Houston prepares for their World Series parade today. Deshaun Watson will probably come watch with a pair of crutches. Poor guy. On a positive note, I don’t think riot police will be necessary. We’re civilized here. I’m not pointing fingers. I’m just making an observation.
The NBA is still playing games. I’ll let you know how that’s all working out when the playoffs get here. Busy slate on the ice last night. Bruins topped the … who is that, Army? Oh yeah its Vegas. I hate that name for them. Its horrible. Oh well, I’m not in marketing for them so my opinion means jack. The Crapitals topped the Islanders. Ottawa beat Detroit. The rangers shorted out the Lightning. The Flyers gave St Louis the Blues. The Blue Jackets are fired up as they drill the Panthers. The Winnipeg Jets handled the Dallas Stars. The Flames extinguished the Penguins. Colorado beat Carolina. The LA Kings defeated the Maple Leafs. And the Minnesota Wild sent those frogs back to Montreal with a loss.
Across the pond, Arsenal drew and Everton, in what is a recurring theme, got their taints handed to them in the Europa League competition. They don’t get some points from their upcoming clashes with Watford and Crystal Palace, they can kiss the baby on this season. Hell, they might start checking out to see how the Championship patch looks on their 2018-2019 uniform (I ain’t calling it a kit, sorry).
That’s all for sports today. These days are going to be lean for a while unless we can come up with something meaningful. But college basketball isn’t too far off. We can make it. Of course I could always fill it with more of…the links!
Sorry. Not sorry. Canadian government gives $100,000 to a woman whose mother was deliberately tortured by them for an extended period of time under the MKUltra program. Compare that to the US system giving dumbasses 20 times that for spilling coffee in their own lap and other dumb shit and it makes you wonder how compassionate Trudeau and his government really is.
Smells like someone farted at CNN/DNC HQ.
Somebody over at the DNC and maybe George Soros himself needs to tell Dem operatives to shut the fuck up. Because all they’re doing by airing their dirty laundry is exposing how they literally colluded with a foreign government’s agents to influence the 2016 election. Which they’ve been maintaining is somehow illegal. I don’t agree with that, but they don’t want a Special Prosecutor (read: Supreme Inquisitor) snooping around in their business lest the real shenanigans with their Pakistani spy IT staff or their pay for play scams enriching their foundation while the State dept doles out access and favors come out. Somebody is about to get Seth Rich’d here soon. Then all this gum-flapping will come to a halt. Wait and see.
Liberals further humiliate themselves. I’m fine with them wanting to take their business elsewhere after the President of Papa John’s said the NFL protests were hurting business. But to sink so low that you’d be touting Little Caesars? That’s pretty bad. I sure hope they don’t find any details about Mike Illitch, RIP, being pro-life or something. I’d hate to see them praising the quality that is CiCis next.
“I guess trying to find a non-racist pizza is our new world, everyone,” model and cookbook author Chrissy Teigen tweeted on Thursday.
In Teigen’s replies, one chain shows up again and again: Little Caesars.
“Little Caesar’s founder Mike Ilitch quietly paid Rosa Parks’ rent,” a Twitter user wrote, with a claim that showed up several times.
While unlike other pizza brands, Little Caesars has not responded to Schnatter’s statements, it’s reaping the benefits of the boycott threats.
Dozens of people have taken to social media to praise Mike Ilitch as an example of what a pizza chain founder should be — in contrast to their criticism of Papa John’s founder Schnatter.
I don’t even know where to begin dissecting that mishmash of retarded-ass shit. But credit where its due: at least they didn’t praise some abomination of deep dish and call it pizza.
I’ll repost the headline exactly, because I don’t know what else to say here: No bond for man who shot himself in penis while robbing hot dog stand. OK then.
Yeah, if they tried pulling this shit at my son’s school, I’d probably burn it to the ground. Or I’d complain peacefully while removing him. But I would seriously be outraged.
So fucking racist, I just can’t even
Yeah, this makes fucking sense. Just to be clear, the student darkened her skin with makeup to look like a black character from a movie, which is so racist as to warrant the action.
No, not racist at all. And if you have to ask the difference, I won’t even dignify you with a response, shitlord.
The black character she was portraying with her Halloween costume was from a movie whose plot revolved around two black FBI agents using makeup so they can pass themselves off as a pair of white women, which is perfectly ok. Ain’t having double-standards grand? I eagerly await the lawsuits over this.
And just in case you haven’t noticed, there’s a plague in Madagascar. Like a serious, no-bullshit, deadly plague that’s spreading rather quickly. Damn. That’s bad.
80s weeks always have to include these guys.
Have a great day. And a better night. And an even better weekend.
Van Halen was what the pot smokin’ Camaro driving low brow kids listened to.
Not exclusively those Camaro-driving punk kids. I drove a 1970 T-bird with a Shelby Super Cobra Jet in it and didn’t smoke at all. And the first concert I ever went to was the 1984 tour. I was too young to drive to it, but I did drive to the 5150 show a month after I got the car.
And FWIW, I used to eat piece of shit Camaros for breakfast.
A little early for dick wagging innit?
I had a 65 LeMans, never smoked ciggies and attended the 1984 tour as well. Eighth row – I couldn’t hear for over a week. It was glorious!
Oh man, a 65 LeMans. An all time favorite. I really loved those Pontiacs. They did so much with the front and rear of those cars to make them stand out from the Chevys and Oldsmobuicks. a 65 GTO is probably my dream muscle car at this point in my life.
Mine was just a boring sedan, but I loved the stacked headlights. I had silly cragar mags and the fucking thing wouldn’t start if it was at all cold, but it was still cooler than the japanese econoboxes my friends had.
’76 Suburban, aka the “Party Wagon” as all my friends decided that having me drive would maximize the ratio of drunks to drivers in the party.
83)Yeah well my first car was a ’86 Ford Escort hatchback. It got me around and I sunk a wad of cash into a great sound system. You weren’t living in ’92 if you didn’t feel the 2 sub woofer boom thudding “Children of the Sun” by Billy Thorpe cruising thru the hood. True story.
And we hooked up a 4 hose bong in the middle console. I also had a bumper sticker: Rehab is for Quitters.
My first car was a ’68 Firebird – originally a 350 car, it had a 400 out of a Lemans. Red with a black vinyl top, the latter impossible to keep black no matter how may chemicals I threw at it. It would quickly fade to gray.
Whoever ordered it made some weird decisions, like the 2-speed Powerglide transmission but also the rare 160mph speedo. Also drum brakes all the way around.
It was a rolling pile of problems that I never had the teenage money to fix – turning on the windshield wipers would make the entire car lose power! And the rust on the rear wheel wells. Still had enough get up and go to outrun the police. 😉
I never understood the point of the 2-speed Powerglide transmission.
It was the first automatic… And great for drag racing.
Otherwise, me neither.
A little early for dick wagging innit?
“Rick said you wouldn’t need pants since you have a need to wag your dick around incessantly.”
66 Galaxie 500 2-door hardtop, 390 GT. Helluva car. I smoked like a chimney (unfiltered Camels) and saw VH in 1980. That was in the middle of a strong if great shows starting with Led Zep and Alice Cooper in (I think) 1978.
I had a 71 Firebird Formula 400 (with the ram air hood). How I didn’t kill myself in that car, I’ll never know. The motor was lightly warmed over and recently rebuilt before I put it into a telephone pole. That thing was crazy fast, and buried the 160 speedo.
My first car was a Burnt Orange 68 Dodge Coronet 500 with a 383 Magnum. I was a bit of a rust bucket, but I did the whole chrome dress up kit in the engine and cherry bomb pipes. I loved that car. It was loud large and fast for the day.
OU812?
Nope. I hated the Haggar edition. Fucking ruined a great band.
OUMissed the joke?
Got it now. So well played that a dope like me missed it.
Bravo!
So tell me why can’t this be hate?
I hate all of you.
Dang. That was supposed to be in response to the litany of awesome cars I never had the chance to own.
Indeed.
*mulls over old 1974 Ford*
**sees your 1974 Ford and raises a 1980 Pinto. Brown Pinto. With red plaid seats**
It was a fun as hell car though. Prior owner had taken a V-6 from a Mustang and crammed it in there. Made the car quite quick (could easily take on the Japanese cars of the time – 280Zs and RX-7s). Also made it incredibly front heavy. Donuts in that car were a breeze, and I actually managed two 360 degree spins, in opposite directions, when going through an s turn on a rainy day. Actually credit that car for making me a half-competent driver…
Yeah, I wish I still had my Chevelle.
My first car was my mom’s old 1985 Caravan, brown with the fake wood. I guarantee you I’m winning every single lamest first car contest.
Hey, it was free!
Funny, I owned my parents’ Ford Windstar for a couple years because it was also free. I donated it after the transmission committed suicide and gave my parents the tax receipt I got for it.
Mine was a’78 Ford Fairmont in 1992 that I paid $200 for
*takes trophy from Chipwooder, thanks him for trying*
Not my first, but I bought a 1979 Peugeot 504 diesel for $250. A Fairmont is a Porsche compared to the French fiasco.
*takes trophy from Ron*
*sobbing*But it’s all I had!!
Someone gave me a Puegot 504 diesel for free. And I think it was a 79.
That car had the best ride. But I had to keep fixing things on it.
But I had to keep fixing things on it.
It definitely made be a better (and patient) mechanic. My brother finally blew it up while I was away at college.
I shed no tears.
At one point I had a ’69 Galaxie with a 390. That thing was an absolute beast that I often regret selling.
I also smoked a lot of weed at that time.
My first was a 67 Galaxie with the 289.
I’d love to have one again, but 2 dr and 427.
5150 was the second concert I went to although the first I had to buy a ticket to.
First was Kingdom Clone… err Come at the Arizona State Fair a few weeks earlier, that one was free with fair admission
Oh and I had a Ford Escort EXP that I drove to both
Sometimes those kids weren’t wrong. I remember visiting relatives and checking out the music selection of my older cousin, who was a few years older than me, in high school, and so cool. He had every single Van Halen cassette tape.
I had my youngest uncles, who were 9 and 10 years older than me (midcentury Irish Catholic family, y’see – mom is third oldest of nine kids). I listened to what they listened to – AC/DC, the Police, the Who, and of course Van Halen. I remember them spending most of the summer of 1984 with us after their father/my grandfather died, and tagging along with them all the time. I was 8 and they were 17 and 18. 1984 the album had just come out and they wore it out on the tape deck of my grandma’s Cutlass Supreme as we rolled around town. Great memories.
Wrong. I drove a 1970 Chevelle SS 454.
Apparently there are a bunch of mullet wearing yobs here.
And?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn8APTMyKsg
live version for DLfingR in all his glory
Van Halen enjoyed cross-over status in my neck of the woods.
Pretty spot-on for me. I first heard Van Halen’s Premier album in my Best Friend’s older brothers Camaro. We drove to the beach that summer and it was the only tape we had for the entire trip.
Van Halen II was also my first concert. Followed shortly thereafter by Rush. Both somewhere around 1979. How is that for white redneck libertarian Bona fides.
1) I’m taking my son to his first concert on Sunday—Imagine Dragons. They’re his favorite band. I’ve heard a few of their songs—not bad, although awfully derivative. And the opening act is K. Flay—I’ve only heard the one song by her, Blood in the Cut, although I like that one pretty well.
I’m actually pretty proud of his choice here, the bands are pretty bearable by modern standards. Nearly all the new music I hear on the rock station now is so twee.
I think the main thing I object to is the vocals. You never hear anybody who sounds like they drink whiskey or smoke anymore—that used to be the standard rock vocal. You don’t get much howling or yelling either, or anything that could be called “full-throated.” I mean, I like Death Cab for Cutie as much as anyone, but 90% of the new rock I hear, even the better stuff, sounds like the singer could break down in tears at any moment. Where are the Robert Plant/Paul Rodgers/Michael Hutchence/Jim Morrison/Stevie Nicks/Sammy Hagar/etc. of today?
Imagine Dragons is painfully awful.
Of course my first concert was a Christian music festival at Six Flags when I was a kid, so you win Sermon Jr.
My first concert was Rush, with Primus opening, I win again!
My first was an all-day affair at the old Giants Stadium featuring Ted Nugent, Aerosmith, Journey, and few other bands.
Front row for April Wine at the old Met Center! Eddy Money opened.
First show here was Morbid Angel, Motorhead , and Black Sabbath (long after the Ozzy years).
I saw Sabbath with Ozzy at the old Nassau Coliseum with Blue Oyster Cult. (yes, I’m that old)
I saw the Who at the Forum in ’78.
My first show was Autograph in my high school’s gym, I was 12 or so.
WTF I’d kinda old as well.
Three Dog Night was my first. First time I smelled pot as well although I didn’t partake.
If it was the Roll the Bones tour you lost even though you won. That album had Neil Peart rapping for Christ’s sake.
* hangs head in shame *
Hey I actually like that song and saw that tour.
That said of the 4 Rush tours I saw in concert that one was the worst, probably because when I caught them in Worcester Ma it was their last stop before a 4 week break for the Holidays and their heads were just not in the game that night.
Didn’t help that some moron thought that Mr Big was a good choice for an opening act
*Primus sucks!
*owns autographed CD of Pork Soda
Absolutely. Saw them with Fishbone in 1992. Killer show.
Rush, with Blue Oyster Cult for me…
Descendants – with Dag Nasty and a local band opening. Not really a concert, more like a show.
My first big concert was seeing AC/DC in ’89.
Three Dog Night. Could have been worse.
I think my first big concert was Genesis. As I recall I was about the only person in the arena who was excited when they started playing In The Cage.
Three Dog Night
#meetoo
Wow, that’s pretty fucking awesome.
My first concert was my dad taking me to see George Thorogood with three of my uncles when I was 10.
To clarify – three of my uncles came with us. They weren’t appearing with George Thorogood.
Nice! The Blow Up You’re Video Tour. That was also my first show in 1988 at the Cow Palace. 7th grade. My ears rang for three days and I think I got a contact high from all the weed.
My first concert was REO Speedwagon (they played my town’s festival, and for Scouts we ran the games and sold lightsticks, light necklaces, and other novelty light ups).
Early rave?
Squirrel Nut Zippers at the 9:30 Club. With my Mom. She was awesome, RIP.
Pink Floyd: The Division Bell tour.
When I started reading that I thought he was performing.
Then I got further in and was disappointed.
Last year I took my daughter to see Fall Out Boy. I can’t stand them, but her joy made it one of the best concert experiences of my life.
