It’s a beautiful crisp fall day out, so instead of getting exercise and fresh air, you should try to maintain your pallor and paunch by staying in and commenting on these gems of news stories.
First up, a claque of civil servants, rent seekers, and true believers issued a “scientific” report confirming that Global Warming is HUGE and totally the fault of humans. Of course, they expected to have it suppressed, and seemed somewhat disappointed that this didn’t happen. It’s tough to prepare for martyrhood and then the vest-bomb turns out to be a dud. Now, how can we know that the report is bullshit?
“This new report simply confirms what we already knew. Human-caused climate change isn’t just a theory, it’s reality,” said Michael E. Mann, a professor of atmospheric science at Pennsylvania State University. “Whether we’re talking about unprecedented heat waves, increasingly destructive hurricanes, epic drought and inundation of our coastal cities, the impacts of climate change are no longer subtle. They are upon us. That’s the consensus of our best scientists, as laid bare by this latest report.”
There you go. Michael Mann confirms it. And also demonstrates that he doesn’t know the difference between a hypothesis and a theory. Someone gave him a Ph.D.? I actually read this trainwreck, and it boils (pun!) down to a combination of selective data picking and argumentum ad ignorantiam. Just what we expect from our government.
In sports news, when Draymond Green isn’t busy kicking other players in the nuts, he’s showing off his remarkable ignorance, feigning indignation that the owners of teams are called… owners. Here’s a delightful takedown by Mark Cuban, who every now and then actually says something coherent.
“Draymond can trash-talk on the court, but when he comes into our world, it doesn’t fly. … I guess it’s because he went to Michigan State and didn’t take any business classes, but you own equity. When you own a team, you own equity, shares of stock. That’s called ownership. Tell him if he wants to take classes at Indiana’s business school, I’ll even pay for his classes and we’ll help him learn that stuff.”
Ouch, that’s gonna leave a mark.
Speaking of which, the owner of Papa John’s continues to maintain that the drop in sales is due to NFL player protests, and that he may pull his sponsorship. The idea that his product sucks doesn’t enter into his calculus. But hey, if this means less of that annoying doofus Peyton Manning on TV (he rivals Hillary in his refusal to go away), I’m all for it.
With the House GOP tax “reform” proposal out, the lobbying begins. I have to declare a conflict-of-interest: this proposal will nearly double my federal tax burden. Given who’s lobbying, that part is likely to stay and the parts with actual campaign money behind the opposition will go. Ah, politics. Well, I understand that cardboard boxes make great shelter, so I’m already shopping for one.
And the obligatory Old Guys Music. This was punk long before punk, and truly one of the best American bands that birthed modern rock. They’re not unknown, but should be known much better than they are. Roky was a god.
People keep hounding this global warming thing like I’m supposed to care. Look guys, I don’t give a fuck. Hands off my stuff. If the world burns, it burns, deal with it. Makes some margaritas, pull up a chair, and just enjoy the ride.
Since unprecedented heat waves, increasingly destructive hurricanes, epic drought, and inundation of our coastal cities, are upon us — means that they aren’t. Can we change “Michael E. Mann at Pennsylvania State University” to Michael E. Mann in state penitentiary? Penn State, state pen, it’s all just words.
I keep hearing ‘increasingly destructive ______’ thrown about as if it is a given. Looking at the data there are no statistically significant increase in frequency or intensity of any weather events. They are using the full moon effect to cover for their lies.
When I see numbers, it’s always “The few storms we do get broke more expensive stuff!” yet willfully ignoring the vastly decreased fatality rate (even in absolute numbers) and all it boils down to is “We stupidly built on the seashore!”
I forgot about that. Let’s measure storm intensity in dollars instead of wind speed, rainfall, storm surge, or time sustained.
Fuckin’ liars. Pure flim flam artists.
They should measure damage in Zimbabwean dollars.
In the Atlantic basin, we have reliable records of numbers of storms and storm strength going all the way back to … 1980.
So, let’s just say I’m somewhat skeptical of the “hurricane seasons have never been this bad before!”
First of all it is not “global warming” it is “global climate change”. That way it covers all bases. If the temperature increases, it is because of global climate change. If the temperature decreases, it is because of global climate change. If the temperature remains the same, it is because of global climate change. Just give them a few years and they will be able to adjust their models to prove it is all primarily causes by man.
In other words, it is the perfect scam, because they are always right.
I’m in central Ohio so when the sea level rises 600 feet, give me a hollar. My house is at 920 so I’ll still be high and dry.
https://g.co/kgs/M7o5wq
I used to have this cassette tape.
https://youtu.be/2ufyn_gc_O0
If there is good money to be made trying to solve the ‘global warming problem’ the market will handle it. I don’t worry at all.
I hope Papa John pulls his sponsorship and tells them how he really feels.
“Another complication was presented by President Trump, who wants to include a controversial measure to do away with the Affordable Care Act’s mandate that most Americans have health coverage or pay a penalty. On Friday, the House’s leading tax writer opened the door to including that provision, saying that no decision had been made.”
Fuck yesssss.
It’s a bit depressing that releasing Americans from a compulsion to purchase a commercial product is even remotely “controversial”. Still, it’s good that it’s being discussed. I’d love to save some money by purchasing health insurance that doesn’t include pediatric dental care, prenatal services, substance abuse treatment, or mental health services.
Yes, I truly have no need for a silly thing like mental health services.
*continues reading Glibertarians comments*
I thought the Glibs’ comments were our mental health service?
Glibs comments are to mental health service as STEVE SMITH is to sexual service. And by service I mean RAPE.
Eat your broccoli!
Exactly. I’m also forced to ensure against services I’ll never use. Yessiree it’s a mystery why my health insurance had gotten so expensive.
Triple crown bitches.
That’s the consensus of our best scientists, as laid bare by this latest report.
Also, if you sail too far to the west, you’ll fall off the edge of the Earth, and be consumed by giant
dragonsspace lizards.Sounds legit.
If only there were a space lizard around to confirm.
No need to sail, we’ll come to you…
Also I mentioned this last night. I will be prowling ybor tonight going to dirty shame specifically. (For Non-FloridaMan it is a place near Tampa)
“our best scientists”
And I am a flying reindeer.
Indeed, anyone who finds data that disagrees with their hypothesis and then asserts that the data must be wrong – and changes it, is not a scientist by any stretch of the term.
Well just look at the name. Global warming (falsifiable) is falsified so they change to climate change (unfalsifiable), the gravest sin one can commit in science. The instant they did that they ceased to be scientists, if they ever were to begin with.
Climatologists were scientists up until the point that public money became their primary source of funding. After that, they became partisans.
Science is a discipline; a mode of thought. It’s the process of gathering evidence and drawing conclusions.
But to the “progressives”, science is a specific group of human beings. If you disagree with them, you are anti-science and therefore should be marginalized and silenced.
Current climate report: Peering out my window into the darkness, I see about eight inches of snow, which has accumulated since Wednesday. Temp is probably in the teens. Global warming is killing me.
