep.
that’s my fetish (you watching other people breathe while they sleep)
The entire collection is only 24.99 on my Clips4Sale.com site.
bring a glass of water more often then.
At the mfg company I worked for, we convinced one of the women that we could see her through her computer monitor. We got a call from her that she was having an issue and we conspired to fuck with her. I went out there and said I’d be right back. When I went back, told our network admin what she was wearing that day. He called her and said I’m going to walk you through this and somewhere in there told her that we can see you through your monitor. She was like ‘OMG really’ and the guys goes ‘Sure you’re wearing a pink sweater and there’s a red hair clip in your hair’. She freaked out, she’s like ‘OMG, I knew you guys were watching me through the monitor!’. When I went back out I had to convince her it was a joke and no way we could see her through the monitor.
He was just an immigration skeptic at one point. I don’t think he ever went as far as Free Society, who was the most collectivist anarchist I’ve ever seen.
… this side of anarcho-communism, anyway.
I also remember PapayaSF from Slashdot, where he was one of the voices of reason. I don’t know how I found about H&R, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was from him linking to it.
He was consistently an immigration skeptic. I don’t recall him being a racist, though. But perhaps he didn’t virtue-signal enough for some to prove his non-racist credentials.
That happens. It is hard to get credentials in some areas around some parts.
I liked the links he would post to SF Gate and you would see him throwing down in the comments with the progs about some idiocy. That was always good for a chuckle imho.
Jesus, don’t get me started on that fuck.
Don’t know what Groovus, et al. see in him.
[citation needed]
He followed us over but hasn’t posted since June 10th.
He wasn’t banned or announced he was leaving, so I’m not sure what happened.
He’s not back on H&R either. No posts since February.
—-New York Times, September 18, 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/18/us/politics/obamacare-repeal-vote.html
If the bill only eliminated the individual mandate, I would support that.
If the bill only eliminated both the individual mandate and employer mandate, I would support that.
if the bill eliminates the individual mandate, the employer mandate, and eliminates the ObamaCare Medicaid expansion, I would support it, have babies with it, and promise to love it until the end of time.
Rand Paul opposes it because “block grants”?
If and when we end up with single payer, it’ll be because Rand Paul.
For the love of God, Capitalism, Liberty, the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution, somebody tell Rand Paul that the alternative to repealing the individual mandate, repealing the employer mandate, and killing the ObamaCare Medicaid expansion is not “repealing ObamaCare”, whatever that means to him. The alternative to this bill is ObamaCare, taxpayer bailouts of the insurance company, and heading down the road to single payer.
If Rand Paul votes with Bernie Sanders and Liz Warren on this bill, it won’t matter why. If the reason we start down the road to single payer is because Rand Paul insisted on an option that isn’t even on the table, then he might as well have voted for single payer and socialism.
Ron Paul got away with voting against free trade agreements in the name of free trade because his opposition was inconsequential. Rand Paul’s opposition to repealing the individual mandate, repealing the employer mandate, and the repealing the Medicaid expansion is not inconsequential. And if we don’t get rid of the worst parts of ObamaCare because of Rand Paul, I will find someone less philosophically libertarian but more worthy of my trust to take advantage of opportunities to strike big blows for liberty when the time comes.
Make no mistake: If Donald Trump will sign something that repeals the individual mandate, repeals the employer mandate, and slashes eligibility for Medicaid (for the first time ever), then Donald Trump is more libertarian than Rand Paul–on an issue that really matters down where the rubber meets the road.
You’re late, Ken.
How does the nyt square the millions will lose coverage argument and proceed to use the it is pretty much Obamacare argument
People who use more pay more Whoa!!
It doesn’t really cut Medicaid though…the nyt is being dishonest
I’ve said this enough times already today. But Rand voted for straight out repeal, which is what all of the slimey little weasles promised when they knew Obama wouldn’t sign it. Every single Republican in the senate who did not vote for that, need to have their ass primaried.
