The Senate passed a budget resolution that allows for tax cuts, opening the door for a filibusterer proof tax reform bill in the future. Rand Paul was the only dissenting Republican vote.
A preschool teacher shows off her student’s very cute Lego projects depicting intersectionality, wait, no she’s a college professor, a college professor had her college students build Lego displays and not even with regular Legos, the giant block Legos used by toddlers. I heard she has plans next week to have them finger paint cultural appropriation.
I have to say, I am quite enjoying this leftist witch hunt. The leftist elite is being forced to live by its own supposed morals, and it’s not going so well.
IRS to finally start blocking tax returns that lack Obamacare disclosures.
John Kelly slaps down Congresswomen Frederica S. Wilson and defends the President. Leading to liberal journalists to very stupidly attack Kelly. It’s like they’re trying to pick fights they can’t only not win, but will get destroyed on.
And here’s your morning song.
“A preschool teacher shows off her student’s very cute Lego projects depicting intersectionality, wait, no she’s a college professor, a college professor had her college students build Lego displays and not even with regular Legos, the giant block Legos used by toddlers. I heard she has plans next week to have them finger paint cultural appropriation.” but they be woke now so all good
I showed this to my wife yesterday and she says “what is intersectionality?” I told her that if she hers anyone use that word, have nothing to do with them.
I believe I am doing this patriarchy thing correctly.
“Intersectionality” is a way of appropriating other people’s victim cred for your own personal aggrandizement in a scheme wherein the most pathetic whiner and people who claim the most degrees of deviance from straight white cismales accumulate more points.
It is designed to cause any system infected with it to fail catastrophically.
Sadly it was not nipped in the bud… With napalm preferably
I told her it was from people who major in gender and racial studies stuff. Nothing more was needed.
It’s logrolling. That’s all it is.
Cherrypickinality/Dismisscisetionality
Pretty good – but did you tell her to go make you a sammich too?
-1 ENB. Now, to tweet what you said for all future employers to see, so they won’t hire you.
I showed this to my wife yesterday and she says “what is intersectionality?”
It’s a term used by con artists to separate the stupid or naive from their money.
Q: What is intersectionality?
A: Horseshit.
Did you mansplain intersectionality to your wife? SHITLORD. I bet you even put a ring on her hand, signifying your ownership of her.
I heard she has plans next week to have them finger paint cultural appropriation.
With their own feces, no doubt.
Menstrual blood and semen.
Semen is so 90s partriarchical.
Way to other people without fingers, ableist.
I think this is why they keep harping about this stuff because it goes on in their lives and can only assume it is going on every where else to.
I was just about to make this same comment. No wonder they can’t leave anyone alone.
I think that’s a huge part of it. I think it’s also a bit of deflection. If you can load the public consciousness with metoo hashtags, the fact that the actual pattern that emerges seems to skew left gets lost in the background noise.
It’s the same with the gun grabbers. They are so worried about their own impulse control. You can read it in their screeds: “if I were pushed like that and had a gun, I’d shoot the person who upset me” and bullshit like that. They want to have my guns taken away because they assume I’m as irrational and incapable of handling adversity as they are.
Well they can fuck right off with that shit. If they come for my guns I’ll kill every motherfucking one of them.
/sarc
Well they can fuck right off with that shit. If they come for my guns I’ll kill every motherfucking one of them.
No sarc.
Goddamn right.
If I wasn’t on a list before, I sure am now!
Well I gotta make sure Preet isn’t looking over my shoulder.
The Trumputin fired Preet. You’re safe now Sloop.
No, that only made it worse. It means Preet is loose and might actually be behind Sloopy right now!
The call’s coming from inside the house!!!
/crazy diner chick from Pulp Fiction
People with actual virtue don’t need to virtue signal.
And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted
“John Kelly slaps down Congresswomen Frederica S. Wilson and defends the President. Leading to liberal journalists to very stupidly attack Kelly. ” I have no idea who these people are so no comment
Translation:
“BadAssWhiteHouseChiefofStaff slaps down Congresswomen CowGirl and defends the OrangeJesus. Leading to CryBabies to very stupidly attack TheirDaddy. ”
Congresswomen Frederica S. Wilson is the cowboy-hat-wearing idiot who attacked Trump for making a condolence call to a fallen soldier’s family. General Kelly is Trump’s chief of staff who was on the Trump end of the call and slapped down Wilson’s idiotic version of events. The media is now attacking Kelly, while still avoiding any mention of the Uranium One scandal.
What drives me crazy is how they accuse Trump of politicising something sacred. (CNN said that almost word for word). It is clear to me that this [expletive redacted] instigated this all for her own aggrandizement.
Yeah, the idiot Wilson makes a statement about how awful Trump was to the family, and when Trump denies it they accuse Trump of politicizing it. They don’t even bother trying to hide the fact that they are just leftist propagandists.
I can tell you how this is playing in the “we don’t listen to Rush Limbaugh” world, because I have a wife.
She’s all over this story. And she is disgusted with Trump.
“Why would he even say anything?? What is wrong with him? Just keep your mouth shut! Why does he have to keep tweeting about people like this? Someone’s kid died, and he’s tweeting about it? ”
The “Democrat Congresswoman makes cynical political capitulation and tries to use dead soldier’s family as a pawn” is not part of the narrative. Neither is “nakedly racist congresswoman attempts to shift to racebaiting politics to take on Kelly and Trump”.
“Trump is an idiot and an ass and is completely insensitive to military families” is the official narrative. So for folks who “follow” these stories but don’t dig deeper, that’s the story they get.
“avoiding any mention of the Uranium One scandal.”
There is the heart of it.
Uranium One scandal, what’s that?…Look over there everyone, Trump said something mean!
/MSM
You cannot forget that detail.
I showed a picture to my wife and she really thought it was faked.
That sentence makes a lot more sense now that i’ve consumed a 5-gallon bucket of paint thinner
Are we allowed to criticize her blatant cultural appropriation of cowboy fashion?
How To Spot A Faux Male Feminist
He calls himself a male feminist… that’s how you spot him
Has anyone studied the correlation between awfulness and male feminists to determine if there is a causal link?
They can’t help but say so.
A guy calling himself a feminist is, by nature, a guy saying he’s committed to a collectivist ideology in which he is the villain and the only interests worth advancing are the interests that are not his own. If a woman is dumb enough to be impressed by that, I really don’t think there’s much you can do to help them.
He makes a pass at the author of this tripe?
She’s got dead eyes, like a doll’s eyes…
She has seen things bro, things you don’t want to know about.
Warships on fire off the shoulder of Orion?
….till she bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white, and then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin’….
Also I have no idea why Larry “Bud” Melman’s glasses became fashionable, but here we are.
The most patronizing, condescending guy I ever went on a date with was this breed of man. He tried to tell me how to play poker (I have been playing for 20+ years). Then when I didn’t want to make out with him said “Oh, you’re just not ready yet” (I had gotten laid the week before). After I didn’t call him, whenever I would see him after that he would say “Oh, you don’t like sensitive new age men!”.
Yeah, if that’s what “sensitive new age men” are like, then he’s 100% correct.
Good thing you never dated Kenny Rogers.
Yep. Two most toxic types of men are the male feminists (RUN!!!) and the yoga asshole (a guy who takes women’s studies classes to meet ‘chicks’).
Why wouldn’t I go to yoga again if I was single? Its full of fit women in yoga pants and a good workout if you go to the right kind.
There are guys who do yoga, and there are yoga assholes. Do yoga, don’t be a yoga asshole.
There are guys who take women’s studies classes to meet women, and yoga assholes who take such classes to meet ‘chicks’. See the difference?
“No, but obviously you do.”
Thats fucking creepy. I can’t imagine acting like that.
Very creepy. He clearly sees women as childlike and needing of guidance from a know-it-all asshole dude.
Sweetie let me tell you about know it all assholes. See some dudebros think you cutiepies don’t understand things, and they feel it necessary to help you through your estrognorance by explaining some really very simple concepts in great detail. They have the ability to do this because they have testostderstanding that allows them to comprehend these concepts, and to convey a pale reflection of that comprehension to your chickminds.
I’m reading this in the voice of Zapp Brannigan.
I wrote in the voice of Champ Kind
He’s the guy you went on a date with that time who told you how ‘inspiring’ your ‘independence’ was and then gripped your arm so hard it bruised and told you that you were ‘frigid’ when you went back to his place for ‘one drink’.
Regardless of politics, a woman should stay the hell away from anyone who did this, why does she act like this is normal?
“snog you uninvited without asking whether this would be something you’d like.”
How romantic is it to be constantly asking women if you can kiss them? Some women really hate it.
It’s interesting how loudly this sort of person will go on about being polyamorous and the like when in practice their ideology is typically so puritanical and prudish.
And in sports ball links the Lakers proved they are title contenders by utterly crushing the Clippers after the most exciting game of the season so far.
*arches eyebrow*
It’s afternoon in Eastern Europe, Swissy. Excuse our Romanian friend for being obviously inebriated.
A bit much Țuică…that explains it!
I just assumed he sucked the blood out of a drunken Irish tourist’s neck.
Redundant.
Meet Samantha, the sex robot that can be SEDUCED – and the doll’s creators say humans are already falling in love with their machines
Hyper-realistic bonk ‘bot is so attractive that lusty men are falling heads over heels for its computerised charms.
But can she make sammiches and fetch me a beer?
The fridge brings the beer to you, remember?
Oh, yeah.
With those words I was expecting malt flavored Kool Aid Man bursting through the wall. I was.. pleasantly surprised.
Can she file sexual harassment claims? I like my women a little dangerous.
Well, we already have a robot fighting traffic tickets, I’m sure filing sexual harassment claims can’t be more difficult then that.
You wake up the next morning, and she has written on the mirror–with lipstick–“welcome to the world of Aids”.
FTFY
*Edit Fairy Blesses You*
Ah nuts must’ve have the wrong tags for strikethrough.
<s>
Strikethrough</s>They could have given her a better body than fake boobs and chicken legs.
Well, in fairness those boobs were gonna be fake, regardless. I mean…. unless you…. wait… you didn’t think they would… ?
Speaking of leftist purges
Vox Media Fires Editorial Director Lockhart Steele Over Sexual Misconduct
https://www.mediaite.com/online/vox-media-fires-editorial-director-lockhart-steele-over-sexual-misconduct/
I only link this cause I like the name
Also
Also
A political correspondent has had his contract with GQ magazine terminated after a number of allegations surfaced online.
A statement from the magazine said: “Having been made aware of some allegations against Rupert Myers, British GQ can confirm that it has terminated its freelance agreement with him, with immediate effect. He is no longer GQ’s political correspondent.”
Mr Myers, who has written for publications including The Independent, The Guardian and The Times, appears to have deactivated his Twitter account.
Guess what kind of subjects he touched in Guardian articles…
Ones that didn’t want to be touched apparently.
*applause*
Brendan O’Neil wrote about this at Spiked. The mob really does seem to have decided that making an unwanted advance on a woman is grounds for demonisation. They won’t do anything but ruin lives and spoil institutions, while congratulating themselves on being “on the right side of history.”
Purging names on a list? Yup. Sounds about right.
Oh, I’ve got a little list!
Because it was in the pool?
+ 1 Hihn.
Who are the top 10 glib fascists?
I am at least #9!
/goosesteps around room
You’re on the list bully.
Remington is so ashamed of his younger brother’s less suave antics.
beat me to it 🙁
What about his brother from another mother, Lexington?
I rarely get Banjo Links! Yeehaw!
Three-Legged Bear Caught on Trail Cam in Bluff Creek, Site of the Famous Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot Film
STEVE SMITH HAVE THIRD LEG, IF YOU KNOW WHAT STEVE SMITH MEAN!
AND ONE LONGER THAN OTHER TWO…
LADIES.
Perfect followup. Good job, Swiss!
You know, I’ve grown accustomed to hearing about “Trump Derangement Syndrome” or TDS. And I’ve had a good chuckle. And I’ve always kind of thought of it as just an irrational hatred of anything Trump says or does. But, I’m really starting to think it might be an actual derangement. I mean, when reporters who’ve been or been groomed to cover politics for years decide they want to try to attack a hero Marine general, you know they’re ignoring just basic common sense.
While deciding to believe the word of a known wacko and liar who is a proven racist and Trump hater over the word of the hero Marine general.
It’s hard to believe that they can actually be this stupid.
Anyone who dresses like she does should be ignored until they’re inevitably institutionalized.
Are you talking about the Marine general?
I assume her headgear is what inspired your change to a Turd Ferguson picture?
I refuse to refer to her by any name other than Whiplash.
Love it.
This whole episode is typical of the left’s attacks on Trump. Trump says something in clunky English, the media and Dems try to convince the public of some asinine interpretation that makes him sound evil. “Let them eat cake” managed to survive despite not being said in the way they make it out to be.
Unfortunately, so did “you can’t shout fire in a crowded theatre.”
Interesting story about that
concerning the preacher, Charles Spurgeon:
“…tragedy struck on 19 October 1856, as Spurgeon was preaching at the Surrey Gardens Music Hall for the first time. Someone in the crowd yelled, “Fire!” The ensuing panic and stampede left several dead. Spurgeon was emotionally devastated by the event and it had a sobering influence on his life. He struggled against depression for many years and spoke of being moved to tears for no reason known to himself.”
But was there actually a fire?
the media and Dems
Isn’t that redundant?
From Reason
NewscomCities hoping to host Amazon’s second corporate headquarters have until Thursday to submit their bids. More than 50 jurisdictions have jumped at the opportunity already, promising increasingly extravagant incentives to the e-commerce company.
https://reason.com/blog/2017/10/18/seattle-to-amazon-dont-leave-me-baby
How is this normal, cities bidding for corporations? How is it normal to create shitty business enviroment and then give special breaks to special intersts.
It has become more normal over the past…15-20 years. My state, Illinois, has fallen into doing this for at least 12 years now.
Nobody wants to make the observation that maybe you just need to have a good business climate, low taxes and regulation and businesses will come to you, bribery free.
“Son, that’s Austin.”
States do it to.
It’s been going on for a long time. In general, the special breaks are supposed to be temporary, in order to attract the company in. Then once they’re already in the city, you can trust them to not move once the temporary tax breaks end, it’s not like other cities aren’t already offering competing deals. It’s the worst of both worlds, terrible business environment and special political favors.
