After a week on the road, I’m home and once again ready to dish up the news. And it was in a few ways a fun week, mainly because the hotel I stayed at had NFL Network, so I was able to enjoy watching the Other Ravens take the field and demonstrate the culinary art of preparing Puree du Dauphin. And to see the Astros cook Molé de Doyers (I’m not a fan of the Astros, but I’m always happy to see the Dodgers flail). Anyway, busy news day, so with no further delay…
Muller takes his first scalp. Let’s have a pool, betting on which ham sandwich this will be; proceeds will go to the Almanian! Memorial Beer Fund. I have $1 on Manafort.
Cuba is, shockingly, a hotbed of racism. I think what Gurriel was trying to say was, “Be careful in the parking lot afterward, Darvish inherits his driving skills from his mother’s side of the family.”
This is from the Department of Shit That’s Wack. It’s not a handicap, it’s… something something culture, and anyone who works on technological fixes to restore hearing is clearly the same as Hitler, with Alexander Graham Bell being its Goering.
…the Deaf community is increasingly endangered by… a scientific community racing toward a cure for deafness without considering the ethical ramifications. There seems little concern about, for example, what inherent value a language or culture can have, or what it might mean to knowingly pursue its extinction.
Anyone who spends time in Wisconsin nods their head knowingly at this story.
And finally, the obligatory Old People Music. As far as I know, this is the only existing video record of the guy who was on a plane with Louie, Dizzy, and Miles. Died far too young and it still kills me that I never got to see him play.
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First?
Seems to be that way
This is from the Department of Shit That’s Wack. It’s not a handicap, it’s… something something culture,
Even before hovering over the link, I knew it had to be about “deaf culture”.
And this is the actual first, since it quotes from the post.
Where’s your dancing number gif?
Ask the edit fairies, since they don’t let us embed our own gifs.
And for asking that, you’re on the road to getting a cat-butt.
Such petulant overlords they are.
Anybody can imbed their own gif, I believe. You just gave to know the secret password.
Tease
“Swordfish”
::beatnik finger snapping::
“Podesta”
“blueberry pancakes”
Scrotum
Woodchipper
1 2 3 4 5
That’s amazing, I have the same combination on my luggage!
Fuck off, slaver?
And I even had my own cat-butt jpg I wanted to share, but NOOOOOOO!!!
This topic thoroughly covered/addressed on ER – Dr. Benton’s son Reese.
Dittoes.
RIT hardest hit.
*ahem* that would be the MILITANT deaf culture.
The deaf community can be a little off. Personally, I like my vibration sensors.
I can say something which could be construed as misogynistic, because this being a libertarian site, there are no women around.
I badly want to bang a dead chick. Both to hear the weird sounds she makes, and because if she’s facing away from me I can say the most dirty, depraved things I can think of with no repercussions.
I badly want to bang a dead chick.
Best Typo Ever.
Or IS it…?
Or best cry for help ever.
I badly want to bang a dead chick.
Wow. Uh, not sure I’d feel comfortable admitting that anywhere. Props to you for your courage!
Brave!
Does your perversion qualify you for a letter in the lgbtq… victim hierarchy?
I’m sure we could. We could call them dead-kin cause necrophiliac is so degrading.
Huh. Maybe the family friendly rating will finally disappear.
My Girlfriend’s Dead https://youtu.be/tjFPxrDWpUM
So I’m off for a few minutes configuring the new router and next thing I know everybody’s gone full German.
Do you know who else went full German?
David Hasselhoff?
Vidkun Quisling?
“I can say the most dirty, depraved things I can think of”
Why can’t you do that anyways?
Atanarjuat?
We’ve written a story for every topic here.
I’m glad to see Putin is doing his part to de-escalate the NK nuclear showdown. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-27/putin-test-launches-missiles-as-russia-holds-nuclear-drills
He’s following the rule of America’s pain is Russia’s gain. Unfortunately, our own leaders are usually far too eager to help him.
takes his first scalp
I’m guessing small potatoes or else the name would have been leaked.
Or there’s a D next to the name.
I noticed Panetta was out yesterday saying the dossier thing should get the DNC investigated.
It’ll also be fun to see if it’s for being less that 120% honest with investigators.
My money is on Manafort
Yeah, that’s going to be fun.
It’s very likely to be small potatoes, and they’re trying to get him to flip on the bigger names.
Our neighborhood Halloween party went well but I was glad when everyone left. I spent a small fortune on food ‘n’ beer ‘n’ wine and only 20-25% of it was consumed.
That’s a shame. People just don’t try hard enough anymore
Everyone is just getting too old to party like the old days – funny considering they could have walked home. I stuck to a single gin ‘n’ tonic and a small glass of wine.
So you’ve got a lot of spare wine to consume yourself. Why is that a bad thing?
^^^THIS^^^
We still have leftover beer from the last Glibs meetup. I know, that sounds unbelievable, but everyone kept going down to my basement lab to vape with bacon magic and neglected the alcohol.
Vape with bacon magic.
Nice euphemism
Basement lab is a funny name for sex dungeon.
It might have been all the meth from the lab.
I tried my best to eat everything.
*sobs then hits “vape”*
Hmmmm, hungry again…
I hate having to throw away good wine
No such thing as good wine.
Too flavorful?
Smells like rot and tastes like crap. Too little alcohol to be worth it for the buzz, so really no positive to the whole mess.
Completely agree with UCS. Most alcoholic drinks taste bad, but wine is just awful. I can’t think of a worse tasting drink.
I’m not a fan of the tree bark flavor. Too acidic for me anyways.
Yeah, I’m not a wine guy.
UCS prefers his intoxicants to be flavorless and colorless. He only drinks white lightning, diluted with distilled water.
I hate when I overbuy.
Makes me want to punch a Nazi.
“Ve have vays ofh making you purchase.”
Same thing happened to me a couple of weeks ago. I had an oyster roast and over half the people who RSVP’d saying they would eat oysters either no showed or didn’t eat any oysters. So, based on their RSVP’s I was left with 2 full bushels. I also had a ton of alchol leftover.
Fake news, they said he was in there all night only drank
(from fox news, not wapo, cuz they don’t open for me even in incognito)
CPRM is exactly correct. Could be a cover-up of some sort to.
Why Icehouse? So strange.
He had his choice of everything in the cooler and drank the worst shit possible.
I got the first top plate for my new tube amplifier build – a picture
and then realized that I no longer had enough terminal strips or nuts ‘n’ bolts in my stash of stuff. *sigh*
Wish I had the time to do stuff like that. My technical skills are languishing from disuse.
For the tube people out there.
https://www.zazzle.com/robotron_vacuum_tubes_t_shirt-235400571993333855
That shirt is an effective contraceptive.
How Not to Meet Girls and Influence People.
You can’t get those tubes tied.
It’s for those that already have or don’t care about the chicks
Who did the machining? Front Panel Express?
Yeah. I could get it down cheaper by using some of the local machine shops but it’s easier for me to use the FPE software – lots of tweaking to get the measurements/fit right.
So I can’t keep up with classifications these days do audiophiles count as nerds or as hipsters?
Nerds, not even a close call.
I’d like to see it when it’s done.
I’ll post some build pictures as I go along. Final project write-up with be on my blog.
I have to start getting ready for work, and my knee is killing me. To make sure you’re days all go better: Harvey Weinstein in A Path to Wellness Part 5:
INT—CHUCK E. CHEESE—NIGHT
Ted and Harvey enter the restaurant trying to look inconspicuous. Ted nervously pats the gun on his hip. Harvey’s robe catches on the velvet rope, he struggles and gets it free, just in time to stop his unbuttoned pants from falling down. They get their hands stamped by the attendant.
HARVEY
We didn’t bring no kids. We’re meeting some friends, for a birthday party.
Ted nods nervously, an awkward grin on his face. The attendant gives a quizzical look, and lets them through. The pair make their way through the restaurant, having to randomly dodge running children. The siren on an arcade game goes off and Harvey jumps, then he composes himself. They make their way to CHUCK E. CHEEZE (or the guy in the mascot outfit).
HARVEY
I’m a LOST BOY.
CHUCK E. CHEESE
Do you have a License To Drive?
