LaVar Ball said his doesn’t think Steph Curry is better than his son after the Lakers fall to the Warriors in OT. ::SMDH::
In college ball, ranked Miami (FL) fell to Minnesota. The other ranked teams all won, including Duke, Bama, UNC, Villanova, Gonzaga and TCU.
In soccer, there were no upsets yesterday, as Arsenal, Chelsea (barely), Liverpool, Burnley and Man Shitty (also barely) all won. And so did Everton…by 4 goals. Which drags them back to mid-table instead of flirting with the drop zone. Toronto beat Columbus to advance to the MLS Cup Final as well and will face whoever prevails after tonight’s second leg between Houston and Seattle. Seattle is up 2-0 after the first leg so…yeah, expect them to go through.
Only four games in the NHL last night. The Bruins took down the Lightning. The Anaheim Mighty Ducks topped the Blues. Les Canadiens ousted the Senators. And the Avalanche buried the Jets, although it was in OT so the pun really doesn’t work.
Yeah, that’s about it. Although I wanted to note that professional sports, where people compete on the basis of skill and they can’t as easily reach the highest levels by manipulation and exchanging favors for advancement, has largely been immune from the sex assault/harassment scandal that is engulfing the political and entertainment worlds, which are two “industries” where its more who you know (or blow) than what you know. So good on the sports world, with the exception of the kiddy diddler gymnastics doctor who I hope burns in hell. I hope the trend continues.
Anyway, enough about sticks and balls and pucks and shit. Let’s get right into…the links!
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The Matt Lauer thing is exposing a lot more than Lauer’s sexual predatorily behavior. Its exposing a culture at NBC that was allowed to persist to keep a “star” happy. You can’t tell me that nobody knew about his door-locking button under his desk or his reputation for grabbing asses or summoning women to his office who had no reason to otherwise be there. And yes, there is some personal responsibility to be borne by the women who are now coming out, some still anonymously, and fingering him for things that allegedly happened years and years ago. They enabled the continuation of the rapey and pervy behavior that he’s been accused of by staying silent. But the brass at NBC are the biggest enablers at all by not investigating and firing every single person found to have put their hands on someone against their will. Its called common decency, and it exists in the real world where people are judged on their merits and decency as opposed to how many eyeballs they can get to watch your network between certain hours. Shame on NBC and all the other networks which apparently includes the CW now for putting ratings and accommodating your stars above the physical well-being of your lower staffers and guests. I hope this buries you in a pile of your own shit.
Terry McAuliffe, in an interview that ignores his being sued for scamming a Chinese company, is angling for a 2020 run for the White House. God help us if that slimy, Clintonista piece of shit wins.
Chicago police making up shit about a shooting. I know. I’m as shocked as you are. Which means I’m not the least bit surprised and will continue to not be surprised as these cops walk and continue to get paid until they stop getting paid and instead get pensions funded by taxpayers for basically being above the law.
In case you’ve missed it, a Michigan cop choked a man until he passed out and shit himself for trying to pay a $11.75 parking ticket with rolls of pennies. Adding insult to injury, the victim was charged with assaulting and obstructing a police officer. Because, yeah…FYTW.
Nikki Haley says North Korea is bringing us closer to a war the United States doesn’t want. Thanks a lot, every administration that appeased that psychotic regime for the last 20+ years for putting us in this boat.
Net takers protesting the GOP tax bill because they’ll actually have some skin in the game. Cry me a river.
Good luck out there today. Cork your bottom points of entry if you come across a media personality or politician. Just in case.
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Where do you want us to launch the missile? Over Russia or China?
“anonymously fingering him”
Where’s that teenage girl when you need her?
Did you check Roy Moore’s office?
No, no! He was more of a mall guy, rather than an office guy, IIRC.
Sevy and a court officer appear to get in an argument before Sevy was reportedly asked to leave. On Sevy’s way out of the building, a court officer grabs him from behind and chokes him until he passes out.
Never turn your back to a predator.
” a Michigan cop choked a man until he passed out and shit himself for trying to pay a $11.75 parking ticket with rolls of pennies.”
I have a feeling the settlement is going to involve a lot more than pennies.
Surprised they didn’t charge him with public defecation.
*perks up*
/DA
Just saw a little clip of Senator Warren huffing and puffing about the CFPB. Without those eagle eyed regulators, American consumers will be bilked into penury.
She’s a con artist of the first order. I can safely oppose anything she supports.
Let’s just open all political donations and spending to a similar review process. If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear!
Oh sweet Pelor no. Who do you think would be staffing those review process’s, which would almost definitely based in DC? The inevitable corruption would make Clinton envious.
What’s Comey up to these days?
91) I don’t know about the Garrison Keillor thing. I mean, it’s kind of hilarious that releasing the sexual harassment snake has led to the biting of so many prominent progs.
But, if Keillor’s account is accurate, this has reached truly ridiculous proportions. At least according to him, he meant to pat an (unspecified) woman’s back but her costume was open and he ended up reaching underneath it and touching her bare skin. It was purely an accident and he apologized profusely afterwards. It sounds like the kind of awkward move I could well imagine Keillor making.
Again, assuming his account his correct, we’re basically seeing careers end over single awkward misjudgments—trying to kiss somebody at a bar, trying to pat somebody on the back and missing.
Remember how dumb it sounded a few years ago when some colleges introduced student codes requiring affirmative verbal consent for every male-female physical interaction? Well, that truly is the world we are entering.
Who?
MGTOWs are looking wiser by the day.
You know who else is? Mike Pence.
All those lefties mocking him for saying he will never be alone in a room with another woman and that he always has his wife or a third party present for personal interactions with the opposite sex. Not so stupid now, is he?
He’s still sexist for not allowing himself to be in a position where he can be accused in a he said, she said fashion.
If there were any further evidence needed that this is a political weapon as much as anything else, it’s that Pence catches flak for being sexist because he assumes women will accuse him of misconduct. Basically, Mike Pence is no different than the Taliban because he acts as if every woman is a rape-bomb ready to hurl false accusations at any man in sight.
Which is, of course, disingenuous bullshit. My wife considers herself very progressive, and I promise that if I went out to dinner by myself with a woman she didn’t know better than me there’d be some very, very pointed questions asked when I got home. Not to mention frequent phone calls during dinner, and possibly a surprise visit.
Err.
That is a VERY unhealthy level of jealousy and mistrust of you on her part.
Not saying that she needs to be comfortable with your boning other women but if she doesn’t trust you for no reason other than you had dinner with someone. It would be one thing if you were acting shifty and sneaking around but the idea that men and women can’t be around each other without it meaning sexual shenanigans is bullshit.
Meh… Affairs are usually rationalized by saying “by the time I realized what was going on, I couldn’t stop it. I had already developed feelings for them.”
The easiest way to avoid getting to that point is to avoid getting in 1 on 1 intimate situations with folks of the opposite sex (for straights, of course).
I’m really uncomfortable when I’m in 1 on 1 situations with women at work. Not because I think I’m gonna have an affair or because I think they’ll want one, but because they’re all progs and I don’t want to give them any window to fuck me over in the future when I get that promotion or make that decision they don’t like. Unfortunately, I can’t completely avoid that type of situation.
I don’t know, if she started going out to dinner with some guy she’d recently met who I didn’t know and who she didn’t introduce me to I’d start getting a little curious. A very good friend of mine’s soon-to-be ex-wife is leaving him following her “emotional affair” with a guy she met while traveling.
Given my wife’s profession, she’s always having lunches with other (usually) male attorneys. Some are old law school classmates. I trust her enough not to get involved with them.
And if she did? Well… it just proves that my trust was misplaced. We try to be as open as possible about things.
Here is the thing.
If you met a woman and formed a friendship with her your spouse shouldn’t need to ask questions or wonder what was up because you should be discussing what happened during your dinners as part of normal every day conversation. Now if you are not freely volunteering information that might make it look shady and give her good reason to question what exactly that relationship is but the dinners in and of themselves should not generate automatic suspicion of an affair (emotional or otherwise)
Indeed. A very wise man to avoid such situations.
I’ve mentioned it before, but my grandfather gave me that advice many, many years ago when I was just getting into the business world.
It’s just common sense, really.
Yup. I’ve been following some of the MGTOW stuff on YouTube for about a year now, and it’s definitely convinced me to just avoid relationships with females as best as possible. It’s absolutely insane some of the stuff that gets men in trouble and branded as some sexual predator for life.
Keillor should have thought about his own propensity for clumsiness before agreeing to be in photos with people.
So why doesn’t Keillor fight? Why do these people immediately accept the accusations and step down?
He’s basically retired anyway. I think he’s gonna just sit this one out until the whole thing dies down and they beg him to come back because theirs was an overreaction to him.
Either that or he’s got some other women out there that he really did harass/assault and he’s hoping going away will keep them silent.
I’d bet a large sum of money its the former. He seems like a dork, not a perv.
Dorkperv is my favorite word for today.
So far, anyway.
From what I heard of him in his early days in Minnesota, he was more of a crafty, self promoting dick than a dork. Pervitude on his part would not surprise me.
I think he was a tool to his coworkers. This guy from MPR doesn’t seem to feel too bad for him.
So Keillor is a political hack who sees everything as political. What a breath of fresh air to see someone call out Keillor for a bad trait like that. Right?
WRONG!
This guy is just as bad as Keillor at spinning everything for the Dems. This quote is also in the story.
So even though Keillor is a hack, the GOP is way, way worse.
So even though Keillor is a hack, the GOP is way, way worse.
Even though there is no actual evidence of misconduct by Moore or Trump. Because RethugliKKKanz!!!!11!!!
Don’t you get it?
Franken is better than Moore because he has taken responsibility for his actions. Moore won’t even admit he was running around molesting teen agers!
What a pig.
Yesterday when I was driving back home from somewhere, some radio guy was ranking them and it was
4. Keillor
3. Fanken
2. Lauer
1. Moore (by a long shot)
Never did give any proof that what the women have said about Moore is true.
Yeah, we are seeing the spread off-campus of the idea that “denial of guilt is proof of guilt”. Which of course was the goal of starting this shit on campus. They want to deny the benefits of due process everywhere, including the courts when it suits them.
That second paragraph you quoted is pure projection/whining. “WAAAH the GOP learned how to use the political process we helped created and now it’s so UNFAIR that they might be able to use our own tools against us!”
He is claiming that he has a ton of things to work on still.
I think that barb about moving east is what is really going to get him in hot water. If he wasn’t this supposed quirky guy living in Minnesoda, he would be just another guy in NYC.
Local fans will turn on him if he abandons us for a bunch of coastal elites.
He can skip past Wisconsin and set up shop in Michigan.
Ten years of work? Movies? Now he’s leveling threats against the public.
Why do these people immediately accept the accusations and step down?
It gets to something I said yesterday. It’s because, at core, they fundamentally believe and agree with the premises of the mob. Is Keillor innocent? Quite possibly. And from our perspective, that means he should fight tooth and nail to protect his reputation. But, they don’t share our premises. Their premise, even stated, is that you should always believe the woman. Their premise is that, the intention of the male “harasser” isn’t what matters, but the feelings of the “victim”. Their premise is that sexual predation is part of the core of our society and, if you have to destroy a few innocent men to root it out, well, progress sometimes comes at a price. So, from his own premises, even if Keillor is innocent, so what? He has every moral duty to take it, shut the hell up, and go away.
I think he is fighting. He sent an email to the Star Tribune telling them that his “abuse” was simply touching a woman’s back.
However, he made a statement to MPR News where he alluded to more than one incident.
This is interesting. If he made a big stink yesterday about it being just an awkward pat on the back, but it turns out there was another example, he is toast.
*There is always the chance that the reason no one is fighting the charges is because they are all guilty.
A man doesn’t get to tell a woman that unwanted physical contact isn’t assault, shitlord! And you’re automatically taking the man’s side because of your cishetero male privilege! WHY DO YOU HATE WOMEN!?
Well in theory you are correct in your first statement
The thing is the woman doesn’t get to determine whether it is assault either.
See we have these things called courts and juries who are tasked with following a neutral process to determine the point at which behavior crosses the line from innocent or even cadish behavior into a valid tort or criminal behavior.
Where Feminists fall down is that they want us to not just believe the woman, they want her to be the sole decider to the point where a man SHOULD (in their opinion) be convicted solely because a woman believes (or claims to believe) she was harassed or assaulted
Well, there’s also the sexualization of every interaction that is a core part of all this stuff. Not all physical contact, unwanted, unintended or whatever, is sexual in nature. But if you want to live in a world where people are afraid to stand to close to each other or look at each other for fear of picking up an assault accusation, this is a good way to do it.
What are older progs going to do for humor now? Wait, wait, don’t tell me can only entertain them so much. Without Keillor or Franken to deliver their “humor” they are stuck.
*I put humor in scare quotes because I don’t know anyone in real life that thinks that those guys are actually funny.
Samantha Bee?
I said older progs. The ones who love to tell everyone else how they don’t even own a TV.
Without Prairie Home Companion or Franken’s Giant of the Senate what will they do.
The kids still have Colbert, Bee and John Oliver.
Murder She Wrote reruns. Oops, nope. Those are off limits too, since Angela Lansbury went off the reservation.
Woody Allen’s still making mediocre films on the fumes of his reputation, isn’t he?
requiring affirmative verbal consent for every male-female physical interaction
Yeah – that’s going to suck for dating.
Him: So can I hold your hand?
Her: *whips out Form 0069EZ*
Moving a little fast there, is she?
That’s the Joke
“The dictator of North Korea made a decision yesterday that brings us closer to war, not farther from it,” Haley said. “We have never sought war with North Korea and still today we do not seek it.” Nikki Haley today.
Nikki Haley
@nikkihaley
Any further attacks done to the people of Syria will be blamed on Assad, but also on Russia & Iran who support him killing his own people. Nikki Haley in July.
Schizo bitch.
I dunno….are Iran and Russia supplying Assad? Have “advisors” and such running around there too? I believe the Russians have basically become his active air defense, for example.
Her preemptive claims to blame were what was crazy. Now she’s going with “But I’m a peace maker”. Very inconsistent.
Closer to war? I thought that we’ve always been at war with the Norks? It was just a cease fire, not a peace treaty. Anyway, who cares what Haley has to say? Just post pics of her.
Technically *we* have never been at war with the Norks as we have never declared war on them but yeah North and South Korea have been in a continual state of war since the 50’s
Observe this piece of idiocy:
https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2017/11/29/deterring_north_korea_a_reckless_gamble_we_cannot_afford__112695.html
I don’t know, I wouldn’t go as far as the author does but he has a point about deterrence without some sort of mechanism to either weaken the Kim regime or disarm them just meaning they’re going to build up a program while extorting the rest of the world. I don’t think that means your only other option is an invasion, mind you, but I don’t have a huge problem with that part of his premise.