At least they all were forced to put their names on the record. Too bad that other than McCain (who’ll keel over eventually) and Heller (who’s getting primaried at this very moment), they’re all not up until 2020 and 2022.
Calm down, Ken. Single payer is not happening. The support will fall through the floor as soon as people learn about the ginormous tax hikes. Even Cali couldn’t convince their own ultra-leftist citizens to support it after they found out what it was going to cost and the projection was low balled. Wait until people see the real cost. And we won’t have to dig far to find it. Europe already went down that road. 45% tax rate on the middle class, that’s about a 25% increase for most people. And then there’s the 20% VAT that will be required. Then there’s the severe rationing that is still required to control costs. Not happening.
Wrong reply to… Edit fairy, help!
Against Gilmoring Edit Fairy herself struggles in vain.
“Calm down, Ken. Single payer is not happening. The support will fall through the floor as soon as people learn about the ginormous tax hikes.”
What will they do if and when the insurance companies implode?
They’re already fleeing the exchanges–even with massive subsidies. With those subsidies expiring, the insurance companies will either need massive bailouts, or the industry will go into an even steeper downward spiral.
And they won’t call it “Single payer”. They’ll call it the “public option”.
And it won’t be Medicare for all. It’ll be Medicaid for all.
Single payer is simply an expansion of Medicaid to include more and more people–until everyone qualifies.
That’s the most basic reason why Rand Paul’s refusal to support a bill that cuts Medicaid eligibility is so disconcerting.
We’re playing word games, here. Rand Paul says that eliminating the individual mandate, the employer mandate, and the ObamaCare Medicaid expansion isn’t really “repealing ObamaCare”. But when I’m talking about “ObamaCare”, that’s 90% of what I’m talking about.
Meanwhile, they Democrats won’t go to “single payer” in one huge leap. They’ll simply keep Medicaid expanded and expand its eligibility even further. People don’t seem to understand that expanding Medicaid is single payer. Per the hundreds of times I’ve written and linked before, the more Medicaid expands, the harder it is on the insurer’s bottom line. The individual mandate and the insurance industry bailouts were meant to shield the insurance companies from the economic damage caused by expanding Medicaid.
The Democrats don’t have to introduce legislation to move to single payer in one fell swoop. All they need to do is continue to expand Medicaid eligibility.
And all Rand Paul needs to do is vote for a bill to roll back Medicaid eligibility every chance he gets. There are moral reasons to oppose the individual mandate. Doesn’t Rand Paul know that the individual mandate exists because of the Medicaid expansion? Vote against the Medicaid expansion, and there’s no need for an individual mandate anymore–moral argument or no moral argument.
When the Obama administration argued before the Supreme Court that the ACA couldn’t survive without the individual mandate, they weren’t lying. The flip side of that correct observation is that the individual mandate is unnecessary without the ObamaCare Medicaid eligibility expansion.
There’s no path to single payer in the USA. The cost is too high, Americans will never accept it. The Bernie ‘medicaid’ for all even outlaws private care. Not even the NHS or Canada’s system goes that far. Pops has lost his mind.
Ask a leftist how we pay for single payer. I had that discussion recently. I explained what it takes to pay for it. What does he say? No, we can just outlaw private insurance and pay for it by taxing corporations.
I had to remind him first that no one pays the equivalent of 25% of their income plus a VAT for health insurance. Not even after Obamacare, not even close. I pay about $400 a month for my wife and I. That is not even anywhere close to 25% of my income. And that we cannot tax corporations to pay for it because there won’t be enough jobs left for the middle class to pay for it any longer. Private citizens will pay for it through payroll and a VAT and the cost will be ginormous. This experiment has already been done and it’s conclusive. Shitty low quality care at enormous cost, lost innovation in healthcare, long long waits, rationing and even death panels. That’s what healthcare actually cost, there is no way around that through wishful thinking. Guy didn’t buy it, just kept insisting that we can someone magically pay for it for cheap, which no one else has figured out yet.
“There’s no path to single payer in the USA. The cost is too high”
I can’t tell if you’re ignoring what I’m telling you if I’m not explaining it well enough.