HARVEY
No, but I can Dream A Little Dream.
CHUCK E. CHEESE
Ok, this way.
Chuck E. Cheese motions to the back of the restaurant and heads that way. Ted and Harvey follow. Chuck E. Cheese leads them to a door marked ‘Management Only’, and opens it, motioning for them to enter.
CHUCK E. CHEESE
Go ahead.
Ted and Harvey go through the door and it is shut behind them.
INT—HALLWAY-CHUCK E.’S DEN—NIGHT
Ted and Harvey walk down a dimly lit hallway lined with glass windows into rooms with red lights. A hostess leads them down the hall. Behind each window is a stereotype of a sexual proclivity; A man in a gimp mask, an asian girl in a school uniform, a young boy crying, a sneering transvestite, a furry and so on. Ted looks on in disgust.
TED
What the fuck!?
HARVEY
Remember pizzagate?
TED
The guy who thought there was a child sex ring in a DC pizza shop?
HARVEY
Yeah. Wrong pizza shop, and so much more than child sex.
Harvey stops to leer at one of the windows, then snaps back to the moment and continues down the hall.
Harvey (CONT’D)
People like me, we tend to travel. Whether we are in entertainment, news or government. We needed a…safe space, that was available anywhere we went.
TED
This is fucked up, even for me.
Harvey stops suddenly and turns to Ted.
HARVEY
Right now, this is the only place to hide, so just fucking play cool!
TED
Whoa. Lead on Kemosabe. We got shit to take care of. I’ll deal with all of this later.
Ted makes a clockwise pointing movement. They resume walking down the hall. The hostess opens a door and motions for them to enter.
HOSTESS
And what is your order?
HARVEY
What is vintage of the thirty-two tonight?
HOSTESS
Twenty-two year old Brazilian.
HARVEY
We’ll take that.
INT—CHUCK E.’s DEN SUITE—NIGHT
Harvey shuts the door, leans against it and slides to the floor. The suite is lit in a red light; small tables around the room are topped with buckets of ice with champagne nestled inside. Richard Cheese’s cover of NIN’s ‘CLOSER’ plays over the speaker system. Harvey begins to rub his groin.
TED
Fucking stop that!
HARVEY
Sorry, nervous tick.
TED
You mind explaining what the fuck is going on?
Harvey jumps up to an accusatory stance.
HARVEY
No! Why don’t you tell me?! You’re the one who seems to know so much. Who is this ‘inside man’?
TED
We don’t have time for this horseshit!
HARVEY(PARANOID)
You seem to know too much! This feels like a sting!
TED
Listen, I’m just…
Ted is interrupted when the door to the suite is flung open and a naked BRAZILIAN WOMAN is cast into the room as the door shuts behind her. She has a look of fear in her eyes, she notices one of the champagne bottles, lunges for it and smashes it to make a jagged weapon.
BRAZILIAN WOMAN
Não me toque os filhos da puta!
TED
Now calm down there honey; we ain’t lookin for trouble.
They circle eachother in a tense standoff.
TED(CONT’D)
What the fuck is goin’ on!?
HARVEY
It’s the number thirty-two I ordered.
TED
What?! This is all kinds of fucked up! Can you at least keep her quiet! I don’t wanna get found out.
BRAZILIAN WOMAN
Chegue um passo mais perto e vou cortar seus testicais!
HARVEY
Don’t worry, the suites are sound proof. But I had to order something, or they’d get suspicious. Just, hold on.
(TO BRAZILIAN WOMAN)
Eu sou famoso. Eu posso te fazer um emprego.
The Brazilian woman calmy sets down the broken bottle and takes a seat.
TED
What the fuck did you say?
HARVEY
That I’m famous and I can get her work.
Just then TED’S PHONE buzzes as a new call is coming in and it is on vibrate. He looks at the screen.
TED
Here are your answers. I’ll put it on speaker.
(TO THE CALLER)
Yellow. You got Ted.
INSIDE MAN
Did you, get the package?
TED
Yes I did. Safe and sound.
INSIDE MAN
Good. I won’t make this long. We don’t know who’s listening.
Meet at the rendezvous in 24 hours.
TED
Gotchya.
The call ends.
HARVEY
What was that? That didn’t answer no damn questions! Listen I’m a very impor…
Ted pulls his gun and fires a round into Harvey’s leg. The Brazilian woman smiles and claps.
HARVEY
You fuckin shot me! Why the fuck did you shoot me?!
TED
Cuz you’re a piece of shit. Now wrap that up and get some sleep. We got a long road ahead of us.
Harvey rips a piece a piece of his dirty tattered robe and wraps his leg. Ted plops down on the plush bed and tilts his hat over his eyes.
I will continue with the assumption that this fiction, for my own mental health.
It is, because that doesn’t describe me at all.
you would have nailed the Brazilian chick after shooting Harvey.
10/10 can’t wait to see this optioned into a movie.
For that to happen, CPRM will have to put in a little couch time.
Perfect.
We need these as their own posts (like Hat & Hair and Woman Wednesday) so that we can link directly to them.
Wait…there’s more of these? I need to read them!
…the Deaf community is increasingly endangered by… a scientific community racing toward a cure for deafness without considering the ethical ramifications. There seems little concern about, for example, what inherent value a language or culture can have, or what it might mean to knowingly pursue its extinction
My wife used to work on an interdisciplinary team that installed cochlear implants and followed up with therapy to use them.
Inevitably, the most resistant parents to having their deaf children hear were wealthy white progressives of normal hearing who were vehemently opposed to
allowing their kid to hear normallynot contributing to deaf culture.Cases where the parents were both deaf were sometimes resistant, to a lesser degree. They were concerned about the kid missing out on their experiences and being unable to relate. That could be considered culture too, but I’d consider it a different angle.
All other parents were signing up their children as fast they could. I mean really, talk about miraculous technology. We live in an age where we can give deaf children the gift of hearing! Yet, progs still want to deny that to the children.
I have often considered which would be the worst sense to lose and I usually come to hearing. Sight is limited to what’s in front and blocked by physical objects. Sound is from every direction and through objects.
STEVE SMITH COMES IN EVERY DIRECTION AND THROUGH OBJECTS.
Touch is the worst to lose.
I’m a little paranoid about that – lot of lepers where I grew up in Indonesia, and the intro to book 1 of Thomas Covenant was a little scary – but I think I could manage on the whole. Sight is definitely the big one for me – that basically just leaves music, audio books, braille, nothing else.
For me personally, it would be sight. I could still do my job and earn a living without my hearing. (I work with fuys who have spent a lot of time in engine rooms or in artillary battalions, who are all but deaf) If I lost my sight, I would become a dependant. That would be horrible for me.
Every time I look at the position some prog holds I see it through the lens of ‘is this going to make our society better or worse?’, ‘is it going to empower people or disempower them?’. It is the same answer every time. Everything they want makes the world a worse place for the individual.
This bitch wants to prevent medical progress and keep handicapped people handicapped. On the whole they want to turn all of western civilization into the Soviet Union. Poverty, misery and oppression is their goal but they must destroy western culture first. They are evil and insane.
I couldn’t slog all the way through that dreck. Is she deaf? Did she ask any deaf people if they would like to have their deafness cured? Or is she making that decision for them. If she isnt deaf and thinks it’s so spiffy maybe she could voluntarily have her hearing destroyed.
She wouldn’t have to ask, because every leftist knows what’s best for other people. And what’s best is for them to be miserable peasants.
As long as my dick works, that’s all I care about.
IOW, being a quadroplegic is OK, but not a quintoplegic.
…the Deaf community is increasingly endangered by… a scientific community racing toward a cure for deafness without considering the ethical ramifications.
As someone who feigns deafness on a regular basis, the have a point. Is itb ethical to force those people to hear the incessant cacophony the rest of us are subjected to every day?
https://youtu.be/w3kbfZ5_868
Yes, because no way is deafness worse than losing your special snowflake status. Nothing for them to worry about anyway, it will be 5000 years before the FDA approves the cure.
Wonder if the Deaf Community would be so gung ho if they had to foot the bill for all the accomodations that are made for them?
