It is Tuesday. I’ve been chugging along at work. It will soon be beer-thirty.
Last Chance: Tampa Bay area Glibs — if you have any desire in a meetup this weekend, say so now. Otherwise, I’ll just hang out with Negroni and talk shit about Charlie Strong and (now separately) Texas football.
Somehow India has a plan to supply power to 300M people for $2.5B, but Puerto Rico needs an unknown amount of money to return power to 1% of that number. I’m guessing more than $25M.
Its nice to see a patent troll friendly court get slapped around by a higher authority. (T/W boing-boing)
More chestnuts than a man can eat in this piece on the Ozone Treaty.
A politician who knows his audience.
The word of the day is: Lumberjack
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For Elite Elite and my other brown sugar lovers.
http://archive.is/l4i4K
1 & done.
Fine…then I get 5 and 30 all to meself!
This isn’t an auction block you racist.
You said you were done!
*scowls*
*furrows brow* – Swissy
*waggles brow* – bacee
He’s got a hair trigger and a rapid recovery, apparently.
You’re trying to get me fired. I understand.
Just close the office door, dumbass!
I DONT HAVE AN OFFICE! *runs out crying!*
*hands 26 a towel*
1 places a very close second.
1,26,30
According to the CDC, 48% of African-American women between the ages of 14 and 49 have genital herpes.
https://www.cdc.gov/std/herpes/herpes-nhanes-2010.htm
So, the odds are still in my favor?
Woo-hoo!
Rethinks odds: what’s the rate for 18 – 49?
Normally I wear protection, but then I thought, “When am I gonna make it back to Haiti?”
Nice jeans.
Yeah, 1. Those outfitss on 7 and 9 though. Damn.
27 has a serious Lana Kane thing going on. SO WOULD.
Lumberjack you say?
Damn you.
See, that’s what I was expecting in the links.
C’mon.. “I ain’t jacked my lumber baby since my chain saw you!”
This is also what I expected to see.
Continued from the previous thread:
“if it’s OK to punch a NAZI, it’s damn sure OK to punch a communist 10 times or more.”
I have quite a few associates on Facebook who were gleeful about that crazy dude in Seattle getting cold cocked in the head.
I think I’m going to push this angle and see where it goes.
I reiterate my thought experiment:
Person A wears a swastika armband.
Group B assaults person A because he’s a “Nazi”.
Person A pulls out CCW and kills one or more of Group B.
What does the prosecutor do? I assume this to be in a “stand your ground” state.
I would love to see an undercover Berkeley Police detective do this. He’ll get away with it, because cop.
Oh, and for reference, the BPD and the UCPD do have the resources for something like this. They just don’t care.
David Cash went to Berkeley at the same time I did. He had a 24 hour undercover security detail follow him everywhere for almost 2 years, at no cost to him. They arrested EVERYONE who threatened him or spit at him.
If they can protect an accessory to child rape and murder, they can protect a mentally ill cosplayer.
That is, if they wanted to.
Well surely Person A was within their right to self defense in that situation.
I mean, if a women wearing a skimpy outfit uses a CCW to defend against someone trying to rape her, would her clothing really matter?
This is exactly the point I’m trying to make. This is insane victim blaming. Well if that Jew didn’t want to get beaten up he shouldn’t have worn a Yarmulke works as well.
Yeah, it’s totally victim blaming. Just because people are unsympathetic to the victim, doesn’t mean that the act wasn’t a crime. I mean, we still locked up Jack Ruby and sentenced him to death, even though the guy he killed was Lee Harvey Oswald.
Depends. if Person A is just walking down the street, A gets off in FL. Probably doesn’t even get past the evidentiary hearing all SYG shootings are required to have. If A was at a protest or other public event, A goes to trial.
“If A was at a protest or other public event, A goes to trial.”
This is what I don’t get. Showing up at a public event wearing a particular outfit or accessory is not an aggressive act by itself. People attack this hypothetical individual, he should have the right to self-defense regardless of the context.
In my mind, that’s a really quick trial.
A couple of things I am presuming in saying this:
1) In such a public event there is law enforcement presence and A can expect protective action from the police within enough time to make the threat of force no longer deadly (A is not rationally in fear of A’s life — not something I necessarily agree with but something a prosecutor can argue)
2) There are more people who are not of group B there (A is more likely to be negligent in their discharges, and said discharges are more likely to injure a bystander)
3) Going to a public event where one might intend to provoke or expect to be provoked (A has a higher standard to fear for one’s life)
I haz deprezzed cause I know you’re right. *sigh*
Of course, prosecutors can make any idiotic argument that crosses their minds, but I don’t think those should change the outcome.
1) In such a public event there is law enforcement presence and A can expect protective action from the police within enough time to make the threat of force no longer deadly (A is not rationally in fear of A’s life — not something I necessarily agree with but something a prosecutor can argue)
If you’re actually being assaulted, then its already too late for the cops to stop you from being assaulted. Its not reasonable for you to inventory the local presence of law enforcement, their likely response times, and the probability that they will terminate the assault before you are killed or seriously injured. Thus, being at an event with a police presence shouldn’t change the analysis of the reasonableness of your fear of death or serious bodily injury.
2) There are more people who are not of group B there (A is more likely to be negligent in their discharges, and said discharges are more likely to injure a bystander)
If you do wing a bystander, yeah, that’s gonna be on you. If you don’t, I have a hard time saying that your exercise of self-defense was actually negligent in fact. I am not aware that you lose your right to armed self-defense at a certain density of bystanders, but this is actually the best charge the prosecutor could bring.
3) Going to a public event where one might intend to provoke or expect to be provoked (A has a higher standard to fear for one’s life)
I’m not an expert on self-defense law, but the classic test is “would a reasonable person have been afraid for their life or serious bodily injury”. Typically, it doesn’t apply to an aggressor, but “provocation” and “aggression” are different things. Attending an event with the intent to provoke doesn’t mean anything unless you actually provoke, and I’m not even sure you lose your right to self-defense if you actually provoke.
If you do wing a bystander, yeah, that’s gonna be on you.
every cartridge has a lawyer.
I think I can help with this one. In VA at least, it’s not about aggression but rather contributing to the escalation of the situation. As long as you don’t contribute, you are under no duty to retreat and can use self defense. The second you honk your own in traffic, hurl an insult back, etc., you have escalated the situation and are now under a duty to retreat before using self-defense.
Bringing an offensive item to a event purposely designed to escalate a situation gives you the burden to retreat if possible before using self defense. I’m not saying that it’s correct but that’s how I understand it works.
That is my understanding of it, but I am not a lawyer so make of it what you will. Should a person be able to walk through a black ghetto in full KKK garb while plastered with actual pictures of black men being lynched and then claim self defense while gunning down every person that attacked them? That’s an extreme example of a scenario the escalation clause tries to prevent from happening.
Sounds like VA has decided that your exercise of freedom of expression limits your right to self-defense. Interesting.
Yup. This is true everywhere.
Is there a carve-out for LEOs or do they not even need the fig-leaf?
Ugh. This is the fifth time I’ve typed this. Bloody AT&T Wireless
The problem is that if a sympathetic court was told by Group B that they *genuinely* feared for their safety as a result of Individual A wearing NAZI insignia, they have a defense.
How could this be, you ask.
I’ll tell you.
1942, Chaplinsky vs New Hampshire “Fighting Words”
When the wearing of an insignia constitutes a message, it becomes somewhat similar to speech. Once it’s established as speech, all that needs to happen is for a sympathetic court (Portland? Berkely?) to consider Group B’s defense that they had been threatened with violence (assault) by Individual A. In response to an assault, Group B hands out a beatdown – which, since Individual A had *already* assaulted them, was in itself legally defensible.