That said, she went to see them a couple weeks ago with her best friend. No way I’m sitting through it twice.
My wife did that too (Fall Out Boy) – one of the band ran up and down an aisle and high-fived my daughter while running by. She didn’t come down to Earth for two days.
I miss being able to take so much joy from something.
Totally agree. My daughter has seen Ed Sheeran and The War on Drugs in the last 4 months and she is totally over the moon for weeks afterwards. Great feeling as a parent.
Took my kids to a few concerts when they were younger, they weren’t particularly impressed although Counting Crows with Collective Soul and someone else that I can’t remember was pretty good because they went out of their way to make it family friendly (kids under 15 were free).
Recently only my 15 year old daughter has expressed much interest in going to a concert. She went to Warped Tour 2 years ago with some friends and has since been addicted to Panic at the Disco and Pierce the Veil.
JATNAS, this lead singer sounds a lot like Robert Plant, and the band’s music is pretty good. Greta Van Fleet
Of course, the best free concert they ever had in my hometown was Ray Charles. Literally had 75K plus people on this town square area designed for 30,000. And he was fantastic.
First Concert was Bon Jovi with Cinderella as the opener at the Richmond Coliseum. Parents dropped me and a friend off and picked us up at the end. Good times.
Was that about 1987? I can remember my best friend’s older brother bragging that he was going to see Bon Jovi and we couldn’t.
Yeah, I think it was ’87 because I was either 13 or 14 for that show. You grow up in around RVA? I grew up in Petersburg.
Yep. West End back when there wasn’t much out there. Where we lived was the edge of development at that time – Short Pump area was all farms back then. I was 10/11 in 1987.
Ahh okay. Did you go to Freeman HS? If so, we probably have a few mutual acquaintances.
No, although I did know a few guys who went to Freeman. I’m trying to think, but right now David Budlong is the only one I can remember. We were on the same Little League team for a few years, his dad was my favorite coach of all time. Great guy.
I would have gone to Godwin but my parents forced me to go to St. Christophers, which I despised. Still, it got me into UVA. My sister went to Godwin (unlike me, they listened to her when she said she didn’t want to go to Collegiate, the lucky bitch!), had grades more than a little better than mine, but was only waitlisted at UVA.
That’s funny, I went to U.Va also (’95), we may have overlapped by a year.
Sorry about St. Chris, even if it did get you into U.VA. Sometimes parents should listen to their kids.
Close to overlapping – my first year was 1995-96.
I got an excellent education at STC. I’ll not deny that. I just didn’t remotely fit into that place. My family wasn’t FFV, I didn’t live in Windsor Farms, I didn’t wear LL Bean boots and Duck Heads, we didn’t go the rivah on the weekends and skiing at Wintergreen. It was just a really poor fit.
My firs real concert at a non school related venue was The Cult opening for Metallica in Philly. I liked Metallica, but I went to see the Cult.
I 100% agree about what gets played on putative rock stations these days. No one makes music with balls anymore. It’s music for pussies made by pussies.
Disagree.
Examples:
Highly Suspect
Foo Fighters
Royal Bloods
many others but those are some good ones
I agree there are many hard bands out there with balls. They don’t get played on the radio. I saw Royal Blood in concert two years ago and they were great live.
Not first concert, but best concert?
For me, it was Warren Zevon. Played a show in a small bar in Birmingham in ‘93 or ‘94 timeframe. Massive storms that night, so there were only about 20 people there when he started. Just came out on stage and took requests all night. Played some of the favorites multiple times when late arrivals asked for something that had already been played. Incredible show…
Man… I spent most of the 90’s at concerts. Swing and Ska bands toured the land, and the local venue had cheap tickets (usually ~$8-12 for a show). But the two best shows I was at were probably one of the Vans-Warped tour in the late 90’s or the $5 Green Day show at Blossom back in 1994/1995. The Warped tour the one year had the Specials as a headliner, and was just an awesome day. The Green Day show became part of local legend as the show that destroyed Blossom. Blossom is an outdoor venue, and it had rained the day before. About halfway through the show, the drunk/stoned audience got bored and started a turf fight, with people ripping pieces out of the lawn and chucking them.
Blossom changed some policies after that show.
Thanks for articulating the weak voice thing. I’ve noticed that, too. It’s so not rock n roll.
Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton. My dad was country. *hangs head in shame*
Ooh, check out The Dead South for whiskey/cigarette tenor vocals.
TW: Bluegrass/Punk band.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9FzVhw8_bY
My family went to see Da Yoopers at the fair grounds, I suppose that was my first concert.
JANTNAS, I don’t think either of the bands you mentioned are actually rock bands.
Try some Five Finger Death Punch if you want to hear screaming.
“President Donald Trump has alleged that Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee violated campaign finance and money laundering laws in the run up to the 2016 Presidential Election and the primaries that proceeded it.
Trump tweeted Friday morning that ‘everybody’ is asking why the FBI wasn’t investigating his primary rival.”
Trump, Trump? Nice lede, Daily Fail.
Dr. Jane Goodall on her work with chimpanzees, and the new documentary ‘JANE’
“Hey lady, wanna see a monkey without a tail!”
STEVE SMITH HAVE 3 LEGS, NO TAIL!!
If it hasn’t got a tail it’s not a Monkee
Geez do you people even Veggie tale?
When my stepdad was out of town, we’d often go to Little Caesar’s for dinner. I liked it because they had big-screen TVs, which were amazing in the 1980s. As for the pizza being subpar, that’s just not something my siblings and I ever noticed.
Anyway, the pizzas are square because they don’t cut corners!
All I remember from Little Caesar’s as a kid is that the pizza sauce was very sweet and the cheese had a rubbery texture. I also vaguely recall the “Pizza Pizza” commercials as being just slightly more annoying than the Noid commercials for Dominos.
Pan! Pan!!
I liked it because they had big-screen TVs
I assume you had staked out the only seat in the place where you had a well-lit and distortion-free view of the screen. Because my recollection of those rear projection monstrosities was that there was about a single square yard in the room where the TV was actually viewable from.
Now that you mention it, I recall it was impossible to view the TVs while standing in line to order, even though they were in line of sight, because the angle was off. As far as where to sit, we were often the only customers in the place.
Growing up there was a Little Caesars that was only a few blocks from my house, so it was a popular place to pick up pizza if my parents weren’t in the mood for cooking.
I remember super soft crusts – almost under-cooked – same with the toppings. I did like that crazy bread though.
*barf*
Didn’t Little Caesars have the bigfoot pizza that came in a long box wrapped in paper? And didn’t they also come out with the pepperoni bread sticks? Or am I remembering another chain?
Anyway if you’re ordering CiCis for take out instead of going for quantity at the buffet you’re doing it wrong.
STEVE SMITH HAVE LONG PEPPERONI WRAPPED IN FUR.
I think Pizza Hut did the Bigfoot pizza. Little Caesar’s was the pizza they always got for school events because you got two for the price of one.
CiCis is garbage pizza, but my kids are okay with it. I load up on the serviceable salad.
I love square pizza. Locally Jet’s does this too, and for some reason during law school, our functions were always catered by Jet’s. So square pizza is now associated with law school for me. Sniff.
#MeToo: Share your story with NorthJersey
What could go wrong?
She left out the most important part- did he get his weasel wet?
I am going to guess by the “hard to get” line that he probably didn’t.
Don’t know about the first story, but the second one is legitimate rape. And unfortunately, something that would turn into he said/she said in the courts. I’m sure crimes like that are where the push to lower evidentiary standards is coming from.
I don’t know about the second one. Could be, could be another bullshit story from a girl who regrets having a one nighter with a dude who wasn’t interested past that.
She thinks he heard her say stop? Surely if she was actually being raped there would be loud yells of “Get the fuck off me!”, “No, stop!”, etc. where would be no doubt he heard. The phrasing here leads me to believe she’s trying convince herself it was rape because she regrets having sex with him.
I had a good friend, nicest guy in the world who would do anything for anyone, go through this with a girl who regretted sleeping with him because he wasn’t interested past the one night and she had a boyfriend. She pulled the same shit here, saying there’s no way she would have done that to her poor boyfriend. My bud had to lawyer up even though nothing came from it than her badmouthing him to everyone that would listen.
Yeah, her account just doesn’t ring true. She would likely be screaming bloody murder if she was being raped.
No it absolutely could be true.
Here is the thing.
Fuck this bullshit about needing to teach boys not to rape.
Sure there is some of that but we also need to teach girls not to be raped.
The fact of the matter is that 95% of guys would stop immediately if they realized that what they were doing was rape, and the story as told it absolutely was rape. Problem is he didn’t think that is what he was doing. He thought she was interested but afraid or shy because she didn’t do anything to stop him. She had about a 75% chance of stopping him if instead of timidly saying no so maybe he heard it and maybe he didn’t she had struggled and loudly and firmly said “Stop it asshole or are you really going to try and rape me?”, the other 25% she’d still have been raped but there wouldn’t really be much ground for questions about what happened after the fact making prosecuting the guy all that much easier.
Sorry, that just defies logic.
I can’t fap to this. What a fucking gyp.
*nods in agreement*
The first time it happened, I had made dinner, done the laundry and helped the kid with her homework. She waited until halfway through dinner to start bitching about the hardness of the avocados and that I didn’t buy them at the grocery store where they were on sale…Oh, sorry. Wrong #Metoo.
These are written in the same way that people write amateur erotica on the internet. This is weird. I don’t believe her in either of these instances.
Donna Brazile flees sinking ship. Jumps in the Bernie wing life boat. News at 11.
Sweet. Is she going to sink that boat too?
“Get in the raft with Taft. Get in the winning boat..”
Sorry! Wrong campaign.
There’s not a whole lot of space… Taft is rather obese.
There is something nasty in that dossier. Everyone is turning on Hildog all of a sudden.
Yes.
The great part is we get to see what petty little backstabbers they all are as it all comes apart at the seams.
Donna is up to her wrinkly ass in it, too. This attempt at distancing looks more pathetic all the time.
Doesn’t this whole story ignore that Brazile fed debate questions to Hillary against Bernie?
But that was back when everyone assumed Hillary would be the next President, so it was okay.
“Brazile alleges that she found ‘proof’ the 2016 Democratic primary was rigged in Clinton’s favor.”
And then she contributed more to it.
So there are people smarter than I, so they could answer this. Since the DNC is ostensibly private (and for that case the GOP) I’m still guessing things like by laws are enforceable as a contract. I don’t see how fixing the election passes muster in the by laws of a political party.
There may also be issues with federal election laws, as the parties are supposed to hold fair primaries or some such shit.
Oh, there are all sorts of laws about how the funds need to have particular relationships with each other, and how they can and can not “coordinate.’ It would not surprise me if any national campaign was able to stay clean of them all, even if they had every intention of doing so.
Wasn’t there all sorts of controversy in the Libertarian Party in 1996 alleging that Perry Willis and the national office did all sorts of things to ensure that Harry Browne won the LP nomination? I wonder if any party’s National Committee is ever truly “hands off?”
I’m late to commenting here because I braved the DU…it’s fucking hilarious over there. They are so fucking stupid I was crying laughing.
That Papa John’s guy drives a Camaro, and not a Tesla. What more do you need to know?
Skimming through some of last evening’s post, I saw the link about Ricketts’ shutting down his newly unionized news sites. The best part was when they talked about how surprised everyone was.
These people are precious.
Hehe.
Clitical thinking: why should sex finish when he does?
‘Ladies first’? Not in heterosexual sex. Eve Hodgson challenges the idea that sex should finish when he does
We think of women orgasming as obscene
This says much about Eve, not so much about normal people.
Oh, it’s all about Eve.
BOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hehe
“.We think of women orgasming as obscene, so we suppress it, so it seems like it should be secret, and on it goes. ” – I certainly don’t, just because idiots run film boards which should’n’t exist censor this. So who is the we?
The women I…uh…know…didn’t seem too worried about suppressing it.
Oh, humble shagging.
Yeah baby!
*humbla shabrang
humble. the other piece of nonsense was intentional.
Maybe that’s because it’s mostly men who are willing to pay for it.
Women just prefer their porn in a different medium, like the 50 Shades of Grey novel.
Men still pay for porn?
So which is it? Is the female orgasm obscene (and therefore something that should be hidden) or is it something men want to see (and possibly hammed up a little for dramatic effect)?
75% reporting orgasm compared to 40% in sex with men
Bet solo nears 100%.
No shit. Lets break this down. “Casual sex scenario.” So we are not talking about partners that have a long term commitment to each other.
Game theory interpretation: One off games, not a repeated game. Therefore each partner is just looking for their maximum payoff and don’t care about the tit-for-tat (heyOOOoo) reprisals. No reason for the first finishing partner to put in the work for the second partner’s benefit. Sex between long-term, committed partners plays by different rules. The first finishing partner is going to need to stay on the other partner’s good side if they want more sex in the future. Therefore, the first partner is motivated to maximize the second partners payoff. Advantage: Committed Relationship
Burkean Interpretation: Marriage is an arrangement in which women trade affection (including sex) to stupid young men if the stupid young men can get their shit together and get a good job and prove they can provide for a family. Once the marriage starts, a sexually unsatisfied woman is a shame, but doesn’t threaten the marriage because the arrangement isn’t entered into for the woman’s sexual gratification. On the other hand, if a man that enters into the marriage and doesn’t get his rocks off, that threatens the marriage because that was the whole reason he put down his xbox controller, put on clothing without an athletic logo, and got a serious job. When the woman doesn’t hold out for a better deal, she both gives up on making her man better and gives up on the kind of long term sexual satisfaction described above. Advantage: Committed Relationship
Evolutionary Analysis: As the Burkean Interpretation describes, men are motivated to increase production because they are sex-crazed dumbasses. Woman need to be able to exert more self control before a monogamous relationship starts in order to increase the sum total resources available to the family unit. Then, once the relationship is monogomized, they need to be able to enjoy it as much as men so that they want to engage in it so that procreation happens early and often. Even if its been a long day and they have a headache. Therefore, they need to understand the casual sex is unfulfilling and self control now leads to more sexual fulfillment later. Advantage: Committed Relationship
As a result, the female orgasm is hidden – not only in popular culture
Oh, bullshit.
And just in case you haven’t noticed, there’s a plague in Madagascar. – wasn’t that the place they were advising people to stop dancing with their dead relatives?
Yes, of course it is.