“Sure, you don’t have to be cured. But you need to pony up $40K for that assistant that converts the teacher’s lecture into sign language for your kid. Oh and you have to pay an extra $20 month for TV subtitles if you want them. And no, the govt isn’t obligated anymore to have the signer translating in the background of all our speeches anymore.”
You want you culture? Pay for it yourself.
The comments on unique deaf signing rhythms was interesting as a cultural phenomenon, and I kind of like the “beanbag” method of getting someone’s attention (Mrs. Whiz would not approve, however). But generally why can’t they just let each deaf person decide for themselves if they want to partake of a cure?
And in the category core government functions there is a bill in the Romanian Parliament to supplement the nutrition of children by giving every school child k to 8th grade 350 grams of honey per month. From select honey retailers off course
But they said ‘giving’. That means it’s free and no one can profit from free, right?
Honey? It’s freakin’ fructose. That’s pretty transparent.
It has magical properties. And if you get enough, you can make mead out of it, which has even more magical properties.
You have a point…
It’s a conspiracy to undermine big mead.
Honey is vile. I would be trading that shit for something better.
What the hell is the matter with you?
Were you born without taste buds?
WTF. Honey is delicious. Especially in a cup of hot green tea.
You know who else liked honey in green tea?
You have to make mead out of it.
Also there is a scandal going with a company that bough hyperbaric chambers for 125000 dollars and immediately sold them to the government hospitals for 900000 a pop. I mean I get corruption and graft but what happened to good old fashioner just sell it for double, not 6x price? Seems a bit greedy to me. The were not even operational after the hospitals bought them. But then again the scandal only came to light after a night club in Bucharest called Colectiv burned down with hundreds of victims which ended up in hospitals with useless hyperbaric chambers.
I mean I get corruption and graft but what happened to good old fashioner just sell it for double, not 6x price?
It’s sad that politicians, criminals, amd their fellow travelers only get called on their shit when they get too greedy.
“Instead, Gurriel dug himself out of most of the hole he had created but not all of it, as it isn’t clear whether he fully appreciates the cause of the controversy. That would be on his employers, rather than him.”
Oh FFS. He apologized. His explanation was acceptable and Darvish took it like a man. No need for this ‘fully appreciates’ garbage. THAT’S precisely why we’re mired in this oversensitive world and it manifests itself into idiots complaining about Corn Pops.
https://youtu.be/ccwfmGe5CDw
Holy shit. Seth McFarlane is prescient.
I don’t think it was prescience. I think it was some fevered wet dream from his cesspool of a soul (or whatever the bookkeeping system he has that takes the place of an actual soul).
Yeah, what a nothingburger. I don’t watch baseball but if they don’t have it already, expect a fresh round of “sensitivity training” for the players and audience.
it manifests itself into idiots complaining about Corn Pops.
OMG dey’s gentrifyin’ muh cornpops now!
I have my coffee, wife is making bacon, mmm bacon. I have a fifth of bourbon sitting here waiting for someone to drink it. I guess life is good.
If you start in the bourbon right now, you could have it polished off amd be headed back to the liquor store by noon GST (God’s standard time)
^ This guy gets it
I dunno. I think if I finish this, I won’t be going anywhere and wifey will be saying something like ‘You drunk, Mr. Hyperion, and silly…’ Translation ‘no sex today’.
Yale ‘decolonizes’ its English department. Give Shakespeare and Chaucer the axe. No news on if Milton is safe.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/its-a-tragedy-that-yale-english-majors-dont-have-to-study-shakespeare/article/2638802
“…It’s time for the English major to decolonize — not diversify — its course offerings,” the petition added. “A 21st century education is a diverse education: we write to you today inspired by student activism across the university, and to make sure that you know that the English department is not immune from the collective call to action.”
Words. There are none. The blinding evil ignorance. It’s…astonishing.
“Meanwhile, the newly developed Comparative World English course, which debuted this fall, is taught by English professor Stephanie Newell.
Her research focuses on “the public sphere in colonial West Africa and issues of gender, sexuality, and power as articulated through popular print cultures,” according to her faculty bio.”
Awesome. An English degree from Yale is now completely worthless. That’s all we need. More ignorant millennials running amok. This shit is serious now because they’re cutting students off from Western history. As if what we’re seeing currently in the streets isn’t enough with millennials, wait in 10 years when they’re in control or in the real world. It’s gonna get worse before it gets better.
Next up….France removes Moliere. Italy cans Dante and Germany puts the kibosh on Goethe.
This is the face of New Progressivism folks.
Not pretty, eh?
Her research focuses on “the public sphere in colonial West Africa and issues of gender, sexuality, and power as articulated through popular print cultures,” according to her faculty bio.”
Most people in colonial west africa didn’t speak English, Ms. English Progessor. (the previous word was an autocorrect error, but I like it) Maybe you should do your English research in places where English is the primary language. Like maybe, western europe?
You have that backwards. English served as a lingua franca in British Africa for centuries, whereas, English really only became popular in Western Europe in the post-Cold War era.
Wasn’t colonial west Africa French?
Some yes, some no. West Africa includes places like Ghana, The Gambia, Nigeria, and this place that is still part of the UK. That’s why I specified “British (West) Africa”.
Oh yeah, Nigeria and friends. Well, the perfessor could have been a little more specific.
As we’ve learned from the BBC, they spoke pidgin.
Meh
Because Chaucer and Shakespeare are both studied in English Poetry 1, these expanded options mean that a student could graduate from the program without ever reading either of these authors.”
They’re not not teaching them, the students “could” choose not to study them, also we studied Willy and Chaucer in high school, I would imagine any Yale English student is going to be familiar with them already.
No man. No. It’s not ‘meh’. Not me it ain’t.
So basically anyone who’s graduated from these institutions should now be completely toxic to employers because their indoctrination is a net negative.
It isnt the face of new progressivism. It’s just the face of progressivism. As I pointed out above everything they do is designed to cripple western civilization, to destroy our morals. It’s just plain ‘ol fashioned demoralization.
Fucking Yale’s credibility into the ground is the plan. I read some of the screeds written by the student protesters at Harvard. They had the language skills of a freshman high school student.
I agree. I call it ‘New’ because they seem to have ‘graduated’ to a new level of absurdity.
If you look at the things said in all of the dictatorships in history that people dont remember it’s the same ol’ crap. Chavez got dick cancer because the CIA shot him with a cancer ray from space. I dont remember the gibberish Ghadaffi used to say but it was along the same lines. The Soviets were full of it too. Alex below nails it: “Communism requires people willing to not stand for anything so they can believe in anything, no matter how insane.”
It is new here, I will give it that. I never dreamed that people here would allow themselves to fall for the brainwashing.
And that’s what’s at play on campuses. Cut students off to keep them ignorant that way it’s much easier to sell the ‘comparative literature’ con job. Shakespeare stood in their way.
That’s why we SHOULD make a stink about this.
I agree. What I dont understand is how much they dont get it. Hillary is running around pretending she won. Academia is openly preaching communism. The media is incessantly telling bald-faced lies. The military is teaching social justice. The country is so divided and the pinkos are so intransigent they are going to end up setting the country on fire.
What do they really think will happen if they put Trump out of office?
What do they really think will happen if they put Trump out of office?
True believers are not living in the real world. They have been slurping up leftist propaganda their whole lives and actually believe the shit being fed to them. Trump destroyed their world when he beat Hillary. They imagined another 8 years of progressive policy bringing us that much closer to their utopia.
Their hatred of the man that stymied their totalitarian ambitions blinds them to the actual consequences of their actions. They want trump gone, but have thought no fit her than that.
“the collective call to action”
Maybe it’s just me, but that has a sort of Orwellian ring to it.
And the “progressives” claim to be these genius erudites who are standing up to these dumb rednecks who want to burn books.
There might be some crazy evangelical parents out there who freaked out about their kids reading Harry Potter, but I’d bet everything I have that the “progressives” are far more likely to have Nazi-style book burning parties in the street.
Progressives are literally devolving. I don’t get it.
Raging hatred of the West and whypipple.
They’re going to look like human pugs a thousand years from now. Can’t breath, run, fucked up faces, completely useless except as yapping housepets for whatever comes later.