It’s at a level where I’m seriously considering that (maybe) this, and future events like it should be viewed as potential false-flags. NAZIs don’t wander around in regalia, on their own. They just don’t.
So now I have to carry a drop gun and a drop swastika?
Any of this stuff would do.
They obviously want to normalize political violence. They are obviously willing to commit false flags when it comes to hate crimes. I don’t see why they wouldn’t be willing to combine the two.
Well, political violence, yes, but they don’t want to normalize it, they want to legitimize it.
They want that too. But the play is being made in the media to seek public acceptance of their techniques regardless of the legal acceptance.
Skokie Illinois — mid 70s — The Supreme Court ruled that the Swastika does not constitute fighting words.
Stare Decisis, it’s a helluva drug.
I understand what you’re saying, but that doesn’t mean it won’t be tried as a defense, and IANAL, but in the right jurisdiction, I don’t think it would be preemptorily thrown out of court.
But it isn’t a defense, its a prosecution. The nazi who shoots the guy is the defense.
Depends who gets the jump on who first.
If the Nazi who was attacked initiated the altercation, because his insignia was ‘an assault’, then the whole situation changes.
The insignia cannot be an assault per SCOTUS 40 fucking years ago.
Paraphrasing from the previous thread, I find the saddlebags from fat girls in yoga pants to be genuinely threatening, so I’m going to kick their fat asses.
Bringing it up this often seems to indicate a fetish…
/just sayin’
DON’T JUDGE ME.
My buddy describes the phenomenon as ‘two wildcats fighting it out in a sack’.
The problem is that if a sympathetic court was told by Group B that they *genuinely* feared for their safety as a result of Individual A wearing NAZI insignia, they have a defense.
Except that “genuine” (subjective) fear is not the standard (unless you are a cop). The standard is an (objective) ‘”reasonable person” standard. To say that someone is authorized to gun down any individual wearing Nazi insignia under an objective standard, you have to say that everyone is authorized to gun them down. I don’t think that’s actually the law.
I don’t have my references handy, but as far as I remember, a claim of self-defense requires a reasonable fear of death or bodily harm.
Also, what RC Dean said.
BRB. Hold my coat.
Next they will punch the Libertarians.
“First they came for libertarians, but I said nothing because Reason isn’t libertarian”
See, that’s why I like it here. Comments like that are gold.
Already got you covered
Note that this guy really, really hates libertarians.
https://i.imgur.com/HzBRhkX.png
+1 roadz
“To get a good definition of “libertarian”, find a definition of fascism and replace “race” with “self””
….disregarding that this is an absurd and bizarre statement….
Where the hell is the word “race” used in defining fascism? Is this guy really that ignorant?
“Race? It is a feeling, not a reality. Ninety-five per cent, at least. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today.… National pride has no need of the delirium of race.” -Benito Mussolini
I think they are desperate to tie it to race, because aside from that and nationalism their views line up with Nazis very, very closely. Replaces Jews with the 1% and Hitler’s speeches would be interchangeable with Sanders’.
To get a good definition of “libertarian”, find a definition of fascism and replace “race” with “self
Fascism = socialism + racism
Libbertarianism = socialism + self
Don’t think that actually works.
If you don’t think too hard and don’t examine what fascism actually was, you can kind of see that he’s saying something like “fascism is about elevating one race above all others” and so “libertarianism is about elevating (my)self above all others”.
And socialism is dragging everyone else down to the bottom.
By New Year’s Eve, I will have a handgun. This is why.
a little frightening, that statement.
Pick a gun?
Leaning towards Sig P938.
Don’t drop it.
They do look nice. never got a chance to shoot one.
Nice gun, but do go shoot it first.
Bacon: that was the P320. P938’s a totes different beast.
I love Sig, was just running with the sigburnathon going on right now. Had a p226 & p228. Awesome, well made weapons.
The local range has classes and a nice selection of handguns for rent. So, I will definitely be trying the P938 and its competitors before buying anything.
Yeah, I need something to replace my P3AT and I’ve been looking at one of those as well.
Why wait until then?
I reside in Iowa. I need to get a permit to buy a handgun, or I need to get a concealed carry permit. The concealed carry permit comes with the presumption that you intend to buy a handgun.
The law requires classes, background checks, and forms to be filled out with the county sheriff. I am timing the classes and paperwork to line up the annual bonus the company pays out each December.
I’ve been thinking about it for a couple of years, but my wife inexplicably mentioned getting a concealed carry permit a couple of months ago. So off we go.
The bullshit from Antifa and SJWs gives me more to be concerned about than any issues with crime out where I live.
I would have thought Iowa was more gun friendly than that.
I reside in Iowa.
Condolences, dude.
Iowa passed “shall issue” 5 or 6 years ago I think. The requirements are not bad, but it will take 60 days to get the concealed carry permit which is good for 5 years I think.
The last legislature killed the ban on short barreled rifles and shotguns as well as killing the ban on suppressors. We now defer to the Feds.
Stand your ground was signed into law last summer.
Not bad for a thoroughly purple state.
Basically the same in the DPRCT on the issuance of permits. Idiotic mag limits and no black rifles though 🙁
Permit for a handgun purchase? Wow, I had no idea that was still a thing in the non-IL MidWest.
Sounds like a law which, like pretty much all gun control laws, serves to screw over only the law-abiding.
The 938 is sweet. Be comfy with the 1911 manual of arms before you purchase one. I find the safety a little harder to disengage than a good 1911 safety, but YMMV. Kicks harder than the 238, as you’d expect, and I found it harder to keep on target than the 238. Not objectionable though. Was reliable for the one box of range ammo I ran through it.
I’ve liked the Glock 43, if you’re interested instead in something striker-fired, about the same size.
The Spartacus League-esque LARPing of antifa, et al, is certainly getting more and more annoying. I really hope they don’t take a page from their 70s brethren, and figure out bombs anytime soon
We are in a time where people advocate mob violence over clothing and ideas.
2017, ladies and gentlemen. We’re getting closer to that “Bad luck” Heinlein was on about.
I think it’ll get worse after the 2018 elections, whether the Dems do poorly or well. Antifa and BLM are just another get-out-the-vote tactic by the hard Left to encourage their base.
I don’t like this argument because at first glance it seems to condone violence against people as long as their beliefs are really, really bad (which both varieties of socialism definitely are). I prefer to force them to defend that foundational principle by taking it to the logical extreme, e.g. “Why shouldn’t we just kill them for being Nazis?”
Of course it’s a terrible argument. Might as well just Godwin the fucking thread; it’s the same argument that led actual Nazis to shovel (((them))) into ovens.
Would a thread about punching Nazis be auto-Godwinned by its very nature?
Good point.
I think there’s a valid loophole. It’s OK to compare someone to a NAZI if they do in fact claim that they’re a NAZI.
I think that many people have already taking the thought experiment to this extreme.
They’re acting out D-Day fantasies.
Escalation of this is what actually leads to Civil War. It’s one more small step in that direction.
I don’t necessarily think it’s okay to punch a Nazi or a communist, but sometimes it doesn’t matter whether it’s okay.
Sometimes, we do things that aren’t okay, that should be illegal, and that society should condemn.
If a drunken idiot says something obnoxious to my daughter or girlfriend, and I punch him in the mouth for it, I should be arrested, it should be illegal, and society should condemn me for it.
That doesn’t mean I shouldn’t punch someone in the mouth for saying something obnoxious to my daughter or girlfriend. We shouldn’t live in a society that condones violence for what people say, and we shouldn’t live in a society where no one has the balls to punch obnoxious idiots in the mouth.