It’s normal because the equal protection clause is dead.
Seriously, how can they just rebate taxes or make set asides applicable to a specific company without running afoul of the law? It’s horseshit.
Look, the constitution was written like a hundred years ago by old white men who owned slaves, so it doesn’t count anymore.
And those old farts *definitely* didn’t have Prime two-day shipping.
And anything to do with Amazon meant being eaten by cannibals.
+1 Lost City of Z
Years ago, I had an interview at DR in Vermont. I asked them if the state gave them incentives to stay in VT. They said yes. I didn’t really want the job after that (they didn’t want me, either).
We don’t have a prayer, but for some reason a lot of people around here think we do. It’s really pathetic.
I regularly see adds about how New York is willing to set aside their business-crushing taxes and regulations for a few years for anyone foolish enough to locate their business there. Most are laughable – one touts the convenience of Easypass – as if automatically taking your money is a big feature.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/rock-drops-amazon-bid-ad-us-50592387
Little Rock says, “No Thanks.” They didn’t stand a chance anyway, but I still think it’s funny.
This is why I give Lefties a smackdown whenever they use some situation in the United States as proof that laissez-faire doesn’t work. We have a hodge-podge of Mussolini-style corporatism and socialism with a few pockets of laissez-faire here and there.
How is it normal to create shitty business enviroment and then give special breaks to special intersts.
Because as much as its shitty economics, it’s great politics. A good basic business environment doesn’t get you much attention. You aren’t the one who got the business to move there. They just it on their own. The business that opens or moves to your city because it has a good basic business environment doesn’t owe you anything. They can tell you to pound sand. You don’t get to decide which businesses come and thrive in your city when you have a good, basic business environment. Just as much as it could be sexy companies that give you bragging rights like Apple or Amazon, it could be something embarrassing like a company that makes urinal cakes or distributes office supplies.
Hey! Xerox was the pride and joy of Rochester (next to Kodak) for ages.
Admittedly, by the time I worked there it was kind of a limping carcass of a company…
Yeah, but at that time Xerox was considered a tech company.
From my town. Includes an appearance by… Reason!
http://www.denverpost.com/2017/10/18/amazon-headquarters-denver-locals-dont-want-it/
Playboy Features First Transgender Playmate
“It’s the most beautiful compliment I’ve ever received,” Rau said of becoming a playmate. “It’s like getting a giant bouquet of roses.”
like a whole rose garden
With milkweeds.
And a big statue right in the middle.
*prolonged ovation*
Every rose has it’s thorns.
I’ll be back doing links next week.
For our canuckistani brethren:
http://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/21080555/nhl-bring-back-infamous-glow-puck
What if Banjos and Company do a great job? Wally Pipp anyone?
🙂
What do you mean, ‘What if’?
Banjos should obviously be put in charge!
I consider myself a hockey purist. I played since I was a kid. I make regular visits to the Hockey Hall of Fame. In other words, I’m the kind of person who should hate the glowing puck.
I’m not.
The puck came out around the time Denver stole…I mean acquired….their team. My wife at the time had never seen a game before that. When I took her on opening day, she was lost and confused. On TV, however, she was able to follow because of the glowing puck. It made her a hockey fan.
I would even take it a step farther. Look at how video games show the action. You see the player name and number when they have the puck. Why not do that on television? People don’t get invested in hockey because they have trouble following which player is which. Helmets obscure the players, and obscure the storylines they have throughout the game. Technology could change that. Better yet, with so many channels, internet options and bandwidth, you could have the game either appear in “classic mode” or “enhanced viewing mode” depending on preference.
Seconded. I hated hockey as a kid because I had no clue what was happening. But I watched a game for the novelty during the brief glow puck era and I started to kinda get was going on. It interested me enough to at least rent a hockey video game and then I learned a bit more. And now I actually like hockey.
Yeah, I’m with you two. The yard to gain marker in football is awesome, as is the FG range line. Pitchtracker in MLB is awesome. Not to mention shot tracking is the only way one can watch a British Open and have a clue wtf is going on. And it’s basically the same tech as the glow puck, but all grown up.
Time to bring back the glow puck. It’ll help casual fans become serious fans and it’ll bring new fans in and make them casual fans.
Im not a big hockey fan or anything, so I doubt I count, but I hate the glow puck. I learned to watch the players not the puck to know what was going on.
The glow puck distracted me from the game.
The first down line, otoh, is genius. The FG line is annoying because coaches obviously ignore it all the time. It isn’t a good enough estimate, unlike the first down line.
On the gripping hand, I would let pitchtracker call balls and strikes and relieve the umps of that duty, as humans are physically incapable of doing it.
On the gripping hand, I would let pitchtracker call balls and strikes and relieve the umps of that duty, as humans are physically incapable of doing it.
Never happen. Umps tightening and loosening the strikezone for star pitchers/hitters is too integral to the game.
The goddamned thing is the same size for Altuve and Judge.
It ain’t calibrated properly and it just introduces another opportunity for advanced cheating.
It’s really irritating to see a pitch across Judge’s shins consistently called a strike.
Calling balls and strikes with a computer is even easier…. you only need 3 cameras. One directly above, one each to the left and right (to cover leftie and rightie batters).
Someone in the booth can set the knees and chest markers and that’s it.
The strike zone would be a lot bigger top to bottom, and a lot smaller in and out. Batters would be able to predict the strike zone much more effectively, so it would even out in terms of advantage.
I say bring out the ump-bot. It would be great to see the high strike come back into the game, and get rid of the strike “on the outside corner at the knees” that is 3 inches outside the plate and down around the shins.
“Someone in the booth can set the knees and chest markers and that’s it.”
So, just like the umpire does now.
You actually want to make the job MORE complicated just for the illusion of increased quality. Might as well put the TSA in charge.
???
Setting the knees and chest markers could be done preseason or whenever for each player. Or on the fly. That isn’t the hard part. The hard part is judging whether a 100 mph object is passing just inside or just outside the line.
That is what a computer can do.
I just figured you’d put infrared reflectors on the uniforms at key points, the cameras would see them, the crowds would not, and these would allow the computer to dynamically spot the strike zone.
The glow puck is stupid and essentially pointless in the widescreen TV age.
In the days before high-def, anything to help see the puck was great. Today, I don’t see the need. I would like to see more camera angles from the corners on breakouts, though – it’s cool to see the play developing and the speed that these dudes are capable of.
Eh. The glow puck made sense in the 90s; if you’re watching games in standard def on a 21-inch screen, it really is hard to follow the puck. Nowadays, when you can watch in 4K on a screen twice as big, not so much.
I would introduce a puck that screams each time it’s struck.
And you can vary it with, say, a Homer scream. Or a Yee-Haw! Whatever.
There is only one scream that is worthy.
Thought that was gonna be “Why aren’t I 50 points ahead!”
I was thinking the Howard Dean scream.
It should do the Nancy Kerrigan “Why”.
The victim was stabbed in the eyes and choked with wood. The suspect could get death
Choked with wood, indeed.
*narrows gaze*
His penis identifies as a tree trunk.
Last month, a controversial study about the food choices of elementary school students was retracted for statistical errors and replaced with a new analysis. But the updated version is also seriously flawed, undermining the study’s premise, BuzzFeed News has learned.
Originally published in JAMA Pediatrics in 2012, the study found that children were more likely to choose apples over cookies during lunch when the apples had a sticker of Elmo. Both the original and the replacement claimed that the study included 208 students “ranging from 8 to 11 years old” at seven schools in upstate New York.
But, as confirmed to BuzzFeed News by the leader of the study, Cornell University professor Brian Wansink, the data was actually collected while observing kids 3 to 5 years old.
“We made a mistake in the age group we described in the JAMA article. We mistakenly reported children ranging from 8 to 11 years old; however, the children were actually 3 to 5 years old,” Wansink told BuzzFeed News by email.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/stephaniemlee/who-really-ate-the-apples-though?utm_term=.ttlZ9KEqM#.jyprQzJDm
OMWC makes that mistake a lot too!
That’s not a mistake.
I can understand…3 years olds are so hard to tell apart from 11 year olds!
Three-year-olds are hard to tell from college students.
“Mistakenly”. I’m sure. I don’t see how you could mix up 3-5 with 8-11. Even if the data analysts had no contact with the data collectors, there’s no way 3-5 becomes 8-11 through a typo or hearing error.
Although the conclusions are believable when it is revealed that the ages were 3-5, as that’s young enough to be dumb enough to be distracted from a cookie by a sticker.
I wonder what would happen if they put a cookie monster sticker on the apples?
Professor Freaks Out About ‘Armed Aryan Brotherhood Militia’ That Turns Out to Be Cops.
*Edit Ferry
Can NoSort of Helps Ye*Is there a term for making a mistake that is actually correct?
Whoopsright?
I like it. Coined!
I should let Rose die, but here.
The Night of the Long Knives comes for the BernieBros.
How dare they act like superdelgates! Who do they think they are, superdelegates or something?!?
That will help clear rumors that the DNC may be crooked …
And makes it totally clear Hillary isn’t running again.
If she’s not in prison or the grave she’ll be running again.
I’ll be happy with whichever of those three possibilities comes true, tbh.
Did they have them shot on dark streets during “robberies”?
The list also includes an increase in union representatives and Native Americans, as well as the DNC’s first undocumented superdelegate, which DNC spokesman Michael Tyler emphasized in a statement to Bloomberg. Perez’s picks, he said, “reflect the unprecedented diversity of our party’s coalition.”
Are you fucking kidding me? They aren’t even trying to hide the corruption at this point. They’re either saying that their party should have superdelegates who can’t even vote or they’re (much more likely) flaunting the fact that they view illegals as legitimate voters.
*carefully makes note of “undocumented” delegate name and address*
/ICE
Yeah… funny!
Kinda like the way that “everyone in town” knows where the drug dealer lives…. except the police. And everyone in town knows where the massage parlor with happy endings is….. except the police.
When a big immigration rally happens and there are a few thousand illegals around carrying signs saying they are illegal, you’d think they could find one or two illegals.
But then again, “everyone knows” that the agriculture industry and the construction industry and the restaurant industry are dependent on illegals…. yet somehow all that enforcement we were promised after amnesty II that was going to stem all the draw for illegals just doesn’t seem to find them.
If you want to see the future idiocy of the Dem party then just look to San Francisco. Here they passed illegal alien voting last year after several failed attempts. (But they only get to vote on school board elections and such, they just request the special illegal alien ballot].
They totally won’t be able to get ballots for other elections, including national ones. Because the SF Dems can be trusted.
Prof frets that female students don’t feel oppressed enough
They are pursuing a Masters in Social Work? IQ tests and career counseling are what they need, not more self-actualization.
Eh. Getting an MSW leads to going to work in that field, which is its own hell.
Eh, we could all use a little more self-actualization…
Eh, my sister has an MSW. She works for a hospital in the kidney transplant division. Helps people find resources for home care afterward etc., from the state or from private charities.
Ahem… *holds hand out*
How’d that heal up? Any long term effects?
Well, he is missing a kidney.
On the plus side, Swiss can feel it every time the recipient plays with himself
No kidding – once my buddy recovered and got back to work…one day he quipped back at someone, and they stood there shocked and said “you never used to trash talk before!” And he recovered his taste for beer, quite quickly. So I like to think he got a couple of bonus features.
Yeah, my system cannot clear creatinine well enough for me to keep lifting like I am…that bums me out. Oh, and no Aspirin, ibuprofen or naproxin. And I had to finally retire from rugby.
It was totally worth it.
It’s good that she found work.
Our College of Social Work did a post-grad survey and found that the average grad only worked in a related field (a very broad category for the purposes of that survey) for 18 months, the lowest of all the colleges.
Yea, some social workers end up in privately run halfway houses. Nursing homes and assisted living facilities also employ them as people who help the geezers and biddies keep their affairs in order.
At the prison, a lot of the mental health staff were social workers. From what I hear, the pay was pretty bad for something that requires a master’s degree. Heck, I made more than that when I was an assistant supervisor at an auto parts factory.
Eh, I have no real opinion on these broads other than to note that more men are needed in this area of study in the name of diversity. It’s horribly sexist that 94% of the students in this field are chicks.
While we’re at it, can we get more women in mining, logging, commercial fishing, and cab driving? It’s just not fair that men comprise the majority of these dangerous, poorly paid occupations. We won’t have true equality until more women are getting crushed by collapsing tunnels or gutted in chainsaw accidents.
I think UMWA has basically solved the collapsing tunnel thing in America, at least.
Well they just don’t know how oppressed they really are. The students will need some more training to fully understand.
Or
Cristina will hire some male goons to come onto campus and start harassing the coeds to show them how oppressed they are.
“equality, equal opportunities, and respect.”
Your first one precludes you from getting the second and third ones.
“How can we build a punitive political movement without discontents?”
What does a government do when the private sector does something better than they do?
Why, they shut them down.
Think about how much less reading she gets done in a Chariot van.
ALSO! OMWC has a van service that will take you exactly where you don’t want to go!
But you will get there fast!
My personal best is 14 seconds.
EWWW.
The American Letter Mail Company could have told you that.
dammit!
“In an effort to appease a flurry of complaints, the city’s new permit program for private transit vehicles, like Chariot, will focus on keeping the passenger vans out of Muni bus lanes and crosswalks, and from replicating existing transit routes.
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s Board of Directors will consider the new program at its meeting Tuesday. It is expected to cost $250,000 for the agency to enforce the new regulations. Of that, $240,000 — the fee required for fleets of 151 or more vehicles — is expected to come from Chariot, the only major private transit company operating in San Francisco.”
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SF-ponders-new-rules-for-Chariot-and-other-12195826.php
Just like Sloopy mentions above regarding tax breaks and equal protection, something needs to be done to allow business competition.
We have known this since Lysander Spooner v the USPS.
Government: “The private sector just can’t do the jobs that government does! You lowly peons NEED us!”
Private Sector: “Oh look, I’ve found a way to provide a far superior service at half the cost…”
Government: “You can’t do that!! Did you get the proper permits?! We’re shutting you down right now! To, um, protect The People™ of course!”
They could just regulate the price and achieve the same result that caused all the private transit companies to go bankrupt and force the creation of “public” mass transit in the first place.