Have you ever tried having an intelligent conversation with one of them? They’re literally retarded. I can’t believe they’ve even retained the ability to speak at this point.
Communism requires people willing to not stand for anything so they can believe in anything, no matter how insane.
It’s a sort of gene mutation where they’ve been marked for extinction. It’s just now getting to the final self destruction phase.
An English degree from Yale is now completely worthless.
As worthless as a law degree from Harvard.
That’s no shit.
Worthless to people who want your skills as a lawyer. Highly valueable to people who want your skills as a graft peddler after you have gotten into government. Powerful politicians usually start out as incompetent lawyers.
Obama was Lionel Hutz minus the humour!
I badly want to bang a dead chick.
I’m pretty sure there aren’t any “goodly” ways to bang a dead chick.
Don’t other the dead-kin
And thus I copulated with the goodly corpse of my dear departed?
Yeah, I am so hoping this was a typo..
Seems like you would want to warm them back up first.
Maybe sous vide at 98.6?
My second wife did a pretty good dead iimitationin the bedroom.
You know who else did a good dead imitation?
DB Cooper?
I am not taking the bait! ?
You know who else didn’t take bait?
The fucking trout last time I went out?
Elvis?
Broke down
Primary reform is being looked at seriously by diverse players, from the grassroots to the ivory tower. Most recently, 75 Florida voters showed up at public hearings convened by the Constitution Revision Commission to urge it to put a referendum for open primaries on the 2018 ballot. Right now, 3.5 million Florida voters are legally barred from voting in publicly funded primary elections. Harvard Business School also issued a report citing America’s political system as the “major barrier to solving nearly every important challenge our nation needs to address.” The report called for reform of the partisan primary system as a critical step towards restoring competition.
Well, if that’s what the genius squad at HBS thinks, that’s good enough for me. Let’s face it; our governing class is being held back by an electorate too dumb to know what’s good for them. How will we ever get the trains to run on time?
lolwut
Yeah, I know how grateful I was to have a choice between a Democrat and another Democrat, instead of a Democrat and a Democrat pretending to be a Republican last year. It made the choice of not voting for Senator really easy.
If you have too many choices, then it’s harder for the Top Men to tell you who to vote for and swing the margin of fraud in their favor.
“America’s political system as the “major barrier to solving nearly every important challenge”
Methinks they aren’t talking about the electorate. They are talking about the constitution.
Newsweek runs ‘racist’ op-ed asking if all ‘conservative loudmouths’ are Irish-American
The mask keeps on slippin’!
Irish ain’t a race. It’s a state of intemperance.
Re: Vhyrus and Swiss Servator’s discussion in evening links:
I will be doing a “Mercenary Month” of movie reviews in the future – the original “Dogs of War” book had an awesome (lengthy, in-depth sequence on the “legal” purchase process in Europe – even if it was technically the 60s).
Actually got three themed months planned – probably start with “Non-Western Westerns” in January, roll right into a full month filmography of a “related” director, and then a little later start “Mercenary Month” – probably including “Dogs of War”, “Black of the Sun”, “Wild Geese” and one or two others.
“Uncommon Valor” technically qualifies as a mercenary movie.
Isn’t that a lot more recent though (and big budget)?
80s, and meh. How ‘big budget’ is patrick swayze?
the guy on the left (“sailor”. who was the bounty hunter in Raising Arizona, and winner of Tough Man contest in the 1970s) owned a bar in Nashville when i was in college. we would drink there on sundays just to politely say hello to him when he came in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_C2cbqPkx0
Loved that movie.
A lesson in explosives.
Ok, I’m thinking of a few different titles from the last 5 years – I’ll see Thanks.
Speaking of non-western westerns, have you ever seen El Topo by Jodorowsky? If not I highly recommend it. Then check out Holy Mountain (not really western but is one is the weirdest thing I have ever seen on film).
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6Uqb4Jy0GTg
It’s on my “eventual” list – I love his comics, but he’s got some weird stuff – read a lot about it and seen a lot of images….sooner or later. In this case “non-western westerns” excludes Spaghetti westerns (and Western Euro stuff). I’ll probably cover more spaghetti flicks in the future.
Magnificent Seven or Seven Samurai for merc movies.
yes. i would choose the latter of course.
i think SS was the model for all later, ensemble ‘mercenary’ movies. like dirty dozen, kelly’s heroes, etc. – which don’t technically fit the mold, but have the same ‘recruitment’/planning/action model.
True…but those are both extremely well known – in this case, thinking more of the 20th century merc thing – like the titles I mentioned earlier. “Dogs of War” (the book) was a huge influence originally. If there was ever a movie made for “Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner” I’d check that out.
Will probably add that valor one to the list.
esp. since only on barebones dvd…no blu-ray apparently (may dig around more online).
The original version of The Wild Bunch is a possible.
Again, that runs up against my general time frames. I’d probably go with “Duck, You Sucker” before that thematically.
Wild Geese is a good choice – an excellent film that is underappreciated.
Beau Geste is another excellent film that fits your time frame.
Dammit, another one I need to look up – even if it is French Foreign Legion (not traditional mercs). I read the book in high school – always remember the old Peanuts gags about the various movies, but haven’t watched one yet (maybe one of the 3 playing on TCM years ago).
Looking at boobs will increase your life expectancy by 50%.*
http://archive.is/O2WNg
*from bogus unproven research, but why take the chance?
here is where i admit: i’m an ass-man
That does seem to predominate around here, if not elsewhere. Oh well, personal preference. We should set up a survey monkey to get the raw data and dig deeper to try and understand why.
You’re not alone Q
B(.)(.)bs!
BLAMMO.
I like everything.
Except feet. Feet are gross.
Nothing like a high quality upper lip tubercle.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21676178
I think most genetic ass-men will admit that “mere photos don’t do it for them” either. its sort of a “you have to see it in motion” type thing.
Get out of here boob man, nobody wants your kind here….
Commie.
Can I just say boobs and butts are about equally attractive. Also, the bigger the better on both.
You had me until “bigger.”
You like small boobs and butts? Well, I guess girl’s that aren’t genetically blessed need love too.
I guess I’m as ass man. People are always telling me ‘You’re an ass man’.
Is there a comma missing in that quote?
I am an ass man myself, but Q is slowly converting me.
That body on 13. Damn.
Yeah. Damn, indeed.
24 as well.
Can we get a post of curvy dead women, for the necrophiliacs amongst us?
Be careful what you wish for…
http://www.gettyimages.com/photos/sexy-dead-women?excludenudity=false&mediatype=photography&phrase=sexy%20dead%20women&sort=mostpopular
I’m probably on some list now for clicking that link.
I’d just settle for curvy and prefer that they are alive.
1 – re: the racist baseball players link
dear god, i never thought the NY post could go full SJW. Where is the new columnist who writes a column called “WHO GIVES A FLYING FUCK? EVERYONE SHUT UP” I wish to donate to that publication. the rest can die, as far as im concerned.
2: clifford brown
friends dont let friends post shitty recordings of good musicians: stop them before its too late
Not surprised – it’s a sports writer. Get someone like Kyle Smith on it – except he writes for NR now.
http://5newsonline.com/2017/10/27/13-year-old-boy-injured-after-monument-falls-on-him-in-heavener/
And the evidence continues to point to the only possible solution. Ban monuments.
Pretty sure there’s camera footage of him dry humping the statue. Look, he’s a teenager. there’s a 1-in-4 chance i’m right.
Li’l Antifa monument-toppling gone wrong?
more like 2 in 5 if I remember my teenage years right. 2 in 3 if it’s a statue of Athena or Juno or any other historical female.
WHY? Why, indeed?
Why is it that people who know all about the infamous prison on Robben Island in South Africa have never heard of the prison on Cuba’s Isle of Pines? Why is Marxism still taken seriously on college campuses and in the progressive press? Do the same people who rightly demand the removal of Confederate statues ever feel even a shiver of inner revulsion at hipsters in Lenin or Mao T-shirts?
These aren’t original questions. But they’re worth asking because so many of today’s progressives remain in a permanent and dangerous state of semi-denial about the legacy of Communism a century after its birth in Russia.