Nazis and communists can be really obnoxious idiots.
P.S. As a jury member, I have the right to let boyfriends and dads off the hook for standing up for their girlfriends and daughters, and slapping the shit out of a Nazi or a communist, too. And that’s exactly as it should be.
I’m having a hard time not concluding that you would actually vote to acquit someone accused of initiating violence on a political opponent, if you happened to dislike their political opponent yourself.
Pretty unprincipled, Ken. Is that really what you meant to say?
Why should you expect to walk after punching someone in the mouth for insulting your daughter? Why not accept the consequences of your actions? If you’re saying someone insulting your daughter isn’t worth doing some jail time, why is it worth punching someone?
I think he’d punch Rand Paul for voting against Graham-Cassidy. 😉
“Puerto Rico needs an unknown amount of money to return power to 1% of that number”
Well that’s not counting all the money they need for other stuff, like…. avoiding bankruptcy?
I couldn’t be arsed to look at how much money the power company owes, but basically, no one will give them credit to buy the stuff they need to fix the power because they are so bankrupt. How the fuck does a power monopoly on an island go bankrupt? Its like running out of cash at a Fed printer.
“why does it say paper jam when there is no paper jam?”
Venezuela problem: No more fucking paper!
Once they get that big pile of money, they’ll get around to paying for power after other, more important things like cronyism, corruption, and bs social programs. If there is any money left. Kind of like how they do it in Illinois.
India won’t be able to electrify those 300M for $2.5B either.
Bad translation, it was supposed to be ‘electrocute’.
“India has a plan to supply power to 300M people for $2.5B”
So, how much money do you think that will actually take? I’m gonna be conservative and say about double what’s projected right now.
Being they are having trouble collecting on power they are supplying to current customers and this plan requires them to give away electricity to poor people, I’m going to say a lot more.
Yeah, I doubt it’s even metered.
It’s like Mexico and gasoline. When you need gas, you just help yourself to the pipeline. It’s great, except for the occasional kaboom.
Pretty much.
https://m.imgur.com/NhebE
Which brings up an interesting problem. If you have a country where no one respects property rights and is going to steal electricity anyways, why not give electricity away and tax everyone to pay for it?
*whispers*
I think we can trust the Indian tax collectors.
Ok, they can see my trillion dollar bill.
Why do you think they got rid of “high”-denomination banknotes?
I think it’s
Trigger. Warning: bang bang
You’re going to link to a “lumberjack” song and it’s not this one?
Refresh, you!
Once again, wrap your whacker before you attack her (or him).
https://www.yahoo.com/news/sex-diseases-us-surge-record-high-172946444.html
Come on Tampa lurkers.
I’m Here To Help posted his email in the hurricane thread, so if he doesn’t pipe up today I’ll look it up and drop him a line.
Sorry – I’ve been in DC for work the better part of the week and haven’t had much time to be on here.
So, what are the plans?
The silence on Puerto Rico is deafening.
Remember all of the shit talking only 3 weeks ago about the lack of zoning laws being responsible for the disaster in Houston? Yeah, me too.
How’s the disaster in the bankrupt, failed socialist state going?
That’s different because shut up.
“they’re too poor and stupid to know any better” seems like something someone might say without thinking.
“they’re too poor and stupid to know any better” is one on the underpinnings of the “white privilege” argument, so they are saying it.
But it’s OK, because it’s the good kind of racism.
A friend of mine gets in an online fight about that shit being racist or yelling at people for the “white people can’t experience racism” stuff. it’s fucking hourly, but she’s pretty good at it. She swings between bernie stuff and ancapistan, so who knows what’s going on.
“She swings between bernie stuff and ancapistan”
That is…quite substantial swinging.
She just has to get the “i can’t force my utopia, either” thing.
the title isn’t great.
I’ve sent and said things like this.
Yeah, anyone with a mentality like that is probably doing all sorts of swinging. Don’t forget the strict regimen of drug use to keep the mind limber.
Pics?
2nded. That’s just crazy enough to be smoking hot.
she is.
She just said she’s in a relationship with pornhub, so maybe there’s something there?
PICS or gtfo
That instagram is locked.
Ummmmm, you need to go for it.
No, racism is discrimination + institutional power*, so as long as a straight white male isn’t saying it, by definition** it can’t be racist.
*Never mind a black president, or affirmative action, etc
**Yes, we made that up, but questioning it is mansplaining and racist, so shut up!
“so a white single mother in a trailer park has more power than Obama?”
Yes.
Does CNN have any reporters in Puerto Rico? I’m not travelling now, so I have no idea. But they were covering Irma non-stop.
Lester Holt flew out yesterday. So stunning and brave.
Seriously, that WAS the story. Lester Holt is going to Puerto Rico. News at 11.
I’m not travelling now
I take it you only watch CNN when you’re a captive audience in an airport?
Precisely. TVs in every airport lounge are tuned to CNN.
At best. Occasionally it’s MSNBC.
At this point it’s a distinction without difference.
I was talking to a reliably proggie Irish acquaintance and they’d just started getting MSNBC. He was baffled that I saw them as a ham-fisted attempt to do a lefty Fox News and saw them as a left-leaning news source. I looked it up and apparently before they got wider international distribution they culled their OpEd stuff (although it’s still their flagship content) and focused more on straight news with progressive roots.
So on the bright side, it’s not just a long slide for CNN moving leftward, but MSNBC stumbling away from being 100% Keith Olbermann screaming impotently
Could it be that MSNBC created the “MSNBC International” product and that’s what they watch in Ireland? I know that CNN we have in the US and CNN International are very different products. Only a few programs from the US market were shown on CNN International when I watched it (like “Larry King Live”), the rest was content from London and stuff like Business Asia. Of course, when something big happens then it’s CNN Live everywhere.
Certainly possible, but I did read that MSNBC had explicitly divested themselves of a lot of their OpEd stuff to focus on straight news presentation because they’d so consistently been lagging the other news networks. It could be a little of column A and a lot of column B. I’m not particularly interested in giving MSNBC any attention regardless.
They seem to believe its only bad because Trump doesn’t know Puerto Ricans are Americans, sort of.
Let’s ask Oscar Lopez Rivera if Puerto Ricans are Americans.
First, let me look up who this guy is…..
…..YES! Let’s ask him!
From wiki:
Way to go, Big 0.
What better time to incite a riot on that island than now?
On January 17, 2017, President Barack Obama commuted López Rivera’s sentence and he was released from prison on May 17, 2017, after 35 years in prison.
Can a President revoke another President’s commutation of a sentence? A pardon strikes me as a different beast, but is commuting a sentence irrevocable?
Doutbful. The Constitution draws no distinction between “commutations” (= get out of jail, but keep your record) and “pardons” (= as though it never happened). Legally speaking, the former is just treated as a “lesser” pardon, but the same Constitutional provision applies.
“Of course I knew that. Miss Puerto Rico was always a classy broad at our pageants.”
Not that this is a surprise or even news, but it’s always good to remember what a bunch of corrupt, useless, reprehensible, spineless failures “represent” us.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/26/obamacare-repeal-failure-republican-senate-243148
“Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Republicans are not giving up on a health care bill but made clear he wants a quick pivot to another issue where Republicans hope to notch a legislative victory: taxes.”
We haven’t given up, we just want to postpone it until we’re a minority party again.
They should have more senators next year, although I have a feeling some establishment types will get axed and replaced by Trumpians.
It will be interesting to see if anything happens in the primaries.
Oh, I guarantee that there will be lots of defeated incumbents in the primaries. Most vulnerable senator right now is Flake in AZ, who is down by double digits right now to the Ron Paul-influenced Kelli Ward. Another libertarian-ish guy named Danny Tarkanian is running in NV against a turncoat senator named Heller who voted for repeal when Obama was president and against when Trump was president.