Weather is not climate (unless the weather is unusually warm or destructive.)
Just read a pretty decent article on the current sexual harassment craze. Pretty solid, outside of the author pulling a Robby “to be sure” a few times.
Links to author’s bio.
This is the second time I’ve had this happen. I don’t know what’s wrong with Townhall. No other site has done that to me.
And again, for some reason when I copied the link directly in the damn article, it instead goes to the author’s page? What the hell, Townhall?! https://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2017/11/04/5-reasons-men-are-reluctant-to-get-on-the-sexual-harassment-bandwagon-n2404741
It’s easy enough to find in the articles under the bio. The #HowIWillChange stuff he writes about is a load of horseshit. As an interviewee you’re going to ask how many women execs there are and what the pay gap at the company is? This is why millennials are made fun of.
Sure, but it’s still damn annoying. I copied straight from the article page. Why is it going to the author bio? Anyway, yeah that is completely stupid. Who the hell is going to get to the part of an interview we’re they ask if you have any questions for them and ask “What’s your company pay gap and what’s the male to female ratio of employees?” Thank you for your time, but we’ve decided to move forward with other candidates at this time.
Copy the URL from your browser’s address bar.
I do. That’s how I always do it. Yet, for some reason when I do that with Townhall articles, it links to the author bio page instead. Then, when I click from the bio page to the article I was linking to and copy it again, then it goes through alright. This only ever happens to me with Townhall, I never have had this problem with any other site I’ve linked to.
A few years ago, I had an interviewee ask, in the initial interview, if women were treated fairly at my job and had opportunities. Another woman and I were interviewing her. She didn’t get a second interview. Not because of that question, her research was …. not great. We asked “why did you use this measure?” She said, “because that’s what (other paper) used.” “Ok, but why is it a good measure for your question?” .
Yeah, that’s not going to cut it.
Should say crickets after question. Hmm.
“if women were treated fairly at my job”
Where I work, women are treated fairly. They have the exact same wages and the exact same responsibilities. For some reason, there are almost no women where I work. It must be the patriarchy. no other possible explanation.
“Sexual harassment is often dependent on the feelings the woman involved has about the man doing it: How can we have a “crime” where the standards vary based on how attracted the “victim” is to the “perpetrator?” Asking a woman out a second time after she turns you down if she likes you? Persistent. If she doesn’t? Creepy harassment. If a woman catches you staring at her and she finds you attractive? He’s into me. Awesome! If she doesn’t like you? Creepy harassment. Telling an edgy joke if she likes you? He’s so funny! If she doesn’t? Creepy harassment.”
That’s why making it a law is ridiculous.
A link from that link:
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2017/09/09/why-the-trump-administration-is-rewriting-campus-sexual-assault-rules-5-men-who-n2379071
I don’t know how these campus administrators are able to live with themselves.
They tell themselves that these men’s lives are the eggs that must be broken to make their utopian omelet. Either that, or they’re spineless cowards with no conviction to stand up to an angry mob of SJZombies.
Quiet easily. It’s not their lives being destroyed by false allegations and kangaroo courts.
Quite! Stupid autocorrect.
#HowIWillChange
Oh god, is that a thing?? Are men being expected to confess their guilt for rapes committed by other men?? I can say with 100 percent certainty that I’ve never raped a woman before, so what the hell am I supposed to confess for?
How about this: every time a black person commits a crime, all black people should have to explain how they will endeavor to remain on the right side of the law with the hashtag #HowIWillChange.
#HowIWillChange
I won’t.
STEVE SMITH NOT CHANGE EITHER!
If I had a Twitter, that’s what I would post.
Great set of links.
The tax reform proposal starts out as weak tea from the get-go: 20% corporate rate for C-corps, okay good, check. 25% rate for “passive” owners of pass-through entities, but 39% for “active” counterparts (uhh….wait). Professional services like accounting and lawyering still at 35%. Fucking typical GOP.
Overall it’s status quo with a make-work gift for the parasitic accounting class, and is pretty far off from the rest picture that Mnuchin was proposing. I’ll bet 85% odds that Donnie Two Scoops pumps this half turd sandwich as great legislation, same as the first ObamaCare Lite the GOP shat out.
Meanwhile, the new chief executive of Hong Kong is talking about dropping their corporate by five points down to 10% soon, and most everyone is on board. That’s something to emulate, tax receipts would flood in like crazy if the US were to emulate, as all multinationals scramble to get back to the US. Fucking stupid missed opportunity.
This is what I do not get. Make the US a tax haven. With it’s natural resources and size, we’d be so well off even modern technology would look like child’s play.
All these poseur fucks in Washington are so incredibly myopic and hubristic. $20T public debt. Worried about the Chinese eating our economy’s lunch? Cut the corporate and personal rates substantially, especially the corporate rate. The PRC can’t compete with that.
Depends…at some point the Chinese are going to have to change their policy about not allowing corporate party businesses to fail – but we don’t know what that point is yet.
Face is a poisonous toxin in high enough doses too.
Cut the corp. tax and eliminate extraterritorial taxation. Now you don’t need FATCA either.
Prediction: when this is done, deductability of state taxes and mortgage interest will be back in, brackets will be slightly adjusted, corp rates slightly lowered, AMT will remain but with a slight adjustment to level where it kicks in, tax code will still be 100,000 pages of legal gibberish, and I’ll still be screwed.
Crazy idea: cut tax rates across the board, and CUT SPENDING.
But leave the National Endowment for the Arts alone, it’s a drop in the bucket compared to everything else!
It’s funny how Lefties dismiss this program (that had a budget of $146,200,000 in 2015) as “a drop in the bucket”. Most programs are just a drop in the bucket. They don’t seem to realize that if you keep adding drops, the bucket will eventually be overflowing.
Yet, despite the fact that NEA funds were often used for blatantly anti-religious art (like “Piss Christ”), these people will freak the fuck out if a city puts a wooden cross on a memorial site where some kind of fatal catastrophe occurred. And I say this as a non-religious person.
Supplemental: I hope this turd fails and is revisited after some of these milquetoast fake fiscal conservatives in the GOP are purged.
But Pelosi already told us the cupboards are bare. There’s nothing left to cut!
CUT spending? You mean that my department’s budget will only go up by 5% next year rather than 7%, right? And by the way you’re already killing people if you do that!
I hate that mortgage interest is a deduction. It discourages people from owning their house. I own my house ano therfore pay more taxes because I paid it off earlier this year.
Perverse incentives are a thing.
As an active member with ownership in an S-Corp, this bites.
Weather is weather until it gets the narrative when it becomes climate.
FTFY
Trump will unite them. Or not.
But the challenge for some Democrats will be to press for changes they think are necessary without giving succor to Trump.
Devine, the former Sanders advisor, argues that the party’s nomination process needs reform, implying that the party establishment plays an outsize role in determining the eventual party standard-bearer.