I blame what is happening on what we did to Qaddafi. One administration told him that if he didn’t get rid of WMDs and WMD programs we would Saddam his ass, and he complied. The next one came in and to help the Europeans keep the cheap oil from Libya flowing and enrich the Clintons, killed him. Can you blame the usual tyrants for thinking the only safe way to keep the US off them and from suddenly gunning fr them when convenient for whomever is running the US, is to have nukes?
The problem is worse than that.
Not only have America’s rivals and enemies learned a lesson, our allies have too.
Being revealed as a nation with a fundamentally dishonest, unpredictable and untrustworthy long-term foreign policy has a cost, and we’re paying it now.
It’s not necessarily dishonest, but a simple side effect of a temporary leadership position. No administration can bind subsequent administrations to handshake agreements. If you want to make the US keep their word, you need a full-blown treaty as a starting point.
That addresses some of the issue, but the old tradition of ‘politics ends at the shoreline’ has not only been abandoned, it’s been shredded, sprayed with acid, thrown in an incinerator and fed to the kraken.
The ebb-and-flow of US-Israeli relations is anticipated, (and welcomed) but it certainly would be better if there was some mechanism to limit the degree of uncertainty in the relations between the countries. As it stands, even as a mild critic of the US’ support for Israel, I find much to criticize in the Obama administration’s policy regarding them.
As a side-note, it’s difficult to explain the pants-shitting concern that Obama’s foreign policy (presumed) gaffes created with some allies’ militaries and intelligence communities. It’s my understanding that at least two European powers basically stopped cooperating with the State Department in Turkey and the Western Med in general in 2014 because of conflicting RoEs and mission. Let’s be delicate and say that there was a lot of concern over the US’ objectives vis-a-vis Syria and whether the US’ objectives were in any way coincident with that of the two countries.
in the words of an old friend of mine “We haven’t forgotten 1956, brother”.
In The Shape of Water, Monster Erotica Meets Social Justice
“erotic fantasies about Bigfoot. Beast Me: Taken in the Jungle, Moan with Bigfoot, Broken In by Bigfoot, 50 Shades of Furry”
Stockholm Syndrome is a real thing.
STEVE SMITH HAVE TO EARN SOMEHOW!! SO WHY NOT DO WHAT YOU LOVE AND NEVER WORK A DAY!!
STEVE SMITH REFUGEE BROTHER VISIT STOCKHOLM ONCE. WITH PREDICTABLE OUTCOME. AND BY PREDICTABLE OUTCOME, MEAN RAPE.
SEA SMITH NOT AMUSED BY STORY. AT ALL.
STEVE SMITH WANT POINT OUT IT STILL RAPE EVEN IF THEY LIKED IT. STEVE SMITH NOT HAVE RAPEUTATION DIMINISHED BY FETISHIST HIKERS.
Geez. First they did it to “Ghostbusters”, and now “Splash”.
On Sevy’s way out of the building, a court officer grabs him from behind and chokes him until he passes out.
I’d be perfectly happy to see this “court officer” beaten to a bloody pulp with a baseball bat as part of the pre-game show before the next Bears game.
At worst, he should get paid in single pesos for the rest of his life.
So, he was sharged for doing nothing wrong? Wow, that sounds pretty bad, if sharged is anything like being charged.
Sharged.
Chinese people are funny!
We’re criticizing minor typos now? Jeez, I’m sure I fucked up a lot worse than a c/s typo somewhere in there. At least go for the big ones.
Hey, we take what we can get. Where’s the fun in ignoring it?
::grumbles, walks away::
We wouldn’t be libertarians if we didn’t nitpick each other over minor things.
I get it, it’s like “sharted” – being “charged” with doing nothing, only you shit yourself.
“professional sports, where people compete on the basis of skill and they can’t as easily reach the highest levels by manipulation and exchanging favors for advancement, has largely been immune from the sex assault/harassment scandal that is engulfing the political and entertainment worlds”
Also in professional sports, the people who might be involved tend to be athletes at the peak of physical perfection whom many women would love to be “harassed” by. Just sayin’.
Yeah!
-Ron Mexico and Mark Chmura
Years ago the Mets were in town to play the Expos (1994 reparations now!) and a few of their players showed up to the club where we hung out. One of those players was Darryl Strawberry. Women were practically throwing themselves at them. They were fielding them quite handily if you get my drift and pun.
Groupies. Why aren’t feminists targeting them?
‘Nice guy’ tries to justify stealing woman’s underwear
Was this about Anthony Michael Hall and Molly Ringwald?
In my defense, I didn’t know it was wrong.
I mean, you seem nice.
Was that wrong? I gotta tell you…
Revenge of the Nerds / Animal House / and countless other coming-of-age movies hit hardest.
Baseketball
Leave my house out of this.
Broken In by Bigfoot
Also available under the title “Single use Sally”.
WHEN STEVE SMITH DONE WITH YOU, NO MORE USE!
Isn’t it a bit unrealistic to sell so much women’s clothing in the Glibs store?
With the sorts of pervs who come around here?
Exactly. Keeps ’em from stealing underwear from women’s houses.
Hey we’re all just nice guys here.
Have the panties on the CafePress site been preworn? Asking for a friend…
It would make more money if they sold branded women instead.
There’s the “Normal Glib” model, the “Q-Approved”, “HM-Approved”, and the “John-Approved” variants…
“John-approved” requires extra postage.
You mean “freight”?
+1 modular cargo container
Are you referring to the banana hammock I saw on the store? Might pick that one up.
#MeToo Becomes a Revolution
Change to our sexual ethic is needed. But what if we end up losing more than we gain?
“a fundamental misframing: that there’s some baseline amount of sex that we should be getting”
We married guys know better than that.
*nods slowly*
Thankfully Lady Humungus isn’t a cock blocker.
True dat. When I was in my twenties I thought marriage was pretty much one decades-long f-fest. Really, the only thing that’s changed is I’ve got more dependents.
Put a penny in the jar every time for the first 2 years
After that take a penny out of the jar How many decades till the jar is emptied?
Prediction – the jar gets found, the coins rolled and deposited in a bank and spent without the knowledge or concent of the person whose pennies they are.
But, if Keillor’s account is accurate
Believe HIM?
How droll.
Yeah, I almost spit coffee over that.
Minnesoda nice, meet greedy cops.
30 years later, Minn. hit-and-run driver sends $1,000 to police to give to victim
The article didn’t directly quote the letter, but if the author did actually say “police charity” I don’t think he meant that he wanted the cops to keep it.
Why do they not have records from only thirty years ago? A great many people involved in incidents thirty years ago are still alive. These are still relevent records.
I bet it precedes the switchover to whatever computer system the department uses now.
Meaning they probably do in fact exist, but no way anyone’s gonna get off their asses and go to the basement and look through some boxes.
Would you when there’s a thousand dollars on the line. Oh… Oh you would? Huh. Well these cops are trying to be nice guys, and it’s not cool for you to put the spotlight on them.
That money is good for a couple of rounds of hookers and blow.
I was thinking the same. Sounds like a great excuse to grab some cash. And I’d really like to see the original letter to see exactly how the sender intended the money to be distributed in case of not finding the original victim.
Well, I’d like to see it, but not badly enough to spend time seeing if it’s out there anywhere.
Chief:Officer Smith do we have the record for that hit run 30 years ago
Officer Smith: Yes sir right here.
Chief: Where is my lighter?
I hope the sender was Kevin Spacey.
Exhibit A of how vertiginously the left’s thinking on sex has shifted is a recent op-ed in the Washington Post by Christine Emba titled “Let’s Rethink Sex.” At issue, Emba writes, is nothing less than “America’s prevailing and problematic sexual ethic,” which is predicated on “a fundamental misframing: that there’s some baseline amount of sex that we should be getting or at least should be allow to pursue.” The solution, then, is to “reintroduce virtues such as prudence, temperance, respect and even love.
Alternatively, we could bring back open and honest prostitution.
The Puritans will always be with us…
OMWC stocking stuffer…
‘I’m sexy and I know it’: NZ Sale slammed for controversial kids clothes
Durable. Lol. Reinforced knees?
This is taking that whole “sassy” thing to far. Believe me, the last thing my daughter needs is to have her sass reified by clothing. Her “inside voice” is so loud she scares the dogs, and when we tell her not do something she tells us to go away while pushing us into another room. You show me a dress that says, “Listening to dad is awesome!” and I’ll hand you $50.
Why, so dad can mansplain sexuality to his strong, independent six-year-old daughter? Say, did you ever ask her whether or not she wouldn’t prefer to identify as a boy?
There is a strict limit of two genders in the Naptown household. It’s the capital of Cishetero Shitlordia, and I am the God-Emperor.
Meh. I don’t give a shit what gender they identify as. While I’m buying the clothes, we’re shopping in the boys sections for both of mine — who have a single X and single Y chromosome each.
Just got my food allergy test back. No wheat, milk, eggs, or almonds anymore. The eggs are going to be difficult to get rid of. Dammit, I like eggs.
Condolences, man.
Just wish I had done this sooner rather than spend bookoo bucks on other tests trying to figure out why my throat was swelling. Oh well.
Steve Smith encounter?
(._.)
I could easily give up almonds, but wheat and eggs… that’s tough.
*filling in for bacon*
Almonds are a little spicy.
Actually, almonds are really bland and boring.
What little flavor they have isn’t that good.
*filling in for bacon*
*stares blankly at UCS*
*hugs*
Attaboy
You got bacon grease on MikeS.
Ummm…that’s not bacon grease.
Jeez. A lot of my favorite foods contain those items. That sucks.
That’s insane. You need to eat your way through the egg allergy at least. Show your body who’s boss.
You don’t have to share the dutch over with him.
I larfed.
Corporeal Punishment?
It sucks, but you will feel waaaaay better, Scruffy.
Bacon is A-OK though.
THANK ZOD
Woo hoo!
For now. But you indulge your body now and it may decide later that bacon is no longer A-OK.
Shhh
Looks like soylent green for you buddy.
Sorry. That’s a rather encompassing list.
I’m allergic to raw almonds, but not roasted almonds. The same with carrots. I can only eat them cooked. Otherwise, my mouth gets itchy and my lips swell.
At least they didn’t tell you that you’re allergic to beef or chicken. If I get that report back I’m suck-starting my pistol.
That sucks, man, those are staples in my house. Does milk encompass all dairy, or just actual milk? Like does heavy cream in a sauce fly? What about cheese? Even though that list is pretty rough, you can definitely eat well without any of that. I mean, if brisket was on there I’d seriously consider gene therapy, but I could hack no milk or wheat without a whole lot of trouble.
The milk allergy is moderate. I don’t consume much anyway because I’ve got that Neanderthal tolerance for lactose.
I don’t generally eat bread or pasta anymore, but eggs are a staple. I’m going to find out if that allergy crosses species. Maybe duck eggs are ok.
You can get pretty far swapping rice for wheat and using corn meal (or corn starch) as a thickening agent, if that’s a thing you do. I don’t think there’s any reason in principle that you couldn’t make a tolerable roux with corn meal. Eggs, though, that’s a tough one. But if you can get duck eggs that’s almost a bonus.
Or xanthum gum as a thickening agent.
Arrowroot is the traditional thickening alternative, I think. I’ve used it too, slight – but not unpleasant – flavor. Don’t forget potato flour either.
And two thumbs up on the duck eggs if you can sub them in.
Try lizard eggs…
You can still have vodka and wine.
Weird Gun Wednesday: The M6 Survival Rifle
It’s a fun rifle. I’ve used the .22LR to kill a mole that decided to surface before the dog got into it.
I want but it’s a bit pricey.
That’s pretty neat. The disclaimer that was issued with it is great:
https://loadoutroom.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/800px-22-Hornet-Disclosure.jpg
“This kind of isn’t legal, so please try not to kill anybody with it.”
Rep. James Clyburn Compares John Conyers’ Accusers to Notorious Murderer, Implies He is Victim of White Women
Who’s on top in the hierarchy again?
Bitches set him up
The left hand created an environment on their ranks where it is constant class struggle, to be the supreme victim. The only known truth is that being white is being the anti-victim.
The party of women’s rights just like it is the party of minority rights. Jesus fuckity fuck, those motherfuckers have no morals whatsoever.
I’m happy to see Clyburn’s mask slip. He’s a racist of the first water, and it chaps my ass to see him lauded as anything other than a bigot and an opportunist.
Seems telling that so many Democrats are pulling hard for men whose seats cannot be lost to ‘pubs, like their obsession with taking scalps made them equally fearful of losing them.
Video footage of Matt Lauer being harassed by another man.
It is one of those “fun” news stories that is more accessible to the people involved than it is to the audience.
What the fuck was that? Lemme guess, an attempt to make lite of Lauer’s behavior towards women so that they would feel silly about coming forward.
I can’t see any other explanation for it, which demonstrates NBC’s culpability.
Glitter is not just annoying, it could be bad for the environment.
Is there anything strippers don’t ruin? Bank accounts, marriages, sexual health and now the environment.
Except Big Pole.
Taking about me?
” I am not a Me-Me! I’m a Pupynia!” *snort* “Pupynia Stewart!” *sniffle*
*Knowing wink*
*alarmed expression*
My youngest is so out of touch with her own cohort that she actually used Me Me. I didn’t have the heart to correct her. Let someone else take that bullet, sez I.
I think Agile Cyborg hacked Festus’s account
I’ll have you know that Pupynia is a well-known internet Me Me and not just some product of my overheated brain (Straffinrun will back me up on this). Is she the same girl that saw a weenie?
She’ll trick you into a good 30 minutes of YouTube wasting.
Pupinia Stewart (October 22th 1998, 18)
Excellent.
US graduate students have a temper tantrum over the House version of the GOP tax reform plan and skip school for a day. Get your tear catchers ready, Harvard history PhD candidate interviewed.
Taxes are only for rich meanies, waaaah, I don’t want to pay my fair share!
Both Houses and the Executive and they still can’t grok a flat tax. Ten percent of your income and jettison sales tax. Boom! Fair taxation for all.
There isn’t a national sales tax here.
But local sales taxes could be outlawed as a restraint on interstate commerce.
I like the cut of your jib. Where do I sign up for the newsletter?
Our previous Gov tried to implement a provincial/federal tax after promising not to do so. It wafted like a bar bell. It wasn’t the idea insomuch as the sneaky way they did it. It would have cut sales taxes by nearly 3% but people don’t like getting lied to for some obscure reason. The thing Hindenburged and I’ll admit to voting against it just because FYTW.