Good old Bret Stephens, standing up to the limousine commies. And yet, he feels obligated to signal, like a POW blinking out a Morse code message of defiance, his solidarity with the people seeking to rewrite American history.
To be sure, he lambastes the progressives who look back with dreamy longing about what might have been….
Why is Marxism still taken seriously on college campuses and in the progressive press?
I blame public schools. In public school I learned that FDR saved the economy and that Nazis were bad.
I don’t remember even a passing mention of gulags. I had never heard of Khmer Rouge until I was in my 20s. There was no material on The cultural revolution, the great leap forward, the holomador, Katyn forest, struggle sessions, or any number of other commie going ons.
Shorter, I blame ignorance.
That stuff is icky. Better to spend the first two months of class talking about city upon a hill over and over
It’s not that. We were taught a ton of material about the holocaust. We had a survivor come and speak at our school. We were taught about the nazi death camps and the SS. We learned about the Indian removal programs and the trail of tears. There wasn’t an aversion to curriculum that showed atrocities. There was just an aversion to curriculum that showed commie atrocities.
Ok true. We went to the Holocaust museum (a trip from NC to DC).
But my recollection of my history class (and american lit) was too much focus on the city on a hill.
Really US history at this point needs to be split in 2. Students barely get to WW2 by the end of the year
truth.
my highschool education was literally one nonstop series of ‘explorations of American sins’
it was in college when i actually decided to read a bunch of books about stalin + po pol and mao etc. and it wasn’t at anyone’s prodding. i was just curious. meanwhile, my room-mate was taking a course – an entire course – on 20th century atrocities, which were – again – mostly focused on US actions. they read about Mai Lai, Dresden, Hiroshima… and 1 or 2 other things.
“it was in college when i actually decided to read a bunch of books about stalin + po pol and mao”
I think those are banned on university campuses today. But you can probably get a copy of the communist manifesto for free and they might throw in a Che t-shirt.
Teachers’ unions also hold a pretty significant degree of control over what is taught in schools.
This probably won’t make an “UnCivil Cooks” article, so I’m going to ramble about it here.
On my way back from my interview, I decided to detour and visit my mother before continuing the last hundred miles to my house. (Actually I warned her a week ahead of time I’d be stopping by). We had baked maccaroni and cheese for dinner, and I started thinking about other pasti-substitutes in a similar dish. By the time I actually threw something into the oven today, it bore no resemblance to the original inspiration, but here it is:
Gnocchi Deep-Dish Casserole
* 1lb Gnocchi (either frozen or made from scratch)
* 20-24 oz grated cheese
* 1/4 lb ground bison (or lean ground beef)
* 1 small onion, chopped
Start a pot of water, preheat the oven to 350, and melt a small amount of butter in a skillet.
Brown the onion, but don’t go all the way to caramelized. Add the ground meat and cook until cooked through. Remove from heat.
When the water has finally started boiling, add the gnocchi and cook. Slightly under done is preferable to slightly over done if you can’t get it just right.
Mix gnocchi, 1 lb of cheese, meat and onion in a buttered cake or casserole dish. Top with the remaining 4-8 oz of cheese.
Stuff in oven. Wait until cheese browns.
Remove, serve.
If kind of tastes like pirogis.
Stupid me, I gave you the wrong numbers for the cheese.
It was actually only 12-16 oz. Sheesh, 1-1.5 lbs of cheese would swamp the rest of the ingredients.
Yeah, that did seem like a lot of cheese.
But yeah, me, I will happily eat beef, cheese, potato, and onion in pretty much any combination.
The Washington Post seems to burying the lead on its own breaking news.
Two stories from the front page today:
—-“Conservative Website First Paid Research Firm that Later Produced Explosive Trump Dossier”
If you didn’t already know, you might not think that the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee paid for the dossier.
You might think this rich GOP billionaire paid for it, and you might think it significant (despite the fact that Paul Singer was not running the Republican nominee and The Washington Free Beacon is not the RNC).
Here’s an analogy . . .
Hillary Clinton defrauded the RTC by diverting taxpayer bailout money from Madison Guaranty to Bill Clinton’s election campaign by way of a failed real estate deal, but that’s not what’s really interesting. What’s interesting is that several registered Republicans are known to have obtained loans from Madison Guaranty long before Whitewater?!
—-“Trump, Republicans Steer Russia Probes in New Directions”
Despite what you may have read in our paper last week, Trump is steering the investigation away from himself–as the noose tightens around his neck!!!
Shit like this is part of the reason I laughed so hard the night Trump was elected. Seeing the media narrative disappear like a mirage in the face of reality was fucking hilarious. They’ve been backpedaling ever since!
It’s gonna happen again. Reality is still what it is, no matter what the media says, and we’re still not crazy for knowing they’re full of shit.
The proggie media will not report honestly about any of this. They could arrest hillary clinton for corruption tomorrow amd the headline would be.
As the probe into the Trump campain’s collusion with Russia continues many questions remain about how trump and Putin discredited the now indicted former presidential candidate. Rumors circle about secret meetings between russian agents and Trump’s campaign managers.
“Conservative Website First Paid Research Firm that Later Produced Explosive Trump Dossier”
A lot of other people paid them too. They are mercenaries. I am sure they have a long client list. What did this conservative website pay them to do? What came of it? So they had some customers before Hillary and the DNC conspired to manufacture dirt on Trump. So what?
Typical mendacity. This is why they should be called liars to their faces over and over and over. This is why they have no credibility. They really think people are buying their shit? Anyone who has ever raised a child can see through that.
“So, you say you have cookie crumbs on your face because you put the cookies away and must have gotten some crumbs on your hands and later you scratched your face. You didn’t eat any at all. Ok, sounds legit.”
Saturday bonus boobs.
http://archive.is/nE6j1
You can thank me later.
Talk about killer bodies, 1, 17 and 25 clearly take their vitamins.
17 will work.
At first I thought 17 was Colby Smulders
mmmmm…Colby Smulders
CILF
Just emailed you, btw.
The mid-rift tattoo on #18 is atrocious.
8. Don’t even care what her face looks like.
I think that’s an old Rosie O’Donnell pic.
#34 is Mrs. Lt_Fish?
#33 maybe? Not sure about the connection to 34.
Violence in Barça.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4781526/catalan-parliament-declares-independence-spain-violence-fresh-elections/
Fuck you, cut spending. That’s all.
Works for everything…
I was watching a Conspiracy Theory video about the JFK assassination, and the claim was made that one type bullet caused the multiple wounds to JFK and Connelly (the “pristine bullet”), but another type had to have been used to explode Kennedy’s head.
Is this correct, or was he speaking from ignorance?
Not an expert, but maybe one type was jacketed and the other was a hollow point.
Yeah, that was the claim…
Why would Oswald load two different types of bullets in his rifle?
If the first shot (that hit Kennedy in the upper back/lower neck) had been a hollow point, what would the wound have been like?
Try shooting a watermelon with a full powered jacketed military round, it pulps it. I doubt a hollowpoint was required to do that to his noggin.
The exit wound would be magnitudes of order larger.
From ignorance.
After about 2500 fps bullets behave very differently with regards to terminal ballistics. Under 2500 fps a hard bullet will just make a pinhole unless it hits a bone. Bone fragments can add significantly to a wound. Over 2500 fps the shock waves the bullet creates in flesh causes cell membranes to disintegrate. The speed, size and shape of the bullet change the wavelength of those shockwaves. That means that even a hard full metal jacket can create a lot of damage it will make a small hole in the skin but internally it turns large amounts of soft tissue to turn to jello. The exit wound wont be much either but inside there is a hell of a mess. If that bullet also hits a bone the bone fragments are shrapnel that cause massive damage.
Shot through the neck with a 90 grain bullet at about 2700 fps wouldn’t look like much from the outside. One hitting the skull would be much more dramatic.
*those shockwaves also effect the bullet. A 12 gauge slug at 1700 fps will kill you through about 20 feet of water. A high speed bullet, even a 50cal browning, going over 2500 fps will fragment within 16 inches of water and fail to strike a target at even 3 feet. A piss ant pistol like a 45apc is much more effective at an underwater target than a 30-06. Unless the target is on the surface of the water the 30-06 is useless.