The government we deserve… good and hard.
Rough day, Zona, Oke State, Auburn, USC, Louisville and Miami basketball fans:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/fbi-probe-uncovers-massive-college-basketball-scandal-snaring-big-time-programs-144631716.html
It’s going to go way beyond that. Those are just the guys they have the goods on right now. Once those Adidas execs start talking to investigators to secure pleas, there will be a LOT of schools involved.
Not mine though, of course, since we never get 5 star kids anyway.
Oh yeah, this is only the beginning. Nice to have gone to a school where I am not even the least bit worried about getting caught up in this.
Yep. If the top 20 or so teams get lengthy postseason suspensions, my team has an outside chance of making the tourney.
I don’t get it, did the FBI just ruin everyone’s bracket?
Why would the FBI investigate this? How is this against the law?
– Iowahawk
Trump told Comey to “wiretap the corrupt black guy.”
Bribing officials from organizations (read: the college coaches) that accept federal grant money. There are also wire fraud and money laundering charges mentioned.
So, nothing that should be illegal in a free society.
I think all of you will be able to use this clip in the future. or in a few seconds, in response to something I say.
I would never say that about you.
*finger guns* ayyyyy.
So woke, so empowered, so Saudi
Saudi Arabia to let women drive at last – CNN
https://apple.news/AtJpZG0kbTmeradVrFo3p3w
“Saudi Arabia was already better than the USA for women and now it’s improved even more!”
-Prog Feminists
Nah, prog feminists just ignore the middle east entirely. It’s much harder to rail against the evil patriarchy oppressing women in the U.S. when it’s compared to a legit patriarchy oppressing women there.
Except for Israel, whom they blame for oppressing Palestinian women. For some reason.
I’m reminded of a picture of a self described Swedish Feminist government literally submitting to a middle eastern Patriarch.
Progs will see this as regression. They want no one driving cars.
I’ll be honest, I don’t like to mock them on stuff like this. Yeah, they are we far behind where they should be, but when they increase liberty I don’t think we should ridicule them for starting so far behind us. That kinda stuff should be encouraged, hopefully with more to follow in the future.
Eh, I’m inclined to concur, but I don’t think this is coming from a freedom friendly place. Sure it can have good consequences and be applauded, just not too much. That kingdom is still assbackwards and I think validating this move too much would not have a net gain.
I realize that may read confusing. Let me clarify. I think that it’s a good move, but patting them on the back rather than pushing them forward may stall progress.
Linda Sarsour hardest hit.
They’re just trying to stop Uber before it starts.
Judging by the crappy drivers around here, I’m not sure that’s a positive change.
Are we sure they mean driving cars?
Maybe they mean camels
Fair Trade laws, everybody!
Related to NYT fellating Commies.
http://thefederalist.com/2017/09/26/85-years-new-york-times-still-useful-idiot-communism/
But but… Mike Pence won’t be alone with a woman who’s not his wife!
The fuss over Pence’s non-wife avoidance policy was kind of odd to me.
The various anti-Trump people seem to think that his administration is soooooo uniquely evil that literally any method of attack is acceptable. And we already know that the Lefties are not shy about using false rape accusations in an effort to bring down Trump. In light of that, why is it so loony for Pence to avoid putting himself in a situation where he could be accused of rape?
Of course, I’m not a mind-reader and I don’t know his motives. But I can’t say I blame him for avoiding being alone with women who aren’t his wife.
Trump (R) privately brags about how goldiggers will just let him be sexual with them = omg so sexist!
Pence (R) tries to avoid any appearance or temptation of infidelity = ong so sexist!
Weiner (D) sexes pictures to minors = he cried, he’s so brave to admit his failings, we should give him a chance
Bill Clinton (D) uses his position of power to coerce women into sex = fake scandal, those harlots are lying, and who cares about his sex life?
I’m beginning to notice a pattern…
You know, it’s almost as if the proggies value principals over principles…
Read that this morning. I always appreciate first hand communism survival stories. What an evil philosophy.
Not defending the philosophy at all. But people do evil things. I think that’s the allure of communism and fascism. It’s a justification for evil people to do evil things.
You’d be surprised. A lot of the True Believers genuinely believe they’re creating a utopia, even those at the top. They believe the ends justify the means, so the genocides are rationalized as a necessary cost for a world so much better that it outweighs any previous wrongdoing. And that’s how they sleep at night. Ideology is a powerful tool of deception.
“If the ends don’t justify the means, what does?” — Saul Alinsky
“The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.” Leon Trotsky, Their Morals and Ours
“You have to crack eggs to make an omelet.” — Every communist ever.
“…The Earth’s ozone layer would have collapsed by 2050 with catastrophic consequences without the Montreal Protocol, studies have shown….”
Riiiight.
Like they’ve never been wrong with targets, eh?
Jesus me.
Doomsday is very profitable donchaknow?
Quebec in its report on the state of the French language declared Bill 101 a success because French was thriving in Quebec and has never been healthier.
That is, until it’s time to attack English again for election time.
But the little tidbit they don’t mention is it came at the expense of choice; freedom of choice as well as coercive and punitive measures that sometimes rise to petty attacks on the English language (fines against store owners who run afoul of the language laws) and senseless demands on store signs that do absolutely fuck all in protecting, preserving or enhancing the language. In fact, it’s my contention it demeans not only the language but the people.
This is what that article reminds me of.
You just want to make sure that you never actually reach the date on the wall.
You’re not Jesus, your name is Rufus.
Looks into asshole.
Why. Why it is Rufus!
Women are the primary victims of friendly fire
If the 4chan crowd caught wind of this, your wishes are about to be thoroughly and utterly denied.
This is what annoys me, all the talk about “divides us”, “divisive”, etc. The protests themselves are what is dividing people. They consciously, starting with Kaepernick, chose this vehicle of protest precisely because they knew it would attract the most attention as it was going to piss a lot of people off.
kind of the whole point of one, right? So we block traffic to yell about cops and now kneel during the anthem over various things.
have a very good argument ready, there will be questions.
I’m going to say this one more time before I sign it over to Gilmore:
Colin Kaepernick is the Westboro Baptist Church of professional sports.
Related:
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/09/26/nfl-anthem-controversy-begs-question-does-left-ever-want-to-win-elections-again.html
The left does like to wallow in its victimhood. Even places like Detroit and Chicago are still digging out from the wreckage of their prior Republican regimes in the 19th century.
Being absolutely fair here (who the fuck am I, Robby Soave?), if protest isn’t disruptive, what’s the point of it?
^
I knew it.
*takes off aluminum hat*
“I’m going out to celebrate this solved mystery at Chipotle.”
Does anyone know where I can get some fruit sushi?
Does anyone know what the fuck fruit sushi actually is?
Yes
It’s regular fruit in small portions with a 500% hipster markup.
Raw, gender-fluid fish?
Steyn makes that point pretty well.
on Sunday two dozen kneeling Americans decided to rise to their feet for Britain’s national anthem. Because they understood that were they to remain kneeling they would be regarded by their London hosts as boorish graceless ignorant clods – which, in fact, they are, with respect to their own anthem. We stand for the anthems of foreigners not out of allegiance but out of Moulton’s “good form”….
…For anyone who wishes to live in a civilized society where the observance of social norms can be safely assumed, this wretched business is a loss – for what remains of social cohesion, for “true civilization” and for “the real greatness of a nation”. A national anthem can be a national anthem or an opportunity for self-expression, but not both. And, if this is yet one more thing that Americans can no longer agree on, if a people lack the minimal social glue to rise reflexively when the band strikes up the first bars of “O-oh, say, can you…”, you have to wonder whether anything remains to bind us together at all.