Referring to the firestorm ignited by Brazile’s book, he said, “We didn’t light the fuse over here. But now that it’s happened, we have spoken up honestly. We are saying it is not the right time for Democrats to fight. But it is the right time for Democrats to recognize we have problems in our nominations process.”
Trump may well unite the Democrats for now. But it is clear that some deep fault-lines remain.
It’s not fair for Trumputin to point out true things about the Democrats. That’s trolling.
Wait, I thought that he will not divide us?
“trumputin to point out true things about the Democrats”
Hey dumbshits, it wasn’t trump who pointed pointed out your corruption. It was your own people.
Crazy idea: cut tax rates across the board, and CUT SPENDING.
You’re right. That’s a crazy idea.
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/2017/11/03/winemakers-climate-change/107312574/
Winemakers hop on climate change bandwagon.
I want to strangle the writer, and anyone else who misuses the word “varietal” when what they mean is “variety” or “type.” “Varietal” is a WINE made from a single GRAPE “variety.”
Much other bullshit in the article, but this reliably gets my nascent Asperger’s rage to a fever pitch.
Tim Egan is outraged
It may sound like no big deal — raising admission fees in the 17 parks targeted for price gouging — when Trump’s government is running a $660 billion deficit. You’d pay $107 to get into Disney World. But national parks are not theme parks, market-driven to match the latest entertainment blockbusters.
All national parks should be free, like the great museums of Washington. We should care for these special places with a budget commensurate to their value, treating them like the huge income generators they are, producing $34 billion to local businesses. Instead, we starve them nearly to death.
In the bizarro world of this administration, taxpayers are being asked to subsidize a dying industry, coal mining, while their government is slashing the budget for a growing one that is responsible for four times as many jobs.
We saw again this week how confused so many people are about basic elements of our history. When a general, the Trump chief of staff John F. Kelly, doesn’t even have a grade-school understanding of the Civil War, you know we need more park-uniformed historians.
Yeah, Tim, they’re doing credit checks at the gate to Trumplestone. Pretty soon you won’t be able to see Old Faithful if your net worth is less than 25 million dollars.
Nothing says, “invaluable” like a price tag of zero.
And whose fault has this been for the last 16 years, asshole?
Not using regulation to put one entire industry out of business is a subsidy. Hiring armies of functionaries to make sure that people don’t have to pay for access to parks that nobody gives a fuck about is a 34 billion dollar windfall. Makes good sense.
“while their government is slashing the budget for a growing one that is responsible for four times as many jobs.”
Government jobs are a drain on the economy. That is all.
Kiss my ass Egan, the parks should pay for themselves.
I’d like him to explain why everyone – including poor people – should have to pay taxes to support recreational sites that are mostly frequented by semi-wealthy people who have enough money and leisure time to travel from several states away and walk around in the mountains.
You know, you’ve stumbled on a solution. Sell the naming rights to the National Parks to Trump. Come to Trumplestone. We have the best geysers in the world! Trumpsemite has huge rock formations. You’ll love them. Trump Canyon is the biggest hole in the ground ever!
(((Trumpsemite)))?
Problematic!
I actually rather like this idea.
I dunno. I like Papa Johns for delivery – but I’m also pretty lazy and cheap. I also like Dominos….but Pizza Hut is a more occasional thing. Probably varies by location.
In other news, I am impressed by getting almost 2x as many views on this weeks review. Any feedback on the updated video format? Probably since it’s a smaller Japanese company, I got zero copyright hits/warnings even with multiple clips, etc. Which is nice – wish they would have liked/retweeted my review, but you can’t have everything.
For this next week – it’s straight up insanity. Doing a review on the Asterix live action flick I linked the trailer for a month or two back – absolute hilarity.
Is that your voice? It sounds so _normal_. Being a glib I was expecting some haughty monocle wearing east coast slur.
REalllllyy
I will eventually get a real mic and quit with using my cellphone. Maybe in a month or two. ;p
“It begs the question, where are members of the administration getting their information from? They’re obviously not getting it from their own scientists.”
*facepalm*
Actual example of begging the question: Climate change is caused by human activity.
Shut your fucking ignorant mouth Phillip P. Duffy. Really, go blow it out of your ass. You aren’t getting any more global warming money.
If you’re going to get a cardboard box house, get something big like the shipping container for a Maytag washer, or, better yet, whatever they ship Warty’s weightlifting gear in
Ya but I don’t think they’ll sell you a Podzilla
I’m the descendant of a founding father and I have two black daughters — and I am racist
You know who else considered themselves a racist…
Margaret Sanger?
Mario Andretti?
No, you’re just stupid.
Heroic
If necessary, members of Congress should send a bipartisan letter to the secretary of the Army in support of a less severe discharge for Sergeant Bergdahl that ensures medical benefits. Moreover, this year, Congress must pass a bill that ensures medical care and disability benefits for all former prisoners of war, regardless of discharge status.
Sergeant Bergdahl’s permanently injured, would-be rescuers are selfless and brave. But we must remember that — regardless of Sergeant Bergdahl’s tragic and unnecessary circumstances of capture — it was the enemies of America who tortured him and tried to kill those who sought to rescue him.
Sergeant Bergdahl’s misguided crimes can’t be forgotten, but his punishment must have limits. In light of his courage in captivity, we must be able to balance two compatible martial values: honor and mercy.
A dishonorable discharge? That’s cruel and unusual punishment.
That particular mammal needs to go hide in the woods
Planning to introduce him to STEVE?
STEVE SMITH ALWAYS TAKE ONE FOR THE TEAM OR EVEN ENTIRE TEAM
AND BY TAKE MEAN RAPE.
Tragic? The fucker deserted. That’s not a tragedy.
What was tragic was the pitiful punishment for six counts of depraved inddiference homicide.
Challenge Illinois unions, go to jail. Seriously?
Gilmore’d
Doesn’t go far enough. Should lock up all Chicago politicians.
Too risky. Firing squad is the only safe solution.
I want this to happen. I want Illinois to go all-in on stupidity so it can die a horrible death, and something like West Indiana can rise from its ashes.
And my rage had finally subsided a bit…..now I read this horseshit and I once again want to take a crowbar to inanimate objects.
Oh, he said he was sorry? By all means, let’s reward him then!
Also, why does he keep referring to PRIVATE Bergdahl by an incorrect rank?
For fuck’s sake. The guy is a deserter. When you join the army, you agree to a contract. That contract says that you do not desert. The guys he deserted should find and kill him themselves, since our government is to cowardly to do so themselves.
Give him medical treatment in Leavenworth.
Over/under on how long Bergdahl goes without being physically attacked by a pissed off veteran?
Bergdahl deserted. A country that still maintains a sense of duty and integrity to its military and itself would imprison him. Same with its political class that commits crimes.
Alas, these are, erm, quirky times.
I have to ask the military people here. Is there some sort of ‘code of justice’ like we see with the cops or Mafia? In other words, do soldiers who do not face justice for their actions sometimes, you know, well you know? PAF! He didn’t see the bus coming!