The government wants to make sure the poor had service and they wound up with exactly that: poor service.
12-foot, 600-Pound Gator Caught Near SC Coast
“Licenses, permits and papers, please”
/DNR cop
These guys sound like cowards. Why didn’t they just wrassle the gator to death?
I larfed.
Did you know you can find out the rules for walking your pet pig on GOV.UK? I bet you didn’t!
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/keeping-a-pet-pig-or-micropig#get-a-licence-to-walk-a-pet-pig?utm_source=govuktwitter
You’re considered to be a pig keeper if you keep a pig or ‘micropig’ as a pet. You have to follow the same regulations as pig farmers.
Register as pig keeper
You can’t keep a pet pig at your home until you get a county parish holding (CPH) number from the Rural Payments Agency (RPA).
You must also tell the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) that you’re keeping pigs, within 30 days of your first pet pig arriving on your land.
APHA will give you a herd mark. Herd marks are 1 or 2 letters followed by 4 digits, such as A1234 or XY9876.
You’ll need this to identify your pig or micropig if you move it from your holding (apart from for walks).
Get a licence to walk a pet pig
You need to get a licence from your APHA to walk your pig outside your home or premises.
Also such info as what you Moving pigs away from your home or premises and What you can feed pigs.
“Land of Hope and Glory”
And in less important things then how to walk your micropig
‘Urgent’ investigation after slab falls off Parliament roof and smashes car
Conservative Will Quince says it is “unthinkable” what could have happened if the large slab had hit someone.
http://news.sky.com/story/urgent-investigation-after-slab-falls-off-parliament-roof-next-to-mps-offices-11088261
I blame Brexit, myself
I thought it was due to austerity.
Unthinkable? I’m thinking it would have smashed them if it was large enough. Given a nasty headache if it was just a piece.
Oh, Merry England!
Amazon- curse, or plague?
“We don’t have enough housing for low-income people especially, but we also just don’t have enough housing,” said Myers, a longtime Seattle housing advocate. “And Amazon obviously impacts both of those things.”
Officials at Bellwether Housing, the city’s largest nonprofit manager of affordable housing, at 2,000 units, report a vacancy rate of 1 percent. “It’s very rare that someone moves out, because they have nowhere else to go,” said chief executive Susan Boyd.
A state analysis of evictions found they were driven not by social problems but by economics. As Amazon’s boom has continued, the city approved a rule this year requiring landlords to accept the first viable renter who applies — rather than cherry-picking a tech worker. The government also adopted an inclusionary zoning policy requiring developers to set aside some new units at below-market rates or pay into a fund to develop other affordable units.
Fucking incentives- how do they work?
It’s a long-winded article about Amazon.
tl;dr- Be careful what you wish for.
Or, now this may be an odd idea, they could drop all that meddling crap that makes it hard to build new housing, let the owners decide who to rent/sell to and let the stock expand organically. You’ll get a sudden burst of building, leading to a small price war and rents will drop, viola, affordable housing.
“Voila” takes too long. Let’s do it their way.
I just thought he wanted to give the poor small violins. Which didn’t make much sense to me but I don’t claim to have studied the issue.
I didn’t know I nedded to be able to spel.
We’re just teasing you, Gilligan. Can’t none of us rite no gud anyways.
They’re actually bigger than violins.
Pedant properly, you shitlord.
So they are just small cellos?
My eyes auto corrected that. Only 10% of people can do that according to FB.
I do it, but only when proofreading myself. 🙁
I don’t believe anything you read on facebook.
Wyh dnot yuo bleieev ayntihgn I raed on fcaeboko?
Some people just dance to a different fiddle.
Straffin has a FuckBook? Hmm
That’s just crazy talk.
Former Boy Scouts, I’d like to hear your thoughts on this article:
http://thefederalist.com/2017/10/20/whats-wrong-boy-scouts-goes-deeper-social-issues-cowardice/
I’ve had my issues with the trend towards “safety” in the Boy Scouts over the past couple of decades.
I remember picking up a copy of the Boy Scout Handbook in the late 90’s and they had added a section on what to do if you think your wrestling opponent is a little too handsy. And they had dropped to the section on how to properly take a shit in the woods.
I was dumbfounded to say the least.
What?
They needed a handbook on how to shit in the woods?
Still my favorite punch line:
In Girl Scouts, they teach us to wash our hands after using the bathroom.
Oh yeah, in Boy Scouts, they teach us not to piss on our hands.
Heard the same joke, only it was Army vs. Marines with the Army washing.
OTHER WAY AROUND!!!
Three servicemen walk into the bathroom and do their business.
Coming out, the soldier wets his hands, lathers them up, scrubs for a while, rinses, dries, and leaves saying “The army teaches us to be thorough”
The sailor turns on the water just long enough to rinse his palms and fingers, and says “The navy teaches us to be efficient.”
The coastie zips up and leaves saying “We’re taught not to piss on our hands.”
I don’t think he’s wrong.
In my mind, the problem with the boy scouts is that it had two conflicting missions over the past fifty years.
One mission was the being a better citizen, becoming an Eagle Scout, being polite, earning merit badges, saying the pledge and all those other things that made the BSA a natural fit for the Mormons.
The other mission was out in the woods, where we would act like savages, play with knives, build fires, fish, learn survival skills, and all that other good stuff.
I always hated the first part. Long meetings, out of touch views on the nature of being a young man, too much attention to the kind of kid who was the first to raise their hand in class and ask for more homework.
The second part was great. Sneaking some booze into the woods. Bull sessions in tents, late into the night talking about girls, which we all pretended to know more about than we actually did. Smoking your first cigarette in the woods. Playing dangerous games with sharp objects. Forming bonds, and making fun of the kids who were so much better at the other part of scouts but were hopeless on long marches.
One part was like the church group, the other like a paramilitary camp.
Eventually, the church meeting part won out.
Lord Baden Powell’s vision for the scouts was very oriented towards doing the cool stuff the military does in the field.
My son is very much into that stuff, but the local cubs and Boy Scouts felt more like the church group so he lost all interest.
Yes – I always hated when we would take a short break from playing with knives, burning stuff, climbing trees, etc and have to work on “advancement”.
I’m sure if I had any boys, I’d care a little more. To me scouting is much more than about camping, and wilderness adventure. It’s an opportunity for young men to learn and be mentored by older men. That’s why you have such a variety of merit badges, because there is a lot to learn, about anything. Just my two cents.
Patriarchy is rampant when men get together. They need to be around women to keep them in order. Now drink your estrogen Big Gulp and like it.
Oh, there is plenty of estrogen around scouting these days. I’m one of the leaders in my son’s den. I am the only man that does anything useful. My wife and another mom do the rest of the work.
I’d say it’s just reflective of the culture. Of course, I was part of a Boy Scout troop where juvenile delinquents were sent to as part of their parole and to avoid juve hall. It led to some… interesting… dynamics in the troop and how other troops interacted with us.
They’ve been progged. Throw dirt on ’em, they’re done.
Yep – the NFL, Playboy, BSA – rest in peace.
The only org we have left is The Rapists.
The issue with most conservatives is that they’re good natured people who trust, who take people at their word.
So when progs say “We would love to join the Scouts, totally. As long as you just change everything about it, then we will join in job lots. All of us. We totally promise.” conservatives take them at their word. They go “maybe we could tone down the religious aspect, we want to be inclusive. Maybe we could let women be leaders, we don’t want to be sexist. Maybe we do need to teach a little bit more about social justice, we don’t want to be racist.” Then next thing you know, all the traditionalist people have formed Trail Life USA, and all the little prog kids that were supposed to fill the new look Boy Scouts are nowhere to be soon.
It’s like when Democrat politicians say “I love the America that can be, if we change everything about it to make it a different country.” When a friend starts dating someone new who wants to change everything about them, we have no problem saying “hey man, if she wants to change every aspect of you, she doesn’t actually love you. She loves her vision of what you should be.”
For decades progressives have articulated their vision of diversity of people as a rainbow of races, colors, and creeds all marching in lockstep toward the glorious prog future. Their vision of diversity of institutions is the same. Sure, we can have all kinds of clubs, businesses, churches, nonprofits, fraternal organizations, all manner of college, etc etc. As long as they all adhere to the vision of the progs.
It’s pretty fair and accurate about Scouts. We went from a more loose structure to a more rigid structure in my troop as our old Scoutmaster retired. In addition (as I have said before here), the unwise decisions we made were amplified by certain other scoutmasters of the female persuasion (belonging to other troops). I’ll admit a 20×20 log cabin fire in a heavily wooded area is probably a bad plan (we had something like 50 gallons of water immediately available to put it out, we weren’t that stupid), but it was amazing. Like I said before, I can imagine 2-4 of the sisters of guys in my troop who would have been all in with us, treated as sisters to us, and likely made Eagle Scout, because they were always with us at any event they could be anyways, and always came on the family camping trips. In addition, they weren’t above helping us out (we had two guys in my patrol that were incompetents at cooking burgers over a fire, so they used the grill and got it greased to the point of caking every time, those assholes. It took us usually 3 hours to clean the stove after those meals, and a few times the sister of one of our guys grabbed a scrub brush to give us a water break and keep up the scrubbing).
There are several alternatives to Boy Scouts that should take advantage of this shit and Make Scouting Great Again*
*- emails White House TRUMP SCOUTS concept.
The TRUMP YOUTH?
The BSA’s brown shirts wouldn’t need a lot of modifying, just an arm-band.
This guy is full of shit.
The former was also an institution that made it vulnerable to kiddy-diddlers. I have a friend who’s little brother was raped in one of those secret society rite-of-passages. Fortunately, the little brother was a Boy Scout that went through the mandatory training, told his parents, and the rapist is in jail last time I checked.
Leave no trace was formalized 60 years ago or so, but its a concept that goes back to FDR’s expansion of federal parks. Also, scouting does not “frown on” killing animals. There is hunting in venture scouts, and any scout leader worth more than a boot full of warm spit knows that the progression is bb gun in cubs, 22 and shotgun in scouts, hunting any any ethical firearm for the task in venture. Trapping is no part of boy scouts and hasn’t been for a while, and for good reason. Its usually illegal for the youngest boys.
No shithead, we say this openly. You don’t think the population center with sky-high absentee fathers, a culture that respects violent response to insults more than self control, etc maybe needs scouting? We are also considering doing away with class A uniforms for new units in the refugee population, on account of the fact that they associate those kinds of uniforms with the people that swoop into town and start macheting people for being in the wrong tribe. Is that a problem too?
In scouting, we run into this kind of asshole sometimes. Everything he does is tougher, grittier, hard than everyone else. And it was always tougher, grittier, and harder when he was a kid. And his dad was always tougher, grittier, and harder than when he was a kid.
In case I need to lay out my credentials again, I’ve been a: Eagle scout, venture scout, Boy Scout Assistant leader, merit badge counselor, camp counselor, Cub Scout den leader, committee chair, district committee member.
One of the field insurance agents that sold products from Protected Life (where my father worked) was a scout leader. Turns out, he molested some boys. How did everyone find out? When one of those boys now an adult showed up and murdered him.
Regular sauna use could slash men’s hypertension risk
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/319610.php
I call bullshit. Overheated and trapped in a box does not calm me down.
Trapped? They have doors you know.
I like a nice sauna.
It combines three awful things – heat, sweat, and sitting around being useless.
Like the ugly girl in a MFF threesome.
It has been my experience* that the ugly girl tries harder to please, which can make up for a lot of ugliness.
*has not had this experience**
**sigh**
I agree Uncivil, and no one needs to see you in a bath towel.
*chokes on coffee, clears airway and begins hysterical laughter*
What goes on in the sauna, stays in the sauna.
I went to that YMCA once.
ONCE.
The methodology is also wrong for making that claim.
They took a look at existing behaviour. Thus finding that men who spend more time relaxing have lower blood pressure.
If you wanted to isolate the effects of saunas per se, you’d have to run the study a bit differently.
from the story recap at the beginning of the article.
Relaxing activities reduce blood pressure, thanks for the pro tip.
For me, Sauna >>> Steam Room. I can’t f-ing breathe in a steam room.
I love both, but I typically don’t go. Not a fan of obese old man spreading, exposing ballbag.
I guess you can’t help that you’re insane. I bet you like deep dish and smooth peanut butter.
*readies curare dart*
None of these goddamn words make any fucking sense whatsoever and we are all going to die horribly.
The Legendary Doctor Who Story Still Yearning to Be Told Nearly 40 Years Later
I knew where that article was from before I looked at the URL.
It’s my favorite hate-read, bruh.
It made sense to me.
Regular sauna use could slash men’s hypertension risk
I wish I had a sauna. Flushing all those toxins I have been busily accumulating out of my system would be helpful.
Could those toxins be what causes you to maintain your fight against threading?
Just go to your local Scientology facility – they’ll hook you up with the very scientific “Purification Rundown”.
Or some essential oils consultant.
The original ending sounds better than what I remember seeing. I guess I can thank Trump for finally getting it released.
Can “in this new political climate” be added to your garbage and then it will be taken seriously by the media?
Isn’t it ironic that Trump, most of the time, sounds like an incredibly positive person?
None of these goddamn words make any fucking sense whatsoever
I’m sure as Hell not going to “whitelist” io9 to read that crap.
Here. Bonus is that you don’t have to give a click to the Gawker network.
https://archive.fo/rQ1A3
Discovery of 50km cave raises hopes for human colonisation of moon
Japan says lunar chasm measuring 50km long and 100 metres wide could be used as a base for astronauts and their equipment
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/oct/19/lunar-cave-discovery-raises-hopes-for-human-colonisation-of-moon
The chasm, 50km (31 miles) long and 100 metres wide, appears to be structurally sound and its rocks may contain ice or water deposits that could be turned into fuel, according to data sent back by the orbiter, nicknamed Kaguya after the moon princess in a Japanese fairytale.
DON’T GO IN THERE!!!
That’s no moon ….. chasm.
Fun times yesterday in the Everton v. Lyon Europa League Match. Players get into a fight, random fan (holding a kid!) walks up and starts pushing/punching the Lyon players
https://streamable.com/quscq
Saw that. Williams was wrong and UEFA needs to come down hard on Everton. Wouldn’t surprise me if they have to forfeit 3 points. What boorish behaviour.