I used to favor a flat tax but now I’m moving more towards a consumption tax. It’s a little less forced at gunpoint that way.
These people have advanced degrees and can’t figure out that throwing in with a single party means the other party is not going to give a fuck about what happens to you when they change the tax code?
“We’ve been calling these GOP politicians evil, idiot, fucktards for two generations, why do they hate us?”
“Social Contract”
“Hold on, not so fast that’s not what we mean!”
My ultra woke sister put: “Be kind, for everyone is fighting a great battle” up on her FB wall. Check FB once every two weeks or so. It’s ridiculous because she has zero compassion for those who aren’t as woke as her. It’s the “I’m so compassionate” shit followed by unadulterated hatred that drives me nuts.
Oh yeah… That’s my Bro in a nut-shell. Proud of the fact that he’s ripping off the tax-payers while living in one of the most expensive cities on earth. “I have Hep-B, I’m disabled!” I’d love to Jan-splain a little reality to that fucking ne-er do-well but my hands are tired and knees and elbows have seen too many scabs. He thinks that the best he’ll do is to wheedle an extra few hundred from the gubmint every month. Fuck.
That line makes no sense to me.
What it tells me is ‘be kind….until….then violence is justified because ‘greater good” It’s blind self-righteousness of the worst kind – and it’s dangerous that leads to horrific outcomes like….Killing Fields and Gulags.
It’s suppose to mean that you should try to be nice to people even if you’re having a shit day, because they might also be having a shit day, and because there will undoubtedly be a time when you’re a dick because you’re having a shit day and you could really use someone else’s mercy. Also, a sprinkling of “we’re all in this shit together”. I like the saying, but I find a lot of people who say it are prog “hippies” who really mean that it’s a real struggle to buy drinking water and Vegan tv dinners from Whole Foods with a degree in Gender Studies, so just fork it over 1%ers and stop expecting people to be held accountable for their decisions.
It’s the “I’m so compassionate” shit followed by unadulterated hatred that drives me nuts.
The one gives cover for the other. It’s like Fat Tuesday followed by Ash Wednesday.
“Taxes are only for rich meanies”
The fun part is when they realize that “rich meanies” are households making $50k a year; and the fact that that number gets revised down as more people go on govt assistance.
While I understand the sentiment of fairness, I can’t bring myself to cheer what amounts to he a tax hike, or even at best a tax shuffle.
I mean if the fact that we can’t get a true solid tax cut from a GOP government just shows that they are worse than useless. All did them. Including Trump (which should go without saying). They can’t muster the fucking courage to do the most minute policy for freedom because they are all a bunch of liars and con-men.
^^^Ding, ding, ding. The only thing the GOP is good for is guaranteeing that past government expansion is never rolled back. Evil, but in a different way. I’ve never called them the stupid party. That’s too generous.
Stupid implies that they are trying their best but lack the capability to understand. I don’t think that’s the case.
You sir are correct. There is not much of distinction between team blue and team red when it comes to big government power…
The plan will bring down the rates for some business entity types, which is good, but on the whole it’s a stupid hot mess.
As Spartan Dad said before, cut the tax rate to 10% for all business entity types and cut spending back by a meaningful amount. I’m getting the jollies about the latter. Congress is such a shitshow of losers phoning it in.
This
Eliminate the corporate tax entirely. Make C corps pass thru entities (this is hard, but doable with some simplification of the tax laws).
Stock prices before and after ex-tax day would be interesting.
Pass through are kind of crappy. It makes it easier to be forced into paying self-employment tax for side businesses.
As far as I can tell, they’ve done away with all the rate reductions that made the original plan work, so it’s now it morphed into a tax hike on a lot of people.
I don’t support tax hikes, but my field of fucks to give is nearly barren, because (mostly) the same people who are whining that their taxes might go up are the ones who insisted that the top marginal rates not be cut.
Yeah, paying taxes is a bitch, ain’t it?
OT: You mentioned writing about the Comcast thing the other day, could I get a link so I can readz it?
Go to a 10% consumption tax on everything but food, transportation-related purchases and utilities*. Then cut spending accordingly after the first six months of receipts.
*I excluded these specifically so leftists couldn’t say it punished the poor but also to expose how criminal gas taxes and utility taxes/fees are.
I can cheer a tax shuffle if it’s happening because the Feds are no longer using the tax code to social engineer. The problem isn’t the shuffling; it’s that the tax system was arbitrarily shuffled in the first place.
*Obviously, I’d prefer less taxes, less spending, and less government all-around, but if fewer people are specifically made ‘winners’ by the Tax Code, we may have a better shot at it.
::looks up at top of page::
::kicks pebble, walks off::
I like your link better as it has a written description of the walkout. I like my supplement, for the delicious audio record c/o NPR.
I’m certainly never going to take income tax advice from people who have never paid income tax.
Don’t forget people that have armies of accountants making sure they pay the least amount of taxation, that tell you we need to pay more. Fuck them. They can just write a fucking check and send it in if they feel that way. I want to keep my money instead of seeing it pissed away supporting governmental welfare.
More of the week’s music.
OK, that’s a righteous brainworm, Sloopy. Thanks?
Boob fact: In ancient Rome a structure called the Columna Lactaria was a site where wet-nurses for hire gathered, possibly it was also charity site where poor mothers could get extra milk for their babies.
http://archive.is/Mzjpt
1, 6, 16, 35 and I dig 37’s flotation devices.
USA! USA! USA!
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/countries-boasting-women-biggest-natural-8315288
Oh wait, maybe that *is* cause we’re just a bunch of fatties…
That, and as Ken said yesterday, more women are getting augmented. And it’s a damn shame. 34B is perfect
Ordinarily I’d agree (and encourage such better living through chemistry), but the study specifically excluded implants and pregnant women.
You actually read the study?
Maybe.
*blank stare*
Oh wow. Couldn’t make it past #3. Redheads RULE!
I wasn’t going to click until you said that
*clicks*
3/4 of red-heads are squirters in my experience. Just thought I’d throw that chum out there. Not a word of a lie.
Dammit Festus I am a married man and still in my pajamas.
They also have higher pain thresholds and sex drives. Maybe gingers are actually the next step in human evolution.
Or it’s what makes them crazy.
I concur Festus.. And they usually are into kinky shit too.
20 wins a contentious battle.
25 all day. but she might kill me.
2 is fake but I’d smash it.
In real life, 34 and 38 seem like the best fit.
Ugh. For the love of God, NO MORE DUCK FACE!
20 wins in a rout.
News in Brief Alex DeLarge Forced To Step Down As Leader Of Droogs Amidst Allegations Of Sexual Misconduct
Welly welly welly welly well!
“Repairing the damage will take a lot of time and soul searching and I’m committed to beginning that effort,” Lauer said. “It is now my full time job. The last two days have forced me to take a very hard look at my own troubling flaws. It’s been humbling. I am blessed to be surrounded by the people I love. I thank them for their patience and grace.”
Must be nice to be able to make “soul searching” your full time job. I haven’t seen any postings for that position on Linked In could someone direct me to who is hiring for such a position?
Maybe Weinstein can hook him up with an in at that rehab center.
If I were a brothel owner in Vegas, I’d set up a special deal as a “rehab center” for these “recovering sex addicts”.
Welcome to the Hotel Q-ifornia
I think we should start an “asshole rehab facility”. Big money to be made there.
Steve Smith already offer Asshole rehab services and by offer mean rape
Um, if the claims being made are credible, he might be making license plates as a full-time job in his future. Because if he raped a woman, he should be going to prison, not some spa to “find himself”.
These people make me sick. Their “apologies” even sound entitled and condescending.
Well of course they do. Norm Deplorable doesn’t understand the need to whip it out and stoke the slug when you have access to automatic locking office doors.
I’ve been searching the shit out of my soul lately. Because I’m behind on my mortgage, and I’m trying to scare up an extra couple thousand bucks to catch up without missing daycare payments, and if there’s anything in or around my soul I can hock or parlay into some kind of income I’m all in.
This probably isn’t great advice, but awhile back when I was in a big crunch I learned that I could lean on my 401k. I don’t have gobs invested and I didn’t borrow much, but it got me through my tuition payments until work picked up again.
Thanks, but I already tried. No can do with my current provider. Gotta do this the old fashioned way, it looks like. Con artistry and check-floating, here we come!
Actually, I’ve got a fair bit of dough sitting in various cryptocurrencies. I think the latest Bitcoin and Litecoin surges might pay for Christmas this year while I sweet talk some folks into giving me a little bit of extra time to pay up.
When you spend decades rationalizing why morals and propriety are for suckers dont be surprised if your ranks fill up with scumbags.
“I’m really sorry I got caught.”
I’m really sorry that someone spoke up but I’m relieved that my behavior has come to light because now I don’t die a thousand deaths every time my head hits the pillow. Isn’t that the way it works? If I did wrong like that it would gnaw at me especially if I’d been drinking. ” I’m sorry that I lost my multi-million dollar gig and we’re cool now, right?”
So much this…
The left was always up in arms about this shit coming from the other side, because they were projecting..
“It would be crippling,” said Ben Leffel, 30, a UC Irvine Ph.D sociology student and teaching assistant….
Sociology. This is honestly why I don’t have a problem with this in the least. The payment in kind features of the current tax regime favor people to study in marginal fields. But, as academics already point out, we already have a glut of professors. Is getting that degree in sociology, cultural anthropology or critical theory really that important to you? Fine. Pay for it yourself. Removing the students who are doing it because it delays having to enter the working world will make your degree more valuable.
Take it from a person with a sociology degree, a sociology degree is and always will be worth less than a plug nickel.
In my day we called those soft degrees party degrees. The crowd doing those seemed to always be the people that went to school to party hard for however many years they could get away with.
“Is getting that degree in sociology, cultural anthropology or critical theory really that important to you? Fine. Pay for it yourself.”
Damn straight. All loans should be private, subject to the lenders’ terms and conditions. If some foundation wants to loan money for useless Trans Bi-Curious Demi-African Marxist Literature degrees, great! If I were a business owner and was so inclined, I’d consider offering loans to interns and candidates that were promising in whatever field I needed employees in. If I were a bank, I’d require a business plan from the lendee showing how their degree will be profitable so they could pay me back. Get the govt out of the damn way.
And dischargable in a bankrupsty, so the bansk will be more wary about poor planning.
THIS!!!!
The combination of having government backed student loans combined with making them non-dischargable created a double screwing of today’s utes.
Of course, they are culpable too. It is entirely possible to work your way thru college without debt.
I have some debt from student loans, but I realized pretty quickly I was just abusing my future financial wherewithal so I went clean. I’ll probably end up having to borrow again, but at least I’ll have kept it within reason.
Yesterday I kicked off the “pay it off in full” payment for my student loans.
Naturally since every bank and business can take electronic transactions near-instantaniously, it will be 3-4 business days to process.
I made it through undergrad relatively unscathed, but a combination of the extreme cost of law school and a heap of poor decision making between my wife and I ended with us in $180k in student debt (along with another $60k in other consumer debt) when I graduated last year.
Thankfully we’re making enough to pay it all off in 4-5 years, but sometimes I really wish I could go back to 2013 and make some different decisions about where togo to school.
If I felt more confident about my passions and ambition, I’d be willing to borrow whatever I needed to make good money. As it is, I’m leaning toward taking my brother’s advice on career but trying to mitigate the commitment in money and years spent on the degree. If I can get away with making okay money as a technical draftsman without having to go for architecture or construction management, I’m going to do that. I’m single with no kids, I can always opt to go back to school later.
I should’ve been able to get out of school for less than 75k, but life got complicated during law school. Even when you’re confident about your end point (as I was), you never know how many loop de loops you have to go through to get to the end point.
I would make loan officers and colleges financially liable as well. They give loans to people they know will fail, after giving them preferential admission, and care very little that their woke attitude ruined someone’s life.
+1 End the Dept of Ed!
I would like to propose a corollary to Conquest’s law which states any institution which is not explicitly right wing becomes left wing over time.
The Subwoofer Corollary would be any institution which is not left wing will be invariably accused of being right wing.
It is part of the mechanism by which they try to force a leftward shift.
METOOOOOOOOOO
Randi Zuckerberg says she was subjected to “lewd sexual remarks” by a man seated next to her on an Alaska Airlines flight — and that flight attendants were aware of a pattern of inappropriate conduct by the man, but “brushed off his behavior.”
Zuckerberg — a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and sister of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg — took to social media Wednesday to share the email she sent to the airline following her flight.
Alaska Airlines responded to the email via Twitter, said the allegations were “very disturbing,” and that it was investigating.
Obviously, we need female-only flights, to shield these precious flowers from contact with the toxins of masculinity.
Who knew the world was filled with boorish rude people. When I’m on a flight, I put the headphones on, give a friendly nod to the passenger next to me, and then try to ignore everything else since I hate being crammed in a small metal tube flying a few miles in the air.
give a friendly nod to the passenger
RAPIST!!
“Obviously, we need female-only flights”
I think we need to take it a step further and require women to cover themselves in formless, black polyester sheets. This will prevent the uncontrolled, evil male libido from being driven to rape them. They should only be allowed out in public with a male relative to protect them also. Yeah, that’s the ticket!
Even better, well maybe not better, but we could have public centers of learning in which we include classes to teach males not to rape. Maybe that will work.
“Obviously, we need female-only flights, to shield these precious flowers from contact with the toxins of masculinity.”
Still not enough. Until we gather all unwoke men and send them to camps to be educated. Heck there is still that one camp in Topaz UT we can use.
What should they have done, chucked him out at 30,000 feet?
She’s a silicon valley exec. She’s used to saying “throw this man to his death”, and people scramble to make it happen.
But remember, Mike Pence is a sexist, old-fashioned weirdo for not wanting to be alone with women other than his wife.
Zuckerberg — a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and sister of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg
My question is: why was she on a commercial flight?
Yes, Everton is now mid-table, and only 2 pts from 9th, but our new coaching hire is…not encouraging.
Well, he saved Palace last year.
Big Sam is great at saving teams from relegation. He’s not good at anything else, but he’ll do that.
If it was a 6 month contract, that would be fine.
No cause for alarm, Playa just had an unusually large amount of Chipotle.
http://abc7.com/mysterious-odor-plagues-west-la-residents/2715642/
Chem trails. I’m not saying it was Chem trails, but…
Unnecessary, but…
“Net takers protesting the GOP tax bill because they’ll actually have some skin in the game. Cry me a river.”
I caught a small amount of a Tom Steyer ad at the gym this morning. Apparently he’s got some website where you can sign up to support impeaching Trump – and the GOP tax plan is a reason to support impeachment.
How did someone who’s obviously a gibberish idiot ever manage to make so much money?