I don’t know, but I really hope King Julien does something about this.
*narrows gaze*
He may just move it, move it.
Next movie the penguins are going to have to steal the cure for the plague from a secret evil big corporation lab.
It’s a simple process – Stop dancing with the dead; quarantine the sick; and start treatment with antibiotics.
Impossible, we have to respect their culture.
Dead Can Dance
Hah, one of my favorite musical groups. (The song in the link is a Lisa Gerrard solo — for a nice DCD song, try this.
It’s a dead man’s party. Who could ask for more?
Bravo!!
Never got to see them live. That would have been a blast.
Saw them at a new years show in 86.
Maybe he’s just a Hard Man Fe Dead
Being Part of the Black Bloc Means Fear, Isolation, and Violence
We spoke to far-left activists about the mental strain and physical strain of their day-to-day lives.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8x553v/being-part-of-the-black-bloc-means-fear-isolation-and-violence
Even in a political era where outrage has brought millions of people out on the streets, the leftists who engage in “black bloc” tactics—which can range from property damage to physically confronting right-wing protesters and police—are outliers. When you choose to “bloc up” and put on the signature black clothes and face coverings, it changes your life. Not only are you risking violence from far-right activists equally willing to mix it up in the streets, but you often live with a constant anxiety of doxxing and wondering if friends, family, and employers would understand if they knew the extent of your activities.
So people who engage in violence and attack others have it tough. Poor dears… Heartbreaking really
I picture a scrawny twenty-something with snot dropping out xis nose crying “why doesn’t anybody like me?! I stomp, and I scream, and I speak truth to power, and they all just point and laaaaauuughhhhwawwaaaaaaa!”
Holy shit. My mom came into my room to bring me a plate of chicken nuggets and I literally screamed at her and hit the plate of chicken nuggets out of her hand. She started yelling and swearing at me and I slammed the door on her. I’m so distressed right now I don’t know what to do. I didn’t mean to do that to my mom but I’m literally in shock from the results tonight. I feel like I’m going to explode. Why the fucking fuck is he losing? This can’t be happening. I’m having a fucking breakdown. I don’t want to believe the world is so corrupt. I want a future to believe in. I want Bernie to be president and fix this broken country. I cannot fucking deal with this right now. It wasn’t supposed to be like this, I thought he was polling well in New York???? This is so fucked.
All I wanted was a
PepsiBernieI went to YOUR schools, I went to YOUR churches, I went to YOUR institutional learning facilities, so how can you say I’m
crazynot woke?I still quote that song to my wife when she accuses me of being crazy.
Yeah, just like that, but more snot.
I can actually see spit on the screen.
Forget about it, Pie. It’s Vicetown.
Shame is your moral intuition telling you that you are acting a fool.
What Donald Trump Thinks It Takes to Be a Man
video games – was gameregate who’d done it
What the everloving fuck?
Obama never did a fucking thing in his life. Neither did his wife. So far, his kids’ claims to fame include pot smoking and rapist-interning.
I think I’m gonna give the man-badge to Trump.
Rapist-interning is unconscionable. It’s another tool of the rich to oppress the poor. Only rich kids can afford to forgo a paying gig to learn the raping ropes for free. Poor kids need to get paid for their raping. They have bills to pay. Fight for 15 people. All raping interns deserve a minimum wage.
STEVE SMITH PAY INTERNS…IN RAPE!
But didn’t you see the bitchin’ photos of Obama riding a bike? It had a flat tire and he still rode that shit.
A FLAT TIRE.
RIDE OR DIE, BEEOTCH.
That just tells me he’s too pathetic to change a tire.
And the Secret Service is too busy whoring to make sure his tires have air (because a flat can easily cause you to crash a bike, and protecting him is their job which we pay them generous salaries and pensions for).
Have you considered the SS knew of the flat tire, considered the danger and still left the flat tire in place?
You baked a cake for us.
*punches hole in UCS’s man card*
Anyone who likes to eat should know how to cook.
If you can’t cook, you are even more pathetic than those who can’t change a tire.
Gentlemen and cads are something new?
“If Barack Obama embodied the new ideal of the progressive man”
Barf. Just barf. In 2000 years there will be a religion called obamanity. The followers will be sneered against for they’re history of oppressing others.
“both archetypes are ones we’ve never seen before”
WTF??
i know who i want to drink with.
Because, when I want t discussion on legitimate masculinity, I always go to Jill Filipovic.
Honestly, I really don’t think I’d look to any politician as my example of masculinity. If Donald Trump is boorish (and, yes, he is), Barack Obama always struck me as embodying the effete smugness of a man who went through life getting his ticket punched without doing much in the way of achievement. Hell, I think even he commented on the silliness of his being awarded the Nobel Prize. Tellingly, he went and collected it anyway.
“Pouncy’s blood-stained boxers matched the underwear he had on in the surveillance video, which clearly showed the pattern on the fabric when the teen bent over to collect the money that had fallen to the floor, Antonietti said.”
Sad.
Is Elon Musk to blame?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5045201/Amber-Heard-looks-disheveled-LA.html
Someone classy would have described her in a state of déshabillé…
Rode hard and put away wet.
Whole lotta’ crazy going on.
Looks like a walk of shame to me
I don’t even know where to begin dissecting that mishmash of retarded-ass shit. But credit where its due: at least they didn’t praise some abomination of deep dish and call it pizza.
*scowls*
Re: cameras in bathrooms — Maybe they’re looking out for trouble.
Not only are you risking violence from far-right activists equally willing to mix it up in the streets, but you often live with a constant anxiety of doxxing and wondering if friends, family, and employers would understand if they knew the extent of your activities.
Oh, come on. Being politically motivated thug is totally sexy and respectable. Wear that mask proudly. Sucker punch your boss once in a while, and show him who’s really in charge of this economy. Vote for the union.
My question is this. Irregardless of the fact that I think they are projecting what they do onto others and playing victim, why, if they think doxing and violence is do wrong from the right, why do they continue to do it themselves? I’m beginning to think moral philosophy should be a required class.
It wouldn’t help. At UT there is a class called Contemporary Moral Problems that can be used to fill a PHL gen ed requirement. When I was a TA in that department we referred to the class as “Philosophy for Non-Majors” and would damn near fight each other to avoid having to TA it.
As someone who spent 2 years TAing undergrad philosophy classes let me tell you that nothing can make most people think. Nothing can teach most people logic. And nothing can make ethics interesting to amoral millennial fuckwads.
Most philosophy students are assholes that think they’re better than everyone else. Most of them, in my experience, also think that the world would be a way better place if they could just tell everyone what to do at all times. Philosophers are just wannabe dictators with no productive skill sets.
I once got into an argument with a guy in Philosophy class (I had to take one required) who thought that every human utterance should be recorded.
Did you point out that his own inanity argued against it?
Consider for a moment how many philosophers have been authoritarian/utilitarian assholes that provided moral cover for some of the worst atrocities to have ever occurred on the planet.
irregardless is not a word as far as I know
Damn, man, he nailed you, and English is his second language!
Because they’re good people and the people they attack are bad people.
Regardless, not ir, think about the words you use man,
Regardless, y’all are a bunch of a-holes
Irregardless of what you assert, its usage by the populace has made it a word.
Nonirregardlessly, I find it retarded.
nonnonir, it haint in our hands.
You can use any made up words you want, but don’t be surprised if it has an impact on whether people take you seriously or not.
So the interview for the Craft Beer sales rep was a bust. The manager calls me, and the call starts off fine.
Manager–“So we had a rep in the area, but he moved on to one of our suppliers, and I think the lack of rep is hurting our business in the area. The area covers (names exurbs about an hour west of where I live), and you would need to live in the area.”
Nephilium–“While I live in (city I live in, an hour east of the sales area), but I have no issue with making that drive on a daily basis.”
M–“Yeah, we would really need you to live in that area.”
N–“Is there anything we could do to get around that requirement?”
M–“Could you move?”
N–“I’m not interested in selling my house to move an hour west, are you sure there’s nothing we can do?”
M–“No, it’s non-negotiable.”
Then why the fuck would you call me? My resume has my address on it. It’s entirely possible that it was a test that I failed, but then why say it’s non-negotiable and ask me to move?
Oh well, after the call, I sent the manager an e-mail thanking him for the opportunity, asking him to keep me in mind for positions in my area, and asking if there was any day the week of Thanksgiving I could volunteer to ride along with him for a day to show my value.
What a fuckwit. I have reps that cover three states. It’s what fucking cars are for!
You did the right thing. High road all the time. Since you are kind of excited about the gig, perhaps you should seek out other opportunities? This dud might have a more enlightened competitor.
I don’t know man. I wouldn’t want to reimburse somebody $.56 a mile for 100 miles a day just to get them to and from where they’re going to work. Covering a huge territory is one thing, but losing an employee’s productivity (or them losing two hours of time with their family) every day like that probably leads to higher employee turnover and a whole raft of other problems like increased exposure to an accident, higher likelihood they will need to stay overnight after drinking as opposed to being able to catch a cheap Uber home, etc.
Dude did you a favor. He helped you keep 10 hours of your life every week that you’d have inevitably lost one way or another. A better situation will care along, maybe with them. And you handled it gracefully. But sometimes even the right decision feels like a kick in the balls.
Just my opinion, after having been in that situation before for an extended period of time.
I’m more irked that the residency requirement wasn’t listed in the job page, or that the manager wouldn’t have mentioned this at any point previously. I do have some acquaintances among the other distributors in the area, and I’ll be keeping an eye out for them at events.
Lot’s of companies would consider the drive to be part of the commute to “regular place of business” and not reimburse for the 100 miles.
This. I don’t get reimbursed for driving to the office. I do get reimbursed for flying out to Indiana though, like I’m doing on Sunday.
Sorry?
I’m not complaining. It makes sense.
Wait, I’m supposed to be paid on my way to and from work? I mean, I always thought so, but I’ve had commutes over an hour and never been offeredmoney for that time.
I sounds like you handled it well. If it turns out they’re not able to find somebody in the area, my guess is they’ll think of you.
Drat…I was hoping it turned out for ya.
Jesus, I live in NH and manage locations for my company in MA and CT, and I make trips out to each regularly as part of work. Guy probably didn’t want to shell out for a company car or pay you for gas and mileage.
Ouch. Sorry to hear that. It sounded like the perfect job.
On the other hand, you would have had to use roads, and we all know the position glibs have on those. Fucking roads.
Welcome to Cleveland, here’s a beer. Although even I have to wonder about the phrase, “full Cleveland experience.” Are they going to let them take the field at a Browns game?
And that’s not even touching our good beer.
And that’s a Gilmore.
I remember in the ’90s when Honey Brown Lager had radio commercials with a “Beer God” yelling in a stereotypical Chinese accent. Can you imagine the outrage today?
The Beer God Has Spoken.
The Beer God commercials were awesome. I’m sad that they no longer appear to exist, even on youtube I’ve only been able to hunt down one of them.
“JW Dundee Honey Brown Lager ROCHESTER NEW YORK!!!”
“full Cleveland experience.”
Ends with a Steamer.
“So tell me about the relocation package you are offering me.”
That manager is a moron, you don’t need to work for him. I cover 25 states for my sales job. I fly, I drive, etc. What a fucking idiot – he lost a really passionate potential employee too.
Sorry to hear that. Did they at least give you an explanation as to why you absolutely had to reside in the area?
“We’re lobbying for a state regulation that says as much to fuck over our competitor, and we want our hiring practices in-line with the new law.”
That makes sense.
If I learned anything from TOS, it’s how to assume motivations.
N–“Is there anything we could do to get around that requirement?”
M–“Could you move?”
I’m gonna be chuckling over those two lines the rest of the day, thank you.
Scientists discover mysterious ‘void’ in Great Pyramid of Giza
UFO storage shed – duh.
A prank by ancient Egyptian architects just to fuck with future generation. Lets build a hole for no reason.
It’s where the soldiers were hiding. It’s a little known fact that the great pyramid was a first, failed, attempt at a Trojan horse.
That’s actually almost assuredly the answer.
As I understand it, the pathways inside are purposefully labyrinthine in order to confuse malevolent spirits.
With another strong possibility being “We don’t need this space to be load bearing so let’s save the stone and labor.”
Grain Storage, I told you all that!
/Dr. Ben Carson
^^^
It’s the room where they kept the star gate.
Docking coupling for the Qua’uld mother ships
ok, i’m not the only one who mixes up Q/G. I was afraid it was a tumor. Or we both have brain cancer, i dunno.
Or you know just brain dead after a long week at work
So you’re saying I do have brain cancer. Thanks for nothing.
Quaalude mother ships? Where do they dock?
STEVE SMITH FILL VOID WITH PEPPERONI!!!
Aziz, light!
Deir al-Zour: Syrian army ‘takes last IS stronghold’
The Syrian army has retaken Deir al-Zour, the last major stronghold of so-called Islamic State (IS) in Syria, state TV says.
“The city is completely liberated from terrorism,” the state TV report said.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-41856330
Pretty soon we’ll be back to where Iraq and Syria were in 2008. All it took was a red line and a couple million lives.
Not sure it quite got up to 2 million dead. That would be hard to miss. Six figures, certainly.
You’re right. Not in total dead. Who knows how far the indirect tally will go.
2 million moved to Europe….so there is that.
So, now they can move back. Right?
Right?
And give up that sweet welfare state?
now the hard part begins. lots of child soldiers in that mess.
anyone else misread that headline as a middle eastern Dear Abby incarnation?
““After all that, she still painted her face and went outside and thought it was funny,” Candice Appiah, 18, said. “It was an act of arrogance and ignorance. As students of color, particularly black students, it shows us we’re not safe on campus.””
And how exactly are you in danger?
“Appiah said blackface was historically used to perpetuate hateful stereotypes of black individuals as “bastardized, inhuman, rapists and violent.””
STEVE SMITH DO MINSTREL SHOW AND BY MINSTREL SHOW MEAN RAPE
Appiah said blackface was historically used to perpetuate hateful stereotypes of black individuals as “bastardized, inhuman, rapists and violent.””
Al Jolson?
You know who else was portrayed using black face?
Othello?
Othello?
Othello?
Othello?
Othello?
Othello’s mom?
Reversi?
Excellent!
Kerplunk?
Gnip gnop?
I played that game! We also had a real (and really old) ping pong table.
damn, our really old ping pong table was imaginary.
Yo mama.
Krampus?
Lincoln Osiris?