Eight years ago, we spent $700 billion bailing out Wall Street.
14 years ago, we decided to spend about that invading Iraq.
If and when there was a crisis in the insurance markets, what makes you think single payer would cost so much that congress would just let that crisis go to waste?
Meanwhile, there doesn’t need to be a single plan or bill called “Single Payer”.
If we accept the ObamaCare expansion of Medicaid and make it permanent, that is Single Payer. “Single Payer” is an expansion of Medicaid. There’s a word for moving people from Medicaid to private insurance, too–it’s called “privatization”. To see Rand Paul oppose privatization and, effectively, support nationalization, which is what expanding Medicaid is, should make every libertarian capitalist sick to their stomachs.
Do you understand that there is no third force called “single payer”? When we’re talking about expanding eligibility for Medicaid, we’re talking about single payer. That’s what single payer is. When we’re talking about decreasing eligibility for Medicaid, we’re talking about the opposite of single payer. There is no third force, idea, or argument. There’s just increasing or decreasing the eligibility for Medicaid.
You cannot oppose decreasing the the number of people who are eligible for Medicaid and also oppose single payer–because single payer is increasing the number of people who are eligible for Medicaid.
You can’t support Chavez nationalizing a car manufacturer and giving it to the auto workers union on principle and also oppose socialism–because nationalizing the means of production is socialism.
The bill that was before the Senate was the single most pro-capitalist and anti-socialist bill I’ve ever seen in my life, and Rand Paul opposed it on some principle? I’m giving Rand Paul the benefit of the doubt by assuming that he’s supporting the expansion of Medicaid because Kentucky voters rely so heavily on the program. If Rand Paul were pushing for single payer (or opposing lowering the number of people eligible for Medicaid, po-TAY-to, po-TAH-to), because he thought it was genuinely pro-capitalist or pro-libertarian, then that would be even worse.
We need his vote, and he’s trying to score touchdowns for the other team! Rand Paul’s support for single payer is so strong, it may be stronger than Chuck Schumer’s–whether Rand Paul and his supporters realize it or not.
If Rand Paul voted against replace because he thought repeal was the alternative, that would be defensible.
That excuse is out the window.
Rand Paul knows that the alternative to this replace is ObamaCare, and he’s voting against it with Bernie Sanders and Liz Warren anyway.
The alternative to this is bailing out the insurance industry.
If Rand Paul votes against bailing out the insurance industry, that won’t matter. There will be plenty of progressives, Democrats, and socialists more than willing to vote for that over Rand Paul’s suggestions.
Last chance to avoid the road to single payer is right fucking now.
Rand Paul might as well be voting for insurance industry bailouts, for Medicaid expansion, for single payer, etc. His opposition to the alternative is what the socialists pray for. It’s all they really need. And Rand Paul is answering their prayers–for no good reason at all.
He explains it on his Twitter. I accidentally misplaced my reply about single payer, it’s above.
Cotton is oppressive:
http://www.wctrib.com/news/4329794-woman-demands-removal-decorative-cotton-item-hobby-lobby
Well, it’s white.
“The fiber is most often spun into yarn or thread and used to make a soft, breathable textile. The use of cotton for fabric is known to date to prehistoric times; fragments of cotton fabric dated from 5000 BC have been excavated in Mexico and between 6000 BC and 5000 BC in the Indus Valley Civilization. ”
/durrrrrr
Also, wonder if the woman owns any garments or household fabrics made of cotton. If she don’t, that would be very strange.
I saw that the other day. I actually posted it to the discord saying I should buy it for my mother in law.
So what brave Glib is going to find this “attractive” couple’s PornHub page?
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/burger-king/houma-obscenity-charges-659302
I’m not going to be the one to scroll through all those “Cum On My Glasses” hits.
That guy is Shaggy from Scooby Doo. Absolutely no question.
More attractive, but you probably aren’t their type:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/young-woman-filmed-having-sex-11065208
Hey, some girls like being called a bitch.
Also, would. I’d shove that dog right out the way.