The original incident/brawl
https://streamable.com/l4kx7
(Williams should’ve been red carded. He scored two minutes later. Everton still lost, because there is justice in the world)
I like that they’re all of a sudden like “whoa, whoa, we were play fighting and what the fuck is this?”
Lyon players did the right thing. In hockey you can’t breath on the goalie crooked; and sprinkle snow on him and you’re done.
It’s a shame Williams didn’t get clocked.
Oh, I got no problem with the Lyons players. I just think its funny that when the fan comes in, everyone is done fighting. Like, we’re having a really serious fight, and then this guy throws a punch and we’re looking for the ref.
BBC reporting that Everton have banned the fan from their games and turned video footage over to the cops.
Hierarchical Recursive Organization and the Free Energy Principle: From Biological Self-Organization to the Psychoanalytic Mind.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29038652?dopt=Abstract
I’m gonna need a mulatto to explain that to me.
We have the best mulattos, don’t we folks?
A Heroic one at that!
Can’t tell if word salad, or actually intelligent article.
The more obfuscated the content, the lower the chances it’s anything but word salad.
Is it Hertzian or Euclidean?
Pet peeve: the term “rate of speed”
Sounds like someone just got a ticket in a Southern town.
“Son, did you know you were travelin’ at a high rate of speed?”
Could just as well be Nebraska or Kansas
Illinois too.
Roads too shitty to ever achieve an actual high rate of speed.
Uncle Sugar has fixed some of the interstates….some wealthier suburbs do keep up too.
I’m less bothered by that than being asked to “Do the needful” by consultants. It’s terribly inappropriate.
They get away with that at a workplace?
I have never heard that until just now. Good heavens
My reaction
I’m still fighting the IMPACTFUL Wars and losing badly.
Hey, at least the WAR on “Efforting” appears to be won.
Is the line of people queuing for the ATM machine moving at a slow rate of speed?
The line of people is lined up for the aromatic teller machine machine at a slow acceleration. Yes.
I’m assuming it’s a good scent, if they’re lining up for it…
Hmm… A vending machine for perfume and cologne… swipe your card and get maced by Axe…
^_____^
Would not line up for that.
It’s probably because they forgot their PIN numbers.
“Bosco”
Cub Scout booted for “just asking questions” ? Headline refers to gun control questions, but no mention of the alleged gun control query in the article. However, RACIST.
“Decisions about who is in or out of a den are internal organizational matters that I won’t second guess,” Marble, majority caucus chair, said Wednesday night in an email to The Post. “I don’t blame the boy for asking the questions, since I believe there was an element of manipulation involved, and it wasn’t much different from the questions I normally field in other meetings. The invitation to meet with the scouts was never intended to cause friction and controversy.”
Prior to the den meeting, Ames researched Marble, his mother said, as the Scouts knew she would be speaking. Ames formulated the questions he would ask, she said.
“The only coaching I gave him was to be respectful,” Mayfield said. “Don’t be argumentative, preface things ‘with all due respect.’”
I suspect the kid’s mom is completely full of shit about the coaching.
I hate everyone involved.
Dilly Dilly!
(okay, I hate that stupid commercial but didn’t feel like typing ‘hear! hear!”)
Dilly Dilly!
When you preface things with ‘with all due respect.’ the words following probably aren’t.
Old, but relevant.
I thought you’d be linking to this bit from Mass Effect:
https://youtu.be/J6vJcOkKWFo
With all due respect, is your Mom a whore?
Hey yall we found Jeff Ireland.
I do too.
I fucking hate news articles that are written like this. They couldn’t have done more to obfuscate what is going on. Hard to tell if they are pushing an agenda, or just incompetent.
This was on my local news. The question on guns read by this precocious 11-year-old went something to the tune of “How can you call owning a gun a right while having health care is a privilege?” was embedded in a longer piece he read. The gullible newsreader says something like: “You may think this was just a parent using a kid for political purposes, but the mom says otherwise.” Mom: “I just helped him turn on the printer.”
Bull. Shit.
The kid is more likely to be the one who knows how the printer works.
Ha. True.
Another article about the inquisitive cub scout with the gun question.
When it was Ames’ turn, he asked: “An issue that I’m concerned about is common sense gun control. I was shocked that you co-sponsored a bill to allow domestic violence offender to continue to own a gun. … Why on Earth would you want somebody who beats their wife to have access to a gun?”
Sorry, not believing the little weasel came up with that on his own. But he got a nice shout-out from Gabby Giffords, so he’ll go far.
Yeah, that’s not the kind of issue a kid thinks about at that age.
Well they SHOULD be thinking about that! /Prog
Or how he would phrase the question. It does sound exactly like something a gun grabbing soccer mom would say though.
And clearly, the gun grabbing soccer mom has never been in an abusive situation where her recourse would be to acquire a firearm to defend herself and her son. That is literally the worst kind of mom in scouting. Kid is full on indoctrinated progtard, mom is helicoptering, but won’t volunteer. I hate those people.
They are probably better off without her volunteering.
“common sense gun control” is very typical of the speech of fifth graders?
BTW, this kid is 11 years old at the beginning of his fifth grade year? Not too bright, I assume?
depends on the deadline I guess. My kid (3rd grade) went to a couple of classmates’ 9th birthday parties last month.
My son turned 9 in 3rd grade, but not until March.
I know some of the people around here intentionally hold their kids back in pre-K after nursery school because they think it will make them more of a high achiever.
Mine will turn 9 in April.
I think the deadline here is September 1, so they’ll be “older” early in the year.
I know some of the people around here intentionally hold their kids back
I did the opposite and had my daughter test into K. I reasoned that is one less year that I have to have her in my house.
Typically boys are the ones to be postponed on enrolling as they are boys and are wild crazy, and the longer you wait to put them in school the more time they have to settle down a little bit and be ready for the institution that is public education.
My parents started me in school early – I was 16 at the start of my senior year. It sucked ass being the youngest by a fair bit.
He was born nine-months premature.
Fuck the guy for not having an answer for that. I’ve got one for it, because I actually argue this shit with people.
“This is a free country. In a free country, we only deprive people of their rights through due process of law. A convicted felon loses their gun rights. Someone who has been served with a restraining order is not a convicted felon. In addition, the idea that someone who wants to commit murder, in violation of the law, will be stopped by a gun control law, is the dumbest form of wishful thinking there is in American politics. People who set out to commit murder are not going to be stopped by any law, because there’s no law they can violate that’s worse than murder.
Now, kid, do I need to repeat that so your proggy mom can hear it, or do you think you can relay it to her?”
The kicker is that the mom recorded her son’s portion of the Q&A and put it on youtube. But she totally didn’t coach him. Nope.
Florida Man – Awarded $37,500 After Cops Mistake Glazed Doughnut Crumbs For Meth
Cops mistaking donut crumbs? UNPOSSIBLE.
Yeah, they are going to get laughed out of the precinct house if true!
At the bottom of the article it says:
With the lawsuit behind him, Rushing’s next step is getting his record expunged. He says he would like to find more work in security — but it’s been hard to get business with a record showing an arrest for possession of meth while armed.
That whole article is infuriating, but that sentence really ticks me off. If the cops fuck up (which they did) YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE TO FIGHT TO GET IT OFF YOUR RECORD!
This guy’s only real mistake was trusting the cops.
Expungements are bullshit. Any kind of government agency can ask if you’ve ever been arrested and failing to answer truthfully (because it’s expunged) can be used against you.
I may have seen an expungement order that explicitly stated that it is not perjury to say that you have not been arrested and that it cannot be used against you by law enforcement if you deny having been arrested.
Really? I wonder how that holds up against agencies (like for security investigations or Global Entry) that demand complete disclosure of any such arrests, even if later expunged. They don’t refer you for criminal prosecution (perjury), they just won’t give you positive action on your administrative request.
Hey Rufus:
I drove by two accidents on my way to work this morning.
Both of them involved a car with a Quebec license plate.
Florida drivers are already the worst, and then add Quebecois into it and you’re lucky if your car makes it through a day.
“The leftist elite is being forced to live by its own supposed morals, and it’s not going so well.”
Bill Clinton has to be getting nervous. He probably realizes he’s no longer useful.
The fact that he hasn’t been hung out to dry is more evidence that Hillary is planning to run again.
Why? She doesn’t need him to visit all 39 states.
I don’t think even the Clintons can survive 2020. All of their illegal Foundation shit would be at risk, and there’s a lot more burn through of inconvenient news than there was even in 2008.
No eleven year old on earth came up with that shit on his own.
Is that a question, cause there was a lot of editorial assertion there.
That’s some special sauce parental indoctrination, right there. That parent needs to have their children taken away and raised as wards of the state, for filling their head with toxic ideology.
God damn that makes me hungry. I wish I was black.
Only black people eat fried chicken and barbecue. It is known.
The black people loving fried chicken, watermelon, and grape soda thing makes no sense. Of course they do! Everyone does.
If only I could fry without destroying everything in a three block radius.
This. It’s like making fun of someone because they enjoy having sex.
That was one of my favorite meals when I lived in NC.
Don’t forget the hush puppies and sweet tea.
I think you have to grow up drinking sweet tea to like it. My teeth literally hurt when I drink it.
That’s more likely an issue with your teeth rather than lack of acclimation – have you told your dentist?
UCS enjoys a thing? What a day!
I didn’t grow up with it, but after being stationed in NC for 9 yrs I now HATE going to restaurants and hearing “we have unsweetened, and sugar packets”.
It’s not the same, man, it’s not the same.
Yeah, keep stirring the iced tea. The sugar will not dissolve into that cold, cold beverage.
I love sweet tea.
Proper sweet tea is made by super-saturation, but…
I had sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet tea in an Atlanta soul food place that nearly put me into a diabetic coma upon the first sip.
Sweeter than pure sugar. I don’t know how they got it like that.
About ten years ago I was working in rural Alabama. In addition to a coffee service at our store, we also had an iced tea service. There was this crusty old mechanic who would get there earliest every day and make the tea, and that guy must have used an entire one pound bag of sugar in every batch. A spoon could stand straight up in that stuff. I couldn’t drink it.
Not without years of knowing exactly what mom wants to hear.
i don’t see why barbecue would cause poor health. meat is good
Ignore the first paragraph and this is a pretty good article on another fucked up Latin American government (Bolivia) and Evo Morales’ attempt to cling to power
Where is my shocked face, I know I left it around here somewhere…
I remember when I was in college, Evo Morales was all the hotness among the Marxist professors. Chavez was still alive (this was 2010) but the veneer was wearing thin. There were glowing hagiographies about how humble Morales was, how in touch he was with the people, etc. Typical communist bullshit.
Liberals Try To Connect With Normal Americans And It Goes Poorly
Satire, sort of.
Just so someone else can feel my pain:
This was written by someone with some college education, who’s been promoted at least once. I believe I work with people who rival George.
If you read it in Yoda’s voice it makes more sense.
Why did you link to that, I was “havening” a problem not laughing loudly and that didn’t not help.
Is this from BBC Pidgin?
*opera applause*
Nope. A ticket logged by one of our help desk senior agents. My supervisor’s response to me bringing up issues like this was: “Your complaints are valid, but nothing’s going to change.”
Go to the George link, and it will make sense.
There goes the rest of my morning.
Like any of us work anyways.
Sounds like your ticketing system needs sepll check.
It does, which adds its own special problems. Every watch an auto-correct change someone’s username to a different word? Especially when the company standard is first initial and last name? And you have an employee with the last name of Nigro, and a first name that starts with an A?
“It says the user’s a….”
Nigel?
Near?
Her hole area can receive stuff, I’ve heard.
http://imgur.com/0VFWijT
sky on the drive home this morning.
Your sky was kinda grainy.
Your personality is kinda grainy. And by grainy, I mean killjoy.
You could’ve gone with “cake” instead of personality.
Cake by the ocean?
This is false:
UCS does not have a personality.
The personality core had to be removed due to problems with voltage inconsistancies across the midplane. Unfortunately, this did not solve the issue of the Sarcasm detector failing repeatedly.
Nice.
I’ve lived all over. Arizona has consistently the most awesome mornings and sunsets.
I wonder sometimes, why we can’t have nice things anymore.
What truly sets us apart from the beasts, an appreciation of fine art and boobs.
http://archive.is/1wcWH
Raise my taxes
The real problem with our economy is that we are concentrating wealth in the hands of people who aren’t spending or investing it, while starving working- and middle-class Americans of the ability to invest in themselves—not to mention sapping the consumer spending power that accounts for 70 percent of GDP. We rich Americans may not all be idle, but these days, much of our money is—and you will not get it flowing back through the economy again by cutting our taxes even further. I already earn about 1,000 times more per hour than the average American, but I couldn’t possibly buy 1,000 times more stuff. I only own so many pairs of pants. My family and I can only eat three meals a day. We enjoy a luxurious lifestyle, but we already own several houses, a private jet and one too many yachts (turns out, the optimal number is two). Cutting our taxes will make us richer, but it won’t incentivize me or my venture capital partners to spend or invest more than we already do. What’s holding us back isn’t a shortage of cash, but rather a shortage of demand—from you.
———
More importantly, what our economy needs now, at this moment in time, is a massive reinvestment in expanding and enriching the working and middle classes. Tax the rich to put money back in the hands of the American people, and corporations will expand production and payrolls to meet the resulting spike in consumer demand. Tax the rich to invest in roads, transit, bridges, health care, schools and basic research, and America will rebuild the physical and human infrastructure on which innovation and thus our collective prosperity relies. Tax the rich not just because it is fair, but because experience teaches us that in America fairness and growth always go hand in hand.
Speaking of mumbo jumbo…
There’s no voodoo involved in trickle-up economics. None at all.
If this Hanauer guy really is a “venture capitalist” with more money than he can find uses for, why he isn’t he looking for a way to participate in the desperate need for investment in human capital? And, again, if he lacks the imagination to find a way to get in on it on his own, he can always just send a check for a few hundred million bucks to the Treasury. I’m sure they’d appreciate it.
I don’t think the fiction writer who put this piece together understands how venture capital works. Any successful company one backs would enrich far more working and middle class people than any amount of tax put on that same bloc of funds. Government funded “basic research” gives us studies into the obesity rates of lesbians, not, say, medical treatments.
What a crock of shit. As if the working and middle class were something the government created.
Look, if you are going to insist on putting the horse in front of the cart, we are never going to get anywhere.