I’ve read arguments on both sides about something hydrostatic shock, where the trauma experienced by the entire body is so high from a high velocity round that it creates serious damage at high velocity independent of the damage caused by the physical bullet itself.
I bet Vhyrus knows a shit load about this.
Some people say it’s a myth. Other people swear by it. It’s like the enterprise vs. the millennium falcon or pirates vs. ninjas argument of the gun world.
It makes a difference in the rationalizations for the kinds of guns people carry and how hot the loads they use are. Anyway, I think that’s what you’re talking about?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrostatic_shock_(firearms)
In arguments about the differences in stopping power between calibers and between cartridge models, proponents of cartridges that are “light and fast” (such as the 9×19mm Parabellum) versus cartridges that are “slow and heavy” (such as the .45 ACP) often refer to this phenomenon.
—-from the Wiki above
The old folks don’t really argue about semiauto vs. revolvers anymore, the old timers have moved on to preferring their 1911s.
Then these 9mm kids come up with the new-fangled “science” to say their smaller, faster, bullets do more damage, . . .
Then the argument usually turns into one about overpenetration.
Then us young ‘nes talk about how you don’t have to overpenetrate to get the same effect, that their 1911 only holds half as many rounds (and it’s huge ), etc., and the response is usually something to the tune of, “Get off my lawn!”
When I was shopping a carry gun I attempted to do the research and went through a staggering amount of data. So much time and energy spent to conclude nothing except that any gun is better than no gun. And a rifle is better yet.
I ended up going 9mm route because almost all my gun nut friends (including a Federal ammo executive) recommended it, it’s easy to get and relatively cheap.
I still want a .357 though.
.357 is a wonderful cartridge. I own a old style Ruger Blackhawk with a 6 inch barrel and spent many a happy hour shooting it. Since my model is pre-transfer bar you can only safely carry five rounds in field conditions but it is a great hunting cartridge as well.
The javelina, mule deer and antelope that I have taken with it all went down instantly and did not even try to stand.
It depends on what you’re using it for.
If you’re going into the back country, there are a lot of black bears around, and you want to be able to defend yourself, a .357 is probably the lightest packing, smallest, best defense against black bears.
It will only make a grizzly mad.
Again, I would be concerned about overpenetration from a self-defense in public or home defense perspective. Yeah, I know even dove loads in a shotgun will go through three layers of drywall, but with a .357 magnum, you’re not getting the spread, and it’s going a lot further than that.
If it goes through the person you’re shooting and hits someone else, too, you’re in trouble. The FBI uses the rounds they use for that reason. I think they want 12″ of penetration at minimum with ballistic gel and no more than 18″. . . . or so I’ve read. So, the question is that if you need a load that runs hotter than that, what the purpose?
Seriously, there are reasons for having something like that.
I’ve read cops in certain areas claim that when they get into a shootout, it’s likely to be someone firing through a window of a mobile home at them. A .357 magnum will penetrate that, apparently, where a 9 mm load won’t. If you’re in an RV or trailer home, you may want to be able to fire through something like that.
Bears are a good reason to carry a .357.
I think some of the most fun guns to shoot, look at, have, etc. are the Henry lever action rifles that fire both .38s for plunking and .357s. They’re remarkably accurate, don’t kick much, they look great, and they make you feel like Chuck Conners.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNeySEOXUcI
What’s not to like about that?
. . . other than firing it in self-defense at home and not only accidentally killing someone sleeping in the next room but also down the street.
“Some people say it’s a myth.”
Those people haven’t shot oodles of live targets. They argue from theory, I am telling you my experience. I have done tons of personal experiments with nearly every round you can think of. It is very real and very obvious if you actually do it. Nothing to argue about…you just do it and see. My 25-06, 7mm RM, 243 etc turn flesh into a slurry and bone into dust. Slower rounds smash through with lots of bleeding and bone fragments. Hell you can tell the difference with wet newspaper. You can tell the difference in the way the bullets deform. Slow bullets look like they have been hit with a hammer. The fast ones you can see where the lead in the core flows instead of just being deformed from physical denting.
As for the 9mm vs 45 people they are wasting their breath. ER docs will tell you that you cant really tell the difference in the wounds. They are both in the same speed class…below 2500 fps so the point is moot. No pistol is going to get 2500 or over…well one will. Taurus makes a revolver in 22 hornet. Other than that no pistol is going to perform like a rifle and I am not sure about the short barrel on the pistol. It may not allow for the velocity. I have a hornet but it is a Ruger No. 3 rifle. I never tried the pistol. In a pinch I would be happy to have a 9 or a 45. Hell, a .22lr. Given any option I will go with my Model 29 Smith with the 7.5 in barrel.
Back in the 1950s this argument played out ad infinitum between Elmer Keith (heavy slow) and Roy Weatherby (smaller fast) in the sports magazines. Of course endless amounts of wind was expended around campfires over the 30-30 vs the 32 Winchester. It is brand loyalty. My god, I have both and they are identical. I have to be damned careful not to mix the rounds and rifles because you cant tell them apart in your hand and the target cant tell the difference either. I doubt it would blow the gun but I dont want to find out what would happen trying to stuff that .311 bullet into a .308 throat. I did once accidentally fire some .41 mags in my .44. The brass actually expanded and sealed the chamber so well that I didn’t notice until I discovered 6 oversized .41 Mag brass at the reloading table. That was a real ‘oh shit!’ moment and a mistake I will never make again.
I am rambling. yes Ken, hydrostatic shock is very real. It happens at 2500 fps and above. It’s ugly. Or cool, depending on ones view.
.45 vs. 9mm, ford vs. chevy, harley vs. triumph . . .
These are the kinds of arguments that make any enthusiast hobby fun.
We argue about shit like that here all the time.
Whose worse, hitler or stalin?
. . . not that it matters!
Is this a parody site? If not, I’m still calling BS.
https://theeagleonline.com.ng/man-sleeps-with-57-women-in-24-hours-ejaculated-over-5ml-sperm-each-round-to-set-new-world-record/
““As soon as he finished his 57th partner, he was rushed to hospital for treatment to his penis,” said one official.
“In the past, men have actually chafed their penis so much attempting to break the record that they’ve had to have skin grafts; and in one severe case, amputation was actually required.”
Yikes!
Folks in the state above mine that have been contemplating “should I vote for the establishment Republican two weeks from now?” now have their answer. Thanks, CNN, you can unite coalitions better than any campaign could possibly accomplish (he’s now up by 2 points according to the latest released poll).
Gillespie is running again?!
Yes, that cruddy squish is, but I still want to see him win so I can drive to NoVA to witness Screaming At The Sky Day.
Also hello fellow NC glib
Hey, calling Trump and his supporters racist white supremacists didn’t work last year, what should we do this time? Double down! That should do it!
The responses are a thing of beauty.
Righties seem to have a better sense of humor than lefties, that’s for sure.
True lefties have no sense of humor beyond.
“Trump is a poppyhead!”
“yeah I know, right! Heh heh”
They are the speech police for God’s sake. Remember the college lefty paper that tried telling jokes to prove that they do have a sense of humor and the readers screeched until the paper had to shut down? That is some funny shit.
An apartment building burned down. Everyone killed was black. The blacks protested and wanted to know why. Fire chief announced it was because it happened in the middle of a work day.
Two rednecks drowned when the truck they were riding in went into the water. The driver survived but the two passengers drown. Why? Because they couldn’t figure out how to open the tailgate.
Lefties have it backward, like everything else. Only non-racists tell jokes like that and only non-racists laugh because they know it is parody and those stereotypes are bullshit. Lefties take themselves too seriously and by extension everything else.
I want CNN to keep going. States like Colorado will start to get much less blue the more that they keep doubling down on this insane strategy.
So he’s up by 10 points. Not surprised.
Meant to post this one yesterday too: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/453162/support-marijuana-legalization-reaches-all-time-high-including-majority-republicans
If only Sessions would just take a chill pill and back off on all this. Let it proceed organically.
Fighting the War on Drugs is only unpopular when a majority of people get burned by it to say “that’s enough!” That’s why the public panic about drugs hasn’t really ended, just shifted from the devilweed to the pain pills. Unfortunately, being a libertarian on drugs is just not intuitive to the Average Joe.