I actually knew a guy who got arrested for that. I guess his wife came home one day and he’s fucking their dog. When a friend of mine told me that I actually couldn’t believe that anyone has ever been arrested for something that dumb. Guess it’s not as uncommon as I thought. Sick people.
“The breed of dog is not known.”
This is important!
Yeah it is, because poodle fuckers are the worst.
But they’re hypoallergenic
I… umm… well…. wow.
33???
That’s a haaaaard 33.
How? What must your google news alerts look like?
“33”. And I’m doing the air quote thing with one hand as I type that.
Why search their usernames are in the article. Sexybeast82 and LaylaDivine. Go get ’em tiger.
“Folsom School Warns ‘USA’ Chant Could Send ‘Unintended Message’”
http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2017/09/14/high-school-usa-chant/
I wonder what message that is?
What if it offends some immigrants or something? Didn’t you know that when you come here illegally that not being offended by Murikan culture is a right?
Let them chant what they want. They’ll be underwater soon.
“Obama Goes From White House to Wall Street in Less Than One Year
Hillary Clinton says she made a mistake when she gave speeches on Wall Street after leaving government. Taking money from banks, she writes in her new memoir, created the impression she was in their pocket.
Her old boss doesn’t seem to share her concern.
Last month, just before her book “What Happened” was published, Barack Obama spoke in New York to clients of Northern Trust Corp. for about $400,000, a person familiar with his appearance said. Last week, he reminisced about the White House for Carlyle Group LP, one of the world’s biggest private equity firms, according to two people who were there. Next week, he’ll give a keynote speech at investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald LP’s health-care conference.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-18/obama-goes-from-white-house-to-wall-street-in-less-than-one-year
So in a decade when Michelle is running for president we can hear about how they were “broke” when they left the White House?
They could barely pay the mortgage on their 6 estates, just like most other ordinary Americans.
Taking money from banks, she writes in her new memoir, created the impression she was in their pocket.
Money from foreign govt’s though is pure as driven snow.
~~~fairied~~~
gracias, my hands still autocomplete my quotes with slash-i instead of slash-em.
I was so proud when I learned to touch-type a decade back, but I’ve since come to suspect it’s muscle memory doing all the work. Recent email reply to a “Judi”: I read “Judi”, even mentally remark on the spelling, crank out the reply, send, and what do I see at the top of the mail I just sent? “Judy, “. I feel like my motor system sends the words to my fingers whole, and they consult a common-vocab list to determine spellings.
Can someone tell me why businesses do this? Obama no longer holds any office. They can’t be getting $10 of value out him making a speech, much less $400,000. What’s in it for them?
Payoff? Yes I’m cynical.
“Hi Mr. Big Money Client! It’s Mad Scientist. I’d like you to be my guest at an lunch next week with the former MOSTPOWERFULMANINTHEWORLD! About 11:30? Great! See you then!”
So it’s about making important clients feel important? Ick.
Why ick? If people are that gullible and needy, it’s almost your duty to take their money.
People like that are icky. I assume their money is still green.
Connections to people who know or like Obama and might be willing to spend more than $400k?
other than that, I’ve got nothing (sane)
It’s the exact reason retired sports stars end up in the financial world. Hitters love to rub shoulders with other hitters.
Payoff for favors. IB Times has an article on the connections they found between relaxing EPA standards for refineries the Carlyle group represented.
You don’t think every swinging dick/tuna crotch in DC with a D behind their name would do anything the light bringer recommended via back channels? As well as payoff as mentioned above. That bailout wasn’t done for nothing.
“Loser Must Wear Weasel Suit.’’
Great column from local sportswriter on Bobby Heenan.
Tremendous article. Thanks, Holiness.
Hey! So did I!
https://twitter.com/shitshowdotinfo/status/909084167211757568
Well, at least it’s an improvement.
New Wallpaper: Confirmed.