I wish they’d read the bill of Rights instead of singing the anthem.
Read the … whuhhh
I bet you just want to go back to owning slaves, shitlord!
you have to wonder whether anything remains to bind us together at all.
The printing presses at the US Mint do a pretty good job of it.
Boobs.
Boobs will keep us together, Scruffy.
Wasn’t that a Captain and Tennille song?
A classic.
The Tubes did a cover of it too.
Fee Waybill is an underrated genius.
I met Fee at a Tubes concert once in San Diego. Seemed to be a nice guy even though they were playing to a pitifully small audience.
Most of the band are/were. Spooner particularly.
It was Joy Division.
Relevant
Relevant?
YES.
Out of respect or because they didn’t want to be seen as subjects of HM Queen Elizabeth?
have you seen their tax rates?!
It takes two to be divisive.
Zoolander is more sensible than Obama? Who knew?
https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/09/25/canada-refuses-entry-chelsea-manning-crime-equate-treason/
They don’t let you in if you’ve had a DUI in the last decade.
Don’t they want to sell Moosehead?
See you ‘Muricans?
That’s how it’s done.
Be very, very quiet about protecting your borders.
/Elmer Fudd voice.
Bravo flappy heads, I say bravo.
Obama was being sensible: he was rewarding someone who embarrassed his predecessor.
Still think there’s such a thing as ‘peak derp’?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/25/opinion/weiner-sexting-sentencing-prison.html?mcubz=1
“Sally L. Satel (@slsatel) is a psychiatrist and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.”
Interesting.
“Mr. Weiner cried as he pleaded guilty to one count of transferring obscene material to a minor, a crime that carried up to 10 years in prison.”
*sniffle. wimper* “I’m gonna get my ass kicked for 21 straight months!”
There’s no way that piece of garbage will be in the clink that long.
Federal prison. He will.
Is “tennis prison” i.e., the Federal Correctional Facility at Lompoc, CA, still a thing? It was for the Watergate defendants, IIRC.
Though when googling “tennis prison” I’m boggled that San Quentin, per a Vice documentary, actually has a program for that.
So he’ll do pretty much all of his time, unless some of it gets converted to home confinement/halfway house, etc…, but he’ll get one hell of a forehand and a tan.
If federal, I’d expect Danbury, CT.
Near enough the city to help him see the people in the business of reforming his reputation and getting a NYC gig again.
“This may sound odd, but I admire Anthony Weiner for what he did on Monday. He stood tearfully before the judge and acknowledged several compatible truths: that he was responsible for his action, that he is accepting the consequences, and that he needs help so that he can liberate himself from those compulsions, or, at the very least, stop acting on them.”
Yes, that does sound odd.
He said what his high priced lawyers told him to say to get the lightest possible sentence. So admirable.
“I take full responsibility for my actions.”
Translation: Ok, you caught me red-handed and it’s so bad I can’t plausibly lie my way out, but I still don’t want to be punished for this.
How many times again did he deflect and demand no one judge him whenever his past was brought up prior to finally getting nabbed?
She’s not a very good psychologist I’m thinking.
He said the same thing the last time … and the time before. I don’t know if he will ever get it. Probably not.
Eh, politicians are generally sociopaths who can lie without feeling any remorse. He means none of it, it’s just what he felt he had to say at that moment to maximize results.
Did he kneel before the judge?
Fucking statists. It shouldn’t even be illlegal to send pictures of your dick to 16 year olds.
But it is. And he did it. And as a statist himself, he would have punished others for it. I’m not exactly upset about it.
Interestingly, the defense was considering a “she initiated the whole thing” defense. And for the record, she did. Wisely, they chose not to pursue that defense. The sentence almost certainly would have been in years and not months.
I was kind of joking, actually, but I didn’t even know that.
Actually, if “she initiated the whole thing” it does make me question the justice of it. 16 is clearly an arbitrary cutoff point not based on any biology. Hmm… maybe my trolling can turn into a real thing.
I forget how many downward departures in the Guidelines, cooperation with the USA, acknowledgement of ones crimes, expressions of remorse, and desire for restitution, get you, but I’m sure it’s considerable.
Though I don’t know where he’s going to serve his time, I’m pretty sure it’s not going to be some garden spot like ADX Florence or Marion. Putting on the requisite mien at sentencing helps avoid places like that.
As far as the federal system goes, this sentence was very generous. IIRC, he was convicted on 1 count.
A normal would be facing a far harsher penalty.
“Oh, you were sexting a minor? That’s a separate charge for each ASCII character you sent via SMS!”
Soros’ son is a chip off the ol’ block; and he looks like a douchebag hipster to boot.
http://freebeacon.com/politics/alexander-soros-outpacing-father-contributions-cycle/
So punchable.
He donated to Tom Periello? Jesus.
Expand. Some of us aren’t so well read.
Tom Periello was the retarded Bernie Sanders if the Virginia gubernatorial primary.
My name is Tom Per-riellooo. I like de color pink!
He looks like a dog with a treat balanced on his nose.
Thanks for checking in!
my favorite trivia bit about that dirtbag is that he’s a PhD candidate at … Berkeley! of course he is. According to Wiki, he even keeps a home there, though who knows how often he’s actually there.
But I do wonder how much of the UCB bullshit this year can be traced to him. I know the mayor’s a POS antifa/BAMN person anyway, so maybe he didn’t have to do anything, but still. it’s … interesting.
Yo. Aren’t you in the area? A few of us were planning on meeting up on Friday probably DTLA-ward. One who moved away but has returned is going to be in town.
Any other LA-area types are welcome to chime in.
IT’S A TRAP
I’ll be there, signing autographs on women’s breasts. Just let me know who’s autograph you want.
“Love, Fonz”
I am! But my dad has heart surgery on Thurs, so I’ll be keeping my mom company while he’s in the hospital. but next time!
Posted without comment.
http://www.mensjournal.com/health-fitness/articles/the-most-terrifying-way-to-orgasm-w501676
I guess taking a nap was insufficient.
Elf money shot
That’s a new cuddling avoidance technique.
Without reading, going to guess when the orgasm is caused by stimulation from candiru activity.
*Reads article*
Nope, not even close. Still pretty scary though
Lame, I was expecting an article on David Carradine.
-1 Hung Fu
Can’t believe I hadn’t read that jape before. Well done.
The little death.
Are you saying that this isn’t normal?
This seems to me to be the most terrifying way to orgasm.
Humorously, one of the links as the bottom of the article was, “Here are the bizarre, totally unbelievable reasons fall for this type of clickbait”.
No, I didn’t click on it.
current listenings
Her shirt is trippy.
Was expecting Lady Miss Kier from Deee-Lite in the link.
Would.
DHS planning to collect social media info on all immigrants
I was under the impression that one has not immigrated if they are currently applying for a visa.
Nobody ever uses the correct terminology when writing about immigration/visa issues.
You could be here on one type of visa and then apply for another type of visa. For example, someone on an F-1 student visa, if they find a sponsor, could then apply for an H1-B visa. I believe this is technically called “adjustment of status”.
This is what happens when Lefties operate the educational system for 40 years.
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2017/09/26/infuriating-west-point-cadet-shares-communism-will-win-selfie-on-veteransforkaepernick/?utm_campaign=twitchywidget
He dun fucked up. Unless he wants to be expelled, that is.
I think they walked out and handed him a commission. He’ll make general in record time.
The sad part is expulsion really just means he is “punished” by serving the remainder of his time as an enlisted troop.