Well to be far, government does expand the working class by crushing the middle class downward.
Tax the rich to put money back in the hands of the American people
“back”? Um, that was never their money in the first place.
Yeah. I always get a chuckle when I hear about these ineffectual ‘gun buybacks’ hosted in cities that are trying to get guns off the streets.
The governmemt can’t buy back something they never owned in the first place.
Did this lying motherfucker just claim that Scrooge McDuck actually has a swimming pool full of money? One of the things I hate about the left is that they killed parody.
But imagine how many people worked on the McDuck vault. Jobz
The luxury Yacht tax hurts the people who build yachts, not the rich men who would buy them absent the yacht tax.
Like the global warming alarmists he talks the talk but he doesn’t walk the walk. If he sent in some of his money voluntarily I’d give him an honest listen. I wouldn’t necessarily agree with his proposal but I wouldn’t dismiss it out of hand like I’m doing now.
People who say raise my taxes should get a couple of masked armed thugs (racist i know) come at their door and say we are here for tax purposes
As I always like to point out, there is not one thing stopping this guy, or any of the “I’m rich and I demand you tax me more!” crowd, from donating as much money as he sees fit to the US Treasury……and yet, he doesn’t do that. Curious, no?
Why would he do that? Then he wouldn’t be able to afford that second yacht.
The plant I where I work is unionized. I joined the union when I hired on because I thought it was the right thing to do. (I had the option not to. This is a right to work state) I didn’t feel like accepting union benefits without paying the dues was very moral.
The guys I work with respect me. A lot apparently. Last night there was a union meeting. (I never attend) At the meeting they nominated officers. They also nominated negotiators for the new contract. Our current contract expires in 2019.
I was nominated to be on the negotiating team. There is a sizable portion of the plant that really wants me to do this. If i accept the nomination, I will for sure be placed on the 4 person team that negotiates the next contract with the company.
This wasn’t something that I really wanted to do. I know I can do it and I may be able to do a better job than most. I’m just not sure if this is something that I really want to do. However, I do feel something of an obligation to. A lot of the guys out there really respect me. That’s a good thing. There are a ton of good people there that I would be proud to represent.
Any of you Glibs have any experience with type of situation?
Wow!
First congrats!
Second, you should do it. Look, there is nothing wrong with negotiating with a client. The union is selling labor services to management. This is an important agreement that if done wrong can hurt everyone, and if done really right can create a wonderful situation for all parties. And you have an opportunity to make that happen (the opportunity to screw up comes with the opportunity to do very well).
Third, I suggest reading “Never split the difference. How to negotiate when your life is on the line.” Its suggestions will, I expect, lead to everyone respecting your actions no matter how the negotiation goes.
I will read that. Thanks Tarran.
I second that book recommendation. It’s an amazing read.
Thanks, I just grabbed the audiobook.
Do it. Worst case you can be a voice of reason in the room, and work out what does actually work best for your people.
My impression of you Lachowsky is that you are an honorable man. I am not sure how well that will square with union negotiating but you cant be anything but a positive to the situation.
My experience with union negotiation isnt very good. They start out asking for all kinds of absurd things, things included in the negotiation as throw-aways, so they can bargain for what they really want. Companies are used to this and expect it. If you show up and start negotiating in good faith the company wont know what to do with you.
My thought on the situation-
The company is probably OK with giving us a little more. (We are the most profitable steel mill my company owns)
The members of my Union want a lot more. That’s not going to happen. Some of the shit I hear from my co-workers is so pie in the sky that Pie would be jealous. I understand this. I think most of my coworkers are reasonable enough to understand that I will be unable to deliver ponies and unicorn farts. I fear that they are not.
If there is one thing that I’m good at, it’s explaining things. That’s part of why my co workers respect me so much. When the equipment in the plant does inexplicable shit, I’m able to explain why it did what it did. When the management of my plant does seemingly inexplicable shit, I can normally explain why they did what they did.
I think the best thing I can do is communicate the truth about the negotiations and why we are considering accepting or not accepting any particular offer. I don’t know how much of a benefit I could actually be as a negotiator. I think know that I could do a hell of a job of laying out the facts of a negotiation and explaining why they are what they are.
Then you would do a great service to your co-workers by just doing what you do and averting resentments.
Thanks. I appreciate the encouragement.
Also understand that no matter what you do, some people will likely be upset with you and your work. It just is.
Ken, there’s no point in arguing with you.
Rand Paul is sincerely trying to make the U.S. a freer country. To be effective, he has to choose what compromises he makes and what principled stands he takes. There is no objective way to calculate what to do when. It’s a bunch of messy judgement calls.
He’s made a judgement call you disagree with.
You hate him and think he’s an evil fuck because his judgement of how to navigate the mess that is DC differs from yours.
You are unwilling to say it’s a mistake or that he made a reasonable judgement call that you disagree with.
No, for you, it’s a huge moral failing. Full stop.
That’s what takes you from having a strongly held position disagreeing with Paul to engaging in histrionics.
Just a word of warning, it was Tulpa’s promiscuous engaging of a similar sort of condemnation (everyone who disagrees with me is an evil,stupid fuck) that caused people to start blocking him, and eventually made him a persona-non-grata.
Now, I could be wrong. And you could easily prove me wrong. All you have to say is that it’s possible that Paul sincerely wants to advance freedom but has miscalculated. 😉
Sorry. That reply was supposed to appear below. Not sure how it ended up here.
Gimore’d scale 10/10
Eh, it goes both way. Both sides will throw shit in that they’re happy to give up. Then the real negotiation can begin.
Get your people’s priorities, keep them as informed as you can. Be honest.
Yeah, I’ve done the negotiation thing many times…
Caption contest
“I’ve got three goats and an AK-47, do you think America make me a warlord?”
“Can the Goats reload the AK-47s?”
Why American squint so much?
*WIN*
“You should have made that left turn at Albuquerque, this road leads to Kandahar.”
“هذا ليس تعويضا ؟؟”
I never knew you were a viking. (PS, an update on that – apparently the squiggle purportedly resembled a text form which was not invented until five hundred years after the garment was buried. So apparently Vikings are time travellers too!)
Huffing paint thinner or concussed?
Me? I’m just missing several key components from my central processing matrix.
YOU’LL TAKE THE $40,000 AND BUILD ME A GRADE SCHOOL, GOT IT?!
Nice hats.
The Pashtun (who did not wear pakol) used to call the Tadjiks “Penis Heads” ’cause of the hats.
“I heard you infidels have stashed away some unclean alcohol which Allah has forbidden!
… do you have any left?”
I had never heard of Johnny Walker Green Label, until an Afghan contractor/warlord/militia commander offered me some one day.
STEVE SMITH RAPE YOU ALL.
Wait I though you said a while back, if I am not confusing you plant worker, you all look alike to us engineers, you work really long hours in the weeks the plant closes for maintenance. How is the union allowing this sort of exploitation?
Without it the jobs go away and there are no dues paid.
It’s not exploitation if I signed up for it. 🙂
Engineers design equipment. good for them.
Millwrights install equipment. good for them.
People like me correct the fuck ups of the engineers and the millwrights and make the equipment run for decades on end.
QED.
This is why You can’t be replaced by Robots
PMs forever!!!!
Program Managers?
Preventive Maintenancers?
Post Meridians?
Preventive Maintenance is something that actually takes years to get really good at.
I can work on any Machine* in the world with what PM has taught me, it’s real life XP not schoolin’
*HVAC/R machine
I have no experience with it at all (though some of my family have been on the receiving end of disgruntled union shenanigans in the past), but I would like to think that the rank and file members would benefit from having more scrupulous and ethical people in leadership positions.
I say go for it and congrats!
Thanks Michael. I don’t foresee disgruntled union shenanigans in my future. Right to work laws mostly prevent that kind of shit.
I’m a libertarian though. Or maybe not a Libertarian. Maybe an AnCap or a minarchist. Anyway the distinction doesn’t really matter.
Accepting a position of authority is absolutely foreign to me.
You’re not an authority, not “The Man In Charge”. You are nominated to represent the interests of your fellow union members. They are “in charge”. As long as you honestly represent them, and negotiate fairly with management, you won’t have to shoulder the burden of being an “Authority”.
I don’t know if what I wrote makes sense.
Libertarianism, and *especially* AnCap isn’t about non-hierarchy. That’s a commie add-on to their bastard definition of anarchy.
Anarchy is the lack of coercive organizing that allows free-will organizing to take place. Your co-workers are not making you an authority over them, they are selecting you as a leader. Or more accurately, they are selecting you to be a coordinator and the funnel through which their preferences are aggregated (aka you get to herd all them cats). You might be at the top of the hierarchy, but you don’t get to let your shit roll down hill on them (that happens when a paycheck or jail is involved).
“Leader” too often gets co-opted by statists to mean the thug with the most thug friends. Its not. A leader is someone who can see the path, walk down it, and get others to walk down the path after him.
If you try to cattle prod them down the path, you are going to fail. So don’t do that.
That’s my motivational bit. Here’s my concrete advice bit:
1) Consider the interests of each individual person on your side. Don’t treat them like a class. If you rob Peter $10 to pay Paul, you don’t have two average dudes, you have a happy dude and one very pissed off dude.
2) Listening is free. Demand feedback. Target individuals and tell them to tell you what they are thinking. Listen. Even if your mind is already made up and its just for show, do it.
3) When you need a consensus or decision, don’t say “what do you all think?” Say here’s the issue we need to decide on, here’s the factors that influence it, I propose we do X, who has a different solution. Then stop talking. If someone disagrees, they’ll let you know but they are on the spot to do more than bitch. If no-one says anything, congratulations you have a plan of action and you can move on.
My dad was a union member. He worked at a prison, and it was required as Pennsylvania isn’t a right to work state. Years ago during the Rendell administration the government was chronically unable to pass a budget on time, and all non mandatory state workers would stop getting paid. This didn’t affect prison workers as prisons obviously can’t shut down because the governor is a shitheel, but the union covered all government workers and required every local chapter to elect a rep to go down to Harrisburg to rabble rouse. Knowing that my father is a hothead and that he hated the union and the governor with the fire of a thousand suns, the guys he worked with thought it would be hilarious to elect him to go.
Dad was supposed to be down in the capitol for 5 days, Monday morning to Friday afternoon. About 9 PM on the Monday he left, he walks in the door with the biggest shit eating grin I’ve ever seen. He won’t tell us exactly what he did, but he still isn’t allowed back in Harrisburg, and the union banned him from any type of position for the rest of his career.
Probably didn’t help you any, but union elections reminded me of the story.
I liked the story
I also think compulsory unions are a very bad thing. Public sector unions are the devil.
Voluntary unions can be good or bad.
My dad didn’t hate unions in general, he was a union plumber before he finally decided to use his GI bill to get a nursing degree, he just hated his union. Mostly because the union didn’t represent him, but still took his money and hamstrung his ability to do his job. Being a nurse in the prison, and bring at the only prison in PA that handled people too mentally unstable for gen-pop, the one size fits all rules from the union designed for prison guards at dealing with sane and healthy prisoners actively impeded his ability to provide care. Sure, pops is an angry, gruff man, but he takes nursing seriously and didn’t care that the people he was responsible for were some of the worst to ever walk this earth. In his mind, he was responsible for keeping them as healthy and stable as possible, child rapist, cannibal, or whatever other nightmare they happened to be, was irrelevant.
RUN THE FUCK AWAY
College is essential.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-purge-scott-yenor-and-the-witch-hunt-at-boise-state/article/2010104
Logical Fallacies 101
It’s seems obvious that they need to censor people with they disagree, because they are too incompetent to argue against them.
“Espoused”? Avowed, maybe?
That’s just sad. Our colleges are administered by pussies and run by intolerant and aggressive psychos.
The death spiral continues. Guess what’s going to happen when they finish purging all of the wrongthinkers?
Utopia?
JOBZ!!!!!!!!!!! Because the Gulag Archipelago doesn’t build or guard itself.
Is there anything that doesn’t make a feminist angry?
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/how-to-anger-a-feminist-criticize-harvey-weinstein-the-wrong-way/article/2637341
“Dear Men, Please remove the phrase ‘as a husband and/or a father of daughters’ from your vocabulary. Women exist outside your bubble.”
As an asshole shitlord, she can fuck off.
“As a husband and/or a father of daughters, I decline your request.”
Is she really dumb enough to interpret that phrase that way? I interpret that phrase as my opinion only matters because I have a connection to women, not the women only matter because they have a connection to me. It is a stupid, annoying phrase, but it denigrates the man not the woman.
She just wants to be mad, so tiresome.
This is why my response to people wanting to police my language is much the same as Straffin’s.
I will moderate tone and verbiage at times when politeness is warrented, but when someone goes “you can’t say that” (in any variation), I either ignore them, or respond with some colorful variant of “don’t tell me what I can and cannot say”.
People like this author have a need to believe they are underdog victims fighting evil, even when they are pampered puppies with no actual problems. They don’t know what to do with themselves if they’re not angry – they forgot how to live.
Also, politeness is warranted in atmospheres of mutual tolerance and respect. Absent that atmosphere, the complainant can choke on a bag of Hawaiian deep dish pizza.
“back”? Um, that was never their money in the first place.
Those rich people stole that money from teh poorz. PROFITZ R THEFT
South Park Provoked the Rise of White Supremacists—Here’s How
http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2017/10/south-park-alt-right
You know who else provoked the rise of White Supremacists…
Wonder Bread Co.?
The Horseless Rider?
Eva Braun?
*golf clap*
*joins*
Didn’t old Adolf have some erectile dysfunction?
The Hat and Hair?
The Glibertarians commentariat?
No, we *are* white supremacists. We were provoked by something. Probably South Park.
I must have missed a memo.
Can you send it again?
We’re all white males (clearly, as there are no female or minority libertarians). We are therefore de facto white supremacists.
I may be a white, male shitlord, but I am no libertarian.
Kate Upton?
I blame Randy Marsh. Or Canada.
why did i read that
“Radical kindness comes from being around young people, specifically in communities that are more social justice-oriented. In my community, I’m seeing a shift towards memes being positive and used to uplift people. I think people are just tired of beating on each other and attacking each other, and the younger generations especially are starting to rebel against that.