He claims it was because the system was rigged to allow that crisis we saw (without pointing out that the rigged system existed in the name of social justice), and that despite the fact that after their initial system fucked us over, the democrats rigged it even more after demanding they be the ones to be allowed to fix it, so now we all need to be worried to death about the deficit that he had no problem with during the Obama years, because the republicans are going to steal from us all instead of investing in education and social justice.
What a cunt.
Because in the left’s thinking, cutting taxes falls under “high crimes and misdemeanors”.
It’s a crime against the state.
Well, since lowering taxes is stealing from the government it’s obviously a crime!
Impeach Trump because he’s cruel.
Who the hell is Tom Steyer anyway? I never heard of him until I suddenly started seeing his tweets about “Sign this petition to impeach Trump” being promoted by Twitter.
Hedge fund billionaire who has appointed himself Defender of Mother Gaia.
I thought Al Gore already filled that role?
It’s like the Shia-Sunni schism…
He’s an extremely rich guy who pours colossal sums of money into election funds for Democraps. Ya know, the kind of “big money in politics” that Lefties claim to oppose.
Do these people draw a line between the Arlington-sized graveyard of past internet petitions and the petitions they’re currently promoting?
And how the hell do they suppose an internet position can unseat a president, one wonders.
He’s a very sincere man who opposes Trump. I mean, look at his eyes, listen to his soft voice, look at his furrowed brow. He’s sincere. He’s empathetic. He must be right.
When I was on vacation I saw that commercial in full. It was – uh – interesting how he used the Washington Post, CNN, and Huffpost as his “proof” that Trump needed to be impeached. Court? What’s that?
It takes a lot of courage to be an insufferable thin-skinned moralistic cunt who wants to boss everybody around. We need more of these noble warriors.
Serial killer in training.
http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2017/11/29/decapitated-birds-little-egg-harbor/
I’d put money on it being the remains of some obscure religious ceremony.
*glances around nervously*
They sure it was not some rock band biting off the heads because there were no chickens to be found?
As I work from home I have some 80s-riffic youtube channel playing.
Toto had some ugly dudes.
Heh….my kids love that song. Early ’80s videos are hilarious.
As always, Leo’s version is better by far, and his friend is cute.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH9FyLsfDzw
The devil went down to Georgia.
https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/georgia-fighting-keep-its-laws-secret-unless-you-pay
Ignorance if the law is no excuse.
Unless you’re an agent of the state. Then it’s a completely valid excuse, both for criminal prosecution and civil liability.
Dammit!
I think something is missing from that story.
“Ignorance of the law is no excuse!”
I agree the Georgia policy and the lawsuit are terrible things but my god, the comments, the comments.
My biggest issue:
FTA (emphasis mine): Georgia Legislature editorially controls and publishes. It is the law that the state’s executive agencies enforce. And it is the official state law that courts apply and interpret. Most fundamentally, it is the law that an individual must read to know what behavior is legal and what isn’t. While an unannotated version of the code is available online for free, that version does not constitute the law as enforced today. For example, a person reading the free version might believe that an “offense of sodomy” is punishable by one to 20 years in prison. That individual would also be led to believe that private possession of pornography is illegal. Only by paying more than $400 would she learn that courts have held both of those statutes to be unconstitutional, and the state enforces neither.
This is why I think all laws should be enforced fully until they’re removed from the books. Those laws aren’t enforced because a local cop or DA hasn’t needed to enforce them in order to punish someone who offended him, made him look bad or otherwise opposed his authority. They need to be removed from the law in their entirety otherwise they can be selectively enforced for malicious purposes.
So I have a simple proposal: when a law is deemed unconstitutional, the legislators and executive from that state have 60 days to have it stricken from the books. Failure to do so will result in all people responsible for the law being stricken being held in contempt for 5 days. They then have five days to strike it upon release. Failure to do so thrnnresults in a ten day contempt order. Continue doubling the orders until they can all be removed from office for failing to perform the duties of their job.
Sodomy laws, porn laws and drug laws remains on the books mean they are still technically enforceable. This can only lead to persecution of groups or individuals that deserve protection rather than persecution. The only solution is to hold govt personally responsible for the laws being permanently removed rather than ignored until “needed”.
Indeed. I might take a little different tack, though:
When a law is found to be unconstitutional as written, it is void ab initio. It is automatically stricken from the statute books – no action by anyone necessary. Not only that, all persons prosecuted under the law are released, have any fines repaid, etc. Because the law was never valid – that’s what unconstitutional and void ab initio mean.
Doing otherwise means that the courts are overturning laws based on nothing more than there own say-so. If a law is invalid only after a court says so, meaning it is invalidated prospectively only, then that can only mean that it is invalid only because a court said so, and not because it violates anything pre-dating the courts ruling. IOW, the Constitution, which predates the ruling, is not the basis for overturning the law, meaning in turn that the law has been invalidated by a court exercising nothing more than brute authority.
This is why I think all laws should be enforced fully until they’re removed from the books.
Sessions kinda made this point earlier this year. I can fault him for a lot, and he was probably being disingenuous, but he’s right that it’s not within the Executive’s purview to legislate. If Congress wants drug laws decriminalized, Congress needs to repeal them.
*repost from late last night*
Listen to this Lindsay Shepherd interview in full, it’s great. And I found this comment here worth singling out.
Shepherd on “the culture of coddling and comforting students and protecting them from, you know, ‘harm’”:
Why on earth don’t more people get this? Anyway, there’s more good stuff in the interview.
If someone didn’t want to say something because I might get offended, I guess my response would be”Are you new here?”
Who wants to be known as the guy you have to walk on eggshells around.
I once told wife beater jokes to my slightly proggy sister in law, she was not happy.
I figure since I don’t beat my wife, what is there to be offended about?
If I did beat my wife then that would not be funny, but I also probably wouldn’t be here(she knows where I sleep)
I’m confused what do the last two sentences have to do with jokes about sleeveless t-shirts?
From Instapundit: Tesla Employees Say 90% Of Model S/X Cars Fail Quality Checks After Assembly
Only 90%?
That’s better than I expected.
Maybe it’s just my part of town but lately I’ve seen more Tesla cars in he wild. There are three that I know of just a few blocks away from my house. Of course the nearest big chain grocery store has a multi Tesla charging station, but still I would rather throw my money at something a little more vintage, way more noisier, and with a stick (or column) shifter.
When I see a Tesla, a smart car, or a prius the first thing that pops in my head is ‘pretentious idiot’.
Does that apply to all hybrids or just Prii?
I work for a fedgov agency. Teslas are all over the place.
It would not surprise me in the slightest to learn that various bureaucracies offer subsidies for buying electric cars or hybrids as part of their employment packages.
Huh. The first thing that I think is that that guy’s wife is probably keeping his balls in an abandoned well. Lowered baskets and/or lotion optional.
Definitely the case if the one driving is a supposed dude..
I mean if this was Toyota, they would have figured out the root causes for why the issue was occurring. But this is Tesla. They know lean/agile way better than some stupid as auto manufacturer.
I’m happy with my Toyota but they (balloons) do have a tendency to blow up in your face. The only problem that I’ve had with mine was a wheel bearing and idiot lights.
Imposserus!
TechCrunch, a snarky tech trends website, tried to debunk all the “myths” about net neutrality regulations. But the author says it “is certainly possible” that the regulatory costs pose a burden for small ISPs. And all he could muster was to say he was “skeptical” about industry complaints that no-blocking and no-throttling rules would prevent useful services from being rolled out.
Given the FCC’s history, the only thing to be skeptical about is reassurances that its rules and mandates wouldn’t ultimately hamper innovation and hurt consumers. As we have pointed out in detail in this space, that has been the main outcome of the FCC’s 80 years of regulating the telecommunication industry. It stalled the growth of TV, tied the cable industry in regulatory knots for years, blocked phone companies from providing video services, and delayed the introduction of cellphones by at least a decade.
The idea that letting the FCC put its regulatory boot on ISPs would somehow spur growth and innovation is pure fantasy.
FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai said it best when he called net neutrality “a solution that won’t work to a problem that doesn’t exist.”
Consumers should be glad that someone with that much common sense is calling the shots there.
Crazy talk. Everybody knows kkkorporations exist solely to steal from the consumer.
Also- My ISP has tiered service; I thought everybody did. For years, I was on the cheap slow plan; I only upgraded when I fired DISH network and got a roku.
I’m not sure why people are shitting their pants over tiered Internet service. If I understand this correctly, the Net Neutrality people want there to be one level of service at a flat rate…
Years ago on The Other Site, I remember a commenter saying, “why should an 80-year old grandma who checks her email once a week have to pay the same for Internet usage as someone who is running torrents 24/7 and spending hours on World of Warcraft or Netflix?”
Because the people pushing Net Neutrality are content providers, not service providers. This is like Amazon trying to say that UPS, FedEx, and the USPS should charge the same for a 10lb 2-day parcel as a 1oz 5-day parcel. The difference is that mail-order long ago passed the charges onto the customer. Netflix, and every other content provider want (not unreasonably — just unrealistically) to have help guaranteeing their delivery experience is similar. The idea that a single large ISP would erect a paywall around your content is fucking ridiculous. Nobody is keeping their ISP if that happens. To use a similar analogy to the delivery, it would be like FedEx enacting an extra $3 surcharge on ordering from Amazon. The result wouldn’t be FedEx making and extra $3/package. It would be FedEx going out of business.
I wouldn’t mind paying for a service that enhanced streaming and gaming a the expense of, say, FTP or TCP. As demonstrated last night, I’m an idiot about the specifics of networking so I don’t know how realistic that is (I know you can monkey around with your port assignments), but it’s mystifying to me that advocates would want a ban on ISPs offering packages with differing rates to suit different needs. Well, not all that mystifying: I realize it’s based on the anticapitalist primitivism of ignorant or stupid people. But it does seem as though these people have spent no more time contemplating the issue than to type out I HATE COMCAST in a comments thread.
Usually, ISP use a technique known as traffic shaping which cares less about what port your traffic is using (and hence the protocol) and more about characteristics like sustained thru’put, where you’re connecting to.
So, for example, an ISP will know if you’re a VPN user if 99.9% of your 3Mb/sec sustained downstream is via a single IP address. They can tell if you’re using bittorrent by the number of peers you’re connected to and the ‘shape’ of the data flow down and up. They know when you’re streaming, because they know Amazon’s and Netflix’ IP addresses.
They (and of course, interested Government groups) can accurately infer a lot about you from this kind of analysis without even decoding one byte of content, which is why you don’t only need encryption, you need distributed channel communications, or at least, a VPN in someone else’s jurisdiction.
So my idea of limiting certain sorts of traffic in favor of others wouldn’t work if users could pay for a VPN to cloak their activities?
It would work, but the mechanism would be slightly different.
It’s possible to do packet inspection on a stream, but it’s more CPU intensive, and there will be technology innovations that circumvent it. There’s always a way, given enough computing power, to do ubiquitous and invasive analysis like this, but most consumers will be able to circumvent it by a combination of hardware, software and craftiness.
One idea that springs to mind is a multi-homed VPN that peers your data out and back by either a kind of channel-hopping, or true split stream routing. I’m sure someone’s done/doing this, but I haven’t seen it in consumer circles.
So even technically the sort of service people are worried ISPs might contrive isn’t really feasible. Net Neutrality seems dumber and dumber the more I learn.
What if like, someone sent all of their traffic to other people in some kind of network before going to their destination and like those other people also sent their traffic to that one person and each other on the way to their destination? Like layers in a parfait.
That sounds like it would waste a lot of bandwidth, especially since most consumer accounts have asymmetric rate limits (lower upload than download).
The number of people willing to pay for a VPN is low. On top of even if you pay for it but worse if you don’t, your connection will be less efficient i.e. slower. You can pay extra to have a slower but more private experience that may run afoul of various service agreements (several content providers blanket ban VPNs because they are used to get around region blocking). If the concern is “my telco ISP is slowing traffic to my VOIP service to the point that calls are choppy” and your options are pay more and still deal with a slower than normal connection over VPN or give up and use the telco ISP product instead that’s not a great situation.
@Uncivil any kind of tunneling is by definition redundant in terms of networking and so bandwidth wasteful. Onion routing is especially bad in terms of “waste” and encourages people to not do bandwidth heavy things like torrent over the network.
Old but the core issues are still the same
https://svn.torproject.org/svn/projects/roadmaps/2009-03-11-performance.pdf
Man accused of threatening to kill congressman over net neutrality
$100 says the dude doesn’t even know what net neutrality means.
Forgot to add the quote.
That escalated quickly.
“Net neutrality is more important than free speech.”
Umm, ok.
Progs have already told us that free speech doesn’t support speech they don’t like, so you start from there, and free speech means squat.
You think this guy should have just stuck to Jap tackling a GOP senator? Then he would have gotten off with a trivial misdemeanor charge. Now I think he’s gotten himself into a far more serious situation.
That’s a fairly safe bet. It seems like most people don’t know what Net Neutrality is, yet have very strong feelings about it and express those feelings constantly.
The name “Net Neutrality” is one of the most brilliant pieces of propaganda I’ve ever come across.
^This. The regulatory structure proposed under “Net Neutrality” is no more or less neutral than the current system. Actually, it’s less “neutral”, because it amounts to government using regulations to reduce the operating costs of content providers at the expense of bandwidth providers.
And it is a precursor to them saying they also need to control the content….
Yup. My son is on the Net Neutrality bandwagon. But when he brought it up with my wife, he said “Dad, can you explain what it is, because I don’t really know.” He’s just fallen for the Free and Open Internet tagline. I give him credit for asking my opinion about it knowing that I will probably disagree with the current hip cause.
You set him straight? Mine now wants no part of it because he understands that this has nothing to do with making it better, cheaper or easier to use.
Unfortunately he’s highly susceptible to whatever the latest cause he sees on the internet. I tell him that when one of these “gotta act now to save the world!” things he should be skeptical, but he seems to want to fit in with the in crowd. He’s still young and hopefully will figure it out, and at times he does express a healthy cynicism about government competence, but it is an uphill battle against social media and his schools.
Anyway, I told him that yes Comcast sucks, because in most places they are basically a monopoly or half of a duopoly. The best solution would be more competition, though I don’t know how we get from here to there. Given Comcast’s market power, I could see a scenario where they would slow or even block offerings from Netflix in favor of their cable content, but 1) AT&T could respond by not slowing service and 2) current anti-trust laws likely would block this anyway, so no need for more regulation. And given government incompetence (at best) do you really want them sticking their nose into how the internet operates? It might sound good now, but where does it lead 10 years down the road? This isn’t some regulation that has been around since the beginning of time. It is at best about a year old, and the internet worked just fine without it.