A STEVE SMITH solution was suggested above
I’m not a military man, but I worked with about 80% ex-military at my last job and while vigilante justice may be a bit far, he’ll definitely not be able to show his face in many places. He’s probably going to get his ass kicked at least once. He also is getting a DD, which is basically the equivalent to a felony, so he can’t own a weapon, get loans or get a job. He’ll have some punishment, but I agree with you, he should absolutely be in jail. Fucking Manning is out though so we do live in bizarre times.
It’s not like he committed a serious crime, like shoving an Afghan child rapist to the ground.
Jesus.
What the heck?
Yes, he’s going to have people after him. Not in a stalking-type situation, but he’s going to cross paths with people who despise him. Some of them will probably get violent.
No, Rufus, not like that. But he will end up sheltered behind his parents money….he wouldn’t want to hang out at a bar by a base or such.
Hard to say in this case…honestly. Most deserters in WWII, etc didn’t spend a few years in a cage hanging off the ground. In this particular case – certainly extenuating circumstances.
There was an interesting article I read where he was interviewed by a reporter who had also been held by the taliban for a year or two. (paywall)
Frankly 5-10 in Ft. Leavenworth would be heaven compared to anything else worldwide (unless you’re a mass murderer in Norway).
People say if it’s more than a handful it’s a waste. Those very same people invariably have an extra chromosome and also engage in coprophagia. Coincidence? Never.
http://archive.is/4g8Sq
13 is a repeat but she still haunts my dreams and I would happily let someone cut off my left hand with rusty garden shears to have a run at 17.
People who don’t have an argument attack the messenger.
Big boobs are superior and if you disagree you’re a poopyhead. What’s so hard to understand about that?
We’ll said
There’s a range which is fitting to the body. Above or below that, the attractiveness declines from optimal.
I don’t like to overthink it
I will cede the point that there is an upper limit to everything. Fat sloppy girls with humongous fat sloppy tits hanging down to their knees are not attractive. My upper limit is probably far above the average person.
Those people are wrong.
Some women make longboob work, but they’re the exception. As for fatties, my upper limit is safely beyond everyone’s here, especially with John banished.
The only girl I have ever titty fucked was periously close to that upper limit. YMMV. Still would
Spanish sex is an underappreciated art form that all men should enjoy early and often.
Call me high on chromosomes, but 17 looks like she grew up in Chernobyl or something. There’s such a thing as too big. Too wildly out of proportion and it just looks… weird.
She can melt my reactor down anytime, anywhere.
the weirdness…I don’t think they’re real, and I don’t mean implants, like, I think there’s throw pillows or something stuffed in that shirt.
The issue isn’t big versus small. Obviously bigger is better, and anyone who disagrees is gay. The issue is real versus fake, and at least 95% of the girls in the posts are obviously fake.
“Obviously bigger is better, and anyone who disagrees is gay.”
^^^This guy gets it.
Look, man. If I ain’t paying for ’em, I don’t care.
#19
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/7a/85/ac/7a85ac2d354f3a79d92c1ca50def2935.jpg
Again:
http://thelaughterward.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Beer-always-brightens-up-the-weekend.jpg
One more:
https://i0.wp.com/jobbiecrew.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/0sophia7c.jpg
Erm, 17 not 19, not that anyone cares.
Countering with a helping of Gingermageddon:
http://www.frombearcreek.com/saturday-gingermageddon-168/
These two together would be a handful
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5049507/Romee-Strijd-Josephine-Skriver-wear-matching-black.html
Yes, please.
A handful? Barely a single handful, together. Order these girls some sammiches, fast!
#22 makes my heart go pitter-pat.
For the love of G_d, stop the duck face, German Shepherd head tilt, tongue-out peace sign and all the other silly shit. Let your hotness shine!
That said, 19, 35 and 38 are all quite nice!
Thanks, Q!
Also, stop taking selfies in Sheetz bathrooms.
17 is seriously going to have future lower back problems.
Any comments on Broadcomm’s announcement about coming back to America?
Having had to set up many Broadcomm wireless chipsets on linux over the years, I hope they relocate to hell.
So, Arizona?
You misspelled El Paso.
I visited my younger brother the week before he deployed to Iraq in El Paso. I agree with your assessment.
El Paso. I spent a month there one night…
Was expecting this.
perfect.
An interesting aspect to this is the potential purchase of Qualcomm, particularly as it relates to Apple.
This Ezekiel Elliott thing is getting retarded. Is he going to sit for six or not?
And the fun begins. Or not, we will see. They are going to lose either way.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/11/03/antifa-apocalypse-anarchist-groups-plan-to-overthrow-trump-regime-starts-saturday.html
Antifa can’t win a fight at numerical parity. There are not nearly enough of them to overthrow any regime.
Antifa couldn’t win with a 5 to 1 numerical advantage in anything other than a tickle fight, and even then only with a ring of cops standing around with their thumbs up their asses creating a safe little playpen for them.
Yeah, they they have the intellectual capacity of 5 year olds and the emotional maturity of 2 year olds. I’m pretty sure most anyone here could take out all of them single-handedly. Once the lead started flying they would be done faster than a Frenchman.
Again, the Vegas shooting comes to mind. Make of that what you will.
AFAIK, the only place the antifa plan to play revolutionary is in heavily liberal cities where they already have a base of support. They will be rioting to the choir. They stand no chance of their movement being effective in places where they may make a difference. If they try their bullshit where I live, they will meet immediate and conclusive opposition.
Sort of. I live in the Portland area: people here may embody every stereotype of Trump-hating hipster liberals, but the sense I get is that the vast majority hate the antifa assholes as much as anyone else.
I wonder if they realize how much damage they’re doing to their own cause? I fully support them acting as crazy and violent as possible (as long as no one gets killed), it just makes moderates flee the Dems that much faster.
This. These people really are the gift that keeps on giving for Trump’s 2020 campaign. The easier it is for him to depict his opponents as violent, hateful lunatics, the more likely it becomes that the vast majority of basically decent people in this country start to see Trump as the more reasonable option.
Put another way: I didn’t vote for Trump and don’t particularly like him, but I continue to feel enormous relief that he was elected, because it kept these people far away from any power.
“Hamilton Fish, president and publisher of The New Republic, resigned from the magazine Friday, following allegations that he had mistreated female employees.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hamilton-fish-new-republic-resigns_us_59fccfc8e4b04cdbeb333476
TW: HuffPo
Does anyone know why wood conditioner costs twice as much as the actual stain?
Thanks. *wallet haz sad*
Without knowing anything about the subject, maybe the process to create it is more complex?
Not an expert but doesn’t Wood conditioner help restore the luster to Wood faded from sun or water whereas stain does not, it’s pretty much just a dye?
Wood conditioner is what you apply to unstained wood before you stain it to achieve a more uniform appearance.
These euphemisms are getting more technical.
Chicks dig the uniform appearance.
Maple? Some of the gel stains can help in this regard.