Man, I don’t break character till after the DVD commentary.
man, You People.
They’re not safe on campus because they say so, shitlord. Typical that a white man wouldn’t understand that POCs are under attack, and therefore need special legal privileges, exemptions from exams, big cash payouts and to be given any spare change you have about your person.
Menendez prays with clergy outside courtroom as verdict nears
Let’s see, the doctor gets convicted but Menendez skates.
What a pathetic little shit. He got caught with his hand in the cookie jar and he’s going to put on a waterworks show. I hope they burn him at the stake.
The priests were a nice touch, does come off a tad desperate though.
They should have reminded him that confession is the first step to redemption.
Which step is Federal Pound Me In The Ass Prison?
Penance.
He’s been caught with his hand in the jar, over and over and over. His name isn’t synonymous with “corruption” in New Jersey by coincidence.
A Pill to Make Exercise Obsolete
What if a drug could give you all the benefits of a workout?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/06/a-pill-to-make-exercise-obsolete
The drug works by mimicking the effect of endurance exercise on one particular gene: PPAR-delta. Like all genes, PPAR-delta issues instructions in the form of chemicals—protein-based signals that tell cells what to be, what to burn for fuel, which waste products to excrete, and so on. By binding itself to the receptor for this gene, 516 reconfigures it in a way that alters the messages the gene sends—boosting the signal to break down and burn fat and simultaneously suppressing instructions related to breaking down and burning sugar.
Color me skeptical.
I’m trying to find it again, but I read an article a while back about a group that’s working on nanobots that can be injected. The idea is that the nanbots would work the muscles of the body giving you a workout while you sit.
Sure, what could possibly go wrong?
They all migrate to your anus and form an ad hoc networked dildo?
*Paging SugarFree, SugarFree to the red courtesy phone please*
Some people pay extra for that
I think that was the plot to the idiotic GI Joe movie.
Leave it to the nerds to take all the joy out of the gym.
I like lifting, but if I could get some pill that did all they describe….sign me up!
There’s probably a pill to fix that, too.
*slow clap*
It may give you some of the benefits of a workout. But if you are working out in any way to improve athletic performance, it’s not going to provide the muscle memory that can only be gained by doing a movement correctly again and again.
This. To a certain extent stuff like muscle development (in terms of mass) and so forth is a side-effect of training neural pathways to activate the right muscles at the right time in the right sequence in order to perform a movement as efficiently as possible. Repeatedly performing a physical activity drives you towards using the least amount of energy and the fewest muscles necessary; getting better at the activity is what allows you to perform it with more weight or faster or with more intensity, which triggers the development of the muscle mass needed to keep up. It’s a lagging indicator, in a sense.
Nor will it give you the mental benefits of endurance and self-discipline, which is the biggest benefit of exercising, in my opinion.
If you go chasing rabbits…
Alice? is that you?
boosting the signal to break down and burn fat and simultaneously suppressing instructions related to breaking down and burning sugar
Since cells survive by burning sugar, how’s this supposed to work? If you don’t die of cellular starvation, or end up hyperglycemic, the unused sugar is just going to get converted to glycogen and then, eventually, fat, anyway. Then it burns the fat?
hey, so maybe instead of me ever acclimating to em tags, what if the site just allowed good ole i tags?
I get it W3, you want style in CSS and structure in HTML, totally sensible…..for your automatically-generated-by-frameworks websites. forcing people to use as many characters in formatting code as the content itself contains seems inconvenient to me. [p style=”font-weight: bold;”] Fuck Off, Slaver [p]
Hypothesis – the chemical signal shifts priority levels so that energy is taken out of long term storage at a higher ratio, and does not completely shut down utlization, but wears off before the glycogen conversion kicks in, buring at least some of the sugars as normal, with a result that is a net positive in terms of fat reduction.
This is just me speculating based on the information in these comments.
I don’t see how your body could healthily respond to the blood sugar spike that accompanies a meal under those conditions.
“Do not take with food”?
I guess it’s a question of how extreme the effect actually is. And knowing too many diabetics, it’s sometimes surprising how big a swing a body can handle without any obvious effects. (Yes, I know you said healthily, and some of these people should be scolded for how they act…)
You missed the biggest highlight of last night’s footy, which is noted asshole Patrice Evra going all Eric Cantona on a fan. Wonder how long this suspension’s gonna be.
http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/41853841
At least the length of the jail sentence?
You know who else invaded fields in Spain?
Napoleon?
The Moops?
definitely the Moops.
Acts of Damages is definitely an album title, not a band name.
“Acts of Damages” the new release by Marseilles Field Invasion
I hope all of you celebrated Latina inequality day yesterday.
Today is #LatinaEqualPay day. Latina women have to work 10 more months than white men to catch up to them. We need equal pay now.
https://twitter.com/ACLU/status/926147916913414144
Also Latinas have just 54% of the tits and ass white women do.
Develop equal skills, experience and qualifications working the same jobs and you too shall have the same pay.
I didn’t realize white men earned that much cleaning houses.
*ducks*
It was a joke, amigos.
Are you kidding me with that stereotype?? Christ.
Many of them clean hotels, not houses.
In all honesty, I would bet that the average pay rate for all Latina women is being bumped down by a large number of immigrants who have no formal credentials and speak little to no English. If you averaged the wages of all the native born or naturalized Latina women who speak English, I bet their wages would be just about the same as those of white men (after you adjust for education, experience, hours worked, and job choice, which you should always do anyway).
I liked this reply in particular:
Jennifer Lopez would like a word with you
Vegas PD Chief sits down and tells what he knows.
“So that was right around 10 minutes they were able to do that. So that’s pretty amazing in public safety time you call dispatch, you get a revise, you formulate a plan, you ascend the stairwell, you have no idea what floor it is, you’re receiving information from disparate directions, and then you encounter this blocked doorway — and that was right around 10 minutes,” Lombardo said.
Got that? The cops will take 10 minutes if everything goes well. That’s not their fault, but it sure would be nice if people who were less than 10 minutes away and armed were encouraged to take responsible action, no?
Except to them ‘responsible actions’ involve killing every dog nearby, among other things.
When I was in Louisville, I lived in walking distance of Papa Johns house. Use to bump into him out and about.
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.27182,-85.5366778,306m/data=!3m1!1e3
Anchorage is like a gated city.
He seems like a cool guy, on Leno’s Garage he told the story of his Camaro and how hard it was to find again.
Not a huge fan of his pizza, but it’s better than Little Ceaser’s.
When I lived in Louisville I interviewed for a job with their IT department. Their corporate HQ is an interesting place and his Camaro is kept in a museum like area in the lobby
Another story where the process is the punishment.
2 arrested after floatplane lands next to Ryder Cup sue Chaska, police chief
Last year their was a big golf tourney. Local guys landed a float plane on nearby lake. They were arrested and the police chief called them stupid and imbecilic. The arrest was based on a local temporary ordinance passed by the city for the golf tourney. The city also arrested a couple canoers. Later the city dropped all charges because they knew their ordinance was shit and they couldn’t win.
Now the pilots are suing the city and the chief. I’d wish harder for them to win if I thought it would make these local authoritarians to think twice about this bull shit. But I know they’d do the same thing again because what the fuck, it isn’t their money that pays out.
In the feed below that story.
Love all the hand wringing about kids with guns. The woods will be full of toddlers with high powered weapons dontchaknow. Still amazes me that these people don’t think how it makes people feel when you tell them they don’t have the capacity to handle a gun or their children.
As an aside, my younger sister went to high school with the bill’s author. I grew up in that town. Seems so long ago. *drifts off*…
*Shudders awake* Damn! Time to go snowblow so I don’t have to do it on deer opener tomorrow! (not a euphemism)
Not being hyperbolic at all…
Yup, you know those drunken Sconnies will let their two year olds run around with guns blasting everything in the woods.
* If you are deer hunting tomorrow, you must have wised up and moved to the correct side of the St. Croix. Good luck, I’m just waiting for the youngest son to get out of school before we take off up north.
Good luck. Off to DL?
Yup. Hunt between DL and Frazee on some private land. We put up 5 stands (my family and 1 for the owner). Every year, I bring a good bottle of scotch for the owner and things are cool.
Good luck to you too. My oldest (nearly 11) is going with me this year. I still remember how exited I was at that age. My dad still has the single shot 16 gauge I used that first season…uhh…33 years ago…*looks at bald head and gray beard*
Lachowsky’s 5 year-old managed to shoot a deer this year without any worries.
Do you think we were more excited back in the Stone Age because the entire school was going to go hunting? My kids now have a few friends who are going to hunt, but most of the kids have no idea that this even the opener.
That’s awesome! I think my son’s (and daughter for that matter) could have done it at that age, under the right conditions. But up here you can’t really sit and see deer. It’s too thick most places. Plus we don’t have the deer numbers to keep them interested, especially if its below freezing.
For me it was partly that, but more just being out in the woods and getting to hang with the adults doing adult stuff I think. My first years at the deer camp my dad went to were…enlightening. My dad bought a rusty (and not very old at the time) 72 suburban that he and his buddies turned into a hunting machine. They cut a hole in the top in back so you could stand up while driving the two-tracks (or wherever) and built a mad max type bumper out of a 4×8 rough cut piece of timber, angle iron and expanded steel. Maybe I’ll do a write up of debauchery at deer camp in the early 80’s… Pretty much rednecks of the north.
I think thats why I still hold a certain reverence for deer camp. It’s like Vegas. What happens at deer camp stays at deer camp.
She may have a point that someone will try it, though I can’t imagine it would be any worse than some of the full grown adults running around out there. I’ve seen plenty of idiots with guns in the field, especially during gun deer season (aka, drunken deer season).
I did move across and up. Couldn’t handle the ‘city’ life anymore. I’m still a Sconnie through and through, but I do love it this far north and in the sticks. If I had the chance, I’d skedaddle to WY in a heartbeat though. MN is fucked politically. The local union thugs (DFL) turned their back on their brethren in other states and still voted for Her
The big blue counties are mostly rural, white, and union run (mining based mostly).
Let the kids have guns, it’s gotta be safer than hmong hunters; and there would be a shitstorm if they were targeted to have their rights taken away.
Yeah, I remember that. It happened not too far south of where I hunt in northern WI and VERY close to where my uncle and cousins have a cabin. That was seriously fucked up. I didn’t know any of the victims myself, but friends of mine did.
We bought a cabin in Siren, WI shortly after that.
The first year or so was uncomfortable at times visiting with my Korean wife. Lots of locals can’t tell any of the Asians apart and were sure she was a Hmong.
Yes, there was plenty of racism going around. I heard some stuff that made me uncomfortable, and I’m a shitlord.
Methinks she was being hyperbaric.
As someone who spent 2 years TAing undergrad philosophy classes let me tell you that nothing can make most people think. Nothing can teach most people logic. And nothing can make ethics interesting to amoral millennial fuckwads.
You mean the central tenet of Buddhism is not, “Every man for himself”?
“Fuck you, gimme.”
Next thing you are going to tell me is that Aristotle was not Belgian, huh?
Aristotle was Dacian actually
You missed the joke, Pie. 🙁
Obviously. I googled it and it is not a movie I know any quotes from.
Watch that movie, Pie. One of the funniest movies ever.
You are the vulgarian, you fuck!
I did a while ago just did not remember the quotes
And the London Underground was not a political movement.
dammit….and I can’t even fall back on Chipperbot’s comment posting seconds before mine.
And the London Underground is not a political movement.
Book that I’m currently reading:
Back to the Front: An Accidental Historian Walks the Trenches of World War
Worth the read, especially for anyone who is interested in The Great War but doesn’t want to slog through the countless battles and trivia details. Instead the author zeroes in on events that occurred on the sites he visits. This method somehow makes the battles feel more real with quotes (and poetry) from the men who were there. Recommended but depressing.
The only reason I’d ever go to France would be to visit those battle sites. It’s an archaeological wonder buried just a few feet under the top soil. Also possible instant death from the UXO’s.
Going to France to visit the WWI battlefields is on my bucket list… suppose I should go before I get too old to walk it.
What’s crazy is they farmed right over a lot of the sites. Makes me wonder how much lead and other chemicals are making their way into the crops.
That might explain Macron.
Don’t Europeans brag about their lack of chemicals in food?
http://www.messynessychic.com/2015/05/26/the-real-no-go-zone-of-france-a-forbidden-no-mans-land-poisoned-by-war/
holy shit.
There is a reason the Belgian Army EOD is so good. Live experience, every year.
Thanks, just ordered it.
Also recommend Dan Carlin Hardcore History Podcast.http://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-50-blueprint-for-armageddon-i/
I’m not a big podcast guy but the Blueprint for Armageddon series was captivating. Loved it.
Another thumbs up for that series.
That podcast is the absolute shit.
The WWI maybe my favorite, but the WWII Eastern Front one was equally haunting.
The Punic Wars, the Fall of the Roman Republic…all fantastic.
His most recent is about (Little) Caesar’s conquest of Gaul, and the one before that is about the development of The Bomb and all about how it changed how diplomacy and militaries functioned with this new weapon in the Cold War.
Favorite part of that one: Oppenheimer was like “Shit! I’ve created a bomb that can destroy fucking small nations in one go! AHA! I’ll make SMALLER nukes so we don’t have to use the bigger ones! GENIUS!…..OH NO!!! NOW THEY’RE MORE WILLING TO USE THEM!
FUCK. ME!”
Better than “Now it can be told?”
Also Latinas have just 54% of the tits and ass white women do.
I find this to be… implausible.
Surprisingly, despite what Instagram and rap videos have led me to believe, your average Latina is shaped a bit like a short, thick log. Not much in the way of curves, but not skinny, per se.
You pretty much described half the women in my family.
I do like my women like I like my timber: pressure treated.
So, probably auditioning for the part of Gimli when they do the all female* reboot of LoTR?
*I guess they would make Lego Lass a guy this time around, to completely gender flip it.
Germany: Violence Spirals in Refugee Shelters
citing the privacy rights of the criminal offenders
Sure, that’s not something they just made up to justify their malfeasance.
Is that a reliable source?
I doubt it. Lol. Looks a bit sketchy.
You know who else was powerless to stop spiraling violence in Germany?
Othello?
KRAMPUS!!
Paul von Hindenburg?
Friedrich Ebert?
The Luftwaffe?
Oh, very good!
Rammstein?
Spiraling is terribly dangerous. I don’t know why more states don’t outlaw it.