He is already graduated and commissioned. If he was serious about this shit, he’ll likely be investigated and possibly discharged under ‘Other Than Honorable’ conditions at worst, and more likely to get bad report cards and allowed to leave after a short while.
From what I’ve read, his CoC at Fort Drum, his current duty station, is well aware of his shenanigans, and is taking measures to remedy them.
He’s got some classmates that are probably going to go down too, if their pro-Communism facebook etc postings mirror their actual actions.
Makes you wonder how many feel the same as him, but have the brains to keep it on the down low.
I’d love to see the USMA try to get their money back from Lieutenant Rapone.
FM 22-102 – Wall to Wall Counseling Field Manual
Professional guidance.
“Lucky” for him, they now “frown” upon “hazing” at the academy.
Hopefully, everyone henceforth from he lowliest private to the CINC address him as “Hey, you commie fuck” Or “you commie fuck, sir” as appropriate.
Bah. The bloated US military is a by-product of our devolution into socialism.
No, I have it on good authority that war and militarism are only products of capitalism and that when Real Socialism™ arrives, there will be no need for a military.
He looks like a fucking serial killer, which seems to go well with his political leanings.
He’s boned.
Apparently just failed out of ranger school too.
according to this he was already an enlisted ranger before going to West Point
http://popularmilitary.com/openly-communist-us-army-officer-prior-enlisted-army-ranger-served-combat/
Perhaps he can find another army that’s more to his liking.
Scrolled, i.e. a member of the Regiment; not tabbed, i.e. a graduate of Ranger School, is my understanding.
Which is weird, as I thought 75th made pretty much all of their combat arms guys go through Ranger School as soon as possible. I never was a military guy, so maybe they let guys do deployments w/o it and just push them to do it as soon as they get back.
well, i saw Surviving The Cut. Once.
(gives 1000-yard stare)
Doh, I’m late, but exactly that. Supposedly got his RFS for “being a gigantic piece of shit”. Couldn’t pass mountain after graduating USMA this year.
Ranger deployment != Ranger School. Folks from the 75th are saying he got RFSed five months in. Still gets the scroll.
The other folks are saying he failed mountain twice, so he’s back to Ft. Drum and won’t ever get his tab.
His life is about to become very unpleasant. Good. I hope like hell that they demand repayment for his West Point education when they kick his worthless was out.
How beyond incredibly stupid can one person be?
A Che t-shirt? Really. You ruin your reputation and potentially your job prospects (or even life) over a murderous punk who killed gays and farmers? Sometimes for FUN?!
ANYONE who wear a Che t-shirt is a loser and ignoramus.
Yeah, the most charitable thing you can say about someone wearing a Che t-shirt is that they’re pathetically ignorant.
Not just a Che shirt. He’s a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. Hung an anti-fa flag in his dorm. Also seen posted selfies posing with the communist manifesto. He’s red dyed in the wool.
**Fixed, yours truly,
http://images6.fanpop.com/image/polls/1567000/1567593_1465328835517_full.jpg
my reaction?
That comment collapsed catastrophically
SF’d it, but didn’t Gilmore it.
it doesn’t matter, it was just a captain planet clip
Car Accident Analysis
He’s dead wrong. That flipped over car has clearly stopped.
Technically, it’s revolving around the sun and the center of the galaxy.
And headed towards Andromeda at 400,000 km per hour.
Not according to these guys.
The Trolls Royce Is Better Than Any Car You’ll Ever Own
This makes my day. The creativity and insanity of car guys reminds us that there is still beauty in the world.
this guy comes up with some cool stuff
Cool site. Nice combination of fun build and practical stuff.
Thanks!
yeah it’s a nice balance of education and “because racecar”
There was a Rolls just like that (minus the turbos etc.) for sale here about 2 years ago for $2,000. I nearly bought it to turn it into a race car just for the giggles.
I want to buy a totaled Tesla and drop a big stinky V8 in it.
something like this.
Perfect!
Pssshh. They don’t even have free Prime next day delivery.
Would!
Can I have the battery packs?
Yes.
Sucker. I would have paid you for them.
Sucker. You get to tear them out.
Yeah,you can get stuff like this for surprisingly short money. They’re complex and not what you’d call reliable They’re really expensive to have a dealer fix. The people who buy them new only want the latest thing. Perfect car for idiots (I mean that in a good way).
I’d still rather have an Austin-Healey 3000 🙂
Tax dollars to pay for illegals’ DACA renewals.
From a city that consistently claims they’re too broke to continue basic city services without extra money.
Say it with me children, this is *bad* for the NFL.
http://archive.is/Elts3
Somebody at Direct TV is ticked off
Everyone keeps pointing out how the ratings were pretty high this week. Which is fine but I want to know what the ratings look like next weekend and for the remainder of the season. Seems like the high ratings this week could be attributed to more people tuning in to see who stands/kneels or no-shows.
or people who don’t watch started to. I doubt that’ll continue at any length, but who knows?
I don’t watch a lot of NFL, but I cannot remember seeing any televised National Anthems during regular season games. Why would people tune in to something that is never shown?
On occasion they play it for prime time games.
The media is padding the stats for SJW’s …they all have come to the conclusion that a civil war is in order and facts don’t matter anymore.
The stadiums in Los Angeles and San Francisco are EMPTY.
They were empty last season too. SF’s stadium is in a terrible area and the team’s awful, nobody went to see the Rams last year, and nobody in Los Angeles gives a shit about the Chargers.
USC had more attendance last week than the Rams and Chargers combined.
As we know from the NCAA indictments earlier, USC has the best professional sports in California right now.
At the end of the season I am curious how the rating compare between the NFL and College Football.
I predict that Cal’s ratings are going to go down, like they do every season.
49ers bleachers.
That’s during a game? mannnn
I don’t understand why anyone would attend those games, and I don’t mean that just because I don’t enjoy football. I mean you’re paying a small fortune for parking and tickets and watered down beer, and your view of the game is much worse than sitting at home watching TV for free with no lines for the bathroom and decent beer. I can’t think of any reason to actually go to the stadium.
Well well well. It looks like somebody isn’t a fan of getting drunk and fighting in the stands. I thought this was America!
Dodger stadium has Lagunitas, FYI
How dare you, sir! I’m a proud Irish American and I’ll fight any one for any reason!
Could I buy a whole 6-pack for the price of a single Lagunitas at Dodger Stadium?
I don’t care what beer they have there. Until CA lets me take a gun with me, I am never going to Dodger stadium.
Your first mistake is asking permission.
Ohhh… right. The metal detectors.
IIRC, it’s a dollar more than bud light, but with twice the alcohol.
Shop smart. Shop S-mart.
Dodger stadium has
LagunitasKona, FYISo you can remember that time back in ________ when _______ did this miraculous ________ to _________, and say that you were there?
I go to two or three Indian games a year, and I hardly watch the game at all, I spend the time walking the concourse eating greasy food, drinking overpriced beer, and signing up for credit cards to get floppy hats and cheap t-shirts. It’s the spectacle not the actual game that most people go for.
Surprising, considering that I thought that those would be the places where the SJW/Pinko dreams of the Kaepernick team would play relatively well.
Yeah, but you actually have to buy tickets and show up.
Tweeting is so much easier.
There are other things to do in CA, all 3 teams suck (though the Rams have looked like turning it around this year), both LA teams play in crappy stadiums (LA Memorial is too big and too old, and the Chargers play in a damn soccer stadium), and the 49ers play in… Santa Clara, which is a gigantic pain in the ass to get to from pretty much anywhere in the Bay Area (and the only good thing that’s ever happened at Levi’s Stadium was when Chile beat Mexico 7-0, which is still hilarious)
People are booing but they’re not leaving
Players keep this up, and let’s see what happens for the Superbowl.