Gel stain doesn’t really soak into the wood, which is how it avoids “splotchiness” on woods that absorb unevenly (maple, most softwoods, etc). I did a creditable job hiding an outlet/cover plate in a cherry baseboard with gel stain and a cotton ball. The downside is if you scratch the finish, the unstained wood (or cover plate) will show through pretty clearly.
Conditioner works by partially sealing the wood, to mitigate uneven absorption. As a consequence, the stain will absorb less overall, so you’ll get a lighter color.
Yes. It is very project dependent. I wouldn’t use it on fine furniture, but I had great success in refinishing a maple island in my kitchen. It has held up really well.
For the right application, this is an excellent product.
I built an outrigger motor mount for my canoe and used gel stain to preserve it. Six years later it still looks like new. That shit is awesome.
Pine. Doing some baseboards.
Trying to finish ~500 linear feet today. Dry times are gonna kill me though cause I need to do 3 coats (2 stain, 1 clear coat).
rig up a roomba with your applicator and go have some drinks.
Treasonous thievery
When facing this kind of collective action problem, individuals have two options: They can continue to pursue their self-interest, and in doing so contribute to the problem, or coordinate with others to change “the game.” Fixes of the latter kind often require regulatory interventions to enforce cooperation. This is why many think that in the case of global tax competition, the only solution is to support some form of global mechanism that would enforce global tax rates but seriously constrain American sovereignty.
But the Nobel Prize-winning economist Elinor Ostrom’s work showed a middle ground between accepting our fate and ceding our sovereignty. Through the systematic study of the history of collective action problems, she found many solutions that combined individual changes with the creation of institutions to help parties cooperate with one another. No solution to these problems is easy, but before giving up trillions in tax revenues, we should consider whether there might be other ways to mitigate tax competition. By using Professor Ostrom’s case studies as a blueprint, the United States could work with other nations to implement global solutions to tax competition that don’t trample on the sovereignty of individual nations.
Fucking kkkorporations, always stealing from the government. We must stop them, come Hell or high water. Society’s money must be collected.
Not taking is giving, class warfare, vanguard of the proletariat blah, blah, blah… don’t NYT writers ever get tired of saying the same thing over and over again?
Fuck off, slaver, fuck you, cut spending, don’t tread on me blah blah blah…don’t libertarians get tired of saying the same thing over and over again?
;P
Yeah, but we’re right.
Well, I have a new grandchild, a boy. My son is Suthenboy IV and I guess he figured that was enough. He named his son Jackson Miles Suthenboy. I like it. It sounds like a name from the mid-ninteenth century. I like names from that period. This is gonna be fun.
I took inventory yesterday, the first time ever. Models, descriptions and serial numbers. I have five generations of my families guns and some of them were manufactured before serial numbers. My favorite is my gggrandmother’s single barrel .410. Anyway, inventory finished so now I will spend about a week cleaning them. *sigh*
Interesting story – I have my ggrandfather’s smith and wesson 32-20. It is in nearly new condition. I was told he only shot it seven times. Six when he bought it sometime around 1900 and then once again years later. The one shot killed a wildcat that was getting into his chicken pen. The rest of the time he kept it in a drawer in his bedroom. I have had people offer me a fortune for that gun but I just cant part with it. One day Jackson Miles will own it.
Congratulations.
At least they gave him a traditional masculine name instead of some trendy millennial moniker that will make everyone cringe in 5-10 years.
One of the nice things about being a Ted is that it’s traditional, but also not very common.
Congrats
Congrats!
Congrats
Congrats. Is this Suthenboy IV’s first kid?
Second. First is a girl.
He is the second and last.
congrats. New life is beautiful.
You should talk to your son about racism.
“Jackson Miles”
The only way he could be more racist was to name him Jackson Mises.
Snark aside, my boy has an excellent relationship with his grandfather that I believe is an important part of his education. I bet you can do the same with your grandkids. I benefitted greatly from what I learned from my grandfather.
Same here. If you look over my comments for the last ten years you will find that I refer to my grandfather quite a bit.
My grandfather is the most exemplary man I have ever met. Born on a sustenance fare in 1919, joined the army in 1941, fought in europe, went through OCS on a special dispensation from his CO (He only had an 8th grade education), came out of the army a major, married my grandma after the war, bought a farm, raised nine successful children, continued working HARD into his 90’s, and died peacefully in his own bed after imparting invaluable wisdom to his 28 grandchildren. You can’t find a bette man than he, at least as far as i am concerned.
Congratulations you old fart.
Congratulations and hope everyone is doing well! Jackson Miles is a lovely, and versatile, name.
Me too. I give my pets only old-fashioned people names.
My menagerie includes a Terence and an Antonia.
I have an Elizabeth and a Margaret. I don’t use their full names unless I’m being stern with them.
Great news! Congrats, old man.
Congrats. Make sure to teach him about his white privilege, to avoid toxic masculinity, and not to rape.
Congratulation Suthenfamily! Always a great way to start the day (or really anytime) with news like that.
Right on Suthen! Congrats. I’m sure you will have a ton of fun with the little guy.
Never knew either of my grandfathers. Pater Dean’s dad died when he was about 10 or 12? He got his grandfathering from his uncle, who sounds like he was the original source of most of the first part of Lonesome Dove. Mater Dean’s dad got booted by her mother, and I met him once shortly before he succeeded in his lifetime quest to drink himself to death.
Suthen sounds like everyone’s dream grandfather. Many mad and manly skillz to pass along.
Similar for me, one died when my father was 5 from a coal mine cave-in. The other was apparently an bible-thumping asshole who went nuts from early onset Alzheimers about whom my mother will never talk.
You can’t really miss what you never had. All the same, it’s refreshing to hear about involved grandpas who love their grandkids.
Ditto – mine were both gone long before I appeared on the scene. And in one case, that doesn’t seem to have been any particular loss.
Heh, Cuban on Green.
That’s the thing about these ignorant nitwits. The rate of them earning money far exceeds their knowledge about things. But the amount they earn eventually lands them in business. At which point they become the very thing they ignorantly denigrate without any thought.
The idea an owner ‘owns’ people only reveals the depth of stupidity of athletes like Green. It just fits an idiotic narrative; that being ‘owners are slaves’ as witnessed by dummies like Jamele Hill. I stand with Jamele! You go girl! It doesn’t matter what you say has no intellectual merit or currency, you just stick to whitey! The same Whitey-cracker who set up ESPN to give your sorry ass a job!
Heck, Mr. Business Lebron James probably thinks this. Obama, I must add, did his bit to expand the ignorance with his own illiterate comments about business and economics.
It’s one thing for Cuban to say it, but guys like Magic Johnson who are now in the ownership world could offer a thought or two.
Draymond Green talks like he’s from the street and if you want to insist on talking like an uneducated hack, you will be treated and mocked as one.
THESE PEOPLE AND PRETZELS ARE MAKING ME VERY THIRSTY.