I was working in a clients office a few years back and one of the devs there had Obama images as his screen saver. The commie looking red one with the silhouette. Guy outright claimed he was a communist. One day another of the devs put this Obama as Darth Vader figurine on his desk while he was out of the room. When he came back, he just sit there and stared at it. So the guy who put it there says something like ‘what you don’t like it?’. He didn’t like it. Another time, 2 of the guys changed his screen saver to a picture of Rush Limbaugh. He didn’t find that humorous either.
Thankfully, the people at my new job seem to be pretty non-political at work… Because if I had a known communist Obama-fellator in my workplace, I’d get fired for the pranks I would pull on him.
people have the shittiest taste in desktops. 5mins in wikipedia’s Sweestest Images directory is all it takes. One of my favorite, non-landscape entries:
derp, I thought img tags worked
Are those bumps or divots? If they’re divots then it’s like a golf ball which would make sense.
That thing creeps me out.
They do, but only for the elect.
I feel like I should be arrested just for seeing this.
When I get arrested for seeing this image, I’m turning state’s evidence against every one of you.
Not my fault none of you access us through our Dark Web site.
My desktop on my PC is someplace I hiked to last summer. On my phone, the background is of my dog.
My phone has a pair of livewallpapers I made when I first got into Droid dev, an animated graph and some procedural noise. Was about to link em, but apparently I’ve neglected my Play listings so long I can’t update them without new mandatory promotional images and content ratings….
Nice config menus, harking back to the days when people cared about screensavers and other PC eyecandy.
I have this Bing Image… let me see if I can find it…
It’s this one, only bigger and higher res.
Ocean Currents
I need to switch to a new one.
I wonder if Trump is tired of winning yet.
CNN confirms Manafort was wiretapped before, during, and after election
Spin this one, fuckers.
Somehow the media is simultaneously reporting that Trump’s campaign was never wiretapped and that Manafort was wiretapped before during and after the election. am I missing something here?
No, CNN has no problem with contradicting their own reports, they’re masters.
Or devoting more resources to a poorly made gif of Trump picking off Hillary with a gold ball?
It looks like that’s exactly what CNN is doing there.
Oh they are, but anyone with a memory that goes past last week will remember the chorus of laughter the media gave to Trump’s claim he was wiretapped by Obama. If Manafort was tapped in 2016 and Manafort was Trump’s campaign manager than ipso fucking facto Trump was wiretapped.
I never understood the denial of Trump’s wiretapping claim. Bush and Obama had let the NSA get so out of control that they were spying on everyone from average citizens to foreign leaders who are supposedly our trusted allies. So why is it some wackjob, off-the-wall, Alex Jones conspiracy theory that the administration would spy on the man who was a candidate for the highest office in the country? Obama stated countless times that he didn’t want Trump to win, so why is it wholly inconceivable that he would use any methods within reach to find some dirt that would cost him the election?
Susan Rice all but admitted they were. Nothing to see there though. All in a days work.
The important part is that now they’re going to catch Trump in some dirty deed, right?
Or are they connected? Maybe the old goat was onto something and had a tumor induced moment of lucidity.
I just learned that my bête noire, the atrocious Albuquerque Rapid Transit project that has rendered Central Avenue a Mad Max-style wasteland of road gangs jockeying for position, was sold to the city in part on the plan to lay fiber cable while they had the roadway jacked up.
I didn’t think their plan to consolidate a four-lane thoroughfare into two to accommodate dedicated bus lanes (on routes already well-served and little-traveled) could get any dumber, but they managed it. Albuquerque does not have the market to support a fiber optic network. We are not densely packed enough nor wealthy enough to make it a sensible investment for anyone. And Central cuts through some of the poorest neighborhoods in the city. It terminates in marginally upscale neighborhoods on either end, but that’s precisely what makes running dedicated bus lanes such a stupid idea in the first place: nobody with the means chooses to commute by bus.
Fucking mooks.
Albuquerque was a lot nicer the last time I went there (2015) then when I lived there (90s), but 90’s albuquerque was a dump so no real shocker there.
Are you talking about bus routes, or fiber optic internet service there?
You guys couldn’t get .fed.gov to pay for it? Spin as something vital and defense related?