Import savages, you have savagery. This isnt rocket science. The useful idiots dont get it but Merkel and ilk sure do. The skyrocketing crime is by design.
“German authorities, who appear powerless”
They just need the right guy in charge.
Maybe someone with a moustache that exudes a disposition of authority?
May or may not be relevant: The only bug that has developed resistance to minocycline is a form of dysentery in Madagascar. I am guessing the place is a festering sewer. A shame, it is a beautiful country too bad it is full of some of the most backward people on earth.
Dude. You must respect their culture. Even the bacterial ones.
*narrows gaze*
Go ahead. I dare you. Read Sportsnet’s Jeff Blair in Toronto attack Alex Ovechkin. You’re gonna love it:
http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/alex-ovechkin-reminds-us-inconvenient-truths-sport/
The more the bastards start poisoning the things I care about with politics, the more I’m convinced that I’m going to wind up voting for Trump’s reelection. I don’t think I’m alone in this. It’s early, but I would lay down some pretty good money that Trump carries at least three more states on his next go-round.
I don’t give a damn what a hockey player thinks about politics. I don’t care what an actor thinks. I don’t care what a singer thinks.
I do, oddly, find myself informed on world events by a rapey Sasquatch and a floating head that pukes guns, but that’s different.
I don’t watch sports, so I don’t care about all the NFL bullshit, but I’m thinking about voting for the ol’ Trumpster as well. He’s certainly not the perfect libertarian, but he’s driving the Left into a self-destructive frenzy, and that’s a good thing.
But if Trump’s administration can take a bite out of these public sector unions, I swear I’ll vote for him.
Oh, fuck off.
You know, by and large, when I hear people giving me this ” you’ve got to pick a side” bullshit, I do become more inclined to pick a side. Invariably the other side of the people telling me I’ve got to pick a side.
My experience with Trump supporters has been that they’re fine if you disagree with them on stuff. They’ll argue with you. They might even get a bit aggressive. But, ultimately they’ll let you have your say and they’ll try to find some sort of common ground. The social justice cadres demanding I have to pick a side, inevitably mean that I have to accept all of the repulsiveness entailed in their agenda because otherwise I might as well support Trump. Well, if those are the battle lines, I know which side looks better to me.
^This. I want to mind my own business. The first side to try force me to do otherwise is going to have me align against them. With identity politics in play, I have to go against that in whatever form it takes.
Certainly it will have only a minor effect, since the number of Russian-Americans is low and they tend to vote Republican anyway. However, the anti-Russia hysteria is bound to make them vote Republican more. Something similar happened to Arab-Americans (in the opposite direction) between 2000 and 2004.
Ah. Interesting that Russian-Americans vote GOP.
I dunno, but is it me or do Russians loathe – or at least distrust – the left? I generally detected that much in Russian literature – i.e. Tolstoy and recently Solzhenitsyn.
I have only anecdotes. The Russians I skate with detest the left. I wouldn’t call them conservative, necessarily, but to a guy they value freedom and the individual.
They will not return to communism quietly.
I don’t know any Russians, but I stay in touch with a friend from high school who came to America as a three year old refugee from Vietnam in 1979, and you’ll never meet anyone who more anti-prog. He makes me look mild on the subject.
That’s my experience as well.
What a douchebag. Comments are letting him have it, though.
Word.
And here I thought Mike Gartner was awesome solely for the blinding speed and killer mustache.
Lol. Didn’t even make the connection.
/bad Tundra
Well, we both had the opportunity to appreciate his greatness, since he was both a North Star and a Ranger.
I’ve forever hated Mike Keenan for denying him his place with the ’94 Cup team. Glenn Anderson did jack shit for them.
It’s very simple with that dullard Trudeau. Does it fit the SJW narrative? No? Here you go 100k. Khadr? $10 million.
The Liberals under this dimwit must crash.
But he’s so dreamy. Why can’t he be our President? 🙁
Madagascar: /face palm. Even the plague is racist!?
Papa John’s: So. They claim the NFL is hurting sales and they’re racist? At least we got this beaut to play with: Non-racist pizza. I think I’m gonna go in the kitchen and use my prejudicial utensils to eat my xenophobic pizza.
Incidentally, I went into Twitter account and there’s an image of a deep dish and it looks like an abomination. It’s like taking the Mona Lisa and making the make up run on her.
https://twitter.com/HonoredSpirit/status/925874946496180229
She is so tiring.
Who is Laura Loomer?
A right-wing troll and an idiot. She once drove on a dry rotted tire until it finally collapsed and then claimed that it was slashed (https://twitter.com/Fuctupmind/status/892900275295485952).
Holy shit…that’s hysterical. I’m guessing she also drives when her oil is low and then accuses someone of sabotaging her engine when it seizes up?
NYT editorial board are not fans of the tax plan
It will take experts weeks to fully analyze the House tax bill, but what we already know is frightening enough. No Republican who cares about fairness, economic sense and the financial health of the government can support with a clear conscience this shameless wealth transfer.
Shameless wealth transfers are the province of Democrats. Everybody knows that.
frightening
They’re scared, scared I tell you!
Once again, I remain confused as to how allowing people to keep more of the money they earn counts as a “wealth transfer”.
Letting people keep more of their own money is a “shameless wealth transfer”.
Just keep progging harder, dummies, I’m sure it will work eventually.
I really enjoy the wealth transfer business when people earning under $24K will pay NO TAXES to the feds under the plan.
Yet they receive “refunds” under EITC.
And still will. Although, to be fair /Robby, up to $3,500 can be considered a refund on their Social Security and Medicare taxes.
Which would be fine if they weren’t eligible to collect Social Security and Medicare.
Keep in mind that everything the left does is to make individuals smaller and less significant. Letting individuals keep more of their own money works against the left’s goals. It gives people more options and power over their own lives and that cant be tolerated. They will blather any nonsense, twist logic beyond recognition, throw tantrums…anything at all to disempower the individual.
‘Fuck off slaver’ may seem cliche but it really is the appropriate response to anything they say.
Against Allegedly
https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/against-allegedly-1819703365
Yet over and over again, nearly a month after the story broke open, I see the same damn word in stories about Weinstein: Allegedly. Or its close relative: Allegation. Or, for the sake of space, alleged. (And don’t forget its cousin, accusation.) It is a word that, in conversation, nobody uses, unless you want to be cheeky—I’m allegedly a good cook. So in a time when the question driving the national conversation is, “Why don’t people believe women?” it’s worth examining the media’s role in contributing to that, much of which comes down to habits of thought that can be seen in the overuse of this one word.
something something court of law
Because if they don’t put “allegedly” before the verdict is declared they can get into legal trouble.
The one word reason they use “allegedly” …. defamation.
Also, not all allegations are true.
WOMYN NEVER LIE ABOUT THESE THINGS!!111!!!
#BelieveHer
I was raped by Obama for the past eight years. #MeToo
We all were, TEE.
How about because of a little thing called Innocent Until Proven Guilty. Anyone can make any claim. Unless these women have some proof to back up their claims against Weinstein, or anyone else for that matter, it’s just a case of he said, she said. But of course, the SJW Inquisition doesn’t care about proof. Bill Cosby was declared not guilty, but I still see him referred to as a rapist predator. This is why words like allegedly need to be used.
All those women accusing Weinstein and Cosby have murdered people. Anyone who doesn’t believe my claims is a murder-apologist!
“anti-black capitalism is the root of fatphobia”
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/926277761823657985
Only Anorexics and Bulemics are fat-phobic.
Everyone else just wants you to stop stuffing your gob and breaking chairs.
Shoe0nhead is awesome. That crazy chick she’s quoting is, well… crazy.
The Left’s Long Goodbye
The American left is beginning to look like nothing other than a defeated army in its last weeks in the field – the Army of Northern Virginia in 1865, the German Imperial Army in 1918, or Hitler’s Wehrmacht in 1945. These armies, once considered invincible, were in the end frozen in posture of total defeat. They could scarcely make a single move. Everything they did led to another defeat. They were doomed, they knew it, and they had no way out.
I think rumors of the demise of the left are greatly exaggerated
I agree. The left isn’t falling apart so much as they’re re-organizing. They will become the party of Bernie Sanders, just like the Republican party is becoming the party of Trump (like it or not).
Honestly, I expect the left to end up appealing to the “blue wall” states again if they go with the Sanders platform in the future.
I don’t know if the Party of Bernie is a great election strategy unless Bernie has some robotic parts to prop himself up enough for a 2020 presidential run. He seems more like a figure that the general public likes because he’s quirky, not because of his policy ideas.
I think nationalist economic policies are becoming popular with both sides, which is unfortunate. I don’t think the government-run healthcare thing is, but on trade & jobs – yes.
I don’t think that it matters to most average people whether a policy is “nationalist” or not. Trump is, and will always be, more of a cultural phenomenon than a political phenomenon. Again, I don’t think that constitutional conservatism has died, especially among active voters. Trump is more a step towards a greater cause IMO, rather than the cause itself.
Eh….there’s a limit to grievance politics because someone always comes in second and third at the Victim Olympics.
2018 will be a fascinating election cycle here. We’ll find out if Trump won because he was running against a horrible candidate. Or, was there some kind of seismic shift in U.S. politics. I think at least some Democrats are rocketing off a cliff to the left, while the Republicans might split up with the moderate half back-filling the space the Democrats used to fill.
I don’t think that the GOP is going to become the Party of Trump long-term, even among the base, and it’s because I think that Trump is a reactionary movement. I think that the grassroots Tea Party movement never really died, it just renamed itself and is using Trump as an advertising vehicle.
Plus, what is the “Party of Trump”? The guy has no consistent ideology of any kind. It’s just a personality cult.
Yep. Admittedly the US electorate is more economically literate than the British, but all the talk here until about April this year was how Corbyn was destroying the Labour party. Then 40% of voters put their cross next to a Labour candidate.
What the left is serving up at the moment ought to be unpalatable to any thinking person, but they’ve been hugely successful at weaponising ‘niceness’. It isn’t that everyone under forty is a communist – it’s more that they’ve been taught to believe at a visceral level that to be left-wing is to be morally virtuous. That will continue to benefit the Democrats.
No way out? They could have surrendered. For example, R.E. Lee knew the jig was up when Lincoln was re-elected. All those killed, on both sides, from Nov. 1864 on, can’t rest easy on Lee’s immortal soul nor should Freeman have given the marble man a pass.
Wishful thinking. So long as people are stupid, envious, and crave domination, they aren’t going anywhere. Besides which, discovering how rotten they are is only step A. Step B is actually mustering the power to do something about it. That requires that you either remove their control of key institutions, or destroy those institutions. I’ve never seen right-wingers propose a credible plan for gaining institutional power short of mimicking leftist tactics (which means becoming as corrupt as they are, if it even works), and even anti-leftists might be a little leery of metaphorically burning Hollywood, journalism, academia, Silicon Valley, most bureaucracies and NGOs and HR departments to the ground.
The only real functional approach is winning the culture war, not on petty edge cases like gay marriage, but on the fundamentals of democracy, liberty, personal responsibility, liberal (in the proper sense) attitudes about identity politics, family, humility, grace, rectification of names, ends and means, civil society versus the state, etc.. To put it differently, if you can’t turn the bulk of the populous into people that could happily get along with us glibs, you can’t win against the left.
So the government in Romania wants to change payroll tax law. The idea is now there are about 9 different taxes that apply as either the employees share or the employers share. Both payed by the employer (like all wage taxes are payed in Romania). Now I always found this to be nonsense. The employer cares about the full sum that elaves his account. The employee cares about the money that reaches his account. The difference is tax. So if you split in 1 2 or 20 pieces it is the same.
Right now you have a gross wage which both employee and employer taxes are applied to.
Simplified: you have 3000 gross you receive 2000 net (pay 1000 as employee tax) and the employer pays 1000 as employer contribution. Total cost for employer 4000 total money recieved 2000.
(the tax burden is more like 40% not 50% for the average wage, this is to simplify calculations)
Now the government want to unify the contributions to have them payed by the employee. Instead of 9 different taxes 3 will be left, and all applied to the employee part. I am in favor of this. It simplifies things, and now a lot of employees are not really aware of employer contributions and thus do not realize what they pay in tax (seriously, I am talking about senior electronic engineers who told me the employers share tax is not their business cause they are not the ones paying)
Anyway right now there is much wailing and gnashing of teeth, as the claim is after shifting the taxes the employers greedy bastards as they are will not adjust the gross. As such people say they will have a gross of 3000 and receive 1500 after tax which means a reduction in wage, and the cost of the employer will now be 3000 not 4000 and the employer will profit. Alternatively I think employers will adjust the gross to 4000 and the cost to them will be the same, the net wage will be the same, the tax just restructured.
My problem with the first scenario is this. If the employer can just simply reduce the net wage of their employee, why did they not do it earlier? Seriously. Why are they paying people 2000 net if they can just pay them 1500 net? Especially since Romanians negotiate their net income not their gross income when getting a job. Now some employers may try to profit, well their employees should threaten to quit. But I find it hard to believe employers will reduce wages en mass. They would have done this before the tax structure change.
Am I wrong? Thoughts?
Some may, but most won’t. If it’s a wash in terms of outlay, your average employer is not going to go to that much trouble to stop on the people who do the work.
No.
FICA payroll tax (Social security and medicare) is done the same way here. 6.2% SS, 1.45% Medicare, 7.65% off of gross. Oh, and the employer pays 7.65% of gross too.
Whenever someone refers to it as a 15.3% tax, people freak out saying that isn’t right (technically, it isnt: it is 14.2% of the true 1.0765 gross) because they don’t understand that the employee is paying all the tax.
This is one thing I agree with the current Romanian government. Each employee gets a flyer at wage day and I want the whole tax payed to be clearly visible on the flyer. And long term I can’t see how employers can randomly lower wage, if they could they would have done so already.
So you tax things you want less of. Why do stupid politicians want less employment and less money in the hands of consumers?
Stupidity like this is how we ended up with employers paying for employee healthcare, cars, stock options, etc… Because raises into high tax brackets stopped motivating employees.
Well Romania has a flat tax so it is not an issue of brackets. But there is a pay as you go government pension in which the retirees start to outnumber working people. So the pension taxes are large (20%) and the pensions are miserable. Except for cops, judges, prosecutors, ex politicians and ex military officers, who retire early with massive special pensions.
So the pension taxes are large (20%) and the pensions are miserable. Except for cops, judges, prosecutors, ex politicians and ex military officers, who retire early with massive special pensions.