The funniest thing I ever read was a puff piece (at ESPN, I think, though it could have been SI) about Carmelo Anthony and his grand plans for the corporate world. He was so very clearly disconnected from any kind of reality outside of basketball… yet no-one around him had the nerve to tell him that.
It’s interesting that the players think they ARE franchise. From the team owner’s perspective, they own licensing rights and shares of TV revenue and contracts to get them a take of vendor sales, etc. In any other business it should be obvious to these players that the owner owns the pizza ovens or the magazine racks or the coffee makers, not the employees.
I just got home from work and found this in my living room. It made me smile. My 5 year old is a true American
http://imgur.com/n7bSCkm
Is that his bug out bag:)
America fuck yeah!
Haha, I like it.
When I was a wee lad I had a cousin within a few months in age of me, so our parents used to set up play dates for us all the time. Their house was a toy gun-free zone. Ours was not. When he’d come to my house to play the first thing he’d go for is the toy guns. When we went back to his house, we chewed our graham crackers into handguns, used wiffle bats as long rifles, and koosh balls were hand grenades.
Yeah, little boys love love love to play cops/robbers, war, or cowboys/indians.
Little boys have played some iteration of these games since the was such thing as little boys. To the societal engineers trying to stop this kind of behavior I say, “good luck”
Thank you for raising a non-emasculated son!
“Now, how can we know that the report is bullshit?”
I’m always amazed by the naivete exposed when “scientists” are arguing over whether AGW is real, when they should be arguing about the quantification of the threat, the relative benefits compared to the costs of various solutions, etc.
At one point, shortly after 9/11, they passed a law requiring developers of new projects to either carry insurance against terrorist attacks or specifically state that we refused such coverage, thus making ourselves ineligible for federal funds should our project be destroyed by Al Qaeda.
The question wasn’t whether Al Qaeda was real. The question was how likely they were to target my industrial warehouse project in Santa Clarita, whether the cost of coverage was justified given the risk, etc.
Same thing with AGW, climate change, or any other risk. The question of whether the risk is real is a subset of the question of whether the proposed remedy is justified by its cost. Whether climate can change and whether we can do anything about it simply isn’t the pertinent question. The pertinent question is whether the cost of the solution under consideration is justified given the risk.
Meanwhile, we’re talking about qualitative considerations when we’re talking about making sacrifices to fight climate change, hence the scare quotes around “scientists” in my original statement. Risk analysis may be purely quantitative, but how much average people should be willing to sacrifice in their quality of life to account for the risk of climate change simply isn’t a scientific question.
How much of my standard of living and quality of life should I be willing to sacrifice for polar bears, people in the developing world, or future generations?
That question may be subject to reason by way of disciplines like ethics, but qualitative claims like that cannot be falsified through observation–regardless of whether AGW is real.
To my eye, that’s why the report is bullshit–it looks like another attempt by scientists to answer questions that simply aren’t scientific. It’s political advocacy masquerading as science– and green socialists will use the report as scientific evidence that we should all be forced by the government to make sacrifices in our quality of life.
Pretty much.
That is a lot of words to say ‘It’s a scam’.
But I’m NOT saying it’s scam.
Among other things, I’m saying the most pertinent questions can’t be answered scientifically.
“How much of my quality of life should I be willing to sacrifice for wildlife and future generations?”, is not a scientific question. Scientists may be able to quantify the risks, but they still can’t tell other people what should be more important to them–themselves or wildlife and future generations.
And, yet, that’s what we get from the press most of the time. When we see “scientists” in the media telling us what is going to happen to the polar bears–without qualification–they’re effectively telling us that we need to make whatever sacrifices are necessary to save them. Making any and all sacrifices in order to accomplish someone’s qualitative preference is generally not a rational recommendation, much less scientific. A scientific question might be, “Will the polar bears disappear and if so, how long from now?”
I may never have the chops or interest necessary to say what is and isn’t a scientific scam, but I can tell the difference between science and political advocacy.
When a professional scientist kneels down and prays to God, that doesn’t make his prayers scientific, and when he expresses his opinion that wildlife and future generations are more important than our standard of living, his opinion isn’t any more scientific than anyone else’s either.
And that is regardless of whether climate change and AGW are real.
Goddamn gun-toting filth
That sounds awful. What did they do? Fire into the air indiscriminately?
Oh no…NO! They had to…spend more time to be sure to get it right!? What madness is this? All major investigations can be done within an hour, it is known.
And they wonder why everyone hates them. Just stfu and do your job and stop complaining about how the rights of free men are such a hinderance. If you’re not capable then go pick-up trash.
Asshats in blue clown costumes need to remember who they work for,
They set the stage for chaos. Was there chaos?
No? Fuck off.
Not to mention clearly this mentally deranged lunatic would have have difficulty in killing a greater number of people. In popo land, the guy should have been able to block the door and be able to shoot (and stab once all firearms are banned) indiscriminately until there was no one left.
BURDENING OUR HEROES!
This is a bird:
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/926669029229629440
Still not a potato.
Good song, but just watching that guy makes my back hurt.
“Speaking of which, the owner of Papa John’s continues to maintain that the drop in sales is due to NFL player protests, and that he may pull his sponsorship.”
They run pizza commercials during football games because that’s when people call to have pizza delivered.
If their sales are suffering during football games, I wouldn’t argue with a quantitative measure like that, and their stock price appears to be chasing declining earnings down the rat hole. PZZA is down 30% from a year ago.
Meanwhile, I wouldn’t put it past the company to use this controversy to try to renegotiate cheaper advertising rates from the networks–regardless of whether the protests are the problem.
Ummmm wut?
https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/new-bride-accidentally-poisons-17-people-attempt-kill-husband/
Celebrate MLK day with an orgy.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article182651026.html
I thought it was common knowledge that MLK was a horndog and a pinko. What’s that got to do with his ideas that have merit?
Nothing, he was one of the only voices of sanity during the Civil Rights Movement. I’m wondering if this is an attempt to discredit him because his ideas about racial equality clash with those of the prog victim Olympics.
Paging Mike S.
http://herblue.com/uploads/3/4/0/8/34080277/6310852_orig.jpg
Oh whoops! I dropped my monster condom that I use for my magnum dong
This just proves that FloridaMan is honest with himself despite his other flaws
Weren’t some of you planning on shorting Tesla?
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/02/tesla_share_price_drop_tax_break/
A business model dependent on 15% or more of the price of the product being subsidized by the taxpayers. I don’t understand what could have possibly gone wrong.
Why on earth would you think it safe to short a battery stock?…
ZING!
I thought there was a bill to ban battery stocks in Congress after the Vegas shooting.
I won’t be happy until Elon does time.
I do want Space-X to keep going. Can he manage that from the joint?
—-Las Vegas Review-Journal
https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/homicides/las-vegas-gunman-stephen-paddock-lost-money-in-2-years-preceding-shooting/
If they played him like they do other big gamblers and it became public knowledge, the casino would probably be facing a big lawsuit. You’re not going to sue the casinos and win in Nevada, but a class action in federal court is a whole ‘nother ball game.