I don’t think I changed his mind, because peer pressure is a hell of a drug, but I do give him credit for seeking out a different opinion. In fact, the next week he had to give a persuasive presentation about any subject for one of his classes, and I suggested Net Neutrality. He said, “Nah, I don’t think I understand it well enough.”
The thing I keep coming back to is that the scenario you pointed out as the potential threat this is supposed to solve isn’t a problem that has occurred in the past and wouldn’t be prevented by regulating broadband under common carrier rules. And the whole thing fired off because of inside-baseball negotiations between Netflix and Comcast, among others. This is a really good explanation of that part of the issue.
I read the headline and immediately thought ‘another lefty going postal’. What a surprise. I was right.
It’s always the fist with them.
What a creep.
Christ, what an asshole.
I was pleasantly surprised to see that someone issuing death threats to a Republican was actually arrested.
I’ll take double the odds on that.
Would you expect any better from Boston?
“…and fingering him”
Gee, what else happened on Lauer’s couch?
“I don’t think anyone paying in penny rolls, whether it’s a preferred thing to do for a court clerk, warrants this type of this assaultive behavior and violation of constitutional rights,” Marco said.”
You think?
I don’t know. When I was a cashier at Walmart, someone paid for their purchase with spare change once. I felt like assaulting that guy, as did the customers behind him I’m sure.
You didn’t force that customer at gunpoint to come into the store and purchase. That is a little different.
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Ivanka Trump plagiarizes one of her own speeches in India http://bit.ly/2Alu01e
Newsweek has gone completely insane.
How does that work, exactly?
Is it possible to plagiarize yourself?
Not according to the dictionary.
Only if you’re related to Donald Trump.
Isn’t that more like a boilerplate template?
If she wrote it and just reuses it, it’s her own work, no?
Newsweek is retarded.
“Chris Riotta is a staff writer at Newsweek covering the Trump family. He joined Newsweek Media Group in November 2016 to report on the election and its impact on American society.”
If this story is all he has on them….
So I guess they don’t even teach these idiots what plagiarism is in J-school.
Huh. I guess I plagiarize myself every semester.
She goes to Asia to support women entrepreneurs. She gives a similar speech in two locations but tailored to those locations. Same mission, same message.
Earlier I said that if you spend a hundred years rationalizing that morals, principles and propriety are for suckers your ranks are going to fill up with scumbags. Newsweek is proof that if you spend that time also creating useful idiots your ranks are going to fill up with insanity.
They even admitted in the article itself that most government officials re-use the same lines sometimes:
But they launch right back into a tirade about how it’s particularly evil when part of the Trump family does it.
Naturally, these shitheads would be screaming “fayke nooozzz!!!” if I published an article claiming that Obama plagiarized his own speech.
Of course, Trump is far from the first person to pull from their old speeches—government officials, especially those campaigning, routinely use their old talking points in updated talks with voters across the country.
I had no idea she was a government official.
Saw this pic in the most recent Car & Driver – Camoflauged 1984 Corvette – it looks like the Homer-mobile.
Reminds me a bit of the car in UFO.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-llGLx4_zkVw/UDbEt7mVAJI/AAAAAAAADZM/FZpkHB0VLZY/s1600/UFO.jpg
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/936136097113038848
Blue checkmarks aside, imagine my surprise when I found out they write for Allure and Teen Vogue.
Watch out tootsies,
Conde Nastthe patriarchy will be eliminating your positions shortly.The farce is strong with this one.
https://twitter.com/rawan/status/935890475474669569
How much you want to bet that they’re the type of chick who constantly whines about how there are no good guys who want to date them?
Many years ago, I read an article by two feminists who argued that all women should be lesbians and that artificial insemination had obviated the need for men.
I have concluded that the definition of “Feminist” as it is applied these days is “A person who wants all women to be as much of a miserable, broken soul as they themselves are.”
artificial insemination had obviated the need for men.
So, I guess they plan on using monkey sperm?
In the time since, genetic science has developed techniques for using an arbitrary set of donors to produce embryoes.
At the time however, she was just an idiot.
Fuck… I had a High School English teacher who said that in class (without the lesbian part) in the 90’s. And this was at a Catholic school.
Yeah, I read this in the 80s
Firefox + NoSCript users:
NoScript released an update to fix the disaster that got released yesterday. So far, it is working fine for me.
I downloaded Avast a couple of weeks ago and it set my browser to Chrome. I had to go back two months before to fix the fuckery.
thanks, I’ll give it a try.
One of my guilty pleasures is the ol’ BBC science fiction show, Blake’s 7. In the episode called Power, they end up on a planet where there are two small tribes left, men versus women.
Musings from my favorite character:
Avon: It’s a problem, isn’t it? You can have war between races, war between cultures, war between planets. But once you have war between the sexes, you eventually run out of people.
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Avon: You see, Pella, it’s your strength, and however you use it, a man’s will always be greater. Unfair, perhaps, but biologically unavoidable.
I always thought the scene where Avon, Vila and ORAC were discussing how to escape a gravity well was entertaining too, and ORACs observation on just how much mass needed to be jettisoned.
That series was a triumph – kinda dumbass plots, every episode had a budget of about a million dollars. Unfortunately, Zimbabwean dollars – and it shows, but some truly excellent scenes and great characters. Avon was a prototype ‘straight man’ version of Edmund Blackadder.
It was a budget sci-fi series with Shakespearean level actors. Yeah the effects haven’t aged well but I do enjoy Avon, the craven Villa, and even the uber-idealist Blake, who reveals himself to be a zealot. Some deeper character interplay than your usual tv show.
I don’t know if you know/noticed, but as the series went on, so many of the crew and (presumably) bit part actors were stealing props – particularly weapons and transporter bracelets – that they had to change the plot to fit. One of the episodes had to solve the fox/chicken/grain problem.
Twice. One to get down to the planet, and then again to re-board Scorpio.
Oh and Dayna had a rockin’ body.
Fuck yeah. Now, at the time, lots of guys also had a thing for Servalan, but I never quite understood that other than the novelty of her having no hair.
Perseis Khambatta always seemed far better at that bald chick look, and never gave off the vibe that if you were unsatisfactory, you’d end up as chum on the next water world.
NPR ran a short piece on this yesterday. It was fucking pathetic. The most compelling burn-candle-at-both-ends example they could come up with was a dude moaning about having to live in an apartment with five roommates. The producers weren’t even able to demonstrate how women and minorities are hardest hit.
I haven’t read the article so don’t quote me on this, but I heard rumor that someone at WaPo wrote an article complaining that a large share of Americans aren’t getting a sizable tax cut, or none at all, but when you actually scrutinize what they’re claiming, you find that the ones they are talking about fall into two categories, the wealthiest and the ones who are already paying negative taxes.
Ars Technica goes full retard on guns:
“Guns tend to empower white, financially unstable men—who oppose gun control”
Yeah, that’s the actual title of the article, but it gets worse.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/11/study-white-men-facing-money-trouble-tend-to-cling-to-guns-for-power-identity/
Three quick responses:
1) There are clear alternative explanations for the differences they see–some of which you’d expect to see from the left but seem to be ignored.
If black people don’t feel empowered because of pervasive racism, why would owning a gun change that? Maybe the difference in feelings of empowerment by gun ownership are due to a deficit on the black side of the data–rather than something inherent within the white. In a less racist society, perhaps blacks would feel more empowered by gun ownership.
They show that rural people feel more empowered, but to what extent is that because law enforcement is generally further away so rural people are more aware of the need to defend themselves?
2) This whole article seems to be about what I was talking about yesterday in that story about why the left thinks it’s okay to brutalize Rand Paul.
White, rural, blue collar men are the bad guys–especially the gun owners. Is it any surprise if the analysis confirms the writer’s biases about their favorite bad guys and confirms their biases to the benefit of their favorite good guys (women, blacks, urban well to do)?
I suspect they might not publish a study like this about why inner city blacks may feel empowered by joining gangs–because that might confirm bad biases in the public rather than good ones. Good biases in this case being things that denigrate sympathy for rural, white, blue collar, . . .
3) Looking at the data, the differences they’re citing between gun owners and non-gun owners don’t appear to be that great.
They say older people are more likely to own guns, but the median age of non-gun owners to gun owners is 48.3 to 50.7. That may be statistically significant, but in the real world, how different are 48 year-olds and 50 year olds?
There are other stats like that. Under the alienation index (how alienated people feel from the rest of society), non gun owners are at 8.3 and gun owners are at 8.7. While it might be true to say that more gun owners feel alienated than non-gun owners, how much of a difference are we really talking about? How deeply is that alienation felt? Is alienation due to racism exactly like alienation due to being rural? The economic distress stats are similar–1.65 to 1.76. Surely those relatively slight differences could be as much about white people living in a shitty neighborhood as much as anything else.
Forming a conclusion based on blind assumptions and gathering evidence to support that conclusion is the way it works. Don’t you even research brah?
Ars turned into a shrieking left-wing mouthpiece practically overnight just a short time ago. They added a bunch of new staff writers all at once, and all of the veteran scribes seemed to fall off into obscurity shortly afterward. The new writers – even the ones whose area of interest is strictly tech – are absolutely terrible. What a shame. It used to be one of the best science and tech sites around.
Ars Technica’s readership trends like Slashdot’s now. Both used to be the kind of geeks who trended more ancap, were skeptical of authority in general and government in particular, and were fiercely independent. Both now seem to be the new “geek chic” types, people who may or may not be engineers of one kind or another but who take the tendency of some of those types to see society as a system to be optimized. They trend strongly towards Progressivism if not outright socialism because they believe a technocracy (as understood in the PS sense, meaning professional bureaucrats) would result in the most optimal outcomes, with “optimal” being defined by and those ranks being filled by themselves.
I probably haven’t visited slashdot in at least 3 years, maybe 5. It was a daily read 10 years ago.
I used to be a regular and had actually acquired a fair bit of karma, but eventually the politics of the place drove me off. I get that the running gag was that comment moderation was wildly biased, but it just got so blatant and so shitty there just wasn’t a point anymore. I don’t need to get in nerd fights.
I remember when the worst offender was Ben Kuchera making game reviews boring with his virtue signaling. Somehow him leaving made things worse not better.
Marvel comics, GQ, Teen Vogue, Newsweek, Ars Technica…the list goes on. Does anyone know where the money buying up all this media is coming from? I have my suspicions but I wont say because I dont have my tinfoil hat at the moment.
Conde Naste owns GQ, Teen Vogue and Ars Technica out of that list. Between 2006 and 2008 they folded under-performing magazines like House and Garden and Jane but at the same time bought several tech oriented places like Ars, Reddit and Wired. Ten years later and look where things have gone.
So… wait, this person is claiming that the most empowered group in American are poor white guys? Simply by owning a gun? WTF?
Seems like some smart women might catch on and then they’ll be more empowered than some douchebag web writer.
For Pie
Romanians lining up for bread under communism and lining up for iphones under capitalism.
That’s beautiful
But bread lines bring people together as a community!
And who needs 20 different types of bread in a grocery store?
Or even twenty loaves.
5 loaves should be more than enough for everyone
under the ravages of capitalism, people line up just to eat apples!! THE HORROR
at least the bread under communism didn’t have bites already taken out of them. LOOK AT THAT PICTURE OF THE APPLE!! the cruel capitalist has already taken his share. so cruel.
There’s no social value to iPhones, bread lines bring the people together!
Looks like the House is going to try to pass national concealed carry reciprocity before the end of the year, as the House Judiciary Committee has just approved it for a floor vote. I know that they’ve had the votes for it for years, but they’ve delayed it a lot because of some badly timed mass shootings and ensuing cowardice. Looks like it’s a clean bill so far, no bump stock ban or anything like that attached to it.
Wish they would give us suppressors with that as well.
We’re all gonna die!
Soo… How are we going to get the Fuzz in Deep Blue states to obey the law?
Doesn’t it contain some language along the lines of your carry permit from your state will allow you to carry in another state, in accordance with the carry laws of that state? Because in deep blue states like NJ, according to the law carry is prohibited unless they agree you have a demonstrable “need” as they define it, which means ordinary citizens can’t carry. So you still get reamed carrying in NJ with say a Virginia CCW permit.
I don’t know what it says. I also know that the local cops won’t give a damn what it says.
I don’t think that’s right. They’re saying each state can enforce its laws on people with carry permits as they’d enforce the law on people who were issued a carry permit by them.
They’re saying NJ will have to treat people with a VA permit the same as someone they deemed worthy of being issued a carry permit by NJ. They will have to treat that person as if they showed “need” since they issue permits to people in the Garden State once need is shown.
IOW, this will cause a shitload of states to abolish public carry and create a very dangerous case going to the SC because it could end up resulting in several states outlawing carry in public and the bans being upheld by the Supreme Court.
Yeah, this will certainly create a shitstorm when a Vermont resident carries in NY or NJ with his driver’s license.
Virgnia or PA into Maryland will be a biggie, too.
Yeah, my status in VT might actually get worse if it goes sideways.
Although I don’t see how the SCOTUS squares states banning the bearing of arms with somehow not burdening the right to bear arms.
John. Fucking. Roberts.
Ruth. Pinko. Ginsberg.
Penaltax.
Do I need to go on?
They have actually let stand a 3rd circuit ruling that prohibiting the right to bear arms does not burden the right to bear arms in Drake v. Jerejian regarding New Jersey’s law. I think it is likely because they didn’t want to be in a position of slapping down a state’s carry (or non-carry) laws, or risk Kennedy siding with the left and completely gutting the second amendment. I don’t think they will be able to avoid that in the case of concealed carry reciprocity, and if Trump gets another nominee on the bench by the time it gets to them, it could be interesting.
Which will happen first – Kennedy Retiring, or Ginsberg keeling over?
Ginsberg is indestructible. She is not of this Earth and will never die.
I don’t know if any states will abolish public carry. I would imagine every state, even the most fervent gun grabbers, allow off duty police, ex-police, judges/DA, and ex-judges/DAs to carry.
Do you think the police unions and Judges/DAs will sit back quietly and let the state legislatures strip away their ability to carry ? If carry is granted to those groups, then I would think it must be granted to any carry holder from another state. At the very least, this is where the litigation will start if the gun grabbing states try to carve out exceptions.
My question is how they are going to keep this from running afoul of anti-commandeering. Because forcing states to respect the concealed carry permit sounds like the sort of thing the SC said wasn’t ok in NY v US and Printz v US. Unless of course Congress made it a “suggestion” that just so happens to have sweet federal dollars attached for states who go through with it.
Privileges or Immunities clause.