Sounds just like here. I wish we had a flat tax, though.
“Well Romania has a flat tax ”
So jelly right now
Basically the flat tax is 16%, and pension plus healthcare are another 25%. Although part of the pension taxes only apply up to a certain high income and then
I would love a flat tax of 16% and I pay for my own 401(k) and health insurance.
It sounds like a tax on the employee’s wage and the employer for paying some of it. What we call a payroll tax in the U.S. – which actively discourages companies from hiring more employees since it drives the price of help up.
If you are going to have an income tax, which I disagree with, it may as well be flat. But making the employer take some on, then loading it up with crap like pension costs is crazy.
That’s how it is for me. The employee and employer both contribute 50/50. Why the employer has to do this is unfair I think because they already pay the worker a salary/wage. Apparently we have to kick in for their pensions. Contrast this to police and other civil servants who don’t pay into their own pensions BUT demand the government pay 100% of it. This is the source in the latest rounds of protests. The government wants them to start paying into and they ‘re claiming they have a contract so no-go. They’ve been wearing camouflage pants and red caps ever since.
You’re not wrong but near impossible to do in practice. I certainly can’t do that.
Why the employer has to do this is unfair I think because they already pay the worker a salary/wage – well it is a way to mask the tax as some employers don’t see that as a tax which is stupid of them.
You’re not wrong but near impossible to do in practice. I certainly can’t do that. – I am confused by this. What can’t you do? And what is impossible to do in practice?
“If the employer can just simply reduce the net wage of their employee, why did they not do it earlier? Seriously. Why are they paying people 2000 net if they can just pay them 1500 net?”
I can’t play around with wages/salary this way because of laws and bull shit like that. BUT, I can reduce hours. To the extent I understand your thoughts. Hope this was clearer. I’m typing this as I sit in a meeting!
Well my point is if my employer came and told me your wage is reduced 20% starting tomorrow I would quit that minute. Markets influence the wages not just laws
If you can just cut employees salary why did you give them so much in the first place? Kindness?
http://www.econ.canterbury.ac.nz/personal_pages/eric_crampton/Incidence.pdf
An analysis of FICA and other split taxes from economic and political standpoints.
Economically it doesn’t matter who pays the tax… Socially people want to share the burden, or have the “other” person pay the tax, and yes, they are economically illiterate.
Most of our taxation schemes are big experiments in confusing who is actually paying and who is gaining, and as long as it looks like you get “something” back (if only 90%).. then you won’t rock the boat.
Papa John’s pizza isn’t selling well because it’s overpriced for the level of quality you get and there are hardly ever any deals for people that live alone. If I need delivery pizza I have 3 choices: Papa Johns, Dominos or Pizza Hut. I choose Dominos because I can get a single medium pizza and a coke for like $8. At Papa Johns they ask for close to $14 and the quality really isn’t any better.
No local chains around you? When ordering for me, I usually go with a local chain called Antonio’s. It was Drew Carrey’s favorite growing up, and you can trust a fat kid to know pizza.
There are a few but they don’t deliver.
Drew Carrey is a Libertarian so you know he can be trusted. I’m curious on his thoughts on deep dish and pineapple.
They do traditional crust, thin crust, and a Sicilian square. They do unfortunately offer pineapple as a topping.
On the other hand, neither Saucy Brew Works nor XYZ the Tavern (who do a Monday dine-in special of $10 pizza, unlimited toppings) offer pineapple as a topping. Saucy does offer honeycomb as a topping, which strangely works with pepperoni.
honeycomb isn’t food.
Either you have an especially sucky papa jahns or an abnormal dominos. I’ve never seen an instance of a dominos product come out that resembled edible.
Then I found real pizza places and left the chains behind /smug
Even if the local papa john’s was better in quality than the domino’s near me (which it isn’t), it’s not worth paying nearly double the price. They’re problem is that none of their deals are targeted towards singles living alone. I don’t give a shit about getting 3 large 3-topping pizzas with 2 2-liter cokes for $38 or whatever. I can’t eat that much.
GET FUCKING MARRIED ALREADY AND PUMP OUT SOME TK JRS. LIKE THE REST OF US NORMIES. THEN DOUSE YOURSELVES IN DELICIOUS GARLIC SAUCE!
D: Please stop beating me Papa John! I don’t want your garlic sauce, no more garlic sauce Papa John, please!
*waves pizza cutter menacingly*
Why do you think he refers to himself as Papa?!?
Domino’s, or at least the ones in my area, have soared in quality. Papa John’s tastes the same as it ever has, but my aging, decrepit digestive system hates it. I can’t eat PJ’s without a case of terrible sass-gut within the hour. Domino’s doesn’t have that effect on me.
After a certain amount of poor prior performance, I’m just not willing to give a business another chance to disappoint on the off chance they’ve changed.
A respectable position. Out of curiosity, when’s the last time you’ve tried them?
I have no idea where the closest Papa John’s is to me. I own a car and off the top of my head can think of a dozen or so far better pizza places / Italian restaurants within 15 minutes of my house.
Because you live in New Jersey. Pizza is not like that in other areas.
I guess that’s some consolation.
Isn’t 15 minutes by car in Jersey something like 5 minutes on foot?
Where I work, yes. Where I live, no.
The better the pizza, the higher the taxes. Look at New York, New Haven, Providence, etc.
New Haven has some good places. I actually like the Greek-owned pizza places in MA. Can’t put my finger on exactly how they are different, but I have some every time I’m back there.
I think that New Haven white pizza is bullshit.
We have local places but it’s bullshit Ohio pizza that they “tavern cut” into tiny squares so no one wants to eat the stupid crustless center squares. And with pieces that small, you eat 50 of them and then feel like crap.
There are a few good places around town but none within delivery distance of me (I live in the exurbs)
Oi! Don’t lump all of Ohio into that “tavern cut” crap. I think Donato’s was the only one to try to foist that off up here, and they’re pretty much all closed at this point.
The problem with Donato’s is that it’s just barely better than Papa John’s (double pepperoni FTW) but most of the time twice as expensive, and I don’t like it enough to get it more than once a year.
I exempt Youngstown since it is really an East Coast city lost in Ohio. (and perhaps Stupid, er, Steubenville.)
This. I like Papa John’s, but it’s not worth it.
Admiral Ackbar
https://twitter.com/hashtag/MyMassMurderYell
YESSSSSSS!
Test.
I posted two things that both got eaten–it said I needed to be logged in to comment, but in the comment bar and my avatar in the top right said I was logged in. Hrm. I’m not typing them again!
^^Damn you!!
You show em
Stop making your comments so damned delicious!
So, a Twitter employee, on his last,day of work, shut down Prez Trump’s Twitter account.
Cameras in a bathroom, what could possibly go wrong? I guess that would be reason #1,245 that we switched to homeschooling. What were those people thinking?
BTW, Thanks for the restaurant recommendations for Houston, if anyone down there or Corpus Christie has time for a meetup, let me know.
Happy Friday Glibs!
https://archive.is/96RuH
1, 2, 47.
What about Latina equality?
Also most of the tits in those pics look unpleasantly fake.
29 or 55 maybe? I dunno I can only watch these links furtively on my phone at work and it is just not the same
36. Clear winner. Bonus points for excellent composition.
Hot as balls. That fussy of an outfit, however, is a bit of a turnoff.
I would also fuck her like a rabbit. As in, I would forgo food and drink until I wasted away and died in the corner. Happily spent.
Can’t see her face.
Agreed. That is also one of my metrics for this game which is why I didn’t pick her.
Let’s face it. She’d have to have Hillary-Face to not take that down.
*Honestly—I originally typed “..which is why I didn’t pay her.” Hrm. Freudian slip.
4 is the clear winner. I’m not sure I could design a woman better than that.
55 has legs that I want to douse in warm salted butter and exfoliate every bit of them with my tongue. And also my dick.
26 is all woman. She would break me. Please break me.
10 is my honorable mention–she’s got some big ol’ fake tits, but I think they work on her. At least now. It won’t age well. But damn.
44–Honorable mention. Fake tits are bothersome, but she once was naturally absolutely stunning.
Those are some awful dresses.
Although #26 works
Smokin’.
I don’t think I’ll make it to my bunk.
8, 25, 49.
I want 55 to keep me as a houseboy.
Trump triggers lefty “journalists” by calling Warren, Pocahontas. I just love that we have a troll president!
Forgot the link. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/926417546038923264
He does know that he’s in charge of the FBI and Justice Department, right?
SHHHHHH!!!! The less he targets people for investigation (even if clearly deserved) on the basis of them being his opponents, the better.
https://twitter.com/TwitterGov/status/926238960594178048
Twitter Government?
“”Through our investigation we have learned that this was done by a Twitter customer support employee who did this on the employee’s last day. We are conducting a full internal review,” the statement read.”
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/twitter-blames-outgoing-customer-support-employee-for-briefly-deactivating-trumps-account/article/2639502
Gab asks some good questions:
http://www.dailywire.com/news/23117/twitter-employee-shuts-down-president-trumps-ryan-saavedra
It will help when twitter is nationalized
Sounds like someone needs to have their H1-B reviewed…
As to pizza, I am not a food snob, so I like Papa John’s, Domino’s, Pizza Guy’s, AND Little Caesar’s.
With LC’s, you get quite a bit,of food for the money, and you get it quickly, and the kids really like it.
Domino’s has good pizza, but we really like their “specialty chicken” and the habanero chicken sandwich. It’s a little more expensive–about $6 for a medium (which seems to be the same size as LC’ s large), and you have to buy at least 2 of them to get the deal. Also, Domino’s doesn’t allow you to use multiple online coupons.
Papa John’s does allow you to use multiple online coupons, plus they are more generous with their “rewards points”, so it lowers the price if you order it consistently.
Pizza Hit is trying to figure out what it wants to do. Some of its stores are being changed to carryout only. Its pizza is fine, I like it, but not as much as the others. The draw for me is the nostalgia factor, since it is the first place I remember eating pizza. That was back when you had to pay for refills, so you got a pitcher of Pepsi instead of a single glass.
In Florida, they have a place called Hungry Howie’s, which I used to love, but when we’ve visited in subsequent years, I find I don’t like it as much as I remembered.
A place that I found to have surprisingly good pizza is Casey’s General store–the gas station. I wish I had one of those right now; a breakfast pizza with egg and bacon and the cheese is almost burnt….
I don’t like Cici’s at all. The only thing good there is the cinnamon bread. If I am going to eat at a puzza buffet, I will go to puzza hut. There is a local place here that is a pizza buffet that is incredibly popular, but I don’t know why. They put as little sauce as possible on their pies, and I like extra sauce. If you order extra sauce, they put even less sauce on the pie.
Cici’s is awful, it is worse than Mr. Gatti’s, which is an impressive feat.
This discussion has made me hungry for a Mellow Mushroom calzone (pepperoni, black olive, kalamata olive).
“Puzza Hut”!!!
LOL
Does not match my experience with them. They either turn over a brick of cold grease, or a carbonized lump.
Why does Domino’s pizza taste like I’m biting into the pizza box?
I agree with UCS on taste of Domino’s.
*jumps out office window*
*gets up, brushes glass off…thanks owner of company for being a 1 story building*
I do Pizza Hut. I can create everything on the pizza, sauce, crust, and toppings for a pretty good price.
I used to do Pizza Hut but the local place has shit employees. They forget items I’ve ordered, give me the wrong toppings, etc. One time all of the sauce on the pizza had shifted to one side and was spilling out from under the cheese onto the crust. Oh, and that pizza was cold. One time they forgot my 2-liter (which is expensive I might add), and when I called them to complain it took them 3 hours to bring one out (I had to call 3 times).
Fuckin’ minimum wage employees.
Working as designed.
Hungry Howie’s Cajun crust is killer.
Despite living in the middle of nowhere (40 minutes to Papa Johns, 20-25 to Pizza Hut or LC), I am fortunate to have an Italian place close by with some of the best pizza I’ve ever had. Wood fired brick oven and the owners/employees are all straight from Italy. Most can’t even speak understandable English. The kind of Italian joint with a deli up front with sliced meats, cheeses, etc.
Even at 4, my son won’t touch pizza unless it’s from there. Will take one bit of LC and spit it out. Will eat half a large by himself though of this local pizza. My daughter, on the other hand, is an equal opportunity pizza eater though she still doesn’t much like LC.
We had a Little Caesar’s for about three months nearby, and I would go by and grab one of the $5 pizzas if I was home hungover on a Saturday. I’m not wild about sauce, so really just squishy bread with crisp edges, cheese, pepperoni, and grease is what I’m looking for if I wake up sweating booze and wishing I were dead. If I’m ordering pizza because I want someone to bring food to my house, I go Papa John’s, because it’s decent for delivery pizza and the local Domino’s has consistently fucked up our pizza every single time we’ve ordered it, over a course of four years. Which sucks, because I used to be a Domino’s guy.
But if I really want pizza because I want pizza that tastes good, I go pick it up from Sammy’s, a family style Italian place up the street. The sauce tastes great and isn’t slathered on, the dough is thin and crispy with a chewy center, it’s badassed. $12 for a large cheese (probably 16″) and I could eat two in a row.
Yes, but I will contend that none of those coupons are geared towards singles. All the discounts in my area are targeted towards families of 27 for some reason.
Also, I agree that dominos has some pretty good sandwiches, which is what I get from them about 50% of the time.
Intelligence May Stem From a Basic Algorithm in the Human Brain
https://futurism.com/intelligence-may-stem-from-a-basic-algorithm-in-the-human-brain/
+1 Tumbleweeds
I could be stupid, but I think the equation is describing the complexity of the algorithm, not the algorithm itself.
Show us, on the doll, where Paul Ryan touched you, Doktor Krugabe.
The big question should be, why do any of this? Ryan used to claim that his plans were about reducing the budget deficit, but he has now given up that pretense.
And why should tax cuts even be on the table? We have budget deficits, not surpluses, and lots of unmet needs for future spending. U.S. taxes are low, not high, compared with other wealthy countries. Predictions that tax cuts will lead to rapid economic growth have been wrong time and again. And by large margins, voters want taxes on corporations and the wealthy to go up, not down.
Let the mob decide! Mob justice is the only true justice.
Beat that tin drum, little monkey. Beat it.
*Disclaimer- tax law changes, by themselves, will do little to grow the economy. Deregulation and removal of structural impediments to business formation are desperately needed, as well. Make it easy to start a business, and allow a new wave of entrepreneurs to keep the rewards of their inspiration and effort.