If they can convince a majority of the jury that a big bad casino enticed this guy to lose his wealth, while keeping him drunk, etc, and that contributed to why he went postal, then the wives, husbands, mothers, fathers and children of 500 wounded people plus 58 dead have a lot of money to make.
I don’t buy your theory that he was a disgruntled gambler. There are millions of those who don’t shoot up country music concerts. Something else was at play. what it was, I don’t know.
Las Vegas seems like a strange place to hang your hat when you hate people so much that you can kill them at random. Just speculating but perhaps it may have had to do with his father being somewhat notorious and he wanted to try and live up to that reputation. Perhaps had become obvious to him that he would never be more than just another loser.
Different people in the same situation behave differently.
Lots of guys never murder their cheating wives, but some do.
Correct. If he had such a chip on his shoulder why didn’t anyone see it coming? Everyone who knew him said this was completely unexpected, that he had been acting normal.
I smell bullshit.
Honestly, I think the most plausible scenario is that this was some kind of gunrunning thing gone bad. Even that doesn’t make much sense, but it makes as much sense as anything else.
So did Kanye Mastermind this situation?
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/11/03/jennifer-lawrence-recalls-time-got-drunk-with-kris-jenner-and-stripped-naked.html
Pics or it didn’t happen?
http://www.jenniferlawrencenude.xyz/content/img/Jennifer%20Lawrence%20leaked%20iCloud%20selfie.jpg
NSFW.
Nice
Naked girl. ^This
Lachowsky, did you get your CO2 problem sorted out?
Somewhat. The way that the CO2 emissions are monitored in my plant is based on. 4 hour output schedule. We can emit X amount of CO2 for 4 hours before an EPA alert is generated. What I did was was allow 3 hours of high CO2 output to be emitted for a time less than 4 hours before reducing the water flows to make the last hour within compliance. It’s not perfect and is still affecting our electrode consumption. I played with oxygen levels of the furnace, but reducing oxygen increases melt time, so it’s pretty much a non starter. I can’t increase the time it takes to melt a heat of steel without having massive consequences on the production abilities of my facility. Thanks for your input the other night. It was appreciated.
You know who else put out a lot of gas?
Me, after that last burrito and Modelo Negro?
Beverly Johnson?
Now to pass
legislationagency regulation to extend the financial sector’s structuring theory to emissions controls.I think I lost brain cells reading Facebook just now. I need to take up morning drinking, too.
Is something of particular derpitude trending, or is that your typical experience on FB? I’ve had to unfollow some good friends for the last year or so to preserve my generally good opinion of them in the analog world.
Mine goes down a thousand bucks, thanks to that standard deduction.
https://twitter.com/tariqnasheed/status/803406918144299009
I AM FULLY SELF-AWARE!
LOL but not sure that guy isn’t actually a cartoon character.
In my part.of the world, this past summer was mild and long. It’s 70 degrees outside right now. What this meant for me was that I cut and bailed hay three times this year instead of two. That means there is a glut of hay. A glut of hay drives down the price of feeding my cattle. That drives down the price of cattle. The price of feeding cattle being down has allowed me to buy more cattle this year.
Therefore I am producing more cattle. I’m not the only one. A glut of cattle production means that beef prices are falling. The prices are falling, yet I still profit because of lower feed prices.
Capitalism FTW!
Now you have my attention.
I’d post a picture of the dead cow currently residing in my freezer, but it would only make you jealous.
Me too. Looking forward to more steaks.
Wht doesn’t lower feed costs make cattle prices rise since they cost less to keep ?
Because they are cheaper to keep, more people keep them or people keep more of them. Supply increases and prices fall.
The lower price is already showing up on the shelf. Beef last year this time was $10/lb average, nearly twice that for good cuts. Now it is a little more than half that price. I expect that to hold or for it to continue dropping as long as the EPA is kept nutless and the hay is piled up. I notice my neighbors cut and baled twice and are about to again. They have about two hundred round bales stacked up. It will probably rot before their critters can eat it all.
Roky ain’t dead yet.
He did a show with Okkerville River a few years back that was… astonishing.
I got a twenty minute train ride. Entertain me?
https://youtu.be/ymNFyxvIdaM
Nice. Apropo
https://mobile.twitter.com/search?q=%23HowIWillChange&src=typeahead_click
You poor, poor “man”.
Ask myself what made me think that was okay.
Because she wouldn’t shut the fuck up long enough for you to get a word in without interrupting her?
Oh my fucking god:
Yep, because a small percentage of men are guilty of rape, that means that 100 percent of men are potential rapists. Just like all black people are potential criminals, right?
Note the math on that. All men have toxic masculinity. Tell me again how this isn’t repackaged original sin, and these people aren’t religious nutters.
She had to go to his house or he’d put her pics on the web? I like his style.
Here you go.
https://youtu.be/C6MgisM_I8o
I’m walking. You trying to kill me!
Can I get one on Amazon?
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/03/us/american-flag-kkk-hoods-trnd/index.html
So brave and woke
She’s missing an opportunity to beautify the world by wearing one of them.
Bulbs* planted and seating area cleaned up and ready for fire pit use. Yay!
*forgot to soak the anemones, so I’ll plant those tomorrow.
Pfft. I guess now I have to do something productive. Thanks a lot:)
http://warisboring.com/the-u-s-navy-still-hasnt-figured-out-how-to-make-a-decent-uniform/
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In 2016, the U.S. Navy announced it would dump the much-derided NWU Type I — also known as the “blueberry” or “aquaflage” — after it was revealed in 2012 that the uniforms are flammable. Fire, of course, is one of the greatest threats to sailors.
That was the worst of several problems, such as the fact that camouflaged NWU Type Is are blue, black and gray, and were worn by sailors working on ships … at sea.
It was a terrible design. The Navy is replacing them with green camouflage — NWU Type IIIs — for use ashore by October 2019. Although why, precisely, sailors need a separate, green camo uniform is not exactly clear.
The Type I was designed for easier washing and in part to hide stains and fresh paint, which were more apparent on the preceding plain-blue “utilities” uniform, which replaced the famous dungarees which sailors wore from 1913 until the 1990s.
…
To add more annoyance, the sailing branch doesn’t allow sailors to wear “working” uniforms — again, we’re referring to the blueberries and the camo-green Type IIIs — in the Pentagon without special permission “that takes months of paperwork,” Augelli points out.
Who wears similar, rugged, camouflaged working uniforms in the Pentagon? The Army, Air Force and Marines — wisely so because even Pentagon work can involve more than sitting behind a desk. Enlisted sailors at the Pentagon wear black-and-khaki service uniforms which look like something an officer would wear. “At the end of the evolution the sailor is missing ribbons and has scratched his belt buckle and scuffed his leather shoes,” Augelli writes.
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I was thinking the other day that a lot of problems come from obsessing over “fluff”- rules, traditions, and hierarchies that take precedence over practicality and results.