It’s often a sort of hypocrisy. Most people I’ve known who are full on drug warriors drink a lot of alcohol. Which is ok, because it’s totes not a drug. Or it is, but it’s ‘their’ drug, which makes it totally different.
If the Reps would embrace legalization they’d be in power for the next 30 years.
I don’t know. Most people don’t seem to give a shit that they’re filling jail cells with poor drug users. They see the consequences of the drug war as consequences of drugs.
This. People seem to think every problem associated with drugs would be multiplied by legalization.
Basically, if the thuglicans would just drop the socon and neocons and be more libertarian, the Democrats would just cease to be a major party. Outside of their virtue signaling on identity politics, what do they have? Communism? That’s not going to work out too well for them.
Nick Gillespie, is that you?
I’d say I’ve been called worse, but I’m not recalling…
Hey, it means you have a cool jacket to keep you warm during this Libertarian MomentTM!
Damn, how do you get the TM to be a superscript?
find it on a web site and copy paste™
here is a useful site for such a thing®
Testing™.
Sweet. Thanks for that site.
I thought Nick went vegan and gave up the leather jacket. Probably going with polyester sweater vests now.
“drug whose most notorious effect is shiftlessness”
Citation needed.
It certainly had that effect on me in one year during college but that was my choice.
That jumped out at me as well, I know tons of pot heads, not a one fits the idle slacker stereotype. Hell my 75 years old father smokes as much dope as anyone and I can’t get him to quit working, he’s not lugging sheets of plywood around these days but he’s on the job site everyday.
Are you not familiar with all those lazy, shiftless Negroes in Harlem, what with their “reefer” and the “Jazz” music?
I heard Marijuana makes the white wemmenz want to have the intercourse with negroes.
+1 Phish
true story: i am somewhere in this video. i’m the guy with no shirt on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gNnXfGd6WQ
I am not watching that. I prefer to believe that your avatar is you.
Don’t worry, Sessions is going to save us from this reefer madness.
Let me get my shocked face.
***
Leaders at the church that George Washington attended decided that a plaque honoring the first president of the United States must be removed.
Christ Church in Alexandria, Virginia will take down a memorial marking the pew where Washington sat with his family, saying it is not acceptable to all worshipers.
“The plaques in our sanctuary make some in our presence feel unsafe or unwelcome,” leaders said, a reference to the fact that Washington was a slaveholder.
“Some visitors and guests who worship with us choose not to return because they receive an unintended message from the prominent presence of the plaques.”
“Many in our congregation feel a strong need for the church to stand clearly on the side of ‘all are welcome- no exceptions,’” they concluded.
A memorial to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee will also come down.
The decision comes in the wake of renewed controversy over whether statues honoring Civil War figures should be no longer honored. The debate broke out again over the summer after a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia killed one and injured others.
President Trump expressed concern that the censoring of Confederate generals would lead to dishonoring Thomas Jefferson and George Washington as well.
***
http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/10/28/george-washington-church-plaque-honoring-first-president-must-come-down
As noted here many times, this was never about Confederate generals and it was never going to stop there. It’s all about rewriting history and making people ashamed of the country in general.
It is demoralization plain and simple. Destroy the values of society and the society crumbles. It wont happen like they think it will.
I’m waiting for them to want to tear down Monticello or at least repurpose it for LGBT minority youth.
Pretty much like ISIS blowing up historic sites across the ME. Anything outside the ideology must be destroyed as heresy.
-2 Buddhas of Bamiyan
Exactly my thought. I guess that’s gone down the memory hole.
I’ve always said, had these people been born 7,000 miles away, either east or west, they’d be happily ululating “Allahu Akbar!” while slitting someone’s throat.
Every totalitarian is a leftist at heart, and vice versa. All of you disgusting little plebes believe the wrong thing, so we will force our world on you amd you will like it!
I cant remember the guys name but the garden of eden utopia can only exist without free will was an excellent analogy. yes, Utopia requires coercion.
Nah, they’ll just turn Poplar Forest into some sort of camp for deaf lbgt children.
“”unsafe””
a word, like ‘equality’, given far more power than it deserves
That plaque could spring off the wall at any moment and go whirling around the place, cutting throats and braining people.
Right decision, wrong reason.
Having a plaque inside the church seems a bit idolatrous.
Also not a fan of interweaving the state and church. As Washington is largely reveared as a Military and political leader
Fair enough. How about outside the church? Except that is also now Not OK.
I would probably be ok with outside
Re Brooklyn church and REL. Of all the image problems the church has and should remedy removing a plaque outside is not at the top of the list
These churches are private entities and so are free to put a plaque up to anybody they want. If their potential customers are not happy they can find a business willing to take their donations.
“Christ Church in Alexandria, Virginia will take down a memorial marking the pew where Washington sat with his family, saying it is not acceptable to all worshipers.”
How do you just throw away something like that?
That’s so embarrassing. How did these people manage to become so ashamed of themselves?
But I’ll bet that the number of people they turn off by removing them is greater than the number of people offended by them.
“…saying it is not acceptable to all worshipers .”
I suspect that literally nothing is acceptable to all worshippers. So they might as well tear the whole church down.
Leaders at the church that George Washington attended decided that a plaque honoring the first president of the United States must be removed.
“George Washington Slept Here.”
+1 Jack Benny
NES Glock.
Awesome.
Does it come with a snarky dog
I pumped thousands of rounds into that damn dog and he’d never die.
You need the NES flamethrower attachment for that to work.
Cease and desist letter from Nintendo in 3…2…1…
I had a pretty solid looking xbox lightgun years ago (more like a magnum – a little front heavy) – fairly realistic. Bought it for House of the Dead 3 on Xbox. Only used a couple times before I upgraded TVs – then found out they didn’t work on flat-screens. 🙁 Would love to get some new gun games like HOTD, etc for Xbox 360 and HD-DVD. Not super realistic like those sniper ones, but something for Time Crisis, etc. One of my favorite arcade games of all time is still Alien3: The Gun (probably the only game I ever beat in the arcade multiple times).
“Precision Syndicate announced that this piece will never be mass produced for purchase.”
Never mind the BATFE coming after you, imagine the liability issues for selling something like that.
It’s really just a cerakote job and some stenciling, right? If you can’t do it yourself, I’m sure there’s an art student near you who can.
For all the attorney Glibs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSLXoaVV7vQ
Flashing back here for a moment, but on the Eye of Argon link I didn’t see anyone mention jumping down to the bottom where the transcriber note was, which included this
I skimmed as I scrolled, and laughed nearly to tears at the absolute wretched perfection of overwrought writing. It was as though Hillary herself had possessed SugarFree and commanded him to pour forth florid and terrible softpornscififantasy.
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Dilute! Dilute!
gesundheit
I used to run around with a pretty rough crowd. I used to date some girls that fell on the crazy side of the hot/crazy spectrum. I’m glad I don’t anymore. I just saw this on the news. A girl I dated about 10 years ago was ambushed and shot in a parking lot of my extremely small hometown. The rumors of who did it are people I used to know. I’m glad I don’t deal with people like that anymore.
http://www.insidefortsmith.com/ozark-woman-injured-in-parking-lot-shooting/
Back in my mid to late twenty-something years I was considered the old man in the local music scene. I’m outliving a lot of those “kids” – who seem to drop off from suicide, ODing, or motorcycle accidents at an alarming rate.
I used to run around with a pretty rough crowd
Were they too pretty or too proud?
Yeah, I hear you. A lot of the people I hung around with in my youth are now dead, in prison, or just totally fucked up in one way or the other.
Drugs are a helluva drug.
You dated her, eh?
Are any of those kids yours?
I don’t think so…
Surprise
I never cared for the “melting pot” metaphor, in part because it treats a nation of immigrants like a stew with all the cultures cooked out of it.
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Within our borders, Protestants don’t fight Catholics, Sunnis don’t go after Shiites, Armenians share neighborhoods with Turks, and a family that can trace much of its ancestry to slavery occupied a White House built in part by slaves.