Printz applied to a federal requirement that sheriffs perform background checks, if memory serves. A federal statute requiring that local law enforcement do something is not the same as a federal statute requiring that local law enforcement respect licenses issued by other states. The latter is an exercise of full faith and credit requiring states to honor each other’s licenses, not the commerce clause requiring states to enforce federal law. You still have to follow that state’s traffic laws, just like you would still need to follow that states CCW laws – if your state allows carry in hospitals, for example, that doesn’t excuse from following another state’s prohibition on carrying in hospitals.
We shouldn’t even need a national reciprocity statute; its constitutionally required by the full faith and credit clause. Just like your driver’s license is valid nationally, regardless of different state requirements for their own driver’s licenses, a concealed carry permit will also be valid nationally regardless.
Arizona has constitutional carry, but also issues CCW permits to take advantage of existing state-to-state reciprocity. Vermont could do the same.
So if you carry hollowpoints in NJ you’re still fucking screwed.
They’ll have to have language in the law that specifically defines what constitutes “legal carry” in every state – and makes it clear that federal law overrides any and all local prohibitions on carrying.
Oh boy. I can’t wait for the progs’ screeching campaign against this. I’m sure that’ll be loads of fun.
I’m guessing that Trump has saved some distraction tweets just for this moment. I do think that some Blue Dogs have voiced support for this bill, too, so I don’t think that this will just be a pure party-line bill.
suppressors first. unless this is just a distraction to pass the tax bill.
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In NoDak’s are way nicer that SoDak’s news:
SD man gets 45 years in prison for cutting off pregnant ex-girlfriend’s nipples
What a POS.
WTF?
While what he did was absolutely deplorable and sickening, is 45 years appropriate? People get far less every day for killing people. While this woman no doubt has severe physical and mental scars, she is still alive. I don’t know what to think about this…
I’d say 45 is generous. What possible justification can he have? If he beat the hell out of her because he lost his temper it would be deplorable but understandable: in a moment of rage he lost control of himself and did something awful. But that shit requires deliberation and at least some degree of planning. There’s also a sadistic element that points to this guy as being a prime candidate for worse crimes.
Don’t get me wrong, I hope the piece of shit dies in there. I was just surprised to see 45 years considering murder often gets less. But you are right to point out the premeditation involved. I guess that’s where the long time comes from.
Well, I would guess the nature of the thing is what is driving the sentence. If he stabbed her with scissors he’d get 15.
I’m not shedding any tears for him. Don’t really have an issue with the terms running consecutively.
I dunno, I read some details on the story, but not enough to actually know what actually happened. But anyway, it sounds like the guy did it because he knew she wanted to nurse her baby, she was pregnant at the time. And his lawyer is claiming self defense. Right, self defense always involves cutting off specific parts of a person’s anatomy. He’ll never serve 45 years, but I think 10 years at least is appropriate if like it sounds, this was premeditated.
This is the first I’ve heard this story (surprisingly) so you have more detail than I’ve seen. You and Bill pointing out the premeditation aspect makes me reconsider my initial opinion of the sentence.
I am not sure 45 years is enough. Move the decimal one place to the right.
Good. Let’s see the woman who cut off her man’s penis with garden shears get the same. Equality n’ all.
I’d wager that nipples are easier to sugically reconstruct to a properly functional state than genetalia – so garden shears should get 60 years.
Nipples are an everyday fix for reconstructive surgeons, what with cancer survivors, and the more piercing-committed individuals who have barbells ripped out in accidents. Needless to say, they’re cosmetically successful, but don’t function at all well.
Hell, Lorena Bobbitt never saw a single day inside a cell. Regardless of what he did or didn’t do to “provoke” her, that’s fucked up.
Last week I received a vmail from a
headhunterconsultant. I called back – I can possibly get a work-from-home / remote job for a company in Cleveland with some minimal traveling involved.We’ll see how it pans out. Anyone else do a work from home gig? I usually do remote work 1-2 days a week, but full-time stuck in the house could get a bit uh, crazy. Guess I’ll have to get a lap top so I can work in a coffee shop, library, or whatever just so I can have different locations.
I’ve been looking for a gig like that for a long time. Hope it works out for you.
Yeah it would be ideal given my wife’s legal job and the running around she does for our special needs kiddo. I’m not betting on it though – my current job does give me a lot of freedom but after 15 years I’m just tired of it.
Check out remote.co. It’s all remote jobs from some big companies. I’m finding some quality leads there.
I work from home and love it. I really enjoy what I do, but hated every second of being stuck in a cube back when I was in the office. Now I can just focus on my work. And wasting time on here.
I have had several gigs working from home over the years. I am currently (until the end of this year) working out of my house. I have to travel to my home office for a few days at least once a month and I might end up having to go to a client site once a month too.
I love it. I think the most important thing to have are clear deadlines and goals. If you will be working in a role where you can’t say, I have to deliver x project on 3/1/2018, you will have problems. Sales people are hard to manage because it is difficult to know if they are making a bunch of cold calls or watching pr0n. Having deadlines keeps you honest.
There are times, I miss some of the camaraderie that goes on in the office, but then when I visit the office I remember how much I hate the impromtu meetings. And having people drop in on you to try to convince you that their problems are also your problems and you should help out. When you work remote, most of those people are too lazy to schedule a meeting or write up their issue.
Working from a coffee shop is a good way to make sure that you can stay focused on work and not get distracted. If you get distracted by home stuff too easily, look into shared office space/coworking spaces. Rates can be pretty reasonable and it gives you a “work” space. Would you have any other home workers from the same company near by? My boss and one other employee also work from their houses in Minneapolis. We will schedule meetings to have some face to face time locally.
If you do end up working out of your house most of the time, my guess is that you will end up working a lot more hours than you used to. Since work is just feet away, you will end up working when inspiration hits you. That adds up quickly. On the plus side, you know how there are times you just sit at your desk staring at the screen thinking about nothing? Yeah, that doesn’t happen at home. You can go do the laundry or take a quick nap.
My last pieces of advice:
1) Invest in your home office. Get lots of nice monitors. You will need multiples so you can work on one, keep track of email and other stuff on another and have another for all the IM’ing and other chat stuff you will be doing.
2) Also invest in the nicest teleconferencing equipment you can afford. You will spend a lot of time talking to remote locations. Make sure you have a nice setup so you can be clearly heard.
Thanks for all the advice – too bad my house is lacking the room for a well-sized separate office. I can use the smallest spare “half a bedroom” but it will be cramped.
I am off in a nook in my basement. It doesn’t have to be giant. I spend a huge amount of time on the phone, so my biggest thing was getting a good Bluetooth head set (Plantronics voyageur legend). My wife laughs because I sometime walk around the back yard throwing birds randomly because of my frustration with how a meeting is going. You can’t do that in a face to face meeting.
BTW, look at the fonts used on the plan page for the coworking office site. The flex plans at the bottom tricked my dyslexia into reading it as “Cow or King”. I’m definitely going to start a new trend of rating my fellow employees as Cows or Kings.
I’m off into one corner of a large open area that includes the living and dining area. Works fine. If I could telecommute full time I’d work in a fucking closet if necessary.
+1 multiple monitors. I just picked up an extra monitor for a hunge during a Black Friday sale. Doing web development with one monitor is awful.
Multiple monitors are like crack. Once you get addicted to them, you can never go back.
I was incensed when I got a new laptop for work and the video card wasn’t good enough for my fancy monitors. Sure it is tiny and easy to travel with, but I spend most of my time with it docked.
So now my kid got a sudden upgrade to great monitors and I took his shitty ones.
Monitor stand my company recommends. With 2 24″ monitors, Its great.
I use 3. I could actually justify 6 if my clients want to pay for it.
I’m looking at 5 screens right now. 2 of them are work dedicated. Rest are fuck off dedicated and for testing.
I’m thinking
1. Email on one.
2. Mockups on one
3. Development environment on one.
4. SQL on one.
5 and 6: RDP servers
Definitely worth it for the increased productivity.
It’s like you don’t even run a windowing GUI. You know those ‘frames’ around the different bits of information? You can overlap ’em!
But, #6, when you overlap them, you can’t see the one int he back anymore!
Which one has your pornhub stream on it?
“It’s like you don’t even run a windowing GUI. You know those ‘frames’ around the different bits of information? You can overlap ’em!”
Having 6 little windows on a 24″ monitor is not quite the same as having 6 24″ monitors.
Besides, judging by the current usage patterns with two monitors, each of those 6 would be piled to about 10-15 windows anyway…
Just like with paging solutions for large databases, there comes a point where having more real estate isn’t so useful. I have a 5 screen at work – and aside from the whiplash – having lots of windows, especially similar windows for different connections (SSH to half a dozen big iron datacenters) becomes a distraction.
Which is why things like syslog servers and forwarders are valuable. Personally, work real hard on trying to simply segregate monitoring from scripting/dev from personal productivity. Sometimes, I even shut down my Kanban (and risk withdrawal)
I run a 3×1 array, considering a 4×1 and rotating the screens to portrait
I have 3×1 with the left and right in portrait. The middle is the laptop screen. It’s a nice setup for document drafting.
I also use grid move, which is an autohotkey script to do custom window layouts. For example, with a button click, I can have my email and I’m laid out next to one another on the laptop screen, and 2 documents stacked vertically on each of my portrait screens.
Toss in a virtual desktop manager, and you can do just about anything.
My co-worker has 6 of ’em, in a 3X2 array. I still get by with one (memories of ye olde Vax terminal).
VAX SYSTEMS ARE GREAT!!! WE HAD THEM AT MEMPHIS STATE.
I’m jealous. That’s what I want, but it means me paying for 4 of them.
I forgot one other item. You will have to spend time training your family to understand that you are actually working.
My wife still hasn’t quite figured it out even though I have been doing this for years. She is a stay at home wife so she is around and there are times that something comes up and she thinks she can rope me into it immediately. I have to explain to her, that I have other work to do and can’t help her right away.
The kids are easier. Every summer vacation it takes a week to train them to associate screwing around making noise in the basement while I’m trying to work with the assignment of chores. After that, they learn to avoid the basement and things are good.
Yes. I didn’t even have to travel this year, and went to the main office maybe 3 times because it was convenient to meet an out of town co-worker who was in town for something.
I have to travel to the main office a few times a year. I have the option of traveling more often to places across the country, but my sitter costs $200/day which adds up quickly. That’s one of the trade-offs for me.
It’s been hinted that I may need to go to India, so I’ve been putting off getting my passport renewed to counter this. Of course, that meant I missed out on an all expenses-paid work trip to the Bahamas next month *face-palm*. It’s just as well, my wife would have killed me.
Hah. I always make sure to never get any company branded clothing so I don’t have to work any trade show booths.
I work from home about 50% of the time. Outside of that, on I’m site with clients. But I would love a full time telecommute job as it would allow me to live anywhere I want. That’s the real advantage of telecommute. Make the same but live in South Carolina instead of SanFran? Yeah, definitely worth it.
I would be living on a boat in the tropics, and fishing while doing the conference calls…
LH, one thing I would prioritize is setting clear boundaries for others about when you are “at work”. It took a while for this to sink in for my wife for when I first started. She would come home from work and complain that the dishes weren’t done and that the kids had trashed the house. It took repeated mansplainning that I’m at work just like you, not a nanny or housekeeper just because I’m at home all day, before that finally sunk in.
It still happens once in a blue moon, but she’s 99% better about it now. My mother will occasionally call during the workday and not understand that I’m in the middle of a difficult problem and can’t talk, since I’m “just at home”.
So just advice to set your boundaries up front and early. Watching your kids while you work (as I do) definitely blurs those boundaries, but that makes them even more important.
My wife is completely used to it now. At first she would just come talk to me about whatever. Now she might come to me occasionally and asks if I’m too busy to talk, if it’s something important. Working at home is much quieter and more relaxed than being in the office of a client, where not too infrequently, the interruptions make it really hard to focus much.
My wife does, but since she work for Fed.Gov they have a lot of rules on what she can and cannot do while during “work hours.” Technically, her supervisor can drop by the house unannounced to make sure she isn’t doing for example, laundry. Another downside is she has little use for professional clothing now so she never wears those snug around the waist, “forget about the sexual harassment lawsuit and slap me” pants.
It does allow her a great deal of flexibility during the day. On most days her workday can be done at 1-2pm because she can start working around 6.
Sad, I used to like her.
https://twitter.com/Alyssa_Milano/status/935963607115767813
In other news, if you are against net neutrality, you are a Nazi.
http://www.newsweek.com/nazis-want-net-neutrality-repealed-because-they-think-it-will-help-them-harass-724003
Who the fuck do they have working at Newsweek? Where are they getting them? Are they recruiting from insane asylums?
okay that’s some funny shit.
that is one stereo-typically vapid Hollywood actress.
The follow-up comments are a river of comedy. The Russians bought the 2016 election for a few thousand dollars, etc.
Just Say’n|11.30.17 @ 9:24AM|#
“See, the NYT likes us” is an interesting avenue to pursue during a pledge drive. It’s kind of a Nick Gillespie move.
The NYT is the Nick Gillespie of newspapers?
I dont think ‘The NYT likes us’ is something to brag about.
“Make Nick Gillespie an Insult Again!”
Honest? Honest as the day is long
On Tuesday, in a case supported by the Trump administration and a group called Alliance Defending Freedom, a broad right to discriminate on the basis of faith will be argued before the Supreme Court. If you’ve never heard of the Alliance Defending Freedom, the name alone is probably a tip off that freedom is the last thing it’s concerned with defending. The Southern Poverty Law Center has designated it a hate group.
Yes, we have reached a point in our history where no one is surprised for one moment that in a case being argued before the Supreme Court, the White House is on the same side as a designated hate group.
Blah blah blah RIGHT TO DISCRIMINATE blah blah.
Truly, the End Times are upon us.
“The Southern Poverty Law Center has designated it a hate group.”
I like them already.
That reminds me: has anyone reported Glibertarians.com to the SPLC? I think a great complement to our “Family Friendly” designation would be a “Extreme-Right Hate Site” label from those shitheels.
Well, if Irish had signed up here, we could have qualified via his extreme racism, but NOOOO.
I still feel a little bad about that day.
I must have missed something. What happened? Where is Irish anyway?
it was on TOS.
TLDR is that he suggested that black people might speed or not wear seatbelts at a higher %, and were pulled over more as a result.
I think that’s how it went anyway. I could be wrong.
I vaguely remember that and all of the teasing about him being racist. Did he take offense?
Wait, so if some hyper-partisan group designates another a hate group we can just dismiss everything they say?
*Ahem.* Glibertarians hereby designates the NYT as a hate group due to its intense hatred of Trump and anyone to the right of Mao. Anyone who has any faults with Trump at all is no officially on the same side as a designated hate group.