Hol shit! I read that and expected to be sent to Vox or some other economic/financial/business illiterate site and ended up at….the NYT and Krugman.
Conscience of a partisan hack who doesn’t give a shit about you.
But he won a NOBEL PRIZE!!!!
I think by this point, the Dynamite money comittee has beclowned itself and the prize means nothing.
The hard science prizes mean something. The economics prize is political and means little. Peace… well that’s not actually given by the Nobel committee, and everyone knows what it means.
That you’re not Bush?
Yasser Arafat won – the million bucks of dynamite money is the only thing that award is worth now.
Oh god this Peter Daou thread is hilarious. Man’s still in complete denial, crying about how Brazille and Warren are betraying the Democratic Party, Replies also blame Brazille for Obama being nominated in 2008. Trump’s going to win 57 states in 2020 and the Republicans will hold 90 seats in the Senate if this kind of thinking keeps up. As an example:
My guess is that Brazile, Warren, et al. heard about something that is going to hit HRC hard. Perhaps a leak from the Mueller investigation. So they are distancing the party from her.
This morning it was funny to listen to the Lefty radio. The girl talked about how there was nothing illegal or unethical and how this was not the right time for Elizabeth Warren to be doing this. The Bernie bro was pushing her on it. Seriously how can you go on and on about Russians stealing elections and then defend what Hillary did.
Worst. Commute. Ever. this morning.
However, the little millennial colleague that sits next to me bought me “coffee” (iced caramel macchiato – most of you wouldn’t call that real coffee).
Correct. That’s a coffee-flavored milkshake.
Exactly – delicious!
^^This guy gets it.
Coffee has two ingredients, coffee grounds and water.
And chicory – I’m firmly in the New Orleans camp on that one.
I’ve gotta be in the mood, but my grandfather always drank coffee with chicory so I’ve got a soft spot for it.
Shouldn’t that be extract of coffee grounds? Or do you not filter and simply drink the bean too?
Coffee extract is something else. And depending on the grind and the filter, there will usually be particulate matter from the grounds in the coffee. Now, if you’re stuck using poor quality coffee, you can also add some salt to the grounds which will help to cut the acidity a bit.
And Chipwooder, I’m willing to allow some chicory, although it isn’t my preference.
(My apologies if the link doesn’t go to the Coffee Extract page, for some reason my work doesn’t block Untappd and BeerAdvocate, but does block the Spice House)
Okay, so the term is taken – Coffee Leachate then (Unless that too has been assigned some other term)
It’s a damn crime that Dairy Queen isn’t open before office hours.
Which one, the avacado toast or the career advisor?
Avocado toast. Career advisor is off on a cruise.
You know what happens on cruises, right? *evil chuckle*
Rum, sodomy, and the lash?
Amazon piracy?
I am an espresso ristretto man myself at work, although I do drink an occasional flat white or a double macchiato
The only thing I order that isn’t really a coffee is an Americano. And, no, I don’t need room for cream or sugar.
^THIS^
You’re millennial street cred is increasing with that iced caramel macchiato, KK. How very basic off you!
Uh..huh….euphemisms are getting more barristanic….
Apparently if you search ‘brassiere’ on your iPhone, it pulls up photos of your cleavage
http://www.thisisinsider.com/iphone-feature-recognizes-cleavage-photos-2017-10
My phone, probably: “Your search returned 0 results”
Nice.
There are no photos of cleavage at that link. What the hell?
Are you othering Chrissy Teigen (whoever that is)
She looks like an alien.
An Icy Conquest
Susan Dunn
November 9, 2017 Issue
A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North America
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/11/09/jamestown-icy-conquest/?utm_content=buffer81ea6&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Busty brunette from Murmansk to take on Putin.
Looks trashy. I like that in a president
Oh, you’ve had a long journey from Milan to Minsk, Rochelle Rochelle!
*studio audience applause*
Russia has it right with their busty politicians. All we’ve got is Schumer.
Would.
Well, you made a long journey
From Milan to Murmansk
Rochelle, Rochelle!
Chipwooder got you by *that* much!
At least I got the city right!
See, that’s my problem with Russian chicks. A lot of them are smokin’ hot, but busty? Not so much.
“Ex-porn star wants to make it illegal for women to wear skirts longer than 40cm”
So actual fashion police?
For some people, I support this policy, but there are some women who should be wearing longer garments…
Egyptian Steve Smith: it’s a ‘duty to rape’ women wearing ripped jeans
If you understand that ‘the patriarchy’ is code for western civilization it makes perfect sense to hear feminists complaining about rape culture here in the west while completely ignoring this kind of thing. Hell, they even celebrate those cultures. Empowering women, may ass. Feminism is just Marxism in drag.
Career advisor is off on a cruise.
Maybe she’ll contract amoebic dysentery.
If I was younger and single, I would be on my way to Poland to find the chick at the end of this video.
Speaking of a flat tax- I think we could get the Democrats on board with that if we included a law prohibiting executive salaries from being more than ten times that of an entry level employee. There’s no way anybody would figger out how to game that to their advantage.
I had that proportional salary law workaround figured out within a few minutes of first hearing it.
The company would get sliced into smaller companies, each with the maximum proportionality between top and bottom, then simply contract with each other for services previously provided internally.
Or, your senior managers are independent contractors, not employees.
I was thinking of a large corporation with a wide range of sub-positions from minimum wage to c-suite where even midlevle technical staff could easily be above 4-10x minimum. So the divisions would become companies, and the same shareholders would own them all in proportion to their original shares.
I also have a personal tendency to prefer setups that incentivize long term thinking in management, and making them independant contractors exacerbates the short termism that already infects many of their breed.
“I did not previously know that Andre the Giant played Bigfoot on the Six Million Dollar Man.”
https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/926181642124763136
This is a cucumber:
https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/926212940792872962
This is a picture
““Chief executive Amy Dacey got a call from her operations chief saying that their information technology team had noticed some unusual network activity,” WaPo reported. Dacey enlisted a lawyer from Perkins Coie, who “called in” the private security firm CrowdStrike “to handle the DNC breach.”
Perkins Coie is the same law firm that paid for the Trump dossier using the DNC’s funds. DNC officials including Wasserman Schultz claim they had no idea that their organization had indirectly funded the infamous document.
Brazile’s report on the timing of DNC officials learning about the breach raises questions about why Wasserman Schultz was not engaged in immediate high-level discussions with the DNC’s officers about the breach, which she has characterized as “an all-out assault on American democracy” carried out by a foreign government.
Former President Barack Obama’s Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson testified in June 2017 before Congress that the DNC declined help from his agency after the email system was hacked.”
http://dailycaller.com/2017/11/02/dws-perkins-coie-may-have-engaged-crowdstrike-instead-of-fbi-without-consulting-dnc-officers/
Via Popehat’s Twitter, Soave has a decent piece that doesn’t even have any “to be sure..”.
“I don’t need to think for myself, I have other people to form opinions for me!”
New York Dems Push Gun Control After Truck Attack
The stupidity burns.
That is solid-gold retarded.
Aviation protectionism in Samoa.
The activists who wanted the play cancelled have not actually read the script, but that doesn’t matter to them
Why would they risk permanent injury or death reading a play which has been described to them as racist? Who would volunteer for that sort of suicide mission?
#BELIEVERS
German man finds unexploded wartime ordnance in yard, summons police. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
Also, is there anything more effeminate than calling it a “courgette”? Maybe using the word aubergine, but it’s close.
calling the police upon the sight of one?
Your link name is deceptive.
“German man finds zucchini in yard, calls police”
You call that unexploded ordnance? This is unexploded ordnance.
I have some unexploded ordinance
I AM unexploded ordnance!
Wish I could spend more time on this site, or following news in general; I’m usually not up on things. So, serious question… Is this Antifa November 4th thing real or a spoof?
They’ll probably get a couple dozen assholes in each city, lookin like fools.
We’re all doomed. Doomed. DOOOOOOOOMED.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1Nd6LU4ImQ
(it’s a spoof)
I’m 100% not worried about those idiots.
Thanks 🙂 I will carry on.
There’s a lot of downplaying it by pointing out that Refuse Fascism is yet another Revolutionary Communist Party project that gets most of its power by showing up to other peoples protests and evangelizing their particular brand of crazy. Hard right wing is playing it up for outrage porn. Priming people for something makes it a possibility. Most likely outcome is 10s to a hundred trouble makers in a couple of deep blue cities shutting down a street for a while.
I was told that voter fraud is a myth
There is no cannibalism in the Royal Navy.
Ron Bailey would never lie about such things. He is a man of science!
has anyone sent that to him?
Absentee ballots, multi-day voting, voting by mail, they are all open invitations to voter fraud. You could probably put electronic voting machines in the mix. If you don’t want voter fraud, its not hard to put together a more secure system – basically, the one we had 20 years ago, only with photo ID.
One day to vote in person. That’s it. Show photo ID.
Absentee ballots have to be picked up in person, showing photo ID. They have to be signed.
No ballots mailed to anyone.
Paper ballots only.
You still have to worry about vote counting fraud, but even that is harder with paper ballots because you can at least audit paper ballots.
It’s actually quite doable to have a secure system that allows absentee ballots or voting over the Internet, etc:
A vote is simply a record with three elements of information:
1) An election slot (i.e. the dogcatcher for Poughkeepsie in the 2018 election).
2) The person expressing the preference (i.e. Mrs. RC Dean (if that’s even her real name))
3) The person that is preferred to fill that slot (i.e. Paul Krugman (I assume you love dogs and want the least competent dogcatcher for the job))
The act of voting is to submit that record to an entity which registers and tallies it, and then prevents duplicate records or fraudulent records from being acted on.
We do this all the time with financial transactions.
You need to consider someone signing in as someone else fraudulently. That, I think, is the most difficult part to solve (essentially the same as the absentee ballot problem).
Maybe you could have some sort of 2FA. An extra card is printed out and mailed to you with your token for use in the next upcoming election. Sign in normally, then verify with your token. Vote online. You waive your right to vote in person. If you try to vote in person you are brought up on charges of voting fraud or attempted voter fraud.
Well, it’s not exactly a normal transaction
1) It’s critical to record that there was a transaction involving a voter, to prevent fraud.
2) It’s critical not to record the details of the transaction in a way that could undermine the secrecy of the vote
3) It’s critical to have a precise record of the aggregate of the transactions.
But then how are those poor, disenfranchised hourly workers supposed to get the time off to be able to vote? They can’t take the day off, they’re paid by the HOUR!!
/Prog.
Agree with most of that, but deployed military can’t pick those up in person.
It’s Philadelphia. My mother-in-law lives down the street from where an elections commissioner used to live. Nobody messed with that house. Ever. Because they knew that the cops would show in seconds. The woman was a god among mortals in the neighborhood.
Is that one of those districts that didn’t cast a single vote for Romney?
So as I look at my paycheck and lament that it’ll get slightly smaller soon, I gotta ask. Any Gordon Gecko types around here? How do I get started in the insider trading…thing?
Get elected to Congress?
I can’t do that. I look too Mexican.
I bet step 1 is to get inside and step 2 is to do some trading.
I am serious though. I am interesting in trading but don’t want to just open an E-Trade account and see what happens.
USAA.
They told me NOT to do it. Screw it I’ll call them again.
“Facebook now says as many as 60,000,000 of its accounts are fake”
http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-raises-duplicate-fake-account-estimates-q3-earnings-2017-11
25 million created by the NSA
25 million created by the KGB
10 million created by a combination of 4chan/anonymous
Tulpa socks?
Whuh? A fake account is an account that isn’t a real account? Call me crazy, but that’s not a very useful definition. What exactly do they mean by “fake”? I know a few people who have alternate accounts on Facebook, some because they don’t want family or employers to see things they post, some because they have an R-rated account, some because they locked themselves out of their old account or just didn’t feel like fixing all the demographic crap and just found it easier to start a new one, and some who just wanted to make an account revolving around a specific theme or topic. Which of those are “fake”?
Everyone on facebook is fake.
There are a number of cloned accounts: people set up an account in your name, then invite friends from your real account, then start posting stuff.
Not really an invitation for beer snobs, but just as a gauge for how stable people outside the libertarian bubble think the marijuana market will be . . .
“The Maker of Corona Just Bought a $190 Million Stake in Canada’s Biggest Marijuana Grower”
https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/11/03/the-maker-of-corona-just-bought-a-190-million-stak.aspx
Constellation brands is, I believe, ultimately an Anheuser-Busch affiliate. They spent $190 million in real money to acquire a legal marijuana grower to make beverages infused with marijuana.
This ain’t a mom and pop, ex-illegal growers, people getting into the business. And it isn’t just that they’re showing faith in the marijuana market continuing to grow and threatening alcohol sales. It’s also that once they have a vested interest in the industry, they start protecting those interests with their political influence, etc.
It’s a vote of confidence and brings real political heft to bear on the issue. You don’t want to piss off the beer industry and all their affiliates.
For instance, if they have Teamsters driving those beer trucks around, then legalization isn’t just about making life easier for gang-bangers anymore. Keeping cannabis illegal is basically a “lock out” to them.
Constellation brands is an independent company to my knowledge. They made news a couple years back by acquiring Ballast Point for $1 Billion dollars when Ballast Point was looking to launch an IPO. They handle quite a bit of the Mexican imports, and a lot of the low-mid range wine market.
They’ve also said they’re not looking to distribute marijuana until it’s legal at the federal level. I figured it would be the tobacco companies moving in first.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/anheuser-busch-inbev-and-constellation-brands-announce-revised-agreement-for-complete-divestiture-of-us-business-of-grupo-modelo-191163071.html
They affiliates.
They often import, market, and distribute each other’s products in various countries.
And Constellation’s Corona brand didn’t invest $190 million in a marijuana grower because they don’t expect to use it.
And having a large, multinational (and its affiliates) take an interest in the recreational marijuana industry is a game changer.
Some places may still be in the phase of legalization. Looks like nationally, we’re in a phase of what I’d call “normalization”.
Was it Ted or Ken that suggested putting one of the Reapers in oil? So I have a squeezy bottle of oil with a Reaper in it. How long does it need to sit to get the full spiciness?
I wish people would take the Reaper threat more seriously.
I can’t, not with the holographic child commanding them.
If it comes out too hot in even small drops, then she can just add more oil.
But taking that spiciness and diffusing it over a half quart of oil or more should make it manageable.