But that tenuous construct is breaking apart. We are retreating to our tribal, ethnic and primitively prejudicial quarters. Everything is about race and identity. We come from privilege, or oppression. We choose politicians based on whether they help our tribe or hurt People Like Us.
This is President Trump’s legacy.
Yes, yes, of course, Tim. Trump is the one beating that identitarian gong like there’s no tomorrow. Trump has spent years and years lecturing school children and college students about the vile historical stain which is America. He has been coaching them on how to slice themselves into ever-thinner and more exclusive segments of the population, and to define themselves as the victims of oppression. He has trained them to view co-operation and coexistence as defeat.
You know who else had a legacy of leading people to their tribal, ethnic and primitively prejudicial quarters.
Moses?
Obama?
Crazy Horse?
“”Stupidly, the left is playing its part in this crackup’”
No!?!?
playing its part in, being the primary driver of, same thing, right?
That is some breathtaking projection there. Wow.
Scenes from Old Coney Island
Some of those old rides are fantastic.
The last wooden coaster in Los Angeles County.
The viking funeral was accidental.
I sure hope that slant gate derails the Astros’ momentum.
“Music for a Found Harmonium”, Otherwise known as “Pedro Wins the Election”
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Damn time travellers.
NYT editorial board takes time out from regularly scheduled culture war coverage to ask a question
That so many questions have been raised and left unanswered raises yet another serious question: What exactly is the true mission of American troops in Africa?
I’ll take Nation-building, for $200, Alex.
the word “obama” doesn’t appear in that editorial
That fucking irks me.
When lefties are talking about military adventurism by Republicans, they talk as though the president is personally responsible for everything that happens (“George W. Bush is a murderer!”) but when a Democrat is doing it, they just act like the military is wholly unconnected with the commander-in-chief.
They’re dishonest people. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be lefties.
The NYT editorial board be the first to call Trump racist if he doesn’t deploy troops to intervene in the next round of African atrocities.
And if he does do that, they’ll call him a racist.
Ken, I stand corrected. They bulldozed the BBQ last week as part of the mall redevelopment.
Oh well.
That tri-tip sandwich with Gouda was awesome.
There’s still that BBQ joint in Compton, in the middle of the industrial center. You know that one?
Last I checked, it wasn’t marked on any map, and I’ve had trouble finding it in the past. It’s more like every time I pass it in my industrial real estate wanderings, I stop.
I usually stop anywhere I’m hungry if I see a lot of cops out front, and the cops in Compton all seem to eat there.
Cops always know the best places to eat.
Jay Bee’s Bar-B-Q!
Now I know why it never shows up in a search of Compton. It’s technically in Gardena, but I’ve always thought of that area as Compton.
They only sell whatever they made that day, but I could eat those beef ribs every day.
I used to live on the rough side of town for a while, but one of the nice things about it–there are a lot of small BBQ restaurants over there.
They also make these peach pies over there that really bring it all together. You don’t go over there expecting to see whatever you want. They put it up on a handwritten sign somewhere if they’re selling something, and just because they’re known for the beef ribs doesn’t mean they make them every day.
Not really. Security training/assistance has always been a thing – especially for SF – my buddy’s National Guard EOD unit sent a platoon to Botswana earlier this year for two weeks of training the locals. Putting a drone base there does give us ISR over a large region supporting France and other allies stopping AQIM, etc.
A footprint for something like that is a lot more efficient for developing allies and local militaries than having to go in every time LRA or someone else starts getting antsy again. Yes, it would be nicer if they could stand on their own two feet, but I think for the investment, they’re getting there a heckuvalot faster than if we weren’t there – for less money too.
Plus we have been performing these missions in Africa (and elsewhere) since the Cold War. A young Captain DblEagle and his SF team worked in multiple African countries and a later DblEagle had his troops working in some of those same countries over a decade ago.
Given the proper conditions Lt F is correct. With these Foreign Internal Defense like missions you can stop many problems before they grow too large for very little resources. The problems are usually two-fold. First- The country leadership doesn’t want to improve the conditions for their people and just want to remain in charge with some sweet sweet Uncle’s sugar. Second- The US Embassy country team is usually too junior to be efficient, too liberal to believe in anything but Unicorn farts, too incompetent to be assigned to any worthwhile embassy and most commonly an awful stew of all three options.
180,000 US Army personnel in 140 countries, that is our “footprint”.
No, I don’t happen to think that is a wise use of our resources. Nor do I particularly care how many Africans decide to butcher each other over whatever tribal grievance they’ve been harboring for a generation or 10. If they want to redo their national borders because European cartographers (aka imperial powers) were complete fucking morons – that too is their business, not ours.
Your criticisms are fair and should be considered since often our military involvements serve little to no direct benefit to US security.
The 180,000 number needs some unpacking though. That number includes US Army members of our various embassies, forces assigned to NATO countries, Korea and Japan. It may even include personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan. Again it is a worthwhile discussion on the value of our current wars and treaty commitments. But it is not realistic to argue about our sweeping hegemony when the largest numbers of countries we are militarily present in is the few soldiers working in an embassy.
the word “obama” doesn’t appear in that editorial
Why would it? Sub-Saharan Africa was an idyllic oasis of peace and tranquility until Trump got his mitts on the nuclear football.
Almost the entire continent of Africa is paradise, because not many white folk. And the ones they have are being drive out by benevolent leaders like Mugabe. Didn’t they give that guy some sort of peace prize and a human rights leadership position in the UN?
He was appointed a Goodwill Ambassador for WHO but it was revoked after an outcry: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-41713919
Alright, are you guys ready for a libertarian response to Trump’s speech on the opioid crisis?
Err, not sure why it goes to his profile, I copy and pasted from the article page. Strange. https://townhall.com/columnists/stevechapman/2017/10/28/trumps-weak-response-to-the-overdose-epidemic-n2401410
Wait… what? I thought you said a ‘libertarian’ response?
I thought when it came to real Libertarian thought that Chapman, Shika Dalmia, and ENB were the first names on everyone’s list?
To be sure.
If Hillary was president (shudder…), and gave the exact same speech, word for word, Chapman would write a glowing puff piece about it.
JERBZ
That France needs change is a given. Its unemployment rate is 9.5 percent, and has risen even as the picture has improved in countries worst hit by the European crisis like Spain, Italy and Portugal. Nearly one in four young people is unemployed.
But how to generate more jobs provokes fierce argument.
Unions pin blame for high unemployment on weak demand for goods and services. Pay workers more, they say, and spending will be unleashed through the French economy, generating jobs.
The unions are often caricatured as intransigent obstacles to progress, and they have a way of amplifying that image. Ask the CGT — a major union that has struck the most combative stance against the changes — for its plan to fix France. Its leaders call for cutting the workweek from the current 35 hours to a mere 32. Then, they say, more people will be needed.
“They need to just hire more people. We call them ’employers’ for a reason.”
I believe Obama said exactly that about unemployment here. Employers have a duty to hire people.
Bigot: all-black families are a tool of black supremacy, and blacks should feel obligated to miscegenate with whites to have whiter babies.
How that isn’t the obverse of this patently racist spiel, I can’t tell. Does she realize she’s arguing for black people to form mixed-race families in equal measure to her halfwit theory on disrupting white family formation?
These people are too stupid to form even first-order conclusions from their risible ideas.
The only way I can rationalize it is if she thinks of blacks as being pretty much everything across the color spectrum, in which case all “people of color” are an undifferentiable brown demographic lump, and white-only families are one uniform stock of WASPs. So in order to extinguish the mythical White WASP Stock of her race-conscious nightmares, they have to be intermixed with enough brown playdo to make them as brown as the rest of these brown people.
But I’m the racist because I want people’s rights and civic obligations treated identically, regardless of color.
Fuck me, what an exhausting exercise in pretzel logic.
There is no more racist turn of phrase gaining common usage today than “people of color”. It gets me mad every time i hear it used. It is the worst type of collectivist bullshit, lumping all of humanity into two groups.
Black bodies?
Well, they can’t have all people just cooperating regardless of race in some kind of “free market” where the only thing that matters is whether you want to trade with someone! They need to divide everyone into “people of color” and “wypipo” so that they can keep riding into office on the racial tension!