I feel like a lot of what my generation, millennials, has put out there has been negative. We’re kind of a depressed generation, so I think younger people are reacting to that and deciding, let’s be nice to each other. In a society where being mean to each other is the norm, kindness is punk. That’s rebelling. That’s what’s cool.”
Except the PC people that South Park mocks are the opposite of kind.
“I feel like a lot of what my generation, millennials, has put out there has been negative. We’re kind of a depressed generation, so I think younger people are reacting to that and deciding, let’s be nice to each other. In a society where being mean to each other is the norm, kindness is punk. That’s rebelling. That’s what’s cool.”
KYS
They like to steal bases wherever they can (see: Tony from H&R).
PC is just kindness and respect! That’s why they get to make fun of those dumbfuck inbred redneck hicks, and Koch-sucking plutocrat-bootlicking libertarians. It’s just kindness and respect, after all.
I tire of redneck hick being used as a derogatory term to define the people in my area.
There are habits of rednecks that drive me nuts, but the college educated people around me now do similar things that also drive me nuts.
Meh. There’s a Tractor Supply up the street and I see more pickups on the road than minivans. From my outside perspective, it seems like many of my neighbors would wear “redneck hick” as a badge of honor (not so much the inbred, dumbfuck parts, though). The only part that really bothers me is when the effete, latte-sipping out-of-touch limousine liberals (if we’re going to stereotype…) that live in urban and suburban enclaves think they know better how to run the government.
Wow, that is retarded. But admirably consistent with the general approach of calling people who disagree with the whole cultural Marxist intersectionality bit racists.
I think the thing that gets me the most about that absolutely insanely wrong take on South Park is that, if you actually bother to watch the show, it mocks PC hysteria, oppressive nonsense, AND racism and bigotry while humanizing all of the characters involved. If there’s a single consistent thread to the show it’s that political correctness dehumanizes individuals as much as racism, sexism, or any other bigotry. Over and over again the show’s plots involve people who have bought into stereotypes of one sort or another learning to see the subjects of those stereotypes as individuals. It’s so blatant they might as well just end every episode with a placard that reads: “If you really respect someone, you should think of them as an individual, not just a stereotype, and that means not patronizing them by ‘protecting’ them from words you think should insult them.”
It’s so blatant they might as well just end every episode with a placard that reads: “If you really respect someone, you should think of them as an individual, not just a stereotype, and that means not patronizing them by ‘protecting’ them from words you think should insult them.”
Hell, they actually do that half the time when Stan summarizes the point of the episode at the end.
That’s the first general to make me cry.
By proxy General Abner Doubleday made me cry.
if he hadn’t invented baseball I wouldn’t have cried when I stuck out playing T-Ball when I was 5 years old.
Depends…tears of sadness, inspiration or rage?
I think I have had generals move me to all three.
I haven’t.
Then again I’ve never met a General, nor been subject to their authority, so… Where was I going with this?
Met a few – some were studs who Marines would follow anywhere. Some were politicians who repelled enlisted. Enlisted Marines (at least those in combat arms) all seem to develop great bullshit detectors.
I love General Mattis, if Trump had said that he was going to appoint Mattis as SecDef, I would have voted for him.
I had one move me to cursing when he tried to screw me out of some money.
General Electric, at it again.
They’re the worst kind of generals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqP61lGsXOM
WTF is going on with this?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4996918/Hotel-insisted-Jesus-Campos-appear-Ellen-fearing-lawsuites.html
WTF is right.
TLDR but apparently the casino has an Ellen slot machine, no shit, and so they have some kind of partnership. Not surprising they’d toss him to her first.
LOLWUT? An Ellen slot machine?? How the hell does something like that come to exist in the first place?
CASINO EXEC 1: I think we need to jazz up the gaming room a bit.
CASINO EXEC 2: Hmmm….what about some celebrity-endorsed slot machines?
CASINO EXEC 1: Great idea! Let’s call Ellen Degeneras!
CASINO EXEC 2: Ummmmmmmmmm
The tokens prolly look like washers.
When I was in Vegas a couple of weeks ago (at a wedding, where the reception was held in a suite at the…. Mandalay Bay! 31st floor!), I noticed one of those Ellen slot machines. Slot machines are themed like pinball machines, and there are some interesting ones (Seinfeld, etc).
*Edit Fairy help!*
Put an extra verb in there somewhere, like “noticed”.
He didn’t ask for Edit Brony.
Fowl play all aflutter in Bird of the Year competition
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11934217
Allegations of voter rigging and trolling of candidates: It may sound like the US elections but no, it’s the humble Bird of the Year competition in New Zealand.
Last week it was revealed that someone from Christchurch lodged more than 100 fraudulent votes for the white-faced heron.
Now an Instagram account is trolling the bird candidates accusing the white-faced Heron of being a racist and the Kiwi a “fat flightless f**k.”
Another bird’s plumage is compared to one of David Bain’s infamous jerseys.
The annual Bird of the Year competition, run by Forest and Bird, is intended as a way of raising awareness of the threats facing some of our most endangered bird species.
But it’s also become an excuse for all sorts of underhanded behaviour.
Because the stakes are so low?
The Orange One caves on ethanol subsidies.
http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/trump-orders-epa-not-to-cut-ethanol-mandate-bending-the-knee-to-king-corn/
Fuck
Dammit.
I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise.
That’s the problem with someone who’s focused on keeping jobs. The seen aspect of cutting regulations is more jobs. The seen aspect of cutting subsidies is fewer jobs. You have to consider the unseen aspects to understand why cutting subsidies is better than keeping them.
So the things that he has done that I don’t like are pretty much towing the lion as any other politician would. There are the few times he does something no other pol would do, cabinet appointments, repealing previous admin’s last second rule changes.
I’m failing to see why I wouldn’t vote for him the second time around.
I didn’t vote for him last November, but I’m giving it serious thought if he runs again. He’s definitely no libertarian, but for the most part, he has kept some statist encroachments in place while rolling others back. That’s certainly a hell of a lot better than massively increasing state power like Hillary would.
My biggest gripes are Sessions (by far) and Mnuchin. I know without a doubt Hillary would’ve put forward someone just as bad as Mnuchin, but I don’t know that about Sessions*. However, Hillary would’ve nominated people much worse than DeVos and Pruitt, and her picks for judges/justices would’ve been awful. So I think Trump vs. Hillary is positive on net even though neither choice is very libertarian. Also, under Hillary, the Democrats would’ve had their shit together. One of the fringe benefits of the Dems acting like Trump is literally Hitler is that they don’t realize how easily they could work with him if they tried. So we’ve got that going for us, which is nice.
* = Hillary would’ve nominated a totally lackey for AG to ensure her own crimes go uninvestigated/covered up, but the question of policy as regards us little people is much murkier.
Hillary’s Supreme Court picks would have been absolutely terrible. All it would take is one of her picks to gut the whole Bill of Rights forever. I’m sure she would love nothing more than to have the Supremes back her up in confiscating firearms and banning non-Democrat political speech under the guise of “keeping big money out of politics”.
god dammit
“Harvey Weinstein doesn’t seem to be taking sex rehab seriously”
https://pagesix.com/2017/10/19/harvey-weinstein-doesnt-seem-to-be-taking-sex-rehab-seriously/
No, really?
So he’s fucking the nurses then?
Just asking them to watch while he showers.
And maybe a back rub.
Just to see where it goes.
Harvey Weinstein doesn’t seem to be taking sex rehab seriously
Maybe I’m going to sound cynical here, but why on Earth should he? He’s ruined. He’s not making a comeback. I’m pretty sure he realizes it at this point. And, from his perspective, all of the people tut-tutting about his past behavior signed off at the time. Hell, a number of the actresses screeching the loudest probably took him up on his offers for the casting couch. What’s “sex rehab” going to do, make him not want to fuck? Hell he can just Google a couple of pictures of Lena Dunham and accomplish that. This is all something he offered up to try to save his career. Well, it’s too late for that now. So, why bother giving a fuck?
If I were in his situation, I’m not sure why I’d even bother. He must be rich enough to live the rest of his years in relative comfort, unless he has just been incredibly foolish with his money (which is not beyond the realm of possibilities, I guess).
Thank you for that mental image of Lena Dunham on a casting couch.
I never said any such thing. And thanks to your response, I think I lost may appetite.
Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to ruin your day.
Hell, a number of the actresses screeching the loudest probably took him up on his offers for the casting couch.
From what I understand, this was a known cost of doing business with Weinstein, and he was also a man who always kept his word in regards to the deals he made regarding the casting couch.
No one should take sex rehab seriously.
tragic
There has been a car industry in Australia for almost as long as there have been cars. Friday’s closure in Elizabeth, a suburb of Adelaide, left many questioning why the government did not step in and save the country’s once-vibrant auto industry, when auto manufacturers in the United States and elsewhere received big bailouts to stay afloat.
Auto plants in Australia have slowly been closing over the last several decades, with Ford, Toyota and now Holden, a General Motors subsidiary, shutting their manufacturing operations over roughly the last year.
Some blame the industry’s demise on the government’s refusal in 2013 to come to the rescue of the country’s automakers as they were battered by a high Australian dollar, high production costs and a shrinking domestic market.
Australia’s aggressive protectionism wasn’t enough to keep the car business afloat? Bummer. Now maybe people will be able to buy better cars, for less.
You got to love the implicit assumption that the government could’ve saved these operations if only it shoveled money at them. When, in fact, the closure of the Australian automotive industry shows that such an act would’ve been pure folly.
*Edit Fairy Blesses You*
shoveled *money* at them
My guess is that the elephant in the room is the fucking green policies that make commerical power ever more expensive and ever less reliable.
The misery created by environmentalists here in the U.S. is nothing compared to what they’ve done to the Aussies.
And the Germans, and the French, and the …
Really, the U.S. has generally been pretty lucky compared to the other “developed” nations. We started to get a taste of it under Obama’s EPA, though.
You know what other Pacific Island nation excelled at making cars?
Isn’t Australia A continent?
Vanuatu?
i made the mistake of watching the news yesterday.
they had a clip of Frederica S. Wilson saying this in response to John Kelly’s comments
I am welcome to hearing interpretations from those of you with deeper libraries of “folksy wisdom”
*footnote: Bret Baer is a pro
I saw that yesterday.
DUDE IS GOING TO BE MEMED OUT!
if he narrowed his gaze any narrower they would start shooting lasers composed entirely of particles of WTFWTFWTFWTFWTF
He’s a pro at that!
*tips cap to Bret*
I read this as Br’er Bear. Jus how racist am I?
I believe she is calling herself a dog.
The Senate passed a budget resolution that allows for tax cuts, opening the door for a filibusterer proof tax reform bill in the future. Rand Paul was the only dissenting Republican vote.
The difference between the tax cuts Rand Paul failed to kill on principle and the ObamaCare replacement that Rand Paul helped to kill on principle is only that Rand Paul failed on one but succeeded on the other.
Both bills were objectively libertarian, in both motive and effect, and Rand Paul’s objections were objectively bizarre from a libertarian perspective in both instances.
Wednesday’s OpEd in the Wall Street Journal, “Rand Paul’s Alternative Reality”, was a swing and a foul ball. It almost got it right. Didn’t quite connect the dots correctly.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/rand-pauls-alternative-reality-1508369030
That should have been the starting point.
Rand Paul voted against the Senate bill replacing the ACA–despite the fact that it cut $1.022 trillion from the federal budget over ten years according to the CBO.
Now he opposes a symbolic bill necessary to cut taxes–because it doesn’t cut spending?!
The Senate budget bill that was passed last night making a vote on tax cuts filibuster proof was largely symbolic–even according to Rand Paul! As I’ve said before, people who supported Rand Paul’s votes on the ACA should restrain themselves from saying, “Fuck You, Cut Spending” ever again–but that goes for Rand Paul, too. His credibility as a principled fiscal conservative is shot.
This is how St. Stephen must have felt standing before the Sanhedrin. He says to them, (paraphrasing) “Was there ever a prophet your forbears didn’t persecute? They even persecuted the prophets who foretold the coming of the messiah. So, it’s not surprising that when the Messiah himself finally came–you murdered him.” That’s when they dragged him outside and stoned him as a heretic. St. Paul was there–on the side of the Sanhedrin. Took a miracle to get through to him. First God had to strike him blind.
Don’t wait for a miracle to cure you of your blindness. Just open your eyes.
None so blind as those who won’t see.
Rand Paul voted against a bill that represented the most significant cut to entitlements in history and would have represented the biggest shrinking of government we’ve ever seen. It would have cut more than $1 trillion in direct spending alone–not to mention all the tax cuts, the end of the individual mandate, the end of the employer mandate, the end of the regulation that required nuns to provide their employees with birth control, etc, etc.
Now Rand Paul has voted to oppose a purely symbolic bill (by his own admission) that was required in order to make tax reform filibuster proof–because it doesn’t cut spending?!
As I said before, assuming that he voted to save Medicaid out of expediency for political survival in his home state is giving him the benefit of the doubt. If Rand Paul is so naively obtuse that he consistently votes with Bernie Sanders and Liz Warren on important tax and spending bills out of what he believes to be libertarian principle, then he has no business being the President of the United States.
The Ken Schultz Histrionics Machine goes all the way up to 11
So, you have nothing to say about the facts. You just want to throw rocks at me?
Ken, there’s no point in arguing with you.
Rand Paul is sincerely trying to make the U.S. a freer country. To be effective, he has to choose what compromises he makes and what principled stands he takes. There is no objective way to calculate what to do when. It’s a bunch of messy judgement calls.
He’s made a judgement call you disagree with.
You hate him and think he’s an evil fuck because his judgement of how to navigate the mess that is DC differs from yours.
You are unwilling to say it’s a mistake or that he made a reasonable judgement call that you disagree with.
No, for you, it’s a huge moral failing. Full stop.
That’s what takes you from having a strongly held position disagreeing with Paul to engaging in histrionics.
Just a word of warning, it was Tulpa’s promiscuous engaging of a similar sort of condemnation (everyone who disagrees with me is an evil,stupid fuck) that caused people to start blocking him, and eventually made him a persona-non-grata.
Now, I could be wrong. And you could easily prove me wrong. All you have to say is that it’s possible that Paul sincerely wants to advance freedom but has miscalculated. ?
Yes, I posted this above. I fucking gilmored it. It’s not my fault, but all of youse.