I am trying to visualize Central cut down to two lanes and it is not happy-making. Oh well, it’s been years since I visited, and I don’t think it’ll screw up driving to Sadie’s when I come back.
Down on 4th? I used to live a block away. The bar was a second home.
It’s 2069 and Mars colonists want to watch the Superbowl (liveish) in HD or 4K. How many Zillion Watts does it take to make that happen?
Apparently not very many.
http://www.wired.co.uk/article/internet-on-the-moon
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Neat. Thanks.
There’s going to be a little delay in that feed.
“(liveish)”
John T. – have you started watching Nerkish yet? I love D&C, but Nerkish’s delivery is laugh out loud funny almost every video. Very nice to mix things up with some of these guys.
Senate Republicans near votes to replace Obamacare with state block grants
Same thing as before. Repeals the individual mandate and some of the taxes, but the pre-existing condition mandate remains. Rand Paul still thankfully opposed.
Honestly I’ll take even a partial repeal at this point.
Yeah.
That won’t even happen though. They fail every time and every thing.
Maybe when Republicans get more seats in 2018.
Ya, because that is what the fuckers said for eight years. “Send us money and reelect us and we will get rid of some of this!”
Hey, you know who DEFINITELY won’t do it? democrats. So what choice do you have really? Muhahahaa.
I also know the majority of Republicans DEFINITELY wont do it either. You and I and every other person have no choice in it. We will all get single payer within ten years. Maybe five. Maybe less.
The Dems weren’t the ones lying for the past 8 years though. I will give them that. Too bad there is only a handful of people who would stop what they want which is single payer. It won’t be stopped.
I actually don’t think we will get singlepayer either. I don’t think they”ll ever pull it off politically. I think they’ll just keep polishing this turd, however, and maybe wind up even worse off.
Yay for getting rid of the individual mandate and some of the taxes, but that doesn’t address the cost problem. Rand’s right; the block grants don’t make your taxes lower, and they don’t make it federalism. On the other hand, and I suspect there’s a certain Glib who I haven’t seen comment on this yet who feels this way too, I’m afraid that if they don’t get something on the board it’ll just get harder and harder to get rid of O’care, and when the Reps inevitably shit the bed and lose their majority, we’ll have that thing for the rest of our lives. I think there’s an argument to be made that even this small beer excuse for a repeal at least gets the ball moving, and we might see incremental repeal efforts work where a straight repeal hasn’t.
Hell, at this point just try and change one freaking thing about the law. Call it a political exercise.
The problem with that is that now the GOP are co-owners of the pile of garbage. Right now, it’s all the Dems to blame for it.
Doubt it. They’ve been slinging the Republicans are sabotaging Obamacare thing for awhile and it seems they’re making some headway. Or maybe not. I guess elections will truly tell.
It’s not different. It’s just as bad, it’s the federal government giving states tax payer money again, which they will promptly make disappear into the pockets of politicians and cronies, and then demand more. What, do they think that some states are going to come up with wonderful solutions while others will show how single payer won’t work. That’s not going to work because these block grants won’t provide Cali with that sort of money. It would cut the amount Cali is getting. I mean, I’m all for the states experimenting, but the feds giving them money is not federalism.
Yeah but you moved some stuff around and you can say you did some shit.
Mission accomplished.
It is funny how that straight repeal only worked when it would never be signed. Fuck them.
The GOP doesn’t want to get rid of any government any more than the Dems do. Both of them know once something is passed it’s forever or until we can no longer pay for it.
Here’s some Russian chick doing a booty dance.
Because I love you and care for your well-being.
Based on this sample size of one, I don’t know why people are always saying not to click on your links.
Jealousy.
Oh, you’ve fallen for it, dude. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.
Oh my.
/Takei
Liberal tears are back on the menu.
I don’t get it. Twitter is weird. What happened?
It was just another page from the Donald Thump book (posted amazon link yesterday). – Very funny to see a rabbit dressed like Trump, drinking from a dog bowl full of “liberal tears” – caption:
Kawaii!