This is fun! Why haven’t we thought of it before?
I am hereby officially designating the SPLC as a communist front organization. What’s my particular qualification to make that designation? Well, it’s the same basis as the SPLC has to designate an organization a hate group.
Yes, we have reached a point in our history where no one is surprised for one moment that in a discussing the Trump administration, the New York Times is on the same side as a designated communist front organization.
That is some sound logic there.
You have the right to discriminate unless you are publicly funded.
The government does not have the right to discriminate.
Period, end of discussion.
This article is so unbelievably wrong at conflating religious liberty with bigotry that I could swear Gary Johnson wrote it
Is Gary Johnson the Nick Gillespie of presidential candidates?
It’s a tie between him and Bob Barr
No one has any right to discriminate about anything. Therefore, sexual partners will be decided by random number generator and refusing to have sex with your designated partner will incur civil and criminal penalties.
Not true. Everyone has the right, nay, the obligation to discriminate against straight white men.
a broad right to discriminate on the basis of faith
First, of course, this is a misleading way to put it – it sounds like they want to discriminate based on their customer’s religion, not their own, which is also known as “free exercise of religion”.
This is what happens, though, when the feds jump their Constitutional boundaries. The Commerce Clause does not empower them to regulate intrastate transactions like baking a cake. The 14th Amendment does not empower the feds to regulate private activity, only state activity.
You don’t get to “equal protection” as a basis for mandating gay wedding cakes unless there is a law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual preference. The feds have no authority to impose such a law on private, intrastate commerce.
Once the feds start micromanaging private activity, though, conflict with other Constitutional rights is inevitable.
Low taxes kill people!
UFFDA!
Do they ascribe a particular method of lethality from “inequality”, or are they just that brazen in their bullshit?
Brazen? Or plain lazy?
Why go to a lot of work just to make up crazy numbers. It is much easier to just put in crazy numbers in the executive summary and let it go at that. Who actually digs into the rest of a paper and looks at how they came up with those numbers?
Can we kill all the public health experts yet?
Shit, the death rate in Venezuela and Cuba must be close to zero then.
It’s blatantly obvious to anyone with a brain that the left are terrified of tax cuts. You can see their desperation when they are claiming that one of their concerns is the deficit. Really? But the deficit was of no concern at all, or even a good thing, during Obama’s 8 years. The reason they are so desperately terrified is that when passed and starts actually working to improve the economy, this will not bode well for Democrats. The amount of deception and outright lies leftist media have used to discredit the tax cut bills, is… well, it’s just par for the course.
Don’t worry, McCain will nix it and be hailed as a hero.
I’m not sure he can stop it on his own this time.
They are afraid of growth, because growth makes them unnecessary.
Dead weight loss from a tax is proportional to the square of the tax rate, so lowering high rates will especially increase growth.
Yellen’s sudden concern about debt and deficits is particularly hilarious.
I think the problem is that the left is against anything that shows how ineffective what they believe in is and doubly so if it is a win for the blowhard in the WH.
Predictably, Kim’s article quotes the work of people like Pickett and Wilkinson, authors of the pseudo-scientific ‘The Spirit Level’. Christopher Snowdon’s “The Spirit Level Delusion” is a great exercise in pointing out how dishonest these people are.
Pow Wow Chow
I think this CFPB fight, which Trump is obviously going to win, is going to be a pretty big deal.
Did you see this about that fucking slush fund yesterday, Lawyer for CFPB’s Leandra English Refuses to Disclose Where Lawsuit Funds Are Coming From. Basically it sounds like the bills for the lawsuit to keep English as the commissioner is being paid by the CFPB itself. Nuke it from orbit.
Yes it’s a big deal. Hell yes. Unaccountable executive agency tells the president to go fuck himself. Imagine if they win and not Trump. What will the rest of the agencies do?
Pretty much what they’re already doing, running amok with no oversight. CFPB may be the worst example, but it’s hardly the only rogue agency, all of them have went rogue. But CFPB is a good start.
Gail Collins is on the case
As you know, there is absolutely no national consensus when it comes to the right to carry a concealed weapon in public places. You have Missouri, where you can just buy a gun and put it in your pocket. You have places like California, where people are carefully screened, trained and tested before they can get a gun and permit.
The N.R.A. yearns for a federal law that would allow Missourians to tote their guns around California, no questions asked. And here it is! The bill, known to its friends as “concealed carry,” could almost certainly pass the House. Even in this miserable year it probably couldn’t make the 60-vote mark in the Senate. (Good old Senate 60-vote rule. Remember that the next time people you like better are running the place.)
It’s not fair for some states to have smart gun safety laws, but not others. And those guys at the NRA are a bunch of poopyheads.
I feel like that’s a fair, accurate representation of the gun laws of the two states in question made by someone who is clearly well-informed and, dare I say, an unbiased seeker of the truth.
But seriously, this: “Good old Senate 60-vote rule. Remember that the next time people you like better are running the place.” Yeah, dopes, remember when Obama was President and you had a majority in Congress, and your boy “Honest” Harry Reid decided to torpedo the rules the Senate had operated under for decades in order to steamroll the Republicans? What could possibly go wrong, right?
Tell them to read WaPo:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/10/06/zero-correlation-between-state-homicide-rate-and-state-gun-laws/?utm_term=.45599132eaac
Don’t read the comments, it’s all some variation of:
the NRA is evil, republicans don’t want to research gun violence, there’s already been 369 mass shootings this year, 33,000 deaths a year =90 a day, RHEEEEEEE!!!!!!
There was one I saw that actually looked at what the numbers mean and it was ignored.
I definitely don’t have the required immunity to derp for that level.
As someone typed the other day, there may not be peak derp, but there is perfect derp.
Leave the WaPo comments section to The Derpetologist. He’s equipped to handle that level of mendacity and stupidity.
The
N.R.A. yearns for a federal law that wouldConstitution allows Missourians to tote their guns around California, no questions asked.That’s the default. What you need a national consensus for is amending the Constitution to make that go away.
i dont know how to order online so please put me down for one xl foot pajama and 4 thongs. i will pay with money order thanks you
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OK. It is safe for you to post your CC#, the verification number and your SSN too.
Just to be safe add your birthday and mother’s maiden name.
Don’t forget your first pet’s name and the street you grew up on.
Hitler?
Whaaaat? You grew-up on Hitler Street? I lived just down the block on Franco Boulevard. That’s crazy
Dammit, I was stuck on Stalin Road.
Fucking rich kids.
I grew up on Benito Blvd.
That’s why I never got to know you guys. I had a place over on Pinochet Plaza.
No Bread For You!
Mao drive for me. But it was a cull-de-sac.
Chavez street for me. The place had an HOA that was a true example of efficient neighborhood management, right up until everything started getting dilapidated and neglected and it turned out it was never a real HOA to begin with.
Ooh, you got a spot in the new development?
Heck, I lived on Pol Pot Place.. We were practically neighbors!
Make sure you don’t bring all your low-class to Marx Blvd in my neighborhood.
I heard that there are some realtor signs going up in that new condo, Mugabe Mansions, but the prices are astronomical.
I looked at those, but it had a restrictive covenant that would kick out any white people if a black family wanted to move in.
Hirohito avenue for me. Never saw it again because I didn’t have enough gas to get home.
The fact no one laughed at cull-de-sac makes me sad.
I liked the Mao cull de sac. Personally, I wouldn’t named that Caitlyn Lane.
Serfdom Road for me.
I will represent anyone you sue, pro bono, and will make an immediate filing to dismiss the case under FRCP 12(b)(6). In addition, I will be seeking sanctions against you and your counsel for a violation of Rule 11(b)
fite me irl
ha! ok tough guy. Meet me at the district court office., frankly i think you wont like the laws im about to bring up to the judge
“About Black Xmas
We’re creating a #BlackXmas
No Spending with White corporations 11/24/2017 – 01/01/2018
#DIVEST from White corporations.
#INVEST in Black community.
If you must buy, #BUYBLACK
Go to http://www.backingblackbusiness.com for links to Black-owned businesses and download “Official” Black Wall Street and MyClickUrban to your mobile device for mapped businesses and Black events.
Donald Trump embodies White capitalism. If you are anti-Trump, you should hold back your resources from him and the like.”
https://blackxmas.org/about/
Bing Crosby hardest hit.
Fuck you racists, I’m not going to discriminate based upon the skin tone of the shareholders – who I’ll never meet anyway.
Nope. That’s not racist at all. Fuck you, whitey.
Black people can’t be racist!!! Racism can only come from a position of power!!!
““We say ‘white capitalism’ because it’s important that we understand that the economic system and the racial structures are connected,” she said. “We have to not only disrupt the systems of policing that literally kill our people, but we have to disrupt the white supremacist, capitalistic, patriarchal, heteronormative system that is really the root cause of these police killings.”
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/11/28/blm-activist-organizes-black-xmas-to-divest-from-white-corporations-and-white-capitalism
NEEDS MOAR BUZZWORDS
There are at least four studies, including one from Harvard, which found no discrepancy between the rate of police killings of black people and white people.
Link(s)?
I’ve seen studies that show that, when you adjust for crime rates, the disparity mostly disappears, but I have not seen any study show “no discrepancy”.
Here’s the Harvard one. Will try to find others.
Thanks, that’s interesting.
Funny. Less than a year ago, my leftist acquaintances were assuring me that “Cultural Marxism” was a made up racist dog whistle being pushed by the Alt Right. Yet, for some reason, every time you look under the hood with the social justice cadres, it turns out they’re vehemently anti-capitalist.
And yet the Reason/Cato/LP axis insist that the future of libertarianism consists of allying with these guys.
I haven’t seen them outright calling for alliance, it’s more like “we have to give them what they want, and then maybe we’ll get scraps from their table”. Although, it seems like the longer one holds that position, the less of a problem they have with the first part, and the weaker they push for the second part.
Fair enough. Although calls for libertarians to prominently support #TheResistance, which I recall from TOS seem to come pretty damned close.
So if they want to support black entrepreneurs, I’m sure they mean removing the draconian business regulations that exist in places like Detroit, Baltimore, and NYC, right?
Right?
Once you go black…
I read that as Bill Cosby and was confused.
White supremacist, capitalistic, patriarchal, classist, lookist, ablist, and heteronormative:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhNgZQxKESw
“Melania Trump unveiled the White House holiday decorations on Monday, which are, as some people on the internet have noticed, very, very white.”
https://www.vogue.com/article/melania-trump-white-house-holiday-decorations-twitter-reactions
I saw a similar article on derpbook this morning.
somehow decorations are proof of how awful she is. and racist. and a nazi.
Christmas is in winter when it snows. It snows in Germany. Germany is where Nazism was born. Nazis were racist. Therefore snow is racist.
This is simple logic man.
Isn’t it weird how some people can just go about the holidays never linking every.single.fucking.thing to race? My wife used mostly blue, white, and silver to decorate the tree this year, looks very nice. And at least it’s well representing the blue and silver peoples.
Huh. Read the article so you don’t have to, and it’s actually not about race; it manages to be stupid in a completely different way:
Or maybe, just maybe, she was going for a snowy forest, since its for, you know, Christmas season?
Trump is secretly keeping Melania chained up in the Whitehouse dungeon. That’s not actually Melania you see, it’s just a robotic clone which Donald manipulates to do his racist bidding.
“which begs the question: Is she trying to tell us something?”
I can safely ignore anything this person has to say.
So Melania is Queen Elsa from Frozen?
Asian, Latino, and Native American entrepreneurs hardest hit.
Hmm, I did a search on Baltimore and looks like if I want to BUYBLACK, I have to limit my choices to discount mattresses or chicken wings.
But, why would I do that, I’m white, so I use the BUYWHITE site instead. OK, I admit I just made that up.
You mean Amazon?
Yes, and if I find out Bezos has been lying about being white, I’ll never shop there again!
Once you buy black, you’ll never go back.
This is patently false.
Asian, Latino, and Native American entrepreneurs hardest hit.
Only if they’re forced to take down the plexiglass enclosures.
Why does no one ever think of the Indians?
https://twitter.com/Rogue_MrsLady/status/934584955107147776
Gaytivity scene? Really?
So brave of them to mock the religion that doesn’t react violently.
You know, just for shits and giggles, it would be hilarious if the 4chan crowd found a way to hack this page to include a picture of Mohammad getting buggered.
Fatwa in 10…9…8….7….
What was it Sarah Silverman said? She only makes fun of Christians because she’s afraid if she fucks with Muslims they’ll actually kill her, or something to that effect. Well, that’s fine then.
“I’m so angry- I’m going to pray for your soul!”
– local bishop
YAY the store is up!
now I just need monies.
You can start by just advertising to us here on Glibs, no storefront necessary. So how much are the orphans? Is there a bulk discount? I mean what well to do libertarian buys a single orphan? What about hookers and blow, is there a package deal? Because you can’t just have one or the other. I’m also interested in a bazooka, it’s always nice to have a spare.
Look for Rand Paul to fight like hell behind the scenes to stop this succession plan from happening in the next month or so. Tom Cotton is good on a lot of things, especially immigration (he’s the main writer of the RAISE Act), but the last things that I want in the CIA or the State Department are pro-NSA, anti-privacy guys like Pompeo and Cotton. The problem is, though, other than us libertarians and a sparse scattering of Bernie Bros, no one in the general public actually gives a shit about protecting the 4th Amendment. That makes me sad.
A thought from this: I do wonder if the obstacle for gaining popular support is again about “people that we don’t like”. It’s good to protect privacy and civil liberties for the average citizen, but for the bad people and the terrorists? “Yes, we need those surveillance programs!”
“The White House has developed a plan to force out Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson”
What? How about this plan; Trump doesnt like Tillerson then he fires him.
I’m just gonna leave this here because…guns.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a13938194/history-of-us-military-rifle/
Points for properly classing the M14 as just a stepping stone between the M1 Garrand and the M16.
And like all tactical solutions, the M14 is still with us, 50 years later.
Hooray.
Time for some Ronnie Lane. bassist and songwriter for the Small Faces and the Faces. Poor old Plonk started suffering from MS and could no longer play guitar.
Great stuff. Must be something in the air today, as I was just listening to this guy.
Ah Nick Drake. I was soooo pissed in my college years when VW used him in a commercial. Suddenly everyone was listening to him – before that ND felt like my little secret.
I like him more the older I get. He created a lot in 26 short years.
“and it exists in the real world where people are judged on their merits and decency as opposed to how many eyeballs they can get to watch your network ”
Is this a joke? Most places I’ve been, the lying, sleazy salesmen who bring in the bucks get a LOT of leeway on decency, and the enginerds responsible for all the value the customers are getting are kept as far away from the customers as possible.