Yes, I’m questioning his judgement.
I neither hate Rand Paul, nor think he’s evil.
He’s wrong, and I’ve explained why.
Libertarianism isn’t an identity. If some self-identified libertarian consistently votes against getting rid of ObamaCare, that doesn’t make preserving ObamaCare libertarian by virtue of that person’s libertarian identity.
Libertarianism is as libertarianism does. If Rand Paul opposes cutting spending and cutting taxes, then guess what?
Maybe he was led astray by good intentions, but so what? you know the difference between Rand Paul’s good intentions and Bernie Sanders backing of single payer by making Medicaid available to all?
Absolutely nothing. They’re both reduced to the same vote against replacing the ACA.
The difference in the outcome of Sanders’ and Rand Paul’s no votes only exist in your imagination.
I neither hate Rand Paul, nor think he’s evil.
We’ll just gloss over that part where you accused him of being beholden to the opioid-addled Medicaid-swilling masses of Kentucky, will we?
I didn’t say that in those words.
I did say that Kentucky is one of the states with the highest Medicaid enrollment per capita, and it would make a lot of sense for Rand Paul to oppose paring Medicaid eligibility back for that reason. I still maintain that makes more sense the garbage coming out of his mouth.
It’s very much like Ron Paul opposing free trade for supposedly libertarian rationalizations–when that stance made more sense given Texans’ anxiety at the time over what NAFTA would do to manufacturers in the state and Ross Perot making huge inroads in his constituency.
I do believe the expansion of Medicaid has added a tremendous amount of fuel to the opioid addiction fire, but I’ve never accused Rand Paul of purposely supporting the expansion of opioid addiction.
Accusing politicians of being personally beholden to the voters in their home states isn’t really a put down. That’s what they’re supposed to do in a representative democracy. The problem comes when we start falling for their rationalizations as a matter of federal policy. If Rand Paul is making absurd rationalizations to oppose cutting Medicaid because that’s what he needs to do to survive and keep his Senate seat, then that’s one thing.
But a thing is what it is and not something else.
Opposing cutting Medicaid eligibility, cutting spending, deregulation, and tax cuts is not a principled libertarian thing to do–not even if Rand Paul says it is.
Meanwhile, your objections still seem to be all about me opposing Rand Paul personally–as if that were the issue. I remember hearing that someone once asked Abraham Lincoln if he thought God was on his side. He’s said to have answered, “The question is not whether God is on my side but whether I’m on his”. I’m working a variation on that theme. The question isn’t whether I’m on Rand Paul’s side, the question is whether Rand Paul is voting for or against capitalism. There are people I will support regardless of their behavior. They’re called “family”. Rand Paul is not family. He’s a politician.
If you say untrue things and then explain how those untrue things support your judgments, then it is not unreasonable to assume that your reasoning actually worked in the opposite direction. You made the judgment, then came up with the untrue things to support the judgment.
I don’t care if you like Rand Paul or not, but you have utterly failed to make the case that he fits the judgments you’ve made of him.
Maybe things will change and then you can point to true things that support your judgments. Until then, what you’ve got is quantity of words not strength of arguments.
I should amend “untrue things” to “untrue or unrelated things” because you sometimes do make factually correct statements that do not related to the point.
If some self-identified libertarian consistently votes against getting rid of ObamaCare
Since no such bill ever came to the table, how could he have voted against it?
There were 3 bills that came up for a vote to cut parts of ObamaCare and 1 major one that didn’t (Graham-Cassidy). Rand Paul voted for 2 out of the 3 that came up to a vote, including the one that made the deepest cuts to Medicaid in fact, and voted against one that made only minor cuts to Medicaid (which John McCain voted for before later reversing his stance to nuke the “skinny repeal”).
The funny thing about your narrative is that it is almost spot on as a description of John McCain (parts about libertarianism excluded) and not Rand Paul.
I think it’s telling, Ken, that you just can’t stop yourself from saying “He’s an evil fuck” even when you are trying to win a point by pretending that you don’t feel that way.
Remember the first rule when you find yourself in a hole: stop digging.
I’ve argued facts with you before. You ignore them, then expound 5000 empty words. You once linked a NYT article about the 3 healthcare bills and then misrepresented every single one of them. I pointed this out, including bill text, and you ignored it and substituted your own narrative in place of facts.
Just for reference:
—-Congressional Budget Office
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52849
$1.022 trillion in spending cuts + $751 billion in tax cuts equals:
A) Socialism
B) Larger Government
C) Smaller Government
D) Fascism
E) Cubism
F) Lena Dunham on the casting couch
*mixing Visine with Clorox*
Oh fuck that, just dig your eyes out of your skull with a butter knife
Imma go with your solution, Chip….
*GOUGE*
My understanding was that Rand Paul voted against the tax reform bill because it was loaded with pork for the establishment republicans. He did not vote against it because the tax cuts would increase spending, but because the pork did not have a place in a tax reform bill. However, I could be mistaken about Rand’s intentions.
What I am not mistaken about is that the WSJ editorial staff are dubious lying pieces of shit when it comes to anything about Rand Paul. They left any pretense about being for free markets at the door a long time ago.
From the linked journal aricle:
—-Previously linked WSJ article
All this budget does is make the tax reform package part of the budget reconciliation package, just to make passing tax reform possible with only 51 votes, etc. This bill is purely symbolic otherwise–even according to Rand Paul. “Otherwise” being the operative word.
The ability to pass tax reform with 51 votes isn’t merely symbolic at all.
Rand Paul is effectively saying that the symbolic numbers in the budget are more important than the ability to cut taxes.
. . . which is problematic from the perspective of his votes on the ACA–the effect of which preserved more than $1 trillion in spending on entitlements.
The Wall Street Journal hates Rand Paul and they’re never going to give him a fair shake. They’ll criticize Rand for sinking Graham-Cassidy and the other Obamacare reform bills (although he voted for the first one), but then conveniently excuse John McCain who most definitely sunk both of the last two efforts for no reason other than sheer hypocrisy. The Wall Street Journal does this because they hate Rand’s foreign policy and love good ‘ol maverick “bomb, bomb Iran” John McCain. When I subsribed to the Wall Street Journal I just ignored their opinion pieces when they discussed Rand Paul, because it was always nothing but exagerration and it would boil my blood.
Rand Paul is in a tough position right now. He’s got cosmotarians attacking him, because he doesn’t engage in Left-wing culture wars (which are sacrosanct to the cosmo) and then he has crony capitalist Republicans and neoconservatives hating him, because he won’t go along with the program.
Are you implying that Ken is the WSJ?
I was referring to the WSJ opinion piece that he linked, but he may be Paul Gigot. I could see that.
Paul Gigot. Ken Shultz. Michael Hihn.
Trinity of Anti-Paul confirmed.
Hazel Meade hardest hit
I’m not anti-Paul.
I’m pro-capitalism.
I’ve supported Rand Paul in the past. I’m disappointed in his behavior.
If he wants my support for President, he needs to be more pro-capitalist than the other options.
Right now, he’s not.
And the Establishment is pissed that he is willing to play the long game with Trump. I think he (Paul) understands that by not ripping Trump apart constantly and is actually willing to engage him, he will get the opportunity to have Trump’s ear and perhaps even have have legislative successes.
The GOP establishment won’t be gone overnight but they do recognize that if someone like Rand has Trump’s attention and actually maintaining his campaign promises, voters will see that and will reward candidates or incumbents that do the same.
Yes. For some reason, Trump seems to have taken a shine to Rand and Rand is more than willing to work with the president when it is mutually beneficial. I don’t care who that disgusts, it’s just smart politics
For some reason
I can only assume that Rand is laying on the flattery…it seems to be the currency that Trump will most reliably respond to.
Rand’s smart. He’s actually good with people one-on-one. I’d like to see him visiting black colleges and poor communities again. Rand may be able to cobble together the most bizarre political coalition in modern American history. And prog tears taste so much better when they’re upset about a candidate that you actually agree with. Come on, literally Hitler Rand Paul, you can do it
Or Rand could actually be principled and be counted on to give an honest opinion rather than the two or three faced usual politician from the Republican Establishment.
Trump doesn’t seem to be the type that values unvarnished honesty.
I’ve seen the WSJ go after John McCain.
I’m sure they have their biases. I hope you saw the part of my post where I said they got this opinion piece wrong. I think they buried the lead.
Just weeks ago, Rand Paul killed a bill that would have represented the greatest reduction of government through cutting entitlement spending that we’ve ever seen. Yesterday, he opposes a bill necessary to advance tax reform because of symbolic concerns on spending?
Months ago, Rand Paul was instrumental in killing a bill that would have cut $1.022 trillion in entitlement spending in the real world. His opposition to tax cutting in the real world isn’t justified by his “principled” opposition to a merely symbolic budget–not after selling real world fiscal conservatism short in regards to the ACA.
My observations are correct (or not) regardless of the Wall Street Journal’s bias, and the Wall Street Journal is correct in making that one observation–even if the rest of that piece is a “swing and a foul ball” as I stated.
I thought Graham-Cassidy was a great bill. It wouldn’t repeal Obamacare, but it would have been the largest transformation of an entitlement program in American history (bigger than welfare reform, as Medicaid is a far more massive system). But, Rand didn’t sink that. Good ‘ol maverick John McCain did to ensure a nice obituary about him in the New York Times
Several of us have already listed our reasons for the believing that bill and it’s $1.022 trillion cut was a fantasy. It was just a carrot to solidify Obamacare as permanent. Then the $1 trillion cut over a decade could simply be restored at any point. That cut would have been as real as Bigfoot.
Still with all those faults, some parts of the bill would be better than what we have now, but it came with the price tag of ending any future reform. Rand gave the chance to strike at it again after the primaries.
I don’t see how getting rid of the individual mandate, getting rid of the employer mandate, getting rid of taxes on medical devices, and rolling back Medicaid would have been making ObamaCare permanent.
If anything made ObamaCare permanent, it was opposing the Senate bills that replaced it.
Because none of those were the core of Obamacare, and getting rid of those would not have caused anyone’s eye popping premiums to reduce by a penny.
Obamacare was about forcing Grandpa to pay for his twenty year old neighbor’s maternity care. It was about the redistribution of wealth through commandeering health care. That would be left in place. Except now the Republicans would share the blame for family health insurance premiums that are twice the cost of middle-class mortgages.
getting rid of those would not have caused anyone’s eye popping premiums to reduce by a penny
Ken has previously said that Medicaid expansion has been the primary driver of these increasing premiums.
That’s plausible, granted, but if it were true, it would be borne out by a significant premium difference between states that expanded Medicaid and states that didn’t, with lower premiums in the latter.
I haven’t seen any evidence that such a difference exists in the direction needed to prove the claim.
I had read somewhere, and cannot find it now, that the bill was loaded with pork for establishment repubs like McCain.
Regardless though, like the ACA “repeal” that just solidified Obamacare in place, these tax cuts may not be actual “cuts” for most in the middle class. Depending on how it works out, most people who aren’t extremely wealthy or sucking the government teat may see their taxes go up. Business should have their rate cut and the estate tax should be repealed but my tax rate shouldn’t be raised up to pay for that.
From what I can see now, they are a bunch of liars. They are trumpeting about doubling the standard deduction (which would be an excellent tax cut for most people), but are hiding that they are essentially nullifying it by removing the personal exemptions. If they change the incomes ladders on top of this, the tax cut becomes a fat tax increase for working people.
From a Politco article I accidentally exited from before I copied the link
Anyone else worried about this constant elimination of the items that require 60 votes in the senate?
There was never a constitutional requirement of more than 50+VP for most of these items. Unless we’re talking veto overrides, impeachment trials, constitutional ammendments, etc, the minimum from the start was half plus VP. So really, the question is “Do you think the rules change will help or hinder policy goals in the future”. This is an exercise in speculation which would require knowing the voting trends across multiple elections yet to come, and the fidelity of the elected officials.
True, but in a country rapidly approaching nanny-statism, any precedents that make it easier for a legislative body to act always make me nervous.
I’d think that was more of a legitimate concern if Rand Paul were opposing tax cuts or spending cuts on that basis.
Even then, I want to see Rand Paul fighting for tax cuts and spending cuts regardless of the rules–not against them.
If the rules really were unconstitutional or wrong, I’d expect my libertarianish presidential candidate to fight for both tax cuts and spending cuts anyway.
Roper: So now you’d give the Devil benefit of law!
More: Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
Roper: I’d cut down every law in England to do that!
More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you — where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country’s planted thick with laws from coast to coast — man’s laws, not God’s — and if you cut them down — and you’re just the man to do it — d’you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
I agree with UCS that there is no Constitutional requirement for it, but it does trouble me. There are IMO three things that kept the Senate a bulwark against direct democracy:
1. Chosen by the states rather than directly elected
2. Two members per state, regardless of population
3. Most actions required 60 votes
(1) was undone by the 17th Amendment, (3) is unlikely to outlast the next decade, and (2) is unlikely to outlast the next half-century.
For some explanation of why I think (2) is unlikely to outlast the next half-century:
A. The same arrangement has already been done away with in the states. The Supreme Court has made it impossible for states to have anything other than popular representation in all of their legislative houses (Baker v. Carr, Reynolds v. Sims)
B. The push for national popular vote (NPV) in Presidential elections is unlikely to stop there once achieved. The next call will be to end the “unrepresentative” nature of the Senate.
C. Gutting the 60-vote requirement and the Electoral College will stave off the calls to “reform” the Senate, but with each successive generation, the voters believe in a greater role for the government in their lives. Any impediment to government power will be swept away in a sufficiently dire “crisis”.
I have had conversations in the wake of the election where a friend decried the EC for that very reason. He was flabbergasted when I suggested that the EC and not electing based on popular vote was an important protection of Federalism. That I considered myself more importantly a citizen of my state over and above an American was also confusing to him.
I can 100% see your predictions coming true within my lifetime. People are idiots.
I know the system in New York is set up for fraud.
I see the Electoral College as a firebreak that prevents fraudulent votes in one area running up the tally and overwhelming those parts of the country that run cleaner elections.
The EC also prevent s a couple of large cities like NY and LA from dictating the Presidency to the rest of the country.
“Nearly all Republican Senators just failed a litmus test on cutting spending.”
https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/921123564698394626
https://twitter.com/austin_m18/status/920744037287628805
LOL
I have finally figured it out. Sarah Huckabee Sanders looks like the white Michelle Obama.