It’s like adding water to Scotch. It lets you appreciate the flavor by making it less concentrated.
That was me.
It should be fairly well infused after a few days, but the longer it’s there, the better it should be.
You might shake the bottle up periodically to even it out–the oil next to the pepper might be hot as heck and the rest not so much otherwise.
Hope it comes out great!
You also might want to buy some BHT, heat up a bit of oil, dissolve a pinch in it, then add it to the bottle. It will help keep it from going bad.
Does anyone have a pithy quote about shit being done to your enemy can also be done to you? I wanna Tweet something at Snowden.
What gies around, comes around or Karmas a Bitch.
Me today, you tomorrow.
There otter be a law.
Anything more…eloquent?
“Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Bell
Love it!!
Biblical OK?
“Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles; lest the Lord see it, and it displease Him, and He turn away His wrath from him.” (Proverbs 17:17-18)
Another good one!
Haven’t been keeping up with the news and too lazy to search: did Snowden do something that annoyed you or which you wish to celebrate?
He was pretty happy about that Twitter employee deleting Trump’s account. Not good form coming from someone like Snowden.
Oh, that’s easy.
“Fuck off, slaver!”
“Joffrey, when your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet. Elsewise no man will ever bend the knee to you. And any man who must say ‘I am the king’ is no true king at all.”
-Tywin Lannister
Fight for 15…weeks of unemployment?
https://hotair.com/archives/2017/11/03/following-union-vote-gothamist-goes-dark/
The Politicization of Everything, Ch 8,602
Catland has held three packed ceremonies to hex Trump, which involve the use of “cursing ingredients” as well as the recitation of Psalm 109: “Let his days be few, and let another take his office. Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg; let them seek their bread also from their desolate places.”
It might seem strange for people who reject monotheism to chant Bible verses, but Bracciale often uses the Book of Psalms as a spellbook. (Wary of cultural appropriation, some of today’s young occultists look for esoteric strains in their own cultures rather than borrowing from foreign traditions.) Bracciale notes, savoring the irony, that for eight years, some Christian prayer warriors used the same imprecatory psalm against Obama. “They just use thoughts and prayers, and we know what those are worth,” Bracciale said with contempt. “With us, there’s structure around it, there is a methodology behind it.”
For decades now, the right has spiritualized political warfare, treating it as a metaphysical contest between good and evil. It’s not surprising that the rise of Trump, a person who for many represents the inversion of all decent values, would create a supernatural reaction on the left. Millennial occultists might seem silly to outsiders, but you don’t have to believe in hexes, witchcraft or magic to take them seriously as a sign that many people find the present intolerable. Just under the surface of American culture, something furious is brewing.
Calling for the death of the President of the United States? Sure, why not? It’s just good clean fun. Needs more hot naked chicks.
Catland. Catland. If someone wrote this into a snarky essay about the sexless feminism of bitter, angry women, you’d think it too obvious.
That said, I applaud and enthusiastically endorse women of the party of science dressing up like Hermione Granger and wishing bad thoughts on people. Tell your friends, and please never do anything else.
AJWoods New Jersey 1 hour ago
An excellent article. The author has tapped into the zeitgeist: an anxiety that calls for extreme measures. Women are experiencing extreme anxiety and powerlessness.
Magical thinking is not an extreme measure. It’s the measure taken by intellectually lazy, politically unmotivated losers who want to tap into the infantile rage of communal hatred because a good, hard think about your values and those of your adversaries is just too taxing on the ol’ gray goo upstairs. Here’s a life tip: if you have time to free up to attend seminars that would make an old-school televangelist blush, you’re not powerless and you’re certainly not anxious enough about the sad course your life has taken. You’re a prissy dunce with more money than sense and a head like a bag of rocks.
So my absentee ballot for Virginia’s gubernatorial election arrived in the mail yesterday. I can’t decide who I want to vote for: Northam or Gillespie. Gillespie will support rural telecom businesses (my industry, this would be my rent-seeking vote) and Northam would support decriminalizing small amounts of marijuana (yay!). I don’t like Northam’s lip service to diversity programs and I don’t like Gillespie’s “tough on crime” crap. Both seem like they will be fairly fiscally conservative unless I missed something.
Honestly, I’m not sure who to vote for at this point.
You might find this interesting.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/sep/6/ed-gillespies-marijuana-proposal-breaks-with-virgi/
Good to know, sounds like Gillespie isn’t as bad as I thought. That being said, I really don’t think he goes far enough on the issue.
Vote Gillespie because, #1, Northam is a gun-grabber, and #2, because of the Latino Victory Fund ad, which turned out to be coordinated by the Northam campaign. Easy choice.
As much as I didn’t like that ad. I vote based on policy… so its hard to let that influence my vote. Good point on the gun grabbing thing though, that’s a big one I wasn’t considering (since I don’t own any guns… yet).
Here’s the things about VA, we have one of the best 2A groups in the nation, the VCDL. We also have pro firearm state congress. It’s the governor’s office that refused to sign and vetoes. VCDL has pushed through some of the best state gun laws in country, as well as prevented those jackasses in the Dem/Soros/Bloomberg controlled executive from doing their worst.
It would be nice, but we don’t need a firebreathing 2A supporter as governor. An establishment like Gillespie will work out the same, if he will sign the bills that VCDL pushes through.
Yeah but I worry that a Northam/Herring cabal would do everything they can administratively to undermine 2A.
From what I’ve heard, Herring is the real jackass in the state of VA, and unfortunately has the best shot at holding his seat because of incumbency. Having an R governor, even a GOPe one, would undermine his authority a lot.
Definitely agree. McAufflif’s been a struggle now and Herring tried to end concealed carry reciprocity until VCDL bent them both over a barrel. We do not want a Northam/Herring.
My point was to TK or anyone wavering over voting for Gillespie because he’s not the strongest candidate for liberty. The governor doesn’t have to be hardcore 2A, just willing to sign the bills. VCDL will take care of the rest.
“State congress?” Ugh.
Virginia has a General Assembly, consisting of the Senate and the House of Delegates.
Oldest continuously meeting legislature in the New World, bitchez.
Ehh, I have neither the time nor the inclination to ensure my nomenclature for describing the parasite class is technically correct. ‘Conveys my meaning’ is sufficient for now.
What Zenome said. The LVF ad was targeted at voters, not a candidate. They need to be spanked for that, and hard.
And after the spankings… the oral sex.
Newsletter?
Bad, bad Zoot!
Oh come on, I can handle a little peril!
I think they will be. IDK if its enough to outweigh the parasites in Fairfax though. I don’t vote, ever. I’m going to the polls Tuesday and voting straight ticket Republican, because that ad needs to be repudiated in the harshest possible terms.
These people seem to have decided that half the country are literally racist murderers, and they are attempting persuade their supporters of that. That ad is probably the single most disgusting political ad I’ve ever seen, and I think it’s incredibly dangerous.
Glowers menacingly at the lot of ye.
Welcome to the club!
/winks back.
They are both as milquetoast as it gets. If Northam wins we will finally have a Virginian in governors mansion for the first time in years. If Gillespie wins the media will be completely butt hurt and deride how terrible the polling is for 9 months.
Advantage: Gillespie.
FWIW, Libertarian Cliff Hyra is on the ballot.
Conventional Glib wisdom is to vote L if the R is up by at least five points, otherwise hold your nose and vote R.
MJ is important, but that issue will be decided by the state legislature, or perhaps by referendum. I don’t see Northam giving anything but the most tepid lip service on the issue.
Hyra is more of an anti-Atlantic Coast Pipeline opportunist than a real libertarian alternative. He’s trying to pull progressive voters from the Northam campaign by calling himself the “only anti-pipeline candidate”.
It’s slightly more complicated than that, Zenome. Dominion Power, the utility seeking to build that pipeline, has been granted power of eminent domain by the state. That’s what Hyra opposes. Sure he’s trying to siphon greenie votes, nothing wrong with that.
Ah, now that makes more sense to me. He’s not so much anti-pipeline than he is anti-eminent domain. Well, then more power to him if he can siphon the ultra-prog vote.
I’ve become a bit wary about people whose anti-eminent domain platform focuses heavily on pipelines. Yes, the use of eminent domain to build pipelines is bad, the same as it is to build power lines and roads. People should have to get consent to take property. But, with an eye to incrementalism, pipelines and power lines and such have been built with property obtained using ED since long before Kelo. The expansion of ED to allow private interests to get people’s homes after their neighborhoods have been declared “blighted” is to my mind a far greater abuse. Yes, losing exclusive use over acres of farmland or forest is a loss to the property owner. But losing your residence, and your community, just so some asshole with connections at the city council can (maybe) make a profit and fill the city coffers with greater tax revenues? That’s on an entirely different level.
Unless VA already has strong protections against ED use of the kind Kelo enabled, I’d pay more attention to somebody focused on ED abuses against homeowners than on ED use to build infrastructure.
I was thinking about ED this morning, and what came to me was that the abuse could be mitigated somewhat through prices. The idea that ‘fair market value’ should be the compensation for subjects of ED strikes me as ludicrous. If I wanted ‘fair market value’ for my property, I can get that without the government interfering. I think the base compensation needs to be at least double market value to take into account the fact that the government is setting fire to whatever long-term plan that I had for the use of the property. That price should vary, but I think forcing any user/beneficiary of ED to pay above market value will at least make them think twice about using it as a tool.
To be sure, any price system that relies on the government to be involved is going to have problems.
/Not Robby
You’re never going to get real criminal justice reform out of the Dems, because they need the government unions and the bureaucracy. Plus if you actually give the black community their men back, they might start asking why there are no jobs in the cities. They might ask why their schools are so shitty.
If you end the Drug War, the black vote goes from “Fuck the cops!” to “fuck these shitty public schools!”. Nothing could be more dangerous to the Democratic Party.
Well said, Viking.
One of my greatest triggerings (before such a term existed) was bringing up the fact that since the Democrats depend utterly on the vote of the poor for power, actually reducing poverty was against the interests of Democratic politicians.
Conversely, since the Republicans draw their support from the middle to upper middle class, they have every incentive in the world to create more suburbanites with nice houses and 401ks, because suburbanites with nice houses and 401ks give Team Red their votes.
New poll just came out in the VA Governor’s race today. Gillespie is now leading Northam by 2 points. What’s sure to be much more exciting for every VA Glibertarian, however, is that a complete nobody attorney named John Adams is now leading incumbent AG Mark Herring, the most radical leftist on the ticket, by 1 point. I read last night that he was the main POS behind revoking concealed carry reciprocity with 25 neighboring states. Every libertarian should get out of bed and go to the polls just for that purpose IMO.
*googles John Adams* Well, that didn’t work out how I intended.
I’m voting in the election today (absentee). Got any more info on this John Adams guy? Sounds like I should vote for him.
Do the traditional thing: Vote against the biggest scumbag in the race (which would be Herring).
Good enough for me!
John Adams sounds pretty qualified to me. He’s an attorney that clerked with Justice Clarence Thomas and filed briefs opposing ACA in the Hobby Lobby case because of Religious Freedom statutes.
25 neighboring states
Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, … um?
Even if you broke off NoVa as a separate state and counted DC, that only gets you to 7…
Hmm, adding in the states bordering the states bordering VA and I get DE, PA, OH, IN, IL, MO, AR, MS, AL, GA, and SC. That’s another 11.
Delaware. Folks often forget that the Eastern Shore, aka DelMarVa peninsula contains part of Virginia.
To be fair, it’s a pretty uninteresting part of virginia. It seemed to be nothing but fireworks stands when I drove through there.
UCS doesn’t appreciate fireworks. Typical.
2 points has to be within the error so still very much a toss-up.
if the Dems ever learned to love the gun…
Honestly, I’m not sure who to vote for at this point.
Just vote for Kodos. You know you want to.
Is this Antifa November 4th thing real or a spoof?
Tune in tomorrow. I have to wonder how many people will be standing around in the snow and cold getting their sackcloth and ashes on.
I’m pulling for some good old-fashioned freeway protests. Block up the traffic, folks. You’re selling it to the people, I tell you.
Block up some NY bridges. Nothing funnier than watching people get tire irons out of their trunks while the cops race there to save the protesters’ lives.
Bowe Bergdahl receives dishonorable discharge, no prison.
Fuck him.
What a load of crap. Should be fitting him for a blindfold and sorting through volunteers for the firing squad.
I’m more interested in what the punishment will be for the morons who allowed him into the Army in the first place…oh, that would require self-reflection by the Army and Congress as to how we staff our all-volunteer force? Nothing to see here.
He’s going to disappear in the woods somewhere in Idaho. How do I know? If he doesn’t he’s going to get punished…somehow.
Bergdahl’s lawyers asked the judge for leniency during sentencing hearings, arguing he had a previously undiagnosed mental illness when he left his post.
Yeah, I’m sure that’ll never come back to bite the army in the ass. With respect to sufferers, at what point does your illness stop being your problem and instead become your employer’s? I realize we’re talking about literal infirmity of the mind, and that’s bound to impair judgment, but it’s a spectrum. Men with anterograde amnesia or schizophrenia or Alzheimer’s can be forgiven for misbehaving, but depression, or whatever happy horseshit this jackoff blames for desertion and treason? You still know right from wrong! You still have the moral clarity to realize when your decisions run counter to your duty, and risk endangering others! You don’t get a pass for abdicating responsibility because you felt poorly at the time, any more than I can blame indigestion for embezzlement.
This guy should have been hanged, full stop.
The sentence is effective immediately, except for the dishonorable discharge, which Bergdahl is appealing, according to Fidell.
Asshat.
Can the appeal’s court rule that the judge was too lenient and increase his sentence?
Appealing what – his ludicrously light sentence??
I’m pulling for some good old-fashioned freeway protests. Block up the traffic, folks.
By all means, get out there on that icy interstate in front of some big trucks. Show us your true level of commitment.
Who’d have thought that trying to peddle hardline progressivism and social justice to teenage girls wouldn’t turn out to be such a great business plan.
Playboy: Hold my beer.
Bergdahl’s lawyers asked the judge for leniency during sentencing hearings, arguing he had a previously undiagnosed mental illness when he left his post.
The guy grew up in Hailey, Idaho. That’s in the People’s Republic of Blaine County. Of course he’s goofy.
Y’all see this Maduro gif?
To be sure, Empanadas are delicious.
Given the confirmed cases of cannibalism (sold as rat meat no less), makes one wonder what is in that.