In a free society, nobody is forced to work at a place with sex creeps if they don’t want to. And I’d bet the sexual harassment at NBC News went way higher than Lauer – probably considered a job perk. Either that or he had dirt on higher-ups (who are no longer there) and knew he could get away with sleazy behavior.
It’s called a gun.
https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/936261375936094208
McCain supports tax bill.
NYT: “WTF- we hate John McCain again! Here’s a piece from Reason talking about how tax cuts are bad for the deficit, which we never talk about unless Republicans control Congress”
Reason: “The NYT likes us- they really like us!”
High school never ends.
There was a point at which I lamented the “break up” and hoped that at some point the idiocy at TOS would die down and we’d all head back.
That ship passed long ago. And now it’s sinking.
(That’s probably a horrible metaphor, I know)
Whatever floats your boat
These literally float my boat.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IiePQy7WOOc/Uu_I_SY1KPI/AAAAAAAAASM/JWpmyt8kxbY/s1600/1374218_674189569272073_233582890_n.jpg
Anchors aweigh!
Those would probably float in water, too
I can’t wait to see the reaction on DU. They’ve been hailing McCain as a hero for months.
Looks like my prognostication has already came true.
Heh.
we never talk about unless Republicans control Congress
Not exactly. Here’s the rubric:
More spending on defense, security, intelligence, etc.: Deficits are bad
More spending on social security, welfare, refugee resettlement, etc.: Deficits don’t matter
Lower taxes on large corporations and wealthy individuals: Deficits are bad
Lower taxes on small businesses and poor individuals: Deficits don’t matter
It’s really hard to dislike tax breaks for corporations since despite what leftists claim, corporations will not just bury more piles of money in their vault, it will actually result in more jobs and maybe even better wages.
If more Reason writers understood economics, then they might actually be interesting to read.
To shorten the rubric: Deficits are bad if it’s for stuff that we leftists don’t like
The left slant bothers me less than the fact that they seem to have no commitment whatsoever to libertarianism or consistency.
“no commitment whatsoever” goes a bit far
“their commitment is only skin-deep” is more accurate
“Reason: “The NYT likes us- they really like us!”
MOARS BIGGER COCKTAIL PARTIES, WE’VE ARRIVED!
I have a feeling he only supports it because his constituency will throw heavy objects at him come townhall time.
So, according to Clyburn, if you’re elected, you have carte blanche to do whatever you want. Shouldn’t be true, but it is.
http://iwf.org/blog/2805272/Democratic-Rep-Suggests-that-Members-of-Congress-Are-Above-Ordinary-Sexual-Conduct-Rules
Huh, it’s nice to finally hear a member of Congress come right out and say that laws for the little people does not apply to them. What we’ve all long known most of them think.
Even that’s a hierarchy: you do get some protection from the law for being a member of Congress. You get an extra layer of protection for being a Democrat, and another blanket if you’re an intersectional Democrat.
Like I said above, it’s telling that Democrats are tripping over themselves in defense of men whose seats would in no way be compromised if either were told to step down. If neither Franken nor Conyers is even censured for their behavior, what would Democrats defend if a senator in a purple state were outed as a deviant? If Doug Jones were revealed to have a basement sex dungeon, would Pelosi blanche? Or excuse it because Roy Moore is a creep, too?
I don’t think Franken’s seat is that safe. Or is it? Didn’t he barely make it?
I seem to recall Franken got in only because his campaign “Found” some extra ballots in a car trunk.
Its not a safe seat. But, if he resigns, the Dem Gov. appoints a Dem Senator for the rest of his term (he’s up for election in 2020)
“Bitcoin is a bubble and ought to be outlawed”
https://twitter.com/business/status/935842470092447744
Bitcoin is pretty clearly a bubble and is unsustainable at this price. Wouldn’t be surprised to see it at the 3-4k mark within the next couple of months.
It of course should not be outlawed. But I’m waiting for (I’m surprised it hasn’t happened already) the SEC to declare it a security. Which would really pop the bubble even worse than that. (SLD: I don’t think they should do it, but I’m guessing they will at some point).
I’m a bit out of the loop nowadays, but the CFTC probably have as good a claim to regulate. Given that it’s already considered a currency by the US Gov – despite its dubious status – and people are buying and selling it with other currencies, it’s fungible, this is effectively an FX instrument.
15 years ago, the SEC was pretty much cribbing all the regulations formulated by the CFTC when it came to regulatory change. The SEC lifted its entire policy on Internet marketing, trading etc from CFTC whitepapers, so it’ll be interesting to see where this (inevitably) goes.
CFTC certainly has a claim as well.
They’re likely going to eventually do it because there are a lot of state-level cryptocurrency regulations that are starting to go up. I know Florida has a couple in process.
“Houses are a bubble and ought to be outlawed.”
So Lauer had a button under his desk to lock unsuspecting staffers into his office. Even without the sexual stuff, isn’t this already a criminal matter? I mean, if plebes like you or me did this you’d get slapped with a false imprisonment charge. All Lauer has to do is offer some phony apology and make some crocodile tears. Some animals really are more equal than others.
Not so sure that automatically qualifies as a rape button. High security offices have these all the time.
Is that what you tell your interns?
I’m protecting you… from the choice you might make if you decide to leave.
Lauer, to cohost: “She’s not going to say no, she would never say no… because of the implication.”
“What implication?”
“The implication that things might go wrong for her career if she refuses to sleep with me.”
That’s like the one in Horrible Bosses?
Jennifer in just a Dr. coat. what were we talking about?
Locking someone in your office and not letting them leave if they ask or try to is textbook false imprisonment and/or kidnapping.
Today’s Hollywood Pervalanche winner is Russell Simmons
*shocked face*
“Today I learned the Flat Earth Society thinks the other planets are round. ”
https://twitter.com/notwokieleaks/status/935922474348367873
Pelosi is now apparently calling on Conyers to resign.
It’s about safe now. Conyers is reportedly in the hospital and likely ready to croak considering he’s almost 90.
Is Michigan’s 13th congressional district a completely safe seat for Democrats? I’m assuming it is, if so then she was safe to begin with you would think.
It’s a 100% safe seat (I believe that it’s the safest seat in the Midwest outside of Chicago), but that’s not why Pelosi was protecting him. I speculate that it’s because he’s the main author and sponsor for the House version of single-payer healthcare.
It must suck to be the lesser star when two stars get accused of being a sexual deviant on the same day.
Russell Simmons hit hardest
I’m gonna accuse myself on Saturday, so could you hold off until Sunday?
But if you accuse yourself, won’t that be plagiarism?
I’m a twin spirit.
Are you appropriating Native Culture (TM) now, too?!
Christ, what an asshole.
I thought I was appropriating Jim Morrison who was appropriating Native Culture. Because that’s OK.
#5
New misconduct allegation leveled against Franken on USO tour
Look, you people expect him to remember every woman he groped?
A spokesman from the senator said: “As Sen. Franken made clear this week, he takes thousands of photos and has met tens of thousands of people and he has never intentionally engaged in this kind of conduct. He remains fully committed to cooperating with the ethics investigation.”
He’s fully cooperating by denying the allegations until he gets caught. Then he apologizes. (That being said, this charge sounds like bullshit.)
Wow. Unconscious bias is real. Apologies to the lady. I believe her.
He’s fucked. Did you see/hear any of his interview with Esme Murphy at WCCO? She went after him and he was just pathetic.
Was that the one where he wouldn’t give direct answers and finally said he had to go and ended the interview?
Yep. A cringe-fest.
His first try at a denial was functionally equivalent to “I’ve groped so many women I don’t even remember them all.”
I dunno. If he goes, the Democrats could very well lose another seat. So they’re going to protect him until the end.
So I assume the establishment Repubs have a bill/motion/whatever in the works to remove Franken from the Senate? I can only assume so since they were so enthusiastic about doing this to Moore, and that was without a single scrap of evidence.
For some reason, I can’t find any statements by the Rhinos that they plan on pursuing the same action for Franken that would have for Moore. Hmm, very strange.
I’m really starting to worry that what Republicans fear most is a supermajority. Lawds, they’d have to govern like Democrats!
If this tax bill passes, the left are going to go into a pants shitting breakdown which may even surpass Hillary losing.
2017 has been too hilarious.
My schadenboner is really starting to get uncomfortable, actually.
If it lasts for more than 4 years…that means Trump got reelected.
Which shows their complete ineptitude, since the actual bill is at best milquetoast and at worst a hot mess.
How so?
Assuming my information is current, the senate only reduced the top tax rate from 39.6% to 38.6% for example.
Sarah Hoyt at PJ Media is on point about all the accusations of sexual misconduct flying around the MEC (Media/Entertainment Complex).
Local radio guy this morning said something along those lines. Basically, sorry, being a creep isn’t a crime, and if you consented, that’s on you. If you were raped, call the cops. If there was discrimination or some kind of actionable civil issue, get a lawyer. Don’t bang the management willingly and then think better of it later. Or if you can’t be expected to make a tough decision to stand up to someone who intimidates you, stop claiming to be equal.
It’s a little harsh, maybe more than a little harsh, but I can’t help but think he’s got a point. It doesn’t excuse Lauer, certainly, but I think Ms. Hoyt’s point, which is similar, is entirely valid.
Local TDS columnist really goes all out in latest column.
The column is all about how horrible it is that Trump is allowed to use the military to wage perpetual war. Terrible. Especially hypocritical too because conservatives are supposed to love the Constitution. Why don’t they respect it?
Niger and our involvement there is his Exhibit A in how far we’ve strayed from our Constitution.
Not even a peep about Obama. I guess Trump snuck into the Whitehouse in 2013 and authorized our troops to go to Niger. It really is impressive how he manages to bitch about Trump without acknowledging that Obama might also have been a bit overzealous in his use of our country’s military.
Wonder how long until Trump brags about how good he is at looking over possible kill lists and deciding who should be droned.
Trigger warning.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/5033413/iranian-woman-50-surgeries-idol-angelina-jolie/
Yikes! Muh eyes!!!
Whoa
GAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!
She looks like an extra from the Omega Man.
Are you sure it wasn’t the partody commercial “The iOmega Man”?
Looks just like her… /s
I saw thumbnails of this on a site and thought it was just some Taboola clickbait, like the huge snake on the back of a disc-tiller, or the stretch school-bus.
When I see that level of modifications (accepting, for the moment, that it’s not FAKE NEWS10, I’m reminded of the murderer in Dirty Harry having a big ethnic guy rearrange his features.
NFL digs even deeper hole: “Owners and a contingent of players reached an agreement Wednesday night that would commit at least $89 million to national and local community efforts, and social justice reform initiatives through 2023.”
https://sports.yahoo.com/nfl-players-reach-deal-supporting-activism-protests-national-anthem-continue-071955356.html
Yeah, paying millions to leftist causes is going to make their audience like them.
“The insults will continue until you start watching us again and pick up some merch on the way out asshole.”
good luck passing that through to season ticket holders.
And I am sure those millions of fed up fans will come running back now.
Can’t the players donate money they earned through their salaries?
You can’t rely on personal donations. Some players might selfishly not contribute.
Mandatory donations are the only way to fly.
I’m actually a bit surprised that some grifter hasn’t put together a sham non-profit that at first glance is all about fighting criminal injustices against backs, but in reality is just a giant slush fund.
I’m thinking that the gal who is behind Black Xmas should jump on this wagon. Publicly shame any black millionaire activist who doesn’t contribute. Don’t you dare take a knee if you haven’t tithed to the Cause!
Like the Human Fund.
You’re not familiar with Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow/PUSH, or Al Sharpton’s National Action Network?
Or the SPLC. I think that’s pretty much how they got started.
From DU:
Sweet sweet proggy tears *command orphans to start building more tear barrels*
Bwahhaahhhaaaahaaa!
Their purple prose is glorious.
If this tax bill passes, the left are going to go into a pants shitting breakdown which may even surpass Hillary losing.
Where are we, in the process? I know it was cobbled together in the dead of night in total secrecy, so no Democrats would have an opportunity to inject any sort of sensible moderation, but has anybody brought it up for a vote? And then House and Senate have to arm wrestle over the details, but the nefarious Republikkkins should be able to steamroller a completely new tax code into effect by the weekend, right.
the nefarious Republikkkins should be able to steamroller a completely new tax code into effect by the weekend, right
If they wanted to, sure. The first sentence would be “The existing Internal Revenue Code and all regulations promulgated thereunder are hereby repealed.” Then, lay out the new tax code in the rest of the bill.
Perfectly Constitutional, would need only a bare majority in both houses, and the President’s signature, to be a valid law.
I think where we are is that the Senate votes and passes their version of the bill. Then it’s basically passed and what’s left is for the Senate and House bills to be reconciled. Then Trump to sign it, which is 100% probable.
The first sentence would be “The existing Internal Revenue Code and all regulations promulgated thereunder are hereby repealed.”
I’ll be… uh… in my bunk.
I favor a flat consumption tax with no deductions. Easy peasy, no IRS, no tax returns to file.
I like the consumption tax too. The only drawback is that the government will still create a giant bureaucracy to ensure that tax-free goods aren’t being sold under the table.
I think if I had my choice, assuming that there had to be a government of some sort, I would favor a head tax: the total expense of the government divided by the number of adults of voting age. Rothbard convinced me that so long as there’s going to be a government funded by taxes, this is the simplest option that doesn’t require a giant, intrusive government department and create massive market distortions. Of course, the idea that a poor person would pay the same dollar amount as a rich person is unthinkable for most people, so there’s a long way to go towards implementing anything like that.
Government would have to shrink almost to non-existence for this to work. Make it so!
Jeez, now I have to go to *my* bunk, and I gave all my kleenex to P. Brooks (Deceased).
i’ll have a box or 10 of kleenex sent in, dude.
Work rant time:
My previous employer decided to send me an extra paycheck! When I called payroll he checked his system and says the timekeeper entered in my time like I worked at the VA hospital for the past two weeks. Obviously I didn’t. This is especially vexing because my supervisor is supposed to “approve” time before it is entered in by the timekeeper. This also means when they update my profile today, it will generate an alert that will trigger a collection letter.
Which means I have a little under $3000 that I technically can’t even put into a savings account, because I would earn interest on money I have acknowledged I should not have….so what should I invest it in?
Hookers
…and blow.
Blow
Hookers and blow. You guys are so predictable. I’m going to give a ring to a buddy in Vegas and place a bet on Jose Aldo.
Me?
Either hand-deliver the check back to them and get a receipt, or mail it to them certified, return receipt requested. As long as you don’t cash it, its their money and was never yours.
http://www.localbitcoins.com and claim you never received the check.