It would be interesting – in a few more weeks – to see if the cost of ads shifts at all.
is it just a capitalist plot to lower the rate for ad space at the superbowl?!
I’ll be interested in seeing if DirecTV releases the cancellation numbers. There were none in the article other than a couple anecdotal reports that they were experience a high volume of cancellations.
I smiled at the ‘high political stakes’ crap in the article. What are the political stakes again exactly? All I see is are employees giving the finger to their customer base while the business owners cheer them on.
New Survey: 64 Percent Of Americans Say NFL Players Should Stand For Anthem
Nearly two-thirds of Americans say NFL players should stand and be respectful during the playing of the national anthem, according to a survey released on Monday.
A survey by Remington Research Group found that 64 percent of voters agree with President Trump and want players to stand for the anthem. The survey also found that 80 percent of voters want less politics in sports, while 51 percent say they are watching less football than in previous years.
The real question the NFL should be worried about is, what percentage of NFL fans think players should stand and be respectful during the national anthem? Because I bet its higher than the general public.
Do you mean to tell me that last years’ queer pride parade DIDN’T have an F-22 flyover?????
No, but there was plenty of thrust vectoring going on afterward.
Exactly.
Are progressives aware of that poll?
Because if they are, I can only conclude that they never want to win an election again.
They have different polls that show almost unanimous support for kneeling. Also, Hillary has a >99% chance of victory.
I forgot my link for Riven’s anniversary yesterday.
**Snorting laughter**
Danke xD
videos like that should not make me laugh as hard as I do.
The story here (for me) isn’t that he’s forgoing his bonus, but rather than he was supposed to be getting one in the first place
“company representatives did not respond to requests to elaborate on the reason for his departure.”
I guess it will forever remain a mystery.
Everyone I’ve talked to on the business side of things agree that they should be gone forever. It looks like investors are desperately trying to hang on.
Dean Skelos’ conviction, obtained by noted asshole Preet Bharara, overturned
Crooks
My employer is so woke they are giving us MLK day off next year. By talking away one of our personal days. Dicks.
Dicks. The whole point of personal days is that you can tack them onto random weekends and get good hotel rates.
Now you have the same 3 day weekend as everyone else.
In January, in Ohio.
Oh, I’m sure you have a landfill or 2 that you can ski on.
Or maybe an indoor water park where you can get drunk and ruin it for the kids.
Weekend meth bender
Ehhhh… that’s kind of on the cusp of a 4 day weekend. You have other personal days, right?
I’ll just call off sick.
You’ve been to Ohio?
Not MLK/Robert E. Lee day?
Your employer must be a Yankee.
If I were getting a day off like that, If rather it be halfway between New Year’s and Memorial Day.
It’s total bullshit. Typical NJ assholes.
You mean Lee, Jackson, King Day?
From a libertarian/anarchist/voluntarist page I follow:
“IMO, the words “ownership” and “property” have kinda statist/legalist connotations. Like, this is currently your space. You occupy it. But it’s kinda arrogant to assume you have a “divine, god-given” right to be there. Like…cool it with the chest thumping, alpha”
She got a few fuck-off slavers (though not in those exact words, sadly).
Sad
Seriously. It’s just not that difficult.
I think you mean Sad!
How does she feel about fences?
I’ll ask.
So kill yourself and leave your space to us.
She sounds like a Georgist. We had some arguments for Georgism/single land tax awhile ago but the reception among the commenters was… less than enthusiastic, to say the least.
Shameless self promotion
Shameless self promotion #2 (all my links to my graphs are broken)
This will teach you to download the images, then place them as jpgs or pngs into the article. Lazy fucker.
I still have yet to see anyone give a mechanism for determining the basis number for a piece of land that the SLT will be assessed on, so that it’s not just property tax by a different name.
I’m more amenable to sales taxes myself. Tax the activity, not the property.
More $100 bills to throw in that huge swimming pool that you flounder around in, laughing.
Pure linen bearer bonds, thank you very much
Same here. I’m all about that FairTax. Why? Because then you’re faced with the “cost of living in society” every time you step up to the cash register and every time you click “buy” on the website.
Does this person know a lot of manorial barons? The idea that anybody has a divine, god-given right to a specific piece of land has never existed in this country. The right you have is to buy and sell deeds to land and while holding the dead to enjoy exclusive use of the land and its resources (subject to the terms of the deed, anyway).
I like to hold the dead and enjoy exclusive use of them.
+1 Norman Bates
Well, I think she is getting at the idea that we have ‘god given rights’, among those the ability to own property. Mostly I think shes just a troll though.
Not sure if this has made rounds yet but sounds pretty big.
https://hotair.com/archives/2017/09/26/breaking-fbi-rounds-ncaa-assistant-coaches-corruption-probe/
A little more info from espn that was linked above.
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/20824193/ncaa-basketball-coaches-10-charged-fraud-corruption
I posted my opinion elsewhere, but I’ll put it here, too.
I get why the NCAA won’t death penalty Louisville for doing illegal stuff while under probation. SMU’s football program is still in shambles 30 years after the death penalty. However, Louisville should get a severe-to-catastrophic penalty. (Penn State and Baylor should have, too) I think Louisville’s basketball program should be banished to D2 for 7-10 years.
Penn States program should have been executed and the remains burned.
That was page 7 of Sandusky’s playbook.
It’s funny because it’s true
Yeah, I agree. I think Louisville’s program is probably over for the foreseeable future if there is any meat to this story.
We’ll know how real this is if Pitino takes an NBA gig or something.
The first 2018 news today was that “Mr. Iran” himself, Bob Corker, is running away from the Senate next year because Breitbart was ready to flood his primary. The second news of the day is that Peyton Manning is considering a run in the GOP primary for this seat, but he seems more likely to run in 2020. The biggest news of the day is that Peyton Manning was a secret Nazi all along and that his house needs to be condemned and torched!
Its nice to see a patent troll friendly court get slapped around by a higher authority. (T/W boing-boing)
*Extinguishes the trshmnstr signal*
You rang?
A few points:
1) If we assume that patents are legitimate property rights (which courts like Judge Gilstrap’s must assume), then being a “patent troll” is no worse than being a “hoarder.” Why are you required to put your property to use?
2) The benefit of bringing cases in the ED Tex was that you had a court that was used to the high-value, highly-complex patent issues. With the venue rules getting struck down, less experienced courts will be handling the cases, resulting in a whole lot more variance in the law.
3) The basis for this latest push against patent owners is to eventually define a patent as a “public right” instead of a “private right.” Setting aside whether IP is really property for another moment, this completely fucks up the quid pro quo between the patent owner and the public. The idea is that the patent owner publicly discloses their invention in exchange for ownership of a limited term monopoly over the invention. If the limited term monopoly is a “public right,” then the patent owner doesn’t truly own their property.
We can sometimes get caught up in the philosophical question of whether IP is legitimate property, but while we’re debating that question, the progs are eroding the definition of private property from all sides, including in relation to patents. Whether or not we agree with IP being legitimate property, it is legitimate property in the view of the progs and the political class, and they’re experimenting with ways to undermine ownership of all property under the guise of improving patents.
E D of TEX has experience like Hillary Clinton has experience.
There’s a history, but it’s a history of fucking up.
Simple solution: loser pays. That gets rid of the trolling. It’s not so much a matter of using property rights as it is using the current legal system to mulct money because defendants can’t recover for bullshit cases. I’ve been party to a few of these cases, and it’s remarkable how easy it is for a plaintiff to run up the costs of defense to the point where go-away money becomes the cheapest option.