Whew, that’s a relief.
I think you’ve found your three-way.
*BARF*
That sounds like a nightmare scenario worthy of SF fic.
For the love of G-d, don’t encourage him.
Nah. Michelle Obama was a good looking woman. I don’t care if you hated her husband’s policies, she was still attractive. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is decent looking
Michelle Obama was a good looking woman.
That’s a MAN, baby!
As ERB stated “[Michelle Obama] looks like the female version of Patrick Ewing”. Though probably better looking than SHS all things considered.
SHS has a caveman forehead and uneven eyes, an overabundance of eye makeup that accentuates the problem, and some jowl problems (obvious genetic inheritance from daddy dearest).
Case and point: https://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/sarah-huckabee-sanders-800×430.jpg
Or: http://media.zenfs.com/en-US/homerun/cosmopolitan_438/fbd28aee01bc26c67204754f769935b0
It doesn’t help that she looks very much like a man that I know except with longer hair and more makeup.
Taratino hops aboard the #metoo train
“I knew enough to do more than I did,” he said, citing several episodes involving prominent actresses. “There was more to it than just the normal rumors, the normal gossip. It wasn’t secondhand. I knew he did a couple of these things.”
“I wish I had taken responsibility for what I heard,” he added. “If I had done the work I should have done then, I would have had to not work with him.”
“I’m a victim, too. He touched me in an inappropriate place, man; right on my wallet. It hurt, but I had to just bear it.”
Wat?
I think he is implying that he overlooked Weinstein’s foibles in order to partner with him on some project or another.
I wish I had taken responsibility for what I heard
what.
How do you “take responsibility” for something you didn’t do? You can act on something you overheard, but you’re not responsible for it.
JFC you’d think this, last, and next week would be good weeks to just STFU and keep your head low.
He’s from Hollywood. He will never STFU and keep his head down.
God, I can only imagine the skeletons in his closet.
Quentin likes making his movies. Harvey made it possible for the world to have Quentin’s films.
I find all of this revisionism stupid, too. Would any of us have done differently than what QT had (not) done? No.
We’d hear the stories and mutter stuff like ‘what a pig’ to ourselves but still work with Miramax because how else am I getting a non-linear, violent, cuss-filled Pulp Fiction made? at Warner Brothers?
http://dailycaller.com/2017/10/20/gold-star-widow-releases-trumps-call-after-husband-was-killed-in-afghanistan/
The distasteful game of exploiting dead soldiers continues. Trump and the press deserve each other.
Okay, how is this on Trump? The Rodeo Clown is the one who politicized this with a bullshit attack, and Trump is somehow just as bad for responding? The biggest mistake of GWB’s administration was not responding to the deranged attacks of the left, which allowed their narrative to stand unchallenged, and gave us Obama and a Democrat super majority. I am not really a Trump fan, but he is not the one at fault here.
Don’t denigrate Rodeo Clowns.
I mean appearance only. Rodeo clowns are all kinds of awesomeness.
He started this stupid argument by talking about how he always phones the families of service members that have passed away, unlike his predecessors. It’s 60% media and 40% Trump for continuing the stupid back and forth
Again, experience has shown that allowing the left’s narrative to stand and not striking back hard is a formula for failure.
There was nothing to push back on at that point. There is a mantra that is applicable during Trump’s administration: “Is the media horribly biased at out to get the president? Yes. Does this president make it extremely easy for the media? Yes”
True, but Trump continually fails to do so in a way that doesn’t make him look either foolish, inept, or petty. He could’ve just said that he wanted to make every effort to give his condolences to the family members of service members and something along the lines that while he knows there’s nothing he can say to make their loss any less difficult he wants to express how much their sacrifice means to their country, so on, so forth, the end. When the left attacks him, it’s all, “I regret any pain I’ve caused. It’s not easy to find the right words to express my most sincere condolences to someone who has lost a child, a brother or sister, or a husband or wife, and I know I’ve fallen short. I can only hope that the families I speak to can look past any misspoken words and know that I feel deeply sorry for their tragic losses.” And now he’s a martyr. Instead, he’s gotta take a shot at previous presidents, which makes him look like a dick doing this for political reasons.
I think the pettiness is purposeful.
The worst thing for Trump would be the kulturkampf dying down. The most vocal and energetic supporters he has are people who like him because the right people hate him. It appears to me that he stokes that hate to remind his supporters why they love him.
i think that is correct.
in truth, the media are his unwitting enablers. Trump belongs to them more than he does to the republican party, which mostly hates Trump. If Trump had to rely on his own ideas or policies for popularity, he’d have fizzled very quickly. But the endless assault of bullshit by the media gives him a halo.
I think you’re exactly right. I can witness this very phenomena in people I know, who don’t have particular love for Trump himself but who love the fact that he drives the leftists who hate him bonkers.
He started this stupid argument by talking about how he always phones the families of service members that have passed away, unlike his predecessors.
He made what appears to be a factual statement. Not sure how that counts as starting an argument.
Instead, he’s gotta take a shot at previous presidents, which makes him look like a dick doing this for political reasons.
It could be it makes the former Presidents, both of whom hate his guts and have worked against him, look like dicks.
the media are his unwitting enablers.
Yup. The media could have just said either nothing or, perhaps, something about how its not a good look for Presidents to criticize their predecessors like that. But nope, they had to crank up the TDS machine and drag out a perfect clown show of a Representative in a bizarre effort to make Trump look bad.
Just because Trump chums the media waters doesn’t mean they have to lose their fucking minds every single time.
Michelle Obama was a good looking woman.
*shudders, backs warily away*
Reaction seconded.
Pssht…whatever. She’s in the top five of best looking first ladies. There, I said it
That’s like being the tallest midget.
Yes. Yes it is
https://s-i.huffpost.com/gen/812545/images/o-JACKIE-KENNEDY-facebook.jpg
This would be an interesting ranking project to undertake.
Then the question becomes do you use their appearance when their husband was in office, or their primes?
Two lists. One, overall. The second, First-Lady time only.
Laura Bush wasn’t too terrible in sort of a loan officer at the local credit union sort of way.
*pulls out Eleanor Roosevelt centerfold*
GTFO
She makes Oprah Winfrey look like Halle Berry.
At least we have Melania in there now, to bring the average up.
Robosexuality is wrong
*citation needed*
Citation provided:
I Dated a Robot!
Don’t be Billy Everyteen.
Lol!
Yeah, she’s got to be the second best looking 1st Lady, right after Marilyn Monroe.
No way. She’s waaaaay hotter than Phenobarbital Barbie.
Where does Dolly Madison rank?
Cooking counts, right?
I mean, she’s attractive, but she always has this expression on her face that looks like she’s contemplating building a throne out of the skulls of her enemies. For real. There’s something disturbingly Hunnic about her. Some people are into that kind of ice-queen deal, but I find it to be a huge turn-off.
https://s-i.huffpost.com/gen/812545/images/o-JACKIE-KENNEDY-facebook.jpg
I’ll tentatively agree with the caveat that I’m only considering first ladies since I’ve been alive and aware of them, so we’re talking Nancy Reagan onward. Yes, that’s a narrow field. You can guess who didn’t make the cut.
Here’s the thing with Michelle Obama: it’s not that she’s kinda…like, robust…it’s that when she’s not smiling she looks like she’s wearing a mouth protector, or like she’s got a particularly aggressive set of Invisialigns on. And her RBF is way, way outta control.
*squints suspiciously*
You hittin’ the paint thinner too?
That’s the best picture of Bat-Boy I’ve ever seen.
I think Jackie and Melania are def the top two modern First Ladies. Michelle is a tough one, though – I find her quite offputting. She’s got looks that other women like, is my take, but I don’t think most men are really taken with her.
Robosexuality is wrong
Bigot.
Kelly calling Wilson “an empty barrel making lots of noise” must be an old school insult b/c i’ve never heard that before. it works. the metaphor is clear. just never heard it before now.
According to the bedazzled cowgirl retard, that’s racist yo.
my corneas nearly detached from the eye roll. so she looked it up in a dictionary and it’s racist.
Totally makes sense
Empty Barrel…Barrel full of monkeys…monkeys…monkeys…porch monkeys…RACIST!!!
I spent a lot of time with my grandparents growing up, so maybe that’s why I know all these, but the saying is, “An empty barrel makes the most noise.” It’s like the inverse of “Still waters run deep”. My grandmother would also probably describe Wilson as “neither useful nor ornamental”.
Sigh. Anyone who objects is a white nationalist or Nazi.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/10/20/penn-grad-student-says-shes-under-attack-teaching-technique-encourage-all-talk-class
The whole thing is retarded.
Note the distinct change of scope from the beginning of that statement to the end. We start in a class but we end up in a broader cultural judgement.
Of course. Because if it’s one thing we all know, it’s that what happens in the classroom is 100% like what happens outside the classroom.
If “Progressive Stacking” has even an iota to do with the “Progressive Stack” it does not help all students contribute – it actively discriminates against groups that are already sidelined on campuses and made the scapegoats of all woes.
It’s exactly the same. If I were a student, I’d drop that class as soon as I encountered it. No point in encouraging the behavior.
That’s exactly what it is.
A side note: every time i hear someone talking about the progressive stack, i think about the Black Israelites and their own kooky-heirarchy where the “12 Tribes of Israel” are AKSHULLY 12 various shades of brown-skinned people (on the top of which are the enlightened black israelites in their D+D outfits), and after them are less enlightened negroes, then hispanics, then …..(insert mishmash of nonwhites and muslims)….then regular white people, then white jews, who are both alien cave dwelling creatures who stole all their shit from the aforementioned.
So, to be clear, she claims that she uses a technique that has her call on underrepresented minorities first and that “neo-nazis” are accusing her of calling on underrepresented minorities first?
She tries to disguise it by saying that she’s encouraging less outspoken students to participate. But her definition of “less outspoken” directly correlates to the intersectional concept of privilege in the United States. It’s a cheap lie deisnged to brush off the criticism followed by accusations of racism for those who disagree.
Quoted in the article but for the benefit of those who skim.
https://i.imgur.com/bFBtTWc.png
She’s a caricature of the post grad humanities student. Black turtleneck and all.
She’s a grown-up?
Only biologically.
GILFs.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/putting-elegance-age-us-granny-beauty-queens-073620745.html
Too German for me
DAMMIT!
This guy sounds like he was always a Dem.
http://www.westword.com/news/erik-underwood-interview-about-2018-colorado-governor-run-9488332
I remember this guy. He had no political backing, some (as in a lot for a normal person but not enough to viably run a campaign) money and had a shtick about working an uber as part of his campaign so he could meet people and try to get them to vote for him. He didn’t have much public speaking charisma and I got the impression he was trying to work the GOP for a spot based on “I’m an entrepreneur and I’m black.”
He also made the huge mistake of generalizing Denver rightwing to the rest of the state. Denver (rich moderates) is not the Springs (rich Christians) is not the Eastern Plains (poor farmers) is not the Foothills (Jesus Christ as my witness I’ll shoot your government ass off my property) is not the Western Slope (rich ranchers). The guy who did get the GOP Senate nomination was a bit more stereotypical.
And running against him is none other than Reason favorite Jared Polis, a clear favorite among all right-thinking libertarians because he plays video games and stuff.
His article really needs to be updated. This sentence made me laugh.
“particularly as our Democratic nominees are increasingly more supportive of individual liberty and freedom than Republicans”
What is this the 90’s?
No kidding. And bear in mind, this is the guy who said that due process wasn’t necessary in colleges because getting kicked out wasn’t really a punishment.
Well, he might be on to something there…
This was a good response to Reason’s Polis love:
Notorious G.K.C.
The to-be-sure clause:
“As representative of one of the more liberal districts in Colorado (encompassing Boulder and some Denver suburbs), Polis does hold some traditionally Democratic positions, such as supporting the Affordable Care Act, emphasizing non-fossil fuels, and backing hate crime laws.”
Yet it’s possible to work with him on issues where we agree.
Now, assume someone from the other side of the aisle. An anti-libertarian who supports military spending, a larger federal welfare state than libertarians want, and “right wing fundamentalist” policies on cultural issues. Yet at the same time this person is a homeschooler, denounces the whole idea of government-run schools, advocates for educational freedom, wants to tackle entitlements by adopting benefit cuts, and wishes to restore work requirements for welfare and limit disability claims.
Wouldn’t that be someone you could work with?
Won’t you guess his name?
Yeah, Eddie could have a quick wit at times. Although I’m not entirely sure if he was trying to goose TOS for the Polis love or generate Santorum love. But, it does put their arguments in perspective.
I wonder if Eddie comments somewhere else now?
Can’t I hate them both?
Not if you don’t want to be labeled a bigot by certain people
Santorum love
The love that dare not speak its name? With creamy topping?
Lucifer?
More proof they are the same.
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/taking-a-knee-in-the-culture-war/
Taking a ‘knee’ on the culture wars. This is why Rare > TOS
SimonD asked on the thread last night about TCU.
They are ranked #26 in my ranking. Their big issue is Jackson St. That may be the worst team I have ever seen a playoff contender schedule. The last time I saw one close was Cincinnati the year 5 teams went undefeated in the regular season and my system had them below TCU and Boise St because of it.
If TCU had played Jacksonville St instead, who is a very good FCS team, but still someone they would have beat handily [my Yellowjackets beat them 37-10], they would be ~19th.
One of the core elements of my system is that you are who you schedule. If you schedule weak, it is because you know you are weak.
Today’s SJWs make Abigail Williams look like an amateur.
For those of you who still look kindly upon NZ…
there was an election three weeks ago but no one got an absolute majority. After weeks of negotiating, they’re going to have a coalition government of Labour, Greens, and NZ First (kind of a Pat Buchanan-ish nationalist party). First major priority? Free university education:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11935250
They also plan to dismantle charter schools which “have sucked resources and energy from our system.” AND, they’re probably not going to enforce the previous government’s policy of arresting student loan defaulters at the border.
I blame Peter Jackson.
But really, it’s a return to form after a short respite from the stupidity.
I almost feel bad for TOS – they deserve a better class of troll
It’s horrid over there. I now stopped reading the comments and just read the article.
*wanders into Lion cage*
yeah, right