The less an organization or society cares about fluff, the more successful it is. The US is at one extreme and Easter Island is at the other.
Local mythology says that the Easter Island statues walked to their places. It appears there is some truth to that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=8&v=YpNuh-J5IgE
Cool…
Herbert Spencer theorized that most creation stories and tribal legends came about from a confusion caused by primitive languages, which often lack the ability to express complex ideas. I could see how some inhabitant of the islands would ask how the statues got there, and the elders might tell them “we made them walk”, which might be taken to mean “they walked”.
I think it might be more the fact that whoever was explaining or hearing the idea in a foreign language didn’t know the right words.
If anything, the languages of Stone Age tribes are more complicated.
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Friedrich Schlegel noted that some nations “which appear to be at the very lowest grade of intellectual culture”, such as Basque, Sámi and some native American languages, possess a striking degree of elaborateness.[5]
Darwin considered the apparent complexity of many non-Western languages as problematic for evolution theory which in his time held that less advanced people should have less complex languages. Darwin’s suggestion was that simplicity and irregularities were the result of extensive language contact while “the extremely complex and regular construction of many barbarous languages” should be seen as an utmost perfection of the one and same evolutionary process.
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He was confusing biological evolution with the evolution of culture. One thing that all humans are equally capable of is social interaction. It’s what our species does. We are born to it. Primitive or savage cultures are just as culturally advanced as any and it is no surprise that their language is also.
Had you ever noted the resemblance between those statues and Joe Buck?
Sailors wear clothes on board?
So, just found out that Virginia Film Festival is in Charlottesville over the long weekend. http://virginiafilmfestival.org/
Not a ton of titles I’m interested in, but just bought tickets for:
The Lodger (silent Hitchcock – also intro and live music!)
Beetlejuice (why the hell not)
Blade of the Immortal (Takashi Miike manga adaptation – really wanted to check out a Polish/Estonian supernatural B/W flick called “November” but it was already sold out)
The Immigrant (original Chaplin – intro by Ben Mankiewicz (sp) and LIVE MUSIC ACCOMPANIMENT – been wanting to catch a silent film like this for years)
Really wanted to try Tarkovsky’s “Stalker” but I have something scheduled at that time 🙁
Bonnie and Clyde and the Graduate might have been fun – decent flicks, but I have one on HD-DVD and just netflixed the blu-ray of the other this year.
The Lodger (silent Hitchcock – also intro and live music!)
The 1940s remake with Laird Cregar (who died tragically, but that’s another story) is also quite good.
Yeah, don’t get a lot of opportunities for this kind of film presentation these days. Should be fun.
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Birdman religion
Contestants, all men of importance on the island, were revealed in dreams by ivi-attuas or prophets (who might be either men or women). Each contestant would then appoint one or sometimes two hopu (other adult men of lesser status) who would actually swim to Motu Nui carrying provisions in a bundle of reeds called a pora under one arm and await the arrival of the terns, hoping to return with the first egg, whilst their tribal sponsors, the contestants, waited at the stone village of Orongo. The race was very dangerous and many hopu were killed by sharks, by drowning, or by falling from cliff faces, though replacements were apparently easily available.[1]:262
Once the first egg was collected, the finder would go to the highest point on Motu Nui and call out to the shore of the main island, announcing his benefactor by that benefactor’s new name and telling him, “Go shave your head, you have got the egg!” The cry would be taken up by listeners at the shoreline who would pass it up the cliff side to the contestants waiting in the stone village. The unsuccessful hopu would then collectively swim back to the main island while the egg-finder would remain on Motu Nui and would fast alone until he swam back, which he would do with the egg secured inside a reed basket tied to his forehead. On his reaching land, he would then climb the steep, rocky cliff face and, if he did not fall, present the egg to his patron, who would have already shaved his head and painted it either white or red.
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And then he would chop down the mightiest tree in the forest with a herring.
‘Rogue’ Twitter employee axes Trump’s account on last day of work
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Disabling the presidential social media account was seen by some as a final act of protest by a disgruntled employee.
Neither the employee’s name nor motivation were released.
On Friday, Trump acknowledged the act in his first tweet of the day.
“My Twitter account was taken down for 11 minutes by a rogue employee. I guess the word must finally be getting out — and having an impact,” he wrote.
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Indeed.
Sam Adams’ $199-per-bottle beer is illegal in 12 states
And New Hampshire is one of them. For shame. So much for Live Free or Die.
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“Brewing, aging, and blending Utopias is a multi-step, time-intensive and complex process,” Sam Adams said on its website. “At 28 percent ABV, this brew is reminiscent of a rich vintage Port, old Cognac, or fine Sherry with notes of dark fruit, subtle sweetness, and a deep rich malty smoothness.”
Only about 13,000 bottles of the 2017 version of Utopias are being offered at a price of $199 per bottle.
The scarcity of the beer is augmented by the fact that it’s high alcohol content actually renders it illegal in 12 states: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Mississippi, Montana, New Hampshire, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont and Washington.
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https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2017/11/03/Movie-theater-evacuated-after-man-uses-pepper-spray-to-open-beer/7251509715055/?st_rec=1101509727186
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Nov. 3 (UPI) — Emergency responders in a German city said a movie theater was evacuated when a patron’s attempt to open his beer with a can of pepper spray went awry.
The Osnabruek Fire Department said a 29-year-old man attending a movie at a cinema in the Theodor-Heuss-Platz area attempted to use a can of pepper spray as a tool to open his bottle of beer about 9:50 p.m. Monday.
The bottle cap tore a hole in the can of pepper spray, which expelled its contents into the theater.
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Amazing in the internet age that wire services can only do ASCII.
I hope that’s not some new Rechtschreibreform… I deny the last one.
Mandatory reporters FTW:
The first case should be the teacher tells the student that’s something they need to discuss with their parents not the teacher. The second is just insane. Neither should be subject to mandatory reporting.
*adds name to list*
Depending on the age of the boyfriend, the first one could be statutory rape. If he is 18 or older, its a Class C felony in Oregon (up to 5 years prison). I find it hard to object to a requirement that school employees report suspected felonies to the police.
The second one is absolutely bonkers. Telling employees they have to rat out their own children to the police is evil. Plus, of course, a 17 year old bonking a 16 year old isn’t even a crime in Oregon.
It’s a dadgum winter wonderland out there. The sun is trying to peek through, now. I need to go out there and shove about a foot of snow off the deck.
Must be nice. I’m looking at a wet yard and wondering if it’ll dry off enough by tomorrow afternoon for me to rake the leaves. Gotta get the pine needles off my grass and hopefully I won’t have as much prepping to do in the spring.
Screw it – feeling lazy this afternoon. Might work on the review tomorrow afternoon. Gotta start going through those 7 boxes of comics I picked up last month – and I’ve got 2 blu-rays to watch tonight (take advantage of the extra hour of DST).
Should be fun movies but the compare/contrast between them ought to be fun.
I watched Billy the Kid Versus Dracula today.