From a Constitutional standpoint, the key issue is over who constitutes an “inventor”. If you patent something that a bunch of other people are able to come up with independently, how are you the sole inventor who gets to exercise a monopoly on it? The goal, after all, is “to promote the progress of science and useful arts”.
+1 click buying
I think that’s a very interesting conversation to have, because most of the patents I write are of this form:
Take well-known concept A and apply it in a previously unthoughtof way to context X. For example, take the well known concept of attaching an electronic device to a circuit board with a flexible connector cable and apply it to a cellular phone, and you get a patent for zero bevel touchscreens.
IP rights eriode actual property rights too though. so i cant just blame this crap on the usual leftist dill wanks.
So, holding my dick here in ATL, hoping to get to St Croix sometime soon.
Lessgo FEMA.
Are you going for relief?
Or is there a fire sale on rooms?
Relief work. If I ever get there.
I’m glad you’re holding your dick, because none of us want to.
Its okay Ted, this is a safe space.
If you’re into some of the girls linked at the top there’s probably some very attractive females that will hold your dick for you in your current location.
Wear a condom.
22, 26 and 39 I think were my choices out of those.
The more I hear about the Steelers stunt the more I’m in the camp they’re retarded. Imagine being the sort of ‘protestor’ who lets a 3-tour Army Ranger take the fall for your bull shit.
No character man. I have a team to root against this year.
The Steelers, Patriots, and Cowboys should be hated by every football fan not dumb enough to be a fan of one of those 3 teams.
What did the Cowboys do (other than being the Cowboys of course)?
They kneeled before kicking the crap out of the cardinals last night.
Didn’t Jones say a while back he wasn’t going to put up with that?
I understood that the Cowboys kneeled before the Anthem and stood during, but did not witness it .
Somebody is still pissed at 34-28.
Also Ben Roethlisberger is kind of a rapist, too
Nothing beats scum bags protesting the flag.
It’s all a fucken joke.
I think the NY Post is enjoying the Weiner decision
http://nypost.com/2017/09/26/weiner-pops-out-and-disappears/
I’m sure the people at the NY Post love their Weiners.
Roy Moore pulled out a gun at a campaign rally? Are Republicans just running cartoon characters of ‘what a Republican candidate would look like’ now?
Kid Rock hardest hit
I think the best/worst part is it’s working.
It’s like watching Nostradamus at work.
That’ll be my dad in about 10 years.
So, my dad has started this thing where he is now bitching about immigrants in this country.
I tried to re affirm with him that he meant illegal immigrants, but he clarified that he meant ALL immigrants.
My father, in case anyone doesn’t know, was born in Egypt and moved here with his parents when he was about 18.
I did the Stewie stare when he loudly declared that “all these fucking immigrants need to go back to their own country!”
Somewhat similar incident. My father is also an immigrant and he has complained about immigrants, to a certain extent before. I guess once immigrants start trashing new immigrants they finally become American?
It’s a right of passage.
Yosemite Sam will soon be representing California in the US House from the 4th district.
I am free Friday night and would welcome a meetup with you puny tampa bay mammals.
IT’S A TRAP! He obviously needs more mammalian vessels for his world domination!
Actually totally serious. My mate is out on business so I am free to orbitally bombard the town down.
You know, I’m surprised that even the places that would be opposed to Weiner aren’t bringing up his flailing attempt years ago to blame his Twitter sexual shenanigans on radical Islam–“Maybe … This Is the Point of Al Qaeda’s Sword”.
Just one of those things that I’ve filed away that would normally be screamed from the rooftops at every possible opportunity as proof of his racism, sexism, Islamophobia and otherwise generally poor moral character, if he had a different letter next to his name.
Sorry guys, al-Qaeda messed up my close tag.
This is my sexual shenanigans.
Why would I want to watch a video of you jacking off?
I thought he called his dick the ‘tip of al qaeda’s sword’, which would be pretty metal.
Today, I learned how to sign “nigga” in American Sign Language.
are even the vocals pre-recorded at hiphop shows now?
Trap killed hip-hop.
Now that’s what I call a Def Jam.
You could always finger-spell it.
Yvette Felarca just got arrested ;p
https://twitter.com/berkeleypolice/status/912798780025577472
I’m not a big fan of the cops but good on them for arresting that violent lunatic.
If you’re going to have police, that is probably the type of person they should be interested in.
Isn’t she already on trial for something else?
Yep, assault and battery if memory serves.
So, I’m assuming bail revoked, in a jail cell until trial over (I hope)?
So, i got a notification that Jeff Tucker was giving a talk on a live stream, so i check it out.
I get no sound. So i mess around with the stupid @()#*$@ web app. There’s a button called “Report”. I click it.
These are the options it gave me
Its like they replaced “Tech Support” with a bunch of SJWs
Yup… I have an old high school friend who works for the “care and compassion” team for a major social media company… needless to say, they’re true believers all the way down.
Its like, “where are the audio options for the stream”, and its asking me if i’m being triggered by ‘self-harm’
Hey Fish, I just saw this, it looks like it’s right up your alley. First I’ve heard of this directorial duo, have you seen their other films? if so are they worth the hunting down.
Meant to be a reply to LT_Fish. Also ignore the ‘the’
I was hoping it would be a link to Powell and Pressburger.
Don’t recognize any of the names, but the movie itself sounds like something I read about on screenanarchy a few weeks ago. Looks solid for a retro-grindhouse type thing. We’ll see how it pans out.
Thanks for the trailer link though.
In related ‘tip of al qaeda’s sword’ news….
…woke progressive journalist decides he wants to win the internet by making the snarkiest Trump-Diss of the day
Hears that Saudi Arabia may be allowing women to drive (finally) after decades, tweets:
The first reply is from an Arab marxist feminist journalist, who rightfully says
Various people proceed to explain to shithead that men can still beat their wives in the street if they’re disobedient, that women are executed for *sorcery*, and that there’s almost nowhere on earth as repressive to women as Saudi Arabia.
He falls back on what seems a progressive-staple: “Perhaps it could have been phrased better”.
Which i think is what Dan Pfeiffer said last night when he claimed Trump was purposely blocking aid to Puerto Rico because he’s racist. Someone said, “that’s a lie”, and after like an hour he was like, “it was poorly phrased”. Then he deleted it.
oh, the OG tweet
https://twitter.com/Pundamentalism/status/912763708358774784
Trump’s 2020 campaign thanks you!
That he chose the moniker “Pundamentalism” and it’s got a blue checkmark by it already tells me all I need to know.
I think white ‘woke’ people are the funniest. God bless them
The fact that she tried to run him down with a Minivan is what makes this story.
http://www.mlive.com/news/bay-city/index.ssf/2017/09/swingers_party_goes_bad_when_j.html#incart_river_home_pop
The bitch had a fucking restraining order against him filed BY HER and took her to a wife swap?
Here’s your sign.
That’s actually quite a common way for guys to end up in prison.
1. Have fight with wife
2. She gets restraining order
3. Reconciliation (restraining order still in place)
4. Time passes
5. He badmouths a cop while drunk, out for a night with wife
6. Arrest, prison, rape, record.
Thats…. special. Also, I want the whole story, why’d she agree to it (or did she agree to it?) and then get upset?
She is probably the kind of woman that gets very dangerous when drunk. Unfortunately not an uncommon thing.
+1 flashback to college GF
Reminds me of a buddy’s ex. She’d always hit on me when she was drunk, but I was usually drunk by then and kind of oblivious.
Though, I think you could also take the ‘drunk’ out of your statement and it’d still be true.
FInally found HM’s class.
Where do I enroll?